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Record SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUN"P? 81st Year No. 26 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C. MAD r SON COUNTY I T-B'RARY 15c Per Copy mtTKiCO A l nr i R P U B 'N Board of Commissioners Sheriff District Judge <0 CL a * t. * I 1 I u V > 53 as N. Marshall Ho Sta 10 3* S. Marshall IS 2/ 2 n 17 2* Laurel IS )S II ?K, 1 3 // 2* Mars Hill 57 .22 S3 2? 7J Beech Glen 3*? * 37 3? it Walnut 31 33 33 30 Hot Springs 5/ /? /* as\ Ebbs Chapel 33 IS 32 Spring Creek /r /* Sandy Mush Grapevine Absentee TOTALS (Unofficial) // 20 If 2S\ % 23 309 305] Hi 3 01 \W) IIS 3SS M N D M E N fi>* T A&AjMSV S si ll 1! at < Is ot ? *s 1 1 It IS 6 5 v?J !! 51 N. Marshall /3i JHZ. ?t loo_ S. Marshall JO. 20 J?. UUL JJA. JJjL JL2JL Laurel ML 1A+ JLL si 31 ?W 33 _?L -w Mars Hill JML jM. JJE 124 AIL Ho wo Beech Glen JL 11. 21. 1* JUL ML lib Walnut J2 M V+ 37 3/ _23 3?. /oL Hot Springs MLL V JUL ?L l?L. AL xos Ebbs Chapel JL 2L ?L 1L 3l_ M i?_ JUL Spring Creek J? ILL I *6 ss 10<> sn _2&_ 1* Sandy Mush JLL ML 23 ji : JL A2 M Grapevine ? : &. 2L 1L Absentee -fiC 31 S n. IS HJL TOTAL FOR }!1 m n$-L szo\ TOTAL AGAINST isio <?>* <)30 !%*0 ' r~ ' i V r: rt r . ? ? ..^ MARSHALL .' PW7J53 Incumbents Easily Dominate Primary By NICHOLAS HANCOCK Editor Democratic incumbents fared well in Tuesday's primary election in Madison County with few serious challenges coming from other candidates within the party's ranks. Incumbent county commissioners, school board members and the current clerk of Superior Court easily garnered majority votes which will insure them a place on the ballot in the November general election. The only question regarding that insurance came in the commissioners' race where Robert G. Capps and Reese Steen, both of Mars Hill, trailed incumbent Ervin Adams by 50 and 158 votes, respectively Virginia Anderson of Hot Springs led the party's nomination in the commis sioners' contest with 1,632 votes. Cur rent commission chairman James T. Ledford of Mars Hill polled the second highest number of votes for one of the three available seats with 1,560. Adams received 1,289 votes. Capps. owner of Capps Funeral Home in Mars Hill, obtained 1,239 votes. Con tacted late Tuesday night. Capps said he had not made up his mind about call ing for a run-off election against Adams. "Right now, I don't know about a run off," Capps said. "I want to do some checking around before I decide if it would be wise to do that." Capps said he would announce his plans by Thursday or Friday concern ing the run-off. Carol M. Anderson, county super visor of elections, said candidates would have until noon Tuesday, July 6. to call for a run-off election Steen, a Mars Hill dentist and farmer, came in fifth behind Capps with 1,131 votes He said Tuesday night that he may consider calling for a run off "if my people say they want to have a go for it." "I have nothing to lose, and it might be in the best interest of the Democratic party," Steen said. Steen said he would be talking with his campaign workers and supporters in the next few days to find out their feelings about entering a run-off. In the District II school board race, incumbents Ed Gentry, Bobby Ponder and Floyd Wallin captured the nomina tion by out-polling newcomer Michael Allen of Marshall. Unofficial vote totals showed Gentry with 1,436 votes, Ponder with 1,299, and Wallin with 1,290. Allen's votes totaled 853 with his strongest sup port coming from the Walnut and South Marshall precincts in which he carried margins over all three incumbents. Clerk of Court Jim Cody defeated challenger Loyd Fowler with 1,845 votes to Fowler's 1,050. Fowler carried only two precincts. South Marshall and Walnut. In the Uth District Congressional contest, James McClure Clarke of Fair view easily defeated John G. Kleibor 2,280 to 166 in the county. Clarke led by overwhelming margins in all 11 precincts. In spite of a local campaign to wrest the party nomination from incumbent State Senator Robert Swain, voters here gave Swain the lead in nine precincts and a total vote of 1,906. (Continued on Page 2) Republican Primary ^ Only a handful of the county's 3,000-plus Republican voters turn ed out Tuesday to nominate GOP candidates for three offices in the November general election. Ap proximately 13 percent voted to nominate candidates for three board of commissioners seats, a sheriff, and a