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Mars Hill Lions Plan Fish Fry The Mars Hill Lions Club will sponsor a fish fry on Saturday on Main Street in Mars Hill across from Town Hall. The fry will feature trout and chicken. Dinner in cluding dessert is 13.50 per person. The fish fry will be held from 11 : 30 a.m. until 2 p.m. and again from 4 until 7 p.m. Proceeds from the dinner will be used to assist the blind. : ^ ' ' ' - Laurel VFD Fall Festival The Laurel Volunteer Fire Department will bold its Pall Festival on Sept. 23 from noon until6 p.m at the Laurel Elementary School. Volleyball, horse rides, con cessions, a dunking booth and live music will be featured. Proceeds will benefit the work of the newly-formed fire company. GOP To Open Headquarters The Madison County Republican Party will open their campaign headquarters in Marshall on Thursday after noon. Former Rep. Bill Henckn is expected to attend the opening. The headquarters is located on Main Street in the firmer location of the New Dimensions arcade. The public is invited to attend. Co-Op Nursery Open House The Mars Hill co-operative nursery for infants and pre schoolers will hold an open house on MOnday, Sept. 17 from 9 a.m. until noon at the Mars Hill Baptist Church. The nursery is operated by Project Sunrise and serves to demonstrate the effectievness of parents as teachers. Interested parents are invited to attend. For more in formation, contact Debra Smith at 433-2805. GOP Precinct Meeting r.. The Madison County Republican Party will hold a precinct meeting on Sept. 13at7:30p.m. in the lunchroom of the Walnut Elementary School. John Stewart, a can didate for the State Senate, is expected to attend the meeting. Registrars will also be present to register voters for the November election. Patriots Host Enka The Madison Patriots will host the ?nka Jets in football action Friday night at O.E. Roberts Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Lions Face Catawba The Mars Hill Lions will host Catawba College in a SAC-8 conference game Saturday afternoon at Meares Stadium in Mars Hill. Kickoff for the Parents Day game is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Gov. Hunt To Visit Uovenor Junes B. Hunt, Jr. will visit Madison County Friday morning to address county, state and Man Hiil College employees at a breakfast masting. Go*. Hunt is scheduled to adfrsss the workers at a 7 a.m. meeting in ttse cafeteria of Madison H.6. The county's school teachers and otter employees as well as Department of Transportation workers and Mars Hill College personnel are invited to attend. Coffee and ham and sausage biscuits will be served and tlie infor mal meeting will be open to die public. Gov. Hunt is scheduled to depart the high school at A am DOT Studies The North Carolina Board of Transportation will meet in ftaMgti On Friday to consider some 941 tracts. Amoag the projects the board is a replacement bridge the French Broad River i PH _ .? , I'ii S& The board will also consider cor tract! for resurfacing more than 45 miles of primary and seconds r highways across the state The DOT has scbechited a pubh, hearing 011 the Radmon Bridge pn ject for Sept. M at 7:? p.m. a ? ? (JljfV L'nkAAl Miaitor) Hign SCIloql, . / Woman Award o Nofnmttj is (Or i h? Outetan g Farm Vo &n" rt nov being Mi iccordbig fa m ? Jim yo % r i fi i*. ar* engaged In the diy-lo-day open tton a or tin award Mairiw wi n rfto an Vol.84No.36 f* ' ^ wcrn*E SPAY, September 12, 1984 25c MADISON - ' 1 F5 RAR V _ ~\ /W A 1 J J Gf NfTRAl. DCLIVFRY 'fllk . ^ Mayor, Alder ds Over Charlie Sexton By ROBERT KOENIG The Marshall Board of Aldermen held a brief but heated meeting Mon day night at Town Hall. The session was cut short when board member Sammy Lunsford left the meeting complaining of a headache. Lunsford's premature departure left the board short of a quorum to con duct town business. Lunsford's departure left only board member John Oodson and Mayor Wild. Alderman Ed Niies was out of town Monday and did not at tend the meeting. Before Lunsford left, he and Mayor Wild argued over the status of town employee Charlie Sexton. Town at torney Charles Mash burn briefly at tended Monday's session to present his opinion regarding the respon sibilities of the mayor and board members. The responsibilities of the board members and mayor is at the heart of the dispuite between Wild and Lunsford. Also at issue is whether Sexton quit his job with the town water depart ment following a dispute with the mayor. In presenting his opinion, Mashburn cited a number of passages from the town code and the North Carolina General Statutes regarding cities and towns. Mashburn cited a section of the town's charter which stated, "It shall be the duty of the board of aldermen to divide and classify the duties of their office into departments and to assign one or more departments to each of their members, and each member shall be held responsible far the management and supervision of the department assigned to him, and shall make written reports to each monthly meeting of the board, with such recommendations as to the ad ministration of his department as to him may seem best..." Mashburn also cited another chapter of the code which said: "The Board of Aldermen shall have power by ordinance to require oaths, fix compensation amd bonds of any and all employees of the town, and prescribe their duties, and provide