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The Cherokee Scout iOC
and Clay County Progress Per CopY
Volume 79 - Number 46 _ Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina - THURSDAY-JUNE 5. 1969
Mrs. Bennett Wins
Two Press Awards
Mrs. Lorraine M. Bennett, a
reporter for The Atlanta
Journal, has received two
Associated Press newswriting
awards.
Mrs. Bennett is the daughter
of Mr. and Mis. A. J. Martin of
Route 2, Murphy. She is a
1961 graduate of Murphy High
School.
Mrs. Bennett won the award
with five other reporters for
their work on "The Two
Atlantas," a 14 -part series that
appeared last summer in the
Journal. The series was an
in-depth study of Atlanta's
racial problems.
The awards were given by
the Georgia Associated Press
Association last week in
Savannah. The awards were in
the public service and
sweepstakes categories, and
were given for outstanding
performance by a reporter,
quality of writing, and
importance of the news.
GLEN SWAIN
Swain Ass ig ned
Job In England
Glen Swain of Marietta, Ga.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Pearl
Swain of Rt. 1, Murphy will
, leave for England June 6.
Swain is a member of the
Lockheed Ga. Research Center,
and will be on an extended
special work study assignement
in a Rolls Royce facility at
Hucknell, Nottinghamshire
England.
His wife, the former Retha
Fleming of Peachtree will
accompany him on the trip.
They also plan to tour Europe.
Their two children, Steve
and Suzanne will stay with the
Swain grandparents while their
parents are abroad.
Fiddlers
The second annual Fiddlers
Convention, sponsored by the
Murphy Jaycees, will be held
June 14, at 8:00 p.m. at the
Murphy High School.
Musicians from Georgia,
Tennessee, South Carolina and
North Carolina will be
participating in the event.
Awards will be given to the
three best bands, three best
banjo players, three best guitar
players and the three best
fiddle players.
Admission will be $1.00 for
adults, pre-school children will
be admitted free.
The Devil and I have had
lots of trouble in our time.
'Somehow or other we two
never could get along very well
together, although we have
been very closely associated,
and 1 have found his assistance
quite indispensable in the
printing and newspaper
publishing business.
He has been at my elbow
with annoying persistency day
in and day out, and sometimes
it has been hard to tell which
was boss of the office.
Strangers coming in during
busy hours would think he was
running the concern and '
occasionally I have been in I
doubt on that point myself.
Saturday nights in the office I
of the Whisky Slide s
Bungstarter used to be trials to '
the soul of the able editor of <
that enterprising journal. There <
was always the devil to pay <
then, and advertisers used to '
think the paper ought to take I
its pay in quartz-crusher*
amalgamating pans and S
windmills, which were not legal t
tender in the camp. 4
She's A Winner
Mrs. Lona Davis smiles as she receives her VIP Six
Flag certificate from Tom Gentry, president of
Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce and a
$50.00 check from L. D. Schuyler, advertising
manager for the Cherokee Scout. Mrs. Davis winning
ticket was drawn from over 20,000 enteries
submitted for the first six weeks of the contest. Mrs.
Davis winnings was worth over $350.00 i n cash
and prizes.
Mrs. Lona Davis Is Winner
Of First Six Flags VIP Trip
Mrs. Lona Davis of Murphy
is the winner of the first Six
Flags VIP Trip.
Mrs. Davis winning entry
was drawn from over 20,000
registration tickets that had
been entered during the first
six weeks of the Six Flags VIP
Contest. The drawing was held
Thursday in downtown
Murphy with Gene Farmer of
Collins Crain and Tom Gentry
Mike Kephart
Signs Grant
It has been announced that
Blanton's Business College has
signed to a basketball
grant-in-aid Mike Kephart, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn T.
Kephart of Murphy.
Kephart, a renowned high
school basketballer in Western
North Carolina, is coming to
Blanton's from Murphy High
School. He is an all-round
athlete, excelling not only in
basketball, but also football
and track.
Kephart is a 5-foot- 10 guard
averaging 19 points and 8
rebounds per game at Murphy.
He was selected all conference
basketballer in the Smoky Mt.
Conference and has also
received all tournament.
It was in football that
Kephart was selected to all
scholastic W.N.C. second term
all conference squad.
of the Cherokee Shopping
Center supervising the drawing.
Mrs. Davis, her husband,
Boyd and their two children,
Teresa and Timothy will
receive two night's lodging at
the Airport Mark Inn Motel,
tickets to Six Flags Over
Georgia, which cover admission
fee, all rides, attraction and
featured shows, scrip in the
amount of 2.00 per person,
good for food and souvenirs
while visiting Six Flags, meals,
at the Airport Mark Inn Motel
for each member of the
immediate family, tickets to a
Mini Cinema Movie Theatre,
tickets to a Braves Baseball
game, if playing, tickets to an
Atlanta Chiefs Soccer game, if
playing and a four and a half
hour tour of Atlanta as
conducted by the Atlanta
Transit Company. The total
value of the trip is over
$350.00.
