Newspapers / The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.) / Sept. 21, 1961, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
2.60 A Year In (Madison & Buncombe Counties . $4.00 A Year Outside The Two Counties VOL. eo NO. C3 8 PAGES THIS WEEK MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY, i . T. 21, 1S31 10c PER COPY lc!:iauo:::3nt Day Saturday; Dicpldys Oppb To Public ; County Ladies Will Present ,y Program In Marshall School Lunchroom ' i Each year the Home . Demon stration Clubs in toe county have an Achievement Day program to show some of the projects and oth er thing they have been taking part in over the past year. This year we will have the booths from each dub in the county set up in ' the Marshall school on Saturday, ; September 23, at 10:30 a. m. The publio is invited to visit the ex hibit any time from 10:30 a. m., to 2:00 .p. m. The clubs and their displays are as follows: Christmas Decorations Each club in file county;1 Simple Enter taining: Hlayes Run club; Gad gets Galore Sleepy VlaJley; Ov en Meals Walnut; Styles that Flatter Paint Fork; Flower Ar rangements Little Pine; Food Conservation: Canning & Freez ing - Beech Glen; Easier Iron ing Bull Creek; .Strengthening Family Ties Marshall; Drap eries you dan make (Hot Springs; Crafts Mars Hill; Color Co ordination: 5 keys to home deco ratingGrapevine. These displays are open to the puUUc from 10:30 a. m., until 2:00 p. m. The Home Demonstration Club members will bring is covered dish .and eat lunch together. We will plan to ihave a short program from 1:00 to 1;30 p. m., An the lunchroom of the school.'- The club members invite every interested person to attend their Achieve ment Day this..year,I BLOOD DRIVE TO BE HELD AT HOT SPRINGS SEPT. 28 ' The . semi-annual , fl-Wood Drive at Hot Springs will be tneld on September 28 from 1:00 p. m., to ' 6:00 p. m., at the Recreation Cen ter .'. . . . "The citizens are reminded that we use as much as we give in this county. Therefore, we must con tinue to be las generous as we have been in the past," Dr. John , Ditunno said. All 10 Bond issues Are 'Good' - Terry Republicans Will Support - Five Of The Ten v Issues ' Gov. Terry Sanford expressed confidence 'Monday that the people ' of the state will decide that all of some $91.5 million In proposed state bond issues are "good invest ments." That was Sanford's reaction when informed that the state Re publican Party has taken a stand supporting only five of the 10 bond proposals on which the people will vote Nov. 7.- " ' Sanford said despite the Re publican fitiind he still will seek to win support for all 20 of the proposals on a nonbi partisan ta- "Too many ipeople of both rar t's bave expressed lope in t!.e f -.ifcess of t'iese bond disues (to t it on a partial Lasis," an ' ' ' M ' -i t,' '., t" i c. Well Qualified . ! CarJ Julian Douglas NEW MARS HILL TEACHER IS WELL QUALIFIED Douglas Teaches Chemistry, Physics, Latin; In "Who's Who" 'Mars Hilfl High School cer tainly has one of the most widely-trained and most versatile teachers an the history of our county schools,", said Fred W. An derson, C o u ft t y superintendent, this week. " . . . Mr. Anderson was referring to Mr. ; Carl Julian Douglas, ' who -teaches Chemistry, .Physics, and Latin. This is Mr. Douglas' first year at Mars Hill. ' Born September 21, 1917 in Cashiers, N. C, 'Mr. Douglas is not married. He is listed in "Who's Who in American - Education" (1948-49 edition) ' and in "Ameri can Men of Science" (1943-49 edi tion). . ' ' . ' , " He has completed training n Wingate Junior College in North Carolina; University of South Carolina, Wof ford College, Medi cal College of South Carolina; Columbia University in New York and University of Berne, Switzer land. He also Sias served with the U. S. Marine Corps. In addition to an A.A. Degree and 'B. S. De gree, me also was a special stu dent in General Studies in New (Con tinned To Last Page) J.W.HcDEVITT LEAVING STATE POST IN RALEIGH Marshall Native To Accept Post