J
it :
t k 1
Ubu
!
LM
iff"""
VOL. 67 NO. 33
iMat
ODitesfaimfs Register
Voting: Start Today At 11
Business Firms In
Marshall
Marshall's Tomato Time promo
tion is underway. It started this
(Thursday) morning and will con
tinue through Saturday, 'Aiugusc
24. On Saturday night, August 31,
a Tomato Queen, Tomato Princess
and Little Miss Toma-toe will be
announced at a talent show to be
given in the Marshall school au
ditorium. In addition to the honor of win
ning the title, each winner will
receive a $50 award, it was an
nounced. Registration ended with only
four girls entering the Tomato
Queen contest. 20 girls are enter
ed in the Tomato Princess contest
and 22 girls are in the Little Miss
Toma-toe contest.
For each $1 purchase or paid on
account at the 11 participating
firms, you may receive a card on
which to write down your favorite
contestant's name. A list of con
testants will be posted in each
firm giving tickets. The girl re
ceiving the largest number of
votes in each catgeory will be de
clared the winner.
Although not giving tickets, the
Citizens Bank is helping sponsor
the event.
Firms participating are:
French Broad Chevrolet Com
pany, Penland & Sons, Wild's Ra
dio and TV Service, McKinney's,
Home Electric & Furniture Co.,
National 6c & 10c Store, Marshall
Thrift Store, Roberts Pharmacy,
Penland Fashions, Service Motor
Sales, Inc., Edwards Cleaners.
Birchfiel Recommends
Consolidation Of Schools
170 At Educational Staff
Meeting Here On
Wednesday
"I wo. Id highly recommend con
solidation of schools in Madison
County us soon a , possible so that
our childicn might have adequate
facilities to ro'-cive the best edu
cation i "-siMc," Dr. Guy Birch
fiel, coordinator lor Title III pro
ject in this county, tol 1 principals,
teachers am! guests here Wed
nesday. More than 170 persons attended
the luncheon meeting held in the
Marshall school cafeteria, includ
ing in addition to principals and
teachers, members of the ESEA
personnel, board of education,
news media, and others. This was
the first assembling of county
teachers for the new term.
Robert L. Edwards, superintend
ent, presided and recognized guests
who included Mrs. Ruth Conrad,
reading specialist at Appalachian
State University.
Miss Jincie Underwood, county
(Continued To Last Page)
MODEL MADISON
MEETING HELD
TXT Tlf A DC ITTT I
111 UJJUid HILL
o
"Lewi. Rudi.ill I. Elected
Temporary Chairman
' Of Group
Approximately 30 persons at
tended meeting ior toe "Model
Madison" steering: committee at
Jtfars Hill College Wednesday
afternoon,
, LewU RodisiUof Marshall, was
elected temporary chairman of the
organization and W. B. Zwi, of
Man Bill, was elected temporary
vice-chairman. L. D. Hyde of
Asherine, presided. ', : " v ii v.
, An Incorporation Committee
was elected, composed of Brace
Eriggs, Richard Hoffman aid Ber.
A. V. Grave, t .
A Fy-Lews Conrmfttea ws roun
J c ce4 cf C. E. Ka&:jrn,
10 PAGES THIS WEEK
Tiinme Oflmiderway;
TOMATO TIME
CANDIDATES
TOMATO QUEEN:
Cathy Banks, Brenda Gosnell,
Becky Reid, Linda Haynie.
TOMATO PRINCESS:
Myra Ann Flynn, Linda Faye
Norton, Linda Ledford, Marilyn
Wyatt, Sheila Gean Ogle, Sham
Denis Deal, Brenda J. Gosnell,
Sharon Kent, Carol Fore, Treasa
Gibson, Donna Sue McDevitt,
Vickie Charmane Rice, Denise Al
len, Sherie Lynn Roberts, Victoria
Childs, Charlotte Loretta Shook,
Anna Flynn, Caroleen Buckner,
Yvonne Coates, Diane Bailey.
LITTLE MISS TOMA-TOE:
Tammy Brown, Gina Michelle
Plemmons, Tina Brown, Dean
Young, Joy I'everall, Delora Ma
rie Norton, Annette Messer, Deb
bie Lynn Buckner, Donna (Jail
Norton, Renne Cole, Donna Sue
Tipton, Delilah Mae Norton, Lin
da Kay Ray, Judy Elaine Jack
son, Tammy Jean Roberts, Sheryl
Lynn Connor, Beth Ann Shipman,
Linda Ray, Donna K. Deal, Lisa
Renea Ogle, Renee Wyatt, Debor
ah Capps.
SELF-MADE
It often happens that the fel
low who thinks he's a genius
can't "think of anything else.
LOW -INCOME
FAMILIES ARE
ASSISTED BY FHA
Many Madison County low-income
rural people have increased
buying power as a result of fed
eral loans, according to Vernon H.
Kankin, Assistant County Super
visor of the local FHA office.
