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And Clay County Progress
Volume 72 - Number 36 Murphy, North Carolina, April 5, 1962 12 Pages This Week Published Weekly
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GONG TO THB DOGS: MA
Newcomer" wrlBs thatlsKroo
ha may have a suggestion tor
a contrat on barking doga,
different claaatflcattona auch
aa ibe one who berka the long
oat, over nothing, the one who
awakena the neighbors about
?l hour before time to gat
ty, the dog whose owner
simply/ cant hear him,
although his dog la barking his
head off at every passing
Aalghbor. 1 must say this would
be a very unusual contest, it
might be a "howling" success
or then again we may be bark
thg up the wrong tree.
HANGING DOG. Id answers)
my question last week on how
Hanging Dog received Its name
I received the following
answers: Rev. Clarence A
Voyles wrote in and said his*
"?lber who was an early teach
er In Cherokee County Public
Schools, attended what was
? M*?glng D?g Hlgh
school In his teens and also
t?Ught school In the Hanging
Dog section In his early day!
of Baching, told this story
about Hanging Dog and why
It is so named: "The Indians
named the creek from the fact
their hunting dogs would get
hung in the grapevines and
5. not* Dftentlmes they
would find their dogs tangled
in this mass of vines. So you
??o the name Hanging Dog
was so named by the Indians.
Incidentally, my father was
horn in 1858 in the Grape
Creek Section of Cherokee
County. So , some of the old
timers on Hanging Dog could
have lived in the Indian Age
end could have given a true
story about the name." ? ? ?
Clifton Kephart of Murphy
wrltea in that they hung an
Indian Dog and Just left him
hanging there, thus the name
J*"*1"? Dog.* ? ? A lady
from Route 3. Murphy, who
" 81 years old called and
tpid me that an Indian named
Hanging Dog built the first
cabin there on the creek, thus
the: name. * * * * Fred Davis,
of Murphy, called me and gave
me this accoutof how Hanging
Dog got Its name. It seems
that about 150 years ago two
Lovlngood brothers had a
"rp on Hanging Dog Creek.
They wnted a road built to
the forge and so they Invited
the Governor of the State on
?hutting party with them,
roe governor accepted and he
? Lovlngood brothers
?pd their dogs started off from
Murphy to the Lovlngood
forge. When the arrived at the
Creek. they had to cross a big
spruce pine which had fallen
?poss the creek. The men and
the dogs started across the
Pine. Now the tree had large
knots In It and the last dog
lost his footing, slipped and
his collar caught on one of the
toots and he hanged himself,
thus the name Hanging Dog
There it is ? How Hanging
Dog got its name. Last week
I hsd no Idea how or why It
was named, this week I have
more reason than I need.
Murphy
Calendar
THURSDAY, APRIL 5
8:45 a.m. - Andrews Junior
4-H Club meeting.
9:45 a.m. - Andrews Inter
mediate 4-H Club meeting.
10:40 a.m.' - Andrews Senior
i 4-H Club meeting.
1:00 p.m. - Cancer Clinic at
Murphy Health Department.
3:15 p.m. - Children's Choir
rehearsal at First Methodist
Church.
7:30 p.m. - AAUW to meet
with Mrs. Wiley Kinney.
FRIDAY, APRIL 6
9:00 a.m. - White Church 4-IJ
Club meeting.
10:30 a.m. - Unaka 4-H Club
meeting.
SUNDAY, APRIL 8
6:15 a.m. - Mass atProvldence
Chapel.
11:00 a.m. - Holy Mass at
St. Williams Catholic Chapel.
5:30 p.m. - MYF at First
Methodist Church.
MONDAY, jfrRIL 9
6:30 p.m. - Rotary Club
meeting atFamlly Restaurant.
7:00 p. n. - B It PW Club id
meet at the home of Mrs.
G. W. Cover In Andrews.
7:30 p.m. - TownCeundl mee
ting at Murphy Power Board
Building.
Bllzabeth Hale Circle of First
Baptist Church to meet at the
home of Mrs. Cecils Mills.
Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine officers and comm
ittee meeting at St. Williams
Cattollc Church.
TUESDAY, APRIL 10
6:30 pjn. - Lions Club to
meet in recreation hall of
First Methodist Church.
7:30 p.m. - Ruth Bagwell Cir
cle of First Btt>dst Church
to meet with Mrs. Boyee
Stiles.
8KJ0 p.m. - Alcoholic Anony
mous B meet at the Methodist
Fellowship Hall In Andrews,
N.C.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11
lOrtJO a.m. - Holy Commiaiion
at Episcopal Church of
Messiah.
7:20 pjn. - Midweek services
at Prasbyttrlan Church.
7i90 p.m. - Midweek services
at Free Methodist Church.
7:30 p.m. - Midweek services
at First Methodist Church.
8:30 pjn. , Choir rehearsal
at First Methodist Church.
THURSDAY. APRIL 19
12:30 a> 5:80 pjn. - BLOOO
MO01LE TO BE AT MURPHY
POWER BOARD BUILDING.
Not Guilty Verdicts
For Beavers, Stiles
Power Board To Award Cash
Bonuses For New Appliances
The Murphy Electric Power
Board announced today that it
will participate In the Ten
nessee -Valley-Wide Kitchen
Spectacular, a spring ap
pliance program designed id
encourage kitchen modern
ization.
This special program
features a cash bonus to be
paid to each consumer of the
'electric system who buys and
installs any of the featured
kitchen appliances during the
$200 Reward
Offered For
Information
Hayesville ? Sheriff Neal
R. Kitchens of Clay County
said today, "Our schools and
lunchrooms are of utmost im
portance to our children and
our County as a whole."
"I will pay a $200.00 reward
for Information leading to the
arrest and conviction of
person or persons who robbed
Ogden School Lunchroom in
Clay County last Friday night
March 30th. Information will
be held in strict confidence
and receiver of reward will
never be made public by me!"
campaign period. The
Spectacular begins on April
5 th and continues through June
2nd.
John H.Bayless, manager of
the electric system, pointed
out the cash bonuses K> be
awarded with the purchase of
these electric appliances:
Electric Range-$15; Electric
Water Heater - $25; Electric
Dishwasher - $10; Electric
Food Freezer - $10: Electric
Room Air Conditioner - $10.;
Cash bonuses apply to original
residential Installations only.
According to Bayless con
sumers who purchase one of
the listed appliances during
the program will be paid the.
cash bonus directly from the
Murphy Electric Power Board
To collect a bonus, the con
sumer need only take his bill
of sale to the electric system's
office.
Local appliance dealers and
national manufacturers and
distributors are cooperating
In this kitchen campaign.
"We've been needing a
program which will help our
consumers modernize their
kitchens, " Bayless said.
"Dealers have stocked a full
Inventory of electric appliance
values. And we expect many of
our consumers to collect cash
bonuses during this event."
Wagon Train To Follow New Route
By Way Of Robbinsville, Andrews
The Wagon Train Committee
of Telllco PlainsKiwanlsClub
announced Thursday, March
29 that their annual Wagon
Train celebration would ter
minate In Andrews, N. C. on
July 4th of this year with a
stop-over In Robbinsvllle, N.
C. on the night of Tuesday,
July 3.
This decision was reached
after an announcement by the
North Carolina Highway Com
mission that the Telllco-Mur
phy Wagon Train Road would
be built.
The Wagon Train will as
semble and parade In Telllco
Plains, Tenn. on the Afternoon
of Saturday, J une 30. Later In
the evening a program will be
presented In the TownSquare.
youth Revival
To Be Held
Beginning Saturday evening
with the 7:30 service and con
tinuing through the Sunday
evening service there will be
held a week-end youth revival
under the direction of Stanley
Storey and Andy Parker stu
dents of Young Harris College.
These Services are being
sponsored by the Youth of
First Methodist and the
Methodist Circuit Churches
Any Youth of the community
who will are Invited to attend.
