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sssaWttH The News - Record f8j SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY I ?!? ?> H i ? ' ?? ? ' ' ^ 75th YEAR No. 20 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C. THURSDAY. JUNE 10. 1976 IS* Per Copy MARSHALL HORSE Show Officials are pictured just prior to the afternoon performance on the Island Saturday afternoon. Front row, left to right, Lloyd Thompson, of Asheville, Master of Ceremonies; Honorable David Bledsoe, of Fayetteville, Judge; Lion Roger Wood, ringmaster; bade row are members of the Horse Show Committee, left to right, Ed List, Jerry Plemmons, John Corbett, Maurice McAlister and David Caldwell. The annual show is sponsored by the Marshall Lions Club. t Citizens Want Greater Ivy Community Project Sixty-three Greater Ivy *' Community residents told the Madison County Citizens Advisory Committee at a public hearing held recently in the association's community center on the county's final application for community fevetopmeut funds that they 1 choired the old Beech Glen School building renovated as a site for a day care center, congregate meal programs for senior citizens, meals on wheels, adult education programs, meeting rooms for dubs and community organizations, a branch of the county library, regular health and mental health programs, crafts, year-round recreation facilities, dramatics and other entertainments, a volunteer fire department, educational movies, forums and discussion groups, and social service programs. The hearing was conducted by Nick Kmecza and the following persons spoke to the group: Gerald Young, Jack Radford, Mrs. Irene Metcalf, Bill Clark, Dr. Grover L. Angel, Mrs. Alda Jean Young, Max Gibbe, Boyd Hill, Mrs. Mildred Phillips, Dean Led fcrd, Mrs. Uoyd Moore. Billy Bell, Mrs. Leroy Revis, Bacchus McPeters, Mrs. Julia Martha Young, Bruce Phillips, Mrs. Bea Clark, Mrs. Eileen Gibbe, Talmadge Metcalf, Mrs. Nell Angel, Mrs. Bob Ann Ledford, Mark Moore, and Ricky Anderson. The purpose of the hearings was to discuss with the public the final application to be submitted to the Public Housing and Urban Development for a grant to provide facilities to help the county improve the delivery of basic human services. % Earlier this year three public hearings were held in the county to assess overall needs on a county-wide basis. The results of those hearings was a proposal for the building of neighborhood facilities in Marshall and Hot Springs, and the complete renov/4jon of the (Csctirfiiedon TO** Over ? year ago the Madison County Bicentennial Committee called a moating of local residents known te be interested in the history of Madison County and its activities and who would be willing to contribute their efforts to producing a worthy Special Edition of The News-Record to mark and celebrate the bicentennial of our nation. This protect has been ender the leadership of Dr. Evelyn Underwood, professor of history at Mars Hill College and Mrs. Edna Alexander of near Marshall, as publicity chairman. Jim Story, editor of The News-Record, Is coordinator. Copies of this edition ? to come out July 1 ? will be sent not only to all the regular subscribers but else to very boxholder in Madison County. Extra copies will also be printed for sale to others who wish to purchase them tor their friends. To defray part ef the added expenses of this Bicentennial Edition, advertisers are urged to purchase space. They can reach every family in the county with their ad vertising and messages In an issue to be read, (Continued on Page ?) Voluntary Dismissal For Bragg Timothy Ray Bragg, 17, of Murray Mountain Road near Mars Hill, was given a voluntary dismissal in district court in Asheville Tuesday morning before Judge W. M. Styles at the request of James A. Freeman after "no probable cause" was found against Bragg. Bragg, along with Johnny Chandler, of Chandler Creek Road, in Madison County, had been arrested on May 28 by Detective Bobby L. Medfordof the Asheville Police Depar tment in connection with a $3,000 larceny at the Bavarian Cellar in Tunnel Road Shop ping Center recently. The News-Record published an account of the arrests a few hours after the preliminary hearing in Asheville but the newspaper was unaware of the hearing and was not notified in time for Bragg's dismissal at the hearing to be published. Although the dateline on The News-Record was Thursday, June 3, the actual printing of the newspaper was on Tuesday afternoon. "We regret that we were not notified of the hearing and the results in time for last week's issue and we are glad to clarify the dismissal of the charges against Bragg in this issue," Editor Story said. Marshall River Road Project Costs $50,000 | The North Carolina Board of Transportation has approved a $50,000 highway improvement project for the municipality of Marshal] Approval of the Marshall project came at the board's monthly meeting held in Plymouth. This project is part of the department of tran sportation's Small Urban Projects program and is financed entirely with state funds Members of the board of transportation instituted this program to take care of a need not previously handled by the Highway Improvement Program. In its April meeting the board approved the use of a total of (6,000,000 in statewide urban funds for new small urban projects. These funds are equally allocated among the transportation depart ment's 14 divisions and the specific projects are selected for full board approval by the representative division engineer, secondary roads councilman and board of transportation member! s). The Marshall project in cludes widening and resur facing of River Road ' (Secondary Road 11)8) from its intersection with US 25-70 Business west to the corporate limits of Marshall. All work on this project will, be accomplished bv the department of transportation employees with the exception of the resurfacing which will belettocontract. "fij MH Road To Be Widened The North Carolina Board of Transportation has approved a $15,000 highway improvement project for the municipality of Mars Hill. Approval of the Madison County project came at the board's monthly meeting held in Plymouth. This project is part of the department of transportation's Small Urban Projects Program and is financed entirely with stale funds V Members of the b?