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VOL.67 NO. 34
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MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY,'? AUGUST 22, 1968
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Mig Dilte Don
fmato ontests
Only Week-end To Go; To
Be Crowned On
August 31
Tomato Time here is almost
over and contestants for the title
of Tomato Queen, Tomato Prin
cess, and Little Miss Toma-toe are
"running close," according to lat
est tabulations.
In the Tomato Queen contest,
Linda Haynie is leading with
Becky Reid not far behind. Next
is Brenda Gosnell and then Cathy
Banks.
The five leaders in the Princess
contest at present are Oaroleen
Buckner, Donna Sue MoDevitt,
Yvonne Coates, Diane Bailey,
Charlotte Shook.
The five leaders in the Little
Miss Toma-toe contest are Gina
Michelle Plemmons, Donna Sue
Tipton, Lisa Renea Ogle, Debbie
Lynn Buckner and Renne Cole.
Judges stated that all contest
ants are still in the running and
the lead imig'ht change several
times before voting ends Satur
day night. It was also announced
that those who have tickets at
home to sign must have them in
the boxes at the participating
stores at the end of business on
Monday if they are to be count
ed. Merchants will not give any
more tickets after the close of
business this Saturday, it was
stated.
The winners will be crowned
and awarded $50 in cash during a
talent ahow on Saturday night,
August 81. It was explained that
contestants for the above honors
do not have to participate in the
talent dhow as the winners are
Judged by number of tickets with
their names on tiiem.
The talent show will be held
either in the auditorium at the
Marshall school or the Walnut
school auditorium. Definite loca
tion wiU be announced over WMMH
and in next week's issue of this
newspaper.
WRONG DIRECTION
The fellow who finds himself
on the downhill track should ask
for a transfer.
Four Marshall Youths Are
Injured In IVreck Saturday
Car Strikes Truck Backing
Onto Highway Near
Leicester
Four residents of Marshall were
painfully injured in a car-truck
collision early Saturday on N. C.
63, the Leicester Highway.
Charles W. Anthony, Jr., 17,
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. An
thony, of Marshall Rt. 1, driver
of the car, received cuts on the
bead, mouth injuries and bruises
and a hip injury, but is now able
to be at his home where he is re
cuperating. Miss Helen Caldwell,
18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. An
drew Caldwell, also of Route 1,
received severe cuts about the
face and head which required 127
titohes, and also injuries to the
month and anna. Gary Lee Ball,
18, and hi wife Janice Hale Ball,
18, srere also passengers in the
ear. Oary suffered from several
broken bo nee in his Jaws, lacera
tions of the face and other mi
nor injuries, and his wife suffer
ed broken back and cuts. All
remain in Memorial Mission Hos
pital except Anthony.
Ttte driver of the truck, Carey
C Jones, 16, and Ids jasaengar,
Larry King, both of Leicester,
wars not injured.
The Highway Patrol said that
Jones apparently pulled his truck
into a driveway to turn around
and backed into tti road again
when ha was bit. .y
1 Jones was charged .Saturday
night wfth failure to yield the right
of way from a private driveway,
ths Highway Patrol said.
. OVERDRAWN-.
ITany people tae friendship as
a drawing account, but ahrayt
f "t t- r-e a deposit
FOOD, MEDICAL
SERVICES ARE
IMPLEMENTED
Priority To Families With
$1500 Or Less Annual
Income
The Rural Development Project
of The Opportunity Corporation
of Madison-Buncombe Counties is
currently implementing The Emer
gency Food and Medical Services
Program recently funded by OEO.
Madison County is one of the
266 neediest counties selected by
OEO and the Department of Ag
riculture to participate in the
Emergency Food and Medical Serv
ice Program. 1 )
The Program is administered
by the Rural Development Pro
ject of The Opportunity Corpora
tion in coordination with the
Health and Welfare Departments,
the 'Agriculture Extension Serv
ices, The Board of Education,
ESEA and other county officials.
Priority will be given to fam
ilies with annual oash incomes of
$1500 or less for a family of four.
Four outreach workers and 2
Clerks have been hired in addition
to our regular staff to implement
this project.
Contract drivers have been or
will be hired to help distribute
Surplus commodities with dietary
supplements such as baby food,
special food, and perishables fresh
milk, eggs, meats, fruits and veg
etables). Nutrition education is a vital
part of the Emergency Food) and
Medical Services Program. Our
workers will conduct classes in
too& preparation in homes of the
poor.
Buying clubs will be organized
where the people are interested.
Vouchers will be issued to those
people who cannot afford food to
supplement inadequate diets, al
lowing them to purchase needed
food.
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Lee Wallin Is Top
Shooter In Event
In Hiawassee, Ga.
Lee Wallin, of Marshall, Route
4, "the 80-year-old man of the
mountains,' was awarded top hon
ors in the Georgia Mountain P.eei'
Shoot held1 last Saturday in Hia
wassee, Ga.
