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' County Commissioners Claim No Responsibility
For Radios Being Taken Out Of Sheriffs Cars
t- PLAYFUL petunia
Man-Trailer
PETUNIA PLAYFUL PUP, KNOWS
BUSINESS OF MAN -TRAILING
Petunia is a playful pup, but I
when she settles down to business,!
she does not play around
Petunia is a registered English
Bloodhound, owned by R. R. Carryl
of Murphy.
The sad looking man-trailer is al
so known by the name "The Kings!
Ionlanthe." but the children whoj
play around the fairgrounds where
Mr. Carryl has his trailer parked,
know her better as Just plain1
Petunia.
Children do not have to be afraid
' of the dog, although she looks
, fierce. She is gently, Mr. Carryl
Mid.
? la fact, she is so gentle that it is
. necessary for her to have a body
guard.
Jack, an 85 pounds German Shep
> herd. Alls this )ob. Mr. Carryl said
. that Jack's duty is to protect
Petunia, which he has been espec
y ially trained to do.
If Jack was for sale, he would
faring about >800 Mr. Carryl said.
/ Petunia, who can trace her ante
? ? cestry back to early England
would sell for approximately 12,
, 500.
She has been used for finding es-' 1
' caped convicts, locate lost children
and even find lost car keys. Mr.
Carryl says that the dog can follow
a scent even along the water or
> even on ? breeze.
(! Petunia does not baric like the
' bloodhounds la the movies or on
Vttteviatoo. Mi. Canyi Mid. m
tallows the trail without a sound
he said. Ths enables the dog am
the trailer to get very close ti
what ever is being sought, he coo
tinued. -
The hound's long floppy ears hav
m ?
JACK ? Body Guard
t reason. They are to stir up tlx
icent along a trail, Mr. Carryl said
Pettunla's ear spread ii * in
?hes. They can be tied above hei
lead.
She is considered a champion,
tfter being in only six shows. Pe
tuila has won 18 ribbons and six
rophies. Mr. Carry] said.
Jack, her body guard, is no stow
?oke about winning ribbons either,
ir. Garryl continued. He nas wan
?varal 1b various abort.
Andrews Schools
To Open
August 25
ANDREWS? Schools In the And
rews City Administrative Unit wiU
open for students on Tuesday, Au
gust 25, with a half-day schedul*
for organization and - orientation.
Superintendent C. O: Frazier has
announced.
A full schedule of- classes wUl be
gin on Wednesday, August -28, with
I school lunch rooms' at Andrews and
J Marble in operation. " "
All teachers will report for work
on Monday, ' August 24. in 'accord
ance with instructions- from i the
state superintendent i of public in
' structlon.' The' day Mil : be spent in
teachers . meeting conferences
in the classrooms, in preparation
for the opening of schools. |
Students who have moved into
the Andrews school district since
May 26 are requested to register
at the proper school between Au
gust 12 and August 21 to facilitate
the assignment of pupils before the
first day of school.
The faculty list for Andrews City
Schools for the 1959-60 term is as
follows:
Andrews High School: J. T. Mcin
tosh, Mrs. Aline E. Bristol. Miss.
Jean Christy, Bill Ensley, Mrs.'
Lillian Freel, Miss Ruth Hamilton,
Mrs. Anna Lunsford. Cecil Mash
burn, Richard Ramsey, Alvin Rus
sell, Mrs. Ruth Sursavage, Miss
Meredith Whi taker. Miss Eliza
beth Whiston and Sam Webb.
Andrews Elementary School: L.
C. Broome, principal. Billy Mc
Falls, Dean Tniett, Mrs. Mellie Ste
wart, Mrs. Leila Van Gorder, Miss
Mary Ruth Gibson, Mrs. Louise)
1 Rector. Mrs. Alice Hogsed. Mrs.
? Gertrude Walsh. Mrs. Agnes Price,
h Mrs. Haze! Elliott, Mrs. Betty Har
ris, Mrs. Annie McGulre, Mrs. Ruth
e C. Puilium, Mrs. Leila Thomas son,
Mrs. Louise Enloe, Miss Elizabeth
Kilpatrick, Mrs. Veanah Radford,
Mrs. Lenna Ford, Mrs. Ruth S.
