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The Cherokee Scout
and Clay County Progress
Volume 79 ? Number 37 ? Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 ? Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina ? Thursday, April 29, 1971
Teachers Hear State Superintendent
Dr. Craig Phillips, center, North Carolina
Superintendent of Public Instruction, was the
featured speaker Tuesday night at a dinner held at
the Hayesville High School cafeteria and attended
by 250 teachers, school and county officials from
the western counties. Above, left to right, are John
Jordan, Cherokee County superintendent; Scott
Beal, who heads the schools in Clay County; Dr.
Phillips, his assistant Max Abbott; Kenneth
Barker, the Macon County superintendent. The
NCAE units of Clay and Cherokee sponsored the
affair and Dr. Phillips told the teachers of his
educational program now under consideration by
the Legislature. (Avett Photo)
5 Dropped At Andrews
County School Budget Rises
The Cherokee County Board
of Education was busy with
problems of finance and
personnel in its meeting
Monday night, during which a
new budget was approved and
the principal and four teachers
at Andrews High were dropped.
Superintendent John
Jordan explained to board
members that the budget
which will be presented to
tne county commissioners as
the county's part of the school
spending will be $188,587 for the
new fiscal year beginning July
1.
The state of North Carolina
pays the salaries of regular
Cloggers To
Dance
In Jamboree
Murphy's crack clog teams,
the Carolina Swweethearts, will
be dancing this weekend in
competition at the Hubert
Hayes Mountain Youth
Jamboree in Asheville.
The elementary and junior
teams are both defending
champions from last year and
will dance before the judges in
the finals on Saturday night.
The senior team will
compete in the elimination
rounds on Friday night, and , if
successful, will then advance to
the finals on Saturday night.
Mrs. Barbara Stalcup, who
trains the Sweethearts, said the
event in Asheville City
Auditorium this weekend will be
Filmed in color for viewing later
on a Charlotte educational
television channel.
classroom teachers, Jordan
said, and this payroll in
Cherokee County amounts to
about $1.5 million a year. The
county, however, pays a share
of the salary of the vocational
teachers, he said, and with all
teachers getting a raise in pay,
this is the main reason for the
increase in the county budget,
which was about $157,000 last
year.
The county school board is
also asking the county
commissioners to provide for
rebuilding the burned
elementary school at Andrews
and Monday night officially
passed a resolution asking for
the money. The commissioners
have already set the legal
wheels in motion and a bond
vote in the amount of $300,000
for the Andrews school project
will probably be held sometime
early in the Summer.
The teachers' contracts for
the coming school year were
renewed by the board and there
were the usual number of
retirements, turnovers and
transfers within the system.
The only news was action taken
at Andrews High.
There the entire board
voted unanimously not to rehire
Principal Mack Jones, Football
Coach Frank Maennle, Roy
Berry or Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Sursavage for the coming year.
Members of the board said the
action was taken in response to
complaints by parents and
school patrons at Andrews,
which have been directed to all
members of the school board.
The little elementary school
at Unaka got approval for
another year as the school
board agreed to let it continue,
if the state Board of
Education will again let
Unaka have a third teacher.
The school has an enrollment of
only about 60 pupils and
according to the teacher-pupil
formula gets only two teachers.
However, the state board for
several years has made a
special ruling in the case and
alloted three teachers for
Unaka. Jordan said a survey
conducted at Unaka several
months ago showed most
parents against closing the
school.
In other business, the
county school board:
- Voted a resolution of
appreciation for the county
commissioners' levying the one
percent sales tax.
Golf
Tourney
Sunday
Registration is now open for
the Scotch foursome
tournament for men and women
golfers to be played at the
Cherokee County Golf Course.
A large number of golfers is
expected and the Tournament
Committee requests that
registration at the clubhouse,
either in person or by telephone,
be accomplished early so all
arrangements can be made.
Registration deadline is 2
o'clock Saturday afternoon, the
drawing for partners will be
held about 1:15 Sunday
afternoon and the first
foursome will tee off at 1:30.
Trophies will be awarded to the
winners of the 18-hole event.
