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The Cherokee Scout IOC
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Volume 79 Number 34 . Murphy. North Carolina - March 13. 1969- - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy. North Carolina
Uurphy Man
|ci I Is Self
Wendell Helton, a middle
|ed man who lived just west
Murphy, killed himself with
rifle shot to the head around
oon last Saturday, according
Cherokee County Sheriff
||aude Anderson.
Helton, a father of four
llldren, was employed at the
Copper Company,
nderson said. He reportedly
himself in the head with a
le shot 22 rifle.
Anderson said that Helton
no notes to give any
ns for his committing
ide.
four Are
'Arrested
uring Week
| Four people were arrested
Wing the week by the
purphy Police Department,
hief of Police Pete Stalcup
?id Tuesday.
r One person was stopped for
riving under the influence and
pree were picked up for public
ninkness.
[ Fortunately, the police chief
Ud, there has not been but
Ine major incidence in the
t>wn since the first of the year.
i
Slippery Road Cause Of Accident
An Andrews High School student bus driver
escaped injury when the bus he was diving slipped off
a narrow gravel road in the Marble community last
Thursday. The bus rolled down an enbankment and
would have ended up in Valley River had it not been
stopped by some trees. Fortunately, there were no
passangers in the bus at the time other than the
driver, who was Dale Palmer of Marble. (Scout photo
by Jim Morgan)
Bank Of Franklin To Open
New Branch Office In Murphy
Frank Duncan, president of
The Bank of Franklin,
announced this week that their
new branch bank will open for
business In Murphy on Friday,
March 21.
Plans have been in the
making for nearly a year to
establish a branch in Murphy,
Duncan said. The State
Banking Commission and the
Federal Depodt Insurance
Corporation have approved the
bank's application for the
branch bMik, which will open
in a mobile bank trailer located
on Tennessee Street, across
bom McDaaieis Chevrolet.
These temporary quarters will
be used only until a permanent
office can be constructed.
"A full-service bank is
planned for Murphy," Duncan
said, that will serve Cherokee,
Clay and Graham counties".
He added that The Bank of
Franklin has great confidence
in the future growth and
economy of this tri- county
section of Southwestern North
Carolina and they feel that this
particular section of the State
is just beginning to grow. The
bank plans to use their
resources to help make
Southwestern North Carolina a
better place to work and live,
Duncan stated.
Keeping pace with the
changing times, The Bank of
Franklin became a par bank in
1955. "Competitively high
interest rates have been paid on
customers' savings accounts for
many yews," Duncan said,
"with liberal lending policies
being extended to small
businesses, farmers and home
owners with particular interest
being placed on the financial
needs of the working man. "
The Bank of Franklin is one
of the oldest banking
institutions in North Carolina,
being founded in 1903. "The
bank's growth record is
excellent", Duncan stated,
"showing a rapid growth from
one and one-half million
dollars in resources in 1944 to
resources better than ten and
one-third million as of January
1, 1969."
Bloodmobile To Be In
Murphy On March 19th
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
will be in Murphy on
Wednesday, March 19 from
1:00 to 5:30 p.m. at the
Murphy Power Board building.
Mrs. Edgar Harshaw,
chairman of the Cherokee
Chapter, said that this will be
the last visit until July. "We
urge everyone that can possibly
come to please make an effort
to do so," Mrs. Harshaw said.
According to Mrs. Harshaw,
thery have been two cases of
emergency where blood was
needed during the past two
weeks. 'The call that went out
for donors was answered," she
said, "and we do appreciate the
response of those who came
out to help their fellow
Cherokee countians in their
time of need. It is a good
feeling to know that you have
helped to save someone's life."
Since there will not be
another visit for over three
months, Mrs. Harshaw asks
that everyone please put forth
a very special effort to be there
and to bring someone with
you.
"Let us all do our best to
make this trip a success," she
repeated. "As you know it is a
wonderful, worthwhile
program."
January Savings
>tate Of Franklin Meeting
scheduled For April 9th
The State of Franklin Health
ouncil meeting that was
rifinally scheduled for
ebruary 26 has been set for
'ednesday, April 9.
The meeting, which will be
roken down into an afternoon
id an evening session, will be
svoted to a discussion of
ivironmental health problems
f the State of Franklin.
