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olume 74, Number 28,
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Effective August 1,
Operation Mainstream
became under the direction of
the Madison County Board of
Commissioners. The program
had previously been under
Federal direction.
Technically, Operation
Mainstream, as it has been
known for years, is now titled
Adult Work Experience. Main
offices are on Main Street in
Marshall. At the meeting of
the commissioners last
Friday, Howard Ogle, of
Route 2, Marshall, a native of
Madison County, was named
as director of the project in
Madison County. He suc
ceeded Troy Gudger, of
Weaverville, who has served
as director for several years.
County Schools To
Open Next Weeh
It's that time again!
The opening of Madison
County schools is drawing
near - very near.
Teachers are scheduled to
report next Monday and
students are scheduled to
register next Thursday,
August 14. The first complete
day for the school opening will
Students in the Walnut
School district may have
freedom of choice in selecting
to attend either Marshall
school or Walnut school.
Students who attended Walnut
school last year and who
would like to attend Marshall
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STIRRING UP the last batch of cookies; Xnath
Espina, Lisa Middleton, Miss Dottie Overman,
Jason Espina, Danette Middleton, Chris Middleton,
and Gina Middleton, know that learning about
nutrition can be fun at Super Summer. Super
Summer was a cooperative program of the Ex
tension Service, DED, Board of Education and the
County Recreation Department, and held in each of
the si county schools.
Homecoming At Walnut
Church This Sunday
The annual Homecoming
observance will be held this
Sunday at the Walnut
Method Church
The morning worship
service wffl be at 11 00 o'clock
with Mr Mike Tweed, pastor,
delivering the message
PoDoweng uv service there
Child Care
Laboratory At
School Here
A ehM car laboratory is
besag established at Madison
Jfijafcteol tor the pwpoae ol
jfrAvteaaf opBortanities lor
i Broiled In a child
trafeuhf Brocram.
Xfcfldron wffl begin attandanct
Latin i . The laboratory
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.ejaaSatd paranasal and will
operate a a day cart facility
ijW eafidres 1 ta I years old
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Mr. Ogle previously served
as Outreach Worker of
Commodities and Food Stamp
Program with offices on Main
Street in Marshall.
Mrs. Coy Haynie has suc
ceeded Mr. Ogle as Outreach
Worker, it has been announed
OBJECTIVES EXPLAINED
Operation Mainstream, a
project designed to provide
Madison County residents
with work experience,
vocational training and social
services designed to improve
their chances of obtaining
permanent, productive em
ployment, begins a new year
this week under the direction
of the Madison County Board
of Commissioners. Funds for
the project, totalling $110,334
be on Monday, August 18.
Efforts to secure a list of
principals and teachers for
publication in this week's
issue proved futile due to
many uncertainties. It is
hoped that a complete list of
principals and teachers will be
available for next week's
edition.
school this year should make
applications to the following
persons: Mr. David Wyatt,
principal of Walnut School;
Mr. Clive Whltt, principal of
Marshall school and Mr. R. I.
Edwards, superintendent of
the Madison County Schools.
will be dinner served on the
church grounds.
All members, former
members and friends are
cordially invited to attend.
Helping Hands 4-H
Clab Makes Plans
The Marshall Helping
Hamb 4-H Club met Saturday,
Jyly 26, at the Marshall
Community Picnic Area for
their regular monthly meeting
and a picnic.
Plana were made for a
WCU Summer
Commencement
Western Carolina University will hold it 1975
simmer commencement program at 7 p.m. Friday,
Aug. 8, in Reid Health and Physical Education
Building.- 7 j- -" - ' . :'.
? - Unr than ana students arc candidates for deffreea
I. nvtaMrutiiit
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Dr- H- F. Robinson, Chancellor, will deliver the
ctmmencement addreM and confer the degree.
TfTHl
Assimmmes IMipeaBitficDim
in Madison County, are ad
ministered in Region B by
I.and-of-Sky Regional Council
through a grant from the
Department of Iabor and the
North Carolina Office of
Manpower Services.
According to federal
regulations under the Com
prehensive Employment and
Training Act (CETA), project
participants must be
"disadvantaged, unemployed
or underemployed." The
Region B CETA Manpower
Plan, developed by the
Regional Manpower Advisory
Committee whose members
include James Idford, Ralph
Dover, John Corbett, Wallace
Cook and Jane Rice of
Madison County, outlines
further target groups for
project participants as
veterans, female heads of
household, minority in
dividuals, drop out youths and
handicapped individuals.
Participants for the project
are recruited through the
Employment Security
Commission, Department of
Social Services, Community
Action and other agencies
with access to client groups,
as well as through the project
staff.
