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" ' ' it ,4 t A . 1 1 ( 'i 1 ? 1 ) I. ,...."' ' , f - x '. iiiH) Notice Filed For Nursing Care Facility At Mars A. V. Grantham, Brun swick, Ga. and Ned B. Young, Mars Hill filed notice on September 17, 1974 of intent to incur a capital expenditure for the purpose of proposed construction of a 75-bed nursing care facility in Mars Hill, 3 miles east at Highway 23 and 14. The project is scheduled for completion In mid-1975 and is estimated to cost $695,000. The proponent states that a 75-bed nursing care facility is proposed; both skilled and intermediate levels of care are planned. Oktoberfest Symposium To Be Held This Week-End An Oktoberfest Symposium will be held in Asheville and Cherokee on October 4, 5, and 6. The Western North Carolina Historical Association will co sponsor the event with Mara Hill College, the United State Forest Service, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Asheville Buncombe Technical Institute. It is billed as a "gala historical ex travanganza". A Mountain Naming program and an open house are open to the public free of charge. A banquet will be held in the Fellowship Hall, First Christian Church of Asheville. At noon, October 4, registration will begin at the same place, and at 1 p.m., a paper, "Frederick L. Olm- Meet The Candidates EDITOR'S NOTE: For the nest few weeks this newspaper will publish pic tares and brief writeups of Democratic and Republican candidates who are seeking 7 fir'. x LARKY ROGER SIT ANN B Lll r -1J4 I Tat Collector , Larry Roger Swann, ' Jrear-oid resident of Mars HilL , Is the Republican candidate . for Tai Collector of Madison County in the November t 1S74 general election. This, is the first elective. office Larry has aoecbL " He attended Cane River High School and Elan ton's Business CoOege in Asheville. He attends the Mars H.Q United Methodist Church and a bnerd member of the Mars ' mi Youth Pro-s -a. a Lin'.e Uwitie coach a-.l a f 't s-vi t ;rrtar in t't ' ?" rt V-2 I s Cl,.b. . . , v..-;'f v,k'-- (-.'Vie ! - r-.:-;, f.. ar,4 ' 1 Jv f'tr-f ? 'I - t J V -y fe This proposal is a replacement to one filed July 8, 1974. The project proposal has been submitted to the North Carolina Department of Human Resources, Com prehensive Health Planning Section, for review by plan ning agencies under provisions of the Social Security Amendments of 1972. The planning agencies, in examining the proposal, will seek to determine whether the project is needed, if it can be stead and the Biltmore Estate" will be presented by Edward Turnberg, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh. This will be followed by a talk by Sylvester Owens on "My 44 Years on the Biltmore Estate." A tour of the Bilt more House and Gardens will then be made, transportation courtesy of Mars Hill College. At 6:30 p.m. there will be a walking tour of Thomas Wolfe House, courtesy of N. C. Historic Sites Commission. James Ellis, Executive Vice President of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, will welcome the history buffs to Asheville. David Holt, musician Par Excellence, of Enka, will present several election in the November 5, 1974 general election. This is being done so that voters la Madison County may better get "acquainted" with the candidates. " HAROLD WALLTN - . Demecratle Candidate . . .y i Tas Collector i' t Harold Wallta is a candidaU for re-election for the office of tax; collector of. Madison A County, subject to the will of . the voters in the general election in November. Xf v :": He is a resident of the California Creek area where , he faves with bis wife, Ruby, who is teacher at Mars Hill Elementary SchooL They have one son, Greg. " Ws Mars ' Arrr) ",in graduated from J!;n High School and ' i G. L r-iru!;ural 1. 1'e served m i U. S. d iru-g World War II ti is a rr.oT of the ( f ' Cretk It:' I tl,:;h f 1 Vt A ..ii lr i. ! ' f ? f ' :) - ' ! i ( .'HP A . 