The Cherokee Scout
and Clay County Progress
Volume 80 - Number 3 - Murphy. N. C. 28906-Second Class Postage Paid at Murphy. N. C. - Thursday. September 2. 1971
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urphy, N.C., 28906
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On The Midway
Kids rode the traditional merry-go-round on
the midway this week at the annual Cherokee
County Fair and Brasstown craftsmen displayed
their skills in public demonstrations inside the
Rock Gym, which serves as the Fair's exhibition
hall. Mrs. Evelyn Lee is shown at the loom and
Lynn Gault raises a vase on his potter's wheel.
(Larry Mclnturff Photos)
| Taylor Backs Kilmer Road
* Congressman Roy Taylor
said here Tuesday afternoon
that he hopes the scenic road
between Robbinsville and
Tellico Plains, Tenn. is finished,
with as little damage as
possible to the Graham County
mountains.
looking fit and lean, Taylor
played a round of golf on
Tuesday afternoon at the
(Tierokee Hills course and then
came into Murphy to speak at a
reception at the Power Board
Building.
The golfing was to fulfill a
pledge made last year when he
w:is the dedicatory' speaker at
the new course, constructed
with a $250,000 federal loan.
However, it rained so hard on
the dedication ceremonies that
the Congressman postponed his
round of golf.
The 11th District lawmaker,
a Black Mountain attorney,
underwent gall bladder surgery
several months back but says
he is in fine physical shape now
and has lost a little weight. He
w;is first elected to Congress in
1960 and says he will be a
candidate for re-election next
yeiir.
About 60 people attended
the reception for Taylor, with
refreshments served by the
Democratic Women. The
Congressman made a few brief
remarks and then responded to
questions from the floor.
On the Joyce Kilmer Forest
road controversy,
Congressman Taylor said funds
were appropriated back in 1962
and the project was publicized
without any opposition from
conservationists. Construction
began from both Robbinsville
and Tellico, he said, and was
about half finished when
conservation groups halted
work on the road in the past two
years.
"The Forest Service is still
studying a route for the road,"
he said. "I hope they find a
solution and build the scenic
road w ith as little damage to the
environment as possible.
"I'm a conservationist to
some extent," he continued.
"But not one who says nothing
should change. I believe in the
wise use of the land for the good
of humanity. Development is
needed and I've told some of
these national conservationists
that although we agree in
wanting to protect the
environment as much as
possible, I also want to improve
the economy of this area and
they don't give a hoot about the
local economy."
On the price-wage freeze
ordered by President
Nixon, Taylor said, "Some
action had to be taken.
Congress gave the President
the power a year ago - he
waited too long to use it. Some
provision for the interest rate, I
think, should have been
included."
Congressional Swing
Congressman Roy Taylor played a round of
#>ir on the Cherokee Hills course Tuesday
pfternoon before speaking at the Murphy Power
Hoard building. Others in the foursome were,
left to right. Hobart McKeever. the Congressman's
aide Tom Mallonee and Walter Carringer.
Ecology Popular Fair Theme
The news in Murphy this
week is the Cherokee County
Fair, doing business daily at the
Fairgrounds and the Rock
Gym.
Ecology, the keyword of
national concern over
environment and pollution, was
the theme of a number of
exhibits judged for ribbons and
on Tuesday.
The Marble Community
Development Club won the first
prize of $75 in the community
club competition for best
exhibit. Its presentation showed
improvements over the past
year to the community center at
Marble.
The Texana Club won
second prize, of $50 , for a
graphic indictment of the joint ?
Murphy-Cherokee County
landfill, which is located in that
community. The exhibit,
featuring a toy dump truck and
lots of garbage, hit hard at the
dump, which has annoyed
Murphy's black community for
some time.
The Extension
Homemakers Club from the
Sunny Point section won $50 for
their display of two roadside
mailboxes, one neatly lettered
and the area surrounding it free
of trash, the other a sloppy job
with much garbage scattered
about.
The Hayesville
homemakers placed second
among the Extension
homemakers' entries, with an
exhibit on the paint-up, clean
up, fix-up theme.
The Future Homemakers of
America from Hiawassee Dam
High won first place in their
division with a display of basic
daily foods and the Future
Farmers of America from
Andrews were second with a
miniature model of a hay
cafeteria, capable of automatic
feeding for a number of cattle.
The solid waste disposal
program proposed for Cherokee
iuid Clay counties by TV A
planners is portrayed in one
exhibit and the We Care group
has erected an attractive
display on the mental health
center at Marble. The U.S.
Forest Service has a display on
pines native to this area.
Several Cherokee County
industries have also put up
booths in the Rock Gym. The
Kimco display shows how a
pattern is transformed into
delicate lace, the American
Thread booth displays various
times of kinds of thread along
with the trophies won by that
plants crack girls' Softball
team, the Ijevi's booth features
a king'sized pair of pants and
Clifton is displaying its intricate
instruments.
There are the usual flowers,
canned goods, garden
vegetables and handmade
clothing articles on display, all
now wearing the ribbons
bestowed by judges on Tuesday
and there is much emphasis this
year on crafts.
