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82nd Year NO. 52 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C WEDNESDAY, December 28, 1983 1 5* Per Copy
WATER FROM FROZEN French Marshall Elementary School on
Broad River covers grounds of Blannerhassett Island.
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NEWS RECORD OFFICE WILL BE
CLOSED MONDAY, JANUARY 2.
Deadline for the January 4th issue will
be Friday, December 30th at 5 p.m.
The News Record Office will re-open
Tuesday, January 3 at 8:30 a.m.
French Broad Freezes,
Floods Marshall School
Record low temperatures punished
Madison County throughout the Christmas
weekend, bursting pipes and causing sporadic
power outages. On Monday, the frozen French
Broad River overflowed its banks and poured
water onto Blannerhassett Island. Some
flooding was also reported on th? lower end of
Main Street in Marshall.
Water from the river had entered into the
basement of Marshall Elementary school
buildings by Monday afternoon according to the
school's principal, Fred Haynie. Water con
tinued to wash up onto the island on Tuesday
morning. The exact extent of damage to the
school is unknown at press time.
Marshall car dealers removed their
vehicles from Main Street lots Monday as fears
that the river would flood the town rose.
A portion of Main Street in front of the Mar
shall Presbyterian Church was closed tem
porarily Monday when the street became flood
ed. Although covered with ice, the street was
open to traffic Tuesday morning.
The rising ice and water also set back work
on the Capitola Dam project. Some fears were
expressed for construction equipment near the
river bank, but FBEMC officials expressed op
timism that the project could continue after
pumping operations clear the work site.
Warmer temperatures on Tuesday were ex
pected to relieve the situation somewhat.
Ice developed on the French Broad because
floodgates at the Redmon Dam were closed
during the Christmas weekend. Attempts to
reopen the gates were made on Monday.
Marshall mayor Betty Wild inspected the
river and Marshall Elementary School on Mon
day.
From The Front Pages of The News Record
ROBBIE EVANS is comforted as -
"he watches her home being
jstroyed by fire. The Thursday
Pfwrto by Bob Koenig
afternoon fire on Doe Branch in
Walnut was believed to have
begun in the bedroom.
1983: The Year In Review
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By ROBERT KOENIG
EDITOR
The year began with good news for Madison
County. State officials announced that a
1700,000 grant application for housing renova
tions was approved. The grant will enable the
county to renovate homes in the East Fork and
Beartown communities and to install septic
tanks in homes as part of the Clean Waters pro
ject. A portion of the grant was also to be used
for the planned construction of 10 low-income
homes.
. The opening week of the year also saw the
Madison High School received accredita
tion from the Southern Association of Colleges
and Universities in January and newly-elected
11th District Congressman James McClure
Clarke took office while a controversy regar
ding his election proceeded through the courts
Late in January, the North Carolina House
of Representatives elected Liston Ramsey to
serve a second term as house speaker. Ramsey
is only the second man in modem history to
serve two terms as House Speaker.
A Superior Court jury acquitted Salvation
dent Fred Bentley announced a plan for cutting
back on faculty and staff, freezing salaries and
increasing tuition in order to achieve stability
for the college.
The postal service began a program of
identifying dangerous dogs on mail routes to
prevent injuries to mail carriers.
Burley tobacco farmers joined together to
form the Western North Carolina Tobacco
Growers Association at a meeting in Lake
Junaluska. Roy Ammons of Mars Hill was
elected to serve as vice president of the
organization.
Also in February, State Sen. Kenneth
Royall proposed a one percent increase In the
state sales tax to support construction of new
schools and water treatment facilities. The
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