3 adequately staffed and operated, whether it is economically feasible within prevailing rate structures, and if it proposes specific cost containment features. Copies of the proposal have been referred to the Facility Services Division of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources and to the Mountain Ramparts Health Planning, Inc., Asheville for review, as required by federal law. In its role as coordinator of project reviews under Section selections of mountain music. Robert Conway, N. C. Department of Archives and History, will present a paper on "Scenes from the Wolfe Saga." The Thomas Wolfe Literary Award will be presented by Joe L. Morgan, Chairman, Awards Com mittee Western North Carolina Historical Association. On Saturday, at 10 a.m., the Mountain Naming Program, will occur at Mountainside Theater, honoring the late Brigader General Stand Watie, and the late Admiral Joseph J. "Jocko" Clark. The speaker will be General William C. Westmoreland of Charleston, and Admiral B. B. "Smoke" Stream of Oklahoma City. Eligible Voters Listed For ASC Election A list of the names of all persons to receive ballots in the upcoming annual ASC committeemen election is available in the county ASCS office, reports Bill Zink Madison County ASCS Executive Director. ASCS, an agency of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, is responsible for farm program administration. On the local level, ASCS operates under a fanner-elected committee system. This year's election will be by mail ballot between November 22 and December 1 : Anyone who meets .the following requirements is ' eligible to vote in these farmer committee elections, ny ' I 11. J I MntlnA Art ' UUlvtuuai VI Kg TVWI with an interest in a farm as owner, tenant, or sharecropper who is eligible to participate in any ASCS -program. , ' . , Persons not of legal voting age who supervise and con duct' farming operations on the entire farm. arc also eligible to vote trt. ASC elec-' , bona. No person csn be denied . V the right to vote because of race,' sex, color, religion, er national origin. ,. Several general provisions . . reUte to ASC voter eliglbiUty. ' : A wife who operates a farm fr with her husband can vota if ". her name Is on the deed of ' conveyance. A youth under II yean of ape can vote if he - runs a farm, and a kpal guar ' n wlo runs s farm for a c i ci vote f child. . A ; r i r sy r t a tAl'ot lr, - . c- ' ii wl.il he is an e' . -. h it h or s t. T M ' t.1 f t t'-a Hill 1122 of the Social Security Act, the North Carolina Depart ment of Human Resources, through its Comprehensive Health Planning Section, will receive the advice of the State and regional agencies about the conformity of the project to their standards and criteria. The Department will then decide on the recom mendation to be made to the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare concerning the project. Music will be provided by the U. S. Navy and Cherokee High School bands. Patrons will then view Clark and Watie Peaks from a Blue Ridge Parkway observation point, courtesy of the Cherokee Boys Club bus line. At noon those In attendance may enjoy the Cherokee Fall Festival. On Sunday Oct. 6, from 2 to 5 p.m. an open house will be held at Smith McDowell House and A.B. Technical Institute on Victoria Road in Asheville. This historic house is the future home of the Western North Carolina Historical Association. Lt. Col. Mack White of Asheville is coordinator for this years OKTOBERFEST. If an eligible voter has separate farm interests in more than one community in the same county, special care will be taken to see that only one ballot is issued to that voter. Drug Charges Filed Against Elam Sheriff E. Y. Ponder stated Tuesday- morning that the results of the substances sent to the state laboratory for analysis Involving Phillip R. Elam Jr., of Route 1, Chuckey, Term.; were received Monday and that the analysis showed there were four non-controlled substances and two controlled substances found in the examinations. The two controlled sub ;FFAiChapter v At Madison High ; 'A Tutare' Farmers of , America chapter has been '; established at Madison High SchooL Students of vocational sericulture elected this set of ; officers at a general meeting September It, President, Billy Roberts; Vice Prescient, f 'ove Furm: Secretary, F. ir Kamiin; Reporter, M.ke Horton; Treasurer,' f ; v r - ""; i Sen- t I 1 y Tw l " '.' - has teen FOUR DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS are pictured above at the fund-raising dinner at Wolf Laurel last Thursday. Left to right are State Senator Lamar Gudger, featured speaker; Mrs. Sandra Tolley, president, Madison County Young Democratic Club; James T. Ledford, chairman Madison County Board of Commissioners; and Zeno Ponder, chairman, Madison County Democratic Executive Committee. Farmers Asked To Nominate ASC Committeemen Farmers are asked to nominate candidates of their choice to be on the ASC community committee ballot, says Bill Zink, Madison County ASCS Executive Director. The ASC community committee election will be conducted from November 22 to December 2, by mail ballot. The 7 ASC communities