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By POP
In listing some of the firemen who serv
ed during the 1M6-50 period in this column
last week, I inadvertenly omitted several
men jpHyyting pain Sprinkle, Craig Rudisill
Jr., Paul Pegg, Robert Davis. I also goofed
when I included Allen Duckett. Allen, a
former fireman and fire chief, didn't serve
until several years later. Apologies fellows.
Speaking of firemen, Chief Jackie
Davis and several of the current firemen
have "remodeled" the fire department
behind City Hall and have made an enclosed
room in the building. Nice going, firemen.
The startling news of the attempt to
rescue the American hostages in Iran and
the failure of the mission has caused con
cern and sadness throughout the nation.
The display of the bodies of the U.S. ser
vicemen who died in the ill-fated rescue at
tempt in Iran is unthinkable. Add to these
events the resignation of Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance and other developments, the
past few days have been most gloomy to say
the least. Now is the time and need for all of
us to be more united than ever.
Less than 50 persons attended the re
cent meeting on the Island when a film was
shown and the possibility of a propane gas
rail car wreck was discussed. (Story
elsewhere in this issue). The public should
be alerted to plans for evacuation if such a
catastrophe should occur. There is entirely
too much apathy shown among our citizens
here as was seen by the small crowd at the
meeting. Future meetings and the showing
of the film should be held to acquaint the
public on what has happened in Tennessee
and other states where rail explosions have
occurred resulting in many injured or kill
ed. Our civil defense organization should
become alerted and our public educated as
to precautionary steps to be taken.
Editor's Column
Railroad Emergencies
A few weeks ago Jack Ramsey, who used to
live in Marshall and who has spent much of his life
around fire trucks and other emergency vehicles,
brought a film to show the Marshall public. The
film was about the dangers of transporting the
toxic and explosive chemicals that America today
lives on.
The dangers are especially acute, of course,
in places that lie beside major freight transit
arteries - places like Marshall and Hot Springs. It
is common to count half a dozen or a dozen tank
cars laden with chemicals on every Southern
Railroad train that rolls through our county.
One of the typical scenes in the movie showed
a tank car that had begun to leak near a small
town; the town was evacuated and railroad crews
began emptying the tanker. After four days of
work, when the tanker was nearly empty and
workers were in the process of cutting it open, it
blew up.
Jack Ramsey told the sparse audience that
such an explosion could estroy everything within
1,000 feet of the tanker - which, in Marshall, could
mean much of the town and the elementary
school. Yet there is no person or group in Marshall
or Hot Springs with the knowledge or training to
know what to do in such a situation. If someone
knocked on your door and told you a tanker was
about to blow up, whcih way would you run? What
about school kids: How would they be evacuated -
toward the town or away from it?
Marshall had a mild taste of what could hap
pen when a train derailed some years back and
smashed into the back of the Coal, Feed & Lumber
Co. Fortunately the cars in that section of train
were carrying grain, which will not blow up no
matter how fast it is going. What if the cars had
carried bromine, or propane, or acid? Unhappily,
the memory of that possibility has faded from
most people's minds.
But not everyone's. Faye Reid stopped by the
other day to say she is seriously worried by what
she learned from the movie. She thinks it should
be shown in the county again, soon, and that all of
us should see it.
There is good sense in that suggestion. There is,
for example, no civil defense coordinator here
capable of forming a plan of escape for Marshall
or Hot Springs in case of accident. According to
West of the veterans' office, the Civil Defense
from Raleigh have said they would sup
for half the salary of such a person,
a part-time secretary and office equip
Jack Ramsey's movie, we
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Fundraising Dinners Planned For Day Care
development program
Turkey dinners will b?
prepared by Maria Cox and
her staff in Marshall on May
23 at the elementary school
and in Greater Ivy on June tat
the community center
((Beech Glen School). The .
meals will be served from 5-7 ?
p. m , and the cos t will be $3 for
adults and <2.25 for children.
Tickets will go on sale May 1
for Marshall and May 5 for
Greater Ivy. They must be
purchased in advance so that
customers can be insured a
meal. A very limited number
will be sold at the door;
however, when these tickets
are sold no more extra meals
will be available. The goal is
to sell at least 500 tickets at
each site.
Proceeds will go toward the
Letter
To The
Editor
Thanks For Help
Editor, The News Record:
So many people are involved
in expressions of sympathy,
concern and gifts following the
tragic burning of our home
and loss of five family
members in the fire that it is
impossible for us to thank
each one individually.
We are writing to you and
hope that through your media
our thanks and
acknowledgments can be
passed on to everyone who has
been so thoughtful.
We appreciate the excellent
job the Mills River Fire
Department did at the scene;
also the establishment of the
trust fund at the Northwestern
Bank with three trustees.
These gifts have made it
possible for us to rearrange
our lives. We would like to
report that I am back at work;
Charlene is back at school;
and we are reestablished in a
home and have adequate fur
niture and clothing ? thanks
to everyone.
