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Volume 72 Number 25
Marshall, N. C.
July 5, 1973
New Shadowline Plant At Mars
Hill To Start Operations July 9
The new Shadowline plant,
located on a 34-acre tract
about one mile from Mars Hill
on N C. 213, will be ready to
start operations on Monday,
July 9, officials stated this
week
Construction of the modern
and attractive plant started
last October and during the
construction Shadowline has
been using the Mars HiU
Community Building as
training headquarters for
approximately 50 persons
We are most grateful to
Mayor William P Powell, the
town officials and the fine
citizens of Mars Hill for their
cooperation in letting us use
this facility uniil our building
was ready", Tom Shuping,
general manager, stated
The new plant, designed for
the convenience and comfort
of employees, is located on a
most beautiful picturesque
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A RETIREMENT DINNER was given on June 28, 1973 at Mars Hill College In
honor of W. E. Hill, County Supervisor, F armers Home Administration who
retired on June 29. 1973 after more than thirty years of service. Pictured
above, left to right are Charles Jeffrey. Executive Administrative Officer,
KH A. Raleigh. W. E. Hill, and Paul Laughrun. District Supervisor. EIIA,
Hurnsv ille. Hill has been considered one of the outstanding superv isors in the
state in rendering assistance to farmers and rural people in Madison County.
The county has the distinct record over a thirty-seven year period of having
only one foreclosure. The credit extended has been based on individual
planning and supervisory assistance given by Hill and other members of his
staff. Hill finished high school at Kald Creek in Yancey County, after which he
attended Tusculum College in (ireenev ille. Tenn. He then taught school in
Madison County including the job of principal of different high schools in the
county. He is active in church and community affairs. He is married to the
former Nell Buckner They have one son
Presbyterian Chureh To
Dedicate New Furnishings
Next Sunday will be a very
fecial day at the Marshall
Presbyterian Church for on
that day a number of new
additions will be dedicated
For sometime one of the
members had felt that a new
pulpit, constructed in har
many with the present fur
niture, would be desirable
Finally, just before the end of
the year this dream became a
reality The new pulpit was
ordered but the delivery date
wa s f our to f i ve months ahead,
Dr Arthur F. Williams,
pastor, said.
"As the time approached
for delivery things began to
happen", the pastor said.
"The Doors bore the use of 23
years of busy feet The
asueways of tile had seen
better days ; the walls bar the
grime of all the years since the
church tu built. So the walls
were painted, the floors
brought back to tht original
beauty of the hardwood finish '
and, after much con
-deration, new carpet bar-
nMrftM arfdi Ho wTla anil
furniture . was purchased.
.Then the narthex was reUled
.with durable yet beautiful
-paten that should last for
many years", Dr. wiiims
stawd.
He cor.-r.ue4, "TUre ap
peared to be one thing lacking
knoll over-looking the Blue
Ridge Mountains. Large green
meadows and a small brook
add to the beauty of the plant
site.
Six Associates of Asheville,
who planned the Morganton
and Fallston plants also
planned the Mars Hill facility
and these architects included
large picture windows so
employees and visitors could
enjoy the vista of the moun
tains and surrounding area
Shadowline, a leading
manufacturer of lingerie, has
left "no stone unturned" in
making the all-modern, air
condiuoned plant comfortable
and conductive for efficient
sewing operations In addition
to the most modern sewing
machines, the lates in lighting
fixtures make working con
ditions easy A large lobby, a
well-equipped canteen and
huge parking areas also add to
CD
in the front of the i hur h
where the organ had been
located a matching oak table
on which the open Bible and
the cross were mounted
Aboive these was a perfect
place for a stained glass
window This window, about
four feet in diameter, depicts
the Dove, representing the
Holy Spirit, with the three
Housing Projects To
Be Ready Next Week
After many "ups and
downs" since the beginning of
construction of the Marshall
low-rent housing projects, it is
hoped that initial occupants
will be able to move into the
units about July 10, C. N.
Willis, Executive Director of
the Marshall Housing
- Aufcorlty, stated this week.
The ants were inspected
last week by officials of HUD
aid the architects and the:
local authorities accepted
three of the buildings, namely, .
the units far elderly located on
Main street; B four-bedroom
T?s lira ted trwird Rector's
C.- ' - r, 'd the one-bedroom
uruts located at the in
the conveniences
"All this just didn't happen
without the cooperation and
encouragement of so many
fine people of this area",
SherrodSalsbury, president of
the nationally known com
pany, said.
In a search for a general
location for a new plant, the
company was assisted in an
introduction to the area by Dr.
Fred Bentley, president of
Mars Hill College. When of
ficials visited the Mars Hill
area they were most im
pressed by the enthusiasm of
other leading citizens, in
chiding Mayor William P.
