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istfv The Cherokee ?m Scout and Clay Cdunty Progress Volume 75 ? Number 8 Murphy, North Carolina September 16, 1965 12 Pages This Week ^murphy*?>bt"c*bolu?a coutlets -J Once again the Fair has come and gone, but this year's fair leaves an impression on many Jaycees they won't soon forget. We're talking about the "Dunk-A-Jaycee" tank at the fair and on behalf of the Murphy Jaycees, I say thanks to all the folks who threw base balls at us and made the pro ject successful. A special thanks and a tip oftheScoutlet hat goes to J. H. Duncan who took time from his busy schedule, donned a clown suit and entertained the children on the fair's "Kiddie Day". Thursday. Proceeds from the project go to construct a build ing to house T.V. translator equipment on top of Fain Mountain. -J A Cherokee County resident (S.C., that is) says this story is making the rounds in his part of the county. It seems that a man who weighed 350 pounds decided to go on a to bacco diet. He didn't eat any thing for 30 days and just smoked, dipped and chewed. At the end of this period, he weighed only 110 pounds in a casket, of course. -J A couple o( guys down at the boat dock at Hiwassee Dam decided to have some fun out of Bergan Moore but Bergan was smarter than the average bear, and the whole thing backfired. Bergan was making his regular bread run at the dock and a couple of fellows were trying to get him to go fishing - telling him how many fish were in the area. No sooner was it said, the water began to splash and it looked like a whale was having a party a few yards off shore. Well, ole Bergan is a disbeliever so he got in his bread truck and went up on a hill so he could see down in the lake. What he saw was a man in a scuba diving outfit just under the water and flipping his fins so as it would look like a fish. -J Here's another nifty thats making the rounds. It's about a man who had decided grad ually to give up everything that scientists have linked to cancer. The first week, he cut out smoked fish and char coal steaks. The second week, he cut out smoking. The third week, he cut out women. The fourth week, he cut out drink ing. The fifth week, he cut out paper dolls. -J According to Mrs. Frances Malcomson of Shelby, afriend of hers faced stomach sur gery after suffering a severe attack of ulcers. The patient was wheeled into the operating room and when the sheet was pulled from over her so the doctors could begin operating, personnel in surgery received the surprise of their lives. The patient had written a mes sage in red ink on her stomach and it read: "Open With Care, Thanks." -J Harry "Cuz" Bagley allow ed this week that he received a bill from Providence Hos pital for $250/WO." Undoubted ly a secretarygraphical err or", says Cuz, it should have been for $25.00. Out of the goodness of his heart, Cuz sent them a check for $250,000 and asked for a receipt so as he could claim a medical de duction. Scoutlet Note: Won der how much his insurance policy paid. -J Sign in an antique shop win dow: "There's no present like the past." -J Here's a statement that app eared in a religious publicat ion that should cause you to stop and think. It goes like this: "The only people we should want to get even with are those who have helped us." Scoutlet Note: Just think how much better off the world would be if folks would put this philosophy into practice. -J Last Note: There was a group gathered around the other day talking about get ting up a golf match for the weekend. Somebody asked, "Does Jay Phillips hit a long ball", and Jim Morgan an swered, "No, he hits one of them round kind." -J Six Far Western Counties Will Join In Appalachian Plan The state's six westernmost counties are expected to join together soon as a local dev elopment district of the App alachian program. A 12-member steering co mmittee, appointed at a special meeting with officials of the State Planning Task Force in Bryson City, Wed nesday night, was authorized to develop machinery for set ting up the organization. Jennings Bruson, a Sylva banker and former president of the Western North Carolina Planning Commission, was named chairman of the steer ins committee which will hold its first meeting here early in October. The steering committee, composed of two members from each of the counties, is: Cherokee - Percy B. Fere bee, Andrews, and J. H. Dun can, Murphy. Clay - W. T. Groves, and W. A. McGlamery of Hayes ville. Graham - L. W. Wilson, Robbinsville, and O. A. Fetch, Fontana Village. Jackson - Bryson and Dr. Carl D. Killian, Cullowhee. Macon - Bob Sloan and H. Bueck of Franklin. Swain - Frell