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Volume 73. Number 30. Marshall.!. C. 15 CENTS PER COPY August 22, 1874 '
FHA To Guarantee
Emergency Loans
Financial assistance to
livestock producers under the
Emergency Livestock Credit
Art is now available through a
new loan guarantee authority
of the Farmers Home Ad
ministration iFmHAi, a rural
credit service of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
Douglas E. Taylor, FmHA
County Supervisor, said the
agency will be prepared to
implement the recently
enacted law by guaranteeing
up to BO percent of possible
loss on loans made by legally
organized lenders to livestock
and poultry producers.
Under terms of the act, the
loan guarantee program will
be in efect through July 25,
1975. It may be extended for 6
months beyond that date if the
Secretary of Agriculture
determines that it is needed to
help the livestock industry
obtain sufficient credit.
The law calls for loans to be
made by banks or other
legally organized lenders. Mr.
Taylor said producers are
urged to make applications to,
and complete loan
arrangements with lending
institituions. The lender in
turn will ask FmHA for a loan
guarantee if one is required.
The lender will process the
application, close the loan and
service it.
The maximum loan to any
single borrower that can be
assisted by an FmHA
guarantee is $250,000. Loans
w ill be repayable in 3 years,
although renewal for 2 years
may be authorized. Interest
rates are determined between
borrower and lender.
Mr. Taylor said the agency
is authorized to guarantee up
to 80 percent of loss a lender
may incur on loans to bonafide
farmers and ranchers who
Elaine Willis Named New
Asheville Federal Savings
Branch Manager
Mrs. Gayton Willis has been
named manager of the Mars
Hill branch of Asheville
Federal Savings, according to
an announcement made today
by James M. Westall,
president of the savings and
loan association.
Mrs. Willis will be
responsible for the operations
of the new branch, which will
be the first savings and loan
office in Madison and Yancey
Counties. The opening of the
new office, which is located at
1 Marshall Street, is scheduled
for September 9.
"We consider it extremely
fortunate to have available
someone with the background
and competence of Elaine
Willis," said Westall. "Under
her direction, our new office In
Mars Hill will be able to serve
the area in the best possible
way."
With over seven years
banking experience, with
First-Citizens Bank in
Asheville, Mrs. Willis is not a
novice in the financial world.
She has extensive training and
experience in all phases of
banking operation. When she
left First-Citizens to Join
Asheville Federal Savings,
she held the - position of
. Assistant Cashier. -;
"I've enjoyed my em
ployment with First -Citisens,
"Mrs. Willis said.. "But as a
Mart Hill resident, I consider '
K a special opportunity to
become the manager at the
, new Asheville Federal .
Savings branch office here."
. - Mrs. Willis resides at 110
. Forest Street in Mars Hill with
; ber husband. Clayton Willis,
who works at Micro Switch,
and her two children, Mark, S, '
and Angela, I months.
, She is a graduate of North
breed, raise, fatten or market
beef and dairy cattle, hogs,
sheep, goats, chickens and
turkeys. A majority of the
borrower's income must come
from the operation, and a
majority portion of the
borrower's time must be
devoted to the livestock or
poultry production.
In case of a corporation or
partnership, assistance can be
Criminal Court To Start
Here Next Monday;
Jurors Named
The August term of superior
court for the trial of criminal
cases will start here Monday
morning with Judge J.W.
Jackson presiding. Clyde M.
Roberts, solicitor, will
represent the state, assisted
by James T. Rusher.
Approximately 50 cases are
included on the court calendar
including State vs. Sally Cook,
manslaughter; State vs.
Mason King, murder; State
vs. Jerry Dale Hunter,
murder; Freddie Tilson,
armed robbery; many cases
involving Marijuana; and
many lesser charges.
The jury list drawn is as
follows:
Jury List as follows: Sam
Caldwell, Alfred Payne, Betty
Millsaps Hunter, Bobby Dale
Bradley, Mrs. Willard
Waldroup, Bulah Coates,
Charlie Rector, No. 3151
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MRS. ELAINE WILLIS
Buncombe High School and is
a member of the Dillingham
Presbyterian Church in
Barnardsville. Her husband is
a member of the Calvary
Baptist Chuircn in Mars Hill.
Mrs. Willis father-in-law, C.
