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Chalet members celebrated MAYFEST last weekend,
hosted by Chalet owner Bob Schwebke who also made this
event a benefit for the Shriner’s Crippled Children’s Fond.
Many Yancey and Mitchell residents were among those who
enjoyed dancing, fine food, and great fellowship In the newly
enlarged facilities. The event was “on the house” for club
members and guests of the Chalet to mark the opening of the
Open House At Feldspar
One of the most sophisti
cated and advanced Control
and research facilities in the
feldspar and related minerals
industry has just been com
pleted at The Feldspar-
Corporation, Spruce Pine,
North Carolina.
To celebrate the operation
of the complex, the corpora
tion will have an Open House
June 5 between 1:00 and 5:00
p.m. sot the public can see
how modern technology is
used in the industry. Guided
Tours will be conducted all
afternoon. v
5 In the Quality Control
Department, there is an Orion
Research specific ion meter to
determine the amount of
sodium and potassium in
feldspar and also to ascertain
the fluoride level in effluent
water; in other words, the
purity of the water.
In the Research Depart
mjsnt, there is a research
laboratory and pilot plant.
Hbre there is the evaluation of
otfcs, ore,dressing prob
lems, either in a small batch
operation or on a continuous
basis in a pilot plant. The
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public will see the steps taken
in the operation j&y the big
feldspar plant.. ' ‘T - V-
The Research Department
also devotes time and con
sideration of environmental
problems so as to assure
water and air quality required
by law. Another function of
the Research Department is to
improve present ore process
ing in terms of cost, recovery
and quality.
In the Research Depart
ment, ore deposits are tested
to determine if certain ore has
sufficient feldspar to make
mining profitable. Tests are
made to evaluate flotation
methods. Through flotation,
four minerals are isolated -
feldspar, mica, garnet and
sand. Research determines
how to recover more feldspar
from the ore that is mined.
The Quality Control Labor
atory is where analyses of
day-to-day control on quality
is achieved. Here each ele
ment in feldspar is isolated)
potash, soda, alumina, silica,
iron and calcium. The purpose
is to assure a uniform
product. There is a test for the
second season since its renovation. ~
Pictured above, Dr. and Mrs. O.M. Blake, president of
M.T.1., dance to live band music; host Bob Schwebke and wife
at table with the Brad Ragans; and at bottom, Marty Kelly,
Richard Montegue, Larry Kelly, Mrs. Hugh Wiseman and Mr.
Wiseman sample the delicious dinner served buffet-style by
white capped chefs. Photos by C.E. Westveer
grind-or mesh-so proper sizes
of feldspar are obtained for
specific uses and specific
customers.
Feldspar touches the lives
of all of us. Besides its
importance to the electrical
energy and pommunication
fields, which could not oper
ate without feldspar, feldspar
is used in making dinnerware,
ceramic floor and wall tile,
bathroom fixtures such as
tubs, bowls, and sinks,
ranges, refrigerators, wash
ers, and dryers and enamel
kitchen utensils. Glass pro
ducts too depend on feldspar,
including window glass, light
bulbs, glass containers such
as pop bottles and many glass
grocery packages for catsup,
coffee, mayonnaise, as well as
canning jars.
The home office of The
Feldspar Corporation and its
new quality control and
research complex is located at
530 Altapass Road, Spruce
Pine, N.C.
The Research Depart
ment, in addition to serving
the Spruce Pine operation also
serves facilities of The Feld-
Spar Corporation in Monti
cello, Georgia; Montpelier,
Virginia; and Middletown,
Connecticut. /
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JOURNAL
9 WlmlVflli
VOL. 5 NO. 22
Mme. Kraus Benefit
Recital Planned
Music in the Mountains
will present piano virtuoso Lili
Kraus in a solo benefit recital
on Sunday, June 19, at 3:30 in
Burnsville, N.C. The recital
will be held in Mountain
Heritage High School. Tickets
will be available at the door.
Mme. Kraus, who makes
her home in Celo, is perhaps
best known for her interpreta
tions of Mozart, including
appearances with the Mostly
Mozart Festival in New York
Prevention Tips
For ‘Tick’ Fever
BY SUSAN PEARCE
Yancey Health Department
Rocky Mountain Spotted
Fever is an infectious disease
passed on to man through the
bite of an infected tick.
However, it cannot be spread
one person to another.
The disease occurs in the East
as well as the West and not
just in the Rocky Mountain
region of the United States.
Western North Carolina is an
ideal area for tides, so we
should be aware of their
presence and their effect on
us.
Although all ticks are not
infected, a tick on the body
shpuld be removed carefully.
Ticks are best removed with
tweezers or a piece of paper.
Do not jerk it as this may
letve the mouth parts in. If it
Yancey Man Drowns
While Swimming
Clinton Metcalf, 23, of
Horton Creek Community
drlwned on Monday, May 30,
while swimming in a recrea
tional lake in Buncombe
Cjunty. -
He was the son of Coy and
L na Penland Metcalf of route
3 Burnsville and was recently
e lployed by Juno Construc
ti in Co.
Surviving in addition to
BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
City and extensive recordings
of Mozart concertos and
sonatas for many recording
companies such as Vox Epic,
Vanguard and Odyssey.
Her concert schedule in
cludes frequent tours to
Europe, South America, Aus
tralia, New Zealand and
Japan as well as performan
ces on major American
concert series and with
orchestras throughout the
United States. In addition to
clings, hold a heated needle
or lit cigarette to the tick until
it lets go. Do not crush the
tick between your fingers.
Paint the bite with alcohol or
merthiolate. Sometimes a tick
get so deep into the skin that
it is best to have a doctor r a
remove it.
