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.n ' . , 4 .J " v 4 i. i" I Jt j ' s;i ft - TKI3 WEEK ; - - , A MARSHALL, N. 6. IH-vKauAi JULY 20, 196 C J 10c PER COPY $3.00 A Year In Madison and , A 4X0 A Year Outsit -1M i , ;'V WILL OPEN NEXT MONDAY AFTERNOON .' r el m i S. Volunt ; . Cc I t,i- Mentally ! '?Thii JMUi shall office of -the Op , -portunity' Corporation andthe " North Carolina Council o Mental ' Retardation have announced plan to organize a series of Day Care . Centers 'for handicapped children in Madison. County, The centers will serve physically and mental ly handicapped children between the ages of 2 and 16 who are not in public schools. Initially the centers will provide educational and recreational activities three mornings a week, but hopefully will expand to five mornings a week as volunteer , staffs are found. The Opportunity Corporation and the North Carolina Council on Mental Retardation hope to es tablish day care centers through out the county wherever there are iour or more handicapped chil dren, and wherever a volunteer staff and donated space can be located. The centers will be staff ed entirely by volunteers, but will receive as much professional guid ance as is necessary. Volunteers will be trained by the staff of the Pre-School Training Center of the Opportunity Corporation in Ashe- vile. Volunteers are needed from all parts of Madison County. The only requirement is that volun teers be sincerely interested in helping handicapped children. Vol unteers may donat" as little as one or two mornings per month, or as much as three mornings per week. It is hoped that enough volunteers are found to make it possible to rotate the staff each day of the week. Civic or church groups may also wish to take on part of the work of a center ail a ' project' ' Volunteers ..arV also needed to help transport chil dren. Play materials such as pots and pans, small chairs, blocks, mats, matresses, and other play equipment are also needed. Any interested person or group is in vited to donate any useable equip ment. Interested people may also as sist in the establishment of Day Care Centers by helping locate handicapped children who might use such a service. Any person willing to donate time or equipment or who knows of handicapped children who might use this service, please con tact one of the following persons: Mrs. Dorothy Arrington, The Opportunity Corporation, Box 472, Marshall, N. C, Phone 649-6651, 689-5842 (home. Mr. Robert S. Brunk, The Op portunity Corporation, Box 472, Marshall, N. C, Phone 649-6651. Mrs. Beatrice Fulcher 13 Nor wood Ave., Asheville, N. C, Phone 254-4190. COUNTIES GET $63,421 GRANT IN 0E0 FUNDS Madison and Buncombe Coun ' ties, have received a federal grant 'of $63,421 for a four-month ad ministrative program- for Madi son County. . i The announcement was made - ,Friday by Leveo V. Sanchez, di rector, Middle Atlantic Region, (OEO. J ' The applicant agency is the y Opportunity Corporation of Madi son and Buncombe counties. This component, funds th ad ministrative personnel and relat ed costs, and the outreach per sonnel, for i Madison .County, as : they phase out of their program "development operation. , Under the direction of Mariet ta Suhart, the staff consists - of seven professional, and 11 non professional employees. : . - ' - KLHTING AFLOAT . Takirgr advantage of a raft of friends is the only tt.lr.g that Wps some )- e aT.ost. ml '" GARDEN CLUB -WILL ASS5ST.E MPROVnENTS ; , The Marshall Garden Club held a called meeting on Tuesday morning at the home of Mrs. Ov erton Gregory, president, for the purpose of considering a request uouv Mayor Hewley Tweed Hint l:-. group assist in diiecting cer t;.i" clear-up and weed removal projects planned lor the town. The group' agreed to give time .ihj to enlist volunteers who .sight give time in assisting in the direction of the immediate clean up of the street leading in i .e north side of town, from the vicinity of the Free Will Hap tist Church to the intei seetio.i of the Walnut Creek Koad. Other' Si ggestions wo e heard, and the Marshall Harden Club pledged to tal support of the effort being made by the city officials to put to good use the young labor force now available to them. The group expressed the hope that property owners would cooperate where needed, both in this and other im provements being planned. Mrs. W. A. Sams and Mrs. J. B. Tweed were asked ' to represent the Gar den Club in planning with Mr. George Penland, co-ordinator; and Mr. . "Chick" Marlor, on-the-job director. IRRESPONSIBILITY One fellow to another in line to receive unemployment checks, "It frightens me sometimes when I realiie that this