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j ,r % ? ? . . v' :t . ? Madison UtVrar WM News record SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY 80th Year No. 27 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N.C. THURSDAY, July 2, 1981 15c Per Copy -July 4th Celebrations Special Events Scheduled For Independence Day MARSHALL The Marshall Volunteer Fire Department, in conjunction with the Town of Marshall, will begin Fourth of July festivities by sponsoring a donkey softball game on the island in Mar shall Friday. July 3 at 8 p.m. The Marshall firemen have challenged the firefighters of the West Madison department for the game. At this writing, word of acceptance of the challenge had not been received, but Mar shall chief Jackie Davis said the game will go on even if his men have to play the donkeys On Saturday, July 4 the MVFD will sponsor a rodeo on the island with shows beginning at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. The rodeo will feature bareback bronc riding, barrel racing, calf roping, bull riding and other traditional rodeo events. A fireworks display will be held immediate ly following the last rodeo performance at ap proximately 9:30 p.m. Food and refreshments will be served dur ing Saturday s events, and the Marshall Wagon Train will arrive on the scene during the day. MARS HILL The Mars Hill Lions Club and the Town of Mars Hill will sponsor a full day of July 4th celebration at the recreation park located on Crooked Street in Mars Hill. Activities begin Saturday morning with games and entertainment events scheduled throughout the day. A band will be on hand to provide music in the afternoon, and a dance will be held in the evening. Food and refreshments will be served throughout the day, or families may bring an old-fashioned picnic to the park HOT SPRINGS The Hot Springs Lions Club and the Town of Hot Springs will kick off its July 4th celebra tion at 11 a.m. Saturday at the old Hot Springs Hotel grounds. Activities will include flea markets, concession stands and booths spon sored by the Friendship Club, PTA, West Madison Volunteer Fire Department and other organizations. Lion Hank Holmes said there will be bingo and other games for kids and adults. Raft trips will be sponsored by Carolina Wilderness Adventures. Holmes said other activities will include a hayride, a greased pole climb, and a drawing for "B06S Hog, a 250 pound porker. At 3 p.m. and at 6 p.m. a skydiving demonstration will be performed by members of the Astroid Sport Parachute Center of Asheboro, N.C. The jumpers will land in the field behind the Blue Ridge Shot' Company. A country and bluegrass band will perform beginning at 6:30 p.m. beside the Trail Cafe, and the celebration will conclude at 9:30 p.m. with a fireworks display. SMOKY MOUNTAIN RIVER EXPEDITIONS Smoky Mountain River Expeditions of Hot Springs will present a July 4th celebration with barbecue and bluegrass at the company's rafting headquarters on the river beginning Saturday at 9 a.m. Bluegrass music will be provided by the Marc Pruett Band of Asheville. and the barbecue dinner will be catered by Bill Stanley's, also of Asheville. Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. and music will begin at 7:30 p.m Admission will be charged for all events. A raft trip, lunch, dinner and music will be $39 per person. Dinner and music will be $15 per person, and a raft trip and lunch will be $26 per person. Activities are by reservation only. Asheville Girl Drowns In MHC Pool Accident A young Asheville girl died Sunday in an unusual swimming accident at the Mars Hill College swimming piool. Authorities reported that Lorraine Burt, 15, of Mountain Side Apartments in Asheville, was pronounced dead on arrival at Memorial Mission Hospital early Sunday evening. An autopsy perfo? ud Men day manpag established the offiqjfti cause of death as drowning According to Dr. Carl Biggers of the hospital's pathology department, the autopsy showed the "gross lesion complex of drowning." Details of the incident are still sketchy; however, Mrs. Burt was a participant in the college s Upward Bound Program, a federal ly funded program to assist high school students with limited academic opportunities to prepare for post-secondary training. There are 58 students in the program this summer from high schools in Mitchell, Yancey, Madison, and Buncombe counties as well as the Asheville city school system. Miss Burt had finished at South French Broad Junior High School and would have been a sophomore at Asheville High this fall. Officials said that Miss Burt briefly sank beneath the surface of the water before being pulled to safety by friends. Once out of the pool, she stood up, spoke to her friends, and walked a few steps before collapsing. Both Upward Bound counselors and Hfe guards were on duty at the lime of the acci dent. The college security officer on duty was summoned and transported Miss Burt to the emergency room at Memorial Mission Hospital. Cardio- pulmonary resuscitation was administered on the way. "We are truly shocked and deeply grieved by this tragedy," said Dr. Richard L. Hoff man, academic vice president of the college, "and I know that all members of the college family ? students, faculty, staff, and ad ministrators ? join me in expressing our sympathy to the Burt family." Funeral arrangements will be made by Wilkins-Hart Mortuary of Asheville and are incomplete at this time. A memorial service is planned by the college but details are not complete at this time. French Broad EMC Faces Rate Increase Carolina Power & Light Company has filed for a wholesale rate increase to Cooperatives and Municipals to be effetive Aug. 11, 1961. The increase to French Broad EMC will amount to approx innately 17 percent, according to Charles Tolley, FBEMC manager. The cooperative will at tempt to get the Federa Energy Regulatory