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Volume 80 ? Number 41 _ Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina ? Thursday, May 7, 1970
Putting In The Ra in
Managing smiles despite the shower, these golfers
posed on the practice green Sunday afternoon as the
Cherokee County Golf Course was opened for play.
Left to right are pro Jack Williams; Bill Carter,
vice-chairman of the Cherokee County Rural
Development Authority; Congressman Roy Taylor;
Joe El-Khouri, chairman of the authority. (Staff
Photo)
Golf Course Dedicated, 9 Holes Open
Congressman Roy Taylor
made the dedication speech
Sunday afternoon as the
Cherokee County Golf Course
was officially opened for play.
A crowd of about 150
gathered for the festivities and
then dashed for the barn,
converted to a clubhouse, as
the rain which had been
threatening came pouring
down.
Taylor described the new
golf course as an economic
asset.
"Industrial executives
condd wring a new plant
location site pay some
attention to the recreational
opportunities in each
community." he said. "The
golf course will aid you in
securing additional industrial
development.
"It will aid you in
encouraging retired people to
come to the Murphy area to
live and in attracting tourists,"
he said. "Many people who
have had little time to play
want a golf course nearby
when they take a vacation or
retire."
"You are blessed with
water-oriented recreational
opportunities and the golf
course will add a new
dimension to the recreation
possibilities here."
The course was constructed
by the Cherokee .County Rural
Development Authority with a
$250,000 loan from the
Farmers Home Administration.
V.
County Republican
Convention Saturday
The Cherokee County
Republican Convention,
recessed since it met to elect
officers in February, will
re-convene at the Courthouse
here on Saturday night.
The purpose of the
Saturday session beginning at
7:30 p. m., will be to select the
party's candidates for county
offices for the November
general election. Ed Hyde,
selected as convention
chairman at the February
session, will preside.
The most spirited struggle
Saturday night will probably
be for the nomination for
sheriff. Cherokee Sheriff
Claude Anderson has held the
post for the past 16 years but
has made no announcement as
to whether he wants to run
again.
Three other Republicans,
however, have announced that
they are working for the
nomination. These are Charles
White, who was Anderson's
chief deputy from 1954 to
1959, Ralph Rayfield and
Herbert Graham. Rayfield has
served as Murphy Township
constable and as a part-time
deputy and Graham has also
worked as a part-time deputy
sheriff.
Incumbent Register of
Deeds J.E. Graves, a
Republican office holder, has
not announced his intentions
and would be opposed in the
convention, if he seeks
re-nomination, by Jack
Lovtngood, who announced in
March that he will be seeking
the nomination.
Don Ramsey, another
county GOP officeholder, la
not opposed within the party
for his post as dark of court.
The Cherokee County
Board of Commissioners this
year wfll be reduced from six
members to three, to be
elected from districts in the
county. Four Republicans have
announced for the three party
nominationa ? incumbent
rymmissiooiv Jack Simonds of
?Wolf Creek, former
Gay Hawkins of
Route 4, Murphy, former state
legislator Virgil Odell of
Murphy and Maurice West of
Marble, son of State Senator
Herman (Bull) West.
The other two Republicans
on the present county
commissioners' board, Luther
Dockery and Emogene
Matheson, have not announced
whether they want to run again
or not.
Joe El-Khouri of Andrews,
chairman of the rural
development authority, served
as master of ceremonies at the
dedication.
El-Khouri introduced
members of the authority to
the crowd and kept up a
running chatter throughout the
event. Robert D. Bruce, county
supervisor of the FHA, and
Talmadge Wiggins of the Soil
Conservation Service, each
briefly took the podium to
introduce officials from their
respective agencies who
worked on the project.
A good-natured rivalry was
aired to the delight of the
crowd at one point in the
proceedings as El-Khouri
introduced Tom Day of
Hayesville, chairman of the
Clay County Rural
Development Authority which
is constructing a golf course
near Hayesville.
"Well be opening a full 18
holes for play by the first of
June," Day said quickly into
the microphone. The local
course Sunday opened for play
only the fust nine holes.
"You've got a beautiful
course at Hayesville,"
El?Khouri blurted out and
snatched the mike back as the
crowd roared with laughter.
"Thanks for coming today."
He added that the Cherokee
course would open a full 18
holes for play by July 1.
Texana Tower
Wells & West workmen last week installed a 10,500
gallon water tank at Texana as part of a community
water system under construction there, financed by the
Farmers Home Administration. The tank stands 87 feet
ligh and workmen are shown assembling it on the
tower, welding the pieces together as they are lifted into
}lace by a crane. The Texana system, and a similar one
it Marble, are expected to be in use by July. (Staff
tooto)
Refreshments were served in
... P10 shoP> formerly a
milking bam, after the
<*remonies but the steady rain
kept all but a few hardy
foursomes off the fairways.
Congressman Taylor and other
officials did not play the
planned opening round.
The course is now open
seven days a week for play
0-Khouri says. It will be open
on weekdays from 10 ajn.
until 6 p. m. and on the
weekends from 8 a. m. until 6
p. m.
