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VOLUME 70 ? NUMBER 25 The Cherokee Scout Dedic \To Promoting Far Western North Carolina mm ~ c i V 1 SEND RENEWAL of suiscRirrioN ' BEFORE EXFIRATIO^/ DATE ON ADDRESS THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 1961 10 PAGES THIS WEEK PUBLISHED WEI a TbonpsoB, Hlatoa Racaiva Football Hoaors i ne Murpny mgn acnooi iooumui team was honored at the Murphy Quarterback Club's Annual Football Banquet at the New Regal Hotel Saturday. David Thompson, fleet-footed halfback of the Smoky Mountain Conference Champion Bull Is shown left above receiving the outstanding back award from Rev. Wm. J. Thompson. Hubert Hlnton. anchor man In the Bulldog's forward wall and a standout at guard, right above, was honored as the outstanding lineman of the year. Rev. Thompson, pastor of the First Baptist Church, was the guest speaker. Eighty-one players, coaches. Quarterback Club members, and team supporters were present. Mr. Thompson pointed out that individual competition as well as the spirit of teamwork is the lesson learned in the game of football. murphy CALENDAR THURSDAY, JANUARY 19 1:30 p.m. - The Grape Creek Home Demonstration Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Fred Martin. 3:00 p.m. Junior Choir Re hearsal at First Methodist Church. 3:30 pjn. - Concord Choir at First Baptist Church. 7:30 p.m. Community Pra yer Service at Free Meth odist Church. The Woman's Club will meet In the Murphy Power Board Building. Capt. Frank Swan of And rews will talk on Civil De fense. FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 *00 a.m. County Crafts Workshop at Murphy Power Board Building. SUNDAY, JANUARY 22 5:30 p.m The MYF will meet at the First Metho dlst Church. <*30 p.m. Training Union at First Baptist Church. MONDAY, JANUARY 23 6:30 p.m. The Rotary Club will meet at the Family Restaurant. 7:30 p.m. The Wesleyan Ser vice Guild will meet at the liome of Miss Thelma Whe ? eler, with Miss Josephine Helghway as Joint hostess. The Women of the Presby terlan Church will meet at the church. TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 3:30 p.m Junior Fellowship will meet at the Presby terlan Church. The Carol Choir will meet at the First Baptist Church. 4:15 p.m. Th^Cherub Choir will meet at the First Bap dst Church. The Celestial Choir atFlrst Baptist Church. 7:30 p.m. The Senior-Pio neer will meet at the Presbyterian Church. The Alcoholic Anonymous will meet at the New Regal Hotel. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25 3:30 p.m. The Chapel Choir will meet at the First Bap dst Church. 7:20 p.m. Prayer Services at Presbyterian Church. :30 p.m. Hour of Powei* at First Baptist Church* Mid-week services at the First Methodist Church. 8:00 p.m. Choir practice at Presbyterian Church. 8:30 p.m. - Choir Rehearsa. at First Baptist Church. ^ Choir Rehearsal at First Methodist ClFurch. PLEASE 0AV VE0 TO THE (HS? MARCH OF DIMES CHECK YOUITVaBEL If Vvtr ScMft AMrm L?M Rtadt FEBRUARY . 1960 l?mi H**l Moini RENEW NOW TIM OMfikM kwt AUNT HET All folk* want I* the iMlIn' (tut Mm* hlghet pcwar it ?kin car* of (ham. It used ?o be Pravtdenca. and not it'a I nnnmwt. Bloodmoblle Workers Those who assisted In the Bloodmoblle' Thursday, Jan uary 12. at the Power Board Building were: Women of Home Demon stratlon Club of Peachtree, who were In charge of can teen Mrs. Jack Ferguson, President; Mrs. Aude Sud derth and Mrs. Ralph Sud derth. Registration table: Dot Hensley, Mrs. R. W. Eas - ley, and Mrs. O. F. Jeffer es. Bottle Table: Mrs. Berth Bates, Mrs Berth Roberts, and Mrs. Miriam Moore. Nurses: Mrs. Fannie Ram sey and Mrs. Frances Hood. Doctor: Dr. W. A. Hoover. Thirty-two pints of blood were donated. Ten were turn ed down. Access Road Money Available To Firms Buying Gov't Timber Mr. Robert b. Horning, Branch Manager, Small Busi ness Administration, Char lotte, N, C? announced a new program to provide loans to small firms purcRaslng^trtw* ber from national forests. The program, developed jointly by the Small Business Administradon and die Forest Service, Department of Agri culture, will provide small first with funds for building access roads and thus re duce the strain on working :apltal needed for normal op erating expenses. Applications to SB A for road .onstrucdon loans will be ac ? cepted only from small busi ness concerns who are succes ? sful bidders for national for est timber sales and who can meet the size, eligibility, and credit requirements of the Small Business Adminitra don. SBA