LUCKY WINNER of the Senior
Citizen of the Month prize at the
Marshall meal site was Pearl
Gosnell, front right. With her is
Etta Bullman, last month's win
ner. The prize package included a
plastic bucket, strainer, tray,
hooks, and wooden mixing spoons.
The meal site, one of four in the
county, feeds 35-40 older people
each day, providing an hour or so
of socializing that is much en
joyed by all. Two buses carry the
diners from the Walnut and Mar
shall areas to the site, located on
Long Branch Road. Others shar
ing the delicious turkey and sweet
potato meal, prepared by Maria
Cox's staff, include Plato Clark, |
Fred McDevitt, Raymond i
Thomas, Jack Guthrie, Howard '
Miller, Lonnie Treadway, Blanch
Houston, Diara Rice, Grace
English, Geneva Ramsey,
Elizabeth Clark, Sallie McHone,
Ellen Hensley, Lavada Davis, Er
nie Letterman, Lucille Burnette,
Flora Chandler, Rachel Ledford,
Ella Cook, Tecoma McElroy,
Clare McDevitt, Etta Goforth,
Cathy Gosnell, Bill Chandler,
Junior Lowe, and Baxter Shelton.
Site manager is Josephine
Goforth. A fifth site is opening this
week at Ebb's Chapel.
Business Bureau Warns
On Work- At -Home Schemes
The Asheville/Western
North Carolina Better
Business Bureau warned to
day that work-at-home
schemers continue to prey on
those who can least afford to
lose money.
The BBB alert followed a re
cent nationwide investigation
by the Council of Better
Business Bureau of 55 work
at-home promotions, each of
which was geared to attract
the elderly, fixed-income in
dividuals, students, the han
dicapped ? anyone struggling
to meet the ever rising cost of
living.
The Council's findings
disclosed that those wanting to
supplement their incomes by
investing in work-at-home op
portunities were losing their
money to unscrupulous pro
moters using misleading
advertising claims.
The promotions in
vestigated by the Council were
the time-worn and widespread
work-at-home schemes that
advertisers use to create false
expectations of high earnings
and, in most instances, gainful
employment. The investiga
tion revealed that adver
tisements promising hundreds
of dollars for a few hours'
work were simply lures by the
advertisers to sell information
on how to set up your own
business or conduct the same
scheme as the advertiser's.
No actual employment ex
isted; instead, would-be
workers would have had to
first pay for details purporting
to show how to make the
claimed income, and then in
vest sums of money in ads,
envelopes, postage and sundry
other items.
In an effort to encourage
advertising media to obtain all
the facts before deciding on
the acceptability of work-at
home advertisements, a Coun
cil "Media Bulletin" on the
subject is being distributed to
local advertising media, in
cluding newspapers,
magazines, radio and televi
sion stations. In addition, the
Council of Better Business
Bureaus is referring to postal
authorities those work-at
tjome scheme cases which ap
pear to be frauds.
A typical advertisement for
a work -at home opportunity
pjaimed "$356 weekly
gu%P.inteed. Work two hours
daily at home." Investigation
rtvealed that the "guarantee"
Ad not apply to the earnings,
hut only to a refund of the $15
The initial details the aspir
ing worker receives about a
work-at-home plan usually
turn out to be booklets telling
how to go into the business of
placing the same kind of ad
the advertiser ran in the first
place. In short, the work-at
home scheme participants
begins recruiting others for
the same business of offering
a work-at-home plan. It is not
difficult to see this system is
one which feeds on continuous
recruitment of participants of
fering the same plan; by
geometric progression, soon
everyone in the country would
be trying to sell envelopes
stuffing plans in true pyramid
fashion.
In addition, those who are
intent on working the scheme
usually are required by the
original advertiser to buy such
additional materials as pro
motional flyers on address
lists. The would-be home
worker also must spend
money on advertising,
postage, envelopes and prin
ting in order to start a
business that produces very
little or no income.
A variation of this theme is a
plan whereby the work-at
home scheme participant
buys from the advertiser mail
ing lists and flyers and has his
or her return address im
printed on them. For every
response received and sent
back to the company, the
worker is paid 25 cents or
other nominal sum. Taking in
to consideration the average
response rate for direct mail
solicitations, this plan offers
little in the way of a work-at
home bonanza.
The Asheville/Western
North Carolina Better
Business Bureau advises pro
spective home workers that
there is no substitute for close
ly examining any offer which
promises or guarantees in
come from work-at-home pro
gams. Always check with the
Better Business Bureau on
any advertiser making
available such an opportunity
before sending any money for
more detail*. If the opportuni
ty sounds too good to be true,
chances are that it is. Con
sider it a warning sign if a
worker must buy something in
order to start the program. In
terested participants also
should take into consideration
that by becoming involved in a
work-at-home scheme, they
might well be perpetrating a
fraud by selling the program
to others, and risk investiga
tion by postal authorities.
Freezer
Donated To
Greater Ivy
Everty and Lois Robinson
recently donated an upright
freezer to the Greater Ivy
Community Center. It is being
used by the Greater Ivy Day
Care Center as well as the
Senior Citizens Nutrition Pro
gram.
