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VOL.53 NO. 30
GRAVES SPEAKS
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CONSERVATION
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RESERVE PHASE
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iN. C Board Of Health Tft
; , Function At Medical J ,
f , ; How cn -excwlve und aeedleu
injury In psange !Ar acdWenta
j be wdOMdlJf V 4" i n'' ' '
Hospitals, State Kitfnrtty P
troj aiemibers, piiygicians and pub-
? lie IteaRo , Cficia ,' irt. lIadiaon,
BuncomiM), Transylwsnia nd Yan
cey counties will help supply aa
i answer. '.';' V- rjf
For eix months beginning Aug.
1, these agencies andj Individnala
will furoish data for the North
Carol ina-Vrnell Undverslty Auto
motive Crash Injury program.
Begun in North Carolina in
1954, this program has as its pri
mary objective the study at the
relationship between passenger
ear design and, the injuries sus
tained by occupants.
It is estimated that thousands
of American motorists may al
ready have been saved from in
jury or death by the application
of data obtained in North Caroli
na and in other participating
states in recent engineering safe
ty designs aimed at increasing
passenger protection
Participating groups vnolude the
North Carolina Highway Patrol.
the North ' OaroHna Board of
Health, the Medical Society 'of, the
; State of North Carolina, and, the
- ' North Carolina Hospital Associa
tion, and hospital authorities- and
personnel. r" ' x',j
'Physicians and highway, patrol
officers will collaborate 1y report
Ing on special forms fht nature
and .extent of injuries and the pre
cise causes of' Injuries sustained by
the occupants' of cars involved. In
accidents, in. selected sampling' a
Functlanlng as nieulcal eoordl-
: siator f the. program will be the
. 'North Carolina Board of Health
and many of itj local health of
ficers. - Completed case , histories
t iacludJba; accident reports,'; phots
fc srapaa,. and medical reports will
. he-forwarded te Cornell for analy
sis and statistical interpretation.
t . The lwsultiftfj' pool .. ,rf - medical
and accident data f Mm Norft
Carolina and the M other state
te thM tatentaw - Cwrndll pro
gram has made it possible to pre
(Osstiassd ta Last Pas) ,i
County Financial ,
Statement Page 2
The annual financial' statement
of Madison County, showing re
ceipts and. expenditures is pulb-
lished on Page Two of this issue,
INVITED TO
STATE YMW
CONFERENCE
ft
. , Two Madison County young peo
ple, Olin ' Jarrett and Pat Prof
- fitt, have been invited to attnd
the State YMW Conference, at
' Millstone 4-H Camp near Roclting
ham,' N.' C.; The - Conference be
gins with registration on -Thurs-
v.day afternoon, August 6, and ends
with lunch -Sunday, August 9.
Olin and Pat recently received
a letter from Troy Howard, State
YMW president. Quoting from
t his letter, "We would like to in
vite you to share a week-end of
. fun, recreation,' and information
with our State YMW Clubs."
YMW stands for Young Men
1 and Women. ; YMW clubs are
organizations for young adults.
i They are usually 'organized on the
county-wide basis and are spon
sored by the Ajrri. "
sion Service, your co
and home econcn;N
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46 PERSONS ARE
X-RAYED FRIDAY
AT CHEST CLINIC
Forty-six persons were x-rayed
at the &4nonthly : ; chest x-ray
clinic held at the Madison County
Health. Center of Friday, July 17.
Of the 46 films made, 10 were
follow-up films ' Of "persons who
had active tuberculosis at some
time but now inactive. IS persons
x-rayed were contacts of persons
known to have tuberculosis; 8
persons x-rayed were expectant
mothers who attend the Healfli
Department Maternity Clinic. 11
persons x-rayed were referred by
their family physicians; and 2 per
sons were x-rayed for follow-up
oi previous films.
The films were read by Dr. C.
D. Thomas. Medical Director of
the Western North Carolina San
atorium at ' Black Mountain. Re
ports of the readings were as fol-,
lows: the ten former tuberculosis
patients were all found to be doing
well with no active disease; 27
films were reported as negative;
4 films Showed evidence of non
tubercolsis pathology, and 1 film
showed active tuberclosis. This
person will be admitted to the W.
