The Smoky Mountain Times Votume 87 - Number 1 i- Smoky Mountain Times - Bryson City, N.C. - Thursday, Sept. 25,1969 —————————f—. Around Town - Swain High Schooi Principai, Ciifford Frizze!! asked that we reiay his message of appreciation to the sports fans that attended the Swain-Andrews game Friday night for their exceptionai conduct and sportsmanship exhibited during the game. "Schooi officiate are doing their part, but fans and their actions aiways reflect on the schooi - thank you for your co-operation." * * * Bryson City in continuing to grow as is evident by the second new business opening its doors to the pubiic during the month of September. We are referring to Miidred's Grocery opening just across the street from Sossamon Furniture and the Swain Hotel. Miidred Cope invites aii of her friends to stop by and see her this week. The Bryson City Lions Club wit) go on radio Saturday morning at 8:00 and broadcast throughout the day during th* Lions Annuai Radio Day. Lion's president, J. C. Long, and Tom Cromwell are scheduled to start the "Show". Vemon McHan and T. A. Brawiey wiii ciose it out about 5:00. The Lions Ciub seiis advertisements for spots throughout the day with the profit going for one of the Lions Ciub Civic Projects. !f you haven't bought your spot yet, contact one of the Lions Ciub members today and be sure to iisten in Saturday. See if you can pick the Lions Ciub DJ of the year. *** When disaster strikes everybody is called on to heip. Disaster reiief for families left homeiess by hurricane Camille's visit to the Gulf Coast has topped $20 million. The Red Cross in Swain County has been called on for assistance in the amount of $300. Local authorities here say this goal can only be reached through contributions. Your help is needed. Donations may be made payable to the American Red Cross, % Red Cross Office * * * We notice the Bryson City, Swain County Fire House is nearing completion. We had intended an article complete with pictures for this weeks edition, but the weatherman failed to cooperate and with our picture taking results, we thought we would wait for the sunshine - we need all the advantages we can get. The State Highway Department's "Girl Friday" is bach, Sgt. Wilson's work toad is back to normai, Mr. Hooper can devote his time to issuing drivers license, and the TIMES has a State Highway Patroi report this week - so all is weii, thanks to Miss Patsy. * * * "Always behave iike a duck. Remain calm and unruffled on the surface but keep paddiing iike hei! underneath." - Motor West magazine. * * * The Portland, Oregon, Traffic Safety Commission comments that the next time you stop for a coupie of beers or cocktails. . make sure you can spare the time. Two or three drinks will slow your driving reaction time by about two fifths of a second and couid make the difference between a safe stop and a serious rear-end crash. * * * The North Carolina State Highway Patroi reports oniy three accidents in Swain County last week. White making nine contacts, one was charged with drunk driving, two with speeding, three with other hazardous moving violations, five non-hazardous violation, and no pedestrian vioiation. Officers patrolled a distance of some 1646 miles, with the week beginning September 15th and extending through the 21st. * * * N YC Stu dents Earn $94,278This Summer Four Square Community Action paid wages totaiing $94,278 this summer to Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) enroiiees in Cherokee, Ciay, Graham, and Swain Counties. Three hundred students between the ages of 14 and 22 were enrolled in the NYC Summer Program. Most of the enroiiees worked ten weeks for 26 hours a week at $1.30 an hour. Work assignments were made in cooperation with pubiic and nonprofit agencies throughout the four Counties. Enroiiees worked as teacher, heaith, sanitation, Ubrary, forestry, and office aides; as recreation ieaders, grounds keeper, day care assistants, and crafts instructors. The schools, the towns, the Forest Service, Providence and Memorial Hospitais, Empioyment Security Commission, Wei fare Departments, County governments, Hiawassee Dam, ASCS, Rescue Squad, and Extendon Agents provided instruction and supervision. Counseiors empioyed to work with the enrollees during the summer were Cecii Mashbum, Raiph McConneii, Frank Moore, Jr., and Amoid Rickman. John Summerous is director of NYC. NYC is aimed speciBcaliy to assist the student from low income families. It is designed to heip the young people gain work experience and earn income. Four Square is the