kFTER A SNOW-FREE WINTER, the Murphy area was hit
Ih a fast-moving storm system that dumped about three
hes on the ground in a few hours Monday morning. The snow
me along with a warming trend that followed the longest
cold spell of the year. The T\ A weather observer said the
low Saturday morning was zero at 6 a.m. and the high for the
day Saturday was a frigid 27 degrees at 3 p.m.. These photos
by Scout Studio Manager Weaver Carringer were taken at the
peak of the snow-fall. The left photo,takenfroin the road lead
ing to Rimco, shows the Hiwassee River in the foreground, the
Southern Railway yard and houses in Murphy. Highway 64
at the western city limits is almost deserted in the center
photo as a single car heads toward town. Tire marks on the
highway can be seen in the foreground of the right photo taken
on US 64 west, but the lane leading to the house on the hill is
untouched.
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?i ^ Volume 77-Number 32 Murphy, North Carolina March 2, 1967 10 Poges This Week
SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID
AT MURPHY. NORTH CAROLINA
jrraham Worker Dies
n Freak Explosion
ROBBINSVILLE H.M.
illaps, SO of Graham County
as killed Monday in a freak
cplosion at a highway const
iction site two miles north
: Robbinsville.
It is believed that Millsaps
rilled into a hole loaded with
dynamite charge.
The accident occured just
iter noon, when the Wilkes
onstruction Co. crew,
orking on U.S. 129, had fin
;hed lunch.
Kenneth Caldwell of Hazel
ood, a driller who was
isisted by Millsaps, said
a had just walked toward an
ir compressor to put up his
inch pail when he heard the
xplosion. When he looked ar
Donald Gregory
Gregory Named
lutreach Head
Alvin Penland, President of
Our-Square Community Action
nc., has announced the
ippointment of Donald
Jregory as Director of Out
?each Program for Adult and
fouth Services.
Gregory, who has been
issistant Director of Mental
>nd Physical Fitness, was el
svated to the Directors posi
ion of the Outreach Program
rhen Jack Frauson was ap
iointed ft Executive Director
>f Four-Square Community
tction, Inc.
Gregory, 35, a four year
4avy Veteran, attended Wes
:ern Carolina College. Greg
try taught at Nantahala High
School and the Graham County
School System prior to his
ippointment with Four
square. He also coached foot
jall and basketball.
Gregory is married to the
former Joan Garland and they
Itave one daughter, Lisa, age
seven.
ound. Millsaps was gone,
oaldwell saio.
A taxi driver, Posey
Roberts, was driving up the
highway toward Robbinsville
when he heard the explosion.
Roberts said he saw a body
hurdling through the air, land
and roll downhill toward a
lake.
Caldwell said Millsaps'
body was thrown about 100
feet from the explosion.
Millsaps is survived by the
widow, Mrs. Inez Hensley
Millsaps, three daughters and
three sons.
Services were held at 2 p.m.
Wednesday in Old Mother
Church.
The Rev. Frank Jones and
the Rev. Leslie Hedrick off
iciated and burial was in the
church cemetery.
Pallbearers were Luther
McGuire, Vaughn Rogers,Ro
bert Moore, Kenneth Rogers,
Leon Moore and Joe Millsaps.
Townson Funeral Home was
in chaige.
Bank Gains 308
Places In Rank
Citizens Bank and Trust
Company of Murphy gained
308 places in its standing
among the 2,000 largest co
mmercial banks in the United
States during 1966.
It now ranks as the 1924
largest in size compared to
2232 place at the end of 1965.
CB&T reported deposits of
$20,413,424 on December 31,
1966 compared to $16,624,175
a year earlier.
The figures were revealed
in the 1967 Annual Roll r?n
published by the daily "Amer
ican Banker" ofNewTork.the
trade paper of the bankira? bus
iness.
There are approximately
13,500 banks in the United
States.
Cancer Clinic
Cancelled
The Cherokee County
Cancer Clinic set for March 9
at die Health Department in
Murphy has been cancelled.
Those wishing appointments
for the April 13 Clinic
are asked to call the Health
Department or Mrs. Emogene
Bates at 837-3617.
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Purina Products.
We Carry A Complete
Line of Seeds. Feeds,
Fertilizer. Groceries
& Packaged Meats
We Give S & H
Green Stomps
Cherokee
Farm Center
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PHONE 137.3609
PAUL WATSON (left) of Hayesville shows instructor Bert Smith a homemade apparatus
for puncturing cans of methyl bromide used to fumigate plant beds. Johnny and Jimmy Hogsed
(standing) are among 48 studentsfrom Cherokee and Clay Counties who have been attending a six
week course on Tomato Training at the JohnC. Campbell Folk School. The course ends Friday.
