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?** The Cherokee cm Scout 'Otcrohv* County's Best Buy' ' tlllf PrOgfttS Volume 77- Number.29 Murphy. North Carolina February 9. 1967 10 Pages This Week Jack Frauson Named Four Square Executive Director Jack Frauson Alvin Penland, President of Four-Square Community Action, Inc., has announced the appointment of Jack H. Frau son as Executive Director of the four-county Economic Op portunity Agency. Frauson, who has been Four-Square's Physical and Mental Fitness Director since last March, was elevatedtothe Executive Director's position ation last week. Goforth resigned to accept an appoint ment with the N.C. Depart ment of Conservation and Development. Frauson, 30, Is ? native of New Jersey. He attended Wake F orest College and graduated from Western Carolina Coll ege In 1960 with Bachelor of Science Degree in Health and Physical Education. He is well-known in this area as a member of Western Carolina College's 1959 championship basketball team. Frauson taught at Swain Co unty High School for four years prior to his first appointment with Four-Square. He also coaches boys and girls basketball. He has been a member of several education associations. He is a member of the Mucphy Junior Chamber of Commerce and a former State Director. Frauson is married to the former Joy Hensley of Mad ison County and they are members of the First Bap tist Church of Murphy. "We are very pleased to have a man with Mr. Frau son's abilities available to move right into this import ant position," Penland said, "We feel his experience will contribute to the continued success of our programs." Frauson will assume his duties on Feburary 15 Murphy-Manteo Project To Reach Climax Saturday Fourteen memDers 01 tne Murphy Jaycees and five of their wives will leave Murphy Friday morning to attend the Charter Night of the Da re Co unty Jaycees in Manteo. The Murphy club has exten ded its assistance to the group in Dare County and the result will be the formation of a club with 35 members. Invitations have been sent to dignataries throughout North Carolina and among those ex pected to attend are Lt. Gov. Bob Scott; North Carolina Jay cee President Ervin Alridge; and Cabel Ramsey,immediate past state president. This is the longest extension in North Carolina Jaycee his tory and isbelievedto be the longest extension in the United States. The towns of Mur phy and Manteo are about 600 miles apart and are located In the extreme southwest and northeast comers of the state. "Althought this is a Jay cee project". President Jack Owens of the Murphy club said, "the idea is to focus state and national attention on Ch erokee and' Dare Counties." Owens pointed out that the two towns are similar in pop ultion and, to some extent, are isolated from the rest of the state. Many representatives from newspapers, radio and tele vision are expected to attend the charter meeting. There will be complete coverage of the affair in the national and state Jaycee magazines. Work on the Murphy-to Manteo extension began last May and the Murphy group made its first trip to Manteo in November. Post Office Customers Have Bill Of Rights Postmaster Joe Ray today called attention of Murphy mailers to the new "Postal Customer's Bill of Rights" to help meet President John son's government-wide goal of improving the quality of federal services to the public. Directed at post office win dow services, Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien has ordered the Customer's Bill of Rights implemented by two immediate steps at Mur phy. L Posters will be displayed in the post office lobby and service counters containing 10 points which specify the kind of treatment customers have a right to expect. 2. Instructions from Mr. O'Brien call for careful observance of all points in the "Postal Customer's Bill of Rights." The instructions also provide directions for the most efficient management of window services. The posters tell customers they are entitled to: L A neat, clean counter on which to transact business. 2. Services by a well groomed, neat window emp loyee. 3. A friendly greeting that expresses a desire to assist. 4. Knowledgeable, well informed, interested window personnel to help with pos tal needs. 5. Prompt, alert and eff icient service. 6. Competent and correct information on inquiries. 7. An attitude that reflects helpfulness, patience andean geniality. 8. The courtesy and tact that would be expected from a friend. 9. Polite referral to another window or individual, when necessary, to give the approp riate service. 