THE YANCEY JOURNAL
VOL. 2, NO. 38
1973 United Fund Drive j
Gets Enthusiastic Support
Under the leadership of cam
paign chairman Hazen Ledford,
the 1973 fund raising drive of
the Yancey United Fund got off
to an enthusiastic start at a
kick-off breakfast held last Sa
turday at the Burnsville Metho
dist Church.
F aced with a budget goal of
$14,988, supporters of the uni
ted appeal attending the break
fast freely volunteered to per
form the various campaign
chares. In a matter of a half
hour the basic organization for
the drive was completed.
Evidencing the spirit of the
occasion, those attending made
pledges, which together with
advanced contributions previous
ly received, totaled $3,150.
Ledford stated that this excell -
ent start forecasts a quickly com
pleted campaign. The aim is
to end the drive before the Ist
of November.
Announcement was made of
a new feature to be introduced
in this year's campaign. Con-
New NW Bank
Gold Account
The Northwestern Bank is
now introducing Gold Account,
the newest trend in personal
banking. Gold Account is a
complete package of ten person
al banking services for a single
$3 monthly fee. The service
includes free checking accounts
with no minimum balance,free
wallet-style, personalized checks
as well as a Gold Account card
which the customer may present
at any Northwestern Office and
cash his personal Northwestern
check up to SIOO without delay.
The Gold Account also entitles
the cvstomer to a free personal
size safe deposit box, and all
fees qn Traveler's Clicks and
Cashier's Checks will be waived.
A Gold Account cistomer will
receive a Master Charge Card
with Cash Reserve which is over
draft protection, and a reduced
rate on personal installment
loans over SI,OOO. Also inclu
ded in Gold Account is Personal
Income Tax Preparation for Fe
deral and North Carolina State
returns, including any or all of
the following: wages and salar
ies, itemized deductions, inter
est income, dividend income,
capital gains or losses on sale
of stock, and sale of pa'sonal
residence. North Carolina In
tangible Tax returns will also be
included. The customer will
receive a $3 gift deposit if he
signs up for automatic transfer
of $lO or more per mcnth to any
Northwestern savings account
from his personal Northwestern
checking account, or if he opens
a new savings account with SSO
or more.
This Gold Account service
packages the ten personal bank
ing services that most cuzcomers
use with a $3 monthly fee which
is automatically charged to his
checking account. The North
western Bank is the first bank in
Iwifth Carolina to offer such a
complete package of personal
banking services.
Notice
The Driver's License Office
w'ill be closed Friday, Septem
ber 28 and Monday, October 1.
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tributors are being invited, if I
they so desire to designate the I
way their gifts are to be distri- 1
buted to the dozen agencies in- |
eluded in the budget. This, it 1
is hoped, will satisfy any who |
may disagree with the budget 1
committee's allocation of funds '
to the several agencies. -
This designation may be j
simply made by entering a note |
on the card that accompanies f
the contribution or pledge. Any 1
special requests thus made will i
be honored by the UF
Mrs. Ruby Smith, when the fi- *
nal distribution of the campaigi 1
proceeds is made. Solicitors ■
will have copies of the UF bud
get, and will be glad to accept
special designations. Based on
past UF experience, the great
majority of contributors accept
the distribution of funds adop -
ted by the budget committee.
A forceful appeal was made
at the breakfast for support of
the united appeal way of rais
ing money for the various com
munity projects for which funds
r are solicited. It was suggested -
i that the number of appeals
could well be reduced if those
being solicited would regularly
urge that the agencies apply
for inclusion in the UF budget.
All agencies receiving fin -
ancial support through united
appeals must make frank dis
closures of their finances'to tte
community budget committee.
This procedure gives assurance
to contributors that their dona
tions are put to good use, and
that the money is raised with
a minimum of overhead expense.
