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7Btt> Year, No. 7
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C.
THURSDAY, February 15, 1979
15* Per Copy
IGLOOS were the thing of the day
Monday when these youngsters
built two igloos near their homes
on Big Laurel. The igloos were
large enough for 12 people. At top
are Marlon and Scott Franklin,
sons of Celola Franklin. Bottom
picture, Bradley, Stuart, Cindy
and Harvey Edgar Franklin,
children of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Franklin.
Heavy Snows Stall
Traffic, Trade Here
Heavy mows and icy roads
?lowed traffic to a snail's pace
here last week
Motorists discovered that
even with snow tires and
chains their cars would do the
dippey -doodle on some of the
roads and highways
throughout Madison County.
Sunshine and warmer
temperatures partially melted
the snow In Marshall on
Thursday and people began to
venture out Thursday af
ternoon Everyone was
relieved when the weather
bureau predicted a few snow
flurries Friday with little
accumulations. However, on
Friday morning the flurries
turned out to be heavy snow
and what was partially clear
Thursday was again covered
with snow early Friday
morning. By noon Friday
several inches of the white
stuff had again blanketed the
area.
Highway crews have been
"treating" the main roads
daily and nightly but even
with their fine and hard work,
the roads remain hazardous.
Just when the snows will
stop and roads again passable
so schools can be resumed, is
not known.
Several wrecks have oc
curred in the county and
several injuries have been
reported but no fatalities have
been reported due to wrecks.
Unusual about the snow
storms was that most of the
snow fell northwest of Mar
shall with accumulations from
six to eight inches with snow
drifts reaching two or more
feet in the Laural area. Snows,
12 inches deep, were reported
in the Walnut area although
the average depth in the
Marshall area was four to six
indies.
Court Opens Monday
The February term of
superior court for the trial of
criminal cases will begin here
Monday morning with Judge
Clifton E. Johnson presiding.
District Attorney Clyde M.
Roberts, assisted by James T.
Rusher will be the
prosecutors. Monday's session
will convene at 10 a.m.
Cases scheduled for trial
include:
Omac Lee Smith, BEfcL;
Charles Blevins, non
compliance; David Eugene
Davis, non-compliance;
Robert Goforth, com
municating threats; James
Pegg, BE4L; Thomas
Ramsey, BE&L; Jeter
Chandler, DUI; Richard G.
Field, armed robbery; Joe W.
Griffey, reckless driving;
Walter Ray Crowe, DUI;
Bruce Gentry, carrying
concealed weapon; Dorothy
M. Boone, forgery and ut
tering, Bobby Eugene Ball,
DUI; Virgile Dean Ramsey,
speeding; Randy Kim Tweed,
manslaughter; Larry Allen
Taylor, BEfcL; Kenneth
Buckner, murder; Douglas
Pressley, larceny; Shirley
Shook, larceny; Glen Dale
Ponder, DUI and illegal
transportation; Cooper
Winfield Thorn Jr., speeding
and posss. cont. subst.;
Tommie Hugh Rector, illegal
transportation; DUI and
DWLR; Charles Deaver,
failure to heed warning
device; Jerry Naulty,
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McDevitt Says
He Doesn't Want
* Political Hot Seat ' i
Wayne McDevitt, who has
been rumored ai a contender
for manager of Gov. Jim
Hunt's western office in
Asheville, said Monday he is
happy with his present job and
is not interested in the
"political hot seat" now oc
cupied by Hugh B. Stevens.
McDevitt, western manager
of the regional office in
Asheville of the Department of
Natural Resources and
Community Development,
said Saturday and again
Monday that he is not seeking
the post now held by Stevens,
a retired deputy United States
marshal.
McDevitt said that as
regional manager of natural
resources, he works well with
Stevens and was upset by
reports that he had his eye on
that job.
"I'm part of the Jim Hunt
team, and Hugh Stevens is the
leader of the team up here. I
am very much team-oriented,
and I think he (Stevens) is
doing a fine job," McDevitt
said.
He said he views the
governor's western office as
"almost totally political," and
that in his job with natural
resources he handles "a lot of
substantive things. ' '
"I really enjoy the sub
stantive matters much more
than I do the political ?
although I do enjoy the
political.
