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Volume 72 Number 28
Marshall, N. C.
July 26, 1973
Kdtson County Xibr&ry
Mershell, N . C, 28753
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Farmers Home
Adminis tr ation 9 s
Fiscal Year Report
Farmers Home Ad
ministration in North Carolina
has just completed its fiscal
year ending June 30, 1973, with
its largest lending
volume in history, according
to James T. Johnson, the
agency's State Director.
Total lending volume by the
agency exceeded $192 million
plus $1 million in grants for
community water and waste
disposal systems. In addition,
another $11 million in grants
by other federal agencies
were made in conjunction with
FHA water and sewer loan
programs. This volume
compared with $153 million for
fiscal year 1972 and $84 million
three years ago.
Johnson emphasized that
although FHA is serving more
farmers, rural families, and
rural communities than ever
before, it is doing it with
substantially less personnel
than in previous years.
A breakdown in the agen
cy's three major lending
programs is as follows:
Rural Housing Over $104
million was loaned for con
struction or purchase of some
6800 housing units compared
to $96 million last year for
some 6700 units. Contrary to
public opinion, the
moratorium on interest
subsidy had little effect on the
housing programs as the
administration permitted
processing of those already
committed. Over half of all
loan received some form of
interest subsidy.
Fanner Programs Loans
to farmers by FHA exceeded
"Mast year'i votame by $35
million. Total volume was $70
million compared to $45
million with some 7700 loans
made to farmers for operating
credit, farm ownership or real
estate programs, and for
farm emergency loans. The
number of loans last year was
5.000.
Community Programs
These programs for last year
consisted of loans for central
water and sewerage systems
and for county sanitary land
fufl operations. Ten Million
dollars were loaned for water
systems, $6 million for sewer
systems, and one-third million
dollars for landfulls. One
million dollars in FHA grants
was used to supplement the
loans. An additional $11
million from EDA, ARC, EPA,
and state grants were used to
supplement the FHA loans
and grants.
Total volume of these
programs to rural towns and
communities was $1 million
plus the $11 million from other
agencies. Total communities w
receiving these funds nvra-jT
bersd 62 for the VhT
volume amount ever, fa
year's dollar volume
nearly $12 million.
At the present time, I
men Home Administrate
North Carolina, has some
million in loam outsta
sarving some $0,000 Tarl
families and about 250 I
communities. Seventy!
county offices serve thj
counties. There are 11 di.
supervisors and a state
in Raleigh with total!
ploymant of 290 people. 1
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prove rural North Carolina
when implemented through
authority for loans for
essential community facilities
such as fire and rescue
facilities, parks, tran
sportation and traffic control
and public buildings. The
Business and Industrial loans
are expected to provide
essential capital to finance
new and expanding Industry
and businesses and thereby
create the jobs so necessary
and essential to Improve life in
rural North Carol ina.
The Farmers Home Ad
ministration Office in Madison
County, located over the
Citizens Bank in Marshall is
now serving an unduplicated
case loan of some 300 and this
figure may vary during the
year. During the last fiscal
year, a total of 125 loans were
made totaling over $500,000
These loans were for
operating loans, farm
ownership loans and rural
housing loans. The total
outstanding Indebtedness in
this office is over $2 million
dollars.
Governor Asked
Marshall-Spring
The following action taken
by the Madison County Board
of Education at its regular
Jury meeting here is self
explanatory: July 19, 1973
The Honorable
James E. Holshouser, Jr.
Governor of North Carolina
Raleigh, N. C.
Dear Sir:
The Madison County Board
$1 Million
REA Loan
Approved
Rep Roy A. Tsylor an
nounced Monday the approval
of a $1,001,000 loan from the U.
S. Rural Electrification Ad
ministration to the French
Broad Electric Membership
Corporation in Marshall, N. C.
