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? MUiUti? LIBRARY HUiUHI S C SAMPLE 12 Pages The Cherokee Scout and Clay County Progress FOOTBALL CONTEST RESULTS- PAGE THRFF Volume 79 - Number 18- Murphy, North Carolina - November 21, 1968 Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina 10c Per Copy Murphy LionsVlelp Build Boy's Cottage Murphy Lions Club is one of 43 clubs in twelve Western North Carolina counties which is participating in constructing a $54,000 cottage at Eliada Home near Asheville to accommodate 16 boys. The District 31-A clubs approved the fund-raising project to start immediately with a goal of $30,000. The original fund raising drive is to extend through March of 1969. The balance of the money needed will extend over a three year period. Robert W. Easley, Jr. of the Murphy Club was appointed by District Governor J. P. Ramsey as one of eight Lions throughout District 31-A to supervise and complete the project. Others appointed were Gudger Cabe of Candler, General Chairman, f . Jack Cole, Asheville, Treasurer; Willard Hensley, Asheville, Secretary; Lawrence Stoker, of Haw Creek, Lawrence Leatherwood, and William A. Hart of Way nesville and Robert R. Barnes of the West Asheville Club. Construction is planned to begin early in December of 1968. Architectural plans have already been approved. Several of the clubs, various business Arms and interested individuals have indicated their willingness to assume responsibility to various phases of the construction. All contributions are to be made to Eliada Home, District 31-A, Lions Cottage and mailed to F. Jack Cole, 10 College Street, Box 2599, Asheville, N. C. Weekend Accidents Injure Six In Separate Wrecks : ? Six people were injured in four separate automobile accidents in Cherokee County , last weekend. N. C. State ( Highway Patrolman DonReavis reported only one person, John Carringer of Murphy, was injured seriously enough to remain hospitalized until press time Wednesday. The first of the four wrecks occured Friday afternoon /' Charles Taylor Speaks To i! Women's Club Civk Clubs and other , community groups can form a valuable communications link with their legislators. Representative Charles Taylor i , of Brevard sadi here Monday, November 11. Taylor addressed the Murphy Business and Professional Women's Club, using as his subject the General K , Mechanics of Government. Noting that House members have limited research facilities, j . Taylor said many of the community groups can provide legislators with valuable | . statistics by making surveys and studies in their areas. He *? said these groups also may ' . serve as a sounding board for statewide bills as they affect , ? the various elements in the communities of a legislative district. "The Minority Party" Taylor told the group, " has a definite responsibility to provide progressive leadership in areas where the majority party has failed to give leadership, or in areas that the majority party may have overlooked." about three miles west of Andrews on U. S. 19. Charles Revis, 50, of Marble, stuck a car driven by Odis White. Revis was passing when White was attempting to turn left, Patrolman Reavis stated. The front of the Revis vehicle struck the left side of the White car. Sarah White, wife of Odies White, was taken to the Andrews Hospital with minor injuries. Reavis said th^t no charges were filed. James Steven Howell, 21 of Murphy, ran into a car driven by Curtiss Hewlett in an accident similar to the one reported above. Hewlett was turning left when he wasstruck by the Howell vehicle in East Murphy Saturday evening. Hewlett was slightly injured. Reavis said that Howell was charged with improper passing. John Carringer is still hospitilized with head and back injuries and broken ribs Wednesday morning resulting from a one-car accident around midnight Saturday. Reavis said that Carringer ran off the right side of the road and overturned ? in dense fog Reavis said that no charges had been filed pending further investigation. Three people were injured in a two car accident Sunday afternoon when a car driven by Steven Hoyt Waldroup of Brasstown slid into the left lane and into the path of a car driven by Robert Stevens, 61, of Warne. The accident occured on old U.S. 64 near the Clay County line. Injured were Stevens and a 13 year-old passenger, Eddie McCray from Towns County, Ga., and Waldroup. Waldroup received head injuries while the other two received only minor injuries. Reavis said that charges will be filed pending further investigation. , Ml ? "? ir Citizens Bank Presents Machines _ _1 V* ? ^ H ? I ? a u in< ieftf director of k Forsyth, President of Citizens Bank & Trust Co., and Citizens Bank and Trust Company piestnted a bookkeeping machine to Trf-Cbunty Technical Institute last wepk for use in the Institute's office and, in the executive secretary courses Tow Day, Vice-PrcskJpnf, who made shown with the the presentation. The machine came from the Hayesville office. Citizens Bank donated three other similar machines, which cost SI 2,000 each when they were purchased two years ago. Two went to Western Carolina University and the other to Southwestern Technical Institute in