Community Calendar
The Hot Springs Health Program will offer
free blood pressure testing at the following
locations:
On May 22 at Cutshall's Grocery in She Hon
Laurel from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m.
On May 23 at the Madison County Court
House in Marshall from 10 a.m. until noon.
On May 24 at the Cash and Carry Crocery in
Walnut from 4 until 6 p.m.
This service is free as a courtesy of the Hot
Springs Health Program.
The Western North Carolina Coon Hunters
Association will sponsor a U.K. C. -licensed
bench show and night hunt on May 19. Deadline
for entering the bench show is May 19 at 2 p.m..
Entries for the night hunt will be accepted until
7 p.m. the day of the hunt. A drag race and tree
ing contest will follow the bench show. The
show will be held at the American Enka Union
Hall on Sardis Rd.
To get to the hall, take 1-26 to Exit 2 and follow
the signs.
The Laurel Volunteer Fire Department will
sponsor a dance on May 19 at 8 p.m. at the
Laurel Fire Hall. Admission will be $3 for
adults, $1 for children under 12. Refreshments
wioll be served. The Bounty Hunters Band will
provide musical entertainment. Everyone is in
vited to attend. Proceeds from the dance will
benefit the work of the fire department.
The Hot Springs Board of Aldermen will hold
a special called meeting on May 17 at 7:30 p.m.
The Madison County Soil and Water Conser
vation district board will meet on May 17 at 4:30
p.m. in the district office on Main Street in Mar
shall. The public is invited to attend.
There will be a qualifier track meet for
Madison County students in grades three
through six on Saturday from 9 a.m. until noon.
The event is open to both boys and girls.
Registration will begin at 9 a.m. with races
beginning at 10 a.m.
Events scheduled include the 50-meter dash,
100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, 800-meter run,
the standing long jump and a softball throw.
Contestants will compete in appropriate
grade levels. All first and second-place
finishers are eligible to advance to the regional
meet at Reynolds H.S. on May 26.
For more information, contact Ricky
McDevitt at 649-2876 or 649-3873.
A musical fundraiser for Madison County's
History Day contest winners will be held at the
Little Theatre in Madison H.S. on May 23 at 7:30
p.m. Admission to the concert is free. Dona
tions will be accepted and appreciated.
Proceeds from the concert will be used to
send the students to the national History Day
contest finals in Washington, D.C.
David Holt, Byard Ray, Sheila Bamhill, Cas
Wallin, the Marshal Hillbilly Cloggers, Lou
Zeller and the Madison H.S. string band are
scheduled to perform.
In addition, the students who will represent
North Carolina at the national finals will pre
sent their winning history projects.
The Marshall Elementary School gymnastics
team will perform at the school on May 22 at 7
p.m. The team was formed this year by Betty
Hussain. The public is invited to attend the
team's performance.
The newly-formed Ebbs Chapel Volunteer
Fire Department will conduct fire-fighting
classes at the center beginning on May 21 at 8
p.m. Anyone interested in joining the new fire
department should plan to attend.
Living And Growing
We're a poor and pitiful lot.
We frown with little provoca
tion. We walked with falling
shoulders. We moan and
groan at the injustice of this or
the unfairness of that. We look
at the bad and seemingly ig
nore the good. We stumble
through life feeling put upon
and cursed by some unseen
hand. In short, we're experts
at taking our lives for granted.
Be now you would think that
people would have learned.
That people, by the way, in
cludes me. Happiness is not
something found or even
necessarily deserved, it is
something earned. Seldom,
contrary to the television
game shows, do we run into
happiness. We may get some
lucky breaks and external
support, but true happiness in
an expensive little goody that
requires strong efforts on our
part.
Buying a big new shiny car
can bring you excitement of
sorts, but does it really bring
us happiness? Those new cars
always become old cars, and
temporary excitement is a
shoddy replacement for ge
nuine happiness. Let's face it.
A big house, a special job, and
new town, lots of money and
the like just don't add up to
happiness. About all they can
really do is briefly distract us
from our state of un happiness.
Happiness comes from
within was not a saying
created by some burned out
hippie smoking marijuana in
the back of a psychidelic van.
That one's been with us a long
time, and that's because it has
something to teach us. No
matter how long you wait for
happiness, it's not likely to
come. No matter how hard
you look around you, you
won't usually see it. Hap
piness isn't a hidden treasure.
It's, there, inside you all of the
time. The lid, however,
doesn't open easily.
You and I have got to reach
inside and pull out our best.
We've got to recognize the bad
and work to grow beyond it.
We've got to give and put into
our world instead of constant
ly tryng to selfishly take.
We've got to make love, hones
ty, and quality trademarks of
our personhood. All the other
illusions of success are just
that. They may make the
husiness of living more fun,
but that's only one facet of
happiness. Go ahead, pull out
your best and throw .it in the
pot. The world will taste better
for your efforts. . .
