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M Volume 79 - Number 27 - Murphy, North Carolina ? January 23, 1969 ? Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina
\sheville To Rebroadcast
t
sn Murphy On Channel 5
Channel 13 of Asheviile,
d)o had planned to broadcast
to Murphy via translator on
yannel 6, has ammended its
^plication to the Federal
$mmunication Commission
) rebroadcast on channel 5,
{cording to Jim Hendrix,
)t>ject chairman of the
lurphy Jaycees.
I The decision was made to
use channel 5 after several
residence in the Martins Creek
section reported that the use of
channel 6 would interfere with
their television reception,
Hendrix said. He added that
channel 5 was the unamimous
choice after a telephone survey
of over three-fourths of the
subscribers in the area involved
found no oppsition.
jaycees' Prayer Breakfast
Ifo Be Sunday Morning
_ In conjunction with
Stional Jaycee Week, the
irphy Jaycees will hold their
rl annual Prayer Breakfast
Sunday, January 26, at
'Dell's Restaurant at 8 a.m.,
lairman Lyle Carringer has
inounced.
The Reverend Thornton W.
awkins, pastor of the United
Hlethodist Church of Murphy,
lull be the guest speaker at this
?litch affair.
II The Murphy Jaycees
strongly believe that the local
residents can do much to help
further the cause of a spiritual
awakening in our nation. They
also believe that this Prayer
Breakfast will do much to
encourage all of us to think
more carefully about the
heritage God has bestowed
upon this nation, Carringer
said.
Chairman Carringer
encourages you to attend this
Prayer Breakfast Sunday
moming.
fclue Ridge Mountain EMC
Distributes Two Booklets
Two booklets designed to
elp high school students, one
?titled "After High School
list" and the other "What
bout College" are being
Ktributed by Blue Ridge
fountain EMC, Manager John
if Martin announced recently.
||e*e booklets are presently
sing delivered to each of the
hools served by the
ooperative. Authoritative
lides about career planning,
lese booklets also contain
ri-County Tech
)ffers Business
Aachine Course
Tri-County Technical
istitute will offer a 60 hour
ourse in business machines
eginning Tuesday, February 4
t 6:30 p.m. provided there is
?ough interest.
There will be no charge for
le course which will be held
t Tri-County Tech.
Anyone interested in
nrolling should contact
li-County Technical Institute,
ox 40, Murphy, North
arolina or Phone 837-3810.
A minimum of 14 students
ill be required in order to
egin the class.
answers students often ask
about why they need
additional education or
training and how this can be
accomplished. The basic
questions of students - where
to get information, when to
take action, how to make
decisions - are all answered in
these reference sources.
Leading educators agree
that far more qualified
students should go to college,
Martin added. At least 100,000
high school graduates in the
top quartile do not continue
their schooling, and many
regret it all their lives, he
explained.
Many students do not
appreciate the adantages of
higher learning while in high
school, and they are further
stymied by not knowing how
to finance themselves through
college, Martin explained.
Many other students do not
know how to train for skilled
jobs and are also unaware of
the vocational opportunities
available n various fields.
According to Marlin,
guidance counselors believe
that a considerable percentage
of the student body can be
helped by this compelling
presentation of the facts. "For
our part," Marlin continued, "a
single student influenced to
further his education and
training will justify the
expense."
Ilayesville Man Dies
n Cherokee County Jail
Hoover Curtis Sherlin, 40,
>T Hayesville, was found dead
d a cell in the Cherokee
bounty jail Wednesday
positions Are
Available
The Raleigh Interagency
f the (J. S. Civil Service
uminerc for North Carolina
nounces that applications are
eing accepted for the
ollowing positions:
tenographets and typists,
ilaries ranging from $81 to
99 per week; and one vacancy
dating in Raleigh for a
?puty U. S. Marshal, GS-6,
6321 per year, male 21 and
Applications and further
?(formation may be secured
lam J. C. Fisher at the post
UBce in Syhra, or from the
nenfency Board of U. S.
M Service Examiner*, 415
?labo rough Street, Raleigh,
k C. 27803, referring to
pommmwt No. AR-09-01.
