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The m iopn SERVING THE PEO^t OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 190? WEDNESDAY, August 28, 1985 25c Patriots , Black Hawks Kick Off Season Friday Night Barnard ville H. S. Reunion The fifth annual Barnardsville H.S. Reunion will beheld on Sept. 15 from 2 until 5 p.. in the school auditorium. Anyone who ever attended the school is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call 626-2240. Fisher-Fox Family Reunion The annual Fisher-Fox family reunion will be held on Sept. 1 in the Oak Grove Baptist Church. The Rev. Wendell Fisher will be the guest speaker at an 11 a.m. service. Dinner will be served at noon and there will be a special singing in the after noon. County Commissioners Meet The Madison County Board of Commissioners have postpon ed their monthly meeting in September due to the Labor Day holiday. The meeting has been rescheduled on Monday, Sept. 9 in the Madison County Court House at 1 p.m. School Board Meets Sept. 4 The Madison County Board of Education will meet on Sept. 4 at 10:30 a.m. in the Madison County Court House. Hot Springs Aldermen Meet The Hot Springs Board of Aldermen will meet on Sept. 7 at 8 a.m. in Town Hall. Marshall Board Meets Sept. 9 The Marshall Board of Aldermen will meet on Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Town Hall. Mars Hill Board Meets The Mars Hill Board of Aldermen will meet on Sept. 2at 7:30 p.m. in the Madison County Court House. Walkathon Set Neighbors In Need will hold its annual walkathon on Sun day, Sept. 22 from 2 until 4 p.m. All donations will be used to assist the elderly, handicapped and those in crisis in Madison County. Walkers will start and finish in front of the Mars Hill College Student Union. Those interested in walking to raise funds should contact Marian Plaut at 649-2367 or Jerry Jarrell at 689-2911. News Record Office Closed Sept. 2 In observance of the Labor Day holiday, The News Record office will be closed on Monday, Sept. 2. Deadline for all Com munity Calendar and Church Events announcements is Fri day at 5 p.m. for inclusion in the Sept. 11 edition. Fall Festival Set The annual Fall Festival at the Marshall Primary School will be held on Sept. 6 from 4:30 until 8:30 p.m. Games and food will be available and door prizes will be awarded Weaverville Book Sale The Weaverville Public Library will hold its annual Labor Day weekend sale of used books on Saturday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. in the library on Main Street. More than 10,000 second hand boks of all kinds will be offered for sale. Madison Democrats Plan Dinner The Madison County Democratic Party will sponsor a din ner on Sept. 7 at Madison H.S. beginning at 7:30 p.m. Wade Smith, state chairman of the N.C. Democratic Party, will be the featured speaker. Former School! Bus Driver ? Found Guilty Former school bus driver Ronnie Ball was convicted of abduction of a minor Thursday afternoon in Madison County Superior Court. A jury of six men and six women took one hour to arrive at a verdict follow ing two days of testimony. Superior Court Judge Joseph Pachnowski sentenced Ball to four years in prison. The jury found Ball not guilty of a second count of abduction and a single charge of taking indecent liber ties with a minor. Ball was originally also charged with two counts of con tributing to the delinquency of a minor, but those charges were dismissed before the trial began on Wednesday morning. The charges against Ball stemmed from the February disappearance of two Marshall Elementary School students, Teresa Ann Payne and Merilee Goforth. Ball, a bus driver for Marshall Elementary School at the time, took the two girls and a teenaged boy, Jeff Bailey, on a three day joyride before surrendering to Madison County Sheriff E.Y. Ponder. On Wednesday morning, Payne, 13, told the court that Ball had had sex with her. She later recanted her testimony under cressexaminatiog, Both Goforth and Baitvy said they " never saw Ball touch Payne during their three-day trip. Ball admitted taking the girls with him, but denied making sexual ad vances to the teenager. He said he was having marital difficulties at the time of the incident. Ball's wife and daughter sat with him at the defense table throughout the two-day trial. Mrs. Ball testified during Wednes day's session. She told the court that her husband had brought the two girls into their home on several occasions, once to show them movies depicting graphic sexual scenes. The prosecution introduced a stuff ed teddy bear Ball gave to Teresa Payne as a gift at Christmas of last year. In other cases heard during last week's session, Ray and Jerry Marler was found not guilty on charges of breaking, entering and larceny. The brothers has been charged in connection with the theft of fertilizer and farm equipment from the farm of Jessie Mae Ramsey. A jury of nine men and three women acquitted the two men on Tuesday afternoon following two days of testimony. Following the trial, the defense attorney, Joseph Huff, was attacked by Larry Chandler, who earlier had testified as a prosecution witness. Chandler is reported to have struck Huff in the face outside the courthouse following the announcement of the verdict. No ?l*fy?S'have beep filed LarcWy charges against Don Lan caster were dismissed following the presentation of the state's evidence in the case. Lancaster had been charged with purchasing a washer and dryer stolen from a trailer owned by Ver non Ponder. MADISON COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPUTIES UNLOAD A CACHE OF 505 MARIJUANA PLANTS uncovered in a Friday raid in the Grapevine community. Some 860 plants were uprooted in two raids on Fisher Branch Rd. last week. No ar rests have been made, but police said there are several suspects and that an investigation was continuing. School Break-In Suspect Arrested Sheriff E.Y. Ponder and an unnam ed deputy arrested - a 17-year old Leicester man Sunday night in con nection with a break-in at the Mar shall Elementary School on Blan nerhassett Island , ,1 - ? .tony Reems was