in Madison County are A-l Marshall; B-2 White Rock; C-3 Mars Hill; D-4 Beech Glen; E 5 Pine Creek; F-6 Hot Springs; and G-7 Ebbs Chapel. ASC committees are responsible for managing government farm programs on the local level. To meet the needs of individual producers, ASC committee members must be concerned and responsible individuals, Zink said. Madison County farmers have the opportunity to nominate persons they feel would best serve the farm community. Farmers will soon receive petition forms by mail and may begin sub mitting them to the County ASCS office on October 3. A few basic considerations should be kept in mind when circulating petitions, Zink said. In order to be valid, petitions must be limited to one nominee each, must in clude written certification that the nominee is willing to serve if elected, must be signed by at least three eligible voters in the ASC community, and must be stances included 200 grams of Marijuana and some Cocaine, Ponder said. He also said that warren ts had been signed for Elam on the two charges. y " Drug charges had been pending against Elam who was injured in a one-car ac cident near Marshall oa Monday night of last week until the analysis had been made. t chosen to represent the new Chapter in the FFA Creed ' speaking contest -. ' ! i A Pntnra Farmers of America Leaders1 .ip Sool as held at Ma STtrntwr 24. f sev era! dJTerent c i!hsU!eanddist to nets-re ideal V " p sni -: "t r,f IV t r I . A ( 1 ' 'n i:sh '1 of ' L.I ! t t - fm in"1- " J) i V ;H " ' ' H ' ''! W 1 f received in the county ASCS office no later than October 29. A farmer may circulate or sign nominating petitions for as many candidates as he chooses. Anyone wishing to nominate a farmer for the ASC committee election may contact the county ASCS office for full details, including eligibility requirements for office-holders. Zink believes that farmer nominations of candidates for the upcoming ASC committee election are very important. He said, "Farmers should County Gets $12,766.49 From National Forest French Broad District Ranger Bobby Brady said today that Madison County will receive $12,766.49 as its share of receipts on National Forest operations in the County during the past fiscal year which ended June 30, 1974. This is an increase of $2,528.76 from FY 1973. Federal law calls for 25 percent of National Forests receipts to go back to the I ill .1 ' vtNstt c 41 jg.i, m mini ii a. . .. ,i '. BURLINGTON HOT SPRINGS recognize twenty; year employee. Elsie Bullman recently received her servke pin and certificate lor twenty years service . at ceremonies la the plant She was presented ber pin and certificate by Frank Blue, plant manager, ' Homer Foster, department head and Joe King, her ., supervisor in recognition and appreciation of her long and loyal service. She wag also presented with . gifts by her fellow employee.: Elsie completed. twenty yean employment on September 21. 1974. ' Pictured above left to right are Homer Foster, Elsie V and Joe King. '7 ,: ' v - - "V- ' Junior Lyons Now In Jail - - For 1972 Robber ; ' . Sheriff E. Y. P ' Tuesday nvmi-g tv t Lyons, of Err-n, 7 l , ytiS f in was rrtu i u r C.-.'y )il 1. t ' I y .-j vsl " rw t -n ah bery in t1 I' petition for and elect those individuals they feel would do a good job as ASC com mitteemen. The election of concerned farmers to positions on ASC committees is necessary for good ad ministration of farm programs." Zink further explained that the county ASCS office welcomes all valid petitions. The opportunity to nominate, vote, and be elected to office is guaranteed to all farmers regardless of race, religion, sex, color, or national origin. counties for use on roads and in schools. Brady said the average return for Madison County was $.27 per acre. Timber purchased and har vested by private operators accounts for the biggest single amount of receipts and is carried out under the Forest Service Land Management Program that insures a continuous supply of wood for the Nation's needs. Mid sertioa a in . y ,ar Konnie Harris, also of r 1 r,- in. al stai m Florida, t rd Vr-,S sUted. - ' rn-l m T inodent eccwred s4 5-' ,y r a 1 - gie's store on N. C - t- c ttt- r " r:,b. 1 i i Ml txm d - 1 f rel - 4 V; 't tn J Sherrill To Receive Honorary Degree Founders Day at the beginning of Mars Hill's 119th year will be observed October t with a special convocation in which an honorary doctorate will be bestowed upon the executive secretary of the General Baptist State Con vention of North Carolina, an association of 1700 predominantly black churches with a total membership of approximately 350,000. 