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The News record SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON CO1 T P. PA PV GENERAL ~~ DEL I VERY MARSHALL NC 28753 Vol. 84 No. 7 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N C WEUiMtai^ . , l-ebfiiary 15, 1984 25c Photo by BOB KOE NIG T?T7? A 1 r\T n A TITO If 1 A. I r? ? *> > . . _ . rxcjt\ v i fvAii'Ms sweuea ine PTencn tsroaa River to flood stage Tuesday morning. River crested at 6 a.m. without causing any serious damage. Water reached Blannerhassett Island but did not enter Marshall Elementary School. In District Court Peterson Receives Suspended Sentence Sandra Lou Peterson entered a guilty plea in Madison County District Court Thursday to a charge of death by vehicle. Peterson entered the guilty plea to the misde meanor charge as part of a negotiated settlement with prosecutors. In exchange for the guilty plea, the prosecu tion agreed to drop charges of illegal transportation of - alcoholic beverages and driv ing left of center. Peterson was originally charged with murder in con nection with an Aug. 13 auto wreck that killed Anna Mable Rhymer of Asheville The two car crash occurred on U. S. 19 east of Mars Hill. Judge Robert H. Lacey sentenced Peterson to serve four years supervised proba tion and deferred a 12 month to-18 month active prison sentence. The court also ordered Peterson to pay a fine of $500 and $1,000 for the ser vices of her court-appointed attorney. She was also ordered to surrender her driver's license for one year. In other cases heard during Thursday's session of District Court, Warren Nix of Hot Spr ings entered a guilty plea to a charge of assault on a law en forcement officer with a dead ly weapon. Former Hot Spr ings police chief Leroy Johnson said that Nix held of ficers at bay with a shotgun after Johnson came to Nix's home to investigate an auto accident. Judge Lacey sentenced Nix to serve six months in jail and the defendant filed notice of appeal to Superior Court. Alter sentencing was com pleted, however, Johnson ap pealed to the court for lenien cy on behalf of Nix. Johnson told the court, "This man has ' children to support. He's got to work. It won't do any good to put him in jail." Upon Johnson's recommendation, the court suspended Nix's jail sentence and ordered him to serve three years of unsuper ( Continued on Page 7) Ackley Trial Opens Judge William H. Helms, Jr. presided over the special ses sion of Madison County Superior Court which began Monday in Marshall. The special session opened with jury seiection.in the case Of Richard James Ackley, charged with breaking and entering, two counts of damage to property and breaking, entering and larceny. The alleged offenses took place at three homes in the Spring Creek section. A jury of eight men and four women heard testimony Mon day afternoon. Sheriffs depu ty Jasper Treadway told the court that Ackley was found in one of the homes. Treadway said the defendant told him that he had entered one of the homes in order to wash his clothes and get warm. None of the three homes were oc cupied at the time of the alleg ed break-ins. Ackley is defended by Mar shall attorney Stephen Huff. Testimony in the case was scheduled to continue on Tues day. USDA Cuts Burley Quotas By 10 Percent By ROBERT KOENIG The U. S. Department of Agriculture last week an nounced a 10 percent cut in the national marketing quota for the 1984 burley tobacco crop. Secretary of Agriculture John Brock made the announce ment in Washington. The cut in the burley tobacco crop follows a similar cut announc ed by the USDA for flue cured tobacco. The national quota for 1984 * w will be 583 million pounds. According to Everett Rank, administrator of the USDA Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the ten percent cut, the maximum permitted by law, is necessary to adjust the total supply of burley tobacco. The stabiliza tion program bought more than half the 1963 crop and currently has some 254,000,000 pounds on hand. When adjustments for over and undermarketing of the 1983 crop is taken into ac count, the effective farm quotas for 1964 are expected to total 708 million pounds. This will give a potential produc tion of ten percent more than in 1963 according to Hank. Wiley DuVall, Madison County Extension Service agent, said that the quota cut will total almost half a million pounds for Madison County. The average farmer in the county farms eight-tenths of an acre of the crop, DuVall said, and can expect to see his marketing quota cut by about 160 pounds. Speaking of the reduction, burley farmer Roy Ammons said, "They had no choice becaue we're not selling it. I'm against it, but I thought it had to be done. Every time we've cut the quotas, someone else has picked up our produc tion. There's no world-wide cut in production, but we have an extremely high supply on hand right now." Correction In last week's story on William Powell's conviction of pharmacy law violations, we incorrectly reported that Powell entered a guilty plea on behalf of Community Medical Center Pharmacy, Inc. The correct title of the corporation of which Powell serves as president and for which he entered a guilty plea is CMCP, Inc. The News Record regrets this error. Photo by DAVIO WACHTER LION CAPTAIN STEVE DOOLEY is all