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Pages Volume81 -Number 10 Murphy. North Carolina, 28906 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina - Thursday, October 1, 1970 CLAW THE PANTHERS!!!
Herman Estes...master woodworker turning a bowl.
Estes Is Named
First Citizen'
Herman Estes of Brasstown will be honored
at the John C. Campbell Folk School Sunday
afternoon with the "First Citizen" award of a
Georgia savings and loan group.
Mire than 300 friends and former students of
Estes are expected to attend the reception in his
honor, as he is presented the award, given
annually by the First Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Gainesville.
The announcement of his winning was
made recently by Buford D. Battle, executive
vice president. Estes was cited for his "qualities
of a great teacher", having spent more than 23
years in the classroom and shop.
Mack Myers, business manager of Young
Harris College, and Ed Davis, past U.S.
Administrator of Indian Affairs, will give short
talks during the presentation ceremonies. First
Federal officers and directors will attend from
Gainesville, Ga. Also attending will be Mary
Carnwell, director of the Crafts Section, North
Carolina State Fair; Robert Gray, director of the
Handicraft Guild, N.C. Chapter; and John
Ferguson, director of the John C. Campbell Folk
School.
Estes, a descendant of Daniel Boone, is well
known for his beautiful woodware and
custom-made furniture. He is also a skilled
gunsmith, having made five muzzle-loading rifles
for his grandsons and a handsome set of dueling
pistols, and an ardent rock collector, he has been
an influential member of the Tri State Rock
Hound Society since its inception. He and his
wife, Mable, now live in Brasstown, in a home
which the two of them built by hand, including
all but six pieces of the interior furniture.
Bank Design Complete
Design work for the new
Murphy office of Wachovia
Bank and Trust Co., N.A., has
been completed, according to
Jack B. Isaacs, vice president
and manager of the office.
The new facility, to be
lo&ted on the old site of First
Baptist Church in Murphy, will
contain 15,154 square feet and
wiO be an impressive, modern
' structure of white stone,
.sandfaced brick and
bronze-tinted glass.
The dominant feature of the
'exterior walls will be the white
stone trim of precast concrete
on . two levels. Above both
ifrodt and rear entrances will be
panels of bronze-tinted plate
?as and frames for doors and
windows will be constructed of
Madized aluminum. On either
side of the building will be
three vertical slit windows.
At the main entrance to the
bank will be an approximately
ten-foot high semicircular
canopy with projecting brick
headers. The canopy, made of
poured concrete, stands free on
the sides.
Both entrances to the new
building will lead directly into
the bank's main lobby. The
floor wilt be of white, polished
terrazzo with wool carpeting in
the platform area, offices and
conference rooms. The teller's
counter will extend some 60
feet and will have 11 inside
stations and a convenient
drive-up teller station.
Additional offices, with a
semilar decor, will be located
on the second floor.
Isaacs said the new structure
will be "one of the finest
banking facilities in North
Carolina."
He called it "just another
expression of Wachovia's faith
in the future of the Murphy
area and its commitment to
that future."
The Baptist church
congregation, embarked on a
building program to erect a
new structure in the Bealtown
section, expects to be using the
old church for at least another
year.
After the congregation
moves out, the old church will
have to be dismantled and then
construction can begin on the
new bank. Isaacs estimated
that it will probably be about
two years until the new bank is
opened.
Power
Shortage
Possible
Electric power from the
TV A system will be in tight
supply this Fall and Winter and
Cherokee County business and
industry may be affected.
A TVA newsletter this week
warns that 80 percent of the
system's power is produced at
11 power plants which burn
coal. Their stockpile of coal
would last only 10 days at full
capacity, a situation which
TVA calls serious.
The coal to replenish the
stockpiles has been ordered by
TVA but is not being delivered
as fast as the contracts call for.
TVA says production of coal
has been reduced and points
out time lost in unloading
railroad coal cars as
contributing to the crisis.
John (Buster) Bayless,
manager of the Murphy
Electric Power Board which
buys power from TVA, says if
there is an electricity cutback
it "probably will be for
business and industry." He said
private homes will probably
continue to get power, adding
that "the residential customer
is the preferred customer" in a
decision as to where to curtail
power.
Bayless says Murphy gets
power produced at Hiwassee
Dam when that facility is
generating but added that this
does not mean Murphy is in
any special position in a
cutback situation.
"We're all tied into a big
grid," he said. "And what
affects them also affects us."
Bayless noted, as did the
newsletter, that large users of
power, such as industries, have
clause in their contracts that
permits interruption of the
power supply if conditions
warrant it.
7,500 Register
The number of registered
voters in Cherokee County this
week passed 7,500 and there
were predictions that the figure
will approach 8,000 by the
time the books close on
Monday.
The books will be open for
registration of voters on
Thursday all day and on
Saturday until noon and sinoe
Monday is the last day, they
will be open all day Monday.
Voters must be registered in
the loose-leaf system in order
to vote in November and
Monday is the deadline.
Last-minute registrations are
coming in at a rapid rate,
according to the Cherokee
County Board of Elections.
The books were taken to
Hiwassee Dam School last
Friday night and more than
120 voters were signed up
there.
An additional 168 agned up
on Saturday and 98 more
registered Tuesday.
According to Register of
Deeds Ed Graves, who keeps
the voter lists and numbers for
the Republicans, the total now
stands at 7,546. His figures are
not official but are considered
accurate by the Board of
Elections, which has been
unable to keep a running tally
because of the flood of new
registrations.
