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VOLUME 70 NUMBER 33
MARSHALL, N.C. THURSDAY, AUG. 19, 1971
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New Policy Endorsed
By Roy Taylor
WASHINGTON-U. S. Rep.
Roy A. Taylor Monday voiced
strong endorsement of
President Nixon's new
economic policy.
"The president has taken
drastic action at a time when
drastic measures are needed to
rejuvenate the sluggish
American economy," Taylor
declared.
"The sweeping economic
package which the president
revealed to the nation Sunday
night is needed to reverse
economic policies which have
produced inflation and
unemployment at home and
weakness of the dollar abroad,"
the Congressman said.
"I hope that the president will
receive full cooperation from
Congress and from the public
and that the result will be
revitalization of our economy
and restoration of confidence in
the position of the American
dollar in the international
monetary system," Taylor said.
The 11th District
Congressman recalled that
some IS months ago he sent a
telegram to the president
recommending that control of
wages and prices be considered.
He also noted that he supported
passage of the Economic
Stabilization Act of 1970, and a
recently-enacted two-year
extension of the act, which the
president is using as authority
to freeze wages and prices.
Mars Hill
Department
Heads
The 116th year of Mars Hill
College will begin Aug. 30 with
four new department heads.
They are Miss Winona
Bierbaum in home economics,
Dr. Vernon B. Chapman Jr. in
education, Dr. David DeVries in
mathematics and Dr. Frank W.
Quick II in biology.
DeVries and Quick are
newcomers to the faculty. Miss
Bierbaum has been a member
of the home economics faculty
since 1966 and Chapman joined
the education department as
director of student teaching in
1969.
Red Cross Reorganizes;
eeting Well Attended
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By JOHN C. DILLS
Asheville-Citizen
Staff Writer
A group of 54 Madison County
residents voted unanimously
Thursday night to reorganize
the Madison County branch of
the Asheville Area Chapter of
American Red Cross.
The group, representing all
sections of the county, elected a
new 12-member board of
directors at a meeting in the
French Broad Electric Mem
bership Corp. The board later
elected new officers.
Officers are Norris Gentry of
Marshall, chairman, succeding
Jerry Plemmons; Vernon
Ponder of Mars Hill, vice
chairman; and Mrs. Hattie Ella
Nix of Marshall, secretary
treasurer. Elected to three-year terms
on the board were Gentry, W. L.
Lynch of Mars Hill, Bobby
Ponder of Hot Springs and Mrs.
June Plemmons of Iaurel.
Elected to two-year terms
were J. C. Wallin of Hot
Springs, Jerry Plemmons of
Marshall, Ray Tweed of Laurel
and Mrs. Jewel Church of Hot
Springs.
Elected to one-year terms
were Mrs. Nix, James Gentry of
Hot Springs, Mrs. Jerry
Plemmons of Marshall, and
Vernon Ponder, Mars Hill.
Brochures available
Three "new" travel brochures have been produced by the
North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development's
Travel and Promotion Divison.
The books are: "North Carolina's Horses," "Camping in
North Carolina", and "North Carolina Accommodations
Directory."
"North Carolina's Horses" is a 12-page full color booklet on
the many aspects of horses in North Carolina. Through vivid color
pictures the booklet shows the development and importance of
horses in North Carolina from the time of the early colonists to
present times.
The horse booklet is a product of Charles Crone Associates,
the firm which holds the state advertising contract. The booklet
was done in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of
Agriculture.
"Camping in North Carolina" is not a completely new
booklet, but the current edition is an expanded version of last
year's initial product. It has 32 pages with a full color cover and
black and white photographs throughout.
"North Carolina Accommodations Directory" lists the motels
and hotels in North Carolina by towns. Included in the listing are
street addresses and telephone numbers.
Both the camping book and accommodations directory were
produced by the Travel and .Amotion Division under the
direction of publications editor Charles Heath erly.
All three are available to the public free of charge and are
produced as a convenience to travelers in North Carolina.
Through vivd color pictures the booklet shows the development
and importance of horses in North Carolina from the time of the
early colonists to present times.
ASC Committee Approves Fall Lime Practice
At their regular monthly
meeting on August 13, the
Madison County ASC Com
mittee approved certain
revisions in the Rural En
vironmental Assistance
Program which should be of
great benefit to the farmers.
The committee's decision to
approve fall liming practice
highlighted the committee's
actions. Following the meeting,
ASC County Chairman Emory
Robinson announced that an
additional $7,000 had been
granted to Madison County for
its program of cost-sharing with
farmers. The Madison County
ASCS Office is now accepting
requests for cost-sharing in the
following areas:
1. LIME maximum granted
will be the ne4 or 16 tons
2. ESTABLISHING
VEGETATIVE COVER
maximum granted will be the
smaller of the need or 5.0 acres.
Special consideration will be
given to this practice. ( Practice
must be completed during the
fall planting season)
3. TREE PLANTING
maximum granted will be the
smaller of farm needs or the
farmer's request; practice
must be completed by Dec. 31.
