The Cherokee Scout
10 c
and Clay County Progress Per Copy
Volume 79 - Number 52 - Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina - THURSDAY-JULY 17, 1969
t House Of Fashion
At New Location
The House of Fashion,
previously located in the Regal
Hotel Building are now at a
new location in the old Dickey
Theatre building on Tennessee
Street by the Henn Theatre.
In 1966 the store was
opened under the name of Lois
and Nancy's Dress Shop. On
June 14, 1968 the name was
changed to The House of
Fashion when Mrs. Avis
Phillips joined the
organization. Due to increasing
business the management
decided to relocate.
Grandopening began
Tuesday, and will continue
through the remainder of the
week.
( Go by and see the new
i House of Fashion.
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Murphy Police
Arrest Twelve
Over Weekend _
Twelve persons were
arrested by the Murphy Police
Department over the weekend,
Murphy Police Chief Pete
Stalcup reported Wednesday.
Stalcup said that eight
persons were arrested for
public drunkeness, two for
driving under the influence,
one for wreckless driving and
one for driving on the wrong
side of the road, causing an
accident
Murphy Rotary Club Install Officers
Jay Gernert, outgoing president of
the Murphy Rotary Club congratulates
Jack Earley, incoming president of the
Rotary Club for the year 1969 and
1970 at their installation banquet held
Monday at O "Dell's Restaurant. Other
officers installed were: Secretary,
Lloyd Hendrix; Treasury, James
Helton; Board of Directors; Lonnie
Hoover, William Brackett and Wendell
Hedden. Rotary International will have
their annual convention in Atlanta in
May 1970.
"A 25 lb. Catfish For Bait"
Clarence Davis, right, holds the 25'A lb. catfish he
caught Saturday in the Hiawasaee Lake, Davis said that
when he started to pull the fish into the boat a "much
larger fish" grabbed the 26V4 lb. fish by the tail skinning
it for approximately eight to ten inches. Davis said that
the "larger fish" must have weighed between 50 and 60
lbs. He said that after he got the fish into the boat that
he just had to sit down and rest because of all the
excitement Jack Ingle, center, and Larry Stiles, left,
were with Dayis when he caught the cat
Bookmobile
Schedule Set
The schedule for the
Nantahala Regional Library
Bookmobile for the week of
July 21 in Cherokee County is
as follows:
Monday, July 21, Hanging
Dog, Boling Springs, Fair's
Store, White Church, Owl
Creek.
Tuesday, July 22, Unaka,
Upperbeaverdam, Ogreeta,
Grape Creek.
Wednesday, July 23,
Peachtree, Brasstown, Folk
School.
Thursday, July 24,
Culberson, Macedonia, Hot
Houae, Ranger.
The Nantahala Regional
Library Staff welcomes new
stations. For more information
on bookmobile service call
Nantahala Regional Library,
phone 837-2025.
Look For Winner
Of VIP Trip
NaxtWaek
Levi Strauss & Co. Proposed Plant
Court Holds Heavy Session
Honorable Judge Felix E.
Alley, Jr. presided over a heavy
docket of the Cherokee
County District Court, held
Monday and Tuesday, July 7 ?
8.
Driving under the influence,
speeding and public drunkeness
topped the list of cases heard
in the two day session.
Proceedings before the two
day court were:
State vs Carroll Brown
Lcdford Charge: Driving under
the influence. Plea: Guilty
Verdict: Guilty. Pay fine of
$100.00 and cost of court, and
surrender driver license.
State vs Fred Mosteller,
Charge: D.U.I. Plea: Guilty.
Verdict: Guilty. Pay fine of
200.00 and cost and surrender
drivers license.
State vs. John Lee Colvard.
Charge: D.U.I. Plea: Guilty.
Verdict: Guilty. Pay One of
$100.00 and cost, and
surrender driver license.
State vs Larry Boone
Massey. Charge: Reckless
Driving. Plea: Guilty Verdict:
pay fine of $25.00 and cost.
State vs. Doyle White.
Charge: Driving while license
revoked. Plea: Guilty. Verdict:
Guilty, prayer for judgement
continued until July 22, on the
condition that defendent pay
fine of $200.00 and cost.
State vs Doyle White.
Charge: D.U.I. Plea: Guilty.
Verdict: Guilty, prayer for
judgement continued until July
22 on condition that the
defendent pay fine of $100.00
and cost and surrender driver
license.
State vs Robert Estep.
Charge: D.U.I. Plea: Guilty.
Verdict: Guilty, prayer for
judgement continued until July
22.
State vs Larry Joe Newman.
