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' 1 ' ( 1 r, ?r p s y I. V r 1 4 I s I P ' - '"V- V' ,H ,J. tj K v . I CL. $7 NO, 36 v ;,', : CiDillv GrGlioniFrircccos II. SJ Risstntcrsfiin If . . . Spiritual Commitment Only Hope; Evangelist Cites U. S., England Future Evangelist Billy Graham said Wednesday he forsees a "political dictatorship within the next five years if things do not change in' this country." "The only hope for the United States," Graham said, "is for a sweeping spiritual commitment by the country' citizens." He said they must have a personal faith in God.! , ' ,1 The North Carolina evangelist compared tjhe United States td Inland which, he said, is on the brink, of parliamentary dactator ship and could possible have a real dictator In five yeans. "If things don't change," he ad ded, "America is heading the1 same way." Graham also predioted that the prrdentil cempaign will become "vry rouglv' before the election. H4 said hj? was praying, that God's candidate, wotfld be elected. The 'evangelist spoke to about 800 eivic club members 'in Fftts burghj' where he is -holding a 10 day crusade. AS Cdmniitfoomeii Cleetion Starts Friday Nominee Are 'listed; To B Lonaiiciea oy Mall "4 n OhairmVn' of ' i '.iH?,ntion Oon n C jmniittee, an- 1V.3- vat the election 1 fit ihe ASQ Community Committee in the' OountyJ 1 ASCS Oom mWtiet will be fceW by mail dur ing the period of v September 6 through September 16. BaUoW earrying the names of community committee nominees and envelopes for tree in casting ieetet ballot will, be mailed to eatih known eligible voter on September B. Farmers may vote for as many as five of the nomi nees, or they may vote by "write ins" if they desire. In each com munity, three regular members and two alternate members will be elected. The three regular e (Continued To Last Page) organ Asks Candidates To Put Stop To Disorder Future Of This Country Is At Stake, Morgan Says Joe L. Morgan, of Rt. 2, Mar shall, North Carolina Republican nominee for state Superintendent of Public Instruction, has sent a telegram to President Johnson and the major presidential candidates urging them to exert their efforts "to etfll the divisiveness and cha otic conditions so obvious this week in the streets of Chicago." The message addressed Friday to the President and to Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace said: 1 urge yon to work lor socb nobis objectives as the education of youth, the giving of opporvuni- ty for all, the security and welfare cjr the elderly, and for a just and lasting peaee hi a divided world. Most of all I urge yotf to do all within your power to quel the . discord, bitternesm and mob. vio lence now prevalent in tins land because history fails to record af irr'e precedent. in which nations sulj cted to domestic and moral fecey have Dot passed into polit ical and economie decline. , V "I call on you to exert every ef' :-t to stfj the divisivneaa and c r-"' '';oTie so obvtooa tine i l a t: recta of Qifcago. -- s and d'jobedlenee , T.... tolerated ' . to r ' 8 PACES ?IIJS WEEK DRAFT CALL IN NOVEMBER HAS LARGE DECLINE The Pentagon issued Tuesday the lowest draft call in 3 years with a request for 10,000 men next November. The manpower request, placed with the Selective Service System, is the lowest since March 1965 when 7,900 men were inducted in a pre-Vietnam buildup. All 10,000 inductees will be as signed to the Army. The November request contin ues a pattern of declining month ly draft quotas this year. 'Als many as 48,000 men were ordered drafted last April but the level has since dropped. In October the Pentagon will take in 13,800 men. The announc ed call for September is 12,200. $10$ Offered For Conviction Of - Auto Was! Vandals . i A $100 reward hat been offend for the arrest and eonvkjtion of party or parties either damaging or taking equipment at the cean aperated ear wash on Slain Street. .The reward is offered by EJdV wards Cleaners. It was stated today that investi gation is continuing by local of ficers. FOOTBALL FRIDAY NIGHT Spruce Pine at Marshall Mars Hill (open) South Greene (Tenn.) at Hot Springs Cites Unrest In U. S. : t Joe L. Morgan try lest its free institutions be de stroyed. ?The future of this Republic is -Morgan, who lives at Marshall Rt 2, fa a 87-year-old teacher, lt- brarisn ' and ' author of several published books, and is a native of Madison County. ' ,' ' Hs is presently completing a M ogrephy of Jeter C Pribchard of KarehaB and Asheville, a U. S. r ".'