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TheCHERdKEE ' Cherokee County's Best Seller' Scout and Clay County Progress Volume 78 - Number 30 Meiphy, Nerlh Ceteline February 15, 1968 8 Pofes nit Week AT ( Three Held Without Bond On Arson Charges ^ I Letters To [The Editor I Dear Editor: r I would lite to point out to t the people of Murphy the I , valuable services that the Sisters of Providence have rendered in our town. They ^ have been good enough to fur I nish the physicians some ex W cellent equipment to work with. The operating and de > livery room equipment will compare very favorably with any other small hospital In the state. The sisters have furnished ? some very valuable para medical personnel that is not duplicated in any other small hospital that I am familiar with. They have a registered | medical librarian, operating room supervisor, nurse anes thetist, x-ray and laboratory I technician, and dietician. It | would be impossible to get squally qualified personnel to come to a small town. All of the above has been furnished without one cent of state, fed eral, town, or county money. I We are all greatly aware i of the need for a new hos pital building, and I'm sure the town is going to mate a tremendous effort to obtain it. The MurphyHospital Board has done some excellent work. Sincerely, Helen Wells, M. D. (Editor's note: The Scout is aware of the valuable ser vices the Sisters of Provi dence render to the Murphy area.- The community should I be grateful for their presence here. However, we shall con tinue to maintain that more | and better medical facilities are a vital necessity in Mur Phy.) Dear Edtor: Since <*? have been sub jected to calk regarding Cherokee County's Hospicals by people who are novices in this field, a few cold faccs i ? mighc lighc the darlja bit. | Cherokee is a small, poor I county vich three hospitals I all of which have a forty f ? percent empty beds for any year and all three bosqitals. J have deficits every year. How 1 would a so called dry county like ours pay the deficit on a publicily owned hospital, 1 much less building a facility that would be licensed? Many counties in the state have county owned hospitals and our neighboring county of Haywood is a fair example and it requires eighteen per cent of their budget just to pay the deficit of Haywood County Hospital. Wake Co unty, a large wealthy county, pays almost one million dollars annually to keep th eir county hospital open. All publicly owned hospi tals are cursed with bad man agement by reason of poli tics which insures that no good business methods are used in their operation. If those tenderfoots who want five thousand dollars to just make a survey would come forward with this- money and pay the hospitals for some of this charity they all bear and the county has no funds for it and forces the three hospitals to do thousands of dollars for char ity or let them die in the st reet and when you save their lives some of them will not pay the hospital one cent. Cherokee is much better eq uiped than most small counties. This county needs doctors, not buildings. There are three nice hospitals with modem laboratories, X Rays, and other adequate equipment in this county. F. V. Taylor Radio Club To Be Organized A meeting will be held to night (Thursday) at 7:30 at the studios of Radio Sutton WKRK to organize an ame tuer radio club. All interested persons are invited to attend. Adult Sewing Class Planned k adult sewing class will at Murphy High School next Thursday night. Classes will be held from 7:30 to MO. MURPHY VOLUNTEER FIREMEN spent seven hours battling a series of downtown fires early Tuesday morning in sub freezing temperatures. In this photo, the firemen play a stream of water on an abandoned house behind City Barber Shop right). The flames had spread to the utility pole at the left and the power lines shorted out as .this photo was made. (Photo by Jack Owens) Mayor Proclaims History Month WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States by Joint Resolution designated February as American History Month; and WHEREAS, 1 he North Carolina Legislature of February 1963 passed Resolution #11 designating February as Am erican History Month; and WHEREAS, law or government alone could never bind 200,000,000 Americans together as a -Nation; this is the result of a rich heritage, common convictions, and the fraternity of brave men and women who carved a great nation out of the wilderness; and Whereas, .it is through study and