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Uoluotcnsd To Help n!o
f -olio Drive Started Tuesday ;
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January. t
f Mrs. R. G Prikldln. Madison
County 1956 Matif Jlmea Drive
Chairman, afiMlMvi wek that
citizens of Ma&iapimnty don't
uvc vo vaiw QnnTMining or go
through an obstM ZQtnt9 to become
xlunteera in th kt irainst polio,
All it takef ' a-telephone call,
jnrs. r'raniuint. atwea. Anyone who
wishes to. army of polio
volunteers rbay- k so by phoning
2601, she am
"Volunteers are urgently needed
to assemble collection kits and mail
dime cards as well as for a variety
of other tasks," the Dimes official
deafced." The county's annual po-lfo-fVhtinK
appeal opened Tuesday
, 4nd will run until the end of the
-month.
Mrs. Franklin said there was a
place in the campaign for people in
all walks of life young people as
well as adults. She urged students
to 'sign up for duties on weekends
and after school.
In years past, Madison County
citizens have contributed liberally to
this great drive and it is hoped that
they will make the 1956 Drive an
even better one than in years past.
Businessmen and professional men
are aaked to send their contribu
tions to Mrs. Franklin as soon as
possible in an effort to save time
for personal solicitations.
Community workers will probably
be named by next week, Mrs. Frank
lin said, and it is hoped that "all-
out" effort, will -be made to :Mke
the drive AtfccessM before thir'end
Hi m, r . Jlr.V'Vi&
' At f ei, boa
f Marshall Tuesday
The Carolina Special, crack South
ern passenger train, demolished a
1940 Ford Tudor Sedan about 10:35
o'clock Tuesday morning near the
old talc mill at the west end of
Marshall.
According to witnesses, Willard
Hudson, 25, of Del Rio, Tcnn., and
Bill Stanley, 40, of Shutin, attempt
ed to turn in front of the mill but
the rear wheel of the vehicle missed
the driveway across the tracks and
dropped off in a culvert. Unable to
move the car, the two men jumped
from the stalled car and one of the
men ran down the track in an effort
to flag the fast-approaching passen
ger train. In spite of this, the train
plowed into the rear of the automo
bile, demolishing the car. The train
came to a halt before it was com
pletely past the car with the body
of the car pressed against a car of
the train.
'Preach" Davis, of the Service
Motor Sales, was quickly called for
a wrecker. l'n a few minutes,
"Preach" had the car towed from
the train and the Carolina Special
continued its run.
SPEAKER
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SIGiJ'
AY JANUARY 5, 1956
PRICE: $2.50 A YEAR
DR. F. P. GAINES JR.
SCOUT CONVENTION
TO BE IN ASHEVILLE
JANUARY 9, 1956
Dr. Gaines To Address Group;
Three Scouters To Be
Honored
Dr. Francis Pendleton Gaines, Jr.,
President of Wofford College, will
be the featured speaker at the An
nual Scouters Convention of the
Daniel .Boone Council . f , the Boy
bcouib pn, January, -t,tn anpr
Dr.; Gaines , i. ijneM&rof the
Southern Historical Association and
the ftatta kal. octatjoji jf. ; 8
the Ohui
flmittenl'il
leges (a the Sooth, a member of the
Rotary dub and in 1053 was select
ed as "Young Man of the Year" in
Spartanburg, S. C. He has receiv
ed a number cf scholastic and lead
ership honors. He is listed in "Who's
Who In America."
The supper meeting will start at
6:30 p. m., and will bring together
adult Scouters and Cubbcrs and
their wives from the fourteen coun
ties of the Daniel Boone Council,
representing the four thousand five
hundred adults and boys in the
Scouting program in the council
area.
B. F. Gardner of Hendersonvillc,
council president, will preside. The
program will include, in addition to
the address by Dr. Gaines, instal
lation of council officers and mem
bers of the executive board for 1956,
award of the Silver JJeavcr to three
outstanding Scouters, Silver Arrow
awards and a brief report of the ac
complishments in Scouting in 1955.
This report will show that more boys
are being reached than ever before
in the thirty-five year history of the
council and that there has been an
increased program of activities in
all branches.
"January' t
natod - is? jther i
totf Goemmen'
ervation " jprogk.
.ttees, 'aecording t
ager; Ralph W. 1
regnlatioiis tenuu .
fiatisi,iaKi: lj
Tavnerswho.lat'
tWtf'jvioaVsii:
latei-.v as ex-
really bo1' to more
to fll4li,lteV,:
pmalstitW"
Orders for? gonserv. j
can be issued during t'.
up period, wklcfc wfll ut
trips to Couatjr Of f ko ?
who d file: between "
In most' caW the ;f
until after Jaanar.
able to 'fKe);ls
approval aid'$Hr'
visit to 'the Count.
