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The News Record
SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY See page R
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77th Year, No. 10 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N C THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1978 15'Per Copy
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Road Needs Aired At Public Hearing
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A public hearing was held
last Thursday night in the
courtroom here on the 1978-79
secondary road construction
in Madison County. An
estimated 125 people were
present to listen to DOT of
ficials and voice their road
requests.
John Gilky, of the Depar
tment of Transportation and
Dan Martin, District
Engineer, presented the
following DOT recom
mendations and estimated
costs:
Relocate a section of SR 1318
at bridge No. 152 and replace
bridge, $10,000
Resurface SR No. 1370,
$150,000.
Widen SR 1411. $75,000
Replace bridge No. 51,
$100,000.
Relocate a section of 1151,
$50,000.
Resurface SR No. 1165, 2.9
miles, $85,000.
Resurface SR No. 1390, 1.5
miles, $45,000.
Resurface SR No. 1364, 1.5
miles, $104,000.
The DOT officials stated
that three bridges on Big
Laurel will be let out for
contract this year
The total amount allocated
Madison County was $853,000
with the Road Bond ac
counting for $465,000. One
hundred thousand dollars was
allocated for gravel for un
paved roads and ninety
thousand dollars will be spent
for new additions to the
secondary roaa system, the
officials said
Robert L. Edwards,
Superintendent of Madison
County public schools, stated
that Madison County should be
declared a state of emergency
since there are 317 miles of
unpaved roads which school
buses travel each day.
The county commissioners
stated that they would like to
see all improvements possible
with the allocations made to
Madison County. The com
missioners have reviewed all i
the recommendations made i
by the Department of Tran- i
sportation and have submitted I
recommendations which they i
feel would be most beneficial i
to Madison County
Many citizens spoke of
various secondary road needs
in different sections of the
L-ounty and the ultimate plans
and recommendations by both
the DOT and the county
fommissioners will be further
studied and definite projects
will be announced later
MARSHALL LIONS CLUB members
donated $1,000 to start the fund drive for the
Marshall-Walnut Medical Center which will
be located in the former Madison Grill
Building. Renovation of the building is now
under way. Lion Clyde Hagan, Lion Club
treasurer (center) is shown presenting the
check to Lion Roy Reeves, fund drive
treasurer. Other Lions pictured, left to right,
are: Tom Wallin, Wade Huey, John Corbett,
Ed List, Jack Cole, Jerry Plemmons and
Lonnie Plemmons.
Grain Sign-Up Slated
New farm legislation ef
fective for 1978 provides for a
set-aside program for wheat
and feed grains, lhe set-aside
is strictly voluntary but is a
requirement for eligiblity for
program benefits. To be
eligible to participate in this
program farmers must have
planted or intended to plant
either wheat, barley, com or
sorghum or any combination
thereof for harvest this year.
The set-aside requirement is
10 percent for feed grains
planted for harvest and 20
percent for wheat.
Each farm has been
assigned a norma) crop
acreage (NCA) base. This
NCA base is the total of corn,
wheat, barley, oats, rye, grain
sorghum and soybeans
planted in 1977 and reported to
the ASCS. Farmers who failed
to report their planted
acreages for 1977 will be
assigned a zero acres for the
NCA base unless they file a
late report of planted
acreages to one of these crops.
Notices of NCA bases have
been mailed to all producers
including zero notices.
Program benefits available
to eligible participants are (1)
commodity loans (2)
deficiency payments and (3)
disaster payments.
To qualify for full program
benefits, the 1978 acreage of
designated crops plus the set
aside cannot be larger than
your NCA
The sign-up for the program
begins the first of March and
continues until May 1. Further
information will be available
at the county ASCS office.
Mrs. Robinson
Heads Heart
Fund Drwe
Mrs. Latrelle Robinson has
been chosen as Fund Raising
Chairman for the 1978 Heart
Fund Campaign, according to
Ernestine Plemmons, public
information chairman for the
Madison County Heart Fund.
Plans are being made to
hold the Heart Fund Cam
paign during the month of
March. Bad weather
prevented this being held
during February, which is
usually considered Heart
Month. Volunteers are being
recruited for the campaign. If
you are called upon to be a
volunteer or to make a
decision, please say yes.