appreciation of our American Heritage that we can preserve our freedom and independence for future generations; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Cloe Moore as Mayor of the Town of Murphy State of North Carolina do hereby pro claim the month of February 1968 as AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH and do call upon all our citizens in the Town of Mur phy to observe American History Month with appropriate ceremonies and related activities in our schools, and in our civic, fraternal and patriotic organizations, arid in all suitable places. Cloe Moore Mayor Grant Approved For Marble Water System U. S. Rep. Roy A. Taylor has announced that federal funds totaling $201,000 are being made available to help Marble , North Carolina, build a new water system. A grant of $100,500 is being provided by the Economic De velopment Administration and a loan of $100,500 has been approved by the Farmers Home Administration. In their application, Marble ' officials stated that inadequate water supply and fire pro tection have hampered efforts to attract job-generating in Lions' Bear I Dinner Sunday The annual "Mike Brown" Bear Dinner and Mid-winter Cabinet meeting of District 31-A Lions Club will be held Sunday at the Robbinsville School Cafeteria. Dinner will be served at 1 p.m. The first "Mike Brown" Bear Dinner was held in Phil lips Restaurant in 1952 with 14 Lions present. Congress man Roy A. Taylor was Dist rict Governor at that time. Since that date the dinner has become an annual event. The dinner is named for Lion Mike Brown who was the host at the first dinner and arranged for the serving of bear meat. Lion Brown ia a charter member of the Rob binsville Lions Club, which Upt month celebrated its 30th dustries to the area. Taylor said EOA approved the project because Cherokee County has organized and planned for economic devel opment. Rural Heart Week Planned Rural Heart Week will be observed February 19-25, ac cording to Mrs. Miriam Moore, Heart Fund Chairman for the western portion of Cherokee County. The week will end with Heart Sunday on the 25t!*. Soliciting for the Heart Fund will be under the direction of the following community chairmen during the week: Letitia-Suit-Harry Bagley, Wehutty-Rev. Black, Violet, Mrs. Lottie Murphy, Hiwas see Dam-Mrs. Earl J. Watts, Unaka- Mrs. Alice Morley, Ebenezer-Mrs. Grace Hall, Grape Creek-Betty Haigler, Texanna-Mrs. Katherine Sud derth, Grandview, Mrs. Eu gene Fair, Pleasant Valley Mrs. Harry Moore and Mrs. John Gill, Bell view-Mrs. Fr ank H. Hughes, Ranger -Cul berson -Charles L. Forrister, Marrinc Creek- Br^sstown, Mrs. Don Hughes, and Peach tree Girl Scouts will be work ing on balloon and tag days. February 23-24 with Mrs. R. V. Dockery as chairman. Boy Scouts are scheduled to solicit in Murphy on Heart Sunday. Coffee days will be this F riday and Saturday. Alice Brady Signs Recording Contract Mary Alice Brady of Rt. 1, Andrews signed a recording and songwriting contract with Atco Records and Atco Musie of Cincinnati last Thursday. The contract was negotiated by Eugene Ledford of Marble. Her first record, under the name Alice Brady, is sche duled for release on April 10. The songs, which she wrote, are "Soldier Boy" and "My Lord Cares For Me". She is backed on the re cord by the Anderson Parker Singers of the Andrews-Top ton area. "I've been waiting 11 years to get a recording conyract," she said, "I've been dreaming for 11 years." She plays the organ and has been writing gospel songs since she was 15 years old. Mary Alice lives intheNan tahala section with her hus band, Terrell, and three child ren, Rickey, Jimmy and Maria. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rube Guffey of Top ton. Medicare Enrollment Period Ends April 1 All older people in West ern North Carolina who are now covered only by the hos pital insurance part of Medi care are reminded by James E. Robertson, A sheville social security district manager, that they have just a few weeks left to sign up for the voluntary medical insurance plan. "Almost 18 million peop le-^ percent of those over 65- -have already enrolled for the 'doctor bill insurance' to supplement their basic hosp ital insurance coverage under Medicare," Robertson state. "And during its first 18 mo nths this program helped pay over |28 million medical bills, totaling nearly $1.3 MUM.