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7?h Yaar No. 11 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C. THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1?77 W Copy
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Pair Found Guilty Of Bank Robbery
MRS. ETHEL WALLIN, right, is presented
the Dianna Award from Mrs. Kathryn Boone,
president of Beta Omega Chapter.
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JACK RAMSEY is presented the Zeus Award
from Mrs. Jerry Plemmons, awards
chairman of Beta Omega Chapter.
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Sorority Presents
Club's Outstanding
Service Awards
Each year the Beta Omega
nujto of Epailon Sigma
Alpha Sorority honora a man
and woman who have per
formed outstanding services in
the commm unity.
On Feb. If, an awards
banquet was held at Grace
Restaurant in AsheviUe
honoring Mrs. Ethel Wallin,
Jack Ramsey and Billie Lynn
Roberts.
Mrs. Wallin was presented
the Dianna Award. She is the
home economics extension
agent in Madison County and is
active in community affairs.
She and her husband, Tom,
reside on Route 4, Marshall.
Jack Ramsey was presented
the Zeus Award. He is an
embalmer, secretary and
funeral director at Bowman
Funeral Home: serves is i
Macon in the Marshall Baptist
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Church; Is chairman of the
Marshall Boy Scout com
mittee; Is first aid instructor
for the American Red Cross, is
chairman of the Marshall
Christmas Pageant and is fire
training officer for the Mar
shall Fire Dept. He also gives
additional time and effort in
community affairs. He and his
wife, Kathy, have one son,
Jeffrey, and reaide on Roberts
Hill Road, Marshall
Miss Billie Lynn Roberts
was presented the Girl of the
Year Award. She was chosen
by the chapter as a member
who made outstanding con
tributions in the chapter
during the year. Miss Roberts
is secretary for the Madison
County Day Care Center and is
treasurer of the Beta Omega
Chapter.
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MISS BILLIE LYNN ROBERTS, right, is
shown receiving the Girl of the Year Award
from Mrs. Peggy Cutshall, philanthrophic
chairman of the Beta Omega Chapter.
Glen Worley, 24, of 9 Nina
St., Asheville, and David Kirby
Muse, 26, also of Asheville,
received active sentences last
Friday by Judge Woodrow W.
Jones in U. S. District Court in
Asheville. They were found
guilty of armed robbery last
Dec. 21 of the Northwestern
Bank branch located in the
shopping center on the Mar
shall By-Pass.
Worley, who pleaded not
guilty and was given a jury
trial Friday, was found guilty
by the Jury who deliberated
only 10 minutes before
returning the verdict at S:45
p.m. Friday. He was sentenced
to IS years. Worley gave notice
In open court that he will ap
peal his conviction.
Judge Jones set an appeal
bond for Worley at $80,000,
secured. It was $25,000 prior to
his conviction.
Worley, who had maintained
his innocence since the day of
the holdup in the face of
overwhelming evidence to the
contrary pleaded to the court
for mercy.
Muse, who had pleaded
guilty to the charges on
Monday and told of his in
volvement in the holdup,
cooperated fully with law
enforcement officers in
vestigating the case and
testified against Worley
Friday. He received a sen
tence of 13 years in prison.
Nearly $13,000 in cash was
taken in the bank robbery by
two men wearing ski masks
and armed with pistols.
Worley and Muse were
arrested and charged with the
holdup within an hour after the
cfime.
Judge Woodrow W. Jones did
recommend that the two co
defendants not be confined to
the same prison unit. He said
this was a move designed to
prevent further trouble bet
ween the two men.
There had been earlier
references to the possibility
that Muse would be mistreated
by other prison inmates fur
testifying against his ac
complice.
Judge Jones commented
fully on the character and
evidence against both
defendants in the case, finding
some difference between the
two men.
"This evidence is over
whelming that you were in
volved in this bank robbery,"
Jones told Worley after the
jury's verdict was return. "I
think the jury's verdict is
correct.
"You don't look like a
criminal," the judge later told
Muse, who was brought into
the courtroom for sentencing
after Worley was taken away.
"You look like a clean cut
young man.
"You do admit that you've
done wrong, and that's the first
step toward rehabilitation,"
Jones continued in his
discussion with Muse. "A man
who cannot admit his mistake
cannot be rehabilitated ."
