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The News record SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY 81st Year No. 7 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C. THURSDAY, February J8, 1982 15C Per Copy Laurel VFD Organized Residents of Township 2, comprised of the Laurel communities, have laid the groundwork for establishing their own volunteer fire depart ment, according to Donna Jones, member, of the Laurel Volunteer Fire Department Steering Com mittee formed last week. Ms. Jones said 50 Laurel area residents show ed up at an organizational meeting at Laurel Elementary School to say they did want and need a fire department in the area. The steering committee was chosen to work on procedures for registering the Laurel VFD as a non-profit corporation with the state, she said. Members of the committee are Louie Zimmer man, Dennis Tweed, Jimmy Joe Shelton, John Derick Ray, Carl Shelton, Don Darrell and Ms. Jones. Donations totalling $1,100 in cash were col lected during the meeting, and an additional $570 was made in pledges. Approximately 25 persons signed up for train ing as volunteer firemen, Ms. Jones said. Train ing will begin Friday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. at Laurel Elementary School. The first phase of' training will include cardiopulmonary resusitation and First Aid. Myra Zeller will be in charge of this phase of training, Ms. Jones said. NC 2000 Kickoff Saturday The NC 2000 kickoff dinner and meeting will be held Saturday, Feb. 20 at Madison High School on US 25-70 in Marshall. Invitations to the dinner have been mailed to various county residents. The general session, open to the public, will begin at 7 p.m. Dr. Bobby Jean Rice, chairman of the county NC 2000 Steering Committee, invites all interested residents to attend the general meeting session. Four speakers have been lined up for the Kickoff Meeting, including Wayne McDevitt, director of the Governor's Western Office; Dr. Fred Bentley, Mars Hill College president and member of the N.C. 2000 state commission, who will speak on review of trends and forecasts; Ernest Messer, director of the Division on Aging, N.C. Department of Human Resources ; and Attorney Larry B. Leake, N.C. 2000 state commission member, who will speak on local leaders' role and local perspective on the issues. NC 2000 was initiated by Gov. Jim Hunt last June. Its purpoise is to prepare all North Carolinians to make wise decisions for the years ahead. The project will be carried out through a series of community and county meetings to build public aWareness of issues facing the counties and the state, a statewide ballot to determine citizen priorities for the future, and a state con ference this summer to ^develop , mended actions for the next 19 years. Participants in Saturday's meeting will be asked to join one of four topic groups ? People, Community, Economy or Natural Resources ? to discuss issues and recom mendations concerning these areas of statewide importance. EDUCATIONAL GRANTS ? Johnathan Shelton (center), a stu dent at Mars Hill Elementary School, receives a $200 educa tional grant made to the school from Optimist Chib President Photo by N. Hancock Tom Wallin (right). Mars Hill Principal Fred Anderson looks on during the presentation ceremony at which grants were made to all six of the county's elementary schools. Six Schools Receive Optimist Club Grants elementary . night at a special [fiwtiHw ceremony in Marshall The ?aoo granU are to be us ed "tor '"fit o< the rn ttra itoden it -ach m all o *1 r\ ? i i j ? in t ?! SC.' 1 ' p TMR Wallin said in | 1 . Interna in the working with vroith This vear'l contest wiU be heM at Marshall Elemen tary School on Thursday It Ponder Named To , Elections Z. Herbert Ponder Jr. has been appointed to the Madison County Board of Elections. He replaces John A. Hensley who resigned from the board to file his candidacy for county sheriff. Hensley later withdraw his name from the sheriff's contest. Alex Brock, director of the state board of elections, told The News Record last week that Ponder had been ap pointed to the local board. Ponder was nominated for the position by state Democratic J Party Chairman Russell Walker, Brock said. The nominating process 1 began at the Feb. l meeting of the Madison County Democratic Party Executive Committee when county chairman Zeno H. Ponder sub mitted the names of Herbert Ponder and Paula Rice as nominees to be considered by ] the state board. Board Herbert Ponder, 36, is | H BURLEY DAY ? Madison County burley grower Doyle Cody (left) talks with Wiley DuVall, Agricultural Extension Service Photo by N. Hancock agent, during a break at the annual Burley Day activities in Asheville. Burley Growers Told To Look Ahead ; Take Worldwide View By NICHOLAS HANCOCK t ^ E4K?r ASHEVft-KE ? Foresight ana preparedness were the watchwords handed to western Norfti Carolina burley tobacco growers in Asheville last Wednesday at the annual Burley Day meeting, held at the Great Smokies