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i VOLUME 71. FHA Approves Loan, Grant For Fairview Water System Congressman Roy A. Taylor announced Monday that the Farmers Home Administration has approved a loan of $13,900 and a grant of $12,600 to the Fairview Water Association, Inc., of Madison County, to build a rural community water system. Rep. Taylor said the funds Bruce Briggs May Seek District Judgeship Briggs A former state senator from Madison County who resigned in 1969 to take an appointment in the Justice Department will probably give up his post to run for a district court judgeship. Asst. U. S. Atty. Bruce B. Briggs of Mars Hill is expected to become a candidate for judge of the 24th Judicial District before the Feb. 21 filing deadline. One of the two incumbents, Judge James E. Hoi sho user Sr. of Boone, will not be a candidate for re-election. Judge J. Ray Br as well of Newland is ex pected to announce his can didacy for another term shortly. The 24th District is made up of Madison, Mitchell, Yancey, Avery and Watauga counties. Holshouser is the father of Jim Holshouser Jr. of Boone, Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina. Briggs had completed his second session with the North Carolina General Assembly when he was appointed an assistant to U. S. Atty. Keith S. Snyder of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina in October, 1969. He was a . partner in the Asheville law firm of Riddle and Briggs until that time, but he lived in Mars Hill. A native of Madison County, Briggs was first elected to the Senate in the Republican sweep of 1966 which unseated every Democratic office-holder in Buncombe County who had opposition. The Senate district was made up of Buncombe, Madison. Mitchell and Yancey counties. At -one ' time Briggs was Republican Party chairman of Madison Qunty. He was later GOP- chairman of the 11th Congressional, District. If Brlggjj resigns his job as assistant United States attorney to run for the district court Judgeship, trwiH be something of a reversal of the route taken by Ms boss,. Snyder. ' Snyder, whd was appointed U. , & attorney lor the western district by president Nixon to . 196. after the national ad-1 ministration changed, was a judge at the time himself. ; . He was district court Judee of , 1 the 25th Judicial District of Catawba, Burke and Caldwell counties when be received the " presidential - appointment ' He i reigned from the bench to mid ' r i after the U. S. Senate confirmed his appointment to . i . . - , . Madison bounty Library Marshall, N.C. will enable the association, a community non-profit organization, to build a central system providing city style water service to the homes of 19 families along 11,000 feet of water line in the Fairview area near Hot Springs. A deep well will serve as a source of water. The loan portion of financing the $26,000 a year job with the Justice Department. Briggs is expected to resign from his federal job by Feb. 21, filing deadline for candidates for state office. He will probably open law offices at that time in Mars Hill and Asheville, at least until after the votes are counted in the May 6 Republican primary and the November general elections. The district court system was implemented in the 24th Judicial District, in 1968. ai.Jf Braswell and Holshouser were the first to serve there. Briggs and Braswell ap parently are the only potential candidates to date for the two judgeships. Firemen Kept Busy During Past Week Members of the Marshal volunteer fire department have been kept busy during the past week. Last Friday about noon, the firemen answered a call to the home of Fred O. Tilson on the Mars Hill highway. Overheated furnace, minor damage. Later Friday afternoon firemen were called to Wilde Oil Co., between Marshall and Walnut. Little damage. Saturday afternoon at two o'clock, firemen were called to the mobile home owned by Lorado Ponder and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Higgins on Marshall Route 1. When firemen arrived the structure was engulfed in flames and was completely destroyed. Mr. and Mrs. Higgins lost all their clothing and possessions and M.H. College Gets Grant For Short Course Mars Hill College has received a $9,023 grant from the National Science Foundation iNSF) for an ecologically oriented summer short course in biology for high school teachers. The course will be taught by Dr. L M. Outten, professor of ecological research, and will be the only such course in the state funded by NSF. Outten said this week the grant will pay for tuition, room, board, travel and books for course, participants, the course, designed for X par ticipants from the immediate Appalachian region, will be based on the Bkuogieal Sciences . Curriculum Study f BSCS -Green Version and will run for three weeks beginning June Outten said the course will emphasise - procedures and ways of. learning through Inquiry and questioning rather than routine " . classroom ; leaching of "facts." He said the course will consist of ecological 28753 TO from the Farmers Home Ad ministration, a Department of Agriculture Rural Credit Service, will be repaid in 40 years with 5 per cent interest from proceeds from the water service. Mrs. Juanita Tolley, of Route 3, Hot Springs, is president of the Fairview Water Association. Murder Trial To Begin Here Next Monday The trial of Earl Davis, who is charged with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Ruby Jean Plem mons Davis, on December 26, 1966, at their home in Walnut, will start here next Monday morning in a special term of superior court. Judge Thomas W. Seay, Jr., of Spencer, will preside. Seventy-five jurors from Buncombe County have been drawn. ki the trial. Davis, who