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MARSHALL, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1971
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Jupiter Man Elected
To Crafts Board
A Buncombe County man was
elected to the board of directors
of Madison County Crafts, Inc.,
Tuesday, June 15, in a move by
the voluntary group to better
represent craftsmen of the
area.
Harold Garrison of Jupiter, a
carpenter and wood-carver,
was elected to the 12-member
board along with the Rev. Jeff
Burton of Hot Springs. They
replaced Mrs. Peggy Dotterer
of Hot Springs and Mrs. Ruth
Woody of Bluff, who resigned
their post. Father Burton, was
also elected secretary
treasurer of the board to suc
ceed Mrs. Woody.
In addition to Jupiter and Hot
Springs, localities having
representatives on the board
are East Fork, Upper Spring
Creek, Spring Creek, Meadow
Fork, Grapevine, Mars Hill and
Marshall.
Miss Diane Brown, director of
the crafts program for the
Rural Development Project of
the Opportunity Corporation of
Madison-Buncombe counties,
reported on various aspects of
M
adison -Rural Poverty
By PHILIP CLARK
Editor, The Tunes
All of the programs described
so far in this seven-part series
on the Opportunity Corporation
of Madison-Buncombe counties
have dealt almost exclusively
with the problems of the urban
poor in industrialized and
highly urbanized Buncombe
County.
This article will deal with a
radically different subject
poverty in almost wholly rural
adjoining Madison County and a
small rural portion of North
Buncombe.
Madison is about as rural as a
county can get. Farming is
almost the only occupation, and
the extremely precipitous
terrain leaves little good farm
land. Manufacturing jobs in the
county wouldn't total more than
400 even in good times, and
recently there have been layoffs
at Burlington Mills and at
Hammarlund Manufacturing
Co. Madison's 1970 population
was 16,003, down from 17.217 in
1960. This cutmigraUon has 1
been going on for decades. '
Mrs. -: Dorothy Arrington,
director of Madison County ,
operations for the Opportunity '
Corporation, can explain this
people drain, especially of the
younger people. It is, she says,"
first of all the lack of Jobs good
enough to support a family. It '1
is, secondly, a lack of work '
; skills. Thirdly, ft is an income
level too low to provide tran
sportation to jobs outside the
county. Fourthly, it is the high
percentrage of school dropouts
which keeps the education level
low.
Viewing Ce then-t'tlci C
; -t'jrsity CorfcffcUon cf
Garrison
the program and the store, The
Country Boutique. She an
nounced that in cooperation
with Asheville-Buncombe
Technical Institute there will be
free training workshops in inkle
weaving, pottery and copper
enameling starting this sum
mer. Mrs. Dorothy Arnngton,
director of the Rural
Development Project, told of
the enthusiastic response
toward Madison County crafts
given at a meeting of anti
poverty agency people in
Hendersonville. Following her
report, the board voted to write
their Congressional
representatives asking them to
oppose any federal revenue
snaring plan that does away
with the Office of Economic
Opportunity (OEO) and
Community Action Programs.
The next general board
meeting of the crafts group will
be at 7.30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3,
in the Marshall Community
Center. The executive com
mittee will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 6, at the center.
Asheville and Buncombe
County next door, some con
cerned civic leaders in Madison
County moved to get the Office
of Economic Opportunity in
Paul Harvey
column added
Paul Harvey, one of
America s great columnists
today joins the Marshall News
Record.
Harvey is the author of
.three best-selling books, has
been honored by many im
portant national organizations
and , has , received
honorary doctorates from
seven leading educational'
institutions. , . !
Harvey is the author of
three bea-sel!ing books, has
'teen honored by many im-'
portant national organizations
and has received honorary
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The Mars Hill Civitan Club
held its annual installation of
officers and awards night on
Tuesday, June 15, in the Gold
Room of the Mars Hill College
Cafeteria. Forty-seven persons
were present including the
Swannanoa Pair
Held For Lawson
John F. Sherlin, 25, and
Urenda F. Thomas Sherlin, 21,
of Swannanoa are being held in
Madison County Jail here on
charges of murder in con
nection weith the shooting death
of Bruce Lawson, 34, of Hot
Springs, Rt. 3.
Sheriff E. Y. Ponder said that
no bond had been set for the
Sherlins. He said Mrs. Sherlin is
a sister to Lawson 's wife.
Ponder said Lawson was shot
twice, once with a 20 gauge
shotgun and once with a .22
pistol about 10:45 a.m. Thur
sday at his home just off U. S.
25-70 near the Tennessee line.
Sherlin a former school teacher
is now employed at Beacon Mfg.
