Newspapers / The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.) / March 1, 1973, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
mm Volume 72. Marshall. N. C. March 1. 1973 Number 7 Property Reappraisal In County Being Conducted H JAMKS T I.F.DFOKI) Chairman. Madison Count) Commissioners The North Carolina Slate law requires counties to un dertake a (ieneral reappraisal of all taxable proper!) onre e er eight v ears The N ( State law also requires a certified la appraiser to be in i barge of the revaluation and Mr W M Kill Allen, certified appraiser is overseeing all of the revaluation of all proper!) in Madison Count) In Madison Count), thai .ountv -wide revaluation job has been going on for several months, and w ill be completed in time to make a substantial impart on the 1974 tax bills But does this mean that local tax officials in Madison ( ountv must sitback. in the off vears. and impatientlv watch land and development booms-w ithout being able to get anv of those increased values on the tax books until the nexl octennial reap praisal ' It certain!) doesn't mean that Wherever in the . ountv land is being dev eloped, subdivided, or in anv wav improved bv as much as $100 00. it is a continuing part of the lax supervisor and his staff s job to keep labs on what is going on. with v iew to increasing the valuation of individual properties at taxhsting tune each vear The new machinery act of 197' dewnhes onlv nine specific categories of real property-' and no other." the law adds which shall be reappraised for taxation in vears in which no general appraisal or reappraisal is being conducted " Two of these nine categories cover real peropert) which has increased in value bv virtue of improvements or ap purtenant es added, and RF.SOLITION IN HONOR TO ARTHUR M. RAMSKY. D O S. FEBRUARY 21,1973 PICTURED ABOVE Is Mrs. Arthur M. Ramsey, of Marshall, widow of the late Dr. Arthur M. Ramsey, receiving a memorial plaque at the Madison County Health Department Building on Wednesday of last week. Presenting the plaque is James T. Ledford. Chairman Madison County Board of Health. At left is Larry Burwell. Health Director. Madison County Health Department. The Resolution is as follows: WHEREAS: The Madison County Board of Health has directed a gesture of appreciation be made in memory of Dr. Arthur M. Ramsey for his many years of service to the Madison County Health Department, and WHEREAS: Dr. Arthur M. Ramsey served as Chairman of the Madison County Board of Health from April, 1949 until November, 1972, and WHEREAS: Dr. . Arthur M. Ramsey in the capacity as Chairman of the Board of Health was significally instrumental in sponsoring the creation of a Health Department for Madison County and, WHEREAS: Dr. Arthur M. Ramsey during his years of service was a guiding force for the development of Public Health Services to the citizens of the county. - BE IT HERE RESOLVED: That a memorial ' plaque be permanently placed at the Madison County Health Department with the inscription IN CMEMORY OF ARTHUR MORROW RAMSEY; . 1 DD.S., CHAIRMAN, MADISON COUNTY BOARD ; OF HEALTH 1949-1972. 4' , J i ' - James T. Ledford - a. : i Chairman - - - Madison County Board of Health Larry Burwell .. ..',, Health Director ;.-;;"-. .' ' Madison County Health Department 1 , Inch has been div uled into lots that have been sold or offered for sale as lots Other categories cover real propel tv which has increased or decreased in value because of damage or destruction I ire flood circumstances ex ternal In the propert) a daughlrrhou.se built near bv . or a high-priced residential le v rlopmrnl . a change in the acreage allotment of a (arm i oiiimoclitv lie tobacco, or real proper!) which was last ap praised at a figure th.it was inanifestl) unjust .it the time appraised In anv such c ases described in state law the Ho, nil of Kqualiation and Selective Service Boards To Continue Kvcn though draft calls have ended, young men in our slate will still have respon sibilities under the law The Selective Service local boards will continue to function. William H McCachren. North Carolina Slate Inrector ol Selective Service, announced today McCachren said that the Selective Service Act will still require young men to register at age IB and that local draft boards will continue to process some of these young men in order to have a readilv available pool " in the event of a national emergency McCachren added that this slandbv role for Selective Service becomes effective without the lequnement of anv new legislative a tion bv ( nngress The State I hrec toi said that licv lew i an increase or dec rease1 tax valuations on its oven initiative - or the lax paver i an request a decrease The new valuation established bv lax officials is a combination of what the builders, owners or developers report and what tax ottite representatives actual!) see when the) make oii-sight inspec tions and ap praisals During the development pel loci the tax olflce's valuation is based upon o hat s there on January 1 Although iiianv persons mistakenly believe that uu pi ov cmrnts aren't taxable the slandbv role for Selective Service would