MUHrflY LIBRARY MUJfiHY H C SAMPLE The Cherokee Scout And Clay County Progress 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 in D?r- Club ? KUpatrlck. . Ch* MrT sssoT -??aK ^cES^? Ro** Gp*^ ?\b MurphV poW* ? 7:30 R^ild.tCburdi _ "*"* Mid-???k **^rcb "vsfer^ -wagssi *t<^SiSS^-"a" ??so Choi lftChrfa?. i ??- - 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. of tto opon how hold for *o PTA I 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