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10 The Cherokee Scout jo? Pages and Clay County Progress Volume 78 - Number 42 -? Murphy, North Carolina -- May ?, 1968 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina Gardner And Scott Win Gubernatorial Nominations! Harvey Is GOP | Congress Pick Congressman Jim Gardner swept to a three-to-one victory over Jack Stickley in the Re publican primary election for governor Saturday. Eleventh District Republi | cans gave a similar three-to ' one endorsement to W. Scott Harvey as their choice for a Congressional candidate over > Robert W. Daughtridge. ? The outcome in both races was clear from the moment the first precincts began reporting. Gardner, a resident of Rocky ; Mount, piled up a 10-1 lead over Stickley in the east and swept ! | the Piedmont and West by 2-1 margins. With unofficial returns from almost all precincts, Gardner ' had 116,818 and Stickley had \ 40,819. 1 Harvey received 12,917 votes to 4,344 for Daughtridge with only 15 precincts missing in the : Eleventh District. The trends in both races were maintained in Cherokee and Clay Counties. Gardner beat Stickley 812-219 in Cherokee and 237-40 in Clay. Harvey topped Daughtridge 598-229 in Cherokee and 239-31 in Clay. Don Garren, a Hendersonville attorney who served as minority leader in the last General As sembly, coasted to an easy vic tory over Trosper Combs of Laurinburg for the lieutenant governor's nomination. Garren gathered 91,235 votes to 31,535 for Combs. In a relatively close race, Everett L. Peterson defeated Carl W. Rice, 72,830 to 63,133, for the nomination for Commis sioner of Insurance. The nomination for the U. S. Senate was also a close contest. Robert V. Soraers led with 45, 911 while Larry Zimmerman polled 40,445 and Ed Tenney, Jr. got 38,321. ' Tri County Tech Offers 6 I- * College Courses This Fall | Trl-County Technical Insti tute will offer six college cour F ses beginning in September in ? cooperation with Western Car r olina University. The courses offered will be > English I, Mathematics, His I. tory, Psychology, English II, and Health. The cost will be $3 per quarter hour. Classes will meet four nights each week. Anyone may enroll in up to four subjects. Applications for enrollment and more detailed information may be obtained by callingTri County Tech at 837-3810 or writing to P. O. Box 40, Mur phy. N. C. Enrollment will be limited. Requests for application forms should be made immediately. i r Cartiss Hewlett, center, was sworn in Tuesday night as president of the Murphy Jaycees. Luther Britt, Jr., right, t North Carolina Jaycee President, conducted the installation. Mrs. Hewlett looks on. (Photo by Weaver Carringer) ? James Helton Named K i Outstanding Jaycee Outgoing president James Helton vss honored as the Outstanding Jaycee of the Year at the Muphy jaycees sixth annual Installation banquet Tuesday night Helton was presented with Us award by North Carolina Jaycee Preside* Luther Brltt I Jr Brltt also Installed the new officers tor the club. They are Curtis* Hewlett, president; Bob I Gold, first vice-president; Richard Haney, second vice president; Jim Hendrix, secre tary; Dennis Donahue, Trea surer; Bub Penland, state dir ector; TommyGentry, director, Andrew Rose, director; James Helton, past president; and Lontle Britt, Jay bird. Dr. Kenneth Keenum and Bob Gi'ld received the Jaycee Spark plug Award. Attendance for the banquet was 60. Third Graders Study Indians Students of Mrs. Beulah Sales' third grade class at Murphy Elementary School have completed a two-week study of the American Indian under the direction of student teacher Miss Betty Jo Swaim of Hayesville. During the study, all of their regular courses were related to the study of Indians. The 30 students took a field trip to Palmer's Museum at Marble. The pueblo pictured above is part of a display in tbe classroom. It is made of boxes and milk cartons. Miss Swaim is completing a 10-week stay at Murphy and will return to Western Carolina University where she will receive her degree at the end of summer school. (Photo by Dave Bruce) American Thread Open House And Dedication Set For May 18 The American Thread Com pany will open it's doors to area residents during an Open House and Dedication at it's new plant at Marble, Saturday May 18, it was announced by Plant Manager, Daniel G. Lamb. "Now that most of the pro blems associated with bringing a new plant up to full product ion are behind us, we feel that the time has come to invite our neighbors out to the plant - to have them look it over and to meet the people who run it. I am taking this opportunity to do Just that - to invite all friends and neighbors, and their children too, to come out and see us on May 18th, Lamb said. The Open House will begin at 10:30 a.m. and continue un til 4:00 p. m. The Murphy School Band will present a con cert at 10:30 a.m. At 11:00 o'clock there will be a dedi cation ceremony featuring an address by Roy Taylor. After the dedication cere mony, plant tours will begin and continue until 4:00 p.m. A picnic lunch will be served to visitors as they complete their