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?ff$j m i SERVING THE PEOPLE O' " An'' MADISON uainr s/nce ?90i COUNTY LIBRARY GENERAL DELIVERY MARSHALL Nc WEDNESDAY, JUiy 28753 25? -Story On Page 8 . . iii Community Calendar Laurel Class Of 1959 Plans Reunion The Laurel High School Class of 1959 will hold its 26th reu nion on July 27 at 4 p.m. in the Western Steer Restaurant in Mars Hill. All former Laurel students, graduates or not, who attended with the Class of '59 are invited to attend. : Redmon Family Reunion Planned Members of the Redmon family (also spelled Redman, Red mond) have been invited to the 29th annual reunion at the Red mon Cemetery near Leicester. Registration will take place Sunday, July 28 from 11 a.m. to noon. The cemetery is off Bear Creek Road, which turns off the Alexander Road in Leicester. Signs will be posted. Further information is available from Evelyn Redmon Davis in Asheville, 254-1849. Mars Hill Car Show, Ham Dinner The Mars Hill Volunteer Fire Dept. will hold its 14th annual Car Show on July 27-29 at the Mars Hill Elementary School. On July 28, the firemen will sponsor a ham and roast beef dinner in the school cafeteria from noon until 1:30 p.m. Proceeds from both events will benefit the fire department's programs. Job Training Class Offered The Opportunity Corp. will offer a five-day job search train ing program July 22-26 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Mars Hill Baptist Church. Participation" is free. More information is available from the corporation at 649-3231. A-B Tech Madison Center Offers Painting Classes In Hot Springs Asheville-Buncombe Tech's Madison County Center at Hot Springs will offer beginning and intermediate drawing and painting classes, starting today. The beginners' drawing and painting class will meet Wednesday afternoons from 2 to 5, and the intermediate class Wednesday evenings from 6 to 9.. Each class will run 10 weeks, and will be held at the Hot Spr ings Senikor Citizens Center. Paula Parker will be the instruct tor. Fee will be $19. Applicants may pre-register by phoning the Madison County Center office Ul! 1WHMHUU JJWlfillUU? School, 649-2947, or coming by the center. SART Presents 'Fire On The Mountain' "Fire On the Mountain," the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theater's fourth production of the season will open Friday at Owen Theater, Mars Hill College, to run until July 28 except for July 22. The drama, by Nora St. John, examines the lives and hopes of an Appalachian family on the day they await the return of the "prodigal" son. Curtain times are 8: 15 evenings anda 2:30 matinee on Sunday. The scene is set outside the roadside fruitstand home of the Hooker family in Ashe County. The play was picked from some 30 original scripts submitted to SART's fourth annual Playwrights' Workshop last February. Commodities To Be Distributed Surplus cheese and butter will be distributed at Dept. of Social Services headquarters in Marshall today and tomor row. Sewer Trench Collapses, Marshall Man Is Killed A 41-year old Marshall man was killed Friday afternoon in a construc tion accident on the Mars Hill sewer project. Tommy Richard Massey of Smith Hollar Rd was killed when a portion of a trench he was working in collapsed, burying him benath the ground. At the time of the accident, Massey, an employee of the Cooper Construc tion Co. of Hendersonville, was work ing with a crew preparing to install a manhole on Homestead Road. A backhoe was preparing the 12-foot deep trench when a wall of the four foot wide trench collapsed, complete ly burying Massey. Fellow workers on the project were the first to come to Massey's aid, us ing hand tools to uncover the buried worker's head. Members of the Mars Hill Volunteer Fire Dept., Madison County EMS and Sheriff E.Y. Ponder arrioved at the scene shortly after the 3:15 p.m. accident. Massey was not immediately killed by the cave-in, as in other published reports. Workers at the scene were able to communicate with the buried man before he was removed from the trench by rescue workers who dug by hand to free the victim. Firemen used ?Uk. - sheets of plywood and four-by-fours to shore up the remaining trench walls and prevent further caving-in of the trench. A Buncombe County EMS team was called to the scene and began ad ministering cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to the victim while workers dug to free him. Mars Hill physician Dr. W.O. Duck