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MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1957
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light Quake Shakes llfJ.C;
Is Felt in Marshall Area
Rumblin Noise Accompanies
Five-Second Earth
Movement
A dish-rattling, window-shaking
earthquake rumbling through
Western North Carolina and sec
tions of the foothills Monday, pro
duced fright but no reported dam
age. The tremors were felt between
0:25 and 9:30 a. m., and were re
ported in Burke, Catawba, Ruth
erford, Lincoln, Cleveland, Mad
ison, Mitchell, Avery, McDowell,
Buncombe and Henderson coun
ties. It lasted about 5 seconds.
John Self of Rollins said he was
working at a desk in the Clown
Oil Co. plant when the room be
gan shaking so violently that it
threw his arm off the desk. He
said an adding machine and type
writer rattled.
Mrs. S. B. Roberts and Mrs. C.
D. Bowrman said that the noise re
sembled an "airplane flying low."
One resident of Alexander said
she thought two freight trains had
collided.
Several other residents reported
that they had been "frightened"
by the quake.
The last quake felt in Western
North Carolina occurred late last
summer in the northwestern area
hut was a minor one also and did
no damage. Slight quakes have
been occurring periodically along
a belt of structural weakness in
the earth's crust in the Blue Ridge
Mountains for the
years.
last 150-odd
Buffet Supper
At Hot Springs
Inn Saturday
Mrs. Bob Davis, manager of the
Hot Springs ftin, announced, this '
week that a buffet supper will
be served at the Inn at 6:30
o'clock Saturday evening, May 18.
The charge will be $1.50 per plate.
In addition to the supper, string J
music will Ik- played and a well-(
'known ballad
singer will be pre-
sent.
The public
to attend Uv
tainment.
is cordially invited
supper and enter-
Marshall Baptist
Vacation Bible
School June 3-7
The Marshall Baptist Church
will hold its annual Vacation Bi
ble School from June 3 through
June 7 this year. The hours will. 1 h" meeting will close tollow
lw from 8:30 o'clock until 1 1 :30 ( inK a hrief business session.
each morning for the five days.
panme'r
ery, Mrs. Fred Robinson; Begin-
ner, Mrs. E. Y. Ponder and Mrs.
Eva Sams; Primary, Mrs. Frank
H. Runnion; Junior, Mrs. Troy
Ramsey; Intermediate, D. D.
Gross. Mrs. D. D. Gross is serv
ing as principal..
The school is oepn to children
from 3 through 16 years of age.
Any children who will not other
wise be able to attend a Bible
School, are invited to attend along
with the children of the Marshall
Baptist Church.
A complete list of those work
ing in the school will be announc
ed later.
Marshall Garages To
Close Saturday
Afternoons
Elsewhere in this issue is an
advertisement announcing thai
fonr of the Marshall garages will
start closing this Saturday at
12:00 o'clock noon, but would reJ
main open all day on Wednesdays'.
It was announced, however, that
tha sales departments will remain
open all day Saturdays with the
part and service - departments
closed on Saturdays.
Alumni Speaker
Col. Edward F. Rector
MHS ALUMNI
BANQUET TO BE
HELD HERE SAT.
Col. Edward F. Rector
Speak; Program Is
Completed
To
Final plans have been completed
for the Marshall High School
Alumni Banquet which will be
held in the school cafeteria here
Saturday night at 7:30 o'clock.
Highlight of the occasion will
be a talk by Colonel Edward F.
"Husky" Rector, graduate of Mar
shall High and former member of
the Flying Tigers under General
Claire Chennault.
Col. Rector, a former football
star at Marshall High and Cataw
ba College, is now stationed
7
Wac0- Tf8r
The program for the second an
nual meeting is as follows:
Invocation, Joe Eads; Dinner
(to be served by Marshall and
Walnut Girl Scouts) : Greetings,
Bernard S. Brigman, principal;
Piano Solo, "Memories," Jim
Story; introduction of speaker,
Wade Huey; Address, Col. Ed
ward F. Rector; vocal solo, "My
Wild Irish Rose," Mrs. Howard
Barnwell; recognition of guests;
Reading, Pender McElroy; song,
"This Younger Generation," by
octet composed of Roberta Reeves,
Allison Cohn, Madeline Ramsey,
Dora Lee Edwards, Johnny Cor
bett, Olin Jarrett Jr., Pender Mc
Elroy and Robert Bowman.
The meal is being prepared hy
Mrs. Jack Sprinkle and members
of her cafeteria staff.
