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TRI-COUNTY
BASEBALL LEAGUE
OPENS SCHEDULE
Upper Laurel And Mars Hill
Teams Represent Madison
County In League
The Tri-Countjt BaBeball League
opened its sohedui last weekend
with two Madison County teams
participating. Upper Laurel drop
ped a close 4-2 game at Spruce
Pine, and the Mars Hill Recreation
Department team saw a 4-1 lead
over Higgins Creek crossed ."rem the
record by a heavy rain in the fourth
inning.
The six teams forming the league
and feheir managers are as follows:
Spruce Pine, John Young; Burns
ville, Coach Justice; Higgins Creek,
Glen Blankenship; Upper Laurel,
Lee Hamlin and Clay Honeycutt;
aad Mars Hill, Bill Bennett. The
Bald Creek team has not yet ap
pointed its manager. Burnsville is
the defending champion.
The schedule for the two Madi
son teams :
June 23 Mars Hill at Upper
Laurel.
June 30 Bald Creek at Mars
Hill; Upper Laurel at Burnsville.
July 7 Higgins Creek at Up
per Laurel; Mars Hill at Burns
ville. ,
July 14 Spruce Pine at Mars
Hill; Burnsville at Upper Laurel.
July 21 Spruce Pine at Upper
Laurel; Mars Hill at Higgins
Creek.
July 28 Upper Laurel at Mars
Hill.
August 4 Mars Hill at Bald
Creek; Upper Laurel at, Higgins
Creek.
August 11 Burnsville at Mars
Hill; Bald Creek at Upper Laurel.
August 18 Upper Laurel at
Bald .Creek; . Mara, JtiU . at ..Spruce
Pine.
MARSHALL, N. C, ; THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1956
PRICE: $2.50 A YEAR
ACCEPTS (PAST6RATE,
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REV. CALVIN METCALF
CALVIN METCALF, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart Metcalf, of Mar
shall RPD 2, has accepted the pas
torate of the Hot Springs Baptist.
Church, succeeding the Rev. Ralph
Hogan, now pastor of the Madison
Seminary. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf
plan to move to Hot Springs on Au
gust 19, when his pasitorate becomes
effective. He is now connected with
the Baptist Sunday School Board
and will retain this position until
k ie moves to Hot bprings.
SECOND PRJF.MY';
FOR C0N(jRESSi.2Ti
TO BE SATURDAY
Light Vote Is Predicted Polk
Open At 0:30 'A. iM. To
Close At 7:30 P. M.
The second primary election . for
Congressmen from the 11th District,
between Ralph Gardner and Basil
L. Whitener, will be held this Sat
urday, June 28, in Madison County
as well as other 11th Congressional
District counties.
Polls will open at 6:30 o'clock Sat
urday morning and remain open un
til 7:30 o'clock Saturday evening.
A comparatively light vote is ex
pected in Madison County although
there is considerable interest in the
election.
Gardner was high man in the
May 26 primary, both in the district
and county but the vote was so close
that Whitener was entitled to a
second primary.
CMIP SOUTH TOE
RIVER TVEL OPEN
SUNDAYJIULY 15
Handicapped Children From
County Are Urged
To Attend
The Easter Seal Society for crip
pled children would like to announce
that Camp South Toe River, Mica-
ville, N. C, will open July 15 and
continue through August 12.
Emphasis will be on recreation
and will include swimming, athlet
ics, craffit work, nature study, and
catnperaft. Physical therapy, and
speech therapy will be provided for
those children requiring it, on doc
tor's prescription.
Boys and girls from 8 to 16 years
of age will be accepted if handicap
ped, and can meet certain basic, re
quirements.' i
If interested, please contact Mrs.
C. W. Ward, Marshall, N. C. Tele
phone Number 2942.
REFERENDUM ON
WHEAT TO AFFECT
'57 SUPPORT RATE
CivU Court IV
Start Here Monday ;
Moore Will Preside
The Jane term of superior court
for the trial of civil cases will be
gin here Monday morning at 1030
o'clock. '
Judge Dan K. Moore, of Sylva,
will preside at the one-week term,
. 24 minor cases are listed on the
docket, according to Herbert Hawk
ins, clerk .of superior court. '? Non
contested divorce cases will also' be"
heard during the term.' 'i v
I he outcome of the wheat mar
keting quota referendum on July 20
will affect the price-support level
and determine whether marketing
quotas will be in effect for the 1967
lcropoL.viheat.
