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SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY
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78th Year, No. 10
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C.
THURSDAY, March 8, 1979
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DEMOLISHED Plymouth Road
Runner in which two county
youths were killed instantly early
Saturday morning. The one-car
wreck occurred at the overpass
bridge at the intersection of US 25
70 and NC 213 about a mile from
Marshall. (Photo by Jim Story)
Speeding Car Flips,
Kills 2 County Youths
Two Madison County youths
were instantly killed early
| last Saturday morning when
1 the car in which they were
riding struck the railing of the
overpass bridge at the in
tersection of the Marshall
bypass and NC 213 about a
mile from Marshall.
The Plymouth Road Runner
apparently traveling at a high
rate of speed toward
Asheville flipped over on its
top and slid for ap
proximately 12 feet oo top of
the railing before crashing
downward about 90 feet into a
branch and rocks beside the
branch about 2: IS a.m.
Killed were Calvin Eugene
Reed, 25, of the Walnut Creek
Rural Life/ Preserved In Museum
Richard Dillingham, whose
roots trace bade to the
founding fathers of Mars Hill
College, was named director
of the school's fledgling Rural
Life Museum this week. A
member of Mars Hill's Class
of IMS, Dillingham was the
fourth generation of his
family to attend the Baptist
related college and has been
associated with the school in
several official capacities
since the early 1970s.
He was a "SALT Fellow"
(Southern Appalachian
Leadership Training
Fellowship) , sponsored by the
Recreation
Discussion
At Mars Hill
People of all ages are urged
to attend a discussion of
recreation. The second of
eight meetings around the
county will be held at the
Mars Hill Elementary school
lunch room on March 8, at 7
p.m. Kevin Morley,
recreation director, has
planned the meetings to give
citizens a chance to express
their views on recreation in
Madison County
Ford Foundation in 1976, and
was the first chairperson of
the board of directors of the
Southern Appalachian
Repertory Theatre (SART).
His new appointment
culminates five years of
planning which started with
the establishment of the
Southern Appalachian Canter
in 1974. The center provides a
structure through which the
resources of the college can
be directed to the preser
vation of the social and
cultural traditions as well as
renewal efforts of the
southern highlands.
The museum, which will be
located in the Montague
Building, is intended to be a
living museum, one that
Dillingham calls a "hands
on" archive which will not
only portray the rural life
traditions of the region but
will also provide an in
terpretive framework for the
artifacts. There are plans for
mobile exhibits which will
travel to communities,
schools, mall displays, in
addition to inviting com
munities to tell their history
and development using the
museum's facilities.
The museum already has a
sound foundation to begin
building its exhibits. Two
donations to the college total
over 800 items which are
currently being catalogued
and made ready for allowing.
In 1977, Edward W. Stock of
Asheville made a gift of his
collection of 450 household
and farm implements to the
college. This constitutes one
of the major holdings of
primitive artifacts available
in the region. Earlier, in 1973,
Mrs. Gertrude Rusk in of
Atlanta gave the college her
350-item Cherokee Indian
collection. Hie school also has
several tons of the various
minerals native to the
Western North Carolina
mountains.
The museum will con
centrate its activities to seven
main areas, which may in
turn, have several sub
headings. These areas are (i)
Indian Heritage; (2) Making
a Living, which includes
lumbering, farming, the
drover era, railroads and
turnpikes, distilleries and
tourism; (S) The Family,
including architecture, foods,
furnishings and utensils; (4)
The Church and the School;
(S) Rural Folkways which
includes medicine, tall tales
and the planting seasons; (?)
The Natural Setting, in
cluding topography and flora
and fauna; and (7) Social Life
Activities, which includes
secular and sacred music,
hunting, games and shooting
LUTHER EDWARDS AND
CLIFFORD WALDRUP, shown
noiauig ure memofrsnip cer
tiflcates which they received at
c?remoniei> M onda y at the Frenct
Broad Ma?orii(r Lodge meeting
her* This is the highest honor
which a lodge can bestow. On left
Is Carol Edwards and on right Is
El wood Waldrup, sons of the
i n: Ipiits, who prniKii the
certJAoatas to their fathers.
events.
Each of the seven main
areas was the subject of a
paper prepared by Dr. Evelyn
Underwood of the college's
history department. The
papers were subm'tled to Hon
Holland of the Western
Regional Office of the N.C.
Department of Archives and
History, who will work with
Dillingham in designing
exhibit plans and lighting.
Rural life was chosen as the
museum's central theme
because, as Dillingham
states, "The basic social
institutions of our forefathers
were of rural, agraian life.
This type of life, which
centered basically around the
family, shaped the
relationships of other forms
as time progressed, such as
urban life and the in
dustrialization of the region.