sponsoring agent for NYC. Four Square also sponsors two other manpower programs: On the-Job-Training (MDTA) in cooperation with the State Planning Task Force and the Employment Security Commission, and NEW CAREERS, a work training program. For additional information contact your Four Square Community Worker or the Four Square Office in Andrews, N. C. DR. CRA!G PHtLUPS Swam County Unit Of NCEA Host District Dinner Meeting The Swain County unit of the North Carolina Education Association was host at a dinner meeting iast Thursday evening with educators and iay leaders from Western North Caroiina as invited guests. Dr. Craig Phillips, State Superintendent of Pubiic instruction, addressed the meeting held at the Boundary Tree Lodge in Cherokee. Education leaders from Macon, Jackson, Ciay, Cherokee, Graham, and Swain Counties woe present as Dr. Phillips related to them the importance of understanding "today's students." Dr. Phillips, speaking primarily to the political and civic leaders present, emphasized the importance for Native To Appear in 1969 "Community Leaders Of America" L. D. Hyde, a native of Bryson City and assistant to the president at Western Caroiina University, has been seiected to appear in the 1969 edition of "Community Leaders of America." The editoriai board of "Community Leaders of America" in making the award to Hyde said: '"This honor is presented in recognition of past achievements and outstanding service to his community and state." Before being naned assistant to Or. Aiex S. Pow, president of WCU, in April, Hyde was director of the Upper French Board Economic Development Commission for three years. In that capacity, he was instruments! in organizing the leaders of a 6ve Winners Of Roadside improvement Contest Wit! Be Mamed Friday, September 26 ! . *' < ' . Winners of the Roadside Improvement Contest of the 1969 Western North Carolina Community Development Program win be announced at a iuncheon meeting on Friday, September 26 at 12 noon at Baiiey's Cafeteria, Tunnei Road Shopping Center, Asheviiie. A tota! of 72 organized communities competed in the Roadside Contest this year and 14 county winners were judged in area competition eariier this month Kirkiand's Creek represented Swain county in the judging. The presentation of awards Assistant County Supemsor Mamed Due & the increased workioad, expanded authorities and responsibilities of the Macon-Swain Unit of the Farmers Home Administration, a new position, Assistant County Supervisor, has been authorized and staffed, states Wiiiiam R. Martin, County Supervisor. Mr. Jackie E. McLamb entered for duty on August 25 as the Assistant County Supervisor in the Frankiin FHA office. Mr. McLamb is a June graduate of North Caroiina State University where he received a By degree in Agricultural Education. Mr. McLamb, besides courses in Agricuiturai Education, took eiectives in farm electrification, farm structures, farm powering machinery, and irrigation, terracing and erosion control, which wii! be very helpful in his work as Assistant County Supervisor. At N. C. State University he wa active in the Agricuiturai Technology Ciub and Animai Science Ciub. Mr. McLamb, a native of Benson, N. C. comes to this office well qualified to work with farmers and rural people as he was reared on a tobacco and iivestock farm in Johnston County. Since June 16th he has been training for the Assistant County Supervisors position in the Fayetteviiie, N. C. FHA office. He is married to the former Miss Karen Johnson of Four Oaks, N. C., and they are presently making their home in Franklin. in the spec)*! rural beautiHcation effort wH! be h^d in conjunction with a planning meeting of the area improvement program's Steering Committee representing the 18 county western area. The committee, composed of members from aU counties participating in the Community Deveiopment Program, will set up the schedule for area judging of the overall program later this fall nd also make plans for the 1970 contest. The rurai roadside beautification program is sponsored by the AsheviHe Agricuiturai Deveiopment Council and the agricuiturai agencies and iocai sponsors in the western counties. Purpose is to stimuiate organize those doing the best job. First prize of $150 in the contest is sponsored by ADOA Corporation of Biitmore. Second prize of $100 is provided by the Coca^oia Bottiing Company and $50 third prize by Ivey's Four honorabie mention awards of $25 each are sponsored by Gerber Products Company and AsheviHe Federai Savings & Loan Association. ASC Committeemen