They used the loans, Rankin
said, to develop small businesses
and improve their farming oper
ations. The opportunity loans are part
of the federal anti-poverty pro
gram, which Congress enacted
three years ago. The loan pro
gram is administered by the
Farmers Home Administration for
the Office of Economic Opportu
nity.
Low - income rural people,
through the local Farmers Home
Administration office, may receive
loans up to $3,500 to develop income-producing
businesses or to
enlarge farming operations. Bor
rowers may take up to 16 years
to repay the loan.
For the first time Rankin said,
people who could never before
qualify for loans, now can get the
money they need to develop or
expand business enterprise or a
farming operation.
SHORT-COUNT
When opportunity does knock
for some people, all they can pro
duce is a bob-tailed flush.
D. M. Robinson and Bill Fergu
son. It was pointed out that the Bun
combe-Madison Opportunity Cor
poration would anist in any way
possible but would not direct the
activities. It was farther stated
that Mrs. Marietta Sufcart, OC ef
ficiaL would be detached to the
committee to kelp la the planning
bf need im If adieon County.
Tin next meeting will be held at
Mars Bni Collefe on September
4, at 1:30 p. to.
MARSHALL, N. C,
DR. WOOD IS NEW
COUNTY HEALTH
DIRECTOR
Highly Recommended; Is
A Resident Of
Asheville
Dr. Barbara Wood has accepted
the position as Madison County
Health Director, succeeding Dr.
Margery Lord, who recently re
tired. Dr. Wood is a graduate of New
York Medical College, New York
City and completed her internship
and residency at Rochester, New
York.
She has been a resident of Ashe-,
villi' since 1!)52 and bus been as
sociated in the past with the Bun
combe County Health Department.
In private life, Dr. Wood is mar
ried to Harris E. Smith who is
associated with Inland Press in
Asheville. The Smiths, who reside
at 5 Howland Road in Asheville,
have five children.
'We feel most fortunate in hav-
ting a person of Dr. Wood's cal
iber and experience as our new
County Health Director," members
of the local department stated.
SOIL TEST SHOWS
NEED FOR LIME
Fanners often overlook the im-
f portance of lime on pasture and
meadow land. Six Madison Coun
ty farmers took soil samples from
pasture land in the fall of 1967
to see what the soil needed for
best results. Most of the fields
tested by these farmers had not
been limed during the past several
years. Every field tested by the
fanners needed between one and
one-half to three tons of lime per
acre to bring the pH level Up to
a productive level.
liesearch work in mountain
counties proved that by using lime
needed on native pa.-ture the vie!!
could he increased by almost one
third.
I'. ill months are more suitable
for liming our steep land than
spring month , because the land
is usually dry and safer to get.
over. Fall applications also have
time to move into the soil and
is ready to aid in plant growth
the following spring.
THE SCOREBOARD
The sum of a man't intentions
and accomplishments equals his
true character.
r"
L
THURSDAY, AUGUST IS,
mflSlidn 18
i Uns
Lasseter New Local
Anti-Poverty Head
Mars Hill Pastor
, " '
;
.,.i:f
s
Rev. Richard E. Price
PRICE IS NEW
PASTOR OF MARS
HILL CHURCH
Native OikWma Will
Begin
Dutwa September
First .'
The Rev. Richard E. Price, Jr.,
of Laurinburg, has accepted an
invitation to become pastor of the
Mars Hill Baptist Church effective
September 1.
The 112-year-old church, ad
jacent to the campus of Mars Hill
College, has been without a mini
ster since .lime , when Dr. Elmer
West resumed to accept a post
ith the iu
on of t,. S
ntion.
n Life Conunis
i n I'aptjst t'on-
Mr. i'rice, I J, has been pastor
of the bust llaptist Church in
Laurinburg since HMO. Prior to
tht he was pastor of the First
Baptist Church in Radford, Va.,
for six years.
A native of Florence, Alabama,
he was reared in Corinth, Miss.
He served in the Navy during
World War II and earned a B.A.
degree at Mississippi College in
104'.). He attended Southern Bap
tist Theological Seminary i n
Louisville, Ky., earning the Bache
( Continued to Last Page)
Zaz
1968
10c PER COPY
- Truek
Effective On September 9;
Succeeds Ora A.
Spaid
R. Hugh Lasseter, acting ad
ministrator of the Atlanta re
gional office of the Office of
Economic Opportunity, has ac
cepted the position of executive
director of the Opportunity Cor
poration of Madison-Buncombe
Counties, effective Sept. 9.
Lasseter accepted the position
in a telegram to Herbert K. Hyde,
chairman of the anti-poverty a
gency's Personnel Committee. The
committee had formally offered
the $17,500 postion to Lasseter af
ter he was elected by the Cor
poration's board of directors at a
meeting July 25.
Lasseter's acceptance of the job
culminates a six-month search by
the Corporation to replace Ora A.