Owl, cnero kee, and Jack Lyday, Bryson City. The local development dis trict for the six-county area would be a non-profit body certified to the Appalachian Regional Commission by Gov. Dan K. Moore and chartered under North Carolina laws. John Hampton, coordinator of the State Planning Task Force, told some 60 leaders from the six counties at the Bryson City meeting that "one of the most important concepts of the Appalachian program is the local development dis trict." He explained that "this is a total comprehensvie program for our development than can be handled only on a district basis and not on a county basis." "It will be up to the local development district," Ham pton said, "to come up with projects mat wtu Denein me whole area and thereby qualify for Appalachian funds." The Appalachian Act, Ham pton explained, provides for administrative grants to a local development district up to 75 per cent of cost for a maximum of three years, and [hat the 25 per cent matching portion can be in cash or kind "Such organizations," he said, "can be the local focal points for all developmental programs." Also appearing with Hamp ton at the meeting was Wood row Jones, director of the State Planning Task Force, who gave an overall rundown on the Appalachian program as it will apply to Western North Carolina. Jones discussed the pro gram's development high ways, pointing out that two of the major corridors will run west from Lake Junaluska, which will be builtl to 1975 standards. This means, he said, that if traffic experts come up with facts and figures to show that these corridors will need four lanes to handle traffic in 1975, they will be built to those specifications in the beg inning. "The greatest need in Wes tern North Carolina is roads to the outside," Jones said, "and if we get the roads we can solve our other problems." In touching on the local development district phase, Jones said "emphasis is being placed on regional planning and we want counties that can work together to form districts." Unaka School Gets 168 Library Books UNAKA - Buiite E. Moore, Principal of Unaka Elemen tary School, announced that the school has received 168 books to add to their library. The books, including relig ious, history, fiction and ref erence material, were a don ation by Walter R. Martin. "Thanks to Mr. Martin, we now have an 804 volume lib rary and as this figure in creases, we will be a more progressive school." Mr. Moore said. Legislation By Forsyth Three-County FHA Program Announced WASHINGTON - A new Farmers Home Adminis tration Program, to help sti mulate the lagging economies of three Western North Car olina counties, was officially launched here Thursday, 11th District Representative Roy A. Taylor announced. The project designates Clay, Cherokee and Graham counties as a pilot area el igible to receive rural renewal loans and technical assistance from F. H. A. It is one of six similar projects in the nation. Taylor commended local leaders and State FHA Direc tor Melvin Hearn for their cooperative efforts over a two year preiod to gain the pro gram for North Carolina. Administrative responsib ilities will be vested largely in a local rural renewal org anization composed of repres entatives of the tri-county area. It will operate under auth ority granted by the 1965 North Carolina General Assembly as the result of special legis lation offered by Sen W. Frank Forsyth of Murphy. New Faculty Members Honored With Dinner The Murphy City Adminis trative unit of the North Car olina Education Association enjoyed a covered dish dinner at the Murphy Elementary School lunchroom on Monday evening, September 13, 1965 honoring the new faculty mem bers. Mrs. Emma Louise Minor served as chairman of the arrangements committee with Mrs. Velam Burch, Mrs. Bar bara McConnell and Mrs. Patsy Hendrix assisting her. The beautiful flowers used for table decorations were grown and arranged by Mrs. Olive Williams. Mrs. Pauline Bauit was in charge of the buffet table. A novel way of finding places to sit at the table created much fun and fellowship. Door prizes were given to the lucky number drawn for a lady and a man. The next meeting will be a business meeting to be held in October. On September 8, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Minor enter tained with a tea attheirhome on Ranger Road honoring the new high school teachers. The tea table was beautifully dec orated with pink snapdragons as a center piece. Mrs. Velma BurchandMrs. Patsy Hendrix assisted Mrs. Minor in serving. Project assistance wui De kept flexible to meet a variety of rural community needs,de pending on local conditions. Aid will be in the