* Robertson noted, however, that about 1.6 million people 65 and over missed out on their firat chance to sign up for this supplementary med ical Insurance. He stated that the Social $?curity Ad ministration has mailed the necessary enrollment forms "to *U who have the basic hospital Insurance protection but have never enrolled for the voluntary ""doctor bill In surance* plan. However, no enrollment card forms < resses are unknown to the Social Security Adminis tration. "Practically everyone now over 65 is eligible for the voluntary medical in surance," he emphasized? "whether or not he or she has ever worked under Social Security, and whether retiree or still working." He urged persons 65 and over who are not signed up for this doc tor bill insurance part of Medicare to "get in touch with your Social Security Of fice if you do not receive an enrollment card by mail in the next few day*." Robertson listed "eight im portant reasons" why older people who don't have this supplementary Medicare pro tection "shouid seriously con sider enrolling right awav, and safely before April 1 when the enrollment period ends": 1. This it an excellent Insurance buy at the $4 pre mium rate, which is only half of the cost of the protection. TheGovernment pays the other half. 2. It may not be possible to get this basic coverage any other way. Blue Cross Slue Shield and the comm ercial companies have, for the meat part, rewritten their po liclto (or p?opie 63 and ovor the law make it easier to collect medical insurance be nefits. 4. There are also a num ber of new improvements in medical insurance benefits? for example, the payment of full resonable charges for X-ray or laboratory services at home or elsewhere. 5. The recently enacted increase in social security benefits will in most cases be more than enough to cover the beneficiary's half of the premium, and increase his monthly checks. 6. Beginning in April, cov ered outpatient hospital bene fits will be paid only under the medical Insurance part of Medicare. So, to have outpatient hospital coverage the older person must be sign ed up for this supplemental-)' program. 7. The protection will cost more later on. The premium will b* 10 percent higher for each year that has" passed since the older person's first opportunity to enroll. 8. People over 65 who are still not signed up medical 1 will no pro tec tlon However, a Fire Damage Heavy In Downtown Area Three men were charged with arson Tuesday morning in connection with a series of fires that broke out In down town Murphy just before mid night Monday. Chief of Police Pete Stal cup identified the trio as St eve Killian, Bobby Dockery and Don Wolfe. He said they were arrest ed about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday in downtown Murphy by mem bers of the Murphy Police Department. The three will be held with out bond at the Cherokee Co unty Jail until a hearing is held before the District Court Judge. Murphy Volunteer Firemen battled the fires in sub-freez ing temperatures until about 7 a.m. Tuesday. The flames, leaping high into the air, were visable for miles around the town. The fires Monday night were far more damaging than a sim ilar series of blazes that broke out last April 3. One of the places destroyed Monday night, a house owned by Hadley Dickey, was in volved in last year's fires. Stalcup said the fire Monday was set in the same place in the house as the earlier fire. The Dickey House blaze sp read to the body shopofBurch Motors. The Fabric Shop and apart ments overhead were destroyed on Tennessee St. The Merle Norman Cosmetic Studio, next to the Fabric Shop, suffered heavy water damage but the fixtures were removed. An abondoned house behind the Tennessee St. buildings was destroyed along with a car Sialcup said belonged to Dal Reece. It was parked be hind the Fabric Shop. The rear of Hughes Elec tric was damaged in the fire. Sparks from the major bla zes set fire to the roof of a house owned by Addie Mae Cook on Hickory ST. There was heavy water damage to an upstairs apartment in the house. The eary firefighters were called out again around 9 a.m. Tuesday when a tree caught fire, apparently from sparks that smouldered all night. No estimate of damage was available. School Improvements Given Green Light John Jordan, Superintendent of Murphy City Schools ann ounced that he had received word last Thursday, from Dr. Charles F. Carroll, State Superintendent of Public In struction, that the long-range plans of school improvement and construction, have been approved by the State Board of Education. Prior to the State Board's approval, it was necessary for these long-range plans to be presented to a otate Review Panel. Jordan, Ben Palmer, Chairman of Murphy City Bo ard of Education: Lloyd Hen Jrix, Cherokee County Super intendent of Schools , and Fred Rogers, Andrews City School Superintendent, ap peared before this Panel on J anuary 26, and presented the following long-range plans of organization of schools and the plan of expenditure of school building funds: 1. All three boards of education have agreed tomerge into one single board of ed ucation by July 1, 1969. The Study Commission along with the State Department of Pub lic Instruction will be asked for assistance with this pro cedure. 