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Heritage Waits On Doorstep ^(Continued from Paget) foe humane where all else in . wtM. It may be good and true instinct leading the growing number of theoee who are learning the old crafts. It it may be that there is more ture fapiily history in the rhythm of a working loom than in all the bopks. But what about the search we began unknowingly when we first took an age glazed platter lovingly into our hands or ran inquiring finger tips over the smooth wood of an old chair. If we cannot know our past wholly through these things, then how? There is a unique road for those of us whose lives are graced with the vistas of North Carolina's mountains outside our doors. The long isolation that brought settlers late to these western mountains, our prolonged isolation that persisted after most other places had been paved and motorized and repopulated again and again, that isolation that has been both blessing and curse, that isolation has preserved for us for a short time still what has passed forever from the reach of most other Americans. We have living links with our past. It is a past beginning to fade and alter, but still there for those who will look with ' their hearts. This is the heritage of these present generations, beyond price because irreplaceable. We have with us those who were there and heard the soft voices calling in the evening from the porches of the cabins sometimes drowned out by the whistling of a whippoorwill. We have with W those who walked the olid trails to markets and coon hunts and neighboring cabins. We have those who lived the Uvea and understood with their hearts these things that we are now searching for. Those who learned the values of our pioneer fathers and mothers and sharing their lives. They can echo truly the voices they heard that sang and spoke and cried in the old ways and suffered no change for so long in these hills. Too soon these voices will be heard no longer. The lovely old accents are being blurred and altered by the influence of radio and television. The old songs are being set to new tunes and sung in accents that the old fiddlers would have found strange. TTiis change is not corrup tion, it is not disloyal or unkind It is the thing that happens, willy-nilly, to everyone and everything. The fragrant spice of local speech all over the country is giving way to a new standard and we are all beginning to speak like the newscasters we hear on television who study hard in order to sound as though they sprang up fully formed and able to pronounce Bechuanaland without southern softening or western hesitation. But there are some who can still speak from the times living in their memories; of people who were also sear ching but who found no life ready made for them anywhere and were forced to create it anew from their own courage and faith, desperation andloveforoneanother. Take thought of the true buriaaaa of your life. Don't let the buayneaa of your day* keep you too long Don't miss the say, happy, loving old tales and musical stories with the old sounds and old words. They are becoming lost or distorted in the maelstrom of modern non-stories pouring forth ceaselessly into our lives Stories not born of love and long trails and vast night of low stars and trackless miles surrounding the small groups of humans dedicated to live and to each other. In one very real way our mountain beginnings live only as long as a living person remains who looked on those scenes and heard those voices speaking the twilight of a mountain cabin. Take someone who remembers and search out the faintly marked trail that leads up the mountain through the laurels to the fastness of cove or hollow. You may find the heritage that has eluded you sitting on the worn doorstep of a vanished cabin. y First Union Shows Increased Income First Union Corporation (NASDAQ:FUNC) today reported unaudited income before security transactions and extraordinary item of $2,414,000, or 40 cents per share, for the first quarter of 1977. This was a 28 percent increase over the $1,881,000, or 31 cents per share, earned in the first quarter of 1976. Approximately three cents of the earnings improvement over the first quarter of 1976 is attributable to investment tax carryforwards and from recording full tax benefits arising from Cameron-Brown Company's losses Unaudited net income for the first quarter of 1977 was $2,501,000, or 41 cents per share in 1977, compared to $4,719,000 or 77 cents, in the first quarter of 1976. Net income for the first quarter of 1976 included an extraordinary, non-recurring gain of $2,738,000, or 45 cents per share, resulting from the successful conclusion of a debenture exchange offering. Both major subsidiaries of the corporation showed im provement over the prior year. First Union National Bank had income before security transactions of $2,620,000 for the first quarter of 1977. The News-Record NON-PARTISAN IN POLITICS JAMES I. STORY, Editor Published Weekly By Madison County Publishing Co. Inc. BOX 367 MARSHALL, N.C. 28753 Subscription Rates Subscription Rates In Madison County Outside Madison Co. 12Mos. MOO 12 Mos. $8 00 6Mos. $3.00 ' f 6Mos. 90 00 3 Mos. 94.00 (Plus 4 percent u. S Sales Tax) Second Class Privileges Authorized At Marshall, N.C. 28753 BHHBBBHBHBH^^^^^^^^^BIH -?? >*|Rr^HM % -^B A First V Union fc MARSHALL, N.C. WEAVERVILLE. N.C. ?I?I Mil Heard I and I seen By POP I ] Sometimes in the regular schedule of an ? editor very little is going on.... and at other ;j ? times, things get a bit rushy... such was the :i case last Sunday.... following Sunday :j: school, I "pinch-hitted" as an usher at the ? morning worship service at the Marshall :j: Baptist Church, where incidentally the | revival started in the meantime, I had :':j been invited to the Marshall United Methodist Church for the Memorial Service in tribute to the late Rev. W. C. Clark, - :j: former pastor I was also invited to ? luncheon in the Fellowship Room following ? the service I remained throughout the ? service at the Baptist Church but during the ? Invitational Hymn I decided to "slip out" since it was after 12 o'clock and rush down ? to the Methodist church for picture-taking ? and lunch.... fortunately I arrived just in ? time to take a few pictures I then rushed ? back to the Baptist