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Thursday - Showers by night,
showers Friday ending Satur
day afternoon, partly cloudy
Staiday.
The wazons and horseback
riders will leave Telllco
Plains the morning of Sunday,
July I. and camp that night
on North River In the Chero
kee National Forest. The
night of Monday. J uly 2 will be
spent in the N an tahal a N ational
Forest near Santeetlah Lake.
rhe caravan wllL arrive In
Robbinsville, North Carolina
at approximately 3:00 Tues
day, July-3. On Wednesday,
July 4, the Wagon Train wUl
follow the "Trail of Tears"
through the mountains to An
drews and will arrive at ap
proximately 4:00 p.m.
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
rhe Editor:
I have something I would
like to call to the attention
Df the Scout Readers. This is
about keeping our com
munities and state clean and
tidy.
On Saturday afternoon,
March 31, some thoughdess
person drove up or down Fires
Creek Road in Clay County and
every two or three hundred
feet they threw out several
magazines. This sure did
make a mess by the time the
wind got into them and scat
tered them out even more.
Magazines are frequently
passed on to friends and re
latives and therefore we don't
know who did this although
there was a name on these
magazines. I hope the one
who did this will not do It
again in any community. I am
sure they wouldn't want their
community littered with trash.
Floyd B. Ledford
Route # 4
Hayesvllle, N. C.
The Editor:
As a native Cherokee
Countlan and a former school
teacher and principal in the
county, I should like to com
mend the school boards for
requesting and the county
commissioners for calling the
forthcoming election for the
Issuance of school bonds for
Cherokee County.
No person actually knows
what potentiality for great
ness may exist within the
child, nor can he know how
far the child's native ability
can be developed. One thing
is certain, however, that the
native ability and potentiality
can not be developed without
schools. It Is quite true that
a school may exist wherever
and whenever there is a
teacher and a student, but the
complexities of the modem
world demand people educated
beyond the rudimentary
"reading, 'riting, and 'rith
metlc."
The youth of Cherokee
County deserve facilities and
educational equipment as good
as that in use in any other
part of the country in order
that their development may not
be hindered, and thusly place
them at a disadvantage when
they must compete with people
from other areas.
Cherokee County has a fine
history of supporting its
schools. Now is the time to
continue this support and
pledge to the youth of the
county the right to study and
learn in the best possible
surroundings.
Jerry Hall
Assistant professor of
Education, Wake Forest
College, Winston-Salem, N. C
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HUtortan. Not pictured la Mra. Ban Warner. Ubrarlan.
Not guilty verdicts were
returned by the juries (or
llenn Beavers, charged
rtth second degree murder In
nnnecdon with the fatal shot
tun shooting of Dallas H.Car
inger at Beavers' home here
Ian. 11 and for Jimmy Stiles,
!2, charged with breaking, en
erlng, and larceny of the
Murphy HP Store Jan. 15.
The jury freed Stiles of
loute 2, shortly before noon
ruesday. The ex-convlct had
lenled any connection with the
*eak-ln at the A h P Sure
rom his arrest In Dalton.Ga.
Jy FBI agents on Jan. 25,
Beavers a Murphy plumber ad
mitted shooting Carringer fol
lowing a fight at his home on
Old Hospital Hill around 7:30
p.m Thursday, J an. 11., after
Carringer had forceably en
tered the house.
Beavers' wife, Reba,
Dorothy Carringer, andCalvtn
Stiles all present at the
Beavers' home at the time of
the shooting testified at the
trial.
Beavers entered a plea
of not guilty.
In other trials, dealing with
break-Ins In the Murphy area,
all defendants entered a plea
of guilty and were sentenced
by Judge Hugh Campbell.
Three Murphy boys con
victed in Superior Court
Monday of a series of thefts
from Cherokee County
business establishments dur
ing December and January,
were fined $1,000 each and put
on probation.
Breaking, entering and
larceny charges were con
solidated for judgment In the
cases of Billy Hedden, 17,
Jimmy Fain, 19, and Dennis
Stiles, 21. Three-to-five year
prison sentences were sus
pended by Judge Hugh Camp
bell.