business loans may not exceed $350,000 in Govern ment funds to a borrower, but loans of this type will also be limited 'o the amount of the Forest Service's estimate of the cost of construction of the access roads. Under the terms of theagre etnent with theForestService, the timber to be harvested will provide security for the loan and required collateral'Will be limited to an assignment >f any assignable rights under the national forest timber sales contract betweer the borrower and the Forest Service. In case additional funds are required (or any legitimate business purpose, other than for ronstructior of access roads, however, a regularSBA business loan to be secured bv other collateral 'ran be con sidered separately. In most cases, loans of this type can be quickly handled, the Small Business Admlnls tration said, since the Forest Service will have already con sidered the technical and flanacial capacities of. the small concerns and found them acceptable. As soon as jointprocedures have been developed for hand ling road construction loans of this type, the Forest Service will Indicate the availability of SBA financing In its Sale Prospectus of a timber sale. It 1* anticipated that the pro gram will be fully implement ed by March 1. 1961. Good has but one enemy, the evil; but the evil has two ene mies, the good and Itself. Von Muller Little progress can be made by merely attempting to re press what is evil; our great hope Ilea In developing what la food. Calvin Coolldge What we tee depends malnlv on what we look for. John Lubbock First of all ? man must see, before he can say, Henry David Thoreti} NC Little Symphony Returns To County Next Week The North Carolina Little Symphony returns next week to Cherokee County on Its sixteenth annual tour with Walter Carrlnger as guest soloist. Two concerts direct ed by Dr. Benjamin Swalln. are scheduled (or January 24, at Murphy's High SchoolGym nasi urn the children's con cert at 1:00 p.m. and the ad ult concert at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Carrlnger Is a former resident of Murphy and his mother, Mrs. RuthCarrlnger, resides here at present. He will sing "in Native Wroth' trom CREATION, an oratorio by Haydn; 'Amor tl vieta' (Love forbids thee), from FE DORA, an opera by Giordano; "Un aura amorosa*' 'An a morous zephyr), from COSI FAN TUTTE, an opera by Mozart; 'M'appari tuttamor" (Like a stream), from MAR THA, an opera by Flotow. A tenor, Mr. Carringer re celved a BA In Music from Columbia University and was soloist with the renowned Rob ert Shaw Chorale for three and a half years. He has made a London debut and a Town Hall appearance as the tenor lead in Verdi's LA TAVIATA. The adult concert will fea cure the Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A major (K. 201) which Is a delicate and precise work of the composer's earlierper lod. Also the orchestra will play the Overture to the op era THE ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS by Rossini- theVau ghan Williams Suite, English Folk Songs; The Prayer of the Bullfighter by Turlna; Lar go, from the opera XERXES by Handel; Sandpaper Ballet by Anderson; and Waltz, Roses from the South by Strauss. School children of Cherokee Jounty will hear theorchestra in selections that they have been studying. Thev will parti ?Ipate in the concert by play Ing their own hand -construct Mrs. W.D. Townson Dies After Short Illness Mrs. Winnie Sneed Townsot. iied at her home Wednesday morning, January 11. after a short illness. A native of Cherokee Coun - ?y, she was the daughter of the ? ate R. H. and EmalineCooper Sneed. She was a member Ji the First Methodist ChurcV and of Circle No. 2 of the WSC of the church. Mrs. Townson has been ac avely associated with her hus band in the operation ot the Townson Funeral Home since it was founded. She is survived by the hus - band, W. D. Townson: one daughter, Mrs. Winifred Wells of Wallace; one son, W. D. Townson. J r. of Edenton; one sister, Mrs. *ack Plercv of Murphy; three brothers, Nell Sneed and Max Sneed of Mut ph> and Paul Sneed of Copper hill, Tenn.; and eight grand children. Services were held at2p.tr, Fridav in First Methodist Church. The Rev. R. T. Houts Jr., the Rev. C. A. Smith the Rev. W.J. Thompson, and the Rev. W. F. Elliott officiated, and burial was in the family plot in Sunset Cemetery. The Hyatts Bible class and Circle No. 2wereflowerg1rls. Active pallbearers were: JohnGlU, Nell Johnson, Char les Johnson, Bill Gulley, John Davidson, Dr. George Dyer, Tommy Gr?ham, Lee