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LIBALff KJffiHT B C COKP The Cherokee Scout And Clay County Progress ? Volume 72 - Number 26 Murphy, N. C., January 25, 1962 8 Pages This Week Published Weekly Breakdown Results Ir Patchwork Edition For This Wook's Scout hyJ?naN*Fi V i Ida'* little Ola marhlwo had a aalzur* ?d can't work , This U why your Scout Ma wwak ha* a atranfa aaw look that wa promise wa dU not da oa purpose. Tha JuaBwrlmr, the Soufa aaw typesetting machine, burned : a oott Monday rfwraooo. A frantic call wan mad* a> . a far ow truaty repairman. Jack (FRoar, to put la an I i far wa warn really hurting. - jadadpat to Murphy bright and early TUeeday morn lag ? find that MUa Ida'* trusad machlna had buraad out an I Irreplaceable coll and that waa not ? locked la Chattanooga or Atlanta and had B bo ordered from way tq> north la Roche* nr. N.Y. ? CRaar pro mined fast delivery but our speedy neighbor* a> 0 the north failed to respond u> Ma head. Or maybe ha called b ^ too slowly In hie euuihere drawl. Aa press dm* drew asar, a decision had b be made. Wa had S *o choices, delay 1 publics doa, and wait on tha part from Now ' York or aet dm type with the right hand margin iinvaa. < ad b come out on dma, right hand mt We daddad a> come out on dma. right hand margin or no right hand margin. Alao we had B laavo out aoma a Brie* and I plcturaa hacauaa wa could not get them aet InB type. We will 1 pick thaaa tg> In next week's edition. ' We promlae B return B the old style next weak. Wa qualify < this, of course. by saying that 1*. tf those yankaes up ' yonder win let us have the part. By the way. Miss Ida Arrsstt la our JustowrlBr operator. She ' does s real good Job for us sad we promise aha won't do It (soon): Deposits Increase In Citizens Bank and Trust Co. At the annual etockholders' ? matting of Citizens Bank k I Truat Company bald la lha I bank1 a offices in Andrewa, t Monk Carolina, tba President. i ParCy B. Parabaa, reported thati dapoalta during tba yaar 1961 had Incraaaad $771,7V5.9U, buddng a total deposit aa at Oacomber SI, 1961 at S9.SS4.S4S.17. Ha atatad that tba re had been a cor responding Increase in Investment securities, loans and discounts, and earnings, 1 and that the total capital, sur plua, and undivided profits account ae of December 31, 1961 was $872,529.71. Mr. P era bee also stated that ha felt that this waa a dear Indication at the general over all Improvement In economic conditions of the area served by tte bank that lha bank had welcomed tbeprlvlledge of participating In the promotion of the economy of the area. The Twins Plan To Be U. S. Service Career Men Hayesvllle ? Zed Howard and Ben Harold McClure twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. George McClure of the Braastown section of Clay County plan to be U. S. Service career men. Zed Howard la S. P. 4 with the U.S. Army stationed in Fulda Germany. He bee been In the Army for 8 years. He married the former Miss Thelma Glbeoo of Hayesvllle and they have three daughters. Belinda age 6, Sherry Lynn, 8; add Bergetts 1 year old. His family is with him. Ben Harold served In the U. S. Army for 2 years, has served 4 years In the Navy relinlstsd for 6 more years last-Sept, and his rating Is C M H 3. He is now among a group that Is on a "Good Will Tour" to Spain, Italy, France and Turkey. He married the former Miss Marine Garrett Sept. 1961, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ho be Garrett. She Is presently with her parents: but wllljoln her husband at a later date. Murphy Calendar Thursday, January 25 3:15 p.m. Children's Choir re hearsal at First Methodist church. 3:30 p.m. Murphy Garden Club so meet at the home of Mrs. W. P. Odom with Mrs. Emily Davidson as joint hostess. 7:00 pan. Rescue Squad to mee at Murphy Power Board Building 7:30 p.m. Murphy, Chapter No. 10 Order of the Eastern Star will meet In the Mas onic Hall. Saturday, January 27 -7p, 416 7 p.m. Explorer Post No. " will have a barbecue sipper at the old Rock Gym Sunday, J anuary 28 6:15 a.m. Mass at Providence Chapel. 