MHC Puppeteers Popular With Children
Program, hivt bM& suc
cessful in arousing the interest
of elementary school students
la Madieon County in the
Watery of their eotmty
The pant awarded by the
?late agency allowed the
students to purchase the
materials they needed. In
chiding the stage, scenery, all
lighting equipment, and IS
puppets and costumes. The
students are: Rochelle Dunn,
a native of Henderson; Lucy
Patterson, a Jacksonville,
Fla., native; Lois Vanderpool,
an Ocean City, N. J., native,
all sophomore elementary
education major*; and
The tuur ituoeoU have been
working closely with Deborah
Compton, third century artist
in residence at Mara Hill aad a
nroftnahsial ouooeteer With
the halp of aix Madison High
School students, David Lee,
Mark Moore, Linda Ammom,
Burton Fox, Babecca Mtt,
and Dawn Oenunons. All
acenary was painted by MHS
student Karen Boone. The 10
m ember group wrote five
original scripts, baaed an tales
from the Appalachian region,
and have produced the shows
in each of the elementary
schools as well as the child
care centers In Madison
County.
The scripts w?r? taped by
the students with music
provided by Lou Therrefl at
the coUece staff, s well-known
musician Other local
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musicians participated la the
project aa wall The shows
have been wall received by the
schools and the project will
oone to a close during a
county-wide bicentennial
festival May f.
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Legislation Will Hold
Down Telephone Price
Consumer legislation whicn
the telephone industry
believes is needed to bold
down the price of basic local
telephone service for
residential and small business
customers has been in
troduced in the Senate by Sen.
Vance Hartke (D-Ind), Paul
Wooten, district commercial
manager with Western
Carolina and Weatco
telephone companies, said this
week.
Similar legislation was
introduced in the House of
Representatives by Teno
Roncalio (D-Wy).
Identified as S-3192, the
Hartke bill would reaffirm the
national goal of the Federal
Communications Act of 1934,
which calls for universal
telephone service offered
within the economic reach of
all Americans.
The nation's 1600 in
dependent telephone com
panies and the Bell System
companies are united in their
support of the legislation. The
industry's labor unions also
were consulted during the
preparation of the bill, and
Wooten expressed confidence .
that the unions would support
the measure.
Proponents of the legislation ;
believe recent decisions by the
Federal Communications
Commission encouraging
what is termed "contrived
competition" in the industry
run counter to the intent of
Congress and are not in the
public interest.
"The federal regulator's
actions in recent years in
favor of so-called competition
will only drive up residential
and small business rates as
much as 60 percent unless
Congress reaffirms the i
original objectives of the |
Communications Act," i
Wooten said. He pointed out i
that this fact was documented i
by an extensive study con
ducted for the independent
telephone companies by
Systems Applications, Inc., a
prestigious California tele
communications research
firm.
The legislation introduced
by Senator Hartke would
reaffirm the intent of the
Communications Act through
the following four provisions:
?reaffirm the authority of the
states to regulate terminal
and station equipment.
?prescribe standards
governing FCC licensing of
specialized common carriers
providing intercity service,
thereby insuring against
wasteful duplication of ser
vices.
?preclude denial to the
telephone companies of
competitive intercity private
line rates, provided they are
compensatory.
?permit necessary con
solidation of duplicative
FCC authority, corporate
acquisitions as is now done
with respect to telephone
companies.
"Enactment of this
legislation would counter the
actions of the FCC, actions
which in recent years have
been dismantling our nation's
telephone system. If left
unchecked, such federal
bureaucratic experimentation
would ruin the world's best
and least expensive telephone
system by the injection of
artificial competition into a
publicly regulated industry "
Wooten said.
As a result of FCC decisions
since 1968,, two types of
competitors have developed:
?distributors and retailers
which sell or lease telephones
and special equipment to be
connected to the telephone
company network.
?specialized common
earners which provide in
tercity private-line services
over selected high usage
routes which, because of the
high call volume, are more
profitable than average for
the telephone companies.
