Editorial Comment
New Course
Needs Golfers
; The Cherokee County Golf Course is
! in trouble, like a bride left waiting at the
I altar.
When the golf course was planned,
?" total of 419 people signed up to be
*? users. Their signatures indicated that
> C herokee County could easily support a
r golf course, on the strength of their
?? signatures the government loan was
- made for $250,000 to construct the
j course.
;; But where are they now?
il Out of the original 419 who were to
^ be users, the golf course now has only
. 115 paid-up users. And it needs at least
: 200 to break even, course officials say.
No one expected, of course, for the
full 419 to join. There were some who
;> gladly signed the original list with the
;v expressed feeling that "this will help get
;?> us a golf course and after it's here there's
- no way the federal government can
reposses it." True, repossession in the
sense of the furniture store coming for a
sofa you haven't paid for would be
difficult in the case of the golf course.
But without adequate support it can
certainly go broke and fold. And in the
process make Cherokee County look
mighty bad.
Members of the course are authorized
to bring any prospective new member to
play for free during August, a
go-for-broke play which will lose money
which would have been paid in green
fees but hopefully will bring in the
needed new users. Members will also be
looking closely at the list of original
signers, which will be posted in the pro
shop. And many of the original signers
will be contacted to see why they
haven't joined.
A golf course is an asset to Cherokee,
it will be a shame for the county if it
goes broke for lack of enough members.
Politick
On Their Own Time
Those who think a university should be a
geyser of activism rather than a well of
knowledge have promoted the idea of
suspending classes for a week or two before the
November election to let students work in
political campaigns.
Not Florida universities, said the State Board
of Regents. And rightly so.
Universities are there to teach, not to
provide recruits for political movements. Any
student who feels strongly enough about a
candidate or cause can do his campaigning after
working hours - as hell have to do once he
leaves the campus and goes into a business or
profession. - Tamp (Fla.) Tribune
Letter To The Editor
Dear Editor:
For many years we havebeen
plagued with what are known
as flim-flam artists. When I
speak of these, I am referring
i to salesmen of so called Civil
Service schools. These artists
prey on people in the low
income bracket, people who
were not fortunate enough to
complete high school, high
school dropouts, and people
who have strong desire to work
for the government but feel
they do not have the
qualifications to pass the Civil
Service examinations.
.* This is an example of how
they operate: Find out all they
can about your education, how
old you are, what your
telephone number is or how to
get to your home. They call
your home or get in contact
.with you some way and set up
an appointment.
? After arriving, they explain
all the benefits you receive
from working under the Civil
Service system. Paint you such
a beautiful picture until you
are on cloud nine. Regardless
of the job you might be
interested in from federal judge
to janitor, you name it and
they have it from $300 on up.
The down payment is what
they are interested in to begin
with which is all they can get
out of you and, of course, so
much each month until you
finish their worthless course.
You have to send your test
papers to another outfit which
is tied in with them to get
them graded. This costs you
another fee. They are very slick
and stay within the law until
they cannot be prosecuted for
violation of Federal laws.
My desire is to inform
innocent people of the
misleading information given
by these crooked salesmen. I
have been approached by many
victims who have been taken
by these salesmen. With tears
in their eyes, they find out that
all the studying and the money
they put in the courses was all
in vain. Information about
Civil Service examinations may
be obtained without cost from
the Civil Service representative
at most Post Offices. No Civil
Service course is required for
taking Civil Service
examinations or for learning
about them.
Before you pay for one of
these worthless courses,
contact your local Civil Service
representatives or be sure you
know what you are paying for.
Once they get any money from
you, it is impossible to get it
back. If you are one of the
victims at the present, stop
sending any money and forget
about the contract because it is
not worth the paper it is
printed on.
Hugh Roberson
Civil Service
Examiner-in-Charge
Asheville.
CLIFF BLUE ? ? ?
People & Issues
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N.C. PRESS - Last Friday
and Saturday we attended the
98th Annual Convention of the
North Carolina Press
Association at the Blockade
Runner Motor Hotel at
Wrightsville Beach.
We always enjoy getting
together with fellow scribes
and craftsmen and swapping
notes and opinions.
