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The News record SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY -On the fnsM* . . . Health Department Lists 1980 Schedule . . . Turn To Page 2 7?th Year No. 3 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C. THURSDAY, January 17, 1980 15' Per Copy BRENNA FENDER AND PAULA GUNTER post a package of letters at the Marshall Post Office to the American hostages in Iran. Postmaster Jim Craine and Dedrick Roberts prepare to speed the package on its way. 3rd Graders Send Letters To Iran Brenna Fender and Paula Gunter of Mrs. Ray's third grade class at Marshall Elementary School mailed a package containing letters from the class to the American hostages in Iran. The package contained 23 jatters wriUentoy Avtudeitts. Brenna 's letter went as follows: Dear Hostages, I am sorry that you have not been set free. I know you miss your friends and family. My church had prayed for you at Christmas. I hope you will be turned free very soon. I am in the third grade at Marshall school, and I am ? years old. My whole class is thinking about you>. Your friend, Brenna Fender The letter written by Paula Gunter was the following: Dear Hostages, I am very sorry you have been captured. I hear a lot of news about the Iran situation. Are you all being fed and kept well? Are you all being treated nicely or are you all being punished? I hope the Lord blesses you to be back home with your families. Love, Paula Gunter The class has been studying the plight of the captives in Teheran, watching news o? them on television and in the newspapers and keeping track of the length of captivity. The project is beting ted by teacher Barbara Ray and teacher's aide Deborah Boone. Bowman Funeral Home Hires New Director Kenneth Johnson of Uhevilie has been employed jy Bowman Funeral Home of Marshall as embalmer and funeral director, beginning work on Jan. 1. Johnson comes to his job with considerable experience, including three years as em balmer with Anders-Rice Funeral Home in Asheville and, before that, three years at the West Funeral Home in Weaverville. Johnson was born at Camp Lejeune, N.C. where his father was a Navy corpsman. While he was very young, his family moved to Buffalo, N.Y., to Washington, D.C., and then to Greenville, N.C. He started the first grade there, at a primary school run by Eastern Carolina College Farmers Asked To Return Burley Cards All burley tobacco markets in the area have nowckeed and it is tbe responsibility of the farm operators to return their marketing cards to the ASCS office, according to W.B. Zink, county executive director for Madison ASCS. The primary purpose of the marketing card is to provide the producer a simple way to officially account for the disposition of the tobacco his farm produces. Failure at the operator to timely return his card can result in a reduction of the farm quota for the following crop year unless he can present satisfactory proof of his entire marketings in Zink said that farm operators am required by the (now University), and then moved to Fayetteville, where he graduated from high school. After high school he served a one-year apprenticeship with Rogers-Breece Funeral home, then went to N.C. State for a year of courses similar to pre-med studies. For the final year of training he went to Cincinnati's College of Mortuary Science, part of Xavier University. He return ed to North Carolina and pass ed the state exam given in Raleigh by the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors. Kenneth and his wife Arlene now live in Asheville, but he is on the lookout for a house in Madison County. Arlene Johnson is trained as a surgical nurse and is now stu dying computer science at UNC/ Asheville, hoping to combine the two specialties. Suspect Arrested In Sodom Hold-up A Sodom Laurel man was robbed by two bandits Jan. 8 who killed his dog and made off . with $545, according to Madison County Sheriff E.Y. Ponder. The victim, Doug Wallin, 60, could not immediately recognize his assailants, both of whom were wearing masks. That afternoon, however. Junior Gunter, 36, of Sodom was arrested and taken to the county jail. A second suspect has not been positively iden tified. The robbery occurred at about 9:30 a.m. on Wallin's driveway as he was walking out toward the main highway, where he was planning to meet another man. As Wallin passed a vacant old house beside the road, said Sheriff Ponder, one of the two subjects approached him car rying a pump-style shotgun. At first Wallin thought it was a Hot Springs Health Group To Raise Rates The Hot Springs Health Pro gram will be increasing the <*harge6 for medical and den tal services, effective Feb. 1, according to director Michael Norins. Nor ins said that fees in the program have not gone up for thvee years, and that rising costs for all their operations are forcing the present in creases. "Our rates for basic ser vices, such as a physical ex amination, will still be lower than rates elsewhere in the area," he said. The sliding discount will continue to be available to eligible patients. Complete fee schedules are available at all three program centers, at Hot Springs, Laurel, and Walnut/Marshall. Marshall Reorganizes Town Planning Board The town of Marshall has recently reorganized its Town Planning Board, which advis ed the Town Board on matters ' relating to the growth and future development of the community. The members of the Planning Board are: James Allen, chairman; Everett Bamette; Billie Jean Haney; Ed Niles; Faye Reid and John Taylor. Currently, the Planning Board is trying to find out from the people of Marshall what the town's goals and ob jectives should be in the future. A s a result, the Plann ing Board has developed a short survey form to deter mine the concerns of the town's residents. The survey form will be distributed by the Planning Board to all of the town's rati dents who wish to participate. KENNETH JOHNSON Food Stamp Program Announces BMhN Ha. 1, there mv two chang? in the food stamp program that will help household* with elderly or disabled members to get extra food sUmpa. Your household may qualify if you or someone in your bomeboM is M or over; receives