Randy Rice ? Spirit,
Good Stout Heart
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IN AN EXHIBITION of great spirit, blind Randy Rice made his
way through the maze of years in the public school system, and
when it was done they heaped high honor on the talented young
man Sunday at graduation. Randy was led to his guitar and he
sang a song of spirit, and when he finished, the people gave him
their greatest spontaneous recognition - a standing ovation.
WNC Development
Program Entries
A toUl of M organized
and the Cherokee Indian
Reservation entered Che 1M0
Western North Carolina
Community Development
Program by the entry
deadline, according to Morris
L. McGough, executive vice
president of the WNC
Development Association, and
Bill N. Clark of Madison
County, area chairman of the
program.
Now in its 31st year, the
development contest is the
nation's oldest grassroots,
self-help community im
provement program. It is
sponsored by the development
association in cooperation
with the N.C. Agricultural
Extension Service, along with
other agencies and local
sponsors in the various
counties.
Five communities in
Madison County are taking
part in the improvement and
beautifies tlon program this
year. These include Greater
Ivy, Mars Hill, Sleepy Valley,
Upper Laurel and Walnut
Brush Creek.
Buncombe County leads in
the number of entries again
this year with 18 communities
participating. The Cherokee
Indian Reservation, Hen
derson and Transylvania
From its beginning, the
major emphasis of the
community development
program has bean to boost
community pride and spirit
and to encourage people to
wort together to build better
and more attractive areas in
which to live.
With the motto, "There is no
limit to what a community can
do ? if it wants to," a wide
range of projects have been
carried out by the com
munities over the years.
These have included building
over 100 community centers,
starting volunteer fire
departments, constructing
playgrounds and ball fields,
roadside parks, entrance
signs and many other im
provements.
Awards totaling $10,000,
provided by area business
firms, industries and
organisations, will be
presented to areas in the WNC
program showing the greatest
improvement for the year. In
addition, approximately
)15,000 will be awarded in
local competition within the
counties.
Awards totaling $2,000 will
be presented to area winners
in a special beautification
contest, Western North
Mars Hill Library
Receives Grant
Mars Hill has just received
$10,000 toward funding its
public library project. This is
a grant from the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation, a
foundation mtahHshed in 1936
as a memorial to the younger
son of the founder of R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company.
In that year the brother and
two sisters of Z. Smith
Reynolds provided that their
inheritance from his estate
would go to the establishment
of a trust for the people of
North Caorlina. One of the
initial trustees of the Foun
dation was Z. Smith Reynolds'
uncle, William Neal Reynolds,
who at his death in 1961
created a trust which now
provides the major portion of
the Foundation's annual in
come.
The Foundation, drawing on
the income from the Zachary
Smith Reynolds Trust and the
W.N. Reynolds Trust, has now
made grants totaling more
than $95 million to recipients
in almost all of North
Carolina's 100 counties. Major
attention has been given to
education and health care,
with increased interest in
recent years to cultural ac
tivities, rural life, the han
dicapped, recreational ser
vices, and some 20 other fields
of concern.
This grant and the funds
received from the North
Carolina Department of
Natural Resources and
Community Development and
the James G.K. McClure
Foundation, along with the
almost ISO, 000 raised by the
community itself, will provide
matching monies required for
the A.R.C. grant now being
sought.
Carolina Beautiful. One-bait
of thia amount will go to
participating dubs >nd ona
half to a division Including
other organizations and
groups.
Purpose of this contest is to
stimulate interest in clean-up
and baautification projects. A
record number of thirty en
tries were received this year
in the division for other
organizations and groups.
Included are the following in
Madison County: Sleepy
Valley Special Interest Youth
Group.
Judging for the WNC
Beautiful contest will be held
in August, while judging for
overall community progress
will be done next fall.
Special judging and awards
will also be provided for youth
programs and activities, as
well as in a Mobile Home
Improvement and Safety
Contest. Cash awards of $1,200
will be presented to com
munity clubs and individual
mobile home residents having
made outstanding im
provements during the contest
year. This is the first program
of its type anywhere in the
nation.
