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Volume 77- Number 23 Murphy, North Caroline December 29, 1966 8 Pages This Week ^Mi^r?MyA?jn^T^i?)UNA
jrOUTH SUFFOCATES IN RAILROAD HOPPER CAR
wo Dead, Two Hurt
n Wreck Near Topton
1 Two Cherokee County res
Jents were Injured and two
wain County women died In a
rte-car wreck Friday night
LUS 19 In Macon County,
wreck happened about a
Wile east of the Cherokee Co
nty line at Topton.
Miss Lenora Jane Martin,
,0, and Miss Brenda Morgan,
1, both of Rt. 2, Almond, were
Vooouncod dead on arrival
} District Memorial Hospital
a Andrews.
Robert Boze Hardin, 26, was
tie driver of die car. He was
leld at the hospital for over
sight observation. Hardin is a
inner Cherokee County res
lent now living in Elmlra,
N.Y. He was reported to be In
the area for a holiday visit.
Tommy Holloway, 17, of
T opt on, was treated for minor
Injuries and released.
Patrolman Z.V. Hawes said
Hardin was driving east on wet
pavement when his car failed
to make a left-hand curve. It
ran off the road and traveled
121 feet before hitting a tree.
The vehicle then went another
35 feet and struck a second
tree and traveled an additional
46 feet before hitting an emb
ankment and coming to a stop.
Hawes said Hardin was dri
ving too fastfor existing cond
itions.
Mailing Of License Renewal
\*
Largest In Stale's History
?, RALEIGH - The largest
tulk mailing In the history of
|he North Carolina Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles took
ilace Wednesday, December
M, when 2 million 532 thous
and registration renewal
;ards for 1967 were turned
>ver to the Raleigh Post Of
lce.
A miniature mountain of
nail bags weighing more than
10-thousand pounds was load
ed onto mail trucks for deliv
ery to every registered motor
rehicle owner in North Caro
(na. The registration cards
pust be presented when the
>wner purchases his 1967 lic
ense tags.
The postage bill for the
luge mailing will total 73
housand dollars, says W. D.
:ox. Director of Supply and
tervice for the Motor Vehic
ps Department. A special
>ulk mailing rate results in
br. saving of 20-thousand
dollars under the regular
^our-cents per letter rate,
registration renewal
ds are sorted and bagged
etarded Children
(roup Meets Monday
> The recently organized
Cherokee County Association
for Retarded Children will
meet Monday night at 7:30
at the Murphy Power Build
ing. Officers will be elect
ed.
George Clayton, president
of the Jackson County Assoc
iation for Retarded Children,
(rill be the -guest speaker.
, The public is invited to
attend the meeting.
according to the city or town
to which they are addressed.
Addressograph machines in
the basement of the Motor Ve
hicles Building printed the
more than 2 and one-half mil
lion cards. Miss Foy Ingram's
Registration Division super
vised preparation of the cards
which are mailed a few days
before the beginning of the new
year. 1967 license tags go on
sale the first working day af
ter January 1.
Another new record in ve
hicle registration will be set
for 1966, says Miss Ingram.
By December 31, the final fig
ures are expected to total
about 2 million, 600-thous
and. Registration in 1965
totaled 2 million, 409-thous
and.
Cox says the registration
card mailing is timed each
year not to interfer with the
post office Christmas rush.
By December 21, the P?st
office has passed the peak of
its Christmas mail handling,
he said.
Although the more than 2
and one-half million regis
tration cards comprise the
largest single mailing by the
Motor Vehicles Department,
Cox's Supply and Service Div
ision handles an additional 2
million, 600-thousand pieces
of mail yearly. The Depart
ment's annual postage bill to
tals approximatley 425 thous
and dollars.
Cox reports that the mail
sent out from the Motor Ve
hicles Department accounts
for more than seven percent
of the Raleigh Post Office's
annual revenue.
* MjC. BR1CKBY ha* been a member of the Murphy Police
Force line# May, 1965. Prior to Joining the force, Brlckey
'worked with the North Carolina Prison Department at Peach
tree. He 1* retired from the UJS. Air Force. Brlckey has been
*a resident of the area for four years and Is married to the for
mer Irene Pipes of Peachtree.