tours. During the tours, guests will see displays of some of the many products made from ATCO thread. Each plant visi tor will receive a souvenir as a reminder of his visit. Visitors at the plant will see on of the most modern County Commissioners OK Welfare Budget The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners voted unan imously Monday to approve the budget estimates for welfare programs for 1968-69. The fig ures were presented by Wel fare Director V. O. Ayers. The County's share of the cost is estimated at $46,980. Federal and state funds provide the re mainder of the money. The Commissioners were ad vised by the State Board of Health that Jackson, Swain and Macon Counties have decided against joining a District Health Department that would have in cluded those three counties and Cherokee, Clay and Graham. The Board of Health recomm ended budget figures for the present three-county district for 1968-69. Local funds would total $48, 607. This would include the following shares for each county: Cherokee - $27,706; Clay - $8,263; and Graham - $12,638. The Commissioners voted, 5-0, to accept a request from Register of Deeds J. E. Graves that the leek be changed on the Register of Deeds office and that only Graves and the Deputy Re gister be given keys to the lock. Jack Simonds made the motion to go along with the request. Ray Sims abstained in the vot ing. The State Highway Com mission was requested to gravel Poindexter Cemetery Road in Beaverdam Township and add seven tenths of a mile to Dock ery Creek Road. Houston Ledford was named to replace Gerald Almond on the County Welfare Board at the end of Almond's present term. The term expires in June. Head Start j Funds OKd A total of $114,375 has been . appropriated to Four Square Community Action to conduct j a Summer Head Start program. The project is designed to ! serve 600 children from low | income familes in Cherokee, Clay, Swain and Graham Coun- I ties. Rents Gym Explorer Post 416, Boy Scouts i Of America, is now in charge I I of renting the Old Rock Gym in j ! Murphy. Bookings can be arranged by j calling Dan Angel at 837-3237. Angel said dates can be coo firmed by making a check pay able to Explorer Post 416. The fee must be paid the day the i building is used, he added. thread yarn spinning plants in the world. They will be able to see how high quality thread actually is made as they watch the most advanced machinery available to the industry in operation. Visitors will see a com pletely modern all ? electric plant - a plant with no smoke stack and no soot. So advan ced is the design and con struction of this plant that it can be completely headed in the winter by circulating the heat generated by machinery dur ing the manufacturing process to supplement the heat thrown off by the florescent lighting. Additional strip heating units are needed only in the cold est weather. Modern facilities with which the plant is equipped in clude a canteen with daily serviced vending machines, a First Aid Room and a Qua lity Control Laboratory. "We are proud of this plant of ours and we want to show it to you. I do hope you'll | come out to see it and us and to hear Roy Taylor. It should be quite a day!". Lamb said. Vocations Students Seek Summer Work Members of the Introduction to Vocations course at Murphy High School are seeking sum mer jobs. They are seeking work in such varied fields as babysitting, housework, window washing, yard work, gardening, hedge clipping, car washing, nurses aide, waitress, service station help, and egg gathering. "The best way to find your place in this world of work Is to be willing to do many dif ferent types of jobs in order to try to find some of the things you are best at," is the way one student described the at titude of the class members. Anyone Interested in hiring a student for summer work is invited to contact Mrs. Ruth F. Bristol, instructor of In troduction to Vocations. An interview with a prospective worker will be arranged as soon as possible. Now in its fourth year, In troduction to Vocations is an elective course for freshmen. Murphy was one of the first schools in North Carolina to offer the course. Murphy also has one of the first Introduction to Vocation Clubs in North Carolina. The officers this year are Paul Kllllan, president; Billle Harb in, vice president; Marilyn Ch astain, secretary; and Mary Anne Bryant, treasurer. The club will have its last meeting of the year today (Thur sday). Harry Reeves of And rews is scheduled to be tbe guest speaker. He Is chair man of the Olympic team going to Mexico this summer. A club picnic is planned for May 22. Broughton Declines To Seek Second Primary Lt. Gov. Bob Scott carried 91 of the state's 100 counties in his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination Sat urday but failed to win a maj ority of the votes in the three man race. Almost complete unofficial returns gave Scott 48.15 of the vote. J. Melville Broughton was second with 33.45 of the total and Dr. Reginald Hawkins received 18.35 of the vote. The totals were Scott, 326, 610; Broughton, 226,683; and Hawkins, 124,558. Broughton declined to