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Volume 80 ? Number 44_ Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 ? Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina ? Thursday, Way 27, 1970 i
Clay County Golf Course Opens Saturday
The new golf course in Clay County,
officially known as Chatuge Shores, will
open the full 18 holes for play on
Saturday.
The course, like the recently-opened
Cherokee County golf course, was
constructed with a $250,000 loan from
the Farmers Home Administration.
"We'll just start playing on
Saturday," says Tom Day, chairman of
the Clay County Rural Renewal
Authority which built the course with
the FHA loan. "The formal dedication
will be held sometime this fall, after the
leaves turn and the autumn colors come
out."
Located two miles south of Hayesville
on Lake Chatuge, the new course is
rolling but not as steep as the Cherokee
County course. The fairways and the
large greens are in good condition, Day
says, considering the lack of rain and the
fact that this is a new golf course.
The new Clay course is a scenic one,
almost every hole offering vistas of the
surrounding mountains or Lake Chatuge.
In addition to the lake, Day pointed
out that the new course boasts two
water hazards which golfers may get a
closer look at. "They're really not that
bad - if you don't get buck fever," he
says, "but they'll be there, waiting to
swallow all the old balls you have."
Day said the course is counting on
substantial support from Georgia. About
425 signed up to be users of the course,
he said, with more than 100 of them
from Towns County, Georgia.
At present the Chatuge Shores course
employs five people. A manager for the
course is expected to be announced
soon. The clubhouse temporarily will be
a house trailer and six electric golf carts
have been purchases for rental by
players.
Wells & West of Murphy has the
general contractor on the course, with
much of the work sub-contracted to Sam
Hunter and Sons of Cashiers. Day said
the course was originally scheduled to
have been finished by the first of this
year but a six-month extension was
granted on the job.
The course, he says, has been planned
and talked about by community leaders
for about nine years. It is located on
about 160 acres, made up of three farms
- the Don Waldroup farm, the Hoke
McClure farm and the Baylor-Roach
estate.
In addition to Day, other members of
the Clay County Rural Renewal
Authority are Doc Stanley,
vice-chairman; Wallace Crawford,
secretary-treasurer; W.G. Mingus and
Carroll McClure.
Water Hazard
i Tom Day the Hayesville banker who heads the
, Clay County Rural Renewal Authority, stands on the
I tee of one of the holes of the new Chatuge Shores
, Golf Course and points at the green in the distance.
The pond is expected to claim a number of golf balls
as the new course opens the full 18 holes for play on
Saturday. (Staff Photo)
.workman
| Hurl On
Road Job
A workman on the US-64
| four-tmning project west of
I'Murphy was seriously injured
! in an accident on the job
I,Thursday afternoon.
William Mickey Hughes, 23,
of Route 3, Murphy, was taken
to Providence Hospital in
Murphy Thursday about 2:30
p.m. and then transferred to a
hospital in Gainesville and
from there was taken to Emory
University Medical Center,
i where he remains in the
F intensive care unit.
I Witnesses said Hughes fell
from the seat of a piece of
heavy equipment he was
I driving and the wheel of the
machine ran over the lower
'part of his body, and his left
thigh pinning him to the
ground.
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Golf Course
Committees
Re-Organized
Hie Cherokee County Golf
Course Committees were
're-organized in a meeting in
.Murphy Monday.
To improve the efficiency
|of the committees, a member
(of the Rural Renewal
Authority which constructed
the course was named to chair
each one.
Joe El-Khouri, who is
> chairman of the county Rural
Renewal Authority, was named
as chairman of the golf course
rules and membership
committee. Other members are
Doug Carlson, Bud and Maudie
| B. Alexander, Evadenne Lamb,
Doris Fowler, Lonnie Hoover,
Maude Duncan, Hobart
McKeever, Dr. Bill Gos6ett, Dr.
F.E. Blalock, and Mr. and Mrs.
John Goodrich.
