ssvn- The Cherokee mm Scout
a.?k~ Coumy'i b... Bur* r County
Volume 77-lumber 16 Murphy, North Corolino November 10, N66 12 Poqes Tl?it Week at muaahy, north caaocina
COUNTY COMMISSIONER SEATS SPLIT THREE APIECE
Unofficial Returns
By Precinct
CHEROKEE
COUNTY
ANDHEWS.N.W.
ANDRE WS.S.W.
BRASSTOWN
BURNT MEETING H.
CULBERSON
GRAPE CREEK
HANGING DOG
HOT HOUSE
MARBLE
MURPHY .N.W.
MURPHY, S.W.
OGREETA
PEACHTREE
SHOAL CREEK
TOPTON
UNAKA
WALKER S.H.
TOTALS
U.S. Sen. Cong. Sol. N.C.Sen. N.C.Rep.
Sheriff
\
Clerk of Court
Register
of Deeds
Coroner
County Commissioner
District 1
District 2
County Commissioner
District 3
363
446
137
46
52
527
490
42
253
176
171
2704 :
84
200
448
351
23
118
299
108
85
2305
Q
a
3
>
<
H
372
461
138
47
54
533
495
42
257
179
171
274$
??
b)
I
X
248
210
63
84
201
445
358
23
178
299
98
8?
3 2292
338
422
135
83
43
46
104
493
476
43
286
163
56
i 161
>2849
Q
>?
to
340
451
136
108
87
47
60
111
533
501
46
295
177
60
43
171
3166
>?
B
I
o
o
2
332
422
133
106
82
43
48
108
207
487
473
43
287
163
49
41
165
3188
&
Ul
255
220
68
105
123
84
207
205
191
471
366
23
198
310
107
130
88
3055
<
H
m
334
414
134
113
84
42
58
107
208
480
470
42
282
169
60
42
164
3195
z
8
z
?<
278
256
66
102
126
90
202
211
195
516
378
22
206
318
107
134
92
3299
i
?
306
448
129
105
80
45
38
107
206
451
421
41
276
166
50
39
161
3070
2
<
as
281
227
73
106
128
83
222
208
190
630
426
24
206
313
109
134
94
3353
a
w
OS
H
OS
<
o
214
396
129
103
85
56
50
104
201
471
423
48
277
160
49
51
164
3031
V)
kl
i
o
215
231
11
110
121
16
210
210
199
511
430
20
208
323
108
126
89
3314
383
481
128
108
83
42
46
108
219
483
447
44
288
166
69
42
162
3306
as,
z
o
H
232
183
T2
110
124
88
206
205
181
507
403
23
197
309
99
132
92
3163
?<
&
284
384
192
45
905
2
315
399
185
52
951
co I
u
E
323
271
198
114
912
h"
14
III
*
286
267
230
107
890
z
8
as
130
102
456
414
292
156
1550
128
101 1
438
400
275
152
1494:
IX
L08
542
449
207
101
L478 ]
71
110
533
429
201
97
l441
g
o
82
41
38
106
193
41
646 5
u
2
80
41
32
133
41
169
41
>37 I
g
i
125
83
209
194
19
293
130
L053 :
132
84
223
195
24
300
131
1076
Stores To Stay Open Later
During Christmas Season
The majority of downtown
Murphy merchants will re
main open on Friday nights
until 9 during the Christmas
shopping season . The stores
are also expected to con
tinue the policy of previous
years in remaining open Wed
nesday afternoons during the
same period.
The plan decided upon at a
ChamDer ot Commerce
meeting last Thursday mor
ning was to begin the late
opening on November 25, die
night of the Christmas par
ade and continue through the
Friday before Christmas,
December 23.
Santa Clauswlll be in die
downtown area from 7 to 9 on
each of the five Friday nights.
This will be his only appear
ance in Murphy during the ho
liday season. He is scheduled
to arrive and appear at the
Christmas parade and will be
touring the shopping area on
each F riday beginning Decern -
ber 2.
The first of the Chamber's
three cash prize drawings will
be held Saturday afternoon at 4
cn the square. $25 will begiv
en away this Saturday. Tic
kets to register for the draw
ing are available from parti
cipating merchants beginning
today.
The second drawing on Nov
ember 19 will be for $50 and
$100 will be given away imm
ediately following the Christ
mas Parade on November 25.
Merchants present at the
Chandler meeting were in ag
reement that the stores in
Murphy will observe Dec
ember 26 and January 2 as
holidays since Christmas and
New Year's Day fall on Sun
day.
Plans continue to be made
for the Christmas parade
which is being co-sponsored
by the Chamber and die Jay
cees. The Jaycees will light
the Christmas tree on the
square the night of die par
ade.
CfcriitMsTtMS
To It Sold
The Murphy Rotary Club
will sell fresh cut Christ
mas trees again this year.
