THE NEWS-RECORD
VOL. 63 NO. 28
8 PAGES THIS WEEK
MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1864
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State Board Resumes Hearings; Court Order
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Partial List Of Teachers
Mr County Is Announced
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Marshall Principal And
4 Teachers To Ba Named
Later
A list of teachers and principals
for the Madison County Schools
for the next school term was an
nounced this week by Robert L.
Edwards, Superintendent. The
following schools are Included in
GAVIN "EAGER"
TO CAMPAIGN
AGAINST MOORE
Republican Robert L. Gavin,
the list: Walnut, Spring Creek, Hot j making bis second bid for the
Springs, Laurel, Ebbs Chapel, North Carolina governehip, is a
Beech Glen, Mars Hill and Mars
Hill Colored School (Anderson).
The principal and teachers for
the Marshall School will be an
nounced at a later date, Mr. Ed
wards stated.
Walnut
ELEMENTARY
Auburn Wyatt, Principal; Lucile
Furnette, Gene U. Cantrell, Queen
F. Bullman, Ora M. Fox, Jeanette
S. Tweed, Tressalee Ramsey, Helen
Adams, Zora Huffman, Jennie L.
Chandler, Grace S. Dockery, Naomi
G. Tweed, Ruth Guthrie.
Spring Creek
High School: Fred Anderson,
Principal; Jewell J. Church, Martha
Fkmming, Garland Woody, Bar
bara Ervin.
Elementary: Howard Trimble,
Margaret I. Reeves, Ruby R. Price,
Jeanette C. Meadows, Viola A
owler, Donna L. Moore, Emma
Osteon.
Hot Springs
Hitfh JkhooJU Roy Reaves, Prin
Jerry T. MeFan, xannsune
Bullman, Jimmy E. Lewis, Hester
H. Asms, James D. Ricker.
tlMMMitonr- Uflmio 17 Picn TTat-
tie L. Henderson, Dorothy R.
Oftodler, Lois C. Moore, Bill ie 3.
Redmon, Harriette P. Runnion,
Esther C. Brooks, Vera B. Sume
rel, Alma P. Fowler.
Laurel
High School: Owen Fish, Prin
cipal; Louie A. Zimmerman, Paul
ine Zimmerman, Troy S. Harrison,
Helen Shelton, Rena Shelton,
Black well L. Lunsfond.
Elementary: Glennis W. Ray,
Edith Shelton, Ruth Landers, Nell
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bit more confident this time.
Gavin is "eager" to launch his
fulltime campaign against Demo
cratic gubernatorial nominee Dan
K. Moore.
"We're in better position this
year because of better organiza
tion, better candidates in county
and stato legislative races, and
congressional candidates in nine of
the 11 districts, he said Monday.
The Sanford attorney will launch
his campaign against Moore after
the National GOP Convention
which runs through next week in
San Francisco. Gavin is one of
North Carolina's 26 delegates.
Gavin, who polled 40 per cent of
the vote in his 1960 race against
Gov. Terry Sanford, does not want
the Civil Rights Law to become a
campaign issue. l
"I want all North Carolina to
comply with it," Gavin said. "It
is the law,"
Gavin said he favors a proposed
$300 million road bond issue, a 01
minimum wage and a tMjcutSte
feratferWes-ta on food.
POLIO VACCINE
AVAILABLE SUN.
AT HEALTH DEPT.
Oral Polio Vaccine will be given
at the Madison County Health De
partment Sunday, July 12
12:00 noon until 6:00 p. m. This
vaccine will also be available at
the Health Department every day
of the week of July 12th Mon
day through Friday 9:00 a. m.
until 4:00 p. m.
The second dose will be given at
a later date which will be announ
ced well in advance.
OFF AND ON AGAIN
Los Angeles Thirty minutes
after being granted a divorce from
each other, a band arrancer nd
his wife were married again. They
explained their first marriage was
thing of a jinx and they wanted
to start all over again with a
clean slate. They were married
two years before in Las Vegas.
WILLIS THOMAS
IN JAIL HERE
FOR ADW MON.
Mrs. Edith Goforth Roberts
Is Slashed By Kpif e
Here
Willis Thomas, t&lfc Redmon
Road, Marshall, discharged from
a Veterans Administration hos
pital in Salisbury only a week ago
is in Madison County Jail charged
with a knife attack on his mother-in-law
at her home on Main street
here about 6:46 p. m. Monday.
Ponder said he was called to the
home of Mrs. Edith Goforth Rob
erts, Thomas' mother-in-law, by
neighbors, who rushed to stop the
attack on Mrs. Roberts' front
porch.
