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COUNTY LIBRARY GENERAL DEL I VfcRy MAI) I Son The News ktcoK>j SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY 81st Year No. 28 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N C. WEDNESDAY, July 14, 1982 15c Per Copy Town Share Would Be $600,000 j Marshall Plans Sewer Bond Vole By JON ROSENBLUM Marshall residents will have a chance to decide the late of their troubled sewer system in a $800,000 bond referendum August 26, the town council has decided. The town recently learned it has received promises of more than 1700,000 in grants from federal and state sources for replacement of S I existing pipes, addition of new lines and renovation of the treatment plant provided the town's residents ap prove the bond issue. The total construction is estimated at about $1.2 million. The council voted to have the referendum in a special meeting July 2. Marshall mayor Lawrence Ponder calls the bond issue "all important," and said it has been eight years in the making. He said that besides replacing all existing sewer lines, service would be extended to localities in Rollins, Cotton Mill Hill, behind Bfenoerhassett Island and in Paul Worley Hollows. A public hearing will be held at town hall to inform voters about the system and bond issue on July 29 Cnmrsday) at 7 :30 p.m. A bond issue is a means of acquiring funds through the sale of bonds which yield interest for the buyer. The town already has a guarantee from the Federal Farmers Home Administration that it would purchase $496,000 of the bonds, which would be financed at an interest rate f ; - below the market rate. In what the town's consultants, Butler Associates of Asheville, call "creative financing," the town has solicited and received grants from FHA (1275,000), the Appalachian Regionl Commission ($200,000) and the state ($289,000) for the project. Typically, towns apply for money (Continued on Page 2) WILEY DUVALL, a county Agricultural Extension Service agent, has been helping Madison County farmers keep their tobacco healthy for 17 years. Here he inspects side plants at the Mars Hill farm of Doyle Cody. DuVall often travels more than 100 miles per day answering calls from troubled farmers. Innovative Marshall Primary School Ready For Opening By JON ROSENBLUM I Between 200 and 238 Mar shall and Walnut School 1 students in grades K-3 will bid farewell to Blennerbassett Island when classes begin Aug. 11 and enter the striking new environment of M?n?h?ii Primary, a $.5 million facility recently completed next to Madison County High School. Under the split Marshall Walnut District, Marshall students will have a choice of attending the new school or r Walnut School, while Walnut students may stay or select the new school, according to Superintendent Robert Ed wards. Although none of the students is old enough to recall the flood of Nov. 5-6, 1877 which did more than $300,000 to the old school, they're the first direct benefactors of it. More than $250,000 in federal relief funds, and the remainder in state and local money was used to build the new school. It features a passive solar design; sharp, modern ar chitecture; and open classrooms which will allow teachers more flexibility in their teaching methods. The infamous flood hit on a weekend putting the top steps of the main Marshall School building as well as its basement under French Broad waters. The one-story K-3 building received the heaviest damage, with desks and tables overturned by burning waters. Nancy Allen, who, at age 29, grill become the youngest principal in the Madison County system when she takes over the new school, remembers "getting my feet wet" when she arrived at Marshall after the flood. Last week a reporter found tier at the new school shutting off faucets so bad memories weren't revived. "They're going to turn the water on here," she explained with a moil#.. Mrs. Allen gave a tour of the building, which is split into eight classrooms ? four on each side ? a media center and a central office. Everything from the furniture to the intercom system it spanking new, and each classroom has its own toilet. ] Mrs. Allen said she's "real i excited and can't wait to get it ! (school) open." She was I named principal at school board meeting July 2. Walls for book cases, and supplies storage are the only i dividers between the classrooms and hallways; doors are limited to exits, entrances and the principal's office. "The people in higher education were consulted" on the classroom design, Ed wards said, and "you can use team teaching in this situation, block teaching... It had many advantages." Edwards said the school is a good alternative to a com pletely new K-8 facility tbe system had hoped for before a $2.5 million bond referendum narrowly failed to get the approval of Madison County voters in 1978. "I think the educational opportunity is in a better surrounding, more safe and more sanitary. It certainly creates a different en vironment from which the children have been in." Of it* new principal, Mrs. Allen, who won the school system's teacher of the year award for 1961, Edwards said, "she understands the system, she's well qualified and I'm looking forward to working with her." Mrs. Allen taught seven years in the K-3 levels at Marshall. Edwards said the last furniture will be arriving at the school "right away" and landscaping crews are completing the seeding of the school's front lawn. He said Mrs. Allen will have the choice of having playground equipment at the school. Marshall Primary has mistakenly been tabbed "Marshall-Walnut" became the school system intended to consolidate the district with a new school by that name until the bond referendum failed, Edwards said. With 'Doctor' DuVall, Prognosis Is Good For Healthy Tobacco By JON ROSENBLUM He's not an M.D. And, judging from the toil often covering his hands, he's not the person you'd want to open wide and say "aaab" for. But for 2,000 Madison County tenners, Wiley DuVall is the doctor on call. His patients: tobacco plants ? Madison County gold. Fanners here harvested $13 million worth of hurley last season, the most in Mstory. DuVall, a county Agricultural Service agent, is 4L. CO me pj-year-osa by a combination of federal, state and county funding though he' i officially em ployed by N.C. State ft I Mi university. On Thursday, the county's largest grower, Doyle Cody of Man Iflll, noticed some of his plants were shrivelling up and drying. He called the doctor. Cody led DuVaD to the patients on a portion of his 43 acres of bur ley. His lament t was one DuVall bears < frequently: "They were green < and looking healthy, WUey, j then all of a sudden... Got any \ ideas]" DuVall studied the plants i for a moment and asked Cody < how much fertiliser he was i using. "That's about twice the I ammonium aitrate you I needed," he said, ;o Cody's disclosure. 'Something stopped that root ievelopment. A plant cant jrow without roots," he said iritha smile. Like a good doctor, he had mow tree advice to go with bis iiagnosis. "Get the plants reset Yon hare nothing to lose but the time it takes to pot Ion Page)) Rains Smile On Madison Crops The "potato soaker" S Madison County tobacco farmer Larry Green was hoping for last week finally arrived rountywide. BM1 . ? this moisture i a blue mold, bat then you've totto have moisture to fro*, oo," he said. ? but aaid "its a pretty good crop so far. I dont hardly think it'a as good as last year. It's potting out a little Wallin said there's bew "plenty" drain. "We had two NANCY ALJLEN, a new principal at a new school ? Marshall Primary ? is about ready to greet students at the K-3 facility, next to Madison County High School. The innovative structure features a passive solar design and door-less classrooms. Ponder: *6 Million Payroll Would Accompany Greeting Cards Plant Amrfcaa Qrwttng Corp. at ????land will announce "wry AocHy' plans for a 400,100 aquart foot pint Just
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