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Marshall, N. C. April 19. 1973
Number 14
Holshouser Terms Hot
Springs Clinic 'Success
Saying the health care
delivery problem "has
reached critical proportions in
some areas of North
Carolina," Gov. Jim
Holshouser went before the
General Assembly Thursday
to present a seven-point
program. "...It is a problem
that will only get worse not
better unless we recognize it
and move to meet it,"
Holshouser told a joint Senate
House session.
The governor called for
creation of primary health
care clinics in the state's rural
areas. The clinics would be
manned with nurse prac
titioners and other para
medical personnel with
physicians available on call
Open House April 26
For Wellman, Author
"Kingdom Of Madison'
Manly Wade Wellman,
author of "The Kingdom of
Madison," will be honored at
an open house from 3 p. m. to 5
p. m. on Thursday, April 26, at
the Madison County Library
on Main Street in Marshall.
"The Kingdom of Madison,"
a story about Madison County,
is scheduled to be off the
presses on that day and
Wellman will speak and
autograph copies of his latest
bonk ,
Rubert T. Summer, sales
manager, states ". . .We
believe that Mr. Wellman has
written a very interesting
Automotive Safety
Checked By Students
Juniors in the seven high
schools of Madison, Yancey
and Mitchell counties have
completed a program of
automotive safety.
The top two winners an
nounced by the sponsoring
North Carolina Agricultural
Extension Service and French
Broad Electric Membership
Corporation are Jerry Cody of
Madison County and Rodney
Denton of Mitchell County.
They have won a June trip to
Washington to participate in
the World Electrical Youth
Tour.
They were judged tops in the
contest, according to Miss
Cindy Berban, assistant 4-H
extension agent here, and
Danny Hayes, French Broad
EMC public relations man, on
the basis of vehicle surveys
and essays on their ex
periences. "The students found that
most people dont wear safety
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Ct fre i ?- '-, t-j :-rrs !" tle sr'omotive safety check program
i- ' r cf I i cj '? ii .!a ' r "i, Yancey and Mltchr't counties.
V.: 'i I t are, tL-T.): J rry C 'y of Marsha SI, Darlene Cutsha'i of
i vT ' i f f r ' t rsi;;?. Vtlrria Jean I'rjant of Bakersville
from co-operating hospitals.
Holshouser said five area
health education centers being
set up under a federal grant
would serve as focal points
surrounded by satellite
clinics.
He called for creation of a
new office in the state
Department of Human
Resources to coordinate his
health care program. He
asked the General Assembly
for $500,000 the first year to
get the program established
and envisaged that $1 million
would be needed the second
year. Five of the primary
medical care clinics would be
set up the first year and 10
more the second.
The governor told the
book about one of North
Carolina's most interesting
areas. We think that it is a
book which Madison County
will be pleased with."
Mr. Wellman, one of North
Carolina's best known
authors, has written
numerous magazine articles
and stories and more than
fifty books of fiction and non
fiction, most of which deal
with Southern historical and
folkways subjects.
He has visited Madison
County numerous times and is
looking forward to meeting
many of his friends here next
belts when driving," Miss
Berban said. "The main
reason given to the students
were that the belts are 'too
much trouble' or the motorists
are afraid that in event of an
accident the belt would
restrict them from getting out
of the car."
It is people who are tossed
out of cars during accidents
who suffer the worst injuries,
she said.
Other winners in the con
test, in which 190 children
participated over a week-long
period beginning in mid
March, were recipients of $25
savings bonds: Marvin
Hensley of Yancey County,
Darlene Cutshall of Madison
County, Velma Jean Bryant of
Mitchell County and Sandra
Krissandra Rice of Madison
County.
Some students made as
many as 40 checks during the
survey.
newsmen the primary health
care clinics he envisages
would be locally-owned cor
porations which would be set
up with some state assistance
in getting started.
He called attention to clinics
set up at Walstonburg in
Greene County and Hot
Springs in Madison County as
"real success stories."
