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Volume 72
Marshall. N. C. April 26, 1973
Number 15
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THE REV. GORDON BALL, extreme left, is shown with a few members of the
Belva Baptist Church standing beside church bus which is used to promote the
work of the progressive church.
Watch Belva Baptist
Church Grow
Watch Belva Baptist Church
Grow, or better stall, join the
energetic group of people who
have accepted the challenge
for building an active Baptist
Church in this area of Madison
County. Nine months ago the
Belva Baptist Church was a
mission church. It had been a
mission project for various
churches over a period of
twenty-two years. Grassy
Branch Baptist Church in
Buncombe County was the last
church to sponsor the Belva
State Alumni
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Raleigh
RALEIGH Led by the
golden and silver anniversary
classes of 1923 and 1948, North
Carolina State University
alumni will return to the
campus May 4 and 5 for an
nual Alumni Weekend
festivities.
The two-day event will in
clude dass dinners, the an
nual awards luncheon, a
reception at the home of
Chancellor and Mrs. John T
Caldwell, campus tours and a
dance and social.
A highlight of the alumni
gathering will be a breakfast
Saturday morning, featuring
talks by Chancellor Caldwell,
football coach Lou Holtz and
basketball coach Norman
Sloan.
Classes holding five-year
reunions in addition to the
golden and silver anniversary
classes are the NCSU Forever
Club, made up of alumni
graduating more than 50 years
ago, and the classes of 1928,
1933, 1938, 1943, 1948, 1953, and
1958. (The classes of 1963 and
1968 will hold reunions at
Homecoming, October 13,
1973.)
Festivities will get un
derway on May 4 at 1 p.m.
with the awards luncheon at
the University Student Center
and will conclude with the
campus tours Saturday
morning.
"Postal Week" To Be
Observed Apr.29-May 5
Paymaster Frank Ramsey
d the Marshall post Office
announced plana today for
"Postal Week" to be
celebrated her April 29 thru
May S. The Marshall Post
Office and Walnut Branch will
join with the nation's 31,000
other post offices in issuing 10
.special stamps honoring the
nearly 700,000 postal em
ployees. These ten eight-cent
. commemorative stamps - on
the same sheet, each depicting
a service penormea oy postal
peoplefrom window clerks
selling stamps to workers on
the workroom floor to letter
carriers will be Issued on
Monday, April SO.
Postmaster General E. T.
Klassen said the Postal Week
observances are "an ap
propriate occasion for
Mission, before the French
Broad Association undertook
the task.
On July 23, 1972, Belva
became a fully organized and
constituted Missionary
Baptist Church and was the
forty-ninth church to join the
French Broad Baptist
Association. There were ten
members to start this project
in faith on this night in July.
Today the church has thirty
members and a record Sunday
School attendance of fifty
three. The 1972 Daily Vacation
Bible School had an
enrollment of sixty-three
children.
The Rev E, I Jenkins
Associational Missionary for
French Broad Baptist
Association initiated the
movement to bring life back
into the Belva Church. But, it
was the Rev. Gordon Ball,
Moderator of the French
Broad Baptist Association,
who made the decision to
become the first pastor of the
constituted church at Belva.
He also insisted that he must
live in the community in order
that his ministry could be
extended over seven days in
the week. Mr. Ball brought the
young enthusiasm and the
Christian zeal to convert
Belva from a struggling
mission project to a church of
great promise. Belva's
program for growth has
already taken on projects of
considerable magnitude
First, there is a weekly
visitation program every
Thursday evening. Teams of
four two men and two
women visit the sick the
elderly, and the prospects for
membership Their theme is
"We at Belva care about you."
Growth of the church is
already demanding a building
program. It has been con
cluded that the present church
building is too inadequate to
consider for renovation or
expansion. So the church has
voted to raise $6,000 during
1973 in order that a new
building may be started by
March 15,1974.
To celebrate the church's
recognition of the vital
responsibilities assigned to
the mail service and a valid
time to take stock of the
challenges which must be
Jointly met by postal people
and by the millions of citizens
. throughout America who
depend upon the mail as an
essential partof their personal
and business lives."
