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To The Editor
Deer Mr. Story
WUh reference to Mr.
William Stanton's interesting
letter of Feb. IS I would like to
clear up some misun
derstanding. In my letter of
Jan. a I stated that Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego were
Jehovah's Witnesses. Of
course they were not
Christians. When a group of
God-fearing Christians in the
year 1831 met together and
decided to adopt as their name
Jehovah's Witnesses, they
were quite aware that there
had existed for thousands of
years before them other
witnesses of Jehovah even
before Christ Jesus came into
the world. The Apostle Paul in
his letter to the Hebrews,
chapter 11:4-38, gives a list of
faithful witnesses before he
became one himself, starting
with Abel, Enoch, Noah and
many others. He concludes by
saying in chapter 13:1 "So
then let us also, seeing we are
compassed about with so
, great a cioud of witnesses lay
i aside every weight.." Whose
| witaeams were these men and
k women? A record of their lives
| testifies they were Jehovah's
? Same have great love and
? respect for such translations
I ar ttJ King James or the
? Douay Bible AD translations
? of the Bible are good. Some
f are more faithful to the
original divinely inspired
manuscripts, written in
Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek
than others. Some regard the
King James translation made
385 years ago in 1811 was
perfect and therefore should
net be altered. Many are
unaware of the fact that it has
already been altered many
times. The first edition of 1811
was followed by that of 1813
which showed over 300 dif
ferences. The Committee on
Versions (1851-58) of the
American Bible Society found
M.880 variations in six dif
ferent editions of the King
Hew can one evaluate the
host Bible translation? The
one which most faithfully and
accurately reproduces the
meaning of the original
divinely inspired
manuscripts. How can this be
done? By careful and
prayerful study of it.
Norman M Drysdale.
LIKES MARSHALL
Some places you go you just
naturally feel at home. That is
the way we have felt about
Marshall since we first came
here.
We have only been here a
little over a year and yet we
have more true friends than
we both made in a life time in
Atlanta.
We would like to take this
time and thank the people of
Marshall for opening up their
hearts as well as their town to
us. We have to leave now for a
while but we plan to come
home again real soon. May
God keep you all Just as you
are until we return.
-e- The Stan Robertsons
Attention
Firemen
All members of the Mar
shall Volunteer Fire Depart
ment are urged to bring all
turnout gear to the fire house
on Main Street at 7:00 o'clock
this Thursday night, Feb. 10.
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Clyde S&L
Breaks All
Records
Clyde Savings and Loan
broke all its previous records
for January in savings and in
loans, according to Ed
Broadwell, executive vice
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presiaeni.
"We gained over ft million
in savings and closed mere
than $1 million in loans," said
Broadwell. "I'm encouraged
by these figures. It indicates
that Western North Carolina is
recovering from the recession
and is growing again," he
Clyde Savings and Loan
celebrates its fiftieth an
niversary this year and will be
opening branches in Skyland
and Weaverville. It has assets
of almost $54 million
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SUE FITZGERALD
Miss Fitzgerald
To Be Teacher
At Seminary
Course
Miss Sue Fitzgerald,
Director of the Center for
Christian Education
Ministries at Mars Hill
College, will be the teacher at
a Seminary Extension Course
to begin at 7 p.m. Thursday at
Asheville - Buncombe
Technical Institute, in Room
H 117 of the Rhododendron
Building.
A recognized Christian
leader, Miss Fitzgerald has
been engaged in teaching
seminary extension courses
for the past eight years.
Classes will begin at 7 p.m.
each Thursday and continue
until 9 p.m. each week, with
credit for the course, In
troduction to the New
Testament, being given.
Classes are open to all
denominations with the cost to
be |ES0 including text book
and study guide.
The Rev. Neils Larsen,
pastor of the Ridgecrest
Baptist Church, chairman of
Seminary Extension in the
Buncombe Baptist
Association, with the Rev.
Luther Osment, WNC Area
missionary, have been
responsible for the planning of
the Bible course.
CARD OF THANKS
For the many acta of kind
ness shown during the long
j "V* and death of our land)
one. we offer our sincere
thanks. For the beautiful
floral offering, cards, phone
calls, visits, food and words of
kindness. To you who con
tributed to the Memorial Fund
or the Cancer Fund, we are
moat grateful.
May God Mess each of you.
The family of Lorado
Pander
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Births
To Dr. and Mrs. Eric Black
well of Winston-Salem a son,
David Elam, February ?, 1976
in a Winston-Salem Hospital.
Mrs. Blackwell is the farmer
Janis Elam, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. P.R. Elam of Mars
Hill. Dr. Blackwell is the son
of Dr. and Mrs. Hoyt Black
well also of Mars Hill.
County Schoolchildren Write Their Own g-frrnr| Jpjjrri I
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Utile tiny things ? and little
I like to play with my dog
1 like Madison County
This and other stories
written by Marian Coanty
first and aecood graders have
new book. Hello' My Name
Is... In their own words,
children tell of the joys of
tains, and what it is like
growing up in them.