Thomas, Don Gentry and Robert Wea ver. Honorary pallbearers were: Rav Moore, T. L. Aiverson W. F Forsyth Hadley Dick ey. Dr. B W. Whitfield, and Dr. W. A. Hoover, end all Funeral Directors. ed percussion Insturments with the orchestra. Some of the selections will be SYMPHONY IN E FLAT, NO. 39 (K. 543. by Mozart; "Dance ol thePrln cesses'" and excerpts from THE FIREBIRD byStravlnsky; and Everybody Sing selection of ALL NIGHT, ALL DAY MARCH OF THE TOYS by Hervert; and other select Ions by Schubert, Famon and Strauss. Membership cards, which entitle the bearer to attend all concerts given bv the or chestra this season, are no* on sale. Prices for member ships are $5 per couple $? single; and |1 for all students. Tri -County Ministers Meet Andrews The Cherokee Clay -Graham Ministerial as soclatlon met at the Fellow ship Hall of the First Metho dist Church on Tuesday Thev were served lunch by die lad ss ot the Woman's Society Christian Serviceand the Wes leyan Service Guild it 'ht :hurch Rev. BillSardn, vice-piesl dent, presided at the business session. Reverend A G.Swaf ford, pastor of the Marble Springs Baptist Church and die Reverend W. P. Rembert. pastor of the Tusquittee Church of God, were received as new members of the group Reverend Frank Smathers. superintendent of the Waynes vllle District of the Methodist Church was a guest at the meedng A Radio Committee, com posed of R. T. Houts, Alex Hanson, Robert Potter, and W. J . Thompson, was appoint ed Roy Trexler, Ed. Altland, George Haase, Jack Thomas, and Claude Young were ap pointed to serve as a Program Committee for the Ministerial Association. Other members present at the meedng were: T. C. Christmas, H. C. Ledford, Marcellus Absher F B.Luns ford, D. P. Smotherman, Ben Steele, Finley Orr, and Willis 7. Nelson. The next meeting is to be at the Hlnton Memorial Rural i-ife Center In Hayesville, on Tuesday, February Thirty Five Pints Of Blood Donated Andrews Ar the recent Bloodmoblle held at the city hill in Tuesday, January 10. thlrtv five pints of blood were donated. Red ross workers trom Asheville were assisted by Dr. Van border and volunteer worker* at the blood drive. The following volunteers served: Mrs. Anna Winfrey, Mrs. Will Ashe, Mrs. Kather ine Rodda, Mrs. Helen Van Gorder, Mrs. Doris Teas. Mrs. Wayne Ladd, Mrs. A. B. Chandler, Sr. Mrs. Fred Mashburn, Mrs. L. 0. Bro ome, Mrs. Lucy Laughter, Mrs. Helen Klvel, Miss San dra Mashburn, and Mrs. J ames Baer. My Neighbors "I hop* you honor credit L-?rd*r 1 Texana School Gets Hot Lunch Program The Texana School In Murphy will start serving hot lunches next Monday, January 23. Approval for the school to start a school lunch program was received Monday from the North Carolina State School Lunch Program. The students at Texana will be offered a "Type A" lunch which consists of a balanced hot meal with milk. The price of the lunch to the student will he 20# dally. __ Application for the program was made earlier this month when facilities for preparing and serving the meals was completed. An electric stove, hot water heater, and sink have been Installed. All meals can now be prepared on the premises. Texana has an enrollment of 7? students. School autho rides estimate that 35 tc 40 students will eat their lunch at school. The lunchroom program In Murphy Is supported entirely from money received In the sale of the lunches and from Federal and state sources. No local tax funds are avail able for this purpose. Mrs. Ella 8. Ragsdale, principal of the school will manage the lunchroom. A cook has been hired to prepare and serve the meals. The Texana community has provided pots, pans, dishes for use In cooklnp and serving the meals Miss Marcella Hill Named To All State Band Kobblnsvillt Mis? Mai Jella Hill seventeen year old daughter of Mi . and Mrs.i .Q. Hill of Robblnsvllle ha? been nameo a the all state band, part >f the Western District Band Clinic no tx- helo at Western ^arolliu college. Jullowhee, North. Carolina. January 20-21. Miss Hill ha? played In the Robblnsvllle High School Band since she entered the fit!*- grade eight years ago. She las held the first :halr position tti >he clalmet sec ?Jor for the past four years. Mr ". Marvlr Estes Miss ?-avada Buchanan, and Miss ~lara Vee Denton were namec tc the workshop band, alsr part of the Western District Band Clinic. Mr. Estes ha? playec the tombont five years lr. the Robblnsvllle High School Band: Miss Buchana I the French hon. tor five years: and Miss Denton, the clarinet for five years. The Robblnsvllle High School Band is under the di recti or. of Mr. 