Guest speakers scheduled for
e evening session are Dan
cCracken, Sanitarian,
tywood County Health
?partment, John D. Faulkner,
egional Assistant
ibrary Board
lolds Meeting
The members of the
intahala Regional Library
lard met Tuesday, March t,
>69 at headquarters library in
iirphy. The matter of
proving a tentative budget
r the Regional Library for
?9-70 was an important item
the agenda.
The members present were:
A. Singleton, Chairman,
trie Davis and Vincent Crisp
> resenting Cherokee County,
s. W. T. Groves and Mrs. Ed
irtis representing Clay
unty, and Mrs. Felix Palmer,
irarian.
Administrator from
Charlottesville, Virginia, and
William A. Broadway, District
Environmental Health
Consultant.
The topic of the evening
address and panel discussion is
consumer protection and
environmental health, with the
address being given by
Faulkner.
This meeting is part of the
annual meeting of the
Environmental Health
Committee of the State of
Franklin.
Induction
Takes Nine
From County
Nine Cherokee County men
were forwarded for induction
into the armed forces Monday,
according to Frankie
Roberson, Executive Secretary
of Local Board No. 20.
They were Donald Ray
Decker, Hoyt Gene Brown,
Verl Wayne Roberts, Steve
Carlton Adams, Rickey
Hamilton Palmer, Harold Neal
Kephart, Donald Hugh Jones,
Jack Dixon Posted and William
Randolph Fox.
Nineteen registrants were
forwarded to Knoxville for
physical examination.
Murphy City Schools Mark Third Year
In Elementary Education Act Project
The past week Murphy City
Schools completed its third
year with the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act.
Much has been accomplished.
The money received by the
school system from this federal
act has afforded many
youngsters opportunities that
would have never been
possible. In our local situation,
federal aid has been good.
The hub around which the
entire project revolves is
Remedial Reading. Research
proved that a large percentage
of the student body was
reading below grade level. If
children cannot read, they will
never master other areas of the
curriculum. With much needed
federal money and many hours
of planning, a reading program
was developed to meet the
needs of children who
encounter more than normal
difficulties in grades three - 12.
Test results revwl amazing
progress to date.
Basic elements composing
the reading program were
construction of three reading
classrooms and the
employment of three qualified
reading teachers. Children are
assigned to these instructors
for 40-minute period daily.
Class size never numbers over
ten pupils so individual
attention may be given every
case. It should be mentioned
that individual instruction of
this type would cost at least
ten dollars per hour if given by
a private teacher on a
university campus.
In addition to a remedial
reading program, federal funds
have made possible a number
of services: (1) The school now
has money to buy shoes and
clothing for needy children. No
child leaves Murphy City
Schools in need of cloth >sg. (2)
Federal money now provides
free lunches for over 150
students. (3) The school has a
full time nurse on duty for the
entire school day. (4) Children
from families of humble means
now get free dental work, eye
examinations and glasses,
minor corrective surgery,
examinations for loss of
hearing and hearing aides. (5)
The school has employed a full
time band director and a full
time guidance counselor with
funds from this project. If it
had not been for this type
financial aid, most of these
services would not exist.
A great deal of equipment
has been purchased. The school
system has a complete line of
modern audio-visual aides, new
band instruments, office
machines, and furnishings, and
physical-education equipment,
Murphy City Schools can now
offer h comprehensive learning
program never before available.
The Elementary and
Secondary Education Act has
provided in-service training for
teachers. Instructors from
Western Carolina have offered
extention courses designed to
keep teachers abreast with the
latest teaching methods and
techniques.
Another valuable portion of
the program has been summer
school for all children living in
the Murphy City School
district. The school has offered
summer programs for the past
three years with courses in
reading, art, band, creative
writing, drama, physical
education, foreign language,
and library services. The school
could not have financed this
without federal assistance.
One item more commonly
misunderstood in the beginning
p retained to the teacher aides.
Salaries were greatly
exaggerated by some in the
community. True, teacher
aides are financed by federal
money, but salaries paid only
constitute a very small
percentage of the over-all
budget. Aides have proven
valuable in the project. The
average "take home pay" per
aid is approximately $82.11
monthly.
Federal aide to education is
here to stay-at least to some
degree. In the case of small
administrative units, it has
proven to be a blessing.
Opportunities and services
never before available are now
a reality. It is an investment in
our community that will pay
dividends many years to come.
Our youngsters now have an
educational program that will
compare to any in the state.
Bond Sales Best
In 22 Years
Sale of U. S. Savings Bonds,
Series E, in North Carolina
during January amounted to
$5,692,688, an increase of 1.4
percent over sales in January of
last year.
