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The Smoky Mountain Times Vo!ume 87 - Number 7 - Smoky Mountain Times - Bryson City, N.C. - Thursday.November 6 1969 Around Town White preparing this weeks District Court records for the newspaper, we were reminded of a serious mistake in the court docket printed in this paper two weeks ago on October 23. On the front page of our paper appeared the name of Davis Seay. The charge was iisted as breaking and entering and disposition was iisted as continued. The charge was incorrect and we extend our apoiogy in this error. * * * Swain County voters showed again Tuesday, in a county wide eiection, that they are continuousiy striving for progress and for the betterment of Swain County. We are speaking of the over-wheiming vote, aimost two to one, in favor of the 1 cent saies tax increase. Sometimes it hurts a iittie, but we feei that it is a necessity for the progress of our county. We were asked this week ftbout when Swain County wouid hoid their next iiquor and beer referendum. We are neither for nor against the saie of aicohoiic beverages in this county, but we wouid point out that even though we do not have what is known as a "wet county" in iegai terms, we do have the trash and Empties from adjoining counties that are wet. Our court docket this week contained a iist of 93 iaw vioiations Thirty-five of these vioiations were direct resuits of aicohoi. So in answer to this question, ! inform the interested party that Swain bounty aiready has aicohoi, we juSt dont have the tax. * * * The Cherokee indian Rescue Squad and auxiiiary is hoMtag a bingo party next Saturday night, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the basement of the Fire Department. There wiii be refreshments saved and a cake saie and a iso door prizes. The Cherokee Mon's Ciub wiii hold its first tarkey shoot non Boundary Tree Lodge beginning at noon Saturday, November 8. Thereafter a turkey shoot wiii be heid each Sautrday during November and on Thanskgiving Day. Biake Sneed wiii be in charge of the turkey shoots. *** a* * We don't know what you caiied the precipitation that fen Tuesday afternoon around 2:00, but whatever you caHed it, is probabiy right. At one time, at exactiy 2:14 p.m., we saw and feit mow, rain, and sieet aii at once on Main Street in front of this office. *** Haiioween has come and gone for another year and we wouid iike to pass on to you the thanks of the iocai iaw officers for a very quite and safe Haiioween night. *** Coach Miit Barden announced Tuesday that giris and boys basketbaii practice wiii start next Wednesday. The footbaii season is over Friday night and the coaches wiii use Monday and Tuesday to get the footbaii gear turned in and then their attention wiii be turned to you basketbaii iovers. Coach Barden a iso pointed out that it is essentia! that you be present for practice the first week if you pian to make the team. *** it is not as far from Christmas as you might think. Six and one haif weeks and oie Santa Ciaus wiii be here. Do your shopping at home, here in Bryson City with home town merchants. *** The North Caroiina State Highway Patroi reports oniy two accidents in Swain County MR week. White making six contacts there were three charged with speeding, one pedestrian vioiation, and two other hazardous moving vioiations. Officers patroiled a distance of some 2,420 miies with the week beginning October 27 and extending khwmgh November 2. *** November 14 Date For Achievement Program The annua) Extension Homemakers Achievement Program wiH be held on Friday, November 14th at 7:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Ha)) of the Methodist Church in Bryson City. A special feature of the program wi!) be exhibits by individual c)ubs in the county. These are to be in p)ace by 5:30. A dress revue featuring outfits made by dub women during the past year wi)l be he)d. Mrs. Mariann Hicks, County Ciothing Chairman, is in charge of the dress revue. She would like each person who p)ans to exhibit an articte to !et her know as soon as they can what type artides they are to exhibit and a sampie of the fabric if possible. Mrs. Letha Sutton, Citizenship Chairman, will give excerpts from a most inspiring talk which was given by Mrs. Ben Williams of Okaiahoma, at the District meeting in Juanluska. The title of her talk was "What Is a Virtuous Woman." The women of Swain County who heard Mrs. Williams said her talk was the most inspiring they had ever heard. We know that Letha will make all of us realize our dtizenship responsibility. Library Fund Gets Checks Dr. Kelly Bennett, owner of the Bryson City Drug Co., here in Bryson City and treasurer of the Cherokee Historical Association is pictured above presenting three checks to Mrs. Roberta Whitaker, secretary of the Maranine Biack Library as Edgar Fisher fund raising chairman for the library looks on. Dr. Bennett presented