French Broad EMC Announces
Rate Adjustment
French Broad Electric
Membership Corporation has
received notification from
Carolina Power & Light
Company stating on the June
billing their wholesale power
rate would be drastically in
creased under an order given
them by the Federal Power
Commission. An analysis of the
rate increase reveals that the
power purchased from CP&L
will be increased up to 38 per
cent. The new cooperative rates
effective with the June billing
will be equal to, or less than,
retail rates of the other retail
Washington to provide some
help with the problems of a
proud mountain folk who were
forgotten by the nation at large.
OEO came through with a
small grant in 1966, and the
Rural Development Project
came into being. At the
beginning there were only six on
the staff. They began taking
soundings among the poverty
line mountain people. Mrs.
Arrington, who has been in the
program from the beginning,
said that the people talked to
expressed the greatest interest
in jobs, adult education,
transportation and a market for
mountain crafts.
In October of 1967 OEO came
through with a larger grant, and
more community outreach
workers were hired and trained.
These were divided into two
groups. The women workers
concentrated on services to the
home, teaching budgeting,
cooking, food buying, home
management and sewing to the
women and girls. These
meetings were in small groups
in the people's home. The men
community workers worked
with the men in the neigh
borhoods, organizing them into
, larger groups focused around
issues of things which needed to
be done to improve the com- .
munities. Such issues and ef-,
forts included improvement of
roads and bridges and school
bus routes. Many of these ef
forts were successful. -"
This then has been the main,
thrust of the Rural Develop
ment Program since 1966,
although it has brosiewd snj
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Development Project had been
Officers, Present Awards
wives of the members.
The Citizen of the Year Award
was presented to Mrs. Trilby
Sams, a retired Mars Hill
second grade teacher with 42
years of experience. Her recent
accomplishments include an
Co., in Swannanoa.
Sheriff Ponder stated that a
preliminary hearing will be
held here Friday.
FUNERAL SUNDAY
Funeral services for Lawson
were held at 2 p.m. Sunday in
District Court
A one-day term of District
Court for the trial of criminal
cases is scheduled to begin here
Friday morning with Judge J.
E. Holshouser, Sr., presiding.
Solicitor Clyde M. Roberts and
J. Thomas Rusher are
prosecutors.
power suppliers in the region Jn
following the original idea of
member service, Mr. Robinson,
French Broad EMC's general
manager, states "all efforts
have been made to keep these
rates as low as possible con
sistent with sound economy and
good management."
The board of directors and
management knew a rate in
crease was coming, which has
been caused by the nationwide
wave of inflation that for the
past few years has devastatedly
hit everything the consumer
pays for.
placed a(lrninistratively under
the Opportunity Corporation of
Asheville and Buncombe
County by the Office of
Economic Opportunity because
of an OEO ruling that a county
of less than 50,000 population
could not be funded. Early in
1967 there was a complete
consolidation of the two anti
poverty projects, with a Joint
board of directors and the title
Opportunity Corporation of
Madison-Buncombe counties.
Now in 1971 the Madison
County and North Buncombe
section of the Opportunity
Corporation has made marked
progress. There are now 12
community workers and 24
community organizations 21 in
Madison and three in North
Buncombe. These groups meet
regularly to discuss community
problems and seek solutions.
Each group elects a chairman
and vice chairman, and one
delegate to the Madison County
Rural Development Council.
The council fan turn- elects six
members to the board of
directors of the Opportunity
Corporation, giving the
Madison mountain folk a very
direct hand In the management v
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' Mountain crafts have not
been forgotten, and on March 27
of this year a crafts shop was ;
opened at Mara Kill College..
Net receipts In April wen $600
and in May 1900. This U an im
portant addition to the Incomes
of some 50 mountain families.
All of the crafts produced and
sold art native mountain crafts.
In tJ ' -'on, the Runl
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active role in helping to
establish the Handi-School for
retarded children at the Mars
Hill Baptist Church. The school
now served 16 Madison County
children with a paid staff and
five full school day sessions a
Being
Murder
Fairview United Methodist
Church.
The Rev. L. Paul Heafner
officiated. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
Mr. Lawson was a native of
Madison County and was a
farmer.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Helen Thomas Lawson; a son,
Bruce E. Lawson Jr. and three
daughters, the Misses Louise,
Mary and Betty Sue Lawson, all
of the home; two brothers,
Roscoe of Greenville, S. C, and
Curtis Lawson of the U. S.
Navy; two sisters, Mrs. Leona
Langston of Laurens, S. C. and
Mrs. Jeanette Gardin of Hot
Springs.
