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MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1961
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Individual Applications Are
Returned Here Unsigned
Neill Defends Stand; Does
Not Make Return To
School Appeal
The task of replacing 30 mem
bers of ithe Mars Hill School fac
ulty apparently will face the new
prinicipal when "he succeeds Ralph
Neill Jr., at the end of the .present
school .term.
Re main nig also is the question
of whether parents will change
their minds and discontinue their
boycott of the sdhool.
After learning of the Mars Hill
School committee Saturday night
elected Evail Evans to succeed
Neill, some parents in the coi
munity said they would send their
children; back to school Monday.
"We did what we thought was
right when we kept our children'
out of school. Now that there is
nothing else we can do we may as
well send our children back," one
of them said.
Other (parents were more deter'
mined than ever to continue their
boycott of the 950-pupil school,
where attendance has been below
100 every day since Tuesday, when
a group of , mothers marched on
the school to begin a mass demon'
stratoion which ended in the coun
ty counthouse in Marshall, 11 miles
away. . -
A vast majority of the parents
' questioned took- their place in the
totter category that they are will'
tog' to see their children remain
out of classes until the end of this
"Bcnoot year, about three weeks a
way. .-' i v . .
- , There was a difference of opin
. ion among parents but the 80 fac
ulty members who earlier signed
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Bell Institute
Alumni i Meeting
To Be At Walnut
The 2nd annual reunion of for
mer students and teachers of Bell
Institute will be held at the Wal
nut Presbyterian Church on Sun
day, June 25.
.Following t'ne morning church
service, a picnic lunch will be
spread on the church grounds.
Later, an afternoon program is
planned (including a brief bus
ness meeting).- .!.-'.
Everyone who attended Bell In
stitute (or any other school un
der the ' Presbyterian (Board in
Madison County) is , invited to
bring a picnic lunch and attend
this reunion. ; S
The officers are: President,
Clyde Mcdure; vice president,
v Luther Wardrepj secretary and
treasurer, Mrs. , Bob Henderson;
historian, Miss Lula Chandler.
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To Hold Picnic Supper At
6:30; Program In
Lunchroom
The - annual Marshall High
School Alumni Banquet will be
held on the Island Saturday night,
beginning with a picnic supper at
6:30 o'clock. Following the sup
per, a talent -program will be en
joyed in tne Marshall lunchroom.
This program will be followed by
the usual business meeting and e
lection of officers.
Dr. J. L. McElroy, president,
p- ".ouneed that Cie informal out
' r meal proved so popular l.;r '
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FOUR NARROWLY
ESCAPE SERIOUS
INJURY FRIDAY
Car Burns After Wrecking
Near Ivy Bridge
Friday Night
Four young Marshall men mira
culously escaped serious injury
about 11 o'clock last 'Friday night
when the car in which they were
riding struck a rock embankment
and overturned near Ivy Bridge
on the MarshaM-Asheville High
way. Seconds' after the impact
with the rock embankment, the
car burst into flames but the oc
cunants managed to escape with
minor cuts and bruises.
The four men were Harry Bald
win, driver and owner of the 1860
Tudor Chevrolet Sedan; Barry f
Briggs, Johnny Ball and Gordon
Rice.
One of the men stated that an
oncoming vehicle's lights blinded
the driver who struck the rock
embankment on the right aide of
-the highway as they were travel
Ming toward Marshall. Firemen
from Marshall quickly went to the
scene and extinguished the flames.
The car was completely demolish
ed.
DEADLINE NEARS
FOR FEED GRAIN
PROGRAM SIGNUP
Com grows have until May 22
to sign up under the 1961 feed
grain program, Joel B. 'Morgan,
Chairman, County Agricultural
Stabilization end Conservation
Committee, said today.
The program provides special
payments to growers of corn who
divert acreages this year from the
production of corn to a soil con
serving use. Up to half the total
payment to be earned on a farml;
may be made in advance if the
farmer requests it.
In Madison County, the acre
age county rate is $33.40 per acre
for reducing corn acreage a mini
mum of 20 percent below the farm
base acreage. 'Higher rates will
apply for reducing com from 20
to 40 percent below the base.
Rates on a farm may be higher or
lower than the county rates, de
pending on the farm's productively
in relation to the county acreage.
While the program is voluntary,
corn (producers will not be eligible'
for price support on any of their
1961 feed grain crops unless they
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Banquet To
On Saturday
HEALTH DEPT.
