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Volume 71 Marshall, N. C. Nov. 30. 1972 Number 4
Important
The application cards
necessary (or obtaining 1973
license plates will be placed in
the mail on December 1,
December 8 and December 20.
Department of Motor Vehicles
officials expect this huge
mailing, estimated at more
thah 3,700,000 cards, to be
delivered by January 1.
The 1973 Red and White
plates will go on sale
throughout the State on
January 2. The 1972 plates
expire December 31 and their
use beyond that date is per
missible only if they are duly
registered by the Department
to the vehicle on which display
Marshall PTA
Meet Monday
At Cafeteria
Marshall P. T. A. will meet
December 4, at 7:30 in the
school cafeteria.
Dr. Larry Liggett, Coor
dinator of the Title III
Ecology Project in Madison
and Buncombe Counties will
be in charge of the Program.
This will be a most interesting
and informative presentation.
This project is now active in
our sixth grades in Madison
County.
We urge everyone to attend
this meeting.
ASCS Election To Be
Tabulated Dec. 8
Madison County farmers
have only until December 1 to
return their ballots to elect
Community ASC Com
mitteemen to serve in 1973,
according to Ralph Ramsey,
County ASCS Director. He
also stated that ballots con
taining the names of nominees
or candidates for each of the
county's 16 ASCS communities
had been mailed to all known
eligible voters and that any
farmer who failed to receive a
ballot through the mail could
secure one by visiting the
ASCS Office at Marshall.
Ramsey urged farmers who
have not yet voted to study
their ballots and to vote for the
persons they feel are best
Achievement Days For
4-H ers At M.H. Sunday
The Madison County 4-H
Achievement Day will be held
Sunday, Dec. 3, at the Mars
Hill High School Auditorium,
at 2 p. m.
Bruce Briggs, former State
Senator and prominent
Madison County lawyer, will
be the featured speaker for
this event.
4-H Achievement Day is
held annually to honor all 4-H
members and leaders for their
Library
Highlights
Artistry
Thanks should go to Miss
Bex Ramsey and Mrs. Emma
Jean Fisher for sharing with
the public their ideas for
useful and decorative crafts.
For the month of November
the Madison County Public
Library in Marshall has
highlighted the artistry of
these two county residents.
Miss Ramsey, a Mars Hill
native aad a versatile artist,
has displayed art done in
different Mediums: oils,
tempera, pastels, water
colors, and china paint One
remarkable painting Is done in
oils on velvet
Mrs. Fisher, a true craft
sman with natural materials,
bad done the exhibit in the
other , window showing bow
many attractive tilings can be
made with patience and a '
little ingenuity. She displayed
wreaths, flower baskets,
pictures, Christmas
decorations, cone trees,
corsages, cockleburr trees
and com -shuck doll angels.
Information
is made. Owners who have
their vehicles properly
registered by the Department
have thru February 15 to
obtain new plates.
Surrounding area residents
may obtain plates at the local
tag office on Bridge St. Office
hours will be from 9 a.m. to 1
p. m. and from 2 p. m. to 5 p.
m. Monday through Friday.
Finalists In
Steve Cutshall, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Cutshall, of
Riddle Farm Road, Rt. 5,
Marshall, and Worley Cut
shall, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Worley Cutshall, Sr., of the
Beech Glen community have
been judged among 17 finalists
in eight counties in the 1972
Western North Carolina
Horticultural Crops Contest.
The winners of the annual
contest for 4-H Club and
Future Farmers of America
members will be honored at a
recognition dinner sponsored
by the Asheville Agricultural
Development Council on
Monday, Dec. 4 at 6:30 p.m. at
Bailey's Cafeteria, Westgate
Shopping Center, Asheville.
Awards totaling $225 will be
presented. First prize will be
$100; second, $50; third, $25
and five honorable mention
awards of $10 each. Prize
donors are Gerber Products
Company, Pigeon Valley
Tomato Farm, Canton;
Francis 4 Wright and
qualified to represent them as.
Community Committeemen.
Farmers may vote for as
many as three of the
nominees shown on their
ballot or they may vote for
"write-ins" if they so desire.
The County Director also
announced that ballots cast in
the community committee
election will be publicly
tabulated at the ASCS Office
by the incumbent county
committee on Friday, Dec. 8.
In conclusion Ramsey said
that voters must sign the
certification appearing on the
back of their ballot envelope
and that they must be post
marked or returned to the
ASCS Office by December 1.
outsanding
year.
work during the
All 4-H'ers, parents and
friends are urged to attend.
