The cheb?keE Scout and Clay County Progress MUiifiiY LlBHABY ffiJHHn B c SAMPLE Volume 76 - Number 16 Murphy, North Carolina November 11, 1965 12 Poges This Week .?* r<>NO l UII POftTAOC PAID AT ttUMPHY. NORTH CAROLINA Some Husbands Face Draft Call Married men without child ren will face the draft by Jan uary In many parts of the co untry. Several slates will start inducting them' even sooner. This was disclosed after an announcement Tuesday by the Selective Service System in Washington that restrictions have been lifted on drafting men married before Aug. 26. Agency officials in at least eight states said plans are under way to start drafting married men without child ren In December. This will Include men In the 19-26 age group, with older men In the bracket to be inducted first The North Carolina Selec tive Service said it does not plan to call married men with out children this year. A sampling of other state draft boards indicated most anticipated calling married men by January as the supply of eligible single men shrinks. "No doubt about it, we're going to have to induct some childless married men in Dec ember and January," saldOs car N. Grandmalson, New Hampshire Selective Service Director. Montana draft board off icials said they already have drafted a few men who were married after Aug. 26 and Intend to call even more next month. In Minnesota, authorities said nearly every eligible si ngle man will have been called for induction by the end of the year. Married men with out children will be called In December. Most of the State Selective Service Directors say schol astic deferments and the num ber of single men rejected by the draft boards have cut into the pool of eligible unmarried men available for the in creased draft calls. Other states planning to draft childless married men in December include Mary land, Idaho, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ala bama, Washington and Wis consin. Several other states said it is likely the draft will be ex tend ' to the childless married men in December, and no later than January, depending on individual board quotas. One Oklahoma official said, "It is quite possible that in December, but certainly by January, that we will begin drafting older married men." That sentiment was ex pressed by officials in Maine, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, California, Nevada, and Massachusetts. Michigan officials have in formed local boards to start calling in the married menfor physical examinations. On-Job Training Begins At Andrews Furniture On-the-job training at the new Andrews Furniture Ind ustries plant in Andrews, off icially got under way on Thur sday morning November 11 with the Initial twelve train ees assigned to the Rough MilL After some basic indoc trination these men will re ceive on-the-job training on the hydro-cut off saws and rip saws in making the first cuts on the rough lumber to cutout defects and cut for the spec ified length and width. As these men progress in their training and additional equipment is delivered and in stalled, the company will call in and schedule additional em ployees for training on a gradual build 14) basis for the Finish Mill, Machine Sanding, Sub-Assembly, Assembly and Finishing Department Several key men are being transferred to the Andrews Furniture operation from Magnavox cabinet plants in Tennessee to train new empl oyees; however, company officials have expressed that whenever possible local men will be trained and promoted to supervisory jobs as they acquire the necessary cabinet manufacturing skills. At the present time, the Personnel Department is also seeking skilled men from the general four county area for work as Patternmakers, Jig and Fixture Builders, and Molder Head Builders. Any one having skills in one of these categories of work is requested to contact the per sonnel offices immediately if interested in employment. Bulldogs Beat Franklin Windup With 5-5 Record The Murphy "Bulldogs" cl osed out the 1965 season the way they started. They won their opening game and won the closing game giving them a season of 5 wins and 5 losses which also was an im provement over last years record. Last year they won four and lost six. The "Dogs" had things go ing pretty much their way throughout' die entire game, scoring in every quarter with die exception of the first. They made iq> for this by ramming across a six pointer In the opening seconds of the second quarter and then scoring again before the half ended. The final score was 26 to 6 with the Bulldogs on top. Stevens carried the ball ac ross the double stripe for the first Murphy score from the three yard line. Wayman's run for the extra point waa good and the Bulldogs were off and running. On the en suing kickoff Norton, received the kick on his 32 yard line and ran