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The Cherokee f m Scout ' Cherokee County', Bo.t Buy' ^ *?* C/fiV PfOgnO Volume 77-Number 21 Murphy, North Caroline December 15, 1966 10 Pago, This Week a^^pmy*^o^mTcarou^ Free Parking Lot To Be Ready This Weekend The lot on the corner of Central and Church Streets, which la owned by the First Baptist Church, has been turned over to the Town of Murphy to be used as a free public parking lot and, weather permitting, the lot Is expected to be ready for use by this Double Parking On Square Banned Double parking in the area around the square has been ordered stopped by Police Commissioner Wally Will lams. Williams pointed out that when persons unable to find parking spaces park behind cars that are in meter spaces in the square area, they block those cars that are properly parked. He has directed the police force to Issue tickets for this violation. The Commissioner also said motorists parking on die Islands in the square will be cited although he acknow ledged this has not bedn as serious a problem as that of double parking. Williams has aksed that mo torists use care to park within the painted lines In parking sp aces, too. He states that failure to do so eliminates the possibility of someone using a space next to one containing an Improperly parked vehicle. Tippet Seriously Hurt In Wreck James Adam Tippet, 78, of Young Harris, Ga., was ser iously Injured Monday morn ing wnen the car he was driving crashed five miles east of Andrews on US 19129. Patrolman Don Reavls said Tippet was travelling west when his car ran into the right side ditch. He pulled out and swerved across the road into the bank on the left side. The car travelled 200 feet before hitting the bank. weekend. The work on the lot Is being done by Wlmpey's Bulldozing ?nd Trucking which submitted the low bid on die job. It will be paid for by the town. Thepublicls invited to use the lot and the only restriction on it is that parking spaces be observed and cars parked improperly are subject to ci tation by the police. Progress is being made on the Odum lot on Central St. also and it is expected to be ready in from 10 days to two weeks. Work has been delayed due to bad weather. The Town Board has not yet determined the way this lot will be oper ated. MOO Offered In Lighting Contest Murphy Power Board and Radio Station WKRK are off ering $100 in prize money for their Christmas lighting con test. All homes and churches served by the Power Board are eligible. The lighting will be judged in two catergories-regular and religious. Person setting up scenes should be certain not to mix commercial and religious schemes. First, second and third place prizes of $25, $15 and $10 will be awarded in each category. Judging will be conducted sometime during Christmas week. The Power Board will lend assistance to anyone wishing to have help in planning their lighting display. The judging guide for the contest allows a maximum of 100 points for a display. Art istic merit and lighting tech niques are each allowed a maximum of 30 points and up to 20 points can be awarded for originality and ingenuity. The Power Board stresses that indiscriminate use of ex pensive decorations is not a sure way to win. Murphy-Manteo Project Completed Successfully The Murphy Jaycees have succeeded where all other ef forts have failed In extending their assistance to die organ ization of the Dare County J un ior Chamber of Commerce in Manteo. Four members of the local club. President Jack Owens, Second Vice President Cur tiss Hewlett, State Director J ames Helton and Herb Swain drove to Manteo last weekend for the final organizational meeting of the Dare County -? club. There are 29 members in the new club which plans to hold its Charter Night banquet sometime in January. Gov. Dan K. Moore, National Jay cee President Bill Suttle and Sute Jaycee President Irvir Aldridge will be invited to attend along with other nat ional and state Jaycee offi cials. The Murphy-Manteo ex tension is the longest in the history of the sute and is bel ieved to be the longest exten sion in the entire country. Owens talked with National President Suttle in Tulsa, Okla- last Saturdayand Suttle said he knew of no other ex tension covering such a great distance. Suttle is a native of North Carolina and makes his headquarters in die Little White House at Tulsa. "This extension is one of the finest things we have seen happen in the Jaycees", Sutt le told Owens. He said it should bring much favorable attention to both Dare and Cherokee Co unties The State Jaycees had tried to organize clubs in both Manteo and Murphy at the time the Murphy club was formed to dramatize organizing in both ends of the state. This failed and so did all other att empts to charter a club in Dare County until the Murphy Jay cees visited Manteo several weeks ago. Owens expressed his thanks to the Elizabeth City Jaycees and local officials there for their assistance in the exten sion. He is especially app reciative of the financial supp ort from the Town of Murphy and the Murphy Chamber of Commerce. He said the exten sion would have been "impo ssible without their help." Vandalism! THE WISE MEN in the Christmas