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- Story On Page 2 Community Calendar Contel Meeting Postponed, Will Be Held Friday A public meeting planned by continental Telphone Co. of N:C. for Madison County customers was postponed Monday because of heavy snows which hit the area. Contel vice presi dent Turnre Rogers has announced that the meeting will now be held on Friday at 7 p.m. in the conference room of the Department of Social Services office on Main Street in Mar shall. The meeting has been called to discuss Contel 's recent re quest for a rate increase and other changes in the telephone in dustry. The public is invited to attend. County Commissioners Change Meeting Time The Madison County Board ot commissioners will meet on Feb. 4 at 1 p.m. in the Madison County Court House. Mars Hill Aldermen To Meet The Mars Hill Board of Aldermen will meet on Feb. 4 at 7 : 30 p.m. in the Mars Hill Town Hall. Hot Springs Board Meets The Hot Springs Board of Aldermen will meet on Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Hall. a* School Board Meets Feb. 6 The Madison County Board of Education will meet on Feb. 6 at 10:30 a.m. in the Madison County Court House. Surplus Cheese To Be Distributed USDA Commodities will be distributed on two days. Persons whose last name begins with A-L will be able to pick up their commodities February 7, .985 between 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Those persons whose last name begins with M-Z will be able to pick up their commodities on February 8, 1985 between 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. You must report to the Food Stamp Office, located on Main Street in Mar shall on the date that correspondes to your last name (February 7, 1985 A-F; February 8, 1985 M-Z) between 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. and com plete an application for the com modities. This applies to both Food Stamp Recipients and Income Eligi ble. After completion of the applica tion you will go to the main office of the Department of Social Services and receive your commodities. Households that are eligible to par ticipate in the free food give away are: 1. Food Stamp Recipients previously certified for the month of February. ,2. Household's whose gross monthly income is below the federal income poverty level. Food Stamp Recipients must pre sent their Food Stamp ID card when they make application. Should so meone else pick up commodities for you, you will need to send your ID card along with a signed statement from the head of the household, stating the other person has your per mission to receive the commodities for you. Income eligible households needs to bring their Social Security card for proof of indentification. Should an in come eligible household need so meone to pick up commodities for them, they will need to send their Social Security card along with a signed statement by the head of the household stating their gross monthly income and the number of people in the family. The statement must also have the friends name on it, giving that person permission to receive your commodities. If you have any questions call 64?-27U. Unemployment Increases Statewide Unemployment in North Carolina increased in th?last month of 1964 ac cording to figures released last week by the North Carolina Employment Security Commission (ESC.) The December unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent of the workforce, accor ding to ESC chairman Glenn Jer nigan. Nationally, unemployment stood at seven percent as 1984 came to a close. The Mtewide totals represent some 216,800 jobless workers. In announcing the figures, Jernigan said that the slight increase was due to decline in employment in textiles and agriculture. NOnmanufacturing " 1 employment increased during the month. Jernigan will be among the unemployed in January'! figures. Hie ESC chairman has been replaced by former Republican state chair man David Flaherty. The average manufacturing pro duction workweek increased during December to 40.1 hours, up from 39.8 hours in November, while the average hourly wage for manufactur ing production workers increased one cent to 17.15 per hour. Madison County unemployment figures for December will be released later this week. WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR A LIVING? AFTER 2000? The ten fatten growing 1*1 and th? mm most rtyMly *cll?lin (-> ?w?p?tlom WW-WW. , Block Calls For Phase-Out Of Tobacco Program Dy may Washington Correspondent The News and Observer WASHINGTON- U.S. Agriculture Secretary John R. Block said Thursday that the Reagan administration would ask Con gress to phase out tobacco price supports and the tobacco quota system over the next five years. Block said growers would receive direct payments in the period to ease the transition to what the administration hopes would become a "market oriented" system of farm programs. In brief comments to reporters, Block said "Yes," when asked whether his proposals ultimately would eliminate the quota and price support systems for tobacco. But, he said, "The administration's program will phase down the quota and the price controls, and over this period of time will provide direct payments to support growers in this transition." Block did not elaborate, but he said the payment would be similar to the "deficiency payments" wheat, cotton and the producers of other commodities receive undo* a support pro gram that includes what are called target prices. Rep. Charles G. Rose III, D-N.C., chairman of the House Tobacco and Peanut Subcommittee, blasted the proposal. "I am angered and outraged at this administration for pro posing this kind of additional burden on the already over burdened farmer." Rose said he had been told by a Republican colleague who had been briefed by the administration that both price sup ports and quota controls would be eliminated in the five-year period. And given President Reagan's popularity and the minority status of farm congressman, Rose said he feared the ad ministration proposal could be "serious threats." According to congressional sources, the phase-out would be part of an elimination of price suhsidies above the normal market levels and an end of production controls for all com modities, including dairy and peanuts. Apparently sane form of a loan program would remain although it would be pegged below market rates to keep the commodities "market clear ing." Administration intentions in that regard were imclear, although Republican congressional supporters said Thursday that they expected there would be some form of residual loan program. The plan is part of an overall administration budget package to reduce federal deficits. Although the bulk of the tobacco program is financed by growers, the administration has decided to include tobacco in a strategy of treating all segments of the farm community alike. "Tobacco will not be alone," Block said. Block's comments came as he emerged from a meeting in the offices of Sen. Jesse A. Helms, R-N.C. Block and budget - director David A. Stockman briefed Helms, who is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and other Republican members of the panel. Helms could bot be reached for com