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Volume 74. Number 2.
Marshall. N. C.
15 CENTS PER COPY
February 6, 1975
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MISS ADRATH GOLDSTEIN of the N. C. State Bicentennial Commission is
shown presenting the Bicentennial flag to James Ledford, chairman of the
Madison County Commissioners, at ceremonies held on Tuesday of last week
at Madison High School. Madison County was the first WNC county to be
recognized.
Madison County
Named Bicentennial
Madison County has been
recognized as the first
' Bicentennial Community" in
Western North Carolina, and a
special recognition day
program was held at Madison
High School here Tuesday
afternoon of last week.
Thomas L. Mallonee, 11th
District assistant to Rep. Roy
A. Taylor, urged in the
principal address that the 800
member student body not
"shut up," but become in
volved in church, school,
politics and all areas of life
and "be a part of this
celebration of this great
nation."
Mallonee was introduced by
Supt. Robert Lee Edwards.
James Ledford, chairman of
the Madison County Com
missioners, was presented
with the first Bicentennial flag
by Miss Adrath Goldstein of
the N. C. State Bicentennial
Commission. Miss Kathy
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Mars Hill
Civitan Club
Wade Huey of Marshall
addressed the Mars Hill
Civitan, Club at its annual
observance of International
Clergy Week.
The Mars Hill club's ob
servance was held at 6:30 p.m
Feb. 4 at the Mars Hill College
Cafeteria.
The dates of Clergy Week
were set to include the an
niversary of the sinking of the
U.S.S. Dorchester daring
World War U.
When the Dorchester sank
wihin 27 minute ef being
torpedoed on February 3,
1943, four chaplains gave their
life Jackets to others and went
down with the ship, arms
locked together, and voices ;
raised In prayer. This heroic
deed of brotherhood and love
has . been a source of In
spiration to ethers.
"Ovitans aB ever the world
remember the sacrifice of
four men of God a rabbi, a
priest, and two ministers who
gave their fives that others "
m live," said President
Pi., h Lee of the Mars Hill
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b a :J Vmt of saying
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McCarter of the N. C. State
Department of Cultural
Resources, presented him
with the first certificate for
the country's honor.
Dr. Evelyn Underwood of
Mars Hill College, chairman
of the Madison County com
mittee, recognized the many
groups that have worked with
her for the county to achieve
this special recognition.
Also on the program were
Principal J. C. Walun, Ricky
Caldwell, Harrell Wood, Jeff
Treadway, William Thomas,
Producers Urged To
Keep Sales Records
Producers of wool, mohair,
and unshorn lambs are ad-
vised to keep records of
marketings during 1975 in
order to qualify for future
production incentive
payments, according to W. T.
Reece, State Executive
Civil Court Here
Monday; Jurors Named
The February 10th special
term of superior court for the
trial of civil cases will begin
here Monday morning at 9:30
o'clock with Judge Robert W.
Kirby presiding.
Four of the nine cases on the
docket involve the Board of
Transportation.
Jurors drawn for the term
are as follow;
Coy Jamerson, Pat Boyd,
Wanda Wyatt, Kathy G.
Ledford, Alen- Swaney,
Jamas Coatea, Harry D. Rice,
Hariey L. flaynea, Lee F.
Briggs, Genevieve W. Adams,
Zora D. Fender, Ronald
Massey, Doris Taylor, Thehna
. Christine CutshaU, Dear! R.
Ammons, Paris Ina MosJey,
Sophia Rice, Ralph Bernard
Holcombe, Wanda Sheltoa
Hensley, Peter Gott, Charles
Ramsey, Arnold GosneH, No
Card In Box, Joe Lynn Met
calf, lZy E'.'.ison, Mrs. BF.
Lunsford, Erure Sprinkle,
F.ta f -f-r Vj-t, Betty
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and the Madison High School
Band, directed ' by Willi;
Ham
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Burley
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture has announced a
10 per cent increase in the 197J
national marketing quota for
burley tobacco to meet what
officials said is a continued
Director for the Agricultural
Stabilization and Con
servation Service.
"Producer sales and pur
chase records are necessary,"
Reece said, "as Federal
payments are based on a
Ramsey, Ernest M. Thomas,
Marjoric Tweed, Willard Ball,
Lydia Kuykendall, Dewey
Lisenbee, Sidney W. Fox,
Ernest E. Norton, Ray Hipps,
Donna Jean De Wayne, Buster
Carver, John N. Crawford,
Ceci Vernon Cosey, TD.