Jack Early and Burley De
weese, co-chairmen of the
project, announced that arr
angements have been made
to procure the same type of
sheared, well shaped white
pines that made such a big
hit last year.
The trees will be sold on
the square in Murphy on Sat
urday, December 10th and Sat
urday December 17th. All
trees will be cut fresh on the
day they are sold.
Last year die amount of
trees obtained was not su
fficient to meet the demand
and many local people were
disappointed. This year, to av
oid the same possibility, The
Rotary Club will take ad
vance orders. Anyone wish
ing to order a tree should
call...837-2121 during the
day and 837-3011 after 6 in
the evening.
The prices will be the same
as last year $3.00 and $4.00
for a size suitable for die
home and $5. for the larger
trees, suitable for churches
stores, schools, etc.
The returns from this
sale will be used by the Mur
phy Rotary Club to help the
crippled children's fund
and many other civic enter
prises in and around Mur
phy.
Tempers Flare In Murphy
South Ward Voting Dispute
By Dave Bruce
Tempers flared In Tue
sday's voting at the Murphy
South Ward polling place in
the Courthouse when Repub
licans contended that the reg
istrar, Mrs. Ruth Cheney,
marked the ballot of a voter
who requested assistance con
trary to the voter's wishes.
Luther Beavers asked for
help in marking his ballots be
cause of poor eyesight.
Beavers was given ballots
which he carried into the vot
ing booth. (A total of four
ballots were used by each
voter.) Mrs. Cheney went into
the booth to assist him.
Both sides agree on die
course of events up to this
point.
Mrs. Cheney said that as
she came out of the voting
booth, "someone handed me a
ballot" which she said the
Republican judge, LowenDoc
kery, took from her, looked at
it, said "why this is voted
straight Democratic" and tore
it up. She claimed the ballots
Dock cry took from her were
the ones she alleges were
handed to her as she came
from the booth. She said she
left Beavers' ballots in the
booth for him to take out to
be deposited in the boxes.
Republicans contended that
the ballots she carried were
Beavers' on the ground that
Offices To Be
Closed Friday
Friday is Veteran's Day
and the Cherokee County
Courthouse, the Post Office
and Citizens Bank and Trust
Co., will be closed in ob
servance of die holiday.
when she entered, she was
empty handed and when she
came out she had ballots In
her hand.
Mrs. Cheney said she
"voted him (Beavers) the way
he asked to be voted." All
sides agree that Beavers
asked to be voted straight
Republican.
When the dispute arose. Be
avers was given a new set of
ballots and Dockery showed
Beavers how to mark them and
according to Mrs. Cheney,
Beavers then marked them
himself.
Mrs. Cheney gave Dockery
a written statement dis
charging him from duty as a
judge and he changed positions
with Mrs. Betty Ingram who
had been working as a clerk.
Mrs. Ingram acted as the Re
publican judge for the rem
ainder of the day.
Voting was delayed for se
veral minutes while the angry
debate raged on and a long
line of voters began to form.
WILLAKD HAVE*. MT..% Murphy, abet dw 100 pound bMx
HW Dub Ball Ha brought tha boar down wllti a 30-30.
Brazil, Lewis Promoted
At Young Harris College
President Douglas Reld
Sasser has announced the pro
motion of William O. Brazil
to Dean of Students and O.V,
Lewis to Director of Admi
ssions and Registration at
Young Harris College.
Brazil will begin his new
administrative duties on Jan
uary 3, 1967, with the opening
of the winter quarter at the
two year Methodist Institution.
Since 1963 Brazil has served
Young Harris College as Ins
tructor of Social Studies.
As Dean of Students, Bra
zil will havefull responsibility
for the total student life and
welfare program. He will work
closely with the Dean of Wo
men, Mrs. C.E,Ashabranner
with the head counselor, the
Rev. Cecil Page, the resident
physician. Dr. W.F. Tanner,
all dormitory house mothers
and student assistants.
Dean Brazil will serve as
Scholarship and Loan Off
icer for the institution and
will receive all applications
for financial aid from enter
ing students, as well as
direct the campus workshlp
program.
Brazil received the B.S.
and MA. degree from the
University of Arkansas, Fa
yetteville. In August he rec
eived a grant from Freedom
foundation to attend a seminar
at Valley Forge for the
purpose of further study in the
area of tha Social Sciences.
Brazil is married to the
forme. Miss Carolina Wall
born, fewnphls, Tenn., and
Jackson, Miss, They have two
children. Bill and Carolina.
Lewis has been associated
with the Northeast Georgia
Methodist Institution since
1991 and has served as Instruct
or of Business Bducatlon and
Registrar. He replaces Dr.