The sheriff said when he ar
rived, Mrs. Roberts was bleeding
from wounds on the leg, hand,
chest and ear.
Mrs. Roberts was treated at
Memorial Mission Hospital in
Asheville and released.
Thomas, estranged husband of
Mrs. Roberts' daughter, Shirley,
was released from the hospital
July 1 and returned to Marshall
Monday, Ponder said.
He was already under $1,500
bond on charges of arson after his
home was damaged by fire last
January),
Mrs. Roberts is now recuperat
ing at her home here.
PONDER ASKS
BOARD TO OK
HIS VICTORY
Attorneys for Zeno H. Ponder,
whose nomination May 30, for
state senator from the 84th dis
trict is being contested by his op
ponent, started proceeding Thurs
day to have him declared) the win
ner. A mandamus filed with the
clerk of Madison Superior Court,
asks the State Board of Elections
to show cause on July 18, before
the resident judge, why it should
not perform its duty and certify
Ponder the winner.
I'onder said Thursday night
that the board has received the
reports of all four county election
boards involved Madison, Mit
chell, Yancey, and McDowell
which show that he has a 400-vote
margin over Clyde Norton of Old
Fort.
"I just want them to perform
their duty," Ponder said.
Pastors To Meet
In Waynesville
The W.N.C. Baptist Pastor's
Conference wil convene in the
First Baptist Church of Waynes
ville, Monday, July 13, at 1:30
a. m.
Dr. Forrest Feezor, interim pas-
er, First Baptist Church, Ashe
ville, will be the speaker.
Latest Move Forbids Board
From Making Any Changes
BALLOTS SHOW
MARKS UNDER
SBI ANALYSIS
Expert Expected Here This
Afternoon For
Report
By DWAYNE WALLS
Observer Staff Writer
Scientific analysis of ballots cast
in the May 30 Democratic pri
mary in Madison County has turn
ed up additional evidence of fraud
in the state Senate race between
McDowell County businessman
Clyde M. Norton and Madison
County political kingpin Zeno
Ponder.
Using special photographic meth-
ods, the State Bureau of Investi
gation has found numerous ballots
that appear to have been marked
while lying in a stack.
The tell-tale sign is a faint in
dentation on the ballots, possibly
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Los Angeles. Mrs. Beverly
Avery, 46, appeared in court on a
suit against her ex-husband, Ray
mond J. O'Mally 41, for unpaid
alimony. It was revealed that
Mrs. Avery had been married
fourteen times and was O'Mal
ley's seventh bride. This made 21
marriages for these two people
probably a record.
GOP
National
Coi
In California Next Week
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TESTIMONY NOW
BEING HEARD
Testimony Of Middle
Heard ; Hearings
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The State Board of Election re
sumed its on-the-spot investigation
here Wednesday morning into
charges of irregularities in the
May 30th Primary, which primar
ily involves the race between Zeno
Ponder and Clyde M. Norton for
the Democratic nominee for state
senate in the 34th district.
William A. Joslin, chairman of
the State Board, opened the hear
ings by reading a court order,
signed Monday by Superior Court
Judge W. K. McLean, of Asheville,
which forbids the State Board
from making any changes in the
official count of ballots within tho
next ten days. Chairman Joslin
said that the board would abide
by the order.
The restraining order remains
in effect until July 18 when Super
ior Court Judge J. Frank Huskins
wil hold a hearing in Burnsville
at 9:30 a. m. to decide whether the
restraining order should be made
permanent.
If Huskins upholds McLean's
order, the state board then would
be powerless to throw out any
ballots from boxes where fraud
was beleived to have occurred.
Most of Wednesday's session in
volved the Middle Fork precinct
(Township 4, Warn 2). Most of
the evidence presented Wednes
day revealed the question of swear-
in of election officii
Stato Delegates To Support
Goldwater On First
Ballot
PROGRESS WITH INTENT
No man can gain success by
going in circles he must prog
ress toward some given point.
4th Of July Is Attended
By Big Throng On Island
Ball Games, Fireworks And
Dances Feature Day's
Activities
Again, the 4th of July was suc
cessful in Marshall as thousands
of persons enjoyed the day's
activities here.
In the morning baseball game,
the Walnut-Hot Springs Little
Leaguers defeated the Mars Hill-
Ebbs Chapel team, 10-9 but it took
an extra inning to tarn the trick.