Graves says the Democrats
have 3,968 registered voters,
holding their lead of 700 over
the GOP, a gap which has
remained steady for several
weeks. The Republicans have
3,255, he said, and there are
323 Independents.
Molasses Makin' Time
It's that time of year again, when
the cane is ground and the juice boiled
down to make sorghum molasses. These
photos were made last week at
Shooting Creek of an operation owned
by Lloyd Hogsed. At top left the cane
stalks are crushed to release their juices,
Lyn Reynolds, left, manager of the
operation, checking on the juice vat
and C.D. Garrett feeding the
tractor-powered grinder. At top right,
R.P. \laney poses in the steam of the
cooking shed where he presides over
the boiling operation, the thick syrup
collecting in the box at his feet.
Reynolds is shown in the bottom
picture drawing a quart of the finished
product. (Photos by Avett)
Dr. Hoover Retires
Dr. W.A. Hoover has retired,
ending a medical career in
Murphy which spanned more
than 32 years.
The doctor says he hates to
give up his practice of medicine
and surgery but his own
doctors advise him to retire.
Leaving Murphy this week
with Mrs. Hoover to begin a
vacation at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Hoover
Haney, in Winston-Salem, Dr.
Hoover said there will be
plenty to keep him busy.
To begin with, there is
golfing at the Cherokee County
Golf Course, where his son
Lonnie, a Murphy attorney, is
the present club champion.
There are athletic events he
wants to see and there is a
building program underway at
the First Baptist Church, where
he has been a trustee for years,
and civic affairs and politics.
Dr. Hoover, a staunch
Republican is a candidate this
year for election to the county
Board of Education. In the
past he has served as both a
county commissioner and a
member of the Murphy Town
Council.
Dr. W.A. Hoover
Dr. Hoover also was
examiner for the Cherokee
County Board for 22 years,
director for many years of the
Clay-Cherokee-Graham cancer
detection clinic, past president
of the Lions, past president of
the Chamber of Commerce and
a past member of the board of
trustees of Wake Forest
University.
A native of Lincoln County,
he graduated from Wake
Forest and went on for his
medical degree at the
University of Maryland,
graduating there in 1933. He
came to Murphy in 1938 when
in June of that year he
purchased the Petrie Hospital
from the Petrie Estate.
In the mid-forties he tried
desperately to interest people
of the county in building a new
hospital under the Hill-Burton
Act, which would have
provided 79% of the costs.
Failing in that effort, he built
an addition to the 25-bed
Petrie, increasing the capacity
to 36 beds, in 1949.
In July 1965 Dr. Hoover
sold the hospital to Sisters of
Providence. He has maintained
his offices at the hospital since
then.
In retiring, Dr. Hoover also
recognized two employes for
longtime service. Mrs. Gertrude
Howse began working for him
in 1941, he said, and worked
fulltime until 1956, part-time
since then. Mrs. Emogene Bates
has worked for Dr. Hoover for
the past 21 years.
Among the resident
physicians who served with
him while he owned the
hospital were: Drs. F.V.
Taylor, Jas. T. McDuffie,
Robert H. Cox, who with his
wife met an untimely death in
the Atlanta Winecoff Hotel
fire, George Plonk, Jack Davis,
Helen Wells and George Size.
Mrs. Bates, office nurse and
secretary, will be at the office
until Nov. 1 to accept
payments of accounts. Until
that time, any patient who
desires to receive his office
records may do so. After Nov.
1 the records will be
unavailable.
Two Facing
Break-in
Charges
Murphy police officers
arrested two men early Sunday
morning inside Dickey Oil Co.
offices.
Charged with breaking and
entering were Andrew Green,
Jr. and Jerry Green, 35,
brothers, formerly of Murphy
and now living in Dalton, Ga.
Mental Health Center
Dedication Set Sunday
A new mental health clinic
designed to serve the three
westernmost counties of North
Carolina will be dedicated at
Marble on Sunday afternoon at
2 o'clock.
The new clinic, a satellite of
the Mental Health Center at
Western Carolina University, is
sponsored jointly by the WCU
center, the State of Franklin
Health Council Inc., and "We
Care," a community action
group from Cherokee, Clay,
and Graham counties.
Dr. H.A. Matthews, WCU
director for health affairs and
president of the State of
Franklin, will preside at the
dedication. Featured speakers
will include WCU President
Alex S. Pow; Cary Hall,
Atlanta regional director for
the U.S. Department of Helath,
Education and Welfare; and
Mrs. Miriam Moore, president
of "We Care".
The satellite clinic is the
result of a cooperative effort
by many different groups and
individuals. Work on the
project was coordinated by an
action committee consisting of
Carl Moore and the Rev. John
Burton, both of Hayesville, and
Father David Glockner, pastor
of Holy Redeemer Catholic
Church in Andrews.
The 13-room building which
houses the clinic is the
property of the Methodist
Church, and is being leased to
the State of Franklin for $1 a
year for the next five years.
More than 2,000 man-hours
of volunteer labor - much of it
by vacation work groups -
have gone into refurbishing the
building for use as a clinic.
The satellite clinic is staffed
by a full-time psychiatric social
worker and supervisor, both
provided by the WCU Mental
Health Center, and by
volunteers from the
community who have received
special training. Professional
mental health workers are also
available when needed from
the center at Cullowhee.
Dr. Stanley Nale, director of
the WCU Mental Health
Center, said that the Marble
clinic already offers individual
and group psychotherapy,
occupational therapy and
recreational therapy.
According to Dr. Nale, the
clinic will soon offer a full
range of comprehensive mental
health treatment services
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