.or (1?:5-15CS) and Tetml v..t Couit jae (1304-1SU).- f ' 1 5 t, VWARSHAm jI. C, TOMATO TRIE CROWNING AND TALENT SHOW Program To Be Held School Auditorium Sept. 13 In .The crowning of the three To mato Time Queens and the talent show will be held in the Marshall school auditorium on Friday night, September 13, at 7:30 o'clock. The change was necessitated' by the change in the Marshall football schedule due to the deaih, of Billy Goforth, it was explained- ,The three winners are: Mis Tomato Queen, Linda Hay nie; Miss Tomato Princess, Caro leen Buckner; Little Miss Toma toe, Lisa Renea Ogle. In addition to being crowned, cash awards will he presented the winners anJ runners-iup, it was announced. ; Miss Patsy Whitson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William A. Whit son, of Mars Hill, and 1968 Dairy Queen, will crown the three win ners. Several well-known bands, trios and quartets will participate in the talent show, including the Sunshine Sisters Trio, Blue Ridge' Mountaineers, Blue Ridge Ramb lers Junior Band and Quinton Ramsey and The JubileerS. STAFF MEMBERS ARE ADDED TO OCJFFJCE HERE: 3 " : i " Tw new- staff members have' beeh added to ths Rural Develop, ment Project of-fhl Opportunity Corporation of Maditr " jncombe our4''' yi'"v are ; ' "T Uduigrin, iiCouumauity Oj.butnA tion Supervisor, and Virginia Mil ler, Director of the Sandy Mueh Community Center. 1 - Mr. Sanehagria received a B.A. in philosophy from Sacred Heart College in 1961. After further studies in Detroit, Cincinnati and Notre Dame, he worked in recre ation in eastern Kentucky. He al so spent over two years working' in community organizations, aldt minisbration and staff training for WAMY Community Action ini Burnsville. Before returning to the mountains, he was employed1 as Director of Religious Educa tion at a church in Chicago. Mr. Sanchagrin lives with his wife and twin daughters on Rt. 4. Marshall. Miss Miller will begin work on September Ifi. After a short peri od of orientation, she will assume her duties as the director of the Community Center at Sandy Mush and will reside in the Sandy Mush area. A native of Jonesboro, Tenn., (Continued To Last Page) Tornadoes Lose To Cane liver, 19-12; Cherokee Edges Blue Devils, 26-25; Wildcats Rout East Yancey, 40-0 Marshall - Cane River Larry Shepherd, Cane River end, reached Ugh into the air to Intercept a James Haynie pasa close to ths line of scrimmage in the fourth quarter and scampered 46 yards for the winning touch down for the Rebels last Friday night on the Island. Willy Joba (circled right, end ior the extra) point to give the visitors a 19-12 victory. The defeat was the sec ond for the Tornadoes this season, V The Tornadoes struck euddenly in the first period when Chris Cooper's punt we gathered in by Calvin Rhinehart and .with a key block by Yates Ward, the speedy fullback scampered 72 yards) into the and sone to give Marshall a 44 lead. An attempted pass for extra point failed. The two rh-ala then butted heads between the 80 yard mark era for the rest of the period. - :--' ' " The IW?g cms fr-'- t 1 : i '(CuLlliuei To Lii 1 ...) THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER HOLIDAY ROAD TOLL IN NATICIJ SETS RECORD 688 Person 'Killed Mora Than Vietnm Casualties During Same Period . . , .:,J(. .