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School Building Bonds Are Investment In The Future i '? IT I ? ? XT Next Tuesday, March 13, has been dubbed " Super Tuesday" by members of the press corps following the race for the Democratic Party nomination for president. The day has been tagged "Super Tuesday" because no less than 11 states will choose delegates to the na tional convention. The North Carolina primary is still three months away, but voters in Buncombe County will have a chanvce to make March 13 a "Super Tuesday" here in Western North Carolina. On Tuesday, Buncombe County voters will be asked to approve or reject a proposed bond issue to finance school construction within the county. We would urge all our readers in the north Buncombe County and Weaverville areas to support the bond issue. If approved, funds from the bond isssue will be used to construct a new North Buncombe and Enka High Schools and make im provements and additions at other Buncombe County schools. We believe that new schools are a good investment and hope our neighbors to the south agree on Tuesday. It is time that we here in Madison County begin to plan a similar bond issue to improve our schools. At the present time, all of our elementary schools are in need of repair or replacement. Even our most modern facility, Marshall Premimary School, is not adequately meeting the demands placed upon it. Several of our schools are nearly fifty years old and should be replaced. It is time that the school board began to prepare a study to determine what our needs will be in the future and formulate a plan for constructing the schools the Madison County of the future will have. The narrow defeat of the last school bond issue in 1977 has left members of the school board nervous about proposing another bond issue. We believe that the people of Madison County will invest the necessary funds to im prove our schools if an equitable plan for con structing new facilities can be presented to them. Devising a construction formula that will please all the sections of our far-flung county will be no mean feat, but it is a task the school board needs to face. An investment in our children is the best possible investment a community or a nation can make. We cannot afford to Wait until the walls fall down to begin planning the replace ment of our old school buildings. The time has come for Madison County to face the future and bear the costs of improving our schools. LONELY HART CLUBS 8 Letters To The Editor ! ?MrSB*'*, ? .y*" ' r>f \?>r ? * ?; :4'; i Craig Phillips Endorses Carl Stewart To the editor: Public School Law 115-c-21<a)(2> says that it shall be the duty of the Stqte Superintendent of Public In struction "to keep the public informed as to the problems and needs of the public schools ... by information furnished to the press of the state." In response to that mandate I have chosen this month to break normal political tradi tion by directly endorsing a candidate for Lt. Governor in the Democratic primary in May and the general election in November. I have done this because the Lt. Governor holds such a key role in pro The News Record Serving The People Of Modtton County Since I 90 1 P 0 Box 369 ? Marshall. N.C. 28753 Telephone (704)649-2741 Robert T Koen* Cheryl W Koenig C. Parker , I. "Pop" Dr. Joseph Godwin Dorothy B. Shupe M Editor Advertising Mgr Office Mgr f'V' '??* Columnists viding State leadership for public education through the Presidency of the Senate and key membership on the North Carolina State Board of Education. I have strongly endorsed Carl Stewart for the Democratic nomination and election as LI. Governor for North Carolina. I have con sidered carefully all of the fac tors in my making this en dorsement; my duties as State Superintendent, the traditions of the political arena, the con ditions of stress and difficulty under which public elemen tary/secondary education has struggled and lost much sup port over the last four years. Carl Stewart has a strong record of advocacy and action in education at a long-time member of the North Caorlina House of Representatives and especa.lly as Speaker of the House at a time of great pro gress in North Carolina. We need, again, the kind of positive, caring, aggressive leadership of the type given in ' the early 70's by Carl Stewart, Ralph Scott and many others in days of real growth in education in North Carolina. Carl has the wisdom, the ex perience, the training and the true sense of what good government really is and what it can truly mean to education and to all of us. He needs to br ing those talents and that com mitment to the Presidency of the Senate and to the work of the State Board of Education. The decision as to who shall be the next Li. Governor is, I believe, the most important decision before the voters of North Carolina A. Craig Phillips Card Of Thanks neighbors for the -alls visits, flower od. cards tnd ?0M> mdnero shown during the re ent Ion o( our loved one. Heard And Seen ? . > By POP STORY .... ... . -i, . ' ?V-?i? 'II Was A Miracle', Morton Says Ed Morton, the director of the Madison Coun ty Health Department, had the misfortune of having three fingers on his right hand severed by a hydraulic log splitter on Dec. 20. The accident resulted in Morton having to spend seven days in the hospital and since then he has been recovering at his home. Morton will regain much of the use of the injured hand thanks to the skills of surgeons who sewed the fingers back on to the hand. Ed belives he will eventually have full use of the three middle fingers. Ed is also glad the in jury happened to his right hand since he is left handed. Ed attended the latest meeting of the Mar shall Lions Club, of which he is a member, and removed the bandages to show the work of the surgeons. Fellow members of the club were amazed at how well the surgery went. "I attributre my recovery to the higher power, and the prayers of many, and, of course, to the skilled surgeons." Morton commented. March Comes In Like A Lamb I -v Although there was still some snow left on the ground, the first day of March came in like a lamb. I was reminded of this by Gladys Meadows who always call me each March l. We'll have to wait and see if it goes out like a lion. Southern Conference Tourney Thanks