Madison County
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Marshall, N,C 28753
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VOLUME 71
Importance Of
Care Homes
A little known program of the
Department of Social Services
is helping to solve one of
society's growing problems,
how to care for the homeless
elderly.
Begun in 1946, and still
growing, the family care homes
program is now providing
homes for about 2,400 elderly or
disabled people who, without
these "foster homes," would be
homeless. There are 377 such
family care homes located in 81
counties throughout the state.
Many of the family care
homes are operated by widows
who are home all day, but some
operators have other Jobs and
provide adult sitters for their
MARSHALL HELPING HANDS 4-H Club officers
were elected Saturday, Jan. 8, are: seated: Lee
Sexton, vice-president; Susan Frisby, president;
Larry Sexton, treasurer; standing, left to right,
Janet Reeves, secretary; Dianne Wallin and Cynthia
Niles, recreation leaders; and Nancy Treadway,
reporter.
THE MADISON COUNTY 4-H County Council met
Monday and elected the following officers, pictured
above. Front. Rhonda Sprinkle, president; back, left
to right. Randy Cody, secretary -treasurer; Susan
Frisby, reporter; Annie Lou Silver, song leader.
Harlon Rice, vice-president, was absent when
picture was made.
BETA OMEGA members,
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tea at the Governor's Western Mansion m Asheville
Sunday. Jan. . The tea was given for women who
are involved in the March of Dimes Mothers' March.
Members of Beta Omega win make a canvass of
Madison County homes to obtain donations for the
National Foundations attack on birth defects on
January 18. ' '
charges.
Regulations of the State
Department of Social Services
insure that living conditions will
be adequate. Each home is
licensed. No more than five
people may live in one home
and each resident must have at
least 80 square feet of bedroom
space. Annual fire and
sanitation inspections are
required, and each home is
visited regularly by a social
worker who checks to see if the
operators need held and if the
residents are happy.
For residents who have no
income the Department will pay
up to $205.00 a month to the
operator of the home. In ad-
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dition, each resident gets about
$10.00 a month for personal
expenses. Comprehensive
health care is provided by the
Medicaid program.
Madison County is one of the
nineteen counties in the state
having no family care homes.
Neighboring counties have from
one to eight such homes.
Anyone interested in
operating a family care home in
Madison County should contact
the Director, Mrs. Frances G.
Ramsey, or the Social Worker
for Adults, Mrs. Marion J.
Wallin, by letter, telephone, or a
visit. The office is located in the
Masonic Building in Marshall.
Their telephone number is 649-
2711.
4-H County
Council Meets;
Elect Officers
On Jan. 10 the Madison
County 4-H County Council held
its first meeting of the year.
The meeting was called to order
by Caroleen Buckner. After the
pledges and devotions, the
group elected officers. They ,
re: president Rhonda
Sprinkle; vice president
Harlon Rice; sec Treas.
Randy Cody; reporter Susan
Frisby.
The next meeting will be held
March 13. Other meetings
scheduled will include County
Talent Show, March 4, Dress
Revue April 28, and Demon
stration Day, May 13.
Several important com
mittees were appointed.
Susan Frisby
Reporter
Merchants To
Meet Tuesday
At REA Lobby
Mrs. S. C. Rudisill, president
of the Marshall Merchants
Association, announced this
week that the Association
members would meet at the
French Broad EMC Lobby next
Tuesday night at 8 o'clock.
At this meeting, officers will
be elected and plans discussed
for business promotions and
other activities during 1972.
All members are urged to
attend.
Pioneer 4-H
Club Met On
Monday, Jan.3
The Pioneer 4-H Club met
Monday of last week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Bacchus
McPeters. Projects were
discussed and monthly
programs were planned.
Vickie Robinson, president,
presided. Refreshments were
served.
Harvey Proffitt
Receives
Pistol Wound
1 Harvey Proffitt, of the
Grapevine section of Madison
County, is in Memorial Mission
Hospital with a pistol wound in
his right arm and Charles
: Taylor also of the Grapevine
section, to betii held in the
county Jail Jn connection with i
the shooting. '; -v.;--S''i V
Sheriff E. Y. Ponder said the
shooting occurred about t am,
today I Thursday) near
Petersburg. . r .
MARSHALL,
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MARSHALL'S FIRST CERAMICS SHOP is now in operation on the second
floor of the News-Record Office on Main Street. Classes in ceramics officially
started here Monday under the direction of Mrs. Cecil Giblin. Pictured above
are seven seniors of Marshall High School who received their first instructions
Monday afternoon. Seated are Beulah Wallin, left, and Walda Harrell.
