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Volume 76 -Numbtr 30 Murphy, North Carolina February 17,1966 12 Pages This Week at \hjhph\\ nootn carol.oca
Next Week .. Maybe
Legal red upe has held ig> TV translator In Mur
phy (or several months now. It has to be 'red ape'
because the Murphy Power Board already has the power
lines constructed to the top of Fain Mountain and the
Murphy Jaycees kept their end of the bargain and
constructed a building to house the delicate translator
equipment.
In a letter from Washington to Carter M. Parham,
General Manager of Television Sution WDEF-TV
(Channel 12) Chattanooga, Tennessee, he was advised
by his attorneys that the attorney handling the Murphy
translator case for the Federal Communications Com
mission wouldonly say it should receive action "soon".
"The delays and frustrations In connection with this
application are most Incredulous," the letter said, "but
we hope to have news for you NEXT WEEK."
Mrs. Brumby Enters 33rd
Senatorial District Race
Representative Mary Faye
Brumby of Cherokee County
has announced that she will
seek nomination forstatesen
ate for the 33rd Senatorial
District subject to the May
Democratic Primary.
The new Senatorial District
comprises Macon, Clay,
Cherokee, Graham, Swain,
Jackson and Translyvania
Counties under the 1966 re
districting bill.
Mrs. Brumby served in the
House during the 1965 Regu
lar Session. She has also ser
ved two Extra Sessions.
She was a member of nine
Committees including theEd
ucation Committee, Finance
Committee, Conservation and
Development Committee,
Water Resources and Control
Committee, and Health Com
mittee.
She supported and voted for
increased appropriations for
schools, teachers, state high
way employees, and other
state employees. She worked
constantly to impress her col
leagues and all others with the
unspoiled beauty and great po
tential of Western North Caro
lina.
She used T.V., radio, news
papers and speeches to tell the
dire need for new highways and
secondary roads through the
mountain
Mrs. Brumby appeared be
fore the Historic Sites Com
mission and was successful
in getting Fort Butler declared
an historic site. Following
this, she introduced a bill in
the House and secured a
$6,000 grant for Archaelogi
cal research and planning pre
liminary to the restoration of
Fort Butler. At the close of
the General Assembly, Mrs.
Brumby was named by a Ral
eigh Newspaper as one of the
five outstanding freshman leg
islators.
Mrs. Brumby headed the 300
Million Dollar Road Bond
Drive in Cherokee County
which passed by one of the
greatest percentages in the
state.
Mrs. Brumby is a member
of the Presbyterian Church.
She has served in her church,
the Girl Scouts, and Garden
Clubs on a local and district
wide basis. She has also ser
ved in the P.T.A. and Busi
ness and Professional Wo
men's Club. She served on the
Planning Board in Murphy in
1963-64.
She holds an Associate Arts
Degree from Young Harris
College and a B.S. Degree in
Elementary Education from
Western Carolina College at
Cullowhee.
Mrs. Brumby was featured
in the Asheville Citizen in
August 1964 as Woman of the
Week.
WNC Yoatk Corps
Rtcoioo $11i,S0C
WASHINGTON?Grants tot
aling $116,500 have been app
roved by the U. S. Office of
Economic Opportunity to help
three Western North Carolina
groups conduct Neighborhood
Youth Corps - projects, Uth
District Representative Roy
A, Taylor announced Satur
day.
The grants were distributed
as follows: Macon County
Board of Education, Frank
lin, N. C? $33,500, which will
provide work experience for
175 enrollees.
Four Square Community
Action, Inc., BrysonClty,N.C.
$56,500 for 176 enrollees,
Four-Square covers Clay,
Cherokee, Graham and Swain
Counties.
Polk County United Com
munity Action, Columbus,
N. C., $26,500 for 68 enrol
Congressman Taylor salt
he had received informatior
that funds will be appro vet
within a few days to help Moun
tain Projects, Inc., covertnj
Haywood and Jackson Count
ies finance a similar NYC pro
ject.
Governor Dan K. Moore
appointed Mrs. Brumby, re
presenting the House, Septem
ber 38,1965 to the State Coun
cil of Mental Retardation. She
serves on the Council Commi
tee of Education and Rehabi
litation.
