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Igggsl *0 The Cherokee ?jiff Scout ? Chorolcoe County's B... Bo,' ^ Volume76 ? Number 31 Murphy, North Carolina February 24, 1966 10 Pages This Week AT MURPHY. NORTH CAROLINA GOP Coaveatioa To Bo Sotarday The Cherokee County Re publican Convention will be held Saturday, February 26th, 2:00 p.m. at the Cherokee County Courthouse. This will be an organizat ional meeting for the purpose of electing the following offi cers: Executive Committee Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer. Delegates to the District and State Convention will be elect ed at a later date. This meeting will consist of and include the seventeen precincts in Cherokee County. The Chairman from each precinct will be asked to pre sent their credentials from their meetings which took place earlier this month in or der to be properly seated at the convention. Doyle Burch announced this week that he would not be a candidate to succeed himself as Chairman of the Republi can Party in Cherokee Coun ty, a position he has held for the past ten years. Last Chance For Dancing Enrollment The deadline for enrolling in ballroom dancing classes in the Murphy area has been set for Thursday, March 3, Classes are being held in the new Parker Building over Darnell's Mens Store. Miss Jeanette Evans, in structor for the classes taught for the Arthur Murray Studio for 4 years and owned her own studio in Atlanta. Classes will be held each Friday andSatur day night at a cost of $1.00per person per hour. Dances taught are the Fox trot, Rhumba, Jitterbug, and Cha-Cha. Interested persons should call 321-5471 inAnd rews before March 3. Money Was In Freezer: Thieves Take Cold Cash ANDREWS- Burglars broke Into the Western Auto Store in Andrews sometime Sunday night or early Monday morn ing and took $786.00 in money plus other merchandise. According to AndrewsPol ice Officers, Jim Conley and Jesse Mashburn, the thieves gained access to the building on Main Street through the back of the store. The offi cers discovered the break-in about one o'clock and called Roy Berry, owner, shortly thereafter. Berry stated that other than the money that was missing, a 22-calibre rifle, a 30-30 calibre rifle, and an unknown amount of ammunition was missing. Berry told theScout that due to the fact there was not a night depository to deposit the days receipts and also as a precaut ion against fire, he put the money in a locked deep freez er. It was his opinion that the thief or thieves knew this and after breaking in, went right to work on the freezer. Part of the loss was covered by burgarly insurance. Cherokee County Deputy Sheriff Glen Holloway also in vestigated the break-in and was able to lift some fairly good fingerprints. Holloway stated that warrants have been issued for two men and that their whereabouts were un known at presstime. Appalachian Road Program Anticipated To Start Here MURPHY - The first pro-' grammed stretch of Appala chian Development Highway - an 18 mile section running east from the Tennessee line to the outskirts of Murphy, will be put under contract just as soon as the right of way can be acquired. This was disclosed by state highway officials here Thurs day at a historic public hear ing attended by some 250 Ch erokee County residents who own property along the pro posed route. W. Curtis Russ, 14th Div ision highway commissioner from Waynesville, opened the hearing - the first to be held on an Appalachian road pro ject - by declaring: "We are here on a mission which I feel will be a high light in the highway-making history of Cherokee County. It is the beginning ot a pro gram that will be more far reaching and far more bene ficial to Western North Car olina than anv ever before." Russ said the State Highway Commission was just as anx ious to get the project under way as the people of Cherokee County, "but how quickly we can get construction under way depends on you." "The contract - letting will depend on the co-operation of the people of Cherokee Co unty," he said. "For we must have rights of way before we can start. The sooner we get them, the sooner we can start moving dirt and putting down pavement." He said it would be an open access highway with a 60 mile speed limit. It's Cookie Time LOCAL GIRL SCOUTS arc now taking ordet* (or Girt Scout cooklaa. The largeat part of the cookie proceed! from the aale provide for camp equipment, a capital expense not provided by council campaigns. The above girls represent four of the local Girl Scout Troops. They are: (seated) Denette Hubbard and Joan Holland, (funding, 1-r) Ann Alexander, Karen Watson^arah Jane Hill, Markle Carringer, and Debbie Dockery. Safety In Tree There was safety In trees Sunday when one prevented the above auto from plunging into Hiwa ssee River. The car, driven by Wayne Timpson of Brasstown, went out of control on U. S. 64 east of Murphy and overturned down an embankment.He was not Injured. Joyce Ann Ledford, 17 of Hayesville, a passenger in the auto was treated at Providence Hospital and dismissed. $56,000 Grant To Aid Students Four-Square Community Action, Inc., the official Anti poverty Agency of Cherokee, Clay, Graham, and Swain Counties, have been notified by the United States Department of Labor of approval of a $56, 500 Neighborhood YouthCorps Grant to provide employment for 176 high school youths be tween the age of 16 and 22 who need financial help in order to remain in school. Tom Day, President of