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Li. The News Record SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY -On thm inside . . . School bells ring ogoin in Madison ???calendar on page 5 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N.C. THURSDAY, August 2, 1979 'Pop ' Slows Down By ALAN ANDERSON Veteran readers of Hie News Record have known Jim Story for many yean; most of them know him as Pop, the man who "hears and sees." The fact that I call him Jim at all is a clue that I haven't known him very long, and this is true. While some of you might even have known him since as long as 1M6 (is there anyone out there with that long a memory?), I have known him for only a week. But already I can understand why The News Record readers and Madison County residents have held him in such high esteem for these many years. Pop will be changing his work routine a bit from now on, taking things a little easier, perhaps lingering a few extra minutes over that hnchtime cheeseburger and enjoying some evenings out with his wife "Bill." Pop is "semi-retiring" this month, easing out of the busy life of deadlines and closings. He will devote more time to his printing business, to his checkers, and to his many interests and friends in the Marshall community. Officially, Pop Story will be described on the masthead as "Columnist and Editorial Consultant." He will continue to tell us of things heard and seen, and to report on matters and events that interest him up and down the French Broad. Unofficially, he will be much more than that. There is no way to continue publication of The News Record without benefit of Pop's 33 years of experience, and I for one do not intend to try. For though I shall have the title of editor from now on, I hope that Pop will want to stay around for many years as advisor, source of knowledge, and friend. The history of The News Record itself is largely the same as that of the Story Anderson Succeeds Story As Editor I Beginning this week, Alan Anderson will become editor of The News Record. James I. Story remains with the paper as columnist and editorial consultant. This change is tttscuwed at greater length elsewhere in this issue. Anderson comes to the News Record from Springfield, 111., where be was editor and co-founder of the Illinois Times, a downstate regional weekly newspaper. Previous to his three yean at mhMis Times, Anderson I worked chiefly for magazines, where he specialized in the fields of science, medicine, and energy. He has written tor both regional and national publications, including Saturday Review, Time, Organic Gardening, Science Digest and Hie New York Times Magazine. He has also written several books on geology and natural history. Anderson and his wife, Susan Sherard, live in Mars MB. ALAN ANDERSON SART's Season Ends Sunday At Mars Hill The Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre's (SART) 1979 summer season draws to a close this Sunday with its Women Vote League Gets ?3,784 Grant A grant of $3,784 has been approved for the Asheville Buncombe League of Women Voters by the U.S. En vironmental Protection Agen cy, Congressman Lamar Gudger announced The money is for a public participation training pro gram in Buncombe, Madison, Henderson and Transylvania production of Inherit The Wind. The play runs nightly Tuesday through Saturday at 8:15 with a 2:30 matinee on Sunday. The drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee flashes back across history to 1925 and the celebrated "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn. The locale is unspecified in the play and the names are fictitious, but there is never for a moment any pretense of fiction. John T. Scopes, the young schoolmaster who violated Tennessee law by teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, is called Bertram Cates; Henry Drummond, the lawyer who defends him, is clearly Clarence Darrow; and by whatever name, the ar chdefender of fundamen talism would be William Jenn ings Bryan. Inherit The Wind is directed by James W. Thomas, SART's managing director. The large cast is headed by Susan King as Rachel Brown; Carlton T. Bortell as the Rev. Jeremiah Brown; Dean Hiatt as Ber tram Cates; Ron Mclntyre as E.K. Horn beck; Theresa Ed sall Phillips as Mrs. Matthew Harrison Brady; Terry Burgler as Matthew Harrison Brady; and Doug Oleson as Henry Drummond. Reservations are required and may be made by phoning the Owen Theatre Box Office at (704) 689-1239. Ticket prices are $4 for adults, and $3 for students and senior citizens. MATTHEW HARRISON BRADY, played by Tarry Burgler (standing at right), disclaims i?aru? s !?ieory*??Oin.u" asat ason Thomas , "monkey business" ill i classroom in the Southern Ap Repertor> Theatre's oft For 33 Years He Edited Madison County's Newspaper family. Jim's father, H.L. Story, bought the paper as long ago as 1924, moving the family from Eden ton to Marshall to take over the editor's chair. Jim was then 12 years old. By the time he graduated from Marshall High School in 1981, news papering was in his blood. He learned the business as an apprentice in his father's shop, then gained further training with the Roanoke Rapids Herald from 1940-42 and the Skyland Post of West Jefferson from 1943 46. He then returned to Marshall to become associate editor of his father's paper, a position he held until his father's death in December 1964. In that year, Jim Story became no only editor, but also publisher and owner of Hie News Record. He also served as vice president of the North Carolina Press Association and president of the Western North Carolina Preas Association. In 1971 Jim was honored as "Friend of the Month" by the American Soil Conservation Service, the first time a newspaper editor within North Caorlina had won that award. By the late 1960s many independent newspapers