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MARSHALL. N. C. Thursday, July 13, 1972
NUMBER 26
VOLUME 71
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After t'2 vnrs tj Scrvivv
Tilson Retires
As Meteorologist
By GEORGE WERNETH
Register Staff Reporter
William L. Tilson, the chief
meteorologist in Mobile, Ala.,
retired Friday after 42 years
with the National Weather
Service.
Tilson, who served 33 years
with the Weather Service in
Mobile, (formerly the U.S.
Weather Bureau) will be
replaced by Ray D. Barnes, who
will be acting agent in charge.
Barnes has served as Tilson's
top assistant for the past three
years.
The 69-year-old Tilson was
acclaimed "the hero of
Camille" by Dr. Robert Simp
son, head of the National
Hurricane Center in Miami, for
his role in getting the
Mississippi coast evacuated
before it was hit by Hurricane
Camille in August, 1969.
Also, President Nixon lauded
the Mobile weatherman for
"saving the lives of thousands"
due to his warning that the coast
needed to be evacuated im
mediately. Tilson was also presented
with the Gold Medal Award
from the U.S. Department of
Commerce for his contribution
concerning Camille.
Tilson was given the hero's
designation after Camille
slammed into the Mississippi
Coast with winds of near 200
miles per hour Aug. 17, 1969.
Tilson served as liaison
between the then U.S. Weather
Bureau and the Civil Defense,
law enforcement officers and
other disaster agencies in
directing the evacuation of
hundreds of thousands of
persons in the path of the
hurricane.
"When he rang the warning
bell, he had those people out at
the crack of dawn," Simpson
said. "They wouldn't have done
that with just a warning. It was
the strong human ties, un
derstanding and trust that these
people have in him.
"A Civil Defense worker told
me at least 5,000 people owe
their lives to him."
Tilson refused to accept the
praise. "Camille," he said,
will have thousands of heroes
who did much, much more than
I did "
President Nixon wrote Tilson,
"Quick action is particularly
difficult at a time of turmoil
when people are faced with the
heartbreaks of abandoning
their homes
"And it is no easy task to tell
people they must leave to seek
refuge, yet, I understand you
Bryce
Craig
It has been announced by
First Union National Bank that
R. Bryce Hall, vice president
and former manager of First
Union National Bank in
Weaverville, has been
promoted to the position of City
Executive of the Marshall
Office of First Union In
assuming this position Hall will
succeed Craig L. Rudisill, Jr.,
who was the former president of
the Bank of French Broad prior
to its merger with First Union
National. Rudisill willcontinueto
associate with the Marshall
Office as well as continue as a
member of the board of that
institution.
Hall is a graduate of Leicester
high School and earned his B.S.
Degree from Western Carolina
University in 1957. Since
graduating from college, he has
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brought the urgent message to
people along the Gulf Coast with
a compassion and concern that
hastened their departures and
resulted in saving the lives of
thousands."
"As you have said, there are
many heroes born of this
tragedy. I just want to express
my gratitude to one of them."
Tilson well remembers the
hurricane as his biggest job and
his biggest scare.
Concerned with the progress
of the storm, he spent the night
of Aug. 16, 1969, at his office at
Bates Field, sleeping on an old
cot
"At about 4 45 a.m. on the
17th, I got a call from the New
Orleans office. 'You're it,' they
said. Then they told me that the
hurricane was going to come up
Mobile Bay."
The hurricane warnings
were up only as far west as
Biloxi, Miss. "I stuck my neck
out and called for the
evacuation of the entire
Mississippi Coast," he said.
The vast storm, one of the
most powerful ever to hit the
United States, ignored
prevailing west to east winds
and crushed the Mississippi
Coast.
Tilson started to work as a
meteorologist during July 1930
at Macon, Ga. He came to
Mobile in June of 1936 for the
hurricane season, then was sent
to the Hurricane Forecast
Center which was then located
in Jacksonville, Fla. From 1937
to 1947 he was stationed in
Mobile and then spent a total of
two yhears in Nashville, Tenn.,
and Raleigh.
