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SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY VrTfc
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75th YEAR No. 32 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N C THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1976
I CP & L Won't Build New Power Plant
Carolina Power & Light Company
announced Wednesday that it will not
continue its investigation of a site in
Madison County as the location for a
pumped storage hydroelectric
generating plant.
Pat Howe, manager of the technical
services department for the company 's
engineering, construction and
operations group, said CP&L's studies
show that it no longer is economically
feasible to add a pumped storage
generating facility to its system in the
foreseeable future.
He emphasized, however, that the
investigation thus far indicates that
from an engineering standpoint, the
Madison County site about 3.5 miles
west of Marshall would be suitable for a
pumped storage generating facility.
Howe said that the economic
feasibility of pumped storage
generation in the CP&L system had
depended heavily on the use of larger
amounts of nuclear generation. CP&L
has sharply reduced its construction
plans since 1974, delaying the scheduled
completion of a large nuclear facility in
Wake County from 1984 until 1990.
He said the decision to discontinue
investigation of this Madison County
site has absolutely no bearing on the
nearby Sandy Mush site which CP&L
has been studying for a steam-electric
generating plant.
CP&L first announced in August, 1973
that it would seek a permit from the
Federal Power Commission to in
vestigate the Madison County site. That
permit was granted in December, 1974,
and application will be filed with the
FPC to surrender the permit. The
company has had options from some
property owners and purchased some
tracts in the approximately 1,500-acre
area that would have been involved.
James Baldwin of Asheville, project
supervisor for the company, said that
persons who have sold land to CP&L
will be given opportunity to buy it back.
DR. GROVER L. ANGEL addresses audience last week
during WNC tour and banquet.
2 Students Are Injured
In 'Unavoidable' Wreck
A Laurel elementary school bus and a car
collided Monday afternoon on the Big Laurel Road
near the home of Jeff Rice. According to Verlon
Ponder, principal at Laurel, there were 11 students
on the bus when the collision occurred. Only two of
the students were injured.
According to information received, a car,
driven by Malcolm Buckner, 17, of Sodom Laurel
and a student at Macgson High Schdol with three
passengers, collided vfith the scfiooi mis, driveii by
Houston Thomas, about 40, of Little Laurel. Ponder
stated that Thomas was an experienced driver
with years of service.
State Trooper Cooper investigated the ac
cident which was "unavoidable," it was reported.
The school bus overturned on its side from the
impact and the car driven by Buckner struck a
barn a short distance from the impact. An estimate
of damage to the bus was reported at $2,500. The
automobile involved was totaled according to
reports; <- ,
Mellisa Rice, 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Herman Rice of Routefl, Marshall, received a
cracked collarbone. She was taken to Memorial
Mission Hospital where she was released Monday
night. Tina Rice, 12, daughter of Mr. nd Mrs.
Garland Rice, also of Route 6, Marshall, received
minor injuries. The other students were examined
at the Laurel Clinic and were found uninjured.
Thomas, as well as Buckner and the other youths in
the car, were uninjured.
Greater Ivy Community Reflects
On Opportunity And Achievement
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By JOHN P. FERRE
(Mara Hill College)
Special Writer for
The News-Record
They began at the time they
were supposed to end. Those
who had been punctual waited,
milling about for nearly a half
hour before the three State
Police-escorted buses arrived
at the Greater Ivy Community .
1 Center, emptying a capacity
audience into Beech Glen's
.jitadl auditorium on Aug. 24
When the visitors were seated.
Grover Angel began to speak
Dr. Angel is the president of
the Greater Ivy Citizens
Association. He is a retired
Dean of Students at George
Washington University,
though he says he does not feel
retired. How can he? His
fellow workers who recognize
Ms skill and potential have not
?I him rest. His steady
leadership has afforded the
Greater Ivy Community
WltlBW Association this op
portunity to reflect upon their
unity, accomplishment and
vision. Though Angel refused
the nomination to serve once
more as Man of the Year, he
will long hold this position in
the minds of his friends and co
workers of the GICCA.
Greater Ivy consists of over
600 families from 24 com
munities between Mars Hill
and the Buncombe and Yancey
County lines. The GICCA
organized on Jan. 27, 1975, to
unite this community. Their
first goal was to acquire the
Beech Glen Elementary
School as a meeting place for
organization and social ac
tivity. It was only a matter of
months before programs
began for all ages in the
community. Mars Hill College
students helped organize and
develop the GICCA.
GICCA's most pressing
concern is acquiring an 983,000
non-matching federal grant to
begin repairs on the
depression-era Beech Glen
School. Floors are rotting,
there is no plumbing, the roof
leaks, and half of (he windows,
secured in weak pine frame,
are broken. The government
money will only begin the
repairs necessary lo make the
building safe and useful; the
unrepaired portions of the
building will have to be
blocked off until more federal
money is available In the
future.
