Levi Leads Softball Association
Lett moved into first place In
Ike Murphy Softball Association
by routing previously unbeaten
Clifton, 14-1, Tuesday night.
The winners now have a 4-0
record.
Rim co and Texanna are un
beaten in three games each.
They meet in the third game
tonight (Thursday).
Rimco shutout American Th
read, 10- 1, and outslugged Hi
wassee Dam, 11-8, in games
during the past week.
Texanna edged Hiwassee
Dam, 6-5, and walloped Westco,
17-4.
Clifton picked up its third
win with a 16-6 game overstate
Highway.
Citizens Bank edged State
Highway, 5-4, and roiled over
Coble, 85-1.
The Independents routed
Westco, 18-8, and shutout Am
erican Thread, 11-0.
Front runninjt Levi wallooed
Easley, 80-8.
Coble picked up its first win
by out slugging State Highway,
16-15.
In girls games. Hicks Gulf
edged Clifton. 18-11. and Citizens
Bank trimmed Texanna, 89-1
Prior to the Rimco-Texanna
game tonight, Easley plays Cit
izens Bank and Westco meets
^American Thread.
Friday night, the Independ
1 ents play Hiwassee Dam, Clil
Notice
CHEROKEE COUNTY TAXPAYERS
2% DISCOUNT ALLOWED
ON ALL CHEROKEE
COUNTY 1968 TAXES
THROUGH JULY 1,1968
H.E. Bishop
Tax Collector
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and Coble meets Easley.
State Highway meets Levi
Monday. Clifton and Texanna
play a girls game and Westco
goes against Hiwassee Dam.
Tuesday night action includes
Rlmco and the Independents,
Hicks Gulf and Levi in a girls
game, and Texanna and Am
erican Thread.
Chief o f Police Pete Stalcup
pointed out that no parking signs
have been posted on Conaheeta
St. alongside the Softball field.
He said those who park cars
there will be prosecuted.
Cloy Projects
Are Approved
Three secondary road pro
jects have been approved for
Clay County, costing $32,100
according to Commissioner W.
Curtis Russ and Division En
gineer A. J.Hughes.
The projects and the money
allocated for them includes:
Construction? approaches to
Bridge No. 26 oil SR 1163, $1,000.
Construct bridge on SR 1302
lower Sweetwater Road, $7,100.
Paving SR 1161, Hothouse Road
from US 64 to SR 1160, 1.2
miles, $24,000.
Will Entertain Lions Convention
The Carolina Sweethearts of Murphy, under the direction of
Mrs. Bobbie Stalcup, assisted by Dan W. Angel, were recent
winners at the Hubert Hayes Mountain Youth Jamboree, in the
senior clog division, held each year in Asheville. They will
entertain June 6th in Gatlinburg, Tennessee at that state's 50th
annual Lions Club Convention.
Farm Land In County Decreases,
Corn And Beef Production Up
The total number of farm
land and the number of acres
harvested in Cherokee County
showed a decrease from 1966
to 1967, but there was a sub
stantial increase in the num
ber of acres of corn harvested
and the number of beef cattle.
The figures are contained in
the Preliminary 1968 County
Commissioners Farm Census
Summary compiled by the
North Carolina and U. S. De
partments of Agriculture, Crop
Reporting Service.
The number of persons liv
ing on farm tracts in the county
declined one percent to 4,896
people. The number of per
sons living on farms and work
ing 100 days or more in off
farm jobs increased from 1,
101 to 1,228.
A total of 113,716 acres were
Five County Road
Projects Approved
Five secondary road projects
have been approved for Chero
kee County, costing $95,000,
according to Commissioner W.
Curtis Russ and Division En
gineer A. J. Hughes.
The projects and money al
located for them includes:
Supplement ? construct road
to Maltby Homesites near Mar
ble, $10,000.
Supplement ? paving se
condary raod 1502, Roberson
Road from US 19 to SR 1505
1.8 miles, $8,000.
Paving secondary road 1509
McClelland Road from SR 1507
to SR 1510, .4 mile, $28,000.
Paving SR 1317, Oak Park
Road from NC 294 to SR 1316
.6 mile, $37,000.
