The CHEROKEE Scout and Clan County Progress MUilttiY LiBHkHY tfUitffil H C SAMPLE Volume 76 - Number 12 Murphy, North Corolino October 14, 1965 14 Pages This Week ?tf ON0 VI.ASS POSTAOC PAID AT MURPHY. NORTH CAROUMA > coutlets ' There comes a time in every man's life when he should re frain from taking a vacation. Especially when his wife says "Take the week off and catch up on all die little odd jobs around the house and then youTl be free to play golf on Saturdays." Well, I'm here to tell you folks that I paint ed, cut bushes, painted, hung wallpaper, painted, put down floor tile, painted. ... and painted. I'm still not through. To top it off, I go back to work Mondav, walk in, say "Hi-ya gang*\ and everybody gives me a look like, "Ya been somewhere." VACA TIONS - Bah- Humbug. -J We received a note from a Scoutlet reader the other day stating: "I am afraid that a few men have been voting in all elections unlawfully. Do you know that the North Carolina Constitution (Article 2, Section 6) provides that wife beaters are disqualified from voting." Scoutlet Note: We ditki't know that. Wonder what the Constitution would have to say about husband beaters. If you watched the first game of the World Series on TV, you probably noticed that when the Dodgers were forced to pull out a pitcher, the organist at the Minnesota Twins' stadium provided background music. It seems that as the retiring pitcher trudges to the dugout and the new pitcher wanders in from the bull pen to take his warm-up tosses, the or ganist serenades them with There'll be Some Changes Made." Rev. H. C. Witter, minister of the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Murphy proved that you can't keep a good man down, a couple of Sunday sago. Rev. Ham had conducted an early morning service in Hayesville and was on his way back to Murphy when he ran out of gas at Peachtree. He calmly got out of his car, poked a thumb at the first car to come by (we don't know if he pulled his pants leg up or not), hitched a ride to Mur phy, and conducted the Sunday morning service here as usual. If you have any idea of crossing the FBI Department of the law around here, we ad vise you to forget it. FBI Agent, Thomas Gibbs, who works this area out of Bry son City, is really a fast gun. Agent Gibbs can draw his 38, fire and hit the target in fifty nine one-hundreth of a second. Of the many FBI Schools he has attended, he has never been topped on the firing range. From this corner he respectfully earns the nick name, "Quick-Draw." -T Boo's and a basket of thorns to the person who borrowed our little girl's bicycle from our yard. The bike was found in a ditch about two blocks from home with the fender bent in and the spokes kicked out. We don't mind someone else riding the bike, but we frown on the vandalism. State Trooper Ed Hooper, from up Andrews way, recent ly directed traffic at the Cleveland County Fair In Shelby, N. C. "Hoop" said that It was a tremendous fair with a paid attendance on Sat urday night of 10,000 people. "1 know that many people were there". Hooper said, "every one of them drove a car." We understand there's been some "monkey business" go ing on down at the Southern Railway Depot. A lady from Hiawassee, Ga. came to the depot to pick up a squirrel monkey that had been ordered from Miami, Fla. Boyd Ro gers put the cage in the ladies car and returned inside. In a few minutes the lady came back in, said that she had let the monkey out of the cage and needed some help to open the hood of her car. The mon key had scampered into an air vent from Inside the car and gone under the hood. Boyd raised the hood and batwed around on the air vent time, but the monkey wouldn't come out. Then the lady drove her car to den Taylor's App liance Itapalr Store for help. Altar much poking aroead in the air mat tuba, the mon key finally came om. Ufa ? a "tiger lnyour 3 County Rood Meeting Set For Sat. At Court House MURPHY - A three county road meeting will be held Saturday, October 13, 7:30 p. m. at the Murphy Court House. Isaac Hawley 0"Hanlon. Re presentative from Cumber land County, will be the main speaker. 