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MARSHALL; N. Cj THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1959 ;
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12.50 A Year In Madison A Buncombe Counties
f 4.00 A Year Outside These Two Counties
ediso'n
Another Us
. JLeslie Ponder, 54, in Fair
Condition In Hospital
" i Cox Held
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i MARS HILL A ; Madison
.. County man was s"hot twice and
, critically wounded Sunday night
near here by a man who,, minutes
before, was chatting with him.
Taken to Memorial Mission
Hospital in Asheville was Leslie
Ponder, 54, of Mars Hill RFD 2.
He was shot once in the stomach
, and once in the chest. The wound
ed man is a distant cousin to
Madison County Sheriff E. Y.
" Ponder, who Arrested the assailant.
' Held in Madison County jail is
James Cox, 21, of Mars Hill RFD
' 1., The sheriff said he was pre
paring charges against Cox, but
was awaiting the outcome of the
'wounded man's condition.
ing took place .'at the home of Le
roy Snyder, also of Mars Hill
RSD 1, about 8:15 p. m.
The sheriff - related this se
quence of events:
Cox, Leslie Ponder and James
and Kenneth Jarvis, also of RFD
1, were standing about the front
porch of the Snyder home talk-
ing.
I . 'The Jarvis men said they miss-
sed Cox for about five to eight
mihutes when Cox came around
the corner of the house .waving
a .32 calibre revolver and fchreat-
f ' ening to shoot the other three
.; men.. . '
- i, ..The v Jarvises fled and foeard
.!:..' five shots fired. 1 Then James
, Jarvis came back around. "the
' house and yanked the pistol away
' from Cox., and found Ponder
vy v wounded. . ' I
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Edgecombe County
Farm Tour To ,l
Lunch Here
The Edgecombe County Farm
Tour will stop for lunch here on
Tuesday, August 25. . Tie Mar
shall Home Demonstration Club
members plan to serve them at 12
o'clock in the Marshall school
lunchroom. The tour group is
scheduled to ieave Marshall at
12:45. They are enroute to the
University of Tennessee campus.
Mars Hill Club
Will Scan Past
The Mars Hill Woman's Club
will meet tonight (Thurs) at 8
O'clock in the cafeteria of the high
school -for a program enttiled
Curtain Call." i ; :
Mrs. E. C Coatea, Mrs. O. E.
Sams and' Mrs. J. V. Howell We
parts on the program which will
span the; years of t the club's
history.. Henry 1 Clay - EdwaTds,
Miss Bex Ramsey and Mrs. Leila
Hodge will ' offer musical accom
paniment ' '
Hostesses will include Mr. W.
Otis Duck, Mrs. Fred Sams Miss
Barbara Stewart, Miss Ann Mau
ney and Miss Ramsey. ; , ' x
Coenty Home . .
Demonstration .
Council To Pleet
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The Gounty Home Demonstra
tion Council will meet Thursday
night, August 27, in the French
Broad Electric Building in Mar
shall. Mrs. E. O. Bumette, pre-
:nt, will call the group to or
' r st 7 The main business is
! e p'.m'nng for Achievement
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C3elc3 In Jail
Marshall Principal
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BOBBY EDWARDS, Bon of
Mr1, and Mrs. W. M. Edwards, of
Mars Hill, is the new principal
of the Marshall school. He suc
ceeds Bernard S. Brigman, who
served as principal for 9 years.
Mr. Edwards is a native of
Madison County. He graduated
from Mars Hill High School,
Mars Hill College and High Point
College. He completed graduate
work at East Tennessee Teachers
College and for t'he past 12 years
has been assistant football, bas
ketball and track coach at Mars
Hill College.
'He is married to the former
Miss Louise" Joyce and they have
one daughter. They wiU reside
at Mars Hill for the present. '
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ASC Gommunity Election
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Election On Sept. f 10;
. 1 ' ..Take Offices On
October 1
Will
One of the (principal duties of
the 16 ASC Community Election
Boards is to name a slate of 10
farmers within cneir 'Tespectwe
community from which the farm
ers will elect their ASC Commu
nity Committeemen for the com
ing year. There is one exception
to this policy, according to Ralph
W. Ramsey, ASC county office
manager, and that is a provision
that farmers within each commu
nity have the .privilege of peti
tioning additional names added to
the slate of nominees as named by
their community election - board.
At least 10 eligible voters, must sign
the petition in order to make no
minations by petitions and each
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A LI.ION Train
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LIONS CLUB TO
HAVE PICNIC ;
NEXT MONDAY
Prospective Members . And
Families Are Also
Invited
The Marshall Lions Club will
sponsor a cook-out on the Island
next Monday night with all mem
bers, prospective members and
their families invited.
Lion H. E. Bolinger, in charge
of arrangements, urges everyone
to be on the Island at 6:30 o'clock.
"'We are looking forward to a
big time and fine fellowship and
food," . Lion Howard Barnwell,
president, said.
Local Men Safe;
Leave Earthquake
Area Last Sunday
Much anxiety was shown here
this week following the news of
the earthquake in Montana. Rea
son: Two Marshall men were in
this area.
