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The Cherokee - V i ? ? " . r ?? V ? ? I Volume 75- Number 32 Murphy, North Carolina March 4, 1965 10 Pages This Week ^hVhy*nob?hTcaSouna Scout and Clay County Progress Beat Prizewords On Page 3, Win $50 coutlets We overheard two young ladies telling P. J. Henn, own er of the Henn Theatre, that they lust didn't like the movie, ??Cleopatra". You can't getP. J. down, though, for he told them. "You are just jealous of Elizabeth Taylor and had already made up your mind not to like it when you came." J A tip of our hat to the powers that be for getting street cleaning operations underway here in Murphy: Town employes s have begun shoveling away gravel that was oi.ced on the streets due to recent snowfall. Good Ole Charlie Johnson, town of Mur phy Clerk, allows that the hoses will soon be turned on and our streets will be spark ling once agaln.^ Last week we had a note In this corner concerning a 7 day trip to Washington, D. C. and New York for school stu dents at a price of *70.10. Now we find out that the trip Is open for anyone, of any age. So, if you would like to go contact Carl Moore, P. O. Box 271, Hayesville, or phone 389-2355.^ With the weather warming up and sports writers and an nouncers yakklng about base ball spring training, gives us the fever to play a little soft ball. Keeping In mind some of last year's defeats, we'll ex tend ? small prediction: (1) Totnotla won't rule die roost this year; (2) Preacher BUI Thompson and his hard play ing Baptist Nine, are going ? run into a lot of trouble; (3) the Jay?es. . .well, we d better talk about that later. Oh. woe U n*al 8 surrounds us. Sue Kllpa trick, the Scout's ace typesetter for the past three years, is de parting from our midst. Sue and her husband. Franklin, have staked out a claim over in Chattanooga, and will be leaving Friday. It will pro bably be hard to get these machines to run for anybody else. J Last Sad Note: "1 can't play PR1ZEWORE6." ? ? ? Murphy Girls Win DO Games, Loose Only 3 In Five Years MURPHY- With Margaret James, Peggy English, and Betty Gillenwater getting 30, 16, and 11 points, respectively the Murphy girls basketball team defeated Swain High School girls by a one-sided score of 79-42, to win their fifth consecutive Smoky Moun tain Conference Basketball Championship. The Murphy lassies got off to an early score. It was no contest all the way with the halftime score 53-17 and the reserves playing most of the second half. In winning their twenty -first game this year, the Murphy girls, coached by Chuck Mc Connell, have in the past five years one of the most fan tastic records that we know of. Here's the record for the past five years: won 110 games, while losing only 3, won the Western division championship of the Smoky Mountain Conference five times, won the Western Tournament divisional Championship five times, and have been crowned Smoky Mountain Conference Champ ions five times. All this in the past five years. The Murphy girls were al so selected as one of the five final contestants for the most outstanding girls basketball team in the Western part of North Carolina. The honors went to the East Rutherford girls team. It is our under standing that this was based on last year's record and not this year. The girls lost one of their games out of 113 played the past five years, last year. According to Coach McCon nell, Linda Nelson is the only senior on the team, and the girls should continue their winning streak for quite some time. McConnell stated also that this year's success was due to the fact that the girls had plenty of desire and ini tiative. Scoring was as follows: MURPHY (79) Nelson ,8; English, 16; GiUenwater.il; Lovingood, 3; Ware, 1; Dock ery, 6; James, 30; O'Dell, 0; Morris, 2; Crowe, OjFer guson, 0; Hall, 1; Cole.O; Marcus J. SWAIN (42) Brooks, 14;Col ville, 10; Owenby, 4: Bran ton, 3; Sossamon,5;Myers,4; Cline,2; Winchester ,0; Lyday, o; Mitchell ,0;Lindsey,0. Halftime Score: Murphy ,53, Swain, 17. Linda