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HganiBy Elects Zinlt On
Stormy Session Thurs.
By MARY COWLES
uuzen piati , yf nier
William Zink of Mars Hill was
elected interim chairman of The
Opportunity Corporation of Madison-Buncombe
Counties Thurs
day night, defeating Carl A.
Johnson, vice chairman, by a vote
of nine to seven on a second bal
lot The first ballot was tied
eight to eight.
Outcome of the election ap
parently was the cause of a dis
turbance which resulted in police
being called to the former Stephens-Lee
High School, scene of
the meeting.
Announcement of the second
ballot results drew shrill cries
and prolonged shouts of protests
from one side of the auditorium
where a large group of teenag
ers were gathered, followed by
cries of "No" as the board moved
to adjourn.
As the crowd was leaving the
building, crowds of teen-agers
blocked the way of several Madi
son County delegates shouting
recriminations and protesting that
"the 1'aw" called for the vice
chairman' to succeed to the chair
manship. The organization has two ice
chairmen, Johnson and Richard
Hoffman.
Teenagers, mostly girls, fol
lowed several of the Madison
County women officials of the anti-poverty
agency to their oars,
pushing, shoving and striking at
..them. There were no injuries,
and men in the group assisted
the women into their oars.
; Quiet bad been restored when
, the polke arrived. .
'."' ) At the opening of $ie meeting,
,: xnnie 1 Burwn.,, acupg' director,
read a .letter from ; Herbert L.
Hyde in which he submitted his
resignation as chairman of the
board of directors, as a member
of the board of directors and as
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DET. COURT TO
START MONDAY;
TWO-DAY TERM
District Court will begin here
next Monday morning at 9:30 o'
clock with Judge J. Ray Brae-well
presiding.
Approximately 50 cases are
scheduled for the two-dlay term.
EXCHANGE
Police , Officer: "Why did you
break into the same store three
nights in a rowT"
Thief: "I stole a dress for my
wife and ' ! had to exchange it
twice."
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OC Interim Chairman
W. B. Zink
Hogan Receives
Founder's Award
From Heart Asso.
The Rev. Ralph Hogan, presi
dent of the Madison County Heart
Association, was presented the
Founder's Award at a meeting of
the State Heart Association held
in Charlotte on Wednesday and
Thursday of last week. He was
accompanied to the meeting by his
wife.
The citation lauded Hogan for
distinguished leadership and ex
pressed the Association's respect
and gratitude for services render
ed d'uring the 1969 Heart Fund
Drive.
He was also presented a lapel
button and ribbon at the meeting.
FOUR
HEAD-ON CRASH
Two Madison
County couples
injury Monday!
escaped serious
night following a
sion on U.S. 25, a
head-on colli
mile south of
Marshall, according to the State
Highway Patrol.
Trooper A. L. Feldman said'
Ronald Tweed 23, of Marshall Rt.
6, loet control of his car as he
rounded a curve and ploughed1
head-on into a car driven by
George A. Forlones, 26, of Hot
Springs.
Forlornes was not hurt, Feldi
man said, but his wife, Donella,
22, Tweed and his brother, Wes
ley, also of Marshall Rt 5, were
treated and released from Ashe
ville Memorial Mission Hospital
late Monday night.
Feldman said that Ronald
Tweed was charged with driving
on the wrong side of the road in
connection with the accident
which occurred around 6 p. m.
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SURVIVE
MARSHALL, N. G,
BLOODMOBUEAT
REA BUILDING
NEXT MONDAY
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will
be at the French Broad Electric
Building in Marshall between the
hours of two and four on Monday,
June 9.
The summer vacation months,
with the higher accident rate,
make it all the more imperative
fbat the Blood Bank at Asheville
be well stocked1 for any emergen
cies. The board of directors of the
(Madison County Red Cross Branch
ireports that they are proud of
the number of young adults who
have donated blood while away at
school or at their place of em
ployment in Buncombe County in
dustries. They urge other young
people, 18 and over, to come by
the REA and give a pint of blood
on June 9. Parental permission is
requdred for all single donors be
tween the ages of 18 and 20, and
permission blanks may be obtain
ed at the REA or the Madison
County Library.