Puilium, Mrs. Blanche Garner,
Mrs. Louise Zimmerman, Miss
Trilby Clean, and Mrs. Carrie
?? Womack. '? ; ?
? '
Marble Elementary School: J.
Frank Walsh, principal. Mrs. Helen
Waldroup, Mrs. Vesta Wood. Mrs.
Maude Radford, and Miss Geneva
Chastain.
. ...
Andrews Colored School: Mr*.
Ida Mae Logan.
Mrs. Polly Bault will work in all
of the high schools in Cherokee
County a* consultant in guidance
and counseUiag. .
REGISTRATIOH SET
R is requorM that all students
who plan to enroll in the Murphy
Hihg School tor IHC lWt-1960 'school
year who did not register during
: Spring Registration week report to
t^e office of Oe higfc qchool prin
cipal far' registration between 9
a.m. and 1 p.m. of Friduy August
. 14, principal Walter Puett announc
Offical School Opening
Planned For August 26
The official opening of Murphy
city schools will be held August
26.
Students report to school on
August 25 for assignment to rooms
and classes. They 'will also be issu
ed books on this date.
Teachers will hold an orientation
meeting on August 24.
Following is a list of the teach
ers for the Murphy City School
syetm for the coming year, accord
ing to SoperiBtendent Holland Mc
Swain.
'Elementary Scty>ol: John Jordan,
principal. Mrs. Dair Shields. Mrs.
Martha C. Hatchett, Miss Clara
McComtas, Mrs. Margaret Bruce,
Mrs. Ruth Forsyth, Mrs. Christine
P. Ingle, Mris Evilyi R. Patton.
Miss Ella McCombs, Mrs. Ruby
Hill, Miss Leila Hayes, Mrs. Mar
garet V. Rhodes, Mrs. Annie S.
Brandon, Mrs. Willie Lou Shields,
tMrs. Martha B. Dreher, Miss Emily
Sword.
'Miss Kate Hayes, Mrs. Marie
Hendrix, Mrs. Olive Williams, Mrs.
Kate Shields, Mrs. Ottilie de Calon
gne, Miss Ella Faye Byers.
" Miss Addie Leatherwood, Mrs.
Maude M. Gulled ge, Mrs. Edwina
B. Hagaman, Mrs. Ruth Wilson,
Mrs. Margaret Gibbs, Mrs. Jane H.
Reynolds. Mrs. Emily C. Davidson,
Mrs, Edna P. Whitley, Mrs. Mary
B. Jones.
High School: Walter R. Puett,
principal; Mrs. Pauline B. Bault,
vocational guidance; Mrs. Margaret
Carter, Mrs. Fannie Mit Case
Dave Bristol.
Mrs. Jean Smith. Mrs. Lucile
Ga'ult, Gordin Isley, Mrs. Barbara
McConnell, Ralph McConnell.
Mrs. Geradine Meadows, Felix
Palmer.
iMrs. Emma Louise Minor, Glenn,
A. Patton. Mrs. Frances W. Ray, i
Edward J. Reynolds, Frank Gas
away, Mrs. Dollie Smart, John
Thompson, Miss Maria Louise
Travis.
.Texana School: Mrs. Ella B.
Ragsdate. principal; Thomas Ed
ward Jordan, James Austin.
Eastern Star
Officials
Visit Andrews
ANDREWS? Mrs. Lenore Stack.
District Deputy Grand Matron of
Cullowhee and Lacy Harper, Dis
tric Deputy Grand Patron of Frank
lin of the 21st District of the Grand
Chapter of North Carolina, Order ^
of the Eastern Star, paid an official
visit to the Andrews Chapter No.'
15 of the O.E.S. Monday evening at
the Masonic Hall.