. AppHcatioM should be filed
[1 later than January 27,
with the Board at the
morning, Cherokee County
Sheriff Claude Anderson said.
Sherlin was found at 8:00
a.m. and was taken
immediately to the Providence
Hospital where he was
pronounced dead by Cherokee
County Coronor J. C.
Townson. Townson said that
Sherlin, an epiletic. died as a
result of head injuries when he
fell apparently during a seizure.
Andetson said that Sherlin
was picked up by city
policemen for public
drunkeness around noon
Tuesday.
Townson s?id that an
autopsy indicated no foul play
was involved.
All Is Quiet
All has been quiet in
Murphy was the report given
by Chief of Police Pete Stalcup
Tuesday afternoon.
According to the Police
Chief there has been no
incidences other than arresting
a few drunks since the new
year.
With approval of the FCC,
channel 13 would be
transmitted from Andrews to
the Murphy translator, which is
located on Fain mountain. The
Fain mountain translator,
which emits only one watt of
power, effects an area of about
five miles. Anyone who
receives channel 5 from
Atlanta and lives further than
five miles from Murphy
probably would not be
affected by the rebroadcast.
'This is our last chance to
get North Carolina television
and as a result tie in with the
rest of the state," Hendrix
emphasied, "as well as being
able to pick up the third
network, which is CBS."
Almost all of the stations
received by Murphy residents
now are from Chattanooga,
Knoxville or Atlanta.
Hendrix suggested that
anyone who has any questions
about the pi anned
rebroadcasting to call the
following numbers: 837-2318
before 5:00 p.m.; and
837-3811, 837-3950, or
837 2365 after five.
Bringing in additional
thannels and the third network
to Murphy is a project of the
Murphy Jaycees.
Five Are
Inducted
Five Cherokee County men
were forwarded for induction
into the armed forces on
January 13, according to the
Local Selective Service Office.
They are Clay Edward
Hardin, Luke Edward Bayless,
Ronald Bruce Barton, Richard
Herbert Wilson, and David Paul
Ledford.
Kephart Outruns A Wildcat
High scoring Murphy guard Mike
Kephart, 25, lunges for the basket in
one of several fast break attempts by
Murphy during the third quarter of
the Murphy-Andrews game Friday
night. Murphy surged to almost tie the
game, but the Wildcats held and won
68 to ,452. , Darrel .Conley, 24 of . _
Andrews, tried to block the shot,
which was good. (Scout photo by Bill
Gray)
Calf And Steer Sales Scheduled For Murphy
The North Carolina Feeder
Calf Sales committee has
granted approval for a state
sponsored Feeder Calf Sale and
a Yearling Steer Sale to be
conducted at the Murphy
Livestock Market this year.
The Yearling Steer Sale is
scheduled for September 8 and
the Feeder Calf Sale for
September 29.
The Yearling Steer Sale will
be a new sale this year and a
minimum of 500 animals must
be consigned to the sale prior
to July 1. A deposit of $1 per
head will be required by the
State Committee at this time.
This is to insure a minimum of
500 head for the sale since the
sale will be advertised as far
away as Indiana and other
mid-western states.
No early consignment or
deposit will be required for the
Feeder Calf Sale, says Jack
Earley, Cherokee County
Extension Chairman, since it
proved so successful in 1968.
Both sales will be sponsored
Governor Bob Scott Speaks
To Beautification Committee
Mis. Mary Faye Brumby, a
member of the Governor's
Beautification Committee, has
returned from a two day
meeting in Winston Salem.
Governor Robert Scott, the
main speaker, told the
committee that environmental
control including the
elimination of man-made
ugliness and the restoration of
natural beauty - will be a major
concern in North Carolina
during the next decade.
Scott praised the work of
the beautification committee,
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which was formed by Governor
Moore in 1966, and he pledged
to help in making the state
cleaner and more beautiful.
Scott said that
beau tificat ion should begin "at
home" and said that plans are
being made to beautify the
state capital at Raleigh.
"We must clean up Hist
before we can ask others to do
it", he said.
In reference to plans to
further beautify the capital and
executive mansion, Governor
Scott said he and Mrs. Scott
Red Cross Expresses Thanks
Dear Editor:
The Cherokee Chapter of
the Red Cross is grateful to
the people of this area for
answering the call for help
at the Bloodmobile visit to
Murphy on last Wednesday.
