The News Ri
MADISON
COUNTY LIBRARY
GENERAL DELIVERY
MARSHALL NC 28753
SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1901
?2nd Year No. 21 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N C. WEDNESDAY. May 25. IMS 15' Per Copy
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Special Graduation Day Edition
? f ' ' Four-Page Senior Salute Begins On Page 9
Patriot Pride Staff
Prepares Senior Salute
THE PATRIOT PRIDE STAFF poses for a pic
ture after completing work on special Senior
Salute. In front row, from left to right, are staff
members Lisa Shelton, Hell? Bailey, Julie
Allison, Cathy Pack, Karen Johnson, Laura
Broyhill and editor David Sprouse. In back row,
from left, are sponsor Cindy Himes and staff
members Cindy Buckner, Sheila Capps, Tam
my Treadway, Sandy Robinson, Sandra
Hensley and Rebecca Edmonds. * t
Marshall Woman Killed
In Sunday Shooting
Husband Charged With Murder
By ROBERT KOENIG
A Madison County woman was killed Sunday
morning by a single gunshot wound to the head.
The victim's husband has been arrested and
charged with murder in connection with the
shooting.
Betty Dillard Gosnell, 38, died after being
shot above the left eye in the early morning
hours of May 22. The victim's husband, Clayton
Gosnell, 33 of Marshall was apprehended short
ly after the incident at his mother's home out
side Marshall.
According to Madison County Sheriff E.Y.
Ponder, a report of a shooting at the home of
Angeline Dillard, the victim's mother, was
received at 2:11 a.m. Ponder and deputy Frank
Ogle and a unit of the Madison County
Emergency Medical Service arrived at the
home at 2:25 a.m. and found the victim ap
parently dead. The Madison County EMS took
the body to the Bowman Funeral Home in Mar
shal). An autopsy revealed that she died from
massive cerebral hemorrhaging caused by the
.32 caliber bullet.
Less than an hour later, Ponder arrested the
victim's husband at his mother's home near
Marshall. Gosnell surrendered to police without
incident and was taken to the Madison County
jail where he remained Tuesday. A hearing to
set bond was scheduled for Tuesday in District
Court before Judge Phillip Ginn.
Ponder reported he recovered a .32 caliber
handgun, believed to be the murder weapon,
from a handbag found in the back seat of a car
owned by Gosnell's mother.
There were three people inside the home at
the time of the shooting besides the victim.
Sheriff Ponder reported that the victim's
mother, Angeline Dillard, and Mr. and Mrs.
Luther Hollifield of Burnsville were in the home
when the shooting took place. Although Mrs.
Gosnell died from the single gunshot wound,
police inviestigation of the scene uncovered
several spent cartridges.
Funeral services for Mrs. Gosnell were held
Tuesday in the Hopewell Baptist Church. The
Revs. Ralph McDevitt and Lonnie Crawford of
ficiated. Burial was conducted in the Norton
family cemetery. She is survived by two
children, her parents and three half-brothers
and five half-sisters.
New Businesses Are Blooming In Marshall
Five new businesses on
Main Street are now open, the
Rock Cafe has reopened under
new management, and a
tourist home in back of Main
Street has reopened ? all
amid signs of growing
economic health inW Mar
shall business district.
The new businesses are:
Rob Amberg and his wife
Laura Ball have opened Main
Street Studios, on the third
floor of the building where at
torney Richard G. Milder
hangs his shingle. Rob does
photography and Laura
specializes in fabric design.
A landmark in downtown
Marshall, the Rock Cafe, has
reopened under the manage
ment of Randy Graves, his
wife Greta and his
Mike Lusk. with a menu rang
bread and beverage for 95
cents to "Kountry Style
Steak" for $3.60.
The new owners have
renamed the restaurant The
Kountry Kitchen.
Randy was formerly the
manager of Deer Park
Restaurant on the Biltmore
Estate for two years but said
he wanted a business of his
own and was attracted to Mar
shall by the "down-to-earth
and friendly people." All three
partners are from Leicester.
