H-dion County Librtrj
Volume 72 Number 26
Marshall. N. C.
July 12, 1973
County Schools
Open August 16
Teachers in Madison County
schools will report for duty on
Monday, August 13 for three
days termed "Teacher Work
Days", Superintendent R. L.
Edwards announced this
week.
The first day for students to
report for Orientation Day
(Registration) will be on
Thursday, August 16, Ed
wards said. Buses will be in
operation on that day
Following is the 1973-74
school calendar: i Subject to
change)
August 17, teacher work
day; August 20, begin first
menth; Sept. 3, Holiday
llabor Day); Sept 17, end
first school month; Oct. 1, end
of first six weeks; Oct 2,
NCAE district meeting; Oct.
16, end second school month;
November 6, election day;
Nov 14, end third school
month; Nov 14, end second
six weeks; Nov 15, teacher
work day; Nov 22, Holiday
(Thanksgiving Day); Nov. 23,
Holiday I in lieu of Veterans
Day); Dec 17, end fourth
school month; Dec 24 , 23,26,
Christmas Holidays; Dec. 27,
28, 31, teacher vacation days;
Jan 1, New Year's Holiday;
Mrs. Octavia Ramsey
Played Major Role
For Shadowline
In last week's issue the main
front page article concerned
the new Shadowline plant at
Mai it 'At'J. Many persons wefie
commended who had played
important parts in assisting
Shadowline to locale in Mars
Hill
However, one name was
inadvertently omitted who
perhaps played the MOST
important part which led
Shadlowline to come to Mars
Hill This person was Mrs
Octavia Ramsey, who passed
away shortly after she had
sold some 34 acres of property
for the site of the Shadowline
plant She was the wife of D
W (Doc) Ramsey, of near
Mars Hill
According lu her daughter.
Mrs Zelda Ballard, who
resides on Murray Mountain,
Route 3. Mars Hill. Mrs
Ramsey was dedicated to the
upbuilding of Madison County
and she slated, I am selling
this property (or the good of
the county and its people I
want to leave something to be
remembered by and I know of
no batter way than to let mom
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TOP PICTURE shows portion of the Tri-County
Wagon Train which ended its tour in Mars Hill of
July 4th. Forefront is Howard Higgins' wagon with
Hlggins and family as it Journeyed through the Paint
Fork section. Approximately 30 wagons par
ticipated. Botton picture are the Mars Hill Little
League All-Stars who played baseball on the 4th.
More than 1400 people enjoyed the Mars Hill com
munity 4th of July celebration which included Little
League baseball, wagon train. Country Music
festival, fireworks and dancing. Music was fur
bished by Carl Shook and the Country Boys and the
Turkey Branch Jnctioa.
Jan. 9, end third six weeks;
Jan. 10, teacher work day;
Jan. 24, end fifth school
month; Feb. 21, end sixth
school month; Feb. 21, end
fourth six weeks; Feb. 22,
teacher work day; March 22,
end seventh school month;
April 5, end fifth six weeks;
April 8, teacher work day;
April 12, teacher vacation
day; April 15, Easter holiday;
April 24, end eighth month;
May 22, teacher work day;
May 23, end ninth school
month ( last day for students);
May 24-27,28,29,30, teacher
work days; May 31, one-half
teacher work day; May 31,
one-half teacher vacation
day, June 3,4,5,6,7,10,11,
teacher vacation days; June
12, Iegal holiday i in lieu of
Memorial Day)
"All annual vacation leave
days, legal holidays, and
additional days of em
ployment could be optional
and interchangeable as long
as the number of annual
vacation leave days and legal
holidays meet the
requirements of the law",
Superintendent Edwards
stated
industry have the property for
a plant," Mrs. Ramsey told
her daughter.
Jim Story, editor, who wrote
the article, states that perhaps
there were many others who
should have been mentioned
but it is extremely difficult to
mention ALL those who were
instrumental in acquiring
Shadowline but certainly Mrs
Ramsey deserves ti he
mentioned
Alex Robins Added To
MHC Coaching Staff
MARS HILL Mars Hill
College completed its Athletic
Department Staff with the
hiring of Alex Robins from the
University of Richmond as
Offensive Backfield Coach
Athletic Director and Football
Coach Claude Cibson has
rearranged the assignments
of the football staff Mike
IVior, Offensive Coordinator,
will coach the offensive line
and Bill Mitchell will coor-
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MARSHALL LIONS CLUB officers installed Monday night at Redmond
Restaurant on Tunnel Road, Asheville, are pictured above, left to right, Norris
Gentry, president; Steve W'allin, 3rd vice president; Charles Huey, secretary;
Lawrence Ponder, tail twister; Ralph Rice, treasurer; Maurice McAllister,
2nd vice president; Ernest Teague, 1st vice president; Charles Davis, Lion
Tamer, was not present. Lions O. A. Gregory and Roy Reeves were installed
as new directors. Lion "Red" Hoyle, of Asheville, was Installing Officer.
