jk Mars Hill Holiday
& Mar* Hill warmed up for the holiday season
jpst Saturday by staging its third Annual
qhristmas Parade, sponsored by the Merchants'
Association. It was the biggest parade yet, featur
ing no fewer than 88 units, 12 of which were floats.
Barade celebrities included Vicki Allen, Miss
nsheville; Dianne Jamerson, Miss North
fgarolina/USA (whose grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore Robinson, are natives of Madison
County); the Rhododendron Queen; and Cong.
Lamar Gudger.
In the float competition, first place was won
by the Madison High VICA Club; second place by
the Madison High Beta Club ; and third place by
the "Santa's Workshop" float of the Medicine
Cabinette. Judges were Fred Bentley, Bill Powell,
and Frederick Anderson; winners received prizes
of $40, $25 and $15.
At the same time, the PTA's Holiday Festival, I
featuring games, contests, craft sales, pie- I
throwing, and fortune-telling, cleared $1100 for I
the PTA, which will be spent on school projects for I
the Mars Hill Elementary School.
"We think the day was a tremendous suc
cess," said Carolyn Ammons, parade director.
"Bob Capps, president of the PTA was pleased
with their carnival and Steve Willis, president of
the Merchant's Association, did a great job as
parade announcer up on the roof. We're already
planning next year's parade. We're going to have
more celebrities, and you really have to plan in
advance to get them. And we want more queens
and definitely more bands. Most of the local bands
were booked were booked up this year, and I'd
like to thank the Madison band for going by twice
for us. They really worked hard."
MARCHING, THROWING, SING
ING AND PARADING - these
were the activities last weekend
throughout Mars Hill. At upper
right, a student gets back at the
principal as Frederick Anderson
of Mars Hill School braces for a
pie in the face. Below that, a stu
I
dent parades his "Iranian Tank"
in a spoof of the tense situation in
Tehran. Below him are singers on
the Mt. Olive float. At far right
Linda "Rosella" Campbell
displays her tarot cards in the
fortune-telling tent: Believers
beware!
Photos by John Campbell and Alan Anderson
If " .
teen created over the last
several years by rainfall
runoff from the grandstand
ind playing field areas. The
runoff from this entire area is
fathered into a single drain
pipe, which discharges its load
4pto the eroding bank just
north of the 40-yard line.
?. "We saw from the beginning
that this would be a problem,"
fkid Bill Brown, a technician
frith the Soil Conservation Set
flee "That drain should have
teen extended down into the
<jdley below the playing field,
4pd then on into Walnut Creek.
"rt?e same is true for the pipe
Sftat carries runoff from the
parking lot area." That pipe
ends Just east of the foot
field and has created its
gown gully, some three to five
ctdeep.
Another serious problem ex
: in the steep bank between
top of the grandstand area
the roadway that runs
the north side of the
... building. The angle of
bank is so sharp that each j
ill sweeps more of it
to the grandstand, leav
, as mud) as several inches
mud spread over the con
?. And as the bank erodes,
sidewalk above it tilts
; ?
I and has befo block
vironment. These eroding
areas are estimated to lose
1,000 tons of soil per year...
Severe gully erosion adjacent
to the football and track field
is a distinct safety hazard
precluding the use of the
field." The report also men
tions sediment pollution of
Walnut Creek.
Bids will be let as soon as
possible for the actual work,
which will probably take from
four to six weeks to complete.
Although the details of the job
are not final, they will pro
bably include:
The seeding of 20 acres of
groQnd with such plants as
crown vetch, fescue, and
lespedeza:
*The dumping and compac
tion of 4,000 or more cubic
yards of fill into "Madison ca
nyon" and the other gullies;
?The laying of some 3,000
feet - more than half a mile - of
corrugated metal drainpipe to
transport the school's runoff
to points near Walnut Creek
where it can no longer erode
the school grounds ;
'Construction of a grassed
waterway 800 feet long and 25
feet wide between U.S. 25/70
and the connecting road with
Walnut Creek Road;
'Seven drop inlets for sur
face water; '
?A variety of other diver
sions, riprap, paving stones,
and mulch netting to be
deployed where needed.
National Adoption Week
Proclaimed By Governor
Thanksgiving week has
been proclaimed National
Adoption Week by the North
American Council on Adop
table Children Committee and
Gov. James B. Hunt Jr.
