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t The Smoky Mountain Times Votume 86 - Number 31 Bryson City, North Carotina — Thursday. May 1 , 1969 Around Town Odd! Wilson is stiH trying to figure where all the peopie came from Saturday evening. We don't know, but we understand that they gave him such a going over, he had to A take Monday off to recuperate. * * * * The Mayor has started the month off with a prociamation to dean up Bryson City. With a !itt!e he!pfu! hint from our iaw enforcement officers to care!ess litter-bugs being Manned as a second step, we may get somewhere this timet Tire fine is $50.00, no questions asked. So, if you want to p!ay, be ready to pay. * * * Maybe this isn't the time nor the p!ace, but a certain individual has bee" coming into our office quite concerned with the iack of interest citizens are showing in the County Athietic Association. For years, Bryson City has had softbai! teams and little boy's baseball But a tota! of six J meetings have been he!d with very !itt!e interest being shown thus far. What do you say people? Are we going to have a softba!! game this year or not? * * * Corner H. Martin Barracks, Veterans of Wor!d War ! wii! meet in Swain County Courthouse, Saturday, May 4th at 2:00 p.m. AM World War 1 Veterans, whether Barracks Members or not, are invited to attend. There are no restrictions of any kind. * * * The State Highway Patrol reports only one accident in , the County this week. While *6 making 8 contacts, one wps charged with drunk driving and four with speeding. Also reported with two other hazardous moving violations and one non-hazardous violation. No pedestrian violations were reported. The Department patrolled 2,414 mMes in Swain County from April 21 through April 27. 6o!f Course To Reopen The Ela Heights Carpet Golf Course will open for the 1969 season on Saturday, May 3. Mr. G. L. Crisp will again be Manager. Joe Brawley will be assistant Manager. " This Course was originally built in 1954 using sand as a putting surface. It was remodled in 1959 with Carpet added to replace the sand. This will be the fifteenth (15th) season at the same location. During the month of May, the Course will open daily at 6:00 p.m. except on Sunday when the opening hour will be 1:00 p.m. After public schools are out for the summer, the course will open daily at 10:00 a m. except Sunday when it will open at 1:00 p.m. The public is cordially invited to attend the Opening The course is located between the Warrior and Arrowhead ? Motels iDiisfiriirf Court Recesses tn /Memory Of il)t!!tirtct Attorney The Aprii term of District Court in Bryson City this week adjourned after a haif day session Tuesday in respect for US District Attorney and Chief Prosecutor Wiiiiam Medford. Judge Feiix Aiiey made this statement in open court Tuesday, "Let the records show that the Aprii term of District Court in Bryson City, North Caroiina adjourned at 12 noon today in respect to the iate Wiiiiam Medford, Chief Prosecutor and US District Attorney for Western North Caroiina. Court wii! resume at 9:30 Wednesday morning." Even though court was adjourned at noon, severai cases of the more than 90 case docket were heard. They were: John Watson Davis, charged with faiiure to reduce speed to avoid coiiision. Caiied and faiied. Capias issued. Bond set at $50.00. James Bryant Hams, charged with puiiing 10' x 45' house trader after sunset. Caiied and faiied. Capias issued. Bond set at $50.00. Giibert Ray Tayior, charged with drunk driving. Caiied and faiied. Forfeit of $150.00 bond. Joseph Edgar Smith, charge with reckiess driving. Caiied and faiied. Capias issued. Bond set at $100.00. Cieo Tayior charged with worthiess check. Caiied and faiied. Capias issued. Robert Lee Caihoun, charged with pubiic drunkeness. Caiied and faiied. Capias issued. Bond set at $50.00. Jack Coiiins McKay, charged with vioiation of ABC Laws. Caiied and faiied. Forfeit of $50.00 bond. Arthur Hutchinson Steedman, charged with drunk driving, speeding 60 in 35 zone, and vioiation of ABC Laws. Caiied and faiied. Capias issued. Forfeit of bond. James Maurice Biggs, charged with hit run property damage, Caiied and faiied. Capias issued. Bond set at $100.00. Waiter Bowers, charged with fading to keep chiid in schooi Caiied and faiied. Capias issued. Jesse Von Ha!!, Jr., charged with drunk driving. Ca!!ed