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MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1963
ear In Madison A Adjoining Counties
14.00 A Year Outside The Oouaoee
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Criminal Court To
Here
Judge Farthing To Preside;
Juror Are
Named
More then 200 cum km on the
court calendar scheduled to be
heard during the two-weeks' term
of superior court for the trial of
criminal cases which start Here
Monday morning. Judge James C.
Farthing will preside end Robert
S. Swain is the solicitor.
Although moat of the eases in
volve traffic violations such as
speeding and drunken driving,
there are other cases with more
significance. Among the more se
rious cases scheduled include State
vs. Willi Hampton, charged with
murder; State vs. Troy Cain, Ju
nior Roberts, charged with murder
and arson, and several cases of
breaking and entering, plus oth
ers. Judge Farthing has given no
tice to all persons having cases
in the superior court, old or new,
that they will be heard at the May
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GAS TAX REFUND
CLAIM FORMS
AVAILABLE
According to Harry G. Silver,
county agent, Federal gasoline tax
refund claim forms are available
in the county agricultural agents
office in the courthouse in Mar
shall. Farmers are entitled to a Feder
al Tax Refund of $.04 per gallon
on all gasoline used in tractors,
stationary engines, and other non
highway nee engine. Before this
. tonjad can be made a claim for
refund must be filed on Form 2240
end sent to the V. S. District Di
rector of Internal Revenue. Tins
form covers gasoline used between
July 1, 1962 end Jane 80, 1963.
The form mast be filed before
September SO, 1968.
A state refund is due farmers
and is now filed for once each fis
cal year. The necessary forms for
this claim are not available at
this time.
Madison Man,
In Family Are
George Harmon I Given 18
Stsrt
Year For Mail Fraud
Conspiracy
A Federal Court jury in Ashe
ville Tuesday convicted a Madison
County man, his daughter, three
sons arid a son-in-law of a $3,600
mail fraud conspiracy.
' U S District Judge Wilson
Warlick sentenced the father,
George Harmon, 46, of Rt. 6, Mar
shall, to 18 year in prison.
Harmon . .had pleaded innocent
on all counts of the indictment
alleging conspiracy and some 46
other acta of mail fraud. The
three son, Donald, Landon and
1 5-year-old juvenile, and the
daughter, Mrs. Oris Mae Harmon
Norton, pleaded innocent to the
conspiracy count although plead
ing guilty to the other charges.
The son-in-law, Vernon Norton,
a Madison County native who wa
Irving in Cleveland, Ohio, at the
time of his arrest, last January,
pleaded guilty to all counts and
testified for the government in
the case. ' '..-'-'
Early Tuesday morning, the .
eider Harmon took the stand to
deny any conspiracy, contending
that toe mail-order goods had ei
ther been given him or sold him
by his children for resale at a
Riverside Drive trading poet he
operated.
But a Post Office identification
expert Monday had identified Har
mon writing a the same signa
ture found on several of the or
ders. Each of Harmon's children also
took the stand to deny then we
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On Monday
MORE
PRODUCED BY
TOPDRESSEVG
This past winter many farmers
in Madison County did not have a
enfflttant amount of roughage to
tJ& ..tf tke livestock on their
fettijy "A result they had to
purchase, bay or shacks to get them
through.
J0iffmen m the county can pro
duce more forage from their hay
land by topdressing it after the
first cutting. Shis is especially
true on bay ' Wi which has not
been topdreaeeev m the early
spring, jfshr farmers have found
than an p&Sion of 600 to 600
pounds of 0-9-27 or 0-14-14 on al
falfa immediately after the first
costing has been removed, will
neeh a greater amount and more
nutritious bay can be cut in later
mntyftll If it is a grass hay such
as orchard grass without any leg
urae present, an application of
200' pounds of ammonium nitrate
per acre is a good practice. By
adequately ertilizinE our meadow
land and alfalfa, farmers will be
able to produce on their own farms
an adequate supply of hay.
Madison County
To Be Crowned
:iAiyipdt is coming,
states F. E. Bass, assistant coun
ty agent, and one of the big
events in Madison County will be
the crowning of a new dairy prin
cess. She Will represent the dai
ry industry in Madison County for
the next year. This is no small
responsibility a this amount to
over a half million dollars worth
of business last year and if she
should go on to win the state con
test it would bring a great deal of
prestige to our area and our coun
ty beside being a once-in-a-life
time experience for the girl.
5 Others
Convicted
HOMECOMING AT
WALNUT PRES.
