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M AKS1IALL. N. C. - THURSDAY. APRIL 20. 1!72
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Realtor,
Developer
Dies
Harry L Giezentanner, 55, of
961 New Haw Creek Road, a
realtor and builder of com
mercial properties, died
unexpectedly at 2:35 p.m.
Sunday, April 16, 1972, at his
home after suffering an ap
parent heart attack.
Mr. Giezentanner, a native of
Athens, Term., had lived in
Asheville since 1938. He was the
son of the late Leslie H. and
Nannie Lou Dickson Giezen
tanner who formerly resided in
Marshall.
At the time of his death, Mr
Giezentanner was in the process
of building the proposed
topping center on the Marshal
by-(..'ss.
He was associated with
Co st on Kealty Co, and had
develped numerous shopping
centers in the Carolinas. He was
also president of Big Giant
Supper Markets Inc., and
president of the Golden Skillet
Chicken shops of Western North
Carolina.
A member of the Asheville
Board of Realtors and Haw
Creek Lions Club, Mr.
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Giezentanner was also a
member of Christian
Missionary Alliance Church
Suriviving are the widow,
Mrs Evelyn Wiseman
Giezentanner; a son, Harry L
Jr of Asheville; thrt? daughters.
Joanne of the home, Mrs. Ralph
D Suilins Jr of Spruce Pine and
Mrs Roddy B. Iedford of
Taylor, S. C; two brothers,
James W And Charles L.
Giezentanner of Asheville; a
sister, Mrs. Larry W. Cole of
Asheville; seven grandchildren
and a number of neices and
nephews.
Funeral services were held at
2 pm Tuesday in Asheville
Gospel Tabernacle of Christian
and Missionary Alliance.
The Revs. David F
Richardson and Hatcher Elliott
officiated. Burial was in
Ashelawn Gardens of Memory.
Pallbearers were Ernest
Teague, Landon Fender, Blake
and David Garrett, Floyd
Brock, George K. Peterson, Bill
Hood and Manley Gresham.
Honorary pallbearers were
Wendell McDevitt, Bob Vannoy,
Dr E R Witten, Dr. Ed Lyda,
Dr. R. C. Nadling, Albert
Chandley, ManleyWright, John
Yermack, John Dehle, Robert
P Ingle, Dr. Carl Osborne,
Ernest and Clyde Tilson, Worth
rVink, E. G. Sawyer, Gene
Coaon, Clyde Leeson, W. D.
Britt. George Snyder and Dick
Eskridge
Brown Elected
Organizational
GOP Chairman
J. Dedrick Brown was
unanimously elected
Organisational Chairman for
the GOP In Madison County.
Brown it grocer in Barnard
and IS also In the bulldozer
J.i busies, lie is a farmer sheriff -4-
M m County, Brown was ,
elect. 1 at a Joint meetki j of
RepuLi.can officials in
. county hare Saturday.
. i.ms goal , wiu - oo ... ins;
i orgar ' ion of each precinct In!
"the '.y according to the!
- Party I ian adopted statewide in
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FIXE CONSTRUCTION bids for the Marshall consolidated high school were
opened before Madison County school officials bidding representatives, and
architect Wednesday afternoon in the Courtroom here. Pictured aboe at table,
left to right, are Kugene Edwards, Greensboro, tissis.unt to Bert King, ar
chitect; Miss Debbs, secretary to Mr. King; Bert King, R. L. Kdwards,
superintendent; William M. Roberts, chairman of county board of education;
and William C. Reeves, attorney for the board. Also shown are various bid
ders. The local board accepted as the low bidders Kern Construction Co., of
Greensboro. This acceptance is subject to approval by the State Board of
Education. Plumbing, electric, air-conditioning and heating bids were also
accepted.
Film To Be
Shown At
Baptist Church
LOST GENERATION, the
latest release from World Wide
Pictures, wih be shuv.ii m
Sunday night, April 23, at the
Marshall Baptist Church.
