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iii The news-Record VOL. 63 NO. 16 Officers are mECTED BY LIONS MONDAY WiM U Elected President; Hot Springs Lions Present Program Earle Wise, of Marshall, who has served three years as secreta ry of the Marshall Lions Club, was elected president of the club at its regular bi-monthly meeting at the Rock Cafe Monday night. He suc ceeds Lion John Corbett who has served as president for the past year. Other officers elected are: 1st Vice-President, Page Brig- man; 2nd vice-president, Don West; 3rd vice-president, Kelly Davis aetreiary, uverton Uregory; as sistant secretary, P. VV. England; tail twister, Robert Davis; assis tant tail twister, Ron Sprinkle; Lion Tamer, Ralph McCormick. New members of the board of directors are E. C. Teague and Harry Silver. Following the election, six mem bers of the Hot Springs Lions Club presented the program which con sisted of slides and narration tell ( Continued to Last Page) 8 PAGES THIS WEEK ft n I MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1964 10c PER COPY 12.60 A Tear In Madison A Adjoining M.00 A Year Outside These Counties Politics Warms Up In This County After Elections Board Meets Sat. GOP Chairman Iriggs Hits At Picks For Officials Claims Board Picked Only Three Of List Of 115 Names Madison County Republicans Saturday renewed a longstanding dispute with the Democratic -controlled County Board of Elections over appointment of precinct elec tion officials. County GOP Chairman Bruce picked only three Republican judg es from a list of 115 he had rec ommended as party chairman. At the heart of the dispute is a state law which permits county elections hoards to draw upon such lists in making appointments, but does not require them to. The Madison board met Satur day in the Courthouse here and Briggs claimed that the Board named precinct election official MHC PRACTICE TEACHERS TO EVALUATE To Seek Employment; First For Student Teachers Mars Hill College seniors who hare been practice teaching in var sioos public schools throughout the Jmtkte will return today (Thursday, .pril 16) for a three-day pro gram oJ evaluation and job inter views. whom have been doing their stu dent teaching at Man Hill High School, will share their experi ences with each other and with juniors who will undergo simlar training next year. They will tell members of the faculty how they think the college's teacher educa tion program can be improved. More than a dozen school su perintendents and principals from systems throughout the state and in other states will be on the cam pus during the three-day period interviewing interested students for possble job assignments. Sev eral of the students, who began their practice teaching March lfi, have already signed contracts for next year. Mars Hill is just completing its first year as a full fledged senior college and the current crop of student teachers is the first in the 108-year history of the Baptist school. John M. Hough Jr., is head of the education department. VOTING PLACES ARE CHANGED IN TWO TOWNSHIPS Roy Freeman, chairman of the Madison County Board of Elec tions, announced this week that two voting places had been chang ed by the board at its meeting here Saturday. In No. .16 Township the site of the polling place has been chang ed from the Old Foster Creek School Building to the Claude Co dy Store. In Township 2, Ward 2, the voting place has been changed from the Carlie Gunter Recrea tion Center to Ward Rice's Casing House, adjacent to the Ward Rice Store. , .-,.'-." 