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The Cherokee Scout
16 Pages
and Clay County Progress 15* Per Copy
Volume 81 - Number 2- Murphy. North Carolina, 28906 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina - Thursday, Aucnsfc^. *9?
Alan Godfrey Dies In Plane Crash
A 17-year-old Murphy youth died
Sunday in the flaming crash of an airliner
in South America.
Alan Godfrey's body has been
recovered from the wreckage of the
airplane in Peru and has been positively
identified, according to relatives.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ken
Godfrey of Murphy, are in Peru. Nothing
definite is known yet as to when they or
Alan's body will return to Murphy.
The Godfreys had a Peruvian
exchange student in their home last
winter and Alan then went to Peru to
Exchange Student Visiting Peru
live in a home in the capital of Lima on
June 19. His father, a Murphy town
councilman, and mother flew to Peru to
visit with him on Aug. 2 and were to
have returned this week.
The Godfreys and their son toured
points of interest in Peru for several days
and on last Saturday were at the ruins
of the ancient Inca civilization at Cuzco.
They split up there, Mr. and Mrs.
Godfrey to fly on to see some more
ruins at Hyuana Picchu.
Alan had already visited Hyuana and
remained at Cuzco, to be flown back to
Lima on Sunday along with a number of
other exchange students in the program
sponsored by the International
Fellowship.
There were 101 people on the
four-engined Lockheed Electra
turbo-prop as it took off from Cuzco,
almost half of them exchange students.
Also on board for the 300-mile flight to
Lima were the top officials of the
International Fellowship.
The plane reportedly had one of its
engines stop shortly after takeoff and
turned back to try and land at the Cuzco
airport. It lost altitude and crashed into
a mountain about 12 miles from Cuzco.
All the passengers and crew died in
the crash except the co-pilot who was
found alive but critically injured. He
died later.
John Carringer, another Murphy town
councilman and friend of the Godfreys,
has talked by telephone with them in
Peru. He quoted them as saying the
problem now is identification of the
bodies and release of them by the
Peruvian government.
The Carringers also participated in the
exchange program the past winter, a
Peruvian girl staying at their home.
However, they were nervous about the
recent earthquakes which have killed
thousands in Peru and their daughter
Markie Carringer did not go on the
summer trip with Alan Godfrey.
"Had I gone I would most likely have
been on that plane," she said this week.
As in all disasters, irony and
coincidence r.'ay a part. Markie Carringer
didn't go- to*Peru ard missed being on
the death plane; her father was supposed
to have been on a Piedmont airliner in
July of 1967, the craft that collided with
a smaller plane shortly after takeoff at
Asheville - Hendersonville Airport and
fell, taking all 82 on both planes to their
deaths.
Carringer was driving to Asheville to
board that plane but was running late
and was in the vicinity of Enka when it
crashed. " At the time, I remember I was
unhappy that I was going to miss my
plane," he said.
And Mrs. Godfrey is a a native of
Atlanta, where the other two Godfrey
sons are staying with their grandmother
while their parents are in Peru. She was
reared in Atlanta and the daughter of a
woman she went to grammar school with
in Atlanta was an exchange student,
killed in the same crash Sunday in Peru...
January Portrait
Murphy High School students Markie Carringer Peru this summer and died in a plane crash there
and Alan Godfrey, at center, posed back in January Sunday; Miss Carringer did not make the trip. (Staff
with two exchange students from Peru, Oscar Devila Photo)
and Marcela Iparraguirre. Young Godfrey went to
Royal Arch
Chapter
Planned
There will be a Royal Arch
Chapter instituted in Cherokee
County at Marble on Saturday,
beginning at 10:30 a.m.
This chapter will be located
at Cherokee Lodge No. 146 in
Murphy but due to parking
space is being instituted at
Marble.
All Master Masons who
would like to join should get in
contact with Leonard McClure
or be there on that date.
Budget Body To Visit
The powerful Advisory
Budget Commission will visit
Tri-County Technical Institute
on Monday morning.
The visit here will be both
to honor the late Frank
Forsyth and to see the school,
according to Tri-Tech President
Holland McSwain. He said
Forsyth, a member of the
commission until his death in
late February, invited the other
five men to come to Murphy
last winter.
Forsyth was replaced by W.
Kenneth Anderson of Newland
and the commission is headed
by Tom White of Kinston, a
former state senator, as was
Forsyth.
The other four members are
the men who head the
Appropriations and Finance
Committees in House and
Senate - Senators Ralph Scott
of Haw River and Lindsay
Warren of Goldsboro and
Representatives Sam Johnson
of Raleigh and Thorne Gregory
of Scotland Neck.
The Advisory Budget
Commission begins its Western
North Carolina visits at
Murphy, due to land at the
Murphy-Andrews Airport on
Sunday afternoon and spend
the night here. The
commission, accompanied by
top state financial officers, will
tour Tri-Tech Monday morning
at 8:30 before traveling to
Western Carolina University at
Cullowhee.
From the requests by
various institutions and
agencies for funds, the
Advisory Budget Commission
and Gov. Bob Scott will make
recommendations to the
General Assembly, which
convenes in Raleigh in January.
The General Assembly has the
final word on the allocation of
state funds.
Calf
Sale
Set
The Upper Hiawassee
Feeder Calf Sale will be i.eld at
the Murphy Livestock Market
on September 28.
The sale is sponsored by the
Upper Hiawassee Feeder Calf
Association which is composed
of farmers from Cherokee,
Clay, Graham Counties in
North Carolina and
Union,Fannin and Towns
Counties in Georgia.
