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Volume 74. Number 31 . 1 " ?,
Marshall, N.C.
15 CENTS PER CDfr
August 28, 1975
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Sandy Miish Retains Present
Voting Place, Brock Rules
EDITOR'S NOTE: The
folUwIaf letter It self
explanatory and was tent to:
August 20, 1975
Mr. Perry 0. Willis, Chair
man Madison County Board of
Elections
Post Office Box 142
Marshall, North Carolina
28753
Re: DECISION:
Petition to transfer voters
Dear Mr. Willis:
The undersigned
acknowledges receipt, this
date, of your letter dated
August 18, 1975 submitted in
response to my request dated
August 5, 1975.
For the record, our file on
this matter consists of the
following:
(1) Copy of RESOLUTION
adopted by the Madison
County Board of Elections on
July 5, 1975.
(2) Letter of transmittal
from Mr. Joe L. Morgan,
Secretary of the Madison
County Board of Elections.
(3) Copy of my letter dated
July 25, 1975 acknowledging
receipt of Nos. (1) and (2)
above and also containing a
brief history of the 1975
legislation amending Gs 163
128. (4) Copy of my letter dated
August 5, 1975 addressed to
you and requesting certain
additional specific In-
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MEASURING THE VALUE - Campers learned
that one quart of milk contains the same amount of
calcium that a total of all vegetables shown above
does. Campers, (L-R),; Junior Gardner, Donna
Gardner, and Donna Briscoe, compare the quart of
milk with 74 lbs; cabbage, 27 lbs. potatoes, 28
. oranges, 39 eggs, 7' 4 pounds carrots, two quarts ice'
cream,,; and seven ounces American Cheese.
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formation regarding the
proposed transfer of voters.
(5) Letter from Edward T.
Gentry, member of the
Madison County Board of
Elections, stating reasons for
his opposition to the
RESOLUTION referred to in
No. (1).
(6) Copy of the Official
Minutes of a meeting of the
Madison County Board of
County Commissioners held
on June 27, 1975 at which a
RESOLUTION establishing
two (2) townships in Madison
County was adopted, as by law
authorized.
(7) Letter of transmittal
from Mr. Ronald W. Howell,
Attorney for Madison County.
(8) Copy of the official
Minutes of a meeting held by
the Madison County Board of
Elections on August 4, 1975,
transmitted by you.
(9) Copy of COMPLAINT,
AMENDED COMPLAINT and
TEMPORARY
RESTRAINING ORDER
listing members of the
Madison County Board of
Elections as Plaintiff and
listing members of the State
Board of Elections, the At
torney General and members
of the Madison County Board
of County Commissioners as
Defendants, transmitted by
you.
(10) Service of same as no.
(9) by the Sheriff of Wake
County.
(11) Copy of MOTION FOR
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AFFIDAVITS prepared in
answer by James Wallace,
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Carolina Department of
Justice.
(12) Your letter dated
August 12, 1975 and received
by this office on August 20,
1975 in response to my inquiry
set forth in no. (4).
Now, THEREFORE, in
consideration of all facts and
information before this
reviewing officer and in
particular the information
specified in the letter of
response furnished by Mr.
Perry G. Willis, Chairman of
the Madison County Board of
Elections the following
FINDINGS are set forth:
1. Townships have been
established by .the Madison
County Board of County
Commissioners as permitted
by law.
2. A Resolution proposing to
transfer certain voters from
one Township to a different
Township was adopted by the
Madison County Board of
DBI Uimvesttngsulfimig
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(CDaecIk Case
The State Bureau of In
vestigation has been asked to
look into a suspected forged -check
case involving a
manpower program in
Madison County funded
through the Land - of - Sky
Regional Council.
Asked to confirm reports of
the investigation received,
Robert E. Shepherd, council
executive director, said the.
SBI had been called in after
"irregularities" had been
noticed with respect to some
checks issued to workers in
the Neighborhood Youth
Corps in school program. The
investigation was launched at
228 Campers Graduate At
Super Summer Day Camp
Super Summer Day Camp
graduation exercises were
held August IS for 228 Madison
County young people who
completed a summer camping
program which Included
classes in nutrition.
The unique camping ex
perience was sponsored
Jointly by the Agricultural
Extension Service with Mrs.
Linda Harrell, supervisor;
Opportunity Corporation,
Madison County Recreational
Program, and ' Madison
County Board of Education.
The Jam-packed agenda of
- fun programs was offered in
six school districts and u
eluded a physical education
-, program offering unfamiliar
sports, . sewing classes
designed for Kttle fingers, the ;
fine art of copper enameling :
for: eager -young hands, and .
the world of nutrition and its .
Implications to society, j I
I I Traditional . teaching :
techniques were strictly taboo
for nutrition classes, ac-T
cording to Mrs, Harrell. "f
"Going fishing with magnets .
and paper clips proved to be t
tery, effective to" teaching;
pasic four food groups to
campers," she said.
Unfamiliar foods were
tasted and identified.