field of housing, development of re creation resources, land and timber improvement, water conservation and utilization and many others. Attraction of new industires will be a chief concern of the local organization. Hearn has announced he will assign a special assistant to the area to help develop and implement the new program. The state FHA director said limited funds to inaugurate the project are now available, with additional funds expected from normal Agriculture Depart ment appropriations. PRESENTS CERTIFICATE - HollandMcSwain.ResidentDir actor of the Tri-County Industrial Education Center, presents a certificate of high school equivalence to Mrs. Frankie Lee Crawford. She is the first Andrews resident to graduate from the center. Mother Of Five Receives High School Certificate Holland McSwain, Resident Director of the Tri-County Industrial Education Center, presented Mrs. Frankie Lee Crawford a Certificate of High School Equivalency this week. She is the first Andrews graduate of the program. She dropped out of school in the 10th grade and now has five children, the oldest an eighth grade student at Andrews Ele mentary School. Mrs. Crawford, an em ployee at Owenby Mfg, Co. in Andrews, attended classes in Murphy for ten weeks with perfect attendance and then enrolled in Andrews classes for another ten weeks. Classes meet two nights weekly, for three hours each night. Mrs. Crawford said that she is proud of her certificate and feels that the adult education program offers a much needed opportunity for per sons who want to improve their educational background and perhaps go on to higher educ ation. Mr. McSwain stated that more then 100 persons have been enrolled in the Tri County program and at least eight have qualified for the certificates. About 20 others are ready to take the General Educational Development Test which is the basis for granting certificates. Mrs. Crawford is married to William Doyle Crawford, retired U. S. Navy, presently working for U. S. Civil Service Commission in Char leston, S. C. Electrical Classes To Begin Sept. 21 Electrical classes will begin Tuesday night, Sep tember 21, at 6:30 o'clock. The class will meet each Tuesday and Thursday nights for ten weeks, and the hours will be from 6:30 to 9:00 each night. The first three or four meetings will be at the Murphy High School building. The only cost to residents of North Carolina will be a small fee to pay for textbooks and any other instructional materials. Any person age eighteen and over, or a high school grad uate, trill be eligible to enroll. This course is sponsored by Tri-County Industrial Educ ation Center and classes trill be under the instruction of L. D. "Red" Schuyler,Chero kee County Electrical Ins pector. Highway Survey Parties To Begin Work Today RALEIGH- State Highway Commission survey parties will begin preliminary work Thursday, September 16, on a portion of the Appalachian Farm Federation To Support $300,000 Road Bond Issue RALEIGH, N. C. - North Carolina's largest general farm organization will lend its support to the state's $300 million road bond issue, an organization spokesman ann ounced today. B. C. Mangum, president of the N. C. Farm Bureau Federation, said the farm group's support stems from official policies which call for "an up-grading of our highway system, with appropriate con sideration being given to rural roads in the allocation of funds." uie w sc?ci?^i icies, said Mangurn, the N. C. Farm Bureau board of direc tors recently voted to back the road bond issue. The organ ization reports a membership of over 61,000 farm family members in North Carolina. "We will urge all of our members to support this im portant issue." said Mangum. we are organizes in every county, and feel that a fav orable vote is vital to con tinued progress in every co unty." The road bond act earmarks $150 million for the rural primary system of state high ways, $75 million for second ary roads, and $75 millionfor use in incorporated urban areas. "Road improvements made possible by these funds would mean a lot to North Carolina agriculture," said Mangum. program in the vicinity of And rews. , State Highway officials stressed in advance that the work, preliminary to im provement of US 19-129 from Topton to four miles west of Murphy, will not indicate the exact route of the highways. They urged residents of the area not to assume that survey stakes used in the work in dicates the final route. "h is merely a preliminary investigation of a route and may possibly be as much as a mile wide, said Photogram metric Engineer E. J. Page. "Once the corridor has been studied, the final location line will be staked