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The Cherokee Cm Scout cw- B?>t Buy* r Cloy Q""'V fln#9W? Volume 77- Number 28 Murphy, North Carolina February 2. 1967 10 Pa?e* Uiit Week HOMESITE LOAN TO BE CLOSED TODAY Goforth Resigns Four Square-, Named To Head C&l Office in Sylva Bob Goforth Bob C. Goforth has been named Regional Repre sentative of the Commerce and Industry Division of die North Carolina Department of Conservation of Development with headquarters at Sylva. The appointment of the 34 year-old Rutherford County native was announced Wed nesday by William J. (Buddy) Griffin, assistant C&D Dir ector who heads up the agency's Commerce and In dustry Division. Goforth, who has been Ex ecutive Director of Four square Community Action, Inc. at Andrews, will assume his new duties as head of the regional office at Sylva on February 15. Goforth officially submitt ed bis resignation to the Four square group at a meeting in Andrews Monday night. Pointing out that Goforth has been active in sales and industrial work for the past 12 years, C&D Director Ban E. Stewart said: "We are extremely happy to I be able to secure the services of such a qualified person to carry out industrial develop ment program directly to the people of western North Car olina." As head of the Commerce and Industry Division's reg ional office, Goforth will work in 22 western North Carolina counties. The Sylva office is one of five in the state which were established in November ,1965 as part of Gov. Dan Moore's plans for total development of North Carolina. Until he took over the dir ection of Four Square Comm unity Action group, Goforth had logged eight years in sales and industrial work in Ala bama and three years as ec onomic development officer for the Bureau of Indian Aff airs at its Cherokee Agency. IXiring his work at Cherokee, Goforth was responsible for bringing new industry to the Cherokee Res ervation and with the formulation of an economic development program for the Cherokees. He is a past president of Western North Carolina Associated Communities and the Cherokee Chamber of Co mmerce. He is presently a member of the Western North Carolina Highway Develop ment Council. He is a member of the And rews Methodist Church and the Andrews Lions Club. He has a 6.S. degree ir.Bus iness Administration from the University of North Carolina where he graduated in 1954. He is married to the former Jo Hale of Atlanta. The Go forths have one daughter, nine-year-old Dawn. SCOUT PHOTO JOHN T. GILL of the Cherokee County Rural Development Authority (seated, left) holds the $200,000. check for the loan to be closed today for the Maltby Homesites Project. Seated at his right is Rural Renewal Program Leader Mack Ray. Standing (1 to r) are: J.W.S. Davis; County Commissioners Chairman W.T. Moore; Larry Huggins, engineer with Patterson and Dewar of Atlanta; Hadley Dickey; Merle Davis; and R.D. Bruce of thus Farmers Home Admin istration. Not pictured-Joe El Khouri, member of the Authority. Plans Underway For 10th Anniversary Wagon Train A committee has been named to proceed with plans for a 10th anniversary wagon train from Tellico Plains, T enn. to Murphy on the Fourth of July weekend. Don Ramsey was named chairman of the committee Friday night at a meeting held at the Murphy Power Board Building. Ty Burnette was named vice-chairman. Other committee members are Frank Swan, Dicky Hig don, Jeff Brooks and Charles Hall of Andrews and Marvin Thompson, Tom Palmer, Ch arlie Johnson ana Charles Coleman of Murphy. Charles Hall, chairman of the Wagon Train Committee at Tellico Plains, spoke to the group. He has served as a scout on all nine previous trains. The wagon train activity definitely will be coordinated with the Murphy Jaycees Water Festival. There had been reports for several weeks that the two affairs would be related. Several thoilsand persons are expected togather in Mur phy on the Fourth of July to participate in the Water Fes tival and the Wagon Train. One of the main purposes of the original wagon train was to draw attention to the need ioi a paved road from Murphy to Tellico Plains. The need still exists. Present paved routes between the two towns make it necessary for motor ists to drive completely ar ound Lake Hiwassee on the south and west sides while a paved road through the Unaka area would provide a more direct route. Such a road would also provide a more direct route to Knoxville. Another road that past wa gon trains promoted is fast be coming a reality-the Tellico Plains-Robbinsville road which is under construction in both Tennessee and North Carolina. It will open up vast areas of the Cherokee and Nantahala National Forests for tourists. The Tdllico Plains-Robb lu.vllle ruad is pari of a net work of roads being built or improved in the fringe areas of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. A major re construction project is under way on narrow, winding US 129 from Robbinsville to the Tennessee line and on the Tennessee side, a new seg ment of the Foothills Parkway, linking with 129 was opened last year. Thirty persons attended F riday night's meeting. Ola Man Winter Still With Us After several days of spring-like weather last week, the Murphy area was rudely reminded that Ole Man Winter is still here. Scattered thunder and lightning last Thursday night preceded a cold spell that hit