*rd of transportsticvi inv..i th: program to take care <?a need not previously handlen by the Highway Improvement Program. In its April meeting, the board approved the use of a total of 16,000,000 in statewide urban funds for new small urban projects. These funds are equally allocated among the transportation depart ment's 14 divisions and the specific projects are selected for full board approval by the representative division engineer, secondary roads councilman and board of transportation member* s). The Madison project con sists of widening and resur facing Bruce Road (Secondary Road 1354) within corporate city limits. Teachers Acquitted Of Falsifying Records History failed to repeat itself in superior court here last week as six teachers in the county school system were found not guilty by the jury on Wednesday. Charges were that they "knowlingly and willingly" falsified pupil enrollment and attendance records. The misdemeanor case went to the jury at 10:13 a.m. following the charge by Judge Robert D. Lewis of Asheville and the jury returned its verdict at 11:51a.m., after one hour, 38 minutes deliberation. Found not guilty were Larry S. Plemmons and Mattie Ray Ramsey, sixth and fourth grade teachers, respectively, , at Spring Creek Elementary School during the 1974-75 ( school year; and four from the i Hot Springs Elementary School staff, third grade teacher Vera Sumerel, sixth grade teacher Elizabeth Staude, seventh grade teacher Isabel! B. Maynard and eighth grade teacher Frances Lee Ramsey. They had been found guilty ia a non-iiry district court trial last tOctober and were subject to loss of their teacher certification, so had appealed the conviction. At the October trial three former co defendants had been acquitted of the same charge. The tenth person charged as a result of N. C. Department of Public Instruction in vestigations in April, 1975, and a follow-up probe by an SBI agent for the district at torney's office was Mrs. Jewel Church, the former principal at Hot Springs who is no longer a school system employee. Mrs. Church was a key witness in the trial of the six teachers, admitting that she had told teachers at Hot Springs to pad their enrollment records if necessary 10 avoia any ion ot teaching positions at the school. Mrs. Church testified that she had not been promised immunity to prosecution, and District Attorney Clyde Roberts said in his closing summation that she would be tried later. In his charge to the Jury, Judge Lewis said separate verdicts would be required for each of the six defendants. He said their decision not to testify should not create any presumption against them, and that it was up to the statute establish three elements of proof: that each defendant was a teacher, that while so em ployed he or she made a false report of dgily attendance, and, that such false reports were*" made knowingly and willingly.. In his review of theeviflenoe, Judge Lewis noted that State Department of Public Instruction suspicions at enrollment padding led to a visit by James E. Rice, pupil accounting supervisor, to Plemmons, teacher and acting principal at Spring Creek (Continuedon Paget) DAVID MCFEE $176,746 Grant For Hot Springs Health Program Congressman Roy A. Taylor has announced the approval of a grant of $176,746 by the Appalachian Regional Commission to the Hot Springs Health Programs, Inc. The grant represents the fifth and final year of funding of the Hot Springs Health Program, which is the network of primary care centers ser ving the communities of Hot Springs, Laurel, and Walnut. In addition to primary medical care services, the program also provides primary dental care, home health care, school health education and pharmacy services. The ARC grant will be combined with state funds of $28,000 and local funds of $188,964 to provide the total project cost of $393,710. OFFICIALS DISCUSSED various issues facing mountain counties at a dinner meeting at Madison High School on May 28. Among the regional and local officials par ticipating are pictured above. Left to right, James T. Ledford, chairman Madison County commissioners; Robert Shepherd, executive director, Land-of-Sky Regional Planning Organization; Virginia Anderson and Erwin Adams, commissioners. McFee Mew Coach, A. D. At Madison High David McFee, coach for the I paat Ave years at Charles D. Owen High School in Bun combe County, has been named head football coach and athletic director at Madison l*i-i, ri-L.I* - J Hign acwMM, li watflMMi Tuesday by the board of education. Coach McFee played high school football at Clyde A Erwin High School in AahevUle During his senior year ha was co-captain of the team, and was also honored by IhMHOTWRV ?no llrwwWn ^l^'haiSg^ia., wched football, wroatlag and track for the last Ova years In 1973 coach McFee received his masters degree in education from Western He is married to the former Jo Neil 1 say id yh ? Mars Hill Horse Show To Be Held Saturday Hill I || iHffi ?fern" ?ho? wall br held m JumM^offlciak STifal MM Uona Club k ? W j cut . successful horse show ever held in Man HM," ant official ststed. There will be 15 classes in the afternoon ft In the night ch"n Officii ot hf event will Wmf, SowS (Walking Know); H m: \ Dwwhe fetxi (Western); I announced at the show Randy Houston. Marshall, will hi master of ceremonies; Ralph Brooks Aahetille wttl > J 1 under). Pleasure Ponies SO inches and under), Halter - English, (Division No. 1-1 -yean and under), (Division No. U years and over), Pepsi Cola (teea. Juvenile Racking < l? years and under), Halter Western: (Division No 14 years and under) dk ? oen ^aarstr Laoes tucking Horses t ? * ?:J'' ??' *' y?w? Pepsi (ola Kaoft Cham pionship Indies' KHHh *i mrw Ynr-vic hi 1 ai
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