were being bought by larger organizations, and The News Record was no exception. In 1970 it was sold to Community Newspapers Inc., of Spar tanburg, SC., owners of several other wee tern North Carolina papers. But in 1976 the paper was returned to local control when a cor poration headed by Clifton Blake Metcalf, a Mars Hill native, purchased the paper under the name of the , Madison County Publishing Co. Inc. Metcalf is managing editor of The Mountaineer in Waynesville. Jim Story remained the editor through all these changes, and maintained his leadership in the Marshall Baptist Church, the Marshall Civitan Club, the Lions Club, and the Chamber of Com merce. He also kept up his strong interest in school sports and in music, serving as P.A. announcer for the Patriots' football games, chief of the Marshall fire department, and organist for Bowman Funeral Home. Like anyone who has devoted his life to running a newspaper, or to any other business, Jim will not find it easy to cut back on the throttle. He grew up among the people who run Madison County ? the people who are Madison County. He learned to listen to them, to work with them, and to speak for them through his newspaper. He will never lose this ability, for it is his life. I am proud to be working with him. James /. Story ?No more worry about deadlines Principals, Teachers Get New Assignments *X Edwardfe. Uioerinten - dent of Madison County Schools, announced this week the roter of school principals and faculty members for the 1979-80 school year. The list is as follows: MADISON HIGH SCHOOL Principal David Wyatt, Assistant Principal Bruce Phillips, Doyle Amnions, Nor ris Gentry, James Boone, Jack Brown, Elizabeth Clayton, Michael Cook, Peggy Cutshaw, Karen Dillingham, Kathy Fefer, Stuart Forester, Paul Gunter, Janet Hall, Lin da McCurry, Oscar McDevitte Jr., Resident Of Mars Hill Fatally Shot Vance William "Butch" Chandler, 34, of Route 2, Mars Hill, was fatally shot shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday on N.C. 197 near Whittemore Branch Road in the Barnardsville sec tion. Buncombe County deputies said Teddy D. Ray, 28, of Route 1, Barnardsville, has been charged with murder in the incident. He is being held in the Buncombe County jail pending a bond hearing. Chandler was shot in the chest, according to officers, who said Ray was arrested at the scene. The men were said to have been standing in the road when the shooting occur red. FUNERAL WEDNESDAY Chandler, a native of Madisan County, was a fanner and a son of Walter and Arbutius Elkins Chandler of Mars Hill. Surviving in addition to the parents are the wife, Eulalia Blankenship Chandler; two daughters, Rhonda Lynn and Christie Ann Chandler of the a*. ? ? - i,, , n L_j.iL TA n , ,? notne, two dtouicts, uivki and Jeff Chandler of Man ?n; the maternal grand m Knrit Frances Ramsey. Roy Reeves, Hettie Rice, Cecil Rex Sprinkle, Mary Sprinkle, William Stell, Sandra ToUey, Patricia Waldrop, James Wallin, Ronnie Wallin, Larry West, Carol Whitt, Willa Wyatt, John Shackleton, Alda Jean Young, Louie Zimmer man, McClelland Rice, Glen wood Wallin, James Allen, Harold Baker, Ronald McDaniel, Garland Woody, Jack Cole, David Cox, Linda Gardner, Maxine Gosnell, Irene Met calf, Sheila Ramsey, John Ray, Wayne Robinson, Jacob Sams, Karen Sams, Bruce Sprinkle, Lucille Sprinkle, Winfred Ramsey, Jeff Treadway and Elsberry Wyatt. LAUREL ELEMENTARY Principal Vernon Ponder, instructional personnel: Joyce Thomas, Lena Mae Thomas, Kathy Johnson, Glennis Ray, Lena Norton, Ruth Landers, June Plemmons, James Shelton, Harvey Franklin, Vickie Carver, Christa Wallin, Elmer Chandler, Betty June Ramsey and Rita Norton. HOT SPRINGS Principal J.C. Wallin Jr., in structional personnel: Emma Kate Davis, Shirley Franklin, Selma Wallin, Dorothy Chandler, Larry Wyatt, Elizabeth Staude, David Richards, Mattie Ramsey and Sharon Baker. MARS HILL Principal Frederick Ander son, Assistant Principal Lewis Amnions Jr., Shirley Cody, Marie Cody, Jamie Briggs, Marsha Boyd, Patsy Hoyle, Dianne Sams, Ruby Anderson, Carolyn Ponder, Sadie Wallin, (Continued on Page 5) _ Schools Open Next Week SIDEWALK bricks are shown be ing torn up last Friday in prepara tion for pouring new sidewalks from the upper end to the lower end of Main Street. Shown in pic ture above, left to right, are: Steve Randall, Roger Hensley, Fred "Shorty" Rector and Buford Marler. (Photo by Jim Story) Farm Group Honors Silver Harry G. Silver, long-time Madison County resident, has been awarded the Superior Service Award by the Valley Test-Demonstration Associa tion, a seven-state association. Silver is a retired district agricultural extension super visor for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He lived in Mar shall from IMS to 1970 and now resides with his wife, the former Gail Grubbs, at Weaverville. The award was (reseated by O.G. Ramsey, a dairyman in Henderson County, at the close of the association's an at the Washington County Fairgrounds In Abingdon, Va. Silver worked hard He argued vigorously, often over strong opposition, that the small, hilly farms of this area are best suited to hor ticultural crops that require little land while bringing a high return for labor. He pro moted, among other things. Christmas trees, native or namental plants, and home gardens for improving family health. His special interest was in promoting intensive tomato production, and he traveled to Tennessee, Ohio, Florida, California and other states to study tomato marketing and technology. Silver's concern for struggl ing families on mountain farms arose from his own ex He finished high school in the Depression, then joined the old Civilian Conservation Corps. He moved on to N.Q. (Continued on Page 5) Hot Springs Wins *10,865 w! - Housing Grant
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