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tfvr*- The Cherokee im Scout c?./. B.,. B?,' ^H'% ' ^ Gw/"'V pwy/w Volume76 - Number 39 Murphy, North Caroline April 21, 1966 14 Poges This Week ^i^PMv^oe^CARtxjNA coutlets -j A nine-year-old boy hurried off to school the other morn ing before his mother ins pected his wash job. So when he sat down in the classroom breakfast was still visible on his face. The teacher frowned and said, reprovingly: "You didn't wash your face. What would you say if I came to school with egg and jam around my mouth He retorted smugly, "Nothing at all. I'd be too polite." -J Down at City Barbershop, there are a couple of barbers always talking about animals, especially 'coons and dogs. Here's the story that is circu lating about the tallest barber there and we don't know if it's a joke or the truth. Seems there was a dog sitting beside Bert Hogan's chair and a cus tomer said, "Your dog seems very fond of watching you cut hair." Bert replied, "Well, it isn't that so much. Sometimes I snip off a bit of a customers ear." -J Today's Thought: America Is a wonderful country. Where else can you walk out of your mortgaged home, step into a time-payment car, and drive down a bonded highway on credit gas to charge something at your favorite store? -J A tip of our Scoutlet hat this week goes to the 6th grade class of Marie Hendrix at Murphy Elementary School. Her 7 students had perfect att endance for the 4 Saturday make up classes. Members oif the class are: Phyllis Crisp, Mary Frankum, Sally Garrett, Allen Graves, Kathy Sneed, Susan Swanson and Linda Ware. -J There seem to be a contag eous disease going around .. "Politicking Fever ". The smiles are big and the back slapping and hand pumping is in high gear but there's some thing missing ... a good old fashion "stump meeting." You know, that's when the candid ates from both sides gather and tell what they're gonna do. We'll probably get our head chopped off by a political axe for saying so but we'd like to see one. -J A 10-year-old chimpanzee in Atlanta, In the interest of science, gulped almost a fifth of vodka and fell flat on his face. This proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that a 10 year-old chimpanzee cannot gulp a fifth of vodka without falling flat on his face. (Chic ago Tribune) -J Cats, in many ways, remind us of women...'causethey're ornery.' EXAMPLE: Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Gentry have a cat which was about to give birth to a litter of kittens. Tommy's wife Judy insisted on leaving their basement door open so the old cat could have her kittens in the warmth of their basement. Tommy came to work the other chilly morning in his pickup truck, went around to the back to get some thing out and there the old cat was, kittens and all. -J One of the answers to a questionaire published by a magazine to find out how much people knew about the Bible contained this choice bit of humor. To the question "How many wives does the Bible allow for each man?" the answer was sixteen (four better, four worse, four rich er, four poorer). I -J Preachers have really come a long way. We were up at And rews Airport a couple of Sund ays ago trying to bum a ride in a flying machine and saw Rev. Bill Thompson load his luggage and golf clubs in a plane and take off for a rev ival meeting. This is a long way from Rev. Spencer, the Methodut Minister who cante through Murphy recently on horse back. m -T Carl Smith Is Wounded In Viet Nam Battle CARL SMITH Mr. and Mrs. Bert Smith if Brasstown were notified his week that their sou, Pfc. ^arl E. Smith, has been in God Bless Advertisers The following is taken from a National Newspaper Week speech by Jenkin Lloydjones, editor of the Tulsa Tribune: "As a general rule, the newspapers that are most re sponsible and worthy of trust are those newspapers that are solvent. The penniless young lady, is more susceptible to an immoral proposition than one well-heeled. "I believe that America's ?commercial' newspapers to day, in general, are the most accurate, the most informa tive, the most reliable news papers in die world. "So I say without apology or shame, God bless the ad vertisers. No editor could ride forth to joust with ogres if someone didn't feed the war horse. "I can do so because our ad vertising and business office have done their work well. They have done their work well "When our newspaper is not de pendent on the patronage of any single man, or susceptible to die domination Of any group." jured while engaging the en emy in Viet Nam. The telegram stated that Smith was seriously wounded on the 17th of April as the re sult of hostile action. He sustained metal fragment wounds of the head when a Claymore mine was detonated while on a combat operation. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were assured that the best medi cal facilities and doctors have been made availableandevery measure is being taken to aid their son. Smith, 19, entered the ser vice in December 1964 and has about nine months to go on his present enlistment. He is servitg with the 69th Arm ored Company attached to the 25th Field Brigade. His duty is that of a reconnoissance scout in a small tank manned by himself, a sergeant and a lieutenant. His outfit is quar tered at Cuchi, twenty-five miles northwest of Saigon. He arrived in Viet Nam exactly five weeks to the day prior to receiving his injuries. Pfc Smith has an older bro ther, Robert A. Smith,21. with the Medical Corps presently stationed at Fort Knox. Ken tucky. Murphy Chamber Reorganizing W. D. Townson, President of the Murphy Chamber of Commerce, announced this week that a meeting will be held Thursday night (tonight), 7:30 p.m., at the Power Board Building. The purpose of the meeting will be to reorganize, elect new officers, and get the Mur phy Chamber of Commerce moving again. A spokesman for the organi zation stated that for some time the local Chamber of Commerce has not had the act ive support it needs from the people to really do a good job. Much has been accomplished, but more could have been acc omplished if everyone had been working together. The Murphy Chamber of Commerce made it clear that they are not asking for a dona tion, but are only asking that interested citizens be present at the Power Board Building tonight and select a group of men to give the Chamber a push and keep active. Disappointing Crowd Watch Paschal Take Flag By Red Schuyler A disappointing crowd est imated to be between seven and eight thousand saw Jim Pas chal take the checkered flag at North Wilkesboro Speedway last Sunday afternoon. For Paschal it was the first vic tory since winning the Char lotte World 600 in the race that the great Fireball Rob erts was was injured and died a few weeks later in a Char lotte hospital. A much larger crowd was expected but due to the fact that FORMOCO made the ann ouncement that no factory backed cars would compete, cut into the attendance. Now that FORMOCO has made the announcement official and has withdrawn all factory support for the rest of the year, the big question asked by racing fans is will they not rescind their order if NASCAR will waive their recent ruling that they must carry added weight in excess of 400 lbs. in order to run their new Overhead Cam Engine that NASCAR just re cently approved. It also app roved the use of dual carbur et! on which has been banned ever since NASCAR organ ized. Some of the independent drivers have already started using the dual carburetors: in the wedge type engine. It would have been interesting how much this would have helped had Tom Pis tone not wrecked early in the race last Sunday. Pistone got off to a good start and was right on the heels of Jim Paschal when his usual hard luck popped up and elim inated him from the race. About the only ones helped by the recent ruling are the independent drivers. You may have noticed the order of finish Sunday and saw that some of the independents finished up in second, fourth, and fifth. Jim Paschal was the winner David Pearson was third. The other factory backed drivers were Richard Petty eleventh and Sam McQuagg seven teenth. With the Martinsville 250 miler coming up Sunday and the Rebel 400 at Darlington on Saturday, April 30, one can't help but wonder 'just what kind of race they will see. I know of several people that have their ticket orders ready to mail but have said unless the factory backed Fords are back in they will not bother to send them off. By eliminating the Factory backed Fords, fans are being deprived of seeing such drivers as 1965 Champion Ned Jarrett, Fred Lorenzen, Dick Hutcherson, Cale Yarborough, Curtis Tur ner, Bobby Isaccs, Marvin Panch, and possibly A. J. Foyt. That's eight of the top drivers. Without this kind of competition there just "aim" much to look forward to. I am sure that NASCAR isn't looking to this writer for a way to solve the dilema that they are now in, but even so I would like to make a su ggestion. Since the fans pay the bills, why not poll the fans as to whether to let them run what they bring as long as they meet safety require ments, or abolish all factory support. I am sure that there are a lot of firms or organiz ations that would like to spon sor a driver and would do so but they are not going to try to "buck" the factory teams. I'll bet the independents would like to see this tried too. Ford's withdrawal from stock car racing took the steam out of a meeting Saturday in Charlotte of track promoters with NASCAR Pre sident Bill France. About 12 race track execut ives met with the head of the National Association for Stock Car Racing *> persuade him to lift restrictions on cars powered by the new Ford over head cam engine. NASCAR and the United Sutes Auto Club ruled April 6 that racers equipped with the new engine must carry 427 Continued On Back Newly Elected Murphy Jaycees, Installed Tuesday night at the Milton Inn, Blairsville, Ca. are pictured above with North Carolina State Jaycee Officials. (L - R) front row: Bill Davis, National Director Western Region; Cabell Ramsey, President North Carolina Jaycees; Jack Owens, President of Murphy Jaycees and John Smart, Newly Elected Western Regional Dir ector. In the Second row are the newly elected Board of Directors of the Murphy Jaycees. They are: Bud Penland, First Vice President; Curtis Hewelett, second Vice President; Bill Henson, Secretary; Bill Hall, Treasurer; James Helton, State Director; Don Decker, Director, Billy Palmer, Director; and Tom Gentry, Immediate Past President. State Jaycee President Installs Local Officers At 4th Annual Banquet On Tuesday night, April 19 he Murphy Jaycees installed heir officers for 1966-67 at a banquet held at the Milton nn in Blairsville, Ga. Cabell Ramsey, President >f the North Carolina Jaycees idministered the oath of jffice to Jack Owens, Incom ng President of the Murphy [aycees, and his board of dir ectors. Members of the Board of Directors for the