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V,;'-. i"'; ' ,'"'f' . i , 1 ' . , 1 . ji, nn HA7 mm) P. M 7 Volume 72. Marshall, N. C. April 12, 1973 Number 13 Becky Cody 2nd Runner-Up In N.C. Teenager Pageant Marshall Liquor Is Passed By Senate Miss Becky Cody, daughter of Mr and Mrs Doyle B Cody of Mars Hill was named 2nd runner-up in the Miss North Carolina Teen-Ager Pageant held Friday and Saturday in Charlotte. In addition to a trophy Miss Cody received a scholarship from The Fashion Institute of America, a division of Massey Junior College in Atlanta. Ga. Miss Monta Mackie of FHA Farm Loan Funds Are Increased For '73 Farmers Home Ad ministration announced today that funds for Farmers Home Administration real estate and farm operating loans were recently increased and will be available for the remainder of this fiscal year ending June 30, 1973 Farmers Home Ad ministration Stale Director James T Johnson, reported that an additional 170 million dollars has been made available for loans to farmers for annual operating ex penses, and for financing purchases of farm equipment, livestock and other capital needs on terms up to seven years These funds were made available to help fill the need for operating money arising from the termination of the emerp"""" loan program. Joh.. ... . a result of THE 55-YEAR-OLD BLOCK STRUCTURE, known as the Redmon & Worley Building, opposite Deringer Mfg. Co., on Main Street here, is shown k.Uit vm Iauii lact waaL a m ft If rnnm for nti- ditional parking of new and used cars belonging to Pioneer Ford, Inc. Lyndall English and "Buddy" Buckner. owners of Pioneer Ford, Inc., recently purchased the building and property from several Marshall businessmen. ANOTHER OF MARSHALL'S landmarks Is showm being rated. The above house, now completely removed, was the old King Property before being bought by the Marshall Methodist Church. Used nee as a parsonage, the two-story structure has been rented in recent years. The French Droad EMC has leased the property which is located opposite the eo-p and next to the Marshall Presbyterian Church, nd will se It as a parking area. On left Is church and on rijht is telephone building. Hickory won top honors. There were 65 contestants in the statewide event. Miss Cody w as sponsored by Bald Mountain Development Corporation of Mars Hill. Attending the pageant from Mars Hill were Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Cody, Randall Blankenship, Charles McGee, Vickie Wheeler and I,t. Col. i Ket i and Mrs. Bill Lowrance rains and flooding, both last year and this year. North Carolina has about half its counties eligible for emergency loans and will receive a greater proportion of the available operating funds. He further stated that farmers who were considering purchases of farm equipment of livestock in the near future would be wise to consider these purchases before June 30, while funds are in adequate supply Johnson reported that funds for long term real estate loans for land purchase, farm development, refinancing and other similar purposes were also adequate for the remainder of the fiscal year. These loans are at 5 per cent up to 40 years terms and have a maximum amount of $100,000. Both types of loans can be If. of Hopewell, Va., grand parents of Miss Cody. The other Madison County contestant was Miss Cynthia Niles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Niles, of Marshall. Attending the Pageant from this area in addition to her parents, were her sister, Mrs. Thomas Setzer and Mr. Setzer of Asheville; and Mike Livesay of Marshall. made to farmers for non-farm enterprises such as adding a business to their farming enterprises or for recreational purposes Many North Carolina farmers have found that non-tarm businesses or recreational enterprises have added greatly to their farm income. Farmers Home Ad ministration has assisted more farmers this year through their farm loan programs than in any other year, both in loans made in dollar volume of total loans. All loan funds for these programs are provided by Farmers Home Ad ministration through the in sured loan program whereby the agency resells its notes to private investors. This provides a continuous source of funds without the use of federal government ap propriated funds. Farmers interested in these loah programs should contact W. E. Hill, County Supervisor, Farmers Home Ad ministration, Marshall. Mallonee To Visit Marshall May l ASHEVILI.E-Tom I. Mallonee, llth Congressional District Assistant to Congressman Roy A. Taylor, is now making scheduled visits to the county seats and other sections of the counties On Tuesday, May l, he will be at the Madison County Courthouse, Marshall, from 9:30 to 10 30; at the Yancey County Courthouse, Burn sville, from 1 to 2 ; and at the Town Hall, Spruce Pine, from 3 to 4 Any person who has plans or official business pertaining to Congressional matters to be discussed is invited to meet with Mallonee at the above specified times Bloodmohile In Marshall Oil Thursday The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit Marshall on Thurs day, April 12, from 2 o'clock to 6 o'clock in the afternoon. The unit will be located at the REA Building located on Main Street in Marshall. The last visit of the Bloodmobile in October at this location was disappointing. Donors are urged to arrange to visit during these hours and contribute. Youngsters bet ween the ages of IS to 21 may give blood without parental consent. - Employees are - usually given time off to visit ' the bloodmobile a request is made. ' Mrs. Norton At Clerk's Office j : ..