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77th Year, No. 43
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N.C.
THURSDAY, November 2, 1978
15' Per Copy
FRONT VIEW of new Marshall
Day Care Center located on Long
Branch Road adjacent to the
Marshall Landfill. Opm house
will be observed this Sunday from
1 to 4 p.m. (Photo by Jim Story)
Day Care Center
New Facility Opens Doors To Visitors
The Madison County
Commissioners announced
plans today for an open house
at the new Marshall Day Care
Center this Sunday, from 1-4
p.m. All county residents,
public officials, day care
parents and local agency
personnel are invited to attend
and tour the new facility
located off the Marshall by
pass on Long Branch Road
above the county landfill.
Commissioners Virginia
Anderson, James Ledford and
Ervin Adams will co-sponsor
the open house with the
Madison County Day Care
Advisory Board and the
Madison County Child
Development Program. Day
Care staff and board members
will serve refreshments and
lead tours throughout the
afternoon.
The opening of the com
munity facility will allow the
present Marshall Day Care
Center to move from a rented
facility to a permanent facility
owned by the county, The new
building has the capapcity for
serving up to 46 children under
current day care cer
tifications standards.
Currently, the Marshall
Center serves 27 children
between the ages of 3-6 years
of age and six afterachool
children.
Within the next few months,
the center will add eight
children between the ages of
18 months and 3 years of age.
Future plans call for the
development of tlfce nursery
where children under' 18
months cdn be ac
commodated.
The overall plan at the new
facility allows four rooms for
use by the children,
playground space, kitchen
facility, and office space for
Marshall Day Care Center
staff and administrative staff
of the Madison County Child
Development Program. The
Marshall Nutrition Site will
also be relocated in the
building within the next few
weeks.
The building, designed by
Doug Grant of Moore
Woodard Associates of
Asheville, is positioned to
receive the maximum benefits
of the sun throughout the year.
A greenhouse is attached to
the south side whose purpose
is to provide heat to the day
care portion of the building
and thus reduce heating costs.
The facility is also planned to
meet very strict state and
federal building standards
related to day care use and to
the handicap code.
The completion of the
building marks the end of the
second phase of a building
project which utilizes federal
Community Development
Funds to renovate and build
three community buildings in
Greater Ivy, Marshall, and
Hot Springs.
The Greater Ivy facility is
already in use and activity at
the Hot Springs site has
already begun. The building
program has been supervised
by Dean Ledford of the
Greater Ivy Community.
For Title XX DayCare Facilities
Mars Hill Gets $223,297
Title XX day care facilities
in eight Western North
Carolina counties will be
receiving training from Mars
Hill College as a result of a
$223,297 grant from the N.C.
Department of Human
Mars Hill'* day care
training program, the only
such program offered by a
private college and one of six
state-wide, was first funded in
1976. Then It served the four
county area covered by Land
of Sky's Region B ? Madison,
Buncombe, Transylvania and
Henderson counties. Under
the terms of the new grant,
four additional counties ?
McDowell, Rutherford, Polk,
and Cleveland ? have been
added.
The grant coven training to
a wide variety of day care
centers and family day care
homes, including Appalachian
Regional Council child
development centers and
homes, Department of Social
Service centers and homes,
and schools which offer
Roger Svvann Asks
To ^ Reinstated
A Republican member of
the Madison County Board of
Elections who was ousted last
month by the state Board of
Elections Wednesday asked
the Wake County Superior
Court to reinstate him.
News Record
Will Post
Election Tabs
It is the present plan that
results of the Nov. 7 general
election will be posted on a
blackboard in the courtroom
here as fast as the Madison
County Board of Elections
makes them available. This
public service is again
sponsored by The News
Record which has been
posting results for many
MIk . ?
; It is hoped that all precinct
officials will cooperate in
results to the Board of
? as quickly as
In his appeal of the board's
action, Roger Swann charged
that pressure had been ap
plied from Gov. Jim Hunt's
office to remove Swann and
Harold Amnions, a Democrat
on the Madison board.
"There's no truth to that,
the governor never got in
volved in any of that," said
Gary Pearce, the governor's
press secretary.
R. Kenneth Babb, chairman
of the state Elections Board,
also denied Swann'* charge
that Hunt was involved.
"I normally would not
comment on pending
litigation, but that is just
completely untrue," Babb
said. "There is no basis in that
because this governor has
never interfered with
anything the board has done."
Swann alleged that Babb
told an unidentified person
that Ammons and Swann
would be. removed and that
pressure for their removal
was being exerted from the
governor* office.
The state board ordered the
removal of Swann and
Ammons for failing to prevent
widespread voting
irregularities to Madison
special services, such as Mars
Hill's Handi-School.
According to Nancy Norris,
instructor of education at
Mars Hill and director of the
training program, the staffs of
these day care facilities will
receive training through three
methods : on-site visitation by
the college start, workshops on
the collage campus, and
college classes, taken either
through the regular day
program or the college s
Continuing Education
Program, an adult oriented
evening program.
Mars Hill's traning program
is unique, says Miss Norris,
because it alone of the six in
the state offers college credit
for each of the three training
methods. The participants will
also receive credit towards
the Child Development
Associate, a competency
award made by the Child
Development Consortium, a
Washington, D.C. based ac
crediting agency.
On-site training is con
sidered a very necessary part
of the overall training
program because of the kind
of services provided by the
day care agencies as well as
the lack of formal training by
many of the participants.
