The News record
SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY
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79th Year No. 36
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N.C.
THURSDAY, September 4, 1980
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Food Stamp Program For Workers Also
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> Hm Madison County Department of Social Ser
vices wants to ensure that they are reaching those
members of the low-income work force who would
fee eligible to receive food stamps.
Anita Davie, said particiption in the Food
Stamp Program is not limited to those families
tut of work or on welfare. One of the main objec
tives of the Program is to safeguard the health
*nd well being of the nation's population by rais
ing the levels of nutrition among low income
households.
Ms. Davie also said In these times of inflation as
well as recession, family heads may have had to
settle for jobs paying less than the one they
previously held just to pay rent and put a little
food on the table. Households with modest earn
ings such as these may qualify to recieve food
stamps.
For example, a family of four with gross weekly
earnings of $300 could be eligible to receive from
I2S to $52 in food stamps each month. With today's
shrinking food dollar that amount in stamps could
mean the difference between well-balanced meals
for the children and a diet lacking in necessary
nutrients.
Food Stamp applications are taken at the Coun
ty Food Stamp Office, Main Street, Marshall from
t a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday; Hot
Springs Day Care Center, Tuesday mornings
from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; Mars Hill Town Hail,
Wednesday mornings 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.; Ebbs
Chapel Elderly Meal Site, second Tuesday, 9 a m
to 11:30 a.m.; and Spring Creek School Lun
chroom Annex, first Friday in each month, 9 a.m.
to 11 :30 a.m. For further information call 649-3424.
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Lunsford Festival Delayed
Several major changes will
be made to the thirteenth an
nual Baacom Lamar Lunsford
Mountain Musie and Dance
Festival held on the Mara Hill
College campus.
The first change is the date.
Normally held on the first
weekend in October, the event
will be changed to the second
weekend, Oct. 17-18, in order
to coincide with the school's
annual Homecoming and
Alumni Day festivities.
The second change is in the
order of events. Normally the
"Minstrel of the Ap
palachias," the main concert
of the two day event would be
held on Saturday evening;
however, this year, in order
not to conflict with a concert
scheduled in Asheville by the
Mountain Music Association,
the "Minstrel" will be Md on
Friday evening, Oct. 17 kt T
P ra in Moore Auditorium.
There will still be workshops
in banjo, guitar, dulcimer,
ballad singing, and other
traditional music skills as well
as craft demonstrations in
weaving and spinning, wood
carving, quilt and doll mak
ing, and homemaking skills
such as cooking on a woodbur
ning stove during the day
Saturday on the green in front
of the college's administration
building.
workshops will be an informal
banjo workshop conducted by
Obray Ramsey, who earlier
this year began recording and
discussing Us music for a
series of educational tapes for
the college. Saturday evening
will feature a concert of tradi
tional music.
Saturday will also be the
day former students of the col
lege return and celebrate
Homecoming with a full slate
of activities. Registration will
begin at t:90 a.m. in the first
floor lobby of Blackwell Hall,
and class reunions will start at
10 a.m.
A buffet will be available in
the cafeteria from 11:30 a.m.
to 1 p.m. A special luncheon
honoring the Alumnus and
Alumna of the Year will be
hetd in the Gold Room of the
cafeteria beginning at noon.
The traditional Homecom
ing parade will begin at 1:15
pjn. and the football game
between Mara Hill and
Carson-Newman College will
?tart at 2:10 p.m. An alumni
dinner will be held in the gym
nasium at 1:13 p.m. and the
day's activities will be
browght to a close with the
Lonsford Festival concert
VENDORS were numerous at the Merchants
Association Flea Market Saturday on the
island in Marshall. The shade trees brought a
welcomed relief from the heat of the
market's previous location. Buyers were
looking for garden produce, a commodity
which was scarce at the market. A word to
the wise... (Photo by N. Hancock)
Student Assignment Trial Scheduled
A special session of court has been set for
Monday, September 29 in order to hear the
case involving the Madison County Board of
Education and some 50 Madison County
students now attending schools in Buncombe
County.
The special session was arranged by the
Administrative Office of the Courts in Raleigh
after a preliminary injunction was issued by
Judge Frank Snepp at a hearing in Burnsvilie
on August 18. The injunction restrains the
Madison school board from forcing the
students to return to Madison schools until the
trial is held.
At the request of attorneys representing
the students, Judge Snepp contacted the AOC
to have the session arranged.
Contacted at his office in Raleigh, Dallas
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Hunt Praises His Campaign
Organization In Madison
Governor Jim Hunt hat
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Cameron of the AOC confirmed that the
special session had been scheduled for Sept.
29. It is expected that Superior Court Judge
John Jolly will sit on the bench during the trial
which will be held in the Madison County Cour
thouse in Marshall.
An attorney for the students said a motion
will be made before Judge Snepp this week to
call in a special jury from outside the county
for the trial.
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