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Madison, Yancey Officials Hosted By MHC i
Mart Hill College tu boat
to the County Commissioners
and Boards of Education from
Yancey and Madison Countfaa
at a dinner meeting on
Monday. March IS. President
Bentley expressed ap
preciation to the community
leaders tor their excellent
service to the region. In ad
dition. President Bentley
spoke of the commitment of
Mars Hill CoUege to the people
of the Southern Highlands and
indicated his desire that the
cooperation presently
existing between the CoUege
and community leaders
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continue to develop.
Mr. Oscar Deyton, Chair
man of Yancey County
Commission, and Mr. James
T. Ledford, Chairman of the
Madison County Commission,
discussed recent community
development projects and
future plans for each county.
Mr. Ed Hunter, Superin
tendent of Schools. Yancey
County . and Mr. Robert
Edwards, Superintendent of
Schools, Madison County,
related recent developments
in education.
Tolley Named
General Manager
French Broad EMC
Charles R Tolley, who has
been serving as Acting
Manager at French Broad
EMC since August, 1975, has
been named permanent
General Manager of the
Corporation effective April 1,
1976. This action was taken by
the Board of Directors at their
regular meeting In March.
Mr. Tolley is a native of
madison County and a
graduate of Mars Hill High
School. He graduated from
Clemson University with a BS
Degree in Electrical
Engineering. He served in the
Armed Forces attached to the
18th Airborne Corp and later
the 160th Signal Group, and
saw service in Vietnam. He is
married to the former Sandra
Landers and they have a one
year old daughter, Caroline
T nioh
CHARLES R. TOLLEY
Marshall Man Improving
From Pistol Wound
Dennis Payne, 26, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Payne, of
Marshall, is imprortag
following a 25-calibtr '
automatic bullet wound in the
stomach which was self
h/nftMeM. c. 1 WWenUUy
or on purpol|v The incident
occurred last Saturday shortly
after noon at the Marshall
Shopping Center on the
bypass.
He was taken to Memorial
Mission Hospital for treat
ment of the wound.
Sheriff Ponder staled that
the reason for the shooting is
not yet known.
CHAIRMEN of the Yancey and Madison County Boards of Commissioners are
pictured above talking with Dr. Fred Bentley. President of Mars Hill College,
atthe dinner meeting held ht the college on Monday night of last week. Left to
right, Oscar Deyton, Yancey, James T. Ledford, Madison, and Dr. Bentley.
Hearing Set In School Dispute
By ED SPEARS
Cttkun Staff Writer
Madison County Board of
Education members and
Superintendent R. L. Edwards
?re scheduled to ?pp?*?r *k 18
a.m. Friday in a show-cause
hearing before Judge Bruce
Briggs here to determine If
they have beea to contempt of
court m the'recast'discharge
of Walnut Elementary
School's principal, Mrs.
rmvm mawoi 1 r*hnrr*h
Mrs. Church was
discharged on March 17,
school officals said Monday,
and Frederick Anderson was
shifted from the faculty of
Madison High School to the
Walnut prindpalship.
Mrs. Church was separated,
according to school board
attorney Ronald W. Howell, on
the basis of her written
statements saying sne naa
participated in padding at
tendance figures at Hot
Springs School during the
1974-75 school year.
Also pending in the
situation, Howell said, is a
petition he has made to the
North Carolina Court of Ap
peals for mandamous and
prohibition. This challenges
the authority of Judge Briggs
in his recent actions in the
case after a former injunction
issued by Briggs was
dissolved by Judge Robert
Lewis of Asheville on Feb. X.
The dispute involves two
political rivals, as Howell, of
Marshall, has filed as a
Democrat for nomination to
the Superior Court judgeship
now held by, Briggs, a
Republican resident of Mars
Hill.
The tangled situation is an
outgrowth of the in
vestigations which led to
charges of falsifying pupil
enrollment figures against
two principals and eight
teachers last year.
- In a District Court trial last
October, three of the defen
dants were found not guilty
and six were convicted. Those
found guilty have continued in
their teaching positions
pending appeal to Superior
Court, as conviction of records
falsification is automatic
grounds for dismissal, ac
cording to school officials
Charges against Mrs.
Church, one of the 10 defen
dants, were carried over for
trial at a later date.
Testimony at the District 4
Coart trial was that the
awMbcofMHttrect benefit to
the dtfamtMla. other than it
might avert the laaa at a
teaching position at the Hot
springs and Spring Creek
I I I lilt II I- . noii/utia t- ?
elementary scnooia wneit a
average dally attendance of
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from Judge Brigga a ton*
?oard ot^Sucatioh from
AAroceeding under the Teacher
'?enure Act to discharge her
ii mil use piuiuipaiaiuj;.
