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The News Record SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1901 -t-.Nt.RAi r,c:. T I -r ? i-'SLil J. i/p Vol. 84 NO. 84 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MAR NESDAY, June 12 1964 25c One Dead, Two Injured In Sleepy Valley Shootout By ROBERT KOENIG The tranquility of the nor thern Madison County com munity of Sleepy Valley was broken by the sounds of gun shots Monday afternoon when two brothers exchanged fire in their father's home. The gun fight left one brother dead and the other brother and his wife both seriously wounded. Charles Rath bone, 49, of Morristown, Tenn. was pro nounced dead at the scene bf the incident, the Homer Rath bone residence on U.S. 2S-70. He died from gunshot wounds from a .22 Cal. rifle believed to have been fired by his brother, Clyde Rath bone, 57, of Sleepy Valley. Madison County Sheriff E.Y. Ponder received a call shortly after 1 p.m. Monday afternoon. Ponder said that the two men exchanged fire after an argument in the home. Family members said that the two men had been quarreling for some time. The brothers' father, Homer Rath bone, was in the home at the time of the shooting. The wife of the elder Rath bone brother, Christine Rathbone, 52, of Sleepy Valley was also injured in the shooting. Both she and her husband were taken to Memorial Mission Hospital in Asheville by members of the Madison County Emergency Medical Service. Mr. Rath bone was reported in fair condition Tuesday morning. Mrs. Rath bone waa listed in satisfactory condition. Sheriff Ponder reported that it appeared the two men ex changed fire at close range. Charles Rath bone is believed to have fired a .22 Cal. pistol and Clyde Rathbone returned fire using a .23 Cal. rifle. Ponder said 11 spent shells were found in the home. Charles Rath bone was hit with six shots. Sheriff Ponder said that Clyde Rathbone will be charg ed with murder in connection with the shooting. New Look Coming August 29 The News Record will be (porting a new look beginning in late August. News Record editor Bob Koenig announced the Change last week after conferring with publisher Ken Wilson. Beginning with the issue of August 2S? The News Record will convert to a six-column format. The format change to necessary because of a con version to a smaller siie of newsprint. The News Record's size in length will remain un changed but the width of the paper will be reduced by one inch. Continued On Page 4 Hill Street Blues Residents Air Sewer Project Complaints By STEVE FERGUSON The Marshall Board of Aldermen heard concerns of Hill Street residents Wednes day night concerning con struction of the new sewer line on that street, which will begin this week. "When you go to blasting in front of my bouse, if the win dow lights are still on when I get home, what damage will be done to my house?" asked Kenneth Brown, a Hill Street resident. "That's my house, and the only place I've got to stay." Gary Mease, vice president of Taylor k Murphy Construc tion Go., said his company was insured up to 12 million and would repair or pay for any damage they did. Mease said the construction workers would try to damage as little as tbey could, but admitted some damage was possible. "I'm not going to make big promises when I can't live up to them." "If they destroy something, they have to put it back," said Bill Lapsley, of McGili, Lapsley and Associates of Asheviile, the firm who plann ed the project. "They're vefy cognisant of the liability to them." Lapsley added that $70,000 was being witheld from Taylor k Murphy, as is stan dard procedure, in case any damages were left after the project had been completed. The Hill Street project U the fourth and final part of a sewer renewal plan that began in August 1962 when Marshall voters approved a $1.2 million bond issue to fund the project to replace old sewer lines. Ths first three parts are near com pletion and include Walnut Creek Drive, Cotton Mill Hill and Rollins. $900,000 was add ed to the coat of the project and granted by the Parmer's Home Administration when construction crews hit an unexpected amount of rock and more manpower and equipment were required. The sewer line will be buried as shallow as possible to cause the least amount of damage to Hill Street property, Laps ley said. Three feet is the , minimum depth reuired Residents expressed coo .cern over the quality of the material that their street would be resurfaced with. Walnut Creek Drive was recently r^paved after new sewer lines were installed, and the pavement has developed cracks and potholes in places. Mease said his company would attempt to save the street's concrete surface as it is, but he added that he doubted saving the SO-to-60 y ear-old surface was possible. Hill Street would get a better quality of pavement than that on Walnut Creek Drive, be said. There is much damage on Walnut Creek because the state required them to put a lesser-quality pavement down, he said. Walnut Creek Drive will be resurfaced with a better quali ty pavement, Mease added. Joe Penland, spokesman for the Hill Street rasidents at the meeting, asked how he and other residents would be able to get to their homes on the narrow road, since it will be dug up and Mocked by con struction vehicles. "I want to , be able to go home at night." Continued On Page ? WORK ON THE SEWER PROJECT began on Hill Street Monday afternoon. Commissioners Create New Township The Madison County Board of Commissioners voted to split the Laurel Township at the conclusion of their