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ttl K i .Tiwft^A'&iTiliii tffl t HK 'St I 1 : ...,?. ?, , MAE' I SON The News R__ > # SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1901 I. 84 No. 26 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N C WEDNESDAY, June 27, 1984 $10 Million Complex Planned In Mars Hill Hotel. Apartments And Showing Center To Be Built On TI.S 1Q-9H By ROBERT KOEN1G* A Winston -Salem developer announced plans to construct a $10 million hotel, condominium and shopping complex north of Mars Hill Mon day afternoon. Clayton Snyder, president of Snyder Realty in Winston Salem, announced that agreements for construction on a 37-acre tract on U.S. 19-23 have been reached. Snyder said the project will be developed by the Great Smokey Mountains investment Corporation, which he heads. Several local Investors are believed to be in volved in the project, but Snyder declined to name the partners in a telephone interview Monday. Snyder said the proposed complex will in clude a hotel to be operated by what he called, "the largest hotel chain in the world." In addi tion to the hotel, plans call for the construction of an office building, condominiums, apart ments and a shopping plaza. Snyder said he has received committments from a bank and fast food chain, but declined to identify the prospective tenants. Announce ment of the stores to occupy the shopping center will be made later. Snyder said. Plans also call for the shopping center to Include a movie theatre. Snyder said there is not startup date for con struction yet. He said f"" '* " and engineering for the project will be done by VeaaUe and Johnson and Associates of Mem phis, Tenn. The developer said that construction should begin next spring. He added that the timetable for construction will be determined by the com pletion of sewer projects in Mars Hill and along U.S. it-23. The town of Mars Mil is currently In stalling new sewer lines within the town limits. * """ ( Continued on Page 10) Autopsy Ordered Following Death Of Child An autopsy was ordered Thursday on the body of 5-year-old Joyce Johnson of Hot Spr ings, who died Wednesday afternoon at Memorial Mission Hospital. The body will be sent to the state medical ex a miner's office in Chapel Hill for the autopsy. Dr. H.E. Hinman, Buncombe County medical examiner, said the cause of death has not been determined. The child had been hospitalized twice recently, and it is not known what caused her illness, Hinman said. Madison County Sheriff E. Y. Ponder said Monday that the child's death is not currently under investigation. The sheriff said he will await the results of the autopsy before conduc ting further inquiries. The Madison County Department of Social Services took custody of the deceased child's older brother following the June 17 incident which hospitalized Miss Johnson. At a hearing held Thursday in Avery COunty District Court, Judge Phillip Ginn ordered the girl's brother, Christopher Lewis Johnson, 11, be placed in foster care pending a hearing in juvenile court scheduled for July 24. It will be several days before the state medical examiner's office completes its report. Pair Arrested On DWI Charges Marshall police report they arrested two men Sunday night on charges of driving while impaired after the pair were apprehended by a Rollins resident, Charlie Tip ton. Officer Chris Bowman reported that Douglas Presnell, 34, of Asheville and Danny Louis Ingle, 21, of Leicester were charged with driving while impaired. Police had sought the men for questioning in connection with an earlier acident in the Rollins community. PresneU was charged with OWI,reckless driving, driving with license permanently revoked and refusing to pro vide information. Ingle was charged with DWI by State Highway Patrol Trooper Charles Franklin. Marshall police officer Mike Beasley also charged Ingle with misdemeanor possession of marijuana and drug paraphenalia. * WORKMEN CONTINUED EX CAVATION ON HILL ST. IN MAR SHALL THIS WEEK after engineers recommended route over possible a Iternative that would have required digging behind the county Court House. * Construction Resumes On Hill Street Project By STEVE FERGUSON The Hit! Street sewer line will be placed under the road as originally planned. After conferring with town engineer Bill Lapsley, the Marshall Board of Aldermen decided last Wednesday in an emergency meeting that routing the line down Hill Street would be better than placing it behind the Madison County Courthouse. Construction on that line was stopped two weeks ago when the aldermen learned of a line that ran down an em bankment behind the cour thouse, and could have been a alternative to digging up a large section of the street. At that time, the aldermen decid ed to wait for a cost estimate for the new route from Taylor k Murphy Construction Co. before allowing work to resume on Hill Street. It would be about $5,000 cheaper to route the sewer line behind the courthouse, Lapsley told the aldermen, but still recommended that the line be placed as originally planned for several reasons: 1. The courthouse is a na tional historic building and any such construction re quires the opinion of a third party engineer, according to the Historic Preservation Foundation in Raleigh. 2. Due to the age of the building, supports would have to be built to stabilize it during construction. 