Volume 74 ? Number 20 MwrpHy, Nertfc Carolina, TKuri^, Dtcwibtr, 12, 1963 and Clay Cqunty Progress 10 p?f?? This W..k *?hll?h?d Weakly AT UUR^HV NORTH CAROUMA Editor's Note-Hook Plus in underway tor te Scout** two-color Christmas ?ditto 11 which ?U1 be out Mon day, Doc. 29. Any businessman who has not yet been contacted and vans to place a greeting In IMS holiday edition can call Mw Scout and a represented** will ba there promo. 1R Mrs. Faye Chambers. Alien Mary Ann. Buck, Gary, Mrs. Joyce Wright, Sue Seabolt and Linda Faye Nation wie on TV from Chattanooga Saturday when they visitod iha Live wresdlng program. TR The Murphy Carnegie Lib rary will be doeed after Friday so that the staff can get pecked if> to move beck Into the rebulltllbrary building. The opening dais will be annotmced ls?r. TR The Dime Board will^Hout In Andrews for the weekend, operated by 1 clubs, raise money for ^ maa baskets. TR The Christmas Dance Party for all age froths will be held at the Folk School next Thurs day night, Dec. 19, at 8:00 p.m. TR All sex deer hunts open for four days In the refuges Mon day. TR Snow and more enow la fore cast for (hs weekend, so break out the shovels and chaina, just in case. TR John Gemert and Eddie Adams of Andrews, who were named to the WNC All -Scholas tic Football Team, attended a banquet In Ashsville Monday night, along wi* their coach. Hugh Hamilton. The ^raad was sponsored by the Land Of The Sky Touchdown Club. TR The Ancfcews-Hlwassee Dam basketball gams was moved up ?o tonight (thursdey)so Gernert and Butch Sursavags, another Wildcat, can a Mod a banquet at UNC at Chapel Hill Friday for prospective Tar Heel gridders. The University la lntsrestsd In both boys, along widi Clem son. Wake Forestand other schools. TR Christmas 'moonshinlng' is booming, but the lsw Isn't co opersdng. Sheriff Neal Kit chens of Clay and Deputy Kellls Radford of Cherokee both cap tured big stills this week. TR Some UNC Alumni and foot ball fans are planning to make the relatively short hop is Jacksonville Dec. 28 to see the Tar Heels meet the Air Force Academy In the Gstor Bowl. TR Stock car race fans will be pleased to learn that Chariot* Motor Speedway officials have appropriated $50,000 to remove that young moist tain from the infield. TR Ray's Pharmacy and Clay Mlllb^ Co. o I Hayesville are co-sponsoring a one-year sub scription to NATIONAL 4-H NEWS for all community 4-H leaders in Clay County. MORE THAN 300 VISITORS and PTA members packed the new Murphy High School lunch room during the Open House Monday night. MHS Band performed during the program. Over 300 Visitors On Hand For Murphy High Open House MURPHY - Mora than 300 people jammed Murphy High School Monday night n> attend the Open House sponsored by the PTA and the school faculty. Many visitors enjoyed their first tour of the overall faci lities of the new school, and everyone got a first-hand look at the new High School Lunch Order Doesn't Make Sense An order went out this week to til offices of the North Carolina Employment Securities Commission cutting back 25 per cent on employees in all offices. No doubt, budget problems brought on the cut-back, but for a small office such as Murphy, this reduction of employees Is almost disastrous. Before the order, there were four employees in the Employment office here. The cut-back will reduce this number co three. The local office has been handling all testing and placement services for new Industry In the area, with the small four man staff. Office manager John Ellis said this week, "This cut back will mean that we simply won's have the staff to continue this aid id new Industry. We will now have R> spend all our time processing unemployment claims." It seems ? us that the most important work a Employment office can do is to find jobs for unemployed persons. In a depressed county such as this, where the Federal government Is ready to spend millions through the ARA to solve unemployment. It simply doesn't made sense to cut out perhape the most vital work now being done to find more employment. And as we understand the problem, the cut- back in the Employment office staff was brought on by a lack of funds In the federal appropriation. The state pays about half, and depends on the Federal appropriation for the rest. This cut-beck order needs to be changed now, at least for counties like this one. To leave the Employment office with only enough help to process unemployment claims and bo time B help unemployed persons find work can only lead ?