4. WINTER COVER
CROPS maximum granted
will be the smaller of the need
or 10 acres
5. PASTURE IM
PROVEMENT (Only farmers
who have not yet enrolled in the
1971 REAP are eligible for cost
sharing in this practice.) Only
following analysis of fertilizer
will be offered: 2-12-12; -0-25-25;
0-18-0; 0-20-0, 0-46-0. Cost
sharing assistance may be
requested by any farmer or
rancher, whether owner, lan
dlord, tenant, or sharecropper,
who bears part of the cost of an
approved conservation practice
and has land that meets
eligibility requirements.
ASCS generally pays about 50
per cent of the cost of carrying
out the amount of the practice
approved for such cost-sharing.
This percentage may be in
creased up to 80 per cent for
low-income farmers who
By-Pass
Crusade
Dr. Robert M. Harris of
Asheville announced this week
that a Drive-in Open Air
Crusade will begin Monday
night on the Marshall By-Pass
at the intersection of the Walnut
Creek Road. This is the same
location used last year during a
similar revival. Services will
begin nightly at 7: 30 o'clock and
the Crusade is expected to last
for 10 days to two weeks.
The Bob Ramsey Singers of
Weaverville will be in charge of
music during the Crusade and
the public is cordially invited.
Dr. Harris stated that services
will not exceed one hour.
If It Fitz
10 Youths
Arrested
Ten youths were arrested
Friday and Saturday in con
nection with numerous
breaking, entering and larceny
incidents in and near Marshall
recently, Sheriff E. Y. Ponder
announced this week.
Five of the youths are
residents of the Marshall area,
three are from Virginia and two
from Florida, Ponder said.
Each of the youths is out under
a $500-11,000 bond and are
scheduled to be tried in the
September term of District
Court here.
Wildcats -Tornadoes
Collide On Island
Friday Night
The 1971 football season gets
underway on the Island Friday
night at 8 o'clock when the
Wildcats of Mars Hill journey
here to meet the Tornadoes of
Marshall High. Friday's game
will not count in conference
standing.
This newspaper has received
no information from the
Wildcats on this season's
prospects but everyone knows
that when these two teams
collide it's "rough sledding".
Coach Roy Reeves stated this
week that "Mars Hill over the
past few seasons has been tough
on the Tornadoes and the same
is expected to hold true again
this year".
Reeves further commented
that with 30 boys out for the
team and hit hard by
graduation last spring the
Tornadoes will be inex
perienced in several positions
and will be hard pressed to
equal last year's 5-5 season.
The team shapes up as
follows:
Backfield: Jimmy Ponder,
Harlon Rice, Danny Ball, Boyce
Mayhew, James Briggs,
Carlton Freeman, Jimmy
Ramsey, Randy Roberts and
Bernie Kanarr.
Line: Ronnie Tipton, David
Adams, Larry Wright, Michael
Boone, Ted Re vis, Jerry Cody,
Melvin Teague, Brian Farmer,
Mike Freeman, Kevin Robin
son, J. C. Mclntyre, John
Metcalf, Troy Reid, Tim
Ramsey, Mike Rector, and
Jimmy Wyatt.
Freshmen showing promise
are Ricky Harrell and Jeff
Treadway.
The 1971 schedule for Mar
shall follows:
August 20, Mars Hill, Here
August 27, Cane River, There
Sept. 3, Boones Creek, Here
Sept. 20, Open ( East Yancey
there if played)
Sept. 17, Rosman, Here
Sept. 24, Hot Springs
Oct. 1, Open
Oct. 8, Hot Springs
Oct. 15, Mars Hill, There
Oct. 23, South Greene, Here
On TV, the news is funny
By Jim Fitzgerald
When I take my kids into
strange and wondrous towns,
full of beautiful scenery and
historic monuments, the first
thing they do is run into the
motel room and make sure the
TV works.
Which, whether I like it or not,
broadens my education. On our
last trip, through 6 states, I
learned that local TV newscasters
are the same everywhere. At 6
and 1 1 o'clock every night they sit
around a table and titter, guffaw
and giggle at each other. The
weatherman always says the
sportscaster was drunk last night
and the anchor man's assistant
always laughs so hard at the
boss's jokes he has trouble telling
you that 10 children were
burned to death that afternoon.
. Those fellows sure have fun
while they work. It's never that
many laughs working on a
newspaper. Oh, we chuckle once
in awhile., Like when a Scout
troop tours the plant and one of
the kids falls into a printing press
and the other kids fight about
who gets to read him first.
But mostly, it's pretty sober
back here behind the typewriter
keys where the day to day record
of life is reported, interpreted,
explained and frozen to pages so
that future historians may study
them and know the who, what,
when, why and where of
long-ago 1971. (If you wrote
crap like that, could you laugh?).
I've been wondering how
things might be made more jolly
around the newspaper I edit. I
called my staff together and told
them what I had in mind: "I
don't expect you to write funny
news. Anyone can do that simply
by reporting on the everyday
activities of our state legislature.
What i want is a crew that can
say funny things td each other
while writing sad news. I want a
reporter who can giggle when he
hands the copy boy a list of the
153 people killed in this week's
air crash. I want you to be like
those newscasters on TV."