The costs of running the
Yancey UF are negligible,since
all work is done by volunteers
without compensation. The ef
ficiency of the united appeal
fund raising contrasts with the
high overhead expense involved
in much other charitable mo
ney raising.
Awards Will
Be Presented
Winners of the Community
Beautification Contest of the
1973-Westem North Carolina
Community Development Pro
gram will be announced at a
luncheon meeting on Thuisday,
September 27 at 12 noon atßail
ey's Cafeteria, Tunnel Read Shop
ping Center, Asheville.
A total of 68 organized com
munities competed in the Beau
tification Contest this year and
15 county winners were judged
in area competition last week.
Jacks Creek represented Yancey
County in the judging.
Purpose of the Beautification
Contest, which is sponsored by
the Western North Carolina De
velopment Association and the
Agricultural Extension Service,
is to encourage communities to
conduct organized clean-up pro-
grams and to recognize those
til
doing the best jobs.
The presentation of awards
on September 27 in the special
community beautification pro-
gram will be held in con June -
tion with a planning meeting of
the area improvement
steering committee representing
L
the 18 county area. All com
munides that were in the final
p
judging are urged to have repre
sentatives at the meeting.
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Young Vegetable Growers Pose With 2-Foot Cucumbers
Liens Plan
Activities
The Burnsville Lions Club is
off to a fine start under the lead
ership of President Robert Tho
mas. At the first meeting in
the new year the club adopted
a budget of $2800.00 and plan
ned the projects and activities
for the year.
The first event will be the
annua! picnic at Black Moun
tain Campground Thursday,
September 27. A new member
invitation will be extended at
this meeting and each lion that
gets two new members will be
entitled to a free trip to the
N.C.State-Clemson Football
game in Clemson, S.C. Satur
day, October 27.
The Lions Radio Day which
proved so successful last year is
planned for the second week in
November.
A new program will be ini -
tiated to honor the blind in the
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county January 24. This will
be a ladies night program with
agency and officials who work
with the blind as guests.
Other activities scheduled
are fruit cake sales,broom sals,
Christmas baskets for the blind,
and visits of the Blind Van and
Glaucoma Clinic. «
John McLain, Past President,
has been appointed as Zone
Chairman for Region 1, Zon#
2 including Lions Clubs in Yan
cey, Mitchell and Avery. Ben
Floyd has been elected treasur
er to succeed Jack Gouge who
is moving to Weaverville.
John Keever, District Gov
ernor of Lions District 31-B,
former Vocational Agriculture
teacher at East Yancey High
School, will be paying his of
- visit to the Burnsville
Club Thiusday night, the 26th
of October.
Gospel Song
Service Here
There will be a gospel song
service at the Covey Rock Free
Will Baptist Church, Green Moun
tain, N.C. Sunday night, Sep
tember 23 at 7:30 p. m. p.ccor -
ding to pastor Rev. Holt Herrell.
The "Higgins Quartet" from
Burnsville, the "Rebels Creek
Quartet'from Bakersville, the
"Volunteer Quartet" from Erwin,
Tenn. , the "Harmonettes" from
Johnson City, Tenn. and .the
"Happy Way Quartet" from Elk
Park, N.C. are all scheduled to
be there.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1973
Surprise Party Held For
Vegetable Growers Club
The Young Vegetable Grow
ers Club, sponsored by Mary
Lou Byrd Cowan in memory of
ha father, the late Tom Byrd,
"weighed in" their vegetables
the past week. Two foot long
cucumbers were ffrfr-spnxiai
feature. Cabbage and pump
kins were also grown.
The cash prize winneis were
Derek Murphy(whose cucum -
ber was 26 inches long,)Sylvia
Loftis, Patricia Ballew, Caro -
line Pritchard and Tammy Har
rison. Lisa Fairchild, Patsy
Pritchard and Randy Bartlett.
