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' vv, fx i , i i , 1 f- v ' ; i ' 'if r - r i ; V J.-1 IT' I J o if ' VOL. 66 NO. 23 ?-tff 8 PAGES THIS WEEK MARSHALL, N. C THURSDAY, JUNtf 8; 1967' j 10c PER COPY $2.60 A Year In Madison A Adjoining Coasttas M-00 A Year Outside These Counties 1 in u A' r UUCJU UU. - sat eoifiittSIWIOOtJet iFriday; Seliools Are Discussed Haywood Progress Cited; Officers Are Reelected The Madison County Committee of 100 held its annual meeting: last Friday night in the Marshall high school auditorium with 47 members attending. There were 12 excused absentees and 39 ab sent. The chair recognized Joe L. Morgan, who after having the sec retary read a resolution to the . committee, briefly summarized the Messer bill in regard to the elec tion of boards of education state wide. Dr. Charles Powell asked what the difference was between the Futrell bill and the Messer bill. Mr. Gerald Young, chairman of the organization who presided, pointed out that the two bills were essentially the same, both giving statewide guidelines and leaving the decision to the people as to how board of educations should be elected. Young stated that Senator Nor ton had asked for Madison Coun ty respresentation in a hearing and that he had been to Raleigh for thla numon and that it is his I understanding that the first f the two bills to get approval Will signal the dropping of the Other. Front, discussions with several of tho . legislators lq ftaleigh, Young sid he learned that gener al assembly members are tired of large .amnt 'C:Wal iegisla .' o?nd kr$. rsady o" 'dispense with as' much s possible. "The Omnibus bill gives most trouble," he Mid. , He also stated that he was informed that Senator Bu chanan of Hendersonville plans to introduce a bill to exclude 24 Western N. C counties should the Messer or Futrell bill be approved. Mr. Young pointed out that ; he would like to see letters, going to Raleigh objecting to having Mad ison County excluded. It was agreed to add this desire to the resolution submitted by Morgan. 'Mr. Morgan introduced the mo tion that the resolution be adopt ed. It was seconded by Dr. Pow ell. The resolution was adopted with no opposition. DALE SPEAKS C. R. Dale, assistant supperin ( Continued To Last Page) Programs To Start In This County Tuesday, June 20 Federal anti-poverty grants totaling $170,481 25 per cent less than requested have been approved to finance Head Start kindergartens for 865 poor young sters in Madison and Buncombe counties this summer, it was an nounced Friday. A spokesman for the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) in Washington said the grants were approved Thursday and approp riate data had been mailed to the Opportunity Corporation, the local anti-poverty agency. Officials at the Opportunity Corp., which operates in botti Buncombe and Madison counties, have been sweating out receipt of the federal money with the Eead Start programs slated to be gin in the next three or four weeks. Ora A. Spaid, executive " di rector of the corporation - aaid Read Start classes for Buncombe aru Madison counties la well underway and he suggested that C original starting dates of June (Continued To Last Fsge). US M 25 RESOLUTION Adopted By The Citizens Committee Of 100 For Better Schools WHEREAS, the future of Mad ison County rests with the boys and girls who are of school age today, their hopes and aspirations will be determined in large meas ure by the quality of education received in the public schools. It is imperative that the forces of the home, school and church be united in behalf of the education of the youth. AND WHEREAS, the consen sus of the progressive and enlight ened people in Madison County abhors more than a minimum of political influence in the public schools. The best interests of the students and education in general will be served by a school system devoid of partisan politics. Such an important undertaking as the education of youth must transcend in importance all partisan and sel fish interests. Be it, therefore, resolved that we, the Citizens Committee of 100 lor Better Schools, rededfcate our- selves to the purposes and ob jectives of American education and; reflect upon the implications of this statement of James A. Garfield which was made In his famous address to the graduating class ox William jtfcUege: "Next wlmportaiics to? justice to; popular edocat witW out wbot newer ireewnn nor jus-f tice can be permanently' main tained." Be it resolved that we go on (Continued To Last Page) French Broad Lions Sponsor Singing At