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Volume 73. Number 43.
Marshall, N. c.
15 CENTS PER COPY
November 21, 1974
Mars Hill Grant To Help Thousands Hard-Hit By N.C. Layoffs
Build
The Town of Mars Hill
was presented $40,000
Thursday, representing a
grant from the Farmers Home
Administration toward the
new $189,000 water system
project that was completed
last May.
Dr. William Powell, mayor
of Mars Hill, received the
check from Douglas E. Taylor
of the Marshal FHA County
office.
Mars Hill applied for the
funds in March under a new
FHA program to facilitate
development of private in
dustry. The grant is a big help
to a small community, Powell
said, being more than Mars
Hill's annual ad valorem tax
revenue.
The water project,
authorized in a June 25, 1973
referendum, about doubled
the town's reservoir capacity
with a new 300,000 tank; also
increased pressure for fire
protection and permitted
expansion of water service
into additional area, Powell
said.
Petition Asks For Return Of
High School At Spring Creek
The Following Petition, now
ready to be submitted to the
State Board of Education, is
self-explanatory:
PETITION
STATE OF
NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF MADISON
TO: North Carolina Board of
Education Raleigh
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED
CITIZENS of the Spring Creek
section of Madison County,
Petition the State Board of
Education to return the high
school which has always
existed at Spring Creek to the
Spring Creek High School
building presently in
existence; and in support
thereof, show:
That since the high school
consolidation commencing
with the school term in
August, 1974, many of our
children are spending 3H to 4
hours on school buses being
transported to and from
Marshall; that as a result, a
great many of our teenagers
who are past compulsory
school age have dropped out
and are not attending school;
that of approximately sixty
two teenagers who should be
attending high school, twenty
one have dropped completely
out of school and two have
gone away to boarding
schools; that one girl in our
community has been
hospitalized because of the
increased strain and pressure
of the long bus trip; that the
weather up to this point has
beta good but the trip will be
longer and infinitely more
dangerous with the com
mencement of winter; ' that
Doggett Gap, through which '
the school buses must pass, is
. notorious lor Icy, dangerous
conditions in winter; that the
ndersigned feel that the
. present Madison County
, Board of Education has
misrepresented the facts to
the undersigned and that said
Board knew that do new road
was to be buia, at least for the I
; forseeable future; that the
North Carolina Highway
Commission ia its study !
determined that Spring Creek
Ee School would hare to
remain open ia order to
'prevent the very problems
which here arisen; that the
-problems of tie Spring Creek
community are here and now
"i are creating g-et hard
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New Water System
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MARS HILL MAYOR William P. Powell, center, is shown receiving a 140,000
grant last Thursday from the Farmers Home Administration toward the new
$189,000 water system project which was completed last May in Mars Hill.
Douglas E. Taylor, left, of the Marshall FHA County Office is shown
presenting the check. On right is Gordon Randolph, Vice-Mayor of Mars Hill.
struction of a road which m ay
never be built; that there is
space and qualified teachers
at Spring Creek to handle the
high school if students are
returned and that said
students, particularly the
Criminal Court To Start
Monday; Jurors Named
The November term of
superior court for the trial of
criminal cases will begin here
Monday morning with Judge
J.W. Jackson presiding. Clyde
M. Roberts, district attorney,
will represent the State,
assisted by James T. Rusher
Cases listed on the docket
for the term include:
Ronnie Dale Baker, Racing;
Clinton Riddle, DUI; Tommy
Jack Ledford, DUI; Shelby
William Robinson, DUI;
Howard Carver, DUI; Harold
Lloyd Treadway, DUI;
George Lawrence Whitt, DUI;
Paul Clarence Chandler, DUI;
Kenneth Freddie Shelton,
DUI; Ernest Capps, ADW;
Grover Baker, ADW; Coy
Rollins, B&EltL; Calvin
Edmonds, BltEfcL; Mason
King, Murder; Dallas
Roberts; Edward Plemmons,
BEL; Raymond Jesse
Harron, DUI; Earl Eugene
Chandler, DUI k RD; Johnny
Ervtn McDonald, DUI; Ernest
Davidson, DUI 4 DWLR;
Darid L Chandler, Felonious
Non-Support; Wayne Alford
Rice, DUI; Kenneth Hensley,
DUI; MMard Winston Lloyd,
DUI; WoodrowW. Honeycutt,
DUI; William Chandler, DUI;
George Neal HoUifleld, DUI;
John Beard Peek, DUI; Ahrin
Bullman, OUT, Gary Vernon ;
Sawyer, DUI; John R.