In February, 1949, he
returned to Mobile as
meteorologist in charge and has
been there since then.
Mr. Tilson, formerly of
Marshall, is the brother of Fred
O. Tilson, of Marshall, and the
late Joe Q. Tilson, of Marshall
and Hot Springs
Girl Scout
Day
July
Camp
24 - 2
Day Camp for Madison
County (iirl Scouts is scheduled
for July 24-28 from 9 a m. to 4
p.m It will be held at the Dan
Carter farm in Mars Hill.
Any Girl Scout who has not
yet registered may do so by
contacting Caroline Osteen
their troop leader or she may
register the first day of camp
Halls Succeeds
L. Rudisill Jr.
been closely associated with the
banking business and joined the
Bank of French Broad at
Marshall in 1963. He was
promoted to Assistant Cashier
and Manager of the Weaverville
Branch of that bank in 1964. He
was promoted to a position of
vice president of that bank in
1970 and subsequently named
vice president of First Union
National Bank when the merger
of the Bank of French Broad
and First Union was completed
Mrs. Tolley
Is Awarded
WCU Position
Mrs. Sandra Landers Tolley
of Marshall has been awarded a
graduate teaching assurtantship
in the English department at
Western Carolina University at
Cullowhee for the 1972-73
academic year.
Mrs. Tolley will also continue
work on her master's degree in
English literature which the
began at WCU this summer. She
m a is?! n-aauaia t man mil
College, and was a freshman
sponsor on the Marshall High
School faculty the pest school
term. Her husband Is Hot
Springs High School football
coach Charles R. Tolley, and
her parents are Mr. and Mrs,
len Landers of Marshall,
Route 4. - ;.. .
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M. II . AMPITHEATRE
THE FOURTH CONCERT by resident artists of Music in the Mountains will
be presented next Thursday night, July 20, in the beautiful amphitheatre at
Mars Hill College beginning at eight o'clock. The program will consist of semi
classical selections by Rossini, Strauss and Mozart. At intermission the
fountain will be turned on and the audience can walk around and enjoy the
beautiful scene providedljy the setting of the sun and the mountains. The
above picture shows people arriving early for one of the confer s at the An
derson Amphitlieati e which is on the Mars Hill . ouege ciliipus.
"The Doctor in Spite of
Himself " Now at Parkway
Parkway I'lahouses's third
production of the summer, "The
Doctor in Spite of Himself," is
already far ahead of schedule.
After all. it has a three hundred
year head start on the other
productions of the season. This
delightful farce, spoofing
doctors and medicine, was
written in 1666 by the French
comedian, Moliere, the most
popular dramatist France has
ever given to the world
Moliere was the absolute
master of slapstick and satire,
and his jabs at the medical
profession in "The Doctor in
Spite of Himself" are just as
in November of 1970
Hall has served as vice
president of the Asheville
Chapter American Instititue-of
Banking and completed courses
for a pre-standard certificate in
that organization
He is active in civic and
church affairs being a member
of the Grace United Methodist
Church at Leicester where he
serves as chairman of the
Finance Committee and
previously served 14 years as
church-school superintendent.
He is chairman of the Ieicester
Advisory School Committee,
director of the North Carolina
Agriculture Foundation, Inc.,
North Carolina State College at
Raleigh, is a 4-H leader of
Newfound 4-H Club, is a
director of the Buncombe
County 4-H Advisory Council,
serves as treasurer of
Newfound Community
Development Club, is t member
of the North Carolina Cat
tlemen's Association and is the
incoming vice president of the
North Buncombe Optimist Club.
