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IP EL nit Yf D-tV VOL 62 NO. 13 8 PAGES THIS WEEK MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, IMS 10c PER COPY 2.60 A Year In Madison & Adjoining Counties 14.00 A Year Outside These Counties s 9 Granny Anderson, 95, Dies After Long Illness Cooked First Meal The Late R. L. Moor Ate On MHC Campos Mrs. Carrie (Granny) Ander son, Madison County's senior base ball fan, a renowned figure st Mars Hill College and the oldest member of Mars Hill Baptist Church, died Tuesday, night, March 26, 1968, in an Asheville nursing home following a long illness. She was 96. Services were held this Thurs day) afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Mars Hill Baptist Church. Dr. Charles Davis officiated and burial was in Mars Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were John Robert, Richard, Ralph and Fred Ander son, and W. L. and N. J. Hun nion. Credited with cooking the first meal that the late Dr. R. L. Moore, then president of Mars Hill Col lege, ate on the campus in 1897, Granny Anderson is never to be forgotten in the memories of scores of Mars Hill students. Many proud graduates of the Baptist institution owe a great deal of the happiness they en joyed on commencement night to Looal Churches To Hold Pre-Easter Joint Services To Feature Methodist-Presbyterian Ministers Pre-Eeaster services will be held in the Marshall Methodist Church the week of Aprifc&S through Friday, April 12. This will be a united effort on the part of tiie Methodist and Presbyteri an churches of Marshall. On Tuesday evening a mixed chorus front the North Buncombe High School will present a pro gram of Easter music. On Wednesday evening the Rev, nBBBBSBsfe& ispi BBBSBSBSSBBSSSSBSHBsB 3 SB I 9 mm THE MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL land judging teani tool): top honors in the Blue Ridge Federation of Future Fanners of America judging contest held Thursday at County Home farm in Buncombe Coun ty. Members of the winning team are : (L-R) kneel ing, Clarence Davis, individual second place winner; and Tony Graham, first place winner. Standing are Everette Mace, Jack C. Cole, advisor, and Raymond Norton. The Blue Ridge contest featuured 11 com peting teams from Buncombe, Madison and Yancey counties, and is an annual affair sponsored by Caro lina Power and Light Co and the North Carolina Bankers Association. Vocational agriculture teachers are trained to teach students land juudging by the Soil Conservation Service. The Marshall team will represent the Blue Ridge Federation in the North Carolina F.F.A. land judg ing meet. This will be held at Greene Central High School, Snow Hill, on April 6. Their trip will be sponsored by the Citizens Bank and The Bank of French Broad in Marshall. Cat courtesy Citizen-Times e.v e Dies Tuesdsy I I 91 WKm m m. Mrs. Carrie Anderson her nimble fingers. "Why I 'spect I've sewed and made dresses for at least 26 girls foTytheir graduation and I've nev er Kiid but one lb complain," she (Continued To Last Page) ram Charles E. Heier, pastor of the Marshall Presbyterian Church, will deliver the sermon. On Thursday evening the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be ob served. The Rev. W. C. Clark. litter of the Marshall Methodist Church, will preach on Friday eve ning. Mrs. Carl Stuart will serve as organist. The services will begin each evenine at 7:80. and the public is cordially invited to attend. Services COUNTY Dl WILL ATTEND DINNER SAT. Democrats from Madison will be among those party members from every county in the state at the annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Din ner Saturday, March 80th to greet Vice-President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson. Registration will open on Fri day afternoon at the Hotel Sir Walter, following a luncheon at the Governor's Mansion honoring chairmen and vice-chairmen who will attend a Party Conference Friday and Saturday. The vice-president and Mrs. Johnson and their party will be greeted at the Raleigh-Durham Airport at 11:00 Saturday morn ing. The Pershing Rifles and a 100-man Drum and Bugle Corps of the Army ROTC at N. C. State College, as well as Governor San- ford and other dignitaries will greet the Vice-President. ITEMS ON YOUR CLEAN-UP LIST Any fireman call tell you it's actually a fact that a clean house seldom burns. Ifs just as true that a clean stove or furnace seldom burns up the house. Dirty, defective heating and cooking equipment cauuses the deadliset dwelling fires, according to National Fire Protection studies. They take about 2,000 lives yearly in this country, and destroy or damage about 1,500 homes each week. Now, (during Spring Clean-UP, is an excellent time to have heat ing equipment serviced and re paired, before you let it go and get caught by the first cold snao of next- fall. It could Vi tsfttttl lT check the chimney too; it's parti cularly important if you burn wood or coal. v-;v If you have an exhaust fan and duct over your kitchen stove, how long since it has had the greasv residue removed? Keeping heating and cooking equipment in top operating con dition means fuel savings as well as fire safety. So be suure the furnace and stove in your home are no youur clean-up, check-up list. Information Is Now Available On Good Alfalfa Varieties A recent N. C. Agricultural Ex periment Station publication pro f Continued to Last Page) Roaming The Mountains The Massacre Of Shelton Laurel By JOHN PARRIS SHELTON LAUREL This is wild and beautiful country, but the land has known some dark and aw ful