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September 26, 1974
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tumsford Festival Set At Mars Hill
The Eighth Annual Bascom
Lamar Lunsford "Minstrel of
the Appalachian will be a
three day affair this year at
Mart Hill College. October 3,
4, and 5 have been set as the
dates for this year's festival.
Billed as "The world's most
authentic festival of mountain
music and dancing," has
People That Work For You
Opportunity Corporation
By R. R. JACOBS, JR.
Dorothy Arlington sits
behind her desk covered with
various papers and
documents, and enjoys a
feeling of rest for a few
minutes as she talks about the
Opportunity Corporation.
"People come first with us,"
she states in a manner that
lets the listener see the
amount of love that flows
within this organization.
Meet The
Candidates
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neit few weeks this
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RepabUcaa Caadidate
Qerk af Court
C. N. Willis, of Route 1,
Mars Hill, is the Republican
candidate for the office of
Clerk of Superior Court of
.Madison County. . ; .
C Mr. Willis is no newcomer to
; this office, having served as
Qerk from 1904 through 1970.
- He it also former director
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tobacco in No. 4 Townshap of
Mad job County.
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added a night of dancing to the
festivities. Thursday night,
Oct. 3, smooth and clog
dancers as well as dance
teams will compete for
trophies in the weekend's only
competition. The dancing will
start at 7:30 p.m. in the
college's Moore Auditorium,
and trophies will be awarded
The Opportunity Cor
poration had a rather humble
beginning In 19pe. With the
" help of a government grant
and an able direction from
Richard Hoffman, Secretary
Roberta Adams, Merletta
Suhart and two outreach
workers, Irene Metcalf and
Dorothy Arrlngton. "As a
matter of fact," remembers
Mrs. Arrington, "we really
didn't know where to begin."
etecttoa la the November i,
1174 general electioa. This is
being done so that voters ia
Maduwa Coanty may better
get "acqoalated" with the
JVDSON EDWARDS
Democratic Caadidate
. derkef Court .
Judsoa Edwards,
clerk of superior court, seeks
1 reelection to the post m the
general election In November.
Edwards resides la the
Beech Glaa community. He -t
taught school seven years with
tha Veteran's Farm Training .
Program; served the State ,
ASC office while working
seven yean as state super
visor of the ASC Program; has
been Ui collector for Madison
County; has for year been-;
associated with Bernard :
Vilker tobacco warehouses;
is a charter member of the
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in both junior and adult
classes. An admission charge
of $.50 for students and $1 for
adults will be charged. All
admission charges will be
used to establish an Ap
palachian museum and
resource center.
On Friday night, October 4,
Without knowing the needs
of the people Mrs. Arrington
and Mrs. Metcalf set out
through the county knocking
on doors and trying to get a
few answers. The answers
came easily enough, too. The
people needed a place to sell
their crafts. Transportation
was needed for such things as
going to the doctor and getting
food, and for many of the
people a yearning for more
education.
Education is the key to a
new start for many, and the
Opportunity Corporation has
helped many Improve
themselves into this new life.
They have helped many of the
people of the area get
government grants and thus
become financially able to
attend school. In fact when
they first began there were
only several area residents
attending Mars Hill College.
Now that handful has become -a
thriving force at Mars Hill
College with more area
residents being accepted
yearly.
As their beginning products
started to bear fruit the Op
portunity Corporation began
to branch out in many other
areas. Under the Executive
Directorship of Lotmie Burton
such programs as housing
repair, a homemakers ser
vice, activities under the
Rural Youth Program, and
dose cooperation and work
with the housing authorities
became part of their way of
working with lower income
families.
So far, we have discussed
the past of Opportunity
Corporation. In the coming
weeks there will be more
articles on Opportunity
Corporation discussing things
that are happening now and
will happen In the future.
Bill Seeks
To Raise
SS Ceiling
U. S. Rep. Roy A. Taylor has
art reduced a bill to increase
from $2,400 to $7,800 a year the
amount a person can earn and
still draw his full social
security entitlement.
"With today's high prices,
placing an especially great
financial hardship on low
income persona and those on
Axed income, tha time has
come to either eliminate or
substantially Increase the
restrictions oa outside ear
nings onder the social security
program," Taylor said. : .
Congressman Taylor et '
plained that ba decided en a :
bin to increase the earnings 1
limitation since prospects for
securing approval - for
abandoning It completely did
not teem favorable at the '
present time. ,- t
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local and college musicians
will participate In a festival of
traditional mountain music.
Collegiate dance teams will
also compete for trophies. The
event will start at 7:30 p.m. in
Moore Auditorium and an
admission charge of $.50 for
students and $1 for adults will
be charged.
Saturday will again be a big
day in the festival with events
occurring all day. Repeated
from last year will be the very
popular workshops. Out
standing mountain musicians
will conduct workshops in
clawhammer and bluegrass
banjo playing, guitar picking,
ballad singing, the dulcimer,
and the fiddle. Workshops in
both smooth and clog dancing
will also be held. The
workshops will start at 10 a.m.
on the green In front of
Bridges Cafeteria and in
Anderson Amphitheatre.
