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Our Town Success
At W/gh^oncfs TTfit?t!fet'
(Highlands, N.C.) Thornton
Wilder's Pulitzer Prise winning
"Our Town " continues until
successful run Friday and
Saturday, July 23-24, at 3:30
p.m. at the Highlands
Community Theatre,
Highlands, N.C., with Bob
Niemyer of Daytona Beads,
Fla., in the leading role of the
Narrator. The theatre is located
atop the charming resort town
in the western Carolina
mountains on Routes 30 and 04
southeast of Bryson City.
Michael Hall directed the
production with Patricia Nesbit
and Terry Madden as the
romantic leads. Also featured
are B^tty Anderson, Connie
Foster, Ef Boles and Robert
Woodside.^ its and costumes
were Hfytgned by Frank
Bern* it*^^hining technician is
Jim . ainter.
Reservations may be made
by calling the Highland?'
theatre. Good seats are
available for the weekend
performances.
A resident company
presents five plays during the
Highlands' summer season.
Scheduled July 29-Aug. 1 and
Aug. 6-7 is "Picnic" by William
Inge. "The Lion is in Winter" is
set for Aug. 13-15and Aug. 2&-21.
Aedynonf Cnamoer Orchestra
7n TfenneJy Center /naMgYiraf
The Piedmont Chamber
Orchestra with Nicholas
Harsanyi. Music Director and
Conductor, wiii open its 1971-72
season with a performance at
the new John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts
in Washington, DC., on
September 12, 1971. Sponsored
by the Moravian Music
Foundation, the orchestra wiii
present a concert of Moravian
music as a part of the Kennedy
Center's -week Inaugural
Festival.
Emiie Simone!, manager of
the Piedmont Chamber
Orchestra, has announced that
pians for next year aiso include
a three-week tour of
southeast. in eariy April,
1972, the Orchestra ha?
engagements in West Virginia
North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
John Robertson, pianist, will be
the soioist.
The Piedmont Chamber
Orchestra was formed in 1968
under a grant from the
Rockefeller Foundation to the
North Carolina School of the
Arts. The core of the orchestrais
made up of the instrumental
music faculty of the School of
Bible Conf. Continues
Mountain Missionary and
Pastor Oliver W. Harer of
Cosby, Tenn. and Missionaries
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Caiiister
who serve in Nigeria with the
Sudan Interior Mission, will
be featured speakers for the
mid-summer sessions of the
Great Smoky Mountains Bible
Conference, which opens this
Saturday evening, July 24, at
the Conference Center on West
Deep Creek Drive.
Running Simula taneously
with the Bible Conference will
be Camp Living Water. The
meetings which will begin July
24 cu: tinues through the
following week, ending Friday
evening July 30.
Meetings for the public will
be held on Sunday at 2:30 pm.,
and on the weekdays at 11 am.
and 7:30 p.m. Visitors are
aiways welcome.
This is the twenty-fifth year
of the ministry of Southern
Bible Testimony, which
sponsors the conference and the
camp.
Young people come &
Camp Living Water from as far
north as Akron. Ohio and as far
south as Florida. The Christian
camp has ail the facilities and
activities that young Christians
enjoy.
It is reported that there are
vacancies for the remaining two
weeks of camp, July 24-30 and
August 7-14. Information
regarding the camp and the
programs may be obtained by
calling 400-2214.
Music, many of whom are
performers of national repute.
Hungarian-born conductor
Nicholas Harsanyi, Dean of the
School of Music, was the
founding conductor of the
Princeton Chamber Orchestra.
Until recently, he served as
Music Director of the
Interlochen (Michigan) Arts
Academy.
Horse Show
Set July 22-24
The 15th annual Black
Mountain Charity Horse Show
will be held at Monte Vista
Farm, one mile west of Black
Mountain just off Highway 70,
on July 22-24 with three
performances daily, starting at
9:30 a m., 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
each day.
The show is an American
Horse Shows Association
recognized Class "B" show,
and the winners will
accumulate points for the
National Horse of the Year
Award. The winners in the two
Medal Equitation classes, the
MacClay (ASPCA) and the Van
Sinderen, will be qualified to
enter national competition in
these events.
Classes in the following
divisions will be offered regular
working hunter, green working
hunter, regular conformation
hunter, green conformation
hunter, amateur-owner hunter,
junior hunter, pony hunter,
open jumper and equitation
hunter seat. These classes will
be judged by the Hon. John G.
Hosang of Aiken, S. C. and Hon.
Joe Bunn of Matthews, N. C.
Classes in the Western
Division are scheduled for
Friday afternoon and evening
and on Saturday evening.
These classes will be judged by
the Hon. Km Hutchinson of
Gretna, Va.
Cash prizes and ribbons are
offered in some classes,
trophies and ribbons in some,
and ribbons in others.
Entries and reservations
have been made from a wide
area and this show promises to
be one of the quality shows of
(his area.
Dee Powell up on Lady II participated in the
Waynesville Horse Show last weekend. Dee is niece of
Jon Dannwhower, president of Smoky Mountain
Riding Club.
Puppet Show
For Head Start
The Summer Puppetry
Caravan of Berea College,
Department of Education, has
been scheduled to give a
performance at the Head Start
Center in Bryson City on
Thursday, July 29, at 10:00 am.
The Caravan is jointly
sponsored by the Rockefeller
and Berea College.