According toj Tilmaft' R.t Walker,
Chairman of the ASC State Com7
mittee, if two-thirds vote ''yes," the
support for the 1957 crop will be
set at the highest available level of
parity; the exact level will be an
nounced before the referendum. If
more than one-third vote "no," the
support will drop to 50 percent of
parity. In any case, support will
be available only to those farmers
who stay within their farm's wheat
acreage allotment.
Another point which wheat grow
ers should have in mind when they
cast their ballot is that if the vote
is favorable, marketing quotas will
be in effect and those who exceed
the farm acreage allotment will 'be
subject to a marketing penalty of 45
percent of parity on their excess
wheat. If the vote is unfavorable,
marketing quotas will not be in ef
fect and there will be no penalty for
excees wheat.
Acreage allotments will be in ef
fect for price support and soil bank
purposes even -if marketing quotas
are disapproved,
Walker emphasised that the mar
keting quota program applies only
to wheat growers in North Caroli
na who will have more than fifteen
acres of wheat on any one farm in
1957. Only those growers who will
have more than ' 16 acres of wheat
for grain in 1957 will hie eligible to
vote.
Marshall Baptist
V.B.S. Commencement
Held Here Sunday
Commencement services , for -the
Marshall Baptist Church Daily Va
cation Bible School were held Sun-'
day evening before a capacity oon-
gregation at the Baptist Church
here. Each department had special
parts on the impressive program and
the displays of handwork were open
ed to the congregation following the
service
108 certificates were awarded and
the faculty was recognized' by .Sirs.
U. D. Gross, principal, who- presid
ed. 'J-M-t'
Average attendance for the; two-
WELFARE DEPT.
TO MOVE TO NEW
LOCATION HERE
k 1 w n
masonic temple lo Be New
(Location; To Move
Next Thursday
The Madison County Welfare De
partment will move to a new loca
tion in Marshall on next Thursday,
June 28, it was announced here this
week by Mrs. Frances Ramsey, wel
fare superintendent.
The new location for the depart
ment will be on the second floor of
the Masonic Temple, formerly occu
pied by the Vance Clinic. The wel
fare department has been located in
the Loy P. Roberts Building for sev
eral years.
I weeks' school ttiWdW mm ay. r..rn
tinn. MrfMt .m3.,u. ' ivTftllmrdt won the first, heat race and
; iw, rryrrivtva econa m ine. main event,
one- tap nenma jarrett.
, The flat, quarter-mile track, with
its sharp, un banked turns, provided
a real test of driving as well as nu
merous thrills for the crowd'. Ev
ery driver in the race had trouble
with the grandstand turn, a wicked
cut of 90 degrees. Few cars es
caped collision at that curve. Even
Jarrett had one encounter with the
concrete wall .but pulled out of
trouble and went on to win the race.
He and Earnhardt, defending
champion of the Hickory Speedway,
are expected to have stiffer compe
tition Saturday night. The field
will include Banjo Matthews, Dink
Widenhouse, Bobby Waddell, Joe
Lee Johnson, Dick Blackwell, George
Montooth, R. I. Combs and several
other top sportsman drivers
ROADS TO BE
RESURFACED IN
MADISON COUNTY
According to a news item sent out
by the State Highway Coromision
June 12, 1956, Highways US 19 and
23 will be resurfaced in Madison
County from NC 36 near the Bun
combe County line, north to the
Tennessee State line. US 19 will
also be resurfaced from US 23, east
for 1.1 miles to a current construc
tion job.
Stock Cars To
Race In Asheville
Saturday Night
Asheville Ned Jarrett of New
ton and Ralph Earnhardt of Kan-
naipolis, a pair of sportsman division
speedsters who pilot Thunderbird
powered Fords, are ranked co-favorites
for the 125-lap sportsman-amateur
stock car racing program at
McCormiek Field Speedway here
Saturday night.
.Time trials will start at 7:00 p.
m. Racing is scheduled to begin at
8. Two 10-lap heat races, a 15-lap
consolation and a 10-lap main event
are scheduled for the sportsman di
vision drivers. Amateur competi
tion will include two 10-lap heats
and a 30-lap feature.
Four thousand fans watched Jar
rett spur his powerful Ford to vic
tory in the first race on the new as-v
LION DELEGATE
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GOODALL SANFORD
VACATION ENTIRE
WEEK OF JULY 4
LYMAN MARTIN, of Mar
shall, will leave Sunday for
Miami, Florida, where he will
be a delegate from the Mar
shall Lions Club to the Lions
International Convention next
week. Mr. Martin is a mem
ber of the Marshall Hitrh
School faculty.