BRENDA HUBBARD is busy making a date for Monday night. See what this Georgia Peach is so
excited about on The Scout's Sports Page.
Woman Bound
In Assault Case
Mrs. Helen Hancock, Rt. 1,
Copperhill, pleaded not guilty
last Thursday to charges of
assault with a pocketbook,pro
fanity and causing a distur
bance in a hearing before
Magistrate Hugh Brittain. The
charges grew out of an incid
ent at Hiwassee Dam School
on December 19 when she al
legedly assaulted faculty
member Ray Sims.
Brittain bound the cases
over to District Court onjan
uary 10. Mrs. Hancock is
free on her own recognizance.
Mrs. Hancock had gone to
the school to talk to Sims
about charges that her daugh
ter, Gwen, a 16-year-old jun
ior, was indecently dressed
when the alleged assault
occurred.
Traffic Situation
Reported Improved
Police Commissioner Wally
Williams said today he is
"pleased vjith the cooper
ation" displayed by the public
as the Murphy Police Dept.
began making a full-scale
effort to enforce traffic regu
lations four weeks ago.
Over the past four weeks,
Williams has issued instruct
ions to issue citations for
traffic violations that have
generally been ignored in the
past.
Center street parking,
double parking in the square,
parking in no-parking zones
and u-turns have been the
chief targets in efforts by the
police to create a more or
derly traffic flow in the down
town area.
The two-hour limit for use
of parking meter spaces is
also being enforced since off
street facilities have been
made available for those who
work in the business area and
must leave their cars in town
all day.
Williams said the traffic
situation downtown has been
improved in the four weeks
since the directives were
issued.
Scout Office To
Close Monday
The Scout office will be
closed Monday in observance
of the New Year's holiday.
D.B. Un-Nobel Prize
Winners Announced
By Dave Bruce
The curtai v will soon fall
on 1966 and this year will then
become the permanent prop
erty of history. Now is the time
to look back and make the first
annual presentation of the
Dave Bruce Un-N'obel Prizes.
The winners for 1966 are:
Hide'n'seek Champ?Adam
Clayton Powell.
Top Skirt Tail Rider-Geo
rge C. Wallace.
Best Hairdo-Phyllis Dill
er (Would you believe Ev
Dirksen was second?)
Opportunist of the Year?
All the quick-buck artists who
wrote books questioning the
judgement of the"? Warren
Commission.
Mr. Butterfingers-Willie
Davis.
Fallen Dynasty of the
Year?The once proud New
York Yankees.
New Dynasty?Sen.-elect
Howard Baker of Tennessee:
his father-in-law. Sen. Ev
erett Dirksen of Illinois and
his brother-in-law Rep.-elect
Bill Wampler of Virginia.Go
vernors Nelson and Winthrop
Rockfeller of New York and
Arkansas can't be seriously
considered until their nephew
Jay, marries Sharon Percy
and gets elected gbvernor of
West Virgnia.
New Fan of the Supreme
Court?Lester Maddox.
Hero of the Year?Max
Smart.
-UB
Things you're sure to hear
in 1967:
George Romney, Ronald Re
gan, Richard Nixon, Mark Hat
field, Charles Percey and Bo
bby Kennedy willhold press
conferences at least once a
week to deny that they have any
intention of seeking the Pre
sidency in 1968.
The television networks will
assure us that the new 1967
shows will be the best ever.
Somebody, in some large
city will suffer some real or
imagined insult by the police
and will send hundreds of
demonstrators into the streets
to shout "Police Brutality".
Twenty major league mana
gers will predict in April that
their teams will all have a
chance to win the pennants.
-DB
The year 1966 is what I would
call a non-year I It was one we
lived through simply because.
syi.iehow, (VP had tohridge the
gap between 1965 and 196'i.