Word was received by phone
Wednesday, however, that Ted
McKinney and Wade Treadway
left the Hebgen Dam area on the
Madison River Sunday. At the
time of the earthquake which took
many, lives, the two local men
were several hundred miles north
af the devastated area.
The two men are on a fishing
trip in Montana and other areas.
The price of liberty is vigilance
-always payable in advance. .
12 Poisonous ' ,
Snakes Killed On
Hickey Y Fork
Hickev's Fork produces some
mighty fine ipeople, wonderful
crops, large fish and many other
things. Now, according to re
reliable sources, Hiclqey's Fork
also has plenty of poisonous
snakes or did before last Wed
nesdays Raymond -Sftielton and Delipha
(Maw) Kendall were mowing
treeils when they found and killed
two,' large rattle snakes. - j
. Quenton Norton and Lewis
Patterson-Trilled two Jar ge cooper
heads and seven small ones',
.. Jimmie Sheljbon killed a large
eooperhead nearby. : t. j
That made a total of 12 poison
ous snakes killed in one day. "
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CONSERVATION,
RESERVE SIGNUP
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TO START AUG." 24
Farmers who wish to put croip
land in the Soil Bank's 1960 Con
servation Reserve must . ask the
county ASC committee to set a
basic annual rate per-acre for
the offered land, Novile Haw
kins, chairman of 'the' Madison
County Agricultural Stabiliza
tion and Conservation committee,
said today. The period for fil
ing such requests is from August
24 through September 10. No
such requests will be accepted af
ter September 10. :.
In setting the basic annual per
acre rate for land offered, the
county committee will take into
consideration the productivity of
the land and the' rate will be lim
ited to the local fair rental value
of the land based on Hhe crop
harvested from it during the past
5 years. When ; all the eligible
cropland on the farm is offered
for the Conservation Reserve, the
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WEST FOUND
AFTER SUICIDE;
BANK LOOT INCAR
Was Member Of Prominent
,x Weaverville Family;
Rites Friday
Husky Troy " William West Jr.,
37,' ; of Weaverville, who robbed
the Biltmore branch of Wachovia
Bank and Trusi Co. last Friday,
shot "himself to death near Wea
verville ; Wednesday morning. -;West
had ended , his life by si
multaneously pulling the triggers
ony twe .38-ibjj5,''etols':Jield to
his'' temples. :Th' weapons . were
the ' Same guns with vwibich he
pulled t'he holdups. 'ri'r
Recovered in ' the trunk of
West's car was $3,393 taken from
the bank actually 153 more than
the" bank's estimate of loss. :
A rural mail carrier, William
J. Baley, of West .Asheville, and
formerly -ot Marshall,' discovered
the body shortly after 10 a. m.
West, a Clemson College grad
uate and World War II veteran,
had -. undergone treatment for
mental illness in hospitals in
Greenville, S. C, and in Asheville
since last January.
Funeral services will be held
at 2 p. i., Friday in Weaverville
Metlhodist Church. -The Rev. W.
P. Waugh and Dr. H. B. Dendy
will officiate. Burial will be in
West Memorial Park.
The deceased a'fmember of a
prominent Weaverville family, is
well known in this area, having
assisted Jn many real estate sales.
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STOBIWSTABT SenCOifBES.;
"GOHDMOQ" IS EMM01
COUNTY RATE
SET FOR 1960
CON. RESERVE
The basic rate of rental pay
ment in (Madison County under
the I960 Conservation Reserve of
the Soil Bank will average $18.50
an acre, Ralph W. Ramsey, coun
ty office manager, Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation,
announced today. This is the
same as the basic payment rate
in the county under the 1959 pro
gram. The basic rate of rental pay
ment in North Carolina under
the 1960 Conservation Reserve of
the Soil Bank Program will av
erage $16.00 ,per acre.
For individual farmers, a per
acre rate will be set for the par
ticular land to be placed in tfhe
Conservation Reserve taking into
consideration the productivity of
the land and limiting it to the lo
cal fair rental value of the land
based on crops harvested during
the past 5 years.
'The I960 Conservation Reserve
program contains special incen
tives for farmers to place all their
eligible land in the program for at
least 5 years and a priority sys
tem for aocepting Conservation
Reserve Contract applications.
Eligible land, in general, is crop
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Pacific Mills .
Employees Now
On Vacation : .
.-.Employees of Pacific Mills of
Hot Springs are on vacation ihis
week and-the plant is shut down
until Monday, August 24.
piled Fund Meeting
Jext Thursday Night
Laurel - Walnut
In Make-Up Game
At Laurel Saturday
The Walnut, baseball team will
travel to Laurel Saturday to play
"make-uo" srame which was
postponed recently.
The game will be the final con
test in the Madison County
League this season.
