The Cherokee Scout and Clay County Proqrea Volume 7o- Sumber -!'? Murphy, North C(lrolirui Jul\ I, I0h5 l~ I uges I his colit let s !; v< Wheel !? sure is good to be back In Cherokee County and back at work again. Don t believe we could have stood two weeks vacation. I must say though that my tribe cer tainly did enjoy themselves in New York and staying with my city sister sure made things handy. She served as chiel cook, bottle washer, baby sit ter, and official Worlds Fair Guide. What more could you ask9 Thanks, Sis. -J We could write about this trip until we ran plumb of! the page, but we'll not sub ject you to that. Just a few tidbits. First the Fair. It's Fantasucl! We know that many from our area have seen it, but we wish everyone could. If you are planning to go, we'll be happy to give you some pointers and let you take a peek at our guide book. What we mean by pointers is, unless you have a lot of time (we didn't) you can't make the rounds. There are 100 free exhibits and we stayed from 9:00 a.m. until midnight and only saw 12 or 14 of them. -J SMALL WORLD - Along about noon on Saturday during the trip north, 1 pulled the old wagon off the road in Virginia so as the tribe could have some "virtles". We had our picnic goodies all spread when a car pulled up and out popped Mrs. Ruth Wilson, her two daught ers, Missy and Lucy, and Sarah Alice Jeffries, all from Murphy. They were on their way to Norfolk, Va., for a week's vacation. Then on Sun day evening, the phone rings and its Pete McKeon saying ? "Howdy" from right there in Garden City. Pete stopped by for a cup of coffee and a short visit Monday morning 'on his way further north to Rhode Island. Sho was good to see these home folk and it does prove that it is a small world. -J Now I consider my driving pretty good and pride myself at not getting lost, but when we hit Manhatten. Saturday evening, it looked like every car In the world was in town. Being smart like 1 am, I jumped a traffic light to make a left turn In front of these millions of cars. You guess ed it, 1 had started up a one way street the wrong way. Well, there we were, stopped dead, four lanes of traflic coming at us, horns blowing, and people yelling. As you can see, we got out of the mess, but we did leave a lasting im pression on the good people of New York country had come to town. -J ODDS AND ENDS DEPART MENT . . . .The county Commi ssioners say they won't meet Monday, July 5, because the Courthouse will be closed for the holiday. The meeting has been rescheduled for Monday, July 12. ... .If you plan to read over the weekend, better get your books early. The Mur phy Carnegie Library will be closed Saturday, July 3. -J Have you ever heard of a man falling out of his own yard? Well, Bud Alversondid it. Seems that Bud was cele brating his 27th wedding anni versary by mowing the lawn Saturday, got too close to the edge and fell right smack off. The Alversons live on Hill Street and the lawns are pretty steep. Sounds worse than a one-way street to us. -J The strange can pictured below was purchased at a local store by Scout Product ion Manager, Jim Morgan last week. No, It hasn't been open ed so we don't know what is inside. The question on our minds is, how would you pro perly advertise it? "Fley, Mible . . . Have a Coke???" Prizewords Worth $220 Extra Clues This Week Lath week tliere are only one or rwo Incorrect letter s In oar prlzeword puzzle, keeping someone from winning the jackpot. So to make things easier we're going to give rwo correct answers to this week's puzzle. We want a winner and this could he your lucky week. Here they a re I The correct answer to Number Seven across Is (S) and the correct answer to Number Nine town 19 (K). Turn to IJage 3 right now and enter as many times as you wish. With this extra p JR o rijij rr sm! E A L T H 1 E R A ABA S E D ItiJ s, S E ! I c ' H L 1 "f e 'a ' D E D !"d O G rR E E N T Tl A s P' [D U L | L help you could be the winner. Remember there is $J20 riding on this one. Youth Drowns In Lake Despite Rescue Efforts MURPHY - A Cherokee County youth who tried to swim across an arm of Hiwassee Lake. Monday afternoon fad ed and drowned, despite res cue ef.orts of several compan ions. The victim was Donald Bal lew. 17. of the Wolf Creek section of Cherokee County, not far from Copperhill.Tenn. He drowned about 3d0 p.m. In the Caney Creek embayment three miles west of Murphy on U. S. 64. Coroner J. C. Town son said the death was acci dental. Larry Chastain. 