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Volume 76 - Number 40 Murphy, North Carolina April 28, 1966 16 Pages This Week at murphy, north Carolina
American Thread's Cherokee Plant
Progressing On Schedule At Marble
Construction of the American
Thread Company's Cherokee
Plant Is proceeding according
to schedule, the Scout learned
today from C. S. Johnson, Gen
sral Manager of the company's|
Southern Plants.
Ground was broken for the
new plant early this month and
the site is currently being pre
pared for the start of construct
ion.
Several people from the Mar
ble area are now being trained
at the company's Sylvan plant in
Rosman, N. C. to perform key
technical jobs at the Cherokee
Plant when it opens.
Scheduled for completion in
the spring of 1967, the Cherokee
Plant will be an all electric
plant providing some 250,000
square feet of floor space.
Botanist Quits
'Hunger Strike'
Jesse C. Nichols, Jr., 59, of
Murphy ended a 27-hour hunger
strike in Cherokee County jail
by paying a $12.00 court cost.
Nichols staged the fast in pro
test of a traffic violation charge.
Nicholls, a graduate of
Cornell University is a zoolog
ical collector by occupation, a
botanist by training, and a sci
entist at heart. He collects
salamanders, salamander eggs
and larvae, bats, frogs, toads
and other animals needed by Un
iviersities and laboratories for
research and experimentation.
Nicholls began his hunger
strike following a hearing Sat
urday afternoon before a Justice
of the Peace, Hugh Brittaln.
Charged by running a stop sign
by Patt Miller, Nicholls was or
dered to pay the cost in the case.
He refused to pay the cost, con
tending that Miller was not in a
position (on the road) to deter
mine if a violation occurred.
Brittain then sentenced him to
serve 30 days at Craggy Prison
Camp.
When taken to county jail to
await transfer to Craggy, Nich
olls announced that he was going
on a hunger strike. He refused
food the remainder of Saturday
and throughout the day Sunday.
Sunday evening Nicholls paid the
cost, stating that due to a heart
condition he could not safely
proceed with the hunger strike.
He was released from custody
Sunday at 7:20 p.m., approx
imately 27 hours after his
hunger strike began.
Smith Transferred
To Walter Reed.
PFC Carl Smith of Brass
town who was wounded in Viet
Nam on April 17, has been tran
sferred to Walter Reed Hospital
in Washington.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Bert Smith, talked tohim by tel
ephone on Sunday. They said
their son was in good spirits
but would be confined to Walter
Reed for an indefinite pelod for
therapy and vonvalesence.
Smith, 19, sustained metal
fragment wounds of the head
when a Claymore mine det
onated while on a combat
mission.
Million Dollar Expansion
Only First Phase Of Plan
ANDREWS - The proposed
million - dollar expansion of
District Memorial Hospital is
hopefully only the first phaseof
a long-range plan for a com
plete hospital center, hospital
administrator R. W. Pegram
declared this week.
"The first phase of the ex
pansion", Pegram asserted,
"would be the addition of thirty
more beds to alleviate the exist
ing crowded condition and to fa
cilitate an improvement in
general service."
District Memorial, built un
der the Hill-Burton Act, is cen
trally located in an allocated
district, and primarily serves
an area comprised of Clay Co,
population 5556, Cherokee Co,
16,355, and Graham County, 6,
432, a total population of 28,
323 (1960 census).
Since the U. S. Public Health
Service regards a general aver
age of 4.5 beds per 1,000 pop
ulation as adequate, the And
rews hospital with a comple
ment of 31 beds is only adequate
for a county the size of Graham.
Doubling the size of the pre
sent hospital, Pegram contends,
will bring an increased respon
sibility a:- a hospital center to
support the larger institution
witli qualified specialists in the
various fields of medicine and
surgery.
"The need is already upon
us", Pegram said, "for the ser
vices of a number of special
ists to supplement the present
excellent hospital staff. Right
now wt could use qualified per
sonnel in the fields of radio
logy, urology, internal medic
ine, gynecology, pediatrics, and
eye, ear, nose and throat."
"Due to the far-sightedness
of the hospital trustees in hav
ing acquired additional pro
perty," he added, "there is
plenty of room for the expan
sion of present private clinic
facilities or the addition of
others."
