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and Clay County Progress
Volume 78 - Number 36 -? Murphy, North Carolina -- March 28, 1968 - 12 Pages This Week -- Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina
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Cardboard Subs
For Postcard !
The U. S. Mail does get through, even on the cardboard
lid of a C- ration box!
PFC Jimmy Kimsey, serving in Vietnam, worte a
"postcard" to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kimsey
of Murphy, last week. Since the real thing wasn't avail
able, Jimmy tore the lid off the box and made it the ap
proximate size of a postcard.
"Getting along well, expect to move on Wednesday. Chilly
nights, hot days, and plenty of dust. No steril technique.
Only 356 days left. Pardon stationery. All I have," he
wrote.
He wrote the "card" on Monday of last week, it was
postmarked Tuesday and the Kimseys received it Sat
urday!
Increased Employment
Predicted For Rimco
t
Robert W. Lear, president
of Indian Head, Inc., visited
the company's Rimco Manufact
uring Corp. plant in Murphy
last Wednesday.
"One of our pleasant pro
blems is increasing pro
duction," Lear said. He point ?
ed out that the lace made in the
Murphy plant is used in the
highest quality lingerie and said
that current fashion trends
are using more lace than
ever before.
"We are conducting a con
tinuous expansion program" in
Indian Head's Native Laces Di
vision, he said. "Certainly
over the next few months,"
the number of employees at the
Rimco plant will be increased,
according to Lear.
The Murphy plant is pres
ently working five and two
thirds days a week on a three
shift basis.
Lear said, "the Murphy plant
is one of the nicest and best
we have." The plant recently
completed an 8,000 square foot
addition of floor space.
He pointed out that this ex
pansion included the construc
tion of additional office space
that is not now needed and said
this is an indication of the con
fidence he has in the continuous
growth of the Murphy plant.
This was Lear's first visit
to Murphy. He became pre
sident of Indian Head last fall.
"I enjoyed visiting Murphy
on the first day of spring and
1 expect to be a regular visitor
in the future," he said.
Lear was accompanied by Bill
Dreury, Indian Head director
of marketing and planning.
The Oldest And The Newest
Miss Hattie Palmer, the oldest employee of The Cherokee Scout, pushes the button to start
the newest employee, the Goss Community Web Offset Press. The new press was christened
Miss Hattie in recognition of Miss Palmer's service with the paper which began in 1929. She
has done nearly every job with the paper including operating the linotype machine under the
old letter press system and is now the Society Editor. Looking on are, from the left, Publisher,
Jack Owens, Production Manager Jim Morgan and Goss Co. Engineer A1 Taber, Jr. (Photo by
Weaver Carringer)
Andrews Hospital
Grant Approved
Mayor P. B. F erebee of An
drews was advised in a tele
gram last week from Rep. Roy
A. Taylor that a Hill-Burton
grant of $817,669 was given
final approval last Thursday
by the U. S. Public Health
Service for the expansion of
District Memorial Hospital of
Southwestern North Carolina at
Andrews.
The 31-bed hospital has been
Bob Scott
Here Today
Lt. Gov. Bob Scott will bring
his campaign for the Demo
cratic gubernatorial nomination
to Cherokee and Clay Counties
today (Thursday), according to
his western campaign manager
W. Frank Forsyth.
The first stop will be at the
Andrews City Hall where he will
meet friends from 2: 15 to 3:00.
Scott will stop in Marble to
make an appearance at Bryson's
Phillips 66 Stateion.
He is scheduled to arrive in
Murphy at 4;00 for a reception
at the Murphy Power Board
Building.
He plans to meet Clay County
supporters at the courthouse in
Hayesville at 7:30.
He will conclude the day's
schedule with an appearance
at the Cherokee County Court
house in Murphy at 8:00.
Scott is opposed by Dr. Reg
inald Hawkins and J. Melville
Broughton in the May 4 Demo
cratic Primary.
Scott and Broughton are both
the sons of former governors.
Rlmco Managar Peter J. McKecn coodncts an orientation tour
3t ttw Murphy plant tor Robert W. Lear, president of Indian
lead, toe., R loco's parent company. Plctared from tha left
are McKeoo, his administrative assistant, Franklin Baroett;
Lear and BUly Dreury, Indian Head director of marketing and
planning. (Ptioto by Dave Brace)
operating at 144 per cent cap
acity for several months and has
proved to be inadequate because
of increased industrial devel
opment and resulting increase
in the population of Andrews
and the surrounding area.