CARMEL LEE MATHW
Horse Shoe
Foster Care
13,000 foster children in North
Carolina.
"We took our results to the
permanency planning
meeting last month in
Durham," said Mrs. Davie.
"The director of the Division
of Social Services, Robert
Ward, seemed to be very im
pressed with what we have
done. So we are confident we'll
be able to keep it up. We'll
keep sharing the work load
among the three workers ?
Sandy, adoptive services, and
protective services ? and
hope we get money for part of
another salary."
The workers make it clear
that their first priority in deal
ing with foster children is to
return them home when possi
ble. The second most
desirable course is adoption.
The third is to enter into a con
tract with foster and natural
parents to keep the child in the
same home until age 18.
Finding a permanent home
for a child also saves the
public money. Each foster
family is paid $125 a month for
expenses, so that each child
returned home saves that
much. The 13 children who
have been returned home
since the start of the project
are already saving the county
$1,625 a month.
"The money saved is a good
thing," said Mrs. Davie. "But
the beet thing is that perma
nent plans are made for the
kids I think that every kid
really wants a 'forever home.'
This is to me the most impor
tant effect of the project. A
child who is allowed to drift in
definitely from one hone to
ty. He is not sure about Ms
future, or who he u. Self
establishment of ? Day Car*
Scholarship Fund (or families
in crisis or with apodal needs
that cannot bo mot through
other programs. Also, half of
the fUnds will go to the in
dividual center (or toys or I
special project* > f
Tickets may be purchased i
from day care staff, board
members and parents. If these I
dinners are successful, addi- i
ioo*l dinner* will t*? planned
or the fall in Laurel, Hot Spr
ngs and Mara HID
Everyone is encouraged to
My tickets (or their families
ind friends
Madison County Schools
1M0 - 1111 Sell Ml CalMta
School T?r? Be^inT"
Teacher Work D^
iutivtty ?
Teackar wort nay
"IT
of First School Month (First Day for Students)
Holl.
En i at tirst School Month
nr
En<i of First Six Weeks
NCAE District Meeting Ci Day Workday-HDiy Annual Leave)
Oct.
-rst:
7 End of Second School Month"
4 election Day | No vhooi for Teachers or Students)
End of Third School Month 6 Second Sl? Weeks
Nov. 5
Nov. 11
Hov.N
Teacher Workday (Veteran's Day-No Students)
Primary Reading Workshop
Schools Disaj ss at iTlO P.M. for ThaPtsilTlM Holidays
fill;
*>v. 37
Holiday
anksgiving
No*. Zi Holiday (Thanksgiving
? s ?> of ft ? ? '
6ec. i
End of Fourth School Month
Dec. 19
Schools Close at 1:10 P. H. for Christaas Holidays
Bee. ?
Annual Leave or Vacation Day
free, ti
Annual Leave or Vacation Day
bee. M
MLHiC?, ?r-vAc'tion Day
bee. K
"Rot
ristus
bee, ii
ft3irl.t.as
bee. M
ive or Vacation Day
Dec! 50
Annual Leave or \acation Pay
Dec. II
Leave or Vacation Day
Jan. 1 Holidwr (New Year's Day
Jan. 5F
Annual Leave or Vacation Day
Jan. 5
School toopens for Students and Staff after Christaas
Holidays . 'also End of First Semester
days, -ali
of Fifth
Jan. IS
End
School Month
Feb. 16
End of Sixth School Mon t h
Mar. H
End of Seventh School Month
Apr, li End of Eighth School Month
Apr. 20 Weather Peraitting
Apr. 21 Holiday (In Lieu of Semorlal Day^
Holidays Begin ? Holiday (Easter)"
Apr, ii
Apr! 21
Annual Leave Day or Vacation Day
Annual Leave Day or Vacation Day
X
7TT
Annual Uave Day or Vacation Day
"Ta
May 14
Workday
End of Ninth School Month i Last Day of School
May 20-28 Teacher Workdays ?
June 1-4 Teacher Workdays
June 5
Jun? 6
Annual Leave Day or Vacation Day ?
TftTAL Mi N it n Calendar ttrfThi ? 517
TOTALS
workdays
12*i I 8 116
* All annual vacation laava days, legal holidays and teacher workdays could
interchangeable, as long as the nunber of annual virion laava days and legal
tha requirements of the law.
be optional
holidays aeet
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Thanks From EMT'a
EDITOR'S NOTE: On April 17 there was a two*';
car wreck in Shelton Laurel involving Kevin Lea
Sams and Kent Hunt, at the Franklin Mountain
Road. The Emergency Medical Service was call-K
ed and rushed to the scene. When they got there, w
fair-sized crowd ha$ gathered. As the trrhniriniJ
carefuly maneuvered Hurst out of the front seatX
several bystanders volunteered to help out an<?:
proved to be very effective. "They helped get ?S
back board under him and ease him out," said oncg
of the EMT's at the scene. "They really did an ex-^
cellent job and we'd like to thank them for it."
The world would be a far better place if al^j
crowds acted so well.
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