But I like to keep them
separate," klcDevitt said.
McDcpitt said he and
Stevens work effectively
together, and even if Stevens
did vacate the post, he doesd't
think he would be interested in
it.
"The duties over there are
so much more political that I
Just simply would not enjoy it.
And I'm glad I have a friend in
Hugh Stevens there that I can
call on," McDevitt said.
Stevens, who was western
coordinator for 30 counties in
Hunt's campaign, said he has
no plans to leave his Job in
which he works with people in
17 western counties on behalf
of the governor.
"I'm a compassionate man,
and I want to help everybody I
can," he said.
Hunt, asked at his news
conference Friday if he is
considering replacing Stevens
as western manager, said,
"Absolutely not."
Hunt: 'No Change
Gov. Jim Hunt said Friday
he has no plans to replace
former United States Deputy
Marshal Hugh B. Stevens as
manager of his western office
in Ashevllle.
Hunt was asked at his news
conference to comment on
reports that an ouster of
Stevens is in the making, and
he said there are no such plans
"Absolutely not," Hunt said.
There are reports cir
culating in Asheville that
Stevens, who was Hunt's
western area campaign
coordinator in 1978, will be
replace shortly by Wayne
McDevitt, now manager of the
western regional office of
Natural Resources and
Community Development
McDevitt, a young Madison
County native, replaced
William Christy in the
regional NRACD office
Some Incredible Facts About Snow
By JOHNPARRIS
With the mountain world
blanketed in white, I've been
re-reading Corydon Bell's
fascinating book, "The
Wonder of Snow."
Bell, a nationally known
IBustrator and author who
Uvea in the hills above
Cashiers, is a rirognl?il
authority on the magte and
myatary of snow.
A study of his definitive
work oa the subject reveals all
asrts of things ? really ta
cradibie things - about
million tons of white stuff.
It put two to four tons of
snow on your roof and another
ton on your driveway to test
your prowess with a shovel.
In going through Bell's
hook, we Jotted down theae
things about snow:
Snowflakes are gray.
Newly fallen mow is the
whitest stuff you we likely to
find.
Snowflakes act like billions
of day mirrors and reflect the
brilliant whke light of the sun
A five tech snowfall over an
acre ef land waigbta II tons or
111,000 pounds.
A cubic yard of wet snow
can weigh aa much as lJOQ
The snow that falls around
your house during winter is
only a handful compared to
the billions and billions of tons
that fall over the entire
country.
If all the snow and ice in the
world were to melt, the oceans
would rise by something like
MO feet
The combined rainfall and
snowfall over the whole earth
amounts to approximately ?
inches a year. This means that
about is million tone of snow
or rain fall to earth every
ttcood.
It is possible that no two
snowfalkes have ever been
exactly alike among all the
countless milliom that have
fallen since the first snowflake
fluttered to earth over 1,000
million years ago.
Moat authorities agree that
the first drawing ever made of
a snow crystal waa by Oiaus
Ms gnus, a Swedish arch
bishop and university
professor, in ISM.
Skis probably antedate the
plow, and a ski unearthed in
Finland Is estimated to be
over 7,000 years old.
Contrary to old belief. U is
never too cold to snow, but at
extremely low temperatures
snowfall is scanty
?now makes it an efficient
Insult* ting material .
A film of anow or ice on a
black asphalt highway will
melt te dryness before a
similar covering on a concrete
pavement disappears.
If a snow oover is deep, only
very heavy rains can come
cloee to removing it.
Rain with a temperature of
40 degrees will meH only M
Rata* il'dspM, ?dy?l
Snow in bitter winter
shoplifting; Kenneth A.
Miller, forgery and uttering;
Billy Riddle, murder; Jen
nings Shook, BEftL.
JURORS DRAWN
Jurors drawn for the term
follow: Judith Caroleen
Buckner, Barbara Joyce
Cutshall, Theda Marie
Hudgins, Ruby E. Roberts,
Jennifer Lowe Bullman,
Clavin Ball, Smauel Tony
Holt, Ellen Mary Rich, Walter
Paul Gunter, Mrs. J.T. Mays,
Tommy Gerald King, Lou Ann
Church, Richard Lee Jenkins,
Robert T. Rector, Ruth
Duckett Gregory, Blanche
Evelyn Houston, Anson
Ramsey, Gary Lee McMahan,
Andrew Caldwell, Dovie V.
