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Mm -HE NEWS RECORD 1^, pel'VE"Vnc ZimJlNG THE PEOPLE OF MADISO^^WT^jN^JJfl^ Home Improvement Section '' Thursday, Apm 10, 25c 12-Page Inaert Inside Community Calendar Nuclear Waste Committee To Meet April 17 In Marshall The Madison County Nuclear Waste Education Commit tee will meet on April 17 at 7 p.m in the Marshall Senior Citizens Center on Long Branch Rd. All interested county residents are invited to attend. Postponed Court Cases To Be Heard Scheduled sessions of Madison County District Court on March 26, 27 and 28 were cancelled due to repairs to the county courthouse. Defendants in cases scheduled for those dates are to appear for trial today and tommorrow. District Court cases will be heard in the Little Theatre at Madison H.S. Marshall Aldermen To Meet The Marshall Board of Aldermen will meet on April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Marshall Town Hall. The public is invited to attend. Laurel VFW Bingo Night There will be a benefit bingo game held at the Laurel VFD fire hall tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the fire company. Support Group Meets April 15 Parents of children with seizure disorders are invited to attend a meeting on the third Tuesday of each moth at the Hall Fletcher Middle School in Asheville. For more infor mation on this group, contact Roger Metcalf at 255-5374 or Joann Roberts at 689-4295. French Broad EMC Meeting Set For April 19 In Mars Hill The annual meeting of the French Broad Electric Membership Corporation will be held on April 19 on the campus of Mars Hill College. Registration will begin at noon in Moore Auditorium "Hee Haw" star Archie Campbell and his band will pro vide entertainment beginning at 1:30 p.m. The business meeting will get underway at 2:30 p.m. FBEMC general manager Charles Tolley and officers of the corporation will deliver reports and four members of the board of directors will be elected. Board members John Corbett, W.G. Plemmons, James Ray and BUI Riddle have been renominated to serve an additional term Drawings for prizes will be held at the conclusion of the business session. Co-op members will have a chance to win a microwave oven. Children up to 15 years of age will ahve a chance to win a bicycle. Children must be accompanied by an adult. * FBEMC serves members in Madison, Buncompe, Mit chell and Yancey Counties and a portion of Unicoi, Tenn. All members are urged to attend the annual business meeting. Leukemia Walk-A-Thon Planned The annual walk-a-thon and bike-a-thon to benefit the Leukemia Society will be held on April 12 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Madison H.S. Sponsor forms are available at the Mar shall Public Library or from Katherine Boone at Marshall Elementary School. For more information, contact Bea Banks at 649-2436. Prizes, including a grand prize of 20 books of trading stamps, will be offered. Suspicious Fires In Grapevine Are Investigated By WI1.I.IAM I.KE A rash of purposely set woods fires last week have brought investigators from the state forestry Service into Madison County. The investigators are following leads on fires set in the Grapevine-Petersburg area A fire on Bone Camp Rd. destroyed approximately 48 acres of brush, ac cording to Tony Webb, County Direc tor of the N.C. Forestry Service. Use Of an incendiary device is suspected. Planes were provided by the U.S. Forest Service to combat the fires on Bluff Mountain in Spring Creek and the Bone Camp blaze. "If not for their assistance in drop ping water on the blaze, those two fires could have consumed some 300 or 300 acres," Webb said. The state Forestry offices answered or assisted in 18 calls dur ing the pest week. Mars Hill Fire Department answered 23 calls, while Marshall Fire Department had 19 calls. Estimates for the total acres lost, excluding mutual aid calls, are placed at between 150 1 Current is. Webb that the Gr work of I" teres Hundreds Tell DOE : We Don't Want Nuke Waste Dump Here By ROBERT KOENIG More than 200 North Carolinians addressed the U.S. Depart ment of Energy's public hearing in Asheville on Friday. Speaker after speaker opposed the proposal to locate a perma nent nuclear waste repository in Western North Carolina. For more than 13 hours, speakers detailed a wide variety of reasons for dropping WNC from the DOE's 1st of 12 sites being considered for the nation's second permanent nuclear waste dump. Politicians, scientists, preachers, farmers, students and housewives trooped to the microphones set up on the floor of the Asheville Civic Center. They addressed their remarks to a panel of DOE representatives and court stenographers. Throughout the day-long hearing, hundreds sat in the au dience. Some of the speakers sang their protests and others came dressed in bright red colors as a sign of protest. Gov. James Martin and Rep. Bill Hendon opened the morning session (see related story below), but private citizens from both Madison County and the Sandy Mush area of Buncombe County oc cupied much of the agenda throughout the 13 hours of public comment. A number of anti-dump banners were hung from the Civic Center upper deck, but Friday's hearing was generally quiet compared to last month's hearing at which DOE officials responded to resident's questions concerning the Crystalline Rock Project. Bill Duckett, a farmer in the Big Sandy Mush community, told the DOE officials, "Existing roads in our area are un TAYLOR BARNHILL was one of many Madison Countians to speak out against proposed nuclear dump site during Friday's hearing in Asheville. -Continued on Page 12 By WILLIAM LEE "I do not believe that any site in North Carolina is technically accep table for the storage of high level nuclear