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“Dedicated To The Progress Of Yancey County"
VOLUME TWENTY THREE
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BURNS\TLLE, N. O, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 19S9
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NUMBER FORTY-SEVEN
Opening Night At Play
house Set for Friday
Burnsville’s summer theatre j tess, Penelope Mayweather, to
season opens tomorrow night i rent him a room. Thereafter, life
Norman Barnett
To Head Lions Club
(FRI., JULY 17) at the Parkway
Playhouse with the University of
Miami production of the comedy
hit, “Southern Exposure.’’
Action of the play takes place
in a Natchez antebellum man
sion, during the Mississippi city’s
annual “Pilgrimage” celebration,
when the chamber of commerce
promotes visitors’ tours through
the historic old homes — for a
slight fee, of course. To revi'i^e
the atmosphere of the old days,
the townfolk dress up in their
ancestors’ clothes of the past
century.
The comic complications begin
when a New England author
whose satiric book has been ban
ned in Natchez drifts into the
mansion with a group of tourists,
but remains to persuade the hos-
in the mansion becomes confused
and the laughs multiply.
Playing Penelope is Mary Jane
Wells, a graduate of Goodman
Memorial Theatre in Chicago, an
accomplished actress who is a
newcomer to North Carolina’s
“straw-hat theatre” activities.
Ron Walsh, a favorite for sev
eral seasons with the University
of Miami players, has the leading
male role of the visiting author.
His romantic interest' is Dee
Dee Winner, in the role of Carol
Randall, daughter of the arrogant
banker and his conniving, greedy
w'ife, Emmeline. Lynn Pflug is
the banker and Marcia Klein,
Auto Accident Fatal
To Vicki Lynn Hudson (
Seecelo Opens for 14th Season
Mr. J. Norman Barnett became
seasons,
Judy ■ Paulich, one of the Play
house favorites, has the import
ant character role of Australia,
1 Penelope’s faithful maid who
tries to cover up the little deceits
and succeeds in complicating the
j dire suspicions.
j Judy Friedlander, as Mary Bell
I Tucker, a young member of one
I of the old families, is a charming,
Pour Yancey County girls and|v^eji proportioned Pilgrimage
one boy participated in activities' guide with hoop skirts and a
at the District 4-H Dress Revue j i\iississippi drawl.
seen in many Playhouse shows in j the new president of the Burns-
past seasons, is Emmeline. ■
Club Members At
tend 4-H Dress Revue
By: Vi/'ginia Cox, Asst.,
Home • Economics Agent
in Asheville last Friday.
Peggy York, county senior dress
revue winner, represented the
county in the Dress Revue with
her two-piece dress and jacket
ensemble made of aqua wool ma
terial.
Peggy's escort for the event was
Dean Honeycutt from’ Jacks Creek
Community.
Becky Proffitt, from Cane River
and third place senior winner in
the county Dress Revue and pub
lic speaking winner, wrote the
script for the dress revue and
was narrator for the event.
Marilyn Wilson, second place
senior winner in the county Dress
Revue, represented one of the
planets which was brought out
in the script.
Other activities taking place
was the 4-H sewing demonstra
tions. Loretta Briggs from Swiss
participated in this with a demon
stration on “Hemlines”. Loretta
received a red ribbon in this con
test.
Miss June Street, Home Econo
mics Agent, accompanied the
group and served aS chairman
for the Dress Revue.
4-H’ERS ATTEND CAMP
Twenty-nine junior 4-H’ers
attended Junior 4-H Camp at
Camp Schaub near Waynesville.
These boys and girls participated
in a number of activities and had
classes in swimming, handicrafts,
recreation, wildlife and electric.
Each elementary school in the
county had some members at
tending camp. Those attending
were: Ronald Thomas, John Tho
mas, James McMahan, Millie Lou
Wilson, Sherrill Crowder, Sylvia
Schwintzer, Richard Bailey, Steve
Proffitt, Dennis Pate, Dilda Fen
der, Barbara Anglin, David Cher
ry, Billy Randolph, David King,
Gary Jobe, Michael Walters, Sha
ron Howell, Jean Robinson, Sher
ry Thomas, Janet Ohle, David
Blankenship. Gary Bennett, Tom
my Adkins, Barbara Brewer, Sau-
ndra Duncan, Theresa Ramsey,
Sharon Hopson, Brenda Grind-
staff, Blaine Whitson.
These club members were ac
companied by Charles Steelman,
Assistant County Agricultural
Agent; Virginia Cox, Assistant
Home Economics Agent; and Mrs.
Maphra Bennett, 4-H leader from
Clearmont Grades Club.