Murphy Businessmen Name
Chamber Of Commerce Board
Murphy businessmen met at
the Power Board Building, Fri"
day night, April 21, and named
twelve men to serve on the
Board of Directors of the newly
re-organized Murphy Chamber
of Commerce.
The motion was made at the
meeting that the directors serve
staggered terms based on the
total number of votes each re
ceived; The new directors and
their terms are: J ack Owens,
Larry T. Black. Merle Davis,
and John T. GUI. three-year
terms: C. L. Alverson. Max
Blakemore, BUI Hoover, and
Pete McKeon, two-year terms:
Wally Williams, Ben Palmer,
J, Doyle Burch and Bill Gos
sett, one-year terms.
The newly elected directors
wUl hold their first official
Kay Reservists
Hear Navy
ASW Experts
Commander Hobart L. Mc_
Keever, of Murphy returned
AprU 23, from Norfolk, Vir
ginia, where he heard theNavy s
top antisubmarine warfare
(ASW) experts In three days of
briefings.
McKeever, the Commanding
Officer of ASW Squadron. W
611, NAS, Atlanta, attended the
first Naval Reserve ASW sym
posium, 20-22 AprlL
Vice Admiral Charles E.
Weakley, USN, who commands
the Atlantic ASW Force, hosted
the meeting attended by more
than SOOkeyNavalReserveoffl
cers. Admiral Weakley told the
group that tactical and material
advances have made his forces
better able today than ever be
fore to find and destroy enemy
submarines.
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer,
USN, Commander in Chief.U.S.
Atlantic Fleet, told die officers
that it is essentaU for them to
keep abreast of ASW advances
Which affect their potential mis
sions should mobilization be ne
cessary. In all, 15 Admirals
addressed the group on tactics,
development, data analysis, and
personnel matters.
The meeting was designed to
update the knowledge of re
serve officers who are in com
mand positions in Naval Re
serve ASW aircraft squadrons,
ships, and other units which
have mobilization assignments
on the east coast.
Admiral Weakley's command
has centralized direction of aU
ASW operations of the Atlantic
Fleet. His wartime job would
rieci. nia wuuii? --?
include routing and protection of
convoys as well as defending the
United States against submar
ine-launched missile attack.
meeting Friday, April 29 at
7:30 p.m. at the Murphy Power
Board Building. All officers
of the Murphy Chamber of Com
merce will be elected by the
twelve-member board at this
meeting. All board members
are urged to be present.
Republicans
To Reconvene
According to Virgil O'Oell,
Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Republican
Party, the GOP Convention will
reconvene at 2:30 p.m. Satur
day, May 7th at the County
Courthouse, Murphy, N.C, for
the purpose of nominating cand
idates for all county offices to
be voted on in die general elect
ion this November.
"All other business to be
transacted at this time will be
taken care of," O'Dell said.
B I PW Select
Carolyn Groves
Miss Carolyn Graves .daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Graves of Murphy and present
ly a senior at Western Carolina
College, was selected by the
Murphy Business and Profess
ional Women's Club to be their
representative in the District I
Young Career Women's Con
test. She attended the District
I Business and Professional
Women's Club annual meeting
Sunday, April 24 at Sylva.
Miss Graves has been an
honor student during her three
years at Western Carolina Col
lege. She is a member of the
Alpha Phi Sigma National Hono
rary Scholastic Fraternity
Counselor for Freshman girls,
member of the Student Nation
al Education Association, a stu
dent assistant in the English De
partment and is also listed in
"Who's Who Among Students in
American Universities and Col
leges."
Saturday Is The Day
Saturday is the day that the Murphy Jaycees and local
residence have been waiting to come for almost two
years.
Bob Young, Chief Engineer at WDEF - TV, Cha
ttanooga, told Jaycee Translator Chairman, Bill
Christy, Tuesday, that his crew would be atop Fain
Mountain, Saturday morning to begin installation of the
translator equipment for channel 12. Young said he
hoped to have his station on the air sometime next
week.
Mrs. Ray Named Vice President
Of Citizens Bank And Trust Co.
