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Volume 73, Number 21,
Marshall, N. C.
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June 20, 1974
BURLINGTON'S HOT SPRINGS PLANT Recognizes Long Service Em
ployee: Left to right: Truman Melton, Plant Manager, Luke Moore,
Overhauled Bill Willett, Spinning & Winding Supervisor, Jim Prevette,
Department Head, Spinning & Winding. Joe "Luke" Moore, Overhauled
Spinning Department, was presented a twenty year certificate and service pin
in ceremonies at the Hot Springs Plant in recognition and appreciation of his
long and loyal service. Luke also holds the Plant attendance record of fifteen
years perfect attendance. He has missed only day since coming to work on
June 5, 1954.
Friedrich Running For
Mrs. Sonya Friedrich of
Asheville has been picked by
Republicans of the four
county 26th Senate District as
a candidate for the 1975
General Assembly.
Mrs. Friedrich, the mother
of three sons, resigned as
president of the League of
Women Voters of Asheville -Buncombe
County to run for
the state Senate seat.
Dan EUer, chairman of the
Buncombe County Republican
party, forwarded a recom
mendation for the ap
pointment of Mrs. Friedrich to
the slot Friday following a
meeting Thursday night with
GOP leaders from McDowell,
Madison and Yancey counties.
Tom Bennett, state
Republican party chairman,
is expected to pass the
nomination on to the State
Board of Elections.
The state board ruled that a
vacancy exists because
Grover Norwood of Black
Mountain withdrew as a
candidate shortly after the
filing deadline.
Ebbs Chapel Students
In Clean-up Project
Students who live in the
Ebbs Chapel Community
wanted to do their part in
helping to carry out a road
side clean-up project outlined
by the Community Bicen
tennial Committee.
Thanks goes to these
students and to the adults who
supervised them.
Dennis Riddle, J H. and
Vina Lynn Fender, Jimmy
Roberts, Joel Edwards,
James Bowens and Sharon
Tipton supervised by Mrs. Pat
Bail and Mrs. Marie Cody.
Ragaa Fender, v Renea
Ponder, Bobby, Darlene, and
Ray Heniley, Vickie and Dak
Metcau, atyra uuaa, super
vised by Mrs. Eula Ingle and
Mrs. Mildred Metcalf.
Kay, Jimmy and Greg
Taffer, Alan and Lisa Whitt,
Ian and Alex Filias, super
vised by Mrs. Mary Taffer and .
Mrs. June Whitt.
Rodney and Danny Bar
nette, Amelia, Rebecca, and ,
Annette McCleUan, Sammy
and Clifton Woody, Lane
English supervised by Mrs.
Marsha Boyd.
Sherry and Jackie SHggle,
Eugene Arrirspfon, Terry
Teague, Vickie I J -:-' ,
Jamie, Ava and Lina
Arrington, Gregory Ucyd
supervised by Mrs. Telia
Arrirj-tnn, Mrs. Irene K'--t-cs'f,
and Fve u yi
Etrf-ja, Sj tJ and I .a Cody,
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MRS. FRIEDRICH
Mrs. Friedrich, a 1972 honor
graduate from the University
of North Carolina at Asheville,
Joins Mrs. Velma Hudgins of
Black Mountain on the GOP
ticket for the two seats. She
holds a degree in political
science. Democratic
nominees are incumbent Sens.
I. C. Crawford and Lamar
Gudger of Asheville.
Gordon Peek, Patty and
Belinda Metcalf, Kathy Capps
supervised by Mrs. Dianne
Condra.
Chris, Ronnie, Eric and
Robin Fox, Ricky Honeycutt,
Lisa Jenkins supervised by
Mrs. Joann Fox.
Ricky and Manuel Edwards,
Judy Metcalf, David and
Randy Sprouse, Karen Ed
wards, Jimmy and Renee
English, Dearl Jenkins
s vpervited by Mr. Alvin
Boone and Mrs. Carolyn
Ponder.