N. Willis, is currently a
candidate for the position of
Madison County Clerk of
Court, and her mother-in-law
is the executive director of the
Mart Hill and Marshall
Housing Authorities.
With two . pre-school
children and a lull-time job,
Mrs. Willis still finds time for
her favorite outdoor activities '
with her family. They enjoy
water skiing, camping and
boating, and even 5-month old
Angela roots for her father
when he plays Softball for the
Mara Hill team and coaches '
the Micro Switch Softball
team.'- ';
Presently, Mrs. WUlis Is
working in the Asheville office
of Asheville Federal Savings
familiarizing herself with
operating procedures. ' .
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extended only when the
majority partners or
stockholders are primarily
engaged in the livestock or
poultry production.
FmHA guarantees will be
made only when the bonafide
farmer or rancher cannot
obtain financing without a
guarantee. Loans may not be
used to expand operations.
Mr. Taylor said the county
Served 2-25-74, James Edward
Martin, Wayne Robert Am
nions, Stewart Edwards,
Haskell Wallin, Lucille L.
Davis, Frank Frisbee,
Lawerence B. Cutshall, Fred
Jack Huffman, Robert
Shelton, Mrs. Wade Hunter,
David Dean Moore, J. M.
Davis, G lamer Worley, Jacob
McClelland, Billy Frank
Gantt, Dorothy Lee Johnson,
Paula J. Thomas, Thomas
Payne, Nelson Franklin,
Daniel Sluder, Hattie W.
Woody, Hershel Junior Peek,
Othella Brigman, Warrenn
Charles Anders, Armintha
News -Record Does Not
Endorse Candidates
By JIM STORY
Editor
Some citizens in Madison
County have asked if The
News-Record endorsed any
particular candidates after
reading in last week's issue
the three-column headed
article concerning Bobby J.
Chandler candidate for Board
of Education.
This newspaper has never
actually endorsed any can
didateDemocrat or
Republican.
It so happened last week
that I was on vacation and
knew nothing of the article
until I returned to Marshall
last Friday afternoon.
I can assure the public that
the "acting editor" in my
absence did not intend to infer
that this newspaper did or did
not endorse Mr. Chandler.
However, Mr. Chandler is a
personal friend as are the
Pat Buckner Will Be Teller
At New Asheville Federal
Savings Office
Pat Buckner has been ap
pointed teller at the new Mars
Hill branch of Asheville
Federal Savings. The an
nouncement was made today
by Elaine Willis, branch
manager.
. ' Miss Buckner, who resides
with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Billy Buckner and
brother Mike on Buckner
Branch . Road In Bar
nardsville, is a native of the
area. She is a business
graduate of North Buncombe
High School. - '
' She . attended Cecil's
Business College and was
previously employed by CTT ki
Asheville. - ,
Presently, she is working in
the Asheville office of
Asheville Federal Savings.
FmHA office serving the area
where the borrower's
livestock or poultry operations
are conducted will handle
requests from lenders for
guarantees, or supply in
formation on the loan
guarantee program.
The FmHA office serving
Madison County is located at
over the Citizens Bank in
Marshall.
Tipton, Carol T. Eastwood,
Spurgeon D. MetcaJf, Viola
Shelton, Card Not In Box,
Dewayne Cogdill, Aline Case,
Celia P. Rathbone, William
Earl Roberts, Ben Chandler,
Barbara Mace Robinson,
Betty Ramsey, Sylvia Shelton,
Brenda R. Ammons, Clifford
M. Cutshall, Joan Reel
Ramsey, Clonia Cantrell,
Naomi Ruth Ferguson,
Margaret H. Rymer, Helen B.
Allen, Vaughn Franklin, R. D.
Kirby, Harry Fleming, Mary
Blazer, Hardy Whitt, Emmett
Sams. Willis Gentry, paisey
Worley.
other candidates of both
parties.
It is the intention of this
newspaper to "introduce"
ALL candidates in the paper
between now and the
November election but in
doing this there will be no
controvercial statements
made but only a brief sum
mary of each candidate.
In order to "even up" this
front page "free feature" I
have offered a similar writeup
from Mr. Chandler's op
position party. Other than
that, such articles involving
"campaign material" will be
published as paid political
advertising as has always
been the custom of The News
Record. It has always been the
policy of this newspaper to be
non-partisan and I am
dedicated to giving both
poli'ical parties a fair deal.
