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The News record SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY 78th Year No. 23 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N.C THURSDAY, June 14, 1979 Voters Turn Down School Bond Issue Waste Wood For Power? FBEC Thinks It's Possible Produce electricity with waste wood? Charles Tolley, manager of French Broad Electric Cooperative, thinks it can be done. Not only does he believe it might be feasible but he's spearheading efforts to conduct an extended $122,500 study which will take four to five months to complete in order to find out the possibility of such a venture. Should the study confirm it's practical, the French Broad Co-Op wants to build a 115,000-kilowatt plant that would be located either in Madison or Yancey County. The plant would burn wood waste such as chips, bark and sawdust purchased from local sawmills, Tolley com mented. "There's enough wastewood within 60 miles of the area to provide the fuel at a cost cheaper than coal. The plant would use about 150,000 tons of wood a year," Tolley said, and added, "If we have plenty of fuel and can generate electricity with it, we ought to use it." The cooperative has received a $30,000 grant from the N.C. Energy Institute, an agency of the state Commerce Department to help pay for the study. The cooperative; made up of residents and businesses in rural areas of five counties, is put ting up the rest of the money. Tolley said the study will determine financing and operating costs, environmental requirements and the most desirable of 12 sites under considera tion. Construction would take about four years. At present, French Broad is dependent on Carolina Power and Light Co. (CP&L) for its elec tricity. Tolley said that although CP&L's present rate of 2.7 cents per kilowatt hour is cheaper than the estimated 3.5 to 4.0 cents per kilowatt hour cost of wood-fired generation, rising costs will make power from a wood-fired plant cheaper in about seven years. In addition, using wood as fuel would help stimulate local economies. "You're looking at a fuel that will put money back into Western North Carolina rather than sending it to a coal mine in Kentucky," he said. Small as power plants go, a 15,000-kilowatt unit would supply about 5,000 homes. That's less than 1 percent of the output of Duke Power Co.'s uncompleted, 2.4-million kilowatt nuclear plant 17 miles northwest of Charlotte. Tolley said the plant would provide about 25 to 30 percent of the cooperative's electricity. He said two more 15,000-kilowatt units may be added in future years. French Broad, seventh largest cooperative in the state, serves Buncombe, Madison, Mitchell and Yancey counties in North Carolina and part of Unicoi County, Tennessee. Byard Ray Festival Slated For June 23 The third annual Byard Ray Polk Festival will be presented on June 23 in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium of the Asheville Civic Center. Ad mission for adults is $3, children $1. The festival, which is par tially supported by the Na tional Endowment for the Arts, aims to present tradi tional music and dance. Unlike many other area festival*, bluegrass music will not be beard. This festival aims to bring to the stage many of the finest musicians in the region, who still cherish and can render faithfully the type of song and dance that rang through the mountains years and years ago - the kind of music and dance that our grandparents favored and pasted on to their children. Byard Ray of Madison County provided inspiration tar the festival because of his continuing interest in preser vation and teaching the tradi Police Car Driver Wasn't Authorised An unusual arreet was made tare last Saturday about ajn. when It was discovered that the Marshall police oar was missing from Bridge Street wire it had been tam perariiy parked by a tional music. Since residents of Madison County are known far and wide for their par ticularly rich musical heritage and their sincere in terest in sharing this heritage, many will be featured. Quentin Ramsey and Lamar Lunsford will be the masters of ceremony. Ballad singers to perform are Berzilla Wallin, Dellie Norton, Cas Wallin, Doug Wallin, Evelyn Ramsey, Betty Smith, Sheila Rice, Bob bie McMilkm and Denis* Nor ton. Dance groups appearing will be Mrs. Isabel Clark's "Kenilworth Kapers," an English country dance group; Don Wise's "Ptogah View Ranch Smooth Dancers"; and Red Ivester's "Carolina Clog gers " Instrumental* will be presented by "Red" Parham on the mouth harp; Jerry Reed Smith on the hammered dulcimer; Sheila Rice on ban jo; and Betty Smith on psidtery. Traditional string bands to play are Tommy Hunter's 'The Hornpipers"; J.P. Fraley's "Fraley Family Band"; Gordon Freeman's "Pink Mountain Boys"; John Davis' "The Asheville String Band"; Mark Anderson's "French Broad Jumpers"; Luke Smather's "Luke Smather's String Band"; Quay Smatbers's "Dutch Cove String Band"; Harper Van Hoy's "Fiddler Grove String Band"; Joan Moser's Cooperative String Band" Fred Haynie Named Marshall Principal The Madison County Board of Education has named Fred C. Haynie the principal af M?r?h?n Elementary School. He succeeds William J. Brig man who resigned to return to Red Oak School in i Haynie graduated from Marshall High School in 1997, from Western Carolina University in l m with a bachelor of science in educa tion degree, and again in 1976 with a master's degree. He is education specialist degree As an educator, Haynie