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The Smoky Mountain Times Votume 86 Number 49 - Bryson City, North Carotina — August 28, !969 Four Accicfenfs lint Counfy This V/eelf Highway Patro! officers investigated four accidents in Swain County iast week that amounted to some $900 to $1000 in automobiie damage. The first of these accidents was investigated Monday ' morning around 10:00 wnen a 1968 Voikswagon driven by Cecii Ray Frankiin, 21, of Bryson City ieft the right side of U. S. 19 in the vicinity of the Highway Patroi Station and hit the embankment with the right front of the automobiie. According to investigating officer J. L. Wiison, Frankiin was traveiiing east to Bryson City when he had to steer his Voikswagon to the right into an embankment to avoid a coiiision with a 1961 Oidsmobiie driven by Jessie Barker Mclnturff, 39, of Bryson City. According to witnesses, €on!ey Creek Man Shot Sunday Morning County officers are investigating a shooting incident that occurred Sunday morning in the Coniey Creek section of Swain County. * According to Sheriff yincent Gasaway, Johnny O'Deer, age 57, was admitted to SWain County Hospital Sunday morning around ii:30 after he was apparently shot with a .25 caliber pistol, i Sheriff Gasaway stated that Howell J. Crisp, age 41, a native of Jaekspn Courtly, now living in Baltimore, Md., and the son -in-law of the injured O'deer.has been reieased on $9,000 bond in connection with the shooting. According to officers the buiiet apparentiy struck O'deer first in the left wrist and then lodged in his left abdomen. Mclnturff was putting out of the Highway Patro! Station Road onto U S. 19 when the accident occurrred. A second accident invotving two automobites occurred around 8:30 p.m. Monday according to officer L. A. Turner of the Highway Patrot. According to Patrotman Turner, Bit! Denton Chambers, 19, of Bryson City and Joe Benny Hedgepath, 32, of Dattas, N. C., both driving 1963 Fords met and cottided head on an rurat unpaved road 1170 about 3 !/t0 mites east of Bryson City. The Chambers automobite sustained some $300 damage white damage to the Hedgepath automobite amounted to an estimated $t50. A third accident investigated this week occunred t/2 mite south of Cherokee on U.S. 44t Tuesday morning about 8:00. The accident invotved a t963 Otdsmobite driven by Thomas W. Seats, t6, of Sytva and a t959 Ford driven by Noah Ledford, 48, of Cherokee. According to First Sgt. J. L. Witson, Ledford putted out of a side road onto U. S. 19, as Seats attempted to pass another automobite the Ledford car was hit near the teft front fender by the ieft side of the Seats automobite. Trooper L. A. Turner investigated the finat accident of the week about 7:00 p.m. Sunday 1 3/10 mites east of Bryson City on U. S. 19. The accident invotving a Cherokee and a Bryson City man netted some $400 damage to the automobites. According to Turner, Cteo Proctor Taytor, 26, of Cherokee had stopped on U. S. 19 to attow a car in front of him to turn teft when Jerry Neat Payne, 19, of Bryson City skidded some 17 feet and hit the Taytor automobite in the rear. Payne was charged with faiting to reduce speed to avoid an accident. Around Town Any week-end is a dangerous time when driving on the highways, but 3-day weekends are especiaiiy noted for their high number of accidents. We wouid remind you that this week-end is a 3-day week-end and nation wide death estimates have far succeeded those of iast year. Let's prove the forecasters wrong and have a safe, death-free weekend in Swain County. * * * We understand that some of our sports-minded (footbaM) fans are interested in starting a motorcade to out-of-town footbaM games. If this is to become a reaiity, we must cooperate. !f you are interested in going to Hayesviiie as a group and supporting the Maroon Deviis this Friday night, you are asked to meet at the high schooi fieid at 6:00 p.m. * * * We have been advised that WLOS-TV in AshevMie wiU be carrying a speciai program this Sunday &om 5 to 6 p.m. entitied "The Hidden Book." The documentary has been produced to portray the Cherokee Indian Legen. "Longer ago than we can remember the Great Spirit gave the Cherokee a book, but the book was iost. It is now hidden." Since this pertains to our immediate area we think this program wouid be time weli spent. * * * North Carolina Highway Patroi investigated four accidents in Swain County during the week of August 18-24. White making 14 contacts and charging three with dwok