16, Steve Helton, 18, and Tut Westmore land, 19, companions of Ballew and two Murphy youths, Clyde and Carl Thomas, all attempt ed to rescue Ballew, but their efforts were futile. Chastain gave this account of the accident: The four youths from Wolf Creek were standing on a culvert at the highway side of the lake. De ciding to play water tag, all the boys with the exception of Ballew dove into the water and began swimming across. Ballew dove in last, swam back to the culvert and dove off again. By this time his three companions had almost reach ed the other side. Ballew cried for help and turned to swim back to the culvert. Chastain and West moreland began swimming back across the embayment while Helton grabbed an inner tube and ran around the shore line. Clyde and Carl Thomas seeing Ballew in trouble, also began swimming across the lake to his aid. Chastain reached Ballew first, but was pulled beneath the surface. Exhausted from the long swim, he had tomake for shore. Clyde Thomas was the second to reach Ballew. Dur ing the struggle, he was pul led beneath the surface twice and was unable to hold on un til the other boys arrived. The Cherokee County Res cue Squad recovered the body from about fifteen feet of water using scuba diving equipment. Ballew was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Ballew, Copper hill, Rt. 1. The body was taken to Chastain-Pack Funeral Home in Copperhill. Surviving in addition to the parents are four brothers, Charles Edward. Danny Jack son, Troy Monroe and Tommy Lee of the home; a sister, Mrs. Shelby Jean Duvall of Alaska; the grandparents, W. M. Ballew, Mrs. GalleBallew, Sign Of Welcome RALEIGH " Many North Carolina automobiles are be ginning to display a Welcome to North Carolina" license tag as a salute to the state s tourists. Robert T. Ellen, Jr., of Winston-Salem, President of the Travel Council of North Carolina, said that the tags are now on sale and are be ginning to appear on cars throughout the state The tags are duplicates of the official "Welcome to North Carolina" signs recently Inst alled by the State Highway Co mission on major highways entering the state and at the larger airports. The tag is 6 by 12 Inches and features the State flag in full color on a green background. "The purpose of the tag is twofold," Ellen said. "First we want to let tourists knew that we are glad to have them in North Carolina, and sec ondly, we want our own cit izens to be more conscious of tourism and what it means to our economy.' The tigs sell for $2.00, in eluding postage, and may be ordered from the Travel Cou ncil of North Carolina, Inc., Post Office Box 1063, Raleigh. and j. R Ei^iJew, all ot Cop perhtll, Rt. 1. Services will btr held at 2 p.m. Thursday (today) at 1 ei:: ple baptist Church in Chero kee County. I he Rev. Edward Le-dford will officiate andburtal will be in the church cemetery. Topton Wreck Kills Couple IOPTON- A retired Florida couple was killed and a Surry County man was badly injured on U. S. 19 near here Sunday night when iheir cars collided. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. Bryan J. Smoot of Lehigh AcresJ'la. summer residents here. Takento District Mem orial Hospital in Andrews was Richard T. Osborne, 39. of El kin. A small dog belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Smoot was also killed In the accident. The dog had been a pet of the couple for the past 20 years. State Trooper Don Reavis investigated the 10:30 p.m. crash and reported that Os borne's car apparently was on the wrong side of the highway. He said Osborne suffered a broken pelvis, several broken ribs, a broken leg, and head injuries. A hospital report Monday night listed him as slightly improved. Mr. Smoot was 67, his wife 73. They were a Lafayettejnd. farm couple be/ore settling In Florida. The only known survivor is Mrs. Snoot's sister, Mrs. Mary Miller of Lafayette,lnd. The bodies were taken by Ivie Funeral Home to Lafaye tte, Ind. for burial. Junior Lifesaving Begins Here Monday MURPHY - A two-week course in Junior Lifesaving will begin Monday, July 5, at the Murphy swimming pool. Each class will last from ien until noon. Instruction will be given five days per week, and a registration fee of |2 will be charged. Anyone from age twelve to fifteen or anyone in or be tween the seventh and tenth grade may enroll in