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FACES THIS WEEK VOL. 62 NO. 36 WC Telephone Co. Files New lid For Rate Boost MARSHALL 5, 1963 10c PER COPY Marshall rn est arolin And Western Carolina Telephone Co., petitioned the Stats Utilities Com mission Friday for a rata incresse that wfll rajse its revenues ap- ware; , jK?,t proposal, hut that case iB still under appeal to the State Court, and a decision is shortly. Oral arguments nynpii down year on Supreme exneeted Thomas epped .era hmrd . H. Sswyer. president of the company, id that if the court upholds the appeal, the new rata application probably will set aside While the: Wildes- mission disposes of the old ease. The company is chargnig the rates it sought fn 1962, under bond to refund them with interest if the case is ultimately lost. If the company loses the. ap peal, the new application will, still be" before the commission Sawyer said the circumstances on which the latest application is based are somewhat different from those of the 1962 case. In the- ear- lier one, the commission balked over the status of a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Carolina, known as Westco Company, and said that the rate, application ap plied to both without and "rate experience" regarding Westco, which was a brand-new organiza tion. Now, Sawyer said, Western Carolina's application does riot in volve Westco. Sawyer said the newest rate in crease asked by the Company wouW.if granted, raise the re turn otf the fair value of the com pany's property from 2.83 per cent tO ,,:;,-....,,.. A section of the application al- A much-needed Boaster's Club fet Marshall High School will be organried next Tuesday night the Marshall Gymnasium, at 7 All ex-grads and anyone inter ested in the Marshall school, are invited. IsMy. proleits. WW be discussed arid It is hoped that such a oiu can be hof icial to the of - dents Wlflead to many im provements on the Island. Dont forget this organization al mesttoMJfcK Tuesday njglrl at 7:30 o'cloeX, so deals with a request to enlarge J officials. THe Department of Mo- ' rate area" of Western tor Vehicles trains the drivers. Carolina, which could work a re- MHS BOOSTER'S CLUB MEETING NEXT TUESDAY Invited Ta Grm At 7:30 O'clocl Superintendents To Hosd Mfang. About Scjittol Bases More than 100 superhitendenta Bf schools in North Carolina will attend three regional conferences in September designed to improve the administration of the nation's largest school aub' .!:: safety of some 675,000 North .Car- olina school children who ride the buses. The school yHKia wjlV re ceive two days of instruction rang ing from school transportation law to the role of the principal in school bus administrate School bus driver whom am studer and supervised by Ideal school 1.60 A Yea In 14.00 A RETIREMENT, SS CHECKS FACTOR IN N.C. ECONOMY The economy of North Caroline each month feels the impact more than 7,800 checks to teachers, and State i the otfiva of the Teachers' Farmers Urged To Vote In ASC State Employees' Retirement An additional chock for So clal SeMity benefits' foes to M of the retirees, with tie S. S. check in many cases exceeding the retirement check, jfl Teachers and state employees Who have retired since 1966 have been covered by Social Security. The dollar amount of the retire ment checks exceeds $7,850,000 an noaBy. Almost all of this amount flows into the State's ecoti with an estimated additional 800,000 being added from the benefits. . , Nathan H. Yelton, director of the retirement system, reports that the retirees live in every see-, fion of dte State.; : Wfl According to him, the 7,326 bene ficiaries of the retirement system add, including Social Security pay ments, a steady dollar amount to the economy of each county. These amounts are not subject to economic fluctuations. Since July 1 of this year 47$ persons have retired from State service. They are receiving in creased benefits (Continued to J Serviei tints by fW at fttt variow graph most .m oh pot the 1 photo- Bloodmobile Oct. 1 TENN. Elections Mf BOOl 11 snrvey s.a and ie lsnodwners r making con arriving at da land use. The data "is the first 1H )AIf and GAME TO BE ON ISLAND SEPT. 21 : Sponsored By VFW Post; To Benefit Red Cross ' Drive l ' cis use of fa At mpfcttme" n fsrmina any scientific use of land to grow profitable croptjfirongh the Farmers are not the only ones who can profit from the soil sur rey. "Anyone who has a financial interest in the land