7 EDWARDS HEADS JOHN F.KENNEDY LIBRARY DRIVE RALEIGH Governor Terry Sanford has announced the appoint ment of Robert L. Edwards, School Superintendent of Mars Hill, to be Chairman for Madison County in the state-wide drive to raise North Carolina's portion of funds for the John Fitzgerald Ken nedy Library. Dr. Billv Graham will be one of the featured speakers paying tri bute to President John F. Kenne dy in Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill on Sunday, May 17, to close the North Carolina drive for con tributions to the Kennedy Library. (Continued To Last Page) C Of C President D. M. Robinson TVA Now Making Study Of Water, Land In This Area Cooperation Of Public Is Urged By Commissioner Roberts William M. Roberts, Chairman of the Madison County Board of Commissioners, announced today that TVA engineers are presently probing, drilling, auger boring, and collecting other information in this county. past several way by North Carolina State Uni versity, Western North Carolina Regional Planning Commission, and TVA to appraise the present resources of the Upper French Broad area and to plan measures to ensure full economic develop ment This study was undertaken at the joint request of the Plann ing Commission and the State De partment of Water Resources. In cluded in the resources are the possibilities for further develop ment of agriculture, industry, and recreation; tine fuller us of the (Continued To Last Page) PLANNING MEET TBURS, APR. 23 AT HOT SPRINGS Wai Discuss Findings Of A Recent Planning - Program - An important meeting of the Hot Springs Planning Board, the members of the town council, and officials of the Regional Plsmdttg Commission will meet in the Hot Spring Town Hall on Thursday night, April 28 at 7:00 o'clock to discuss further plans on the rede velopment of Hot Springs. In addition to the groups above, Boy Beeves, high school princi pal; Superintendent R. L. Ed wards; Attoreny for the Town of Hot Springs, C. E. Mashbum, and the Chairman of the Bousing Au- ( Continued to Last Page) NEW PRESIDENT MARSHALL C OF C Newly Elected Officers Will Take Posts Next Tuesday Officers of the Marshall Cham ber of Commerce were elected Tuesday of last week at Plemmons Restaurant and will take office next Tuesday. D. M. Robinson, manager of French Broad Electric Membership Co-op, was elected president; C. E. Mashburn was elected first vice. president; Leonard Baker was re elected secretary of the organiza tion and Robert Chandler will con tinue as treasurer. Robinson succeeds J. Herschel Sprinkle who has served for the past year. fn a rotating system, D. M. Robinson and C. E. Mashburn re place Jim Story and Dr. H. E. Iiolinger on the board of directors. BAPTISTS MAKE MOTHER'S DAY PLANS FOR MAY Mrs. Boyce Crowe, Hospital Representative, and Mrs. David B. Roberts, wife of the association's superintendent of missions, repre sented the French Broad associa tion at a meeting of leaders of the 80 Baptist associations in the state held at Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, to make plan for this year's Mother's Day c Tf offering, which will be re ceived in Baptist churches over North Carolina on May 10, will be used to support the hospital's large-scale charity program. Mrs. Crowe and Mrs. Roberts will Join the association moderat or and other leaders in ssiisting pastors and Sunday school super intendents in the local churches in planning and conducting a pro gram emphasising the need for gen- ( Continued To Last Page) Jack Guthrie, GOP Bd. Member Has Statementj EDITOR'S NOTE: After receiv ing the statement of Roy Free man, chairman of the board of elections, I contacted Jack Guth rie, Republican member of the board about the meeting Saturday and his statement follows: 'We actually had not left the meeting place when Mr. Briggs (County GOP Chairman) arrived but we had adjourned. Mr. Rriggs did lay down a list of prospective Republican names to be considered as election officials but since the meeting was adjourned no action was taken," Mr. Guthrie told this newspaper. He concluded by saying, "It is true that I was not given a list in time for the meeting." -oOo- Freeman Says "Young Boy Arrived After Adjournment" OLD-TIMERS' NIGHT WILL BE HELD BY MASONS Old-Timers' Night will be held at French Broad Lodge No. 292 AF&AM on Saturday night, April 25 at eight o'clock. Pins will be presented to mem berg who have 26 and 50 years oTservllp. V All Masons are invited EARLE WISE IS NAMED "LION OF YEAR" MONDAY Popular Marshal Man Is Active In Local Lions Club Lion Earle Wise, who has serv ed efficiently as secretary