display on top of the Murphy Power Board Building lean sideways after vandals cut the supporting guy wires last Thursday night. The flood lights which illuminate the scene were smashed. It is believed the vandals climbed the side of the building using a rain spout for support. Footprints were found in the grass where it is believed they leaped after disfiguring the Christmas scene. Stalcup, Earwood Arrest Suspects Soon After Theft Three Chattanooga resi dents were arrested In Murphy Saturday afternoon andcharg ed with larceny in connection with the theft of 1157 from Glen Hembree's market on Valley River Avenue a short time earlier. James Kidd, 22, Frances Meanes, 22; and Walter Bull ock, 25, were charged and jail ed under) 1,000 bond each. The police also picked up James C. Hopkins, 22, but he was rele ased without being charged due to lack of evidence. The three were tried in Dis trict Court Monday morning. Bullock pleaded not guilty but was found guilty. He was fined $200 plus the costs and a 24 month jail sentence was sus pended. The charges against Kidd and the Meaens woman were dropped. Glenn Hembree told police that he was at the meat coun ter in the rear of his store wricii he saw a man co.ne in and started to walk toward him when he heard the bell on the cash register ring in the front of the store. Hembree's wife was in the basement at the time and he knew no one should have been opening the cash reg ister. He asked the man "did you want something?" The an swer was no and at that point, the stranger and another man, who had been at the cash reg ister, fled. Hembree attempted to chase them on foot and when he failed called the police. He told police both were wearing white trench coats. A short time later. Assist ant Police Chief Pete Stalcup observed two men wearing white trench coats and a wo man crossing Tennessee St. at the square. He put them un der arrest. They were Kidd, who was identified as the man who walked toward the rear of Hembree's Market, Hopkins, who was later freed, and the Meaens woman. The three offered no resist ance and told Stalcup that Bull ock, who was identified as the person opening Heinbree's cash register, was to pick them up "at the store next to the Post Office" (Howell's Market). Patrolman Dale Earwood, who joined the force just last week was staked out nearby and he arrested Bullock in front of Howell's a short time later. Stalcup said all the money taken from Hembree was rec overed. The group was known to have visited several stores in the downtown area prior to the in cident at Hembree's. Persons fittine their desrrinrinnmaHo a purchase at Carolina Hard ware and offered a $100 bill: for. jhe merchandise. A billfold was stolen from a woman's pocketbook at Car olina Hardware around the time they appeared there. Officers Raid Murphy Home Sheriff's deputies Glenn Ho lloway and Robert Hartness along with Federal Alocholand Tobacco Tax Unit agents and a state ABC officer conducted a raid Sunday morning inside the Murphy city limits that resulted in the arrest of two persons. Johnny and Lydle Ferguson were charged with possession of eight and a half gallons of n on-tax paid white liquor which the officers found in and around their home on Rural Road 1363. The two face a Federal ch arge in court at Bryson City. Know Your Police WILLIAM C. (PETE) STALCUP serves as Assistant Chief of the Murphy Police. His service with the department goes back to 1946. Between then and 19S4Stalcup served as a police man and a deputy sheriff underSheriffsLi.Mason. Sr., Frank Crawford. M.G. Crawford and Luke Carver. He went to work for the N.C. Wildlife Commission in 1954 and rejoined the police force in 1960. Stalcup recalls that when he originally joined the force, he and Neil Sneed were the only members and that they worked a 12-hour shift, seven days a week. A veteran of World War II, Stalcup was wounded in combat In Italy in 1944. He and his wife, Barbara, are the parents of three children ZIP Cod* Helps Soito I Helpers ZIP Codes will help Santa and his helpers deliver Christmas presents this year. Postmaster Joe Ray today emphasized that the proper ZIP Code in the address will help assure on-time delivery ? of Christmas presents sent through die mail. "Every Christmas several million of Santa's presents tr avel through the mails. In a great many instances. ZIP coded parcels travel by shorter routes and are hand led fewer times because the five digits help postal clerks chose more direct transpor tation route," the Postmaster said. "This means there is less chance for damage to the ?lifts because they are handled ewer times." ZIP Codes often help del iver a package that otherwise would be sent to the dead par cel office because the address can't be read. "There is nothing more un pleasant for postal employees than not being able to deliver a Christmas package and knowing that some youngster won't receive the gift because the address was illegible," Postmaster Ray said. "The key to the best poss ible postal service is ZIP Code. If you don't have the ZIP Codes for any addresses on your mailing list, they can be obtained through the Post Office. The Redheads Are Comingl The Kedheads are coming to town on