The Walnut-H. S. team got off
to a good start in the first inning
by scoring twice but M. H. - E. C.
team bounced back wish 5 runs in
the second. This seamed to irk
the Lower End team and in the bot
tom of the second, they scored 7
big runs. The Upper End team
wasn't to be denied, however, and
they came roaring back with two
runs in the fifth and two in the
sixth to knot the score at 9-9. In
the extra inning, the Lower End
cored the tie-breaking run to win,
10-9. i :"WP1
After the dinner break, the
Marshall All-Stars and the Pine
Creek All-Stars squared off in
what was supposed to be baseball
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aswii. it reoenraeo, more or less, i
"track meet and a comedy of
errors as the Marshall All-Stars
trounced Pine Creek, 29-5 in a
gain Chat saw fairly good fielding
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TWO MEN SHOT
ATTEMPTING TO
ENTER HOME
Mrs. George Lamb Injures
Intruders At Home On
Route 3
Two brothers nicked out the
wrong house to break in to early
Monday morning and wound up in
jured by gun snots fired by a Madi
son County widow.
According to Sheriff E. Y. Pon
der, Mrs. Lamb shot the men a
bout 2 a. m. Monday when they
broke into the home of Mrs. Lamb,
widow who Uvea between Belts
and Greeneville, Tenn.
John Stills, of Cleveland, Ohio,
received slight thigh wounds and
te now in the Madison County jail
while bis companion, Joe Sills,
of Greeneville, Tenn., is in the
Memorial Mission Hospital suffer
ing from a shot wound in the left
arm.
The two man are charged with
breaking and entering and attempt
to assault, Sheriff Ponder said.
Our citizens swallow a lot of
dope every day, not little of H is
of the narcotic variety.
The first act of the world's
greatest political show opens on
Monday, July 13. Republicans,
with a mixture of nostalgia and
tippicjiension, meet to pick the
men they want for President and
Vice-President.
The convention is in the Cow
Palace, in San Francisco, Calif.,
which accounts for the nostalgia.
According to one expert, Ari
zona Sen. finny Goldwater can ex
pect to get all 26 N. C. national
convention votes on the first bal
lot, but if he doesn't win the
nomination on the first ballot, his
apparently solid support may
start to dwindle.
A revolt in the N. C. delegation
if one comes will be led by dele-
-frates Marcus Hickman and James
Harrington from the 8th Congres
sional district.
Twenty-four of the 26 are al
ready in the Goldwater camp.
Neither Hickman nor Harring
ton are committed formally or
otherwise to Goldwater, but both
may feel obligated to vote for
Goldwater on the first ballot
Hickman personally is friendly
toward Pennsylvania Gov. William
Scranton, and Harrington is con
sidered either a Scranton or Rich
ard Nixon fan.
Their personal preferences will
probably be put aside on the first
ballet
Goldwater's strength in North
Carolina could start slipping after
the friet ballot because only two
of the state's delegates are of
ficially instructed to vote for him.
But aside from this, a number
of delegates probably two-thirds
or more have a moral commit
ment to Goldwater.
At several district conventions
delegates were chosen only after
they had stated their preference
for Goldwater.
In addition, the four at-large
delegates feel bound by an en
dorsement of Goldwater's candi
dacy passed by the same state con
vention which chose them.
Among the delegates are some
"GoloVaV'WAody" delegates
MARVIN McCLURE! OFFICERS TO
RECOGNIZED FOR
SHD SERVICE
Will Receive Citation Today
From Governor Sanford
In Raleigh
Marvin VV. McClure, of Walnut,
is in Raleigh where he was
recognized this morning (Thurs
day) for 4(1 years of service with
the State Highway Department.
Ceremonies wore held in the
Memorial Auditorium.
Governor Terry Sanford present
ed the award with other awards
to be presented also.
McClure, the only one to be
honored from the 13th Division,
started working with county road
supervision when only 14 years of
age. When the state took over
the roads, Mr. McClure continued
his work as field mechanic, a
position he has heM for the past
20 years.
'65 WHEAT CROP
NATL ACREAGE
ALLOTMENT
A National wheat allotment of
49 million acres for the
crop has been proclaimed by Agri
culture Secretary Orville L. Free
man, according to A. P. Hassell
Jr., Executive Director for the
Agricultural Stabilisation and Con
servation State Committee. It is
the same as the 1964 allotment .
The USDA simultaneously an
nounced the allocation of the al
lotment, less reserves, among
states. All except Hawaii are list
ed as commercial wheat states.
The 1965 wheat allotment for N.
C. will be 241303 compared to 24V
347 acres for 1964.
The National allotment has been
apportioned among the States on
the basis of acreage seeded for
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REINSTALLED
BY LIONS MON.
