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Iff suit News [ MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY GENERAL DELIVERY MARSHALL NC 2875; SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1901 82nd Year No. 45 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C WEDNESDAY, November 9, 1983 15* Per Copy Betty Wild Elected Mayor In Marshall Marshall voters elected Bet ty Wild mayor in Tuesday's municipal elections. Wild defeated incumbent mayor Lawrence Ponder by an unof ficial margin of 67 votes. An unofficial tally of the ballots showed that Wild received 258 votes while Ponder received 191. She will become Marshall's first woman mayor when she takes the oath of of fice in December. Ponder was seeking his third term as mayor. He had previously been defeated in his first cam paign for the office. More than 200 residents crowded the garage of Town Hall to witness the unofficial count of the ballots. Officials reported that 464 voters cast ballots in the municipal elec tion. Incumbent aldermen James Penland and Jackie Davis were also defeated in their re election bids. John Dodson was the only incumbent member of the board to win re-election. Former town employee Sammy Lunsford was the leading vote-getter in the tight race for th^ three seats on the town board. Lunsford receiv ed 244 votes. Dodson was re \ elected with 241 votes and retired pharmacist Ed Niles also won a seat on the board with 225 votes, edging out in cumbent James Penland by nine votes. Charlie Sexton received 209 votes and Jackie Davis receiv ed 173. After her victory was ap parent, Wild said, "The town of Marshall won today. Any time you can have 464 voters come out, it's a great thing. We can work together." The defeated incumbent congratulated his opponent and wished her success. Ponder said he was disturbed that non-residents were allow ed to vote during the municipal election, but said, "1 wish everyone the best. We've worked hard for the town and there's still a lot to be done." Ed Niles told reporters, "I just think it was a good race and a good election. Everyone did a wonderful job." Newly elected aldermen Sammy Lunsford thanked Charlie Sexton for his support during the campaign and said that he would work to have Sexton appointed to oversee the town's sewer system. Commissioners Question Agency Executive The Madison County Board of Commissioners held their regularly scheduled monthly meeting Friday night. The commissioners met with representatives of the Opportunity Corporation to discuss the program's opera tion in Madison County. The Opportunity Corporation is an agency assisting low-income residents of Madison and Bun combe counties. Opportunity Corporation ex ecutive director Lonnie Bur ton answered the commis sioners questions. The com missioners wanted to know why the Opportunity Corpora tion cannot provide transpor tation service for elderly Madison County residents who need rides to medical facilities. Burton told the com missioners that his agency could not provide such service because the county operates its own transportation assistance from the agency. Burton said, if the Madison County Transportation Authority refuses to provide the service. (Continued on Page 10) School Board Approves Bible Distribution The Madison County Board of Education gave permission to the Gideons to distribute Bibles to fifth grade students in the county's elementary schools. The action came dur ing last week's monthly board meeting, the Bibles will be given at no charge to students who . wish to receive them. Mike Allen came before the board to request permission to distribute the books in county The board alao approved the ' of a freeser to store The board also authorized superintendent Robert Ed wards to investigate the possibility of purchasing in surance to cover the frozen goods. Baker explained that most of the frwen items are foods donated by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and that the board would be responsi ble for replacement of goods lost or spoiled. Board members' toured Walnut School durii? their The board also approved a sc neauit oi meeting oases tor 1984 and changed the date al their December meeting to Thursday, Dec. 1. The change was necessary because Edwards Marshall Municipal Election Results MAYOR Betty Wild 258 Lawrence Ponder (i) 191 ALDERMEN Sammy Lunsford 244 John Dodson (i) 241 Ed Niles 225 James Penland 216 Charlie Sexton 209 Jackie Davis 173 BILL POWELL Mars Hill voters reelected mayor Bill Powell to a ninth term Tuesday. Powell defeated challenger Jeanne Hoffman by a margin of 111 votes, tallying 264 ballots to 153 for Hoffmann. Incumbent aldermen Dr. W. Otis Duck and Art Wood were also re-elected for another two-year term. The victory Baker Re-Elected Hot Springs Mayor hoi springs mayor uenoier Ponder Baker won election to a second term as mayor of Hot Springs Tuesday night. Baker was unopposed in the municipal election. Baker received an unofficial total of 118 votes. Hot Springs voters defeated alderman Ernest "Gene" Autrey in his bid for re election while returning in cumbent Gerry Ramsey for another term. Challenger Waylon Puryear led all can didates in the Hot Springs race with 120 votes. Kenny Ramsey was also elected with 116 L votes. Incumbent Gerry < Ramsey finished third with 107 votes, edging out fellow in- | cumbent Autrey by a