Hie News Record
SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY
On thm Insldm
The Brook Trout
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It Out? See Page 6
79th Year No. 25
PU&LISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N C.
THURSDAY, June 19, 1980
15* Per Copy
Flea Market Opening Set Saturday
Lincoln Davis Posey V. Wilde
John Randall
Tom Donahey
Tina Shade
Leake Dies In Crash
Out -Of- Control Car Rams Tree On NC 208
A young man from Route 4,
larshall apparently died in
tantly Friday night from a
broken neck when the car he
was driving left NC 206 and
struck a tree.
State Highway Patrolman
W.C. Swanson identified the
dead yodth as James Alvin
OUT-OF-CONTROL, this is the
? car in which young James Leake
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died Friday night. (Photo by
Lewis W. Green)
Leake, 21, of Route 4.
Swanson said his investiga
tion revealed that a car
operated by Leake, who was
apparently alone in the car,
was traveling north at a rate
of speed too high for road con
ditions, ran off the right
shoulder, lost control, veered
back across the road to the left
shoulder, then down an em
bankment where it struck a
walnut tree broadside.
A native of Madison County,
he was a farmer.
Services were held at 2 p.m.
Monday in the chapel of
Bowman Funeral Home. The
Rev. Mike Minnix officiated
Burial followed in
Presbyterian Cemetery.
Survivors include the
father, James Leake of Wilm
ington, Delaware; the mother,
Nellie Oosnell Leake of
Asheville; two sisters, Vickie
Ann McGuinn of San Diego,
Calif., and Kathy Petrey of
Asheville; the paternal grand
mother, Fannie Leake of Mar
shall; and the maternal
grandparents, Capp and Nola
Morton Gosnell of Asheville
Mars Hill Meet To Focus On Energy
TWfl
Development Quarter
Meeting will be held Tu^t^T
Mars mil Baptist Church
be the I
>f the proRt am which will be
given by Charles Tolly,
manager of the French Broad
Electric Membership Oar
The Community Develop
Hill
of the
Back Street To Feature
Swapping , Buying , Selling
A trader's "flea" market
and farmer's market will open
on Back Street in Marshall
Saturday morning, and
boosters of the project have
asked that anyone wishing to
open and operate a booth call
649-3009 for reservations.
The opening of the market is
the first tangible move in the
direction of an announced plan
to re-awaken interest in Mar
shall as the prime shopping
area in Madison County.
Downtown merchants and
other interested citizens have
lent assistance in the push to
establish a flea-market, and
everyone canvassed so far
agrees that it is probably the
effort required to bring some
life back downtown on the
weekends.
The possibility has also been
raised that the flea-market
will also open on Sunday after
noons after churches have let
out.
Further in the future are
plans to build cookout and
camping areas along the
riverfront, as well as other
recreational activities which
will bring people to town.
The people boosting the *
market plans say they hope
that fanners will choose to sell
their produce, eggs, dairy pro
ducts, etc. in stalls along Back
Street.
Stall-space will also 'be
available for traders, antique
dealers, vendors of assorted
new and used merchandise.
Word has spread generally
through the Madison County
area. A misprint in last week's
News Record had the opera
tion located in Mars Hill. One
merchant said it needed to be
underscored that the market
would begin Saturday in the
American Legion Parking Lot
on Back Street in Marshall.
Project boosters began
spreading handbills out to
every country store and area
of population Monday.
The sponsors say that booth
space will be free for the first
Safety Awards
Meeting Re-set
For June 24
The Madison County Safety
Awards Committee has
rescheduled the second annual
safety awards meeting for
June 24 at the Madison High
School cafeteria.
The banquet will begin pro
mptly at ? p.m. and adjourn no
later than t. Tickets may be
purchased from members of
the safety committee, Hal
Johnson, Teresa Zimmerman,
Howard Ogle, Richard Hoff
man, Larry Burda and O.A.
Gregory at 94 S0 per person.
Door priaes will be donated by
the bosineaamen In the county .
Howard Ogle is urging all
businesses, industries, and in
the safety awards banquet
three weeks. After that, a
small fee will be charged to
help pay for the clean-up and
administrative detail that
must go with such an opera
tion.
"We need this in the worst
possible way," a merchant
said Monday. "It is also
something that the people in
the county need. This is a
bunch of swappers in Madison
County. They wheel-and-deal
and trade from the time they
hit the first grade in school
right on up until they get old.
"We expect a lot of antique
dealers to show up here and
begin looking because there is
a lot of old things left in this
county that have not been
taken to any flea market. I
myself need to look over some
of this stuff I've heard people
say they were going to bring."
Some of the merchants hope
to operate flea-market stalls
as an outiet*for some of the
goods they normally sell in
their stores.
"I think, on a limited basis,
we can sell a number of new
items at discount prices as
part of an effort to draw pap
downtown," a merchant
said.
George Penland, one of the
operators of Penland and Sons
Department Store, said a
representative from the Buck
Stove Co. in Buncombe County
had offered one of the stoves to
be raffled or auctioned off to
help in paying the early clean
up and administrative costs.
"We will announce by next
week when we will raffle or
auction it," Penland said.
People on the street were
given handbills Monday and
asked their opinions about the
feasibility of such a move.
Those interviewed were
unanimous in their approval
of the idea.
Posey V. Wildes of Walnut
Creek said "It's a very good
idea. I'll be right there Satur
day, I hope. We've been
needing a place like that to go
to."
Lincoln Davis - "Yes, it's
time it happened. I'll be
there."
John Paden of Big Pine ? "I
was glad to hear about it. I'd
like to be there to buy some
things."
Tom Dona hey, also of Big
Pine ? "It's a very good idea.
I can't make it there this
Saturday but I will be there
later. I hope it works out. It'U
be a good place to go."
Lewis Thomas, who lives
upstairs over the Rock Cafe.
"It is a real good idea and it's
time we had people waking up
around here and doing
something. It'U liven up Satur
days and we sure need
something."
John Randall of Walnut ?
"1 don't see anything wrong
with it. I'll help any way I can.
We can all do something to get
a thing like this started. They
go good everywhere else "
George Ogle ? "I think it's
a tremendous idea. I think it'll
grow too big for Back Street
right away. Maybe it can go on
the island. It'll be a place
where we can trade and traffic
and enjoy ourselves. They
come from all over the place
to that one at the Dreamland
Drive-In in Asheville This
ought to go too."
Tina Shade, 14, of Marshall
? "It's a good idea. I want to
come. I live right nearby."
Continued on Page 8.
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