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- ? NEWS RECORD SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1901 ^ Thursday, April 24, 1986 Madison Students Tour Europe ? Story on Page 6 Walnut Creek CD Club Meets The Walnut Creek Community Development Club will meet on April 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall of the Enon Bap tist Church. All Walnut Creek residents are invited to attend. Madison County Sheriff E.Y. Ponder will be the guest speaker. Laurel VFD Annual Meeting Set The annual meeting of the Laurel Volunteer Fire Dept. will be held on May 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the fire hall. All residents of Number 2 Township are urged to attend. Circus Coming To Marshall April 29 The Roberts Bros. Circus will present two performances on April 29 on Blannerhassett Island in Marshall. The perfor mances, at 6 and 8 p.m., are sponsored by the Marshall Volunteer Fire Dept. Tickets are $4 for adults, $3 for children. Family discout tickets are also available from firemen and at The News Record office on Main Street. Proceeds from ticket sales will be used to purchase fire fighting equipment. Clean Streams Cookout Planned There will be a trout cookout and covered dish supper for all Clean Streams Day participants on Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m. at Hickey's Trout Farm on Hwy. 212. Trout are $1.25 each, but will be cleaned free of charge. Cookers will also be provided at no cost. For more information, contact Lou Zeller at 656-2773, Louise Langsner at 656-2280 or Terry Ausband at 656-2364. -Continued on P*ge 10 REMEMBER.. .Daylight Savings Time begins this Sunday at 2 rum4o move your ciocks ahead one hour on Satur day night before retiring. Mars Hill Considers Withholding Payment By WILLIAM LEE The Mars Hill Board of Aldermen, in a special meeting held Tuesday night, instructed their town attorney to look into the possibility of withholding payments from Cooper Construction Company. As of April 26, Cooper Construction may also find itself assessed as much as $1,500 per day damages for work they have not completed on the sewer project. "Hie problem centers around Mars Hill's sewer system and construction that was first supposed to have been completed in January. Since that time, the town has granted two extensions to Cooper Construction. With the final 45-day extension due to end on Saturday, it is doubtful the work will be completed. "Under the provisions of the contract and its liquidity damages clause, the construction company could be held liable and assessed damages until repairs are made to the ex tent they were supposed to," Mars Hill attorney Doris Phillips told The News Record. The decision to consult with the town attorney for a legal decision was made during executive session by the Board of Aldermen. "The contract with the provisions for the extensions granted also allows us to assess late penalties of up to $500 per day, per division not completed," Mayor Owen Tilson said. Currently only the work in Division 3, along Bailey Street and adjoining residential areas, has been completed. Cooper Construction will have ten days after the conclusion of their extension period to complete their work before Mars Hill can begin penalizing them. Part of the reason the other three divisions have not been completed is due to the town's dissatisfaction with efforts by Cooper Construction to repair damages. "Cooper's paving work has not been approved by our engineers along Chestnut Street, Valley Street, and Mountain View Road," Tilson told the aldermen. Tilson claims that pat chwork done on the streets had not been done satisfactorily and was "coming out in chunks." There were also complaints of a ditch line mistakenly filled, creating minor flooding in some yards. According to estimates by town manager Darryl Boone, based on the latest payment requests submitted by Cooper Construction, 95 to 99 percent of the work was completed. "Most of the piping is down, they just need to finish filling in, repaving those streets, and make repairs where needed," Boone said. Boone added that the city engineers have reported two water leaks at the recently completed sewer treatment plant. The engineers claim the leaks would seal themselves once the pipes to the plant were connected. The plant and its connecting pipes are considered Division 1 work by the town's contract with Cooper Construction. Mars Hill earlier this week received a payment request for Division 1 and Division 4 work for a total of $21,000. Tilson reminded the aldermen that they had the right to hold a re tainage of five percent of the total per division. -Continued on Page 10 Car Accidents Claim Two On Saturday night, two-year old Ida Melinda Roberts of Route 5, Marshall was killed when she was thrown from her parents' car on Walnut Creek Road. State Trooper Jerry Tapp in vestigated the accident which occur red about 7 p.m. Tapp told reporters that the child was sitting in her mother's lap prior to the accident