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Published Every Thursday By
Yancey Publishing Company
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THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1971 NUMBER 22
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Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor:
In response to last week's
Letters to the Editor, I would
like to say I agree with those
who wrote 100°4. I am a
student at Cane River High
and I and many others enjoyed
the chapel program that West
Burnsville Baptist Church pre -
sented. Why should anyone
want to criticize the thing most
needed in our schools today?
These "assembly-revivals"
have given some youth the
first hold in life, as well as a
picture of the position which
others of their age are in. I
should hope more of this would
take place in other schools in
the county. I sincerely hope
that other churches in the coun
ty will show as much concern
as West Burnsville Baptist did.
Sincerely G Hoprfully
Marvin Hensley
P. S. I attend the Deyton Bend
Methodist Church.
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Dear Editor:
Fm writing to thank the
people who stood up for our
youth and our right to leam of
God in our schools.
I am one of the stucfeits Wo
was at East Yancey when the
assembly-revival was being
held. I thank them for com -
Church School
Vacation Church School
will begin at Higgins Memor -
ial United Methodist Church
on June 7th and continue thru
June 11th each evening from
7:00 to 9:00 p. m.
Teaching in the Nursery
Department: Mrs. Johnny
Ray and Mrs. Mark Bennett;
Kindergarten and Elementary
I: Mrs. Bob Proffitt and Mrs.
Kenneth Laughrun; Elemen -
tary 11-IH: Mrs. Billy Ray
Edge and Mrs. Joe Gillespie;
Elementary IV-V-VI: Faye
Letterman and Mrs. Randall
Peacock.
Music and games: Julena
Young and Gail Thomas; Co
ordinator. Mrs. Earl Young.
Children of all denomina -
ticns are invited to* attend.
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ing. So many of my fr i ends
were unsaved and going to
hell. I thank God that they
were saved that day, and now
trying to live their life fer God
and trying to go to church.
lam saved and have my
church Igo to. Tm not
ashamed for telling anyone
that Christ is my Savior and I
love and live for Him. It
tells us in the Bible if we are
ashamed of Him (Christ) he
will be ashamed of us. I know
what it is like to have the de
vil fight me. I know hew hard
it is to fight him. But I de
pend on God and put my faith
in H im. I know that he will
help me make it through.
Many have put their faith
in God and trust him now. I
know that many of the stuebnts
would still be lost in sin if the
minister hadn't come to our
school. There have been many
changes since that assembly
and I hope for many more.
Fm praying for Mrs. Elly.
I hope that someday she will
realize and understand us and
how we do fight the devil and
try to live for God.
We need God in our schools
and our everyday life as much
as we need Him at church on
Sundays.
Sincerely,
Belinda McKinley
•hjE
Fourteen "little people" at
tended the 10:00 a. m. CHILD
REN'S HOUR this past Momky
morning in the Yancey County
Public Library. Miss Theresa
Coletta read to the children
Bruno Munari's Who's There 7
Open The Door! and The Ma
gic Tree written and illustra
ted by James and Ruth NtCros.
Following these stories, the
children enjoyed the sound
filmstrip "Racket Rabbit and
The Runaway Easter Eggs."
Church Singing
There will be a special song
service at the Burbank Free
Will Baptist Church, Route 1,
Roan Mountain, Tenn. Sunday
afternoon, June 6, at 2:00 p.
m. according to pastor Rev.
Holt Herrell.
Marine News
Lance Cpl. Archie L.Wright,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Wright, Route 1, Burnsville,
has just completed his 9-week
course in 6 weeks at Camp Le
jeune Marine Base in North
Carolina.
He has been assigned to
Hq. Co.-Landing Force Train
ing Command - Navy Amphi -
dious Base, Little Creek, Nor
folk, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Wright are
very proud of their son.
I
L/Cpl. Archie L. Wright
Gets Degree
Brady Lee Bailey, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Bailey,
Burnsville, graduated with a
Bachelor of Science degree in
Business and Economics under
the college of Business at Ap
palachian State University on
May 30th. He is a graduate
of Cane River High School.
t
Brady Lee Bailey
Garden Club
Meeting
The regular monthly meet
ing of the Burnsville Garden
Chib was held Friday evening.
May 28, at the home of Mrs.
Julia Gillespie with Mrs. Lois
Byrd co-hostess.
