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SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1901
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Mars Hill Approves Budget
Hot Springs July 4 Celebration
The Hot Springs Lions Club will sponsor their annual In
dependence Day celebration this year on Friday, July 4. Ac
tivities will begin at noon at the Community Center (old Town
Hall) with games and refreshments. There will also be a fish
fry from 5 until 7 p.m. The celebration will conclude with a
fireworks display shortly after dark.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Ebb's Chapel VFD Plans Celebration
The Ebb's Chapel Volunteer Fire Dept. will sponsor a fund
raising project at the Upper Laurel Community Center on July
5 beginning at 11 a.m. Baked goods, toys and crafts will be of
fered for sale. There will also be games and drawings for
prizes. A free blood pressure screening will be conducted by
members of the American Red Cross.
There will also be a gospel singing beginning at 4 p.m. A
turkey and ham dinner will be served at 4:30 p.m. until 6:30
p.m.. Donations will be appreciated. <
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King Family Reunion Set
The family of the late W. E. King and Martha Stanton King
will hold a reunion on June 29 at 1 p.m. in the Rocky Bluff
Campground near Hot Springs. All family members and
friends are invited to attend and bring a picnic lunch.
Laurel VFD Bingo Set
There will be a bingo game at the Laurel Fire Department
on June 28 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds will benefit the
Madison County Softball League All-Star team who will repre
sent Madison County in the Charlotte playoffs.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Softball Tourney Now Underway
< The Madison County Softball League toijjgnaflftent jtef grpls
ages 9-12 and lfr-15 began on June 24 and will continue through
Saturday, June 28 on the Island in Marshall. }
Everyone is invited to attend.
Democrats Hold State Convention
The State Democratic Convention will be held at 12:30 p.m.
on Saturday, July 12, at the Civic Center in Raleigh. Delegates
are reminded to attend.
Davis Family Reunion July 6
The desendents of Fletcher and Julia Rector Davis and Flet
cher and Mattie Roberts Davis will hold a family reunion on
July 6 at Davis Grocery, Redmond Road, Marshall.
The covered dish dinner/reunion will begin at 10 a.m. For
more information, call 649-2490. All family member are" in
vited to attend.
Rios Trial To Be Heard
In Henderson County
By ROBERT KOENIG
The first degree murder trial of
Jimmy Dean Rios of Arkansas will be
heard in the Henderson County
Superior Court later this summer
Superior Court Judge Mary Pope of
Southern Pines ordered the trial mov
ed to Henderson County after a seven
hour hearing Thursday in Marshall
Attornies representing Rios had re
quested the change of venue, citing
pre-trial publicity they maintained
harmed Rios' chances of obtaining a
fair trial in Madison County. Televi
sion and newspaper reporters were
subpoenaed to testify at the venue
hearing.
The court reviewed tapes of televi
sion reports of the three-day manhunt
which followed the murder of State
Trooper Bobby L. Coggins in
September of last year. Officials of
Asheville and Greenville, S.C. televi
sion stations presented the tape
recordings as part of their testimony.
During the afternoon session, defense
attorney Forrest Ball of Mars Hill
also introduced clippings from The
News Record and Asheville Citizen
into evidence.
State Bureau of Investigation
agents David Jones and Steve Reid
also testified concerning the hours
immediately following Rios' capture.
Ball also called several Madison
Countians to testify during the hear
ing, including Leonard Shuford of
Mars Hill, James Robertson of Beech
Glen, Carl Parks of Upper Shut-In
and Jean Flowers of Mars Hill. All
four testified that they had formed an
opinion regarding the case as a result
of publicity on television and in the
local newspapers.
Parks told the court, "I don't think
there is anyone in Madison County
who isn't aware of the case." Flowers
said, "The people have been scarred.
They are emotional about this. There
has to be time for the wounds to
heal."
Several other local residents .
disagreed, saying they thought Rios
could get a fair trial in Madison Coun
ty. School superintendant Robert L.
Edwards, George Abbott and News
Record editor Bob Koenig also
testified that Rios could get a fair
trial in Madison County. Edwards
told the court, "We have a bunch of
people that have a great deal of pride
They will listen before they make up
their minds."
District Attorney Tom Rusher,
arguing against a change in venue,
told the court, "We are first of all a
proud and independant people. We
belie v^ in right and wrong, but are
unwilling to convict people based
upon newspaper accounts."
Rusher argued that the case has
received nationwide publicity and
that it would be difficult to locate th?
trial anywhere in the state where
details of the case had not been
publicized.
In his closing argument, Ball said
"It would be virtually impossible to
find an impartial jury here." He s4id
that publicity of the trial of William
Bray had also created unfavorable
publicity for his client. Ball also con
JIMMY DEAN RIOS, center, walks to the Madison County
Court House for a hearing last week. Judge Mary Pope
granted Rios a change of venue and ordered his trial for
murder moved to Henderson County.
demned newspaper coverage of the
ease, saying it was excessive, sensa
tional and inacurate. Finally, Ball
pointed to the conditions of the county
courthouse, maintaining that
facilities were inadequate for a
capital trial
In handing down her decision,
Judge Pope said that publicity sur
rounding the murder, manhunt and
subsequent trial were "neither fac
tually inaccurate or inflammatory",
but agreed that publicity of the Bray
murder trial had sparked a reaction
in the community.
