Murp hy Carnegie Library 4-73
Peachtree Street
Murphy, N.C., 28906
Cherokee Scout
12 Pages
and Clay County Progress 15< per Copy
Volume 80 ? Number 52 - Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina - Ju'V 23, 1970
Westco Addition
Bricklayers are shown raising the
?' walls on an expansion at Westco
^.Telephone's Murphy building. The
expansion will cost well over $100,000,
designed to serve an additional 700
phone customers the company expects
to have within two years. (Staff Photo)
Golf Course Offers Free Play
In Effort To Lure New Users
Users of the Cherokee County Golf Course Tuesday
night decided on a bold make-or-break maneuver to lift
the course out of a financial crisis.
To bring in badly-needed new members, the Rural
Renewal Authority which built the course agreed to let
paid-up users of the course bring guests to play for free
from now until September 1.
First Tournament
Slated August 2
The first tournament of the new Cherokee
County Golf Course is set for Sunday, Aug. 2
It will be a Scotch foursome event, starting at
2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The entry fee will
be $1 per person and participants can sign up at
the pro shop of the cour se on Harshaw Road.
Each foursome will be made up of two men
and two women, names chosen in a random
drawing. All four players will hit a tee shot at
each hole and then each team, composed of a
man and a woman, will decide which of its two
balls it wants to play.
The man and woman on a team will then take
alternate turns hitting the ball until it is putted
into the cup.
Prizes will be gift certificates redeemable at
the pro shop and spectators will be welcome for
the tournament.
And in addition to playing free, guests of users can
have a free lesson or two. The course pro. Milt Carlson,
will offer free golf clinics for women on Wednesday
mornings at 10 and for men at 2 o'clock on Wednesday
afternoons.
The feeling expressed by those at the meeting was
that there are a lot of potential golfers in this county
who "could be hooked" but are not willing to pay
greens fees to try an unfamiliar game.
"We're putting our members on their honor to bring
in only prospective members to play for free?not their
brother-in-law visiting from Florida who is already a
golfer but will never join," said Joe El-Khouri chairman
of the authority.
The course users, about 35 attending the meeting at
the Murphy Power Board Building, also voted that the
prospective members playing as guests be brought to the
clubhouse before they begin their free rounds and be
introduced to the pro.
El-Khouri began the meeting withthe statement
"We're in financial trouble at the golf course?we need a
way to raise some more money." He then quickly
sketched the situation, saying 119 people had originally
signed up to be users of the course but now only 115
have paid their fees of $10 a month.
The course at present is $1,500 in the red, he said,
and must have at least 200 members to survive. He
added that repayment of the $250,000 borrowed from
the Farmers Home administration to build the course is
not pressing now since the first payment on the loan is
not due until 1972.
At the suggestion of Ed Hyde, users agreed that the
list of the original 419 signers should be posted in the
clubhouse and those who have not paid their fees
would be the primary targets of the recruiting drive.
It was also agreed that the goal of the drive would be
for each paid-up user to bring in another user. El-Khouri
said if the membership can exceed 200, the course can
operate comfortably.
Survey Under Way
For Day Care Unit
The Murphy United
Methodist Church will operate
a day care center ? if enough
parents are interested in the
idea.
Mrs. William L. Owens will
be the director and is in charge
of the survey. A minimum of
30 children is needed, she says,
in order for the center to open
in late August when the
Cherokee County school term
begins.
The church quarters for the
day care center have been
approved by the fire
department and also by the
health department, she said, as
being safe, clean and having
adequate space.
The center would offer
all-day care for the children of
working mothers, including
two snacks and one hot meal
each day. Hours would be from
6:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
Children ages 18 months up to
school age would be eligible.
The cost would be $15 per
week for one child, $22 a week
for two children from the same
family or $27 a week for three
children from the same family.
Parents interested in having
their children enrolled in the
day care center should call Mrs.
Owens or the Methodist
church.
Construction Bids
Soar For Projects
Dr. Edwin Garrison
New
Dentist
In Town
A new dentist began
practice last week in Murphy,
working in association with Dr.
Jerry Cabe.
He is Edwin Bud Garrison,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace D.
Garrison of Rt. 3, Hayesvilie.
Dr. Garrison graduated in
June from the School of
Dentistry of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He attended grammar
school in Hayesvilie and
graduated in 1963 from
Hayesvilie High School, where
he was president of the student
body, president of the Beta
Club and an honor student. He
attended Western Carolina
University, where he was a
charter memberof Alpha Phi
Omega fraternity, before going
to Chapel Hill.
The Murphy Housing
Authority opened bids for two
new projects Tuesday
afternoon and found the total
price almost $100,000 higher
than the sum altoted several
year; ago.
Ben Palmer, executive
director of the local housing
authority, said the federal
Housing and Urban
Development headquarters in
Atlanta several years ago had
approved $600,000 as the total
price for the two projects.
C.L. (Bud) Alverson, head
of the local authority, architect
Henry Whitehead of Decatur,
Ga. and members of the
Murphy Housing Authority
opened the bids Tuesday
afternoon in the Murphy
Power Board Building.
The two projects are 10
units for the elderly on
Hiawassee Street and 30 units
of low-income housing near the
Rimco Plant. Also included is
the addition of a 24 by 40 foot
community building to the
authority's offices, which will
serve as a small day care center.
The total of the three low
bids, for general construction,
electrical and plumbing, was
$699,069. Smith & Jones, Inc.
of Murphy was low bidder on
the general contract at
$594,000; Hughes Electric had
the low electric bid at $48,769;
Wells & West was low on
plumbing at $56,300.