It was also revc
County's .allocate
.funds toweoimi
89,089.00 whicfe :i
above Iter 1968 alkn
ACP polkyi'Pcedii:
es on . which dost-sh
available ar'. prkMca!'
those for - tho4l9o r
assistance whiclutfc. j1
available :to any and a trMitmf
era who have a.'jwsed, JJ-' gdmlns
any af, .ne approve jrractMrrs n
their f arms ' Th ' f 'BT-n, t
share "plu the sma.. it. rMch
will be.adVance4.ee. !ie'fiJi
era .nari-of coet wLe.T i.,. " bl
covara.f n toS-'of' the-tast
wiUh
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T,ilf LOWERS
LI QUOTAS
-iSiYfiA&S
.AO ofilciai? count of the oallots
ast'-; Jn' '-the"' Burley Referendum
fjndicates, s4hatf Madison producers
j I Mtadt: 'veirfvheTmlnirlv in favnr of
VJj quotas for the next three crop years
wt iuu-oi-uoi acourainir 10 announce-
aftti-nBV the Madison County ASC
ntv summnrv
reveals that t024 votes were cast of
ich 1843VVOW for quoUs to 173
against, fqnotafc Eight challenged
votes were rejected due to ineligibili
ty on the art of the voters. The
Oouhty1 ASv Officials stated that
Madison growers voted 91.4 per
cent Jor quotas to 8.6 per cent op-
jtoslng qnoUS. The Burley Belt, as
Owty)ieT voted some 180,000 for
quota' 'to some 9,000 against or
lttaM W per cent for controls,
t oi.uintf''V to unofficial press re-
K .sfejTh Jaw as enacted by Con-
y BJrasj!fSrVides that quotas with
'5f sijfpVWi,uppertsat 90 per cent of
iri favored by at least two-thirds
pt ahV growers voting in the refer
AttiUTThus the Burley producers,
elt!M-i have again indicated that
thevPrafer tHat production be held
li&e' demand so that a fair
fticej'inUjht be assured them through
prteetsuttppjrt;
Com&Ueettkid that all County Pro-
dCr'ai"been given written no-
ttiirf l?W acreage quota based on
ih!195ji fifteen per cent reduction
anivicabIeresulations and that
farmers ;wit Questions concerning
their, iuqtft should contact the ASC
Wficy.ibr" farther information.
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Marshall- Oalqut fleorganizatf
In Soliools Under Gonsidsralion
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MANY REQUESTS
FOR BUSINESS
RATINGS HERE
Number Increasing According
lo Mrm Uf Dun And
Bradstreet
t" e flTtwn'ai lto-
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that will be deeded to ! arrasses or
legumes in X8, or 1967; (3) Con
tour strtociMipiacr; (4) Planting of
forest trees;' (6) Initial improve
ment of pastures or hay crops other
than alfalfa, and (6) Tile drainage
to farmland.
Parking Meters Now
Accept Only Nickels
No More Pennies
Parking meters in Marshall were
changed Wednesday morning and
will now accept only nickels. Here
tofore, the meters have been op
erated with pennies, nickels or
dimes. A nickel will entitle an au
tomobile to 60-minutes of parking,
it was pointed out.
The change of meters in Marshall
?fvn.
MIO
4 6 Tuesday, -tW wad:.
Board of JCducAtlon,
votedl"
tl
make a' thiOUghSftu4y oi the needs
of the various schools .In the county
and to- allocate .the balance of -' the'
county's" share ake 1953 school
bond money on the basis of student
population and school needs. Due
consideration will be given to local
effort and initiative in meeting
school needs in the past.
The Board announced that poli
cies laid down by the State Board
of Education will be followed
throughout in expending the money,
and that first consideration would
be given to the replacement of sub
standard classrooms in accordance
with these policies.
Jiach January business concerns in
all parts of the Uniteu States re
ceive from Dun & Bradstreet re
quests for their annual financial
statements. This year the number
of requests going out nation-wide
will exceed three million, with over
150 going to Madison County busi
nessmen.
