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MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1968
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Merchants bristmas
Criminal Court To Start
Here Won.; 108 Cases
Judge Bryson To Preside;
List Of Jurors Is
Announced
The December term of superior
court for the trial of criminal cas
es will begin here Monday morn
ing with Judg-e T. D. Bryson, of
Bryson City, presiding. Clydte M.
Roberts is the solicitor.
108 cases are on the docket for
the one-week term. Most of the
cases are of minor nature and
traffic violations. One murder'
case, State vs. Law son Marler, id
scheduled to be heard.
The list of jurors U as follows:
Miss Bessie Frisbee, Mildred
iFranoes Thomas, Mrs. Donald Led
ford, Beatrice S. Hijl, Hobert Rice,
Mrs. Jack Guthrie, Edward Wal
4rup, Silas Roberts, Mrs. Jamesf
B. Robinson, Willard Amnions,
Perry G. Willis, Bruce Boone, Carl
Eller, Mrs. Kelse Ferguson, Mrs.
David B. Roberts, Bertie Moore,
John Payne, Mrs. Augustus J.
Lloyd, Lois Davis, Robert Bla
ser, Paul D. Campbell, William
Roy Shetley, Mrs. Lola R. Shel
ton, Mrs. Paul Henaley, Geo Norm
Reema, Z. T. Allen, Mrs. Jasper;
Jenkins, Mrsv.ftdirgw Chandler,
Margaret Reeves, $SSertv8ifla
Baker, Wayne Holt, Mrs W. V.
Plemmons, Mrs. Charles MeMa
ban, Mrs. Carroll Tweed, Mrs.
Roemane Willett, Joe R. Wells.
Agricultural Matters To
Oe Discussed Here On Dec. 3
NCSU Officials To Speak On
Activities; Statewide
Meetings
An area meeting has been sched
uled for Marshall on Tuesday, De
cember 3, to give local people an
opportunity to discuss agricultur
al matters with several administra
tors from North Carolina State
University.
Harry Silver, County Extension
Chairman, said the Marshall
meeting has been planned for the
people of Haywood, Transylvania,
Madison, Buncombe, and Hender
son counties.
Nineteen such meetings are
planned across the state in an ef
fort to improve communications
between local citizens and the
School of Agriculture and Life
Sciences at NCSU, Silver explain
ed. "The NCSU officials will report
on what the University is doing
in the way of agricultural teach
ing, research and extension. Lo-
will have an Opportwni-
discuss their problems and
Harry sail " -1
afri-buuneesmen and
iC. people who an bmiw iu
. feDUnre are Invited. Starting
!Ajfi to T:30 p. m, and the place
rshall ' Baptist Chvch. . , "
Scheduled to represent NCSU
the meeting are Dr. . L. Lov-
'n. acting dean of the School
l Agriculture and Life Sciences;
Dr. E. W. Ghuener, director of
inetructkm for the school; Dr.
Georf e Hyatt, director of the Ag
rku't .; 4 Extension Senrioe; and
::;fs r.m Langley, atate home
er s leader for the Exten-
r
-t'rg wl be Jarfc
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OFnCIALSTO
BE SWORN IN
HERE MONDAY
Newly-elected county officials,
magistrates and constables will bel
sworn into office here next Mon
day morning at 10:00 o'clock. Cer
emonies and oaths will be admin
istered in the courtroom by Judge
T. D. Bryson, who will be presid
ing over court, and C. N. Willis,
clerk superior court.
The officials to be sworn in in
clude W. C. Silver, Jr., Roy Mc
Devitt and Carl Cody, comlmis
stoners; Jim F. Craine, tax col
lector; W. B. Zink, audlitor; Mil
liard Teagiue, register of deeds;
Dr. W. A. Sams, coroner; Fred
-Briggs, Constable No. 1 township;
Tom A. Russell, constable No. 6
township.
New magistrates to be sworn in
are Richard Freeman, John H.
Burry, and Evin Payne.
RE-POSSESSION
A man"' 3irho was hauled into
court for non-eupport of hie wife,
explained to the judge: '1 was;
hoping her father would repossess
her."
