The News Record
SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY
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Madison High School
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79th Year No. 21
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N.C.
THURSDAY, May 22, 1980
15* Per Copy
Sunday Accident Kills One
A Sodom Laurel man was
killed instantly about 8:20
p.m. Sunday when the jeep he
was riding in left the road,
then flipped over in the
highway.
State Highway Trooper
Johnny Robinson identified
the deed man as Jackie Ray
BuUman, 24, of Marshall Rt.
4..
Trooper Robinson said the
accident happened on the
Marshall by-pass near the
Walnut Creek Road intersec
tion. He said Bullman was a
passenger in a jeep operated
by Ronnie Wayne Cutshall, 20,
also of Rt. 4. Robinson said the
jeep left the road on the right
side, then was jerked back on
to the road where it overturn
ed and blocked one of the
southbound ianes.
Buliman died of multiple
neck and head injuries. Robin
son said charges against Cut
shall are pending.
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Services will be held at 2
p.m. Wednesday at Shady
Grove Free Will Baptist
Church, with Rev. Arlan
Bullman and the Rev. Joe
Rice officiating. Burial will be
in the Bullman Family
Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Jimmy
Wyatt, Eddie and Alvin
Chandler, Leslie Bowens and
Roger Worley.
Survivors include the
widow, Howardette Mars
Bullman; two sons, Scottie
and Jackie Ray Bullman Jr. ;
the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Chandler of Marshall; two
brothers, Joey Bullman of
Alexander and Wayne
Bullman of Marshall; two
sisters, Polly Ann Robinson of
Mars Hill and Cathy Ramsey
of Arden; the paternal grand
mother, Polly Bullman of
Alexander; and maternal
foster grandfather, Earl
Ramsey of Marshall.
He was a native of Madison
County and was employed by
Asheville Construction Co.
and a member of the church.
Proposed Media Center
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MHC Closes Year
Grads Hear Message Of Hope From Dr. Fred Bentley
Mars Hill College's 124th
academic year came to a close
Sunday, May 18, when college
president Dr. Fred B. Bentley
awarded diplomas to the 264
members of the Class of 1960.
The threat of rain did not
State, Local
Runoff Vote
Set June 3
The Madison County Board
of Elections announced today
that at a special meeting of the
state Board of Elections on
May 15, the board ordered a
second primary to be con
ducted for the office of state
auditor between Democrat
Edward Renfrow and
Democrat W.S. (Bill)
Chestnut.
Also, there will be a run-off
for District Court judge 24th
Judicial District between
Republican Roy Alexander
Lyerly and Republican Edwin
D. (Ed) Taylor.
This election will be held
June 9. The polling places will
be open for voting between the
hours of 6:30 a.m. and 7:30
p.m. Paper ballots will be us
ed for this election
deter the crowd of families
and friends from attending the
Baptist-related college s col
orful graduation exercises
The 2,000 seat Moore
Auditorium was filled to
capacity for both the 11 a.m
baccalaureate service and the
3 p.m. commencement.
Dr. Bentley was the
primary speaker during the
afternoon's ceremonies, after
individually presenting the
graduates with their
diplomas. He told them that
while many would say that
this is a terrible time to be
graduating from college with
runaway inflation, the
economy in a recession, and
instability in all parts of the
world, he chooses to look at
the situation in a different
light.
"The times and cir
cumstances demand
reasonable solutions to ex
traordinary problems," he
stated, citing as an example
that the college, with the help
of two of its trustees, has
managed to cut consumption
of oil by 79,000 gallons per
year even though a major new
building, Blackwell Hall, has
been added to the campus.
Through their studies, he
told the graduates, "you have
gained both specific and broad
knowiedt*, coming to a better
understanding of your talents
and abilities. In reality," he
said, "you are the ones who
will build our tomorrows. Be
open to new solutions and
ways of doing, even, I hope,
creating some new solutions. "
Dr. J. Wesley Grayson of
Laguna Hills, California, also
addressed the students during
the commencement
ceremony. Dr. Grayson gave
Mars Hill $1,123,000 in 1978 to
fund the J. Wesley Grayson
Scholars from Appalachia
Program, the school's most
prestigious scholarship
award.