SWIMMING POOL
TO BE OPENED
THIS SATURDAY
The Marshall swimming poo
will be opened this Saturday af
ternoon at 1:00, it was announced
by Mrs. Carolyn Nix and Tommy
Nix, who will manage the facili
ties this summer.
Horse shoe pitching pits are
available to those wishing to pitch
horse shoes while waiting or out
of. the pool ,,4..., ,:,..,.. ,
t:ady.nminVBoi'
drinks will also be available.
The pool will open daily at 1 :00
p. m., and will remain open until
6:00 p. m., except on Mondays, it
was stated.
Tommy Nix will serve as life
guard at the pool.
"We welcome everyone to the
pool," Mrs. Nix said.
BELL INSTITUTE
HOMECOMING TO
BE HELD JUNE 22
The ninth annual homecoming
of the Walnut Presbyterian
Church and Bell Institute will be
held June 22.
Sunday school will begin at 10
a. m., followed by a short service
at 11 a. m. and a business session.
A basket lunch will be served
at noon.
Members are urged to bring all
the former members they can.
MARS HILL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 19J9
ATHLETICAND
ALUMNI PROOFS
ARE NOW HERE
Proofs of the Athletic Banquet
and the Alumni banquet pictures
are on display at The News Rec
ord office and ordters are being
taken.
All pictures are excellent, tak
en by Albert Henderson, well
known photographer.
Orders will soon be sent off so
hurry in before it's too late.
SIX VARIETIES
OF TOMATOES
BY ETHERTON
Commercial tomato production
in Madison County is young as a
practice. Each year new informa
tion is. obtained on production and
marketing. Much of the new in
formation which farmers are ac
cepting each year is made pos
sible by cooperation between the
Cooperative Extension Service,
the tomato growers, and agricul
tural research.
Honley Etherton, of the Shutin
Community, is conducting a dem
onstration in cooperation with the
Extension Service that may prove
to be very valuable to Madison
County tomato growers. There is
a nee(d for a variety of tomatoes
earlier than Manapal which will
perform better under hot, humid
weather conditions. Mr. Etherton
is growing six varieties; Mana
pal and five others which are sup
posed to be earlier than Manapal.
These varieties are Floradel, Lus
cious Lady, G.L. 18, Spring Giant,
and EantasrtJc, , ' la jjAJftion ,to
thes'e TvarVeUesV there f re' a few
plants of a new Florida, bred va
riety, Tropic, which is supposed
to produce better fruit during the
hot humid weather. There is a
possibility that with the coopera
tion of Mr. Etherton, we may find
a variety which is more adapta
ble to the weather conditions of
his section of the county.
PRES., METH.
BIBLE SCHOOL
HERE JUNE 9-13
The Marshall Presbyterian and
the Marshall United Methodist
Churches will conduct a Bible
School here during the week of
June 9-13.
Classes will be held at the Pres
byterian Church each day from
9:00 a. m. to 12:00 noon.
All children are cordially in
vited to attend.
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10c PER COPY
ward
times
MARS HILlV, HL FACULTY
Mrs. Hawkins
The Mams Hill School faculty
bers, Mrs. Delilah Hawkins and Mrs.
lim
Mi
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year from the public schools of Madison County.
Fred Dickerson, principal of Mars HiM, on behalf of the rest of
the school faculty, at a special luncheon presented each with a $50
gift certificate and a copy of the school annual.
Mrs. Hawkins, a native of Mars Hill, attended Asheville Normal
College and Appalachian State University. She has taught in Madison
County Public Schools for thirty-nine years.
Mrs. Brown is a native of Buncombe County, and attended Carson
Newman College. Mrs. Brown has taught in the public schools of
Madison County for twenty-five years.
Both teachers stated that one of the most rewarding experiences
of their career was the personal contact with students and parents.
The parents and students of the Mars Hill School will miss these
staff members, who have devoted a lifetime of service to the children
of Madison County.
PERSEVERANCE !
' Xfe on kepirW' lrf thji4i3
of 'obstacles and you'll eventual
ly reach the top.
rs. Uheeler
Spent Life In
Mrs. Gillie Reed Wheeler, 102,
of Mars Hill Rt. 3, died Tuesday
morning, June 3 1969, at her
home after a brief illness.
