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The Cherokee Scout
and Clay County Progress
Volume 79 ? Number 20 - Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 ? Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina ? Wednesday, December 23, 1970
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NEWSPAPER
197q^PUNDATt2ji^?71
Counterfeit Bills Discovered
Cherokee County Shriff's officers
and agents of the federal Secret
Service seized $51,860 in counterfeit
$10 bills in a housetrailer Monday in
the Bealtown section of Murphy.
A Secret Service agent said
Tuesday that no arrests have been
made yet but investigation of the case
is continuing. He indicated that it was
not a local affair but was part of a
larger investigation, involving people
in other cities and other states.
"These bills are of very poor
quality," he said, displaying the
sheets of paper, with four bills printed
on each one. The bills had not been cut
apart, many sheets had the ink
smudged and the reverse side of the
bill had been printed noticeably
smaller than the face side.
Despite the poor quality, the
Secret Service man said one of the
bad 10's had been passed in Cherokee
County, at a grocery store near the
Georgia line.
Counterfeiting of United States
currency is a federal crime, he
explained, which comes under the
jurisdiction of the Secret Service
branch of the Treasury Department.
Those charged will be tried in federal
court, he added.
Two counterfeit $20 bills were
discovered last week by tellers at
Wachovia Bank, but the Secret
Service agent said at the present time
there seemed to be no connection
between them and the pile of bad 10's
discovered Monday.
Bank officials said the two
counterfeit 20's were of good quality,
especially on the face side of die bill
They said since only two have been
discovered, the bills may not have
been passed originally in this county
but may have gotten here as change
some Cherokee citizen received while
Christmas shopping in Asheville,
Atlanta or Chattanooga. Asheville in
particular has been plagued with
counterfeit money recently, they
said
| Georgia Couple
Miss Peggy Lynn Martin, 18, and
Terry Lee Wood, 19, from Austell and
Mableton, Ga? respectively, were
'married last week in Register of
Deeds Ed Graves' office. The Rev.
Raymond Carroll performed the
'ceremony and Graves and Driver's
License Examiner A.E. Crooke were
witnesses. A growing number of
Georgia and Tennessee couples buy
marriage licenses here, North
Carolina marriage laws easier than
the ones in their home states. (Staff
Photo)
I
Christmas Baskets
Max Blakemore, chairman of the
ly Lions Club's Christmas
itr project, is shown filling the
is and baskets which were
ibuted this week to 120 needy
i in the county. The bread was
ited by Kern's Bread and Holsum
keries and the snuff and chewing
twas given by Wayne Ford of
Warne, the representative of the
Conwood Corp. Other items, which
included fruit, cereal, nuts, candies,
sugar, coffee, potatoes, etc., were
purchased by the Lions. Blakemore
said the Lions themselves located
many of the needy families and got
the names of others from the county
welfare rolls. (Staff Photo)
Marriage License
Market Booms
fig- r ?.
Sometimes with friends
Md relatives sad sometimes
dene, the tar^t-ffeff young
couples coos to see Bd Graves
iknost every day.
Because Graves ie the
of Deeds of Cherokee
countyX
_^h Tennessee and
Georgia have a flirefrdsy
waiting " period, Graves
explains, and North Carolina
has none, fti Georgia yea must
be 19 to be married without your
parents' consent, in Tennessee
it's 21, but here you can marry
"^'^Incidentally, those who
writs the laws in Georgia
apparently feel Of decisions
involved in marriage more-,
swims than marking a ballet It
has been legal for an ltyear
old to vote in Georgia for a
number of years.
A change In tfce laws put
Cherokee County In the
marriage license business,
Graves aays. Ia 1956, for
example, it was easier to marry
in other placet and the
Register's office told only 39
licenses during the whale year,
mostly iteal couples.
Last year, however. Graves
sofld 726 marriage licenses and
the figure fids yeat may go even
higher.
The $5 gees to the county,
Graves says, and the couples
get the license, best wtebes and
a snail package of household
goods, including detergents
soap, etc.
Graves is not qualified to
perform the wedding ceremony
and few couples marry, in his
office but he sometimes does,
on reqoast, obtain a preacher or
magistrate to officiate on the
spot
Conservation Supervisors
Selected In Both Counties
Id recent wed
Cherokee Comtf
LX. Kisselburg to replace <
Lunsford, whoa* term ef ?
expires on Jaiitmrjr i, ?