has been a patient at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, will be represented by Attorney Joseph B. Huff. Solicitor Clyde M. Roberts will repesent the State. Mr. Higgins was slightly burned while getting out of the mobile home, it was stated by Fire Chief Joe Fisher. Loss was estimated at $3,500. Marshall firemen were also called to Mars Hill late Saturday night to assist the Mars Hill firemen battle a blaze at the building known as the Old Phillips Home near the college. When Marshall firemen arrived the Mars Hill firemen had the blaze under control despite sub zero temperature. The interior of the structure was damaged. On Monday morning at 6:45 o'clock, Marshall firemen were called to the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Robert Messer on Little Pine. When firemen arrived the blaze had been extinguished in the chimney with little damage reported. studies around Mars Hill augmented by laboratory ex periences and noted biologists serving as guest lecturers. "Often times we approach biology from the standpoint of learning isolated parts, structures, definitions; but we need to go beyond and un derstand the principles of bow these relate and work together," Outten said. In the summer of 1970 Outten attended a workshop at the University of Colorado dealing with preparing such a course for high school teachers. He is noted for his work in limnology fresh water biology. J. His studies r of fishes J and salamanders fat Western North Carolina have been published ' extensively in scientific Jour , nais. last summer he worked with the University of Cam- bridge, England, conducting ' ' ectkgical and fish studies ki the '. iRe iMlnct. MARSHALL. ?'tuV ' ftp'- - : t RECENTLY, the Weaverville Epsilon Lambda Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi formed a new chapter, Epsilon Phi in Mars Hill. Beta Sigma Phi is an In ternational Sorority with 9000 chapters and 200,000 members. There are approximately 16 chapters in Asheville and surroundinc a teas. Seated on fto front row are" the members oP the Epsilon Lanibea Chapter in Weaverville; from ieft to right Mrs. Joel Stegall, Vice-President; Neta Penland. Social Chairman; Mrs. Phillip Merrill, Membership Chairman; Mrs. W. G. Shetley, President; Mrs. Furman Ingle, Treasurer; and Mrs. Margaret Blackburn, Secretary. The other members were not Liston B. Ramsey Announces For Reelection Liston B. Ramsey of Marshall announces his candidacy for reelection to the North Carolina House of Representatives; he has served 5 regular and 3 special terms in the North Carolina House of Represen tatives. Ransey Ramsey will run for one of the two seats in the 44th District consisting of Haywood, Jackson, Madison and Swain Counties. Representative Ramsey has served on most of Chandler To TELL In Jonas H. Chandler, Cashier of Citizens Bank, has been named by the Young Bankers Division of the North Carolina Bankers Association to coordinate the activities of Project TELL (Teach Economic Literacy l-ectures) in Madison County. Project TELL is the primary public service effort of the Young Bankers Division. The statewide program was developed by the Young Bankers Division hi cooperation with the State Department of Public Instruction. Project TELL makes available the experience of young bankers as resource people for classroom lectures on economic subjects. It is designed to supplement economic education proerams offered through the public school system. ' ' !. Each county representative is provided a kit of a; N. C. THURSDAY. JANUARY 20, 1972 the important committees during his 5 regular terms. He is at present Chairman of the Legislative Redisricting Committee as well as Vice Chairman of the Local Government Committee and helped pass the Home Rule Legislation that gave Cities and Counties more home rule. During that Session, he spon sored legislation that created the Dept. of Local Affairs. Ramsey has served as Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee in his home county of Madison, as a member of the State Democratic Executive Com mittee, and was a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He is a World War II Veteran with service in the Pacific Theatre of Action. He is a member of the American legion, V. F. W., Elks Lodge, Masonic Lodge and is a Baptist. He is married to the former Florence McDevitt. They have one daughter, Martha Louise, of the home. Coordinate County classroom lectures on economic related subjects, but flexibility of presentation is one of the chief assets of the program. "We encourage all of our representatives to work closely with the teachers and try to deal with whatever economic related subject they feel will be most helpful as a supplement to the courses they are teaching," said J. Curtis Hendrix of Greenville, president of the Young Bankers Division. Project TELL was originated by the Young Bankers Division in 1963, and is rapidly gaining recognition for its contributions to the improvement of economic literacy among the young people of North Carolina. A . Project TEU. representative - has been appointed for each of the state's one hundred coun lies. t- , " . present. On the second row are the officers of the new chapter in Mars Hill from left to right Mrs. J. D. Thoinason, Recording Secretary; Mrs. A. W. Ilollifield, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Fim Johnson. President; Mrs. J. C. Moss, Vfce- 'residyjt- nd M.ry M 1 . Hprtrbre, Treasurer trc ther new members are on the last row, fefjf to right Mrs. OW'eil Shelton, Mrs. Ronnie WaiUh., Mrs. Doug Stev ens. Mrs. Harold Taylor. Mrs. Jerry Gault, and Mrs. Bill Mitchell. All of the chapters are now working on the Valentine Dance to be held in Asheville in February. AUTHOR