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SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY
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Kevin Morley Remembers
Snows Of JSetv England
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80th Year No. 1
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N C
THURSDAY, January 1, 1981
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WOLF LAUREL ? This group of young peo
ple were not detered by Wolf Laurel s ski
slopes being closed on Christmas Day. Mark
Cotter and Will Caldwell, along with a few
younger friends, put a beginners slope to
good use by trying out their sledding discs
moio oy ri nanwtn
while a snow making machine added to the
slight accumulation which fell Christmas
Eve. With nightly temperatures in the teens,
the ski resort's slopes should be in good con
dition for New Year's weekend ski bulls.
Counties Play Musical Chairs
Reapportionment Scheduled
For General Assembly
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - For the first time in
10 years, North Carolina politicians will meet in
January to play their version of musical chairs, a
game that could make or break some political for
tunes.
The game is called reapportionment and it
helps- determine who goes to Raleigh or
Washington as a legislator. Its purpose is to insure
the residents of the coastal county of Tyrrell are
as well represented as those in the urban county of
Mecklenburg.
State House Speaker Liston Ramsy says
preliminary census figures show eight state
House districts have grown far out of balance
since 1971. The worst is the 5th District, which in
cludes Bertie County in the state's northeastern
corner. The district has 23 percent fewer people
than its two representatives require.
At the other extreme is the 42nd District, in
cluding Henderson County out west, which has
grown so much that it has 19 percent more people
than required for one representative.
Ramsey says the courts won t allow (in
ferences larger than 10 percent, but he notes that
one district can't be changed without affecting
another district.
"You can shift a county in the mountains thai
will have an effect on the coast,'' he says.
In addition to the number of representatives,
the district lines also may affect the strength of
political parties.
For example, take the west s 11th Congres
sional District near Asheville, where Republican
Bill Hendon upset incumbent Lamar Gudger in
the November election. Many Democrats would
like to bring more Democratic votes into the
district to prevent a repeat performance by
Republicans.
One solution would be to move heavily
Democratic Cleveland County from the 10th
District to the 11th District. That district's
borders have wobbled as Democratic legislators
have tried to dislodge Republican Rep. Jim
Broyhill of Lenoir over the past 18 years.
Hendon Makes Appointments
Congressman-elect William M. Hen
don has appointed two Ashevilie natives
to top positions on his Washington, D.C.
office staff.
Donna Norton, for eight years ex
ecutive assistant to an Indiana
Republican congressman, will serve as
executive assistant in charge of all of
fice operations. Billy Pritchard, who
recently resigned from the Ashevilie
Citizen-Times after 10 years as a
reporter, was named press secretary
These were the first major appoint
ments made by Rtndotl, a Republican
who defeated two-term Democrat Rep.
Lamar Gudger of Aalmrtlte Nov. 4 for
and Mr*. D.C. Norton. She has 13 years
experience in the House of Represen
tative* and spent the last eight years on
the staff of Rep. El wood Hills, R-Ind.
Miss Norton is serving her second
term as president of the Republican
Women of Cafrtol Hill, a group of pro
fessional women serving in Congress,
and is beat known for her work with the
elderly in organizing and developing
the Congressional Senior Citizen Intern
Program
Her work la the elderly program
recently earned her a Presidential
Award (ram Ike Congressional Staff
Black Mountain.
Pritcbard it the son of Mr. and Mrs
T.W. Pritcbard Jr. He attended
Asbevilie city schools and Mars Hill
College, where be earned a degree in
English in 1967 He Is veteran of the
U.S. Army and served in Vietnam in
1M and 1989 as a congressional cor
respondent in Saigon for the U S
Military Assistance Command.
Pritcbard Joined tbe news staff of The
Asbevilie Citizen-Times in 1970 and
? covered every m%)or beat on tbe
newspaper, most recently reporting on
pontics, the courts and state govern
ment. f
Ramsey's Installation
Expects Big Crowd
Liston Bryan Kamsey will
move to a statewide constiuen
cy next monthly when he is
formally elected House
speaker in the 1981 General
Assembly, and the people
from his mountain district will
be in Raleigh cheering the
loudest.'
Ramsey, veteran
Democratic representative
from Madison County, will at
tract a crowd from Western
North Carolina when he takes
over the gavel as speaker on
Jan. 14.
A reception will be held for
Ramsey at North Ridge Coun
try Club in Raleigh.
Waynesville attorney Zeb
Alley, who is making ' ar
rangements for the reception,
said he is preparing for at
least 800 people.
There could be that many
from Madison County alone.
Zeno Ponder, longtime
Ramsey ally, credits Sara
Murray of Waynesville with
( i'tea for a tpeejftion Jor the.
new House speaker.
"She was the first to men
tion it to me. She said two
months before the Nov. 4 elec
tions that people in Western
North Carolina wanted to have
a party for Liston, Ponder
said.
Ponder said the drive to get
a crowd to Raleigh for
Ramsey s induction as
speaker of the House is a bi
partisan effort with
Republicans as well as
Democrats taking part.
"And when he is formally
elected on Jan. 14 by the other
119 members of the House. 1 m
confident there will be
Republican legislators voting
lor him, Ponder said.
Ramsey, 61, has served in
the House for 20 years and will
become the first speaker in 80
years from the far western
part of the state.
At least five buses will leave
out of the mountains early on
the morning of Jan. 14, with
One Oak Plaza designated as
the meeting point in Asheville.
