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Ki "News record 0 f}| COUNTY Lt?.PARY ^ rr j ^ ^"all0EL!VERYn- 5eople of madison county since 1901 """ Y?K N?. 4? PUBLISHED WEEKLY ,N THE COUNTy SEAT AT MARSHALL. ST WEDNESDAY. Oc.oMr ?, 19M 15' Per Copy - ? ? * ? : ' . * . * * *? . Hoffman Enters Mars Hill Race Jeanne Hoffmann filed for election as Mars Hill mayor last week. Mrs. Hoffmann will face incumbent Bill Powell in the Nov. 8 election. Hoffmann and Powell will be the only mayoral candidates in the non-partisan municipal elec tions. Dairy farmer Franklin Anderson of Mars Hill was the latest candidate to file in the Mars Hill aldermen election. Anderson filed with the Mars Hill town clerk on Wednesday. A lifelong resident of Mars Hill, Anderson operates a dairy farm on High School Rd. within the town's limits. Incumbent alderman Arthur Wood also fil ed for re-election last week. A Mars Hill College science instructor, Wood will be seeking JEANNE HOFFMAN eleciton to his fifteenth term on the Mars Hill board. Mrs. Hoffmann is the wife of Richard L. Hoffmann. She was formerly employed by the Madison County Board of Education. Current ly, Mrs. Hoffmann is the owner of the Baird House and is employed as a real estate agent by Town and Country Realty. Other candidates for the three aldermen seats are William E. Powell III, John L. Chandler and incumbents Dr. W.O. Duck. The third member of the board, Mars Hill fire chief Gordon Randolph, has announced that he will not seek re-election. ft'-: '? Wild, Niles Enter Race Several late entries in the November municipal ejection were received last week before Friday's filing deadline. Betty Wild of Marshall entered the town's mayoral race against incumbent Lawrence Ponder. Wild fil ed for the Nov. 8 election on Wednesday. On Friday, incumbent alderman James Penland and Ed Niles filed in the election for aldermen. Penland operates Edwards Cleaners in Marshall. Niles operates Roberts Pharmacy on Main Street. Wild operated the Marshall Recreation Center swimming pool last year. She is current ly employed by New Demensions, a Main Street video arcade. Wild and Ponder are the only candidates for mayor. Marshall voters will choose among incumbents John Dodson, Jackie Davis and James Penland and challengers Charles Sex ton, Ed Niles and Sammy Lunsford for seats on the three-member board of aldermen. Hie election is set for Nov. 8. Friday was the last day for candidates to file for inclusion on the ballot. Voter registration for the election closed Mondav. Court Postpones Trial For Meadow Fork Parents Charges against the parents of children attending a private school in the Meadow Pork section of Madison County were continued last week in District Court. The parents of the children were cited for violating the North Carolina Compulsory School Atten dance Law. Bruce Briggs, the attorney representing the parents, told the court that the school, operated by the Rev. Kyle Waite, had taken steps to qualify for certification as a private school. Larry Leake, the attorney for the Madison County Board of Education told the court that the school was not in com pliance with state regulation governing private schools at the time the citations were issued. Leake agreed that the private school has taken steps to comply, but that all the necessary conditions for cer tification have not been met. The school must be inspected by the Madison County Health Department in order to comp ly with state regulations. District Court Judge Robert H. Lacey ordered the case continued until the Dec. 21 ses sion of District Court. In other cases heard during Wednesday's session of court, the prosecution accepted dismissals in a charge of assault against Fred Tipton and a single charge of larceny against Glenn McGhee. Also dismissed were charges of manufacturing a controlled substance against Billy Ramsey. The court continued for Oct. 19 probable cause hearings, charges of manufacturing a controlled substance against 1 Dorothy Tibbetts Brown and John C. Brown. Also con tinued, for an Oct. 19 probable cause hearing, was a charge of arson against Sam Howard Hughes. Vardon Cody, charg ed with manufacturing a con trolled substance, waived a probable cause hearing. Douglas Presnell, charged with driving under the in fluence, driving while license permanently revoked and resisting arrest, entered a guilty plea to a charge of fishing without a license. In exchange for his plea, the pro secution agreed to drop the resisting arrest charge. The DUI charge was continued un til the Oct. 20 session. The court sentenced Presnell to a suspended 30-day sentence, fined him $50 and ordered him to