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SERVING THE PEOPLE OF **ADfSON COUNTY SINCE 7901 " HUm ^ fe*. oe???r T - Vol. 85 No. 39 WED' 25c Cutshall Family Reunion The Cutshall family reunion will be held on Sept. 29 at the Laurel Fire House beginning at noon. All relatives and friends are invited to attend. Legion Auxiliary Bake Sale The Ladies Auxiliary of American Legion Post 317 will spon sor a bake sale on Oct. 5 in front of the Ingles Supermarket on the Marshall Bypass. Proceeds from the sale and a flea market willl be used to purchase toys and other Christmas gifts for needy children in Madison County. Anyone interested in contributing money, food or good new or used items should contact Bea Banks at 649-2436. Hundreds of spectators gathered to catch a glimpse of thf murder suspects as they were brought to Marshall for ques tioning. Dedrick Cody Resigns School Board Post Madison County Board of Educa tion member Dedrick Cody submitted his resignation from the board last week, to become effective on Sept. 30. Cody announced his decision to step down in a letter to Swan Huff of Hoi Springs, chairman of the Madison County Democratic Party. Cody also sent copies of the letter to members of the school board and school superintendent Robert L. Ed wards. A special law covering (he appQint ment of school Imard members in Madison County requires that members notify the chairman of their local party. A successor is then ap pointed by the executive committee of the Madison County Democratic Party. ' Nc Trooper Muruc? Suspects Captured By ROBERT KOENIG Three days of terror in the Spring Creek area ended last Tuesday afternoon with the capture of two escaped prisoners from an Arkansas county jail. The three-day manhunt came to an end when lawmen sur rounded the two men in the woods on Charlotte Branch in the Spring Creek section near the Haywood County line. Some 23 lawmen surrounded the two men who, seeing they were outnumbered, threw down their weapons and sur rendered without incident. Arrested were Jimmy Dean Rios, 23, and William Bray, 22. The two were taker\ immediately to Marshall where they were questioned and charged with first degree murder in connection with the Sept. 14 shooting of Highway Patrol Trooper R.L. Coggins. The trooper's body was found slumped over the steering wheel of his patrol car on the afternoon of Sept. 24 by Arthur Fowler and his wife. The trooper's death began the three-day manhunt in the Spring Creek area. Hundreds of lawmen and Highway Patrol members joined the search for the two prison escapees within hours of the shooting. North Carolina National Guard helicopters equipped with infrared heating sensing equipment were called in to assist in the manhunt. Despite the high technology equipment, in the end it was a hungry bloodhound named Brandy who finally led lawmen to the fugitives. After two frustrating days of combing the Spring Creek area for clues, police received their most important lead on Tues day morning when Rachel Gillespie, 75, of Spring Creek reported that her home had been broken into during the night. Gillespie, fearful that the fugitives might attack her in her ' lome, spent Monday evening at the home of a relative. Shortly after receiving the tip from Gillespie, a tracking team was brought to the house to #iak up a. scent. . The bloodhounds picked up the trail of the two fugitives and lead lawmen to the area in which Rios and Bray were captured shortly before 4 p.m. WILLIAM BRAY JIMMY DEAN RIOS The two fugitives apparently had been holed up within a short distance of the Gillespie home on Monday. They entered the house after watching her leave for the night, helping themselves to eggs, peanut butter, bread and several "Little Debbie" cakes, according to Gillespie. The fugitives also made off with an old rifle, blankets, a quilt and winter gloves. Police recovered the items abandoned in the woods about 1 p.m. on Tuesday. A seven-man team of State Bureau of Investigation agents lead by Jack Davis were among the first lawmen to reach the two fugitives. A second team of Madison County deputies, led by Frank Ogle, were also at the scene when the two fugitives surrendered. Ogle told The News Record, "I looked down and saw the bottoms of their shoes, and there were the tracks we'd been looking for. It was one of the prettiest sights I've ever known." Along with Sheriff Ponder and Deputy Ogle, local deputies on hand for the capture included Ray Caldwell, Joe Davis, Ralph Ramsey, Gary Ogle, Charles Allen, Sammy Lunsford, Jackie Lunsford, I^amar