Eiection for Swain County Reieased Results of the recent election of community ASC committeemen for Swain County ware announced today by Jack B. Wiggins, Chairman, Swain County Agricultural Pine Beette Destruction Up-to-date Swain County Rangers have found four spots where the southern pine beetles have been. The North Carolina Forest Service urges ait iand owners who notice pine trees turning yeiiow or reddish-brown to contact Mr. Orris Hughes at 488-3463. . There are severai symptoms of the southern pine beetle, one being the presence of pitch tubes on the outside of the bark, and another the "S" shaped gaiiaries between the bark and the wood caused by the beetie tumbiing under the bark laying eggs. "The time to catch the beetles is now, before they have begun to spread in a wide pattern across the county, in Graham County, the beetle population has reached epidemic proportions and is now out of control, despite the many control measures," Hughes said. Mr. Hughes has asked that anyone spotting any of the symptoms mentioned above get in touch with his office so that he can assist them in stopping an epidemic before it gets started. Stabilization and Conservation Committee. The election was held by mail, nd ballots were counted publicly by the county committee Friday, Sept. 19, 1969 beginning at 9:00 a.m. at the ASCS office. Farmers elected to the committee ate: Alarka - Gordon Gunter, Chairman; Dsn Bowers, Vice-Chairman; Hariey Cochran, Regular Member; David Cioer, First Alternate; and Fred J. Cochran, Second Aternate. Bryson City - H. P. Browning, Chairman; Roy Z. Shuier, Vice-Chaiman; Jess M. Brown, Regular Member; Miiiard Reeves, First Alternate; and H. L. Snuiey, Second Atemate. Cherokee - A. T. Fisher, Chairman; Golman Smith, Vice-Chairman; Boyce Aliison, Reguiar Member; Amoid Cooper, First Alternate; and Roy Blankenship, Second Alternate. Nantahala - Zade Burnett, Chairman; John Freeman, Vice-Chairman; Gienn Breedlove, Regular \hmber; Rufus King, First Aitemate; and Grade W. Burnette, Second Aitemate. Whittier - Dover J. Dean, Chairman; K. L. Cooper, Vice Chairman; P. S. Ferguson, Regular Member; T. K. Hyatt, First Aitemate; and Coia Adams, Second Aitemate. The county convention wiii be heid Thursday, September 25 1969 in the assembly room of the Federai Building. The convention is open to the pubiic. counties commission. The purpose of this organization was to effect wise utiiization of the human, natural, physical and capital resources of (he region toward total economic development. Hyde served on the Governor's State Planning Task Force, the state Economic Development Commission, the Board of Governors of the State Employees Association and was chairman of the western district of that organization. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Mountain Manpower Corporation, the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce and is founder and president of the North Carolina Association for Children with Specific Learning Disabilities, Inc. He organized and serves as director of the French Broad Board of Cooperative Education Services, is a member of the Associated Communities and has worked to improve educational opportunities for schoo! dropouts throughout Western North Carolina. In 1967 Hyde was iisted hr "Outstanding Personalities of the South." He is a member and vice chairman of the Western Caroiina University Educational Foundation and is past president of the WCU Ahrmni Association. In addition to his duties as assistant to the president of WCU, Hyde serves as director of alumni affairs. Hyde is a graduate of Swain County High Schoo!, Western Caroiina University, and the University of North Caroiina Law Schoo!. Reiiei To Victim: Of HmricaM Camiiie Top: 20 Miiiion Doiiar: A sharp increase in the nunber of families registering for Red Cross recovery assistance will push the cost of relief to (he victims of Hurricane Camiiie over the $20 miiiion mark, it was announced today by John C. Wilson, Red Cross executive vice president. Over 25,000 families along the stricken sections of the Gulf Coast and in the flood areas in Virginia and West Virginia already have applied for rehabilitation help, Mr. Wilson said, and it is estimated that more than 28,000 families will need Red Cross assistance. Heart Attack Victim Die: in Cherokee A 72 year oid WeaverviUe man was found dead in his mote! room in Cherokee iast Thursday afternoon about 1:25. Authorities say the man, Ralph Brad Branh, apparentiy died of a heart attack. According to a witness, the victims wife, Mr. Brank