and faded. Forfeit of $150.00 bond. Robert Gamer, charged with a peace warrant. The State took a no! pros with !eave on payment of court cost. Rona!d Gi!bert Ne!son, charged with speeding 75 in 55 zone. Head not gui!ty. Found guiity. Fined $25.00 and court cost. Surrender of drivers !icense to North Caroiina Department of Motor Vehic!es. Marion Wo!fe Wa!kingstick, charged with hit, run, property damage. Confined to Swain County jai! for 10 days. Suspended to 2 years on condition defendant pay court cost by 5th day of May- ^ Calvin Doy!e McCracken, Charged with drunk driving. Case continued unti! May 26th. Fred Lafayette Stevens, charged with drunk driving. P!ead guiity. Fined $100.00 and court cost. Surrender of drivers !icense to North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. Frank Burchfield, charged with pub!ic drunkeness, 2nd offense. CaHed and failed. Capias issued. Bond set at $50.00 Ear! Vernon Ashe, charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid collision. Prayer for judgment continued on payment of court cost. Selma Jane Fuller, charged with driving on wrong side of road accident involved. Head guilty. Fined court cost. Leonard Nelson Gibson, charged with failure to stop at stop light. Called and failed. Capias issued. Bond set at $50.00. Larry James Pittmann, charged with driving on wrong side of road accident involved. Fined the cost of court. Paul Walkingstick, charged with public drunkness, 2nd offense. Confined to Swain County jail for 10 days. Suspended for 2 years on condition he pay cost of court by the 26th day of May. Virginia Davis, charged with public drunkeness, 2nd offense. Caiied and faded. Capias issued. Bond set at $50.00. Ray Junior Thomasson, charged with assauit. Case dismissed on payment of court cost. Grocer Gene O'Dear, charged on three warrants. (1) Possession of burgiary toois, (2) Break and enter, and (3) Break and enter. Case continued untii June 10th session. Amoid Keiiy, charged on three warrants. (1) Possession of burgiary toois, (2) Break and enter, and (3) Break and enter. Case continued untii June 10th session. Donaid G. Woody, charged on three warrants. (1) Possession of burgiary toois, pad nd--(3f Break and enter. Case continued untii June 10th session. Frank L. Lewis, charged with drunk driving. Caiied and faiied. Forfeit of $150.00 bond. Rufus Michaei Davis, charged with speeding 75 in 45 zone. Caiied and faiied. Forfeit of $125.00 bond. Fred Maney, charged with drunk driving. Piead guiity. Fined $100.00 and court cost. Surrender of drivers iicense to North Caroiina Department of Motor Vehicies. First Baptist !n Reviva! Revivai services are in progress. at the First Baptist Church in Bryson City each evening this week at 8:00 p.m. The Aduit choir is meeting for rehersai each evening at 7:30 p.m. The music is being ied by Jim Fisher of Syiva. The visiting speaker is Mr. Tom Weiis of Andrews. There is special music in every service and the Church Nursery is open for aii of the services. The pastor and peopie of the First Baptist Church invites the pubiic to attend and participate in these revivai services. Indians iE^slfc!ib/i<;f! Precedent, Win Decision For Writ Of (I^turtictf'CM'i By Emiiy Kingsbery Feature Editor In winning the decision for a writ of certiorari in regard to the incorporation of the town of Indian Hiiis, the Eastern Bank of Cherokee Indians ' estabiished a percedent, and pointed up weaknesses in the state statute by which the Municipal Board of Controi was created. At the Apri! 27th hearing before Judge Thad Bryson in Swain County Court House, Bryson City, tribal attorney James M. Baiey Jr. of Asheviiie noted that the statute provides no direct method of appeal from the board's decision - hence the petition of the Cherokees for the right to appea! "in equity before the % law". The writ of certiorari calls for a review by the Superior Court of the transcript of the incorporation heartng in Raieigh by the Municipai Board of Control. Aithough he set no date for this review, Judge Bryson ordered that transcripts of the Raieigh hearing be forwarded to him and to iegai counse! for both sides. "When the case comes up on my Superior Court docket, then we'U judge whether th Municipai Board of Contro! acted property in setting up this incorporation, if it did not, its action wiii be remanded; if it did, its