3. A two-month delay would be required to allow the Historic Preservation Foun dation and the Environmental Protection Agency to review the new plans, which would probably delay paving Hill Street until spring. Considering the fee for a new engineer, the costs of stabilizing the building and the two-month delay, the costs of the projects would balance out, Lapsley said. Alderman Ed Niles made the motion, which was second ed by Sammy Lunsford, to act on Lapsley's recommenda tion. Construction on Hill; Street will resume as soon as; possible. Mayor Betty Wild supported the move, saying the town has federal money for the project now, all the red tape has been cleared and the project should ; go ahead as planned. With a; two-month delay in the pro-; ject, and paving being im*". possible in the winter, the road might have been paved si* months behind schedule, she added. Hill Street residents have threatened legal action, Wild confirmed, but none has been taken yet. Beech Prepares For Centennial July 4 Celebration DAVE PENLAND WAS A CIVIL WAR veteran who always made the wildflower displays for the July 4 celebration. Photo above was taken in 1910 by William Barnhill. It and other old photographs will be on display at Beech Community's centennial July 4 celebration. Mars Hill College is helping the Beech community to com memorate its 100th con secutive July 4th celebration, believed to be the oldest such celebration in North Carolina. With the help of the college, Beech residents have publish ed the autobiography of alongtime and valued member of the community, Lillie McDevitt Clark, Mrs. Clark's book, 'Ap palachian Memories- A Simpler Time', features stories of growing up in Madison Country in the early part of this century. The book will go on sale beginning on July 4. Excerpts of the book will be published in The News Record beginning with the issue of July 11. Because of its historic value to the area, the Mars Hill College Library's Appalachian Room typed the manuscript, readied it for pro duction and assisted with other aspects of the publica tion. Historic exhibits at the Beech Community Center range from Indian artifacts to old pottery. Included in the ex hibit will be many old photographs, including some works from the William Bar nhill collection on loan from the Mars Hill Appalachian Collection. The public is invited to the celebration which begins at 8:45 a.m. Independence Day with a flag raising and will continue throughout the day. Festivities will conclude with a 9:15 p.m. fireworks display which will be followed by a gospel singing. The festivities will also in clude a children's parade and pet show at 9 a.m. The main parade, featuring antique vehicles and a shaped-note float, wili get underway at 10 a.m. The patriotic program with guest speaker Milton Ohlsen will begin at 11 a.m., followed by a basket lunch under the trees beginning at noon. Next comes a performance of traditional mountain string music and clogging. Field day activities will begin at 1:30 p.m. Display booths and demonstrations of old-time crafts such as soap-making will be open from 3 until S p.m . Among the traditions that will be re-enacted from earlier July 4 celebrations will be a series of youth recitations at the patriotic program. Taking part in the recitations will be John McDaris, a descendant of the early Rhea family set tlers and Brook Barbee, the great-great-granddaughter of the Rev. A.M. Penland, the founder of the Beech celebra tion. Eco Village Offers Practical Entertainment By STEVE FERGUSON "We have not inherited this planet from our forefathers ... we are borrowing it from our children." You'll find this quote in the visitor's guide of the Mother Earth News Ero-Village, and you're reminded of it everywhere you go on the tit-acre development. Countless displays and workshops are there, from solar greenhouses to home cooling techniques, ?U design ed to make the best use of nature s materials. Eco-Village, an offspring of The Mother Earlii News and simple hand tools, and gardening methods are designed to heal the land rather than destroy it, they say. "We see most present-day agribusiness techniques as destructive," the Eco-Village people say. "It is indeed possi ble to raise an abundant suply of fresh, healthful foods and improve the overall quality of the soil at the same time. In essence, this involves ex changing expensive and often dangerous chemicals for per sonal labor and careful plann iag." Windmills almost disap peared from the U.S. in th?> early 1950s when commercial powar became available, but Eco-Village is trying to WATER WHEEL such as the one operated at Eco Village can supply electricity to self sufficient hornet. ;> ? level and proper water If you want to sample their imnicgnmii (rout, you can purchas* it or hook yqui own in IN-ir eat ia a feature house heats and coot* itself moat of the lime || | The way (he segments of the re?> on and help Gi each other is fascinating. For instance, the fish pond in front of the house provides protein for the family, a home for the ducks and a water source for the garden. The gardens are fertilized with manure and compost from the rabbits and chickens. Bees from the hives pollinate the plants. The herbs and spices planted in the garden and around the house are helpful in the kitchen and a too ward off pests and insects A small hydroelectric system produces about 40 watts per hour, a photovoltaic panel on the roof creates about 1M watts per day, and both of these charge a bank of bul have a total Th.au. up 19 a
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