0. L. Sherrill, nominal head of black Baptists in North Carolina, will receive the Doctor of Humanities degree. On hand to offer the in vocation at the ceremony and to assist President Bentley in the investiture will be Dr. W. Perry Crouch of Raleigh, executive secretary of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention, an association of some 3,300 predominantly white Baptist churches with a total membership in excess of one million. The ceremony, for which the college faculty will be in traditional academic regalia, will be held in 1800-seat Moore Auditorium, beginning at 10 a m. The college choir will provide special music. More than 600 special guests have been invited. A native of Iredell County, Dr. Sherrill did his un dergraduate studies at Shaw University in Raleigh, where he received a B.A. degree in 1933. Three years later he earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree there, and in 1956 the university' awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. He has also studied at Union Theological seminary in New York City. In the early years of his ministry, Dr. Sherrill pastored churches at Youngsville, Fayetteville, Washington, and Wilmington. He became executive secretary of the General Baptist State Convention in 1947. He was instrumental in 1957 in the establishment of the Department of Cooperative Ministeries, the first official linking of the state's two largest Baptist denominations. He is a member of the executive committee of the Lott Carey Foreign Missions Convention in Washington, D. C; serves on the Board of Directors of the National Baptist Convention; and is a WMU Leadership Conference At g Mars Hill Tuesday The annual Leadership. Coherence of the French Broad Woman's Missionary Umon will be held on Tuesday, October I from T4 pJB., In the Mars Hill Baptist Church. We arge aB of yoa who have been elected to work as a leader of . Mission FriendsGirls in 1 Action, Acteena. Baptist Yoang Women, and Baptist ' Women, to attend the Con ference. H yoa are the WMU Director la your church, . please come, and arge all yoor lea den to come with yon, Mrs. Locke Robinson stated. - 4 , . RepresenUtlvesfromanyof oar churches that do not have , mission organizations are welcome to cmne to UiiS ' Cor.fcre-x-e to f 1 out about . this work. , V rj work caa bt ;n in v t ' - h with one ofricer -a I ' ' v working 1 !' r K trustee of both Shaw University and its School of Religion Divinity SchooL Dr. Sherrill is a familiar figure at Mars Hill, where he has participated in interracial conferences for many years and has been the featured speaker at college Focus Week programs and similar events. "Probably no other person has served so long and so well in promoting a wider fellowship among black and white Baptists in North Carolina than Dr. Sherrill," commented Dr. Bentley in announcing plans for the Founders' Day Convocation. "He has always played an active role in the area of civil rights. During the 1950's and I960' s he used his influence to acquire better conditions and a recognition of human rights for his race." The awarding of the honorary degree will be a significant prelude to a Joint meeting of the black and the white conventions in Raleigh in November. A re-enactment of the investiture of . Dr. Sherrill will be carried out during one of the Joint con vention sessions. Dr. Sherrill's is only the third honorary degree ever awarded by Mars Hill College. The first, a Doctor of Humane Letters, was bestowed in 1971 upon J. Robert Wren of Gastonia, long-time trustee of the college and a generous benefactor. The second was awarded in 1973 to W. R. Chambers of Marion, an alumnus and a generous supporter who first became A trustee of the college in 1924. All honorary degrees are recommended by a faculty committee and approved by the Board of Trustees. your church does not have aa ; ' organisation' for Baptist Yoang Womeni invite at least ' two of your young women (ages It-S) to come with yon: to the nieeting. : i U Assodatlonal WMU officers are: Director; Mrs. Locke Robinson; Baptist Women's 'Director, Mrs. W. L. Lynch; Baptist ' Young Women's Director, Miss Doris Cham- ben; Acteens Director. Mrs. Jack Burnette; Girl's la 'Action Director. Mrs. Ky'e - Jamerson; Mission Fri ; Director, KtIssEy Of kBssion Surrt, .rs. ' . Shepherd; i Mr-s. Char! G.-yt n; T , . Artion, Mrs. 1-1 ' ' Chri-tpr, f . ' r . i ( f y A : : Tr-- i f , i 5. I t
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