Steady Progress Seen
At American Thread
Construction on American
Thread's new Cherokee Plant
at Marble has been progress
ing steadily throughout the
winter months.
Most of the brick siding has
already been erected and a
roof now covers the entire
operating area. Inside, nearly
three-fourths of the building's
concrete floor is poured and
the office area is now framed
out with cinder blocks.
Still to be completed are
the plumbing, heating,
electrical and air condition
ing systems.
Given good weather, best
Chamber Gives
$175 Cash
The Murphy Chamber of
Commerce awarded cash
prizes totalling |17S last week
in observance of the loca'
Washington's Birthday Sale.
Howard Moody, Hickory St.,
Murphy, won the grand prize of
$100 in a drawing held on Wed
nesday, Washington's Birth
day.
Kenneth Thomas, Rl 3,
Murphy, won $75 in a drawing
held on Tuesday of last week.
Tickets for the drawing
were distributed by merchants
who are members of the
Chamber of Commerce.
estimates now available
fix late April as the time when
the building and all its sys
tems will be completed.
Process machinery has al
ready begun to arrive and
deliveries will continue into
December.
Once complete, the Cher
okee Plant, which is located on
a 100 acre site, will provide
more than a quarter of a mil
lion square feet of floor space.
That space will house the most
modern equipment now avail
able to the textile industry.
To be fully air conditioned the
plant will utilize electricity
as its only source of power.
As a result, it will have no
smokestack and no smoke will
be given off.
According to Dan Lamb,
Plant Manager, about 325 peo
ple will eventually be
employed at the Cherokee
Plant. He went on to say that
present hiring plans call for
the gradual staffing of the
plant as permitted by the rate
of machinery installation.
May 1 has been set as the
target date to start the hiring
of regular operating
personnel.
In stressing American
Thread's concern for its
employees, Lamb pointed out
that the company has set up an
extensive training program.
As part of that program, there
are 30 men from the Marble
area currently training to be
skilled machinery fixers.
An important part of their
training will involve the in
stallation of machinery as it is
d-livered.
Regular operating per -
sonnel will receive their
training in a separate roe. .
complete withworkingmadi
inery. There, new emplc;
will be taught the proper me
thods of operating this new
equipment.
In commenting further,
Lamb said that the excellent
progress made and the high
job interest shown by em
ployees from this area now in
training have made him con
fident that the Cherokee Plant
will soon be one of the best
plants in the company.
Lady Bird Schedules
WNC Visit This Month
WASHINGTON? Mrs.
Lyndon B. Johnson will visit
western North Carolina this
month.
The President's wife, ac
companied by Secretary of
Welfare John W. Gardner, will
make a three-day visit to
school rooms in Appalachia to
look at what has been done
with federal funds bolstering
programs from kindergarten
Foodliner
Now Open
Gibson's IGA Foodliner op
ened for business Wednesday
on LIS 19 at the west end of
Andrews.
Floyd Gibson said a Grand
Opening will be announced
in The Scout later.
The Foodliner is the largest
supermarket in the Trl-State
area.
Gibson also reopened his
Dairy Whip which is located
next to the new supermarket.
He announced Fred West and
Mrs. Glade West are the new
managers of the Dairy Whip.
through college.
While the whole itinerary
has not been set, Mrs.
Johnson's press secretary did
indicate she will visit Western
Carolina College atCullowhee
and Canada Township near
Ashevllle where members of
the Teacher Corps are at
work.
Mrs. Johnson will visit In
the Charleston, W. Va. area
on March 13 and then come to
Asheville.
Following her stay in WNC,
the First Lady will fly to Nash
ville for ceremonies on March
15 commemorating the 200th
anniversary of the birth of
President Andrew Jackson.
Truck Runs
Over Bank
A Ledford Cleaner's truck
driven by Creed Coffee rolled
down an embankment in the
Beaver Creek section Monday
morning.
Coffee escaped injury by
jumping out of the truck as it
started to go over the bank.
The snow and ice on the road
were blamed for the acc
ident and no charges were
filed.
Boy Found After
Spending Night
In Cold Mountains
Ten-year-old Charles
"Pedro" Bryson of Marble
spent a cold night in the snow
covered mountains of Ch
erokee and Graham Counties
Sunday night. He was found
Monday morning, unharmed
except for frost-bitten feet.
Over 600 men from six
counties either participated
in the search or were ready
to go into action when he was
found.
The boy's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Bryson, missed
him around 5 o'clock Sun
day afternoon.
