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Donate Generously to the Legion Memorial Building Fund. VOLUME ELEVEN LEGION MEMORIAL BUILDING FUND GOAL $25,000 $22,500 $20,000 f $17,500 $15,000 • 3 $12,500 SIO,OOO ■ $7,500 ' • CONTRIBUTORS SIOO Donation Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Pollard SSO Donation Nu-Wray Hotel v $25 Donation C. P. Rogers, Jr. Under $25 T. B. McCourry, Mack B. Ray Ernest Erwin Lester Hevner Vincent Westall Lloyd Fortner Troy Buckner W. F. Doranback SUPERIOR COURT WILL CONVENE AUGUST 4 The August term of Sup erior Court will convene on August 4th with Judge H. Hoyle Sink of Lexington presiding. Both civil and criminal cases will be heard during the two weeks term. The following jury list was drawn: FIRST WEEK: Fred Robinson, Dewey Gurley, George Woody, Wm. T. Jobe, Criss Peterson, Dave Hylemon, Rama McKinney, Charles Hunter, Mack Mil ler, Bill Deyton, Craig Dey ton, Carl Hensley, Troy Murphy, Kenneth Gillespie, Samuel Wilson, Melvin Ray, Jeter McFalls, Fred Grind staff, John Adkins, Bill Fox Dewey Fox, Bob Robin son, Frank Bowditch, Ar thur King, Cecil DeytoJi, Alvin Pate, Raymond Wil son, Paul Gortney, Berry Hensley, Jeter Autrey, Har rison Cooper, L. P. Young, Arthur Edwards, Jim At kins, Bryan King, Lester Peterson, D. C. Carroll, Smith Howell, Coy Phillips, Linn Carroll, Dale Banner, R. C. Deyton. SECOND WEEK: Grady Proffitt, Gus Edwards, Wyatt Hylemon, Tom Bur leson, Francis. Riddle, Clau de Dellinger, Edd Young, Roy Thomas, Burt Wyatt, Otis Robinson, Bryan Wil son, Furman Carr, Frank THE YANCEY RECORD SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAfR. ART AND DRAMA ~ CLASSES BEGIN IN SUMMER SCHOOL The second two-weeks course for teachers in the summer school sponsored by Woman’s College of the University of N. C. began, Tuesday. The course is instruction in art for elementary grad es, and Mrs. Callie Braswell is instructor. Mrs. Braswell is supervisor of art in the Greensboro city schools. The class in drama, un der the direction of W. R. Taylor of Woman’s College also began Tuesday. The first production of the re pertory theatre will be pre sented on August 1. New Forest Ranger Charles W. Coffin, Dis trict Forest Ranger for the past 2 years on the Mt. Mitchell Ranger District of the Pisgah National Forest is leaving as of July 27, 1947. Ranger Coffin will be replaced by Ranger E. A. Heers. Mr. Heers has been with the Forest Experiment Station in Asheville. Ran ger Coffin will be working on timber sales out of the supervisors office in Ashe ville. Ranger Coffin expresses his deep appreciation to the people of this area for the fine cooperatoin of the past years. Chief Petty Officer Lloyd Edwards Dies in Car Wreck Killed Instantly While Enroute Home Chief Pe t t,y Officer Lloyd Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Edwards of i Higgins, was instantly kill ed Thursday night when his car was in a head-on collision with a moving van at Waynesboro, Ga. His wife, Ellen Edwards, was critically injured and is in an Augusta, Ga., hos pital. Chief Petty Officer and Mrs. Edwards were on their way to Higgins to visit his parents at the time of the accident. He was stationed at the naval air station at Key West, Fla. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon in the chapel of the Anders- Rice funeral home. The body was sent to Arlington National cemetery son. bur ial. Chief Edwards had serv ed in the Navy for the past 11 years. 