Dave Whichard II concluded
a good year as president and to
succeed him another fine
newspaperman was elected-our I
close friend, L.T. (Nudy)
James of Troy. Howard White
of Burlington was named vice
president and Mrs. Margaret
Harper of Southport was
reelected secretary - treasurer.
AH are highly respected
members and leaders in the Tar
Heel fourth estate activities.
WILMINGTON. . . When
the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad picked up and moved
its operational headquarters
from Wilmington to
Jacksonville, Florida several
years ago, citizens of the
. Wilmington area felt that it was
a powerful and heavy blow to
the area's economy - and it
was. But the leaders of the
Wilmington community didn't
lie down and whine - they
started a movement to bring
other industry to the
community, and this they have
done in a most exemplary
manner, and today it is one of
the state's most thriving and
forward - moving communities.
A Voice In
The Wilderness
The dire need that Murphy
and the surrounding country
has for an animal shelter has
never been more apparent. The
offers of cats and dogs have
been overflowing to the writer.
The misconception that all is
already organized into a
concrete fact must be
corrected. We have great hopes
for an animal shelter, but mere
talk will not do it. We need the
help of the people at large, and
the cooperation of the county
commissioners to accomplish
this. This is a direct
responsibility of all of the
citizens to take upon
themselves the parceling out of
these unwanted animals. The
giving of a home to a stray dog
or kitten must be distributed
among all and not just a few.
until we get a shelter built
where we can take care of
them as we should.
This disgraceful situation as
it now stands must be rectified
at the earliest possible
moment. There are dogs in our
downtown section so badly in
need of attention that the
disgrace of the neglect is hard
to bear.
This is supposed to be the
Age of Enlightenment, so how
can we retrogress into the dark
ages of unconcern?
The Cherokee-Clay Humane
Society, Inc. meets every third
Tuesday evening of the month
at the Power Board Building in
Murphy. The next meeting will
be August 18 at 8 o'clock.
Won't you please join us?
Margaret Schroeder
People point to Wilmington
as what can be done to
overcome a big industry
moving away.
NEWSPAPERS. . . A good
illustration of Wilmington's
"on the move" program is the
Wilmington Star and the
Wilmington News - the
morning and afternoon
newspapers of which Rye B.
Page is president and publisher.
The newspapers have
ly moved into a brand
'plant ?Rh' brand' new
, eqiflpment from beginning to
end and the dedication of the
new and modern plant took
place Saturday morning. The
dedication took place with
Mrs. Daisy Page Hutaff, co
publisher and vice president of
the newspapers unveiling a
plaque, dedicating the building
to the memory of her late
husband - Rinaldo Burrus Page
who headed the Star-News
Newspapers for nearly a
quarter of a century until his
death in 1955, since which
time his son Rye has guided
the newspapers to their present
high rank in Tar Heel
journalism.
BALD HEAD ISLAND. . .
Wrightsville Beach is close to
Bald Head Island and as a
result many of the newspapers
people visited the island about
which so much has been
written and said in recent
months. Bill Henderson was on
the island and discussed the
proposed project with
newsmen. Henderson doesn't
seem concerned with Bob
Scott's opposition to the
project despite the fact that
the governor indicates that he
will block any road or
bridge-building to the project.
Scott's term as governor has
only a little more than two
years to run and a new
administration will be coming
to power before much work
can be done on a project of the
magnitude the Carolina Cape
Fear group has in mind, and if
necessary, it could be an island
reached by air-lift or chair or
sky-lift transportation!
While the island it reported
to fim been told for about 5'A
million, rumor has It that die
island was purchased not so
many years ago for between
$6,000 and $10,000.
ASHLEY FUTRELL . . .
Asheiy Futrell, editor and
publisher of the Washington
(N.C.), Daily News, a former
State Senator, and now the
Democratic nominee for the
Senate in the 2nd District and
unopposed in the fall election
was in attendance, discussing
political issues as well as
newspapering. Futrell has been
mentioned as a possible
:andidate for lieutenant
'overnor in 1972.
CRIME BILL. . . Maybe,
just maybe, Washington is so
far down the crime road that
Nixon's anti-crime bill was
necessary to bring about
respect for law and order and
justice in the nation's capital;
but we hope that the day will
never come when the crime
situation in North Carolina will
justify such strong-arm and
despotic methods. We believe
Senator Ervin was right in
opposing the bill.
