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The NEWS RECORD SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1901 MAO X SON COUN1Y LIBRARY (atNtHAL UtUVtrtY MARSHALL Nc ? 25' Mars Hill Girls Win Story On Page 3 School Bd. Meets Today The Madison County Board of Education will meet this mor ning at 10:30 a.m. in the Madison County Court House. County Commissioners Meet Monday The Madison County Board of Commissioners will meet Jan. 4 at 5:30 p.m. in the Madison County Court House. Hot Springs Board To Meet The Hot Springs Board of Aldermen will meet Jan. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Hall. Mars Hill Board To Meet The Mars Hill Board of Aldermen will meet Jan. 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Hall in Mars Hill. DISCOVERY OF 95 BARRELS CONTAINING DEADLY CYANIDE was one of the big stories of 1984. Sandy Mush site was cleaned by the Enviornmental Protection Agency. SCENE FROM THE MARSHALL CHRISTMAS PAGEANT. One of the highlights of 1984, pageant's revival brought hun dreds to Main Street two weeks before Christmas Day 1984: The Year In Review JANUARY The new year opened with bad news for Marshall when Bill ? Lapsley informed the town's aldermen that the $1.2 million I sewer project faced cost overruns totalling $240,000. Tlie over- 1 runs were the result of a miscalculation regarding the amount of stone construction crews would have to blast. "Die town would later receive additional funding from the Farmers Home Administration to cover the overruns. Temperatures soared and plummented in early January, _ with readings of six degrees on New Year's Day and highs in I the mid-50's later in the week. The North Carolina Jaycees called for debates between Gov. James B. Hunt and Sen. Jesse Helms and Frank Bordeaux reported that North Carolina farm income declined in 1983. The month also saw incumbent state Reps. Liston B. Ramsey and Charles Beall and State Sens. Robert Swain and Dennis Winner file for re-election. Marshall and the North Carolina Employment Security Commission reached agreement on a repayment schedule. The town was assessed $37,000 for unemployment claims stemming from a HUD project. Madison County and the Southern Railway reached a partial agreement regarding the railroad's property tax debt. The agreement brought a payment of $53,776 for taxes owed from 1980 through 1983. The Madison County Board of Education approved a $16,449 contract to replace the roof on Hot Springs Elementary School and the town of Mars Hill purchased an $8,000 computer to handle future water and sewer billing. The FYench Broad Electric Membership Corp. announced a 12 percent rate increase for residential customers. Late January saw a slew of candidates file for office, in cluding Rep. James Clarke and District Court Judge Robert H. Lacey. State DOT board member Zeno Ponder announced that a $1.2 million project to improve sections of U.S. 25-70 had been approved. Weaverville awarded contracts for construction of water lines and more than 40 county residents formed a diverse committee to make recommendations to the county planning board. The committee met for several months before delivering a report which was published in full in The News Record. Marshall and the DOT readied agreement regarding the SANTA AND HIS ELVES took part in Christmas play at Mar shall Elementary School last week. Springs also received a part-time driver's license examiner. Hot Springs police chief Leroy Johnson retired after 30 years on the job. The postal service began eliminating route numbers from Madison, County addresses and the first cases involving the state's new Driving While Impaired law began coming to trial. % William Chandler of Walnut ran a brief campaign for the Democratic nomination for county register of deeds. Chandler entered the race on a Friday afternoon and withdrew on Mon day morning, apparently after a weekend of fruitless cam paigning. Mars Hill Mayor Bill Powell was fined $10,000 by die Wake County District Court after pleading guilty to five counts of violating state pharmacy laws. Powell's business, CM CP, Inc., was also fined $40,000 for Medicaid fraud. Later in the year, the state's Board of Pharmacy suspended PbweO's phar macist's license. Jftt i A result of complaints lodged by Divid Gcorg th eback when he filed for election to his former seat in Congress. Mars Hill attorney Bruce Briggs announced his candidacy for the State Senate. Briggs later attempted to withdraw from the race and ran unsuccessfully for the state Superior Court in November. Asheville-Buncombe Technical College presented the coun ty commissioners with a proposal to open an adult education center in the county. The center, located in Marshall, is scheduled to open later this month. i Marshall Mayor Betty Wild and the town's aldermen heard complaints from residents regarding a traffic crackdown be .ng conducted by the town's new policemen, Chris Bowman t and Michael Beasley. Both officers resigned from the town force before the end of the year. Marshall awaited a decision from the FmHA.on additional I funding for the town's sewer project. The USDA cut the quota I for the 1984 crop of burley tobacco by 10 percent, reducing the ? average Madison County farmer's quota by about 160 pounds. Hot Springs aldermen approved a resolution amending the | own's pinball machine ordinance to allow operation on Sun days from 1 until 5 p.m. The News Record featured a front page story detailing the programs offered by Madison High School's vocational education . department. The following week, we featured a story from The Greeneville Sun on Pop Story. Touring in Asheville, Rufus Edmisten promised to make education his "top priority" if elected governor. Edmisten was the leading vote getter in the Democratic primary and later defeated former Charlotte Mayor Eddie Knox in a runoff. February closed with the announcement that unemploy ment had increased across the state during January to 8.1 per cent. Workers at the Melville Shoe Co. plant in Hot Springs prepared to join the list of the state's unemployed and were briefed by ESC officials regarding their options and rights. MARCH March brought the good news that Marshall had received approval for an additional $200,000 grant from the Farmers Home Administration to complete the sewer project. In mak ing the announcement, Mayor Betty Wild thanked Sens. Jesse Helms and John East for their assistance in obtaining the grant. Marshall announced plans to apply for a community development Mock grant and A-B Tech unveiled plans for new adult education center. *4 arch A] saw twc >e employees and an Asheville ca
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