Mrs. Brumby owns and op
erates Murphy Textile Mill
and is Vice-President of
Brumby Textile Mills, Inc.
Mary Faye Brumby
She is married to Edward
H. Brumby, operator and
President of Brumby Textile
Mills, Inc. They are the par
ents of two daughters, Mrs.
Eric Towns on of Asheville,
North Carolina, and Mrs.
Richard Forrest of West Hart
ford, Conn., and one son, Ed
ward Brumby, Jr. They also
have seven grandchildren.
James C. Howse
Candidate For
Clerk Of Coart
James C. Howse
James C. Howse announced
this week he will seek the
Democratic nomination as
Clerk of the Superior Court, a
post he held from December
1958 to December 1962.
Howse, 53, a native of Hum
boldt, Term., was educated at
the Humboldt High School. He
is a member of die First Met
hodist Church, Murphy and is
married to the former Mrs.
) Gertrude Makela Worthen of
Murphy.
In 1958 Howse served as
South Ward Precinct Chair
man of the Murphy Democ
ratic Party. He is now owner
and operator of the Cherokee
Restaurant.
He has long been associated
with the Boy Scouts, serving
as chairman of die 1958 Boy
Scout Drive. Being active in
community affairs, he is a
member of the Murphy Lions
Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Howse have
three children, two girls and
? son.
Grange
To Meet
The Pamona Grange will
meet at the Ranger School
House at 7 p.m. Saturday for
their regular meeting. All
members are urged to attend
and bring a covered dish for
a pot luck supper.
Photo by La Rue Cook of Scout Studio
Volley River Jumps Banks Near Marble
VALLEY RIVER rolled out of its banks Sunday morning and pushed three feet of water across
U. S. 19, blocking traffic betweenAndrewsandMurphy, Traffic from Andrews had to be rerouted
at Marble through the Feachtree community.
Flood Waters Inconvenience
Andrews, Murphy Travelers
"lood waters caused by a baiting traitic Detween Ana
nbination of torrential rews and Murphy.
ns, melting snow, and fro- More than three feet c
i ground surged through water lay across U.S. 19, fiv
:rokee County, Sunday, miles east of Murphy by mid
Four-Square's Medicare
Alert Project Underway
With March 31 as the final
date senior citizens may apply
for medical benefits under the
Medicare section of theSociil
Security amendments of 1964,
Four-Square Community Ac
tions, Inc., has launched a pro
ject to contact all eligible
persons in Cherokee, Clay,
Graham and Swain Counties, to
lend assistance in preparing _
and submitting forms.
Utilizing $10,921 in funds
from the Office of Economic
Opportunity, the Medicare
Alert project will continue up
to the March 31 cut-off date.
It is headed by Mayes Beh
rman of Brasstown and has a
total staff of fifteen persons.
In addition to Behrman,
there are a secretary, three
team captains, and ten comm
unity assistants. The pro
ject is under the overall dir
ection of Bob Goforth, exec
utive director of Four-Square
Community Action.
Goforth said many persons
have not applied for Medicare
benefits because they do not
understand the program nor
the procedure in applying for
the benefits. This is where
the Medicare Alert project
plans to be of assistance.
Staff members will spend
their working hours calling on
eligible persons in their
homes and lending whatever
help they can.
The following persons 755TE
been employed for the project:
Graham County: Team Cap
tain, Clifford George: assis
tants, James Huffman and
Hugh Holland: Cherokee Co
unty: Team Captain, Mrs.
Olen L. Myers: assistants,
Frank Sudderth, Mrs. Lucy
Laughter, Mrs. Tom Mauney
and Mrs. Carrie P. Frizzell;
Swain County; Team Captain,
P. M. Brendle, assistants,
Mrs. Glen McHan and Arthur
Breedlove; Clay County: Team
Captain, Mayes Behrman;
assistants, Carl Parker, and
Mrs. Mattie Moss Eller. The
Recording Secretary is Mrs.
Jayne Ramsey of Murphy.
Tom Day, President of Four
Square, stated the organ
ization is pleased to be able
to render this valuable service
to the older citizens of the
four counties and expressed
hope that everyone would take
advantage of the expert help
being offered in the prepar
ation of Medicare applic
ations. He said anyone inter
ested who has not been con
tacted should write Four
square Community Action,
Inc., Post Office Box K, And
rews, N. C.