It is douotful that historians
will find any major break
throughs or historic turning
point to record in 1966. Fur
thermore, it was a year, after
several great ones, in which
the cause of progress suffered
a slowdown in the United St
ates. Perhaps, after thespec
tacular gains of the Kennedy
J ohnson era, a period of mark
ing time was inevitable.
Before the new year is over
we will have passed two-thirds
of the way through the twen
tieth century and it is obvious
ly no time to mark time. We
can only hope that our nation
will not be slowed too much by
the crowd of conservatives
that managed to win in Novem
ber.
-DB
1 have but one resolution to
make as the New Year arrives.
That is a pledge to continue to
report on the people and ev
ents of interest to our readers
in the same honest and im
partial maner I have used in
the past.
Area Tomato
Grant Made
WASHINGTON ? Federal
grants totalling <59,813 have
been approved to provide six
weeks of training in the grow
ing ot trellis tomatoes for un
employed workers in five
W estern North Carolina coun
ties, Congressman Roy A.
Taylor announced.
The tra i ning will be conduct
ed by theAsheville-Buncombe
Technical Institute. The fed
eral funds are being made
available under the Manpower
Development and Training
Act.
The counties, amount of
each grant and number of
trainees, listed in that order,
are:
Buncombe, <14,682;thirty.
Cherokee: <11,357; twenty
five.
Clay: <11,357; twenty
five.
Graham: <11,357; twenty
five.
Swain: <11,060; twenty
five.
Two Hour Rescue Effort
Foils At Ranger Siding
Fifteen-year-old Jerry
Stiles, Rt. 4 Murphy, suffo
cated to death Tuesday when
he fell into a hopper car con
taining corn. The accident
happened on a Louisville and
Nashville Railroad siding just
off U.S. 64 a short distance
from Ranger.
Harvey Payne, an employee
of Brown's Deluxe Hatching
Eggs, Inc., had been unloading
the car and returned to begin
filling another truck with the
corn. Each hopper car
contains several truck loads
of cargo. Payne heard some
one shout for help just as he
began unloading machinery.
He turned off the auger which
removes the grain from the
car and climbed to the top of
the car.
Payne said that when he
looked into the opening on the
top of the car, he saw hands
sticking out. There was another
unidentified boy in the corn
who managed to stay above
the corn by holding on to a
ladder which is inside the
hopper. Payne jumped into the
corn and tried to get air to
the boy by scooping corn but
this effort failed.
When he saw that further
assistance would be needed,
Payne ran to the highway-to
flag down help. It is reported
that the first car to stop was
one driven by the boy's father
Harvey Stiles, who ran to the
scene to try to aid in the res
cue. An unidentified motorist
was stopped and he summoned
aid from Murphy by telephone.
Payne drove the truck away
to summon more aid and
wrecked it at the intersection
of US 64 and NC 294. He was
not hurt.
More trucks arrived to help
unloading corn from the car
and the Cherokee County Res
cue Squad came to give assist
ance.
Due to the manner in which
the auger operates, it was im
possible to remove the corn
quickly. There was danger of
drawing the boy's body into the
auger.
The rescue operation cont
inued for about two hours until
the body could be brought to the
top of the car.
Coroner J.C. Townson ruled
IIHWDA To Elect Trustees
At Annual Meeting Friday
The annual meeting of the
Upper Hiawassee Watershed
Development Association will
be held Friday evening at 7:00
in the Fine Arts Center on
the Young Har-is College
Campus.
Rep. Phil Landrum (D-Ga.)
will ielivtr the main address
at the meeting.
The Nominating Committee
of the Association has select
ed candidates to be elected to
trustee positions at the meet
ing. The nominations were
made at a meeting held Dec
ember 7.
The candidates from the
five counties are:
Cherokee County - Incum
bent R. D. Bruce: Kenneth
Godfrey, new two-year trust
ee;Dave Bruce and John Gill,
alternates.
Clay County - Incumbent
George Bowers: Carl Moore,
new two-year trustee;Kenneth
Woodard and Mrs. Elmer
Greene, alternates.
