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VOL. 67 NO. 28
8 PAGES THIS WEEK
MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1968
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Mato
Mountaineer Cloggers Will
Perform; Public
Invited
Norris Gentry, general manag
er of Mato Packing Co., Inc., of
Marshall, announces this week
that Open House will be observed
at the huge shed on Saturday, Ju
ly 13, from 1:00 p. m. to 6:00 p. m.
Mr. Gentry stated that all pro
ducers were especially invited to
attend. Free lemonade and sweets
will be served and officials will
be on hand to answer any ques
tion about the changes which
have been made, especially about
the new small crop system which
will go into effect this season.
He also stated that the Moun
taineer Cloggers 4-H Club square
dance team will perform at 2:30
and 3:I!0 o'clock. This talented
team last year won the district
talent contest held in Raleigh and
has been selected to attend 4-H
Club Week in Raleigh later this
month.
Gentry also said a portion of
the ceremonies would be broad
cast over WMMH.
"Mato now has a way to han
dle every grower's tomatoes, large
and small, in the fairest and fast
est way," Mr. Gentry said.
"Many improvements have been
made at the plant since last sea
son and we are looking forward
to a very successful season," Mr.
Gentry commented.
Wins Lawn Mower
Charles Bishop, local barber,
was the winner of the Power
Lawn Mower given away July 4th
by the Marshall police depart
ment. Junior Dairy Princess
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PAMELA CLARK, seven-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gar
rell Clark of Marshall Rt. 6, is
Madison County's Junior Dairy
Princess. Crowned in ceremonies
at the Madison County Court
house, she will hold the title for
a year. Pamela received a bou
quet of red roses from the Ashe
ville Agricultural Development
Council and a 20 gift certificate.
False Pride,
Politics Ire
Tfck is tits text t rcsasrks
Mads fcy On A. 8 paid, Esscntivs
Director of Tn Opportunity Cor
poration, at tfcs Madisom Couatv
Ptamiaf Coafercac oa Joly 3,
1 1968 at Mars HOI Oncg..
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Ws corns rw to th jxJnt In
this planning Amf erertes where
we have spent the better part of
" - 'acn.'--'-? t'' of
!'; a County t i tae
A
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se fit
New Assistant Agent
"Mrs. Linda Gail Harrell has re
cently been appointed Assistant
Home Economics Extension
Agent for Madison County. She
will be working in Area IV with
the TV A Project.
Mrs. Harrell is a Mars Hill
College graduate with a U.S. De
gree in home economics. For the
past three years she has taught
home economics, sociology and
economics at St. Genevieve of the
iPines in Asheville. She is the
former Linda Gail Haynie, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hay
nie of Weaverville. She and her
husband, Donald, are presently
living on Bailey Street in Mars
Hill.
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Named Dairy Princess
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Miss Patricia Whitson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
William A. Whitson of Mars Hill, has been crowned
the Madison County Senior Dairy Princess for 1968
69. An honor graduate of Mars Hill High School,
she recently completed her freshman year at Mars
Hill College, where she is majoring in business edu
cation. Miss Whitson is employed for the summer
at the ESEA office in Marshall.
Cut courtesy of Asfaeville Citizen-Tim es
Jealousy,
Criticized
corns up with some plans to meet
thesa Heeds. Now we face the
question, 'What are we going to
do, about KT"
We have heard satt again and
again that what Madison County
needs above , all . Is economic de
velopment. - We teed new. indus
try and business to create new
Jobs and new tax revenue. With
this new income and revenue,
Z'aV'rrt County could improve
e ' K.'.a, provide better healih
ROY AlVIN PIKE
IS KILLED BY
BULLDOZER MON.
Jupiter Contractor And
Farmer Is Buried
Wednesday
Roy Alvin Pike, .'id, of the Ju
piter community, was killed Mon
day afternoon, July 8, 1!)8 when
a bulldozer he was operating ov
erturned, crushing him.
Huncombe County deputy medi
cal examiner Dr. Lawrence T.
