Volume 75 ? Number 7 Murphy, North Carol loo, Thursday, September 10, 1964 and Clay County Progress 10 Poges This Week Published Weekly SECOND CLAU POSTAGE *AIO AT MUMHV. NORTH CAROLINA ^S^WS5?kee County Community Dev elopment Council. The off- a cers for this council are: 0 rroy Simonds, President, fi Randall Shields, Vice-Presi- v lent, and Don Carter, Sec- c ?etary. c F The judging for these com- ^ ti unities is scheduled for the last week in October. The c i wards scheduled for parti :lpants In the County Deve lopment Program include: (75 first prize, 950 second, (25 third and 95 for each u :lub that is judged. tu Some of the high lights in fr he 1964 community work In* cl :lude: fund raising for com- ei ti unity buildings, sponsorship aj >f youth programs like base- sj jail teems, talent shows and st :amplng. Also, clean up and >alnt up, building recreation- st il facilities and community th tuppers are Included in this of uoject work. di Ronnie Atkinson Atkinson Resigns To Attend UT MURPHY - It was announc ed today by the Agricultural Extension office in Murphy that Ronnie Atkinson, Assist ant Agricultural Agent, has resigned to attend the Univer sity of Tennessee this fall. Atkinson is a 1962 graduate of Berea College, where his major was agriculture. He began his work with the North Carolina Extension Service in June, 1962. While working here, Mr. Atkinson has worked mainly with 4-H'ers. He plans to attend the Uni versity of Tennessee to work toward his master's degree in Agricultural Economics, with specilization in Farm Mana gement and Production of Ec onomics. Mr. Atkinson and his wife, the former Julia Erdman. have one son, Alan, who is nine months old. Cato's Opens roday, Sept. 10 MURPHY ? Cato's ladies ready-to-wear store, the new est addition to the business district of Murphy, will open its doors Thursday morning, September 10. The grand opening of Cato's on Thursday morning is the result of months of planning ?nd preparation by the com pany to bring to the people jf Murphy shopping area ashions in ladies and child rens wear. The new Cato's store is ocated on Peachtree Street, >n the lot formerly occupied >y Quality Market. W. H. Cato Jr., of Char otte, N. C., and president >f Cato Stores, Inc., said, 'Our company is very pleased ind happy to be coming to tiurphy. It is always a lource of pride and satisfac ion to become a part of such i progressive and friendly rea as Cherokee County. The tore's interior layout was de igned by Cato's architects, t is completely fluorescent ighted with modern facilit es and attractive decor lanned to provide pleasant urroundings which will app al to customers. The mer handise at Cato's, smartly tyled In the latest fashions, rings to its customers the irgest selections of quality lerchandise at the lowest ossible competitive prices." Mr. Cato went on to say lat the new Cato's in Mur hy will be completely staff d by local people, including lanager, cashier, and sales idies. The Cato organization, rhich was founded by W. H. :ato, Sr., in 1946, has its entral offices in Charlotte, 'he company operates stores n the southeast, with ware ouse facilities in Charlotte. surcn-Bonng Complete Advanced Selling Course MURPHY - Doyle C. Burch nd J. N. Boling of Burch Mot rs, Murphy, have beencerti ed as graduates of the ad anced retail selling course onducted in Chattanooga re ently by a staff instructor of ord Motor Company's At inta Marketing Institute. Certification of course ompletion was announced by . C. Brock, director of the ord Institute. The three day course was ught by R. E. Busch, instl te instructor. Subjects range om management and mer- i landising courses for deal- i ?s and their department man ners to salesmanship and | >ecialized workshops for < af members. i The Atlanu Marketing In* ^ ltute annually enrolls more i an 2,500 sales specialists Ford Motor Company pro* I icts from a ten-state area. < Two Cherokee County Men Tell Of Capturing Escaped Rapist MURPHY- In an exclusive Interview with Jack Owens, SCOUT Editor and Harry Bag ley, author of Cuz's Cor ner, Robert D. Kephart and Robert Furman Anderson, both of Route 2, Murphy, told how they captured the escap ed rapist, Seth Gibson. Gibson, 39, escaped from the Cherokee Prison Camp, in the Peachtree section of Cherokee County, Saturday, August 29, and allegedly rap ed two women and attempted to rape a third. The cap ture of Gibson by Kephart and Anderson climaxed an inten sive five day search in the rug ged mountains of Cherokee County. Mr. Kephart and his wife, Verna Lee, planning a trip Wednesday evening to visit friends in McMinnville, Tenn essee, cancled the trip due to Gibson's being at large and reportedly in the area. The Kephart children were to be left with their grandmother and Mr. and Mrs. Kephart didn't want to leave them alone. Leaving on their trip at 9:00 Thursday morning, the Kep harts saw a man dress ed in green prison type pants and T-shirt approximately 300 yards in front of their home on the Brasstown Road. As they passed, the man