the area Friday morn ing and brought snow through out the area. The cold spell on the week end was a reminder to area residents that a year ago they were shivering in the harsh est weather tostrike the area in 27 years. A year ago Sunday, Murphy recorded a low of nine degrees below zero and Andrews checked in with a minus 15 reading. The artic air was accompanied by a paraly zing snow storm. Today, of course, is a key day for many amateur weather forecasters. If the groundhog sees his shadow, so the legend goes, we're in for six more weeks of rough weather. If he doesn't see die shadow, spring is supposed to be just around the corner. Tom Mallonee To Visit Area ASHEV1LLE?Tom L. Mallonee, assistant to Rep Roy A. Taylor is now makin, scheduled visits to count seats and other sections of die Eleventh District. He wll be In Cherokee and Clay Co unties on Wednesday, Februa ry 15. Mallonee will beattheTowi Hall In Andrews from 9:001< 9:30 a.m., City Hall In Mur phy from 11:00 a.m. to U noon, and the Clay Count] Courthouse in Hayes villi from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Anyone interested In dts cussing matters with Mall' onee Is invited to meet wtd him at these times. Early Educators View Hiwassee Dam School (Editor's Note: The fol lowing is the first in a series of three articles on the back ground of Hlwassee Dam School.) By Barbara R. Sampson Two of the "grand old men of education in Cherokee County" have taken time to share views and opinions of schools, past and present. They have, primarily, spot lighted the section to which they gave their greatest num ber of years of service?Hi wassee Dam and environs. R.L. Keenum and Walter Anderson, with a combined total of 76 teaching years, off ered a fresh, youthfully opti mistic outlook for today's youth and for their teachers. In an age when teen-agers are automatically lumped into the delinquent group, these educators recalled and commended the greater num ber of adolescents who are doing a laudable job of grow ing up in a restless and com plex world. Mr. Anderson, unexpectedly R.L. KEENUM (top photo) began teaching at (30 per month and served in North Carolina Is for 43 years. Walter Anderson (Bottom photo) retired in 1960 after 33 1/2 years of teaching. (Photos by Ronald Tipton) interrupted at his workbench,' expanded his opinion in the gracious atmosphere of his living room. When asked to compare today's youth with that of the past, Mr. Ander son said, "I wouldn't say that there's a lot of difference between children now and when I first began teaching in 1916. On the average, girls and boys, in this section at least, are basically of the same material as their grand parents; they just have diff erent conveniences." Since his retirement from Hiwassee Dam in 1960, Mr. Anderson ha r often substitu ted and is always welcomed by the students, who term him a right guy". Mr. Keenum, looking like a college professor in his neat bu iness suit and matching accessories, shared his op inions and cups of delicious coffee in his inviting family room. He began by emphas izing some of the differences between the school situation today and yesteryear. His first school was Oak Grove (Collis) in 1912 for the "munificent sum of $30 a month--$120 r the school year of four months. He chuckled as he added that he was not paid c"^.FebrUlry' ^ugh his school term ended in Dec ember, "And even then I had sheriff?" ^ Wfr0m the Friendship, Reed's Chapel, Shoal Creek, Unaka, Upper Beaver Dam, Ranger Hiwassee Dam?the schools ?t which these two dedicated men served testify to the wide range of service in one and two-teacher schools, where there were few faci lities for teaching except the dedication of the instructor. The bulldipgs were mainly run-down make-shifts, con verted from other uses,some times without so much as outdoor privies, often without a spring or well to provide bucket-arid-dipper drinking facilities. "And It was also the responsibility of the tea cher to secure and cut the wooo Continued On The Women's Poge Construction To Begin This Month On 15 Units Mack B. Ray, Rural Renewal Program Leader for Cher okee, Clay and Graham Co unties, has announced that the $200,000 loan for the Maltby Homesite Project near Mar ble will be closed today (Thu rsday) at the Farmers Home Administration office in Mur phy. The Cherokee County Rural Development Authority plans to begin construction of 15 dwellings in Phase I at Maltby this month. Collins and Minor of Murphy has been awarded a contract to build the homes. While weather could be a factor in the start of con struction, Ray said he believes the dwellings will be comp leted by early fall. Plans for Phase II, which will add more homes at the site, are underway and the Rural Development Author ity will release information on the second phase when the plans are completed. The homes will be sold to low and medium income fami lies and will be financed over a 30-year period by FHA at tive percent Interest. A rea sonable down payment will be required. Three types of homes are to be built and will probably range in price from <10.000 to <15.000. Each home will be on a lot of approxi mately 1.5 acres. The lot is included in the orice. Ray said applications are not being taken for the homes now but they will be accepted in the near future and the date will be announced Li advance. The main purpose