Rachel Ammons. Pat
Carver, Regina Taffer, Scotty .
, Redia. Tony, and Eldridge
English, Brace Hensley,
supervised by Mr. Woody
'Ammons.'.
Thanks also to Mr. Am-,
' mans, Mrs. Joann Fox, and ;
Mrs. Marsha Boyd for using
their trucks to pick ap the
' trash and seeing that tt was :
property disposed of.
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NOT IN COUNTY
THIS WEEK
Cr,e Underwood, Dirict
ServR-e CC'.cer on MJitary :
and Vetprans Affairs, stated
V i k tM he i'J be
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N.C. Senate
Mrs. Friedrich had been
League president here since
May, 1973, and served as a
member of the board of
directors of the North
Carolina League of Women
Voters for two years. She is a
former member of the Better
Schools Committee of Bun
combe County, and is
currently a member of the
Asheville Area Chamber of
Commerce's Legislative
Affairs Committee and
chairman of the sub
committee on Legislative
Affairs.
"I believe I have the ex
perience and background to
offer the voters of the 26th
District because of my in
volvement in the legislative
affairs on both the state and
local levels," Mrs. Friedrich
said.
"My League background of
objectively examining all
sides of an issue and weighing
all opinions will be useful to
me as a legislator," she said.
Mrs. Friedrich is married to
Jim Friedrich, sales manager
for Mars Manufacturing Co.
here. They have three sons,
Mark, 18; Keith, 17; and
Craig, 12.
Singing
The Middle Fork In
dependent Baptist Church will
have its regular fifth Saturday
night singing on June 29th at
7:30 p.m. Featured on this
program will be the Temple
Baptist Church Youth Choir of
Spruce Pine, the Harbor Light
Trio of Newland, the King
Family from Candler, and the
Wilson Family of Johnson
City, Term. This church is
located four miles North of
Mars Hill on VS. 19. The
writer will be the Master of
Ceremonies. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
Children's
Hour
At Library .
There win be a Children's
Hour at the Madison County
Public Library, next Tuesday,
at 10:30 a m. The Story Lady
will be Miss Barbara Briggs.
All children from three
through six are invited to
come. The "story place" will
be the Community Room of
the library.
Sales Tax
Sales and u" tax collections
by Mad.vtn County for May,
1874, fre reported as
in.rs z to the
brp&rtnit.t of Revenue.
Hot Springs
M
eeting Being
Planned
RALEIGH Action was
initiated here Monday leading
toward a meeting with the
State Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board and the new Hot
Springs ABC Board aimed at
resolving problems the state
feels exists in the operation of
Madison County's lone liquor
store.
State ABC chairman Dr.
L.C. Holshouser announced
that the Hot Springs town
council has appointed F.E.
Smith and William Jess
Whitson so local ABC board.
Smith and Whitson are
replacements for R.W. Ponder
and Clyde Huntsinger who
resigned early this month. The
third member, T.A. Russell, is
in the hospital, but is expected
to hand in his resignation
when he returns home to Hot
Springs, according to a state
official.
A public hearing requested
by the three-member board
was called off following the
resignations of Ponder, the
board chairman, and board
member Huntsinger. The
hearing was requested when
Mars Hill College Funded
For Local Gov't Program
Mars Hill College has been
awarded a $25,000 grant under
the Title I Higher Education
Act of 1965 (Community
Service and Continuing
Education) to develop a
program designed to facilitate
the work of county boards and
agencies in Madison County
and surrounding areas.
Dr. Donald Anderson,
chairman of the Department
of Social and Behavioral
Sciences, will direct the
project and comments that
"Migration from rural Ap
palachian counties has in
creasingly deprived these
areas of the resource persons
they need." The project will
help develop additional
community leadership
capabilities in the region.
Specifically, the project will
provide a mechanism for
bridging the communication
gap between community on
various boards and com
mittees and those agencies
mandated to assist local
communities. As Dr. An
derson noted, "There is an
urgent need to develop ex
pertise in the area of
negoatiation with regional,
state, and national
bureaucracy."