Wallin scored two bulls-eyes
from 60 yards from the target
with a muzzle-loader hog rifle.
He was presented a beautiful
trophy and also a quarter of a
government beef for his outstand
ing marksmanship.
Mrs. Wallin, Nolan Adams and
Jimmy Baker and Mrs. Beany Lou
Wallin, of Peneacola, Fla., Mr.
Wallin's daughter-in-law, also par
ticipated in the shoot. Mr. and
Mrs. Jack B. Wallin and sons al
so made the trip.
"We surely did have a wonder
ful tame at the shoot" Mr. Wal
lin said.
FOUR INDUCTED,
INTO BOY SCOUT
ORDEROF ARROW
Tour Scouts of Troop 102, Mars
HilL wars inducted into the Order
of the "Arrow hi ceremonies held
at Camp Daniel Boom last week-
"cont entering the honorary
camping, i leadership and service
organization are James Shook,
Randy Zink, Jim E!ler and Joseph
$115,500 FOR
OPERATION
MAINSTREAM
Operation Mainstream, a work
experience project of The Op
portunity Corporation, has been
refunded by the United States De
partment of Labor for $115,500.
The program, which specializes
in human resources development,
is located in Madison County and
serves the special needs of rural
citizens.
The enrollees receive on-the-job
training in public and private non
profit agencies throughout the
county arid in addition receive
eight hours of adult education and
individual counseling each week.
The 30 work slots for the com
ing year are to be assigned as
follows: Five men will work with
Mainstream's mobile carpentry
unit doing jobs throughout Madi
son and Buncombe Counties. The
towns of Marshall, Hot Springs,
and Mars Hill will train two men
apiece in the Streets and Water
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Mars Hill College Hill
Begin Fall Semester Mon.
1300 Students Expected To
Enroll; Faculty Is
Increased
The fall semester of 113-year-old
Mars Hill College officially
begins at 8 a. m. Monday, (August
26), when freshmen and transfer
students report for pre-registra-tion
instructions.
Half an hour later nearly 600
juniors and seniors will 'begin
registering for classes which begin
at 8 a. m. Thursday.
College admissions officials ex
pect approximately 1300 students
to enroll, about the same as for
the corresponding term last year.
A breakdown of that figure shows
approximately 372 entering fresh
men, 350 sophomores, 338 juniors
and 240 seniors.
The faculty, which has been
growing each year since 1962,
when the Baptist college began
its conversion from junior college
to senior college status, will total
101. Of this number 18 are new
comers and one is returning from
a leave of absence during the
1967-68 academic year.
Tornadoes To
Season At .
Game Is Non - Conference ;
MHS Squad Is Light,
Inexperienced
The 1968 football season will
get underway in Madison County
Friday night at eight o'clock when
the Marshall Tornadoes battle the
Mars Hill Wildcats at Mars Hill.
The game Fridiay night will be
non-conference and the outcome
will not affect the season's stand
ings. With only five returning start
ers from last year's team this
year's scuad is probably the small
est in size and number ever at the
school. James Haynie, Calvin
Rhinehart, Gary Sams, Tarry
Bryan and Wayne Tipton are the
returning starters, however, Ricky
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Hasn't Contesting Results
Of Primary, Driggs Says
"Not Mr Desire To Cain
Publicity," State
Senator Said
Republican Sen. Brace B, Briggs
of Van Hill said Friday that
when ha appeared before the
State Board of Elections in Ra
leigh last June he tried to make
it clear at the time he- did not
wish to contest the outcome of ths
Democratic - primary in ' ltadisoa
County. . ,
Briggs, an incumbent -seiwtor
from the Slst District of Bun-
CIVIL TERM TO
START HERE ON
NEXT MONDAY
Judge Bryson To Preside;
14 Cases Are
Listed
The August term of Superior
Court for the trial of civil cases
will begin here Monday morning
with Judge T. D. Bryson, of Bry
son City, presiding. This is a
two-weeks' term.
Fourteen cases are listed on the
docket for trial.
'Oases listed to be tried during
the two-weeks' term:
MOTIONS
Kenneth Fore vs. James Sam
Houston, et al; Knox Brigman, et
ux vs, Dickerson, Inc.; Howard
Cooper VW, Inc., vs. E. F. Kent;
Catherine R. Denton vs. Everette
R. Gosnell; J. M. Forester, et ux
vs. B. K. Meadows, et ux.
TRIAL CALENDAR
Wayne Tipton vs. Dale Paul
Hughes, et al; James 0. Tipton
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Degrees Awarded
At MHC Saturday
Degrees were awarded to 38 per-
sons without ceremony at Mars
Hill College Saturday when sum
mer school ended. Among them
were four Madison County resi
dents. Richard Sams Dillingham of
Mars Hill and Lloyd Wayne Sla
gle of Marshall completed require
ments for Bachelor , of Arts de
grees. ErioisilBurray Mir
acle of Mara Still and Thomas
Fleet Nix of Marshall concluded
their work on Bachelor of Science
degrees.