of the project is to relieve the housing shortage that exists in Cherokee County and in order to fulfill this purpose, persons who now own what are considered to be suitable homes will not be considered for homes at Maltby. Two wells have been drilled at the site and approval of the water supply has been granted by the North Carolina State Department of Health. The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners made funds available so the Rural Dev elopment Authority could pro ceed with required work on the wells before the loan was closed. Ray said he is "thrilled with the co operation" of die Commiss ioners. Gravel roads for the pro ject will be constructed by the State Highway Department. The Maltby project is only one of several matters that have received the attention of the Rural Development Authority over the past sev eral months. The group has sought to create an over all plan for development of Cherokee County. Pointing out that the hous ing pr^lem in the county is serious, Ray said the Maltby Homesites will be meaning ful to our area" as morefam ilies return and out-migration is halted by the growth of the local industry. Chairman Backs Election Reform 307 To Receive Training For American Thread Co. Secretary of Labor Will ard Wirtz has agreed to the "Tuesday's Child" To Be Shown Monday A film entitled "Tuesday's Child" will be shown Monday night at 7:30 at the meeting of the Cherokee County Association for Ret arded Children in the Power Board Building. The Association will vote on a constitution at the meet ing and aiboardofdirectors will be elected. Persons knowing of a ret arded child not involved in a school program are asked to contact Mrs. Jack Early at 837-3793. signing of a contract under the Manpower Development and Training Act to provide on-the-job training for 307 workers for American Thread Co., Inc. at Marble. Unemployed and under employed workers will be eli gible to receive up to 20 weeks of training under die program. A contract covering this project will be executed for the Secretary of Labor by J.B. Archer, Regional Director, Region in. The contractor will be reimbursed 167,745 for providing the training. Twelve classes of jobs are covered by the project. Trainees will receive wages for all production work during the training period. RALEIGH?I.T. Valentine, J r. chairman of the State De mocratic Executive Comm ittee, has "wholeheartedly"' endorsed the proposed changes in the election laws of North Carolina suggested by the State Board of Elections. He has recommended to the General Assembly that the changes be enacted into law. The recommendations would require all 100 counties to put into effect the Loose Leaf Registration Sys tem which is now used in 30 counties. Individual voters would be required to sign their name upon receipt of a ballot and absentee ballots would have to be certified Dy a member of the County Board of Elections. "These (changes) would in my opinion tend to do away with real or imaginary abuses of the election process",Val entine said. "The Democratic Party by its nature, practices, and background is in favor of these election reforms", the chair man continued. "Indeed, the Democratic Party in North Carolina has through the years favored strengthening of the franchise and protection of the rights of all citizens to have a full, free, and unrestrained voice in the election process in the naming of those people who will govern them." SHC To Be Invited To Meet In WNC The entire State Highway Commission may get a close look at the road situation this summer. The Scout has learned that Commissioner W.Curtis Russ will invite the Commission to hold its J une meeting in Way nesville. A decision is expected to be made at a meeting in Raleigh on Friday. Mayor Proclaims February As Heart Month In Murphy Mayor Cloe Moore has designated February as Heart Month in Murphy, and in a proclamation issued Wednes day, called on residents of Murphy to "support the 1967 Heart Fund with the full mea sure of their generosity." Noting that the heart and blood vessel diseases take more lives each year than all vother causes of death combined, the Mayor called upon local citizens to help speed their Heart Asso ciation's research, education, and community heart prog rams through Heart Fund contributions and volunteer service. The Heart Fund campaign began on Wednesday and will continue throughout the month. February 11 has been des ignated as Ballon Day and during the week of February 13-18 the business district will be solicited. A highpoint of the drive will be Heart Sunday, Feb ruary 26, when volunteer workers will call on their neighbors to distribute heart-saving literature and to receive Heart Fund contributions. Mrs. Merle Davis is pres ident of die local Heart Asso ciation and Mrs. Robert Wea ver and Mrs. Ed Schulte are co-chairmen of the Heart Fund Drive. FEBRUARY SVM MOM TVC WID TNV r*l f AT 12 3 4 5 8 7 8 9 1011 I 12131415161718 19 202122 23 24 25 ! 212728 We Carry At All Times A Complete Line Of Building Materials Including Lumber from The West Coast - Plywoods, Windows and Doors, Metal and Wood Siding - Glidden Paints and Accessories Nelsoo's Lumbar I Sapply Co. nHOHS M7-JTS4 T?on. St. Murpfcy, H. C. MISS FEBRUARY Mln ClavAa ScHaylar, <n>Hr at Mr. an4 Mr*. L. P. SeHuylar, Murphy, M.C
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