Hayesville Loses Four In A Row Hayesville vu beaten by Robbinsville basketball teams Tuesday night in games played at Hayesville The RobbinsriUe team led the girls game, leading at r balftime 27 ? 18 and beating " the,Hayesville girls by a final ?core of 54 ? 33. High scorers for Robbinsville were Sandra Crisp with 27 and EUen Walker with ' 11. Clara Nelson was high for Hayesville with 11. in the boys game, the visitors led all the way, in front a?:< half time 44 ? 29. Robbinsville substituted freely tn.r: the last quarter and Hayesville closed the gap some, the final score 73 - 65. The Robbinsville high scorers were Dale Walsh and Murk Manuel, with 16 apiece, - David Jenkins with 14 and Allen Lakey with 11. Barry Lunsford had 16 for ?" Hayesville, Cary Bracken also hid 16 and Robert Beal had ? M. By Bobby Hollifield Staff Writer The Hayesville Yellow Jackets traveled to Cherokee last Friday night only to find that their shooting attack! were as cold as the Hayesville Principal Hospitalized Guy H. Wheeler, principal of Hayesville High School, who had. open heart surgery last September was returned to Duke Hospital in Durham about the first of the year. According to most recent report, he is improving, but slowly. Bedrest for some two or three more weeks is recommended. H.S. Beal, County School Superintendent, expects Wheeler to be back in'hls office by the middle of February. Richard Gifford, a class wwr^J^y^er ^ ^in the high other complications facing the operation of the schools here stem from the extreme winter weather that has prevailed since Jan. 6. Snow and ice on the roads, more especially the rural roads, have stopped bus traffic for the past seven days. Clay County Republican Meetings Set W. P. Bradley, chairman ? the Clay County Republic! Party, announces that precin meetings and the counl convention will be held lab this month. The precinct meetings wi be held in all seven precinct at the polling places, at 7:3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23. Ne officers will be chosen at ti meetings. The county convention wi be held at the Clay Count Courthouse in Hayesville i 7:30 p.m. on Moift.'4>, Jan. 2< New cot' nty officers will b chosen at the meeting and stat and district delegttef will b named. temperatures outside the gym. The Hsyesville girts played their worst game of the season m they were unable to buy a basket most of the game. The Cherokee girts took advantage of this and won a close game 25-24. The Hsyesville boys also had their troubles shooting, and lost to a determined group of Cherokee boys, 61 - 38. In the girts game Hsyesville led most of the first quarter but Cherokee took the lead with a shot from Patty Grant with ten seconds left in the first quarter, and the score read 6 ? 5. Cherokee continued to lead all the game, although Hsyesville was never more than 5 points behind. The second quarter was also a low scoring one with Cherokee holding a 14 ? 10 lead at halftime. In the third quarter Lois Coffey fouled out for Hsyesville and was replaced by Paula Cunningham, who scored two points with 16 seconds left in the third quarter to make the score 20 ? 18. In the fourth quarter Hsyesville girls had several opportunities to win the game, but were unable to take advantage of them, and lost a ' tough game 25 ? 24. 1 Clara Nelson played a fine ' defensive game and was the high scorer for Hsyesville with 12, Paula Cunningham had 8, and Lois Coffey 4, accounting for the Hsyesville scoring. Patty Grant was the high scorer for Cherokee with 19. Geneva Walkings tick had four, and Agnes McCoy and Lanoma Taylor each had one. The hot-hitting Cherokee boy won their first game of the season, over the Hsyesville boys. Cherokee jumped out to a quick 7 ? 0 lead and was never seriously threatened by the cold-shooting Hsyesville team. Cherokee held a 17 -11 advantage at the end of the first quarter. Hsyesville fought back in the second quarter, but Cherokee continued to hit and led 32 - 23 at the half. In the third quarter Cherokee's defense all but stopped the Hsyesville t period. In the fourth quarter Hsyesville still couldn't find the basket, while Cherokee poured n the points. With 1:35 left In the game both teams substituted. The final score read 61 - 38. Gary Bracken had 11 to lead the Hsyesville scoring, followed by Robert Beal with 10, Bany Lunsford had 5, Dave Bracken 4, Jimmy Nelson 3, Mike Crawford and Eddie Mayfield each had two. Communities Group To Meet Western North Carolina Associated Communities will hold its first quarterly meeting of the 1969-70 year on Tuesday, Jan. 20 at Cullowhee. The board of directors will meet at 11 a.m. in the A.K. Hinds University Center at Western Carolina University. Dr. Alex Pow, WCU president, will address the afternoon session. The voluntary organization includes communities in the 11 westernmost counties, including Clay and Cherokee. K-; Pants For Children ? Tom Gentry, left, president of the Murphy Lions, is shown accepting a box of children's trousers from Horace Cannon, manager of the local Levi Strauss & Co. plant. Looking on are R. W. Easley, past governor of Lions District 31-A and J. Doyle Burch, chairman