the library with three checks on behalf of the Historical Association. The first check was from the Cherokee Museum for $500; the second from the Oconaiuftee Viiiage for $1,000; and the third from the Cherokee Historical Association in the amount of $1500. The donations totaled $3,000 and will be used to help with the construction of the new library to be h"ilt here in Bryson City soon. SWAIN VOTERS APPROVE It SALES TAX INCREASE The Swain County voters passed the 1 cent sates tax increase by a two to one margin in a generai eiection Tuesday. The unoffica! vote count was 559 to and 249 in favor of the tax. The state wide issue was approved in 7 of 19 western North Caroiina counties inciuding: Ciay, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Watauga, Bumbombe and Swain. A totai of 25 of the 100 counties throughout the state of North Caroiina approved the increase. The tax wii! go into effect March 1,1970. The totai vote was one of the tightest county wide .-election votes cast in son.^ time. A totai of 808 voters wort to the poiis and expressed their right as members of a free society. The two Bryson City Wet Or Dry, Distrirt Court Cases Point Out,Swain County Has Aitohoi What was scheduied to be a three day District Court session ended Tuesday afternoon here in the Swain County Court House after a very active Monday, before the honorabie Robert Leatherwood, District Court Judge. Sevetai cases that have appeared on docket after docket were retired to the inactive docket iist, white a number of cases were continued and a stiii greater number of defendants received varying sentences. Aicohoi is stiii the number one county expense with 35 of the 93 cases on the docket invoiving aicohoi. Individual cases heard were: John Q. Hembree charged with drunk driving with no operators iicense. Found guiity, fine of $100 and surrender drivers iicense. Joseph P. Standingdeer charged with non support. Retired to inactive docket. Fred Lee King ch arced with drunk driving. Continued. Joe Feather charged with non support. Retired to jactive docket. Ted Henry Treadway charged with non support. Retired to inactive docket. Hardy Ro6e charged with pubiic drunkenness, second offense. Retired to inactive docket. - ^ Joe McIntosh charged with non support. Caiied and faded. David Lee Brockshire Swam Sytva Battte To 16-16 Tie The Swain High Maroon Devils tied conference foe, Syiva, here Friday night before a capacity crowd. The tie ieft the Deviis with a 4-2-1 conference mark and a 6-2-1 over ail season. Syiva won the toss and eiected to receive. Richard Greene kicked off for Swain with 28 returning it to the 26 of Syiva. On their first piay 37 was abie to pick up 3 yards over the middie. The next two piays wery incomplete passes. On fourth down 88 stepped into punt; his punt roiied dead on Swain's 45. BHi Adams went to work on Swain's first piay and got around ieft end for 6 yards. Next Larry Beck broke ioo6e for nine yards and a Swain first down on Syiva's 40. Adams found going rough on the next piay and only picked up one yard. Danny Muse's first pass to Nat Watson feii short. Next Muse tried to run and picked up two yards, on 4th down. Jimbo Coiviiie was caiied on to punt. The snap to Coiviiie went over his head and when Coiviiie finally found the baii he was on Swain's 29 where Syiva took over first and ten. Syiva was oniy abie to gain 9 yards in two carries. On fourth down the Eagies wore stopped short and Swain took over first and ten. Beck and Adams found running rough and picked up oniy 4 yards. Now Muse again went to the air but his pass to Beck feii incomplete. On fourth down Coiviiie punted. Syiva faiied to move the baii and Swain took over on their own 19 yard iine. Beck carried for 8 yards. Next Adams iost a yard setting the stage for a fine run of 24 yards by Larry Beck, carrying the baii to the 49 of Syiva. Roy Greene was caiied on for 2 yards. Muse kept the baii for one yard gain before handing off to Greene who picked up 4 more. A Muse pass to Watson gained 6 yards for a Swain first down on Syiva's 36. Beck was caiied on and in two runs got 6 yards, but on his third try iost 5. On the next piay, Muse was caught behind the iine for a 10 yard ioss. Syiva took over on downs on their own 45 to end the first quarter. SECOND QUARTER Syiva watt to the air three consecutive piays but Larry Beck was there to puii the third one down and Swain had good Beid position with the Brst and ten on their own 44. Beck piugged the way at the middie of the iine gaining 3,4, and 5 yards a carry moving the baii to the Syiva 38. Muse tossed an 8 yard pass to right end, Jimbo Coiviiie, to give the Deviis a Brst and ten from the Syiva 30. Roy Greene bucked the middie of the iine for two before Larry Beck went up the middie for 28 and the Brst TD of the baiigame. Beck scored the optionai two extra points and the Deviis ied 8-0. Syiva received Swain's