The facility can no longer
adequately serve the area beca
use of the overcrowded con
ditions which have plagued the
hospital since the increase in
population.
For over a year a hospital
committee has been working
with federal, state, and local
officials toward expansion of
the facility.
The proposed expansion will
cost a total of $1,499,360 and
will be a two story building
to be constructed as soon as
possible. It will be constructed
on a five story foundation so
that three stories may be added
later providing a 146-bed faci
lity.
In addition to the Hill-Burton
funds, the state will provide
$100,000 and Appalachian Re
gional Development Funds will
provide $271,668. This will
leave a balance of a $310,023
to be raised locally.
According to Ferebee, there
is still a balance of $90,000
yet to be raised since the
fund raising efforts were init
iated more than a year ago.
The hospital serves a three
county area, Cherokee, Graham
and Clay and is centrally loc
ated for the eventual develop
ment of a regional medial center
he said.
Ferebee said the need is
critical and local funds must
be found.
School Board
Meets Tonight
The Murphy City School
Board will meet tonight (Thurs
day) at 7:30 in the superin
tendent's office.
Chamber Meet
Monday Night
The Cherokee County Cham
ber of Commerce will bold its
regular monthly meeting Mon
day night at 7:90.
New Press Installed; The Scout
Makes Reproduction Changes
This week's edition of The
Cherokee Scout and Clay Co
unty Progress was printed on
the new three-unit Goss Co
mmunity Web Offset Press.
The new press arrived last
Wednesday afternoon and in
stallation continued through the
weekend.
"We are pleased to begin
operation of the new press a
week ahead of our original sch
edule," Publisher Jack Owens
said.
Installation of the press cli
maxed a major expansion pro
gram that began in February.
Early in February, a new
Nu-Arc graphic arts process
camera and dark room acce
ssories were installed to begin
the expansion.
Later in the month, new Fri
den Just-O-Writer machines
were installed in the typesett
ing department.
During this time, the inter
ior of the building has been
remodeled extensively. The
remodeling has provided proper
space to accomodate the new
equipment and has provided
more efficient working con
ditions.
"Although the major portion
of our expansion of the plant
has been completed, it is only
a beginning of our plans to
continuously upgrade the qua
lity of our product," Owens
said.
The new press will print a
12-page competed paper, an
eight-page competed paper
with two color, and a four
page paper with four colors.
The papers can be printed at
the rate of 14,000 per hour.
Using the old equipment, only
two pages could be printed at
one time and each two-page
"press run" took about one
hour. It was necessary to be
gin printing the paper on
Tuesday afternoon on the old
press. Now, the entire paper
will go to press Wednesday
afternoon and the complete
issue will be run in less than
an hour.
Owens and Production Man
ager Jim Morgan have taken
special courses in Web Offset
Training during the past sev
eral months and Morgan re
ceived a week of on-the-job
training at Laurinburg, N.C.
with a newspaper using a sim
ilar press.
Effective this week, The An
drews Journal, which is printed
by The Scout for Community
Newspapers, Inc., is being pr
inted in a tabloid format. This
is made possible with the new
press.
Sweethearts
Reorganize
The Carolina Sweethearts,
Inc., a local square dance team
recently reorganized. A meet
ing was held last Thursday
and officers were elected.
They are; BillieStalcup, Pre
sident; Wayne Holland, Vice
President; Johnny Foster, Sec
retary-Treasurer; and David
Dotson, Reporter and Publicity
Chairman.
The Sweethearts plan to
attend the Mountain YouthJam
boree in Asheville, N. C. on
April 26 and 27th. They are
last year's winner and will be
defending their championship.
Regular practices are held
every Monday and Thursday
nights. The Sweethearts are
coached by Mrs. W. C. Stalcup
and Don Angel of Murphy.
The Directors of the Sweet
hearts are the parents of the
dancers. They are to be named
at a later date.
Scout Has
Raleigh
Bureau
The Cherokee Scout and Clay
County Progress has added a
Raleigh Bureau to its edit
orial department.
William A. Shires will re
port each week on events in
the capital city in his column,
"Around Capitol Square".
Shirts' column will cover
political hanitiiafs and other
events a t state-wide interest.
WE CALL IT PROGRESS - The Cherokee Scout and Clay County Progress is proud to offer this
multi-color picture of golfing great Doug Sanders to demonstrate the reproduction we offer on our
new Goss Community Web Offset Press. By the summer of 1969, area golfers will be able to play
on their own courses at the Cherokee County Recreation Complex and the Chatuge Shores Complex
in Clay County. The Scout- Progress is proud to be a part of the progress and growth of our two
counties.
