Community
Calendar
The Madison County EMS Advisory
Counsel will meet, March 10 at 7 p.m. in the
Madison County Courthouse.
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The Antioch Fire Department will hold
their annual meeting, March 14 at 7:30 p.m.
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Richard Dillingham, archivist in the Ap
palachian Room at Mars Hill College, will
speak at the first of the 1983 series of special
programs sponsored by the Friends of Mars
Hill Community Library at 7:30 p.m., March 10
at the community library.
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The next meeting of the Madison County Unit
af the Retired North Carolina School Personnel
will be held March 9 at 2 p.m. at the Senior
Citizens Center on Long Branch Road.
Mrs. Lucille Burnette will be in charge and a
good program is planned. All retired teachers in
Madison County are urged to attend the meeting.
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The Marshall Premenstrual Syndrom Sup
port Group will hold an organizational meeting
Mar. 17 at 7 p.m. in the First Baptist Church of
Marshall. Anyone interested in learning more
about PMS is urged to attend.
The sounds of old time mountain music will be
heard in Burnsville March 11 as John McCut
cheon, one of America's foremost folk musicians,
presents a concert of Appalachian music. The
man Johnny Cash called "the most impressive in
strumentalist I've ever heard" will be appearing
at Mtn. Heritage High School at 7:30 p.m. Admis
sion for the concert, which is sponsored by the Toe
River Arts Council, is $4 for adults and $2 for
children.
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Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new
Ivy Ridge development, a 40-unit housing pro
ject to be constructed by the Madison County
Housing Authority, will be held Friday at the
site located off U.S. 19-23 north of Mars Hill.
The public is invited to attend.
Weaverville Lions Club members have
volunteered their time to paint the new Dry
Ridge Museum at the corner of Main and Pine
Sts. in Weaverville.
Lions are also continuing to collect old
eyeglasses as part of their work for the blind.
Glasses may be dropped off at the First Union
Bank in Weaverville.
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Alexander Nevsky, a black and white film
classic from the 1930s with its climax in the
famous depiction of Nevsky's Battle of the Ice,
will be presented at the Weaverville Library on
Thursday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. The public is
invited without charge.
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There will be a public hearing on March 21
at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall in Hot Springs to
discuss the possibility of securing money for
sewer needs for the Town of Hot Springs.
Forest Service To Accept Bids
Sealed bids will be recieved
by the District Ranger, U.S.
Forest Service, P.O. Box 128,
Hot Springs, N.C. 28743, up to
10 a.m. local time at the place
of bid opening, March 31, 1983
and opened immediately
thereafter for all timber
marked or designated for cut
ting located in an area cover
ing about 21 acres in Compart
ment 38, Jack Branch, French
Broad Ranger District,
Pisgah National Forest,
ison County, North
estimated to be 29
of Pine and
per MBF for Yellow Pine and
Hemlock; $74.81 per MBF for
Yellow Poplar Group; $55.72
pre MBF for Mixed Oaks;
$110.39 per MBF for White Oak
and Northern Red Oak; and
$0.80 per CCF far Hardwood
Small Roundwood. $100.00 in
the form of certified check or
equivalent must be deposited
with each bid. Sale award will
be based on the highest total
bid value. The right to reject
any and all bids is reserved.
information concerning
SIGNING CONTRACTS for the new 40-unit
Ivy Ridge housing development are Charles
Smith, right, and Charles J. Carver of the
Carver Construction Co. Carver signed the
contracts in a ceremony held in the county
courthouse Friday morning. Work on the low
income housing will begin next week and is
expected to be completed within a year. The
$1.2 million project will be operated by the
Madison County Housing Authority.
THE WEST MADISON FIRE
DEPARTMENT building is begin
ning to take shape. Volunteers
from the community are shown
working on the roof to the new
headquarters. Men and women
from the community have
donated their time and talents to
the building's construction. Funds
for the building were raised by
conducting donut sales and
basketball tournaments .
throughout the winter.
County
Man Is
Shot
a snooting Monaay nigni in
a Buncombe County package
store sent a Madison County
man to the hospital with multi
ple gunshot wounds.
Police report that Wade
Ramsey was shot six times at
close range with a small
caliber handgun. The incident
happened about 9 p.m. in
Peabody's package store at
Forks of Ivy. Ramsey was
taken to Memorial Mission
Hospital in Asheville where he
was in stable condition Tues
day morning.
Arrest warrants have been
issued for Bill Maney of
Yancey County. Maney is
charged with assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to
kill, inflicting serious injury.
He remained at large Tuesday
motiving.
An attendant at the store
said the suspect fired six
times at Ramsey before leav
ing the gun on the store's
checkout counter and fleeing
the scene.
Public
Meetings
The Madison County Board of Commis
sioners, in conjunction with the Madison County
Housing Authority, will hold a public hearing on
March 22, 1983 at 7:30 p.m. in the Madison
County Courthouse.