In allowing the requested change of
venue, Judge Pope said, "It appears
there exists in Madison County a pre
judice against the defendant. It would
be difficult to obtain an impartial
jury." The judge also agreed that the
Madison County Court House is in
adequate for a capital murder trial.
She said the lack of air conditioning
and continual interruptions caused by
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Marshall Approves Budget
Marshall aldermen approved a
$300,000 operating budget for the up
coming fiscal year at a speu?l;called
meetlajj FMday afternoon. -The
aldermen also gave approval to an
agreement to operate the town's
recreation center and made amend
ments to the current budget.
Vice mayor John Dodson presided
over the special meeting. "Mayor
Anita Ward was out of town.
The budget approved during Fri
day's session calls for no increase in
the town's property tax rate of 85
cents per $100 assessed valuation.
Town employees will not receive a
raise during the coming fiscal year.
Town clerk Linda Dodson reported
on details Qf the budget, telling
aldermen that tax collections in the
past year have exceeded their
original projections, due largely to
revenues received from the French
Broad EMC's Capitola Dam. The
town currently has a 97 percent tax
TOWN OF MARSHALL GENERAL FUND s
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Ad Valorem Taxes $228,446
Other Taxes 40,000
Powell Bill 17,850
License and permit 1,800
Investments 4,000
Sales and services .4,000
Miscellaneous 3,904
TOTAL $300,000
collection rate.
Mrs. Dodson also said that the cur
rent budget does not contain any pro
vision for federal revenue sharing
funds. Marshall received $15,000 in
revenue sharing money during the
current fiscal year.
The 1966-87 budget cuts $20,000
from adminstration expenses and
$1,700 from the town's volunteer fire
department over the current year's
budget. The police department s
budget was increased by $4,000 over
1985-86 figures and recreation receiv
~ ed an increase of $300. The town also
hopes that the Water and Sewer Dept.
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sufficient during the can Bag fiscal
year.
The new budget calls for General
Fund revenues of only $8,140 to be us
ed for water and sewer in 1986-67. The
department needed General Fund
contributions totalling $20,000 in the
current fiscal year.
Before approving the upcoming
budget, the aldermen met with
representatives of the recreation
committee to iron out details of an
agreement between the committee
and town Concerning operation of the
recreation center. Officials planned
' to being filling the pool on Mbnday.
No opening date for the pool's opera
tion has been set, but hopes are to
have the pool in operation in time for
the July 4 weekend.
When it does open, the pool will
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Child Sexual Abuse
Most Cases Involve Family Members ;
Ttco Of Three Cases Are Not Reported
By WII.MAM LEE
It is a subject most people would rather not talk about. Even the experts
social workers, therapists, and physicians- talk in very guarded terms,
their viewpoints and statistical research become contradictory and ques
tionable.
The subject is child sexual abuse
When it involves a babysitter, or a boy scout or girl scout leader, or a
teacher, it makes the headlines and parents become enraged.
When it involves a member of the family, worse of all a parent- nobody
wants to talk about it.
That is why experts believe that for every case of child abuse reported,
at least two go unreported. Statistics from the National Shidy on Child
Neglect and Abuse Reporting indicated that in 51 percent o#t)|e recorded
cases of child sexual abuse or molestation the perpetrator wis a parent or
guardian, with other family relatives involved in 20 percent of the cases.
Acquaintances to the child accounted for 17 to It percent, with strangers in
volved in only ten to 12 percent.
"We often forget just how reliant the child is on the adult, the parent, for
moral support," says Marian Plaut of the Blue Ridge Mental Health
Center. "Irregardless of what they are taught about strangersithey place
a great deal of trust in the other adults in their lives."
"Children see adults as superhuman, and have a great sense of
believability in what we tell them. Because of that they can be easily
threatened."
In its programs taught to younger children, and currently being
1 at day care centers in Madison County, the Rape Crisis Center
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THE SCARS THAT LAST A LIFETIME
Joanna (not her real name) seemed a young lady who had it all together,
sailing through life as one of the most popular girls in school. From high
school and through college, achieving her master's degree in the process,
Joanna had always been a straight A student.
Up until then she had been, as she put it, superwoman. And then the bot
tom dropped out
Suddenly she could not eat, could not sleep, her anxiety growing to the
point she became reclusive. It all came back to the fact that she had been
sexually abused by her father when she was six years old.
With Joanna, as with many victims of sexual abuse, it was a matter of
coming to terms with her pent-up anger and hurt, and the event itself, and
putting the two back together
"The denial of anger, squalching that feeling over time is one of the
leading causes of depression," says Marian Plaut. "Because of the denial
of their anger, with no outlet, more women suffer from depression than
men. And that includes any anger, not just in cases of sexual abuse or
rape."
"I was always feeling that something was wrong with me, and if I were
okay my father would have become a dad again," said one sexual abuse
victim
Like many victims of incestual sexual abuse, it was an important part of
her therapy to recognize that she was not at fault.
"All our memories are from a child's point of view," explains Plaut.
"The therapy often involves having the adult self view what was going oh
to the child self, and help console child and rescue them both from the
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