pfcord
12.50 A' Year In Madison 4 Adjoining
$4.00 A Year Outside These Counties
SES THIS WEEK
MARSHALL, I
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Arrested; 2
SCHOOLS WILL
OPEN AUGUST 21
Of Hot Spri
Donald Duke Riggs
fcrt In Rank
Robbery
(WW ana
Admit,
Mjd Monday three
have beep charged
0 holdup of a Hot
C, bank. One waa ar-
the other two still
Donald Duke Riggs, 28, waived
preltaiinary hearing before U. B
ner Harve Duggins n4
ad under S5.000 bond on
charges of bank robbery and in
terstate transportation at fire
arms.
Also charged are John Edward
Millar, 26, and Ronald Arthur
Coeland, 21. .
K-dHtaa L. McOnvern. assistant
flgHI in charge of the Knoxvflle
FBI office, said some of the 18,-
000 tike In the robbery was re
covered from Kisre-a. but be did
not say how much.
Two armed man entered the
citizens name in not springs, ana
hem up the only employe July 9
They fled in a late model white
car toward Tennessee, McGovern
said, and shortly thereafter a sec
ond car fell in behind the getaway
vehicle; The car used in the hold
up was found submerged later in
a river near Newport, Tenn., just
across the North Carolina line.
Madison County Sheriff E. Y.
Pander told a newaiman Mond
luly Robbery
ings Bank
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JUAN CHARGED
TRIED HERE
Alleged Assault Took Pl
Hot Springs
84 EMPLOYEES
NOW AT MILLS
PLANT HERE
1 .fcN
,
Mrs. Jimmy Sprinkle
Bitten By Snake
of Falrvi
ermbe Coun
& abduction
ear-old girl
Paul Gregory,
is being held la
ty jail on eharg
and rane of a
earlier this mots. .
mmmmW Harry p
Clay said the abduction allegedly
occurred fit Buaeainbe County and
in Madison
ew
Employment, Earnings Have
Given Section Economy
Boost
i the tmmmh
County.
Gregory v..
Thursday in Kankakee, 111., and
returned to Asheville during the
week f H-
ard Martin to face trial on the
two charge i ("Iy
picked up by
past Ash
sheriflsaid.
The wsrra Graj
Mill Manufacturing Com
any in Marshall is in full swjng
these days with employment reach
Ing 84 with the hopes of increas
ing this number to 125 by the end
BHjjtey" In addition to' lite
employees, there are also three
officials in the modernised build
ing, formerly known as the Mar
shall Cotton Mill Building.
E- Milftl i plan Manager;
Stan Frumkin, is assistant plant
manager ; and Mrs. Helen Hunter
1 recentionist.
Tie
making "slings", used by the
& Air Force; parachutes, and
MMpfmtes components.
In addition to giving these peo-
tola employment, their weekly earn
ings have , greatly helped give this
action an "economy boost".
MADISON NINE
Mrs. 3. H. Sprinkle Jr., of Mar
shall, was bitten on an ankle by
a snake at her home Tuesday af-
She waa treated at the
Mission Hospital and
returned to her heme Wednesday
afternoon. It Is thought that the
snake was a copperhead.
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Delinquent Tax
List On Page 3
i. -Wfeifr ;
The delinquent tax list for un
paid 1962 taxes is published on
Page Three of this issue, as re
quired by the N. law. The list
will continue to be puhlisned lor
four weeks wflSf 'wijs paying up
their taxes taken from
Voters
Approve ABC Lkjuw
346 Vote In Last Saturday's
' '
Springs voters approved
ner
the .list
eacn weec. , ,, vsw .aa .
IIU(W)TO 00 UWI WT I . . .
Idle young men are sometimes
needy old men in the making,
administer
eoetau.
7
Ho
the estabiiahmant of ABC 11
hales 16 to 11" Saturday.