kickoff and again went to the air gaining 9 yards from their own 46 to the Deviis 45 before Larry Beck intercepted his second pass of the evening. The Deviis found the going rough this time, however, and were forced to punt. The baii roHed dead on the Syiva 14 yard iine. The Eagies put together 3 Brst downs and marched 86 yards to paydirt in i! piays with Jim Buchanan going around the ieft end for the score tied 8 aii. Muse attempted to pass on Swain's Brst piay from scrimmage but Mike Cogdiii was there for the Eagies and puiied the pass down for a Syiva interception. Time ran out in the Brst haif before the Eagies couid get started. THiRD QUARTER Swain received the second haif kick off and moved from their own 14 to the 33 before the Eagies forced them to punt. it iooked as though defense wouid be the name of the game during the second haif as both teams exchanged two punts with neither moving the baii very weii. As time began to run out in the third quarter the Deviis took a Syiva punt on their own 24 with a Brst and ten from that point. On the Brst piay from Scrimmage, Danny Muse tossed a quick pass to haif back, Larry Beck, and it was aii over. Beck went 76 yards for his second TD of the evening. The extra point was good and Swain ied 16-8. Syiva took the Swain kickoff on their own 34 and began to move the baii with authority picking up 4 first downs as they moved down to the Swain 8. Bimbo Queen picked up one through the middie of the Swain iine before quarterback, Jim Davis, was dropped for a 7 yard ioss. An incompiete pass on third down gave the Eagies a 4 and 14 situation. Davis compieted a short pass to end, Gary Cowan, for 9 yards, but Beck, Adams, and Muse were there to drop him on the Deviis 5 yard iine, short of alHrst down and short of a TD. The Deviis took over first and ten from their own 5 as the third quarter ended. FOURTH QUARTER The Deviis staying on the ground moved out to their own 27 before they were forced to punt. Coiviiie got a good roii on his punt and the Eagies found themseives deep in their own territory with a first and ten from the 17. Again moving the baii with authority, the Eagies marched 83 yards to paydirt in 13 piays picking up 5 first downs on the way as Bimbo Queen went over from the 1. The extra point was good and the score was tied 16-16. Swain received Syiva's kickoff on their own 37 and moved to the Syiva 41 before giving up the baii on downs. Syiva picked up 2 first downs and moved to the Swain 32., before iosing the baii on downs. With time running out the Deviis went to the air and with 3 compieted passes in a row moved to the Syiva 40. Syiva's pass defense stiffened and 3 Muse to Beck passes feii incompiete as time ran out with the score tied 16 aii. Swain wiii piay the finai game of the season at home this week against non-conference opponent Towns County, Ga. Game time is 8:00. The iE!<B C!i^'tKrs: A re Bacfr On A /arfra Beavers are persistent animats - you can say that for them. They're going to buiid a dam or dams on or near the Jim Sneed farm about Bve miies west of hare, come high water or what have you and they've had pienty of both. Beavers had iargeiy disappeared from the mountains unti! they appeared about six years ago in Swain County on the Sneed farm. Since then, they have been reported in severai piaces in the county. But the group at the Sneed farm has made some kind of history in persistence. They first buiit three dams reaching out into Aiarka Creek. The creek's high water washed them out. Then they buiit dams on various branches of the creek. These somehow disappeared. They've buiit severai dams over the years above or below a cu!vert across the creek from the Sneed farm on lower Alarka road (old U S. 19). These have been tom down. They have had dams across from the railroad embankment in the same area. They went, too. The battle has gone on through the years. Now they've really outdone themselves. They have built a double dam at the culvert site - one north of the road near the south side of the embankment and one below the road between it and Alarka Creek. The north dam is a big one and backing up considerable water. The south one is steadily getting larger. Local beaver watchers are holding their breaths. For, at the same time as the double dam operation, another branch of the family is building another dam out into Alarka Creek at about the same spot they started out six years ago. charged with drunk driving. Fined $100 and cost. Surrender drivers iicense. Doyie Jones charged with pubiic drunkenness, third offense. Retired to inactive docket. Richard Ervin Youngdeer charged with pre-arranged racing and drunk driving. Continued untii Nov. 26,1969 session. Furman Eari Herron charged with reckiess driving. Retired to inactive docket. Dan Welch charged with vioiation of probation iaw. Called and failed. Capis issued and $25 bond set. Jerry Maurice Smith charged with