A registration fee of |2.50
will be charged each player to
cover costs of trophies and
other expenses.
-Voted to approve Pilot Life
Insurance Co. as the official
school insurance firm for
another year.
- Accepted the low bid of
Leonard Stiles at $19.50 a ton for
coal, subject to approval by
state officials. Jordan said coal
purchased through the state
school office costs over $21 a ton
and the county schools burn
more than 1,000 tons a year.
- Heard Ray Hogsed and
Mayor Pro-Tem (Brownie)
Parker of Andrews on the need
for a new lighting system at the
Andrews ballfield, which is also
used for high school football
games. The board took no
action on the request that it
share with Andrews in putting
up the lights, but did indicate
that the problem will be
considered again before the
football season starts.
John Carringer
Carringer Joins
Mid-South
Harold Shook, owner of
Mid-South Contracting
Company, announces that John
Carringer has resigned from
Townson Lumber Company and
Townson Funeral Home after 21
years service to accept a
better position with his
company.
Mid-South was awarded the
'master contract for buried
cable for the state of South
Carolina by United Telephone
Company and John will be
serving as supervisor over this
contract.
John is a native of Murphy,
received his educaton here, at
Miami, Fla., and Western
Carolina College. He is a
member of the Murphy Town
Council. Four Square Executive
Board. American Legion Post
96, Family Planning Board of
North Carolina, a 32nd degree
Scottish Bite Mason,Oasis
Temple Shriner, Charlotte,
N.C., Smoky Mountain Shrine
Club, member of United
Methodist Church.
He is married to the former
Doris i Dotsy) Bryson of Sylva,
and h*s one daughter, Jackie
Marquitta iMarkie) Carringer.
a senior at Murphy High School.
Chevy Truck, Ford Wall
Murphy Ford Dealer Doyle Burch
?lands in die wreckage after a car
carrier truck from the Chevrolet
agency across the street rolled down
a ramp and crashed through the wall
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of the Burch Motors garage section.
No one was in the truck at the time of
the accident Tuesday afternoon and
no one in the Burch garage was
injured.(Avett Photo)
Sales Tax
To Begin
In June
The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners
held the prescribed public hearing and then made the
local one percent sales tax official at the Courthouse
here Tuesday night.
After a short discussion of the tax with the 15
persons attending the hearing, the three
commissioners formally signed the resolution which
will put the extra penny on each dollar purchase into
effect in Cherokee on June 1.
The commissioners had originally called for an
election on the sales tax question, but reversed their
decision about two weeks ago and announced
that they would impose the tax without a vote. The
sales tax law, recently passed by the Legislature,
enables commissioners to impose the tax without a
vote, calling only for a public hearing.
Chairman Jack Simonds and the other two
commissioners, Jack Lovingood and W.T. Moore,
would not be pinned down to a promise of lowering
property taxes, but indicated that property taxes will
probably be lowered some in view of the revenue
expected from the sales tax.
"If we get a chance to lower property taxes, we'll
do so," Simonds said. He said the property tax rate
this year was $1.55 per hundred dollars of valuation
but if the sales tax had been in effect, the tax rate
could have been cut to $1.12.
County Attorney Lonnie Hoover explained that
the tax will be collected by the North Carolina
Department of Revenue along with the state's present
three percent sales tax and then the money will be
returned to the county. It will be divided by the
county, Murphy and Andrews on a formula which
gives the county the lion's share of the estimated
$190,000 a year.
Hoover noted that three other mountain counties
have recently imposed the tax without calling an e
lection on the matter.
Mrs. Sneed Retires
Mrs. Beryl R. Sneed,
customer relations
representative for Murphy
Power Board, has retired after
23 years of service. She had
been with the Power Board
since 1947.
As customer relations
representative, Mrs. Sneed
handled all advertising and
publicity for the Power Board.
She also had the added
responsibility of bookkeeper.
Another part of her service
to customers involved the
preparation of lighting
recommendations and kitchen,
laundry and bathroom
planning to help the customer
make his home electric service
as efficient as possible.