Graham, DUL
: A 1st of jurors drawn for the
term are as follows: Bernard '
Edward Cornell, James
Roosevelt Ramsey, James ,
Joseph Forst, Betty Jo Rice,
Ernest Capps, Hardy Reeves,;
Howard Chandler, John Lewis
Moore, Wurphy Rice, H.W. '
Torr,ber!;n, George B. Woody,
ri-a W. Sexton, Clifford
W. I e G.; e.
seniors, should not be
penalized for moneys already
paid into the Consolidated
High School in Marshall; that
your petitioners earnestly
beseech the State Board of
Education that it right this
wrong and order the Madison
Ruth Bullman, Lois Buckner,
Frank W. Massey, Arthur
Ramsey, Lula Jane Justiss,
Betty Wineburger, Walter R
Harrell, Tubie Norton, Wanda
Roberts, Lee Murphy Coulby,
Glenwood Wallin, Doris
Roberts, Claude Pegg, Clyde
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THE NEW DERINGER MANUFACTURING
r LA N'T. located near the shopping center on the
Marshall bypass, is rapidly being completed and is
e -' f td to be ready for occupancy around the first
cf t' e )f ar.
County Board of Education to
return the students from the
Spring Creek area to the
Spring Creek High School until
such time as a satisfactory
and safe method of tran
sportation is available. Two
buses which travel the Max
D. Webb, Dock Fox, Ronnie
James King.
William Phillip Cogdill,
Paul G. Newton, Paul Hen
derson, Harmon Rice, Wayne
B. Jarvis, Gretchen Robinson,
Julius Rice, Andy Lewis,
Charles Waldroup, Robert
CHESTER U MIDDAUGH,
formerly of WQdwood, DJ., has
been named assistant plant
manager for Deringer Mfg.
Co., here. He has been
associated with Deringer for
11 years and has been second
shift supervisor la the Mun
ddela plant in Illinois for six
years. Mr. and Mrs. Middaugh
and three children are
residing in Mars Hill.
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A bountiful Thanksgiving or
a merry Christmas may exist
only in the memory of
thousands of North
Carolinians this year.
Layoffs, cutbacks and
closings have hit hard at the
ranks of plant workers,
producing a spiraling chain
$1,000 In
Be Given
Many of the business firms
on Main Street in Marshall,
members of the Marshall
Merchants Association, are
going to offer customers an
opportunity to win Gift Cer
tificates which will be the
same as money, it was an
nounced this week by Ralph
McCormick, president of the
Merchants Association.
Participating stores will
give customers a blank ticket
for each $1.00 purchase or paid
on account and these tickets
with the customer's name and
address will be deposited In
the ticket cage at the cour
thouse. On November 30, December
7, 14 and 21, at 3 p.m. tickets
will be drawn.
Patch - Meadow Fork area to
Marshall by way of Hot
Springs have an even longer
trip to make which is equally
as dangerous.
This 25th
1974.
day of October,
Charles Silver, Lawrence
Allen, James E. Shelton,
Bruce Cantrell, Grady C
Martin, G.W. Bruce, Jr.,
Winda Dean Shelton, Floyd
Hoi com be, Kermit D. Ball,
Joe Larkin Ray, Kenneth
Sherrill, Bruce James, Fred
Eugene Roberts, Newland
Reese, Billy Joe Chandley,
Larry F. Hunter, Mrs. D A.
Rodges, Lee Esther Norton,
John Freeman, Conley Cut
shall, Raymond Davis, and
Mike Lee Haynes (deferred
from 11-4-74)
WNC Area
New measures to conserve
electricity are being urged on
residents of 10 western North
Carolina counties which are
served with electricity from
TV A.