Fcer -ith these rising costs
as published by the Bureau of
Labor statistics, the cost of
energies that man depends on
has increased as follows during
the 10-year period of 1958-1968:
Electricity - 3 per cent
Natural Gas - 6.3 per cent
Fuel Oil -11.8 per cent
Bottled Gas - 22.5 per cent
The cooperative's cost of
doing business has greatly
increased due to inflation and
meeting the cost of living
threefold since 958. Mr.
Robinson states: "To connect a
new member today costs ap
proximately three times what it
cost in 1948, and your
cooperative has never raised
the cost of electric power
delivered to the consumer. In
fact, during this period we have
made four reductions in the cot
of power delivered to the con
sumer due to the fact that
themembers have been in
creasing their usage at a
compounded rate of ap
proximately II per dcent per
year." This is the first upward
rate adjustment in the history of
the cooperative.
The charge for a security
light will be increased by 50c
per month and maintenance
and vandalism charges will be
assumed by the cooperative for
this additional charge. Security
lights under contract will will
not be raised until the contract
has expired.
Copies of the new rate
schedules are being printed and
will soon be availaable upon
request at the office of the
cooperative.
Guthrie Honored
Jack Guthrie, of Walnut, who
has served two 1-year terms as
a member of the Upper French
Broad Economic Development
Commission, was recently
honored by the executive
committee at a dinner at
Battery Park Hotel.
t Officials expressed ap
preciation to Guthrie for his '
loyalty and fine service and
commended him on his splendid
attendance record from 1969
through 1970. . , - -,
Guthrie was presented a -certificate
and golden plaque
with the following inscription ,
engraved; "The Upper French
Broad Economic Development
Commission with grateful
appreciation and esteem does
hereby honor Jack James
Guthrie for h's devoted service
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week. Mrs. Sams who states
"she was born to be a teacher"
not only teaches in the school,
but she volunteers her time to
assist in the school in any way
she can.
The Mars Hill Civitan Club
presented club Honor Keys to
two of its charter members
Ken Anderson and Dean R. M.
Lee. These are the first Honor
Keys ever given by the club.
Jim Cox was presented a
district honor key by North
Carolina District West during
1970. Both Mr. Anderson and
Road
Assistant State Highway
Administrator Billy Rose an
nounced the status of major
road projects in Madison
County Friday.
Rose said draft versions of the
environmental reports, now
required on all federal-state
projects, were sent to
Washington, May 21 on N. C. 213
from Marshall to Mars Hill and
U. S. 25-70 from Weaverville to
Marshall.
He said, at this time, the
SHC's time table for progress
on both projects was about the
same design hearings to be
held in September, followed by
the finalization of the en
vironmental statements and
SHOWN ABOVE are three Mars Hill citizens who were honored at the Mars
Hill Civitan Installation and Awards Banquet. Left to right, Kenneth An
derson, recipient of an Honor Key; Mrs. Trilby Sams, who was chosen as the
Mars Hill Citizen of the Year; and Dean R. M. Lee, also a recipient of an Honor
Key.
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Dean Lee have been extremely
faithful members of the club
since 1949, and both have been
honored as Citizen of the Year
Mr. Anderson in 1960 and Dean
Iee in 1964. Dean Ie is
governor-elect of North
Carolina District West of
Civitan International.
In addition to the awards, the
following officers were installed
by Dean Iee Fred Diercks as
president, John Hough as
president-elect, and Wayne
Roberts as secretary -treasurer.
Reports
approval from federal agencies
on the design; begin acquisition
of right-of-way in January, 1972,
with approximately 15 months
allowed for this; and contracts
to be let sometime in the spring
of 1973.
Rose said no difficulty was
expected in connection with the
environmental statements
based on the commission's
experience with these to date;
however, the time table is
scheduled on the assumption
that federal agencies will not
delay approval.
If approval is held up for
some reason, the projects will
be delayed. He also said that if
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Outgoing President Fred
Boss and Secretary-Treasurer
Vernon Chapman received
plaques for the service they
gave the club during the past
year.
Guests of the club included
Miss Sue Fitzgerald who ren
dered the invocation, Dr. and
Mrs Bruce Sams, Mr. and
Mrs Harold Wood, Norman
Carter who photographed the
occasion, and Miss Linda
Yandell who is the grand
daughter of Iiean Lee.
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the right-of-way stage of the
projects moves faster than
expected, contracts will be let
sooner than spring, 1973.
N. C. 213 construction is a 7.1
mile, $3.8 million project to run
along the existing alignment
with a few minor relocations
and no control of access.
U. S. 25-70 involves an all new
location for the road, a four-lane
divided facility with full control
of access except for a few in
tersections. It is an 8.8 mile
project estimated at a cost of
$8.5 million.
The extension of 213 to Spring
Creek is still in the planning
stage, he said.
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