told reporters, "He was dead before they ever got him out." It took the workers more than two hours to free the victim by digging out handfuls of the dirt. Funeral services for the Marshall native were held on Monday after noon in the Doe Branch Community Church. Mr. Massey is survived by his parents, a son and two brothers. Complete obituary details appear on Page 3. The accident was the second since construction on the sewer project began in May. Earlier this month, workmen installing a sewer line mistakenly cut a main telephone line, wiping out service for much of the county. Friday's accident was the first involving a fatality on the $2 million project. v . ... . .: . , ?< Photo by Bob Koonig MARSHALL SWELTERED UNDER TEMPERATURES in the high nineties Monday afternoon. Heavy thundershowers Monday night brought temporary relief from the heat spell. RESCUE WORKERS ATTEMPT TO DIG OUT TOMMY MASSE Y following collapse of trench he was working in. The 41-year old Marshall man died after being buried in the con struction accident on the Mars Hill sewer project. Ballard Cleared On Assault Charge Mars Hill Elementary School teachers' aide Nancy Ballard was found not guiltyof assualt charges during the session of Madison County District Court held on July 3. Ballard was charged by Janie Robinson in connection with an incident on a school bus earlier this year. Ballard laso charged Robinson with assault in connection with the incident. Judge Alexander Lyerly found Robinson guilty of assault charges and ordered her to make restitution in the amount of $36 to Ballard. Robinson also received a 30-day suspended jail sentence and was ordered not to threaten school person nel in the future. Charges of trespass ing and damage to property against Robinson were dismissed A number of other cases were also dismissed during the July 3 session Charges of damage to property and larceny against Harry Norton were dropped, as were charges of damage to property against Norman Roberts and misdemeanor assault charges against Chris Lunsford and assault charges against James Haynie. Eric Paul pleaded guilty to com municating threats and received a six -month suspended sentence Gary Hensley pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking, entering and larceny and received a two-year suspended sentence and a $200 fine. Judge Phillip Ginn presided over the July 5 session of District Court, which dealt with traffic cases. Wayne Fore was convicted of level 2 driving while impaired (DWI) and received a one-year suspended sentence and $350 fine. Fore was ordered to serve a seven-day active jail sentence. Gregory Lee Griffin and Annie Shelton Ray were also convicted of level 2 DWI and also received $350 fines, seven day active jail sentences and one-year suspended sentences. Joseph Ronnie Jones was convicted of level 1 DWI. Jones was fined $450 and ordered to serve 14 days in the Madison County jail. Jones also received a two-year suspended sentence and was ordered to serve supervised probation. District Court sessions are schedul ed for Thursday and Friday this week. Dean Shields Dies At 68 Well-know Marshall radio per sonality A. Dean Shields died unex pectedly Saturday at the age of 68. Shields owned and operated Mar shall's only radio station, WMMH AM, for nearly 30 years. Several generations of Marshall residents awoke each morning to hear Shields's early morning news and music broadcast, "Breakfast Country Style " Although a resident of Buncombe County most of his life. Shields was active in Madison County civic af fairs as a member of the MarshaH Merchants Association and Lions Club. Along with Don Luckadoo, Shields organized the annual Mar shall Christmas pageant for mam DOT Board Approves Road Funds The North Carolina Board of TransportaUon approved over $47 million in secondary road construe tion improvement* during a July 12 meeting in Raleigh. Madiaon County will receive (783,639 In funding to install new pav ing. widen existing roads, replace Dewey Messer Joins News Record Staff Dewey Mener of Whittier has join ed the staff of The News Record. He is a rising junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, major ing in journalism. Messer, 30, is participating in an in terrwhip proerp which he works ^^Uferen. Jipapes across the sift1 during jf summer He is a r?|Wting interff*and hu worked for two other North Carolina newspapers. The Alamance News
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