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The Cherokee Scout
and Clay County Progress
Volume 80 _ NUMBER 11 Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina - THURSDAY - OCTOBER 2, 1969
INSIDE
EDITORIAL
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SPORTS
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SOCIETY
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CLASSIFIED
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Wally Avett. . .new managing editor
Scout Gets Editor
Wally Avett joined The Cherokee Scout this week as
managing editor, according to an announcement by
editor and publisher Jack Owens.
Avett, formerly with The Asheville Citizen, will be
responsible for the news content of the newspaper with
Owens retaining control of editorial policy.
A 1962 graduate of the School of Journalism of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Avett has
also worked as managing editor of the Statesville Record
&. Landmark, newsman for KENI-TV in Anchorage,
Alaska, general reporter for The Anchorage Daily Times
and county reporter for the Rocky Mount Evening
Telegram.
He is married to the former Geraldine Oliphant of
Mooresville and they have three children. The Avetts are
living on Valley River Avenue in Murphy.
Educational Innovations
Introduced At Hayesville
By Guy Padgett
Staff Writer
In a recent meeting with his
faculty, Bobby Burch,
principal of the Hayesville
Elementary School, told
teachers that "our school is no
better than the community
thinks it is". This writer could
very well have added that the
community will have no better
opinion of their school than
the opinion held and expressed
by the faculty and
student-body. In short, in
order for an individual teacher
to have the right kind of
influence on his or her pupils,
the pupil must respect the
character and ability of the
teacher.
The present administration
of the Hayesville Elementary
School, under the leadership of
Burch. is putting into effect
some new practices to enable
the teachers to do a better job.
Most teachers are better
qualified to teach one subject
than some other subject in
which they have little interest.
With some reasoning similar to
this, they have completely
departmentalized the seventh
and eighth grades; with the
following teachers in charge of
these respective subjects:
EIGHTH GRADE: Jack
Rogers, English and Literature;
James R. Nelson, Social
Studies and Health and
Physical Education; James M.
Kitchens, Science and Math.
SEVENTH GRADE: Mrs.
Tommy Waldroup, Math and
English, Micky Powell, Social
Studies and Health & P. E.;
Roy B. Lamkin, Science and
Literature.
Another innovation in
teaching methods is the
dividing of classes according to
ability. Classes are divided into
three levels. If a child is
especially good in math and
not so good in English, he may
be put in class Level One in
math but dropped to Level
Two or even to Level Three in
English. Thus, the fast learning
pupil is not held back by a
slow learner and the slow
learner is not rushed over
subject matter without proper
exposure.
4-H'ers
To Seek
Members
4-H Club members in
Cherokee County will join
more than three million other
youth in the 50 states and
Puerto Rico in celebrating
National 4-H Week, Oct. 5-11
There are 246 4-H members
in the county, organized in 10
clubs. They plan no specific
event but will use the week,
and the publicity attending it,
to try to get more members
and begin planning for a
Cherokee County 4-H alumni
banquet sometime in the
future.
Cherokee 4-H'ers have won
their share of competitions and
had five winners in the district
demonstration day in June in
Asheville. Lynn Loudermilk
won in the dairy foods contest,
Carlton Van Horn was the
electric winner, Lynn
Loudermilk also won in
entomology, Debra Keener
won in public speaking and
Linda Pope was tops in sewing.
Steve Thompson, another
Cherokee 4-H'er, was elected
vice president of the 4-H
Western District.
There are two adult leaders
for each of the clubs, at
Bellview, Hanging Dog,
Hiwassee Dam, Martin's Creek,
Murphy, Peachtree Senior,
Peachtree Junior, Pleasant
Valley, Tomotla and Cane
Creek.
County leadership is
provided by Jack Early, county
extension agent; his assistant,
Wendell Hedden; Pat
Thompson, home economics
agent; and two secretaries,
Nancy Lunsford and Anna Mae
Deweese.
The 4-H program is part of
the national educational
system of the Cooperative
Extension Service. Tar Heel
4-H'ers receive training through
programs conducted by N. C.