Lucille Pack, publicity per
son for the center, said this is
another example of the "care
and share" attitude so
prevalent among Greater Ivy
residents.
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New Ranger Moves To Hot Springs
*'
Strojan moved here last
November n Hilitiit
ranger. Hit areas of respon
sibility include recreation,
trail maintenance, (Ire
management, special use*,
road upkeep, the Yeuth Con
servation Corps, the Young
Adult Coneervation Corps, the
Manpower programs, and the
older Americans program.
Other staff members based
in Hot Springs include Shirley
Brooks, business manager;
Steve Burns, surveying
technician; Neal Barnett,
recreation technician; Claude
Gowan, timber sales ad
ministrator; and Dave West,
timber technician.
Charles Miller, in explain
ing the station's emphasis on
timbering, defined the mission
of his service. "We are very
different from a national
park," he said. "The national
parks are administered by the
Department at the Interior,
and their purpose is solely to
protect and preserve the
recrea tonal value of the land.
The Forest Service is under
the Department of
Agriculture, and our objective
is to manage for the better
ment of all people all the
resources of .an area ?
timber, wildlife and watersh
ed. And each is managed so as
not to be detrimental to any of
the users. I might be prejudic
ed, but I think there's a great
need for both types of area.
It's hard to exaggerate just
how many 'man-years' of en
joyment come from hunting,
for example. I feel like that
really helps to keep the world
together."
Miller said that the timber
ing quota for the next year has
been set at about six million
board feet for his district, but
doubted that that much will be
Mother And 4 Children
Die In Fire At Home
Betty Davis Ma this, 43, and
four of her five children
perished Wednesday night in a
fire that gutted their home on
Ray Hill Road 9 miles west of
Henderson ville. '
Her husband, Carmel
Mathis, and a 16-year-old
daughter, Charlene, survived
the blaze that took the lives of
the mother, Kevin Frank, 13,
Keith Doyle 11, Jenny Lynn, 7,
and Christopher Robin 5.
The Mills River Volunteer
Fire Department extinguished
the blaze moments after
equipment reached the scene
at 11:40 pjn. on the John
McLean dairy farm where
Mathis was employed.
The fire apparently started
in the television set in the liv
ing room.
The five-room frame struc
ture belonged to the dairy
farm. Mathis had left the
house at 11 p.m. to go to take
the cows in for the morning
milking. Charlene told Dr.
Howard Norton, a medical ex
aminer, that her mother had
discovered the fire about 20 or
25 minutes later, aroused her,
and Charlene crawled to safe
ty through the bathroom win
dow, ran to the barn and call
ed Dr. Norton, who turned in
the fire alarm.
The bodies of the mother
and three sons were found in
.one bedroom and the other
daughter in the other bedroom
where they had attempted to
open windows to escape. The
house had two doors on the
front side, but none in the
rear.
Mathis had returned to the
house when Norton arrived
and it was an inferno of in
tense heat with flames pour
ing from the front door and
windows and rising 20 feet into
the air.
Firemen were on the scene
quickly and soon put out the
flames, Norton said, but it was
too late to save the persons
trapped inside or the fur
niture, clothing and other
possessions. Moore said death
apparently resulted from
smoke inhalation.
Firemen and equipment
from the Etowah-Horse Shoe
VFD also arrived on the
scene, as did rescue personnel
and officers from the Hender
son County Sheriff's Depart
ment.
A fund has been set up to
assist the survivors as they
seek to rebuild their lives.
Gifts may be sent to the
Carmel Mathis Fund at the
Northwestern Bank in
Henderson ville (zip 28739) or
to the Mills River Fire Depart
ment, Horse Shoe, 28742.
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"Became of "Q""1 lawsuits
started in West Virginia a few
years ago," he said, "we've
had a moratorium here on
regeneration cutting, which
some people call clear cutting
Our normal quota is about Ave
million board feet, but
because of the moratorium
we've fallen behind a little.
"We have several kinds of
cutting routines. One is in
termediate cutting, where we
cut some trees so as to let
other trees grow better,
"Then we have regeneration
cutting, where we cut all the
trees once they are mature ?
usually about 100 yeara old. If
they are white pine, we
replant the whole forest. If
they are hardwoods, we find
that a mature forest has so
many seeds oo the ground that
the trees will regenerate best
by themselves Then we have
shelter cutting, where we may
cut 70 percent of the trees and
leave the rest to <fct>p seeds.
Once new trees are sprouting,
we go back and take the other
30 percent."
These are the choices s
timber manager has to make,
and he" makes them on the
basis of his prescription
work."
Edgar Justice
Honored
On Birthday
Edgar Justice of Route 1.
Hot Springs was honored on
Sunday, Mar. 16 with a birth
day dinner at his hone
Mr. Justice was 78 years old
on Mar. 19. Attending the din
ner were several friends and
family members. He received
several nice gifts.
Mr. and Mrs. Ansel Sawyer
of Route 1, Hot Springs,
celebrated their 30th wedding
anniversary Mar. 14. They
have four children and four
granddaughters.
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