MUiU-ri* ijihAkdi MUHPEY N C SAMPLE Scout and dai^ County Progress Volume 76 - Number 14 ??T?by. North Corolino October 28, 1965 10 Poges This Week n^Smu!tSS!S^StSA coutlcts C. G. Hardee of Rl.l.Lorls, South Carolina sends us this note: "I read the account of your experience with the rain bow in Saturday's issue of the State (Columbia, S.C.) news paper and was very impres sed by it. I am always int erested in the facts and my steries of nature. 1 think we should make ourselves more interested in the mysteries of God and the beauty of nature and let the rest of the world goby." -J This Is the story of ? wom an driver who hopelessly snarled up traffic. "What do I do now?;; she asker her hus band. "I don't know." replied hubby, "but if you crawl into the back seat, you'll probably come up with an answer.' -J A couple of the neighbor hood boys and my oldest son were out In the yard digging for lost treasure the other day when a conversation con cerning 'Dads' began. "Mv dad can beat up your dad, said the first lad. "That's nothing," said the second, "My dad can beat up both you guy's dads at the same time any day of the week." Then my son spoke In my behalf. "I'll bet my dad can run fast er than any one of your guy's dads." I really don't know if he was complimenting me on my athletic ability or just tell ing diem that I had a 'yellow streak', but the conversation had a very serious note. Cherokee County and West ern North Carolina football Fans should be well represent ed this week at Clemson Col lege. This is the week that fans have been looking for ward to seeing ? three former high school football stars from Cherokee County in action. BUTCH SUR SAVAGB sophomore defensive end for the Clemson Tigers from Andrews has been get ting very good press notices from all over the South. JOHN SNOW, Wake Forest junior, from Murphy has also been turning in good performances all season. Snow played end while in high school but is now playing defensive tackle for Wake Forest. BILL CRAVES, Wake Forest sopho more from Murphy will also be seeing lots of action from the other defensive tackle slot from Snc- *. Bill, as did John, played -j ^standing ball for Murphy High School for four years. From the perform ances displayed by both Wake Forest and Clemson last week it adds tf to being the At lantic Coast Conference game of the week, and to pick a winner would be like tossing a coin. Last week both teams were rated underdogs in their games but came out on top. Clemson defeated Texas Christian University 3-0 and Wake Forest defeated Univer sity of North Carolina, 12-10. It looks like a big week-end in Tiger town when the Clem son Tigers and the WakeFor est Deacons bun heads in Death Valley. Don t be ^ CI Ucoci'nii 1 I raiser? >e a ^Uood-lenJer "time p!ace date 1:00 to 5:30 Murphy. Fpww Board Bldg. Novtnbtr 4 Chtroif County Cltcptaf Carol McRae Is Queen Bulldogs Trounced By Maroon Devils 41 ? 13 By Red Schuyler The Murphy Bulldogs were ended their worst beating of le year on the local field, riday night. When the final rhistle sounded, it was Swain 1, Murphy 13. If the Bulldogs are to better he 64 record, they will have o win one of the two remain ng games on the schedule. At his time they stand with four vlns and four losses, and vith games to be played with mdrews this Friday nightand -ranklln the following Friday tight. Both games will be pl tyed on the road. With Robb Insvllle Smoky Mountain Con ference Class A Champions snd with Swain and Sylva Webster playing for the S.M. C. Class AA championship in Bryson Cltv this Friday night, the Bulldogs and Wildcats will be playing for the Cherokee County Championship. This will be the first year in many years that Cherokee County High Schools have not been in the playoffs for some class championship. The Swain County Maroon Devils presented to the fans one of the best teams that we have seen on the local field, We said the same thing about Robbinsvllle last week, tail now that the SwalnCounty lads have paid us a visit, we will have to bring the statement u[ to date and give them the nod Swain and Robbinsvllle playei several weeks back and iti no wonder that the Swain tean came out on top. Our pred iction is that Swain will defea Sylva-Webster handily. Asfoi the Bulldog-Wildcat game, i looks like a toss up. li previous years, one team o the other would have had th< edge, but this year both team: have almost Identical records Andrews has won four, los four and tied one game. Mur phy has won lour ana lost four. The Wildcats will close out the season with the game Friday night. The one sided victory by Swain marred homecoming festivities for the Bulldogs. As a rule moat teams always look forward to making Home coming a complete success by winning the game but It Just wasn't to be for the Bull dogs. During the half time cer emonies Miss Carol McRae was crowned Homecoming Queen. Miss McRae, a senior at Murphy High School is the daughter of Mr. andMrs.Har vey McRae of Murphy, Route 3. 5 Youths Charged With Larceny ROBBINSVLLLE - Five Murphy youths were picked up here Tuesday morning, and charged with larceny of three Robbinsville stores. Names of the youths are being withheld due to their ages. Claude Jenkins, Robbins ville Chief of Police, gave the following account of the arrest: Tuesday morning, Snowbird Supply and Western Auto Store reported several small items stolen. Later, Mrs. Stepp, owner of Stepp's Store report ed two boys running from her store with a couple of shirts. Around 10:30 a.m. Lee Jen kins, meter man on the Robbinsville Police Force, noticed several of the re portedly stolen items on the rear seat of an automobile on which he was placing ? ticket for overtime parking. Carol McRae Crown ?d Quo on Patrol Profers Blue To Red The North Carolina State Highway Patrol began using blue Instead of red dome lights on their cruisers October 1. The State Legislature recent ly passed a law for the use of blue lights by police units. The purpose of the blue lights is to distinguish police vehicles from fire, rescue and other emergency vehicles, and it is unlawful for any agency other than law enforcement to use the blue lights. The car was put under sur veillance and two of the youths were arrested when they re turned to pick up the car. Two others were arrested by the Sheriff's Department as they walked up Long Creek near Tatham Gap towards Murphy. The fifth youth was arrested later in the afternoon. Mrs. Stepp identified two of the youths as the ones who took the shirts from her store. Other items found in the car were: 22 calibre shells, a bowie knife, watch band, 30 30 shells, 30-06 shells,chew ing gum, a carton of cigarettes and two shotgun shells. Asked why they were not in school, two of the boys said they were expelled from Mur phy High last Friday. Two of the boys were un der 16 years of age and were tried Tuesday in Juvenile Court. They received sus pended sentences. The other three were released under $400 bond and their cases bound over to the March term of Graham County Superior Court. In Development Contest For '65 Tomotla Community Development Club Most Outstanding In County REAL HALLOWE'EN SCARE. It was Hallowe'en night, and a little boy and his dog were on the street, excitedly playing the game of "tricks or treat". Carefree and careless, the boy went running onto the road! A car brake screeched . . but it was too late. The pet whines for his young master, but the boy doesn't move. The above scene was posed. Mr. Motorist, don't let it become a raality. ? WFS Photo Tomolla Community De velopment Club was recogniz :d Saturday night as the out standing community in the Cherokee Count) Community Development Contest for 1965. A total of $225 was presented to the top four communities at the annual Cherokee County Community Development Awards Banquet held Saturday night, October 23, at O'Dell's Cafeteria. The Tomotla Community received $65 prize money for its outstanding achievements this year. Other prize win ning communities in the con test were: Peachtree, second place, $55; Unaka, third place, $45; and Texana, fourth place, $35. In addition, Unaka won a special incentive award of $25 for conducting the best com munity program inYouthAcli vities. Tomotla Community De velopment Club was selected the county winner in the Non F arm Division and Peachtree Community Development Club was selected top in the Farm Division. These two com munities will represent Cherokee County in the area contest and will be judged November 8-11, to select the outstanding communities in the 20 western counties. Un aka Community Development Club will also be judged in the Youth Division of theArea Contest. The Area Contest is sponsored by the Asheville Agricultural Development Council. The area winners will be announced December 4, at a special awards pro gram in Asheville. The communities were jud ged on the basis of accom plishments made during the past year in the areas of com munity organization and im provement, increased income, youth programs, and better family living. Extension agents from Clay and Jackson Counties judged the local com munities on Wednesday,Octo ber 20. Mr. Robert Bruce, Presi dent of the Cherokee County Community Development Council, presided at the Awards Banquet, and Mr. R.L. Lyday, County Extension Chairman, Swain County, was guest speaker. Miss Dorothy Roberts entertained the group with folk songs and Mr. John Gill presented the awards. Forty-four people represent ing nine communities were present for the program. Sponsors for the Cherokee County Community Develop ment Awards for 1965 were: Citizens Bank andTrustCom pany, Home Demonstration County Council, Junior Cham ber of Commerce, Murphy Lions Club, Murphy Rotary Club, Dickey Chevrolet Com pany, Rimco Mfg. Company, Murphy Civitan Club, Tex tured Yarn Company, Ivie Furniture Company, Wayne's Feed Store, Brumby Textile Mills, and Townson Funeral Home and Lumber Company. Six WNC Counties To Receive Feed Grain WASHINGTON - Si* Western North Carolina Counties have been designate as disaster areas for receipt of livestock feed-grain and special graz ing privileges, Governor Dan K. Moore and Eleventh Dist rict Congressman Roy A. Tay lor jointly announced Tuesday. The counties are Buncombe, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Clay. Extreme drought conditions early this year coupled with untimely rain at the planting season caused severe damage to crops and pastures in the six counties. Certification of the counties for disaster relief was app roved by the Department of Agriculture and authorizes State and County ASCS Offices to furnish Commodity Credit Corporation - owned feed grains to eligible farmers for preservation and maintenance of livestock. ? The action authorizes eli gible farmers to graze live stock and harvest hay on lands presently diverted from crop production. Local ^SCS Offices are charged,- with responsibility for determining the eligibi lity of producers for assist ance. Both Governor Moore and Congressman Taylor request ed the special designation In appeals sent to Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman early this month. AFI Bonds To Bo Dolivorod Friday The Andrews Furniture Ind ustries Incorporation Bonds have been received from the engravers by the Andrews Development Corporation and were being signed Wednesday. They will be ready for de livery to the subscribers Fri day, October 29. All the holders of certi ficates issued to subscribers by Andrews Development Cor poration should present their certificates to Citizens Bank and Trust Company,Andrews, and they will be exchanged for like amount of 8% coupon bonds. The first coupon on the bonds will become due January 1st and will represent interest at rate of S% for a period of nine months. After this, cou pons will become due and pay able on July 1st and January 1st of each year until bonds have matured with interest at a rate of 9Jk 5 Points Ahead Carringer Takes Lead In Football Contest Hugh Carringer of Brass own forged out into the lead jy picking ig) five points in ast week's Cherokee Scout & "lay County prograss foot led Cross Chapter Elects Officers MURPHY - At a regular ?neeting of the Cherokee Coun ty Chapter of the American ?led Cross, new officers for the coming year were elected. Officers for the 1966 term ?re: David H. Moody, Chap ter Chairman; Wallace Wil liams, Vice-Chairman; Jack Owens, Chairman of Fund Drive Mrs. Sarah Patton, Secretary; Charles Barrett, Treasurer; Mrs. A. Edgar Harshaw, Blood Bank Chair man and Mrs. Harve Elkins, Home Service Chairman. Prizes will be announced for the cocningBlood Program which will be Thursday, Nov ember 4th, 1:00 to 5:30 p.m. Several prizes will be given to lucky donors. Candy Stripers Slate Talent Show MURPHY- The Candy Strip ers will sponsor a talent show at the Rock Gym, Saturday night, November 6 at 7:30 p. m. The proceeds will go to the nursery at Providence Hos pital. Admission will be 50$ for a single person and 75$ for a couple. Interested persons may ob tain tickets from Candy Strip ers or buy tickets at the door. ball contest. Carrlnger being a previous five point winner now has a total of ten points which Is two times more than his closest competitor. Other winners of three and two po ints respectively were Mrs. Ray Klllian and Billle Jean Stiles a total of five points putting her in a tie for second place with four other contes tants. In winning the points, no contestant had a perfect score and as usual the tie breaker had to be used. Who would have thought that Rice would beat Texas: Tulane beatMlss. State and Wake Forest beat U. of North Carolina. Hugh Carrlnger missed the Texas Rice, Miss State-Tulane, Nor. Car. - Wake Forest and Wes tern Carolina - Lenoir Rhyne games and picked Kentucky to beat Georgia 24 to 17. Mrs. Ray Klllian missed the Texas Rice, Duke - Illinois, L?.U. South Carolina and Maryland N. C. Sute games and picked Georgia to beat Kentucky by a score of 13-7. Billle Jane Stiles missed the Texas - Rice, Clemson - TCU, Miss. Sute - Tulane, and N. C. - Wake Forest games and picked Georgia to beat Kentucky 21-7. As a result of the past week's contest, one name forges out to a good lead, an other contesunt moves Into a tie for second place and one new name Is added, giving a total of twelve people that have won dollars and points toward the grand prizes to be awarded at the end of the season. You still have plenty of time to enter and If you pick the right winners, you can win yourself a lot of that long green stirff that will do a lot of Christmas shopping. Football Point Standings Hugh Car ringer 10 Mrs. Fred Keener 5 Walter Cole 5 James Hughes 5 Dale Lwsford 5 BIIIte Jane Stiles 5 Sandra K. Mints 3 Jane Colvard 3 Mrs. Ray Kill Ian 3 Junior Anthony 2 Mrs. Harold Gladson 2 Jack Thompson 2 EDITORIAL: Better Roads Are As Simple As Voting 'Yes' Citizens of Cherokee end Clay Counties, ss well as til North Carolina citizens, should feel obligated to go to the polls Tuesday, November 2, and vote "Yes" for the $300 million Road Bond Issue. Careful study of the program will reveal that it is most essential to the mountain area. The entire pro gram for more and better roads depends upon the action of voters Tuesday, November 2. There have been meetings, open meetings, where the public was invited to ask questions concerning the Road Bonds and we are disappointed to find there are still those who cry out, "It will raise my taxes." The fact is, $300 million in Road Bonds trill not in crease taxes at all. The one cent per gallon tax on gaso line, which has been in effect for some time, will pay the bill. Cherokee and Clay has a lot at stake in this election. Our response will be watched by each of the 98 count ies. We cannot afford to do less than being the best vote ratio. Some of our neighboring counties are making elaborate plans to get out a big vote and Cherokee and Clay should do even better. Don't sit at home and rely on your neighbor to vote these Road Bonds in. Go to the polls yourself Tuesday, November 2. And remember, 'Better roads are as simple as voting ?Yes*. Nobody Votes In My Town (Editor's Note: Number 87776 is Pete simfcr, an inmate in the Southern Michigan Prison at Jackson, Michigan. The Scout feels the story is timely for we too have an important election coming up Tuesday, Novem ber 2. Following is his story and how he feels about voting rights.). By: 87776 It is election day. Much is at stake in my state. But most of my town's 4,700 inhabitants are chronic misfits who couldn't care less. Still, they are quick to argue politics. And, because time seems longer, tempers are shorter in my town. Therefore, such arguments are more apt to end in mayhem where I live. The name of my town is Southern Michigan Prison. Even as breakfast is served, a young murderer and a middle-aged burglar come close to blows in a debate on the abilities of Governor Romney. An alert guard breaks it up just in time. The burglar is serving his fifth term in my town. I know him well. So, after he cools of., I needle him a bit, saying, "1 take it you voted for Romney." "You kiddin'?" he said. "I never voted in my life. 1 got sense enough to know no matter who's elected, the best John Q. Public's gonna get is the worst of It. The hell with votin'l" That's seditious philsophy, isn't it? "The hell with votin'l" means down with democracy, your country, your government and, consequently, every home (where govern ment really begins) in the land. Yet, I've voiced such sedition myself. It came out some thing like this: "Couldn't make it to die polls. I had other things to do on election day." The reflection lures me into deep concern and holds me down with this hard and heavy fact: I am stripped of my voting rights for many elections to come. What I feel leaves no room for self esteem. 1 begin to wonder how my fellow inmates feel about not being allowed to vote. Later, I interview nearly 300 of them. Almost 90? merely shrug or otherwise indicate lack of concern. Eighty individuals admit that they'd never voted! (Could the deeds that landed us here be germane to such disregard for democracy?) Consider three responses to the question: "Did you vote regular ly when you were free?" Gambling syndicate underling (age 33, serving 5-10 years): "The organization always saw to it that I voted; even told me who to vote for." Alcoholic (doing 1-2 for non-support): "They'd let us off work in time to make it to the pedis, all right. But I'd stop at a buddy's house to talk the election over. There'd be a bottle or two around. And somehow, be fore I considered all the issues and candidates and de cided who'd get my vote, it was either too late or I was too loaded to care any more." Vote fraud fall-guy (age 72, serving 1 1/2-2 years): "Election days was gravy days for me. I always voted. Got five bucks a ballot. Sometimes I made fifty-five, sixty dollars." As for me--well, it's occasionally difficult to face the mirror of patriotism and like what you see. Instead of voting, I've often gone hunting or fishing; attended to sel fish matters of assorted kinds. Indeed, I've leaped on every lame excuse in the American voters' book. But the future will offer opportunities to prove my deter mination never again to skip a chance to vote. In the meantime, what about you? Like many other sheer blessings in America's full fashioned freedom, the privilege of voting is never com pletely appreciated until it is lost. I know. So I must agree with the immigrant who said, "Americans don't adequately appreciate their system of government be cause they don't understand what it ain'u However, our Star Spangled Banner waves best when every thread is intact. Similarly, the governmes it re presents needs every vote. But nobody votes in my town. Nobody may. What could be worse, patriotically? Only your town, where every adult may vote. . .and you don't. Farm Bureau Favors Court Improvement Measure RALEIGH - The N. C. Firm Bureau board of direct or shas gone on record in favor of the court improvement measure which will be submitted to Tar Heel voters in die special Nov. 2 election. Action on the court proposal came here Thursday as Farm Bureau directors met in a regular session. A favorable vote in the spe cial would authorise the N. C General Assembly to establish an Court of Appeals In the i Voters will be constitutional at clearing the way for this legislative action. B. C. Mangum, N. C. Farm Bureau president, said the or gam urlon "recognises the Importance of an orderly court system. In order to afford fair and impartial hearings on all matters coming before the court." Citing a growing backlog in

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