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The News r SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISO 81st Year No. 29 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C. COW4TV I GENERAL DLL1 M(, ^AR-^ai * ^ /^i-3 WEDNESDAY, July 21, 198? 15c Per Copy mad Plant Goal : Operating By F all, 1983 BY JON ROSENBLUM The word from Cleveland, Ohio is: "We hope to have the plant up and go ing within a year and a half ? fall, 1983." That's from American Greeting Corp. spokesman Ralph White, vice president for personnel and industrial relations, who confirmed that the greeting card company will shortly begin grading for a $10 million 400,000 square foot plant near the Madison County landfill. White downplayed earlier estimates of how many the plant would employ, saying it "might" get as large as 700 employees but will "in itially be in the neighborhood of 400-500." County officials say the plant will "double" the number of industrial jobs available. White said grading for the site will begin within the next month or two or less." The plant will be for packaging and greeting card processing and won't get into printing, he said. "We wish we could open the plant tomorrow. We need the space very badly," White said, noting that the "available labor and attitudes of the people" attracted the company to the Marshall area. "We're a very pater nalistic type of company and this is the type of people we like very much." He said the company plans to bring in only a "skeleton management team" ? about 20 families ? when the plant opens, and "the rest of the employees we hope to get from the area." Explaining the delay in nailing down plans for the plant, White said "You need to put a lot of pieces together for a venture of this size. We didn't see too many problems but we wanted to make sure all the details worked out. "Now that we see that. All systems are go." One of the county officials in strumental in luring the company to Madison was James Ledford, chair man of the board of commissioners. He said in an interview Tuesday that officials are "really proud, and I'm sure the people are too." He said that in 1961 American Greeting Corp. purchased 52 acres from the county at a cost of $85,000 for the plant area and grounds. Ledford said the county expectes to be working with company officials in its training programs. LISTON RAMSEY, left, presents check for $60,000 to Garland Woody, chairman of the Community Fund Raising Committee for the new Hot Springs Medical-Dental Facility. Looking on are committee members Alberta Stroud, Bill Whitten, Eugene Wills and Ruth Smith. ? - $90,000 In Grants Will Finance Hot Springs Medical-Dental Facility Grants totaling 180,000 were presented last week to the Hot Springs Health Program for the new Hot Springs medical dental facility. Liston Ramsey, Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, made the presentation on behalf of the State of North Carolina to Garland Woody, chairman of the community fund raising committee and to the members of the board of directors. Jerry Plemmons, chairman of the board of directors, spoke for the group saying, "The board is most ap preciative of the support Rep. Ramsey has given the Hot Springs Medical Center. This project is the result of a lot of people working together and good community support." According to Plemmons, "This is the third time in re cent years that Rep. Ramsey has assisted in providing bet ter medical facilities in Madison County by helping the Hot Springs program to secure funds. The Marshall Walnut facility received state support in 1978 and the Laurel Medical Center was assisted in 1981." Additional funding for the project will come from an Ap palachian Regional Commis sion Grant, a Farmers Home Administration loan and a community fund drive. The community drive has already raised almost $26,000 in cash and pledges. This drive will continue for a few more weeks. It is anticipated that many other contributions will be made as soon as construc tion begins. Woody expressed his appreciation to all who assisted in the fund raising. He said, "This demonstrates what the Hot Springs-Spring Creek community can do when the folk work together." The facility will be located on property adjacent to Highway 25-70 between the Lions Club building and the KMS office. Taylor Barnhill of Laurel is architect for the pro ject. The building, a 3,700 square foot passive solar structure, will include three exam rooms, a minor trauma room, X-ray, two dental operatives, waiting rooms and office space. Plemmons acknowledged the contributions of Michael Norins, former executive director of the program. He stated, "Michael provided ex cellent administrative leader ship to the Hot Springs Medical Center project. He worked extremely hard to in sure funding for this project." Mr. Norins resigned his pod tion recently to attend Medical 1 School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He had been executive direc tor for four and a half years. Construction is expected to begin in 60 to 90 days. The only holdup is a technical problem related to using program funds to repay the FmHA loan. Plemmons pointed out that federal legislation had been introduced that would correct this problem. He said, "We