This event should be most
enjoyable as well
teres ting.
as in-
Man and Woman of
Year to be Named
Eight men and 11 women
have been nominated by their
counties for special com
munity leadership awards to
be presented this year for the
first time by the Asheville
council as sponsor of the
Western North Carolina
Community Development
Program.
One man and one woman
will be recognized for out
standing service in com
munity improvement and
development in the 18 county
western area. Each nominee
has previously been named a
finalist from their county.
Nominations were made by
local community development
clubs, with judging held within
each county.
The awards to the out
standing . leaders will
be presented at the awards
luncheon fx the WNC Com
munity , Development
Program on Saturday, Dec.
at 12 noon in the Asheville aty
Auditorium.
- The nominees by counties
are as follows: Buncombe, &
E. Johnston, Jr., Avery's
Creek and Mrs. Willena Sams.
Venable; Burke, Harold G.
Turner and Mrs. W. E. Dale.
About New Auto Licenses
The office will be closed from
1 p. m. to 2 p. m. for lunch, and
will be closed on Saturday.
The local license agent,
Mrs. Margaret Ramsey,
points out that "to renew a
plate you must have a renewal
card" and cautions against
the misplacing of it when It Is
received. She also asks you to
Crop Contest
Southern Agricultural In
secticides, Hendersonvllle;
Barber Orchards,
Waynesville and 3-D Farm,
Fletcher.
The contest is conducted
annually by the Horticultural
Crops Commission of the
Agricultural Development
Council in cooperation with
the N. C. Agricultural Ex
tension Service and vocational
agriculture teachers in the
area. Its major purpose is to
encourage interest among
rural youth in growing hor
ticultural crops and to
recognize those doing an
outstanding job.
Dr. Clive Donoho, head,
Department of Horticultural
Science, N. C. State Univer
sity will be the featured
speaker at the awards dinner.
Social Services Is
Purging Fraudulence
In a continued effort to
purge public assistance rolls
in this state of fraudulent
recipients, Clifton M. Craig,
State Commissioner of Social
Services, has recently
c.ecked earnings records of
'recipients in three more
counties with employment
records maintained by the
Employment Security
Commission.
He announced also that in
the near future his Depart
ment will be matching public
assistance records with
Employment Security ear
nings records in all 100
counties.
Several months ago, Craig
commenced such as effort by
taking a sample of cases from
Mecklenburg and Wake
Counties and checking these
for earned income with the
Employment Security
Commission. The repo.:"
were then forwarded to the
two county departments of
social services for their action
in checking to see how many
of the cases had not reported
these outside earnings. The
New License
If you are about to apply for
your first North Carolina
driver license, or renew your
current driver license? Be
Salem; Haywood, Max Gerry
Robinson and Mrs. Joretta
Hannah, Thickety; Hen
derson, E. L. Porter, East
Flat Rock and Mrs. L. H.
McKay, Flat Rock; Jackson,
Charles A. Ward and Mrs. Ada
McCoy, Glenville; McDowell,
Mrs. Faye Faw, Bethlehem;
Macon, Gene R. Brewer,
Franklin and Mrs. Sarah
Waldroop, Iotla; Madison,
Mrs. Marie Osteen, Sleepy
Valley; Rutherford, Paul
Dalton and Mrs. Howard
Wilson, Bill's Creek; Swain,
Mrs. Letha Suytton, WhitOer,
and Transylvania, Merrimon
Shuford and Mrs. E. H.
Mackey, Sr., Little River.
Objective of the leadership
awards is to recognise in
dividuals who through bar J
work and devotion to a better
way of living have brought
about improvements in
" community life. Judgtg is
being done by a secret com
mittee f named by t
Agricultural Development
Council, with selection bated
en written reports. Both the
current year's activities and
previous year's are being
considered.
open the envelope, read the
instructions and complete the
application according to In
structions before presenting it
for a new plate. This will
expedite issuance and keep
lines from forming.
The Department of Motor
Vehicles has made
arrangements with the Post
Office in Marshall to turn over
to the local license office
renewal cards which the Poet
Office has been unable to
deliver. Anyone failing to
receive an application card
may possibly find it at the
local license office. "It will
take from ten days to two
weeks to get application card
from the Department of Motor
Vehicles in Raleigh ," says
Mrs. Ramsey and she
suggests that those who have
not received an application
apply to her office as early as
possible so that there will be
time to get one out of Raleigh
if she does not have it
Motor vehicle owners who
have not received their license
application card by January
1st, should notify the
Department of Motor Vehicles
in Raleigh. "It will take you
from ten days to two weeks to
get one and you should,
therefore, act promptly," says
Mrs. Ramsey.
