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Cherokee County's Best Seller' Volume 78 ? Number 25 AUipfcr, Hertk Carolina January 1 1, 1968 Scout and Clay County Progress 10 Poflcs This H?k AT MURPHY NflRTM CAAOLIMA Sanford Says Chances Off Beating Ervin Look Better All The Time RALEIGH- -Former gover nor Terry Sanford said Friday his chances of defeating Sen. Sam J. Ervin, Jr. in the May 4 Democratic Primary " are looking better all the time," but added he will not reach a decision on running "for the next couple of weeks." During a luncheon at the Carolina Hotel Sanford named six persons to help him decide whether Ervin can be replaced "at this time." The six persons are from the camps of the three major candidates for governor in 1964. They are Mrs. Fred Y. Campbell of Waynesville, Clint Newton of Shelby, Archie Taylor of Lillington, Tom Covington of Richmond College, Tom Gilmore of Guilford County and Sonny McLawhorn of East Carolina University. Sanford said there are no "hard and fast" factions of the Democratic Party in North Carolina and added that each campaign is a "new ball game." 'A key consideration in the former governor's decision to run for the Senate will be the results of a poll which he ex pects to have in a week or 10 days. Sanford said he had told several thousand North Carolinians in a letter sent out last week why he would like to be in the U. S. Senate and asked their advice on whether he should run. The luncheon Friday, he said, was an attempt to draw together people who voted for each of the candidates in the 1964 election, "along with some of the young people." Mrs. Campbell, who served on the Board of Conservation and Development during San ford's term as governor, supported Governor Dan K. Moore in 1964. Newton, a former member of the State Highway Commis sion, backed L. Richardson Preyer in the 1964 primary. Taylor was active in the campaign of Judge 1. Beverley Lake. Gilmore is a former state president of Young Demo cratic Clubs. Low Rate On Airmail Packages To Overseas Servicemen Offered Packages up to 30 pounds for American military per sonnel served by Army and Fleet Post Offices overseas now can be sent by air trans portation at special low rates. Postmaster Joe Ray pointed out today. "Area residents using this new airlift service will get much faster delivery on par cels to military personnel overseas," Ray said. He said the airlift is available on a space-available basis upon payment of the domes tic parcel post surface rate plus a flat $1 fee. Packages weighing up to 30 pounds and not more than 60 inches in combined length and girth qualify "for the new special airlift rate-, Ray said. Postal patrons can get the airlift service on packages mailed to all military per sonnel at APO and FPO. ad dresses overseas, and in Al aska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Ray noted that the new airlift also applies to parcels mailed back to the States by service- j men from these military post offices. Parcels on which the JX fee is paid get air transpor tation all the way--from here to the port of embarkation, ar.d Farmers To Receive Report Of Payments Farmers will benefitfrom a. new reporting service which has been inaugurated by ASCS, Eton Taylor Chairman of the ASC County Committee announced today. A report of payments made to each farmer Under ACP, Feed Grain and other direct payment programs during 1967 will be mailed to the farmer during the latter part ( of January. This report is expected to be helpful in pre paring individual income tax returns. The same informa tion must also be furnished to the Internal Revenue Ser vice in accordance with a requirement of law. If an error is discovered, the nearest ASCS county office should be contacted to have the mistake corrected. Bloodmobile To Be Here The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at the Murphy Power Board Building next Wednes day from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Plant Named For Edgar Johnson A water treatment plant for the city of Raleigh has been named in honor of Edgar M. Johnson, a native of the Hot house sectior of Cherokee CciTiy. Johnson reared ?wi 1>jc sntber 30, 1966 after ser ving as Director oi the Public Utilities Department in Ra) eigfc since 1941. He n?d bten employed by the city since 1938. He is the son of the late Tom and Rosa Johnson of the Hothouse Community. Johnson attended elemen tary school in Cherokee County and graduated from Morganton, Ga. High School. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Eng ineering at the University of North Carolina in 1926. He also did some post graduate work specializing in sanitary engineering at UNC. He is married to the for mer Miss Annie Lee Winston of Franklinton, N. C. They have three children and seven grandchildren. from there to the overseas base. Postal patrons formerly had to pay air parcel post rates to get similar service, Ray said. He said that in many in stances the new airlift rates are considerably below com parable air parcel post charges. He cited these ex amples: A mother here sending a 15- pound package to her son in Vietnam pays $4.30 for the new airlift service. The air parcel post rate for the same package is $12.08. An eight-pound package going irom here to I'ra.tkfort, Germany, costs $2.30 under the airlift service. The air parcel rate is $4.70. Ray pointed out, however, that it is not always to the mailer's advantage to use the airlift service. On some light pacakges air parcel post rates may be lower than the air lift charges. "Postal patrons should check with the Post Office for information on the best way to mail parcels to service men overseas," Ray emphas ized. The new airlift service went into effect January 7. It was authorized under the postal rate bill signed into law Dec ember 16 by President John son. Postmaster Ray explained that the regular postage on parcels mailed to servicemen overseas is based on the dis tance the package is hauled within the U. S. Until January 7, airlift for parcels to servicemen over seas was restricted to pack ages weighing up to five pounds. Upon payment of the regular parcel post rates, these packages get sur face transportation to the port of embarkation and are air lifted from there to the over seas posts on a space available basis. There is no charge for this partial airlift and overseas parcels weighing up to five pounds will continue to re ceive this service, Ray said. Fender benders like these were common on the area's slick roads Tuesday. The car of Fred Rogers of Andrews was heavily damaged near T opt on on US 19 when it was struck by a truck. According to Patrolman E. N. Hooper .Rogers' car skidded on the icy road and was stopped across the road as the oncoming truck topped a hill and could not see the car was driviqg the truck. No one was injured, ue Morrow) AT HOME. Lieutenant Governor Bob Scott tries to keep his weekends free of business and] campaigning for Governor. He tries to save week-ends for his family. Shown here and catching up on events are, in the usual order, Mary, 11, Jan, 4, Susan, 10, Mrs. Scott, Meg, 11 (she and Mary are twins), Bob Scott, and W. Kerr Scott, 9 and named for his grandfather, the "Squire of Haw River." Bob Scott Announces Candididacy For Governor RALEIGH, Jan. 10 ? Lieut enant Governor Robert W. (Bob) Scott today announced his candidacy for Governor of North Carolina. Scott's formal announce ment was made here this morning in the Sir Walter Hotel's Virginia Dare Ball room. His headquarters are ori the hotel's third floor. A press conference followed his announcement. Scott's announcement wa brief. He said he was aware of the "awesome responsibil ity" of a Governor. Rather than project a plat form, he said he would "spell out", as his campaign progresses, his view? on law j and order, highways, highway ' safety, education and other ! subjects in which North Car I olinians are concerned. Close by as he spoke were his wife, Jessie Rae, and their five children. His mother, Mrs. W. Kerr Scott, and his brother, Osborne Scott, also were present. Others attending included members of the General As | sembly who had served j with the Lieutenant Governor in two legislative sessions, | 196o and lrf6~, members of various organizations to which | Scott belongs, Democratic of ' ficials from hi; native Ala j matice County, and people I who had been active in the | campaigns of his fattier, tfc Council On Aging Makes Local Grant I RALEIGH, C-- A grant of $29,dP'2 hai beui approved to enrich the lives of the older citizens of Cherolee, Clay, Graham, and Swain Counties. . I he grant, made by the Governor's Coordinating Council on Agiig, goes to j Four Square Community | Action, Inc., in Andrew? which i directs tin- program lor older citizens* in flie lour counties, 't duplicates a grant of the same si^e in^deby the Council to this group last year. "The Four Square people have done a remarkable job with the money given them last year," according to Eddie Brown, Executive Director, who announced the new grant. " 1 hey have gone out into all the communities in that area and organized senior citizen clubs." "Nine months ago when the first grant was made there | were ne - ..'t. clubs. Now there arc 29, with the larger' one liavm;; a member -hip of ISO. In ail the club.