McCLURE RITES
HELD TUESDAY
IN ASHEVILLE
f
Mars Hill Recreation Program
Offers Onprtunitiss For
Children And Adults
Civic Clubs Sponsor Programs ;
Junior Baseball Team
Popular
Marshall Man Is
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Wounded Last
Wednesday Night
if
BFD 4 WM wounded last Wednes
1 day night,.' Jons' J3, Sheriff IV T,
u Ponder fjmta.''jv't V t''V
' " He quoted Chandler ss saying he
s' ot hrmself accidentally at the home
' .T ihnny Bullman tf ITsrsJisi E-i
; sheriff ,sai4 -"ses' toM
t ' ri,:'ef -was Jos .V.' j a-i2-c&l-'
xet f! --f-1 s t t'. t''"S. -
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"Unto These Hill." To
Begin 7th Season On
Tuesday, June 26
Cherokee;' June 20 The colorful,
histork Cherokee Indian drama,
"Onto These Hills", irffl fcesrin it
seventh soauner-long season, in the
Mountainside 'Theatre hers Toes-
day, June 26, at 8;lt p. m.
. ' Aeclabned by critics as America's
forenMst 'play, of ' Uitory. ' ate
These Hls'1 v iriH play ' Blhtiy ex
cept Mondays: through September 2.
' More than. S50,000 persons alrea
dy have y son the . drama, which,
since 1960, fcss. broken all attend
ance : oords '. for similar ntdoor
productioasl 'fe;'i'Xi?V ? v ,
v Produced byAtha noa-profit Cher
okee Hutoric vAssedatioa, ."Unto
These Hills" is the rs-ereatiiM of a
forgotten and neglected page of our
nation's history. - ..: ' :- v'
r.chrsals. hurt been gxilnj '" full
swir for tv fast to wl - vfiitx
A varied program Is again being
offered for both children and
adults this summer by the Mars
Hill Recreation Department. The
program is supported by local civic
organizations with Bill Bennett di
recting the activities.
The department itself is located in
the Junior High School building and
is open weekdays from 9:00 until
6:00 for fro play except when or
ganised ' activities are , scheduled. U
is closed on Saturdays when both
morping and afternoon ' baseball
games are being played. , ':
' ' Some of the 2 - aoa-erganisatioital
aaUvtOek in - which boys and girls j
may , rticipat 1 Inchide:; rsoftball,
volleyball, badminton, 'mi n lata re
golf, horseshoes, basketball, 'erdquet,
shuffleboardj - table tennis, 'and au-
meroua table and card games.
Baseball beads the list of organlb-
ed i games, ' A Saturday morning
league is being sponsored , for boys
of the 9-li year age bracket Thir-(y-three,
boys from the local commu
nity and surrounding areas are mem
berr of this' l"fe. 'ttyn '::
Ilooh ftc': neot to boirj c- '
over te Jon! r T ' ''.
Boy Scout squads from nearby
towns. Although definite playing
dates have not been completed as
yet, these boys will play one game
each week against outstanding com
petition. Uniforms have been se
cured andV good baseball is offered
the spectator. Two games have been
played against the Moose Lodge
team from the Asheville Babe Ruth
League. Moose won the first game
last week at vBiltmore, 12-4, and
Mars Hill captured the second tilt,
6-Von the local field Monday
morning in extra Innings. Mars
Hill travels to Bakersville on Thurs
day afternoon da play, the Boy Scout
tevm of thai town.ry Members of the
squad who are all 15 years- of age
or ' nnder . mclude: f catohes, Gay
Green an J. 'D. Thomas; infielders,
Dava, BaD, Jimmy -Browu, Harold
Lewis, Gene Brackina, Pat Sams, ad
Jack Whkt; dutflelders, Lans Mer
rill, Ed Fisher, Dsrid Ramsey, and
Doyle Wheeler; pitchers, J. P Rob
inson and Tarahel : Peek, Vightbaad
era, sad Clyde Gardner had-Xeonard
Edwards; : lefthanders)i&
?. A local teaorX btlhr sponsored- by
the Rerreatioa- Dep'antnieni" Is also
entered in the Tri-County, Baseball
I Toe. CiheT members of the
5- ; ''8 Burnsville, Spruce
r I -1, Cald'Cmk,!
r ' , in.' Tye
Funeral services for James G. K.
McClure, 71, president of the Farm
ers Federation Cooperative and com
munity leader, of Asheville, who
died Sunday, June 17 in an Ashe
ville hospital after a brief illness,
were held Tuesday at 2 p. m.. in the
First Presbyterian Church of Ashe
ville. The Rev. C. Grier Davis, pastor,
and the Rev. Dumont Clarke offici
ated. - Burial was in Calvary Ceme
tery at Fletcher.
