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The Cherokee Scou
and Clay County Progress
Volume 80 - Number 5 - Murphy. N. C. 28906-Second Class Postage Paid at Murphy. N. C. - Thursday. September 16. 1971
Hey Don, Sign Mine!!
Don Maynard, star pass-catcher for the New
York Jets professional football team, was almost
covered up Saturday afternoon at Murphy High
School gym by young autograph-hunters. About 100
people, mostly Mite and Midget football players,
turned out for Maynard's appearance here. He
talked briefly and showed a 25-minute film on the
Jets' World Championship . 1968 season.
Radio Purchase Plan OK'd
The Murphy Town Council
(Democrat) on Monday night
cleared the way for Cherokee
Sheriff Blain Stalcup
Democrat) to get the radio
system turned down by the
Cherokee County Board of
Commissioners (Republican).
The commissioners, after
iniatially approving the
county's participating in the
new seven-county radio system,
recently rescinded all action on
equipment was to be financed
two-thirds with federal money
and Cherokee's share is
estimated at $1,000 a year for
the next five to eight years.
Sheriff Stalcup, who
appeared at the Town Council
meeting, said "It'll be no
trouble to raise the money.
Several people have pledged to
pay $100 a year and at least a
dozen Republicans have offered
me money."
Under the terms of the
Radio program, all equipment
has to be purchased through
some branch of government so
the Cherokee sheriff cannot
simply put up the money and
get the radios on his own. The
Town Council voted to allow the
radios to be purchased by
9ieriff Stalcup, with money
raised through private
donations, in the name of the
Town of Murphy. The base
station and the mobile rigs for
deputies' car cars will then be
assigned by the town to the
county Sheriff's Department.
The Town Council members
emphasized that the town will
be putting no money of its own
into the radios for the Sheriff's
Department , although it will
probably end up owning the
radios.
In other action, council
members, Mayor Cloe Moore
and Town Clerk Charlie
Johnson discussed the traffic
light situation at Murphy
Elementary School. The light
was recently damaged by a
passing truck and had to be
removed.
Johnson said he talked
about several possibilities with
a signal light salesman and also
with a State Highway
Commission engineer. These
included flashing "School
Zone" lights which would not
actually stop traffic, mid-block
light which would be activated
by school children pressing a
button when they needed to
make the light change to red so
they could cross the street and a
standard automatic light at the
intersection of Valley River and
Hilton Street.
Johnson said the SHC
engineer favored a light at the
Hilton-Valley River intersection
in front of the A&P store and
council members seemed also
in favor of this, adding that the
town, if necessary, should pay
for the addition of "Walk" and
"Don't Walk" signals to be
installed in conjunction with the
light. It was felt that the light at
that intersection would help in
getting schoolbus traffic onto
Valley River in an orderly
fashion.
The council voted to
advertise and sell surplus town
property, a large lot located in
the Ft. Butler section and about
14 acres of land on the Andrews
Highway at Regal.
Burke Moore was named to
the town Planning Board to
replace the late F.O.
Christopher.
The Council took no action
but discussed at great length
the landfill problem. The
current landfill, operated
jointly by the Town of Murphy
and Cherokee County at Texana
is located on top of a high ridge
and there is insufficient topsoil
to cover the garbage. The
Forest Service, which owns
theland, has complained about
the situation, Johnson said,
saying the site is not suitable for
a landfill.
Qldest Clay Man
Is Dead At 100
The oldest man in Clay
County, 100-year-old Lawrence
Richardson Moore, died last
Saturday morning in Towns
County Hospital.
Funeral services were
held at 3 p.m., Sunday in
Moss Memorial Baptist Church
with burial in the church
semetery. Grandsons served as
pallbearers and the Rev. Harry
Hawk and the Rev. Rondel
ledford officiated.
Mr. Moore was born in 1870
in a log cabin in the Tusquittee
section, son of the late
Confederate veteran Capt.
"Irish Bill" Moore and Hattie
Gash Moore.
