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TTT. P,,, Thursday. Dt. 14. W7I The Newt-Record The News-Record j editorial W :i67 MARSHALL N. C 2873.1 ; NON-PARTISAN IN POLITICS PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS. INC. Soodel.pri.l.t"or.l. MilM, H. C. 28753 JAMES I STOBV Editor Subscription Rates Subscription Rates In Madison Outside Madison Solid Waste Disposal System 15 Mos $4.50 15 Mos $9.00 12 Mos 4.00 12 Mos 8.00 8 Mos 3.50 6 Mos 6.00 6 Mos 3.00 4 Mos 4.00 4 Mos ...2.50 (Add 4 tax For All in No. Car. AIR MAIL 40 C Per Week , Medicaid Recipients To Pay Fee For Treatment North Carolina's Board of Social Services has adopted regulations that will require Medicaid recipients to pay from 1 to $3 toward the cost of their treatment A board spokesman said the plan would reduce govern ment spending by $5.9 million. Medicaid patients now receive treatment at no personal expense. Beginning in January, Medicaid patients will be required to pay $1 on every drug prescription; $2 for each visit to dental or mental health clinics; and $3 on each purchase of eyeglasses or other optical supplies. Individuals classified as "medically needy" also would be required to pay $2 for in patient and out-patient hospital visits and $2 for an office visit to a physician. Individuals classified as "medically needy" also would be required to pay $2 for in patient and out-patient hospital visits and 12 for an office visit to a physician. This Includes those in- djriitr1 whose (incomes (7 make them Ineligible for welfare, but are insufficient for targe medical bills. Welfare recipients will not be required to pay for hospital expenses or a doctor's care. The 1971 General Assembly authorized a copayment plan that would put part of the cost burden on the Medicaid recipient. State officials estimate that about 300,000 persons are eligible for Medicaid in North Carolina. The Medicaid program was started in North Carolina two years ago. It has grown from an outlay of $94 million in fiscal 1971 to an estimated $124 million this fiscal year. Servicemen JAMES L. HUFF James L. Huff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Huff of Mars Hill has been com missioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer Training School (OTS) at Lackland AFB, Tex. Lieutenant Huff, selected for OTS through competitive examination, is being assigned to Vance AFB, Okla., for pilot training. The lieutenant, a 1968 graduate of Mars Hill High School, received his B. S. degree in 1972 from North Carolina State University Our Store Is I Chocked Full I Of Useful S 1 IbUilUUQU.vdU SIFTS i 1 i t For The Entire Family Record Player Television Sets Transistor Radios Electric Irons Hair Dryers Tricycles - Wagons - Toys All Kinds of Electrical Appliances Hundreds of Useful Gifts For The; - " Home To Add Comfort I ValMo-Wall CarpetLif . Rugs i ; USED PIANOS by Lawrence B. Burwett, Health Director Several years ago when introduced as the new Health Director for Madison County to a Civic Sro I was asked by a participant at the meeting what the Health Department was going to do about the "garbage problem" in the county. By way of this question, I was introduced to a community-wide problem, the dimensions of which were not difficult to describe. One only needs to drive along the main traffic routes and the small winding rural roads in the county to see that the landscape is sporadically dotted with piles of garbage and refuse thrown over the banks and into the stream and gullies Ac cumulation of abandoned cars pushed off the hillside and into the rivers highlight the problem even more. Local businesses and private home owners alike have expressed time and again frustration over getting their garbage and refuse collected and disposed of in some sensible fashion. Over the last couple of years, the dynamics of this problem have emerged, which relate to an expanding rational economy with an emphasis on a wide variety of disposable containers and wrappers, a strained local county budget which prohibits development and maintenance of sufficient collection, disposal, and landfill system, and Federal and State governments, which up to now provide lip service to mandates for a cleaner environment with little or no financial backing these mandates. After having become acquainted with tne magnitude of the "garbage problem" in Madison County, a community effort was initiated to determine and to recommend some solutions to the problem. Because Madison County is so extremely rural and sparsely populated in many of its areas, it was felt that in lieu of providing a house-to-house collection service, it would be more advisable to develop a system whereby those residents in the rural areas could take their garbage and refuse to a convenient pick-up point, which then would be hauled to a central landfill operation under proper management and supervision. Thus developed the idea of the "little green box" or Dempsty Dumpster, which would be placed within strategic areas throughout the county for such collection purposes This system has been in operation in other areas of the South and is now in operation within fifteen of thirty-five counties of Western North Carolina. After the development of this plan, two efforts were initiated simultaneously: the determination of funding sources and the determination of desirability by the residents of Madison County for such a system. The latter was undertaken by a group of enthusiastic students at Mars Hill College during a summer internship, who made a county-wide survey to determine the need and desirability for such a program. They were also solicited in the survey to determine the location of the many roadside dumps throughout the county. Their sur veys revealed overwhleming support by the citizens of Madison County for such a program, even if it meant the raising of local taxes and the iden tification of the roadside dumps throughout the county. A map was used in the location of these dumps with a red pin implanted into the map to indicate the site of each dump. The map soon developed into a solid mass of red pins showing the extent of these dumps. The effort to determine the sources of funding was not so successful, however, in spite of enumerable trips- to Federal and State offices. The story was always the same enthusiastically interest but no money at any level. Not even the Appalachia Regional Commission was very supportive. During the recent elections, two major events occurred. The local Commissioners running on the Democratic ticket took a special interest in this problem and made a firm commitment to its solution. The second event occurred at the Federal level with the approval by Congress of the Revenue Sharing Act, returning to the states ad the counties some of their tax monies. On December 4, the County Commissioners approved this plan which had been so long in planning, and also approved the use of revenue sharing funds as a major means to implement the program. During the meeting, it was frequently noted that the county could not afford to wait much longer in determining the solution to this problem, since the problem was getting worse by the day, and the county had been instructed by the State to have such a plan in operation by January of 1974. Much work remains to be done in getting the program underway but now that the commitment and the decision have been made to address this problem, we can soon look forward to the day when Madison County has an operating solid waste disposal system under the management of the BSShDepartment. We can also look forward to the day when our citizens can drive along the roads or fish and hunt in the woods without being utterly disgusted at the unsightly collection of roadside and gullW "garbage dumps" spoiling the scenery and U threatening the environment The future economic . development of Madison County,: in many ways, "C dr r?on the quality of the municipal services V' - its government makes available to Its citizens - ' ar"i"t3 tha tourists, and . commercial .industries "' W to locate Into the county. Let us hope that . 'c.jj pre cram can get underway as soon as possible with as little deUy asnecessaiy.,r-v;yi Blacks moving back home By PAUL HARVEY Reverse mlgraUon confirmed. Blacks who'd left South and moved oorthiieeking opportunity are moving back South and are discovering that's where it's at The Wall Street Journal has documented the backhome movement of blacks and has followed some of thenv Harold Jones moved from Chicago to Memphis. He said, The South is in the beginnings of industrialisation. Blacks can get in on the ground door and move up. "And " he says "living is cheaper." Josh Conely left his postal service Job up North toretire in Greenville, Miss. He says, "I made more money up ftere but hsd to spend more on locks for my doors. My wife was scared even to go to church at night" Lawrence Wade moved from Chicago to Memphis; says, we blacks are a majority in many Southern counties; this is a base on which to build." 4-H Achievement VxQgrn HM; Winners Announced Joe Arlington, attorney, after a decade in Syracuse, N. Y., returned toGeorgia. He says, "I moved North seeking freedom to discover there is no such thing." nan lane lived in Boston during the Sixties, went to Nashville to attend Vanderbiltjtayed. He says, "Up North store clerks resent having to serve you; down here they say, 'How are you today?' and 'Y'all come back, y'hear.' John Forte, Jr., weary after a day clearing brush for a homestead in Forest, Miss., says, "It's still a lot better than the Los Angeles smog and rat race. It's peaceful here. You can see yourself getting ahead here." Black communes are fizzling out, but black industry isn t In Greene County, Ala., where blacks won practically all political offices two years ago, where then there was one fac tory, now there are three and two more on the way. On paper this couldn't happen. The Census Bureau says black Americans have made the most gains in education, income and job opportunities in Northern states; in those regions they now have incomes comparable to whites. Indeed, in those regions young black working wives earn 30 per cent more than their white counterparts. (I can't explain that but that's what the Census Bureau says ) Yet what looks like greener grass north of the fence And first-generation emigrants always feel "away from hAnd mere is another factor the migrants of the Sixties did not anticipate. , . A soul brother In a West Side Chicago bar said it simply, eloquently: "We got this neighborhood. We got most of the houses, most of the businesses and most of the political offices. We got no black-white problems any more. But we got black white problems any more. But we got black-black trouble like you never saw in Alabama. Soon as I can save bus fare, I'm going home." Copyright 1972, Gen. Fea. Corp. School Bus Information For County The Annual Madison County 4-H Achievement Program was held Sunday, Dec. 3, from S until 4 p.m. at the Mars Hill High School Auditorium. Featured speaker for the event was Bruce Briggs who gave a most Informative talk on the attributes of 4-H. Awards were presented to the county project winners by 4-H adult leaders as follows: Clothing I: Felicia Bishop First; Lisa Riddle-Second. Clothing II: Cynthia N lies First; Faith Wise Second. Clothing HI: Susan Frisby First; Brenda Brinkley Second. Music and Stories with Children: Vickie Merrill First, Anna Lou Silver Second. Crafts: Jeff Riddle, First, Virginia Wyatt Second. Canning I: Anna Lou Silver First; Barbara White Second. Canning II: Vickie Merrill First. Living in a Family: Karen Rice First. Tricks for Treats: Wendy Sams First; Michael Davis-Second. , Adventures in the Kitchen: Peggy Sexton First; Amy Merrill Second. Frozen Foods; Lisa Rid dleSecond. All American Foods; Diana Wills-First; Faith Wise Second. Meals for Today: Diana Wills First; Susan Frisby Second. A Place for Everything: FeUcta Bishop-First WW LsUwvwi U w EH Club Schedule n ( : Thursday, Dec. lt-Pata v Fork EH Club v U meet at , 7-33 pjn. Mr. M. L, Andrews wJ do a special program for. - the group.,., jy2y Friday, Dec. 15-Sleepy Valley EH Dub will hold its annual Christmas party in the Community Center at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16 Utile Pine EH Club will meet with Mr. and Mix Howard Payne for their family Christmas party at :30 .m. r Tuesday, Dec 19-Bailey . Branch EH Oub will meet at 7:30 pjn, in the Marshall Library. Mrs. Linda HarreQ . will do the program. Wednesday, Dec. 20 Mars K31 EH Oub wifl meet with Mrs. Hodge at 2 p.m. for their annual Christmas meeting. 1 It cost (th , Carolina , taxpayers 18 cents a day to transport a child to school during 1971-72. Sixty-six per cent of the public school children rode the bus to class during the year, a total of 722,714. That's an increase of nearly seven per cent over the previous year. The figures are from the 1971-72 statistical report on transportation prepared by the State Board of Education. The average school bus carried 67 pupils each day and made 1.75 trips per day. The average bus traveled 38.9 miles per day for a yearly total of 7,068 miles. The total annual mileage for all buses was 73,614,515 miles. Con. Taylor To Be Here Friday A.M. U. S. Rep. Roy A. Taylor of Black Mountain will be at the Madison County Courthouse in Marshall from 9:30 to 10:30 a. m., Friday, Dec. 15, to meet with constituents. Taylor, recently re-elected as representative of the 11th District for his eighth term, Is making one of his regular tours of the entire district to learn the opinions of con stituents, as welt as listen to their problems, before the 93rd Congress opens In January. Taylor said, "I Intend to remain sensitive and responsive to the thinking of the people in the district, and there Is no better way of doing this than personal visits to the (xxnmunihes.'' Taylor's district assistant, TomUMaftmeeofAshevilla, wul accompany . the mwiimmI MaHonee visits each town In the district about v every at -week ; Tayk: iadd, T anf vwy ; .happy to have aa opportunity y to express my appreciation to the dozens of Western North Carolina far their recent support and to listen to their opinions and suggestions." He wiB be visiting towns and 'communities In the 17-county dktrict through Dee. XL 'v r: X - r. l PM- IWnui W "" WMll'rihMH.f nn4ri in lrmwW h "r (faW m !-. Thrrr rr !Htr imaH; m"l k. j.i.-lirj lhrlrr mmrt ntw rf. t .mr ImMh; TW l.r lirhf limr a N4al U tt I M-al. Start With a Small Change: Loretta Barnett Second. Gardening: Ricky Ballard First t J Junior Leadership: Rhonda Sprinkle-First; Marilyn Wyatt-Second. Girts Personal Apearance: Ellen Feldman First; Susan Frisby Second. Photography-1 Advanced : Diane Wallin-Flrst Photography HI: Loretta Barnett First Recreation: Penny Buckner-First; Cynthia Niles Second. Entomology I: Pm Clark-First Entomology II: R'cky Ballard First Bicycle I: Ellen Feldman First; Jeff Riddle-Second. Bicycle II: Tommy DuVall First. Bicycle III: Ronnie Brinkley -First; Rosa Deane Frisby-Second. Career Exploration: Sharon Kent-First; Anna Lou Silver Second. Camping: Virginia WyatU Flrst; Dianne Wallin Second. Communications: Ricky Ballard First Forestry: Jeff Riddle First; Joey Craine Second. Electric I: Sandra Feld-man-First; Penny Buck ner Second. Electric II: Mark Cody First (Boys County Cham pion) Electric Advanced: Jane Rice First (Girls County Champion) 1 V?4w-fr;i 1 AIL 1 1 I iV--J V i itiw t.h There were 10,430 chVwl buses operated in North Carolina during the year and slightly more than 97 per cent of the students who were transported to school rode the bus. ' The cost for this trans portation was $24,411,000, including contract trans portation and replacement buses. The average cost of transportation was $2,225 per bus for the 181 day school year. This breaks down to $12.29 per bus per day, $33.04 per pupil per school year, and 18 cents per pupil per day. The average school bus in North Carolina gets about five and a half miles to the gallon, it costs slightly more than a penny a mile to repair school buses, and It costs about 13 cents a mile to pay the bus drivers salary. In Madison County the number of regular school buses operated during the 1971-72 school year was 61. The buses traveled 481,605 miles and carried 2,424 pupils. The total cost to the system was $165,263.77, or an average of $68.18 per pupil and .3432 per mile. EECOGNIZRTHESE TWO MEN? On the leYt is Ben he appeared a few weeks ago with an 8-monUis growth of beard. On right is Ben as he looks today with his beard shaved off. Ben, who is 53 years of age says he liked the beard but decided to take it off a few weeks ago. "Besides, I look younger without it," he laughingly remarked. Christmas