Cherokee County United Fund Drive Over Goal
I The Cherokee County United Fund has gone
Kpast its goal of $30,000 with nearly
,000 in pledges reported Tuesday.
Hobart McKeever, president of the United
rund and co-chairman of the fund-raising drive
rith Tom Gentry, made the announcement,
tying $33,900 has been pledged and a few
tore late donations are still coming in.
"We can't name everybody who helped to
sake it such a success," McKeever said.
However, I do think a public vote of thanks
hould be made for Tom Gentry and the work
t did and especially to Lee Nichols for heading
te drive in Andrews."
McKeever said any surplus will be no
problem since some of the agencies supported
by United Fund indicated that they would like
to have additional money, not included in the
budget, for special expenses. An addition!
organization also may be added, he said, if
there is enough surplus money.
Cash collections are running at least 75 per
cent ahead of the rate seen last year, he noted,
with about $10,000 of the money actually in
hand. The rest is in pledges and will be coming
in throughout 1970.
The total pledge was divided as follows:
Cherokee County industries donated $13,150;
their employes pledged another $10,840; retail
businesses accounted for $5,596; gifts from
individuals were $4,314.
The largest donations, McKeever, added,
were Magnavox, which gave $3,500 as a
company gift; another $3,500 which was
pledged by employes at Magnavox; and $4,100
which was pledged by employes at Berkshire
International.
The 1970 United Fund budget, approved by
the budget and admissions committee, is
$1,982.67 for Carolinas United; $875 for the
Murphy Kiddie Park; $3,500 for the Boy
Scouts of America; $932 for 4-H clubs in
Cherokee County; $500 for the county
Community Development Council; $3,000 for
the Girl Scouts.
The Cherokee County Rescue Squad will get
$2,500; the Murphy High School Band is to get
$1,000; the American Red Cross is to receive
$5,371; the Andrews Lions' White Cane Drive is
scheduled for $350; the Andrews Rescue Squad
is to get $4,000; the Andrew Little League is
to be paid $650.
The budget calls for $350 for the Midget and
Mite football program at Andrews; $800 for
Andrews Youth Recreation; $300 for
maintenance of the swimming pool at Andrews;
$400 for Andrews Christmas Cheer; $600 for
the White Cane Drive of the Murphy Lions;
$2,250 for the Murphy Combined Recreation
Program; $900 for Murphy Christmas Cheer.
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COPY Volume 80 ? Number 21 ? Murphy, North Carolina 28906 ? Second Class Postage Paid at Murphy.North Carolina ? Thursday, December 11, 1969
Pipeline Project
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^Maying water pipe for the Marble Service land, be stored in a large ground
?community water system in the level tank and then flow by gravity
?Almond Creek section. The water will down through this pipeline to Marble..
^Communities Score In Improvement Contest
With Tomotla leading the
Cherokee County scored
avily this year in the annual
Minify competition of the
theville Agricultural
lopment Council,
i The council held its awards
>n in Asheville Saturday
Tomotla won in-the youth
Ion, recognized for having
most outstanding youth
in the 18-county
stern North Carolina area.
'Tomotla also won second
hftze in the regular community
pprovement contest for
ununities of 75 - 150
ilies. The youth division
[n paid $150 for the second
> in the community judging
irned the Tomotla
immunity Club another
Peachtree, which
represented Cherokee County
in the competition for
development of communities
having over 150 families, won
an honorable mention and $50,
as did Texana, the Cherokee
representative in judging for
communities of under 75
families.
Approximately 100
communities in the
westernmost 18 counties are
judged in the improvement
contest. The winners in the
three divisions were
Bethlehem, McDowell County,
the under-75-family judging;
Hooper's Creek, Henderson
County, in the 75 - 150
bracket; Newfound, Buncombe
County, in the 150 families
and over division.
More than $5,000 in awards
was presented to the area
winners at the luncheon, held
at noon in the Asheville City
Auditorium. The speaker was
Lieutenant Governor H. P.
(Pat) Taylor of Wadesboro.
Included in the businesses
providing the money for
awards were American Enka
and the American Thread Co.
According to club officers,
Tomotla probably impressed
the judges with its active youth
programs and the degree of
participation by youths who
are members of the community
dub. The Tomotla Community
Club has over 100 young
members and they all
participate in some youth
program, such as Boy Scouts or
4-H, and many of them are in
more than one program.