11:00 a.m. Holy Mass at St. Williams Catholic Chapel. 5:30 p.m. MYF to meet at Fin Methodist Church 5:30p.m. Training Union to meet at First Baptist Church Monday, January 29 6:30 p.m. Rotary Club to meet at Family Restaurant. Tuesday, January 30 6:30 p.m. Pioneer Fellowship will meet at the Presbyttrl Church 7t30 pjn. Alcoholic Aaooymmt Regal Howl at at New Regal 1 Wednesday, J anuary 31 6:30 pjn. Youth Fellowship choir w moot at First Methodist Church. 7:10 pjn. Midweek services at TtlO pa Midweek services at Fras Methodist Church 700 pa Midweek services al First MeWodlsi 7:30 pa Hour *f I First Baptist C 8:15 Chair rehearsal at First MO pa Channel Choir re * 1 First T IBM itockboldara unanlmoualy ap iroved the resolution of the Joard of Directors recom nendlng "hat the charier of hs bank be amended to In urease die authorised capital ?tocfc from >200,000 to 11,000.000.00 The etockholders elected the following dlrwctore and oommltaes: DIRECTORS: W. Prank Forsyth. W. D. Whi taker, W. A. McGlamery, B. C. Moore B. Ran Moors, L. W. Wilson, J. Smith Howell. Robert V. Weaver. B. B. Conley, Patton Phillips, Percy B. Fere bee. end Jamas B. Fere bee. III. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF CONSOLIDATED BANK: W. Frank Forsyth, W. D. Whi taker, J. Smith Howell. Thomas C. Day, John T. GUI. William J. Carter, Percy B. Fere bee, and James B. Fere bee, U. MURPHY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: W. Frank For syth. El C. Moore. H. A. Mat rox. Robert V. Weaver. Walter Coleman. B. Ree Moore, and John T. GUI. ROBBINSVILLB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: J. J. Snider. J. Smith Howell, J. B. Collins, L. W. Wilson, and Patton Phlllipe. HAYESV1LLE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: W. A. McGlamery, WUhurn Mlngus, Wallace Crawford, and Thomas C. Day. J.L. Shields Gets 2 Years For Sawaill Fire DUNLAF, Tenn. - j. L. Shields, Murphy saw mill operator, and a 52 year old laborer, William Franklin TUson. ware convicted by a jury In the Sequatchie County Circuit Court here Tuesday Jan. 16, on charges of burning a tractor and saw mill power unit. The jury gave Shields a two year sentence, with TUson being given 30days.State Fire Marshall Raymond Hlxson pro secuisd the two men. A. F. Sloan, district attorney general of the 18 th circuit conducted the proaecutlon before Circuit Judge Chester C. Chattln of Winchester. Tom Greer of Dunlay, Carter Schoolfield of Chattanooga, and Jerome Abies of South Pittsburg, de fended the two men. Cecil Hickman, a caretaker in Grandvlew Batatas, afbrest area belonging to Stats Sen. Cartier Patton on Waldsn's Ridge, was the principal witness against Shields and TUson. He testified hs saw them drive to a saw mill site in the forest and laava a five gallon can of gasoline nd pile scrap timber around the machines. That on July 24, 1960 , the wltnesa testified. Later, TUson came back, touched off the gasoline ?d burned the two machines. Jack Webb, another caretaker In the Patton forest, told the Jury. Shields had a contract with Patton to cut timber that had been damaged by the lea storm of 1960. It was while that operation was la progress that the incident took place. It Shields Is Selected By Governor C. Lout* Shialda aon of Mr. and Mr*. C. L. Shield* of Murphy, has ban ^pointed tr Gov. Tarry Saaford *> the Nor Carolina Cldseaa Committee Aa a member of to atari committee, Shlalda will parti - i la a atari wida cam aupport ?Commlt**e for baaar achoola will work with ata* and local 1 build pmic i * aad airport of Mgh quality ad Tha Commltaaa waa organli la 1957 by tormar Gov. Luthai Hodpaa nd waa conipoeed of ! mam ban with Holt McPberao High Point i March Of Dimes ?SSSSft'iSSTo, tirarflt Baahatboll with*. Dr. Stephens It Electtd To District Memorial The Executive Committee at be Trustees at District Mam rial Hospital of Southwestern Jorth Carolina., Inc. unanl nously fleeted Dr. Jamas 8. kcdve Soft of ths hospital, ffectlve Immediately. Dr. Stephens, who la now iracddng la RobMns vlllo, ormarly practlcod