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Volume 73, Number 46.
Marshall, N. C.
15 CENTS PER COPY
December 12, 1974
Cantata
To Be
Christmas Pageant To Be
DR. R. BRUCE SAMS
Dr. R. Bruce Sams Dies;
Prominent Dentist, Leader
Dr. R. Bruce Sams, retired
Mars Hill dentist and a
prominent leader in the
political, civic and church life
of Madison County over the
last three decades, died
unexpectedly at his home
Wednesday night, December
4, 1974. He was 61.
A native of Mars Hill, Dr.
Sams officially retired earlier
this year. He had experienced
declining health over the last
few years, but his death was
shockingly sudden and
unexpected. Members of the
family reported that he died
quietly while sitting in his
favorite chair in the family
room of his home watching
basketball scores on the late
news.
Funeral services were held
at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Mars
uu uapiu, vsiiuil.ll Willi 1IIC
Rev. W. L. Lynch and the Rev.
Richard Price officiating.
l' Millbearers included Charles
Bruce. Dr. Otis Duck, Kenneth
Anderson, Dean R. M. Lee,
Charles and Davis Sams,
Edward Smith, Chick Murray,
Don Henderson, Bill Smith,
Owen Tilson, Mark Bennett,
and Bobby Edwards. Burial
was m the Mars Hill Cemetery
with Capps Funeral Home in
charge.
Prior to his retirement
earlier this year. Dr. Sams
had practiced dentistry in
Mars Hill for 38 years. A
graduate of local schools,
including Mars Hill College,
he received his professional
training at Emory University
School of Dentistry in Atlanta.
He opened his offices in Mars
Hill in 1936.
A life-long Democrat, Dr
Sams often stated that he was
more interested in the welfare
of the citizens of Madison
County than in partisan
Mrs. Buckner Fatally
Burned Near Mars Hill
Services for Mrs. Carolyn
Stroud Buckner, 45, of Mars
HOI, who died Thursday Dec.
5. 1974 were held at 2 p.m.
Tuesday at Big Springs
Baptist Church near Hollis, of
which she was a member.
The Rev. Edwin McGinnis
officiated. Burial was in the
church cemetery. Cousins
were pallbearers.
Mn. Buckner spent her
early life in Rutherford
County. She was a graduate of
Gardner-Webb College and
Western Carolina University.
Mrs. Buckner taught school in
the North' Carolina and
Oregon public school systems.
She was the daughter of Mrs.
Margaret Walker ' Stroud of
EBenboro and the late Matt J.
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. ; Surviving In addition to the
mother- is the husband, Hal '
Buckner; a son, David
Buckner of the home. .
; Capps Funeral Home was In
'charge. ' ' "
- Mrs.' Buckner was fatally
burned when her two-room
borne was destroyed by fire
early last Friday night The
home was located in the
WaDter Branch section-
Sheriff E. V. Ponder, who
wss cslled to the -ne said
the yy was fourd near the '
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politics. During his active
years he served on three
major boards that closely
affect the lives of the citizens
of the county, as well as on
lesser committees and
Boards. He was chairman of
the Board of Education and
chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners. At the
time of his death he was a
member of the Madison
County Board of Social Ser
vices (formerly Welfare
Board) and had served as
chairman of the Board.
Dr. Sams served as an
alderman and as mayor of the
Town of Mars Hill for 10 years.
He was a charter member and
first president of the Mars Hill
Civitan Club and held most of
the other offices in the club at
one time or another.
A long-time member of the
Mars Hill Baptist Church, he
had served as chairman of the
Board of Deacons and was
chairman of the building
committee which supervised
the construction of the
church's present sanctuary.
A 1932 graduate of Mars Hill
College, Dr. Sams played on
the college tennis team and
was an ardent fan of other
sports. He was an enthusiastic
golfer until failing health
forced him to give up the
sport.
Descendant of the Sams
family so prominent in the
history of Madison County,
Dr. Sams was a member of the
First District Dental Society
of North Carolina, the North
Carolina Dental Society and
the American Dental
Association
He is survived by his wife
I-ois and their son Pat, who
lives in Black Mountain with
his wife, Diane, and their
young son, Jonathan.
may have been trying to get
out when she was overcome.