0*H anion, traveling at his own expense, will ex plain the $300,000,000 ? Road Bond Issue that Is to be voted on November 2. Saturday night's meeting will be an open meeting and the public Is urged to attend to better understand the Road Bond Issue. Most emphasis is being placed on the fact that Road Bonds will not place any tax burden on the public. The one cent per gallon tax on gasoline, which Is already In effect, will take care of the Road Bonds. A question and answer per iod will be held following the meeting and any questions pertaining to the Road Bonds will be answered as clearly as possible. At a meeting on October 11 at Fontana Village, W. Curtis Russ, Highway Comm issioner for the 14th District, Town Endorses Rood Bond Vote MURPHY- Mayor L. L. Mason, Jr. and the Murphy Town Board of Commission ers have unanimously endors ed the $300 million road bond Issue that is to be voted on by the people of North Caro lina in an election to be held November 3. The Mayor and Board also endorsed the constitutional amendment authorizing the Immediate Court of Appeals. This amendment will also be voted for or against in the election. The November 2nd election gives you a chance to exercise your right as a voter to ex press your opinion as to whet her you are for or against these issues. Be sure you are heard from by voting November 2, 1965. Mayor Proclaims Sight Saving Month MURPHY- Mayor L.L.Ma son, Jr. has proclaimed Octo ber as "Sight Saving Month." Mayor Mason issued the foll owing statement, in the form of a proclamation when called upon this week: "In cooperation with The National Society for the Pre vention of Blindness, The North Carolina Association for the Blind, The North Caro lina State Commission for the Blind, and the Murphy Lions Club, I hereby designate Oct ober as 'Sight Saving Month' and I call upon my fellow citi zens of this community to con serve the vital resource of good vision by learning the habits of good eye care, and by supporting research eff orts which will help all men enjoy the blessing of healthy eyesight." Erwfa To Mango Eaiploymeat Office MURPHY- Mr. Henry G. Parker, Area Supervisor of the Employment Security Commission of N. C., announ ces the appointment of Charles N. Erwin, Jr. to Manager of the local Employment Security Commission office in Murphy. Mr. Erwin was supervisor of the Industrial Placement section in the Ashevllle Em ployment Security Commiss ion office prior to his appoint ment. A graduate of ClemsooCol a|e, Mr. Erwin served as an antry Lieutenant in Ger many prior to Joining the Em ployment Security Commis sion in UML While in Ashe vllle he served as president of the men of the Church Kemilworth Presbyterian and also on to board of deacons. He also was active in the Junior Chamber of Commerce and United Fund Drives. Mr. Irwin Is married to the Miss Linda ShCms of emphasized that the coon ties that worked together with no (actlonlsms will be the coin ties that will receive the most help. "We must work together," Mr. Russ said. Brumby To Direct Road Vote The appointment of Mrs. Mary Faye Brumby of Mur phy as Cherokee County Cha irman of the Governor's Co mmittee for Better Roads was announced Tuesday by Robert P. Holding Jr., of Smithfield Governor's Committee chair man. Mrs* DruriiD^(f\cprcicjiwii ive from Cherokee County, will be assisted by Harry Bishop and J. Doyle Burch. Bishop and Burch were named co-chairman of the Governor's Committee for Better Roads in Cherokee Co unty. A local committee will be set up to coordinate all ed ucational efforts in the county in behalf of the $300 million road bond issue, which will be voted on November 2. Materials used in the pro motional effort include many thousands of bumper strips, printed brochures and plac ards. The bond issue would en able the state to meet more than three-fourths of its total road needs in the next five years without increasing taxes. Holding said. More than a hundred town and county governing boards and civic organizations have endorsed the bond issue, he said. The county campaign will be aimed at informing voters of the benefits of the bond issue to every citizen of the state and getting out the vote on November 2, Holding said. Materials Manager Named At AFI ANDREWS - Ronald W. F ields has been appointed Materials Manager at And rews Furniture Industries, Inc. Formerly with theBruns wick Corporation in Marion, Virginia, Mr. Fields was Mat erial Control Manager for several years. Mr. Fields is a graduate of Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia. He will live in Andrews with his wife Anna and two children, Anna Elaine and Ronald Steven. 