M-dUon County Llbrtry
Marshall, N . C. 2875 i
Marshall. N. C. September 28, 1972
Number 37
Volume 71
MHC Festival Sparks
Lunsford's Memories
Ninety -years-old B as com
Iimar Lunsford, the man who
originated the concept of (oik
music festivals, was flat on his
back Si the bed last week in
Asheville recovering from a
stroke, yet mention of his
mountain music festival
Saturday, Oct. 14, at Mars Hill
College brought sparks to his
eyes and a cascade of
memories.
He said his energies would
be limited just to getting here
for the ' frolic," but to get here
he would.
Lunsforddoes not orgaize or
perform at festivals anymore,
but he loves to hear others
pick and sing. "I try to sing a
little sometimes, but my
picking days are over on
account of my fingers. Time is
the success of folk music and I
can'tget the timing anymore.
I will say this about myself
though: I picked a banjo as
weO as a banjo has ever been
puck that's a word I made
up."
He considered the annual
Mars Hill festival as a
homecoming event. He
learned ballad singing and to
play the banjo, as well as the
fiddle and guitar, as a child on
the college campus where he
was born while his father was
teaching. This was a reason
why, of all the festivals that
have sprung up since he began
them in the 1920s, the one here
at Mars Hfll is the only one
which he allowed to bear his
name: "Ba scorn Lamar
Lunsford's Minstrel of the
Appalachians."
'UinS.ord, whcias an in
ternational reputation as
collector, researcher and
promoter of Appalachian
foklore, credited his musical
upbringing in Madison County
as giving him the realization
of the "value of the fine
tradition in mountain people."
Mars Hill College Creates
Behaviorial Sciences Dept.
Mars Hill College has added
a department of social and
behaviorial sciences to its
academic structure this year
The new department offers
three area majors,
psychology, sociology and
political science. Prior to the
y ea r psychology hadbeenpart
of the education department
and sociology and political
science, part of the history
department
The three disciplines were
brought together because of
tier common methodology
and approach to problems,
according to Dr. Richard L.
Hoffman, vice president for
academic affairs. He
proposed the creation of the
department last year to
coordinate, correlate and
integrate the activities of the
faculty in the three
dsciplnes.
Dr. Donald Anderson,
department chairman, said
the department's curricula
will reflect the in
terdisciplnary nature of the
tire r fences. The major
task before him and his staff
was th e esta bis hme nt d " pre
profesionar career tracks
for each of the daciplnes.
With, aich a curricuh a
student can expect a fruitful
Fires At Dump
Fire of unknown origin at
On Marshall city dump are
causrg concern both hcreand ,
in Raleigh, it haa been an-
nounced by Mayor Lorado
Ponder, " "1 ; '.""
A blase of unknown origin
Monday night necessitated
the calling of two Marshall
fire frocks. This must be,-s-?i".
Mayor Ponder said.
Anyone apprehended setting -fires
at the dump art subject '
He said this realization has
been the key to whatever
successhe has hadand that he
has devoted his life in trying to
convey this realization to
others.
I.unsford said he began
establishing folk festivals as a
means of encouraging others
to learn and to appreciate
mountain culture. The first
was in 1928 with the Mountain
Dance and Folk Festival in
Asheville, which is still going
on Others followed at the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, at Renfro
Valley, Ky., at the North
Carolina State Fair.
He has lectured and per
formed at colleges, schools
and concert halls from coast
to coast and Venice, Italy, and
with a band of local per
formers, has given programs
in Pittsburgh, Dallas,
Philadelphia, St. Louis,
Chicago.
One of the highlights of his
life, lunsford said, was in 1939
when FDR invited him and his
group of friends to perform at
the White House for visiting
King George VI of England
and his queen. "When we got
back everybody asked 'What
did the queen say?' I replied,
'She just sat there and patted
her foot"'
Lunsford has mixed feelings
about the multitude of folk
music festivals, now. He is
encouraged by their
popularity, yet discouraged
about some that were less
than authentic.
"My business was to draw
ailvnliou to tiie Tine cultural
value of our traditional music
and our dancing and the fine
honor of our people. I was
trying to perpetuate the real,
true cultural worth of the
mountain people.
"Oursection, youknow, has
been slandered. People had
answer when he asks, "What
can I do if I major in your
department''" He said the
department was interested in
setting upa placement service
for its majors also.
There are some 100 majors
in the department and the
equivalency of eight ful-time
faculty.
Anders on, whowasborn and
raised near Crossville, Tenn.,
was chairman of the social
studies department at Eureka
College.ID., before join rig the
Mars Hill faculty last year. He
has done graduate work in
history at the University of
Maryland and has a PhD in
social ethics from the
University of Chicago.
