The News Record
SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY
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77th Year, No. 39
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C.
THURSDAY, September 28, 1978
15* Per Copy
Slate Relieves 2 On Election Board
FRONT VIEW erf Deringer Manufacturing
Comapny building which is located on
Deringer Drive just off Marshall by pass
behind the shopping center.
At Marshall Plant Operation
Deringer Enjoying 7th Year
BY JIM STORY
Deringer Manufacturing Co.
is in its seventh year of
operation at its Marshall plant
which is located on Deringer
Drive just off the Marshall
bypass behind the shopping
center.
The plant started on Sept. 9,
1972 with only eight employees
in a building on Main Street
with less than 6,000 square
feet.
The present plant, located
on a beautiful site, baa 22,000
square feet with modern
facilities and employs more
than 60 persons, all from
Madison County.
In addition to the original
Contact Division, Deringer
has added asaembly and
secondary operations plus a
new rapidly growing Bi Metal
department.
"We are indeed extremely
pleased and proud of * the
accomplishments of our
employees," Pat Clemens,
popular plant manager,
stated.
Promotions have been made
which attests to the interest
and desire of employees, such
as the following ad
vancements recently :
Michael Jenkins to
production manager; Phillip
Wall in to technical manager;
Ester Hodge to office
manager; Jean Wallin to
personnel and quality control;
Arvlee Thomas to second shift
coordinator; George Pack to
W.C. Bledsoe Named Supervisor
W. Cartyle Bledsoe, Yancey
County extension chairman,
has been selected by the N.C.
Agricultural Extension
Service to succeed Harry
Silver as supervisor of
Ex tension- TV A programs in
Western North Carolina.
Bledsoe's appointment was
announced by Dr. T. Carlton
Blalock, state extension
director. He will assume his
new duties Oct. It, according
to Denver Robinson, Western
District extension chairman.
Silver, formerly of Mar
shall, retired June 30
Dr. Blalock described
Bledsoe "as a man well
qualified for his new
Etioa" He added, "Mr.
Isoe has broad experience.
Ha has worked with nearly all
farm enterprises in Western
North Carolina."
Bledsoe's main respon
sibility is to work with the
Tennessee Valley Authority
and extension specialists at
North Carolina State
University in providing
resources that extension
workers can use in increasing
agricultural income in the 15
TV A counties of Western
North Carolina.
A native of Ashe County,
Bledsoe has been Yancey
County extension chairman
since 1970. Prior to that he
served as an extension agent
in Yancey and as a TVA test
demonstration agent with
iV/OMibilities in Buncombe,
henderson, Haywood,
Transylvania and Rutherford
counties. He has also been in
private employment.
Bledsoe has a B.S. degree
and a M.S. degree from North
Carolina State University
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W.c. BLEDSOE
New Extension-TVA
Supervisor
bi metal coordinator. Josh
Ball continues as Heading
Department coordinator, and
Larry Davis is tool room
coordinator.
A visit to the plant shows a
friendly and cordial reception
by Pat Clemens and an at
mosphere of friendly working
conditions and relations
among the employees who
appear to enjoy their work and
companionship with each
other.
To sum up the feeling which
exists is to simply say that
"Deringer is proud of its
entire personnel and the
personnel is proud of
Deringer.
New Recreation
Program Here?
An important recreational
meeting will be held this
Thursday night at 7:30 at the
Housing Authority Office on
Walnut Creek Road, it was
announced Monday by Mayor
Lawrence Ponder.
Ponder said that a state
official will be present to
discuss possibility of
recreation programs for the
Marshall area. Slide
presentations will be shown
which point out what some
communities in Western
North Carolina have already
done.
Interested persons regar
ding our recreation are urged
to attend.
Lunsford Folk Festival At Mars Hill Oct. 5-7
The lltto annual Bascom
Lamar Lunsford Mountain
Music and Dance Festival was
founded by Lunsford and Mars
HOI pharmacist Ed Howard
primarily as a time for folks to
gat together to play their
favorite tunes, celebrate their
way of life and especially as a
time when traditions could be
from the
to 'he
traditions ?
- has not at
and in
out. To prevent this, and in
maintaining the tradition* aet
down by Luiwford Oct. S, will
feature a special evening of
ballads and ballad singers in
Owen Theatre beginning at 7
P-m.
Before industrialization and
mass
traditional unaccompanied
KjiIUH ringtng took place in
learh ?>vpr\ part f America
Now, they remain attf* to only
a very few places One of these
places Is the Sodom Laurel
section of M ; County
Pint documented to ill* by
community remain* am of the
extremely ' few "living"
manmunttivs n# hallari
(unities of
They have continued
to receive attention from
fottdortetc at the Library of
Institute, the N.C. Pott: Music
and Archives, and
foiklife festivals
?
tkipate in
sties , repre t i
generations of ballad sin*
ill v ommunity Tbej
are Cas Wallin. tv??lyr
McMillan, festival officials
have also persuaded Dr.