Troubles sometimes pile up on a man
and if you decide to run, walk careful in
the big cities...
Some members of the family said it
started when he caught his wife with his
own brother. There's an unwritten law,
so they say, that allows a man to kill
under those circumstances but he didn't.
The relatives said he fought with his
brother and later turned on his wife.
And some agreed that he certainly had
good reason. The law years ago might
have condoned wife-beating in such a
case but not now. She signed a warrant
against him for assault on a female.
Some of the kin said he had grabbed her
by the throat and choked her a little.
He didn't want to set the officers or
the warrant or the inside of a courtroom
so he quickly decided to do some
travelling and visit some understanding
blood kin up North. In Baltimore.
Baltimore is the largest city in
Maryland and is the core of a
metropolitan area of more than two
million people. It is an important port,
the site of Ft. McHenry where attorney
Francis Scott Key penned our national
anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
It's the birthplace of baseball great Babe
Ruth. It has industry of all types and 16
colleges, the home of four profes$ional
athletic teams and the scene of much
horse-racing activity. Hurray.
Baltimore, with more than 900,000
people, also harbors the scum, the
human wolves, killers who sneer in the
light of day and strike from the
blackness of an alley by night. They
watch eternally for any sign of weakness
- an old person, a drunk, a young man
alone, a newcomer. Some are driven to
crime by a drug habit which becomes
more costly as the pushers raise the
prices; others are animals, preferring to
prey on their fellow man rather than to
work for a living. With razor-sharp knives
and brass knuckles and lead pipes and
cheap pistols they wait in the darkness....
There was no telling how long he
would have to stay here in Baltimore,
with a warrant out against him at honqeJ
signed by his wife. His world was at leaatj
for a time turned upside down so hel
might as well look around the big tity.tl
The North Carolina relatives said hel
must have put up a fight. If he did it was1]
a mistake. He may not have had a chance?
? no one will ever know. But listen anfll
believe and learn - crime statistics may]
seem to be just a mass of cold figures,'
but they are telling an ugly story. LarfljeJ
cities have always been dangerous,
especially in certain sections at night.*
But they're even more so these
Endless cartoons are drawn depic
humorous hold-up situations and the
always get a laugh. But if a voice from,I
the darkness harshly demands yodr J|
money and a hand grabs your coat, the^l
television comedian with the funny lines > I
won't be there to help you out.
So one Sunday last month in J
Baltimore, he came to the end of the*I
line. To the robbers he was a fresh ,1
welcome victim. By Sunday night he was I
a new corpse, a small bullet hole under |
his left nipple and one whole side of his <1
skull caved in with what the police s$id I
was probably a blunt, heavy weapon. 1
And that about summed up the 'I
investigation. ,1
The murder netted the killers his I
watch and about $100 in cash money. *1
The watch long gone in some nameless >1
pawn shop, the money too, gone and J
forgotten by now. Yet some men have 1
died for even less - the shoes they were 'I
wearing, a flashy ring, a jug of wine. ,1
The long distance phone calls had to
be made, the funeral arrangements were '|
considered and the embalmer had to do
the best he could. A new shirt would
easily cover the bullet hole; the crushed
skull was another matter.
In the end they decided to bring him
back to the mountain county of his
ancestors and bury him with his
mother's people. He had reached the ripe
old age of 25. Rest in Peace.
Registration Books Open
to All persons that have not registered
in Cherokee County since June 1969.
IN ORDER TO VOTE IN THE NOVEMBER
ELECTION YOU WILL HAVE TO
Register Before October 11
REGISTRATION BOOKS ARE OPEN FOR
REGISTERING AT THE CHEROKEE COUNTY
COURTHOUSE IN MURPHY
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Scroggs B.P. Station
Harolds Restaurant
Ivester Trucking Co.
Farmers Garage
B & W Motors
Mundy Veneer
Twiggs Garage
Higdon Construction Co.
Andrews Auto Parts
iMurphy Tire & Appl.
Black Auto Parts
|Brumby Textile Mills
Dockery Monuments
King Auto Parts
Graves Chrysler-Plymouth
Hicks Gulf Service
WCVP Radio Station
Greens Auto Parts, Brasstn. J
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Clayton & Sales Garage, Hysvl
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