call for a runoff Tuesday. He had un Unaka Youth Is Injured Russell Charles McMillian, 17, of Unaka was reported in serious condition at a Chatta nooga hospital following a one car accident on the Joe Brown Highway twelve miles north of Murphy on Saturday morning. He was said to have suffer ed severe internal injuries. Highway Patrolman Don Reavis said McMillian was tra veling so'ith towards Murphy when he lost control of his ve hicle, skidded off a curve on the left side of the road, and st ruck a rock embankment. He was brought to Providence Hospital and transferred to Chattanooga. Reavis said no charges were placed pending further invest igation. Democratic Precinct Meetings Cherokee County Democrats will hold precinct meetingsSat urday at 7 p.m. at each of the regular voting places in the county. Precinct organizations and delegates and alternates to the county convention will be elect ed. The County convention will be held at the courthouse on May 25. til May 18 to make a decision. Had he sought a second primary, it would have been held June 1. Scott swept most western counties by large margins. The Cherokee County totals were Scott, 1,153; Broughton, 379; and Hawkins, 15. In Clay County, Scott re ceived 304 votes to 144 for Br oughton and eight for Hawkins. Hawkins, the first Negro to run for governor in North Car olina, received enough votes to deny Scott a majority. The Charlotte dentist, min ister and civil rights leader ran ahead of Scott in three counties and got a sizable vote in four others. Hawkins declined to say who he would support in a second primary when he acknowleged defeat Sunday morning. Pat Taylor won the nomina tion for lieutenant governor with ease and Sen. Sam Ervin was renominated without difficulty. Taylor received 387,458 vo tes. Margaret Harper was second with 132,134 and Frank Matlock received 48,568 votes. Ervin rolled up 453,395 against three opponents. Their totals were Charles A. Pratt, 48,788; John T. Gathings, 44, 607 and Fred G. Brummitt, 27, 475. State Treasurer Edwin Gill was reelected over Sneed High, 368,610 to 176,518. A runoff is possible for Sup erintendent of Public Instruc tion between Craig Phillips and Raymond A. Stone. Phillips led with 203,641 votes toStone's 163,173. Other totals in the race were Everette Miller, 84, 188; William Do. Harrill, 45,323, and Wendell W. Smiley, 25,357. Robert Morgan defeated At torney General Wade Bruton in what was regarded as an upset, 327,963 to 222,542. Commissioner of Labor Frank Crane was reelected. He downed John B. Wardell, 327, 533 to 158,256. Commissioner of Insurance Edwin S. Lanier was renomin ated over three opponents. La nier received 299,561 votes. Other totals were George A. Belk, 80,915; John B. Whitley, 78,448; and Fred Benton, 67, 843. Raymond B. Mallard defeat ed Kidd Brewer, 373,081 to 145, 392 in one race for Judge of Court of Appeals. In the other race for a pos ition on the Court of Appeals, Naomi E. Morris won over Wal ter C. Holton, 249,951 to 230, 232. BPW Club Sponsors Recitation Contest By Aileen Haney A hush fell over some 600 students, teachers and visitors assembled in the Murphy High School auditorium the afternoon of Wednesday, May 1st at the ninth annual recitation contest sponsored by the Murphy Bus iness and Professional Womans Club was held and everyone an xiously awaited for a winner to be announced. Eight slightly nervous girls sat on the stage, each hoping to be a winner. Each had al ready been a winner in a sen se by being presented a free pass to the Murphy Swimming pool by Superientendent of City Schools, John Jordan. Each had done an excellent job in presenting her recitation by pouring out her heart and soul. While the judges were out making their difficult decision the audience had been highly entertained by the talented sing ing and guitar playing of Mur phy High Schools English tea cher, Ted Whisanent. | The judges, Vincent Crisp, Evidean Lamb and Eleanor Tra vis had given the master of ceremonies, Aileen Haney, the paper containing the names of the winners. Tension gripped I the audience as the names were read out, "1st place winner; Sandra Garrett." Sandra's win ning speech was a dramatic reading entitled "The Button." Then the other two winners were announced. Lucy Good wins humorous monolog, "Ma at the P. T. A."; placed second, and Jennie Dockery whose win ning topic was "There'll al ways be Beauty," took honor able mentions. Only three could be winners but the others are not losers They are winners too because through the efforts of the Bus iness and Professional Womans Club they have been given a richer and broader experience. The losers are the ones who never put forth the effort to accomplish anything. The other winners were Patricia Carroll, Glenda Dockery, Phyllis Mes ser, Jane Gill and Cynthia Carl- , berg. The winners of the recitation contest at Murphy Hlfh School I last week were, seated from the left, Sandra Garrett, first place; Lucy Goodwin, second place; and Jennie Dockery, third I place. Tht otiMr rlcta Carroll, QUA Dockery, Cynthia Carlberf. (Photo by
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