-.iiij...;,,i-u. , , s,' x A record 688 motorist and pe destrians were kffled' to traffic, on the nation's streetss and highways in the three-day tabor-Day week end. , ," The toll far'vee4'.,h: pre vious record I '636' for summer'e last holiday; set irf l' com pared with :fil8 Vehielfl i jdswtiha dur ing a'ren,,honbididiyireek-end of similar length:,: <1$ , The record 6H,V counted from 6 p. m., local time .Friday to mid night Monday, was more than 10 times greater than the number of Americans killed in combat fn Vi etnam during the same perWd, Military authorities in Vietnam said about 60 vAjmerican service men were killed during the. holi day period. ,. , The worst single accident, in volving two cars, took, the live of eight teen-agers .Sunday .near Jamestown, N. id." Five persona died Mondlay in two separate ac cidents in Union County,, Ark., that occurred less than a myute apart. ' c '''v t 1 , " t In Iowa, two brothers and, their wives died Saturday ner.r:Knox ville when the brothers' care col lided on .the crest of a hill neon the home. Of their parents. The final toll exceedcl the Na tional Safety Council's estimate that 675 $o" 075 persons r-'l.U die in, traffic accidents during V a ex tended holiday period. ,.', ? rAirvey'oftrar ducted' ly mv !c d ,.t. con during t! r that start 1 ; fer eoii.j ia toU. . i,. .i th, holiday 'OLliTEIERS'Tti BE HONORED BY MASONS ON SAT. On Saturday, September 7, French Broad Masonic Lodge No. 292 will honor its "Old Timer" members with a supper and short program. Supper will be served at fi:30 p. m., in the Lodge Hall and will be followed by a short program. All members are tend this occasion. urged to at- TIP TO MOTORISTS A minute lost in traffic may save you all the rest of the time you have in the world. Hot Springs - Cherokee) Cherokee Cherokee held off a big Hot Springs team hare Fri day night as the Braves downed the Hot Springs Blue Devils, 26 26, in the opener for both squadsv The Braves shot into a 19-6 half time lead and built it to 26-6 entering the fourth quarter, but Hot Springs tallied three touch-' down in the final stansa to pull within a single point of victory. - Cherokee, used a balanced at ttack in racking up Ms win; ' The Braves amassed 196 yards on the ground and 140 through the air on seven completions In IS pass ing attempts. ' Eddie Crow put Cherokee a- head 6-0 in the first quarter when he raced yards for the first touchdown. 4M ' - - ' ' - Tommy Padgett tallied for Hot Springs on a 10-yard run and t2ie first quarter ended deail-Vpd 6-6. John Bradley, Tr-t r aV, t"Ti with f ':. (Cv...;..-1J To L . i ) S, 19S3 ' 10c PER COPT ioiiiiiittie lam Wilatd SeGnoeO Site Coming To State Richard Nixon Jfc Sfc 9fr RICHARD NIXON TO VISIT STATE ON WEDNESDAY Republican Richard Nie:a to bring his campaign to North Cany line next Wednesday, with stops in Chapel Hill and Charlotte. . The North Carolina visit will mark his first campaigning In the Southeast inc' winning the GOP nomination The' possibility of ad ditional Ntson visits i, to North Carolina later in the campaign baa not bees uled out,' - Cov; Spire Agnew of Maryland, NUon's running mate as the GOP r- uinee for vke president. Is ex- The .enndjiacernei.ts -wart made Tuesday by ChvU Jonas Jr. of Charlotte, Nixon'- etate cam paign chairman. ,-'&V By apparent coincidteneii, it was announced in Raleigh Tuesday that five state Republican leaders bad endorsed third party presi dential candidate George Wallace instead of Nixon. They were Dr. Thornton Hood of Kinston, Steven Conger of Weldon, Walter Green of Burlington, Al Blanton of Ply mouth and L. L. Moise n of Kin ston. Hood, Conger and Green are members of the GOP state exe cutive committee. Hood and Con ger also were delegates to the convention that nominated Nixon. The Nixon schedule calls for an early afternoon visit to the job computer center in Chapel Hill andl B late afternoon arrival in Char lotte for a rally and television filming. Mars Hill - East Yancey Strong Mars Hill struck through the fir and on the ground at Burna vflle Friday to rout East Yancey, 40-0, in an Appalachian Conference game. The visitors grabbed the lead in the opening 'period on a 43 yard pass from Sigabee Dook to Ken Castelloe but missed the try fos the extra point The lead cHtnbed to 13-0 in the second stanaa when Caetolloe ran around and 86 yards to score and Bruce Murray added the extra point with a euuverafcA, - In the third quarter Bob Hoi combe skirted end for 20 yards and 25 yards on double reverse plays - for v touchdowns. Murray kicked the extra points. . The final two touchdowns eamtf m the last quarter. Duck hit the line for four yards and a touch down and Murray converted. Late ia the stanza Allen Buckner pase "1 to nrry .mUr-gam torwle K 40-0.. . 