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Road Bonds
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How Madison Voted
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Laurel T2
Mars mi T8
Beech. Glen T4
Walnut T5
riot Spring T6
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Spring Creek T8
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Occurs On1 By-Pass Friday
Night; Teresa Sawyer
Injured
Mrs, Patricia Sawyer DavJi
and Nancy Cook, 16, both of Mar
shall were instantly killed late
Friday night when the 1968 4 -door
Chevrolet car, driven, by Mrs.
Davis, went out of control and
crashed into the embankment on
the Marshall by-pass. The acci
dent occurred about a mile north
of Marshall near the intersection
of Mashburn Hill. Kay
ster of the drh?&, was
the Memorial" Mission
Hospital m Ashe vi lie, with a ais
looated shoulder, broken arm, and
Other injuries. Her condition is
satisfactory,?
State Highway Patrolman J. L.
Proffitt said all tin gists
thrown from the wreckage within
15 feet of each other. The
car apparently ran off the right
shoulder of the highway at high
speed, hit the embankment and
turned over three or four times.
The impact caused the engine to
be severed from the body, landing
on the opposite side of the high
way. The bodies of Mrs. Davis
and Nancy Cook were located
some 200 feet from the wrecked
car. Teresa Sawyer w as lo
cated when someone heard a moan
and she was lying in a ditch be
rman
Last Thursday
Speaks At Courthouse Here;
Goes To Hot Springs
Over 25-70
for the first time in history, a
State Highway Commission
man visited Madison
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FUND DRIVE Ffflt
GIRL SCOUTS
Marshall Tl
Laurel' T2
ffo Hill T3
Bitch Glen T4
Walnut T5
Hot Springs T6
Ebbs Chapel T7
Spring Creek T8
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The annua icout fund
drive is now in progress sad the
public if urged to contribute gen
erously so that the Girl Scout
programs in the county jftn be
continued
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RedC
: ro Drive
Fears End j Reports
Are Needed New
Although the
contribution. Anyo
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60V. DAN MOORE
Thanks Local Editor For
Active, County
H &'. SZ&WlSt- t Mi. ( at m
Gov. Dan Moore Tuesday night
was exuoerant over unDrovai ot
the $300 million road bond issue
Cowty Overwhelmingly
Approves Both Issues
Margin More Than 3 To 1 :
Only Two Counties
Oppose Issues
North Carolina voters, by a
margin of more than 3-1, Tuesday
authorized the state to borrow
$300 million for road construction
without increasing taxes and to
Create an intermediate Court of
Appeals.
The overwhelming approval of
the two special election issues was
a personal victory for Gov. Dan
Moore, who had campaigned long
and hrd for them.
I It was a defeat for the Ku Klux
Klan, which had voiced the only
MeggMaed opposition to the road
bond issue. The Klan showed lit-
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Voters Approve Road Bonds,
1994 To 75; Voting
Machines Used
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HHi and State Highway e voting strength except in spot-
Commission Chairman Joe Hunt
had campaigned vigorously for
the past four months.
The Governor said the bond is
sue will have particular signifi-
Bj for Western North Caroli-
an interview With The Cit-
jjsen, the Governor said, "This pro-
combined with Appalachia
nds, should give out mountain
J section the highways winch it has
lid at last ODen Western
(ted areas of its Eastern North
Carolina stronglwM.
MM tm of the seated 2,162
precincts reporting, the vote on
IM IMlid issue was: fdr 2K91:
against 79,944
Appeals proposal,
With 2,146
on the Court of
the vote was
81,326.
All but tttjtf of North Carolina's
100 couaties Franklin and
Greene supported the highway
measure just squeex-
Johnston and
Although the voting was light
as expected in Madison County as
compered to a general election,
the results of votes east were de
clared "most satisfying" by Jim
Story, county chairman for the
Road Bond Issue; and by A. E.
Leake, county director og the in
termediate court issue. Mnal un
official returns reveal that the
road bond issue was
ingly approved in the county,
in favor and only 75 agatnwt ' In
the appellate court issue, voters
in the county approved the issue,
ISO to an?i
For the first time in history,
voting macWnas Were used Si the
eight voting precincts.
From comments heard from sev
ers! sections of the county, voters
were quickly shown how to use
the machines end Jte.ftMr -as can
be learned most everyone "found
to operate and B d
The use of the machines also
results! hv-g- juik tabnMfeOf
votes. After the polls closed at
6:30 o'clock, all Drecinets bad re
fer 227,709; against to beai
' ' ltJlo Hinrthnnu b I'll)
a whirlwind tour of WNC coun
ties in the interest of the $3,000,
000 road bond issue, .spoke to a
representative audience in the
courthouse here and then he and
his party left immediately for Hot
Springs where he spoke at the Al
pine Restaurant.
Accompanying Mr. Hunt on the
tour were 13th Division Commis
sioner J. G. Stikeleather, Jr., of
Asheville; Frank Hutchinson, Di
vision Engineer; James Council,
Area Engineer, of Boone; Keith
Huntley, of Raleigh, public rela
tions; and S. R. Willabee, Secon
dary Road official, of Raleigh.
Jim Story, Chairman of the
Governor's Committee for Better
Roads in Madison County, presid-
side the highway. The accident oc-, at both meetings,
curred on a slight downgrade of1 Mr- UvTlt explained the Road
a straight stretch of highway. Bo"d Issue and pressed interest
According to witnesses the three :in the roads and the
irirl hH .ttenU th H.llowp'en entire 8tate- He commended Mr.