to the kindness of Roy Reeves and Charlie Sawyer, I attended the Southern Con ference basketvball tournament at the Asheville Civic Center last weekend. I went with Roy, Harry Silver and "Dub" Deal to Friday's quarterfinals. We enjoyed the games, but were sorry that the Catamounts were eliminated by Furman. I had not planned to go to the semi-finals on Saturday night, but changed my mind when Charlie Sawyer informed me he had an extra ticket for the games. Charlie and I sat high in the balcony where we had a "bird's eye" view of the games. Thanks, fellows, for making it possible for me to attend the events. Know Comment By JOSEPH GODWIN As complex as man is, to at mpt to characterize him in ie word would be difficult if >t impossible. Several words lentify particular attributes e all possess, but no one of lem ever does us justice. Possibly, fear is the la rac tens tic by which most uman beings are known, iewed from one perspective, lis is understandable. From nother point of view, it is >tally perplexing. It all depends on what one is fraid of. Recently, I asked a small roup of young adults in a eminar, "What are you fraid of?" Pausing briefly, I sked them to respond very ersonally one at a time. "Failure." Not being able to get a job.' "Being understood." "Judgemental people." "Not being taken eriously." "Being left out." "Being ignored." Other individuals within the ;roup voiced similar fears. No >ne said that he or she was not ifraid of something. Trying to summarize the responses,. I asked, "Would it be fair to say that all of you have really expressed the same fear, and that is anxiety which comes from insecurity?" They all agreed that this was the case. They were all anxious because they felt insecure because they did not know what the future held for them. They were afraid Not one of the young people voiced even the slightest fear that was directly related to their families, to the nation, or to the world. They all voiced personal fears. As they analyzed the fears that gave them the deepest concern, not one mentioned the fear of disease, starvation, the energy shortage, the Rus sians or nuclear or chemical warfare. Not one mentioned the pollution of our enviorn ment, the wasting of our natural resources or the threat of overpopulation. My prupose here is not to identify nor discuss what young people should be afraid of. I am simply asserting that fear is one of the most prevalent human concerns, and I am showing how egocen trie these concerns can be in young adults. One would suspect that a cross-section of adults, while naming some fears the young group did not mention, would show these same self-centered concerns about the future. It is a basic anxiety which relates to the reality and nature of the unknown, as it applies to one personally. It is not the certain knowledge that the enemy is near that causes well-trained soldiers the most concern; it is the uncertainty as to whether or not the enemy is anywhere around. In the area of religion, the need to know-in order to avoid uncertainty-is so strong in some people that they become dogmatic when dogmatism is altogether inappropriate. One wonders whether they are whistling in the dark. Should be we strip off our preconceived notions and ap proach Christianity with an open mind, we would find it tc be a religion of faith, and nol of knowledge or certainty. It has always been in teresting to me to hear good well-meaning Christians argue the insignificant elements of their faith. They never seem to ask, "If correct knowledge is so important, why do children figure so pro minently in Christ's kingdom?" If one believes, really believes, that God is, and that He is all-powerful, has all knowledge and is love in its essence, he Or she has met one half the certification of religion. If he or she accepts God's greatest gift in gratitude and with loving ser vice to his fellows, the cer tification is complete. What does all of this have to do with basic anxiety? Belief and trust in the ab solute goodness of The , Unknown is man's best an [ tidote for fear. There is, for all of us, in this attitude plenty of room for growth. The chief measure of emo tional and spiritual maturity is how comfortably we can ' live with personal uncertainty while we grapple with the larger concerns of our fellows - and with the problems of the , world. Living And Growing . K . ? I By Cart Mumpowrr. MSW The Ashevllle Counseling Life it a bit like runnning down a gravel road barefooted. No matter how high you try to lift your feet, you're bound to stub a toe or two It seems like there is always something getting in our way, Sometimes that's OK, if our thing is destructive or inapprspriate, it's helpful to have some external obstacles to ? :> us on track I- yV . hng it. Consequently, he didn't do much of anything because everything had the potential for failure. He also went out of Ma way to make sure that I didn't get anything done, either. I was pleased when he and I finally parted ways It seems like February has been my month for running in to thaw obstructionist types. Professionally, I've stumbled o* several of my peers who are seemingly devoted to stop OUT * ' whenever sible Th? predictability of their up my position or yours is a i blockhead. Who expects to be aggreed with all the time? The bunch I'm talking about are those folks who habitually throw up road blocks to change, growth or improve ment whenever it comes their way. Having limited talents at creating and building, they i -a,, : J__4 ;i,, f Lij .Ti-, ' k t rOfll UnC'rlTUI] ing and restricting others. That y fulfilling a h lif< sidered normal to slam on your brake> and lament this overwhelming obstacle. When possihle, you go over the can. You don't let it stop your pro. Obstructionists' thrive on the attention they get from resisting change. If they don't get that attention, it deprives them of Reinforcement. If we : i our en? f t inr ways to do >iur thing despite their obstacles, then we don't waste our energy and effort being mad at their up tightness It's a freeing - ' perience to realise that in the total sefceeme of things. type of person an \y slov you down They can't stop you if you keep vour eye on and not on their resistance to your goal like
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