Among the project's ac
tivities will be eight seminars,
each dealing with a different
facet of county government.
These will be conducted for
elected county officials and
selected community leaders.
In each of these two hour
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the state board called for the
ouster of the Hot Springs
board.
Holshouser told Ponder in a
letter May 1 that an in
vestigation in recent months
turned up "many
discrepancies.. .which have
caused us to feel you and other
members of your board can no
longer be considered fit to
serve on the local board."
Ponder at first refused to
step down, but later tendered
his resignation to Hot Springs
Mayor Joe R. Henderson.
Henderson also received
Huntsinger's resignation
early in June.
Salaries, travel and laundry
expenses, the lease on the
building in which the liquor
store is located, disbursement
of store profits and general
accounting procedures of the
Hot Spring's board are among
specifics questioned by the
state board.
State investigators have
also charged Hot Springs
liquor store employes with
consumption of alcoholic
beverages and violation of
sessions, the structure and
functioning of a county
government will be discussed
and particular attention will
be given to recent legislation
action affecting county
government as well as specific
at-hand issues being con
fronted by local officials.
Dr. Anderson said "We
are looking forward to
working with James T.
Ledford, chairman of Madison
County's Board of Com
missioners, and the members
County Budget Needs
Set At $3,113,329
James T. Ledford, Chair
man of Madison County Board
of Commissioners, has
recommended a $3,113,329
million budget for the 1974-75
budget year.
James T. Ledford, budget
officer, said the budget
estimate was based on a tax
rate of 75 percent per 100
dollars valuation. He said the
rate was about 4c lower than
the 1973-74 tax rate of $1.75.
The 1973-74 access valuation of
45 percent on 100 dollar
valuation.
The change to 100 percent
taxation was due to a new
state requirement.
The 1974-75 budget total of
$3,113,329 compares with a
$2,643, 004 million total budget
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regulations by making sales to
persons greater than can be
legally transported and
making sales at unlawful
hours and on unlawful days.
Holshouser Monday asked
W.T. Biggers of the state staff
and Wiley Ruth, state ABC
administrator, to work out a
time with Smith and Whitson
when they can go to Hot
Springs to discuss with them
the existing problems and
attempt to work out solutions.
"And hopefully, within a
month or so, the new Hot
Springs Board and the state
board will get together and
discuss the problems,"
Biggers said.
Biggers said if Russell does
not resign when he is released
from the hospital, the state
board will call on the town
council to remove him from
the local ABC board.
Trial of one of the store
employes on charges of selling
more than the legal amount of
liquor is scheduled for June 28
in the Madison County
Courthouse in Marshall.
of the board as well as the
members of other county
boards and committees."
The proposal was developed
in consultation with Ledford
and reflects his experience
and commitment to the ef
fective functioning of all levels
of local government. Ledford
noted that "Mars Hill College
is increasingly aware of the
opportunity for service in our
area and we are happy to see
the college expanding its
services to our community."
for this past year. Due to in
flationary rise and operation
expense the 1974-75 budget had
an increase of about 18 per
cent A breakdown of budget
expenditures are:
General County Fund 474,611
School Debt Fund
School Expense
School Capital Outlay 787,677
Library Service Fund 32,265
Revaluation of Property
(1981) 4,500
Social Services Fund 1,593,998
Health Department
Fund 220,178
A public hearing wiU be held
on June 27, in the Madison
County Courthouse at 11 ajn.,
Mr. Ledford stated.
AWARDED DEGREE
Mrs. Bobby Jeaa Rice was
awarded the Doctor of
jEducatioa degree at com-
meacement exercises at East ,
Tennessee State University in
Johnson City, Tenn., Friday,
'June 7. Mrs. Rice is the
daughter ef Mr. and Mrs.
