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MUitrfi* LlBii&itf iflJHPHY S C smcLE Scout Y~ and Clay County Progress Volume76 - Number 17 Murphy. North Corolino November 18, 1965 14 Pojes This Week ^ZSmtCtSlSSSwSju Two Hospitalized; One Sought In Sunday Night Cutting Incident Two Culberson men have been hospitalized and another sought following a cutting in cident, Sunday night, on the Hilltop Road near Culberson. Admitted to Providence Hospital at 3:00 a.m., Monday morning was James Brown, 28. suffering a sub wound of the upper right chest. His condi tion Is listed as good. Wendell Watson, 40, Is list ed In fair condition at Pro vidence Hospital. He was ad mitted at 10:00 a.m. Monday morning suffering two sub wounds In the lett chest, a cut of the right thigh above the knee and a cut below the left knee. Some 140 sutures were required to close his wounds. Welsey TUlson, 58, Is being sought by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Department in conn ection with the cutting. Two warrants have been issued for Tlllson charging him with assault with intent to kill. According toGlenHolloway, Deputy Sheriff, all three men had been drinking and were parked on the HUltop Road when the Incident occured. Watson told Deputy Hollo way that while the three men were sitting in the front seat of Brown's car, TUlson reach ed across him and stabbed Brown in the chest. Brown then got out of the car and went to the home of Jess Buchanan who took Brown to his home and called an am bulance. Watson stated that Tlllson stabbed and cut him and left him in the car. Bill Tlllson, brother of Wel sey, went ? his mailbox and discovered the Brown vehicle and Watson lying in the front seat. coutlets J F1 residing over this term of Sig>erlor Court now in session is Judge Francis O. Clarkson of Charlotte and we discover ed that he is no stranger to Murphy. Judge Clarkson spent one night of his honeymoon at the Regal Hotel -41 years ago. -J Mrs. Bemice Wyszynskl.of Bristol, Conn., spotted an ad of a automobile agency which advertised a late model con vertible for "1395 bananas" whereupon she took 25 bana nas to the agency as a down payment. The salesman laugh ed her out of the place of busi ness. She appealed to theState Department of Consumer Pro tection and the automobile dealer was compelled to sell the lady the advertised auto mobile for the 1395 bananas, worth approximately $60.00. -J R, R. Carryl, of Rt. 1, Mur phy, is one of our most ar dent writers of letters to the Editor and to theScoutletCol umn. This time Mr. Carryl takes issue witn Uncle Sam s prices on envelopes. "To be sure we are both talking about the same, stamped envelope that 1 sent you," says Mr. Carryl, "I might mention that the sump is lavender in color rather than blue. Also an error has been made in the de sign in that no eye shows in the Eagle's head which ne cessiuted my inking one in. Prior to the 100% Increase in the reull price of the blue sumped envelopes, that is the envelopes alone, less sump, we paid $10 per 1,000. Now we pay $20 per 1,000 for the same envelopes. In your art icle on November 4, the gov ernment said they were losing 1.5 million dollars a year sel ling us envelopes at that price. If you pay 3/4 million back, so will I." (Scoutlet Note: Our budget won't sund it but we will sell you envelopes for $8.35 a thousand and print your return address on them to boot.) -J Betcha didn't know that through the first eight months of 1965, foreign steel mill pro ducts entered the UnitedStates at a rate of about 20 tons a minute. That's almost enough to make the world lop-sided, ain't it. -J Between now and December 25, let's show our county neighbors that we town folks were not born with larceny in our hearts. Every year it happens, town folks cutting down trees in the county not dilnklng about stealing other people's property. On the other hand, if country folks came into town and cut a tree out ot someone's yard, the screams of outrage would be heard from one end of the county to the other. -J Harvey McRae of Murphy, Rt. 3, sometimes has his troubles. Mr. McRae has a mess of chickens, you see, and he gathers some 4,569 eggs each day. You guessed it, good ole Harvey got up for breakfast the other day and there wasn't an egg in the house. He had to drive half a mile to the hen house be fore he could have breakfast. -J Tom Mallonee To Visit Area Nov. 23 Tom L. Mallonee, 11th Con gresslonal District Assistant to Congressman Roy A. Tay lor. will make a scheduled visit to Cherokee and Clay County, Tuesday, November 23. He W11 be at the Town Hall, Andrews from 9:00 to 9:30: at the City Hall, Murphy from 11:00 to 12:00; and at the Clay County Courthouse, Hayesvtlle from 3x00 to 4:00 pjn. Any person who has plans or of'ictal business pertaining to congressional matters they wish to discuss is invited tc meet with Mr. Mallonee ai die above-specified time. Dave Bristol Named Coach For Cincinnati Reds