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The Cherokee Scout
'Cherokee County's Best Buy'
and Clay County Progress
Volume 77- Number 41 Murphy, Nertfc Caroline May 4, 1967 8 Pogei Tills Week
DENNIS CURTIS (center, kneeling) was the winner in the 13th annual Declamation Contest
iast Wednesday at Murphy High School. Bob Jordan (right,kneeling) placed second and Dennis
Coffey (left, kneeling) received honorable mention. The other contestants were (standing lto r)
5am Elliott, Larry Timpson, David Dotson, Brent Carter and Jackie Craig.
Dennis Curtis Wins 13th
MHS Declamation Contest
Dennis Curtis wasthefirst
)lace winner in the 13th annual
Reclamation Contest at
Murphy High School last Wed
lesday afternoon.
Curtis took the top honor
with his presentation of "By
The Tomb of Napoleon" by
Robert G. Ingersoll.
The second-place winner
was Bob Jordan. He used Pre
sident FranklinD. Roosevelt's
speech asking Congress to
declare war on Japan on Dec
ember 8, 1941, the day after
Pearl Harbor.
Dene Farmer Named
0ollins-Crain Manager
Gene Farmer
W.J. Ellison, Chairman of
ie Board of Collins- Crain
rtment Store, Inc., an
ounced today the appoint
ent of Gene Farmer as
lhanager of the Collins-Crain
:partment Store in Murphy,
armer replaces Wallace P.
illiams, who recently
esigned to take a position with
nother company.
"I feel that we are very
ortunate to secure Mr. Far
!her for this position," Ellison
aid, "and I am certain he will
It well in this progressive co
mmunity."
(A native of Clinton, Tenn.,
armer has IS years of
iiren, Light
taken From
'olice Car
j Practitioners of the an of
ar stripping have struck an
nlikely target. They removed
he siren and red light from
he Murphy Police car.
Chief Pete Stalcup said the
ar has been disabled for sev
ral days and the items were
iken off the car at the Power
oard Building.
management experience in the
department store business. He
has managed stores for the Mc
Crory Corp. in Fayetteville,
N.C., Charlotte, Kingsport,
Tenn., Gaffney, S.C. andAnd
erson, S.C.
Heis married to the former
Martha Scroggins of Atlanta
and they have four children,
Deborah, 13; Paula, 12; Gene,
10; and Jimmy, 8.
Mr. and Mrs. Farmer are
members of the First Baptist
'jhurch in Anderson. S.C.
where he is a member of the
Board of Deacons and
associate superintendent of
the Sunday School Class. Mrs.
Farmer teaches a junior age
Sunday School class.
The family plans to move to
Murphy at the end of the school
term.
Retarded Child
Class Proposal
Discussed Here
The Cherokee County Asso
ciation For Retarded Children
is exploring the possibility of
obtaining a class for retarded
children in the county who
are trainable but are not in
school.
Mrs. Jack Earleytoldthe
group at its May meeting on
Monday night that County
School Superintendent Lloyd
Hendrix is considering die
proposal. She said Hendrix
.indicated to her that funds
for the class would be avail
able through the N.C. Depart
ment of Public Instruction.
A committee ronsisiting of
Mrs. Earley, John Jordan
and Rev. Thornton W. Haw
kins was named Monday to
work with the county school
unit on the program.
Carey Findley of the North
Carolina Council for Mental
Retardation and Mrs. Vida
K. Bryant, executive sec
retary of the North Carolina
Association for Retarded
Children , addressed the
group.
Honorable mention went to
Dennis Coffey for "The Black
Horse and His Rider."
The other five contestants
were Sam Elliot with
President Abraham Lincoln's
Second Inaugural Address;
Larry Timpson, "Death Bed
of Benedict Arnold"; Jackie
Craig, "Lincoln's Gettsyburg
Address; Brent Carter, Inger
soll's "Plea for the Abolition
Of Capital Punishment"; and
David Dotson, "Churchill
Anticipates The Battle of
Britain".
The contest, directedbyjoe
Ray, is sponsored by the Dau
ghters of The American Revo
lution and the Joe Miller El
kins Post 96 of the American
Legion.
Hobart McKeever presided
at the program.
The Rev. Thornton W. Haw
kins, the Rev. Robert P.
Crumpler andL.LMason, Jr.
served as judges.
Town Program
Recertified
WASHNGTON ? Secretary
Robert C. Weaver of the U.S.
Department of Housing and
Urban Development has an
nounced recertification of
Murphy*- Workable Program
for Community Improvement.
HUD's recertification
means that Murphy remains
eligible for the several types
of Federal aid which became
available to it when it received
its original Workable
Program certificate.