' A special souvenir envelope
honoring Postal People with a
EF&E on the Tower
left corner of the envelope will
be offered free to the public as
long as the supply lasts.
Marshall Mayor Lorado
Ponder has proclaimed the
week of April 30 through May
&, as "Postal People Week" in
honor of the local Postal
employees. i
first anniversary on July 23,
1973, the pastor and members
have set a goal of one hundred
to be enrolled in Sunday
School. The men in the church
have leased some tobacco
acreage and this summer they
will grow tobacco and the
money from the crop will be
applied to the church's
building fund.
If you would like to know
how it feels to work and
worship with a "live" group of
church members, and you are
not attending church
anywhere, come and join the
group at Belva Baptist
Church.
Rpliin i a njoject in faith.
WNC Draft Boards
To Be Consolidated
Selective Service boards in
19 Western North Carolina
counties will be consolidated
administratively into four
central offices by Dec. 15.
However, registration of
young men will continue to be
earned out in their respective
home counties if
arrangements can be made,
Mrs. Ethel Leonard, executive
secretary of Local Board 11 in
Asheville said Thursday.
Potential registration places
Important
Industrial
Meeting
There will be an important
industrial meeting in the
courthouse, Friday, May 4, at
8 o'clock p. m. Because so
many industries are looking
for an existing building, plans
are underway to construct a
30,000 square feet building in
Hot Springs, has to be raised
by local people to qualify for a
$100,000 loan from Nor
thwestern Bank to finance this
project. The loan will be at the
prime interest rate.
Three individuals, who are
involved in Industrial
Development, will speak at
the meeting. They are Harry
Clark, President, Western
Carolina Industries, Phillip
Elam, Asheville Chamber of
Commerce, and Ray Denny,
-of the State Conservation and
Industrial Development.
Further Information maybe
obtained from Lawrence M.
Ponder, Director, Madison
Industrial Development
Commission at Courthouse
Phone 649-3901. :
4 All interested parties are ,
meeting.
"All local money win be
used to buy stock and should
the building be leased by a
tenant everyone will receive
an investment dividend and
should the building be pur
chased, their full amount will
be .returned, Mr. Ponder
said.''...
French Broad EMC Meeting
On Island Here Saturday
The 32nd annual meeting of
the members of French Broad
Electric Membership Cor
poration will be held at the
Marshall High School Gym
nasium this Saturday with
registration beginning at 10
a.m. and ending at 1 p.m.
A free barbecue dinner will
be served in the lunchroom
from 11:00 until 1:00, officials
have announced.
At the business session
beginning at 1:00, members
will take action on the
following matters:
1. Report of the officers and
directors.
2. Election of three directors
of the cooperative.
3. All other business that
may properly come before the
meeting.
C. L. Proffitt, secretary,
said that in connection with
the election of three directors,
the following members have
been nominated for directors
by the Committee on
Nominations appointed by the
board of direcotrs pursuant to
the by-laws:
C. E. Buchanan, Mitchell
County; Novile Hawkins,
Madison County; J. A. Rice,
Unicoi County.
Guest speaker for the oc
casion will be Walter
Harrison, Director NRECA, of
Washington, D. C.
A free barbecue dinner will
be served from 11 a.m to 1
p.m., officials have an
nounced. Free prizes will given away,
including electric dryer, fry
pans, irons, mixers, radios,
hUfvVrV faros. taaiters. n
where local offices close in
clude schools, colleges, post
offices and courthouses
The consolidation, or "co
location" program, was begun
following the decision of
President Richard Nixon to
halt the military draft insofar
as it was used to raise man
power for the armed forces
after the Vietnam settlement
was reached.
The Selective Service Act
remains in effect, however, as
a standby measure Young
men still are required to
register with their local
boards between 30 days before
and 30 days after their 18th
birthday, receive
classification by their local
boards and in their 19th year
acquire a random sequence
number from the yearly
loteries.
