The Cherokee -Scout
Dedicated To Promoting Cherokee County
VOLUME <8 NUMBER? 13 MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, U68 TE" 8 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
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Murphy Plays Franklin In Last Home Game of Year Friday Nite
Area Democrats Set To Stage Giant
Political Meeting At Bryson City
Democrats from the 13th Congres
sional District are planning a giant
rally Thuraday, Oct. 30, at the
athletic field at Bryaon City.
leading officials, including Gov
ernor Luther Hodges, will attend.
State Democrat Chairman Woodrow
W. Jones and David Hall, candi
date for Congress will also attend.
?11 state and county candidates
from the 12th District will be pres
The rally will be staged at the
Bryaon City athletic field at 1:30
p.m. or In case of bad weather, in
the high achool Gymnasium.
Persons from Cherokee, Clay and
Graham Counties who plan to at
tend the meeting will travel In a
motorcade. The cars will meet at
Topton and arrive in Bryson City
aa a group, according to Frank
Forsyth.
Murphy Wins Easy
Homecoming Tilt
The Murphy High Bulldogs scalp
ed the Cherokee Braves in a one
sided Friday night Homecoming
gaaoe in Murph).
She Murphy scoring was led by
quarterback Bobby Weaver who
raa one touchdown, threw a pass
(or another and kicked three extra
potats.
?arly in the first quarter, six
plays after taking the ball on the
kiekoff to the 60 yard line, Buck
HB, the Bulldog fullback, drove
the ball over from the one yard
line.
Bobby Weaver then kicked the ex
tra point to put Murphy ahead 7-0.
In the middle of the first quarter,
. Murphy took over the ball from the
Braves on a punt on the Murphy
eight yard line. Two plays later
Frank, Beavers tan the ball 61
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yards unfield to the Cherokee 25.
Three plays later Emanuel Mc
Donald passed to Virgil Decker for
the second Bulldog score, Murphy
having averaged 15 yards per play
on the 92 yard drive.
Bobby Weaver again kicked the
extra point.
In the last of the first quarter
Frank Beavers intercepted a pass
on the Murphy 32 line.
The Bulldogs then proceeded to
drive 68 yards downfield and Bob
by Weaver ran the ball over from
the five.
The attempted kick for extra
point was blocked.
The two teams battled up and
down the field' for most of the rest
Holland McSwain
Attends National
Education Meeting
Some 1,000 superintendents from
small towns and rural areas over
America talked together last week
at Minneapolis about the kind of
education we want and how to ob
tain it, according to Holland Mc
Swain, superintendent of Murphy
city schools.
Mr. McSwain was one of six sup
erintendents from North Carolina
who attended the annual meeting
of the Superintendents' Division of
the National Education Association.
He was chairman of a discussion
group.
On his return to the state he
was joined by Mrs. McSwain in
Chapel Hill, where their son Frank
is a student at the university.
of the first half but the next Mur
phy score came when Cherokee
was on their own 30 yard line. A
bad center put the boll back in the
end aone and the Cherokee punter
fell on the ball for two Murphy
points.
The half ended with the score
Murphy 22, Cherokee 0.
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Annual Harvest
Sale Scheduled
For Saturday
ANDRBWS ? Plans are moving
forward for the annual Harvest
Sale to be staged here Saturday at
7 p.m. at the Andrews School Aud
itorium.
Proceeds of the sale, sponsored
by the Andrews PTA will be used
for projects of the association.
Benny McGlammery of Franklin,
auctioneer, and Gordon L. Butler
will auction the various articles
for sale.
Charles O. Frazier, Charles De
laney and Ty Burnett will serve as
cashiers.
Mrs. James Baer is chairman of
arrangements for the affair. Others
on her committee are Mrs. Charles
Frazier, Mrs. Kenneth Stover, Miss
Gene Christy, Mrs. Jack L>edford,
and Mrs. Edwin Bristol, with ap
proximately thirty five persons
assisting.
Each home room throughout the
school will have its articles valued
and the one having the greatest
amounted contributed in the pri
mary, elementary and high school
will receive a five dollar prize.
Judges are Mrs. A. B. Chandler,
Mrs. Edgar Wood and Mrs. J. H.
Christy.
It has been announced that
cakes, candy, pets, chickens and
all perishable articles may be
brought to the school Saturday be
tween 10 a. m. and 2. p. m. All
canned goods, fruits, furniture and
clothing will be received at the
school Thursday and Friday.
COOKING SHOW
PLANNED TODAY
A cooking demonstration will be
held at the Murphy Electric Power
Board building today at 1:30 p.m.
Electric ranges will be demon
strated and suggestions for holiday
menues will be made.
