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The News ^?yiga^iJMallLii MMh^^^^Mrr "r TTTTirrrr Til^nr " r^Biir^ ? nllwi r^T ' .^r*- - x ---t-^:^^m .-.^-rr-r E!W^? SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY Sll MARSHAt I.. NC Vol. 84 NO. 13 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N C WEDNESDAY, March 28, 1984 25C Capitola Dam, Marshal] ?; , ? . Sewer Projects Collide By ROBERT KOENIG The two major projects currently under con struction in Marshall are presently on a colli sion course that centers around the parking lot of the Marshall Glove Co. factory. Work on the Marshall sewer project should proceed to the parking lot later this week accor ding to schedule. However, sewer construction at the site would delay work on the Capitola Dam project being built by the French Broad Electric Membership Corporation. Marshall mayor Betty Wild brought representatives of both sides together last week at a special called meeting of the town board of aldermen in an attempt to work out a schedule agreeable to both parties. Caught in the middle of all this construction is the glove plant and its employees. Marshall Fisher of the Marshall Glove Co. also attended Friday's meeting. Fisher told the meeting that he faces problems at the plant because the con struction projects will make freight deliveries difficult. Fisher said, "I don't have any idea when Taylor and Murphy is coming through, I'd like to think we can work around the situation, but it will make getting freight in and out difficult and be an inconvienience to our employees." The problems with the Capitola Dam project stem from an agreement between FBEMC and the glove company for the use of the factory's parking lot for the construction of giant draft tubes needed in the dam's turbines. FBEMC representative Rick Thomason said that welding the large tubes together requires a flat space near the construction site and that the parking lot is the only suitable location available. He said that work on the tubes will take at least 45 days. Thomason added that work on welding the tubes together is scheduled to begin later this week. Work on the sewer project is expected to pro ceed into the parking lot later this week. Taylor and Murphy Construction supervisor Alex Keith attended the Friday meeting. Keith said he could not give an exact date as to when the sewer project will arrive at the parking lot. He said, "There's no way I can give you a definite date because we might hit rock." The project is currently installing a line from the treatment plant on Blannahassett Island to the parking lot. From there, plans call for the project to proceed up Cotton Mill Hill. Bill Lapsley, the engineer on the sewer pro ject said, "Concern about the parking lot was (Continued on Page 9) DAFFODILS such as these in the yard of a Hot Springs home are signalling the arrival of spr ing throughout Madison County. Mild temperatures and showers have accompanied the arrival of the flowers. Unemployment Down Statewide The statewide unemploy ment picture improved slight ly in February according to figure released last week by the N.C. Employment Securi ty Commission (ESC). Figures released last wek show that statewide joblessness decreased by half a percentage point during the month, to 7.6 percent of the work force. The January ESC figures showed North Caroina unemployment at 8.1 percent. The 7.6 percent figure for the month represents some 222,100 unemployed workers. ESC chairman Glenn Jer nigan said that nonmanufac turing jobs lead the way in Febraury, with an increase of 12,400 jobs across the state. Jemigan also reported that jobs in tobacco manufacturing decreased during the month due to seasonal influences. Textiles also reported a loss of some 600 jobs during the month. The report also states that the average hourly wage for manufacturing production workers was $6.92, an increase of two cents over the previous month and 33 cents above the Feb. 1963 figure. The average weekly hours worked by manufacturing production workers remained unchanged in Feb. at 39.7 hours. The ESC chairman express ed optimism that the decreas ed unemployment figures would continue in the months ahead. In releasing the figures, Jernigan noted, "In the coming months we expect unemployment rates to decline. Historically, rates go down as weather conditions improve and tourism-related activities increase. These, of course, affect both manufac turing and non-manufacturing jobs." 3 Plead Innocent In Bid Rigging Three men charged in con nection with bid-rigging on the U.S. 25-70 projects from Mar shall to Weavervilie pleaded innocent during their arraign ment before the U.S. Magistrate in Asheville Thurs day. The three will be bound over to the U.S. District Court for trial on May 7. William Albert Ricker of Mars Hill, a Department of Transportation maintainence crew chief, entered not guilty pleas to two charges of extor tion. Ricker has been suspend ed without pay frt>m his DOT position. Edward Hume Paschall of Black Mountain, a retired DOT engineer, pleaded not guilty to three counts of extor tion to affect commerce. Both Ricker and Paschall are charged with accepting non reimbursed accomodations at a Hilton Head Island, S.C. resort and Texas hunting lodge. Paschall is also charg ed with accepting a 1981 Cadillac from the third man charged in the bid-rigging pro be, Baxter A. Taylor, presi