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The News Record NAOISO*" SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COl 82nd Year No. 32 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARS ^ ~~ WEDNESDAY, August 17, 1983 1 5* Per Copy Mars Hill Blooms GERANIUMS PLANTED BY THE MAES HILL COMMUNITY CLUB brighten the street of Mars Hill these days. The club will repre sent the area in the community beautification competition sponsored by the Western North Carolina Community Development Associa tion. Mars Hill has also been selected as a finalist in the mobile home portion of the com munity improvement competition. Commissioners Restore County Jobs Pour county positions which were discon tinued on July 1 as cost-setting measures were refilled in the past week. The Madison County Board of Commissioners cut 13 jobs from the county payroll at the start of the current fiscal year in order to balance the county budget. The comissioenrs voted at their August 5 meeting to reinstate a secretary in the office of the Agricultural Conservation and Stabilization Service. The position is the only job in the office funded by the county. Stan Ray was appoointed to the position formerly held by Lori Reece. Ashley Ball, whose position as sanitarian with the county Health Department was discontinued on July 1, returned to work on Monday. The commissioners also approved reac tivating the county animal shelter and ap pointed Carl Ed Murray dog warden on a full time basis. The job was formerly held by Den ny Goforth on a part-time basis. Referring to the animal shelter, county commissioners' chairman James Ledford told The News Record, "We'll soon have the best dog pound in Western North Carolina." shelter Spruce Up CARL ED MURRAY, the county's new dog warden, applies a coat of paint to the animal shelter Monday. Murray is refurbishing the shelter in preparation for reopening sometime next week. Growers Oppose Quota Reductions The Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina has asked the state's congres sional delegation to oppose at tempts to reduce the amount of burley tobacco quota a farmer can lease from another farm and transfer to his own. The association took the posittan at the request uf its burley members, who met at Mars Hill on Aug. 4 and voted to make the request. Under current legislation, a burley grower can lease up to 30,000 quota pounds and grow it together with his own. A pro posal to reduce that amount to 15,000 pounds has been brought before Congress, and it is this proposal that the association is opposing. "We look at this proposal as an undesirable step backward," says T.C. Blalock, executive vice presi dent of the association. "We that the revolt could be that the state's quota of burley will not be grown." The average burley tobacco allotment in North Carolina is 1,212 pounds, about a half acre. "If a grower is limited to 15,000 pounds that he can lease, it will not be large enough to be an economic unit for a full-time farmer," says Blalock. "Limiting the amount an individual can lease in will make it more dif ficult to attract enough full time burley growers to pro duce all of the allotment in our state." 1982 was the fU-st year in some time in which North Carolina farmers grew all the burley tobacco they were en titled to under the quota system. It was also the first year in which growers could lease in as much as 30,000 pounds. Previously, a 15,000 pound limit has been in effect. They also voted to request < that the association: ? Seek authorization for burley growers to sell their quota separate from the land (a privilege that was granted to growers of the flue-cured type of tobacco in the 1982 reforms' ? ? Seek to obtain for burly quota owners the privilege of designating burley quota when selling land with quota i attached ? Seek a single marketing i package for burley. ? Eliminate fall leasing. Blalock has written letters outlining all Five of the posi tions to Sen. Jesse Helms and John East and to U.S. Reps. James McClure Clarke, Stephen Neal and James Broyhill, whose districts cftver the burly-producing region of western North Carolina The association's positions have also been relayed to U.S. Rep. Charles Rose, chairman of the House Tobacco Subcommit tee. In other action, the burley contingent of the Tobacco Continued Page 6 Woman Killed In Mars Hill Wreck A two-car collision Saturday morning near Mars Hill killed an Ashe vi lie woman and in jured a 19-year old Mars Hill woman. Anna Mable Rhymer, 51, of Ashe vi lie was believed to have been killed instantly when the 1970 Ford she was driving was sideswiped by a 1963 Chevrolet station wagon driven by San dra Lou Peterson, 19, of Route 1, Mars Hill. According to State Highway Patrol Trooper A.L. Cooper, the accident occurred on L.S. 19 six miles east of Mars Hill at 11:35 a.m. The