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The Cherokee Scout
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and Clay County Progress
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Volume 81 - Number 6 - Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina - Thursday, September 3, 1970
Effects Of Blight
Cherokee Extension Chairman Jack
Earley holds a com leaf in a Martin's
Creek f'eld hit by the blight, which
shows up first as the elongated
splotches on the green leaf. The leaf
behind it has already withered and
turned brown due to the blight; the
immature ear of corn is also showing
the blight spots and will not fully
develop. (Staff Photo)
Patrol Car Flips,Officers Hurt
Two law enforcement
officers were injured late
Tuesday afternoon when their
car, involved in a chase, left the
road and overturned.
State Highway Patrolman
Patt Miller, who was driving,
mffered a head injury and is at
Providence Hospital. Cherokee
Deputy Sheriff Dude Radford
jot cuts and bruises and a
whiplash neck injury but was
illowed to go home.
Dr. Walter Mauney, the
itten'-ing physician, said
Trooper Miller "is very much
improved. He was in critical
condition Tuesday night but
today (Wednesday) is not on
the critical list. "
Dr. Mauney said the trooper
has a concusion, apparently
suffered when his head came in
contact with the roof of the car
when it overturned. He added
that Miller may also have two
cracked ribs.
Deputy Radfordsaid the
accident occurred on the gravel
Wehutty Road in the Liberty
section near the Tennessee
state line as the two officers, in
Miller's patrol interceptor,
pursued Jimmy Eller, 34, of
Route 4, Murphy.
The deputy said there are
three warrants out for Eller,
charging him with treaspassing,
non-support and assault and
the two officers were looking
for him. They met him on the
highway, turned around and
were in pursuit withsiren and
blue light flashing when a front
tire apparently blew out.
"I heard a pop," Radford
said, which he assumed was the
tire blowing, just before their
car ran off the road in a
right-hand curve and
overturned. The wreck
occurred about 3:45 Tuesday
afternoon and the deputy
estimated that they were about
150 to 200 feet behind Eiler's
vehicle.
Miller was knocked out and
unconscious for several
minutes, Deputy Radford said.
Both men were wearing safety
belts and shoulder harness.
Sheriff Claude Anderson
and several other county and
state officers went to the area
in an effort to arrest Eller
Tuesday night but were unable
to apprehend him.
Miller's patrol car was
heavily damaged and was
towed in by Steve Dockery's
wrecking service.
Visiting Experts
Shown judging the garden vegetables
at the Cherokee County Agricultural
Fair are, left to right, Carlos Russell,
Towns County, Ga., agent; Ronald
Atkinson, area farm management agent
from Georgia; Emmett Jordan, Fannin
County, Ga. agent; R. C. Dikeman,
former New York agriculture teacher.
(Staff Photo)
Blight Hits 90 Per Cent Of Corn
Southern Leaf Blight of corn has hit
in both Cherokee and Clay counties.
Extension agents saying 90 per cent of
the crop in the two counties is affected.
"It's pretty well universal over the
county - I'd say 90 per cent of the com
is affected with it," says Clay County
Extension Chairman P. W. England. He
said in order to utilize the damaged crop
as silage, some Clay dairymen are already
cutting corn. They would ordinarily not
have cut until late in September, he
added.
The blight "has been diagnosed in all
sections of Cherokee County", according
to Extension Chairman Jack Earley,
"with approximately 90 per cent of the
corn crop affected in varying degrees."
Earley said corn hit by the blight can
still be used for silage and harvesting can
be delayed until the point when only 25
per cent of the leaf area is still green.
Both Earley and England said if the
blight hits a fields early, destroying the
leaves on the stalk, the ears will not fully
develop and yields will be reduced.
"The ears just don't fill out because
they don't get the nutrients from the
leaves, which have died due to the
blight," England explained. "Coupled
with the dry weather we had, it means
we are going to be short on our corn
crop - I don't know exactly how much.
"Most of our people will cut down on
the number of animals they're keeping",
he continued. "They will be using milo
and other crops to feed with, wheat and
oats and even soybeans."
Earley suggested that if a corn field
hit by blight seems too bad to harvest,
some farmers could profit by turning in
beef cows or larger pigs on the field to
eat the corn.
He warned, however, that the animals
should be watched closely during the
first week of feeding in a blighted field
as a secondary fungus infection that can
be poisonous sometimes occurs.
According to a fact sheet released by
N.C. State University in Raleigh, the
blight is caused by a new race of fungus
which can travel on the wind for several
miles. Once it hits a corn plant it can
completely dry up the leaves in 12 to 14
days.