State University and the N. C.
Agricultural Extension Service
through county agricultural
and home economics agents.
"The theme of the special
observance is "4-H:
Opportunity for All,"
according to Dr. T. C. Blalock,
state 4-H leader at N. C. State
University. "Our emphasis will
be poinging out how 4-H
benefits all boys and girls ages
9 to 19, of all cultural, racial
and economic backgrounds and
also to youth who live in town
as well as in the country."
The 4-H'ers have a slogan,
"To Do The Best Better" and
their beliefs are presented in
the Leader's Creek ? "I believe
in the good earth. . .that out of
the rural homes come many of
the strong, accomplishing men
and women of the Nation. . .1
shall do my best. . .to help
build an efficient agriculture
and homes of peace, beauty
and honor all over America and
throughout the world."
Women's National Champion To Perform Here
Miss Mary Gaffaney, holder of three national
aerobatics championships, will be featured in the
Andrews-Murphy Air Show at the airport Sunday,
Oct. 5. Owner and operator of the Kendal Flying
School at Miami, Fla., Miss Gaffaney holds two
women's championships for fancy flying and a third,
won in unlimited competition. Piloting a custom -
built Pitts Special biplane, she will give a 15-minute
exhibition, climaxed by the German tumble, in which
the plane comes tumbling toward earth, end-over-end.
Mrs.brumby Named
To Jury Commission
Former State Senator Mrs.
Mary Fay Brumby of Murphy
was named to the Cherokee
County Jury Commission
Tuesday in a special meeting of
Cherokee County
Commissioners.
She will serve a two-year
term, replacing Ben Scott, who
was named originally by the
county commissioners when
the Jury Commission started
two years ago. She was
appointed on an unanimous
vote and her term begins Oct.
1.
The other two members of
the Jury Commission will
remain the same. Clerk of
Superior Court Don Ramsey
has re-appointed Joe Myers of
Route 4, Murphy and Resident
Superior Court Judge T. D.
Bryson, Jr. has re-appointed
Mrs. Helen VanGorder of
Andrews.
Ramsey is expected to
administer the oath of office to
the three early next week.
Each county in North
Carolina has a Jury
Commission composed of three
members. One member is
appointed by the senior regular
resident superior court judge,
one member by the Clerk of
the Superior Court, and one
member by the Board of
Commissioners. The appointees
serve for terms of two years.
It is the duty of the Jury
Commission to prepare a list of
prospective jurors to serve
during the next two years from
and after January 1, 1970. In
preparing the list, the Jury
Commission is required to use
the tax list of the county and
voter registration records, and,
in addition, may use any othei
source of names deemed by it
to be reliable, but is required
to exercise reasonable care to
avoid duplication of names.
The commission may use
less than all of the names from
any one source if it uses a
systematic selection procedure,
such as every second name, and
provided the list contains
approximately three times as
many names as were drawn foi
jury duty in all courts in the
county during the previous
biennium.
Hungry Thief
Cherokee County Chief
Deputy Sheriff Glenn
Holloway is looking for a
modern chicken thief ? no
squawking pullets or
telltale feathers for this
one.
The deputy reports that
a home just outside
Andrews was entered
Monday and the chicken,
ready for frying, was taken
from a refrigerator. The
thief also got a loaf of
bread and a can of pork
and beans. Nothing else in
the home was disturbed.
Handicapped
Workers Get
Top Priority
Employment needs of
handicapped workers receive
top priority next week from
the local office of the
Employment Security
Commission, manager Harley
Hendricks reported today.
He said his office will
participate in the statewide
observance of national "Hire
the Handicapped Week,"
October 6-10.
He said some employers in
North Carolina make it a
regular practice to include
handicapped persons in their
employement policies. Others,
however, believe a physical or
mental impairment eliminates
the individual from the job
market.
"This is not true," said
Hendricks. "We must convince
all employers that when a
handicapped worker is placed
in the right job, he does a good
job, often out producing his
able-bodied co-worker."