The funds will be used to
S nance 49 miles of distribution
to serve a thousand
I rmtanera. a new
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FOOD FUN DAY CAMP
Baby Food Plant, Fruit
M embership Corporation
For six weeks groups of boys and girls in twelve communities in Madison
County have attended Food Fun Day Camp. One hundred and ninty boys and
girls have learned about what they need to eat and how to prepare some of
these foods. A phono viewer, visuals, games and activities were all planned
around the basic-four food groups and how we can be healthier by knowing
about foods. Nutrition Aides, Doris Roberts and Wanda Wyatt; Pace Worker,
Ila Ball, and SEP worker, Denise Allen have worked with these groups in their
day camps. Everyone is especially invited to attend the graduation program
Friday, July 27 at 7:30 p. m., in the Madison County Courthouse.
of Education in their regular
July meeting unanimously
passed the following
resolution .
WHEREAS , the Con
solidated Madison County
High School will be opened in
the FaD of 1974, and
WHEREAS , the existing
road serving Spring Creek
School District is not capable
of serving the school bus
system that will be needed
when the new school is
opened,
BE IT RESOLVED by the
Madison County Board of
Education in their regular
July meeting that this Board
petition His Excellency,
Governor James E.
Holshouser, Jr., that he take
all possible action to expedite
the building of the road known
as State Road 213 Extension
from the Marshall By-pass to
Spring Creek;
WHEREAS a $50,000.00 pro
ration was made to make a
study and or survey of the
extension of Road 213 from the
a a I ii r,
into the
munltit. and
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youth from Long Ridge and Sodom toured Gerber
and Vegetable Market and French Broad Electric
on Friday, July 20,, as part of the final day of camp.
To Expedite
Creek Road
this resolution be forwarded to
the Governor for whatever
action he may see fit to take.
Very truly yours,
-W!Uiani M. RoNrt.
Chairman
(Mrs ) Bobby Jean Rice,
Member
Mountain Folk Festival
In Asheville Next Week -
The 46th Mountain Dance
and Folk Festival will be the
da nc ingest festival yet! That's
the word straight from South
Turkey Creek and the event's
founder and producer,
folklorist Bascom Lamar
Lunsford.
Lunsford, 91, reports that he
has received a final entry list
from Mrs. Earl Ward, his
assistant responsible for the
event's square dancing
competition. According to the
Minstrel of the Appalachians
it includes a record seven
high-stepping clog teams, and
five great-cesrnooth dance
teams,.
4jmows
In HP ?
Emery Wallin,
Member
R Z. Ponder,
f Member j
j R. M. Lee ).
T Member '
R. L Edwards,
Secretary
best square dancing that's
ever been packed into an
opening Thursday night.
Altogether, in the three nights
of the festival, 12 teams will be
dancing, seven clog and five
smooth! "
Alert of mind sharp of
memory but now frail of body,
the bright-eyed Squire of
South Turkey Creek is ob
viously eager to see his
mountain neighbors come
moving gracefully across the
wooden boards of his dancing
platform at the Asheville City
Auditorium the nights of
August 2, 3 and 4.
He is also enthusiastic over
the decision of the competing
, dancers to hold port closely
tradition.!
Region B Attempts
To Solve Problems
By BILLY PRITCHARD
Citizen Staff Writer
The Region B Planning and
Development Commission
Wednesday took positive steps
toward settling differences
among its members and
gaining status as the Lead
Regional Organization ILRO)
in the four-county region.
The commission members
signed a letter to Gov. Jim
Holshouser requesting him to
designate LRO status to
Region B and then resolved to
enter into an agreement with
the Metropolitan Planning
Board (MPB) in Asheville.
A recent controversy,
caused in part by the lack of a
Region B-MPB agreement
and LRO status but also
plagued with underlying
political squabbles and
dissension among its larger
members, prompted each of
the 16 commission members
to attend Wednesday's
meeting in the Sky land Village
Hall.
And everyone was there to
sign a letter, drafted and
proposed by Mayor W. A.
Baxter of I -a Orel Park to the
governor.
"We the undersigned
representatives of the sixteen
member governments of
Region B Commission
respectfully request that you
designate Region B. Com
mission as Lead Regional
Organization for Region B,"
the letter reads. "We have
met every qualification set out
in the LRO regulations and
have filed our request for
designation."