Companies which produce seed for
the nation's corn crop have moved men
and equipment to other countries and
hope to have blight-resistant seed corn
ready for next year's planting.
Corn stocks nationally are the lowest
they have been in years and economists
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expect the shortage of corn to mean
higher costs of producing pork, poultry,
eggs, milk and beef.
Library Gets Hike In Grants
The Nantahata Regional
Library was notified this week
that its grant money has been
increased.
Martha Palmer, regional
librarian, said the official
notice came from the N.C.
State Library in Raleigh and is
due to a raise in funds supplied
by the three counties, which
are then matched at a higher
rate with federal money.
The Cherokee, Graham and
Clay county commissioners
this summer included in their
budgets an increase for the
library system of from 50 cents
to 75 cents per capita, based
on the 1960 population
figures.
Mrs. Palmer said the
increase by the counties, which
caused an increase in federal
grants, showed up in the
library's budget for 1970-71,
which is $61,781 up $17,043
from last year's figure.
She said the increase in
funds will be used to expand
the amount spent for books
and periodicals and raise
salaries of library personnel. It
will also go for the bookmobile
replacement fund, the building
fund and for providing a
special collection of books on
Cherokee Indian history plus
improving the service to the
branch libraries.
Moonshine Liquor
Seized In 2 Raids
Two Cherokee County men Graham at Suit and confiscated
were arrested last week in raids four gallons of "white" liquor,
by county and federal officers charging him with possession,
and charged with possesion of On Saturdaythey raided the
untaxed moonshine liquor. Wolf Creek home of J.N.
Cherokee Deputy Sheriffs McCann, finding a half-gallon
Dude Radford and Virgil of liquor and also a large
Hogsed and federal revenue rattlesnake, which the officers
agents Kolen Flack and admitted dampened their
Newton Plemmons of Bryson enthusiasm for further
City made the raids. searching.
Deputy Radford said the Both men were booked for
offices on Thursday went to trial in federal court in Bryson
the house trailer of Johnny City in November.
Jeff Brooks Named
Atkinson Chairman
Republican Congressional
candidate Luke Atkinson has
announced the appointment of
Jeff Brooks of Andrews as
campaign manager of the
Atkinson for Congress
Campaign in Cherokee County.
In this capacity he will
coordinate all phases of the
Atkinson campaign in
Cherokee County.
Brooks is president and
owner of Reece Motor
Company in Andrews and has
been with the company for the
past 33 years. He is active in
the Masons and the Shriners,
and is past president of the
Andrews Rotary Club.
Brooks is on the executive
board of the Cherokee County
Republican Party.
Atkinson commented on his
choice, "Jeff's Business
experience and good standing
in the community make him
greatly qualified to perform
the duties required of a
manager."
Top Fair
Won By Texana
The judges toured the
exhibit hall at the Cherokee
County Agricultural Fair on
Tuesday afternoon and
awarded the top money prize
to Texana Community
Development Club.
The Texana exhibit, which
won $75, shows life in that
community, with thenew water
Facing
Larceny
Charge
Wesley Whitner, 40, of
Route 5, Murphy was arrested
last week on a charge of
larceny by breaking and
entering.
The arresting officer,
Cherokee Deputy Sheriff Dude
Radford, said White net is
charged with breaking into the
house of his grandmother,
Mollie Whitener, and larceny of
$8.
Whitener is to be tried In
Cherokee District Court on
Sept. 8.
system towering over all.
The $50 second prize went
to the Marble Community
Development Club for its
exhibit.
In the Home Demonstration
competition, the exhibit by
Tomotla won the $50 first
prize money, Hayesville won
second prize of $25 and
Martin's Creek won third prize
of $15.
In the 4-H exhibits, Pleasant
Valley won the $50 top prize,
Pea entree Junior 4-H Club was
the second prize winner of $25
and Tomotla was third,
winning $15.
Hielocal Future Farmers of
America had the only entry in
the Youth Club section and
their exhibit was declared the
winner of first prize, $50.
The exhibit hall is open and
there are rides and games by
Georgia Amusements, the Fair
to run through Saturday night.
The Fair last year was
cloaed due to a near-brawl on
the midway and Murphy Police
Chief Pete Stalcup said this
week he will assign uniformed
officer to patrol the grounds
until the Fair do
Wins Degree
Claudia Schuyler of Murphy is
shown receiving a degree in secretarial
science from Tri-Tech President
Holland McSwain in graduation
ceremonies held last week at Peachtree
Elementary School. (Staff Photo)
Tri-Tecn Graduates
87 At Peachtree
Tri-County Technical
Institute held graduation
exercises for 87 students at
Peachtree Elementary School
on Thursday night of last
week.