Payment of the fines In each
boys case will be at the rate of
$5.00 per week. Judge Camp
bell old them, "Boys, if you
want id stay out of the
penltentary It Is up id you."
Emory Duckworth, 31, was
sentenced m two years for
breaking into Murphy Hard
ware Store on Dec. 1.
Remaining on the criminal
docket for Cherokee County
Superior Court Is the case of
Forrest Denton Curds, of
Andrews, charged with Incest
of his fourteenyearolddaugh
ter. The daughter Is expecting
a child in J une.
The April term of Superior
Court opened Monday, April
2, with Glenn Brown of
Waynesvllle as solicitor.
iastern Star
Officers
Were Installed
Amidst a profusion 01 early
spring flowers, prevaded by a
wreath of that spring soon to
ame, officers of Murphy
Chapter No, 10 Order of the
Eastern Star were duly In
stalled In open rites held on
Thursday evening, March 29.
Mrs. Gladys Lemons, worthy
matron, and Mr. Sam L.
Davidson worthy patron, pre
sided during ? the Informal
opening, welcomed members
and visitors and introduced the
distinguished personality pre
sent, Mrs. Fannie Davis,
D. D. GM.
Mrs. Clarabell Bryson, past
Matron of Marble Springs
Chapter, No. 320 was intro
duced as installing officer,
and she in turn presented her
assistants, Mrs. Jane Rich
ards, Installing Marshal. Mrs.
Polly Hawkins, Installing
Chaplain and Mrs. Annie Lee
Foard, Installing Organist.
The following officers were
duly installed: Mrs. Ruth En
glish, worthy matron; Sam
L. Davidson, worthy patron;
Mrs. Joe Taylor, associate
matron; Glenn Morris, as
sociate patron; Mrs. Margaret
Ann Phillips, secretary; Miss
Hettle Palmer, treasurer;
Mrs. Opa Howell, con
ductress, and Mrs. Vlvauduo
Farmer, associate conduct
ress; Mrs. Helen Moody,
Chaplain, Mrs. Louise Dehart
Marshal, Mrs. Annie Lee
Foard, organist; Mrs. Sylvia
Waggoner, Adah; Mrs. Gwln
Gillespie, Ruth; Mrs. Juanlta
Hall. Esther; Mrs. Wills Dean
Howell, Martha and Mrs. Dora
Kaye, Electa; Mrs. Bertha Ro
berts, warder sndMrs.Bliza
beth Shields, Sentinel.
On assuming her station in
the East, Mrs. English ac
cepted her responsibilities
with appreciation and grati
tude and graciously thanked
her installing officers.
Installing officers were re
membered with gift mentos
during the social hour follow
ng the rites. Coffee, cake.
served from a beautifully 9
pointsd refreshment t
BIGGEST CATCH TO DATE - This large string of smallmouth and large mouth bass was
aught at Late Chatuge Wednesday, March 28. Shown left to right are Wilson Radford, Frank
Hood" Plemmons and Bill Pendley. The string of nine fish weighed from 5 pounds to
' poinds and 5 ounces making a total catch of 44 pounds and 14 ounces. (Scout Phon)
Area Telephone Subscribers
Asked To Help Hire Lawyer
inny Kiasty
To Give
)rgon Recital
Jimmy Kimsey will present
ds Senior Organ Recital Fri
lay evening, April 6, at the
?irst Methodist Church in
vlurphy.
A student of piano for ten
/ears, he has also studied
>rgan two years with Rev. R.
T. Houts. In addition to these
itudles he has also studied
tympanl, French Horn, and
conducting. For three years
tie has been organist at the
First Baptist Church, and was
in 1961. In march of 1959
he received a Superior rating
at the district piano festival
in Cullowhee.
During the summer of 1961
he studied music on two col
lege campuses: piano under
Dr. Robert Carter at East
Carolina College: conducting
under Mr. Donald Adcock, dir
ector of the State Symphonic
Band, and tympani under Mr.
