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Community Calendar Burley Field Day Set The Madison County Burley Field Day will be held on Aug. 2 at the Roy Ammons farm. The event is co-sponsored by the Madison County Agricultural Extension Service and the Burley Tobacco Growers Association. The Ammons farm is located south of Mars Hill between Old Hwy. 213 and Gabriel's Creek Rd. Registration will begin at ? a.m. on the day of the event. A free barbeque luncheon prepared by the Farm Credit Service will be served. All tobacco growers are invited to at tend. For more information on the field day, contact the extension service office at 649-2411. American Legion Meets The Marshall American Legion Post No. 317 will hold their regualar monthly meeting an Aug. 2. The Ladies' Auxiliary will furnish sup per beginning at 7 p.m. Griffin Family Reunion The annual Griffin family reunion in Mars Hill will be held on Aug. 26 at 1 p.m. in the Mars Hill Elementary School. A covered dish supper will be served and all family members are in vited to attend. The News Record Serving The People Of Madison County Since 1901 P.O. Box 369 ? Marshall, N.C. 28753 Telephone (704)649-2741 Robert T. Koenig Cheryl W. Koenig Judy Brown Brenda C. Parker James I. "Pop" Story Dr. Joseph Godwin Dorothy B. Shupe Editor Advertising Mgr. Ad Representative Office Mgr. Columnists Published Weekly By The Mountaineer Publishing Co., Inc. USPS 388-440. Second Class Postage Paid at Marshall. N.C. 28753. Subscription Rates in Madison and Buncombe Counties ? I Year $6.80 - Outside Madison and Buncombe Counties - 1 Year $9.50. N.C. Residents Add 4V*% Sales Tax. Postmaster: Send address changes to the News Record. P.O. Box 369. Marshall. N.C. 28753. MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION FREE ESTIMATES Tom's Auto Body 390 Weaverville Hwy. ^ Weaverville. N.C. 28787 A*> O. 7/^\V 1 Block North Of Fireplace Restaurant ? Free Estimates ? Insurance Work Welcome ? Foreign Or Domestic ? Guaranteed Work cw - l? - ? 24-Hour Towing Home Ms^as^A**' J' f-rom THE NASHVILLE CLUB To: Our FRIENDS. MEMBERS & GUESTS of Madison & Yancey Counties and North Buncombe County, Let us entertain you every Friday & Saturday Night and lift your spirits. For reservations. Call: 274-4752 Private Club Ramifies- ^axmziA- <\}\Lzncb, We are cutting prices on several Mobile Homes. Come By - Take A Look ? Brows# Around - Make us An Offer. We'll work with you in hopes to make your Dream Home Come True. , , ? ? A Walnut School reunion is being planned for Saturday, August 11, 19*4, beginning at 3 p.m. The reunion is not limited to graduates and is open to anyone who attended Walnut School. Former teachers and principals are also in vited. Plans are being made for an assembly in the gymnasium at 4 p.m. for a short program and possibly some entertainment. A hot dog supper will be held between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., sponsored by the Walnut Communi ty Development Club. Anyone who has ideas or information that will be of help in planning this reunion are asked to contact Ernestine Plemmons at 649-3816 or R.J. Plemmons at 649-3364 after 5 p.m. or on weekendte. Summer Fun Program Young people in the Walnut, jSpring Creek, East Fork, Spillcorn and Shelton Laurel com m unities are invited to take part in summer fin activities planned for their area by the Madison County Agricultural Extension Service. The activities are scheduled each day from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. and will include a hike, crafts, games, nutrition class, songs and snacks. There will also be a food preservation program for adults. On Hiursday, July 26, East Fork youngsters will assemble at Raymond Ramsey's farm for the activities. The Spillcorn Community Church will host the Summer Fun program on Tuesday, July 31. Youngsters in Shelton Laurel and Carmen communities will gather on Aug. 1 for Summer Fun activities at the Odell Shelton farm. Mars Hill VFD Auto Show The Mars Hill Volunteer Fire Department will sponsor the 13th annual Car Show on July 2B and 29. The show will be held in the Mars Hill Elementary School stadium. On Saturday, the firemen will also hold a gospel singing. The show will conclude Sunday with a ham and roast beef dinner. The Tiller Thafs Really a Walk-Behind Tractor BCS tillers do a lot more than till. Because the tiller I ' unit can be replaced by a lot ot other implements. Like the snow blower. Or a lawn mower. Or a sickle-bar cutter. And it only takes a few minutes to make the , change. But you really have to see It to appreciate it. Come in and check out this mechanical ' masterpiece. Ask to see the BCS in action. nical^- * Wool Branch Sales & Service 147 Anderson Branch John Skemp Marshall 649-2315 ma Main Street Gulf 649-3599 "A Full Service Station" swicicsm SA.VIN&S r l L i i h ? ? ( coupon) Front End Alignment $ 1 095 with Coupon 3 Savings ? (Cash & Credit Cards Only) (CipirwB/15/M) ~( coupon) FREE LUBE I With Oil ? -pja- ? _ _ C?ug2? -SAVEa?3S)W''th This i Sales Only (tipkMl/IS/M) (We j DOT Hearing Set For Aug. 1 The state Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting August 1 to discuss proposed im provements to a 12>miie sec tion of U.S. 2970 in Madison County. The informal open-forum meeting runs from 7 to 9 p .m in the Hot Springs Elementary School Auditorium. The improvmeents arc divided into two projects. The first one involves upgrading a 6.1-mile section of US 2570 front NC-30B to Hot Springs to a modern two-lane highway. The second project calls for construction of a 6.5-mile two lane facility on new location from Hot Springs to the Ten nessee state line. Both projects are included in the department's 1*M- ISM Transportation Improvement Program approved by the state Board of Transportation last November. Construction on both pro jects is scheduled to start in fiscal