sjwuld be in terested in basic seQ conserve- .BSXISSSDSBiaflSH. non. Anyone wno emu to nig a basement, build a dam or road or building, install a septic tank or drainage ditch or work in any way with soil mat. to know the kind of soil," Mr. Jes- said, 'and the soil survey is excellent source of informa- and county officials, zon- planning commissions, health (Continued To Page Pour) Here Doe to a misunderstanding, it was announced hi last week's is sue that' the Bed Cross' Bloodmo- bile would be in Marsnan on Tues-1 day of this week. Further infor mation after the paper had been published revealed that the Blood- mobile will be in Marshall on Tuesday, October 1. The unit will, be here from 2:46 to 0:46 and will be at the French Broad Electric Membership Coop Building. . - ' Make plans now to visit the REA Building on October 1, and donate a' pint of blood. NEW WAGE-HOUR ARE NOW EFFECTIVE The minimum wage Bet by the Fair Labor Standards Act (Fed eral Wage and Hour Law) will move op from $L15 an hour to $1.25, on Sept. 3, 1963. Mrs. Pauline Hortd Federal Wage-Hour Representative, said urn wage rate will in in- C0-0PT0 AID TOBACCO GROWERS IN N.C. Burley Growers Mne At August ffwiiyv Approve WMpsrating in the conferences duction for patrons now paying are the Institute of Government, isolated Not included in the application is the Andrews telephone ex change, which Western Carolina acquired only a short time ago, and which is still a "manual" ex change. Towns new covered by Western (Continued to Last Paget tele the N. C. Department of Motor Vehicles, the N. c. Department of Public Instruction, the State Board of Education and the N. C. Asso ciation of Insurance Agents. Spon sor of the expense-paid workshops is the N. C. Traffic Safety Coun cil, Inc. The sessions are scheduled for (Continued To Last Page) Hot Spr i Defeat Mars Hill Fri., 26-14 Blue Devils Are Impressive; bharpe, Shelton Star For Hot Springs Freddie Sharpe led the Hot Springs Blue Devils' to a 26-14 victory over the Mars Hill Wild cats in a non-conference football game at Mars Hill Saturday be fore a crowd, of 1,200. It was the first encounter of the season for both teams. Sharpe scored in the first quar ter for the Blue Devils on a 1 yard plunge and again in the sec ond quarter on a 78-yard open field run. In the same quarter Ev Shelton plunged across from one-yard out to make the score -Jim fa Hot Springs favor. -fep Mars Hill squad hit pay dirt for the first time late in the second period when Bay Carter went across the double lines from two yards out. Carter converted for the extra point. Joe Coombs crashed the line for another one -yard Hot Springs touchdown in the fourth quarter and Shelton got the extra point. Mars Hill's Bob Wood took a pass from Bonnie Wallfa in the fourth period and raced 60-yards for the touchdown. Charles Tol- ley kicked the extra point. PLAN MASONS BURNSVILLE '.6 MEET Veterans of Foreign WarsVFWJ Poet here, announced this week that a donkey baseball game will be played on the Island Saturday night, September 21, at eight o' clock. It is hoped that members of the Lions dub will meet mem bers of the Fire Department fa the thrilling and amusing game. Definite plans and lineups will be announced later. Proceeds from the game will be turned over to the American Red Cross Drive, now in progress in Madison Comity. Tickets can be purchased from members of the V. F, W., or the Marshall Fire Department. 11TH DISTRICT MIT VlKfUl IN the $1.25 minim A0V ttnn tPI Wt ' IjSW WSK- ress an liappistrict lfepub Mean mertmgyiktt p. m., Sato.- r voinUA aay in Hetnei voi in Jiaywood ABjL ia n THURSDAY (TONIGHT) Hot Springs at Clyde FRIDAY NIGHT: Marshall at Try on East Yancey at Mars Hill 11th District includes counties. H. E. 8hrill, Ha County GOP chairman, is charge of arrangements. Rev. Charles Heier, Family Move To Harrisburg, Pa. will 40 Rfev. Charfes Heier and family last week moved to Har risburg, Pa., where he has accept ed a pastorate there. Mr. Heier has been In toie Mad ison County Parish for the past two years and has been pastor of the Marshall Presbyterian Church for the past year. In addition to the Marshall church, he has also served as pastor at Hot Springs, Walnut, Alleghany, Allanstand, and Glen Lee. Mr. Heier resigned his posts here in June. o change in requirements Overtime pay to be reonirel aft henna. week. Taef Wage-Hour official ale called attention to new federal overtime pay standards which be come