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MwXlson County Library Mershall, N . C. 28763 TO Volume 71 Marshall, N. C. Dec. 7,1972 Number 47 EDITOR'S NOTE: Following an editorial and letter to the editor in the November 16 issue of this newspaper deploring the current method of handling mail and the delay regarding area cancellation of mail, G. M. Roberts, Customer Service Representative, of Asheville, and S. R. Kerley, Assistant Sectional Center Manager, Customer Service, of Asheville, met with Richard Wltde, president of the Marshall Marchants Association, Raymond Stines, of the local P. 0. personnel; and Editor Jim Story here last Thursday morning. The two officials explained the current Area Mail Processing system for almost two hour during a "meeting of the minds" of the above. In order that the public might be enlightened, Mr. Roberts issued the following statement: Statement A much misunderstood process is the new Area Mail Processing program of the United States Postal Service. Most people accept as gospel the idea that a straight line represents the best line of travel between any two points. But, if this were always true, our space-ships would be shot like a bullet straight to the moon, instead of orbiting first. And our mail routes would criss-cross every county in nightmarish profusion from West Littletown to East Lit tletown, from North Pumpkin Center to South Pumpkin Center, etc. Once upon a time, this straight line travel concept for mail had more validity. Years ago, the XYZ railroad stopped first at West Littletown to drop and pick up some mail, and after the cow was removed from the tracks, it chugged five miles with more mail for East Littletown. Red Heads Play Here Tuesday Moore's All American Red Heads, world champion girls professional basketball team who play by men's rules, will appear in the Marshall gymnasium next Tuesday night, Dec. 12, it was an nounced here this week. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 o'clock. The Red Heads are in ternationally known for how they play the game and they pack them in wherever they play- The Red Heads were organized in 1936 and compete against men's teams and they usually win. Kathy Tipton, star for Marshall High School a few years ago, played with the Red Heads last season but did not rejoin the group this season. Miss Tipton starred with the world's champions and had the opportunity to travel throughout, the United Stales last season. 'They're a great bunch of girls," Kathy states. , The Red Heads will face a selected team of current and past stars of the Marshall area. ATMARSHALL Salem toppled Marshall O U la boys basketball action Friday night, but the Marshall girls managed 36-30 victory , in the preliminary game at Marshall. ; Walter Tennery pumped in II points and Randy Gant added 17 to pace the Salem boys In the tight affair. James Brtggs and Carlton Freeman each had 13 for Marshall which trailed by only two pants at halfUme. Postal Officials Explain New Area Mail Processing The milk run and the old XYZ disappeared about the time farmer Brown's cow was run over by a new-fangled hot rod on the new super highway around East Littletown. But the idea that mail between East and West Littletown should continue to travel only five miles is still argued fervently by residents of these and many other similarly situated communities. Of course most mail never did travel that way. Even in the heyday of the old XYZ, relatively few communities received such direct service. The idea that mail should go by the shortest routes between points has never been prac tical throughout the world's postal history with the passible exception of ancient times when only royalty en joyed postal services and monarchs could dispatch couriers posthaste straight to any given points with ad monition that their heads would become postage due should they dally along the way. The point of all this is that the newly-expanded Area Mail Processing program by the Postal Service for more ef ficient handling of mail flies in the face of the "straight line" of travel idea. County Students May Study And gravel In Europe Next Summer The five-week program, offered in conjunction with the American Leadership Study Groups, Worcester, Massachusetts, features full weeks at the universities of London, Rome and Paris. Several days are spent in Brussels, Heidelberg, Inns bruck, Venice, Florence, and Lucerne. Academic credit is available. In addition to extensive sightseeing, theater per formances, and other special activities, the academic program features a series of multi-media presentations conducted by a staff of American and European university professors, American Embassy per Campbell Tonight At The Rev. WiU D. Campbell will give an informal presentation on "Social Change in the South" at 7 p. m. Thursday in the downstairs lounge of Chambers Gym nasium here at Mars Hill College. The Rev. Campbell, 47, was called by "Newsweek' magazine the "South's most talked about Baptist preacher" next to Billy Graham, and is director of the Tennessee-based Committee of Southern Churchmen. The Committee consists of some 100 ministers and laymen who believe that "Christians must bear witness to God's faith in man by attempting to reconcile enemies." A self-proclaimed "red neck." the Rev. Campbell is noted for his work with the disaffected whites and for his BTisndshtps with Khi Khix Kkn officials such as