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The teachers and student body
of Bell Institute or anywho who
ha attended a Presbyterian
school in Madison County, are in
vited to attend the Homecoming
of the Walnut Presbyterian Church
Sunday, June 9. Morning service
will be held at 11 o'clock. After
the service there will he a picnic
dinner served on the church
grounds.
Every family bring a basket of
feed. i. ii.fUJ - :;iv Mi-&
T
SELF-RELIANCE
Be the kind of man who prc
ticea. hi own religion don't ex
pect your wife to ejjrjF jfjJSgT .
MARSHALL
HIGH SCHOOL
Calendar of Events
May 16 Junior-Senior Ban
quet May 17 NCEA Banquet
May 18 Alumni Banquet
May 24 Senior Play
May 26 Baccalaureate Sermon
May 27 Athletic Banquet
May 29 Graduation Exercises
May 30 Eighth Grade Pro
motion June 1 School End
FORAGE
HOUSING LOAN
APPROVED FOR
HOT SPRINGS
Washington Rep. Roy A. Tay
lor announced today approval of
a Federal loan, which will provide
for the construction of 20 low
rent homes in Hot Springs.
Eight of the home will be de
signed and built specifically for
elderly persons, said Taylor.
Average construction cost for
each home is estimated at $7,566.
Construction is to be undertaken
by the Hot Spring Housing Au
thority, which will award ell eon
tracts. Total cost of the entire project,
including all planning, land, and
administrative expenses will be
$298,766.
Brake Fire Early
Sunday Extinguished
On Main Street Here
The driver of a large trailer
truck with brakes flaming drove
calmly for 10 miles before stop
ping the vehicle in front of the
Marshall fire department early
Sunday morning where the flames
were extinguished.
Local firemen were awakened
about 3:16 o'clock and quickly re
sponded to the fire alarm bat
when they arrived at the fire house
they discovered that the driver
had entered the fire house and had
put out the brake fire with an ex
tinguisher.
The driver stated that the
brakes caught on fire about 10
miles south of Marshall and he
decided to drive on to Marshall.
Considerable damage was done
to the truck wheel bat the eon-
tents in the trailer were net dam-
agea.
a . v -i . iriSnVUBUUBl
WAT MI IT AT IVinifjP" Dir8Ctor of
TTALIiUI UAJlUill kUdison County Welfare Depart-
TO MEET SAT. AT
RICH MOUNTAIN
The Walnut High School Alum
ni Association will hold its 16th
annual meeting with a weiner and
marshmallow roast, Saturday at 6
p. m., at the Rich Mountain
Checking Station picnic area on
U.S. 26-70, between Laurel River
and Hot Springs. All former stu
dents are urged to attend.
Rep. Ramsey Is
Co-Sponsor Of
Popular Bill
The House Highway Safety
Committee gave overwhelming ap
proval of a bill co-sponsored by
Representative Ned Delemar, .of
Pamlico, and Liston B. Ramsey,
of Madison, which read that peo
ple of 60 shouldn't have to proue
they can parallel park in order to
get or keep their drivers' license.
"Many people over 60 work
themselves up into a nervous state
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FEED GRAIN
LEGISLATION
IS ENACTED
The Congress has just passed
legislation authorising a voluntary
Feed Grain Program for 1964 end
1966.
In comraentnig on the new Feed
Grain legislation, Emory Robin
son, Chairman of the County ASC
Committee, said that this action is
of importance to farmers who grow
both wheat and feed grain, if
wheat producers approve market
ing quota in the Tuesday's Refer
endum, and a farmer take part in
both the wheat and feed grain pro
grama, he can choose to: (1) Plant
feed grain on part or all of his
wheat allotment; or (2) Plant
wheat on part or all of hi feed
acreage. The new provision gives
the farmer complete fredom to
substitute on grain crop for an
other thereby enabling his to grow
the crop best suited for his farm.
MHS ALUMNI
BANQUET SAT.
IS SUCCESSFU L
Brad burn Is Guest Speaker;
1964 Officers Are
Elected
The 8th annual meeting of the
Marshall High School Alumni As
sociation, held 'Saturday night in
the school cafeteria, was attend
ed by approximately 86 people.
Virgil Smith Jr., president, pre
sided and pronounced the invoca
tion. Following the dinner, which
wa prepared and served under
the supervision of Mrs. Earl Rob-
home economics teacher,
Smith introduced Wayne
Bradburn, superintendent of
school in Transylvania County
and former teacher and coach at
Marshall, who wss guest speaker.