French Broad Sat. The French Broad Lions Club is sponsoring a singing program Saturday night in the French Broad School, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. Among the singers will be the Asheville Harmony Quartet, Joy ful Aires Quartet, Pleasant Five, and the Peek Family. Per emf Gets Leave Of Absence Dr. Berniee Ramsey Roberts Madison County Girl Goes To The Top Dr. Berniee Ramsey Roberts, daughter of Mrs. Maude 'Chrisman Ramsey and the late Tom Eamsey of Marshall, has been chosen to collaborate with Dr. Hilda Tabs, nationally renowned curriculum development expert of Ban Fran cisco State College, la writing an elementary ' social science text (Continued To last Tags) ' Here Last CAPPS FOUND GUILTY; GETS 12-18 YEARS Edd Capps, who had been charged with murder in the shoot ing of Donald McCurry last Feb. 4, was convicted of second degree murder by a jury in Superior Court here Friday. Judge J. C. Farthing of Lenoir sentenced Capps to 12-18 years in prison. The jury recommended leniency. MoCurry, 28, was shot to death at a restaurant across the road from hie home in the Forks of Ivy community. MIIC CITED FOR UPGRADING OF FACULTY LEVEL For the second straight year Mars Hill College has been cited by the American Association of University Professors for out standing achievement in upgrading faculty compensation levels. The organization publishes a rating scale based on the faculty compensation levels at nearly 1000 the : iaW Thascale U . M . . j,- Last year Mars Hill was one of the institutions cited for having achieved the most rapid rate of increase in the level of compensa tion for faculty members. This year Mars Hill is among the top five per cent of the colleges in this respect. For its 1967-68 fiscal year, which began June 1, Mars Hill will pay its faculty members salaries and fringe benefits which rank at the C Minimum reading on the AAUP scale. Thie is con siderably above most of the col leges in North Carolina and equal to such institutions at Wake For est, North Carolina State Univer sity, UNC at Charlotte, Western Carolina, Clemson and Furman. Two years ago the compensa tion for Mars Hill teachers was at the F level, lowest on the AAUP scale. The only fringe benefits were social security plus a self made retirement system of $100 per month for 25 years or more of service at age 65. During 1966-67 salaries were up graded substantially and two ad ditional fringe benefits were instituted; (1) an attractive retire (Continued to Page Four) State Faces Prospect Of Losing Federal Government Welfare Aid RALEIGH a warning that North Carolina stands to lose all federal assistance in its multimillion-dollar welfare program has been sounded by the U. S. De partment of Health, Education and Welfare. Col. Clifton M. Craig, director of the State Department of Public Welfare, said the warning came in a letter which pointed directly to a ' hassle between state and county welfare officials over the staffing requirements of some eounty snita. ' The state stands to lose an estimated $1919346 tn federal funds (during the 1967-69 . bien nium. That figure represents a boot 75 per cent of the . entire state welfare program. , ' Quoting from ,ths letter he re UPORTANT-TQ CONSERVATION Soil and water conservation on the almost 2.5 million different farms and ranches where farmt and Government shared the coat of carrying out AgriculturalCon servation Program practices, over the last 5 years has done much to enhance the beauty of Ajnerica, Emory Robinson, chairman of the Agricultural Stabilization n d Conservation Service county com mittee pointed out today. Mr. Robinson said that sound land use, which the ACP encour ages, has meant the protection and development of the Nation's land and waiter resources.;! Such practices as stripcroppihg, 5 con touring, establishing vegetative covers, improved vegetative cover use and tree planting, . have all aided in reducing erosion, gully ing and sedimentation. But, be yond the physical improvement, the ACP practices have spread green carpets in undulating pat- ters across the fields of the coun tryside, creating picturesque beau ty in areas where erosion, and ev en desolation might have resulted (Continued To Last Page) , Personnel Changes At Hamamirtincl Effective immediately 'Charlea W. Hester of Reems Creek Kuad, Weaverville ' .'fcai'j bee ' rpointed managr of ! ManufacturiServ- fceij iorto rest)onsMjtynaojnprlsISM the Industrial Engiaeering artliMaWl .i yi i t. ' If- 1 rial Controls Departments. V Mr. Hester has been associated with Hammarlund the past eight years