Filmed in Eastmancolor,
WSJ GENERATION utilizes
multiple screen images and a
probing documentary style to
investigate attitudes on dissent,
violence, the mood fo America,
and the answers that can be
found by this generation as they
face the decision of life. Ac
cording to the Rev. Glenn
Whitley, pastor of the church,
the opinions of both young and
old. urban and rural, rich and
poor, are brought to the screen
as the camera focuses on people
of various backgrounds
;hroughout the Nation. Location
shots were filmed in Alaska, the
Southern states, on the farms
and in ihe small towns of rrud
America. and in the dying
Haight-Asbury hippie district of
San Francisco
The feature-length film,
which includes special ap
pearances by BUly Graham, Art
Ionkletter. and Jack Webb, was
described by one reviewer as a
"moving film that calls on us to
make a decision about how
much we want to get involved m
ihe troubles of our times. It is a
relevant story that demands our
immediate attention
lOST GENERATION will be
shown once at 7 p.m., with no
admission charge. The public is
cordially invited
Teen Leaders
Met Sunday;
Made Plans
On Sunday April 16, Teen
Leaders met at Mars Hill
Community Building from 2 to 4
o'clock. Plans for future
meetings include swimming,
skating, hiking, camping,
bicycling, picnics, basketball,
and a variety of trips.
The next meeting will be April
30 with the place to be an
nounced. On the last weekend in May
the group wtU attend the Miss
North Carolina r Teenager
fageant In Charlotte. Nancy
readway of Marshall and
Becky Cody of Mars Hill are to
be in the contest. For further
information about this trip
Contact Cynthia Niles at Bos 31
Marshall or the Extension
Offtce.
Democrats Set Dates
For Precinct Meetings
And Convention
The North Carolina
Democratic Ex""ui-"e Com
nnttk!. uiinourrt-cs iht oaie .'or
precinct organizational
meetings This year the
Madison County Democratic
organizational meetings will be
held on Tuesday evening, May
9, at 8 p m., at the polling place
of the local precinct.
Prior to this year these
meetings have bee held on a
Saturday In case a quorum is
Rocky
Bluff Open
According to Bobby Brady,
District Ranger, U.S. Forest
Service, the Rocky Bluff
Campground is now open. The
area was planned to open on
May 15, but due to the very good
cooperation of the users
in keeping the grounds clean,
thereby reducing operating
costs, an early opening was
made possible
Brady said that Forest Ser
vice crews have cut some white
pine trees that were infected
with a root rot called Fomes
Annosus. This disease rots the
roots of the pine trees and they
have to be removed to provide
safety to users and to stem the
spread of the disease. This
disease does not attack hard
wood trees and it is very im
portant that these hardwood
trees are left to replace the
pine trees that have to be
removed.
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IN A RECENT ceremony in Asheville, District
Hanger -Bobby Brady.' left); ' representing the.,
Trench Broad Ranger District. M&. Forest Service,
received the Forest Supervisor's Award lor an c 4
cidenUreeyear in 1971. Shown presenting the award
h Forest Engineer Ralph Fair acting on behalf of
Forest Supervisor Del Thorsen.- :
not present on May 9, a second
meeting will be called for May
16, ai 8 p. m. at tho susni: pjUuig
place, it was announced.
The Madison County
Democratic Convention will be
held on Saturday, May 27, at 2 p.
rn. in the Marshall school
auditorium
All Democrats are urged to
participate in the precinct
organizational meetings and
also the Madison County
Democratic Convention, the
county Democratic Chairman
stated.
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PICTURED ABOVE is Alton
t artrett of Big Laurel who won
the steer given away by the
Madison County 4-H Clubs,
Saturday, as part of a fund
raising campaign. A TV set
was won by Rex Roberts of
Greeneville. Tenn., and a radio
was won by Mrs. C. N. Willis of
Mars Hill. The 4-H members of
Madisnn County wish to thank
those who helped to make the
fund raising campaign a suc
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French Broad EMC Meeting
In Marshall Saturday
The annual meeting of
members of French Broad
Electric Membership Cor
poration will be held Saturday,
April 22 at the Marshall High
School gymnasium.