Supplement ? re grading and
base ( at intervals) of SR 1303,
Panther Top Road, 1.5 miles,
$12,000.
Two From Cherokee County
Receive NC State Degrees
RALEIGH -- Men from Mur
phy and Andrews joined hund
reds of other graduating stud
ents from the Atlantic to the
Appalachians, and beyond, at
North Carolina State Univer
sity's 1968 commencement cer
emony Saturday moring.
Chancellor John T. Caldwell
conferred degrees on 1,880
students who have completed
their requirements since com
mencement a year ago at the
annual ceremony.
Richard L. Waldroup Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Wald
roup of Andrews, was one of
378 men and women awarded
masters degrees for complet
ing six years of demanding
studies.
Thomas D. Adams, son of
Mrs. Anna Lee Adams of Rt.
Deed
Transfers
S. E. and Elsie Dockery to
Geneva Dockery Donley proper
ty in Town of Murphy.
Ralph Berrong to Dorothy Sue
Rose Berrong property in Town
of Murphy.
J. W. and Oval Donley to Rex
Sudderth property Cherokee
County.
John Edwin and Janet Eller
to Virginia Lyons Melerhaads,
property In Murphy.
J. W. and Lillian McDill to
Howard and Joyce Allen proper
ty in Cherokee County.
Fred and Emma Gilbert to
Mountain Land Co. of Ga. pro
perty in Cherokee County.
Myrtle Plemmons to Claude
W. and Dorr Is E. Wheeler pro
perty in County
1, Murphy, won a bachelors de
gree in electrical engineering.
He was one of almost 1,400
NCSU students receiving ba
ccalaureates.
waldroup and Adams also
heard addresses of commenda
tion and challenge by Gover
nor Dan K. Moore and Pre
sident William C. Friday.
Waldroup earned his masters
degree in vocational industrial
education, an increasingly im
portant field in the effort to
upgrade the skills of North Car
olinians and to raise the per
capita income of this State.
Adams will be entering a
profession in which the United
States faces a severe manpower
shortage. The Soviet Union has
been outproducing this nation
by a ratio of four to one in
engineering graduates in recent
years.
Chancellor John T. Calwell
conferred the degrees on Wald
roup, Adams and other men and
women who constituted the larg
est commencement ever held
at the land-grant University.
Applauding the students were
thousands of relatives, friends
and professors who filled the
balconies in Reynolds Coli
seum.
Children's Group
Meets Monday
Eric Brady of the North Car
olina Council On Mental Retard
ation will speak to the Cherokee
County Association For Retard
ed Children Monday night.
The group will meet at 7:30
at (be Murphy Power Board
Building,
in farm land in 1967 compared
to 115,275 in 1966.
Harvested cropland declined
from 7,212 acres to 6,249.
Corn harvested for grain was
the big gainer. Acreage in
creased from 2,756 to 3,378.
Corn harvested for silage was
up from 66 to 102. There were
substantial declines in acres
of tobacco and soybeans.
Beef cattle increased from
2, 247 bead to 3,315. Dairy cattle
remained virtually unchanged,
up to 991 from 988.
2 Receive Sentences
In Federal Court
Active prison sentences were
handed down Monday in U. S.
District Court at Bryson City
in two cases originating in Ch
erokee County.
Oscar McClure, 48, of Mur
phy, plead guilty to illegal pos
session of non-taxpaid whisky.
He was sentenced to six months
in prison by Judge Wilson War
lick. The Judge also directed
that McClure be treated for
alcoholism.
In a related case, Warllck
directed a verdict of not guilty
to a similar charge against
David Phillips of Murphy. Evid
ence tended to show that Mc
Clure had more than two gal
lons of moonshine in a but
owned by Phillips, but that Ph
illips knew nothing of the wh
isky.
Richard Lee Opasik, 20, of
Indiana, received a three year
sentence on a charge of taking
a stolen car across a state line.
Opasik is presently listed as
a deserter from the U.S. Army.
He was arrested in Cherokee
County in April with a car that
was stolen in Vincennes, Ind
iana.
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