The Andrews Rescue Squad
began the search at 7 p.m.
Sunday. The Nantahala Res
cue Squad and the Cherokee
County Rescue Squad joined
them a short time later and
by midnight, the Cherokee
County Sheriffs Depart
ment and the Graham Co
unty Rescue Squad were co
mbing the hills, too.
The Hayesville Rescue
Squad stayed on stand-by and
joined the search at daylight.
Rescue Squads from Union
and Swain Counties were on
their way to help when
"Pedro" was found.
A group of men headed by
Mr. Williams of the Graham
County Rescue Squad and Mr.
Truell of Marlle found the
boy around 9:3C a.m. Mon
day in the Slick Rock sec
ion of Graham County.
"Pedro" was dressed in
a hooded sweatshirt, pants
and loafers.
"PEDRO" BRYSON of Marble catches up on his sleep in
District Memorial Hospital after spending a night in the
cold, snowy mountains of Cherokee and Graham counties.
(Staff Photo by Berry)
He said he was with three
dogs and when the dogs began
chasing a rabbit, he followed
them. When it got dark, he
crawled into a hollow tree
trunk and called the dogs in
with him.
The dogs stayed with the
boy throughout the night
ano gave him warmth.
"Pedro" was brought to
Andrews District Memorial
Hospital for observation. Dr.
F.E. Blalock said the boy
was in good condition con
sidering his long, cold night
of exposure.
Snow began to fall in the
area after the search got
underway and the temperature
was below 10 degrees during
the night.
Women living in the area
kept hot coffee available
throughout the night for the
searchers as they came in to
report on their progress.
"Pedro's" first request
when he got home was that his
friends, the dogs, be fed too.
A greater tragedy was
feared when the boy was first
reported missing. The Col
umbia Marble Co. operations
are less than a mile from the
Bryson home and there was
apprehension that he might
have fallen into an open mine
shaft.
Cultural Planning
Program U nderway
One of the most far
reaching projects resulting
from the new federal assist
ance for schools is the
Cultural Planning Program
for Eight Mountain Counties.
The program which start
ed December 1,1966 was fun
ded under Title 111 of the El
ementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965.
Title in provides grants to
local schools for establish
ment of supplementary edu
cation centers and services.
A wide range of activities may
be authorized under this title.
School administrations are to
co-operate with other educa
tional and cultural interests in
the community.
Jackson County school auth
orities under Paul Buchanan,
Superintendent, and Mrs. Al
bertine Thompson, ESEA Dir
ector, realized that music, art
and crafts Instruction was a
neglected area in the schools
and In the communities.
Securing the co-operation of
eight western counties, they
gathered facts to show the cul
tural needs of tl*. rea. An
application was made to
federal authorities aid they
were given funds to set up a
planning group.
The planners will formulate
a program to eliminate the
cultural deprivations in the
area and apply for funds to put
this program into operation.
The counties involved are
Haywood, Iransylvania, and
those wp?t, Jackson, Macon,
Swain, Grahani, Clay and
Cherokee.
In this area at the time of
the application there were only
14 1/2 music teachers and
3 1/2 art teachers in all
the 75 schools of the area. In
other parts of the country,
many schools have trained art
and music specialists in each
school.
This section holds a rich
folk heritage in music and in
the arts. The schools cangive
only modest opportunity for
children to develop their mus
ical abilities.
As one of the craft centers
of the country, craft skills
were learned in families or in
a few craft centers. But train
ing in design and color was
hard to find. All of us know of
talent which has never had the
needed help to develop. There
is hidden talent which can be
found and nurtured.
As these interests in music
and art are helped to grow,
some people will find they can
go into new occupations using
all their abilities. Others will
find partlme occupations
using all their abilities.
EDITORIAL:
The Choice Is Clear
A hearing in Washington on March 22 will determine
whether Murphy or Blue Ridge, Ga. will receive an FM radio
station.
Both Murphy AM stations are daylight stations meaning
they are authorized to operate only from sunrise to sunset.
Murphy is without local night time radio service.
We believe that an FM station, operating here at night,
would be a great public service and a beneficial addition
to our community.
Our position may be surprising since newspapers and radio
stations must compete for the advertising dollar of a comm
unity and we are endorsing another competitor.
Our position should not b_ surprising at all.
The Scout has always believed that competition is an es
sential ingredient in success. There is always room for one
more, whether it be in the advertising industry, or any other
type of business.
Our choice is clear when a decision must be made to de
termine whether Blue Ridge, Ga. or Murphy will get an FM
radio station.
We will be pleased to welcome an
community. ?