coming year ire: Bud Penland, 1st Vice President, Curtis Hewlett, 2nd /ice President; Bill Henson, Secretary; Bill Hall, Treas jrer, James Helton,State Dir ector, Billy Ray Palmer, Dir ector and Don Decker, Dir ector. Other Jaycee StateOfficials present were Bill Davis, Nat ional Director of the Western Region, and John Smart, 22nd District Vice President. Outgoing President Tommy Gentry gave a review of the past year summarizing the many varied projects the Mur phy Jaycees undertook during the 1965-66 club year. Pres ident Gentry presented Jaycee Billy Ray Palmer with a SPOKE Award for outstanding service during his first year as a club member. Spark Plug Awards, which are given to Jaycees which best demonstrate the goals and aims of Jaycees during a 12 month period, after their first year, were presented to Jack Owens, Curtiss Hewlett, Bud Penland, James Hughes, James Helton, Bill Hall, Don Decker, and Ed Manchester. ? President Gentry also qualif ied for the Spark Plug award. Jaycee Curtiss Hewlett was presented with a Speak Up Jay cee Certificate for his partic ipation in the Jaycee Speak Up Program. Hewlett repres ented the Murphy Club in the District Speak Upjaycee Con test held at Maggie Valley, N. C. in February and placed third. John Smart, 22nd District Vice President, inducted the following new members into the club: Larry McNabb.Herb Swain, Cecil Penland, Lyle Carringer, Glen Beavers, Dewey Kelly and Jim Morgan. Smart complemented the club on their fine year, stating they had qualified as a Blue Chip Club, the highest award a club may win during tne year. Another highlight of the eve ning was the presentation of the Outstanding Murphyjay cee Award for 1965-66. Nat ional Director Bill Davis,pre sented the award to outgoing President, Tommy Gentry. The recipient of this award was chosen by secret ballot by the members of the Murphy Jaycees. The ballots were taken directly to the engraver and the winner was not known until the award was presented The award is given to the Jaycee the club members feel has best distinguished him self,during the past year in leadership, dedication, and service to the Jaycee organ ization and his community. Distinguished guest of the club were Mr.Edward Bru mby and wife, Mary Faye Brumby, Representative of Cherokee County and the Mayor of Murphy, Mr. L. L. Mayson and wife, Dot. Seventy-three Jaycees,wi ves and guests attended the installation banquet. After being installed as President of the Murphy Jay cees, Owens presented die outgoing officers with their past officer pins, and thanked them for the fine job they had Cabell Ramsey,president of North Carolina Jaycees, speaking at the fourth annual Murphy Jaycee Installation Banquet. done during the past year. "Like the community in which we live, we, as a Jaycee Club, stand on the threshold of tremendous growth and pro gress. With a real team effort by us all, we will reap a harvest to be proud of for a years labor, Owens said in closing the meeting. Power Board Hosts AAA Tour Group MURPHY - The Murphy Power Board was host to the 1966 AAA Travel Counselor's Tour of East Tennessee Area and Western North Carolina, sponsored by AAA East Ten nessee Automobile Club under ' die supervision of Luke Wright, General Manager. The Tour Guide was Jim Walls, Jr., Director of Public Relations from Knoxville, Tennessee. This group represented twenty-six states, District of Columbia and Canada. Forty eight Counselors or Supervis ors of Tours representing five million AAA members were entertained with a reception at the Murphy Power Board. Mr. and Kirs. John Bay less, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Lovingood, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Forsyth, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Duncan and Mrs. Roy Fulton were official hosts. Several high school girls assisted in serving. The Murphy Power Board had displays from the John C. Campbell Folk School, Lynn Gault's Pottery, Margaret's Studio, and the Hitchcock Talc Mine. These crafts were surely the center of attention for the whole group. Mrs. Ful ton gavea brief sketch for eakh of the displays. 4-Square Gets Ok To Use Federal Funds On College Work Program Four-Square Community Action, Inc. has been inform ed by the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington of a new policy by which Federal funds granted to Four -Square may be used to provide the re quired 10 percent matching share of the wages of students employed by the local anti poverty agency, under the Col lege Work Study Program. Approval must be obtained from OEO but this new rul ing will made possible the em ployment of college men and women in all Four-Square act ivities such as in the Physical and Mental Fitness Projects, Summer Neighborhood Youth Corps, Head Start and in the promotion of horticultural crops. Four-Square is undertaking die task of locating summer job opportunities and recruit ing college students for sum mer employment in local gov ernmental agencies and pri vate non-profit organizations. Under this new policy, Four Square itself can offer em ployment without having to ob tain local cash as previous ly was required. During the summer months regularly enrolled students or students accepted for enroll ment in a participating college or university can earn at least (1.25 an hour. Students eli gible for employment must be those who are in need of fin ancial aid from such employ ment. Work Study enrollees may work up to 40 