N. C; Sanatorium for treatment
at once. '
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,t (4iic ennt -ry cuiik is iiiibiiwu
by the Madison County Tuberculo
sis, Association as, part of theiiji
casadlndW proefraim It is held
Wf-onpntbly 'at'te. Health Center,
All .x-yays are .wiaoe by appoinJ
intuit i ' , ,
IltE SUGGESTS
PAYING DECT,
NO TAX CUTS
Washington President Eisen
hower said Wednesday, with great
earnestness, that before talking
abaut tax cuts, Mwe should starti
paying off something on this big.
debt of ears."
He also said he hopes this ses
sion of Congress will bnckie down
and pass a labor regulation bill,, a
new farm program and a bill to
finance the big federal hijfliway
program. Once again, he held no
hone for a tax cut in the next 18
months.
Eisenhower laid down his stand
on these and many other issues at
a news conference attended by 224
reporters.
ABOUT TAXES
On taxes, the President added:
"It would look to be the part ol
wisdom to start getting -the debt
down a little bit, thereby creating
(Continued te Last Paget,
Church Musicians
Will Meet At Lake ;
Junaluslca July 26-31.
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-Church musicians from through
out the nation have been invited
to an Institute of Church Music
t. Lake Junaluska : July 26-31,
sponsored by the Methodist Board
of Education, Nashville, Twin. f ;
The? driector1 of,' the - instituta,
the Rev. Dr. BHsS Wiant of tte
KlaAhville board, said .the train
ing conference is open to "church
musicians of all degrees of skill
and musical 'background." - ,
He announced that faculty mem
bers will include Dr; William A.
Hoppe, dean of the School of Fine
Arts at Wesleyan College,' Macon,
Ca.: Prof. C'.enn Drfper, director
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c'-oral music at Fit'er
I" ' ct-.ner, N. C. the Eev.
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farmers throughout the nation
who are Interested in placing ,
portion 'of their farm in tns Con
servation Reserve ', phase of the
Soil Bank program in 1960 . will
have an opportunity to' do so, ac
cording to an announcement ty
Novlle Hawkins,-chairman of the
Madison County ASC Committee.
This pTiase of the soil bank pro
gram is designed to permit farm
ers to underplant their acrealge of
soil bank; base crops thereby en
abling them to receive compensa
tion for converting a portion of
their, cropland to soil and water
conservation uses. Mr. Hawkins
further explained that the basic
purpose of the program is to re
duce the production of surplus'
crops and stabilize farm markets.
Farmers desiring to secure . a
contract starting with the 1960
program year will be given an qp
nortunitv to siem-un during: Uhe
period August 24 to September 10.J
This period is the same for all
counties and states, throughout
the nation. During this first sign
up period the farmers will merely
sign forms requesting the Coun
ty ASC Committee in the county
in which their farm is located to
establish a ' maximum payment
rate for their farm. The second
sign-up phase will be during the
period of September 14 through
September 24 in which farmers
who wish ' to accept the rates es
tablished by tie County Commit
tee will be permitted to file their
applications for contract. ... ,
$h' " ' conclusion. ' Jfr. Hawkins
pointed out that 'for 1969, as un
der- $ns. 1959 program, . farmers
wijl be' perniiltedT to" offer !theif
land under the nrogramata lass,
raU thSfi tht"es'tabHshe4'by
the. CbuotyCommittttd,- that
priority will . bs iven to (hose
tfanner whv make the best effer
hi order to utilise to the full ex
ttm the- funds made available for
the 1960 program year.'
Uoo:faniG2ica Gcd in
EVIDENCE
INDICATES
HE WASN'T
By BE ALE FLETCHER
(From AsheviHe Citisen-Times)
A grave near Fletcher which
for 84 years supposedly held the
remains of a man convicted - of
murder has revealed no evidence
that he was ever buried there.
: To Ben and . Claude Cunning-
hartiji their children ' and , , grand
children,' this startling evidence
would appear to substantiate ru
mors that have persisted through
the years : that : George ' M.r Cun
ningham who was allegedly- heng-
d in Madison County early in
June, 1875, for the murder of a
Kana man named Daniel Stern-
bsrgh, .waa never actually hanged
until , death .
that -.he escaped
from: the coffin while it was en
route from Marshall to Asheville,
and took out through the woods.
