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MARSHALL, N. C,
FEBRUARY 20, i958
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Tense Meeting At Mars Hill;
Restraining Order Is Issued
Democrats Split; Two Sets
Of Nominees To Be
Submitted For Board
A fifrht for control of the elec
tion machinery in Madison Coun
ty was brought into the open last
week by the two warring factions.
The controversy centers about
the makeup of the new county
board of elections which will pick
the precinct officials to supervise
, the May 81 primary and the No
: vember general election. One fac
' tion wants the two Democratic
' members of the new board select
ed from a slate of M. B. Blanken-shlp,-
Auburn Wyatt and C. T.
.Sprinkle, while the other backs
Marvin Ball, Levi Ponder and
1 Emery Wallin. Blankenship and
t.V Ball are members of the present
board., .f '
, -h The two lists of recommenda
tion have been submitted to Demo
cratic State Chairman John D.
'Larldns. Larkins, contacted in
Chapel HiU Saturday, said he will
pot act on the matter until he
. ' has more information. The recom
I mendations of ' the local groups
- are not Dinainir 1 on ine sutie
- chairman, Alt -the law provides
. that, the state board of elections
' ..' must select ', the county - board
from lists recommended
' if he wishes, can ignore both Marts
and submit three names of his own
.' Mhnnniiw. it was stated.
. Chairman Larkins told the Cit-
' izen-Times that he had received
' telephone calls from William W.
v - Peek in support of the Blanken-ship-WyattSprinkle
group, and
from Zeno Ponder backing the
Hall-Ponder-Wallin slate. Peek
is superintendent of the Madison
County public schools, and Pon
der, brother of Sheriff E. Y. Pon-
der," is active in farm organiza
tions. Both Peek and Ponder are
' controversial figures in 1 Madison
County politics. -L v
The differences came to a boll
' earlier in the week when it was
1 disclosed that two members oi
, the 'present board of-elections
and Democrat Blankenship and
, Republican W. V. Farmer had
met in secret and eliminated sev-
r". 'en voting precincts: Ward Two
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ZENO PONDER
. . . leads one faction
WILLIA"M W. PEEK
. . . spokesman for other
(Walnut) and Ward Three (Lau
rel Fork) in Township One, Ward
One (White Rock) and Ward Two
(Little Laurel) in Township Two,
Ward Two (Middle Fork) in Town
ship Four, Ward One (Lower
Spring Creek) in Township Eight
and Ward One (Big Laurel) in
Township Ten. ,
Ball, the third member of the
board, said he was not advised of
any Monday meeting and was not
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1 LIKE ARCTIC WASTELAND, frozen French
Broad River at Marshall this week was threater.ir..?
and treacherous. As river froze nearly Folldlv sere ,
rre-ure1 mounted naiurt old Asheville -s.v. y
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SCHOOLS ARE A
POSTPONED . ;
UNTIL MONDAY ;
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W. W. Peek, superintendent
announced today that all Madison
County schools would not open un
til Monday due to hazardous road
conditions. Mr. Peek also stated
that if more precipitation comes
before Monday it is possible that
schools may be further delayed.
Announcement will be mads
through press and radio this week
end, Mr. Peek said.
Unemployment
Benefits Are
Given For 1957
Raleigh. Feb. 20 Henry E
Kendall, chairman of the Employ
ment Security Commission for
North Carolina, today announced
that a final tally of benefit dis
bursements by the state agency
indicated that unemployment in
surance benefits totalled $33445,'
860 for 1967 and covered 1,865,
800 payments. In 1956 the ESC
made 1,488,400 payments totalling ltese.rv 1
k na unn n.w j r!pn-Tom n smce 1
$25,118,200. Only in the calen
dar year 1954 when $37,537,653
was disbursed have benefit out
lays been higher than during the
calendar year just ended.
- Kendall said, that among the
i7,,499inured workers enplfy3
tiflhe Asheville Employment Se
curity office area, the i average
number of unemployed in the av
erage week during 1957 was 1082,
representing 2.79 per cent of the
State total. )
4-Foot Snake Is
Killed By Jeter
Worley Saturday
Jeter Worley, of Marshall, had
an unusual experience for Febru
ary when he spotted a 4-foot long
black snake near his home last
Saturday. He grabbed a shovel
and killed the reptile but no one
would believe him when he told
about it In order to prove that
tie was telling the tifurth, Mr.
Worley brought the snake to Mar
shall Wednesday and visited The
News-Record office. "Maybe if
you 1 put it in the paper people
will believe it," Mr. Worley said.
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ASC REPORTS
ON SOIL BANK
PARTICIPATION
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' 10 million acres that would other
wW have been planted to surplus
allotment crops have been planted
in the ' Soil Bank's Reserve- Pro
rnm' bv farmers throuwhout the
Nation. As an Interesting - com
narison to this overwhelming parti-
cVpation in the Acreage Reserve,
E.
S. W. Avent 'fcaree of .Soil
can wora ii
Stabilization V
Sank work f Nfcttltttral
ervation
State Oommitti
M -'that
nationwide part
otheruhalf of th'
Ceaservaitioa I
only ne millioii
in .the
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A quiet search is uKiier Wa
North Carolina for scholar &hip( re
sources to help eutstandinr ltgh
school seniors from the Stale's
lowest income families go on) to
college or vocational school, I ,
Exceptionally! well-qualified stu
dents in families receiving aids M
dependent children (ADC) , have
been recommended by caseworkers
in county departments "of vpubl?c
welfare and by the principals) of
the high schools the stodento at
tend. Local scholarship resourc
es in each community are being
sought to help .finance college r
vocational training . beyond high
school graduation for such stu
dents. This is the plan now being car
ried on by the State Board of Pub
lic Welfare ; which 5 supervises, aid
to dependent children (ADC:
one of the public -assistance pro
grams of the State,"-This is one
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Ice-Covered Island Causes
Postponement; Pairings
: Are Made
W, W. Peek, superintendent, an
nounced here today that the Mad
ison County High School Basket
ball Tournament, scheduled to be
gin Wednesday night of this week,
had been postponed one week
until Wednesday night, February
26. . Huge ice packs on the Island
caused . the postponement.