7th Grade Class To Hold Bake Sale MURPHY- Mrs. Jane Rey nold 7th Grade will have a bake sale, Saturday, October 16, on the Square in Murphy. Proceeds will go to the Harshaw Restoration Fund. 65 Boys Enter PP&K 18 Winners Announced MURPHY - In the Ford Motor Company Punt, Pass, and Kick contest sponsored by Burch Motors, Saturday, at the local athletic field, approxi mately 65 boys participated in six age groups. There were first, second, and third place winners in each group and these awards will be made Friday night prior to thefoot ball game between Murphy and Robbinsville. The contest was conducted by the Murphy Jay cees. A similar contest was held in all areas of the United States and from these winners the boys will advance until somebody is declared the best punter, passer, and kicker in theU. S. In die eight-year old group, first place went to Chris Mc Cornell, second, Michael James, and third, Phillip Dickey. Nine-year-old winn ers were Larry Hughes .Rusty Hughes and Mark Thompson in that order. Ten-year-old winners were Tim Ramsey, David Alexander, and Dele Al len. Eleven-year-old winn ers were Mike West, Mike Hughes, and Tommy Ramsey. Twelve year-old The contests were based on accuracy as well as dis tance. A white ribbon was stretched out down the middle of the athletic field and the boys were allowed one chance to punt, pass, and place kick the ball. The object was to punt, pass and kick the ball as far down field as possi ble and as close to the white ribbon as possible. A meas urement was made as to the distance down field and the distance away from the white ribbon was subtracted from that and that was the score. Football Point Standings Football contest winners snd points to date) Mrs. Fred Keener ,5 points Mr. Water Cole, S points Httfi Car ringer. ? points Janes Mq0?a. ?? Sandra K- Mints. S Jaw Celeerd. 3 Not A Side loader Although the dump truck above appeares to be unloading from the side, it wa9n't supposed to be. A weld on the truck broke and the bed overturned. The Highway Department vehicle was spreading gravel on the Murphy Elementary School grounds at the time of the accident. No one was injured. Improving Bulldogs Swamp Hayesville Yellow Jackets 41-0 By: Red Schuyler: The Murphy Bulldogs, im proving with every game, put victories back to back and now have made it two wins in a row by defeating the Hayes ville Yellow Jackets 41 to 0 last Friday night on the Yell ow-Jackets home field. This makes the Bulldog re cord thus far at four wins and two losses. This was the same record*- they held at this time last year but then they dropped the next four games winding up with a sea son's record of four wins and six losses. Which means that if they do not win anot her game they will have equal led last years record. If the Bulldogs continue to improve or even play as good as they have since the Sylva-Webster game they will improve this record quite a bit even though the remaining four games are rated as tough, very tough games. looming up in oruer wiu ue Robbinsville this Friday night on the home field. Rt&bins ville has one of the best teams that they have had in a long time and the Bulldogs will be out to avenge a defeat handed them last year. Bryson City follows Robbinsville Friday night, October 22, for the last home game for the Bull dogs. Bryson City is reported to be the strongest team in the Smoky Mountain Confer ence and in pre-season polls was picked to be the con ference champion. After the Bryson City game the Bulldogs take to the road playing the Andrews Wildcats in Andrews and then the last game of the season against Franklin in Franklin. If the Bulldogs can break even in the next four games they will have had a real good season. In the game in Hayesville Friday night the Bulldogs ran roughshod over a under manned Yellowjacketteam sc oring twenty one points in the first half and twenty points in the second half. Hayesville receiveo trie openiif kickofi with Rudy Dav enport taking the ball on the Hayesville 18 yard line and returned it to the Hayesville 25. On the second play from scrimmage, Hayesville fum bled and was recovered by Murphy on the twenty five. On the first play Stiles pic ked up 18 yards and a first down. Wells picked up three and on the next play Wayman hit paydirt for 6 points, the play covering four yards. Two minutes and eight seconds had gone by on the clock. Stiles ran the extra point. Hayes ville failed to pick up a first down on three running plays and Moore dropped back to his ten yard line to kick out. With no return on the kick, the bulldogs put it in play on the Bulldog forty yard line. With Wells picking up four and Stiles five yards, Wayman got another ten yards and a first down. On the next series 01 piays Stiles got 8 yards, and incom plete pass and an eleven yard run by Shields gave the Bull dogs another first down. Shi elds and Wells both pick up seven yards and another first down, placing the ball on the Hayesville 5. One yard by Stiles, then three yards by Shields and no gain by Stiles, its fourth and one and goal. Way man making a good call, passed to Shields in the end zone for the second TO. A pass to Johnny Rogers for the extra point was good with one minute and fifty three seconds remaining in the first quarter. Moore received tne next klckoff on his twenty five with an eight yard return. Penland