la Ashe rtlle. Dr. Staphsns Is ? native if Maine sad his wtfe Is a latlvw of Marshall. Dr. Smph >na attended the University if North Carolina, ths School if Physical Therapy at Medical College In Richmond, and received his B. S. degree In Physical Therapy In J una 1956. He attended the school of Medicine of the Medical College of Virginia at Rich mond from 1956 through 1960 served Ms lnmrnshlp at Mem orial Mission Hospital in Ashsville. He has a license to practice medicine In the sums of Virginia and North Carolina. He is a member of the North Carolina Medical Society and was a member of the Buncombe County Medical Society. He served In ths U. S. Navy from June 1948 through Jute 1952. At this meeting, the Execu tive Committee welcomed the new Administrator, Mr. Robert Pegram. who has taken the place of Mr. Eugene Shaw who re cently resigned to enter an other type of work In Ms former home, Charleston, North Carolina. "X . by Bud Morgan " A poet once said that 'man receives but little of what he asks for,' but, last week when I asked for suggestions or com plaints I received my full share - mostly complaints. ON POLITICAL FRONTS: In reeding a J ackson County paper I see that Jess Shelton, a member of the Sylva police force has announced that he is a candidate for Sheriff In the ig> and coming election, that Marcellus Bulchana n has announced his candidacy for re-election for State Rep resentative. In HaywooJ County, I see that Amos Medford, Clyde Mayor for the paat 2 1/2 years announced that be will run for Haywood County Register of Deeds. It seems to me that the May primary elections are boiling over In other counties but here in Cherokee County and Clay County the pot is not even warm. TEEN SCENE In Franklin, the twist, the latest dance craze Is going over In a big way, but here In Murphy have not heard much about It. How about It teens? Are you doing the Twist? Lets not have Franklin out-twlstlngus. Have you beard the latest? A new national magazine, "Teens Compare" will soon be pub lished It will do a story on Murphy High School Are you In It? DID YOU KNOW that out of 4,897 housing talis In Chero kee County, 62 had 3 or more automobiles, 2,906 had T, V? 631 was the median rent of rented places. 62 households had air conditioning. ODDS AND ENDS DEPT. 86 pints of blood were donated at the recent visit of the Blood mobile so reports Hobart McKeever. My olet boss Is run ning around town trying to peddle tickets a the big Rock and Roll show a be held anight at the Old Rock Gym. Have you bought yours? RECBIPE OF THE WEEK: A lady wrote in and said that the reason I did not like collard greens and black eyed peas was because I did not have the right seasoning. What a he called seasoning I call grease? It must be my Yankee Imagination that lea me eat this southern cooking. CONGRADULATIONS To our fins Sheriff, Clauds Anderson and SB1 agent, M. G. Crawford who did a very good and com plea Job this week. Woman's Club f Holds Meeting ?th Andrew* -- The Jenuery meeting of the Konneheete Women'* Club was held Thuraday evening at the Masonic Hall. Following the dinner, eerved by the ladle* of the Baatsrn Star, Mr*. Bva. Wood, aa chairman of Edu cation oommltaee, had an In formative program on the uee of a local product a* a craft. Ml** Jean Chrlaty Introduced L Mr*. Marvin Pullium who gave a demonstration on Making egg ad *hella into beautiful Chris t r ma* sod Easter ornaments. 12 Mrs. Norman Hartman. ^ Club President, conducted a Valley Town Home Demonstration CliA Met Wednesday i ? TVs Valleytow* onstradoa Clab met y, January 24, st ?p.m. at da bona of Mrs. s.u.r Andrew* ? Rev*rand Tom Ltdbrar has been qqtolnad new minister at Church at Christ. Rev. and Mrs. Ledbetter recently moved id Andrews and are residing In the Minister's quarters of the Church which Is located In the former Jeff Brooks home. He Is a native of Sylva. graduating from Sylva High School. He attended Western Carolina College and receiv ed his B. A. In Bible at David Lipscomb College Nashville," Tenn. In June of last year. He