She gave programs on
lighting and cooking to high
school home economics
departments and garden clubs.
In addition to this, Mrs. Sneed
initiated a program to acquaint
builders and electricians with
the various uses of electricity in
buildings and its proper
installation for maximum
efficiency.
"We hate to lose Mrs.
Sneed, an able, experienced
employee," John H. Bayless,
manager of the Power Board
said. "However, we wish her
happiness in her well-earned
retirement," he added.
Boy Scout
Camporee Set
Boy Scout units from
Cherokee, Clay. Graham and
Swain counties will gather in
the hunters' camp area at Fires
Creek for a camproree this
weekend.
The activities begin with a
big campfire on Friday night
and end with breaking camp at
noon on Sunday, after the
Scouts attend church services
at the Catholic church in
Hayesville.
Patrols will be judged on
their camp layout and
appearance and will also
compete on Saturday morning
in compass and pacing and tree
identification events. Saturday
iifternoon they will witness
demonstrations on survivial,
rescue and wildlife
conservation.
New Crop Of Golfers
Some of the 9th grade girls in a
physical education class at
Hayesville High are shown on the
driving range at Chatuge Shores,
learning about golf. PE classes at
Hayesville are including golf this
Spring, as are some classes from
neighboring Towns County High at
Hiawassee, Ga. Golf course officials
say the students apparently are
enthusiastic about the game and
some of them are returning to the
course to play on their own
time. (Avett Photo)
Clay Golf Course
Ready To Add Pool
The Chatuge Shores Family
Recreation Center is now
accepting applications for users
permits for its new recreation
building, swimming pool, tennis
courts and children's play area.
The recreation building will
be a two-story Swiss Chalet
style with showers, locker
rooms and dressing rooms on
the first floor, and with a snack
bar, pro shop, office and
general assembly room on the
second floor.
The proposed swimming
pool will be full Olympic in size
with a 1,225 square feet, deep
water area for diving, a kiddies'
wading pool, two tennis courts
and an enclosed children's play
area. Contracts or
construction will be let in early
July with recreation building
and tennis courts being ready
for use by late fall and the
swimming pool for the 1972
season.
The Clay County Rural
Development Authority isthe
owner of this project and offers
to the using public the following
types of users agreements: a
family users agreement for use
of the recreation building,
swimming tennis and
children's play area for an
annual fee of $50 per family.
Families desiring to play golf
only may do so for an annual
users fee of $120, and also have
use of the recreation building
and tennis courts, but not the
swimming pool. For an annual
users fee of $150 a family may
use all facilities, including golf,
swimming, tennis, recreation
building and children's play
area.
Applications for usage can
be picked up at Chatuge Shores
Golf Course, the FHA Office in
Hayesville or Wachovia Bank &
Trust Co, Hayesville. Users
agreement for the recreation
building and swimming pool
must be paid in advance. To
assure construction of these
facilities the Center will have to
have $6,500 on deposit by June
15.
"When completed, Chatuge
Siores will be the most modern
and most complete family
recreation facility in Western
North Carolina and North
Georgia," says Tom Day, head
of the Authority. "We
welcome your participation and
patronage in this venture,
either as a user or by paying
daily fees."
Chatuge Shores Golf Course
is in excellent condition this
spring. Day said, with all
roughs cleared, fairways rolled
and firmand the greens in a
well-kept condition. Three rain
shelters were built during the
winter months and benches
constructed at all tees.
"Chatuge Shores has been
the most widely accepted
project ever undertaken in Clay
County - and one that has
already brought thousands of
hours of pleasure to young and
old alike," Da> said.
SOFTBALL
MEETING
All managers and
coaches of softball
teams in Murphy will
meet on Thursday
night at 7 o'clock at
the Power Board
Building.
Mrs. Beryl Sneed
Senior Prom
Murphy High Seniors and their dates danced
last Friday night at the Rock Gym, decorated in a
South Seas theme for the annual Senior Prom. The
students cleaned up the gym as best they could last
week and finally called in the town fire trade to
hose down the floor before they
colorful decorations, including a real
which showed up above as the
droplets in the foreground. (BID