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; r . . ant gg.rr?n MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY GENERAL DELIVERY MARSHALL , ' NC ___ 28733 'nz - Serving The People Of Mod/son County Since f *01 citomhor Thursday, 25, 1986 HARVEST TIME for the area Burley tobacc^ farmers marks the end of summer and the beginning of the fall season and its changing colors. Joe Robinson, above, of Marshall, is one farmer who has seen his crop barely survive the long drought that hit Western North Carolina this year, creating feed and water shortages for cattle and livestock, and rpining many crops. Robinson said that some of his his tobacco couldn't be cut because of disease caused by the drought. Co 1 1 im unity ? v? a or Candidates Forums The Madison County Unit of the League Of Women Voters I will sponsor two Candidates Meetings on Sept. 29 and Oct. 6 to present the candidates for office in the Nov. 5 county elections. Democrat and Republican candidates for county commis sion, school board, sheriff, clerk of court and tax collector have been invited to attend. The candidates will be asked to respond to written questions submitted by the audiepce. The Sept. 29 Candidates Meeting will be held at the Greater Ivy Community Center (old Beech Glen School) at 7 p.m. Bruce Phillips will serve as the moderator. On Oct. 5, a second Candidates Meeting will be held in the Little Theatre of Madison H.S. The Rev George Moore will serve as the moderator. Board of Education candidates frooi District I will appear at the Sept. 29 meeting. School board candidates in the District II race will appear at the Oct. 5 meeting The series of meetings is being sponsored by the Madison County Unit of the League of Women Voters, the Greater Ivy Community Development Club and the Madison County Board of Realtors. The public is invited and encouraged to attend these impor tant meetings, the first of theif kind in local history. Ramsey To Address Laurel Meeting Speaker of the House Uston B. Ramsey will address a meeting at the Laurel VFp station house on Sept. 27 at 1 p.m. Other Democrat candidaJesx^r local offices are expected to attend the meeting whicj# is open to the public. Cutshall Family Reunion Sunday The Cutshall family reunion will be held Sept. 28 at 12:30 p.m. in the Laurel VFD station house. Family members and! friends are invited to bring along a picnic lunch, f School Board To Meet Oct. 1 The Madison Cqtinty Board of Education will meet on Oct 1 1 at 10:30 a.m. in the Madison County Court House. The meeting is open to the public. School Bus Training Clinic Planned A school but training clinic will be held on October 14 and 15 l. at Madison High School. All p;*r Wolf Laurel Residents To Consider Incorporation Homeowners To Meet Saturday By WILLIAM LEE In a move designed to relieve the development of some of its operating expenses, residents of Wolf Laurel will discuss a proposal by its property owners association to incorporate the resort as a town in Madison and Yancey Counties during a pro perty owners meeting this weekend By incorporating, Wolf Laurel would join many other ski resorts in North Carolina that have gone that route, including Sugar Mountain which incorporated last year. "There seems to come a point when it is no longer profitable for the developing corporation to continue certain services and maintenance to its residents," said Wolf Laurel Property Owners Association President, John Baggett. "Wolf Laurel may well have reached that point." The property owners came close to taking over responsibili ty for the resort in July when the parent company, Bald Moun tain Development, had trouble meeting debt obligations and was near bankruptcy. Since that time, new management has stepped in to cut operating costs and streamline operations.The cuts should allow Wolf Laurel to continue operations through the profitable ski season. Incorporating Wolf Laurel was first suggested two years ago when the development threatened to stop providing front gate security. Baggett said he and others looked at the idea of incorporating in order to provide security for the resort. Now incorporating is being looked at even more seriously as a means to relieve the development of the costs for providing road maintenance and water service to residents. Currently, residents pay varying amounts for road maintenance, depen ding upon when they purchased property at the resort. Recent purchasers pay $100 annually, while others pay only $40. Some of the very first property owners are required to pay nothing at all. "There are still some who have refused to pay and, con sidering how poorly roads have been maintained one can't say that they blame them," said Marion Hawkins, vice president of the Property Owners Association. "Incorporating will pro vide the means to secure these fees." Under North Carolina law, municipalities are not required to provide their own tax collection, but can contract with the county for reimbursement of its share of property taxes. If incorporated, Wolf Laurel would probably take over the -Continued on Page 10 Bd. Of Education Move Put On Hold I By ROBERT KOKMC. Frustrated by what they called "delay tactics" on the part of the Board o Education, the Madison County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to leave county offices in their present place in the cour thouse. Tax