Curbing games were a part :
of I', s e'iM-g w!th foods in a
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Elections and submitted for
consideration, pursuant to
provisions contained in GS
163-128 as amended by
Chapter 798, Session Laws of
1975.
3. The result of the proposed
transfer would be the removal
of 302 voters from their
township of residence to an
adjacent township.
4. No appreciable savings in
travel distance for the voters
would be accomplished by the
proposed transfer.
IT IS THEREFORE
CONCLUDED, based
primarily on informational
date supplied by Mr. Perry G.
Willis, a petitioning party,
that no substantive benefit
will accrue to the voters
proposed to be transferred
and that the total number of
voters proposed to be tran
sferred far exceeds the total
recommended by the State
Board of Elections or the
reviewing officer during the
ten (10) years in which the
reviewer has been consulted
in similar proposed transfers;
the request of Chairman
James T. Ledford of the
Madison County Board of
Commissioners, a council
member.
What happened, Shepherd
said, was that accountants
noticed that five checks issued
to NYC clients had not been
cashed. It was later deter
mined that money that was
supposed to reach the clients
may not have done so.
Shepherd said the checks
were drawn against an ac
count with The Bank of
Asheville. When the bank was
asked about the old checks, he
Milk and products day was
termed the best by campers.
Although they were actually
able to see the blue glow of
riboflavin B vitamin In milk,
this experience did not match
the Joy of carefree children
making old-fashioned ice
cream by the hand crank
method, said Mrs. Harrell.
The graduation night
program will be held in
Madison County Courthouse
and Is open to the public.
10 Warrants
Served On
School Charges
Warrants were served
Friday on two principals and
tight teachers in Madison
County charging them with
falsifying pupil accounting
forms, Sheriff E.Y. Ponder
reported, i ? t f ' .
The educators -one maa and
nine women were assigned to
(wo schools in the county
system last spring when the
initial reports of alleged
discrepancies were disclosed
fcy the N.C Office of PupU
Accounting, the" 5, Cr it
nd I!ot Springs .' .s.
Pi-- for s- i warrants were
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that such transfers have
consistently involved a bare
minimum number of voters
whereby such a transfer was
deemed economically feasible
and was supported by all
interested parties, govern
mental and otherwise; that
the ratio of voting precincts to
voters in Madison County has
been viewed with general
acceptance by the State Board
of Elections since the last
significant realignment of
voting precincts therein.
It is the DECISION of this
reviewer that the facts do not
merit affirmative action on
the Resolution submitted and
it is therefore, NOT AP
PROVED. At Raleigh this 20th day of
August, 1975.
Alex Brock
Executive Secretary -Director
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State Board members
Attorney General
Mr. Edward T. Gentry
Mr. Joe L. Morgan
said, it advised the council, to
stop payment, which was
done, and new checks were
mailed to the homes of the
clients involved.
However, he said, the old
checks were then found to
have been cashed. When the
bank was informed of this, it
took the responsibility but also
stopped payment on the new
checks.
It was at this point,
Shepherd said, that the
parents of some of the NYC
youths complained to Ledford
that their children had never
received the original checks.
Then, he said, a comparison
of the time cards filled out by
the youths and the en
dorsements on the checks that
had been cashed raised
questions, at least to un
trained eyes, whether the
signatures were the same.
The sum of money involved
is not large. Shepherd said,
involving perhaps in the area
of $60 in each case. However,
it is not yet known that only
the five checks that triggered
the investigation arc Involved.
The SBI has Just begun
interviews with . persons
connected with the program,
which is federally funded and
was, until the end of the last
fiscal year, operated by the
council.
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Patrick a 'Spring Creek
teacher; and seven " Hot '
Springs teachers: Isobel
Maynard, Frances Let "
. Ramsey, Lois C Moore, Vera
& SumereL Elisabeth Wright,.
Mattie Ray Ramsey and "
Lucille R. Chandler. :
Each of those charged,
posted 50 bond set by
Magistrate Lloyd Fowler.- '
Hearings in all cases are
scheduled in Di-rict Cojrt
here on S ;t 10. r t
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GAIL KENT operates the new MTS terminal in the
Weaverville office of Western Carolina Telephone.
Alongside Gail is Nancy Blankenship, business
office supervisor.
New Bata System At
Telephone Company
The Weaverville office of
Western Carolina Telephone
has begun to use a new data
system to record customer bill
payments, adjustments and
service requests. The goal of
the new system is to provide a
more accurate and up-to-date
telephone bill.
One of the major ad
vantages is to reduce the mail
lag time between the local
business office and Con
tinental Telephone Service
Corporation's Data Center in
Merrifield, Virginia.
Presently, the gap between
the time payments are made
in the local office and the
information is sent by mail to
Dulles can be as much as a
week, but the new system
significantly speeds up the
posting of payment in
formation to the customer's
account.
Another improvement is
that service requests can be
processed overnight into the
computer. Under the old
system, typing 80 service
requests took an entire day,
and then had to be mailed to
the Data Center where they
had to be entered separately
into the computer. The new
procedure cuts the time for
doing 80 service requests
Ellis Named
Of Alumni
At Mars Hill
Richard P. Ellit, an
Asheville native and Mars Hill
alumnus, has been named
Director of Alumni Affairs at
Mars Hill College. A 1972
graduate of the Baptist af
filiated college, he comes back
to Mara Hill from Asheville,
where he has been manager of
a branch office of an Asheville
bank.