- there is now a membership ol' 1700, out of a senior citizen population in the four counties of about 3500. Under the leadership of Don Gregory, senior citizens director of Four Square, the clubs have set up arts and crafts activities that "ire de signed to bring increased in come to tlie individual menihers. "The people have gone out to various industries in the. area," according to Brown, "and gathered scraps of yarn, cloth, and wood. From these they make pot-holders, magazine racks, stools, hand bags, and quilts. Then once a week they hold sales of their handiwork." Edi tori al We Shall Overcome Udall, Perhaps! We shall overcome, perhaps; At least there is reason to believe that Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall might be forced to bark down on his unreasonable veto of the 1 rans mountain Roau from Bryson City to Townsend, Tenn. An Associated Press story out of Washington a few days ago carried an account ot Stew being overridden in a case in California. Idall joined with many conservation leaders to bottle up the development of a $35 million recreational complex ! 'at Mineral King, Calif. The opposition was based on the grounds that this project would destroy natural beauty resources and create problems of land erosion and stream pollution, AH reported. Sound familiar? Anyway, Secretary of Agriculture Or ville Freeman said steps would be taken to preserve esthetic values and to prevent erosion and stream pollution. It seems to us that if these precautions can be taken in the California project, which includes the Sequoia National For est, similar steps can be assured hejfe to protect the natural beauty of our Great Smokies a {k at the same time give us the road we need and the rtf/the Federal government owes the people of Swain County, i i The story of the California / Iject is heartening toll s because it indicates that UdalB Sword is not necessarily law. J Ml , We hope the people of westeimNorth Carolina will toeep this ill mind and keep fighting fcMthe Transmountain RAad. We owe ourselves nothing lesjJfcan a total effort to ovfer ... - .... HI I. . . come. late Governor and U. S. Sen ator W. Kerr Scott. Also attending were many who had been involved in Scott's campaign four years ago when he led the ticket for contested offices. Scott, 33, is making his second state-wide political campaign. He was front runner in the two primaries and the general election in 1964, and got 315,994 votes. Scott is a dairy farmer and has other business interests. He is owner and general manager of Melville Farms, | a 2,000-acre dairy operation in Alamance County, Haw Riv er Si. i. He is a director of the North State Bank, of Haw River, and is president of Broadcasting Services of i North Carolina, which oper ates a radio station in Gran ite Falls. Scott was Master of the North Carolina State Grange, i 1961-63, and he and his wife were the National Grange i "Young Coi:ple of the Year" ! i'i l,,,,'. He was president of the North Carolina Society of Farm Managers and Rural j Appraisers in 1957, and is a member of the North Car olina Farm Bureau Fed eration. Scott is a member of the North Carolina State Board of Education and has been '.?('.airman of Ctiiu-dl-'orccsfor I education in North Carolina. He was chairman of the parks committee. State Board of Conservation and Develop ment, 1961-64, and has been a member of the Kerr Res ervoir Development Com mission and tile North j Carolina Sea.-here Commis ion. During the Korean Vv'ar he was an enlisted man in the Counter Intelligence Corps and served mostly in Japan. He is a member of Haw fields Presbyterian Church, which was established some 200 years ago. He was a deacon in 1959-63 and has been an elder since 1963. Scott attended Hawfields Grade School, Alexan der Wilson School, where he played football and basket ball, Duke University, and North Carolina State University, from which he was graduated in 1952. He is a life-long Democrat. He has been a precinct chair man, vice chairman for Ala mance County, and member of the State Sol ici tonal District Executive Committee. Highlands Paper Sale Announced The Highlander of Highlands, N. C. has been purchased by The Franklin Press, Inc., effective Jan. 1, 1968. The announcement was made jointly by Mrs. Martha M. Goode, former owner of the Macon County weekly, and Jack T. Owens of Murphy, President of Franklin Press, Inc. Mrs. Goode will continue to serve as editor and general manager of the newspaper. No change in policy or staff is planned. Owens has been named publisher. The Franklin Press, Inc. also publishes The Franklin Press of Franklin and The Graham Star of Robbing vtlle. ? Appalachian Road Bids To Be Opened Jan. 23 Highway Commissioner W. Curtis Russ said last Wednesday bids will be re ceived until January 23 on the first 12 miles of construction of the Appa lachian Development Highway from the Tennessee line east in Cherokee County. The new highway will gener ally follow the path of US 64. Russ said two lanes will be added to the present road in some places while in others four new lanes will be built. The bids will be opened by the State Highway Com mission on January 23 in Raleigh. The Commission, after reviewing the bids, will award contracts for the work on February 2. The work is to be divided into six mile sections. A third six mile stretch will be put under contract later to com