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and Clay County Progress Vsluni* 74 ? N umbar 2) , *??* Cw.ll.., Tkw.^, D^?.b.r 19. 1WJ 12 F?m Tkl. VmIi Put>li.K*d W^kl, ??cowo^cUA^.wTAe.J^ Sditor 's flote-Kook Merchants to fee area re port that Christmas a hoppers are swarming their stores in record numbers. Business In the local area will probably turpesi any previous year as tqore e?*? more people seem IftcHAed to tfop st home, a (o tfM local merchants' Even though Saturday Is of ficially (tM first day of winter, and *e shortest day In the year, temperatures during fee p?st week have dipped as low es five degrees for the lowest marks for the sesson thus (sr. TR Turkey growers in this are* might be In B res ted to know that Gov. Ssnford Is looking for Ike state's biggest fat asy fanciest cobbler, after WCiptfm ? challenge from Kentucky Governor Bert Combe B> enter a Tar Heel turkey in the National Turkey Show In Louisville, Ky., Jan uary 6-10. TR The eighth grade class at Nsyeevtlle Is sponsoring a wrestling card Saturday night at S:1S p.m. at the Hayesvllle High School Gym. TR TVA'f 163 report shows that ttw average use of electricity in home* served by TV A dla (rt tutors reached 10,406 kilo WU* - bowrt Afa year, at an average residential rate of O.M cents a kwh. TR Sen. Frank Forsyth of Mur phy waa honored in the Novem ber Issue of The Carolina Farmer magazine aa one of the members at the General Aaaembly who supported elec trical co-ops. TR Next week's Christmas edi tion of the Scout will be out Tuesday and the office will be closed the remainder of the TR The Post Offices in the area will be open all day Saturday and moat stores will stay open late from now until Christmas. TR College students coming home for the holidays will be here by this weekend TR Andrews High's Annual Queen la Miss Sandy Palmer, A story covering the Andrews Christmas parade In laat 'week's paper llated Miss TMeredlth Hardin as queen. Friends Of Local Couple To Help With Big Bills MURPHY - Friends of a local couple who have had a run of bad luck and find them selves with a heavy burden of unpaid bills, are beginning a campaign today (Thursday) to give this couple a Christ mas present of accounts paid in full. Christmas Bond Concert Thursday MURPHY Murphy High School Band will pre sent an evening of Christmas Music tonight (Thursday) with the program beginning at 7:45 in the Elementary Auctttorium. Director Edward J. Rey nolds said the program will last approximately an hour, that there is no admission charge and the public is cor dially invited to attend. The program will include "Christmas Parade March, Gesu Bambino, three melo dies from The Magic Flute, selections from The Messiah, A Trumpeter's Lullaby, fea turing cornet soloist Jim Jor dan, Themes from The Nut cracker Ballet, O Holy Night, Christmas Suite, Sleigh Ride and White Christmas.* The couple, Mr. and Mrs. George D. Ray, are now hav ing B> depend on Social Se curity for their only Income. Mrs. Ray has suffered from a broken hip in October of 1962 and a major operation a year later. Mr. Ray suffered a stroke in May of 1963, then had n> have one leg amputated in September of this year. These medical bills and other costs arising out of these troubles have left the couple with an indebtedness of more than thirteen hund red dollars. Two of the local people working to help this couple get out of debt by Christmas are Ray KUlian and Mrs. Max Blakemore. An account has been open ed at Citizens Bank lnMurphy for donations for the Christ mas fund for the Rays. Those working on the cam paign ask that donations for the fund be mailed or taken to the Bank and deposited. One local man said this week, "The Ray's are the type of people who would never ask for anything, but they need some help now and Murphy people are well known for their willingness to help their neighbors at a time like this." like this." Gernert, Gray Are Cherokee, Clay Morehead Nominees CHAPEL HILL - John Nor - m?n Gernert of Andrews and William Mitchell Gray of HayesvUle are the Cherokee and Clay County nominees selected by More head Award County Committees this fall for further consideration for 1964 four-year all-expense paid Morehead Awards to the University of North Carolina. One hundred eighty -one North Carolina high school male seniors are Included In the first selection. The young men selected on merit alone without consider ation of financial need will now be Interviewed by Morehead District Selection Committees beginning in January. The 181 youths were sel ected from 826 boys who were nominated this fall by high school nominating commit tees. The 826 students were then interviewed by Morehead County Selection Committees . throughout the sate. Each N. C. county