As all of you know, the
need of blood was urgent.
And as usual, the people of
our town and of our
surrounding communities
willingly gave to help those
in need.
The success of this visit
was due to all 73 who came
to donate, to the volunteer
workers, and to all of the
people who helped us to
make the need known, such
m the WKRK and WCVP
radio station announcers
our paper, and all
individuals who passed the
word along.
A special mention should
be made of the continual
assistance of the employees
of two of our industries,
Rimco and Clifton
Precision. Their
contribution means a great
deal to the success of our
program and it is
appreciated by all of us.
To each individual who
helped us on Wednesday we
are very proud of you. We
do hope that each of you
went home with a warm
feeling of accomplishment
and of satisfaction.
It takes cooperation and
a working together to make
a success of anything.
Thanks to you ? you have
done it again.
Gratefully yours,
Mrs. Edgar Harshaw,
Chairman of the
Blood Program of the
Cherokee Chapter of
the American Red Cross
will plant flowers and shrubs
that will bloom nine months
out of the year. He said, "after
all, more folks see the outside
of the mansion than the
inside". He invited the
committee to come to the
mansion and see what a fine
job Mrs. Moore and her
committee did in redecorating
the inside of it.
Scott called beautification
essential to the development of
the state and called upon all
North Carolinians to support
programs aimed at cleaning up
the state.
The Governor's Advisory
Committee on Beautification is
a state-wide, nonpolitical,
nonprofit organization
dedicated to making North
Carolina the cleanest, most
beautiful state in the nation.
The Committee is now
incorporated with members
serving staggered terms.
Moonshine
Is Found
Forty-two gallons of
moonshine liquor were found
in a field in the Hanging Dog
Section of Cherokee County
Thursday by Sheriff Claude
Anderson, his deputies and
ABC officers.
According to Anderson, the
illegal whiskey was found in
gallon jan buried beneath a
potato patch.
Lewi* Dockery of Hanging
Dog hai been arrested in
connection with the caw by
the federal officials, Anderaon
nid.
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ASCS Office To Help
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Low Income Farmers
Roy Wilson, Chairman of
the Cherokee County ASC
Committee, annoucnes that the
sign-up for the new garden
practice will begin February
3rd. Any farm family that
makes a net income of below
$3000 could be eligible.
Interested farmers can make
application at the ASCS Office
no later than February 28th.
With this practice, ASCS
will share the cost of one half
ton of lime, 350 lbs. of 8-8-8
and 50 lbs. of 33 1/3-0-0
fertilizer, one pump-up
sprayer, insecticides and
Fire Call
The Murphy Volunteer Fire
Department rushed to a fire
call arouhd 6:00 Thursday
evening only to And a lot of
smoke and no fire.
The volunteers were called
to a garage at Graves
Chrysler-Plymouth where thick
smoke was pouring out of the
doors and windows.
Apparently someone had failed
to completely turn off a
kerosene space heater, which
produced all the smoke.
There was apparently no
damage to the garage or its
contents.
fungicides, and enough seeds to
plant a garden.
Transportation for the
materials will be arranged
through the Four-Square
Community organizations to
these families who have a need
for this service.
Technical assistance with
the garden can be obtained
upon request to the Extension
Service.
ASCS Has An Opportunity
By Bass Hyatt, Jr.
Cherokee County
ASCS Office Manager
Now this is the prescribed
procedure! In the fall of the
year, the ground is plowed
exposing the soil to the rain
and the freezing and thawing
of the winter weather. If
needed, lime is then added to
correct the natural acidity of
the soil to the level conducive
to maximum plant growth.
When the soil first turns
warm and spring breezes first
begin to blow, onions,
potatoes, and peas are planted.
Later on, a dozen other
vegetables go into the ground.
Fertilizer is added to feed
the plants and they are
protected from insects and
disease by chemicals.
Weeds are controlled by
either mulching, chemicals,
plowing or hand pulling.