I nsD&ct ioiirLo no To De
" " W v
Installed Here
Will Be Located On C.
E. Mashburn Property
On Highway 25-70
John Oorbett, coordinator, an
nounced here this week that an
inspection lane would be installed
on the Mashburn property on
Highway 25-70, May 20-24. He
stated that all vehicles would be
thoroughly inspected absolutely
free of charge. The lane will be
open from 8:00 a. m. to 4:00 p.
m.
Mechanics from the various
Marshall garages will be in charge
of the inspection and it is hoped
that car owners will take advan
tage of this opportunity to have
their oars inspected, thereby les
sening the possibility for high
way accidents.
In the pastf inspection lanes
have proven very popular in Mad
ison County with hundreds off
motorists taking advantage of this
opportunity of having their cars
inspected free.
The inspection lane is being
sponsored by the Marshall Lions
dub and the Marshall garages.
DAVID G. SLAGLE
INJURED FRIDAY
IN CAR WRECK
A 2'J-year-old man died Monday
of injuries' suffered in a traffic
accident eight miles east of Mor
ganton Friday.
The victim was John Albert
Hensley of Valdcse RFD 1.
State Highway Patrolman J. R.
Chandler of Morganton said Hens-
jturies and poyshrdlucnujwypm
ley suffered head, internal and oth-j ston-Salem, 'Dr. Robert E. Sey
er injuries, any one of which, doc- mour, pastor of Mars Hill Bap
tors said, could have caused death, tiat Church, told the audience of
The officer said the other ve- 1.200 that "industrial safety has
hide, a 195C Chevrolet tfuck three dimensions physical, psy
loaded with a 38,000 pound cargo,! chological and political,
was being driven by Clarence Hen-! Dr. Seymour's address high
ly Slagle, 37, of Black Mountain.! lighted the three-day event which
A passenger in the truck, Da- was sponsored by the N. C. In
vid Garfield Slagle, 76, of Mars i dustrial Commission.
Hill RFD 1, suffered a fractured I Among other impressiwe ad
jaw dresses was one given by Ned
Chandler said the truck was ! Dearborn, president of the Na-Ix-ing
driven west on U. S. High- tional Safety Council at Chicago.
wflv 70 am was mnklno- a ertt.
turn into Fleming Drive when the . awards, group meetings and the
Hensley car traveling east struck N. C. Safety Queen Award made
the heavier vehicle's right rear the conference the most interest
wheel. The force of the impact, ( 'ng in its history,
the officer said, knocked the truck Mrs- Elltn BvrJ ason, a
some 20 feet. ' brown-haired, blue-eyed secretary
He estimated damages to Hens-J from Dunn, was named North
lev's car as a total loss and the. Carolina Safety Queen.
truck at approximately $900.
The officer quoted the truck
driver as saying he halted his
vehicle before entering the inter
section and did not see Hensley's
car any time before the collision;
The officer said the investiga
tion was continuing.
ATHLETIC
BANQUET HERE
IS SUCCESSFUL
7
Henderson Spelaki;
E'.zi
Wild MVP; Captains
Are Named
The annual Athletic Banquet,
which was held Tuesday night in
4U - it 1 1 i- i .
mo inarsinan scnooi caieteria, was
well-attended and very successful
Coach Don Henderson, of Mars
Hill College, was the principal
speaker, using as his topic, "Ath
letics As A Guide To Your Fu
ture." He stressed teamwork, co
operation, responsibility, attitude,
mannerism and personality and
also pointed out that religion play
ed a great part in sports. He
told the group that it also had
its social privileges, such as meet
ing other people. Coach Hender
son also emphasized the import
ance of understanding and appre
ciating others who chose different
fields, such as music, science, etc.
He closed his impressive talk by
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next TJeek
OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS: (Traffic accidents take an appalling
toll in life and property each year, and
WHEREAS: It is the duty of all citizens to protect
their families and neighbors by reducing this toll, and
WHEREAS, The Inter-Industry Highway Safety
Committee and LOOK Magazine are sponsoring a
nationwide Safety-Check program during the month
of May to encourage communities to check their ve
hicles for safe driving condition,
NOW THEREFORE, We, the Board of Alder
men and Mayor of Marshall, do hereby designate and
proclaim the week of May 20 as VEHICLE SAFETY
CHECK WEEK and call upon every individual, a,U
traffic organizations, public officials, public informa
tion media, service and trade associations, schools and
churches to accent the challenge and" the op'oortuni
tv to narticinate in thi SafetvCheck snd "Back the
Attack on Traffic Accidents." - : :
DR. HE. SEYMOUR
GETS OVATION
ON SAFETY TALK
Mars Hill Pastor Spoke At
Statewide Safety
Conference "
In a talk which aroused a three
minute ovation by delegates to
the 27th annual Statewide Safety
Conference last Friday in Win-
rrewuwuuu
of public interest
There were no entries from
Madison County, it was stated.