Sprinkle, said Pike was apparently
operating the equipment on an
extremely steep s'!ipc when it
turned over and rolled about 250
feet down the hillside.
Dr. Sprinkle said the accident
took place about 3:15 p. m., at
the Charlie Stirewalt residence on
a mountainside above Ileech com
munity. Mi. Pike, a native of the Flint
Hill section of Huncombe County,
was a farmer and construction
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Burlington Workers
Receive 4Y2 Million
In Summer Bonuses
Vacation bonuses totaling more
than $4 V4 million are being paid
to wage employees of Hurlington
Industries during the vacation
season this summer.
Charles A. McLendon, Burling
ton vice president for personnel,
said vacation pay is given to em
ployees in July and August to co
incide with manufacturing plant
vacations. The summer payments
are in addition to some $3i mil
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s oiiffrfii)C
and welfare services, build new
housing undertake new water and
eewaire DroJects. then create new
programs in recreation, training,
and transportation.
But we have heard that in or
der to attract new business and
fadustrv. we need (rood schools.
good roads, water and sewage
facilities, transportation, recre
ation, adequate health and wel
fare services virtually all of
the imnrovementa which we bad
hoped might come front new busi
ness and industry.
This puts us in a kind of chick
en-or-the-egg '. situation. , Which
comes first T ". . V , '
, , - -
, This is Just one of the major
questions we must resolve - to
break out of this vicious cycle of
nnmet needs. We know that some
pfenning has been done; we know
BILL BRIGM AN
IS INJURED IN
WRECK THURS.
Now In Memorial Mission
Hospital; Suffers
Broken Bones
William Jack (Bill) Urigman,
'27, of Marshall, Route 3, was se
riously injured last Thursday
Morning on US 25-70 near the Mad-ison-Huncom'be
County line when
his car left the highway and trav
eled some 150 feet along an em
bankment and struck a tree. It is
believed that he probably fell
asleep while returning to his home
from Asheville.
He was rushed to the Memorial
Mission Hospital where he re
mains a patient. He suffered a
broken jaw, broken nose, several
broken ribs and a broken hip.
Mr. Brigman is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Knox Brigman.
In addition to being a member
of the North Buncombe high
school faculty, he is also a driver
education instructor in Buncombe
County and often operates char
tered tours for the Queen City
Trailways.
His condition is improving.
Jerry Dale Hunter
Injured; Horse,
Pony Are Killed
Jerry Dale Hunter, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Hunter of the Wal
nut Creek community, remains a
patient in Memorial Mission Hos
pital where he was taken last
Thursday night .following an acci
dent near the L. ,B. Ramsey home
on Walnut Creek Boad here.
According lb "reports, Hunter
was heading up the road riding a
horse and leading a pony which
he had won at the rodeo on the
Island earlier that night. As he
was near the Ramsey and Din
widdie home, a car driven by Mai-'
colm Reeves, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Reeves, of Walnut, struck
the pony and horse, killing the
pony instantly. Hunter was thrown
from the horse by the impact and
was rushed to the hospital with a
fractured skull, deep lacerations
on the head, two teeth knocked
out and numerous bruises. His
condition is reported as improved.
The horse was injured and died
Saturday.
The 1959 Ford involved in the
accident was badly damaged.
Four-Year-Old Boy
Killed By Tractor
On Shelton Laurel
Whetsel Eugene Shelton, four-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ho
bert (Iiud) Shelton, of the Shel
ton Laurel community, was fatal
ly injured on July 3, 1968 when
the farm tractor on which he and
three more children were playing
overturned.
Funeral services were held on
Friday, July 5.
In addition to the parents sev
eral brothers and sisters survive.
TEnat tMhm aim
what some of our needs are; we
know that more planning must
be done and that we must set
some priority on which needs to
meet first.
We also know that some money
is available but it may not be the
money that we need most or first.