The body has been sent to
AsheviUe for an autopsy, he
said. '
The sheriff was called about
7 35 p.m., Ponder said, and
firemen had recovered the
body by the time deputies
arrived at the scene. He said
the fire apparently started in
the living room, but the cause
was unknown.
"She'd have had to have
been asleep or something
happened to her or she tf have
gotten out at that time of
day," Ponder said.
Santa Will
Answer. Letters
Roger .Wood,' Marshall
postmaster, stated this week '
that any child being served by .
the Marshal post office Whe
writes a letter to Santa Clans;
C-o Postmaster, Marshall, N. .
C 2S753, will receive a hand- -written
reply, from Santa
Claus. - , . . . ;
Mr. Wood also reiiested
that out-of-town Christmas
cards sV.a'i be r s 'ed by
ryrrNY K r i i ' cards
s1-.. i re ma,;eil ty
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Presented
The adult choir of Marshall
Baptist Church will present a
Christmas cantata, entitled
"Love, Joy, Peace" by Tom
Fettke on Sunday evening,
Dec. 15, at 7:30 at the church.
Ray Boyette, a Mars Hill
College voice student and
minister of music of the
church, will direct the choir;
and Charles Huey of Marshall,
church organist, is ac
companist. Jack Ramsey, a
member of the choir, is
narrator.
Soloists are Jack Ramsey,
Mrs. Ray Boyette, Mrs. S. L.
Nix, Miss Kae Welch, Mrs.
Spencer IeGrand, and Ray
Boyette.
A reception will be held in
the fellowship hall of the
church following the cantata
presentation.
The public is invited.
Byline
Omitted
The byline on the first page
of last week's issue was
inadvertently omitted in an
article headed "Roads
Opening Madison County."
The interesting article was
written by Ted Carter, feature
writer, of AsheviUe and for
merly of Mars Hill.
Madison 4-H'ers Win Top
Honors In Horticulture
Steve Cutshall, a 16 year old
4-H Club member of RFD 5,
Marshall was named Monday
night as the top winner of the
Western North Carolina
Horticultural Crops Contest
for annuals and John Neilsen,
17 year old Hendersonville
High School student was
named first place winner in
the perennials division.
Each received a check for
$100. Steve Cutshall grew tellis
tomatoes and Neilsen has
apple trees.
Announcement of the
winners of the contest among
4-H Club and Future Farmers
of America members in the
area was made at a meeting of
the Horticultural Crops
Commission of the Western
North Carolina Development
Association in Bailey's
Cafeteria, Westgate. Awards
totaling $325 were presented
by Dr. Paul Shoemaker,
Mountain Horticultural Crops
Research Station, Fletcher.
Dr. Tom Konsler of the
research station was chair
man of the judging committee
which made field inspection of
all projects along with
evaluating record books.
Harry Silver of Asheville,
Supervisor, TV A programs
was chairman of the contest
committee.
Second place winner of the
contest for annuals and
recipient of $50 was Steve E.
Bums', Jr., FFA member of
RFD 1, Hot Springs with Irish
potatoes, Darlene Cut shall.
Madison County, a 4-H
member, placed third and
received a $25 prize with
treUised tomatoes.
Billy Roberts, RFD 1,
Marshall was named runner
up in the contest for peren
nials. Billy grew strawberries.
Honorable mention winners,
who' received checks for lit
and certificates, were Nancy
Cutshall.. Madison County;
Susan Cabe, Macoa County; .?
Janet Bryson and Tim Smart, V
Haywood County and Bobby .
Bennett, Yancey County.
Contestants who were also
presented framed certificates
for excellence ia their projects
were Laurence Beck, Burke
County; Steve Gortney. Earl
GrK-lsta.fr. Ted Woodby and
J " V7 A. Fox of Yancey
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Presented
The Marshall Christmas
Pageant will be staged on
Friday, Dec. 20, and Saturday,
Dec. 21, at 7:30 each evening.