driving, one man was charged with speeding, two with pedestrian violations, and 5 other hazardous moving vioiations were noted, in addition to hazardous vioiations, 7 charges were made for non-hazardous moving vioiations white officers patroiied some 2525 miles in the county. Miss Sanders is Candidate For North Caroiina Appie Queen MBs Faren Kav Sanders of Cherokee, sponsored by the Bryson City Jaycees, is a candidate for the 23rd North Carolina Appie Festival Queen. The beauty pagaent wiii be hdd the evening of August 28 in HendersonviUe, N.C. The Festival started Tuesday, Aug. 26, and is sponsored by the 1 North Carolina Appie Growers. Miss Sanders, is the daughter of Soldier E. and Kathryne Sanders, graduated from Swain County High Schoo!, attended Gardner Webb Coiiege for one year, and pians to enter Western Caroiina University this year where she wi!i major in Physical Education and or Sociology. White attending Gardner Webb she was named Miss Hoiiday Tournament Queen, participated in the May Court, !969, and was a cheerieader. An 18 year oid Cherokee Indian, she represented Miss indian American at the Miss Indian Arizona Pageant in Phoenix. Her picture appeared in the October, i968, issue of National Georgraphic and in the January, !969, issue of Seventeen Magazine. She recentiy attended the Indian Circie heid at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. Southwestern Etonomit Deveiopement Commission Endorses Lota! Option Saics Tax Daring Meeting in an action packed meeting of the Southwestern N.C. Economic Development Commission heid in Bryson City on Monday August 25th, the Commission heard special reports by Ned Tucker, Fieid Car, Mobiie Home Accident injure: One A Bryson City man received a severe arm injury iast Wednesday when the 1953 Buick he was driving side-swiped a mobiie home about % mHe east of Bryson City. According to investigating officer, Bryson City Poiice Chief Cari Arvey, Haroid H. Jones, 27, of Bryson City was traveiiing east when he side-swiped a 1967 International Truck puiiing a mobiie home. Apparently Jones had his left arm iaying in the window of the car when his car veered ieft of the center iane and side-swiped the truck and, the mobiie home. Jones was treated at Swain County Hospital and then transported to Memoria! Mission Hospital in Asheviiie with a severely mangled arm. Two passengers in the Jones car, Charies Ledford and Ray Thompson, Jr., were uninjured. Tire Buick sustained some $300 damage to lire ieft front and side wMe damage to the mobiie home was an estimated $300. Coordinator, Bit! Garrison, Summer Intern, the State of Franklin Health Counci! and Western North Carolina Associated Communities by Dr. C. D. Killian, and heard a dozen progress reports on projects now inderway throughout the six-county district, i nstalled new!y appointed commission members and elected new officers for the coming year. Captain Frank Swan of Andrews was elected chairman of the Commission replacing Jennings Bryson of Sylva who has headed the Commission since its formation in MarchJ966. Bryson's term of office expired on June 30,1969 and, due to ill health, he was unable to accept re-appointment to the Commission. R. L. Lyday, Commission member from Swain County was elected Vice-Chairman Dr. Gannett Guest Speaker At Artington Dr. Alden A. Gannett, Minister-at-Large, of the Unevangelized Fields Mission in Philadelphia, Penn., will be the gue6t speaker at the Arlington Baptist Church on August 31, 1969, for the Sunday morning Worship Service at 11:00 and the Sunday night service at 7:30. Everyone is cordially invited to attend the services. Both Swan and Lyday have been members of the Commission since its beginning and are now beginning their second three-year term of office, having been reappointed to the Commission in Juiy. Among the projects endorsed was a proposal from the Southwestern Technics! Institute for library equipment, materia! and supp!ies at the institute which wii! enab!e the institutuon to meet requirements for accrediation by the Southern Association of Schoo!s and CoMeges. The library wiU be housed in a new facility now under construction on the campus at Sy!va. The project wi!! be phased over a period of five including Menta! Heath, State of FrankUn Heaith Manning, Regions! Pub!ic Housing Authority, Law and Order Organization and Counci! of Loca! Governments. Another item requiring additions! information considered to be of major importance to the !oca! governments of the