The contest will run for six
more weeks when another
drawing will be held to
determine the next lucky
family to win another Six Flags
VIP Trip. So, remember to go
by the participating merchants
and register for the trip and for
cash prizes each week. A
drawing is held each week to
determine the winners of the
two Ave dollar cash prizes.
The winning name appears
each week in the VIP page
sponsored by participating
merchants and The Cherokee
Scout.
Merchants participating in
the contest are the Carolina
Hardware, Collins Crain
Department Store, Murphy
Hardware, Cal's Supermarket,
Lay's 5 & 10, Davis Jewelers,
Graves Furniture, Nelson's
Lumber & Supply, Hughes
V
Electric, Western Auto, Hicks
Gulf Service, Lena's, Graves
Chrysler - Plymouth, Cherokee
Shopping Center, Rogers
Electric and Moore Jewelers.
Visit these participating
stores and register for the free
trip and cash prizes.
County Golf Course
Committees Announced
The Cherokee County Golf
Course Steering Committee
announced this week the
designation of the following
committees to serve in
connection with the
management of the golf course
for the first year:
FINANCE: Frank Forsyth,
Chairman, J. H. Duncan, Bill
Christy, Robert Heaton,
Herman Edwards, and Margaret
Hartman.
BUILDING, GROUNDS
AND RECREATION: Frank
Mauney, Chairman, Arthur
Jones, Glenn Matheson, Dot
Mason, Virginia Hyde, Wanda
Edwards and Everett English.
PUBLIC RELATIONS, Jack
Owens, Chairman, Paul
Ridenhour, Max Blakemore,
Louise Bayless, Dan Lamb,
Maxine Gossett, and Tommy
Gentry.
MAINTENANCE, Wayne
Holland, Chairman, Quay
Ketner, Ben Palmer, Jack
Earley, Gyp Johnson, Claude
Jones, Dan Hawk, Harold West
and Harold Wells.
MEMBERSHIP v AND
RULES AND REGULA
TIONS: Joe El Khouri, Doug
Carlson, Maudie B. Alexander,
Hobert McKeever, Bud
Alexander, Bill Gossett, Mrs.
Dan Lamb, John Goodrich,
Doris Fowler, Lonnie Hoover
and Maude Duncan.
Members will be designated
annually. For the most part,
the persons designated have
been people who have
expressed a willingness to serve
in some capacity in the
development of the course.
The committees would
welcome the help of anyone
who would be willing to serve
on any of the committees. Any
person who will serve is
requested to contact the
chairman of the committee
they would like to serve on.
The Devil As A Printing Partner
By (he way, 1 trust I have
made it clear that the devil I'm
speaking of is not the ordinary,
orthodox, personal devil of
history - the chap at whom
Martin Luther pegged the
inkstand, although there is a
striking similarity in traits, and
I have more than once essayed
the Luther act with my devil.
Whisky Slide was a hurrah
town in the Sour-Mash Mining
District. The Bungstarter was
the local paper, and I had to
take it, name and aH, or bend
the whole weight of my
ntellect to the less dangerous
t>ut more precarious pursuit of
lorse-stealing.
Being a poor rider, and
laving a shotgun that would
icatter so as to cover the door
rom the desk, I put aside
:onscientious scruples and
:onsented to mold puhlic
>pinion in Whisky Slide for
vhat I could make out of the
taper.
In the leisure hours and on
iunday I (generally melted old
ype from the hellhox and the
levil and I molded buckshot
To return to the devil and
the dance he led me. Talk
about typographical errors!
The Bungstarter committed
some of the most stupendous
typographical errors on record.
The editor had to hide out
in the chapparal for a week at a
time on account of them.
The devil's duties in the
office were numerous. He built
the fires, of course, and
interrupted the train of
editorial thought every ten
seconds by coming in and
demanding copy in a hard,
most insistent, authoritative
tone, that was calculated to
incite a riot or an editorial
revolt.
When he wasn't making a
wildeycd lunatic of the editor,
he was sticking type or
incorrecting galleys. His genius
ran mostly toward making the
Bungstarter impart interesting
and lurid misinformation of an
electric character.
The Hon. Hugh Mohan
made a witty political speech
one night, and the next
morning the Mayor "f Whisky
Slide was buried. These two
events just happened to take
place in the order mentioned,
and are not intended to be
stated as cause and effect.
