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DOWN, BUT NOT OUT—The Elephant thrilled the children of the Yancey County Child De
velopment Center, Burnsville on their day at the Circus. The Spruce Pine Jaycees treated
the children to a circus trip last Wednesday evening. The young man standing on the Ele
phant’s neck is Sandy Bailey. Jaycee Allan McMurray took the picture and made arrange -
ments for the 18 children attending. With the children: Miss Nancy Wyatt, director of the
Child Development Center, and Mr. Ted Slagle of the Yancey County Social Service Dept.
Playhouse Presents I Bus Stop'
By Theresa Coletta
The Parkway Playhouse pre
sents Wednesday through Sa
turday evenings of this week,
for your personal viewing, a
portrait, "Bus Stop," painted
for the American stage by the
playwright William Inge, and
etched for the Parkway Play
house easel by managing direc
tor, J. Gordon Greene. The
portrait's chief distinction lies
in its humanistic etching of
six distinct individuals whom
fate has thrown together in a
street-comer case for one snowy,
blizzardy night.
The strength of this portrait
is seen in the believable ac ’-
ting of Kathleen Larkin as
Cherie, a night-club "chan -
toosie," and in Stephen Stout
as Bo Decker, a rambunciiois
young cowboy who finds it ex
tremely out of character to be
a "tender Romeo" as he woos
his "Cherie. " Their perfor -
mances are warm, and com -
passionate as they struggle to
express their personal feelings
for each other. The viewer is
capable of feeling with them
during these tender, and, at
times, humorotß moments .For
such realistic character por
trayal, Miss Larkin and Mr.
Stout are entitled to a much
deserved applause, and the di
rector of this production, Mr.
Gordon Greene, is to be com
mended for bringing out their
best.
Supporting roles, at times,
are well carried out by the
cast; however, there are those
moments when your concern
for them «s individuals is con
siderably lacking. This unin -
tentional aloofness on your
part aloofness on your part
as a viewer must not be fully.
accredited to the acting of the
supporting cast, but accredited
to the play and its playwright.
For "giving it their best": Tan
ia Bryan as Grace Hoylard, tire
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hard-boiled proprietress of the
case; Sharon Hamer as Elma
Duckworth, the starry - eyed
innocent high-schooler; Joe
Stumiolo as Will Masters, the
gun-packing, hard fists sher
iff; Robert Moran as Carl,the
Bus Driver; William B. King s t
the highly educated drunkard;
and Ches Robertson as Virgil
Blessing, the cowboy's com -
placent pal.
Mr. Ronald Buns, techni
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FHA Lowers Interest Rate
On Farm Operating Loans
The Fanners Home Admini
stration has recently obtained
additional money at lower in
terest rates for use in making
operating loans to farmers. The
operating loans, accompanied
by supervised technical man -
agement assistance, axe avail
able for adjustments and im
provements in farm and home
operations on familysize farms.
The annual interest rate of
6 3/8 percent is now available
on operating loans used forthe
purchase of livestock, farm
equipment including tractors,
but not farm trucks, household
utilities, water supply and ir
rigation systems, and other
farm needs resulting in a more
successful farming operation.
These o perating loans are
also available to pay for farm
and home operating expenses
such as feed, fertilizer,tractor
fuel, chemical sprays, hired
labor,hail and crop insurance,
food, clothing, and medical
care.
Loans also may be obtained
to buy equipment and payoper
ating expenses for producing
and harvesting trees and other
forestry products and to finance
the production of fish under
controlled conditions in ponds
and lakes.
To be eligible for an FHA
operating loan a person mist
be an owner or tenant opera -
ting a family size farm; must
be of legal age and a U. S. ci
tizen; and mint be able to ma
nage and operate a farm. The
borrower must also possess the
character, industry and ability
Winner Os
Pig, Freeier
The small butchered pig,
lying stretched out, frozen in
a freezer, weighed exactly 76
pounds 11 1/2 ounces. This
information should satisfy the
curiosity of the more than
3, OCX) people who entered their
guesses at the opening last
week of the Sears catalog store
on the by-pass in Burnsville.
The winner of the guessing
contest, which featured the
opening of the store, won not
only the pig but the freezer
as well. Clyde Styles of Burns
ville proved himself the cham
pion estimator of a pigk weight.
He missed the actual weight by
only a half ounce.
It is believed that this pig
was the subject of greater spec
ulation than any other pig in
Yancey County history.
to cany out the proposed farm
ing operation or enterprise;
also unable to secure reason -
able credit on terms and con -
ditions he can be expected to
fulfill.
Because of limited funds
and the FHA objective of help
ing farmers who are unable
to obtain sufficient credit else
where at reasonable rates and
terms that he can pay, loans
are limited to applicants with
the greatest necessity and to
applicants with the greatest
potentiality.
Politicians
Appointed
Mark Bennett and James Fox
were appointed by Governor
Robert Scott to represent Yan
cey County on the Board of
the new MAY Technical Insti
tute in Spruce Pine, it was
announced Tuesday. They
will take their places on the
Board along with the two other
representatives of Yancey
County, Boyd Deyton, chosen
by the Board of Education here,
and Bruce Tomberlin,selected
by the Yancey County Commis
sioners.
Other appointments to the
Board of the MAY Technical
Institute include Miss Martha
Guy of Newland and Richard B.
Dobbin of Spruce Pine, both
appointed by the Governor;
Hazen Ledford, chosen by the
Mitchell Board of Education;
O. V. T ally, selected by the
Mitchell County Commission -
ers; Ralph Gwaltney, chosen
by the Avery Board of Educa -
tion and Jason Hughes, chosen
by the Avery County Commis -
s loners.
The newly formed three
county institute is named for
Mitchell, Avery and Yancey
counties.
Appointed To
FHA Committee
James T. Johnson, State
Director of Farmers Home Ad
ministration, has announced
the appointment of Mr. Earl F.
McNeill of Route s,Burnsville,
to the Yancey County Farmers
Home Administration County
Committee for a three - year
term. Mr. McNeill succeeds
Mr. Hollis Honeycutt whose
term has expired.
Mr. McNeill's term of of
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