"We can induct no more
after June 30,"' Mrs Ionard
said in citing instructions
from the director of Selective
Service, Byron Pepitone, and
North Carolina director,
William M. McCachran
Jerry Wyatt In
Satisfactory Condition
Following Shooting
A 17-year-old Madison
County youth was listed in
satisfactory condition
Tuesday at Asheville's
Memorial Mission Hospital
where he was taken Saturday
night following a shooting
Incident hers,
Madison Sheriff E. Y.
; Ponder Identified the gunshot
victim as Jerry Wyatt. son of
Mr. and Mrs. Junior' Wyatt of
; Marshall. v- ,
. Ponder ' said . another
Madison County youth, Ray
, Wauin.21.son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Wallin of Rt 3 Mar.
shall, has been charged la
connection with the shooting.
Wallin was being held in the
county jail on a charge of
asMult with a deadly weapon
: with Intent to inTJct serious
injuries, according to Ponder.
WALTER HARRISON,
Director NRECA, of
Washington, D. C, will be the
featured speaker at the 32nd
annual meeting of the French
Broad Electric Membership
Coop to be held this Saturday
In the Marshall school gym
nasium. JOHN A. DARLINGTON,
formerly of Atlanta, Ga., Is
the new General Manager of
the French BrOBd KMC. He
succeeded D. M Robinson,
who retired last 'cember.
The administrative merger
will reduce the 101 units in
North Carolina to 21 locations
Files will be brought to the
consolidated site, Mrs
I,eonard said IOcal boards
will deternune where to hold
meetings If in the home
county, a clerk will be
assigned to be present for the
meeting
In mergers already carried
out, Mrs I-eonard said, there
have been 12 administrative
positions vacated in North
Carolina through April 12. by
retirement, transfer to other
agencies or finding em
ployment elsewhere
The WNC moves call for the
local boards of Madison.
Yancey, Transylvania.
Henderson, Polk and Bun
combe Counties at Asheville
The tentative date for the
Asheville area move to begin
is July 17, Mrs. Leonard said
The Asheville office will have
a staff of four, as compared to
three full time and one part
time worker at present
The incident occured in a
parking lot adjacent to the
Exxon Service Station on the
Marshall By-Pass about 1:30 .
pjn. Saturday, Ponder said.
He said Wyatt and his
brother, David, It, were
arguing when Wallin stepped
in without apparent cause.
The sheriff said Wyatt was
shot once with a single XL-,
caliber pistol. Tbe bullet
entered his left chest hot,,
below the heart Ponder said.
Ponder ' said Wallin
voluntarily submitted himself ,
. for arrest at the county jaiU
several boar after the t
Shooting - - .;i:9 :l
Wyatt' reportedly worked
pert-time at the service
tteOon bat was not on duty
there Saturday night. . .
THE 1972 ANNUAL REPORT
of the French Broad EMC is
dedicated to D. M. Robinson
who served the co-op from
1940 to 1972. He retired as
General Manager on
December 31, 1972. The
dedication was made in ap
preciation of his services in
this Important field of rural
eiectrtfication.
E C. TEAGUE, of Marshall,
President of the French Broad
Electric Membership Cor
poration. UiAon Service'
At Ponder's
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Lnapel hlindaV
The North Buncombe
Fellowship Union will meet at
the Ponder's Chapel Baptist
Church this Sunday morning
at 11:00. The speaker will be
the Rev Edgar Waters, Jr., of
Asheville. The Young Men's
Chorus of the Rock Hill
Baptist Church will furnish
the music Sunday morning
Lunch will be served at 1
p. m. at the church.
The afternoon session will
begin at 2 45 o'clock. The Rev
Sherman Forney will deliver
the afternoon sermon. He is
pastor of the AME Zion
Churches of Newport, Term
The chorus of the church will
furnish the music
The public is invited
Two Oliver
Rays Cause
Confusion
The story in last week's
issue of this newspaper
concerning Elizabeth "Betty"
Ray, a native of Marshall, who
is making a success in
Washington, D C. as a model,
receptionist and movie star,
failed to fully identify her. The
paragraph stated that the girl
is the daughter of Mrs. Nor
man Roberts, of Route 1,
Marshall, and the late Oliver
Ray.
