Mars Hill's CEP
Offers Reading
liars Hill College's Con
tinuing Education Program
(CEP), an education plan
aimed at the needs of adults in
the region, will offer courses
this year which will eventually
lead to a state certificate in
reeding This certificate would
allow the student to become a
special reading teacher in
grades K 12 who could teach
reading to small groups or
tutor individuals , on the high
school level the certificate
would allow the holder to
teaching reading as a subject;
and the certificate would also
allow the holder to work
clinically in diagnosing
reading needs and tutoring
Three of the courses will be
offered this fall. Library
Science 311 ? Selection of
Instructional Materials ? will
be offered in Asheville at
Reynolds High School;
Education 321 and 323 ?
Language Arts in the Early
Childhood and Intermediate
Grade Programs ? will be
offered in Bumsville at East
Yancey Middle School;
Education 404 ? Reading
Instruction in Grades K-12 ?
will be offered in Asheville at
the First Baptist Church; and
Education 430 ? Trends and
Issues in Reading ? will be
offered in Asheville at the First
Baptist Church and on the
college campus
The CEP has a split term
registration The first
registration for the fall has
already been held However
the registration for the second
fall term will be held on the
Mars Hill College campus
Saturday, Sept. 17, from 8a.m
through 1 p.m For further
details on class meeting times
and registration, contact Dr
John Hough, director, or Dr
Harold Holcombe, assistant
director, The Continuing
Education Program. Mars Hill
College, Mars Hill, 28754 or call
689-1202
Hickory Fork
KKK Meeting
Sept. 17-18
There will be a KKK meeting
at Claude Sheltons on Hickory
Fork, just off Highway 212 on
Laurel, on Sept 17 and 18,
beginning each night at 7.
C. L. Letterman, charter
member, states that there will
absolutely be no drinking
allowed: white public invited;
and guards will be on duty at
all times
A number of speakers will be
on hand, Letterman stated.
Hayes Run
4-H Club
Makes Plans
The Hayes Run 4-H Club held
its regular monthly meeting on
Sept. 8at7:30 p.m. in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Wise.
Greg Lisenbee and Mark
Rector presided over the
meeting. Renee Wyatt led the
American pledge. Warren
Wise led the 4-H pledge, and
Jackie Buckner read
devotions.
Several upcoming activities
were discussed. Among them
were plans for a pet show to be
presented at the Madison
Shopping Plaza for Oct. 1
during County Exhibit Day;
also planned for Oct. 9, 4-H
Church Sunday to be held at
Madison Seminary Baptist
Church.
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BUREAU
Insurance
DIVIDENDS PAID
For the 11th consecutive year,
Farm Bureau Insurance is paying
a cash dividend on Fire, Home
owners, Farmowners, Inland
Marine, Tobacco Floater, and
Special Multi-Peril insurance
policies. The 20% dividends
were mailed April 15.
Farm Bureau Insurance also
deviates 10% below state rates
on these Fire lines and 15%
, below state rates on Auto
Physical Damage coverage.
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VICKY NARRON of Mars Hill is shown
holding a 14-inch long okra, grown by Mr and
Mrs. Guy Buckner of Mars Hill.
Circus Tuesday
Continued from Page 1
workmen spreading canvas
and pulling cables, acrobats
warming-up, all in preparation
for the local exhibition of the
fabulous new 1977 edition of
Roberts Bros. Circus. Per
formances are scheduled for 6
and8:30p.m to raise funds for
the Mars Hill P.T. A.
It's a wonderful family
tradition all presented in the
truly American three-ring
format under a real circus big
top. See you there Tuesday!
But, don't wait until Tuesday
to buy your family's tickets.
Not only does the P T.A make
more from it's advance ticket
sales, you save money too.
Advance tickets are available
from any student or at those
business places displaying
"tickets on sale here" signs.
Those advance tickets are just
$1.50 for students and $2 50 for
adults (age 15 and up). At the
circus box office, on show day,
the admission price will be $2
for students and $3 for adults.
Remember the circus will be
here one day only, so don't
miss it.
Corn Crop
Value Down
$161 Million
Drought and other factors
will reduce the value of the
North Carolina corn crop an
estimated $161 million com
pared to the 1976 crop, a North
Carolina State University
economist predicts.
Production last year had a
value of $359 million. This year
it will be around $196 million,
said Dr. T. Everett Nichols Jr.,
grain marketing economist
with the Agricultural
Extension Service at NCSU.
"Prices have slipped since
last year," said Nichols, "anc
we planted about 10 per cent
fewer acres this year, but e
good portion of the value
reduction of the current crop is
directly attributable to the
drought."
The best indicator of the
effect of weather is the an
ticipated per acre yield
Nichols explained. This will be
down around 33 per cent ? 8(
bushels per acre in 1976 to K
bushels this year.
Estimates of the current
crop point to the Southerr
Piedmont area as the hardes
hit Average yields in this arei
have been reduced t
devastating 60 per cent t(
around 28 bushels an acre
Yields will be down in al
sections. Lightest hit is thi
mountain area
Madison County is expecte<
to have very little damage du<
to the drought reported W. B
Zink, county executivi
director of the Agricultura
Stabilization and Conservatioi
Service (ASCS).