Nelson closed out her career by being el i- ted to the All-Conference Team of the Smoky Mountain Western Con ference. Other girls in this area selected include Peggy English, Murphy; Linda Mc Nabb, Hiawassee Dam; Glenda Cabe, Stecoah; Jo Ann Coffey, Hayesville; Janice Crisp, Robbinsville. Boys making the Western Division All Conference Team were: Hugh Carringer, Murphy; Larry Owenby, And rews; Ronnie Gregory ,Nant ahala; Danny Mcintosh, Moun tain View; and Bill Cabe, Ste coah. Federal Buiding Ground Breaking Ceremony March 8 ANDREWS- Ground break ing ceremonies for the new Federal Building will be held Monday, March 8, '2:00 p.m. Mayor Percy B. Ferebee will make the welcoming add ress and special guests are expected to make a short in formal talk. Special guests include Tom Mallonee, Executive Secre tary for Congressman Roy A. Taylor; Thomas B. Castles, Building Manager, Asheville Office of G.S.A.; Represent ative from the Regional Off march I wanes Mart ot Local Red Cross Fund Drive ANDREWS - It's here! March 1 marks the starting date of American National Red Cross Fund Drive. Nationally and locally the American Red Cross is gov erned by volunteers and it is financed by voluntary con tributions. Please help by giving your service and fin ancial support. Chairman James Harris, co-chairman Lee Nichols and Mrs. Ruth Kyker and fund chairman Tom Ledbetter will meet Thursday (tonight) with volunteer workers at the Dis trict Memorial Hospital to make final plans for the drive i.icljding a house to house canvas to be held March 12. A canvas of the business area began on Monday by James Harris and Lee Nichols. Did you know? The Red Cross serves the ArmedFor ces... In camps. In 390 med ical facilities, in homes (helps over 90,300 families of ser vicemen each month with per sonal probelms). The Red Cross also serves veterans! helps vets get benefits; helps vets In V. A. medical facili ties; provides food, shelter, clothing, medical aid any where In case of disaster, plus Hurricane Watch on the east and west coast to plan in advance of hurricanes. Red Cross collects more than 2.7 million units (pints) of blood each year serving 4,200 hospitals. Red Cross conducts First School 100 are enrolled in First Aid course aught by Hugh Rayburn member of the faculty. Red Cross sponsors eristic programs: nursing services, 70,300 Red Cross nurses are reedy to serve their communi ties, plus High School and Junior Red Cross. What is the cost of these Red Cross programs? The cost of serving all these with troubles. . .Armed Forces, Veterans, Disaster Victims, Emergencies, plus training programs to prevent trouble and make healthier and safer families and communities ads up to >86 to $116 millions per year. Please give generously this year. Three Issues A Week For Waynesville Paper WAYNESVILLE- The Way - nesville Mountaineer, an 80 year-old semi-weekly news paper, announced today the paper will be published three times a week - Monday.Wed nesday and Friday - beginning March L It is now publish ed on Monday and Thursday. Last year, the newspaper completed an extensive expan lon program, including in stallation of a new offset press and other modern equipment. The news staff has been doub led in recent months, and the scope of news coverage has been broadened. The pub lishers Mid today that the newspaper will continue to feature Haywood County news, pictures, and features. The Friday edition will carry k magazine-type supplement, which will be published in The Mountaineer plant. The newspaper has been a semi-weekly for 19 years. The present publishers bought the business In 1931 and op erated It as a weekly until 1946. The business is a corpor ation with W. Curtis Russ, editor and co-publisher, and M. T. Bridges, co-publishers Clifton B. Me tea If, managing editor, and Charles Bridges, mechanical department fore man. The Mountaineer is a mem ber of The Associated Press and has wen a number of North Carolina Press Assoc iation awards. Russ It a put president of the state assoc