Ellis, son of Mr. t Mrs.
Candler W. Ellis of I
Brookaide Road, Asheville,
will coordinate the work of the
college's S3 alumni chapters.'
The chapters are spread ever.
II southeastern states and the
District of Columbia, and havo
over 14,001 members. Initially;
EHis" efforts will be in the.
areas of chapter scholarships
and the college's annual fund, -Eventually
be will become
responsible to the alumni
records keeping operation as
weB.
A U6t graduate of T.C
Roberaoa High School, ESis
was class vice-president,
yevth council representative,
cheerleader, and received the
good citizenship eward and
was a senior superlative. He
attended the University of
Tennessee tot arte yar before
trnifertr ts Mars 1I.X At
V.a-s l-i he majored in
history and ' oi!nord in
business. He wis a
eiekaage ttdnt,
down to three hours, and posts
them into the computer
overnight.
What kind of electronic
wizardry makes these
changes possible? The answer
is the MTS-7500, a com
bination typewriter - adding
machine which electronically
feeds all local customer ac
tivity into a timesharing
computer and then on to the
main computer at the Data
Center. This new machine
employs sophisticated
computer technology to
simplify the whole process of
updating customer records
used for billing.
The first step In the process
begins when the MTS operator
in the local office keys all
daily customer account ac
tivity including cash
payments , adjustments and
service requests on the MTS
terminal screen. This same
data is then fed to the GE
timesharing computer in
Cleveland, Ohio, or to other
satellite offices.
Later in the same 24-hour
period, the customer activity
is relayed from GE into the
Data Center's main computer.
After that, the main com
puter feeds rejected service
orders back to the GE com
Director
Affairs
College
RKBARO P. ELLS ,
the dean's Bat .
,' Following his graduation, be
was named manager of a West
Asheville branch bank. Under
his direction the bank's sales
were ranked second of all
tranches and deposits grew to
over half a million dollars.
Ellis has been active kt the
United Find Industrial
Division and the Heart Fund
Drive.
He has been 1
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puter. A second step transmits
a list of customer payments
sent to the Data Center into a
teletype machine located in
he local business office.
The next day, the local
terminal operator calls the
GE computer and begins to
correct service orders
rejected at the Data Center. A
service request requires only
a few minutes to correct and
resend.
Before the new system was
implemented, those personnel
who will work with the MTS,
including the terminal
operator, participated in a
five-day training program in
Merrifield.
According to Paul Wooten,
District commercial manager
at Weaverville, the new
system represents "a
significant improvement in
customer service by applying
a greater amount of customer
activity to each month's bill.
We've tested the MTS
operation for three years and
we think it's the best one
available."
The new system requires no
additional effort of the
customer, nor does It change
billing or payment due dates.
Fireworks And Dance
Here Monday Night
The Marhsall Volunteer
Firemen are sponsoring a
square dance on the Island
here Monday night beginning
at 7:90 o'clock.
At dusk or darkness, a
Conservation Of
Water In
Marshall Urged .
Marshall offkiaU arc urging local people to be as
conservative as possible, with the ase of water.
With the extended dry spell plus the fact that the
water level at the Hunter Greek storage lake is being
lowered a foot each day aa a result of an order from
the State Dam , Safety Commission and the En
vironmental Management Commission recently,
nad due also to the Increase la water asage by V e
two schools in the Marshall area, the water situs:" i
is "Indeed serious", one aldermnrt stated ? - ' y.
The officials also urge aH peri ? ! Inr c i: '
report any leaks In water pipes or t'Jicr reas s if
"wasted mater".
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Awarded
$40,000 In
Suit Here
Zeno H. Ponder, of Mar
shall, was awarded $40,000 by
a Madison County Jury in
superior court held here last
week in which Judge John
Friday presided. Ponder had
asked 150,000 in the suit
The incident involved
Ponder's car and a Budwelser
beer truck on the highway
near Brevard on the morning
of March 27, 1973.
According to evidence,
Ponder had stopped to make a
left turn when the loaded truck
struck his automobile from
behind. The impact knocked
Ponder's car some 105 feet
Ponder suffered an injured
neck as well as cuts and
bruises.
Ponder's car was
demolished.
Hot Springs
To Celebrate
Labor Day
The 4th annual Labor day
celebration will be held at Hot
Springs this Saturday
beginning at 3 p.m.
Bingo and other games will
be enjoyed and a barbecued
chicken supper will be served
from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Square dancing will begin at
8 p.m. at the school building
and will continue to 12 mid
night The Hot Springs Chamber of
Commerce is sponsoring the
events and the public is cor
dially invited to attend and
participate.
Most all
stores will
be
closed
Labor Day
beautiful display of fireworks
will be shows.
The public is invited to come
to Marshall Monday night and
enjoy the square dance and
watch the fireworks.
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