College Makes Profit Again
(Continued from Page l)
During Saturday's meeting.
Bentley also told the advisors
and trustees that the college's
cash flow situation has im
proved dramatically
The college president also
announced that Mars Hill has
recjeived an invitation from
the Andrew Mellon Founda
tion of Pittsburgh to submit a
proposal for a challenge grant
that, if successful, could result
in an endowment of up to $1
million from the foundation.
Bentley also told the ad
visors and trustees that the.
Glenmede Foundation has in
dicated interest in funding
programs at the college and
that the newly-formed Consor
tium for the Advancement of
Higher Education would
shortly receive a report
recommending Mars Hill Col
lege.
During the semi-annual
business meeting, the board of
trustees elected new members
to the board of advisors and
approved an increase of $290
in student fees for the coming
year. The trustees also gave
tentative approval to a $8.9
million budget for the 1984-85
school year.
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VA Center Observes Hospital Week
I The Asheville VA Medical
Center is observing National
Hospital Week this year by
featuring its contribution to
. medical research over the
years.
A prominent display in the
medical center lobby sum
marizes some of Veterans Ad
ministration Research ac
complishments nationwide.
Topics included in the ex
hibit are:
Tuberculosis ? in 1946 the
VA Research program and the
armed forces combined their
talents to a successful study of
the cure of TB. As a result, the
VA was able to close its tuber
culosis hospitals or convert
them to other kinds of treat
ment and care.
Pain relief ? VA
neurosurgery demonstrated
the removal of intractable
pain by implanting a
pacemaker in the vicinity of
the spinal cord. Activation of
the implant by a pocket radio
is necessary only a few
minutes a day.
Cancer ? Medical Oncology
Services has demonstrated
the success of drug combina
tions in doubling the response
to the progression of cancer
over previous used medica
tions.
Pacemakers for Breathing
? research has replaced
mechanical respirators in
quadriplegic patients by im
planting pacemaker-radio
receivers and electronic
assemblies that enable pa
tients to move about in
wheelchairs and resume some
normal activities.
The Heart ? drug therapies
have resulted in the im
mediate improvement of cir
culation in heart attack pa
tients, providing freer
breathing, relief of pain and
more regular heart beat.
At the Asheville Medical
Center, research programs
have made significant con
tributions and leadership to
national investigative and
development studies. Local
programs have included: Con
trol of Pulmonary Diease;
development of chemotherapy
studies after World War II
provided relief of fungus
diseases including
histoplasmosis and tox
icomycosis. The dramatic suc
cess in treating tuberculosis is
evidenced by the change in
therapies and hospital beds
At the end of World War II, TB
treatment was primarily
surgical and 1.000 Asheville
beds were allocated for TB
care. With local participation
in chemotherapy studies. TB
has essentially been
eliminated, such that only
about a half dozen cases are
now seen yearly.
Vascular and Cardiac
Research; the Asheville pro
gram has played a very
significant role in programs
such as clinical trials to show
patient benefits from surgical
procedures in coronary artery
disease with saphenous vein
bypass grafts. The surgical
research program has played
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a major role in the design and
construction of artificial heart
valves. The program was in
strumental in the design, con
struction and clinical use of
surgical stapling devices used
in pulmonary, general and
vascular surgery.
Today, the ongoing pro
grams at Asheville include the
clinical evaluation of artificial
blood vessels. The ultimate
goal of such research and
development will be to provide
artificial substitute coronary
vessels for those damaged by
heart disease.
Perhaps the major impact
of the surgical training and
research program is to the
training of new physician
surgeons in conjunction with
the affiliation of the Asheville
VA with the Duke University
medical research and involve
ment in training the nation'*
health care personnel, the VA
Medical Center is
demonstrating its dedication
to the Hospital Week theme,
"We Are The Caring Kind."
As at other times, the VA
Medical Center is open to the
public for information about
its research and patient care
programs. Tours of the
medical center may be ar
ranged by contacting the
Voluntary Service at 298-7911,
extension 326.
Medical Center. At any given
time, 10 resident surgeons are
training here in specialties in
cluding urology, opthamology .
thracic, vascular, orthopedic
and general surgery.
Through its patient treat
ment program, contribution to
Economist David Brown
Named UNC-A Chancellor
Economist David G. Brown
has been named the new
chancellor of UNC-Asheville.
Brown was selected from
more than 200 applicants and
will take office July 1. He is
replacing William E.
Highsmith.
Brown said he was attracted
to UNC-Asheville because of
the schools "highly regarded
faculty and capable students
(and) because UNC-A offers
real opportunities to affect
positively the lives of
students, the larger life of the
community and the world of
scholarship."
A graduate of Denison
University in Ohio, Brown
earned his Ph.D. at Princeton
University in 1961.
He taught economics at
UNC-Chapel Hill from 1961-66
where he was awarded the
Tanner Award. He is a native
of Chicago.
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