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The Cherokee Scout
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Volume 72, Number 17 Murphy, N. C., Thureday, November 23, 1961 8 Pages This Week Published Weekly
Long T ime Civic
Leader Dies At 70
Harvey Gaines Elklns. 70,
C"' , Murphy civic
ic?aer ana former business
man died at 4:15 p.m. Friday
EL??,T?er. 17 ,n a MurPhy
* ,on? U'ness.
? ? ? - wug uiness.
i Mr. elklns was a native of
^er???Me; Tenn., and the
V "* *? '?? Joseph MUler
?,_J4inerv? Webb Elklns He
came to Murphy In 1906 and
. Murphy
Calendar
Thursday, November 23
10:00 a.m. Thanksgiving cele
bration Holy Communion at
Church of Messiah
3:15 p.m. Childrens Choir re
hearsal at First Methodist
Church.
7:30 p.m. Murphy Chapter No
10 Order of the Eastern
Star will meet in the
Masonic Hall
7:30 p.m. Rescue Squad to
meet in the Murphy Power
Board Building.
Sunday, November 26
6:15 a.m. Mass at Providence
Hospital Chapel.
11:00 a.m. Holy Mass at St.
Andrews Catholic Chapel.
5:30 p.m.MYF atFirstMetho
dist Church.
6:30 p.m. Training Union at
First Baptist Church.
Monday, November 27
2:30 p.m. Through Dec. 1st
Week of Prayer at First
Baptist Church for Foreign
Mission. Topic''Tidings of
Great Joy by Mae Perry
Circle.
6:30 p.m. Rotary Club at
Family Restaurant
7:30 p.m. Women of the
Presbyterian Church will
meet in the Westminister
Hall.
7:30 p.m. Frankle Martin
Circle of First Baptist
Church will meet at the
home of Mrs. R. S. Bault.
7:30 p.m. Wesleyan Service
Guild to meet with Miss
Emily Sword with Miss
Fannie McClellsnd as joint
hostess.
Tuesday, November 28
11:00 a.m. Murphy Home
Demonstration Club to
Meet with Mrs. Helen
Moody
2t30 p.m. Week of Prayer at
First Baptist Church,
Topic "Tlndlngs of Peace"
by Lottie Moon Circle.
M0 pjn. Lions Club to meei
fa the recreation hall ot
First Methodist Church
7l30 pjn. Mens Chorus at
First Baptist Church
7:30 Alcoholic Anonymous at
New Regal Hotel
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was employed uy me un-i
electric power plant in
Murphy, located in VaUey
River.
In 1919, he married Miss
Bessie Mae Woods of Murphy
who survives. Also that year,
he became manager of the
first electric plant on theNotla
River.
Mr. Elkins was named the
first manager of the Murphy
Electric Power Board in 1939.
In 1946 he opened his own
company. Murphy Electric
Company,
A veteran of World War I,
he served for 18 months over
seas. He was a member of the
Joe Miller Eildns American
Legion Post, which was named
after his late brother.
He was a char ter member of
the Murphy Lions Club which
was organized in 1926. He had
a 35-year perfect attendance
record in the club, held every
club office and served as zone
chairman and deputy district
governor of North Carolina
District 31-A. He later
became a permanent director
of the club.
Mr. Eildns at the time of
his death had served on the
official board of the First
Methodist Church for a con
tinuous 20 year period.
Services were held at 3:30
p.m. Sunday in Murphy First
Methodist Church.
The Rev. C. F. Womble and
the Rev. W. J. Thompson of
ficiated and burial was in
Sunset Cemetery. W. S
Dickey, Joe Ray. Frank
Forsyth, Don Hughes, John
A. Davidson, Francis Bourne
Jf-t E, L. Shields, and Robert
Weaver were active pall
bearers. Honorary pall
bearers were members of the
Murphy Lions Club. the
, official board of die First
Mejhodist Church and the
doctors of the city.
Surviving in addition to the
widow are a daughter, Mrs.
Wayne H. Gentry of Greens
boro; two sons, Joe Miller
Eildns of Cressklll, N. J. and
Harvey Gaines Elkins of Ashe
vtlle; four sisters, Mrs.Clyde
Gennett and Mrs. A. J.Martin
of Murphy; Mrs. Ethel Wolfe
of Knoxville, Tenn., and Mrs.
Ruth Crows of Tellico Plains,
Tenn.; one brother, J. A.
Elkins of Maryville, Tenn.;
and four grandchildren.
I vie Funeral Home was In
charge of arrangements.
lice R. Winfrey
En route To Japan
Andrews ? Ike R. Wlnfey,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Winfrey, left San Diego, Calif
November 15 on U. S. S.
Cimarron en route to Japan.
