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•■uarasnßiuuiiiißiiMißinNraiiaiiaitaiißnaitanßiiaiiaiifeiMni VOLUME FOURTEEN SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. Brother of Mrs. Thread gill Drowns ■ ■■ * Mr. and Mrs. Percy Threadgill have returned to their home at Cattail Creek from Gafney, S. C. where they were called be cause of the death of Mrs. Thread gill’s brother, Ly man Hamrick. Mr. Hamrick was drown ed Friday night, June 16 when the boat in which he and three other men from Gafney were riding at Lake Summitt near Hen dersonville overturned. One of the other men was drowned also. Hamrick was 52 years of age, and was vice president and manager of the Gafney mills. He was a frequent visitor of the Threadgills here and at Pensacola. MUSIC COURSES William C. Deveny who will teach voice in the sum mer session here will come to Burnsville Saturday. All those who plan to take either private lessons or choral work are asked to see Mr. Deveny at the dormitory Monday. This year there will be no charge for the choral group instruction. Duane Kline who will teach instrumental music will also arrive in Burns ville Saturday. Aill who are interested in this are asked to meet Mr. Kline in the elementary school building at 9:30 Monday. Fine Arts School and Playhouse Session Begins The Parkway Playhouse of the Burnsville School of Fine Arts here will present six plays and a music and dance recital for their fou rth season this summer. The School opens on June 29, and continues until August 19. All class work, except art and dance, will begin on July 3. Instruction in these two courses will begin on July 17. The schedule includes: “The Patsy,” a comedy, July 7 and 8; “On Borrow ed Time,” on July 14 and 15; “You Can’t Take It With You,” on July 21 and 22; the Recital on July 27 and 28; “Fashion,” a fam ous comedy of the 1850 per iod, on August 4 and 5; Gilbert and Sullivan’s pop ular musical, “The Mika do,” on August 11 and 12; and a new modern comedy, “The Clearglass Door,” by resident playwright Fran OFFICIAL COUNTY VOTE, JUNE 24 PRIMARY * For U. S. n Senate Congressman Townships * Burnsville 308 92 318 72 Cane River 188 68 211 40 Egypt 71 - 41 103 7 Ramseytown J , 15 69 70 13 Green Mountain 59 90 138 8 Jacks Creek * 128 165 277 15 Brush Creek 37 *SB 79 15 Crabtree 152 98 210 41 South Toe 117 34 134 16 Pensacola 40 10 45 3 Prices Creek < 68 71 121 4 Totals 1173 75S T7SS W the Yancey record % * * t c * i <* i 4 *. <s , *»s«**.•****,» *. %<*.# «fc 6 - I* * Architect’s Drawing of the Dwplnn Corporations Mill, now under construction here. AU foundation pier and walls are completed l and the structural steel and long span joists are now under construction and are approximately 75 per cent erected. Curbing for the driveways and -approaches is now being built. (Architects: Lacy, Atherton & Davis, Wilkes-Barre & Harrisburg, Pa.) ► ' nw - ” ""■■■■ ' 1 ■■ > Mr. and Mrs. John B. i Bennett and daughter l Joy ! have returned from Ariz l ona where ti*ey spent sev eral months. i cis M. Casey, on August 18 : and 19. ; The Burnsville School of Fine Arts, owned by the ■ people of Yancey County and operated during the ! summer season by the l Woman’s College of the University of North Caro lina, in Greensboro, is the i only school of its type in ! the nation. The Parkway Playhouse, focal point of the school, is the largest collegiate sum , mer repertory theater in the Southeast. C. W. Phillips, Greens '< boro, is director of the pro ject, and W. R. Taylor, Greensboro, is director of the Playhouse. The School has under gone an expansion for this year, with college credit courses in modern dance, art, and creative writing added to previous , courses in drama, music and eduqa (Continued on back page) Graham Smith Jones Hamilton “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY 5 * BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 29,1950 Mrs. Julia Bennett Is Seriously 111 Mrs. Julia Bennett, one of the county’s most widely known citizens, is seriously ill at her home