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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
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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
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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
<m effort to organize their supporters
for the convention in Dallas
"I think moderates did much better
than in the past,'' said James L.
Guth. a political science professor at
Furman University, a Baptist
affiliated school in Greenville. S.C.
"Moderates haven't made a big effort
until last year."
Rallying around the idea of
missions- seen by Baptists as a divine
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PAINT JOB AT THE MARSHALL GLOVE
PLANT has been completed by Sheldon
Greene and crew. Windows in the plant were
painted to feature visitors with a view of the
plant as they might have seen near the turn of
the century.
Farm Bureau Opposes
Tobacco Buy-out Plans
A. L. MAY
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The N. C. Farm Bureau Federation
has mailed a letter to Sen. Jesse A.
Helms, R-N.C., saying it cannot tup
port the legislative proposals being
circulated by the senator as changes
needed to save the federal tobacco
program
In the letter to Helms obtained Fri
day. W. B. Jenkins, president at the
I inges shouli
the draft proposals but it
'? Friday what changes the
>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