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URodeo To UBe
Mere July 4-5
The annual Southern Rodeo
Association Championship
will be held on the bland here
on Friday, July 4 and
Saturday, July 5, it has been
announced. The events are
being sponsored by the
Marshall Volunteer Fire
Department and the Marshall
Merchants Association.
On Friday, July 4th, there
will be two shows. The first
show will begin at 1:30 p.m.
The 4th At
The Mars Hill Lions Club is
sponsoring several events on
the 4th of July including good
string music from one or more
bands. There win be special
square dance teams and
The 4th At Hot Springs
The Hot Springs Lions art
sponsoring aa Interesting
program for the 4th of July
which includes a Flat Market
At I lis, games) inchjding
Bingo, etc A fish try at f pm.
Doll Creek 4-n Met Jane 10
V The Bull Creek 4-8 Chib met
on Monday night, June U.
Charles Crsine snowed two
Gtana oa Forest Fires. Mr.
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to of Vrt i:.3 rss
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and the night performance at
7:30 o'clock. On Saturday,
July 5th, there will be a night
performance only beginning
at 7:30 o'clock.
Among the events listed will
be bronc riding, calf roping,
bull riding, barrel racing, bull
dogging, ribbon roping, and
other thrilling events.
Admission will be $1.50 for
adults and 7Sc for children.
Mars Hill
square dancing for everyone
beginning at 7 pjn.
There will also be a display
of fireworks Friday night with
proceeds to aid the visually
handicapped.
Fireworks at I pjn. Country
and square dance from 10 p m
to 1 a.m. The G-Cart drawing
win be add at 10:30 pjn.
Hot Dogs and ether eats and
soft drinks will be available.
Craint took names of (he ones
who were interested la
Forestry. . " '
Refreshments were served
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d'tionil police car and
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AN UNUSUALLY LARGE
EGG was found a few days
age in one of the ben's Bests at
the home of Mrs. Evelyn
Noiaa, of Marshall. The egg
measured I" and 7H" la
circumference.
Ingle Home
Entered Two
Men Arrested
Sheriff E. Y. Ponder said
here this week that Jerry
Galloway, 24, of Spartanburg,
S.C. and Wayne Lampley,
of the Mars Hill Beech Glen
area, were in the county Jail
here charged with breaking,
entering and larceny last
Sunday at the borne of Lowery
Ingle, of the Paint Fork
community.
Ponder stated that $500
worth of tools and mer
tail
chandise was
the Ingle home.
by Phillip Tw and Mark
Forwards and the meeting was
adjourned by Eddie Fox.
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that these two grams c? art
hve come at a t-- r
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Attention
Motor Vehicles Com
missioner Edward L. Powell
reminds motorists that ef
fective 1 July, 1975, legislation
was enacted by the 1975
General Assembly which will
affect North Carolina drivers
applying for a change of ad
dress. The new legislation requires
persons holding North
Carolina driver's license to
Arthur Wood Injured
Art Wood, of Mars Hill, was
injured Monday afternoon at
his home when a tractor
overturned on him. He was
rushed to Memorial Mission
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Drivers
notify the Division of Motor
Vehicles of any address
change within 60 days after
such a change is made.
Commissioner Powell advised
that for drivers with an ad
dress change, it will be
necessary to appear in person
at any driver license office to
obtain a duplicate license
showing the change of ad
dress. Hospital where it was found he
sustained a punctured lung
and several crushed ribs.
Mr. Wood is a member of
the Mars Hill College faculty.
Red Oak Controversy Outlined
B CLAUDIA F. GREEN
On July 7, at 10:30 a.m.
Madison County Board of
Kduratimi will be meeting
with (he parents of 27 students
who live in Madison County,
and attend Red Oak school
and 8 students who attend
North Buncombe High School.
Before this meeting, I think
the voters in Madison County
should know the background
as to why these children in this
area nave always attended
these Buncombe County
schools. Also you should be
aware of what value the
Madison County Board of
Education places on the safety
and welfare of school
students.
Before Red Oak School was
built in 1928, people in this
area, where Northern Bun
combe County borders
Madison County, were being
deprived of any education
above the 7th grade.
All roads from this point at
Red Oak School to Marshall
were narrow one - lane dirt
roads winding down either
French Broad River bluff or
Ivy River Bluff. Therefore,
Madison County school of
ficials refused to send buses
up to this area on any of the
existing roads.
Searcy Charged With
Assault, Robbery
Sheriff E. Y. Ponder stated
this week that Otis Searcy, 18,
of Marshall, is in the )ail here
charged with assault and
robbery on Mrs. Flora
Chandler, who lives in a
M iUrr on Masbburn Hill in
Marshall. The incident oc
curred last Saturday.
Ponder stated that following
Dr. M.T., Morgan To
Preside At Conference
Dr. Monroe T. Morgan of
Route 5, Johnson City, Tenn.,
and Chairman of the
Department of Environmental
Health at East Tennessee
State University, will be
presiding over the Annual
Educational Conference of the
National Environmental
Health Association as its
President next week. The
Annual Educational Con
ference of the National En
vlronmental Health
Association is being held in
Minneapolis, Minn, between
June 28 and July 3. The theme
of the conference is "En
vironmental Health and
Preventative Medicine or
Curative Medicine?" Dr.
Phillip White of the American
Medical Association will be
one of the Keynote Speakers.
The only educational op
portunities for this area were
provhioj by 4 small one - room
ft) Oak Grove School
located Northeast of Bend of
Ivy Road in Madison; (2)
Shang hi School located East
on Jupiter road; (3) Grand
view located Northwest of Red
Oak in Madison County; and
(4) Flinthill located west on
Oak Ridge Road.
Some families including the
Luther Roberts family (Mrs.
Louise Roberts Fisher) and
Will Tillery family (Miss
Helen Tillery) moved from
this area to have access to
High School for their children.
These families returned when
Red Oak was built. My
Grandfather, Mr. J. B. Fox,
sent 3 of his sons, Claude,
Clifford and Otis to board with
a Bryan family on Hayes Run
and attend Madison Seminary
High School. Later when
Marshall school was moved
from the hill to the Island -some
walked from this area,
including Clifford Fox, and
Cecil Green, all the way to
Marshall High School. Then
Marshall buses were sent to
the mouth of Ivy Road on 25
70 but no further before Red
Oak was built.
the assault, Mrs. Chandler
was taken to the emergency
r jom at Memorial Mission
Hospital in Asheville and later
released. Ponder also said
that $200 in cash was taken
xfrom the elderly lady.
A preliminary hearing has
been set for July 9, Ponder
said.
The National En
vironmental Health
Association is the professional
organization for Sanitarians,
Environmentslists, En
vironmental Health Ad
ministrators, Teachers of
Environmental Health, En
vironmental Health
Researchers and members of
the Food and Drug Ad
ministration as well as in
dustry in these areas.
Dr. Morgan is married to
the former Shirley L. Lewis of
Eliza bethton. Term, and is the
father of two sons, Monroe T.,
Jr., and Marcus Thomas. Dr.
Morgan is a 1IU graduate of
Marshall High School and a
1967 graduate of Mars HOI
College. His parents are the
Rev. and Mrs. Frank W.
Morgan of Madison Coontr.
In 1923, Dr. R. L. Moore,
then President of Mars Hill
College, was elected to the
Madison County Board of
Education. Because of his
knowledge and concern for
this area, it is remembered,
he began work with the
parents of this area and
Buncombe County Board of
Education to get a High School
built for this area. As a boy,
Clell Fisher remembers at
tending one of these meetings
on Old Oak Grove School with
his father, Mr. Arealis Fisher.