Certification of a Workable
Program is necessary before
a community can receive
Federal loans and grants for
urban renewal projects and
low-rent public housing, and
liberal FHA mortgage
insurance to assist in the
private redevelopment of pro
ject areas and for rehousing
displaced families.
Such recertification does
not consitute approval of any
specific Federal aid. The
Workable Program is a show
ing by the community of how it
intends to use its owirpublic
and private resources to elim
inate and revent slums and
blight. Once its program is
approved it can apply for the
Federal aids to supplement
local resources as needed.
The community must show
reasonable progress each
year under its Workable Pro
gram to obtain recertification
and remain eligible for these
Federal aids.
HONOR STUDENTS AT ANDREWS HIGH SCHOOL have been selected to participate in the '
57 Commencement Program. All of these students had an "A" average for each of their
at high school years. Pictured are (1 to r) Gerald Bryson, Joy Bristol, Howard McMahan. 1
lathy Van Gorder, Jim Sursavage, Susan Ulm and Boyd Rogers. (Photo by Joey Trantham) ;
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Commissioners Consider Welfare
Budget. Extra Building Costs
County Welfare Director V.
O. Ayers told the Cherokee
County Board of Comm
issioners Monday that the
number of welfare recipients
in the county has decreased
but the services offered have
increased.
Ayers presented proposed
figures for the 1967-68 Wel
fare budget at the Commiss
ioner's regular monthly
meeting.
A total of $48,979 is reco
mmended as the county's
share for the welfare
payments in the year that
begins July 1. This is supple
men ted with Federal and State
funds. The figure presented is
a $479 increase over the total
for the current fiscal year.
The county's share of aid
to the blind is recommended
at $5,511, an $869 increase.
Ayers said 32 persons in the
county are presently receiving
aid to the blind assistance.
Administrative costs are
estimated to rise 19fc This
figure includes the cost of a
recommendation that a part
time attorney be hired for
the welfare board.
Ayers said he believes the
cost of hiring an. attorney
rive Wrecks Reported
In County Last Week
Highway Patrolman Don
Reavis investigated five
wrecks in Cherokee County
last week. Three occured
Wednesday.
Father Joseph A. Gartner,
53, of Andrews, suffered sev
eral broken ribs and a cut ear
Wednesdayat 10:25 a.m. when
his car crashed into a power
power pole two miles west of
Andrews on US 19-129.
Reavis said Gartner was
travelling east when he lost
control of the car on a wet
roadway. The driver was
pinned in the car for several
minutes until the power could
be cut off. He was removed
from the car by members of
the Andrews Rescue Squad.
Gartner was taken to Dis
trict Memorial hospital and
was later transferred to Pro
vidence hospital.
No charges were filed.
The car was a total loss.
At 10:30 a.m. Wednesday,
a car driven by Mrs. Wilma
Cross Day, 38, of Topton,
struck the righhand side of a
Trailways Bus 1.5 miles east
of Andrews on US 19-129.
Both vehicles were travel
ling west. Thebus was passing
the Day car when Mrs. Day
attempted to turn left off the
highway.
There were no injuries.
Damage to the bus, driven by
Andlem Snow Adams III, 29,
of Asheville, was estimated
at $150 and damage to
thecarwas believed to be $125.
Reavis said Mrs. Day was
charged with failure to see if a
turn could be made in safety.
Opal Carroll, 38, of Warne
suffered a whiplash injury
Wednesday afternoon at 3:45
on US 64, four miles east of
Murphy. She was a passenger
in a car driven by Hoyt
Burrell, 19, of Young Harri^
Ud.
Burrell slowed to allow a
car in front of hiin to make a
left hand turn and he was
struck in the rear by a car
driven by Eva Jane Cothern,
45, of Brasstown.
Damage to each car was
estimated at $100. Mrs. Coth
ern was charged with following
too close.
On Friday night at 11:45 a
a car driven by Roy Gray Nunn,
30, of Pilot Mountain, N.C.,
ran off US 19-129 eight miles
east of Andrews and struck two
parked cars.
Harvey Hyde, 17, of
Robbinsville, was taken to
District Memorial Hospital
with lacerations on the head.
He was sitting in one of the
parked vehicles. Two other
persons sitting in the cars
were not injured.
David Gill, 23, of Monroe,
N.C. a passenger in the Nunn
car, received facial lacer
ations. He was not hospital
ized.
Reavis charged Nunn ? with
drunk driving and no op
erator's license. Damage to
Nunn's car was estimated at
$400 and the two parked cars
were believed to have suff
ered $475 damage.