January 21 The Murphy Jaycees will try their luck at playing a nationally famous girls team that make a habit out of beating men's ba sketball teams. The game will be played at the Murphy High School gym beginning *t 7 p.m. The Redheads have long been noted for their antics and "behavtns" on the court and are tuned right in to fan Interest. Advance tickets for the game are on sale by the Jay tees new. MAYOR WALLACE W. HARVEY of Mantao presents a Lost Colony flag to President Jack Oven: of the Murphy Jaycees In appreciation of the local club's help In organising the newly forme. Dare Coisity Jaycees. The Lost Colony of Sir Walter Raleigh was located on Roanoke Island, th< present site of Manteo, and Dare County was named for Virginia Dare, believed to be the firs white child born in America. Looking on ate (1 to r) 22nd District Vice President Jack Swangei of Vt avnesville; ClUten Wright, V resident of the new Dare Coiaxy club; Harvey; Owens and Vlc< I"real .lent CurtlssHewlett of the Murphy Club. Political Game Continues As Tax Listers Are Named The name of the game is politics and the Cherokee County Board of Commis sioners showed their skill at playing it as they appointed tax listers for the County's six townships in a special meeting Monday. Chairman W. T. Moore had Indicated earlier that he would not object to the Republicans' suggestion that a member from each party be appointed in the townships located in the third district which has two Republican members on the board. The other two Demo crats on the board would not go along with this, however. The main controversy erup-. ted over appointments for Notla Township which is located in both Districts two and three. Democrats Andrew Barton and Ray Sims indicated their wish toappointtwo Democrats for the township and Repub lican Jack Simonds insisted that one of the listers should be a Republican. The Republicans supported Verlin Anderson as their can didate and the Democrats were in favor of Homer Davidson and Charlie Akins who were elected with the double vote of Chairman Moore. "I thought you were going to throw politics out when you cleaned the Cour'house out", Simonds told Moore. Moore and Republican Car lyle Matheson had previously agreed among themselves to appoint Democrat Pitt Almond and Republican Marvie Dean Adams in Valleytown Town ship which is located in their district and the board concur red in this. When attention was turned to other townships located en tirely in District three, Moore stated his willingness to goa long with his previously stated intention of appointing one member from each party but Sims and Barton persisted in their efforts to elect all Demo crats. During the discussion over the splitting issue, Sims said "I'm not gonna split any." The Republicans nominated Lester Cole and Christine Golden in Hothouse Township and the Democrats nominated Jack Gaddls and Mrs.Charles McGill. Cole and Mrs. McGUl were elected. Moore voted for Cole making the vote 4-2 and he was forced to cast his extra vote on Mrs. McGllL Virginia Patton was the Re publican lister selected for Beaverdam Township with a 3-2 vote as Moore abstained. The Democrats nominated Fred Martin and Allen Cham bers. Martin was elected. Sims objected to Mrs. Patton's election because the board had not received an I application from her although it was understood she had mailed one. In Shoal Creek Township, the Republican choice, Walter N. Anderson was elected and Democratic nominee Clifford Stiles was elected. The other Democratic choice was Helen K. Loudermilk. The commissioners voted 4-3, with Moore's extra vote, to allow the tax supervisor to make the appointments for Murphy Township. Bonds for county officials were passed by tne board and when Simonds and Sims found themselves voting to gether on one motion, they shook hands and laughingly re marked that they were working together for the good of the county. The commissioners agreed 1 to pay Mrs. Cleve Almond $225 monthly to operate the commodity warehouse. She ' will have to pay any extra help she employs from this amount. All unpaid county taxes from 1964 back were turned over to L. L. Mason, Jr. He will handle collection on a 20% fee basis and will receive a 25% fee on all old age liens he collects. Mason's salary as county attorney was set at $100 per month. The next commissioners meeting will be on Tuesday, J anuary 3, due to the second being a legal holiday. Reports. Election To Hiehlicbt Meet President P.W. England of Hayesvllle said progress reports and theelectlonof new trustees are among the bus iness to be transacted at the annual meeting of the Upper Hlwassee Watershed Develop ment Association on Friday December 30. It will be held at 7 p.m. In the Fine Arts Cen ter of Young Harris College. Rep. Phil M. Landrail (D Ga.) will be thefeaturedspea ker at the meeting. "The purpose of our asso ciation", England said, "is to speed-up economic progress in our cities and counties . through a planned program of total resource development carried o?