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Volume 73 - Numb.r 8
Murphy, North Corollno, Thursday, Saptanibor 20, IM2
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? ECOND CLASS POSTASE PAID
*T MURPHY, MONTH CAROLINA
Misuari lira
Ta Hill Fir.
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Coitrol School
Ob Friday night, Sept. 21,
at 7MJ0 pjn. than will ha a
fire training school and pub
lic On demonstration at Smo
ky Mountain Gas, Inc.,
Murphy, North Carolina, in the
Interest at public safety and
fin control education. Smoky
Moiaitaia Gas, lnc? has em
ployed the services of The
George Hay Corrgtsny at
SprUgfleld, Mo., B conduct
this school for the control
and extinguishing of butane and
propans gas fires. The Mur
phy Fire Department will
particlpea aid will demonst
rate the application of water
fog b liquid gas fires.
The George Hay Company
la at organization of firs and
sMety engineers specializing
in fire prevention aid the
training of personnel B know
their Ore extinguishers aid
know how B use them. They
are members of the National
Fire Protection Association.
American Society at Safety
Engineers and ths UnitsdFlrw
Equipment Service Associa
tion.
? C. L. Alverson, manager
of Smoky Moibtain Gas, Inc.,
has arranged for a mobile ser
vice unit from The George
Hey Company B fas present
Friday, Sept. 21. Any firm or
person needing Ore equipment
serviced, repaired or'
? * - of |
firs equipment, may
for this by
Smoky Motaualn Gas. Inc
office, VB 7-2111.
The public la cordially la
school a
Tiled b
observe these Urea balng con
trolled with hand fire extlng
tMahers atl high pressure fog.
Merchants
Plan Fall
Sales Push
The Murphy Merchants As
sociation is planning a fall
sales promotion that will be
aantercd arotad the giving
away of $1,500.00 in Murphy
Trade Dollars.
Richard Howell, president
at tte group, announced Wed
nesday that Murphy merchants
would start giving away Red
M tickets sometime this week.
Residents of the Murphy
trading area will remember
that Red M Tickets have been
given by Murphy merchants
on several occasions during
the past two years.
This year It Is planted B
give away ten $100, trade
money awards and one grand
award of $500, In Murphy
trade money. Drawings will be
held on two different dales.
Mors details are set B
be released next week.
Golf Course
To Organize;
Reaches Goal
The proposed Murphy Golf
Club reached in goal of 75
members during (his past
week. Plane are id bold an
organizational meeting Tues
day, Sept. 25, at fcOO pjn. at
the Murphy Blectrlc Power
Board Building.
The 75 persona who have
pledged their aupport id the
recreational project will meet
and start ID set up lbs Toma
hawk Development Corp.,
which will be the company that
will actually build and operate
tha golf courea.
Every member in the ori
ginal 75 will have a share of
stock In the corporation and
a vole In electing the board
of directors of the corpora
tion. Nothing can be done on
the project officially until this
Is <
Latter To
The Editor
la Murphy for
half a century, I
would llhe to acknowledge the
appredalloo id the people of
Murphy, Cherokee and Clay
~ "lU surrounding
that they have had In
I
as I
had a part In helping build
Mtnpfcy aed Onandagltwhon
It was in eeed.
The Lord bee abwdamty
Messed me and ray family la
My "
DEVIL ARROW Paratroopers
Fill The Sky At Andrews
Special forces a Detachment
made parachute jumps at An
drews and Franklin, N. C.
Saturday, Sept. 15, to join
guerrilla forces already in the
Nantahala National Forest for
exercise DBVIL ARROW, the
U. S. Continental Army Com
mand's realistic exercise in
rugged guerrilla - counter -
guerrilla warfare.
One detachment jumped at
11 a.m. near the airfield at
Andrews. Brigadier General
William P. Yar bo rough. Ex
ercise Director and Com
manding Gneral of the U. S.
Army Special Warfare Center
viewed the Andrews junp. An
other drop was made there at
11:30.
The loda school area near
Franklin was the scene of
another jump at 11 sjn. Col
onel William Evans - Smith,
Deputy Director of the Bxer
Bristish
General
Visits Area
ANDREWS - The Director
General of Military Training
of the British Army law mem
bers of his 22nd Special Air
Service at work In the rugged
mountains of Nantahala
National Fittest.
Lieutenant General Sir
Charles L. Richardson and
party arrived Tuesday, Sept.
