"HAuTSON
COUNTY LIBRARY
28753
NC
MARSHALL
NEWS RECORD
VING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1901
Complete Primary Election Returns
? Pages 6 and 7
Community
Calendar
Hot Springs Lions Plan Bar-B-Q
The Hot Springs Lions Club will sponsor a barbeque chicken
dinner on May 11 from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Lions Club
Hut. Advance tickets can be purchased from club members
for $4. Tickets at the door are $4.50.
Madison H.S. Reunion Planned
The Madison High School Class of 1976 is planning a reunion
at the school for June 21. For more information, contact Karen
Rice at 649-3051, Darlyne Rhinehart at 649-3090 or Kay Webb
Davis at 649-2148.
Laurel VFD Dance Saturday
The Laurel Volunteer Fire Dept. Swill sponsor a dance on
May 10 beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the fire hall. Admission is $2
and everyone is invited to attend. Proceeds will be used to pur
chase fire-fighting equipment.
Retired Teachers To Meet May 14
The Madison County Retired Teachers will hold a meeting
on May 14 at 11:30 a.m. in Mary's Restaurant. Br. Steve
Snider will be the guest speaker.
School Board Meets May 14
The Madison County Board of Education will meet on May
14 at 10:30 a.m. in the Madison County Court House.
Marshall Aldermen Meet On Monday
The Marshall Board of Aldermen will meet on May 12 at 7 : 30
p.m. in the Town Hall.
Walnut-Brush Creek CD Plans
May 18 Chicken Dinner
The Walnut-Brush Creek Community* Development Club
will sponsor a chicken dinner on May 18 at Walnut Elementary
School from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Proceeds from the dinner will
be used in the club's community improvement projects.
Admission is $3 for adults and $2 for children under 12.
Tickets are availabel from club members or at the door on
May 18. A
Blue Mold Warning.;
By WILEY DuVALL
Agricultural Extension Agent
Blue mold has been very active this past winter oitjtobaca
in areas of the South. Wild tobacco growing is Texas lias beer
widely affected by the disease and reports of blue nfold have
also come from Florida and Cuba.
The spores of the blue mold can easily be spread into this
area by winds. This threat means that Madison County
growers should not fail to use Ridomil on plant beds and tobac
co fields as they prepare the 1986 crop.
Plant beds should have a second application of two teas
poons Ridomil per 100 feet of bed 70 days after seeding. Tobac
co fields should also receive two quarts of Ridomil per are
before transplanting from beds. Kentucky farmers failed to
follow recommendations last year and many fields received
blue mold damage. Madison County farmers can prevent the
loss of their crop by applying Ridomil at the appropriate
fimoe
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Dems Choose Capps,
Sleen And Hensley
Commissioners Become Lame Ducks
By ROBERT KOENIG
Madison County Democrats went to the polls on Tuesday and unseated all
three incumbent members of the board of commissioners. Incumbents Ervin
Adams, Virginia Anderson and James Ledford were defeated in the six
candidate race by Bobby Capps and Reese Steen of Mars Hill and John
Hensley of Marshall.
The three incumbents had run as a ticket while the three winners had cam
paigned separately as independents.
Capps. a Mars Hill undertaker, was the leading vote-getter in eight of the
county's 12 precincts and led the six candidates with an unofficial total of 2,235
votes.
Steen, a Mars Hill dentist, failed to carry any of the remaining four
precincts but managed to poll 1,754 votes for a second-place finish.
Hensley, a former sheriff's deputy and operator of Hensley's Gulf Station,
carried the South Marshall precinct and was narrowly edged by Capps in
North Marshall. Hensley's 1,649 votes was enough to win the third slot on the
Democratic ticket.
Incumbent Virginia Anderson of Hot Springs, the daughter of county chair
man Swan Huff, carried her own precinct and the Spring Creek precinct, but
failed to poll enough votes to force a runoff election. Anderson was the leading
vote getter among the incumbents with 1,251 votes.
County commission chairman James Ledford failed to carry any precincts
but managed a fifth place finish with 1,144 votes.
Ervin Adams of Revere, the senior member of the county commission, car
ried his home precinct but finished last in the six-candidate field with 1,048
votes.
Several hundred spectators jammed the cafeteria of Madison H.S. to watch
as News Record staff members posted the unofficial returns. Speculation that
an upset was in the making began as the first returns from North Marshall
were posted.
The early returns from the North Marshall precinct showed the strength of
the three challengers as Capps polled 336 votes. Hensley 332 and Steen 265.
Virginia Anderson was the leader among the incumbents with 179 votes from
North Marshall. The early trend continued to repeat itself as returns from
throughout the county were made available.
