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Clean-Up Fix-Up Paint Up Clean-Up Fix-Up Paint Up Clean-Up Fix-Up Paint Up VOLUME ELEVEN LEGION MEMORIAL . BUILDING FUND COAL $25,000 $22,500 $20,000 ° $17,500 $15,000 $12,500 _slo,ooo_ $7,500 $5,000 1 Mr. and Mrs. Yates Pon der and son of Mars Hill, Paul Ponder of Mars Hill and Atlas Shepherd of Bald| Creek visited' the Craggy Gardens and the Recrea tion Park on Sunday. Mrs. Albert Wilson and children of Erwin, Tenn., are visiting the Garrett Wilsons at Cane River. FINAL RITES FOR GRIFFITH CHRISAWN Griffith Chrisawn, 86, passed away at his home at Celo on Wednesday after noon following an extended illness. Funeral services will be held Friday a-fternoon at 2 o’clock at the Cane Branch Baptist church. Rev. Ernest Wilson and Rev. R. L. Hin son will officiate and burial will be in the Micaville ce metery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs, Nancy Chrisawn; five daughters, Mrs. Ross Wy att and Mrs. Glarence Wy att of Micaville, Mrs. Char lie Boone of Windom, Mrs. Willard Silvers of Erwin, Tenn., and Mrs. Blake Sty les of Celo; one son, W. M. Chrisawn of Micaville. 1 " i Smokey Says: r PONE ANYTHING TO V I I W-j /txTSHO'WD-V le^s- Timber is the South’s great natural resource. It is constant? renewing and growing. Fire is a destructive force. Help keep fire out of the £ woods. s SUB. RATES: $1.60 YEAR. Summer Camps Will Open On June 27th Camp Mt. Mitchell for Girls and Camp Mt. Mitch ell for Boys will open on Friday, June 27 for the eight weeks summer sea son. Mrs. Bertha Palmer, ow ner and director of the girl’s camp, has. been in Burnsville for several weeks to complete arrange ments for the opening. She stated this week that coun selors and assistant direct ors will arrive early next week and the campers will be in for the opening oh Friday % Registrations indi cate a full enrollment of campers for the season. The camp situated on a hillside overlooking the town and surrounding sec tion, with a wonderful view of Mt. Mitchell and the en tire Black Mountain range in the distance. The exten sive grounds surrounding the camp buildings are landscaped and planted, and the woods to the rear preserve trails and shaded retreats to delight the HOME AGENTS NOTES . .. V) . • -- i j Toledo—The 4-H Club girls are invited to the .home of Mrs. Jessie Cleven- : g«r on Tuesday, June 24 at 2:00. Mrs. J. C. Turner will give a demonstartion on “How to Crochet a Beanie” which is part of the Na tional 4-H Club uniform for girls. . Ramseytown club will meet with Mrs. Conway Higgins Wednesday, June 25 at 2:00. Micaville—Miss Elizabeth Greenwood, Home Service agent from Carolina Power and Light Co., will give a demonstration on “How to Use an Electric Ironer” tit fthe home of Mrs. Ollis Sta ton Thursday, June 26 at 2. Jacks Creek—A canning demonstration will be given at the home of Mrs. Mac Mclntosh Friday. June 27 at 2:00. LAST RITES FOR MRS. MOLLIE G. HERRELL •rtf 1 - Funeral services for Mrs. Mollie Gortney Herrell, 64, who died at her home at Green Mtn., Wednesday af ter an extended illness, will be held Thursday at 11 a. m The Rev. Vance Tipton will officiate and burial will be in Red Hill cemefery. Mrs. Herrell was a native of the Green Mountain sec tion of Yancey county and was a life-long resident there. She was a member of the church of the Brethren at Herrell Hill for over 30 years. Thirty-three years ago she was married to Dave Herrell who survives. Also surviving are one son, Homer Herrell o f Green Mtn.; one grand child; nine brothers, Win slow Gortney of Red Hill, Frank, Harris, Bulo, Calvin and Ancie Gortney, all of Green Mtn., Tom Gortney of Cane River and Calvin Gortney of Spruce Pine, » / THE YANCEY RECORD “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” heart of any city dweller. A full program of camp ing activity is offered the i campers each year with .1 swimming and riding among the most popular sports. Boys’ Camp The boys’ camp is located, near Burnsville, on the , Pensacola highway. Mr. and Mrs. .E. L. Beeson are , owners, and though origi nally from Florida, are now year ’round residents of Burnsville. In addition to other faci lities, the camp has a small ' lake so that other water sports in addition to swim ming are offered. Counselors and campers will begin to arrive early next week with Friday as the opening date. Each summer the camps bring to Burnsville many parents, friends and visit ors of the counselors and campers, in addition to the large group of campers and counselors who come for the season. ' - FINAL RITES RED FOR HRS JUDD HOLT ‘ Mrs. Judd Holt, 46, pass ' ed away at the home of her I parents;- Mr. •and Mrs. T: G. | Robertson of Cane River, ‘ on Monday afternoon.