waste." said Gov. Jim Mar tin at last Friday's public hearing before the U.S. Department of Energy. The governor went on to tell the DOE that the state is ready to prove that the crystaline rock that their study found so acceptable, is in fact quite porous and fractured in critical location. "Your study neglects the depth of the Elk River water table, its impor tance to surrounding water sheds, and the metamorphic state of the underlying rock formation," said Martin. "Once the facts are shown, proving the fracture of underlying rock, the seismic activity, the watertable, and the size of the surrounding popula tion, I believe the DOE will want to remove North Carolina from con sideration," Martin added. He considered the Elk River region in the midst of dynamic growth areas. Since population is of prime concern in selection of a site, Martin said, the proximity of large popula tion centers alone should make the Western North Carolina site unaccep table. "Our first concern should always be the safety and health of our population," Martin said. "Do not prolong the uncertainty," Martin added, "and promptly withdraw it from consideration." U.S. Rep. Bill Hendon echoed the governor's sentiments, citing recent reports showing land values frozen and real estate sales down. "In a recent survey commissioned by the University of Tennessee, almost half of those surveyed in dicated they would alter their travel plans if a nuclear facility was located within ten miles of their vacation spot." Hendon told the DOE. Hendon said that according to the Buncombe County Tourism Develop ment Authority it could mean a loss of $281 million in tourism revenues by the year 2000. >Hendon went on to quote Con gressman Morris Udall, chairman of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, as saying the people of North Carolina should relax because the chances of one of these facilities getting there are remote However, efforts by Hendon to in troduce measures to have Elk River excluded at this time have been blocked by Udall. "I call on the Department of Energy to put a stop to the worry, put a stop to the disruption and the spen ding of our tax dollars, and take Western North Carolina off the study list now and let us get on with our lives," Hendon told the panel Friday. Thomas Rhodes, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development presented the state's case of factual recourse. He made mention of the thermal spring activi ty around Hot Springs, the seismic activity of the area, and the cracks and faults in the substructure. Rhodes added a new argument against the Elk River site, claiming that during the 1977 flood disaster, the Elk River region was part of the heaviest flood area. Such flooding could well occur again in the near -Continued on Pane 7 Evidence Of 1928 Earthquake ! In Hot Springs Is Presented \ - Kitty Boniske of Asheville presented a piece of historic infor mation that interested members of the DOE's team during Friday's hearings in Asheville. Boniske produced an article taken from the November 12. 1928 edition of The Asheville Citizen detailing reports that an earth quake in the Spring Creek section had caused normally cold springs in the area to become warm. Boniske told DOB officials that she had uncovered the fifty-eight year old article while researching the earthquake files at Pack Library in Asheville. The article, dateline Marshall, Nov. IS. said in part, "...reports have come t? Marshall that cold mountain springs, whose flow even during summer is almost the temperature of lee. are becoming warm, follwiag the series of earth quake shocks over a week ago. while several- miles below, at the and more miles back in the coves and on (he high mountains, from llot Springs, are affected, and it is said that a number of them which were cold as ice prior to the quake are now almost lukewarm, thus strengthening the belief of several mountain residents that the underground streams which feed the age-old hot and mineral pools at IIq4 Springs undermine the en tire mountain country, and that the recent subterranean distur bances have accounted for the marked changes in the temperature of the water." Former Hot Springs resident Peggy Dotterer. the grand daughter of Col Rumbough, operator of the Mountain Park Hotel in Hot Springs, told The News Record in a telephone inter view on Tuesday that she. told her of the 1928 earthquake. "She told me it knocked dishes down off shelves and knocked stove pipes out of place," Moore said in a telephone interview. Harriet Runnion was a 19-year old school teacher in Spring Creek at the time of the 1928 quake. She recalls that she had taken a group of seventh and eighth-grade schoolchildren on a picnic the day of the quake "We just didn't know what it was,' Runnion said. "It was a tremor and we all huddled together until it was over." She said she cannot recall if springs in the aria heated up following the quake. The November 2?. 1938 edition of The News Record also refers to the quake The account read in several hours before he saw it at I nine o'clock, lie regret* that he had not taken the temperature of the springs before the earthquake, but says be that the temperature or the spring* since the earth quake is 1*3. whereas in the printed literature about the spr ings the temperature was given as M." Apparently News Record editor H.L. Story was unconvinced of reports that springs had heated up following the earthquake. Story wrote, "The report In an Asheville paper recently that the ipfhgi on the Spring Creek section of Madison County were warm since Hi. earthquake a few weeks ago. seem* to have been more the resaH of imagiaatian than real fact*. This writer has travelled
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