He arrived in Honolulu
November 20 and is spending
a week as guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Holland and
family. Mr. Holland is the
son of Mrs .Winnie Holland of
Andrews,
He will leave Honolulu
November 27 and arrive in
J?pae December 3 and will be
Tribute To A Team
Special To The Scout
by Morris Newton
The town of Murphy has a team --a proud team ? a team
to be proud of. A team which began to take shape in September
and reached its apex last Friday night in Asheville.
It is a team built on pride and determination, on sweat and
toll, time and patience and molded into shape through hours on
practice fields and hours in the locker room in skull practice
and blackboard drills. It is eleven men receiving an opening
Idckoff and an eager oencn wnich jumps at a call. It is a team
of second line men who spell the regulars and show moments
of greatness before returning to the side lines to watch the
first unit put on a goal line stand.
It is a group of boys who take their lumps to play the one
minute left in the game with the home team four touchdowns
ahead. It is the JayVees who sharpen the first team's attack
as they run the plays of Andrews and Hayesville and Sylva and
return to the showers each afternoon with tired but proud bodies.
It is a coach who knows what physical fitness means and
spends that extra hour each afternoon in order to win the close
ones as the other team tires. It is a story of assistant coaches
who watch for signs of promise in the young players and groan
when an assignment is missed or a back is in motion or a
clipping penalty is called from overeagerness with the play
twenty yards the field.
Yes, this is the team, the most Important part, the part that
everyone sees and cheers and talks about but it is not the whole
team. The team from our town includes some strange uniforms
and no uniforms ? for a football team, you set, is many things.
It is nine spirited, white sweatered girls in swirling skirts
who cheer a one yard plunge or a touchdown gallop with equal
voracity. It is a team of baton twirlers with smiling faces and
freezing legs who twirl and prance and flip skirts for hours in
order to be a preclsioned part of the whole pagentry.
It is a marching lineof music makers who punctuate afternoon
classes with sounds of martial music as they practice to fill
the half-time void on Friday nights with precision marching
and spirited tunes, resplendent in their dressof braided gold
and black that still smells of first drycleanlng.
It is a group of townspeople, businessmen who formed booster
clubs and quarterback clubs and dressed these budding bandsmen
dme and time again ? in their talk-- as they sought ways to
raise thepriceof such raiment. It is a story of men, and women,
too, who flipped flapjacks and sizzled sausages and raised
enough money to clothe the slide-horn players. A memory of
canvassing band members in new uniforms on a rainy Saturday
moraipg asking politely for donations so that they might wed
the coats they owned to the pants they owed for.
It is this, and much more ... A teacher explaining slide
rules and obtuse triangles during the week and turning con
cessionaire on Friday nights or abandoning the writings of
Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway to stand by the bridge at
the Valley River entrance, struggling with change and stamping
feet against the penetrating cold.
It is a team that has a "Scout" for a press agent. Inking the
losing season somberly and the winning season gleefully and
a radio voice which echoes each Saturday morning the play by
play of the night before - - 34 games without a miss. . win or
lose, far and near ? in balmy or freezing weather.
This, then is our team, lined up behind our charging eleven,
six, eleven, twenty deep -- every age. every type, every walk
of life, every one a cog in our machine .... every one a credit
to our team, our town and the people of Murhy in western
North Carolina.
County Reaches
87.8% Of Ouota
Cherokee County sales for
Savings Bonds for October
were $12,493.00. For
the year County sales totaled
$235,504.00, which Is 87.8% of
the County's quota for 1961,
according to W. D. Whitaker
County Volunteer Chairman.
Series H. Bond sales took a
spectacular jump during
October ," according to W.H.
Neal, National Director of
the Treasury's Savings Bonds
Division. "The 24% Increase
in the purchases of Series H
Bonds last month is a tribute
to the volunteers and bankers
who serve the bonds program
so faithfully and to the
thousands of patriotic
Americanswho see in Savings
Bonds an Important way to
serve their country in time
of need."
Bob Slagle Elected
King
Of King College
Andrews ? Bob Slagle, son
of Mr. and Mrs. John Slagle
was recently elected king of
the King College Bristol,
Tenn., 1962 Dogwood Festival
to be held in late April.
Presbyterian Notes
Golng-m-College Handbooks
are to be presented at morning
worship next Sunday at Mur
phy Presbyterian Church to
college students and high
school seniors and Juniors.
The theme of the sermon
of Robert A. Potter, minis
ter, la "Christ, The Voice
Of Truth."
Offering envelopes are to
be brought for the Presby
terian Children's Home at
Black Mountain, and all who
will are requested to bring
canned goods or staple foods
also for thlt Institution which
is especially remembered at
Thankaglviag.
Cherokee - Clay
Counties
Receive Money
Cherokee County received
$10,462 and Clay $7,705 as
their share of Nantahala
National Forest receipts for
fiscal year 1961. Payments
are made from 25 percent of
the gross receipts of the forest
distributed In proportion to
national forest acreage. These
payments, made annually, are
to be used for school or road
purposes.