Standing, left to right, are Barbara Roberts, Betty Buckner, Rebecca Giblin,
Cathy Ponder and Kathleen Shelton. In addition to numerous students, adults
will also be given the opportunity to take these classes. For further in
formation, contact Mrs. Giblin.
Farm Program Signup
Delayed To Feb. 3
The sign up or enrollment
period for the 1972 feed grain
and wheat set-aside programs
has been delayed about two
weeks according to a recent
announcement by U.S.D.A.
The sign-up period originally
scheduled to begin Jan. 17 and
run through Feb. 25 has been
changed to start on Feb. 3 and
end on March 10, says Ralph
Ramsey, County ASCS
Eight County Republicans
At GOP Meeting
Eight Madison County
Republicans attended the first
State GOP Executive Com
mittee meeting held at the
Hilton Inn in Raleigh under the
new leadership of State GOP
Chairman Frank Rouse.
Reports from the GOP
National Committee and four
state organizations were made
and a "Victory in 1972" film was
shown.
Five members of the State
ASCS Committee were elec
tedthree new ones and two
"old" ones. They were Sam
Rouse, of Kinston: Proctor
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Tea Cup & Saucer Display
At Library Here
The Tea Cup & Saucer
collection of Mrs. Daugan
(Floral Treadway of Rt. 6,
Marshall, is on display in the
window of the Madison County
Public Library on Main Street .
in Marshall. This display, fifth ;
N. C THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1972
' Director. He suited thai the
Department of Agriculture
made this change in time of
sign-up to allow the Department
of Agricultural officials and
farmers an opportunity to
utilize information from a
special planting intentions
report which will become
available the latter part of this
month.
Scarborough of Raleigh;
Trenton Jordan of Troy; James
Turlington of Salemburg; and
Henry McGimsey of Morgan
ton. Those attending from this
county were David A. Freeman,
Bill Briggs, W. B. Zink, Mallie
A. Brown, Alan Briggs, Gale
Brown, LeRoy Briggs and Joe
L. Morgan.
Mr. Mallie A. Brown has
completed three years of ser
vice on the State ASCS Com
mittee and is currently com
pleting a term as chairman of
the State ASCS Committee.
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in a series of cotifttions being
featured in, the Library win-'
dows, shows 90 cups 'and '
saucers; sixteen of which are .
from other states and four are
from foreign countries. ,
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Benefit
Basketball
Game At M.H.
The Mars Hill Lions Club is
sponsoring a benefit basketball
game next Wednesday night in
the Mars Hill high school
gymnasium. Tipoff is scheduled
for 8 o'clock with entertainment
beginning at 7:30.
The highly exciting game will
be played between the radio
announcers and personnel of
WKKE, Asheville, known as the
Key Radio Rangers, and the
volunteer firemen of the Mars
Hill Fire Department. Members
of the Uons club are also ex
pected to see action.
Admission will be 50 cents for
st' dents and $1 for adults with
pr iceeds to go towards the
current White Cane Sale of the
Mars Hill Lions Club. The Lions
broom and light bulb sale will
also start at this time.
It was announced that band
music would be presented at
halftime and the public is urged
to attend and enjoy an evening
of fun and excitement.
Return Of Tobacco
Marketing Cards
Urged
Operators of burley tobacco
farms are held re aonsible for
the use and the ret irn of their
marketing cards, says Ralph
Ramsey, ASCS Director for
Madison County. The primary
purpose of the marketing card
is to provide the producers a
simple way to officially account
for the disposition he makes of
his tobacco. Failure of the
operator to timely return his
car can result in a reduction of
the farm quota for the following
crop year unless he can present
Bible Study Over Radio
Station WMMH
Dean Shields, manager of
Radio Station WMMH, has
advised The News-Record that
from 10 to 10:30a jn., the station
will be carrying The Bible Study
Hour each Sunday.
This Bible leaching ministry
founded by one of this country's
foremost and best beloved Bible
teachers of a generation ago.
Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse,
now has as its speaker Dr. i
James Boice. Who is pastor of
ui a CIIUI 1 IGOUVICI Mil
in Philadelphia. This is the
same ghurch which DrJiarn-.
The Opportunity Corporation
of Madison-Buncombe Counties
has received a grant of $24,996
from the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare for use
in providing family planning
services in the two counties.
Announcement of the grant
was received by William D.
Mash bum, executive director of
the Comprehensive Family
Planning Program, from U.S.
Rep. Roy A. Taylor Friday.