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Carnival at the Marshall school o"""-
and then had gone to the Mar
shall skating rink. They then
went to Plemmons Restaurant on
the by-pass and were thought to
be going to the Madison Grill
when the accident occurred.
AMBULANCE CALLED
An ambulance from Bowman Fu
neral Home was called to the
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Marshall at North Buncombe
SATURDAY NIGHT
Mars Hill College at Mary ville
tions as are
workers. It
reports caw be tabu
weeic.
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Masons To Meet
Saturday Night
French Broad Masonic Lodge
will have an emergent comxnuni-
f An-1 tor's Degree.
g the Mas-
y"tiWwsKJ IB'ilWsiMsssssan i -
(chairman of the Governors C
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a Commissioner
Who had our interests at heart"
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BR
SPE
OUGHTON TO
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aUB ON NOV. 13
Fund Raising Dinner To Be
Held In School
Cafeteria
J. Melville Broughton, Jr., of
Raleigh, chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee,
will be the main speaker at the
second annual fund raising dinner
of the Madison County Democrat
ic Women's Club to be held Sat
urday, November 18 in the Mar
shall School cafeteria, beginning
at 7:80 p. m.
EX-MADISON
COUPLE DIE
Arlington, Va. A triple slay
ing here Friday, which involved a
former Madison County couple, has
been described by police as dou
ble murder and suicide.'
Police reported that Joseph
Ponder, 30, of Camp Springs, Md.,
hot his wife, Christine, 28, in
the head, fired a bullet into the
chest of Eugene W. Embrey, SO,
of Catlett, Va, and shot himself
in the head.
The staying occurred shortly
after the closing of the Morgan
Mflhvork Co. plant, where Mrs.
Ponder and Embrey ware employ
ed. Both men were pronounced
dead at the scene, and Mrs. Pon
der was dead on arrival It Ar
lington Hospital.
The death weapon was a 32 cal
ibre revolver loaded with hollow
point long rifle slugs, police re-
The son of the late Governor
roughton, the party head is fa ported
wing his father in political, av-j Mr. Ponder is survived by two
: and church affaiits in Wake daughters, Jewel and Romona, and
ounty and fine state. Ha wss ! a sen, Dean Ponder, of the home:
Dr. Charles H. Powell (left), chairman of Madison Community
Action Inc., and Dr. William E. Highsmith, chairman of the Opportuni
ty Corporation of Asheville-Buncombe County, Monday signed an
agreement cfijling for joint action by the two organizations in behalf
of poverty-fighting programs in Madison County under the federal
Economic Opportunity Actr
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Madison - Bun
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Merge In Joint
Officii
EOA Programs
Joint action by the Opportunity
Corp. of Asheville-Buncombe Coun
ty and 'Madison Community Ac
tion Inc., was formally ratified by
board members of the two groups
at a meeting Monday in First
Union National Bank hi Asheville.
At the same time, approval was
given for submission in behalf of
Madison Community Action of an
application to the U. 8. Office of
Economic Opportunity for a nine-
months, $37,217 urocram develoD-
poverty - fighting programs in
Madison County.
The joint action for Madison
County programs was made neces
sary by the fact that the Office of
Economic Opportunity ,dos not
make giants to counties which,
like Madison, have fewer the 60,
000 population unless they join
with other counties. Both organi
sations retain their separate cor
porate identities.
peals. 1 V Officers and members are urged
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BL 'm mmWL. ' Hot Springe First To Rjeport
B H JBjBtaMPVf road bond issue and the appellate
court constitutional amendment
Hffiffc, jigfrBi m ' the. courtnouse Marshall j
Kb 2 JU B been one of the last counties in
mm x V j mmkum I the state to Kot final ICPorts dis
'SgwZmt St .j patched to news media.
MBBBSB11 fewWWMfp I Press announced that Clay Coun-
lH turns from Madison were the rc-
ijPBJPBl I duction in precincts from 23 to
eight and the use of 15 voting ma- .
iUM BBsW .mMm chaines for the first time
I I All eight voting precincts axe
B; :iaBBl now located in the io(h nWi
aB. I schools of Madison County.
Bll V I RBaPJ I Qnck rM9an ftr election of-
BEsW M i ncials made Madison one of the
Mm MM M first counties in the State to re-
she Opportunity Corporation of
Asheville-Buncombe County which
preceded tils joint meeting, ap
proval was given for an applica
tion to the North Carolina Fund
for a 893,922 grant for a neigh
borhood development demonstra
tion project in the Sandy Mush
section of Buncombe County. To
tal east of the project would be
$13486 with a large part of the
(local matching share coming from
TOBACCO EXPERTS from the
Marshall High School FFA Chap
ter are the state's top hurley
judges, in the wake of the 1965
State Fair. They Won the annual
judging contest among 20 teams
of both FFA and 4-H contestants,
examining 20 hands of tobacco and
posting their verdict against the
known grades. In addition to
state glory, they won $150 for
slab chapter, which is supervised
by Jack Cole. Readme- down am
Quick response hy election of
ficials made Madison one of the
first counties in the State to re
lease complete returns. In addi
tion to telephones in six of the
eight precincts, OB radio seta
Were set up in the ether two pre
cincts.
Hot Springs (No. 8) mis 1
first to report at 6:38 p. m. Mi
shall was tits last precinct to 1
port at 7:10 p. m.
Jim Story, AP corresponds
made his final and comnlete a
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