The election waa authorised by
an act of the1 lterQenaaiT
sembly which also requires the
Hot Springs town board to
a three-man board ex
control,, to
of the liquor
Net profitalsn liquor
are to be divided- as fellows:
third to the retMral saaisftf
five per eent lildiaan Coun
ty aehooi MstUMi;.(a be
Spent solely for Spring Creek
of, she county superintendent, tho
school principal and chairman of
he achool commlttte; 25 per eent
t to be
ngs School
a similar three-man committee;
iiye per cent 'iflnt'M
enforcement in Hot Springs and
the remainder (31 per cent) to
the town's general fund.
aatos .
one
fund.
snentonlv for HM ttM
i , - - , ". r-
by
on a warrant for another viola
tion and the hank robbery charge
followed, Ponder said.)
Riggs was held for the fall term
rt in the Western District
of North Carolina. If convkCsil he
fanes W jhlijiiiiiiii sentence np
years or $6,000 fine, or both.
CopeMae was dcribed as a
(Continued to Page Six)
BLAMES OTHERS
-iCift courtesy Asheville Citizei
A man bumps into hard luck,
and blames others for pushing
him.
TAflfhorc7 CnnfprpnCR At
Mart Hill Coltese May
More I han
The
2,000 Expected
Campus
aeheol nerson
first of three conferences
f more than 1,000 pablic
Del will begin Mon
day at Mars Hill College. It is the
Classroom Teachers Conference.
The second; gathering, the North
Carolina Sdeatton Association!
jMHUehip ' Conf erawempn
August 8: and the final one, the
annual Conference of North Caro
lina School Superintendents, will
start August 13.
The meetings constitute the final
summer conferences to be held at
the college. Six other groups have
already met there. In all, more
than 2,000 persons are expected to
visit the campus as a result of the
begin I meetings.
J.
BB1 BBS
ml
Civet S
$2.5 Million
Washington The Interior I
t . . .j t . '-a-
Annronriations Bin recently sign
ed by President Kennedy includes
an appropriation of $2,565,100 for
the Great Smoky Mountains Na
tional Park, including the Foot,
hills Parkway, in Tennessee and
North Carolina.
The appropriation, Which will
H nun! in the vear which started
July 1, includes: Management and
protection, $642,800; maintenance
and rehabilitation. $618,400: con
struction of buildings and utili
ties, $90,900; construction Of roads
and trails and liquidation of con
tracts, $1,31.1,500.
BAD LUCK GETS BLAMED
..Bad luck loften gets blamed,
whan lack of common sense should
Pictured above is the Madison County Court
house which has recently been re-painted and repair
ed. The interior has been vastly improved with much
needed work being completed on walls and ceilings.
As can be seen from tnis picture, ine oxienor naa uwn
repainted and koks -ruie new . uxner -
. - . m, xl J I
nts have aiso neen maue m we posa m uuv
Of and even the flag pole has been painted".
Interior Bill
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MSI BO mimw W
vm MRS
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he was found lriuiraeis test
Thursday. ' f
French Broad Baptist JLsso.
To Hold Meetings Next Week
Mara Hill, Paint Gap, And
Marshall Are Sites For
Annual Meeting
To AH Taxpayer
The 1968 session of the General
A.comhlir tin art A certain chatUMM
ffl the Sales and Use Tax article,
effective July i, iswa.
The minimum penalty fl,W
ia nn lnncer nnnlicable. The Den-
aUy for failure to f ila w
when due is now 5 PER
MONTH, for each month, et frae-
tion thereof, such failure con
tinues, with a maximum rate of
25 BUT IN NO CASE LESS
JTtHAN $6.00. A (penalty of ;id.
minimum of $5.00, is imposed for
failure to PAY any taxes When
due. - !,
MRS. SAM J. HUSKINS, N. C.
Deparment of Revenue, Burnsvillo,
North Carolina.
4,541 New
In Conn
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IWIIIwW
Placed
m
ty jury
Box Saturday
Judge J. Frank Huskins
Orders Jurors To Be
Drawn Publicly
The jury box which contained
the names of prospective jurors
in Madison County was emptied
of the old names Saturday morn
ing at Courthouse and a new list
of names was inserted.
The new names were clipped
and put into the box in the pres
ence of Superior Court Judge J.