Hcks, Clarence Connor, Phil
Fox, Jr., Carolina S. CogdUL
Nancy Ana Payne, Mabel
Roberts Ramsey, Nora Lee
Metcalf and Helen ByrieL
State Dept.
To Hire 280
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The North Carolina
Department of Transportation
and Highway Safety wi!l
lmrred;ate!y begin hinrg 23
temporary employe!
Uin,;-.out the state urcSr a
federsUy funded emergency
job proeram.
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Lawmakers Ask
$300,000 For Tourism
Rep. I j st on B. Ramsey of
Marshall said Friday that he
and other lawmakers from
Western North Carolina plan
to seek an appropriation of
$300,000 to the Department of
Natural and Economic
Resources for the promotion
of tourism in North Carolina.
Joining Ramsey in spon
soring the bill are Reps. Er
nest B. Messer of Canton,
Claude DeBruhl of Candler,
Herbert L. Hyde, Mary C.
Nesbitt and John S. Stevens of
Asheville, Glenn Morris of
Marion and Jeff Enloe of
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MARSHALL POLICEWOMEN - Pictured above is
Mrs. Faye Reid, left, who has served for six years as
policewoman here. Recently added to the police
force here is Miss Carol Marler, right, who is
working under a Federal grant. Miss Marler is a
graduate of Marshall High School and before
becoming a policewoman
Micro Switch Corp., in Mars Hill. She id
an aide of Mr. Reid.
Quotas
strong demand for domestic
and export sales.
The basic quota for 1975
burley will be 670 pounds,
compared with 608 million
pounds last year. But federal
law provides that when
percentage of each producer's
returns from sales. As in past
years, the percentage will be
that required to raise the
national average price
received by all producers up
to the announced incentive
prices of 72 cents per pound
for shorn wool, and 80.2 cents
per pound for mohair."
Reece said pulled wool will
continue to be supported at a
level comparable to the in
centive price for shorn wool
through payments on unshorn
lambs.
Wool and mohair payment
supports were set at the 7J and
0 J cents per pound levels for
each marketing year begin
ning January 1, 1971, and
ending December 31, 1977, as
required under the National
Wool Act and amendments
made ki 1970 and 1973.
He commented that present
market conditions Indicate
that payments on 1974
marketings of short wool will .
likely be made during April -1975.
Of T&HS
Employees
Nineteen positions in each of
th Department's Highway
Divisions will be filled.
K ,:vway Division personnel
ofTicers .I1 be wortog wiUl
the North Carolina Em-
pWymnt Security Com
mioB in f.".-E te positions.
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Franklin.
Similar legislation was filed
in 1974 and the General
Assembly approved a $100,000
appropriation for the purpose.
From that amount, $12,000
was allocated to the Asheville
Area Chamber of Commerce;
$3,000 each to the Maggie,
Black Mountain - Swannanoa,
and Nantahala Gorge
chambers of commerce;
$2,000 to the Haywood County
chamber, $3,500 to the
Cherokee Chamber of Com
merce, and $1,918 to the
Cherokee County Chamber of
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recently was i
lployed at
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Raised
growers sell less than their
quotas in the preceding year,
the difference can be carried
forward to the new crop.
Officials said un
dermarketings of 1974 burleys
are estimated at 121 million
pounds. Thus, they said, the
effective quota for this year
will be about 791 million
pounds, a boost of 12 per cent
from the effective quota in
1974.
"Domestic use and exports
of burley tobacco during the
three years the poundage
quota program has been in
effect have exceeded
marketings by 275 million
pounds," the department said.
"Further increases in
domestic use and exports are
expected in the years ahead."
Notices of individual farm
quotas for 1975 will be mailed
to burley producers by local
offices of the department's
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service as soon
as adjustments can be made
to reflect 1974 un
dermarketings and over
marketings, the department
said
Burley tobacco is grown
primarily in Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina,
Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio,
Indiana and Missouri, It la the
second most popular kind for
cigarettes and exports, ex
ceeded only by flue-cured
tobacco, grown mainly In the
Southeast, '
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Commerce, Kamsey said.
He said he has received
copies of resolutions from the
Asheville, Maggie Valley and
Waynesville chambers of
commerce asking that the
program be continued this
year.
Weekly Radio
Legislature
Broadcast
A five-minute weekly radio
program focusing on the
activities of the 1975 North
Carolina General Assembly is
now being broadcast on a
special network of 50 stations
across the state.
The program, titled
"Legislative Review," is
broadcast each Sunday.