charged with breaking, entering and larceny after police discovered some $500 worth of frozen foods, cold cuts, hamburger and cheese in a 1974 Plymouth the subject was driving. Reems was ar rested on Blannerhassett Island and taken to the Madison County Jail. He was released Monday afternoon on $5,000 bail Two or three other suspects eluded arrest by jumping into the French Broad River. Sheriff Ponder said on Monday that an investigation into the break-in ?s continuing More arrests are expected in the cace. Hie theft was discovered by Mar shall police officer Randy Hensley at about 9 p.m. Sunday. Hensley reported the theft to Sheriff Ponder. Thieves entered the school lun chroom through a window and were carrying away food when they were discovered. Board Of Elections Names Registrars, Judges The Madison County Board of Elec tions met last week to name registrars and judges for the county's 11 precincts. Those named will serve through 1987. The Republican-dominated board named Republican registrars in all U precincts, while rejecting the Democrats' first choice for judgeships in 9 of the 11 precincts. In North Marshall. Lucretia F. Griffin was named as the registrar. Franklin Frisby. Jr. is the Republican judge and Sammy Lunsford was appointed as the Democratic judge. In South Marshall, the board nam ed Howard Riddle as the registrar Richard Freeman will be the Republican judge and Willard Ball was named the Democratic judge. In Laurel (Township 3), Thomas J. Ray was appointed as the registrar. Muncie Shelton is the Republican judge and Mary Tweed the Democratic judge. In Mars Hill. Jean B. Flowers was named as the registrar. Faye Ball was named as Republican judge and David Wyatt as Democratic judge. Beech Glen (Township 5) will have Don Hall as the registrar Neil Willis is the Republican judge and Shelby Robinson is the Democratic judge In Walnut, Joe Fowler was ap pointed as the registrar. Elizabeth G. Baker was named the Republican judge and Ray Worley was named as Democratic judge. In Hot Springs, Irene Roberts was named as the registrar. Jewell J. Church will serve as the Republican judge and J.C. Wallin is the. Democratic judge. In Ebbs Chapeil (Township 7>, Jim my Willis is the registrar through 1987. Ticky Jenkins will be the Republican judge and George Arr ington the Democratic represen tative. In Spring Creek, Leo Willett was named as the registrar. Rubv E. Plemmons is the Republican judge and Harold Pinley the Democratic judge. In S?ndy Mush (Township 9). Mallie Brown was named as the registrar. Marshall Duckett is the Republican judge and Dinna Graham is the Democratic judge. Terry Arrington was appointed as registrar in the Grapevine precinct. Buster Norton will serve as the Republican judge and Hoye Coates is the Democratic judge In Revere-Rice's Cove (Township 11), Doug Chandler was named as registrar. Ward Adams is the Republican judge and Reuben Gosnell is the Democratic judge. Ponder Charges Republicans Broke The Law The appointments of registrars and judges by the Madison County Board of Elections brought a protest from the minority member of the panel, Z. Herbert Ponder. The lone Democrat on the three member board. Ponder criticised the Republican board members for their handling of the appointments, par ticularly the Democrat's choices for judges. "Ttiey admitted that they took the list of Democratic nominees to the Republican executive committee on Saturday night. I don't think the Republican executive committee should be making decisions regar ding the Democratic judges." State law requires the county party chairmen to submit a list of three pro spective judges and registrars for each precinct at least five days before appointments are made by the Con tinned on Page S Slate To Repair Marshall's Roads By ROBERT KOKMU . , Marshall's streets will receive some $50,000 in repair work this sum mer thanks to a $1.1 million surplus in the state highway repair fund. Marshall Mayor Betty Wild called a special meeting of the town's aldermen Monday night to announce the windfall. The aldermen wasted no time in deciding how th* extra be usad N.C Dept. >f r rtll i in 26 u ' with the surplus funds Marshall s drainage system; Roberts llill K4.n where repairs call for building up road shoulders and repaying; Skyway Drive where curbing will be replaced and the street repaved: and Mala Street, where crew* will be aak ed to install a sidewalk on the north end of town A list of the priority repairs was to be sent to DOT District Engineer Earl McEntire on Tuesday. No date the start of i iriMtystt.. " In addition to the town secretary H ment will mean an additional $l?,76fr.35 for the town's hard-pressed treasury. Much of the additional revenue won't remain in the town's coffers for very long, however, because of repairs needed to the roof on Town Hall: V Mayor WiM told the alderman that < , i ' must be made sooto She noted that two men in a white Toyota pick- I up truck turned around in the driveway and stopped. The driver passed a gun to a passenger, who in turn shot the animal in the shoulder with a .38 caliber pistol The dog was taken to a local veterinarian and is still alive, although severly wounded. The mayor condemned the attack, saying. That was a 1900 dog. but even if it wer. a mutt, this kind of thil* shouldn't happen in Marshall." Fay* ReW presented the aldei men with in equally distasteful - I |kAi oea inai ra* raw sewage zsz': aldermen. "My children played in shit for years. My grandchildren aren't going to If something isn't done soon. I'll sue.'' Mrs. Reid's hus band, Troy, said. "It gets so bad in warm weather that you can't go out on the front porch." Repairs to thr broker; lines on Woriey Hollow were in< lutiod in the original plans for the town's recently rd me CrryMoon ndjii Rnsey of the Marshall Volunteer He Dept. When (key emerged from i he closed ? session, the a Mermen to pay half the costs of sen dmg 14 members of the (ire company t o training classes being conducted in Erwin and Crossr lis - " Keen ?tionO te oth fir . for one year for tl
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