in various capacities. Mr. Hester csune to Hammar lund from General Electric Com pany of Hendersonville, where he held the position of Manufactur ing Process Engineer. He was previously associated with Tex tron Corporation of Anderson, South Carolina. Judy Gosnell Is Member Ridgecrest Baptist Faculty Judy Elaine Gosnell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arvil Gosnell of Marshall Rt. 6, left Monday en route to Ridpecrest Baptist As sembly where she will become a member of the faculty in the Pri mary Department of the Children's Building. This fall Miss Gosnell will return to Eugene Rankin School where she is librarian. She holds a B.A. degree from Mars Hill College with majors in ele- mentary science. education and library I Members of the Marshall (jr Jden Club initiated the project. ceived, Craig said "there is some question whether the state public assistance programs are in com pliance with federal requirements.' The welfare director said his department has been given no deadline for compliance to pro tect funds for the overall welfare program, which gets more, federal aid than any other department In the state. ' i- - '. But a July 1 deadline Km been set for compliance to retain a $1 J million a year defined services program. - It was a question on the FWP era! cut-off date for the defined services project which resulted in the disclosure that the entire wel fare program Is la danger. That project, launched ia' 1SC3 4-H DRESS REVUE DAIRY jCONTEST HERE FRIDAY The Madison County 4-H Dress Revue and Dairy Princess Contest will be held Friday night, June 9 at 7:30 o'clock in the courtroom of the Courthouse. Girls from throughout the county will com pete to win honors in both events. Prizes will be awarded the win ners. Also, the senior winner in the Dress Revue will represent Madison County in district com petition June 20. Refreshments will be served fol lowing the events. Anyone inter ested is invited to attend. New 4-H Club Is Organized; Officers Are Elected Friday With the help of Mr. Robert Knox and Miss Madge Guffey, the boys and girls of the Laurel, Little Creek and Puncheon Fork communjtie8 have recently organi- zed a 4-H Club. The name of our (club is LAUREL MOUNTAIN EERS. Our leaders are Mrs. June IWyatt, Mrs. J. B. Wallin, Mrs. Eddie English and Mrs. Edgar Willis. We met June 2, at the home of Mrs. June Wyatt for the purpose of planning programs and electing officers. The following officers were elected: President, Patricia English; vice-president, Bobby Willis; secretary-treasurer, Margaret Wyatt; reporter, Vickie Wallin. We planned some interesting Und helpful programs for the com- .Iv.tMf AlF-tyavaiid girls of our area interested in 4-H rn..i. .-i. ihi:4.j at Club, wtork are inivited to Join. VICKIE WALLIN, Reporter Sellers May Leave Hot Springs Post Tentative assignments of West ern North Carolina Methodist pastors reveal that the Rev. Louis H. Wodard may replace the Rev. Harry Sellers at Hot Springs. The assignments are not of ficial, however, until announced by the bishop Sunday morning. Flowers Planted On Parking Lot By Local Scouts . Cadette Troop 350 of Marshall shared in a beautification proect at the Parking Lot adjoining Davis Gulf Service this week. Boy Scouts of Marshall prepared the ground and the Girl Scouts set seven dozen Petunia plants (red, white and blue) on the street side or t&e I'arlcmg ljot. as an amendment to the Social Security Act, provides funds for additional welfare workers suf ficient to hold case loads to a maximum of 60 families per case worker with a supervisor for every five employees. r States were told they could adopt the program in a county-by-coonty fashion, but that full statewide compliance would be. re quired by July L 1967. There are 20 counties out of North Caroline's 100 which have not adopted the program, Oalg declined to name the counties. . He said a delegation of county commissioners, .welfare directors and legislators called on Got. Daa i'oore last week seeking support (Continued To last Page) . Afternoon And Expc icted To Draw Thousands LETS COOL OFF! SWIMMING POOL HERE NOW OPEN The Marshall swimming pool is now o.pen daily except on Mon days, it was announced here this week. The pool opens at 12 o'clock noon and remains open until 6 pjn. Ed Morton is acting as manag er and Emagene Ponder and Tom my Nix, both qualified lifeguards, will be on duty. Soft drinks and candies are available at the pool. SCHOOL BOARD BILLS APPROVED BY COMMITTEE RALEIGH Bills seeking e lective school board in five coun ties were approved Thursday