If the tick was infected.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fe
ver symptoms may . occur
within two weeks. These may
involve fever, chills, head
ache, pains in the joints, and a
rash. Nervous symptoms,
such as restlessness and
sleeplessness, may also oc
cur. In severe cases, the
victim may go into a coma.
Death may occur without
proper early treatment. Only
a doctor can give proper
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the parents are three bro
thers, Gifford Metcalf of
Burnsville, J.R. of Del Rio.
Tennessee and Hall Metcalf
of Spruce Pine.
Also surviving are grand
parents, Dewey Metcalf of
Canton and Mrs. Beulah
Brown of Asheville and Fred
Penland of Burnsville.
Holcombe Brothers are in
charge, of funeral arrange
ments. *v, _—
Big Land Sale Flops
High Rollers Fail To Show Up
By HAROLD WARREN \
Obwrvor Staff Writer
Ernest L. Briggs, a 74-year-old mountain
lawyer and land dealer from Burnsville, came to
Charlotte’s Radisson Plaza Hotel Wednesday.
He was dressed fit to kill in his pin-striped suit
with a pink rosebud on the lapel, white shoes
and belt and panama straw hat.
No wonder. /
He was feeling fine, enjoying his sojourn and
expecting at least $6 million, and maybe much
more*, from an uptown auction of 29 parcels of
land totaling about 19,000 acres, mostly in the
North Carolina mountains.
The high-powered auction was billed on
glossy brochures as "North Carolina's Sale of
the Century,” produced by New York City mar
keting specialists, Niederhoffer, Cross and
Zeckhauser Ind., and auctioned by Mid-America
Auction and Realty of Rockford, 111.
Just one thing went wrong.
The high rollers, thh big-money city slickers,
the free-wheeling bidders, never showed up.
Some choice, big tracks, drew no bids. Others
got top bids for so little that Briggs said he
wouldn’t accept most of therti.
Nobody bid on the goldfields of Vein Moun
tain in Rutherford County or the Alaska oil and
gas fields.
THURSDAY .JUNE 2,1977
her demanding performance
schedule, Mme. Kraus is an
artist-in-residence at Texas
Christian University.
Born in Budapest, Hun
gary, to a Czech father and a
Hungarian mother, Lili Kraus
began her piano studies at
six. At seventeen, she re
ceived her degree from the
Budapest Royal Academy
where she studied with Zoltan
Kodaly and Bela Bartok. She
also studied with Eduard
Steuermann and Artur Schna
bel in Vienna, where she was
a full professor at Vienna
Academy by the age of
twenty.
Her annual benefit recital
helps to underwrite the
professional concert series
presented each summer by
Music in the Mountains. This
year the Celo Chamber
Players will present six
separate concerts in Burns
ville and Swannanoa and four
in Hendersonville.
For information and tick
ets for the Lili Kraus recital
and the concert, write Music
in the Mountains, Burnsville,
N.C. 28714.
CB Plans
‘Coffee
Break’
The Mt. Mitchell C.B.
Club will have a "Coffee
Break” at East Yancey
Middle School on Saturday
night, June 11, 1977, from
7:00 p.m. until
First prize is S2OO cash,
2nd prize is a 40 channel
mobile CB Radio, 3rd prize is
a power mike, and there will
be many door prizes.
The public is invited out
for a night of clean fun and
entertainment. The Mt.
Mitchell C.B. club in its first
year as a charter club,
donated to charitable and
worthwhile causes the sum of
5H,633.00. The officers and
board of directors wish to
thank everyone who helped in
any way to make our first year
such a successful one.
Nobody bucked a preauction offer of $1,527,-
000 for the old, 2,385-acre Ray Boundary in
Yancey County, an offer by The Trust for Pub
lic Lands, acting for the U.S. Forest Service,
Briggs said. The acreage has mica, aquamarine
and other mines, fine timber and spectacular
views from Mt. Celo.
Even a 146-acre Mecklenburg County farm,
the Price Estate on Yorkmont Road just south
west of the Charlotte city limit, drew only sl,-
500 an acre, a value less than Briggs said he
paid for If iast June.
‘i’ll never go this way again," Briggs said.
"Another auction? Never!"
Briggs is a folksy, magnetic, man-to-man
kind of fellow, accustomed to dealing for big
stakes directly with a prospect and sealing the
bargain with a gentlemanly handshake.
He’s good at it. He grew up dirt-poor, he
said, and made one fortune young. Lost $3 5
million in the stock market crash of '29, he said.
Was left Without “• foot of land or a nickel to
my name.”
Briggs borrowed S6OO and started another
fortune, operating from his cluttered little office
over a sundries store on the Burnsville square.
The office, heated with a chest-high, pot-
15*
Robert Scott
Scott
Gets ARC
Position
The White House an
nounced today that President
Carter has sent to the U.S.
Senate for confirmation the
nomination of Robert W.
Scott, former Governor of
North Carolina, for the post of
Federal Cochairtnan of the
Appalachian Regional Com
mission. Governor Scott will
replace Donald W. White
head, who was appointed by
President Nixon in March of
1971.
Upon receiving notifica
tion of his nomination, Gover
nor Scott said, “I an , pleased
that President Carer has
given me the opportunity to
be a part of his administration
as Federal Cochairman of the
Appalachian Regional Com
mission. This is a challenging
assignment that I accept with
enthusiasm.
The federal-state partner
ship is a sound concept I
strongly endorse. The Appala
chian Regional Development
Act is an excellent example of
this principle, and I look
forward to working with the
President, the Congress and
the Governors of the 13-
member states in improving
the well-being of our citizens
in the Appalachian Region."
In congratulating Gov
ernor Scott on his nomination,
Mr. Whitehead said, “As a
former Appalachian Gover
nor, Governor Scott can
contribute very useful in
sights and an informed point
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