drunk driving. Retired to inactive docket. Howei J. Crisp charged with assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting serious bodily injury. Continued untii Nov. 26 session. Amonetta Sequoyah, Jr. charged with drunk driving. Fine of $100 and cost surrender drivers iicense and not to operate a motor vehicie in North Carolina. Levi Smith charged with drunk driving. Fine $100 and cost and surrender drivers iicense. Wiiiiam Perry Pheasant charged with murder. Continued untii November 26 session. James Meiviiie Butier charged with drunk driving. Fine of $100 and cost and surrender of drivers iicense. Ann McMahan Jones charged with driving on the ieft side of the highway causing an accident and with having fictitious drivers license.Charged $25 on each count, surrender drivers iicense and not to operate a motor vehicie on North Caroiina highways until properly licensed. # Caiioway Martin Bail charged with drunk driving. Fine of $100 and cost and surrender drivers license. John Cecil Cook charged with drunk driving. Fine $100 and cost and surrender drivers license. Jessie Martin charged with larceny. Piead not guiity. Dismissed on payment of cost. Ross SherriU charged with forcibie trespass. Dismissed on payment of cost. Ross Sherrili charged with assauit on femaie. Dismissed on payment of cost. Charies Smathers charged with non support. Caiied and faiied. Nisi sci fa capis issued. Double the bond. Harold J. Hail charged with drunk driving. Caiied and faiied. Judgment absolute on forfeiture of bond. Paui W. McClure charged with aiding and abetting in drunk driving. Caiied and faiied. The state took a nol Continued On Page 2 precincts accounting for 526 of the totai votes voted at a rate of five to one in favor of the measure with 436 for and 89 against. Four of the five county precincts voted against the measure with two boxes carrying a very siight three vote majority. Eia, the oniy other county precinct, voted in favor of the tax 47 to 19. The Swain County Board of Commissioners has pledged 80% of their share of the funds to go in a special fund for the purpose of buiiding new school facilities. The city has said their share wouM go into the city's genera! fund for municipa! improvements, with some thought being given to recreation. The vote by precinct wans foitows: Precinct Aiarka Aimond Eta Bryson City Bryson City 2 Whittier White Oak For — Against 14 — 47 21 — 24 47 —19 165 — 64 271 — 25 19 — 36 22 — 25 J559 — 249 Third Grader Kiiied When Hit BY Bn: An eight-year-oid girt, a pupi! at Bryson City Eiementary Schooi, was fataUy injured Tuesday afternoon when she was ran over by a schootbus. Betty Francis MitcheU, a third grader, stepped off the bus accompanied by her brother. The brother crossed the road safety to the Mitchei! home and then the vehicie .moved forward, a wheei passing over the gM's body. Trooper L. A. Turner, investigating officer, said an aunt waiting for the ghri and the schooibus driver, Larry Pittman, picked up the chiid, put her on the bus and carried her to Swain County Hospita! where she died shortiy after atrivai. Pittman, 17, was admitted to the same hospita! in a state of shock. He is a second year bus driver at Swain High. Trooper Turner's investigation, he said, wouid not Be cOmpiete until he ta!ks with the bus driver. At press time no charged had been Hied. The accident occurred three-tenths of a miie south of US-19, on the Rum! Road 1151, in the Jenkins Branch Section. The girl was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight MitcheU of Route 3, Bryson City. Moody Funerai Home is in charge of arrangements. CommunilY Deveiopment Judging Dates Announced Judging to select the organized communities in Western North Carotins that have made the greatest progress in 1969 wiii start on Monday, November 10 and run through Thursday, the 13th. The occasion wiii be the area judging of the WNC Community Deveiopment Program. At stake wiii be top honors in the annua) rural improvement contest and over $5,000 in awards. County winners wiH be judged & eompMMnn in three divisions according to the number of families. Kirkland's Creek Community wiii represent Swain county in Division "A" (iess than 75 families), and Whittier in Division "B" (75 - 150 families) Kirkland's Creek wiB be judged on Tuesaay, Mov. ll at 2:30 and Whittier on Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 10:16 **The WNC Community Deveiopment Program is sponsored by the AgricuKumi Deveiopment Council in cooperation with the agricultural agencies in each county and local sponsors. From The Coach's Desk By Mitt Barden Homecoming 1969 has come and gone and with it another good baii game. Everypne on the Mil reaiiy worked aii week buiiding dispiays, promoting schooi spirit and getting ready for the Syiva invasion. Indeed this was a compieteiy fuB week and for many I am sure they are giad Homecoming comes oniy once