- ’ Funeral services were ! held at the Elk Shoal Bap tist church Tuesday after . noon at 2 o’clock, with the | Rev. Eulas Adkins officia j ting. Buml was in the ! i Proffitt cemetery. . I Surviving are the hus ljband, Judd Holt of Knox -1 ville, Tenn.; one daughter, ', Mrs. Ella Higgins of Erwin, Tenn.; the parents of Cane 1 River; three sisters, Mrs. Viola Small of Mooresville, N. C., Mrs. Sue Mclntosh of Mars Hill R. 2, and Mrs. ; Vergie Holland of Weaver ville; three brothers, B. G. ; Robertson of Cane River, Milt Robertson of Bald Creek and Martin Robert son of Burnsville Rt. 1, Holcombe Brothers fun eral home was in charge of arrangements. SONG SERVICE AT WEST BURNSVILLE The Melody Five Quartet will be at the West Burns ville Baptist church, Sun-* day, June 22nd at -8 o’clock p. m. for a song service. Everyone is invited to at tend. Frances Banks of Wash ington is at home for a weeks vacation. * Dr. and Mrs. Charles Harris have moved to thej Presbyterian manse here. Their daughter, Mrs. Bren dt of Philadelphia, is visit ing them. Mrs. Lawrence White hurst and Mrs. Paul Gre gory are visiting their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Holleman. Mrs. Dan Adkins and daughter, Juanita of Erwin Tenn. visited relatives at Bald Creek and Cane River during the past week. BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1947 Vaccination f linics For Dogs Are Scheduled » ' There has Seen much con cern during | the past few weeks because of the large number of dbgs in the coun ty that had .‘not been vac cinated for rabies preven-! tion. ; j A clinic held this week at the Blue Ridge Hardware i Company was well attend ed by local dog owners. County Clinics In order to make this vaccination service avail ■ able to all sections of the county, the health depart ment has named inspector's and arranged clinics in each township. The full schedule is given on page 2of this issue. The state regulations are also printed. Please attend th.e clinic in your township and have this vaccination completed. SINGING CONVENTION AT IVY GAP CHURCH The Yancey County Sing- 1 - ing Convention will be held at the Ivy Gap Baptist church Sunday, June 22nd at 2 p. m. There will be several quartets and choirs to take part in the singing. If you have a group of singers, Solo* Duet, Trio, bring them and take part in this convention and help make Yancey county con vention one of the best in the country. Everyone is in vited to attend. * - Mr. and Mrs. Bob An- | drews spent the week end here with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Huskirs. The two young sons of, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Rog ers are now in summer camp at Brevard. Mrs. Bertha Palmer has; returned from a short visit 1 in Jacksonville, Fla. ' Farmers Federation Picnic Will Be Held July 4th Sixteen picnics will held by Farmers Federa tion members this sum mer—one for each county in which the Federation has! one or more warehouses, 1 James G. K. McClure, pre sident, announced. He ex plained that the Federation program embraces work, worship, and play, and that the picnics supply the play portion. The picnic for Yancey county will be at the Bur nsville High School, begin ning at 10 a. m., Friday, July 4th. Max Roberts, education al director, who has made plans and set the dates in each county, in cooperation with the county committees said that the outings will be all-day affairs, with music by local singers and musicians as the outstand ing attraction. “All fiddlers, guitar pick ers, singers, and other mus icians and musical groups are invited to participate on the program,” Mr. Rob- COUNTY AGENTS VISIT EXPERIMENT STATION V. J. Goodman and D. D. Baggett were members of the group of 33 North Carolina agricultural offi cials and county farm ag lents who this we§k visited j the agriculture ? depart ment’s huge experimental station at Beltsville, Md. A three day schedule of in struction in extension work and a visit to nearby Washington was included in this program. BURNSVILLE CHURCH SERVICES Baptist Sunday School -will- begin at 9:45 on Sunday morning, and the morning church service at 11. The pastor will have as his subject, “He Knew Not That The Spirit Was Gone”. | Training Union will be held at 7 o’clock but no church services will be held on Sunday evening. The ' | congregation is invited to I attend services at the Mgth 'l odist church where a weeks ' revival meeting will begin. ~ ; .The monthly youth meet -5 ing will be held at 6 o’clock Saturday evening at the Pleasant Grove Baptist church. Methodist - A series of Revival Ser vices will begin at the Met hodist church in Burnsville next Sunday night, June 22, at 8 o’clock. There will be preaching each night for six nights by the Rev. Jam-[ es W. Fowler, Jr., pastor ofi the Methodist church in- Spruce Pine. The singing ! will be in charge of Bruce ,Westall, local choir leader. Rev. Fowler’s sermon topics will be as follows: Sunday night: “I Love a ; Churchman”; Monday nig jht: ‘‘Put on Thy Strength, 1 0 Zion”; Tuesday night: lerts said. “Quartets and choirs are invited to sing, and prizes will be awarded to the winning quartets and choirs at each picnic.” I i He added that, for the first time in several years, l : the lemonade will be made ' with real sugar. Free le- ’ monade and watermelon is ; served, but those attending are.expected to bring bask- , et lunches or patronize the j school or church organiza tions which sell lunches and ; sandwiches at each picnic. ( Various Federation offi- ; cials will be present, and all county agents, home agents 1 agricultural teachers, andj others who take the lead in' farm work, Mr. Roberts' said. Many of them will give reports, but all speech es will be short, in order that most of the time can be given over to fun and music. Last year about 22,000! people attended the picnics, Mr. Roberts