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Editorial Make Good Use Of New School The folks in North Buncombe County are feeling mighty pro ud these days - and with good reason. After all, it's not every year that a community opens the doors on a new $12.2 million high school. The new North Buncombe High School, located off Salem Road, is a much-needed improvement over the building previously called home nine months out of the year by students in the Weaverville-Flat Creek area. It's not so much that the old North Bm>combe High School became too dilapidated or too outdated to be used. If that were the case, the building would not have been converted into the new North Buncombe Middle School; it would have gone under the wrecking ball. A new high school was a necessity because of the steady growth of the student population in the north end of Buncombe County. In recent years, Black Hawk students have found themselves trying to learn in cramped quarters, battling herds of fellow students in narrow hallways at class changes, and traipsing through the elements to trailers serving as tem porary classrooms. Those kinds of conditions don't exactly enhance the learning process. That's why it is important that our children have the best possible facilities during their dozen years of readin', writin' and 'rthmatic. In North Buncombe County, high school students novG have a school that ranks among the best in Western North Carolina. The new building not only solves the chronic over-crowding problems that plagued the old facilities, but it also features modern classrooms full of state-of-the-art education supplies and learning equipment, ranging from items as simple as new-fangled chalkboards and specially designed desks to things as high-tech as computers and work processors. But simply putting up a brand new building won't do it. There's more to education than just fancy facilities and new equipment. The Buncombe County Board of Education has done its part by providing students in the north end of the county with a school building any community would be proud to call its own. Now it's up to- North Buncombe students to keep their end of the deal - by putting their new $12.2 million school to good use. We congratulate the North Buncombe community on its new high school, and challenge North Buncombe students to utilize the valuable learning resources now available. Reagan Didn't Say Enough About Scandal Just wait, said President Reagan a month ago, until the con gressinal hearings into the Iran-contra affair are finished. Then he would have so much to say about it that "you won't be able to shut me up." When the time came for the president to report to the American people, however, he spent less than 7 minutes on the scandal that has rocked his administration. The essence of what Reagan said - that the buck stops with him and that he's taken measures to repair the damage - is fine, as far as it goes. But Reagan didn't go very far. While he acknowledges mistakes in general terms, this once-over lightly approach failed to grapple with the fundamental governmental, legal and constitutional issues at the root of the Iran-contra affair. For instance, Reagan said nothing about his relationship with William J. Casey, the former director of cental in telligence, now dead, whom witnesses placed at the center of administration decision-making. Not did he offer thoughts about the role of Lt. Col. Oliver North, acting as an agent of the White House, in orchestrating a covert-action operation out side of government channels. The president admonished Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter for a?t telling him about the diversion of money to the Nicaraguan contras. But Reagan did not say what he would have done had he been informed. Still, Reagan said he "wholeheartedly" endorsed efforts to finance the contras through third countries and private parties. That leaves the in escapable conclusion that the Reagan administration, from the very top, treated the law prohibiting U.S. aid to the contras as a hurdle to jump, not a barrier to be respected. Perhaps the president is correct in saying that "there is nothing I can say that will make the situation right." The dirty deeds - selling arms to the terrorist ayatollah's regime in Iran, diverting profits from the sale of U.S. property to the contras in Nicaragua - have been done, and nothing can change those facts. But the president could have said much more to com municate a sense of outrage and an understanding of the con stitutional principles that had been put at a risk by his ad ministration. It is not surprising that Reagan wants to move on to another agenda, one more to his liking, but his speech to the nation contained too little for it to be the last word on the Iran-contra scandal. THE NEWS AND OBSERVER THE NEWS RECORD Si3v$fi STiSrJita Letters To The Editor " 'Jail Break ' A Success ? - ? - v 2*2 &1 | and the ??of n nd Madison County, the W^oft for w March of Dine* flgh aga at b d< >d< Who says that It waa e red plea ire for u to have Heard And Seen By POP STORY '95' Is Rellie's Lucky Number By POP STORY I was invited to the surprise birthday party Sunday after noon honoring Mrs. Rellie Allman on her 96th birthday. The party was given by ladies of the Bull Creek Baptist Church, of which she is a member, and held in the fellowship hall of the church. In addition to relatives and friends from Marshall, Mars Hill, Hot Springs and other sections of the county, relatives and friends from Hendersonville, Hickory, Winston-Salem, South Carolina, Florida and Michigan also attended. She was presented 96 pink rosebuds and, by coincidence, 95 guests signed the guest register. Rellie and her sister, Mrs. Clara Fagan, are residents of the Bull Creek community. Rellie neither looks nor acts her 95 years. She attends church services regularly, participates in community ac tivities and keeps busy at home cooking and doing needlework. Congratulations and best wishes, Rellie. Sorry I was unable to attend your party. LOOKING BACK When thumbing through past issues of The News-Record, I often come up with a file issue which contains many in teresting items. One of the issues was dated Jan. 4, 1968. Among the articles which caught my eye read that Walter Harrell, of Route 6, Marshall, was sworn in as coroner for , Madison County by C.N. Willis, clerk of Superior Court here Tuesday morning, Harrell succeeded Fred McDpvitt, who had recently resigned. He is married to the forma* Miss Katy Ed monds and they have three children. Dr. W.A. Sams, prominent Marshall physician, was honored last Friday evening at his home. A buffet dinner was enjoyed and a hugh birthday cake was sliced by the honoree. He received many useful gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Silver returned Wednesday from Florida where Mr. Silver and several other farm agents at tended business sessions and also attended the Orange Bowl game New Year's between Tennessee and Oklahoma. Paul Whitman, "King of Jazz," was put to rest Wednesday in New Jersey. Members of the Madison County Jury Commission, compos ed of Bobby Chandler, Raymond Stines and W.B. Zink, woe busy preparing a new system for selecting jurors. The Constitution Slavery An Issue At 1787 Convention By EMERSON THOMPSON When the Constitutional Convention convened in May 1787, James Madison stated that the United States would not be divided between the larger states and smaller states rather those with slaves and those without them. Two hundred years ago this week, the political debate on slavery began. There was a division between the delegates to the Constitutional Con vention. Some thotght the constitu tion should speak out against slavery Others thought it should remain At the time of the convention. South Carolina and Georgia were the only two staee to actively import slaves. Maryland and Virginia expressly pro Slavery was not debated by the delegates (or humanitarian reasons. It was debated because of tta in fluence on trade and commerce. Virginia's George Mason argued that: slavery discourages arts and manufacturing. The poor despise labor when it is performed by slaves." The idea was to stop the import of slaves. By allowing the national government to control slavery, a tax could be levied on the incoming slaves. Therefore, as Gouverneur Morris suggested, those which benefitted from ownership of slaves in their representation In the Houm of Representatives, also suffered by the J1 A aireci mxhuoii
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