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^79th Year No. 17
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N C
THURSDAY, April 24, 1980
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TAKING A BREAK from the EMC meeting,
Kathleen, Carey and Cindy Bur da bite into
some tasty wieners supplied by the ladies of
the Eastern Star. Father Larry, at rear, pa
tiently waits his turn.
EMC Annual Meeting:
Part Work, Part Fun
Several hundred people at
tended the Annual Meeting of
the French Broad Cfoalric
Membership Corporation in
Marshall on Saturday. The
meeting began with a moment
of silent prayer in memory of
O.H. Tilson of Asheville, one of
the charter board members,
who died in March.
A brief history of the
cooperative was given as the
Wth Anniversary of the
cooperative was com
memorated. Mrs. Crawford
Bryan of Statesville, D.M.
Robinson of Mars Hill, and
Marty Buckner of the East
Fork Section of Madison Coun
ty, the surviving charter
board members, were present
for the meeting and were
Recognized. Several family
fnembers of charter board
members who are deceased
Irere also present for the
meeting. They included
Kathleen Sluder and Elva
Sluder, daughters of M.J.
Ball; Mrs. B.W. Grlgg,
daughter of Zade Ramsey;
Mrs. Hazel Jean Buckner
daughter of A.E. Worley ; Miss
Marie Willis, daughter of W.S.
Willis. Mark W. Bennett of
Burnsville, first project
superintendent for the
cooperative, was also
recoanized.
Guest speaker Dr . Albert G
Edwards, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church in
Raleigh, gave an inspiring ad
dress and kept the audience
captivated with his wit and
humor. Charles Tolley, coop
general manager, gave a
report of the activities of the
cooperative during the past
year. He announced that the
cooperates was notified on
Friday that an Appalachian
Regional Commission grant
has been approved for detail
ed engineering, feasibility
work and licensing of the
Capitola Dam in Marshall. He
also announced that the
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Unaka Center Mission :
Helping The Disabled
Until recently, society has
responded to developcnen tally
disabled persons by sending
them to institutions or keeping
them at home.
The effect of this, according
to the workers at the Unaka
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Center in Hot Springs, is to
halt the development of these
people, and render them
unable to function in society .
Teh goal of the Unaka
Center, which was founded in
1973, is to do Just the opposite:
to help the disabled to move
about in society as normally
as possible, with the goal of
training them to live on their
own and hold a job.
"The basic philosophy
here," says Danny Wyatt,
Unaka 's director, "is called
normalisation. That means we
try to establish and maintain
personal characteristics that
as normative as possible in
our clients."
Unaka is known as an ADAP
- an Adult Developmental
Activity Program. So is the
Mountains of Madison
program in Mars Hill (for
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According to the ADAP
program manual, "It is not
normal in our society for
people to live and work in the
same setting, or to spend all
their leisure time in the same
facility in which they live and
work. In other words, we
should make available to the
clients in an ADAP the same
patterns and conditions of
everyday life, and devise
schedules so the activity,
routines and rhythms are as
close as possible to the norms
of society."
Unaka has recently moved
into new quaters, across the
street from the day care
facility, and will celebrate
with an open house at 5 p.m.
on May B to which the public is
invited. There will be
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ARC Chief Tours
4 County Projects
The Washington chairman
of the Appalachian Regional
Commission and his top
deputies toured Madison
County last Friday to see how
ARC money is being spent,
and they appeared to like what
they saw.
In a rapid tour beginning at
the French Broad EMC
building in Marshall, the
group visited Capitola Dam,
the housing renovation area
along Colvin Creek, the con
struction site of the new
Laurel Medical Center and the
Marshall Day Care and Senior
Citizens Nutriition Center.
A1 Smith, the federal co
chairman of the ARC, said he
was impressed both by the
progress ui ail uicsc prujecis
and by the people doing the
work.
"The majority of the ARC
programs in North Carolina
have been carried out with a
high degree of intelligence and
efficiency," said Smith during
the drive down the Laurel
River. "And this county is a
good example of what we've
heard and seen about the suc
cess of the programs in this
state.
"When I am came to the
ARC, I was told that the North
Carolina people managed
their HUD programs as well
ks or better than anyone rise -
that the state people really
understood their work. Having
been here two days now, I am
learning that this is true."
Smith was accompanied by
Henry Krevor, ARC'S ex
ecutive director in
Washington; Fran Moravitz,
deputy director of ARC, also
of Washington; Paul Essex,
assistant to Gov. Jim Hunt;
Richard Reimer, staff to Paul
Essex; Bob Shepherd, ex
ecutive director of the Land
of-Sky Regional Council in
Asheville; and Hugh Stevens
of the governor's western of
fice in Asheville
As federal co-chairman of
the ARC, Smith is the suc
cessor to former N.C. Gov.