Both men had prior criminal
records, although Worley's
was more serious and he had
previously served 17 months in
state prisons for bad checks
and forgery convictions. Muse
had previously been convicted
of breaking, entering, and
larceny and receiving a
probationary sentence.
Both men also had similarly
poor work records, having
jumped from Job to job. Worley
failed to finish high school,
reaching the llth grade, but
the judge noted that Muse had
done well in school, had a high
I.Q. and should have gone to
college.
The information about the
defendants' prior history came
out in pre-sentencing reports
prepared by federal probation
officera and given to the Judge
for consideration.
Worley and Muse, however,
had different storiea to tell
under oath from the witness
stand about what they did on
the day of the robbery.
Worley said he hadn't seen
Muae that day and was in
Madison County looking for a
dog he had jiwt purchased
from a hitchhiker when he was
confronted in the woods by a
deputy sheriff.
Testimony ihowed that both
Worley and Muse had been
tracked by footprints left in
freshly fallen mow. The
footprints led from the
getaway car, down an em
bankment, up a hill to a barn,
across a highway and into the
woods where Worley was first
arrested, some 4S minutes
after the robbery.
Muse was arrested within IS
minutes of the robbery after,
Muse said, he had ditched both
the money taken and the gun
used in the robbery.
Bank attendants had placed
a canister filled with both red
dye and tear gas into a bag
with the loot, and the canister
exploded in the getaway car,
covering all of the money with
the dye, Muse testified.
Muse said Worley had been
planning the robbery for about
two weeks and that Worley got
him out of bed on the morning
of the robbery at his sister-in
law's home. Muse said he was
reluctant to go with Worley but
that Worley talked him into it.
Muse's sister-in-law, a
teacher at Aaheville
Buncombe Technical
Institute, corroborated the
meeting at her house from the
witness stand Friday
4-H Talent
Show Winners Get Ribbons
The 1977 Madison County 4-H
Talent Show was held
Saturday night in Mars 1011
College's Moore Auditorium.
4-H'ers from all over the
WAYNE McDEVTTT of
Marshall was selected North
Carolina's "Most Outstanding
Young Democrat District
Officer" at a recent state
executive committee meeting
in Greensboro. All 22 district
officers in the state's 11
districts are eligible for the
award. Wayne's selection was
made by the other district
officers as well as the
remainder of the state's
executive committee. Wayne
has been chairman of the 11th
Congressional District since
January, 197*.
county presented talent acts.
TTiree acts were selected as
best overall to represent the
county in state competition.
They are: Deanna and Dana
Fox (Bull Creek club); Paula
Edwards and Lisa Gehring
(Bull Creek club); and Wendy
and Sps*a.McGee (Hayes Run
club). Each will receive a $25
uli a rib
cnecK.
Judges for the show were
Miss Debbie Compton, Mars
nil; Miss Nancy Payne,
Marshall and Kenneth Kindly,
Asheville. Master of
ceremonies was Chuck Rice.
Listed below are the par
ticipants and the ribbons
BLUE RIBBONS
Group singing (Hayes Run 4
H Club); Wendy and Susan
McGee, violin selection
(Hayes Run 4-H Club);
Deanna and Dana Fox,
clogging team (Bull Creek
Club); Jackie Buckner, piano
solo (Hayes Run 4-H Club);
Paula Edwards and Lisa
Gehring, skit, "Comedy Spot"
(Bull Creek club); and Mike
Metcalf, piano solo (Foster
Creek 4-H Club).
RED RIBBONS
Peggy Sextan, piano solo
(Marshall 4-H Club); Tobie
Sprinkle, Jackie Bishop,
Darlene Jones, Peggy Sexton,
Mary Jane Preosley, James
Briaman and Annette
Preosley, skit, "Abigail Stands
Fast" (Marshall 4-H Club);
Tammy Breedlove, piano solo
(Brush Creek 4-H Club);.
Renee Wyatt, piano solo
(Hayes Run 4-H Club); Tobie
Sprinkle and James Brigman,
skit "Dumbo's Work is Never
Done" (Marshall 4-H Club);
Debbie Buckner, pantomime
(Brush Creek 4-H Club);
Wendy McGee, piano solo
(Hayes Run 4-H Club); Jimmy
Huffman, Steve Fox, Jeff
Merrill and Terry Garrison, .
boys quartet (BuM Creek 4-H
Club); Jimmy Otoen and
George Self, duet (Antioch 4-H
Club); and James Brigman,
trumpet solo (Marshall 4-H
Club).