by the House Committee on Educa tion over-riding Lis ton B. Ram sey of Madison County with the only dissenting vote. Ramsey is a member of the 7 man sub-committee named two 'weeks ago to study 18 controvert siai bills in the House Education Committee dealing with selection fefachofil board members. J, I mt. Ul J. j J.. ine o"jy recommeiHwmon ojjine sub-committee not SftVjiiad by the lull comimttee was an unfavorable Report on a bill by Republican Rep. Donald Kincaid for a non-parti san board in Alexander County. Among five measures reported out by the committee for a vote in the House was one by Rep. Don H. Garren of Hendersonville. The concerted effort on behalf of local bills to whittle down what remains of the omnibus bill through which board members are picked by the General Assembly is, at least in part, a wedge ft promote passage of a statewide measure to put all county boards of education on an elective basis. The local bills are also safe guards for the individual counties n the event the statewide legis ation opposed by a group led by Sen. Harry E. Buchanan of Hendersonville is defeated. RAMSEY SCORES COMMISSIONERS ABOUT WELFARE Local Representative Makes Statement Tuesday Afternoon "I was amazed to find that my home county of Madison is among a few other counties having coun ty commissioners who fay refusing to cooperate with the State De partment of Public Welfare have placed the entire welfare program of North Carolina in jeopody. "My feeling is for those needy people who are receiving 'this aid. It would be unthinkable to even consider depriving, these people, namely elderly people, depen dent children, and others of this aid that they so desperately need. -A bill has been introduced in the General Assembly by Repre sentative Em est Messer, of Hay wood Connty,-which would if en acted into law, force our county commlsioners ' to 'comply ' ' with Federal regulations. "I am in full support of this legislation", Representative Lis son B. Ramsey told this newspaper Tuesday afternoon. ;- flight Shows . 3fc 9fi 3fr Sponsored By Local Lions Club; All Is in Readiness Thousands of horse lovers from Western North Carolina and East ern Tennessee are expected to be in Marshall Saturday to attend the second charity horse show sponsored by the Marshall Lions Club. The first horse show, held last summer, was highly success ful and this year's event is ex pected to be even better. John Corbett, coordinator of the event, stated this week that everything is in readiness and he expected thousands of interested and excited speactators to attend both shows. "We are mainly hop ing for a clear, pretty day", Mr. Corbett said. The first show will start at 1:00 p. m., with 16 separate events to be held. The Championship events will he leld Sataftfay ntghtr beginning at 7:00 o'clock. A total- of 32 events will be held with trophies and ribbons being pre sented winners of first, second, third, fourth and fifth places. Mr. Corbett announced that the hostesses who will present the trophies and ribbons will be Miss es Gail Mayhew, Margot Roberts, Martha Louise Ramsey, Fredie Ann Robinson, Clarlene Nix and Sidney Mashburn. Officials for the event will be Hugh A. Griffin, of Concord, Tenn., judge; Glen Fletcher, ring master; Lloyd Thompson, master of ceremonies. A veternanion will also be on call, Mr. Corbett said. Various committees " have been working on every phase of the show to make it successful. Ad ditional eating facilities have been constructed on the Island and hamburgers, hot dogs, soft drinks, and other eats will be available. A new watering trough for the horses has been built and the ring has been put up. Proceeds from the event will be used for charitable purposes,, mainly to aid the blind and visual ly handicapped persons in Madi son County. Also cooperating are many of the Marshall merchants who are offering "Horse Show Specials' with numerous tiems being drastically reduced this week-end. In case of rain on Saturday, the event will be held on Sunday as a make-up date. The various events are being, sponsored by business and profes sional men of Marshall. "Come early and stay late and have a wonderful time this Sat urday," Mr. Corbett stated. ESE A Personnel Enjoy Picnic At Zeniqfc Lakes t Personnel of th Wai Hsf.a office enjoyed a picnic at Zenina. Lakes en Wednesday of last week. In addition to the personnel,, former director 0. E. Roberts, and Superintendent R. L. F ! wards t- tended. -. Zenina Lakes are Iocf ?- . property of I,:r. a J " PvnJor.
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