By: Red Schuyler With Southwestern North Carolina and the entire in state area now within commut ing distance of Major League baseball and Major League Football, announcement has reached the Scout that an And rews native has arrived in the major League Baseball scene. It was known that the Cin- j cinnati Reds would appoint a j new manager for the upcom- f ing year and there were a lot r of people in this area hoping ] and anticipating that possibly j this honor would come to Dave . Bristol. It is this writer's , opinion that Dave posessed | the capabilities and certain- ] ly would make a fine man- < ager. The Reds named Don Hefner as manager and imm ediately Hefner named Dave to a base coaching job. We would like to publicly con gratulate Mr. Hefner on his choice and also extend congr atulations to Dave Bristol on his new assignment. I am sure that even with the following that the Reds had in this area, this appointment will have even more people pulling for the Reds. Dave Bristol began his baseball career fifteen years ago at the age of 17 and during the off season taught school and helped with the coaching duties at Murphy High School through the 1963 season. At the age of 32 Dave will have the distinction of being one of the youngest coaches in the majors, if not the youngest. When contacted, this is what Dave said. "There's no better way to go up than as a coach. When I started at seventeen, I had my heart set on being in the big leagues. I couldn't do it as a player (There are po ssibly some who would argue with Dave on this point) so I figured the best way then was as a manager. That is still a goal of mine: someday soon I hope to realize this ambition." Where is Dave now? He is currently managing Cincin atti's Tampa entry in the Fla. Winter Instructional League. In fifteen years that Dave has been in professional baseball nine of those years have been spent as a minor league man ager in Clncinatti's farm sys tem. He has managed in every classification from D to triple A, making stops in Hornell and Geneva, N. Y., Visalis, California, Palatka, Fla., To peka, Kansas, Macon, Ga., RowanResigns At Blue Ridge Mtu. YOUNG HARRIS - An offi cial announcement from the Blue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership Corporation this week disclosed that Karl Rowan has resigned from the position of manager. The Board of Directors have named Mr. J. W. Cook as Acting Manager of the Cor poration. Scout To Come Out One Doy Early Next Week With Thanksgiving falling on the same date as the Scout is published, you will receive your paper one day earlier next week. If you have news that you would like to have appear in next week's edition you are requested to either call or send in your news as early as possible in order that we can get it in. The Scout Office and Plant will be closed all day Thurs day and re-open for business on Friday morning. Remember to get your news in one day earlier next weak. tnd his last assignment was at ian Diego, California. As a >layer, Dave has made stops n Welch, W. Va., OgdenUtah. > anbury, Maryland; West Palm Beach, Fla., Wausau, Wisconsin, and a a playing nanager in Hornell, Geneva, /isalia, Palatka, and Topeka. Working with manager lefner will not be a new ex >erience with Dave. Hereto ore Dave has worked with his tew boss in the Reds major ieague spring training camp. Dave is following in the foot steps of Hefner and if tradition means anything, he will be the next manager for the Reds. Hefner manager San Diego for the two years before Dave took over as manager. In 1964, Hef ner took a coaching job with the New York Mets. Another thing that Dave has going for him is the fact that last season Cincinnati had eighteen players on its major league roster who had played for Dave in the minors. The most notable of these was se cond baseman Pete Rose who went straight from Bristol's Macon Club in the old Sally League to Cincinnati and won the National League Rookie of the Year Award. With Milwaukee moving to Atlanta next year, this means that fans and friends of Dave will get to see him in action. What a fine tribute to an equ ally fine young man it would be to organize a bunch of fans and go to Atlanta next year on some Sunday and root for the Reds and Dave Bristol. Bristol's present plans call for him to remain in Florida until the Instructional League closes November 28, then go to Fort Lauderdale for the major-minor league meetings and then returning to Andrews to await the opening of spring training in February. Gene Mauch was managing the Philadelphia Phillies at age 34 and had the distinction of being the youngest man to manage a Major League team. Dave Bristol at 32 has two years to go and who knows if the chips fall right he could take that honor. This might not happen, but I do know this. There will be many peo ple hoping and pulling for him and if it does happen, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. In the