Freedom Share sales of
$333,599 were up almost 49
percent over a year ago and
were the highest for any month
since they went on sale in
1967.
Combined sales amounted to
$6,080,287 and were the best
January sales in 22 years ~ up
2.4 percent over 1968.
According to Bland W.
Worley, State Volunteer
Chairman, special
Share-in-America promotions
will be held in North Carolina
during 1969 in Greensboro and
Winston-Salem for the purpose
of increasing sales of Savings
Bonds and Freedom Shares
through the Payroll Savings
Plan. 'Today, with the
ever-present threat of inflation,
it is essential to spread the debt
more widely into the hands of
individuals through this safe
and proven form of public
financing. The Savings Bonds
Program was conceived so as to
accommodate those persons
who want to buy and hold the
securities of their Government;
consequently, over 23 percent
of the publicly held portion of
the national debt is in the
hands of individual owners. It
is important that the Savings
Bonds Program continue its
successful performance, and we
know that all North
Carolinians will respond to this
call to action," Mr. Worley
said.
During January, sales in
Cherokee County were
$35,315.00, which is 11.4
percent of the County's 1969
quota of $310,365, according
to W. L. Christy, Cherokee
County Volunteer Chairman.
Taylor Questions Educators
WASHINGTON ~ U. S. Rep.
Roy A. Taylor wants to know
what federal educators have
been doing to help stop
campus disorders.
In a letter to Robert H.
Finch, secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare, the
Hth District Congressman has
Jaycee Boss Of The Year'
Robert Rogers, left, owner and
operator of Rogers Electric Co. in
Murphy, received the " Boss Of The
Year" award from Jaycee President
Turtiss Hewlett March 6. This is an
annual award given by the Murphy
fayc*es to ? boas of a Jaycee who has
given the most outstanding support to
the club during the previous year.
Other nominees were Joe Ray,
Kenneth Godfrey and J. C. Hilton.
This is the first year that the Murphy
Club has presented this award. (Scout
photo by Jim Morgan).
asked for an accounting of the
department's compliance with
a new law designed to help
crack down on federally-assist
ed college students.
Contained in the 1968 HEW
appropriations act, the
provision requires that students
receiving loans under federal
programs convicted for "use of
force, trespass or seizure of
property" be cut off from
futher financial aid.
"Have college authorities
been instructed to give you a
list of students convicted of
such violations," demanded
Taylor.
He also advised the HEW
secretary:
"I am much concerned with
the threats, intimidation and
outlaw activity occuring on
college and university
campuses. The rights of the
majority of students are being
abused.
"Students should have the
right to study and teachers a
right to teach without riots,
vandalism and other nonsense
being perpetrated by an
irresponsible minority.
"Of course, the primary
responsibility for law and order
on college campuses must rest
with college authorities; and in
my opinion, unless these
authorities have the backbone
to resist the activists' groups,
there will be a complete
breakdown of discipline in our
educational system."
However, the Congressman
observed: "Congre? and
federal agencies have a
responsibility to take every
action poasible to stop these
disorders and unlawful
activities,"
Milestones In The History Of Cherokee County
BY MRS. LOUISE A. BAYLESS
(Editor's Note: This is the
seventh of a series of articles on
the history of Cherokee
County as written by Mrs.
Louise A. Bayless of Murphy.)
1927- 1930
A community room (Keith
House) was to be dedicated.
Plans have been completed for
the dedication of the
community room at the John
C. Campbell Folk School at
Brasstown, September 4th.
Prominent visitors from two
nations will be present The
welcome address was by the
Hon. John H. Dillard,
Attorney. Several prominent
citizens from Denmark will
participate in the dedication
exercises.
Fire destroys a plant.
Cherokee roller mills with
damage estimated at $8,000.
An international motorcade
was to arrive in the city at
noon, September 5, 1927
Originating in New Orleans and
mobolizing to great strength in
Atlanta, the Appalachian
Scenic Highway International
Motorcade, sponsored by the
Atlanta Journal will arrive in
Murphy Monday, September
5th and be escorted to the
Cherokee Park and Fair
Grounds for a luncheon by
citizens of Murphy. The
Motorcade will add new can to
its rank in each city along the
route to Quebec, and will leave
Murphy at 1 o'clock and will
proceed over the ASH through
the beautiful Valley River
valley, Nantahala Gorge and on
to Asheville, which will be the
first night stop-over after
leaving Atlanta. Murphy Lions
Club of which W. Mercer Fain
is president will be in charge of
the luncheon
The Muprhy school opened
the 1927-28 session. Bryan W.
