THEYANCEYRECORD
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FHA Aid laid Baik Will
Jon Forces With Loais
Plans for the Farmers Home
Administration and Federal
Land Bank to join forces in sup
plying long term real es t ate
financing needed by farm fa
milies were outlined for Yan
cey County in a meeting last
week.
State, district, and county
staff members of Farmers I some
Administration met at the She
raton Inn, Asheville, North
Carolina with a group of Fed
eral Land Bank officials from
Columbia, South Carolina,and
their Land Bank and Production
Credit Association representa
tives in WesternN>rthCarolina.
The two groups headed by
Farmers Home Administra t ion
State Director, James T. John
son, and Federal Land Bank
of Columbia and Federal Inter
mediate Gedit Bank of Colum
bia President, Robert A. Darr,
discussed a Memorandum of
Understanding on procedures
for processing loan applicatias
from the same borrow er.
Their working arrangement
will carry out an agreement
signed recently in Washington,
D.C., by National Farmers
Home Administration Adminis
trator, James V. Smith, and
Governor E. A. Jaenke of the
Farm Credit Administration on
cooperation in lending between
the two agencies.
The plan provides for the
agencies to make simultaneous
World Day
Os Prayer
The celebration of World
Day of Prayer, sponsored by
Church Women United, will
be observed Friday, March 5,
at 7:30, at the Higgins Memo
rial United Methodist Church.
This service is being sponsored
by the women of Higgins Me
morial Methodist Church, the
First Baptist Church, and the
First Presbyterian Church.
World Day of Prayer is ce
lebrated in more than 8,000
communities and 155 countries
Unite with Christians around
the world celebrating the New
Life in Christ.
We urge all people to at
tend. An offering will be re
ceived to be used for Intercon
tinental Mission with special
emphasis on those efforts to
proclaim the Gospel - such as
the expanding ministries in
our National Pads.
Farmers Home Administration
farm ownership loans and long
term real estate loans to the
same borrower with each loan
secured by the same property.
The Land Bank will hold first
mortgage on the farm,Farmers
Home Administration subor -
dinatdng its mortgage to the
Land Bank lien.
"By simultaneously serving
different elements of the far -
mers' financing require m e nts,"
Johnson and Darr said in a joint
statement here today, "our two
agencies can help assure mare
capable, diligent small farm
families an opportunity to work
their way to success on their
own farms.
We will be able to serve
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Girls Haven
Board Meets
At a meeting of the Board
of Directors of Girls Haven,lnc.
which took place in Charlotte
last Saturday, members jvere
informed that Girls Haven has
received its license to solicit
funds. The license comes from
the State Department of Social
Services which had chec ke d
out Girls Haven thoroughly be
fore taking this step.
According to Randall Pea
cock, one of the Board me ru
bers, they are now ready to
receive their "Buck-A-Month 1
pledges from concerned citi
zens throughout the state. "In
addition," he said, "we are
now set up to receive contribu
tions made in. lieu of s ending
flowers 'fa Sympathy' to a be
reaved family. Special 1 y
designed cards will be sent to
the bereaved acknowledging
the contribution made in me
mory of'their loved one.
Foster Homes are set up and
ready to receive children now.
Officials of Girls Haven are
waiting to receive all applica
tions before making the deci
sion as to which child could
better benefit by the type of
care offered .
The Board Meeting, termed
the "best to date", was atten -
ded by fourteen of the twenty
two members serving. Attend
ing from Yancey County were
Mack Ray, Chairman of the
Executive Committee; Robert
Helmle and Dr. Garland Wamp
ler, also on the Executive Com
mittee; Reverend Don Elly and
Randall Peacock.
THURSDAY, MARCH 4,1971
Yanceys Official 1970 Census Figures
Released By Bureau Os Celnsus
(Special to the Yancey Record)
Yancey County's official
population in the 1970 Census
was 12,629, down 9.8 percent
from the 1960 figure of 14,008,
the Bureau of the Census,U.S.
Department of Commerce, re
ports.
The official population of
the state was 5,082,059, up
11.5 percent from the 1960
population count; which was
4,556,155.
The 1970 Census counted
12,379 white persons in Yan
cey County, 98.0 percent of
the total; 236 Negroes, and 14
persons of other races. In 1960,
99.0 percent of the population
was white.
The Census showed 1,014
children under 5 years; 3,041
in ages 5 through 17; 7,08 2
people 18 through 64; and of
those 65 and older, 1,492. The
population 14 years and over
included 6,472 married people,
811 who were widowed, 188
divorced, and 2,099 who were
never married.
