Madison County
Library
Marshall, N.C. 28753
VOL. 70 NUMBER 57
REP. LISTON B. RAMSEY REP- ERNEST MESSER
Messer , Ramsey Given
Key House Assignments
Rep. Ernest B.
Canton was
Messer of
appointed
Important
Red Cross
Meeting Tues.
The American Red Cross
meeting, scheduled for
Tuesday afternoon, was
postponed until next Tuesday
afternoon due to frigid
weather. The meeting next
Tuesday will start at 3:30
o'clock in the library building
on Main Street here.
Jerry Plemmons, chairman
of the Madison County
Branch, Asheville Area,
American Red Cross, stressed
the importance of the meeting
by stating that unless the local
Red Cross organization is
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.
Civil Term
District Court
Starts Monday
A jury term of civil cases
will begin in district court
here Monday morning with
Judge j. Ray Braswell
presiding.
Jurors drawn for the term
include:
Billy A. Holt, Nellie Edna
Mae Gosnell, Roy Chandler,
Lee Hamlin, W. L. Bell, Grant
McDarris, Rose Leta Thomas,
James H. Griffin, Dorothy R.
McGaha, Carol Ann Bailey,
Mrs. Christine R. Ricker,
Glenn W. Hensley, Ruth B.
Rainey, Bill Burnice Franklin,
Roxie Martin Massey, Joseph
P. Rice, Toby K. Babelay,
Garland Brown, Mary
Margaret Wilde, T. R. Worley,
Bobby Jean Honeycutt, Carl
Shook, Jerlee Norton, Glenn
Kirkpatrick, Lucille CantrelL
Kate Thomas, Mrs. Ava Edith
Fairchild, Mae Griffin Price,
W. Eldridge Hill, Mrs. J. R.
Nelson, W. M. Bishop, Edith
Carver, Fred Sluder, Mary
Ruth Clark, Orln Samuel
Driggers, Jr.
chairman of the House Ap
propriations Subcommittee on
Health, Welfare and In
stitutional Care by House
Speaker Phil Godwin
Tuesday.
This is one of four sub
committees of the powerful
.House Appropriations
Committee. Messer is a
Haywood County Democrat.
Rep. Liston B. Ramsey of
Marshall was named vice
chairman of the House
Finance Committee by
Godwin,,
Messer and Ramsey are the
representatives from the
three-county 47th House
District of Haywood, Madison
and Yancey counties.
Among the 16 members on
Messer's appropriations
subcommittee afe Rep.
Robert Z. Falls of Shelby,
James E. Holshouser Jr. of
Boone and Robert A. Jones of
Forest City.
Others on the Finance
Committee with Ramsey are
Reps. Hugh Beam of Marion,
William M. Fulton of
Morganton, Herschel S.
Harkins of Asheville, Donald
R. Kmcaid of Lenoir, James
T. Mayfield of East Flat Rock
and John S. Stevens of
Asheville.
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WESTCO has begun installation of a new "north crossbar" at its recently
completed Mars Hill facility on the corner of Ivy and Chestnut. The automatic
equipment, according to C. O. Stafford, district plant manager, will allow calls
to be completed faster and will enable subscribers to keep their telephone
numbers as they move b the area. The facility is larger than the one currently
in use. Stafford said, and will be in operation in August. A similar central
office facility has been built in Marshall and will be in operation in June he
said. (Photo by Walter Smith)
MARSHALL. N. C. THURSDAY. JANUARY 21.
Ramsey, Wyatt
New Personnel
Rescue Squad
Celola Ramsey and Truman
Wyatt are now directing the
Rescue Squad quartered here
having started their duties
last Friday.
The two Madison County
men were named by the
county commissioners at their
January meeting. They
succeed Vernon Ramsey who
had been in charge of the
squad. The two men have
passed the necessary
examinations and are now
operating the two units here.
For emergency, phone 649
8800 during the day and for
night calls, phone 6494532
(Ramsey's residence) or 689
5525 ( Wyatt 's residence).
