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IE NEWS RECORD SERVING THEJPEOPLE Of MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1901 _ Thursday, July 3, 1986 25c I COUNTY LIBRARY GENERAL DELIVERY MARSHALL NC .? ?: 17. ? ? Female Minister Leads County 8 Newest Church Story On Page 2 Community Calendar Spring Creek Reunion July 13 The annual Spring Creek reunion will be held July 13 for all former teachers, students and families. The reunion will begin at 10 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend and bring a picnic lunch. Retired Teachers To Meet The Madison County Retired School Personell will hold a meeting on July 9 at 11:30 a.m. at Mary's Restaurant. Mrs. Pauline Zimmerman will be the speaker. Everyone is invited to attend. Silver Family Reunion Set The Sliver Family Reunion will be held July 6 at 11:00 a.m. at the Mars Hill Elementary School Cafeteria. The decendants of Delbert and Sudie Gosnell Silver and friends are invited to attend. A covered dish luncheon will be served. Rice Family Reunion The family of the late Spencer and Cornilia Metcalf Rice will hold a reunion on July 13 beginning at 11:00 ajn. in the Mars Hill Elementary School cafeteria. All family members and friends are invited to attend and bring a picnic lunch. Walnut School Reunion Set The Annual Reunion of former students and teachers of Walnut School is being planned for Saturday, August 9, begin ning at 3 p.m. at the school. 1%e school building now standing was built in the early 1930s after the old school building was burned. It included grades 1 through 12 until 1962 when the high school was consolidated with Marshall. It is now an elementary school. The reunion is not limited to graduates of the school, but for anyone who attended school there. There will be food and cold drinks on sale ihe school. Lio? To-Most July 4th Celebration In Mars Hill The Mars Hill Lions Club will host their annual celebration of Independence Day at the Mars Hill Elementary School. Barbeque chicken, hamburgers and hot dogs will be served hogi nning at S p.m. with live Blue Grass and Gospel singing groups to perform beginning a 7 p.m. The evening fun, food and fellowship will conclude with a fir works display. All proceeds will benefit the visually imparled. Republicans Choose Betty Wild Hie Madison County Republican executive committee named former Marshall mayor Betty Wild to fill the slot on the November ballot left va cant by the withdraw! of Don Hall. Hall was unopposed in the May primary for the tax collector's race. He withdrew from the election last month, citing poor health. The county executive committee met in Mars Hill on June 22 to select a replace Wild served as^ars hall's mayor until her defeat ii last November's municipal elections. A former Democrat, Wild changed party af filiation in December following her defeat at the polls. The switch of par ty made her ineligible to file for office back in January. Mrs. Wild will face incumbent Democrat Harold Wallin in the general election. $7.8 Million Budget Property Taxes Cut To 75 Cents The Madison County Board of Commissioners gave final ap proval to the county's 1986-87 budget on Monday during a special called meeting in Marshall. The $7.9 million budget br ings with it a 15-cent reduction in the county's ad valorem tax rate. Commissioners Ervin Adams and James Ledford voted to approve the budget package during Monday's meeting. Board member Virginia Anderson of Hot Springs was unable to at tend the hearing. The new budget, which took effect on Tuesday, is a $400,000 increase over the 1985-86 general fund budget. Despite the in crease in spending, cutbacks in state and federal funding forc ed the commissioners to trim the local budget. Hardest hit by the budget cuts were the Madison County Department of Social Services and the county Health Dept. Additional cutbacks forced the dismissal of two sheriff's deputies. A total of 13 county employees, including 10 from DSS, lost their jobs in the cutback. Commission chairman James Ledford was pleased with the budget package. He told The News Record, "We have a good, tight budget that allows us to reduce taxes. There's a lot of work left to be done before November and we're proceeding full steam ahead." The commissioners will conduct their regular monthly meeting on Monday at 1 p.m. in the Madison County Cour thouse. SENATOR JOHN EAST was found dead in Ihe garage of his Greenvill* home on Sunday by an aide. An autopsy revealed that East died of carbon monoxide poisoning. He was found slumped in the front seat of his car. T Officials have called East's death a suicide. Hie junior senator was in poor health in recent months as a result of a thyroid condition. Gov. Jim Martin is expected to name Rep. James Broyhill to fill East's term. Broyhill is the Republican nominee in the November election for East's Senate seat. 1986-87 MADISON COUNTY BUDGET Expenditures: Governing body $19,962 Finance $58,413 Tax and reevaluation 158,867 Legal fees 1,200 Court facilities 4,252 Elections 34,499 Register of Deeds 41,717 Public Buildings-Courthouse 27,945 Public Buildings-Sr. Citizen Ctrs 6,930 Sheriff's Department... $127,073 Inspection Dept. . . . .' 25,663 Medical examiner 2,000 Ambulance service.. 315,509 Animal control 14,100 Mass transit 200,988 Landfill 255,337 Planning and zoning 11,710 Agriculture Extension Svc 67.256 Health Department: General 188,560 Tuberculosis 500 Nutrition Title XX 4,203 Maternal health 43,358 Child health 50,294 Family planning 36,554 WIC program 24,000 Mental Health-administration 24,000 Social Services-adminsitration 590,694 Child support enforcemnt 53,955 AFDC 465,745 Special assistance 163,422 State foster care 5,119 ^BDCfostercare... 3?.40f Medic Si assistance 3,149,791 Assistance to the blind 3,999 Adoption assistance 8,847 Crisis intervention 32,425 Nutrition program 179,247 Home delivery of meals 41,878 Transportation to meal sites 49,606 Child day care 426,596 Madison Cty. Board of Education 700,000 Library 95,297 Transfer to other funds 15,000 TOTAL EXPENDITURES- GENERAL FUND $7,819,767 Mars Hill Honors Dr. Duck Residents o( the Mars Hill com- 1 m unity gathered at town hall last Thursday evening, June 26, to honor Dr. Otis Duck, who was retiring after some 40 years as a femily physician in the community Mars Hill Mayor Owen Tilson had officially proclaimed the day "Dr. Duck Day," and town officials had organized the reception to honor the retiring doctor. A plaque was presented to him, expressing ap preciation for four decades of medical service to residents of the community and the surrounding area. More than 100 citizens came by to express their sentiments to Dr. Duck aad his wife, Betty A native of the Middle Pork com munity of Madison County. Dr. Duck Mars Hill College and Wake < completion of his initial at Knoxville Genera Corbetts Donate $272,250 John and Lillian Corbett of Mar shall have given $272,250 in an annui ty trust agreement to Mars Hill Col lege. Dr. Fred B. BenUey, Mara Hill president, announced that the money will be used for an unrestricted en dowment. Funds earned from this en dowment may be used as the college MM fit, without being restricted to any single project. "The generosity of the Corbetts and their steadfast support of Mars Hill College is of significant assistance to the college in achieving its BenUey said. The Corbetts graduated Hill in 1894 Mr Cortatt continued his tioo at demon University Mrs. Corbett attended Afnes in 1*7, when he became rhf CAPirUlA U/< oi service m dwt smucs* tic
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