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MU arhi L IjidAdJl' ML'arfc* a ??? 12 ~ The Cherokee Scout jo< Pages Per uPy and Clay County Progress Volume 78 - Number 38 Murphy, North Carolina ? April TI, 1968 Second CI ass Po stage Pai d At Murph y North Carolina " He Is Risen " THURSDAY 6 p.m.- The Lord's Supper at St. Williams Catholic Chapel j 7 p. m. - St. Williams Parish Dinner. 7:30 p.m. - Holy Communion at Murphy Presbyterian Church for Presbyterians and Methodists. 7:30 p. m. - Maundy Thursday Service at Good Shepherd Church, Hayesville. FRIDAY 12:05 - Community Good Friday Service at First Methodist Church. 7:30 p. m. -Memorial In Honor of Death of Christ at St. Williams Catholic Chapel. 7:30 p. m. - Good Friday Services at The Church of the Messiah. SATURDAY 8:00 - Easter Vigil at St. Williams Catholic Chapel SUNDAY Regular worship services at all churches. Jack Christopher Dies In Knoxville Jack Christopher John E. (Jack) Christopher, 47-year-old vice president and sales manager of the Emmett Vaughn Lumber Co., a lumber brokerage Arm in Knoxville, died Saturday in a Knoxvllle hospital. Christopher was a native of Murphy, a graduate of Murphy High School and attended Bre vard College In Brevard, N.C. He was associated with his father In the lumber business prior to 1953 In Murphy. After , moving to Knoxvllle, he became associated with Vestal Lumber Co. aad then the Emmett Vaughn L Lumber Co. in 1957. He had worked as usual Fri day. Friends said he had not been feeling completely well lately and planned to see adoc tor Saturday morning before going to the office. A doctor told the family death was due to a heart attack. After becoming ill, he was taken to Presbyterian Hospital where he died near noon. Christopher started with the Vaughn Co. as a salesman and rose to become vice-president and sales manager. He was a member of the Appalachian Lumbermen's Club and a mem ber of the Bearden Methodist Church. He was also a World War II veteran having served with the U. S. Coast Guard for four years. He was the old est son of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Christopher of Mur phy. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Freddie W. Christopher; a daughter, Jan; a son, Van, of the home; two brothers, Kenneth Christopher of Mansfield, Wise., and Harry of Atlanta,Ga. and one sister, Mrs. L. D. "Red" Schuyler of Murphy. Services for "Jack" were held Monday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. at the chapel of the Mann Mortuary in Knoxvllle with graveside rites at the Green wood Cemetery, conducted by the Rev. Henry Atkins, former pastor of the Bearden Metho dist Church, now retired, and the Rev. William "BUI" Car ter, present pastor of the Bear den Methodist Church. Fast Results! Paul Lance of Rt. 2, Murphy proved this week that classified ads in The Cherokee Scout get results fast. We ran an ad last week offering to buy silver dollars and silver certificates. Monday morning. Lance came in with 128 silver certificates. He operates Lance's Service Station on the Blairs ville Highway and sal4 he had 240 silver certificates but when he ran short of one dollar bills, he had to use some to make change for his customers. Civitans Celebrate 18th Ann i versa ry, Hear Sen. Brumby The Murphy Civitan Club ob served its 18th anniversary last Tuesday night. Sen. Mary Fay e Brumby was the guest speaker for the occasion. Four charter members of the club made brief talks. All four are past presidents. They are Dr. W. R. Gossett, Dr. A. J. Headrick, John Jordan and Ben Palmer. Jim Lewis, the club's newest member, was installed. A birthday cake was served to celebrate the event. The Civitans were charted in April, 1950 with 28 members. Sen. Brumby, a member of the Council On Mental Retarda tion, described services now available to Cherokee County residents. They Include the diagnostic clinic at Western Carolina University, two special education classes and speech therapy and bearing classes. She said Carey Fendley, State Coordinator for Western North Carolina, has suggested that workshops be tied in with pub lic school programs that pro vide pre-vocational, vocational and hand skill training to serve . Cherokee, Clay and Graham Counties. Fendley has also suggested a j regional boarding residence for some graduates of workshops under supervision and emer gency care of the handicapped. Sen. Brumby added that there is a great need for a teacher for a trainable class of retarded children In the area. She told the group Bobby Burch of Hayesville reports etforts are underway to pro vide a summer day camp for the three county area. Burch is associated with the State of Franklin Health Council. "With early and proper train ing, these children may turn out to be normal or even brilliant people," Sen. Brumby said. She is a member of the Edu cational and Vocational Train ing Committee of the Council on Mental Retardation Trying To Reach The Unreachables By Dave If you want to react: (tie un reachables ui Cherokee Count) you've got to set off the main highways. Nide Uie backroads awhile and you'll find some conditions that are almost un bel lev able. That's what Don Gregory and David Shields of Four Square Community Action said this week. Gregory is director of Four Square's Community Developer Program for Cherokee, Clay, Graham and Swam Counties. Shields is Community Devel- i oper for Cherokee County. The Community Developer works in cooperation with the welfare and health departments | and local civic organizations in an effort to reach people who j are living in the most depress ing kinds of poverty. Gregory and Shields are seeking donations of furniture and clothing to give to the fam- | llies they are seeking to reach. They said furniture is a prime need now but clothing is also j a continuing need. There is a particular need for baby beds ? and clothing for children and babies. They said they will be happy to pick up any donations if per- j sons desiring to contribute any items will call the Four Square office in Andrews. "We're trying to upgrade their standard of living," Shields said as he described some of the conditions he has worked with. He blamed the extreme proverty of most fam ilies on either low mentality, bad luck or desertion. He said he spends much of his time advising the poor of ser vices that are available simply for the asking. Some families, he pointed out, do not know of thesurplus food programs that thev can qualify for Others *iu c unaware ol the health services that are of fered free. Bruc e Cases in Cherokee County in elude homes in which there is almost no furniture. There are familes with sev eral small children