"We expect this program to
utilize the resources of all our
medical schools-public and
private," Holshouser said.
"We can visualize it moving
simultaneously in two ways:
one a further expansion of the
Area Health Education Center
system, spawning its own
satellite clinics; and two, the
local community development
of primary care clinics which
are then linked to a nearby
hospital.
"In each case, family nurse
practitioners or similar para
medical personnel would be
recruited-primarily in their
own communities-trained and
' put to work.
"The rural communities are
looking to us for help."
Holshouser added. "The
regional clinic concept
requires the active par
ticipation and initiative of
local citizens.
"By assisting them in the
organization and financing of
increasing numbers of
primary care clinics, we can
move firmly in the direction of
providing our rural and small
town citizens with better
medical care."
Bill Introduced
For Museum ,
Cultural Center
Rep. Listen B. Ramsey of
Marshall introduced
legislation in the General
Assembly Friday to ap
propriate funds to assist in
construction of a Cherokee
Indian museum and cultural
center at Oconaluftee Village,
citing historical interest and
its value as a "drawing card"
for tourists.
The bill seeks $250,000 in
matching funds for the
museums and is co-sponsored
by Reps. Ernest B. Messer of
Canton Claude DeBruhl of
Candler, Herbert L Hyde of
Asheville, Robert A. Jones of
Forest City, Glenn Morris of
Marion and John S. Stevens
and Herschel S. Harkins of
Asheville.
Ramsey said a joint com
mittee of the Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians, the
Cherokee Historical
Association Inc. and the
Museum of the Cherokee
Indian has prepared plans for
the project which would cost
$820,00.
"If there is anything of
historical value in North
Carolina," Ramsey said, "It is
the history of the Cherokee. "
PICTURE ABOVE WAS taken at the French Broad EMC here last Thursday
during the visit of the American Red Cross Blood mobile I'nit. 34 pints of blood
were donated. Donors pictured, front row, left to right, Tom Wallin, Eyvonne
Anderson, Mike Sease, Larry Payne. Next to wall (between unidentified
nurses), Mrs. Christine Lister and Jim Cody.
Plans Made For French
Broad EMC Meeting
Final plans are being made
for the 32nd annual meeting of
the French Broad Electrical
Membership Coop in the
Marshall School Gymnasium
on Saturday, April 28.
Registration will begin at 10
a. m. and end at 1 p. m.
New Wing Is Opened
At Boys' Home
The Hot Springs' Boys'
Home and Youth Hostel has
just completed work on an
additional wing which will
serve the needs of the youth in
the western sector of Madison
County. Two celebrations are
planned for the grand opening
of the wing where work was
begun on March the first.
Thanks to the help of a
Building Firm, named the
Ryland Home Builders in
Columbia Md., the additional
section has been made
possible. When not being used
for recreational and
educational purposes, it can
be divided into three ad
ditional living quarters. It is
located near the rear of the
present Home and Hostel and
measures thirty feet by
twenty-three feet. The first of
the openings will be held on
Saturday night April 14th.
This will be a dance with
music offered by the Broad
River Band consisting of
Terry Thomas, Kevin
Ove ring ton and Louis Ray
Zimmerman. The party will
begin at 7:30 p.m. and close at
11 pjn. Refreshments will be
served. All the youth of the
county as well as adults will be
welcome.
The second grand opening
will be held on Saturday night.
May 5th. and the CCD class
from St. Vincents' Church in
Snakes Handled At Hurial
Of Poison Victims
Poisonous snakes were
handled briefly Tuesday at the
burials of two men who died
Sunday after drinking
strychnine at the Holiness
Church of God in Jesus Name.
The men, both Holiness
preachers, drank the poison as
a test of their faith.
The burial of the Rev.
Jimmy Ray Williams, 34, was
to the church cemetery in the
Carson Springs community
where he lived. He was
assistant pastor of the church.