In speaking of other Four
square projects, Goforth said
he has been conducting inter
views and expects to have his
full staff employed within the
next ten days. This will consist
of a six person staff for Ph
ysical and Mental Fitness,
four Community Organizers
and a Horticulturist. The Hot
ticulturist will conduct a vine
ripened tomato project,work
ing out of the Cherokee County
Agricultural Extension Ser
vice Office.
Goforth announced that a
secretary, Mrs. Lois Jones
of Robbinsville, has been em
ployed and is now on duty in
the Andrews office.
Father, Daughter
Services Held
MURPHY - joint services
for Jack Allen, 50, and daugh
ter. Kim Allen 2, who drow
ned Feb. 6 in the Cape Fear
River near Elizabethtown, N.
C .were held at 2 p.m. Mon
day in Grape Creek Baptist
Church.
The Rev. Clifton Elliott of
ficiated and burial was in the
church cemetery.
The bodies of Mrs. Allen
and two other Allen children
have not been recovered.
Six persons drowned when
the 40-foot cruiser "The
Kork" capsized Sunday Feb.
6 in the Cape River lock. The
body of Jasper Hyatt of Fay
etteville was the first to be
recovered.
At presstime, crews were
still searching for the bodies
of Mrs. Allen and her two chil
dren.
Mrs. Allen is the daughter
of Mrs. Dlxis Stiles Clark of
Murphy.
Tomato Packing
Houso Depends
0a Meeting
Thpre wui be a meeting
at the Courthouse in Mujrphy
at 7:30p.m. Friday night. Feb
ruary 18, to determine wtatt
her of not farmers have suffi
dent ?"'"^ra^a'packing
Operation in Murphy this year.
"It is very important that
every tomato and pepper pro
ducer in Cherokee County let
his intentions be know at this
time," JackEarly.CountyEx
tension Agent said. People
who are interested in market
ing tomatoes or pepper should
attend the meeting if possible.
Growers who are unable tt
attend the meeting should con
tact the County Agents offic?
in Murphy or one of the foll
owing people: Claude Stilesoi
Troy West, Feachtree; Georf
Bidstrip, Brasstown; C. R
Brown, Andrews; Henry Elli
ott, Notla; Everett Voyles
Sandy Gap: HadleyStiles.Ran
gen or C. B. Newton, Slov
morning Sunday. I railic trav
eling west from Andrews had
to be rerouted at Marble,
through Peachtree then west
to Murphy.
A slide two miles east of
Murphy on U. S. 64 to Hayes
ville threatened to seal off
Murphy from die east but high
way crews quickly pushed
away the mud and rocks and
traffic was maintained.
The wet week-end began
Thursday when a moderate
rain hit most of the county.
By 8:00 a.m. Friday, the
T.V.A. Hydraulic Data Divi
sion of Murphy recorded .80
inches of rain.
Sunday was the worst, with
rain driven by gusting winds.
A total of 2.63 inches fell in
the Murphy area.
Swelling Valley River push
ed flood waters to the back
doors of many homes along US
19 but there were no reports
of evacuation. Several rural
roads between Andrews and
Murphy were completely sub
merged and impassable.
With the flood gates at Mis
sion Dam in Clay County wide
open, Hiwassee River threat
ened many homes along U. S.
64 between Murphy and Hay
esville.
Both rivers receded Sunday
night and traffic was maintain
ed on US 19 Monday.
Total rainfall for the Mur
phy area from Thursday
through 8:00 a.m. Wednesday
amounted to almost four in
ches.
Forecast for the week-end
calls for cloudy skies, light
rain and moderate tempera
ture.
Highway Hearing
Set For Today
RALEIGH- The State High
way Commission will hold a
public hearing in theCheroket
County Courthouse in Murphy
Thursday (today), Februan
17, at 11:00 a.m.
The hearing is on the pro
posed improvements to US 6
from the Tennessee State lii*
east to a point west of Mur
phy, a distance of about eigh
teen miles, which is a por
tion of the Appalachian Deve
lopment Highway System.