Opening date for the Mars Hill
branch will be September s.
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BOB BRADY, left, helps Bill Whitten ready a sign to be placed at the entrance
of the modern plant facility. Brady and Whitten are officers of the Hot Springs
Chamber of Commerce.
Hot Springs Hopeful
Of Governor's Award
In an effort to find an in
dustrial firm to occupy the
modern plant facility recently
completed in Hot Springs, the
Hot Springs Chamber of
Commerce has entered the
competition fori the North
Carolina GovttfHur's Award
The Governor's Award
Program seeks to assist the
participating communities In
preparing for industrial
development. In return, the
North Carolina Department of
Natural and Economic
Resource, who sponsors the
award, has a better inventory
of the community to bring to
the attention of firms seeking
new plant locations.
According to Harold Baker,
Record Number Rural
People Assisted By FmHA
A record number of rural
North Carolinians are being
assisted by Farmers Home
Administration as indicated
by figures for the fiscal year
just ended on June 30, 1974.
According to James T.
Johnson, State Director,
approximately 60,000 Tarheel
families in rural areas and
about 320 rural communities
are being served by the
agency.
Loans for S43S housing units
have been made under the
Rural Housing program. Of
these, 2000 lower income
borrowers received reduced
interest rates. Individual
housing funds amounted to
more than $91 million. In
addition, $560,000 in loan funds
were extended to nonprofit
corporations to develop
building sites in rural areas
for sale to lower income
families.
Loans to farmers during the
fiscal year added about 4600 to
the families being served by
FmHA. These funds were
made available (or operating
credit, farm ownership, farm
emergency loans, and ml
youth loans. Funds from
private lenders Invested In
FmHA borrowers' farm
operations amounted to about
half of the credit U farmers.
This swolvement of private
leaders makes more FmHA
loan funds available to help
family farmers. It also makes
I possible for private tenders,
sacs as banks, to give credit to
small opert tors who or
dinarily mi't be excluded
HOT SPRINGS,
HAROLD BAKER, president
of the Hot Springs Chamber of
Commerce, points to pipe
which is being used to supply
water to the new plant.
from their financing.
Loans for water and waste
disposal systems account for
more than $25 million of the
total funding of projects under
the Community Programs
section of FmHA for FY 1974.
Johnson also called attention
to the new authority under this
program for community
facilities loans which this year
has included loans for fire
departments, a town hall and
police station, a consolidated
school, and emergency
medical services. These
community facilities ac
counted for more than $3
million of insured funds.
Saving jobs or creating new
jobs has been the primary aim
of two of the new programs
under the Rural Development
Act of 1971 - Industrial grants
for water and sewer lines to
industrial sites in rural areas,
and Business and Industrial
Day Care Centers
Extend Hours
The Day Care Centers at
: Marshall. Mars Hill and Hot
: Springs are accepting new
' children, ages three to five. It
has been snnoonced.
. Officials stated that the
I former hours of M have not
been convenient far . some
working mothers therefor
' hors will be extended at the
. Mars Hill and Marshall
Centers to $ 30 ajn. to I pjn.
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president of the Hot Springs
Chamber of Commerce, most
of the steps leading toward
meeting the requirements for
receiving the award have been
completed. Some of the
i requirements are: (1) com
munity audit, (2) available
industrial sites, (3) brochures,
(4) planning Board and (5)
clean up-fix up campaign.
The Chamber of Commerce
is placing emphasis on the
participation of the entire
community to achieve the
goals necessary to have Hot
Springs designated as a
"Governor's Award Com
munity" loans to business enterprises
in rural areas or towns.
Upgrading of the economic
environment through these
programs will make a
material contribution to better
rural living. Business and
Industrial loan funds,
guaranteed by FmHA, are
provided by private lenders.
The number of rural people
served and the total of $199
million lending volume of the
"Patriots" Pep Rally On
Island Thursday Night
A giant pep rally is
scheduled to be held on the
Island here this Thursday
night beginning at 1:30
OfTke hours will remain the
same, from M o'clock, K was
' explained. Applications will
. be taken only during office
kosrs.. These are according to
family income - and the
number of children in family.