> more unemployment claims. And this Just doesn't make sense. We're not sure yet as to how people in this county could go about gelling this order changed, but letters to every government official from President Johnson down might just turn the trick. room. Home Economics De partment and two new class rooms. PTA President Don Ram sey spoke briefly 8> the group. The program for the night also served as the monthly meeting of the PTA. Superintendent Holland Mc Swain welcomed the visitors to the school. The Murphy High School Band performed during the program, and the big crowd moved into the new lunchroom for refreshments. The lunchroom facilities are all of the most modem design and for the first time, provide an adequate lunch - room facility for the high school. Many visitors in the group were parents of students, and everyone expressed their pride in all the new school additions. The Home Economics de partment features all new kit chen and workroom areas and equipment, with students now ahle to get plenty of firsthand practice in the art of home making. The new classrooms, like the others, feature good light ing and all necessary facili ties. School and PTA officials called the night a complete success. SANTA HOOKED A RIDE on the running board of one of the old car entires in the Andrews Christmas Parade last Friday, and he filled the air with candy for the little ones. Two Andrews Gridders Nonad lo First Unit WNC AII-S(bolostU Team ANDREWS - Two Wildcat senior football tar* mri named to the 15 member first unit ?!*? WNC An ? |dr Uattc iMbin s?ia3fa> IMA Mntari of the all-star team were revealed Sunday In the AshevUle Otlsen - Times. John Gernert, an end, and Eddie A duns, a tackle, war* the two Wildcats on the team. Every member of dM All Scholastic first unit Is a senior. Aufcews end Butch Sur ssvage and quarterback Jimmy Watklns were placed on the second unit, and Murpky tackle Bill Graves and And rews halfback Mike Sheldy mads the third unit. Msnbers of 4w All - Scte* lastic team were salscssd en than SO coaches in Western North Carolina and numerous I sine officials and scouts. Both tbs first tartt select ion from Andrews, Gernert. and Adsmi .performed eiyially well en both offense and 4s Gernert. who weighs la at US and stands ever six fast* was a fine receiver aa well specialist. At dafeaaivs snd position ha was a tiger. . Adams, who weighs in at 810 was the biggest man on this year's Wildcat squad fad proved to be one of the (DOM bruising ta ciders in the conference. Sur savage, who was named to the second unit this year, placed on the first team last year. Also listed on the honor ible mention list were And rews guards Ronnie Hcmbree tnd Larry Allen. (The Citlsen is ting showed Hembree as a ackle and confused Larry Al ?n with his brother, Steve, a lophomore who was a fine i layer In his own right. A ?11 to Citlsen sports editor Sob Terrell verified this.) ^ WEATHER Dote High Low Pr*c 49 89 U J W 10 ?7 86 43 aa 10 48 16 0 Forecast! Thursday, snow flurries) Frldsy, rain, sleet and stwwi Saturday, overcast with snow: Sunday, overcast wHh occasional snow flur ries. . . John Gernert Eddie Adams I Decoration Contest Prise* will b? given by the business nm of Hayes vllle to the homes in CUy county that have the best outside Christ inas decorations. J. H. Brendle 01 Brasstowii Dies At 95 BRAMTOWN - John Bun dle, who oncc operated all very stable tn this section o I Clay County, died Utt Thursday afternoon, Dec. 5, In aBrysoa City rest home at the age of 95 years. Known as "Uncle John" by most people, he lived In a neat little white house on tap of ? hill in Brasstown until he be came ill several weeks ago. Although blind, he continued to shave himself and kept his appearance "sharp as a pin." Mr. Br oidle graduated from Hicks Academy In HayesviUe and taught school fqr eight years, but most of his active life was spent as a traveling salesman and merchant. He operated a farm and a livery stable for two years, and in an Interview with a news \ correspondent last May, re called that the livery stable was one of his favorite occu pations. Known as a man who "had done a lotr em ember edit all and was alwavs glad to share experiences,' he recalled that he and his wife, who died three years ago, spent most of their married lives in the Brass town section of Clay County. "But we decided to try our luck in Florida back in the20's so we pulled up stakes, went down there and opened up a meat market. I liked Florida all right 'till the big hurri dane o I 1926," he recalled be fore his death. He recalled that he was liv ing in Miami at the time, and "I watched horses being swept through the air in blinding sheets of rain. It just about cleaned us out." Mr. Brendle