A New York editor with an ul
cer is characterized by Ivan
Kivitt, a UM drama senior who is
planning a professional career in
the theatre.
In addition to the principals,
the cast includes 20 “bit” parts
and “walk-on” characters.
Performances are presented
Friday and Saturday night. The
fun begins at eight-thirty.
Director of “Southern Expos
ure” is Fred Koch, Jr., UM pro
fessor of drama, son of the late
Frederick Koch of Chapel Hill,
who became nationally famous as
“the father of American folk
drama.” Professor Koch is a
summer resident of Burnsville
and is serving as guest director
for this first production.
The university’s cummer work
shop in drama and art will con
tinue through Aug. 15, climaxing
the season with its third annual
Arts and Crafts Festival on Bur
nsville’s “village green” smd j
special Playhouse production of
an extravagant melodrama.
This is Parkway Playhouse’s 12th
season. Gordon Bennett, UM dra
ma professor, is supervisor of the
workshop activities.
ville Lions Club, succeeding Mr
Lewis W. Dameron who filled
this office during the year end
ing June 30th.
At the dinner meeting held
last Thursday night in Pete’s
Dining Room, the District Gov
ernor, Mr. James Baldwin of
West Jefferson, was present as
a guest and served as installing
officer. Others whom he installed
were as follows: First Vice
President: Mr. Hubert D. Jus
tice; Second Vice President: Mr.
Roger Hyatt; Third Vice Presi
dent: Dr. Julian C. Cornwell;
Vickj Lynn Hudson, 3, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Erwin
Hudson, of Weaverville RFD 2,
was killed after she ran from be
hind a parked car into the path
of another at Pensacola at 11:20 {
a. m. Sunday.
She died at 11:45 a. m. in Yan
cey Hospital of head injuries.
State Highway Patrolman C. C.
Coggins stated that the child had
just returned from Sunday School
at Low Gap Free Will Baptist
Church with her mother. They
were in a car driven by Mrs.
Wanda Riddle of Pensacola. Im
mediately after the car stopped
Vicki got out and went around
it into the path of a northbound
* car driven by Jerome Alvin Blank
enship, 21, of Pensacola.
The Patrolman said Blanken
ship had no chance to stop. No
inquest was set; however, Blank
enship was charged with no op
erator’s license. ^
Services for Vicki Lynn were
held at 2:00 p. m. Tuesday in Low
Gap Free will Baptist Church.
The Rev. Johnson White officiat
ed. Burial was in the Mt. Zion
Cemetery at Weaverville RFD 2.
Surviving are the parents; a
brother, Billy of the home; the
maternal grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Riddle of Pensacola;
and the paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Bertha Hudson McMahan
Yancey Hospital
Report
NOTICE
North Carolina license tags
and title transfers available at
Yancey Merchants Association
on the Square.
( AFITNC) — Army Recruit John
A. Shuford, 18, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert L. Shuford, Route
5, Burnsville, N. C., recently com
pleted the lineman’s course at
The Southeastern Signal School.
Port Gordon, Ga. During the
eight-week course Shuford was
trained to install and maintain
aeiral communication wires and
cables. He entered the Army in
February 1959 and completed
basic training at Port Jackson,
S. C. Shuford attended Micaville
High School.
BIRTHS: A son, Arthur Ray
Allen, born June 30 to Mr. and
Mrs. Benjamine Allen, Rt. 5, Bur
nsville; a daughter, Donna Lois,
born June 30 to Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Buchanan, Rt. 2, Burnsville;
a son, Douglas Gus, born July 1
to Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Jack Fer
guson, Rt. 3, Burnsville, a daugh
ter, Brenda Lee, born July 1 to
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pox, Rt. 1, Bur
nsville; a son. Burl Christopher.
I born July 4 to Mr. and Mrs. John
jCarl Drake, Jr., Burnsville; and a
son, Paul Gregory, born July 4
to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Byrd, Rt. 2,
Bakersville.
ADMISSIONS: Kathleen Buch
anan, Hartzel Hensley, and Lillian
Boone, Rt. 2, Burnsville; Janie
Smith, Rt. 1, Mars Hill; Ronnie
Ogle, Green Mountain; Faye Al
len and Wiley Blevins, Rt. 5,
Burnsville; Ruby Fox, Nell Ball,
and Jennings Fox, Rt. 1, Burns
ville; Francis McKiney, Rt. 4,
Bakersville; Homer Ledford, Rt.
1, Spruce Pine; Mildred Robinson,
and Mary Jane Ferguson, , Rt. 3,
Burnsville; Mary Brown, Bessie
Burleson. and Lois Pittman,
Spruce Pine; Donald McMahan,
St. Rt., Burnsville; Ray Banks,
Laura Drake, and Robert L. An
gel, Burnsville; Blanche, Byrd,
Bakersville; C. C. Atkins, Rt. 4,
Burnsville; Claudine Higgins,
Newport News, Va.