effective on Sept 3. Em ployees of large retail and serv ice establishments, certain con struction companies, the one mil lion dollar enterprises, for whom the minimum wage is now (1.00, will become entitled to "time and one-alf" pay for overtime work ed in excess of 44 hours a week, she said. Mrs. Horton cautioned employ ers that the official Wage-Hour poster, already mailed to them, must be displayed where it can be seen readily by employees. Fur ther information about the law may be obtained from the Wage Hour Office, Labor Building, P. O. Box 1151, Raleigh, N. C. The Burley Tobacco Stabiliza tion Corporation fa Knoxville is going ahead with plans to com plete the domestication of that as sociation in North Carolina, ac cording to the State Grange Of- HrlttM. Grange Master Robert W. Scott said Bat he had received a letter from Paul D. GodBerd, Secretary -Treasurer of the Tennessee Coop eative, assuring him that the as sociation will be fully ready to handle the loan program this fall. 'IMwry. Stabilisation Corpora tion, a cooperative under contract with USDA to administer the price support and loan program for burley tobacco growers of Tennessee, will now be able to ex tend the service to North Caroli na burley producers. Prior to 1968, Farmers Federa tion served is die agent for this program fa the state because, un der North Carolina law, the Ten nessee firm could not domesticate in the Tar Heel State, according to Scott. "The North Carolina Farmers Cooperative. Council, with-strong support from the Grange, was Suc cessful in amending the coopera- ve laws m Wie 1963 General As- lanies the xenn growers in this state can continue to have Available the price sun- port and loan, program if farmers desire tolpartkipate." The State Grange sponsored a meeting in Asheville on August 12 of Agricultural Extension person nel and key burley growers from (Continued To Last Pare I comtmmity conduct-' Chairtnnn, Regular Member To Elected In Community Fanners in Madison County were reminded today that emmu- nity elections of Agricultural Stab ilization and ConaervaBoB farmer committeemen got under way o n Sept 8 and will end on Friday, September 18. Emory Robinson. Chairman of the County ASC Committee points out that the election of ASC Committees is being ed by mail so as to mewlf convenient for all farmers to He explained that ballets were mailed to all known eligible vot ers on Sept, 3 and that they have through Sept. 13 to mark and re turn their ballots to the local ASCS office. Eligible voters re persons of legal voting age (21) who have an interest fa a farm as. owner, tenant or sharecropper. Persons not of legal voting age Who are in charge of an entire farm's operations axe also eligi ble to east a ballot Any eligible voter who fails to receive a bal lot by mail may secure on by vis iting the county ASCS office pri or to the deadline date for vot ing. - To be elected are three regular community committee members and two alternate members. The persons receiving the most votes at the community level will be chairman, vice chairman and regu lar member in their respective or der. They will also serve as dele gate, alternate delegate and sec ond altrenate delegate, respective ly, to the county convention where a county committee will b Meet rley aSCS 'oWaat 10 a. m. that every in the eJeetio ASC representati lion, Robinson stated ' farmer who takes t art n of his community ive is helping to strengthen the committee system and the vital farm programs which they help to administer at the county level and urged every farm- er to vote. I I 1 ll I 'I , I Ml 1 Marshall Tor East Henderson Fri., nadoes Whip 19-0 MHS T0RNA1 PLAY AT TRY0N FRID AY NIGHT HS MH downs ' 8 7 vanbure IBS 102 Passing yardage 25 147 Passes 1-1 9-7 intercepted by 0- . 0 v.-: l o 6 80 6 13 0 726 0 7 0 714 Yards penalized Man Hill Burnsville Lodge No. 717 AF& AM will be host to eight lodges in the 61st. and 63rd. Masonic dis tricts on Sept. 6. Plans for the meeting are under the directions of William G. Silver Jr., District Deputy Grand Mast er of 53rd. District and Charles A. Ramsey, District Deputy Grand Master of the 61st District. The afternoon session will be gin at 5 p. m., which will consist of short talks and question and answer periods. Dinner will be Served at 6 p. m. Grand Master of Masons of North Carolina, W. Edward Bur lier of Charlotte will deliver the principal address. Among the 160 delegates ex pected to participate will be