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The News record SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY On thm Insldo . ? ? Appalachian Council for Women receives grant . . . Page 3 77th Year, No. 30 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C. THURSDAY, July 27, 1978 15* Per Copy f ? v' s* . i" ? ' '' ? " * ? y* ?% $? . , I .v| ... >***; *#. * Untied Burley Tobacco The U.8 Department of Agriculture (USD A) has proposed to change grade standards and make price support available for limited quantities of imtied, baled barley tobacco during the 1V7S-7V season as a marketing experiment Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland said if the proposal is accepted and the experiment is successful, the new marketing method couid greatly reduce farmers' costs in preparing burley tobacco for murkot Bergland aaid that under the proposal, any producer in terested in marketing untied baled 197S-crop burley tobacco would apply this September at the local county Agricultural Stabilization and Con servation Service (ASCS) Office. i If the proposal goea into effect, interested producers would certify that all bales to be delivered for price support and official grading will meet the following specifications: (1) All tobacco in all bale* offered for ule u a aingle lot will be of similar quality (J) Hie tobacco will be ?talk-cured. (3) The bale will contain no foreign matter. (4) The tobacco will not be nested. (Nesting is the con cealing of foreign material or inferior tobacco inside the bale). Producers must comply with the filed certification in order to be eligible for price support and grades on any tobacco produced on their farms. Under the grading proposal, tobacco graders with USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (A MS) would apply official grades to the limited quantities of untied bur ley packed in bales during the 1978-79 season. Presently, tobacco graders classify untied burley as No-G ("no USD A Proposes Grade Standard Change, Price Support For Limited Quantities grade") which makes the tobaoco ineligible for USDA price support. Bales accepted for grading would be l by 2 by 3 feet and the leaves in the bales untied and packed straight. Butt ends of leaves must be oriented to ends of the bales with tips to the center. USDA officials said warehouse operators will be required to open a particular bale in a lot of tobacco chosen by a federal grader for in spection and to reseal the bale after impaction. Baled bur ley tobacco would be officially graded and marketed with price support only during five aale da tea at each warehouse. The Bur ley Sales Committee ? composed of represents tivee of producers, warehousemen and buyers ? or some other appropriate organization, would determine the sale dates. However, three of the sale dates would have to be during three separate weeks preceding tl)? tobacco marketing Christmas holiday recess and two would be during two separate weeks after the recess. Comments regarding price support should be mailed to the director, Price Support and Loan Division, ASCS USDA, P.O. Box 2419, Washington, D.C., 20013. The deadline for receiving com ments on the proposal is Aug. 7. Secretary Berg land said that the new marketing and price aupport proposal* stem from experiment* conducted by the University of Kentucky and University of Tennessee as well as various state Farm Bureaus. Tobacco producers, buyers and warehousemen have also helped search for a less costly method of marketing burley tobacco than the traditional method of handling it tied in small bundles, he said. SHARON RAY, county elections board supervisor, (back toward camera) is shown testifying before the state Board of Elections during the first day of hearings in the courtroom here Monday afternoon. The probe of alleged election irregularities is expected to continue through Wednesday. (Photo by Jim Story) Senior Citizens Marshall Center Tops Priority List By DOROTHY 8HUPE The town of Marshall received top priority for a grant of $48,850 for a Madison County Multipurpose Senior Citizen's Center at a meeting Friday in the Mars Hill Methodist Church, according to Louis Finke of Hen dersonville, chairman of the Land of Sky Regional Council Advisory Committee for the Aging. The final approval for the center will be decided by Aug. IS by the North Carolina Division on Aging in Raleigh. The money is alloted for Snelson To Collect Taxes The Madison County board at commissioners has an nounced that Ernest