Formal opening ceremonies
for the museum are ten
tatively scheduled to coincide
with the opening of the 1979-W
school year in late August.
Further information on
exhibits or particular ar
tifacts may be obtained by
writing Richard Dillingham,
director, Rural Life Museum,
Mars Hill College.
Laurel Fund
Drive Gets
In Full Swing
The drive to raise the
$10,000 matching (hare for the
new Laurel Medical Center Is
progressing rapidly with
approximately SO percent of
the goal receipted. The
prospects are very en
cour aging with almost total
participation by the residents
of the community.' Several
room memorials have been
secured by donations of 1800
or more. Residents of the
Laurel Community are urged
to support this worthy project
until our foal baa bean
achieved. Donations may be
made to a community
volunteer or ssot directly to
Mrs. Helen W. Shelton, Route
S, Marshall. There will bo a
maas meeting March IS at
Laurel School at 7 p.m. to
section and Jesse Gordon
Duncan, 18 of the Walnut
community.
Trooper T.E. Dudley of the
State Highway Patrol, in
vestiaged the fatal accident.
Highway signs were torn
down by the impact and
marks on the bridge railing
showed how the totally
demolished car struck the
bridge before dropping into
the stream below
FUNERALS MONDAY
Funeral services for the twc
victims were held Monday.
Services for Reed were held
at 2 p.m. in the Long Branch
Baptist Church of which he
was a member. The Rev.
Hansel Hensley, the Rev.
Larry Brown and the Rev
Homer Tomberlin officiated.
Burial was in Tillery Cem
tery. Capps Funeral Home of
Mars Hill was in charge of
arrangements.
A lifelong resident of
Madison County, he was
formerly employed by
Marshall-Mars Hill Housing
Authority and was an Army
veteran. He was the son of
Eugene Henderson Reed and
Wanda Smith Reed of
Weaverville. Reed attended
Marshall and North Ban-4
combe high schools and A-B
Tech, and was a licensed
carpenter.
Surviving in addition to the
parents are the wife, Wilma
Langley Reed; two
daughters, Tracy and
Melinda Reed of the home;
two sisters, Debra Sprinkle of
Marshall and Janet Reed of
Weaverville; the maternal
grandmother, Flossie Smith
of Marshall; and the paternal
grandmother, Mae Reed of
Asheville. He was also the
foster grandson of the late
Cloyd and Janie Henderson of
Marshall.
Services for Jesse Gordon
Duncan were held Monday
morning in the chapel of
Bowman Funeral Home.
The Rev. Jimmy Buckner
officiated. Burial was in
Bowman-Rector Cemetery.
A native of Mecklenburg
County, he had lived in
Madison County for the past
seven years and was in the
landscaping business. He was
a member of the First Baptist
Church of Lumberton.
He is survived by his father,
Hoyle Duncan of Walnut; his
mother, Jonnie Edwards
Robertson of Mars Hill; the
stepfather. Tommy Robertson
of Mars Hill; two brothers,
Scott Duncan of Walnut and
Ben Duncan of Mars Hill; the
paternal grandmother, Stella
Dockery of Walnut; and the
maternal grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Edwards of
Mount Airv.
Republican Meet Set
The Madison County
Republican County Con
vention will be held March 17
at 2 p.m. in the Madiaon
County courthouse.
All registered Republicans
in Madison County are en
couraged to attend. Each
precinct chairman should
bring a Hat of precinct of
ficers to this meeting, it is
requested.
The convention will elect
officers of the Madison
County Republican Executive
Committee and will also
select delegates to the 1979
District and State Convention.
"It appears likely that there
will be a contest for the
district chairmanship tMfe
year," an official stated.
JESSE GORDON DUNCAN
CALVIN EUGENE REED
CLOSED ? construction of the new four-lane
highway between Marshall and Weaverville
has started and portions of existing roads,
shown on map above by black lines, are
closed to all traffic and will remain dosed for
at least two years, DOT officials stated. Due
to machinery, blasting, slides and other
dangers, it is necessary that all vehicles
must detour from the area of construction.
Officials stated that they regret the hard
ships and extra miles but it is necessary
while the highway is being built. Note: SR
1586 (Ivy Creek), SR 1582 (Long Branch
Ridge) and SR 1587 (Sugar Camp) are the
roads now closed. The public is warned potto
walk, or drive any type of vehicle along the
roads specified.
County Spruce-Up Starts In April
The Madison County
Council will 'apearhoad' a
palgn during tha month of
April. A
will Arm on pious at a
weak. The eight organised
dube of the county will en
courage J areas of the
county to Join in the genera]
clean-up effort and will offer
any aaatatanoe needed to
people in communit.es who
Bloodmobile Needs 100 Units Here