"", It - was also rumored that to
fool the pallbearers who would
carry the coffin to its grave, a log
had been substituted to approxi
mate the weight of the corpse.
V The grave was opened this July
7 under the blazing- heat of a
mid-day sun when a little band of
grim, determined farmers gather
ed at Paity'a Chapel "Cemetery to
setUe once and for all whether or
not the rumors they had, heard
for so mary yc&Ys were true.
Lesl s'-rs lia 1 U '-i t.' rn to
Stresses Importance Of CWI
: Defense Planning; ;
i-The BeT.;:AiyJ:Gravi of. Hot
Springs, V Madison ," County Civil
Defense I'Chainnan, ;was, , guest
speaker sit the luncheon meeting
of the Marshall Chamber of Com
merce Tuesday. . ,
Mr. Graves told ' the group of
the National, State and County
plans, fc Civil Defense activity
and scanned over 1 vital points as
to organization. ' Hf was invited
to return and further discuss CD
to the group In the near future.
William Vanderwrt, also a
guest, spoke briefly about the
highway situation in this area and
emphasized, the importance of
concerted effort and anity in fu
ture road planning. '
Dean Shields, president, presid
ed at the meeting which was at-
tended by 23 members and four
guests.
FOREIGN AID
FUND BILL IS
NOW APPROVED
The", House and Senate, voting
in quick succession with iittle 4'
bate,- Wednesday passed and . sent
to President Eisenhoweif eom-
L an r-f-rt tft ArtA i.ul
.authorization bill, ! "" t
he 't6tal te pnl $363,200,000
short i-f less taan 10 per cent
of the $3,909"01orW Eisenhower
asked, C -u efforts to
.slash it ' t that doesn't
neaa, i' wiwlsst are
ever In get-. it; the money
he wants to l.v.p friendly nations!
stem, the tide of cotnmnnlsm build
up. The biH merely sett spending
ceilings. . , Mr -
ed in five-mlnuts shifts; tmtil they
came to the wood at the top of the
coffin. Then they worked slowly,
with painstaking ' care, ' removing
the dirt bv hand and sifting it
through their fingers. ' " -
Seme of the men had talked to
workmen who bad opened graves
and transplanted -remains ,to other
cemeteries, when 'the Asheville
Hendersonville Airport was ex
panded in the early 80s and had
to make use of land that contain
ed a graveyard. Some of these
graves were around 100 years old.
These workman had said) "YouTl
frnd evidence Cf eomeone had been
buried there for even in the oldest
graves there were always some re
mains: buttons, hair, teeth, bones."
V After two hsurs ' of careful
search the men were ' convinced
that no one had ver been buried
hi that gTave. . '
?! But ' they wanted ' scientific
proof. .They sent - for Doctor
David Pierce who teaches chemis
try at the Ashevine-tBiltinore Col
leg.' Silently and anxiously the
men awaited the opinion of Doctor
Pierce as be carefully examined
the contents of the grave. '.
Because of his experience and
his reputation as a doctor in chem
istry, he was, to the snen present
at the gravesite, an authority on
Such matters as this.
Doctor Pierce looked st the wood
to which the coffin 1 ' s had
been fastened, eut it v. a knife,;
then said, "This U r " He
examined the nails t! i the.
coffin, t'-''tl said, "TV r -t't
f f iron." The six c '
v c r !a of line. I
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TVie 6th regular meeting of the
Madison County 4-H County Coun
cil met July IS in Marshall. The
meeting was called to order by
Faith Edwards, president. Ann
Hufif served as secretary in the
absence of the elected one. There
were three visitors present, Mrs.
Kirkpatriok, Mrs. A. W. Huff and,
Miss Towhsnd, assistant home ec
onomics agent.