Higgins, Pensacola.
Rural Phone Re
quest Will Receive
90-Day Study
Secretary: Rev. Warren S. Reeve;
Treasurer: Mr. Lowe Thomas; Weaverville RFD 2.
Lion Tamer: Mr. Ray S. Shepard,! Pallbearers were Larry Arrow-
Jr.; Tail Twister: Mr. Clifford R. [ ood, Jerry Wilson, Frank Hensley,
Faulkner; Directors: Messrs. Pate, Bobby Hudson, Welzie
Lloyd Letterman, Donald Pardue, j Silver, Gene Gardner and Larry
Herman Bostian and Ralph ■ Autrey.
Peterson.
The Twenty-Year Charter Mon
arch Certificate was awarded to
Dr. C. M. Whisnant for having
been active in Lionism for twenty
years of time. Mr. E. L. Dil
lingham received the Ten-Year
Monarch Award not long ago.
Also present at the Lions Meet
ing last week, as a guest, was
Mr. Walter Fuller of the REA
from Raleigh.
Mr. Clifford R. Faulkner gave
a report of the North Carolina
Lions State Convention held last
month at New Bern, which he
and Mr. Dillingham had attended.
The Burnsville Club there re
ceived commendation for having
issued the best bulletin among
clubs of 26 members or less.
Yancey County citizens met
with representatives of the North
Carolina Utilities Commission,
Western Carolina Telephone Co.,
and county officials here Friday
in the Community Building in an
all-out effort to secure rural tele
phone service.
C. P. Randolph represented the
telephone applicants and Walter
E. Fuller, director of rural tele
phone service for the REA, was
in charge of the meeting.
The request by the rural tele
phone committee in the county
for a 90-day study was given to
Tom Sawyer, vice president of
Western Carolina Telephone Co.,
by State Utilities Commission
Chairman, Harry T. Westcott of
Raleigh. The Telephone Co., will
prepare two alternate plans with
in the next 90 days for providing
telephone service to more rural
families in the county. There are
around 376 applicants for teleph
ones in the rural areas.
Within the next 90 days the
telephone company will compile
information showing what it will
take to extend telephone service
to these rural areas. Included in
this information will be estimates
of costs and how much aid appli
cants will be required to give to
construction so that this service
could be provided.
When this study and plans are
drawn up the telephone company
will report to the committee and
the state commission. The com
mittee will then make a choice
and inform the commission what
plans are acceptable. Then the
commission will inform the com
pany that they shall proceed on
one of the plans.
, During the meeting Westcott
said that the State Utilities Com
mission makes its own review of
companies’ estimates of aid to
construction. This aid may be in
the form of securing rights-of-way
for construction of lines, or funds
put up by the people who want
the telephone service, or any other
The Burnsville Painting Classes at Seecelo, (center foreground) opened Saturday, July 11th for
the fourteenth consecutive summer with a full booking for the season. The Painting Classes are
owned and operated by Mr. and. Mrs. Frank Stanley Herring and J. Robert Miller.
Mr. Herring will give an oil portrait demonstration tonight (Thu rsday) at Seecelo in the “Pit” at
8:00 p. m. This is the first demonstration of the season. The public is cordially invited to attend. The
subject for the demonstration is one of the students at the school. Miss Ellen Merry of Augusta, Ga.
Brevard Music
Center Host To
National Federation
This week-end the Brevard
Music Center will be host to the
members of the Southeastern Re
gion of the National Federation of
Music Clubs. Representatives
from 14 states will gather at Bre
vard for the 11th annual Federa
tion week-end.
The week-end will begin with
the concert Friday evening at
8:15. Diana Steiner, 1959 Young
Artist Violin Winner, will be pre
sented during this concert. Miss
Steiner who will be accompanied
by the Transylvania Symphony
Orchestra, will play the “Violin
Concerto, opus 82” by Glazounow.
Fourteen-year-old Donald Read
will also be featured in Friday
evening’s concert. Read, a native
of North Carolina, attends the
Juillard School of Music. “Piano
Concerto No. 1 in G Miner'
Mendelssohn will be Donald’s
selection Friday night.
Tlie luncheon Saturday after
noon will be in honor of the Fed
eration donors to Transylvania
Music Camp. Mrs. Glenn W. Mor
rison, President, South Atlantic
District, Southeastern Region, will
be the main speaker. Following
Presbyterian News
The Presbyterian Women’s Or
ganization was to have had its
July meeting tonight, but it be
came necessary to d^fev '.he
meeting until a week from to
night, July 23rd. Mrs. E. L. Dill
ingham will be the leader.