* by citlsena of ow area with the assistance of development agencies." UHWDA it one of sevodti regional at so orating with TVA to I a total resource < program. Sandra K. Mintz, Joe Fowler Win Top Prize Sandra K. Mintz, Rt.l, Mar ble has held onto her lead In the point standings and is the winner of our grand prize. She gained ten points by fini shing first in die first week of the contest and took the lead never to relinquish it by winning first place several weeks later. The grand prize is a foot ball weekend in Atlanta to see the Falcons play the Pitts burgh Steelers Sunday. The Scout offered two tickets to the same and free lodging to the winner. Miss Mintz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Mintz, will be unable to make the trip to At lanta and The Scout is award ing her a cash prize in place of the football trip. She has been confined to a wheel chair since 1961 when she was injured in an auto mobile accident between EU ijay and Blue Ridge, Ga. She was employed by the telephone Company in Atlanta at the time. Miss Mintz told The Scout she has always been an avid sports fan and she attributed her ability to pick winners in our contest to her close fol Sandra K. Mintz lowing at tne game. The Scout offered the same football weekend to one of the advertisers on our contest page and the drawing for this was won by Joe Fowler of the Murphy 66 Service Station. Over $400 in cash and prizes have been awarded by The Scout in this year's contest. The winners for last week's final were: Lane Phillips, Rt. 1, Andrews, first place; B.T. Sanders, Box 293, Murphy, second place; and Efton C. James, Rt. 3, Murphy, third place. Solid Progress Found In Chamber s Program The Murphy Chamber of Commerce reviewed its first six months of work since it was reactivated last summer and found it has made solic progress in six of the 10 pro jects to be worked on this year. The review was made at a meeting Tuesday night. The accomplishments list ed are: 1. The Chamber has promo ted two of the five retail sales ? it plans during the year. 2. The groundwork has beer laid for a "Know Your Indust ries" week. 3. The Chamber has pro moted off-street parking and this will soon become a reality with the preparations being made on a lot owned by the First Baptist Church and the Odum lot. 4. The Chamber pledged to work with the town on present and future traffic control and progress has been made on this point. 5. More housing was to be promoted and solid plans are in the making for this. 6. The Chamber co sponsored a Christmas Par ade with the Jaycees. New members for the board of directors were elected in a recent mail poll to replace directors who were serving one-year terms. J. Doyle Burch was re elected and the new mem bers are Tommy Gentry, Ed Schulte and Alden Coward. They replace President Wally Williams, Ben Palmer and Dr. William Gossett. Four Square Program Will ? Be Televised Next Month A Knoxvule television sta tion has notified officials of Four-Square Community Act ion that it will present a one half hour show covering Four Square's Physical and Mental Fitness program on January 29,1967. Peter Fenelly, Program Director of WBIR-TV infor med Four-Square of the date last week. It will be the first of two shows involving Four square to be presented on tele vision. The date for the second, which will feature die activities of a Community or ganizer working with the poor, has not been set. Bob Goforth, Four-Square Executive Director and Jack Frauson, Director of Physical and Mental Fitness have been working with WBIR-TV per sonnel for several weeks in preparing the show. Officials of the office ofEconomicOpp ortunlty in Washington also participated in the planning. Four-Square is the official Economic Opportunity Agency 57 Complete Self Help Fifyt seven students in Mur phy High School have com pleted the Medical Self Help Emergency First Aid Training sponsored by the Cherokee County Civil Defense in co operation with the SUte of North Carolina Civil Defense Agency and the North Carolina State Board of Health. Training Kits have been made available for *11 high school students in Cherokee County. tor Cherokee, ciay, uranarr and Swain counties. The show will feature many phases of the program, includ ing softball, swimming, mid get and mite football, and arts and crafts, Four-Square has been conducting these and other programs since March. Goforth and Frauson said they were especially pleased to be able to present the show because it shows what comm unities can accomplish in the fields of recreation and phy sical fitness if the people are interested and willing to part icipate. They pointed out that while most of the people in the four county area would not be able to see the program they are proud to have been asked by WBIR-TV and Wash ington officials to take part in iu Farm Employmaat Clinics Sat Paul Casey, Farm Place ment Interviewer, will conduct a Farm Employment Clinic Monday morning from 10 to noon at the Masonic Building in Hayesville and Tuesday mo rning at the Murphy office of the Einployement Security Co mmission. The meeting will be open to anyone who uses farm laborer and to any farm worker who desires to secure farm employment. Part of the program conc erning farm labor allows for importation of farm workers from other states and areas, or for sending local workers to other areas, depending on thai??