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'W? * ? ml: ZJtiLi', .. _____ Editorial Clean Streams Day Is A Success Our heartfelt thanks go out to the hundreds of Madison Countians who took part in the first local Clean Streams Day effort this past Saturday. From Spring Creek to Greater Ivy, Shelton Laurel to Redmon Dam and Bull Creek to Laurel River, volunteers patroled our waterways and removed tons of debris from streams, rivers and creeks. The large outpouring of support for the project shows that many Madison Countians are concerned with preserving the natural beauty and quality of our watersheds. We are encouraged by the number of our young people who pitched in. Cub Scouts, Girls Scouts, clogging teams and 4-H members played a big part in the effort. They gave their time to remove trash left in our streams by adults. We can be justifiably proud of our young people for their devotion. We can best reward their efforts by showing respect for the streams and restricting trash to designated dump sites. It may be too late to re-educate many of the adult slobs in our midst. At least our young people give us reason to hope that pollution-free streams are attainable. We are most encouraged by the large numbers of our young people who gave freely of their time in this project. The discarded television sets, beer cans and other assorted filth removed from our streams were the result of careless adults, not children. If we can succeed in raising a generation of youngsters who will respect our natural resources, someday Clean Streams Day efforts may become unnecessary. Until that fine day, we must continue to hold Clean Streams Days, both to encourage respect for our waterways and to remove pollution from Madison County streams, creeks and rivers. We are fortunate in Madison County in that we do not have to contend with large industrial plants and the pollution they pro duce. Instead, our rivers and streams are marred by pollution of a household nature-plastic milk jugs, beer cans and the like. The few slobs among us who would use our waterways as per sonal garbage dumps must be re-educated. Efforts such as last weekend's Clean Streams Day is an essential part of the re-education process. Those of you who participated in the effort can pride in a job well done. There's much more to be done. Years of neglect cannot be reversed in a single day, but we've managed to make a fine start. Well done, Madison County. Haywood Voters Support Schools ? Congratulations are also in order for our neighbors in Haywood County. Last week, voters in our neighboring county went to the polls and overwhelmingly endorsed a $6 million school bond refer rendum to improve school facilities. The bond was the sixth such referendum in a row approved by Haywood County voters. Last year, our neighbors in Buncombe County also ap proved a bond issue for new school construction. We are convinced that Madison Countians are as concerned about the conditions of their schools as residents of Buncombe and Haywood Counties. Madison County will support a similar school bond issue if they are presented with an equitable plan to improve conditions in our schools. Inaction on the part of the county commissioners and school board is all that stands between Madison County and the pro gress our neighbors have shown. For years now, our local officials have spoken of attracting new industries to Madison County. They must realize that modern school facilities represent an important lure for pro spective industry. Until a school construction bond is offered and approved, both our neighboring counties will have an in dustrial recruiting edge that Madison County will be hard pressed to beat. Yogi Showed Class No one works for George Steinbrenner for very long. Ask Yogi Berra, King George's latest victim, or Billy Martin, Steinbrenner 's next victim. Or ask Ralph Houk, Bob Verdon, Gene Michael, Dick Howser or Bob Lemon. As he begins his fourth term as Yankee skipper, the question facing Billy Martin is not whether he'll be fired, but when the axe will fall this time. It might come next week, or next month. Certainly Billy will depart before Labor Day if the Yanks aren't in the pennant picture. One of these days, King George should manage the club himself and save the money be keeps p ying to his fleet of disposable managers. A few days in the ugout might teach the Yankee nvner a valuable lesson Yogi Berra was one of the greatest players and most likeable men ever to play the game of baseball. After his latest dismissal, he smiled and told reporters he was going home to his wife and to play golf. his long career, Yogi Bern's shown Heard And Seen * > ? ' NEW RESTAURANT OPENS IN MARS HILL Dennis Hyatt, manager of the new Western Steer Restaurant in Mars Hill, can be justly pleased with the grand opening held last Monday night. Hyatt and his staff entertain ed 226 invited guests who enjoyed a delicious steak stopper in the spacious facility located at the junction of U.S. 19-23 and Long Branch Rd. The dinner was a gala occasion and those present had the opportunity to see and tour the county's largest dining facility prior to the meal. Dennis, an experienced and popular restauranteur, welcom ed those attending. Although they were the very first meals served at the restaurant, the personnel was smooth, courteous and efficient. The new restaurant features a seating capacity of 300 and has three banquet rooms available. It will employ some 44 full and part-time employees and offers a full lunch and dinner menu. FOOD AND FELLOWSHIP 'Bill* and I were invited to the April meeting of the Whitehurst Sunday School Class of the First Baptist Church last Friday at the home of Wade and Louise Huey. It would be an understatement to say that we enjoyed the dinner and good fellowship. We have always enjoyed visiting the Huey home. Following the dinner, we men retired to the living room while the wives were busy with women's talk. They eventually joined us and we discussed many topics, including changes in Marshall in recent years. 