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The Cherokee Scout i0(
and Clay County Progress Per Copy
Volume 79 - Number 42 - Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina - Thursday, May 8, 1969
The Rev. Thomas V. Wells and Mrs. John Dickey
prepare to take large bites of earth in ground breaking
ceremonies recently held for the Broyhill Home for
Children. The Home will be located on a 96 acre tract
between Waynesville and Clyde and will provide care
for about 50 boys and girls from Western North
Carolina. Rev. Wells and Mrs. Dickey are chairmen of
the Founders and Builders Program for Cherokee and
Clay Counties.
Groundbreaking Ceremony Held
For Baptist Children's Home
Groundbreaking ceremonies
for the Broyhill Children's
Home were held Saturday,
April 26.
The Home, named in honor
of the J. E. Broyhill family of
Lenoir, N. C., generous friends
and supporters of the Baptist
Children's Homes for many
years will be built in various
phases, with the first phase
calling for two-family cottages.
The remaining structures will
be erected as money is
received. They will include two
additional family cottages,
providing for 12 children each,
a superintendent's home and
multi-purpose for 12 children
each, a superintendent's home
and a mulit - purpose campus
center.
At a cost of $634,000, the
home will provide group care
for about 50 boys and girls in
W.N.C., and will serve as the
center from which will radiate
the varied services of the
Children's Homes.
An estimated 300 persons
attended the event held on the
site of the home, a 96 acre
tract located on Jones Cove
Road in Haywood County
between Waynesville and
Clyde. J. C. Broyhill of Lenior,
president of Broyhill Industries
and a long-time beneficiary of
Baptist Children's Homes,
Pictured from left to right are,
Lawrence Beal, Charles Garland,
Dickey Davis, Jim Jordan, Harry
Smith, Bill Travis, Winston Craig,
Arthur Hayes and Curtiss Hewlett.
Jaycees Install New Officers
The Murphy Jaycees
installed new officers to serve
during the 1969-70 year at
their annual banquet held at
the Milton Inn in Blaireville,
Ga., Thursday night.
During the ceremonies,
Curtis Hewlett outgoing
president was presented the
?outstanding Murphy Jaycee
?ward by Jim Church,
President of the North Carolina
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Jaycees. This award is
presented annually to the
young man who the general
membership of the
organization feel has done an
outstanding job for the club.
The vote was by secret ballot
at a meeting in April. No one
knew the results of the ballot
until it was announced at the
banquet that Hewlett was the
winner.
Church also installed the
new officers for the club. They
?re: President, Bill Travis; First
Vice - President, Winston Craig;
Second Vice ? President, Harry
Smith; Secretary, Jim Jordan;
Treasury, Arthur Hayes; State
Director, Lawrence Beal;
Director, Charles Garland;
Director, Dickey Davis;
Director, Curtis Hewlett and
Lonnie Hoover, Parliamen
tarian.
turned a spade of dirt signaling
the ceremonial start of work
on the project.
Actual construction isn't
expected to begin until mid -
summer. Architects are now
completing plans for the
project and bids will be sought
while the site is being
landscaped.
Two-thirds of the money
needed to finance construction
has already been pledged. A
total of $420,253 had been
pledged on April 26. Cherokee
and Clay Counties have
contributed $31,765 to the
home. Only one county of the
17 counties involved have
contributed more than
Cherokee and Clay, according
to Mrs. John Dickey,
co-chairman of the Founders
and Builders Program.
Haywood Associates is the
leading contributor.
Dr. W. R. Wagoner, Baptist
Children's Homes president,
announced that Hugh Starnes
of Asheville, who has been a
counselor for the Homes
among mountain families, will
be superintendent of the
Home.
Anyone wishing to make a
pledge should contact Mrs.
John Dickey at 837-3701.
ABC Station
A construction permit has
been issued to WLOS
Television Station, a division of
Wometco Interprises
Incorporated for the
construction and installation of
a translator station in Murphy.
The translator station will
relay the signal from WLOS T.
V. to viewers in the Murphy
area.
The equipment for the
translator is in order and it will
be about three or four we
weeks before construction will
begin, according to WLOS. The
new station will broadcast In
the Murphy on Channel 6.
Nations First Coronary Care Network Dedicated;
Cherokee County Hospitals Participate In Program
The nation's first network
of acute coronary care units,
installed in eight community
hospitals serving a 3,000 square
? mile area in Southwestern
North Carolina, was formally
dedicated at a ceremony in
Cullowhee.