- ,' Mrs. v Tnula . Norton, of Marshall Route 4, has sue -' ceeded Mrs. Leonard Ponder , as Deputy Clerk Superior : Court, following Mrs. Poo- . der's resignation. j . Mrs. Norton who has previously served in the : Clerk's Office, started her new " duties on Monday, April 1 - ..at, "wr IB. State ASC Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz recently named Trenton B. Jordan of Jackson Springs as chairman of the North Carolina State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation (ASC) Com mittee. He also appointed as members Henry I.. McGimpsey of Morgantoii, Sam E. Rouse of Kinston and James P. Turlington of Salemburg. ASC Committeemen are responsible for state ad ministration ot farm action programs such as the cotton, feed grain and voluntary wheat programs, price sup ports, acreage allotments and market quotas, farm storage facility loans and related Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service ac tivities. Jordan is the owner operator of a 120-acre farm in Montgomery County producing flue-cured tobacco, cotton, wheat, corn and broilers. He has been a member of the North Carolina Karm Bureau for 13 years and is a past president of the Montgomery County Retarded Children Association, a past member of the Montgomery County Planning Commission, a deacon in the Center Baptist Church, Candor, and has served as chairman of the Montgomery County ASC Committee Jordan has served on the committee since Feb 1972. McGimpsey has farmed in Burke County since 1945 He is part-owner and operator of a 100-acre general farm, producing soybeans, hay, commercial begetables and black angus beef cattle He is a veteran of World War II, having served three years in the U. S. Navy. McGimpsey is a graduate of Olive Hill High School in Morganton and is a member of the Burke County Farm Bureau. He has been a member of the North Carolina State ASC Committee since 1970. Rouse has been in farming in Lenoir and Guilford Counties since 193S. He produces tobacco, corn, soybeans, cotton, and livestock on some 300 acres, A charter member of the Lenoir .County Livestock Association and a member of the Farm Bureau for more than . 30 years, he Is also active in the Ruritan Club and has been a Boy Scout leader for more than a docen years. Rouse has -. served as a County ASC . Committeeman nad has been ' member of trie North Carolina State ASC Committee since 1969. Turlington vwns ' and operates a 500-acre farm in Samps on County producing cotton, cors, . , peanuts. tf ,v 1 v iL yj MISS BECKY CODY Committee soybeans, tobacco and broilers. He iSj a graduate of Salemburg High School and studied business ad ministration at Oak Ridge Military Academy and North Carolina State University. Turlington is a member of the Sampson County Farm Bureau, Salemburg I, ions Tax Deadline Monday Greensboro Over 6000.000 North Carolina taxpayers have yet to file their 1972 federal income tax returns. Robert LeBaube, acting district director of the In terna) Revenue Service in Greensboro, said today The deadline for filing federal tax returns is mid night, April 16, less than two weeks off Through the end of March. 11 million of an estimated total of 1 8 million returns from North Carolina were received at the Memphis Service Center Over 750,000 returns have been processed Of this total, about 100,000 resulted in refunds to the taxpayer, with the average refund amounting to $253 "Approximately 58 per cent of those returns yet to be filed will result in refunds,'' I.eBaube said. "However, because they will be among over 1,500,000 individual returns expected to arrive at the Memphis Service Center immediately following the deadline, late-filing taxpayers due refunds can expect to wait about five weeks for their checks." leBaube added, "Even five weeks is an amazingly short time when you think of the tremendous volume of returns that are involved. Up to now, all of the 1,500,000 refund checks for taxpayers in the Southeast were mailed only four weeks after the return was filed. We consider that an accomplishment to be proud of, and we are. "However, taxpayers sometimes - inadvertently cause their refunds to be delayed," LeBaube said. "Taxpayer errors, such as missing documents and signatures, caa bold up processing for , weeks. Historically, last-minuU filers make mistakes in their haste to meet the deadline." Nationally,- the II IRS service centers around the country have