The show comes housed in a
large trailer truck which opens
up to make its own stage.Their
performance will be held
outside and can accommodate a
large number of children and
adults.
The Caravan features three
Mg shows - Wicked John and the
Devil, Green Gourd,and
Mustang.
The performance is free to
Head Start children, workers,
parents, and other family
members.
Head Start personnel of the
Bryson City Center invites all
interested persons to attend.
June Tlajc Lower
Collections of the local one
percent sales and use tax during
June feii beiow those for the
same month iast year in four
Western North Carolina
counties, but showed an
increase in three others.
Buncombe County's
collections showed a $16,721
drop, from $207,003 in June of
1970 to $190,282 in June of the
current year. Watauga dropped
from $29,282 to $28,073; Jackson
from $16,851 to $15,474; and Ciay
from $3,261 to $2,856.
Macon , with $19,417 iast
month as compared to $16,812 in
June of 1970; Swain with (6,987
as compared to (6,407; and
Madison with (6,161 last month
as compared to (5,572 in June of
1970,were the three WNC
counties showing increases.
Only four other counties
among the 26 in which the tax is
levied showed an increase.
They were Mecklenburg,
Duplin, Pasquotank and
Tyrrell.
Total collections for the 26
counties also showed a
decrease, from (1,851,678 in
June of last year to (1,819,230
last month.
A/vfn Edwords
Fofo^/ /n/ured
One man waa killed and
eight other persona injured, one
critically, in a multi-car
accident at Little Creek Road
and Tidewater Drive in Norfolk,
Va.
Alvin T. Edwards, 60, of 370
Sant Antonio Blvd., was dead on
arrival at DePaul Hospital.
Edwards was driving north
on Tidewater Drive when his
car jumped a median and hit a
southbound southbound car.
Edwards was the husband
of Mrs. Jessie Edna Stanberry
Edwards and a native of Swain
County, N. C. Mrs. Edwards is
a daughter of Jame Stansberry,
the oldest living native in Swain
County. Mr. Edwards had been
9 resident of Norfolk 46 years, j
Ee was on one of the founders of
the Colonial Heights Church of
Christ more than 30 years ago.
He was chairman of the elders,
chairman of the official baord
and a teacher for many years.
He was a 1922 graduate of
Western North Carolina State
Teachers College. He taught
school and was a principal in
the North Carolina school
system before coming to
Norfolk.
He was a member of the
Bricklayers, Masons and
Plasterers International Union,
Local No. 2, for 42 years and
was business agent and
financial secretary of the union
for 14 years. He was vice
president of the First District of
Virginia and D C. . State
Conference of the International
Union from 1962 to 1970 and at
the time of his death was
apprentice coordinator and
administrator for health and
welfare pension plan for the
local union.
Also surviving ar two
daughters, Mrs. Nancy Joyce
Redfield of Woodbury, N. J. and
Mrs. Jayne R. Hodges of
Norfolk; two sons, Jack W.
Edwards and James M.
Edwards of Norfolk; three
sisters, Mrs. Maude Deaderick
and Mrs. Clara Scott of Norfolk
and Mrs. Willie Jones of
Birmingham, Ala. and three
brothers , L. Richard Edwards
of Wilmington, Del., Roy M.
Edwards and James S.
Edwards of Norfolk.
Dr. Bacon, in background, iooks up from his
chore of taking biood samples as nurse Esther Jabo
takes biood pressure at last Tuesday's Red Cross
Bloodmobile visit. The visit was a success as 120 units
of blood were donated. Dr. Bacon expressed
appreciation for all who gave and to Consolidated,
- Heritage and Fairlane for their excellent cooperation.
Lions instai!
Cabinet
Installation of District 31-A
Hons Cabinet will be held in
Andrews at the High School
Cafeteria on Thursday, July 22
at 7:30 p.m.
This will also be ladies night
and all Lions and Lionesses are
invited. It is requested that
reservations be made through
Hon Roy Gilbert, Andrews.
Past President of Lions
International, Jack Stickley,
will be the speaker and install
the district officers. He will be
introduced by Past District
Governor, Howard Haithcock of
the Franklin Lions Club.
Marshall Matheny, State
Secretary of North Carolina
Hons, will participate in the
program.
Joe El-Khouri, elected at
the State Hons Convention to
serve as District Governor, will
be installed, Roy Gilbert of the
Andrews Hons Club will be
installed as Cabinet Secretary
Treasurer. Jesse R. Jenkins of
the Fontana Hons Club will be
installed as Deputy Governor of
Region One of which the Bryson
City Hons Club are a part.
Three additional Regional
Deputies and eight Zone
Chairmen will be Installed.
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Chairman of the Swain,<
County Board of
Commissioners, Odeil Shuler,
received a status report and
tentative schedule for the
construction of the propsed
access road to serve the Swain
County Industiral Park. This
information was received in a "
letter from J.H. Prince,
Regional Planning Coordinator
for the State Highway
Commission. This article is a
summary of that report.
The Appalachian Regional*^
Commission approved a grant
to assist in the construction of
access road in February of this
year. The SHC obtained
concurrence of a negative
declaration under the
provisions of the National
Environmental Policy Act of
1969 from the Federal Highway
Administration. The SHC ^
approved the access road on
May ,6, 1971.
Field surveys for the road
are scheduled for September
and October of 1971. The design
will require approximately
three months after field surveys
are completed.
Cautioning that these '
schedules are tentative, Prince
said, that the access road could
be let to contract early in 1972.
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