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Three Sections and Clay County Progress
15* Per Copy
The Cherokee Scout
Volume 79 ? Number 13 - Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina ? Wednesday, October 28, 1970 TAME THE KITTENSM!
Bank Ready For Business
Henry Simmons,
who heads the office of First Union National Bank in
Murphy, is shown at the new bank office entrance.
The bright new office of First Union will have Open
House this afternoon (Wednesday) from 3 until 6
o'clock (Staff Photo)
First Union Sets Open House
First Union National Bank's shiny new office in
Murphy will hold Open House today (Wednesday) from
3 until 6 p.m.
The new office on Peachtree Street will be closed
usually on Wednesday afternoons, according to City
Executive Henry Simmons, but today will be open for
visitors to come in and "walk behind the teller line, look
into the vault, go anywhere they want."
The bank opened in Murphy in March of last year,
Simmons explained, as part of the Bank of Franklin. It
became First Union when the Bank of Franklin merged
with the larger First Union National in September of
last year.
First Union had more than 140 offices in North
Carolina, scattered in towns and cities from Murphy to
Elizabeth City.
In Murphy, the bank had been housed in a trailer on
Tennessee Street. Construction on the new bank on
Peachtree, on the site formerly occupied by Gillespie's
Market and the Pet Shop, began last April. The
contractor was Smith & Jones and the building cost in
excess of $100,000.
The bank has an exterior of brick, with lots of plate
glass, and features a front wall of fieldstone. Inside it is
paneled and and has wall-to-wall carpeting. There are
executive offices, a teller line, a bookkeeping area and
an employes lounge.
Simmons says it will be a full service bank, offering a
drive-in-window, a night depository, and safety deposit
boxes inside the vault. It will be open five days a week,
he said, the same hours as the office had in the trailer on
Tennessee Street.
Clay Slate
Posted
The election to be held
Tuesday. Nov. 3 in Clay
County will find incumbent
Sheriff Hartsell Moore
Republican facing challenger
Jack Parker. Democrat in the
Sheriff's race.
Other candidates running
for Clay County offices
ire?Democrats-Clerk of
Superior Court. Clarence
Ktkrtin: Register of Deeds. Mrs.
Carolyn Parker; Clay County
Board of Commissioner, Neal
finfett, Keith Miller, and
Bonnie Smith.
! The above group will be
Opposed by Republicans?Clerk
of Superior Court, incumbent
Ralph Allison; Register of
Deeds incumbent. Mrs. Ruby
Dedford; County Board of
Commissioners, Howard
Wlmpey, Wayne West and Max
Phyne.
In the district race for N.C.
State Senator, Dr. Carl Killian,
a:native of Clay County, is
opposing Herman (Bull) West,
dative of Cherokee. For House
Representative Erwin
Pit ton, Democrat of Franklin is
opposing Republican
Incumbent W.P. Bradley of
Ige Robert Leatherwood
Judge Felix Alley, both
are unopposed as
strict Court Judges.
rceHos Buchanan Democrat
Incumbent dKrict Court
Solicitor is also unopposed.
Smokey Visits Schools
Smoky the Bear paid a visit to the
Tusquitee Ranger District his week.
While he was here, he and his helper,
Jack Thompson /isited several of the
schools in Cherokee and Clay Counties.
Smoky said to tell all the boys and girls
he didn't have time to visit all schools
this time and that hell try to see them
on his next trip. He wants all the boys
and girls to remember to be careful
with fire and especially ? not to play
with matches.
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Political
| Pot Boils
The political pot boiled
with a full head of steam this
week in Cherokee County,
most of the controversy
cooking in the Board of
Elections office.
The lone Republican
member of the three-man
elections board, Robert
Hartness, resigned Tuesday,
charging "irragular
proceedings" in the elections
office.
He was replaced with
another Republican named by
the state Board of Elections in
Raleigh. Virgil Hogsed, who
was officially sworn in Tuesday
afternoon by Cherokee Clerk
of Court Don Ramsey.