"This contrived competition
is a major consumer issue
because of the potential of
future Urge rate increases
that will have to occur as
competitors lure away mors
and more of our mors
profitable services.
"Ilie cost Of local serviceis
Partially offset by the revenue
contributions from long
distance and other ?p?-Ul
services traditionally
provided by telephone com
panies When such revenue
contributions diminish as a
result of competition, it is the
residential and small business
customers who will bear the
burden of the increased
charges from basic local
telephone service," Wooten
concluded.
Minister Accepts
Pastorate
The Rev. Frank S. Ledford,
of Jacksonville, has accepted
the pastorate of Bradbum
Chapel First Church of God
The Rev. and Mrs. Ledford
are living in this community
from Thursday evenings until
Sunday each week.
The Rev. Mr. Ledford was
born in a Baptist home in 1910
went to a Presbyterian
school and studied for the
ministry. He was in the ser
vice for six years. He was
married in 1935 and he and
Mrs. Ledford have three
children. He also preached in
the Presbyterian church for a
number of years. In 1938 be
came in contact with the
Church of God, a faith he has t
held since
He cordially invites anyone
toattend services at Bradbum
forks Of Ivy Get-Together
' By MRS. THURMAN BRIGG8
An Oie' Fashion Get
together with a "Poor Man's
Supper" and Appalachian folk
music were activities of the
Greater Forks of Ivy Com
munity on April 29 at Shoe
Town. Supper began at ?:30
with dishes like our parents
and grandparents had in, what
one calls, "the good oie'
days". The ladies prepared
dishes offried chicken, stewed
chicken, chicken and dum
plins, com bread, fried apple
pies, oie' fashion molasses
fruit cake, barbecued back
bones and ribs, deviled eggs,
corn on the cob, blackberry,
strawberry and peach cob
bler, leather britches (beans)
and other delicious dishes
along with lemonade and
coffee.
A program of music and a
reading followed the supper.
"The Appaalchian Folk" from
Madison County and Mara Hill
College, consisting of Lou
Therrell on the banjo and
harmonica, Bard Ray, on the
fiddle; Arlene Kesterson on
the bass fiddle and Vivian
Hartsoe on guitar entertained
us with songs our ancestors
played on their banjoes and
fiddles. Songs such as "Boil
Them Cabbage Down", "New
River Train", "Amazing
Grace", "Cripple Creek" and
"Orange Blossom Special".
Their music brought pleasant
memories of yesterdays when
families sat around the fire
and sang and played their
banjoes and Addles using
songs that were brought to us
at our oie' fashion get
together.
The purpose The
Appalachian Folk musical
group is to bring to the people
the authentic mow tain folk
music and make them aware
that there is a difference
between it and the Blue Grass
music.
Richard Dillingham
narrated the history of The
Greater Folks of Ivy begin
ning with its early settlers;
and played the "Ballad of Ole'
Shep Deaver", music was by
Lamar Lunsford. Shepherd
Deaver was one of the early
settlers here in this com
munity. It has taken this
ballad around 110 years to get
from here to Raleigh and back
to Madison County.
We are grateful and our
thanks go out to the ones who
provided the entertainment
for us. Also, we wish to thank
those who prepared the food,
planned the program, or in
any way helped to make this
get-together a success. This is
just one of the activities
planned to celebrate and
observe our 200th birthday
here in America. May we all
join together as these ac
tivities are held here in our
community and in our county
to celebrate the bicentennial.
This will let people know that
we are proud of our heritage,
samemswmmmw
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MRS. BETTY BALLARD'S third
grade class of Mars Hill
Elementary School enjoyed a trip
to Vance Birthplace April 9. The
students learned a lot about
colonial life. They made their own
apron-bonnets and colonial hats.