Money raised in the Heart
Fund campaign will be used
toward public education about
controlling the risk factors
associated with heart attack
and stroke and for research
projects.
EMC Committee
Postpones Meet
Due to a conflict, the
meeting of the French Broad
EMC Women's Committee has
been postponed from March 13
until March 20, at 2 p.m.
Some 17-Year-Olds
Eligible To Register
Persons not already
registered who will become 18
years of age by the Nov. 7
general election and are
otherwise qualified have until
April 3 (5 p.m.) to register for
voting in the May 2 primaries
and second primary (if
called).
The office of the Madison
County Board of Elections,
located in the Ramsey office
building on Main Street in
Marshall, is open Monday
through Friday of each week
from 8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m.
April 3 is also the deadline to
change party affiliation and
transfer precincts for those
who have moved since the last
time of voting.
The names and telephone
numbers of the precinct
election officials authorized to
register voters will be
published in the News Record
next week.
Those who are not sure if
they are properly registered
should contact the Board of
Elections at 649-3731.
VICTOR V. MCQUIRE JR.
McQuire Joins
Health Center
As Counselor
Victor V. McQuire Jr. has
joined the staff of the Madison
County Office of the Blue
Ridge Community Mental
Health Center as an
alcoholism counselor, it was
announced Friday by Claudio
Rabello, director of outreach.
McQuire formerly was the
pastor of St. George's Church
in Asnevuie, for 11 years.
A native of Virginia, and a
resident of North Carolina for
45 years, McQuire is a
graduate of Asheville High
School, Duke University, and
St. Luke's Seminary at the
University of the South in
Se wan nee, Tenn.
For the time being, McQuire
works in the Madison County
office two days a week ?
Tuesdays and Fridays. For
more information telephone
#40-2367
Mrs. Franklin Enters
Education Contest
Nell C. Franklin of Route 3,
Marshall, a native of the
Laurel section of Madison
County, announces as a
Democratic candidate for the
Madison County Board of
Education, District II. She is
married to Talmadge
Franklin and they have one
son, Bobby Dean, of
Greeneville, Tenn.
She attended East Ten
nessee State University and is
a graduate of Western
Carolina University. She is a
member of the Chapel Hill
Baptist church and served this
church as adult Sunday school
teacher for a number of years.
Mrs. Franklin taught school
in Madison County for 41 years
and retired in 1974. She
coached the girl's basketball
team at Laurel in her early
years of teaching and served
Laurel school for several
years as secretary-treasurer.
She is vitally Interested in
the educational system of
Madison County. She feels her
experiences dictate to her
what is best for the children of
our county and further states
that if elected, she will do
what she considers best for all
the children attending
Madison County schools.
NELL FRANKLIN
EMC Reduces
Voltage
By 5 Percent
French Broad EMC has
reduced voltage to its
members by 5 percent at the
request of Carolina Power and
Light Co. as they go into Phase
II of their energy conservation
plan The cooperative is also
contacting the large power
users telling them of the
voltage reduction and asking
for voluntary curtailment of
electric usage by 10 percent
All coop members are asked
to cut their usage in every way
possible Please turn down the
thermostats on electric heat,
cut off unnecessary lights and
appliances and limit the use of
hot water.
If it becomes necessary to
put Phase III and IV into ef
fect. members will be notified
of this action.
ONE-WAY TRAFFIC if a
familiar scene on Marshall's
Main Street as new water lines
are being installed When the
project it completed and weatner
it suitable, plans call for a new
surface for the street and
widening a portion of Main Street.
Medical Center Fund
Drive To Be Extended
Tom Wallin. president of the
Hot Springs Health Program,
announced Monday that due to
weather conditions and
hazardous secondary roads
the fund drive for the Mar
shall-Walnut Medical Center
has been extended This move
was decided so that com
munity workers may reach
every household in the
Marshall-Walnut areas as
soon as possible.
Wallin stated that the drive,
which was held last Saturday
and Sunday, was well received
by those who were contacted.