all the way for 68 yards and six points. The try for the extra point failed and Murphy led 7-6. Minutes later Stevens again scored another tlx pointer from two yards out. This time the extra point try failed and the Bulldogs retired to the dressing room for the half with a 13-6 lead. The Franklin lads could never get their running stuck going and started the second half by filling the air with the pigskin and completed sev eral passes before Roger Stiles latched on to one and ran untouched across the Franklin goal line for six points. The intercepted pass covered 88 yards. The try for the extra point failed again. In the fourth and final per iod Murphy scored again with John Shields going <he last two yards and the run for the extra point was good. With the entire backfield returning next year and most of the linemen and with good potential prospects advancing from the freshman team to the varsity the Bulldogs should be a strong contender for championship honors next year. Friday nights game was played before the smallest crowd to see the Bulldogs in action this year. Takes Oath MRS. MARY FA YE BRUMBY, recently appointed member of the Council on Mental Retardation by Governor Dan K. Moore, takes her oath of office from Judge Edward Hyde of Murphy. Mrs. Brumby, Cherokee County Representative of the House, replaces Sen. Jyles Cogein of Raleigh. Her term expires J une 30,1969. Murphy High School Observes National Education Week Our youth lives in a world of exploding knowledge, a world in which he can see clearly the shrinking need for the uneducated and the un trained. Thus, the need to set aside one week called Nat ional Education Week. This is held each year in November to acquaint the pub lic with the work of educat ion, and with the problems of training children for elective citizenship. The Business Department, the HomeEcono mics Department, the Music Department, and Introductions to Vocations Department of Murphy High School have dis played some of their talents in the windows of Trudy's, Candle, 's, Coleman's, and Ivie's Furniture Store inob servance of NATIONAL ED UCATION WEEK. BUSINESS EDUCATION - The Business Education De partment displayed a live ex hibit in the window of Ivie Furniture.store. In order to acquaint the public with the different styles and kinds of correspondence and steno graphic work taught in the de partment; two girls, Linda Morris and Darlene Dockery, displayed their talent by tak ing letters from dictation and transcribing them back. They also did free typing for the public. A display of work done by the business department for the American Association of University Women, Murphy Garden Club, Introductions to Vocations, and Music Depart ment of Murphy High School, Civic organizations, and church bulletins were some of the highlights shown in the exhibit. The window featured four large keys on which Type writing, Shorthand, Book keeping and Machines was let tered; also, two locks were shown on each side of the keys, above which was the following slogan: "These keys can unlock your future." It is through education that we learn to develop our abili ties, to work with our hands, and to think with our minds. The Business Education De partment of Murphy High School is striving to meet these goals, and to cooperate with our local businesses; as well as being well-rounded in the business field. HOME ECONOMICS - The Home Economics Department has a display in Candler's window. The display consists of skirts made by first year students. For most of the students, this is the first time they have attempted to make a garment. The skirts show the fine work these students have done. The second year students are in the process of making a wool suit which they are ex pected to finish in time to wear during the Thanksgiving holidays. For this reason, there is no work by a second year student displayed in the window this year. MUSIC DEPARTMENT-The Murphy High School music department has a display in Trudy's window commem orating National Education Week. In studying the growth and development of music through the ages, the students have learned that many people in years gone by have turned to music to lighten the heart from difficulties and labor and to make life worth living. Shirley Jones and Barbara Thompson, have displayed some of the devices which they employ to lighten the heart INTRODUCTIONS TO VO CATIONS - The over-all ob jective of Introductions to Vo cations might be stated as follows: To help students de velop plans regarding their occupational and educational futures. The purposes of the course are four-fold: (1) To help stu dents learn to appraise their own interest, aptitudes, per sonalities, and skills in re lation to a variety of vocat ional opportunity. (2) To help students gain a first-hand knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the charging employment patterns and opp ortunities in North Carolina's world of work. (3) To help students understand the basic processes of production .pro cessing, and distribution indie American work economy and the importance of human re lations and ingenuity in these processes. (4) To acquaint students with the major occu pational fields including eco nomics structure, organisat ional structure, specializat ions, relationships to other occupational areas, kinds of work involved and educational and other training require ments. Points of studv for the year: (1) Relating <** s characteri stics, interest, aptitudes, and abUltes to occupations. (2)Re lattng our economic system to occupations. (3) Exploring manual and mechanical occu pations. (4) Exploring cleri cal, sales, and service occu pations. (5) Exploring pro fessional, technical, and managerical occupations. Two Tied With 10 Points In Football Contest The Scout football contest now moving into its eighth week adds two new names to its list of previous winners. Last week's contest also had a triple repeat winner and for the first time since the con test started, one person has won three times James A. Hughes having won two points and three points previously, topped all the entries the past week and had a five point wi nner, now giving him a total of ten points and a tie for first place with Hugh Carr inger who has won five points each two times. With first and second place locked in a tie, third place is wide open with six people tied. Actually, last week's con test was the closest we have had so far. No one submit tted a perfect sheet. As a matter of fact seven contes tants missed a total of four games and the tie breaker was really p'lt to use to det ermine, first, second and third place winners. Here's the way they were scored. James Hughes missed the Virginia - South Carolina, Duke - N. C. State, Murphy - Franklin and Army-Air Force Games. He had as his tie breaker, Tenn. to defeat Ga. Tech by a score of 17-14. Second place and a new name to the list was Bud Alexander of Murphy. Bud mi ssed the Maryland-Navy,Vir ginia - South Carolina Syr acuse - Oregon State, and Army-Air Force games. He predicted that Tenn would beat Ga. Tech by a score of 7-6. Third place and another new name went to Bill Christy of Murphy. Mr. Christy missed the Virginia-South Carolina, Duke-N. C. State, Army-Air Force and Florida - Georgia games and predicted G. Tech to defeat Tenn. by a score of 17-14. Mrs. Katherine Sudd erth was fourth and she mi ssed the Clemson-North Car olina, Syracuse-Oregon State, Duke - N. C. State and Army Air Force., and predicted Ga. Tech to defeat Tenn. 14-10. Fifth place went to Nina Ruth Graves. She missed four games and predicted Ga. Tech to defeat Tenn., by a score of 20-13. Hattie James missed four and she predicted Ga. Tech to defeat Tenn., by a score of 22-14. Due to the fact that Hayes ville and Blairsville played Thursday night instead of Fri day night, we automatically scratched this game. With the contest to run four more weeks, there is still time for anyone to win either of the three grand awards for the big money. Hugh Carringer 10 James A. Hughes 10 Mrs. Fred Keener 5 Walter Cole 5 Dale Lunsford 5 BUlie Jane Stiles 5 Ricky West 5 Sandra Kaye Mintz .... 3 Mrs. Ray KUlian 3 Jane Colvard 3 Joann ky'^eson 3 Bud Alu&nder 3 Junior Anthony 2 Mrs. Harold Glads on ... .2 Jack Thompson .2 Lane Phillips 2 BUI Christy .2 AMONG THE NEW improvements at Shooting Creek School are new swings on the play ground. Clay School Enjoys New Improvements HAYESV1LLE - The stud ents and faculty at the Shoot ing Creek School are enjoy ing the vast improvements that have been made there. During the summer months the build ing was completely redecor ated by reflnlshipg all the stu dent and teachers desks, pai nting the entire building. This was made possible by the Clay County Board of Education using the tax dollars paid by Clay County citizen. Other Improvements have been made during the summer months at the other Clay County sch ools. In addition to the building Improvements, sinks, drain 3oards, pot and pan hooks, live been installed, new fur liture for the teachers lounge, ?lay ground swings and a flag |>ole were purchased through the co-operative efforts of teachers, students and Par ents Teachers Association of die Shooting Creek School, where Mr. Bobby S. Burch is principal. It is with pride that the faculty and students watch die flag wave over their sch ool. Last year the school ground was landscaped and seeded with grass and an old hedge was removed. Right Of Ways Most Important, Holding Out Stalls Project Now that the Road Bood issue has been approved,the engineers and State Highway officials are concentrating on projects throughout the 10 county