Mecklenburg County
Department of Social Services
announced that 100 cases out
of a sample of 280 had not
reported the additional in
come. They reported that 40
cases would be prosecuted for
fraud. Wake County has not
issued a full report on its
findings but stated that 7 cases
would be prosecuted for fraud.
After seeing the results of
the small sample, the State
Board of Social Social Ser
vices instructed Com
missioner Craig to expand this
method of income verification
across the state as soon as
possible. The Board also
asked the Commissioner to
turn cases of possible fraud
over to the Attorney General
when counties refused to
prosecute them. Com
missioner Craig reports that
the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare
regulations permit such
verification from public
records, and a court decision
has been rendered in
California upholding that
state's use of the same
method.
Examinations
sure to go by the driver license
examining station and pick up
a copy of the new supplement
to the driver handbook. You
will need to study this sup
plement, along with the
regular manual, because the
test you take will be one you
have not seen before. Robert
D. Warren, Director of Driver
License Division, announces
that beginning December 11,
1972, new written driver
license examinations will be
used throughout North
Carolina.
These new tests have been
developed to imporve and
update the old tests. Im
portant information is covered
in the tests that is not men
tioned in the old driver band
books. Some of the questions
on the new tests are presented
in a somewhat different
manner than was used on the
old tests. The supplement
covers the new Information
and includes examples of the
new questions.
If you are about to apply for
an original or renewal ncense.
Warren strongly recommends
that you first go to your local
Examiner and estate copy of
the manual tap
plementAdequate study
supplement , tad , regular
manual should be made before
" yea attempt to take the
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PICTURED ABOVE is "Rudolph", a beautiful white 5-year-old deer, who is
making his home from now until Christmas in front of the building opposite
Deringer Mfg. Co., on Main Street. The deer was obtained for the Marshall
Merchants Association courtesy Santa Claus Land, Cherokee.
National Opinion Surveys
Being Made In County Now
During November and
December, the National
Opinion Research Center of
the University of Chicago is
conducting surveys in selected
areas throughout the United
States. Madison County has
been selected as one of the
areas.
Four Marshall ladies have
been trained to conduct these
surveys and are now traveling
throughout this cc ' nty visiting
homes.
The four ladies are Mrs. Jim
Mclntyre, Mrs. Jim Cody,
Mrs. W. H. (Dub) Deal and
County Republicans Name
Morgan Patronage Head
Madison County Republican
leaders were urged Saturday
by Dr. Larry Stern of Mars
Hill, 11th District Young
Republican chairman, to
support Gov. -elect Jim
Holshouser and Sen. -elect
Jesse Helms during their
coming terms of office. The
party has a great opportunity
to serve the people, Stern said.
The executive committee,
meeting at GOP headquar
ters, named the county
chairman, Joe L. Morgan, as
patronage committee
chairman. Morgan will name
a screening committee to
Health
Lawrence B. Burwell, MPH,
Madison County Health
Director, has announced the
Health Department Clinic
schedule for December, 1972.
Clinics listed are held at the
Health Department unless
otherwise specified.
Friday, Dec. 1, General
Immunization Clinic 8:30-12
Noon, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 5, Eye
Clinic- BY APPOINTMENT
ONLY
Wednesday, Dec. 6, Child
Health Supervisory Clinic
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Thursday, Dec. 7, General
Immunization Clinic Mars
Hill Town Hall, 1-4 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 7, Nurse
Screening Clinic Mars Hill
Town HalL 1-4 p.m. BY AP
POINTMENT ONLY
Friday. Dec. e,-General
Immunization Clinic 1:30-12
Noon, 1-4 p.m.
Monday, Dec. U, Nurse
Screening Clinic Rudlslll
Clinic, 14 p.m. BY AP
POINTMENT ONLY
Tuesday, Dec. 11,
Maternity Clinic 11 am
Friday. Dec lS,-General
Immunization Clinic-:38-u
Noon; M p m. t . ;
- Monday. Dec. la,-Uental
Health Clink-BY AP- .
:. roiNTMENT ONLY . , .
, TBesday. Dee. lt,-ramity ;
PUnnlna diaic-AY AP
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Mrs. Bill Hunter.
Every year NORC in
terviews thousands of
Americans for impartial
studies using a scientific
sample.
A variety of subjects are
included, such as: The kinds
and amount of medical and
dental expenses of American
families on all income levels;
political participation and
attitudes of Americans; the
pubjic reactions to and
opinions of TV programming.