Snelson has been named Delinquent Tax Collector for Madison County. Snelson, who is also tax supervisor, will have the responsibility of ^niWHng all tarn, once they become delinquent. He has been in ?true ted by the com projects under the Older Americans Act in Region B and only one other was presented, that from Harvest House of Asheville. The other counties Involved are Hen derson, Transylvania and Buncombe. In the past, the committee's recom mendations for the monies has been accepted on the basis of the advisory board's decision. The Madison County Council on Aging and the Town of Marshall have been working closely on the project for the past several weeks. Mayor Lawrence Ponder, Mrs. Ernie Letterman, Miss Teresa Zimmerman and Mrs. Dorothy B. Shupe presented the plans for the project at the meeting last Friday. Serving on the Region B Committee from Madison County are Dr. Graver Angel, Mrs. Baa Clark, Mrs. Anna Fox and Mrs. Lucille Bur nette. Mrs. Roy Young and Mrs. Oleta Shelton were also present for the meeting. The proposed center will be located on the top floor of the Town Hall Building in Mar quilts to be worked on at the ' same time, flower planting 1 and macrame room, recreation room, health and first aid room, ceramics, arts 1 and crafts room, and office space for representatives of social services, social ! security, Office Economic Opportunity, food stamps, etc., that Madison County I elderly may wish to confer with on business matters. Letters of support for the Madison County Senior Citizen's Center have also been received from the Madison County Com- I mission era, Madison County Exterfeion Department, Mars Hill College, French Broad EMC Co-Op, The News Record, Radio State WMMH, Mental Health Clinic, Madison County Health Department, Council on Appalachian Women, Hot Springs Health Program. Mayor Joe B. Henderson of Hot Springs and Mayor Bill Powell of Mars Hill have also added letters of support. Mayor Ponder of Marshall and Alderman James Penland, James B. Marler, and Jackie Davis, along with town clerk Mrs. Eloise Riddle, have also worked diligently in meeting the town's portion of commitment for the project. Auto Show Slated Saturday, Sunday The Seventh Annual Mars Hill Auto Show, sponsored by the Mars Hill Fire Depart ment. ia scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday. The show will be held at the Mars Kit Elementary School Stadium and will open to the public at ? a.m. each day and will close at 11 p.m. Saturday and at 4 p.m. on Sunday Trophy presentation will be at 4 p.m on Sunday. Mambers of the firs department expect from ISO to MO entries of custom cart, tracks and vans, third riH. trophy will be awarded in each class with HI 2 p.m., the fire department will sponaor a dinner, your choice of ham or roast beef with ail the trimmings, at the school cafeteria. The Ore department will also give away a ten channel scanner at the trophy presentation, tickets for the scanner will be available throughout the The show has grown both in sise and quality every yew since 1 172 and this year is expected to be the best show ever. Entries have already been received from several states as well as many local # Witnesses Heard In Election Probe Findings of a month-long SBI probe of alleged election irregularities in Madison County came under review Monday by the state Board of Elections. The opening day's testimony, held in the cour troom, was attended by a large audience despite the intense heat. Hie hearings were resumed Tuesday morning and are expected to continue through Wednesday and possibly Thursday, according to memtki-s of the statu Board of Elections. The state board is composed of Kenneth Babb of Winston Salem, chairman; Mrs. Alleen Highsmith of Asheville; Dr. Sidney Barnwell of New Bern ; John Stickley of Charlotte; and Mrs. Shirley Herring of Kins ton. Babb said Monday that the hearing is a continuation of an investigation he started early in April and that no member of the Madison County Board of Elections or any of its em ployees can be removed from office during this investigory hearing. "If the evidence seems to warrant such action, notice will be served and a second hearing held for that pur pose," Babb said. Marvin Ball, chairman of the county board, is represented by state Sen. Robert S. Swain of Asheville and retired Superior Court Judge W.K. McLean. The other Democratic member of the board, Harold Ammons, is represented by Eldridge Leake of Asheville, who is a former Madison County attorney. His