is entitled to have at Basketball Teams Wiad Up Pre-Christmas Games Friday The past week's basket ball action started list Thurs day night at Andrews when the Wildcats came out with a vlc *>ry over Hlwassee Dam's boya. * Friday night Murphy's boys won a big victory over the al waya tough Nantahala lads, 56-51. The Murphy girls won their games over Nantahala easily, 47-20. Hayeavllle'a crams both won over Mountain View Friday, the boya winning 48-31 and the glrla coasting out 45-26. Tuesday night's action aaw Hlwassee Dam's Mama spilt (wo games with Mt. View, the girls winning 52-25 and the lads lost* 45-30. An sad ting contest Tuesday night st Hayesville la the boys game with Murphy ended with the score tied 55-55. In an overtime the Hayesvllle lads aw w on lop 64-41. In the ItotyfmMwsiqrVMgoinc Andrews lads traveled to Stecoah Tuesday night and the varlsty team continued unde feated as die Wildcats poured In the points for a 97-54 win. The Andrews JV team posted a 56-38 victory over Stecoah. Friday night's games will wind up the pre-Chrlstm'as holiday schedule, with all local teams getting back into acdon early in J anuary . Friday's card sends Murphy id Franklin, Copper Basin plays at Hayesville and And rews travels to Cherokee. Midnight Mass At St. Williams Church MURPHY - A Midnight Mass will be offered in St. Williams Catholic Church Christmas Eve. A special scripture service and carolling at 11:30 will pre cede the Mass. A birthday cake in honor of Jesus will be ser ved following the Midnight Macs. 1MB II MOKTH OLD 500 pound 'wtjd DOM" wai ralaed from a ptg by Frank McDonald. Duba Whitley and Walt Mauney war# partner* In 1m venture and (he btg porker mat Ma fan Monday *> provide aumpttoua Chrla tmaa a a tin' for the men. The boar wi actually three -four tha Ruaalan boar and one fourth PoUnd CMm. but ha la aa Cloee e the legendary 'wild hof ' aa MNWMW in *ta area. least one nominee considered for a Morehead Award by the District Selection Committee in which the county is located. The Morehead Awards are considered among the best In the nation. They were estab lished in 1951 by John Motley Morehead, native North Car olinian and UNC graduate of the class of 1891 who now lives in Rye, New York. Mr. Morehead is the chair man of the John Motley More head Foundation which pro vides the awards for the undergraduate education of males from selected North Carolina high schools and pre paratory schools in the state and throughout the nation. North Carolina's 100 count ies are divided into seven districts for Morehead Award consideration purposes. Hobart L. McKeever is the chairman of the Cherokee County Morehead Selection Committee and Dr. Leon R. Staton is Chairman of the Clay County Committee. Morehead Awards were first made to graduates of N. C. degree -gran ting col leges In 1951 for graduate study at UNC. Awards were first made to undergraduates in 1953. Since the beginning of the program 374 boys have entered the University of North Carolina as Morehead Scholars. J.H. McClure, Former Deputy, Dies At Murphy MURPHY - Julius Henry McClure, 83. of Murphy Rt. 4, died Tuesday morning, Dec. 10, in a Murphy hospi tal after an illness of six days. He was a native of Chero kee County, a son of the late Tom and Emma Stiles Mc - Clure. He was a member and former deacon of Roger* Chapel Baptist Church, and a former deputy sheriff. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Maranda Green Mc - Clure; three daughters, Mrs. Lurlle Haney, Mrs. Ella Mann and Mrs. Laura J ones of Mur phy; six sons, Lummie A., Wlllard and Charlie of Mur phy, Virgil of Marietta, Ga? Jake of Canton and W. Ray of West Palm Beach, Fla,; two brothers, Tom of Culberson, and Manuel of Struthers, Ohio; six grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren. Services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Rogers Chapel Baptist Church. The Rev. Earle Cable and the Rev. Fred Lunsford offi ciated and burial was in the church cemetery. Grandsons were pallbearers and grand daughters were flower girls. Townson Funeral Home was In charge. Legion Auxiliary To Help With Christmas Baskets MURPHY - The American Legion Auxiliary met Dec, 12 at the home of Mrs. Charles Johnson, with Mrs. Grace Hall as co-hoataes. Mrs. Ruth Cheney, presi dent, presided sad Mrs. W.A, Hoover led the opening prayer. The group made plans to as sist A* American Legion In preparing Christmas baskets. A few proud hunters stand around and watch their kill being weighed. The tee* of the deer that are killed are removed and sent to N. C. State College to be studied. Hunters Bag 40 Bucks, Does Monday At Fires Creek Refuge Doe were not the only deer taken from Fires Creek. Clif ford Brown of Warne, N. C. killed a ten point