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1 f -in arrive I fit Hot
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4-H DELEGATES
SPONSORED BY
MARSHALL FIRMS
Madison County's 4-H Leader
ship" Delegates are being sponsor
ed this year by five Marshall
firms. Belk-Broome Company
and A & P Food Store gave $7.00
each for the two boys, Norris
Gentry and David Robinson. The
two girls, Andrea. Duckett and
D e a n ri a Kirkpatrick, received
equal amounts. Their sponsors
were Marshall Department Store
$5.00; Home Electric & Furni
ture Company $4.00 and
Sprinkle-S'helton Wholesale Com
pany $5.00.
The Madison County 4-H'ers
are attending the Fifth Western
District 4-H Leadership Confer
ence at Swannanoa 4-H Carmp this
week. They left Marshall at
10:30 Monday morning and will
return home about lunehtime
Saturday.
Two senior 4-H Club boys and
two senior 4-H Club girls from
each of the fifteen western count
ies are sharing ideas and gaining
inspiration for leadership in their
home communities. The Madi
son County delegates represent
three schools and four different
communities. Norris, the son of
Edward Gentry of Hayes Run,
will be a freshman at Marshall
High School. "David is the son
of Mrs. J. P. Robinson of Mars
Hiil and is a freshman at Mars
Hill High School. Andrea is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
J, Duckett of - Luck. Deanna is
the daughter of Mrand Mrs. G.
H." KirktrickofsVnng'tSeet"
Both girls . are - sophomores-: at
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Directors, Public Urged To
Attend Meet At
Courthouse
"The future of the Madison
County United Fund will probab
ly be decided at an important
meeting next Thursday night,
August 27, at tfhe courthouse be
ginning promptly at 7:30 o'clock,"
Dr. H. E. Bolinger, president, an
nounced. Every person interested in this
method of helping numerous
causes is urged to be present. If
you do not understand United
Fund and its merits, you should
be at the meeting to hear the
program discussed. -
"liir has been highly success
ful In. the years it lias operated
and it -is hoped that sufficient in
terest will be shown to warrant
its - continuance," Dr. Bolinger
said. ' ' '4 ''," ' '
Harold Hector
Is SU11 Critical
After Acid Burns
. ' Harold iRector, formerly of
Marshall, . remains in a Flint,
Michigan, hospital in critical con
dition following an accident last
week at the General Motors plart
where he was employed.
. 'Mr. Rector was severely burr
with sulphuric acid.
Ills condition is1 V.'y i
proved, it was rvj-oit. J ' ; r
ing.
Board To Assign Walnut
Students Tuesday
Night
Supt. Fred Anderson said this
morning that the Madison Coun
ty Board of Education has not re
ceived any definite reply from the
State Board of Education relative
to consolidating Marshall and
Walnut High Schools. "We did
receive in this morning's mail,
August 20, 1959, a report from
the Study Commission sent, in to
Madison County by the State
Board of Education July 22, 1959.
This report and recommendation
will be discussed and we hope
acted upon by the State Board of
Education Thursday, September
3, 1959. T'he report is im effect
a long range plan urging consoli
dation and suggesting reassign
ment of pupils for all of the high
schools in Madison County except
Mars Hill," Mr. Anderson said.
Since the opening date of school
has been set for August 24, the
Madison County Board favors
sticking by that opening date for
all schools in the county, includ
ing Marshall and Wajnut, and,
therefore, schools will open as
scheduled. AH teachers will re
port for duty Monday, August 24,
and all students will report to
their classrooms Tuesday, August
25.
The Madison ,County Board of
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IMPROVEMENTS
ARE MADE ON 16
DISTRICTOADS
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.Asheville " Improvements on
16 county roads in the Thirteenth.
Highway Division were completed
during flie past month, according
to Division Engineer .W. M; Cor--
kill. ' ' ' v
These Madison County roads
were resurfaced with bituminous s 1
seal: 1 mile of NC 214; 9.2 miles, '
of NC 208; 19 miles of US 25 ) ,
and 70, from Hot Springs to Ivy t -River
Bridge; I mile Big Branch
Road; 2.6 miles Grapevine Road; .'
3 miles old 213, from Marshall, 8
miles west; 1.4 mile Little Pine'
Road; 0.36 mile Marshall Ceme- .":
tery Road; 3.1 miles Guntertown .
Road; and 8.4 miles Big Laurel
Road, Grading, draining and sur- -.
facing was completed, on .00. mile
Bull Creek ' Road and 0.4 mile
Peachtree Road. ) " ' , , ,?"
' Also in Madison, 0.4 mile ; of ; f
the Puncheon Camp Road and 0.5
mile McKinney . Branch ' - Roat- :
were graded, drained and stabil-
ised and the I-beanr bridge and ,
approaches .over . the French .
Broad River on old NC 213 and
the ramp ' to the high school at
Marshall were completed. '
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Couple Hurt In ,
Collision Of Car, -Truck
On Tuesday
. A ' Montgomery, Ala., couple
was injured Tuesday afternoon
when heir auto collided with a
tractor-trailer on U. S. 2."-70,
near Hot Spring, fUte I" hray
Patrolman A. L. Fe'.V ia re
ported. lie said iie vk:'rs v, e r
non C. V..-!f.-'l r 1 ' ' . -i ,
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