Dolph B, Peek and the wife ef
McClelland Rice, all of ;
Marshall, Route . a former
member of the Madison
County Board of Education,
she is presently employed as
Instructional supervisor with
the Madison County T&e I
ESEA program. Mrs. Pace .
formerly taught in the
Madison County School
System, the Buncombe County
School Sytf m and Vars I'..U
College.
SUSAN GEORGE
Youth Revival To Begin
At Baptist Church
A Youth Revival will begin
at the Marshall Baptist
Church this Friday night and
will continue through Thur
sday, June 27.
Members of the Summer
Youth Evangelistic Team are
three outstanding youths.
Mark Allan Morris (Mark)
will be the speaker. Mark is a
graduate of Chowan College,
Murfreesboro, and plans to
enter Campbell College, Buies
Creek, this Fall. The 20-year-old
man is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert O. Morris, of
Rocky Mount, and is a
member of the Benvenue
Baptist Church there.
Susan Elizabeth George
(Susan) wiU be the pianist
Miss George, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.
George, Jr., of Raleigh, is a
rising junior at Mars Hill
College. She Is a member of
the Hayes Barton Baptist
Church of Raleigh and has
served as pianist and organist
in Sunday School, Church
Training, and Youth Activities
of her home church and
worked with the Billy Graham
Crusade in 1973.
Grant For
Mars Hill
Approved
Congressman Roy A. Taylor
Tuesday announced the ap
proval of a grant of $61,958
from the U. S. Office of
Education to Mars Hill
College to finance an
evaluation center for a
competency - based
curriculum.
The government funds are
being provided under a
program of grants and con
tracts for Innovative
programs in post-secondary
education.
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Stephen Melvin Smith
(Steve) is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sanford H. Smith of
Greensboro and is a member
of the Pleasant Garden
Baptist Church, Pleasant
Garden, N.C. Steve is a
graduate of Campbell College,
Nuies Creek and is planning to
enter the seminary. He will
direct the choir during the
Youth Revival.
Regional Wagon Train
To Organize June 30
The third annual Tri-County
Regional Wagon Train will
organize on Sunday, June 30
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Wagon Master this year wUl
be Arthur Thomason of Mars
HiU and Chief Scout will be
Dan Wilson, of Cane River.
The wagon train wiU pull out
Monday morning, July 1, by
way of Punching Fork Road,
across Streets Gap into Flag
Pond and camp at Flag Pond
School.
The second day's journey
wiU start up Rice Creek,
across mountain, down Foster
Creek to Roscoe Briggs' fish
pond and camp.
The third day's journey will
leave fish pond, go up Laurel
to Long Branch Road to head
of Long Branch then across
mountain trail to Big Knob
Tower and camp.
On the morning of July 4th
the train will follow mountain
trail to the head of East Fork,
across Murray Gap, down by
Charles Brace's place into
Mars HiU. The train wUl
disband at Mars HiU High
School.
Time and arrival and route
through Mars HiU wfll be
announced in next issue of
News-Record.
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STEVE SMITH
Friday
He has served as music
leader in Sunday School and
Church Training in the
Pleasant Garden church and
is a member of the Sonlight
Singers of Campbell College.
All youths in the community
are cordially invited to attend
the services nightly at 7:30
o'clock.
The Rev. Spencer LeGrand
is pastor of the church.
There will be 10 Scouts to
control traffic and see that
there is no disorderly conduct
during the event No firearms
will be aSowed except by""1
Scouts. Everyone invited to go
along. An you need is a horse
or wagon.
For further details call
Arthur Thomason 689-2919 or
Hubert Briggs, 6894414.
New 4-H Club
Is Organized
The Willing Hearts 4-H Club
of the Sandy Mush area held
its first meeting June 17.
There was an installation of
officers. Terry Ashe was
elected President, Geraldine
Branam, vice-president,
Donna Ashe, secretary;
Debbie Treadway, reporter.
Sponsors are Mrs. Jack
Buckner and Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Stone.
At the meeting, a movie
"Heritage of Splendor" was
shown to encourage members
to keep tbtheir community
beautiful and clean.
Refreshments were served'
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