received more than 44 million or M percent of the expected 77 million In dividual income tax rettrns. These include 21 million Standards For lWO'i and II million Sort Form ltHGA's. ' About 23 million refunds amounting to 17 I billion had been approve j is of March 21. : k.:a . IS . -H h ,;,' VKi - t Im Is Named Club, Salemburg Industrial Council, and a member and trustee of the Salemburg Baptist Church. He is a pst member of the Agricultural Extension Service Advisory Committee and past chairman of the Salemburg School Board Turlingt on has been on the committee since Feb. 1972. IRS expects to approve more than 58 million refunds this year and the Treasury Department estimates the amount will total in excess of $20 billion. Despite extensive news coverage of the option to help finance the Presidential election comapign, less than three percent of the returns received so far included a Form 4875 indicating the taxpayer's desire to par ticipate As provided in the 1971 legislation, taxpayers may designate $1 of their taxes 1 12 on a joint return) to go to the political party of their choice or to a general fund, to help finance the 1976 Presidential election campaign The designation does not affect any refund or tax due Form 4875 is included in the tax packages that were mailed to taxpayers and also is available at IRS offices and at manv banks and post offices Eric Blackweil Elected To Honor Society I) Eric Blackweil of Mars Hill is one of 12 students at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine who have been elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha, national medical honor society. Election to AOA is based on scholastic achievement and character. Blackweil, a Reynolds Scholar, is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Hoyt Blackweil. His father is a former president of Man Hia College. A graduate of Duke University, Blackweil com pleted a year at Union Theological Seminary, New York aty, where he studied as a Rockefeller , Brothers Fellow, before entering ., medical school The aims of Alpha Omega 'Alpha are the promotion of scholarship and research In ' medical schools, the eo cowragement of a high standard of character and , conduct among medical students and graduates, and the recognition of high at ' tainment in medical science. Legislation authorizing an election in the Town of Marshall in Madison County on the establishment of a liquor store there was passed by the Senate and sent to the House Monday night. The bill calling for a vote on the establishment of an Alcoholic Beverage Control store in Marshall would self destruct if the Madison County Board of Commissioners should decide to set up county Preacher Dies In Religious Service "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; "They shall take up ser pents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Gospel According to St Mark, Chapter 16: 17-18 Using these verses from St Mark as their guide, two members of a snake-handling religious sect in Cocke County, Tenn. died from dosages of strychnine Saturday night, according to Tipton Brown, Cocke County coroner. Brown identified the men as the Rev. Buford Pack, 29, of Rt. 5 Marshall and Jimmy Ray Williams, 32, of Newport, Tenn. Cocke County Deputy Sheriff D. C. Ramsey said the poisontaking ceremony oc cured about 8 p.m. Saturday at the Church of Jesus Christ in the Carson Springs section of the county, north of Newport. Ramsey said Pack died about 11 p.m. and that Williams died about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. The deputy said Pack was dead when he arrived at the church. He said members of the congregation had ap- NORRIS GENTRY Lion President Local Lions Name Officers; Cite Events The Marshall Lions of ficially elected officers at their semi-monthly meeting Monday at the Rock Cafe and plans were initiated for In stallation and Ladies' Night to be announced later. Also, the Lions have recently accepted two new members to the active club. They are Mike Bradley and Charles Tolley. Plans are also being made for the annual charity horse show which will be held on the . Island on Saturday, June t,! sponsored by the Lions dub. ' More details will be published later. It was also announced that a carnival will be held on the , Island June 11-11 with en- . )oyable rides and concessions. , This event is also sponsored by the Marshall Lions. r ' Officers elected at the ; meeting Monday night an as follows: - ; , President, N orris Gentry; ; first vice president, E. C : Teague; second vice president, Maurice McAlister; third vie president, Steve Wallin; secretary, Charles Huey; ' treasurer, Ralph Rice; tail twister, Lswrence Fonder; I Jon Tamer, Charles Davis. . New directors are O. A. Gregory and Roy Reeves. Lin ABC stores within 60 days after ratification County boards of com missioners are empowered to call ABC elections without unusual provision would allow the Madison board tu Lake the initiative up to two months after the Marshall bill becomes