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The Cherokee Scout
and Clay County Progress
Volume 80 _ NUMBER 14 Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 ? Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina ? THURSDAY? OCTOBER 23, 1969
INSIDE
EDITORIAL
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SPORTS
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SOCIETY
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CLASSIFIED
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Airplane Crash Fatal For Graham Pair
Funerals were held Tuesday
r J. Boyd Crisp of
bbinsville and Mrs. Tony
ers of Tapoco. both killed
Wednesday of last week
when the Crisp plane crashed
in Polk County.
Crisp, a member of the
State Highway Commission
representing Cherokee, Clay,
Graham and Swain counties,
regularly flew his own plan e.
He piloted the four-place,
blue-and-white Cessna off the
runway at Murphy- Andrews
Airport on a flight to Raleigh
and was never heard from
again.
Mrs. Ayers, an employe of
the Graham County School
system, was to attend a
meeting of the State Extension
Homemakers Club in
Greensboro. Crisp was to
attend an SHC equipment
committee meeting in Raleigh.
The funeral for Crisp was
held at 2 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon at First Baptist
Church in Robbinsville,
attended by Gov. Bob Scott,
who cancelled a speaking
engagement in Murphy.
Burial was in Bear Creek
Cemetery with full military
rites by American Legion Post
192 of Robbinsville, of which
Crisp was a member.
A Robbinsville businessman
and civic leader. Crisp was
appointed July 30,1969 to the
Highway Commission. He was
a native of Graham County, a
veteran of World War U and a
member of the Sweetgum
Baptist Church.
Crisp served as sheriff of
Graham County from 1958 to
1962. He owned and operated
the J. B. Crisp Clearing and
Contracting Company.
Surviving are the widow,
Mrs. Elizabeth P. Crisp; three
daughters, Mrs. Maurice Orr of
Robbinsville, Mrs. Robert
Everleigh of Chantilly, Va. and
Miss Tammy Crisp of the
home; a son, Mitchell Crisp of
the home, a step-son Tony
Carringer of Atlanta; his
mother, Mrs. Amanda W. Crisp
of Robbinsville; three sisters,
Mrs. Lewis Shook, Mrs. Delmas
Shuler and Mrs. Keith Crisp, all
of Robbinsville, six brothers,
Arnold and Booth, Jr. both of
Robbinsville, John of
Knoxville, Tenn., Harold and
Ralph, both of Cleveland,
Tenn., and Frank Crisp,
stationed at Shaw AFB, S. C.;
and five grandchildren.
Services for Mrs. Ayers were
held Tuesday morning at 10:30
in Holy Redeemer Catholic
Church in Andrews. Burial
followed in Old Mother Church
Cemetery in Robbinsville.
A native of Youngstown,
Ohio, Mrs. Ayers lived in
Graham County for 24 years.
Surviving are her husband,
Tony T. Ayers; two daughters.
Misses Cheryl and Antonia
Ayers, both of the home; her
mother, Mrs. John C. YValko of
Campbell, Ohio; five sisters,
Mrs. Mary Antonitz of Long
Beach, Calif., Mrs. Lucy
Baraneich and Mrs. Betty
Tacsik both of Youngstown,
Mrs. Ann DelDuchetto of
Niles, Ohio, and Mrs. Teresa
Tokasy of Hubbard, Ohio;
three brothers, Carl and Frank,
both of Campbell, and John
Walko Jr. of Newcastle, Pa.
The search began on
Thursday of last week,
headquartered at the
Murphy-Andrews Airport with
Civil Air Patrol Col. Foy Reese
of Asheville in command.
Units of the U. S. Army
from Ft. Bragg, on maneuvers
in this area, joined the search
with several helicopters and
there were a number of private
pilots who flew over the
mountains and rescue squads
from Graham and Cherokee
CRASH SITE. ... remote section of Polk County
(Photo courtesy of Hendersonville Times-News)
Sailplanes
Soar Over
Cherokee
Sailplane enthusiasts and
families came to the
Murphy-Andrews Airport last
weekend fo r the annual
two-day meet of the
Mid-Georgia Soaring
Association.
The pilots and their families
brought the motortess aircraft
in on special trailers, assembled
them on the airfield and then
were towed off by light planes,
releasing the tow cable when
they were 2,000 feet above the
ground.
On Saturday they raced
against the dock for the best
time to the airport at
Ducktown, Tenn. and back.
They on Saturday, 16 of the
sailplanes competed in speed
runs to Murphy and back.
There were several
unscheduled landings when
pilots ran out of updrafts to
ride but these are common in
their sport, the wife was
usually there quickly with the
trailer and the craft was simply
disassembled, loaded on the
trailer and taken back to the
airfield for another flight.
Silent Aircraft Compete Here
Powerless sailplanes, unable to fly without the
anstance of a tow plane, lay scattered about the
lurphy-Andrews Airport last weekend as a Georgia
paring group held a two-day meet. In the distance, a
"plane pilot finishing a speed run to Murphy banks
in approaching the runway for a landing. In the top
picture, a pilot settles into the snug one-man cockpit
as his young crewmen attach the tow rope and give
the sleek fiberglass craft a final polishing. (Staff
Photos)
Rating
Explained
Providence Hospital will
offer a booklet explaining
accreditation to the public in
the near future.