district court judge for the 24th judicial district. Robert Phillips, Gary Sprinkle and Lester C. Wilde won the GOP nominations for board of commis sioners with Phillips receiving 308 votes; Sprinkle, 305; and Wilde, 301. Thomas S. West received a total of 127 votes. The winning trio led West in 10 of 11 precincts while West barely carried the Grapvine precinct with one vote over Phillips and Wilde, each. In the contest for the Republican sheriff nomination, former Marshall police chief Bill Lisenbee easily defeated Lue Allon Silver, a Grapevine resi dent, 267 to 115. Lisenbee led at all poles except in Silver's home precinct. Assistant District Attorney For rest F. Ball of Newland won the party nomination for district court judgeship by defeating John W. Seegers 355 to 33. Ball carried all precincts and the absentee ballot by substantial margins. Lisenbee will now face veteran incumbent Sheriff E.Y. Ponder and Ball will square off against Charles Philip Ginn in the November elections. Former Hot Springs Grocers Barred From Stamp Program Virginia Justice and Lin da Plemmons, formerly do ing business as Carolina Grocery in Hot Springs, have been barred from the food stamp program for a year because of violations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service reports. John Baskin, who is in charge of the Knoxville field office of the Food and Nutrition Service, said that Ms. Justice and Ms. Plem mons have recently sold the store and the new owners have been authoriz ed to accept food stamps. During the ownership of Ms. Justice and Ms. Plem mons, the store was charg ed with selling tobacco pro ducts, motor oil, health and beauty aids and other in eligible items for food coupons. Baskin said food stamps, by law, can be used only to buy food. The only excep tions, he said, are garden seed and plants to be used to produce food. ' ,V X ? Fire Tax Defeated ; By NICHOLAS HANCOCK Voters in the Spring Creek precinct turned down a West Madison fire district tax 166 to ? in Tuesday's primary election. The fire tax vote was put on the ballot is the Spring Greek Township alter residents petitioned the Madison Coun ty commissioners and the county elec tions board to hold a referendum. "I feel the people misunderstood the referendum," Fire Chief Stan McElrov ?? vm: ?p:. ?** . ? ,? /v.. ? valuation, "but some of the people I talked to tonight told me they thought it was going to be five to eight dollars on the hundred," he said. "I don't think it was a vote against the fire department , only a vote against funding it with tax money," he added. The West Madison Fire Department was organized one and half years ago and since that time has grown to in firemen, a truck and ?ther ? pmeat and construction on a Towns Gear Up For July 4th Celebrations All three Madison County municipalities will be the scene of July 4 celebrations this year with major ac tivities and events planned by organisa tions to be held Saturday, July S. For the second year in a row, Mar shall will be the location for a donkey softball game and a wild west rodeo, events sponsored by the Marshall Volunteer fire Department The donkey softball game will be held at the softball fietd on Blannanhassett l?wl h~,inn?? ?"nm PriltaV, JUl> Hi goat tying and buH riding. A fireworks display is scheduled for approximately 9 p.m. The Hot Springs Lions Club will spon sor most of the events scheduled in Hot Springs on Saturday which will begin at 11 a.m. and end alter a fireworks display scheduled for 9 p.m Hank Holmes, publicity director for the celebration, said Monday the dub will have roost of the same activities n - *-* A .. ? >.ii l i 1- -Jn f ,Mfl eeieDrauon. ACnvui^ im mat Uon will include two shows by a team of skydivers from the Northern Carolina School of Sport Parachuting of Greenaboro. The four jumpers will per form at 3 p.m and 7 p.m. The Lions Club will also raffle a live pig and a gas-powered weed eater dur ing the day. River raft rides will be sponsored by Caroline Wilderness Adventures !< MKi and viding hot dogs hamburgers " will be Bd Krauae, publicity director for the dub. Mid the event will feature music field and booth games, and a drawing for a steer, field games will begin at 3 p.m. and continue throughout the after noon Booth game*, will include a ball tou, basketball throw, dunking, cola i dart throw Music entertainment gospel and ?i Ml* m will
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