10. A feeling, upon leaving, that the post office is glad to serve and help at all times. Instructions for fulfilling "The Postal Customer's Bill of Rights" are being distributed to all window per sonnel by Postmaster Ray. Mr. O'Brien stated in conn ection with the new postal ser vice improvement effort: "President Johnson insisted that every federal employee give added attention to pro viding the American people with the very best service possible....Since your daily duties bring you in direct and continuing contact with our customers, I would like to tell you what I consider the type of service the American peo ple have a right to expect when dealing with the largest bus iness operation in the world." In addition to Improving rel ations with customers. Post master Ray said, die "Cus tomer's Bill of Rights" can expedite handling of trans actions at the windows and make the service more eff icient. He urged Murphy residents to assist In this effort, by st ating their needs clearly, and having money and any necesv ary filled-out forms ready for transactions. The) Postmaster explained that demands on window per sonnel, who muit deal with a wide Variety of information. forms and varying services, are usually very heavy, and postal customers can assist them in meeting the new ser vice goals by being as brief and business-libs as possible. A NOTRH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY PATROL plaque honoring the late Sgt. Robert H. (Bud) Ensley was presented to Mrs. Ensleyandher daughters, Gay and Kathy,recently by Major Ed Guy(left). Capt.T.A. Sandlin, retired, who served as Ensley's commanding officer, is pic tured at the right. Sgt. Ensley served several years in Murphy and was active in civic affairs here before going to Raleigh to serve as principal chauffeur for Gov. Dan Moore. He was on vacation at the Governor's Western Residence in Asheville when he was stricken last July. (Syiva Herald Photo) Electric Week Observed Here Murphy Power Board has joined with electricity dealers throughout the nation in emphasizing electricity's contributions to progress this week during the observance of National Electric Week. The theme of the week is "Electricity Powers Pro gress", and the time of the ob servance coincides with the 120th anniversary of Thomas A. Edison's birth, February 11. "Here electricity's contri butions to progress can be found in the way we live, work and play," a spokesman for Murphy Power Board said. Homes ~ served by Murphy Power Board had an average use of 12,822 kilowatt-hours of electricity last year. Business and industrial custodiers ut Murphy Power Board used a total of 508,578 kilowatt-hours last year. Electrical energy runs more than 90 percent of all power production machinery in the United States. This electrically-powered equip ment gives the average fac tory employee help equal to the combined efforts of nearly 500 workers. Toylor Named To Land Law Group WASHINGTON?Congress man Roy A. Taylor has beer appointed to the Public Lane Law Review Commission by House Speaker John W, McCormack. The 19-member commiss ion review* laws covering federally-owned public lands in the United States and deve lops recommendations for future policies and legislation These lands include Nat ional Park Service and For est Service property in Wes tern North Carolina. Policies subject to commission review would Include those affecting land recreational use, es tablishement of wilderness areas, timber sale policies and multiple use of forest ser vice lands. Taylor is a member of the House Interior Committee from which six appointees to the commission were sel ected. The Congressman rec ently became chairman of the National Parks Subcommittee. Interior Committee Chair man Wayne Aspinall (D-Colo.) who also heads die commiss ion, observed that "as an Easterner,n Congressman Taylor is from an area of one of the most accessible nat ional parks, the Great Smokies and his point of view will be valuable to the commission. YHC To Proseit CD Exhibit Young Harris College, In cooperation with the U.S. De partment of Defense, Civil Defense Division, is inviting the public to view a two-day exhibition on atomic fall-out and natural disaster survival and emergency medical care in the Clegg Fine Arts Audi torium, Feburary 15-16, 7-9 p.m. each evening. Exhibits on education for survival, community fall-out shelters and fall-out shelter supplies will be located in he auditorium lobby. Outstanding movies on the Alaskan earthquake and Hurricane Betsy will be shown each eve* nii$ beginning at 7:45, since the purpose of the exhibition is that of showing the public how to survive under all types of natural disasters. The public is invited and