Cherokee Count;
Conservati<
Supervisor. ^
C.B. NewGn taa*;
reappointed as a 6k
supervisor ty the 1
and Water
Committee. Ot
County District fUfcrv
include Billy Howell,
rvation
who ha(3>j6slgn as a district /
supervisor since he was elected
to the Clay County Board of
Commissioners.
Other Clay County
District Supervisors include
Richard Bristol, Barley Hicks,
and Floyd Ledford.
Soil and Water
.Conservation Districts are
? organized and operated under
.'the provisions of Chapter 139 of
the Oeneral Statutes of North
Caretina. These districts enable
ail interested people within
.. their boundaries to wort:
? together for improved
conservation practices.
The official governing
y -of each district is a&aard
,k-? elected and two
supervisors. They
responsibility for
a sound program
the nature) resources -ef the
district.
and arrelop
?of th
Motor Club Predicts
21 Deaths On Roads
Stay out of the Christinas
crunch this holiday season and
dodge the 1,500 traffic accidents
which the N.C. State Motor Club
says may take 21 lives and
injure overe 800 more persons
on North Carolina's streets and
highways during the Yule
Weekend.
The state will count its
holiday highway toll from 6p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 24, through
midnight Sunday, Doc. 27, a 78
hour period. In a 102-hour span
last year, the casualties totaled
up to 27 deaths and 113 injured
in 1,624 accidents, with 21 killed
in the 30 hours of Christmas Eve
and Christmas Day.
Leading accident causes
were seeding, driving left of
following too closely yd
driving under the influence.
"North Carolina's traffic
safety authorities are making
every effort to reduce our
highway death toll," said
Thomas B.Watkins, president of
th* motor club the National
Automobile Association, "and
our traffic deaths are running
around 100 below last year's
pace. Let's keep it that way to
the end of the year.
"During the Christmas and
New Year's holidays, drunken
(kivers and speeders will be
prime targets for the Highway
Patrol. With all the usual
holiday partying, drinking
(kivers become a real problem.
K you do drink, please let
someone who doesn't do the
driving," Watkins urged.
Funny Money
Cherokee Sheriff Blain Stalcup and Deputy
Willard Bates pose with nearly $52,000 worth of
counterfeit $10 bills disvovered on Monday in a
housetrailer in Murphy. The bogus bills were
printed four to a sheet of paper and had not been cut
apart. No arrests have been made yet in the case,
which is being investigated by both local officers
and agents of the Secret Service. (Staff Photo)
Christmas
Closings
Most stores in Murphy will
be closed on Friday and
Saturday for Christmas, to
reopen for business as usual on
next Monday morning.
Wachovia and First Union
banks, in order to give
employes more time with their
families, will close for the
holidays at 1 o'clock on
Thursday, Christmas Eve, and
will not be open from 3 until 5
p.m. as usual.
Both banks will open again
on Monday morning.
The Scout office will close
for the holidays at the end of
business Wednesday afternoon
and will reopen on Monday
morning.
Bus Company Proposing
To Cut Two Runs A Day
Bus service between
Murphy and both Atlanta and
Asheville may soon be cut back.
J.B. Hall, who manages the
local bus station, says
Continental Trailways, serving
Murphy and this area as Smoky
Mountain Trailways, has
proposed to cut out two runs, the
5 p.m. bus to Atlanta and the
7:30 p.m. bus to Asheville.
Dropping these two runs
will have to be approved by the
Interstate Commerce
Commission, he said, and those
who oppose cutting back the bus
service should write to the
Putlic Utilities Commission,
Raleigh, concerning the
Asheville run and the same
body in Atlanta concerning the
Georgia run.
Hall said at present there
are two chances each day for a
passenger to board a bus in
Murphy to take him to Atlanta,
7:30 in the morning and the
threatened 5 p.m. run. If the
cutback is made, he pointed out
that there will only be once
chance in 24 hours to go to
Atlanta by bus.
He said this could work a
hardship on those who may be
working in the Murphy area and
want to go to Atlanta on the
weekend or vice-versa.
Hall added that there are
presently four times a day when
a bus leaves Murphy for
Asheville- 3 ajn., 10:50 ajn.,
3:50 p.m. and 7:30 pjn. If the
evening bus is eliminated, he
said there will be a period of
about 11 hours each day when
there is no bus service to
Asheville.
Ground Broken For Memorial
The first ground was turned last Friday for a
memorial Plaza at Murphy High School for three
Seniors who have died in accidents during the past
year. Manning the shovels were, left to right, Mr.
and Mrs. Alden Cook, whose daughter Suzanne died
recently in in auto 4
whose daughter 1
auto wreck; Mr. i