1% addition to the widow and parents, survivors in clude two brothers, Ross of Los Angeles, Cal., and Theodore .of Portsmouth, Va., both 9f whom are ser* ving in trie navy and two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Willis of Rutherfordton and Miss Minnie J. Edwards of Hig gins. * " Thomas, Otto Proffitt, Dock Cooper, Earl H. Bla lock, R. N. Silver, R. C. , Masters, Frank Ray, Rex , Miller,- R. S. Chrisawn, Bradley Shuford, Rotha ; Laws, Dewey Carroll. I “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” REVIVAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD Rev. J. C. Canipe, Baptist state evangelist, will speak at the Burnsville Baptist church each morning at 10 o’clock, beginning July 28. .The pastor, Rev. B. J. Mc (lver, will preach each even ing at 8 o’clock. J. C. CANIPE Hendersonville, N. C. BUYS PROPERTY Rush T. Wray this weeki bought the house directly! back of the Northwestern. Bank and across the side street from the Nu-Wray i Hotel. The property was! conveyed to Mr. Wray by! B. B. Penland and B. R.| Penland, owners I Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Byrd of New York are visiting relatives here: LAST RITES FOR MRS. ELIZABETH ROBINSON i Mrs. Elizabeth Melton Robinson died July 18, at the age of 79 years, 7 mon ths, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Stiles, Burnsville, Rt. 1. Mrs. Rob inson had been in ill health for some time. Funeral services were j conducted at the home ofi Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Stiles Sunday at 10 o’clock con ducted by her pastor, Rev. McGuire. Burial was in the Stiles cemetery. She was a faithful mem ber of the Church of God. She joined this church at Cleveland, Tenn., but later had her membership chang ed to the Church of God at Burnsville. ! Surviving are three dau-J ghters, Mrs. Stiles, Mrs. Chas. Fender and Mrs. D. 1 L. Boone all of Burnsville;! four sons, George and Neill of Burnsville, Lewis of Eli-! zabethton, Tenn., John of Gastonia, N. C.; one broth-j er, Wes Elkins of Mars Hill; 45 grandchildren and 40 great grandchildren. The flower girls were her grand daughters, Mrs. Oval Smith, Mrs. Dan Smith, Kathleen, Annas,' Imogene, Wanda, Ruth and| Jurelle Melton, Grace and Mary Thelma Stiles, Doris Boone and Billie Jean Ram sey. Pallbearers were her grandsons. | Holcombe Brothers fun eral home was in charge of arrangements. BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1947 HOME COMING,DAY j . 1...- The annual Home Com ing Day at the West Bur nsville Union church will be held on the first Sunday in August. NOTICE There will be a called meeting of the Woman’s Club'on Saturday at 3:30 .at the courthouse. NOTICE— The following telegram was received this week by! J. B. Briggs, Sec., Yancey! County A. C. A. regarding! the 1947 Program. “House action yesterday reduced Senate appropria tion bill to 228 million dol lars plus 37 lpililon carry over which provides 265 million dollars for 1947 .pro gram including 22 million for administrative expen ses. You are authorized im mediately to resume order ing contract lime and is suing purchase orders for j other materials and ser i vices”. . “ I There will be available through the AAA office 18 percent and 47 percent Sup erphosphate and farmers j interested in securing this 1 material should call by the 'office and request the per | cent of superphosphate they 1 desire to receive. Also, Aus trian Winter JPeas and Ital ! ian Rye Grass ‘Seed will be available through the office by August 15, 1947 for far mers participating on the program. Mrs. B. C. Franklin and son, Tommy of Norfolk, Va. have been visiting her sis ter, Mrs. Troy Blankenship, at Swiss, N. C. 1 Miss Felcie Elkins and ; Rachel Elkins and Otis ■ Blankenship will accom ' pany their aunt, Mrs. Fran klin back to . Norfolk for a vacation this week. Mrs. , Franklin is the daughter of J the late Mr. and Mrs. G. C.l ! Austin of Paint Gap and Bald Creek and is widely known throughout this-sec-1 tion. Last Rites For Rev. B, T. Nanney Minister Passed Away Suddenly Funeral services for the ,Rev. B. T. Nanney, 63, who died Saturday morning at the home of a friend he was | visiting at Burnsville, were held in the First Baptist 'church at Brevard Monday ! morning at 11 o’clock and in Mt. Pleasant Baptist ! church at Swiss at 2:30 p. m. Monday. | Officiating ministers were the Rev. B. W. Thom ason, the Rev. M. A. Kizer, I the Rev. F. F. McAuley, the Rev. W. L. Edwards, and the Rev. Euranus Hall. In t terment was in Jamerson cemetery at Swiss. | Pallbearers at JElrevard were Gil Thomas, Burt Freeman, Melvin Gillespie, John Rusty, Hamp Scruggs, and Lewis Hamlin. Pall-! | bearers at the Mt. Pleasant church were under the charge of the Rev. A. Z. j Jamerson and B. M. Tom- LOST COLONY” ON AT MANTEO Manteo, N. C.