John J. Tolson m, secretary
of the state Department of
Military and Veterans Affairs
whose department includes
the state Energy Division,
said he had wired county,
commissioners In the J
counties urging conservation
measures Including , turning
thermostats tack to ' U ;
degrees. s
The It counties served
through a power company and
(bar cooperatives are Avery,
: Burke,. Cherokee, Clay,
Graham, Jackson, Macon,
Swain, Watauga and Yancey. :
:, Tolson said he wrote the
. county commissioners fcn the
It counties ia re? pons to a
telegram Gov. Jim
Holsheaser received Wed
nesday from Aubrey J.
Wagner, chairman of TV A,
which said:
reaction that threatens the
state's entire economy.
Unemployment, up nearly 5
per cent in the last two
months, already is at a 14-year
nigh in the textile industry - 6.9
per cent. A similar, but
somewhat smaller, jump in
over-all unemployment is
Gift Certificates To
By Merchants Here
The first winner drawn at
each of the four dates will
receive $50 in certificates and
the next eight winners will
receive $25.00 each in cer
tificates. The certificates can only be
traded at the stores whose
names are on back of cer
tificates. It was also an
Prescott Is
Controller
Asheville F.S.
William O. Prescott has
joined Asheville Federal
Savings as controller, ac
cording to an announcement
made by James M. Westall,
president.
Prior to Joining Asheville
Federal Savings, Prescott was
with Burroughs Corporation
for 19 years, most recently as
selected account represen
tative. Since 1969, Prescott
has been with Burroughs'
Asheville office.
Prescott is a 1954 graduate
of Georgia State University in
business administration.
He is married to the former
Mary Mann of Conyerse, Ga.,
a teacher at T. C. Roberson
High School. The couple has
three children, Mary
Margaret, a student at
Asheville Cou"'-v Day; Pat, a
student at iph-Macon
College; and .-cdl, who lives
in Richmond, Va. Mr. and
Mrs. Prescott and daughter
Mary Margaret reside at 49
Forest Road, Asheville.
Prescott assumed duties as
controller of Asheville
Federal Savings on November
18.
Asheville Federal Savings,
established in 1936, has offices
in Mars Hill, Black Mountain
and Asheville.
Told To Save
"The coal strike now under
way threatens early depletion
of stockpiles at TV A
generating plants and a
resulting crippling pewer
shortage in a very few
weeks."
Conservation steps
recommended by Wagner, in
addition to setting ther
mostats at 65 Included: a SO .
Officials To
Take Oaths
Here Dec. 5 ;
The . newly-elected
Democratic .officials of
Madison County will take their
oaths of office ia the cour
tooom here on Monday, Dec. 1
at I o'clock, I was annoanoad
this week. The oaths will be
administered by Judge W. K.
McLean and the public is
invited to attend the
ceremonies, ft was announced.
indicated by reports to be
released bv the state
Department . laboi and the
Employment Security
Commission this week.
Spokesmen for both
agencies say there is little
chance of a reversal in the
next few months.
nounced that each week the
cage will be emptied and
tickets received during the
present week would be put into
the cage.
It was further announced
that in order to win the cer
tificates, the winner must be
present at the drawings.
Madison District Announces
Upcoming Scouting Events
As was previously an
nounced, Madison County is
now its own Scouting District
in the Daniel Boone CoundL
This new arrangement offers
new services and op
portunities for the boys of our
communities, but it also
carries with it certain
responsibilities. Things are
"on the move" toward
meeting those responsibilities.
Scoutmasters and other
leaders have been recruited in
Hot Springs, Marshall, and
Mars Hill. Charlie Toms, the
Scouting Executive assigned
to our District, will conduct a
leaders Workshop for these
people at the Marshall Baptist
Church, Tuesday, Nov. 26th, 7
p.m. to 9 p.m. It is hoped that
other leaders from other
communities can be added to
that group in the near future.
Plans have also been made
to meet another responsibility
of being a separate District.
Harriet Bucy and Joe Huff are
coordinating a financial
campaign to raise the money
necessary for our Scouting
program. The campaign will
begin Saturday, Nov. 23rd and
end on Sunday, Dec. 1.
Plan to say "yes" when a
volunteer calls on you, and
give as generously as you can
to Scouting in Madison
County.
Bowater Raises Newsprint Price
By $35 A Ton, Effective Jan. 1
Bowater Sales Co. has
announced an increase of $35 a
ton In the price of its 30-lb
newsprint, effective Jan. 1.