Hogsed, who has worked for
Sheriff Claude Anderson as a
part-time deputy sheriff, joins
the two Democrats on the
board ? Fred McDonald and
Dean Pullium. Pullium is also a
new member, now serving as
chairman, having been named
to replace Chairman Glenn
Stalcup, who resigned earlier
this month due to health
reasons.
"I cannot tolerate the
conditions existing in the
county office of the Board of
Elections", Hartness said in his
resignation. He said last
Saturday Pullium denied him
access to the inner office area,
where Hartness said he saw
Mary Faye Brumby, a former
Democratic legislator from this
county, marking ballots.
Pullium's position was that
she was voting, marking her
absentee ballots, and that all
the ballots Hartness saw were
hers. He said that was the
reason Hartness was not
allowed to come behind the
counter.
Alex Brock, executive
secretary of the state board of
elections, contacted by
telephone, confirmed that
Hartness as a member of the
elections board had the right to
come into the office but added
that "if a voter is in the process
of voting, nobody, regardless
of party affiliation, has the
legal status to confer with him
(the voter)."
Pullium also has inquired of
Brock's office about
counterfeit sample ballots
which have been printed and an
being circulated in the county
on the non-partisan Board of
Education race. Printed on
colored paper, the fake sample
ballot is a copy of the real
thing but with the three
Democratic candidates' names
omitted and X's marked before
the three names of Republican
candidates.
"This is a violation of the
law," Brock said, but added
Halloween
Pranksters
Are Warned
Police Chief Pete Stalcup
this week warned would-be
Halloween pranksters that
Murphy will be a relatively
quiet and orderly town on
Saturday night.
"Halloween is for the
children," he said firmly,
"They will be protected and
can trick-or-treat all they want.
But the big boys and adults
who misbehave will be treated
like hoodlums."
The chief said in the past
Murphy has been marked by
Halloween pranksters dragging
junk cars into town and
littering the streetswith talc aid
W The town's garbage
ordinance will be strictly
enforced, he said, carrying a
a? ty of S50 or 80 days in
n
that investigation and
prosecution of those
responsible would be a local
matter. "It purports to be an
official sample ballot and is a
misrepresentation, especially
since it duplicates the
chairman's signature."
He said no person is
authorized to print a facsimile
of a sample or regular ballot
without making written
request of the board of
elections.
Pullium indicated that the
incident will be investigated to
determine who ordered the
fake sample ballots and who
printed them.
The polls will be open from
6:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. next
Tuesday in all 17 county
precincts. Votes will be
counted on Tuesday night at
the courthouse and there will
be a large bulletin board
carrying the up-to-date totals
as they are determined.
Car Enters Store
Mrs. Ruth Cheney of Murphy was
the driver of this car which plunged
through the front window of Walt
Coleman's store Monday morning. She
was unhurt in the accident but two
men inside the store were injured by
flying glass. Murphy Police officers
charged her with reckless driving,
saying the accident occurred as she was
leaving a parking space. Damage to the
storefront was estimated at about
$4,000. (Staff Photo)
4-Square Has Stormy Meeting
By EMILY KINGSBERRY
Staff Writer
Confusion was the keynote
of the monthly board meeting
of Four-Square Community
Action, Inc. Monday night at
the Marble School, attended by
24 board members (there being
a dispute about the seating of
the 25th) and some 75
interested citizens?whose
impatience and indignation
mounted as the meeting
muddled through.
After more than two hours
of maximum squabbling and
minimum action?highlighted
by one member's on-the-spot
resignation?the board
apparently decided to request
the regional OEO office in
Atlanta to investigate both the
executive director, Mrs.
Marietta Suhart of Andrews,
and the program director
Huddleston of Bryson City;
and on the basis of this
investigation to decide at the
next monthly meeting whether
to dismiss either or both of
them.