this course. At the conclusion of this course, the students should be aware of the causes of acci dents around a swimming area, how accidents can be prevented, and how a drowning person can be assisted. "Ho Fees" To Be Charged In Smokies WASHINGTON -Congress man Roy A. Taylor has ann ounced that no fees of any kind will be charged this sum mer for the use of recreat ion areas In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Rep. Taylor was given this assurance Friday by George B. Hartzog, National Park Service Director. Hartzog said the decision was the result of an amend ment added by Taylor to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act which specifically prohibits entrance fees in the Great Smokies. The national parks direct or indicated that he will soon propose a schedule of entrance charges for designated camp grounds along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Under the provisions of the act, the schedule must be sub mitted to the Governor at least 60 days before it car become effective. "It seems unlikely that fees would be Imposed at Parkway ampgrounds earlier than September," Taylor said. AC Rc-SS: 1. Ai d r Je, the mure i etle*. tlvea man is the :: ?. rc ^ m.iiUcratc he's likely 10 be toward someone who ii> LRO&S (Cras-j. Crasb means grossly stupid; a reflective ina virtually al ways considerate toward such a person. A a rule is better with CROSS. the person's crossness could be a .^ed by sheer ill-humor, and deserve no consideration. o. Wvie:. we're WEALIHIER than acquaint*: es we tend to be condescending toward them (Healthier).- Healthier is weak. We might not know acquaintances' real state health. Cond escension is more likely when we're WEALTHIER. 6. W e're apt to despise a man who meekly allow a bully ABASE him (Abuse).- Because ABASE to h -..rniiiaie, goes so tar, yo.i might think apt understates. But the vutii:: might have no alternatives to submission. Abuse n milder, and despise, a very strong term, is hardly called * r. 11. Many a cynic tends to undervalue his L1I E until the latter is in danger (Wife).- The cynic habitually underrates the value of his Wife. He does not discover new n er.ts or greater virtues when she is lri danger. LIFE is better, its' impossible to be cynical about personal survival. 13. We naturally feel some resentment when hostile - riticism of us has been AIRED by a close friend (Aired).- Nor Aired; the friend might merely tell us about-the cr:t.? ism. AIDED goes further; the friend has assisted in the criticism. 14. It's usually foolish knowingly to venture close to u dangerous DOG (Bog).- DOG makes a sensible statement; the animal is dangerous, and coming close might cause the a iimal to attack. If you knowingly venture close to a Bog you know what you're doing. The Bog can't move toward you on its own. 15. We're apt to feel small when we say we car, make a person REPENT and he doesn't do it (Relent).- REPENT is better. It unplies we are going to avenge something, perhaps by using force. With Relent, only our ability to persuade him is re quired. 16. When a young man falls In love his friends tend to consider him DULL (Gull).- There's no reason to consider him a Gull, a person easily tricked. They themselves might be, or might have been, in the same position. DULL is more reasonable; he's probably preoccupied with the girl. down; 2. It's seldom difficult for a woman tc REAL the feelings of a man in love with her (Rend).- Seldom difficult allows for the times he wants to conceal those feelings. In those cases, she'll find it hard to READ, to understand them. To Rend his feelings is never difficult; all she need do is to rebuff hur.. 3. STALE scenes call for much skill to capture a:; audience's interest (Stage).- Not Stage; the audience is there to be enter tained; it applies to any stage scene. But a STALE scene is one that is trite, worn-out, overdone, it's very difficult to make such a scene seem interesting. 4. An ambitious worker is usually reluctant to change his job for one at which he thinks he'll make MESS (Less).- Less is weak. The job might offer greater opportunities for ad vancement. MESS is reasonable; he thinks he'll fail - that would mar his record. 7. Frightened people are often slid to resemble SHEEP (Sheet). SHEEP is better because of the plurality of people, the fre quency of often and the broadness of resemble. The phrase "white 3s a Sheet" is normally applied to an individual. 