result in a i educed level of operation across the country Mc Cachren said that the current vear s budget for the System on a national basis would be curtailed bv as much as M percent in the upcoming fiscal vear Assuming approval of these funds by Congress, a substantial reduction in Ihe number of paid Selective Sen-ice employees will be required The total reduction will be from approximately 7.300 employees nationwide to i.'MW employees 'These i educ tions must be ac complished nationwide by lieccmber :tl," McCachren said, and the reductions will ic-sult in uniformly reduced staffing levels for all states McCachren said that it would lie necessary to reduce the number of Selective Service employees in North i arolina Irom 183 to 102 However he pointed out that normal a ti ition would take i are "f many of the necessary i edu tions and that every effort would lie made to assist those employees of the Sv stem w ho fac e termination to find other federal employ ment In order to provide con tinuing service to registrants. McCachren said that most of the states will be c olloc ating man) of their local board administrative sites so that the clerical duties can be handled bv fewer emplovees 'Local boards are still being maintained and Marshall Senior Wounded In Family Dispute David Hazen. 18-year-old son of Mr and Mrs George Hazen. of near Marshall, and a senior at Marshall High School, remains in serious condition in Memorial Mission Hospital where he was ad mitted early last Saturday morning with a gunshot wound in the stomach. Sheriff Ponder indicated the shooting resulted from an argument between the youth and his parents. . Ponder said he was called to the Hazen home on the Marshall-Walnut ... highway about t a.nz and found the youth lying tn the dining room. A- 3 caliber pistol with one spent shell was confiscated at -the borne. Ponder said. : , ". The boy's father was found severely beaten, according U i Ponder, and said the elder Hazen received dispensary , treatment at Memorial Mjcuoh - H'rspital - for head . wwnds. - ' -' - , Ponder quoted , the young . luan's mother as saying she until c omplete If a house Is 'M percent completed on Jan 1. the tax appraisal for that year will lie on halt a house The same goes for much more subslanli.il developments like shopping centers and in dustrial plants Increases in land v alues due to the gciicia! c-c oiictmv and market i onditions in the count) delimited) do not, b) themselves, authorize tax officials to increase land ablations on the laxbooks in the vears between county wide reappraisals Hut the general revaluation now going on will note of the land boom in Madison Count), and of the loc al board members will still be deciding classification requests,'' McCachren added Although the collocation of local board sites may cause registrants to communicate over greater distances in order to contact their boards, almost all board sites which formerly were open on a part time basis will be replaced by collocated boards which will be open for business during normal working hours on all working days of the week " is anticipated that North Carolina will have ap proximately 21 area Selective Service offices across the state when collocation is complete To provide better public access to the collocated ad ministrative sites, the State Director said that registrars will be utilized in all com munities for the convenience of the v oung men who must register, in order to preclude avoidable travel for them Advisors to registrants also are being appointed on a widespread basis to answer questions regarding Selective Service The registrars and advisors to registrants, like the local board members, are not compensated for their services McCachren said that final plans for collocation of ad ministrative sites in North Carolina have not been completed The plans are subject to approval of the I leu ernor was forced to shoot her son after he beat up his father and turned on her Formal charges are being delayed pending the outcome of young Hazen's condition Micro Switch Now Accepting Applications MICRO SWITCH is ac cepting applications for employment at its Mars Hill facility. According to tarry Burda, personnel manager at Mara Hill, the Honeywell division wiQ soon be hiring people for assembly, office . and key pwtch operations. . Burda said the personnel ' office at the former Ham- marlund factory in Mars Hill ' would be "pen from la m. to 4 pm and frnm 7p.m. Ml p.m., Monday through Friday. The skyrocketing cost o i om mercial and residential construction, and the onlv direction the aver.,.', new property appraisal can go is up Some real properly will increase in value, some will decrease and some will stay about the same. Hut the overall county tax base- - the total valuation of all taxable property in the count) - is expected to increase by about a third. Dr. Ieonard Payne Dr. Payne Is Appointed V-P At Perdue Corp. I )i W 1 .eonard Payne was reT'Jy ti((' Vice President. Research and Quality Assurance of Perdue Incorporated by Franklin P Perdue, President Perdue is a Salisbury, Maryland, based poultry company with annual sales of over $80 000,000 