Newspapers / The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.) / Feb. 27, 1986, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
NEWS RECORD . y W | iE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 190 1 Thursday, February 27, 1986 25c Story On Page 6 Community Calendar Waste Dump Meeting Planned The Madison County Nuclear Waste Education Committee will meet on March 9 at 2 p.m. in the Little Sandy Mush Methodist Church. County Denis Set Precinct Meetings The Madison County Democratic Party will hold precinct meetings throughout the county on March 6 at 8 p.m. All registered Democrats are invited to attend the meetings held at the local polling place. The county Democratic Party convention will be held on April 5 at 1 p.m. at Madison H.S. County GOP Meets On Sunday The Republican Party will meet March 2 at 2 p.m. in the Madison County Courthouse to finalize plans for their Lincoln Day Dinner. Everyone is urged to attend. Youth Soccer Sign-Up Set Registration for Madison County Youth Soccer will be held on Sat. March 1, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in the Mars Hill Col lege Gym. All children ages 6-13 are welcome and urged to at tend. Music Boosters To Meet The Madison County Music Boosters will meet on March 6 at 7 p.m. at Madison High School. Commissioners To Meet Monday The Madison County Board of Commissioners will meet on March 3 at 1 p.m. in the Madison County Court House. Mars Hill Aldermen To Meet The Mars Hill Board of Aldermen will hold their monthly meeting on March 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Hall,iAi7 p.m., the aldermen will hold public hearings on proposed changes to the town's zoning and fire codes. The public is invited to attend and comment on the proposed changes. Hot Springs Town Meeting The Hot Springs Board of Aldermen will meet on March 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the new Town Hall on Main Street. School Board Meets March 5 The Madison County Board of Education will meet on March 5 at 10:30 a.m. in the Madison County Court House. -Continued on page 2 Power Outage Planned French Broad EMC members served by the - Marshall Substation will have their service interrupted for two hours early on Sunday morning. FBEMC officials have annnounced that power will be cut off from 1 a.m. until 3 a.m. so that transformers in the substation can be rewired. Residents of Grpaevine, East Fork, Little Pine, Big Pine, Walnut, Spring Creek, Shut-in, Paint Rock, Big Laurel and Little Laurel will be affected by the power outage. In case of bad weather, the outage and rewiring frill be postponed until March 9. ? Mars Hill Fire Report Is Delivered ' Mars Hill Fir* Chief Eddie Fox reported last week that, during 1985, the fire department responded to 109 calls, of which 19 were in the city, 87 were elsewhere in the county and three were outside the county assisting other departments. Some 1,267.5 man-hours were total ed by the department, he said. Value of property involved in fires was ?2.4Hi,?xfc>. tie said, with actual loss oi $336,905. for a total value saved of $2,144,900. Types of calls, Chief Fox said, were 35 structures, 39 brush, 9 auto, 8 false alarms, 10 wrecks, 2 miscellaneous, 3 mutual aid and 3 rescue Mali Hi(l firemen received 1,250 hours of fire service training during the year, he said. Delaware Man Killed, a ? ' ? - , ? | In Murray Mt. Wreck A 23-year old Delaware man was killed (hi Monday after noon in a two-car collision on Murray Mountain. The identity of the victim is being withheld pending notification of his fami ly. State Trooper T.V. Sutton investigated the fatal accident. Sutton said the dead man was driving a Ford Thunderbird south on U.S. 23 at the time of the accident It appears that the victim lost control of the car on the icy pavement and crossed over int. Um northbound lane, where it collided with a ~ truck M")urrITi' 1500 Attend DOE Briefing Session By ROBERT KOENIG An estimated 1,500 WNC residents voiced their concerns regarding a proposed nuclear waste storage facility during a marathon public hearing in Asheville last week. The public briefing conducted by officials of the U.S. Department of Energy provided residents with the opportunity to register their opposition to the plan. DOE officials opened the meeting with technical explana tions of the selection process for the nation's second perma nent nuclear waste storage dump. The officials were inter rupted repeatedly by catcalls, boos and curses from the au dience. A large banner proclaiming "No Dump Here" hung from the balcony in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. Many of the 1,500 attending the Thursday night meeting wore red ribbons to signify their opposition to the proposed nuclear waste dump. One teenager who declined to be iden tified presented her ribbon to the DOE officials, saying "These are the eyes of a frightened child. I don't know what's going on. All I know is that a lady on the street gave me this ribbon. Just in memory of me, I wanted to give you this ribbon." DOE OFFICIALS ANSWERED QUESTIONS from WNC residents until 1:45 a.m. Friday during briefing on proposed nuclear waste dump. Meeting was held in the Hiomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville. Ralph Stein, the engineering director for the DOE Office of Civilian Waste Management, moderated Thursday's public hearing. Stein explained that the selection process for choos ing sites for permanent storage of nuclear waste were part of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. The act called