Judge Lewis in his February
ruling dismissed the suit on
grounds that Mrs. Church, a
Madison County native with
some II years in the school
system, had relief available
under the Tenure Act which
permits court appeals.
Mrs. Church again went to
Briggs, and obtained another
restraining order against the
School Board.
The School Board on March
9 held a hearing under the
Tenure Act and agreed to
discharge Mrs. Church.
Judge Briggs held a hearing
March 13 and issued the
current injunction ? while
denying a motion by Mr*.
Church's attorney to fad
fiowefl also guilty at ^at
tempt Briggs later signed the
show-cause order to hold the
Doara memoers in eoniempi
The order applies to Emory
Wall in, chairmen, and board
members Bill Roberts,
Dedrkk Cody, Donald An
derson and Bobby Ponder;
also to the superintendent
The new Walnut principal,
Frederick Anderson, it,
earned an aaaodate degree
tram Mars Hill College and his
bachelor's degree tram Wake
Forest He earned an M.A. at
Appalachian and has taken
further graduate work at
UNC-Chapel Hill and the
University of Colorado.
He and Mrs. Anderson are
parents of three children and
reside at Mars Hill.
District School Board Meeting
Held At Madison High School
The annual meeting of the
North Carolina School Board
Association met at Madison
High on Wednesday, March 17
at 4 p.m. Principals,
superintendents, school board
members and members of die
legislature from Asheville
City, Mitchell, Yancey. Mc
Dowell, Madison and
1 Haywood counties attended,
worunops were neio trocn 4
until 6:45 and a banquet at 7
p.m. Dr. Craig Phillips, State
Superintendent of Public s
Instruction, was guest
speaker. He complimented the
Madison County School
System and said that he had
seen "good thing sgoing on in
the classrooms in Madison
County when he visited on
March 10..
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Entertainment was
provided by the Bald Moun
tain Cloggers under the
direction of Mrs. Ruby Wallin,
Mrs. Beverly Hough, and Mrs.
Edna English. Music was
provided by the Appals chia
Folk, a local group, Harold
Wood, Jr. sang a ballad. An
added attraction was the
appearance of "Lula Belle"
Wiseman, the country music
star and now respresentative
of the North Carolina
Legislature from Mitchell
County. She sang "Mountain
Dew."
Dr. Don Anderson is the
president of the Sixteenth
District North Carolina School
Board Association. The
meeting will be held in Mit
chell County in 1V77.
New officers of the
- association are Marcus
Blanton Mitchell President;
Mrs. William Pennell,
Asheville, Vice-President;
and Phillip Goupe, Mitchell
County, Secretary.
The following members of
the legislature attended the
meeting: Joe Palmer and
Cecil Hill, Senators from the
27 th District; Myrtle
Wiseman, Representative
from the 39th District; Glenn
A. Morris, Representative
from the 41st District; Claude
DeBruhl, Mary Nesbitt, and
Herbert Hyde, Represen
tatives from the 43rd District;
, and Ernest Messer and Iiston
Ramsey, representatives
from the 44th District
THE BALD MOUNTAIN CL0GGER8, above, showa
in action at tbe District School Board meeting.
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Bioodmobile Nets 47 Pints Here
Friday when 47 pints of blood
High School M*dk?n
students and many more
volunteered but were rejected
tor various reasons 23 pints
were actually collected from
students. It was aleo stated
that only three out of 3d
faculty members donated
mood.
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Veterans Office In New Location
On Main Street ..,lS '
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EDUCATION
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DR. CRAIG PHILLIPS, center. State Supt. Public
Instruction; Dr. Don Anderson, left, president of the
nth district school board association; and Madison
County Superintendent R.L. Edwards, ara pictured
above at the spanker's table at the annual 1Mb
district school board association meeting at Madison
High School on Wednesday of last week. Dr. Phillips >
was guest speaker.
Wrdnfftday night of last wtrak. la froat of "mike" It
Countywide dean-Up,
Fix-Up Campaign In April
A county-wide "Clean-up
Fix-Up Campaign" will be
waged in all of Madison during
the month of April. The kick
off day will officially be
Saturday, April 3, and a few
communities are already well
into plans for deaning up
littered roadsides, streams
and properties. Tricky April
weather during last year's
campaign resulted in the
decision to extend the efforts
to a one-month plan.
AH arena of the county are
urged to develop some plan, if
only a temporary one, that
will involve as many residents
as possible. Madison County
now has eight organised
communities working to
improve conditions, by neigh
borhoods. This number should
grow with the help and en
couragement on the way!
The County landfill will
make an effort to give extri
assistance in removal ot
heavy items. Junked cars and
jaaaiuonai isre?n oox servicf
if schedules can be worked
active part in
Uure^ Hot Springs, Man
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considered - those parking
must understand their
responsibility in helping to
keep those areas free of Utter;
all must help pick up and
dispose of the unsightly plastic
containers scattered over our
mountains, hedges and
streams. Look around in the
neighborhood... what can YOU
do?