administration with itf fiscal irreeponaibility: is Phone Complaints Called Justified Vice President, Continental Corporation, Makes Statements The vice president of Continen tal Corp. told the State Utilities Commission Thursday afternoon of last week that his firm recog nized the problems existing with phone service in the area covered by its sister phone companies and was willing to work with the com mission and community leaders to solve them. Robert F. Finch of St. Louis, Md., stated before the commis sion's hearing that there was ''much justification in most all the complaints" aimed at Western Carolina and Westco Telephone Companies. The purpose of the four-day hearing held in the federal court room at the Asheville Post Office, was to study the adequacy of tel ephone service in the 11 Western North Carolina counties served by Western Carolina and Westcc. Telephone Companies. Thursday brought over 100 wit nesses from throughout the area involved to testify with various MeU Tomato late blight is doing se rious damage to some tomato crops in Madison County. This disease could do serioua damage to, every tomato crop in the coun ty, Harry Silver, farm agent, said this week. ; - HISTORY, . Late blight of tomatoes is caus ed by a fungus, 'Phytophthora in fest ns." Thia . fungus causes blight in potatoes and was first known in 1830. In 1864 it caused the potato . famine in Ireland which resulted in the death of people. Thousands of oth er people . from Ireland cams to The Mala plant, locate,! ju-t off the Marshall by-pass, i pen for t:ie third season here next Monday afternoon :a i. 'clock. Officials have announced that many improvement.- b.m made i:i tin.1 nullities 1 opi'tl for dcspi'i.' i:ruavorab!i 82 lie rash tMneilay Hayes Run 4-H Club To Sponsor Square Dance Saturday The Hayes Run 4-H Club Square Dance Team is sponsoring a Public Square Dance at the Marshall Skating Rink this Sat urday night at 8:00 o'clock. Ad mission will be $1.00 per adult couple; students 25c. The Square Dance Team has been invited to 4-fl Club Week in Raleigh to per form and proceeds from the dance ill ,help to pay their ay0;;.Ra- and often similar complaints against phone service. Delegations were present from Murphy, Hayesville, Cherokee, Cashiers, Cullowhee, Sylva, Ba kersville and Burnsville. Main complaints were: an inad equate number of telephone trunk lines, interference and static, high rates, slow repair and installa tion service, and the scarceness of private lines. "We know we have problems," Finch said, "but even if we had the solutions, we couldn't solve them overnight." He said his company wanted to take immedi ate action by working with local leaders in solving the problem. Finch was not sworn in as a witness, but because business forced him to leave Wednesday night for Continental's main of fice in St. Louis, he was allowed to make a statement on behalf of his company the parent firm of the two local phone companies. It will be recalled that Madi son County complaints were heard all day on Wednesday of last week. Iglii - - A If eat lo CMison Tomatess the United States to avoid star vation. J HOW LATE BLIGHT STARTS Late blight lives through the winter in potato tubers. If wea ther conditions become, favorable and tomatoes have not been kept covered with a good spray ma terial the disease may break out. Weather conditions most favior abht for the spread of lata blight are as follows: (1) Low night temperature, below the point when dew forms, (2) High humidity, 81 to 100 per cent and, (3) Cloudy, overcast days. ' Under these con ditions the seeding bodies, zoo ai (I other successful season ir for tomato production. Jet Liner - Private Plane In Collision Near Hendersonville -V - A two-engine private plane, fly ing in an area for Jwhich it had m t been cleared by the Asheville Airport tower, collided Wednesday with p. Piedmont AirBnes jet liner which had just-, taken off from the Asheville facility,. Eightly-two;, persons, including Navy Secretary-designate John T. McNaughton, dje in what wit nesses oeucrwea to earth in a trash .dumj near a private summer camp, Camp Fine wood, two miles' northeast of Hendersonville and only 200 feet from Interstate Highway 26. Seventy-nine 74 passengers and a crew of five were aboard the airliner. Three others were aboard the private plane, a Cess na 310. The crash occurred al most precisely at noon. Narrowly escaping injury or possible death were the 160 boys and girls at the camp. In addi tion 36 passengers who got off the ill-fated Boeing 727 just be fore it departed Asheville Air port could thank Lady Luck they hadn't decided to extend their travels. I'erishing with McNaughton