Horace Thdmas, 53, Rt. 4,
Murphy, suffered a brain con
cussion Saturday afternoon at
2:25 at the intersection of the
road from Murphy High School
and US 19-129 east of Murphy.
He was a passenger in a car
driven by his son, Carl M.
Thomas, 22, Rt. 3, Murphy.
Reavis said the younger
Thomas, travelling west, tried
to slow down when a car in
front of him slowed down. He
ran off the right side of the
road and struck the embank
ment.
The driver was charged with
improper brakes.
Golden Passports On Sale
At Forest Service Office
The $7 annual federal rec
reation pemit-known as the
"Golden Passport"-is now on
sale at the U.S. Forest Ser
vice office District Forest
Ranger Bunch Nugent said
today.
The permit will admit a
carload of people to about
2,500 designated federal areas
throughout the nation and is
good from April 1,1967 through
March 31, 1968. Nugent said
the golden passport is good at
134 Forest Service recreation
spots in the 13 state Southern
Region.
The yearly entrance card
can be used an unlimited num
ber of times. Also available is
a $1 permit good for a "ar
Foreign Moil
Rates locrease
An increase in international
surface and airmail rates went
Into effect Monday, May 1,
Postmaster Joe Ray said.
The new international rates,
lie said, will not apply to
mailings for members at the
Armed Forces overseas.
Domestic postage rates are
ipplicable to mail addressed
through APO's and FPO's.
The rate increase for both
surface and airmail ?
iveraging 13V-were first
proposed on January 14 and
publicly confirmed on March
I. The Department explained at
that time that they were needed
to help offset a deficit of about
116 million in international
nail operations.
Specific information on the
sew international rates can be
ibtained from the service win
low at the post office. Post
raster Ray said.
This was the first general
ncrease in international rates
since July, 1961.
load for one day at a parti
cular area.
Nugent said this is the
third year of the federal en
trance fee program which was
authorized under the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act
of 1965. The law calls for 60
per cent of the income from
the sale of permits to go to
local, county and state gov
ernments for acquiring and
developing public recreation
areas. The other 40 per cent
is used by federal agencies
for buying additional recrea
for buying additional
recreation sites.
Permits can also be ob
tained at the Hiwassee Camp
ground on Lake Hiwassee, and
ground on Lake Hiwassee,
Cherokee County and Jack
Rabbie Campground on Lake
Chatuge in Clay County.
Democrats Win
In Andrews
Mayor Percy B. Ferebee
was returned to office for
another term unopposed in
the Andrews Town Election
Tuesday. He received 163
votes.
The Democratic ticket of
Brownie Paul Parker, John
W. Raxter, John H. Christy
and W.C. Gray was elected to
the Town Board with only token
opposition.*
The nulswere: Parker, 136j
Raxter, 185; Christy, 183j and
Gray, 109.
Republican Grady Garrett
received 29 write-in votes
for a seat on the Board.
would be repaid by the results
obtained. He pointed out that
an attorney could assist the
board in cases where a
father deserts his family and
moves out of the state. By
requiring these fathers to
support their dependants,
welfare costs would be
lowered.
The Commissioners didnot
approve all of the recommen
dations Monday. They
indiciated they wanted to study
the proposals further.
Holland McSwain, Director
of the Tri-County Industrial
Education Center, told the
Board that low bids on the pro
posed new building at the Cen
ter totaled $53,595. This is
over $12,000 more than origi
nal estimates.
Mcbwain said Appaiacman
funds are available to cover
30% of the additional cost. He
said reductions and sub
stitutions have lowered the
cost to $52,380.
He indicated that about
$5,000 in extra funds would
be needed from the county.
McSwain said some things
which were planned for the
building may be defered until
a later date.
Eighty percent of the ori
ginal estimated cost of the
project is being financed by
Appalachian funds.
Highway Patrolman Patt
Miller appeared before the
Commissioners to urge
that Cherokee and Clay
Counties jointly purchase a
breath-o-lyzer to test dri
vers supected of being under
the influence of alcohol.
He said the Clay County
Commissions have agreed to
contribute $300 to the cost.
This would leave Cherokee
County with a share of $600.
The breath-o-lyzer deter
mines the percentage of
alcohol in a suspect's blood
stream. A driver with a .1%
alcohol in the bloodstream is
considered to be intoxicated.
The results of the machine
are admissible as evidence
in court.
At present, the nearest
machine for this purpose is
located'in Bryson City.
Miller indicated he believes
the purchase of a breath-o
lyzer here would result in
increased convictions and
also would protect suspects
who are innocent.