: He and his wife, the former
Bobbie Jeae Pealand, and their
three children reside in the
Newfound
Community of
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when the playwright's sham
doctor discovered that
medicine is the best of all
trades .. whether you do am
good or not, you still get paid."
illness. Her malady proves to be
as much a sham as the dot tor
himself, and the playhouse
broad, farcical style of humor
proves to be as masterful and
tuneless as only Moliere's
genius could produce The cast
of this theatre classic also in
dudes Jerry Colbert. Mark
Herb, Chuck Stanley, Sue
Atherton, James Anderson.
C. N. WILLIS
C. N. Willis
Director Of
Local Housing
C N Willis, director of the
Mars Hill Housing Authority,
was unanimously named
director of the Marshall
Housing Authority at a special
meeting of the board of com
missioners of the local housing
authority on July 3. Mr. Willis,
experienced in this field,
assumed the post on Wednesday
of last week. Mr. Willis suc
ceeds Mrs. J. B. Tweed who
recently resigned due to health.
Mr. Willis stated that the local
office, located adjacent to the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. J.B.
Tweed, is open Monday through
Friday from 1p.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
and closed on Saturdays.
Mr. Willis is also continuing
as director of the Mars Hill
(lousing Authority. -k
I . . 1 1 r 1 1 ( iii w ay and Betsy
ilene Silverman. K. Lee
lpaugh directs the production,
ami James I'arker is designing
sets and costumes
rthur i .elb of the New York
limes, upon seeing a recent
production ol "The Doctor in
Spite of Himself," .stated that
the play is filled with can't
miss lines It has induced
laughs lor centuries, and it
remains imperishable." Be
sure on re mere to see Wis
three hundred year old "con
lemporarv " farce.
'The Doctor in Spite of
Himself" opens Wednesday,
July 12, and plays through
Saturdav. July 15. Curtain is at
8:30 p m Parkway Playhouse is
located just off Highway 19K in
Iiurnsv ille. C.
WCl Receives
$10,600 Grant
For Kquipment
The National Science
Foundation has announced
award of a $10,600 grant to
Western Carolina University to
assist in the purchase of
scientific equipment needed to
improve undergraduate in
struction The Western Carolina
University grant was one of 372
totaling $2 9 million made
throughout the country to 311
colleges and unviersities, and
two-year colleges.
The funds awarded to WCU
are for equipment in the field of
earth sciences.
In the 10 years since the NSF
undergraduate instructional
scientific program was
established, 1,152 institutions
have received approximately
$59 million through 6,788 grants.
Western's application this year
was among 730 submitted;
about one half of which were
approved.
At Convention
Representative Liston B.
Ramsey and Zeno H. Ponder,
Chairman of the Madison
County Democratic Executive
Committee, are in Miami, Fla.,
this week where they arc at-
tending the Democratic
National Convention.
At Board of Directors Meeting
Tomato Growers Agree
On New Packing Guides
By ROBERT R. HYATT
Agricultural Extension Agent
Buncombe County
At a recent meeting of the
Board of Directors of the North
Carolina Trellised Tomato
(Irowers Association, Inc., held
at Buck's Restaurant in
Asheville, a large delegation of
tomator growers, tomato
packing house operators,
tomato brokers, Agricultural
Extension workers, and other
interested in the North Carolina
trellised tomato industry, met
to discuss plans for marketing
vine-ripened trellised tomatoes
during the 1972 season.
This group represented many
people connected with the
tomato industry and concerned
with the future of the tomato
industry in Western North
Carolina.
The meeting was sponsored
by the North Carolina Trellised
Tomato Growers Association,
Inc., and presided over by R. E.
Cathey, president of the
association. Delegations were
present from Haywood,
Mudisr-i, Buncombe, Macon,
Cherokee and Yancey counties.
In an effort to improve the
price structure and maintain
the image of vine-ripened
trellised tomatoes grown for the
past several years in Western
Marshall Lion
Installation
Held At Buck's
Thirty-seven Lions and
Lionesses of the Marshall I Jons
Club, one guest, Miss Julie
Katner, of Waynesville, and
District 31-A Governor and Mrs.