Spaid, who resigned after serving
as the agency's executive director
since its inception in November,
1004. ...!f
Spaid's resignation was to be
effective May 31, but he remain
ed after that at the request of the
Board until a successor could be
(Continued To Page Two)
Tomato Season
Peak; Outlook
Proper Spraying Essential;
Four Sheds In
County
By 1IAKKY ;. SM.YEK,
C ounty Kvtension Chairman
.Madison County
The tomato marketing season
is getting well under way in Mad
ison County. The four packing
houses opci.Umg in the county
fire packing and marketing a good
volume of tomatoes. The Hot
Springs Tomato Company has
probably reached its peak today.
Spring Creek Tomato Company
and Mato Hacking Company are
fast approaching their heavier
days of operation. The new pack
ing house, "Mill Creek Tomato
Tompany1" is getting under way
with a fair volume.
The short ttrm marketing out
look apfK.ars good.
Some tomato producers arc
ti tUl wreck' vlJi & deai a4
"'rv
flir Injured
Kfreek
RESERVOIR ON
HILL CATCHES
ON FIRE MON.
We're not kidding! The reser
voir on the mountain near Radio
Station WMMI1 actually caught
on fire Monday afternoon about
three o'clock but quick work by
members of the WMMH staff, the
Youth Corps, and local firemen
put out the blaze quickly.
Some local jokesters accused
Dean Shields of setting fire to the
reservoir but Dean denies it. "I
was asked to watch a fire that
had been started near the reser
voir to burn down some under
brush but guess I became lax and
the first thing I knew the fire
had reached a rafter of the reser
voir which holds up the metal
roof. Fortunately no water was
burned and very little scorched,"
Shields laughingly reported.
Here From Vietnam
Sp5 Lane Ramsey, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Ramsey, of Mar
shall, arrived here Saturday from
Vietnam where he has been sta
tioned for over a year. He has
volunteered for six more months'
duty in Vietnam and will return
there in about six weeks.
Reaches
Is Good
feeling the pressure upon them
for time to harvest, spray and to
do the necessary tying and prun
ing for their tomatoes, along with
lh work Maimed in the tobacco
' ii Id. A few f t he producers, al e
. tint
their
.-pray program
i'n w i leii in.iy pru e
r ; : emely expeiiMVi
oinato ureases aunet
All disease treatments
tomatoes are preveut
icnts. This means that
be a:
pi act ice.
be cured.
in vine- ripe
ative treatn
a producer
mnot wait until a
disease is present before starting
his spray program and expect sat
isfactory results. It also means
that the spray program cannot
be delayed and caught Up with
good results.
The County Agricultural Ex
tension office urges all tomato
growers in Madison County to fol
krw a strict spray program, spray
ing at least every five days.
eltee L.'-icJ l4 TilZzj
-savv
$3.00 A Year In Madison and Adjoining CoobMm
14.00 A Year Outaide TImm Countiea
Friday
Occurs On A Blind Curve;
Bus Passengers Removed
Through Windows
By LARRY C. CORN
Citizen Staff Writer
A Greyhound bus en route from
Asheville to Knoxville, Tenn., col
lided with a tractor-trailer about
8:40 a. m., last Friday killing one
man and injuring 18 persons.
Dead in the mishap on U. S.
25-70 at Cold Springs, about eight
miles northwest of Marshall, was
Stanley Richmond of Philadelphia,
I'a., operator of a Sharpe Motor
Lines rig loaded with veneer.
The bus driver, Charles A. Hol
combe of Asheville, was the most
seriously injured of the 18, who
were all passengers aboard the
bus. Holcombe was admitted to
Memorial Mission Hospital in
Asheville with chest and abdominal
injuries. Six others were also ad
mitted to Asheville hospitals.
State Highway Patrolman E. D.
Young said the mishap occured on
a blind curve tbout a mile west of
Walnut. He said the lack of tire
marks left on the road by the
truck indicated that the driver ap
parently fell asleep or his brakes
failed.
Witnesses said the truck was
traveling at a high rate of speed
and hit the left front of the bus,
spinning it around and over a 40
foot embankment.
A passerby, J. C. Wallin of
Madison County, said bus passen
gers had to be removed through
windows because of a damaged
Idoor. He said it took an hour or
more to get the passengers out.
Stretchers had to be pulled up to
road level with ropes.
Joining in the rescue efforts
were sheriff's deputies, highway
patrolmen, the Madison County
Rescue Squad and volunteers.
Ambulances arrived at the scene
from as far away as Greeneville,
Tenn. Pickup trucks and private
autos w i ci
i ailed into service to
the injured to Ashe-
vil
An eui .lent ificd doctor stopped
at the accident and administered
first aid. 'A nurse, who was riding
the bus, also assisted the injured
though injured herself.
In addition to Holcombe, the
injured admitted to Memorial Mis
sion were:
James Swain, 72, Knoxville,
fractured leg and lacerations.
Mrs. Iouise Harris, 54, Hopkins
ville, Ky., fractured leg.
Eleanor Carpenter, 57, Asheville,
abdominal and chest injuries.
Valeria Thurston, 58, St. Louis,
Mo., lacerations and chest injuries.
Mrs. Wilma Andrews, 45, Algona,
(Continued to Page Two)
1
I
I
V.