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s - WINNERS OS) THE FFA iand judging-, contest Thursday were
:i , Ambers of the Marshall High team 4R) : seated, Levi Phillips, yer- .
, ' Ion Coates and Lee' -Wallinj and -(standing) Jatk Coe; advisor, and
kgfraig .Bunietteff': mMmi' VMH ,mm&fyP ; y.y
'Aroordinir to. 1I w G. I- '
county agent, bin Icy ' in ,
production for the on .
inf . Madison .County is n
attention, by" rtoimcoo f
Plant beds 'are ....'.,
this year. "A Jiuirnl i cf fai
have plants in the X .m 'o mx 1 l
iisre." 'Plants are i . and j. uw-
ina-Jriosfc plan the'-. TroulV 1 i
ahown up in a few pUn.tbeds. 1
IBS recomimendej Lave i jn
excellent insect contiul. A
killer such as DDT, g.ves i H -
suite, At'doea not have to le
to "kill '.flea beetles. 11. i
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GEI3E:.
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To Go To Princeton, N." C.
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' I JacU C !s, Instructor
hall Htelh SohooJ tu-
? .ia .h.ir tf hoiuwa to h Blue
1? tl II ITA tt fa Pederation's iamol
iudina in , held Thursday at
Dave EiKilson'a farm ia Leicester.
T!.o T'arsha-l ITA toam now
22 a- . ! f '" it 'pefing
f,,c' t'.e f ' ' t"-'i. '
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l J. i. , C.o, t ' "e
.r at LlanJiaU 1. Ji GcJiool,
va their eoaohV
Slariyhall's .Burnette was Wtfb
indlviklual scorer, with 823 out of
a possible 240 pointer, Second.' Jdgft
' individual was Robert Sparks, of
East v Yancey, and ' hird , "was
'North BuDeomtte'a Ronald Ball. , .
- , In eam ; scorine, Notrtlh .,; Bun
oombe placed second ta4 ;Eaat
' Yancey third. '
The .1 Blue IMdge fPA Federa
tion. is v eomposed .of Madison,
' Buncombe and 'Yancey coumttes.-
The ntoe teaims' in the contest
' (mAuded Erwin, Reynolds,. Valley
; &pting v and' " North Buncombe
v, from , Buncombe; East . Yancey
and Cane Kivar from Yancey, and
' MairdttU, Mars: Hill atftd iLaurel
i from Madison.
Fred Reeves and 0. J. WU-
liams, Buncombe soil coneerva
t itiondsts, and Jack', JS&ng, soil
acientiBt from Waynesvdlle, vrore
in charge of he field tfork.
; V Thursday's meet vas Sfponsored
s i by Carolina Tower and Light Co;,
. and the N. . 0, Bankers Associfc-
1 EssaV Contest Winner .
jSeeks Bids For
Improving Street,
And By-Pa$ Here,
. The 'State Highway Commission
in Ralelgb yesterday sked for
hiAa An -niwitniction ' of a bridge
and (upproaohes 'in Cherokee Cpun
tv' and MBunseinff'.imfc'Sn.iBiao
foon and i Yancey counties. , j-
i Included anion the 24 rojeeto
were resurfacing : of he Marahail
By-Pass on Ui S. 2570 and streets
in Marshall and Burnsville, com.
oribm? 7.4 tniJes of the work
(irauLni uind dirainaSre on 1-40
extcT ; from the Tomi '
i ' ' h C '1 E ;" ' i T
' 'Producers' of feed p :
the County 'Vkti-e . i i
this (week by County A
Manager, i i 1 '
lihey srtay yet tcL ' i t'
Grain pVograim ' r 1. '.,
so desire. ' E I
that the ASC (
ihtf (grain aoi ) 1 t
nss reports v' .i . ' i
ostalbllah r ' V i
ers ho'tliiiik Tiy ! ;,y i
ested dn -par.', '
gram. He f lu r
tihe filing of the ;
a ba'c Teqni.r"-.. -did
i.ot o!
pairlifi.pate e.
f . v. I .
. - ; f " i.. il ' j .im.j mice ontnmnViilo wbili .. was
wrecked shortly after midnight Saturday on the Marshall-Asheville
V Highway; The accident injured three Madison County youths, one la-
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Miss Catherine Codyr
KATHERINE CODY
WINS HONORS IN
ESSAY CONTEST
Marshall Senior Is Active
In Many School .
Activities
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Harley McDeVitf
Wounded Vhen 1
Rifle Discharges ,
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Harley MoDevitt, d, of Mar
f haa BiFD 4, was injured Mon
day night when a .22 rifle- his wife
was moving was accidentally dis
charged and the bullet struck nun
! in he atwnachKj v--Vv:,r. ?:
He was taken to an Af&evLSs
' hospital where fee to improviiTg.
Sheriff Ponder said he had talk
ed both MoDeritt and ibis wife
and they both agreed M was an
accident. f: '. '-$..
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To ,.I::t Tuc:day.;-y
". f orfsnizJ. women's
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Ratherine Co4y, daughter of
Mr." and Mrs. Kermit Cody of
Varhall and a senior at Mar
shall .Hiwrh School, has been nam
ed as . first place winner in the .
WNC davasaan - of an essay wwx-1
img contest. The winner was an
nounced at a meeting ot. we ien-
lat -week, in Waynesvilie.
' Topic rfor the essay was "Why
Sodal Work Iftteresta Me As A
rjrr." - The Annteat as 'soonsov-
ed each vear by the N. C. Assooi'
ation of Case Workers and Super.