Miller also urged the
Commissioners to purchase
a radio which would establish
direct contact between the
county jail and the Highway
Patrol office inAsheville.The
radio "would help the county
as well as the patrol," he
said.
Bass Dockery of Tipton
Creek asked the Board to put
the wagon train route on the
map. He was told to secure a
petition from property
owners along the route so the
Board could make a formal
request.
Dockery said Tennessee
residents are building retire
ment homes in the area. He
said there are about 27 prop
erty owners along the route.
The portion of the road
from Tellico Plains to the
Tennessee-North Carolina
Line has been surfaced. About
10 to 12 miles in North Carolina
is unimproved.
Itisbeleieved that the state
will grade the unimproved
portion of the road prior to the
Tellico Plains-Murphy wagon
train trip which is scheduled
for the July 4th weekend.
JAMES HELTON (left) was installed as president of the
Murphy Jaycees last Friday night. Irvin Aldridge (right).
State Jaycee President, installed the new officers and made
the main address.
Helton Installed As
New Jaycee President
Irvin Aldridge, President of
the North Carolina Jaycees,
told the Murphy Jaycees last
Friday "you must have a sense
of direction, faith, courage,
and action if you're going to
have a good year." He was the
featured speaker at the club's
fifth annual installation of
officers at the Milton Inn in
Blairsville.
Outgoing President Jack
Owens presided at the
meeting. Hesaidthelocaljay
cees had 102 projects
scheduled during the past year
and 99% of these were
completed. The club operated
on a budget of $9,250, Owens
said.
Owens presented Spark Plug
awards to Don Decker, Bud
Penland, Lonnie Britt, James
Helton, Curtiss Hewlett, Billy
Ray Palmer, Tommy Gentry,
James Hughes and Eddie
Manchester. Spoke awards
were presented to Hoyt
Zimmerman, Larry McNabb,
and Lyle Carringer.
The Spark Plug and Spoke
awards are made in recogni
tion of exceptional service to
the Jaycees.
Hewlett was cited as the key
man in the local club and
Owens won a plaque as the
"Outstanding Murphyjaycee"
Aldridge and his wife
received a salad bowl set from
Margaret Studios as a token of
their visit to Cherokee County.
Bill Bowman of Chattanooga
received an awardfor his ser
vices to the local group. Bow
man piloted local members to
Manteo during the Murphy
to-Manteo extension project.
In reviewing the club's work
during his presidency, Owens
said he was particularly happy
with the Toys for Tots Cam
paign which provided toys
to 65 underpriveleged chil
dren at Christmas and 'he
cushion sale which raised $500
Forest Office At
Peachtree Sought
Rep. Wiley A. McGlamery of
Hayesville and Sen. Mary Faye
Brumby of Murphy have intro
duced a bill to appropriate
funds for a Forest Service
District Office in the Peach
tree area.
The bill seeks $20,000 for
storage building to serve
Cherokee and Clay counties.
The money would be approp
riated to the Department of
Conservation and Develop
ment.
for the lighting project at the
Murphy Softball Field.
Incoming President James
Helton closed the meeting.
Other incoming officers are
Kenneth Keenum, first vice
president; Glenn Beaver,
second vice-president; Bob
Gold, secretary; Don Decker,
treasurer; Lonnie Britt, state
direr'or; Larry McNabb.Lyle
Carringer, Tony Hembreeand
Gary McKelvey, directors.
All new officers were
installed by Aldridge.
Special guests in addition to
Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge were
Mayor and Mrs Cloe Moore
of Murphy; Max Blakemore,
president of the Murphy
Chamber of Commerce, and
Mrs. Blakemore; Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Bowman of Chatta
nooga; and Jack Swanger of
Waynesville, Jaycee National
Director for western region.
Fire Destroys
Culberson House
The home of Ranzy Cearley
at Culberson was destroyed by
fire Wednesday morning.
A small amount of furni
ture was saved.
Mrs. Cearley was the only
one at home when the fire
broke out. Her husband was at
work at the Culberson post off
ice.
The property was not cover
ed by insurance.
The fire was out of control
by the time the Murphy Volun
teer Fire Department arrived
at the scene.
Rassle Royal
Friday At Gym
The blind will be trying to
beat the blind Friday night
when the Murphy J ayrees pr?
sent a six-man Rassle Royal
at the Old Rock Gym. It begins
at 8:15.
There will be six wrestlers
in the ring, each blind folded,
and every man will be battling
for himself.
The six contestants will be
Inferno, Corsica Joe, Joe
Vegas, Rowdy Red Roberts,
J oe Sky and Bill Sky.
Three more matches will be
held. The contestants will be
paired for three matches as
they are eliminated from the
Rassle Royal.
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