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GRFIB VOLUME FOURTEEN SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. Camp Mt. Mitchell For Girls The seasons activities are well under way at Camp Mt. Mitchell for Girls which opened June 27 with a near-capacity enrollment. Counsellors include Mar tha Green Solomon of Jack sonville, music director; Catherine Robinson o f Miami Beach, dancing; Audrey Ann Stevens of St. Augustine, nature lore; Jackie Redditt of Frost proof, Fla. and Marion Breed of Jacksonville, swimming. Arnelle Wilder of Jack sonville, dramatics; Stella Grimaldi of Miami Beach, tennis; Anne Walker of Jacksjnville, archery;' Her tha Homuth of Clearwater, archery and hiking; Pearl FINAL RITES HELD FOR DON LAWS Don Laws, 63, died Sun day morning at his home near Burnsville following a short illness. Surviving are the widow; a daughter, Mrs. Pansy Edwards; four sons, Em ory. Carmon, Clair and Joe Laws, all of Burnsville Rt. 1; five brothers and 15 grandchildren. Graveside services were held in Bailey Hill Ceme tery Monday at 2:30 p. m. with the Rev. Hayden Hon eycutt officiating. Methodist Church Dr. H. G. Allen is preach ing in the series of meet ings that are being held this week at Higgins Mem orial Church. Dr. Allen is superintend ent of the Winston-Salem district and a former pas or here. Services are held”' each day at 8:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. John ston of Flint, Mich, are vis iting friends and relatives here. Miss Tensie Bailey at tended the wedding of Miss Hilma Jean McSwain in Kings Mountain last Saturday. School of Fine Arts and Playhouse Begin Season Here The Parkway Playhouse drama department of the Burnsville School of Fine Arts here, will launch its fourth season Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:15, with a production of “The Patsy,” a comedy by Barry Connors. The play, a full evening’s entertainment, is under the direction of W. R. Taylor and Gorden R. Bennett de signed the settings. Light ing is by Mark R. Sumner and staff costumer Ruth Groce designed the cost umes. * The cast includes Claude H. Rayborn and Florabel H. Wolff as Mr. and Mrs. Harrington. Both are mem bers of the Playhouse resi dent staff. Student actors portray ing feature roles include Dolly Davis, Atlanta, Ga. The Yancey record Dixon of Jacksonville, mid get mother; Anne Hollo way of Jacksonville, arts and crafts; Dudley Evans of Tampa, equitation; Ag nes wells of Weelaka, Fla. hiking; Mrs. Blanche Laite of Dade City, nurse and ; Virginia Elkins of Jackson ville, dietitian. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ho . muth of Clearwater are ’ owners of the camp and Mrs. Lillian M. Bingham is director. i The camp is located on a beautiful wooded hillside , near Burnsville, with a , view of Mt. Mitchell and " other peaks in the distance. All recreational facilities are provided on the 22 acre tract. HOME AGENT The following 4-H Club members will attend the 4-H Club Camp at Waynes ville on July 10-15: From Bald Creek: Irma Jo Tipton; from Burnsville Rt. 1: Jerald Honeycutt, Richard and Steve Briggs, Grophia Lawhern, Earleen Bryan; from Cane River: Maxine Rathburn; From Ramseytown: Cha rles Adkins, Martha Wil son, Chloe Ella Adkins; from Day Book: Keith Letterman; from Higgins: Carleton Higgins, Sarah Higgins; from Green Mou ntain: Virginia Grindstaff, Junior Robinson, Alice Garland; from Bee Log: Mildred Hensley; from r urnsville Rt. 2: Bernice Robinson; from Burnsville: Hugh Teague, Jim Roland, Myrtle Ledford. Miss Hale, home agent, and T. S. Godwin, 4-H Club leader, will accompany the group to camp. No home demonstration club meet-j ings will be held during that week. gr.~ ■ Miss Katherine Taylor, dean of women of Woman’s College, and Mrs. Carleton j Jester, alumnae secretary,! are here for the week. Oth-j er members of Woman’s College faculty will visit the summer sessions later. I as Grace Harrington; An ne Edwards, New Bern, as Patricia Harrington; Larry Lambeth, Greensboro, as Billy; and John Bonitz Jr., Greensboro, as Tony. Jerry Duckor, Brooklyn, N. Y. will portray O’Flah erty; Ross Bailey, Micaville plays “Trip,” and Corinne Bissette, Zebulon, will act the role of Sadie. Peggy Sutton, Clinton, is student stage manager, and Betty Barksdale, Asheville, is handling properties. “The Patsy,” a comedy from the 1925 period, tells the story of the Harrington family, and especially of Pat Harrington, who al ways must take the back seat to her sister, Grace'. It is the first of seven produc tions being offered by the Playhouse and school this season. Tickets for the produc j “DEDICATE® TO THE PROCESS OF YANCEY COUNTY" BURNSVILLE, N, C., THURSDAY, JULY 6,1950 Charles Riddle of Pensacola Drowned in Hawaii A message has been re ceived by Mr. and Mrs. Pearson Riddle of Pensa cola that their son, Charles Riddle, had been drowned. He was with the Coast Guard and had been sta tioned in Honolulu for sev eral months. AVERY B. RAY DIES OF HEARTATTACK Avery B. Ray, 47, died of a heart attack in Nogales, Ariz. on Monday according to a report received here July 4. He was the son of Mrs. J. Bis Ray and the late Judge Ray. He was born and rear ed here but had made his home in Arizona for the past 15 years. Ray was employed by the Citizens Bank of