Fannin County - Incumbent
Wilson Cobb; Loys Cook,new
two-year trustee: Em men
Jordan and Harold Hulsey,
alternates.
Towns County - Incumbent
Jimmy Taff; Steve Holmes,
new two-year trustee: T. B.
Nichols ?ud Claude Presley,
alternates.
Union County - Wayne
Thomspon, currently serving
out the term of the late W.H.
Do wis, new two-year trustee:
Meek M. Cone, new one-year
trustee: Ben F. Carr and Ray
mond Scott, alternates.
Reports on the activities of
CopperhillGI
Killed In Crash
Capt. Wallace A. KeU of
Copperhill, Tenn., was kill
ed on Dec. 20 when the heli
copter he was flying collided
with a jet near Montgomery,
Ala.
The 29-year-old Kell was
flying an Army HU1 helicop
ter when it collided with a
National Gurad reconnais
sance jet flown by Capt.
George W. Mobley, 32, of
Elizabeth town, Ky.
Another flier in the helio
copterCWO Carl J. Crow, 37,
of Tus con, Arizona, was also
killed.
Kell was stationed at Ft.
Rucker, Alabama.
Rep. Phil Londrum
the Association's workgroups
will be presented at the meet
ing.
No Traffic
Fatalities
In Year
Cherokee County has gone
a full year without a traffic
death and can turn in a clean
slate for the entire calendar
year of 1966 if none occur
between now and midnight
Saturday.
The last fatality recorded
in die county was Howard En
loe, 13, who died from inj
uries received when he was
struck by a car on die Whit
field Road just outside of Mur
phy on December 26, 1965.
The youth was riding a bicycle
when he was hit.
Local Highway Patrolmen
have expressed their thanks
to area motorists for a year
without traffic deaths in Ch
erokee County ana ?Jidthey
hope the record will be as good
in 1967.
Commissioners
To Meet Tuesday
The Cherokee County Board
of Commissioners will hold
their regular January meeting
T uesday morning.
The Courthouse will be clo
sed Monday due to the New
Years holiday falling on Sun
day.
Jerry Stiles
the death accidental.
In addition to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stiles,
Jerry is survived by one bro
ther, Jimmy, of the home and
his paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Minnie Stiles.
Funeral services will be
held today (Thursday) at Oak
Grove Baptist Church at 2:30
p.m. Rev. Frank Fisher, Rev.
Milford Garrett and Rev.
Douglas Heaton will officiate.
Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
The body was taken to the
home Wednesday afternoon to
remain until the funeral hour.
Townson Funeral Home is in
charge of the arrangements.
Pallbearers will be Johnny
Forrister, David Dodson,
Ronnie Clonts, Merlin Ram
sey, Lonnie Akin and Junior
Stalcup.
Letter To
The Editor
Dear Editor:
I want to thank you for the
prompt services we the boys
from Murphy and surrounding
areas are getting upon rec
eiving the Scout. In fact, last
night the copy I received was
only seven days old which is
real fast service and Viet
Nam is not so far from home,
just a couple of days ago a
replacement came into my
supply room and during the
course of the conversation I
asked him where he was from
and found out he was from our
neighboring state of South
Carolina. Then I was amazed
to find out that he. has a lot
of relatives in Murphy and
Brasstown. His Name is JOS
EPH RAMSEY and he is
related to the Martins in Br
asstown and to the Howells
in Murphy, 1 just thought I
would let you know this in
case you might want to send
him a complimentary issue
of The Scout as I am sure he
would appreciate it very much
like I do. In case you do his
address is the same as mine.
Once again I want to thank you
for all the boys In 'Viet Nam
who may be receiving the
Scout like I do and It makes
the long days seem a lot
shorter to read the news from
home and to know that you all
still are behind us in our fight
to stamp out these communist
aggressors who are trying to
take over this small country
of Viet Nam. Well I must
close but let me say again
that I really appreciate rec
eiving The Cherokee Scout
over here in this war torn
country.
Respectfully yours
S/SGT Alfred F. Kincaid
HHC, 66th ENGR. BN (taf Div)
APO San Francisco, 96336
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