He lived in Clay County all
his life, working as a farmer,
merchant and blacksmith. He
had a lifetime interest in mining
for gold and also collected
Indian relics.
He is survived by a son,
Frank Moore of Hayesville;
three daughters, Mrs. Hubbie
LR. Moore
Smith, Mrs. Edna Phillips, and
Mrs. Lucy Hayatt, all of
Hayesville; a brother, Bill
Moore , and a sister, Mrs.
Nannie Smith, both of
Hayesville; 14 grandchildren,
18 great-grandchildren and two
great - great - grandchildren.
Townson Funeral Home,
Hayesville, was in charge of
arrangements.
Lfirectors
Elected
f
f fay EMC
Three men were elected to
the board of directors of the
Blue Ridge Electric
Membership Corporation at a
gvply meeting last Saturday of
the members of the
organization, held at Young
Harris College.
Members had to register
before they could vote and 1,654
were registered. More than
1,400 of them cast ballots in the
election.
Truman McNabb was
elected to represent Cherokee
County, Max Waldroup was
choeen to represent Clay County
add Warren Souther was picked
to represent Union County, Ga.
Souther replaces Ed Lance
on the board; McNabb and
Waldroup have been directors
for Soane time, men were
elected for three-year terms.
The nine members of the board
of directors
terms, three
expiring each year.
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Constitution Week
Mrs. Louise Bay less, regent of
the Archibald D. Murphey chapter of
Daughters of the American
Revolution, and Cloe Moore, mayor of
Murphy, are shown examining a
parchment reproduction of the
Constitution. Mayor Moore has
proclaimed the week of Sept. 17-23 as
Constitution Week in Murphy and the
PAR urges schools, churches and
other organizations to hold
appropriate ceremonies.
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Election Board Eyes Suit
The Cherokee County Board
of Elections met Tuesday night
to discuss starting a lawsuit
gainst the Cherokee County
Board of Commissioners.
At issue is the salary of
Mrs. Nada Pullium, the election
board's executive secretary.
She says she has been working
three days a week in the
election office since the first
day of May but the county
commissioners will pay her for
only two and a half days each
week and she has been refusing
her checks.
Mrs. Pullium's husband
Dean, a Democrat, is chairman
of the three-man elections
board. Other members are Fred
McDonald, Democrat, and
Virgil Hogsed, Republican.
Attorney Leonard LLoyd of
Robbinsville met with the
Cherokee elections board and
at that board's request has
done some legal research on the
matter. He said the county
commissioners have no
authority to set the days which
the elections secretary works
and the commissioners' only
authority concerning her pay is
to approve or disapprove the
budget submitted each year by
the elections board, which
includes her salary.
Mrs. Pullium said with
agreement by the board of
commissioners at . \ that time,
she began work as executive
secretary to the elections board
back in June of 1968, working
full days on Tuesday, and
Thursday and Saturday until
noon for three full days' pay. All
other Courthouse offices close
at noon, ? she said, and
it was felt the elections office
should close at that hour too.
I.ast April, the
commissioners (two
Republicans, one Democrat)
decided to cut Mrs. Pullium's
pay to two and a half days'
worth since they said that was
the time she was working . In
turn, the elections board then
Shot Slate
For Horses
North Carolina in
instituting a vaccination
program for the control of
Venzuelan Equine
Encephalomylitis (VEE), a
highly fatal disease of horses ,
pinies, mules and asses (equine
species). The vaccination
program officially begun
September 9, and is expected to
be completed statewide within
30 days.
Ginics will be established
within Cherokee County and Dr.
A.J. Headrick will be
responsible for vaccinating all
horses, mules, ponies, colts, etc.
The vaccine will be furnished
and administered at no cost to
the owners. The owners will be
responsible for getting their
animals to one of the scheduled
clinics as follows:
MONDAY, SEPT 20:
Murphy - Fair Grounds, 9:00
a.m.; Hangingdog -Gene Fair's
Store, 11:00a.m.; Grape Creek
-Jack Carter's Saw Mill, 1:30;
Unaka-Unaka School, 3:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 22: Peachtree -
Franklin Smith Farm, 9:00;
Martin's Creek-Martin's Creek
School, 1:30.
SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 25: Marble -
Marble Elementary School,
9:00 a.m.; Granny Squirrel
leading Post, 10:00 a.m.;
Andrews- Jeff Brooks Farm,
11:00 a.m.; Fair View- Pinkney
Orr Farm, 3:00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 29: Culberson -
Gark Bvers Store, 9:00 a.m.;
Ranger - Ranger Elementary
School. 10:00 a.m.; Wolf Creek -
Charlie McGfil's Store, 11:00
a.m.; Hiwassee Dam - Frank
Crime Farm, 1:00 p.m.
The vaccination program is
voluntary but all equine species
ire quarantined to the premises
?n which they are located
effective Sept 9,. They may be
moved only to a clinic to be
vaccinated and once vaccinated
the owner will be given a
Silicate for his animal and
be free to move the animal
within the state.
This is a timely vaccination
:ind state farm officials ask the
cooperation of everyone in
order to get as many animals
vaccinated at possible.
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held a meeting, advertised their
intentions to change the
schedule and in May began
holding the election office open
on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, three full days a week.
The commissioners, peeved
because they had not been
consulted on the change in
schedule, kept Mrs. Pullium's
pay at two and a half days'
worth and since May, she has
refused her checks. She and her
husband have appealed to the
commissioners since then
several times to pay her for the
three full days she now works
but the situation has remained
unchanged.
IJoyd, who served as
county attorney to the Graham
County commissioners, advised
against a lawsuit "if this thing
can be settled." A suit by the
elections board against the
commissioners will mean
spending taxpayers' money on
both sides, he said, "and they
tell me these lawyers can be
expensive.1'
Since Mrs. Pullium is paid
at the rate of $15 per day, he
pointed out that the difference
between two and a half and
three days' pay is only $7.50 a
week. Attorney Uoyd added
that if the matter can be settled
without going to court, he will
not charge anything for his
efforts in behalf of the elections
board.
He advised the elections
board to present a formal,
written notice to the board of
commissioners asking for the
full three days' pay for Mrs.
Pullium before the decision to
sue is made. After some
discussion, all three membersof
the elections board agreed and
1 Jovd said he would prepare the
paper for them.
Bell Mountain Well
The Bell Mountain Water Authority this week
announced that an Atlanta well-drilling firm has
begun drilling the first well for the planned water
system. To be financed through the Farmers Home
Administration, the water system will eventually
serve about 500 families in Clay and Towns
Counties with a total of five wells, the first one
being drilled near Hiawassee, Ga. The system is
expected to be in full operation sometime next
year. Original signers are now being contacted to
sign a new users agreement to satisfy legal
requirements of the system.
Local Boy Unwittingly
Is Marijuana Hauler
Oklahoma law officers
apparently failed to search a
stolen car last month - and the
Murphy youth who brought it
back unwittingly hauled
marijuana across several states
last week.
Red Schuyler, advertising
manager for The Scout,
discovered the illegal weed last
Saturday in the car his son had
just drive back from Oklahoma,
paid to go get the car by an
insurance company.
The story began when a 1967
Chevrolet Impala was stolen
from the YMCA in Greenville,
S.C. The elder Schuyler is a
native of South Carolina and has
many ties there; his son Chris,
who graduated this year from
Murphy High, worked the past
Summer at Greenville and an
insurance adjustor there hired
Chris to flv to Oklahoma and
drive the car back to South
Carolina when word was
received that the auto had been
recovered.
When the Murphy youth
arrived at Bartlesville,
Oklahoma, he found the car
impounded by law officers
there, its battery dead. Officers
told him that the two young men
arrested for the theft of the car
appeared to be on dope of some
kind and the only reason they
were caught was that the stolen
Impala had developed a dead
battery and would not start.