ANNOUNCES
RABIES CLINICS
Dr. Miargery J. Lord, Madison
County Health Director, has an
nounced that Rabies Clinics nave
been schedule,! for some areas of
Krad-son County on May 29, June
2, n;i June 5. The clinics will be
cob.:jc!4 by 2r-!td vetei snar
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MHS STUDENTS
SELECTED FOR
INSTITUTE
Judy Ball And Shirley Parris
Will Participate In A
Four-Weeks Study
Miss Judy Ball, age 15, daugh
ter of iMr. and Mrs. Jack. Bali of
Marshall RFD 5, and MSsa Shirley
Parris, age 16, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Paras of Mar
shall, have been accepted for c
four-weeks' Summer Institute for
Talented School girls at Woman's
College of the University of North
Carolina beginning June 6.
A grant from the National
.Science Foundation enables the
Ball
Parris
Woman's College to offer a Sum
mer Science Trainimg (program
for Secondary" School 1 students.
This program ds designed to give
a group of 40 high-ability (girls in
.the summer between the llith and
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1961-62 HUNTING
PROPOSED
- Raymond !Ramsey,: wildlife pro
tector of 'Madison County,- an
nounced that the Wildlife Re
sources Commission will hold a se
ries of public hearings in each of
the Commission's nine districts to
give sportsmen an opportunity (to
express their opinions regarding
the 1961-1962 hunting and trap
ping regulations.
Ramsey said that the Commis
sion met in Raleigh May 10, to
establish a set of proposed regu
lations that will be presented et
the .hearings. Ramsey urged that
local, sportsmen attend the Dis
trict 9 bearing scheduled for 7:30
p. m., at the Court House din Sylvia
on May 23.
Up for consideration this .year,
Ramsey said, is a proposal that
the squirrel season ; be opened
statewide on October 16, and close
January 1. In Madison County
the season would open two weeks
later than last year.
The Commission proposes essen
tially the same season on bear as
last year Oct. 16 through Jan. 1,
with minor local exceptions, and
the same dates would ' generally
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GIRL SCOUT
COUNCIL OPENS
CAMPDRIVE
The Pisgah Girl Scout Council
of Western Moron Carolina new
"kickoff" luncheon at the Bat
tery Park Hotel Saturday for a
fund drive to improve the girls
camp in Translyvania County. The
following people gave progress
reports and future plans for the
drive: C. G. Picfcaird, advance
gifts; Frank Coxe, industrial j E.
Mack Sailey, business; Mens. Har
old Clark, clubs and organaza
tions; Mrs. James Garrison, Girl
Scout adults; Dr. Mary Shuford
and WilHain M. Styles, profession
al. . . t :
Mrs. , Tania Rollman presented
a panorama iprogram and senior
Girl Scouts presented a program
of reminiscences about camp life.
Intermediate: and iBrownie Girl
Scouts ' representing troops from
the entire thirteen-county council
staged . Cornerstone Ceremony"
. . . twenty items from Girl Scout
camo life, raiwrins- from the A-
f merican flag to the lovely box of
cookies :wfliich have played so
great - a part in the development
plan to date, were placed in the
''cornerstone'' by girls while a
student ''"-'from Honk School of
Creative Arts narrated this high
light of the meeting.
- Miss Margo Roberts amd Miss
Martha Louise Ramsey represent
ed Madison Coumty at this meet
ing, and were accompanied by
tfheir leader, Mrs. Ed Niles.
Ifewf angled movies may, be o
way Jfif jmom and he lf''but a
maa misseS'lSe silent fiUuo. " It
was1 so 'good to see a woman open
her J mouth and have no sound
come out
Dr. Carroll, Board, Committee
Set Dp "eeting Of Winds"
25 Citizens Are Extended
Invitations To Attend
Tuesday's Meeting
Dr. Charles F. Carroll, state
superintendent., of public instruc
tion, met with - Madison County
school of facials here Monday night
in an effort to restore normal con
ditions at beleaguered Mars Hill
School.
iHe was accompanied to Mar
shall by J. Everett Miller, assis
tant state superintendent, who al
so assisted in Qie meeting.
Proir to the meeting ki the
Courthouse, 30 of the 35 teachers
at the school gathered at Mars Hill
and again told the Citizen that
there would be "bo compromise"
in their decision not to accept re
eetiiiiigs
EVANS REJECTS
PRINCIPALSHIP
OF MARS HILL
Evan J. Evans, a native of
Madison County, who is as
sistant nrincipal of a school
near Orlando, Fla., stated,
"Upon receipt of further m
formation on conditions re
lative to the Mars Hill situa
lion, I do not feel it would
be wise to accept the posi
tion at this time."
He said he had informed
Madison County School
(-Superintendent Fred W.
Anderson of his decision and
he voiced appreciation for
the confidence shown in him
by the officials who offered
him the job.
Firemen's Auxiliary
To Hold Bake Sale
In Marshall Sat.
The Marshall' Firemen's Aux-1
iliary will hold a bake sale Sat-
urday in t!he building on Main
Street which was formerly occu
pied by Model Grocery. In addi
tion to the bake sale, tiie rum
mage"' ale:'khha;;heenheld
for two previous Saturdays will
be continued since several items
still remain to be sold.
appointment unless their ousted
principal Ralph E. Neill Jr., is
rehired for next year.
