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Record SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNT 82nd Year No. 40 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHAL MADISON COUNTY LI3RARY GENERAL DELIVERY MARSHALL NC 23753 15? Per Copy County Towns To Receive Street Funds Madison County towns will receive 164,239.47 in funds to provide for local street repairs according to an announce ment made by N.C. Secretary of Transportation William R. Roberson The funds for the ;ocal improvements are located from Powell Bill .^nds. According to the announce ment made for Oct. 1, Mars Hit) will receive $32,084.72 for street improvements. Mar shall will receive |1C, 397. 77 and Hot Springs will receive an allocation of $15,757.96. Roberson said that 463 cities and, towns across the state will receive the $43.2 million rais ed by a portion of the state tax on gasoline. Weaverville will receive $31,776.65 in Powell Bill fun ding. The amount of funding each town and city receives is bas ed on population and the number of miles of local streets within the town limits. One and three eights cents of the tax on each gallon of motor fuel paid by North Carolina motorists is distributed to local towns through the Powell Bill fund. Collections Increase The office of Ihe Madison , County Tax Collector took in $233,871 in taxes during the month of Sept. according to county finance officer David Caldwell. News of the increas ed collections was made at the October meeting of the Madison County Board of Commissioners. Caldwell reported that Harold Wallin had collected $152,927 in 1963 taxes with the remainder be ing back taxes and interest and penalties The commissioners also heard a report from Ed Mor ton of the county health department concerning the operations at the county animal shelter. Morton com mended Carl Ed Murray on , his handling of the pound and J reported that more than IS ' stray animals have beed adopted since the shelter was reopened in Sept. The commissioenrs approv ed a $4,000 contract for management services with the Land of the Sky Regional Council and appointed Mrs. Louie Zimmerman to serve on the Regional Council on Ag ing. The board also approved the purchase of a Ford pickup truck to be used by Murray in his duies as the county animal warden. The truck will be pur-' chased from Pioneer Ford in Marshal] for $6,493.72. Volunteers To Be Honored Saturday Outstanding volunteers in 37 Western North Carolina coun ties will be honored Saturday in the second of three Gover nor's Statewide Volunteer Awards Ceremonies being held this fall. \ The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. on Oct. 22, at the First Baptist Church in Asheville. Awards are being given in 10 categories to Madison County residents They are: Nancy Anderson. Individual Human Service Volunteer; Patsy Plemmons and Thelma Ponder, In dividual Community Volunteer Leader; Lawrence Cutshaw, Ad ministrator/Coordinator of Volunteers; Kimberly Willis, Youth Volunteer; Julia M. Young, Senior Citizen Volunteer; Lucretia Griffin, School Volunteer; Clate Grindstaff, One-On-One Volunteer; Vanda Cook, ac cepting for the Laurel Fire Department, in the communi ty Volunteer Organization category; Rev. George A. Moore, accepting for Glory Ridge, in the Chur ch/Religious Volunteer Group category; and Charles Tolley, accepting for the French Broad Electric Membership Corporation, in the Business/ Industry Volunteer Involvement category. Each award winner will receive a certificate and a special volunteer pin bearing the Volunteer North Carolina logo and the date. Gov. Jim Hunt, considers volunteerism one of North Carolina's greatest strengths. "Volunteers give more than 000 million hours of their time each year to do important things like helping a child learn to read, comforting the sick and feeding the hungry. They deserve all the recogni tion we can give them," said Hunt. MARS HILL FATHER and daughter team, Ron and Beth Kiser recently coordinated the muzzleloading shoot at the Lunstord Festival at Mars Hill College. They each hold rifles made by Philip H. Grose, Riser's great-grandfather, who was the principal Rutherford County rifle maker during the Civil War period. The bear was killed by Beth's grandfather. Olen Shepard Of Burnsville (Photo by John Campbell) SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT DEPUTIES Clayton Grindstaff, left, and Jasper Treadway stand with some of the 21 marijuana plants confiscated Oct. 10 during a raid on Long Branch Rd. in the Big Laurel section. The deputies arrested Harold Chandler in con nection with the illegal drug. Chandler has been charged with manufacturing a controlled substance. Mark Cody Named Outstanding Young Tobacco Farmer Mark A. Cody, of Rt. 6, Mar shall, was recognized in Raleigh recently as a regional winner and setnifinalisl in the Outstanding Young Tobacco Farmer awards program. Cody, 34, was one ol 12 Tar Heel tobacco growers honored at a luncheon at the North Carolina State University campus The Madison County farmer will be eligible to receive the state outstanding grower award, which will t* announced in November The awards program is designed to recognize excep tional achievements in t?' co production and eomr :ured and ucing s . U.S.A. L?- ? 