Dean Shields will be Director
and Jerry Plemmons is Co
ordinator. This traditional pageant
involves a cast of twelve and a
choir of fifty voices. The
Madison County Court House
lawn in Marshall will be
transformed into the
Bethlehem stable scene. The
procession will arrive at the
manger area by way of Bridge
Street opposite the Court
House, guided by the beam of
Saturday's Winners
The second of four
drawings, sponsored by the
Marshall Merchants
Association, was held last
Saturday in cold, crisp
weather. When the drawings
started at 3 o'clock the
courtroom was filled and
many spectators on the
sidewalks.
The next drawings will be
held this Saturday at 3 p.m. at
the courthouse.
Last Saturday's winners
were:
Tina Shade, Marshall, $50
and $25; Others winning $25 in
Awards were sponsored by
Gerber Products Company;
Pigeon Valley Tomato
Farm, Canton; 3-D Farm,
Fletcher; Francis & Wright,
Inc. and Southern Aricultural
Insecticides, Hendersonville
and Barber Orchards,
Waynesville. Orchid Gardens
of Fletcher sponsored the
perennials contest.
The contest is sponsored by
the Horticultural Crops
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SHOWN ABOVE are five Madison County 4-H'ers with the awards they won at
the WNC Horticultural Crops Contest Banquet Monday night. Left to right,
Billy Roberts, Steve Cutshall, Steve Burns, Jr., Nancy Cutshall, and Darlene
Cutshall.
Refunds For Trade School Available
For several months in the
fan of 1971 and the spring of
1(72 a trade school,
KEYPUNCH ACADEMY
operated in Asheville. Tbey
closed the school without
notice. Many students had
paid for instructions they did
not receive. - ;
v Under, a recent agreement
with the Federal Tradt
Commission, Career En
terprises, Inc. former owner
of Keypunch Academy agrees
to refund to students any
monies they are entitled to for
service paid for bat not
received. The Better Business
Buret a obtained refunds for
many of the students after the
school closed but there maybe
other students in Tn
N'rth Carolina who i.1 not
the electrically lighted giant
star located on a hill across
the river. All traffic in the
town will be at a standstill
during the forty-five minutes
required to re-enact the event
at Bethlehem.
The community of Marshall
extends a warm welcome to
all who will come to Marshall
on either of these two
evenings. Begin the holidays
in this observance of the
world's greatest event.
Coffee will be served in the
lobby of the Court House
following the performance.
trade certificates were Kathy
Shelton, Grapevine; Claude R.
Mullinex, Laurel River;
Clarence Fore, Route 7; Stella
Pressnell, Marshall; Charles
"Bud" Parris, Marshall;
Wade Wilson, Route 1; Jonah
Fisher, Alexander.
In listing the winners in last
week's paper, the name of the
winner of $50 and $25 should
have been Earl Ramsey in
stead of Earl Rector, and
instead of Inez Henderson it
should have been Ina Hen
derson. Commission in cooperation
with the N. C. Agricultural
Extension Service and
vocational agriculture
teachers. It is aimed at
stimulating interest among
rural youth in producing
various horticultural crops
and recognizing those with
outstanding projects. During
the past 13 years over 160
contestants have taken part.
Dr. James Strobel, head of
the Horticultural Crops
come to the Bureau for help at
that time. Any student who
paid this school money but did
not get to complete the course
and did not get a refund, may
bring their receipts to the
Better Business Bureau bow
and they win be told how to
apply for reinbursement
ander this agreement In a
- tetter to the Council of Better
Business Bureaus an attorney
v lor the Federal Trade Coro
. snissioa thanks the Councfl
and individual Bureaus for
' - asiiftance given to the
-1 Cornrmsston that made the -,
refunds of this money
possible. - ' '
. In another consent order
fesued by the Federal Trade
Commission the WEAVER
- AIRLINE PERSONNEL.
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THE MARSHALL CHRISTMAS PAGEANT will
again be presented here on Friday and Saturday
nights, December 20-21, at 7:30 o'clock. The above
Department at N. C. State
University was the speaker at
the awards program. He
outlined the current programs
of research, teaching and
extension in horticulture at N.
C. State and pointed to some of
the growing opportunities in
the field.