Announcement of winners
and presentation of awards for
the WNC Beautiful Contest
will be made at a special
awards luncheon in Sep
tember. Announcements of
winners and presentation of
awards in the overall com
munity development program
will be made at the annual
meeting of the WNC
Development Associaiton on
Dec. 6.
The Editor's
Mail Bag
Editor, The News Record:
Today we know that mental
illness can be prevented in
many cases. This can be done
through education about men
tal health and learning to cope
with stress. There is a group of
citizens trying to see that this
happened ? the North
Carolina Mental Health
Association ? and during the
month of May they are asking
for help in this effort.
The association is involved
on a statewide level in pro
moting legislation favorable
in delivering effective mental
health services. If you are in
terested in contributing to the
Mental Health Association or
would like more information
about the association, you
may contact Mrs. Martha Jo
Carter, 689-3243 or Mrs. Texie
West, 689-4049 who are the
chairpersons for the Marshall
and Mars Hill areas. Your
contribution and support in
this effort to promote positive
mental health is greatly ap
preciated.
MARTHA CARTER
Federal Land
Bank Assn.
Holds Meeting
More than 700 members and
guests attended the annual
stockholders meeting of the
Federal Land Bank Associa
tion and Mountain Production
Credit Association last Thurs
day at the Asheville Civic
Center.
The meeting was called to
order by Wade Huey of
Madison County, thairman of
the board of directors of the
credit association. W Mack
Rogers of Leicester who is
chairman of the Federal Land
Bank Association board of
directors, gave the director's
report.
Senior vice president Edwin
E. Fnzzell reviewed the an
nual reports, and Royce D.
Phillips, assistant vice presi
dent, gave the financially
related services report.
Rogers and Foy C. Hill were
reelected to the credit associa
tion's board of directors; and
Rogers and Lon F. Sluder was
reelected to the Asheville
board of directors for the
Federal Land Bank.
The gathering was enter
tained by Jerry Clower, the
nation's top country come
dian, and 35 door prizes were
given away.
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By POP
Jerry Clower, nationally-known
humorist, was guest entertainer at the
annual stockholders meeting of the Federa
Land Bank Association of Asheville am
Mountain Production Credit Associations
last Thursday night in the Thomas Wolfed
auditorium in the Asheville Civic Center^
Clower, who has appeared on many "tails
shows" and who is also a recording artist,
kept the audience laughing with hiafi
humorous style. He also stressed the basic:
needs in today's world, emphasizing the
behavior of parents before their children.;
Not only is Clower an entertainer but is also
known for his Christian enthusiasim as anc
outstanding Gideon. He was well receive^
by the audience of about 700, many who>
were from Madison County. In thes
stockholders meeting which preceded thee
entertainment, Wade Huey, chairman of;
the MPCA board of directors, called theC
meeting to order. The Rev. Mike MinnixJ
pastor of First Baptist Church, Marshall;
gave the invocation; Jake Griff, president?
of FCS, presided at the election of direct
tors; other Madison County men paH
ticipating included Lon Sluder. The entire
program was enjoyable.
Monday - Memorial Day - was quiet
around town with many places closed...
however quiet, it was a beautiful day after;
several days of rain. Many persons ob
served Memorial Day with decorations in
cemeteries on Sunday.
Baseball fans were glad that the;
predicted strike by major league players:
was called off at the last moment last week.;
I am sure both players and management
had their reasons for such action, but I get a i
bit upset when I think about the huge
salaries of many of the super stars... and
the free agent system... and the fans who!
pay for the constant increase in salaries. I:
was impressed last week to read just how;
much certain palyers are paid. According]
to Clyde King, a New York Yankees cout, he'
stated:
"Baseball players are treated pretty)
well," said King. "Take Pittsburgh's Dave!
Parker. If we play a complete season,!
Parker will come to bat about 580 times. ;
And for each time at bat hell make about
$1,700.
"Or take (Houston's) Nolan Rayan. If
his arm holds up and he appears in 200 in
nings, he'll be paid about $5,000 per inning.
That's good pay. It's more than I made my
first season (1944) in the major leagues
(Brooklyn)."
Frankly, my heart cant bleed for many
of the players who make such salaries,
especially when many of them hold out for j
even larger paychecks before each season. !
Who actually pays for these enormous!
salaries] The fans, of course.
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