Door prizes will be presented.
RECEIVES PROMOTION
Wendel Patterson (right) As Presented Promotion
Wendell T. Patterson Gets Promotion
To Marine Corporal At Corpus Christ!'
Wendell T. Patterson, son of
Mr. and Mri. Claude U. Patter
son of Murphy Route 4 has been
promoted to Marine corporal.
B?fon be enlisted, he attend
ed Cherokee County High School
He received the promotion Sept
17. It wag presented by Lt. Col.
Nell M. Hansen at Corpus Christ!,
Tex
Two Events Planned To Mark UN Day
Baptist Deacons
Hold
Fellowship Supper
The Deacons of First Baptist
Church and their wives had a fel
lowship meeting and dinner at the
church Monday evening.
More than forty attended. Fol
lowing the dinner a business
meeting was held by the active
board of deacons who elected of
ficers as follows: chairman, W.
T. Brown; vice-chairman, Claude
Monteith; secretary, Kenneth
Davis; ordinance committee,
Robert Bruce, chairman, Mrs.
Robert Bruce, Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Monteith and Mi), and
Mrs- Cyrus White.
Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus White; prop
perty committee: H. E. Dickey,
chairman, A. L. Buchanan and
Charlie Hughes; Fellowship com
mittee, Arden Davis, chairman,
John Gill and Ralph Rhodes
Ushers: Clyde Gladson, chair
man, R. D. Chandler, vice-chair
man, Peyton Ivie, H .E. Dickey;
training union deacon, Donald
W. Ramsey; Sunday School deac
on, Ralph Rhodes; and Brother
Hood Deacon, W. A. Hoover.
EDITOR TO SPEAK
| Dr. R. P. Marshall, Editor of
the North Carolina Christian
Advocate, w 1 1 1 be the guest
speaker at the First Methodist
Church on Sunday morning. The
North Carolina Christian Advo
cate Is the official church pub
lication f or die Methodist
Church in North Carolina. As
Editor, Dr. Marshall baa travel
ed throughout the two Annual
Conferences in North Carolina
and s p o k e n in many of the
churches.
Presbytery Approves Divorce Marriage
In General Assembly Meet In Murphy
Hubert Sneed
Named Minister
Candidate
Five candidates for the ministry
were received under the care of
Asheville Presbytery Tuesday in
the autumn meetmg of the church
court at Murphy Presbyterian
Church.
The Presbytery, embracing more
than 30 Southern Presbyterian
churches in Western North Carolina
also voted to establish a new
church ? to be called Westminster
Presbyterian? east of Asheville and
approved a change in the Church's
confession of faith which permit#
ministers to re-marry divorced
persons.
Among the candidates received
were Hubert Sneed, son of Mrs.
Evelyn Sneed of Murphy, now a
junior at King College.
Others were: Walter K. Beatty
Jr., and William R. Johnson, stu
dents at Columbia Seminary, Ashe
ville; John E. Ellington of Waynes
ville, senior at Emory University;
and J. Carlton Burrell, Hazelwood
high school senior.
The Presbytery session was at
tended by about sixty-five minis
ters. elders and visitors from
Western North Carolina. They
heard the Rev. Thomas Sproule, of
Asheville, serving for the retiring
moderator James S. Howell, preach
Football Contest
Won
By Lane Phillips
Lane Phillips of Andrews Route
1 took first honors in The Cherokee
Scout football contest last week
He missed only five games.
Harold Gladson of Hayesville
Route 2 came in second. He also
missed five games, but missed
the tie breaker.
He selected Maryland to beat
North Carolina.
Mr. Phillips picked North Car
olina over Maryland by five
points.
Third place was won by Roger
Kephart of Murphy Route 3. He
missed only six games.
The number of entries contin
ued to mount last week with over
150 persons entering the contest
All you have to do to become a
winner is mark the teams you be
lieve will win and mall or bring
your entry to The , Cherokee
Scout.
upon the theme: "Just To Influence
Is Not Enough," and joined in the
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper,
with the Rev. Eugene Witherspoon
of Andrews and the Rev. Donn K.
Langfitt of Franklin conducting.
The vote on the change in the
Church's Confession in regard to
marriage of divorced persons was
3C to 19.
Change in the church law can be
effected only by approval of three
fourths of the Church's 84 Presby
teries. Under present ruling of the
denomination re-marriage by a
minister of the Church is permiss
ible only by the innocent person in
adultery or desertion.
The change would seek to elevate
the standards of marriage, but per
mit re-marriage of divorced per
sons on other grounds, if the per
son had shown penitence.