Bradburn recalled many experi
ences while teaching and coaching
her and told of many amusing in
cident. After beginning his talk
in light vein, he then branched
off into a more serious nature as
he told of the responsibilities of
the parent, teachers and students
fa this ever-changing world. He
poke of social and economic
change now being made and
stated that more preparation for
the changes toward integration
should be made so as to avoid the
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MRS. RAMSEY TO
SPEAK AT GGL
HERE TUESDAY
The Madison County Women's
Good Government League will
(meet at the Court House in Mar
shall Tuesday night, May 28 at
H o'clock.
Speaker for the evening will be
Latent. Following Mrs. Ramsey'
peach, a question-and-answer pe
riod will be held.
All members of the Good Gov
ernment League are urged to be
present The meeting is open to
the public, and persons who wish
to become better informed en the
Welfare Department are invited
to attend.
SCHOOL-BOARD
BILL B PIT OUT
OF ITS MISERY
Raleigh "The noes have it
and down she goes," Senate Presi
dent Clarence Stone told the N.
C. Senate Tuesday.
The comment was an epitaph
to a measure that started out as
an attempt to reduce the partisan
politics connected with the selec
tion of city and county boards of
education.
In the end the bill was a skele
ton of its former self, and on the
motion of Sen. R. E. Brantley of
Polk the Senate disposed of the
remain.
Sen. Jimmy Johnson of Iredell
headed a committee that studied
the various ways in which school
boards are chosen and concluded
that it would be wise to take selec
tion of the boards out of the hand
of the assembly.
The resulting bill, which had
the backing of Gov. Terry San-
ford, proposed that school boards
be elected or appointed locally on
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4-H Club Dress
Revue June 1
Each year one Junior and senior
4-H Club girl has the opportu
nity of entering til county 4-H
dress revue. This year, again we
are having a county dress revue
It will be held in the French Broad
Electric Building Saturday, June
1 at 10 a m. At this time also,
tii Junior 4-H Club girl enter
ing the muffin contest will bring
their muffin to be Judged.
The public is invited to this
event.
Absentee Ballot
Is Enacted
Formal Ratification Of Bill
Expected Withn Next
Few Day
RALEIGH A stronger absen
tee ballot law went on the books
Thursday when the Senate passed
without a murmur a bill imple
menting most of the key recom
mendations made by the State
Board of Elections.
The bill awaits only formal rati
fication within the next day or
GOOD TOBACCO
PLANTS ARE
NO ACCIDENT
Mr. Walter Gosnell of Franklin
Mountain Road has proof in 2,700
square feet of burley tobacco beds
that good tobacco plants are no
accident.
Walter prepared his tobacco
beds early, gassed them well and
seeded ounce of tobacco seed
on 2,700 square feet of bed space.
He watered his beds often at ger
minating time, a critical period
for tobacco plants. Insects can
destroy a tobacco bed in a hurry
and Walter eliminated this prob
lem by spraying his beds with
DDT.
Disease prevention is easier
than cure. Walter sprayed his to
bacco plants for wildfire and blue
mold prevention, As a result of
these well timed treatments Wal
ter has plenty of good plants to
set his acre ef burley tobacco
and some extra ones for his neigh-
bora,
RESULTS OF
COUNTY WHEAT
REFERENDUM
The official count of the ballots
cast in Tuesday's Wheat Referen
dum reveals that Madison Produc
ers voted strongly in favor of the
Wheat Program for 1964.
According to Ralph W. Ramsey,
County ASCS Office Manager,
there were 61 of the 67 wheat
farms within the County that tirae
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DAIRY PRINCESS
ENTRY BLANKS
AVAILABLE
Month chairman for Madison Coun-l
ty, and Fred Boss, county co-
chairman, say plans are well un
derway for the 1963 Madhtbh
dairy princess contest. v
The Madison County DJrJ
Princess will compete wi
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OFFICERS ARE
INSTALLED AT
VFW POST HERE
$Mj6M-jdficers of post
IAIiBUjyrM Foreign
rs (VFW) were installed here
tolanight at the America
Legion Post
Officers are as follows:
John Ward, Commander; Nathan
(West, Vice Commander; Clyde M.
Roberts, Judge Advocate; Caney
Ramsey Jr., Chaplain; Bill Rob
erts, Surgeon; Ed Gentry, Quar
termaster; Frank Ramsey, Adju
tant; Don West, Service Officer;
Ron Sprinkle, Public Relations;
Ed Nlles, Chairman Buddy Poppy;
Willie Rice, Probate Officer; Lie-
ton B. Ramsey, Legislative Offi-
feer.
hit. & win.
msr.arai
so to become effective.