The new price will be (270 a
ton.
The Bowater increase was
Electricity
per cent cutback In street
lighting, elimination of aU
outdoor and decorative ad
vertising lighting, and
redaction of commercial
business hours to a 00-hour
maxtmum per week.
Home
Damaged By
Fire Monday
The residence of Mr.
Mrs. BO! Marlor, located near ;
''the Madison-Baneombe
r County Kne on old US 20, waa
v damaged by fire Monday
' afternoon about 12:30 o'clock.
I The home Is owned by Mrs.
RB. Dttmore. .
Marshall firemen responded
and k is thought thai the tOaa
oririnetsd from a wwd stpre.
'. Most ef Cw houyev: J g.xJs
" were destroyed nj tome of
the ciothiff bumfi '
No " i' ' .
"It's getting bad, and it's
not a seasonal thing. The
majority now are temporary
layoffs but, when plants start
shutting down for a week at a
time, it would be easy for it to
become a permanent thing,"
said Ann Yelvington, director
of research for the Labor
Department.
Lee Ausley, a member of the
ESC research staff in Raleigh,
said unemployment claims for
October "are certain to be up"
when tabulation is completed
this week.
A worker who has no job or
one who works less than 60 per
cent of the regular 40-hour
week is eligible for assistance
through the unemployment
insurance program.
That program, in North
Carolina, pays a minimum of
$15 a week and a maximum of
$90. The amount depends on
the worker's previous ear
nings. For most of those joining the
CHARLIE TOMS (right). Scouting Executive of the
Daniel Boone Council, confers with Jim Long (left).
District Chairman of our new Madison District, on
Scouting in Madison County.
Appalachian
Monday, the 11th day of
November the "Appalachian
Folks" visited Madison High.
Mr. WillettandMr Harrison's
Madison County History
classes, Mrs. Hettie Rice's
Folklore class and Mr. St ell's
Band class attended. There
were 200 students that came to
listen in the Little Theater.
Byard Ray, Lou TherrelL
Betty Smith and Vivian
$10 greater than the increases
announced this fall by most
other newsprint producers.
Price Co. set off a round of
increases early this fall when
it raised its price per ton by
$2, to 1260
Bowater, one of the biggest
of the newsprint manufac
turers, produces about 1.2
million tons annually at four
North American mills, in
cluding two in the South.
Bowater Is a newsprint sup
plier for The News Record,
Christmas Mailing f
Deadlines TAnrionnceil
Roger Wood; , Marshall
postmaster, said this week
that the Marshall Post OfSct
has received several queries
rsgardlag nalllai
''dedlines., Ia response, we
plained that our m.ung
dates are only sapgested
deposit dates to r've the
maximum proti ;.'y to
delivery well b' -re Christ
mas. Of course, all r
be acceri berr
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claims line in recent weeks,
the payments represent a
sharp cut in money available
for food, lodging and everyday
living.
The next seven weeks could
be the hardest of all. Several
major textile firms already
have announced plans to shut
down production during all or
part of Thanksgiving week or
Christmas week. Some will
close both weeks.
Curtailment of production
lias prompted a chain-reaction
effect throughout the
economy.
As textile plants close or cut
back, the demand on the
transportation industry is
reduced. As workers lose their
jobs and their earning power,
retail businessmen report a
drop in sales.
With Christmas ahead,
accompanied by the
customary holiday buying
period, the prospect for many
Tar Hells is one of gloom.
Folks Visit
Harts oe demonstrated bow to
use different mountain in
struments. They had a 79 year
old banjo, a fiddle, two
guitars, a dulcimer and a bow.
They sang old ballads one of
which Mr. Ray had written
entitled "Fiddlin' Will"
They explained the history
of mountain music and the
instruments. Everyone en
joyed their performance.
Marshall, N.C.
A Bowater spokesman dd
that the big price increase had
been decided on after toe fear
mills had submitted 'very
dismal" manufacturing jBoet
estimates for next year.
Other producers txpreased
surprise at the size f be
Bowater increase, and there
were no immediate ta.
dications that any of -jbsa
would follow Bo water'!
example. . V-i ' y -
Suggested mailing daii for
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