supervisor Wesley Staude was instructed to return his offices to the third floor of the courthouse. The tax , supervisor's offiqe was to have been moved (o the rktft floiw -.if thf thouse according to pians approved by the county commissioners in May. The commissioners ordered the county Board of Education to vacate their first-floor offices on May 7, the day following their defeat in the Democratic primary. The original order to vacate gave School Superintendent Robert L. Edwards just 30 days to find new offices, a move Edwards and the school board opposed. After some negotiations, the county commissioners agreed to allow the Board of Education to remain in the courthouse offices until September. Edwards had sought to delay the move until after the new school year was underway, saying that moving during the summer would create con fusion. The school board later agreed to vacate the first-floor offices by Sept U jjnd move into third-floor offices Commission chairman James Led ford tolf his fellow board members that he rftet with Edwards on Sept. 15, four days aftei1 the moving deadline. At that meeting, Ledford said, Ed wards informed him that the schools were purchasing a new telephone system to be installed in the third floor offices The new equipment could not be installed for another 30-45 days, Edwards told Ledford. The commission chairman said that he had made arrangements with Cash Crop Cache Caught ANOTHER CASH CROP, but not of the legal variety was unloaded by Deputy Sheriff Frank Ogle last week. It was part of an intensive search by U.S. Forest Service and N.C. Wildlife Service in the Pisgah Forest region of Madison County. Contel to install service to the third floor offices last Friday, but later learned that the work order had been cancelled. Contel officials declined to say who cancelled the order. Pointing out that the tax supervisor must begin work on the county pro perty revaluation, Ledford suggested ordering Staude to return to his old of fices. "We've got county business to run. We don't have time to fool with people who want to play games." L*ifor?wW. Board member Virginia Anderson agreed, saying, "I don't see what else we can do. We've got to get on with coiwty business." Both Anderson and Ervtn Adams complained that school officials had gone on record agreeing to move by Sept. 11. James Ledford discounted school officials' contention that the move should be delayed while awaiting in stallation of a new telephone system Ledford told the board, 'It's just a delay tactic. If he (Edwards) had mentioned it months ago, we could' ve had this done." Ervin Adams complained about the expense of the cancelled move, say ing, "We've spent thousands of dollars getting it ready for them." In other business, the board ap pointed Virginia Anderson to the county Board of Health, replacing Bill Moore who resigned recently The board also accepted the resignation o? county Emergency Management director Don Anderson effective in November. Anderson recommended naming Housing Authority director Sam Parker as his replacement. The board accepted the resignation, but took no action on Anderson's suggestion regarding a replacement. Before adjourning the meeting, Ledford announced that state of ficials have transferred some $65,000 in county water and sewer bond funds to the Town of Marshall Suspect Arrested Here Convicted Of S.C. Murder A 29-year old Charlotte man cap tured here last September was con victed on murder charges in South Carolina last week. Ronnie Howard was sentenced to life in rpison after an Oconee County jury found him guilty of the murder of a 27-year old Greenville County woman. It was the second murder conviction this year against the defendant. Earlier this year, a Greenville, S.C. jury found both Howard and co defendant Dana Weldon were con victed of the murder of a 26-year old Vietnamese woman. Both men received the death penalty following the conviction Howard and Weldon were captured last September by Sheriff E.Y. Ponder and deputy Prank Ogle in front of the Madison County Court House. The pair were then wanted for the armed robbery of a Pizza Hut restaurant in Asheville. In other police matters. Sheriff Ponder reported that deputies and State Bureau of Investigation agents seized approximately 3,000 mari juana plants in a series of raids last Thursday and Friday. The plants, valued at $3 million. were captured in the Shetton Laurel. Upper Shut-In and Spring Creek , areas. Police say the investigation is continuing and several arrests are expected. Last week, a raid in the Shelton Laurel are uncovered an estimated $1 million in plants and a moonshine still. Marshall Tries To Iron Out a * ?<' - By ROBERT KOENIG Faced with a rising tide of criticism regarding the quality of Marshall's water, town officials decided to replace the town's water and sewer supervisor on Monday night. Ajfermen hd Niles and Faye Reid voted ut imously to ter ninate to contract with watei Services Inc at th< of Aflhevilte to replace Morris' thepres Uwate kble for | also! vices on th e town's wastewater treatment plant oa Hlan nerhassett Island. During Monday's called meeting, ifcbson presented the aldermen with the result o ions ol discharge from the plant into the The tests. (Cdered by the NX Dept of <atur it, showed letnwn ui? 1 mnnlki
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