2. Any move toward con solidation of high schools will be projected as business of the merged board. 3. An increase in the level of financial support for cur rent expense and capital out lay will be requested of the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners. 4. Classrooms to be built immediately in the Murphy Area. It is proposed that these classrooms be built on the present high school site, moving the 7th. and 8th. grades from the elementary school site to this new addition, thus relieving the congestion on the elementary campus. Murphy Schools will operate on the 6-6 plan. 5. Phase out the old 1910 Dome Building as soon as possible. 6. Classrooms to be built immediately at the Andrews High School Site. This wo uld move the 7th. and 8th. grades into this new addition, thus relieveing some of the congestion in the old elemen tary building. Andrews City Schools would operate on the 6-6 plan. 7. Renovation of the ele mentary school in the Martins Creek Area. 8. Move the Office of Co unty Superintendent erf Schools out of the Court House as soon as possible and prac tical. This to be done with the merger of the one school board. Jordan states that these re commendations and long range plans were approved by both the State Review Panel and by the State Board of Ed ucation. At present all three school boards are in the process of hiring architects and drawing plans for a building program. The Murphy City Board of Education met last Thursday, and employed the architect ural firm of Foy and Lee of Waynesville to begin imm ediately on plans for the new classrooms. Eric Townson, husband of the former Miss Ida Brumby and grandson of W. D. Townson, is an Asso ciate with this firm. Jordan states that it will be some time before these plans can be worked outand approved by the State Depart ment, bids to be advertised and let and the actual con struction to commence, but he feels that these classrooms should be completed by the fall of this year. Jordan says that educational opportunities for all children in Cherokee County are de pendent upon the quality of the educational program to be offered and the facilities available. Only through these * * * Bulletin One of the three men charged with arson in Mon day night's fires in Murphy escaped from the Cherokee County Jail either lateTues day night or early Wednesday morning. Sheriff Claude Anderson said Donald Wolfe sawed through the door on the third floor of the jail leading to the catwalk to the courtroom. He gained freedom by break ing the glass in the door and crawling into the court room. Anderson said he found a few pieces of hacksaw blades at the door. * * * long-range planning by all the people that the children in Murphy, Andrews, and Cherokee County Schools can be assured an adequate ed ucation he added. A study commission was appointed and is responsible for the long-range plans. It consists of Jordan, John Gill, and J. H. Duncan, represent ing the Murphy School Board; Rogers, Dr. F. E. Blalock and Fred Lyles, represent ing the Andrews School Bo ard; Hendrix, Noah Hembree, and Robert Q. Stiles, repre senting the Cherokee County Board; and Ray Sims, and Andrew Barton, representing the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners. 9 Sent For Induction Nine men were forwarded for induction into the Armed F orces Monday by the Chero kee County DraftBoard. They are Randolph Bobby Cunningham, Dale Hoyt Bry ant, Gary Clifford Dockery, Ray Earl Palmer, Robert Wal ter Hartness, Monty Kit Nel son, James Randall Adams, Steve Randall Allen and Otis Eugene Postell. Employees of Levi Strauss in Murphy were recognised . without ? disabling injury. . AtoUl of 487,964 man-Sour* are Horaca Cannon, plant manafor ; Paul Burfceen, Loes Eunice Ledford, and David Gribble. assistant Walker, Margie Colter, Louise Annette Thomas for i
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