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SERVING THE PEOP ' * OF M/Spll: COUNTY SINCE 790? son C0{JHT y . GFh>PRAL n?^RV N^RSHall Tvf*v 25c Nc Ebbs Chapel Sing Ebbs Chapel Volunteer Fire Dept will sponsor a gospel singing this afternoon (Wednesday) at 2 o'clock at Upper Laurel Community Center. Special singers will include the Kingsmen. Food and other refreshments will be served. Lawn chairs should be brought. American Legion American Legion Post 317's meeting has been postponed un til August. Child-Find A child-find program will be held today from 1 to 7 p.m. at Upper Laurel Day Care Center. Annual Rodeo . * J . " - * The Marshall Volunteer Fire Dept. reminds people of the area about the annual Rodeo, to be held today and tomorrow, July 3 and 4, on the Island at Marshall. Features will include calf-roping, saddle bronc riding, barrel racing and bulkiding, and a fireworks display will be included. Delbert and Silver Reunion The George Delbert and Sudie Silver family reunion will be held July 7 at 11 a.m. in the Mars Hill Elementary School cafeteria. All friends and relatives are invited. Mars Hill Library Hosts 3rd Forum On Peace, Patriotism By PAUMNE CHEEK The Mars Hill Town Library on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock will again be the scene of a lively discus sion of issues related to peacemaking and patriotism. To stimulate audience participa tion, Rev. Marie Bean, campus minister for Mars Hill College, will focus on the church and peacemaking and will report on her trip last year to Nicaragua. The public is urged to attend the event, which is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the North Carolina Humanities Committee. Sunday's forum is the third in a series designed as part of a state wide consideration of Church, State and the First Amendment. In February 1986 there will be a sym posium on the subject sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to which representatives from each county will be invited. Anyone interested in further informa tion or in attending may leave name and address at one of the county's branch libraries. Dr: Gene Rainey, chairman of the political science department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, introduced the Mars Hill series with an overview titled "Politics, Religion and International Affairs." The current electronic religion, he said, is not a substitute for the mainline church but a supple ment to it. . Calling attention to the fact that development of the present "religion of the heart" has coincided with the emergence of a new type of civil religion and a resurgence of the will to use force in foreign affairs. Rainey said "we have polarized on moral issues. Liberation theology, which asks who makes the poor*' confronts the U.S. with two issues: whether religion can solve the pro of the world and whether we policy, can do in manipulating public opinion. In the mid-1960s, Latimer asserted, the U.S. enjoyed a superiority that would enable it to make the first strike, but it has now lost that advan tage. "Peace idiots who travel" and other "useful idiots," he maintained, are conducting a "disinformation campaign" and constitute a threat from within. During the ensuing discussion, the dominant view expressed was that the question is not military but moral. Among participants were some hikers on the Appalachian Trail who happened to be passing through-the area and came to the library as a way of finding out about local people Mars Hill Plans $1,200 Fireworks At dark on July 4th, the Mars Hill Lions Club plans to display $1,200 worth of fireworks-largest such display the club has ever had The fireworks display will be the culmination of the club's celebration of the holiday starting ?t 6 p.m. on the 4th with hot dogs, hamburgers and barbecued chicken % ofli As part of a move by the State Board of Elections to place Republican majorities on t?* 1<X county boards. Madison County will have a new Board of Elections effec ilan Relaxing Saturday after acquittal Friday, Jim Adams and his family were off to see friends in Bluff. Jury Finds Jim Adams N ot Guilty By ELIZABETH SQUIRE A Madison County jury Friday found James Arthur Adams innocent of first-degree murder and common law obstruction of the justice in the 1970 death of Nancy Morgan. Adams planned to delay his return to his home in Venice, Fla , and spend most of this week visiting with friends in the Bluff area, where he was a Vista volunteer ? and became a murder suspect ? 15 years ago. Without those friends, Adams said after his acquittal, preparations for his trial and the trial itself wolild have been "totally unbearable." Adams had been charged last year with the 1970 murder of Morgan, a fellow Vista volunteer whose nude body was found hog-tied with parachute cord in such a way that she strangled. The body was found on Wednesday, June 17, 1970, in the back seat of Morgan's car, abandoned in a wood road off U. S. 25-70 at Tanyard Gap. Adams was also charged, with common-law obstruction of justice, a charge arising from the alleged removal of the body from the scene of the crime. When the prosecution rested on Wednesday, the third day of the trial. Judge Robert D. Lewis agreed to drop a charge of common-law rape. Adam's attorney, Joe Huff, petitioned the judge on the grounds that District Attorney Tom Rusher had not presented evidence that rape occur red. Members of the jury said after the verdict that they did not find suffi cient evidence to convict Adams of any of the charges. "it seems at times that Johnqy Waldroup, not Jim Adams, was on trial here," said Asst. District At torney James Baker toward the end of the trial. Witnesses for both the prosecution and the defense said that Waldroup had a reputation for not telling the truth. Yet much of the trial testimony concerned the truth or un truth of Waldroup's eyewitnss ac count of the murder. The prosecution asked the jury to believe that ac count. The defense based part of its case an the truth of Waldroup's reported charges that someone was trying to make him "swfear a bunch of lies ? and send my soul to hell." The time of Nancy Morgan's death, either the night of June 14-15, 1970, as alleged by Waldroup, or after Tues June 16, when defense witnesses of the crime t made to.Sheriff E. Y. 1 the loan., meT waidroup at a skating rink, O'Dell said. Waidroup told him someone was trying to accuse him of a murderin North Carolina, "trying to pack it on him," O'Dell said. Waidroup told O'Dell of having look ed in a window and seen a tied body on a couch, then how "they" forced him to drive one car to take the body to the top of a mountain, O'Dell said. Warren Gillespie of Alexander testified that "maybe two years ago," WaLdroup called Gillespie from jail and told