John N. Flanders who resigned
to accept a position In the
graduate school at Tennessee
? ?Cha
In his new position, Lewis
will have the total afonlnlstra
tlvo reaponslbilty for all ad
missions work and will su
1 pervlse all records
current and previous i
He will dUect foe Afonls
Terry Ttppta, la
his program of high school
visitation and counseling. He
will work closely with other
administrators In admissions
procedures.
A native of Glenvllle, Ga..
Lewis received the B?, and
M. Cd. degrees from Georgia
Southern College, Statesboro.
Csaity To Mokt
ion Far Walls
The Cherokee County Board
of Commissioners has voted
to loan $3,200 to the Cherokee
County Rural Development
Authority to dig wells at die
site of the proposed housing
project near Marble.
The money is to be paid back
as soon as funds from the Far
mers Home Administration
loan which will finance the
project are available.
Th commissioners also
voted to donate $1,800 to
the authority in die event that
the $3,200 loan is not enough
to cover the cost of the well
digging. The action was taken
Monday.
The resignation of Miss
Thelma Wheeler as County
Home Agent was accepted by
the commissioners and Mrs.
Joy Lou Frauson was app
ointed to take her place. Mrs.
Frauson has been working for
several weeks on a trial basts
as the assistant agent. Miss
Wheeler's resignation is effe
ctive December L
The commissioners also
voted to place a .2 mile of a
road in Notla Township on the
map. The road, which is not
named, leads off of Mt. plea
sant Road.
Ray Thanks Postal Patrons
For ZIP Code Cooperation
Postmaster Joe Ray today
thanked die thousands of Mur
phy residents who have been
cooperating In a plan to add
ZIP Codes to personal mail
ing lists.
He also urged all those who
have not yet sett In their
"Z1P-A-UST" forms to do
so.
As part of a nationwide pro
gram, the Postal Service will
add the ZIP Codes to personal
mailing lists. Every house
hold In the nation has been
sent forms with blanks for ad
dresses to which residents
wish the post office to add the
five number codes.
"It's not too early to think
of adding ZIP Codes to your
Christmas mailing list," Ray
suggested. "Also, It would
help us greatly If vou would
print each address.
"Postmaster General O'
Brien has said that we must
do all we can to make ZIP
Codea completely
and this is pert of
gram. Local ZIP Codes are
also available In the business
pages of the phone book and In
directories In poet office lob
lles. A special ZIP Code In
formation section has bean
ntup at the Poet Office. It's
"Personal and social mall
accounts for more than 20bil
lion pieces annually."
Ray encouraged mailers to
use the ZIP Codes on all ad
dresses because with It mall
moves by a more direct route
and Is handled fewer times.
In filling out the forms,
householders are asked
merely to list the addresses
not the names - of their
correspondents.
Incomplete addresses which
are submitted but cannot be
ZIP Coded by the local post
office, such as those In a city
like Washington, D. C., which
has the same street names
and numbers In the northeast,
northweet, southeast, and
southwest sections, will be
sent to the appropriate
city and the codas will be add
ed there.
Ray emphasised the Import
ance of Including the return
address on the front of the
cards so that Ms
wffl know where tot
after the flee
have)
He also
cards win be available for
Anderson, Ramsey And
Graves Are Re-elected
If cither party could be
declared a winner In Tues
day's General Election In
Cherokee County, It would be
the Democrats. The Repub
licans held three of the co
unty offices by reelecting In
cumbents but the Democrats
gained a 3-3 tie on the Board
of County Commissioners,
according to unofficial re
turns.
In a close race. Rep
ublican Sheriff Claude An
deraon was reelected over
Democrat Pete Stalcup by
104 votes. It was Ander
son 3,299 and Stalcup 3,195.
Anderson had a lead of ab
out 400 but Stalcup began nar
rowing the margin and at one
time had a lead of six votes
but the sheriff regained the
lead with the next precinct
report and maintained it.
Don Ramsey lead the Re
publican ticket 3,353 votes In
his bid for another term as
Clerk of Superior Court. De
mocrat Hugh Rayburn
received 3,070 votes.
Republican Ed Graves was
relected Register of Deeds
with 3,314 votes to 3,031 for
Democrat Jack Carter.
Democrat Charles O. Van
Gorder ousted Incumbent
Coronor J.C. Townson, 3,306
to 3,163.
Prior to Tuesday's voting
the Relubllcans held a 2-1
majority on the Board of,
Commissioners. The Board
Car-Truck Wrtck
Injures Six
Six persons were Injured
in a car-truck collision on US
19-139 at Tomotls Monday af
ternoon about 1:30.
A pickup truck driven by
Goley Garrett, S3, of Mar
ble was making a left turn
off the highway when it was
struck from behind by a car
driven by Harry C. (Cuz)
Bagley, 48, of Murphy, Rt. 4.