J. RR. Jones, Grand Dragon of North Carolina. . ' , He to the son of Mississippi fanners and was ordained as a Southern Baptist preacher ,; when be wsi ll-yesrs-old. He held s pastorate in Mississippi and was chaplain at the University of Mississippi before becoming tht Souther representative of tht National Council et Churches' conv mission on religion and race in 195. ; v - Postal Customers are entitled to know why letters from towns only a few miles apart as the crow flies travel 25 miles or so to a centrally located Maintown. Another frequent question, asked by Postal Customers, is why mail for strictly local delivery must go 25 miles or so to Maintown for processing and then come 25 miles back. Several key points are im portant in providing an un derstanding of why these seemingly senseless procedures make very good sense. It is obvious, for example, that mail deposited on any given day cannot ordinarily be delivered in many cases until the next day. From a service standpoint, it would make no difference to the customer if the letter went to Timbuktu for processing, providing it is delivered the next day. Of course, nothing as outlandish as that happens, but it illustrates the main point, that the customer's proper concern is fast, safe, delivery and not ordinarily the steps that are taken between deposit and delivery. The Postal Service's emphasis today on service standards sonnel, and local civic per sonalities. These presen tations involve the extensive use of tape cassettes, slides, cinema, and portable video tape equipment, and in vestigate the cultural and historical foundations of Western Man. Students in the Study Group program are selected on a nationwide basis from high schools and colleges. Coor dinating the program locally is Alex Farkas, a teacher at Hot Springs High School, and interested students should contact him for additional details. Mr. Farkas' address is P. 0. Box 235, Hot Springs, N. C. 28743, or phone 622-7343. To Speak Mars Hill As a "trouble shooter" he was involved in most of the crises in race relations during the Civil Rights movement and was an advisor and consultant to such leaders as Martin Luther King and Stokley Carmichael. By 1963 he said he had become con vinced that his "work lay with his own people" and assumed his current position. The Rev Campbell lives on a 20-aere farm outside of Nash ville, Tenn., where he whit ties, plays guitars and writes songs. He is the author of "Race and The Renewal of the Church," published in 1962 as part of the Westminster Press series on "Christian Per spectives on Social Problems.:' He has a divinity degree from Yale University and a master's degree in English literature from Tulane University. His presentation is spon sored by Mars. Hill's Ap palachian studies class and is open to the general public without charge. . o::iy J v I I.I requiring next day first class mail delivery within local areas, and from the Asheville Sectional Center this includes the following ZIP Coded areas: Charlotte, N. C 280, Hickory N. C.-286, Asheville, N.C. 287,288, Spartanburg, S.C. - 293, Greenville, S.C. 296, Johnson City, TN 376, and Knoxville, TM-377,378 and 379, is another reason why AMP is being expanded. By concentrating much mail processing for a given area in a single postal facility large enough to utilize more ad vanced equipment, mail processing for the entire area can be handled more ef ficiently and in time to insure next day delivery of preferential mail to all points within the area. Obviously, a West Littletown or a Pumpkin Center does not have the mail volume or the space to justify installation of new mechanization capable of processing millions of pieces of mail in a single evening tour. But it is possible, and sensible, to concentrate mail for an entire area at larger sectional centers which can handle big mail processing equipment. The process also provides economics expected to help keep down rising expenses. An added AMP bonus is faster handling and dispatch of outgoing mail from the strategically-located larger facility. It has the needed transportation immediately available, including flights for airmail and space available mail. For deliveries within the area, contract transportation also is already in operation out of the sectional center, using many daily star route roundtrips between the AMP main office and the smaller associate offices. Cutshall Case To Be Heard The hearing on a motion for a new trial for Leonard H. Cutshall was continued in Superior Court here Friday to 2 p. m. today, (Thursday) at New land. Judge Sam Ervin III of Morganton postpones the Cutshall matter after a busy week of handling Madison County cases. Cutshall, 45, has faced trial three times in the Jan. 30, 1970, rifle slaying of Richard "Jack" Reeves, and is serving a life sentence. His attorney has sought a new trial in the wake of an alleged confession by Cut shell's 20-year-old son, Dewayne, that it was he who killed Reeves as he sat in a car with Cutshall's former wife in front of Reeves' mother's home on Cook's Farm Road in the Bellview section of Madison County. The defendant in another murder case, Carolyn Presnell, charged with the shotgun death of her husband, had the charge nonsuited when it was taken up by the court Tuesday, court officials reported. Led ford Is Commission Chairman James T. Ledford, newly elected county commissioner, : was named chairman of me . : board