Four-Square and BobGoforth, Executive Director, state that approximately 73 of theenrol lees will be men and 103 wo men and that the project will be completed within 18 weeks. Opportunities for employment have been distributed on the basis of high school member ship February 17, 1966. Cher okee County Schools will em ploy 16 youths, Clay, 26, Gra ham, 30 and Swain, 40. And rews City Schools have 24 job openings and Murphy City, 40. All employment opportunities in terms both of staff and of enrollees are open without re gard to race, color, or creed. Although local administrat ion of the Neighborhood Youth Corps Project will be conduct ed by the Principal and staff at the various high schools, the employment of a four coun ty director and Deputy Direc tor is planned. Alsotobeem ployed will be a Secretary Bookkeeper. Persons inter ested in such employment are urged to contact the Employ ment Security Office or Four square Community Action, In., Box K, Andrews, N, C, immediately. The Four-Square Neighbor hood Youth Corps Project is the latest of a series of Econ omic Opportunity Projects ap proved by Federal Agencies. Other projects approved are a Program Development Pro ject, a Project for promot ion of horticultural crops, a comprehensive Physical and Mental Fitness Program, and a Medicare Alert Project. Additional projects now being developed include Head Start for next summer and a project in Family Management. All Four-Square activities are being closely coordinat ed with those of the United States Office of Education un der the Elementary and Sec ondary Education Act as well as the Manpower Development and Training Act. Worst Winter In Many Years Causes s860,000 Road Damage The winter of 1966 will go down In history as one of the hardest in many years on high ways in the 10-county 14th Division, according to A. J. Hughes, division engineer. A estimated survey indi cates the cost to repair dama ges of the snow, ice and flood ing on the highways will be in excess of $860,000. Of course, Hughes warned, "winter is not over, and we could have a lot more hard freezes and quick thaws, which results in the heaviest damages to all types of roads. V-itcrHwav fr?rr?o In rtia W counties have put down 3,000 tons of salt this winter in combatting snow, plus thous ands of man hours scrapping the roadways. Some 2,000 carloads of gravel have been distributed on rural roads. Many hard-surfaced roads have suffered severe damage, and temporary repairs are being made, but it takes warm weather to put down surface treatment. Hughes said that repairs to all types of roads will be made just as fast as possible and at the same time, forces are at work on preparing rural roads for Spring paving in all 10 counties. These roads are being inproved on the prior ity program, which was adopt ed by the Highway Commis sion last July. The priority system is arrived at by a schedule of points for the num ber of families on a given toad, length of road, school and mail routes, actual traffic count, tafety factors, relationship to other roads, including number of public parks, cemeteries and such on the road. "The priority system is fair to everyone," said Hughes. "No guesswork is used in making the survey--it is act ual." Hughes also pointed out that before a rural road could be paved that a 60-foot right of way had to be made available to the state. Those roads where the required right of way If not matte available are taken off the active list for two years, andother roads In the same priority are mov ed up the scale. "We have had a rough win ter on roads?we hope it is over, but the one bright spot is the attitude of the 674 peo ple who work in this 10-coun ty division, and their loyalty and dedccation in getting a needed Job well done," the highway executive continued. Highway Accidents Gravest Problem Next To Viet War WASHINGTON, D.C.?President Johnson said "the gravest problem before this nation?next to war in Vietnam is the death and destruction that strikes daily on our highways." In a message to the meeting of the A merican Trial Lawyers in New York City, the President saidthere "Can be no excuse" for a nation that tolerates an "anarchy on wheels" causing nearly 1,000 to die in auto accidents weekly and another 70,000 to be crippled or hurt. "We must stop the slaughter on our highways," he emphas ized, "There is no excuse for 49,000 Americans killed? 3 1/2 million maimed and injured?billions lost in property dam age and man hours" last year. "It is a fact that if we continue at our present suicidal rate, half of all Americans will one day suffer death of serious in jury on our highways," and "our death toll may exceed 70,000 each year within the next decade," the President pointed out, saying that he refused to "accept the prediction." "This Administration has moved and will move to stop the slaughter?to replace suicide with sanity, and anarchy with safety," he said. Announcing that he would soon propose a comprehensive Highway Safety Act to arrest the destruction of life and prop erty on the nation's highways, the President encouraged the Americal Trial Lawyers to carry the crusade for highway safety to every state, community and individual. In 1964 there were 1,584 people killed and 49,121 injured in 82,071 vehicle collisions in North Carolina; 5,559 of these ve hicles were known to have mechanical defects of which 94 were involved in collisions resulting in deaths. The only way to insure that these mechanical problems are corrected is to require that everyone have their safety equipment checked re gularly. The law requires that all vehicles registered in the state of North Carolina to be safety inspected in 1966, a program to curb the death rate on North Carolina highways. How Fast Can You Die ? WASHINGTON, D.C. - This is what happens when a car, traveling at 55 miles an hour, crashes into a solid immov able object. l/10th of a second The front bumper and chrome "frosting" of the grill work collapse. Slivers of steel penetrate the object to a depth of 1-1/2 inches. 