Hilton. Nearly 400 growers attended Burley Day activities sponsored by the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Ser vice and the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service of North Carolina State University, Raleigh. "Western North Carolina burley pro Jucers have tremendous potential in production that is not being realized," Arnold R. Mitchem told tobacco farmers. Mitchem, agricultural research and development coordinator for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., said United States burley producers must take a long-range, global view of production and shouldn't look at just single grow ing seasons and dollars per pound figures when thinking about their crops. "WE NpED l.ONCi-RAMlE plann ing What is production going to be (ike five years from now?" he said. Domestic burley production has im proved, "but is still serious," Mitchem said. And. he noted that the U.S. pro duced 51 percent of 1.4 billion pounds produced worldwide in 1961. He said foreign burley production decreased in 1981. but it has shown a steady overall increase from 1976 through last year. In the five year period. Africa showed a 75 percent in crease in both production and quality. Western European production was up 30 percent, and Central America show ed a 36 percent gain. Mitchem said use of burley as "bright" leaf in tobacco blends has in creased to 85 percent, but domestic burley consumption is down because of imports. He said buyers are looking at foreign burley which has the same quality of domestic leaf, but costs 50 to 60 cents less per pound. He stressed the importance of in creasing the quality of domestic pro ducts in the next five years NUMEROUS MADISON <WMV growers were present to hear Roy Am nions, director of the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina, com ment on the growers' association. Wiley DuVall, county Agricultural Extension agent, served as moderator for the morning portion of the program. Other program participants included Dr. Paul B. Shoemaker, Extension Specialist and professor of plan) pathology at NCSU: D.G. Harwood. assistant director. Agricultural Exten sion Service, NCSU; Kenneth K. Reeves, associate Agricultural Exten sion agent. Buncombe County: Dr. David Burnette, Western District Chairman, AES; NT. Plemmons, burley producer. Buncombe County: Dr. Sterling Southern, assistant pro fessor of entomology, NCSU: and Robert L. Davis, Extension Spexialisl crop science, NCSU. Second Man Sentenced In Hot Springs Wachovia Robbery A second member of the trio charged with robbing the Hot Springs branch of Wachovia Bank last summer has been sentenced to 25 to 30 years in prison. Judge C. Walter Allen sentenced David W. Jones, 18, to the prison term during Madison County Superior Court last week for his part in the robbery of some $50,000. Spencer Dale Allison, 44, was sentenced in October 1M1 to SO to 60 years in prison on robbery-kidnapping charges stemming from the event. CHARLES WILLIAMS. 18, awaits trial in the Madison County Jail. Both Jones and Williams are from La Belle, Fla. Allison, a Madison Coun ty native, had been living in Moore Haven, Fla. The three men were also charged with kidnapping a customer and three bank employees, but one charge of conspiracy to commit robbery and four charges of kidnapp- < ing were dropped in exchange for a guilty plea on the charge * of robbery with a dangerous weapon. During Jones' trial Deputy i Hubert Norton testified thft he recognized Allison when the trio pulled up at the Wachovia Bank ft Trust Co. branch office in Hot Springs on June 15 in Allison's silver 1*1 Dodge Ram pickup truck. Clarke For Congress Office Opens j James McClure Clarke, Democratic contender for the Ilth Congressional District House seat now held by Republican Bill Hendon. open ed his stecttQB committee of fice Monday in Asheville The Clarke for Congress of , 'V? . fice is located in Room in of the Parkway Office Building just west of Beaucatcher Tun nel at the corner of Charlotte Street and Interstate 240. A spokesman for Clarke said the office will serve as a -On The Inside Tarheel Basketball Fans Are Devoted Above And V*"s k Beyond The Call Of Duty. See Tim Morrissey's Account Of Carotin* ?mt On P.?e 3. corryr distri center and i int for the i Clarke for Congress commit tee. "We woukl like to remind the public that this is not a 1 campaign headquarters We i will open a campaign bead- i quarters following the I primary eiecUsns," John B. fisher, campaign treasurer for Clark* Norton said Ails ton waited at the pickup while Jones and a third man want inside. He said there was ? bulge under Jones' coat, and he speculated that it was the gun used in the robbery. THREE BANK K Ml'l OYEES and a customer were held at gunpoint during the robbery. TTje four victims were locked in tit* bank vault when the robbers left, in vestigators said Norton said he watched as the two men, carrying pi? He garbage bags, climbed Allison's truck
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