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Beautiful Autumn Arriving Now that it is autumn, and the tinge | of frost is in the early morning air, one's thoughts turn to the fast : approaching color season. Already | there is evidence that color is on the way. : Predictions vary as to the extent of the color season, but as always, there : will be some gorgeous colors on these thousand hills. Some dogwoods and sourwoods already have leaves turning a deep : red. Poplars show hints of their usual brilliant yellows. Sometimes these turn brown almost overnight, but there are few colors more brilliant than a golden poplar leaf. Many have the mistaken idea that |it takes a frost to convert green leaves to the brilliant fall colors. Scientists tell us differently. Aside from the legends that abound concerning the specter of fall, the colors of change sponsored by nature is a unique undertaking. During spring and summer, leaves are hard at work providing the tree with its chief source of food. The leaves manufacture food in its cellular structure. These cells contain large amounts of chlorophyll which absorb sunlight and uses it in transforming carbon dioxide and water to car bohydrates-sugars and starches. The leaves also contain lesser amounts of yellow or orange pigments but are not noticed because of the abundance of chlorophyll (green coloring) in the leaves. By fall, however, the food making process slows or stops, (due to change in temperature and amounts of daylight), the chlorophyll disperses and the yellows and-or J oranges appear. Other changes may also occur producing various other tints. Weather conditions also assist in the making of a color spectrum. For instance, conditions which favor a brilliant red autumn are warm sunny days followed by cool nights with temperatures below 45 degrees Fahrenheit. Sugar is made in the leaves during the daylight, but cool nights prevent the movement of sugar to the tree. The trapped sugar produces the red pigment called anthocyanin. Warm rainy weather produces less red since less sunlight is available for sugar making. Western North Carolina's long range forecast is favorable to a brilliant color scheme. Officials at the National Weather Service in dicate that October weather is likely to be about normal for the month-dry temperatures normal for the season. Blue Ridge Parkway officials also are favorable to a highly colorful season. They state that although the area had a dryer than normal summer, September rains have restored the moisture and the tree's color process is pretty much on schedule. Fall storms are the only danger to a brilliant autumn since the storms may generate strong winds and rains which seperate the leaves from the trees earlier than is otherwise normal. Everything points to another beautiful fall. And remember, fall will continue until Dec. 21 ? of ficially that is. Weatherwise, let us hope. ? i '. iy | Heard And -X J 4 , Scan BY POP & The new concrete parking area at the post jj: office here really looks nice... as does the inside <?: of the post office... there's so much more room & and the neatness of the interior makes it one of the most attractive post offices in WNC... Friday night was the first time I'd seen the <:j new bleachers at the North Buncombe fe stadium... a real fine improvement which ? makes for better viewing the game and also ?x more comfortable... speaking of improvement, ft I thought the Patriots looked better, even in jj;i defeat, than they have for the past two >j:j seasons... they played with great enthusiasm ft and certainly didn't look like a team which has :>'! suffered 25 consecutive winless games... maybe the Patriots will get a "break" this ft Friday night and upset Sylva-Webster. I enjoyed the Mars Hill-Gardner-Webb ?j: game Saturday night which the Lions won, 14 0... the MHC Marching Band was very im ft pressive, the night was comfortable and Lion fans were happy with the outcome... here's x hoping a successful season for coach Gibson y. and the Lions. i*. The following excerpt was taken from a recent report made by Congressman Lamar ? Gudger which caught my eye and I believe it'll be appalling to you readers of this column. In ?j discussing government spending, Hugh j: Eutledge of the Indianapolis News offered the ?: following: "WHAT'S A BILLION?" "Most people in Washington have lost sight I of what a billion dollars is. "One billion seconds ago, the first atomic : bomb had not been exploded. "One billion minutes ago, Christ was still : on earth. "One billion hours ago, men were still : living in caves. "Yet, one billion dollars ago (in terms of : government spending) was yesterday." Congressman Gudger goes on to say: Perhaps that does put things a little more ; in perspective. We deal in "billions" so freely ?i up here when it comes to spending that we tend :: to be lulled into thinking that it really isn't a lot :j: of money. Yet we are spending at the rate of ;j more than a billion dollars per day. The j: national debt, after next year, will be more i than 1775 billion. j! / i Mashburns Return From Trip Mr. and Mrs. & E. Mash burn of Marshall returned last Friday from an excising trip to the K^ya< East Africar3P?^h?