At this point, an irate
citizen?who refused to give his
name for publication but who,
we think, should step forward
and take a bow?summed up
the general feeling of the
audience:
"If thinf$ go a month from
tonight the way they have at
this meeting, I think the
citizens of this four-county
area should get together and
fire the whole board!"
There was hearty applause.
Board President Charles
Parker, Brasstown, opened the
meeting at 7:30 p.m. with an
invocation, then requested
members to answer either
"Present" or "Absent" to the
roll call by Secretary Helen
Ghormley, Robbinsville.
After a routine reading of
the minutes by the secretary,
Father Glockner attempted to
report on the October 10th
meeting of the executive
committee, at which a motion
had been passed to issue a
"Statement of Concern"
regarding President Parker's
personal request to Mrs. Suhart
to resign. Glockner asked to
read this statement, copies of
which had been sent to board
members.
Parker, however, stated that
he "would not accept" the
executive committee meeting,
which he did not .attend
because he "was not notified in
time as required by the
by-laws." This precipitated a
lengthy argument, with much
searching of the by-laws by
various board members?during
which it became apparent to
this writer that the confusion
arose from the 3-day notice
required for "special board
meetings" but not for meetings
of the executive committee,
comprised of officers and
committee chairmen.
As chairman of the board
meeting, however, President
Parker held to his own ruling
on the matter, and proceeded
to "new business". He
presented his own letter of
October 9 requesting Mrs.
Suhart's resignation?copies of
which had been sent to board
members . . .
plus his own
"Statement of Concern" or
"petition" which had not been
sent. Declaring no confidence
"in the project administration
of our agency," this brief
document was signed by some
board and staff members.
Immediately one of the
signers, Paul D. Parker of
Andrews, moved that the
board dismiss Mrs. Suhart. The
motion was seconded by
Wayne Carringer of
Robbinsville.
Protests and calls for
discussion, with demands of
"Why?" and "On what
charges?", followed at once
from Miss Ghormley, Mrs.
Hyams, Vice President John
Carringer, Mr. Thomas, Mr.
Penland and others.
Mrs. Carver backed
President Charles Parker in
saying the grounds were "no
confidence."
From the floor, Anne
Howell, of the N.C.
Department of Local Affairs,
said that in such cases
documented charges were
required by state law.
The discussion degenerated
into a "free for all" during
which charges were hurled
against program Director
W-Dale Huddleston?who was
not present at the
meeting?and questions raised
as to the trip recently made by
Charles Parker and Wayne
Carringer to Atlanta on the bus
chartered for a special trip for
police trainees in the New
Careers Program under Ed
Bryson's direction.
Finally under pressure,
President Parker admitted that
he had asked the regional OEO
director, Roy Bachelor, to
investigate Mrs. Suhart-and
handed a letter, purportedly
setting forth his charges, to
John Carringer, who read aloud
to the board.
"This letter is very vague "
commented Carringer. "You
refer to personal conversation,
but you do not reveal what was
said. There is no clear
statement here as to why you
or anyone should not have
confidence in Mrs. Suhart."
Mrs. Suhart said she would
welcome an investigation and
urged the board to request one
formally.
President Parker called for a
standing vote on the motion to
dismiss Mrs. Suhart. Nine voted
for dismissal, eleven against
and three abstained.
Stating that he felt that
everyone, including Mia.
Suhart, was en titled to know
what waa wrong", John
Carringer moved for an
of the Four-Square operation.
Penland seconded the motion.
As the ensuing "discussion"
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Levi Strauss & Co. in Murphy has
won a certificate for operating more
than a million man-hours without a
disabling injury that resulted in lost
time. Displaying the award in the
center of the photo are the local plant
personnel director, Frank Atchison,
Levi's Gets Safety Award
Eastern Division personnel manager
Howard Mullens and local plant
manager Horace Can nop. Standing
behind them are local Levi employes,
left to right, Elisabeth
Earwood, Merle Ke
Johnston, Lucy Davis, "
and Jewell
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