The Rev. Buford Pack, SO,
was buried in a neighboring
mountainous area near
Marshall. He worked as a
. Clinics To
Close Monday
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AH three clinics of the Hot
Springs, Walnut, Laurel
.Program will be officially
closed Easter Monday
However, there will be a nurse
at the Hot Springs Cinic to
respond to emergency
problems. Persons needing
hr'p that day are esJted to caU
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A free barbecue dinner will
be served from 11 a. in. to 1 p
m., officials have announced
Free prizes will be given
away, including electric
dryer, fry pans, irons, mixers,
radios, blenders, fans,
toasters, and many other
Charlotte will be guests of the
Home and Hostel. A group of
some fifty young folks along
with several of their parents
will journey by bus to Hot
Springs and pref ent a special
show in the Hut Springs 1 'lines
Theatre on Saturday, the fifth
of May starting at 8 p.m. The
show will be open to all the
public and tickets will be $1 to
help provide furnishings for
the new recreational wing at
the Home This show will
feature songs, skits, dancing,
and choral music. Following
the show at the Times
Theatre, a party will be held
from 9:30 p in till 11 p.m. in
the new wing of the Hot
Springs Heme and Hostel. The
group will remain over night
and assist at a guitar Mass
on Sunday morning at the
Catholic Church of the
Redeemer adjacent to the
Home. The Mass will begin at
10:30 a.m. All are cordially
invited to attend the dances
and the Mass. Music will be
provided by the CCD group
from Charlotte as well as the
band named the Broad River,
with its base at the Hot
Springs Boys' Home and
Youth Hostel Fr. Jess Burton
would like to take this op
portunity to thank all of those
people who have helped in any
way to make the new wing a
reality
laborer in Marshall.
Witnesses said four or five
men handled snakes as
Williams' casket was being
lowered into the grave. No one
was bitten.
Pack's brother, the Rev
Linton Pack, pastor of the
holiness church, and another
man handled two snakes at his
burial. Again, no one was
bitten.
Both, Pack and Williams
had survived anake bites at
previous religious services.
Huff Attends
Legal Seminar
I At UNC'-j
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y Joseph B. Huff, Prominent
local attorney, attended the
isemtnar held by the North
Carolina Bar Association on
; the new rules of civil
' procedure. This seminar was
held oa Friday and Saturday,
April IS and It, at the
University of N-irth Carolina
at Chapel II I 1.1 presided
at the Friday arternooa
session. -
prizes. You must be present to
win, it was announced. Free
tickets to the I,and of Oz and
Tweetsie Railroad will be
given to kids and a week-end,
all-expense paid "vacation"
for some lucky parents and
kids to Beech Mountain will
also be given away. This in
cludes a tour of Ixind of Oz and
Tweetsie Railroad, also. You
must register for this opportunity.
Guest speaker for the oc
casion will be Walter
Harrison, Director NRECA, of
Washington. D. C
Other entertainment is also
planned.
Two Students
Charged 4ln
Drug Violations
Two 19-year-old Mars Hill
College students have been
charged with drug violations
following a raid on their
dormitory room by Madison
County Sheriff E. Y. Ponder
The students, roommates at
Brown Dormitory, were
identified as Brandon Scott
Dean, a sophomore from
Andover, N. J., and John S
Messina, a freshman from
Sparta, N J.
Dr. Donald Gehring, dean
for student development at the
four-year liberal arts college,
said that Dean and Messina
had been "temporarily
suspended" from the college
pending further developments
in the case
A quantity of drugs
"believed to be' PCP
iphencyclidine. a
hallucinopenic drug i as such
was seized in the raid at the
college dormitory room
Other drugs taken from the
students' room which have
already been identified in
preliminary analysis by the
SBI are LSD and marijuana.
Ponder said 275 tablets of LSD
and about 14 pounds of
Marijuana were taken from
the room.
Further analysis of drugs
seized are to be made in the
SBI laboratory in Raleigh,
according to Ponder, who said
further warrants will be
drawn against Dean and
Messina if the tests prove
positive.