smiles following Mars Hill's win ovr UNC-A. ? Story on Page 6. Hot Springs Amends Pinball Ordinance Acting on a request from Kay Willis, the Hot Springs Board of Aldermen approved a change in the town's or dinance governing the opera tion of video games. By a unanimous vote, the board ap proved allowing the playing of pinball and video games on Sundays from 1 until 5 p.m. " le town's ordinance previously forbid the opera tion of the games on Sundays. Before acting on Willis' re quest, the board heard from town engineer Gd Segal con cerning a pump station for the town's sewer system. Mayor Debbie Baker said that the town would have to make a decision soon or lose funds available for the sewer system through the Farmers Home Administration. The town had received ap proval for a low interest loan to improve the town sewer system. The loan was original ly approved in 1978 but was later placed in the FmHA's in active file when other funding sources dried up. Baker said that the town had received FmHA approval to use the loan for the sewer project cur rently being constructed with Community Development Block Grant funds if the dto ject incurred cost overruns. Baker said that it appears that the project will be completed within its budget. "Farmers Home won't hold the money for us much longer unless we tell them we have a project in mind." 1 Segal suggested that the town make improvements to the lift station that sends v sewage to the treatment plant. Improving the station could save the town money for both maintenance and power charges. The board asked Segal to make a fesibility study of converting the system to a gravity feed operation. The town will contact FmHA to aqk for an extension before the funds are turned back to be used somewhere else. FmHA Grant Decision Expected by April 1 Marshall should know by April 1 if it is to receive addi tional funding from the Farmers Home Administra tion to complete the town's sewer project. That was the word this week from Larry Merrill of the FmHA's Waynesville office. At last week's town meeting, Marshall mayor Bet ty Wild said that the town has asked for additional funding to complete the $1.6 million sewer project. Additional fun ding will be needed if the pro ject is to be completed because of cost overruns in curred during construction on Walnut Creek Rd. In a telephone interview last week, Merrill said, "We're aware of the problems with co6t overruns on the project, The grant and loan money is still being used. Originally, we were looking at what could have been $240,000 in cost overruns. However, they haven't encountered as much rock in the Rollins area, so the engineer will be able to shortly fine tune the estimate of how much more will be needed to complete the project." Merrill said he will meet with the project's engineer. Bill Lapsley, later this week. Lapsley had earlier submitted a "worst condition" estimate of how much more would be needed if condition similar to those found on Walnut Creek were encountered on the Rollins section of the project. That earlier estimate called for the project to come in at $225,000 over the budget. Mer rill said mayor Wild asked for additional funding in a letter (Continued on Page 7) Vocational Education: Creating Partnerships For Excellence ? " ",s " sewing by ia . This is Vocational-Technical Education week across North Carolina. The special week set aside to recognize the value of vocational training has special meaning for the students and teachers at Madison High School. The vocational education at Madison High are among the largest most extensive in the for schools with under students. year since its incep . the vocational programs the county high school has than m% at 790 Madison Htgl ?????I ftS yl traditional programs. It is not uncommon to see boys sitting in home economics classes or to find a girl working under a car hood in the school's auto mechanics class. Special pro grams are also open to han dicapped and disadvantaged students The goal of the vocational education program at Madison High is to provide students with the opportunity to learn a marketable skill. Many students receive their first introduction to Jobs lkr.ni.rtU tk. nnt'- ,?-_L inrougn me scikxn h worn the regional colleges or technical schools. A majority of former students enter fields related to the skills they first learned in the school's pro gram. Madison High maintains contact with graduates in order to evaluate the effec tiveness of the vocational education program. Jack Cole is the director of vocational education at Madison H.S A graduate of Baron College with a masters 'degree from Western Carolina University, Cole assumed the directorship following Garland Woody'? retirement education programs receive individualised instruction from teachers with yews of experience in their field. Many of the instructors came to Madtaon H.S. after years in the field they instruct. The vocational education program at Madison H.S. covers business skills, home economics and child care, in dustrial trades such as machine shop, electronics, cabinetry, drafting, auto mechanics, and maaonry. The school's agricultural program also attracts many students each year. The school's buamos educa tion program introduces unit scaJf '* ti
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