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'Lj ; .;,U L J ' L -J v-J NO. 13 8 PAGES THIS WEEK MARSHALL, N, C, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1962 10c PER COPY 12.60 A Year In Madison A Buncombe Counties $4.00 A Yea Outside These Two Counties . !::ll-CJoi Opringa Lion PREMEASURING OF TOBACCO GETS UNDERWAY COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS FEED GRAIN SIGN-UP ENDS ON MARCH 30 lot Springs Planning Do:rd Sponsors Essay Contest IS I:: Jcnlioy Cage Game Tlmrs. jaiim Proceed. Will . Help Blind? .Large trowd Is ,' Expected Madison County basketball fans V (and non-fans) will have en op portunity to get away from the "every Jay-grind" and relax next ; Thursday night when a donkey ; basketball game, will be played at - the Marshall gymnasium at eight o'clock. ,! - Who will play In this came ? Well, it's hard to say right now but members -of the Marshall Li ons Gub, sponsors of the event. - will meet members of the Hot Springs Lions dub who will fur- : nish the Apposition. No doubt, both teams wOl be composed of non-Lions .. before the hilarious game is ewnpleted. ' It will be recalled that the Mar shall . Lions'' journeyed to Hot Springs last summer for a donkey Softball game and came ut vic torious In a game witnessed by . hundred's of , well-pleased specta tors. The Hot Springs "beys" are returning the favor and will want to even up the score with a win. Imagine, playing basketball on the back of: a donkey! Can you! (Continued To Last Page) ' LOCAL DOCTOR SPEAKS AGAINST GOVT CONTROL Administration 1 Flirting With Economic Ruin A Marshall physician charged Tuesday that "the Adminstration Is flirting with ecnomic ruin and courting medical calamity by de manding that the people turn over their most precious posses sion, their health, to control of government" W. A. Sams, M.D., Councillor for the Tenth District of N. C. State Medical Society, declared that "the American people should heed the lesson of England where 14 years of government-controlled medicine has proved a costly, tra gic failure." Dr. Sams spoke at a meeting of the Madison County Medical So ciety in Mars Hill "The British people are awake ning to the painful realization (Continued to Last Page) Crc:;D Elected President Of Qleot Breeders Co-op., Inc. Meeting Held Here March sVl 20 A ..I D . Is Given 4 The second annual meeting- of v the Madison BreedersCoopera tivej1 Inc., was held in Marshall on Tuesday, March 20, Harry G. Silver, - county agent, said here this week.' New officers elected ' were Joseph Brown of Paint Fork, president; Mrs. E. C Clark, of Antioch,, secretary-treasurer and O. G. Ramsey, vice president Annual Report Given - From January 1, 1961 until De cember 31," 1961; Tommy . Payne, of , Little Pine, the technician for Madison Breeders, bred 760 cows . with semen from American Breed ers Service, It was necessary to breed 203 of the cows a second time and 48 third services were necessary.. This is a record of ov er 75 non return, or over three " (Continued To Last Page) Marshall Troop 95 Attends Girl Scout Festival Saturday . Burley "producers within the county have shown about the same degree of interest in the official premeasuring service offered by ASCS as they did under the last year's program. Ralph W. Ram sey county ASCS office manager, said that 808 producers had made timely applications and deposits for this special service which will be performed during the next four or five weeks. He stated that nine reporters had taken the required training and qualified to assist with this phase of ASCS work and that most of them began field work on March 12. It was pointed out that if the weather conditions will permit all premeasurements should be completed by April 30, some 10 or 15 days earlier than for former years. Ramsey said that the farmers who filed for this service could contribute much to the progress of the premeasuring work by assistnig the reporter With the work on the day contact is first made. In conclusion, he stated that since the wire stakes with the red flags are so easy to get destroyed by children or ' anmjalflj Or by plowing or disking that it would be to the farmer's interest to pre pare wooden stakes about two inches in diameter and 18 inches in length and drive one up