here fol lowing a stroke she suffer ed last Friday. Burnsville Painting Classes Sixty five students have registered for the 1950 sea son for the Burnsville Painting Classes. The classes opened June 24 and will operate for 12 weeks, closing on Septem ber 16. Students now registered include Mrs. Kessler of Miami, Terry Robles of Sarasota, Miss Drury of Brunswick, Ga., Mrs. Hol leman, Mrs. Passailaique, Miss Watts of Columbus, Ga., Miss Wilson, Mrs. Slocum of Charleston, Mrs. Crandall of Macon, Ga., Mrs. Cook of Washington, Mrs. Cookingham of New Haven, Conn., Mrs. Murphy of Philadelphia, Mrs. Abs ton of Memphis, Mrs. Cal vet of Orlahdo, Mrs. Cun ningham, Mrs. Bagnell of Alexandria, Miss Fowley of West Palm Beach, Mrs. Thomas of Charlotte, Miss Maurice of Eagle Springs, N. C., Miss O’Brien of Bea umont, Tex., Howard Alley of Westminster, S. C., John Bryans of Marion, Ohio, Tom Peterson of Birming ham, Bob Miller and Lee Hart of Abilene. Portrait Demonstration Frank Stanley Herring will give a portrait demon stration at Seecelo, the Burnsville Painting Class es at Bp. m. on Monday, July 10. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allison of Burlington visit ed Bill AHison - here this week. Charles is brick fore man with the J. A. Jones Construction Company. IStunfewill Enter Tournament The Yancey County Blue Gems who won 'their sixth straight victory Sunday have been invited to play l in the Semi-Pro Tourna ment i n Hendersonville , July 4-11. The 12 best teams* in Western North Carolina iin this class were picked • to compete. ! The Yancey team is the only independent team in ! the meet as the others are ! all sponsored by companies • or organizations. These in clude the Enka, Ecusta, 1 Berkley and Martel mills : teams. ' Each team must lose 2 ! games before being elimi ■ nated from play. , The Blue Gems will meet , Dana at 8:15 on July 4. Farmers Federation Picnic Burnsville High School will be the scene of the Yancey County Farmers Federation picnic on Tues day, July 4th, from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. The best collection of talent ever assembled by the Federation is scheduled to perform on the program. Performers will include: Howard Nash, “the one man band’ 1 ; Steve Ledford, ace fiddler; Alec Houston, Hendersonville ventriloqu ist; Patsy Messer, Canton acrobat; Mrs. Bascom La mar Lunsford Jr., singer of mountain ballads; and many others. This year for the first time a cash prize of SIOO will be awarded for the best specialty e n tiehltainment number presented at any of the Federation picnics. A second prize of SSO and third prize of $25 will also be awarded. Local musicians, quartets and choirs are especially French Broad Corporation Observe 10th Anniversary An estimated 1200 peo ple jammed the Marshall High School Auditorium and grounds June 24, to celebrate the tenth anni versary annual meeting of the French Broad Electric Membership Corporation. William C. Wise, Assist ant Administrator of REA, addressed the co-op mem bers. He congratulated them on their 10 year re cord of. achievement and urged them not to relax and lose interest in their business. “It is your right and duty,” he said, “to dis cuss any phase of opera tions with the manager or board member. You must remember that you are an , invited to appear on the | picnic program. The program will also ’ feature numerous enter tainment stunts. The morning portion of , the picnic will consist of string music and solo and duet singing with a few short talks describing the Federation’s program. Pre-, sident McClure will act as master of ceremonies. Free watermelon and le monade will be furnished by t*he Federation at lunch time, and following this there will be races for boys and girls and a men’s tug o-war. The afternoon program will feature a report on the Lord’s Acre Movement by Rev. Dumont Clarke and sacred singing by choirs and quartets. Contests will also be held. Norman Barnett is man ager of the Farmers Feder ation at Burnsville. He has issued an invitation to ev ery