of the Marshall Lions Club for three years, was chosen by fellow Lions as "Lion of the Year" and was no tified of this honor at the regular meeting of the dub at the Rock Cafe Monday night. Mr. Wise, who is Agricultural Extension Agent, came to Mar shall from Nowlaml (Avery Coun ty) in 1956 and since that time has been 4-H Leader in this coun ty. A graduate of Herea College, Ky., Mr. Wise attends the Madi son Seminary Baptist Church. I His faithful work as a Lion has been in evidence for several years and he is looked upon as "the Lion who does everything well.'' In all projects, Lion Wise shows great enthusiasm and his choice as "Lion of the Year" was greet ed with loud applause by local members as well as visiting Li ons from Hot Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Wise reside in Marshall and have one daughter, Faith, and son, Warren. Claims Guthrie Had No List Of Names; Explains Actions Upon contacting Roy Freeman, Chairman, Madison County Hoard of Elections, he had the following statement concerning the election officials named last Saturday, April 11, 1964: "Mr. Jack Guthrie called me Friday, April 10, 1964, and told me that he was informed down a t Chapel Hill by the officers of the Institute of Government that a 1 1 County Boards of Election were to meet Saturday, April 1 1 and name the precinct officials. 1 looked in the election law book and found Mr. Guthrie to be correct. After discussing with Mr. Guthrie and Mr. Snelson the fact that we had to meet Saturday, April 11, and find ing that both of them wanted to meet early, I asked Mr. Snelson to call Mr. Guthrie and tell him that we would meet at 10:00 o'clock a.m. We met in the Madison County Courthouse. Mr. Guthrie had n o list of prospective Republican Jud ges, neither did Mr. Snelson nor 1 The election officials of Madi son County were named at ran dom by the three of us. After the meeting was adjourned and we had left the meeting place, a young boy showed up inquiring about a meet ing. Upon asking him what meet ing he was interested in, he stated he was referring to the Board of Election and the naming of t h e precinct officials. I asked him who ho was since he had failed to in troduce himself and he stated that he was the newly elected Republi can Chairman and had been delay ed by the State Highway Patrol as well as attending to some of his own personal business. I in formed the young man that the County Board of Election had no list from the Democrat or Repub lican Chairman but that we had officially named the precinct offi cials for the ensuing two year term and further told him that it was no responsibility of mine i f he was delayed by personal busi ness or the State Highway Patrol.' DEMO PRECINCT MEETING TO BE HELD APRIL 25 County Convention Will Be Held Here On May 9 The official call for all Madison Democrats to organize on the precinct level on Saturday, April 25, at 10:00 a. in., at polling plac es, has been received from State Party Chairman Lunsford Crew, Democratic County Chairman Lis ton H. Ramsey announces. All over North Carolina on Ap ril 25 in more than 2,000 precincts Democrats will begin the machin ery designed to elect a President. Governor, Congressmen, State and County officials in November. At each precinct meeting five per sons, two of whom have to be women, will be elected as a pre ( Continued To Iast Page) Again In Race Precinct Election Officials Named By Board Saturday ction Offi cial were named Saturday as fol lows.; In each precinct the first named is the Democratic Registrar; the second, Democratic Judge and the third is the Republican Judge. T 1 W 1 Harry Rice, L. T. Ponder, Nathan West. T 1 W 2 J. C. Wallin, James Allen, Cline Allen. T 1 W 3 James Baldwin, Bill Hensley, Don West. T2W1- Floyd Wallin, Ruth Fenders, Mrs. Woodrow Bishop. T 2 W 2 Fronia Gunter, Ward Rice, Burns Cook. T 2 W 3 Blanche Cutshall, Clarence Payne, Edd Pavne. T 3 Truman Wyatt, Jasper rreadway, Waller Buckner. T 4 W 1 - Paul Carter, firover Gillis, Dewey Ray. T 4 W 2 Kelly Ledford, J. (i. Gardner, Clyde Rice. T 5 Clate