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COUNTY LlBRARv SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SIN^j^^^ Record madison TV county i.TRnAni, -*9 _ marshal 82nd Year No. 24 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C WEDNESDAY, June fi. 1983 $T? Per Copy t ?'???? - ? v in Uistrict Court Assault Cases Are Heard Two unrelated assault cases occupied most of the session of District Court held Friday in Marshall. Judge Phillip Ginn presided over a probable cause hearing involving felonious assault charges against Douglas Sawyer dur ing the morping session of court. The entire afternoon session was taken up with a case of simple assault involv ing Nickey L. Adams of Mars Hill. In the probable cause hear ing, the court heard testimony from several Sanford, N.C. residents who testified that Sawyer shot at their canoe while they were traveling down the French Broad River to Hot Springs. George and Zeta Fields of Sanford testified that Sawyer shot at them while they sat in their canoe near the Stackhouse community. Mrs. Fields was wearing a life preserver at the time of the incident, and it stopped a bullet from wounding her. She told the court she was stunned by the bullet which hit the jacket over her chest. After bearing testimony from the Fields and several other Sanford residents who were along on the canoe trip. Judge Ginn found probable cause for the felony charges and sent the case on to Superior Court for trial. Sawyer had waived counsel for the hearing. He sat at the defense table with his wife and daughter. During the afternoon ses sion, the court heard of an alleged assault last Nov. 10 outside Peabody's, a Bun combe County package store and bar on the county line. Both the prosecution and defense presented witnesses who told the court widely varying versions of the inci dent. Graylon Carlton of Weaver ville told the court he was assaulted by Nickey Adams of Mars Hill. Carlton, who is black, said Adams had follow ed him into the bathroom at the bar several times during the night of the incident. Carlton tokl the court that Adams had blown cigarette smoke in his face several times and told him, "I'm go- j ing to get you, nigger." Carlton said he was hit as he was leaving the bar and that Adams kicked him several times while taunting him. He said both Adams and his girlfriend, Susan Chapman of Mars Hill, had attacked him during the incident. The com plainant told the court he sus tained injuries to his teeth and tongue. Marshall attorney Steven Huff served as the prosecuting Continued on Page 2 Crop Insurance Deadline Set Sam Riddle, director of the Federal Crop Insurance Cor poration (FCIC) has announc ed that June 25 is the final planting date for insured tobacco in Madison County. "Acres of Type 31 Tobacco planted by June 25, insured by FCIC (or by a private com pany reinsured by FCIC), must be reported by July IS to receive full crop insurance coverage," says Riddle. i Acreage planted after June | 25 must also be reported on the < ?July 15 acreage report as be- < ing planted too late for in surance. "Farmers unable to plant prior to June 25 because of ex cess moisture conditions may sign a 90-day late planting agreement, which permits in surance coverage, but pro vides for a lower guarantee due to the late planting," Rid dle explained. Farmers wishing additional information about the new late planting agreement should Mxitact their local, authorized Top insurance agent. Photo by Boo Kocnig Illegal SHERIFF'S DEPT. deputies Tommy Rec ? tor, left, and Clayton Grinds taff carry por Bouauets tion of mariiuana cr?P discovered in Mon day's raid in the East Fork section. Walnut School Graduates WALNUT SCHOOL held gradua tion ceremonies recently to honor graduates of the eighth grade and the kindergarten class. The eighth grade graduates are: front row, from left to right, Jason Chandler, Darrell Sawyer, Scotty Waldroup, Troy McDevitt, David Russell, nhnln K\< Q?.W *-* * ? KOOTO DV t>oo KMntQ ushers Calina Baker and Tina Messer, Shane Treadway and Jackie Chandler. In the back row are Missy Snelson, Tammy Davis, Angie Bullman, Denise Chandler, Becky Thomas, Kim Price, An nette Ramsey, Tim Goldsmith, Wesley Bullman and Ricky Rice. East Fork Pot Raid Nets 89 Plants The Madison County Sheriff's Department con ducted a raid in the East Fork section late Monday afternoon searching for marijuana. Of ficers uncovered 89 young plants ranging in size from several inches to three feet. Deputies Frank Ogle, Tom my Rector, Clayton G^instaff and Jasper Treadway con ducted the search after the sheriff received information from a "reliable" source