Once an individual is ac
cepted into the project, the
project staff develops an
Employability Development
Plan for him or her that in
cludes the type of public or
non-profit job experience he or
she will be receiving any
vocational training he or she
will receive and any social
services necessary to improve
the quality of life of the par
ticipants' family. Past work
experience has included
housing renovation
throughout the County as past
of an Opportunity Corporation
Loss f Feed
(Grain Allotment
letters have been mailed to
all farmers with a feed grain
allotment that will have their
allotment reduced for next
year unless they make an
acreage report.
If a farm has not grown corn
or preserved the allotment in
another manner for three
consecutive years, its allot
ment will be reduced to zero
for 1976. If no report is made
this year, and it is not the third
consecutive year, the allot
ment will be reduced by 20
percent for 1976.
Committeemen in the
communities are asked to
urge their farmers who are in
danger of having their
allotment reduced to make an
acreage report by September
1, 1975. They can preserve
their allotment by growing
corn, substituting other row
crops, or substituting
vegetative cover on cropland.
Farms that have certified
crop acreages or where
determined by the County
camping trip for August at
Rocky Bluff. Before the
meeting adjourned, the 4
H'ers and leader cleaned the
picnic area of trash and
garbage left by other pic
nicers. irhwili and trrnihiatm
project, and working with the
County's Child Development
Program. Asheville - Bun
combe Technical Institute has
provided vocational education
and aid toward obtaining GEI)
high school equivalency, and
social services received by
Annual Tour Of Homes
Slated For Friday
Eight homes will be open to
the public Friday, August 8,
during the Annual Madison
County Homes Tour sponsored
by the Cooperative Extension
Service. I anda Harrell, Home
Economics Extension Agent,
reports that this year's tour is
geared to meet the
educational needs of almost
everyone interested in
housing. New family homes,
resort homes, and remodeling
projects will be covered.
Innovative furnishings such as
Tourists spent
$57,958 in
Madison Last Year
Travel spending in Madison
County was $57,958, according
W figures published in the 1974
North Carolina Travel Survey.
The survey is published an
nually by the Department of
Natural and Economic
Resources' Travel
Development Section
The 1974 travel expenditure
was down 18 percent from the
Committee to be producing
commercial field crops will
not have their allotment
reduced for 1976
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Gary Field.)
Marshall, N.f.
participants and their families
have included transportation,
child care, and health
screening. The County
Department of Social Ser
vices, Health Department.
Family Planning Pnigratn
and Child Development
modular unit.
furniture will
and reclaimed
be highlighted
on the tour
In addition to the Old
English Home on Puncheon
Fork and the Page U-e Home
in Mars Hill other homes to hi
open will be:
The Harold Hulcumbe Home
on Woodland Drive This
family discarded many piece.-,
of furniture in order for Mr
Holcombe to build modular
units and other innovative
$70,560 spent by travellers in
Madison in the previous year
Tolil sw -. ? Jtyenditures
were $978,954, 77H,. and $651.9
million of this was spent by
out-of-state visitors There
were 39,000,000 out-of-state
visitors to North Carolina
during 1974
The average number of
people per vehicle was 3 09
This was for all parties who
registered at a North Carolina
Welcome ( enter
Travel expenditures aie
exected to go over the $1
billion mark during 1975
Copies of the survey will be
distributed to new.s media,
chambers of commerce.
Travel Council of North
C arolina members, and those
persons interested in travel in
North Carolina.
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SHOW WINNERS at tte Ceramic Festival held
taravgh Sunday at AabevBle ark Center are known
with taeir winning. They arc, (L-R): Mr. Robert
Hendrix of Candler, representing her hutbaaWI for
the "Freddy" award ha the hobby division; Mrs.
- Peart Davis af Marshall. "Best of the Show;" Mrs.
Barbara McRarr of Lenoir. "Peggy- award for the
professional division and Mrs. Barbara Helgreen of
Black M contain, shew chairman. (Stall photo by ....
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I 'mgram will aid in this effort
The goal of the Mainstream
project is to return the par
ticipants to non-subsidized
employment when possible
and lo provide the family with
inc ome and social services to
aid m improving their lives
lurnishings that would better
serve the family's lifestyle
Hie Donald (iehring Home
also on Woodland Drive is a
study nf space usage Through
i ai cf ill planning the basement
uas converted to a parents
letreat complete with a living
area large enough to a -i
o in in o .1 at e f a in i I
gatherings
Alter lunch at Wolfe Uiurel
the toui will visit three very
unique homes The Robert
Ramsey Swiss Chalet on Oak
Uidge Drive will teach a
wonderful lesson in mountain
landscaping and outdoor
living The William Ward
Home on Trillium l-ane defies
tradition as a conventional
home in a resort area The
splendid use of color in
relation to its environment is
exceptionally well executed
The Keith Sanders Home on
No 14 (liven is a four-level
contemporary home that
boosts a Ni m 1. 1. gland flan
This home, an architectural
delight, is complete with art
studio and 1H feet leiestory
w inflows
( ertainU a highlight on the
tour will he the Edward
I nglish II shaped Home on
I pper I -unci The use of vivid
i olurs. new building
malenalv and excellent
pl.imnm ai e only a part ol this
cxciling home
Hie tour is free to the public
and will begin promptly at the
Mars Hill Methodist Church at
'i a in Friday morning Lunch
will be available at the Wolfe
Uiurel Restaurant The Mars
Hill. Puncheon Fork. Wolfe
1-aurel, and Upper Uturel
communities will be visited
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FmllA To
Livestock
Changes in the - .1
l.iM-sti'i k Kiiii'rem ( i- di!