for their removal." When questioned as to the law's meaning by the mayor, Mashburn said, "The mayor is only given the power by the charter to suspend a police officer for cause. She is to make reports and recommendations to the board. The mayor is an ad ministrative officer and reports to the board." The question of the extent of the mayor's authority arose from the dispute with Sexton. in a statement presented to the board by Sammy Lunsford, the aider man charged that Mayor Wild threatened to suspend Sexton from his job if a water line was not install ed. Lunsford statement said the mayor asked Sextan to lay 300 feet of line in four hours. Wild agreed that she was not within her powers to threaten Sexton with suspension and offered an apology. While agreement was reached an the mayor's authority, the question of Sexton's status was not answered on Monday. Mayor Wild repeatedly said that Sexton quit bis Job with the town, both during the initial argument and later in the day before aldermen ?d Niles. "He walked in and said, 'I quit' and then he went down to the drug store and told Doc Niles, '1 quit.' There was a roomful of witnesses in both cases,' Wild said. Sexton denied quitting his job. He said he told the mayor he would quit before she would suspend him. Sammy Lunsford is Sexton's super visor with the Water and Sewer Dept. Lunsford was out of town on the day of the dispute. Sexton has remained on the job since his dispute with Mrs. Wild. Although still performing his duties, he has not been paid for a month. Lunsford told Wild that the town is in violation of the N.C. Wage and Hour Act for failing to pay Sexton. He told the meeting, "I made the deci sion to keep him on the job, and whether I was right or wrong, we still have to pay the man." The mayor responded by saying the question of Sexton's salary should be decided by the aldermen in executive session. It was then decided to table the question of Sexton's status and salary until Ed Niles would be available for a meeting Lunsford and Wild also argued about the town's backboe which is presently out of service. Wild com plained that the aldermen authorized repairs months ago and that the repairs have not bees made. Lunsford responded by saying that the shop that won the bid to make the repairs couidnt handle the job when approval was finally given. The board then voted to reopen the repair job for bids. Meet An Old Friend FRENCH BROAD RIVER NEAR REDMON When Lunsford then asked about Sexton's status, Wild responded by saying, "He quit and that's the bot tom line as far as I'm concerned.'' When the decision to table the discussion was announced, Lunsford told the meeting be had developed what he called, "a bad headache'' and left Town Hall. Without the necessary two board members present, no further town business was conducted. Mayor Wild and John Dodson remained, however, to hear from James and Virginia Jones regarding a water line in Mrs. Jones' mother's home in Rollins. No action was taken on the matter. Mayor Wild said that another call ed meeting of the board would be scheduled to complete the business before the board. No date for the meeting was set on Monday night. Before the premature end of the meeting, the board was to have reviewed the town's monthly finan cial statement prepared by Frank and Cecilia Ward. The report, released to the public at the start of Monday 's session, reveals that the town's water and sewer fund is over budget and the town's recrea tion and cemetery expenditures have been exhausted. According to the report released Monday, the Water and Sewer Dept. has spent more than half its 970,000 budget with ten months left in the cur rent fiscal year. The entire 9917 budgeted for the cemetery has already been spent, along with all but 999 budgeted for recreation. Adams Released On Bond James Arthur Adams of Venice, Fla. was released from the Madison County Jail Wednesday after posting a 950,000 bond. Earlier in the (My, Superior Court Judge Charles Lamm reduced Adams' bond from the 9100,000 figure that had been set at the time of Adams' arrest. Adams has been indicted by the Madison County grand jury on charges of first degree murder, com mon law rape and obstruction of Justice in connection with the 1990 slaying of Volunteer In Service To America worker Nancy Dean Morgan. Adams' bond was arranged by the Delta Surety Co. of Franklin, a bon ding agency. Adams was released from the Jail at 4 p.m. and returned to his Florida borne. No date has been set for his trial. . French Broad River Week ' Week-Long Celebration Opens With Clean-Up Trips lestion: What's we I H electric _ KnoxvilleV VI : The French Broad River. Western North Carolina organizations have organized again this year to celebrate French Broad River Week. Fishing der bies, Whitewater rafting, float trips, nature walks and the an nual i ition will make up the week ;s activities Although most of this yean River Week activities are centered in Buncombe Ceunty, Madison Countianshave < ul h v n the I'S ? 1 The French Broad bat also spawned a new industry in Madison County in recent yaars. Whitewater rafting has brought an estimated 10,000 visitors to the cfemty s year ind provided or tour guides with the county's ! four wbitewater outfitters. The rafting companies have or sated a new iodwtfy and in throughout the year F i SUvi-r Week I.
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