law. The Marshall ABC store would be the second in Madison County Presently, the county's lone liquor store parently become alarmed at Pack's death and called authorities. "Williams rode home in his truck and pulled up in his driveway" after taking the poison, Ramsey said. "The i Cocke County ) rescue squad was there with an ambulance waiting to take him to the hospital, but he refused to go." Ramsey said deputies and rescue squad members told Williams about Pack's death and encouraged him to go with them to the hospital. "God will take care of me. I don't need medical treat ment." Ramsey quoted Williams as saying in response to the pleas. "He ( Williams) died in that truck," Ramsey said. "He never even went inside. Someone at his house called us later and told us he had died." Meanwhile, other members of the church had come to the Williams house. "They were standing around speaking in tongues," Ramsey said. Ramsey said Pack died at his brother's house. His brother, Liston Pack, is the minister of the church were the poison was taken, the deputy said. Ramsey said Williams lived about two miles from the church and that Liston Pack lives about 100 yards below the church. Ramsey said Liston Pack and members of his congregation, disturbed over the sheriff's department "interfering" in their religious practices, had vowed to take more strychnine in services Sunday night. No deaths, however, had been reported late Sunday. Coroner Brown said he "just got disgusted and left" the church after being called to the scene to investigate. He said Sunday night that he had made no ruling on the deaths. He said he would have to discuss the matter with Dr. David McConnell, Cocke County medical examiner. "I don't know whether to call it suicide or accidental. We can't press charges against someone who wants to take his own life, or does so without meaning to." Ramsey said the group had also handled copperhead snakes during the services Saturday night. "One man from North Carolina was bitten, but I don't have his name." A spokesman for Cocke County Sheriff Robert Stinston said there were laws in Tennessee outlawing such dangerous practices by religious sects, but he said federal laws prevented action from being taken that would violate the church members' constitutional rights furan teetng freedom of worship. -we win take the matter to the attorney general for his advisement,'' the spokesman aaid. . . ' " - V :-' Ramsey said members of the congregation included . people from Sooth Carolina, : North Carolina, Georgia, and ; Tennessee. He said the church has about 50 members. The deputy said the last death in his memory that was due to a religious practice was several years s no when s man from I z T' -we Op, Va., was t "-n v '- r,sr ; " g a r--"' We t -r ! ; ' 5 p-tnf ' t, o F v r.s ! is located more than 20 miles away at Hot Springs near the Tennessee state line. The Marshall bill makes an allocation of 33 1-3 per cent of net profits of the proposed store to the general fund of Madison County. Five percent of the total would go to Marshall earmarked for law enforcement and the remainder would go into the general fund of the town. community in the eastern part of the county. Burford Pack, a native of Newport, lived in the Brush Creek section of Madison County with his wife, Mrs. Katie Naulty Pack, and their four children. RITES WEDNESDAY Funeral services for Pack were held Wednesday af ternoon at his home. The Rev. John Brown of ficiated. Burial was in Naulty family cemetery. Mr. Pack was a native of Cocke County, Tenn. and a resident of Madison County for the past six years. He served four years in the U. S. Army during the Vietnam War. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Katie Naulty Pack; three daughters, Lena, Kathy Jo and Melissa and a son, James Buford Pack, all of the home; seven brothers, Edgar, Liston, Donald, Eugene, J. C, Darrell and Leon Pack, all of Newport; four sisters, Mrs. Deberly Waldroup, Mrs. Jackie Dicker sun 1 and Mis Teresa Pack all of Newport and Mrs. B. J. Clevenger of Ixnidon, Tenn. Motor Inn Group Elects Ray Redmon Kay Kedmon, assistant manager. Quality Inn Red mon, Asheville, was elected vice chairman of Region S of the International Operators Council of Quality Inns In ternational at the regions 1971 meeting in Greensboro April 2. j , ; . Region 3 consists of 31 Quality Inns open and under construction in North Carolina. Redmon is the son of G rover Redmon, owner and operator of Quality Inn Redmon. Mr. and Mrs. Graver Redmon are both natives of ' Madison County.' Their five children Ray, Ricky, Ronnie', Helen Beck and Fay Smith are all employed by Redmon interprise. Grove Redmon nd sons have been engaged in building and land developing in the Asheville Area for many years. Their last two Sub divisions being developed were Redwood Forest w rJi homes ranging in price from $25,000 to (32,00 and Beaver Lake Heights homes ran; g from 140,000 to $00,000. C . 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