buck weighing 172 pounds. V. B. Stalcup of Braeiwwn, N. C. bagged thif record do* on the opening day of doe set ion on Flrei Creek. The doe weigh ed out at US pound*. Date High 45 49 46 33 34 Low 26 39 38 22 17 IS S Pr*c. 0.74 1X0 0.10 0.43 0 0 Forecast: mursaay, scai wrad cloudtnasa: Friday, Sat urday and Sunday, mostly (air. W. T. Brown Elected To Angus Association MURPHY - W. T. Brown. Jr.. Murphy, hM baanalact ed to m?mbar?hlp In 4* American Anfu# A?aoci?tlon ?t St. Jo.eph, Mo., announcaa Frank Rlcharda, Mcntary. Mr. Brown waa ona U 17 trwedera of raglatarwd Abar daen - Angua to North Car olina alacted 10 matnbarahlp during dN past month. HAYES VILLE - Despite bitter cold weather with tem peratures never getting up to the freezing mark, some 211 deer hunters checked In Mon day at the Fires Creek Re fuge for the first day of a three-day buck and doe hunt. Monday's hunt allowed hunt ers to begin at noon, with both buck and doe as eligible game. The first day's tallies show ed that 40 deer were bagged, a near-record kill for such a hunt. While most of the first day kills were does, several hunt ers managed to get bucks. Tuesday's hunt In the re fuge opened at 11:00 a.m. and some 138 hunters tried their luck and the total kill for the day was 26. Wednesday, the final day of the either sex deer hunt, let hunters into the refuge at 10:00 ?.m. Results of the day were not available at press time. Wildlife officials were on hand at the checking station to look over the kills and re move the jaw bone and other organs from the deer to be sent to the N. C. Stats College for study on growth and popu lation of the herd at Fires Creek. These studies also show the age of the deer killed, and determine if the doe is able to reproduce young. The Fires Creek Refuge is managed jointly by the N. C. Wildlife Resources Commis sion and the U. S. ForestSer vice. The either sex deer hunts are held each year to help keep the population of the herd in balance. In the Standing Indian Re fuge on the Clay-Macon County border, the hunt extends to Thursday. John L. Williams Andrews Woman's Husband Serving In Viet Nam B1EN HOA, VletNam - First Lieutenant John L. Williams of Alexandria, Va? is now on duty with ? United Stan* Air Force advisory unit assisting the armed forces of Viet Nam In their fight against Commtmlst aggression. Lieutenant WllUama, a pilot, and other USAF person nel train and aaslst Vietnam ese Air Force personnel In mastering various Mchnlcal specialties necessary for maintaining modern military unit*. The lieutenant, son of Mrs. Vera C. Williams of 1026 Valley Drive, Alexandria, re ceived his B. 8. degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and was commissioned In 1959 upon completion of the Re serve Officer Training Corps program there. His wife, Aane, Is tfce daugh ter of Mr, and Mrs. T. Bruce Bristol U Andrews, N. C. Nantahala Appeals For Higher Rates FRANKLIN - Nantahala Power and Light Company fil ed notice of appeal to the Superior Court Monday asking that the North Carolina Utili ties Commission's order of October 28, 1963, which es tablished new rate schedules for Nantahala, be reversed, and that the Commission be ordered to establish rate schedules which would give the Company greater reve nues. Asserting that the sche dules are Inadequate, unjust and discriminatory, Nanta Masonic Officers To Be Installed At Open Meeting MURPHY - Officers of Cherokee Lodge No. 146, AF and AM, will be installed at an open ceremony Monday, Dec. 30. Masons, their wives and families and the general public is Invited to attend. The Mur phy Eastern Star Chapter will serve refreshments. Officers for 1964 were elected at the Regular Lodge meeting Dec. 2. Officers to be Installed in clude: Hugh Brlttaln, Master; Horace Hembree, Senior War der; Willard Hembree, J unior Warder; James Helton, Senior Deacon; BusterKllllan, Junior Deacon; Ralph Killian, Treas urer; Max Johnson, Secretary: Sam Davidson, Chaplain; J.D, Decker, Tyler; Arthur An thony, Jr., Senior Stewart; and Harry Burgess, Junior Stewart. hala President John M. Archer, Jr., Mid lb* Com pany's appeal U baaed on these and other reasons! 1. The CommiMloa has found the Nantahala proper ties as worth only $24 mil lion, far less than their pre sent fair value, and therefore, not a proper base on which t> determine the rats of return on the fair value of lla pro perty to which the Company is endded by statute. 2. The 4.08 per cent rata of return allowed by the Com mission is In itself inade quate and discriminatory. Nantahala knows of no other electric utility which has been restricted to such a low rate. 3. The rate of return de rived from such lnadaquaM rates Is so low that the action of the Commission In es tablishing these rata* a mounts oo an unconstitutional confiscation of property. 