Other members of the
department are: Kenneth
Sanschagrin, sociology;
Joseph Godwin, Dr. Walter
Stroud and William Lynch,
psychology; and Dr. Larry
Stem, George Peery and Dr.
Edward Angus, political
science. Lynch, who is
director of tie counseling
director of Save Our Ken
tucky, an anti-strip mine
pressure group, and Robert
Br irk of Barnardsvflle, a
former sociology instructor at
the University of North
Carolina at Ashevile.
Lot Forbidden
to tint and Imprisonment in
RakigB aider the Pure Al
and Water Ordnance. Of
ficials front Raleigh were
alerted to tie fires and two
members of the Pure Air and
Water Commission bare
visited Marshall this week,
"We Intend to stop this
un awful act which adds to
pollution", Mayor Ponder,
said.
the nobon that itwas somehow
inferior. Now they've turned
around and found there might
he something in it. The in
terest in it has been very, very
good."
He liked the plans for this
year's festival at the college,
which has been called, "the
world's most authentic
festival of mountain music."
The college will put up tents on
a softball field under which
musicians can hold "jam
sessions'' all day prior to the 7
p m. start of the festival. The
festival will be held in Moore
Auditorium and is open to
performers by "invitation
only." But those wishing to
participate can be auditioned
during the jam sessions.
Madison County crafts
people will hold demon
strations during the day also
and will put on a community
square dance at 7 :30 p.m. the
night before, Friday, Oct. 13.
Lunsford said he hoped
people would take part in the
activities for they would be
exposed to "the richest pocket
of traditional lore in America
today."
And heought to know, for he
has combed the mountains for
ballads for most of this cen
tury. Before old age slowed
him down in the late 1950s he
had collected some 1,500
ballads and had made 146
phonograph records for the
Library of Congress, for
Colimbia University and for
two commercial recording
companies.
In his search, Lunsford said
he spast the ft. 'lit :-i ox re
cabins between Harpers
Ferry, W. Va., and Iron
Mountain, Ala., than anyone.
"And I always took off my hat
when I entered mountain
people's homes for their an
cestors were lords of the
realm "
center, and Angus, who is
director if institutional
research, are on part-tirre
status Also teaching on a
part-time basis are James
Bansome of Lexington, Ky.,
Huey Elected
YDC District
Chair in an
Charles Huey, President of
Madison County Young
Democratic Club, attended
the State YDC. Convention in
Wilmington this past
weekend. The convention was
highlighted on Friday night
with an address by Mrs.
Eleanor Kuschner, who
seconded the nomination of
Sen. McGovern at the
Democratic Convention. Mrs.
Kuschner is spearheading the
drive to free the POW's as her
husband has been a POW
since 1967. On Saturday night
the delegates were awed with
an address by Sen. Mike
Gravel of Alaska. Sen. Gravel
was responsible for releasing
to the public the Pentagon
Papers.
While a t the convention, Mr.
Huey was elected Chairman of
the Eleventh Congressional
District Mrs. Sue Cochran of
Polk County was elected
Secretary. Tom Bar ringer, an
attorney from Wake County,
was elected President of the
State Y. D. C. for 1973. -
1
NORRIS FRISBY, JR., of Marshall, took a course In Taxidermy
by mail and although only IS years old Is an expert Taxidermist.
Several of his stuffed fowl and animal heads, made a year ago, are
now on display In the Marshall library window. Shown above is a
ring-neck pheasant, quail, ruddy duck and mallard duck. Also
show, forefront, is "Polly", the parrot which belonged to Mr.
Rrittain who operated The New Cafe here many years ago.
Fall Grazing Opens
On Set-Aside Acres
Set-aside acreage under
the 1972 feed grain, and wheat
programs may be used for
livestock grazing after Oc
tober 1, Ralph Ramsey,
County Executive Director for
the Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service, has
announced.
He reminded farmers that
no grazing is permitted on
acreage still under contract in
long-term land retirement
programs such as the
Cropland Adjustment
Program. Today's an
nouncemnt affects only
livestock grazing on land
diverted under annual com
modity programs. No set
aside acreage may be har
vested.' Set-Jbide acreage is uii,dl
taken tut of production by
farmers participating in
voluntary commodity
Two Red Oak
Mrs. Reynolds Revis and
Mrs Pearl Roberta of the
faculty of the Red Oak
Elementary School have been
chosen to be included in the
1972 edition of "Outstanding
Elementary Teachers of
America."
This is a citation given a
teacher for her outstanding
serviceinthe school and in the
community, not only in
scholastic work, but in their
leadershipability and in their
capacity to inspire students to
higher achievements.