Mrs. Mildred B. Ray of And
rews has been promoted to
Vice-President and Controller
of Consolidated Banks of Citi
zens and Trust Company.
Bank President W. Frank
Forsyth said the promotion was
given her in recognition of years
of continuous and efficient ser
vice to the bank.
Mrs. Ray has been with the
bank since June 16, 1930. She
began as a secretary and teller
and has handled the positions
of Assistant Cashier and Cash
ier. She has worked on spec
ial assignments for the bank in
Hayesville and Sylva.
The new Controller is a grad
uate of Andrews High School
and Draughon's Business Col
lege in Knoxvllle. She was vale
dictorian of her class at And
rews. Mrs. Ray completed the
mid-management course in
banking at the University of
North Carolina. She is a mem
ber of the National A ssociation
of Bank Women.
Allen Signs
With lees-McRne
Steve Allen has signed a
football grant-in-aid with Lees
McRae College according to a
statement made by head coach
and Athletic Director George
Litton.
The 6T", 190 pound tackle
played for the Wildcats of And
rews High School, who won 5,
lost 4, and tied 1 last season.
Coach Hugh Hamilton stated:
"I am very pleased that Steve
is interested in playing foot
ball at LMC. Steve is an agg
ressive boy and I feel that he
urill Kflln fho to am hftth ftffpn
sively and defensively."
"We are pleased that Allen
has signed with us. We feel
he will be a great asset to our
squad. We are always pleased
to get a product of Andrews
High School to join us. Coach
Hamilton always does a good job
with his boys and turns out
some fine teams," stated Coach
Litton.
Allen is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Allen of Andrews.
Mildred B. Ray
Democrats Slate
Precint Meetings
Cherokee County Democrats
will hold precinct meetings at
2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 7,
at their regular voting pre
cincts. They will elect precinct
committee members and dele
gates and alternates to the
C junty Convention which will
be held the following Saturday,
May 14, at the Cherokee County
Courthouse.
Five committee members
will be elected in every pre
cinct. Two must be men and
two must be women. The com
mittee will then elect a chair
man and vice-chairman, one a
man and the other a woman,and
a secretary-treasurer.
Each precinct will be entitled
to cast one vote in the County
Convention for every 50 Demo
cratic votes cast in the 1964
Governor's race. All precincts
are entitled to a minimum of
two votes.
Andrews Furniture Employees
To Vote On Union In May
At an informal hearing held by
he National Labor Relations
ioard in Andrews on Tuesday
norning, April 26, representa
ives of the NLRB, The Andrews
"urniture Industries, andThe
nternational Woodworkers of
America agreed to the date and
:erms of a representation elect
on for the employees of AFI.
As agreed, the election will
>e held on Friday, May 20,from
5:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at AFI
?lant.
Following the hearing, Mr.
Lewis Reed, AFI Plant Manager
stated, "I am very pleased to
innounce that our company has
attained its objective in this
matter. Through today's agree
ment, we have managed toguar
antee all of our employees a
right to express their desires in
a free secret ballot election.
This has been an objective since
we first learned that a union
wanted recognition. Such a se
cret ballot election is the only
fair and democratic way to truly
determine if our people want a
union or not. These elections
are supervised by theNLRB.an
agency of the Federal Govern
ment, and our employees are
assured that however they vote,
their choice will be completely
secret."
"I have a great deal of con
fidence in our people. I know
they recognize that in the short
time the plant has been In op
eration, we have made a great
deal of progress in licking the
many problems that face any
new operation. Probably the
greatest single area of such
progress has been in the field
of wages and benefits, which are
comparable to the best stan
dards in the industry or the
area.
"1 feel certain that on elect
ion day, our employees will en
dorse these progressive poli
cies."
Dedication Ceremonies, Open
House Slated At Andrews Plant
Official dedication ceremon
ies for the Magna vox Companys'
new Andrews Furniture Indust
ries Plant at Andrews, North
Carolina, will be held at 11a.m.
Saturday, May the 7th at the
plant site. The ceremonies will
be followed by an Open House
to which the public is invited.
Local and State Officials and a
representative of the Area Re
development Administration
are expected to take part in
the dedication.
