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KMTFK CHEROKEE COUNTY'S FISHING CONTEST VOLCME 66 Nl MBEK?43 gift Cifrrate Hwiit IXONOMV V \C ATI 2 LAND I i IIKltOkh - OlATY PROMOTING MlHPffV AND ANDREWS Ml Kl'HY, NOKTH CAKOlJ>A THI KSDAY, MA V 17, 1?5?> H Pa^ea PL' HI :i> WK KKJ- Y 174 County High School Students To Graduate F. PRUDE X DAVIDSON ^ Oommencement Speaker Pruden Davidson To Speak At Commencement Edward Pruden Davidson of Lancaster, Pa . formerly nf Mur phy, will deliver the commence ment add! ess at Murphy High School graduation exercises Mon day, May 21 at 8 p. m. in the school auditorium. The Baccalaureate sermon will be preHched at 11:15 a m. Sunday by the Rev R A Potter at the ?chool auditorium. Judy Cook, daughter of Mr and Mrs Edwin Cook of Murphy Is valedictorian of the 1956 class and Virginia Flower, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Claude Fowler of Murphy m salutatorian Some 106 seniors will receive their diplomas at the Monday night exercisas. E H Brumby of the school board will award the diplomas. H. A. Mattox. also a member of the board, will present the awards and medals Supt H Bueck will pre side and will introduce the speak er THE SPEAKER Mr Davidson graduated in 1935 from Murphy High School as valedictorian of his class. He en tered N C State College, Raleigh, in the fall of 1936, graduating with honors in 1941, I At State Mr Davidson was editor' of the Technician (during his edi torship judged the best school newspaper in North Carolina), was president of the student body, president of Delta Sigma Phi fra ternity, member of the Golden Chain honorary society and was chosen to Who's Who in American College* and Universities. After graduation he went with the Armstrong Cork Co. as plant engineer He entered the Armed Services in April, 1M2, serving in the Pacific theater with the rank of captain as engineering officer for the 9th Fighter Squadron, "The Flying Knights" (the first fighter outfit to land in Tokyo). He was discharged in January, 1946, with the rank of major. Returning to Armstrong Cork Co.' as plant engineer, Davidson was promoted to the position of direc tor of industrial labor relations He Is now manager of Armstrong Floor Covering Plants. He is the son of Mr and Mrs. J. W Davidson of Murphy Mrs Edna Whitley will be plan* 1 1st for the baccalaureate and , graduation programs and the mix ed chorus from the high school ' will sing. On Monday evening Bet r. ty Weaver, clarinet and Ronnie Brittaln. trumpet, will present a duet. MINISTERS PARTICIPATE Murphy ministers will partici pate in the Sunday morning pro gram, with Father Joseph Dean > of the Catholic Chapel giving the ^ invocation; the Rev. Asmond Max well, First Methodist CSiurch, read } ing the scripture; the Rev A. C. I Pounds, Free Methodist Church, prayer and the Rev W L. RuaseH, JUDY COOK Valedictorian GI\NY FOWLER SALlTATORIAJf Episcopal, benediction. Mr Potter, the speaker, is pastor of the Mur phy Presbyterian Church. THE ('LASS I Graduating seniors are: Clark Caswell Anderson, Harry Arro wood. Ben H. Ashe, Howard Bar ton.. Oliver Douglas Beal, Jackie Beaver, Charles William Brown, Ida. Hunt Brumby. Emmogene Bryant, Hieronymous Clell Bueck, Dorothy Burgess. James Melvin (Thamblee. Franklin James Chas tain. and Manuel Emery Chastain. J Also Betty Ann Clonts. Helen Ruth Clonts. Mary Katheryn I Clonts. Jerry Raymond Cole. Judith : Ann Cook. Npncy Louise Cook, | Mary Alice Cook, Carolyn Sue I Cook, June Carol Crawford. Ray I Crisp. Betty Poith Curtis, Mere dith Decker, Patricia Ann Dill ingham, Benny Eugene Docket-)', Frances Louise Dockery, Mary Ruth Donley, and Virginia Anne Clliott. I Shirley Helen Elrod, Jack Leo nard Fleming. Virginia Lee Fow ler. Frances Loretta Fox. Mary Helen Gibson, Helen Louise Guth rie, Garland Granger Haney, Jr.. Harry Malcolm Haney, Archie Hedden, Horace McKinley Hem bree, Robert Jennings Hembree, Phyllis Hembee, Howard Hem bree, Stephen Carson Hembree, Patricia Juanita Jones Hendrix, and Cora