Weavers, whittlera, quilt
makers, spinners, and
woodworkers will be on hand
all day Saturday, displaying
$12,468 Grant Enables
Police Increase Here
Recently, the Town of
Marshall received a grant
award from the North
Carolina Department of
Natural and Economic
Resources, Division of Law
and Order, through the Law
Enforcement Assistance
Administration, which will
enable the Town of Marshall
to increase its police force
from a total of three men to a
total of five men. The ad
ditional manpower will permit
the department to provide
twenty-four hour service for
the citizens of the town, along
with greater services to the
businesses and industries in
the community.
On September 10, 1974 the
Increase Is Expected
In Retail Milk Prices
Retail milk prices could
jump as much as two cents a
quart, government experts
say, under a proposal an
nounced Friday to boost milk
prices paid farmers.
The Agriculture Depart
ment said it will consider
raising minimum prices paid
farmers for Class I milk - the
kind In retail store bottles by
as much as 13 per cent
If this is passed on fully to
consumers, the store price of
m&k could rise above the
record marks set butt spring,
experts said. Milk prices have
been declining all summer.
Meantime, farmers contend
their costs have soared.
The Bureau of Labor
Statistics calculates the
national average retail price
of milk In August at WJb cents
per half gallon. That was down
nearly three cents from the
record of $0.4 cents for two
quarts last May.
USDA officials. said no
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their crafts and demon
strating their skills in front of
the Country Boutique.
A "jam session" will follow
the workshops and last all
afternoon. These sessions will
give opportunities for old
friends to get together and for
new acquaintances to be made
among the many fine
musicians expected to attend.
The mountain music festival
will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday
night in Moore Auditorium,
where musicians and dancers
will gather to honor the
memory of Mr. Lunsford and
to carry on the tradition he
began nearly half a century
ago. Winners from the dance
contests will dance in an
exhibition. Admission for the
night is $.50 for students and
$1.50 for adults.
This will be the second year
the festival will be held
without Mr. Lunsford's
presence. Lunsford, described
by college president Dr. Fred
B. Bentley as "a legend in his
own time," died last Sep
grant award contract was
presented to Mayor Lorado
Ponder and Chief Faye Reid
by Robert Gavin, Planning
Director of French Broad
Criminal Justice Planning
Agency, and Mftlewton
Project Analyst of, the Agency.
At that time the provisions of
the contract were related to
Mayor Ponder. Mr. Gavin
explained that the grant to the
Town of Marshall would be in
the amount of $12,468 for the
fiscal year 1974-75 and that
two additional years of fun
ding could be made available
to the police department The
first year's grant will run
through June, 1975 and
decision on the amount of any
increase for farmers will be
made until after a hearing
Oct 8 near Chicago. The store
price of milk would depend on
how much of any price in
crease the middleman and
retailers decide to pass along
to consumer.
"But I think we're kidding
ourselves by saying we can
raise the farm price of milk
and not have any effect on
consumers," said one
department economist
The proposed action
followed months of pressure
from dairy producer
organizations and many farm
belt members of Congress for
aid to financially distressed
mUk producers.
High costs of production,
ingrain Induced by drought .
losses including soaring
prices of feed to the crop this
. year, are threatening to drive.
many dairy farmers out of .
business, they contend. . , . '
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tember at the age of 91.
He was known as the
Minstrel of the Appalachias,
working long and hard to
preserve the cultural heritage
of Southern Appalachia in a
time when the region's culture
had fallen into unpopularity.
He practiced law and other
professions as a young man,
before returning to his first
love, mountain music and
dancing.
Lunsford was born on the
Mars Hill campus, where his
father served as president
during the 1870's and his
mother oversaw one of the
residence halls.
Highlights of his career
include a White House com
mand performance at
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's invitation, a
performance before King
George VI and Queen
Elizabeth of England, and
recording over 600 ballads and
folk songs during a mp-athon
session for the Library of
Congress and Colombia
provides salary and necessary
supplies for the additional
manpower.
Organization Oppo
Nuclear Power Plant
The September meeting of
Carolinians for Safe Energy
takes place Thursday, Sept.
26, at the North Asheville
Community Center at 7:30
p.m.
The program features a
semitechnical color film "The
SL-1 Accident, Phases 1 and
2" on loan from the United
States Atomic Energy
Commission. This film, in a
combination of actual and
reenacted scenes, gives a
resume of what happened and
bow the USAEC and its con
tractors reacted to this 1961
nuclear accident at the
National Reactor Testing
Station in Idaho.
The film shows location and
rescue of personnel, deter
mination of how much con
tamination had been released
to the environment, and
stresses the need for available
high-range survey ln-
Madison Seeks
Extradition Of
Two In Florida
'v The - Madison County
Sheriff's Department has
begun extradition proceedings
.' against two men detained in
: Florida who are wanted In
connection with an armed
robbery to the Upper Laurel
section hi 1S71.
