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THEYANCEY V0L.35, N 0.20 ■ ® If ' il EjHBBRrafIBW ♦ \ C \ M IplUp < • - ‘ * .SB ''r ’ ||2v \ V jHf's ■ ,\/*>y\.#j ... # : HBBIUbI doggers Will Perform At 4th Annual Yancey Youth Jamboree To Be Held This Fall Yancey Youth Jamboree Planned; Application Deadline Is June 1 Preliminary plans are be ing made for the 4th Annual Yancey County Youth Jam boree to be held this year on August sth and 6th. Appli cations for the Jamboree are available at the schools now. The deadline for submitting applications is June Ist. Coordinators have been chosen from each school to encourage students to partici pate in the Jamboree and to administer the applications and copies of the Regulations. The coordinators are Haze 1 Jaycees Hold Gospel Sing The Burnsville Jaycees are sponsoring a gospel sing at the East Yancey High School gym on Sunday afternoon, May 23 at 2:00 p. m. Featured in this gospel sing will be the follow ing participants: Kingsmen Quartet, Channel 4, Greeneville, S.C. ; The Skylanders,Asheville, N. C e ; Victory Trio, Balsam, N. C. ; Joyfulaires, Alexander, N. C.; Bee Log Quartet, Burnsville; Rebels Creek Quartet, Bakers - ville, N.C. This singing is for the bene fit of the Easter Seal campaign (crippled children). There will be no admission c h arge but there will be a free will offering taken for this benefit. This is volunteer work by the singers and all concerned. Dellinger, Mica ville Elemen tary; Judy Sparks, Caneßhrer High School; Betty Young, Clearmont; Louise Hughes, East Yancey High School; Or lena Anglin, Pensacola; Sarah Hensley, Burnsville; Nancy Foe, Bald Creek; Ginger Phillips, Bee Log; Caroline Deyton, South Toe; and Mrs. Robinson, Robinson School of Music. Ap plication may be given to school coordinators or mailed to the Chamber of Commerce. The Youth Jamboree, spon sored by the Yancey County . . •»']i^aSs v/ If ■-*&£& ■. Kay Honeycutt And Mike Hopson, 4-H Delegates THURSDAY, MAY 20,1971 Chamber of Commerce, en - joyed its first season in 1968. Now in its 4th year, it is be coming an important tradi - tional event. The Jamboree encourages preservation of our mountain heritage in dance and music. The program is to be a high quality performance consisting of folk songs, ballads, spirit - uals and religious songs, in strumentals , smooth squ are dancing, western square dan - cinj, and clogging. Local Man Portrays Story Os 'The Good Samaritan’ The story of the "good Sam aritan" was reenacted on the nigjit of January 27, 1971 with David Livengood, who owns and operates a carpeting busi ness in Burnsville, playing an important role. The storywas slow in getting out because no one, especially those chiefly involved, made any great to do about what was,to them,just "doing something that had to be done " according to Liven - good. One motorist stopped, but he said he was too old to help. A truck driver stopped, but said he was just getting over pneu monia. He donated his flash light. A car had turned over and was resting bottomside up about waist deep in the Nantahala Ri ver, with a man trapped inside. Two companions had escaped the overturned car and were on the bank, dazed and freezing. The scene was the Nantaha la Gorge in western North Ca rolina where U.S. 19 runs close beside the river. The time was about 11 p. m. The temperature on this frigid Jan uary night was about 10 degrees with a wind boring through the gorge. Mike Ba&ette of Chattanoo ga , Tenn. , was trapped in the car with just space enough to hold his head above water. His companions, John Dow lug from Chattanooga and David Schlegal of Ohio, both half frozen from their dunking in the icy river, were trying to flag down help. David Livengood, 25, on his way to Asheville, never even thought of heroics, or even of the fact that he can' t swim. "I went on down to 4-H’ers Chosen As Delegates Two 4-H'ers from Yancey County are among some 250 boys and girls from seven states, including North Carolina, to attend the 16th Annual 4-H Regional Resource Develop - ment Conference at Fontana Dam May 31-June 4, 1971, The delegates from Yancey Comity are Miss Kay Honeycutt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hol lis Honeycutt of Jack's Creek and Mr. Mike Hopson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hopson of Green Mountain. During the week long con ference the young people will Sit? David Livengood the river to see what I could do," Livengood said in recall ing that night. Two WCU students from Murphy on their way back to (Cont'd on page 20) Local CAP Unit Formed A newly-formed Civil Air Patrol Squadron in Yancey County held its first regular meeting at Mountain Wilder - ness on Thursday night, May 13. The group of approximately 28 persons, 5 of them already pilots, will work within the squadron in various capacities, and receive instruction in the numerous operational activities required for Air Search and Res cue Missions, Civil Defense, Natural Disasters, etc. which comprise the major work of the Civil Air Patrol, an auxi liary of the United States Air Force. All educational facilities d (Cont'd on page 20) take part in study periods on our atmosphere, soil, water, forest, wildlife and human resources along with periods of fellowship, inspira - tion and recreation. The 4-H Regional Resource Development Conference is sponsored by the T enn e s s e e Valley Association of Test De monstration Farm Families,the land-grant universities of the seven Valley States, the Ten nessee Valley Authority and locally by the Yancey County Demonstration Farmers. 10<
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