action wiii be upheid." The hearing in Raieigh was heid March 11 before two of the three members of the Municipai Board of Controi - State Attorney Genera! Robert Morgan and Secretary of State Thad Eure. Absent in Washington was Chairman of the UtiRties Commission, Henry Westcott. Baiey contended that the board faiied to give due consideration to the iegai protests of the 6,200 members of the Eastern Bank of Cherokees against the incorporation of the miie-iong strip with 62 inhabitants aiong U. S. 441 just one miie south of the town of Cherokee. He stressed three major points: 1. That the town of Indian Hiiis vioiates the 3-miie iimit imposed by the statue. Aithough the town of Cherokee itseif is not incorporated, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has been incorporated as "a poiiticai entity" since 1889, and the estabiishment of their ancient town of Cherokee "predates North Caroiina history". 2. That the name Indian Hiiis -- aithough changed from Cherokee Town as originaiiy requested in the incorporation petition - is a trespass upon the name of the Indians themseives, and that the board did not exercise its discretionary power over the naming of the town. 3. That the statute provides on!y for the appointment of an interim registrar -- and not for the appointment of other interim civic officiais, as was done by the board. Based on this third point, Baiey aiso petitioned the court for a restraining order on action by interim officiais of Indian Hiiis untii the Superior Court has reached its decision. This request, however, was denied by Judge Brown a score for the Indian Hiiis attorney, Marceiius Buchanan of Syiva, who cited precedents of the appointment of interim officiais to carry out the statute's provision that "the See INDIANS on Page 2 Northwestern Bank Of Long History Of s Open House Part Better Service By the end of 1962, Northwestern was operating in 34 towns and cities in Western and Piedmont North Caroiina. Totai resources reached $172,000,000 at year end 1962 when only two years before at year end 1960, we had reached a iandmarh in totai resources of $101,285,000. But 1962 saw major changes in Northwestern's system of banking. For many years management has been aware that three major cities are the marketing centers of the western haif of North Caroiina and the area serviced by the Bank. These cities, Asheviiie, Winston Saiem, and Chariotte, are money centers as weii; it is to these popuiation centers that young peopie, young peopie whose parents traditionary bank with Northwestern, migrate. It is on!y natural that "their bank', should follow the population to these marketing centers. The first major move was made in late 1962 with the opening of a de novo office in Asheville, the western North Carolina population center. By 1964 the 19-story Northwestern Bank Building was underway in Asheville, and in October, 1965, this building was opened to the public A second step was taken with the oepning of a branch at the Tunnel Road Shopping Center in 1966, and in 1968 with the Doctors Drive Office. In the fall of 1967 new main offices were opened in Hickory and Newton. In late fall, a third office was opened in the Morganton area at Carbon City and Hendersonville opened the Druid Hills Office. During 1967 offices were opened at Sandy Ridge in Rockingham County and at Lake Lure in Rutherford County. In 1968 Valdese heid open house at its eniarged and remodeted main office. A new office opened at Etowah in Henderson County in Aprii. At the end of August the Southside Office in Boone opened. The Bethlehem Branch in Alexander County opened at the end of October. A major setp in extending our service area was made with the opening of the Greensobor branch on November 4. Madison opened a drive-in facility on November 9. In December, 1968, three additional offices were opened. This includes the Installment Loan Office in Morganton, Villa Park Office in Conover, and Northside Drive-In Office in Spruce Pine. A history of The BeingTConfent Given As Reason For Long Life Of Loca) Woman "I have tived a tong tife because I have atways been content. I have never married because I woutdn't be bossed by a man and I woutdn't marry a man who woutd tet me boss him." Thus spoke 96 year otd Miss Laura A. Stittwett of Bryson City. Miss Stittwett has tived with a niece, Mrs. Jack