Since there were two Oliver
Rays in the county, the one
referred to was formerly of
Marshall Route 1, and NOT
Mars Hill.
Stern Elected
Treasurer Of
YRC Federation
Professor Larry Stern, of
Mars Hill College, was elected
treasurer of the North
Carolina Federation of Young ;
Republicans at the recent .
State Convention held In the
Sr Walter Hotel in Raleigh. .
He Is presently a director of
the 11th District Young
Republican Club. In
cidentally, this district led all
others in North Carolina la
chartering new Y. R. dubs In
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many other prizes. You must
be present to win, it was an
nounced. Free tickets to the
Land of Oz and Tweetsie
Railroad will be given to kids
and a week-end, all-expense
paid "vacation" for some
Rally, Workshops Are
Planned By Methodists
United Methodists of the
Asheville District will hold a
rally at Central Church in
Asheville April 29 in behalf of
the Lake Junaluska
development drive and the
Key 73 visitation program
Bishop Paul Hardin Jr of
Iake Junaluska will be the
speaker in the district rally
and some of the Lake
Junaluska singers will present
a musical program
Prior to the district rally,
workshops will be held in
three areas of the Asheville
District in connection with the
Key 73 visitation program.
The workshops are scheduled
Thursday night, April 26 in the
Biltmore, Mars Hill and
Cummings Memorial chur
ches. The Biltmore workshop,
primarily for United
Methodists in the Asheville
area, will be conducted by the
Rev. Terry Hammill and
speakers will be the Rev. Tom
Stockton, the Rev. Ralph Reed
and the Rev. Phil Gibbs.
Mars Hill workshop, with
the Rev. J. E. Rink as
chairman, has the Rev. James
wng, tne Aev. Bryce Vainer
and the Rev. Ralph Jacks as
speakers.
The Cummings Memorial
workshop at Horse Shoe has
the Rev. John Emory Jones as
chairman,
with Jones, the
Rev George Robinson and the
Corbet t Again
In Exclusive
Ford Club
John O. Corbett formerly of
Service Motor Sales, Inc., of
Marshall, has been named a
member of Ford Division's
exclusive 300-500 Club, a
national organization of
outstanding Ford salesmen.
Membership in the club was
earned through individual
sales success during the 1972
calendar year.
Club members will receive
awards from A. T Buddin,
Ford Division's Charlotte
district sales manager, at a
banquet Saturday, April 28 at
the Myrtle Beach Convention
Center in Myrtle Beach, S. C
The purpose of the 300-500
Club is to recognize out
standing salesmen and to
highlight automotive sales
positions as "valuable service
to the national economy and
the local community," Buddin
said.
The 300-500 Club was
founded 23 years ago.
Marshall FFA
Team Gives
Lions Program
A most interesting program
on Parliamentary Procedure ,
was presented to the Marshall .
Lions Club Monday night by
the Marshall Chapter, Future ,
Fanners of America.
The ttudents participating
ncluded Ted Dill, president; ,
Billy Roberta, vice-president;
Kenned) Roberta, secretary;
Wayne Rica,- treasurer? Ray
Flynn, reporter; and Rodney '
Flym, Sentinel Jack C. Cole
kt the Advisor of the team, ,
The demonstration involved .
the correct parliamentary ,
procedures for a business .
meeting of the Chapter and ,
was splendidly done by the ,
Marshall students. - :
' . The program was concluded
by Bil!y Roberts giving the
FFA Creed, ..... ..,
luck' parents and kids to
Beech Mountain will also be
given away This includes a
tour of Land of O7 and
Tweetsie Railroad, also You
must register for tln.s opportunity
Kev, Robert Tuttle as
speakers
The Asheville District rally
at Central church is beinn
planned by a committee
consisting of Dr J Clay
Madison, Asheville district
superintendent, Carl B Hyatt,
Asheville and the Rev Terry
Hammill of Candler
Bishop Hardin will speak on
"Visitation in Key 73". It is
expected that teams from all
the United Methodist churches
in the district will attend
The area workshops in the
three sections of the district
will draw teams of laymen
and ministers committed to
evangelism visitation during
May.
