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May 22. 1975
Volume 74. Number 17,
Mwirs JSlill nllege
Grdaadmautnmu Meld Sumdlmyj
The Class of 1975 received
their diplomas Sunday, May
18, from Mars Hill college
president Dr. Fred B. Bentley.
Folding chairs had been
placed in the aisles of Moore
Auditorium for both the 11
a.m. baccalaureate service
and the 3 p.m. com
mencement, many still ob
served the ceremonies from
the lobby of the 1,800 seat
facility as the college ex
perienced its largest crowd in
history during the two-day
weekend.
Bentley used the Old
Testament character of
Samuel as an example of a
person "caught in changing
times." He noted that many
people today find themselves
in the same predicament as
Samuel, baffled, angry,
perplexed, and critical of the
whole drift of our modern
world.
Bentley also told the seniors
that he hoped they would also
identify with Samuel's
practice as, "He became a
responsible participant in
what seemed the best solution.
This is what is needed today,"
he added, "a host of modern
day Samuels who are willing
to face the philistines of our
time and use the best tools
available in working toward a
positive solution."
Earlier in the day, Senator
Robert Morgan, North
Carolina's freshman senator
who replaced Senator Sam
Ervin in January, delivered
the baccalaureate address.
Using personal examples of
the frustration he had en
countered during his initial
efforts in the Senate, Morgan
told the seniors, parents,
IHlejpeiritroiry TTlheaitire
UnedluiiHe At M. HE.
SART (Southern Ap
palachian Repertory Theatre)
has been established in Mars
Hill in order to produce on a
regular basis a . play which
focuses on the lives and
heritage of Southern Ap
palachian people. To that end)
SART, supported by a grant
from the Appalachian Con
sortium, commissioned
Howard Richardson, famous
for his Dark of the Moon, to
write Ark of Safety, based on
stones from Tall Tales of Old
Smoky. Richardson calls the
play a "sort of Smoky
Mountain Our Towm," with
mountain guitar and banjo
music as a unifying element in
the play. The theatre will also
product a number of other
plays in order to provide an
exciting theatre season for the
audiences In the region.
The following schedule has
been announced for the 1975
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alumni, and congregation of
the Mars Hill Baptist Church,
which traditionally Joins the
college for the service, "Yet,
even as I mentioned the un
certainties you will find as you
leave Mars Hill, I would ad
vise you to go forth with
confidence. The potential
rewards are greater today
than they have ever been."
Area students who
MLadLfisawm LPHsamut Siite
By BILLY PRITCHARD
Citizen Staff Writer
A spokesman for Carolina
Power and Light Co. said
Wednesday that the utility has
discontinued "at this time"
plans to build a hydroelectric
facility in Jackson County but
is looking more favorably now
at a site in Madison County for
a similar facility.
James F. Baldwin, project
supervisor in the company's
district land section in
Asheville, indicated that
CPfcL now feels a pump
storage facility planned for
the Caney Fork section of
Jackson County may best be
located in the Little Pine
section of Madison County.
Baldwin said the Federal
Power Commission
authorized the utility to study
the feasibility of locating
pump storage facilities at both
sites in 1973, but that recent
studies forecasting a damand
load cut-back in the future was
the company's main reason
season:
THE FANTASTICKS by
Tom Jones and Harvey Sch
midt. New York's longest
running musical, now in its
16th yeard. June 18-22, 25-29,
July 16-20.
BLACK COMEDY by Peter
Shaffer. Hilarious farce by the
1975 Tony Award-winning
playwright July 2-6, 9-13.
ARK OF SAFETY by
Howard Richardson. World
premiere of Smoky Mountain
folk play. July 25 - August 5.
Highly recommended for
Madison County viewing.
All evening performances at
8:15; Sunday matinees at 2:30
p.m.
Ticket Information:
Individual ticket, students,
$1; Adults, $2. Season tickets,
students, $2.50; adults, $5.
Contributing Membership,
$200; Sustaining Membership,
1100; Patron Membership,
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Elementary Education:
Robena Rice Adams, Nancy
Gentry Allen, Vickie Wallin
Carver, Pamela Wallin Hine,
Susan Thomas Honeycutt,
Janet Page Lee, Juanita Bush
Phillips, Sheila Adams Rice,
Paula Jean Sims.