The New Look
This issue of the Cherokee Scout and Clay County Progress is different in many respects.
It was produced an our new Goss Community Web Offset Press, the format of the news
paper has undergone some changes and a multi-color photo is printed above.
The format has been changed from eight to nine columns and new type styles are in use.
These changes are designed to improve the appearance of the newspaper, to speed up
production, and to give the advertising and editorial departments more flexibility of re
production.
Dies From Wreck Burns
? - ? .
Lloyd Burton (Jim) Twiggs,
died Saturday nigbt in an Ashe
ville hospital from burns suf
fered in an auto accident two
miles west of Murphy on March
10.
Twiggs was making a left turn
off US 64 when his car was
struck by a car travelling be
hind him. His car began burn
ing on impact and exploded a
few minutes later.
Twiggs' death is the second
traffic fatality of 1968 in Cher
okee County. At this time last
year, there were no deaths on
the county's highways.
A passenger in his car, Ralph
Berrong of Murphy, also suf
ffered burns in the accident.
The driver of the other car,
Prisoner Locks Up
Sheriff, Escapes
A prisoner at the Cherokee
County Jail escaped Wednesday
morning by locking Sheriff
Claude Anderson in the hallway
leading to the stairs to the cell
blocks.
Anderson said he opened the
door to the hallway to take
breakfast to the prisoners when
Bobby Thrasher grabbed him
and shoved him behind the door
and locked it. The Sheriff said
Thrasher injured his arm.
He said Thrasher had been
locked in a cell and somehow
opened that door to get down
to the hallway.
Thrasher had escaped from
a road gang in Georgia and
turned himself in at the jail
on March 11.
He refused extradition back
to Georgia and was being held
pending a hearing on the ex
tradition, Anderson said.
Stickley To Tour Area
Republican gubernatorial
candidate Jack Stlckley will
visit Cherokee, Clay and Gra
ham Counties on Tuesday, April
9.
J. Doyle Burch, Stickley's
campaign manager in Cherokee
County, said the candidate will
arrive at Topton at 11 a.m. and
a motorcade of supporters from
the three counties will meet him
there to accompany him on the
three-county speaking tour.
Stlckley will make his first
speech at 12 noon at the Gra
ham County Courthouse lnRob
blnsvllle.
The motorcade will travel
to Andrews where he will make
a speech at 1 p.m.
A lunch break la nlanned
at CTDeirs la Murphy at I
p. m.
The next speech wOl be at
the Clay County Courthouse In
Hayesville at 3:15. The mot
orcade will return to Murphy
and disband following the Hay
esville appearance.
Stickley, a former president
of Lions International, will meet
with the Murphy Lions Club
at 6:30 at O'DeUs.
He will wrap up the day's
campaigning with a Speech at
the Cherokee County Court
house in Murphy at 7: SO p. m.
Buret said anyone desiring
to join the motorcade is wel
come to do no.
Burch arranged the tour along
with Clay County miMgar Co.
Wayne West and Graham Comfy
Jack Douglas Pope, 16, of Mur
phy, was treated and released
the night of the accident. A pas
senger in the Pope car, Joanne
Hedrick, 16, of Rt. 4, Murphy,
was hospitalized in Chatt
anooga.
Twiggs was a native of Union
County, Ga.
Funeral serviceswereheldat
2 p. m. Monday at Ivy Log
Baptist Church.
The Rev. Billy Styles offici
ated and burial was in the church
cemetery.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Claudine Haney Twiggs; two
daughters, Kimberly of the
home and Miss Lisa Denise
Twiggs of Murphy; a son, Ri
chard Dale Twiggs of Murphy;
two step-daughters, Connie and
Sandy Byers, and a step -son
Danny Byers of the home; a
sister, Mrs. ThelmaMcConneU
of Ackworth, Ga.; the father,
Jewell Twiggs of Blair svillt;
the mother, Mrs Leila Burctt
Morgan of Marietta, Ga.; three
brothers, Randall ofBlairsvilte
and Frank and Johnny Twiggs,
of Akron, Ohio.
Pallbearers were Lake Wea
ver, Leon Owenby, Merlin Ram
sey, Ray Elliott, Wayne Beaver
Reginald Bryson and Rex Lad
ford.
Townson Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
Strawberry
Deadline
Friday Is the la*
County Agwts office to
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