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SERVING THE PEOPLE C i MAD I SON county library GENERAL DELIVERY MARSHALL ?j| NC ? .- i| Zl. * V fNCE 190? 28753 WEDNESDAY, June 12, 1985 25c Buy-out Agreement Reached Stor^O^Pa?^5 Marshall Aldermen To Meet The Marshall Board of Aldermen will meet on Monday, June 17 at 7 p.m. in Town Hall to approve both general fund and Water and Sewer fund budgets for the 1985-86 fiscal year. The . board will also consider budget amendments to the 1984-85 fiscal year budget. The public is invited to attend. County Budget Hearing Set The Madison County Board of Commissioners will hold a special public meeting on June 28 at 2 p.m. to vote on the coun ty budget for the 1985-86 fiscal year which begins on July 1. The meeting is open to the public. Job Training Offered The Opportunity Corporation will be offering a five-day Job Serch Training Program at the Lion's Club Hut in Hot Springs Monday, June 17 thru Friday, June 21 from 9 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. For more information call 649-3231. District Court Hears DWI Cases District Court Judge presided over two sessions of the Madison County District Court last week. On June 6. the court dismissed a number of charges. In unrelated cases, larceny charges against Darlene Vicknire and Kenneth Crowe were dismissed. Vicknire was also acquitted on a charge of trespassing llie court also dismissed a charge of damage to property against Jerry Roberts and a charge of assault against Delia Lee Roberts, who was also acquitted of injury to lands. Dan ny Roberts was also found not guilty on an injury to lands charge. Breaking, entering and larceny charges against Larry Rice and Steve Proffitt were also dismissed. Virginia Jean Gosnell entered a guilty plea to a single charge of food stamp fraud. A second food stamp fraid charge was dismissed. Gosnell was given a suspended six-month jail sentence and ordered to serve two years of supervised probation. She was also fined $50 and ordered to pay $543 in restitution to the program Charles K. Rathbone entered a guil ty plea to a single charge of food stamp fraud. A second charge of food stamp fraud was dismissed. Rathbone received a suspended 120-day jail term and was fined $50 and court costs. Marie Osteen was found not guilty on a charge of allowing livestock to run at large. Charges of com municating treats against Mack A. Ponder were dismissed. Champ Rice, Jr. was found guilty of assault and received a suspended 60-day jail sentence and a $50 fine. The court found probable cause for misdemeanor breaking and entering charges against Donna Buckner and Dale Buckner and scheduled their trials for July 3 in District Court. Assault charges against Ola Brown, Nancy Ballard and Gladys Williams were continued until the Ju ly 3 session. Assault charges against both Daniel V. Rusher and Patricia Ann Rusher were continued until the August 29 session. The court also found probable cause for brewing, entering and larceny charges against both Michael Kirkpatrick and Bill Fricks and sent -Continued on Page 5 Unemployment Unchanged The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate statewide in creased slightly during May, according to figures released last wekk by the North Carolina Employment Security Com mission (ESC.) Unemployment across North Carolina increased by one tenth of one percent during the month to 5.9 percent of the workforce. National unemployment statistics showed a rate of 7.3 percent during the month, as it has for the past three mon ths. Among the 10 largest states, only North Carolina, New Jersey <4.7 percent) and Florida (5.2 percent) were below sue percent unemployment during the month. Unemployment increased by 4,000 workers during the month, according to the Dept. of Labor's statistics. The seasonally unadjusted rate for May was 5.4 percent. The ESC reported that some 2,884,000 North Carolinians are employed, while 181,000 were without jobs. Marshall Tables Budget Decision By ROBERT KOENIG Marshall aldermen postponed a final decision on the town's 1985-86 operating budget Monday night dur ing their monthly meeting. The aldermen will meet with the town's auditor later this week to iron out details of a proposed $261,503 budget presented on Monday. The aldermen also postponed final action on a series of budget amend ments needed to bring the town's pre sent budget into balance as required by law. Mayor Betty Wild instructed town secretary Linda Dodson to set up a meeting with Brad Pippinger, the town's auditor, for sometime later this week. Monday night's meeting was recessed until next Monday, June 17 at 7 p.m. At that time, the aldermen will decide on a budget for the upcom ing fiscal year and approve budget amendments for the current fiscal year. The $261,503 proposed budget presented to the aldermen on Monday would hold property taxes at their present level of 85 cents per $100 of assessed valuation. Town employees would not receive a pay raise under the proposal. The proposed budget would cut town spending on fire, street repairs, sanitation and recreation from pre sent levels while increasing funding for administration and the police department. Debt service payments on the tewn'c bond obligations are a&o scheduled to increase $25,000 over the present budget. A proposed Water and Sewer Dept. budget of $267,500 was also presented for the aldermen's consideration, but a decision on the budget was also tabled until next Monday night. Aldermen Ed Niles and Sammy Lunsford questioned figures for the Water and Sewer Dept. income regar ding collections for sewer charges in the upcoming fiscal year. The proposed 