NORC is a non-profit
research organization that has
conducted surveys all over the
assist him in interviewing
those interested employment
in the Holshouser ad
ministration. Gerald C. Fisher was named
to head a committee to make
plans for a Holshouser-Helms
dinner in Madison at some
future date. An inaugural ball
committee also was named to
assist those 35 Madison
Countians interested in at
tending the Holshouser event
Jan. 4 in Reynolds Coliseum in
Raleigh.
Eddie English Jr. of Ebbs
Chapel, Richard Freeman of
Marshall and Fisher were
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Clinic Schedule
POINTMENT ONLY
Friday, Dec. 22, General
Immunization Clinic 8:30-12
Noon, 1-4 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 25,-Closed
Christmas Day
Tuesday, Dec. 26, Closed
Christmas Holiday
Friday, Dec. 29, General
Immunization Clinic 8:30-12
Noon, 1-4 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 29, -Nurse
Girls Vie For MHS Cage Team
Thirty-eight girls tried out
for the basketball squad and
twenty-five made it Coach F.
N. Willett is starting his third
year as nead mentor at
Marshall High School.
The senior girls are Claudia
Ball, Kathy Fisher, Sue
McDevitt, and Marilyn Wyatt
The juniors are Ann Flynn,
Becky Rector, Debbie Reed,
DeLee Wright and Kathy
Uvesay.
The sophomores are
Caroleea Buckner, Cheryl
Reeves, Diane Wallin and
Teresa Cooper.
The freshman are Sandra
Ball, Donna Davis, Sheila
Goforth, Tammy Greet,
Debbie Norton, Karen Green,
Diane Landers, Defers Reed
Sabra Sprinkle, Kay Webb,
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country for over thiry years.
Various government agencies,
colleges and universities,
foundations, and other non
profit associations have been
sponsors of NORC research in
the public interest.
Every NORC interviewer
carries an identification card
which is assurance that the
interviewer is an authorized
representative.
So when Marie, Ginny, Ruth
and Helen knock on your door,
welcome them in and give
them your opinion on the
various subjects.
appointed as a finance
committee. C. N. Willis,
treasurer, reported the county
organization solvent.
Possibilities of setting up a
permanent party
headquarters in the county
were taken up and supported
by the executive committee.
Morgan discuessed GOP
gains in the South during the
Nov. 7 elections, saying North
Carolina was the only state in
which a governorship and
senate seat were gained. The
widespread strength of the
party, he said, won two
congressional seats in
Mississippi.
Screening Clinic BY AP
POINTMENT ONLY
At all General Im
munization Clinics, protection
is available against
diphtheria, poliomyelitis,
whooping cough, tetanus
(lockjaw), measles, rubella,
and smallpox. Blood testing
and tuberculin skin testing are
also available at the General
Immunization Clinics.
and Darlene Evans. The
manager is Brenda Kent
Cheerleaders
Three new cheeleaders were
selected by the Marshall
faculty this year. They were
Janie Fisher, senior, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fisher;
Susan Frisby, senior,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Frisby and Brenda Roberts,
sophomore, daughter of Mr.;
and Mrs. rted Roberts.
Other cheerleaders
returning are Nancy '
Treadway, Rhonda Sprinkle,
Penny Houston, senior, and -Teresa
Bants and Cynthia
Nilea, oshoroores.
Miss BUlie Jean Redmon is
sponsor of the cheerleaders. .
Tobacco Lease And
Transfers Gted
The laws and regulations
governing the burley tobacco
poundage quota program do
provide for the leasing and
transferring of quotas bet
ween farms within the same
county. Applications for lease
and transfer may be for a few
as one and-or as many as five
years. February 15, 1973 is the
closing date for effecting lease
and transfers on the 1972 crop
of tobacco.
These provisions provide
producers with the legal tool
to move tobacco quotas from
one farm to another within the
county so long as the two
owners execute and secure
approval of a lease and
transfer at the County ASCS
Office, says Ralph Ramsey,
Director of the Madison
County ASCS Office.
Ramsey went on to say that
this year's crop of burley
appears to be heavier than
last year's on many farms
which means more producers
than usual are finding their
production exceeds their
effective quota. He also stated
that even with the provision
for exceeding the farm quota
by as much as 10 percent
through borrowing from the
following year's quota,
several farmers have
produced tobacco in excess of
their 110 percent quota.
Producers who find that their
Con. Taylor
Congressman Roy A.
Taylor, accompanied by his
District Assistant, Tom L.