hours per week at useful employment which is in the public interest which will not result in the dis placement of employed work ers or impair existing con tracts for services and which will be governed by reason able and appropriate condi tions of employment. OEO will give priority to projects con ducted by Community Action Agencies such as Four square. College students and pros pective college students who are interested in die Work Study Program are urged to contact Four-Squire, P. O. Box K, Andrews, High School Principals or Counsellors or die Office of the Community Services Consultant in the Leatherwood Building in Bry son City, P. O. Box 356. Administrator Says Hospital Expansion Most Welcome Development The drive announced last -week by hospital trustees to raise the local portion of funds necessary for the proposed expansion of District Memo rial Hospital is a most wel come development, according to R. W.Peyam, administra tor of the hospital. "Having made a study of existing conditions in our area," Pegram said, "1 would like to state with all sincerity that the proposed expansion is five years behind schedule." In discussing the problem of under-capacity that has plag ued the hospital for months, Pegram continued, "Our pre sent hospital has a bed com plement of thirty-one. There have been numerous times when our occupancy has run as high as 36 patients. By the use of our treatment rooms, examining rooms and hallways we though we could get by un til one night we received a male patient and were forced to place him in the labor room. When our hospital occupancy runs this high, I dread to think of what would happen if an accident occurr ed involving a number of cas ulties." Pegram believes that the million-dollar proposed to double the size of the pre sent facility is entirely sound, ant that even the expanded size may not be adequate within a very few years. Please keep in mind," he pointed out, "that our grow ing industries, increased pop ulation, better roads openiqg up a larger trade area, and the tourist attractions in our area demand that we offer more and better service to citizens of our district, which Includes Cherokee, Graham and Clay Counties. The im pact of Medicare leaves all hospital administrators in a quandry, as we can not make any predications at this time." Rociag Film To Bo Showa At Softboll Meotiag MURPHY - A meeting con cerning the formation of a Softball League will be held at the Murphy Power Board Building, Monday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. Officers will be elected and a film of the Darlington 600 race will be shown. All persons interested in forming a softball league are urged to attend. Three Murphy High Teachers Receive Grants For Study The Department of Spanish ind Portuguese at theUniver lity of Indiana has announced hat Mrs. Luclle Gault, teach sr of Spanish at Murphy High School, has been accepted as i participant in its NDEA In* stitute for advanced study cf Spanish to be held at the Uni versity of Indiana and in Sala manca, Spain, for nine weeks during the summer of 1966. To qualify for this instit ute, a participant must have the ability to follow closely and with ease all types of stan dard speech, such as rapid or group conversation,plays,and movies; and the ability to app roximate native speech in vo cabulary intonation, and pro nunciation (e.g., the ability to exchange ideas and to be at ease in social situations.) Mrs. Gault will spend a week on the campus at Bloom iqg ton, Indiana, beginning June 6, and will proceed from here by group flight to Spain. She will spend seven weeks in Salamanca, living with a Spanish family and taking in tensive courses in Spanish. The final five days of the in stitute die group will proceed to Madrid. On August 18 they return to the United States. Participants in the instit ute pledge that they will speak only Spanish during the period of the institute in Spain. Mrs. Geraldine Meadows, a Biology teacher at Murphy High School, has been granted a Stipend to Participate in die National Science Foundation supported summer institute in Biological Science to be held at Northern Arizona Univer sity this summer. Mrs. Meadows received her B. A. Degree in Biology from the University of North Caro lina at Greensboro in 1952, and her M. A. Degree in Edu cation from Western Carolina College in 1959. Mrs. Meadows has taught in Murphy High School since 1952. Mr. Charles Forrister, a Chemistry and Science teach er, has received approval for a National Science Foundat ion Sequential Summer Instit ute at Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Forrister is agraduate of Murphy High School, recei ved his B. S. and M. A. De grees from Western Carolina College. He attended a Nat ional Science Foundation In stitute at the University of Virginia, in advanced study, during the year 1960-61. Mr. Forrister was formerly a teacher at Hiawassee Dam High School, Murphy Elemen tary School, and has returned to Murphy High School this year after employment with the North Carolina Agricul tural Extension Service. Mr. Forrister served with the Armed Forces from 1957 1959. Students at Murphy Elementary School have begun ? campus cleanprogram and are ] to try to make their school grounds one of the neatest In the area, Mrs, Olive William grade teacher, pr.vided the motivating factor with the abo' Hughes stated that the project has been a big success thus far.
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