Syhra. Civitans Present Check A $1,UUU check to kick off the drive to furnish the Murphy City Schools with an activity bus was presented to John Jordan, Superintendent of the Murphy City Schools. The drive is being sponsored by the Murphy Civitan Club, whose project co-chairman, Ben Palmer, far right, is presenting the check. The $6,600 bus is the first activity bus for the Murphy School system. Jordan brought the bus from High Point Thursday so that it could be used by the football team when they traveled to Sylva Friday night. Looking on are, left to right, John Tompson, principal of Murphy High School; Paul Ridenhour, project chairman of the Civitan Club; Jordan and Palmer. (Scout photo by Bill Gray) Murphy-Andrews Corridor Included In Municipal Water System Report The Murphy-Andrews corridor has been included in a comprehensive report by Governor Dan Moore relating to municipal water and sewage systems in eight growth centers in Appalachian North Carolina. The report will be released in November and extend into 1969. The report will project the economic development potential of these eight designated areas through the year 2015 with the stimulus of adequate water supply and water-borne waste disposal systems. The study was undertaken by the firm of Rummel, Klepper, and Kahl of Raleigh in cooperation with the State Planning Task Force Divsion of the State Department of Administration and a number of other State agencies with water - related interests. The following areas are included: the Murphy-Andrews corridor; the Asheville-Hender sonville corridor; the R u therfordton-Spindale-Forest City corridor; the community of Boone; the community of Spruce Pine; the Morganton- Valdese-Hickory corridor; the Wilkesboro-Elkin -Jonesville corridor; and Winston Salem-Kernersville corridor. Governor Moore said the results o? each corridor study would be presented to civic and local government leaders at meetings to be held in each area. Preliminary reports have already been submitted for the first five of these areas, and the results of the sixth area study will be reviewed this month. The concept of developing adequate water supply and waste disposal systems on a corridor basis to support projected growth in the specific areas requires a joint planning effort involving two or more local governments to assure maximum utilization of their limited resources Each corridor study, taking into consideration present economic factors such as Available labor pool, transportation facilities, utilities, and suitability to topography for future development, wilfc project residential and Industrial growth which individual study areas can accommodate by 1970, 1980, and 2015. It is essential that adequate water supply and waste disposal facilities be developed if the projected population increase and industrial development in each area are to be achieved. Each corridor study further projects the costs for construction of the required water and sewage systems in phased development for each area. The studies will further project estimated annual capital and operating costs for water and sewage systems to serve the study areas. Governor Moore said the studies would make a major United Fund Reaches One-Half Of Goal United Fund donations have totalled $14,193.75 as of Monday afternoon. A total of 127 donors contributed the above amount. Of the 127 donors, however, the different plants are listed as one and there are a number of employees in each plant. For example, Magnavox employs approximately 600 personnel, and American Thread, Rimco Mfg. Co., Peachtree Products, Clifton Precision Products, Levi Strauss, Columbia Marble Company, all have a large number of employees who have made pledges. Other donors include Crandall Moffitt. H. L. McKeever. Herman V. Edwards, Ginger R. Anderson. Mary A. Coleman, Timber Products Company. Arthur W. Hays. Jr., Mrs. Frank E (Nellie H.I Morrow. Mrs. Vey A. McDonald, Martha Marie Gregory. Joe Fowler's 66 Station, Joe E. Ray. Hugh Penland. Opal Fox. Leon Gee. M. G. Decker. Leon Kimsev. Harold Finstermaker. Don Hughes. James A. Hughes, Mrs. Pauline Bault, Mrs. Jerry J. Cabe, Mrs. Christine Ingle, Mrs. Basketball League A meeting of everyone intemted in participating in he Murphy All-Star basketball league will b* held this Friday at the OM Rock Gym at 7:30 pm C. C. Williams, Mrs. Dair M. Shields, John Jordan, Miss Leila Hayes, Mrs. Ruth Forsyth, Mrs. Kate Hayes, Mrs. Lucille Gault, Mrs. Willie Lou Shields,Mrs. Annie Lou Rogers, Cherokee Shopping Center, Davis Jewelers, Mrs. Helen Douglas, Mrs. Cecile Mills, Bill Coffey, Dr. J. N. Hill, Dr. W. A. Hoover, Dr. B. W. Whitfield, Dr. Wm. R. Gossett, C. E. Hyde, F. 0. Christopher, L.L. Mason, Jr. W. A. Hoover, Jr., Citizens Bk,and Tr.Co., Clifton Precision Products, American Thread, Jimmy Foust, Levi-Strauss, Geraldean Coker, Sue McKay, Opal Hogan, Hitchcock , James C. Helton, Fred Barton, Frank Craig, Rimco Mfg. Co., Magnavox, Jack Early, Mike Angell, Temperature Supply Co., Mrs. Minnie Wilson, Charles Hyatt, Frank Ferguson. Harry Sword, Horace M. Kent, Henn Theatre, Radford Saw Service, Joe Hamilton. Virginia Scroggs, Harry Burgess. Mauney Drug, Collins-Crain. Kenneth Davis, Beulah