Effort to build curbs against
absentee ballot abuses in some
mountain counties complained of
by the state board began the first
night the General Assembly met
Feb. 6.
Bills were introduced then by
Sen. J. G. Stikeleather Jr. of Bun
combe and Rep. Lacy H. Thorn
burg of Jackson.
The first House and Senate
measures were Identical and con-
MH COLLEGE HAS
FIRST STUDENT
BODY OFFICERS
The first student body officers
in the history of Mars Hill College
were inaugurated there Tuesday.
They are Ken Pearce of Clay,
president; Paul Clark from Tem
ple Hills, Md., vice president; Don
Rothwell of Berkeley Heights, N.
J., secretary) and Gary Brook-
shire, of Winston-Salem, treasur-
They were chosen recently in a
campus-wide election which at
tracted 900 ef the .college's 1200
students ,
The officers were created re
cently when the student body ap
proved a constitution and bylaws
setting up the college's first Stu
dent Governm
IgMi
, tran-
'JlUBF to senior
vljege status and Will enroll its
first senior class next September.
The new Student Government pro
gram is part of a plan to encour
age the students to assume a
greater responsibility in the man
agement of their own affairs.
Under the plan there will be
five basic units, a Senate, Student
Court, Commission, house coun
cils and a summer council.
JJftptet' SeW6l .
mar
County Fatton Mow Being
Reclassified By Draft Betjf
SANFORD SAYS
PATROL DOESNT
HAVE QUOTAS
r IP ci 1 J
foUowin tatement over the
ek-end
"There is a policy matter relat
ing to the Motor Vehicles Depart
ment, which I think the public
should know.
'We have reiterated the long
standing instructions that highway
patrolmen are to make arrest on
ly for definite, clear-cut violations
of the Motor Vehicle Laws and
not for borderline, techkal or
doubtful violations. There is no
quota system and the policy of the
Highway Patrol has never been
set quotas or require any specific
number of arrests. On the ether
hand, where flagrant violations of
the laws occur, it is the duty of
the patrolman to angjLjMTMM
der end in doing so he is promot
ing highway safety since there is
a very close correlation between
traffic violations and accidents.
"We have reiteriated this policy
use it has been suggested
that some few commissioned and
non-commissioned officers in the
j" i.i a . . I
on the number of arrest made by Under dn
we wi g ic oj
"The North Carolina Highway in the home
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Bill
Into Law
tained all of the proposals made
by the state board
The bills, in fact, were written
by the board' administrative per
sonnel. They eliminated any provision
for persons other then the voter
himself to apply for end receive
absentee ballot, striking out a
sore point in the old law permit
ting close kin to handle the mat
ter for the voter.
The original bill also required
that all application far absentee
ballots be made in writing by
mail and that applications and
ballots be delivered to the appli
cant only by mail.
Time limits for persons apply
ing because they expected to be
absent from the county were from
45 days to 15 days prior to the
election; for persons applying be
cause of sickness or disability,
the closing date was five days be
fore the election.
All applications made because
of sickness or disability would
have required a doctor's certifi
cate. These and numerous other stiff
regulations proposed by the board,
however, encountered opposition,
primarily from western legisla
tors. The first round came in the
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MARS HILL MPS
MARSHALL, 5-3;
WINS TITLE
Ronnie Wallin got two hifci in
four trips to spark Mars Hill over
Marshall 5 to 3, here Tuesday af
ternoon in a Pisgah Conference
baseball game.
The victory gave Mars Hill the
Pisgah Conference title.
Mars Hill 000 004 1 S 8 0
Marshall 200 010 08 4 5
Wood, Davis 7 and Green. Wor-
ley, Gladden 7 and Henderson.
Executive Order Now Places
Fathers In Fully-Deferred
3-A Classification
The Madison County Draft
more than 600 registrants who are
Board has started to reclassify
fathers. " '
Fathers have been held hi a spee
ds! classification 1-A (fathers),
and were not subject to induction
into the army virtue of a special
ruling.
Under a executive order signed
by President Kennedy on March
15, 1963 the father will he trans
ferred to a fully-deferred classifi
cation of 8-A.
This mean, they will be in a
lower classification category, mak
ing their induction even less likely
except in some National emergen
cy-
Under the special
have not been indue
Army through the draft
gust 1953 except where
la ted draft regulations.
Up to this time, however,
hardship case had been place
classification 3-A by the Mad
County Board. This new ruling
give fathers the same defers
ss these hardship cases.
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