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SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY
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4-H'ers Honor St. Patrick
With Fashion And Talent
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79th Year No. 12
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N.C.
THURSDAY, March 20, 1980
1 5' Per Copy
OFFICERS of the new club are, seated left to
right: William E. Stump, secretary
treasurer; R. Bryce Hall, president; Tom G.
Wallin, vice-president ; and J. Bruce Phillips,
vice-president. Directors are, standing:
Charles H. Powell, Roy W. Shook, Sr., Oscar
McDevitt, Carroll Anderson and Colon P.
Bishop. Not pictured: Michael H. Allen.
Houses On Culvin Creek Get Facelift
Since last November, a crew
of more than a dozen workers
b*s been moving up Culvin
Creek in an unprecedented
project to repair older houses,
install Peptic tanks and drill
wells for some 22 disadvantag
ed families
Working with a $267,000
grant from the federal Depart
ment of Housing and Urban
Development, coordinator
Sam Parker has already
supervised the rehabilitation
of more than a dozen homes
and predicts that nearly a
dozen more will be completed
in about a month.
So far, the work crew has
renovated nine houses and
three mobile homes, with
several more partially com
pleted. Most of the houses
have been fitted with complete
plumbing systems, including
bathrooms and hot water
heaters. Most have been com
pletely rewired. Some got new
roofs, others new outdoor
siding, others were shored up
and strengthened to their very
foundations.
Earlier this month the work
crew, directed by G.D. Mace
of the Grapevine section, was
completing house No. 12,
which belongs to Earl Sheiton
and his family. "Here," said
Sam Parker, as workmen
hammered and sawed around
him, "the only plumbing in the
house was a single pipe runn
ing from the spring into the
kitchen. It ran day and night.
Before . . .
WHEN WORK BEGAN on the home of Earl
Shelton and his family, the house looked like
this.
. . . After
summer and winter. We put in
faucets and hot water and a
bathroom and so on ? the en
tire plumbing network.
"Then we also dug a well,
because the spring was weak
and in the summer it didn't
supply enough water for the
whole family ? Earl and his
wife and mother and two
children. The well is 180 feet
deep and gives eight to 10
gallons of water a minute. And
we put in a septic tank. Before
this project, most of the
houses along the creek didn't
have tanks, and the sewage
has been getting right into
Culvin Creek.
"The foundation of this
house was in pretty good
shape ; we've had to underpin
others. Here we had cement
block. We coated and sealed it
and put in supporting timbers
to, steady the floors. The
subflooring was okay ? in fact
it was walnut. We put on a par
ticle board underlayment for
the floor and then a vinyl
covering. Op the outside we
added some blackboard in
School Official Sets
Revised Calendar
Now that the worst of the winter weather
seems to be over, school superintendent Roger
L. Edwards is announcing a revised school
calendar for the remainder of the school year,
as follows:
April 7, Board of Education meeting; April
7-11, Easter holidays, (No school for teachers or
students); April 18, teachers workday; May 5,
Board of Education meeting; May 6, Election,
(no school);
May 27, 179th school day; May 28, Teachers
workday; May 29, Teachers workday; May 30,
180th school day, (Last day for students) ; June
2, Teacher workday; June 3, Teacher workday;
June 4, Teacher workday, June 5, Teacher
workday.
A WEEK LATER, complete with an
plumbing system new wiring, insulation, 1
oew ceilings, siding, hot water beater, well,
Uad septic tank, it looked like this, thanks to
? ??
Ricky Cutshall, Michael Norton, G.D. Mace.
Eddie Williams, Dwight Roberts. Bob Can
treD, and Edison Gosnetl Not pictured are
Clifton Shelton and Don L. Murray.
Optimists Chartered,
Cautioned On Future
After a fast and enthusiastic
beginning, the Optimist Club
of Madison County received
its charter last Saturday night
at a banquet attended by more
than 200 members, relatives,
and visiting optimists from
the North Buncombe club and
from district and international
offices.
Capping a membership
drive that has surprised
everyone in the worldwide
organization, the Madison
club was organized less than
two months ago with 112
charter members ? the first
known instance of a club
reaching "century" status
( 100 or more members) before
receiving its charter.
To the happy crowd
assembled in the cafeteria of
Madison High School, Op
timism's N.C. district gover
nor, Bill Fowler, said: "I'd
like each of you to pat
yourselves on the back right
now. Just /each right back
and give yourselves a good
pat. You deserve it. A lot has
happened since we first met
down there at Mary's
Restaurant. This is an ex
citing time."
Ronnie W. Duyck, the
building chairman for the
North Buncombe Optimist
Club, was toastmaster for the
program and the Rev. Mike
Minnix of the First Baptist
Church in Marshall gave the
invocation. H.B. Stroupe Jr., a
vice president of Optimist In
ternational, presided over the
installation of officers in
cluding: R. Bryce Hall, presi
dent; J. Bruce Phillips, vice
president; Tom G. Wallin,
vice president; and William
E. Stump, secretary
treasurer.
Directors of the new club
are Michael H. Allen, Carroll
Anderson, Colon P. Bishop,
Oscar McDevitt, Charles H.
Powell and Roy W. Shook Sr.