"You got drunk last night,"
my assistant said to the sports
editor who happens also to be
me. Mine is a small newspaper
and I am editor of everything
including the restroom walls.
"That's because this is a small
newpaper and 1 man has to do
the drinking for a dozen
editors," I said. "It's a wonder I
get time to work at all."
"Hey, that's pretty funny,"
my assistant admitted.
'Thanks," I said. "Now you
say something funny. I can't do
all the work around here."
"Well," he said, "according to
this U.S. weather report there is
going to be tornado, a tidal
wave and an earthquake in the
tiny seaport town of North
Ring-a-Oing which means those
people. will finally, have
something to do Saturday night
except go to town and watch
haircuts."
"Now you're getting the
idea," I praised him. "Keep
slipping in those zingers. But
remember to save your greatest
knee-slapper till the end of the
day, just before we go home. I've
noticed that those TV
newscasters always leave 'em
laughing. The anchor man always
delivers the topper and, as the
program fades out, everyone is
rolling on the floor, laughing fit
to cry and yelling at each other
about what a great card the
anchor man is."
"On a newspaper," my
assistant said, "I suppose the
editor is the anchor man. Lord
knows our editor has enough
lead in his butt to anchor the
Queen Mary."
"Very funny," I told him with
a chuckle "You're fired.". t
request it.
ASC Chairman Robinson
emphasized that farmers
should begin making requests
as early as possible to insure
program benefits. Robinson
emphasized that everyone had a
share in the new REAP
Program "as long as they need
air to breathe and water to
drink" pointing out that cost
sharing under the REAP
Program helped provide for
approved pollution control
practices as well as reduce
sedimentation in the streams
and stop soil erosion which
affect the quality of the water in
the rivers, streams, and lakes.
Interest in maintaining the
Madison branch of the Asheville
Area chapter appeared to have
been lagging for some time.
Fund drives had been falling
short of announced goals,
Plemmons said at the start of
the meeting.
"We need the involvement of
the people of the county,"
Plemmons said. "For the past
two years, six or seven mem
bers have been carrying on the
program. Fund raising has been
unsucessful. This small group is
weary and tired."
The Madison program has
consisted mainly of the service
to servicemen's families, blood
program, first aid and water
safety, and disaster relief.
There has been no disaster in
the area, but the program has
been viable in the other areas,
especially in the aid to ser
vicemen's families, Plemmons
said.
In a short speech, Marshall
Upton, director of the area
chapter, said fund raising is not
the problem in Madison County.
"If interest is widespread
enough," he commented, "the
financial support will take care
of itself. We need willingness on
the part of those capable of
planning, policymaking and
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direction. It will require work
and effort to build a program.
It's a question of getting people
who can and will take over part
of the burden."
Bobby Ponder of Hot Springs
moved to reorganize the
chapter, and the vote to do so
was unanimous.
Plemmons, awaiting the
arrival of a delegation from the
Laurel section, including
members of laurel Ruritan
Club and guests, remarked that
the board of directors needed
help to carry on the programs,
and there were suggestins from
the floor that all sections of the
county be represented on the
board of directors.
Red Cross
Board Met
Here Monday
The newly-elected members
of the board of directors of the
Madison County Branch of
American Red Cross met
Monday night in the French
Broad EMC lobby with Norris
Gentry, chairman, presiding.
Nine of the 12 members were
present.
Several matters of business
were discussed and various
committee members will be
announced later, it was stated.
Jerry Plemmons resigned as
a director and was elected as
chairman of the Disaster
Committee.
Members present included
Norris Gentry, Mrs. Hattie Ella
Nix, James Gentry, Bobby
Ponder, Mrs. Jewell Church,
Mrs. Joyce Plemmons, Jerry
Plemmons, Edward Morton,
and Ray Tweed.
The next meeting of the
directors will be held Monday
night, August 30, at 7:30 in the
French Broad EMC lobby.
PICTURED ABOVE, left to right, Rev. W. A.
Poole, director of Baptist Homes for the Aging of
N.C.; Richard D. Smith, Church Architecture Dept.,
of Raleigh; Rev. M. H. Kendall, pastor of Piney
Mountain Church; and Dr. Fred B. Bentley,
president of Mars Hill College, who spoke of the
efforts to enhance the religious atmosphere on the
local college campus. These four were prominent
figures in the recent French Broad Baptist
Association meeting.
MRS. L. L. VANN of Mars Hill
who has faithfully attended the
annual sessions of the French
Broad Baptist Association since
1920.
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NEW OFFICERS of the French Bread Baptist Association, left to right, front
row: Mrs. Charlie Clayton, clerk; Rev. W. L. Lynch, moderator; Rev. Lester
Murphy, Sunday school supt. Rev. Roy Keller, evangelism director. Second
row, Mrs. Dorothy W. Roberts, director of mask; Rev. Truman Fisher,
training onion director; Rev. E. J. Jenkins, supt. of missions; Wade Iluey,
missions director. Third row. Rev. Arthur Amnions, vice-moderator; Dr. V.
K. McGee, of Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem; and Vance Edwards,
associations! treasurer.