Ladies Night To Be Observed
At S&W; Wise Is
President
Members of the Marshall Lions
Club and their wives will observe
installation services and Ladies'
Night, next Monday at the S&W
Cafeteria in Asheville at 7:,'!0 o'
clock.
Howard Barnwell, former Mar
shall Lion, who now resides in
Asheville, will serve as installing
officer.
An informal program of music
has been planned with solos by
Mrs. Howard Barnwell and John
Corbett scheduled. Mrs. Corbett
will accompany them on the piano.
Officers to be installed are:
President, Earle Wise; 1st vice
president, Page Brigman; 2nd vice
president, Don West; 3rd vice
president, Kelley Davis; secre
tary, O. A. Gregory; tail twister,
Robert "Bob" Davis; Lion Tamer,
Ralph McCormick.
I New directors to be installed
are E. C. Teague and Harry Silver.
All members and wives are ask
ed to be at the S&W promptly at
7:80 o'clock.
Ship 4, Ward 2, was completed
quickly at the morning seesioW'ef
the hearings by the State Board
of Elections into votinsr charges
n Madison County in the May 80
Primary and testimony involving
Township 6 California Creek
was started.
The principal witness this morn
ing was James Ramsey, a poll ob
server during the day on May 30.
Attorney Joseph Huff asked
Ramsey about many persons who
were checked on the registration
book as voting who actually did
not vote, in the opinion of Rain
iey. Ramsey said he stayed at the
polling place practically all the
time and stated "that it would have
been impossible for 35 people to
vote while I was away". He further
explainod that he was gone for a
total of only 31 minutes.
Attorney Cooke attempted to
have testimony presented involving
a difficulty between Ramsey and
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er activities at the
precinct voting place the Beech
Glen School.
Testimony from seven witnes
ses showed that there were more
ballots counted in the precinct
than there were voters going into
the polling room.
Attorneys for Ponder scoffed at
the validity of such informal and
unofficial headcounts.
Kelley Ledford, register of the
Middle Fork precinct, told the
state board that he took tile oath
of office from the Democratic
judge, Dean Ledford, (no relation),
at the letter's home the day before
the elecetion.
The oath was administered to
the others by himself after the
polls opened on the morning of
May 30, Kelley Ledford said. This
action, he said, went unnoticed by
poll watchers because "they were
over in the corner making so much
noise they couldn't hear."
jveuey femora said on cross
examination that no Bibles were
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Explains Missing
Regi
Book
DENTON ACCEPTS
POSITION WITH
FREM CO-OP HERE
John Denton, expert electrical
engineer, has accepted a position
with the French Broad Electric
Membership Corporation and plans
to move to Marshall in the near
future.
He is graduate of Christian
Brothers College of Memphis,
Mr. ami Mrs. Denton and two
children have been residine in
ndereonville, Tennessee.
ROY LOVIN WES
OF INJURIES
IN WRECK SAT.
iServices for Roy McKinley Lo
vin, 31, of St. 2, Mars Hill, who
died Monday, July 6, 1964 as a re-
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sun oi injuries received in a car
wreck Saturday were held at 2:30
p. m. Wednesday at Middle Fork
Baptist Church.
The Rev. Joe Medford and the
Rev. W. L. Lynch officated and
burial was in Pauley Cemetery. The
body was placed in the church one
hour before the services by Hol
combe Funeral Home.
Mb. Levin was as employee of
the Hicks Corporation.
He is survived by a daughter,
Loretta, and a son, Don Lovin,
both of Newport News, Vs.; the
mother, Mrs. Mrs. Cora Ray Lovin
of Rt 2; four sister, Mrs. Carroll
Barnes of Home Shoe Rt 2, Mrs.
Frank Hensley of Burnsville Rt
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Since there seems to have been
some misunderstanding concerning
the missing Registration Book on
Spring Creek, the facts are as
follows. The Registration Book
For 8 Ward 1 (Upper Spring
Creek) has not been missing at
any time. The missing Book is
the Registration Book for 8 Ward
2 (Lower Spring Creek), which at
this date is still missing. This
book was missing at the time the
books were impounded by the SBI
under orders of the State Board
of Election.
MADISON COUNTY BOARD
OF ELECTIONS
By: Ted R. Russell, Chairman
$25,000.00 JOKE
Los Angeles When Mrs. Ber
tha Ekman opened a can labeled
"peanut brittle," paper snakes
sprang out at her, causing her to
fall backard, inj urine bar back so
severely she required
tion four times. A jo
Mrs. Ekman
again
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