In Madison County, the
program is being aired at
12:55 p.m. on WMMH, Mar
shall. "Iegislative Review" will
be produced and voiced by
veteran newsman Fred
Taylor, who regularly covers
state government for WRAL
TV, Raleigh, and the North
Caarolina News Network.
Taylor has covered two
previous legislative sessions
and was elected president of
the Capitol Press Corps in
1974. An anchorman and
producer for WRAL's TV-5
Action NMews, he writes,
edits and anchors 10
vscasts each week on the
atewide news network.
Legislative Review,"
vhich will be presented each
Sunday throughout the 1975
General Assembly session,
features interviews with key
legislators and reports on the
major issues which come
before the legislature each
week.
The program is being
sponsored by North Carolina'a
independent, consumer-owned
electric cooperatives.
Labor Department
Receiving Safety
Awards Applications
The N.C. Department of
Labor is now receiving ap
plications from industrial and
service establishments for
safety awards earned by these
firms during the calendar
year 1974.
The Department's "Cer
tificate of Safety
Achievement" is awarded
annually to recognize out
standing accomplishments in
prevention of on-the-job ac
cidents in industry and to
encourage planned safety
programs. It is signed by
Labor Commissioner W.C.
(Billy) Creel.
More than 1,400 business
and industrial firms were
recipients of this honor last
year. Application forms
already have been sent to
some M00 companies which
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CANCER CRUSADE officials made preliminary plans for the April Drive at
an organizational meeting here last Saturday. Some of those present included,
left to right, Mrs. Retha Ward, Mrs. Ethel Wallin, Mrs. Garnett Sprinkle, Mrs.
Ellen Coomer, Mrs. Minnie Lee McKinney, chairman; Iverson Bradley, Mrs.
Faye Ramsey and Miss Dale Everett.
Cancer Crusade To Begin
In April; Officials Named
Jvlrs. Minnie Lee McKinney
lias been named chairman of
trfe Madison County Unft
American Cancer Society's
197$ educational and fund
raising Crusade in April when
the theme will be: "We Want
To Wipe Out Cancer In Your
Lifetime."
Mrs. McKinney's ap
pointment was announced
Saturday by Mrs. Retha
Ward, ACS President. Mrs.
McKinney will lead local
volunteers in a community-
have filed for the award in
previous years. Any company
that qualifies may apply.
Applications must be sub
mitted by February IS, 1975.
To qualify for the "Cer
tificate of Safety
Achievement," a plant or
business must have one of
these three records for the
year 1974: (1) no disabling
injuries on the job; (2) a
disabling injury frequency
rate at least 40 per cent below
the plant'a rate for the
preceding year; (J) a
disabling Injury frequency
rate at least M per cent below
the statewide rate for the
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McMahan
Completes Law
Enforcement
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Ronald . J. McMahan,
Patrolmaa with the Marshall
Felice Department has
completed as of January 31,
the Basic Law enforcement .
School of 160 hours, set forth
by the N. C. Department of
Jest ice Criminal Justice
Training and Standards
Council. '
. Patrolman Mohan Is on
the Grant tron t'e Frwich
Broad Crirr'sl
PUnrirg Ar--'T ' '
federal s' ' ? f :
Two r -i '
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wide effort to help teach
families bow to1 protect
themselvaa, against ) caucav
Volunteers will ask for sup-'
port of the Society's vital
programs on behalf of
research, public and
professional education and
service to the cancer patient.
A luncheon meeting was
held Saturday Feb. 1, at
Plemmons' Restaurant. The
officers and Board of
Directors who were present
made plans for the upcoming
campaign. The chairman of
each committee gave a briefd
report. Mrs. Marsha Cox, area
director, gave an informative
report on the progress made in
cancer research.
Presdent at the meeting were
Mrs. Garnett Sprinkle, Mrs.
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Ravn Bimlv Mri . Pthel
Wallin, Iverson Bradley, Mrs.
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Everett, Mrs. Marsha Cox,'
Mrs. Ellen Coomer,. Mrs.
Pansy Hoi brook, and Mrs.
McKinney. The directors will
meet again on March 29, 1975
to make plans for the April
campaign.
"Our local volunteers are
part of an army of 2,300,000
American Cancer Society
volunteers mobilized for the
1975 Crusade. This is probably
one of the greatest volunteer
forces in history," Mrs.
McKinney said. "We want to
take cancer out of the medical
books and put it into history
books as something that af
flicted people a long time
ago!"
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