iation. The newspaper has a cir culation of 6,800 in a town of 6,116 population. ice of the G.S.A., Atlanta; S. E. Trogdon, President of S. E. Trogdon and Sons .Inc., contractors for the building; Representative from Six Associates, Inc., Asheville, architects for the building. Arrangements for the ground breaking ceremony were handled by the Mayor's office, Andrews Development Corp., Civic Clubs of And rews, and William Walker, postmaster. L. B. Nichols will be master of ceremonies. Mayor Ferebee and the Andrews Board of Aldermen nave requested all businesses to close from 2:00 p.m. un til 3:00 p.m. on the day of the ceremony. Hlwassee Watershet Assn. Elects New Trustees & Officers The Upper Hiawassee Watershed Development Association moves ahead in '65 with new Trustees and Officers. The Trustees and Officers are: Emmett Jordan, Chair man, County Agent, Fannin County, Blue Ridge, Georgia; Prentiss England, Vice Chairman, County Agent.Clay County, Hayesville, N. C.{ Ed Swartz, Blue Ridge Mountain EMC, Secretary-Treasurer: and Karl Rowan, Manager, Blue Ridge Mountain EMC, Young Harris, Georgia, and John Gill, Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Murphy ,N.C. The Upper Hiawassee Watershed Development Association will soon com plete its work on all of the human and natural resources surveys and analysis studies with representatives of the Tributary Development Branch of the Tennessee Val ley Authority. According to B. H. Zellner, TV A, all categories should be com pleted by April. He also stated that this inventory should give a major tool by which opportunities may be raised and further the development of the area ser ved by this Association. Merphy Rotary Clwb To Spoasor Sapper MURPHY- The Murphy Ro tary Cli4> la sponsoring a pan cake and sausage supper at the Family Restaurant here Friday, March 6. Th? supper will be served from 5r00 to SiOO. Proceed! from this will go to the Crippled Children's program and Boy Scouts. Price for all you can eat will be $1.00. SKID MARKS INDICATE the point of impact of the 1961 Chevrolet in which two Murphy girl: were injured. Two Injured In One-Car Accident MURPHY- Two Murphy girls were injured about 3:30 p.m., Sunday, February 28, in a one-car accident on U. S. 64 one mile east of Murphy. Betty Reed, a passenger in a vehicle driven by Betty Jane Carroll, was admitted to Providence Hospital with severe head injuries, facial cuts and abrasions. Betty Carroll, suffering cuts and bruises, was also admitted. According to State Highway Patrolman Donald Reavis, the vehicle was traveling east when it skidded on gravel placed on the road during the last snowfall. The automobile left tbf; paveRrnent on -Ae left side, them struck a rock em bankment. Reavis said no charges have been filed. MHS Dramatic Club To Present Plays MURPHY- The Murphy High School Dramatics Club will present two plays Friday and Saturday nights, March 5 and 6, in the Murphy Elementary School Auditorium. "The Boor" a one-act play directed by Richard M. Bell is a comedy about the Wild Boor who comes to collect a debt from a grieving wid ow. The cast in order of app Iearance is Helena lvanova Popov played by Betty Mc Keon; Oregori Stepanovich Smirnov, Larry Owens: and Luka, (a servant) by Russell Caldwell. The second play of the evening, "Nine Girls," direc ted by Mrs. Richard M. Bell is a mystery about nine col lege girls who spend a week end in a Sorority Cabin in the California mountains. The cast includes Jane, Judy Brittain; Even, Connie Farmer; Freida, Sheliah Sneed; Alice, Dhona Smith; "Glamour Puss', Kenny Jane Davis; Shirley, Joan McAfee: "Tennessee", Claudia Schuy ler; "Shot Put", Audrey Smith; Mary, Sandra Corn well. Stage manager, is Carolyn Crisp. Admission for adults, $1.00, students, 50f. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. Joseph Wilson 111 Dies Unexpectedly MURPHY- Joseph Harvey Wilson III, 21, a student of Georgia Institute of Technol ogy, Atlanta, Ga., died un expectedly, Tuesday, March 2. He wis a native of Sebring Florida, a son of Joseph H. and Ruth Logan Wilson and an honor graduate of Murphy High School. He served four years In the U. S. Air Force and was a part-time employee of the Veterans Administration in Atlanta. Surviving in addition to the parents are twosisters.Caro lyn and Lucy Wilson of the homei and the paternal grand mother, Mrs. J. H. Wilson ,5r. of Murphy. Services and burial will be In Gainesville, Georgia. The family has suggested in lieu of flowers, donations be given to Murphy High School Math department. HIART A FUND MRS. W. r. BROWN, chairman of the West Cherokee County Heart Fund Campaign receives a $536.00 check fi-om Mrs. Sara Patton, President of the Murphy Business and Professional man's Club. The money was raised at the Heart Fund dance Wo sponsored by the Murphy B & PW Club. West Cherokee County Heart Fund Drive Exceeds Goal MURPHY- Final returns of the West Cherokee County Heart Fund drive totaled $1, 505.52, it was announced today by Mrs. W. T. Brown, local 1965 Heart Fund Campaign Chairman. Mrs. Brown explained, "The 1965 total was derived as follows: CoffeDays,$56.51; Business Days, $403. 15; Heart Fund Dance. $536.00; Balloon Days, $79.12; Special Gifts, $190.00; Memorial Gifts,$100. 50; and Heart Sunday, $139.64. The contributions will be used to support prog rims of heart research, public and professional education and community service which look toward a reduction in death and disability from cardiovas cular disease. These diseases are now responsible for more than fifty-four percent of all deaths in the nation. Campaign chairmen and volunteer workers who assis ted in the Heart Fund Drive are as follows: Girl Scout Troop 2 04 .Mrs. D. H. Carmichael, Chairman, Coffee Days; Mrs. W. L. Chr isty, Chairman of Business Days, assisted by Mrs. W. A. Singleton, Mrs. Robert Wea ver, Mrs. C. J. Hughes. Mrs. Ruth Cheney, Mrs. Tom C. King. Mrs. J. A. Hughes, and mrs. J. B. Carringer. Members of the Murphy Business and Professional Women's Club sponsored the Heart Fund Dance. The Res cue S<juad Auxiliary. with Mrs. Charles Hyatt. president, ser ved as chairman of Balloon Day*. Auxiliary members participating were Mrs. Eva Nell Hughes, Mrs. Harry Ingram, Mrs. Inez Dockery, Mrs. Betty Roberson, Mrs. Bud Penland. Mrs. Joe Jeff ries, Mrs. Willa Mae AUen. Also assisting in Balloon Days were Ann Dalrymple. Lucy Wilson, Becky Fleming, Linda Amos, Sarah HUl, Bar bara Thorns poo, Barbara Kay lor. Kim Kephart, Allen Gra ves, Louis Walls, Jerry Queen, Charles Queen, Deb bie Dockery, Steve Dockery, and Vickie Ingram. Mrs. W. L. Brown, Jr., was chairman oa Special Gifta; Mrs. Cloe Moore, chairman of Memorial Gifts, and Mrs. W. R. Goesett was chairman of Heart Sunday. Thoee participating in Heart Sunday were Mrs. Merle Da vis, Mrs. Joe Fowler, Mrs. Holland McSwain, Mrs. Wally Williams, Mrs. Jim Stewart, Mrs. Larry Black, Mrs. Jim McComba, Mr*. Edwin Man Chester, Miss Rebecca Flem ing, Mrs. Paul Hill, Mrs. Mar tin Douglas, Mrs. L. D. Schu yler, Mrs. Everett English, Mrs. Edward Dickey, Mrs. J ohn Dickey, Mrs. Clyde Gald son, Miss Sarah Fleming, and Mrs. Louis Bishop. Those assistingMrs. Brown were Mrs. Clyde Sneed, Di vision Treasurer, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Fornea, City Co chairmen, and Mrs. Bud Alex ander, Publicity Chairman. Mrs. Brown said, "We are most grateful for the public spirited services rendered by volunteers. Campaign lea ders and news media. Radio Stations WCVP and WKRK, and THE CHEROKEE SCOUT in their support of the Heart Fund Campaign. Once again they have demonstrated that this community cannot, and does not, fail where the cause is worthy." The goal for the West Cher okee County Heart Fund Drive was $1300. The goal was ex ceeded by $205.52. Mrs. Brown stated further that Memorial Gifts may be made to the Heart Fund Mem orial F und at any time. Any one who desires to make a memorial gift is asked to contact Mrs. Cloe Moore, Memorial Heart Fund Chair man. 