MORE COUNTIES
APPROVE FOOD
STAMP PROGRAM
The approval of nine more coun
ties for the federal Food Stamp
program brought predictions Tues
day that it will become a $10-mil-lion-a-year
operation in North
Carolina, officials of the Madison
Bunoomibe Rural Development
Council, Inc., stated this week.
More than $6.5 million dollars,
worth of the stamps, sold at out
rate to low income families, were
spent in the state during the last
fiscal year.
A spokesman at the North Car
olina Welfare Department said the
addition of new counties, plus
growth of the program in areas
where it was already in operation,
will push it to the $10 million;
mark this year.
The new counties are Catawba,
Davie, Iredell, Lincoln, McDowell,
Pitt, Polk, Richmond, and Robe
son. "
They were approved Monday by
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture.
r The North Carolina countiea!
were among 23S new areas in 81
ktatee to be added to the program,
bringing in an additional 80,000
personal ? .- ' : f
There wag no estimate o how
many additional North Carolin
ians would be included. V : ;
Twenty nine;-North: CkroHna
eoonties were participating in the
Pood . Stamp program. ".,4s h ; !t
. Under the program, fsiniHea
boy etazrrpe wtdoh can be spent tM
gnoeery etorea for more than the
mount paid for them. . ',
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BTU "M" NIGHT
IS SUCCESSFUL
AT MS MONDAY
Madison Seminary Awarded
Attendance Banner;
Fine Program
More than 200 persons attended
Mobilization Night ("M" Night)
at the Madison Seminary Baptist
Church Monday.
Mrs. Joe Green, French Broad
Baptist Association Training Un
ion Director, had arranged a most
interesting program, including a
drama and a message by the Rev.
A. A. Peverall, Jr., pastor of the
Marshall Baptist Church.'
The Madison Seminary won the
attendance banner, having 56 mem
bers present. Oak Grove was a
wardted runnenutp honors. The
Long Branch BTU was awarded
the Efficiency Banner.
"It was one of the most inspir
ing programs ever presented in
our Association," one person com
mented. Oliver Clyde Gunter
Kills Second Bear
Of The Season
I The first bear Oliver C. Gun
ter of Alexander -eVer -kilted -we
on Oat 24, at the Jim Wilson CM)
at Burnsville.
He didn't know at the time that)
less than a month later he would1
have a cfiance at another one.
Well! That's what happened:
Jusit last Saturday, Nov. 24, he
shot another one. This one weigh
ed 350 pounds and was shot, with
in three miles of the first one.
Gunber's picture, along with
S.m Houston, Jim Dotson and J.
S. Houston, was in the November
7 edition of this paper.
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Promotion
ASTRONAUTS
HELP OPEN WNC
DEER SEASON
Three visiting astronauts found'
the first day of deer season in
Western North Carolina nearly
perfect Monday, but many of the
mountain hunters might just as
well have gone fishing.
Which is exactly what one of
the astronauts did when he decitH
ed ho wasn't going to match his;
feJIow spacemen.
For Mr. Average Deer Hunter
Monday, the chances of success
were about one in 20, according
to incomplete reports from WNC
wildlife management areas.
A comparison with last year'si
opening day showed hunting was
a little off, blamed mainly on this
year's cold and windy weather. In
1967, six per cent of the hunters
brought back bucks compared toi
five per cent of those reported late
Monday night.
The three astronauts Walter
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"Dube" Deaver Loses
Hand In Bulldozer
Mishap Last Friday
j. R. "Dube" Deaver, of fr
shalX7& Patient iii "Memorial
Mission Hospital following a bull
dozer accident last Friday after
noon at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Shelton, of the Sheliton Lau
rel community.
Mr. Deaver's left hand was com
pletely severed when struck by a
fan on the bulldozer while refuel
ing. DISCOVERED
The fellow who loses himself in
thought is soon discovered.
Starts
THOUSANDS GO
TO KENNEDY'S
GRAVE FRIDAY
Thousands walked along a road
of remembrance to the grave of
President John Fitzgerald Kenne
dy Friday on the fifth anniversa
ry of his assassination.
Scores brought flowers to leave1
on the old stone paving at the
grave on a hillside in Arlington
National Cemetery. A White
House military akile brought a
wreath from President Johnson.