that the illegal crop was being grown on rented property. Sheriff E.Y . Ponder reported that the tenant, Junior Cutshaw, will be ar rested and charged with manufacturing marijuana for resale. Cutshaw remained at large Tuesday morning. No street value of the seized crop was available. The successful raid in East Fork followed an unsuccessful search of another farm in the Paint Fork section. Earlier last week, the Bun combe County Sheriff's Department reported seizing approximately 1,100 plants in a raid on a farm north of Weaverville. Fugitive Apprehended Sheriff E.Y. Ponder also reported that the department apprehended a fugitive wanted in eight states early Monday morning. Joe Russell Dill, also known by six aliases, was abducted by the sheriff at 3:30a.m. Monday in the Sandy Bottom section of the county. Ponder said that Dill faces at least 21 outstanding warrants on charges of car theft and writing worthless checks. Dill faces charges in North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten nessee, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas and Virginia. In North Carolina, Dill faces charges in Madison, Burke and Mecklenburg counties. He is charged with writing more than $27,000 in worthless checks. Dill remained in the Madison County jail Tuesday morning pending a bond hear ing. Gilmore Enters Race Former North Carolina state representative Tom Gilmore formally announced his candidacy for the Peinocra1tic rjpiniiyition , fop governor last wee* in anUd dress on the steps of the State Capitol in Raleigh. Gilmore served in the state House of Representatives from 1972 until 1978 when he resigned his seat to become the deputy secretary of the state Department of Human Resources. The former Guilford County legislator most recently headed a com mittee to defeat a proposed amendment that would have extended terms of General Assembly from two to four years. As part of Gilmore's plan to work at a variety of different jobs, the candidate will visit Madison County. on July 25. At the invitation of News Record editor Bob Koenig, Gilmore will sit in the editor's seat for a day. The cadidate's spokesman, Michele Reed, an nounced on Monday that Gilmore has accepted the in vitation. One Man 's Trash Is Another Man 's Treasure NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - Trash can be found just about everywhere ? and often in places where you'd least ex pect it. Most Americans live literal ly surrounded by materials made from recycled paper and cardboard. In the home, it's the gypsum board (or the iaside walls, tar paper, for the roof, and thick waxed paper board placed under hardwood floors so they won't squeak. In the car, it's the glove compartment panels and sttf ; lor the sun visors, door backs of the I seats - 50 to MO to# it For example, while only one family in four in a specific area admitted in Interviews to drinking beer at home, beer cans turned up in the refuse of three out of four. In America, our garbage by weight, it about 90 percent paper, 10 percent glass, 10 per cent metal, 6 percent plastics and no more than IS percent is food waste. United Nations officials estimate that in many Third World cities "1 to S percent of the population is supported. ..by refuse from the upper 10 to 20 percent." In converting trash to energy. The Refuse Energy Systems Company in Saugus, Mass., burns 1,200 tons of garbage a day in a giant boiler whose walls and ceiling are a tnaaa of steel tubes filled with water. The resulting steam is piped a mile away to fuel a General Electric plant. The affluent city of MdUn tain View, Calif., happily receives all of San Francisco's ' garbage - some 2,250 tons a day. "We're paid *3 32 a ton." saya the mayor; the filling of former floodplatn is Extending the city's desirable open Marshall Holds * ?????. JfcV - ' Bjif Bid Opening Mar open ed in an open hearing Friday in the Town Hall. The bid opening was the Mcood to be held in connection with the pro ject An earlier Wd opening failed te produce the necrwary three bidder* The la teat round attradtad thr?e contract*?. Bil Upaley, an engineer with Butler MeGill Asaociatea, the project', planners submitted the low bid for another contract in connection with the project, waa the only additional bidder in the second round of bids Before a contract caa be awarded forth bids muat be approved by the Farmers Home Ad tion the funding agency. A tativeof the] take several \ Mayor Lawrence Pander I ?aid that he hoped wort on th? much delayed project could begin sometime in July. t round of bidding -tol< that I: <3 TOM GILMORE
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