^fc>vere on Safari for 10 daysrftraveling more than 2,000 rliles. The Safarii was for ganye viewing and photography. Traveling with former collegemates from the University of North Carolina, the group flew more than 20,000 miles on the trip. Many other points of interest were visited including Belgium and Nice, France. "We enjoyed every minute of the trip and were especially thrilled with the beauty of Kenya and all of East Africa," they commented on their return. Moonshiners Down Wildcats Here Monday The Marshall Moonshiners defeated the Mars Hill Wilcats, 8-0 Monday night at Madison High when Jeff Ball scored the lone touchdown wtih 2:18 left in the first quarter. Halfback Jeff Riddle converted the two-point PAT to complete the scoring. Following the eight-point lead, both teams settled back into a defensive struggle. Micky Maney, Moonshiner linebacker, was outstanding on defense, making several individual tackles and made a key interception in the law few minutes of the game. Wildcats 0000-0 Moonshiners 8000-8. Bridal To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Gosnell of Marshall, a son, Sept. 19, in Memorial Mission Hospital. To Mr. and Mrs. Dennis L. Freeman, Route 1, Marshall, a daughter, Sept. 21, in Memorial Mission Hospital. To Mr. and Mrs. John Capps of Mars Hill, a son. Sept. 21, in Memorial Mission Hospital. To Mr. and Mrs. Elbert M. Jenkins, Route S, Marshall, a son, Sept. 22, in Memorial Mission Hospital. i To Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm r Reeves of Walnut, a daughter, ti Sept. 23, in Memorial Mission Hospital. \l *AII rtyit, Billy ? we'll ktCf cdl(i<Kif^ rijjjit* in Cwl* But wouldn't you like to wear a flower in your buttonhole?' Just A Woman's Observations By DOROTHY BRIGMAN SHUPE I just have to tell you how much fun I've been having with a chestnut tree in my front yard! It first started growing several years ago and Shupe would cut it down each time he mowed until Pearl told me that it was a chestnut tree! He doesn't like to mow around shrubbery and I didn't even know we had a tree until she told me. By the time I got him to let it grow, it had taken on two trunks. Well, I knew it wouldn't make a pretty tree that way, so I put a round piece of tile around it, and it grew together and is making a nice tree trunk! We have been watching it grow about five years, and this year it is just full of chestnuts! It is lots of fun to go out each morning and collect them, and one of the nicest things is to watch the squirrels gather the chestnuts! We don't get up until about 9, and they have worked them over by that time, but they are still carrying them away and it is so much fun to see them scurry up the tree, pick out a nut and ?way they go! There's one fox squirrel that comes by once in i while and he is really a pretty thing. We share him with our leighbors, the Frank John itons, and won't let anyone kill lim. Now there is one draw back o all this! With each nut, there s an ugly burr that has to be -emoved daily and you can [uess who is vice president in iharge of that ? ME! And I eally don't mind! Oh. Caroline enjoyed picking them ip the other afternoon ? the tut, 1 mean ? I wouldn't make ler pick up burrs! Left last Thursday for Vinston-Salem because Shupe i f had a meeting in Greensboro and I stayed with Charlotte and Jim. Charlotte's Sweet Adelines were having their annual program and she was chairman of the event. I must say she did an excellent job and we enjoyed a lovely evening of harmony singing. She is now in a quartet and they sang and naturally, I thought they were about the best on the program! Shupe's meeting eneded Saturday morning and her program was that night, so it just worked out fine time wise for us. Ran into Hattie Ella and S. L. Nix in Asheville about the same afternoon and she just happened to have some pic tures of her granddaughter ? just like I happened to have of Caroline. Sandy had just given me some new ones and Hattie and I had fun checking our cute little babies out. Ole S. L. just sat and beamed like grand daddysdo. I'm still looking forward to our first football win and believe it will soon be here. So sorry that Randy Hodge got a limb broken, but it looks like Holden Nix will, along with 10 others, take the ball in hand and soon we'll see ? PATRIOTS WIN!!!!! We've already scored more than ever before and our opponents have had nothing to brag about Letters To T1 Editor, the News Record: As chairperson for the area of Hog Springs Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Campaign, I would like to say thank you for helping to give the "Breath of Life." to so many babies". It is good to see the people of Hot Springs meet the goal and go over A special thank you to when they beat us because the margin was so thin. OBSERVED ? I left out about all the umpteen others in mission hospital last time and some have come home, but among some I missed were Lloyd Lewis, Monica Cameron, Joe Wallin (Tom's brother from Black Mountain whom I was in college with), Mr. Roscoe Briggs, and Polly Sue and Willie Lewis' little Tony ? Well, he was little the last time I saw him at Marshall school ? He got hurt in an Erwin game last week and he was one of their star players ? Heard today that Louise McClure is coming home Tuesday ? Congrats to Coach and Mrs. Randy McDanielson the birth of a daughter Saturday ? guess I'd better hush so I can get this over to Pop ? Have a good day!!!!!! ROUGH RIDERS WASHINGTON (AP) - Ener gy-conscious motorists are learning that bad roads in crease their driving costs. The average U.S. motorist pays an extra $108 a year in fuel, tire wear and front-end re pairs because of rough roads, says The Road Information Program (TRIP). Three-fourths of that is wasted gasoline caused by stops and slow-downs for poth oles and rough, broken pave ment. he Editor The Friendship Club for their help This is the kind of com munity we want. Not just helping ourselves, but helping others. Thank you. MRS. R. FRANK (ADA)MOORE Hot Springs I I Appalachian Women To Meet October 7 "Growing Up Female in Appalachia" is the theme of the first annual meeting