Blazer.
Earl O. Bryan Charles
Arrow ood, William P. Boings,
Craig Gardner, Eula Buckner,
James William Treadway,
Judith Lee Whitaon, Clavin
Edward Brown, Glendora
Wallin Cutahall, Dovena
Johnson, Evelyn Mae Worley,
Theresa Sigmon Hadley,
Arthur Tweed, Ted (Grady
Hampton) Allen, Pearl L.
Metcalf, Cornelia Akers
Wood, Jean Irene Wood, Linda
Stone, Paige Brigman, Hubert
Sharpe.
Frank E. Shelton, Sue Ann
Colvin, Elinoy Ganley Wilde,
Kenneth Wyatt, Grady
Dockery, Annie Taye Gosnell
Norton, Billy Cantrell, Norma
Jean Blank ens hip, James
Miles Holcombe Jr., Jemea
Harvey Chandler, Hazel
Bumgargner Gowan, John
Owen Tilson, Wendell Riley
Clark, Harold H. Metcalf,
Burns Buford Baird, Winifred
Eurene Ramsey, Emily
Dockery, Phillis Delores
Bechtol, Carlie Everett
Shelton, Claude Fulton
Faulkner.
Brenda Louise Edmonds,
Rodney P. Wallin, Jake H.
Brown, Kermit Bernard Cody,
Bruce James, John R. Sharpe,
Chalmers Shelton, Dianne
Good Maney, Cleophas
Ramsey, Tilda Norton Payne,
Minnie E. Morrow, Roy A.
Ogle, Delane Ponder, Ernest
Costanzo Tedina and Jimmy
E.Johnson.
MARSHALL Elementary school
teachers and aides volunteered to
make learning packets for their
students despite an "off day" due
to snow on Thursday of last week.
The major emphasis was on the
concern of the students' academic
progress during winter snow
days. Packets contained
materials on all levels, kin
dergarten through eighth.
Packets were available to parents
to be taken to their homes.
Volunteer teachers and aides,
shown above, are, front row, left
to right: Phyllis Moore, Billie
Jean Redmon, Barbara Ray,
Othello Ogle; second row:
Theresa Banks, Nancy Allen,
Jenny Cody, Winfred West;
standing: Fred Haynie, Helen
Brigman, Juanita Boone, Cathy
Price, Betty Bradley and Donnie
Banks. (Photo by Jim Stray)
Legislators Named
To Crawford Posts
Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green has
appointed Sen. James B.
Garrison of Albemarle to the
chairmanship of the Com
mittee on Public Utilities and
Energy, succeeding the late
Sen. I.C. Crawford.
An aide to Green said the
appointment was made Feb. 6.
Sen. Melvin R. Daniels Jr. of
Elizabeth City was appointed
by Green to the important vice
chairmanship of the ap
propriations committee held
by Crawford until his death
last month.
The vacancy on the
Governor's Advisory Budget
Commission caused by
Crawford's death baa not yet
been filled, and Green will
make that appointment also,
since the veteran Buncombe
County lawmaker's ABC past
was an appointment of the
Freshmen members of the
General Assembly who are
appointed to fill a vacancy or
elected by popular vote are
traditionally not assigned as
chairmen of committees.
In other developments, the
other senator from the Mth
District and one of the two
from the 10-county 17th
District were appointed by
Green to the board of trustees
of the Vagabond School of the
Drama Inc. of the State
Theatre of North Carolina
located at Flat Rock
Playhouse in Flat Rock in
Henderson County.
They are Sens. Robert S.
Swain of Asheville and Joe
Palmer of Clyde. House
Speaker Cart J. Stewart Jr.
appointed Rep* Marie Cotton
of Aaheville and Van Phillips
of Spruce Pine to the board.
Under the revised bylaws of
the school, the governor ap
points five trustees, the
lieutenant governor two and
the speaker two in addition to
the IS elected members.
An aide to Hunt said Wed
nesday the governor has not
yet made his appointments to
the Vagabond School of the
Drama Inc board of trustees.
All the appointments are for
two-year terms.
Quotas Announced
For Bu*-'ey Tobacco
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