In charge of the hearing wil
be Highway Commissioner W
Curtis Russ of Waynesvllle
Assistant Chief Engineer R.W
McGowan and Public Relation:
Officer Keith Hundley of Ral
eigh.
A map is posted in th
Cherokee County Courthous
showing the location of th
project.
The public is invited to att
end the hearing and all inter
ested citizens will be given a
opportunity to be heard.
Murphy Schools To Resume Friday
No Heat Has Boor The Trouble
Murphy Schools will resume
classes Friday, after being
closed down for four days be
cause of no heat at the Ele
mentary School.
The fire box and grate on
the furnace at Murphy Ele
mentary School burned
through over the week-end and
parts had to be ordered from
Atlanta a
"It was not practical id
open the High School since our
school buses transport both
elementary and high school
students at the Same time,"
John Jordan,Stg>erlntendentof
Murphy City Schools said.
The Elementary School has
an enrollment of 829 and the
High School, 684.
Area schools recently lost
eight days of classes due to
snow thus putting the schools
schedule twelve days behind.
At presstlme, a closing date
ending the 1966 school year had
not been set by school offi
cers, however Jordan stated
that Saturday classes will be
used to make up lost time.
Truoncy Warrant Brings
Gunfire; Deputy Wounded
Enforcement of school at
tendance laws, which sent one
woman to jail here two weeks
ago, brough gunfire, wounding
a Cherokee County deputy
when he tried to serve another
truancy warrant in the same
rural section, F riday.
Deputy Robert Harness was
wounded in the head by shot
gun pellets, and 19-year-old
Robert Thomas Halkum lodg
ed in Cherokee County jail on
three charges, assault with a
deadly weapon, assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to
kill and resisting arrest.
The events began Friday
morning when Hartness came
to die home of Mr. and Mrs.
Logan Halkum in the Tomotla
Community. He had a truancy
warrant sworn out by Mrs.
Ruby Bryson, County Attend
ance Officer. The pupil in
question was Halkum's 13
year-old son, Dale.
Robert Halkum, according
to the deputy, pointed a shot
gun at him and threatened to
kill him. Hartness turned his
back to the shotgun and went
for help. He returned to the
Halkum home about 2:30 p.m.
with Cherokee County Sheriff
Claude Anderson, Graham
County Sheriff G. E. Brewer,
Deputy Glenn Holloway and
eight State Highway Patrolmen
from District 6.
They surrounded the house,
called for Halkum to come out,
and when he refused, tossed a
tear gas grenade toward the
dwelling. It fell short.
State Trooper Don Reavis
stated that a second grenade
exploded near a window, a
shotgun blast came from the
house, wounded Deputy Hart
ness and the officers sur
rounding the house opened
fire.
Roy C. Sims
Sims Seeks
Nomination
For Sheriff
Ray C.Sims announced this
week that he will seek the
Democratic Nomination for
Sheriff of Cherokee County
in the May Democratic Con
vention.
Sims was bom in Jackson
County, but has been a resi
dent of Cherokee County for
the past 26 years. He is 33
years of age and a graduate
of the Murphy Schools, Mars
Hill College, and the Univer
sity of Tennessee. He is also
a graduate of the Non-Com
missioned Officers Academy
(Jecclin..Kore*..19.-4), and the
Army Comliat Leaders School
in Korea. He has had a year
of Criminology Study at the
University ol Tennessee.
He was an active Boy Scout
and Assistant Scoutmaster for
a number of years. As an
active member of the First
Baptist Church for the past
24 years, he has taught Sun
day School and served as an
R. A. Counselor. Hehasser
ved two years in the IJ. S.
Army? spending sixteen
months in Korea.
He has been employed by
the MurphySchoolsandispre
sently employed by the Chero
kee County Board of Education
as a teacher at HiwasseeDam
High School. He is a member
of the National Education
Association.
Photo by Jack Owens of Scout Studio
Shot From A Window
CHEROKEE COUNTY DEPUTY ROBERT HA RTNESS suffered
facial injuries from a shotgun blast fired from this window of
the Halkum residence. The photo was taken from where Hartness
was standing beside a tree taking cover as officers surrounded
the house. The distance from the tree to the house is about
30 feet.
"Screams 'I've been shot',
came from the house, and a
silence fell over the scene,"
Reavis said.