A. D. Leon Grey, Superintendent of Oxford Orphanage; Troy G. Bob bins, Superintendent of the Mas onic and Eastern Star Home; Bus ter Hayes, Master of Cranberry Lodge No. 698 AF A AM; Tommy Edwards of BaktrsviUt Lodge No. 867 AF AM; and Willard K. Buckner, Master of Balk Lodge No. 397 AF ft AM. Mars M College To Offer Vast Improvements Soon Claaaes Begin September 16; 1,250 Students Are Expected Orientation and registration for what promises to be an historic year at Mars Hill College will be gin Tuesday (Sept 10) and con tinue through the week. Classes Will begin at 8 a. m. Monday, September 16. Numerous changes and improve ments will greet approximately 1260 students expected. After more than five yearn of careful planning the 108-year-oW Baptist institution becomes a full-pledged liberal arts senior college. The first senior class will comprise 160 students. There will be nearly $600,000 be 10 per cent lrager than at this time last year, the faculty will be enlarged and improved and there will be a host f new courses and related innovations. Most striking of the physical improvements is a new half mil lion dormitory for women. Named in honor of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Fox of Hickory, the four-story structure will provide accommoda tions for 116 coeds, a hostess and the dean of women. Other improvements include a new home management house for the home economics department and several labs, classrooms and storage spaces fa the science building. A new football stadium and gridiron also are beginning to Creek I rpbic1 improvemenU take shape. jterm begins, the student body wffllcburses and an enrollment increase of about 109 have necessitated ex pansion of the faculty. Eighteen new teachers have been employed, only six of them replacements. The other 12 are additions, bring ing the teaching corps total to 73, New courses fa all 13 of the school's departments have been planned. Other additions and improve ments to campus life include (1) inauguration of a program of practice teaching by the education deparmtent, (2) opening of a stu dent placement bureau, (8) a new student government (4) a soon-to-be-announced ranking of the faculty, (6) assignment of dormi tories by classes, (6) a trial plan of open stack library privileges for seniors and (7) a new ure in the cafeteria to replace recently, discontinued meaJbook plan. Game Seen As A "Toss-up;" MHS Impressive Last Friday Following Marshall High School's impressive victory over East Hen derson last Friday night on the Island, the local gridders have been drilling hard this week getting ready, for the game at Try on Fri day night with the Tryon High Tigers. All members of the Tornado squad came out of last week's game in good shape, barring a few cute and bruises. Many weaknesses shown in the first game will be corrected, or mi (Continued to Last Page) Cecil Clark Has Flutters Injured In Farm Accident Cecil Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Clark of Marshall RFD 1, returned to his home Sunday from Memorial Mission Hospital follow fag a farm accident last week. Cecil was helping cut silage when the harvester He was operat ing "choked." He was inspecting the machine when he accidentally moving blades. his left band He is recuperat ing Team Shows Potent Offense, Rugged Defense In Defeating Eagles Coaches Ed Morton, Lawrence Ponder and J. C. Wallfa unveiled the 1968 Tornadoes last Friday night on the Island before a huge crowd and what the local fans saw highly pleased them. The Tornadoes displayed a potent of fense and a rugged defense to avenge last year's defeat by nfM Henderson by handing the Eagles a 19-0 loss. AHhugh the brant of the baU, carrying was ably handled by CW Captain and Fullback Tommy Nix and speedy halfback Ralph Cand- ler, it was by no means a "two man" victory. Much credit must be given every player who saw- action. Ray Caldwell, co-captain; Martin Fisher, Eddie Henderson. Ronnie Haynle, Bobby Fisher, Ralph Loving, Ralph Baldwin. and the rest of Marshall's line looked most impressive but it was little Jackie Pegg, substitute de- j fenstve back, who crowd with two magni ceptions of passes at . He almost had his third tion late fa the fourth the ball barely rolled off gertips. Leading the offe were Tommy Nix and ler who together, can 96 of the time. The Jackie Marler, and charging Tornado line thrilled the J Henderson lint i?" A j.. BF; 1 H
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