Division, according to A. J. Hughes, Divlson Engin eer. "One thing which should be brought to the attention of the public," Hughes said, "and that is the regulation about acquisition of right-of-way for rural roads." The State Highway Commi ssion regulations forbid the purchase of right-of-way for rural roads ? those roads without a US or NC number. The property owners give the land for the right-of-way, and usually it is a matter of just a few feet, since in a majority of cases the present road almost has enough right-of way. "Present rural road reg ulations require a 6-foot right of-way," Hughes said. "Very often the state only used 35 or 40 feet, leaving some 10 or more feet on either side of the road for the property owner to utilize as they see fit as long as no permanent structure is put on the pro perty." There are a number of in stances in the 10-county area right now where the State would like to pave the exist ing road, but one or two peo ple are holding out on right of-way, and this stalls the project. "There are so many pro jects being engineered, that we do not have the manpower to spend endless hours seeking right-of-way from those who refuse to coo perate," Hughes continued. "The truth of the matter is, we have scores of places anx ious and begging for roads where there is not a right of-way problem, and as a means of saving money, and getting the program underway, we shall be forced by nece ssity to go to such jobs," he went on to explain. The Division Engineer su ggested that communities get together, have a meeting, and make sure the right-of-way is no problem, and when the time comes to modernize or pave such a road there will not be any wasted time. "The money we spend bel ongs to the people, and all our State Highway officials are de termined to get the most for every dollar and for that reason, we cannot waste ex pensive man hours on some projects haggling over right of-way," Hughes went on to explain. The program just approved by the people is not a crash Veterans Caravan Will Visit Murphy Friday Is patrotism going out of style? One group that's convinced it isn't, and that is determined to convince a lot of other folks is Veterans of World War 1, Department of North Carolina. T o accomplish a dual pur pose - to enlist more mem bers and to boost public support of United States for eign policy - the group is sponsoring a statewide motor cade dubbed "Operation Buddy." State Commander Lindsey Swindell and his chief of staff, Raymond Jeffreys, will occ upy the lead car as the cara Episcopal Church Launches Campaign In the next two weeks Mes siah Episcopal, church will conduct a vigorous effort to move to a new level of Stew ardship as outlined by the last General Convention of the nat ional church. Delegates con sisting of laymen and clergy men representing the entire church resolved that tithing is the official standard of giv ing by Christians, and that at least half the tithe should be contributed to the local parish church. The Vestry of Messiah at its last meeting adopted this resolution as the standard for their church, with each vestryman agreeing to make his oym pledge according to that standard. Every Member Canvass Chairman is Mr. Thomas Price, U.S. Ranger at Robb lnsvllle, and member of the Murphy Church. A congre gational dinner is planned for November 17, at 6:30 p.m. at which the plans will be dis cussed with the members. En tertainment is to be provided for children while the meeting is in session following the dinner. Mr . Price is to be the speaker. The Every Member Canv ass is to be conducted on die afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 21 between 1.-00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Members of die church will be requested to be at home during those hours so that the canvass may be com pleted in one day. A significant advance is us ually attained when Eptscoapl Churches throughout the nat ion seriously enter into die program. Methodist Revival Befins No vember 12 ANDREWS " Revival ser vices for the Free Methodist Church of Andrews will begin Friday, November IS and con tinue each night at 1i30 p.m. through November 2L Rev. Catherine Hopper of Decker, Indiana will bo the evangelist, delivering old time gospel preaching. The public is cordially in * toi ~ van swings into scores of cities and towns from Manteo to Murphy. It is painted white and spl ashed the length of the car in huge red letters are "Oper ation Buddy", and "Veterans of World War.I." The membershipgoal of the state group is 10,000 (the pre sent membership is 6,000). Swindell feels that now more than ever before the organiz ation needs added strength to "support our government's foreign policy and to stren gthen our national security." The caravan according to the organization, is the most extensive campaign