7,000 Persons Receive
Polio Shots In County
Only 7,000 persons re
ceived polio shots In Chero
County during 1961, too
low s figure for s Comity,
.having between 17 end 18
teusand people.
So Miss Helen Gormley,
Cherokee County public
health nurse, told the Tri
County Ministers Tuesday at
their November meeting held
at Family Restaurant in Mur
phy. The pasters could help
st this point toy encouraging
people to take the shots, she
believed.
Miss Gormley gave these
figures in a program on pub
lic health activities present
ed to the ministerial groip
by herself and David Moody,
sanitarian with the Trl
County Health Department.
Other data presented by the
officers were however, more
encouraging, as that fact for
five years Cherokee County
not sustained a death in
childbirth, and that for more
than four years there has been
no case of a dog having rabies.
This was In marked con
trast s> conditions when he
came In 1948, Mr. Moody
brought out. During those days
be would send 40 to 50 dog's
heads to Raleigh a year, of
which a notable proportion
had rabies, and ordinarily 8
to 10 persons hdtt been bitten.
clinics have made the
dUference.
The talks was arranged by
s program committee of
ehich Clark Benson of Mur
*y Is chairman. Other mat
made mention of at the
ithly gathering Included a
Thanksgiving service to
held at Murphy, Andrews,
' Hayesvllle; and Bible
ts to be shown In the
communities at the
of Universal Bible Sun
Dec. 9. Donald Turner
Hayesvllle led the devotio
Otber phases of public
1th nursing of which Miss
ley told included pre
Wnrt In Wreck
Claude Kimbrell 22. of Rt.
Murphy, was Injured
when the car ho
driving left the road and
a tree, ahordy before
Wednesday. Nov. 7.
lags were broken.
The accident occurred on
Highway #294, towards Hl
?ssee Dam.
He la the son of Mr. David
n?fi cHnifgi trilnlng, tub
arculosls work, veneral dls
eiM chocking, aye clinics In
cooperation with the Lions'
Clubs, Immunization of child
hood diseases, cancer clinic,
and work with crippled child
Inspection of various food
handling business and other
public places was explained
by Mr. Moody, along with the
rural sanitation aids such as
proper care of moist tain
springs and sewage disposal,
and community sanitation sur
veys.
W. PRANK FORSYTH
Re-elected Senator
33rd District
HERMAN H. WEST
Re-elected Representative
Unofficial
Returns By
Precincts
ANDREWS NORTH
ANDREWS SOUTH
BRASS TOWN
BURNT MEETING HOUSE
CULBERSON
GRAPE CREEK
HANGING DOG
HOT HOUSE
LIBERTY
LONG RIDGE
MARBLE
MURPHY NORTH
MURPHY SOUTH
OGRETTA
PEACHTREE
SHOAL CREEK
TOMOTLA
TOP TON
UNAKA
WALKER SCHOOL HOUSE
Si
m S S ,9 r9 u o o o u u
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I 18 i ?
