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The News - Record
SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY
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75th YEAR No. 31 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N.C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1976 15* P*f~o:-y
Mass Immunization Set
For Swine Flu Shots j
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Madison County acting
health director, Edward A.
Morton, has announced that
plans are being made for the
Swine Flu Immunization
Program in Madison County.
Swine Flu, officially called
influenza type A-New Jersey,
is an upper respiratory tract
infection caused by a virus.
Authorities believe it may be
the same virus that caused the
epidemic of 1918 when more
than 500,000 people died in the
United States. Symptoms of
Swine Flu are usually the same
as ordinary flu, but likely to be
more severe.
The county health depart
ment is currently making
plans to immunize the
population of Madison County
through use of mass clinics
held in a one-day period,
probably in late September ?
depending on when the vaccine
arrives. Current plans are for
four public clinic sites ? Mars
Hill, Marshall, Hot Springs
and Laurel. Specific dates,
times and places will be an
nounced as soon as more in
formation is made available to
the health department
The vaccine will be ad
ministered to the public
without charge at the mass
clinics. Anyone wishing to get
the vaccine from his private
physician may do so
Physicians cannot charge
their patients for the vaccine
itself, but may charge a fee for
administering the vaccine.
There will be two types of
vaccine given ? bivalent for
people over 65 years of age and
people who are chronically ill,
and monovalent for the
remainder of the population.
Ihe monovalent innoculation
contains only the Swine Flu
Vaccine. The bivalent in
noculation, for the elderly and
chronically ill, contains both
Swine Flu and Victoria Flu
vaccines. The vialent vaccine
will be administered in one
shot with syringes rather than
with the gun-type innoculation
machines that are to be used
for the monovalent vaccine.
Although recommended
vaccine dosages and schedules
for persons under 18 years of
age have not been determined
and must await the completion
of additional field trials, plans
are continuing to proceed for
immuniation of this
population.
Any person who is allergic to
poultry products, chickens,
chicken dust, chicken feathers
or eggs should not take the
vaccine. Anyone in doubt
should contact his private
physician.
Each person receiving the
vaccine will be required to fill
out a questionnaire to deter
mine whether or not they
should take the vaccine. Each
person will also be required to
sign a consent form saying that
they know what they are
taking and that they want to
take it.
Many volunteers will be
needed by the health depar
tment for the immunication
program. People will be
needed to collect consent
forms, help with clinic traffic
flow, swab people with alcohol
and keep records of who is
getting shots. Som?*,
professional medical volun
teers will be needed as well as
a lot of non-medical people.
Anyone wishing to volunteer to
help with the immunization
clinics should call Madison
County Health Department at |
649-3531.
Boundaries
Set For ASC
Election
Community boundaries
have been set for the upcoming
ASC community com
mitteemen elections, reports
Claude A. Cody, chairman of
the Madison County ASC
emnmiMee
ASC communities are local
administrative areas which
help provide farmers with
effective farm program ad
ministration. According to
Cody, these areas are
reviewed yearly to determine
whether boundary changes
would benefit farmers.
Madison County has seven
ASC communities.
A list of ASC communities
and the number of farms
within each community is
available to the public at the
Madison ASCS office in
Marshall. The ASC com
munities in Madison County
are as follows: A-l, Marshall:
B-l, White Rock; C-3, Mars
Hill; D-4, Beech Glen; E-5,
Pine Creek; F-6, Hot Springs
and G-7, Ebbs Chapel.
County ASC committee
review of the community
boundaries is one of the first
steps in administering the
annual ASC committee
elections. Other actions
concerning the upcoming
election will be announced as
they occur.
Brown: Victory's Possible
In Runoff Against Gudger
"I see it within our reach,"
Glenn Brown said this week of
his chance for victory in a
runoff primary to choose the
Democratic parly's nominee
for the 11th Congressional
District seat inthell .$.< House.
The second primary ? to be
held Sept. 14 ? will pit Brown
against Lamar Gudger, the
state senator from Buncombe
who polled 3.5 percent more of
last week's primary vote than
Brown.
However, 2 of every 3
Democrats who voted in the
first primary favored
somebody other than Gudger,
who managed to carry only 3of
the district's 17 counties.
Brown sees that as a clear
signal Gudger is vulnerable.
Between them Brown and
Gudger polled 62.5 percent of
the vote, leaving 37.5 percent
to be divided among theother 3
candidates in the field. With
Gudger's track record. Brown
thinks he can pick up more of
those votes next time than can
Gudger.
Gudger carried Buncombe,
Madison, and Yancey counties
last week, but lost McDowell,
one of the counties he has been
representing in the N. C.
Senate, where he ran third.
Brown carried Haywood and
every county west of her ex
cept Swain where he took
second place by a narrow
margin. Brown polled more
votes than Gudger in 10 of the
17 counties in the district.
He announced his intention
to challenge Gudger again at a
news conference held Tuesday
in Asheville. The runoff ballot
will include candidates for
state offices, as well as the
congressional district race.
. Either Gudger or Brown will
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take on Republican Bruce
Briggs of Mars Hill in the
general election in November.
Briggs was the GOP's top vote
getter in the disyict last week;
he won an overwhelming
majority in thf Republican
"After the results of last
Tuesday's Democratic
Primary in the race for
Congress from the llth
District became known," said
Brown Tuesday, numerous
people who supported me,
along with those who sup
ported other candidates,
contacted me and urged me to
call for a runoff in a second
primary. (
"The returns show that the
candidate who finished in first
place received only 33 percent I
of the total vote cast and that I
received 29.5 percent.