Bob Scott, who left the position
to run again for governor
against Hunt.
Smith's county tour began
with a short walk from fie
French Broad EMC build ng
to the railroad tracks
overlooking Capitola Dam,
where EMC Manager Charles
Tolled told the group it would
cost some $3.5 million to put
the hydro plant back into
operation.
On the same day, Tolley was
notified that the ARC will pro
vide funding for the engineer
ing and feasability studies re
quired.
Then the group drove across
the river to the generator
building, where Smith gamely
clambered up a ladder to in
spect to old turbine installed in
1937. Tolley told him that the
engineers would have to
decide whether the original
turbine could be used or
whether a new one would be
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needed. He also said that the
dam will provide 5-6 percent of
French Broad's total needs.
He said that because French
Broad now has to purchase all
its electricity from Carolina
Power & Light, and because
that cost is steadily rising,
power from Capitola Dam will
be feasible economically in a
year or less.
CP&L also notified French
Broad last week of a wholesale
rate increase which will soon
be passed along to county con
sumers.
Tolley added that some 200
hydro plants have been shut
down throughout Western
North Carolina, including one
on the Ivy River and one on
the Cane River. He said both
those dams could become
economical to reactivate in a
few years.
The group then drove over
the Walnut Creek road to
Spillcorn, where Sam Parker,
Community Development
director for - the county,
described the houaing
rehabilitation being dooe with
both HUD and ARC money.
Smith wanted to know if stone
wouldn't be cheaper than con
crete for underpinnings (the
stone would, but labor coats
would make the total coat
higher) ; whether the owners
of the rehabilitated houses
have to pay back any of the
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AL SMITH, center, federal co
chairman of the Appalachian
Regional Commission, looks at a
"before" photo of Dave Metcalf's
house on Colvin Creek, currently
undergoing renovation. Explain
ing the project to Smith are Sam
Parker, right, county director for
Community Development, and
Bob Shepherd, executive director
of the Land-of-Sky Council in
Asheville.
Adult Softball Deadline
The deadline for entering
the Madison County Adult
Softball League is Friday,
Apr. 25 at 4:30 p.m. All teams
must turn in their entry forms
by that time and their deposit
of at least $100 toward the
enrollment fee. The total fee is
$179 for women's teams and
$190 (or men's teams. Call
649-2905 for more information.
Forms and deposits can be
mailed to the Madison County
Recreation Department, P.O.
Box 336, Marshall, or left at
the department office on
Skyway Drive.
Farmers Must Report
Cost-sharing Practices
Farmers have begun their
spring seeding and improving
practices during the warm
sunny days recently and W.B.
Zink, county executive direc
Walter Bishop, 81, Doesn't Worry About Gas Prices
PTE AND BECK, both 15 yeart
, appeared to need a rest more
. But
By WILEY DUVALL
Agricultural
Extension Agent
Walter Bishop spends very
little time worrying about the
energy shortage. The only
energy shortage on his farm is
in his eighty-one year old legs,
and they're still pretty spry.
Walter was observed this past
week preparing a one-and
one-half -acre field for its an
nual corn crop. It appeared
that the pair of 35-year-old
mules, Kate and Beck, needed
to rest more often than dkl
Creek some SO yean ago.
They raised three children at
this location ? Lloyd of
Melvindale, Mich., Florence
Rice of Allen Park, Midi, and
Charles of Marshall. Charles
was a barber in Marshall for a
number of vears.
"Spending a lot of time out
side and working hard seems
to keep a man from being sick
ly," says Walter. "I had the
fever a couple of times when I
was a boy, and that's been it."
Walter certainly seems to be
U you doubt this, ask the
mulee which pull the two
WALTER BISHOP, standing in tha traces of
hit two-horse turning plow, anticipates a job
done. Ha and his two mute turned an
JEssstt sr l~
tor for Madison ASCS,
reminds farmers who receiv
ed government cost-sharinf to
report the completion of their
practices as soon as possible.
"Although the report date is
set at June 30, 1MQ, farmers
are encouraged to make
reports as early as they can
and not wait until the last
minute," said Zink
He also reminds farmers
who have enrolled in the 1M0
A CP that their practices will
he subject to spot check by a
representative of the ASCS Of
fice, so care should be taken to
complete the practice accor
ding to profrnas re
quirements. Pasture and