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News p*cord SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY <?%??* 82nd Year No. 38 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.L. NC 15* Per Copy NEIGHBOR Cosie Kay looks over stove and flue believed to have Photo by C. B Squire caused the Shelton Laurel fire. Fire Guts House In Shelton Laurel The home of the Robert Lee Cutshall family in Shelton Laurel near Carmen Church was gutted by fire Saturday afternoon. Cotshall is assis tant fire chief of the new Laurel Fire Company. Women of the fire company are taking up a collection for the family, which lost not only home but clothes and most of their belongings except the living room furniture. The Cutshalls were away from the house working in a tobacco field when Gary Johnson, a neighbor, spotted the fire, says Linda Franklin, secretary of the department. Mr. Johnson ran to the house and pulled out the living room furniture while a friend called the Marshall Fire Depart ment, which sends out the alarm over the Laurel com pany's radio beepers. The Laurel company, with one truck and 12 men and women, responded and believ ed the fire had been ex tinguished. when suddenly an explosion of fire in the upper story filled the house with flames. Linda Franklin said the fire was believed to have started in a flue of the family's wood stove, and that possibly a build up of gasses from the fire caused the sudden explo sion of flames. / The Marshall fire company also responded to the fire call, but by the time it arrived the house was largely gutted. By 6 p.m. the fire was out. Men of the Laurel company were able to help pull out the living room furniture, but the house burned completely ex cept for the brick shell. Mr. and Mrs. ?Cutshall and their daughter Linda Lee will be staying with Mrs. Cutshall's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nor man Shelton. Members of the community are planning a household shower for the family on Saturday, Oct. 8. Those who would like to know more about the shower or how to give to the collection for the family may call Linda Franklins at 656-2625 or Mary Gilbert at 656-2264 School Buses Exceed Bridge Weight Limits ... Ihnn ninfl Innc at By ELIZABETH SQIIKK While all of Madison County's school buses weigh about 11 or 12 tons loaded, five of the brides they cross to br ing children to school are posted as safe to carry no more than eight tons. Eleven other bridges the buses cross week after week are posted to carry no more than nine or ten tons. In all, 27 of these bus-carrying bridges are certified to carry less than the 15 tons that Robert Ed wards, Superintendent of Schools, says he would like (o Mitchell. McDowelFT HurSeJ Haywood and Yancey coun ties. Ponder called the meeting in Asheville to get recommendations for use of this money from the seven counties' Efficiency Commit tees: committees knowledgeable about school bus safety needs. Edwards is a member of Madison's com mittee, and has been collec ting data about the bridges The frailest bridges, posted for eight tons or less, are these: ? Two bridges on Big Laurel Creek, both on state read 1306. Bridge SM is 90 feet south of the junction with state road 1318, and bridge 381 is three-tenth miles south of that juncion. ? Little Laurel Creek bridge 3K1308-3K one-tenth mile wwt of the junction with NC2M. ? Walnut Creek's SKI 136-360, three-tenths mile northwest of the junction with 1138. ? I'.v oridge on stale road 1414 one-tenth mile west of the t' . ' . , (Continued on Page 10) Two Returned On Felony Charges The Madison County Sheriff's Department is bring ing William Langley back to Madison County from Chickamauga, Georgia, to face two felony charges. He is alleged to have taken orders to repair houses in a flim-flam scheme and then did not repair the houses. The department is also returning Melvin C. Piper Jr. from Harrisburg, Pa., on charges of theft of an automobile and two counts of first-degree burglary. The charges arise from a break-in at the home of Stella Whitson in Walnut and another at the home of Kobina Adams Bryant in which $1200 in cash, six guns, some tools, quilts and other items were stolen. The Sheriff's Department continues to investigate the murders of William 'Grady Gahagan and Bonnie Gahagan on July 28 The sheriff's men and the S. B. I. continue to look into the case from every possi ble angle, Sheriff fc. V . Ponder said this week. Marijuana Cases Continued In district court last week, Auvery Fender waived a probable-cause hearing on a charge of trafficking in mari juana and was bound over to Superior Court . Also bound over to Superior Court, on a charge of manufacturing marijuana, was Lionell Filiss, following a probable-cause hearing in district court. Probable-cause hearings on marijuana manufacturing charges are scheduled for Oct. 5 for Vandon Cody and Billy Kamsey, and for Oct. 6 for Kobbie Evans. ? , -"'33 Sewer Work 'Tough Job' With Mucn Blasting IN A DEEP, rocky hole, Mayor Lawrence Ponder of Marshall and Councilman James Penland point out the eight-inch sewer pipe that requires so much difficult digging and blasting close to houses. The sewer line for Walnut Creek Road requires 10 times more difficult digging than most jobs the com pany attempts, said 'a represen tative of Taylor and Murphy Con struction Company of Asheville, which is installing the line. Mayor Lawrence Fonder has received so many calls asking why the road from lower Marshall to the by-pass has to remain closed so long that he asked The News Record this week to take a pic ture of the huge rocks that have to be blasted out of the ground to make way for a new sewer line. The site of the line is so dif ficult to excavate that