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.,.v,..1'....,,,t.'J, r..v ...i'tt. .Ak 4 v. 4 Vfaen.NaiberZ7. Marshall. N.c. 15 CENTS PER COPY Aagwst 1. 1S74 r . ... I Stt'v Ledford Reflates GOP .Resolution Charges By MARTHA ABSHIRE CiUiee-Timei Staff Writer MARS HILL - The chairman of the Democratic Madison County Board of Commissioners refuted charges of secrecy and misappropriation of funds brought Saturday of the county's Republican executive committee. "I cant understand what the problem is," said James Examples Of Secrecy And Lack 1. The Madison County Republican Executive Committee Chairman had asked to use the courtroom for a business meeting at 2 p. m. on July 27, 1974. Upon arriving at the courthouse at the ap pointed , hour, it was discovered that same was not open nor available. Thus, the use of the building was denied to the Republican Party. Upon checking at the home of the one who was in possession of the key to the courthouse, said individual was not to be found. The Committee was forced after an hour's delay to meet in another location. 2. A Board of Education member resigned without the public knowing about it via any news media. Her suc cessor was secretly approved and appointed to the board without any public an nouncement of same. This was an occurrence of months ago but to this day there has been no publicity whatsoever relative to the new member of the board. This is a paatie aad elective office and the people have a right to know who constitutes the membership of the board. What is behind this clandestine action? Upon being contacted by a school board candidate, regarding the new member, of the board, it was not acknowledged that the new member was actually on the board! Yet it is a fact that one Dedrick Cody is on the board as a replacement to Marshall Horse Show Winners Announced ' The tth aaaaal Charity Horat Shaw at Marshall an July 29 was highly I The anaoal event is i by the Marshall Lions dab. T. Ledford. the commission's chairman, in response to the resolution calling for "truth fulness, openness and honesty" in government and listing a number of questions. Ledford answered each one of the questions and said that no one had contacted him requesting the information, much of which he said had already been published in the local newspaper or put on in Of Op enness Mrs. Bobby Jean Rice, should not be secret. This 3. The latter day salary of the incumbent Chairman of the present Board of County Commissioners has never faeea aahusaed or ml in a paper of general county circulation. It was sub sequently announced in a large daily after the GOP "smoked" him out on iL Why this assumption of a salary that has never been allotted before by any county com missioners of a small county ( 16,003, 187t decennial census) such as Madison? What has be done so important to make the chairmanship hdltinie? What possible Justification can be given for a $7,200 salary to the already burdened taxpayers? Was this budgeted in the 1572 1973. If not, he has raised his own salary! 4. Dr. Ed L Niles was ap pointed to the Madison County Social Services Board by the state of North Carolina. Not only was there no mention of this in the press of the county but, even more serious, was the fact that Dr. Niles was not contacted or encouraged by the Madison County Board of Social Services to attend any meeting after his ap pointment. He finally decided that he had better take definitive action, and demanded to know what was going on regarding the board's silence and failure to treat him as a duly appointed member of this agency. CUSS 1. gngliah Baiter (2 rra. k Dmter) aoldra Dawn SUrlay Orowr Saw ArdM ftllah Halter tOvwr 2 yrs.) Brounla Larry bmr Tfcalaa Davla Plagah Poraat 2. 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' i.r i 1 1 -"'. i r . - i v TrMi r i 'na ? . i f -e ' t ? -t f'v. ":i . . 5 ' n i " r y t . . i mi . ' ? ! " V ' r - : ? i- J i . p "' . I i .vie public record at the Cour thouse. A list of the information called for by the resolution and the answers given by I-edford follows: 1( Disclosure of financial conditions in the county by elected officials and the publication of an audit in the local paper. Answer: the yearly audit is in process of being prepared, as usual, and will be published in the Finally he had the lines of communications open after having to threaten to take the matter to the proper authorities! His frustration could have been avoided by openness, fair play and an attitude of welcome on the part of the members of the board. WILLIAM P. POWELL i County GOP Executive COMMITTEE Madison Board, Of Education Starts Lawsuit On Monday, July 29, at pjn., the Madison County Board of Education met jointly with the Madison County Board of Com missioners in the Madison County Courthouse at a special called meeting. Mr. J.C. Wallin, Jr., Principal of Madison High School, and his Assistant Principal, Bruce Phillips, are confronted with transporting the Madison County High School student to and from school over horse and buggy roads, totally inadequate, and roads which were supposed to have been rebuilt and replaced under solid and legal committments made by the B0RSI Marshall Record as soon as completed. 2( Account of the funds accrued to the county by way of the ambulance service. Answer: An audit report has been filed with the county solicitor, a Republican. Any incoming money becomes part of the "general fund." 3 An explanation of Madison County's need for four ambulances. (The county only had two when Ledford assumed office in December, 1972). Answer: Madison has five ambulances, which are sometimes not enough, ac cording to Ledford. Using revenue sharing monies, Ledford said he bought one and paid off the lease on the two the county had been renting. One was wrecked, and he bought one to replace it. It was subsequently repaired through the in surance company bringing the total to four. The fifth was acquired when an old ambulance was donated to the county and then traded for a newer, usuable model. 