The speaker was Dr. Amos
Abrams, editor emeritus of
North Carolina Education
magazine.
Dr. Abrams emphasized the
"second chance" of technical
schools, offering those who
need them a chance to learn
skills that are not offered in
the public school system and
thereby find suitable
employment.
Holland McSwain, Tri-Tech
president, presented diplomas
to the following for
completion of one-year
courses.
Auto Body Repair - Kendall
R. Adams, David C. Moss, Carl
M. Thomas
Auto Mechanics - Jerry D.
Hunsucker, Jackie F. Nichols,
Tommy E. Phillips, Lane
Thomason, Harold D. Stiles.
Brick & Block Masonry -
Del mar Do ran, Jackie Ellis,
Jessie Ellis, Dean Haigler, Lynn
A. Holloway, Dan Lovingood,
Michael E. McGaha, Dwight R.
Moss, Ab E. Radford, Frank M.
Roper, Herman A. Stewart.
Cosmetology - Cheri Ann
Baker, Jessie Irene Brickey,
Hilda Louise Crisp, Debbie
Ann Green, Margaret Ann Hall,
Mildred D. Jordan, Ruth A.
Murphy, Wanda Christine
Ware.
Welding Kenneth
Blankenship, Billy English,
Sheridan Hall, Dock B.
McGaha, Jr., Boyce M.
McLeymore, Richard Eugene
Pickens, Vincent Stewart,
Teddy Jack Stiles, Roger D.
West, Gary T. Wood.
Associate Degrees in
Applied Science were given the
following for completion of
the two-year course in
executive secretarial science -
Paggy Joe Gibson, Frances
Jean Lee, Bobbie Gay Mason,
Sandra Lea McClure, Brenda
Sue Parker, Judy Gail Parker,
Patterson, Claudia Alice
Schuyler, Patricia A. Swanson
Elliot, Lula Jean Tola.
Certificates in Law
Enforcement Training went to:
Samuel Paul Bowers, Charles
Ray Davidson, David E.
Gregory, C.C. Howard, Frank
Ledford, Bruce David Martin,
Carl William McLean, Thomas
Wilson Palmer, Larry Willis
Sellers, Odis Harvey Sitton,
William Lloyd Stroud, Paul
Edward White.
The following received GED
certificates, which are the
equivalent of a high school
diploma:
William H. Anderson, Vera
Lee Buckner, Genevieve Cable,
Marilyn A. Chastain, Carol
Linda Coffey, Ruth H. Cook,
Verna S. Davis, Janice B. Ellis,
Jerome F. Hampton, Carolyn
J. Hembree, Carmen M.
Holloway, Walter G. Hughes,
Jerdie Mae Johnson,
Lois G. Jones, Ralph J.
Nichols, Helen Louise On,
Betty Lou Rowland, Elizabeth
Evans Shields, Jewel Dean
Shields, Brenda Sue Shook,
Sandra L. Shook, Lily P. Sims,
Anna B. Welch, Peggy Lee
Welch, Judy C. White,
Christine H. Worley.
Ray Sims
Democrats
Name Sims
Candidate
The Democratic Executive
Committee of Cherokee
County in a meeting Saturday
night selected Ray Sims as the
party's candidate for county
commissioner in District 2.
The Democratic county
convention back in June
picked J.N. Boling of Murphy
as the candidate for District 2
which includes. Murphy,
Ogreeta, Hanging Dog and
Grape Creek.
Boling, however, aid due to
health reasons he would be
unable to run or serve.
And Sims, a commissioner
for the past four years, had not
announced for the board of
commissioners but was seeking
the party's nomination as
sheriff. Blain Stalcup won that
nomination easily on the first
ballot and Sims, as a resident
of District 3, Peach tree and the
western precincts, was later
offered from the floor of the
convention as a District 3
nominee.
The District 3 nomination
also eluded him as Fred Sneed
got the nod to run againet
incumbent Republican
commissioner Jack Sinmafll of
Wolf Creek.
Democratic County
Chairman Gary Kilpatrick agd
this weak that Sims
living in ha Tomotla
and has accepted the call of
Executive Committee. He wB
oppose Jack Lovtaflopd, the
GOP candidate in District S.
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Top Exhibit
Judges at the Cherokee County
Agricultural Fair are shown awarding
the blue ribbon to the Texana exhibit.
Left to right are O.G. Garland, area
Extension agent; Ronald Atkinson,
farm management agent from Georgia;
Mr*. Joe E. Terrell, Extension specialist
from Asheville; Mrs. Steve Brogdon, a
Fair worker who served as acocekeeper
for the judges. (Staff Photo)