Sue Dickey Hubbard. Clara June Hughes, Robert Clin gman Hughes, William Neil Hugh-; es, Geneaive Nell Jenkins, James j Douglas Johnson, Pearl Johnson, | James Walter Johnson, Dennis \ IKephart, Ray Kephart, John Dav id Kidd, Josephine Ruth Kilpat- j rick. Ray KHpatrick, Jean Kin- 1 Icaid. Martha Ann Leatherwood, Wilma Moore leatherwood. Ken- 1 jfeth Lee Ledford, and Mary Fran ces Lepscier. Mary Ruth Logan, Arilce Lxyvln-' good, Mary Alice MacDonald, rfelen Jane McMillan, Ann Martin, Fred Martin, Jr., Walter Ford Mauney. Charlie Clyde Mills, Jam es William Mintz, Jr., Burke Ed ward Moore. Fred Hyatt Nichols, Geraldine O'Dell, Edward Char les Odom, Betty Jean Palmer, James Bobby Phillips, and Char les Eugene Phillips Jean Phillips, Buddy Gene Ram sey, flusan Elizabeth Rowland. Nancy Anne Sa]?s, Joan Marie iSthrr.itt. Anna Ruth Scroggs, Car-' olyn Marie Scruggs. Calvin Shields Janit-H Harford Shields, Jo Anne Isimonds, Hubert Sneed, Marcella j I Elizabeth Sneed, Robert Shad* Stalcup James William Stalcup and Charles Kenneth Stiles. i Eunit Joan Stiles, Polly Ann Stiles, Willa Frances Stiles, Roger Willi am Swan son, Kloiese Taylor, ' Roma Taylor, Sara Jane Under wood. Imogeaji Voyles, Charles Leland Westmoreland, Jackie Ver- ; lin Wilson and Tommy Winchester ( [45 To Graduate From Andrews H. S ROBERT HAY Andrews Sahitatorlan Forty-five students will receive their high school diplomas from Andrews High School tonight (May 171 at the school auditorium [at a p m. Mrs Lillian Barker Buchanan, librarian at Western Carolina Col lege. Cullowhee, will be the speak er Baccalaureate services were ] held Sunday evening, with the j Rev. B L Jackson preaching. Miss VVilma Crisp, daughter of ; Mr anil Mrs Claude Crisp of An drews is valedictorian of the class She been active in basketball, journalism, the Beta Club and Methodist Youth Fellow ship. and she plans to enter col lege next fall Salutatorian is Robert Hay. son of Mr and Mrs. Tom Hay of And rews. who has been in the Beta Mars Hill College Head Be Speaker At Hiwassee Dam The final graduation exercises in the old Hiwassee Dam School building will be held Monday, May 21. at 8 p. m. The school is expected to enter its new building next fall. Dr. Hoyt Blackwell, president of Mars Hill College will be com mencement speaker. Baccalaureate services will be held at the school Sunday. May 20 at S p. m. with the Rev. James E. Vanderford, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church, preaching Wilma Brendle is valedictorian of the class and Jeannette Hamby is salutatorian. County Schools Superintendent Lloyd Hendrix will award the di plomas and Harest King, school principal will preside. Juniors who will serve as mar shals are Helen Roberaon. chief, Annette West. Marvin Hawkins and Warren Williams. The -23 seniors are: Ray Allen Charles Hawkins. Dale Ingram, Jack Patterson. Bill Reed, Clyde Starks, Luther Stiles. Tommy Stiles. Arthur West. Hugh Mar shall West. Wilma Brendle. Mar garet Coleman. Rogella Curtis, Corena Davis, Arvetta Dills. Gene va Garrett and Jeanette Hamby i Pauline HedricX, Amanda Jones, Juanita Raper, Bobbie Jean Reese Carol Wood and Martha Ann Wood-' aM. 1 \She Old <??>7Jiner "I'm growing beans, peas, tomatoes and squash ? and tired already!'' WII.MA CRISP Valedictorian, Andrews Club, annual editor, the Presby terian Youth Fellowship and is a ham radio operator. He plans to enter >J. C State College next fall The Rev. VV. L Russell, Episco pal minister, will give the invoca tion and the Rev. Vitolds Gobins, Lutheran pastor, will pronounce the benediction. GRADUATES Girls who will graduate are Ann Angel, Judy Bristol, Nina Brown, Nora Buchanan, Norma Crawford, Wilma Crisp, Carolyn Deaton, Ly!a Ferguson. Janev Frazier and Mildred Guffie. Also Virginia Hardin, Tat Kil patrick, Maxwell I^ee Lominac, Jar.i' o Lunsford. Shirley Math-* pson. Lena Palmer. Helen Phillips. I Darlene Powers, Shelby Reece, 1 Doris Whitaker and Joyce White Senior boys are Jake Abernathy, j Willis Anderson, Bill Carver, Creed Coffey. Alfred Duckworth, Noel Edwards, Chailes Franks, Robert, Hay Thurston Hicks, David Hog- j se l. Jimmy Holland and Lowell Jones Cecil Ledford. James Ledford. Royce Mathis. Elmer May. I>arry , Phillips, Jerry Reighard. Spencer j Smith, Bobby Wakefield, Gene Waldroup, Harold Walsh, Bobby 1 Winfrey and Alvin Wright. Pug Hinton Killed Or.