Yancey and the First National Bank of Marion before going west. He served for several months in the army during the war. Surviving are the moth er, one brother, Phillip C. Ray and one sister, Mrs. Bruce Westall. Funeral a r rangements are incomplete. Services and burial will be held here Farmers Federation Ficnic The annual Farmers Federation picnic for Yan cey county was held in the Burnsville High School building on Tuesday with approximately 2,000 per sons in attendance. James G. K. McClure, president of the fededation opened the picnic and ser ved as master of ceremon ies for the all-day program. The Rev. Dumont Clarke, [head of the religious de partment of the organiza tion, pronounced the invo cation. McClure, in speaking of the federation’s growth, ! explained to the members lin attendance that their [steady patronage had made possible the expansion of the federation from a few I members in one warehouse tion can be obtained at the Playhouse on nights of performance. Season mem bership books are also av ailable. Classes began Monday in the School of Fine Arts of the Woman’s College. Two education courses are being taught. Dr. W. C. Jackson is tea ching “Biography for Tea chers” and Mrs. Mary Hun ter is teaching “Language Arts”. In the Fine Arts Depart ment Mrs. Lettie Rogers has a class in creative writ ing, and W. R. Taylor, Gordon Bennett and . Mike Casey are teaching various phases of the drama and play production. On July . 7 classes in art with Mrs. Braswell instruc ting, and in modern dance, taught by Miss Virginia > ! * * jBS/m iH 1 Kermit Pate, six year old son of Mr*? and Mrs. Roy ! Pate of Ba|d Creek, and thej 17 inch Brown trout he caught all ny himself. It was the first time his Dad had ever taken him fishing and his Dad was, across the stream when Kermit chught the big trout with a red worm near Pensacola. David F. Swartz of Bur nsville, N. C., attended the second national assembly of thqJWestminster Fellow ship, attracted, 1800 youths and 200 adults from all cor ners of the United States and several foreign coun tries to the Grinnell Col lege (Iowa) campus last week —June 26-July 2. Representing the teen age and college age youth of the Presbyterian church, the Assembly will empha size a return to Biblical Christianity by young peo- fto more than 27,000 stock ’ holders in 18 Western Nor th Carolina counties. William Fox, head of the 1 hatchery department, and Glen Hunt, broiler expert, were introduced and spoke briefly as did Norman Bar ' nett, manager of the feder ation at Burnsville. Everett Dillingham, Yan cey county agent, spoke on the use of potash for pas ture improvement and bet- ! ter corn crops. Mark Bennett, Mayor of ! Burnsville, extended a wel come to the federation ! members and assembled ' farmers. Clarke made a talk on \ the religious department, explaining the work of the Lord’s Acre movement ; during the past year. Clar (Continued on back page) ' 1 . ,••• . Moomaw, will begin. In addition to college classes in the dance, classes will also be arranged for younger children. Duane Kline is instruct ing in instrumental music on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings in the elementary building. W. C. Deveny has private students in voice and is directing the choral work. The choral group meets on Tuesday and Friday even ings. This week, the Fri day night practice has been changed to tonight (Thurs day). Series of Lectures A series of lectures by outstanding speakers i s being arranged by the School of Fine Arts here. The plan will be initiated on Thursday, July 13 when Dr. W. C. Jackson, retiring chancellor of the Woman’s Road Expenditures Total expenditures out of Road Bond money in Yancey County through May 31, 1950 are $218,703,- 15, according to a report made this week by W. M. Corkill, division engineer. NOTICE A change has been made in the garbage collection j schedule for the town. I Beginning next week, trash will be picked up in West Burnsville on Thurs day and in East Burnsville on Friday. This week the trash will be collected as usual. “Stay at Home Conference” Beginning on Monday, July 10, and extending through Friday, July 14, there will be a “Stay At Home Conference” at the Jacks Creek Presbyterian Church. All Jacks Creek young people between 12 and 23 years are urged to attend. Some special invi tations have been extended to young people from the communities o f Higgins, Elk Shoal, Banks Creek, Paint Gap, Mine Fork and Green Mountain. The “Stay At Home Con ference” is a unique inter pretation of ordinary young people’s conferences. The main purpose is to bring conference experien ce to those young people who find it necessary to remain at home during the summer. The evenings program will begin at 5:30 and close at 8:30. This will include recreation, picnic supper, vespers, evening watch, study groups, fellowship hour and worship service. The staff of conference includes: Miss Elizabeth McCort of Nashville, Rev. David Swartz and Miss Helen Gentry of Burnsville, Rev. Manuel Holland of Bald Creek, Paul M. Wright and John F. Crosby workers from Warren Wil son College. About 35 percent of the average tree is either left in the woods or burned or discarded in the mill. - College and one of the out i standing educators of the ; nation, will