But fixing ruins is not the
organization's prime function.
A congregate meals program
offers lunches to senior
citizens in Greater Ivy and
Mars Hill. Though federal
funding help6 support this
operation, it is not a welfare
program. Those who can pay
for their meals do, and those
who cannot afford the lunches
eat for free. These congregate
meals offer senior citizens
both nutrition and social ac
tivity.
When their building
becomes reliable, the GICCA
will provide day care for
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children of working mothers, a
branch of the Madison County
Library, and health tare. The
swine flu program, in which
every county resident will be
innoculated, is already being
planned.
A full-time recreation
program is also being
designed. So far. Greater Ivy
has only been able to offer
summer recreation consisting
of Softball, shuffleboard,
horseshoes, ping pong, and
basketball. , If the school
gymnasium is repaired,
Greater Ivy will have year
round activities
Clean-up and beaulification
make up another phase of the
Greater Ivy Citizens Com
munity Association.
Truckloads of trash are
regularly emptied into
dumpsters in an effort to make
the county's roads prettier.
Junk cars have been removed,
mail boxes have been
decorated, signs have been
erected, and flowers have been
planted. The pride of those who
work with beautification and
witness multiple im
provement s is underst andably
apparent.
Youth involve themselves in
community work by raising
money and organizing clean
up details. Though the youth
are divided into two sections
(junior and senior), they work
towards a common goal. Any
young person, from the fourth
grade on, is invited to par
ticipate.
The GICCA has had 20
months of success. Their
cohesiveness was striking
throughout the banquet in
Mars Hill which followed the
20-minute program at Hie
community center. Continued
success is likely and with it,
progress. Only expansion can
be detained, and that could
easily happen if the federal
grant does not materialize.
1 Raft Race At Hot
Springs Saturday
V The chamber of commerce
at Hot Springs is sponsoring a
tabor Day weekend raft race
down the French Broad
A charge of II nmwtU ;
I
a team
11 years of age
lister than t p.m
Lemonade, soda and hot
dogs will be available for those
who wish to purchase them
And we expect that anywhere
from 500 to 1,090 spectators
will be climbing the bridges,
trees, and hillsides to get a
first-hand viewing of the two
mile race.
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Roger Meadows
Fatally Injured
By School Bus
Roger Dean Meadows, 12
year-old. student at Walnut
Elementary School, was
fatally injured Aug. 24 when he
was struck by a school bus
while riding a bicycle. The
accident occurred after the
youth, who had returned to his
home on an earlier school bus,
was leaving the driveway of
his grandmother, Mrs. Gladys
Meadows, with whom he lived.
Trooper Arthur Cooper, who
investigated the accident, said
the boy was riding his bicycle
and veered into the path of the
school bus on Anderson
Branch Road. The bus was
driven by Mack Boyd and at
the time of the collision there
were only two passengers.
Boyd is an experienced school
bus driver having several
years' duty No charges have
been filed.
The youth was a seventh
grade student at Walnut
Elementary School, a member
of the Walnut Little League
Funeral aaruteca war* held
at (i m. Friday at the
Baptist Church, where he
Marvin Pnndi*r nffiriitMi
MRS. GIJSNNIS RAY
Mrs. Ray
Is Teacher
Of Year
Mrs. Glennis Ray, third
grade teacher at Laurel
Elementary School, has been
selected as "Teacher of the
Year" in the Madison County
school system.
Ms. Penny Moss, president
of the student body at Madison
High School; Dr. Anderson,
member of the Madison
County Board of Education;
Mrs. Carrol Anderson, parent
and teacher aide; Ms. Donna
Rice, teacher; Vernon Ponder
and Larry Plemmons, prin
cipals; composed the teacher
selection committee.
Mrs. Glennis Ray, a
graduate of Asheville
Teachers College, has taught
for 35 years in the Madison
County schools. Thirty-four of
these years she taught at j
Laurel School. One year she
taught at Spring Creek School
This past year, Mrs. Ray
taught in a Title III reading
program at Laurel School. Her
students made outstanding
progress in this individualised
friendly, kind, patient, un
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ROGER MEADOWS
Marshall; the paternal
grandmother, Mrs. Gladys
Meadows of Marshall with
whom he made his home; the
maternal grandpa rents, Mr.
and Mrs. Eason Thomas of
Marshall. fT
Niles Heads Social Services
Ed L Niles of MaraMU waa
chairman of the
Madison County Board of
ipi? > i rtied to ths board hi J >
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