at a later date. The first stakes have very lit tle bearing on the final line, but merely indicate a broad general corridor." page aaaea uui uic work ts merely to develop con tour maps from which roadway design engineers then can de termine the best route through the area. It is sometimes a year afterward before the location department puts in the actual stakes. Page said about 20 highway survey employees will be in volved in this preliminary work. State Highway Commissi oner W. Curtis Russ and Div ision Engineer A. J. Hughes reports the completion of more than 48 miles of road improvement in Cherokee, Haywood, Henderson, Macon, Polk, Translvania, Swain and Jackson. In Cherokee County the fol lowing roads were improved: SR 1100, 0.60 mile; SR 1305, 0.70 mile; SR 1383, 0.30 mile; SR 1551, 0.70; Sr. 1550, 0.50; SR 1509 , 0.20; SR 1116, 3.0; SR 1120, 2.4; SR 1577,1.3; SR 1578 , 0.20 and SR 1580, 0.8a Greensboro Police Department Seek Recruits From W.N.C. A team of personnel speci alists from the Greensboro Police Department will be in Murphy on Monday, Septem ber 20, to interview young men interested in beginning a pol ice career in Greensboro. The team will be headed by the Greensboro department's training division commander, Lt. G. A. Seay, a former homicide detective and vet eran of 13 years in the police profession. Patrolmen in Greensboro start at $400 a month for a 42-hour week and may ad vance to $513 a month while still in the patrolman grade. In addition they are eligible for promotion to sergeant af ter four years and begin draw ing longevity pay after five years. The department offers both retirement and insurance plans to its 227 officers, and as members of one of North Carolina's most modern law enforcement agencies numer ous schools and training pro grams are available to tnem. After recruit school and ex tended experience in the de partment's patrol division, patrolmen may be transfer red, upon request, into detect ive, vice, juvenile, or traffic work. The North Carolina Em ployment Security Commi ssion is cooperating with pol ice officials in next week's western North Carolina re cruiting drive and applicants may make appointments with Lieutenant Seay through the local ESC office. A cadet program in the de partment is open to high school graduates interested in polic ing who have not reached their 21st birthday, and the police team visiting here next week will interview candidates for that program. Cadets who are 18 years of age earn $328 a month, those 19 earn $345 and those 20 earn ?362. Upon reaching 21 years of age, cadets become sworn officers. Agricultural Sac. To Address Farm Mootiag RALEIGH ? Secretary of Agriculture Orvclle Freeman will address the annual joint meeting of two farm coopera tives here October 1. ? This will mark the second appearance of the cabinet offi cial before members of the Farmers Cooperative Ex change and the Carolines Cotton Growers Association. He spoke previously in 1961, his first year as a member of the Kennedy cabinet. G. D. Arndt, Raleigh, gen eral manager of the two farm organizations, expressed himself as being highly pleas ed that the Secretary saw fit to accept the invitation for a return visit. "We ere highly honored," he seid, "to hkve this distin guished member of the Presi dent's cabinet take time out from a most busy and demand ing schedule to be with us for our annual meeting." Governor of Minnesota for three terms. Secretary Free man is married to a North Carolinian, the former Jane C. Shields of Winston-Salem. Arndt said this year's meet ing will be held in Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium and is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. 1 Official business will in* elude the election of three Con on Association directors and four FCX directors. Nom inated for re-election at Association district meetings were R. Hunter Pope,Enfield; Paul D. Grady, Keolv; and TA. Upchurch, Jr., Raetord. FCX nominees for three year terms to represent their districts are Lambert Lewis, Pembroke, now serving ae president of FCX: Rupert Rhodes, Walterbore, A. C., al so a member of dw board; Minimi g. Greenlee. Htr'? and H. P. Jenkins, Ptnetops. Water Is Area's Most Abundant Resources (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the thtad in a series of five articles concerning the work groups of the Upper Hi was see Watershed Development Association and their findings in a recent Inventory of five counties in the Upper Hiwa ssee Valley. The five counties are Cherokee and Clay in North Carolina and Union, Towns and Fannin in Georgia.) In a day when many areas of the world are without ade quate