Immediately following the de
dication ceremonies, the public
is invited to tour the plant and
meet the Magnavox Personnel
and their families. There will be
souvenirs for adults and child
ren and refreshments will be
served.
Lewis O. Reed, Manager of
the Andrews Furniture Indus
tries Operation, commented,
"We've got a going operation
now, with excellent people and
the finest equipment available
anywhere, and we're proud of
what we've accomplished. We
hope that when the people
of Andrews and the surrounding
area come to our open house
and see what's been done, they
will be proud too.
"It's always a tough job to
get a new plant off the ground,
and this one has been no ex
ception. But we've been fortun
ate in gathering together a fine
group of people who recognize
that it takes time and hard work
to build anything worthwhile.
We've made fine progress al
ready, but we still have a long
way to go."
The Andrews Plant is the
newest in Manganese's wide
spread operations. The Com
pany also has facilities V?: Fort
Wayne, Indiana; Urbaia. Ill.;
Bryson City, N. C.; Toirance,
Calif.; London, England, flora,
Mississippi; Lenoir NortlCaj^y
olina and Greenville, Mtrfis
town, Jefferson City and John
son City in Tennessee.
International
Platform Asia.
Elects Brumby
The Board of Governors of
the International Platform
Association wish to announce
the election of Mrs. Mary Faye
Brumby, State Representative
from Cherokee County to its
membership.
The 63-year-old Internat
ional Platform Association Is
an organization of distinguished
and dedicated persons from all
over the wrold. For over half a
century its members have been
instrumental in bettering the
quality of the American plat
form particularly as It relates
to the field of school assembly
programs available, to children.
Originally brought into exist
ence by Mark Twain, William
Jennings Bryan. President
William Howard Taft, Gover
nor Paul Pearson and other or
ators and celebrities of the
Platform, its distinguished
members, living or dead, in
clude Presidents' Theodore
Roosevelt, William Howard
Taft, Franklin Roosevelt, John
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
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Also in its membership ardl^E
many of the celebrities of the ?
news and entertainment media,
the press, TV, radio and the
theatre.
Head Start Plans Revealed
Tom Day, President of Four
Square Community Action^nc.
has revealed plans for the 1966
Project Head Start in Chero
kee, Clay, Graham and Swain
Counties.
Day said proposal has been
received favorably at Head
Start Headquarters in Wash
ington but final approval has
not yet been received.
The program will be conduct
ed in 14 centers throughout the
four-county area beginning on
June 27 and will continue five
days a week until August 5.
Each school unit will be in
charge of conducting the pro
gram in its area.
There will be approximately
fifteen children in each class.
Every class will have a certi
fied teacher, a teacher aide and
a volunteer aide. Classes will
run from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00
p.m. with a snack and hot lunch
being served daily.
Head Start is designed to help
pre-school children overcome
learning and adjustment pro
blems. All classes will be
conducted on a non-dlscrima
tory basis.
Although the program is de
signed primarily for children
from poverty families, Day said
children from other families
will be accepted. He is hopeful
that all pre-school children will
apply.
"Of all the projects Four
square has undertaken or will
undertake. Head Start is pro
bably the most Important and
will provide the greatest con
tribution to the betterment of
the community," Day said.
Crowe Enters Sheriff s Race
Crowe has been engaged in
farming and timber cutting and
has been affiliated with Com
monwealth Lumber Corporation
for the past twenty-two years.
He was born in Cherokee Coun
ty and has lived here all his life.
Ernest Crowe this week tos
sed his hat in the ring for the
nomination for Sheriff of Chero
kee County in the forthcoming
Democratic Primary.
He is married to the iormer
Hazel Frady and they have two
daughters, Mrs. Janice Crowe
Bates and Geraldine Crowe,who
is a senior at Murphy High
School.
Crowe lives on Route #2 in
the Culberson section of Cher
okee County and is a member
of the Friendship Baptist
Church. This will be the first
time that he has sought a poli
tical office.
What Is It That Sells Newspapers?
(Bill Vaughan, associate edi
tor of the Kansas City Star, but
better known for his widely pub
lished column, "Senator Soaper
Says," replies to a common
misstatement in the following
excerpt from a speech he made
to the Inland Dally Press Assn.)