Reports relating to the steward
ship work of the church and several
of its agencies were made. Lunch
eon was served by the Women of
the Church.
PTA Warned Of
Enemy
Attack In Area
"If Hiwassee Lake were bombed,
Chattanooga would be washed
away," Ray Heffner, patrolman
with the stfte highway depart
ment, said in addressing the Mur
phy PTA Monday night.
He added that in the event of the
bombing of Lake Chatuge "Mur
phy would be gone."
Mr. Heffner made this statement
as a member of a panel in a civil
defense program. Other partici
pants were Jim Ed Hughes Jr.,
Murphy chairman; Mrs. Johnsie
Nunn, welfare chairman; and Paul
Ridenhower.
Mr. Ridenhower also said that
the government was taking more
seriously than ever before the
probability of attack.
The panel, arranged by Mrs. W.
T. Brown Jr., program chairman,
brought out something of the pro
cedure to be followed in the event .
o? an enemy attack in the area,
or other disasters or the use of
Cherokee county as a refuge center.
About $660 was realized from the
benefit harvest festival and bar
becue, Mrs. Williams Wells, ways
and means chairman, reported.
Mrs. Kate Shields sixth grade
clan won the attendance award.
The Rev. R. T. Houts led the de
votional. .
Prof. Andress
To Speak
At Courthouse
Two celebrations this week will
mark for Murphy the 13th anni
versary of the founding of the
United Nations.
One of these will be a county
wide gathering at the courthouse
at 8 p.m. tonight, the eve of United
Nations Day, at which Prof. Robert
P. Andress of Young Harris Col
lege, will speak.
Hie other will be a tree-planting
at Murphy High School, preceded
by a gathering of the school body
in the auditorium, at which Robert
A. Potter, minister of Murphy
Presbyterian church, is to talk.
At the Thursday night gathering,
Andrews citizens and others from
over the county are taking part.
The offering at the meeting is
to go to UNICEF, the United Na
tions' agency that has helped pro
vide food for 45,000,000 children
and members of their families.
Joseph El-Khouri of Andrews,
formerly from Lebanon, will speak
at this meeting.
The color guard of Joe Miller
Elkins Post 196, American Legion,
under the direction of Andrew
Kaylor, will present the colors and
Murphy High Band, directed by
Ed Reynolds, will play.
"Mrs. Ben Warner Sr. is to pre
tride at the court house assembly.
Murphy High's tree-planting cele
bration will be at 1 o'clock Friday
afternoon.
A poplar tree obtained by agri
culture students under the direction
of Glenn Patton, will be planted
with members of the student gov
ernment attending.
A marker is to be installed, con
tributed by the Dockery Marble
company.
Arrangements for the planting
have been made by the Murphy
Garden Club.
Thursday has been set aside as
United Nations Day in Murphy by
a proclamation by Mayor L?. L.
Mason.
The proclamation follows:
"Whereas, Three times in the
past 40 years, peace-loving nations
have been called upon to help turn
back threats to international peace
and security;
"Whereas, One of the basic prin
ciples upon which the United Na
tions was founded was to settle in
ternational disputes without en
dangering peace, security and
justice;
"Whereas, The United Nations,
acting as an international organiza
tion, determined to save succeeding
generations, from the scourge of
war have united their strength to
maintain international peace and
security;
"Whereas, A program for ob
servance of United Nations' Day
will be given in the Courtroom of
the Cherokee County Courthouse in
Murphy, North Carolina, at 7:30
o'clock, P.M., on Thursday, Octo
ber 23rd;
"Now, therefore, I, L. L. Mason,
Mayor of the Town of Murphy,
North Carolina, do hereby proclaim
Thursday, October 23, to be United
Nations Observance Day in the
Town of Murphy and Cherokee
County and do urge all citizens to
observe this day by attending the
meeting at 7:30 o'clock, P. M., on
said date."
Halloween Party
At High School
Planned
A Halloween Carnival will be
held Saturday Ndv. 1, at Murphy
High School.
It will be sponsored by the
Senior Class. The carnival will
consist of a "spook house", for
tune teller, cake walks and con
cession stands.
Those attending are asked to
wear costumes.
Murphy Chapter No- 10 Order
of the Eastern Star will meet
tonight (Thtmday) at 7:30 in the
Masonic Hall. Mrs. Alice Morley,
worthy matron, will preside
DR. C. E. ROZZELLE
Guest Minister
Bishop Henry
To Visit
Episcopal Church
The Church of the Messiah,
across the street from the library,
wll be host to The Rt. Rev. M.
George Henry, Bishop of the Epis
copal Diocese of Western North
Carolina, on Sunday, Oct. 26th, at
7:30 p.m. at which time Bishop
Henry will deliver the sermon.