Is married to the former Miss Connie Klmbrough of Waynesvllle. Reverend Ledbetter extends to the public a welcome to services at 10:00 and 11:00 a. m. on Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Thursday evening. There's No Easy Solution To Public School Problem Murphy's, Cherokee County's, North Carolina's and the nation's problem of finding adequate financing for public schools is not going to be solved until business, industry, professional leaders and others join their efforts the same as was done some five years ago to get an adequate Interstate highway system underway. That network of between 40,000 and 50,000 miles of multi-landed, no-grade crossings, no red light high ways is now well underway and is adequately financed. If school children were a little more mature and voted, if parents, who can vote, were Just a. little more alert or if business and professional groups, whose future is irrevokably linked with the quality of our public schools, were more active then business men ? working with political leaders ? long ago would have gotten together and worked out a plan to put our public school system on a sounder financial basis. Much valuable time has already been lost in squabbling over whether the Job should be done with local, state or federal taxation. It very likely is going to take the best efforts of all three to get the Job done. The school problem is not going to solve Itself. It is going to take money. An money means taxes. Money in the amount that is needed ~ as in the case of an adequate interstate highway system ? must come from a tax, as the added gasoline tax in the case of the road system. The quicker the best brains of each town, each state and the nation Join in seeking a solution, the quicker an acceptable and adequate solution will be found. Mr*. Sneed To Head Mother'* March of Dlnne# Mrs. Mary <^therl? Sneed has been named chairman ot the 1962 Mother's March for Murphy. In the continuing fight against birth defects, ?r'brlbs 2d poUo. Tbe Murphy Womans Club made tWs w nouncement and said that all d* women of the club are one hundred percent in nwir support of Mrs. Sneed and this very worth while project. - Mr. John Jordan. Chero'?* County Chairman, ssidthat mis Mother's March and Ae one in Andrews will be Ae final and major event of the 1962 New March of Dimes C "virs^'sneed and other mimhars of the Murphy Womans Club will be ringing doorbells all over town next Tuesday night beginning at 7*0 p.m On this night. January 30. til over Aenadon, doorbells will be ringing.They will be ringing for the New March of Dlmee-M^-S^ says to welcome them enjsend them away happy. "J*-! oenerous contribution. You? be giving so help prevent Isr&r ts ?sss targets of your March of Dimes. Through your airport. million, of Americans Sif (srlng from erAritla can be helped. Sdentiats wyt Ae M-w. defects. BIV newers so birth defects, ihlch occur in Aousaetds of newborn Urfaets in Ala coimtry every year.YourdlmesdldAe <L. nntin Your dimes will Card Of Thank* It may or may so* happen ln 3 our llfe-^'1 we have the God baa si sea privilege of basing at leaat Enid. -^ja,sru tore vatuam. u^ ? oaalona wfrteedsw ell wool. who have befrtetioao hour of dU trees awl have I Our deepest to all. Susan* and Jerry ^Mwpby.N.C. Words Of Life by Rev. J. Elmer Greene In every generation there have been those who have sought to discredit the char acter of the church and to minimize the nature of Its task In the community. All too often many have failed to recognize the church and Its. tasks as a vital and powerful Influence for the betterment of the community. The primary taak of the church il to minister to (he spiritual needs of the Indlvlthial This task, d course involves the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ with the aim and purpose that the individual might establish the proper relationship between himself and God. However, the church is not to restrict its task to evangelism alone, it has a divine responsibility to exert its Influence into every area of human activity and involvement It must have a voice in shaping its environment Into a better The church has a right to cry out against immorality, injustice and wrong-doing. Its task is to set the standard of human conduct and ? be. In a literal sense, the conscience of community. The church must always champion the causes of morality improved living standards, honesty, lntergrlty, truthful ness, and Justice. It I sllaocs its voice or to i its spokesman. 