The Bungstarter had reports
of the speech and the funeral
sermon in the afternoon. The
report of the speech was rather
heavy being the work of a
young man from college who
was a journalist and scraped up
local news. I told the foreman
to have the speech livened up
with the usual parenthetical
notes. He sent the job to the
devil, who got hold of the
wrong galley, of course.
When the paper came out
that funeral service was a daisy
effort. It was something like
this:
"We look for the last time
upon the features of one who
but a few short days ago was in
the prime of life and health.
(Cheers) A wise providence has
been fit to take him away from
our midst (applause), and we
bow humbly in submission He
was a kind father, a faithful
husband (laughter), a
public-spirited, upright citizen,
and a conscientious, scrupulous
man of business. (Roars of
laughter).
"Take him in all, we never
shall look upon his like again.
(Prolonged applause)."
The above is only a sample
of that sermon-report as it
appeared after the devil got
through monkeying around
with it. The Mayor's family
and friends felt hurt, and when
the minister came round and
fired six 44-caliber bullets
through the window, I inferred
from my position behind the
door of the safe that he was
also displeased.
When the ripple of
excitement had subsided. I
returned from over the divide
and wrote a touching obituary
of the journalist from Harvard
who was really a better
long-distance runner than I,
but didn't start soon enough
after the paper came out.
The unfortunate affair was
explained as a typographical
error, and the Mayor's widow
squarred herself with the
Citizens Bank To Merge With
Wach ovia Bank&Trust Company
Directors of Citizens Bank
& Trust Company of Andrews
and officials of Wachovia Bank
& Trust Company, N. A.,
Winston-Salem, have approved
plans to merge the two banks.
In separate meetings, the
executive committee of
Wachovia Bank and Trust and
the directors of Citizens Bank
& Trust Company agreed to
submit a plan for merger to
Wachovia Bank directors and
shareholders, and to
shareholders of Citizens Bank
& Trust Company. Wachovia
Bank directors will meet June
5, 1969, and shareholders will
meet on July 3, 1969, and
Citizens Bank & Trust
Company shareholders will
meet on July 3, 1969, to
consider the proposal.
The merger is also subject to
approval by government
regulatory agencies.
"It is our sincere belief that
this merger would be in the
best interests of our
shareholders, our staff and all
the people of this area," Percy
B. Ferebee, chairman of
Citizens Bank & Trust
Company of Andrews said.
"We have known our friends at
Wachovia for many years and
are confident that their
resources will certainly
encourage economic growth in
this area."
"With Wachovia's industrial
and economic development
porgrams, and its many
contacts and associations
throughout the U. S., we are
confident that together we can
do much to persuade new
industries and firms to consider
our area and thereby continue
to attract outstanding
companies to Western North
Carolina," Fere bee said.
"By combining our two
organizations we will be able to
bring even broader and more
convenient services to all our
customers, building on the
solid base established by
Citizens Bank & Trust
Company," he said.
Citizens Bank & Trust
Company of Andrews was
established October 14, 1924,
and has banking offices in
Andrews, Cashiers, Cullowhee,
Franklin, Hayesville, Murphy,
Robbinsville and Sylva. It had
$27,015,000 in deposits and
$30,549,000 in resources as of
April 30, 1969. W. Frank
Forsyth is president, W. D.
Whitaker, Senior Vice
President, and W. J. Carter
Vice President and Auditor.
The nearest Wachovia
offices are in Asheville,
approximately 92 miles from
Andrews.
Civitans To
Install Officers
The Murphy Civitan Club
will hold its annual installation
of officers banquet, Saturday
night, at 7:00 p.m. at the
Milton Inn in Blairsville.
The district incoming
Governor Tom Austin will
install the new officers.
Saturday night will also be
ladies night.
Under the plan of merger,
the Wachovia Corporation,
parent firm of Wachovia Bank
and Trust, would issue 120,000
shares of stock in exchange for
the 120,000 shares of stock
held by shareholders of
Citizens Bank and Trust.
Shareholders of the
Andrews bank would receive
one share of Wachovia
Corporation stock for each
share of Citizens Bank and
Trust Company stock they
hold at the time of merger.
Wachovia Bank and Trust,
founded in 1879, has capital
funds exceeding 1.6 billion. It
has 119 banking offices in 43
North Carolina cities.
Simmons New Manager
At Local Bank Of Franklin
Frank Duncan, President of
the Bank of Franklin,
announced this week that
Henry S. Simmons has been
named Manager of the Murphy
Branch of the bank.
Mr. Simmons joins the Bank
of Franklin after seventeen
years of experience in
financing and public relations.