So far, the two students have
each been charged with
possession with intent to
distribute marijuana and LSD
and with selling drugs to a
minor.
Jerry Foster
Is Graduated
Marine Cpl. Jerry D. ,
Faster, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Homer M. Foster of 1233 1
Peach Ave., South Boston, and '
formerly of Madison County,
graduated from Infantry ;
Training School at the Camp
Pendleton Marine Corps Base.
His training included the
firing, operation and main-
tenance of infantry weapons
and related equipment
A 193 graduate of Halifax
County H;gh, South Boston, be
attended Ferrwrn Junior
CdStn, Ferrum, and Joined
tv Marine Corps in August,
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James M. Baley Jr.
Gets Court Seat
An Asheville lawyer whose
legal background includes a
double hitch with the U. S.
Department of Justice will be
appointed by Gov. Jim
Holshouser to the North
Carolina Court of Appeals.
James M. Baley Jr. will fill
the vacancy on the nine-judge
panel created by the
resignation of William E.
Graham Jr. of Raleigh.
It is the highest judicial
appointment by Gov.
Holshouser to date, and
dramatizes the break in a long
tradition of Democratic
judges in North Carolina.
In addition to Baley's ser
vice as a U. S. Attorney for the
Western District during the
Eisenhower administration,
he has a long and
distinguished career in
Republican politics.
Baley, 60, becomes the first
Republican on the Court of
Appeals. The first six ap
pointments to the new in
termediate court were made
in 1967 by Gov. Dan K. Moore.
The court was fully im
plemented in 1969 with the
appointment by Gov. Bob
Scott of three additional
judges.
Poisened Man's Brother
To Test Faith With Fire
NEWPORT, Tenn. Death of
two brethren from drinking
strychnine has cast a pall over
a little Holiness Church flock
near here, but the pastor says
they will continue to test their
faith with snakes, poison and
even fire.
The Rev. Jimmy Ray
Williams, 34, of Carson
Springs, Tenn., and the Rev.
Buford Pack, 30, of Marshall,
died last Sunday after
drinking the poison to test
their faith at the Holiness
Church of God in Jesus Name.
Both were buried with a
Bible in their caskets open at
the passage in the Gospel of
St. Mark which reads:
'They shall take up ser
pents, and if they drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt
htem..."
The Rev. Lister Pack, 33,
brother of Buford and pastor
of the Little mountain church,
said that though the deaths
had shaken some members of
the flock "we will keep on
testing our faith in the Holy
Ghost."
This will be done, he con
tinued, by handling cop
perheads and rattlesnakes
and drinking poison.
"Our hearts and souls are
low in the valley and we have
been hurt a great deal but we
must look ahead with Jesus,"
Pack said.
The preacher said "several
brothers have been drinking
French Broad WMU Annual
Meeting Next Thursday
The French Broad Woman's
Missionary Union will hold its
69th Annual Meeting on
Thursday, April 24, at 5:00 p.
m. The meeting will be with
the California Creek Church,
of which the Rev. Danny
Hayes is pastor and Mrs.
Herbert Hawkins is W. M. U.
Director.
The theme of the program is
"Living me Spirit of Christ to
Faith and Conquest' Our
hymn for the year is "Heralds
of Christ." The emphasis for
this year is witnessing through
missioa actkM and W. M. U.
enlistment, and enlargement
State Baptist Womea Director -Miss
Kathrya Bullard, wffl be
the speaker to the afternoon.
A covered dish supper will
be served from 1 .30-7: JO p. m.
The host church will serve the
beverage. A covered dish is to
be brought by each member
attending the meeting. Girls
to Actio and Acteens from
California Creek Church w.3
serve as pufs. Ycu v ! f -1
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.The Officers ff 1 e
The first vacancy on the
panel was created on March 31
of this year when Graham
resigned to join the legal
department of Carolina Power
and Light Co.
Baley becomes the second
member of his Asheville law
firm to sit on the appeals
court. Judge Frank M. Parker
is one of the original members
of the panel, appointed by
Moore Dec. 23, 1967, and
elected Nov. 5, 1968.