serve six months supervis ed probabtion. He was also ordered to pay an additional $10 per month during his pro bation. The court found Yvonne Bryant guilty of a charge of shoplifting. Bryant received a suspended 10-day sentence and was ordered to serve si* months supervised probation and pay a $100 attorney fee for her court-appointed lawyer. The court also ordered her not to enter Ingles' Supermarkets without the prior written con sent of the store manager. The court dismissed charges of assault on a child against Donna Marie Shelton. Albert H. Rice, charged with driving with license revoked; James Allen Payne, charged with embezzlement and Kathy Howell Swann, charged with larceny failed to appear for their respective Donna Rice Is Named Teacher Of The Year Donna S. Rice has been selected as Madison County Teacher of the Year. Mrs. Rice is a first grade teacher at Marshall Primary School. Other nominees were Don nie Banks of Marshall Elementary School", Jamie Briggs of Mars Hill Elemen tary School; Wanda Capps of Walnut Elementary School; Isabel! Maynard of Spring Creek Elementary School; Rita Norton of Laurel Elemen tary School and Patsy Waldrop of Madison High School. Mrs. Rice is the daughter of the late Donald and Lela Stines of Marshall. She is mar ried to Ralph T. Rice, business instructor at Mayland Technical College in Spruce Hilectric Rates To Rise Carolina Power & Light Co. filed a wholesale rate increase with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Washington, D.C. on Sept 26. CPIiL asked that the FERC allow the increase to take ef fect on November 26. CPAL is seeking to raise overall rates by up to 24 percent for the 18 cooperatives it serves. The impact ol the rate increase will vary on a percentage basis from one co-op to another. Charles Tolley of the French Broad EMC has announced that, Frtnch Broad BMC will oppose the increase before the FERC. Co-op officials will fight to have the increase dismissed or reduced and will also seek a five-month suspen sion of the rate increase. "I regret to have to notify you of this increase," said Co op Manager Charles Tolley, "but we have no control over CPfcL's costs. As soon as it is determined how this increase will affect FBEMC, we will notify the members how much our rates will have to in crease," he said. Tolley told The News Record on Monday that he ex- . pects the FERC to approve at least the first phase of the pro posed rate increase. The exact amount of the increase FBEMC will have to pay has not yet been announced. The co-op manager said that rate increases for the co-op's customers would probably not take effect before the first of next year. BYARD RAY entertained crowds at this past weekend's Bascomb Lunsford Festival at Mars Hill College. Marshall Youngsters Collect 31,000 Empty Cans MARSHALL ELEMENTARY School students stand with some of the 31,000 cans they've col lected. CPR Makes Cathy Fowler A Lifesaver 1 Cathy Fowler of Big Pine knows first-hand why it is important to take the kind of C.P.R. (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) course of fered beginning Thursday at the Walnut Marshall Medical Center. Last Spring, Cathy came home from the last class of a Red Cross C.P.R. course and was called, that same afternoon, to save a life. Driving over to take supper to her husband, Nicky, who was wotting late on a car, Cathy met Bev Roberts, who was running to get help for his brother, Bill i When Cathy found BUI Roberts already Mitt, n?: Do help. He had not studied C.P.R. but Cathy was able to tell him what to do to take over the breathing while she concentrated on the cir culation. After 20 minutes, Bill Roberts began to breathe in fits and starts. By the time the am bulance arrived, he was breathing sporadical ly "I'm so proud of you, Mama," said Cathy's little girl, Kylie, who sensed her mother had done something hard and good. When you have been able to save a life, you feel so good about it, Cathy says. Marshall Elementary School students conducted a clean-up campaign recently. Before they were through, the children had collected more than aluminum cans in what became a heated competition between classes. Besides collecting all those cam, the schoolchildren also collected the White Glove award from Quality Forward, an Asheville-based communi ty improvement organisation. Hie Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. of Asheville presented the children with T-shirts and the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Asheville has agreed to pur chase the recyclable cans for 43 cents per pound. Proceeds from the sale of
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