Charge: Speeding Plea: Guilty
Verdict: Guilty, pay fine of
$25.00 and cost and surrender
drivers license.
State vs Sye Birch field.
Charge: P. D. Plea; Guilty.
Verdict: Guilty, pay fine of
$10.00 and cost.
State vs Samuel Lewis
Moore. Charge: D.U.I.;
concealed weapon. Plea:
Guilty, Verdict, Guilty, D.U.I,
pay fine of $100.00 and cost
and surrender drivers license.
Concealed weapon, pay fine of
$25.00.
State vs Eugene Robinson.
Charge: P.P. Plea: Guilty
Verdict; Guilty, prayer for
judgement continued on
payment of cost, until 22.
State vs Francis Lorene
Derreberry. Charge: D.U.L
revoked license, no insurance,
no registration. Continued
until next session.
State vs William David
Crisp. Charge: reckless driving.
Plea: Guilty, Verdict: Guilty,
pay fine of $25.00 and cost.
State vs Jim Chitwood.
Charge: Cruelty to Animals,
Plea: Guilty: Verdict: Guilty
prayer for judgement
continued on payment of coat.
State vs Claude McLean.
Charge: D.tJ.I. Plea: Guilty.
Verdict: guilty, pay fine of
$100.00 and cost and
surrender drivers license.
State vs Johnny Leroy
Phillips. Charge: Speeding Plea:
guilty. Verdict, guilty, pay fine
of $60.00 and cost and
surrender license.
State vs Carl McKinely
Gibby, Jr., charge: Reekie*
Driving Plea: Guilty, Verdict.
Guilty, pay fine of $25.00 and
coat.
State vs Thomas Cary
Wilson. Charge: Expired plate;
no Ins.; no Imp; r. D. Plea;
Guilty Verdict; guilty, pay Am
525.00 and coat.
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State vs James Edward
Radford. Charge: Speeding,
plea, guilty. Verdict: Guilty,
pay fine of $25.00 and cost
and surrender license.
State vs Jack Dean Dockery.
Charge: O.U.I. Plea: Guilty
Verdict; Guilty, prayer for
judgement continued until July
22, on payment of cost and
surrender of license.
State vs David Sheridan
Kephart. Charge: follow too
close. Plea: Guilty Verdict:
guilty, prayer for judgement
continued on payment of cost.
State vs Albert McClure.
Charge: P. D., 2nd offense.
Plea: Guilty, Verdict; Guilty
prayer for judgment continued
on payment of cost.
State vs Gary Williard
Johnson. Charge: Reckless
Driving Plea: Guilty Verdict:
Guilty, prayer for judgement
continued on payment of cost.
State vs Herbert Michael
Hogan. Charge: revoked
License license. Plea: Guilty.
Verdict: Guilty, pay fine of
$200.00 and cost.
Continued on page 2
Jaycee Fishing
Rodeo Winners
The Jaycees report that a
lot of nice fish were registered
in the 1969 Hiwassee Lake
Fishing Rodeo. The contest
began May 1 and ended July
4th.
M. G. Curtis of Murphy,
won the contest for the overall
largest game fish with his 9 lb.
9V4oz. walleye pike. He
received an inscribed trophy, a
True Temper rod and Pflueger
551 Spinning Reel, donated by
the Jaycees and Campbells
Store.
Larry Conley of Rt. 4,
Murphy, won a spin-cast rod
and reel donated by Hughes
Supply with his first place 2 lb.
5 oz. white bass.
Johnnie McDevitt of
Marshall, N. C., caught a 7 lb 7
oz., Largemouth Bass to win a
Revelation Rod and Zebco 33
Reel donated by Murphy
Western Auto and Murphy
Hardware.
Kenny Morrow of Route 4,
Murphy, caught the largest
Smallmouth Baas at 3 lbs. 10
oz. He received a Revelation
rod and Heddon 100 spin-cast
reel donated by Murphy
Western Auto.
The largest cripple was a 1
lb. 7 oz. fish, caught by Clyde
Kernie of Rossville, Ga. He
received a tackle box from
Carolina Hardware and lures
from Shooka Boat Dock.
The contest for largest
bream was tied with two 12 oz.
fish. These were caught by L.
C. Clark of Chattanooga and
Tom Ramsey of Murphy. The
Cies were a Berkley Travel
k fly rod given by the
Jaycees and a Johnson 088
spin-cast reel given by Shooks
Boat Dock.
Levi Strauss & Co. To Build New
55,000-Square-Foot Plant Here
Levi Strauss & Co.
announced that construction
will begin soon on a new
55,000 - square ? foot
manufacturing plant here. The
new plant will replace a facility
Levi's has operated here since
1963 in the 20,000 - square -
foot Alverson building.