1985-86 budget calls for the town to collect $187,200 in sewer charges next year, in addition to some $78,000 in water charges. The monthly report on the department reveals that the town collected some $28,474 in sewer fees in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year. Both Niles and Lunsford questioned if the 1985-86 figure, which shows an in crease of about $160,000, could be cor rect. Mayor Wild said she would ask the town's auditor for an explanation of the figures. In addition to tabling a decision on the budget, the aldermen also postponed approving budget amend ments to the current budget The proposed budget amendments would increase the town's original general fund budget for the current year from the $224,147 approved last June to $312,220. The increase in pro jected revenues came from $23,720 carried over from the town's 1983-84 budget, $37,353 in additional ad valorem taxes and a state grant of $35,000 used to purchase .a new gar tttge ttudb . ' . v? . ;s, -Continued on Page 2 PROPOSED BUDGET-MARSHALL GENERAL FUND 1985-86 FISCAL YEAR REVENUES: Ad Valorem tax $160,000 Other taxes 44,000 Intergovernmental Unrestricted 15,000 Powell Bill 17,500 Licenses and permits 1,500 Investments Earnings 3,000 Sales and Services. 5,000 Miscellaneous 5,000 Fund Balance from 1984-85 11,253 TOTAL REVENUES $261,503.00 EXPENDITURES: Administration $63,500 Police Dept 45,000 Fire 7,000 Streets 34,000 Sanitation 8,500 Cemetery ? 500 Debt Service: Principal $11,000 Interest 50,000 Elections .' 750 Recreation 2,000 TOTAL EXPENDITURES $2*1.303 WALNUT CREEK NEIGHBORS gathered recently to erect a planter at the entrance to the community on U.S. 25-70. Standing with the completed planter are, I. to r.: Ralph Ramiev. Abner Wilde, Raymond Wilde. Clarence Faulkner and Junior Wilde. Workers are members of Uie newly-formed Walnut Creek Commiaiity Development Dub. Southern Baptists Face Doctrinal Shoot -out In Dallas BY DIANE WINSTON Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of -soup; the Rev. William H. Puckett fears that Baptists will sell their bir thright equally cheap. "Our birthright is being stolen from us by the religious and political right," said Puckett. pastor at Mtllbrook Baptist Church in Raleigh "It's a birthright of freedom and autonomy, and we're just standing by and letting it happen.'' But conservatives dismiss such worries as groundless To them, the iaMMt at stake are matters of fairness By and large, those who support itive causes are not for unanimity said the Rev. David Horner, nee Baptist mm is members gathered Tuesday in Dallas for what is expected to be one of the most tempestuous annual conven tions in years Denomination offlcals predict a "shoot-out"-as conservatives and moderates square off in a series of skirmishes for control of the nation's largest Protestant denomination Among the battles to be fought during the three-day gathering are the elec tion of president, appointments to committees and resolutions Rumor has it that the losing side may pull oat of the convention, but representative* of both positions say it's hard to imagine anyone walking away from an organization whose 1984 budget reached $109 million, whose assets totaled *2 l billion and which directs the largest missionary effort, til the vorU. J I don't see the denomination rt' damentalists, decided that the con vention had moved too far from con servative principles Mounting a sophisticated, well financed campaign, conservatives accused Southern Baptistofficals of permitting a "drift toward liberalism." To counter the trend, they set out to gain control of the SBC pretidency-a powerful position because the presi dent appoints members to the board that selects trustees for the denomination's 20 agencies and six seminaries , With the 1979 election of the Rev Adrian Rogers of Memphis, Tenn., to the SBC presidency, the fundamen talists began housecleaning. Six years later, they've made inroads in to filling boards with their partisans sion effort. The mission effort, financed by the Cooperative Plan, subsidizes domestic and international evangelism. Faithful to what they see as the Great Commission, Baptists believe that winning souls to Jesus is a divine mandate. Moderates say that is that mandate rather than any doc trine that has knit Baptists together In addition to Parks' criticisms, seminary presidents Roy L Honeycutt at Southern in Louisville. Russell Dilday at Southwestern in Fort Worth and W. Randall Lolley at Southeastern in Wake Forest have de nounced what they claimed was an unsubstantiated allegations of liberal bias on their faculties "It's a straw man," said UUey. responding to the fundamentalist charges "Theolosical issues an v M R w ? *? N v response to pressure from conser vatives, but rather to desires express ed by Baptists for broader represen tation on faculties "The last thing I want to do is to capitulate to mean-spirited people," he said. "I think Southeastern is a good seminary, a conservative and I think it could | us to ^lablish it as a with iinbpenne$.s to our people " Lolley is among the moderates, who previously preached tolerance and eschewed are fighting back. Por ? regional groups c" this year is the denominational presidency. Although Stanley of Atlanta is eligible for a second term, moderates hope their candidate, the Rev. W. Winfred Moore of Amarillo. Texas, can defeat him. Conservatives say Stanley can't lose. "I think Dr. Stanley will be elected and then we'll go home and go on as usual,'' said the Rev Robert If. Tenery of Morganton "I don't think there'll be any bloodletting or
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