Dillingham, whose college ca
reer was interrupted by a tour of
duty with the Army in Vietnam,
majored in English. Slagle's de
gree was in dramatic arts.
Mrs. Miracle, daughter of
French Broad1 Chevrolet dealer
"Chick" Murray majored in math
ematics. Nix, who starred in
football and baseball, received his
degree in physical education.
Open Grid
II. Friday
NEW DRUG IS
USED ON IKE
Washington Doctors reported
Wednesday that a new heart drug
has appeared to be effective with
former President Dwight D. Ei
senhower, but his condition re
mains critical.
In an evening
bulletin they said
no recurrence of
eaHed extremely
there had been
what they had
dangerous heart
ances. Earlier
were encouraged
trend toward a
irregularities.
rhythm disturb
they said they
in an overnight
decrease in the
combe, Madison, Yancey and Mitch
ell counties, made ths conauent m
a reply to a statement fey Alex K.
Brock, executiva secretary to the
ETtate Board of Elections, oa a pe
tition filed Thursday alleging vi
etation of election laws in Madi
son during the -primer'i. '
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fla reply to Mr. Acx K. Brack's
statement concerning ry rrea
snre before ths Stsfs T M of
Cations in Baleigh o-. . a 12. 1
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State Board Of Elections Is
Asked To Probe County Uoting
BOGGS ASSUMES
CONSERVATION
POST IN COUNTY
Succeeds Ned Jestes; Will
Reside In Mars
Hill
Jim Boggs has assumed his
duties in the local Soil Conser
vation Service Office, filling the
vacancy created when Ned Jestes
moved to Yancey County.
Jim was raised on a farm in the
rural section of Cleveland County.
He graduated from N. C. State in
I960 and since that time has work
ed in several different locations
with the SCS in North Carolina.
Jim, his wife, Kathleen, and
children, Jan, age 8; Houston, 6;
and Allen, 3, are making their
home in Mars Hill.
The Soil Conservation Service
is placed in the county to assist
the Madison Soil and Water Con
servation District in carrying out
their responsibilities. "e of
these responsibilities is fur
nishing of technical assistance in
the planning and establishing of
conservation measures on local
land.
The local Soil Conservation
Service office is locate upstairs in
the Citizens Bank Building.
iarren Links Scott To
Local Election Charges
RAID NETS 14
CASES OF BEER,
22 PTS. WHISKEY
Members of the sheriff's de
partment and an ATU agent raid
eki the home of Clenden Honeycutt
in the Little Creek section of Mad
ison County last Saturday after
noon about (!::!() o'clock and con
fiscated 14 cass of beer and 22
pints of taxpaid whiskey in addi
tion to Honeyeutt's 1968 automo
bile. Honeycutt was arrested and
charged with illegal possession
and keeping liquor for the pur
pose of sale and transporting.
Also arrested was Mrs. Doris Tip
ton Carroll, who is charged with
aiding and abetting.
Both Honeycutt and Mrs. Car
roll are out on $500 bonds, Sher
iff Roy Roberts reported.
Anti-Poverty Board
To Meet Tonight
Progress reports and committee
business will be the main item on
the agenda for the meeting of the
Board of Directors of The Oppor
tunity Corporation tonight (Thurs
day) at 7:3T O'clock at the Mar
shall CcJmm unity Center.
A report on the success of the
anti-poverty agency's Sumner
Program along with recotnsnenda
tkms from the Policy Advisory
Committee are also scheduled.
The Reverend William S. Jones,
Board Chairman of Ths Opportu
nity Corporation, has urged that
all members be present.
Harvey Visits
County Monday
Republican nominee for Con
gress W. Scott Harrey visited in
bfarshall and other county .areas
hut Monday. "' .- ,
He was assorted by aevral local
GOP leaders. .. . i. ,. v '
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ENDOWMENT - " 1
It's Wills hi soma Inatances
to cultivtte takmt, - hut ' gwrfus
cannot ht created. .
Charlie Gosnell, 58,
Commits Suicide
Near Home Tuesday
Charlie Gosnell, 68, of the Belva
community, was fatally wounded
by a sell-inflicted shotgun blast
in the left chest about 2:16 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon, August 20,
1968, according to Sheriff Roy
Roberts.
Roberts reported that Gosnell's
wife told him that her husband had
threatened his life earlier and that
she had taken a pistol from him.