Sutton and famity of the Eta Community near here, for a number of years. She considers the Sutton chitdren as her own. Untit about three years ago, she tived in an upstairs bedroom because T couid see the ftower garden and everyone who came and went." Speaking of ftowers, she toves them and is a deadly enemy of weeds. She fights a daity war with weeds and a retative noted that because of her effort "there is scarcety a weed in the garden or near the house." Miss Stittwett was born in the Ctyde community in Haywood County and moved to the Hamburg section of Jackson County at age five. She is one of the few remaining peopte in Western North Carotina who remember traveting by covered 'wagon. That was how the then tong and tedious journey to Hamburg was made, and, white she wanted to watk with the other chitdren, her father made her ride atmost at! the way because she was so smatt. They had to spend the night on the road and her father managed to get the women-fotk a room in a private home and the men and boys (she had two sisters and three brothers) spent the night in the wagon. She recatts she was so excited over the trip that "I started to go to bed with my shoes on." They tived at Hamburg AtHetic A$M Meet Today The Swain County Athtetic Association wit) hotd its tast meeting Thursday night, May 1st at 7:30 p.m. in the Courthouse. Att officers and team representatives, ptease be present. The Association woutd appreciate a tittte more interest toward this program in order to start the aapson May 19th. Entries fees due May 1. Miss Laura Stiiiweii three years and then moved to Webster, where Miss StiiiweH iived untii 1919. She took a position then with the Kennedy Home, a Baptist orphanage at Kinston, N. C. which is a branch of the Thomasviiie orphanage She stayed there for twenty years untii retirement in 1939. Most of these years were spent in working with iittie boys as a housemother. She ioved ' her boys" and they ioved her. "Those days were happy days," she reminisced. "The happiest time in aii my experiences was when the boys became Christians and joined the Baptist Church of Goidsboro." "Her boys" remember her over the years. She gets tetters and cards and presents from "boys" who are now men, some of whom are grandparents. They aiways remember the gentie but firm guiding hand from those sometimes grim days of their youth - the hand that heiped mouid them into responsibie men -- men who in turn have passed her forever engrained iessons on to other generations. And now instead of chiidren she watches the flowers grow -- and to her the beauty of it aii is somewhat the same - for with flowers as with chiidren Bingo Party There wiii be a bingo party at the Steve Youngdeer Hut in Cherokee this Saturday night, May 3rd., at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend ahd have a good time, you must keep the weeds away. And she in a way stii! watches the chiidren grow, too, and recentiy expressed her pieasure about the prospective new Chiidren's Home at Ciyde and hopes she can visit the campus when it is finished. Miss Stiiiwei! has spent a iifetime at church work, especiaMy teaching Sunday School. Locaiiy, she has taught at Deep Creek Baptist Church and Eia Baptist Church. Even today she is stiil very active. She spend two or three hours with her Bowers takes waiks winter or summer, and now and then heips in the kitchen. She reads her Bibie, a daiiy newspaper, severa! periodicals, and books. She stii! crochets a wide variety of items, aii described as "very beautifui" by reiatives. She dries many gaiions of fruit in the summer. She very carefuiiy watches her severa! tanks of tropicai fish. Each fish has a name. So the good gardner stiM gardens and stii! p!ants seeds. And, as she watches her Bowers open into beauty in due season, also watches the seeds of yesteryear p!anted in human souis btossom into the beauty of good character and responsibie citizenship. And each year is the season of her content. Northwestern Bank is not complete without recognition of the men behind the Bank's tremendous growth. Strong ieadership has been marked characteristic of the Bank. Rufus A. Doughton; who had served as North Caroiina Commissioner of Revenue, Lieutenant Governor, State Highway Commissioner, and seventeen terms as a state iegisiator, was the first president. His brother, R. L. Doughton, was