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Non-partisan in politics
- Seeoad-dasa prlvllegea authorised at Marshal, N. C.
JAMES L STOET, Editor and PubHaher
SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN SUBSCRIPTION RATES
MADISON ADJOINING OUTSIDE MADISON
COUNTIES COUNTY
15 Months SSQ 15 Months $5.00
12 Month $8.00 12 Months $4.00
8 Months $2.50 6 Months $3.00
6 Months $2.00 3 Months $2.00
4 Months $L50 Airmail 30c per Week
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LOCAL PARKING PROBLEM
The age-old problem of parking in Marshall
still exists and probably will continue to be a sore
subject for sometime to come. It is definitely a prob
lem and we sympathize with the town authorities
who must decide which method or plan is preferable.
It ia ia known fact that parking spaces are lim
ited since Marshall is located in a narrow gorge with
the river on one side and the mountains on the other
side of the business area.
It is also a known fact that too many employees
and some employers are parking their cars along
Main Street, thus taking up valuable parking spaces
which could be used by those wishing to shop in
Marshall. Many persons are inconsiderate of the
true value of trying to provide parking spaces for
the trading public. When an employee or employer
parks all day in front of his own business it actually
"hurts" him. Fortunately, most of our employers and
employees practice off-street parking but there are
always a few who disregard this practice.
Many plans have been tried throughout the
years but for some reason or other, plans go astray
unless there is a definite system or pattern of park
ing. After years and years of all-day parking on
Main Street by merchants and employees, it was de
cided that parking meters would be one solution in
which the all-day parkers would prefer to get off
Main Street, thus giving our rural people and others
an opportunity to park for an hour for only five cents.
After considerable expense, the town purchased
parking meters and regidly enforced them. O f
course, some people objected to paying a nickel to
park. Actually, the parking meters were primarily
purchased and installed to HELP the out-of-towners
not to charge them to park. Fortunately, the vast
majority of the public seeing that parking spaces were
available without having to circle the block several
times were willing to pay the nickel for an hour's
parking. Too, the revenue from the parking meters
greatly helped the town to pay its policemen.
However, the lack of enforcement faded and
people started to park, some for the entire day, with
out dropping in the nickel and the policemen were
lax in putting on tickets. When they did ticket a car,
the officials bailed to enforce the plan. Soon, the
same, old problem of all-day parking filled up the
choice spaces.
.- TWo-hoor parking, more or less on the honor
system, was attempted. This also failed. Employ
ers even signed agreements that they would keep
their employees off of street-parking. This soon
turned -Otttjtoi be - useless effort Although some
anT)lojners and employees cooperated, too many re-nigged-on
their signed agreement. This caused the
trading public to have to drive countless, miles during
a year trying to find some place to park. 4,
t -'At one time, off-street parking areas were sur
!yeyed.and many, realizing the importance of adequate
parking spaces for the public, found off-street park
ing places -.even on the Island. But this, too, soon
broke down when shorWhinking persons again start
ed td take the choice parking spaces on Main Street.
H Problem? I 3fes. Solution? Hard to om by.
3' In any event; a. lack of determination and en
forcement is costinVlour town thousands of dollars
annually as motorists can drive to out of town shop
ping centers in a few minutes where there are ample
parking4facihSea;: ; . j ; v-; v
This writer's personal opinion of Ihe best method
to get all-day parking stopped and thus giving ade-
quate spaces for our rural people and others to trade
here would be to rigidly ENFORCE the parking me
ters." r We do not believe the average person would
mind spending a nickel for tan hour's parking In
order to be able to shop quickly and not have to walk
from one end of town to the other with his groceries, ;
dry goods, hardware, etc. : Cv'-.V 0-1 -! ' - -k r.-v-X
Eat . ". . unless the meters are enforced and
violators fined, v.e might as well throw the parking
meters in the river and go back to the "dog-eat-dog"
days whila we ;.U suffer from lack of business. - " -?
V'c r - -'. . r!3 in our opinion. A vast majori-
) recently attended -a meeunsr
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Dear Pop: ,
I didat vesliss I could ffliias The
Nevs-Recoiti so much until I dMnl
find k in my nwll box this mora
ine. Ton bad Warnfd me my sub
criptioo itouM run out the L
of October but I neglected send
the check.
Tbanka bo much,
MRS. MARIE STEPHENSON
Oandler, N. C.
AMERICAN
RED CROSS
And
OUR COUNTY I
RED CROSS SERVICES
TO THE MILITARY
A young serviceman, newly ar
rived with his family at a U. S.
military station overseas, spent
all his money on hand getting set
tled, then ran into a financial pro
blem when, because of a computer
error, his paycheck didn't ahow up
on schedule.
He applied to the sation"s Red
Cross field director, who made
ihim a no-inrterest loan that tied
im over the emergency.
"Not every diilemna of a service
man or his family can be straigM
ened out that simply," commented
Mrs. S. L. Nix, Chairman of the
Madison County Red Cross Chap
ter's Service to Military Families.
