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Second High School Drama
Festival Begins Tonight
.The second annual Dra
matic Festival of the Yan
cey County High Schools
will be given in the Park
way Playhouse here tonight
and tomorrow night.
The festival is sponsored
by the schools, the Play
house and School of Fine
Arts of the Woman’s Col
lege.
Mark Sumner and Rob
ert Armstrong are repre>-
senting Woman’s College
for the festival.
Sumner is publicity dir
ector of the Carolina Play
makers, assistant director
of the Parkway Playhouse
and a former associate dir
ector of the Carolina Dra
matic Association.
Armstrong has played
the role of John Borden in
“The Lost Colony” for four
summers and during the
present school year is tea
ching in the Burnsville
Evening College here.
Each of the five high
schools will present a one
act play for the drama
meet.
Thursday evening three
plays will be given. Bee Log
High School will present
Baccalaureate Services
The graduating classes
of high schools of the coun
ty will hold the: Baccalaur
eate Services on Sunday,
May 14.
The Rev. A. Z. Jamerson
will deliver the sermon to
the Clearmont class at 2:30
p. m., and Dr. Marc Love
lace of Wake Forest Col
lege will speak at the Bee
Log exercises at 3 p. m.
On Stinday night Dr.
Marc Lovelace will speak
at the Burnsville exercises
and the Rgv. F. R. Barber
at the Micaville exercises.
The Rev. David Swartz
will be speaker at the exer
cises for the Bald Creek
class at 11 o’clock.
Presbyterian News
The Presbyterian Miss
ionary Society will meet at
the church at Bp. m. Mon
day, May 15.
Music Recitals y
Mrs. G. D. Bailey will
present her junior piano
students in recital next
Tuesday evening and the
senior students in recital
on Thursday evening.
Charles Trammel was
home from Wake Forest
College for the week end.
Attend §
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The Second Annual High School Drama Festival
At The Playhouse 7:30 p. m.
Thursday Night, May 11 Bee Log, Micaville and Clearmont High Schools
Friday Night, May 12 Bald Creek and Burnsville High Schools
• ADMISSION 26c & 60c
The Yancey Record
“The Trysting Place” by
Booth Tarkington, directed
bv Mrs. Cecil J. Beeson.
Members of the cast are
Margie Fender, Guy Phil
lips, Evelyn Higgins, June
Edwards, Jack Phillips and
Bruce Ramsey.
- Micaville players will
give “Lighted Candles” by
Margaret Bland. The cast
includes Marie Gibbs, Mar
garet Silvers, Joyce Hill
iard. Oscar Harris, Ross
Bailey.,The play will be
directed by Miss Edith
Robinson.
“Late Holliday” by Flor
ence R. Kalian will be given
by the Clearmont High
School cast. Those taking
part are Nadine Evans,
Billie Clyde Peterson, Ruth
Melton, Alice Garland. The
director is Walton Angel.
Friday evening the Bald
Creek High School presen
tation will be “Ghost Farm”
by Jay Tobias, directed by
Jack Mclntosh. The cast in
cludes Fred Wilson, Louella.
Briggs, Margaret Wilson,
Jerry Nowicki, Juanelle
Randolph, Betty Lou Edw
ards, James Mclntosh, Von
Ada Metcalf and Milton
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Dr. W. B. Robertson
who recently underwent an
operation in Charlotte is
nowat the home of his son,"
Burdette Robertson, i n
Rutherford ton.
L. M. Hilliard who has
been ill for some time of a
heart condition is still in
the Marion Hospital. His
son, Major Ray M. Hilliard,
and Mrs. Hilliard were here
for a week to be with him.
Stevie, young son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy King, under
went a tonsilectomy Wed
nesday.
Mrs. B. B. Brown of Er
win has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. M. B. Higgins.
Health Department PJans Clinics
The Avery-Mitchell-Yan
cey District Health Depart
ment is planning a series of
immunization clinics throu
ghout the district.
The vaccinations will in
clude typhoid, diphtheria,
' smallpox, whooping cough,
and the combined vaccine
which protects against
whooping cough and diph
theria at the same time.
Schedules are now being
arranged and will be an
nounced within a few days
of time and places for these
clinics in each community
in the district, thus making
“DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OP YANCEY COUNTY”
BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 11,1950
Republicans Will Meet
On Monday Night
A Republican party meet
ing will be held Monday
night, May 15 at 8 o’clock
in the Roberts and Johnson
club rooms. All members of
the party are urged to at
tend the meeting.
LAST RITES FOR MISS
LAURA PRESBY
Miss Laura Presby, of
Celo Community, died in
her sleep of cerebral hem
orrhage at her home on
April 27.