Children who enjoyed the trip are,
left to right: First row ? Renee
Payne, Heidi Worley, Janet
Grose, Kathy Arlington. Second
row ? Linda Shelton, Pam
George, Danielle Ponder, Jackie
Thomas, Vickie Swann, Vickie
Willis, Teolda Ammons, Christie
Orr. Third row ? Jeffrey Swann,
Jack Lytton, David Holcombe,
Brian Edwards, Greg Wallin,
Eddie Ramsey, Mark Riddle,
Buddy Honeycutt, Bobby
Chandler, Charles Angel, Curtis
Ball. Not pictured ? Will Hoff
man, Martin Middaugh, Mrs.
Mary Lynn Wild.
February General Fund Collections Up 12%
According to the N. C. Dept.
if Revenue Secretary, J.
toward Coble, the February,
976 net general fund collec
ions amounted to 9175.0
nillion as compared with
1155.0 million collected in
February, 1975 ? an increase
if $90.0 million, or 12.90 par
ent
For the first eight months of
he current fiscal year, the net
jene-V fund collections were
*:.
$1.0340 billion compared with
$900J million for the first eight
months of the 1974-75 fiscal
year, an increase of $44.3
million, or 4.47 percent, Coble
recently announced.
February net highway fund
collections amounted to $00.6
million compared with $00.0
million collected in February,
1975, an increase of $1.0
million, or 3.19 percent.
Gasoline tax receipts
amounted to $19.2 million
compared with |19.0 million
collected in February, 1975, an
increase of $0.2 million, or 1.22
percent.
Net highway funds collec
tions for the first eight months
of the current fiscal year were
$254.5 million as compared
with $255.6 million collected
during the first eight months of
the 1974-75 fiscal year, an in
crease of $8.9 million, or 3.48
percent.
REAL ESTATE
27M Acres Surveyed. North Buncomba; overlooking
Franch Broad Rhrar. 10 acroa tractortand; balanca In
pasture and woods; oicaltant watar, food barn, natural
laheoite $27,000.
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All mounts in land; nica viaws. $27,900 each. [Lass than
9M0 parsers].
Oaad two-bad room homo on IS surveyed acros; c antral
hast; full batsmant. 3 plus acros tractortand; two acras
wooded; balanca In pasture. 100% VA financing
Farmettes - S acras and up. Choose farmland, woods,
pasturoland or a combination of all. $1,190 per acre.
Wo have farms with or without homes; mountain acreage.
tilOH SCHOOL and College
student of Madison County ?w
have t n ? >ty .
H history project! are Linda)
s 0 otl i) trc 1 ?f
t right, Rocbelh Dunn, Lucy
rpool;
second row, Mark Moore, Burton
Pox, David Lee, back row,
Stephanie Johnson Not pictured,
Dawn Qemmoru and Rebecca
Suitt - ? v.? 'iT
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MADISON HIGH BASEBALL TEAM has
been successful thus far this season. Front
row, left to right: Bobby Chandler, Roger
Sprinkle, Kenny Ray, Scott Profitt, Johnny
Sawyer, Gary Hernandez; second row, Chris
Robinson, Ricky Anderson, Harrell Wood, VJJ
Danny Boone, Jerry Ramsey, Joe Walker;
back row, Coach Dan Murry, Larry Peek, . }
Doug Reid, Terry Roberts, Joey Plemmons, 1,sr
Steve Wood, Coach Jack Brown.
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Greater Ivy Says Honor Senior Citizens
. .
May is Senior Citizens
Month, and the Greater Ivy
Community Citizens
Association, Inc. has asked all
churches in its area to do
something special this month
to honor its older residents.
Senior citizen recognition is
but one of many projects being
undertaken by the association
and which its members
discussed last Thursday at
their regular monthly
meeting, held at California
Creek Baptist Church. Dr.
Grover L. Angel presided.
Hie association has un
dertaken an ambitious
bicentennial year schedule
and is urging all community
residents to participate so
plans now underway can be
fulfilled.
Mrs. JoAnn Ramsey,
beautification chairman, told
the association that the
community's citizens broke
their record of last year in
collecting trash. Last year's
collection amounted to 19
loads, this year's to 30 loads.