She lived in the Big Laurel
Township all of her 102 years
anld died less than a mile of the
house where she was born.
Her. parents were one of six
white families to first settle the
remote community in Madison
County. She once told a Citizen
reporter her only school bookB
were a "blue backed spener ana
a second reader."
When Mrs. Wheeler was 11
years old Bbe joined tne JUaurei,
United Methotfist Church.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Ada Crain and Mrs. John E.
$3.00 A Year In
Bomd Program
Hi UK
HONORS TWO OF ITS MEMBERS
Dickerson
Mrs. Brown
honored this week two of its mem
Iva Brown, who are retiring this
COMMON , SENSE ...
" mis tire Old world tor -'ours
seems to be in idesperate need
of a little clear thinking.
Dies At 102,
Dig Laurel
Jenkins, both of Mare Hill Rt. 8;
three sons, Emerson of Flag Pond,
Tenn., and Sam and Mattie Wheel
er, both of Mars Hill Rt. 3; three
brothers, John and Ernest, both
of Spartanburg, S. C, and Arthur
Reed of Orlando, Fla.; a sister,
Mrs. Lee McElreath of Marshall;
19 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren
and nine great-greatgrandchildren.
Services were held at 2 p. m.
today (Thursday) in Laurel Unit
ed Methodist Church, of which she
was a member for 91 years.
The Rev. Jim Long, the Rev.
Joe Rice and the Rev. Johnny
Jones officiated. Burial was in
Reed Cemetery. Grandsons serv
ed as pallbearers.
Madison and AdtoirJn
$4.00 A Tmt Outside These OoantUt
aturiay
Instructors Named ; Total
Budget For Year Is
$80,017
Upward Bound, the highly suc
cessful program for 55 high
school youngsters from Madison
and Buncombe counties, will be
gin its second year of operation
Satundlay at Mars Hill College.
A six-weeks program of inten
sive instruction in mathematics
and humanities, coupled with en
joyable participation in drama,
home economics, music and phys
ical education officially begins
with a breakfast Saturday morn
ing and continues through July 19.
A trip to the nation's capital,
July 29-Aug. 31, will aldd another
set of memorable experiences to
the lives of both the students and
their teachers and tutor counsel
ors (mostly college students who
live in the dorms and work close
ly with the UB students).
Other social and cultural expe
riences are in store for the dis
advantaged youngsters. These
inchjde movies; picnics; trips to
scenic and historic sites; visits to
the campuses of Western Caroli
na, Asheville-Biltmore, Warren
Wilson, University of Tennessee,
Carson-Newman and Tusculum;
and attendance at a performance
of the outdoor drama, "Horn in
the West," at Boone.
Begun here a year ago under
the sponsorship of the college's
Department of Education, the
Mars Hill program has been cited
among the best such programs in
the nation.
( The 55 students hwolved were
carefully voaea fnom the tjve .
high schools In" Madiaon County
and from' North Buncombe, Erwin
and South French Broad schools
in Buncombe County.
With the exception of three or
four replacements chosen recent
ly, the students are the same
ones who underwent a nine-week
session on the campus here last
summer and who have been in
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Committee Of 100
To Meet Tonight
The annual .meeting of the
Committee of 100 will be held at
the Marshall School on Thursday,
June 5, at 7:30 p. m. Pleas make
every effort to be present and no
tify Mrs. Edna T. Martin, secre
tary, Marshall, if you cannot at
tend.
ROBERTS LAUDED
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Although this is not a letter, to
the editor, as inch, the following
letter written to 'David ; Roberta
expresses the feelings of our peov-
pie. The Editor,,
Route 2 ;
Marshall, , N. a
U'-l.'" June-2, 1969
Rev. VDavitr Roberts ,
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Marshall, North Carolina
Deaf Brother Roberts:
On behalf of the Executive Com
mittee of the French Broad Ev.p
tie Association, I should like to-
express v appreciation for your
twenty-three yean of service as-
Field Worker In our jr.:.? t. V s-
cording to the calendar t"- t
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