said. Attend -1 ance has increased each ! year, and this year he ex ' pects even larger crowds. Summer Drama School Given Wide Publicity Will Be Directed By W. R. Taylor Wide publicity is being . given' the summer theatre-' drama school which will . open here on July 21. [ A story from the state news Bureau was released . this week, and the follow • ing was printed last week - at Woman’s College, on the [ program of the play given there by the Play-Likers: The Woman’s College of , the University of North Carolina i n conjunction with the Burnsvilie Play house, Inc. will operate a Summer School of Drama and a Repertory Company, July 21 to August 30, at I Burnsville, N. C. under the ; direction of W. R. Taylor, director of the Play-Likers. | The first of its kind, in the south, the organization will J serve a two-fold purpose. Ylt will offer, for college I I credit, courses in the vari- ous arts of the theatre, in- 1 ' eluding play production,! _ play writing and acting. It ’ will also give Western Nor-; •> th Carolina and the many; thousands of visitors who " vacation at the mountain resorts theatrical enter-; ptainment of professional! t quality. Summer Theatre A gymnasium is being' ■ “Cry unto the Gods You' 1 Have Chosen”; Wednesday,' night: “That Which God Hath Joined Together, Let |! [Not Man Put Asunder”; , Thursday night: “This j Night Thy Soul Shall Be Required of Thee” ; Friday 1 ! night: ‘»The Yoke of; Christ”. Everyone is cordially in vited to these services. Vacation Church School The vacation church school which began at the Burnsville Methodist chur ch last Monday morning is being well attended. Begin-(' ning with an attendance of ' 22 on Monday, the number had increased to 46 by Wed nesday morning. The school will continue through Fri-j day of this week and will go on from Monday throu-j gh Friday of next weekJ (Workers include Mrs. V. J. .Goodman, Mrs. Olive Bel | garde, Mrs. Bruce Westall, Miss Llewellyn Ray, Mrs. William Higgins, Miss Cla ,ra Dee Banner, Mrs. Joe Young, Mrs. Gibson Deyton and the Rev. C. Moody Smith, pastor. The daily sessions run from 9:00 until 11 a. m., ex cept that the nursery child ren (ages 2 and 3), do not ( need to come before 10:00 j I o’clock. All children in the' .community between £"h e (ages of 2 and 15 inclusive are invited. Services Next Sunday Sunday School will begin at 10:00 a. m. with opening worship in charge of the Men’s Bible class. The pas tor will preach at the 11:00| i o’clock worship hour on thej , subject, “The Meaning of ■ Conversion.” The Rev. Jam l es W. Fowler, Jr., will prea ch at 8 p. m. on the subject “I Love a Churchman.” Clean-Up Fix-Up Paint Up Clean-Up Fix-Up Paint Up Clean-Up Fix-Up Paint Up NUMBER FORTY-SEVEN converted into a modern j summer theatre building that will accommodate an i audience of 400. An adequ ate and well-equipped stage will be placed at one end of the structure, and a box office, modern rest rooms, and small lobby at the other Community leaders at Bur nsville are going all out to aid in furnishing the essen tial facilities to make the Burnsville project one of the outstanding summer theatres in the United Stat es. The Burnsville High School will be used for the laboratory and classroom courses. Approximately 30 students already have indi cated, their intention of re gistering, and it is expected that an even larger number will join the ranks of acting and technical apprentices in the Repertory Company. Plays Will Be Given Starting the first of Aug ust, ten performances of | thyee well known Broad , way stage productions will be presented on each Fri day and Saturday night. I | The technical phases of production will be handled i under the supervision of an adequate staff of trained experts provided by „ the W Oman’s,Gollege, while the sale of tickets and other de | tails in connection with the i productions will be done by ! the Burnsville Playhouse, Inc., a non profit corpora tion composed of 17 direct ors. Special assistance also is being given by the Veter an’s Administration which is interested in the project as a means of providing a training school in this sec tion for the study of the tine arts by veteran stud ents. Ultimate Goal The ultimate goal is to assemble each summer a colony of workers in, stud ents teaching and apprec iators of the Arts. Plans of the directors of the Burns ville Summer School and j Repertory Company are to make the project a perman ! ent one, and beginning with ! next year the school will be operated on a 12 week bas is. It is hoped that by the 1948 term, courses in art, dance, music, and education will be added to the curri culum. As the school ex pands to embrace a larger staff and additional techni cal equipment, the finest artists, experts, and autho rities in the world of the theatre will be invited to participate as actors and in structors in the Drama De -1 partment. Enlarging the scope of their work, the founders of the Burnsville school hope to bring re nown to the State much after the, fashion of that gained by the Lost Colony of Manteo. Persons interested in at j tending the. Burnsville (School of Drama and Re pertory Company should write or call W. R. Taylor care of the Woman’s Col lege, Telephone 5661, Ext. ....
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