Harold Peebles, of Candler
attended installation and
Iidies'Night in the Red Carpet
Room of Buck's Restaurant on
Tunnel Road, Asheville,
Tuesday night.
Following the invocation by
Lion Charles Huey, Outgoing
Lion president Ed Morton, who
presided, reviewed the many
accomplishments and projects
of the local club and expressed
his gratitude for the fine
cooperation he had received
during the past year.
District Governor Peebles
then spoke on his experiences
at the lions International Con
vention in Mexico City and
concluded his talk by
congratulating the Marshall
Club. He then installed the
following officers for the en
suing year:
Tom Wallin, president;
Norris Gentry, first vice
president; J.C. Wallin. second
vice president; EC. Teague,
third vice president; Charles
Huey, secretary; Joh Fisher
treasurer. Also installed were
two newly-elected directors,
Earle Wise and O A. Gregory.
All ladies present were
presented Lions souvenirs.
The dinner meeting was
concluded by the new president,
I Jon Tom Wallin, who asked for
continued support of Lion
members
Helms Names
Weatherly As
County Aide
Jesse Helms, Republican
nominee for the U.S. Senate,
announced today that Keith
Weatherly of Newton will serve
as his campaign's Field
Representative for the Western
counties of North Carolina.
Weatherly, a recent graduate
of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel HiO, will
represent the Helms campaign
in Madison County and tt other
counties in Western" North,
Carolina. He will work with
local volunteers and coordinate
their efforts with the state
campaign headquarters in
lUleigh. . . . . ;
Ninth Carolina, the lollowing
resolution wa dratted and
unanimously appioved In all
packing house operators
present at the meeting
Be it hereby resolved and
agreed upon with the opening ol
the 1972 tomato marketing
season, all packing house
operators will
Make everv effort to pack a
uniform pack throughout the
entire area, and with the
cooperation of the State In
spection Service, will not
permit green tomatoes to be
packed in 20 pound Ixixes;
That every effort be made to
avoid packing any soft tomatoes
that have the probability of a
short shelf life;
That all tomatoes packed in 20
pound boxes be mature,
showing a definite pink color
break indicating a vine-ripened
trellised tomato as defined by
the North Carolina Trellised
Tomato Growers Association.
Inc., and demanded bv todavs
tomato trade.
Be it further resolved that tin
North Carolina Trellised
Tomato Growers Association
Inc. work closely with Imvers
throughout the country in an
effort to strengthen and im
prove the price structur for tin
traditionally high iiualnv
trellised tomatoes produced and
marketed in North Carolina
Vioi'c :,pi i .T J!; t
agreed at the meeting that the
following list of packing houses
present at the meeting go on
record as supporting this
r es o 1 u 1 1 on II a y w oo d -County
Cooperative Fruit K
Vegetable Assoc a 1 1 on .
Waynesville; Pigeon Vallev
Tomato Company, Canton.
Mato Packing Companv,
Marshall; Spring Creek Tomato
OklL ! I
MARS HILL LIONS
PICTURED ABOVE are the recently installed offices of the Mars Hill Lions
Club. Left to right, Glen Phillips, Jr.. Lion Tamer; Bruce Phillips, past
president; Jake Drake, treasurer; Alan Briggs, third vice president; Vernon,
Ponder, president; Ronnie Wallin, secretary; and Vetice Bates, first vice
president. Jimmy Davis, second vice president and O'Neal Shelton, tail
twister, are not pictured. The installation was held on the campsite of the
Wagon Train on Walnut Creek. Ladies Night was also observed
Motion Picture Filmed In
County
A motion picture based on
Madison County folk legends
and partially filmed in Madison
County will have its premiere in
North Carolina on Friday, July
21, It was announced this week
by Barney Rosenzweig, head of
Barnard Productions of
Hollywood.
