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THE NEWS REL SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY COUISOy | i "AO! SON on r , 'LR\ N< -H , 81st Year No. 33 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C WEDNESDAY, August 18, 1982 15c Per Copy TV A Program Will Assist Marshall The town of Marshall will be receiving a lift in the next few months, courtesy of the Ten nessee Valley Authori ty. Town officials were notified this week that the TVA has approved Marshall's appliction for assistance under the authorities Town Life Program. The approval of the application is the first step in what will be a six-month project . aimed at revitalizing the downtown business area. The next step in the project will be a public meeting some time in September. At the meeting, town officials and private citizens will sit down with TVA of ficials to discuss what direction the project will take. According to John Smalling, a city planner for the TVA who will assist in the project, "The revitalization pro gram can become almost anything the people of Marshall want it to be." Smalling said the TV A will render assistance in areas such as traffic pattern ad justment, storefront renovations and beautifications. Such assistance will be made available to both the . town's officials and to private sector businessmen. The TVA assistance will be in the form, of technical advice regar ding revitalization plans. The TVA will not provide any funds to carry out the im provements, but the technical assistance will help to keep down costs of any improvements. TVA will make its resources of experts in various fields available to the town. Included will be architects, economists, draftsmen, landscape artists and other professionals. While TV A will assist both the town and private citizens in for mulating a revitaliza tion program which the town can afford, it will not provide blueprints for any of the proposed improvements. Instead, the TVA planners will provide concept draw ings of many projected improvements. One of the next steps the town must take will be to create a commit tee of town officials and with the TVA staff. Smalling warns that the committee members can look forward to many hours of hard private citizens to work in close cooperation work in the months ahead. He said, "We are very frank with the committees we work with. We tell them, 'We will work as hard as you do ! This sort of a project demands a lot of time and dedication, but we think the end results are worth the effort'." Renocation of vacant and abandoned buildings are a part of the Town Lift program. Smalling explained, "We work with towns to provide for stimulating economic development. Part of this includes providing property owners with a package of economic inventives for restoring abandoned and vacant properties." Smalling, who has visited the town several (Continued on Pue 4) Mars Hill Farm Family Honored Mars Hill farmers Doyle and Judy Cody were honored by the Tennessee Valley Association of Test Demonstration Farm Families during a recent meeting in Brevard. The association is a seven state organization. Others recognized included three families from Tennessee, and one each from North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and Mississippi. Doyle' Codv and his wife. Judy, operate a 130-acre farm outside Mars Hill. This season, they have 43 acres of tobacco, mostly bur ley. The farm has five barns to store the crop. The Codys have conducted many demonstrations and on- i farm test projects with both I the Tennessee Valley Authori- I T ty and the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Ser vice, including tobacco fer tilization and grass ex periments. The family has worked the Mars Hill farm for 30 years, ever since they were married following his discharge from the service. Before entering farming, Cody graduated from Mars Hill College and at tended Western Carolina University -j^udy Cody is also a Mars HiH grrtuafe She works in Marshall with the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service. Last year, the Codys cooperated with the TV A on the construction of an ex perimental tobacco barn. The design of the structure allows farmers to fill the barn using a Frond-end loader instead of by Weather f leck No Problem By WILEY DUVALL Agricultural Extension Agent During the past lew weeks, farmers have been disturbed by leaf spotting on their tobac co. Many farmers are calling this condition "rust" or wildfire. In most cases, it is neither of these. In practically all cases that I have observed, it has been weather fleck. Weather fleck is not an in fectious disease and there is no treatment for it. It is caus ed by a very common air pollutant called ozone. Oaone can be found in very high con centrations during certain weather conditions. It may be brought to the earth's surface by vertical winds, or it may form from electrical discharges such as lightninf during thunderstorms. Tons of incompletely burned hydrocarbons and nitrogen dioxide may be released daily into the atmosphere by automobile exhausts and fac tory discharges. In the presence of sunlight, the nitrogen dioxide reacts with atmospheric oxygen and forms ozone and nitric oxide. Normally, these fumes are swept up by air currents from the earth's surface and rise in to the cooler air above, where (Continued on Page 4) Crash Kills Marshall Man A 27-year (rid Marshall resi dent died Sunday in a