The hearing will be conducted for the pur
pose of receiving citizens comments on the
Grantee Performance Report for the 1981-82
Community Development Activities in the
Rice's Cove and Bee Tree Communities.
Citizens who wish to comment at the hearing
are encouraged to attend.
The Madison County Board of Commis
sioners, in conjunction with the Madison County
Housing Authority, will hold a public hearing on
March 22, 1983 at 7:30 p.m. in the Madison
County Courthouse.
The hearing will be conducted for the pur
pose of preparing a community revitalization
and planning application for the Small Cities
Community Development Block Grant Pro
gram. Citizens who wish to comment at the
hearing are encouraged to attend.
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waiter Harreil was named to serve in precinct
1-1. Otis Chandler was named for precinct 2. Ed
Krause and Ray Norton were named from
precincts 3-2 and 3-1. Don Hall was named from
precinct 4, Harry Payne from precinct 5, Curtis
Roberts from precinct 6, Suzie Jenkins from
precinct 7, Frank Massey from precinct 8 and
Mollie Brown from precinct 9. Also named were
Marian Tisdale, representing the Republican
Women's Club and Michael Chapman from the
Young Republicans.
Others chosen to serve on the executive
committee were David Plemmons, Bill Powell,
Joe Fowler, Dedrick Brown, Bruce Briggs and
Janet Nix.
Pat Roberts was named the vice chairman
of the county organization and Jane Briggs was
named to serve as secretary. C.N. Willis was
elected as. treasurer.
The convention also selected April 30 and
May 7 as proposed dates for the party's annual
Lincoln Day dinner. The executive committee
will determine the exact date of the dinner.
County Unemployment Reaches 8.1 Percent
There was good news and
bad news in the unemploy
ment picture this past week.
The bad news came from
the N.C. Employment Securi
ty Commission (ESC) figures
which showed that unemploy
ment in Madison County in
creased in January to 8.1 per
cent of the work force.
The good news came from
Cleveland, Tenn., where of
ficials of The Lay Co. an
nounced that they will be
opening a new department
store in the Ingles' Shopping
Center in Mars Hill before the
end of the month. The new
store will be hiring store
clerks and stock personnel.
The county jobless figures
increased three-tenths of one
percent in January, up from
7.8 percent in December. The
percentage figure for January
represents 680 jobless workers
in Madison County. The
January increase marked the
seventh month in a row that
the unemployment rate for the
county increased.
Despite the increase,
Madison County trails both
state-wide unemployment in
January was up to 10 percent
while federal figures released
last week showed that U.4 per
cent of the civilian work force
was unemployed.
State-wide figures indicated
that unemployment increased
in ail of the states 10
metropolitan areas. Asheville
reported an increase to 9.1
percent from an 8.4 percent
rate reported in December.
Across the state, 94 counties
reported increases in the
jobless picture in Janhary.
Dare County has the state's
highest unemployment rate at
42.1 percent. Neighboring
counties all reported in
creases in January. Bun
combe County reported a 9.2
percent rate while Yancey
County reported a 16.4 percent
rate and Haywood County
unemployment stood at 13.7
percent.
Unemployment
Benefit Extended
Thousands of jobless North
Carolinians may be eligible
for extended benefits accor
ding to Glenn R. Jernigan,
chairman of the North
Carolina Employment Securi
ty Commission (ESC).
The Extended Benefits
(EB) Program went into ef
fect with the week ending Jan.
29, 1963, the first payable week
will be the week ending Feb.
19, 1963. The program is ac
tivated legally by a period of
sustained high unemploy
ment, and it begins the third
week after the week in which
there is a "trigger on" in
dicator.
Jernigan said, "We
estimate that up to lS.OQp
unemployed individuals, who
are currently filing claims for
unemployment insurance
benefits, may be eligible to
receive up to 13 additional
weeks of benefits." EB checks
have the same monetary
value at regular unemploy
ment insurance benefits The
EB Program will last IS
weeks, and it can be extended
governments.
Employers and unemployed
workers are advised to con
tact the ESC local office serv
ing their area for complete in
formation about the Extended
Benefits Program.
A record $56.3 million in
weekly unemployment in
surance benefits was paid to
jobless workers in January.
Never before has such a large
sum been paid by the North
Carolina Employment Securi
ty Commission (ESC).
The North Carolina UI Fund
is the third most solvent in the
United States with a January
balance of more than $340
million. In contrast, the funds
in 23 states werer bankrupt.
Forecasts indicate bankrupt
cies will increase to 35 by the
end of 1983 and to 39 by 1984
Glenn R. Jernigan, chair
man of ESC,- said, "Conser
vative fiscal policies have
maintained North Carolina's
solvency, but the UI Fund is
being depleted at an average
rate of $19 million each week.
We are very concerned about
the sustained high unemplov
ment rates and the drain, it
on the UI Fund."
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