There will also be buses
leaving from Madison,
Haywood and Jackson coun
ties. The House district
represented by Ramsey and
Rep. Ernest B. Messer is
made up of Haywood,
Madison, Jackson and Swain
counties.
Cowan oJ, Sylvia is in
charge of getting bus
transportation lor people who
want to use them from his
home county of Jackson, and
T.A. Sandlin has a similar
responsibility for Swain.
The bus for Swain and
Jackson counties will leave
from Sylva at 6 a.m. on Jan.
14, Ponder said
He and Weaver Chapman,
who is handling transportation
tor Haywood County, said 75
motel rooms have been
reserved at Days Inn in
Raleigh, 50 more at the Ranch
Motel there, and that still
another 50 can be arranged at
the Royal Villa if they are
needed.
Dr. Wallace N. Hyde of
Asheville and Molly Wilmot of
Brevard are coordinating
transportation from Bun
combe and other surrounding
counties, and anyone who
wants to travel on a bus should
contact one of those people.
"We are hopeful that suffi
cient funds can be obtained to
offer free transportation to
Kaleigh. Ponder said.
He said the buses will depart
for Raleigh at 6 a.m on Jan
14, and return the next day.
leaving Raleigh at 9 a.m.
Jena Lee Buckner, Register
of Deeds Office, 649-3131, will
furnish any information as to
the trip, costs, departure, ect.
Zeb Alley and Zeno H
Ponder, who are heading up
the drive, will have to commit
themselves on the number of
rooms by making a substan
tial deposit not later than Jan
1, 1981
Madison To Receive
Over 'Ten Grand'
Federal funding totaling
$445,683 has been awarded a
variety of projects in the 11th
Congressional District, accor
ding to a recent announce
ment of departing Con
gressman Lamar Gudger.
The largest single item in
the funding was $297,749 in
U.S. Forest Service payments
from National Forest receipts
to 15 Western North Carolina
counties. Madison County will
receive $10,997.37 as its share
of the money.
The other 14 counties will
receive the following
amounts: Avery, $5,623.43;
Buncombe. $7,108.84;
ChcroWc, $j7,o8i.db, Clay
$28,652.09; Graham,
$50,180.76; Haywood,
$15,435.12; Henderson,
$3,915.89; Jackson, $13,078.87;
McDowell, $14,985.03; Macon,
$68,025.24; Mitchell, 93,962.53;
Swain, $9,554,41 ; Tran
sylvania, $21,063.29; and
Yancey, $8,086 .95.
Draft Registration Begins Jan. 5
Post offices in Marshall and
elsewhere around the nation
will be the centers for Selec
tive Service registration for
men born in 1962 during the
week of Jan. 5, 1981.
Men born in 1963, and later,
should register within 30 days
of their 18th birthday, accor
ding to Selective Service of
ficials.
The new registrations are a
continuance of the program
begun last summer when men
born in 1960 and 1961 filled in
registration forms. The pur
pose of registration is to build
a pool of names and addresses
from which Selective Service
could draw in an emergency
"Registration directly im
proves our capability to res
pond,'' said Dr. Beranrd D.
Rostker, diector of the Selec
tive Service System,
"reducing lead time by at
least four weeks.
"We think that provides a
significant advantage,
especially when matched with
the very low cost of the
registration effort," Rostker
said. The registration so far
has cost less than $2 per
registrant.
When the military draft was
ended in 1972, registration
continued for three more
years, When the capabilities
of Selective Service declined,
a revitaliiation began in 1*79
aimed at increasing the
system s readiness level that
included the registration and
development of a training pro
gram for potential draft batrd
The
courts on the legality of a
male-only I
and aliens residing in the
United States born in 1960,
1961 or 1962 except those on
student or similar visas or
members of trade or
diplomatic missons, and men
now with the armed forces,
must register. Men born in
1963 or later years are re
quired to register within 30
days of their 18th birthdays.
To avoid lines at the post of
fices, men bom in 1962 are en
couraged to register on a day
of the week keyed to the month
of birth; on Monday, Jan. 5 for
those born in January,
February and March; on
Tuesday, Jan. 6 for those born
in April, May and June; on
Wednesday, Jan.7 for those
born in July, August and
September; and on Thursday,
Jan. 8 for those born in Oc
tober, November and
December. Friday and Satur
day may be used as
"make-up- days for those
unable to register on the sug
gested day.
Men born in 1960 and 1961
should already have
registered this year. Those
who have not are encouraged
by Selective Service to do so
as soon as possible at any of
the 34,500 post offices
throughout the nation.
Edwards, Wallace Elected
To Regional Eight Posts
Robert L Edwards and Bet
ty C. Wallace were
unanimously elected to head
the Region VIII School
Superintendents' Council at
the December meeting of the
19-county council at the
Western Regional Education
Center in Canton.
Edwards, Superintendent of
Madison County Schools for IS
years, will serve his third
term as Chairman Of the coun
cil until June, 1W1, and Dr.
Wallace, Associate
Superintendent of Macon
County Schools for four years,
will serve as vice-chairman.
Dr. Wallace will assume the
chairmanship in July.
Dr. Wallace's election
marks two firsts: site will be
the first school official flram
Macon County and the first
Betty Wallace
"In choosing Dr.
Wallace, he said, "we have
elected a chairman who can
take her place not only among
top women educators in the
state, bat also among men. "
Or. Wallace responded, "I
am gratified to have the
chance to wort with Mr. Ed
R. L. Edwards
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