by each red flag. Fourteen '..girls? of " Intermediate Troop 95 attended the Girl. Scout Festival ."and Parade in Asheville on, .Saturday. . jThis was an all day, council-wide event in cele bration of the 50th anniversary of Girl Scouting. The program be gan with a parade extending the full length of College and Hay- wood Streets and ending at the City Auditorium. Several floats. bands of Lee Edwards and Ste phens-Lee High Schools, and 1500 Brownie, Intermediate and Senior Girl, Scouts composed the parade, The. floats were used to feature special activities enjoyed by Girl Scouts the world over. After lunch, a program of song, talent and re- ( Continued To Last Pnge) Vernon To Head Easter Seal Drive In Madison County Dr. John W. Baluss, Jr., of FayetteviHe, -. president of the North Carolina Society for Crip pled Children and Adults, announ- T ces the , '. appointment ' of Glenn t ;;L. Vernon of Mars Hill as President of the Madison County unit of the Society. - l. ' Vernon teaches at Mars Hill Col lege and formerly taught at the University of North Carolina. He is active with the Asheville Com munity Theater and is a member of the Mars Hill Baptist Church, The Easter Seal drive in Madi son County will run from April until Easter Day. t The three members of the Mad ison County Board . of Elections were . sworn in Saturday aoout noon by Herbert Hawkins, clerk of the superior court, y ', ' The newly-appointed board mem bers are Soy Freeman," RFD 6, Marshall '; chairman; Ernest Snel- son, RFD 1, Marshall, secretary; hd Jack Guthrie, RFD 5, Marshall. Freeman and Snelson are Dem ocrats and Guthrie is the Repub lican member of the board. BERNARD REESE SCOUTMASTER AT MARSHALL Bernard Reese, popular Marshall man, has accepted we past as Scoutmaster of the Marshall Troop of Boy Scouts. Mr. Reese, who for merly served in this capacity but was forced to resigned because of business duties, resumed this po sition recently. . ., A ; V He stated this week that Scout meetings are held regularly 'on Friday nights at the American Le gion Building at 7:30 o'clock and urges all boys between the ages of 11-17 who are interested in joining the Troop to be present Friday night. "We now have nine boys, all Tenderfoot Scouts, but we r need more boys," Mr. Reese said. One of the basic , requirements which grain producers must meet in order to take part in this year's feed grain program is to sign their intention to divert a portion of their grain base to conservation use by the closing date of March 30. Emory Robinson, chairman of the Madison County ASCS com mittee, points out that of the 130 farmers who filed the required farm, acreage report by the dead-J line fo March 20, only 88 of these owners had signed up as of March 27 to divert some or all of their corn base during the current year. The chairman said that it was possible that a few of these 42 producers who had not as yet declared their intention were of the opinion that they were en rolled when they signed their farm acreage reports prior to the March 20 deadline and cautioned such farmers that they are not in this special feed grain program for 1962 until they sign a second form with the ASCS office on which they declare their inten- ( Continued on Last Page) AIRPLANE IN COUNTY IS NOW TOPDRESSING MRS BASEBALL TEAM PLAYS AT TRY0N FRIDAY Hot Springs Lions To Sponsor Movie; Will Benefit Blind Nine Lettermen Return For Year; 24 Candidates Out For Team ASSOCIATIONAL VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL CLINIC In order that the readers of The News-Record may have some background of the two county men who ere ntcjuug uie 1ciuui.kum; uumiiiauon ior ; rcuresenuiuve, ueiow 13 puDiisnea a Drier summary: . , ,,, Liston . B. Ramsey l iston B. Ramsey, 43-year-old 1 i'.H businessman, who has ' 1 for.' renomination as h alive of Madison County ' ( neral Assembly, is a na- (f ' ' rsliall, the son of the . -rn Ramsey. "Ha is'a f i shall High School irs Hill College. I -j is chairman of i Democratic I is e-ected to re- P. R. El am P. R. Elam, Marshall business man, who has announced his can didacy for representative of Mad ison County in the Democratic Primary, May 26, is a native of ESnga Mountain. Reared on a Cleveland C o u n t y v farm, ' Mr. Elam Bhowed great interest in