The members gave the club
pledge and began discussion of
the pamphlet "Putting he 4-H
Pledge to Work." The Mars Hill
Senior and the Mars Hill 7th and
8th Grade Clubs tied for tile gavel
to hold until the September meet
ing. Some of the ones who were re
cognized at this meeting were; Da
vid Robinson and poug . Buckner
as "Outstanding OairfipersH for Hbe
camp week, and Ann Huff as one
of the six from the Western Dis
trict to attend 4-H Wildlife Camp
as District winner in the sewing
demonstration contest.
A program, "Is Your Home
Fun?" followed adjournment of
the business session.
HAYWOOD s
STUDENT FUND
IS ESTABLISHED
Mars -Hill-. Mars HiU.College
has been named the beneficiary of
a S26.000 bequest in the will Of the
laWI JFrancis of Belmont, N.
C, ,P-residen( Hoyt . piacsweM an
nounced Wednesdar morning. ,
ilthebeqpest is in,ihs form of a
tmsrtund to be known as ttaf"W,
iJJdWM TemorrfaJ holorship
Fund'' and is to bs 'administered
bv the First 'National Bank - of
'Wayeesville' and. the collegs. '
The proceeds Will be used each
. (CnetiNei Te IM rage)
was a considerable:;, quality
heavy, thick-barked wood.
"That aurelv must- bs J the
rs-
mains of the log," .said one of the
men. ; ;
Two types of cloth were found
in the grave, but 'since there were
no buttons, Dr. Pierce said he be
lieved that the doth came from
the padding used in the interior
of the coffin, (Later analysis at
the Buncombe Cetrnty Health De-
oartment Laborstory ; confimed
that the cWth was of two different
waives, but both were ; made of
lamb's wooL It was the lab's opin
ion, as well as Dr. Pierce's that
this cWth would have completely
deconmosed lone before human
bones sad teeth.) ''.''
After examing. the contents of
the grave for seme 80 mmartcs, Dr.
Pierce said, "Gentlemen; there
seems to be no evidence that a man
was ever burred in. this grave."
. By thig time some of "Ben and
Claude Cunningham's children ' and
grsAdcaBdren had arrived on the
scene. There was a touch of hila
rity i the air, as the dramatic
tenseness of fhe past several hours
suddenly relaxed. The young' ones
seeing fhe baroy and contended
expressions on the faces ff the old
folks, lsnghed, and their laugh
ter echoed across the empty hill
side grave. " vs- , ..
Someone askedi "I wonler why
they put the bsttle of vgne in
the grave."'. - 1
Walter Fletcher, sged f T, one
of the gravesule watchers, f l:
"Years eo, befcre c'.'-aT s t '" -id
was commoti'y x i i i t -
try, pej's tr;-'- ' '
f "e on f e r 1 t
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GETS WILDLIFE
SCHOLARSHIP
; On the basis of her 4-H Wildlife
Conservation Record Book, Ann
Huff has been awarded a scholar
ship to the 4-H Wildlife Conser
vation Conference at the Millstone
4-H Camp. It begins with regis
tration at 2:00 p. m., on Sunday,
August 2, and closes after break
fast on Thursday, August 6.
Ann is one of six from the west
ern district to receive a scholar
ship. A total of seventy-two boys
and girls from fifty-four of the
one hundred N. C. counties have
been selected as delegates.
These scholarshps are for all in-camp-expenees
and are provided by
the Federal Cartridge Corpora
tion, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A district award of $25.00 m
cash is sponsored by the N. C
Wildlife Federation. The six 4
H'ers to receive these will be an
nounced tsier.
The State award is an all ex
pense paid itripl to the National
4-H Club Congress held in Chica
go each fall. This award is spon
sored jointly by the North Caro
lina Wildlife Resources Commis
sion and the N. C. Wildlife Fed
eration.
B-M RED CROSS
AREA PLANS ARE
DMISSEDEft
AreaT'Tlanntasi Anwrfcan
Red Cross fWd services in1 ' this
area took, place Wednesday when
Richard Bjurbsrg of Atlanta,' Ga.'
newhr appointed, director f iield
service for Tennessee ana! ,Westr'
North- Carolina, eonf arret with
Marshall Upton, manager of the
Buncombs-Msdieon Rsd Cross
chapter. It was BJuiberg's first
a visit 10 ninivj swcs pwhmuv
.1 mm mAntli km. A mtmBte of
meat a month ago.. A
the national RC staff since 1950,
he was assistant Junior Red Cross
director for the Southeast,; then
manaeed the Palm Beach, Fla.
chapter before returning to nation,
al headquarters as assistant direc
tor of disaster services this Jan
uary. v . , -.,'.,',v.