63.00 A. Ym In Madison nd Adjorniuc OoaMer :t M00 A Tw Outside 73mm Counties 24 COUNTIES TO RECEIVE BIG FOREST SUMS Forest Supervisor Peter J. Han Ion said today that 24 counties in North Carolina will receive a to tal of $155,841.44 as their share of receipts from National Forest Operations during the past year. The Supervisor said that feder al law provides that counties with National Forest land receive 25 percent of the receipts from For est activities, the money to be used for county schools and roads. Timber operations provide the biggest part of the receipts and) this year timber activities on the National Forests in North Caro lina brought in a total of $596,- 670.43. Other resources of the Forests include recreation water and wildlife. Supervisor Hanlon said the a- mount of money each county re ceives is based on the number of acres of National Forest land with, in its boundaries. The money returned to North Carolina is part of more than $5 million being distributed to the 13 states in the Southern Region of (he U. S. Forest Service. GARDNER TO BE 1 It was announced) this morning that James Gardner, , Republican nominee . for governor of -Northl Carolina, will be fat MarehaH next Wednesday night at 8:00 o'clock. The publlo m Invited to meet Mr. Gardner at the courthouse. it: .i t 'a4 -ti5 V V l ' I ?Ni x : i " Shown above is Jeff H. Enloe, ASCS District Fieldman, pre senting Miss Minnie Rice with a certificate of merit and service last Friday at the ASCS office here. Mies Rice is retiring after 29 years of service with the agency. flfie a sma uinmc mco lictircs i-rcD flSCS,flftcr 29 U ' Gnren Party By ASCS T Office Personnel Last Friday Minnie J. Rica, Program Clerk in the Madison OMnty ASCS Of fice retired on Friday, August 30, after 29 years ef dedicated service to ASCS and the farmers ef Madi son County. 1 "i ' Miss Rice, a native ef Madison County began wnrking with the department ia 1959 while Jt ret known aa the AAA. She ved as Program Clerk, working primarily as 'ACP (Agricultural Conservation Program), Conser vatioo Reserre and Wheat Clerk, but was always ready and wH";.r to assist any clerk with their work when needed. ; , Miss Rice is a s of J' s'-a C;fh f.'-- ? V.V -n C. r - i 1 r .: " CUlegea and ' s C- '- 4 AH Districts Represented; Locations Committee Named The following men and women were chosen to act as co-chairmen of a Sites or Location Committee to spearhead the selection of a lo cation for a consolidlated high school building in Madison Coun ty. These co-chairmen, with the aid of committee members and other interested citizens, will re port their findings to the full Com mittee of 100 in the near future. Co-chaimen selected are: Marshall:: John Corbett and Leonard Baker. Spring Creek: Mrs. David Kim- berly and Mrs. Homer Plemimons. Hot Springs: W. T. Whitten and Bill Ferguson. Mars Hill: Perry Willis an4. Carl Bller. i Laurel: Louie Zimmerman and Mrs. Ray Tweed. This action was made iast Thursday night at a special call; meeting of the full Committee of1 a00 in the Marshall school audito rium with TK. Fred Bentiey, chaip.. man, presiding. Model Madison Steering Comm. Approves Articles hi - .si . Members of the Steering Com mittee of "Model Madison met at Mars Hill College: Wednesday af. teraoe jaA among business" iraa1" ' acted wae the approval of the Ar-'' ticlei of Incorporation. ' 'J ;''." " Xewis ' P-Jdisill, of Karthani'. ' ' temporary chairman, presIJed at the meeting. , ' . v '' ' ; The next meeting will be held at the college . Wdneaday Sep tember 18, it wai annouMed. " e e . a Yccrl Sbrui: 1: legs. Prior to her amploymentf with ASCS, she taught school in Madieon County. 6be ia a mem-T bar of the Grand " View Baptist Church,' where she is Very active I in all church work. She baa served ? as a Sunday School teacher, Choir. Director, Training Union Director, , Sunday School Superintendent, ; Church Treasurer and is presently teacher of the Adult Ladies Class of the Sunday School and Church Clerk. , On Friday afternoon, the Coun ty Committee, P.. V -len, f " visors and Office f .'f r 1 respects to !' in br t,e"- r i'l '.' " , t jTi n. I present i 1 1 t a I
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