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52* MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY GEKERAL. DELIVERY rshall tZ Nth 30 39 28753 ! RECORD Serving Madison And Buncombe Counties Vol 88 No as Thursday, September 29, 1988 Commissioners Study Manager Idea Change Would Replace County Finance Officer And Could Save $ School Employs Guard Security Man Now Patrols High School A security officer has been hired by the Madison County Board of Educa tion for the county high school. Madison High Principal David Wyatt said former county deputy Jasper Treadway has been employed on a temporary basis since the begin ning of this week, Sept. 19. "It's a fairly common practice now at high schools," Wyatt said. "North Buncombe has one. We talked about it for a year or two. "It's something to keep things go ing smoothly; it's not really a guard but more of a public relations person." Wyatt said a permanent security officer would be hired by the board later. He said Treadway patrols the park ing lot and the school building from 7:90 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. each school day. The main purpose is to keep non students and other unwarranted per sons from the school grounds and buildings, Wyatt said. Having a security officer around also can deter illegal drug selling, viMence and "...helps keep the students from leaving without per mission." No single incident prompted the move, the principal added. Sheriff Waiting For Lab Results No arrests have been made in con nection with the Labor Day eve fire that caused an esitmated 1100,000 to the Hfadison County courthouse. Sheriff Dedrick Brown said several suspects had been questioned since arsonists set three small fires inside the 81-year-old historic landmark three weeks ago. Brown also said he was waiting for some evidence to be analyzed and returned from the state Crime Lab in Kaieigh Repair work on the courtroom, the most extensively damaged part in the building, has not begun, although Clerk of Court Jim Cody said he was told repair work would begin last week. The vandals apparently broke into the building through a window in the Tax Collector's office. Fires were set in trash cans in the Register of Deeds office and the Clerk's office, but those fires extinguished themselves. The fire in the courtroom, though, took the heaviest toll - destroying one-third of the Judge's bench and searing the walls and ceiling as w*ll as burning a hole in the floor. A $10,000 reward leading to th^ ar rest and conviction of those responsi bie for the fire has been of fered by the State Bureau of Investigation, and another $3,000 has been added Architect New School An architectural arm to draft plans for a proi.wed t J million mkUk :hooJ for Madison County has beer the county bout ??? boan School Sup< Bot Edwards m. ch >1 boi lawyer Fore Hail tor Historic Trail May Run Through Madison Co. National Park Service Traces De Solo's path Through Southeast By H.D. KOONTZ HI Tlie News Record Editor During the next two months the Na tional Park Service wiil hold a se- > i of public meetings in seven states to gather opinions or bie designation of a nat; trail following the route 450 years ago by Sp~ r Hernando de Soto. The proposed tr? , puth leading from F luruugM Georgia and South . V .-olina and crosses a portion of {Hanson County. Wink Hastings of the Natianatfrnrii. Service said the meetings are a part of a feasibility study currently under way to determine if the trail should be added to the National Trails system. "A lot will be based on ar heological information, but there is .ot much | "that now," Hastings said , In a teleo ne irjtervie- ' "That's one rea<pr Ihe eetirv . - we hope to ge< di ? morv inten *? and research and pinpoint the i' better in the future. . "The only .confirmed is in Florida, and .; >< was found last year," he saiu. it was a 4,000-mile route and information is very sket chy, mostly from diaries " tSeSbto himself never gof to make that final report - he died on the ex pedition. -Continued on Page 3 RECONSTRUCTED ROUTE OF THE HERNANDO DE SOTO EXPEDITION. 1SJ?-1S41 Raleigh Firm Plans Woodfin Shopping Mall By H.D. KOONTZ III TV News Record Editor A Raleigh development firm plans to build a 196,000 square foot shopping center on 1S.5 acres along the Weaverville Highway at Woodfin. The center, to be called the Newbridge Shopping Center, will be built in two stages across from the Johnaon-Chandley Lumber Co. Inc. The developer, Bob Hughea ft Associates, wants to begin construc tion on the first phaae this fall and begin the second phaae in the middle of next summer Hughea, president of the company, is a native of Buncombe County, where ha attended Owen High School and played football for the Owen War Horses in the early IMOs before leav ing for Raleigh and N.C. Stat. Univaratty. "Yeah, I'm an oie Swaimanoa boy who lived all his life around there," Hughes said. "I came here for N.C. State - hoping to get through as quick as I could and then go back home - and I've been here trying to make a living ever since." Hughes company also developed the River Ridge Market Place shopp ing center in east Asheville, so the firm is no stranger to this portion of the state either. "We've been working on this for about five years and talking with the property owner," he said. "We think it's a good location; it's not over retailed, and we see a need." The shopping center will include a store, a drug store, a major t discount store and about half-doien smaller shops. When completed, Hughes said a total of 500 people would be employed -Continued on Page J By H.D. KOONTZ III The News Record Editor A county manager may be employed in