Frank Huskins of Burnsville, who
earns to Marshall for the occa
sion; Jury Commissioner Donald
Stines, who waa reappointed by
Judge Huskins July 1; Sheiff E.
Y. Ponder, Rep. Listen B. Ram-
7, Auditor Wade Hney, mem
bers of the Madison County Bar
Association, and others.
Four thousand five hundred f or-
wfta an sesosniou esaroerse or
them women. :Sm8 .
Of the total, 3,376 names came
from the tax books, and 1,165 from
the registration hooks.
The jury commissioner system
has been controversial for some
time, with Superior Omrt Judge
H. L. Riddle first ruling it uncon
stitutional and the Stater Supreme
Court reversing the decision.
Effective July 2, Donald Stines,
who has served in his capacity as
commissioner, Was reappointed and
will serve a term "at the pleas
ure" of the resident judge, who it
Judge Huskins.
At the ceremonies Saturday,
Judge Huskins said, "although the
N does not require it, I have in
structed Mr. Stines that all jurors
hall be drawn publicly and any
one wishing to he present when
eases are drawn for jury duty
Uuled with Won
he counted as a win for
nents for the remaining
of the season, it waa announ-
The team has not played since
July 4th.
"We were forced to drop, out of
the league because we could not
continue to field a team. Many of
the players had other commit
ments on the days we were
scheduled to play and it was the
only course we could take. We
deeply regret having to take this
action", Herbert Meadows, mana
ger of the team, said here this
week.
FEED GRAIN
glWlON
PAYMENTS
The Madison County ASCS of
fice is now in the process of com
puting final payments on the
1963 Feed Grain and Wheat Sta
bilization Diversion Programs, ac
cording to Ralph Ramsey, county
ASCS office manager. He also
reports that the ASCS office plans
to start issuing these final pay
ments sometime prior to August
15 and that each participating
farmer will be given written no
tice as to the time he may sign
his application and secure his
payment These payments will be
made to over 340 farms which
signed up to take part fat the 196S
voluntary Feed Grain Program
and to some 82 wheat fanms which
took part in this year's Wheat
Stabilization Protrram. Each of;
these itemera will he receiving a
diversion payment for acres which
they diverted from feed gram or
wheat into conserving uses. In
addition those farmers who planted
a portion of their permitted acre
age of feed grain or wheat will
ceive a price support payment
the acreage planted to the com
modity. The 340 Feed Grain farms
are expected to earn a total pay
ment of approximately $88,000.00
on their cam diverted acreage of
which half the payments ware
ContlBtted To Pans Peer!
Chve Whltt, principal or V
Marshall school, is now on duty i
the school Jtecause he is atten
ing summer school at East Tei
nessee State University his hours
st Marshall will be between 10:80
a. m., ana 4:30 p. m.
jfr. Whltt urges any new pu
pils who have moved into the
district, dropouts returning, and
others who did not pre-register
last spring at the close of school
to see him in order to save loss
of '.Ms being assigned when
school opens.
"Teachers, parents, students
who have problems, and other
members of the community who
wish to talk to me may come by
at any tune," Mr. Whitt stated.
been cnrioiCTrfttMj j , .
ning to attend and bring food for
our guests", one official stated.
Thursdays session will be held
in the' Paint Gap Church beginning
at 9:30 a. m., and adjourning at
4 The" Marshall Bapt tfturch
will be the site of Friday's session
which begins at 9:30 a. m., and
adjourns at 4 p. m.
The Rev. Clell Fisher is Modera
tor of the Association.
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
Count your blessings and fault
finding will fade away.
Shown above are members of the 'Madison Coun
ly Board of Public Welfare. Seated left to right are
Reeves D. Church of Hot Springs, Paul Carter of
Route 2, Mara Hill, and Rex Mien of Route 1, Mars
i ' mm, w m . j nr n. i.-. i- -
re- I uui. mi. uutuvu uu mi. uwki ic mu cw
to members of the now five-meraber board, and M
. len is beginning a. second term as a board member.
tThy V6F svypria in July ill
, to
v
of buildi: