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Volume 72
Marshall. N. C. Feb. 15, 1973
Numbers
Marshall, Mars Hill Teams Battle
Saturday For County Cage Titles
The Marshall varsity girls
and boys will battle the Mars
HiU varsity girls and boys this
Saturday night in the Marshall
gymnasium for the 1973
Madison County basketball
championship. The girl's
game will start 7 p.m. with the
championship boy's game
scheduled for 9 p m A
capacity crowd is expected to
be on hand
Trie gym is also expec ted to
be packed on Friday night for
the varsity consolation games
i third place i. In the first
consolation game, beginning
at 5 p.m., the I-aurel girls play
the Hot Springs lassies and at
6 30, the Laurel boys battle
the Hot Springs Blue Devils
Also on tap for Friday night
are the finals in the Junior
Varsity bracket The Marshall
girls meet the Mars Hill girls
at 8: 00 and the Marshall boys
collide with Hot Springs boys
at 9 00
Following the championship
games Saturday night, in
dividual and team awards,
trophies and recognitions will
be made
Results of games played last
Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights are as
follows
THURSDAY NIGHT
A second half full-court
press combined with Spring
Creek foul troubles gave the
Hot Springs Blue Devils a
come-from-behmd 84-65
victory over the Tigers in the
first round of the Tournament
Thursday night.
David Cook fired in 23 points
!nd Danny Norton and Marvin
Haggins added 20 apiece to
lead the victory while Roger
Keener netted 23 for Spring
(Yeek
Tern Padgett and I'arn
ITice scored 24 and 21 points,
respectively, to key Hot
Springs to a 58-40 victory over
Spring (Yeek in the girls
contest l.ynn I'lemmons
topped the Spring ( reek at
tack with 11 points
SPRING CRFFK i 65
Moore 11, Keener 23, Balding
13. Kirkpatrick 6. F Willett 2.
K Hunter 2. J Willett 6.
Ducket t 2. Roberts. Payne. D
Hunter
HOT SPRINGS '84 i
Norton 20. Cock 23. Haggins
20, Rathbone 5, Huntsinger 4.
Dillon 12. Fisher. Mellon.
Caldwell, Bynel
Half Spring Creek. .14 .12
G1RI.S
SPRING CKFFK 40- M
Payne 6. Plemmons 11
IedfordS. Woody 3. Waldroup.
S Wells 8. B I'avne 2 Brown.
Balding 2. Trantham. M
We Its
HOT SPRINGS 58.
Jimmy Buck tier
Manager Of
Ga. A&P Store
Jimmy Buckner, popular
assistant manager of the
Marshall A&P store left
Monday for McCaysville. Ga ,
where he has been promoted
to manager of the McCaysville
AfltP store He will begin his
duties as manager im
mediately following the
retirement of its present
manager, W C Goss
Mrs Buckner and their two
children will move to Mc
Caysville this week-end from
their bom on the Marshall
Walnut highway
Buckner has been
associated with the Marshall
store for more than seven
years and was active in civic
and religious affairs in this
area. He served as assistant
pastor of the Walnut Baptist
Church and was ordained on
February 4.
Hia wife is the former Miss
Detfic Davit, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Oeophas Davit, of
Anderson Branch.
. "We regret losing Mr.
Buckner hart and we with for.
him every success in hit new
location," W. H. "Dub" Deal,
I manager, stated.
Padgett 24, Price 21, Barnett
7, Strom, Wills 3, Dillon 2.
Swaney, Wilson, Goforth 1
Half: Hot Springs, 24-18
JV; Marshall girls 27.
laurel girls 25
FRIDAY NIGHT
Marshall High School pulled
off the first surprise in the
tournament Friday night with
a 52-42 upset over l-aurel, a
team which had won two
previous seasonal games with
McCurry Is
Hunter Safety
Instructor
Recently the North Carolina
Wildlife Resources Com
mission assumed the role of
administering a Hunter Safety
program in North Carolina A
great many states now require
tins same course before a
hunting license is issued, but
as of now this is not a
requirement in this State
For many sears the Com
nussion has been presenting
Hunter Safety programs on a
limited basis, but as of
January 1972 a special group
of officers was assigned to
administer this program by
utilizing Wildlife Commission
personnel and qualified
volunteers that could teach
Hunter Safety to young people
and adults
Although the course is not
mandatory in this State, it is
being offered by the Com
mission and the graduation
certificates that are issued are
honored in all other states
where this program is man
datory In trying to place qualified
instructors in every area of
the State so that everyone will
have the benefit of receiving
this worthwhile course of
instruction, the Wildlife
Resources Commission an
nounces the appointment of
Dennis McCurry. PO Box
102. Mars Hill, as qualified
Hunter Safety instructor after
having completed an in
structors' training school and
demonstrating the
qualifications necessary to
instruct others in the art of
Hunter and Firearms Safety
Mr McCurry will be
available to assist in the
planning or presentation of
Hunter Safety programs in
this area as a service to the
public and to further promote
safe gun handling practices to
everyone.
THE TWO NEW BUILDINGS under constrwctloa oa
Mart Hill College campus the College Union f top)
ad CoraweD Hal) were more thaa three-fourth
completed when the first heavy snow of the winter
fell ia early January. The contractors " have
promised fan completion by early spring, and
college officials are planning "open noose ac
tivities In both structures during commencement
weekend. May iMnv The College t'nion. a tl.l
the Tornadoes
The Marshall girls also
advanced in the tournament,
whipping laurel 53-44.
BOYS
l-AURKI. i 42 i - Shelton 2,
Anthony 6, J Gunther 2,
Norton, Franklin 10, I,.
Shelton 4, Cantrell 2. King, R
Shelton, Chandler 16. 1)
Gunther
MARSHALL i 52 I Adams
8, Briggs 13. I.ivesay 6, Mash
bum, Rice 9, Freman 7, Cody.
Brazil 2, Ramsey, Robiason,
B Ramsey, Webb May hew 7
Half Marshall. 21-15
GIRLS
I-Al'KFI. i 44 i C John
son. Cutshall 6. Gunther,
Hensley 17. G Shelton, C.
Shelton 5, Ramsey 8. Norton 6,
I, Cantnll 2, K Cantrell, P.
Norton
MARSHALL . 53 i Fisher
21. McDevitt, Wyatt. Glenn 4,
Rector 2. Re-id 18. Goforth 8,
Davis
Hit If Marshall. 25-21
JV Game Marshall 41-26.
SATl RDAY NIGHT
Mars Hill put four men in
double figures and coasted to
an 89-54 victory over Hot
Springs Saturday night in the
semifinals of the Madison
County Tournament ,
The Mars Hill attack was
paced by Jim Roberts with 17.
while Mike Osteen added 16
Corn To We
Discussed At
Meeting Here
Anyone interested in the
latest recommendations on
the management and
production of corn is urged to
attend a special session
February 20. at 7 30 p m . in
the County Courthouse A I)
Stuart, Kxtension Agronomy
Specialist i Corn i. will be the
discussion leader Topics to be
discussed are i 1 1 Varieties
(or silage and grain i 2 1
Fertilizer recommendations
and procedures i3i Control of
i orn insects and diseases 4
.lohnsongrass control '5' Seed
grades, germination, survival
and pricing 6 1 Seed
availability and prices ex
pec ted in 1973 i 7 1 Pros ami
i ons of sod planting B
(Question and answer period
There were several
problems in the corn crop ov er
the county last year to which
Mr Stuart can provide an
answer
Hot Springs' Marvin Haggins
took game scoring honors with
29
The Mars Hill girls also
advanced through the
semifinals by chopping down
Hot Springs, 61-11), behind the
18 point barrage of Yvonne
Coates Tern Padgett pitched
in 26 for Hot Springs
The Madison County finals
will be held next Saturday at
the Marshall gym The Mars
HiU and Marshall boys will
fight it out at 9 p m , while the
girls' teams from the same
two schools will meet at 7 p.m.
THE ABOVE picture looks like a earthquake has
just about demolished the back of Coal, Feed &
Lumber Company building on L'pper Bridge Street
here. However, repair is underway on the building
which was struck early Saturday morning, Jan. 22,
1972:, by a Southern Railway freight train which
derailed with 17 freight cars involved. Damage will
also necessitate extensive repairing to the front of
the large building.
Tomato (rowers To Meet
In Asheville February 2.'i
The annual meeting of the
North Carolina Trellised
Tomato Growers Association
will be held at the Hobday Inn
West on Friday, February 23,
in Asheville Your association
officers have planned a very
interesting and informative
program for the one-day
meeting Topics to be
discussed include tomato
marketing for 1973 by various
sales representatives for Die
urea, functions of your
association for the past yeai
bv H F Cathey, and the main
address will be given lv
Congressman Roy A Taylor
Several equipment anc1
supply dealers furnishing
tomato production items for
the area will have eihibits
available for farmers to look
million project of Enginecra-Constrnctors.' Inc. of
KnoxviUe, wedges interestingly between the science
building (left), the cafeteria and the football
stadium.- Cornwell Hall, a combination of
classrooms and faculty offices, occupies a strategic
position facing the little circle at the center of the
campus.1 A flS7,SOf project of Buncombe Con
struction Co, It ts named for trustee George T. .
Corawell If of Morgaaton.
MARS HILL-HOT SPRINGS
BOYS
MARS HILL (89) Price
12, Osteen Robinson 7, Church
7, Fox 3, Ponder 8.
HOT SPRINGS i 54 1
Norton 4, Cook 16, Roberts 17,
Walks 6, Plemmons 11, Dillon
5
Half Mars Hill, 41-30
GIRLS
MARS HILL (61 ) - Brady 2.
Coates 18, Moss 2, Norton 6, J
Robinson 12, L. Robinson 11.
Wheeler 1, Wood 5, Yelton 1
HOT SPRINGS (40)
Padgett 26, Price 3, Barnett 4,
"1 J &m -ijrrj
at and discuss with them
All Madison County tomato
growers are urged to attend
this meeting to help promote
trie tomato industry in our
area
Registration for the
February 23 meeting will start
at 9 00 am and the last
session will Ik- at 3 00 p m
( .ourthouse
Ttt (.lose
Mon day
It lias been announced that
offices in the courthouse will
be closed next Monday in
observance of George
Washington s birthday
Wilson 2,
Mars Hill,
Goforth
29-11.
Boys Jv
l-aurel 36
Girls Jv.
Hot Springs 40,
Mars Hill, 24-15.
Educational
Checkloan
Available
educational Checkluan, a
program developed by First
Union National Bank to assist
middle income families who
may not qualify for govern
ment or other financing in
meeting the cost of college,
was announced today by R.
Bryce Hall, the bank's city
executive in Marshall.
Educational Checkloan
provides a pre-approved line
of credit from $500 to $10,000
for up to four years of college
The maximum credit for any
one year is $2,500. Repayment
can be extended up to 72
months, allowing parents to
comfortably budget
educational expenses
This is the first educational
loan program in North
Carolina which allows the
customer to control use of the
funds The parent is provided
with a special checkbook
which is used to pay
educationally related ex
penses The parent uses the
funds only as needed and pays
interest only on the funds
used
Simple interest is charged
on the funds used baaed on the
average daily balance. The
parent will receive a monthly
billing statement showing all
activity on the account, in
cluding interest charged. The
parent may cut his total cost
by paying any amount in
excess of his minimum
monthly payment
Kdurational Checkloan is
not limited to college It will
be available for educational
expenses on all levels; schools
will not be limited
geographically Borrowers,
however, must be residents of
of North Carolina
It is estimated that the cost
of four years of college ranges
from $4,000 to $20,000 Only
half of the parents have saved
any money to meet this ex
pense, and amounts saved are
usually insufficient to meet
the costs
Educational Checkloan will
be marketed primarily
through FCNB statewide
offices and college financial
advisors High School
guidance counselors will be
made aware of the program
Wills 3,
Half
Newcomer's Bits And
Pieces On Paint Fork
BY SARAWIU. BF.IXAMY
Route 2, Mars Hill. N.C.
April 1972 the first time I
ever ventured onto Madison
County soil was an experience
of love at first sight This
January I. with my husband
and two boys. Will and Dan.
moved permanently to the
Paint Fork Community
We were without water in
our new houe for two weeks
to appreciation must be ex
tended to Mr Ievi Hunter
down at the Esso Station who
kept us supplied with delicious
spring water
Mrs Jo Franklin just across
the road epitomizes 1 ,ove thy
neighbor as thyself' She's
shared everything with us
from her mailbox to delicious
homemade kraut. My sons
Sunk her oranges taste better
than any others.
Mrs Badie Eta Gardener,
another good neighbor,
teaches the Uttle Folks
Sunday School Class at Paint
Fork Baptist Church. She and
the other members nave
'plhered us four Methodists to
to visit with than In the
Baptist fold. Reverend joe
Coffey the pastor.
tst week I mat Mr.
Clarence MetcaX via a wrong .
telepbooe number and
SHIRLEY BROOKS. District Clerk-Typist is
presented a Certificate of Merit by District Ranger
Bobby Brady, I'. S. Forest Service, Hot Springs.
Brady said Mrs. Brooks also received a Quality Pay
Increase for her high quality job performance.
Low-Income, Senior
Citizens Tax Returns
Prepared Free By VITA
Students of Mars Hill
c ollege will help area tax
payers prepare their 1972
Federal income lax returns
accurately and without
charge. Approximately four
students have been trained by
the IRS to qualify them as
volunteer income Lax assistors
l VITA i in advising and
assisting low-income and
senior citizen taxpayers with
their tax returns
The upt urning schedule of
VITA sessions in this area is
as follows
Spillcorn Head Start Center
each Monday i February 19
April 9 - J 00 - 5 00 p.m
Hot Springs Center each
Tuesday ( February 20-Apnl
10 2 00-3 00 p.m.
Meadow Fork Community
Center each Tuesday
(February JO-April ! 2 00
4:00 p m.
Laurel Clinic - each
Wednesday i February 14
April 11) 1:00-5 00 p.m.
The Opportunity Cor
poration i Memorial Park
Building ) each Thursday
vil (iniss
It eporl
The Asheville Area Chapter
uf the American Red Cross
reports that during the month
of January, eighteen units of
blood were donated by
residents of Madison County
Nine of these units were
replacements
The Red Cross. Service to
Military Families Depart
ment handled six cases for
Madison County All of these
cases were for servicemen
A Red (Yoss Water Safety
Instructor Course began at
Mars Hill College on February
1 A Basic First Aid Course
began in February at the Hot
Springs Clinic
discovered he was on my
party line His parents. Mr
and Mrs Herbert E Metcalf.
celebrated their 52nd wedding
anniversary Friday.
February 9. 1973 .
Paint Fork Community
wouldn't be the same without
the Oscar Andersons They
celebrated their 57th wedding
anniversary on Monday.
February 5, 1973 People from
Asheville and from out of state
stop by to inquire if their
picturesque 2-story white
house is for sale. It's no
wonder as they keep the house
and grounds immaculate.
One of our 11th grade
students, Danny Metcalf.
missed over a week of school
due to the vims. The flu has
virtually made the rounds
here.
Huff Now In
New Location
Joseph B. Huff, prominent
Marshall ' attorney, has
relocated his law office and ia
now ia the offices formerly
occupied by Solicitor Clyde M.
Roberts, near the First Union
National Bank.
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i February 15-Apnl 12 1 1 (Xt
5 00 p in
Taxpayers who plan to
attend VITA sessions should
bring with them the tax
packages they received in the
mail as well as all pertinent
records and documents, such
as F orms W-2 and statements
showing interest and
dividends received
While VITA assistors have
been trained primarily to help
with the short form 1040A,
they can assist taxpayers who
use the Form 1040 provided
the return is not complex. The
students can assist senior
citizen taxpayers with the
retirement income credit
computation
Mars Hill Civitan Club
Is Active Organization
The Mars Hill Civitan Club
met on Tuesday, February 6
and heard about the Youth
Conference on Human
Relations held last summer at
the Central Carolina Civitan
(enter, Inc in Hen
dersonville Reverend I-arry
Freeman, Director of the
Conference, and Charles
Misenheimer, lYesidentof the
Center, told the club about the
program last year and then
explained the program for the
summer of 1973. The Mars Hill
Club plans to send two rising
seniors at Mars High School to
the conference next summer
On Saturday, February 3,
Dick Hoffman, Fred Diercks.
John Hough, Fred Dickerson,
Ralph Ie, Jim Fish, Joe
Codwin, Bob Edwards, and
Harold Kepthart attended the
Western District Meeting in
lexington As a result of their
attendance. District Governor
Ralph I,ee was presented an
award from the largest
delegation by a club and an
award for the largest per
centage of membership of any
club attending the District
Meeting
The club has had interesting
programs during the winter
with representatives of the
Mars Hill College basketball
team, the Mars HiU High
School boys basketball team,
and the Mars Hill High School
girls basketball team ap
pearing before the group. The
Christmas Party was held at
the Wolf Laurel Restaurant on
Bald Mountain Sigsbee Duck
entertained the group with
music, and then Governor
Elect Paul Ridenhower gave
an audio-visual presentation
on the 4'C Conference at
HendersonviUe.
In January, the two
meetings included Civitan
Harrell Wood discussing his
January Term course in
Health Education and Miss
Sue Fitzgerald relating her
duties as Director of Christian
Education. The latter was a
part of Qvttan Clergy Week
which la an effort by Civitan
' International to . honor the
, work of the ministry
throughout the world.
In addition to Its meetings,
; the Mars lli'J Clvitans hve
. sold 360 bags of trick or treat
, candy, X4 cans of peamit
'brlt'Je. m boxes of mtted
nuts, and 435 pouMs of f - t
cake. AS a resuH of t -e
Mars Hill
Students
Are Cited
Two Mars Hill High School
students have been selected as
Outstanding Teenagers of
America for 1973, according to
Fred I Dickerson, principal.
Selection fot the Out
standing Teenagers awards
program automatically
qualifies these students for
further stale, regional and
national honors and
scholarships totaling $7,000
Local nominees are Linda K
Robinson. Daughter of Mr
and Mrs J F Robinson, and
Sandra I) Roberts, Daughter
of Mr and Mrs Harold
Roberts
Nominated by their prin
cipals, the Outstanding
Teenagers of America are
chosen from individual
schools across the country for
excellence in academic
achievement and community
service The local students
will now vie for the Out
standing Teenager of the Year
Trophy to be presented by the
state's governor. Similar
trophies will be presented to
the winners in other states.
The state winners are selected
by the Outstanding Teenager
Awards Selection Committee,
in cooperation with the Board
of Advisors.
The 51 state winners wiU be
eligible for awards totaling
$7,000 One boy and one girl
will be chosen for national
scholarships of $1,000 each to
be used at the college or
university of their choice. Ten
regional winners will also be
selected from the remaining
state winners to receive $500
regional scholarships.
projects and the Halloween
Carnival the club made a
donation to the Mars Hill
Handi -School and will be able
to send high school students to
tile 4 C's Conference
("all For Your
Pictures Here
Pictures published in this
newspaper are piling up and
many persons might want the
originals to keep If you will
come by the office we will be
glad to let you have them.
Pictures include bridges,
engagements, groups, etc.
If someone doesn't call soon,
many of these pictures will be
destroyed or lost.
The Fditor
On Dean's List
Two students from Marshall
attained the dean's list at the
University of North Carolina
at Greensboro during the first
semester which ended
recently
They are Unda R. Revis,
German major, daughter of
Mr and Mrs. Ted T. Revis, Rt.
2. and Sharon M. Sluder, early
childhood education major,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Lon
F Sluder, Rt 5, both of
Marshall.
Walnut New
Mr. and Mrs. Joe tough
miller and daughter at
Asheville spent the woox-ena
wtm Mrs. uougranuin """
Mrs. Charle Marttn. Vlattlnf
Mrs. Martin also on Sunday
afternoon were her sister,
Mrs. Ben Howie and two
children from Erwta, Tena.
MSss Unda Boyd and H. U
Hunter were married in
Veaverville on Sunday niht,
January 2s. The Rev. 4. G.
Wee conducted the ceretnory.
The bride Is the daT of
' Mr. and Mrs. PJumrvr r - 1
' of Rt 7 Marshall. On r '.r '
night Unda was b.:. (j
household s'wt t t
R.E.A. Bui; !g in J '
'Edgar Bcnir-T. v i f
been a patient in A
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