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The News I 9 * * ? MAD I SON COUNTY LIBRARY GENERAL DELIVERY MARSHALL NC 28753 ?? SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY i- , .? ' 82rid Year No. 7 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C. WEDNESDAY, February 16, 1983 15c f-. ?.opy Appendix Removed * Governor Hunt Is Recuperating I North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt was reported to be resting comfortably in a Raleigh hospital Monday following surgery to remove his appendix. The 45-year-old governor was taken to Wake Medical Center Thursday afternoon after fainting dur ing a speech. Doctors attending to Hunt originally diagnosed gallstones as the problem. On Friday, it was discovered that Hunt's appendix was inflamed and doctors removed it. Dr. Larry Tyree, the gover nor's personal physician, said that the governor also has gallstones and that surgery to remove the gall bladder would be needed sometime within the year. Hunt is expected to remain in the hospital for several days. Doctors have ordered the governor to remain in bed for up to two weeks before returning to his full-time duties. Gary Pearce, an aide to the governor, said that all travel for the next ten days has been cancelled and that Hunt will resume work from the governor's mansion in Raleigh when his condition permits. Burley Quotas Are Cut The national marketing quota for the 1983 burley tobacco crop will be 647 million pounds, five percent less than for 1982. according to Everett Rank, administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Stabilization and Conserva tion Service. When adjustments for over and undermarketings are taken into consideration, ef fective farm quotas for 1983 are expected to total 677 million pounds, about 13 per cent less than last year, he said. Rank said a mail referen dum of growers will be held Feb. 28-March 3 to decide whether marketing quotas will be in effect on the next three crops of burley tobacco. Quotas were last proclaimed on the 1980-82 crops and were approved by a 99 percent ma jority, Rank said. Burley referendum ballots will be mailed to producers from the Madison County ASCS Office on Feb. 25 and must be returned or post marked by March 3. If a pro ducer eligible to vote docs not receive a ballot, he may re quest one at the county office. The ballots will be counted on March 8 and the Secretary of Agriculture will announce the final results. Following the announcement lease and transfer of 1983 quotas can be approved. Many of farmers have been inquiring about when they can lease. The Madison ASCS office suggests a date some where around the middle of March. W.B. Zink, Executive Direc tor for the Madison ASCS also encourages farmers who have not returned their 1982 marketing cards to do so as soon as possible. The office must reconcile the entries on these marketing cards with data on a print-out of producer marketings furnished by the warehouses. Failure to return a car can result in a reduction of the farm quota the following crop year, unless he can show satisfactory proof of his entire marketings in some other manner. Mr. Zink concluded by saying that the notices of quota will also be mailed to producers sometime around Feb. 25 and if there are any questions about the quota shown on the notice to contact the office during office hours which are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, except holidays. Winter Storm Passes Through SCENES like this one in Spring Creek were common throughout the county last week. The winter storm which paralyzed the Nor PfMJto by Ken Parker theast left 4-6 inches of snow in Madison County. Spring-like temperatures on Monday melted the remaining snow away. Madison County Was Once R ugmaking Center By PAULINE B. CHEEK In the mid-1930's Mars Hill, with a popula tion of 500 and a college enrollment of 544, was considered the center of the hand-hooked rug industry for which Southern Appalchia had become famous. The Madison Rug Shop, located at the junction of Athletic Street and the Marshall Highway, was designated as "perhaps the largest makers of handmade rugs in the country." Although no longer prominent as a source of income, and never so popular a pasttime as quiltmaking, rug-hooking continues to engage the attention of Madison County craftspeople. Mrs. Jakie Bailey, for example, has a rug frame in which she makes a dozen hotpads at a time. Mrs. Marion Anderson is in demand at festivals and craft fairs to demonstrate the art of rug-hooking, and Mrs. Inez Edwards, who us ed rug money to buy her high school ring in 1938, still enjoys making rugs when she has the time. The tool