'ame? F. Maunev. i Social Security Representative Plans Special Trip The Social Security Field Representative will be at the f Courthouse on Monday, Jan uary 30th, beginning at 9:30 I a.m. ana Tuesday morning, Januarv the 31st. This is <t special trip and all interest 1 ed persons are invited to makt inquiry concerning Old Age, Survivors, or DlsabiliryBene 1 fits. The next regularly sche duled trip is >n February 6th and ""th. Reforestation Award Offered By Citizens Bank i Awards totaling $300 are heing offered In a special re ' forestador. contest sponsor ' ed bv the Forestry Commis i sion of the Asheville Agr ulturai Development owr ' cifT*it was announced at a Commission Meeting Monday in City Building. The contest, open to proles < slonal members of the Agr ' cultural Workers' Council if i th^U county area from Bur combe and Madison counties > west, will be judges on pro i motional efforts to get seed '? lings planted. ' First Price of 1100 Is spot - sored by the Appalachian Lum j bermen's r lub. Second prize of $65 and thrld prize o ( $35 will be donated bv the ( Southern Railway. A special $100 award Is being offered in Cherokee, Clay, and Gra ham coundes by the Citizens Bank and Trust Co. It was announced that 347,000 pine seedlings were delivered In December to landowner* In Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, MadI - son and Transylvania count let In ? special program spon ? sored by the Forestry Commission and Champion Paper and Fibre Co., and that 319,000 seedlings are sche duled tor January delivery. Leonard A. Hampton, com mission chairman, presided. New Postal Hike Cost Weekly Newspaper 10% More New Year's Day brought with it higher postal rates on newspapers and other publi nations. It was the third of three annual increased voted by Congress in 1958. Nearly 6,000 hometown newspapers, were affected by the increase in varying de grees. Due to the complexity of the second-class postal rate structure, the exact a mount of the percentage in crease will vary among publi - shers, but mail costs for news papers will Increase more than 10 percent in all cases. While metropolitan news papers and national magazines will alsc be affected by the same increases small town papers are likely to find the added burden harder to bear. Other publications often afe able to use non-mall dlscribut ion systems to a considerable degree while small papers of en have no alternative except K use the mails for a large portion of their circulation. The extra revenue received bv the Post Office from high er rates on publications would make no substantial dentin the annual postal deficit, which is now estimated at about $800 million a year Publishers are forced to pass along higher postal costs tc their readers bv. raising subscription prices. 'The outgoing Adminis tration,'' Sherrill, Executive Vice-President of National Ed toria? Association, declared, 'ha J made an annual event of demanding further rate in creases. No doubt the finai Budger of the old Adminlstra loi,, tc be sent tt Congress latet this month will urge higher rate* once again,'' The NEA spokesman pointed t the 1960 Democratic Plat form which contained a plank pledging tc "restore the prin ciple that the postal service is <? public service." He expressed hope that the Incoming Postmaster General Edward Day, would adhere K the Democratic Platform uid find some other solution to the fiscal problems of the postai service without de manding annual rate increases adversely affecting news papers. 959 Peachtree Escapee Captured n Maryland State Police reported Frl day that one of two men ar rested after an auto chase Thursday said he escaped from i North Carolina prison camp, n August, 1959. The two men, DonaldG.An Jers, 28, and Dick Boger, 19, both of Winston-Salem N.C., were arrested after a frlef chase on U. S. 40. Police ;aid they found 14 guns In the rar, and identified some of [hem as having been stolen m Virginia several days ago. The men were being held without charge in Howard Jountv jail pending FBI act ion. Troopers said Anders told then he escaped from a pri ion camp at Murphy, N. C., n 1959. _ Prison authorities saidWft* ;rs was sent to Peachtree on \ugust 24. 