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MARSHALL, N. ( . Till KSDAY, AUGUST :t. 1!)72
NUMBER 29
Conflicting Viewpoints Over
Social Services Appointment
By ED SPKARS
Citizen Staff Writer
Dr R B Sams, lame duck
chairman of the Madison
County Board of Com
missioners, was sworn in July
24 as a State-appointed
member of the Madison
County Board of Social Ser
vices Hie other four mem
bers Monday elected him
chairman of the board, for
merly the welfare board, after
Sams took the post to fill the
vacancy when Emerson
English, Republican, rotated
off the board July 1, Sams
said Saturday-
WNC Folk Festival
to begin tonight
W N C s 45th Annual
Mountain Dance and Folk
Festival gets under way in
Asheville's City Auditorium
Thursday for a three-night
run
Ballad singers, mouth harp
players, five-string banjo
pickers, dulcimer sweepers
and old-time fiddlers from
Jack Buckner
To Leave On
Tour Monday
Jack Buckner, of Mar
shall.Route 1, will be among a
busload of farm and livestock
leaders from Western North
Carolina who will tour out
standing cattle farms and
research projects in Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi on
August 7-10
The occasion will be the
annual WNCCattlemen's Tour
sponsored by the Beef Cattle
Commission of the Asheville
Agricultural Development
Council and the agri-business
division of Southern Railway
System. The group of 38
leaders from 10 counties will
travel via Southern's special
bus
Among the tour stops in
Georgia will be the State far
mers Market in Atlanta,
Millarden Farms, a large
Angus cattle farm at Wood
bury and Brae Tarn Ranch at
Warm Springs, a well-known
Hereford breeding farm.
In Alabama the group will
visit several commercial
cattle operations, observe
research work on
crossbreeding of cattle and
feed-on-grass tests at a branch
station of Auburn University
of Selma and meet with of
ficials of State and national
cattle associations.
The Western North Carolina
group will visit two widely
publicised farms in central
Mississippi. These are the
William Morgan farm at
Blade Hawk, a pioneer in
crossbreeding and Harris
Swayre's farm at Benton,
which lias been hailed by most
livestock publications as being
perhaps the top cattle
operation in the south.
Aires Quartet
At Hopewell,
Chapel Hill
The Southern Aires
Quartet, a gospel singing
group from Grafton, Ohio, will
. - It
appvaw at inv nopeweu
Baptist Church Saturday
AgusutS, at 7:30 p. m., and at
Chapel Hill Baptist Church
Sunday, August C, at I p. nv,
and at f p. in. , ' " :
Mrs.Bobbif ICogdil!)
Diandley, : formerly v of
Madison County is pianist for
the quartet.
Joe I.. Morgan, chairman of
the Madison County
Republican Executive
Committee, said Saturday he
had been informed that the
vacancy would be filled by a
Democrat mot aware that
Sams, a Democrat, already
had been named to the board I,
and charged;
The Democratic leader
ship in Madison County seeks
to have complete domination
of the action of the Social
Services Board. This
represents an attempt to use
welfare recipients for political
purposes in the fall election
every county in W N C. will be
on hand for 90-year-old
Bascom I.amar I.unsford'
annual get-together.
In addition to being the
oldest and most authentically
colorful American folk
celebration, the W N C event
is certainly the dancingest.
Clog and smooth square
dance teams from five
counties will be competing for
the title of "best in the
mountains," while old-time
buck and clog dancers will be
on hand from most of the other
areas of W N C.
Ma'iy of the tunes which will .
be played and the songs that
will be sung are ones played
and sung by the grandparents
and great grandparents of this
year's performers at the bean
stringings and corn shuckings
of the mountain past.
Things get underway
along about sundown." For
those who would like to per
form, an auditioning period
will be held each night from
(i 30 to 7:30 p. m.
Medical Society
Met July 25
At Wolf Laurel
The Madison County
Medical Society held a July
dinner meeting on Tuesday,
the 25th, at the Wolf-Laurel
Restaurant on Bald Mountain,
with the wives as guests. An
interesting topic was given by
the speaker, Dr. J. Champion
Taylor of Jacksonville,
Florida, on "The Phyusician's
Responsibility to
Widowhood."
Twenty-seven were present,
including members, wives,
and out of town guests, as
follows: Dr. George Snyder
and Dr. Abe Michaels of New
Orleans, La., Dr. and Mrs.