Dr. Hugh Matthews,
president of the State of
Franklin Academy of Medicine
and director of health services
at Western Carolina University,
was master of ceremonies at
the dedication which drew
some 200 area lay and medical
leaders.
Mayor and Mrs. Cloe Moore
of Murphy, who are very active
in the State of Franklin
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attended the ceremonies.
The coronary care units -
have been installed in hospitals
at Murphy, Waynesville,
SSylva, Cherokee, Andrews,
Bryson City, Franklin and
Highlands.
The units are used to help
compensate for the lact of
local heart specialist. The
coronary units in the eight
participating hospitals maintain
around ? the - clock telephone
tie in with a monitoring and
consultative center at the
Bowman Gray School of
Medicine at Winston - Salem.
The idea of establishing a
network of up ? to - date
coronary care units on a
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regional basis was first
proposed in August, 1967, by
the Health Council of the State
of Franklin. The proposal was
made to the North Carolina
Regional Medical Program,
which has undertaken to asses
and apportion the statewide
medical needs with special
emphasis in heart disease,
cancer and allied diseases.
Six patients have used the
coronary unit in the Murphy
Providence Hospital, to date.
Mr. Ernie Young of Murphy
was the first to use the unit, on
October 26, 1968. All six
patients have responded to the
use of the unit, therefore
making it 100''? successful. Dr.
Waiter Mauney is director of
the coronary unit and Mrs.
Ramona Hendrix is supervisor
of the unit.
The District Memorial
Hospital in Andrews received a
unit approximately the same
time as the Murphy hospital.
'I wenty to 25 patients have
used the unit in Andrews.
Eavesdropping Pays Off
City Policemen Tommy
Palmer and Roy Almond
overheard several Murphy men
invite others to a drag race on
Highway 64, Monday moming
2:15 p.m.. Figuring they were
invited the policemen followed
the group and saw three cars
racing east toward Murphy on
the four-lane highway in front
of Townson's Lumber
Company.
Three persons were arrested
for pre-arranged drag racing.
The three drivers of the cars
that were arrested were Clifton
Scroggs, 22, of Murphy, Marvin
Dockery, 20 and Kenneth Mills
21, both of Rt. 5, Murphy.
They were each placed under
$1400 bond. Arrested for
aiding and abetting were
Charles Ray Stiles, 19, of
Murphy, Ronnie Rogers, age
not given, of Murphy and
Richard Hughes 21, of
Blairsville, Ga. They were
placed under $1000 bond each.
Chief of Police Pete Stalcup
reported six other arrest were
made over the weekend. Four
persons were arrested for
public drunkness, one for
driving under the influence and
one for disorderly conduct.
Sister Mary Francis Xavier,
Administrator of the Providence
Hospital stands beside the coronary
care unit which was recently dedicated
at a ceremony in Cullowhee.
Residents Owe $347,881
To County In BackTaxes
Cherokee County residents
owe a total of $347,881 to
their county in unpaid taxes,
Mrs. Pete Stalcup, Cherokee
County's accountant and tax
collector said this week. This
figure represents unpaid taxes
for 1968 as well as all past
years.
According to the figures
released by Mrs. Stalcup, the
total amount of taxes assessed
on county residents in 1968
was $476,730. This figure
includes taxes on all personal
and real property, poll taxes
and late listing fees.
Of the $476,730 to be
collected, only $369,866 has
been collected as of May 1.
This leaves a balance of
$106,834 of unpaid taxes for
this year.
"Tax collections so far are
ahead of last year," the tax
collector said. "A majority of
the people paid their taxes
before February 1, the date
they must be paid before a
penalty is assessed."
L. L. Mason, Jr., who, as the
county attorney is responsible
for collecting the back taxes,
agreed with Mrs. Stalcup onthis
year's collection. "I think most
of it can be attributed to the
fact that most everyone is
working and that times are
good," Mason explained.
"People have been unusually
good in paying their taxes as
Body Found
In Nottely
The body of a 34 year old
fisherman who drowned
Saturday night in Nottely Lake
was found Monday in 100-feet
of water.
He was identified as Don
Edward Keasler, a Cherokee
County native who lived in
Dalton, Ga.
He was reported missing by
his wife after he failed to meet
her at the lake at 8 p.m.