accident occur ed when Mrs. Peterson lest control of her car. According to Trooper A.L. Cooper, the car went off the road before' returning to the road and crossed the center line, striking the car driven by Mrs. Rhymer. Mrs. Peterson, who is eight months pregnant, was taken to Memorial Mission Hospital in Asheville by the Madison County Emergency Medical Service. A spokesman for the hospital told The News Record that Mrs. Peterson was listed in fair condition on Monday night. The Highway Patrol also reported that four other passengers in the Peterson car were taken to Memorial Mission Hospital. Mrs. Rhymer was a native of Madison County and was employed by Microswitch in Mars Hill. Funeral services for the victim were held Tues day in the Riverside Baptist Church in Asheville. Weaverville Town Council Approves Paving Project The Weaverville Town Council approved im provements to several streets and the town's community center at its monthly meeting Monday night. The council unanimously approved paving portions of Oakland St., Harbac Drive, West St. and Central Ave. upon the recommendation of Town Manager Larry Sprinkle, Jr., who presented the council with cost estimates for the project. The council also approved by unanimous vote a motion to spend $3,435 to reroof the town clubhouse. Sprinkle reported < that "The roof is absolutely shot. Either we reroof the building or we'll have to tear it down." Sprinkle said he had receiv ed two estimates, one of $3,435 to replace the entire roof and one of $1,866 to replace a por tion most in need of repair. The council voted to replace the entire roof. A 300-foot section of Har ( Continued on Page 8) Dr. Evelyn Underwood: Teaching For The Joy Of It By PAULINE B. CHEEK "And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach." Chaucer's description of the Oxford clerk applies equally well to Dr. Mary Evelyn Underwood of Mars Hill. "I've wanted to be a tepcher since I was knee-high to a duck," she says. "I taught my dolls, and I was teacher with other children. The most exciting thing in the world to me is learning something new." The pattern for her life was set in her Waynes ville home, on the site of the first Underwood to come to Haywood County. It was a home in which the beautiful and the good, meaning "useful," were valued. Although one of seven children, she grew up among adults, she says, and she did whatever her mother did ; housework, interior decorating, needlework, collecting antiques. Prom her father, she ac quired industrious ness and a love of gardening. Her parents encouraged their daughters as well Dr. Underwood has been something of a pioneer in studying oral history. Until the early '70's, historians tended to concentrate upon the international scene and to discredit local history, especially oral history, as provincial. "I came into local history by accident," she admits. 'My interest was largely inspired by a felt need to help local students find themselves. Everybody ought to be proud of his heritage ...I had to do a history seminar, and I wanted students to do original research. One summer a boy said, "I'd like to do my community.' ...I saw the possibility, and so I said, 'Pine. Here is a laboratory for us. Anything we do will be original.' That opened up a whole new field of history for me." Through her, the field has been opened to many other people as well. She has arranged three oral history workshops at Mars Hill, br inging to the campus other forerunners in the use of that approach. As oral history director for the Appalachian Consortium, she was in strumental in introducing the subject into col lege curricula. She has amassed a tremendous amount of data about Madison County and Western North Carolina, and, perhaps most im in cooperation in sound you.' " The first visit was to the home of Bud Shelton: "Mr. Shelton sat on the other side of the coffee table and just started to talk ...Thank goodness, I took notes, for the old tape recorder didn't work." Thus began a project which she considers "one of the most rewarding and in teresting things I ever did with students." Another highlight of her career was the 10-week class in local history she taught for senior citizens in the Laurel section of the county. "It was a way to gather marevelous material, and we had such a good time doing it." So much material has she collected, in fact, that she feels a sense of urgency about incor porating it into a full-scale history of Madison County. Three years ago she retired from the Department of History at Mars Hill College, a position she has held since a Sunday in the sum mer of 1944, when her pastor in Waynes ville, a trustee of the college, invited her to come to Mars Hill to inquire about' a vacancy on the faculty. Retirement from the classroom has not
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