The John Campbell Folk
School at Brasstown has a
number of craft activities on
display and the Brasstown
craftsmen are nightly showing
their skills, making potterv.
weaving, carving wood and
working with minerals and
semi-precious stones at the
Rock Gym in public
demonstrations.
Tri-County Tech also has a
large display area, complete
with equipment used in its
courses, to show the fair-going
public what is available at the
Peachtree school.
As in previous years, the
midway this year is by Georgia
Amusements, offering a variety
of rides and games.
Crowds were thin on
Monday and Tuesday nights but
the sponsoring Murphy Lions
Club expects attendance to pick
up by the end of the week. The
fair, which is the 53rd annual
event, runs through Saturday
night.
Old Paper Has
Familiar Ring
A reader brought in an old
copy of Th? Scout this week but
some of uie news in it had a
familiar ring.
Andrew (Bucky) Rose
brought in a yellowed
crumbling Scout of July 11,1913.
He said his father, Henry Rose,
discovered it Sunday night
among some old family
possessions.
Right there on the front
page was a story about five
prisoners breaking out of the
Cherokee County Jail. It noted
that two of the escaped men
were Indians and Sheriff C. B.
Hill and other officers tracked
them with dogs to the vicinity of
the Indian settlement near
Tomotla but the trail ended
there.
Another front page story
was the account of how the
Murphy baseball team had
whipped Copperhill twice,
largely on the hitting erf Jerry
Davidson.
A long letter also appeared
on the front page of the 1913
Scout, supposedly written by
Christ himself and carrying the
warning that anyone who came
into possession of the letter
should publish it or else suffer
much bad luck. The story said
the letter had been published in
several North Georgia papers.
"Whosoever works on the
Sabbath Day shall be cursed. I
command you to go to church
and keep holy the lord's Day,"
the letter read and the story
went on to mention by name
people who had suffered bad
luck because they had held a
coRy of the letter without
publishing it.
Inside the four-page paper
there was a solid page of
regional and national news
stories and more local stories,
including one of a recent
highway commission meeting
in Murphy in which an engineer
;ind a contractor got into a
bloody fight. The contractor,
;iccording to the story, used his
heavy walkingstick on the other
man and ended up charged with
assault with a deadly weapon.
There were a number of
;>dvertisements on the front
page of the old paper, including
a directory of doctors and
lawyers. Inside there were ads
for two local banks, the Bank of
Murphy and the Commericial
;ind Savings. Bank. There was
a Coca-Cola ad and a directory
of Atlanta ads from firms which
filled mail orders.
There were no grocery ads
at all and the lone theater ad
mentioned no titles or names of
actors. It was called the
Dreamland Theater and its ad
said only that it was "Running
'lhree New Reels Daily" and
would show "nothing to offend
any lady or child."
The only advertiser in the
issue who appears in the paper
today is Murphy Hardware. Its
1913 ad offered garden tools and
farm implements.
Channel 5
Temporaily
Off The Air
The Asheville television
station, WIjOS?TV, will be off
the air in Murphy and Andrews
for another week of so,
according to reports received
here this week.
WI.OS engineers tied to
remove the translator atop
Johanna Bald near Andrews on
Ihursday of last week due to
faulty color signal
transmissions by that unit and
return it to the manufacturer
for repairs.
A spokesman for the station
said at that time it would take
about two weeks for repairs to
the Andrews translator. The
Murphy area receives the
Asheville signal through the
Andrews translator and was
thereby knocked out by the
action.
Labor Day
Closings
The Cherokee County
Courthouse and most Murahy
stores will be closed on Monday
for labor Day.
The regular meeting pi .the
Cherokee Co t^n t y
commissioners will be
Tuesday, beginning
t o u n t y
Cable TV Being Installed
Workmen are busy this
week installing a cable
television system in Murphy.
Harold Shook, president of
Murphy Cable TV, Inc., said
two crews are presently wiring
houses for the cable system and
another crew is installing the
signal-receiving equipment on
Fain Mountain.
Construction will probably
start next week. Shook said, on
the antenna tower on the
mountain. The system is
planned to be in complete
operation by Oct. 9, he added,
"in plenty of time for the World
Series."
Shook was given the
franchise for the system early
this year by the Murphy Town
Council and recently got
approval for the cable set-up
from the Federal
Communications Commission.
Work is presently confined to
Murphy but the service can be
extended to nearby
communities, he said, if'
there are enough subscribers to
justify it.
A cable TV subscriber will
pay $5.50 a month, according to
Jerry Anderson, , who is in
charge of the local system, and
will receive about nine different
channels, coming from major
surrounding cities, and also FM
music.
Football Star
To Visit Here
Plans were being laid here this week for
the appearance in Murphy on Sept. 11 of a
major professional football star, Don
Maynard. wide receiver for the New York
Jets.
High School football coaches of the area
and officials of The Cherokee Scout and
Greenlawn Memorial Gardens are working
out final details, the time and place to be
announced later.
A native of El Paso. Texas, Maynard will
probably meet informally with fans and young
footballers on the afternoon of Sept. 11 and be
the guest of honor that night at a dinner for
coaches.
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MORRIS LEE COKER
?Mr.AMrv Leroy Cotter
RICHARD KEVIN MILLER
?Mr.AMrs. Pelt Miller
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