dent of the Asheville Contrac ting Co. ' Taylor also entered not guil ty pleas during his arraign ment. He is charged with three counts of mail fraud, one count of conspiracy and a count of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. All three men remain free on $2,500 unsecured bonds. They were indicted by a federal grand jury in Asheville on March 9. Food Stamp Program Change To Take Effect May 1 Madison County food stamp recipients should be aware that changes in the system will take effect next month. According to Elizabeth Roberts, Madison County food stamp supervisor, the county program will become a part of W Food Staia^ Information System (FSIS) on May 1. The sysytem is a computerized system that will connect the coumy office with food stamp computers in Raleigh. Although the application process remains virtally un changed, the information gathered during the applica tion interview will be transmitted to the computer base in Raleigh which will in turn issue an allotment and expiration notice or a denial notice. The blue card food stamp recipients have received in the past will no longer be used The new cards to lie issued look like a bill, according to Roberts. Food stamp reci pients should be aware of the change and not destroy the card when it arrives in the mail. A copy of the new card, as well as copies of the Notice of Eligibility and Notice of Ex piration are posted on the bulletin board at the foosd stamp office. The day the cards will be received has also been chang ed effective May 1. The change may result in a two week delay for some reci pients. Cards will be mailed on May 5 for persons whose Social Security number ends with the number"l". Reci pients with a Social Security number ending with "2" will have their cards mailed out on May 6. Persons with a Social Security number ending with zero will not have their cards mailed out until May 14. Roberts recently attended a five-day training session in Raleigh on the new system along with eligibility specialist Carol Massey and data management clerk Novella Sams. Roberts said that all Madison County certified '< households must have the pro per forms completed and entered in the computer by April 10 to insure that May allotments are received on time. She added that informa tion on the new system will be sent along with authorization cards in April and asks that food stamp recipients with questions on the new system wait until after April 10 to call the office so that the necessary entries can be made in the computer. Democratic Candidates' Positions Outlined By Rob Christensen Hie News and Observer Ed. Note: This is the second in a two-part series detailing the major Democratic guber natorial candidates' positions. The article was based on interviews with the candidates published in Hie Raleigh News and Observer. On social issues, Green was the only major Democratic candidate to oppose state ratifica tion of the Equal Rights Amendment should Congress resubmit it to the states. "I don't want to turn it over to the (U.S.) Supreme Court to make those determinations," Green said. "I think we can do it at the local level." Ingram said that the ERA had consumed too much of the legislature's time and that he would submit the issue to the voters in a refer - rea^um if the issue reappeared. Knox, fidmisten, Gilmore and Faircloth said they woukjj work for passage of the ERA should it come before the legislature again. North Carolina is one of the few states that provides funding of abortions for low-income INGRAM GREEN GILMORE FAIRCLOTH KNOX EDMISTEN r "I favor a lifetime sentence absolutely without parole, working at hard labor with restitution back to the victim's family." Gilmore said. "What we have today is a lottery to decide which person is sentenced to death," he said. "It has not acted as a deterrent." All the candidates said they supported the principle that women working in state governemnt should be paid equally with men for doing jobs of comparable worth. But most said they would wait for a state government job classification study on the issue to be completed before offering specifics On another issue, which be has made a major campaign theme, Ingram was the only can didate to support a change in the way members of l nuclear power plants. But the other major candidates argued that a utilities commission election probably would be an obscure contest, in which many candidates would be financed by the utility companies. "I think it is a bad idea from beginning to end," Faircloth said. On environmental issues, the candidates ex pressed broad agreement. They all priased the Coastal Area Manage ment Act and promised in general terms to pro tect the state's watersheds. The candidates said they would work to pro tect the sTate from hazardous waste. They sug gested recycling hazardous waste and looking to industry to come up with new technology to Gilmore was the only candidate who said dur ing The N&O interviews that he supported ef forts to require companies to notify their workers when they are dealing with hazardous wastes ? a major goal of organized labor. All the candidates voiced support for opening up more state government meetings to the public. Edmisten, Knox, Green and Gilmore said meetings of the Advisory Budget Commission and the Council of State should be opened, ex
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