Pickering of Florida, Dr.
"Daddy" Ross of Chapel Hill,
and Dr. and Mrs. Fred Ben
Uey of Mars Hill College.
JOHN JACOB ZIMMERMAN of Marshall, Route J.
was among boys attending the North Carolina
Forestry Camp near Swansboro last week. He It
shown here with Allan Woody, of WeavervlHe, a
counsellor at the camp. : ?:
I counted," Morgan said,
that it ls un-democratic to
take advantage of a class of
people who a iv financially
over the barrel and
educationally deprived... We
must keep, as a county, an
open society where all groups
or interests are represented."
Sams declared he has
served previously on the
Board of Social Services and
said there has never been any
politics involved in
the determination of eligibility
for welfare benefits.
"I've served with
Democrats and Republicans
on the board and that question
i of party affiliation of welfare
clients I never came up,"
Sams said, adding : "This Ls an
election year."
He said the board consists of
two members appointed by
the State, two named by the
County Board of Com
missioners and the four ap
Basic Problems if Poor
Under Scrutiny Of OC Board
Basic problems of the poor
in Madison and Buncombe
counties are receiving close
scrutiny bv the board of
directors of the Opportunity
Corporation, community
action agency serving the two
areas.
Such disadvantages as lack
Fish Installed
Diftt. Civitan
Sec.-Treas.
FISH
At a recent convention in
Hendersonville, Civitans of
the North Carolina District
West installed James M Fish
as secretary-treasurer of the
District,
Fish is a member of the
Mars Hill Civitan Club where
he has served as its secretary
treasurer and also as
chaplain. Professionally he is
a physical plant director at
Mars Hill College.
Jim and his wife, Gwyn, live
in Mars Hill. They have two
children, Ann and Steve.
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fifth member
With a Democratic County
Board of Commissioners and a
Democratic administration in
Raleigh, Sams said, it is to be
expected that board vacancies
will be filled by Democratic
appointees "When the
Republicans are in," he said,
"then they appoint members
of their party "
Asked if there was any
conflict in him serving as
elected County Chairman and
also as appointed member
land chairman) of the Social
Services Board, Sams said it
is legal to fill two positions of
this nature. "I'll be going out
as chairman in November,
anyway," he said
Dr. Sams, who served 10
years as mayor of Mars Hill,
withdrew as a candidate for
re-election as County
Chairman in February for
liealth reasons.
of knowledge concerning
nutrition and meal
management, insufficient
vocational training, shortage
of camping facilities in
Madison and unawareness of
available help are being eyed
by the board from the stand
point of what can be done
through Opportunity Cor
poration programs to relieve
them
The study is being made in a
series of several-hour
meetings, held alternately in
the two counties, which are
devoted to informal, round
table discussion of existing
needs, existing resources, and
ways in which the community
action agency can be of
practical assistance.
The series of meetings is the
board's way of developing a
three-year plan upon which its
application for continued
funding will be based.
A session held Thursday
night in lieu of a scheduled
board meeting, when at
tendance was one member
short of a quorum, was at
tended by Mrs. Jessie Poole
and John S. Schadl of the
Atlanta regional office of
the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, and
by Richard Goodstein from
the Human Rights Division of
HUD in Wahsington.
Schadl told the board at the
and South Carolina "But this
is the best participation I have
witnessed by any board thus
far," Schadl said.
Board members pooled
knowledge of available
resources in various areas,
suggested possible solutions to
such problems as the lack of
training for employment.
Mrs. Mary Robertson,
representative of the Meat
Cutters Union, who presided
in the absence of Chariman
Robert Boghan, told her fellow
board members that the union
is willing to provide skilled
instructors for meat-cutting
classes if adequately equipped
kitchens can be provided. It
Y.C.I. To Meet
In Burnsville
On Saturday
The Y.C.I. Association will
hold the annual meeting in the
Burnsvillt Elementary School
building Saturday, August &,
1972. The meeting wiO begin at
10:30 ajn. and run until U
. All former teachers and
'students are invited to bring
their families and a picnic
kindi. '
CHECK PRESENTED TO FIRE DEPARTMENT Epsilon Phi Sorority
presented the Mars Hill Volunteer Fire Department with a check in the
amount of $100 which represents part of the proceeds from a chicken dinner
held on July l. at Mai s Hill High School. The money will be used toward the
purchase of new lire equipment. They are (left to right) Mrs. Sandy Hembree,
President of Epsilon Phi Sorority; Dennis McCurry, Assistant Fire Chief; Phil
Briggs, Fire Department Chief; Mrs. Reva Shelton, Chairman of the Service
Committee; and Mrs. Jo Ann Johnson, Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee.
was suggested that the
cafeteria kitchen at Op
portunity Corporation
headquarters the former
Livingston Street School,
might be used.