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ANNUAL ASC
CONFERENCE
HELD THIS WEEK
'The State aniua conference of
ASf! committeemen v and , " ASC
workers opened in the City Audi-
toriuni at Aaheville on Tuesday,
Auril 4. and widl come to a close
on Thursday, April 6, according
to KA-h W. Kameey ASC ofXice
nmnnrer for Madison County. ,
Three of the featured speakers
w"l be Tavid S. Weaver, Director
' "r of Com
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be anuounced L.u-t it vm.i .
plained.. Assistance in . operatiuif
the lane will be lutrndaihed by the
Marshall Llon Club an4 the mem
bers of he Marshall Fire Depart
ment, it w&s said,- 'v' - -v
The Chamber also 'discussed a
Ibrodhure for Maddson County and
plans Aire conimnumg on wua t1"'
i It wafl iUso decided to noid onuy
one meetihg' a month instead, of
two, which has been the case ior
several years.
; .'The meeting was attended by
'Sixteen? members and one , vdsitor,
Mr) Allien Tuckett, who' presented
the; Safety Inspection Lane pro-
fact' to the group. .
f The' next ; meeting of the Cham-
b'Vil be on Tuesday, May 2, at
the Presbyterian (Jhuron.
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Lewis -Funeral To Be FrM f ,
Accident Occur Late"' . , .'
v Saturday Night , .
I Thres Madison County youths '
were injured, one fatally, shortly i
after midnight Saturday when thS ,
ear in which they ' were riding
went out of control on. Highway
B5-70 about four miles south of
Marshall on the Mavshall-Ahe-'
of " '-icu'.luTal
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f..'. v4 of An;
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Extension Serr-
nes, Dean, of the
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Novile H. Hawkins
f":""'.ir, .v'i'"f Ait-:V :'HM-' V';i
RETURNED T'red E.-Pw-
itaiwl. taken in custody in FbUadel-
iphia after confessing to ttue 1938
murder of 'Charles A Werhan of
AheviHe, has been returned to
Madison County, where the War1
lhan- body was found, to wait fur
ither investigation of his story
and possible grand jury action.
' ir -V -K-t '
Jo) parts of Africa and Asia
you couldn't pasture a grasshop
per on . a hundred square miles
wiver once iereat iKjpuJataons
ftoumished. Are we following ftShdsf
path of destruction?
1 , - 'i of Mr.
, , y L- , of Mar
i . 4. v.iis ithrowmi from
rl i tie i inoh Broad
V j lx 'y vai found aljouit :
1 j j at fiwn the (accident wawe,
l.a had drowned.
j State Patrolman' C, W. Pearson,
who jnvestigiated ih accident, .,;
Said the drive of the ar - Tal ,
mags Lewis, 21, also of JtFD " 4,
and a cousin of the vdctkn,' lost
control of ihe car on an ispproacn
to slight curve.v . The 'car fleft ;
skid marks for! 140 feet on the
highway before ; running off . the ;
road on the right shoulder'
The car continued another 170
feet on the right shoulder, traveled
120 feet diagonally across the
highway to "the left shoulder, it
thn nlnnDnd down lb 43-tfoOt n-
bankment, rolled another CO feet
through a wooded area and stopped
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goDDtiSohcol Board
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Meadows," Ponder, Gardner
- , Confirmed Kooerts
. Against Passage
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Been Conp-cl V!i
arm I'r; - n li-
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' tits' 'of V iTsrs
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served as" a me
Community Ct
CalLfomia Ore
be resides and
d rring the Jc"
irrs. In IK"
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'ttee in 5 he
iKtion, Where
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RALEIGH Appointment of
three- Democrats to Jfoe. Madison
County (Board of Education was,
totalled in the Senate Firiday an w
test-mihute inove by RePublic,n
Sen. Clyde M.6 Roberta of Mwr-
shaU. ' ' r ' " , ' ;
: . T1K0 nrt.inn !iiouared' hum off a-
gainst Democratie, Rep. liatoo
r a .matambui. who
JMVtlBSVf .-,
had named the three-man board to
a local measure introduced March
a. . . ,
Ramsey is chairman of ; h
Madison Democratic Executive
Cfeminittes. ' Roberts is chairman
f h TJiurafclican Executive Com
mittee in i&e county.i 'Both said
FriJAy there is no- personal dis-
riita between them.: " ' . ; , ''
Ii.ey are believed (to . be' the
- i V c" airman of orpoamg pary.as
' ' from t'iS " a co';;
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1ULLET1
Madison School Board Bill
' t OKL'dl "
Paleloih Sen. Clyde Roberts
f MTarahaB held Che door
. m-. . . . ...'...
anin ointment ol ttte iKuaa
ison -Couniy Board of Education
hut OA one came on. , .... .
Tn Ka abaence of any requests
from , Maddson , residents o ne
heard on proposals for enJargang
tlwk thre.mah school board, ene
Senate Tuesday; Voted1 final ap
proval of iRep. ' Liston B. Kam
hpv'i bia naminir B. K. Meadows,
Zeno H. Ponder and J. G. Oard
ner on the county board. .
Roberts Tuesday thanked Sn.
Scott and the f iae for the rwt
ponemer.t Iss wr-s fr--ed t F ri-
! -y t4 s-e .'f "y I """ ' ' 1 f -r
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BEARSE WINS
STUDY GRANT AT
NORTHWESTERN .
Melbourne. Fla. UA Melbourne ' -
TTiknh School teacher has been a-
warded S significant one-year fel-
lowshio at Northwestern Univer
sity, Evanston, Illinois.
Wallace E Bearse, chairman ox .
the school's history department,.
has received a paid academic year
of study from the John Kay foun
dation of New" York City, as one
of 76 Selections in the nation.
'The John, J"!ay foundations said
Dr. B. Frank Brown, "is an ia-
land of cbnorn for Shu i ' ' ?
in' an era lien all eh' ":' -'
on' science and tnUrt-- ''
SelectVwis 'Were
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