about 75 feet a day is hard to handle, while a flat field job would allow excavation of about 800 feet a day, says William Lapsley, engineer with Butler/McGill Associates who designed the system. Because the blasting has to be close lo I ouses such as that of Hubert Rector, ,who can watch it from his Iront porch, the work has to be done with extreme care, Lapsley said. (estimates put the end of this part of the job around Thanksgiving, and the finish of the entire sewer project around Christmas. Grant To Aid Hot Springs Sewer Work A $19,466 Community Development Block Grant Program award will enable Hot Springs to put the finishing touches on its sewer program. Mayor Debbie Ponder Baker told The News Kecord. The award, one of $48 million in the program an nounced by liov, James B. Hunt, will enable Hot Spring* to complete work on sewage facilities in the Silvermine section and along the river road to install septic tanks at houses that do not now have them. Work will also be completed on installation of septic tanks al two or three houses on Koute 209 that do not now have them. Mayor Baker said. Planners Map Goals For County Growth By B. HQUIKe. Madison County should seek a balance between population growth and economic develop ment "that would make it feasible for a Madison County citizen to remain in the coun ty, according to a 13-page report by the Madison County Planning Board. The report, a copy of which has been obtained by The News Record, has been sub mitted to the Madison County Board of Commissioners. It is entitled "Plans for the Future: 1983-1990," and deals with desired goals for economic development, agriculture, housing, county government, education, land water-air resources, recrea tion and heritage. In urging economic develop ment that "sustains regional values and traditions," the report cautions that "white modernization can do much to improve the quality of life and ease the burdens of daily ex istence, it also has the poten tial to destroy those aspects of the human spirit which make life in these mountains most meaningful." Development, therefore, should be the kind that "fosters and preserves the in tegrity of the family, the neighborhood, the church and our human and natural resources," the report adds. Cautioning that the post Depression "selling of the South" was accomplished through programs to balance agriculture with industry, the report warns, however, thai industrial development in counties such as Madison has often been at the expense of the traditional agricultural economy, bringing "major social dislocation, economic inequality and the deteriora tion of traditional community values.' This, says the report, "has Governor's Award Goes to Marshall Marshall has agained been named winner of the Gover nor's Community of Ex cellence Award, to be presented to * local official at a statewide economic develop' ment conference in Raleigh on Oct IS by Gov James B Hunt. whose representatives visited Marshall to assure it met the standards Among the standards Mar shall had to meet to gain the award, the department said, were to have an economic pro organisation to pro community for plant an economic mons, of French Broad EMC who helped draw up the award application for the town "With our industrial park niMlaBj completed, with the road development we now have, and with watar and aewar inprovements here in town," said Mayor Ponder, "we're much mare com ? trying to recrvit in added that Aw. means of L often left local residents worse off than they were before." Thus, the report emphasizes, "If we are to preserve the culture and quality of life" in Madison County, "we must plan for a dominant role for agriculture in the economic development of the county." And, the report adds, "let there be no mistake that wherever industry has taken a foothold as the major develop ment focus, agriculture has quickly disappeared as a significant enterprise." Promotion of agriculture as a form of economic develop ment. the report suggests, "requires creative thinking and the cooperation of many elements of the community," noting that the type of agricultural development suited to flat country "may not be appropriate for moun tain farms." Specifically, the report calls for "alternative forms of pro duction and marketing" ot farm products; "development of new retail businesses," that support local agriculture, and at the same time promotion of "small, locally or regionally owned" industrial projects that "make use of local skills, markets or resources" but don't overshadow the rural agricultural economy. The report also emphasizes the development of retail businesses as a way to retain more sales-tax revenue in the county. "One of the most severe problems faced by rural counties located next to urban-industrial centers," the report warns "is the loss of retail business and tax revenues to ihe industrial core," especially in Madison County where 35% of the labor force is employed outside the county. Any alternative pro gram for economic develop ment, therefore, "must in clude efforts to encourage county residents to spend more of their incomes within their home county" and for "more, locally-based retail enterprises." As a factor in economic planning, tourism can play a role in Madison County, the report states, but "can pose major problems for a rural mountain county if not guided and controlled for (he benefit of all the citizens of the com munity." The planning group said (Continued on Page 10> Old Gulf Station Tearing-Down Work Starts With Roof - * ? ? . Work started U(?j last week partial demolttior of he former uui! static on fhe up p? -In Roberts Cleaners. The i-ruraMtaii mef id
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