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Shopping Center,
The Madison County Board
of Commissioners took long
term action to solve the
problem caused by the loss of
the one cent sales tax
revenues at its January
meeting here Monday.
Commissioners approved a
resolution to solicit long term
investment funds to promote a
$2 to $2.5 million shopping
Commissioners Approve
Solid Waste Proposal
The Madison County Board
of Commissioners, in this'
week's meeting, approved a
study plan for a solid waste
disposal system in the county.
This study proposal will be
developed by the Department
of Sanitation and the
Department of Engineering of
the N. C. State Board of
Health. A survey will be made
to determine the nature and
extent of refuse disposal
problems in the county and a
proposal will be developed
with plans to alleviate con
ditions contributing to the
situation. Once the study
proposal has been completed,
it will have to be adopted by
the local government before
funds at State and Federal
levels can be sought to support
a project.
The request for this study
proposal was initiated by the
Madison County Health
Department through its health
director, Lawrence Burwell.
During a recent meeting in
Marshall, interest for such a
study proposal was expressed
by many of the county's
community leaders and by
officials from the State
Department of Local Affairs,
Upper French Broad
Economic Development
Commission, TVA, and
students from Mars Hill
College soon to be engaged in
a pollution study of their own
REAP
The new Rural En
vironmental Assistance
IVogram is now in the process
of being developed for North
Carolina, according to Ralph
Ramsey, executive director
for Madison County ASCS. He
explained that this program
takes the place of the former
iACP) Agricultural Con
servation Program which has
been in effect since 1933.
The REAP will place em
phasis on farm practices that
will contribute more to the
prevention or abatement of air
and water pollution, provide
more benefits to the general
public as well as conserving
the land and related natural
resources. Federal funding of
this program for B71 will be at
a level of 1150 miSktL Tbt
center to be built on new High
way 213 between Mars Hill
and Marshall.
Dr. Bruce Sams of Mars
Hill, chairman, said "Madison
County residents now go
outside of the county for over
half of their shopping."
Dr. Sams said a shopping
center in the county would
keep the revenue at home. He
at the meeting. Jim Fulp, of
the State Board of Health, who
will conduct the study, stated
that projects for solid waste
disposal had already been
adopted and funded by several
counties in Western North
Carolina. Some projects had
leen developed on a regional
basis, where three or four
counties were cooperating
together in such a system.
The commissioners stressed
the importance of taking steps
now to develop such plans with
respect to increasniv em
phasis on pollution control by
State and Federal officials. It
was pointed out that if the
trend towards pollution
control as provided by
legislation continues, states
and counties will be required
within the next few years to
develop and implement an
approved plan to manage all
waste currently being dumped
into the environment.
The plans for such projects
usually consist of locating
containerized units ( Demp
ster Dumpsters) at various
points throughout the county,
location and number of such
units depend upon level of
population and intensity of
traffic in a given area. The
units are placed in such a
fashion that most people
would not be more than four
miles from the nearest unit.
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Being Developed For
Congress authorized $195.5
million for the program which
shares the cost of con
servation measures with
participating farmers on
about a 50-50 basis. The level
of Federal funding for 1971
will be at close to 75 per cent of
that under the former
Agricultural Conservation
lYogram which means that
states, counties and individual
farms will receive ap
proximately 2S per cent less
funds for use under this
program for 1971.
Ramsey said that our State
REAP Development Group
was now in the process of
drawing up the 1971 program
for North Carolina and that as
oon as the State program is
p tarn ddownte the county that
MARSHALL, N. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4,
Airport
said he hopes this center
would be built within the next
two years.
Dr. Sams said the board was
counting on the General
Assembly for short term
;iction to take care of the
immediate loss of funds.
In other action, the board
asked the town boards of Mars
MRS. R. V. RAMSEY (center) was honored on her 90th birthday Sunday with
a party at the home of Mrs. R. R. Ramsey in Walnut. Pictured above are, left
to right, Mrs. R. R. Ramsey, Mrs. J. Bates Henderson, sister-in-law; Mrs. J.
C. Eubanks, a daughter; Mrs. Ramsey, Mrs. Thomas J. Barr, a daughter;
and Col. Thomas J. Barr, son-in-law.
M
rs. R.V. Ramsey Honored On
Mrs. R. V. Ramsey of
Walnut was honored with a
surprise bvirthday dinner
Sunday at the home of Mrs. R.