Since the appointment of
Parker to the bench, the firm
has been known as McGuire,
Baley and Wood. Asheville
strychnine for years in ad
dition to handling the ser
pents. We will continue.
"In addition, we are going to
test our faith with fire.
Preacher Ruble Campbell
down the road is going to give
the church a blowtorch. God
will furnish the power and we
the faith."
He said the blowtorch will
be turned on faces and arms
"of those anointed by the Holy
Ghost."
This test of faith, Pack
related, will be based on
Hebrews, Chapter 11, Verses
33 and 34 which read:
"Who through quenched
raging Fire, escaped the edge
of the sword, won strength out
of weakness, became mighty
in fear, put foreign armies to
flight."
Pack said he now has three
copperheads and three rat
tlesnakes in the four-room
cabin where he lives with his
wife Nellie and their five
small children. The reptiles
are locked in cages.
On meeting nights, the
snakes are carried to the
church and handled. Pack
said, by those "who feel they
have the necessary faith to
handle them without being
bitten."
Pack said the church has 48
members, but scores attend
the weekly Saturday night
meetings and the mid-week
prayer sessions.
Association extend a cordial
invitation to all Pastors to
come to this meeting, and to
be guests for the covered dish
8Upp6T.
"It is Indeed a privilege to
have as Missionary speaker
for the evening session French
Holy Week
rAt Hot
' The CathoUc Church at Hot
Springs will celebrate the
Liturgy of Holy Week ac
cording to the following
schedule. On Holy Thursday,
April 19, the Mass of f e
Lord's Supper te
celebrated at I p.m. On C. - 1
Fri.i-y, 0 i Vt I "
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Mayor Richard Wood is also a
member of the law firm.
Baley was a member of the
North Carolina General
Assembly from Madison
County in 1937 and 1939. He
had practiced law in Madison
County for 20 years before he
was nominated by President
Dwight D. Eisenhower as U. S.
attorney. He was a resident of
Marshall at that time.
He resigned as state
Republican party chairman in
1953 to accept the Eisenhower
nomination. He was con
firmed by the Senate for his
first four-year term as United
States Attorney for the
Western District of North
Carolina.
But when that term expired
in 1957, his renomination was
sent to the Senate by
President Eisenhower on
three different occasions
1957, 1959, and 1960.
It was pigeon-holed each
time, however, and the third
time around Democratic Sen.
Sam J. Ervin said he would
not enter any formal objection
to the appointment unless the
Justice Department pressed
for action.
There was no formal ob
jection, and Baley continued
in office with the approval of
the Justice Department, but
without the blessings of the U.
S. Senate.
During his tenure, he was
cited by both Arty. Gen.
William P. Rogers, and
Rogers' predecessor, Herbert
Browne 11 Jr., for his out
standing service.
Baley submitted his
resignation as U. S. attorney
in January, 1961, to Atty. Gen.
Robert Kennedy. After it was
accepted, be joined the law
firm with Parker and
McGuire.
Baley served on the 25
member State Constitution
Study Commission appointed
in 1968 by Gov. Moore.
Changes in the Constitution
recommended by the com
mission were subsequently
written into the document by
the General Assembly and
approved by the voters in the
1970 elections.
A native of Greensboro,
Baley graduated from
Asheville High School in 1927,
attended Mars Hill Junior
College, the University of
North Carolina and the UNC
Law School where he received
his law degree in 1933.
Baley left his Marshall law
practice for four years
beginning in 1942 and served
with the Navy during World
War H as a lieutenant ' He
later became a lieutenant
commander in the Naval
Reserve.
He is married to the former
Diana Chandley of Asheville.
They have two children.
Broad Association's ,wn
Missionary la Indonesia, the
Rev. Charles Bockner, who la
now at home on furlough.
Please make a special effort
m be present to hear him. Ills
message will close the
program," Mrs. . Locke
Robinsaa stated. . ,
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