Also present at a party forthe
young vegetable growers,given
by White Oak Creek Communi
ty Club, were Marty Cooper,
Laura Kincheloe, Heide and
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Deaver Lawton
Churches Participate In
World Mission! Conference
Fifteen Southern Baptist Chu
rches in the Yancey Association
will participate in a World Mis
sions Conference, Octoberl3-19.
Missionaries representing the
state, home and foreign missions
will be speaking in various chur
ches. This will provide a won
derful opportunity for the people
of Yancey County to become
better informed about missions
around the world.
h The following churches will
. be participating! Blue Rock,
Bolen's Creek, Brown's Creek,
First Burnsville, West Burnsville,
Cane River, Elk Shoal,Fairview,
Jack's Creek, Laurel Branch,
Mount Pleasant, Pleasant Grove,
Price's Creek, South Estatoe,
and Young's Chapel.
You will have the opportuni
ty to hear the following mission
aries as w?ll as many o hem
Mr. Deaver Lawton, mission
ary to Taiwan. He also served
April Copje, Blair and Brian
Rathton,
A special surprise at the
parywas a birthday cake and
homemade ice cream for Blair
RAbon. Brian Rathbqp help
j Jiricti freezing the ice cream.
( Mothers of some of the
children were also present and
Faye Storie, representative of
the county home demonstration
service and also a member of
the White Oak Creek Commu -
aity, gave a demonstration of
balanced diet.
Baked potatoes and cheese,
slaw, baked beans, hotdogs,
peanut butter cookies and le -
monade were served for good,
healthy appetites.
1 Thailand and China. He has :
►en under appointment by the *
i reign Mission Board since 1935. :
Joe V. Watteisan, state mis- 1
>nary, is Director of Chaplain
: • Miniteries Department ofthe 1
'C. Baptist Convention. He 1
1 s served in this capacitysince 1
1 ay, 1970. He is a retired Ar- j
1 y Chaplain. t
W, Parks McKittrick, home *
i issianary, serves as a Chap - c
iin at Whitten Village Hospifal c
1 Clinton, S.C. He assumed j
is position in 1964. A research v
' ientist, Or, McKittrick was a
't »o dean and professor at the 1
’ ' ississippi Baptist Seminary in *
■ ittiesbury, Mississippi. c
If your church is not partici- t
; ting in the World Missions
■ mference, you are cordially <
t vited to attend any of the par- \
t :ipating churches to hear in- s
t irational messages on the work <
> uthem Baptists are doing. t
State Higtiway Commission Ruling Halts
Effective Trash Removal Program Here
By Carolyn Yuziuk
The State Highway Commis
sion dealt a severe blow to Yan
cey County's "clean up" efforts
with a recent ruling which has
rendered the dumpster system
of trash removal almost com
pletely ineffective in this county;
All counties in North Caro
lina who presently operate or
were contemplating operation
of a bulk container system of
trash removal, were notified
last May of a unanimous ruling
by the State Highway Commis
sion to have all dumpsters re
moved from Highway rights-of
way by June 15. The dumpsters
were labeled hazards to traffic
safety.
The action came as an un
welcome surprise to Yancey
County Commissioners who ap
plied for and were granted a
90-day reprieve to the ruling
in order to try and find a solu
tion to the problem it would
create here. They also held
the futile hope that perhaps the
Highway Commission would see
the magnitude of trash disposal
problems faced by rural areas
and change or modify tte order.
The delayed deadline was for
- to September 15, and
last week, in compliance with
the order, dumpsters were re
moved from specified locations.
According to Keith Masters,
County Sanitarian, the ruling
mainly affects dumpsters which
had been on Highway 19E and
197 N. "Unfortunately, " stated
Masters, "these dumpsters were
by far the most advantageously
placed and while they constitu
ted only about 25% of Yancey
County dumpsters, they handled
almost 75% of the county refuse"
Masters admitted that no solu
tion has been found during these
past months, and none is insight.