Ambulance, Truck
Collide In Asheville
A Marshall ambulance
carrying a patient to the
Memorial Mission Hospital
was struck by a pick-up truck
Monday a'tpjnoon abou' 4 V
o'clock on Bdtmore Avenue
and miraculously, no one was
injured in the wreck.
According to reports, the
Marshall ambulance was
driven by Jack Ramsey while
Celola Ramsey, of the am
bulance service was ad
ministering oxygen to Mrs.
Plato Worley, of Marshall,
who was being rushed to
Memorial Mission Hospital
suffering from a heart attack.
As the ambulance reached the
intersection of St. Joseph's
Hospital driveway and Bilt
more Ave., the truck, driven
by Harold George Lunsford, of
Asheville, struck the am
bulance Instead of taking
Mrs. Worley to Memorial
Mission, she was taken
quickly to St. Joseph's
David Metcalf
Scholarship
Recipient
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David Metcalf
David Miles Metcalf, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Met
calf of Mars Hill, Route 2, has
been swarded a George
Foster Hankins Scholarship at
Wake Forest University.
Metcalf, a senior at Cane"
River High School at Burna
viDe, Is among 32 scholarship
winners whose names were
announced by William M. '
Mackie, associate director of
admissions and financial aid.
The scholarships range in
potential four year value from
to $13,200. The 20 boys
and 12 girls, all North Carolina
High School Seniors, were
chosen for their outstanding
records of scholarship and
leadership potential.
Metcalf is a men er of lis
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Shadowline
Featured On
WWNC Sunday
Shadowline of Mars Hill was
featured on the radio program
PROFILE over Station
WWNC in Asheville, last
Sunday at 6:15 p.m.
Grant Jones, Plant Manager
of Shodowline was in
terviewed by Fred Brown,
WWNC staff announcer, on the
15-minute program.
Following the broadcast,
Shadowline received a Profile
Award from WWNC and North
Carolina Blue Cross and Blue
Shield, Inc., sponsor of the
program, for its outstanding
contribution to the industrial
growth and development of
North Carolina. The citation
was signed by Rogers C.
Wade, acting president of
Nor th Carolina Blue Cross and
Blue Shield, Inc., and by
Robert Bunnelle, president of
the Citizen-Times Publishing
Company.
The Profile Award was
presented to Shadowline by
David Iickadoo, Blue Cross
and Blue Shield of N. C.'s
representative in the
Asheville District Office.
The purpose of these
broadcasts is to assist in the
campaign to attract new in
dustry to North Carolina and
to develop greater public
appreciation of business and
industry already located in the
State.
Hospital. No one received
1 njuries from the wreck, It was
stated.
Mrs. Worley was in in
iitisiue care ftomjftie heart
jiiai on TueshyT ' 4
The Marshall ambulance
was totaled" it was stated.
Ramsey Hopes
To Keep Roads
Formula Alive
Rep. Liston B. Ramsey of
Marshall said after the high
way reorganization bill got
through the House that he was
"very happy" that an
amendment he put in it wasn't
taken out during floor debate.
The bill is now headed for
the Senate for final action, and
Ramsey urged senators from
the mountain counties to stay
on their toes and not allow the
provision for a formula
allocating secondary road
funds to be removed from the
legislation.
Ramsey argued in the
House Roads Committee
against leaving the allocation
of such funds up to a Secon
dary Roads Council appointed
by the governor.
He won passage of an
amendment which he says
favors the mountain counties.
It is identical to the formula
used under the present
system.
I certainly hope Our
senators will be equally In
terested in making a strong
effort to retain the provision
for mis formula," Ramsey
said.
The formula provides that
the allocation of secondary
roads contraction be made on
an annual bash, with the
distribution based on a per
centage of the total un paved
mileage m the state. ; - - ,
Each county's share would
be determined by its per
centage of the total of unpaved
. road mileage la the state.
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