K The NEWS RECORD SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1901 ,r?AYcJune 19, 1985 25C Buy-out Agreement Reached Story On Pane 5 Hot Springs Child Find The Hot Springs Housing Authority in cooperation with the town's police department, will sponsor a Child Identification Day on Saturday from 1 until 4 p.m. Parents with children they wish to have fingerprinted should bring them to the French Broad Circle Apartments offices. Fingerprint records will be given to parenst for safekeeping. farmer Of Year Award Nominations Are Sought The deadline for nominations for the Young Male and Young Female Farmer of the Year awards is July 1. The awards will be presented during the fifth annual Young Farmer Rancher luncheon at the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh The awards are co-sponsored by the N.C. State Fair and the state Farm Bureau Federation. Nomina tion forms are available at the Madison County Extension Service office in Marshall and at Farm Bureau offices. Completed forms should be sent to the NCDA Public Af fairs Division, P.O. Bojt 27647, Raleigh. NC 27611. Farmers 35 years old or younger who are responsible for major pro duction or management roles in a far ming operation are eligible for the awards. Three finalists will be selected by a panel of qualified judges. The panel will then visit the three finalists' operations in July to determine the winner. Walnut Cemetery Needs Funds The fund for the upkeep of Walnut Cemetery is in need of donations in order to continue maintainance AH interested persons are asked to send , donations to sustain the project. Donations should be sent to: Mrs. Valerie Guthrie, 41 Academy Rd., Marshall, N.C. 28753. All contribu tions are tax-deductible. Walnut 25-70 Projects Receive Approval By ROBERT KOENIG Madison County received the lion's share of state highway funds approved during last week's meeting of the state Board of Transportation in Raleigh. Citing a shortage of funds, the board agreed to halt granting contracts for all federal-aid road projects except Interstate 40, projects currently under construction and projects deemed essential to public safety for the next three months. Madison County projects account for more than $7.1 million of $12.2 million in contracts the state board approved during the meeting. The board awarded a $5.07 million contract to the Taylor and Murphy Construction Co. of Asheville for widening a 4.1-mile section of U.S. 25-70 from N.C. 208 to Hickory Flats Rd., northwest of Marshall. The board also approved a $2 million contract with the P.M. Alexander Construction Co. of Asheville for the construction of a two-lane Walnut bypass. The 24-foot wide bypass will be ap proximately one-half mile long with eight to 10-foot shoulders. The intersections with U.S. 25-70 will also be widened as part of the contract. The board froze spending on new projects when it learned that the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), a pro gram that schedules roading building and improvements, was $150 million below budget for the programs in the plan The board passed a resolution which placed the blame for the deficit on the past board. The resolution, which passed unanimously, said in part, "Hie responsibility for this pro blem caused by the overprogramming and overcommittment lies with the previous administration." The resolution was presented by board member Randy D. Doub of Greenville, who told reporters, "The system in previous years has been abused. It is my hope we can reture some integrity to the TIP process. Work on the Madison County projects is expected to begin next month. Ted Smith of Swannanoa, the Madison County representative on the board, said that work on the Walnut Bypass should be completed by August, 1986. The project to widen U.S. 25-70 will be completed by Nov.. 1986. Smith said Convention Politics Continues To Divide Baptists Georgia Conservative Re-Elected Southern Baptist President D., ni A llllMCTnV uj I'ifiii nuioum The News and Observer Despite prayers and preaching, peace proved elusive for moderates and conservatives at the 128th Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas last week. The stakes- control of a denomina tion with 14.3 million members, an annual budget of $130 million and 12 billion in assets- proved too high, and peace evaporated amid controversies over board appointments and accusa tions of ballot-stuffing. The people who stood to lose the most from the bickering in the in creasingly polarized deonomination were the Bible-believing Baptists who want to do nothing more than to follow the faith "They're pious people, not politi cians," said Samuel S. Hill, professor of religion at Florida State University in Gainesville and a longtime observer of the denomination. "They love Jesus, and they can't believe the Lord of the church is not able to keep the church from fighting with itself." That fighting goes back to 1978, when conservatives vowed to take control of the denomination after blaming moderate officials for a liberal drift in Baptist institutions Some attribute