The parents agreed to com
bine these 4 small one - room
schools, Oak Grove and
Grandview being in Madison
County, Shanghi and Flint Hill
being in Buncombe Cunty, and
thus the Red Oak High School
was built and the district was
drawn up, one third of which
lies in Madison County. The
southwest boundary,
"following Flat Creek to
French Broad River and
Highway 25-70, Northeast to
Houstons Residence on 1576,
across Madison - Buncombe
County line." (Discription of
Red Oak District from Bun
combe County Board of
Education. )
However, the agreement
between the two boards of
education seems to have been
only verbal and therefore,
record of any written
agreement hasn't been found,
which leads to the problem we
are facing now.
Apparently the Madison
Board of Education has
decided to move their at
tendance boundary to the
Buncombe Madison County
line, and assign these students
to Madison school However,
we have luid.no notiee to this
affect Only from (the Bun
combs Board of Education we
have been notified that we
need a release from Madison
to be re-assigned to the
schools the students are now
attending.
In conclusion, we would like
for the voters in Madison
County to know why we oppose
this decision of the Madison
County Board of Education.
All these roads leading from
Red Oak to Marshall still
remain in the same condition
which was considered unsafe
for buses before 192S.
Panhandle Road and
Kuykendall Road leading to
25-70, Sprouse town and
Hunter branch roads leading
down to Ivy River road and
Bend of Ivy road. Only Ivy Hill
Road, passing Mr. Zeno
Ponder's has been widened
and paved and Ivy River up to
Long Branch.
Also within the past year the
bridges crossing Ivy River on
Ivy River road and Bend of
Ivy Road have been con
demned and a S ton weight
limit placed on mem. The
empty school bos weighs more
than I tons. Therefore, the bus
crossing those bridges must
nload the cbUdrea, in any '
land of weather, to walk
cross the bridge an
supervised, and board it again
ea the other side. Not to
mention the fact mat Mike
Boyd from the Asheville
OtiseaThnea and I personalty
, meat two roads lai
year which ware only I M feet
vide, the North Carolina
school bus wo measured tht
same day was feet across me ;
back bumper. North Carolina
Law fc 115-171 - Article n
State,"...ecb county and city '
hoard of education shall mtVe
asslcnrner.ts for pupils to
public schools so as to provUe
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for the health, safety, and
general welfare of ihe pupQs."
Based on the information in
this article and any knowledge
you might have of this unique
area, I would like to ask the
voters in Madison County to
consider the action of the
Madison County Board of
Education in trying to force
these students who have never
attended Madison County
schools to begin now under
these existing conditions.
It should be noted that all
these students in question can
now ride the Red Oak bus out a
safe 2-lane road to the school;
all live from within a few
hundred feet from the door of
the school to not more than 4
miles away.
We understand this action
has been prompted by the
potential loss of some teachers
from Madison County because
of the decline in enrollment of
students.
We therefore, ask the voters
to note that the Madison
County Board of Education
apparently places more value
on providing a job for one
teacher than the safety and
welfare of these 27 students
involved.
Also note the time and date
of this meeting was set on the'
first work day following a
holiday in order that parents
who have to miss work to
attend would have to forfeit
their hoiday pay.
If you are a concerned
voter, would you please speak
your convictions on this
matter to Superintendent
Edwards or any one of the
members of the Board of
Education that you might
know before the July 7
meeting.' Thank you
much. '
weew
DR. ARTHUR F. WILLIAMS
Dr. WUliams
Retires As
Pastor Here v-
Dr. Arthur Frost Winisnja,
who has served aa pastor of J
the Marshall Presbyterian '
Church for the past seven
years, retired officially en
Monday, June SO. . .:';y':'
One of the church's largest;'
congregations . were present
last Sunday to hear Dr. :
Williams' final sermon as '
pastor. People from many
churches the area were
present and following the
worship ; service ' an Ap- '
predation Dinner honoring '
Dr. and Mrs. WUliams was
held in &a Fellowship Hall of
the Chorea.
Dr. Williams was also'
honored by being mr't
Pastor-Emerftni of U c'
and he and Mrs. V
were presented a s" v r t
as a token of love a J f
predation by memtrs of ;
church. -
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