4( Questions concerning Ledford's salary. Answer: Ledford said he worked full time as a member of the board chairman for several months. previous Governor's Ad ministration. The Board of Education voted unanimously to bring suit against the Governor and the Department of Tran sportation to cover the cost of contract hauling which will be organised and instituted before school starts on August 19, 1974. The cost of the con tract hauling will run into thousands of dollars and will continue costing until the Madison County thirty-five million dollar road program has been completed and the ribbons cut. The roads deemed necessary were and still are: Primary Roads N.C. 213, mom The other two commissioners voted to pay him for his time, at a rate of $500 a month plus $100 to cover expenses. 5( Source of funds for the county's new dumpsters. Answer: Revenue sharing funds. In answer to charges that the commissioners meetings are closed, Ledford said they are open, have always been, but that space to meet in the Courthouse has been a problem. He said they sometimes meet in the small jury room off the courtroom or in the courtroom itself. He said the public has attended the meetings on several occasions. Madison School Road Issue Leaves Candidates Divided The eight candidates for the Democratic nomination for attorney general are divided on the question of whether Dairy Bar to Mars Hill; Mars Hill to Marshall By-Pass; Marshall By-Pass to N.C. 209 Spring Creek; U.S. 25-70 Weaverville to Marshall By Pass; Marshall By-Pass tx Walnut; Hot Springs to Tennessee State Line. Of course, the Madison County share of secondary road monies was to be used in building feeder roads into the above-mentioned main ar teries. We do not understand why the Department of Tran sportation is not building some secondary roads in Madison County. We realize that by Stature they cannot legally take the secondary road ADDRESS a, ilk1 fb- JwSTj jltll .' I " , TWJ- j u a . ", g a ATTRACTIVE LITTER CONTAINERS, such as pictured above, have been installed in several locations on Main Street here. The project was Madison can force Gov. Jim Holshouser to build a road to the school there which was promised by the previous money and spend it elsewhere, however, we further realize that the roads are badly needed now and should not be further postponed and delayed. The Board of Education unanimously asked that their Chairman, Mr. William M. Roberts, and the two Chair men of the two major political parties join in a nonpartisan effort to try and secure for Madison County the much needed and highly deserved road program above described. Hope was expressed that Zeno H. Ponder, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee and Mr. William Powell, Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee, would both cooperate wholeheartedly and work for the best interests of Madison County. CANDIDATES FCrt uenahtatkMi for f.Vr; Can " a si rrw loU ta rtrrr-' e I c ' riiv at a men..-- . . DrmecraSle Iixrr; I List rk ia I' I SUb': are. IL-"A rra r administration. But all of them, at a meeting with area members of the state Democratic Executive Committee in the Buncombe County Courthouse, disavowed allegiance with utility- companies and said they would fight for fair rates for consumers. The full state executive committee will pick one of the eight, most likely, at a meeting in Raleigh Saturday to run for the remainder of Senate nominee Robert Morgan's term in the Nov. i election. They drew lots and spoke in that order at a meeting con ducted by Rep. Listen B. Ramsey of Marshall, 11th Congressional District Democratic chairman. The candidates are Sen. McNeil Smith of Greensboro, Rep. Herbert L Hyde of Asheville, Rep. C. Knchin Josey of Scotland Neck, Rep. H.M. Michaux Jr. of Durham, Wake County District Atty. Burley Mitchell of Raleigh. Surperior Court Judge Dennis J. Winner of Asheville, Superior Courd Judge Charles Kivett of Greensboro and Rufus Edmisten of Boone, former aide to Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. of Morgan ton. Following a five-minute talk by each candidate. Ramsey opeaed the meeting to i by members of the TIIC CrMOOlATIC i.rr.rj f-- " . I 7' i c L. I sponsored by the Marshall Garden Club. The pubUe is urged to use these metal containers in an effort to keep litter off the sidewalks and streets. executive committee, of which some IS were among the crowd in the court room. Zeno Ponder of Marshall, a committee member from Madison County, raised the question of an agreement made by one governor or his highway commission and its legal effect on that ad ministration's successor. It is a question the next North Carolina attorney general may well have to deal with, since Madison County is threatening legal action for construction of a road Ponder said was promised. And the promise of a road to serve the school figured prominently into the passage of the school construction bond issue, he said. Hyde said that in his opinion the highway commission does have the authority to make such a contract, and that as attorney general, he would try to make the state live up to its contract if a suit was filed by Madison County. Winner said that as judge, hi5 training is not to try to give "horse back' opinions on something he knows nothing about But he said he feels that a delegation of authority from the attorney general would to the highway body would be required to make the contract Josey said that as attorney general he would find some .5:4 L I T 'ft n. way in the law to make the government live up to the contract Michaux expressed a similar swdiiHHd, as did Edmisten and But Mitchell, who served for three years with Morgan, called this "a terrible area of the law," and told Ponder he feels that such an agreement' is not binding from one governor to another. "I think this is an area for a consumer lawsuit," Mitrhrfl said. He said the problem hi probably more political than legal, and that a political approach might better produce the soliaion Kivett said he also feds that such an agreement by a governor with a school heard would not be binding oa the next governor. Hyde emphasised that appropriations for such projects are general, and money is not spwifirafly act aside for the coaatracbaa of one road or another. Aad hi mat respect, an such as the one Ponder I about could be difficult to settle. Gary Moffitt. an executive committee member Buncombe County. candidates to state how they have aligned tin limine hi the past with utility CwHaid Oa rwae X Aiie " f ; t Sea. 1!