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The News record ? SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY On the Inslda . . . - Tour French Broad EMC In Pictures On Page 3 79th Year No. 33 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N C THURSDAY, August 14, 1980 15* Per Copy ladlaon County Library Marshall , M.C. 2?753 9-80 Injunction Halts Pupil Assignments A Superior Court order was issued Friday to bait the assignment of SI Madison County students to Madison schools. Attorney Ronald K Payne, who represents the students and their parents, ob tained the injunction from Superior Court Judge Robert W. Kirby in Ashevilie three days before the beginning of school on Monday in Madison County. The court order temporarily restrains the Madisoa County Board of Education from en forcing the assignment of the students living in the San dymush area to Madison schools until a hearing on the order is conducted on Monday, August 18. The hearing will be held before Judge Frank Snepp at the Yancey County Courthouse in Burnsviile. The hearing will determine whether or not the injunction will be continued or lifted. Many of the students have attended Buncombe County schools in previous years, and their parents prefer to send them to Buncombe "primarily because of the difficulty of travel in Madison,'' according to Payne. The court order was obtain ed after the Madison County Board of Education denied transfer requests of 62 students who live near the Buncombe County line on August 4 during a regular meeting of the board. Nearly 50 parents attended that meeting along with two at torneys, in order to submit ap plications for transfer to the board. The school board ap proved applications for five students who would be enter-, ing the last year of elementary or high school. One student ap plication was approved sub ject to the board's receiving a second doctor s opinion on the student s need to attend a school closer to his home. Currently, none of the 51 students named in the court order are attending school in Madison County The Bun- J combe County schools wilt not begin operation until Monday, August 18, the same day as the hearing on the injunction in Bumsville Attorney Payne said he ob tained the court order because "it is in their (the students) best interests to attend school in Buncombe County primari ly because of the difficulty of travel." Parents of the students have listed as much as "one and one-half to two hours of traveling' on dangerous" roads to get to Madison schools from their homes as one of several reasons for requesting transfers for the students. Payne said the parents "are persuing every remedy they have available" for the assignment of their children to Madison schools Regardless of the outcome of the hearing in Burnsville on August 18, the parents "are entitled to ap peal to a jury in Madison County," he said. Contacted by phone Monday night, Bobby Ponder, Chair man of the Madison County Board of Education, said be felt he should "refrain from discussing the matter until after the hearing." "The answer to me is where the county line runs. Ponder said Madison County Superinten dent R.L. Edwards was atien ding a meeting out of town Monday night and was unavailable for comment JEFF TIPTON and Joy Fisher talk on the lawn at Marshall Elementary School on opening day. Hot Springs Man Drowns A Hot Springs resident drowned while fishing in a pond near Hot Springs about 2:30 p.m. Friday, according to a report from the Madison County. Sheriff s Department. The report said Larry O'Neal Dockery, 26, drowned while fishing with a friend in the pond on Mill Ridge Road. A spokesman for the sheriff's department said Dockery stepped into a hole 13 feet deep while wading in the pond. Officers were on the scene for two hours helping to recover the body. The drown ing was ruled accidental. RUSSELL BUEV1NS and Bill I Biw" ???? ? the top of what was once called MadixwCa nyon." Thev have supervised the soil conser ? School Bus Mishap Mars Opening Day A Madison County school bus carrying 12 high school students went out of control and wound up in Big Pine Creek at 7:15 a.m. Monday, the open ing day for county schools. The bus, driven by Jeffery Thomas Boyd, 17, was traveling east on Big Pine Road (RP 1151) when it entered a steep downhill left turn located about three miles west of Barnard. According to N.C. Highway Patrol, the driver fell from the driver's seat and lost control of the bus. The bus ran off the left side of the road striking a tree and turned onto its left side with the rear of the bus landing in Big Pine Creek. Patrolman Arthur Cooper stated the driver will be charged with exceeding a safe speed. There were no injuries to the driver or the students. SCHOOL BUS number six being pulled from Big Pine Creek three miles west of Barnard Monday morning, the first day of school in Madison County. Twelve high school students were aboard the bus at the time of the accident. No injuries were reported. (Photo by N. Hancock) Income Statement Is Required Schools Set Meal Policy The Madison County Board of Education recently an nounced its policy for free and reduced-price meals, free milk for children served under the national school lunch, school breakfast, and special milk programs. Local school officials have adopted a family size income criteria for determining eligibility. Children from families whose income is at or below the levels shown in the table below are eligible for free or reduced-price meals or free milk. In addition, families not meeting these criteria but with other unusual expenses due to unusually high medical expenses, shelter costs in ex cess of 30 percent of income, special education expenses due to the mental or physical condition of a child, and disaster or casualty losses are urged to apply. Application forms are being sent to all homes in a letter to parents Additional copies are available at the principal's of fice in each school. The infor mation provided on the ap plication is confidential and will be used only for the pur pose of determining eligibili ty. Applications may be sub mitted at any time during the year. A simple statement of in come and family size is re quired plus a signed certifica tion by the parents or guar dians that the information pro vided is correct. In certain cases foster children are also eligible for these benefits. If a family has foster children living with them and wishes to apply for such meals and milk for Ihem, you should contact the school . Under the provisions of the policy, school principals will review applications and deter mine eligibility. If a parent is dissatisfied with the ruling of the official, he may wish to discuss the decision with the determining official on an in formal basis. Continued on Page 12 Blackout Hits Area Lightning struck a power transmission line between Marshall and Hot Springs Saturday causing a power failure which affected the en tire town of Hot Springs. A spokesman for Carolina Power and Light Company in Asheville said the incident oc curred at 3:06 Saturday after noon, and electrical power was restored to the area at 5:10 CP&L linemen made a walking inspection of the transmission line Monday to check for any serious damage Residents and business in Hot Springs went without many conveniences during the two hour blackout. Air condi tioners and fans stood idle in mid-ninety degree temperatures. Service sta tions were unable to pump gas and the Trail Cafe was only able to serve up iced tea and water to customers who gathered there to question what happened to cause the power failure Soil Erosion Abated At High School The project to combat ero sion of the grounds at Madison High School is two thirds com pleted, and although work con tinues, the gullies formed by past years of erosion have been filled and prevention of future erosion looks highly successful, according to Russell B levins of the Soil Conservation Service. The 9167,000 Resource Con servation and Development project was officially approv ed last November by the Soil Conservation Service's area office in Waynesville, Robert L. Edwards, superintendent of Madison County Schools, and tion acting as contracting agent. Actual work on the project began on May 1, and Blevins said the work should be com pleted in 25 more days. The work has primarily consisted of filling, regradlng and sow ing three large gullies caused by rainfall runoff over the last several years from the grand stand and playing field areas at the school. Previously, the water from these areas had gathered into a single drainage pipe which discharg ed the water onto an eroding bank beside the fbqtball field. The water wasn't carried out as it was suppose to be," inch corrugated drainage pipe has been used to route the water properly into Walnut Creek. Diverge and swell dit ches have been constructed to route the water into the drains In addition, the SCS is cooperating with the school to regrade and plant vegetation in the area behind the retain ing wall being constructed at the stadium. This will help prevent further erosion and the sinking of the concrete walkway above the grands tand. In all, some M acres of land surrounding the high school has been affected by the work of the project Brown com t problems of ero Uthen?lh.lhH FORTY -FIVE HUNDRED cub* yards of dirt was used to fill tl*> erosion gully (forefront) beside i * ? | field draim'-d ia <fffx>r left
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