Mallonee, is making
scheduled visits to the county
seats and other sections of the
counties. The purposes of the
visits are to meet with con
stituents, to express ap
preciation to citizens for
recent election support and to
listen to individuals or groups
of individuals who have
matters they would like to
discuss.
On Friday, Dec. 15, they will
be at the Madison County
Courthouse, Marshall, from
9:30 to 10:30 a. m.; at the
Marshall Cage
Schedule
Dec. 1 -Salem-there; Dec. 5
Spring Creek -here; Dec. 8-Cherokee-here;
Dec. 15-Rosman-here;
Dec. 26-Mt.
View-there Dec. 19-Cherokee-there
Dec. 22-Mars Hill-here;
Dec. 29-Mt. View-here; Jan. 2-Laurel-here;
Jan. 9-East
Yancey-here; Jan. 13-Sullivan
East-here; Jan. 19-Hot
Springs-there; Jan. 23-East
Yancey-there; Jan. 30-Laurel
-there; Feb. 2-Hot Sorings
here; Feb. 6-Rosman-there;
Feb. 8, Feb. 9, Feb. 10
TOURNAMENT. Feb. 16, Feb. 17
TOURNAMENT. Correction
Richard Wilde, owner and
operator of Shadyside Florists
here, wishes to clarify an
article published in the
Asheville Citizen recently
announcing that the
Republican Executive
Committee would meet at the
Shadyside Florists. The ar
ticle should have read the
meeting would be held
ABOVE the Shadyside
Florists in the former law
offices of Clyde M. Roberto
and Bruce Briggs.
political meetings of either
Party are not held In our place
of business," Mr. Wilde
stated. v -f:"
Wallin Coaches
Boys Cage Team .
-vr-'V V-v. , .
Coach J. C Wallin has
twelve boys out for varsity
basketball at Marshall High :
School Returning lettermea
are David Adams, James
. Briggs, Mike Uvesay, Leslie
Mashburn, and Marlon Rice.
- Others returning are Harry
Brazil, Jerry Cody, Carltm
Freeman, Boyce Mayhew,
David Rsmsey, i'.-.vr.j
Ramsey, and Kevin F ' n.
The manager is V.-ll n V
production does exceed their
110 percent quota can market
such excess, penalty free, by
leasing pounds to their farm
from a farm which ft
derproduced its quot Ac
cording to Ramsey, tl..-e are
several farmers who produced
no part of their quota this year
as well as several that un
derproduced their quota from
whom excess producers might
lease.
In conclusion, Ramsey said
that a marketing card should
never be used to market
tobacco which was produced
on a different farm for which
it was issued and that such use
constituted a violation on
which stiff penalties will be
envolked.
John Parris
In Burnsville
On Saturday
John Parris, well-known
author and writer, of Sylva,
will be at the Yancey County
Country Store, in Burnsville,
on Saturday, Dec. 2 to
autograph his newest book,
"These Storied Mountains."
The public is invited to visit
the Country Store.
To Visit Here
Yancey County Courthouse,
Burnsville, from 1 to 2 p. m.;
and at the Town Hall, Spruce
Pine, from 3:30 to 4 p.m.
County SWCD
Supervisor To
Be Elected
Jack Landers of Route 3,
Marshall, has been nominated
to run for the office of
Supervisor of the Madison
County Soil and Water Con
servation District
The elction will be held on
Monday, Dec. 4, 1972. The
term of off ice will be for three
(3) years beginning on
Monday, Jan. 1, 1973. The
election will be held to fill a
vacancy on the Board.
All qualified voters residing
in Madison County will be
eligibile to vote in the election.
Ballot boxes will be placed
in the following locations:
1. Teague Milling Com
pany, Marshall
2. Odell Cook's Store,
Little Laurel
3. Davis Store, Little Pine
4. Clarence Cutshall Store,
Shelton Laurel
5. Madison County Court
House, Marshall
6. Willis Texaco Service,
California Creek
7. Ponders Hardware, Hot
Springs.
Witnesses Pass
Resolution At
Convention
More than 2,000 Jehovah's
Witnesses assembled in the
City Auditorium ta AsbtvtD
last week for their two-day
convention, a -
A Resolution was passed
which' publicly deplored the
atrocities that art being
committed against Jehovah's
Witnesses in the Republic of
MatavL - . r
Approximately 2$ Jehovah's
Witnesses from Madison
County . attended the con
venttoa including Cecil S.
Glblln, presiding minister,
and Mrs. Giblin, of Mars'
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