salvaged some $400 in cash and merchandise from the wreckage of his store and returned to the mountains. He opened a store, bovght tan bark and made good In the business. He was a son of Che late W. M. and Sarah Keener Bren dle. Surviving are one daugh ter, Mrs. Fannie Kate Bell of Brasstown; three sons, Fred of Brasstown, Boyd of | Sylva, and J. H. of Raleigh; j two sisters, Mrs, Floyd Moreau of Oklahoma ^ndMrs. Hattie Ploct of Idaho; ooe bro ther, Will of Brasstown; four grandchildren and si* great grandchildren. Until recently, Mr. and Mrs. Vance Lakey lived with Mr. , Brendle in his little house on I top of a hill here, yfith the exception of a three-yew siege of typhoid, he had en joyed good health until his ill ness several weeks ago. Billy Clayton, one of his neighbors, was one of his best friends. Although in his 80* s Clayton often went In and read to his blind neighbor. Services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of Towns on Funeral Home in Murphy. The Rev. Clark Benson of ficiated and burial was in Hickory Stand Cemetvy. Tovnson Funeral Home was in charge. Parade Brings In Christmas Season ANDREWS - Hundreds of persona turned out Friday afternoon for the town's Christmas parade. As die 28 unit procession began its merry trek through main street at 4 p.m. it was led by Police Chief Milton Mashburn, followed by flag bearers, Janet Burnette and Terry Thompson. Sanu arrived on the scene wastry candy to outstretched hands and calling out tradi tional greetings. The rotund old fellow was met with ex citement from the young and gladdened the heart a f many during the afternoon. Sharing the spotlight with St. Nick were 17 floats in cluding many impreaslve sights. In the parade of beauty queens were AHS Christmas Queen, Miss Peggy Trull, Football Queen, Miss Barby Watry, and Annual Quean, Miss Meredith Hardin. Carrying the strains of "Joy To TheWorldT* and other holiday tunes, the Andrews School Bind preceded the J un lor Girl Scouts, Bey Scouts and Cubs. Four gaily-decorated wag ons, headed by Ed Lambert with Clauds Ansel. Buck Fish Wn fi t.i??? fnHrva Hna nar m ? Koy w C3i loiiowinjj, were joined by Joby Cathay Ln buggy and nine horseback riders. The hast of onlookers de scribed the parade aa "one of the best parades we've ever had". Cloy Women'; Democrat Club Meets ToalgM HAYESVUXE - Mrs. Neal jarrett, president of Clay County Woman's Democratic Club Ms announced plans for die grotf to meet, Thursday night, Dec. 13, at TiSO p.n?. (tonight) in the Hayes vllle School library. Dec. 21 Last Day To Enter Clay Decoration Contest Don't forget to came ? die Clay County Agricultural Oft flee and sign i^fer die Christ <4 mas Heme Decorations con test. Sign up by Oocenter SI for die jixlgta ? be dons on Dec ember 83. Help soread the Christmas spirit nirowtoul clay County qryeeo pvtict-i pattern in dw project. .Jam -- - . ? - - W | CHARLES CUNNINGHAM OF THE WNC Regional Planning Commission, who is assigned as i Murphy's Community Planner, (standing) pointed out future preliminary plans far highway relocation during a meeting Monday night of the local Planning Board. Members of the Board included Alden Coward and Fred O. Christopher, both seated with back to camera; seated facing camera (L-R) Larry Black of McKeever and Edwards, town attorneys; Mrs. S. C. Bur gess, Chairman Joe Ray, and Mrs. Edward Reynolds. Co-Ordinated Action Begun By Town Planning Groups MURPHY - Comprehensive j and co ordinated action by groups and committees work ing with planning (or Murphy* a future took a giant step for ward here Monday night as meetings were In session bringing Information together and tying components of the program together, i At more work gets under way. all confmipecs wllf be [ adding mora nqw# releases to their decisions and ideas to famlliarite citizens with the overall program. Meetings were held Monday of the Citizens Advisory Com mittee. which was also attend ed by members of the Tech nical Codes Review Commit tee, followed by meetings of the town Planning Board and the Town Board. A more comprehensive re port from the Citizens Ad visory Committee and the Planning Board will be pre sented to the Town Board on Jan. 13. Members of the Advisory Committee are Bunch Nugent, Federal Grant Approved For Training Course In Cherokee, Clay, Graham WASHINGTON - A federal gr,nt of 112,383.00 has fawn approved by (be Vocational Basketball loop Action U?d?rwo? Basketball action last Fri day night MV Murphy's girls supping Swain High 40-30 (hare, while die Murphy lads dropped their game to the Maroona, 73-S1. Andrews boy* (raveled to CiUlowhtt Hd woo