GOP |
Elects
Officers
Officers were elected at the
Madison County Republican
Convention held at the cour
thouse here last Saturday
afternoon.
They are Dr. Larry Stern of
Mars mi, county chairman;
Mrs. Loy P. Roberts of Mar
shall, vice chairman; Bobby
Chandler of Marshall,
secretary; and C. N. Willis of
Mars Iflll, treasurer.
PHf*" were elected to
the district and state con
ventions as follows; William P.
Powell, Bruce B. Briggs, Mrs.
Harry B. Ditmore, Dedrick
Brown, Mrs. William P.
Dnaall William IMm
Sylver, William G. Tladale.
Mra. R. R. Ramaey and Dr.
Larry Stern.
Alternate delegatee named
are Roger Swann, Mrs. Brace
B. Brlggx. Mra Loy P.
Roberta, Jim Craine, lira.
Chartoe Grocco, Joe Pearler,
Clyde M. Roberta, lira. Ella
Vee Willla, Gale Brigga, Jim
Baker, BUI Michael, and Mra
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Immunizations Required For Pre-Schoolers
Children ahould be prepared
for April preschool
registration for next year's
kindergarten and first grade,
it was announced by Edward
A. Morton, Madison County
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acting Mutt) director.
Evidence of having received
three doses of DPT and polio
vaccine plus one measles
vaccination should be in hand
at the time of registration.
According to Frank Lewis.
head of the aUte'i im
mutilation program, there
were over 9,000 kindergarten
and first-grade children in
September of lgM who did not
have U immunizatior ret >rd
or did not meet the standards
Ofthsfcrtmunizat nLaw.
The g jueetiona and
North
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Oe *al t? g*?
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"School Admittance"
Q. What acheel children an
covered by the law?
A. Hie law covert every
child enrolled in a public,
private or parochial achool in
however, from a practical,
medical point of view, the law
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addresses iineii principally
tnose cmiaren enrolled in
gradaa kindergarten through
six.
Q. What fees the law
mphuT 1
A. This law requires that
parents or guardians of a child
^rolled In any pubiu private
nSrii r?lilal ?aU^aI In Mnrlli
Or parocniai ?cnooi in rwrm
?ro present acceptable
nedtoal evidence to school I
indicating th
S? be*pfitrfiedh ^twTlI
ndttance ^
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tussis (whopping cough);
Polio Vaccine? for protection
from poliomyelitis; MmiIm
Vaccine ? for protection from
rubeola (red measlee, 7-day
measles).
Q- Hew many daoes el each
vaccine does the law require?
A. The law (0. S. 13047)
gives authority to the Divtaien
of Health Services to establish
minimum immunisation
requirements. On May 22,1973,
the following minimum
requirements were
established: (s) three does of
DTP vaccine; (b) three does of
polio vaccine; (c) one dose of
Q. What to "acceptable
medical e? ideate of ha
A. A copy of the child's
dates the required vaccines
were administered; or a
physician's signed statement
that the vhild has received the
Immunizations required by
state law.
Q. What record ssast be kept ea
Me at the school?
A. A written record that
documents all dates that
immunisations were received
should be kept on Me. In the
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event that the child s physician
does not furnish the dntee of
Immunisation, then a signed
physician's statement that
required immunisations were
reoatved must be kept on file at
the school.
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Bicentennial Council Will Live On At Mars Hill
The Mara Hill Oommiatty
Development Council mat with
14 mambara praaant on March
I with Dr. Kvatjm Underwood,
SffPOBp. irtdch eerved'aa
munlty development and haa
SST "" y.iSST
T?3" mooting of thia
March m at 7 JO p.m All in
teraeted cHiaane an urged to
attend. A alate of offlceri and
w?irtlfaa far tha coming
year will be presented for
vp- nral <tag.
In ranrtaetog ac
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of traah contain**, and aoma
roadridc landKaping with
H? variouo fund-raMag
projects toward tha builAng of
a public library for the Mam
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lit tlao from Hi toll
council. M Coilofa.lli
Woman'? Chit ?;"i nt
indlviduala.
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