1 Wa cenot deny the fact that movement that makes for tl af a baser cont end world. Ittadd it can 1 fulfill In tanks aahiy honor 1 Mara God and man. Four Arrested In Connection With Break-Ins Letters To The Editor The Editor: Speaking in behalf of the Women's Society of the Hayesvllle Methodist Church we would protest your practice of advertising alcoholic beve rages In your paper. We trust that you will reconsider and In the- future keep our paper free from anything which can bring only degradation. Mrs. J. D. Ryder Hayesvllle. N. C. The Editor: Although we are living and working In F aye tie vllle and at Fort Bragg, Murphy Is still our home. When we need to purchase new clothes, we still find that buying from home town merchants who stand behind their goods Is still the best Investment. Our Dodge from E. C. Moore's Is the sweetest running car. To buy from Noah Hembree's Market for nearly twenty years and to never have a single complaint about even a soup bone Is a record. Dr. and Mrs. Harry Miller Fayetteville. N. C. The Editor: 1 want to express my grati tude and that of my co-workers In the blood program for the very fine publicity- that the Scout gave us on the front page this week. We obtained 86 pints of blood and-had 12 people turned down. 1 believe your articles helped bring about this successful visit of the bloodmobile. H. L. McKeever Blood Program Chairman Murphy, N. C. The Editor How do you go about getting a road passable with 30 families living on It? Our Green Cove Road Is a disgrace to Clay County, For two weeks several people were unable to get out, depending on the type of car you happen to own. We were promised a black top road five years ago. We were third on the map, since that time other roads have been black topped, still all we get on this road Is a road machine after a good rain and a few more promises that does not mean very much. We are all wondering If politics has anything to do with this particular-road condition. All we want Is for the Commissioners to make one trip from the Brasstown post-office to Tom Coffey's In a good car, then decide If we need something done about the road. Bernlece Stalcup Brasstown, N. C. We print envelopes et less than you can buy them at the Post Office. Keep your dollars at home. Buy your printing from The Cherokee Scout. Three teenagers, >11 from the Murphy area, have been ar rested and charged In connection with a aeries of break-Ins la his area covering the past three months. A Murphy man has wen charged with receiving part of the anion property. Jimmy Fain. 19, and Billy Joe Hedden. 17, bo* of Murphy, rave been charged with breaking and entering, and larceny la ronnection with the break-las last Friday tdght, J?u 19, atCUae flick's Gulf Service on Valley River Ave.. Smithnwat Farm Jervlce at Peachtree and King's Cafe on Lowell Street la Bsal to wn, according to S. B. I. agent M. G. Crawford and Cherokee County Sheriff Claude Anderson. Dennis Stiles, 19, of Route 2, Murphy, and Hedden have bene charged with breaking and entering, and larceny la connection with the break - in at Tlmpson's ESSO station in West Murphy, around the first of November, S. B. 1. Agent Crawford said. A cash register containing twenty dollars was reported taken from the Hick's Gulf Station. At Smithmont Farm Service the thieves helped themselves to some canned goods and gasoline after turning on the switch to the outside gaspumps. King's Cafe reported missing a few packs of cigarettes. A set of mechanic's tools, a tool box, and a cigarette machine, were reported taken from the Timpson Station last November. According