1959. He escaped he next day, August 25. Police said both men were ?ranted in Virginia for quest onlng in connection with a lerles of burglaries in ?rayson County. Local Attorney's Name On Gettysburg Memorial A memorial commemorat ing the nomination of Dwlght D, Elsenhower In 1952 which Is to be presented to the Nat onal Park at Gettysburg, Pa., will list the name of C. Ed win Hyde of Murphy as 1952 National Republican Delegate i rem The North Carolina 12th District. Plan* for the memorial were announced by the Rep ublican National Convention Delegation Memorial Commit tee. Hyda't name will be in - scribed In bronze on the mem orial, It was announced. '61 Andrews Hi Mascots 1 The mascots for the 1961 Andrews High School Se | Class are Julie PulUum and Dave Crawford. Julie 1 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John PulUum. Dave is of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Crawford. * John Jordan Launches 19i ) March Of Dimes Caaipaign* John Jordan, chairman of Cherokee County Chapter of the National Foundation, has announced that the New 1961 March of Dimes Campaign is under way with Mr. Raymond Joseph as campaign director Mr. Joseph states that this year during the week of Jan uary 23-31, a big push will be made to come up to the goal of $2000.00. The Dlrec tor says that one week should be long enough If the people really got down to work and became really Interested In the welfare of our children. This year Mr. Frank For syth will head the Industrial Drive. Merle Davis is chair man of the Merchants Drive. The Murphy Womans Club with Mrs. Holland McSwaln, President, will conduct the Mothers' March. The Moth ? ers* March will be held on Monday, January 30, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Mrs. McSwaln has requested that the people of the community leave their porch lights burn lng. Indicating they wish to contribute and if anyone is missed, please call The Cherokee Cafe. The fire whistle will blow at 7;00 p.m. sharp showing that the March Is beginning. The Home Demonstration vMubs of the various communi ties will help reach people this year that have been missed before. The Director states that this is a county affair and all should feel that they should have a very definite part in its welfare. John Jordan. Walter Fuett and Mrs. J. J. Plnson will work with the city and count\ schools. The Boy Scout Troop of Murphy will be in charge distributing the posters. The Little Womens Sewing Club will be in charge of Crutch Day, Saturday, January 28. You are asked to contribute generously to these young ladies. Rev. Roy Trexler of And rews will be in charge of the entire Andrews campaign. He will announce his workers at a later date. Paui Rldenhour and J erne Babb are in charge of all publicity through the radio stations andTheChero kee Scout. Mr. Jordan states that at the beginning of the year, the Che rokee County Chapter owed $1210.00 to the Ashevllle Orthopedic Hospital . Due to the (act that the Rutherford County Chapter and Tran sylvania County Chapter came to the rescue and released $972.26 end paid most of our Mll^ our Chapter Is in fair shape now, but there Is a bill of around $237.00 tan paid. He ways that this b should be paid as soon as o chapter can and them we c< once again assume our re ponslbllldes as they arise !< ter on. Mr. Jordon furth states that now is not the Hit to hold back that the money desperately needed for furtht research on poliomyelitis, f the new field of birth defac and arthritis. He further sa that If anyone Is missed du lng the campaign week ai wishes to contribute they m get in touch with John Jorf at the Murphy Element* School or with Ray Jom at Jabaley's Departma Store In Murphy. The Planning Commit for the March of Dimes at slsted of John Jordan, Com Chairman, Mr. Jimmy Howl Vice-Chairman, Mrs. G? crude Worthen, Secretary,) Charlie Hughes, Treasuf Mr. Ray Joseph, Drive I rector, and Mrs. Frank F? guson and Mrs. L. L. Mm The committee and workers are requested to m< Thursday evening, January at "":30 p.m. in the Murp Power Board Building. A other interested people ar invited to meet with this gr< also. Walter Carrlngerl Sings At Franklin Tonight I Franklin-Walter Carriiqg a native of Murphy, will pear here tonight in con J with the North Carolina Llf Symphony at 8 p.m. in Franklin High School Gyfl nasium. Benjamin Swalin f rects the 25-memberorcheJ tra. Carrlnger will sing aril from three operas: Floral Martha, Mozart's Cost H ^itte, and Giordano's Fedq as' well as "In Native Wo from Haydn's oratorio C| adon. Featured works by Symphony will include s cdons by Rossini, Vaughan Williams, Handel, Anderson, fc S The Symphony cards will be concert. Thieves die building, been mad*.
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