ag riculture and following his grad uation from Kings Mountain High School, entered Wingate College. From Wingate College he enter ed N. C. State College in Raleigh an J 13 dusted in 1C .3 with a B.S. n ( CV 7 .'uatiiin , le I' from :t i The second, in a series of four, group Vacation Bible School Clin ics will be held with the Madison Seminary Baptist Church, April 2 and 3, at 7:30 p. m., according to joint announcement by Mrs. E. C. Crowe, VBS superintendent; Wade Huey, moderator; and David B. Roberts, Missionary, of the French Broad Baptist Association. All churches nthe Madison Semi nary area, and those in the Mars Hill area who did not' attend the clinic at Mars Hill, are urged to send their workers to this clinic. While the clinic is divided into two sessions of two hours each, it is actually one clinic, and those attending should plan to I attend both nights in order. to get the benefits of a full clinic. On each night a ' different phase of the work will be presented. . . . A very capable faculty has been secured, most of whom received special training at the State Va cation Bible School Clinic at Win gate College, January 25-26. The faculty, consists of; Mrs. E.' C Crowe, VBS supt, and Nursery leader; Mrs. David B. Roberts, Be ginner leader; Rev. Noel Lykins, Primary leader; Mrs. Earle Eon- kle, Junior leader; Rev. Earle Konkle, Intermediate leader; Mrs. David M. Roberts, Director of the vocal music; Mrs. Charles Carter, pianist; and David B. Roberts will meet with pastors and principals. Each person should fcrir.g pen cil, paper and scheduled t ; ' ock, .- The Hot Springs Lions Club is again sponsoring a movie at - the Times Theater in Hot Springs on Friday and Saturday -. nights. March 30-31. The title of the movie is "Pork Chop Hill,", star ring Gregory Peck.; Alt proceeds go to help the blind. ; Prices - are 25c for children and 50c for adults, Showtime is 7:15 p.' m.;0fis Lion president, Bill ..Whitten, stated that the two previous mov ies sponsored by the Lions were well attended and that he would like to encourage residents of Mar shall and Hot Springs to attend this one. He also said that door prizes would be awarded ; lucky ticket holders as at the past two movies; and that he has been able to secure a film short of the 1960 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates. With 'nine lettermen returning from last year's squad and a, to tal - of twenty-four boys turning out for practice, the Marshall High School- baseball team is ' slowly niidmg4atohapeu-wHaBt9Mii "If you have never seen soil topdressing done by an airplane, you may see it now," Earl Wise, assistant agent said today. The plane is on Spring Creek today and will again be there on Friday morning. Friday afternoon it is scheduled to be at the Roscoe Reese farm on Sandy Mush. For further information on aer ial topdressing, contact the farm agent's office. County Demos To Attend Dinner In Raleigh Saturday 'How My Town Can Can Be Improved" Is Subject; Closes April 10 At least six Democrats will rep resent Madison County at the an nual Jefferson-Jackson Day Din ner in Raleigh on March 31, it is announced this week by party chairman Liston B. Ramsey. Ramsey stated that the county quota of $300 has been sent to party headquarters for the $50 per plate fund raising dinner. Awarded Scholarship CO. HEART FUND CHAIRMEN ARE NAMED HERE by wet grounds, Coaches Ed Mor ton and J- C Wallin state that the team is off to a slow start Martin Fisher, freshman, has oeen looking good benind the vM n.l.. !n,ni.h t,i.h. plate, and Clyde Hugh Candler, a ,t Mars Hill Collet, haa hm veteran, is slated to see plenty oflftwllrle1 . Fullbriffht ScholarshiD acuon at aro, snortstop ana zna for study this summer at the Unl ease.. t,arry west, nrst rageman, versity of Valladolid in Burgos, liwnunuea 10 imi rage; Spain. une oi tne zu Americans re- Brintnall Named ceiving grants for study in Spain, JTiayer At tear for American teachers of Spanish. Departing from the United States ' John Brintnall, ace basketball on June 25, she will fly to the Uni- etar of Bryson City, was named versity, which is near Portuguese "Player of the Year" at the border in western Spain, Touchdown Club's first annual graduate of Mars Hill and Jamboree held at the Asheville Woman's