Don Austin of Erwin High
School, commission chair
man, presid3ed at the
meeting.
SCHOOL, INC. of Kansas City,
Mo. has agreed to make pro
rata restitution to. eligible
students who have failed to get
a job in the Geld within
months.
The Bureau believes several
Western North Carolina
residents have signed up for -training
with this school Any
whs qualify for refund ander y
. me above agreement should
cal the Bureau. "-;? v
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Dake.Sak
. Beta Onega Sorority wffl
sponsor bake sale this
Saturday (Dec. 14) In front of .
Ingles, beginning at 19 a.m.
Cakes, pies, fucle, and breads
wCl be en sale.
December 20-21
r3D
OWEN FISH, Title 1 Coor
dinator of Madison County
Schools, has been named to
the North Carolina
Audiovisual Equipment
Advisory Committee for a
term of three years. This
committee meets annually to
review new products that are
being presented by the
audiovisual suppliers.
Agriculture Seen
On Verge Of Its
First 'Golden Age'
North Carolina's top
agricultural research ad
ministrator believes
American agriculture could
be on the verge of its first truly
"golden age."
"The nest 10 or IS years
could be the first time in the
history of American
agriculture that fanners
obtain an income on par with
other segments of sodety,"
said J. C Williamson Jr
director of the North Carolina
Agricultural Experiment
Station. - '- -f
i Williamson, an economist, '
bases bis optimism oa the
purchasing power of con- -somen
in other nations and .
me need tor the United States :'
to export agricultural
products in order to pay for oil
and other imports. ?
Historically, the Income of
farm peoplehaslar.-"!! behind '
that of non-frmers. V e lag
ever the last decs ,c or two has
aversd tl in j r r- t, -'
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Manger Scene, taken several years ago, is part of
the impressive presentation.
Resolution
, The Board iOf County
Commissioners n its regular
meeting on the first Monday of
December, 1974, to-wit,
December 2, adopted the
following resolution
unanimously:
BE IT RESOLVED that
hereafter the regular monthly
meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners shall
be held at 10:00 a.m., on the
first Friday of each calendar
month at the Madison County
Fireman Answer Two Calls
Marshall firemen were
called to two fires here
Tuesday morning but for
tunately no major damage
was reported.
About 8.30 o'clock the
firemen went to the Will B.
Ramsey house on major
damage was reported.
About 8:30 o'clock the
firemen went to the Will B.
population has become
smaller and more mobile.
They either will get a rate of
return comparable to non
farmers or they'll quit far
ming." While Williamson is
generally optimistic about
agriculture's future, be
predicts that farmers "will .
face a very difficult time some
years," Be also believes that
fanners are being asked to
assume too much of the risk m
an all-out production effort.,
"HI a fallacy to assume
that American agriculture
operates hi a free market, at
least at the international level,
la the short run, our level of
farm exports at determined
mostly by the policies of
foreign governments, and not
necessarily by the law of
supply and demand.
A foreign government can
buy our farm products to fed
Us f ; ' bud stock; '.(, or
to ce f a wrpprfl. A"-d S'.tch
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Courthouse, tyarshail, .North
Carolina, in such room as may
from time to time be available
for said meeting.
THE FIRST such meeting
will be on Fridav .lamiAi-v 3
1975.
This the 6 day of December,
1974.
-s- Hilliard Teague
Clerk of Madison
County Board of
Commissioners
Ramsey house on HU1 Street
here but no damage was
reported.
At 9:00 o'clock firemen were
called to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. George Ramsey on
Riddle Farm Road between
Marshall and Walnut. The roof
was reported damaged by fire
but firemen extinguished the
fire without further damage.
"If we are to expect our
farmors to do their beat to
supplying overseas markets.
then we must reduce some of ' .
the risks. This means that the :
government needs a better
ii I 1 1 1 m 1 1 Im l,wfntf air
returns to farmers than the
current target price concept." '.
headquarters ia at North
Carolina State University,
believes the United States
must also rediscover tbe
importance of "production
type" research if sericulture
is to realize its r '. n
: "We were e-.! - - i a
few years b"o to 1 r - --y
on reear . h t i -
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