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Citizens Bank Gains NEW YORK- Thft Citizens 79 Places In National Standing a < f ( c Bank and Trust Company, < Andrews, which reported de- ( posits of $14,397,610. on Dec- 1 ember 31, gained 79 places 1 in its standing among the 2400 i largest commercial banks in I the Vnited States during 1964 and now ranks as 2359th lar gest in size compared with 2438th place at the end of 1963. Deposits of the bank tot aled 112,902,553. a year ago. This is revealed in the 1965 Annual Roll Call of the 2400 Largest Banks in the United States published by the daily AMERICAN BANKER of New York, which is the trade news paper of the banking business. I There are 13,673 banks in the United States. Ash e ville Choir To Present Program ANDREWS - The Allen High School Choir of Asheville will present a service of sacred music at the First Methodist Church of Andrews Sunday afternoon, March 7, at 5:30. Rev. Joel Key, pastor of the Andrews Methodist Church invites the public to attend the program. Baptists To Host World Day Of Prayer MURPHY - Murphy First Baptist Church will host a World Day of Prayer. The service will begin at 10:00 a.m. Friday, March 5. The public is cordially In vited to attend. Winners will be announc Dn Thursday following the pr vious week's publication PR1ZEWORDS and a new pu zle will appear the same da Be sure to read the comple PRIZEWORD6 instructio and rules on Page 3. As an added bonue twel area merchants sponsori the PRIZE WORD pagewiUli their PRIZE WORD Specials the Week. Clues for worki the puzzle are within the ii dividual merchant's ads. Have fun....win cash play PRIZE WORDS. Merchants participating the PRIZE WORD specials the week are: Andrews: Kh< uri's Department Store,Mi< nite Electric, Nichols Depar ment Store, Jordan's Mark* and gibson's Grocer Copper hill: Smelter Store; Murphy: Collins Crain D< partment Store, Hughes Su| ply. Gentry Shoe Repair ,Hi ghes Electric Servio Trudy's and Parker's Dri Store. Mrs. David Hyatt (peaks To Jaycees MURPHY- Mrs. David Hy itt, child welfare worker foi Cherokee County, spoke to tin 4urphy Junior Chamber of :ommerce at their regular linner meeting, Tuesday .larch 2. Mrs. Hyatt's purpose fo. speaking to the Jaycees an. )ther local clubs was to en ist their assistance in estab lishing an emergency cloth ing fund for children place in care of the Cherokee Count; Welfare Department. The court places thes< children in the custody of th? Welfare Department, who ma; in turn place them in fostei homes. At the present tin* there are two foster homes in Cherokee County. Mrs Hyatt stated that at least flvt such homes are needed. Jointly participating, Cher okee County allots $25.00 an the federal government $25.0( monthly per child to the fos ter home for their support However, no funds are re ceived by the foster parent until the child has been in their care for thirty days, "When these children art placed in the custody of th< Welfare Department by tlx courts, often they have onl) the clothes they are wear ing, and some infants only t few diapers," Mrs. Hyatt said Mrs. Hyatt pointed out thai an emergency fund of app roximately $25.00 would alio* the Welfare Department tc assist foster parents in cloth ing these children until their first check is received. "Local clubs, making an initial small donation, could set up such an emergency fund. As the funds are used each club would be called upon to make a small re placement donation," Mrs. Hyatt concluded. A spokesman for the Jay cees stated that the request would be taken up at the next board of directors meeting and the Welfare Department would be notified of the Club's participation in this fund. MISS MARCH Mil* Glafida Format, dovghttr af Mr. ?W Mr*. Clan f r MARCH S M T W T F S a 28 29 30 INSURANCE DEPARTMENT fltm. Accident, and Health Workmen* Compensation Automobile - Bond* - Ume And Occupancy - THeh . Holdup - FarfOfy - Bollar Explosion - Wlndstotrr ? Plata Glass - Homeowner. CITIZENS BANK i I TRUST (0. Andrewt-Hayesville Murphy-Robblnsvllle