Accreditation is often
discussed and the term is used
freely in conversations about
the Murphy hospital but few
people know the complete
story and Sister Mary Raphael,
the administrator, has ordered
the booklets, which will be
available at the hospital.
Accreditation, as hospital
patients and visitors will read,
is a rating which is not
compulsory but is sought
voluntarily by a hospital. When
a hospital is accredited, as
Providence is, it means that
hospital has high standards of
patient care and is trying to
improve its services.
Four organizations form the
Joint Commission
Accreditation of Hospitals
which grants the certificate
displayed in the Providence
waiting room. These are the
American College of
Physicians, American College
of Surgeons, American
Hospital Association and
American Medical Association.
The hospital seeking
accreditation asks the Joint
Commission to send a physican
to make a personal survey. In
the survey, he applies
Commission standards against
what the local hospital has in a
physical plant, staff and
adminstration, nursing service
and other facilities.
The Catholic Sisters of
Providence came to Murphy in
1956 and although the hospital
here had provisional approval
by the Joint Commission for a
few years, accreditation was
not granted until 1968 and
that was for only a year. Then
on July 17 of this year,
Providence won accreditation
for three years.
Accreditation is based on a
number of factors but the
training of the Sisters
obviously weighed heavily
There are 10 of them here; one
works at their dwelling, the
other nine work in the hospital
and some of them qualify to
fill two positions. y
They indude a certified
registered nurse-anesthetist
according Sister Mary Raphael,'
9 registered record librarian, a
registered medical technologist,
a non-registered lab technician!
a registered X-ray technologist
a registered dietician, four
registered nurses and a licensed
practical nurse.
Andrews Builder
Gets Roof Job
The Cherokee County
Board of Education voted
ruesday night to give the
roofing job at Hiwassee Dam
School to Neal Matheson - if
the county commissioners will
provide the money for the
project.
Five bids to put a new roof
on the elementary section of
the school were considered in
the meeting in Superintendent
John Jordan's office.
Matheson's Andrews Builders
Supply Co. was low and got a
hearty endorsement from
another bidder, Nelson
Hensley, who was present at
the meeting.
Hensley had bid $8,512;
John D. Owenby of Andrews
bid $8,470; William Creason of
Andrews bid $8,470 not
bonded or $9,075 for a bonded
job; Ross Hatchett, Murphy,
bid $9,680.
Matheson bid $7,780 to do
an unbonded job or he offered
to put on the new roof with a
20-year bond for $8,324. His
description of the job he would
do also topped all others,
offering several "extras."
After the bids were opened,
Hensley laughed and said
Matheson's bid was better than
his own. "Neal's offering the
best roof you can get," he said.
"As a citizen, I suggest you
give the job to Neal
Matheson."
The roof will be built up of
alternate layers of tar and felt,
topped with a layer of marble
chips which reflect heat of
sunlight away from the roof.
The Board of Education
hopes to get the go-ahead from
the county commissioners so
the job can be finished before
cold weather begins.
3 Hurt
In Wreck
Three people suffered minor
injuries and the car they were
riding in was totally destroyed
Monday afternoon in an
accident at Tomotla.
Trooper P.J. Miller said the
1967 Plymouth, driven by
Patricia Ann Baker, 16, of
Murphy, went out of control
on rain-slick U.S. 19, ran down
a bank and ended up in a
shallow creek.
The driver,- 17-year-old
Brenda Sagmon, 17, of
Murphy, Route 3; and
two-year-old Rebecca Ramsey,
same address, were all treated
and released at Providence
Hospital in Murphy.
The officer said the car,
owned by Glenn Robert
Lovingood, Route 3, Murphy,
was damaged beyond its
market value. There were no
charges.
Boyd Crisp
counties which provided
ground crews.
There were reports from the
Wayah Bald section of Macon
County that a plane with
engine trouble had been heard
about the correct time on
Wednesday morning, followed
by an explosion. Helicopters
and fixed-wing aircraft flew
over the area repeatedly but
found nothing.
CAP planes flew the route
Crisp would have taken to
Raleigh and saw no clue to the
missing plane. The autumn
foliage, beautiful for sightseers,
made it impossible to see much
of the ground in any wooded
area from the air.
There were a number of
false alarms on Thursday and
Friday, the "plane" turning
out to be rocks or deserted
cabins and "signal fires"
proving to be burning brush...
On Saturday, two men in
Mrs. Tony Ayers
Polk County's Green River
Cove section went looking on
foot. They had no phones but
they had heard a plane in
trouble on that Wednesday
morning and had tried to get
word to the proper officials
but had had no response.
Early Saturday afternoon
they found the wreckage, the
bodies burned and
dismembered beyond
recognition. The plane was
identified as the Crisp craft.
A CPA spokesman said the
aircraft apparently hit the tops
of some trees about 250 feet
from the point of impact,
sheared into the ground at an
angle, bounced and caught fire.
Debris was scattered over
several hundred yards.
A Federal Aviation
Administration team will
investigate, Col. Reese said, to
try to determine cause of the
fatal crash.
Governor Comes To Murphy
Governor Bob Scott canceled a Tuesday speaking
engagement in Murphy to attend the funeral of
highway commissioner J. Boyd Crisp in Robbinsville.
Tuesday morning, however, Scott did visit Murphy
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