The total amount of the
project is $31,356 of which $6,360
is the local matching share, and
will be delegated to the Bun
combe County Health Depart
ment which sponsors the
FOUR HOT SPRINGS LADIES make preparations for the Girl Scout Cookie
Sale which starts January 28 in Hot Springs. From left to right are Mrs. Jean
Templeton, Mrs. Peggy Dotterer, Mrs. Eda Lankford and Mrs. Tommy
Brady.
Girl Scout Cookie Sale
At Hot Springs
For the first time in Hot
Springs, the Girl Scouts will
conduct a cookie sale beginning
January 28. Orders will be
taken by the Girl Scouts from
door to door. Cookies will be
delivered in Hot Springs on Feb.
28, officials announced. The
cookie sale is Council wide. The
satisfactory proof of his
entire marketings in some other
manner. The regulations
governing the use of marketing
cards state that they must be
returned to the ASCS Office no
later than 30 days after the dose
of market sales.
In conclusion Ramsey said
that all burley markets in the
area had now closed and urged
farmers who had not returned
their cards to do so as soon as
possible.
Dr. Boice came to Tenth Church
about five years ago from an
executive position with one of
th major evangelical
maaiines of our day,
"Christianity Today." Thus he
5rogrLw X1 K Miss Kalhy Dockery with
lh ?K1 membershipof Junior. Mrs.
5? TkT Tommy Brady with mem
Shields tells us that he 1 . j,.
believes that Madison County
folk who have the opportunity '
Ul tlCfll in g Lrs DvHTV' Will
become - regular listeners,
regardless of their
Two-County OEO Unit
Gets $24,996 Grant
Comprehensive Family
Planning I'rogram m the two
counties.
Most of the funds from the
grant will be used to support the
family planning clinic at
Memorial Mission Hospital and
for providing salaries and
supporting costs for two family
planning outreach workers who
will work in in rural Buncombe
and Madison Counties, Mash
burn said.
The Buncombe County Health
Departemnt earlier received a
grant from HEW and the
Asheville Model Cities Com
mission, totaling $125,427, for
operation of the program in the
cookies are 60 cents per box
with 5 cents on each box going to
the local Troop treasury and the
remaining income provides
camping equipment for Pisgah
Girl Scout Day Camps, troop
camping and development of
Camp Pisgah. This year a new
contest will give winning troops
Teen-Agers
To Enter
Young ladies of this area are
invited to enter the Miss North
Carolina Teen-ager Pageant to
be held in Charlotte on May 26,
27, and 28th of 1972 at the White
House Inn in Charlotte, North
Carolina.
The invitation was issued this
week by Mrs. Sybil Shaffer,
executive director of the Miss
North Carolina Teen-ager
Pageant.
Contestants will be judged on
beauty of face, figure, poise and
prsonality, scholarship, com
munity service and leadership.
There will be no swimsuit
competition.
Hot Springs Girl
The three Girl Scout Troops in
Hot Springs, sponsored by the
Hot Springs P.TJ5 .A., are active
and progressing. Many ac
complishments have been made
since they were organized to
October ef 1971, t ; : 4
The troop ' leaders are:
Brownies: Mrs. Mary Alice "
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HelenLawson with , menv
Iwson,
k bership of 10.
The Troops meet once a wetk
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two counties
The total funds amounting to
$156,783 will support four major
program components: medical
services, community education,
outreach services and ad
ministration. A new family planning clinic
will open at 2 pjn. Thursday at
the Buncombe County Health
Center, 25 Woodfin Street,
according to Mashburn.
An additional family planning
clinic is operated by the
Madison County Health
Department of the fourth
Tuesday of each month.
opportunities to add to their
libraries and troop equipment
There are more than 50 prizes
available.
"Please say "yes" when the
Girl Scouts come to your door
for cookie orders. This sale
means a lot to them," one Scout
official stated.
Are Invited
Pageant
The winner of the Miss North
Carolina Teen-ager Pageant
will receive a scholarship, other
prizes and an all expense paid
trip to compete in the National
Pageant.
Contestants must be between
13 and 17 years of age as of
August 20, 1972.
Any teen-ager interested in
entering the Miss North
Carolina Teen-ager Pageant
may write for further in
formation to Mrs. Sybil Shaffer,
215 Piedmont Avenue, N.E...
Suite 1404, Atlanta, Ga. 30313 or
call area code 404-659-4610.
Scouts Are AcHf
Thursdays. , ' Vt
Activities include the making
of Christmas decorations, a
field trip to Rocky Bluff State
Park, and an enjoyable
Christmas party. .
: The Junior - Troop held
meetings, had a Christmas
party, joined the Cadettes in
folk dancing and worked on
various badges.
. The Cadettes have hfld Tro p
meetings, had a Chri ?
party, had a wei.tor ro t ; !
are now lean 1 f "-. (
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