yet att empted by a veterans group in the U.S. The tour started last Monday and will make stops in 66 different towns and cities before it ends Nov. 13. The Caravan will reach Murphy Friday at 4:30 p.m. and will stop in front of the Cherokee Scout Building. At S p.m. a rally will be held in the Cherokee County Courthouse at Murphy with State Sen. Oral Yates of Hay wood County as the speaker. The World War I veterans hope to fill the courtroom for the program. Especially in vited are members of veter ans organizations and reserve and Civil Defense units. On a state level. Gov. Dan Moore has designated Nov. as "World War 1 Veterans Re cognition Month" and has as ked the cooperation of Tar Heels in its activities, calling especially for support of the "Operation Buddy" caravan. The national WWI Veteran organization has tken a stand in support of President John son and our action in Viet Nam and the Dominican Re public. Industry High la Blood Doaors MURPHY - Murphy's new est Industry, Clifton Pre cision, turned out twenty strong to boost die number of Red Cross blood volunteers to 90 during the Blood Bank's visit to Murphy last Thurs day. A number of employees of Rlmco, a company which has always shown great Interest in the program, also came to give blood. Sixty-four pints In all were collected from the 90 people who reported. Mrs. Ed Harshaw, blood chairman, says that the blood collection has Improved during the Bank's past two visits and that both donors and volunteer workers have shown excellent cooperation. The bank comes four times a year and the quota per visit is 80 pirns. The next visit is scheduled for January 28. Blood given here Is sent to Asheville where it is pro cessed and returned for use in local hospitals. There is no charge for Rod Cress program, the engineer said, but is to cover a period of five years. W. Curtis Russ, Commiss ioner of the 14th division has said, publicly and in print on several occasions, that as to rural roads, first consid eration will go to school bus routes, pointing to safety for them is of first and foremost importance. NewAndrews Post Office Opens Friday ANDREWS -The Post Office building In Andrews hss been completed and postal service in the new facility will begin Friday morning, Nov. 13, Postmaster William P. Wal ker announced Wednesday. The 5 p.m. mall Thurs day will be the last mail put up in the old building and ever yone is asked to pick up their mail no later than 9:30 p.m. At that time all mail will be rebundled and moved to the new building. All post office boxes in the new building require keys and although some people havepl cked up their keys, there are many who have not, Post master Walker stated. In order to keep patrons, who have not picked up their keys, from having a delay in their mail, postal employees will be in both the new and old buildings from now until Friday to issue the keys. Murphy Garden Club Plans New Project MURPHY - Plans are underway by The Murphy Garden Club to beautify the grounds at the new Tri County Industrial Center loc ated at Peach tree. The new school is occupying buildings formerly used by the Chero kee County Prison Depart ment. A committee has been app ointed to arrange for shrubb ery to be planted in front of the main building this year. Members on the committee are: Mrs. Bryan Whitfield, Mrs. Ed Brumby, Mrs. S. P. Horowitz, and Mrs. Holland McSwaln. Several people have already offered to give shrubs to this project and anyone else wish ing to donate shrubs is asked to contact one of die above committee members. The Murphy Garden Club recently build and beautified a picnic area near the elemen tary school grounds and was responsible for having shru bbery placed in front to the post office building. Buchaaaaa Aaaovicts Candidacy SYLVA - Mar cell us Buch annan III, a Sylva attorney, announced this week his can didacy for Superior Court Solicitor in the Democratic Primary next May. Solicitor Glen W. Brown, who is serving his second term, has announced that he will not seek re-election sat ing that he wanted to spend more time with his family. Buchaman, a life long Democrat, was born in Jack son County on Sept. SO, 1923. He was educated in the Ptfclic Schools of Jackson County, attended Western Carolina College, the University of North Carolina and graduated from the University of North Carolina Law School in 1949. Since graduation. Buch aman has practiced law in Sylva and is a member of the Jackson County Bar Asso ciation, The N. C. Bar Assoc iation and the American Bar Association. He is Attorney for The Town of Sylve. for mer Chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Eneutlve Committee, and a member of the PM Alpha Delta Law Fra ternity. Buchaman sarvad la World War II from Jaaeary IMS to

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