- Opening night pairings are as
follows:
6:00 p. m. Girls: Laurel vs.
Hot Springs.
7:00 p. m. Boys: Mars HiU
vs. Spring Creek. .,; ;-
8:00 p. m. 'Girls: Marshall
vs. Spring Creek. ,
- 9:00 p. m. Boys: Hot Springs
vs. Laurel.
The Mars Hill and Walnut girls
drew byes in the opening round
and the Marshall and Walnut boys
also - drew byes in opening round
Woodworkers To .
Meet February 27
t Cullov;hse
A woodworkers' conference
dealing with the subject "Wood
Finishing will be held Thursday,
February 27, at Western Caroli
na College, CuUowhee.N.C The
meeting will begin at 8:30 a. m.,
in the woodworking shop located
in the Stillwell Buildinjr. All
woodworkers and others interest
ed in this subject are cordially in
J to attend. The one-day meet
ine will feature discussions and
demonstrations of finishing tech
niques, new developments in fin
ishing material and their use, and
everyday problems of wood fin
ishing. NOTICE
Please do not build fires on or
around Meter Boxes trying ,to
thaw the ice. It will warn and
ruin meters and they are costly.
CITY OFFICIALS
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::?.r-.all Ilish the upstre'tn, souili shUe eft ii, V
; ce of this ice .. Hill Kridga (ri-ht) was si ih.r.T .-1 1
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ht (center),-'' .The icy cru.-h. sl.-tr.! ; ; 1 t ! :
' 5 t v.vcrd " and waters in th? ftr '
i Church
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Data! Covered; Bridges
in; Danger Of Collapsing
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for the
Agric lahillzation and
Conserv'V' sttos ComnuWee,
said today that even though funds
ar runniwr mkrhty close under
the Acreage Reserve part of the
Soil Bank the Conservation Re
serve is still in full swing.
Godfrey expressed concern over
the fact -that farmers in this state
iWt seem to be participating in
ithia Conservation Program as they
should. He reported that so tar
under the 195 Conservation Pro
gram 749 farmers in this state
have offered 16,462 acres for
'hankinfi-" In the Reserve. This
nanticioation will - net farmers
$160,000 in annual payments for
the full period o(;,v.theeontrac;
and. in addition, these! farmers
will- ' receive ' payments . totaling
T $294,000 in the form of assistance i
from the ; Government for estab
lishing a p p r o ve d conservation
practices on the acreage diverted
fmm tirosiction of soil-depleting
"fTcrops.'t"".! ' yi exa(I? of -tv
the Acrd. J Reserve pars i
the ' Soil Siank has Outstripped
the .conservation part In
this state, Godfrey stated that
during the first week of the sign
up in the Acreage Reserve a total
of 156,837 acres were placed in
the Program.
The Conservation Reserve Pro
gram is open for participation by
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Firemen Answer
Call Here Tuesday
To Barnett Home
Marshall firemen answered a
call to Rollins Tuesday afternoon
in near-zero weather when it was
reported that Hugh "Footsie"
Barnett's home was on fire.
Fortunately the fire was ex
tinguished when firemen arrived
with little damage being done to
the Barnett home.
Street Closed To Traffic For
While; Photographers
Have Field Day
Marshall experienced one of its I
most fearsome days in history , ,i
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in the French Broad River.' Sub
zero weather Monday night com
pletely froze the usually swifj
French Broad and it had the ap
pearance of rugged white cotton
when daylight arrived Tuesday.
As the hours passed, the watef
beneath ' the ice packs pushed
MtMn nn and ud until at 11:00
o'clock the solid ice crest reached
the "floor" of the bridges and to ,
the top of the wall at either end)
of Mam Street. Twice, the icy
masses moved swiftly down tha
river but both times came to sud
den stops as it gammed.
Attempts to dynamite the tons
of ice near Msrtin's Rock wero . ,
futile. Stick after stick wera
fixed but so deep were the layer ,
of lee, that the dynamite had no ' ,
more effect than would a two
inch firecracker." "' '
Adding to the anticipation wa 4 .
the condition of the river and l
on the Blannahassett Island. By- -mid-morning
the . Ice ' had over
flowed onto the Island and againa '
the three huildings, - making i .
impossible to reach the ecl4
plant. Ice was pushed by tno,:
uMTuaW -tiie- stw-e'f-giail iUjf fcyJ .
land was covered. 14 was indeed?
a sad experience, cor everyone as
hundreds watched from -'banks
and railroad ttdk&;:t.-:$?J?J 1
--: To add : to the already ', alarm
ing situation, the river started
'backing up" into two storm out- ,
lets on Main Street between the
REA Building and the Marshall
Presbyterian Church. By early
Tuesday afternoon, it was im
possible for cars to move through
the water, more than two-fee
deep, without stalling or ruining1
the brakes. Highway officials -closed
the highway at this point
at 3:30 o'clock to all vehicles.
Fortunately at ,4:30 o'clock,:,
waters started receding and the
street was again opened to traffic
Water reached many basement. t
doing considerable damage but did '
not get into the street floors of
any business places.
The unusual and picturesque ap
pearance of the river caused -many
amateur photographers t
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