U.S. BONDS SOLD
IN MADISON
IN APRIL
Are
"Bftnds
during
This
pril WeC.,W8,i
' brings the total sales1 for January
through April to $16,400,619.47,
which is 30.1 per cent of the 1957
sales goal.
The Series E Bond sales totaled
$3,513,050.94, ofif 7 per cent from
the corresponding month in 1956.
There was a noticeable improve
ment in E Bond sales during April
as- this series tended to firm up
following the announcement of
the - new 3'4 per cent interest
rates.
In Madison County, April sales
were $11,969.7.', bringing the
sales total for the year to $56,
374.18. This was 28 per cent of
the county's annual goal.
The County Voluntary Chair
man, in releasing this report, ex
pressed an optimistic outlook for
the sale of Savings Bonds. He
said, "With the new, higher in
terest rates guaranteed at 3 lA
per cent, plus the absolute safety
of Savings Bonds, more increases
can be expected in the sale of
Savings Bonds."
Sales in other counties were as
follows:
Yancey, $10,652.05; Buncombe,
224,116.50; Haywood, 25,610.45.
Three Of
f
nties
Viatic
m rat
adison Election
Eking lm&; Jury
CIVITAN CLUB
TO SEND TWO
TO WILDACRES
Billie Jean Redmon, Bobby
Caldwell To Attend
Camp
The Marshall Civitan Club vot
ed to send two younff people tu
Wildacres at the regular meet
ing here Tuesday. The two to re
ceive this honor are Miss Billie
Jean Redmon, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Redmon, of Mar
shall, and Bobby Caldwell, son of
the Rev. and Mrs. Coleman C.
Caldwell of Marshall RFD 1.
The two local youths will leave
here on June 16 to spend a week
with other youths from North
Carolina in the beautiful summer
camp which is sponsored by Civ
itan Clubs.
17 members wore present for
the luncheon meeting with Arthur
Ledford, president, presiding.
NX DRIVER
TRAINING TO
START IN '58
Raleigh The House has enact
ed into law a driver training pro
gram for North Carolina's high
schools.
The program will begin in Sep
tember, 1958. A bill to carry out
the program completed its' legis
lative journey Monday night wb
the House concurred in a bpti;
amendment.
The amendment provides th
the State Board of Education shall
allocate to each school every year
its share of driver training funds,
based on the number of students
eligible for driver training.
The program will be financed
by an additional $1 levy on motor
vehicle tags.
WOULD HOLD MONEY
Rep. Tom White of Lenoir, an
introducer of the bill, told the
House that if a hieh school should
not be ready to put the driver
training course in, the money
would lie held until the school was
prepared to use it.
It is estimated the program will
cost around one million dollars a
year once it is in full operation.
Some l,ti()0 vehicles are registered
with the State Motor Vehicles De
partment. Starting next year, the $1 in-
ireiise on motor vehicle taes will
be used to provide teaching per
sonnel and the necessary number
of automobiles for the program.
BLOODMOBILE
TO VISIT HOT
SPRINGS FRL
The American Red Cross Blood
mobile will be in Hot Springs on
Friday, May 17, from two to six
o'clock, it was stated this week.
The unit will be set up at the
Hot Springs community house and
it is hoped to reach the quota of
"5 pints.
The Hot Springs Lions Club is
sponsoring tbe visit
Walnut Alumni
Association To
Meet Saturday
The Walnut High School Atom-:
ni Association will hold Hs an
nual meeting in the Walnut audi
torium Saturday night at 7:80
o'clock.
An interesting program is plan
ned and all members of the asso
ciation are urged to attend. Dues
of 50c for the year wffl be charg
ed each person attending.
Receives Honor
DR. H. E . BOLINGER,
well-known Marshall den
tist and civic leader, was
named lieutenant governor
of Zone 1, at the North Car
olina Civitan Convention
held at Greensboro last
week. Zone 1 includes clubs
of Marshall, Mars Hill,
Asheville, Canton, Marion,
and Murphy.