Mrs. Revis and Mrs.
Roberta were in the group of
seven teachers in the
Asheville area to be so
honored.
Mrs. Revis is a graduate of
Western Carolina University
Mountain Music Festival
This Week-end At Sodom
An old-time mountain music
festival will be held on Friday,
Satirday, and Sunday, Sept
29, 30, and October 1, at the
community ball park in the
Sodom section of Madson
County, 20 miles north-west of
Marshall, on US 208. This
festival is presented by the
Bete Omega Chapter of ESA
of Marshall, in cooperation
with the old -Time Music
Committee of Madison
County.
This festival will comply
with the oldest tradtions of
mountata music,. For (his
reason no country -western,
rock music, or efcetric in
struments will be allowed.
Thk festival is dedicated to
dd-lme musicians and the
presentation of ther music.
There will be no contest or
competition and musicians
are urged to ptay with one
another and not against one
another., vt ...
Admusnn to the festival i
"will be tl for aduls a nd 50c for ;
children under 12 years of age. '
Itefreshmenk will be sold by
tt-ta Omega. The proceeds .
w ll be used for the laurel and
Wahut Health Clinics. The
litis Uj
programs. This acreage must
be kept in conserving uses.
Among other provisions, this
means no livestock rnay graze
during the growing season
The normal growing season in
North Carolina has been
established as April 1 through
September 30.
Public benefits are probided
by conserving use of setaside
acres, Ramsey said, as well as
protection of the farmer's
land. By helping prevent soil
erosion, conservnij; uses help
keep water run-off more silt
free than if the l.tnd were left
idle but unprotected. Set-aside
land also provides many acres
of wildlife habitat
Ramsev co"'-' ided by
otiyiii,', Jiu. .. .i
available under Ihe Rural
Environmental Assistance on
set-aside acreage
Teachers Cited
at Cullowhee and has been a
teacher for about 30 years in
elementary schools. Mrs.
Roberts received her degree
from Asheville Normal
Teachers College and has
expenses for the renovation of
buildngs for these clinics
have been totally community
effort;
All who come are asked to
bring a bbnket or a chair to sit
on. The entertainment
schedufe is as follows: Fridav
eveniig, 8 p.m. - 12 p. m.;
Saturday evening, 7:30 p.m.
12 p.m.; and Sunday af
ternoon, 2 p. m. 6 p. m. for
the sin grig of hymns, . Square
dances will be held when the
Republican Candidates Visit County
Republican Party can
didates, except one, for state
office lashed at link op
ponents in the Demo era tic
Party at a $3--plate fund
raising dinner in Marshall,
High School Saturday night
Col Frederic R. Weber of.
I Emberton, candidate 'for
cotnmissioner of fcbor, shied -
away from state poEtics to
recall his days as an Olympic
decathbn contender in BerlA
in 1936. Weber said poitical
rivalries of the countries'
engaged in Olympic games in
recent years have hurt the
spk-K of the Olympics.
County Historical Society
History Is Reviewed
The medical history of
Madison County was the topic
of theprogram ot the Madison
County Historical Society at
the quarterly meeting held at
White Rock Pflesbyterian
Church on Saturday, Sept. 16,
at 2 p. m. The period of history
covered was roughly Madison
County Health Department in
April, 1949. A panel of six
persons gave information on
hospitals, doctors and nursing
services, and others added
information during informal
discussion.
Philip Wagoner, Mars Hill
College history student read a
paper prepared by a fellow
student on the founding of the
first hospital in the county, at
White Rock. M. P. Tweed told
of the construction which was
interrupted by World War I,
but was completed in time to
have the hospital in operation
in late 1919. This hospital was
a project of the Presbyterian
Home Mission Board, and it
wa s buil t on la nd donated by J .
S. Tweed. Native stone was
used in the foundation and
steps, German siding painted
white completed the outside.
The floors are of oak and the
woodword s ash. Mrs. C. D.
Bowman told of her arrival in
May, 1920, to join the staff of
three nurses. Mrs. Bowman
came from Peter Bent
Brigham Hospital, Boston,
Masa to this hospital. Several
nurses made up the staff
through the years, but only
three were Qere at a time.
Doctors who stl,vedduring the
twenty years of the hospital's
t AJik'iii.e werDrs. Pacrioo,
Ho Id en, Andrews, Locke, and
Bowen. Dr. Arthur Pritchard,
of Asheville, w as called in for
In Publication
taught 33 years in Madison
and Buncombe Oo unties . Both
aretwoofBunoombe County's
most valued teachers, say
their co-workers and their
princpal, William Brigman.
people want them
AD old-time 6ddle, banjo,
dulcsner, and guitar players,
buck and square dancers,
ballad sngers, and old-time
hymn singers and other
traditional mountain
musicians are urged to come,
and sing and visit with friends
and neighbors and enjoy
music in the mountah
tradition.