The picture is called "Who
Fears the Devil?", and is
adapted by a book telling the
adventures of a wandering
mountain' minstrel, who en
counters . strange and
sometimes weird happenings in
back reaches of the hill country.
Exterior scenes were made
' among some of the wildest and
most remote parts of the Laurel
region of Madison County.
Several Madison County
residents play supporting roles
Companv . Hot Spr ings, Shclton
I ,i .1 1 I Tomato i ornpai .
Madison ( oiintv , Macon Countv
Fruit ami Vegetable Growers
v,,,( i.ition hu Franklin.
1 ii in a ! o e s trill m 1 t c (I ,
Wav rn-sv lilt . ind Southwestern
1 ornato ( ooporative. Murphy
For one reason or the other, it
was not possible for all tomato
p. o king tai ilities to be
n pn-s. TiO-d at this meeting, but
it i- estimated that the above
mentioned i ompanies are
responsible for packing an
estimated 11(1 per ' en! ol the
v i ne I 1 pe II ed t o ma I o es
produced in the area Although
,i lew packing companies were
not present at this meeting it
is hoped and anticipated that
most of the firms will go on
record in support of the above
G.IY1. Cutshaw Named
FHA Committeeman
James T. Johnson, State
Director of Farmers Home
dmini.stratiori. has announced
the appointment of George M.
Cutshaw of Route :i, Marshall,
to the Madison Counts
Farmers home Administration
Countv Committee for a three
v eai tei; -'sh;i suc
ceeds j in K ' '-:
whose It Tin c:
began olf: c '': n 1 Hi
will serve o . ';.
committee with Kalph
Baker and Albun Buckner.
The Farmers Home Ad
ministration County Committee
certifies eligibility of appbeants
for Farmers Home Ad
ministration loans and
recommends action in making
and servicing loans to the FHA
aSe A
To Be Shown July 21
in the picture, including
musicians Obray Ramsey,
Byard Ray and David Shelton,
who play, sing and speak lines
in the picture.
The stories making up the
book were written over the
years by Manly Wade Wellman
of Chapel Hill, who for more
than two decades has
repeatedly visited Madison
County and studied the region's
history and folkways; His new
book, "The Kingdom of
Madison," dealing in some
detail with history and life of
the county, will be published
this fall by the University of
North Carolina Press.
The romantic leads of ti e
picture are Hedge Cepprs,
young folk sincer and s-tr t
trlcvWifi. a p' ""''""t t
: esolution.
The consensus of opinion and
gcrii.uie c oncern displayed by
the par in pants at this meeting
shows great promise in arriving
at i:-Mvr cooperation between
those persons responsible in
the handling of the vine-ripened
trellised tomatoes in North
Carolina It was the general
leeling of the group that the
elimination of green tomatoes
from the 20 pound boxes could
do nothing, but help the tomato
growers and the tomato
growing industry in general. It
is also hoped by the North
Carolina Trellised Tomato
Growers Association,
Inc that tomato producers
themselves will cooperate in
this action and understand that
it was taken in their interest.
County Supervisor. The
Committee also advises on
other activities connected with
the varied programs offered by
Fanners Home Administration.
Cutshaw lives in the
liurel Community of Madison
County. He has been connected
with the ASCS in working with
ihe county fanners for several
vears tand knows and un
derstands the tarming practices f
and problems of the small
farmers in the county.
Cutshaw operates a farm of his
own in the community in which
he lives and also takes an active
part in civic and religious ac
tivities in the community. He is
married to the former Deckie
Franklin and they have four
children.
Hollywood productions, pretty,
red-haired Sharon Henesey.
The cast includes Hollywood
favorites like Susaa Strassberg,
WiU Geer and Harris Yuten.
"Who Fears the Devil?- will
have a triple premiere on July
n, la Chapel Hill, Raleigh and
Durham. It will shortly be
shown hi Asheville and c'J rr
'points close to where it ?s
filmed. '
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begin its career In t' :
where it rea'Jy r : ; ."
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