ayear. This week's activities were fun; however, to some (inciuding myseif) we wonder just how much the "fad days" heiped prepare for the frenzy of pep needed to heip beat Syiva. Who knows? To be honest, the students and fans never iet up during the game; it was their best show of pep and enthusiastic backing aii year and was greatiy appreciated by aH the piayers. I fee! that sportsmanship was in such great evidence. If you are interested, we iost no yardage whatever through penalties. How many times can that happen in a Swain-Syiva footbali game? Syiva was penalized oniy a few times. Aii in aU, it was one of the cieanest played games we have had this year I was so proud of you people who have been the "backbone" for the buys on the fieid fieid. You have been tremendous fans for young men who deserve your good foHowing. Your actions as weU as the actions of the piayers have been keeniy feit in aii our opponents' communities this year. In fact, the Frankiin paper had a nice write-up about OUR good sportsmanship. In the press box at Murphy it was the major topic of conversation according to those working inside it. It is unbeiievabie how much improvement we have made since last year. Thanks! This was the iast of the "Big Three" games. Syiva had scouted us each game this season but stiU found stopping our offense a tough thing to do. I have known aH season that our defense was our weakness-take any part of it-it is weak. Why? WeU, iet's cry a iittie- we iost seven boys or rather men and I do mean men-through graduation iast year. We wow biesaed with 200-235 ib. chunks of granite this year who were just as mobiie as chunks of granite- under their own power. Our defensive ends were smail and inexperienced and proved to be no match for the beatings dealt them by power teams such as Murphy and Syiva. Big Dee Dee Wood seemed to be just what we have been iooking for to piay defensive end. He was great in the Syiva game. He made mistakes-sure, who wouidnt with that iittie experience, but at ieast he piayed it pienty tough. Biii Adams carried out a peraonai vandetta with Syiva's Bimbo Queen; both boys piayed fine games for their respective teams. Both teams had doseiy matched counter parts. Swain's quartet -the best anywhere-composed of Muse, Watson, Adams, and Beck were paraiieied by Syiva's Davis, Cowan, Middieton, and Queen. With these factors fairly even, the war's outcome depended on the defensive iine. Inexperience, injuries, the breaks...it adds up to a tie game. Syiva's game offense forced us to go to a heavier, siower defensive iine. James King and Alvin Gerding, two young tigers who have been doing reai weii, sat out while our big studs were at work with the heavy yeBow bird iine. Syiva did a good job of mixing the game strategy by passing considerabiy more than we had expected. Our defensive forward waii kept pressure on the quarter back causing a iow percentage of pass compietions. As this season draws to a dose it seems that Hi be needing a tongue transplant. The officiating this year has been considerabiy better this year it seems . ..or does a person graduaiiy become numbed by it? For the second time this year Larry Beck was halted by a quick whistie; the first time was a touchdown run in the Hayesvilie game. Who knows, his pass interception against Syiva had all the ear marks of a TD also. We coaches who have to bite our tongues during games surety must make iife miserable off the field. I fed that a salute to the football mothers and wives is in order at this time. These foundations of the American home must shake with anger at the coaching staff throughout the footbaii season. We keep the kids out so they can eat cold supper after the rest of the famiiy has eaten; we send the boys home iimping, and beaten so they don't have energy to do the chores; we keep them out on the road late at night. These are but a few reasons why we coaches say, "Thank you for ietting us have your boys." Looking forward to the Towns County game: You will get a look at our boys you haven't seen so much of this season, it shouid be a iot of fun for our boys piaying in their last game. Since Jim Bigwitch did so well catching a pass last week he may get another chance! it shouid be a good game for us and one i know we wiil enjoy playing. Woass'! Club October Meeting The Busy Woman's Club met at 7:30 p.m. on October 28, 1969 at the home of Mrs. Ba Ferguson. There were twelve members present. Mr. Rufus Bates, dub president, presided during the business session. The following new officers ware elected to serve during the coming year: president - Mrs. Rufus Bates; vice-president - Mrs. Foster Lane; secretary - Mrs. J.L. Woody; treasurer - Mrs. Fairie Moore. Mrs. Pande Deal, Home Economics Extension Agent, gave a demonstration on cheaas end several different chesses were sampled by the msmhase present.
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