Dr. Grayson paraphrased
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's
well known "How do I love'*
thee? Let me count the ways, ' '
verse from her "Sonnet of the
Portuguese," into his own
reasons for loving Mars Hill
College: scenic beauty, the
skills and knowledge gained in
studying here, and for the
friends made here. He urged
the seniors to make up their
own list of reasons, noting that
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Civil Suit Dismissed
Against The Sheriff
A civil suit asking 000,000
damages from Madison
Sheriff E.Y. Ponder for
mistreatment of a prisoner
was dismissed in U.8. District
Court by Chief U.S. District
Court Judge Woodrow W.
The suit had been filed by
AI i bo M. Crews Jr
ly serving a sentence of 1?0
years ta Uv state |>M ?'
ty three years ago.
Crews and a co-defendant,
Phillip Eugene Turpin were
both found guilty of murder
?mi given long sentences.
Sheriff Ponder was
represented in the action by
A.E. Leake, Marshall at
torney. Witnesaes for the
sheriff included Urty
Hunt Installs McDevitt
As State YDC Head
Gov. Jim Hunt officially in
stalled Wayne McDevitt of
Madison County as president
of the state Young Democrats
Club Saturday night at
ceremonies at Deer Park in
Biltmore Estate, touting him
as one of the young party
leaders destined for higher
things.
Gov. Hunt installed the en
tire slate of officers at the
group's annual banquet,
which saw an array of
Democratic Party luminaries
address the gathering.
Also speaking were Lt. Gov.
Jimmy Green, Uth District
congressman Lamar Gudger
and U.S. Rep. Jack BrinUey
of Georgia, in addition to a
number of YDC speakers
During his speech, Hunt
said that John Anderson's in
dependent candidacy will
have a negligible effect on the
presidential reflection efforts
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GOVERNOR JIM HUNT congrati
Madison countian Wayne McDevitt on his
installation Saturday night as president of fl
the state YDC The installation was Iwld at m
Deer Park In BUtmore Estate V
One Man Died In This Jeep
For Media Center
Mars Hill College
Receives Big Gift
A $700,000 bequest from the
estate of the late J. Meade
Harris of Roanoke, Va., was
announced during graduation
weekend by Mars Hill College
President Dr. Fred B.
Bentley.
The money will be used to
construct a unique media
center, most of which will be
underground. Details of the
unexpected legacy and the
unusual building were
presented to the college's
board of trustees during their
semi-annual business meeting
here.
Harris, who died in August
1978 at the age of 80, was a
feed and grain dealer in
Roanoke. A lifelong Baptist
who apparently had no official
ties with Mars Hill, he
stipulated in his will that the
building should be named in
memory of his wife. The struc
ture, on which construction
will begin this summer, will be
called the Marleine Reader
Harris Media Center.
Designed and engineered by
Six Associates of Ashevilie,
the building will be partially
underground fat program
matic and energy conserva
tion reasons. It will be located
on the corner of Dormitory
Drive and the Marshall
Highway (N.C. 213), flanked
on the east side by Memorial
Library and just across the
road from Wail Science
Building. The site is a natural
valley ideally suited for the
type of building planned.
According to the architects
the building's sod roof m|
eliminate heat load nfl
quirements on the roof, whicfl
is the major peak heat gaifl
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*??? Hill Rec park Complex I
Rec Park Opens June 2 J
The Town of Mara Hill is
opening IU recreation put for
the first full season, on June 2
and town manager Roger
Swan is urging citizens to take
fuii advantage of the facilities
offered by the town.
Sunday.
The park it located on
Crooked Street in Mars Hill,
and park supervisor* will be
Marty Cann, a recent
graduate of Mars Hill College;
Ellis Tyson, a i
Davie, who is ii' Mwork
f acilities avail
? mu purpose