Make pfans now and bring a
friend.
Carl R Eagle of Granite
Falls, running for state
superintendent of public in
sfructtoa, called Incumbent
Craig 'Philips a suitcase
superintendent'? saying
Phillips bad spent more time
out of state man taking care of
his function in Sie state. '
' .. Eagle said Phillips Wat .
"wrong ta saying the North ;
Carolina Association ' of
Educators should concernt '
itself only with teacher,
welare, and leave Ihe state
offices to deal with the
problems of education." He
also said teachers need a
km
surgical cases as needed. Mrs.
Bowman recalled that regular
conies were held at Rever,
Allegheny, Allenstand, Rice's
Cove, Druid and Carmen;
home visiting was a routine
part of the doctor's day; and
the staff was frequently called
on to minister to sick or in
jured animals
Mrs. C. M. Roberts told of
the practice of Dr. Frank
Roberts of Marshall, who in
1927 recruited a young doctor,
Dr Harry B. Ditmore, to join
him in establishing a hospital
in Marshall. The hospital was
located on the entire second
floorof the Roberts Pharmacy
Building, owned by Dr.
Roberts. Mrs. H. B. Ditmore
described the operation of the
hospitaL MissElsa Bakerand
MissBertie Revis were nurses
and Mrs. Emmett Plemmons
was dietitioan. Dr. Roberts
and Dr. Ditmore wereassisted
in surgery by Dr. Thurman
Hipps of Spring Creek as
needed. Both majorandminor
surgical cases were handled
here. Efforts to secure county
supporttoparticipate in Duke
Foundation funds from which
to enlarge and relocate the
hospital failed in a county
election and the hospital
closed.
Other hospital services were
providedatHotSrpings by Dr.
David Kimberly; by Dr.
lx)cke Robinson at Mars Hill;
and by Dr. Shelby W. Vance at
Marshall.
Miss Irene Willis, retired
nirse from Mars Hill, told
' briefly orileryeai sasa iioTie
with Dr. Locke Robinson, Dr.
W. F. Robinson and later with
the present Mars Hill clinic
staffed by Drs. Duck, Powell
and Powell Mrs. Tom Baird
told of the work of Dr. Baird in
the Mars Hill area.
Fowler Wallin, grandson of
Tornadoes Rout Blue Devils,
67-0 On Island Friday
The game but outmanned
Hot Springs Blue Devils
suffered a 67-0 defeat at the
hands of the Marshall Tor
nadoes in an Appalachian
Conference game played on
the Island last Friday night.
The first three times the
Tornadoes had possession of
the ball they scored on the
first plays from scrimmage.
This setthetempo of the game
as Coach John Fisher used
every substitute on the bench
for the greater part of the
game. Inall, the starting unit
played less than 12 minutes.
The Tornadoes seemed to
"put it all together" as they
scored 20 points in the first
period, 21 in the second, 6 in
the third, and 20 the final
quarter.
Let it be said, however, that
Payne Injured On By-Pass
Dennis Payne, 21, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Payne, of
Marshall, Route 6, was
painfully kijured last Friday
night when he was struck on
the Marshall by-pass by an
automobile driven by Wayne
Rice, 21, also of Marshall,
Route 6.
According to reports, Payne
was on the highway and Rice
greater voice in decision
making thataffectseducation.
a. Nick Smith of Durham,
opposing Robert Morgan for
attorney general, said crime
has increased 1,000 per cent la
fee state ta me past decade;
i and charged that Morgan is ,
"more interested in becoming
a United States senator in 1974
than in crime." He also
remarked that, in his opinion, '
crkne control f ranscends in
importance "Consumer
protection" whkh Morgan has
' been concerned with.
Mrs. Grace J. Rohrer,
candidate far secretary of
Dr. Jesse Wallin who prac
ticed medicine in Marshall
area at the close of the Civil
War, told stories handed down
of this early practice whem
doctors often had to make
their own medicines I)r
Wallin died in 1914.
Dr. J I- McElroy who has
practk'ed medicine in Mar
shall since 1932, is the grand
son of Dr. J K.Hardwick, one
of Marshall's earliest doctors
When the Southern Railway
completed its line through
Madison County, it employed
Hardwick. Dr. Frank Roberts
succeeded him and now Dr. J.
I.. McElroy holds this position
with Southern Railway.