McClure, a Presbyterian minister,
came to Asheville 4t years ago N for
his health and then turned business
man to develop an extensive chain
of cooperative farm markets.
The Asheville Civitan Club, of
which he was a past president, ad
journed its weekly luncheon session
Tuesday at 1 :30 p. m., in the George
Vanderbilt Hotel to permit members
to attend the services in a body.
McClure was admitted to the hos
pital May 6 following a heart at
tack, and suffered several other at
tacks before his death.
Employees of the Goodall Sanfonl
Plant in Hot Springs will observe;
the entire July 4th week as a vaca
tion week, it was announced today
by Reade B. Jolliff, Superintendent
of the local unit.
The Plant will close down at the
end of operations on Friday, June
29, and will resume operations Mon
day morning, July !), Mr. Jollii
said.
The Goodall Sanford Plant is a
unit of Burlington Industries, most
of whose other Plants throughout
the southeast will observe the san.f
vacation week.
At the same time Mr. Jolliff sal',
that vacation bonuses would be paid
to all eligible employees just prior to
the vacation week. In most cas1
this means that employees wit!
more than one but less than fivi
years' service will receive amounts
equivalent to one week's pay, or
approximately two per cent of their
annual wages. Those with more
than five years' service will receru
an amount equivalent to two week '
pay, or four per cent of their an
nual wages.
McDEVITT
IS AWARDED
SCHOLARSHIP
Singing School Follows
V.B.S. At Oak Hill 1
Baptist Church
A most successful Vacation Bi
ble School, with an enrollment of 78
and an average for ten days of 54,
came to a close with Commencement
exercises Friday night at Oak Hill
Baptist Church.
The Rev. Jeter Sherlin, pastor and
superintendent, recognised and com
mended the teachers, pupils and
parents on their splendid coopera
tion in the school, and the 'teachers
of the different department award
ed 69 certificates to attending stu
dents, with 31 receiving perfect at
tendance recognition.
(Monday night of this week a sing
ing school started st this church,
with "Pop" Carroll, well-known
music teacher and radio singer, as
the teacher.
This is the second school "Pop"
has taught at this church, and he
cordially invites bis old .'friends to
attend and urges new friends to be
there.
Dr." Robert Seymour.
Mars Hill Pastor, Is
Presented .Ne Cat ; ,..
A larn croon ' orxW metnhe.
ship ;ef ;th r aBaTia! JBaptfst
Church gathered oi wa bf the
church Monday evening i at' Sft
new, 196 Chevrolet Uh4 the- pas
tor, D. Robert, Seymour,' . A,
As the Croup of deacons and the
pastor cam from their meVtl 1.1
the eborcbi the t were Greeted tbv
erowd of people W Ue 3ringITr
He A Jolly Good Fellow." Cr.
Otis Duck, chairman ot the onr!t
tee then -! made the prewT "r n
speech and t-'rned ovr ' t ?
to Dr. f "'( t ; , i
Davidson, J.une 17 Noel Bruce
McDevitt of Asheville, has bee'i
awarded the Peter MoCormac!:
Brown Memorial Scholarship to Da
vidson College.
, Noel is the son of Mrs. Margaret
H. McDevitt of 78 Dunwell Avenue
and the late Mr. McDevitt. He was
graduated this year from Lee Ed
wards High School.
The Brown scholarship was given
this year by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Brown of Hampton, Va., in mem
ory of their son, Pete, a Davidson
graduate in 1960. He was killed in
1952 while serving as a U. S. Navy
erisign and pilot when his jet plane
crashed.
More than 250 applicants frorr
the Southeast and East compete J
for 32 scholarships Davidson ban
awarded incoming freshmen. .. Mc
Devitt was chosen on the basis ef
academic record and aptitod per
sonal recommendations ami evidenc
es of leadership and scholarships
The Brown award is valaed at
$2,000 for four years of callefa. It
is designated at $500 per year, an
is renewable if standards are main
tained. , .McDevitt was vice president of the
student body st Lee Edward; dur
ing the past year.' He waa ahto
president of the Western District
of North Carolina Student Canaeil
Congress, a delegate to the Nation
al Association f -Student Councils,
and i member - ef ; the Eaaeottee
CommittM of .. Student Geveranent.
- Noel will enter Davidsoa ia Sep
tember, and plana to major, either
ia chemistry . or- pie-law, f As : part
ef the Davidsoa program he will be
afforded guidaaee, eoonseUind; and
aptitude testing b help ia determ
ining bik eventoat prafessioa.
Noel is'the grandson ef the late
Mr, and Mrs. N. B, McDevitt, of
Marshall, 'and nephew of Ida: Stc- 1
pben. Earf K ef Marshall, .
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