French Broad KMC Announces
$1.8 Million Service Improvement
French Broad Electric
Membership Corporation lias
announced an electric system
improvement plan totaling
more than $1.8 million
This large investment m new
electric facilities will be
required to continue to provide
increasing service to the
present member-owners, and to
extend service to over 1500
new members expected during
the next two years. Some of the
larger electric loads already
under construction which the
electric Cooperative will serve
include the new Madison County
Consolidated High School, the
Marshall Housing Authority,
and the Madison County
Shopping Plaza. These are all in
Marshall and are all total
electric projects. Major new
construction in Mars Hill, which
includes the p all-iecf-ir
St udentCenter and Ad
ministrative Buildings at Mars
Hill College, will require in
creased service in that com
munity. The expansion of
Mohasco Industries at Burn
sville, plus a rapidly expanding
overal economic base in Yancey
County will require the
cooperative to invest large
sums over the next few months.
The development of the Wolf
Laurel project near Mars Hill,
but covering several thousand
acres in Madison, Yancey and
Unicoi Counties, will require the
cooperative to continue to
provide rapidly rapidly ex
panding electric service in this
region.
From the northern suburbs of
Asheville throughout the entire
service area of French Broad
EMC, the electric service
requirements of the member
owners is growing at a record
pace. The overal system wide
electrical load of the
cooperative will continue to be
increased to all members of th e
cooperative in every area of the
system. Several hundred
thousand dollars will be in
vested in more and better
equipment to increase the
regulation of voltage and
provide sectionaliang to reduce
the effects of storm damage to
electric service.
French Broad EMC is proud
of the record of electric service
made during 1971. The number
of member hours without
electric service was one of the
lowest in the entire nation.
A part of the cooperative's
new system improvement plan
includes improvements in
accounting and billing
operation with the installation
of data processing services.
Beginning with the January
1972 electric service billing, the
entire accounting of member
electric service will be on the
new equipment. Other im
provements will include
modernisation of office
facilities in Marshal and
Burnsville in 1972 and in
Bakersville in 1973, to provide
better service to the members
and the public. . The
Cooperative's general
headquarters office building on
the Main Street in Marshall has
far yuears been the most often .
used meeting place hi Madison
County. These Improvements
will make tbe facilities even
more attractive and convenient.
Any part et service im
provement must include the
expansion of servtces to areas
net yet -served. French Bread
Registration will begin at 10
a in and a free barbecue lunch
served at 11 o'clock. Musical
entertainment will be provided
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Peacemakers.
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and
by The
an audio
KMC will provide electric
service to any person, busuiess,
or industry needing electric
service anywhere within their
service area
Much of the service area of
French Broad EMC is begin
ning to grow at a rapid pace for
the first time in three decades.
The Cooperative is planning and
budding now to insure that
electric service will be even
belter tomorrow. Specific
improvements are planned and
aree already under construction
in every community served by
the Cooperative. Expanded
community and public services
will be rendered with the ser
vices of the eemployees of the
Cooperative in community and
area development
.French Broad EMC will be
f'r"'-iri,','d i' '?ftw Ml vice,md
public expansion with the
continued assistance of the
Rural Electrification Ad
ministration, and beginning in
1972 with the National Rural
Utilities Cwperative Finance
Corporation iCFC). CFC is a
bank of many of the rural
electric .systems around the
country which will provide
construction capital above and
beyond the amount available
from the HEA The loans made
from these banking sources and
from these banking sources and
from HEA are repaid over 35
years with interest.
Even though the Cooperative
serves a geographic region
with a low per capita income,
and low per member electric
usage, and less than half the
revenue per dollar invested in
plant than the private power
companies, French Broad EMC
still provides electric service at
one of the lowest rates in the
state, frum the minimum bill to
the largest industrial accounts.
The credit for te success of
MISS NANCY
if' '
visual presentation, "Story of
Ihe Progress of Your
Cooperative During 1971 and
Plans for the Future," will be
given
During the business session,
the past for French Broad EMC
must be given to the directors
elected from the members, and
the members themselves, who
over thirty years ago banned
together out of necessity to form
an electric service system.