4. The order Is al*Q. dl* criminatory In that it causes the utility's largest customer, Alcoa, to pay a dispropor tionately high rate. 5. Inequities in rate* paid by North Carolina customer: of Nantahala are being pre pertuated in a discriminatory fashion rather than being cor rected by the rate schedule* filed by the Company on Nov ember 30, 1960. Since the order of die Com mission of October 28, 1963, has been appealed, Nantahalr, according to the North Car olina General Statute*, la no: required to make any refund* until the case Is flniuiy con cluded. Unaka Community Places Fourth In WNC Contest MURPHY - Cherokee County's Unaka Community won $100 fourth place among WNC communities In the farm division at the annual awards banquet InAsheville Saturday, December 14. More than 800 persons at tended the awards banquet In the City Auditorium to hear Secretary of Agriculture, Orvllle L. Freeman and to witness the awarding of prize money ? winning communit ies. Unaka, the Cherokee County Community Development win ner, placed fourth among the 133 communities and 16 counties which participated. First place honors went to Rutherfordton County's Whitehouse, second Tran - sylavnla's Little River, third. Macon's lotla, fourth Unaka and nine communities war* given honorable mention a wards. Unaka's award was accept ed by Charles Bans, presi dent of the club. Others at tending and rwpre seating the county at the banquet includ ed: Mrs. Charles BaMS, C.L. Alverson, Cherokee County's representative on the UNC Rural Community Develop ment Council, Ronnie At kinson, Thelms Wheeler, James Stewart and Robert Bruce. bounty farm Bureau For 'Little Federal' Plan MURPHY - The Cherokee County Farm Bureau came out this week In favor of the Constitutional Amendment known as the "Little Fed eral" plan which comes be fore the voters of this state Jan. 14. Wayne Abernathy of Mur phy, president of Cherokee Woman Receives Slight Injuries In Auto Wreck MURPHY - Eunalviee Clark Whinner of Route 1 received minor injuries Saturday, Dec. 14, when her auto was hit from the rear by another car driv en by Howard Bryson of Unaka. according to State Patrolman Don Reavls. Patrolman Reavls said the accident occurred five miles North of Murphy on Joe Brown Highway about 6:00 p.m. He aaid that Bryaon round ed a curve and waa unable ?> avoid hitting the White ner auto. Hla car's damage waa estimated at $100 and the Whitener auto's damage waa estimated at $400. Both turns were traveling toward Murphy. Bryaon waa charged with following too close, resulting In an accident, the officer aaid. 65 Go For Army Physicals In Dec. MURPHY - Sixty - five Cherokee Coimty registrants were forwarded for armed forces physical examination on Dec. 9, 1963. The following registrants are subject to being claaalfled ea (VUaeuents by die local board. Selective Service regu lation provide that de linquents be ordered a> report for Immediate induction ahead of other registrants, unless their delinquency Is cleared. If you know the eddreaa of any the Local BoaVdOfflce la Mur Sdlee, Kenneth Wayne Long, Mc ether Leeter BurneU, and R.J.Jotaeon. County Farm Bureau, ex - plains the two plans for legis lative representation. "In the special session of the Legislature this past (all. the Senate was redls trie tad for the first time sine* 1941. Membership remained at SO; but the 33 old til strict* wem reshaped into 36 new OMI. Changes in number of Sena tors per district were made according id population changes since 1941, taking Senators away front (he leas populous areas and giving more Senators to ika more populous areas. "Houee membership, which had been reapportioned by th-i 1961 Legislature, remalha ar 120. Bach of the 100 coiautee is permitted one Represen tative. The more populous counties divide the extra 30 Representatives. "The Legislature will be set t*> under this system (or 1965. If the Constitutional Amend ? ment does not pass It*, people's vote on January 14. 1964, make if) of bod) the Sen ate and the Houee will su the same. The Senaaa will has - SO members; the I lows IK. "Under die amawftwaw plan, both houses of iw Legis lature would be changed. be glnnlng with the 1967 session. The Senate would be bawd en population and fee House ar areas. "The Senaa would have 70 members, apportioned em the basis of senatorial district population. Back Senetor would rapt a a ant an average of 65,000 people. Bach dUtrlct would be left iv m the 1965 Legislature. If the )eb lent dons la thst ssae>iw. It wodl be taken over by a special rw dlstrlcting commieeion, - "The Houee wotdd have 100 members, oae from each county in the atata."
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