times. Like the winter and spring of 1863. This was a nest of rebellion then. Here mountain man fought un der the stars and stripes, under the stars and bars, and under the black flag. Out from its hidden, cloud-hung coves went Yankee bushwhackers and Rebel renegades to prowl the French Broad country. Folks far and near knew it as a notorious hideout for the Out liers, marauders who believed in no "side" but their own skin, who lived off the land, looted and kill ed and terrorised. William H. Thomas, a Confed erate colonel, and his army of Cherokee Indians maneuvered here. George Kirk, the notorious Union guerrilla leader, raided it tune and again from his head quarters across the mountain in East Tennessee. But it was the Massacre on Early Madison County Jury Stines Petition To Advance From Next Fall To Spring Ctranted Friday Donald Stines, Madison Coun- tys' one-man jury commissioner, Friday won an early hearing be fore the State Supreme Court on an order that ousted him from office and struck down as uncon stitutional the law under which LIFE-SAVING PLANNING Everybody takes a new lease on life when Spring rolls around. And that lease on life, for you and your family, will be more certain if you've planned and practiced a family fire drill. Here are pointers for planning from the National Fire Protection Association: 1. Carefully figure two routes to the outside from evfp-y room, es pecially bedrooms. Allow for fire blocking stairway or hall. Pick an outside assembly point where the family will meet. ?. Remember that closed bed room doors will hold back flame and smoke, allow extra time. 3. Be sure everyone understands the most important rule: Get out of the house immediately at the first suspicion of fire. Attending National Meet Of Academy ajplieneral Practice today (Thursday) for Chicago, Il linois, where Dr. Sams will at tend the 15th annual meeting of the National Academy of General Practice. Dr. Sams is a delegate from the North Carolina Chapter of the Academy of General Practice, and he has had the honor of sitting in the House of Delegates at all fifteen sessions. At the Miami Beach meeting in 1961, Dr. Sams was unanimously endorsed as the "Daddy of the House of Delegates." At the 1962 meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, Dr. Sams was named as the "Bridegroom of the House of Delegates," having been on his honeymoon at that time. Dr. and Mrs. Sams are expect ed to return to Marshall on Fri day, April 5. Shelton Laurel that shocked the state and made the county's name a synonym for "bloody." The storage of salt in the win ter of 1863 brought about the mas sacre. What salt there was at the stores in Marshall was doled out sparing ly. And many folks were down to scraping smokehouse floors for salt - Passports for wagons and driv ttraft. saltworks were fre quency denied Union supporters, and Confederate storekeepers, were not quick to sell from their small hordes. In a county divided in senti ment as no other county in North Carolina, something waa bound to give. And it did. Early in January, 1861, a group of angry back-country men swoop ed down on Marshall, the Madison County seat, and broke into the storea With them were their sons, many of them just boys. The looters struck quickly and in unison, hitting each of the stores at the same time. They had come to loot the stores of salt, bat once inside and the Hearing he served A petition by Stines for the Su preme Court to advance from next fall to this spring the date for hearing an appeal was grant ed Friday in a decision by associate Justice Susie Sharp. Stines is seeking to overturn an order by Superior Court Judge H. L. Riddle Jr. filed Feb. 8 that BAPTISTS SLATE TWO PROGRAMS FOR MARS HILL A state Baptist Convention sponsored program has been scheduled at Mars Hill College. One in a series of three state wide Choir Festivals for Junior Choirs will be held Saturday, April 6, at the college. Registration will begin at 9 a. m. with a concei t set at 3:15 p. m. The choir festival, sponsored by the State Department of Church Music with J. O. Stroud, secretary, is open to the pubic. Census Shows Wood Stoves Becoming As Rare As Mules Wood cook stoves are becoming almost as rare in rural North Caro lina as mules. So are wood heat- and the Saturday night wash Running water is about as com mon in rural areas as automobiles, and even such things as air con ditioners and clothes dryers are no longer oddities. Program planning specialists with the N. C. Agricultural Ex tension Service at State College collected 1960 U. S. Census information on the percentage of rural households with and with out certain facilities. They find that electricity is so common that there is little point in collecting furhter statistics on it. The last statistics showed a bout 98 per cent of rural house holds had this convenience. Radio, available in about 84 per cent of the households, and tele vision, available in 82 per cent, (Continued To Last Pare) salt in their hands they grabbed whatever they needed or whatever caught their fancy. And then they fled the town, making their way bach to their homes in the fastness of the Lau rel country. News of the raid swept through the town. A messenger was sent on horseback to the headquarters of the Confederate Provisional Forces at Hot Springs, a dozen miles down the river. From the messenger's report, the oommanding officer figured there were GO to 60 men and boys in the looting party. So he or dered a force from the 64th North Carolina Regiment, including a com pany of cavalry and 80 Cherokee Indians, to