supplies of good quality water free from pollution, the upper Hi was see Valley is for tunate. Pure water of good quality is one of its most ab uant resources according to a report on the area's re sources recently Issued by the Upper Hiawassee Watershed Development Association and TVA. Rainfall over the watershed averages 50 inches a year, and annual flows from the North Carolina and Georgia portions of the watershed would cover the whole water shed to a depth of 30 inches. Streamflow on the Hiwassee and Toccoa Rivers is contr olled by TVA impoundments. The most serious limitation on the supply is the fact that the streams tributary to the main rivers are not regulated, and stream/lows are low in the late summer and fall months. Little knowledge of low-flow situations on the unguaged small streams is available at present. Ground water is an impor tant source of supply. About half of the water systems in the area are supplied from ground-water sources,which are also the most common sources of water for the rural population, the report notes. The flood situation along the lower Hiwassee River was improved with the closure of Hiwassee Oam in 1940. Along the Upper Hiwassee River, closure of Nottely and Chatuge Dams in 1942 provided stor age for flood control. Despite the degree of flood protection provided by the dams, certain urban areas are still subject to flooding, among them Mur phy and Andrews, N. C., and McCaysville, Ga. Although most of the larger floods occur during the winter months when there are no growing crops, there can be heavy damage to rural areas. Roads, bridges, farm buildings, and fences often are damaged or des troyed. Top soil is washed away, and large deposits of sand, gravel, and river rock are left by the receding waters. Water use in the 5-county area is small when compared with the supply. Only 3,700 acre-feet is withdrawn each year from the 2.3 million acre-feet available. Of the 3, 700 acre-feet withdrawn, 1,000 acre-feet is used up and never returned to ground water sources or surface str eams. Per capita use of about 125 gallons per day is slightly below national per capita use of 150 gallons per day. Pollution is not a serious problem in the area. Most of the communities have recently constructed waste treatment facilities or have them in the planning stage. No significant industrial wastes are dis charged to surface streams. In fact, the report sates, most water-using Industries dis charge directly to municipal systems. Any future increases in pop ulation or expansions in indus try will increase the pollution loads of the streams. The smaller streams of the area, because of poorly susulned flows, cannot be used for waste dilution. However, the main streams - the Toccoa, Hiwa ssee, Valley, and Nottely Rivers - have large unused capacities for waste assimil ation and therfore will be real assets to area economic development. Several profound changes took place in upper Hi was see agriculture from 1950 to 1959. The most obvious change was the decline in the number of farms. During the decade, nearly 2,500 farms went out of operation, representing a 41 percent decline. Even more dramatic have been the changes within the classes of farms. All classes declined in number except the comm ercial class, that Is, farms with $2,500 or more in sales. The number of commercial farms increased 345 percent. There has also been a pro nounced increase in the prop ortion of farmer s working off the farm. As part of its resource development program for the 5-county upper Hi was see Valley, the Upper Hiwassee Watershed Development Ass ociation surveyedthe local ag ricultural resources. It is estimated that about one-fifth of the land in the valley is suitable for cropland and pasture. The major portion of these soils is in Fannin and Union Counties. Changes were evident also in crop yields. The number of acres planted to corn and small grains declined, but yields increased. Like trends have occurred in the produc tion of Irish potatoes, comm ercial vegetable and fruit crops. According to die report, the most common types of farms are livestock and poultry. Most of the farm income in the upper Hiwassee Valley is from the sale of poultry and poultry products. This one source accounted for some |7 million of the total of $9 million realized from farm products. Fifty-four percent was from the sale of eggs and 37 percent from broilers. In view of die limited amount of tillable soil, the report con cludes that the future of agri culture in the upper Hiawassee Valley lies in more intensive cultivation of high-value crops and in poultry, neither of which requires large land holdings.