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Marshall N.C.
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November 14 1974
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Dr. W. Otis Duck
Receives Honor;
On "Roast" Program
Dr. W. Otia Duck, prominent
Mara Hill physician, had two
thrilling experiences last
month when he attended the
25th annual meeting of the
American Academy of Family
Practice in Los Angeles,
California.
The popular doctor received
his Charter Fellowship at
Convocation Exercises on
October IS. Dr. Duck has been
a member of this organization
for 25 years. In order to be
qualified for this degree a
physician must have ISO hours
of post graduate study every
three years.
On the following week Dr.
Duck was on the program of
Bob Terrell To
Autograph Book
Here November 22
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BOB TERRELL
An autograph party for Bob
Terrell, columnist for The
Asheville Citizen, will be held
Friday, Nov. 22, from 2 to 4
pm. in the library at Mar
shall. His new book, "Fun Is
Where You Find It," will be on
sale then.
The book is a collection of
the more humorous columns
Democrats
Gain More
Votes
Approximately SO additional
votes for all Democratic
candidates were added to the
November S, 1974, general
election results at the official
canvass held here Thursday,
it was announced by the board
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the International. Family
Planning Research
Association in Palm Springs,
Calif.
He was one of the select
participants on the panel
entitled, "Roast Green Blatt",
honoring Dr. Robert Green
Blatt, retiring professor of
Endocrinology at Medical
College of Georgia.
Other "roasters" on the
program included Dr. George
Schneider, of New Orleans;
Dr. Kermit Krantz, of Kansas
City, Mo., and world famous
comedian, Bob Hope.
Physicians at the meeting
were from 28 countries.
written by Terrell in his 25-year-career
with The Citizen.
Containing 224 pages, the
book will sell for S6.9S. It in
cludes about 200 columns and
column items, all of a
humorous nature, including
his most talked-about
columns, "The Cat Caper,"
"Merry Christmas, Uncle
Herbert," "Trick Or Treat,"
"Hugh Dorsey Brown's Trip
To The Promised Land," and
others.
A native of Sylva, Terrell
was graduated from Western
Carolina University in 1949.
However, he began his writing
career with The Sylva Herald
in 194S and Joined The Citizen
in 1949.
Publication of this book
coincides with his 25th an
niversary with The Citizen.
The book was printed by the
Harris Press in Nashville,
Tenn.
. Terrell authored one
previous book, "J.D. Sum
ner's My Life In Gospel
Music."
of elections office.
The added results were
from absentee ballots which
had challenged. Most of the
challenges were withdrawn
and a few challenges ware
overruled, it was announced.
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DR. W. OTIS DUCK, of Mars Hill, Is shown in cap
and gown following distinct recognition at the 25th
annual meeting of American Academy of Family
Practice held in Los Angeles, Calif., on October 15.
Two Wrecks Result
In Injuries
Two separate automobile
wrecks over the last week-end
resulted in several persons
being hospitalized.
The first wreck occurred
about 2:40 a.m. Sunday
morning in the Hayes Run
section when a car reportedly
driven by Jimmy Lee Wilson,
a student at Mars Hill College
and containing four other
passengers, two girls and
three boys, all Mars Hill
College students, left the high
way. Sheriff Ponder reported that
Wilson was arrested, charged
with DUI, but later released
under $300 bond. The oc
cupants in the wreck were
treated at Memorial Mission
Hospital.
The second wreck occurred
Sunday morning about 11:00
o'clock at the intersection of
the Marshall bypass and high
way leading to Marshall at the
Ivy Bridge.
A truck, driven by Millard
Tipton with Ted McKinney as
a passenger, both of Marshall,
collided with a car driven by
Mr. Larry Cutahall, of Route
6, Marshall. In the Cutshall
car were Mrs. Cutshall and
their small daughter.
AH five persons were taken
to Memorial Mission hospital
for treatment.
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It was reported that
McKinney received severe leg
lacerations requiring surgery
and Tipton received chest
injuries and lacerations of the
face. McKinney remains in
the hospital but Tipton is
recuperating at his home
here.
The Cutshall child sustained
a broken arm, it was reported.
Mr. and Mrs Cutshall were
not seriously injured. Both
vehicles were demolished.
County Teachers Honored Here On Saturday
Education in Madison
County was traced from the
date of the first school in
Madison County to the present
time at a meeting honoring
Madison County teachers held
at Madison High School on
Saturday, November 9. Ad
ding to the growing list of
studies made by the Madison
County Historical Society, the
subject of "Education in
Madison County" was treated
as an unending tribute to the
large group of dedicated
women and men who are
teachers - retired or active.