threw up his hand as if to speak. Mr. Kephart noticed that he had a 4 or 5 day growth of beard and his pants were wet from the knees down. Becoming suspicious, Mr. Kephart turned his car around and went back for a closer look to find the man had dis appeared. The Kep harts then stopped at the home of Lewis Ogle to ask Mr. Ogle's father in-law-, John Raper who was Council Adopts Ordinance MURPHY- The Town Coun cil recently adopted a new or dinance setting forth minimum standards to apply to new sub divisions in Murphy. A state ment released this week from Murphy Town Hall clarifying the application of these reg ulations, is as follows: "It is illegal to sell or transfer a lot for the pur pose of building development i if the lot does not front on J an existing public street. If development is planned in Murphy and in the area ex tending one mile beyond the town limits, residential lots must conform to a minimum ) size of 8,000 square feet if i provided with public water j and sewer. Where neither , of these two utilities is pro vided, lots must be at least t 25,000 square feet in area." | These and other standards 1 pertaining to the width of new * streets, building set-backs < and the like are included in the "Subdivision Regulations | Ordinance" adopted by the Town Council upon study and recommendation by the Mur phy Planning Board. The stan dards are designed to insure that residential lots will be adequately served with utili ties, and that the street sys tem within new subdivisions will tie in with the town's existing system. The reg ulations were adopted after careful study by local offi cials to insure that mistakes of the past will not be re peated in the future. Although the ordinance app lies to all divisions of land "into two or more lots," cer tain types of subdivisions are excepted. In addition, where peculiar problems in topogra phy or shape of the land ex ist, exceptions and allowances can be made from some of the provisions. Developers or others con templating selling, building or transferring owner ship of land within the area affected are Invited to come by the Office ? of the Town Clerk to deter mine if their development falls within the scope of the new regulations. A copy of the ordinance will >e avallabe to those Inter ested. working on the front porch, ? if he had seen the man pass I by. Mr. Raper informed them that he had seen no one pass by. I Realizing that a man on foot I should still be near by, Mr. I and Mrs. Kephart decided to I check back by their home. I Upon entering their home | they saw the man in green clothing walking West along the Brasstown Road, towards the Martins Creek School. By this time Mrs. Kephart felt sure that the man was Seth Gibson and told her husband to drive around and get Mr. Anderson. Meanwhile, she took a short-cut across a field some 200 feet to the ? Anderson home and gave the * alarm. Mr. Anderson was working . in a field near by and saw Mrs. I Kephart running toward his | home. Sensing something was | wrong, he started home him- 1 self. Mrs. Anderson had also seen the man in green andhad < started out to call her hus band when Mrs. Kephart came into the yard. Mrs. Anderson called to her husband to hur ry and she ran inside to get his shotgun. By this time, Mr. Kephart arrived. Both men got into the car and drove around a back road in order to circle Gibson. They drove by the man slowly. Satisfied that he was Gibson, they went a round a curve to avoid being seen turning around and app roached Gibson from the front. Pair Could Face Charges In Clay HAYESV1LLE - A Florida couple arrested in Murphy on Monday, A ugust 31, for the il legal possession of narcotics, could possibly face similar charges in Clay County. SBI Agent M.G.Crawford, assisting In the investigation, found that the couple, who had been camped at the Lake Hi was see Campground prior to their arrest, had moved their camp site to Clay County on Friday, August 28. Crawford stated that he had found additional hypodermic needles, syringes, and several unlabeled bottles of tablets in their tent there. The unlabeled tablets have been sent to a lab for analysis. Jess Walls, 45. has been re turned to Miami, Fla., to face charges of skipping a $3,500 bond. Mrs. Ruby Walls, now free on a $1,500 bond, is sche duled to appear in the Novem ber term of Superior Court to face charges of illegal pos session of narcotics. B&PW Club To Hold Meeting MURPHY?The Murphy 3uslness & Professional Wo man's Club will hold it re gular meeting Monday evening Sept. 14. All members will meet at the home of Ruth Cheney at 5:45 P. M. from there they will go to Earls steak House in Blue Ridge Georgia for i dinner meeting. Former Murphy Resident Dies In Sarasota, Fla. SARASOTA, FLA. - James \rthur Lovingood, Sr., age 77, jf Sarasota, Fla., formerly of Murphy and Sweetwater, renn., died early Monday norning. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Trudy Millsaps Lovin good; five sons, James A., fr., of Whiteburg, Tenn., Joe ind Fred of Sarasota; Clyde >f Dallas, Texas; Charles of t Cnoxville, Tenn.; and one C laughter, Mrs. Walter R. * Veeks of Venus, Fla.; three 1 listers, Mrs. Edna Herman, ? Fairmont, N. C.; Mrs. Ol ie Burnett of Cleveland, ( fenn., and Mrs. Blaine c Richardson of Madisonvllle, , renn. p The body will arrive in C iweetwater Thursday, Sept. n 10, and will be taken to Kyker t "uneri Home where the lam- a ly will receive friends from 1 fiOO p.m. to 9i00 p.m. on ' rhursday and Friday. e Funeral services will be at liOO p.m. Saturday in Sweet- j rater First Baptist Church, c The Rev. Anderson Mc- h lulley will officiate. Burial d rill tie in Westview Cemetery. i< ANDERSON AND KEPHART show Harry Bagley where they made the citizens arrest on State Highway 1564 (Brasstown Road) in front of Dallas Stalcup's home. Kephart, driving, stopped the car beside the man and Anderson said, "What's your name." The man replied, "Gibson." "Consider yourself under arrest and put your hands behind your head, ' Mr . And erson said. A search of Gibson revealed cigarettes, some change, and a small knife but no weapons. The citizens arrest was made approximately seven miles from the prison camp on the Brasstown Road one mile east of theMartins Creek School. Mr. Anderson got in the back seat of the car, Gibson was put in the front and Mr. Ke phart drove. On the way to the prison camp, Seth Gibson only spoke one time and that was to ask. "Do you^ fellows have anything to eat?" "We'll soon have you where you can get something to eat, Mr. Kephart answered. When the trio neared the populated section of Brass town, Anderson was afraid that someone might mistak enly think that Gibson was still at large and that He and Kephart were aiding his escape* So he told Gibson to put his head between his knees and stay out of sight. "We don't want you to get hurt and we don't want to get hurt ourselves," Mr. Anderson said. Anderson and Kephart both stated that Gibson was very co-operative did exactly as they said and offered no re sistance. Upon arrival at the prison camp, they took Gibson into the office and said, "Here's your man." Gibson, suffering from mal nutrition and exposure, was taken to a local hospital, then rushed out of Cherokee Co iinty. At first, both Anderson and Kephart asked that their lames be withheld. Asked *hy they didn't want their lames revealed, Mr. Kephart said, "We only did what any >ther citizen would have done ind we didn't see any point n publicity." They both agreed however, hat with so many different tories circulating, it wouldn't mrt to tell the story as it dually happened. This was the tenth escapee hat Mr. Anderson had help id to catch. Bulletin MURPHY - It was reported oday by SBI Agent M. G. Crawford that Seth Gibson vas positively Identified by wo Cherokee County women is the man who attacked them Saturday, August 29. Gibson, wearing the stand rd green prison clothing and Jean-shaven, was placed In i line-up with several other irlsoners at the Haywood :ounty Prison Camp In Way esvllle Friday, Sept. 4. The wo women, whom Gibson had Uegedly raped, identified him mmedlately, Crawford stat d. The escapee will be ret urn - d to Murphy for a prellml ary healing, however, the ate has not been set. In case ibson waives preliminary earing, he will be tried In M November term of Super >r Court here In Murphy. ROBERT FURMAN ANDERSON AND ROBERT D. KEP HART tell how they captured convicted rapist, Seth Gibson, Thursday morning, September 4. Scout Photo ? Simond* EXTRA POINT means the difference as Halfback Jimmy Cole plunges over for the PAT in Murphy's opener with Cop per Basin to win with a score of 14-13. Murphy Nips Copper Basin 14 - 13 In Season Opener COPPERHO.L.TENN- The Murphy Bulldogs opened their 1964 football season by squee zing the determined Copper Basin Cougars with a score of 14-13. Copper Basin won the toss and took the opening kickoff. The kickoff was returned twelve yards and put in play on the Cougar's thirty-one yard line. In four plays Cop per Basin moved the ball to Murphy's forty-six yard line, but on the next play, the Cou gars fumbled and theBulldogs recovered. Murphy picked up two quick first downs before they lost the ball on their own twenty seven yard line. After picking up one first down, the Cougars were for ced to punt. The Bulldogs next put the ball in play on their own twenty yard line. On the first play from scrimmage, Wayne Watson broke into the open and went 46 yards to the Copper Basin thirty-five. At this point, the big Copper Ba sin line stiffened and Murphy was forced to punt. Several plays later Murphy regained the ball on their forty. A first down moved the ball to Copper Basin's thirty -five. Donnie Stiles took a handoff from Watson and * raced 36 yards for the first TD of the game. Watson sneaked over center for the 1 PAT. Copper Basin returned the ^ kirkolf to their own 43 yard line and drove 57 yards for | their TO. Ledford carried the ball 3 yards for the score. The kick for the extra point was no good. The first half ended with Murphy 7 to Copper Basin's | CO 6.