—The big gest Summer theatre in the nation is situated many miles from the barns and intimate houses to which hundreds of actors migrate annually when the heat of Manhattan begins bouncing off pavement and the sides of buildings. The biggest one of them all the Waterside Thea tre at Fort Raleigh, on i Roanoke Island, where the j biggest Summer show, “The ( I Lost Colony”, is produced each July and August by the people of Roanoke Is land, who used to make their livelihoods by fishing, housing sportsmen- and joining the Coast Guard, BURNSVILLE CHURCH SERVICES Methodist The subject for the Sun . day morning service is “Finding More Leaders”. .The monthly community 5 service will be held at 8 . o’clock at the Baptist chur -sch where revival services ; are beginning. . Youth Fellowship for all . young people will be held . Thursday night (tonight) . at 8 o’clock at the Baptist . church. Worship and recre . ation will make -up the pro j gram. Baptist .. J On Sunday morning the (Rev. Ben Jay Mclver, pas- I tor, will speak on, ’You 1 Can’t Beat God” and on, . “Thanking Jesus” at the - evening service at 8:00 , o’clock. The Training Union I will meet Sunday evening I j at 7:00 o’clock. V The revival meeting-, will ■ begin Sunday morning at the First Baptist church. Rev. J. C. Canipe, Secre tary of Evangelism will | I speak each morning at 10 ! o’clock to all the churches in the Yancey Baptist As , sociation, and tt> all the peo i pie of Burnsville. The pas-. I tor will speak each evening berlin. Honorary pallbearers were John Ford, W. P. Tin dall, Ralph Fisher, and Dr. 1 Julius Sader, of Brevard, B. B. Penland, Dr. W. L. 1 Bennett, Dr. W. B. Robert json, and Stokes Ledford of 'JBurnsville, and W. T. Tom- I berlin and E. J. Angel of Swiss. Mr. Nanney, a native of Yancey county, for approx imately 30 years served as i pastor of various churches in the county. For the past , several years he was inac tive due to failing health) l and had made his home, ■ with a daughter, Mrs. Er-j i win Schranz, in Brevard. He was a member of Bald Creek Masonic Lodge. Surviving are two daugh ters, Mrs. Schranz and Mrs. J. Stanley Buckner of Wea- four brothers, : Jake of Pensacola, Bob of j ( Charleston, S. C., Will of) ..Spindale, and Cordell of ■ I Montreat. Founding of Drama School Marks 20th Anniversary of Little .Theatre in Burnsville * Much Interest in Culmina- j tion of Plans By MARY LOU STONE The founding this sea son of the Burnsville scho ol of Drama and the Burns ville Playhouse, Incorporat ed, the first of its kind in the South, marks the Twen tieth Anniversary of dra matic efforts in this com ;munity. i' In 1927, the Burnsville {Little Theatre was organiz ed by Mrs. Leßoy F. Jack-, [son, wife of the President lof Carolina New College, at j i that? time a private school operated in Burnsville. The purpose of the group was to guide those persons in -1 terested in the study of ; drama, acting, stagecraft and other phases of drama tic art. Another equally pertinent goal was to give -1 the citizens of Burnsville >! and the surrounding com- i • [munities plays of superior| H quality produced in a pro -5 fessional manner. During the period of 1929 sj to 1935 four Burnsville cit jizens were most active in 1| guiding the affairs of the 1; Little Theatre. They were: 1 j Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cassidy, ; Mrs. Alden Honeycutt, and ■! Rush Wray, Mrs. Sam - Cassidy and Rush Wray served as co-directors for most of the productions, i