Yancey County's 1970 pop
ulation was classified as 100
percent rural.
There were 3,859 household,
| Plaza To j
S Be Built 1
The construction of a large
shopping center of eight to ten
stores, with Ingles Supermar -
ket as its main building, has
already begun on the Burns
ville By-Pass at Highway 197,
according to authoritative soir
ees.
Developer and promoter of
this project is Harry Giezenta.-
ner, who has also developed se
veral other shopping centers
in Western North Carolina in
cluding the one in Weaver\ill&
The Burnsville Plaza is the
name by which the complex
will be known. It is expected
to serve the needs of all sur
rounding communities in this
area.
The Ingles Supermarket
building will be 15,000 squsre
feet. Mr. Giezentaner de
clined to comment on what
other stores will be includ ed
in the Plaza at this time.
Construction started Tues
day and building is expected to
be completed in about three
months. June Ist was given
as the completion date.
with 12,494 persons, including
421 one-person households. In
addition 135 persons were liv -
ing in group quarters.
The 1970 Census counted
4,550 housing units in Yancey
County, 2,985 of them occu
pied by owners, 884 occupied
by tenants, and 681 vacant.
These included vacant units
for seasonal use. The propor
tion occupied by owners in
1970 was 65.6 percent, com
pared with 69.0 percent, 1960.
Among year-round dwelling
units there were 4,017 single
family homes, 124 housing un
its in multi-unit buildings, and
260 mobile homes or trailers.
The percentage of occupied
units with more than one per
son per room was 11.4, com -
pared with 20.9 in 1960. Os
all the occupied housing units,
2,676 had piped water, toilet
and bath, while 1,193 lacked
some or all plumbing.
The median value of owner
occupied houses inT&nceyCo.
Heart Survey Efforts Pay,
Sixteen Students Referred
A total of 2,600 students
in Yancey County were screen
ed in a massive effort to de -
tect heart defects in children,
dining the Heart Sounds Screen
ing Program just completed in
Yancey County. The program,
which involved nine County
schools, was started in Septem
ber, 1970.
Os the 2,600 students who
were screened, over 1,000
were up to 3or 4
times, in an effoi: to obta in
a satisfactory rea< 'ing. Os
these, 290 were referred to Dr.
D. L. Phillips of Spruce Pine,
Physician Direct rof the pro
gram.
Twenty eight students were
referred, finally, to Dr. Tho
mas B. Nolan oi Greensboro,
Consulting Card >legist and
of these, sixteen will be re
ferred for advanced diagnostic
testing to the Pediatric Cardio
logy Center of North Carolina,
at the N.C. Bapdst Hospital in
Winston-Salem. This number
compares with just eleven from
Mitchell County and th irteen
from Watauga County who
were referred for the advanced
testing.
According to the Nbrth Ca
was $9,000, compared with
$5,700 in 1960. The median
rent paid by tenants in 1970
was less than S3O per month ,
compared with S2B in 19 60.
Half were over and half below
the median figures.
These results are from two
1970 Census Advance Reports
for the State: PC (V 2), Gen
eral population characteristics,
and HC (VI), General housing
characteristics. The reports
which contain additional 1970
Census data for the State and
various areas within it, maybe
purchased at nominal pric es
from the Superintendent of
Documents, U.S, Government
Printing Office,Washington, D.
C. 20402, or from offices of
the U.S. Department of Com
merce in major cities.
Further reports giving more
■ extensive statistics on the clar
acteristics of the population &
housing will be published in
future months as the 1970 Ce
nsus results are tabulated.
rolina Heart Association, ap
proximately 30 out of every
10,000 American youngsters
suffer unsuspected heart disease
Heart defects often remain
hidden because most ab
normal heart sounds are so
subtle they can be det e c ted
only by a specialist. It would
be an impossible task for the
relatively small number of
trained physicians to examine
all school children.
Through extensive research
and testing, a technique has
been developed to listen to the
sounds of the heart accurately
and quickly through the use of
a computer known as a Phono
cardioscan. A physician is the
only one who can diagnose a
child's heart sounds and all
children found with sounds
outside the normal limits were
examined by a physician.
Mnw Eloise Briggs,speaking
for herself as Chairman of the
Yancey County Heart Screening
Project and afro speaking for
the North Carolina Heart As
sociation, would like to ex
press appreciation to all the
volunteer workers in Yancey
County who helped to make
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