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VOLUME 70 NUMBER 30
MARSHALL, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1971
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18-Year-Olds Must
Register Despite
Present Draft Status
Selective Service System
(Supervisory) Acting Executive
Secretary Glenna L. Ray, who
manages Madison County's
local board at Marshall, says
the current Congressional
impasse over extending the
induction authority has created
great uncertainty among area
draft-age men.
Miss Ray continued,
"Selective Service Director
Curtis Tarr has recently
stressed the importance of
explaining to our draft-age men
the high probability that draft
calls will resume in the near
future and that the current
impasse in the Congress is not
likely to affect any registrant's
chance of being drafted.
"Our local board has been
specifically instructed to
continue to register and classify
men, and to order for pre
induction physical
examinations those young men
who may be needed to fill draft
calls in the coming months,"
Miss Ray said.
Men with lottery numbers
through 125 were eligible for
induction in June in order to fill
draft calls. Since then, the
Defense Department has asked
Selective Service to draft 16,000
men in July-August. This
request is being held by
Selective Service headquarters
pending final Congressional
action on the draft bill, which is
expected within several weeks.
"Those young men with
relatively low lottery numbers
Beekeepers May File
For Pesticide Losses
Beekeepers who want to file
for indemnity payments for bee
losses from pesticide use may
now obtain forms at the County
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service (ASCS)
Office.
Commenting that the
beekeeper indemnity payment
program is new, Emory
Robinson, chairman of Madison
County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Committee, said no estimate
can yet be made on the number
of claims to be filed or
beekeepers' estimates of losses.
The indemnity payment
program for beekeepers is
retroactive to Jan. 1, 1967, and,
under the Agricultural Act of
1970, will continue through Dec.
31, 1973. To be eligible for
payments, beekeepers must file
applications with their County
ASC Committee and must prove
loss of or damage to bee
colonies because of pesticides.
A beekeeper filing for
payment must satisfy the
following requirements in
written form: Show that his own
peft'ciue application, if any, in
no way contributed to his bee
losses, that he took reasonable
care to protect his bees and
after exposure took reasonable
action to reduce losses if he had
prior notice of pesticide use in
the vicinity of his colonies, and
that the loss of bees was due
entirely to the use of pesticides.
"A beekeeper coining into
the County ASCS Office to file
should ask for either the 'short
form' or the 'long form'," said
Mr. Robinson. "If he has kept
meticulous records that show
precisely his income losses and
when and where they occurred,
he may want to use the long
form on which he can show
exact amount of his losses,
based on coat of replacement
bees, loss of honey and beeswax
sales, pollination fees, and
queen and packaged bee sales.
"For beekeepers who do not
have records that detailed that
far back, there Is a short form
available, which shows colony
loss," Mr. Robinson added
If a beekeeper files on the
abort form, the County ASC
Committee will determine net
who are eligible for induction
this year, particularly those
with numbers below 175 the
current processing ceiling
have a very good chance of
being processed for induction
after draft calls are restored,"
Miss Ray said.
"Many young men seem to
think that the Selective Service
Act has permanently expired
and that they probably will
never be drafted. Some of them
also think that the entire system
has stopped. They are wrong
since it is only the induction
authority that has expired.
They, therefore, may be
unintentionally breaking the
law by failing to register at age
18, by not keeping their local
boards informed of their
current address, or by failing to
report, if ordered, for their pre
induction physical
examinations."
Miss Ray also stressed that
local board are continuing to
consider CO, hardship, and
student deferments and to take
other classification actions.
"Young men who had planned
to submit requests for defer
ments or exemptions are en
couraged to do so," Miss Ray
said. "The expiration of the
induction authority does not
affect our responsibility to
classify young men," Miss Ray
added.
Miss Ray may be contacted at
Ramsey Bldg., Main St.,
Marshall, the office of local
board No. 59.
loss on the following rates: $20
for each bee colony destroyed,
$15 for each colony severely
damaged; $5 for each colony
moderately damaged, $7.50 for
each queen nucleus destroyed,
and $5 for each queen nucleus
severely damaged.
On either form, the beekeeper
will specify colonies in his
apiary before loss because of
pesticides, colonies free of
damage, destroyed, severely
damaged, and moderately
damaged, queen nuclei
destroyed and severely
damaged, and total loss.
The beekeeper will be ex
pected to provide evidence of
his bee losses from pesticides.