O For more information
please call: Mar&:i, f '9 -3587;
Mars H.U. ECJX VS; 13 -t
Springs, CZ-&S4.
Grant To Aid Many
Youths In County
The Land-of-Sky Regional
Council (formerly Region B.
Planning & Economic
Development Commission)
has been notified by the N. C.
Manpower Council of ap
proval of a Recreation -Transportation
Support
Program grant of $8,312. The
funds are to be used in the
counties of Henderson,
Madison and Transylvania
(Buncombe County, the other
member county, receives
separate funding for such
programs from the U. S. Dept.
of ljibor.) The funds are in
tended to be used for the
benefit of economically
disadvantaged youth between
the ages of 6 and 14. Units of
government receiving grants
under the program are
Henderson County, Hen
dersonville, Madison County
and the Town of Marshall (a
joint program), Transylvania
County and the City of
Brevard. Due to the lateness
of the availability of the grant
for which money was only
recently appropriated by the
Congress and since program
guidelines require that funds
must be used by August 31, the
majority of the monies will go
toward the purchase of
recreation equipment for
future summer programs.
However, two of the local units
receiving monies plan to offer
instruction in swimming and
tennis.
Some examples of benefits
expected from this program
are as follows. Thirteen little
league baseball and three
little league football teams
will be assisted in Madison
County. Also, swimnking in
struction, and park and
playground equipment will be
paid for. Henderson County
will assist in the provision of
seven team sports as well as
table games for disad
vantaged youth. Transylvania
County will use the funds to
support arts and crafts,
baseball, swimming and
tennis programs.
"As a result of the program,
it is anticipated that many
agency are the largest of any
fiscal year in its history,
Johnson said. This, he went on
to say, is being accomplished
with substantially less per
sonnel than in previous years.
Seventy-three county offices
serve the 100 counties in North
Carolina. The 10 district
directors and the state offlve
force make a total for the state
of 293 permanent full-time
employees.
o'clock.
Football fans from
throughout the county are
urged to attend and show the
players and coaches they are
solidly supporting the team
this season.
A large ban Bre will be
started shortly before :!'
'clock afterwhlch the
- cheerleaders wO entertain '
the crowd with yells, songs,
etc.-, - ' - - ,-:
At l:fi o'clock the players
' will be Morduced as well as
their parents. Also to be in
troduced are the football
coaches John Fisher, Dennis
Hefner, Roger !.'ynie, XX
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youth who would otherwise not
be able to participate in team
sports and other recreational
activities will be able to do
so," Mayor Charles Campbell,
Chairman, stated. He added
that the local programs will
"avoid embarrassment to
those children who cannot
afford a ball glove or a team
shirt."
Convicted
Murderer
Escapes
A convicted murderer was
reported to have escaped
Sunday night from the Mc
Dowell County Correctional
Unit, by N.C. Department of
Correction officials.
Don Hensley, 47, whose
home address was listed as
Flagpond, Tenn. was reported
missing at the correctional
unit at the 7 p.m. "lock-up"
just after the evening meal.
Hensley was serving a life
term for a Madison County
slaying, according to officials.
A spokesman at the
correctional unit said Hensley
apparently made his escape
over the back fence of the
facility during a free period
between the evening meal and
the lock-up.
Registration
Dates Set For
M.H. College
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Robert R. Chapman,
associate dean for academic
affairs, has announced that
the Fall semester at Mars Hill
College will begin with the
arrival of the freshmen
students, Friday, August 23.
Orientation for the new
students will be conducted
throughout the weekend with
the upper classmen returning
Tuesday, the 27th.
The faculty will attend a
workshop August 20 through
August 22, in preperation for
the new term. Those students
who have pre-registered will
finalize their registration on
Wednesday, August 28, while
those who have not pre
registered will meet with
faculty advisors to plan a
class schedule. The
registration process will
continue through Thursday,
August 29, when class ad
justments, identification card
pictures, and final
arrangements for room and
board payments will be made.
Classes will meet for the first
time on Friday, August 90.
Dr. Richard Hoffman, vice
president for academic affairs
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The first football game of
the season will be played
Friday night on the Mars Hill
College field with the strong
Harris High "Blue Devils"
(Spruce Pine) battling the
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