FW instance, a Madison Coun
ty serviceman made application
for compassionate reassignment
due to illness of mother. The Red
Cross volunteer worker helped in
preparation of affidavits stating
evidence of need: a complete state
ment of home situation, affi
davits from ot least two persons
having first hand knowledge of the
situation existing, a certificate
from attending physician stating
nature of illness, expected out
come, effects; reassignment or
transfer to have upon the patient.
The Military authority to whom
application was submitted!, advised
fche serviceman on the morning
that he was leaving for duty in
Vietnam that he had been reassign
ed to Fort Bragg.
"In Madison County since the
first of the year, the Madison
County Red Cross Chapter, a
branch of the Asheville Area Chap
ter, has given service to 37 mem
bers of the Airmed Forces and
(their families," Mrs. Nix said.
"Specific services by the Re
Cross to the Armed Forces, one
of the organization's charter re
sponsibilities, are performed at
the request of the Department of
Defense, whose officials realize
that these services contribute
greatly to the morale of the ser
viceman faced with personal or
family problems," she explained.
These services are:
In American communities, Red
Cross chapters provide family
services to (members of the Armed
Forces, veterans, and their de
pendents . . . called Service to
MiKbary FBttndlies. Services con
sist of counseling in the flotation
Of personal and family problems,
emergency communications, and
emergency financM assistance.
There k dose cooperation between
chapter and Red Cross field di
rectors stationed with the troops,
mhos dose coordination maintains
the cornmunications link which is
so vital in helping servicemen and
their f amities solve their problems.
FieM directors perform for ser
vicemen ait military stations ser
vices similar to those performed
in the home town by the Red Cross
chapter.
In military hospitals, services
incHnjde, beside the program of
mcis! welfare, assMaac to .pa
tients m solving their personal and
(family problems; a program oc
medically approved recreation ser
vfces for tihm patients. Bed Cross
also tmrdbamtes the volunteer pro
gram in the hospital. , '
la Veterans AdbanistraUon bos.
tribal and other medical facilities
Red Cross .volunteers assit the
staff in their eat and treatment
In Sooth Vietnam and Korea,
Red Cross Supplemental Recrea
tional Activities Overseas pro
videi center-cliibmobue recreation :
programs for U. S. troops. Teams
of young women, American Red
Cross workers, all collej-e fa i-
ates, travel from point to r " i
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Moratorium Committee went as
schsdulod with about 200 bxdents
attending the afternoon acthri-
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A group of veterans raised op
posite views at discussions Wed
nesday morning.
Thomas Rogers of Asheville,
president of the club, however,
said bis group went on record as
respecting the right to dissent. A
petition opposing the war .to be
sent to President Nixon was cir
culated.
At the University of North
Carolina at Asheville Wednesday
morning, the speakers were about
evenly divided on the issue of an
early withdrawal of forces from
Vietnam.
Don Myers, student government
president, said the balanced ap
proach of having both sides rep
resented suited the conservative
tendency of the area. He said
(about half of the students at the
programs were high school students.
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PEOPLE and ; ISSUES
BTCliffBl-
Program Is Held
For Students Of
Upward Bound
The first of four follow-up ses
sions for 65 area high school sto
demts in Mars Hill College's Up
ward Bound Program was held
Saturday.
The group attended the Health
Careers Congress at the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Ashe
ville in the morning and the home
coming football game arid concert
at Mars Hill in the afternoon and
evening. ,
For the past two summers the
' HIGHER EDUCATION . .
More and mora smtpfaMhy ia now;
bring 'placed on higher education;
x- education . beyond , the bigti
Bjohooit ' '' w '
, lb -wora ntorit3r; jourf ba
really mean somothing in bigher:
(education circlea bu th awttonsl
of the 1969 Conoral Assembly in,
lagging so many institutions of
higher learning a "universatie"
baa cheapened the meaning.
We note that the "Malcolm V
Liberation University" to schedul
ed to open in Durham on October
7 with some 35 to 40 students'
with the controversial Howard
Fuller as the headmaster. We al
so note that financial support for
the Malcolm X liberation Univer
sity may be coming from the na
tional Episcopal Church.
Well, all we can say is: Call
your next case in higher educa
tion, but give us a good ojd "col
lege" like Davidson or Campbell
or Sandhills!
CAESAR'S WIFE . . . When a
person gets involvedi in partisan
politics, few are like Caesar's wife
above suspicion.
We still think Judge Hayns-
worth of South Carolina would
make an able jurist who would
improve greatly the calibre of the
U. S. Supreme Court but it does
look like the gentleman was loose
in his stock manipulations at a
time when he was on the bench
wearing (the robe which has got
ten not only himself but President
Nixon in a peck of troubles.
Rut if a person believes he is
right and on solid ground we don't
like to see him turn tail anld run
or withdraw.
WILLIAMS ... We felt all
Along that the USA had plenty of
problems and expenses at home
withjqut going to the trouble of
clearing the way for Robert Wil
liams, the black militant to get
group has lived on campus and back into the States.
(has been given intensive doses of
academic instruction and involve
ment in drama, music and physi
cal education programs, according
(to program director, Mrs. Judi
Sears.
She said Upward Bound young
sters, all from three high schools
in RunenftniiA Wimfcv nnri tihA fi-ra
Ugb. scboos Macfison County, t
have above overage intellectual
capabilitiee bat are handicapped)
academically and culturally.