8. Persons with a LEGAL manner are sometimes rather in timidating (Regal).- The moderation in sometimes and rather fits well with LEGAL; to the Layman those of the legal world are apt to be bewildering. Regal, with a royal air, calls for at least often. 9. The convalescent usually needs special CARE (Fare). Fare is weak because much depends on what he's convales cing from; it might be a physical injury and he might not need special food. CAHE is better. It covers a wide field. 10. TIES are of little consequence to the practiced philanderer (Lies).- Not Lies; the lies he tells are normally well prepared and carefully phrased. But, to such a person, TIES don't constitute a serious obstacle; he holds no allegiances. 12. As a rule, the more vainaperson is the easier it is to FOIL him (Fool).- In this sense, Fool is too strong a term and the statement is too sweeping. FOIL doesn't go quite so far, and fits better with as a rule. Ceremony Launches Project Head Start MURPHY- Murphy City Schools and the Town of Mur phy joined with the White House and 2,300 other comm unities throughout the Nation Wednesday, June 30, to mark the launching of Project HEAD START. Mayor L. L. Mason offici ated at a ceremony held at City Hall at 2:00 o clock. In the presence of civic and ed ucation ofllcials and principal representatives from the Murphy City Child Develop ment Center, he raised a spec ially designed HEAD START flag over City Hall in tri bute to the many business men, doctors,lawyers,house wives, teachers, nurses, and volunteers who are making Project HEAD START possi ble in our community. On the same day, in a cere mony at the White House, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, honorary chairman of Project HEAD Start, received from Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, a flag symbolizing the thous ands of flags which will be flown across the country to mark HEAD START DAY. OEO officials say that it is planned later to award flags to individual centers on the basis of their achievement and merit in attaining the requir ed standards and objectives of the program. Project HEADSTART is ad ministered by the Office of Ec onomic Opportunity, the fed eral agency which coordinates the War on Poverty. It is designed to provide more than one-half million children of the poor with an eight-week's pre-school training, to pre pare them for entry into school in the fall. Without this train ing, these dis-advantaged children would find it hard to take their place beside their more fortunate classmates. Thye will literally be given a "Head Start". The children will be en rolled in more than 13,500 Child Development Centers across the country using the services of nearly 40,000pro fessionals. More than 42,000 neighborhood residents will assist the professional staff in paid capacities. Hall a million volunteers are being called for to fill approximat ely 100,000 non-paying jobs. The cost of the program is $94.4 million of which the fed eral share is $85 million. Rock Gym Opens For Recreation MURPHY - Folloving the pattern of past years, the Mur phy Summer Recreation De partment has opened the rock gym for public recreation. The gym is open six days per week from eight until noon. There is no admission charged. Housed in the gym are fac ilities for basketball, table tennis, weight training, vol leyball, badminton, and rope skipping. For those who like outdoor sports, there are two tennis courts nearby and also a large field for the football and baseball enthusiasts. A highly skilled supervisor is on hand at all times to give advice in all the sports. That friendly advice coupled with a little exercise can pro duce an enjoyable morning for anyone. 'Miss Hiwassee Lake" To Be Chosen Friday P am C K o ? to i CIn g?r M oun ey Sh i r I ey Cole C oro t McRoe Becky Former Dorothy Oliver Lourit Hardin Judy Rogers J?an n i e J am e * Chorlotte Stolcup Rosalind Johnson J on I? Tipton Ml'RPHY- I fie "Mis-, Hi wassee Lake" , ontest, uiider t.'ir sponsorship ol tfie Murphy jayiees, will get underway at the Murphy Swimming Pool, Friday a; 2:00 p.m. The ? rcwut.g ,4 Miss Hiwassee Lake lor lJtsb is the lead-ol! event tor the big Pake Hi wassee Water Festival plan ned lor Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. In rase ol ram, tfie contest will he hejd in the Rock Gym. I he Murphy Business and Fr.-tessional Womens Club is i