for the DOE to identify two sites for perma nent storage facilities, one in the west and a second in the eastern U.S. Stein explained that the act calls for construction of the first such facility in the 1990's and said that the selection process for the first dump had been narrowed to three sites, in Washington, Nevada and Texas. The law provides funding for construction of the first nuclear dump. The 1982 law also calls for DOE to identify a second site for a proposed dump, although not providing the funds for construc tion. Stein said that plans call for DOE to narrow the list of potential eastern U.S. sites to three before seeking construc tion funds in 1988. DOE geologist Bob Levich explained that the Crystalline Rock Depository Project, the DOE's project to identify a se cond potential dump site, began with a list of some 235 poten tial rock formations. On Jan. 16 of this year, the DOE narrowed the list down to 12 potential sites, including a 105-square mile portion of Madison, Buncombe and Haywood Counties. A second North Carolina site, in eastern Wake County, was also included in the list of 12 potential sites. Others are located in Georgia, Virginia, Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Levich said that the list was reduced to 12 after DOE studies of literature relating to the geologic history of the areas. Other factors such as proximity to population centers were also con sidered, he said, but added that DOE has not as yet begun field studies in any of the areas still under consideration. He said that such field studies will begin later this year. "We're still in a very early stage of the site selection for the second repository," Levich said. His comments were met with a chorus of loud jeers. Those attending the Thursday night hearing received infor mation packets from DOE outlining the selection process. Anti-dump groups also provided those attending with literature. Following a 90-minute outline of the DOE selection process, the officials opened up the meeting for questions and com ments from the public. The DOE officials would sit for another five hours as some 47 residents peppered them with comments and questions. At 1:45 a.m. on Friday, the hearing came to an end at the request of Civic Center officials. The DOE officials and some 25 WNC residents were on hand when the hearing ended. ? -( ontinued on Page X Local Letter- Writing Campaign Urged rts the General Assembly in Raleigh was approving a statewide referendum on a nuclear waste dump for North Carolina, local leaders of the anti-dump movement here were encouraging residents to join in a letter-writing campaign to halt plans for a proposed dump in Madison, Haywood and Buncombe Counties. Members of the Madison County Nuclear Waste Education Committee (NWEC) are calling on all Madison Countians to join in writing to state and federal officials to oppose the proposed dump in WNC. The NWEC also hopes to involve local organiza tions. churches and schools in the anti-dump campaign. A spokesman for the NWEC told The News Record, "The proposed dump site in the Sandy Mush area ranks very high on the DOE's list of 12 sites. It is thought to be the most likely choide by some officials who have followed the project closely. The best defense is education and main taining continuos contact with our elected representatives in Raleigh and Washington" Anyone interested in contacting the Nuclear Waste Education Committee for more information should call r 689-5530 or 689-5228 or write to NWEC, P.O. Box 291, Mars Hill, N.C. 28754. Taylor Barnhill, a member of the NWEC, said, "We need the help of everyone in this. Community development clubs, churches, schools, service clubs, realtors, mer chants, young and old. Everyone in Madison County has a stake in this." Madison High Principal Remembers Fallen Astronaut By VERNON HENDERSON Madison High School principal David Wyatt knew one of the Space Shuttle Challenger's crew members the late Ronald McNair. Wyatt said that he and McNair served on the N.C. School of Mathematics & Science board of trustees together. Ronald E. McNair. Ph.D , was bom on Oct. 21. 1960 in Lake City, S.C Wyatt said "He was a common man doing an uncommon Job." In a sense, however. Ronald E. McNair was an uncommon man. He overcame incredible odds to become an astronaut, for he wis black, poor, and from the South. He earned a When af N.C AAT, McNair wrinted to major in music, but a science teacher saw his aptitude for physics, and persuaded him to change his ma jor. After completing his studies at MIT, McNair became a staff physicist at the Hughes Research lab in California. In 1978, he was working in laser research when he saw a NASA bulletin advertsing for posi tions In the space shuttle program. He applied for the astronaut program and was chosen from among thousands of applicants After the Challenger's January flight. McNair was scheduled to come was, if the job wasn't finished, he wouldn't quit. ...He would not have been a person to watch the clock. He would get the job done." McNair said the thing that he disliked most about the Shuttle pro gram was having to waK between the missions. He had already logged 191 hours in space during a flight in IBM. when he was the first to use the "Robot Arm" installed on the Shuttle "I think that Ron McNair would definitely have wanted the Shuttle program to continue at speed. He was very exited that he was getting to go with the ? ? ? 8
The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 27, 1986, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75