Saturday.
According to Mrs. Keasler
her husband and a companion,
Truett Dunn of Dalton, had
spent Saturday fishing on the
lake.
Dunn returned to shore late
in the afternoon and left
Keaiier who said he would fish
until 8 p.m.
Rescue teams from Murphy,
Andrews, Haywvtlle and
Blairsville, Ga., joined In the
?Mich.
compared to previous years,"
he commented.
The county accountant
keeps the records for the three
mok recent years in her office
and tries to collect by sending
out bills each year. What she
does not collect after keeping
the records three years is
turned over to Mason for
collect ion.
Delinquent taxes prior to
1968 amounted to $294,130
on June 30, 1968, but $53,483
of this amount has been paid
since then. This leaves a total
of $240,647 in delinquent
taxes prior to 1968.
As the county attorney.
Mason has the power to bring
suit against the property
owners to satisfy the lein, and
garnish wages and attach bank
accounts in order to collect.
However, Mason has not used
any of these measures recently.
"In the past I have brought a
number of suits against
property owners to collect
back taxes," Mason said. "But
as I said, people have been
good about paying and I
haven't brought any suits in
the past few years," the
attorney said.
Mason brought out one
important fact indescribing
some of the problems in
collecting taxes. "Any man or
woman who owns property
knows that he or she owes a
tax on that property. That is
the law here and everywhere
else, too."
Mrs. Lovingood Named
Cha irman Of Committee
The Cherokee County
Chamber of Commerce
announced that Mrs. Lena
Lovingood was appointed
chairman of the Murphy
Merchants Committee at a
Monday night meeting. Mrs.
Lovingood will appoint a
committee to work with her to
organize and unite the work of
the merchants.
At the meeting the Chamber
received information that the
Jaycees are sponsoring a
Welcome Wagon for the new
arrivals in Murphy for the July
4 celebration. Mr. Dicky Davis
is chairman of the Welcome
Wagon Program. The Chamber
donated $100 to aid the
Jaycees in the Welcome Wagon
Program.
After the Chamber had
finished its business meeting,
Mr. Buck Rose of the Jaycees
reported on several Jaycee
projects.
All members and interested
persons are urged to attend the
next meeting of the Cherokee
County Chamber of
Commerce, which will be held
June 2, at 7:30 p.m., at the
Power Board Building.
Scout Troop Atteads
Cadette Girl Scout Troop
212 attended Pisgah Council
annual Rounderee at Bear Den
Campgrounds near Spruce
Pine, N. C., from April 27
through April 29.
The girls enjoyed being
together, cooking and eating
out, and sleeping in tents.
Those girls who attended
the Rounderee were: Denette
Hubbard, Patrol Leader,
Deborah Radford, Debbie
Dockery, Linda Carlson, Susan
Hatchett, Martha Singleton,
Jane Mason, Teresa Davis, and
Betts Edwards.
Carlyle P. Matheson Resigns; Board
Seats First Woman To Commissioner Post
Carlyle P. Matheson
resigned his seat from the
Cherokee County Board of
Commissioners effective
Monday, April 28 and the first
woman in the history of
Cherokee County took a seat
on the board.
Miss Emogene Matheson,
sister of the retiring
Commissioner will serve as
County Commissioner, thus
becoming the only woman to
serve on the Board of
Commissioners.
Miss Matheson said "with
the help and cooperation of all
board members I will try to
serve all the people of
Cherokee County to the best
of my ability".
Mr. Matheson who had
served on the Board for two
and one-half years is still a
patient at the District
Memorial Hospital in Andrews
recuperating from a heart
attack he suffered
approximately six-weeks ago.
In a statement to the Board of
Commissioners, Mr. Matheion
?aid, "Due to physical illness I
regrettably find it difficult to
attend meetings and otherwise
properly discharge my duties as
member of the Board of
Commissioner* of Cherokee
County. I therefore, hereby
regretfully submit my
resignation at Commissioner
effective, Monday, April 28.
Miss Etnogene Matheson takes the
oath of office for a seat on The
Cherokee County Board of
Commissioners. Mias Matheson the first
woman to serve on the Board of
Commissioners is taking the seat of her
brother, Cartyle, who was forced to
retire becauee of ill health.
Don Ramsey, Cherokee County
Clerk of Court gives Miaa Matheeon the
oath of office.