the struggle to dif ferent understandings of the way God inspires man, and how man inter prets the Bible. Others, saying secular politics is the culprit, claim that the fundamentalists represent a bid by the Religious Right to take over the nation's largest Protestant denomination. The conservatives' march toward their goal continued in Dallas, where for the seventh straight year, their presidential candidate was elected. The Rev. Charles A. Stanley was elected to his second consecutive term. A record 45,000 messengers- as delegates are called- attended the convention on the day of the vote. "It's been pbsohitely wonderful,'*' Paul Pressler, a Houston judge and one of the chief architects of the fun damentalist strategy, said of the 1985 convention. "There were two main things that needed to be done; Charles Stanley needed to be elected as president, and the Committee on Boards report needed to be approved. Both things were accomplished over great op position." / " ? Weaverville Approves Budget HV KHHKKT KOK.NKi They don't beat around the bush in Weaverville. On Monday night, the Town Council conducted a public hearing on the 1985-86 budgets, adopted same, ap pointed three members to the Board of Elections, conducted otfier town business, heard reports, made small talk and still managed to adjourn within 30 minutes The council approved a $693,060 general fund budget and maintained the town's present tax rate of 45 cents per $100 valuation. The council also approved a $370,450 budget for the town's Water and Sewer Dept. while maintaining present rates for both services The Water and. Sewer Dept. budget of $370,450 includes $49,800 in federal revenue sharing funds the town an ticipates receiving and $61,800 in funds carried over from the present year. The budget anticipates $197,000 in revenues from water customers and an additional $52,000 in sewer fees. Maintenance is the largest ex penditure in the water and sewer budget, taking $264,824 of the $370,450 budffet Eg to be used in gMincil also reappointed I . Louise A. Wright and N< to serve on I of Elections app d ? ere Don Williams Jfe $3,329 will audit the town's general fund and water and sewer ledgers. The council also read the monthly ' 1985-86 BUDGET ORDINANCE TOWN OF WEAVERVILLE, N.C. REVENUES: 1985-86 Ad Valorem Tax 1292,000 Payment for lost taxes .400 Tax refunds -250 Penalties and interest 1,500 Privilege license 850 Franchise fee-CATV 3,000 Interest earned 55,000 Miscellaneous revenue i 750 Franchise tax 55,370 Intangibles tax _18,000 Wine and Beer tax 7,500 Local sales tax 110,000 Contracted fire protection 39,800 Zoning fees 300 Gasoline tax refund ! 850 Sale of labor 50 Pool revenue 9,000 Fire mutual aid fund 2,400 Reimbursement-Sheriff's Dept_ 30,000 Hepavment-Fire Dept. Loan 7,039 Transfer from Water-Sewer Fund 5,500 The president's power is rooted in his authority to apoint the Committee On Committees, which in turn nominates the Committee On Boards. Through its recommendations, the Committee on Boards has influence on who serve* on the boards of trustees of Baptist agencies and in stitutions wc hotl a l.beVal president, he could appoint a liberal Committee on Committees," said Samuel T. Currin, U.S. Attorney for Eastern North Carolina. "Stanley has an absolute right to appoint a conservative com mittee of whoever he pleases. That's one of the perogatives that goes with being president." Exercising this perogative- for seven years, fundamentalists have made significant gains in controlling the boards that govern such agencies as the Home Missions Board, the Foreign Missions Board and six theological seminaries. "They do not ave to have a majori ty on boards of agencies in order to win," said William Leonard, a pro fessor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. "They've already achieved Mjm of their agenda because they're loud and they berate their constituencies." Leonard noted several instances in which the fundamentalists influence could be felt in Baptist life. Women ministers are less likely to be ap pointed to positions funded by the Home Mission Board than in the past Seminary professors are cautious about what they teach because some students taped lectures and sent them to fundamentalist leaders Moderates say that when they held the presidency, they tried to appoint Baptists of varying theological per suasions to committees to promote tolerance of different views. But perceiving a threat to that balance under the conservatives, they made u was demanding as the supjx.ft of the Helms ef As a major alternative to effort to reach agree companies Rose has i to add a tax of as much as on 11 cij retti sold In the U S. to fund " r Epy mt eorge S. Dunlop, (op agriculture aide to Helm*, had Mud U* com panies want a program and they are willing to pay for it." Jenkins wrote, "Wc do not see this willingness on the part of the coi ? panics to pay for a program We see ? willingness oo their part t bu\ tob*< co at drastically reduced prices using world market prices' import at little or no penalty as tht to dictate th< chant.- re