Approximately 40 Lions and Lionesses attended the Installation Services.
MHC Expects To Receive $160,000
MARS HILL The General
Assembly of North Carolina
has appropriated $6 3 million
this year to aid educational
programs within the state
$4 6 million will go directly to
needy North Carolina students
attending the state's private
institutions At $200 per
student. tins figure
represents a substantial in
crease over last years
complicated method of
calculation
Financial Aid Director
David Mathews estimates ttiat
800 North Carolina natives will
be enrolled at Mars Hill
College this fall and the
McDevitt Joins
After stepping down as a
member of the State Utilities
Commission last Saturday.
John W McDevitt has joined
dinate the defense
Robins is a gradual
Maryville College in Ten
nessee where he was a three
ear member of the All-Area
Team selected In the Knox
v lilt' News Sentinel He sered
his apprenticeship there
before becoming an assistant
football coach at Brunswick
High School in Georgia In
1971, he joined the staff at the
University of Richmond
Coach Gibson indicated that
he came highly recommended
from Coach Frank Jones In
addition to his cnachinn
responsibilities, he will be in
charge of recruiting in the
Virginia area as well as New
Jersey
Swimming
Pool Here
Is Closed
Mayor Lorado Ponder
stated Tuesday morning that
the Marshall Swimming Pool
has been closed by the
Madison County Health
Department. He gave reasons
for the closing the N C State
Uw which requires that the
bottom of any swimming pool
must be visible from the
surface. Due to heavy rains
and silt, the local pool doesn't
meet these requirements at
the present
"We regret this situation
and It vividly points out the
need for a filtering system in
Marshall," Mayor Ponder
stated.
Attends
Conference ?
Solicitor Clyde M. Roberts
attended the annual State .
Solicitor's Conference at ;
Emerald Isle, Swamsboro, N.
C, last week , -
$l(il),(HK) the Baptist-related
college will receive is a
giant increase over last
year's $40,000 for ap
proximately the same number
(if students." The state
requires that an applicant's
need be determined by the
standards of the College
Scholarship Service or the
American College Testing
I'rogram However, that is the
only guideline the state laid
down and Mathews comments
that "We have awarded up to
$1000 to a student but the
average falls in the $400 to $800
range."
The awards are made
Morgan's Staff
the staff
Morgan
f Atty Gen Robert
is a special con-
sultant
Morgan said McDevitt
would assist in arranging the
sale of electric, water and
telephone systems, owned and
operated by the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sale of the state-owned
property was recommended
by a legislative study com
mission "Because of his experience
on the state Utilities Com
mission lie has the kind of
expert knowledge about the
utilities business that is
necessary in order for us to
ask for and receive the best
price possible," Morgan said.
McDevitt, B0, is a Marshall
native who has been in state
government since 1948 in
i ludmg a stint as director of
the slate Personnel Depart
ment cprt'scnl
Madison
Madison County was
represented at the 27th annual
SUite 4-H KTectric Congress by
Sandy Keldman, Jane Rice
and Tommy DuVall
The Electric Congress was
held in Durham, July 9-11
About 200 4-H'ers were
present
Gary Ealey, Madison
County Extension Agent, said
that Feldman, Rice and
DuVall were selected to
represent Madison County on
the basis of their
achievements in the 4-H
electric project.
Jane was invited to present
her state winning Electric
demonstration this year.
During the Congress, the
delegates viewed ejectric
demonstrations, toured a
tobacco factory and visited
the More head Planitarium.
State and territorial winners
in the 4-H electric project
were also announced.
The 4-H Electric Congress
was sponsored by Carolina
Power and Light Co., Duke ,
Power Co., Nantahala Power -and
Light Co., Virginia
Electric and Power Co.; and
the Westinghouse Educational
Foundation In cooperation.
with the N. C Agricultural
Extension Sendee. . -
strictly as grants, and there
are no loans or work-study
scholarships involved with
this award. Although many of
the state's 39 private junior
and senior colleges and
universities are experiencing
enrollment problems,
Mathews reports that Mars
Hill College's fall enrollment
figures were up and that there
is still space for a few male
resident students. He also
emphasized that commuter
students are eligible to receive
aid under this appropriation.
Mathews alan emphasized
that the money is given on a
"use it or lose it" basis, with
all unused funds having to be
returned to the state at the end
of the fiscal year.