2/10ths of a second The hood rises, crumples smashes into the windshield. Spinning rear wheels leave the ground. The fenders come in to contact with the object.for cing the rear parts out over the front doors. The driver's body continues to move for ward at the vehicle's original speed. At 20 times the nor mal force of gravity, his body weighs 3,000 pounds. His legs ramrod straight, snap at the knee joints. 3/10ths of a second The driver's body is now off the seat, torso upright, broken knees pressed against the dashboard. The plastic and steel frame of the steering wheel begins to bend under his terrible death grip. His head is now near the sun visor, his chest above the steering column. 4/10ths of a second ...... The car's front 24 inches have been demolished, but the rear end is still traveling at about 35 miles per hour. The driver's body is still travel ing 55 miles per hour. The half-ton motor block crunches into the object hit. 5/10ths of a second .... The driver's fear-frozen hands bend the steering col umn into an almost vertical position. The force of gravity impales him on the steering shaft. J agged steel punctures lung and intercostal arteries. Blood spurts into his lungs. 6/10ths of a second .... The driver's feet are rip ped from his tightly laced shoes. The brake pedal shears off the floor boards. The chas sis bends in the middle, shear ing body bolts. The driver's head smashed into the wind shield. The rear of the car be gins Its downward fall, spin ning wheels digging into the ground. 7/10ths of i second .... The entire, writhing body of the car is forced out of shape. Hinges tear, doors spring op en. In one last convulsion, the seat rams forward, pin ning the driver against the cruel steel of the steering shaft. Blood leaps from his mouth, shock has frozen his heart. He is now dead. Total time elapsed...seven tenths of a second. Murphy; Swain Take 1st Round In Smoky Mtn Basketball Playoffs By: Red Schuyler The Smoky Mountain Wes tern Division Basketball To urnament began Monday night in Hayesville with the Swain girls and boys and Murphy boys winning their games. The first game got off to a good start with the Andrews boys making a great come back in the second half only to fall short by one point. A t halftlme Swain had a nine point lead. The score was 28 19. With West and Sursavage hitting the basket with regul arity in the second half they almost pulled it out of the fire. West was high scorer for both teams with 20points.Sur savage was second high scorer for the Wildcats with 14. Next in line for Andrews were: Lunsford with 11, Owenby, Ro gers, and Raxter had two points each. High scorer for Swain County were F rizell and Myers with 12 points each. Others breaking into the scor ing column for Swain were Sneed and Schuler with eight points, Thomas 7 and Dills 5. By virture of defeatingAnd rews. Swain will face Franklin Thursday night in the second game scheduled to get under way at 8:30 p.m. In the secondof three games played, the Swain County girls defeated the Hayesville Vellow Jackets 51 to 40. Hayesville took an early lead by cashing in on three foul shots. After three minutes of playing time had elapsed Swain netted their first two pointer and then Ward tied it up by cashing in on a foul shot. Branson put Swain in the lead with a field goal only to have Chastain ring one from about 20 feet out to tie it up again at 5-5. From there on the Swain girls began build ing up a lead that they never relinquished for the rest of the Aght. By the end of the first quarter, Swain built up a 16-6 lead, at halftime it was Swain 29, Hayesville 11. This was the biggest lead of the night. In the third quarter w ith Chastain shooting from all angles, Hayesville outscored Swain 15 to 12 and in the fourth quarter again outscored their opponents 14 to 10. The 18 point halftime lead was just too much to overcome and when final whistle sounded it was Swain 51, Hayesville 41. Midway of the third quarter Uhastain maue gooa on a ioui shot, came back with two su cessive field goals good for a total of five points and cut the Swain lead to seven points and that was the closest they could get in trying to over come the large half time de fecit. The Swain girls by defeating Hayesville will meet the Mur phy girls in the second round of play Wednesday night at 7 p.m. The Murphy girls drew a 'bye' in the first round, as well as the Robbinsville girls. In the finale, the Murphy Boys had to fight for their lives in trying to make it to the second roundof play. The bull dogs got off to an early lead over Robbinsville and after five minutes had an eleven point lead. The score was 13-2 in favor of Murphy with three minutes remaining in the first quarter. With Wachacha and VcMonigilc firing at the bas ket and hitting, the Black Knights were behind only four points at the end of the 1st Quarter. Murphy had 16, Ro bbinsville 12. In the second quarter, Lochaby and