Hello! My Name Is.... a
wonderful testimony of
children to where they live,
what they do, where they go
and what they think about
The book is published for
students to read and then
write and draw the things and
people they know best: roads
in Madison coanty, com
munities in which they live,
their pets and farm animals,
their favorite time of year,
and the like. Students read
what other children their own
age have written and drawn
and then are provided two
pages in the middle of the book
to do the same thing: write
and draw about Madison
County.
Hello was distributed to
grades K through 2 in Mars
Hill in January 1*76. Students,
parents, and teachers are
excited about the learning that
is going on in the classes using
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Mr* Jamie Briggs, a kin
dergarten teacher to Mara Rill
Elementary School, said, "My
children enjoyed the beak.
Evaa kindergarten aged
children are picking oat
words. A highlight ha? been In
writing their stories in the
book."
Mrs. Jan Preeeley. second
grade teacher, said the
program was great "The
way oar das* has worked
producing these books is the
beet thing we have ever done.
Students used to groan about
story writing, now they love to
write. It is fun and the kids are
learning to read.," she said.
Hello and another book.
Grandparents in which other
children write of their
Madison County grand
parents, are the first in a
series of books written by
Madison County children.
They are the only sup
plementary readers available
for use with elementary
students that reflect the
culture and the heritage of the 1
people who live and work in
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IUV 0VUIIICIU np|Miiavu??(i
mountains.
With a grant from the
Department of Health
Education and Welfare the
Madison County School Board
last year established the
Appalachian Ethnic Heritage
Studies Program. Funds from
that grant have been used to
publish these books.
Jill Mannisto and Linda
Patriarca, coordinators of the
program, have worked with
school teachers, parents, and
students since September
writing and producing these
books. Ken Gregory has
assisted in the graphics and
the lay-out areas of the task.
Mr. Bob Edwards, chair
man of the Madison County
Board of Education, has been
pleased with the books as well
as the overall effect of the
program. In a recent in
terview he said, "It is a new
method and a new approach to
reading. Moat people seem
excited about it." It is suc
cessful enough for, Mr. in
wards* to e^Sss interest in
seeking another grant to
extend the program beyond
this year.
Each book contains stories
and drawings by a number of
Madison County children. In
each book photographs of each
child, and ft) Grandparents,
photographs of each child with
their grandparents, are in
cluded.
The books-were written by
students in' the Mars Hill
Elementary School. They are
being distributed in that
school for their first use in the
county.
Anyone who is interested in
securing copies of HeUe! My
Name Is... ar Grandparents
may do so by calling Mr.
Dickerson at the School Board
Office in Marshall.
CAROLYN MOORE
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JEFF NUHTUN
DAVID NORTON
EDDIE RICE
ANNA WALDROP
DONNA RAMSEY
DAVID BLANKEN8HTP
PICTURED ABOVE are some of the school children
who have written their own school books, entitles
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...Krause Becomes <
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Asheville recently that he will
seek another term.
Krause, a 1973 graduate of
Georgetown University Law
Center in Washington, D.C.,
worked for the U.S. En
vironmental Protection
Agency in the enforcement of
pollution laws from 1999 to
1973. He is a 1999 graduate of
Tufts University where he
received an engineering
degree.
Krause said he favors a
state law making all county
school boards elective on ?
non-partisan at-large basis,
the abolishment of municipal
boards of election with their
functions taken over by county
boards, and a balanced ap
-tMMrasi
J for both environmental and
economic factors.
Krause is a member of the
Mars Hill Municipal Board of
Elections. The municipality
was one of several which
exempted itself from the
uniform municipal election
law which placed all election
machinery under county
boards.
He also listed a balanced
budget and a progressive tax
structure (North Carolina law
requires a balanced state
budget), repeal of the sales
tax on food with a
corresponding increase in
- liquor, cigarette, income and
inheritance taxes, as
legislative goals.
Krause said he favors
mandatory jail sentences on <
third conviction for driving ,
intoxicated and stiffer
criminal penalties for violent
crimes.
He said he will work "for the
gradual repeal of the food
stamp program at the national
level," and that he favors "a |
welfare system that will be i
dependent upon a person's (
work." I
Krause, who lives at Mars
Hill with his wife and two- i
year-old son, Robert, is a
member of the Mars Hill Lions
Club, Western North Carolina i
Model Railroader and
Carolina Canoe Club. He is a
member of the administrative
board of Mars Hill Methodist
Church, active in Boy Scouts,
the Cystic Fibrosis Society
and Blue"Ridge Easter Seals,
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"Hello! My Name la...." ?
Personal
Mention
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Tweed, of Greeneville, Tenn.,
were in Walnut last week
visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. G.
Snelson.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Rice,
Sr., spent the week-end with
their son and daughter-in-law.
Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Rice, and
son, Jerry m, at Cullowhee.
While there they attended a
high school basketball game
and also the college game. *
Frank Roberts, who is a
student at N. C. State ;
University in Raleigh, spent
the weekend fn Marshall with i
his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde M. Roberts.
