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..urp hy Carnegie Library 4-73 1'eachtree Street I;urphy, N.C., 28906 The Cherokee Scout and Clay County Progress Volume 79 - Number 38 - Murphy, North Carolina. 28906 - Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina - Thursday, May 6, 1971 14 PAGES 15' Per Copy TWO SECTIONS Chamber Month Mayor Cloe Moore, seated, and the Cherokee County commissioners have declared May as Chamber of Commerce month in Cherokee County. Gene Farmer. Chamber president, is shown looking on as the mayor signs the proclamation. Farmer has written a definition of the Chamber which is reprinted on this page, as is the Chamber slogan: "CherokeeCounty...on the move." (Carringer Photo) President Explains Chamber Of Commerce By Gene Farmer President Chamber of Commerce A Chamber of Commerce is people working together, to make Iheir community a better place in which to live and make a living. .The people who make up a Chamber of Commerce are bankers, lawyers, manufacturers, doctors, advertisers, clergymen, teachers, retailers, wholesalers, salesmen, business and professional men and women who share a common interest and pride in their home town. ? II is people working together, meeting together as a group or as committees, analyzing problems, proposing solutions, initiating discussions, examining related facts, acting in accordance with the expressed will of the majority, making mistakes sometimes, but constantly .striving to improve business and build a better community. It is people working to make their community a better place in which to live and make a living in order that it might be a safer, clearer, more beautiful place; a place where businessmen, farmers, industrialist, and educator acknowledge a mutual dependecy., a place where the industrialist finds a promising site, the tourist a vacation dreamland, the visitor a sure and friendly answer to his questions, and the neighbors find a neighbor. .... A Chamber of Commerce is a voluntary association of business and professional men and women ? civic minded citizens engaged in collective efforts to promote the welfare of their community , There is no more profitable investment available to any businessmen, industrialist or professional man than his annual financial investment in th local Chamber of Commerce. Ruling Boards Stay In Office Town elections were held in At Andrews, the Hayesville and Andrews on Democratic slate had no Tuesday, with very light opposition and the only turnouts by voters as the ruling change was Ty Burnette as boards were returned to office, mayor in place of the late Percy At Hayesville, the Ferebee. incumbent mayor and council of a total town were returned in a partisan registration of 585 voters, 109 election, only 41 of the town's participated in the Tuesday 234 registered voters casting election, ballots. Burnette got 101 votes. The Mayors C.A. Carroll council members, who had returned to office along with survived a challenge by other Councilmen. Harold Moore, Democrats in a primary back in Paul Vaught, Jr. and Bob April, and their tallies were: W. Cunningham. Cunningham got Leo Hurst, 102; Paul (Brownie) 41 votes, Vaught and Carroll got Parker, 100; John Raxter, 99; 40 apiece and Moore polled 39 Roy Hogsed, 98. votes. Mr. and Mrs. James West and Son Boards Talk Of Garbage Problems By Wally Avett Staff Writer The problem of garbage removal for residents of the county took up much of the Cherokee County commissioners' meeting on Monday and practically all of the Clay commissioners' meeting. In Murphy, early in the commissioners meeting Charles Cornwell of Peachtree showed up to discuss conflicts over garbage pickup routes. Cornwell is running a truck on a private pickup route in this end of the county as is Charles Anderson and there is also a pickup service at Andrews. The Cherokee commissioners gave no contract to Cornwell and had given no special authority to any of the other private collection services, but did discuss the possibility of holding a meeting of collectors in the future and giving routes to the collectors on a township basis. Then later in the meeting at Murphy, Extension Agent Jack Earley appeared to explain a proposal by a TV A sanitary engineer that Cherokee, Clay and Towns County, Ga. go into a system of placing large metal garbage containers at county crossroads and other locations. According to the plan, Cherokee would buy a special compactor truck which would empty these containers twice a week, dumping the garbage at landfills near the towns of Andrews, Murphy, Hayesville and Hiawassee. This would eliminate the need for locating landfills in the various county communities, Earley said, and would place a handy metal container within just a few miles of every home in the county. The same plan was explained Monday to the meeting of the Clay commissioners at Hayesville, and according to Chairman Howard Wimpey, was the only item of business before that board. "It looks real good," Wimpey said after the meeting, but added that the Clay board wants to know more details of the plan before taking any action on it. The Cherokee commissioners were also enthusiastic about the plan, especially since most of