and was thrown from the car when it went down an embankment and overturn ed. Trooper Tapp said the car rolled over on top of the child. The child's father, J.P. Roberts, was uninjured in the single-vehicle accident. The child's mother, Joyce, was taken 'to Memorial Mtssioii Hospital In Ashe vi lie for treatment No charges were filed in connection with either accident. A 31-year old Grapevine man was killed on April 15 when his car over turned on Jupiter Rd. near Weaver ville. Rickie Worley was pronounced dead at (he scene of the sangl$-car ac cident ftbouf 9: JO Warley w*s thrown from the 1M0 Mazda when the car hit ft ditch and flipped over three times before striking a tree. State Trooper M.T. Murphy, the in vestigating officer, estimated that Worley was travelling at approx imately 75 m.p.h. at the time of the accident. ?' rVs**. ' 1 "..iff ' ; ' : Worley was tr a vetting alone at the time of the accident and was not wearing a seat belt. NINETEEN MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS took part in the annual History Dat competi- ' tion at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Mar shall students again took top honors in several categories and will compete in state finals this weekend. Marshall Students Take History Day Honors Marshall School captured for first place trophies and two second place trophies in the eighth annual Educa tional District History Day competi tion, April 11 and 12. The competition drew more than 400 students from 15 schools -in Western North Carolina. The awards gave Marshall school its fifth school championship in six years of com peting. Team champions were deter mined on the basis of total participa tion and the quality of a team's per formance within the competition's theme. The theme for this year was "Conflict and Compromise in History." Taking first place for Marshall Jor individual project was Allen Fisher, whose project was Labor vs. Manage ment. A second place was awarded to Barbara White for her Appalachian Archetecture individual project. Receiving first place honors for group project was Kelli Kice and Stacy Ball for their project on the death penalty and its moral conflict. Second place honors were given to Amber Coulby and Susan Waldrop for "The Feminist Movement In America" and also to Carta Payne and Karen Lipe for their work on her bal medicine. A first place award in the Media category was given to Heather Banks and Karen Deaver for their visual arts display on nursing and mid wifery. A first place was also awarded to ( Jody Felton in the category of In dividual performance. Her project was titled "A Vista Worker Comes to Appalachia." All individuals and group6 finishing first or second will be competing in the state History Days competition this weekend in Winston-Salem. School Board Candidates Address The Issues J Democratic Primary Opponents Are Questioned J -..jW; "v * ' A I [ V, ' ' Bv WII.I.IAM I.KK ' The following arc intrrtims con ducted last week with the seven Democratic candidates for Ihr Madison County Hoard of {education Ml candidates were asked the same three questions and answers are ver batim. DON M VSSKY is ? candidate far the Madison County Board of Kdiication. lie I* a resident of Manthall. ' K' State your reason* for running for the hoard of education Kit <;kxtky is an incumbent seeking re-election to the board of education, lie is a resi dent of Marshall. State your reasons for running for the board of education. GENTRY: Some 25 years ago Robert Edwards and I got involved with the school board We started a program for the school garages and eventually built their new new faculties. Over the course of the years, we've continued to work for improvements in our schools. We ve always wanted to build and improve school facilities and still want to see growth in our KOHKKT PliNBKK is an incumbent seeking rr-rlrrlion to Ihf board of education, lie is a resi dent of llot Springs State your reasons for running (or the board of education. PONDER: Several years ago I was encouraged to run for the board of education. Those people have con tinued thier support for me. I'm pleased with the progress we have made in the education of our children. In the short time I've been with the board, we have consolidated the schools, built a new high school and the Marshall Primary school. By next year all our tehool buildings will have new roofs, and 1 ma fir sure that in Uw uruceaa they KI.OYI) WAI.I.IN is an Incumbent wrking rr-fleclion to lh? board of education, lie is a resi dent of Spring Creek. State your reasons for running for the board of education. WALLIN : One thing I love and that is the children of thi* county. I know the biggwt concern of ? parent is getting j an education fot' their children The children need the best that they can get. If you ain't got an education, you've got nothing. And I'm in t created in *tting that we give then\a >')F TMF ROUS I ice SatartimyV irolirui Univef Ij Ti was urtu I
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