with Sam Cassidy assisting - in the technical work. Pre l sidents of the Little Thea ,<tre during these early days e'were Mrs. Cassidy, Mrs. 0 Honeycutt and Rush Wray, ij Between 1936 and 1939, y' the Burnsville Little Thea tre, which had become com -1 paratively dormant with t the closing of Carolina New j College, was re-organized ■ junder the direction of Rush ij T. Wray, a native of Burns i ville, early interested in i drama, and active in var ious theatrical groups thro ughout the region. Mr. Wray, a graduate of the Plonk School of Creative Arts and of the Curry Col lege of Speech, directed, 1 staged, and acted in the plays presented during this period. It was at this time too that the goal to have its own theatre building, was first realized by the group. With the coopera tion of Burnsville firms! BURNSVILLE— “So They Say” The weather: Cool enou gh to make a lihgt wrap a welcome addition to your day time summer wardrobe, and an open fire a necessity in the evenings. The old 'saying “Bring your winter I clothes and spend the sum- Imer in Burnsville” still holds good. About town: The drama J class and theatre people ar-j rived Sunday and are thej busiest folks in town get-, ting classes started, stage settings made and prepara tions under way for the in itial production of the sum mer theatre. ... This first production will be “Clau Donate Generously to the Legion Memorial Building Fund. NUMBER FIFTY-TWO [supplying material at re ductions, and the labor of NY A boys, the Little Thea tre built and equipped its first stage in the commum ity club house. Until 1938 the bill of fare offered by the Little Thea tre had consisted of one-act plays and one three-act pro duction, ‘ Roam Though I May”. In 1938 came the ma jor production of the group, Lula Vollmer’s “Sun Up”, which was the initial per formance on the newly built stage. The play was proof of the growing professional ! quality of the group under ! the direction of Rush Wray. Burnsville people in the cast of this important play ! included Mrs. Pat Williams, Van Bennett, Sani Byrd Bennett, Hope Buck, Jos jeph Goodin, Frank Watson, !lArney Fox, John Lee Hen i sley, and Paul Buck. Although since 1939, the i Little Theatre was inactive . in the field of play produc tion, those members re , mained keenly interested in ! drama through the study of plays of the Theatre Guild [ and the American scene. t They have also cherished a , dream of some day estab lishing a theatre colony in (Burnsville with the hope of ! making this town a cultural 'center for Western Caro lina. Primary efforts fo rwards achieving this aim were made in 1945 when ! Mr. Wray discussed the ' possibility of such an un ’ dertaking with Director W. . R. Taylor, head of the Dra j matic Department of the r Woman’s College of the I University of North Caro , lina. Due to the lack of ade l quate financial backing, . these plans, though kept warm by the interest of boi h Mr. Wray and Direc tor Taylor, did not begin to materialize until February of this year. At that time, Mr. Taylor was approached by Mr. W. B. Harrell, re gional representative o f the Veteran’s Administra tion, with the request that the Woman’s College help to found a school in the western section of this state (Continued on page 3) dia”, one of the best of the recent plays. . . We had thought that perhaps Lou Etta and Elmo Edwards would change their minds and not go to Oregon after all but they left last Thurs day morning, early. Regret to have them go so far away. . . Regret, too, to see the Barbees leave. Sar ah and Mary Julia will go with Sgt Barbee to Camp JHood, Texas where he’ll be stationed. . . . Welcome to j the R. B. Thomases who’ve 'taken apartment in the . Bennett office building.. . . Several meetings scheduled The Burnsville Playhouse directors tonight, the Wom an's Club Saturday after ■ (Continued on page 4)
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