year 1MB and will cost about I1S.3 million. The public is invited to at tend the meeting, ask ques tions, make comments, sug Written statements about the project may he submitted to C. D. Adkins, manager of planning and research, NCDOT, P. O. Box 1&S01, Raleigh, NC mil. For more information about the projects, contact project engineers L. J. Ward or R. G. Hairr at (919) 733-7M2. Weatherization Program Begins On July 19, the first meeting of Madison County private nonprofit organizations to par ticipate in a low-cost weatherization program was held at Madison High School. This program offers a free energy audit and at least $500 worth of weatherization and insulation materials. Training will be provided for a volunteer crew from each non profit, and, on September 22, the project leaders will give technical assistance while volunteers weatherize their buildings. The aim of the pro ject is to lower energy costs so that scarce funds can be used for important services to the community.' Jointly sponsored by French Broad Electric Membership Corporation, the Alternative Energy Corporation, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, this program will target 20-25 small nonprofits in Madison and northern Buncombe Coun ties. Typical buildings that are eligible include community centers, rescue squads, chur ches, day care centers, and volunteer fire stations. Those buildings with the most com munity use and most need will have highest priority. Private nonprofits who are interested in the program and did not attend the initial meeting should contact Jerry Plemmons, Energy Director for French Broad Electric Membership Corporation, at 649-2051 (Marshall), 689-2051 The Tennessee Valley Authority, an electric utility serving parts of Western North Carolina, Tennessee, and several other states, is cosponsoring this program. Their Office of Natural Resources and Economic Development is providing sup port for the technical audits and materials. They are look ing to this program as a model which may be reproduced throughout the Tennessee Valley. French Broad Electric Membership Corporation, the local sponsor, is a rural elec tric utility providing local coordination, organizing the technical assistance for this program. (Mara HUD, or ?22-73n (Hot Springs). This program has been demonstrated previously by the Energy Conservation Fund of the Alternative Energy Corporation, with the Tennessee Valley Authority, in Haywood County this past May, where the Haywood Electric Membership Cor poration was local sponsor The Energy Conservation Fund serves nonprofit organizations across North Carolina with energy audits, technical assistance, and weatherization training both in low-cost weatherization programs such as this one, and on an individual basis with larger nonprofits. Cattlemen's Tour Offered Beef cattle producers from 10 or 12 western counties will be participating in the annual Western North Carolina Cat tlemen's Tour on July 29 through August 1, visiting farms and cattle research facilities throughout North Carolina. Sponsors of the bus tour are the beef cattle commission of the WNC Development Association, Rutherford Coun ty Cattlemen's Association and the N. C. Agricultural Ex tension Service. One of the highlights will be a tour of Open Ground Farm at Beaufort on the Atlantic coast. This farm contains 44,000 acres, all of which has been cleared of timber and drained during the past 10 years. In addition to a cattle operation on 12,000 acres of pasture land, over 25,000 acres are devoted to corn, soybeans and small grains. The beef cattle herds and research farms at N. C. State University will be visited by the tour group, along with a beef research unit and bull tests station being established by the university at Camp Butner near Durham. Among other stops will be the vet school at N. C. State, Oldfield Farms, an August cattle operation near Mocksville; a Simmenta! cat tle farm in Johnston County; North State Orchards in Rich mond County, where the WNC group will see a crossbreeding program, and Sally Mac Farm, an outstanding com mercial cattle herd near Monroe. A few seats are still available on the tour. Cost, which includes transportation, motels, meals and admission is 1210 per person. Reserva tion can be made on a first come basis with the WNC Development Association, 420 City Building, Asheville, phone 252-4783, or the Ruther ford County Agricultural Ex tension office. Stewart Named Primary Winner John Stewart of Ashevilie has been certified by the North Carolina Board of Elec tions as the winner of the May 8 Republican Party primary. A mistake in returns from Yancey County balloting was discovered and Alex Brock, chairman of the state elec tions board, has officially named Stewart the winner by 405 votes. Stewart was opposed in the May 8 primary for the State Senate by Keith Snyder and Mars Hill attorney Bruce Briggs. Prior to the May 8 balloting, Briggs withdrew from the race in order to pur sue a judgeship. His name, however, remained on the 28th Senate District ballots. Despite his withdraw!, Briggs polled 169 votes in Madison County and 3,142 votes throughout the district for a second place finish. It wasn't Briggs' candidacy, but a reporting error by Mary Ohle of the Yancey Couty Board of Elections that caused' Stewart's problem. Ohle reported that she incorrectly reversed the votes for Snyder and Stewart in completing her election report. The corrected totals show Stewart was the leading vote-getter with 3,201. Briggs came in second in the three-way race with 3,142 and Keith Snyder finished third with 2,806 votes. Stewart out polled his opponents in three of the four counties JOHN STEWART Why Pay Excessive Finance Charges ^To Own A Satellite System? 10 Ft. Motorized Minit-Man Satellite Systom Completely ^ SS *48.39
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