Commis sion to delay this increase Rfecord Office Closed The News Record office will be closed Friday, July 3, in observance of In dependence Day. Public Meeting CORRECTION The Marshall Board of Aldermen will meet Monday, July 13 at 7:90 p.m. in the Town Hall on Main Street in Marshall The board will not meet on July 6 as listed in last week's The News Record. I However, the cooperative will ? have no choice but to pay the increase imposed by CPfcL. - This forces an increase to co 1 op members. Rates are now being review ed to determine what the in crease to members will have to be. "When the effective date of the increase is deter mined, and new rate schedules adopted, members will be notified," Tolley said. In addition to rate charges from CPfcL, the cooperative also has to pay whatever fuel adjustment charge is added each month. This charge is passed on to members in addi tion to whatever rate is in ef fect and varies each month ac cording to the charge from CPfcL Any members having ques tions about the rate increase or other matters should con- | tact your neareit LMt office, < Tolley added ] _ , I Council Of Stale Will Meet Gov Jim Hunt and the of the Council of State rill hold egular Monthly teeeting at the Weatern Office '>f the Gover nor at On. Oak PUm in A?fte*tlle At? < Th?jr ?rt?i alw> our everal rial pro|>ertl. s in the ?r. from Wayne McDevttt dn tor of the Western Office of the Governor and the Council of St at( have iwld a rrg#?r meettnf hen in Aafc- vifle, ; . .Vf rwt yet be*r ml it 9 be nrvi m Hendon Wants Boaring Question Settled WASHINGTON - Con gressman Bill Hendon has ar ranged for a public hearing to review the controversial ex termination by rangers of the European Wild Boar in the Great Smoky Mountains Na tional Park. Park officials familiar with the program have accepted Hendon s invitation to testify at the hearing, set for 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10, in the Com munity Building in Rob binsville. Hendon said the tiearing will give all area sportsmen an opportunity to war firsthand exactly what is Aking place in the Smokies and will "hopefully lay to rest he many rumors circulating about the boar removal pro gram.'" The European Wild Boar vas first introduced into the >ark in 1912, and over the /ears the original population las grown to an estimated one housand animals. In recent /ears, the park service has )een killing the boar because t competes with other species n the park and because it eeds on some endangered ipecies, such as .the Red cheeked Salamander. "Now, I am all for the Red Cheeked Salamander," Hen Ion said, "but mountain peo )le just naturally wonder vhen the government tells hem they will be arretted for tilling a salamander or a rat lesnake in the park, and then hey see the government going tut and killing the wild boar at will. It just doesn't make tense. I believe it is time to get to Dr. Otis Duck (left) and Dr. Sigsbee Duck-flfCsent medical slides to Dr. Fred Bentley Bentley, President of Wars Hill College. Medical Slides Given To College Although the Harris Media Center is still under construction on the campus at Mars Hill College and is still several months away from completion, the million-dollar audio-visual facility has already received its first gift, a unique and valuable collection of 2800 medical slides. The gift was made to the college by Dr. Otis Duck of Mars Hill, long-time family physician in Madison County, and Dr. Sigsbee Duck, his son who was recently graduated from the Medical School of East Carolina University. Accepting the slide series, which will be housed in the new media center, was Dr. Fred Bentley, president of the col lege, who hailed the gift as a significant addition to the college s teaching facilities The slides, published by the medical education division of the CIBA-Geugy Corporation, contain meticulous color drawings of every part of the human body. The drawings, which were done by a medical doctor, are accompanied by appropriate captions, explaining the part shown and/or the treatment being illustrated. They are intended for use in illustrated lectures on human anatomy and physiology and similar scientific discussions. In making their gift, the two doctors expressed appreciation for the ex cellent education they had received as undergraduates at Mars Hill. In May, Dr. Otis Duck and his wife Betty made a similar gift to the Biology Department of the college in the form of nine bound volumes of the drawings in the CIBA Collection; thus, the college has essentially the same material in two different forms for the use of facul ty and students studying the human body, diseases, injuries, and other facets of human health. According to CIBA-Geigy records. Mars Hill is one of only three colleges and universities in the state with com plete sets of the medical drawings "It is a great boon to our academic program," said Dr. Bentley, to have this marvelous series; our faculty members and students will benefit from them for many years. The two gifts reflect the peat interest which the Duck family has in Mars Hill College We are deeply grateful to Otis and Bet ty and to Sigsbee for their thoughtful ness and generosity." Ball, Powell And Willis Become Delegates 11th District GOP Elects Officers HAYESVILLE - Some 380 delegates attend ed the bi-annual 11th District Republican Conven tion on Saturday at Hayes ville High School. Re-elected to two-year terms were district of ficers Harold P. Corbin of Macon County, chair Phyllis Foxx of Jackson County, vice chair Gladys Miller of Macon County secretary; Walter Carriker of Buncombe County Doug Huntley of County, Larry Justus of Henderson Bil Powell of Madison County, Elsie Pyatt of McDowoU County, Curtis Ratcliff of Bun :omt>e County, O rUle C ward Jr of Jack mi Ci "Oly ? rdl r of Mk O'N.,1 Pn* Coumy, W U.S.
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