that have never received the shots pro- I vided by the health department. Grossly inadequate housing | is a major problem that many poor families have to contend with. These cases are mentioned in general terms to avoid identify- | ing the people called the un reachables. Shields is also making asur- I vey to determine how many families do not even have an outside toilet. He said he has not covered half of the county yet and has already found 160 families without what would seem to most people to be a most primitive facility. Many of the more fortunate people in Cherokee County are engaged in spring house clean ing. It is likely that they will find things they no longer need or want. These items would be valuable to those who have next to nothing. A call to Four Square can put them in the right hands. The num ber is 321-4475. I Poverty can not be elimi nated overnight, but this ap proach on the basis of reach ing individual families could | be the beginning of making a I small dent in their needs. If they can be provided with the simple information about , i available services and if they j I can be given the most basic ' items needed, perhaps they will I begin to be reachables. A different world exists up ! some hollows and along some back roads in Cherokee County, j | That world is just a few miles from Murphy in distance but it is a long way from what ! ; most r>t us tak; foi panted is. | the final third of the twentieth j century. Special Edition Coming In May The Cherokee Scout will publish a special edition saluting American Tread Company's new plant at Marble onMav 16. Special ? advertising rates will be in effect for this issue. The advertising department is maJting every effort to contact all prospective advertisers for this special issue. In the event you are missed, contact Advertis ing Manager Red Schuyler at 837-5122. Juror Calls School Dirtier Than Jail Lloyd Wilcox of Rt. 4, Murphy a member of the Cherokee County Grand Jury, told The Scout Monday he disagrees with the report published last week calling the courthouse and jail filthy. The report, signed by Fore man Max McClure, resulted from inspections made during the March- April Session of Su perior Court. Wilcox said he was with a group of grand jurors that inspected the jail and Peachtree School. He said hatid not inspect the courthouse. "Peachtree School was dirt ier than the jail, " Wilcox said. He added the men's room at the school "looked awful". The jail "was clean, for a county jail, it was in good shape." he said. Wilcox said the members of the jury did not discuss the find ings in the report before It was finalized. He said he didn't see the report until the story concerning it was printed in last week's paper. Nurses Up | Duty Rate The Registered Nurses of District 23 of the North Carolina State Nurses' Association has voted to increase private duty rates from $18 to$22 for an eight hour tour at duty. REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE JACK STICKLEY visited Cherokee, Clay and Graham Counties Tuesday. Picured are: from the left, Col. Wayne West, Clay County Mana ger; Herman West, GOP candidate for the State Senate; Will Sherrill, Graham County Mana ger; Stickley and J. Doyle Burch, Cherokee County Manager. (Photo by Sue Morrow) Stickley Favors Veto Power For Governor Jack Stickley, Republican gubernatorial hopeful, toured Cherokee, Clay and Graham Counties Tuesday. He told Managing Fditor Dave Bruce he favors veto power for the governor and a change in the present on-term limitation for governors. He emphasized that he would promote these ideas on the basis of their concern in administrations after the ? one in power when they might be approved. Veto power for the governor would " give the General Assembly and the Governor a cooling off period to review hastily passed legislation," Stickley said. North Carolina is the only state that does not give its governor a veto on legislative actions. Stickley said he believes a governor should be allowed to seek a second consecutive term "because four years is not en ough time to put a program into effect." THE Republican compliment ed Governor Dan Moore for calling out the National Guard and alerting the Highway Patrol when rioting broke out in sev eral North Carolina cities last week in the wake of the ass assination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He called the rioters people j who saw the Memphis tragedy ] ! as "not a period of mourning | but a period of license.*' Stlckley proposes a state- I wide communication system to j aid in law enforcement. "It . is time law and order reassert- I ed itself, the fundamental prin- j ciple of government is to main- j tain law and order," he added. Turning to other issues, Stickley declared "schools are the first thing that should be removed from the political i arena." He also said he intends "to j take the State Highway ; Commission out of politics" and allocate road funds "on the basis , of necessity and need." He discussed his proposal for a four lane expressway running east to west from the j ocean to the mountains. "I can | assure you that this proposal j includes the far west," he added j Stickley feels North Carolina is "being short changed on in terstate highways." He said figures he has stud ied indicates that for everv dollar North Carolinians put into the Federal Highway Trust Fund, only 46 cents Is being } spent on interstate highways in I i the state. Turning to highway deaths, he said North Carolina has about two and one -half percent of the population in the United States but the state accounts for three and three-quarters percent of the national high way deaths. Since statistics show that the death rateislower on interstate highways, thi can oioate said he believes North Carolina can lower its death toll with more superhighways. Stickiey said he sees no dan ger of a split between his forces and the supporters of Rep. Jim Gardner after the May 4 pri mary. He said he expects to beat Gardner. He also expressed confidence in the race against the Demo cratic nominee in November. "It's going to be rough, It's going to be tough, but we shall win in November, " he said. Courthouse Will Close The Cherokee County Court house will be closed Monday in observance of Easter Monday. Making The Headlines Members of Cub Scout Den 1 of 405 Pack visited The Scout Office Monday. Publisher Jack Ovens (back to the camera) explains how headlines for the paper are set. Pictured, from the left, are Gref Decker, Ricky Curtis, Daiay Town son. Stephen Hectare, David Calhoun - Deo Steve Dockery, Mark Edwards aad Jackie Dave Bruce)
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