18, by plane to visit the man
euver area of Operation DEVIL
ARROW Britain's SAS troops
are the first British combat
istlt to touch American soil
since 1812.
Elements of the BrltlshSpe
dal Air Service are working
along with UJ5? well-trained
Special Forces troopers in the
guerrilla, counter guerrilla
maneuver . Operation DEVIL
ARROW, the first large scale
exercise of this type ever
held.
the 22nd SAS have trained
vigorously in guerrilla opera
tions throughout the world.
In 1950, for what proved to
be a successful eight-year
campaign against commiadst
terrorists In Malays, they
spent tv to three months at
a time deep In the Malayan
Jiatglea se arching out the ter
rorists. Mora than 100 ter
rorists were killed and many
others surrendered,
la 1959 , with the defeat
of the communist guerrillas
In Malaya As 22nd SAS Re
giment returned id England,
stepping off In Arabia on route.
In a secret campaign, no de
tails of which were published
tattU after It ended, 600 well
armed Oman! rebels stdfered
60 killed at the hands of an
SAS grotgi In a series of pat
rol raids by little more than
one with of their number.
Brigadier General WJ>.
Y arbourough. Commanding
eneraL u?. Army Special
Warfare Center, Ft. Bragg, N.
C. mat Lt. General Richard
son at Andrews airfield and
and esconrt the British Chief
of Training to a DEVIL
ARROW briefing, before leav
ing to see SAS i
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16 83 64 0^8
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Fair.
dse and Commander of the 7th
Special Forces Group (Air
borne), parachuted In with a
detachment of his highly train
ed troops.
Under normal tactical con
ditions, Jumps of this sort
would be made at night to
prevent dectlon by the enemy.
The Special Forces troopers
forewent this precaution
Saturday ? give the local pop
ulation a chance to see them
in action.
Men from the Special War
fare Center's 5th and 7th
Special Air Service Regiment
have been In the Nantahala
Forest since September 8,
familiarizing themselves with
the mountainous maneuver
area, setting up camps and
hide-outs and preparing for
the exercise. These men form
the fuerrllla, or "Red/fbrces
In the exercise.
The Special Forces A De
tachments thatjumpSanirday
will link ig> with these men and
organize them for the actual
war game portion of the exer
cise that begins Tuesday.
The 12-man A Detachment,
the Special Forces'operations
unit, normally tactions In a
hot war situation by training
resistance forces, often be
hind enemy lines. After leach
ing them the skills necessary
K> wage effective uncon
ventional warfare, the Special
Forces help them to organize
and plan their missions.
The detachments that jump
Satucday will be organlkng
men with years of training In
the arts of uncontendonal war
fare.
On Monday, the counter -
guerrilla, or "Blue," forces
began D track down the small
skilled bands of guerrillas
hiding out in the mountains.
At the same time , the guer
rillas will retaliate with sur
prise attacks, constantly
harassing the counterguerrllla
force by ambushing Its supply
conwys and patrols.
As is usual In coiaiterguer
rllla operations, where the
guerrillas have the advantage
of the cover of the rugged
terrain, the "Blue " force
will outnumber the "Red"
guerrillas ten to one.
The "Blue" force is com
posed of the 2nd Airborne
Battle Group, 504th Infantry,
82nd Airborne Division, Ft.
Bragg, N. C.
Exercise DEVIL ARROW
will last through September 29
with the opposing forces en
gaged in night raids and am
bushes in s furtive war of
hit-and-run tactics.
C^aftnJar
Thursday, September 20
8:00 p.m. Woman's Club to
meet Murphy Power Board
Building.
Flrday, September 21
8:00 p.m. Murphy Bulldogs
-vs- Franklin, Panthers at
Murphy High School
Sunday, September 23
6:15 aum. Mass at Providence
Hospital Chapel
11:00 a.m. Holy Mass at St.
Williams Catholic Church
5:30 p.m.MYFatFlrstMetho
dist Church.
Monday, September 23
6:30 pjn. Rotary Club id Meet
At Family Restaurant
7:30 p.m. PTA to meet in
Music Room of Elementary
School.
WATCH FOR
SPECIAL FAIR
EDITION
NEXT WEEK
Cherokee and Clay Counties
are Included In the plana of the
U. S. Forest Service for ex
pansion of recreation facUl
ilea In Western North
Carolina , according id
Congressman Roy A. Taylor.