Onsite visits provide the staff
member opportunities to
assess the strengths and
weaknesses of the site visited
as weU as to make immediate
suggestions for changes. In all
of the three methods of
training, the participants and
trainers have agreed on the
needs of the particular agency
or provider.
Workshops provide for a
more in-depth study of a topic
than can be accomplished in
an on-site visit. Recognized
authorities in areas
specifically requested by the
participants will conduct
some of the workshops, while
college faculty will conduct
others. These workshops also
provide more formal in
struction than otherwise
possible for those who do not
take college courses.
Courses offered by Mars
Hill are both degree oriented
and designed to coincide with
the competencies required for
( Continued on Page 3)
Mars Hill College Meets
Kresge Challenge Gift
Mara Hill College hat met
the conditions of a $100,000
challenge gift from the Kresge
Foundation of Troy, Mich.,
toward* the construction of
Blackwell Hall, a new ad
ministration building which
was dedicated Oct. 14.
Dr. Fred B. Bentley,
president of the 122-year-old
Baptist college, said $120,000
has been raised within the last
four months to meet the
Kresge challenge. Con
tributions came from other
foundations and businesses,
and from individual trustees,
members of the Board of
Advisors, alumni, and friends
of the college.
The building, which should
be finished within the next few
weeks, has been built by
Parke Construction Company
of Charlotte. The contract
price is $1,146, M0. Bentley
hastened to explain that the
college has borrowed funds to
meet other expenses related to
the construction, including
architectural and engineering
fees as well as furnishings.
The total cost including fur
nishings is $1,306,000, he said.
The building will provide
office and work space far
seven major divisions of the
college administration, and
this will be the first time these
offices have been located
under one roof.
The building is named for i
Dr. and. Mrs. Hoyt Blackwell.
Dr. Blackwell served as
president of Mars Hill from
1938 through IMS. He had also
served as a faculty member
for 10 years before being
named president. Under his
administration. Mars Hill
grew from a junior college to a
senior institution and was
responsible for half of the
college's major buildings. He
is a member of the Class of
1922, and holds additional
degrees from Wake Forest
University and Southern
Seminary.
Groundbreaking for the new
building took place during
graduation weekend in May,
1977, and the actual con
struction began in August,
1977. The formal dedication
and official opening was held
Oct. 14 during the college's
annual Homecoming
celebration. Approximately
3,000 people were on hand for
the ribbon-cutting
ceremonies.
Carpeting and other
finishing touches are nearing
completion, and the building
should be occupied with in the
next few weeks.
JUNIOR YOUTH GROUP OF
FICERS OF GREATER IVY (left
to right): Lisa Anderson,
president, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar E. Anderson Jr. of
Upper Metcaif Creek Road; Patty
Gibbs, vice president, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Max Gibbs of Beech
Glen Road; Pam English,
secretary, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Emerson English of Wall
Road; and Robin Anderson,
treasurer, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John M. Anderson of
Hamburg Road.
Tobacco Market Opens
Tobacco markets will be
opening the sales season for
1978 on Nov. 20 with no sales
on Thanksgiving Day.
The ASCS office is mailing
farmers notice this week that
marketing cards will be ready
to issue Nov. 6. The notice to
farmers clearly states that if
the operator of the farm sends
someone else to pick up his
card or make the certification
about the use of chemicals,
that he must sign a written
statement giving authority to
that person to act in his behalf .
Violations of the tobacco
program can be costly. The
penalty rate for 1978 is 90 cents
per pound and a reduction of
next year's quota for most
violations.
It is a violation to use the
card for another farm to
identify and sell tobacco
grown on your farm.
It is a violation to permit
anyone to use your card to
market tobacco that was
produced on another farm.
It ia a violation for tobacco
to be sold on your card if no
tobacco was produced on your
farm.
If you grow tobacco on more
than one farm, the tobacco
grown on each farm must be
sold on the card for that farm.
If you plant quota for
another farm on your farm,
that quota must be teased to
your farm. The lease must be
signed by both you and the
owner of the other farm and
filed with the ASCS office
If you have more tobacco
than can be sold on your card,
it is a violation to give it away,
sell it on another marketing
card, or to leave it at the
warehouse. Bring it home and
keep it until next year or lease
quota to your farm to sell it
Gambling On Farming/ Ammons Takes Chance Qui Of Operation
By MIKE BOYD
Paul Harvey, radio com
mentator and newspaper
columnist, was talktag the
other day. He mentioned a
bumper sticker aeen out in the
midweatern states It saM, "If
you like to gamble, try far
year that I knew before I
started planting that I waa
going to have a good crop,"
A tanner all hi* life,
Ammons has been growing
burley for the past 11 years on
his own tarm. Three years ago
he loat half of his crop. Thafs
right, half, to shank rot and
black rootNt
almost guaranteed to produce
good leaf.
"Hall and wind are about
the only elements that are left
to chance," he says.
One of the steps in the
formula starts after the crop
is barveated and put in the
barn. Amnions works his
fields to remove all Jobacco
transplant bed come spring, a
nine by 100-foot bed. He coven
it with nylon cloth. In yem
pest, Amnions used cotton
doth. But be says the nylon
make the ' fMd ready
Ammons uyi he is now using
the bedding method of making
rows. This it using special
equipment on the tractor to
thet the rows are mounded up
into a peak with ? deep valley