JOHN FOSTER WEST sat by the Mars Hill College fountain in which he, 30 years ago, posed for a gag photograph which appeared in Life magazine. He reminisced on writing and his college days with Mrs. Elizabeth Watson, who is directing a creative writing workshop. West is one of two authors who will work with student writers. (Mars Hill College photo by Joe Franklin) Wilde Elected President Merchants Ass'n. Richard Wilde, popular owner of Shady Side Florist here, was unanimously elected president of the Marshall Merchants Association at a meeting here Tuesday night. Wilde succeeds Mrs. S. C. ' Cod v Files For - , , Commissioner ' James W. (Jim) Cody, of Marshall, has announced that he has filed for a seat on the IS Rudisill who resigned serving several years. after Other officers include Ed Niles, vice-president j James Penland,. secretary; .Frank Moore, treasurer. Madison County Board Commissioners as Democratic candidate. of a County REAP For 1972 Announced Madison farmers should be able to accomplish more soil, and water conservation and carry out additional pollution prevention and abatement practices in 1972 than they did in 1971, according to Emory Robinson, Chairman of the County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. Mr. Robinson explained that the recent action by the Secretary of Agriculture in announcing an additional $55.5 million for the 1972 Rural En vironmental Assistance Program will result in an ad ditional $1.5 million for the State of North Carolina. This will make a total 1972 REAP allocation of $5,377,000.00 for our State and mean a total 1972 allocation of $82,362.00 to Madison County, an increase of approximately $25,000.00 more than the County's 1971 allocation. "This additional allocation will enable us to help farmers do more to prevent or abate agrticulture-related pollution of watery land and air and to ("ansert agriculture 'soil, water, Woodland and wildlife resources," Mr. Robinson said. He further explained that the Secretary had cited response of farmers to the redirected emphasis of REAP in 1971, and their willingness to match or exceed additional Federal in Ernest Messer To Seek House Seat For Sixth Term Ernest Messer of Canton, veteran Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, announced today as a candidate for a sixth term in the North Carolina General Assembly. He will run for one of the two seats in the new 44th House District composed of Haywood, Jackson, Madison, and Swain Counties. Liston Ramsey of Marshall is the other incumbent representative. Messer was recently ap pointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives to serve on the Legislative Research Commission, a commission that will study designated state problems and make legislative recom mendations to the 1973 General Assembly. He is also Chairman of a study committee on the "Professional Regulation of Teacher Licensing and Prac tices." During the 1971 legislative session and during the October special session of the General Assembly, Messer served on the House Committee on Higher Education and helped write and pass the bill to restructure higher education in North Carolina. He b chairman of the Ap propriations subcommittee on Health, Welfare, and In stitutional Care. Other , committees on which Messer served during the 1971 session were Congressional Districts, Conservation and Development, Employment Security, ' Manufacturers and labor, and Social Services. During the 1963 General Assembly session, as a member -of the committee on Higher Education, he helped write and pass the bill which created our present system of Community Colleges and Technical In stitutes. During two legislative session., he as chairman of inc tvmmitiee m Mn. ' to- N I'M HER .1 vestment in pollution preven tion and abatement as a major factor m providing the ad ditional funds for the 1972 lYorain An October report from selected states showed a 40(1 per cent increase in 1971 over 1970 in funds expended for pollution abatement practices according to the Secretary of Agriculture The County ASC Chairman said that the 1972 REAP will get under way on January 24 in Madison, and that the Program is quite similar to that of last year with greater emphasis to be given to request for cost sharing on farm practice which will contribute most in meeting the programs objectives. Among the practices with a high priority are the establishment of a vegetative cover of grasses and legumes and the planting of trees. Other farm practices in cluded in the 1972 Program are: Improving Vegetative Cover, Water Impoundment Reser voirs, Improving Stand of Forest Trees, Wildlife Food Plots, Habitat or Coves, LaounS foALirjil Waste, And Sediment or Chemical Runoff Control Measures. In conclusion, Mr. Robinson invited farmers to visit the County ASCS Office to discuss their conservation problems and the filing of their request for REAP cost-sharing. Messer turers and Labor. Messer is a member of the North Carolina Committee n Comprehensive Health Plan ning and was recently tap pointed by the Governor to serve on the State Board of Mental Health. Messer previously served two terms as Chairman of the Haywood County Democratic Executive Committee. He is a trustee of Haywood Technical Institute, a member of the Canton First Baptist Church, and a member of the. Canton Lions Club. During World War H he served in the United States navy. He is a member f the -Veterans of Foreign Wars and , of the American Legion. former Jincy Owen. They have , one uaugmer, tars, ujae Poovey of Atlanta, Georg.a. . Red Cross :; Meeting Next j . . . j Wednesdr The annual Ma-.'' ..n Red Cross O ' r r bf ! : - ' I'.e Kr" 5 ! : : : 7
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