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12 ?* . If II || fl |g $? ;^ 5Z fjj S| |g ?? gJ sf If If 6|
fc ? ^ IIII If if j] II IS li if If 11 il I] fj xj <| oj j|
467
344
436
438
347
416
383
424
349
429
364
432
383
411
369
426
355
390
400
5%
315
511
523
261
496
344
497
332
526
319
509
316
496
329
492
338
453
363
149
83
131
145
74
131
86
130
86
122
93
126
88
124
94
109
102
114
100
139
121
122
124
115
127
115
121
116
114
125
119
120
112
127
118
121
101
133
120
123
72
73
134
74
135
71
136
70
141
65
141
68
141
67
141
68
136
59
89
52
56
92
52
97
51
94
52
97
53
93
41
108
46
103
45
95
72
230
40
53
236
48
244
43
246
46
246
51
240
31
262
44
247
40
239
148
259
115
121
128
123
229
119
229
123
231
120
229
116
234
112
236
103
254
107
140
67
70
131
71
132
66
132
67
138
65
133
68
134
66
137
68
135
9
63
7
15
58
15
59
7
68
8
68
9
63
5
70
8
67
43
33
326
243
273
292
236
267
268
267
273
280
245
280
268
268
256
254
254
270
254
575
490
473
530
475
464
533
467
524
429
573
458
542
414
577
427
580
386
604
547
338
437
497
349
431
424
498
425
430
452
440
409
326
469
370
474
317
521
43
31
45
45
29
49
25
45
28
43
31 >
46
27
44
29
43
30
45
28
374
210
258
206
300
261
297
249
293
273
303
245
309
255
271
228
144
226
108
124
209
124
216
101
232
128
214
no
227
102
235
114
221
no
218
107
no
88
no
89
110
80
no
78
121
82
119
75
125
52
130
65
132
126
109
109
121
98
117
92
109
103
116
108
110
109
100
114
92
122
59
175
143
95
45
159
56
164
124
86
57
156
125
96
47
162
133
87
47
159
139
95
46
162
135
86
40
154
145
95
44
161
140
89
147
104
62
116
I
TOTALS 4342 3762 3202 3793 3498 3607 3974 3^ 3952 3560 4073 3586 3973 3304 4168 2952 3765 1205 1X39 1401 1822 584 I254
tudent Is Killed
y Truck After
eoving School Bus
erry Ledford, IS, student
|Hiwassee Dam High School,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
1 Ladford of Route l.Cop
, was killed about 4 p.m.
ay, Novenber 1, when
struck down by a
RY SUB LBOPORO
tlaaU Man
Preach At
irphjr Church
I. C. Scott of Adwea.
mad dork of Km
track as she got off a school
bus la front of bar borne In
the Wolf Creek sectloo of
Cherokee County.
State Trooper S. M. Moraa
filed charges of involuntary
manslaughter and passing a
stopped school bus agalnstthe
truck driver, James Ralph
Tipton, 18, of Brasstowa. He
was released Thursday night
tader $1,000 bond.
A coroner's Jury Friday
recommended that Tipton be
held for Grand Jury action on
manslaughter and passing a
Stopped school bus. Tipton was
released under $5,000 bond.
Tipton testified that he
am. scouts
.HONOR THE PAST
SERVE THE FUTURE
lidian Dies
R0B8DCVILLB - Abraham
Teesataskle, 9$, died early
Monday la a Cherokee hospi
tal after a short Illness,
Surviving are three sisters.
Miss Mellnda Smoker, Miss
Jeeweat Smoker, mi Miss
Klna Smoker; sad three bro
thers, F rands, Tom. and
held at 2 p.m.
In Little Soowttrd
The Rev. Ire Jackson oI
~ ad btvlal was Is fta
ANYTHING
TO SELL?
Waal Ail flii biym.
rounded a curve doing about 40
miles an hour and the sun
blinded him as he approached
the bus. He stated he did not
aee the girl until be hither.
The school bus, driven by
Johnny Cook, 17, had stopped
to let two students off near
the Ledford home. The in
vestigation was conducted by
State Trooper D. M. Moran,
and Coroner J. C. Townson
officiated at the Inquest.
The truck was loaded with
6 to 8 tons of chicken feed. As
Tipton rotasded the curve, he
was approximately 400 feet
from the stopped bus, he
struck the girl, knocked her
48 feet, and stopped 200 feet
down the road. The bus has
15 or 20 more students on It,
and the rural mall carder,
Mr. Judy Kell, was on (he
left shoulder of the road.
Don Revls of theN.C.High
way Patrol said that the State
Highway Commission has been
contacted in the past, by the
N. C. Highway Patrol, to erect
signs pertaining ID stopping
for school busses In this vi
cinity, but have failed to erect
the signs.
Efforts lsst year to gat the
bus stop location changed to a
safer loading point met with
opposition.