mon thly meeting on June 4. The township, also known formerly as Township No. 2, was divided at the request of Laurel residents, according to commission chairman Ervin Adams. The two new .ownships took effect on June 6. The Laurel River, Big , Laurel Creek and Shellon , Laurel Creek divides the new ly created townships. The new township, to be known as the Revere-Spillcorn Township, lies to the east of the river and creeks and includes Grassy Mountain, Hicks Mountain and Sugar Loaf Mountain, school Board Approves Food Service Budget By STEVE FERGUSON The Madison County Board of Education approved a 1653,500 school food service budget last Wednesday for the 1MMS school year, as wall as Visited Mars mil Elementary School recommended that roof repairs be made to two uildings there W9, MO of the food service budget will come from the Department of Agriculture, with the rest coming frsm Elementary and unanimously agreed that roofing work needed to be done to two building*. They voted to allow Superintendent Robert Ed ward! to And a contractor to do the work neceesary. The board also reviewed the proposed budget for Chapter I, presented by Dr. Owen Fish, Chapter a coordinator for Madison County The budget, totaling VMM. asks the state for more than ?M,000 in instructional equipment la license for at lent six months, according to ? letter sent to Gov. Jim Hunt by the U.S Secretary of Labor. Edwards read a copy of the letter at Wednesday's meeting, and board members agreed that employment of such driven "We'd be ruined if we couldn't do that at the high school," board chairman Bob by Ponder said. Tbe payment to French Broad Electric Membership Corpoi ation was approved, at a total east of wKh an etectHc Mil of *7 123 20 VANDALS DESTROYED TWO TIRES on Mar shall Police Dept. squad car parked on Main Street Saturday night. The incident was the third such vandalism of Marshall police vehicles in recent months. No arrests have been made and the incident remains under investiga tion. Vandals Damage Police Car Vandals destroyed two tires on a Marshall Police Dept. squad car Saturday night as it was parked unattended on Main Street. The News Record has also learned that vandals again struck sometime Mon day, puncturing two new tires on the squad car. The in cidents are the latest in a series of acts of vandalism that have been reported recently. Earlier, vandals damaged tires and a blue light on the police vehicle and removed an oil plug. Other acta of van dalism have been reported by Pint Union Bank, Ponder s Auto Supply and Marshall at torney Joe Huff. No arrests have been made in any of the cases reported. The vehicle struck Saturday night was being operated by Marshall police officer Michael Beasley. The officer left the car unattended on Main Street while he ap prehended the Rev. Ronnie S nelson. Beasley took the minister to the Madison Coun ty Sheriff's Dept. after asking him to stop preaching on Main Street to teenagers assembled at the New Demensions video arcade. The vandalism was discovered after Beasley returned to the car after releasing Rev. Snelson. Contacted by telephone Monday night, Rev. Snelson said he was unaware the police car had been vandaliz ed. Snelson is the pastor of the Big Laurel Baptist Church. He was accompanied by several members of the church Satur day night. Neither he nor the followers are suspected of vandalizing the police car. Rev. Snelson said that of ficer Beasley asked him to stop preaching on the street, claiming that town ordinances prohibit such activity after 10 p.m.. Snelson told The News Record, "When you start Continued On Page S Edmisten Wins In County PRECINCT RETURN SHEET SECOND PRIMARY Jura 5. 1984 COMMISSIONER NUMBER OF LIEUTENANT VOTERS GOVERNOR LABOR GOVERNOR D D D D R R PRECINCT EDMISTEN KNOX BARNES BROOKS CARRINGTON JORDAN II Ebba Chapel 11 Sprim Craafc 12 Man HHI 13 S. Mara HIH 14 Baach (Man 15 Hot Springs 16 Laura! 17 Grapevine 18 Sandy Mush 19 North Mara Hill 1 10 Walnut ABSENTEE TOTALS 74 32 96 80 270 106 96 31 182 106 146 106 192 123 146 83 40 19 360 77 146 61 66 34 1792 847 26 27 14 51 140 140 62 43 60 46 37 71 65 102 55 61 17 19 256 214 86 59 21 52 839 820 20 11 20 1_ 95 20 35 0_ 73 13 32 1_ 32 0_ 34 5_ 14 0_ 73 3_ 39 6_ 19 0 480 60 0 3 4 2 2 4 2 3 1 2 23 Merchants Support Main Street Drive MARSHALL MAIN STREET MER CHANTS Doug and John Dodmi, Ed Niles, George Finland and Richard Kingston display their donations to the Main Street Fund. Other done tions have ben received from First Union Bank and The Nana Record Merchants wishing to contribute to tbe fund should contact Bryce Hal) of Tbe Pint Union Bank The Marshall Merchants' Association held a' meeting last Wednesday to dram up support for the Main Street program application the town will soon submit. The meeting was called by Kicnara Kingston to explain the purpose of the program and to enlist the merchants' support (or a matching fund required to bring a team of ex perts in to examine Marshall's i needs. Barber last fast, the Marshall Board of Aldermen approved a $1,000 appropria tion for the Main Street pro gram. Marshall merchant* must match the town's sp be refunded to each merchant with interest. The merchants attending the Wednesday meeting en dorsed the plan. Donations of 950 each were received from Kingston, $d NUea of Roberta' Pharmacy, Doug and John Dodson of Dodson's Grocery, Bryce Hall of First Union Bank. George Penland of Peniand's Clothing Newt Rtn ord editor Bob Koenig Other donations are expected to I ?
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