“The Love of God” will be the
subject of the meditation preced
ing the celebration of the Sacra
ment of the Lord’s Supper at the
11 o’clock service in the Presby
terian Church on Sunday morning.
The minister. Rev. Warren S.
Reeve, will be in charge.
Sunday School meets at 9:45 a.
m. under the superintendency of
Mr. George Robinson. Visitors
will be welcome at all services.
Six Persons Injured
In Two-Car Collision
Six persons were treated for
cuts and bruises in the Yancey
by Hospital Saturday resulting from
a two-car collision on . U. S. 19
five miles east of here.
V. C. Coggins, State Highway
Patrolman, said a car driven by
Charles David Vicker, 22, of Sal
isbury, going east, skidded on wet
pavement and veered into the left
hand lane. It collided with a car
driven by Mrs. Faye Boone, 16,
Robinson Released
On $10,000 Bond
Burnice Robinson was released
from the Yancey County jail
Tuesday on a $10,000 bond.
Robinson was being held en
lieu of $10,000 bond in the fatal
shotgun shootings of his wife and
an Oakly man in the Pensacola
section on June 27.
Bond was set after a habaes
corpus hearing before Judge J.
Frank Huskins in Superior Court
here Saturday. Judge Huskins set
10:00 a. m.. August 10, as the
date for Robinson’s appearance
in court.
Leonard Lowe of Forest City
was solicitor at the Saturday
hearing. Robinson’s defense attor
neys were W. E. Anglin and G.
D. Bailey.
Roy Lee Turner, 37, of Oakley
died instantly and Robinson’s wife,
Mrs. Ethel Robinson, 32, died in
the Yancey Hospital several days
later.
Witnesses at the hearing were
Mrs. Virginia McClure, sister o'f
Mrs. Robinson, and Sheriff Donald
Banks.
her address there will be a panel of Micaville.
discussion on
tion Means to
by several faculty and staff mem
bers at the Brevard Music Center.
John Richardson, a camper from
Fort Wayne, Indiana and winner
of the Hinda Honigman National
Transylvania Scholarshop, will
give his impressions of Transylva
nia Music Camp.
Girl Scout Day Camp
Big Success
What the Federa- j Those injured included Vicker,
Young Musicians” I Mrs. Boone, Mrs. Vicker, their
daughter, Diane, 18 months; Mr.
Boone and his nephew, Allen Brownies' and Girl
Boone, 314. All v/ere released
from the hospital after treatment, (.^eii (or Girls. The''total""6nroll-
ment was sixty, which included
Local People
Donate Blood
A. very successful session of
Day Camp for all Yancey County
Scouts was
held last week at Camp Mt. Mit-
Locals
Charles Justice, Mary Ann
Buchanan, Mrs. Louise McIntosh,
Luna E. Ray, Louetta McIntosh,
Mrs. Juanita Proffitt and Jennet
B. Foxx are attending Tennessee
State College this summer.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Young of
Tampa, Fla., are visiting relatives
of Mrs. Young in Marion, Hickory,
Granit Falls and Conover, N. C.
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Potter
and daughter, Diana. arrived'
help which will cut a company’s : Miami to spend a few weeks
and Sandra costs so they may render ser- at their Summer Home
I vices. 1 Low Gap section. ;
the
Three Yancey County people
went to the Mission Hospital Wed
nesday on an errand of mercy to
save the life of an infant girl born
to Mr. and Mrs.
of Kona on July 13th at the Yan
cey Hospital. As the baby is Mrs.
seven adults and ten Senior Girl
Scout Program Aides.
The Scouts divided themselves
into three units in order to work
on various crafts and projects.
Unit 1 named themselves the'
“Polywogs”, with Mrs. Bob Hill-
Oscar ■’Thomas':'”'^ Ted Ballou as lead-
ers. Unit II, the “Bobcats”, was
led by Mrs. Katherine Cherry.
Thomas' third child and she is of i Louise Patton and Miss Ver-
RH Negative blood the infant!"®”® Harris were the leaders tor
required a blood exchange to save
I Unit III, the
“Mountaineers.’
See “Southern Exposure”
her life. The donors who went to Annie Hassell served as dir-
Asheville are Mrs. Max Penland, camp, and Miss Vir-
Mr. Philip Ray arid Mr. John^^^^^ Hill College,
Oiiis. I swimming instructor. Out-
' I door cookery, nature projects,
hand crafts, and swimming lessons
were held, with the highlight
being the camping-out experience
on the last night. On this basis
Girl Scouting is built.
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