encouraged to attend the above exhibition, and there are no admission charges. Theodore H. Donath, Area Director for Sum Civil Defense, will be on hand to answer questions and provide additional infor mation. EDITORIAL Those Who Cared Enough When an emergency occurs, there are those who panic and there are those who don't want to become involved. Most people fit into either of these classes. Then there are those who do their best to render their services. Lee Bailey of Rt. 2, Culberson, and Gene Picklesimer of Copperhill fit into that catergory. These two men went to the Old Rock Gym in Murphy last Friday night to witness the wrestling program sponsored by the Murphy Jaycees. During the program, Roy Fulton of Murphy suffered an app arent heart attack and died. Bailey and Picklesimer, who did not know the victim, immediately began trying to revive him by the mouth to-mouth method of restoring breathing and by external heart massage. The fact that their efforts failed is not important. The fact that they tried is. "Under the circumstances, 1 don't think anyone could have done any more than you did," Jaycee President Jack Ovens told the men. In what is widely held to be the age of the cynic. The Scout is proud to salute two people who cared enough to become in volved and who reacted to the best of their ability in an em ergency. Swan Heads Inquiry Into Space-Cabin Fire Col. A1 G. Swan, a native of Andrews, has been appoint ed to head an investigation of the fire which killed two air men at Brooks Air Force Base, Tex. on January 31. This accident was similar to the one which took the lives of Astronauts Virgil L. Gri ssom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee at Cape Kennedy on January 27. The two airmen who died in Texas were killed by a fire which fed on pure oxygen in a space-cabin simulator. Swan is Director of Res earch and Development, Aerospace Medical Division at Brooks AFB. He will be assisted in his investigation by specialists in the Aerospace Medical Pro gram from Brooks AFB, Lackland AFB, Wright Patterson AFB and Holloman AFB. Swan has been in the Air Force since July, 1942. He is the son of Capt. Frank W. Swan, U.S. Army Ret., ind the late Mary H. Swan. He is married to the for ner Jane Davis, daughter >f Mrs. Elizabeth P. Davis ind the lateH.E. Davis of And ?ews. The Swans have two laughters, Mary Elizabeth and Caroline. Hospital Expansion Fund Reaches 75% Of Local Goal Three-fourths of the $200,000 goal for local funds to be used in the million dollar expansion of Andrews District Memorial Hospital has been realized. Grants totaling $800,000 are available for the project prov iding the $200,000 in local money is raised. The latest report indicates that $151,000 has been raised and the goal is $49,000 away. Magna vox employees have pledged $3,000 and the Magna vox company has don ated another $2,500. This raises the total company don ation to $7,500. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lloyd of Robbinsvtlle recently made a $500 donation. The Z. Smith Reynolds foundation accounted for one fourth of the local goal with a $50,000 grant which was made in November. Several substantial don ations have been indicated and it is believed when these are made, the local goal will be about $20,000 short. The hospital, which serves Cherokee, Clay and Graham counties, is presently operat ing beyond capacity and has had to place as many as eight patients in the corridors and out-patient examining room at times. Association Names Board Of Directors The Cherokee County Association for Retarded Children adopted a con stitution and appointed a board of directors at its Feb ruary meeting which was held Monday night at the Power Board Building. The officers of the group were made ex-offlcio members of the board. They are Mrs. Jack Early, pres ident; MTs. Roy Weber, vice president; Mrs. Harry Moore secretary and Mrs. L.L. Love treasurer. The other board members appointed are Rev. Jack Wat son, Rev. Thornton Hawkins, Or. B.W. Whitfield and John Jordan. The Association will hold its March meeting on March 6# Baker To Address WNC Republicans Sen Howard Baker, Jr. o( Tennessee will be the featured speaker at die Lincoln Day Dinner inAshevlile Saturday night It will be held in the Asheville City Auditorium. Ser_ and Mrs. Pe*er will be honored at ? reception scheduled to begin at 8. baker Is expected to' hold a press conference at 5:30 In the Batt ery Park Hotel. Baker, who defeated Gov. Frank Clement in November, is the first Republican ever elected to the Senate from Tennessee. Sims Recommends Jai! Repairs, Minor Bridge Patched By SHC County Commissioners