And in many instances, we are
required to provide matching
money to get the larger amounts
of money we need to undertake
new projects. Where . is . this
matching money to eome from?,
i Penhaps all we have done to
day is to define our dilemma. But
must we go away confused and
hopeless t ;;;; sVv. l"fK'
The plight of Madison County
in this is similar to the r':t of
many other rural conntk in the
nation. And this fact r y give
us something to go on.
Principals, Teachers Announced
For '68 -'69 Term County Schools
WANTED NEGRO
ESCAPES FROM
MARS HILL FRI.
Asks For Food At Roland
Home; $1,500 Reward
Offered
Officers are still attempting to
capturo Edward Thompson, Jr., a
Negro ex-convict declared an out
law June 25 after being charged
with nine capital offenses in Hen
derson and Iredell counties. He
is wanted on six charges of kid
napping and three charges of rape,
dating from May 9.
A group of Henderson County
citizens have boosted the reward
offered for leading to his arrest
to $1,500.
IN MARS HILL FRIDAY
The dangerous and armed
Thompson was in Mars Hill last
Friday night, according to Sher
iff Roy Roberts. Roberts and
Deputy Carl Shook related the
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Tomato Plant At
Hot Springs Is
Now Operating
James Rouse, manager, and the
owners of the Rot Springs toma
to plant announced this week that
the first sales were made last Fri
day when several Tennessee pro
ducers brought their tomatoes to
Hot Springs. The opening was
originally scheduled for Monday.
"We are well pleased with the
sales thus far and look forward
to continued sales in the future,"
one of the owners stated this
week.
Rodeo Successful;
Fireworks Enjoyed
Here Last Thursday
Both the afternoon and night
performances of the wild west ro
deo here on the 4th of July were
successful with hundreds of spec
tators watching the riders and an
imals. Both events were sponsor
ed by the Marshall volunteer fire
department. Also adding to the
enjoyment was music furnished
by the Howard Treadway band.
The bleachers were filled with
many standing at the night show.
Following the rodeo, beautiful
and colorful fireworks were dis
played much to the enjoyment of
the crowd.
Jerry Dale Hunter, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Hunter of the Wal
nut Creek community, was the
winner of the pony given away by
the firemen.
"We wish to express our ap
preciation to everyone who assist
ed in making the 4th of July cel
ebration here successful," Joe
Fisher, fire chief, said.
Let's look at our problem in
its national context. As you sure
ly know, there is more poverty
in the rural areas of the United
States than in the urban areas.
And yet by far the largest share
of the money devoted to programs
to combat poverty goes to the
big cities.
In this case, poverty is an in
dex of economic development. The
fact that there is more poverty
in . rural areas means that there
is less economic development in
rural areas.
nWhy.is thiet Cue "reason is
that rural counties simply do not
have the resources in money or
people to develop - ; programs to
claim money that might be avail
able to -them.' It Is one of the
tragedies of the poverty program
I that some of the areas of gre&t-
Promoted
if -I
A. E. LEAKE, former attorney
here who has been serving as a
hearing officer for the State
Board of Alcoholic Control in Ra
leigh since April, lit)i7, has been
promoted to deputy commissioner
lor the N. C. Industrial Commis
sion. Leake was sworn in at a cere
mony held in the Industrial Com
mission's courtroom in Raleigh on
July 1. Supreme Court Associate
Justice J. Frank Huskins admin
istered the oath.
Charles R. Williams, of Hart
nett County, succeeds Leake as
hearing officer.
Attends Convention
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Willis re
turned Sunday from Fayetteville
where Mr. Willis attended the
North Carolina Clerk of Courts
convention held at the Downtown
er last week. t
J. D. Siler, clerk of court of
Haywood County, was elected
president of the Association.
Barfield Points Out
Urgent Heed For Roads
BOTH SOFTBALL
TEAMS TO PLAY
IN CANTON SUN.