years that I have spent in Western North Carol ina, I do not recall of anyone having a day set aside for them. I think it would be fining at this time, upon his return to Andrews and Cherokee Co unty that a day be set aside as 'Dave Bristol Day in Cher okee County" for a young man that has brought credit to this whole area. 300 Children Se Bob Broody Shov Over 300 children were 01 hand to watch the Jaycee spon sored Bob Brandy Show Satur day at the Murphy Elementary School. Each child got an oppor tunity to sit on 'Rebel', Bol Brandy's horse, and try ti toss a ball into a barrel with a chance to win $10 Leroy Michael Sutton, 7, so or Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Sutto of Murphy, the only one t accomplish the feat, was pre sented with $10. He is In th second grade at Murphy Ele mentary School. The two and one half hou show included free gifts fo everyone, songs, games, car toons, and a lot of audienc parti ciaptlon. Here Kitty' ?HERE KITTY' just wasn't the right call for Mrs. Fred Keener to use as she tried to coax a 6 month old lion off the sidewalk and back into Hughes Supply Store. The cub lion is part of a promotional campaign by Wallace Hardware Company of Morristown, Tennessee. Humphrey Tells Community Leaders To Visit High School Dropouts WASHINGTON, D.C. - "The most important way to encour age young dropouts to return to school is to visit them per sonn'ly," Vice-President Hu bert H. Humphrey told adult community leaders. "Nothing less will do the job," he said, Only Three Weeks Left In Football Contest The Scout's Football contest now going into its eighth week has added two new names to the list of seventeen previous winners. With thirty remaining points up for grabs and no one can win over five points at a time, it's still anybody's guess as to who will win the big money. The real "stumper" this past week were the Kentucky Houston, Texas-T.C.U, Clem son-Maryland, Georgia - Au burn, L. S. U - Miss. State, and Florida State - N. C. State games. This week we had four ent ries that missed three games and the tie breaker was put to use to come up with the three winners. Blain Stalcupwas the "top dog" and won $5.00 and five points. He missed the Florida State - N. C. State, Kentucky-Houston, and Texas T.C.U. games and predicted Ole Miss to defeat Tenn 10 to 7. Second place winner was Jimmy Matheson of Murphy. He missed the Clemson - Maryland, Florida State - N.C. State, and Kentucky - Houston games and predicted Tenn. to defeat Ole Miss 14-10. Third place winner and a previous winner of 3 points was Jo Ann Matheson of Mur phy. She missed the Florida State - N. C. State, Kentucky Houston, and the Texas - T. C.U. games. She predicted ' Tennessee to defeat Ole Miss 13-7. Fourth place and honorable mention goes to Connie Mc Corkel of Hayesvllle. She missed the Auburn-Georiga, Clemson - Maryland, and the Ohio State - Iowa games and predicted Tenn. to defeat Ole Miss. 14-6. To date there are two peo ple tied for first and second place with ten points each and seven people tied for third place. With only three weeks remaining, it is possible that anyone that has failed to score any points could win the big prize of <166.00. Of course that condition will cease after this week due to the fact that five is the max imum number of points anyone can win in one week. A gain of five points for Hugh Car ringer or James A. Hughes out of the next three times would almost virtually assure one of these gentlemen first place money. You can bet diet these two men will be doing a lot of research in trying to come up with a five point winner this week. On the other hand, anyone of seven people now tied for third place could forge ahead into third place by just gaining two points. Six people in the three point bracket and five people in the two point brac ket could go up quite a few places with a five point winner this week. So, as it stands no one is assured of anything even though the contest has been running eight weeks. But you had better hurry,because only three more weeks remain. People we have talked to, have said that they enjoyed the contest and were sorry to see it come to an end. This is the first year that the Scout has run the football contest in a long time. In order to run a contest of this type, it needs sponsor ship and we would like to urge those of you that need any of the merchandise sold by these sponsors that you be sure and give them your patrongae. The merchants sponsoring this years contest are: Smoky Mountain Gas Company, Cit izens Bank & Trust Co. Ins urance Department, Hughes Supply, Inc., Hicks Gulf Ser vice, Murphy Laundry, Mau ney Drug Co., Elmer Kilgore, Marketeer for Sinclair Pro ducts, Hughes Electric Shop, all of Murphy and Clay Far mer's Exchange of Hayesvi Ue, N.C. WINNERS POINT STANDINC Hugh Carringer It James A. Hughes It Mrs. Fred Keener i Walter Cole Dale Lunsford Billle Jane Stiles Ricky West Jo Ann Matheson Blaln Stalcup