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VOL. 70 NUMBER 56
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By CONNIE BLACKWELL
Citizen Staff Writer
Clyde M. Roberts, 24th
Judicial District solicitor, was
reinstated in his office here by
3 p.m. Tuesday at least
temporarily.
Roberts, who was locked out
of his office Jan. 4 by the
Madison County Board of
Commissioners, filed a
petition with Clerk of Court
Judson Edwards last Friday
asking for reinstatement.
The four-page petition
then went to Superior Court
Judge Frank W. Snepp of
Charlotte, who signed a
temporary restraining order
which was served by Madison
County Sheriff E. Y. Ponder
Tuesday morning on the three
members of the board.
Roberts and the courthouse
janitor, along with other
helpers, put the solicitor's
office furniture, equipment
and files back in the second
floor two-room office. The
office had been assigned
Roberts by the previous
Republican board of com-
going out of office Dec. 7.
Roberts' things had been
moved from the office and
stored temporarily in the
adjacent board of elections
office.
The petition, which also
served as an affidavit, stated
that the solicitor's "official
equipment, files and records
were summarily removed
from his office in the Madison
County Courthouse". ..and
that said materials are
"essential to the proper ad
ministration of justice."
It asked that the board of
commissioners "be restrained
and enjoined from interfering
with the solicitor in the per
formance of his duties,"
"ordered to open the two
rooms previously assigned to
him" and to "return any and
all furniture, equipment,
supplies and files removed by
the board as a body, or by
Important
Red Cross
Meeting Tues.
An important Red Cross
meeting will be held at the
library in Marshall next
Tuesday at 3.30 o'clock.
Jerry Plemmons, chairman
of the Madison County
Branch, Asheville Area,
American Red Cross, stressed
the importance of the meeting
by statins that unless the
local Red Cross organization
is not strengthened the county
could lose some of the Red
Cross services in the county.
Everyone interested in the
continuance of the Red Cross
programs are urged to attend
this meeting.
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either member of the board,
or by the board's servants."
The board was ordered to
appear Jan. 18 at 2 p.m. in
Watauga County Superior
Court in Boone before Judge
Snepp to show cause why the
order should not be made
Quilt Display
By ETHEL T. WALLIN
Home Economics Ext. Agent
Madison County
When we think of American
customs and the past we
remember many things.
Fireplaces, high poster beds
and beautiful handmade
quilts. We may not think of the
library as a resource for
quilting and patterns for quilts
but there are several good
books on quilting in our public
library here in Madison
County. Some of these books
are "Quilts and Coverlets;" a
history of a charming nature
art, together with a manual of
instructions for beginners, by
Florence Peto. "A Book of
Arts and Crafts," by
Marguerite Ickis and Reba
Selden Esh. "Woman's Day of
American Needlework," by
Rose Welder Lane. These
offer much information on
quilting and various patterns
we have handed down through
the years. In conjunction with
this information a collection of
some favorite quilts by
homemakers in Madison
Countv has been made and the
Extension agents have
displayed these for your en
joyment in the two large
windows of the Madison
County Library. The following
is a list of the quilt patterns
with the homemakers name
who made the quilts: Puff
Quilt, Mrs. Bill Metcalf;
Popcorn Spread, Mrs. Trula
Harrell; Double Wedding
Ring, Mrs. H. E. Wallin, Sr.,
and Miss Helen Penland;
Rising Sun, The Carter
Family; Tulip, Crazy Quilt,
Friendship, Flower Garden
and Dresden Place, Mrs. H. E.
Wallin, Sr.; Dutch Doll, the
late Mrs. Henry Ball; Tiny
Squares, Mrs. Frank Maney;
Basket Quilt, the late Aunt
Lucinda Metcalf; Lemon Star,
Mrs. Thomas Tipton and the
Granny Afghan, Mrs. Sue
Gibbs.
Some interesting history on
the Rising Sun quilt is that it
was a pre-Civu War quilt and
was buried with other
household items to keep it
from being taken by the Union
soldiers. This quilt was owned
by the Carter family in the
Beech Glen community. It
now belongs to Mrs. Sue Gibbs
of Beech Glen. It certainly has
withstood wear and aging and
is stiD beautiful Hie other
quilts have interesting stories
behind them too. I am wrr
MARSHALL. N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY U, l!7l
permanent.
The board can now just let
things drop and Roberts will
keep his office; or, it can
appear in Boone with
arguments that another office
would do iust as well for the
solicitor and that the board
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many people will see quilts
that will being back fond
memories and we hope will
make us take more pride in
this very complicated, but
beautiful skill. You may have
some beautiful quilts of your
own that you will want to get
out and enjoy too. Our thanks
go to these homemakers who
Rural Environmental Program
(REAP) For 71
The new Rural En
vironmental Assistance
Program ( REAP) for 1971,
emphasizing a broad attack on
the environmental problems
created by the nation's far
ming operations, was an
nounced today by Secretary of
Agriculture Clifford M.
Hardin.