The regional organization
makes up its membership
from i elected officials in
Buncombe, Madison, Hen
derson and Transylvania
have met with his son, Imar
Lunsford, Mrs. Ward and
Jerry Israel, chairman of the
Folk Heritage Committee of
the sponsoring Asheville Area
Chamber of Commerce.
"These folks are dedicated.
They want to preserve our
mountain dancing. They
agreed on 15 traditional
figures that competing teams
will have U draw on heavily
They kind of agreed to agree
on something I have always
said," here the Squire paused
to properly quote himself. :
"I've always said that
mountain dancing is men and
women doing the old figures
and having a good time
dancing together to the music.
; marching and its not
...although now some
is. ..it's swish, swish.
! the feet in the smooth
! dance, and the tappie.
i of the feet in the clog
ne of the figures agreed
include many which
from the middle cen-
handed down through
i country dancing, and
I In the Appalachians
1 200 years of mountain
dandnc.
1 These Include Garden Gate,
irand Right and Left, Right
.lands Over, and Ladies Peak.
Traditional calls which
inggeet the early breakdowns
mountain settlers are Shoot
he Owl, Grapevine Twist,
make Drag and Georgia
ang-a4ang.
I, The 11-year-old Minstrel of
(the Appalachians, a title be
'earned Iron lifetime spent
learning the preserving la his
Memory more thsa tot
"ariations of mountain tunes
and snatches of verse, ex-T-essed
bU approval of son
lamar Lunsford's decision $
t up a written schedule for ,
three nights of dancing
am petition. Competition
hich wiO carry with it the
Je of "Best of the moon-'
iris's and therefore, la the
res of those who know It, n
v title of "Best of the
'ountainaV'
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ries
fells
reservec
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tmare
counties and from 12 cities and
towns within those counties
Of its four big county
government members, only
Madison is not dominated by a
Republican board of com
missioners. The coinnusion's
chairman. Mayor Charles H
Campbell of Brevard, and its
executive director, L. U
Hyde, are Democrats, as are
members of the City Council
of Asheville, it largest city
member.
But as it was put at the
meeting Wednesday, the
commission's biggest hold up
has been its inability to come
to a wrking agreement with
the MPB.
Without this agreement, the
commission has been blocked
since its inception 17 months
ago on Dec. 15, 1971 in gaining
LRO status from the
designating agency, the
Department of Administration
in Raleigh.
The quest for a Region B
MPB agreement and LRO
status prompted some of the
larger commission members
last week to call for
reorganization.
Without LRO status, Region
B is not authorized by the state
to function in the manner for
which it was created: to
perform review and comment,
or "clearing house,'" func
tions required by federal
funding agencies granting
matching funds for local and
regional projects.
With the agreements
reached Wednesday, the
question of LRO status for
Region B is now in the hands
of Gov. Holshouser and his
secretary of the Department
of Administration, Wipiam L.
Bondurant.
The contract with MPB calls
End
"People always said I could
carry a hundred things in my
head about who was at the
festival, what they sang or
what they played best, and
that I didn't have to write
down any program. I took
some pride in that. Also folks
didn't like to be programmed.
But then we dldnt used to have
so many dancers.. . at least 200
this time'"
According to the first
program ever for a Bascom
Lunsford festival, the
following teams will dance at
the following hours. Thursday,
August 2:
Pisgah View Ranch Smooth
Dancers defending champions
in exhibition, 8:15; Erwin
Cloggers, 8:45; Montreal
Smooth Dancers, 9:15; the
Southern Appalachian
Doggers, 9 30; the Erwin
Smooth Dancers, 9:40; the
Jutaculla Cloggers of the
Cornelia Camp Laboratory
School, 10:15, and the T. C
Roberson Cloggers to con
clude at 10:15 p.m.
Friday, August 3: The
Srookey Mountain doggers,
8:15 p.m.; the T. C Roberson
Smooth Dancers, 1:45; the
Carolina Sweethearts,
cloggers from Murphy, t:15;
the Valley Springs Smooth
Dancers, 145, and the Green
Gram Cloggers from
Greenville, N. C, 10:49 pjn.
On Saturday night, when the
auditorium flows ever with a
cheering, stamping audience,
tie four winners from the
previous two nights wiB meet
the X87J defenduig championa.