of the Council on Appalachian Women to be held in the Grandroom, University Center, on the campus of Western Carolina University at Cullowhee, on Oct. 7. Registration is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. with the program beginningat 1:30p.m. Dr. Betty Siegel, dean of the School of Education and Psychology, will present the keynote address preceded by a welcome from Chancellor H. F. Robinson. A slide-tape presentation entitled "Sex Role Stereotypes" by Dr. Judith Stillion, acting head, Psychology Department, and Barbara Mann, dean of student development, will follow the address. After a brief refreshment break at 3:15 p.m., the program will resume with a panel discussion of "Growing Up Female in Appalachia." Panel participants who are all natives of the region include: Pat Beaver, assistant professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University; Mary Jane Putzell, mother of four who has returned to work on a degree at Appalachian State University; Helen Powell, community health advocate working closely with brown and black lung victims in West Virginia; Laura Hill King, director of the Cherokee Bilingual Project in Cherokee; and Cecilia Rogers, retired domestic worker. Betty Gene Alley, chief court counselor of the 30th Judicial District, will serve as panel moderator. The meeting will be concluded with closing remarks from Jeanne Hoffman, president of the Council on Appalachian Women. This meeting is open to anyone interested in the concerns of the Appalachian region, particularly the concerns of the female population. The Council on Appalachian Women is a support group for women which seeks to identify the specific needs of Appalachian women and initiate programs to meet those needs. "We welcome your interest and support," Mrs. Hoffman said. Health Clinic Schedule Edward A. Morton, health administrator for Madison County has announced the health department clinic schedule for October. Clinics listed are held at the health department unless otherwise specified. Wednesday, Oct. 5: Child Health Supervisory Clinic, By Appointment. Thursday, Oct. 6: General Clinic, Mars Hill Town Hall, 1-4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6: Nurse Screening Clinic, Mars Hill Town Hall, 1-4 p.m.. By Appointment. Friday, Oct. 7: General Clinic, 8 a.m.-12 Noon, 1-4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7: Nurse Screening Clinic, By Appointment. Friday, Oct. 7: WCI Screening, By Appointment. Monday, Oct. 10: General Clinic, Hot Springs Old Drug Store Building, 1-3 p.m Monday, Oct. 10: Nurse Screening Clinic, Hot Springs Old Drug Store Building, 1-3 French Broad Awareness Week Is Set Gov. Hunt Sept. 16 proclaimed the week of Oct. 9 15 as French Borad River Awareness Week. The purpose of the week is to alert the public to the improved water quality of the French Broad River and to publicize the vast potential of the river to meet the needs of the citizens in this region, whether they be for drinking water, recreation, production of plant, fish, and wildlife, economic development and other needs. The French Broad River flows through the four Western North Carolina counties of Transylvania, Henderson, Buncombe, and Madison before crossing the Tennessee state line where it eventually reaches the Tennessee River. Activities planned for French Broad River Awareness Week include a "208" water quality management workshop and a 1 dinner meeting to be held Oct. 1 13 in Asheville, of state, I federal, regional and local < leaders to discuss future plans > for the French Broad River i and to celebrate French Broad i River Awareness Week. < p.m., By Appointment. Tuesday, Oct. 11: Maternity Clinic,9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 14: Nurse Screening Clinic, by Appointment. Friday, Oct. 14: General Clinic, 8:30 a.m.-12 Noon, 1-4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14: W1C Screening, By Appointment Tuesday, Oct. 18: Family Planning Clinic, By Appoin tment. . Wednesday, Oct. 19: Child Health Supervisory Clinic, By Appointment. Friday, Oct. 21: Nurse Screening Clinic, By Appointment. Friday, Oct. 21: WIC Screening, By Appointment. Tuesday, Oct. 25: Family Planning Ginic, By Appoin tment. Friday, Oct. 28: General Ginic, 8:30 a.m.-12 Noon, 1-4 p.m. f Friday, Oct. 28: Nurse Screening Clinic, By Appointment. Friday, Oct. 28: WIC Screening, By Appointment. At all General Ginics, protection is available against dyptheria, poliomyelitis, whooping cough, tetanus (lockjaw), measles, rubella, and smallpox. Blood testing and tuberculin skin testing are also available at the General Clinics. Greater Ivy Is Featured The Greater Ivy Community Citizens Association, Inc. was featured on WLOS-TV, Channel 13, Asheville, Sunday evening, as a result of the association's winning first place Sept. 15 for the third successive year in the 15 county contest on community beautification sponsored by the Western North Carolina Development Association. Dr. Grover L. Angel, president of the association, was in terviewed briefly and several scenes of the community's entrance signs, directory signs place at the entrance of the communities which are a part 3f the 26-community federation which Greater Ivy embraces, business firm signs ind shot of the cleaned -oadsides and of the -enovation of the community :enter building were shown. The News-Record NON-PARTISAN IN POLITICS JAMES I. STORY, Editor Published Weekly By Madison County BiblishingCo.be. BOX 367 MARSHALL. N.C. 28753 Subscription Rates In Madison County 12 Mos. $4.00 ? Mos. >3W Subscription Rates Outside Madison Co. 12 Mos. SMos. 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