has been a classroom teacher at Valley Springs School in Sky land. Hot Spring* School, and for the past five years at Marshall. He has served aa the treasurer of the Madison County unit of the North Carolina Association of Educ^itof^ coscH^i bjtsicc t bell, and the 1979 Mender yearbook waa dedicated to FOUR MADISON COUNTY 4-H'ers attended the 24th annual 4-H regional Resource Develop ment Conference June 4-8 at Fon tana Village to learn about natural resources and related en vironmental issues and career op portunities. Shown above, left to right, are: Connie Woody, Bradley Franklin, Mark Rector and Jan Blair, delegates from Marshall; and Miss Sharon Carter, 4-H agent from Marshall. John Blair, TV A agent of Walnut, was not present for picture. County Schools Accredited At Level II Accreditation of schools by the North Carolina State Board of Education involves three levels. Level I accredits tion denotes that a school system has developed a com prehensive educational plan for the total school sytem. Level II denotes that the plan has been implemented. Level ni denotes that the system has completed an evaluation of the plan. Madison County Schools were accredited at Level I in January 1977. On April 9-10, 1979, a State Accreditation Committee composed of Dr. James Valsame, chairman, Bob Boyd and Meg Murphy, vlsisted the schools in Madison County to determine if the comprehensive plan was Roger Schurer, chairman of the State Accreditation Com mittee, has informed ILL. Ed wards, school superintendent, that Level II accreditation has been attained. Schurer com mended Edwards and his staff for the progress that has bean made in implementing the plan for the Mfthwi County Schools. The evaluation pro cess will begin during the 197t-80 school year. The $2,500,000 school bond referendum wai defeated Tuesday by a margin of 48 votes in the unofficial returns in the countywide election. The final total was 726 who favored the bond issue and 775 who opposed the bond issue. These figures include the absentee ballots, which totaled 17 votes in favor and two against the bond issue. Only 15 percent of the approximate 10,000 registered voters in the 11 precincts went to the polls. Although six of the 11 precincts voted in favor of the referendum, the five precincts which rejected the referendum had the greater margins. Spring Creek was the first precinct to report to the Madison County Board of Elections which received the returns at the courthouse. The first call was made at 7:35 p.m., five minutes after the polls closed. All precincts had reported by 8:20 p.m. Following are the unofficial returns from the 11 precincts: yes, those who favored bond issue and no, those who opposed bond issue. North Marshall 151 yes, 94 no (245 total votes). South Marshall 66 yes, 49 no ( 115 total votes). Laurel 60 yes, 65 no ( 125 total votes). Mars Hill 114 yes, 77 no (191 total votes). Beech Glen 81 yes, 93 no (174 total votes). Walnut 59 yes, 110 no (169 total votes). Hot Springs 28 yes, 117 no (145 total votes). Ebbs Chapel 37 yes, 18 no (55 total votes). Spring Creek 28 yes, 101 no (129 total votes). Sandy Mush 13 yes, 10 no (23 total votes). Grapevine 72 yes, 39 no (111 total votes). Absentees: 17 yes, 2 no (19 total votes). Total persons voting including absentees: 1,481. Several of the election officials stated that many of the voters were in the older age bracket and property owners with set incomes who evidently objected to the necessary proposerd tax increase. Proponents of the bond referendum were disappointed, pointing out that the opportunity to get the children off the island here and im provements in the other elementary schools had been voted down. Boundary Bill Wails Until 1980 If the dispute over the Forks of Ivy boundary is to be settled soon it will have to be by the boundary commission ordered by a superior court judge. The bill introduced by Sen. Larry Leake of Asheville to settle the dispute involving Buncombe and Madison Coun ty will not be enacted into law by the 1979 General Assembly. The bill is in a House Judiciary committee where it will remain for at least a year. The disputed boundary is at the Forte of Ivy where the operators of a grovery store have obtained a permit from the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to sell beer. The beer permit, and pro tests from citizens who live in the community, gave rise to the question of exactly which county holds claim to which the store is located. OSHA Awards Meeting At Cafeteria Friday Howard Ogle, OSHA Safely Director of Madison County, announced this week that an OSHA Safety meeting will be held this Friday night in the Madison High School Cafeteria at S o'clock. Various safety awards will be presented to county firms and the public is Invited to attend. Weadeil McDevitt, of Weaverville, OSHA Con sultant, will be prsewt to speak about the OSHA program. Special entertainment to ol uries a gospel quartet I served will be under the sponsorship of the Marshall Day Care County industries, along with the public, are i the innrtliw awards will be prseenta^ Ogle said. m Mars Hill Horse Show This Saturday The Mars Hill Liona Club will koat Ita llth annual charity horse show this Saturday at 1 and 7 p.m. on the atementary school 0rmmri? "* V* u?> of ceranoniee will bo Lloyd Ttxxnpeoo of AaheviUe, and the ringmasteri wUl be Max Gibbe and Brute Sprinkle. The ahow will be aanctkmed by the Racking Hone
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