The North Carolina
Cattlemen's Association, North
Carolina Department of
Agriculture and North Carolina
Agricultural Extension Service
promote, advertise and furnish
graders for the sale.
Buyers from as tar away as
Indiana have attended the two
previous sales which netted
local producers $170,047.69
for 1,446 calves.
SOKT '
I FRONT SEATS .
-SERVED
Auctioneer watches for bids in picture made at last year's sale. (TVA Photo)
Registration Books
Won't Go To Precincts
Cherokee County residents
can continue to register three
days a week at the courthouse
but the voter registration
books will not be taken into
the individual precincts for
registration.
That was the decision of the
Cherokee County Board of
Elections, announced Tuesday
by Chairman Glenn Stalcup.
He said the three-man board
held a brief meeting on
Saturday and decided that it
did not have enough money to
take the registration books to
he precincts.
The county is now under
the loose-leaf registration
system, whereby voters from
any precinct can come to the
courthouse and register on
Tuesday, Thursday or until
noon on Saturdays.
There has been much
discussion recently, especially
by candidates for county
office, about the centralized
registration and the difficulty
some voters might have in
getting to Murphy and the
courthouse to register.
Two Republican candidates.
Register of Deeds Ed Graves,
running for re-election, and
Charles White, campaigning for
sheriff, appeared last week at
the county commissioners'
meeting to ask if the books
could be returned to the
precincts for registration.
The commissioners told
them that whether the books
went out or not was a decision
left up to the Board of
Elections, that board is funded
in the county budget, the
commissioners said, and if it
wanted to send out the books
it could.
Chairman Stalcup said
Tuesday, however, that his
budget will allow for judges
and registrars to be paid for
their work in the coming
November election but to send
the books to the precincts
would strain the budget.
Voters can register anytime
on the three specified days, he
said, until October 10, which
will be the last day for
registration before the
November election.
Voters on the new loose-leaf
books now number between
5,500 and ?000, he noted.
Golf Tourney ?
Set For Teens
A golf tournament for
teenagers at the Cherokee
County Golf Course, originally
set for last Sunday and then
postponed due to rain, will be
held Sunday afternoon.
The registration book has
been re-opened for the
tournament and any teenager
in the county is eligible to
play, the event beginning at 2
p.m. The entry fee is $2 and
prizes will be gift certificates
redeemable at the pro shop.
Latest Equipment
Charles Cornwall, right, and Mr. and Cornwell brothers and their father, the
Mrs. Bryan Cornwell of Peachtree are Rev. C.W. Cornwall, have seven acres of
shown sizing and washing tomatoes on trellis tomatoes. (Staff Photo)
the Cornwells' new machine. The
Cornwells Buy Machine
To Size, Wash Tomatoes
There's a shiny new
machine in a shed on a farm at
Peachtree?proof that trellis
tomato-growing is indeed
becoming a top cash crop for
Cherokee County.
Charles Comwell is the man
behind the machine, which
washes the tomatoes and sorts
them into three different sizes.
He and his father, the Rev.
C.W. Comwell, purchased the
machine in late July.
It was sold to them by a
dealer in Waynesville,
manufactured by Parnell and
Associates of Orlando and
Pompano Beech, Fla. Several
similar machines have been
sold to growers in Haywood
and Madison counties but this is
the first one in Cherokee.
The Cornwells say their
machine cost about $3,000 but
it's obviously an investment in
what they believe will be a
profitable future. They believe
firmly in tomatoes?along with
another son Bryan, the
Cornwells have seven acres,
about 10 per cent of the total
county tomato acreage.
"TTiere's a lot of hard work
in it but it pays off," Charles
Comwell says. And he has
plans to make tomato crops
pay off even more.
The average acre of
tomatoes in this county brings
in more than $4,000 for its
grower but Comwell believes
with sharper marketing of his
crop, the producer can raise
that figure to "somewhere
between $5,000 and $6,000 an
acre."
Employed in the citrus
industry in Florida for nine
years, he came home when the
trellis tomato message took
root several years ago.
Tobacco, the traditional crop,
"gives people a winter
crop?some money about
Christmas" he says, but adds
that he'll be sticking with "In September we can pick
'maters. "There's more labor in the greens," Cornwell says,
tobacco but you can more than "that ordinarily we'd be stuck
double your money. with. But by having a machine
Presently the new machine to wash them and size them,
is being used to process only we'll be able to strip the fields
Cornwell tomatoes, some of and sell them to ruckers."
which are being sold to However, the Cornwell
truckers. The prime reason for machine may have a large role
buying it this year, he noted, next year. About a dozen
is that it can be used to process growers, along with he
the late green tomatoes which Cornwells, are now talking of a
will be on the vines at the end co-op arrangement in which
of the season when the Murphy they would size and sell their
packing house closes. own toamtoes next year.
Offices Cool Now
... Thanks To Army
The Special Forces' recent maneuvers in this
area were designed to win friends among the
civilian population, as the Green Berets try to do
daily in the Asian war.
And the soldiers certainly have some cool
new friends at the Cherokee County Courthouse
- where air-conditioning has been installed with
Army money.
The new air-conditioners in the offices of Tax
Supervisor Andrew Barton and County
Accountant Barbara Stalcup were paid for by
two Army checks, which Barton got by mailing
out a letter for the Army to landowners in the
county, asking their permission for Green Beret
units to use private lands in maneuvers.
Barton said ha hired some part-time help and
used the county mailing list and told the county
commissioners the Army checks would easily
pay for air-conditioning.
The commissioners agreed with him, since it
wasn't tax money collected from county
residents, and told him to go ahead and spend it
for air-conditioning. The commissioners,
incidentally, hold their regular meetings in the
tax supervisor's office.
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