Bud Brown, a member of
the Rural Renewal Authority,
was named to head the golf
course public relations
committee. Members indude
Jack Owens, Paul Ridenhour,
Max Blakemore, Louise
Bay leas, Dan Lamb, Maxine
-Gossett, Tommy Gentry and
David Gribble.
H.E. Dickey was named to
chair the building, grounds and
recreation committee.
Members are Arthur Jones,
Glen Matherson, Wanda
Edwards, Virginia Hyde, Dot
Mason and Jay Gernert.
Merle Davis is the chairman
for the maintenance committee
and members are Everett
EngUdi, Will Johnson, Claude
; Jones, Quay Ketner, Ben
Palmer, Jack Earley, Dan
Hawk, Howard West, Harold
|WiaHa,and Earl Johnson.
Bn Carter w01 chair the
fin?r? committee. Members
are JJH. Duncan, Bill Christy,
Bib H?ton, Herman Edwards,
Howard West, Margaret
and Ed Hyde.
Cannery Meeting
Set Monday Night
School Board
Field Narrows
To Six Men
A public meeting will be
held at 8:30 Monday night at
the folk school at Brasstown
concerning the community
canning center to be located
there.
Doorprizes will be featured
at the meeting and plans will
be discussed for the canning
center, which will serve both
Clay and Cherokee counties.
The folk school has been
selected by Ball Corporation,
Muncie, Ind., to receive a grant
of equipment for a community
canning center. Newly
developed equipment and
timesaving procedures are to be
introduced here for the first
time and if the innovations live
up to expectations the new
canneries will be introduced in
other parts of the U.S. and in
several foreign countries during
1971.
The community canning
center concept is much like a
laundromat operated on a
non-profit basis. Patrons bring
their own produce and glass
jars and use modern equipment
and machines to process their
food. A small fee is charged for
the use of the facilities.
Equipment in the new
cannery will make it possible
to can a bushel of tomatoes or
apples in less thanan hour and
a half. In addition to making
canning easy and plesant, the
community center program
makes previous experience in
home canning unnecessary.
Ball Corporation, although
now a greatly diversified
manufacturing company,
remains best known to the
public through its line of home
canning jars and supplies. A
Blue Book of Home Canning
published by the company has
long been regarded as a popular
source of recipes and
instructions in food
preservation processes.
Co-ordinating Ball's
involvements in these projects
will be Fred Reeve, Director of
Food Preservation Programs of
the company's Consumer
Products Division.
The building to house the
equipment will cost about
$8,000. This money will have
to be raised locally. An existing
non- profitable farm produce
cooperative will handle the
business of building and fund
raising. The steering committee
for the cooperaAve is the Rev.
B.Z. Smith, Mayes Behrman,
Bergan Moore, Virginia
Anderson, John Ramsay, and
Bass U.Hyatt, Jr. Janice
Carringer is secretary-treasurer
for the committee. Lonnie
Hoover will handle legal
matters.
Over 300 names were signed
to a petition requesting the
cannery.
Contributions for the
cannery should be sent to: Mrs.
Janice Carringer, Rt. 4,
Murphy, N.C. 28906.
Three men have withdrawn
from the school board race,
leaving six to battle for three
seats in a non-partisan election.
The non-partisan election
process was set up in a bill
introduced by Senator Herman
(Bull) West and passed by the
last Legislature. Nine men filed
in late March to run for three
seats.
Three, all Andrews
residents, have withdrawn.
Lee Nichols said he
withdrew because there were
nine men running and four of
them were Andrews residents
and he felt that was too many
from one place. "It had
nothing to do with politics,"
he said.
Joe Morrow said he
discovered that although the
school board election is
supposed to be non-partisan,
politics have not been
eliminated and he then
withdrew for "personal"
reasons.
John Boring said the matter
was nobody's business but his
own. "I have withdrew, period.
That's all I'm going to say."
Those still in the running
for the November election on a
special countywide ballot are
Dr. Charles VanGorder of
Andrews, The Rev. Robert
Barker of Peachtree, Charles
Akins of Route 4, Murphy,
Johnny Wilson of Peachtree
and J. Doyle Burch and Dr. W.
