County tlfcfca, Marshal i . rui (D(0 Volume 72 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 J ' V. ! 't, r"-3-rr of French Tread Electric Membership 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 .--. ' - ' - 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 t:m. . J,'' M rfiui&uJ tin i I'l'tStT"! in i ii ""4 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 : V ' ; - ' ? - 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, XT.X. 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 one of tve f'r"a st t ( wa: ".e to teke your Vn ytw amve. .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 " of t'e -1 1 I 1413 p.m, t' i t t : ? ; j N V i ' ' " ( T T ' T - : : 1- ! ' ' 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. . , Is Planned Springs ..; Liturgy of the Word c) Renewal . of V Fromi.-s-s i) T e I J therufrVtAU t' -:3 te r 'i It t - C t r ' - ? T" ? f Cf 1 ' . V '. 1 f

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