Announcement of the new
program, formerly known as
the Agricultural Conservation
Program (ACP), permits
resumption of the Federal
cost-sharing of various
beneficial conservation
practices with farmers, but
under a restructured program
in line with modern day needs
to better both the on and off
farm environment. It makes
farmers partners in the
venture between the Federal
Government and state, city
and local governments to deal
with the pressing problem of
pollution.
"The restructured program
will be used to help preserve
our environment, demon
strate good environmental
enhancement practices, and
return more public benefits
less public cost," Secretary
Hardin pointed out.
Although the specific level
funding for 1971 has .not
For Solicitor In Courthouse
needs his office for other
purposes. Commissioners
initiated remodeling on a third
floor office for Roberts last
week.
I-ate Tuesday night, board
members had not decided
what to do. Dr. R. Bruce Sams
have so willingly shared their
talents with us. They certainly
have a talent to be proud of.
This is an art that is slowly
disappearing and we need to
see that it is not lost in our
busy world of today. If you
haven't seen the exhibit I
suggest you go by the library
and enjoy it with us.
been determined, the 1971
program will be funded, and
the Congress will be requested
by the Administration to
provide funds for the 1973
program, the Secretary said
Emphasis on the farm side
will be on those practices
contributing the most to the
improvement of conditions for
both the general public and
farmers. Major con
siderations in authorizing
cost-sharing of any practice
installation will be the
resulting public benefits, such
as pollution abatement, en
during oil and water con
servation, recreation, wildlife,
and open space as
well as the degree of per
manency achieved. As a
result, the practices offered
under the program have been
structured to provide en
during benefits, significant
pollution control, and
enhancement of the en
vironment for all.
A major thrust will be to
reduce water pollution which
results in large part from
agricultural, industrial, and
municipal wastes. Water
retaining and retarding
measures on farms, such as
dams and ponds, permanent
grass cover, water ways.
of Mars Hill is chairman, and
the other two members are
Irvin Adams and W . T. Moore
They had attempted since
OKO Unit Is
Authorized
T o Borrow
The Opportunity Corp. of
Madison-Buncombe counties
has been authorized to borrow
up to $100,000 if expected funds
for its 1971 program year are
delayed by the Office of
Economic Opportunity.
Lawrence M. Kelly,
executive director of the anti
poverty agency, said the
directors approved the
precautionary measure at a
special meeting last Thursday
night at the Mars Hill Town
Hall.
Kelly said the agency ex
pects to be funded by OEO
later this month, and will not
use the authority to borrow the
money unless there is an
unexpected delay.,
In other action, the directors
approved the transfer of $2,000
from the agency's housing
development project and the
same amount from its urban
youth program to pay the cost
of moving the agency from the
old Stephens-Lee School
building to the Livingston
Street School
buffer strips, and tree plan
tings, wil Ik- stressed 'ITie.se
will be directed toward
reducing silt in streams,
rivers, lakes, and other bodies
of water and toward reducing
pollution from animal wastes,
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Housing
By LINDA HARRELL
According to W. C. Warrick,
extension specialist in
Housing, nationally apart
ments make up 40 percent of
new housing, mobile homes 20
per cent, and single family
dwellings the remaining 40 per
cent. "The 'little house with
the white picket fence' may
never completely disappear
from our landscape, Warrick
stated, but in another decade
or so it may be increasingly
hard to find."
Mass produced, mass
mechanized housing being
developed by private en
terprise and under the
Department of Housing and
Urban Affairs "Operation
Breakthrough" program will
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taking office in December to
persuade Roberts to give up
his office, acquired in Novem
ber, on the grounds that the
rooms had been used for years
for the commission's meeting
room and as a room for
driver's license examinations.
Doug McClureof Burnsville,
license examiner, who came
to Marshall the first week in
December and found his usual
office now being occupied by
Roberts, moved his equipment
to Mars Hill City Hall He said
there was not another office in
the Madison Courthouse
suitable for the examinations
Rice Home Is
Destroyed By
Fire Tuesday
The one-story home of
1-awson Rice, 75, of the Bee
Tree section about 12 miles
from Mars Hill, was com
pletely destroyed by fire
Tuesday afternoon about 5:30
o'clock In addition to the
house, a barn, filled with hay,
corn and machinery was also
destroyed.
Fire Chief Don Cox, of Mars
Hill, stated that when the
volunteer firemen arrived at
the scene, the barn and home
were engulfed in flames. Cox
stated that the fire started in
the barn where children were
playing All household fur
niture was lost
Chief Cox said that the
firemen were able to save two
structures near the home, one
a trailer and the other a house
Rice lived alone in the house
which burned but members of
the family resided in the two
buildings which were saved
No one was injured by the fire
Loss was estimated at
$10,000 and there was no in
surance. Cox stated.
significantly influence
housing in the future
Breakthrough is HUD's at
tempt to meet the nation's
housing needs bv developing
new techniques in production,
land use, financing, and
merchandising.
HUD is moving many
regional office functions to
area offices in the various
states. State office directors
will be named by early 1971
with the change completed by
Sent. 1971. All functions
relating to HUD's housing
programs will be shifted to
these offices to reduce
processing time and improve
coordination.
The average home loan by
Savings and Loan
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