A. Hoover, both of Murphy.
Hiwassee Dam Honor Students
Six honor graduates will head
Hiwassee Dam's graduating class on
Friday. Pictured from left to right,
Patricia Self, Bennie Lou Patten,
Martha Shields, Bobby Kilpatrick,
Shirley Anderson, and Karen Helton.
Miss Shields and Kilpatrick serve as
co-valedictorians. They have also
tied for the Senior English award,
having tied at 99th percentile on the
English section of the Stanford
Achievement Battery.
Forrister Depends On Kidney Machine,
Waiting For Transplant Operation
W. O. Williams
Williams
Announces
For Board
William Owen Williams
announced this week as a
candidate for the Board of
County Commissioners from
District 3, subject to
nomination by the Democratic
county convention on June 20.
"The people of Cherokee
County know my police
record," Williams said. "If
elected, I'll do what I'm
supposed to do." He has
worked as a police officer in
Murphy, in Detroit, Mich, and
was chief of police at
Blairsville, Ga.
A disabled veteran of World
War II, Williams is a member of
the Junior Order of American
Mechanics and a member of
Murphy American Legion Post
96. He graduated from high
school in Knox County, Tenn.,
coming to Cherokee County in
1935.
Williams is married to the
former Kate Truett of
Culberson and they have a
daughter, Phyllis Jane, a
student at Western Carolina
University at Cullowhee. they
are members of Shady Grove
Baptist Church.
Graduation
Ceremonies
Scheduled
Graduation exercises are
scheduled for Seniors in
Cherokee County on Friday
and next Monday nights, with
all other school students to
begin their summer vacation on
Tuesday.
Monday will be the last day
of school in the county,
according to Superintendent
John Jordan, teachers to work
through Wednesday.
At Hiwassee Dam, 42
Seniors will gradute in
exercises on Friday night. The
honor students will speak.
At Andrews, 66 Seniors will
graduate on Monday night in a
commencement at the First
Baptist Church. The speakers
will be the Senior honor
students.
Here at Murphy, 109
Seniors will receive diplomas
Monday night at the school
gym, honor students to speak.
The Murphy graduating
class will have a baccalaureate
service on Sunday morning at
the school gym, with the Rev.
Woodrow Flynn of First
Baptist Church as the speaker.
By Wally Avett
Staff Writer
Danny Fonister has no
kidneys at all. He is 23, very
weak and very pale.
He is also very patient,
living on a kidney machine ?
and the hope that a transplant
operation can be arranged soon
to return him to an active,
more normal life.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C.
Forrister of Culberson, he
came home to Cherokee
County last week. He is now
staying at the home of his
brother, Charles Forrister,
principal of Murphy High
School, and he will remain
there until he is called to
Vanderbilt University Medical
Center in Nashville for the
transplant.
A miracle machine, an
artificial kidney, is at the
center of Danny Forrister's
existence these days. It keeps
him alive and with it he can
wait indefinitely for the
transplant.
Forrister graduated from
Hiwassee Dam High School in
1965. He then entered Western
Carolina University at
Cullowhee, working part-time
at Tennessee Copper Company
as a laborer on a construction
gang. His kidney trouble was
discovered in an armed services
physical examination in
January of 1968.
He later went to the medical
center at Duke University for
testing and complete kidney
failure was diagnosed. Doctors
at Duke considered
transplanting a kidney into his
body from a live donor, a
member of Fonister's family,
but no one was approved and
Fishing
Contest
Underway
The Murphy Jaycees 7 th
Annual Fishing contest is now
under way, to continue
through the Fourth of July.
The contest is being held in
conjunction with the Jaycees
Water Festival and prizes will
be awarded at the Water
Festival boat races on Hiwassee
Lake on the afternoon of July
5.
Miss Cherokee County will
present the prizes, to be
donated by Hicks Gulf Service,
Fowlers 66 Station, Murphy
Hardware, W.A. Singleton,
Western Auto Store, and
Hughes Supply.
Prizes will be given for the
biggest largemouth bass, the
biggest smallmouth, the biggest
white bass, bream, pike and a
prize will be given for the
largest non-game fish entered.
A special trophy wDI be
awarded to the person catching
the largest game fish during the
contest.
The fish must be caught in
Hiwasaee Lake during the
contest period and must be
weighed in at offical weight
stations, which are Hillbilly
Marine, Shook'* Boat Dock,
Jones 66 Station, Campbell's
Store and tbe Western Auto
Store in Murphy.
in July of last summer he was
transferred to Vanderbilt in
Nashville.
At Nashville, doctors
completely removed Forrister's
kidneys and he began the
three-times-a-week treatment
of his blood by the machine. It
functions as a kidney, washing
the waste matter from the
biood and cycling the blood
back into his body in a
six-hour process.
The Forristers explain that
doctors at Vanderbilt specialize
in transplanting kidneys from a
Democratic
Meetings Set
Gary P. Kilpatrick,
chairman of Democratic Party
of Cherokee County, has called
for precinct meetings to be
held at the regular voting place
in each of the 17 precincts in
the county on Saturday, June
6, at 1 p.m. for the purpose of
electing precinct committee
members and officers.
The registered Democrats
attending said meetings will
also elect delegates and
alternates to the Democratic
County Convention to be held
on Saturday, June 20, at 1
p.m.
He urges all Democrats to
get registered in order to be
eligible to vote in the precinct
meetings and also be eligible to
serve as either delegates or
alternates to the county
convention.
dead body. The organ must be
taken from the body within 30
minutes after death and
transplanted within about 12
hours. Danny Forrister's blood
and tissue types were placed on
record and the wait began.
Meanwhile, the youth and
his mother lived in an
apartment in Nashville and
made the three trips a week to
the hospital for the machine
treatment, which they said cost
$200 each time, the Tennessee
Copper Company insurance
policy paying the bill.
"I had a match twice,"
Forrister says quietly,
explaining that the dead person
was of the right blood and
tissue type but legal papers
could not be signed for the
transplant. In one case the
dead man's family refused to
give clearance after having
indicated at first that they
would. In the other the dead
man had committed suicide,
after having critically wounded
his wife, and she could not sign
the needed clearance paper.
Once the transplant is made,
the major problem will be
rejection of the organ by his
body, Forrister says. This is
still a critical area in both
kidney and the much
publicized heart transplants,
the body's defense mechanisms
working against a foreign
organ.
A person can live normally
with just one kidney, he adds,
and doctors will transplant
only one into his body.
Rejection hopefully can be
controlled by drugs and
Forrister hopes to return to
WCU, where he has completed
three years of schooling,
majoring in social studies.
The kidney machine is
furnished for his use by the
state Vocational Rehabilitation
program and Forrister has now
become a recipient of the
county Social Services
(formerly Welfare)
Department, many medical
bills taken care of by Medicaid.
But there are many other
expenses outside the Medicaid
program. The kidney machine,
which he and his mother have
learned to operate so well in
the past 10 months, uses
various chemicals and supplies
at a rapid rate. There is
heparin, for example, which
has to be mixed into the
blood-deaning process to keep
Danny's blood from clotting
while it is cycled through the
machine.
And there is a
water-treatment unit which
had to be purchases, to prepare
the water for use in the
machine. And Danny's blood,
washed through the machine
three times a week, has to be
replenished often with
transfusions.
His expenses, beyond
Medicaid, run about $300 a
month and Murphy
businessman Peyton Ivie and
others have established a
Danny Forrister Kidney Fund
at Wachovia Bank in Murphy.
Contributions may be mailed
to the bank.
Miracle Machine
Danny Forrister and his mother,
drs. C.C. Forrister of Culberson, are
hown during the treatment of his
)lood by the artificial kidney machine,
rhe "brains" of the machine, the
nonitor, is at rieht* the actual cleansing
process is done in the plastic
held between two thick metal
the center at the photo, the
material being carried away in ti
plastic water lines. (Staff Photo)