Griffin, Mescal Johnson, Pete Akin, Ethel Hembree, Mrs. Carl Debty, Ginger Crawford, Lochaby Insurance, W. A. Singleton, Murphy Laundry, Glenn Hembree Market, Olen Taylor Appliance Dickey Chevrolet, Walter Coleman Appliances, Lay's 5 & 10, Murphy Supply Co., Murphy Food Store, Fayola, Phillip* Barber Shop, A & P Co., Columbia, Marble Co., Continued Pag# 3 r ? ? if-'' nTi'* . contribution to the future development of Appalachian (forth Carolina , "Again," explained Governor Moore, "we have an excellent example of the benefits of multi-county planning for progress. Here, also, we can see the true relationship of a local. State and Federal government approach. "Where the job is too big or too costly for one unit of local government to go it alone," explained Governor Moore, "joint participation can achieve the desired results." State agencies participating with the State Planning Task Force and the consulting firm in formulating of these studies include: State Department of Conservation and Development; State Board of Health; State Highway Commission; Local Government Commission: and the State Department of Water and Air Resources. Outclassed By Hendersonville 62 ? 12 Bulldogs Blasted From Playoffs By Hendersonville Bearcats The Murphy Bulldogs traveled to Sylva-Webster Friday night with a perfect record for the season and found themselves outclassed 50 points by the Bearcats or Hendersonville. A strong single wing running attack and a relentless defense spelled the 62-12 defeat for the Bulldogs. The Bearcats also took advantage of Murphy mistakes and pushed the score higher than anyone expected. This defeat knocked the Bulldogs out of the District 2-A playoffs and a change for a shot at the Championship. Murphy looked impressive for the first few minutes of play, but lost the ball on their own 43 when Hendersonville End Mike Lance recovered the first of two Murphy fumbles. Hendersonville then went to work and traveled quickly toward the goal with Brock and Lemmons carrying the load. The Bearcats fumbled on the Murphy goal but also recovered it in the end zone for the first of nine touchdowns. The Bulldogs again lost the ball soon after kickofT when an alert Bearcat defense Intercepted a pass at the Hendersonville 28. Four plays were all that was needed to travel the distance to the goal. The first quarter ended with neither team moving the ball and Murphy behind 14-0. The Bearcats only scored once in the second quarter when Marion Johnson returned a Bennie Scott punt to the Murphy 25 and Halfback Brock Orr kicked the third of his eight PAT's for the night, and at halftime Hendersonville led 21-0. After halftime the Bearcats came on even stronger than before and scored three quick touchdowns, one following an intercepted pass, one after Murphy fumble near the goal, and the other on a 36 yard drive. Down 42-0 at the beginning of the fourth quarter the Bulldogs came alive and after two incomplete panes, Doug Stevens threw a long one to Halfback Mike Kephart for 69 yards Two plays later Jeff Jackson scored for Murphy from five yards out to put the Bulldogs on the score board lor the first time of the game. Lance Mocked the PAT attempt. Not to be outdone the Bearcats ripped through the Murphy defense almost at will and went 99 yards for their seventh touchdown, with Lemmons running across the goal on a 50 yard TD run. The Bearcats scored quickly again when a Murphy pass was intercepted at the Murphy 22 yard line. Three plays later the Bearcats scored, on a four yard run by Hifner. Murphy's second touchdown came through the airways as the tough Hendersonville forward wall was too much to the Bulldogs to handle. Stevens passed to Harold Kephart in the flat and he ran 50 yards for the score. Stevens's PAT attempt was wide. The Bearcats managed to get into the scoring column again %y marching 70 yards in seven plays to push the aeon to 62 to 12. Statistics tell the story of the game by showing Murphy lushing only 11 yartb Airing the entire game while the Bearcats need 301. Moat of ^ Football Qa ? Allen Case Continued Two Men Receive 7-10 Years In SuperioivCourt Two county men received sentences of seven to 10 years on separate charges, and Mrs. Peggy Allen, who was charged of shooting her husband, plead gu ilty to voluntary manslaughter during the past session of the Cherokee County Superior Court that saw only two of over 60 cases on the docket go before a jury. Half of the cases on the docket were either continued until another term, remanded to the district court or the state took no pros with leave, which is continuing the case until the solicitor decides it should be re-opened. A case that has brought national attention is that of Mrs. Peggy Allen, who was charged with murder in the shooting death of her husband, Robert, last September. Mrs. Allen's plea of voluntary manslaughter was accepted by the solicitor, and her judgment was continued until the March-April term by Superior Court Judge J. W. Jackson. Jackson said that he was continuing the prayer of judgment without prejudice, and that at the next Superior Court, which will be on March 31, 1969, evidence can be presented on both sides of the case. The reason for