I
The officers of the chapter will
assist with the initiation and instal
lation of the newly organized Chapt
er at Marble Monday, August 17 at
4:30 p.m. at the Masonc Hall and
will continue through the evening.
Members of the Marble PTA will
serve supper at 6:30 p.m. in the
Marble School cafetorium.
Refreshments were served during
the social hour.
Dear Mister Editor:
1 see where the sheriff's deputies quit because of the fee sys
tem and the sheriff is having to operate without radios in his cars.
it seems to me that the county ought lo be wiling ti pay deputies
lor a Job ol work just like evfery body expects. It also looks like the
sherifl should have radiis for his cars il they are needed to enforce
-the laws in the county.
? - rAyfor-the "deputies, tr doirt seenrto rare like r salary of 1173 a
month is hardly enough for their job. Policemen in general, it
seems to me, don't get paid near enough.
At best, keeping Uie peace is probably a rough job, but when
It comes to getting cut on and shot at it ought to be worth a little
more.
Seems like every time you turn around lately a policeman has
been sljot at or cut.
Murphy policeman Glen Bates was cut a while back and the
otfwr night I undestand a deputy got hH in the head wtth a rock
while making an arrest. A highway patrolman In South Carolina
was shot and killed a few months ago when he was making as ar
Maybe some of tl|is stuff could be prevented U there were
enough officer* for them to travel in pairs or the courts were hard
eoough-on those folks who take a shot at or cut a policeman.
'Well, 1 don't knuw a whole lot about pontics and such like but 1
V f\;r>
Sincerely.
1. D. Clare
Sweethearts Get
Chance To Dance
For TV Officials
The Carolina Sweethearts, Mur
phy square dance team, have been
invited to Florida to appear before
a group of television executives.
The group was selected for the
all expense paid trip "because of,
their unique ability and because of
their extreme youth and great ap
peal as dancers."
They will appear in a program
called the Smoky Mountain Jubilee
Show Case. The program will not
be open to the public.
The Sweethearts will appear at
the Tites Hotel near Reddington
Reef in Florida from August 21'
through 21.
Bob Cox, who is staging the show,
said he felt the opportunity to ap
Ipear before the group of television
( executives might "catapult this
young group of entertainers in a
national light through television ex
posure."
Seventeen children, 16 dancers
and one caller, will make the trip
along with five parents.
Mrs. Pete Stalcup vill be in
charge of the group of dancers.
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Lions District
Governor
Installed Aug. 8
President Cecil W. Parham of the
Lions Club of Haw Creek has an
nounced the installation meeting
of newly elected District Governor
of 31-A Lions International, Hubert
| L. Kanipe. The dinner was held at
I the Blue Ridge Assembly on August
8th at 7:00 p.m.
Kanipe is a member of and was
sponsored by the Haw Creek Club.
Other members ot ivampe's Cabinet
?who were installed are: Deputy
District Governors, William G.
Davis, Bryson City, Gudger Cabe,
Candler. Earl Higdon, Henderson
ville; Cabinet Secretary-Treasurer,
Lawrence C. Stoker. The installa
tion was by International Coun
sellor F. E. Shull, Immediate Past
District Governor of 31-A.
Kanipe has appointed the follow
ing: Zone Chairmen, R. S. Bault,
Murphy, J. Frank Martin. Franklin,
Charles A. Smith, Canton, Harold
R. DeBruhl, Ashevllle, John Alex
ander. Asheville. Harry Woodson,
Horseshoe; District Director ot
White Cane and Membership, Wil
lard F. Hensley, Asheville: District
Retention Director, H. Bueck,
Franklin; District Director of Pub
lic Relations. M. Richard Harshaw,
Jr.. Asheville; and Edwin Leiand,
Saluda, J. Robert Grace. Asheville,
members of the state-wide commit
tee on blind work.
Main speaker for the meeting will
be International Counsellor Hugh
Monteith. Immediate Past Chair
man of the Committee on Interna
tional Relation* and past member
of the Board of Directors of Lkwa
County Board Of Commissioners Tell
That Radios Were Never Paid For
The Cherokee County Commissioners have denied that they are re
sponsible for the removal ol I4ie two-way radios from the Sheriff':. De
partment autos.