to SB1 Agent Crawford these same tools and tool box were sold to Howard Barton by Stiles and Hedden the same night that they were stolen. Barton, 24, also of Murphy, has been charged with receiving stolen goods. Stiles and Fain, In addition to the-chargesabove, are also charged with the larceny of automobile hubcaps from Jesse Green's ESSO In East Murphy last Tuesday night, Jan. 16 ac cording to law enforcement officers. The Town of Murphy Police Department assisted In tha In vestigation that led to these arrests In connection with five out of the ten break-Ins reported In this area during the last 90 days. The break-Ins at Murphy Hardware Co. and the more recent ones at the A A P Supermarket and Quality Market Mon day, Jan. IS at Wayne's Feed Store Tuesday, Jan. 16 and at Ranger School Monday, Jan. 22 remain unsolved. The cigarette machine taken from Tlmpson's ESSO was re covered Monday night around 7:30 p.m. by members of the Cherokee County Rescue Squad from the Nottely River eight miles from Murphy where the river passes under US Highway 64 West. The machine hed been broken open and the money and cigarettes removed from It. Total loss at Tlmpson's was estimated at MIS. Members of the Rescue Squad recovered the cash register taken from Cllne Hick's Gulf Service Station Saturday, J an. 20. The Cash register had been thrown In Valley River near tha high school bridge crossing. Judge Herman Edwards set bood, Tuesday, Jan. 23 for Billy Joe Hedden at $12,000. Dennis Stiles has bean released under $3,400 bond; Howard Baron has been released ixider $3,000; ana Jimmy Fain has been released under $9,400 bond. Law officers first arrested Hedden on the street In Murphy around 4:04 p.m. Monday. Fain was arresod Tuesday morning while waiting in a car in front of the county Jail. Barton was arrested at work Tuesday morning and Stiles was brought In by his own father. While Stiles, Barton, and F sin made bond late Tuesday, at press time, We(faesday Hedden had been released. Richard Forrest's 1st Play To Open Oa Broadway "If the stars are right" Richard Forrest will have his first playwrltlng effort; "The Meek Cry Loud." next season. So said SHOW BUSINESS. a trade publication for people In the theatre. In a recent article. Mr. Forrest Is the husband of the former Mary Boland Brumby of Murphy. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brumby. Martin B. Cohen, who haa had a hand in the production of two Broadway musicals ( "The Vamp" and "Christine") will produce the straight play on his own next This first play by Mr. Forrest deals with the chicanery (trickery) that goes on in the construction of a hospital. The script calls for one set, seven performers, and Is In 3 acta. It la Mr. Cohen's plan to engage two ma)or actors and to place the play In rehearsal for a march opening on the reod. A long tour la anticipated, prior a> a New York opening In the fall. At the present time the script Is being reed by Cherlcn Helton, Ray Mill and Edmond O'Brien, Ralph Bel lamy and EdwardG. Robinson. "If one of these should sign, die rest will be relatively easy sailing." Mr. Forrest said. "If they don't ? then anything can happen." The New York Times and New York Post have carried recent announcements of the forth coming play. Mr. Forrest was the office manager of Brumby Textile Mills for several years in the early 1950*s. He and Mrs. Forrest have been living In Brooklyn since they left Murphy. The have one son. age one and a half. Singing To Be Held At Bear Paw There will be singing at the Union Baptist Church, better known as Bear Pew and every one la welcome a> anend. All alngars are urged id come. The date will be Saturday, Ja 27, at 7 p.m. jANUAtY ma I M I W T * S - 1 2 3 4 S 6 7 a 9 to n 12 13 14 15 16 17 It 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 - - ? Haat Yaar Haat With Gas .Salt .Qmi JctMakal COME IN NOW Lat'a Talk Horn* Haatlnf Hank ^btpoili Tony Godfrey, M ft Mr. and Mr*. bMMk Godfrey, md \m Wilkin*, ?MdMr,?d Mrs. R. L. Wilkin*. SMOKY MOUMTAM GAS COMPANY V* 7-2111 Morpfcy, N.c. _