were his wife and son, 11, who were returning from summer camp. It was the third and worst fatal accident lor 19-year-old Piedmont Airlines, which has its headquar ters at Winston-Salem, and the worst in North Carolina history. Although pieces of the two planes and bodies of passengers plummeted over a mile and a half area of the crash site, no resident on the ground was hurt. A young girl was hit by seme of the debris at her home on High way 64 about a mile and a half from the crash scene, according to Henderson County Sheriff James F. Kilpatrick. The child (Continued To Last Page) spores, of the late blight fungus produce in abundance and spread over a wide area. . - Early appearance of late blight on tomatoes is irregular, ' greenish-black, water-soaked patches on older leaves. These spots grow fast and a white downy growth can be teen on the under-side of the leaves. With fast spreading the plants almost look like they had been hit by frost Tomatoes en the affected plants may show a grayish green, water-soaked spot, . which enlarrs and may cover half the fruit. Ulster turns browa and s' ' en. This disease ean f a j on to Plane si Mm Are ftpg; HARWELL NAMED DIRECTOR NYC IN M-B COUNTIES Jerry Harwell, Carolinian wi h cia. hinii, sales, hi ministration, has 1 native North experience in td business :ul heen nanied dii-etti.i- of N.-igh'iorhood Youtn Coips for The Opportunity Coi j poi ation of Ma : n oil I '.iineoiiif . , ( oi.ntics. Tin- ( IpportL-nity ( ui ;ior atlon i tin local community anion agency lor Madison aiul llunconilie C'oun ties, ami receives funds for its opeiations fro:n the Noith Caro- linr. Fund, the Office of Kconomic of Labor, as well as from local sources. Harwell, :14, will join Th, o portunity Corporation staff on July 24. For the past four years he has been contract manager for Pritchard Paint and (ilass Cm pany on Asheland Avenue. He is a native of Maiden, N. C, where he attended elementary and high school. He graduate,! from Appalachian State Teachers College in 1957 with majors in mathematics and physical educa tion, with special courses in psy chology and education. Prior to coming to Asheville, Mr. Harwell was employed by a glass company in Florida as a salesman. He also taught school and served as physical education instructor. His military experi ence includes four years with the U. S. Navy as an aviation electri- .cjar;.. iiw.'-Ms-tt-y- Mr. Harwell and his' wife, Bet ty, and their two children, Jeff rey, 7 and Julie, 5 live at 106 Ed win Place. They attend Grace Presbyterian Church. MARSHALL BOYS ARE INJURED IN AUTO WRECK Kcnr.ie I!razil and Johnny Reid, both of Marshall, escaped serious injury last Friday night around midnight when the car they were riding in struck a bank and slid across the highway toward the French Broad River where it ov erturned. The accident occurred about six miles from Marshall on Highway 25-70 near the Bob Car ter place. Both young men were rushed to an Asheville hospital. Ronnie re ceived deep cuts on the arm and facial lacerations. Johnny re ceived head injuries and cuts about the face. They are both recuperating at their homes here. Ronnie is the son of Mrs. Char lie Nix and Johnny is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fleet Reid. The 1965 Chevrolet, driven by Brazil, was demolished . Observers stated that both young men were wearing seat belts which probably prevented more serious injuries. matoes in storage and in ship ment. HOW TO CONTROL LATE BLIGHT Since potatoes are the source of the disease they should not to followed by tomatoes.' If potatoes are near tomatoes they should be SpPftyVd , vs-.J:V'i-iv- in-r" .is Maneb as Maniate D, Diathene M-22 Special or . other brand names are the best recommended chemical for control. ' Maneb should be kept on the plant at all times, both on the ander surface and on top of the leaves. This Mr. Merchant! Serious thought is being given the possibility of practically all stores in Marshall remaining op en every Friday night until o'clock, fly doing this il u M ,. ford the public an opportunity siiop in Marshal! al ter getting , ! wi rk. I lie suli lei t .v ; '. IP- s ilisri -.oil at limits As... i, , ! I .i-.'iay iiii;lu I lo have a call loon :iaat - i . ,1 1 M lll'l oi : u tlii- .Marshal Mi : ii-ip no etii ... o. i anil it was 1 -1 1 1 r. ii- 1 i r t. of tl,,. Tile-day 1 1 i ).'