place of a new finance of ficer by the Madison County Board of Commissioners. The issue, which all three commis sioners agreed is important enough for serious consideration, probably will be discussed at the board's Oct. 10 meeting. No special meeting has been set to talk about the topic, Board Chairman Bobby Capps said. "It's certainly something that's worth looking into," Capps said of the idea. "And there's a good possibility we will go that route. We need to look into it and see if it's possible to get a county manager instead of a finance officer." Commissioner John Hensley also Liston B. Ramsey said the idea merits the board's atten tion. "I think we ought to take a good look at it before we get out on a limb," Hensley said. "Anything that can help the county and the people of the county I can't refuse We're going to have to try something. "But we ought to eyeball it good before we do it," he said. Hensley was concerned that a coun ty manager may become too wrapped up in recruiting industrial develop ment for Madison County, a job now handled largely by the individual commissioners. Also, Hensley said he was not cer tain Deputy Finance Officer Darlene Rhinehart's office could handle all the finance department duties during peak busy periods without additional help. Commissioner Reese Steen, though, said he wants the board to in vestigate the matter before hiring a new finance officer to replace Frank Rice, who recently resigned to accept a teaching job. Steen said there is a possibility employing a county manager instead of a finance officer might save the county money. He said he would not be in favor of establishing another layer of county government in the courthouse but wants to shift some offices in the courthouse to set up a more efficient operation. The idea also has caught the atten tion of the Madison County League of Women Voters, which has set up an open meeting on the question of a county manager for the county at the -Continued on Page 3 Training Center Plans To Honor Liston Ramsey House Speaker Litton B. Ramsey, D-Marshall, will be honored Saturday at the dedication of the Western North Carolina Regional Allied Health and Geriatric Training Center at Sylva. A special plaque honoring Speaker Ramsey will be unveiled at the new $6 million facility, for which Ramsey helped get funding through the General Assembly. "The ceremony will tout Ramsey for his role in securing approval of stfitp flinrifi fftP tho cantor " fourth term in state 1961 to the N.C. legislature. "A champion of Western North Carolina, he is considered the strength behind much legislation that has favored the region," Rice said in a release. N.C. Atty. Gen. Lacy H. Thorn berg and Department of Community Col leges President Robert W. Scott will be featured also on the program. The Smokey Mountain British Brass Band will perform following the dedication ceremony, and a giant fireworks display by Jerry Warren will lig|hl up the sky - ? A reception will be held at 5:30 p.m., and the fireworks display will be at 9:30 p.m. Gardner Says Drugs Biggest Problem By H.D. KOONTZ III The Newt Record Editor Republican candidate for lieute nant governor James C. Gardner said he's not concerned with opinion polls. "The only poll that I'm really con cerned about is the one November 8th," Gardner told a gathering of the party faithful at the grand opening of Madison County GOP campaign headquarters last week in Marshall. "Our polls show we're winning," Gardner said. However, a Greeensboro News * Record poll showed him behind Democrat Anthony E. Rand. The News and Observer poll last week showed Gardner in a virtual tie with his Democratic opponent. Those poll results, released Sept. 23, showed Gardner with an in significantly small lead over Rand, 33 percent to 31.2 percent, which is less than the poll's 3.5 percent margin of error. In the same poll, there was a whop ping 35.8 percent saying they were undecided. Gardner, a former congressman who has run unsucessfully for gover nor two times, is seeking to become the first Republican lieutenant gover nor since 1901. The candidate, in Marshall Thurs day to cut the ceremonial ribbon at the area campaign headquaters, was undaunted by pell numbers. "The only way Republicans can lose i> for Republicans to stay at home" election day, he told the group- A * Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, former con gressman Jim Gardner, visited Marshall last week to help open the GOP campaign headquarters on Main Street across from the county courthouse. Gardner is opposed by Democrat Tony Rand. H.D. Koontz photo. Regional Agency To Aid Small Business Expansion By H.D. KOONTZ III The News R?n4 Editor The Appalachian Regional Com mission has designed a spaciai pro ject which could help Madison County businesses and industries become more competitive through the use of new technology The project is one of a several technology transfer initiatives being funded during the year in the Ap palachian states using funds designed the ARCftor this purpoae, said V n M. Anderson, public affairs director The objective of the program, which will make up to $100,800 available to each of the commission's 13 member stales, is to help small bus messes and industries gain access to new processes that will help them modernize and thus compete tor their share of economic growth, Anderson said. Jerry PJemmons, vice chairman of the Madison County Chamber of < ommeree, said such program* lor small businesses and industries ii needed. "We just do not have the sites for large or even small manufacturers Martin Suggests To peed t p _ m*Jor '? ,J: ?? w,* i M ?
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