The two all-star teams from
the Madison County Slow Pitch
Softball League will play next
Sunday afternoon on the Canton
Softball Field. Both teams are
participating in the Western Dis
trict tournament which is double
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FINAL STANDINGS
MADISON COUNTY
SOFTBALL TEAMS
W L GB
Laurel 25 11
'Marshall Bap. Ch. 23 13 2
Mars Hill 21 15 4
Davis Chapel 18 18 7
Revere 18 18 7
Hot Springs 16 21 10
Bull Creek 14 22 11
Hopewell 11 26 14
Be tMel tantfy
est need go untouched or are
reached last because they do not
have anyone that can be assigned
to wark on planning and develop
ment. Another reason that rural areas
are neglected is that they have
not mounted the concerted de
mand upon the Congress- for
funds that the cities have. This
is ironic, considering that . Can
gross has always had a prepon
derance of farm-bloc or rural
representatives In both the Bouse
and the ' Senate. Jk ' f- A ''
4 Am so, with more money be
ing poured into the cities where
most of 'the money . to ' already
and less money going to the ru
ral areas which had less to begin
with, we are In danger' of crest
ing a situation in this m'J.n un
der wUvh t' e rkh gt il.' -r a.. J
Whitt, Church, Anderson,
Tweed, Dickerson, Wyatt,
Phillips, Ray, Principal
Superintendent Robert L. Ed
wards this week announced the
principals and teachers for coun
ty schools for the l8-9 term.
Vocational classes will be taught
as follows: Marion L. Andrews,
Agriculture; Irene M. Metcalf,
Home Economics; I'aul Tugman,
Bricklaying.
Unit-wide Personnel consists of
Grover D. Cillis, General Super
visor; Carold D. Ramsey, Truant
Counselor; Glenwood Wallin and
McClelland Rice, Driver Tduca
tion. l ublished below is a list of prin
cipals and teachers for the ensu
ing term:
MARSHALL
HIGH SCHOOL: Clive M. Whitt,
principal; Selwyn M. Eure, James
E. Boone, Jessie M. Ramsey, Roy
E. Reeves, Dorothy h. Shupe, Ma
ry C. Sprinkle, Carol Whitt, Lu
cille Bullman, Bobby D. Franklin,
Jack C. Cole, Laura M. Plemmons,
John D. Ray, James E. Allen, J.
C. Wallin.
ELEMENTARY: Mary E. Ward,
Mafia B. Clark, Judy K. Frisby,
Anna B. White, Emily F. Wallin,
Sandra A. Edwards, Winifred R.
West, Viola M. Ramsey, Helen T.
Ledford, Billie J. Redmon, Hattie
T. Teague, Orla O. Ponder, Eva
R. Sams, Salena D. Fisher, Jessie
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Cites Broken Promises Of
Top Officials And
Governors
Editor's Note: Jack Barfield, of
Asheville, sent us the following
carbon copy of a letter he had
written to Hal Triable, editor of
The Asheville Citizen, in which
he commends Mr. TrrbMe's edito
rial of July 5. This newspaper
agrees with Mr. Barfield concern
ing our roads.
Asheville, N. C.
July 5, 1968
Mr. Hal Tribble, Editor
Asheville Citizen
Asheville, North Carolina 28801
Dear Sir:
Your editorial of July 5th "Mod
el County Program to Transform
Madison" is excellent. In fact, it
is great!
Madison County would not be
the poverty stricken county it is
today if the Governors, the Chair
man of the Highway Commission
ers, and other public officials had
done what they promised to do for
this county over the past 36 years..
Former Governor Luther Hodges
in 1956 ordered a survey from
Asheville to the Tennessee line
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the poor get poorer.
The people in Washington are
not unaware of this problem. But
up to this point, only lip service
has been paid to deaUng with the
problem. Mr. Tampleton'a posi
tion as Deputy Director for fiov
ral Programs fa the , Office of
Economic Opportunity was erea-'
ted by the Congress as one step'
to meet this inequitable situation.
But the formation of an urban
coalition, made up of powerful
businessmen - and . governmental
officials, has claimed the L' n's
share of the money. Uoves -now
underway to form a r
coalition to speak cp f r 1
America. :
Eut this prolV-n i-