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Tobacco Field Day Set For Aug. 1
The annual Madison County Burley Tobacco Field Day will
be held on Thursday, Aug. 1 on the Roy Ammons farm in Mars
Hill. Registration will begin at 9 a.m.
The tour is co-sponsored by the Madison County
Agricultural Extension Service and the Burley Growers
Association.
The field day will feature discussions on disease, control,
varieties, fertilization and sod planting. There will also be an
update for farmers on the latest developments in the federal
tobacco program. A free lunch will be served and there will be
drawings for numerous prizes.
For more-?-.">mation on the field day, contact Wiley DuVall
at 649-2411.
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.
Davis Family Reunion Sunday
The Garfield and Susie Davis family reunion will be held on
July 28 at noon at the Old Mill Wheel on Laurel River. Family
members and friends are invited to attend and bring along a
covered dish.
Corn-Metcalf F amily Reunion
The annual Corn-Metcalf family reunion will be held at the
Bull Creek Baptist Church, one mile off Hwy.213 on Aunday,
Aug. 4. Family members and friends will meet for lunch in the
church recreation area. Everyone is asked to bring along a
covered dish and join in the fellowship.
Deadline for all Community Calendar announcements is
Monday at noon.
Fight Lands Former
Teammates In Jail
By DEWEY MKSSKK
A fistfight between former team
mates resulted in jail sentences for
both men after they entered guilty
pleas to fighting in District Court last
week.
Judge Phillip C. Ginn sentenced
Jeffery Flynn of Marshall to 14 days
in jail for fighting on a Mars Hill
street during Thursday's session of
the Madison County District Court.
Flynn also received a six-month
suspended sentence for damaging
flowers and sidewalk benches in
Mars Hill on a separate charge in an
unrelated incident
The first charge resulted from a
fight with James K. Jones, which was
a continuance of a fight the two men
were involved in earlier this summer
while on a trip to the beach following
graduation from Madison H.S..
Flynn and Jones were formerly
teammates on the Madison H.S.
basketball team.
Jones said his shoulder was
dislocated during the fight at the
beach. At that time, he told Flynn
they would fight again sometime
after he had recovered.
Mars Hill Police Officer Donald T.
Shepherd testified he had found the
two in a scuffle and that they had ap
parently arranged the fight. He said
they had been told to leave Ingles
Supermarket earlier in the day. No
injuries resulted from the fight.
Shepherd said.
Judge Ginn sentenced Jones to 30
days in the county jail on the fighting
charge. All but 24 hours of the
sentence was suspended on the condi
tion that he pay court costs and not
assault Flynn again. He was ordered
to report to the jail at 8 p.m. Friday to
serve the 24-hour sentence.
The judge postponed sentencing
Flynn on the fighting charge until he
heard testimony on the second
charge.
Flynn and Robert M. Riddle were
charged with destroying seven con
tainers of geraniums pnd two
sidewalk benches in Mars Hill The
damaged flowers and benches had
been installed by the Mars Hill Com
munity Development Club.
Violet Navy, chairman of the club,
said Riddle had called her on Mon
day, a day after the incident, to
apologize and had offered to make
restitution. She said Flynn called
Wednesday to apologize
Officer Shepherd testified that Rid
dle had repaired the benches
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Mars Hill Mayor
Bill Powell Resigns
Accepts Board Of Elections Post
By ROBERT KOENIG
Mars Hill Mayor Bill Powell officially resigned the post he
had held for nearly 20 years last week. Powell stepped down
from the mayorship in order to accept an appointment to the
Madison County Board of Elections.
State law prohibits election board members from holding
elective office.
Powell first announced his intentions at the July 1 meeting
of the board of aldermen. The resignation was effective on Ju
ly 16. Powell formally resigned in a letter to the aldermen
presented at the July 1 meeting.
In the letter, Powell thanked the aldermen and the town's
people for their support. "I appreciate the support over the
past 20 years that the citizens, past and present Board of
Aldermen members and dedicated and tireless employees
have given me. Without this hard work and community sup
port, our town would not be in the excellent condition that it is
in today."
Powell was first elected as Mars Hill's mayor in 1965. His
present term expires in November.