their efforts to find locations for community landfills had met solid opposition from the neighborhoods involved. They said they wanted to hear more about the financing of the plan and the equipment and instructed Earley to file an application for a federal grant or loan on the project. His preliminary figures indicated that metal containers for the three counties would cost about $32,000 and the special compactor truck rig would run another $25,000. In other action, the Cherokee board discussed the development plan for the Andrews-Murphy valley with Dr. K.G. Keenum of the Murphy Planning Board. The commissioners have approved the water-sewer plan drawn by state officials but the Murphy Town Board has referred the plan to its planning board for consideration before it approves it. Dr. Keenum said members of the town planning board questioned Junaluska Creek's ability to provide water for the whole valley, as the state planners have shown, and suggested a joint meeting of the county and Murphy planning boards to discuss the matter. John Jordan, Cherokee superintendent of schools, presented the school system's budget for the coming fiscal year and also the county board of education's formal resolution requesting money to rebuild the burned elementary school at Andrews, which is an official step toward the planned bond referendum > sometime this Summer. V.O. Ayers, who heads the county Social Service Department, said the welfare budget has been approved by state officials in Raleigh except for the Aid to Dependent Children section, which state officials thought was too low at an average payment of $30 per child per month. Townson Funeral Home Names Two New Managers Two employes of Townson Funeral Homes, Inc. have been sold interests in the business, elected to the board of directors and will function as co managers. Marvin Cook and Clyde Collins will operate the business in the same manner in which it has been conducted since its founding in 1919, according to Mrs. Winifred Townson Wells, who made the announcement. The late W.D. Townson of Murphy owned and operated the business until his death in 1968. Mrs. Wells is now president of the firm and other officers of the corporation are Eric Townson of Murphy, William Townson, Jr. of Edenton and Richard Townson of Marietta, Ga. Townson operates funeral home; in Murphy, Andrews, Hayesville and Kobbinsville. Cook has been employed by Townson Funeral Homes since 1956. He is a native of Cherokee County, a veteran of the Korean War and a member of the American Legion. He is married to the former Eulala Stiles of Murphy. Collins became associated with the funeral home in January of 1970. He is a graduate of Robbinsville High School and attended Western Carolina University .He is also also a graduate of Dallas Marvin Cook Clyde Collins Institute Gulpton-Jones School pirst Baptist Church of of Mortuary Science. Robbinsville, a Mason, a Collins is first vice Shriner and a member of the president of the Murphy phi Sigma Eta, national Civitan Club, a member of the mortuary honorary fraternity. Softball Schedule Thurs. May 6, 6:30 Baptist Monday May 10 - 6:30 Church vs Martins Creek Baptist Church Vs WCVP (GIRLS) 7:45-LeviStrauss (GIRLS) 7:45 American vs Providence Hospital. Thread Vs Martins Creek 9:00 Bellview vs Texana. 9:00 gellview Vs Westco. Friday May 7 - 6:30 Ga. Tuesday Mav 11 - 6:30 Boot Vs WCVP Texan Texana vs WCVP 7:45 Sunshine Potato Chips (GIRLS) 7:45 Profidence Vs Westco. Hos. Vs American Thread. 9:00 Martins Creek Vs 9:00Ga. Boot Vs Wachovia. Texana. Cherokee Native Appeals For Help A Cherokee County native West's wife was held who has run afoul of civil law in responsible. Korea wrote home for help last His mother, Mrs. Hazel week. Green, says West could leave James West, a 1959 Korea with the child but Korean graduate of Murphy High authorities refuse to issue his School, met and married a wife a passport until all the fire Korean girl in 1963 while in that damage claims are paid. The country serving in the Air total amounted to more than Force. Now a civilian, he is $50,000 and they have paid as employed as a microwave much as they could since the engineer and the job is coming incident, leaving a balance of to an end and he wants to bring about $19,000. his wife and infant son home to His letter reads as follows: North Carolina. _ But there was a fire about ?uP*8' Ani??can,: three years ago which started "are *r. ? t0 somehow in his wife's beauty or p ' am shop in Seoul, Korea and it ? *u,, , burned up a number of other J*1* tn the Republic of buildings. An elderly woman Korea. My wife, our lost her life in the fire and small son and myself have been trying to Cherokee County...On The Move return to the U.S.A. lor declined and I must do several years. We everything possible to suffered a personal remove this burden for tragedy a few years ago her *?ke. Surely no man in that a fire which could do less for destroyed my wife's someone he loves and beauty shop also respects so much. destroyed many other We would be very adjacent buildings. We grateful for any cannot leave until full monetary assistance payment for all you could provide us damages has been with, no matter how made. We have