Cratis Williams, well-known
Appalachian scholar, to be the
master of ceremonies for the
The ballads sung by
narrative songs which can be
traced back to 17th and 18th
Century England, and their
?I lie- bath Mr
down In the Sodom Laurel
community orally; that is,
they were never written down
m 4i m m ^ m * '
or learned from dooka.
The Lunsford Festival will
open officially Oct I with an
lawn between the Country
Boutique and Bridges
Cafeteria from, 10 a.m.
throufita4p.m.
The state Board of Elections announced
Tuesday morning that its decision is that both
Harold Ammons, Democratic member of the
Madison County Board of Elections, and L. Roger
Swann, Republican board member, would be
replaced on the Madison County board. The State
Board, however, announced that the two mem
bers would serve until their successors had been
appointed and qualified. This will be done in the
near future, Alex Brock, secretary of the State
Board, said.
The decision of the State Board followed a
hearing Monday in Raleigh which Ammons at
tended with counsel. Swann, who was out of state
on vacation, was unable to attend the meeting.
Miss Sharon Ray, supervisor of elections in
Madison County, was present at the hearing,
along with other interested citizens. Oscar Mc
Devitt, the newly named member, did not attend
the hearing, it was reported.
Marvin Ball, chairman of the Madison County
Board, recently resigned from the board following
an investigation and hearing by the State Board
and the SBI in Madison County of election
irregularities in the Democratic primary.
Following Ball's resignation, Ammons, of
Mars Hill, was named acting chairman of the
board. Oscar McDevitt, Democrat, of Marshall,
succeeded Ball as a member of the board.
Brock stated Tuesday afternoon that the State
Board members would serve as a "search com
mittee," with Kenneth Babb, chairman.
Brock also reported that neither Ammons nor
Swann were guilty of any criminal violations but
the decision had been made after the hearing
Monday.
Brock stated that a full and formal statement
in writing would be forthcoming which would
explain the decision and judgment of the action
taken by the State Board.
Mars Hill
To Present
'South Pacific'
"South Pacific," Rogers
and Hammerstein's Pulitzer
Prize winning musical, will
lead Mara Hill College's 1978
79 drama season. It will be
followed in the spring by one
of Broadway's moat popular
shows, "The Paasioo of
Dracula.** The
production will feature ?wpR
Lorca's "Blood Wedding."
"South Pacific," which was
based on James Mitchener's
"Tales of the South Pacific" ?
also a Pulitzer Prize winner,
will be produced Oct. 12-15,
again on Oct 17-19, and the
final performances will be
held Oct. 27-29. All per
formances will be in Owen
Theatre. "Dracula" by Bob
Hall and David Richmond,
will be produced Feb. 15-19
and 22-25, 1979, and "Blood
Wedding" will be performed
May ft-13, 1979. Several
student directed and
workshop productions will
also be produced during the
year.
"South Pacific" was first
performed on stage in 1949
with Mary Martin in the
female lead of Nellie Forbush
and Ezio Pinza portraying the
male lead of Emile deBecque.
Almost 10 years later it was
produced as a movie with
Mitzi Gaynor in the female
lead and Rossano Brazzi as
the male lead. The movie was
directed by Josh Logan.
Tickets for the musical will
be $3 for adults and $2 for
children and students.
Individual tickets for the
remaining two shows will be
$2 for adults and 91 for
students-children. Season
tickets are also available and
cover all three shows as well
as the student-directed and
workshop productions. The
prices are $5 for adults and
ft.S0 for students and
children.
Tickets for "South Pacific"
will go on sale Oct 9. All seats
will be on a reserve basis.
MR. AND MRS. DONALD
PAYNE of the Holcombe Branch
Road in the Greater Ivy com
munity, pose on the front porch of
their mobile home after having
won first place in the Madison
County Mobile Home
Beautification and Improvement
Contest and third place in the 19
county Western North Carolina
Community Development contest.
The young couple received a $100
check as the award in the Western
North Carolina contest.
Burley Grade Loan
Rates Are Proposed
rroposea loan rates tor ivio
crop bur ley tobacco range
from 83 cents to $1.30 per
pound and reflect an average
support of $114.70 per hun
dredweight ? 7.4 cents per
pound above the 1977 level
The loan rates for eligible
burley packed in bales will be
the same as the rates for
ouriey ilea in nanas
As in the past no loans will
be available on any tobacco
graded No-G (No Grade), W
(Wet), U (Unsound), or Scrap,
according to Ray Fitzgerald,
administrator of the
Agricultural Stabilixastion
and Conservation Service.
Marketings of these grades,
however, will be charged
against the quotas for the
farms on which they were
produced, Fitzgerald said.
The cooperative
advances are made available.
Will be authorized to deduct
one cent per pound to apply
against overhead costs.
Comments regarding the
proposed rates will be oon
aidered if submitted in writing
by Nov. SO to the acting^
director, Price Support and
Loan Division, USDA-ASCS,
P.O. Box MIS. Washington,
D.C., 10013. The MHMNs
will be available lor public
Inspection in the Office of the
Acting Director, Room 1741,
business hours, ?:? a.m. to
4:45 p.m.
Many See President
During Asheviile Stop