A spokesman said Monday that the radios were removed from tb?
cars because they had never been paid tor.
Rotary District.
Governor Guest
At Andrews Picnic
ANDREWS? C. W. I Pat) Gil
christ of Charlotte, district gover
nor of District 767 of Rotary Inter
national was the guest speaker at
the meeting of the Andrews Rotary i
club last Tuesday evening
The meeting was held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Ellis and
featured an out-door picnic
Governor GilchrtA was accom
panied on the trip by Mrs Gilchrist.
Gordon Butler of Andrews is (lie
retiring Governor of District 767.
John Ellis is the newly elected pres
of the Andrews club presided
Civitan Zone
Meet
Held In Murphy
The first Zone Council meeting
of Civitan International. Zone I,
was held at the Murphy Power
Board Building. Saturday, August
1, 1959, from 2 to 4:30 p.m.
Presiding at this meeting was
Lieutenant Governor of Zone 1,
Headlee Lee Howard of Asheville.
The purpose of this meeting was
not only for members and officers
to get acquainted, but also to make
plans for the new Civitan yeari
which began in July.
Other Civitan leaders who attend
ed this meeting were N. C. State
Civitan Governor, W. Glenn Ken- 1
nerly of Greensboro, and Everett
Siceioff of Lexington, former dis
trict governor and past internation
al vice president of Civitan Inter
national.
Only two clubs in Zone I were
not represented at this meeting.
Refreshments were served by
wives of Civitans W. T. Brown Jr.,
John Jordan, Kenneth Davis , and
Howard Martin.
Meeting Planned
To Discuss
Football League
A meeting of parents and boys in
terested in forming a midget foot
ball league will be held Monday at
7:30 p. m. at the elementary School
auditorium, Frank Forsyth an
nounced.
It is hoped that teams for 60
boys can be arranged. Mr. Forsyth
said. <
There will be a campaign to raiae
funds to purchase uniforms be
said. Twenty -five persons have
agreed to buy uniforms, Mr. For
The age of the txjys can be be
tween 6 to II, Mi. Forsyth added.
Cherokee County Sheriff Claude
Anderson said last weak he could
not enforce properly the laws of the
county because the two-way radios
had been removed anJ because his
deputies had resigned because
they were taken otf of a salary
basis and put on a fe? system.
The radios for the three cars
were purchased in March of 1957,
a member of the County Commis
sioners said. He continued that
there is no record of the purchase
in the County Commissioners min
utes.
The cost of the three radios and
a central receiver unit was $3,875.
On an order of this size, the Com
missioner said, it is necessary for
the Commissioners to request com
petive bids.
No bids, the spokesman said,
were received on these radios.
The purchase order for the
radios, he continued, was signed by
the sheriff. Usually, purchase or
ders are signed by the County Com
missioners.
The old radios were purchased by
a local firm for $500 and are still
in good working order, the Com
missioner said.
The company who sold the radios
to the county took the radios out
of the cars because there bad been
no payment made on them daring
the twenty months that they had
been in use.
"We just want the public to know
that we are not responsible for the
radios being taken out of the de
puties cars," the commissioner
said. "We did not feel that we were
obligated to pay for something that
another board had bought and had
time to pay for," he continued.
"After the radios were bought, two
budgets were made up and there
was no allotment for the radios in
either of them."
The commissioner said that
placing the deputies on a fee sys
tem rather than a salary was an
economy move for the county.
"Before the deputies were placed
on fees, they were collecting fees
as well as salaries. It was a waste
of county money to pay them twice
for the same Job."
The Commissioner continued that
the sheriff still has several depu
ties around the county aa well as
being able to call on the constables
from throughout the county as well
as the highway patrol for assist
ance.
The spokesman said that the
sheriff could hire a Jailer with the .
feels ht receives from Murphy add 1
the county for locking up prisoner*.
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