SSI or disabili ty benefits under the Social Security Act; has medical ex has high shelter coats. These deductions are effec tive ra, by new applicants and for apgftca tions for recertifications received Jan. 1 or after. "v4 ' * .?7"'- k - hospitalization or outpatient treatment, nursing care and nursing home care incMing payment* household (01 an individual who was a household member in mediately prior to entering a hospit ,1 or nur ? , ' pre vided by a' facility recognised by the state. Also deductible are prescription drugs, coats of medical supplies, sick room equipment (Including rental) or other prescribed equip ment; health and hospitalisa tion insurance policy premiums; Medicare premiums or spend down ex penses incurred by Medu aid recipients; dentures, hearing aids, eye glasses prescribed by tbe physician; and EMaonabie cost of tr* ? *? All residents are encourag ed to participate, as the results of this survey will be used by the Planning Board in guiding its activities, and in advising the Town Board. Questions regarding the survey should be directed to James Allen, chairman of the Planning Board. joke, but the man said, "It's no joke; get your hands up." The men made Wallin lie face down on the road, and as he did they took his pistol, which he was carrying under his belt and which slid out from under him. One of them laid the shotgun on the ground and told Wallin to get up and march into the house, Tlien a shot was heard in the house, thought to be a pistol, and Wallin's large shepherd dog - weighing in the neighborhood of 100 pounds - attacked the assailants, one ot the men picked up the shotgun and shot the dog three times, killing it. The two robbers took Wallin into the house, tied him, taped his mouth, and removed his wallet. Both then fled on foot. After 30 to 40 minutes Wallin struggled free and called the sheriff's office. Sheriff Ponder asked the State Highway Patrol to set up roadblocks, which they did, and called for a pack of bloodhounds. With the dogs, Deputy Sheriff r ran* ugie, ana several assistants, the sheriff arrested Junior Gunter at approx imately 4 p.m. in the base ment of a relative's house in the area. Gunter escaped about six weeks ago from Brushey Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee, where he had been serving four consecutive 10-year sentences for robbery. He has been charged with armed robbery and is being held in the Madison County jail without bail. Herbert Ponder Appointed To High County Position Herbert Ponder of Marshall has been employed as project coordinator for Madison Coun ty through a special federal grant made available by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, accor ding to County Attorney Larry Leake. According to a brief state ment issued last week, Ponder, the son of Zeno H. Ponder of Ivy Hill Road, will have a broad range of respon sibilities. He will coordinate the county's activities in the areas of transportation, nutri tion, recreation and energy and will work under the super vision of the Western Office of the North Carolina Depart ment of Natural Resources and Community Develop ment, located in Asheville. Herbert Ponder is a graduate of North Carolina State University. After graduation he worked there in an agricultural research pro gram, and then returned to Madison County as manager of Zenina Farms, owned by his father. Most recently he work ed in housing construction and real estate. Ponder s appointment is ef fective immediately. SITE CLEARANCE has begun for the 100-bed Madison Manor Nurs ing Home, the county's first such facility for the elderly. Above, Rick Fisher (left) and David Jones of Froehling and Robertson Inc. prepare to make test borings in the soil where the building foun dation will be. The site is just out side Mars Hill, near Highway 19/23, where Nilsson Engineering of Black Mountain is clearing and grading in preparation for con struction. Official approval for heating, water and other systems is expected in seveal weeks and construction could begin in March. The $1.55 million project is estimated to take approximate ly 12 months to complete. Accor ding to County Commissioner James Ledford, some 84local peo ple will be employed by the pro ject. Superior Court Postponed A Month Jury Selection Is A Complex Process The criminal session of Superior Court scheduled for Madison County has been postponed until February, ac cording to Court Geric James Cody. The postponement was call ed in order to allow the clerk's office to complete preparation of the jury list. A jury "master list" is com piled every two years by the clerk's office and the Jury Commission. The new com mission. composed of Swann Huff of Hot Springs, Jimmy Carter of Mars Hill, and Vic tor W. Burnette of Mars Hill, Two Policy Changes don to obtain medical treat ment or service f ? - For theee households, the 980 ceiling will be lifted on shelter expenses. These haoMtoMs shall receive am excess shelter deduction for the monthly cart that exceeds 90 percent of the household's f ft?. frll Mtar applicable deductions (without a limit). Applications for food stamps can be made at the Street in Marshall, Monday through Friday, S a.m. to 4:90 p.m., or at any outreach sta tion. A feod stamp worker is at the Hot Springs Day Care on Wednesdays, t to 11:30 a.m. and Mars Hill Town Hall on Thursdays, 9 to U:I0 a.m. * alae a worker at the an the se ct1 month from ? a.n> to noon. If yon has recently been sworn in to serve a two-year period. These members are ap pointed, one member each, by the resident superior court judge; the county commis sioners; and the dark of the The Jury Commission in structs the clerk at the beginn ing of their term to prepare the master list of Jurors. To do this, the derirt office uses two sources : the county tax records and the voters about 11,0601 UatM H for a torsi of 31,000 a Jury. Such names include those of businesses, nonresidents, deceased per sons, disabled or incompetent persons, and those who have served on a jury within the last two years. By law, no one must serve mare often than every two years. After the urging process, about 2,800 to 2,700 names re
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