The purpose of this special
week is to call attention to the
need for permanent homes for
the 500,000 school-age children
across the country who have
been released for adoption.
Approximately 500 of these
children are in North
Carolina.
The Madison County
Department of Social Services
serves as the public adoption I
agency in this county. Jt also |
participates in the North
Carolina Adoption Exchange
program administered by the
Division of Social Services of
the N.C. Department of
Human Resources. Under this
program as well as through
other agencies, children from
other counties are available
for adoption by residents of
Madison County.
"County social services
departments across the state
have many children in foster
homes who have been cleared
for adoption. However, most
of these children have 'special
needs.' These are children
who are school-age, black, or
mixed race, have physical or
emotional handicaps and
children in family groups,"
said Judy Briggs, Adoption
Worker for the Madison Coun
ty Department of Social Ser
vices.
Some of these children have
been in foster homes for a
number of years and for
various reasons cannot be
returned to their natural
families, according to Mrs.
Briggs.
"The Division of Social Ser
vices of the North Carolina
Department of Human
Resources has established a
special adoption fund to help
?special needs' children find
permanent homes as quickly
:;BS possible Assistance from
pm tad is based on the
needs and may cover
Mdkil and therapeutic ex
?ta? after adoption," she
FIRE BROKE OUT Nov. 19 in the
engine of a Frederick** tractor
trailer unloading oats at Sprinkle
Shelton Co. on the Marshall
Bypass No one was injured and
the grocery warehouse was not
Photo by James Story
damaged. The Are was rougni
first with hand-held extinguishers
until the Marshall Volunteer Fire
Department arrived to douse it
completely. The truck's engine
appeared to be completely
destroyed . ^
V|
Avery said that the worst
heat robbers from the body
are wind and water; because
a*
water is such an efficient con- ^
ductor of heat, wet clothes ^
take away body heat 2S to 30
times as fast as dry clothes, n
And while wool clothes and
synthetics retain about half i
their insulating quality when ,
wet, cotton loses all of its in- J
sulating value. Among out
doorsmen, most cases of
hypothermia develop in air
temperatures between 30 and
50 degrees ? especially when
clothing is wet.
He also emphasized that the
key to keeping warm, whether
outdoors or inside, is knowing
where the body loses heat
fastest. Fully half of all heat
lost escapes from the head and
neck. There is also a high rate
of lo6s from the sides of the
chest and from the groin.
"Whenever someone asks me
what to do for cold feet," said
Avery, "I tell them to put on a
warm hat. That may sound
like the wrong end, bat my
grandmother wore a nightcap
for a good reason: that's the
moat effective single piece of
clothing for keeping warm."
Hypothermia is especially
dangerous for people who
have lost the ability to shiver
? a natural warming
mechanism ? and for thoee
whose body temperatures are
abnormally low. Some 1.3
million older adults lack the
ability to keep their body
temperatures above *5
decrees, he said.
u in the chest, that's it ; your
!art will just stop. It
comes very, very unstable
that temperature."
The Opportunity Corp. is ex
iting federal funds to pro
de older citizens of Madison
id Buncombe counties with
nergency equipment, such
i blankets and kerosene
saters for this winter. When
e funds have been approved,
inouncement will be made.
\ppliance
Repair Course
There is still space available
in the Small Appliance Repair
class to be held on Tuesdays,
beginning Nov. 20 and continu
ing through Dec. 18. The class
will meet in the Skill Center on
the A-B Tech campus from 9
a.m. to 12 p.m.
Topics to be covered will be:
wattage concerns, repairing
lamps, toasters, toaster
ovens, etc. A $5 registration
fee will be charged. Call
2S4-1921 ext. 137 to pre
register.
Regional
Hearing On
Education
Citizens and educators from
Madison County are being in
vited to become involved in ;
the budget making process for j
public education in a series of ;
hearings. !
?
?
The third such forum being J
held in each of the eight educa- ;
tional regions is scheduled for J
the 19 school districts of !
Region 8 on Nov. 27 at Pisgah j
High School, Canton, at 7 p.m. j
I
"The State Board of Educa- j
tion wants to find out from all ;
citizens what they think j
should be the top budget items :
as we prepare to make re- !
quests for programs and
needs of the schools to the 1M1 I
General Assembly," State j
Superintendent Craig Phillips
said in announcing the hear