son, Larry Leake of Asheville, county attorney for Madison County, is representing the Madison County Board of Elections in the hearing. On the other side, Earl J. Fowler of Asheville is representing Ernest Burnette "and other citizens" of Madison County. Babb ruled at the outset of the hearing that there will be no cross-examination of witnesses since none of the accused is in jeopardy which brought objections from Swain and Eldridge Leake. ' After Babb read a list of witnesses, containing more than 20 county citizens, testimony began in the hot, stuffy courtroom. MONDAY'S SESSION The first witness, James C. Dodd, IS, said he was registered and voted by Ball at the elections board office after being caught stealing gasoline from a school bus. He said Ball took him to the elections board from Sheriff E.Y. Ponder 's office and told him which candidates the Democratic Party was sup porting in the primaries before he voted an absentee ballot. He said charges were never pressed on the gas theft incident. J. Bruce Phillips, assistant principal at Madison High School, said he talked with Dodd- .following the incident. Dotfd told him, he said, that Ball had suggested that he get registered and vote before leaving for the Marine Corps. Sharon Ray, county elec tions board supervisor, was called to the witness stand on several occasions and questioned about the boards records on absentee voting. Baxter Bailey Shelton, Wallace Cooke, Scofield Miller, Roger Wells and his mother, Marie Wells, had told about irregularities in the handling of their absentee ballots. Baxter Bailey Shelton said he applied for and received an abeenfeae ballot on the claim that be had no way to gat from his home at Big Laurel to the (Continued on Page 8) Teachers Attend Workshop All new Madison County School personnel who will work in the kindergarten or primary reading programs attended a 40-hour reading workshop at Mars Hill School July 17-21. There will be primary reading programs in Marshall School and Mars Hill School this year. Marshall School was the only school in the county with a primary reading program last year. It is anticipated that all the schools in the county will be funded for the primary reading program by 1981. The model for the primary reading program includes the following components : ?An aide to work with the classroom teacher. ?Volunteers selected and trained to work with students. ?Supplementary materials. ?Evaluation of each school's progress. ?A comprehensive plan developed by each school involved in the primary reading program. ?Staff development to improve the knowledge and skills of teachers, aides, principals and local coor dinators. For the first time, Madison County School personnel planned and administered their own program of primary reading staff development. The following consultants participated: Norma Logan and Bob Kim ley, consultants for the N.C. Department of Public Instruction; Rebecca Eller, reading instructor at Mars Hill College; Rosiland Noland and Ann Shor tinghouse, instructors at Mayland Technical Institute; Gail Wood, tacher in Cherokee County; and Duretha Jones, teacher in Clay County. Madison County teachers providing instruction for the workshop are Patsy Hoyle and Ruby Gayle Anderson, Mars Hill School; and Nancy Allen and Othella Ogle, Marshall School. Two aides from Marshall School, Helen Brigman and Shelley Wright, also assisted. Participants in the workshop were Wanda Edmonds, Patsy Hoyle, Marsha Boyd, Sadie Wallin, Carolyn Ponder, Paula Ammons, Betty Ballard, (Catherine Tweed, Helen MARS fULL AUTO iHOf this Saturday and Sunday will feature I types uid ages of cart such at 1 Norton, Grace Ray, Barbara Honneycutt, Wanda Carter, Mildred Metcalf, Joann Fox, Teresa Banks, Deborah Norton, Barbara Ray, Lorraine Cody and Barbara Goldsmith. Topics in teaching reading emphasized last week were "Guidelines for Primary Reading Programs," "Teaching Reading," "Language Skills," "Role of the Aide," "Overview of Approaches to Teaching Reading," "Developing Strategies for Teaching Reading," "Children's Literature," "Creative Writing and Language Experiences," "Organizing for Reading Throughout the Day" and "Classroom Learning Centers." Staff development activities planned for the year will in clude visiting other schools, attending workshops at the local level and cluster workshops with other coun ties Westco Announces Expansion Westco Telephone Co. an nounces ? major outside plant
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