Powell, town officials, and
area leaders
"Among others who have
proved most helpful in the
choice of Mars Hill for our
location includes D M
Robinson and Norris Gentry of
the French Broad EMC;
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rays or beams depicting the
Trinity All of this was set in a
background harmonizing with
the other stained glass win
dows" The church sanctuary was
attractive before but now with
the refurnishings it is as
beautiful as any church ran
be." Dr Williams proudly
remarked
tersection of US 25-70 and
Skyway Drive. These units
have been turned over to the
local housing authorities
subject to a punch list, Willis
explained.
The four-unit structure
located an the Walnut Creek
Road In Marshall which was
, destroyed by fire recently Is ,
expected to be replaced in the
; near hitore. Willis stated. t
, The origin of the fire is still
unknown. The loss has beea
estimated at 1100,000. The
arits and their contents were r
Insured by the construction'
companies, it was stted.
Wuid also said that the &Li is
continuing the recent fire.
Novile Hawkins, former high-'
way commissioner;
Representative L. B. Ram
sey; the Citizens Bank,
Lawrence Ponder, chairman
Madison County Industrial
Development Commission,
and many others," Shuping
said.
"Especially do we ap
preciate the fine cooperation
of Hawkins and the highway
department on seeing that the
approaches to the plant were
built," Shuping, Shadowline
official, commented.
"Shadowline Lane", which
has been suggested for the
main approach, turns off NC
$84,000 Grant Approved
For County Title HI
The State Board of
Education has approved
grants of over $2,000,000 for
continuation of experimental
education projects under Title
III of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act.
$84,000 of that money has been
awarded to the Madison
County school unit for the 1974
fiscal year.
L. B. Ramsey
Is Named To
Commission
House Speaker James E.
Ramsey Thursday appointed
six House members to the
Legislative Services Com
mission. The appointment are
for two years, and they begin
July 1. Ramsey named Reps.
Norwood E. Bryan, Jr., D
Cumberland: David W.
Bumgardner, Jr., D-Gaston;
Claude DeBruhl, D
Buncombe; liston B. Ram
sey, D-Madison; H. Horton
Rountree, D-Pitt; and William
T Watkins, D-Granville.
The commission is
responsible for the overall
operation of the General
Assembly This includes staff
and equipment.
The commission has 14
members, six from each
Chamber, the Speaker of the
House, and the President Pro
Tern of the Senate
4-1 1 Junior
Dairy Show
(hi August 1
The Western District Jr
Dairy Show will be held on
Wednesday, August 1, at the
Western N C Agricultural
Center in Fletcher
Several Madison County
ynung people have enjoyed
working with and showing
dairy cattle in the past, and
hopefully, more will want to
show this year The dairy
show is not limited to those
people who own a dairy farm
or to youth actively engaged in
a 4-H program. If you are
between the ages of 9 and IS
and like to work with animals,
you would gain valuable ex
perience by conditioning and
showing livestock.
Anyone interested in
showing an animal in this
year's show should contact the
County Extension Office as
soon as possible. If you do not
ha ve a calf to show, we will try
to help you find one and get
you started. Any recognised
dairy breed will be shown ia
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Reunion .
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' The Anderson reunion will'
be heal in the Mars Hill high
school cafeteria a Sunday.,
Juht ? f.
Al relatives are asked to
attend. Elizabeth Anderson, of
Man K.a, stated. . .
213 to the right a short
distance from the Mars Hill
Community Building.
"Although the building is
not completely finished, the
main sewing room will be
ready for operations next
Monday", Shuping said.
JOB OPENINGS
The facilities of this new
modern plant will now result
in the reopening of job ap
plications for a systematic
a nd consistent hiring program
to acquire additional em
ployees. This program of
expansion will continue until
employment of some 200
persons is completed
"Thirty-seven of the state's
forty-one ESEA Title III
projects are going into their
third and final year of
operation under federal
funds," according to Mrs. Von
Valletta, Director of
Development for the State
Education Agency. "The other
four Durham County,
Goldsboro-Wayne County,
Greenville City, and
Rockingham County will
be funded federally for two
more years."
In North Carolina, ex
perimental education
programs have been funded
under ESEA Title III since
1965 when Congress first
enacted the lOeinantary and
Secondary Education Act.
"The purpose of the funds,"
says Mrs. Valletta, "is to
provide 'seed' money to local
school units for ex
perimentation with new
educational practices. The
money is awarded for a period
of three years with the ex
pectation that, if the program
proves to be a success, the
local school unit will continue
it."