History: Clarence William
Briggs, Jr.
Sociology: Linda Kay
for dropping the Jackson Site.
CP&L had already pur
chased about 77 acres in the
Cany Fork section "from
people who came to us with
desire to sell instead of
waiting," Baldwin said, "but
we will most likely dispose of
that property in the near
future."
Baldwin said the company
has already purchased around
67S acres in the Little Pine
section of Madison County,
where a total of about 1,100
acres will be needed to build
the pump storage facility.
A pump storage facility,
Baldwin said, involves two
lakes built on different
elevations, including a larger,
lower lake and a smaller lake
at an elevation about 1,000 feet
higher and about a mile away
from the lower lake.
The idea, Baldwin said, is to
run wattr from the higher
lake down through tunnels to
the lower lake. The water
passes through hydroelectric
$25
Season tickets include three
tickets, good for admission to
any play and in any com
bination. Group rates will be
quoted on request. Con
tributing, sustaining and
patron memberships are tax
deductible.
Tickets may be purchased
by mail or at the Owen
Theatre Box Office, Mai-s Hill
College, Mars Hill, N. C. 28754.
All seats reserved. Checks are
payable to Southern Ap
palachian Repertory Theatre,
P. O. Box 53, Mars Hill, N. C.
28754.
Singing
The regular fourth Saturday
night singing will be held this
Saturday at the Laurel Fork
Free Will Baptist Church
beginning at 7:30 o'clock.
The Rev. Roy Waldrup,
pastor, invites the public to
attend.
Activity
Day
Six 4-H'eri were selected
Saturday, May 17, through
demonstration competition to
represent Madison County for
District Activity Day, June VL
. Saturday's deroonstratlona
vert the result ef Individual
project work fm the areas of
dairy foods, electrictty, model
rocketry, entomology, public
speaking, and wUdliio. 4-fTert
art tftcouraged tt demon
strate their Mhridual project
work through compttitka ks
County Demonstration Day
'each Year. : -
Dale Everett, Assistant
Extension Agent 4-H, stated,
"The quality of demonstratioa
work this yesr is the best ever.
We do anticipstt other
Madtson Cour.ty Hfers d :rg
demorsitrst'o! for dftrict
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Haynle, Sandra Treadway
Marler.
Psychology: Alble C.
Honeycutt Jr.
Business Administration:
Dennis Lee Hine, Herbert
Walter Buckner.
Physical Education: Roger
Dale Haynie, Bruce Kenneth
Murray, Jr., Betty Lou Shook.
Business Education:
Brenda Landers Cutshall.
turbines in the tunnels and
produces electricity.
They are called pump
storage facilities because the
electricity they produce is
used only during peak demand
periods. The water is pumped
back up to the higher lake - an
electricity consuming process
- during low demand periods.
The decision to drop, at least
temporarily, the Jackson
County site, as good news for
the Caney Fork Defense
Association, a group of area
residents who opposed the
project because they said it
would have displaced about 20
families in the area where the
two lakes were planned.
In a letter to the opposing
group, whose home sites
would have been flooded by
the project, CP&L said it was
discontinuing the study "as a
result of preliminary studies
and reductions" in its coi
struction progriti.
There is no known group
opposing construction of a
pump storage facility at the
Madison County site, but a
group known as Carolinians
For Safe Energy has been
outspoken against CP&L's
plans to build a nuclear power
plant in the Sandy Mush area,
which is only about five miles
from the pump storage site.
Meanwhile, Baldwin said
CP&L has purchased some
2,800 acres of land in scattered
parcels for the nuclear power
plant site at Sandy Mush. He
said about 75 per cent of the
land is in Buncombe County,
where the proposed plant
would actually be located.
A dam to create an 800-acre
lake for the nuclear power
plant would be located on
Sandy Mush Creek at a point
almost straddling the creek,
which at that point forms the
county line between Bun
combe and Madison.
Baldwin said the required
amount of adjoining land for
such a plant is around 1,800
acres, but he said the utility
would probably wind up with
around 3,600 acres there
because "people want to sell
us more than we need."