"I know that everyone will
want to make a contribution to
the success of the Marshall
Walnut center which will be
located in the former Madison
Grill between Marshall and
Walnut Renovation of the
building is in full swing,"
Wallin said
Citizens are urged to con
tribute when solicitors visit
them and it is hoped that the
response will be over
whelmingly positive. Those
wishing to make a con
tribution within or outside the
Marshall-Walnut areas may
send a check to Hot Springs
Health Program and mark it
for the Marshall-Walnut
Medical Center All donations
are tax deductible, it was
explained
Contributions may be ad
dressed to any of the
following: Linda Mashburn.
649-2800; Roy Reeves, 649
2011; Bob Adams. 649-2456;
Cloice Plemmons, 649-3816;
Tom Wallin. 649-2554; Jerry
Plemmons, 649-3536
Persons making a con
tribution of $100 or more will
have their names printed on a
plaque in the waiting room of
the center Dedication of
rooms will be made to families *
or persons who make larger _
contributions
"1 feel that the new center
can be put into operation by
April 15 if the citizens will
make their contributions of a
substantial amount im
mediately," Wallin com
mented.
"If there should be any
questions or further ex
planations about the medical
center, feel free to ask or call
any of the above board
members," Wallin concluded.
Service Delivery
Workshop Set
MARS HILL ? "Improving
Techniques of Service
Delivery to Older Adults" is
the title of a workshop
sponsored jointly by Mars Hill
College and Land of Sky
Regional Council. The
workshop will be held from 9
a m. to noon. March 10 at the
Land of Sky offices on 25
Heritage Drive. Asheville.
The service delivery
workshop is one of 10 Mars
Hill is producing using funds
from a $4,000 Title IV-A, Older
Americans Act grant which
was awarded through the
Land of Sky council. All of the
workshops are free of charge
to anyone working with older
citizens on a professional or
voluntary basis or anyone
interested in working with the
elderly in the four county area
of Madison. Buncombe,
Henderson, and Transylvania
covered by Land of Sky's
Region B
The workshop will be taught
by Fay Walker, director of the
social work program at Mars
Hill. She will be assisted by
Fay Ramsay. services
coordinator and project
supervisor at the Opportunity
Corporation.
For further information on
the workshop, contact
Raymond Rapp, coordinator
of programs for the aging.
Mars Hill College, Mars Hill,
N.C. 28754; Joan Tuttle,
program administrator for
aging. Land of Sky Regional
Council, P.O. Box 2175,
Asheville, 28802; or any
member of the Education
Advisory Council for the
college and Regional Council
Wise Wins Morehead
Scholarship At UNC '
Warren Earle Wise, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Earle Wise of
RFD 7, Marshall, has received
a Morehead Award to study at
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The announcement was
made by Hugh G. Chatham of
Elkin, chairman of the board
of trustees of the John Motley
Morehead Foundation.
Wise, a senior at Madison
High School, is vice president
of the senior class and a
member of both the Student
Council and varsity track
team.
He is one of 64 high school
seniors who have received
1978 Morehead awards
presented to students of
superior achievement and
potential Academic standing,
character. evidence of
leadership and service,
physical vigor and ambition
are the qualities looked for in
a Morehead Scholar.
The scholarships currently
are worth $12,000 for North
Carolina students for four
years of study at UNC-CH.
Out-of-state scholars receive
the same stipend but the
foundation also pays the out
of-state tuition differential.
Morehead Scholar selection
followed a year-long screening
process which culminated in
final interviews in Chapel Hill
Feb. 24-27. All finalists who
did not receive Morehead
awards were tendered North
Carolina Merit Tuition
scholarships funded by the
Morehead Foundation.
4-H Club
Hosts County
Kite Contest
The Brush Creek 4-H Quo
members will be host at a
county-wide kite flying contest
March 18 at Glory Ridge near
Walnut. Activities will begin
at 10:30a.m.
There will be two divisions
of kites, one division will be
for homemade kites and the
other will be for store-bought
kites. Junior and senior
winners will be selected in
each division. Prises, courtesy
United 5410 store will be
presented.
Officials stated that there
would be "supplies aplenty"
For more information call
640-3301 or MO-3451.
WARREN WISE