church, picked up "Bill" ? and rushed back down to the Methodist ? church where we enjoyed the fellowship and luncheon then, a Fellowship Supper was ? held at the Baptist church at 6 p.m., and I x was asked to play the piano for a Happy ? Birthday" to Kathy Young.... after a ? delicious supper, the evening worship ? service was held.... incidentally, I want to ? thank Sibyl Davis for fixing me a pineapple ? up-side-down cake and Charles Huey (at the ? request of Louise) for fixing me macaroni ? and cheese, Sibyl and Louise always ? remember my favorite dishes when we ? have suppers or picnics.... bless them. Incidentally, the revival continues ? through Friday evening and you are invited ? to attend.... the Rev. Roy Young, father of ? Vincent, our pastor, is the visiting minister ? and is very impressive.... seems sorta ? strange at the local post office not seeing ? Roger Wood around... he's serving on a ? Manpower Utilization Team inspecting city ? delivery post offices in WNC at the ? present.... while away, Raymond Stines is ? senving as postal operations ad ministrator..:.. Food Stamps have to pay tor them, but the food stamps always represent some savings to them. For example they may pay $60 for $100 worth of stamps. That $40 they save can be spent on other items, thus putting more money into the retail section of the county. The Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D. C., estimated that for every dollar of tax money spent on food stamps, between $3 and $5 are generated in local economies. As far as the food stamp office is concerned, when people are being fed in the bargain, that's not a bad in vestment of tax dollars. ACREAGE "40.1 ACRES" QUIET todudod mountain farm locotod in tho Big Pino oroa WmI of Mor shall. Vary livoablo from# houso Swift ttroam. pur# mountain wotor. oxc optional viows Ownor finoncing ovoiloblo $37 500 "35.2 ACRES" QUIET ond occostibio farm locotod in Lowar Brush Crook Soction Wost of Morshall. Rocontly built two bodroom from# houso with bosomont Oldof but vary livoablo framo houso Born, spring, stroam stoto mointomod rood $43 000 "29 ACRES" OUTSTANDING farm footvros 2.079 foot of stoto mointoinod rood Iron toga Lira obis thrao bodroom framo houso lor go now barns oldor toboc co born. oxcoWont foncing Woll. springs, stroam $46 500 "28 ACRES" ATTRACTIVE six room log houso locotod at fho ond of booutdul soHudod eovo four springs stroam lor go bom. IB44 pound tobacco allot mont $45 500 "SIX ACRES" LIKE NEW two bodroom Homo Wuros oxcoptlooct viows from lor go dock Two both 3. full bosom on' Woll moulotod for yoor round com fort locotod in Wost Madison County $39 500 "7/10ths ACRE" ?KIMS* (utn ??? Imml horn? Ml, koatod HVm? WnM m4 Foxr ti*?m ??"?I* room ?M> SNplMS. SMMmM. VI Hot wotor Hoot Oarrfott >pot MtorfH ??l* \A^rTEHURST AGENCY MarshsR, N.C. 0FFICE-7l4/$4l-2<54 wiVftpiim ' 1977 WINNERS of the Susan Britt Citizenship Awards, pictured above, left to right, are Russell Lambert, Robbie Waites, Ronald Rice, Beverly Bruce, Jana Lou Williams and Terri Ingle Fox. the trophies were presented in a ceremony in the Madison High ,i Gymnasium on Friday, April IS. The trophies were presented by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Britt and >; their daughter, Cheryl. Guest speaker was the Rev. Billy Cline of the Merrimon Avenue Baptist. ? :j: Medical Training Program Extends Registration Date Due to the fine response of applicants on April 13-14, the dates have been extended for further applicants interested in the emergency medical training program which has been instituted for Madison County, it was announced this week. Madison County ambulance personnel and other interested persons may apply at the Manpower Office on Main Street in Marshall on April 20 and 21 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and from lto4 p.m. Both audit and stypen slots will be accommodated it was announced. The program will be con ducted at Madison High School with classes on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. For further information, call 649-2873. If last winter convinced | you to insulate your home, we hope you do it before this summer. The insulation that could have saved you a lot of money this past winter can still save you a lot of money this summer, when you turn on your air conditioner. So if you're going to jj invest in insulation, do it now. Just because we had the coldest winter on record doesn't mean we're not going to have a long, ij hot summer. FRENCH BROAD EMC ? We're All In This Together. w3m ? ?" ? AMC Matador AMC Hornet AMC Gremlin /*fttV AMC Pacer American Motors * c4U cAmertcan giveaway Buy any new AMC Car with factoiy air and get your choice of these All American Giveaways. $400 in accommoda tions at any Americana Hotel.' ?????L rT4 $400 in travel on American Airlines * * $400 worth of American Tourister Luggage.t There's * magnificent new car waiting tor you at your American Motors dealer. And something great in go wtth It. When ynu buy any new Pacer. Gremlin. Hornet or Matador wtth factory air. ynu now get a choice of hbulous All American Giveaway*. Choose from: $400 in travel on American Airlines, that can take ynu to any of American's caching destinations: from New York to CalMornta. from Montreal to Mexico Clty O $400In accommodations at any of 21 Americana Hotel*, including New York. Palm Springs. Miami Beach and Arapidrn. Or $400 north of beautlhrj new American Tnurisler Luggage. Tourister's finest VeryHte 7-ptece set. In the Palomino color ?most popular whh both men and wnmen. See your American Motors dealer right away and swing your best deal on a new AMC car equipped with factory air. It's the only car on the market that comes with the exclusive Buyer Protection Plan II. This offer is good on all cats delivered between April 11 and June 10. 1977. plus all cars ordered by May 10. regardless of delivery. Fleet Sales and overseas military purchases are not included. P HB Offer includes room oulv pending space availability Not valid December I'). P>77 thru January 1. 1()7M Tmvel mustbe compkted by June 15. I*)7H ^^^B +8ugyesfed list pnee based on 7 piece Wryfite set. Palomino ? n*" HOUSTON BROTHERS AMC, INC. 82 Main Street Martha* North Carolina 28753 Phono 649 3022 DEALER NO. 7182 ?
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