This year tt win be one
defending champion, the
Pisgah View team, since the
Canton Old Tuners frill be
carrying eld time" dance
forms, with a mountain
clogging twist, back - to
. England. Bern nader the
auspicious of Mrs. Hubert
Hayes and the Mountain
Youth Jamboree they wig bo
taking the best of Mr.
Bascom's festival to Sinouth
and trie International Folk
Festival -
for that planning organization
to turn over $20,000 in federal
funds from the U S Dept of
Housing and Urban
Development to Region B for
regional planning, for which
the funds were granted.
Kegion B, in turn, pledges to
put up an additional 10,000 in
matching monies and provide
its own qualified staff to
perform the duties of regional
planning
The resolutiaon followed
statements by Asheville
Mayor Richard Wood, who
had met with Chairman
Campbell just prior to the
meeting.
"I want to make it clear that
we are 100 per cent behind
Region B," Wood told the
commission "We have been
concentrating on things which
divide us rather than on things
that unite us ."
Wood continued, however,
by restating a continued gripe
by Asheville members on the
commission that the city
pays a disproportionate share
in funding the commission's
local budget
On a 10 cents per capita
basis. Asheville was asked to
pay $5,768 10 to the budget
based on its population of
57,681. The second largest city
member in the commission,
Hendersonville (with a
population of 6,443) was asked
to pay $644
Wood also defended the
MPB and its executive
director, Nick Kmecza, for
insisting that Region B meet
certain requirements and
show evidence it has the
$10,000 before he wwkl turn
r 14: ...
"SPOTS," one of the pet cats of Mr. and Mrs. James
Penland, of Marshall, is again "in the news." Top
picture, reprinted from the issue of August 6, 1970,
shows "Spots" being rescued from the porch roof of
the Marshall Presbyterian Church by his owner.
Bottom picture shows "Spots" as he appears now
with a splint on his left back leg. The leg was
recently broken in three places by unknown causes.
James and Ruth, both great cat lovers, hope the
splint can be removed this week.
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WNC Cattlemen's Tour
To Be Held Next Week
Fred B. Jones of Asheville,
chairman of the Beef Cattle
Commtsston of the Western
North Carolina Development
Ajsodatioa has announced
. that 9 eatfle producers from
I the area will partidpete in the
' anneal Western North
Carolina Cattlemen's Tour to
be held on July M August 1
Hghlichts of the 4-day trip
w&l include visits to Bvestock
farms In Kentucky, In&ant
fend Ohio and cstUe research
farms of Perdue University ;
and the University of Ken
'tacky. Also scheduled are
ifeedUs In C J v-f the
graif e .'J see c Cii were
purchased ia Western North
Carolina last WX.
over the $20,000 HUD funds.
Kmecza, who was present at
the meeting, stood up after the
Region B-MPB resolution was
passed and told the group that
he was pleased the com
mission had "taken the first
step" in reaching a proper
solution with MPB.
Kmecza indicated that he
felt the agreement could now
be signed by both
(rganizations
"It seems only proper that
we stand together and
cooperate,'' Chairman
Campbell said in an opening
statement. "Politics have
been injected into this by an
outside influence."
The "outside influence"
Campbell was referring to
was Republican State Sen.
Charles Taylor of Brevard,
who entered the controversy
following an abortive Region
B-MPB agreement last
March.
Campbell said he had in
vited Taylor to the meeting
Wednesday, but the state
senator was not there.
Baxter, who was chairman
of the nominating committee
for the commission before its
executive committee was
formed, said Wednesday that
"Taylor had approved" the
selection of the executive
committee, which includes
two Democrats and three
Republicans.
"I didn't know we needed
his (Taylor's) approval,"
Zeno Ponder of Madison
County, a Democrat, said.
Ponder is secretary on the
commission s executive
committee.
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The tour will depart from
West gate Shopping Center
Monday. '
- The Beef Cattle Commission
.has sponsored similar tars
for the past eight years in
order that area cf"
producers could observe 1 h
research and on -arm r- .' n
of various ca'Ue rvs -
systems, breed :
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