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Ill irl r The News naps ? ? . 'i COUNTY LIBRARY SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUN ?L?> 287"| Vol. 84 No. 17 PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C WEDNESDAY, April 25, 1984 2 5c Marshall Engine l\o. 2 MARSHALL ENGINE NO. 2 is ready for duty. Volunteer firemen of the Marshall company recently completed work on the new Ford one ton heavy-duty truck. The firemen installed a 570-gal. tanker on the bed of the truck. Admir The Marshall Volunteer Fire Department's fire-fighting capabilities were expanded this week with the addition of a new one-ton pumper, Engine No. 2. The new Ford heavy-duty truck was put on line last week after six months work on the part of the volunteer fire fighters. Chief Jackie Davis reports that the company took possession of the basic truck in October and worked over the winter installing a tanker and other equip ment. "There's more hours in this than I can tell you about.' Davis said. The new truck is equip ped with a 570-gallon tank and is capable of pumping up to 350 gallons per minute. When ful ly outfitted, the truck will also carry a portable Photo bv Bob Koentg ing the latest addition to the fire-fighting com pany are Lt. Eddie Stines, Fire Chief Jackie Davis, Bobby Allen, Capt. Frank Davis and Mike Ball. tank, air packs and an attic ladder. It will also haul 200 feet of pre-connected hose, an impor tant time-saving feature. Davis said that Lane Ogle provided a free paint job for the new addition and that Asheville Steel provided the firemen with the steel for the tank and bed. Total cost for the new truck will be somewhere between $18-20,000. Davis said that a new truck, fully equipped, would have cost the fire department about $52,000. "I'm sure we've saved at least $30,000 by doing the work ourselves." Davis said. The new truck has yet to answer a call to du ty, but it's ready to go whenever the need arises. Mashburn To Appoint Attorney Marshall mayor Belly Wild called a special meeting of the boar of aldermen last week. The meeting was the eleventh such called meeting of the Wild administration. The meeting was called to sign new grant agreements with the Farmers Home Ad ministration in connection with the sewer project. The $200,000 grant that was ap proved in March made the new agreement necessary. Mayor Wild also called for an executive session to discuss the appointment of an at torney to represent the town and the town's officials in a $350,000 lawsuit brought by former Marshall police officer Carlie Gunter. After a ten-minute session behind closed doors. Mayor Wild announced that the board lias authorized town attorney Charles Mashburn U> appoint an attorney for the town. No other business was con ducted at the meeting. Board , member John Dodson did not I attend the Thursday session. Visitor Cleans Up iel; clean Marshall's Main Strc >f the Nw nto**, Marshall, The News Record Reach Settlement Agreement The Town of Marshall, Marshall Mayor Betty Wild and the members of the town's Board of Aldermen and The News Record have reached an out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit brought by the newspaper against the town officials. The settlement was reached last week during negotiations between the newspaper's attorney, Richard Miller, and the attorney for the town, Forrest Ball. The agreement was reached last Tuesday afternoon following a court hearing on April 16. According to the terms of the negotiated agreement, The News Record consented to drop charges against the town in exchange for a written statement from the town officials. The written statement was to acknowledge that the town had violated provisions of the North Carolina Open Meetings law in the past. In ad dition, the town officials were to pledge that they would not violate the law in the future. Hours after the agreement was reached, Ball presented Miller with a statement labeled a "press release." The release, signed by the mayor and aldermen, reads as follows: "As the Mayor and board of Aldermen for the town of Marshall, North Carolina, we want the public and taxpayers to know that we have never intentionally or willfully violated the open meetings laws of North Carolina. In rela tion to the law suit brought by the local media, we provided notice of the special meeting scheduled for April 6, 1984, 42 hours and 17 (Continued on Page 10 Green Visits County Lieutenant Gov. Jimmy Green visited Madison County last Friday night during a campaign swing through Western North Carolina. Green addressed a rally of some 200 supporters at Madison High School. Following an informal buf fet, Green was introduced by State Sen. Bob Swain, who called him, "the only can didate for governor with a record." Green, a former Speaker oif the House