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Volume 79 ? Number 40 - Murphy, North Carolina, 28906 ? Second Class Postage Paid At Murphy, North Carolina ? Thursday, May 20, 1971
Chatuge Turbine
Workers at the Chatuge Dam
owerhouse were busy lasat week
Jtting the turbine back together,
aping to be making electricity again
the end of this month. The 10-ton
ater wheel at the bottom of the
cture was returned from the
ctory, where it was sent for repairs,
ye powerhouse being out of operation
nee last November. Rigger Lynn
Ensley of Copperhill, Tenn.,standing
on the wheel, says the upright shaft
weights in at another 20,000 pounds.
When installed back in place, the
turbine spins 180 times a minute,
producing 13,800 horsepower, which is
in turn powers a generator cranking
out 6,900 volts of Tennessee Valley
Authority current. (Carringer Photo)
Hayesville To Play For Crown
' The Yellow Jacket baseball
chine crunched over another
tonent at Hayesville Tuesday
ernoon, blotting out
enwood by a lopsided score of
, The Jackets will play
other McDowell County
Sm, Pleasant Gardens, for the
Strict 8 championships on
iday afternoon at the
yesville field. The winner of
|t game will advance to the
stern N.C. Division Single A
?yoffs.
, Sporting an overall 17-1
?rd, the Jackets simply
overwhelmed the McDowell
County team, scoring in every
inning . Their only loss during
the season was to Sylva and the
Hayesville boys reign now as
the Smoky Mountain
Conference champions.
Jimmy Stewart went the
distance for the Jackets on the
pitchers mound, striking out 11
Glenwood batters, walking two,
allowing five scattered hits.
The loss went to Jerry
Wilkerson, who also pitched the
entire seven-inning game,
giving up 10 hits.
The Hayesville batting was
a team attack, with the longest
hits being doubles. Pitcher
Stewart collected two hits in
three trips to the plate, Dave
Bracken had three for four and
Jackie Lunsford fut two for
three.
Major Chamber
Projects Noted
By Gene Farmer
President
Chamber of Commerce.
The four major projects for the Chamber of Commerce this
tar are as follows:
ROADS; To improve existing roads and also to strive for new
Id better roads in our county.
INDUSTRY: To help improve and strengthen existing
dnatry, to help bring about a better employment ratio in the
Maty between male and female employes and to seek new
ins try to locate here.
r BEAUTIFICATION: To help the towns of Murphy and
with Cherokee County to find a solution to the
{e disposal problem, to help to keep the the air we breathe
to encourage local beauttfication projects.
TOURISM: To publish a tourism brochure and to encourage
Its to make longer visits in our area and to proaMge Cherokee
ty as the Southern Scenic Gateway to the Great Smoky
snataia National Park.
We fed that these projects will help to make Cherokee County a
[tier place to live aaid will also help to make it a more desirable
ace In attracting new industry and the doctors, dentists and other
tasloaal people which our area needs.
Your help through yoir local Chamber of Commerce is needed
?cany out these projects to needed.
r, An active Chamber ot Commerce to vital to the progress of any
en. The first step toward maintaining that active Chamber to the
fcnal financial tovestmeat of businessmen, iadusytsh'sts and
Seniors
Nearing
Graduation
The school year is drawing
to a close and the Seniors of 1971
will be getting their diplomas
soon.
At Hiawassee Dam, the
annual baccalaureate service
was held last Sunday and the
Seniors will graduate in
ceremonies this Friday night at
8 at the school gym.
At Murphy High, the
combination baccalaureate and
graduation will be on Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 at the school
gym.
Andrews High will hold its
baccalaureate on Sunday night
at 8 at First Baptist Church in
Andrews, with graduation
ceremonies set for 8 o'clock
next Tuesday night at the school
gym. '
In Hayesville, the Seniors
will attend the baccalaureate
service on Sunday night. May
30. at the school auditorium
and graduate the following
night. May 31, in the
both events beginning at 8
o'clock.
The final day of school for
Cherokee County students will
be May 27 and in Clay County it
will be June 3. Teachers in both
systems will work two days
after classes are dismissed.
play the lucky
A $200 automatic washer for
$20 a$70 reclining chair for only
$1 a $60 watch for $5 a $60 tent
for $4.44.
These are some of the bargains
awaiting lucky shoppers this week in
the Murphy Retail Merchants
Association's Lucky Number Game.