A DEMONSTRATION by tta pvwi of tta Wolf Crssb socttoe ww Mid
am Starry ha Lsdferd vm kdted wtaaa
? struck
tars. Tta
I spssd It its t signs srscasd is das ana. Twssty psopls took psrt Ma tta ppctatlag os
It spa tspsrasd that ttars would ta ttacs ss mwy Tsssdsy, ad win is swtaN
es Is atau. Tta psrssts ssy ttay plaa ? stsy ss taur sssry asy Wring das bus raw.
I* sst tatas sssu tta grata win taid
PARENTS PICKET HIGHWAY out U. S. 64. IS miles west of Murphy above the curve on
Franklin Mountain where Sherry Sue Ledford was killed last Thursday, November 1, as she
debarked from her school bus. The sign carrying parents claimed they would be on duty every
day until something Is done about the location of the school bus stop and highway signs are
erected warning approaching motorists of the bus stop. These pictures were made Monday,
Nov. S, shortly after the school bus passed this point going west. Some of the captions on the
signs read "Trucks - Watch for School Bus," "Slow Down," "Please Don't Kill Our School
Children," and "Let Our Children Live." (Scout Photo.)
Traffic Daatls
Kilted To Date 1080
Kilted To Dm Last Yw 988
The Cherokee Scout
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AndClay Coun ty Progress
y.lw 73 - Hu?ht IS North Cwll.., TWodoy, Nov. ho, ?, 1H2 12 TKI. W..k PyMl.h.j W..hly / ? mumh'."!, Sf* V "ol in *
Republicans Win All
But One Post
In Cherokee County
W. T. Moore
Lone Victor
For Democrats
Cherokee County Republi
cans swept to an overwhelming
victory In Tuesday's General
Election, taking every county
office with the exception of
the Incumbent Democrat can
didate for county commlston
er In distrlctone.W.T.Moore
of Andrews, running for re
election, was the only Demo
crat to be elected to a county
office.
Democrat W. Frank For
syth of Murphy won re-elect
ion to the N. C. State Senate
from the 33rd District over
Rev. C. C. Welch, Republi
can from Franklin.
Congressman Roy A. Tay
lor won easily over Republi
can hopeful Robert Brown for
the 11th District's U.S.House
of Representatives.
In Cherokee County Incum
bent Republican Ed Graves
led his party's debet to vic
tory with 4,168 votes to the
Democrat Paul Sudderth's
3,304. All totals are unof
ficial until the Board of
Elecdons meets Thursday,
Nov. 8.
Republican Sheriff Claude
Anderson, seeking his third
term, was re-elected by 513
votes over Democrat hope
ful Donald Anderson.
Herman H. West, Republi
can member of the N.C. House
of Representatives during the
1961 session, won re-election
over Democrat Mrs. Mary
Faye Brumby.
In the three commissioner
districts. Republican gained
control as Dr. W. A. Hoover
of Murphy and Lester Cole,
Route 2, Culberson, were
elected. Hoover defeated J.
H. Duncan In district two,
while Cole won out over Rev.
W. D. Graham in district
three.
W. T. Moore, by the narrow
margin of 66 votes, defeated
Republican Carlyle Matheson
for county commissioner In
district one.
Edwin Hyde ousted Incum
bent Democrat Herman Ed
wards for Judge of record
er's court, while Don Ram
sey won over Incumbent
Democrat James C. Howse
for clerk of Superior Court.
J. C. Townson, seeking re
election, beat Dr. George F.
Size for coroner.
WEATHE
Date High Low Pore.
1 59 32 O.Q2
2 5g 28 0.00
3 57 37
4 54 25 0.01
5 47 31 0.10
6 56 17 0.02
Forcast - Wed. night scat
tered showers. Thursday,
showers ending. Friday
Saturday, fair. Sunday, chance
of showers.
NOVEMBER 1962
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