Greater Ivy Represents County At Luncheon
The communities and
organizations in Western
North Carolina judged to have
done the best job on
beautification projects during
1977 were honored at a 12 noon
luncheon today (Thursday) at
the SAW Cafeteria in the
AshevilleMall.
Announcement of the win
ners of the beautification
competition of the 1977 WNC
Community Development
Program were made on this
occasion Presentation of
$1,800 in awards to the winners
will be made in conjunction
with a planning meeting of the
steering committee which
represents 18 Western coun
ties.
The beautification contest ?
WNC Beautiful ? is sponsored
by the Western North Carolina
Community Development
Association and the N.C.
Agricultural Extension Ser
vice in the 18 Western counties
and the Cherokee Indian
Reservation Purpose is to
encourage organized clean-up
programs and beautification
projcects and to recognize
communities and
organizations doing an out
standing job.
The program is set up in two
divisions, one for organized
community club6 and another
for organizations and groups
such as garden clubs, ex
tension homemakers clubs and
scout troops. County and area
judging is held in each division
and identical area awards are
provided
A total of 92 organized
community clube entered the
beautification phase of the
program this year, and 90
organizations in nine counties
took part in the noncommunity
club division. Fifteen county
winners from among the
community clubs were judged
on Aug 29-31 in area com
petition.
The Greater Ivy Community
represented Madison County
at the luncheon
Blindness: What It Is And Who It Affects
By DIANE C. LEACH
Home and Community
Adjustment Instructor
Orientation and
Mobility Instructor
with Services
for the Blind
Blindness can be defined in a
number of ways. Most
definitions refer to how well a
person can see even with the
best corrective lenses An
individual is considered
"legally blind" if he or she can
see no more at a distance of 20
feet than an individual with
normal sight can see at a
distance of 200 feet Most
persons considered "blind" do
have some usable vision
Blindness is handicapping to
the degree that it prevents the
individual from leading what
for him or her is a normal life.
According to the American
Foundation for the Blind,
statistical estimates indicate
that there are about 6 4 million
people in the United States
with some kind of visual im
pairment; in other words
people who have trouble seeing
even with corrective lenses. Of
these, 1.7 million are severely
impaired. This means that
they are either "legally blind"
or that they function as if they
were "legally blind" even
though their vision does not fall
into that definition. Over one
million persons are 65 years of
age or older. This is because
the diseases which are the
major causes of blindness in
this country are associated
primarily with aging Twenty
five per cent of the severely
visually impaired are in the 45
to 64-year-old age group, 8
percent are 25 to 44 years of
age, and only 4 per cent are
under 25 years of age
This is the first in a con
tinuing series of articles on
blindness.
Next week: Blindness ? Its
Causes
Sale of Florida to the U.S. by
Spain in 1819 for $5 million
rounded out the southeastern
boundary of the continental
United States.
Walnut Club
Will Convene
Next Tuesday
The Walnut Development
Club will meet next Thursday
night at the Walnut School at
7:30.
Mrs Lucille Burnette,
president, will preside
All members are urged to
attend
Your Pharmacist I
Bill Powell h
L-?Says a
Community Medical Center Pharmacy,
Mars Hill. N< \ Tel HM9 2*?91
Thyroid cancer
from X-rays
Question: Are dental X
rays included in the
latest thyroid cancer
scare? Answer: No. A
warning was issued to
those people having had
X-ray treatment for con
ditions such as enlarge
ment of the tonsils, ade
noids or the thymus
gland, acne, ringworm of
the scalp, or deafness due
to lymphoid tissue
around the Eustachian
tube.
The warning urged
such people to let their
physician examine their
throat and neck, right
away, and to repeat the
exam at two or three year
intervals. Such patients
are said to have above
average chances of devel
oping thyroid tumors.
Hill Howell, Your Hharmicwt.
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1977 CHEVROLET MODEL
CHANGE CLEARANCE SALE
EVERY NEW CHEVROLET CAR
AND TRUCK MUST GO!
IF WE DO NOT HAVE IT IN
STOCK, WE WILL TRY TO GET
J IT FOR YOU.
1978 PRICES WILL BE UP -
SAVE NOW ON A 77 CHEVROLET
French Broad Chevrolet Co., Inc.
Main St. Marshall, N.C.
Twenty-one yean ago,
Mr. and Mn. Larry Heard opened a savings account
at The Northwestern Bank...
And look what it got their son.
\ A vi\ ings account at The
Northwestern Bank makes a
lot of things possible. And we
have a variety of savings plans
available. So you can chcx>se
the plan and interest rate that
suits your needs.
We can even transfer
automatically from your
checking account to your
savings account ? a great way
| to save regularly.
So come in twlay and open
a savings account at The
Northwestern Bank. It's the
best way to have the money
you need when your reason for
saving comes along.
> THE
NORTHWESTERN
BANK&.I
Hal D. Johnson. Vice President
The Northwestern Bank. Marshall