Whitehead said he would
contact HUD headquarters in
Atlanta and see if the federal
officers would approve the
increase in costs of the two
projects. The housing authority
approved the low bids on the
general and plumbing sections,
subject to approval by HUD
officials.
The electrical part,
Whitehead said, will have to be
re-bid because there were only
two acceptable bids and
regulations call for a minimum
of three on the first round of
bidding. In addition to Hughes,
Basic Electric of Charlotte had
bid $51,600. The third bid, by
Mid-Nite Electric of Andrews,
was rejected because it was not
bonded properly.
Two Morganton
construction firms overbid
Smith-Jones on the general
section?W.R. Pat ton Co. at
$665,420 and Burke
Construction Co. at $654,905.
On the plumbing, Wells &
West was under Erwin
Plumbing Co. of Sylva at
$59,200 and also Rufus Reece
of Andrews, who bid $61,800.
L?oyd Davis
Davis
Joins
Bank
s, "fctty
Henry S. Simmons,
executive of First Union
National Bank, Murphy, .has
announced the appointment f?f
Boyd Davis to the staff of First
Union.
Boyd was born and reared
in Cherokee County and coiftes
to First Union National Bank
from Davis Esso where he was
a partner. He is a graduate of
Murphy High School and
received an Associate of Ar|s
Degree from Mars Hill CoUsffe.
He is a veteran of World War
II, having served 40 months in
the U.S. Army. He is a member
of the Lions Cluband American
Legion.
He and his wife Lona,
daughter Teresa and son Tim
reside at 1200 Valley River
Avenue and are members of
the First Baptist Church.
(Telephone Building Expanding
To Handle New Customers
? Westco Telephone Company
B spending well over $100,000
Vc expand its facilities
r
rlurphy.
Construction is under way
on an addition to the Murphy
building which will add 1.600
square feet of floor space. Work
wtjCourt Term Set
Ir A two-week term of
uperior Court begins in
turphy at the Cherokee
bounty Courthouse on
londay, Judge Thad Bryson of
kyson City to preside.
I ouse
turns
vacant house at Martin's
ek burned early Monday
ling and Cherokee County
ers are investigating.
'Sheriff Claude Anderson
Deputy Sheriff Dude
Iford said the frame house
owned by Junior Woody
apparently was not
although it did
i some furniture.
e origin of the blaze
destroyed the one-story
fiouae is not known.
*astor Speaks
>f Travels
The Rev. Woodrow Flynn,
1 of Murphy First Baptist
Tuesday night spoke
i local Civitans on his recent
~tf the Far East, Austrailia
ew Zealand.
The Civitans in their meeting
[iso discussed plans for
their booth at the
aunds. Burke Moore is
of the project and is
[ up dub work crews for
i this week,
lib members were told
.'North Carolina District
| govenor-eiect O.B. Oakley
~ atte will ake an official
the Murphy dub at its
L4 meeting.
Solicitor Marcellus
Buchanan will prosecute for
the state and topping the list of
cases scheduled for trial is the
murder charge against Fannie
Moore Ramsey.
Mrs. Ramsey is charged with
the pistol slaying of Mrs.
Pauline Roberts on Dec. 24.
Both were residents of a trailer
park on Pleasant Valley Road,
where the shooting occurred.
is by Hudson Construction Co.
of Charlotte and the contract is
for $32,300, according to a
spokesman at Westco
headquarters in Weaverville.
The addition will house dial
switching equipment to cost
$82,300, he added, to serve an
additional 700 telephone
customers in the Murphy
exchange.
The local exchange now has
2,415 customers,he said, and
company officials expect to be
using the new equipment at
full capacity with more than
3,000 customers within two
years.
The new equipment is
expected to be in service by
November.
United Fund
Picks Officers
The Cherokee County
United Fund, Inc., held its
annual meeting on Thursday
afternoon of last week and
selected officers and directors
for 1970-71.
The meeting was held in the
law offices of McKeever &
Edwards and Hobart McKeever
was re-elected as president of
United Fund.
Lee Nichols and Horace
Cannon were elected as vice
presidents, Tommy Gentry and
John Jordan were re-elected as
secretary and treasurer,
respectively.
Cannon as named to head
the fund campaign in the
coming year, W. Arthur Hayes,
Jr. was named to head the
public relations and F.C.
Bourne, Jr. to head the budget
and appropriations committee.
Seven directors were picked
for three-year terms: Talmadge
Wiggins, Carl Mixon, Lloyd
Cash, Joe El-Khouri, all of
Andrews and Jack Issacs, John
Goodrich and James R.
Sprung, all of Murphy.
Treasurer Jordan presented
a current financial statement,
showing that the current year's
budget is S3(J,681.37 and that
all but S3,075.42 had actually
been collected.
The treasurer explained that
this uncollected amount would
be collected within the next
few months through payments
from employee deduction
plans at Berkshire
International, Levi Strauss,
American Thresd Company,
and Magnavox; that the fund
would definitely have a surplus
at the end of the year.
Cannery Rising
Volunteer laborers at the John C.
Campbell Folk School at Brasstown
lifted a prefabricated roof truss this
week as work continues at a rapid pace
on the new community <-annery. The
self-service cannery, for which
Ball Service Corp. equipment is already
arriving, is expected to be ready for use
this season. (Staff Photo)
Planned New First Baptist Church
This is an artist's rendition of the planned new
First Baptist Church in Murphy, by the architect,
Robert L. Daniels of Brevard. The new church
building hopefully will be put up for bids in
September, according to the pastor, the Rev.
Woodrow Flynn, and will be lei to a contractor in
October. The target is occupancy in the building in
West Murphy by the first of October of next
Wachovia Bank has purchased the present
building and will erect a new bank building on
site.