Sandra Kaye Mintz Mrs. Ray Klllian . Jane Colvard ... Bud Alexander . . . Jimmy Matheson . . Junior Anthony Mrs. Harold Glads on .... Jack Thompson Lane Phillips Bill Christy pointing out that a personal visit tells the boy or girl that someone cares and will give a far better idea of what is needed to help. In an address before a Task Force on Youth Opportunity in St. Louis, Missouri, the Vice-President said that "we are entering and continuing a third phase of the Youth Opportunity Campaign? to not only encourage boys and girls to return to school, but to help those who have return ed to stay there." Mr. Humphrey said that_ nearly one million summer jobs not otherwise available had been located as the result of phase one of the Youth Opportunity Campaign which President Johnson asked him to head last May. He said that there is rea son to believe that phase two" aimed at encouraging young boys and girls who had drop ped out of high school to re turn? "was successful too." Stressing the importance of locating the potential dropout, Vice-President Humphrey said "if school dropouts con tinue at the present pace, there will be 32 million adult, non high school graduates in the labor force in 1975-- at a time when jobs for the uneducated and untrained will be far few er than today." Potential dropouts "share several characteristics, the Vice-President noted. He de scribed them as "underashie vers," often missing or late to school, changing schools frequently and not participat ing in school activities, such as sports or dramatics. "More man four-fifths have the capacity to finish high school," Mr. Humphrey point ed out. ? He said that the potential dropout "may have a discip ? line problem, but is probably ' not a delinquent, and probably ' has an unhappy home situa tion." "Some 79 percent of drop ' outs have never had serious behavior problems and some ' 61 percent of the dropouts ) have lQ's at or above aver age," he explained. > Mr. Humphrey called "fail 5 ure of the school to stimulate 5 the student" the "main fact 5 or" contributing to schoo 5 dropout. 5 Poverty ("Some 40 perceni 5 0( dropouts come from fami lies below the poverty line" 3 "falling some classes" am 3 "lack of family motivation* 3 were among other reasons he 3 gave as contributing to schoo 3 dropout. He said that in those cases where youths drop ou 2 for economic reasons, "there 2 is seldom any appreciate 2 in the family of the relation " ship between Income, employ meat and education." West Of Asheville Don't Seem To Count At Shrine By: Red Schuyler There has been a lot said and printed both pro and con about the Shrine bowl game that is played every year early in December in Charlotte between the so called best High School Seniors of North and South Carolina. There's no doubt about it, it's hard to come up with die top thirty-three High School Senior football players in a State as large as the State of North Carolina with 100 large counties, with some of the counties having as many as fifteen or more High Schools in it. With no school allowed more than two rep resentatives you can readily see that it is quite some job to screen out the top players. Whereas, in the case of the South Carolina representatives, it is not near as difficult a task due to the fact that is is a much smaller State. For a young High School senior to play in the Shrine bowl is indeed a great honor. Not only is he playing for a very worthy cause but they are also on exhibit to all college football scouts from all over the south and southeast. Here is where most of the football scholarships are awarded. It is a very rare occasion when a boy receives a scholarship if he is not selected to play in the Shrine Bowl. That's why to him, it's very important that he not be overlooked. Each year the coaches all over the State are called on to submit a list of boys that they think are worthy of Shrine Bowl participation. From the results of these lists, it appears to be a waste of time for the Coaches west of Asheville. In the twenty-six years that I have been in Western North Carolina, I can t recall of but a very few boys west of Asheville partic ipating in this all important game. Being an ardent fan and a follower of football, I know that wehavehad lots of boys in this area (west of Asheville) that have been overlooked due to one reason or another and the biggest reason is our geographical location Just a few years back I overheard one football Coach say that he has always sent in a list of hisreccommendationsand so far they had been ignored. He went on to say that if the two names he was sending in that year were ignored and were not invited to participate, that this would be the last time he would make re ccomendations and would ignore the request thereafter. What happened? They were ignored as usual. The same old story, too far away. We don't need mountain boys. Before these two boys finished school, they were scouted and "courted" by football scoutsfrom The University ofTennessee, Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Furman, Western Carolina, Wake Forest and many other large colleges. These two boys could have gone to any of these schools on a full football scholarship. One boy chose Wake Forest and is now a Junior and playing outstanding ball for Wake.. The other boy enlisted in the U. S. Marines. A year later, Andrews had one of their best teams in history They won every game they played on the way to the overall State class A Championship. They played teams from Manteo to Murphy and were victorious in all their games. That was when you played four Champions from other areas of the State. F rom this team there were two boys that could and should have been selected. These two boys had many schools offering them scholarships too. One is a sophomore at Clemson and from what we have heard and read, he is destined to become one of the Clemson All-Time greats in the football world. The other young man is pursuing a career in the medical world. We could go on and on giving you othernames and schools and boys that have been overlooked through the years. We only mention these two as examples due to the fact tha we are more closely associated with them than the others. What can be done to erase this condition? Honestly, we don't know. One sportswriter has suggested that we have two Shrine Bowl Games. One in Charlotteand one in Asheville. I remember a few years back that a bowl game was held in Asheville and it was called the Optimist Bowl. It was discontinued due to the fact that it was frowned on by some big wheel in the N. C. High School Athletic Association. This same wheel, I understand tried to throw a monkey wrench into the Shrine Bowl game but it was unsuccessful. Certainly such a contest that has the slogan "Strong legs run, so that weak legs may walk" whould be given all the support possible. All profits go to the Shriner s Hospital fro crippled children in Greenville, S. C. But by the same token there should be some way possible where these selections could be made on a more equal basis. Possibly you have a solution or think you have. If so, we'd like to hear from you. TomotlaCommunity Judged In Non-Farm Area Division Last week was a busy one for the people in the Tomotla Community. On Tuesday night. November 9, approxi mately 25 people met at the community building to make final plans for the area jud ging. Thursday morning, Nov ember 11, was the big day. In the morning at 8:00 - 9:45 the judges,Mrs. RuthSheehan, Assistant Extension Editor for Television, N. C. State Uni versity; George M. Tisdale, Public Relations Manager, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Ashe vllle; and Jim Coxe, Area Co ordinator, Travel and Tourist Service, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Institute, Asheville, along with Mr. Morris Mc Gough, Executive Vice-presi dent, Asheville Agricultural Development Council, who accompanied the group, were met at the Community Build ing by a delegation of 25 peo ple. Mr. Bur ley Deweese,presi dent of the Tomotla Com munity Development Club wel comed the judges. Miss Leila Hayesv, vice-president, gave the Introductory part of the program and introduced the other speakers. Jack Pope gave the 4-H part of the pro gram, Linda Pope, the church youth program, Sharon Rollins told of the newly organized Girls Auxiliary of the First Baptist Church, Mrs. Annie Ruth Palmer gave the finan cial report, Mrs. Dixie Pal mer, the Bible School report, Mrs. Sheridan Johnson, the Home Demonstration report, Mrs. Virginia Moore, the re creation report and Bur ley Deweese, the building report. The judges were then taken on a tour of the community building and cemetery. The people in the Tomotla Com munity will be represented by 10 people attending the Awards Banquet in Asheville, Decem ber 4, to find out how their community came out in the Non-Farm Division in the Dis trict judging. The chain of events were ended that night at 6:30 with a turkey dinner in the com munity building with 50 people present. Mr. and Mrs. Pey ton I vie and Mr. and Mr s.John Jordan were guests for this occasion. Mr. Jordan, Super intendent of the Murphy City Schools was speaker for the Rimco Slates Turkey Shoot Rimco Manufacturing Com pany of Murphy will give it's employees a chance to prove their accuracy with the shot gun and rifle during a turkey shoot to be held in the plant parking lot, Saturday at 3 p.m. Female employees will be lining up their targets with rifles and the gents will fire shotguns. Fifteen turkeys are to be given to those most accurate with the fire-arms. Civitans Initiate Four New Members Four new members were initiated into the Murphy Clv itan Clvh at a recent meeting. New members are John Allen Thompson, Char lea Forrester, David Shielda and Ron Hughes. A spoksman for the did: sated that the dab would hold Its annual fruit cake aale XtSSSST^"