While emphasis was given
to the review of doctors with
medical degrees, tribute was
paid to those who practiced
under the "Grandfather
Clause" which provided thata
person paying a fee and
passing a limited examination
could practice. Registered
nurses who served faithfully
alongside the doctors or in
their communities throughout
the years were named as
known :
The Madison Cbunty Health
Department was set up in
1949. At this time, 22 school
were operating in the county.
Dr. Whims and Dr. Irma
Henderson-Smathers gave
assistanceand Miss Elizabeth
Go forth, Mrs. Weaver and
Mrs. J. L. Baker were on the
nursing staff. Mrs. Fur man
Fox has served continuously
since 1952.
Membership in the Historeal
Society is open to all in
terested persons. Individual
memberships are $3 annually
family memberships, $5. Mrs.
Frances Buckner, Route 5,
Marshall, is secretary
treas urer.
the Blue Devils were
courageous throughout the
game and showed plenty of
spunk and "guts" while ab
sorbing the loss.
Coaches Charles Tolley and
Tommy Huff, handicapped by
depth, weight and ex
perience, nevertheless won
the admiration of fans as the
small band of Blue Devils
playedagainst the heavy odds
with poise and determination.
Quarterback Jeff Treadway
scored on a one-ya rd run, a 50
yard punt return and threw a
54-yard touchdown pass to
Carlton Freeman.
Boyce Mayhew galloped 66
yards on the first Marshall
play from scrimmage for a
score, and was followed by
Treadway 's scoring strke and
on the third play from
did not see him in time to stop.
Payne is a patient in
Memorial Mission Hospital
where he suffered a punctured
rung and broken bone in his
right shoulder. He is in fair
condition.
Sheriff Ponder stated
Monday that the Investigation
is continuing.
No arrest has been made.
stale, said X was ticumbent
ThadEurewho called htmsel
'the oldest- rat to : he
Democratic barn." and not
she that called him that - ;
. Markm Scronce, running for
1 auditor, said Tar Heel money
"has ' been . handled too
loosely," and advocated
better budgeting and irer
use of the state's surplus
monies
. Jesse Ledbcfcr of A;,',;-
seeking to unseat U.S. '
Hoy A. T. : ' -, f ' !
support $.w. ; he c I
bo- rr- v- Tro : ' i ;i
The next meeting of the
organization will be in
November
County To
Receive
$42,450.57
A record total in Powell Bill
funds will be sent North
Carolina cities and towns, the
State Highway Commission
announced today.
Ihe total for the fiscal year
1972-72, which ended June 30,
1972, was $27,024, 222. 30-more
than double last year's
allocation of $12.5 million
which was the largest
previous total.
Reason for the giant in
crease was the passage of
legislation by the 1971 General
Assembly which doubled the
amount of gasoline tax ear
marked for municipalities,
from one-half cent per gallon
to a full cent
Each municipality is given
its sharebasedon a formula in
which population counts 75 per
cent and street mileage not on
the state system counts for 23
per cent
Charlotte, the state's largest
city, as usual received the
largest single allocation,
$2,73041.20. Following at the
top of the list were Greens-
Onro, 1 lt.. Mi.il. wmujir-
oaieni, i. jaz.ni i ana
Raleieh II 424.149.80.
Madison County's three
towns wui receive a total of
$42,450.57, as follows: Mars
Hill, $18,295.01; Marshall,
$14,445.56; Hot Springs,
$9,709.99.
scrimmage.
Mayhew sped 49 yards for
another Tornado score.
Mayhew was successful on
seven of 10 PAT attempts.
The Marshall defense came
up with three scores, with
defensive end Ropnnie Bryan
returning a Hot Springs
fumble 50 yards; and pass
interceptions coming from
Jim Ramsey and Rick Harrell
late in the fourth quarter from
44 and 14 yards.
Marshall's record Is 2-3.
Individiual defensive
statistics for the Tornadoes
revealed that Ricky Harrel
had 1 interception, 1
recovered fumble, S assisted
tackles and two individual
tackles. Holden Webb:
assisted tackles, two i In
dividual tackles. J. C
two individual tackles. Harta
Rice: t assisted tackle, ra
individual tackles.
blocked field goal
Other standouts defawfcreijr
were Ronnie Bryan as4
Danny Boone. : '.
MARSHALL!?'
HOT SPRINGS I
V'
Hot Springs
Firstdowns 1 ;
Rushkigyardage 19 ?.,
ComjKAtt-Int tt- S414 ,
Fumbleslost .144 3
Yards penaBxed 0 - 4D
passing yardage 35
HotSprkgS IMt-l
Marsha . MHiaC7
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