W or ley, Ricky Aldrich. Charlie Sex ton, Don Shelton and Walter Honeycutt. Brandy and her handler, Steve Graves of the Burke County Sheriff's Dept. were also on hand. -coutinurd an i?a?e s Two Enter Marshall Race Anita Ward, Richard Kingston To Challenge Betty Wild Anita Ward B\ KOKKItT Kt'KMIi The filing period for candidates for (he November municipal elections closed last Friday at noon. Two last minute challengers came forward to oppose Mayor Betty J. Wild and three candidates for the Marshall Board of Alderman stepped forward to challenge the incumbents. Anita Ward, a teacher at Madison High School, and Richard Kingston, a Marshall harpsichord maker, entered the mayoral race during the final hours of the filing period. Ward, entered the race on Thursday night Kingston's entry was not official until Friday. After making his candidacy of ficial. News Record editor Bob Koenig reimbursed Kingston for his $5 filing fee ( sec related story on Page 4). Marshall's three incumbent aldermen. John Dodson. Sammy Lunsford and EM Niles. filed for re election last week. They will be challenged by Fa ye Reid. Raymond "Gene" Moore and Charlie Sexton. Reid is a Marshall native, a former member of the town's police force and the town's police chief. She ran unsuccessfully for the board once before. Moore lives on K edition Fid und this is his first political campaign as a candidate. Sexton is a former town employee and ran unsuccessfully for the board in 1983. Dodson and Lunsford had been ex pected to file for re-election, but Niles' late entry in the race was a sur prise The Marshall pharmacist had said earlier that he did not plan to run again in November Asked what made him change his mind. Niles said. "I was expecting some other |H>oplc to file, but when they didn't. I thought I would." Tobacco Tax BUI Passes Senate Committee Hv V l? MAY News and Observer Legislation (o revamp the, federal tobacco program and to cancel a scheduled R-cent drop in the federal cigarette excise tax won approval in a key Senate committee Friday The 10-4 vote In the Senate Finance Committee marked a strategic vic tory for tobacco state senators led by Sen. Jesse A. Helms. The tobacco program legislation was inserted into a budget bill that will be difficult for opponents to amend or filibuster. It is legislation that Congress wants to pass before Ocl I. when the new federal fiscal year begins and the 16-cent cigarette tax is scheduled to fall to 8 cents. , Earlier Friday, b.v a closer vote of - I. the commit)#*, deto?t#d ? to 20 ?I ' unseemly'* example of congres sional dealing. with a lax-writing committee adopting tobacco legisla (ion it knew little about. After a one-day delay to quell a revolt by farm-state senators who first wanted action pn other com modity programs in the 1985 Farm Bill, the tobacco-slate senators not what they had wanted. They traded their acquiescence on the lt-cent tax extension for the Finance CommHtw's vote to include the tobacco program legislation in the bill designed to reduce federat deficit* by $38 billion over the next three year Helms' has offered his legislation to s?ve" the tobacco program by enac ting terms accepted bv major handled in the Finance Committee, there was virtually no debate about the legislation's merits. Several com mittee members, including those who supported the bill, admitted they really didn't know much about the complicated tobacco legislation Moynihan attacked the tobacco program as "ancient, convoluted, secretive, and almost certainly" it is bad.' The New York Democrat, however, told reporters that the mont v?te? the opponents could muster were four on the t9-member commit tee Helms had the backing of a solid majority of the Republicans an the panel and he had the strong support of Senate Majority leader Robert J Dole and Finance Chairman Robert Democrats who arc members of both the finance and agriculture commit tees Sens. David Boren. D-()lka . and David Prvor. D-Ark.. had accused Helms Thurday of making an "end run" in the Finance Committer to solve tobacco problems while trying in the Agriculture Committee to cut price supports for major com modities such as wheat, corn, cotton and rice covered in the 19*5 Farm Bill Boren and Pryor dropped their op position Friday after the Agriculture Committee Thursday night voted out a farm bill (tut kept those price sup ports high. Agriculture aides to Helms critici/ Motorcycle Accident Kills S.C. Man An South Carolina was ItiHwl on Dougett Mouni.tin Saturday morning
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