Flowers, too, covered the grass
around the white cross that imarksi
the grave of Sen. Robert F. Ken
nedy, not far from his brother.
Robert Kennedy was slain last
June in Los Angeles.
Across the land, special masses:
were held in Roman Catholic
churches.
In Dallas, where President Ken
nedy was felled by the assassin's
bullets Nov. 22, 1963, Mayor pro
tein Frank Hoke placed! a wreath
of red and white chrysanthemums
at a plaque marking the site.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,
widow of President Kennedy, at
tended a mass in New York, where
she has an apartment, and then
went by car to the home she rents
in Peapack, N. J., where she stay
ed, hi seclusion,
heori
brother, fienj Edward M. Kenne
dy, went to his brothers' graves at
7:30 a. m., with his wife and two
of their children. With them also
were four other children, presum
ably Robert's,
minutes.
They stayed 20
The little ones clutched' small
bouquets of white roses and lav
ender chrysanthemums which they
left at the graves.
Kennedy returned by himself at
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m This
Tickets Given For Each $1.00
Purchase Or Paid On Account
PLANS ARE MADE
TO BLACKTOP
ROBERTS HILL
Mayor J. B. Tweed and the
town aldermen announced this
week that tentative plans have
been made for the widening and
blacktopping of the Roberts Hill
Road from the intersection withi
US 25-70 to the city limits on top
of Roberts Hill.
Plans call for a 16-floot width
with other improvements to the
present narrow and dJangerous;
road.
The highway officials have stat
ed that work will begin as soon asi
weather permits and equipment is
available.
Clerk's Office To
Start Closing On
Saturdays Dec. 7
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C. N. Willis, clerk awpereourti
announced this week that begin
ning Saturday, December. 7, the
clerk's office will be closed on
Saturdays.
Patrolmen To Be Busy
Thanksgiving Ueelc-End
I
Friday
Merchants Getting Ready
For Shopping Season;
Plans Being Made
Members of the Marshall Mer
chants Association are again giv
ing tickets for each $1.00 purchase
or paid on account, Dr. Ed Niles,
president of the Marshall Mer
chants Association announces.
The official Christmas promo
tion and the start of giving tick
ets will begin on Friday morning,
November 29 the day after
Thanksgiving.
Valuable trade certificates, to be
used to purchase merchandise at
the participating firms or to be
used in paying past accounts, will
be given away on three dates
December 7, December 14, and
December 24. All drawings will
Ibe held in front of the courthouse
at four o'clock on the above dates.
The tickets this year are to be
the same kind used last year. You
are given a ticket for each $1 pur
Chase or paid on account. All you
have to do is sign your name and
address on the back of the ticket
and deposit it in a container in
the store. On the days of the
dressing tfckets walljte,.
joejted in a large container on the
courthouse porch and at 4 p. m.,
the drawings will be held.
It was also announced that the
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Every Effort Will Be Made
To Curb Highway
Violations
Raleigh The North Carolina
Highway Patrol has announced!
plans to step up its traffic law en
forcement activities during the
four-day Thanksgiving holiday.
Col. Charles A. Speed, command
er of the Patrol, said today that
every available trooper will be on
the roads, "with orders to find
and arrest those motorists who
annually make the Thanksgiving
holiday one of the deadliest peri-',
ods of the year on our highways. "J' ;
Speed said special efforts. will
be made to apprehend; dlSnkingr
drivers and) speederfc ,Weknow
that these people jB-e responsible
for most of -jhe accidents and most
of the deaths and injuries. We
want them off the highways, and
fvir certain that all responsible
motorists are behind us in this de-
-. AH mechanical and eiironie
aids available to the Patrol will
be In operation thiroughoat. the.
WBdiay Speed " said normal pe
IxolUng, VASCAR, radar and 7,
apeed watches would be employed , jn'
oa'StH besmly travelled rootea toj "
doec peeders, and that Breath.
alvsers woxid be'cotrreniently -v K''
railabk to all troopera for testing ,
persons ewpeoted of' driving
dec the-inCueoce.
Patrol conwnander, ' "there -w a
1,755 acciJtails la Korth Car ' a
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