State employment officials
report that vocational
rehabilitation equips even the
most everely handicapped for
some types of jobs, and there
are very few jobs in the state
which cannot be filled by a
handicapped worker.
In Cherokee County there
are 35 handicapped applicants
registered at the employment
office. Hendricks said he hopes
employers will give these
applicants top consideration
when filling their job openings.
Levi Plant
Construction
On Schedule
By W'allv Avett
Staff Writer
Work continues apace on
the expansion of the Levi
Strauss plant, all construction
bosses confident that the new
million dollar facility will be
ready to move into by the first
of January.
The one-story,
55,000-square-foot plant is
being constructed on a knoll
across the Valley River from
US-19 about two miles east of
Murphy. And the State
Highway Commission is
building a bridge across the
river and a quarter-mile of
asphalt highway, at no cost to
Levi Strauss, especially for the
new plant.
Providing access for a
sizeable new plant is not new
according to SHC District
Engineer Bob Pattillo in
Bryson City. "We did
something similar for the
Magnavox plant at Andrews
and for American Thread when
they built at Marble," Pattillo
said.
Money, he added, comes
from a state Access Fund in
Raleigh, established several
years ago. Total cost for the
bridge and road will be about
$80,000, he said.
W. F. Jackson, boss on the
bridge part of the construction
job, said his gang's work is
nearing completion. They have
driven steel pilings into
bedrock and a private
company, on contract to the
state, will come in to place a
pre-stressed, pre-cast concrete
roadway on top of the pilings
to form the bridge.
H. G. Harper, the road boss
says his men have had to move
a lot of dirt for the fill to
support the road but will be
finished soon. Paving of the
roadway, he said, will have to
wait for warmer weather next
Spring.
Harrlee - Quattlebaum
Construction Co. of Florence,
S. C. is building the plant and
Jerry Fields is the construction
boss. His men have had good
weather recently and the
building is taking shape
rapidly, cement block - brick
facing walls well up on three
sides.
Horace Cannon, Levi's plant
manager here since 1965, said
he plans to move rhachinery
into the new structure on a
weekend early in January,
1970, and begin production at
the new site immediately. The
buildup in employment and
equipment will begin in
February, he said.
Levi Strauss began
operations in Murphy in 1963
in the Alverson Building and
employs about 300. When the
expansion is complete at the
new plant, the payroll is
expected to top 600.
The company had its
beginnings in 1850 when Levi
Strauss joined the California
Gold Rush and began making
canvas pants for the miners,
whose constant working with
rocks and hard outdoor life
shredded conventional clothing
at a rapid rate.
Today the company has
annual sales of $200 million
and is one of the largest
manufacturers of pants for
men and boys. There is also a
growing Levi's for Gals
sportswear division.
The Murphy plant's
production has been
exclusively Levi's Sta-Prest
permanent press sportswear
pants. About 6 million pairs
have been made here in he six
years of operation.
Work Gangs Labor On Levi Project
With good weather, construction
work on the new Levi Strauss plant east
of Murphy is proceeding well, walls
taking shape on three sides, top picture.
Horace Cannon, local Levi's plant
manager, plans to begin production at
the new million-dollar plant in January.
Workmen in the bottom picture labor
around pilings in the Valley River to
support a new bridge for access to the
plant. The bridge and access road will
be supplied by the state for the new
plant, costing about $80,000. It's a
common practice, according to State
Highway Commission engineers. A
concrete roadway will be laid on top of
the steel pilings and the quarter-mile
road will be readied soon, SHC foremen
say, but paving will have to wait until
warmer weather. (Staff Photos)
American
Components
To Expand
American Components,
Inc., will double the size of its
Hayesville plant when an
expansion program, now under
way, is completed.
According to Howard
Mazza, company
vice-president, the new
addition to the building will be
ready for occupancy about the
first of the year. Plant
floor-space will be doubled,
from 12,000 to 24,000 square
feet and the number of
employees will be increased
from the present 75 to 150.
Mazza, his wife and two
small children have been living
in the Quail a community. They
recently purchased the R. L.
Long house on MDI Street.
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