a vaiued advisor and a member of the Board of Directors during the initia! years of the Bank. After retirement from government service, J. Kemp Doughton, son of the first presideht, was a director and organized Northwestern's Trust Department and served as Senior Trust Officer untii 1963. Dr. B. B. Dougherty, former president of Appalachian State University and the second president of the Bank, gave direction to this growing country bank. In 1957 when Edwin Duncan of Sparta assumed the reins of leadership, The Northwestern Bank embarked on a period of phenomena! growth - growth through the increased number of banking services offered to customers - growth through mergers with other banks, establishment of banks in new towns, and opening additional offices in towns already served by the Bank. Under Mr. Duncan's leadership the Bank has grown from total resources of $70,281,000 at year end 1957 to over $430,000,000 in November, 1968. Edwin Duncan is ably assisted by D. V. Deal, and Edwin Duncan, Jr., both senior vice presidents. Other general officers specializing in the various aspects of banking and capable branch officers complement the leadership of the senior officers. OdeM WHson, Manager of the Bryson City Branch of the Northwestern Bank, announced today that the open house held Saturday for the new Northwestern Bank budding was most successfui. Mr. Wiison said, "We wouid iike to thank our many friends in and around Bryson City for their favorabie comments. Our open house couid not possibiy have been the success it was withoutthe eompiete cooperation we received from the many fine merchants and our friends in Bryson City." Wiison stated that some 2,500 guests registered during the 5 hour period the bank was open to the pubiic Saturday afternoon and evening. Some 13 winners have stopped by the bank and picked up their prizes in the Bank's big treasure chest give away. However, the top prize, a coior TV set, is stiii in th treasure chest. Winners and their prizes so far are: Fred Bachman, $2.00 savings account; Saiiy Jane Wiggins, safe deposit box Gertrude Game, safe deposit box; Queve Woody, Jr. transistor radio; Mrs. W. C Wikie, $2.00 account; R. N Wiggins, $50.00 savings bond W. B. Bostic, AM-Fm Radio; J C. Long, transistor radio Margaret Pederson, transisto radio; Miidred Brown transistor radio; Marie Crisp car savings bank; Wayne Cope $2.00 savings accounty; an< Dr. J. R. Dimsdaie, car saving bank. The new bank buiiding it Bryson City is just one of th) many changes thi Northwestern Bank peopie ar doing daiiy to improve thei service to their man; customers throughout th State. On June 30th. of this year the Northwestern Bank wi] See BANK on Page 4 Mayor Prodaims May Paint-Up, Fix-Up, Month Mayor EMen P. Hvams today officially proctaimed May 1-31 fof Bryson City's annua! C!ean UpPaint Up-Fix Up campaign and urged every citizen to participate in this year's program. WHEREAS, the genera! heaith and we!fare of our citizens depend upon whoiesome surroundings arising from good c!ean !iving conditions, and WHEREAS, the !ives and property of our peop!e are endangered by fire and accidents caused by tittered and duttered conditions in homes, factories, ptaces of pubiic assemb!y, al!eys and streets, and WHEREAS, a dean and beautifu! community is a proud and prosperous one, and WHEREAS, unity of efforis required for future development of our community. THEREFORE, I, ELLEN HYAMS, Mayor of the City of Bryson City, do hereby designate May 1, 1969 to May 31, 1969 inciusive, as Ciean Up Period, and most respectfully ca!) upon ai! departments of this city, its commercial organization, civic clubs, schools, churches, boys' and girls' clubs and all other associations and our people in general to take an active part in this constructive program of community improvement to insure its success, by further beautifying properties within the town with the setting out of additional shrubbery, trees and flowers. This the 1st day of May, 1969 Mayor Ellen P. Hyams City of Bryson City. 24 !n Three Hrs. Jo Ann, Bruce, and Eugene Sutton are pictured above with a three hour catch. Eugene says they caught 24 white Bass weighing from 1% to 3% pounds in about three hours on the Fontana Lake Tuesday evening. It's hard to believe, but here is the proof. ^
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