used by these ladies is a shuttle type "turfing machine" with which they loop rug yarn through burlap to make a tuft on the underneath, or right side of the carpet. Many people, however, recall earlier times when rugs JAKE GRIGG stands in front of one of the hand hooked rugs that was made in Madison County during the 1940's. were hooked right-side-up from strips of discarded wool fabric. The tool for these rugs resembled a bent crochet hook with a wooden handle. With the ingenuity and resourcefulness characteristic of craftspeople, rug-hookers have experimented with various materials, in cluding stocking loops from hosiery mills and other waste from textile mills, much of which had to be dyed and cut into strips. Through the years, certain names have come to be associated with this craft. Among the early makers in Mars Hill were Mrs. Ollie Ray, who sold to tourists passing her home on the old road to Johnson City; Mrs. John Smith, who made nursery-rhyme rugs for Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Jr.; Mrs. Ned Anderson, whose designs were selected for use in the White House, and Mrs. Stella Carter, noted for the size of some of her rugs. One of the chief families connected with rug-hooking is that of J. P. Buckner who, with his daughter Verda, operated Madison Rug Shop from about 1932 until 1942. Another daughter, Mrs. Delitha Phillips, stenciled original designs on burlap to be hooked by the men and women employed there. Both his grandson, Roscoe Phillips, and his son-in-law, Raleigh English, supplied the shop with materials from hosiery mills and hauled rugs to the depot for shipment to department stores like Marshall Field and Co. in New York. Dur ing the 1940's a third daughter, Mrs. Bel via Ramsey, operated a cottage industry, deliver ing supplies to over 200 families in their homes and returning to pick up the finished rugs. By the 1940's, there were several rug dealers in Asheville, including the New York based Floor Coverings and Treasure Chest. Boyd Hill, who drove a two-ton truck for Treasure Chest, says that he hauled three to four thousand square feet of rugs a week. Ed Ball, an independent rug broker, says that at the peak he was handling 8,000 rugs a week, tak ing them to Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia for sale at roadside stands and to department stores. Another independent rug dealer in Greater Ivy, Oscar Young, opened gift shops for the sale of rugs at Ridgecrest and near Old Fort. These men testify to the success of rug hooking as an industry. For the story of rug hooking from a different perspective, one needs only to talk to the hundreds of people who know (Continued on Page 5) Marshall Students Brush Up On Good Dental Care GRADERS at Marshall Primary i their teeth after lunch each day. *? M, - 1 r- - : I , Robert L. Edwards, Superintendent of the Madison jCounty Schools, is engaged in some friendly competition this month. He is helping Marshall i Primary School earn some ex tra points for the first annual statewide Children's Dental Health contest which is going on during the month of February. Students and teachers in participating schools are car rying out a variety of dental health activities to earn points for competition. Principals may add points to their schools' overall score* by ac tively participating. Superintendents and a4 trators also can give a to the winning school in area by partici this contest," said Mrs. Nancy Allen, Principal at Marshall Primary School. "It gives schools in all 100 counties across the state an opportuni ty to compete for plaques, trophies, and cash awards, while promoting good dental health. We think this is special because it involves students, teachers, principals, superintendents and ad ministrative persbnnel." The contest is being spoo sored by the N.C. Dental Society, the Dental HeaT^ Sect, on at the State Division Health Services, and the N. spring Creek Scouts Honored CUB SCOUT PACK 525 of Spring Creek has been selected for the National Honor Award. Members of the pack include Mark Allen. Brady Askew, Bobby Baking, Jason Goforth Chri MrKlroy Mead.Avs Bobby Payne, Kenny Church, Travis Clark, Jason Cogdill, John Dagle, Ed ward Payne, Matthew Ramey, Johnny Rathbone Thomas CUD SCOUI paCK 538 01 Spring Creek has been selected for the National Honor Award. The award is the second na tional honor the troop has received in its first year at operation. The troop was presented with the National Summertime Award earlier for its summer program In order to receive the na tional award, the entire pack completed seven if ten re qu < merits Each CUb Scoot
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