Mrs. Robertson said it was
likely other trade unions
nught do the same. She said
the electrical workers union,
plumbers and pipe fitters had
expressed an interest. She
said she also thought volun
teers for social service
programs also might be found
in labor
It was suggested that the
lack of camp facilities for
Madison County children
might be solved through the
collective efforts of church
groups and there was
discussion of the possibilities
of providing transportation for
bringing children from rural
areas to visit the Thomas
Wolfe Home, the Colburn
Mineral Museum, industrial
plant tours and others
Intimidation of young voters
seeking to register was
charged by Mrs. Barbara
Keleher. and Lonnie Burton,
executive director of the
Opportunity Corporation,
said such a matter might
best be handled through the
League of Women Voters
The board also delved into
the problem of children whose
families move into low-rent
Sams, Cook On
Social Service Board
At the regular monthly
meeting of the Madison
County Board of Social Ser
vices held on July 2i, Dr R.
Bruce Sams was elected
Chairman. Dr. Sams was
appointed to the local Board
for a three-year term by the
State Board of Social Services,
effective July 1, 1972. Dr.
Sams replaces Burder Reeves
whose term expired.
Burns Cook, who was named
to the local board by the Board
of County Commissioners
effective July 1, was also
present for the meeting. He
replaces Emerson English
who had served two suc
cessive terms which is the
maximum allowed by law.
Other members of the local
board are Mrs. Christine
Keener, a Stat Board ap
pointee; Knox Brigman, a
County Commissioner ap
pointee; and Mrs. Geneva
James, the fifth member, who
ts appointed by the ether four'
, members. Mrs. James served
as chairman during the 1071-73
. year. '
On the new board each area !
housing projects outside the
city schml district, thereby
necessitating the children's
cither changing schools or
paying tuition to continue in
the city system It was agreed
that the Asheville Housing
Authority would be con
tacted concerning payment of
tuition
Mrs Betty I .ester, director
of the Greater Buncombe
IVoject, called the board
members' attention to another
problem. also in
volving residents of low-rent
housing projects.
"A m;in gets a $2 raise and
his rent automatically goes up
$5." Mrs. Uster said. "But if
he's laid off, sometimes it
Likes months for the word to
get to the right place so his
rent is reduced "
In a discussion of inter
agency cooperation to avoid
duplication of effort, Burton
told the board that eight or
more agencies have been
holding meetings to achieve a
closer relationship
The board is also giving
consideration to a program
which would encourage
retired businessmen to scout
out markets for craftwork
done by people of the WNC
area
The next work session will
be held Aug 10 in the Op
portunity Corporation offices
in Marshall.
BRUCE SAMS
X BURNS COOK -J 'H
"of OSe county is represented by .
, a board member, .,,.. ,;
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JANE RICE
Jane Rice
Is 4-H
Winner
Jane Rice, daughter of Mr.
;ind Mrs Joseph P. Rice of
Route 4, Marshall, was named
state winner in the Electric
Demonstration at N. C. 4-H
State Congress in Raleigh
Jane was in competition with
five other girls from each of
the N C districts and was
selected on the basis of her
demonstration, "Good Light
Saves Sight." She attended a
recognition banquet held for
all state winners and was
awarded a $50 cash bond.
How does being a 4-H state
winner affect Jane's future 4
H club work'' In her own
words, "After seeing 1,200 4
H'ers from other counties and
other countries, it gives me an
inner drive." In other words,
her work has just begun.
Jane also encourages other
4-H'ers and anyone in com
petition to remember thaf'not
everyone wins and after five
years I kept trying."
Sue McDevitt
Returns
From Camp
Sue McDevitt, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McDevitt
of Walnut Creek, Marshall,
spent the week of July 16-23 at
Moore's Basketball Camp in
Holly Springs, Miss.
The camp is sponsored by
the All American Red Heads.