College and holder of a auditorium Monday night. masters degree from Columbia Brintnall is the son of Mr. and University, Mrs. Fish first Joined Mrs. Phillip Brintnall, formerly of the Mars Hill faculty in 1946 and Marshall., Mrs. Brintnall is the I has been a member continously former Miss Lucille Farmer, the! since 1952. Her husband is a mem daughter of Wm. V. Farmer, of ber of the faculty in the physical Marshall and the late Mrs. Farm- education department The Hot Springs Planning: Board is sponsoring an essay con test for students of Hot Springs High School. The junior or senior writing the winning paper on "How My Town Can Be Improved" wilt win a free trip to Washington with, the class this spring. The 9th or 10th grader writing the best essay will win $10.00. The contest was opened on Fri day morning, March 23, at a chap el program at the school. Mrs. Bob Davis told the students about the functions of the Hot Springs Planning Board and something of its plans for the town. Mrs. Neilt Ross then spoke to the students about their part in helping Hot Springs to grow and become a fin er place in which to live. She gave the contest rules and ex pressed the hope that many good; ideas would emerge from these es says. The students were told that soon they would be stepping into some of the important jobs in own and that the Planning Board needed their ideas as to the kind of town they would like. Their essays can suggest improvements in beautification, education, , job opportunities, tourist attractions, and any other categories they de-; sire. Judges for the contest will be members of the Hot Springs Plan ning Board. The contest closes on April 10 'and winners will be an nounced on April 13.- - DISiillCT CO vr EASLEY SKAIIS TO LIONS nERE District 31-A Governor Easier, of Lions International, was the guest speaker at the Marshall Li ons Club meeting held at the Rock Cafe Monday night This was an ' official visit of the Governor, who resides at Murphy. Gov. Easley's topic was, "Why Am A Lion." He spoke of the many humanitarian projects of the Lions, especially their fine work in aiding the visually han dicapped and blind. He also point ed out the importance of enlisting new members and regular attend ance. ' Following the business session, Gov. Easley met with the club di rectors. 20 members were present at the "uniform" dinner meeting. , er. VFW POST NAMES OFFICERS HERE which are: Nursery A, Er rrimary C, Junior B, an 1 I 'ate D. r.ch church '.l's r. Fred W. . Anderson and , Mrs, Ethel Wallin, co-chairmen of -the Madison County Heart Fund Drive, this week named the following to serve as Heart Fund Chairmen Mr. Fred Anderson, chairman; Mrs. Tom G. Wallin, ' assistant chairman; Marshall business area, Bob Davis; ? Mars Hill business area, Owen Tilson; Mars Hill HD Club, Mrs. Huff; Madison County Health Dept, Mrs. Fox; Hayes Run HD Club, Mrs. C. D. Sawyer; Little Pine HD Club, Mrs. Law rence McElroy; Hot Springs HD Club, Mrs. Alma Fowler: Hot Springs business area, Bob Davis, Beech Glen HD Club, Mrs. Lyman Rich; Bull Creek HD Club, Mrs. Bulah Merrill; Paint Fork HD Club, Mrs. John Gardner; Grape. vine HD Club, Mrs. Dorothy Ar rington; Walnut HD Club, Mrs. E. O. Burnette; Marshall II D Club, lire. Fred Robinson; Jtar shall Courthouse, Mrs. Mary Eun nion; Mii.ber-at-Large, Zeno Ponder. i and stuiVnts in a" , f hoc; 3 in the cov ' ' r t. fn- ! t- ' Officers were elected at the) meeting last Thursday of the Mar- mall Veterans of Foreign Wars I Post 9849 which was held in the office formerly occupied, by . Dr. McElroy, over Dodson's store on Main Street They are as follows: Command er, Ron Sprinkle; Vice-Command er, Nathan . West; Quartermaster, I Frank Ramsey: - Adjutant, Ed I Niles; Service Officers, Don West; Officer-of-the Day. Bernard Reese; Chaplain, Everett Shelton; Judge! Advocate, Clyde M. Roberta.- Mars Hill 4-H Club L I ember Has Corn Club Certificate TeacV,- Jay Nealy Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Edwards, of Mars Illil, is a member of the North Carolina 100 Bushel Corn Club, having a recorded yield of 110 bushels per acre. Present c d in rec- sitlon cf out8tam!p? j-- '"rm 9 1.1 1""1 by - C "-a - 1 . m tjcnooi 1 1 a v day sf. ' - i Cchocl. 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