R. Ramsey. The occasion
marked the 90th birthday of
the beloved Walnut resident.
The occasion was planned by
Mrs. J. Bates Henderson and
the County Development
Croup would meet and
develop a program to best
meet the needs of the county
and submit it for approval by
the state officials. Most
counties hope to be in position
to announce their program by
late February.
Ramsey further explained
that the new program will
carry quite a few changes
from that of the old ACP. One
of these changes will be in the
use of soil tests to determine
the amount of mineral
elements needed to establish
or improve protective
vegetative covers in fields
devoted to grasses and
legumes. Since these prac
tices have been of primary
importance to farmers of
Favored By Commissioners
flSr ' i,
Mrs. J. C. Eubanks.
Mrs. Ramsey, the former
Miss Carrie Henderson, was
born Feb. 4, 1881 in Madison
County. She attended
Asheville Normal and taught
school in the county.
Unusually active for her
age, Mrs. Ramsey attends the
State
Madison County, farmers who
are anticipating filing ap
plication for liming materials
or commercial fertilizer to
establish or improve a
vegetative cover should take
and submit soil samples from
such fields now. By taking
early action on this
requirement, the farmer will
have the results of his soil test
by the time he gets ready to
make application for
assistance on the practice.
Farmers within the county
who wish to take and submit
soil samples can secure boxes
and instructions for taking
samples from the following
Agricultural Agencies:
County Extension Service,
ASCS Office or SCS Office at
Marshall.
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Hill, Wcaverville and Mar
shall to each name a
representative to meet with
the president of Wolf l-aurel
Inc. to discuss plans for an
airport in Madison County
Dr. Sams said if a genuine
interest is shown, Madison
County will cooperate in
securing funds and will act as
90th Birthday
Walnut United Methodist
Church and Sunday School
and is able to do her own work,
makes her gardenb, does
needle work and enjoys
television. Her husband,
Robert Vance Ramsey, died in
anuary, 1957.
Those attending the birth
day party included two
daughters, Mrs. J. C. Eubanks
of Knoxville; and Mrs.
Thomas J. Barr and husband,
Col. Barr; two brothers, Dr.
and Mrs. J. Bates Henderson
and Mr. and Mrs. R. B.
Henderson, of Walnut; a
sister, Mrs. Uoyd Honeycutt,
and the following friends: Mr.
and Mrs. Cloice Plemmons
and sons, Joey and Mark;
Mrs. R. J. Plemmons and
children, Steve and Gina; the
Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Clark,
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Stackhouse, Robert McClure,
all of Walnut; and Mrs. Ada
Waldroup of Knoxville.
Unable to attend were two
daughters, Mrs. Lee Lunsford,
Tallassee, Fla., and Mrs.
Edna Massengell, Nashville,
Tenn.; one son, Vernon
Ramsey, Tampa, Fla., and
several grandchildrta and
great-grarnkxrildraa.
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sponsoring agency for the
airport.
He said the board would not
tax county residents for the
airport construction but would
serve as a functioning agency
in order to obtain state and
federal funds
Hie lxard agreed an airport
is badly needed to help in
dustrialize Madison (bounty
Bulletin
Quorum Fabrics, Inc.,
of New York,
manufacturers and
distributors of double
knit men's and women's
outerwear fabrics, have
leased the Frank Coxe
Building, formerly
occupied by Mills
Manufacturing Co., in
Marshall.
Officials state that
applications will be
taken within the next
two weeks.
Watch this newspaper
for future information.
Poverty
Agency
Director
Resigns
The resignation of
Lawrence M. Kelly as
executive director of the
Opportunity Corporation of
Madison-Buncombe counties
was accepted by the agency's
board of directors at a
meeting Thursday night of
last week in the YWCA
building
Kelly said his reasons for
submitting his resignation at
this tune are "strictly per
sonal and strictly familiar."
In a controversial two and a
half hour sssion in which
resignations of the assistant
director, urban projects
director and others were
demanded, the board seated
eno Ponder, Robert Edwards
and Harold Anderson of
Madison County as members
of the board.
They replace former Sen.
William Powell, chairman of
the board; William Zink and
Walter Harrell, whose) terms
of office were terminated by
the Madison County Board of
Commissioners.
The meeting was called to
order by Chairman Powell
who asked for a motion on
minutes of past meeting. At
this juncture. Ponder rose to a
point of order and advised the
board that he was in
possession of all credentials
and evidence that he had been
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