Grindstaff, Jim Drake, Willard Hensley. T 6 Hubert Teague, Alan Ball, Porter Graham. T 7 J. N. Ponder, Jackie Ball, Laney Bailey. T 8 W 1 B. K. Meadows, Wayne Norris, Harry Flemming. T 8 W 2 Dan Finley, Jack Caldwell, Shirley Moore. T 9 Swann Huff, Carol An derson, Aubrey Ramsey. T 10 W 1 Mabel Gentry, Vel ner Wilds, Willie Rice. T 10 W 2 Nelson Franklin, Bob Norton, Clarence Ramsey. Til Hardy Whitt, Nate Hensley, Fred Bailey. T 12 Grover Baker, Ines Cald well, Ishmael Massey. T 13 Cecil Pangle, Hardie Willett, Burgin Price. T 14 Carl Shook. Howard In gle, Zeke Rice. T 15 Brown Amnions, John Robert Anderson, David Boone. T 10 Clive Whitt, Maynard Cody, Tom McGee. Liston B. Ramsey RAMSEY SEEKS THIRD TERM IN NX ASSEMBLY Unique Display In Window At Hone Electric m flrollv. have yatt unique window display i Electric A Furniture Company on Main Street? The Extension Service of Mad ison County has really fixed things up. Stop by and look at it now before it's taken ont MARSHALL FFA TEAM WINS GOLD PLAQUE SAT. Listen B. Ramsey, of Marshall, who has served in the North Car olina General Assembly for the past two terms, this week paid his filing fee and has announced that he will again seek nomination for Representative in the Democratic Primary on May 30. Ramsey, a former Marshall bus inessman, first entered public of fice when he was elected as an alderman for the Town of Mar shall in 194!). He was reelected for six consecutive terms. After being elected to the Gen eral Assembly in 1900, he served in the 1961 session. He was re elected in 1902 and served in the 1963 session. Representative Ramsey was most active on the Education Com mittee and was vice-chairman of the Welfare Committee. He was (Continued to Page Five) Some 250 FFA boys and teach ers from 44 federations participat ed in the tenth annual North Car olina Future Farmers of America Lad Judging Meet Saturday at Clyde A. Erwin High School. The Carolina Power and Liight Co., and the N. C. Bankers Asso ciation were sponsors for the meet which was held in Asheville and Western North Carolina for the first time. I Presenting various a behalf of the two sponsoring groups were Julian B. Stepp, dis- manager for CP&L Co., and Dr. Joe Poo, vice president of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., Greenville, N. C. il4lnnr he teams winning sec ond place district honors was the team from Marshall The local team was presented a gold plaque. SQUARE DEAL Give others a square deal and youll acquire a circle of N. C. Supreme Court Orders New Trial For County Man CLARENCE ELLER PASSES FRIDAY; RITES MONDAY Prominent Religious Leader Succuumbe To Heart Attack At Church ALIBI COMBS A man may be lasy, hot he's never too Hied to frame an alibi. L. Eller, 66, Madison religions leader of Msr- Rt. 2, died unexpectedly Fri y April 10, 1964, at 7:46 p. m., in the Madison frtirtiiifj Baptist Church while attending a revival Mr. Eller was a retired employe the American Enka Corp., and a former school teacher in Madison County. He was also a member of the board of deacons of the Madison Seminary Baptist Church, a Sunday school teacher of the Men's Adult Class and choir of the church. Services were held Monday (Continued To Last Page) at Raleigh Jack Ferguson who was convicted in Madison County of assaulting his father-in-law, Grady Coward, with a truck, won a new trial from the State Suu preme Court Wednesday of last week. Ferguson was sentenced to five to seven years in prison after a jury found him guilty of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. The Supreme Court ruled thai Ferguson was entitled to a new trial because of error in the judge's charge to the jury. According to tsstiinniij Fergu son rammed his track three times into the Coward automobile. Occu pied by Coward and wife and 8- year-old stepdaughter. The first time, the truck knocked the car 30 feet end Coward snuff ered a whiplash injury to Ids neck. The time, the track knocked the ear into a ditch and the thM it was almost knoeked into To Last Page) m
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