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Left to right: Prince Gosnell, Bobby Chandler
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Left to right: Leonard Massey, Wayne Boone
Criminal Court To
Start Here Monday
The February term of
superior court for the trial of
criminal cases will begin here
Monday morning with Judge
Frank W. Snepp presiding.
FFA Members
Place In
Competition
Three Marshall High School
boys represented North
Carolina at the 43rd national
convention of the Future
Farmers of America in
Kansas City last week.
They placed eighteenth in
the national dairy cattle
judging competition against 43
teams from over the nation.
Members of the team were
Sanford Graham, Mallie
Hensley and Pratt Buckner,
all seniors at Marshall High.
Jack C. Cole, agriculture
teacher and team coach,
accompanied them to
Missouri.
Graham, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Porter Graham,
received a gold emblem
award for. individual high
scoring in the dairy judging.
Buckner, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Randall Buckner and Hensley, :
am of Mr. and Mrs. Chester
Hensley, both received bronze
emblem awards for their
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Solicitor Clyde M. Roberts will
represent the State in
prosecution.
Of the 44 cases on the docket
for the one-week term, 11
cases are for driving under
influence. Nine cases are for
breaking and entering and
three cases are for forgery.
Following are the jurors
drawn for the term: Floyd J.
Hawkins, Carolyn P.
Franklin, Clarence Norton,
Atlas Robinson, Bernice
Ammons, Nona Faye Lynch
(Mrs. W. L.) Ronnie E.
Messer, Velma Metcalf, Ted
Lewis Massey, Margaret
Stafford Ramsey, Woodfin
Collins, Homer B. Hawkins,
Coye Jamerson, 0. E. An
derson, Jr., Ernest E. Gold
smith, Sr., Wallace Cook, Paul
Briggs, Vaughtie T. Metcalf,
David J. Setzer, Tillman
Wiley Flemming Billy Payne,
Ethel S. Kenner, Reba P.
Torotra, H. J. Ebbs, Arnold
'Garrett, Ervin Hensley, Ed
Shelton, Verna B. Brigman
(Mrs. Knox), May H. Finley,
Estie Teague Branam, Perry
Bowens, Claudia Hendren
Silver, Mary Joyce Metcalf
Craine, Lester Stanley, Vina
Gunter (Mrs. Elmer), C P.
Lewis, Callie Gentry Rakigh,
m Jr., LuciH Merrill, Arnold
Landers, Marie Anders (Mrs.
- Warren), D. iL - Robinson,
Celia Ann Metcalf, Mary
Helen Adams, and Donald
Higgma.-
MARSHALL, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1971
County Burley
Farmers Win Honors
Champions have been
named in the Madison County
Burley Production and
Marketing Contest for 1970.
Prince Gosnell and Wayne
Boone were declared winners
in the small and large
divisions of the contest. Ted
Cutshall and his brother,
Worley Cutshall, Jr., won
second place in small allot
ments, while Walter Gosnell
was second place winner in
large allotments.
Prince Gosnell of Franklin
Mountain received a cash
prize from The Coal Feed and
Lumber Co. Wayne Boone, of
laurel Branch Community,
received a cash prize of like
value from The Citizens Bank.
Second place money was
paid by Cody Hardware to the
Cutshall Brothers, son of
Worley Cutshall of Beech
Glen. Walter Gosnell of
Franklin Mountain received
second place money from
Johnson's Self-Service of
Liquor Bill Offered
For Madison County
A law adopted by 37 of the
100 North Carolina counties in
1969 to allow the purchase and
transportation of as much as
five gallons of liquor at a time
under special permit would be
expanded to include Madison
County in a bill introduced
Friday in the 1971 General
Assembly.
The bill was introduced in
the House by Reps. Ernest B.
Messer of Canton and Liston
B. Ramsey of Marshall. It
simply seeks to include
Madison under the law
already on the books.