Knott Receives INew
Position At Mars Hill
Robert E. Knott has
appointed Education
Development Officer and
Director of the Kellogg Grant
at Mars Hill College. Knott, a
Winston-Salem native,
recently completed residency
requirements for a Ph.D. at
the State University of New
York at Buffalo. Prior to his
study at SUNY, Knott held
several positions at the
Baptist-related institution
including Director of In
stitutional Research,
Chairman of the Political
Science-Sociology Division,
and Instructor of Sociology
He was Director of the In
stitute for Teachers of Gifted
and Talented Students of the
North Carolina Governor's
School in 1970 and 1971.
A 1962 graduate of Wake
Forest University, Knott
received a Bachelor of
Divinity degree from
Southeastern Seminary in
1965. A teacher at R. J.
Reynolds High School in
Winston-Salem, he completed
a Master's Degree at Wake
Forest in 1969. During 1967-64,
he was minister of Trinity
Presbyterian Church in
Winston-Salem.
As Director of the Kellogg
Grant and Educational
Development Officer, Knott
will be primarily concerned
with developing the com- '
petency -based curriculum
. recently fumted by the Kellogg
Foundation for $11,000. The ;
first competency-based
course, a drama course, will
be offered this falL Although .
chiefly an administrative
Creel Cites Important
Labor Law Changes
Important changes in
several of North Carolina's
basic Labor Laws will go into
effect on July 1, Sept. 2, and
Oct. 1 this year, State Labor
Commissioner Billy Creel said
us week.
"The 1973 General
Assembly enacted substantial
changes in the State's
minimum wage, maximum
hour, and child labor statues,
and for the first time added an
overtime pay requirement for
North Carolina employees,"
said Commissioner Creel.
Creel listed the 1973 Ixibor
Law changes, and their ef
fective dates, as follows'
"Starting July 1, 1973,
employers of four or more
employees in any one place of
business are governed by
maximum working hours of 10
hours per day, 56 hours per
week, and 12 days in any
period of 14 consecutive days
These maximum hours apply
equally to men and women
employees.
"This section of the law (G.
S. 95-17) has been changed so
thatseveral types of employes
who formerly were exempt
from maximum hours
requirements are now
covered. These include em
ployees in motion picture
theaters, hotels, male clerks
in mercantile establishments
and auto mechanics working
on a commission basis or on a
combination of salary and
commission, provided the
establishment in which they
are working is not covered by,
or in compliance with, the
federal Fair Labor Standards
Act."
Several sections of the
Maximum Hour Law were
repealed or deleted from the
law, either to eliminate
discriminatory provisions
based upon the sex of the
employe or to remove
requirements no longer
relevant to current conditions
officer, Knott will retain as
Assistant Professorship in the
Sociology Department.
Knott is married to the
former Brenda Sue Harris of
Mooresville and they have two
children, Andrea, 5, and
Robert, Jr.. 1
Four County
Youths In
Crops Contest
Thirty-five farm boys and
girls in nine counties are
participating in the 1973
Western North Carolina
Horticultural Crops Contest,
according to an an
nouncement by Harry G
Silver of Asheville, Extension
District Supervisor (TVAl,
contest chairman. This is a
record number of participants
in the contest, which was
started in 1960.
Purpose of the contest is to
recognize ths boys and girls in
the area with the most out
standing horticultural
projects each year and to
encourage interest in various
horticultural crops.
The contest is sponsored by
the Horticultural Crops
Commission of the Western
North Carolina Development
Association in cooperation
with the N C. Agricultural
Extension Service and
vocational agriculture
teachers.
Cash awards of $225 will be
presented to the area winners
at an awards program in
December, with $100 offered
for first prize. Prise donors
are Gerber Products Com
pany, Pigeon Valley Tomato
Farm, Canton; Francis 4
Wright, Inc., and Southern
Agricultural Insecticides,
Headersoaville; Barber
Orchards, WayneeviOe and S
D Farm, Fletcher. . ; -
This year's contestants ;
Include from Madison County,
Darlena, Nancy and Steve
Cutshall and Mark Cody,
MarshalL
in business and industry
"Kir example," Treel said,
"businesses are no longer
required to furnish seats for
the use of female employees
Businesses may no longer
apply to the Conumssioner of
I.abor for special permission
to work employees 60 hours
per week in emergency'
situations.