of the project vfhich resulted in Levi Strauss giving 20Q pairs of assorted pants for the boys and girls of Eliada Home in Ashevill?. ^he Lions will deliver the denim Janfc- to the home sometime this week.'' (Staff Photo) , | U ?.V ->V ? ? * Murphy Loses To Franklin, Splits Pair With Swain By Lonnie Brittain Staff Writer The Murphy Basketball teams lost two games to Franklin here last Friday night. The Murphy girls last a close one to the visitors, 32 - 29. The Franklin girls scored first but the Murphy girls came back to grab an 8 - 4 lead at the end of the first quarter. Tbe game continued to be a dose one, the score at the end of the half 15 - 12 Murphy's favor. The Franklin girls started to move in the seond half, but were not able to gain an impressive lead. The score at the end of the 3rd quarter was 24-19 Franklin's favor. The Franklin girls held the lead the final score 32 - 29 in favor of Franklin. High scorer for Murphy was Karen Watson with 9 points. Sherry White had 7, Vicky Martin 4, Buffy Fleming 3, Phylis Hughes 3, Brenda Morris 2, Alice Graves 1. High scorer for the Franklin girls was Stanney with 11 points. The Murphy boys lo6t to a strong Franklin team 72 ? 62. The Franklin boys jumped off to an early lead and held it for the entire game. The Murphy boys had to play cat-up ball but they could never be counted out completely. The score at the half was 42 ? 22 Franklin's favor. The Murphy boys started to Hayesville Lists Expenses The town of Hayesville has one less bond issue to worry about. Acording to W. E. Carter, derk to the town board, the last of a 1945 issue of town bonds was paid during last year. These bonds had been Issued to re-fund a ssrtes of bonds issued back in the '20s and on which paj lyal had been defaulted. M.J However, this does not lift the more recent bond issue of 1964 for a total of $30,000. Totalstill outstanding on these bonds is $26,000. This $30,000 was used as matching funds to obtain grant of federal monies to put in a new sewer system. Over and above the amount expended on this sewer system and prior to the annual audit of June 30, 1969, the town drilled two deep wells at a cost of $1,300 plus $2,040 for pumps and $1,077 for water meters. The use of the spring south of Hayesville has been discontinued quite some time ago and now the well on Town Mountain has been cut off from the town water supply. The two deep wells is the total source of water supply at present. Samples of this water are tested each month by the state health department and it has proven to be so near-pure that the use of chlorine is not required. Beside making regular payments on bonded indebtedness and putting in the new water system, a year's expense of town government operation costs about $9,800; Administrative such as salaries of officials, legal and audit work, insurance, etc., $2,700; Street Department: repairs, electricity for street lights, etc. $3,200; Sanitation Department: Salary, garbage collector and dozer work at garbage dump $2,660; Police Department, $474 and Fire Department, $775. half but were unable to catch up. The score at the end of the 3rd quarter was 57 - 38, Franklin. Hie final score was 72 ? 62, Franklin's, favor. High scorers for Murphy were Johnny Foster, Sonny Gladson, and Tim Ellis each with 13 points, CHucky Mallonee had 11, Eddie Hughes 9, and Bruce Coward 3. High scorer for Franklin was Richard Phillips with 31 points. The jaytrees lost 49 ? 34. The Murphy teams traveled to Swain Saturday night after being snowed out the week before. The Murphy girts controlled the entire game with commanding leads at the breaks. The score at half time wasx27 -14 Murphv's favor, continued to -move in the second half, the final score 60 - 30 Murphy's favor. High scorer for Murphy was Karen Watson with 18 points, Sherry White had 11, Vicky Martin 8, Buffy Fleming 4, Debbie Crawford 3, Pam Alexander 5, Sherry Voyles 2, Brenda Morris 7,'Phylis Hughes 1, and Alice Graves 1. High scorer for Swain was Wright with 7 points. The boys game was the opposite of the girls game, with Swain defeating the Murphy boys 76 - 44. The first ha|f was a close one with neither team having any great advantage. The score at the end of the half was 35 - 30 Swain's favor. Swain started to make it move in the second half, the final score was 76 - 44, Swain's favor. t. High scorer for Murphy was CHucky Mallonee with 10 points, Tim Ellis had 9, Johnny Foster 9, Eddie Hughes 8, Sonny GLadson 3, Bruce Coward 2, Sam. Odell 2, Mike rtughes 1. High scorer for Swain was John Bloyne with 24 points. The jayvees lost 57 - 28. Kil patrick hI;? ? Democratic Chairman At a recent called meeting f the Cherokee County lemocratic - ^Executive Committee held in the Courthouse here, Gary P. J1 pa trick was elected the new Dunty chairman pf the party. At the same meeting, the Ixecutive Committee ?commended for'appointment a the Board of Elections in Cherokee County, the names f Glenn Y. Stalcup, Fred r_r> .ij J_a v* Ic Donald and Homer lavidson. The state Boird of Elections tiooses the locil members, it ras explaihfed, from ecommerided names ibmltted by both political srties. ' ' ' ?ti.C'SP Is y!l