The management of the
Cooperative today is pleased to
announce the planned ex
pansion of the Cooperative's
service and operations by better
than $1.8 million. This will
enable the Cooperative to
continue to provide for
tomorrow the needs of the
member-owners of French
Broad Electric Membership
Corporation.
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Nancy Treadway, Becky Cody
Finalists In Teen-ager Pageant
Miss Nancy Treadway,
daughter of Mrs. Blanche
Walker of Marshall, and Miss
Becky Cody, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Doyle B. Cody, of
Koute 1, Mars Hill, have been
selected as finalists in the 1972
Miss North Carolina Teen-ager
Pageant to be held in Charlotte
May 27, according to Mrs. Sybil
Shaffer, executive director of
the pageant.
Miss Treadway is a junior at
Marshall High School where she
is a cheerleader, secretary of
the Business Club, member of
the Monogram, Pep and
TREADWAY
beginning at 1 p m , reports will
lie heard from the officers and
directors and four directors will
be elected C 1. Proffitt,
reports that the committee on
nominations has nominated
incumbents I E Oevenger of
Yancey County, E U Poteat of
Mitchell County, E C. Teague
;uid J H Sprinkle of Madison
(iiunty for the directorships.
1) M ltobinson, manager,
reports the cooperative, begun
in 1940, connected 656 new
members last year and has total
assets of $8,917,016.
One of the outstanding
features of the meeting will be
the presentation of numerous
prizes which will be given away.
Among Lhem will be electric
dryer, electric washer, radios,
electric irons, electric fans,
electric saucepans, electric
drill, electric toasters.
E C Teague, president of the
corporation and Marshall
businessman, makes the
following report:
()n behalf of the Board of
Directors, I would like to en
courage each of you as a
member-owner to attend your
Annual Meeting which will be
held on Saturday, April 22, at
the Marshall High School
Cymnasium in Marshall. This
will be our 31st Annual Meeting
and marks the beginning of our
thirty-second year of operation.
Your Cooperative is a very
suei.fcs.Mul buint;ss enterprise.
Who can claim the credit? No
one person or group of people
are due all the honors. What has
been accomplished, as well as
what may be accomplished in
library Science Clubs. She was
elected Homecoming Queen
last fall by the student body of
Marshall High After
graduation, she plans to enter
the Peace Corps.
The Marshall lions Club is
sponsoring Miss Treadway
Miss Cody is a sophomore at
Mars Hill High School. She has
been a cheerleader for two
years and was in the
Homecoming Court her fresh
man and sophomore years. She
is presently a member of
Student Council, Annual Staff
Monogram Club, F.H.A. and
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ihe future is due to teamwork
of vi.ii, trie members, the Board
of Directors, management, and
till the employees It depends
iiKin participation of each one
in the affairs uf the Oxiperative
and how well they know their
responsibilities.
The French Broad Electric
Membership Corporation is a
$10 million organization
established to provide electric
service tat cost to its members.
Not only do you have the ad
vantage of receivuig power for
your home or business at a low
rate, but any money in excess of
the actual costs is returned to
the members Your Cooperative
ls well maintained and in good
financial condition.
Our tax bill for the year, in
cluding ad valorem, franchise,
intangible and other taxes,
amounted to more than $124,000.
This is roughly 5c out of every
dollar that we take in that goes
for taxes Our tax load will grow
from vear to vear because we
will be placing additional plant
capacity in service and this will
also be taxed
Our main objective in the past
has been to extend and keep
good electric service to all who
desire it in the system service
area at the lowest price con
sistent with good business
practices. We have done a good
job, and I challenge you to let's
stand together to develop a
more favorable public and
political j support for our
progress. There is no limit to
the progress we make when we
plan well and stand together;
so, I challenge you to act in
unity for our future.
Beta Club. In her freshman year
she was awarded the medal for
highest average for year in
algebra.
Miss Cody is being sponsored
by Case Brother's Piano Co , of
Charlotte.
Contestants are judged on
beauty of face, figure, charm,
poise, personality and
scholastic achievements. There
will be contestants from all
over the state competing tor the
title of Miss North Carolina
Teen-ager who will enter the
national contest to be held in
Atlanta, Georgia, in August.
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