County officials have tried
to find private or county- owned
property which would be suit -
able for dumpster locations, but
have been completely unsuccess
ful. "We are at a dead end, "
said Masters, "and the tragic
fact is not only that the High
way Commission has rendered
our entire trash disposal system
ineffective, but also that we ted
worked so hard this past year to |
make the dumpster system ef
ficient. Our work has been
meaningless in view of the pre
sent circumstances. "
O, W. Deyton, Yancey Goun- I
ty Commissioner, commented j
that communities may have to |
find adequate locations them
selves for dumpster placement,
since comity officials have been
unable to do so. ;
If the State Highway Com- j
mission had worked at the local |
level with people who know the I
magnitude of trash dispiosal d
problems in rural areas, a solu
tion might have been reached ■
that could satisfy both. Offi - j
cials here are particularly in
censed over the fact that many
junk cars were parked on the
very same rights-of-way which
are denied for dumpster use and
these "traffic safety hazards"
were allowed to remain until tte
county itself found the means to
take them away this past year.
When a county landfill was
created at Boone ford, the ground
work was laid for the dumpster
system which would give Yan
cey Counti ans the most modern
trash dispiosal method possible
for this area at this time. It
took a lot of effort, quite a bit
of money, and a great deal of
community support, but the
dumpsters were well ontteirway
to alleviating the trash disposal
problem in Yancey County.
How many plastic milk jugs
have been kept out of our rivers
and streams, how many cans and
bottles have been thrown in a
dumpster instead of on
how much assarted trash and gar
bage has been neatly dispatched
to our landfill rather than cover
ing our landscape, no one can
know for sure. But from the
looks of the dumpsters this past
year which were constantly fill
ed to overflowing, defying the
best attempts of the County Sa
nitation Department to keep
them emptied, people will elect
to keep their county clean if
given a means to do so.
In some locations where hea
vily used dumpsters have been
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Communities Win Contest
Roadside judging of Yancey Communities took place last
week. Judges saw evidence of much work and effort on the
part of communities to beautify the roadsides through their
community. Pictured are the judges, Mr. John Martin, Mrs.
E. L. Briggs and Mr. Edd Holcombe examining a roadside
planting of dahlias with Mr. John Ramsey in the White Oak
Creek Community. Also pictured are members of the Jacks
Creek Community which won first place in the local com
petition and will represept Yancey County in Area judging:
Mrs. Bruce Bailey, Mrs. Harmie Briggs, Mrs. W.P. Honey
cutt. With them are judges Mrs. O.A. Gregory, Mr. Henry
Nichols and Sgt. Charles H. Long. County placings included
Creen Mountain, 3rd place and White Oak Creek, 2nd place.
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Cherdi To Give Answers
Do the big problems facing
the human race have a deeper
meaning than most people rea
lize? Does the Bible really
foretell vast changes that will
affect all mankind in the near
future?
Jehovah's Witnesses all over
the world in 208 countries in
their "Divine Victory" Interna
tional Assemblies are planning
in this month of September to
10*
removed, people still stop their
cars, look around, and not un
derstanding— leave their bags
of refuse. The large containers
are no longer there--but where
else can the trash be taken.
Where should people go--what
can they do now.
County officials noted that
the RAD (Rural Area Developy
ment) Committee has written
to the governor about the dump
ster situation. Sanitarian Keith
Masters said, "Neither the
Health Department nor tte coun
ty is responsible for removal of
the dumpsters, therefore please
address all complaints or cor
respondence on this matter to
the State Highway Commission
or the governor. "
How unfortunate, how tra
gic that the State Highway Cbm
mrssion took such a drastic step
without pausing to consult the
people it would affect —or to
consider the consequences to
rural areas of North Carolina.
personally distribute one hund
red and thirty million free illus
trated four page tracts giving
the Bible answers to these vital
questions.
The Burnsville Congregation
of Jehovah's Witnesses state ttey
are making sure that their terri
tory of Yancey County will be
traorougnly covered during th#
last ten days of thk month of
September.