CP&L officials said last
January that it will be about
two years before the utility
makes a final decision on
whether to actually build the
nuclear plant
Carolinians for Safe Energy
opposes construction of the
plant for a number of reasons,
including environmental,
climatic and nuclear waste
disposal problems, and has
asked for an immediate
moratorium on construction
and operation of all nuclear
plant! until further studies
Can be mada.
. As for the Sandy Mush site,
the CSS (roup fears that
radioactive emissions from
the plant would be trapped by
low-level temperature in
versions ta the area.
Day Care
Music ;t
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Saturday
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HEAD-ON CRASH between o troctor-trailer (left)
carrying militory bombs, and a tobacco products truck
near Tryon Thursday killed the driver of the truck at
Driver Dies As His
And Bomb Carrier
By LOUP ARRIS
Staff Writer
TRYON, N. C A tractor
trailer carrying 20 aircraft
bombs collided with a tobacco
products truck Vhjrsday af
ternoon on N. c! 108 between
'Mumbus and Ttyon in Polk
CounV. f
The bombs, oach weighing
2,000 pounds, were scattered
along along the highway. None
exploded. They were filled with
explosives, but fuses hadn't
been installed.
The driver of the tobacco
products truck, James
Older Americans Day
Thursday, May 29
Older Americans Day will
be observed on Thursday.
Four ILoeal Mars
Mill Students
Honored
Four local Mars Hill
students were honored among
the twenty-six recognized for
the 1975 listing in "Whos Who
Among Students In American
Colleges and Universities" at
Mars Hill College Honors Day
Program during com
mencement activities. Those
receiving this honor were:
Pamela Wallin Hine, wife of
Dennis Hine and daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wallin;
Bruce Kenneth Murray Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bract K.
Murray Sr.; Janet Pagt Lee,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
' Pagt Let; and Paula Jean
Sams, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Emmett S. Sams.
Mrs. Hint was also a college
marshal for two years, a
member of Alpha Chi National
Honor Scholarship Society,
Heal th IProgram
Deceives Grant
W a i h I a 1 1 a a "':
, Congressman Roy A. Taylor
: Wednesday announced the
; approval of a grant of $193,4M
from thtv Appalachian
; Regional Commission for
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Spri-.ri I'oa'uh rt -stv, lac
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T -' communities of
Buckner, 24, of Marshall, N. C,
Route 2, was killed instantly in
the head-on collision.
George Fore, age not given, of
816 Rosston Road, Prescott,
Ark., was identified as the
driver of the tractor-trailer
carrying' the load of govern
ment explosives. He received
1 only minor cvts and bruises.
The vehicle he was driving
belongs to Tri -State Transit
Lines of Joplin, Mo. According
to officials there, Fore picked
up the load of explosives at
Savanna, Okla., and his
destination was the Sunny Point
Qrdance Depot between
May 29, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the
Marshall Community Center.
and was graduated summa
cum laude.
Miss Lee was also a college
marshal for three years, a
member of Alpha Chi, a
member of the SSM choir, a
cheerleader, a member of
Sigma Alpha Chi sorority, and
was graduated Magna cum
laude.
Mr. Murray was also a
member of the CSM choir, a
member of the basketball and
the tennis teams, and he
received the "Mr. Uon"
award at tht basketball
awards presentations.
Commencement exercises
were held on Sunday at Man
Hill where Senator Robert
Morgan delivered the Bsc
caulaurtate Address to 180
graduates and a host of
friends and relatives.
Tht program Is providing
primary medical and dental
cart, borne and school health
services for an estimated 4,430
persons. The network of three
clinics is 44 percent self
supporting through foes. The
total project is e ' .-....'"d at
$4,404, with kKl sources
contributing lUU'D frc-i
fees.
nqht and scattered bombs and debris from the ve
hicles on NC 1 08 (Photo by LaRue Cook of B&B
Studio)
Tobacco Truck
Hit In The Rain
Wilmington and Southport, N.
C.
A four -man explosives team
from the Explosive Ordnance
Disposal Squad at Ft. Jackson,
S. C, headed by 1st Lt. Richard
Hart, were at the scene late
Thursday afternoon, and they
adivsed that there was no
donger from fire or explosion
because Uie bolibs were not
fused. I
Lt. Hart said it would take
some time to re-crate the
bombs, load them onto another
trailer and send them on their
way.