The growth and the industrial de
velopment of Madison County is re
flected in statistics just released by
the Credit reporting firm. Thomas
E. Kane, manager at Knoxville,
which covers this area, says that
ihi-s year there will be more requests
for financial abatements made oil'
business concerns in Madison C'oun
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Sidewalk Parking
Violations To Be
Enforced In Town
City officials announced this week
that operators of cars and trucks
would be "ticketed" for parking on
sidewalks in Marshall. They point
ed out that too many people Were
parking beyond the curb, especially
at the east and west ends of Main
Street. This necessitates pedestri
ans' to be on the Majn Street and
Board To Study Feasibility Of
Reorganizing School
Districts
At its regular monthly meeting on
Tuesday, the Madison County Board
of Education devoted a considerable
amount of time to a discussion of
the feasibility of re-organizing the
Marshall and Walnut School Dis
tricts. Proposals for some type of re-organization
havje been received by
the boiSrd from time to time over a
period of several years. Most of the
discussion in the meeting Tuesday
centered around the nossihilitw of
transferring the 10th, 11 th, and 12tb
grades of the Walnut School to Mar
shall and re-routing busses in such
a manner as to increase Walnut
school by a similar number of ele
mentary and junior high school stu
dents. If carried out, such a plan
would not materially change the to
tal enrollment of either school.
No vote was taken ip the matter,
and the board decided to conduct a
study to determine the practicability
of such a "plan and to assess the re
action of school patrons in the two
districts. It was pointed out that
such a re-organization was definite
ly in line with State Board of Edu
cation policies of centralizing senior
high schools in order to offer a more
diversified curriculum.
When questioned as to the pro
posed date of the re-organization,
superintendent William W. Peek
slated that he could not give even
an estimated dat until the board
had made a further study of the
problem, but that the re-organization
in time for the 1956-57 school
year appeared "improbable" in view
of the many administrative details
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highway, when walking; making H . . " aammistrative detail.
most haaardous. .T ;wh wonW a.be worked out.
at
if ' -
DEiuONSiWa.
' , i j 4-U. has Wcjj jr ...L icdy
is in line with other towns and cities
which are also changing to the nick
el plan in many cases.
Greek Meritorious
Medal Is Received
By Mrs. Lottie Rector
Mrs. Lottie Rector, mother of the
. late Sgt. J. P. Rector, of Marshall,
last week received a Meritorious
Service-Medal and Citation award-
l postMXFMUsiy to sgt. oecior oy
rder of Paul, the King of Greece.
i The medal is of bronxe with gold
and maroon ribbon. The citation,
written entirely in Greek, is as fol
lows:
. KINGDOM OF GREECE
I- daUd SO Dtetmber JM
UEtUTORIOVS SERVICE MEDAL
4$mwifUU to Sgt, amea P. KBtor,
a S, Arm, eaeswe s fe ewwia
iftptmtWUtg,": he jaw . iv4ubk
ass wfm$ to jki-Qrttkx'Ept4iiitmrii
fmnt$ i ilTorfa, esiOruVMtog fraai
to th iHOMMful tutmmd the
ItM imoVto 4y Itkm ress
agmbut an sneaky tU VidUd N-
torn Jor tht dfH e t: r
f resafMk
Flames Extinguished
In Grocery Store Here
Monday Morning
Ron Sprinkle, Fred Sams and Carl
Fox got a real scare Monday morn
ing when an excess amount of oil
caught fire in the Model Grocery
store. The men were busy with in
ventory when the flames were seen
dancing on the floor around the
heater. .They quickly grabbed aprons
and smothered the flames on the
main floor but the otL which had
Overflowed from the carbureter, had
escaped through the floor into the
baseuraC. Fojrtuiutelyv a small au
tomobl eatiitguisber was aftBble
and the' men ran to the basement
where ttaaUIa and flooring were on
fire. The extinguisher proved to be
worth perhaps thousands oi dollars
aa it pus out, the blase.
"We sur did have a'seare but
we Keel Mighty rocky that we were
able to t oflt the 'fire before K
tpreeeL any 'further Kr." Sprinkle
atatoit Ur. Ssm said fiiat W bad
a hard" time getting to sleep Monday
U"lr ewid still aer
ritam'YrA saU.
Qiver DoDte Survey End
Seen To Ce Months Away
Focal Point For Interstate
Highway Must Be At
Asheville
Completion of an "economic sur
vey" of conflicting French Broad and
Pigeon River routes for a proposed
interstate highway appears to be
months away
Neither the 13th Highway Divi
sion commission nor the top South
ern federal highway engineer knew
Friday the status of the survey.
Commissioner J. Fleming Snipes
of Marion told the Asheville Cham
ber of Commerce highway committee
he bad "no information" on how the
survey is proceeding.