speak. Dr. Jackson is teaching here for two weeks. The second lecture will : be given on Thursday, July 20 by Dr. Frank McNutt, i associate director of the graduate school of the Uni versity of North Carolisa. i All citizens of the com munity are invited to at tend the lectures and the ■ plan will give opportunity to the townspeople and i visitors to hear these pro minent speakers. Other lectures in the ser ies will be announced later. All will be held in the high school library | at 8 p. m. * Try-Outs For~“Mikado” l Try-Outs for “The Mik i ado” chorus will be held on ; Tuesday afternoon and all i those interested, especially Many Livestock Growers Attend Meeting Friday Livestock growers from : Madison, Mitchell and Yan cey Counties attended the livestock meeting held last Friday at the Yancey Thea tre. Great interest was shown in the information presented by the group of speakers and in the possi bilities for this entire sec tion of increasing farm profits through livestock production. ' George Farthing, district farm agent, introduced the speakers. A. C. Edwards, president of the North 1 Carolina Farm Bureau, was first speaker and gave an , over-all picture of the pro ; blems confronting the sar i Captain Ferree To Be In Asheville i _____ i Captain Ralph J. Ferree, ‘ the Aviation Cadet project ' officer for the State of [ North Carolina will be at the U. S. Army & U. S. Air Force Recruiting Office in ’ the Post Office Building in | Asheville on the 11th and 12th of July for the purpose of interviewing and admin istering the aviation cadet ‘ qualifying examination to all interested applicants. " The application forms may } be filled out prior to Cap * tain Ferree’s arrival at the ' recruiting station in Ashe ‘ ville. All interested men are , urged to get in touch with j the recruiting office in ! Asheville immediately. The basic qualifications for ap plication for the aviation | cadet pilot training are: ' single, male citizens, be- ( tween 20 and 2614 years of ( age, must have completed at least two years of col- i lege at an accredited col- , lege or university, and in \ addition, be able to pass a . physical ex mination, a moral examination and a , personal examination and ] the air force qualifying ex amination which Captain Ferree will administer. All college graduates who . are interested are urged to write to Sgt. John A. Fisher 1 high school age students, are invited to come. Re hearsals will be held from 4:30 to 5:30 in the after noons. “The Mikado” will be presented on August 10, 11 and 12. Francis M. Casey, resi dent playwright at the Parkway Playhouse of the Burnsville School of Fine Arts here is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to work next year with the famous Old Vic Theatre school in London, England, according to information received here. The competitive scholar ship is a United States grant for one year. Casey is scheduled to leave New York on the USS America on September 9. His duties as instructor and director here will end on August 19, the closing day of the pro 'l .. 'Mmikss NUMBER FORTY mer. i J. M. Quisenberry, repre senting the state Agricul ture Commission, Dr. Dean Colvard, head of animal industry of State College, and Dr. C. B. Ratchford of the Farm Management De partment of State College, also spoke. Many phases of growing sheep, dairy cattle, beef cattle and poultry were discussed. Lunch was served in the Roberts & Johnson club rooms by the 4-H clubs of the county. Following lunch a tour of dairy and beef cattl farms was made. FINAL RITES HELD FOR BART PENLAND Funeral services for Bart Penland, 70, who died Mon day at his home in Pensa cola after a long illness, were held Wednesday at the home of a son, Clyde Penland of Pensacola. The Rev. H. M. Alley of ficiated and burial was in the family cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Sallie Ray Penland; one daughter, Mrs. J. H. Dellinger of Oakley; two sons, Lawrence end Clyde of Pensacola; one brother, R. L. Penland of Orlando, Fla., and one sister, Mrs. Sallie Hensley of Pensacola AROUND THE DISTRICT Portions of two U. S. Forest Service motion pic tures are now being filmed on the Mt. Mitchell District, One film, entitled, “Wood land Manners,” will deal with sportsmanship and re spect for the rights of oth ers on outdoor recreation areas. The other film deals with the management stat us of the nation’s timber lands. The movies are being’ made in color by two U. S. Forest Service cameramen, Dick Mosher, formerly with the Walt Disney Stud- (Continued on paoe 4) 4 duction of his new play, “The Clear Glass Door”. The Fulbright program is a branch of the division of the exchange-students section of the State De partment. i Casey, known to his friends as “Mike”, is the author • of “Angels Full Front”, comedy toured last winter by the Carolina Playmakers of the Univer sity of North Carolina. Four of his short plays have been published by Samuel French, Inc., ag ents who are handling “Angels Full Front” for possible Broadway showing This is Casey’s second season with the Playhouse, He received his B. A. de gree from Williams College i and his M. A. jjegree from • the University of North , Carolina. His home is in ■ Turner’s Falls, Mass.
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