Ray Sims and Carlyle Matheson Inspected the county jail last Sarurdayafternoon and Sims reported their findings to the Board of Commissioners Monday. Sims said eight to ten win dows were knocked out, two screens were almost pushed out, a light fixture was torn loose and repairs were need ed for a hole in the floor. He also said sanitary facilities needed cleaning. "We should furnish the things needed to maintain the jail and keep it clean," he said. Sims told the other comm issioners he was disturbed over the apparent destruct ion of property by prisoners and recommended that after repairs, such as window rep lacements are made, any per son who destroys property in the jail should be held acc ountable for it. He said he and Matheson questioned the prisoners and that they expressed satis faction with the treatment they receive from jail personnel and the food served to them. The two commissioners were appointed in January to work with the sheriff and make a monthly report to the entire board. State Highway Commission Division Engineer A.J. Hu ghes of Sylva reported to the commissioners on road build ing in Cherokee County. Hughes said the bridge on the Roy Minor Road near Mar ble had been patched and a new bridge will be built there. The bridge drew widespread attention recently when Scout Managing Editor Dave Bruce reported that four families were unable to receive oil deliveries due to a hole in the bridge which made it imposs ible for trucks to cross. Hughes said the road, which was abandoned several years ago, was put back on the map when his office determined that at least four homes were located on it. This is a requirement for roads to be recognized by the state. Another bridge which Bruce reported on was dis cussed. This one, a short distance upstream from the Roy Minor Bridge, leads to the Vengance Creek Cem Lions Club Faces Suit In Drowning At Pool The Murphy Lions Club has been named the defen dant in a suitfiledinCherokee County Superior Court which seeks to recover $150,000 in damages in connection with the drowning of Stanley R. Davis last August 18 in the Murphy Swimming Pool. Jonah R. Sneed, adminis trator of the estate and grand father of the victim, contends in the suit that the defendant "failed to have competent, qualified and trained life guards in sufficient number" present when the drowning occured. He holds the defendant res ponsible for failure "to ins titute adequare search for the deceased after" he was noticed missing. The suit also contends there was not the proper equipment available to render artificial respiration and the defend ant failed to have signs posted indicating the depth of the water. The 14-year-old Davis was the son of Mr. and Mrs. De wey Davis of Boeing, Oregon. He and his mother were visiting relatives in the area when the drowning occurred. The youth was missed by his mother when the pool was cleared of all persons due to a thunderstorm. The body was recovered from 12 feet of water near the diving board and efforts to revive the boy at Prov idence hospital failed. Sneed states in the suit that the money sought is for damages incurred by "the wrongful death caused by negligence of the defendant." Robert D. Bruce, president of the Lions Club, has been served with a summons in connection with the suit. Town Zoning Hearing Set For Monday Night A public hearing on the proposed zoning ordinance for the Town of Murphy will be held Monday night at 7:30 at the Power Board Building. The Murphy Planning Co mmission has recommended that the ordinance be adopted and it is believed that the Town Board will approve it soon after Monday's hearing. The hearing is a legal re quirement and it will enable interested persons to pre sent their views on the ord inance prior to its enact ment. The ordinance will regulate the location, height and uses of buildings in the town. The sizes of yards, courts and other open spaces are covered by the act also. A Board of Adjustment will be set up under the ordinance and there is a method of am endment established to handle changes in the ordinance in the future. Penalties will be im posed for violation of the zoning law after it goes into effect. Mayor Cloe Moore and all members of the Town Board are known to be in favor of the ordinance and they con sider it a necessary step to assure more orderly growth of the town in the future. A public hearing was held some time ago and no one appeared to discuss the pro posal. Since that time, the Town Board has had very few inquires regarding zoning. Town officials have empha sized that they are interested in the views of citizens in reg ard to zoning and Monday s