Mr. and Mrs. John Corbett
spent the week-end in Boiling
Springs as guests of their son
in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Ken Sanford, and their
three daughters.
Mrs. Willie Runnion, Mrs.
Minnie McLean, Mrs. Eva
Sams and Mrs. Emma Kate
McDevitt spent Sunday in
Greenville, S.C. where they
visited Mrs. Runnioo's son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. James Runnion.
Mrs. Anna Mae D. White
returned Saturday from
Florida where she spent
several weeks visiting her
sister, Mrs. Katherine Kinser
in SL Petersburg; and her
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. McClellan Deaver in
Orlando.
SINGING
Madison County singing
convention will be held Sun
day February 22nd at 2:00
pjn. at the Davis Chapel
Church. Several groups are
expected. Everyone welcome
to come.
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bracelets
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pain for real? Do they actu
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Cystic
Fibrosis
Fund Drive
The Madison County branch
of the N. C. Chapter of the
National Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation has placed
canisters in various business
establishments of Madison
County as a means of raising
money for research con
cerning this children's
A crash campaign is being
conducted in Madison County
during the month of February,
and it is hoped that Madison
County residents will support
this worthwhile cause. Some
of tne Madison uouniy nun,
business concerns, and dvk
associations are making
separate donations.
Further information may be
had by contacting Mrs. Gerald
Yomig, president, route S,
Mars Hill: or br telephoning
Mrs. Yoong at MN7M or Mn.
Bill Clark, secretary, at M0
3510.
Cystic fibrosis is an
inherited disease that affects
the hags and djgeettre system
of children and yoong adults.
One baby in every 1,500 is born
with cystic fibrosis.
| Remembering |
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By EDNA GENTRY
ALEXANDER
What about all this nice
Spring weather we've been
having? Hard to believe that
only two weeks ago snow
covered the mountains and the
fish pond was covered over
with a solid sheet of ice. Now,
iris, tulips and jonquil bulbs
are pushing up green shoots in
the flower beds and the ice has
melted on the fish pond so the
cows can come to drink.
Hillsides are beginning to turn
green, too. But we know that
Spring is not really here to
stay, it being only mid
February and the groundhog
did see his shadow two weeks
age. Besidd|. we haven't had
as many snows yet as we hgd
morning fogs in August. (Was
it Dot Shupe who said we were
supposed to do that?)
Anyway, it's what old people
used to believe. But it is time
to start thinking about
planting.
A few weeks ago, at the
invitation of Lucile Burnett, I
attended a meeting of the
fUantiflraUMi CommtoUm at
Walnut School. They have a
marvelous idea far a com
munity flower bed where
residents of the community
can go to get flower plants to
set out in their own yards in
order to help beautify their
community. Walnut is my
community - it's where I grew
up, so naturally I am in
terested in all this and want to
see these projects successful
I enjoyed being at Walnut
school n*1" It ^ been
about SB years since I was
there last The school itself
still dominates the scene at
Walnut, but inside it didn't
seem too familiar to me. The
librarr. where the meeting
was held, has bean eipanded
to take hi the adjoining room
which used to be the room
where I was in 10th grade with
Doris Usenbee, Clyde War
drup. May* Randall, Helen
Goferth, Margaret Woody,
Margaret Stines, Mae Belle
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Queen Allen, Mae Doan,
Harold and Ralph Baker, and ;
Mae Wild. Miaa Bernice
Robertaon was our home
room teacher and she also,
taught us French. I was a whiz.
at learning this delightful
language, in fact, I made all
A's, but sad to say. down
through the years I*
"Unlearned" it, for I never
had any reason to keep up with
the language. I doubt that 1
could even translate half a
dosen words, now.
Some mighty good times,
went on in that old school,
building. We had some fine
"chapel" programs every
Monday morning, with each
g*de taking Tf part.^ These
with scripture and prayer by
either the Rev. B. E. Guthrie,
pastor of the Free Will Baptist
Church or fay Rev. Hyde from
the Presbyterian Church.
There were some very good
plays produced on that stage,
too. I remember that Gertrude
Gahagan and Howard Mc
Devttt were usually the lead
players in all the productions
and I thought these two were
really beautiful people. I was
sorry, in a way, whan they
them anymore.
We Uked to stay after school
and watch our girls' basket
ball team practice there hi the
auditorium. Catherine Rector
and Mae Doan were star
players on our team, and
watching them play eras
really fantastic. And some
days we could see a movie
after school. I remember the
first one I ever saw The Little
Minister with Katherine
Hepburn. 1 still think about
our Glee Club Practicing their
aburine. We could hear them
all over the school. Even yet
when I hear someone staging
"Whispering Hope," I think
about Evoieen Reeves and
Iillie Mae Stines. I always felt
that no one would ever be able
to sing that song like they
could.
I liked the Letter To The
Editor by William Stanton
(Feb. IS, 1171) I agree with
what he has to say. It's tree
that LOVE is the moot im
portant thing in the whole
For God is Love. It's as
simple as that
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