Although it is primarily for
persons 60 years of age or
older, everyone is invited
regardless of age, it was
announced.
There will be entertainment
and refreshments will be
served.
Arts and Crafts exhibits are
invited by those from 60 years
of age or older.
Representatives of
programs and agencies which
provide services for older
people will be present
Those desiring tran
sportation may call 649-3151 or
649-3231 in Marshall. In Mars
Hill 689-3548. In Hot Springs
622-3584.
Wheelchairs and assistance
in getting in and out of cars
will be provided. The occasion
is being sponsored by Madison
County Task Force on Aging.
-EDDIE BALLARD of the Cethcl Commur.ity is a
one-man community Improvement rrtram. T"
- man has coHected and gathered f r rr-wal six
. mrUn 'c rf niihkh from nrr a ill '. i '' v
v hkh had l arbored this
long. He has laced the col, s .
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According to N. C. Highway
Patrolmen G. W. Goins and D.
R. Satterfield, Fore was headed
east on N. C. 108' and Buckner
was headed west when the two
collided head-on.
Traffic through that section of
the highway was rc -routed in
several directions aid as far
sluth as Landrum.
The accident is still under
investigation. The Ft. Jackson
crew, with the help of some
wrecker drivers .and fork lift
operators from the Tryon area
in reassembling the load, were
on the scene late into Thursday.
JAMES R. BUCKNER
James Randall Buckner, 24,
of Rt. 2 Marshall, died
Thursday May 15, 1975 of
injuries received in an
automobile accident near
Tryon.
A lifelong resident of
Madison County, he was a 1969
graduate of Mars Hill High
School and was employed with
Clark Fowler Co. in Asheville.
Surviving are the parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Buckner
of Marshall; and a brother,
Dale Buckner of Marshall.
Services were held at 2:30
p.m. Sunday at Bull Creek
Baptist Church, of which he
was a member. The Revs.
Stanley Peek and Larry
Brown officiated. Burial was
in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers were Elbert
Buckner, Roy Carter, James
Ballard, Morris, Alvin, Harold
and Bruce Green and Harry
Lee Crawford.
Bowman Funeral Home was
in charge.
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IXial Clark
Appointed
Dist. I
Manager
T. R. Kirkpatrick, Sales
Manager for North Carolina
Farm Bureau Mutual In
surance Company, announces
the appointment of Nial G.
Clark, as the District I Sales
Manager for the Western
District.
After graduation from Mars
Hill High School in his native
Madison County, Nial at
tended Western Carolina
University. He was self
employed in the grocery
business before entering the
Army where he was a Military
Policeman for six months.
Nial then came to work as an
Agent in Madison County in
1964.
NIAL G. CLARK
Nial has a highly successful
record of accomplishments as
a Farm Bureau Agency
Manager, tit well as being
active IsTmany civic and
community organizations. He
is, at present. President of the
Appalachian Foi Banters
Association, and a member of
the Explorer Hunting Club.
He is married to the former
Mary Etta Coffey of Mars HUT,
and they reside in Mara RIB
with their daughter Crystal,
and son, Stephen.
Two Escape
Injuries In
500-Ft.Crasli
Leroy Rice and Sophia Wc5
both of the Revere section,
miraculously escaped serious
injury Monday afternoon
about 4 p.m. when the pick-up
truck in which they 'were
riding left Highway 25-78 near4'
Walnut Gap and plunged aa'r
estimated SOO-feet down -tht"
embankment, according tt1'
reports.
Tht two people were able to
climb from tht wrecked
vehicle back to the highway9
with only minor injuries. :
Murray
Elected
Secretary fli
Bruce K. Murray, French'
Broad Chevrolet Company,
Inc. Marshall, was elected
Secretary ef tht North
Carolina Automobile Dealers
Assodatioa at the recent'
.concluded NCADA Convents
: toPtaehurst .
j Murray, a tranch!? 1
automobile dealer since r ,
' has previously served NC' ,
as Area Chainnan and is
' past Director of t '
' association. '
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Hazel Dean, resi !e in :
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