The High Point Enterprise from High Point, North Carolina • Page 10

trtctr riM, WediWMfey, Get. 6, ZFNO ,47 THE 'PONDEROSA' Zeno Ponder, widely known Madison County political figure, looks over the mountainside farm he calls the "Ponderosa." Ponder has spent most of his time improving his farm since losing the Democratic nomination to the State Senate in 1984. Materials for two new silos are stacked in front of the (AP Vermont, of an the New A gov nri IMM inlanH lwwrun CTIZIIICT fit that fa run by! Mercury freeze at 39 Hands make Denmark's flag to be land states, lies entirely is called a gynarehy. jgrees below zero Fahrenheit, ithe Philippine Islands. oldest national flag.

You Gun Cdiuif on a i INo al SEARS tes ites to 'eryti 3 Hays Only Ponder Feels He Sti Has uence Left By RICHARD C. BAYER Associated Press Writer MARSHALL, N. C. (AP) Y. Ponder, is sheriff of Madison and thought by some to be the real power in Madison's jugular ther or grandfather might have You feel like you're near the (vein style of mountain politics, top of the world' when you're at Zen Ponder wears an ample Zeno Ponder's mountain dairy i mustache, something like his fa- farm.

The ridges of Madison County roll off the distance and on a clear, day you can see towering Mt. Mitchell. Ponder stood out by the cow lot at the farm he smilingly calls the "Ponderosa" and said with the optimism his view from worn and older. He it makes him has an easy look I've- the top summons: "All we need is a straight down-the-road election, and; we'll win any time in Madison County." Ponder spent much of the summer of 1964 in the Madison County courthouse, watching his Democratic nomination to the State Senate slowly slio through his fingers. The State Board of Elections moved in when Clyde Norton of Old Fort claimed he was beaten by fraud.

After a long, hot sum- known-this-guy-all-along" personality that's common among successful politicians. His first name is that of the Greek who founded stoicism, the philosophy which says it's Ponder talks eagerly about the quality of his Holstein herd, his two new 60-foot and automated feeding system, and the corn is growing on the steep hillsides of the Ponderosa. He now owns 652 acres of his own and has half interest in the 189-acre home place with his brother, the sheriff. When Ponder does talk politics, he- does a slow burn over newspaper coverage. "I guess that's why have such deep admiration for Harry foolish for a man to try to shape Truman," he said.

"He won in circumstances to his own desires. Ponder, however, is no stoic. Ponder graduated from North Carolina State in 1940 at the age of 19 with a degree in soil chemistry. During World War he worked at the top-secret atomic facility in Oak Ridge, supervising the processing of uranium. He taught agriculture to vet- mer of hearings, the board an- erans after th war, then went into farming for himself.

He is nounced it had found evidence of ballot box stuffing and other irregularities and reversed the primary election. In the general election that followed, Republicans swept the county posts and Norton, a Democrat, was elected in the 34th Senatorial District. It was a bitter setback for Ponder, who at 44 had become a colorful, controversial, almost legendary figure in North Caro- Ponder said. "They think of the lina politics. In the public as out milking a couple he had lost his grip as political leader in Madison.

Ponder was born the 13th and last child of an old Madison County family. His brother, E. Realty Transfers Poitst Township Alta P. Vance to Lucille Al- 1 1 V. i viL'i.

bertson, lot of the brings in Terrace. Venner Edward Davis and wife to Mildred D. Anthony, lot of College Village. J. Fred Wilson to Patsy K.

Kennedy, of West End Heights. Bessie B. McPherson to L. H. Bottoms, lots of the J.

S. Worth; lands. Margaret L. Dalton to Hill Lassiter and wife, lot on Lexington Avenue. Everett Shelton and wife to' Msrie K.

Reece. lot of Eastside Park No, 1. Paul H. Edwards and wife to City of High Point, tract on Guyer Street. Robert G.

Harris to City of High Point, tract on Ranch Road. Benny J. Morgan wife to City of High Point, lot of the High Point Development property. Ira J. Marshall and wife to City of High Point, tract on Centennial Avenue.

R. F. Saunders and wife to City of High Point, trsct vn East State Street J. N. Wright and others to City of High Point, tract Hayden Place.

James D. Sheppard Jr. and! wife to William G. Woodford Jr. and wife, lot of Beaucxest Court Atlantic Insurance ft Realty Co.

to Kenco Petroleum Markets tract on North Main Street. Security Development Co. to Harold R. Davis, lot of the Wade Newton property. Kavanagh Smith Co.

of High Point to Romie L. Thompson and wife, lot of Forest Hills. Bobby L. Hooks and wife to Car! D. McNeill and wife, lots the Amoa Brothers property.

Kamp A. Hill and wife to Leola lots of East Colonial Heights. spite of the newspapers. And the newspaper boys didn't like him because he was too honest. He'd tell them all to go to hell." Ponder still holds the locally influential office of chairman of the Madison County Board of Education.

He won't comment on plans to seek elective office again, but says the fusion of Republicans and so-called reform Democrats who helped beat him won't endure. "It's a marriage of convenience. There's no real love there and I don't expect it to iast. "I'm an organization Democrat and I'm proud of it," he added. "A fellow with very much Democratic blood in his veins can't stand the sight of a radical.

in these Ponder said he believed William Josh'n, former chairman of the State Board of Elections, came to Madison for the hearings with "preconceived ideas." "I was very, very disappointed with Bill Joslin," he said. "I wrote him a little note saying that if he hung out a shingle in Madison, he would get business from all the Republicans and al the Democrats who voted for Goldwater." If the political tide ever does change in Madison, will Ponder be a winning candidate? "I won't comment on wha my friends say," he said, ''bu of land and the modernization I've known visitors to make me feel that I still have some iufiu- the father of three boys and a girl, ranging in age from 19 to nine. Ponder is a smart, scientific fanner and one of the largest landholders in Madison County. You talk farming out at the Ponderosa ore getting around to politics. 'Too many people don't know what's going on in farming," of cows and feeding a couple of hungry kids.

"But there's no limits to a size of a farm as long as a man has the ability to manage," he continued. If he can pay better wages than his neighbor and make a better profit than his neighbor--why a man like that doesn't put limits on himself." to put any He said he has invested $100,000 since the summer of 1964 in the purchase Ponder has yet limits on himself. Scars Docs Estab- lioh Artificial Prices to alJow so-calJed "discount" or "trade-inTM prices, Sears original prices are low prices. Vi TIP TO 36 MONTHS TO FAT. Scare aftfesnam how to 3 fnfi to pay for Scara Hcroa Is Always Your Hfeortt- PHONE SEAKS Today, Just Ons Chir Home Apptianca Experts Help Yoa Choose tha Wiuberand Dsyer Ywor Needs.

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