him something was "eating him up," gfltesbie visited Waldfoup, who said be had seen the woman tied up, saw her move, went in to cut her loose, and someone had smashed his nose. Adams and another man were there, and they had forced him to take part as two cars were driven to a place where the body was left in a little-used road. Waidroup said Adams had thrown something into the woods, then left, Gillespie testified. Adams was afraid to tell because nobody would believe him, Gillespie said. He had advised Waidroup to tell and get it off his con science, Gillespie said. Sheriff Ponder said that in December 1963 Waidroup told him about seeing the body and being made to help dispose of it. The sheriff reported further details, for example, that' Waidroup said that Cleatis Waidroup, Johnny's brother, and a friend, Ralph had told Johnny at about 11:30 on Sunday evening, June 14, that there was a party going on at Adams' house. The sheriff also said -Continued on Page 9 Counij Phones Knocked Out Because of a construction mishap in Mars Hill, all local phone service in Mars Hill and Marshall plus all long distance service in Madison County were knocked out from Wednesday evening until' late Thursday after noon. "It was a mess," said Tom Doyle, state service manager for Continen tal Telephone, who warned that con tinued repair work over the next several days "could possibly, on oc casion, result" in an interruption for individual customers for short periods. "We thank our customers for their patience and understandings," said Doyle. Doyle said the problem was caused when Cooper Construction Co. of Hendersonville, countractor for the Mars Hill municipal sewer project, "cut Continental Telephone Co.'s underground duct system" at the cor ner of South Main Street and Route 213 in Mars Hill. The duct system, he added, contained the liber optic local service facility for Mars Hill and Marshall, the long distance cable con necting Madison County with the rest of the world, and a 300-pair local Mars Hill service cable. Local ser vice continued to operate in Hot Spr ings and Guntertown, Doyle said. Another Continental official estimated the cost of repairs at $30,000 to $35,000 and said Cooper Construction would be billed for it. - The phone service interruption brought many headaches to fire, police and ambulance services around the county and played a role in a major murder trial underway last week at the Madison County courthouse (see other story, this issue). ? A defense attorney, Ateeph Huff of Marshall, said the phone interruption kept him from making calls toward the end of the trial of James A. Adams on a charge of murdering Vista worker Nancy Morgan in 1970. Huff said he had wanted to summon several more witnesses but could not because of the phone problem. Adams was acquitted. Continental crews were called in from the company's eastern five county service area after the underground duct service was severed at about 8:45 p.m. Wednes day. Long distance service was restored by 10:45 Thursday morning (but, of course, required a dial tone local customers weren't able to get); local and toll service for Marshall customers and those Mars Hill customers not served by the local 300- pair cable were back by 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, with all customers back working by 4:30 that afternoon. The mishap affected long-distance County OKs 5' Tax Hike The Madison County Board of Com missioners gave final approval Fri day to the county's 1985-86 budget, which calls for a 5-cent tax increase to 90 cents per $100 of valuation. Total expenditures planned by the county for the upcoming year total $7, $33,481, of which $1,764,000 will be raised by local property taxes and $5,709,481 from other sources. Earlier in the month, the commis sioners gave tentative approval to a tax increase; county finance officer David Caldwell then prepared an itemized budget that was unveiljd at a public hearing on Ji^ne 10 miss loners' action Friday placed the final stamp on the new budget and tax funds available in support of other in dustries, The board also received a report Monday from the Madison County ambulance service that it made 88 ambulance runs in June, down from 97 runs in May ; and that total billings in June were 84,064 and total collec tions 84,541 53. of which 8385.20 represented delinquent accounts Decamps Set Summer Fun service for 666 phones in Hot Springs and 472 in Guntertown, along with all service for 2,544 customers in Mars Hill and 1,671 customers in Marshall. Bar Group Opposes Court Idea The Madison County Bar Assn. on Monday unanimously opposed a plan being discussed in judicial circles whereby Madison would be withdrawn from the 24th Judicial District and joined with Buncombe County in the 28th District. Members of the bar group, the resolution states, "feel that no good purpose or advantage would be serv ed by this proposal," and that the pre sent district alignment "has served the people of Madison County and the cause of justice well." Madison County is now joined in a single district with four similarly sized counties ? Yancey, Mitchell, Avery and Watauga. Any change in the districting would have to be made by the General Assembly. Combining Madison and Buncombe into a single district ap parently has some support from legislative leaders. The county bar association's resolution, sent to the General Assembly to Bay the group "strongly opposes" the change, was signed by Charles E. Mashburn, president of the t>ar group, and Stephen E. Huff, its secretary. Child Hurt By Car Jesse Moore, 3, who was badly in jured two weeks ago when he was struck by a car on Bear Creek Road, was reportedly improving this week at Memorial Mission Hospital in Asheville. The child, a grandson of Floyd Moore of Bear Creek, was struck by a car driven by Robert A. Lee. Highway patrol troopers investigated but made no arrest. Ambulance service personnel report that a call about the accident indicated it occurred in thge Walnut Creek area, but the ambulance was unable to locate the child. The child was taken in the car to the Marshall Town Hall, from whence the car was directed to the Marshall-Walnut clinic. When the ambulance arrived there, medical personnel at the clinic had stabilized the child's condition, and a doctor on the clinic ctaff ac companied the ambulance to the hospital. Injuries included a skull fracture and wounds bn the left side of the child's body, as well as internal in juries. Nagle Joins News Record . ' As Ad Rep. ? Wayne Nagle of Walnut, a transplanted Floridian and native Pennsylvanian, has Joined T>e Newt Record as an advertising represen tative. Nagle, who has been in the printing , business since retired two years
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