A new battery was installed
and Chris Schuyler left
Oklahoma on Thursday. His
orders from the Insurance
Company were to leave
everything in the car intact and
deliver it exactly as it was when
he drove it out of Bartlesville. A
cardboard box, labeled as
GOP Meeting
Precinct meetings and
biennial county conventions
were scheduled this week by
Republicans across the state,
including the party
organizations in both Clay and
Cherokee counties.
I^onard Ramsey, GOP
chairman in Cherokee, says the
Cherokee County Republicans
will hold their precinct
meetings on Sept. 25 at 7:30
p.m.
These will be held either at
polling places or at other sites,
to be designated by the local
precinct chairman. Those
attending the precinct meetings
will elect precinct officers,
delegates and alternate
delegates to the county
convention.
In Cherokee, the county
convention will be held on
October 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the
Cherokee County Courthouse.
At that time, delegates from the
precincts will elect county
Republican officers and
delegates to the state GOP
convention.
W. P. Bradley, the
Republican chairman in Clay
County, says precinct meetings
there will be held at 8 p.m. on
Sept. 24.
Hayesville No. 1 will meet
at the Clay County Courthouse;
Hayesville No. 2 will meet at the
Rock School building;
Hiawassee will meet at the Elf
School building; Shooting Creek
will meet at Shooting Oeek
School; Tusquitee will meet at
the voting place there;
Sweetwater will meet at the
community building;
Brasstown will meet at Ogden
School.
The Clay County
Republicans will hold their
convention on Oct. 7 at the
Gmrthouse, to begin at ? pjn.
containing golf tees, sat on the
dashboard for the entire trip.
Chris spent Thursday
Thursday night in Memphis,
Tenn. and pulled into his
parents' home in Murphy late
Friday.
On Saturday afternoon, Red
Schuyler out of fatherly
curiosity looked over the car his
son had brought in, scheduled
to be returned to Greensville,
S.C. on Sunday. A golfer
occasionally, Red opened the
box to examine the tees.
Inside there were no tees but
there were four or five
"homemade cigarettes," Red
said. "They were rolled out of
plain writing paper and
the ends were twisted shut."
Mrs. Schuyler had
witnessed a demonstration by
law officers on marijuana at the
recent Hiawassee Mountain
Fair so Red took a cigarette
inside and set it afire for her.
She said it definitely was
marijuana, which was the same
opinion offered by a Cherokee
County deputy sheriff who was
quickly summoned.
The deputy and Red then
searched the car and found a
large quantity of weeds in the
trunk," enough to fill a 10-pound
paper sack."
By now, the Schuylers were
having unpleasant visions of
what might have happened if
their son had been stopped
somewhere on his journey for a
minor traffic offense and the
car searched. "He wasn't going
to drive a foot farther in that car
until the stuff was removed,"
Red said.
The Cherokee County
Sheriff's Deportment has the
cigarettes and
has sent
analysis.
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Sunday*
Packing
House
Closes
The Murphy Tomato
Packing Shed closed down (or
the season last Friday, which
"is about normal for this time
of year."
"We worked in Murphy
in til there just weren't any
more tomatoes to run," said
Way Abel of Canton, owner of
the packing shed here. "This is
about normal. Canton is at a
higher elevation and well
probably be closing down here
at Canton next week."
Abel said volume of
tomatoes received this year at
the local packing shed was
considerably lower than last
year. This was due to the
smaller number of growers this
year, he added, which was
probably influenced by the low
prices on the national tomato
market last year.
"We stil still want to help
the growers all we can", Abel
told the Scout Tuesday. "H the
growers in Cherokee and day
can get enough tomatoes
together, well send one of our
trucks. Or if they want to I
the peddlers,well i
those out there to buy <
right out of the field."
The shed here began buying
tomatoes from growers in late
July. Heavy rainfall * k '
the quality of the ton
some growers suffered,
said, but he added that this
still has "great pat
production of trellis
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