plete the road from the state line to Murphy. Russ said the Commission is prepared to bigin work on all Appalachian Development Highways in North Carolina as soon as Federal lunds for each project are made avail able. "As fast as they release the money, we're ready to pat it to work," he said. Russ said expenditures for highways in Cherokee County set a record during the past 30 months. An audited report showed money spent or appropriated for Cherokee County totaled $3,259,000 Airing the period. In the past six months, some $419,000 has been ap propriated for specific pro jects in the county. The cost of the Ap palachian highway is not included in the figures, Russ said. He added that several other major projects are planned for Cherokee County and engineering is being pushed on them now. The State Highway Com mission put a record total of $140 million of work under contract across the state in 1967. 2 Killed Enroute To Visit Relative In Andrews Hospital The husband and son of a former Robbinsville woman were killed Monday in a one car accident in Georgia when the family was enroute to Andrews to visit the woman's father who is seriously ill at District Memorial Hospital. The victims were Paul Prater, 31, and three-year old JoscJ. Wa; ne Prater. Mrs. Jeanette Trull Pra ter is reported in critical condition at a Houston County, Ga., hospital and her six-year-old daughter, Paulette, is hospitalized in serious condition. The family had been to Rob- I binsville for the Christmas holidays ar.r! had returned to ttieir home in West Palm Beach, Fla. They received word that Mrs. Prater's fa ther, Vincent Trull, was in serious condition and had set out for Andrews to visit him. The accident occurred one mile north of Perry, Ga., on Interstate 75. A spokesman for the Geor gia Highway Patrol at Macon said it was believed a tire blew out on the car causing it to cross the median and crash. Prater was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. Joseph Wayne died after being admitted to a hospital in Macon. Prater was employed as a foreman at Boynton Landscape and Nursery at West Palm 3each. Local Needs Demand Improved Government Raleigh --"For almost a centur, we have operated local government under the plan ex tablished bj the 1863 Consti tution. Such a plan worked well until a few years ago, but it is so obsolete toda) that a crisis will exist withinafew years," says a member of the General Assembly. Rep. Sam Johnson made this observation as a member of the Loc I Government Stud) Com ? mission. The Commission was established by the 1967 General Assembly in recog nition of the need to take a broad look at the role and function of the county government in North Carolina. The Commission is well-balanced in membership from throughout the state. Johnson from Wake and Senator Jack White from Cleveland are co-chairmen. Rep. Julian Fer.ner of Nash is secretary. Other members are: M. C. Benton, Jr., Mayor of Winston-Salem, Sen. Thomas R. Bryan, Sr. of Wilkes, Rep. Robert Z. Falls of Cleveland, Rep. Herschel S. Harkins of Buncombe, Sen. J. J. Harrington of Bertie, Frank Holding of Johnson, Rep. Roberts H. Jernigan, Jr. of Hertford, Forrest Lockey of Mo^re, Dr. Roberts. Rankin of Durham, Sen. LeRoy G. Simmons of Duplin, Rep. James R. Sugg of Craven, and J. Weldon Weir of Buncombe. For some three months, the Commission has studied the history of local government, and during 1968 it will divide its work into two areas. Short -ranged object! veo will be new rules for the legislature to follow in ex tabllshing more uniform policy regarding local government problems and constitutional amendments to give greater authority for ? local government units to work together. Long-ranged objectives in clude the development of a new type of local government unit to serve in urban areas and a gradual rewriting of statutes affecting cities and counties. "The Commission needs to continue for several years to help shape policy in die State ana to make bold advances in the concept of service with an economical use of the tax dollar. This is a non-partisan effort that should cut across political groups, and special feelings of any local group, to attain a united effort at the grass roots level," stated Johnson. "We are almost ready to confront problems face to face in the local com munity and strongly urge local leaders to contribute to this debate." Sudderth Gets I Purple Heart PFC Kenneth A. Sudderth, 20, son of Mr. and Mr*. Ralph Sudderth of Rt. 1, Murphy, has received the Purple Heart for wound* received In mili tary operation! in Vietnam. Sudderth ?n wounded December 11 when ha was hit In the neck by flying scrap metal, according to his father. He was returned to duty after receiving treatment for his wound. Sudderth Is serving with tha 54th Artillery Group and has been In Vietnam mince last spring.
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