Halkum came out of the
house and officers discovered
that he had not been shot, but
that a fragment from the ex
ploding grenade near the win
dow had cut his hand.
According to Sheriff Ander
son, Halkum was seen at the
window with a shotgum and fir
ed the weapon, wounding Hart
ness.
Hartness was released from
the hospital after treatment.
He was struck with several
pellets, but not seriously in
jured.
Robert Halkum was sent
enced Tuesday to four months
in the State Prison on the as
sault with a deadly weapon
charges at a hearing before
Justice of the Peace, Hugh
M. Brittain. On the assault
with a deadly weapon with in
tent to kill and the resisting
charges, he was bound over to
the March 28 term of Cherokee
County Superior Court under
$5,000 bond.
The parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Logan Halkum were also char
ged on three counts, truancy
of their child, aiding and abet
ting in assault with a deadly
weapon, and resisting arrest.
They have been bound over to
the Superior Court under
$2,000 bond each.
Dale Halkum has been plac
ed in the charge of juvenile
authorities.
State Troopers involved in
Friday's stake-out at the Hal
kum home were Sgt. J. L. Wil
son, Cpl. W. L. McDonald and
Troopers Don Reavis, P. J.
Miller, L A. Turner, J. M.
Shuler, W. G. Leming, and Z.
V. Hawes.
Cherokee County Man Breaks
Story On Julian Bond Case
By: Barbara R. Sampson
Cherokee County's Ed
Spivia recently fulfilled every .
lewsman's dream when he broke
a "bigstory"-theJulianBond
controversy in Atlanta.
Spivia's Julian Bond news
break has been carried by
such papers as the Atlanta
Constitution, Augusta Herald,
Rome News Tribune, and the
Macon Telegraph. The Amer
ican Broadcasting Company
carried a special report about
Spivia's involvment in the
case, and United Press Inter
national made it available
worldwide.
The extensive coverage of
the young newsman's feat in
the Georgia Capitol hassle
makes complete repetition
needless. To summarize bri
efly, Julian Bond, Negro rep
resentative elected from a
North Atlanta district, alleg
edly denounced United States
policy in Viet Nam and advo
cated that American youth
avoid the draft.
Spivia, sent to get the story,
interviewed Bond, who is a
pacifist. The newsman taped
the interview and subsquently
used the two tapes on a WGST
newscast. The lid blew off.
Spivia was summoned to bring
the tapes and appear before a
session of special committee
of the Georgia House of Rep
resentatives, which was revi
ewing petitions against seat
ing Julian Bond in the House.
The tapes were introduced
over the objections of Bond's
counsel.
After a four-hour session,
the committee recommended
that Bond not be seated. House
Members voted 184-12 to acc
ept the committee reco
mmendation. It was stated that
the action was taken, not be
cause of his race, as conten
ded, but because of Bond's
unpatriotic comments as es
tablished by the tapes. This
contention was justified on the
grounds that seven other
Negro representatives had
beat duly seated. On Jan. 29.
a three-judge federal court
upheld the House action and
dismissed Bond's ease.
Ed Spivia
Ed Spivia, son ot Mrs. bur
ton Graves of Rt. 4, Murphy,
was born and reared in this
area, graduating from Hiwa
ssee Dam High School in 1959.
Soon after graduation, he and
Judy Swans on, a classmate,
were married. Mr. and Mrs.
Spivia now have two young
sons.
Spivia attended Young
Harris Junior College for a
time, leaving there to begin
his career at Station WLSB,
Copperhill. There he served
a sound apprenticeship, work
ing in all capacities deman
ded by the needs of a small
station operating with a mini
mum but versatile staff. From
Copperhill he went to WKRK
in Murphy, then to WM5J,
Sylva. He left WMSJ to take
the position he now holds as
radio newsman at WGST, At
lanta.
His former teachers at Ht
wassee Dam express pleasure
but no surprise at Spivia's
success. Grady Anderson,So
cial Studies Department, co
mmented that "Eddie was a
fireball of energy and enthus
iasm, always talking about
radio at every opportunity."
As a star basketball player
during his school, Spivia is
recalled by his coach, Lyle
Car ringer, as a "real hustler,
who would naturally make good
at any Job he set his mind to
do."