.The legal limit without the
Emergency
Food Program
Is Founded
Mrs. Faye Ramsey, director
of the Emergency Food and
Medical Services Program for
The Opportunity Corporation,
stated this week that the
program has been funded for
1971, and beginning Monday,
Feb. 22, Emerency Food
vouchers will be issued on the
same schedule as last year.
(Monday and Wednesday at
The Opportunity Corporation
in Marshall and Friday at The
Opportunity Corporation
Office m Hot Springs. Hoars
are 9 am to 4 pjn. each )
New, stricter policies nave
been instituted this year, Mrs.
Ramsey said, to make the
program
food program.
Walnut.
The two first place winners
will be entered in the state
contest. The county has had
one or more winners each
yeare in the state contest.
The Burley Contest is
conducted each year by The
Agricultural Extension
Service. It is sponsored by
local business firms. Purpose
of the contest is to recognize
and encourage those
producers who are following
recommendation in producing
their crop. It is open to all
producers. Farmers who plan
to enter the 1971 contest should
start with their plant bed and
keep records on production
practices for the entire crop
year, says Wiley DuVall,
Associated County
Agricultural Extension Agent.
This will make it much easier
to complete the entry form
next fall. For information
consult your local
Agricultural Extension Office.
special permit is one gallon of
liquor that can be transported.
The permits are issued only to
a specific destination, and are
used primarily by conventions
and other groups providing
beverage for large gatherings.
Liquor Bill Opposed By Baptist Ass'n
Mars Hill, N.C. 28754
February 15, 1971
The Honorable Liston B.
Ramsey
The Honorable Ernest B.
Messer
The N. C. House of
Representatives
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear Sirs:
The Executive Committee
of the French Broad Baptist
Association in its regular
monthly meeting yesterday at
Mars Hill passed the following
resolution:
Whereas, the citizens of
Madison County have voted
against the legalized
distribution and sale of
alcoholic beverages at
every county-wide
referendum on this issue,
and
Whereas, the forty-eight
churches comprising the
French Broad Baptist
Association, ' with tlx
thousand resident members
and tots! memberships of.
sine thousand, three ban-.,
dred and twenty-six total
members, : art - located
principally in Madlsoa
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Loft to right: Worley
Carl Cody
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Left to right: Bobby Johnson, Walter Gosnell
Advisory
Details On
C
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Members of the Marshall
Citizens Advisory Committee
heard detailed reports on the
progress of the proposed Low
Kent Housing project at a
County, and
Whereas each of these
churches subscribes to a
Church Covenant that
pledges the membership "to
abstain from the use of
alcohol as a beverage,"
therefore,
Be it Resolved, that the
Executive Committee of the
French Broad Baptist
Association in regular
session this fourteenth day
of February, nineteen
hundred and seventy-one, on
behalf of these forty-eight
Farmers Urged To
Attend Tomato Meeting
The annual meeting of the
Trellised Tomato Growers
Association wffl be held at the
Battery Park Hotel in
Asbeviue on Monday, March
1, from 1:30 uu. to I pa The
program lined op for this
meeting promises to be eery
interesting as well as en
tertaining for the tomato
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Cutshall Jr., Ted Cutshall,
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ousing
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meeting held in the library
here Tuesday night. Mrs. J. B.
Tweed, chairman of the
Marshall Housing Authority,
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churches and more than
nine thousand members do
protest the recent bill you
our representatives in
troduced in the House
liberalizing the liquor laws
of Madison County. We
strongly request that you
withdraw this bill, and that
in all matters you represent
the will of the voters of
Madison County.
Sincerely yours,
WilUam L. Lynch,
Moderator
The French Broad
Baptist Association
Carolina. In addition to
business sessions, featured
speakers will be James
Graham, Commissioner ef
Agriculture, and Fletcher
Bergm with A h P Produce
Department working hi North '
Carolina and Florida.
The Grower's Association Is
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