Instructors, counselors and
directors were members and
coaches of the Red Beads
team. ,
Miss McDevitt is a rising
senior at Marshall High
School and has been a
member ot i the girls
basketbal team lor the past
three years. She hopes that '
this training win be helpful to
her in the 1973 season.
Little Leaguers, Fans
Kn joy Doubleheader
In Atlanta
By TOP''
MrinlxTN of the Marshall -Walnut
Little League baseball
teaur.. plus, several parents
anil cithci lixal baseball fans
filled two chartered
( .1 f vhniiiid buses last Sunday
muinmi1 and headed to
Atlanta, Ga , for the
doubleheader between the
Atlanta Braves and the Los
Angeles Dodgers.
Some fid persons boarded
the buses in Marshall and
happily left town but the
nearer they came to Atlanta,
the more sekptical they
became about seeing the
games Overcast skies and a
steady drizzle of rain didn't
make things too promising.
Nevertheless, everyone en
loyed the trip down, hoping, of
course, that the skies would
clear Ix-fore game time at 1 : 35
p m
When the two buses arrived
at Atlanta Stadium about
noon, there was a downpour of
rain Unable to get off the
buses and walk around, most
of the adults and youngsters
Benefit Softball
At Laurel
Aug. 12
The Madison County All
Stars will host the Naval
Reserve Seabees in a benefit
Softball game Saturday,
August 12, at 4 p.m. on the
I-aurel High School Field.
The game is being spon
sored by Beta Omega Sorority
to raise money for renovation
at the 1-aurel and Walnut
liealth Clinics.
The AllStars will be led by
Dr Robert Blake who is now
living and working in Hot
Springs and will also be
working at the laurel and
Walnut Clinics. Others ex
acted to see action for the
Stars'' include Bobby
Franklin, Bobby Gunter,
Ijiwrence Cutshall, Ieonard
Ponder and Brent Farrell.
In addition to participating
in the game the Seabees have
also volunteered to help in the
renovation of the Laurel
Clinic.
Hamburgers, hot dogs and
cold drinks will be sold by
members of Beta Omega.
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WALTER "RED" PARIIAM OF Sandy RInsh !!! t e
ne of the feature performers at Bascom Lt-s' : I s
v!5th Mountain Folk Festival. V.lrn ret r' ' ' - a
. guitar and singing. Psrham will it-'f a n'-- ' '
into one Jaw to continue sinb. cr v " ' ! t
through it with a left nostril, r -. I
event will feature dancers r ' '
all W.N.C. counties. It f - s t
Thursday and cc s f
Saturday. .
remained on the busesjust
hoping Although most of the
lit) local fans had "given up"
on the prospects of seeing
Die games, the skies started
clearing about 15 minutes
liefnre game time The tarp
was removed and the first
game started a little late but
that di'ln't matter. The rain
stopped and the sun came out
and it was perfect baseball
weather the rest of the day.
The Braves won both ends of
the twin bill and the Marshall
Walnut fans enjoyed every
minute although some were
pulling for the Dodgers to win.
The first game, won by
Atlanta, 14-4 lasted 2:36 and
the second game won, by
Atlanta, lasted 2 49. Between
games a "Charley Brown"
game was played between
youngsters which consumed
45 minutes In all, the local
players and fans enjoyed
being in the beautiful stadium
some six hours. When not
watching play, the youngsters
land adults) enjoyed sugar
candy, peanuts, popcorn, ice
cream hamburgers, hot dogs
and cold drinks. It was truly
six hours of fun and ex
citement.
The buses left the stadium
about 8.30 p. m. and arrived
back in Marshall about 2 a. m.
Little league players were
members of the Marshall
Walnut "Pirates," coached by
Wayne McDevitt and Ronnie
Massey; the "Braves,"
l uauirii y Jawies Haynic and
Clyde Griffin; and the
Reds," coached by Ricky
McDevitt.
"We are most appreciative
of all those who made the trip
possible," Ricky McDevitt,
the "take-charge" fellow,
stated.
Cattle Priees
Show Increase
Cattle marketings and beef
production continue to run
well above last year's levels.
But exceptionally strong
demand has pushed Choir
cattle prices about $38 at
Omaha. Supplies of cattle will
probably continue to average
10-12 per cent above last year
with prices holding in the $37
$38 range through August.
Feeder cattle (500,600 lb.
Choice steers) will probably
continue to average near
slaughter cattle price levels.
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