Randy says he sees a poten
tial in the Marshall area for
more tourists, attracted by the
river. The new owners have
remodelled the inside of the
Ro^k Cafe themselves and
have assembled a staff in
cluding Irene Worley as prep
cook and waitresses Debra
Anders and Lo??e Branam
All three partners are active
in the operations of the
restaurant, but Mike Lusk will
continue part-time to shoe
horses as part of his trade as a
farrier.
Pharmacist Cynthia Niles
has opened New Dimensions
in a store next to the drug
store that will handle records
and tapes formerly handled in
the drug store and have video
games as well.
The partners in Dodson's
Grocery are opening two new
businesses on the second floor
of the Dodson Building on
Main Street; a furniture store
to be operated by partner John
Dodson, and Cross-Stitch At
tic, being run by partner Doug
Dodson's 4rile. Linda.
Cynthia Niles reports she's
"all psyched up" about the
?downtowr^MarjjMiJ revival
wife
LINDA DODSON
works sh site in
because of the town lift plan,
worked out by a committee on
which she served. She plans to
have family nights at New
Dimensions when kids will get
discounts if they bring along a
parent, and fellowship nights
when local ministers will be
invited.
Young people in the Mar
shall area need more con
structive entertainment, says
Cynthia. Niles. who adds she
plans occasional live enter
tainment, says Cynthia Niles,
who adds she plans occasional
live entertainment at the new
place. "The kids have nothing
to do outside of school," she
says, and just "hang out and
drive around. They need a
place to get together and enjoy
themselves. " Bobby Ingle and
Betty Wilde, both of Marshall,
are in charge of the new place.
While John Dodson's fur
niture store is not yet fully
open, his sister-in-law's Cross
Stitch Attic has been open
since May 2 selling cross
stitch materials and all the
various articles that can be us
ed to decorate pillows, pic
tures, towel-holders, neckties
and more. Linda Dodson
reports the business has been
going really well, and "I am
really pleased." Even her two
young children are helping out
- from I p.m. they return
from day-care, until 6 p.m.
Rob.
Some of his pictures are in the
Southern Appalachian photo
archives at Mars Hill College.
Folklorists from as far away
as London collect Rob's pic
tures of old traditions, and he
also exhibits in galleries and
museums. An article in an up
coming issue of Carolina
Lifestyles magazine will in
clude his photos of Peter and
Polly Gott of Shelton Laurel.
But "I'm as interested in
what's new as in what's old,"
says Rob, adding that the kids
who enjoy the video games
downstairs interest him, too.
He has been taking some
publicity stills for the
Nashville TV Network of
Madison County musicians the
network plans to feature, such
as ballad singer, Delli Norton ;
fiddler, Tommy Hunter; and
fiddle and banjo player, Byard
Ray. Rob also hopes to give
photography classes at the
studio starting in the fall
Rob's wife, Laura, is from
the Ball family of Asheville ?
her grandfather, Ewart Ball,
has taken .pictures of his
native Madison County that
are in the University of N.C. at
Asheville archives. Her new
business is designing and
making cloth objects ? cur
rently some animals to be sold
at a new shop, Funny Farm
America, being opened by her
half-brother and his wife at
FZ.,
at the new
a personality
create a
to
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RANDY GRAVES and Mike Lusk stand out-,
side their newly opened restaurant in Mar
shall. . ik : l
has been selling her work at
fain. If the Funny Farm pro
ject turns out as expected,
Laura hopes to parcel out
some of the sewing to other
Madison County
Both partners in Main Street
Studios hope their new i
will be a
also thinking about showing
old films Rob aayt he feete be
and Laura are part of a
change in Madison County -
Bankers
Foresee
Slow
Recovery
Signs of a gradual economic
improvement are starting to
be seen in the Marshal] area,
with banks reporting growing
inquiries about home mor
tgages and with new
businesses starting up in town.
"We see evidence of things
picking up here is Marshall,
economic activity we haven't
seen before,'' said R Bryce
Hail of First Union National
Bank, adding, though, that the
pickup is slow and that "we
would hope it continues to be
gradual" so as to minimize
aqy inflationary effects
Hal Buckner of the
Wachovia Bank noted that the
area's economy had been hurt
by the withdrawal of the
American Greeting Card Go.
proposal for a new plant in the
area, but that ha now sees
some signs of a pickup ? the
effect* of the new road to
WeaverviHe, at least one local
plant rehiring people it had