checked into the Rippiing Waters Mote! Wedn&day afternoon. They traveled throughout the tourist attractions in Cherokee Wednesday and came back to the mote! and went to bed about 10:00. Thursday morning Mr. Brank got up around 7:30 and after eating breakfast, went trout fishing in the Oconaluftee River. Mrs. Brank stated that her husband came in around 12:45 compiaining of being dizzy, having cramps, and chest pains. Mrs. Brank went downstairs to phone for a doctor. When she returned to the room, Mr. Brank was dead. Cherokee Poiice and the Swain County Sheriffs Department investigated. Mr. Wilson explained that these are families who lack the credit or other resources to finance their own recovery, and who look to the Red Cross for help in repairing or rebuilding and refurnishing their homes, replacing occupational supplies and equipment, and in meeting normal living expenses until their homes and means of livelihood can be reestablished. According to present estimates, this type of long term recovery aid will cost up to $17 million, in addition to expenditures already made for mass care and other to exceed $7.8 miilion, replacement of household furnishings, $6.6 miiiion, replacement of tools and equipment, $390,000, and family maintenance, $2 million. During the days immediately following the hurricane's vicious stroke, the Red Cross gave mass care to more than 230,000 persons in the five states affected, feeding some 100,000 disaster victims and emergency workers daily. Two weeks ago the organization launched a nationwide campaign for $15 million to provide relief for Camille's victims. In Southeastern Area, chapters have raised $1,886,143 to date. As of September 12, 168 chapters had reached their quotas in the current fund drive. our civic leaders to take a bigger part in today's educationai program. He pointed out that we are in the middie of the biggest change in education in the history of the pubiic achoo! system. Touching on three of today's problems, Dr. Phillips pointed out that first the student must know what an education would mean to him. Second, the tax payer needs to be shown why financial pressure is so heavy, and third, business and industries must be assured drat qualified students wBl be available to meet their needs. "At no other period of time in the history of the public school system have we needed the help of our political, civic, and lay leaders as we do now," Dr. Phillips said. Dr. Phillips went on to say, "with 1,250,000 students in public schools in Western North Carolina teachers must be flexible in order to teach the students what they need to be taught the way they want to be taught." "EHorts on the part of educators will be of no avaii," said Dr. PhiBips,"unless a better method of cummunicating between students and teachers can be reached, this is where we need the heip of our ieaders outside of the schooi system." In pointing out troubled areas throughout the National Schoo! System, Dr. PhiHips noted that pubiic schools in North Caroiina opened on a much mom stabie basis this year than even the most optimistic ieaders had expected. Finding a way to better communicate with students and working out the problem of how to involve a larger number of civic ieaders was lire point Dr. PhHiips tried to get across to his audience, but as added information Dr. PhiBips gave a "report care" of the state's financia! spending on pubiic achoois. "At the present time, 70-78% of educational funds in North Carolina are coming from the state level," Dr. PhHiips said, "IK biHion doBars is not enough to buy the kind of education we want for our students today." Dr. PhiHips pointed out that if pubiic schools are to continue to improve, we must "seek a way to distribute the burden of paying for education, i think it wouid be feasibie to divide the SnancM cost between iocai, state, and federal agencies with each agency paying what their budget couM stand." In order to get more funds we have got to teii the people we eiect what we want in the way of education, "this is not poiiticai pressure, but educational pressure." Dr. Phillips and his staff attended the educators western district NCEA meeting in Cuilowhee on Friday. Present for the Thursday night meeting and Friday meeting in Cuilowhee were Assistant State Superintendents, Dr. R. Max Aibert, Dr. H.T. Conner, and Dr. Jerome H. Miiton. Mr. A.C. Davis, comptroller of the State Board of Education, and Mr. William Peek, Administrative Assistant were also present. Atacon-Swain Farmers Receive $73,250 in Loans - The ManoB-9w