In addition to these payments
10 percent of gross receipts
Is used by the Forest Service
for maintenance of forest
roads and trails.
Citizens Bank Mails
$100,304.50 In
Xmas Club Checks
Citizens BankfcTrust Com
pany mailed out Wednesday,
November 15 checks to 775
members of its 1961 Christ
mas Savings Club, totaling
$100,304.9*. This is the larg
est number and largest amount
saved by members of the Club
in the ten years it has been
conducted by Citizens Bank
& Trust Company. This is
a sizeable savings that the
members have, through their
foresight, provided to be a
vailable now for their 1961
Christmas shopping.
The 1962 Club opens at all
four Citizens Bank & Trust
Company banks Monday, Nov
ember 27 and a person may
join by depositing $1 to $10
per week. The Club runs for
50 weeks and checks will be
mailed next year to the 1962
members the later part of
November to be available for
Christmas shopping.
Many industries, upon in
struction of their employees,
will deduct from the weekly
pay check of the employee,
whatever the employee directs
and pay the amount direct to
Citizens Bank & Trust
Company, thereby relieving
the employee from having to
visit the bank.
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ot Murphy Blomontary School. Mr*. Kilo Foyo Byoro*
sixth grada im4> salt portraits of thomsolsw and pi scad tham
Murphy Boys On WNC
All- Scholastic Team
BULLDOG DEFENDERS Sammy Duncan, No. 20, Charles Smith. No. 62, Kenny English
No. 10, and John Snow, No. 57 break up a Boone pass In the Western North Carolina Class
AA Championship game Friday night at Ashevllle. (Scout Photo)
Bulldogs Finish Second
As Boone Wins 20-13
Murphy's hopes for th:
Western District Class AA
football championship
perished with only seconds
remaining when John Van
Horn's pass was intercepted
by Appalachian High of Boone
on the six yard line in last
Friday's tide tilt in Asheville.
Murphy, behind 7 points in
the closing minutes of the hard
fought batde for the tide,
staged a comeback drive that
will long be remembered
in an effort to de the score.
Appalachian long a thorn
in Murphy's side in post
season playoffs, capitalized
on Bulldog mlscues to set the
stage for their third straight
win over Murphy in playoff
competition.
Murphy drew first blood
driving 64 yards for a touch
down in die first quarter.
Bobby Roberson scored from
one yard out. The extra point
attempt failed.
Appalachian recovering a
Bulldog fumble near midfield
punched holes in Murphy's
pass defense scoring on an
eight yard "JD pass in the
second quarter. Appalachain
fullback Robert Matheson
scored the first of his two
touchdowns on a five yard
run several minutes later in
the same period. Appalachian
led 13-6 at halftlme.
Midway in the Arid
Matheson bulled over for his
second TD to put Appalachain
ahead 20-6.
r rum ncre uie Duiiuugs
started their comeback drive..
Randolph Cunningham plowed
over from the four with six
minutes remaining. The extra
point attempt was good
bringing the score to 20-13.
Needing 7 points to tie the
ballgame, the hard charging
Bulldogs looked like the team
that had won 11 straight. The
break came as Boone fumbled
and. ^Randolph Cunningham
picked it \jp and carried the
ball to his 44. Cunningham car
ried three times for 28 yards
and teammate Bobby Roberson
carried for four to move the
ball to the Appalachian 24 yard
line.
On the next play Van Horn
went to the air in a race
with the clock only to have
his pass lnte.cepted and
Murphy's hopes for a tie
snatched from their grasp.
Hayesville ? J anlce and Michael Martin, children of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Martin of Hayesville don't plan to have
Thanksgiving without Turkey. They have taken the situation
In hand by heading for the chopping block with Mr. Turkey
and their hatchet. (Scout Photo by Mrs. Neal Kitchens.)
Alice Davis Hyatt
Given Certificate
Mrs. Alice Davis Hyatt,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Davis, Route 3, Murphy,
was recently presented a
certificate for outstanding
performance of duty and was
awarded $100. for sustained
superior performance at
Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, Ohio.
Alice is secretary in th?
Air Force Logistics Com
mand Headquarters,
Statistical Services. She was
commended for her con
sistently outstanding perfor
mance in the production of
error free copy and her unique
ability as a management
assistant. She has displayed
such exceptional talent in
problem solving ability that
she is now undergoing
training as an Electronic
Computer Programar.
Fire Damages
Beerkins Home
A fire Monday night badly
damaged the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Hans Beerkins. An
electric wall heater was
said to be the cause of the
blaze. Mrs. Beerkins reported
-that she heard a noise as If
wind had blown the back
door open and went to
Investigate, finding it still
closed. She said that she then
realized that she heard flames
and screamed for her husband.