SOIL WEEK,
STEWARDSHIP
TO BE OBSERVED
Importance Of Soil To Be
Stressed; Churches
Cooperate
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson today made the fol
lowing statement in behalf of Soil
Stewardship Week and Rural Life
Sunday, both of which occur this
month :
The Department of Agriculture
is happy to join with the Na
tional Association ot Soil Conser
vation Districts and national
ohurch organizations in the ob
servance of National Soil Stew
ardship Week which they are
sponsoring May 2fi to June 2.
During this week, or on Rural
Life Sunday, May 2i, local church
es of various faiths and soil con
servation districts throughout the
nation will join in special recogni
tion of man's responsibility as a
steward of our God-sriven heri
tage the productive soil.
Such observance is especially
heartening to us in the Depart
ment of Agriculture who are
charged with helping farmers use
soil wisely and at the same time
conserve it for continued produe
tion for the generations to come.
Our future food supply depends
on the intelligence with which we
use our productive resources
such as soil and water. Not only
food but many raw materials for
industry come from the soil. While
solving today's problems, we must
not neglect tomorrow's needs.
V strongly urge farm, church,
civic, conservation snd other
organizations to participate in this
event as an important means of
becoming better acquainted wit
the vital importance of wise use
of our land to both our material
and spiritual welfare. I am urg
ing employees of the Department
to participate in soil stewardship
observances as citizens in their
communities or to help organised
groups, when requested, in plan-j
ning or conducting such events.
Melody Masters
Sin? On Marshall
Pack's Program Sun.
The Melody Masters Qaartet,
composed of Billy and , Bobby
Caldwell of Marshal, and Phillip
Wilson and Arthur Farmer of
Walnut, with Edwin Stines; of
Walnnt a pianist,' appeared with
Marshall PscVon his personal an
nearance program In Weynesvile
Sunday night
as ikn
Ds IPiekd
First Witnesses Heard On
Wednesday; Trial
Continues
The government y t .-. t t i d a y
launched in U. S. District Court
in Asheville its case against 10
politically prominent Madison
Democrats who are accused of
oonsipiring to "fix" the November
1954, general election in Madison.
Selection of a jury, composed of
12 Democrats, and examination of
thrve witnesses consumed all of
the opening day action in the
three-year-old case.
The defendants are aw used of
conspiring to stuff Madison Coun
ty ballot, lxxes with illegal ab
sentee votes, fictitious, forged and
fraudulent ballots and using un
qualified or disqualified voters to
swing the vote their way.
The government claims the al
leged election irregularities' vio
lated Madison County citizens'
constitutional rights, in as much
as the election was, in part, for
a U. S. Senator and liepresenta
tive. Defendants in the case, which
was dismis-sed in May of last year
by Judge Wilson Warlick, who is
presiding again, are Zeno Ponder,
former chairman of the Madison
County board of elections; E. Y.
Ponder, Madison County sheriff,
and B. K. Meadows, Arthur K.
Cantrell, lRoy Shelton. W. T.
Moore, Roy Freeman, Merit Whitt,
Jpff Whitt and James W. Bald
win, lesser functionaries in the
1954 election.
Judge Warlick threw the case
out of court last May when he
ruled that an order he himself
had signed authorizing seizure of
the election materials was not a
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ASC BANQUET
WELL ATTENDED
HERE WED. P. M.
Horace D. Godfrey Is Guest
Speaker; Awards
Presented
The Madison County ASC Ban
quet, sponsored by the County
Vendors, was held Wednesday
night in the Marshall High School
lunchroom, with approximately 75
people present. Acting as Master
of Ceremonies for the event was
Mr. Bart R. Farmer, ASC Dis
trict Fieldman. The invocation
was given by Mr. Wade Huey, one
of the local Vendors. On the pro
gram for the evening's entertain
ment were the Melody Masters
Quartet, who rendered several se
lections of spiritual songs; also a
reading, "Lady Farmer." was giv
en by Howard Banks. The speak
er for the evening was Mr. Hor
ace D. Godfrey, State Adminis
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C23-.otr$0.00
In the editorial concern
ing the bond election May
25 in last week's issue,
the answer to the ques
tion, "How Much Will It
Increase My Tax? read J
... If no more than $150,
000 should, be needed a
tax of approximate
ly eight cents (8c) on the
RIOXMM-valuation would
he. necessary to pay prin
cipal and interest . . This
would mean a tax of ap
proximately $S.OO per
thousand dollars of valu
ation." v '
- r Instead ' o t $8.00 per
thousand dollars' va!
, tion, it should have I ec t
gmly eighty Scents (r )
per thousand - r " "
per $10,CC0.C3 ra!