single ear accident. Mitchell Cleve Cantrell of Rt. 3 Marshall ?u killed when he was thrown from his car on Shelton Laurel Rd. about 1:35 p.m. Highway Patrol trooper A.L. Cooper said he believed that Cantrell was killed in stantly. County medical ex aminer Dr. Otis Duick said that no autopsy was perform ed in the county. According to the Highway Patrol report, Cantrell was driving east on Shelton Laurel Rd., some 31 miles north of Marshall when the car ran off the left side of the road and hand. The barn was a success, making it possible for a small tobacco farmer with just a few acres to do all the work by himself. Using the old method of put ting up tobacco, the crop is handled about nine times. Us ing the system innovated at the Cody farm, the tobacco need only be handled four times. Among the five barns on the farm te one which can store up to 32 acres of tobacco This year, Cody plans to put up 26 acres of his burley crop in the huge barn. Much of the farm's acreage is in pasture. The Codys were also dairy farmers for 24 years before selling off the herd to increase tobacco pro duction. Cody says his income has increased since getting out of the dairy business, but he plans to return to dairy far ming again in the future. The Cody farm is one of the largest tobacco farms in Madison County, with, an average yield of between 2,200 and 2,400 pounds per acre. He expects to begin cutting his crop sometime this week, depending on weather condi tions. During the harvesting season, the farm provides work for up to its workers. Cody credits much of his operation's success on modern record-keeping practices. He uses a private computerized service to keep track of his business transactions. The company. General Business Services, has a computer in Washington which analyses data from the farm to detect weaknesses in the farm's operation. The firm has a representative in Asheville who works closely with Cody. The Codys report that they have no problem with disease this year because of having sprayed his fields with Ridomil prior to transplan ting. This year's rains and good growing conditions have produced an excellent burley crop. The other North Carolina^., Award winner is a former "? Madison County resident, Charlie Rice. Rice currently works a farm in Yancey Coun ty. He was cited for rehabilitating a 100-acre briar patch and copperhead lair on the Pensacola Road near Burnsville. He has worked with the TVA in project involv ing corn. and beef cattle. Bill Hendon THE GREATER IVY YOUTH GROUP pose wttti some of the bird bouses th?y con itructed recently. From Mt they are Nancy Ray, Quia Maney and Tammle Yoonf -V 'M& I; PPont row: Jeff TUaon, Tim Ray, BUI Til son and Scett Norton Not shown are Susan E tton, Michael Carter and Lau i I -edford. DOYLE AND JUDY CODY Hendon Opposes Tax Increase North Carolina Con gressman Bill Hendon told area tobacco growers on Mon day that he will oppose the tax increase bill presently before the Congress. The tobacco growers attended a meeting the congressman hosted at the University of North Carolina at Asheville to explain details of the recently enacted No-Net Cost Tobacco Act of 1962. The act, which passed both houses of Congress by a wide margin, was signed into law by President Reagan on July 20. The law amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as they relate to the price support program for all kinds of quota programs for certain kinds of tobacco. Hendon supported the act, saying, "It will help us to preserve the tobacco program in years ahead." The new law establishes a fund, supported by contribu tions made by producers, to achieve the operation of the tobacco price support pro gram at no net cost to tax payers. Common ad ministrative costs of the pro gram will continue to be paid by taxpayers. The meeting was also to have featured U.S. Reps. William C. Wampler of Virginia and Larry Hopkins of Kentucky. They were unable to attend, Hendon explained, because of the tax increase bill now pending before the congress. Both men are members of the House Agriculture Committee. That tax bill was on the minds of many of the tobacco farmers in the aud>ence. Many of the questions they asked related directly to the tax package. One provision currently being considered would double the federal tax on a pack of cigarettes from eight to 16 cents. Hendon promised the farmers that he would oppose the tax package. Over the weekend, President Reagan, campaigning for the bill, in vited many members of the House to Camp David in an at tempt to win their support for the bill. Hendon was not in vited, he explained, "Because they know they are wasting their time with me." Hendon said, "I'm opposed to raising any taxes in a reces sionary period as we are now in. The tobacco tax increase would deal a great hardship to the people of North Carolina." (Continued on Page 4) Youth Group Works To Save Bluebirds By TAMMIE YOUNG The Eastern Bluebird if in dinger of extinction and a group of youngster* in the Greater Ivy community are doing their part to save the birds. The Greater Ivy Youth Group project of the year, the group constructed use at &i TIm Houmb war* tnen cut by parenta Tommy Tilson and Tommy Ray. Another of the parenta, Margo Ray, aaaembl ed tha piecea of wood into ktta. Fred and Helen Morton next cut hoiee to allow the binfc to The Youth Group met m Mr tt at the Greater Ivy Community
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