James C. Blanton at Western
Carolina College.
For four years he has been
accompanist for the Murphy
High School Chorus (Mr. Ed
ward Reynolds, director).
During the present concert
season he is tympanlst with
the Ashevtlle Symphony
Orchestra.
The recital will begin at 8:00
p.m. Friday evening. Admis
sion is free, and the public
is cordially invited to attend.
Several towns throughout
Western North Carolina, ser
ved by the Western Carolina
Teltphone Company, plan to
have an attorney to represent
them at the proposed telephone
rate increase hearing
scheduled to be held in
Ashevllle, April 24.
All the towns concerned are
faced with a proposed tele
phone rate Increase as sub
mitted by the Western
Carolina Telephone Co. and its
subelderary WESCO.
The Murphy Chamber of
Commerce has been asked to
participate in the costof hiring
the attorney. Letters to
Western Carolina Telephone
subscribers in this area will
be mailed today (Thursday)
asking for individual as
sistance in hiring the attorney.
The letter as mailed to the
telephone subscribers in and
around Murphy Is as follows:
"The Western Carolina
Telephone Company has made
application to the North Caro
lina Utilities Commission for
an increase in certain rates
and charges affecting every
telephone user In its system.
Should this rate increase be
approved, you will be charged
considerably more for your
telephone services.
"The Directors of Murphy
Chamber of Commerce do not
feel that the proposed rate In
crease is justified and if af
fected permanently a great
economic hardship would be
placed on every telephone user
in this area.
"To effectively oppose the
telephone users rate hike it
will be necessary to hire an
Attorney who specializes in
Utility rates and charges and
who is well qualified in these
matters to represent the
people before the Utilities
Commission.
YDC To Moot
The Cherokee County "toung
Democrat Club will meet
Thursday night, April 5 at the
Courthouse in Murphy at 7:30
p.m. Mrs. Bobbie Stalcup,
secreatry, has announced.
"Will you Individually con
tribute $1.00 or more id help
pay this expert who will re
present you?
"We are enclosing self
addressed envelope. Please
attend to this today." The
letter Is signed by W. D.
Town son, president of the
Murphy Chamber of Com
merce.
Seniors Make
Final Plans
ForD.C. Trip
Andrews -- Excitement Is
mounting high this week among
38 Andrews High School
Seniors as they make their
final plans to leave for the
annual trip to Washington,
D. C. on Monday morning at
4 a.m.
En route to Washington they
will visit Jefferson's home at
Monti cello, Va. arriving In
Washington Monday night.
Other visits In the Capitol
Include,Washington Monument
Arlington National Cemetery
and the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier, Lee's Mansion, Jef
ferson and Lincoln Mem
orials, White House and
Capitol Building, Smithsonian
Institute, Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, National Art
Gallery, National Archives
Bldg., Museum of Natural His
tory, Washington Catherdal,
Supreme Court Bldg? Con
gressional Library andGlenn
Echo Amusement Park.
Headquarters for the
Seniors will be Charter House
Motor Hotelln Alexandria, Va.
On Tuesday, the seniors re
ceived from Senator Jordan
a picture of President Kennedy
plus an Invitation to visit his
office. Invitations from
Senator Erwln and Congress
man Taylor have also been
extended to them.
Miss Jean Christy and J ack
Russell, senior sponsors will
accompany them. They will
return to Andrews Friday
night at 10:00 pjn.
I APRIL
1962
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How does
your insurance
coverage
measure up?
INSURANCE
DEPARTMENT
CITIZENS BANK
I TRUST CO.
Andrews - Hayesvllls
?a&for para Jr
Charyt Lyn Sin, dafhar of
Dr. and Mr*. Caorn Sin.
Lynn Love
To Attend
Lenoir Rhyne
Lynn Lee Love, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lester Lee Love of
Andrews has been accepted
as a ministerial student at
Lenoir Rhyne College at
Hickory, N. C,
He has been awarded^Grant
in fund from Lutheran Synod
and a work scholarship.
He Is a senior at Andrews
High School.