her Monday following the swearing in ceremonies. , Ron 'Howen, Marshall at- torney, was named county attorney and William C. Reeves as retaining attorney. fHiIUard Teague was elected . as clerk to the conv misatoners; Emery MetcaK, tax supervisor; and Harold - WaBin, castodiaa of the courthouse. t f m 'fin lOl i It: ' I I iLf li.ii PICTURED ABOVE are the newly-elected officials of Madison County who were sworn in Monday morning by Judson Edwards, clerk of superior court. Seated, left to right, W. T. Moore, Ervin Adams and James T. Ledford, commissioners. Standing, left to right, Emery Metcalf, auditor; Hilliard Teague, register of deeds; Harold Wallin, tax collector. Also sworn in was Mrs. Christine Lister as Deputy register of deeds. Micro-Switch Acquires Mars Hill Plant; Plans Start-Up In Spring Micro Switch.j a division of Honeywell, Inc.; has acquired the manufacturing facilities and grounds of the former Hammarlund Manufacturing Company in Mars Hill. The modern 81,000-square-foot plant is situated on some 31 acres of land 17 miles north of Asheville. James S. f.ocke, vice president general manager of Micro Switch, made the announcement of the exercising of the option at a luncheon Friday with Asheville Area Chamber and Mars Hill officials. Locke also introduced William A. Kloos, location manager of the new Mars Hill facility. Kloos, a native of Iowa City, Iowa, began his career with Micro Switch in 1958. He has occupied a number of positions with Micro Switch, the most recent being superintendent of stamping and plastics. P. Robert Enzler, manager of operations, said that training of the first group of assemblers would probably begin in late January. Enzler said that he expected basic switch assembly operations to begin by early spring. He estimated that several hun dred employes would probably be hired over the next two years. According to George M. Tisdale, vice president economic development of the Asheville Area Chamber, work with Micro Switch began in February of 1970. "At that time they made an p mwm - fmmm, - ? I V 1 . 1 ' " t. FIC1UALD ALOVE IS true B. BrigtU Hart KM. who was sworn In as District Court Judge (24th District) In tht courtroom hers Monday morning. Judge James E. Holshouser, Sr. of Boone.-retiring District Court Judge, administered the oath. Judge Briggs donned his robs for the first time while standing under the picture of the late Judge Jeter Prtlchard. , WILLIAM A. KLOOS, a native of Iowa City, Iowa, has been named location manager of Micro Switch, at Mars Hill. He began his career at Micro Switch in 1958 after earning a degree in labor and management from the University of Iowa. He has occupied a number of positions in personnel and manufacturing. His most recent position was superintendent of stamping and plastics. intensive study of the Asheville area. Plans ad vanced to the point that representatives of Asheville Buncombe Technical Institute went to Freeport, 111., to help develop training programs for the planned shift of operations," Tisdale said. "However the national economic downturn caused them to shelve expansion plans," he concluded. Work was renewed in September of this year. Tisdale added. uU' .3, h Tisdale applauded the successful efforts of those involved in the negotiations. Dr. Fred Bentley, president of Mars Hill College; Dr. William P. Powell, mayor of Mars Hill; James H. Glenn, chairman of the Chamber's Economic Development Committee and Philip R. Elam, director of theChamber Economic Development' Department. Several key Micro Switch executives, who will transfer to the Mars Hill plant, and their wives, were with the party. James Glenn told the wives that if they determine to come to Western North Carolina "Something won derful is going to happen to you." He cited his own ex periences in coming to Asheville from Charlotte 12 years ago. Enzler said that Micro Switch had studied a number of cities as a possible plant location site. He added that the determining factor had been the type of people he had met in Western North Carolina, and the extensive cooperation company officials had received here. He added that the basic philosophy was based on manufacturing an extremely high equality product, and that to achieve this, high quality employes were sought. He said Micro Switch manufactured over 30,000 types of switches. Honeywell, Inc., is a leading manufacturer of controls and computers with annual sales in excess of $2 billion. Westco Gets $l-Million REA Loan Rep. Roy A. Taylor an nounced Thursday a loan of (1,008,000 from the Ad ministration to Westco Telephone Company of Weaverville, for improvement of its service area. The money will be used to upgrade existing service to one and four-party lines in the Sevier, Glenwood-Providence . and Garden City exchanges to replace the present one to i eight-party arrangement v to ' ; finance facilities to serve $37.