Sheriff E. Y. Ponder said
Junior Lyons and Ronnie ;
Harrii, both of Erwtn, Tenn.,
bad been charged in a July 1L '
1972 lnddeat at Zesta Ingle's
store on N. C 723. He said
Lyons had bees detained to j
Tampa Aug. and Harris
earlier in Miami Neither man ;
has waived extrsditloa, .
Ponder said. j
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Lunsford was included in
Who's Who, and was a
member of A.F.M.A., the
Hunting Club, The National
Folk Festival Association, and
the North Carolina Folklore
Society.
It was in the late 1920's that
Drug Charges Pending
Against Wreck Victim
Drug charges are pending
against a 24-year-old Ten
nessee man who was injured
in a one-car accident near
here about 10 p.m. Monday of
last week local authorities
said.
State Highway Patrolman J.
R. Williams identified the
wreck victim as Phillip R.
Elam Jr. of Rt. 1 Chuckey,
Tenn.
Williams said Elam was
traveling alone and operating
a late model car east on N. C.
213 when the vehicle veered
off the left side of the road in a
curve, cut down a utility pole
and plunged about 200 feet
down an embankment.
Elam was taken to
Memorial Mission Hospital in
Asheville for treatment, but
struments, use of health
physicists and preplanning.
With a nuclear power plant
proposed for the Madison -Buncombe
county line this
film is a must, especially for
law enforcement and rescue
squad personnel. The public is
invited.
CAROLINIANS FOR SAFE
ENERGY is a non-profit, non
part isan organization with
three objectives:
Certification Of DDT
All burley tobacco
producers in Madison County
will be mailed an MQ-38.
"Certification of non-use of
DDT or TDE." This cer
tification must be made before
a tobacco marketing card
showing price support
eligibility can be issued, ac
cording to W. B. Zlnk, ASCS
County Executive Director. O
either of these chemicals baa
been need on the tobacco,
fanners are urged to state
that tt has bean used rather
than make a false cer
tification. As ia the peat
several years, tobacco
producers using DDT or TDK
are not eligible for govern
ment loans on their crops.
False certification concerning
use of these materials is a
violation of Federal law, and
it punishable by .Im
prisonment up to years or
fines up to $10,000 or both. '
Random samples wiH be taken
from the tobacco at the time of
marketing. If a farmer'!
tobacco Is checked at the
market and found to have bad
one of the chemicals used oa
ft, be could be fined at 70 cento
par pound up to $10,030 or
totprisoned.
This card has been revised
from that used in the past
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Lunsford set out to make
himself a one-man repository
af old tunes and to begin a
crusade to rekindle the pride
of his own people in their
music.
He maintained close contact
with Mars Hill College and
donated many of his
was later released, the trooper
said. Williams said he charged
Elam with exceeding a safe
speed.
The trooper said power in
the area was knock out for
more then three hours
following the crash.
Meanwhile, the vehicle was
towed into a Marshall garage
and it was there that drugs
were discovered in the car,
according to Marshall
Policeman John Ray.
Ray said about 200 grams of
marijuana, wrapped in eight
plastic bags, were found in the
car. He said eight vials of
another substance, relieved to
be drugs, were found in the
car also.
Ray said the unidentified
(1) To employ every legal
means to stop the proposed
Sandy Mush nuclear power
plant from being constructed.
(2) To work for a nationwide
nuclear moratorium and to
cooperate with all other
similar groups or individuals
working for the same purpose.
(3) To educate the public
through publicity and other
means about the dangers of
nuclear plants and their
several years. All farmers
should read it carefully to
make sure they mark the
correct certification
statement that applies to
them.
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manuscripts, recordings, and
instruments to the school. He
said that he first learned
ballad singing and banjo
picking as a child on the
mountain campus; and of all
the festivals he founded, this is
the only one he allowed to
carry his name.
substance was shipped to the
state laboratory in Raleigh for
analysis and that charges
against Elam were pending
the outcome of that analysis.
The police officer said
materials seized from the
wrecked car included
marijuana smoking
paraphernalia, needles, a box
of marijuana seeds, and a set
of scales.
He said part of the cache
was hidden in a folding chair
and part in a console between
the car seats. Ray said the
contraband was discovered by
a wrecker driver.
Sheriff Ponder stated this
week that results of the
analysis had not been received
but are expected in a few
days.
deadly waste products.
The proposed Sandy Mush
plant is to be located on the
Madison - Buncombe line. For
more information, write or
call: Dr. Edgar Lyngholm,
president.
Carolinians for Safe
Energy
P. O. Box 816$
Asheville, N. C. 28804
Telephone: 254-4711
Or TDE
"Farmers who do not
certify w'll be issued a
marketing card with "NO
PRICE SUPPORT marked
on it," stated Mr. Zlnk, In
dosing.
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