'Dot' Renner said she eqjoyed reading the clippings in this column from old copies of The News Record and insisted that I continue to ise the excerpts. Joe Eads, Wade Huey, John Corbett and I had a 'field day' as we talked about Marshall in the old days. Schedule Of Public Meetings School Board Meets Friday The Madison County Board of Education will meet on Fri day at 10:30 a.m. in the Madison County Court House. County Commissioners Meet May 6 The Madison County Board of Commissioners will meet Monday afternoon at 1 p.m. in the Madison County Court House. Mars Hill Board Meets May 6 The Mars Hill Board of Aldermen will meet Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Mars Hill Town Hall. Hot Springs Board Meets May 6 The Hot Springs Board f Aldermen will meet on May 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Hall. The Marshall Board of Aldermen will meet on May 13at 7 : 30 p.m. in Town Hall. Letters To The FMt, Where Are The Guard Rails? Dear Editor. As I drive my 30 miles to work in Marshall, I wonder why, as a tax payer do I have to drive the roads that I do? Living in the mountainous region of North Carolina, common sense tells me that we would be more entitled to guard rails than the Piedmont and Costal regions of the State. Many of the embarkments range from 50 to 1500 ft. I can say from experience that rolling off the side of a mountain is no fun. Not only did I total my car, I broke my nose, blacked my eye, and jammed my knee. My jaunt down the mountain was over 60 ft. I was luckier than those truck drivers that went off the Hot Springs mountain. What real ly stunk was this: there were no guard rails to begin with. One truck driver was seriously in jured... still nothing done. It wasn't until a 2nd track driver was killed that the D.O.T. decided to put a guard rail up. Perhaps if they had acted quicker, it might have sav ed that man's life. I have lived in this county for 3 years and I am appalled at the road conditions. Don't the people of Madison County realize that these "Snuffy Smith" roads can be fixed? If they can't be fixed then guard rails could be a giant step out of the past and into the present. Don't they realize that we pay modern day gas prices, modern day car prices, but drive on yesteryear roads? Do they not understand that every time they buy gas for their car, boat, tractor, lawn mower, etc. they are building wonderful interstates and super highways in the Coastal and Piedmont regions of the State? Do you know that very $5.00 worth of gas purchased you are paying $1.05 in taxes? Did you know that .45 cents goes to Federal funds and .60 cents goes to the State of North Carolina? Do they know where the gas tax is supposed to go? All gas tax is suppos ed to go to the funding of building roads and highways. From the By-Pass-Walnut Creek Intersection to my driveway in Revere, there it less than 250 ft. of guard rail. If you ever get a chance to drive this way, pull over, stop your car, and look down the sides of these mountians. It is time for Madison County residents to get concerned. Every time you buy a gallon of gas you are building a road somewhere, and that somewhere is not in Madison County In 15 years we will be living in the 2lst century. 20 years ago it was an idea that by the 21st century we would all be riding around in space cars, what a joke! Those people must have never visited Madison County, North Carolina. Thank you, Mrs. Starr Ray Revere Know Comment . ... ' ; "V' BY JOSEPH GODWIN Dreams have always fascinated me. I am not referring to daydreams. Daydreaming is shifting the body into neutral and letting the mind idle. I refer to night dreams with which we all are familiar. When our dreams are bad, they frighten us and we call them nightmares. When they persist, they annoy us and we dread them. When our dreams are pleasant, we try to remember them; and some of us bore others stiff telling them our dreams. I do not know very many people who are deeply interested in dreams "we" have at night. Research indicates that all of us dream -every night-whether or not we remember the dreams. Furthermore, Healthy dreams are pleasant and do not recur often enough to worry or annoy us. Such dreams do not in dicate emotional or mental difficulty Conversely, If our dreams frighten us. or cause us to walk and talk in our sleep, or recur often enoi flict within us. We control and monitor our thoughts fairly well while we are awake. Even so. we sometimes fail to reach our goals or satisfy our needs. While we sleep, we try to succeed where we have failed when we are awake. Sometimes, these efforts suc ceed. It is a mistake to divide our ex istence or experience into conscious and unconscious-depending upon whether we are awake or asleep. An unbroken continuum exists between waking and sleeping We refer to "comctousneae" while we are awake and to an "altered state of consciousness1 when we are asleep and dream some part of h news telecast^ Jw n i*i or said i i in uii III, mil UL were "sit' iig there half asleep (By implicate you were also half awake.) What doea it mean to dream? While we are dreaming, what Is really going oo? First, we never fully forget any ex perience wt ever have unless, of |j*ciuv j i t rA|?nri >1.. memory area of the brain. Every sensory experience, all that we have gathered through hearing, seeing, touching, smelling, and tasting, remains with us to serve as individual segments which we put together to form thought . That is what thinking is: putting these bits of sen sory experience together in a con trolled sequence to serve our own purpose. But when we sleep, our control over the nature and sequence of these bits of experience is lost. Yet,~at all times, all of these stored segments of ex perience are active, and th. st rongest of them are (hose which manifest themselves and cause us to ex perience a dream Intense dreams are primarily of two kinds: those in which, tlw .1 tries to provide what we I of an i In trying to solve these two way into the service of our deepl needs, and we dream. Often these dreams are bizarre, and sometimes they are accom panied by a cry, a scream, an emis sion, or laughter. Besides daydreams and night dreams, there is another kind. Two brothers from Ohio dreamed that sometimes they would fly. J. C. Penny dreams that his stores will be located from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A young man named Kraft dreams of becoming the world's largest cheese dealer. Henry Ford dreams of a time when every American could ride. Martin Luther King, Jr. dreams of the time when every American would be free
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