are most anxious to com plete the building project. This beautiful structure will facilitate the delivery of quali ty medical and dental services by a highly trained profes sional staff." Benefit For Vietnam Veterans Music Festival Set At Ponder Farm Zeno Ponder s 500-acre term will be the site of this weekend's second annual Mountain Rock N' Roll Festival The two-day benefit festival will help raise funds far the United Vietnam Veterans Organization The gates to the term will opsn at ? a.m. o? Saturday for I , campers coming to the washtad festival. Tickets for the weekend event are tlO in Ponder Associates Realty on the WeavervUle Highway. The festival will get under way on Saturday at noon with a performance by the Man Gibe band. Other performers scheduled to appear on Satur day include Copperhead, the Riser Reggae Band from Asheville and the George Hat Winter Brother* and the Ar timui Pyle Band. Rock N' Roll fans will remember Pyle as the drum mer with the legendary Lynard Skynyrd Band. The George Hatcher Band recently signed a contract with MCA Records. Their first album with the label Is a* pected to be released soon. The festival will also feature concessior si audience. Promoter* of the festival have announced that no bot tle* of any kind will be permit ted through the gates The festival site Is located Tobacco Producers To Pay For Supports BY ROBERT KOENIG The U.S. Senate on Thurs day approved legislation which will put the tobacco price support program on a no net cost basis to taxpayers. The legisltiop, H.R. 6590, amends the Agricultural Act of 1849 and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as they generally relate to the price support program for all kinds of quota tobacco and the acreage allotment and quota program for certain kinds of tobacco. The Senate passed the resolution by a 77-17 vote margin. The House had ap proved the measure on June 21st. The bill now goes on to President Reagan for his ap proval. Under the No Net Cost Tobacco Program Act of 1982, a grower assessment program will be instituted to help achieve the no net cost objec tive. Proceeds from the fund will be used to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corpora tion for losses it may sustain from its loan agreements with producer associations in car rying out the price support program. The new legislation gives the Secretary of Agriculture added flexibility in setting price support levels. The bill permits the secretary to ad just support levels on all grades of tobacco according to market conditions, so long as the levels average out to a level for any kind of tobacco that reflects not less than 65 percent of any increase in the level otherwise required by law. The Secretary could reduce the support by up to 35 percent of what it otherwise would be. The new bill also makes several changes in the law re quiring the leasing of flue cured tobacco allotments and quotas. A major change is the elimination of fall leasing, ex cept in the case of natural disasters. The bill specifically permits the sale of flue-cured tobacco allotments and quotas. Under the new bill, however, such allotments or quotas may be (Continued on Page 2) NIN Opens Office On Long Branch Neighbors In Need, a Chris tian organization of Madison County residents primarily aiding the elderly of the area, has opened an office in the Center for the Council on Ag ing, Long Branch Road. Staffed by volunteers on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the office is opened for those persons needing food, fuel, medical and other emergency assistance. "During the past year, a small group of Christians from around Madison County have been working together to find ways of helping those citizens of our county who do not have enough income to supply their most basic needs, especially with current agen cy fund cuts," said NIN Presi dent Rev. Jerry Jarrell. "We have particularly em phasized helping elderly per sons get wood and fuel oil," he said. "NIN is a Chirstian Ministry. When service is given the clients are informed "that it comes from the Chris tian community of Madison County as an expression of the love of Christ both for those who are helping and those be ing helped." Each client is asked if he is affiliated with a church and if not if he would welcome a visit from a local pastor. Bibles are also given if requested. "Neighbors In Need is in no way intended to compete or replace what individual Chris tians and churches in the county are doing to meet needs. Its ministry is to fill in the gaps, to allow us to do together what we can't do separately, and to make us all more aware of the needs around us," he said. The nine-member board in cludes: Mrs. Polly Cheek, Mrs. Maria Cox, Mrs. Julie Nooe, Rev. Tom Gaunt, Rev. Jerry Jarrell, Rev. George Moore, Mrs. Marian Plaunt, Mr. Jerry Plemmons, Mrs. Fae Ramsey. The new office's phone number is 5&-Z722. New Staffers Join News Record Publisher Kenneth F. Wilson has announced the ap pointment of a new editor and advertising manager to the staff of The News Record. Robert T. Koenig has been ' CHERYL W ; named editor, succeeding G. Nicholas Hancock. Mr. Koemf'i wife, Cheryl Wood Koenig, has been named the
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