NKONONWAY
T0M0SC0W;TVILL
BE "FRIENDLY"
Vice President Richard M. Nix
on took off for the Soviet Union
Wednesday night vowing to be
"friendly and frank", during his
ll-day tour of Che Soviet Union.
-Nixon and his wife Pat,: in an
official party of US, swept away,
from Friendship ; Airport 1 ' In v a
sleek , jetliner Svr .the 11-hour
fSght. to Moscow. -,Vf
iNixon good-hanwrcdly Spouted
some newly learned Russian phras
es as he said his goodbyes to Act
ing Secretary ef ' State : Douglas
Dillon, Soviet Ambassador Milail
Menshinkov and other dignttariesi
' He waved to a police-estimated
'iirong of 5.CC8 aho gathered at
Friendship Alport, midway be
tween Wasfiir-toa and Ealtimore,
for the historic ocssy'on.
Earlier in - the Say, Nixon re
ctsved ' Prf ' ' t I '
final instrut;". r.i to hf is i f
line ii t " f t Pi "
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Two Manslaughter Cases On
Docket Jurors '
Named
The July term of superior court
for the trial of criminal cases will
begin here Monday morning with
Judge J. Frank Huskins, of
Burnsvdlle, presiding. Robert S.
Swain is the solicitor.
There are 64 cases on the dock
et for the one-week term. Most of
the cases are of minor nature with
two manslaughter cases docketed
for trial. They are State vs. Billy
J. McKinney and States vs. Louis
E. Norwood.
There are 16 listings of persons
with failure to comply with judg
ment and 33 names on the docket
of persons called and failed last
term.
Spurgeon Chandler, Floyd Pon
der, Homer Payne, Miss Hazel
Sprinkle, Ralph E. Briggs, Wal
ter Cody, Leonard Buckner, Carl
Eller, James I. Story, E. O. Bur
nette, Milburn Gosnell, Jeter Can
trell, Claude Cody, Jessie Keener,
Lauring Sheldon, Joe Bullman, D.
C. Rice, Alvin Harris, Otis Mar
tin, Jack' Anderson, Raleigh Sla-
gle, Homer Radford, Ben Rice,
Nix Ray, Claude Arlington, Har
dy Ferguson, Charlie Honeycutt,
C. B. Justice, J. B. Peek, W. R.
Singleton, Charles E. Wills, Hat-
ton Sams, D. O. Brooks, Glenn
Slagle, C. G. Schaffer, Oliver
Roberts, Marion Ramsey, Colman
Puckner, Ruben Caldwell,' Guy
Vance Edmonds, Tom Norton, Les-.
ter J. Price, Roy Snyder, Shuford
MoDevitt and H. B. Ftynn. "
4.14
TODBtoAY-'V
The Cherokee Indian folk Fes- j
ttval will be heW ' at the fair- 1
ground at Cherokee, N. en Mon
day, JolrZT, at 4:00 p.-mi (
It is a folk festival comprise
of four teams competing far a k
mg cp. The fow . team arc'
Cherokee, N. .; Enka, N. C
Maggie VaHcy, N. C; and Sevit
ville, Tenn. "
i The program consists of squr
dancing, and as an added attr
tion, Mary Smith, a local girl t
Cherokee, who has been singin.
folk f estivala' . throughout
South, will be among those e:
taming. - , ,
- Mr. V KeHy Underwood, v
known throughout the folk ft
circuit, will be ihe master c
emonies. 4 (. , I
;. The music will be furnis
the Smoky .Mountain Strinj
Mrs. Fisher To ,
Make Official
OES Visit Mom
Mrs.? Mildred ,B. )
Asheville, worthy gran
the Grand Chapter of
olina, Order of the E
will make her official
Marshall Eastern f
Monday evening, at f
Mrs. Elizabeth P."
thy matron of f ?
and Wade Kuey U
' A social hour v
the close of V e i