* Construction Job In Chicago Hubert l^aveaii H 4 Pug) Hint on, 43. of Murphy was killed about 4 .) in Monday while working on a construction job for the city of Chicago. He was working on top of a shaft as a flagman on a crane that low ered workmen into the shaft and it appeared that he must have leaned again*', a guard railing which gave way and he fell to the bot tom of the shaft some 160 feet. He was a native of Brevard, son of Mrs Lave an Brarinon Hmton and the late Augustus Newton Hin ton. He came to Murphy in 1933 with his parents. His father was South ern Railway Depot agent here for a number of years. Prior to coming to Murphy he idid extensive boxing in Aaheville New York and Florida. Ii)smg only two bouts There is where he won his nickname ?"Pug". He was m the light weigh* < lass. Alter corning to Murphy he served as a service station at tendant and later operated a ser vice station here. He was a graduate of Brevard High S<*hon| and was a member of I the W<x*j. len of the World. He I was a member of the Murphy First Bap'i.s- Chunii Hint on had been in Chicago only five weeks is survived by the widow. Mrs Gladys Palmer Hlnton; one I daughter, I>avean, three sons; Michael and Augustus, twins, and ijHiibert, all of the home; his moth er; one sister, Miss Wiihelmma Hinton of Newark, N J and a bro ther. Julius uf Joplin, Mo Funeral services will be held .the First Baptist Church today (Thursday) at 2:30 p m Officiat ing ministers will be the Kev. A L. Maxwell, A1 Smith and H. A Potter. Burial will be in Suns*i Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Ross Moore, Wade Mull, Ralph Killian, Ed\?lr* ? Cook. Melvin Crisp and Lewlrt Hogged The body will remain at [ Ivie Funeral Home until 30 min utes before the ceremony when it I will be taken to the church to lie in state 3u minutes preceding the ceremony Buchanan Cat Returns By Hay Of Young'stou n. O. The photo- engraving of Alvir? Buchanan, which disappeared from the Seout office during a press run two weeks ago, re turned last week end by way of Youngstown, Ohio. The cut (a plastic Scanograv ing) of Buchanan's picture was being used in u political ad and apparentl> stuck to one of the paj>ers as it went through the prens. The plastic engraving went hack through the Scout press, through the folding and cutting machine, and was wrapped and mailed to Robert Palmer in Youngs town, Ohio. Palmer sent the cut, still stuck to the newspaper, to his mother. Mrs. Dixie Palmer, a Moth er's Day card. And his sister, Miss Hattie Palmer, an em ployee of the Scout, brought the cut back to The Scout Of fice. TENNIS COURTS BE BUILT ON FAIRGROUNDS Construction on tennis courts on the fairgrounds will get under way this week. C. R Freed, secretary i of the Murphy Chamber of Com merce, said today. The new courts are expected to be black topped and in first class condition, Mr. Freed said They will be constructed at the back of the rock building where the trans formers are now located. Mr. Freed said. The tennis courts are a project of the Chamber of Commerce Civ ic and Professional Council. Judge Edwards To Speak At 8th Grade Exercises j Cherokee County Recorders Court Jud^e Human Edwards will bo Itlir spt aki-r at the eighth grade promotion exercises at Murphy, Scv:ool auditorium Friday. May 18 'at * p ra. Virgil De> ker will introduce the '-pcakor Mi- Edna Whitley will be pianist Lewis Howard Mar t'li will pi iy the pielude. Others on '.he program are Mary l.edfutd, invocation; neraSHna ' Woody, welcome; Wanda West, ] piano solo; Bill Rhodes, class his- { jtory; James Parker. class trip: I Patricia Smith, Cherokee County | history; Sue