NO UNE OF DIALOGUE
makes me more weary than one
that appears in every movie or
television program or novel de
picting the press. "Well, that's
what sells newspapers I"
It's a favorite ot politicians
in their relations with the press.
I've been reading a book by
a professor of sociology, who
was discussing the system of
news leakage in Washington, and
he had this to say:
"Journalists, of course, were
eager to listen to leaks because
they made money for the
paper."
Just think of all the money
you made on leaks out of the
Pentagon! That's what sells
newspapers?
We rather like to sell news
papers, but as a matter of bal
ance sheets, consider this?any
good newspaper spends thou
sands of dollars a year cover
ing events in Africa, in die Far
East, in South Africa; and inter
preting the background of soc
ial, economic, and political
questions in those areas, as
well as In our own country. Yet,
it would be hard to prove that
any one of these stories sells
a single newspaper.
Newspapers could be pro
duced more cheaply of their
product, if they printed only
these stories which, in the stan
dard line, are what sells news
papers. They might even sell
more newspapers but by and
large the newspapers which
have tried it have found that
any advantages are brief in nat
ure.
If stories that deal with die
real Issues of concern to people
are not what sell newspapers,
in the same sense of having
them snatched off the news
stands, they are the kind that
build a newspaper over the
years, that create a relationship
of trust between a newspaper
and its readers.
Articles about schools and
bond Issues and sewers and
parks aren't reflected in any
day-to-day variation in cir
culation, but they have a cumu
lative effect in establishing a
newspaper as a factor which is
Intimately and thoughtfully in
volved in the affairs of its com
munity.
There are other businesses,
of course, which have found that
integrity, and wuality will, over
the loqg haul, outsell the shoddy
product.
But in another regard, I think
the newspaper is unique among
businesses. It must, as a mat
ter of course and of deliberate
policy, believe that the custo
mer is not always right.
Our customers are our read
ers and our advertisers. Yet,
the newspaper, if it is to keep
its self-respect, must at times
take political stands which it
knows will offend many of its
readers and print news stor
ies which it knows will dis
please an advertiser.
The result may be a drop
ped subscription or a canceled
ad, but the newspaper has no
choice. Or, rather, it does
have a choice, but if it com
promises, if it lets itself be
edited by pressures of what
ever kind, then it is through,
because eventually this lack
of courage and honesty will
catch up with it.
Kin Hubbard, the Hoosler
humorist had a paragraph onoe
which should be inscribed on
the stone over the entrance to
every school of journalism.
"Tllford Moots was over to
the poor farm to see an old
friend who published a news
paper to please everybody."
EDITORIAL:
Already The Drive Has Started;
Your Help Is Needed For Sacctss
The head line above states that a drive has started so don't stop
reading now that we're telling you it's a fund raising drive.
We realize that many organizations raise funds locally and we
never question their importance. However we do want to impress
upon you the importance of this particular drive. The Cherokee
County Chapter of the American Red Cross drive.
In 1963 Murphy almost lost the services of the Red Cross which
Include the Blood Mobile and Home Services but local citizens
came to the rescue with their time and money.
In 1964, enough money was raised to keep the Bloodmobile and
pay a little on our other obligations.
We began slipping in 1965, had no Red Cross Fund Drive at ell,
and now we're far behind.
In fact $2,400 behind I
That's a lot of money, you say, and you're ri^st but If I
funds are not raised we stand to lose the Bloodmobile, Mae I
vice and die entire Cherokee County Red Crees
Many people do not realise that we, as a community, are]
getting our money's worth from our Red Cross program.
Let s look at one aspect, the Bloo&noblle.
During the past 9 months over 140 pints of blood have been ad
ministered, at no cost for the blood itself, to local resldeias
If this blood had been paid for at the going ran of 9MA0 a piss,
the amount of money spent by local residents would have amounted
to over $3,500. This is for only nine months, so we are reeRy
getting more than our money's worth from ttion Inn whin idle Hseii
We don't want to see Murphy lose the Rod Crass fhspiai and
with the cooperation of us all to raise this $1,400.00 we waRV
lose. Your help is needed for the success of this drive. I a Had
Cross Volunteer worker fails to call on you, maR year eaattM&p
to American Red Crocs, c/o this i