The Scout program for
example, was started and is
sponsored in Tomotla by the
parent community club. Hie
Tomotla Community Club,
officers say, also started a 4-H
Club for its young members
and recently has been
instrumental in beginning a
Cloverbud club for youngsters
who are not old enough yet to
join the regular 4-H club.
There are also members of
the community club who are
active in Girl Scouts, Future
Ho me makers of America,
Future Farmers of America
and church-related youth
programs. Their participation,
plus the success they display
with the many prizes and
awards the Toaiotla youngsters
have won in their respective
organizations, were felt to be
the major factor in winning the
award.
Young members of the
Tomotla Community Club do
not have a separate
organization of their own, it
was explained, but do have two
representatives who speak for
them to the club leaders, Lynn
Loudermilk and Debra Keener.
The Tomotla Community
Club's second place finish in
the improvement contest was
due in large part to the various
projects the club members have
completed around the
community center, according
to club president Edwin
Manchester.
He explained that this year
the club finished paying for the
building, a former schoolhouse
which was purchased from the
county. The club also painted
the building and refinished the
floors, erected a sign and
bought chairs and tables for
the dining room, holding three
fund-raising suppers during the
year.
The Tomotla Community
Club also remodelled the
interior of the Tomotla Baptist
Church, he said, and provided
40 adult leaders for the various
youth projects.
| Deputies Grab Still
} The Cherokee County
?iffs Department seized a
copper still Friday
emoon in the Beaver Creek
tion near Andrews.
FChief Deputy Glenn
lloway said the action was
! result of a tip given officers
an unidentified person. No
have been made yet in
[connection with the raid.
?Holloway and Deputy
Lesard Radford said they found
the still, heated by a wood fire,
warm when they arrived. It had
been made, they said, by
soldering two copper tubs
together and had a capacity of
about 30 gallons.
The officers also seized 60
gallons of mash and the bow
saw and axe the still operators
had been using to cut wood for
the fire.
Cherokee Winners
^Cherokee County community clubs won $550 in
prize money last Saturday as the annual development
for Western North Carolina were presented in
Left to right are Mrs. Bessie Carter,
nt of the Texana Community Club, which won
for an honorable mention; WiUard Hembree, vice
president of the Peachtree club, which won $50 for
an honorable mention; Edwin Manchester, president
of the Tomotla club, which won second place and
$300; Linda Pope, member of the Tomotla club,
which also won $150 for its youth program.
Texana, Marble Funded
For Water Systems
More lhan a quarter of a
million dollars in federal funds
was signed over to two
Cherokee County communities
last week for construction of
water systems.
Texana and Marble will each
have a community water
system within a few months as
Wells and West, Inc., the
contractor for both projects,
had construction well under
way this week.
The Texana Community
Non-Profit Water Corporation
got a grant from the Economic
Development Administration
for $45,800 to build its system
tnd a loan of $20,800 from the
Farmers Home Administration,
which is to be paid back by
fees charged water customers.
Marble got a $100,500 grant
from EDA for its system and a
loan of the same amount from
FHA. Its system will be larger
than the one at Texana, serving
more people and covering a
wider area.
Robert Bruce, who heads
the local FHA office, explained
that approval of the federal
grants and loans for the two
communities is the result of
several years of work by local
leaders. The original
applications for funds were
made in 1965.
Bill Wells, a partner in the
contracting firm, said both
systems should be completed
in about three-and-a-half
months.
At Texana, Bruce explained,
the residents have always been
faced with a shoitage of water.
Many of them haul water from
springs. The Texana
organization, however, saw the
school as a solution?the
building was served by a good
well and the all-Negro facility
was closed and its students
assigned to Murphy
Elementary.
The Texana water group,
with faith that the money
would come sometime, went
through the formality of being
high bidder at an auction about
two years ago for the school,
Bruce said. The Texana school
actually did not change hands,
since the water firm had no
money then, but the school
board held it until the money
came last week and then sold it
to the water corporation.
Two other wells were drilled
at Texana, Bruce said, to
provide a better supply for the
community system. The flow
from them was so small that
for all practical purposes the
system will have only the well
at the school building.
The project at Texana will
use the present 5,000-gallon
tank at the school and a new,
to-be-constructed
10,100-gallon tank. There will
be aminimum water charge of
$4 a month and 55 customers
are signed up for the service.
The Marble Community
Water System will get its water
from four wells drilled on U.S.