Miller, poem; James IGibbs, declamation; and Ann Glad I son. benediction. I Ushers, who are members of the seventh grade. will be Joe Craig,' Larry Stiles. Phil Mattox, Ora| Bell Baker. Ruth Ann MoClure. | Bitty lovingix'd. I-inda Green and John Adkine. Ninety-five eight graders will be promoted to high sc hool. John I'arris To S|Hkak Tonight J.. [in I'arris of Sylva, who be oie returning to his home in Sylva n 1!M7 to take U)i creative writing, nas a well known foreign corres pondent for the I'rsited Press and the Associated Press will be the speaker at the meeting of the Kon naheeta club Thursday (tonight) May 17 at the Nantahala Inn. He is now director of public re lations for "Unto These Hills". He is author of the book "Roaming thet Mountains", and columnist for the Asheville Citizens. Mayor Announces Town Committees Mayor L. L. Mason today an nounced appointment of eommitt- ' ees serving the Town of Murphy. The committee members are mem bers of the town board of alder men The following were announced: Industrial and Civic Improve ments, John Jordan, chairman, ' Cloe Moore, Alvin Buchanan. Finance and Revenue, W A Singleton, chairman, Jorn Jordan. Ed Brumby. Streets, Parks and Cemetery, F. C. Bourne. Jr . chairman, W A Singleton, Ed Brumby. Woman's Club Meet Postponed One Week The Murphy Woman's Club meeting, oroginally set for tonight i May 17) has been postponed un til next week, Mrs George 8txe, president, announced. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p m Thursday. Mav 34, In the room upstairs at the Cltlxer'i Bank and Trust CO. Water. Lights and power, Ed Brumby, chairman, F. C. Bourne, Jr., John Jordan. Police and Fire, Cloe Moore, chairman F. C Bourne, Jr., Alvin Buchanan. Sanitary and Health, Alvin Buch anan, chairman, Cloe Moore and W A. Singleton. Prizes Be Given At High Hat Card Party Next Week Texana 8th Grade Baccalaureate Set On Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p. m . . May 20. the eighth grade class of Texana will have its Bacca laureate Service. The speaker will be the Rev. I Frank S Walker, pastor of Chat tanooga Methodist Church and a former pastor of the St. Mark Methodist Church in Kingsport, Tenn. Mr Walker is a graduate of Till ' otson College at Austin, Tex. and the Seminary of Drew University, Madison, N J. The graduates for the eighth grade are: Charles Allen, Frank T. Blount. Harry L. Fair, Harry H. Hall, Rose M Carter, Hessie E. Gibson, Margaret A. Jackson, Hazel J. Phifer, and Annie J. Power VOTERS CHA1AENGE DAT Challenge Day tor Cherokee County voters will be held Satur day, May 19, and the primary balloting will take place Saturday, May 26. Fred Martin, chairman of the Cherokee County Board of Elections said today. i ne mgn flat card party, spon sored by the Cherokee Rose Garden Club, will be held next Wednesday, May 23, at 1 :30 p. m. at the Regal Hotel Tickets at $1 each are on sale by club members. Refreshments will be served during the after noon. Prizes will be awarded for self designed hats as follows : first and second prize for most original; first ar.d second prize for most garden like; and first and second for prettiest. ' Prizes for high score will be giv en at each table as well as an over all high score prize. Murphy FFA Dairy iJudging Team Ties For First Place . .The Murphy Future Farmers of America dairy judging team lajrt Saturday tied with the Frankttn team for first place in the district FFA dairy judging contest in Ajshe ville The teams will enter the state dairy judging contest in Raleigh June 27 at the State FFA conven tion. The team is composed of Leon ard Foster, Pearl Johnson, Clark Anderson and Charles Phillip?. Glenn Patton and Gene Denning' are advisors. i' wn'iwmiM ANDREWS HIGH SCHOOL junior clan mmW* holding the hlfM tvtnfM wil he ? conimpficmifiit exerciaea tonight In the hlfh school auditorium. TVy are Croat Mt to H ay, Oaroiyn Went. Kate PiMmorr; hark left to right, Wayne Battle. Boh Nnhnn, chairman; and John ChJ-rbiger. ( fliiiDnj * ? Htodia Photo)