Parties For Schools Tues. The Foster Memorial Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Asheville will hold a Christmas party fot some of the children at the "Marshall school at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, Dec. 19, it was an nounced this week by Bill Ramsey, director of the party. Ramsey also announced that at 1 o'clock on the same day they will give another Christmas party for some of the. children at the Laurel School. For a number of years the Seventh-Day Adventists have been buying shoes for some of the children at the Marshall and Laurel schools as well as for other schools when the funds are available. The Seventh-Day Adventists enjoy a membership of over 2,000,000 who help operate a humanitarian program that reaches around the world Into almost every nation kindred, tongue and peoples. The Rev. G. W. Ambler is pastor of the Foster Memorial Church In Asheville. Dog Preject:, plane Wallln-Flrst t '" Crops: Mark Cody-First; Tommy Duvall Second, Community Program Susan Frisby-First; Janet Reeves Second. Boys Personal Appearance: Lee Sexton First Horse: Meg Pressley First; Eddie Reed Second. Livestock: Warren Wise First; Peggy Rice-Second. Self Determined: Diane Wallln-Flrst; Ricky Ballard Second. Tractor: Michael Silver First. Veterinary Science: Meg Pressley First Wildlife I: John David Kent-First; Pam Clark Second. Wildlife II: Ricky Ballard First; Mark Rector-Second. Woodworking: Mark Cody First; Eddie Reed-Second. Safety: Linda Ledford First; Peggy Sexton-Second. Health: Randy Cody and Cynthia Niles. Special awards were presented by Cynthia Berban, Assistant Home Economics Extension Agent. The Best-Club-of-the-Year-Award was won by the Hayes Run Club, led by Mrs. Nan Wise. Leaders were given certificates of appreciation for voluntary service to the 4-H organization as follows by Gary Ealey, Assistant Agricultural Ex tension Agent: East Fork Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Sprinkle Foster Creek Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Cody Mars Hill Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Feldman Bull Creek Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Garrison, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Merrill Walnut Mrs. Hoyle Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rice Marshall Mrs. Steve Wallin, Mrs. Wade Sexton, Mrs. Louise Hensley, Spring Creek Miss Nancy Clark Pioneer Mrs. Jimmy Davis, Mrs. William George, Mrs. Gerald Young, Mrs. Shelby Buckner, Mrs. Jimmy : nl 1 W nam vjrapcvuR? hub. Clark, Miss Joyce Gosnell Hayes Run Mrs. Earle Wise, Mrs. Wiley DuVall (assisting) Antioch Mr. and Mrs. Neil Barnett Other special awards were presented to Susan Frisby, Lee Sexton, Jerry Cody, Reita Sluder, Jane Rice, J. C. Mclntyre, Vickie Radford, Jake Franklin, Peggy Rice,. Eddie Reed, Cynthia Niles, and Ellen Feldman. The 1972 Tallent Show winners received trophies as follows: Mike Me tea If, Loretta Barnett, Donna and Linda Norton. The certificate "A Friend to 4-H" was presented to French Broad Electric for the support it has given 441. Special thanks are extended to the Mars Hill High School. The News-Record and WMMH Radio. Pharmacy Comment Dentists'Drills GoingOut? How would you like for dentist to throw out all tooth drills? Well, If the news from Tuft University is well founded, two den tlsti there may just have the solution for dispensing with tooth decay drilling. Mysteriously dubbed GK-101, the compound was accidentally discovered two years ago. Since then, the Chemical has been tested on animals, extracted teeth, and In the latest study, on humans. - Plans caB tot Initial dlstri-j button ot the substance-. through dentists. But nurkstins comoany. Na tional Patent Development savs the new Corporation MS "Helo. Nurse, Get the GK-101 1" product may eventually be sold to consumers as nlaoue remover In the form . thej 'of S mouthwash. ttj . f rHRistfiflAS i i i Vt AifTTin ft TT1T TTTT1 HTVi JO. 1 jl jliv V m nT' n HJ PhoM6S-2S9't Some pnKTifHkmt rmt he rrflM. Fntrml Uw Mtt Ihtt mm, prrukmt mtr f rrfi'W mrfrw tmlkHjd br pkracH. Thn tt la rrmirt the puhltt health. 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