In a telephone interview with The News Record, Powell
said, "Twenty years is enough for anyone. I think it's time so
meone else took over. I decided to step down several months
ago when my name was first submitted for the board of elec
tions. I've enjoyed it and had the chance to work with a lot of
good people in the past 20 years." -Continued on Page 8
Photo by Boll Koontg
BILL POWELL
...Mars Hill Mayor resigns
Dr. Duck Named As Interim Mayor
Anderson Appointed To Town Boar
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* Dir. W O. Duck was named to serve asMarsTTiirs lHWflM
mayor last week following the resignation of Bill Powell, who
stepped down to accept a post on the Madison County Board of
Elections. Dr. Duck was named as the interim mayor at a
special called meeting of the Mars Hill Board of Aldermen on
July 16. Duck had served as the town's Vice Mayor since 1983.
Dr. Duck was first named to the town's board in 1983, replac
ing alderman Carl Eller who stepped down for health reasons.
He won election in his own right during the 1983 minicipal
elections.
The aldermen also voted to named Mars Hill dairy farmer
Franklin Anderson to Dr. Duck's vacated seat on the board of
aldermen. Anderson ran unsuccessfully for the position in
1983.
Both Duck and Anderson will serve until after the November
municipal election.
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General Assembly Funds Local Needs
The 1985 North Carolina General
Assembly adjourned in Raleigh
Thursday, ending one of the longest
sessions in state history. Before ad
journment, the lawmakers approved
an $11 million package of appropria
tions for local projects.
The appropriations bill drew
criticism from Republicans, who
staged a walkout in the House
chamber. Democrats, notably House
Speaker Liston B. Ramsey of Mar
shall, defended the spending
package
All three Madison County towns
received funds in the "pork barrel"
apprpopriations apckage.
Mars Hill was the biggest winner
this year, receiving $35,000 for the
purchase of a new garbage truck. A
similar grant in 1964 allowed Mar
shall to replace its aging truck.
Marshall and Hot Springs each
received grants of $10,000 each. Mar
shall is to use the funds to purchase a
new patrol car for the town's police
department. One of the department's
two cars was stolen and destroyed
earlier this year.
The Hot Springs grant is to be used
to maintain and upgrade the town's
water system.
Hot Springs will also expand its
borders as a result of late action
taken in the General Assembly. The
80-acre industrial site on which is
located the former Melville Shoe Co.
plant will be returned to the town
limit* as the result of legislation in
troduced by Rep. Charles Beall of
Canton.
The plant and adjacent property
are currently leased by the Dayco
Corp, who announced plans to
operate the plant in 14M during labor
negotiations with workers at the
Dayco plant in Waynesville. Dayco
dropped plans to use the Hot Springs
plant following settlement of the
labor dispute and pledged to find
another tenant for the abandoned
facility.
Hot Springs officials, dissatisfied
with progress in locating a tenant,
asked the General Assembly to allow
annexation of the 80-acre site earlier
this year.
Hettie Ponder Tours The Soviet Union
BY DEWEY MESSEK
Hettie Ponder of Oteen recently
returned from a professional clinical
study tour of various parts of the
Soviet Union. The wife of Grover
Ponder, she is a staff nurse at the
Oteen Veterans Administration
Hospital
Mrs. Ponder left the U.S. from New
York's John F. Kennedy Interna
tional Airport on June II. She flew to
Ireland with 37 other medical profes
sionals on the same tour and boarded
I an Aeroflot plane for Moscow
She spent about fivt day* In
* Moscow, then flew south to the i'i u of
visited the childrens' hospital there to
see how their Soviet counterparts
treated diseases.
During a tour of Moscow the group
saw the State circus. "I believe if
Barnum and Bailey had seen it, they
would' ve wanted some of those acts,"
Mrs. Ponder said.
The group also toured the Pushkin
Museum and the palace of Catherine
the Great Catherine furnished
several palaces with paintings, which
arc now scattered around Moscou
and Leningrad, Mrs. Ponder added.
' 'We were there five days, and busy
?very minute," "
"We saw the
their faces. There was a
i-not arrogance, the way
some harshness is. It was (ear, I
? you might say.
And this was throughout Russia,
but the people in Yerevan and
Georgia were more cheerful
"There weren't many ears in
Moscow has i million people
it had as many cars, probably, as
does Most of the cars were
really buses and trucks
Members of the group were allowed
t* speak with some nurses in the first
and the last hospitals they visited.
"The doctor said most of what ha
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3,000 rubles a mo
"We said, 'Now '
tors make ISO rubles a i
He said, 'Oh. U*y do He said his
father gat a bonus for being a pro
fessor, a bonus for being a surgeon
and two or three other
said his father had
grateful patients.'
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