The pro is Jack Williams, a
Bryson City schoolteacher,
who was pro for the dub there
when it was in operation.
El-Khouri said Williams will be
available here at the course for
lessons on the weekends until
the Bryson City school term is
over the first week in June, at
which time he will begin
full time work.
Those who have paid users
fees can play at no extra
charge; those who have not
joined the organization must
pay greens fees. There are 10
Harley-Davidson golf carts
available for rental.
Only 253
Vote In
Primary
Cherokee County had an
extremely light turnout of
voters for the primary
Saturday, the only statewide
race being two Democratic
judges running for the state
Court of Appeals.
A new loose-leaf registration
is under way in this county and
?'J***"1 there are between
6,000 and 7,000 voters on the
books. Only 253 voted in the
whole county Saturday.
Superior Court Judge Harry
Martin of Asheville got 198
wtes in Cherokee and Judge
R.A. (Fred) Hedrick of
Statesvflle got 55.
"The voting was heaviest in
Murphy and Andrews," said
Glenn Stalcup, chairman of the
county Board of Elections. "In
most of the precincts only 10
? 15 voted and at Hanging
Dog only four people voted in
the primary."
Across the state the result
was a reverse of the local tally
? Hedrick, blind since
childhood, soundly beat Martin
to retain his seat on the Court
of Appeals.
Train Derails
Near Tunnel
Six cars of a westbound
Southern Railway freight train
derailed Wednesday morning
five miles east of Andrews near
the Rhodo tunnel.
The engine came into
Andrews and trainmen
mported no injuries in the
miahap. Further details were
not available as The Scout
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Democrats Sweep Town Election
With a commanding
superiority over their
Republican foes in numbers of
registered voters, the Murphy
Democrats ran away with the
town election here Tuesday.
Mayor Cloe Moore was
re-elected without opposition
for another four-year term and
the six Democratic Town
Board candidates were elected
easily over four Republican
challengers, also for four-year
terms. Five of them were
incumbents; the sixth man, Joe
Fowler, was named by the
town convention to replace
Jerry Hatchett, who declined
to run again for personal
reasons.
The Republicans, weak in
Murphy compared to their
strength in the county, fielded
only four candidates for the
six-member Town Board and
offered no one for mayor.
Moore led the Democratic
ticket, polling 573 votes.
Fowler got 546 votes and
the incumbents were as
follows: Francis Bourne, Jr.,
545; Kenneth Godfrey, 572;
W.T. (Bud) Brown, 565; W.A.
(Dub) Singleton, 539; John
Carringer, 542.
The top Republican
candidate was Harry
Lovingood with 196 votes.
Lowen Dockery polled 175
votes, Albert Graves got 165
and Hayes Dockery, Jr. got
171.
Republicans Tommy Gentry
and Ralph Rayfield each got a
write-in vote for mayor.
There were 491 straight
Democratic tickets voted, 120
straight Republican ballots and
all sorts of split ballots to reach
the totals listed above.
A new loose-leaf registration
was held in Murphy on the
Saturdays in April and
according to Glenn Stalcup,
chairman of the Cherokee
County Board of Elections,
there are now about 950
registered voters inside the
town limits.
Milton Mashburn
Mashburn
Announces
For Sheriff
Andrews Chief of Police
Milton Mashburn announces
his candidacy for sheriff,
subject to nomination by the
Cherokee County Democratic
Convention.
"I believe the candidates
should be the choice of the
people and since only a small
minority attends the precinct
meetings to elect the delegates,
I urge all Democrats who want
to have a choice in selecting
their candidates to attend their
ward or precinct meetings on
June 6 at 1:00 p. m."
Mashburn said.
Chief Mashburn has been
with the police department in
Andrews for 13 years and
during that time has attended a
number of special law
enforcement courses.
Before becoming a
policeman, he was a heavy
equipment mechanic in the
construction trade. He is a
veteran of World War II, having
served 28 months overseas,
seeing action in both the
European and Pacific theaters.
Mashburn is a lifelong
Democrat, having served as
precinct worker, precinct
chairman and chairman of the
county Board of Elections.
He is married to the former
Aulby E. Hall. They are active
members of valleytown
Mayor Cloe Moore
Joe Fowler
John Carringer
W.A. Singleton
Francis Bourne, Jr.
W.T. Brown
Kenneth Godfrey
Library Budget To Be Increased
The Cherokee County
Board of Commissioners
Monday voted to raise their
support of the Nantahaia
Regional Library about $4,000
a year - if the commissioners of
Clay and Graham counties will
agree to raise their support by
the same ratio.
A patient Martha Palmer,
head of the three- county
library system, met with the
commissioners Monday
morning and asked that
Cherokee County increase its
financial support of the library.
The county currently gives the
library $8,167 each year, she
said, which works out to 50
cents per person.
Mrs. Palmer requested that
the money from the county be
increased to 75 cents per
capita, which would be
$12,251 for the coming fiscal
year. There was a delay while
County Attorney L.L. Mason
and others searched old records
for the wording of the 1940
vote which authorized
Stft&cUi
Sca%e6*4%ct
Thursday - Mens League:
Rimco 14 - Peachtree C.C. 4
Wachovia Bank 18 - Ranger 3
Ladies League ? Martins
Creek 17 - Clifton 9
Friday ? Mens League ?