picked up 2 yards .then Cheeks gained seven and a half, one foot short of a first down. On the next play Hayesville fumbled and Trantham re covered for Murphy on the Hayesville 39 as the first quarter ended. Stiles picked up twelve yards and a first down, Way man then picked up three yards then Wells three and on the next play Wayman heaved a pass to Wells for ten yards and Wells shook off about three would-be-tacklers and went the rest of the way for a touchdown. The play cover ing a total of about twenty yards. A pass to Roberson for the extra point made the score 21-0 with ten minutes and twenty-nine seconds re maining in the first half. In three plays, Hayes vtlle picked 19 their first down of the night. Four plays later, Hayes rllle has another first down. Hayesvllle suffers two penalties and are forced to kick out with Wayman recelv lqg Moore's Men on *e Bull It back down on a fifteen yard penalty. A pass from Wayman to Shields was good for twenty - five yards. A completed pass to Roberson picked up about fifteen yards. On the next play a pass to Shields was good to the ten yard line, but after taking possession of the ball, he dropped it andHayes ville recovered. Hayesville failed to gain and once again Moore is called on to kick. His kick carries to the Mur phy forty-five yard line with 17 seconds remaining. Way man's pass to Pickens was intercepted and the first half ended. To start the second half, Murphy kicked off to Moore to the Hayesville 30-yard line. Moore made a five-yard re turn. Two running plays and a completed pass to Moore netted Hayesville about twelve yards and a first down. Fail ing to gain in the next ser ies, Moore is forced to kick again. Moore got off a good kick and the ball was downed on the Bulldog 10-yard line, but a Murphy player roughed the kicker arid Hayesville took the penalty giving them a first down. Four plays later the Bull Jogs took over on the Bull Jog 35. Murphy failed to pick up the first down and Way man kicked to the Hayesville 30-yard line with no return. Hayesville failed to gain and once again they kicked to the Murphy 42-yard line. An eight yard run by Wells and a ten yard run by Shields gave Mur phy another first down. With Stiles and Wells run ning the ball to the Hayes ville six, Wayman faked a handofi and went the remain ing distance foraBulldogT.D. The try for the extra point was no good. Hayesville unable to move the ball after receiving the next kickoff had to give it back to the Bulldogs and the Bulldogs proceeded goal ward and picked up their fifth TO, with Wayman passing to Roberson for the last seven yards. On the try for the extra point, a Hayesville man intercepted Wayman's pass but it bounces out of his hands and Wells made a plunging dive for it and held on for the extra point. Two plays later, Frank Dickey intercepted a pass on the Hayesville 38 and ran un touched into the Hayesville end zone for another TD. Wayman's pass to Roberson was good for the extra point. Playing the last part of the game with numerous substit utes, Hayesville made their deepest penetration of the night, going to the Bulldogs 31-yard line. A few plays later the game ended with the score, Mtuphy 41, Hayesville, 0. The MurphyJayvees,having had their game with Hayes ville rained out did not see action last weak and will be on the road this Thursday night, traveling to Franklin trying to keep the perfect re cord of net having bean scor ed op rids year. Next Thurs day night is an open date and the Jayvees will wind vf the season the foUowtiw Thurs day id** by " la at 7190 pan. Deadline Drawing Close For AFI Special Edition The deadline for advertising copy to be placed In the Cherokee Scout and Clay County Progress' "Salute To Andrews Furniture Edition" is Thursday, October 21. It Is almost Impossible to contact everyone. If you have not been contacted and would like to place an ad vertisement In the Scout's Special Edition, welcoming Andrews Furniture Industries to Cherokee Coiaity, phone the Scots office - 837-5122 - and our representative will call on you. Over 2,500 Inches of advertisements has been sold for this Special Edition to make this one of the largest editions to be printed by The Cherokee Scout and Clay Cotnty Progress. Publication date Is tentatively set for Friday, October 29, however, actual publication date wtll coincide with the opening of the new plant. There Is A Pot 01 Gold At The End Of A Rainbow By: Jack Owens It was a beautiful warm Sunday afternnon with the sun shining brightly as I traveled to Spartanburg, S. C. to attend the funeral of my grandmother to be held on Monday. I was driving alone, about three miles northeast of Clemson on dual lane highway 123. With the