Bill Fowler presented both
the President's Certificate
New Funds Okayed
For Culvin Creek
The county has received additional
financing for the Culvin Creek project, Con
gressman Lamar Gudger announced this
week. The Appalachian Regional Commis
sion has approved a $19,978 Section 207 grant
to pay for some 14 septic tanks, plus sections
of needed drains and piping for new wells.
The septic tanks will be of a new
"mound-type" design intended for regions
with saturated soil or poor drainage. This
financing will supplement the original HUD
Community Development -Block Grant,
which was not sufficient to complete water
systems for the rehabilitated houses.
and the membership charter
to President Bryce Hall, and
Wayne Higgins, president of
the North Buncombe Optimist
Club, presented the Madison
banner.
Hall, in response, said: "I'll
try to make my remarks brief.
They say that when you're
talking a lot, you're not learn
ing much. But I want to say
that we feel a great deal of
determination to try to lead
this club toward making Op
timism come true in the lives
of the youth of our- county.
This club was formed with one
idea, and one idea only, and
that is to help youth. There
will be nothing else to get in
the way."
He said that the founding of
the Madison Club goes back
eight or 10 years, to a time
when he was a member of the
North Buncombe club, living
in Weaverville. "I never en
joyed anything as much as be
ing a member of that club ?
until I became a member of
this club."
Hall said that diversity is
one of the great strengths of
the Madison club. Its member
ship roll includes a member of
almost every profession in the
county: doctor, dentist,
fireman, salesman, manufac
turer, educator, electrician,
plumber, construction
worker, barber, hardware
merchant, druggist, insura^qr
agent, retailer, mechanic,
automobile dealer, florist,
newspaperman, grocer, elec
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sulation and then masonite
siding. The roof is tin and in
good shape, and we're leaving
it as is."
Just down and across the
creek is another house that
has been improved, the home
of the Larson and Margaret
Shelton family. There the
work crew has built a porch,
put up new gutters, installed a
new ceiling and molding, and
underpinned the structure.
They also put up green
masonite. siding. This house
was only about three years
old, and had never been finish
ed; Shelton and his wife had
been working on it in their
spare time. Now the house is
finished and fully equipped.
Before the Culvin Creek pro
ject was begun last fall, the
Land-of-Sky Regional Council
did a survey of the county to
determine the area which
could best benefit from the
HUD grant. Once the Culvin
Creek area of Spillcorn was
decided upon, individual
houses were selected on the
basis of need. Then Sam
Parker traveled up the creek
interviewing the owners of the
houses. Almost everyone
agreed to accept the help of
fered them.
Subcontractors and workers
were then hired on the basis of
low bids to do the rehabilita
tion work.
The original plan was to br
ing all the buildings and
mobile homes in the project up
to the standard of Section 8 of
the HUD guidelines. However,
there was some discussion at
last week's meeting of the
Madison County Planning
Board about excepting certain
situations for the sake of stret
ching the grant money over a
greater number of homes. For
example, for a wall consisting
of a single layer of masonite or
other material to be upgraded
to Section 8 standard requires
considerable time, money and
material, without greatly
changing the overall quality of
the building.
Administering a federal pro
gram such as this involves a
great deal of paperwork and
red tape, but everyone involv
ed has cooperated to keep it
pretty close to schedule
"I'll tell you this," said
Parker, who has worked hard
on the project, "1 have had a
lot of help. The commission??
have been extremely
cooperative, both in getting
the grant and in helping me
GROUND BREAKING began
March IS on the athletic field for
the Greater Ivy Community.
Many interested citizens turned
out under sunny skies to help in
various ways. Among them wore
Fred Norton, driver of the
bulldozer; Jack Radford; Sammy
Fox; Chris Robinson; Eugene
Young, driver of the tractor; Scot
ty Norton; and Tommy Fox.
Greater Ivy has received a grant
for leveling and lighting of the
field and for building dugouis,
concession stands and restrooms.
The work is being done under the
supervision of the Greater Ivy
Recreation Commission, whose
chairperson is Bruce Phillips.
and the planning board ad
minister it. Without their help
my job would have been jut a
nightmare. The same is true
for the owners of the houses.
They've been very helpful
both to me and to the crews.
They've served up dinner of
sausages and biscuits I don't
know how many times."
St. Patrick's Parade
Rescheduled Mar. 22
? i-', :'v' M' . -
The St. Patrick's Day
parade, acNniuied for 1 p.m
in downtown Marshall on
March ft was postponed
the Downtown Merchants
Association, will begin at the
?iemantary school and pco
oaad over the bridge tfcrwgh
town It will feature livncoun
try muric and ctagging. amis
eoncaaalon stand will Ik
Burley Growers
Vote For Quotas
Preliminary results In the
recent hurley referendum in
dicates that growers have
voted for marketing quotes on
their lMft-82 crops Growers
overwhelmingly approved
by a N.I percent margin.
Reports indicate that ?M54
of the m,U5 voters were to
cent of those voting favored
the program, with a total of
9,296 growers voting In favor
of the program and MS voting
in opposition. Madison County
growers favored the program
by M I percent, with 2,?0
voting in favor and 44 in op