district is the proposed !egis!ation which wi!! eliminate the present tax exemption on !ocal goverment bonds. This item was tabled for the next meeting pending more details on exactly what tax exemption taws will mean increased interest rates on !oca! bonds. In keeping with present efforts by the state to estab!ish mu!ti-county devetopment districts in all !00 counties, the Commission endorsed a resolution to extend an invitation to Haywood County to join the six-southwestern counties to form a seven Motor Ciub Urges Everyone To Take The Tabor Out Ot Labor Day Driving Take the tabor out of driving this Labor Day with frequent rest breaks to avoid fatigue that couid lead you into one of the i,300 accidents which the N.C. State Motor Ciub warns may take up to 27 iives on North Croiina's streets and highways during the extended weekend. The state wiii count its highway toii for summer's iast big holiday hrom 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29, through midnight Monday, Sept.!, and a 78 hour period. North Carolina's Labor Day count for a simiiar period iast year came to i9 kiiied and 8i2 injured in i,299 accidents white American motorists set new nations! records for both Labor Day and any three-day summer holiday with 688 fatalities. Leading driver violations were: speeding, 302, driving ieft of center, i79: faiiure to yieid right of way, i6i: faiiure to see if movement safe, HO: and foiiowing too closely ,101. "Holidays are more publicized because the heavier-than-norman highway travel and congestion greatly increase the potential for fatal accidents and injuries" Thomas B. Watkins, motor club president, said. "We must recognize the hazards of holiday traffic, leam how to overcome them and remember that the danger remains long Fans Wiil 6et First Look at Devils Friday Swain County Footbai! fans wiM not see their team in action at home untii September 19, but none-the-iess, footbaii season is here and true foiiowers of the Deviis wiii get their first took this Friday night as the Deviis battie aiways tough Hayesviiie. According to aii scouting reports Hayesviiie has 14 of their iast year's starting team back this year and with the bitter memory of the 7-6 defeat suffered by Swain iast year, fresh in our minds, Friday night's game is anticipated with much enthusiasm. "We have seen many footbaii teams in pre-season practice and have taiked to many Swain footbai! foiiowers and have come to one conciusion - this year's team shows more in pre-season practice than any high schooi team we've had the priviiedge of watching," is the common taik around town. "Whether we are going on the fieid as vicious tigers or whether we're just kittens remains to be seen, but which ever it might be, the facts wiii come out Friday night. Coach Barden is expected td start Danny Muse, a 6'1", 185 ib. senior at quarterback. Chariie Wiiiiams, a freshman, and Larry Beck, a junior, are expected to start as halfbacks. Biii Adams, weii-known No. 44, shouid get the nod at the fuiiback siot. The boys up front (the Line) shouid average about 185'/: lbs. Starting at ieft end wiii probabiy be Jim Coiviiie, a four year man. Junior, Leonard Parton, wiii go in at ieft tackie. Littie Vemie Lee, 155 ib., and aii man, wiii 6ii the ieft guard siot. Bimbo Wiggins has iost four teeth and earned a starting position at center. The right side of the iine boasts aii veterans in senior Aiva Crowe, at guard, senior Jim Bigwitch at tackie, and sophomore Nat Watson at end. Coach Barden has nothing but praise for the team in pre-season practice and his one comment was, "We might get beat, but we wiii sure show up to piay ." The 1969 scheduie is as foiiows: Aug. 29 - Hayesviiie - A Sept. 5 - Cherokee A Sept 12 - Union Co., Ga. - A Sept. 19 - Andrews - H Sept. 26 - OPEN Oct. 3 - Robbinsviiie - A Oct. 10 - Eddneyviiie H Oct. 17 - Frankiin - H Oct. 24 - Murphy - A Oct. 31 - Syiva - H Nov. 7 - Towns Co. Ga. H after the hoMday is gone. "Mease use your best driving skiiis and attitudes to bring yourseif back aiive this Labor Day and heip makeano-no out of our caicuiated predictions." Outgoing president of the South Western North Carolina Economic Development Commission, Jennings Bryson, of Sylva is pictured above being congratualted by Capt. Frank Swan of Andrews. Capt. Swan was sworn as chairman of the commission during their regular meeting Monday night. county planning and economic deveiopment district. It was feit by the Commission that many mutuai benefits wouid