Other on-campus sessions are
scheduled for December, February
and April.
RABBLE ROUSERS ... Our
public schools are no place for
rabble-rousers and we hope that
the proper authorities will keep
them off the campus grounds. Our
schools are for educating our
young and not to promote revolu
tion to tbe agrandinan t
notoriety of invidualau, - : l-
TROUBLE, NOT SICK
the v Vanco-'Aycock vtttoe .h
Asheville Stat Dewwrattft Fwy
fatpan Jimmy John
quoted a aaytaff b" P1
"alolc" Last week ha ateppod op
and that the party waa in "trou
ble" but no "afck." w r6
with Jimmy'a second Statement.
Tfa Democratic Party ia w
"sick" but it has its troubles just
as does tbe Republican Party
although the Democrats may have
more of them.
A maior trouble with the Dem-
hocratic Party in North Carolina
ia that Ithe record and the milage
of the National Democratic Party
lis not pleasing to the members
many of them at least in North
Carolina. In fact the national can
idBdate Hubert Humphrey who
helped make the image of the
party in the nation was third man
in vtites for president with both
Nixon and Wallace leading him in
North Carolina. Had Wallace not
been running we suspect man
Nixon would have received far
more of the Wallace votes than,
HHH.
On October 17 Bob Scott will
name a committee to come up with
recommendations to guide the par
ty to victory in 1970 and 1972.
The order is big and challeng
ing. REPUBLIC OR DEMOCRACY
The United States conflti-
fcuttion was adopted to provide the
people with a republic not nec
essarily a democracy. We favor a
republic over a pure democracy as
did the framers of the U. S. Con
stitution. However, the Constitu
tion belongs to the people and if
Ithey want to change from a re
public to a democracy they have
a way to fdo so and in many ways
(the system has been changed from
republic to democracy.
In the early days the U. S. Sen
ators were elected by the state
legislatures, now they are all elect
ed by the people. This, in our
opinion was a good change.
We feel that our present sys
tem of electing our presidents with
ri n in M. u v iy m um ml
:'?Ws had one heck of a, good
Urn in New York", Byard Jay,
local musician, saaa xouowing- n
and Obray Ramsey' trip 4b New
York City. They returned via pfane
a . Wapnoaday of awt week after
Spending aararal day there, ,
, Tbe principal objecttva pt their
trip waa to tapa two of their
iwlfwtfcms, and
"New River Tram; for tbe David
Frost television show to be shown
adon.
While there, Mr. Ray performed
on a radio show - Tuesday night
over Station WRIA, New York.
The two musicians were also
interviewed by several music
magazine writers and press re
porters. On Saturday night they were
honored at a party in which more
than 300 persons attended.
Bill Simeck, coordinator for
ABC Recordings, expressed en
thusiasm about their album,
"White Lightnin" ".
"We were well received every
where we went", Byard commented.
FHA District
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Home Economics teacher, statotJ
ithat 15 members of the FHA club
would attend Mars Hill school
will also be represented.
an electoral college should 'be mod
ified or changed but we question
the wisdom of going all the way
to a direct popular vote as the
proposed amendment recently
adopted by the U. S. House of
Representatives would provide.
The U. S. Senate should give due
and careful consideration to the
measure before voting to submit
it to the people.
We agree with Columnist James
Kilpatrick who said in comment
ing on the proposed change: "They
have the right and the power, act
ting through their states, to con
vert the republic to a democracy
if they want to. But it is like get
ting married. We ought not to
embark lightly upon such a new
way of life, but soberly, reverent
ly, and with our eyes open,"
Criminals Must Not
Be Released Before
Trial Con. Taylor
WASHINGTON Congress
man Roy A. Taylor presented
evidence Wednesday in support of
bis bill to permit locking up dan
gerous criminals awaiting trial
rather than releasing them on bail
to strike again before their cases
come up.
In a statement submitted to the
House Judiciary Committee, the
11th District Representative ob
served that in crime-ridden
Washington, and elsewhere, pro
fessional criminals out on bail
awaiting trial "simply continue
their well-eetablfeheU pattern of
crime".
Tbe Congressman explained that
his bill would authorize "pre
ventiva detention of 'dangorot
criminals both before their trials
and : while their cases are being'
appealed " "1? "jJ , x
"Judges need the authority to
stop releasing habitual eraminais
with or without bond. An' ex
perienced judge can determine
which defendants pose danger;
to society. Wa bare been so con
cerned with tbe rights of ' the
criminals that we have .permitted
conditions to develop tbat th
criminal court cannot cope with",
Rep. Tyk? aaid.
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Field directors fa Veterans, Ad-
ministration QfOoe counsel rate
ran fa a, variety of problems and
often represent them ia presenting
applications for compensation pen
sions, other government benefits
and in request for changea in of
ficial , military records, referraL
and financial aid. " "
lira. Nix pointed out that all
of these services are made pos
sible by the continued evrt of
the American peop'e t T 1 Cross.
During th nor ' h ( f ' nv
willingly tov 1 r g J f IV
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