Each issue of the Scout this week
carries a hand-stamped serial
number, located on the front page of
the second section. Participating
merchants have picked numbers at
random and posted them on selected
merchandise inside their stores.
Take your Scout downtown on
Thursday, Friday or Saturday, find
your number and buy a bargain.
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Postmark: Changing Times, U.S.A.
There was a time, in recent memory, when the
quarter was known as a silver coin and would
purchase eight first-class mail stamps, which then
sold for 3 cents apiece, with a penny in change
returned to the customer. The quarter, however,
has lost its silver and the stamps have jumped in
cost. And the penny change, which would once buy
a postcard, is now fit only for the gum machine or
the parking meter. As of this week, postal rates
have been increased: the "penny" postcard now
costs 6 cents, first-class stamps sell for 8 cents and
air-mail is 11 cents. (Staff Photo)
School Issue
Burns In Clay
By Wally Avett
Staff Writer
The school board
controversy in Clay County
continued to burn high this
week, with more fuel added to
the flame and no real relief in
sight.
However, there were
indications Monday night that
the fire may burn itself out this
time. There are also fears that
it may re-ignite in a political
struggle sometime in the future.
The Clay County Board of
Education, supposedly a non
partisan outfit, is made up of
two Democrats, James Price
and Jack Groves, and three new
Republican members,
Chairman Jerald (Todd)
Phillips, Haig Davenport and
Edgar Moore.
In meetings on May 4 and
May 6, the three Republicans
voted not to renew the contracts
for another year for two
teachers and also the county
truant officer, maintenance
man and school lunchroom
supervisor. Another teacher,
hearing the results of the May 4
meeting, resigned before the
second meeting of the county
school board.
The cries of protest were
raised , that partisan politics
had entered the GOP
dominated school board's
decision. The protest also had
an extra added ingredient in
that the three Republican
school board members had
expressed themselves as in
favor of hiring local people
rather than "outsiders" and two
of the teachers involved are the
wives of Methodist ministers.
The three Republicans
released a lengthy statement to
the Scout on Monday morning
but did not attend a meeting
that night of the Hayesville
PTA. The PTA officials said
they invited all five of the school
board members to come to the
public meeting and discuss the
matter but only Price and
Groves, the Democrats, showed
up.
Perry Gribble, president of
the PTA, told the ISO people
attending the meeting that
"politics has no place in this
school." He said the board's
action was detrimental to
teachers' morale and therefore
hurt the children.
Gribble hit hard at what he
called "the archaic thinking of
certain individuals." He said if
the "outsider" theory was
followed by places outside Clay
County which hire Clay County
workers, then they could be
fired.
He ended by warning
against "retaliation...I trust
each one of us realizes
mistakes have been made in the
past...We should not look for
revenge."
The statement by the three
Republicans also mentioned
politics and the past. It reads, in
part:
""Diere has been several
school terms during the past 40
years when there was not a
single Republican teacher on
the faculty of any school in Clay
County. And some of the best
teachers that have ever taught
in this system have been
relieved of their duties strictly
because they were affiliated
with the Republican party.
"Now that the majority of
the school board are
Republicans, for the first time
in the history of the county, it
would seem naive for them not
to fill at least a part of the
vacancies with Republican
teachers.
"We might point out here,
for the benefit of anybody who
really does not know: school
board members, in the past
have been named by the County
Chairman of the Democrat
party. For the most part, these
nominations have not even had
the blessings of a vote in the
Democratic primary; which
has placed the Chairman pretty
much in the category of a
dictator. The new members of
your board were elected by a
majority of the voters of Clay
County and we feel that the
majority of the people of the
county are in accord with the
recent actions taken by the
board."
' The Republican statement
also ended with a plea for unity:
"Our school system has
been harmed, our community
divided and even Ou." churches
have suffered irreparable
damage...For the good of all
concerned, let us plead with you
to give us your cooperation in
building a school system here in
Clay County that will be second
to none."
The teachers involved can
request a full hearing before the
county school board on the
reason for their dismissals but
so far none of them has
requested a hearing.
And a representative of the
North Carolina Association of
Educators, the teachers' group,
was in Hayesville Monday and
Tuesday looking into the
situation. He said there are
several possible courses of
action for the teachers involved,
including lawsuits, but said no
decisions have been made yet
and added if nothing more is
done, the matter will probably
die in its present state.