With Insurance Company v John ' Worth McDevitt, 'state personnel ddrector for more than a decade, will join Home Security Life Insurance Co., in Durham soon as director of personnel, Home iSecurity President Watts Hill Jr., announced Wednesday. McDevitt, 48, became personnel director for the state in 1950 when 17. Kerr iScott is governor. lie (,! i v 1 v. r Govs. U ad, Ho;' -""a fiihl .C-.ufwrd. "rt. I',". ' "a taVnt for f"t- f - - a ' j ') ' q ' ' 'y DEF.IOCRATS TO ATTEND VANCE AYCOCK DINNER Madison County has reached its quota for the Democratic Party's fund raising 1 Vance-Aycock Din ner to be held October 28 at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville. , In making this announcement, Chairman Bert Benmett of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee expressed his appreciation to Listen Ramsey, Democratic chairman in Madison, for his work in behalf of the Party. .Chairman Bennett said a num ber of other counties also have attained their quotas for dinner tickets and he anticipates a full attendance of 760 Democrats at the dinner, which is expected to become an annual Autumn affair in Asheville. The Party will con tinue to hold its annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner each Spring in Raleigh. , Judge Marvin Wooten of Hick ory 'and Herschel S. Harkins of Asheville, Buncombe County YDC onairman, are chairman of tne Vance-Aycock Dinner. At their suggestion, the dinner was named for Governors Zeublon B. Vance, who was North Carolina's Civil War governor; and Charles Brant ley Aycock, the great education governor of 1901-06. i A-B COLLEGE DEDICATION SUNDAY, OCT. 8 Building Open To Public In Afternoon From 4:00-6)00 ...The new buildings and campus for V Asheville -Biltmore , College will.be dedicated 'in ceremonies to be -held .on the campus Sunday, October 8, with Governor Terry Sanford tas keynote' speaker. ' The ' ceremony, to begin at p. m.. will follow a luncheon to "honor the governor . and other guests at the ceremony. , - Dr. Glenn L. Bushey, president of the college, wiTJ preside, and in addition to the governor, speak ers iwill include D. Hideo Ramsey of AshevilleRoy A. Taylor, U.S. Congressman, 12th district; Dr. John .Caldwell, chancellor of N. C. State College, who will represent colleges and universities of the state; Dr. W. Dallas Herring, chairman of the State Board of Education and Major L. P. Mc- Leondon, chairman of the Board of Higher Education. The building and campus will be presented by Coke Candler, chairnnan of the board of commis sioners of Buncombe County, "and (Continued To Last, Page) ASCS ACCEPTING CONSERVATION HELP REQUESTS - Many fanners within Madison County are yet losing a portion of their top soil each year on unpro tected cropland during the win ter months. ', Andy N. Woody, chairman of the Madison County ASC commit tee, points out that the fall months are an ideal time for performing many of the needed soil and wa ter conservation practices through the county ACP cost-sharing pro gram. The establishment of a good protective vegetative cover on oth erwise idle land is one of the practices that is not carried out to the extent it should be. In or der to prevent this unnecessary waste of our ' viM topsail, the county ACP for 1961 is offtn n co:-U.-,arir.g assistance to farmers protect t!;c'r if -rr ' from wind and raf?r ' - ' MRS.IJLAYIIJN SUFFERS FATAL Services This Afternoon For Madison County Native .Mrs, Lila Mae Wallin, 32 ot Rt 6, Asheville, died at 4 a. n., Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1961, in an Asheville hospital as a result ef injuries suffered when she was Btruck by an auto on U. S. 74 Monday afternoon. - -; A native of Madison County, she was employed by the Vander bOt Shirt Company. . ' State Highway Patrolman . H. L. Lackey said Mrs. Wallin had alighted from a car and that truck had stopped behind the car. iLackey said 'his wwjestigatbion indicated Mrs. Wallin had started across the highway between the oar and the truck when she