The new million - dollar
plant, a one ? story model of
production efficiency, is
scheduled for completion in
November. It will employ more
than twice the 300 working at
the present facility.
The new plant will be
located approximately 2 miles
East of Murphy on U. S. 19.
Horace Cannon, Levi's plant
manager since 1965, will
continue as manager of the
new plant.
The Murphy plant's
production has been
exclusively Levi's Sta-Prest
permanent press sportswear
pants. About 6 million pairs
have been made there in the six
years Levi Strauss has operated
here.
Peter E. Haas, executive vice
president, described the
construction as an important
step in the company's
continuing program to update
and upgrade all of its facilities.
Levi Straass also is building
new plants in Wichita Falls,
Tyler, and San Angelo to
replace older and smaller
facilities in those Texas cities.
Levi Strauss, which has
annual sales of more than $200
million, is the world's largest
manufacturer of men's and
boys' pants and has a rapidly -
growing Levi's for Gals
women's sportswear division.
Long considered to be
family - owned by descendants
of Levi Strauss, the company
actually has had employee
stockholders for many years
and brought itself within the
SEC jurisdiction rather than
change the policy of
broadening that ownership.
Latest figures show 43
family members and trusts
hold about two-thirds of Levi
Strauss & Co. stock and more
than 480 employees hold the
balance. The non-family
holdings are comparable to
those in some actively traded
"publicly-owned" stocks.
Levi Strauss started the
business, which made his first
name one of the best known in
American history, when he
came to California in 1850 to
become a Gold Rush
merchant. His initial
merchandise sold, except for
canvas he thought would be in
demand for tents and wagon
covers.
"You should have brought
pants," Strauss supposedly was
told by a prospector weary of
the wav trousers wore out in
the Mother Lode. So the
canvas was tailored into sturdy
pants and soon miners were
clamouring for "those pants of
Levi's."
The firm - it became a
partnership in 1853 - dealt in
dry goods and continued to
make pants in the same basic
style that has become a classic:
snug, low on the hips, tapering
in the legs. There were two
major innovations. Denim had
replaced canvas and Strauss
insisted that - for uniformity it
be dyed indigo blue. . .the
genesis of blue jeans. Then, in
the 1860's, the reinforcing of
pockets with- copper rivets
proved such a good idea it was
patented.
Levi Strauss & Co. was
incorporated in 1890 with four
nephews of Strauss, a bachelor,
taking more important roles in
the business. He continued as
its head, however, until his
death at 83 in 1902.
The company dropped its
bedding and domestics
wholesaling right after World
War II, its sweaters, socks and
knitwear department about
1950 and a department that
sold "workshirts and that type
of thing" was allowed to dry
up.
Walter A. Haas, Sr.,
president from 1922 - 1955,
and his brother-in-law, Daniel
E. Koshland, president from
1955 - 1958, headed the firm
as the transition began. They
started bringing in young men
with executive talent. . .now
the average age on the 15 -
member board of directors,
exclusive of Mr. Hass, Sr.
(chairman of the board) and
Mr. Koshland (chairman of the
executive committee), is 47
with 19 years with the
company.
Diversification also began,
both of product line and
geopaphically. After the war
Levi Strauss had just 15
salesmen, none east of the
Mississippi Now it has 275.
The move East was started by
retaining a six-men marketing
organization in 1947 and
acquiring it two years later.
'Then we did something
very basic, "Walter Haas, Jr.,
said. "We concentrated on
what was then the teen-age
market. We've continued that
and as the population grew we
broadened our appeal to keep
the people we got as customers
at that age."
Then in January 1968 at the
age of 117, the company
decided to chase girls and
initiated its "Levi's for Gals"
division.
Today Levi Strauss has 29
plants in nine states plus others
in Canada, Mexico, Belgium
and Hong Kong. No overseas
production is sold in the U. S.
Distribution is handled from
three major facilities in this
country and centers in Canada
and Belgium. The company has
more than 12,000 employees.
Harrlee Quattlebaum
Construction Co., Inc of
Florence, S. C., will be the
contractor for the new plant.
Major H. B. Tucker is shown
presenting the Bronze Star Medal, the
Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal and
Combat Infantryman Badge to Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil S. Jones of Unaka. The
awards were posthumorously presented
to Mr. and Mrs. Jones' son, Private
Loren C. Jones, who died on March 19,
1969 while serving in the Republic of
Vietnam.
Loren C. Jones Receives
Decorations Posthumously
Major H. B. Tucker, U. S.