and other facilities in Accomac. Virginia, and Statesville, North Carolina In this position Dr Payne is responsible f"i quality assurance. nutrition development, lesearch and the evaluation assay, and testing of ingredients and finished feeds Dr Payne is a native of Walnut He received his BS degree in poultry science and M S degree in poultry nutrition Irom North Carolina Slate I Diversity in Kaleigh and his Ph D. degree in poultry nutrition from the I'niversit) f Maryland )r Pavne is the son of Mr and Mrs Kninntte Payne, of Walnut At Perdue In Payne has served in the apacities of Director of Research, Feed & ('rain Production Manager, Director of Nutrition it Research, and as Director of Quality Assurance Dr Pavne has also con ducted poultry nutrition research work for the Bureau of Commerc ial Fisheries at College Park and has been employed bv North Carolina Slate University as an Ex tension Nutrition Specialist Dr Payne and his wife, the former L.lcuse Redmond of Asheville. and their two children. I .eonard and Nancy, reside in Salisbury and are members of Allen Memorial Baptist Church office will also be open Saturdays during the first two weeks in March from 8 a.m. until noon. After March 17 he said the personnel office would be open during normal plant hours. ? a.m. w 4 p.m,. Monday through Friday. Bill Kloot. Mart' Hill ' location manager, said MICRO SWITCH expects to begin limited assembly s? base ' flwitrhes dorirvt the totter part ( March. ' HAROLD LAYNE MERRILL of Western Carolina Telephone Co. practices cable splicing as part of the course in Fundamentals of Cable Splicing. Merrill recently completed the ten-day course at the Con tinental Telephone Systems Training Center at Ila market. Va. Merrill joined the Continental System in 1969 and is a resident of Mars Hill. Oliver D. Honeycutt of Western Carolina Telephone Co. OEO Shut-down Will Affect Poor In County A shut-down of the anti povertv programs ad ministered by the Opportunity Corporation would have a sLaggenng effect" on the poor of Madison and Buncombe Counties, according to William P Powell, of Mars Hill, chairman of the com munity action agency 's board of directors "Nationwide, the program of the Office of Economic Opportunity has had some shortcomings, but in Madison a'd Blinrcmhe ''mfios .we have had some outstanding successes," Powell said The Atlanta Regional OKI) Office has notified the local agency that there will be no funding for programs financed by OKO after June to No direct weird has been received concerning the fate of programs sponsored by the Opportunity Corporation but funded by other federal agencies, such as Head Start, financ ed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare i HEW i. and Neigh txirhood V'outh Corps, New Careers and Mainstream, funded bv the Department of Uibor Powell, a former state senator, said that while many persons are inclined to discount the value of the anti poverty program, it has put a lot of people to work who never had a job before and it has kept a lot of young people in school who otherwise would have had to go to work for $1 an hour In Madison. Powell said, the Wages Will Increase To SI 4,000 Average By 1980 Wages in North Carolina will increase to an average annual rate exceeding $14,000 by 1980 Predictions of continuing wage increases and of total personal income more than doubling during this decade came from market resear chers at Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, N A who analyzed the data for The Warhov ia Business Review . The researchers projected an 88 percent increase in wages, up from $7,401 in 1970 tn $14,043 in I960, a gain of 120 percent, they said They also expect a 120 percent increase in State tax revenues, to $2,617,000,000 in 1980 from fl.182.O0O.0OO in 1970 and $1,432,000,000 in 1971 On a biennial basis, they forecast tax revenues between $).4f.Mt.M and $100 ,000.008 for It74-7S and reaching $4 W0 000.000 in W78-JV" '- --.' --.: i ' The projected dollar in creases are more dramatic but na lest sMtntf icant than the (tains these recrt hers foresee in population and efnptoymemU ' v , They predict a wrrt force tnfehrw 15S7.0O8 persons ia North ('amitna in 1980. This craft program, with the craft shop opened two years ago at Mars Hill College serving as an outlet for products, has been of tremendous benefit to the prople, particularly the elderly and handicapped with no other source of income A progress report issued recently by the agency shows that last year 180 persons received income in the amount of $19,123 from the manufacture and sale of hand crafted articles The report ,'ilso shows that nearly 60" persons attended programs at the various community centers last year The community centers were established through community organization, incentive grants and use of labor and materials furnished bv the various communities Still another Madison (Hunt) program which has proven highly successful, Powell said, is home im provement in which the houses of the elderly and the handicapped have been brought up to standard. In cases where the resident could not afford the materials, they have been donated