5 agricultural programs lor Philip Morris, and Dr. Chester Black, director ot the N.C. Agricultural Extension Ser vice. Madison County extension agent Wiley Duvall was also recognized. A producer ot trellis tomatoes, Christmas trees, tree seedlings and ornamen tals in addition to tobacco, Cody started growing tobacco on his lather's larm In 1975. He is active in church and larm-related organizations in cluding service as a director on the NCSli Agricultural F oundation, and as a member tit th< Burle) Tobacco Association and the Scnool Bd. Adopts Revised Calendar The Madison County Board of Education approved a revised school calendar at their monthly meeting held on Oct. 5. The revised calendar will also be used by the school system's food service. The board also approved a $3,000 for the school music program. The allocation will keep the program running through the middle of the school year. The board also approved a lease agreement with the county commissioner to operate a senior citizen's meal site at the Spring Creek School. The Board also appointed Fenny Tweed to serve as the Community Schools Coor dinator and approved the hir ing of Susan Kiser as a com puter science techer lor the county's seventh and eighth grades. Mars Hill I Woman Is Charged A Mars Hill woman has been charged with manslaughter in connection with an August traffic accident on U.S. 19-23 that killed an Asheville woman. Sandra Lou Peterson of Mars Hill appeared in Madison County District Court i Friday to answer the charges . District Court Judge Phillip Ginn scheduled a probable cause hearing for Oct. 20 in the case. Judge Ginn also ordered in voluntary commitment for Bob Roberts, charged with felonious assault and com municating threats. John Junior Randall, charg ed with second offense Dill, il legal transportation and delaying and obstructing an officer, entered a guilty plea to the Dill charge in exchange for a dismissal of the other charges. The court sentenced Randall to six months in jail MADISON COUNTY SCHOOLS l<Mt3-l#H4 SCHOOL CALENDAR REVISED October 21, 1983 ? Teacher Work Day November 8, 1983 ? End ol third Month and Second Six Weeks November 11, 1983 ? Veterans Day ? Teacher Work Day November 23, 1983 ? Schools Dismiss at 1:30 P.M. tor Thanksgiving Holidays November 24, 1983 ? Thanksgiving Holiday November 25, 1983 ? Thanksgiving Holiday December 9, 1983 ? End of F ourth School Month December 20, 1983 ? Schools dismiss lor Christmas Holidays at 1:30 P.M. December 21, 1983 ? Annual Leave Day December 22, 1983 ? Christmas Holiday December 23, 1983 - Christmas Holiday December 26, 1983 - Annual Leave Day December 27, 1963 ? Annual Leave Day December 28. 1963 ? Annual Leave Day December 29, 1983 ? Annual Leave Day December 30, 1983 ? Holiday ? New Year's January 2, 1984 ? Schools Reopen January 4, 1984 ? End ot Third Six Weeks and 1st Semester January 6, 1984 ? Teacher Work Day January 19, 1984 ? End ot Filth School Month February 16, 1984 ? End of Sixth School Month atid Fourth six Weeks Grading Period March 8, 1984 ? End of Third Quarter March 15, 1984 ? End ol Seventh School Month March 29, 1984 ? End ol Seventh Six Weeks April 12, 1964 ? End of Eighth School Month April 16, 1984 ? Annual Leave Day April 17, 1964 ? Annual Leave Day April 18, 1984 ? Annual Leave Day April 19, 1964 ? Holiday ? (In lieu of Memorial Day) April 20, 1984 ? Holiday ? Easter May 16, 1984 ? 179th Day lor Students May 17, 1984 ? Teacher Work Day May 18, 1964 ? End ot Ninth School Month ? 180th Day ? Last Day for Students May 21. 1984 ? Teacher Work Day May 22-29, 1964 ? Teacher Work Days May 28-29, 1964 ? Teacher Work Days May 30-31, 1964 ? Teacher Work Days June 1, 1984 ? 1/2 Day Teacher Work Day, 1 ^ Day An nual Leave June 4, 1984 ? Annual Leave Day and fined him $150 and court C06ts. The court suspended all but five days of the jail sentence and ordered Randall to surrender his driver's license. The court issued a prayer for judgment on behalf of Richard Seldon Sawyer, con victed of DLI. Sentencing in the case was deferred for six months. DDI charges against Eldon Thomas Ogle were continued until the Oct. 20 session of court. Gene Wayne Clark failed to appear to answer Dill charges and an arrest warrant was issued. A warrant was also issued for Ricky Dennis Honeycutt who failed to ap pear to answer charges of driving while license revoked. DUI charges against Ronnie William Moss were continued until the Nov. 16 session of District Court. Cletus Waldroup entered a guilty plea to charges of trespassing and received a 30-day suspended sentence. Waldroup was ordered to serve a 24-hour active sentence and pay court costs. The court also dismissed trespassing charges against Billy Willingham A probable cause hearing (Continued on Page 6) Stewart Enters Campaign - ? ? ? Carl J. Stewart, Jr., former two-term Speaker of the North Carolina House of Represen tatives. announced this week that he is a candidate for the 1964 Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. Stewart was the first two term Speaker of the House in more than 100 years. He created the first Select Com mittee on Governmental Ethics and the first Standing Committee on the Problems of Aging. During this time Stewart was voted the most ef fective leader in state govern ment by the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research for four consecutive years. He currently chairs the Women's Economic Task Force and is a member of the Council on the Status of Women. He is ate' of the North Humanities jger met with s por-rs is shown here con Jon Bishop his campaii i County
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