Dr. Evelyn Underwood,
president, summarised from
research and studies made
from records of the State of
North Carolina, Baptist and
Presbyterian church offices
and such county records as
were available, the
development of the county
school ' system. " Madison
County was - officially
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Madison Party Leaders Agree"
Election Was Fair
By STUART REASONER
Times Staff Writer
In Madison County, where
Republican complaints about
Democratic-controlled
election machinery have not
been exactly unheard of in the
past, both sides seem to agree
that Tuesday's GOP-run vote
went fairly smoothly.
North Carolina's first
Republican governor in this
century brought control of
local boards of elections into
GOP hands last March.
And Just about the only thing
that left the party after the
polls closed Tuesday, in
Madison as elsewhere, was
the privilege of counting its
own dead.
"We were just caught in one
of those times when it wasn't
time to be running, that's
all," Mayor William P. Powell
of Mars Hill, Madison
Republican chairman, said
today.
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The slates of nominees for
the upcoming ASC committee
election have been developed
announces W. B. Zink, County
Executive Director of the
Madison County Agricultural
Stabilization and Con
servation Service.
The candidates for each
ASC community in Madison
County are as follows: A-l
community, Cecil Briggs, Carl
Cantrell, Fred B. Flynn,
Sidney Hensley, Everett Rice,
established as a county in
1851, and there was one known
school in existence as early as
1809. Within three years there
were six schools and by 1872
there were 32 schools in the
county. In 1881 Mr. J.C. Tilson
became the first Superin
tendent of Public Instruction.
The names of J.J. Gudger and
LN. Ebbs appear in records as
holding this office before the
turn of the century. Church
academies in the county
history make an interesting
story; Baptists established a
school in Mars Hill in 1853, and
Presbyterians came as
missionaries in 1870 and
established 17 schools. All
were eventually purchased by
the state except for Bell In
stitute and Dorland School
which merged and for many
years was a successful private
boarding school located la Hot
Springs. Consolidation of
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"It's a pleasure to tell you
that we won and we won pretty
big," was the initial response
of Democratic Chairman Zeno
H. Ponder when asked about
the election. He said the
Democratic campaign had
been "a clean campaign of
facts."
As to the newly-constituted
board of elections, Ponder
said, "All I can tell you is that
they had the machines and we
had the people."
Elections board Chairman
Perry G. Willis said that as far
as he knew everything had
gone all right. "We had no
major complaints, as far as I
know," he said.
One mechanical problem, in
which a machine was not
registering votes for one
candidate when his party
lever was pulled, was caught
and cleared up when only 14
voters had used the machine,
Willis said.
Nominees For
ASC Committee
and Don West; B-2 community
- Joe Bullman, Clarence
Cutshall, Walter Gosnell,
James Gunter, Glen Hensley,
and Hardy Shelton; C-3
Community - Jerry T.
Dunivan, Hardie Merrill,
Doug Peek, Dewey Phillips,
Carl D. Reese, and Carson
Roberts; D-4 community -Warren
Anders, Frank
Briggs, Harold Buckner,
Wayne Eatmon, Grady
Hensley, Levi Hunter, and
small rural schools before
buses and automobiles were in
general use worked hardships
on many families. Children
were either sent to the school
in Hot Springs where they
could live or sent out of the
county to go to school.
In 1889 the State Board of
Education ordered the
creation of "Summer In
stitutes" for training teachers
and three were set up in
Madison County, at Spring
Creek, Marshall and Mars
Hill . Through the efforts of Dr.
R.L. Moore at Mars Hill,
teacher training became a
continuing part of the
program at Mars Hill College.
In 1929 s state Teacher
Training program operated at
Marshall High School located
at that time on Hill Street
Miss Clemmie Casey (Mrs.
W.T. McKinney) was in
structor, and examination ef
this enrollment shows that
almost all of those became
teachers - many are still in
the area after long teaching ,
careers la the county system.
Certification requirements
required constant up-dating,
but the early opportunity gave
men a beginning. Miss Casey
and .Mrs. : Hetti R.
Blankenship visited schools ia '
the county for teacher con
ferences and observation.
Dr. Underwood read from a
student research of Raleigh
records showing that from
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Ponder said he had been
aware of "some situations
throughout the county" where
illiterate or borderline voters
were "harrassed...not given
help at the voting machines."
He also said he felt a
challenge by Republicans of 60
absentee ballots, all straight
Democratic votes, was a
delaying tactic in the hopes of
a close election. "I think it
backfired on the
Republicans," he said.