Angel, Krause Directors
State CJF. Foundation
Dr. Grow L. Angel of Mara
HUl has been elected to serve
as honorary member, board of
Directors, NOrth Carolina
Chapter, Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation. Dr. Angel waa
among the few people who
helped found the National
I , Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in
lW. Ho currently is Firat
Vice President of fceNMtanhd
> Cystic Fibroois Foundation
and Chairman of the Board of
Trustees. He and wife, Nell
i English Angel, are retired Md
' living on California Road in
Mars Hill.
Edward b. Krauac, at
torney, of Mars HU1, has been
elected to serve a three-year
term on the Beard of Direc
tors, North Carolina Chapter,
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
The Cystic Fibrosis Foun
dation was organized in 1M?
and the North Carolina
Chapter was chartered in IMS.
The Foundation's principle
goal is to find a care or control
incurable lung liMcaan in
children ISO,MM North
Carolina youngsters are af
|-?WU,EY BROOKS Vie k
Boh Brady for hrr mi tin* |
ref eivijRa Qualii> ?ii
MADISON AND YANCEY County officials were
hosted by Mars Hill College on Monday, March 15.
Pictured above are some of the officials who at
tended. Left to right, seated. Robert Edwards, Ed
Hunter, William A. Banks. Standing, left to right,
Don Anderson, Claude Vess, Romie Barns, Bill
Roberts, Emory Wallin, Dedrick Cody, and Dr. Fred
Bentley.
Easter Seal Society Dollars Stay Here
"People in Madiaon County
like to help people here, and
when they give to the Blue
Ridge Chapter of the Easter
Seal Society they're doing just
that," says C.E. Bailey of
Alexander, a member of the
Board of Directors of the local
agency. A large portion of
those contributions are
coining in now during the
Easter Seal Society's spring
appeal, underway through
Easter, April 18.
"When I'm talking to a
person about Easter Seal, I
can assure him that 83 cents of
each dollar he gives stays
right here to help people in our
area," he says. The other
eight cents is used to support
state and national Easter Seal
programs.
The help to which Mr.
Bailey refers includes a wide
variety of direct services,
from arranging tran
sportation to the hospital for a
girl with muscular dystrophy;
to purchasing an artificial leg
for a young man injured in an
auto accident; and providing a
walker for an older woman
recovering from a stroke.
The Blue Ridae Chanter
offers an equipment loan
program through which a
physically handicapped
person can borrow a
wheelchair, walker, crotches,
or other medical equipment
for as long as It is needed
weeks, and others for many
yean. Then the equipment is
tunfnw else to use.
Sometimes a person needs
information on programs
available, or Just someone
who will listen. And Ustenii^
often results in other Raster
Seal services. "A few weeks
ago a woman came into the
office to ask about tyran
sportation for a friend," Dave
Cottemam. director of the
chapter, explains. "She and I
started talking about her
situation, and she said she had
not been physically able to get
into the bathtub for six years.
All she needed was bath
rails, which she couldnt af
ford. Easter Seal was able to
provide this equipment far
her."
The Easter Seal Sedatjr
tries to develop piogiama to
fill other needs o< handicapped
persons, soch as recreathwal
needs. There are two Faster
Seal camps in NOrth Carolina,
Camp Easter-ia-tha-Plne* in
Southern Pines, and Camp
Sertoma near Winston-Salam.
Both camps are designed to
make awimmina. horae-haok
riding, arta and crafts, starts
events, and other activiUes
easily available to people who
are physically haadicapped.
Anyone interested in any
services of the Easter Seal
Society may contact the ofllce
at 2SM781 or through Ahe leca)
health departments and
Departments of Social Sar
10000 Haywood Road,
Asbeville, N.C., WOO.
Mounted Patrol
To Meet Here
Tuesday Night
The Madlaon ? Chanty
Tuesday night, March ?, at
theMainatroam Office in
begin at 7:00*a'docknd^S
members and prospective
members an ergod to attend.
rfteMmtoSQ UmCMbare
and Join the organhaHnn. I
Whitleys
Now In
Tennessee
The Rev. and Mrs. (tan
Whitley recently accented
work with the Tennessee
Baptist Convention and ace
guidance work la the Bantiat
Children's Home In Chat
"mt*Whitley, a former
^pastor^of Marshall Baptist
( hurch in ^suTr^st, PU ' \
hti tetir i vnt fer a year.
?Wk.nK with young people ' ,??~'i
en a MMtses basis hna long
been a desire of the Whtifcyt.
UHir house.
ting at 8 p m Ipj
friend to(
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