Forest Service land on Almond
Creek north of the community.
A 250,000-gallon steel tank
will be welded together on the
site, Wells says, and will be a
ground level storage unit. The
elevation of the site will make
tall supporting legs unnecessary
since gravity will provide ample
pressure at Marble.
The minimum charge in
Marble will be $6.40 and 135
families have registered for
service initially. The trouble In
Marble, Bruce said, was that
wells were shallow and easily
polluted by septic tanks and
the water in them tasted of
iron or lime. The new wells are
away from the septic tanks and
the water from the wells does
not taste.
The directors of theTexana
Community Non-Profit Water
Corporation are Frank
Sudderth, president; Hartey
Kincaid, vice president; John
Summerous, Jr.,
secretary-treasurer; Charles
Thomas, Harvey Kincaid,
Mathaniel Carter and Thomas
Gibson.
At Marble, directors of the
non-profit water corporation
are: GOes Bryson, president;
Kermit Kilpatrick, vice
president; Wayne Edwards,
secretary; Frank Craig,
treasurer; Bill Brackett, Bruce
Lund Lunsford, Fred Barton,
Vemon Bryson, Vinson Hall,
Donald Cook.
Hospital Raises
Rates For Rooms
Providence Hospital, which
operated at a loss during its
past fiscal year, will raise its
room rates $2 across the board
effective Jan. 1.
The increase in rates and the
operating loss were announced
at the hospital's annual
corporate meeting, held last
Friday night at the Murphy
Power Board building.
Sister Mary Raphael,
hospital administrator, said
even with the increase,
Providence room rates will still
be lower than other hospitals
in this area.Private room rates
will range from $16 to $22 a
day with the new rate,
9emi-private goes up from $13
to $15, ward from $12 to $14
and coronary care rooms will
go to $48 a day.
The hospital operated from
Oct. 1, 1968 through Sept. 30
of this year at a loss of $6,056
she said. This was better than
the previous fiscal year when
the operating loss was more
than $15,000, she added.
Income for Providence
increased by $59,000 during
the period but expenses
increased $46,900. The major
part of the increase, she
pointed out, was salary ?
$35,000 paid out to the 10
sisters and 45 other workers at
the hospital.
A bright spot for the year,
Sister Mary Raphael noted was
that the local hospital paid off
its mortgage. It was purchased
by the Sisters of Providence In
1956 with money borrowed
from the order's headquarters
in Holyoke, Mass. The final
$15,000 was paid off during
the fiscal year.
The hospital's accounting
office lists $58,000 in accounts
receivable for the past year and
another $17,711 in debts owed
the hospital which are more
than a year old.
Several local citizens were
named to one-year terms on
the Providence Hospital Board
of directors at the meeting;
Ben Palmer, Hans Beerkens,
Frank Mauney, Merle Davis,
Herman Edwards, the Rev.
Thornton W. Hawkins and the
Rev. Roland Hautz.
The hospital corporation
also enthusiastically accepted
the announced plan of the
Murphy Hospital Authority to
raise funds to renovate the
interior of the building and add
an emergency generator.
"We're delighted at this -
that the community is feeling
this is their hospital and that
they will be willing to help us,"
Sister Mary Raphael said. "We
wouldn't have the funds to do
this all at once and this way it
will be presentable as a whole,
rather than done piecemeal."
The Catholic Bishop, the
Rev. Vincent Waters, D.D., of
Raleigh, attended the meeting
as did Sister Mary Caritas, the
Major Superior of the order
and Sister Mary AdrtaneUa, the
treasurer, both of Holyoke,
Texana Gets Money
At the signing over of the loan and
grant for the Texana community water
project were, seated, John Summerous,
Jr., left, secretary-treasurer for the
water corporation and Robert Bruce,
manager of the local Farmers Home
Administration office. Standing were
Hobart McKeever, left, attorney for
both the Texana and Marble
community water corporations, and
Frank Sudderth, president of the
Texana organization.
Marble Water Officers
Posing against a stack of water pipes Bryson, member of the board; Frank
already being laid for their system are Craig, treasurer; Kermit Kilpatrick, vice
officers of the Marble Community president; Giles Bryson, president.
Water System. Left to right are Vernon
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Donna Coffay,
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Tammy Garrett,
daughter of Mr. and
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Paul Jones, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Larry
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Vickie Jones, daughter
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Jones. Eddie F ousts,
son of Mr. end Mrs.
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