continuing judgment, Jackson said, was to allow the welfare and probation departments to complete a report on the Allen family. Mrs. Allen and her oldest daughter, 14 year-old Lor* Mae, both testified that Mr. Allen had beaten Lora Mae and that he had threatened to kill all of them. Mrs. Allen said that she then shot him twice in the back of the head as he lay on a bed in the home. Mrs. Allen is the mother of four children, the oldest 14 and the youngest four. She has drawn national attention because she has had to take the youngest child to Memphis, Tenn. each week for treatment for leukemia. It was on one of these trips, Mrs. Allen testified before Judge Jackson Friday, that the argument began that led to her husband's death. On the return from Memphis, she said, Allen bought a full case of beer and began drinking when they got to their farm. Mr. Allen was mad because the floors that Lora Mae had mopped were not dry, and after he slipped while putting the case of beer in the refrigerator, he knocked Lora Mae to the floor and began kicking her. Later, in the bedroom. Mrs. Allen related, her husband threatened to kill the whole family. She said she took a .22 calibre rifle off the wall and shot him twice in the back of the head. Mrs. Allen, who was voted the 'Woman of the Year' in the Copper Basin, Tenn., area last year, will remain free under $2,500 bond. In another case in which the solicitor accepted a guilty pela to a lesser charge David Pullium, 25 of Andrews, was sentenced to prison for a term of 8-10 years. Pullium was originally charged with murder but plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death of Pete Crawford September 20 at Pullium's home in Andrews. Timothy Paul Hardin of Gastonia, N. C. received a 7-10 year prison sentence after pleading guilty to common law robbery. Hardin was charged with armed robbery, but the solicitor accepted the lesser plea. Hardin beat up and robbed Robert Mitchell Clark, a 72 year old Andrews man, last September. Reports from the Cherokee County Sheriff's department at the time said that Hardin went into Clark's home, tied Clark up and beat him up before robbing him. Clark was hospitalized with a broken arm and a slight concussion, reports said. Hardin had jumped bond in Gaston County, N.C. on a breaking and entering charge. The only two cases to go before the jury were driving under the in fluence charges, of which the jury found one guilty and let the other go. Raymond Douglas Puett was found not guilty on a second offense driving under the influence charge, Puett served as his own lawyer . Lewis Ralph Dockery was found guilty of a first offense driving under the influence charge and was fined $150 plus court costs, received a four month sentence suspended two years and had to surrender his license. Claude Harris entered a guilty plea to incest and was sentenced to six to nine months active sentence. The court brought out that since the warrant was issued Harris had spent three and one half years confined in either Dorthea Dix hospital or the Cherokee County jail. Judge Jackson recommended that the defendent be given a complete mental and physical examination. A charge of driving under the influence was dismissed when the defendent. Homer Ledford, found there was a defective warrant. Eugene Robinson was found not guilty by reason of chronic alcholism of seven charges of public drunkenness . Robinson was ordered to be hospitalized. Ella Stewart received a 2 year sentence suspended for |! four years after pleading guilty to bigamy. She also had to pay court costs. James 'Peg' Palmer had already served time on two charges of public drunkenne ' so the state did not prosecute ( In other cases, John Waitsell Walker plead guilty to speeding 70 in a 55 mph zone, and received a four month sentence suspended for one y$ar, had his - driving' license suspended, and was fined $125 and costs. ?* Sybil Waldroup received a 9 month sentence suspended two years for 'uttering forged papers', or bad checks. She also had to pay restitution on the checks and pay $40 costs. Gordon Gerald Mashbum See Court On Page 8 Murphy General No Longer Participant In Medicare The Department of Health, Education and Welfare notified Murphy General Hospital last week that the agreement between them pnd the hospital concerning Medicare will be terminated. According to the notice, the hospital insurance program will not make payment for covered in-patient hospital services furnished to patients who are admitted on or after December 3. Dr. F. V. Taylor, owner of Murphy General Hospital, attributed the loss of the Medicare program to a shortage of graduate nurses. Dr. Taylor told the Scout that the hospital insurance program now required a graduate nurse on each shift, and that these nurses are not available. Dr. Taylor said that hospitals throughout the nation are short some 20,000 graduate s this year, and that the figures are expected to double in the next 12 months. "This factor alone is forcing many small hospitals out of the Medicare program," Taylor said. Parade Hosts Bands, Floats The Murphy announced that at high schoo number of their and .?
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