Then the harvest -- a variety
Spectator Dies Of Heart
Attack During Ball Game
A 52 year-old Marble man
died of a heart attack while
'watching a basketbaH game at
the Murphy High School
gymnasium Friday night.
Venson F. West, a clearing
superintendent for Phillips
Jordan of Robbinsville was
pronounced dead at a hospital
in Murphy where he was
carried by ambulance after he
collapsed just before the end of
the third quarter of play in the
boy's game.
Efforts by several nearby
spectators to revive West failed.
His son, Ricky, plays for the
Andrews' JV team, but he was
not playing Friday night.
West had been ill with the
flu several weeks earlier.
Surviving are his widow,
Mrs. Evelyn Ford West; two
sons. Ford B. West of Mais Hill
and Richard West of the home;
three daughter, Mrs. Carolyn
White of Huntsville, Ala., Mrs.
Melva West of Raleigh and Miss
Clarice West of Southern Pines;
the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
West of Andrews; eight
brothers, Herman and Howard
by the Upper Hiwassee Feeder
Calf Association, which is
composed of both producers
from Cherokee, Clay and
Graham Counties in North
Carolina and Union, Towns
and Fannin Counties in
Georgia. The North Carolina
Cattlemen's Association, North
Carolina Department of
Agriculture and North Carolina
Agricultural Extension Service
promote, advertise and furnish
graders for the sales.
Mr. M.P. Orr, Ray Scott and
Jack Eartey repressented the
local association at the State
Committee meeting in Raleigh,
January 15.
of Murphy, Wayne of Dayton,
Wyo., Bond C. of Warwick, R.
L, Cline of Cherryville, Roy of
Atlanta, Ga., Edwin of Worth
111., and Paul West of
Pittsburgh, Pa.; two sisters,
Mrs. Bruce Newman of Akron,
Ohio and Mrs. Arnold Bryson
of Marble.
Services were held Sunday
at 3 p.m. in Andrews First
Baptist Church.
The Rev. Tom Wells and the
Rev. Wayman Lunsford
officiated. Burial was in Valley
Town Cemetery. Nephews
served as pallbearers.
Townson Funeral Home was
in charge of arrangements.
of fresh vegetables of a quality
that cannot be bought from
commercial sources which
import their produce
strawberries, tomatoes^ corn,
beans, potatoes, cabbage,
carrots, lettuce, etc. A home
garden is a poor man's horn of
plenty.
If there is a good gardener
in the family, it will never go
hungry. Garden produce can be
frozen or canned for winter
use. Surplus food can be sold.
Gardens are a measure of
ambition. Money saved by
home food production can be
spent on other things and
thereby used to raise the
general standard of living for a
family.
Some gardens are excellent,
some good, and some
consistently fail to produce.
The real work, plowing,
hoeing, and planting is about
the same for all gardens, the
successful as well as the
failures.
Gardens usually fail to
produce because of the lack of
fertilizer, lime, fungicides,
insecticides, and good seed.
Some people, needing money
at planting time cannot spend
what is necessary for these
materials.
The ASCS has designed a
program to help these low
income, rural people buy the
necessary materials for a
garden.
This year, ASCS will shate
the cost to low income (below
$3,000) farmers of the lime,
seed, fertilizer, sprayer,
fungicides and insecticides
necessary for a garden.
Instructions will be given to
the families as to the proper
use of these materials. Futher
technical assistance with the
gardens will be furnished by
the Extension Service at the
request of the farmer.
ASCS believes that better
gardens, better diets, fewer
doctor bills and stronger
people will be a result of this
program.
Last year, a family in
Cherokee County produced a
garden without the benefit of
lime or fertilizer. Yet, they did
all the work that goes into
making a garden. ASCS now
has this family on a little list.
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Hiwassee Dam Students Cited As Essayists'
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Eleven Hiwasssee Dam students are represented
in Young America Speaks, a national anthology of
high school essays. Since selection is based on best
contributions from high schools throughout the
United States acceptance is a signal honor to the
writing ability and mental perception of the
accepted essayist*. Pictured above, seated, left to
right, Lynda Gaddis, Wanda
Sampson (sponsor),
left to right, Karen
Greene, Bruce Voylea,
I otherow, and Atoca Long. Not shown is
Shields.
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