accrue to the present six county district and to Haywood county if the seven county unit couid be estabiished. The popuiation represented in a seven county district wouid exceed 100,000 rather than die approximately 70,000 in the six counties. Haywood county is already working with the southwestern counties in a number of areas years and will include books, peridicals and other supplies and materials to support the needs of the curriculum offerings of the institution. A proposed total budget of $65,000 was approved for the five year development period. Southwestern Tech serves a three-county region made up of Macon, Jackson and Swain counties. The Commission endorsed the Local Option Sales Tax as a source of funds for local, county and municipal governments as an aitemative to increasing pr^erty taxes. Aii aspects of the iocai sates tax proposa! were discussed in consideraMe detai! and Ned Tucker was abie to suppiy supporting information covering the approximate returns to each county provided aii iOO counties endorsed the tax proposal. He toid the Commission that, according to the latest information made avail abie by the Department of Tax Research, each county wcuM receive approximately the foiiowing amounts annually: Cherokee $173,000 Graham 58,000 Jackson 169,000 Macon 168,000 Swain 83,000 This information is based on distribution of revenues from 1% statewide transactions presently taxed at 3%. The sums include the total amount returned to each county without a breakdown of that portion to be credited to the municipalities. "Additions! research is necessary to make this determination and will be forthcoming from the Department of Tax Research within the next few days," Tucker said. Other project endorsements by the Commission were the seven-county regional housing authority now in the eariy stages of being established, it endorsed and accepted as a project, the establishment of a Council of G ovemmmts covering the seven counties and specified that the ClMgphee Indian Reservation be invited to participate as a seperate unit of government rather than assume representation through the county governments making up the reservation. Action on a developmental highway system within the district was tabled until the next meeting to which highway commissioners will be invited to discuss in greater detail plans for highway improvements throughout the six counties. Elementary principal and First Grade teachers have after first day of school, hard task of getting First Graders on right school bus Getting First Graders On Right Bus Proves i nteresti ng Fi rst D ay The 1969 School year got off to one of the smoothest starts In recdnt years. Tuesday morning as some 550 students reported for the first pay this year. According to Mr. Frizzell, principal at Swain High, 26 teachers were on hand to greet the anxious students the first day. The students attended for only i/2 day Tuesday to familiarize themselves with their new class schedules and meet their teachers. Classes were cut short in order for the students to go through a comptete scheduie and spend at ieast a few minutes in each ctass. A "Start off stow" or "break 'em in easy" scheduie wiii be observed for the first week; Starting with a !/2 day Tuesday, off on Wednesday, reguiar scheduie Thursday and Friday, a weekend and hoiiday break Saturday, Sunday and Monday and then vacation is aii over starting Tuesday morning. Buses are running this week ano me first two or three days First Grade teachers wiii be busy trying to orienate their students as to which buses and which ioad they shouid be on. The first day proved to be very interesting to this writer as we observed teachers trying to get information from first graders about where they iived. One student was overheard teiiing his teacher that he iived, "just over a tittie white bridge inn iittie house beside the road." The teacher was a iot smarter than we are she knew what he was talking about. The schooi cafeteria wiM open for the first day today and wiM serve hot meals daily throughour the remaining school year. Due to rising food cost, as we are ai! weii aware of, schoo! iunches wii! increase 5 cents this year. Elementary students will pay35 cents and adults lunches will be 45 cents this year. With buses running, the cafeteria serving lunch, teachers in their classrooms, and students tired of their summer vacation, the 1969-70 school year is underway once more in Swain County.
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