Pribram arc now in cffci I n.
North Carolina arinniin to
Douglas V. Taylor. ( ount
SuHTi.sor of the l-anniTs
Ho 111 c el 111 1 n 1 s 1 1 a 1 1 0 n
iKniHA' announced tndav
Tlic program, . rimnalcd
under the F-'.inerKcncv
l.ivestiK k l redd Act of 1974.
will 1 ontinue to be ad
ministered through 1 ountv
offices of Y mHA. the I S
Department of Agrn ulturt
rural credit agencv
Under the program KniHA
guarantees loans made by
banks and other commercial
lenders to help farmers and
ranchers continue in various
lines of livestock production
through a period of adverse
economic conditions
The bill 1 Public I -aw 94-35 1
signed June 16 b President
Ford amended terms of the
program established last year
and extended its duration
through Dec 31. 1976
Major changes in the
program are
-Farmers and ranchers
assisted by loan guarantees
must be primarily engaged in
agricultural production, and
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No Connection With lilnn,
Says Amvets Official &
The Amvets organizaUoa is
net in any way officially
connected with a proposed Ka
KJux Klan rally in Madiaon
Cowity.
The may is scheduled to
take place en Aug. and Is. It -
held ia a vacant field
to an Amvet Post
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IMF: ANM AI. HKDMON (an) d) reunion, held on
Niindiiv . Jul 27. was again successful. Shown in top
pit I in - is the on litest member present. Michelle
lii'iliniiii. three ear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Hedinon. Michelle's mother is at left and
Mi v i :eln Kcdinon I)a is, secretary of the
"(I. in", is at rijht. Bottom picture shows Tom
KkIiiioh. Hit. of ller. lexas. the oldest member
piesent. receiving the Kednion Coat-of-Arms from
Mrs Mavis He also tame from the greatest
distance. The largest family present was that of the
Arthur Kedmons. with II members. Mr. and Mrs.
John McClure was the newest married couple
present .
Implement Netv
Credit Provisions
liv rstoc k operations must
.K count foi a substantial
portion . at least !i percent 1 of
their gross income, working
tune or investment
Previously KniHA requred
that more than 50 percent of
gross income or tune be
. i t v oted to livestock
operations
-The limit on any one
borrower's guaranteed credit
is raised to a $350,000 line of
credit from the previous loan
limit of J250,000
-The maximum guarantee
to a lender is raised to 90
ixrcent of principal and in
terest from a previous
guarantee limit of 80 percent
of loss
-Maximum term of a loan
was raised to seven years,
with a three - year renewal
permitted Under the previous
terms, loans could be made
for three years, with a two -year
renewal permitted.
-Under certain conditions,
satisfactory evidence of a
borrower's repayment ability
can be accepted by lenders in
lieu of collateral for a
guaranteed loan.
-The national ceiling on
total guaranteed loans out
aboot two miles north of Mars
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James. Cray tf Aahevme, -'
Western District Commander
of the Amvets of North
Carolina, Wednesday stated .
Stat the Amvet poet nearby is
not connected with the rally.
. . "I would consider any such
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August 7, 1975
"i i in 'li I "r"m"u i i
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standing at any one time is
reduced from 2 billion to $1.5
billion. il,oans guaranteed by
KmHA through Mid - June
totaled about $325 million.)
The amended Livestock
Emergency Credit Act con
tinues the previous guarantee
authority for loans to farmers
and ranchers in connection
with the breeding, raising
fattening or marketing of beef
or dairy cattle, swine, sheep,
goats, chickens and turkey.
Interest rates are negotiated
between borrowers and len
ders Farmers and ranchers who
may benefit from loan
guarantees should apply to
banks or other lending In
stitutions. When details of a
loan are negotiated, the lender
may apply to FmHA for a loaa
guarantee.
Benefits of FmHA piogiaiua
are available without regard
to race, creed, color, an m
national origin.
County Supervisor Doughs)
E. Taylor said further fca
formation about the program
can be obtained Iran Om
Madiaon County FmHA aOf
located over the Wachovia
Bank Building In Marshal.
N.C.
arrangement setweea aa
Amvet Club and the Ran to 1 3
direct violation of C t t
of that club's charter , t ?
Amvets,' Grsy said.
"And If I hfard of v, -arrargeitNert
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