en tered the path of a car being driven east by Joe TerrelJ, Cas sada, 23, of Fairview. ', . Lackey quoted Cassada as say ing that he sounded his horn and started to pass the stopped truck, then saw the pedestrian. He ap plied his brakes and turned to the left but was unable to miss her, he was quoted.. - , Services will be held this (Thurs day) afternoon in Old Walnut Creek Baptist Church near Mar (Continued on Last Page) N.C ESCAPES BIG DAMAGE BY HURRICANE Hurricane . Esther, ugly and skittish, sent fringe winds whist ling into the Northeast Wednes day night. IBut the big storm stayed more than ., 100 miles tat sea, sparing thus far t2ie?opul!oue ntainlanir' tber W of -.its might. ' "" 1 1 , .! . The burricane was last report ed 155 miles southeast . of Cape May,N." J. "'It -was expected - to continue north-northeast for 12 to 18 hours,-: then turn slightly : to the east, or seaward. There was a ' chance Esther would blow itself out in the broad North Atlantic with no more than a glancing blow at outlying New England coastal areas. But weathermen wixmed against trust ing its : present (relatively harm' less course. y "Hurricane Esther is a caprici ous and extremely oangerous storm." r the Weather ' Bureau warned. North Carolina coastal areas, braced for the Hurricane, relieved Wednesday morning iwftien the skittish Esther changed its course and headed mortheast. Lit tle damage was reported in east ern North Carolina. ASCS OFFICIAL URGES TAKING SOIL SAMPLES Many Tarheel farmers are wast ing fertilizer or not getting a proper return from their fertiliser because of their failure to take a soil sample. Ralph W. Ramsey, county office manager of the ASC committee, said that it is. especially important that farm ers planting (legumes or grasses or improving existing stamds of legumes or grasses under the ag ricultural conservation program, (Continued to Last Pag) HEAVY Cf n ton, Named To Post I Mad A. L. Duckett CHIEF DUCKETT NAMED TO POST INWNCFASSN. Fred Dalton, chief of Skyfland Volunteer Fire Dept., was elect ed president of the Western North Carolina Fireman's Assn., at its quarterly meeting in Morganton Wednesday night. ' Other officers are Kenneth Youngblood of Fletcher, first vice president; Allen Duckett of Mar-' shall, second vice president; Mark Jones, chief of Enka Fire Dept., secretary for the eighth consecu tive year; and Boyd Sossaman. of Sylva, treasurer. v' . v Principal speaker at the meet ing' wisa ' H. R. Owen, an attorney wifii the N. C. Insurance Dept., who spoke on North Carolina's fire laws. " Joe Hailey.'cMef of the Kdnston Fire Dept, and president of the State Fireman's Assn., and other state officers ; attended. ; 1 Attending from the (Marshall Dept., were Chief A. L. Duckett, Assistant Chief Jim Story, and Kelley Davis. MARSHALL TIES EDNEYVH1E, 6-6, LAST THURSDAY CandIerTo-Nix Pass In 2nd Period Knots Score; -MHS Impressive The' vastly-improved :. Torna does of Marshall, fought a defense- minded Edoeyville team to a 6-6 deadlock last Friday night (at tiie Hendersonvillle Stadium before a sizable crowd : of ram-soaked spectators. The field was slippery and wet but this didn't dampen the ag gressiveness of the- Tornadoea Improving each game, the Torna does looked most impressive at in. tervals and with Coach Ed Mor- (Continued To Page Eight) ' 1961 FEED GRAIN PAYMENTS ARE COMPLETED F'nal payments to farmers vrho r-: i them by taking FfU't a Feed Grain rroprsin fur i l.ave l-yya comrl. c.i t' m- 'i .1 V e c-mty, An.:; 'N. .V. V. unty ASC comm! : ; '.