"I carried six counties, but
the front-runner carried only
three. Moreover, I ran ahead
of him in 10 of the 17 counties in
the district.
"Based on the foregoing
analysis, I have concluded: (1)
that two-thirds of the voters
preferred someone other than
the candidate who finished
First; and (2) that only 3
counties favored the fron
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Runoff Looms
In Register
Of Deeds Race
Emery Metcalf, who was
runner-up to Mrs. Jena Lee
Bucker in the Aug. 17
Democratic Primary in
Madison County in the
Register of Deeds race, an
nounced this week that he has
requested another shot at the
nomination.
Mrs. Buckner received the
unofficial total of 909 votes to
Metcalf's 731 votes. Joe
Justice, the other candidate
seeking nomination, received
476 votes.
The second primary will be
heldonSept. 14.
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In requesting a second
primary, Metcalf cited N. C. G.
S. 163-111. "I file this request in
view of the fact that no can
didate seeking the Democratic
nomination for Register of
Deeds in the state and county
primary held on Aug. 17,
received a majority of the total
number of votes cast. As the
candidate receiving the second
highest number of votes, I am
demanding that a second
primary be held." Metcalf
wrote a letter to Perry G.
Willis, chairman, Madison
County Board of Elections.
Primary Opponents
Endorse Briggs
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I Bruce Briggs, 39, winner of
I the Aug. 17 Republican
Primary for Congress, has
been endorsed for the 11th
District congressional post by
I his twp primary opponents.
At a meeting in Fletcher,
Briggs discussed the coming
fall campaign with Ralph
Ledford and Walt Sheppard,
the two candidates Briggs
defeated in the primary. In
separate statements, both
Ledford and Sheppard pledged
their full support for Briggs
Ledford, 39, stated: "I
believe we must preserve the
S two party system in America
In order to insure our
.democracy Bruce Briggs
efkmsan excellent chance in
November to elect a
Republican t? the Congm
dhectkm oK other'party. I
Briggs, smiling and talking
with his previous primary
foes, said he was "overjoyed
with the endorsements. We are
now in a unified position early
in the campaign and with a
united party effort and the help
of our many Democratic
friends, I believe we are going
to be able to win this
congressional seat in
November."
Briggs, a former Asheville
attorney and assistant United
States attorney, served two
terms in the state senate
representing Buncombe,
Madison. Mitchell and Yancey
counties. Most recently,
Briggs served as a superior
court judge, he resigned that
position on May 12 to make the
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MARSHALL OFFICIALS are
making every effort to discover
new sources of water" supply for
this area. Top picture shows large
sign on Main Street building which
is self-explanatory. Bottom pic
ture shows water being pumped
from deep in ground on the
property near the B. G. Fortner
home. The water is being checked
by officials of tile State Group
Water Control Commission. The ,
above stream is from Wefl No. ?" #
which blow test for four hours
Tuesday morning checked 450
gallons per minute. Other tests are
being made on other wells on 24
hour basis. Well No. 3 tested
313,000 gallons in 15 hours.
Gowan Murder
Case Being
Tried Here
The August term of superior
?urt for the trial of criminal
:ases started here Monday
with Forrest A. Ferrell
presiding.
The case of State vs. Perry
Sowan, charged with the
nurder of Glenn Payne on
reb 12, 1975, started here
ruesday and is in progress at
tress time.
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College
Mars Hill Expects
Record Enrollment
Despite a still uncertain
national economy which is
definitely affecting
enrollments in private
colleges, Mars Hill expects a
record high enrollment for the
fifth straight year when the
1976-77 school years begins in
late August
"We know we will have at
least 600 new students,"
comments Admissions
Director David Mathews,
"and we conservatively
predict 1,500 resident and day
(commuting) students plus250
Continuing Education
Program (adult) students."
If his predictions prove true
and total fall enrollment
reaches 1,750, it will represent
an increase of almost four
percent over the figure of a
year ago
Established in 1965 when
there were no public schools in
mountainous Western North
Carolina, the college has
grown from a single two-story
building to a ISO-acre campus
with 27 major buildings.
Moderate but steady
enrollment increases have
continued since Mars Hill
became a senior college in
This month the college will
enter its 121st year facing
visual unit which will serve the
whole cam pus populat ion.
An institutional research
program has been established
ana will produce stat istics and
reports which will enable the
college to be more effective tn
decisionmaking
A portion of the AIDP funds
will be used to strengthen the
college's Evaluation Center,
begun two years ago to design
new methods for assessing
student skills and training
faculty in the acaden&c
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Schools
Continue
Hearing Woii
il
Madison County HHB
Department and the MadlMp
County School System wOl^p
continuing the Hearing Ob
servation Program in 0*
coimty schools this year.
hearing program was tntttattd
in the county schools during
the 1*75-76 school year More
than 850 children in grade*.
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INGREDIENTS FOR A GOOD TIME include
good food and lots of conversation. Both were
plentiful at an indoor picnic which recently
brought together older citizens from the
Greater Ivy Community and participants in
the Mara Hill Lunch Club, which is for anyone
over 60 Some 45 older people and community )
leaders were at the Beech (.len School when J
they were welcomed by Dr Graver At jL
.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to eat
and viatt are (left to right) Mrs. Ken Ray,
Mrs. J. G. Gardner, Mrs. Grover Angel,
Kenny Ray, Mrs. Sue Biggs, and Mrs Ben
Rice The picnic at Beech Glenn was the
second this month for the Mars Hill group
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