While Mr. Beerkins tried to
extinguish the fire, Mrs.
Beerkins ran across the
street to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. R. S. Bault for help.Mr,
Bault called the fire depart
ment.
Said Mr. Beerkins. "Thanks
to the prompt work of the
Murphy Fire Dept. we will
be back in our home in a few
days. They really worked fast
to get the blaze under
control."
Mrs. Beerkins noted that
the fire truck arrived at the
houae in a matter of minuaea.
The fire, doing several
htatdred dollars damage, hit
a bedroom of the home. Al
most everything in the room
was destroyed
Mrs. Beerkins said that
?hiring the alarm <on she had
turned on the heater la it?
room and that the draperies
apparently caught fire.
Rimco Mtg. torp.
Appoints
General Manager
Rimco Mfg.Corp. announced
Tuesday the appointment of
Peter J. McKeon of Provi
dence, R. I. as general
manager of the Murphy plant.
Mr. McKeon who arrived in
Murphy Tuesday, has over
23 years experience in the
lace manufacturing business.
He started in the industry when
he was 16 years old as an
utility man.
McKeon's wife and six
children will join him in a
few months.
Charles Hobbs
Named To Board
Mr. Charles Hobbs, Purina
Chow salesman of this area,
has received Purina's highest
sales honor, - membership on
the General Salesmanager's
? Advisory Board - it has been
announced at the company's
headquarters in St. Louis.
Hobbs's membership on the
board came as a result of his
record last year of sales and
service
Football Winners
The football contest last
week was very close. Many of
our entrants'missed only one
and the tie breaker had to be
used. First place winner went
to Mr. Bobby Jones of
Andrews. Second place had a
tie between Gordon Bates of
Murphy and Jimmy Matheson
of HayesvtUe. Because of the
two way tie for second place
there was no third place
winner.
Winners are requested to
stop by the Scout office for
their check.
Two Murphy Boys placed on
the Western North Carolina
All-Scholastic Football Team
were Charlie Smith, Murphy
Tackle. . . McConnell's pride
and Joy . .heasserts.. "Smltry
is developed to.college heights
at 16 years old.. Dependable..
rough, .good defender and
strong offense. . need seven
more like him."
John Snow, Murphy, End --
Chuck McConnell, Bulldog
coach, says ... Snow does the
Job well for us. . he's alert
both on offense and defense
and gives 100 per cent effort
strives to do the job we want
all for the team. . a good
receiver and analyzes plays
well."
The players selected are
picked on the basis of In
dividual play, team play,
leadership ability, their
ability to keep improving
performances against the
better teams they've played
and as important or more
important than any other, their
scholastic standing in school.
These are chosen with the
purpose not being simply to
put a number of youngsters
in the spotlight but to help
the most promising players
get to college on athletic
scholarships.
Honorable men don went to
Quarterback John Van Horn,
and backs. Ken English, Bobby
Roberson and Sammy Duncan.
Fullback RandolphCunnlng
ham. Bulldog co-captain, was
picked, on the second team.
Cunningham, always good for
yardage when the team needed
it was noted for his leader
ship on the field. It was often
said "as goes Cunningham so
goes die Bulldogs."
Churches Join
For Thanksgiving
Union Services
Union services on succes
sive Wednesdays are being
held this week by Murphy
mid-town churches.
This Wednesday evening at
7:30 at Murphy Presbyterian
Church the annual union
Thanksgiving service is to
be conducted; and next Wed
nesday night, November 29,
a united gathering will be
held at First Baptist Church
with George A. Abbott of
Ashevllle as the speaker.
The Reverend C.F.Womble
is to preach at the Thanks
giving Eve service upon the
theme "What Price, Thanks
giving?" The Murphy High
School chorus, directed by
Edward n. Reynolds, will sing
"Prais- the Lord, O Israel",
with Jimmy Klmsey accom
panying.
Other elements in the ser
vice will be appropriate to
the season; and the offering
will be received for the Inter
Church Relief Fund.
At the service next week
the Murphy Parent-Teachers
Association, of which Merle
Davis is president, will pro
mote the gathering along with
the churches. Mr. Abbott, who
is general secretary of the
Ashevllle Y. M. C. A? will
speak ig?n the theme: "Pa
rental Responsibility fot the
Morals and Character of
Their Children."
Mr. Abbott Is a native of
New England, a graduate of
Springfield College, and did
advanced study at the Uni
versity of London. He served
In the medical administration
corps during World War II,
and has been engaged as boys'
work secretary in "Y" ac-'
ti vi ties.
The speaker Is an elder in
the First Presbyter! an Church
in Ashevllle, a Rotarlan, and
Is active in Christian and
community life of that city.
<X Mr. ma Mn. Hans Boortlas. (Scow Photo)