Powell said a carpenter lead man was employed and Operation Mainstream furnished enrollees who worked with volunteer help from colleges and churches Powell said programs like the Neighborhood Youth Corps, Operation Maiastreanr have had a decided impact on xiverty in the two counties According to Opportunih would be up 17 percent from the 2,190.000 at work in 1970 The 1980 work force, they forecast, will be 45 2 percent of the population compared with 43 percent employed in 1970 They anticipate that population growth will climb by 12 percent to 5,686,000 at the next census in 1980 from the 5.089 000 reported in 1970 Near-term increases in personal income and tax revenues will likely be at a higher rate than the long-term growth, the researchers, concluded. They based this on the slowed growth in em ployment and population, the high percentage of the population ahradv in the work force t and today's low unemployment rate, significantly lower in North Carolina than fr the nation. With these factors at wrt, they ii Ihe increase in the work force '. achieved.' in recent years canm be con- tmin-d at the same rate In the , ivtiiiiHKkr this decade. 'V The estimate hi mcarob report are qualified " upon rttif me rlw in the .-. i itlrrn inflation, pi!ulati ?bc State revenue i syxtrm "Ihcr similar unantx-ipau! k-elxnieTits, $7 ml 1 v used special circuit testing equipment as part of his training during the Station Repair course at Con tinental Telephone System Training Center at Dulles International Airport, near Washington, D. C. Honeycutt graduated from Mars Hill High School and was in the I'. S. Army for two years. He now lives in Weaverville with his wife, Betty. Corporation records, the Neighborhood Youth Corps, started in 1966, has provided jobs for 8,240 youths New Careers has involved a total of 257 since 1967, of whom 146 were employed following training, while Operation Mainstream has provided employment for 187 The Head Start program, Powell said, has been of un mistakable worth. The HEW program, administered locally by the Opportunity Corporation, is expected to be operated under other spon sorship if the OEO program is dismantled. 'But it will be impossible to get all of the worthwhile programs switched to some other type of financing," Powell said There is no special revenue sharing program at this point and talk of increasing the program from $2 5 billion to 3-Car Accident Here Friday; No Injuries Several people miraculously escaped injury last Friday night in an accident involving three cars opposite the residence of Mr. and Mrs Jim Mclntyre on Walnut Creek Road. According to officers, a vehicle driven by Dolman Sawyers, of Route 6, Marshall, struck a car driven by Mrs Hilliard King in front of the Mclntyre home about 7 00 After Sawyers vehicle struck the King car, it then crashed into the Mclntyre car which was parked in the yard Officers stated that the Sawyers car was headed toward Marshall at the time it struck the King car which was headed in the opposite direction. The impact turned the King car completely around Sawyers was said to be alone. Mrs. King and her Judgements Few In Court Last Week The February term of superior court for the trial of criminal cases, held last week, resulted in , few . judgements according . U : records, . , , , ; John Cahagan.-t harged f , with breaking, entering and 1 " larceny: - pleaded guilty. y . Prayer, for judgement con.- tinned until May 11 term.' - James Penland and Frank " CutshaU, both of Buncombe County, charged with , breaking and entering, con tinued to May term. Each under $:0,iTO bond. ' Several DCl cases were ' heard with "not guilty" verdicts and more than Si rases were either conUrwl or nol pressed. f," WMIIom P. rowwll k $10.5 billion is sheer wishful "thinking As I see it, we are faced with an abrupt cutoff of in centive grants, development and operation of community centers, building of roads, rehabilitation of homes these things that have given new hope and encouragement to people who have been long without it." Powell said two children were uninjured as was Sawyers Considerable damage was done to the King car and extensive damage was done to the Mclntyre car when the Sawyers car plowed into the left rear Sawyers has been charged with reckless driving and driving without operator's license, it was stated. Deringer Sign Knocked Down; Not Moving Pat Clemens, manager of Deringer Manufacturing Co., located on Main Street here, announced this week that several people had been concerned since the Deringer sign had been accidentally knocked down by a truck. Pat stated that the sign would bt put back up this week. "Many thought we might bt eoing out of business. Rent assured, we are not Business is at a peak and we art ' planning on expansion in ine future, Mr. Omens said.; Mrs". Adams In Auditor's ?vc . , .Office Here Aiwouncemrrt wrs r e this week that Mrs. r ' - a Adams has b" f t Auditor's 5 ' " t f ' house. S ' ? i S I ' ' Ju'ucs on ! ' In t ' ' ' t ' -. Mrs. I" ' - a .' o f Mr!-. , Si " '
The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 1, 1973, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75