been paying for years but a ... .As I stated earlier, I large sum is still am ashamed to ask for outstanding and my charity so openly but employment on a under these contract basis is circumstances, I have nearing its end. no choice. I would not ....God bless you all. normally ask for help Sincerely yours, like this. I pride myself , James G. West" on being able to provide for my family but under A James West Special Fund these circumstances, has been established at with many pressures Wachovia Bank in Murphy and brought ii< bear on us, anyone desiring to contribute my wife'* health has should direct mail to the bank. The state recommended provide for the increased still hoping that the legislature but spending this year will average payments of $35, he said. Payment. may vote some relief before it probably .mountJo about and the commissioners The commissioners took no adjourns. Medicaid was $55 000 He has recommended a approved an increase in the action on the Medicaid section budgeted at $36,600 for the Medicaid budget for the county county budget of $3 000 to of the county welfare budget, current year, Ayers explained, ? $"3,383 for next year. State Firefighters Get Chopper The North Carolina Forest Service work center at Peachtree looked like a Vietnam airfield last Thursday as a helicopter, acquired by the state forest service recently from the U.S. Marines, was demonstrated to local county rangers. The chopper, still in its Vietnam warpaint and sporting a number of enemy bullet holes, can lift a seven man fire crew into the mountains in a only a few minutes to a spot which would take a truck nearly an hour to reach. State forest officials say it will probably be used during the fire season in this end of the state although its base has not yet been established. Left to right are Bi' Baueom, pilot for the Forest Service; Clay Ranger John Payne; David Hudson, district forester from Sylva. Marine Staff Sgt. SR. Montana, who served on the helicopter in Vietnam and now is showing it to the Forest Service; Graham County Ranger John McKeldrey; Cherokee County Ranger Harold Coleman. (Avett Photo) Barton Dies In Wreck A Murphy man was killed Monday afternoon in a one-car accident near Gadsden, Ala. Bobby G. Barton, 32, was declared dead on arrival at a Gadsden hospital. He was enroute to Birmingham, where he was to report for work as a piping superintendent on a construction Job. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a Shriner, with membership in the Aba Temple of Mobile, Ala., a member of the First Baptist Church of Piketon, Ohio and a former member of the U.S. Army Reserves. The funeral is set for Thursday afternoon (today) at 2 o'clock in Bellview United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Jack Palmer and the Rev. Hoyt Brown officiating. Burial will follow, with full Masonic rites, in the church cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Bobby Barton Mrs. Wanda Morris Barton; one son, Bobby Gay Barton Jr., and one daughter, Cyndey Lynn Barton, both of the home; the mother, Mrs. Minnie W Barton of Murphy; two sisters, Mrs. Ray Smith of Murphy; and Mrs. Kenneth Christopher of Dells, Wis.; two brothers, Jimmy of Asheville, Ohio and Bill Barton of Roper, N.C. Housing Projects Work Is Stopped The Murphy Housing work Monday afternoon when Authority suffered another the stop-work order was setback this week as a stop- received. Palmer said, work order was received on He said HUD officials in construction of two public Atlanta suggested that the housing projects. housing authority draw up plans Ben Palmer, executive to build cheaper housing, saying director of the housing the $682,600 was too much to pay authority, said this week that for the square footage in the the members were very planned 40 units of housing, 10 disappointed at the action by for the elderly on Hiawassee the federal Housing and Urban Street and 30 for low-income Development (HUD) officials. families, to be constructed on The housing is badly needed Park Avenue near the Rimco in Murphy, Palmer said, plant. pointing out that the The authority has already construction job on the two paid for the land for both projects has been put up for bids projects. Palmer said, and has three times. HUD officials paid out more than (30,000 in turned down the bids last July architect's fees for plans drawn and September as too high but on the two projects, had accepted a total bid of He said Tuesday that the $682,600 last month. authority plans to call Collins and Minor was the Congressman Roy Taylor's low bidder on the general office in Washington for contract and was ready to begin assistance in the matter. MAY 1971 S M I ?? T f S ------ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 IB 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 LEFT TO RIGHT JOHN GARRISON GRIFFIN ?Mrs. Buelah Smith Griffin DONNA SUE PANTER ?Mr.tMrs. Charles H.Panter PATRICIA DENISE 8ETTIS ?Mr.*Mrs. Joe E. Battls ANDREA DAWN PIPES ?Mrs. Robert T. Huraucher ROBERT SHAUN HAMPTON ?Mr.fcMrs. Robert Hampton SECRETARY Helps family members handle busy schedules: your telephone SPRING FLOWERS Weslco Telephone Company
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