margin < Hot Springs Municipal Election Results MAYOR Debbie Baker (i) 118 ALDERMEN f Waylon Puryear 120 Kenny Ramsey 116 Gerry Ramsey (I) 107 Ernest Autrey 102 jf five votes. The third member of the present board, Wesley Staude, lid not seek re-election. The Hot Springs Board of Aldermen will meet Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Hall Mars Hill Board Reinstates Stop Sign The Mars Hill Board of Aldermen voted to reinstall a stop sign at the intersection of Mountain View Road Tuesday night during their monthly meeting. The board had earlier decid ed that the sign at the intersec tion was unnecessary, but reversed themselves at the suggestion of police chief W .R. Cutshall. The stop sign was not the on ly traffic topic discussed at Tuesday's meeting. The board also discussed the parking problem in the Mars Hill business district. Chief Cut shall said some Main Street merchants were circumven ting the intent of the two-hour parking ordinance by moving their cars one space every two hours. Mayor Bill Powell said, "The merchants were hurting themselves," by this practice. The Mars Hill Youth pro gram is a victim of success it appears. Alderman Gordon Randolph told the board that the youth baseball program faces a $500 deficit as a result of its winning season. Ran dolph told the meeting that the program has an outstanding bill of approximately $500 due to the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. for drinks furnished during the season. Randolph explain ed that the program was unable to pay the bill and ask ed if the town could loan the program the money until spr ing. (Continued on Page MR AND MRS SHANNON ?I Mars Hill Voters Reelect Powell was the first for Dr. Duck. He was named to the board last year to replace Carl Eller, who resigned. In his first bid for elective office, Duck was the town's leading vote-getter with 336 votes. Wood won elec tion to his fifteenth term on the town board by polling 283 votes. Service station operator John L. Chandler was elected to the board of alderman for the first time by polling 307 votes. Defeated in their election bids were dairy farmer Frederick Anderson and William Powell III. Anderson received 171 votes while Powell received 68. F_ IF/ ? !!_ Mars Hill Municipal Election Results MAYOR Bill Powell (i) ... 264 Jeanne Hoffman 153 ALDERMEN Dr. W. O. Duck (i) 336 Art Wood <i) 283 John Chandler ? 307 Wm . Powell III ... 68 Frederick Anderson 171 aii rr twverviue Sprinkle Narrowly Wins Re-election Weaverville voters re elected mayor Lawrence Sprinkle to an eleventh term in what was the closest of the area municipal elections. Sprinkle edged former town employee David Bell by an 11 vote margin the election. Sprinkle and the four incum bent members of Town Coun cil all won re-election in Tues day's municipal election. Challenger Harold Payne also won a seat on the five member board. Payne was Weavervjlle's leading vote getter with 334 votes. Incum bent councilman M.J. West led the incumbent council members with 324 votes, (ilenn Brank won another term by polling 305 votes while incumbents Robert Cheek and L.A. Weaver received 213 and 304 votes respectively. Weaverville Election Results MAYOR Lawrence Sprinkle (i) 273 David Bell 262 TOWN COUNCIL Harold Payne 334 M. J. West (i) 324 Glenn Brank <i) 305 L. A. Weaver (i) 304 Robert Cheek (i) 213 Jerry Gordon . . . 189 Bud Galloway - 181 Katherine McLean 181 Kathleen Young..! 221 Robert Drebeilbis 166 Mary Trexler 131 Censorship Attempts Pose Problem InN.C. By JOHN COGGINS The Newt and Observer Censorship of school texts and other educational materials has become a "significant problem" in North Carolina since 1980, largely because of religious fundamentalists, according to a report issued Sunday by a civil liberties organization. People for the American Way, a non-profit, non: partisan group with the goal of protecting constitutional rights, said it found M3 cen sorship attempts in the state's public schools since 1980. About 41 percent of those at tempts were successful, resulting in removal of materials or restricted ac Publications that have been challenged include a wide variety of books and periodicals as well as The Liv ing Bible and the World Book Encyclopedia, the report said. Among the books targeted were: "Catcher in the Rye," "The Grapes of Wrath," "Soul on Ice," "Diary of Anne Frank," "Brave New World," "Lord of the Flies" and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." "What all these books ap pear to have in common ... is that they offer students a chance to learn about new ideas and different viewpoints and may prompt students to flfak for themselves," Barry Hager, president of North Carolina People for the American Way, said in a news "The largest category of challenges documented was in he area of sex education," the ?eport said. "The teaching or liscussion of evolution was a significant source of censor thip activity . . . with a lumber of those cases being generated by ministers." Most book-banning and cen sorship efforts begin with complaints by parents, the survey said. But some also were organized by school per sonnel, school board members and by religious groups. Hie report blamed many censorship attempts on the Rev. H. Lamarr Mooneyham of Durahm and the Rev. Jerry Kalwell, and mentioned both
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