Retroactively, such evidence
may include official reports of
losses filed with local or State
authorities, business records
kept at the time of loss, written
statements by disinterested
persons with personal
knowledge of the losses,
photographs authenticated as to
date, location, and accuracy,
reports of apiary inspectors and
tax returns.
Current losses must include a
written statement by a disin
terested person and full in
formation regarding the loss,
including cause, extent, date,
and location.
A beekeeper will also submit
evidence that his loss occurred
as a direct result of the use of
pesticides near his apiary. Such
evidence may include reports of
chemical tests performed on
dead bees; records, signed
statements, or official reports
of pesticide applicators and
vendors employed within forage
range of the bees; and govern
mental agencies or universities
possessing verified information
on the application of pesticides
in the vicinity.
"Any beekeeper wanting to
know full details about the in
demnity payment program for
pesticide losses should get in
touch with his County ASCS
Office," Mr. Robinson said. "He
may come into the office,
phone, or write, and we will be
glad to give him an the in
formation we have and help him
understand the forma and the
proof of loss ha win need."
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TOMATOES STARTED ROLLING Monday afternoon at the Mato Packing
Company here in the first day of operation this season. Top photo shows a line
of ladies grading tomatoes as they start down the conveyor. Bottom photo
shows a double line of trucks and cars loaded with tomatoes heading toward
the shed. Officials stated that they were well pleased with opening day
deliveries and sales.
Legislature Wraps Up
1971 Session
The 1971 North Carolina
General Assembly went home
Wednesday after repealing a
law which some legislators felt
might put the state's death
penalty in jeopardy.
The session just ended was
the longest ever for a North
Carolina legislature
The bill by Sen Stewart
Warren, D-Sampson, repealed
the law which allowed a person
to plead guilty to a capital of
fense and receive an automatic
sentence of life in prison. Now, a
defendant will not be allowed to
You Can Pick
Up Pictures
At N-R Office
If your picture has been
published in recent months and
you have not had picture
returned or have not picked it
up at News-Record Office, you
may come by and pick up your
picture if you wish.
Many pictures of bride's and
others are at our office and we
do not know where to mail
them.
Homecoming
At Paynes Chapel
The annual homecoming and
decoration will be held at
Paynes Chapel Baptist Church
and Cemetery next Sunday,
August 1, starting at 10 ajn.,
with dinner served picnic style
on the tables beside the church.
Singing in the afternoon. ,
Everyone is invited to bring a
picnic lunch and attend.
Due to preparations for the
homecoming, the usual Fifth
Saturday night singing win be
postponed, but will be resumed
on the next fifth Saturday night.
plead guilty to a capital crime
at all.
In another significant move,
the General Assembly enacted
legislation granting most of the
rights of adulthood and the
"burdens that go with them" to
some 325,000 persons between
the ages of 18 and 21.
As finally approved, the only
major restriction placed on the
School Bus
Overturns ;
Driver Hurt
A Madison County woman
received minor injuries when
the school bus she was
operating with two children
aboard, went down a 20-foot
embankment on Shepherd
Branch Road in Alexander.
Trooper D. W. Dees said the
children were not injured in the
accident, which occurred about
2:50 p.m. but Mrs. Ruth
Ramsey Briggs, of Marshall Rt.
4, was given dispensary
treatment at Memorial Mission
Hospital.
The bus, owned by the Bun
combe County Board of
Education, was enroute to a day
camp in the Richmond Hills
section.
Dees quoted Mrs. Briggs as
saying that she had been forced
to the extreme right side of the
narrow road when cars ap
proached from the opposite
direction.
As the bus approached a
sharp curve in the road, it gava
way on a soft shoulder and
tumbled down the embankment
and landed on Ks side in a corn
field, Dees said. The bus was
slightly damaged.
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18-to-21 year old group was
denial of the right to buy liquor.
Granted to the new adults
were the right to enter into
contracts such as car pur
chases, to own and operate
businesses, to sue and be sued
and to take responsibility for
debt.
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HERE is a picture ol Marshall taken from a
helicopter by Hugh Morton, possible candidate for
governor, as he was on a political fact-finding tour of
Remains Of Stolen Autos
Recovered From River
ByJAYHENSI-EY
Citizen-Times Staff Writer
The river bottom dump of a
car theft ring was explored
Saturday by investigators and a
rescue squad working from a
secluded one-lane road at an
abandoned night club north of
Asheville.
Sections of the hills of at least
half a dozen vehicles were
fished out of the French Broad
River by noon, and an inspector
with the license and theft
division of the Department of
Motor Vehicles estimated that
10 or 15 automobiles had been
cut up and dumped in the water.