Army was at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil S. Jones, Unaka,
Saturday, July 12, for the
purpose of presentation of the
awards given to their son,
Loren C. Jones, lulled in action
in Vietnam, March 19, 1969.
Prior to death, Jones had
been awarded the National
Defense Service Medal,
Vietnam Service Medal,
Vietnam Campaign Ribbon,
Expert Badge with rifle bar and
the Marksman Badge with
Automatic rifle and machine
gun ban.
Awards given posthumously
were the Bronae Star Medal
with First Oak Leaf Cluster for
heroism. Purple Heart, Good
Conduct Medal and Combat
Infantryman Badfe.
The citation 0vm with the
Bronze Star with "V" Device
(First Oak Leaf Cluster) war
"For heroism in connection
with military operations
against a hostile force. Private
Jones distinguished himself by
heroic actions on March 19,
1969, while serving as a squad
leader with Company C, 2nd
Battalion, 12th Infantry in the
Republic of Vietnam. While in
their night defensive position.
Company C came under
intense Ore from a company
size North Vietnamese Army
force. Upon contact with the
hostile*, Jones immediately
positioned his men In iU?te0i
locations to repute the hostile
force. When he received a
report that then was a
listening post team to the front
of his position. Jones checked
his unit's firs unto the Maadfer
element returned. While
moving from position to
position checking on the
welfare of his men, Private
Jones was fatally wounded by
enemy fire. His valorous
actions were instrumental in
Thworting the insurgent force.
Private Jone's personal bravery,
aggressiveness and devotion to
duty are in keeping with the
highest traditions of the
military service and reflect
gnat credit upon himself, hit
unit, the 26th Infkntry
Division, and the United States
Army."
Private Jones, (later Cpi.
Jones), was a paduate of
Murphy High School in the
daas of 1966. Before entering
ssrrice he was anpioywl by
Foote end Davies of D ma Hie,
District Softball Tournament
To Begin Friday, July 18
The Far West District
Softball tournament will get
underway Friday Night, July
18th at the Robbinsville High
School in Robbinsville.
Heritage Quilts of Bryaon City
and the Snowbird Maroons of
Robbinsville become the flat
of the twenty-two entries to do
battle as they take the field at
6:15 in the first of a four-game
opening night.
In all some 44 games will be
played over a thirteen-night
period before the champion is
determined on Monday night,
August 4th.
Back to defend their
championship won last year
will be Texana of Murphy, who
will make their first appearance
against Elmo's BiUards of
Robbinsville in the 7:15 game
Friday evening. Weakened by
the loss of several of Last year's
I?**5 to the armed forces
Texana must rate the
darkhoae roll in this yews
tournament.
Baaed on league play in
their respective towns and on
the reailts of some intra-city
P?y the roll of favorite would
nave to fall between Na-Bers
2?e-In ?r Bryson City and
CM ton Precision of Murphy.
Still there is no dear cut
favorite and anyone of the ten
teams is capable of carrying
home the championship
trophy.
Other teams that must be
pven consideration are Rimco
Manufacturing, currently
jesting in second place in the
Murphy League and who have
?dded several players from the
Independents, second place
finishers in the tournament last
year; American Legion Post
No. 192 is currently resting
aeeurely on top of the
Robbinsville League and were
third place finishers last yew,
Sealtest, leaders of the
Andrews League and
ninners-up in the district two
years ago; Heritage Quilts of
Bryson City; Bell Creek, the
top Clay County Team; and
the Triplets of Robbinsville
who are out to break the jinks
of suffering first round upsets
jn the two previous
tournaments.
Other games on opening
night will find the Orange Owls
riK.R^inSvi,le taUn* on
Coble Dairy of Murphy at 8:30
while at 9:30 the American
tangle with
'?pa-Cola from Bryson City.
Saturday night will again aw
a four game evening as Texaco
of Andrews and R.C. Cola of
Uck off the Ud at
6:15, followed by Bell Creek
!nd ?**k of Bryson City at
7:15, at 8:15 Magnavox of
Andrews takes the field ?
W.O.W. of Murphy, while
Murphy Citizens Banfc
Atariu ring down the curtain at
J. 30.
Na-Bers will see their first
action Monday at 7:30 m thev
tangle with the winner of the
Texana - Elmo's encounter in
all three punes wfl be nlaiai
both Mo^r^ w^toSS
?t 6:30. CUfton
"?adon wfl make their Bret
appearance in the Wednwday
?Uy 23rd final, rtarthuT.t'
8:45. -mag "
The tournament is
being qxuHond by the
Robbinevile Lions Chib and