Rap. Taylor released a re
General Explains War Games
To 150 Andrews Residents
ANDREWS - Brig. General
William P. Yarborough Jr.,
Commanding general of the
U?. Army Special Warfare
Center at Fort Bragg met with
approximately ISO residents
of Andrews at the invitation
of Mayor Percy B. Fere bee,
who presided at the meeting
held on Tuesday night at the
First Bqttlst Church.
"We have assembled In the
mountains of Southwestern N.
C? some of the best experts
on unconventional warfare in
the American and Brltlah
armies, and they are giving
one of our alrbourn taiits the
Trail Craw
Expresses
Appraciatlaa
The conductor on the LAN's
historic old steam locomotive.
"The General", wrote W. D.
Townson, president of the
Murphy Chamber of Com
merce this past week express
ing the train crew's
appreciation for the reception
the crew received during the
General's visit here.
D. L. Lawrence wrote: I
would like at this time, as
Conductor on the "General",
to thank you on behalf of my
self and the entire crew for
the wonderful hospitality you
gave us during our stay In
Murphy".
"All of us were certainly
amazed at the fact that you
good people Included our train
crew In the reception at the
good Senator Frank Forsyth's <
home and the wonderful sigtper
on the lake. No other place
on our entire trip was the
train crew given any recog
nition. This to us was the
highlight of our trip which look
us four days tocompleta.Thls
shows to all that the people
of Murphy and all Cherokee
County are all that I have
ever said they were - "The
finest people In the world."
"To you Mr. Townson, your
local radio station, and to all
the people connected with the
arrangements, I say again on
behalf of our train crew who
were Mr.LjS.Long.Bnglneer,
Mr. RJL. White, Fireman, Mr.
JX>. Arms, Flagman, and my
self who was Conductor, we
will always remember your
wonderful hospitality and the
many courtesies you extended
? us while In Mutphy."
finest workout It has ever had
in a military training
exercise" he told the groig>,
describing the program of tra
ining conducted by the Special
Warfare Center and the ob
jectives and general plan of
the 20-day Devil Arrow tnder
way here. He discussed the
difficult problems faced by
America and other nations
trying to cope with unconven
tional military measures,
skillful propagand and other
psychological warfare technl
ques in various parts of the
world. "We teach not only
bow free nations can overcome
tnconventlonal warfare met
hods but also how they can
promote civic action *> re
move the breeding grounds of
communism end subversion,"
he said.
Mayor Fere bee welcomed
the maneuvering forces on
of the *>wn and com
mented the participants for
their conduct and high atand
arte of training and behavior.
"We will be glad ? have you
come back", he told them.
Republicans
To Hear
Robert Brown
Chervhwt Crmty ..
llcans will gather at Asi Mur
phy Elementary School
Lunchroom Saturday, Sept.
22. ? hear GOP congraaaion
gl csndldetB Robert Brown of
Aahavllla.
Tha supper meeting U
scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
In other meetings through
out ths cointy. Murphy north
nd south ward Republicans
mat at the courthouse Monday,
Sept. 17. On Tuesday, ameet
lng waa held at Martin's Cr
eek School for the Burnt
Mooting House and Brssstown
wards. Wednesday night, co
unty Republicans gather at the
voting piece et Grtpt Creek.
On Thursday, Sept. 20, a
meeting la planned for the
Marble end To mods wards at
the Marble School, while a
similar meeting will be held
in Andrews Monday. Sept. 24.
at the Andrews School for the
two Andrews wards plus Top
ton. ? _
All meetings are set to
start at 7:30 p.m.
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MWASSBB QAM SCHOOL FACULTY - tar to 1W4S acta
n pictured ?bow*. Plrot row, toft ? right. Coach Lyto Cot i logi
?o ad physical education: Mrs. Edith Brans, llrot grade; Mrs.
Vemor, second ?d third gradso; Mrs. Carolyn Harp, m
Stows, foreign lengsagas ad English; Mro. PoMtoo Basil, |
Mrs. Ruby Wilcox. first |
row. toft to rl
Mrs.
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Recreation Plans
In Cherokee, Clay
Outlined By Taylor
port prepared by Peter J.
Hanion, forest siqiervlsor for
N. C. National Forests, listing
long-range development plans
for the national forest areas In
the two counties. The report
stated that it is hoped that all
proposals would be realized
by 1970. Hanion noted that the
speed at which the projects
can be completed depends on
how fast appropriations can be
secured.