Following the service, there will
be a coffee hour in the Parish
House back of the Cfcurch at which
time Bishop Henr^ will recount
some of his experiences at the
Lambeth Conference in England,
and at the General Convention just
ended at Miami Beach, Florida.
Everyone is invited to the service
and to the coffee hour following.
Church Women
To Meet
At Hazelwood
The 53rd annual meeting of the
Women of the Church,' Presbytery
of Asheville will be held Wednes
day at 9 a- m. at Hazelwood, N.
C.
A coffee hour will preceed the
official opening of the meeting.
Speakers will be Phillip F.
Howerton, moderator of the Gen
eral Assembly and Miss Elizabeth
Wilson, dean of women of Mon
treat College.
Mrs. R. A. Potter, wfie of the
Rev. R. A. Potter, minister of
Murphy First Presbyterian
Church, will offer prayer at the
meeting
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Case spent
the week-end at Asheville.
Dr. C. E. Rozzelle
Selected
To Lead Revival
Dr. C. E. Rozzelle has been se
lected to conduct a revival at the
Andrews Methodist Church during
the week of Oct. 22-28.
He was professor of religion and
philosphy at High Point College.
One of Dr. Rozzelle hobbies is
that of reading. He recently do
nated his private library of 3,000
books to the High Point College
library, according to J. Edwin
Carter, pastor of Andrews Metho
dist Church.
When asked anout the particular
books he enjoyed most, Dr. Roz
zelle found it hard to draw the
line. "You see I have read them
all ? some three or four tines. In
spite of the fact that I sometimes
read several books a day ? my
record is five ? I learn to know
them somewhat intimately and am
very fond of most of them," he
said.
Although having given away his
collection, Dr. Rozzelle is still ac
quiring other books, looking high
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Sunday School
Teachers And
Officers Named
At the morning worship ser
vice Sunday, October 19, the of
ficers and teachers of the And
rews Presbyterian Sunday School
for 1958-59 were installed.
Mr. Charles Delaney was nam
ed Superintendent. Mrs. Jake Wil
liams is the Sunday School
Treasurer. Mr. Lee Nichols is At
tendance Chairman for the com
ing year. Teachers for the Adult
Class are Mrs- Joseph Sursavage,
Lee Nichols and Rev. Gene With
erspoon; for the Senior High De
partment, L. B. Nichols; for the
Pioneer Class, Mrs. Edwin Bris
tol; for the Junior Class, Mrs.
Herbert Sheidy and Mrs. John
Slagle; for the Primary Class,
Mrs. L. B. Nichols; and for the
Kindergarten Class, Mrs. John H.
Pullium.
Correction
In the last issue of The Scout
Mayes Behrman was listed as di
rector of the John C. Campbell
Folk School.
Mr. Behrman is not director of
the school, but is director of the
extension department of the
school. Georg Bidstrup is director
of the John C. Campbell Folk.
School.
The Scout regrets this error- .
Second Annual Reformation Day Union
Services Set At Andrews Presbyterian
The Second Annual Reforma-'
tion Day Union Service will be.
held at Andrews Presbyterian !
Church on October 29, at 7:15
p. m.
The service is held each yearj
in celebration of the nailing of
the 95 Theses by Martin Luther {
on the door of the University!
Chapel in Wittenburg, an actj
which culminated in the Protes
tant Reformation.
The guest minister for this ser
vice will be Dr. C. E. RozzeUe, j
a former Methodist Minister and
District Superintendent, of Win- 1
ston-Salem, N. C.
He was als^ formerly a Pro.
fessor of Religion and Philosophy
at High Point College, High Point,
N. C.
The Invocation, followed by
the Lord's Prayer, will be giVta
by the Rev. Edwin Carter. The
Responsive Reading will be led
by the Rev. Vitokta Gobins- Spec
ial Music, "Praise Ye The Path
er," will be rendered by the com
bined choirs of the participating
Churches.
The Evening Prayer will be led
by the Rev. T. C. Christmas. The
Benedicton will be pronounced by
the Rev, Eugene Withers pooa.
Mb. Robert Heaton will be the
organist.
A special offering will be re.
ceived
Part of this offering will go
toward meeting the expenses of
the service. Tbe rest of this of
fering will go into a fund that has
been set up to meet tbe needs of
transients. This fund is regulated
by the Andrews Ministerial Asso
ciation,
The Churches participating in
this service are the Andrews
Methodist Church, St Andrews
Lutheran Church, First
Free Methodist
Church of God, end The
of the Holy
Church. The pal is
invited to