ment. But George S. Dunlop, top agriculture aide to Helms, said Helms would oppose phasing out the allotment system. Although Dunlop heard Block's remarks, he said, "I'm not particularly concerned." Dunlop said he expected Helms to be able to convince the ad ministration and Congress that the reasons for keeping the Continued on Page S Says He Won't "Pull Rug Out" On Leaf Farmers By A.L. MAY and CHARLES JEF FRIES The News and Observer U.S. Agriculture Secretary John R. Block says his plan to pahse out the federal tobacco program would not "jerk the rug out" from under farmers because it would reUtn some financial support for growers as well as payments to allotment holders. But news that Block wants to dismantle the federal program of tobacco production controls and price guarantees drew intense criticism from tobacco state farmers and politicans. "if we lose this thing, the other segments of the economy- not just us will be adversely affected.'' Harnett County farmer Harold Allen said in a telephone interview. "It's easy to sit in Washington or Raleigh and say we can do this and that, but the people on my level have to endure the hard ships." In a satellite TV news conference taped Thursday in Washington with farm-state TV stations, Block said that after a five-year "phase-down" period, there would still be a "minimum amount of support to the growers." He added that the "phase-down will provide substantial payments to the allotment holders and will help them through the transition period." Block did not elaborate in his televised comments, but his statements were similar to remarks he made to reporters when he left a meeting Thursday in the Washington office of Sen. Jesse A. Helms, R-N.C Under Block's proposal, tobaco would be included in a uniform federal farm program that would phase-out- over five years- all support prices that are above normal market levels for commodities now under the federal farm programs. Federal price supports for flue cured tobacco, now averaging $1.70 per pound, are blamed for pushing market prices too high. Federal target prices for many other com modities, however, are lower than average market rates. Administration officials have said Block's recommendations would be made in mid-February inm a propos ed 1965 farm bill. N.C. Agriculture Commissioner James A. Graham said in a prepared statement that Block's proposal "shocked" him. "We have been working hard in re cent years to eliminate any cost to the taxpayers for the tobacco program," Graham said, "and this is the thanks we get." William B. Jenkins, assistant to N.C. Farm Bureau President John W. Sledge, said Block's proposal has lit tle chance of congressional approval because tobacco still has friends in both Senate and House agriculture committees. "We can see no way that we can support this type of legislation," Jenkins said in a telephone interview. "Our tobacco committee met today and voiced unanimous support for the current tobacco program. Farm Bureau leaden in Kentucky and South Carolina have also criticised Block. Rep. Charles G. Rose III, D-N.C., said Friday that the Reagan ad ministration and the Republican Senate leadership would try to bypass the agriculture committees in both houses, where cutbacks in farm pro grams would meet their most staunch resistance. "The strategy is a straight line from the White House to the American people," Rose said. He predicted the administration would back a budget measure as early as the end of next month that would in ?clude the farm program changes be ing outlined by Block. A Block aide declined to comment on Rose's charges. "The secretary plans to go forward with his concept about the market oriented program, but I can't g6 into detail on what will be a final farm bill," said Wilmer D. Mizell, assistant agriculture secretary for public af fairs. Block and David A. Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, briefed Helms, who is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and the Republican members of the Senate committee on his general farm programs ideas Thursday. Sources said, however, that Block did not tell th^ senators specifically about his tibacco pro posals. Helms could not be reached for comment Friday. The senator's top agriculture aide, George S. Dunlop, was critical of Block's proposals. He said "fundamental differences" bet ween tobacco and other commodities would make it unworkable to include tobacco in an all-encompassing farm program. Also, Dunlop said he did not believe Block fully appreciated the impor tance of allotments, which Helms said he would fight to retain. The Helms aide said that Block is a "hog farmer from Illinois, and the pro grams he really knows are the wheat, feed grains and cotton." Dunlop said too much attention was being focused on Block's comments about tobacco allotments when the secretary was trying to paint a broad brush to agriculture policy. "John jBlock is looking at the forest, and he mentioned a tree and that got the roots of that tree shaking," Dunlop said. But he said he was confi dent that Helms would "confront" any effort to eliminate tobacco allotments. Joiiting the cry against Block's pro posal was Rep. I.T. Tim' Valentine, D-N.C., who called it "absolutely foolish fend without merit." "I cannot concieve that the ad ministration would make such an ill advised recommendation to Con gress," said Valentine in a statement released by his office. "But if they do, be assured we will fight it... Tobacco farmers are having a tough enough time as it is now without being offered up as a sacrificial lamb on the altar of market economy.'" In an interview, Fred G. Bond, manager of the Flue-Cured Tobacco Coattaiaed on Page 5 District Court Holds Sessions District Court Judge Phillip C. Ginfl presided over two teutons of the Msdison County District Court last week in Marshal) During the Jan. 23 scsstop of the court, charges of communicating threats, aaaault and domestic criminal trespass against Jackson B. Ramsay were dismissed. Shoplifting charges against Greg Galloway were After a probable cause bearing Into a charge of assault with a plea to a letter charge of recklaac driving and received a four-month suspended aentence. Wallin was also fined tlOO and ordered to pay court coats and attend Alcohol Drug Educa tion School. The court dismissed charges of common law robbery and assault with a deadly weapon against both Floyd and Coyd Rollins. Judge Glnr tc before fee court after the witness failed to ap pleas to charges of impaired driving and driving while consuming a matt beverage and was fined fits and ordered to pay court costs, attend Alcohol Drug Education School and serve M hours community service. Boyd was also ordered to surrender his driver's license. Lerty DeWayne Carver w astound , andrecftiv ed ? suspended Mday jail sentence Cornell KcUy, Jr., found guilty of impaired driving, *u fined $100 and received an It-month suspended senten< e . i was ordered to serve 1? da s in the county )atf. ' Impaired driving charges against Diann Paul war* dismissed Johnny Deweese was found guilty impaired driving and raceived s lto-day mtenc. and tlSO fln< He was also ssnra?houi
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