resident and guest . owner, and you have the re : sponsibjlities of owner , ship”. i The assistant adminis . trator reviewed the pro ’ gress of REA throughout : the country. He recalled that in 1935 only 10.9 per , cent of the nation’s farms were electrified and \ the remainder had little nope of ever securing services at a reasonable cost. Dur ing its 15 year history, he said, REA has approved loans totalling $2,084,905,- 202 to 1067. borrowers. He stressedvthe fact that this money is not a grant or subsidy, but is being repaid in a systematic, business like manner. Wise stated that up to March 31, 1950, REA had approved loans of $58,694,- 552 for 39 borrowers in North Carolina. As a re sult, the percentage of ele ctrified farms in this state has jumped from 3.2 per (Continued on back page) LAST RITES FOR MRS. J. G ARROWOOD Mrs. J. G. Arrowood, 84, died at the home at Prices Creek Saturday afternoon following a long illness. Funeral services were held in Prices Creek Bap tist Church Monday at 2 p. m. with the Rev. T. E. Woody and the Rev. Elzie Ray officiating. Burial was in the family cemetery. Surviving are four dau ghters, Mrs. Woodfin Hud gins, Mrs. Ora Chandler and Mrs. John Fox, all of Cane River, and Mrs. Oscar Shepherd of Mars Hill; four sons, J* R., C. B. and Francis Arrowood, all of Cane River, and W. R. Ar rowood of Burnsville; two sisters, 43 grandchildren and 91 great grandchildren gfdgfdgs NUMBER THIRTY-NINE SECOND PRIMARY ______ « Willis Smith, Raleigh at torney, defeated Dr. Frank Graham in the second pri mary Saturday for nomin ation to the U. S. Senate. In the Uth Congression al District Woodrow Jones of Rutherfordton won ov er Charles E. Hamilton of Gastonia as Democratic nominee for Congressman. Charles E. Hamilton of Gastonia who lost the sec ond primary Saturday to Woodrow Jones of Ruther fordton, came by personally to make a statement re garding the campaign. When the count of votes was announced he congrat ulated Jones on his victory and pledged his support in the November election. Hamilton stated that he had been very "pleased to meet the people of Yancey County during his cam paign, that he had been re ceived most cordially and kindly, and that he valued the contacts he had made here. He expressed his thanks to the peopjg of the county for the reception extended him on each of his visits through this section. BURNSVILLE— “So They Say” The weather: Highest temperature Tuesday 68 . degrees (on Mount Mitch . ell, that is). Here we must s • be truthful and say it’s . been up close to 90. About town: Last Thur sday the B. B. Penland [(children left their hus . bands, wives, in-laws, child- , , ren and grand children and j went back home to spend . the night. First time all 1 , eight of them had been' . there together over night' in many years! Happy oc casion for Mr. and Mrs. B. 8., Bas, Rhea‘ Max, Joan na (Wilson), Nola (Wil son), Lena (Harris), Ethel (Fox), and Janette (Bai ley) ... All the summer ac tivities getting under way. Painting Classes started Monday, and registration for the Playhouse and Fine? Arts instruction will be? held on Monday 3rd. Fors music see the Deveney’s at the dormitory Monday and the Klines at the school building . . . Fine group of campers and counsellors up at the camp . . . Cattail Creek group active too and, you’ll find a cordial wtl come there . . . So many in quiries received so we’ll an nounce now that the sec ond annual Y. C. I. gather ing will be held Saturday, August 19 . . . Congratula tions to Betty Ann Banka who’ll represent the coun ty at the Rhododendron Ball and festivities in Ash eville July 7 and 8! . . new; store : The Stanley’s are building larger store oveii near school . . Regret Mrs, Julia Bennett’s serious ill ness following a stroke last: Friday. She is somewhat improved now. . and Rus sell York is improving at! ' Aston Park HospitaLof a severe attack of pleurisy .. i The Blue Gems will enter i the W N C Semi-Pro bases i ball tournament this week, i
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