He worked as field
representative for General
Motors Acceptance
Corporation in Murphy from
1952 to 1955 where he met
and married Evon Davidson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
L. Davidson of Murphy.
In 1955 he was transferred
to Chattanooga, Tennessee
where he served as credit man
until 1957 when he was
promoted to District
Representative in Cleveland,
Tennessee. In 1966 he joined
Hall Chevrolet in Cleveland as
time sales and finance manager,
remaining with this firm until
joining The Bank of Franklin.
Mr. Simmons attended
Alabama Public Schools,
received his B. S. degree from
Troy State College in Troy,
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deceased journalist by planting
dahlias on his grave.
He was a nice young man,
even befoe he was buried, but
he didn't have the "sabe" and
presence of mind requisite for
success as a newspaperman in
Whisky Slide. No doubt he has
gone to a pleasanter place,
whichever trail he took.
Another of the devil's duties
was painting bulletins with
shoe blacking. He was
scrupulously literal in that
work. One day wc had a lot of
guff in the paper about the
doings of the Legislature and
the new bills passed. The
bulletin was crowded.
I had sent down more lines
than the devil could letter in
time, so I made marks against
some of them and added an
instruction to the
matter-of-fact fiend:
"Anything marked X can be
killed." The bulletin put out
read this way:
"New Live Stock bill
passed.
Sot THE DEVIL -Pa* 2
HENRY SIMMONS
Alabama and served in the U.
S. Air Force.
He and Evon have two
children, a daughter Cecilia 14
and a son Mark 4. They are
members of the United
Methodist Church.
Mike Hughes Injured
In Camping Accident
Michael Hughes, 15 year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ed
Hughes of Murphy, was injured
in a camping accident at
approximately 9:00 p.m.,
Monday night.
Hughes and five companions
were camping in the Big Cove
Section of Jackson County,
when a tree limb fell on his
lean-to, striking him in the
head. Three of the companions
left the injured youth and
hiked three miles in the
darkness to the nearest house
on Big Cove Road, about 12
miles from Cherokee. When the
boys reached the nearest house
they awoke the occupants who
telephoned rescue workers.
Nearly four hours had passed
since the accident before help
was contacted.
Members of the Cherokee
and Swain County rescue units
answered the call for help.
They felt their way in and out
of the rough mountains where
the terrain was so steep that
the rescue workers had to use
trees to pull themselves up the
slopes.
Ten and a halfTiours after
he was injured, rescue workers
were able to carry him out of
MIKE HUGHES
the rough mountainous area in
a military type stretcher and to
the C. J. Harris Community
Hospital in Sylva.
Mrs. Hughes told the Scout
Wednesday morning that Mike
was in satisfactory condition
and that he suffered a skull
fracture, a concussion and a
broken collarbone from the
accident.
Green Beret Conduct Training
In Nantahala National Forest
By Lt. Richard Underkofler
Nearly 450 U. S. Army
"Green Berets" of the 6th
Special Forces Group from
Fort Bragg, North Carolina are
participating in a month long
field training exercise in the
Nantahala National Forest.
They will be headquartered
high in the mountains East of
Andrews, with their logistical
support base located at the
airfield in Andrews. Training
will be conducted in three
phases to last throughout the
month of June.
"A" detachments consisting
of 12 men, will first train in
mountain skills on some of the
most rugged terrain of the
Eastern United States. They
will learn land navigation
procedures for going over
mountains, if impossible to go
around them.
Following a practical
exercise problem to test their
mountain traveling skills, the
"Green Berets" will conduct
water training operations on
Lake Nantahala. Here, they
will learn expediant methods
of water navigation and
survival, expediant rafts, and
portage techniques. They will
be taught to prepare landing
zones for aircraft landings,
tested by an Army U-10
Aircraft actually landing on the
lake.
The final phase will consist
of a mock unconventional
warfare situation. The "A"
teams will be briefed on
specific missions to perform
common to guerrilla warfare,
then will be deployed
throughout the Nantahaia area
to conduct strategic patrolling
and special operations type
missions. Meanwhile, a
counterinsurgent force will be
inserted into the problem to
seek out the guerrillas and
defend vital targets.
A varied environment for
training is common for the
Special Forces soldier since he
may be called upon to perform
missions anywhere in the
world. Most of these troopers
are Viet Nam veterans and have
been trained in the snow of
Alaska to the deserts of the
South West.
i! M 1969
S W T W T f S
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Jonathan Dkkay, ton
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Dickay. Tina McKaavar,
daughtar of Mr. and
Mrs. H 06 art McKaavar.
Robart Gaa, ton of Mr.
and Mrv Laon Gaa.
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