She told! the sheriff that her hus
band then picked up a 16-guage
shotgun and cartridge and walked
out of the house. She notified the
sheriff's department, stating for
them to come quickly but before
they reached the place, he had shot
himself in the left chest. 'A neigh
bor told the sheiff that she heard
a shot and ran out to see Gosnell
lying on the ground, apparently
dead.
An investigation by the sheriff's
department and Ernest Sawyer,
deputized coroner, ruled the deatih
as a suicide. No further inquest
will be held, it was stated.
Gosnell was employed by Op
eration Mainstream, in forestry
at the time of his death.
THE FINGER
Never trust a man who boasts
he's the boss in his home-hell
.lie about other things, too.
Scott Was Beneficiary In
Primary Vote, Garren
- Claims
Republican State Rep. Don Gar
ren says North Carolina Lt. Gov.
Bob Scott was 'directly connect
ed" with alleged voting irrgulari
ties and "the Zeno Ponder ma
chine" in Madison County during
the May 4 primary.
Garren, the Republican nomi
nee for lieutenant governor from
Henderson County, leveled the
charge against the Democratic
gubernatorial candidate during a
news conference in Raleigh Thurs
day. Scott said in reply that "it
sounds like an old rerun to me.'"
Garren told newsmen under
questioning he had no formal ev
idence to link Scott with the al
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Dob Scott Denies Connection
IVith Alleged Charges
ACPLMNG
COST-SHARING
NOW AVAILABLE
The liming of add soil Is the
number one practice in improving
end increasing soil fertility. It
benefits soils in May was, first by
adding calcium and csually mag
nesium as wall as correcting ths
PH by reducing soil acidity. Lima
stone suppMes some of the micro
nutrients Beaded by crops. ana'
helps release some of the plant
nutrients in tae soil. Liming also
reduces ths Svaflability, of ele
ments such as aluminum and iron
that era present m soil in harm
ful quantities, :;; . '.
In commenting en lime needs,
Ralph Bamaey, county AS03 of
fice manager, points out that the
bast way to determine the need is
by taking soil samples and lav
ing them analyied or teste I ly
k sou testing laboratory. In V
absence of a soil test, f 3 r -
meet most of their a 1 I t '. 1
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Affidavits Are Presented ;
Ponder Denies Control
Of Board
Ths chairman of the Madison
County Republican Executive Com
mitee, W. B. Zink, Thursday pre
sented a petition at the state
Board of Elections in Raleigh al
leging violation of the election
laws in Madison County.
The petition, given to Alex K.
Brock, executive secretary of the
state board, maintains voting ir
regularities in May primary and
since that time, Zink said.
At a news conference in Ra
leigh later, Zink said he had also
presented numerous affidavits to
support the charges. He said he
was asking for an investigation
by the state board and removal of
certain election officials.
Among the charges: People were
allowed to register who were ei
ther not of legal age or were il
literate; precinct registrars re
fused to allow "duly qualified
electors to inspect the registration
books on days of registration;
electors were refused permission
to make copies of the books; un
authorized persons had the books
in their possession.
f Most of the affidavits charged
that the registrars refused the
undersigned permission to inspect
the books on the grounds that
such instructions had been issued
by the county board of elections.
The Republicans charged- that
in one precinct, when the polls
were closed, the voting machines
showed 824 votes hald' been when
there were only 809 voters on the
registration books.
In the petition Zink said that
"if remedial action is not taken
by the State Board of elections,
the will of the majority of the
people of Madison County will be
thwarted as in the primary elec
tion of 1964 ..."
In 1964 a State Board of Elec
tions investigation into irregular
ities resulted in the ouster of the
county board of elections and the
throwing out of Madison County
ballots which had given Democrat
ic Party leader Zeno Ponder a
primary victory over Clyde M.
Norton of Old Fort for the old
84th District State Senate seat.
When the Madison County pri
mary vote was disallowed, Norton
was declared the winner of the
Democratic primary.
Zink also charged that copies
of the same affidavits had been
presented to Brock in mid-June
but that nothing had been heard
since.
Brock made the following pub
lic statement:
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"Republicans Have Nothing
Positive . . .," Scott
Declares
Lt Gov. Bob Scott shrugged of
Friday Republican charges t'
he was connected with allege
tog irregularities in P' :,llv-
turbulent Madison Coo
rty.
The Republicans
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accused him
necaow vny , nothing posi-
Uve Ulk .shouC &ott saL
V"arg by Rep. Don &r
ZrHsaderson, GOP nominee.
I0T.- fiu tenant governor. , i , .
"sid Thursday that
Scott , was "directly connected1
with alleged irregularities la th
May 4 primary and with "ths Ze.
o Ponder machine." -' . -
f Garren said he had no fvtr.t
vMenca to Mnk Scott with the
Bgsd irregularities, but Burmis
ed "Bob Scott is the benefk.ar"
so that is ths logical conclusion."
Scott said the charre sot; - T-t
13ce a replay of a jword I've 1 !
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