the Laurel country. Leading the force waa Major W. N. Garrett of Hot Springs. His orders weM pursue and arrest every wan hi the mountains of Irown had character, whether they had anything to do with the raid on Marshall or not The headquarters commander wrote Gov. Zeb B. Vance in Ra leigh that he intended to clean out the Laurel region and allow those not implicated in any crime to (Continued to Last Page) Is Set a e e found Stines had vacated the jury commission by becoming a Wal nut School committeeman Kiddle found this to be double office holding.. He also declared Stines had violated provisions of a 1955 local act governing the Madison County jury commission er and that, beyond this, the act Lloyd Wayne Slagle Injured In Auto Accident Sat. Lloyd Wayne Slagle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Slagle of Mar shall, was painfully injured Sat urday night near White Rock, north of Marshall, when his car, while passing another car, hit the Boft shoulder of the road, throw ing the car into a rock cliff. He suffered a broken nose, lacera tions, severe bruises and possible chest injuries, and is a patient in (Continued to Last Page) Low Quality Tobacco To Be Discounted ACP IS NOW A PARTNERSHIP Agricultural Conservation Program (ACP) is a partnership between farmers and the general public. Through it, the public shares with farmers on about a 50-50 basis the cost of conserving our soil, water and woodland re sources which are so vital to the people of our nation and the free world. In commenting on the ACP, Emory Robinson, Chairman of the Madison County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, points out that it is the only farm program that is uni versal in that it is applicable to every county of the USA. He fur ther explained that it is not only applicable to each and every coun ty but that it's benefits are avail able to every farm which has soil or water conservation problems that can be met by its use. Through ACP, the Government, on behalf of all the people, joins hands with farmers and ranchers to insure that the needed conservation measures will be carried out ade quately and in time to meet its objective. The Chairman further explained that under the program farm prac tices are selected to promote soil and water conservation measures to meet local conditions. If a practice benefits people nationally, as well as locally, and would not ( Continued To Last Page) ASCS STATE CONFERENCE Final plans are being made for; the ASCS State Conference in Asheville on April 2, 8 and 4. A. P. Hassell Jr., Executive Director for the ASCS state committee. says that a full program is being planned for the three-day session. One of the real highlights of the program will be addresses on the closing day of the conference. Hassell says that county ASC committeemen, ASCS office per sonnel, representatives from oth er agricultural agencies, and re lated interests wil attend this meeting. Topics to ha discussed in the various sessions will not be limited to ASCS activity, but will cover current farm topics from many phases of agriculture. Far Issue e itself was unconstitutional. Stines, in petitioning for the court to grant a speedy hearing, charged that the attorney whose challenges in a civil case were upheld in the Riddle ruling, had been trying to "usurp" Stines' "powers and perogatives." This, the petition claimed, was the intent and purpose of Jospeh B. Huff, Madison County Bar As sociation president, who in addition to challenging Stines and the 1955 act, had also sought to have the law repealed by the 1963 General Assembly. The petition further names Clyde M. Roberts, Madison Re publican Executive Committee chairman, as Huffs "close col laborator" in the alleged effo-t to take over Stines' perogatives. It says a clerical assistant i n the county tax collector and coun ty auditor offices worked with Huff in the effort. In an earlier petition to Superior Court Judge J. Frank Buskins, Stines was (Continued To Page Four) Freeman Emphasizes That Responsibility Rests With Farmer The U. S. Department Of Agri culture recently announced, fol lowing mamamummi coosnlta tion with Congressional leaders from tobacco-producing States, that low quality tobacco will be sharply discounted. Grade standards and price sup ports now in the process of re vision will reflect quality accord ing to present market standards and consumer preferences. Tobacco in the lower grades will be support ed at a low price level, v USD A noted it is essential that the fine quality reputation A- merican tobacco has earned be maintained. Otherwise tobacco producers will not be able to meet competition which is increasing every year, particularly from Rhodesia and The Department emphasized that quality tobacco will be supported at a strong price and poor tobacco at a low price. It urged farmers to use approved varieties and fol low sound cultural practices, and noted that the farfer who tries to (Continued To Last Page) USE PAINT THE FIRE-SAFE WAY If a paint brush figures in your t Spring Clean-Up plans, keep these fire safety pointers in mind: 1. For paint removing and brush cleaning, solvents labelled 'non flammable" are safest the Na tional Fire Protection Association says. If you must work with flam mable ones, better do it outdoors but never in any area where there is open flame (as from a stove) or where anyone is smok ing. 2. Get rid of old paint and sol vent containers, and those small left-over paints and solven furnaces, and containers gl glsss jars br creating a definite fire 1 3. Safe r from JSJ 3 Ms P m