Mrs. Troy Ray presidedcaer
die meeting in the absence of
the president, Mrs. Brooks Wil
son. The civic committee re
ported that the street signs will
be restored and it was voted to
sponsor the Flower Box Contest
again this year.
Mrs. Fred ProfStt, program
leader, gave a review of the
book, Except for Me and Thee
by Jessamyne West. This is an
amusing story of a Quaker fam
ily.
Mrs. Paul Fall read selectal
poems by Robert L» Stevenson
and Mrs. Charles ProfStt read
selections from When We Were
Very Young by A. A. Milne.
The June meeting will be
with Mrs. Grace Grassmuck.
' rora. G-lsdys ColeHa_|
Vietnam: Crisis of Conscience
By Robert M. Brown, Abraham
Heschel, and Michael Novak.
1967 Pp. 122. Association ftess,
N.Y.
"We have sown the wind,
and we now reap the whirlwini,'
So states one of the three au
thors regarding the war in Viet
nam in their book, Vietnam:
Crisis of Conscience, Dr. Ro
bert Brown, Rabbi Abraham
Heschel, and Dr. Michael No
vak plead in this volume for
all Americans to put an end
to the evils of the whirlwind
by confronting the terrible rea
lities of the war in Vietnam
with a public outcry, before it
is too late.
Far from being a sermon,
the book is based on a
investigation of the historical
development of our present in
volvement in Vietnam. From
there it proceeds to the moral
dilemmas that involvement
poses for us, with a plea to the
conscience of the indivi dual
to shake off the moral numb
ness that has surrounded our
approach to the war.
written in 1967 before the Gal
ley Case occurred, the book
strikes home with several si
milar incidents. The confu -
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| DEAR MR. PUBIISHER,
j PARSON JONES J
Dear Mr. Publisher:
This protesting business is getting outa hand. Yester
day when I went down town there were 50 people with
signs, protesting protesting. Everywhere you go it's the
same thing. It's beginning to sound like a broken re
cord. You don't reckon the world had developed some
kind of stuttering defect, do you?
Yes sir, now-a-days it seems a lot more popular to
be agin something than to be fer something. When Iwas
a youngun trying to leam arithmetic I found it was eas
ier to figure zeros than it was to add the numb ers. I
reckon the real problem is that we've got too many lazy
people today.
You take all these kid s who are protesting—most of
'em never done a hard days work in their lives. All they
ever done was read books and play. I've heard tell that
an idle mind is the devil's workshop, but I'm convinced
that idle hands are his tools. If we put 'em all to hoeirg
cotton, they'd be too tired to trot round with signs yell
ing their lungs out.
If you dctA believe idleness is the problem, you just
think about this women's liberation movement a little.
Back when women had chores to do, they didn't have
time for brassiere burnings and such like. Now theyVe
been replaced with electric buttons and gadgets, and
they've developed a " zero complex". So, in order to
fill up the empty spot they carry signs and holler, Nfaybe
if they did away with electric washing machines and
brought back the old scrub boards it might give these
folks a sense of belonging.
Mr. Publisher, a wise man once said, "work keeps at
random three great evils—starvation, boredom, aid mean
ness. " Fortunately starvation ain't hit us yet, but the
last two have about took us over.
I expect I have said too much already, Mr. Publisher,
so I better break it off right here. All I ask is that you
don't give people my phone number. Just tell 'em to
dial "O". That way they'll get the operator and she 'll
do the work for 'em.
Until next time just remember a hoe gits rid ofweeds
better than a sign.
Parson Jones
sion and barbarity of our sol
diers, then and now, are
prevalent in all branches of
the military. How are we to
explain the moral degradation
in which we have become in
volved?
In conclusion,the book sug
gests ways in which the chur
ches and synagogues can make
a more effective corporate
witness to bring about change
in our war policy, since our
policy makers are so close to
the problem that perhaps they
cannot see the forest for the
trees. Above all, the authors
beg us not to commit the sin
of silence, for the time has
come when silence, in regard
to Vietnam, is betrayal. To
paraphrase the words of the
prophet Isaiah (62-1): "For
Vietnam's sake I will not keep
silent, For America's sake I
will not rest, Until the vin
dication of humanity goes forth
as brightness, And peace for
all men is a burning torch."
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