All communities par
ticipated and worked hard to
clean the roadsides, she said
and urged citizens to schedule
regular clean-up in order to
keep the roadsides looking
neat.
The Beautification Com
mittee asks that each family,
and especially businesses in
the area, purchase and fly a
flag during the entire
bicentennial year.
Dean Ledford, Sign Com
mittee chairman, is con
tinuing work on community
signs. He has recently com
pleted a planter around the
entrance sign to Greater Ivy
Community
Two (100 feet) flower beds
have been planted in the
community for family and
community use. One is located
at the community center and
the other near the Jenny car
wash on California Creek. If
the beds are a success,
families will be urged to ob
tain the flowers to plant
around mailboxes and around
their homes.
Authorization was given the
Community House Committee
to spend necessary funds in
order to repair the leaky roof.
Both the senior and junior
youth groups have been busy
making plans for the summer.
The senior group is in the
process of planning a money
making project, and the junior
group plans to feed the wagon
train which will be camping at
the community house this
year. Both groups are active
in the summer recreation
program as well as par
ticipating in the clean-up
drives. Greater Ivy is for
tunate to have such fine young
people as leaders In the
community.
Not only are the older
children participating in the
community activities, but the
younger, also. Debbie Com
pton, artist in residence, N. C.
Arts Council, is working with
the younger children in a play
entitled, "The Accidental
Ghost." The play was written
by Linda Duck Hyde,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Otis
Duck, and will be presented on
the afternoon of May 23 in the
auditorium of the Greater Ivy
Community Center.
Special recognition was
given to three young ladies
from the Greater Ivy Com
munity who were recent
winners in the Susan Britt
Citizenship Awards. They are
Nan Ramsey (daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jimmy Ramsey)
eighth grade, Pam Anderson
(daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Willie Anderson) ninth grade,
and Donna Rogers (daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Rogers) tenth grade.
Recognition was also given
to recent year winners: Joyce
Metcalf (daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Carrol Metcalf) and to
David Rogers (son of Mr. and
Mrs. Leonard Rogers).
The recreation program is
being established and teams
have begun practicing at the
ball field. A schedule of games
will be issued at a later date.
A schedule of activities is
listed below:
May 23 ? Presentation of
play "The Accidental Ghost"
at community house.
May 24 ? 7:30 p.m., regular
monthly meeting, community
house.
June 29 ? Feeding wagon
vm
train campers at communtyy
house by both youth groups.
July 1 - Craft
Madison High (Greater r?y
preparing meal).
July 4 ? Burial of time'
capsule, Mars Hill Country
Boutique
July < - Greater Ivjp
Costume Party for Axkdts
(Bob Ledford, chairman)
July 7 ? Greater Ivy Senior
Citizens Day (AMa Jean;
Young and Bea Clark,;
chairmen)
July ? ? Youth Day (Rick;
Anderson and Defcm.
Buckner, chairmen)
Morris McGo?*h, WgCf
Development Association,,
presented slides showing
community improvement
throughout western N. C. SfHf
discussed reasons why perfpfe
in a community will par-'
tidpate and why they will
participate in community
activities. He urged the
adoption of the slogan, "Ifctfc'
is nothing a community
cannot do if it wants to." ''
Same Truck
Burns Twice
It's not unusual for a trtfck
to catch on fire, but it issM
oddity that the same trade
catch on fire at different
places on the same night. t?oT'
That is what happened here
last Friday night. ;<p:
Firemen were called - to
Riverview Gulf Servtfca
station about 6:30 p.m. wbde
they extinguished a fire fipa
truck driven by Clyde Rgth
bone of Marshall.
Then about 9 p.m., firemqi
were called for a fire on ti*i
Redmon Road ha Marshal!
When they arrived thej)
discovered the same truest
was again on fire. The blaa
was quickly extinguished. In
second fire occurred near dm
home of Rathbone.
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