-y. : ' - n c;-mts w r - T- '.V.'O'S I t V ' A. ok" I V Asheville Boys Stopped On -By-Pass Sunday A "driverless" car wandered from -Asheville to Marshal Sun day afternoon, i arriving on the Marshall by-pass via back country roads i&rough Leicester and Alex, ander. Madison County Deputy Sheriff John Hemsley saw the car weav ing from side to side of the three- lane highway and thought the car had no driver When he got closer he saw two small heads just above the front seat. Two Asheville boys, aged 10 and 14, were acting as pilot and navigator. V ' The boys are in the Buncombe County receiving home awaiting a hearing in juvenile court nnd the car is in the hands of its owner, Mrs. Howard Bernard of Franklin. Officers said the boys admitted taking the car in the Emma sec tion. Neither bad ever tried driv ing before, they declared. RECORDS SHOULD BE KEPT ON LAMB SALES Sheep producers who market unshorn lambs this fall should maintain full records on their sales in order to make proper ap plications for payment next spring under the wool incentive pregnant, Andy Wood, chairman of the Mad ison County ASC committee, point- sd out -today. . . ' Failure to keep full records in the past has . caused difficulties for producers in obtaining Uieir unsTnorn lamb payments under the program, Woody stated. The sales records for lambs sold must in clude the name of the buyer, bis signature, the number and live weight of Iambs sold, plus the de scription "unshorn." Lamb feeders who buy lambs should also keep accurate records of all their purchases of unshorn lambs, including dates of purchas es and the number and Jiveweignt when purchased. Adequate (rec ords must be maintained by pro ducers in order for them to certi fy to the accuracy of the infor mation contained in payment ap- ( Continued To Last Page) -,' Red Groso Qonpc: falls Short T.U. MEETING AT LOCUST GROVE : TUB SUNDAY There will be an Association al Training Union Mass Meeting in file Locust Grove Baptist Church on Sunday afternoom at 2:33. Tl Rev. Pace Lee of the Ttars College 1 'Ue Dcpartemnt ".I 1 die tfii.'i'n gradual ( lit. Lee -:- ? ! Fore;t, as the Full: raiU. ii, I ard,-l to pryona s' ' S ! 1 i r 1 : ( r3 w U LujJ Cain, Roberts Are Held in Barnard Fire Which Burned Two An Asheville man Saturday morning was ordered held on v a charge of arson and murder v in connection will the deaths of two Madison County men in a fire at Barnard last Jan. 21. Justice of the Peace Wade Hu- ey of Marshall found probable cause against Troy Cam, of . 69 Flint St., Asheville, following testimony given by Sheriff E. Y. Ponder, David 'Freeman, Wood row (Randal, Mrs. : Mary Young Evtans and Ansel Freeman. Cain's wife, Evelyn, was re leased after the hearing, jtluey bound Cain over to the October term of Superior Court here. The judge of Superior Court will rule on whether Cain' may be released on bond, at was stated. ' Cain is accused in connection with a fire wfoidh destroyed three dwellings in 'Barnard land resulted in the death of William (Bill) Evans, 58, and Ralph CogdaU, 34. One witness testif ied that he Saw Cain driving a car from the scene of the fire shortly before it was detected. David- Freeman, who lives about half a mile from the scene, said Cain passed hds home, . hit a stump, slowed down and then , speeded up agaimi He said be no ticed the car "because it was going too fast" for the condition of the fdirt 'road, which was covered with. snow and ice. 1 - 1 Other witnesses testifed that both the fatally burned men tiad been drinking. Mrs. Cain, daughter of Evans, (Continued To Page Eight) COUNTY ASCS. .: :: CO;,rJITTEEIS NAHM) TODAY ASCS Community Committee cfhairmen met at the ASCS Of fice . here' this morning and the following men were elected to serve on the : .Madison uounty , ASCS Committee: Emory Robinson, Mars Hill RFD 1, Chairman; A. N. Woody, Hot Springs RFD 1, Vice Chair ' man; iB. C Bnggs, 'Mars am. Regular Member; First Alter nate, Glen Davis, Hot Springs; Second Alternate, Lee Wallin, Marshall RFD 4. erGoal Hensley Of Marshall, And Woody Of Hot Springs - - Are Commended "It surely wasn't John Hens ley's fault that the recent Red Cross .Membership Drive fell 6.Wt of its goal of $1,000 in Marshall," Wade Hucy, MarshaJl leader, commented this week. The goal for the county was ?3,000. Mr. ilT'-nsIt-y rer.'nfi'"y collect- " : v.-is 5 ; "-:e for i ; 1 ( 1 of
The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 21, 1961, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75