Martins Creek 12 - Texana 6
WCVP 8 ? Peachtree 7
Monday ? Mens League -
Peachtree 15 - Rimco 2
Wachovia Bank 17
Peachtree CC 7
Ladies League - American
Thread 31 - Clifton 2
Tuesday ? Mens League -
Texana 17 - Ranger 2
WCVP 10 - Martins Creek 4
Ladies League ? Martins
Creek 15 - Levi 2Ladies League
- Martins Creek 15 - Levi 2
Schedule
Thursday Night
Men: Wachovia Bank vs
Rimco
Ladies: Brumby Textiles vs.
Clifton
Men: Martins Creek vs
Peachtree
Friday Night vs Men
Peachtree CC vs Texana
Men Ranger vs WCVP
Monday night - Mens
League ? Ranger vs. Martins
Creek
Ladies League - American
Thread vs. Martins Creek
Men - Texana vs Rimco
Tuesday Night ? Mens
League - Peachtree CC vs
WCVP
Mens League ? Wachovia
Bank vs Peachtree.
spending of tax funds for the
library.
It was thought that the
library vote of 30 years ago
would have placed a limit on
how much could be given from
tax monies for library services
but no such limit was found.
Mrs. Palmer returned to the
meeting in the afternoon and
told commissioners that the
Graham County commissioners
had agreed to raise their
support to the 75 cents per
capita rate and the Clay board
"would go along with whatever
Cherokee did."
The Cherokee
commissioners finally voted to
raise the library's budget to
$12,251, the 75 cents per
capita figure, providing Clay
and Graham counties kept
their end of the bargain and
voted to do the same.
Mrs. Palmer explained that
the increase would also mean a
marked increase in federal
grants and matching funds
given the library.
The commissioners Monday
also voted for Chairman W.T.
Moore to represent this county
as an incorporator of Rainbow
Power, Inc., the citizens group
which proposes to buy
Nantahala Power.
No tax money will be
involved, Moore said, as the
group plans to buy Nantahala
by selling bonds. When the
bonds are paid off, he
explained, each county will
end up owning the Nantahala
lines within its borders.
TVA has agreed to
supplement the electric power
produced by Nantahala dams,
he said, guaranteeing a
constant supply of power.
Rainbow will be a non-profit
organization, he said, and
should be able to cut
considerably the power rates
currently charged by
Nantahala.
In other business, the
commissioners
? Sat as a board of tax
review and adjusted downward
several pieces of property after
hearing complaints by owners
that their appraised value was
too high.
Voted to join the
Southwestern Regional
Housing Authority, a
non-profit organization to
provide low-rent housing for
low-income rural people, and
named Mason as the Cherokee
representative on the board of
directors.
? Looked at a bill from
Walter Coleman, presented by
School Superintendent John
Jordan, just received for labor
and purchases dating back to
1960. Advised Jordan that
since part of the bill was
already 10 years old he should
be in no hurry but could add it
to his school budget for next
year.
SPRING FLOWERS
Clay Voters
Pick 3 For
School Board
Clay County voters picked
three men for the count;1
Board of Education in
non-partisan election heli
along with the state primar
last Saturday.
Gerald (Todd) Phillips oj
Hayesville, Edgar Moore o
Hayesville and Haig Davenpor
of Shooting Creek were th<
three top men in a field o
seven, winning seats on th
Board of Education.
In the statewide primar;
between Democratic Judge
Fred Hedrick of Statesville any
Harry Martin of Ashevillefor a
seat on the Court of Appeals
Clay voters favored Martin,
448-206. In voting across the
state, however, Hedrick won.
Phillips polled 996 votes
Saturday to lead the field, \
Moore had 879 and Davenport \
got 849.
Scott Beal, Clay County
School Superintendent,
explains that Clay is in the
middle of making some
adjustments in its school board
in keeping with laws passed by
recent Legislature s.
The Legislature, he said, had
named members to the board
of education in Clay County
for years. Now members will
be elected and they will be
elected for four-year terms,
which will begin the December
following their election. And
the Legislature also passed a
law calling for five-member
board of education.
Clay County now has three
men on its board of education,
Beal said, and this will become
a proper five-man board in
December, when the two top
vote-getters from Saturday's
election, Phillips and Moore,
take office for four-year terms.
One of the present
members, appointed by the
Legislature to a six-year term
in 1965, will have his term
expire in April of next year, at
which time Davenport will go
on the board keeping it at five
members.
MAY 1970
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Lynn Lochaby
Daughter of Mr. ?? Mrs.
L. F. Lochaby. Sherry
Garland - Daughter of Mr.
fc Mrs. Charlas Garland.
Helen Wells ? Daughter of
Mr. t Mrs. Bill WoNs.
Diana Rose - Daughter of
Mrs. Glenda Faye Rose.
Barbara Carringer
Daughter of Mrs. Opal
Carringer
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