- ; . additional subscribers, to construct SI miles of new line, V and to expand existing toll f facflities. v "C: V V ""'': , . i - The counties served by ;' Westco in North Carolina are -Cherokee, Clay, Graham, McDowell, Madison, Mitchell, , and Yancey, and in Georgia, Rabun County. Court Judgments rendered in superior court here last week include : Larry Joseph Strickland, DUI, guilty plea, $50 and costs; General Grant Cook, , DUI, nol pros; Bulah Rice, DUI, mistrial; Clarence Thelbo Robinette, DUI.guilty plea, $50 and costs; Frank Cutshall, B 4 E, custody elsewhere; Joe Ross Chan dler. BE&L, not guiltv: Robert English, robbery, guilty, 20-24 years in prison; Jerry Roberts, robbery, nol pros; Billy English, robbery, 5 years in youthful defendant's camp; L.H. Cutshall, motion, 4 Hurt, One Critically In 2-Car Wreck Sat. Four persons were injured, at least one of them critically, in a two-car collision on U.S. Highway 25 By-pass a mile northeast of here at 6: 10 p. m. Saturday. Trooper J. L. Hall said William Buckner, 51, of Weaverville, was critically injured when his vehicle, headed south on the highway, collided head-on with another vehicle operated by Miss Shelia Ann West, 18, of Marshall. Hall said charges against Miss West, who was repor tedly headed north and making a left turn into Plemmons Truck Stop on the highway at the time of the accident, were pending Buckner 's condition at the hospital. The injured were taken to Memorial Mission Hospital by the Madison County Rescue Squad. Both drivers were injured along with a passeiigei in each vehicle. Horticulture 3rd Place Won By Cutshall Vicky Tavlor of Rt. 3. Robbinsville, a 17-year-old Graham County 4-H Club member, was named Monday night as top winner of the 1972 Western North Carolina Horticultural Crops Contest. She received the $100 first prize for her trellised cucumber project. Announcement of the winners of the annual contest among area 4-H Club and Future Farmers of America members was made at a meeting of the Horticultural Crops Commission of the Asheville Agricultural Development Council in Bailey's Cafeteria, Westgate. Awards totaling $225 were presented by Robert Hyatt, Buncombe extension agent and chairman of the contest committee. Steve Cutshall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Cutshall, of Riddle Farm Road near Marshall, won third place in the contest Steve is an active member of the 4-H Club. Train Strikes Fallen Car; Driver Uninjured A car went off VS. 29 down a straight drop onto the Southern Railway tracks near here Sunday and a westbound freight train ground it to bits, but the driver escaped before then-ambit. Sheriff Ponder said Rickey Worley. It, of Rt I, Marshall, was driving west on tLS. IS north of the by-pass when apparently '' a , tire ' blew throwing me car out of cob , brd. It bar Bed ever the edge of " me road, down a 234oot In" front of a train heading west, he said. - r. - . ; Tht youth was able to get ' out of the car and off the tracks before the e-ain hit his car, -the sheriff said. Re suf fered only a scratch on the forehead in the m; p. : Ponder qt::i the train crew.englnMf CturVm t'ack of Knoxvl'.'.e, Ten., -i conductor R. C. Crm-- f KmrvC;e es - : S' t r Results continued to Avery County to be heard today (Thursday); Jerry Dale Hunter, assault on female, judgment, two year sentence, suspended for S years, $1000 to defendant and costs; Carolyn Pressnell, murder, non-suited; George G. Richardson, DUI, guilty plea, $50 and costs; Joe Ross Chandler, BE&L, not guilty; Jack Michael Brown, DUI, not guilty; Russell Douglas Staton, manslaughter, guilty plea, $2500 and costs. 31 cases were continued. Court adjourned last Friday afternoon with Judge Sam Ervin III, presiding. The others injured were Roy K. Pike, 31, of Rt. 3, Weaverville, a passenger in the Buckner vehicle; and Miss Helen C. West, 16, sister of Miss Sheila West Hall said Buckner and Pike were returning home from a deer hunting trip in the Rich Laurel section of Madison County when the West vehicle allegedly made a left turn in front of their car. "The Crucible" At Mars Hill This Week-End "The Crucible," Arthur Miller's stark drama of the Salem "witch trials," will be given here Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday by the theatre arts division of Mars Hill College. The play deals with the emotional frenzy of people accusing and being accused of the unprovable charge of witchcraft. It is based on the 17th century Puritan "witch hunt" in Massachussetts when, as during the Spanish Inquisition, non-conformers were persecuted as heretics. Director C. Robert Jones noted that Miller wrote "The Cruicible" in 1952 in reaction to the Communist "witch hunts" led by Joseph Mc Carthy. "We still live in an era of 'witch hunts,' " Jones said. But the central issue of the play, he said, is not the trials but man's struggle for honor. "The hero, John Proctor, is everyman who takes s position and will not be in timidated." Proctor is played by Brock Henry, a senior religion major from Martinsville, Va. Other principal characters are Proctor's wife, Elizabeth, in which Janet Whisnant of Asheboro and Becky Comptan of Greenville, S. C, are double casted, and Abigail Williams, the leader of the teenaged girls who "cry-out" witches, played by Joy McManus of Granite Falls. Performances of "The Crucible" will start at 8 p. so. in the Owen Building theater and are open to the public without charge. the car about six car lengths sway, snd the engineer put on the brakes, but the tain went . about six ear lengths over lbs ,-' car, grinding It np, before the s-aln could be stopped. -7 , v AT HOT SPRINGS . . j , v Mars Hill began puffing sway In the third quarter and " went on Is csrture a f "1 victory over Hot Spri l- : boys game wl t!l,:rs : J girls won, 55-33, in f 3 n. : palachian 1-A Ccr ' r 9 . Friday n!' t at llA I. DsvWPrWr" ' " ' i::u t 1 v -V i : r :
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