Glenn Roberts said he and
Ray Evans, another inspector,
had identified four stolen
automobiles from the torch
chopped car bodies before they
decided to call on the Buncombe
County Rescue Squad to speed
up the salvage work.
Chief Grady Plemmons and
Volunteers with the rescue
squad set up their equipment
near the end of the weed-grown
riverbank road Saturday
morning, and working in water
up to their waists began loading
the dissected car bodies onto
grappling hooks.
Doors, cowls, quarter panels
and frames all sized down by
the thieves for easy handling
with a torch were hauled from
the murky river on nylon ropes
attached to a winch truck.
Among the piles of car parts
sorted out on the sandy river
bank was one heap Roberts
identified as two late model
pickup trucks.
The vehicles had been stolen,
stripped of motors, tran
smissions, seats and other
salable parts, and the hulls cut
up and hidden away on the river
bottom, Roberts said.
Most of them late model
vehicles, the automobile body
colors were yet unfaded except
for ffie ragged rust seams made
by the torch
The watery car junk
graveyard was discovered last
month by State Trooper Donald
Dees after a game warden
reported to him that the river
was being used for a dump.
A fairly deep place at a slight
surve in the river, the spot is
located at the end of an
ungraveled dirt road that
served as access to cottages and
basement apartments at the old
Riverboat Ixunge on Marshall
Highway, once known as the
Ship's Lantern.
Krom the highway, it is in
visible, hidden by heavy
growth, and the night club,
which burned some time ago, is
weedgrown and abandoned. The
area is frequented by fisher
men, however, or the dump
might have never been
discovered.
The riverbank dump is about
a quarter of amile from the
highway. The river curves
away from the highway at that
point, an the car thieves could
work safely without fear of
noise attracting attention to
their disposal activities.
"We think there are at least
15, by the time we get them
pieced together," Roberts said.
Four automobiles, the oldest
a 1967 model, were identified as
stolen prior to the Saturday
salvage work. Two were taken
from car sales lots in Asheville,
another was stolen from a Bent
Creek residence, and the fourth
from Charleston, S. C.
The part of two 1968 pickup
trucks, stripped of motors and
other high-priced equipment,
were hauled from the un
derwater junk yard Saturday.
"We haven't identified this
it's from Florida," Roberts
said, indicating a torch-sliced
section of an automobile with
wires from its ignition system
dripping wet river mud onto the
sandy roadway.
W. S. Allen, district super
visor with the license and theft
division of the state motor
vehicles department, was
GOP Hands Convention
To San Diego
San Diego, a southern
California city just 55 miles
from the Western White House,
will be the site of the
Republican party's 1972
presidential nominating con
vention Aug. 21-24.
The Republican National
Committee voted Friday to
accept the recommendation of
its site selection committee and
send the party to San Diego
where it is expected President
Nixon will be nominated for a
second term.
Final ratification was delayed
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Western North Carolina.
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working with the salvage team
Saturday.
Roberts said a truckload of
parts bearing serial numbers
had been hauled out of the area,
laboratory examination, and a
followup of ownership of the
vehicles through the serial
numbers, could produce a lead
to the car theft operation.
A 1964 Mustang was the oldest
vehicle found in the murky
depths of the river, Roberts
said. The others are 1967 models
or newer cars.
Hard rains resulting in high
water had slowed progress of
the investigation until Satur
day. Dees reported the dicovery
about the last of June, and
Roberts and Evans made two
excursions into the river
working with one wrecker and
an operator.
"This is the first chance we
have had to really get into the
salvage work. And the
assistance of the rescue squad
has made it pay off," Roberts
said.
"We had been down here
twice before, but the work was
slow without their equipment.
They have certainly been a big
help," he said.
Plemmons said it isn't
unusual for the Buncombe
County Rescue SDquad to help
out in the investigation of thefts
when loot or other evidence has
been stashed in fairly inac
cessable places.
"And we're also helping the
environment here," he said.
while Florida State GOP
Chairman L. E. Thomas, who
was an ardent supporter of
Miami Beach as the site, forced
a roll call on the recom
mendation. The San Diego forces won, HE
to 12.
Just before the vote
Republican National Chairmar
Robert J. Dole said once agair
that President Nixon did no'
take a position. Dole said h
talked to Nixon Thursday nigh
and "he again said, 'You un
der stand, I'm neutral'."
Morton visited Marshal! ta
Madison County cll'if