Stiles found the range and Murphy took a seven point lead to the dressing room. You never Know wnat ine Coaches tell the players at halftime but whatever Coach Pattilo told the Black Knights must have been effective. When the whistle blew to start the second half, the Knights went to work and not only overcame their defecit but picked up a 10 point lead on the Bulldogs as the third quarter ended. The Black Knights sc ored one more point in the third quarter than they did the entire first half. The best the Bulldogs could do was to score eleven points against the 28 points Robbinsville re gistered. The third quarter slaughtering of the Bulldogs possibly took something out of the Knights as they only sc ored 8 points in the fourth quarter while the Bulldogs scored 20 fighting back to pull it out of the fire when the whistle sounded ro end the game with Murphy out infront by a skimpy two points. The closeness ol the game was indicative of the past two meetings between these two teams. Earlier in the season Robbinsville defeated the Bu lldogs in Robbinsville by two points. When the Robbinsville team returned the game on the local court, the Bulldogs won by two points. A total of six points difference in three games played. The bulldogs tooK an eariy lead and held It until a two pointer by Steppe gave Robb insville the lead with two mi nutes remaining in the third quarter. Robbinsville increa sed their lead to a margin of ten points at the end of the third quarter. As the fourth quarter got underway, both sides had a one and one sit uation and here was the dif ference in the game. Wayman made good on two foul shots. Stiles cashed in his two, and Lochaby sent two through the nets that made beautiful str ing music. The stage was now set for the finale. Stevens sunk a fifteen footer, and Wayman made his twenty foo ter good to tie the score at 55-55 with five minutes re maining. Robbinsville boun ced back with a beautiful shot by Wachacha to go ahead by two. Stiles made two foul shots good to tie it again. Wachacha said this will never do and poured in another two po inter to go ahead again. Lo chaby tied it up with a beau tiful "snowbird". Wayman put Murphy ahead with a two pointer. Two successive field goals by Wiggins and Scroggs gave Robbinsville a two point lead with one minute to play. The Knights tried to freeze it but lost the ball and a Murphy player spotted Lochaby all On The Rebound MURPHY'S LOCHABY grabs a rebound as Robbinsviile fails in a two point attempt during the 2nd quarter of Monday nights game. Murphy won the game 65-63. Dance Anyone A SQUARE ll\NCE SEQUENCE seems to be talcing place as Colvtlle, 41 (Swain) appears to be holding hands with Howell, 21 (Hayesville ) and a Swain player readyto duck under. Actually Howell was shooting for 2 points and made it good. Hayesville was defeated 51-40 alone under the basket, fired it to him and he made it good. Robbinsville took it back down the court but was unable to make it good and the Bulldogs took over hurried the ball down the court and with ten seconds remaining Wayman on a 25 foot jump shot fired in the winning two points. By defeating Robbinsville the Murphy boys gained the right to play the Sylva boys in the second game beginning at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night. Sylva drew a 'bye' in the first round of play. High scorer for both teams was Wayman with 23 points. Next in line was Lochaby with 17, Stiles with 16, Stevens with 6 and Curtis with 3. High scorer for Robbins ville was McMonigile with 15. Next in line was Wachacha with 13, Stepp 12, Wiggins 11, Scroggs 10, and Williams 2. In games played Tuesday night, the Franklin boys team defeated the Hayesville boys 71-44 and the Franklin girls team defeated the Sylva-Web ster girls 16-7 thereby gain ing berths in the Semi-Flnals of play in the Smoky Mountain Conference Western Division playoffs. In the girls division, the winner of the Murphy-Swain game will meet the winner of the Franklin - Robbinsville game in the finals to be played Saturday night. In the boys division, the winner of the Sylva-Webster - Murphy game will meet the winner of the Franklin - Swain came in the finals to be played after the girls championship game in Hayesville Saturday night. Sylva - Webster girls sens ing that they did not have a chance to defeat their county neighbors slowed the game down by freezing the ball. It was so slow that at halftime, the score was 7-2 In favor of Franklin. The final score was Franklin 16, Sylva-W'ebster 7. The boys game was quite a bit different. Both teams got off to a fast start and by half time there was only seven points difference with Frank lin on top 30-23. Shortly after the third per iod got underway, a field goal and a foul shot brought Hayes ville within four points but after that it was Franklin all the way. The Panthers from Franklin scored 41 points while holding the Hayesville Yellow Jackets to 21 points in the second half and when the final buzzer sounded it was Franklin 71, Hayesville 44. High scorer for both teams was R. Ledford with 18 points. The other Franklin scorers were Sutton IS, Norton 12, Cabe 8, Chastain and D. Led ford with 6 each. Bell 4, and Holbrooks 2. Hall was high man for Hay esville with 13, Moors and Penland racked ig> 11 each, Crawford had S, Howell 2, Ledford and Smart 1 each. F rtday night will be an off night and play will be resumed Saturday night to determine the Champions in both hoys and girls divisions.