"We will be glad to be of
service to anyone at
anytime," Ramsey and Wyatt
commented this week.
L icen se
Exam in er
On Bridge St.
In answer to several
inquiries concerning the
location of the License
Examiner here on Wed
nesdays and Thursdays, Doug
McClure, the examiner, is now
located on Lower Bridge
Street in the building across
the street from the county jail.
The change of location was
made following the dispute
over the Solicitor's office in
the courthouse where the
License Examiner used to be.
The Solicitor, Clyde M.
Roberts, is now occupying the
double-room offices back of
the courtroom.
Mr. McClure's new office is
in the Plemmons Building and
is ground level.
WALTER SMITH, director of public information at Mars Hill College,
photographed his son, Travis, trying out the waving-size of a window in one of
two "stretch" vans recently acquired by the college. The college bought the
vans, along with a 25-passenger bus, from Smoky Mountain Tours in Asheville.
Smith said the new wheels will be used by various campus groups such as
athletic teams, classes conducting field trips and the student tutor corps.
Mars Hill Group
To Study Pollution In This County
A group of students at Mars
Hill College plan to begin a
study May 31 on pesticidal
pollution and solid waste and
sewage disposal in Madison
County, if funds for the project
are approved.
The 10-week project, to be
carried out by 8 students
under the direction of Dr.
R epublican
W om en 's Club
To M eet M on.
The Madison County
Republican Women's Club will
meet next Monday night, Jan.
25, at the home of Mrs. Paul
Briggs in Mars Hill. The
meeting will begin at 7:30
o'clock and all members are
urged to be present.
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Fred Holtkamp, assistant
professor and head of the
department of chemistry, will
cost approximately $28,500 to
be financed jointly by the
college and hopefully, the
National Science Foundation
NSF has not yet approved the
project.
The students are from the
fields of biology, business,
chemistry, education, English
and sociology.
Information will be
gathered on the levels of
agricultural pollutants and
degrees of waste material
produced by individual
households in the county.
The group proposed the
study because "most people in
the county are unaware of the
danger of the pollution in their
area and have little knowledge
of measures that the in
dividual may take to
ameliorate domestic pollution
and waste."
Their grant proposal said,
"The combination of the
geographic configuration of
the Upper French Broad
Drainage Basin and the lack
of normal atmospheric ven
tilation isolate and con
centrate an already high daily
level of industrial and
domestic pollution, making
this an exceptionally
dangerous area.
"This situation is further
aggravated by being an
agricultural base in rural
Appalachia... because of the
inadequate sanitary facilities
and inadequate sites for
garbage disposal, an in
creasing amount of refuse in
finding its way into the
streams and along the
roadsides."
The pesticidal pollution
phase of the project will be to
study the effects of pesticides
on plant and animal tissues, to
trace the origin of pesticidal
pollution, and to collect
representative samples for
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quantitative analysis
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of
District Court
To Resume
Here Friday
Criminal District Court with
Judge J. E. Holshouser, Sr.,
presiding will continiue here
on Friday at 9:30 o'clock. The
term started on Wednesday of
last week and court was ad
journed Thursday of last
week.
Henry Sharpe was bound to
superior court where he will
be tried on four charges, in
cluding breaking & entering,
larceny, and two charges of
assault.
Douglas Wallin, bastardy,
continued for child's blood
test.
Roy Wayne Shook, non
support of family, continued
and Shook ordered to take
treatment.
Harlon Shelton, assault on
female, 90-day suspended
sentence on conditions.
Isaac Neoo Rich, three
traffic charges, 60-day
suspended sentence, con
ditions. Homer Brooks, poss. non
tax paid liquor, fine and costs.
Walter Crowe, trespassing,
30-day suspended sentence.
Cecil Gunter, B.E.&L.,
bound to superior court.
Dem . Clu b
To M eet H ere
W ednesday
The French Broad Young
Democratic Club will meet
next Wednesday, Jan. 27, in
the school cafeteria at 7 p.m.,
it was announced this week.
All members are asked to
attend.