"Overall," Ponder said, "it
was carried out fair." He said
he had no charges of vote
stealing or vote buying.
Powell said the challenges
of the absentee ballots were
made because of
"irregularities in applying for
ballots, not in the fact they
weren't entitled to vote."
Had the election been closer
they might have been pur
sued, Powell said, but in the
light of the strong Democratic
Developed
Everly Robinson; E-S com
munity - Mallie Brown,
Leonard Buckner, Loy C.
Buckner, James S. Fisher,
Frank Payne, Jr., and Lon
Sluder; F-6 community -Bobby
N. Clark, Wallace
Cook, Vern Holt, Frank
Massey, Ermon Norris, Ruby
E. Plemmons, and Eugene L.
Wills; G-7 community - Wayne
Bumette, J. O. Hall, Edward
Hoyle, Carter Metcalf, Don
Peek, and Cline Shelton.
who began teaching careers at
the age of 18 and a few had
taught in as many as five
di ff erent schools in the county .
Dr. Underwood posed
questions of conditions under
which they taught: length of
school term, textbooks used,
utilities and sanitation,
transportation, recreation,
discipline and other. In terms
of present-day systems and
facilities, some hilarious
reports were heard and en
Joyed by all. Only the most
extreme weather conditions
had any effect on the school
schedule, lunches . were
nourishing and home-made,
recreation was varied and
victory they have been with
drawn locally, although the
State Bureau of Investigation
has been given the in
formation. Madison Republicans ac
tually came out better than
some other counties to the
extent that their losses were in
attempts to unseat rather than
in attempts to hold on to of
fices in the Democrat -dominated
county. District
Attorney Clyde M. Roberts did
win re-relection in the five
county 24th Judicial District.
"He was unopposed, thank
goodness," Powell said.
(Roberts was unopposed in
four of the district's counties,
according to Ponder. )
What now for the Madison
GOP?
"Well, we back up and
regroup, we're not known for
giving up in Madison," Powell
said
"Everything went along
The ASC committee election
will be conducted by mail
from November 22 until
December 2. Eligible ASC
voters will receive a secret
ballot in the mail with in
structions on how to vote for
candidates of their choice and
return the ballot to the county
ASCS office. Participation in
ASC elections is open to all
farmers regardless of race,
religion, sex, color, or national
origin.
great fun with little or no
equipment. Teachers boarded
in the communities where
they taught, and customarily
made overnight visits to the
homes of pupils. This resulted
in strong parent-teacher-student
understanding.
Discipline was usually
maintained by "staying-in- at
recess or after school, and
that failing, the one never-fail
method was wise use of the
hickory switch-also a well
known home remedy highly
recommended and approved
by parents.
In all of Madison County
history, (0 known schools hsve
existed. At the present time
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smoothly," he said, "I think
they just outhustled us; it was
the wrong year, a lot of
Republican apathy. We cant
lead our people around by the
nose, we can beg and plead
with them. ..I'd much rather
be associated with a group of
people like that than with
people that can be led around
by the nose."
Chandler Vote
Correction
In the unofficial election
results table published last
week, the total for Bobby
Chandler (Board of
Education, District II) ap
peared 1339. This should have
been 1439 (including absentee
ballots).
Hearing Set
For Sewerage
Project Here
Elsewhere in this issue can
be found a legal notice con
cerning a public bearing to be
held on Monday, November
25, at the French Broad EMC v
Building here at 5 pan., for the L
purpose of informing the
nuhlir about Toom nf Marahan " ,
Project zOlyhlch involves 8wj.
constrarnftn of. .sewerage 4
system in Marshall, Brush
Creek, Amnions Branch, Ivy
Creek and other outlaying
territories.
It was stated that cost of the
project in the corporate limits
of Marshall would be home by
the Town of Marshall and cost
of the project outside ef the
corporate limits would be
borne by Madison County.
"The public is urged to
attend the hearing," Mayor
I-orado Ponder stated.
there are 7 schools, including .
the recently opened Madison
High School. .
The next meeting tot the -Historical
Society is scheduled
for April It ;
Officers were re-elected fotf '
a one-year term: President,- ;
Dr. Evelyn Underwood; Vice; ;
President, Mrs. Ovtrtoq
Gregory; - Secretary-Treas., "
Mrs. Frances Buckner. , ... V
Board Members, en i
rotating basis, now serving:
Mrs. 41m, Baker, Mrs. E.O.
Bumette, Mrs. Peggy 'Dot
terer, Mrs. H.B. Ditmors and
Mrs. Clyde Robers. ,
Mrs. Evelyn R. Davis Is the .
newly-elected board member.
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