Employees 18 years of age
and over who are covered by,
or in compliance with, the
federal Fair Labor Standards
Act, are still exempt from the
daily and weekly hours
provisions of the Maximum
Hour lw In actual effect
this means that the law lias an
unpad only upon businesses
not covered by the federal
law
"If any business pays the
currently applicable federal
minimum wage, and pays
time and a half for overtime
after 40 hours per week in
cases where the federal
overtime provision applies, it
does not have to limit em
ployee working time to 111
hours per day, 56 hours per
week, and 12 days in any
period of 14 consecutive days
This provision of the Law
automatically eliminates
approximately 1,100.000 North
Carolina employees from
coverage by the Maximum
Hour I-aw," Creel said
A new section iG S. 95-17 1 1
added to the Maximum Hour
law, also effective on July 1,
1973, requires that covered
employees be paid time and a
half their regular rale of pay
for hours worked in excess of
50 hours in any one week
"This overtime pay
provision will apply to
establishments ifevuig tour or
mere employees and which
are not exempt by virtue of
being 'covered by or in
compliance with' the Fair
MRS. J. P. DERINGER. of Newport Beach, California, widow of the founder
of Deringer Manufacturing Company, is shown above presenting a (-lens
movie camera to Superintent R. L. Edwards in front of the courthouse here
Tuesday morning. The gift is to be used by the board of education for various
school activities. Mrs. Deringer stated that this camera was given in ap
preciation of the interest and cooperation shown by citizens of this county who
assisted Deringer to open a plant in Marshall. James T. Ledford, chairman
county commissioners, is shown looking on in front row. Back row, left to
right. Paul Deringer, director; Rod Lamm, president; Harold KadelL
director; Pat Clemens, Marshall plant manager; and Porter Duell, executive
vice president.
ASCS Reminds Farmers
To M.aiiitain Land Uses
Madison County farmers
who have certified compliance
with 1973 farm program
requirements are reminded to
continue to carry out their
commitment for the
remainder of (he year.
According to the county
ASCS office 171 farmers ia
Madisoa County had certified :
compliance with this year's
farm program by the June 9
: deadline. Certification
amounts to a pledge by the -
fanner as to his program
,. acreage, bis acreage set aside
- from production, if any, and
that he has compiled with all
program provisions. " .
Labor Standards Act, or
otherwise specifically exempt
from the Maximum Hour
I.aw
"No realistic estimate of the
number of employees who will
be affected by this provision is
currently available. Its
principal unpad will be upon
retail and service establish
ments having four or more
employees but not covered by
the federal law because they
are doing less tlian $250,000
gross annual volume of
business," he said
Approxunately 50, (KM) North
Carolina employees will be
directly affected by the in
crease in the North Carolina
minimum wage from $1 60 per
hour to $1 80 per hour on
September 2, 1973
No other changes in the
Minimum Wage Law were
made by the 1973 General
Assembly All of the former
exemptioas still remain in
effect and coverage of the law
is still the same. Most of the
50.000 employes who will
benefit from the $180
minimum are employed by
small and medium sized retail
aril service businesses.
"Kor tile time being, at least
until September 2, the special
student-learner minimum of
not less than $1 40 per hour
permitted by regulation of the
Commissioner of I,abor with
the approval of the State
Apprenticeship Council will
remain unchanged, " Creel
noted.
EffecUve October 1, 1973,
minors i persons under 18
years of age) will no longer
have to obtain a new em
ployment certificate from
their county Department of
Soaal Services each time thev
change trom one Job to
another.
The new certification
requirement makes the
minor's nrteinal employment
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Following certification
certain farms art picked at
random for a spot check of
program acreages. The ac
curacy of the certification is '
determined by comparing
actual acreages . with those
certified by the producer.
Producers found out of
complianc could lose aS or
part of their program
payment Spot checks will
continue throughout the
remainder of the year.
Reports compiled from
other areas indica t iwne
producers have fsi lo npt
the m inimum size anj -e
requirements of set-es le
certificate good for the job
described in the 'promise of
employment' and for any and
all subsequent employment.
Hazardous occupations,
prohibited for minors by the
State Child labor Iaw or by
Die child Labor provisions of
Die 1- air labor Standards Act,
are still prohibited and will be
indicated as being prohibited
on the nunor's emploqment
certificate.
The new law makes the
minoi responsible for ob
taining the employment
certificate. I his responsibility
was formerly that of the
minor s employer or parent.
I'pon the first day of em
ployment, the minor rnust
surrender the employment
certificate to his or her new
employer The employer must
keep the certificate available
foi inspection at any time by
the Department of labor
I'pon termination of em
ployment, the employer must
immediately return the
employment certificate to the
minor
A further amendment to the
Child I.abor law permits
minors between 1C and 18
years of age to work in Grade
A restaurants holding malt
beverage, wine, spirituous
liquor, or other permits issued
by the State ABC Board, but
does not permit minors to
serve or dispense such
beverages in establishments
holding "on premises" per
mits. "Pending an exact in
terpretation of this bill by the
Attorney General's office,
minors may work in, but not
serve or dispense such
beverages in, these establish
ments. "This change in Die law Ls
already in effect, since the bill
accomplishing it became
effective upon ratification in
May, 1973," Creel said.
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acreage, and are subject Is
loss of payment. Generally, a
set-aside area which Is less
than aa entire field must be at
- least two acres la size, with a
minimum width of 133 feet,
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'producers who grare or t J
.set-atHe aa?- that t'-v
must noCy the Ck'j A, j
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