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Fiddlin' Howard Cunningham ... leading the band at Hiawassee.
Music Festival Slated
Hie Spring Country Music
Festival, with picking and
singing, clogging and a big
gospel show, will be held this
weekend at Hiawassee, Ga.
The Georgia Mountain Fair
and the Towns County Lions
Club will being together more
than 100 country musicians and
singers, led by Fiddlin' Howard
Cunningham, for shows in the
big tent on the Fairgrounds.
The Hiawassee Goggers, a
local clog team, will appear at
each of the country music
shows, with Cunningham as
master of ceremonies.
The country music shows
will be held on Friday night,
from 8 until midnight, on
Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4
pjn. and again on Saturday
night from 8 until midnight.
The gospel concert will be
held on Sunday afternoon, from
2 until 5 o'clock, featuring the
Speer Family, the Sammy Hall
Singers and the Singing
Hemphills.
The Georgia Mountain Fair
campground on Lake Chatuge
will be open for both tent and
trailer campers during the
weekend event.
Proceeds from the festival
are used by the Towns County
lions for a number of causes,
including the new $2 million
hospital at Hiawassee.
Town Board Accepts
Official Boundary
The Murphy Town Board
Monday night established the
official town limits and ordered
a study on annexing an area on
the northeast side of town.
Town Clerk Charlie
Johnson told Mayor Cloe Moore
and the four board members
attending, W.A. (Dub)
Singleton, Joe Fowler, Henry
Simmons and W.T. (Bud)
Brown, that the Murphy town
limits have never been officially
recognized by the North
Carolina Legislature.
A survey was made back in
the 1920's, Johnson said, and all
the paperwork was done, but
somehow it never got to the
legislature. Surveyors Felix
Palmer and Sam Harding have
been working on the project in
their spare time for about the
past two years, he said, and
have tried to duplicate the town
limits survey done in the 1920's.
The only change, Johnson,
said, is that one property line in
the vicinity of the Fain
Mountain reservoir is in dispute
so the town limit in that
was changed, leaving th?
reservoir outside the limits.
The town fathers voted to
accept the survey and send a
copy to Representative Erwin
Patton in the Legislature, now
in session, for official state
approval by that body before it
adjourns.
Board members requested
that the town Planning Board
make a study on extending the
town limits along US-19-129 in
the area near Murphy High
School. Town water lines
already serve that area, going
out as far as the Levi's plant.
Johnson informed the Town
Board that someone has
recently marked a line with
paint inside the watershed of
the Fain Mountain reservoir
and inside what the town
considers its boundary.
He said this indicates that
the adjoining landowner,
identified during the meeting as
Kenneth Davis, is laying claim
to a strip of land inside the
watershed. Davis has disputed
the boundary and discussed the
matter at great length with the
board last year.
On motion by Singleton, the
board voted to have the line
surveyed and to mark the
results of that survey with
concrete comer posts and petal
stakes.
In a zoning hearing held
Monday night, the board beard
no opposition to rezoning in the
Ft. Butler section and approved
a change in zoining from R-l to
R-2 for Elbert Totherow's land.
The zoning change,
requested by Totherow, would
allow construction of multi
family dwellings, duplexes or
installation of housetrailera on
the land, located between Ft.
Butler Street and Old US-64.
The R-l zoning allows only
single-family dwellings.
Anderson
Home Burns
The W.P. Anderson home in
the Moccasin Creek section
near the Georgia state line was
destroyed by fire Sunday
evening.
The Murphy volunteers got
the fire call about 6:30 but by
the time they drove to the scene,
the wooden house was
consumed by the flames. Cause
of the fire was not known.
The Andersons lost moat of
their belingings in the fire add
bad luck struck them a double
blow.
According to the fire mop,
Mrs. Anderson was tripped by a
.family dog, fell and broke her
leg just minutes before the ftre
occurred.
Golf Course Now
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Cherokee Hills
The golf course on
Harshaw Road has a
brand-new name
Cherokee Hills.
A contest wras held
recently to pick a name
for the course and the
winner was Mrs. Jaae
Sneed Colvard of
Chattanooga, Tean.
Mrs. Calvard,
originally from Murphy,
and several others
entered Cherokee
as their choice and
course officials put I
entries in a box and!
a drawing to select the
winner.
Mrs. Colvar|
receives a free sis