! I t Amithcr iiiipoi taut 'P p ppn.sideratio'i is a promoli ,i I' coincide with the .Mate to . i'o season. Preliminary plans init iate that a Tomato Queen will lie seli'i -ted during the promotion probably in the middle of August. This, too, will be discussed by tin' merchants next Tuesday night. ALL merchants interested in co operating to make Marshall a mo: .' pi . u,iessive to n aie urged I:, attend. SPRING CREEK CLASS REJOINS AFTER 30 YEARS All but one of the members of the Spring Creek High School class of 1937 attended the first reunion of the class Sunday, Ju ly 9 at the school. . , . Hard Woody, who was killed m astjon. jnvldyarJpLs resented by bis sister, . who, .was; Bonnie Woody and now lives in Ohio. She was the class mascot in 1937. Mr. and Mrs. Romaine Mead ows, who were the class spon sors, also attended from Knox ville. Plans to continue the reunion on a five-year basis were discuss ed. Members who attended were Hazel Balding Suttles, Mars Hill; Burgess Brown, Swannanoa; No land Coward, Miami; Ruth Davis, Leicester; Edith Ferguson Plem mons, Clyde; Dallas Holland Mathis, Hazelwood; Wilma Holt Weston, Tulsa. Okla.; Wilbern Packets Marion; Cole I'lemmons, Dearborn Heights, Mich.; Grace I'lemmons Woody, Melvindale, Mich.; Wiley I'lemmons, Mar shall; and Agnes Reeves patrick, Morristown, Tenn Kirk- Mayor Invites Public To Town Officials' Meetings Mayor J. B. Tweed invited "anyone who can help solve our many problems" to attend the al dermen's meeting at the city hall on the second Thursday night in each month at 7:30 o'clock. "Maybe some of those persons who are continually griping can help solve some of the problems," Mayor Tweed commented. will require . spraying at least every five days and in rainy wea ther more-often. , , Maneb will not control botrytls blight; so Dyrene should be in cluded ia the spray for control of botrytia, - .-J - . 'I Some of the copper compounds such as Copper-A Compound, or Tri -basis Copper Surf ate will con trol late blight, tut they WILL NOT control early bight, or botrytis blight Tomato producers who Vt-p a good spray program and (if -o 1 coverage will not be a victim tf late blight On - Going Projects Are Cited ; Low-Income Families Helped A grant to employ 27 people to combat poverty in Madison County has been received by The Op portunity Corporation of Madi son -Buncombe Counties. i j I nis grant of .'r'f;:;.421 from tne i Office ol Ke mil- Opportunity ,vii! inal-.e po ,-ilile the continua tion of work begun by Madison ! Community Action, Inc., and e n j tinned by Tile Opportunity Gr noratho ol Mailison-liunconilie jCo.i.tii -. siu.e the two agencies merged in I'ebiuary. The pro gram will use a two-pronged at tack against the problems of lmv iiii oine people. This will be done through improvement of coui iiiir.it ..or. i.i-s anil through com munity action by organizations of low-income people. Most ol the jobs will be fille I by low-income people. The grant also provides for a project direc tor, a director of community ser vices, a director of community organization, a social worker, a public health nurse, and a job developer. A multi-purpose center to be housed in the Marshall Com munity Center will allow co ordination of Opportunity Cor poration services with services of local, state and Federal agencies. The Center will provide outreach operation into the homes as well as referral services and trans portation for people in isolated areas. The community service direc tor, Robert Brunk, helps to- co ordinate existing social service agencies, both, public and private, I yrovided! by the staff of TLw Op portunity Corporation. Under his supervision, the social ' worker and public health nurse will work with low-income families and with other agencies. There will also be several community service workers working with families to help them to get better social services. Henry Zingg, director of com munity action has under his supervision a job developer. Bob Drummond, who will work with local agencies and local people to try to find more and better jobs. He will also have several community action field workers who will work with community (Continued To Last Page) Connor Promoted To Police Chief David Connor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Connor, of Marshall Route 2, has been promoted to police chief of Marshall. Connor has been serving regu larly as policeman for more than a year. Marshall By-Pass Gets New Surface A new surface from the Ivy Bridge to the north end of the Marshall By-Pass is almost com pleted. "It's a vast improvement and makes for much more enjoyable driving," one motorist said. TAX RATE FORI COUNTY SAME -$2.05 PER $1C0 ; The summary of the Madison' County budget estimate reveals that the current tax rate is the same as in the past $2.05 per, 1 100 valuation. -- The complete bucket estima'e, itemized, will be r-'-Vlshed. a later d&'e. a:. TT.e r- trov,?.'e it is r 1 ..l
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