hearing will offer interested persons a chance to be heard before the ordinance is passed. etery. It also is in a poor state of repairs. Hughes said that the High way Commislon would handle repairs on this bridge if the commissioners recommend it. The normal procedure for church and cemetery roads would be followed in this case. Hughes pointed out that his department works on thjse roads upon the request oi the county commissioners ?nd that the proper metho j of get. ting work done is for per sons interested to advise the county commissioners who will take the matter to the highway personnel. The commissioners did not make a decision on the bridge leadingto the cemetery. They decided to investigate the situation further to de termine if it merits the work. Work on any particular road must be considered in relation to the merits of other request ed projects, and the amount of money avail able and the manpower av ailable. Hughes pointed out that the law "allows" the SHC to work on cemetery roads but does not "direct" or "require" the work. He said his depart ment wants to render service ir. every way possible but st ressed that "people should go through the proper cha nnels", the county comm issioners, requesting work. The commissioners req uested Hughes to work on the Hampton Memorial Road and the road leading to the Old Martins Creek Cemetery. An engineering contract for the expansion of the Andrews Murphy Airport was discussed at Monday's meeting. There were some points that were not clear and the commissioners plan to hold a special meeting in a few days to dispose of the mat ter. A resident engineer will be required at the airport during the construction period. The commissioners voted to rent office space from Elmo Mosteller in Andrews for *35 monthly. This will provide an office for Magis trate L.L. Love. Love had been using the mayor's office to hear cases brought before him. Clerk of Court Don Ramsey requested an additional chair and desk and filing cabinets for his office. The commiss ioners granted the request. The commissioners voted to endorse a resolution adopted recently by the Alamance Co unty Board ofCommissioners. The resolution calls for state-wide uniformity in teacher pay with teachers being paid entirely by the state. Under the present set-up, some school units offer supp lements to the state pay and are able to attract more and better qualified teachers. The feeling of the commiss ioners is that if pay were uni form in all units in the state, small counties would have an equal opportunity to attract teachers. Graham Favors Barley Acreage-Poundage Quota Commissioners of Agri culture Junes A. Graham today reaffirmed the position taken by die N.C. Department of Agriculture a year ago id favor of acreage poundage quotas for bur ley tobacco. "It is quite evident from the latest analysis of the burley supply and demand sit uation that acreage allotments alone have become obsolete and Ineffective as a means of keeping production in line with demand," the Commissioner said. "This fact was quite evident during the 1966 sea son when burley acreage allot ments were reduced 15 percent, while the 1966 pro duction was only seven percent below the previous year, according to preliminary es timates. Therefore there is no doubt but what acreage poundage quotas would result in a more effective market ing quota program for burley growers, just as it has for Tlue-cuied growers during the past two years." Graham points out that the approval of acreage-pomdafe quotas would atop this race for higher and hUber yields and on the im place the incentive provement of smoking quality and usability. Another important feature ot the acr eage-poundage program is the Insurance provision which permits a grower to carry for ward any unused portion of his quota from year to year. "If acreage-poundage quotas for hurley are reject ed this year, growers will not have another opportunity to vote for the program before 1968, as provided In the law," Graham said. "Therefore, we urge North Carolina burley growers to give serious thought to a favorable vote for acreage-poundage quotas in the up-comlng refer endum." The burley referendum will be held during the period from Feburary 27 through March 3, 1967. The referendum will be conducted by mail this year, which will give all giwers an opportunity to vote even If the weather Is too bad to gat out* North Carolina burley growers voted slightly more man the necessary two-thirds majority in the burley ac reage-poundage referendum last veer. Graham says he hopes mat we can impi mat record this yew.
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