and General Assembly member since 1961, (old his supporters, "In 1961, 1 went to the General Assembly from Bladen County. There was another first-time fellow there, by the name of Liston Ramsey. Well, at first he thought I was a dumb country boy and I thought he was a dumb mountain boy. During that first session together, we both learned we were wrong and got to be pretty good friends. We've managed to get a few things done since then." Green discounted public opi nion polls showing him trail ing the crowded field for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He asked the au dience, "Have you ever been polled? I don't know who those ; people are talking to, but they 1 sure aren't asking Democrats Jhow they'll vote." Green said that the oilier candidates in the race are all runnning against him. "Six teen months ago, there were no candidates for governor ex cept Jimmy Green." Green said Ins experience in office makes him the best can didate. He told the gathe ring, "When I am elected governor, I'll go from the Lieutenant Governor's office across the street and we won't miss a lick." The lieutenant governor lold the gathering that im provements to Madison Coun ty roads are the result of his passage of the bill giving secondary road funding to counties on the basis of miles of unpaved road. Green stressed his farming background to the Madisopn County supporters, saying. "I'm a working man. I know where my farm is. I've stooped over flue cured tobac co and pulled as many ground leaves and suckers as any one in this room. I know what it's like to be hanging it up in the top of the barn until midnight," He also stressed his support of education, saying, "I'm the son of a schoolteacher, the husband of a schoolteacher and the father of two schoolteachers." Green said tlia* vocational education LT. GOV. JIMMY GREEN, right, conferred with Sen. Bob Swain and Sheriff E. Y. Ponder during visit. must receive funding. "I don't care how many computers you bring in, there's always going to be room for carpenters, plumbers and mechanics." Green siad that the North Carolina economy has im proved. except in farming. He said, "If there's a farmer out there with money in the bank, he should quit." Green siad he would work to establish an ex port trade board as governor, saying, "We have to be able to sell what we produce here throughout the world." He said North Carolina needs balanced gorowth and said lie would work to attract in dustries to smaller rural coun lies away from the Research Triangle. "The far west and east deserve a piece of the pie We can offer incentives to in dustry to come here." Green cautioned supporters to beware of television com mercials in which the can didates are packaged in thirty-second segments As governor. Green said he would require appointees to sign a letter of resignation upon taking state office. He said he would fire appointees who fail to work hard. "I'll tell them, 'If you can't fo the job. I'll call you in. fill in Hie date of the letter of resignation and thank you lor your service." What's In A Name? Newspapers Provide Wide Variety Of Titles By BORIS WEINTRAUB National Geographic News Service Most of the newspapers yQu read have names like the News, the Sun, the Star, the Post or the ; Journal and that's OK. Most American newspapers have names like that. On the other hand, a relative handful have names that depart, sometimes startingly, from the dozen or so standard names. A good story usually accompanies these exceptions. Take the Laramie, Wyo." Boomerrang," for example. It was named for a mule. The Boomerang was founded in 1881 by Bill ' Nye, a well-known humorist of the time. Nye was known to imbibe a bit from time to time, and when he did so, he would usually disappear from home. Luckily, he would usually do so with his mule, and the mule, with Nye aboard. who had been run out of Beaver Falls, Pa., around the time of the Civil War for the sin of being a Democrat. "When he got to Youngstown," Kelley says, "he started a newspaper that he hoped would vindicate him. And that's supposedly where the name came from." Fans of Superman will have no trouble guess ing where the name of the Metropolis, 111. "Planet" came from. The paper had been the Metropolis News, but it took its new name in 1971 when the town officially "adopted" Super- . man. "An Indiana woman once wrote to me whose name was Lois Lane, offering to do a column,'' says the Planet's editor, who is not Perry White, but Clyde Willis. "U didn't seem right UF* Elkton, Md. Editor Donald Henning says that I Cecil County, Md. already had a newspaper called "The Democrat" in 1841 when sup porters of the opposing Whig Party decided to launch a paper of their own. The Whig" is still "The Whig. 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