"How fast these projects
can be completed depends on
how rapidly we can secure the
appropriations," said Taylor,
who has fully endorsed the
Forest Service program.
He listed as follows the pro
posals contained In Hanlon's
report for Cherokee County:
Lake Cherokee, located
west of Murphy on N. C. 294,
is scheduled for recon
struction to bring the present
area tq> to present day stand
ards.
Students
To Hear
Lecture
A demonstration lecture
program, titled "This Atomic
World," will be presented In
an assembly program at two
area high schools In Sept.
The program will be given
at Murphy High School Wed.,
Sept 26. and at Hayesvllle
High School. Thursday, Sept.
27. The program, sponsored
by the United States Atomic
Energy Commission, Is pre
sented by the Oak Ridge In
stitute of Nuclear Studies, Oak
Ridge, Tetm.
The Institute Is a nonprofit;
educational corporation of 38
southern universities, oper
ating inder contract with the
Atomic Energy Commission.
The traveling exhibits units
which visit hundreds of high
schools through-out the United
States each year, are de
signed to provide the public
with a better understanding
of atomic energy.
Charles E. Eason. an
exhibits manager who has re
ceived special training In
nuclear science, will present
the program. Mr. Eason holds
a bachelor's degree from the
University of Term.
The demonstrations and
lectures are designed spec
ifically to acquaint high school
students with the basic princi
ples and uses of atomic energy
and to stimulate their Interest
In science.
Following the assembly
presentation of exhibits and
visual aids, Mr. Bason Is
available for classroom sess
ions with
HI was see Late Recreadon
Aret, located on Hlwassee
Late north wear of Murphy.
?Ill he developed for cann
ing with boat launching, dock
ing and swimming facilities
Included. Construction is
schueduled to begin this year
on this area.
The Hemlocks Scenic Vista,
located on the Joe Brown High
way east of Violet, la proposed
during this period.
Rose Creek will be develop
ed for swimming and boating.
This area la located on
Hlwassee Late southeast of
Violet
He listed as follows the pro
posals contained in Hanlon's
report for Clay County:
Recre?Hon Area
will be located on the east
?lde of Chatuge Reservoir
southeast of Hayesvllle. This
aree will be developed for
camping and picnicking with
boating and swimming
facilities Included. Chatuge
Recreation Area, when fully
developed, wlU be one of the
lsrgest recreation areas on
National Forest land in West
ern North Carolina.
Residents
Take Part In
Maneuvers
?EVIL ARROW MANEUVER
AREA (Andrews, N. CJ ?
Residents of a 900 - square
mile area aouth of F on tana
Late In southwestern North
Caroline have been made
active participants In the two
week DEVIL ARROW maneu
vers here as a result of the
application of modern psycho
logical warfare techniques by
the participating armed forces.
The Impact of the concen
trated propaganda barrage by
the guerrillas has beat so
great, a maneuver official dis
closed, that the local populace
which has been neutral or only
mildly pro-guerrilla when the
problem stated has become
actively pro-guerrilla. Local
residents ere reportedly
actively volunteering support
for the beret- wearing 'guer
rillas' of the American and
British special forces troops
in the form of food, shelter,
end the establishment of a sys
tem for warning of the
approach of the "Invading"
paratroopers from the 82nd
Airborne Division's 2nd Air
borne Battle Groin, 504th In
fantry.
The use of these modern
propaganda techniques ovwr
commercial radio stations and
In the streets of communities
not only gives realistic traim
ing *> the troops, but also nods
to Impress the American peo
ple In the area of the subtlety
and effectiveness of such
psychological warfare techni
ques now in use in many parts
of the world, according to
Brig. Gen Willi era P. Yar
boro ,^h Jr? co mmandtag gen
eral of Special Warfare Center
Ft Bragg, N.C? and maneuver
dUuctor.
Tactics employed by the
guerrilla psychological war
fare sped alia ts Include: Mly
radio braodcasts over local
radio stations In Franklin md
Murphy. N. C?- louttopeeter
campaigns for airport by
broadcasts in Communities
from audio - vehicles; (hops
propaganda leaflets from
helicopters and observation
planes ( the leaflets m bow
aotivanlre In homes throt "
area),
guerrillas
atqppert a local
tooi
were invlnd n win
presslwe air-drop
by dn
The war ganss -
yet stagedUvdvlaganhrijanr