Funeral services were
held at the Friends’ Meet
ing House in the Commun
ity on April 28, with burial
l in the Celo Community
1 Cemetery. The services
wer* attended by many of
MisL Presby’s friends in
South Toe Valley. She had
been active, even the day
before her death, in her
work as manager of Celo
Mutual Store.
" She is survived by a half
| brother, W. P. Presby, of
I Virginia, Illinois.
Born in Kansas in 1883>
Miss Presby received her
education in the public
schools of Lawrence, Kan
sas; Goucher College/ Bal
timore, Md.; the Univer
, sity of Chicago; and the
New York School of ’Social
; Work.
Before coming to North
I I Carolina from Texas in
1945, she held various soc
t ial work positions in sever
;al states., including work
with the YWCA, Red
, Cross, government agen
cies, and Community Set
tlement House of Corpus
. Christie, Texas.
Wherever she worked
Miss Presby was well
■ known for her interest in
• community well-being, and
especially in children.
this vital health service of
prevention of the above lis
ted diseases available to the
people wjth the least incon
venience.
All of this work is also
done in the four offices of
the Health Department
, which are open on the fol
lowing schedule: Burnsville
Mondays 1 to sp. m.; New
land, Tuesdays 8:30 a. m.
to 12 noon; Spruce Pine,
' Thursdays ‘8:30 to 12 and
12:30 to sp. m.; Bakers
ville, Fridays 1 to 5 p. m.
In addition, in the office
clinics blood tests and tub
erculin tests are given.
Road Mont v For County
Now Totals $136,382.85
The total expenditures in
Yancey County out of the
Road Bond jfunds totaled.
$136,382.85 through March
31, 1950, according to a re
port made by W. M. Corkill,
division to the
board of county commis
sioners this w§ek.
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Roy A. Proffitt Promoted
By Life Insurance Co.
Roy A. Proffitt, assistant
manager of* me Charlotte,
N. C., agency 1 of The Mut
ual Life Imprance Com
pany of New York, has
been advanced to training
assistant, it was announced
today by Stagton G. Hale,
vice president! and manag
er of agencies!
The appointment is effec
tive on June Mr. Proffitt
will make his
at the company’s home of
fice, 1740 Broadway at 55th
Street, New Y|rk City.
Mr. Proffitt joined The
Mutual Life in 1936 as a
field representative of the
Charlotte ageftcy. He has
been consistently among
the company’s leading un
derwriters, qualifying for
membership in the Top
Club and National Field
Club. A native of Bald
Creek, N. C., apd a gradu-
o f
teacher and high school
principal before he entered
the life insurance business.
He has been assistant man
ager of the Charlotte ag
ency since May 16, 1945. :
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John H. Burton Passed Away
of Heart Attack Wednesday ■,
Funeral on Friday
John Herman Burton,
Burnsville merchant, pass
ed away suddenly of a
heart attack Wednesday
morning in the clinic here.
He was 63 years of age,
Funeral services will be
held Friday at 11 a. m. in
the. Presbyterian Church at
Green Mountain, N. C. Bur
ial will be in Johnson City.
Bom in Yancey County,
Burton was a son of the
late Joshua and Malissa
Bailey Burton who were
among the pioneer citizens
and founders of Yancey
County.
Survivors include his
wife Mrs. Lucy Burton;
two daughters, Mrs. Frank
W. Howell of Green Moun
tain and Mrs. Roy Ledwelli
of Miami, Fla. ; one son,
Theodore J. Burton of
Democratic Executive
Committee Is Named .....
The county Democratic
Executive committee was
named last Saturday by the
township committees.
C. P. Randolph was re
named chairman and other
members are: Burnsville
township, G. M. Angel;
Cane River township, Yat
es Bailey; Egypt township,
Paul Buck Ramseytown
township, R. E. Holloway;
Green Mountain township,
Clarence Bailey; Jacks
Creek township, Adrian
Buchanan; Brush Creek
township, John Randolph;
Crabtree township, R. N.
Silver; South Toe town
ship, Luther M. Robinson;
Pensacola township, C. W.
Robertson Jr.; Prices Creek
township, Harmon Edw
ards.
Lion Club Officers
Will Be Installed
Webb Is New President
The Burnsville Lions
Club is holding its second
annual officers’ inaufura
tion and Ladies night ban
quet tonight at 7p. m. in
the Roberts and Johnson
club room.
‘ Speaker of the evening
will be Charles Patterson
of Hickory, N. C.
Incoming officers are:
president, M. W. Webb;
• first vice president, F. R.
i Barber; second vice l presi-
I dent, C. O. Reckard third
vice president, Harlan Hol
comye; secretary-treasurer
E. L. Dillingham; lion tam
er, W. M. Gladden tail
twister, Elmer Garland.