Chamber Music
In Burnsville
And Mars Hill
Contrast and variety in the
chamber music of Bach,
Beethoven and Schumann plus
plus works by Zoltan Kodaly
and the American composer
Arthur William Foote com
prise programs for the third
week of concerts to be
presented by Music in the
Mountains, at 3:30 p.m
Sunday, July 8, in Burnsville,
at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, in
Swannanoa and at 7 p.m.
Thursday, July 12, at Mars
Hill.
The Burnsville harp
sichordist Eve Lynne Reeve
wdl play a Bach chaconne in
identical programs Sunday in
Burnsville's Presbyterian
Church and Tuesday at
Warren Wilson College,
Swannanoa. Performing on
the same programs will be
violinists Robert Bloch and
Jon Toth, violist Joel Lipton
and cellist Eva Ell In a
Beethoven quartet in A. Ruth
Geoger will be at the keyboard
with three of the string
players in a Schumann piano
quartet.
Adding to the week's
musical variety, the Thursday
night concert in the campus
amphitheater atMars Hill will
contrast a Kodaly duet
derived from folk music of the
composer's native Hungary
against the "night piece" of
Foote, Boston organist who
wrote conservative music
sometimes reminiscent of
Brahms, in which Suaaa
Fries' flute will )aia she string
quartet The bora of Robert
Fries will be added to strings
and flat for a third number, a
Bach suits ia B minor.,
SINGING . I
' The second Sunday night
'"" singing wul be held St the .
AVrander Baptist Church this
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Tht public Is invited. '
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Mars Hill Lets
$165,000 Water
The Mars Hill Town Board
passes a resolution Wed
nesday night, June 27, 1973,
awarding contracts to proceed
with the construction of a new
300,000 gallon water reservoir
that will nearly double the
present storage capacity in
Mars Hill.
Taylor and Murphy Con
struction Company, Asheville,
received the General contract
(Division I) with a bid of
$111,113.70. Other bids
received for Division I were:
OEO Continues In County;
Many Youths Are Working
The phasing out of North
Carolina's State Economic
Opportunity Office, begun
Friday, will have little, If any,
effect kon the Oppoftunity
Corporation of Madison
Buncombe Counties, which is
funded until Dec. 31, ac
cording to Lonnie D. Burton,
executive director of the local
community action agency.
But Burton says it is his
understanding that the move
will make North Carolina the
only state without such an
office.
'It's my information that
the governor decided he did
not want the state OEO of
fice," Burton said, "although
he said he was interested in
the poor and got ap
proximately $600,000 in
federal funds. Of the total
amount, $300,000 is being
administered in Roberson
County in a single ex
perimental program, and I
believe the other $300,000 is
being used for some sort of
training program."
The Holshouser ad
ministration began steps to
eliminate the state OEO office
soon after President Nixon
attempted to shut down the
national OEO. Nixon's move
has been blocked by a federal
court but the state apparently
has a free hand
The state OEO office began
a 30-day phaseout Friday as
the state carried out plans to
shift its responsibilities to the
Division of Special Services in
the Office of Special Services,
after the OEO had this week
authorized an allotment of
$170,000 to maintain it for
another seven months at its
current level.
An OEO spokesman in
Atlanta said Friday the funds
would be available regardless
of the agency handling the
anti-poverty programs, but ha
said the OEO did ask that
employees of the state office
"be protected."
Burton said the Op
portunity Corporation of
Madison-Buncombe Counties
will be working directly with
the regional office and will be
opera ling as usual at least for
the remainder of the year.
"But we're wrapped up la
ft 'stop bombing or stop
government legislation and
the compromise that is ia the
making." Bruton said.
tBurtoa ssid the House
Appropriations Committee Is
asking for $3311 mlllioa to
fund the OEO for another year
and 1184 millioa to fund
community action agencies,
and be expressed confidence
(hat the poverty program will
be continued beyond the Dec
si cutoff date.
R. H Johnson Construction
Company, Winston-Salem,
($111,978.50) and Hobson
Construction Company, Ar
den, North Carolina
($121,768,000).
Chicago Bridge and Iron
Company, Atlanta, Ga.,
received the Division II
contract (steel tank) with a
bid of $33,875.00. Other bids
received for Division II were :
Brown Steel Construction,
Newnan, Ga., ($42,195 00 I ;
Caldwell Tanks Inc.
Burton said the decision on
use of impounded Neigh
borhood Youth Corps funds
ordered released for summer
youth employment by a. New,
Jersey federal Judge Thurv
day would be made by the
Regional Office of the OEO
"The time element will
make it difficult," Burton
said, "but if the funds are
made available and the
regional office wants us to try
to use them this summer, we
will certainly put forth every
effort because of the critical
need."