Tuesday's primary was the second attempt at the county commission for
both Capps and Steen. Both men were defeated by Adams, Anderson and Led
ford in the 1982 race. In that race, Capps was a fourth place finisher with 1,239
votes. He trailer third place finisher Ervin Adams by just 50 votes, but declin
ed to call for a runoff election. Steen was a fifth place finisher in the 1982 race
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BOBBY CAPPS
...leading vote-getter in commissMii race
Faulkner And'Cutshall
By ROBERT KOENIG
Madison County Republicans
selected a well-balanced slate of can
didates for the November county
commission race during Tuesday's
primary election.
The Republicans named Mars Hill
businessman Bob Phillips, Laurel
grocer Clarence Cutshall and Walnut
Creek cattle farmer Clarence
Faulkner to represent the party in the
November race. The three men had
run as a ticket and were opposed by
independents Joe Fowler of Walnut
and Howard Allen of Marshall.
Phillips, a former county party
chairman, was an unsuccessful can
didate in the 1982 county commission
race. The Mars Hill realtor and con
tractor was the leading Republican
vote-getter with 677 votes. Phillips
carried five of the county's 12
precincts in his victory.
Tuesday's primary was the first
election for both Cutshal) and
Faulkner.
Faulkner was the winner in only
two precincts- North Marshall and
Hot Springs-but ran close enough in
the remaining precincts to claim a
second-place finish with 580 votes.
Cutshall, the leader in the Laurel
precinct vote, finished third with 504
votes.
Joe Fowler finished fourth in the
race with 415 votes. Howard Allen
was the leading vote-getter in the
Walnut precinct with 78 votes, but
finished last in the five-man field with
277 votes.
In the hotly contested race for the
U.S. Senate, Rep. Jim Broyhill easily
outpolled former ambassador' to
Romania David Funderburk in the
vote of Madison County Republicans.
Broyhill received 596 votes to Funder
burk's 256. A fringe candidate,
American Patriot Party leader Glenn
Miller received 46 votes. Broyhill also
Won the primary in the statewide
vote. i*
The Republicans will also field
several candidates who did not face
opposition in the Tuesday primary.
Fbrmer Madison County Sheriff
James Dedrick Brown will face in
cumbent Sheriff E.Y. Ponder in the
November race.
Don Hall is scheduled to face in
cumbent Harold Wallin in the tax col
lector's race in November.
Republicans will also offer two can
didates in the District I Board of
Education race. Mars Hill attorney
Ed Krause and Dr. Lester St owe were
unopposed (or the party's nomination
for the two seats on the five-member
board. Krause and Stowe will meet
incumbents Gerald Young and
Franklin Anderson in the general
election.
The GOP's candidate for clerk of
courts, Doyle Cody of Mars Hill, was
also unopposed for the party's
nomination. He'll face incumbent
Jim Cody of Marshall in the
November race.
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Bray Murdjer Trial Moved
T o Buncombe County Court
Testimony To Begin On Monday Morning
By ROBERT KOENIC
The first degree murder trial of!
William Bray will be beard in the
Buncombe County Superior Court
beginning on May 12 The case will be
heard by a Buncombe County jury to
be selected this week
Superior Court Judge Donald
Stephens of Raleigh ordered the trial
moved to Asheville on Monday f
ing an inspection tour of the Madison
County Court House The trial was
murder in connection *pth the Sept.
M (laying of Highway Patrolman
Bobby Lee Coggins Bray will also
face charges of robbery with a
dangerous weapon, discharging a
firearm into an occupied vehicle and
felonious breaking, entering and
larceny during the trial that begins on
Monday He also faces an additional
charge of attenpted murder, but
testimony in (hat case will not be
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WILL1A* BRAY
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Huff During Monday'! hearing at
Madison H.S , Stephen Huff opposed
the prosecution's motion to move the
trial to Buncombe
that the defense has been
for a trial in Madison Coun
Bray's attorneys originally sought
to lave the trail moved out at
County because of the con
siderablei
Pair Escape
Car-Train Wreck
Two men were injured last Wednes
day night when their truck collided
with a southbound train as they at
tempted to cross Bridge Street in
Marshall
The IMS Chevy pick-up, cfriven by
Richarl Erin Tweed, 21, of Marshall,
failed to beat the train to the crossing
at approximately 11: IS p.m., accor
ding to Investigating officer William
Lisenbee of the Marshall Police
Department.
Tweed was thrown to the floor ?f
the cab upon impact. His passenger,
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William Frank Davis, 21, also af Mar
shall was thrown across the front
seat, as the pick-up was dragged ap
proximately one quarter mile to the
old railroad depot station before the
train came to a halt.
According to one sheriff's officer
who was at the scene shortly after the
accident occured, it was fortunate for
the two men that the rear housing of
the truck separated and the wheels
tore off enabling the truck to be drag
ged. Otherwise the truck may have
been overturned and forced uader the
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