Johnson City one grand
son, Frank W. Howell Jr.;
one sister, Mrs. Myrtle Bai
ley of Erwin;. two brothers,
J. M. Burton and T. B.
Burton, both of Asheville.
Active pall bearers will
be Buddy Wheeler, Johp
Byrd, R. C. Howell, Walter
Howell, Claud Peterson,
Clessin Letterman, Hill Ray
and Clarence Bailey.
Honorary pall bearers
will be Dover R. Fouts, B.
M. Tomberlin, H. G. Bailey,
George Robinson, Oscar L.
! Young, Bill Atkins, C. P.
i Randolph, E. B. Bailey, R.
H. Howell, H. Justice,
Monroe Mclntosh, Brantley
i Briggs, John English and
; E. L. Briggs.
: Mr. Burton was well
■ known in Johnson City
[] where he was a merchant
, and construction contrac
: tor for 15 years.
Bee Log Speaker
Harvey N. Lance, dean
of men at Mars Hill College
will be speaker at the grad
uating exercises of Bee Log
High School on Thursday
evening, May 18.
Fred Koch Jr. Will Be
Guest Director
Fred Koch, Jr., Chairman
of the Drama Department
of the University of Miami,
Coral Gables, Fla., will be
, Guest Director at the Park
, way Playhouse of the; Bur
; nsville School of Fine Arts
; here this summer.
He is the son of the late
. Frederick H. Koch, found
; er and for many years dir
ector of the Carolina Play
: makers. He studied at the
. University of North Caro
lina, receiving both an A.B.
and an A.M. degree before
becoming head of the Dra
ma Department of the Uni
versity of Miami in 1939.
At the University of
5 Miami, Koch has establish
l ed one of the fastest grow
- ing college theaters in the
- nation, with a production
t of ten major plays in two
l theaters, in addition to the
production of experimental
* shows, and regularly sched
i uled tours as far as Havana
Cuba.
; Notice to Veterans
Widows of veterans of
i World War I whose income
- is SIOOO a year or lees are
r entitled to a pension of $42
-a month from the Federal
1 Government, J. M. Cald
well, Director of the N. C.
Veterans Commission poin
ted out today.
Those with children un
der certain ages are entit
led to extra compensation,
provided their income is
! not over $2500 per year.
Service by the veteran
. must have been between
April 6, 1917, and Novem
ber 11, 1918, and discharge
1 or release from active duty
i must have been under oth
’ er than dishonorable condi
, For the purposes of a
r pension a widow must have
been married to a World
s War I veteran before Dec
. ember 14, 1944 or 10 or
, more years to the person
. who served, and must not
. have remarried.
, Those from Yancey Cou
r nty who are attending the
l state Democratic meeting
in Raleigh this week are C.
IP. Randolph, Luther M.
r Robinson, Z. B. Byrd, Har
t lan Holcombe, Yates Ben
- nett, Mark W. Bennett and
Bill Atkins.
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BURN SVILLE—
“So They Say”
The weather: Good show
ers to make the grass and
the weeds grow green aiwi
to keep us delightfully co*l
while we hear reports of
around 90 degree weather
! in Washington and Raleigh
. and Georgia.
About town: Never
■ heard of so much going on!
i Banque t tonight at' the R &
> J club room when new
; Lions Club officers will be
I installed . . .. the high scho
■ ols one-act plays will begin
i tonight . . . and the Circus
is in town! . . . The Wom
an’s Club postponed its re
gular meetiing till 18th . . .
newest arrivals: . Bobby
f Wicker’s young
3 last Friday / . . the C. W.
? Robertson Jr’s son on May
5,2 .. . and in Charlotte Burt
I I and Margaret Higgins’ son
■jon May 5 ... He has a pie
.jture to prove it: Rich Tay
■ lor caught a 21 and 1-4 inch,
3 pound brown trout on the
■ Rod and Gun Club property
last week! ... Not all the
, fishermen caught one that
i big but they were all out
trying on opening date! . .
Lee Boone said they check
ed in nearly 500 at the
South Toe station Satur
day .morning . . . Far-away
places! Card from Dale
Honeycutt Trimmer, from
Rome. Says they’ve visited
Naples, Pompeii, Sorrento
Capri, Mt. Vesuvius, Rapa
llo . . . and from Hawaii
Capt. Kathleen Peake sent
■ her grandmother, Mrs. Jul
i ia Bennett, some exotic red
flowers for Mother’s Day.
They came in perfect con
dition, are very lovely—but
•as yet no one has known
3 what they are! . . . Congra
r, tulations to Orlena Jamer
. son who gave her organ
. recital at Meredith last
■ night and will graduate
- there in June . . . there are
1 others who will be graduat
ing from College.
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