sun shining brightly, huge rain drops began to fall. Not a hard rain, just big scattered rain drops. About five miles ahead the sky grew dark with a faint rainbow visible in the black clouds. The rainbee faded away, the sky grew darker, and the rains came down. So intense was the rain that my traveling speed was only about 10 miles per hour. Suddenly the rainbow appeared, very brilliant this time. There were 8 cars stopped in the right hand lane so I pulled to the left and passed slowly. I stopped beside the lead car, for right in front of us, twenty feet away, was the very end of a rainbow. So brilliant were the colors that the black asphalt highway was illuminated. There were a dozen cars in the far left lane and all of us sat and watched. I glanced at the people in the car next to me and they seemed hypnotized, not talking, just looking, and not a car moved for the two or three minutes the rainbow was there. No one seemed to want to drive through it. As if mounted on a giant turntable, the end of the rainbow swung away from the highway and stopped in a grove of trees about forty yards away. The trees were illuminated the same as the highway, the leaves glistened the many colors of the rainbow. Still not a car moved. Then as suddenly as it had appeared, the rainbow disappeared and traffic began to move. A mile further the sun was shining brightly once again, and there was no trace of rain. I stopped my car and looked back, the dark sky was there but the rainbow was gone. When I was a child I was told to find the end of a rainbow and there would be a pot of gold waiting . There was no gold awaitfhg at the end of this rainbow, not in coin, and I didn't see anyone getting out of their cars to dig up the highway, either. The feelings 1 experiences while watching the end of a rainbow illuminate the ground and trees are unexplalnable and unforgettable. Maybe this was my pot of gold. Two New Winners, Four Tied For First Place The Cherokee Scout and Clay County Progress Foot- i ball Contest in its third week picked up two new winners and v one repeat winner. First place award of five - dollars and five points goes to Hugh Carringer, Route 1, Brasstown; second place of three dollars and three points ] to Jane Colvard, 2009 Dabney Drive, Chattanooga, Tenn.; and third place of two doll ars and two points to James A. Hughes of Murphy. James Hughes was a three dollar and three point winner in the contest held the first week. By picking up the two points the first week, James has a total of five points giving him a tie with three others with five points. The Football Contest is a lot of fun and costs nothing to enter, and at the end of the contest three people are go ing to win a lot of dough. Remember, at the end of the contest, the contestant having the most points will receive $165.00, second place receives $99.00 and third place re ceives $66.00 This is in addi tion to what the contestant receives each week. At the conclusion of the contest a total of $440.00 will have been given away. The "stumper" this past week was the Syracuse vs U.C.L.A. game and the Michi gan vs Michigan State game. The above three winners pick ed all the games correctly and the tie breaker had to be used to determine the three winners. Hugh Carringer picked Florida to beat Mississippi, 17 to 14. Jane Colvard pick ed Florida to beat Mississi ppi 7 to 6 and James Hughes picked Florida to beat Mis sissippi 20 to 14. The final score was Florida 17,Mlssis slppi a An up-to-date stand ing can be found elsewhere in this paper. If your name is missing, you need to try Just a little bit harder. You can't win if you don't entar. Turn to die Football Coolest page right now and pick the winners of wly game that you need try to guess the correct score. Towhsor Nohrs New Director MURPHY- Mr. Harrv Pot ter. ? former residem at Jack sonville, North Carolina for twenty-one years is the newly appointed Funeral Director for Towns on Funeral Home. Mr. Potter replaces Don Car ter, who resigned to go into the funeral business in the eastern part of the state. Mr. Potter and his wife and son, Danny, are making their home in the Townson Funeral Home apartment. Dannyfl7 years old) has entered Murphy High School as a junior and is a member of the football team. Mr. and Mrs. Potter are the parents of two other boys, Durwood W. Potter, a resi dent of Tokoma Park, Mary land, presently a school teach* er in the Nlchelous Oream Junior High School in Hyatts vllle, Maryland, and GeorgeT. Potter, who resides in Wood bridge, Maryland, and is associated with the Military Air Transportation Associat ion and travels to all mili tary bases in thai

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