And in Atlanta, B. P. McWhorter,
district Bureau of Public Roads en
gineer, said he expected it to be
"41 ve oraix months" before any
thing is "settled in regard to the
survey." '
Chief State Engineer W. H. Rog
ers r., the man in charge of the
cemparative study, could not be con
tacted in Raleigh.
; The economic survey was request;
ed by Washington Bureau, of Public
Roads officials In September. At
an Octdber weetiag ! in Charleston,
W. Vs-, of North Carolina and Ten
f."j eriaesra with federal roads
states affected by the interstate
route said a joint economic survey
would be completed in 10 days.
At Morganton in November, Rog
ers said the survey was under way
but said he did not know when it
would be completed.
The Chamber committee probed the
matter Friday in a meeting with
Madison County representatives fa
voring the French Broad route.
But Snipes told the committee he
had not been informed of progress
made by state engineers on the sur
vey. He speculated completion is
still some time off, and said he ex
pects to try to find out just how far
at the January Stat Highway Com
mission meeting.
; McWhorter said he believed it bade
fair $o be long, drawn out affair."
?The federal engineer however,
east additional light on the effect on
Asheville of the super defense route,
regardless of which river route is
ultimately approved.
Focal point for the interstate, lim
ited access road must be at Ash
ville, with present plans calling for
al najor interchange with Faito
Avenue just .west f Smoky Park
Hiefaway Bridget Jto-there, be
said, the limited access road weald
leave a clovetltor. -eottlng ; souto
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Mucn interest is being shown in
a meat Cutting demonstration to be
given by Mr. John Christian, Ani
mal Husbandry Specialist, on Wed
nesday, January 11, 1956 at 10:00
a. m., in the REA Building in Mar
shall. Mr. Chri.-tian gave a most helpful
demonstration last November 1 on
cutting a beef carcass. This time
he will use a pork carcass and give
the proper methods of cutting pork
for curing and freezing. It is hoped
many will avail themselves- of tne
opportunity of learning the latest
methods of pork cutting.
MARSHALL MAN
KILLED BY CAR
IN MICHIGAN
Funeral services for Billy Ram
sey, 21, of Marshall, who died Fri
day, December 30, 1055, in Detroit,
Mich., after being struck by an au
tomobile, were held Tuesday at 2 p.
m., at the Marshall Free Will Bap
tist Church.
The Rev. Grady Harris officiated
and burial was in the Ramsey CenT
etery. Pallbearers were Leo Fortner,
William Ramsey, Floyd Pressley,
Bobby Wilson, Billy Payne and
Garenee Edwards.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Zack Ramsey of Mar
shall; four sisters,. Mrs. Beverly
Smith f Cincinnti, Ohio, Mr4
Carl Freeman, Mrs. Carson Barrels
and Mrs. Fate Rigsby, all of River
Rouge, Mich.
Ramsey, who attended Marshall
High School prior to entering the
U. S. Army in 1963, returned in Ju
ly 1955 from a tour of duty otj
ee. - . ' t-t
...rA the time of the aoddent he was
employed by Whitehead 4 Kale -Steel
Fabricators of River Rouge. t- ; ,
was la charge.
versity of North Carolina, it was!
announced here today, by Principal"' V7?V"
Bernard S. Brig-man.
V. C, a popular member of the
Senior Class, has an average of 91
in the past three years in high
school. In addition to the scholastic
average, he has lettered in football
for the past three years and was an
outstanding lineman dej ring the
past season. He was president of
the 10th grade while a sophomore
and is now a member of the Future,
Farmers of America .
Mr. Brigman received the follow
ing letter Monday:
The John Motley Morehcad
Foundation
10 East Firtyseeond Street
NEW YORK 17, N. Y.
Re: Vaughn Curtis Fisher Jr
Dear Mr. Brigman: f
It is a pleasure to advise you thav"
the applicant listed above has been
nominated by your County Scholar
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Reade Jelliff Named i
As New Manager Of,
Plant At Hot Springs
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Carl E. Annas, Division Mana$tr $
of Burllng.un Industries, announce i
today that Mr. J. B. Talbeifc 8; :r-: f
intendent of Hot Springs, -T. , I
Goodall-Sanford, Inc, a m
plant of Burlington Industrie 1
resigned from the- company. 1
Talbert advised that after i" t"
vacation bis plane will be -n
He is being replaced by "Ht. '
Jelliff, formerly Super!-" -
St Paula i TifoM" X' '
ti. , C ' : He is inarVied . u .
Cornelia Young ef E '
end they, have two t '
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