All have been offered jobs next
year by schools in Hampton, Va.,
they said. "If Neill goes, we go,"
is their stated stand.
At Marshall two members of
the five-member Mars Hill School
Committee which declined to give
Neill a new contract were equal
ly firm in their position not to re
hire flie principal. Already the
committee has chosen as his suces
sor van Evans, a Madison na
tive now teaching in Florida.
Complicating these two oppos
ing viewpoints is the student boy
cott at the school which began last
Tuesday. The number , attending
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Eid Qeaioeke
Lack Of Quorum Wrecks
Tuesday's
Pupils,
MRS. HUSKINS
WILL ASSIST
IN TAX FILING
State Privilege License For
New Tax Year Based
On 1960 Census
The 1960 Census will be used
in determininsr State Schedule
"B" Privilege License tax liabili
ty for t!he tax year beginning
June 1, 1961, according to infor
mation furnished by Mrs. Sam J
Huskins, local .Deputy Collector
for the North Carolina Depart
ment of Revenue.
Mrs. Huskins states that many
Privilege
Licenses are based on
population and suggests that the
taxpayers .refer to the 'Schedule
Partial List, which is being
mailed together with application
blanks etortaPyr Bweoghout
the State within - the next ; few
days. Privilege Licenses not bas
ed on population will not be af
fected by these population chang
es. ' -
The 1960 population figures fori
some of the places in Madison
County are: Mars Hill, 1,574.
If any taxpayers in Madison
County are in doubt as to their
correct tax liability or need as
sistance in filing their applica
tions, Mirs. Huskins suggests that
they contact her at her office,
which is in the Pollards Drug
Store, 2nd Floor in Burnsville, N.
C, or caH her at telephone No.
MUrray 2-2418, and she will be
glad to furnish any information
desired.
TWELVE HUSBANDS
Chicago Arrested while liv
ing with her twelfth service-nian
husband, Mrs. Virginia Debus, 82,
was accused of marrying the oth
er eleven to obtain their Govern
ment subsistence checks. She was
given a, one-year sentence.
She was convicted on falsely re
ceiving two subsistence checks
for 157 each. .
MFIC IS GIVEN
$20;613 GRANT
BY FOUNDATION
- Mars Hill College has been
chosen to receive a ?:0,C13 p i
from the N C Foi.nJatt-'i f r
Church Related Cn"'
The announcement of t s :
iras made Tlmrs' sT i. -Salem
by Paul 7 ',
director f '.' ' '
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eeting Here;
Teachers,' Speak
Tuesday's Meeting Flops
Tuesday night's meeting in the
courthouse which was requested
by Dr. Charles F. Carroll, state
superintendent of liducatiion,
floundered amd ended in a "do
nothing" stalemate after four
hours when three members ox itne
Mara Hill School Committee fail
ed .to show np. They were chair
man D. iM. (Robinson, who is in
Washington, Eugene Reece and
Paul Gillis. Also absent was J.
G. Gardner, school board member
from Mars Hill.
The meeting had been called to
attempt to find a solution to the
Mars Hill crisis after Dr. Carroll
had met with the county board ,
and the Mars Hill Committee . ,
Monday night and , requested a
"meeting of the minds' be held, r
The two bodies selected the "
place and the persons (25) who
would be extended invitations ,
"plus oUherSiWho were interested".
". Sbme'100; persons turned tap. at '
the ' meeting which started atS"---eight
o'clock.' Attempts ito locate
Reece and Gillis and persuade
them to come to the meeting were ,
unsuccessful. Thus, ; with . no
quorum present, no official action
could be taken. ,
Later in the meeting, Rex Al- , ,
len and Dr. Otis Duck, leaders of -the
pro-Neill faction, met priva
tely with Ponder and B. K. Mea
dow;, board chairman, in an ef
fort to work out some sort of
solution. This meeting also fail
ed to produce any results.
Secret Meeting Wednesday
Night Stalemated ;
- Following Tuesday night's
"deadlock",, a secret meeting was
planned for Wednesday night be
tween members of the board of
education and the superintendent
and Dr. Otis Duck and Rex Allen.
Principal Ralph E. Neill Jr., was
also included in the meeting in
another effort to reach a eolution.
At last night's meeting, held
in the office- of Superintendent
Fred W. Anderson, both sides
came armed with compromise pro
posals but the affair ended in an-
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' Wade Huey, newly-elected
niay-
or of Marshall, highly comn
the Marshall Fire Deparfcmc
a letter to this Jiewsptaper.
letter follows:
Mr. James I. Story, Editor
The News-Record
Marshall, N. C.
Dear iMr. Story:
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