Bagley said he had start
ed to pass the truck when he
noticed the turn signal was on
but that it was too late to avoid
hitting It.
Bagley, writer of "Cuz's
Corner for the Scout, and
Mrs. Mazie Garrett, wife of
the truck driver, were hos
pitalized at Providence hos
pital.
Bagley suffered cuts and
bruises and Mrs. Garrett
received severe lacerations.
Garrett, Troy Lee Kllpat
rick, Mrs. Lucille Derre
berry and Wllma Lee Derre
berry, all of Marble, were
treated for minor Injuries and
released.
All of those injured in the
truck were riding in the cab.
Another passenger, rlingon
the truck bed, was not hurt.
HHS Publications
Win Recognition
Murphy High School
ived recognition for Its news
paper and yearbook at the 14th
annual High School Editors
Roundtable at Western Carol
ina College.
The Murphy Yearbook pla
ced first in Division 2 of the
competition. Schools were
grouped into four divisions
according to their size.
Murphy's school newspaper
received honorable mention in
die printed papers division.
was expanded to six mem.
bers by the last General
Assembly and each party won
three of the seats.
The biggest surprise in the
voting was the defeat of Or.
W.A. Hoover, the present ch
airman of the commissioners.
In District 1, incumbent
Democrat W.T. Moore and
Republican Carlyle Matheson
was elected. Moore led the
ticket with 951 votes and
Matheson received 912. Ma
theson won the seat by seven
votes over Democrat R.M.
Patten who received 905 votes.
Republican Maurice West rec
eived 890 votes.
Democrats Ray Sims and
Andrew J. Barton were elect
ed in District 2 over Hoover
and John Dickey. The totals
were Barton 1,550, Sims 1,494
Hoover 1,478 and Dickey 1,441.
Republicans JackSlmmonds
and Luther Dockery coasted to
victory in District 3. It was
Dockery 1,076, Slmmonds
1,053, Democrats Charlie Mc
Gill 537 and Johnny Ray Jones
545.
Wiley A. McGlamery, Dem
ocrat, defeated Republican
Wayne West in Cherokee Co
unty, 3,188-3,055 as he won
the 49th District House Seat
in the General Assembly. He
also carried Graham and Ma
con counties but lost his home
county of Clay to West.
Mary Faye Brumby, unopp
osed Democrat, received 3,166
votes in Cherokee County as she
won die 33rd State Senatorial
Seat.
Congressman Roy A. Tay
lor, Democrat, carried Cher
okee County, 2,749-2,292 over
W. Scon Harvey in a race
that was much closer than had
been expected. In early
returns, Harvey built up a
2,000 vote lead over Taylor
across the district.
Sen. B. Everett Jordan car
ried the county in his success
ful bid for reelection. He rec
eived 2,704 votes to 2,305
for Republican John Shall
cross.
A large crowd gathered in
the Courthouse halls and in
the streets outside to await
the results Tuesday night.
Returns from several big pre
cincts were slow in being re
ported and the majority of the
crowd remained there until the
early hours of Wednesday.
18 Sent For
Induction
Eighteen men were
forwarded to Knoxvllle Mo
nday morning by the local draft
board for induction into the
armed forces.
They are Lynn Lee Love,
John William Pattoo IV, Dan
Lovingood, Charles Bruce He
nsoo, James Elliott Jackson,
Richard Eugene Pickens, Har
old Eugene Helton, Arnold Ro
nnie Dockery, Robert Frank
Swans on. Tommy Lee Tram
ham, Joe Mav, Raymond Tho
mas Mashburn, Billy Ray
Roper, David Larry Rogers,
Carl Steven Owens, Donny Ray
Davis, Derails Ray Hamby and
Melvln Randy Frady.
A total of 35 were also sem
for the armed forces physical
examination.
Seven Tied For First
In Football Contest
Add three more names to
the list of winners In The
Scout's Football Contest 1
Richard B. Caldwell. Rt 1
Murphy, is our flrat piece wi
nner ms weak. He wins X)
dollars and 10 points with 17
correct predictions and the
tie breaker. Caldwell picked
Georgia ever Florida by 18
12. while the actual score of
the game was 27-10.
Ho*t Brown, Rt. 2, Murphy
also had 17 correct i
but he had as settle far i
Ida In the tie
place pays
?awral rnrlse had 18
?orrect calls and the tiebr
eaker gave third place to Jane
Colvaid, 8008 Dabnsy arias,
Chattanooga. Ibe pick* tv four
dollars and four ]
r. oanj
XT
M ' grand prlae-a \
in Adanu for two to son fee
Falcons play the Ptaabv
Stealers oo Oaoambor M.
At
At pre law, we hays that
aaaan waytta far Brat plana
and with Rua waahs to gain the
to taha the lead
Tarn'tPtha
la ^
if you can Jain ear