Sipe was superintendent.
Walter C. Witt secures
agency for three Western N.C.
counties to handle the
Hudson-Essex for Cherokee,
Clay and Graham, with
headquarters at Murphy. A
garage and showroom will be
located in East Murphy and the
building is now under
construction.
Six hundred gallons of beer
and two stills are destroyed.
Moonshiners and bootleggers
were given set - back when
Sheriff Deveroux Birchfield
and Deputies J. L. Rose and
Avery Pu Ilium destroyed two
40-gallon stills about ten miles
below Murphy on the
Hiawanee River. The officer*
arrived upon the scene only to
find that the blockaders had
gotten away. A boat was used
to transport the still across the
river.
-1928- Murphy owns a fine
hydro-electro plant and
transmission lines and controls
the sale of electric power in
this section. T.N. Bales is
power manager. The plant ia
located on the Notla River
about two miles from Murphy
and Is thoroughly modern and
up-to-date in every respect It
develops about 500
horsepower of electrical power.
Elder E. Hedden who is
appointed to as probably the
first pastor of the Murphy
Baptist Church. Mr. Hedden 's
descendants are now living in
the upper Hiawassee Valley
and near Hayesville ? Elder
James Kimsey, one of the first
pastors of the Murphy Baptist
Church, is the grandfather of
Dr. George W. Truett, now
pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Dallas, Texas. Some
resemblance can be seen. The
Rev. T.L. Sasser, present
pastor, came to the church in
1922. His labors have been
rewarded by the erection of
the splendid new church that
has doubled the membership
and a greater spiritual growth.
-1929- The Coca-Cola
Bottling Company is a big aaet
and Murphy is fortunate in
having its own bottling
establishment in that way it
can keep in the city the money
that would otherwise go
outside, says J.V. Brittain,
manager of the Coca-Cola
Bottling works here. The
Company is a branch of the
Asheville Coca-Cola Company.
The water supply of Muphy
is unexcelled by that of any
other city anywhere. The city
owns its own watershed and its
water supply cornea from
mountain springs and cracks
whose waters are protected by
enclosures. The water is
chlorinated as an addtiociaJ
precaution. The supply Is
sufficient for a city of $10,000
popuation. The source of water
is about three miles from
Murphy. The water is brought
to the city by gravity, having a
pressure of from 80 to 90
pounds in the city mains. This
gives ample fire protection
with the necessity of using fire
engines and pumps. (We
presently have two fire engines
and pumps. The city also has a
complete sewage disposal
system plant.)
Mr. A. J. Burns, who
conducts a wholesale and
retail, hay, grain feed-stuff, and
heavy grocery business in this
city states, "Every factor that
enters into the progress is
present in Murphy and the
business men are big boosters
so we are going to keep ahead
and become a greater
Murphy." The buaness of Mr.
Burns was established in June,
1923 and has shown steady
growth.
Playgrounds and parks are
provided by the town.
Riverside Park and playground
lies on the banks of the Valey
River. Cherokee Park embraces
eight or ten acres of ground,
also on Valey River , and is
jointly owned by the city and
county and used for
recreational purposes such as
baseball and for the annual
County Fair. It hv just
recently been acquired.
Murphy has coosoHdatied
schools and food roads. The
W
where there are only poor
roads.
Dr. E. E. Smith says
Murphy is very healthy. "The
reason I choae Murphy to live
in is because I believe it is one
of the healthiest places in this
section of the State."
Headlines in The Cherokee
Scout - Welcome to New
Comers - Murphy, A City of
Opportunities. The town of
Murphy is always (lad to
welcome any visitors or new
comers within her walls. The
latch string of cooperation
than in Murphy. There are
tremendous opportunities hen
for new budness enterprises
and manufacturing industries
and those seeking delightful
sites for home will find this an
excellent location. This is true
today 1968, as it was back in
1929.
STOCK MARKET CRASH
Compare our conditions
now with those of om year
ago, in our city and cminty.
Both railroads will toil you that
1929 was a good year, and that
the present month exceeds Jan.
1929, in both shipping, freight
and express deliveries- Both
banks, the Murphy Bank mt
the Cherokee Bank, wfl Ml
you that money on deposits is