Burton said he was grateful
"for those funds from the
President's summer youth
program that have been made
available through the county
commissioners for summer
youth employment."
'The county commissioners
requested the Employment
Security Commission to be the
Keep In Touch With ASCS Office
Responsibility often rests
with the farmer to notify his
County Agricultural
Stabilization and Con
servation Service Office of
changes in his farm plans and
operations. This reminder
came today from Nila Mann,
Acting Executive Director of
the Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service,
Madison County.
The County ASCS Office
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A COLLISION Moadav aboaat aooa at tht ta
tersectioa wf US 2S-7I art NC II J at RoHIju la
Marshall result? la 1 tww r local persons being
hospitalized. Mr. had Mrs. Stephea Zare. of Mar
shall, passengers ia a tail drivea by Toramlc Rector
received cats aad braises aad arc patients ia
Memorial Missioa Hospital. Rector was an Injured.
The other car tavolved wss drivea by Mania
, Jacksoa Chandler, of the Laurel sectioa. Chancer
received slight besd injuries. His brother, f UrUn.
was anlnjured. The Chancer car w tt rr.ter!-? V3
2S-7I from 213 wbea it struck Sector's taxi v' Mi
was beaded toward ALe ille. DoJi cars w rre t "j
dsmtged. , , , . ' , ...
Contracts For
Improvement
Louisville, Ky. ($45,665.00)
and Pittsburgh-Des Moines,
Atlanta, Ga., ( $49,800.00). The
other expenses will be, Land
aquisition, technical and legal
expenses.
Mayor Bill Powell stated
that he was proud of the
citizens of Mars Hill for
passing the $90. WO Bond
Referendum by a margin of
156 to 2. This gave the Town
Board the assurance that the
Town's people were almost 100
percent behind this much
sponsoring agency for this
program," Burton said, "but
since your Neighborhood
Youth Corps was the only
group with the expertise for
running such a program, a
cooperative agreement was
reached by which the Op
portunity Corporation through
its NYC would operate the
program." Burton said the
Opportunity Corporation is
providing the office space and
telephones for the counselors
and workers and that the
program is being staffed by
the NYC
There are 520 work slots, all
filled, providing 29 hours of
work a week at $1.60 per hour
for a period of eight weeks.
Burton said the OEO funded
an NYC program in Madison
County and ISO youths have
received employment for an
eighUweeks period
needs to know, for instance, if
your allotment crop is
destroyed by weather and you
plan to plant a different crop
and if you are in any of the
programs administered by
ASCS and you buy or sell or
lease farmlands," said Mrs.
Mann.
"Most farmers know they
should notify the County ASCS
Office about such matters,"
aba added, "but somettmas fat
needed improvement. He
further stated that with
Shadowline moving into their
new plant within a few days,
Micro-Switch now in operation
in town, and the near com
pletion of the new interstate to
Mars Hill, the "Town" may
soon be able to call itself a
"citv".
GRADUATES
Charles Waldrup, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Vester Waldrup of
Arden, was recently
graduated from the Univer
sity of Tennessee, Knaxville,
with a Bachelor of Science
degree. He plans to enter the
University of North Carolina
Law School at Chapel Hill in
the faD.
Charles is the grandson of
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Chandler of
Walnutand Mr. and Mrs C. T
Waldrup of Route 2, Marshall.
Six County
Students On
Dean's List
Academic honors at
Western Carolina University
have been conferred upon six
students from Madison
County, according to an an
nouncement by Dr. J. Stuart
Wilson, vice chancellor for
academic affairs.
Students from Madison
County are:
HOT SPRINGS: Jimmy F.
Sumerel, and Fred E.
Trantham Jr., Rt. 2.
MARSHALL: Lynda L.
Payne, Rt. 6.
MARS HILL: Janice R.
Anderson, Rt. 3; Linda K.
Buckner, Rt. 2; and Eliasa L.
Hailey, Rt. 3.
the midst -o( & busy time they
forget. And sometimes this
can cause difficulties which
could have been avoided."
She pointed out that is is not
usually necessary to visit the
County ASCS Office in person.
"Often s phone call or a abort
letter is all that's necessary.
Then, if the County ASCS
Office people find mart in
formation is needed, they will
let the fanner know."
"Of course, visitors to the
ASCS office are always
welcome," Mrs. Mana said.
"Not only do we find it easier
to keep the records stale?
for tht fanner who comas is,
bat we also keep oarsehroj
bettor informed about the
satire acrteulharal pickxa."
Marshall
Revenue
Sharing
Officials of Oat Town of
Marshall have released t e
foilowinf estimated amount of
Revenue Sharing Alloc '.ra
for April and June, lrj, ss
follows:
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