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VOLUME TWENTY SIX Miss Buckner Wins { Dairy Princess Contest Miss Carolyn Buckner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Buckner of Burnsville, won the Yancey County Dairy Princess Contest held at Firth Carpet Company cafeteria, June 4. Theresa Col etta, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. X-Ray Mobile In Burnsville July 14-27 The Western North Carolina Tu berculosis Association received an award for Admirable Achieve ment In the Christmas Campaign contest at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association held recently in Dur ham, N. C. This award was con sidered a distinct honor since the association covering 15 western North Carolina counties was only formed in April of 1961. Yancey County is a part of the Western North Carolina Tubercu losis Association, and work in con trol of tuberculosis and other lung crippling diseases is being carried on throughout the year in this county and over the whole wes tern area. As a result of the Christmas Campaign the x-ray mobile will be set up on the square in Burnsville from July 14 through July 27. Obituaries SOL FOX Sol Fox, 77, of Burnsville, a far mer, died Wednesday morning in a Lumberton hospital after a long illness. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Carrie Johnson Fox; six daugh ters, Mrs. James Beaver, Mrs. Arnold Briggs, Mrs. Albert Laws, Mrs. Lloyd Laws, Mrs. Magaline Miller, and Mrs. Julia Jones of Burnsville; six sons, Levi of Weaverville, Buck of Celo and Melvin, Frank, Daniel and Don ald Fox of Burnsville; five sis ters, Mrs. Biddie Wallace of Chesnee, S. C., Mrs. Pansy Let terman and Mrs. Sue Letterman of Asheville, Mrs. Cora Ray of Micavllle, and Mrs. Laura Mitchell of Newdale; four brothers, Oscar, and Charlie of Burnsville, Wesley of Johnson City, Tenn. and David Fox of Coal Creek, Va.; 55 grandchildren and 10 great-grand children. Services were held at 2:30 p. m. Friday in Green Mountain Free Will Baptist Church. The Rev. Charlie Miller officiat ed. Burial was in McCurry Ceme tery. MRS. ROBERTSON Mrs. Alma Williams Robertson, 67,' widow of Clarence W. Robert son and a former resident of Micaville, died in a Baltimore, Md. hospital Monday afternoon. Mrs. Robertson was the daugh ter of the late John L. and Sarah Ray Williams. Services will be held at 1 p. m. Friday in the Double Island Bap tist Church. - The Rev. Frank K. Chapo will officiate and burial will be in Double Island Cemetery. Surviving are one son, Clar ence L. Robertson of Baltimore, Md. and four grandchildren. MRS. HENSLEY Mrs. Linnie Hensley, 88, died to her home at Rt. 4, Burnsville Sunday morning after a long ill ness. Services were held at 2 p. m. Bald Mountain Church "of God.* The Rev. Hilliard Wilson offi ciated. Burial was in, the family cemetery. Surviving are a John B. Hensley of 'the home; three, sis ters. Mrs. Arphenle Edwards of Rt. 4, Burnsville, Mrs.\ Hiram Hensley of Burnsville and Mrs. Winnie Lewis of Baltimore, Md.; a brother, Back S. Hensley of . Jonesboro, Tenn. and one grand child. THE YANCEY RECORD "Dedicated T® Tfct Progress Os Yancey County* SußSwr iprion *-50 Per Year ■—■ ■"■■■■■ ■— ■ . --■■■■■ i i i Pete Coletta, was first runner-up, and Jewel Pender, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tilden Fender, was second runner-up. The new 1962- 63 princess was crowned by Miss Celia Coletta, 1961-62 princess. Judges for the event were Miss Barbara Morgan, State Dairy Prin cess; Charlie (Choo Choo) Jus tice, and Peter J. Hanlon - all of Asheville. Miss Buckner will compete in the area contest at Westgate in Asheville on June 14. The purpose of the Dairy Prin cess Contest is to help promote and encourage the use of milk products. Serving as County Chairman are: Mrs. Kathleen Byrd, Mrs. Bruce Ba.’\ey, Mr. Mack Mc- Intosh and Mr. J. B. Stamey. Vacation Bible School At Mission An interesting time is planned for every child and young per son of school age who attends Daily Vacation Bible School at the Faith Fellowship Mission on Mitchell Branch June 18-22. Brother Lee Talmage, assisted by his wife,Phyllis, and Mrs. Elizabeth Clapp, will be directing the week long school. A continuous missionary story entitled “No Darkness at All” will be featured with daily Bible lessons correlated to this excit ing missionary story about a 12 year old Moslem boy and his little blind sister. The way these two came to know and love the Lord Jesus will keep everyone in suspense until the very last day. There will be stories, games, con test, craft projects, prizes, tok ens, and the last day there will be a DVBS picnic. The Closing Program is „ plan ned for Sunday evening June 24 at which time many of the children will demonstrate to the parents what they learned and have been doing the previous week. Anyone interested in attending but lacks transportation call MU 2-2468 and ask for Lee Talmage. 1 Cherry Receives W restling A ward Princeton, N. J. Thirty-eight members of Princeton Univer sity’s varsity and freshman wrest ling teams received playing and managerial insignia for the 1961- 62 season. The list of recipients j covers residents of 13 states, with I ten from Pennsylvania and nine from New York heading the group. Included in the list of winners are outgoing captain Barton Fer ris of Rockville Centre, N. Y„ and captain-elect Rickey Eckler of Columbus, Ohio. Freshman cap tain Richard Armentrout of Ambler, Pa., finished his season undefeated in dual competition. Tiie Tiger varsity won two, lost six, and tied one last season, while the freshmen scored four victories against fire defeats. Among those receiving wrest ling awards was James H. Cherry in, son of Mrs. Katherine Cherry, Burnsville. Miss Hensley Delegate To Youth Confer i * ence | Helena Hensley,* daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hensley,) Rt. 1, Burnsville was one of the • five delegates from the Warren ■ Wilson College Demetra to the f Youth Conference on recreation In 1 the Southern Mountains at Berea ■ College, Berea, Ky. Miss Hen ’ sley also played a leading role in f "The Skin of Our Teeth” by • Thornton Wilder, produced by the Drama Workshop of the college. SUINSVXfiui K C* ■nWMDAY, JUNE 7.1962 r. '..t-*-'-- i i* ■ Miss Zuver Con testant In Rhododendron Festival Photo by John Robison When the 16th annual North Carolina Rhododendron Festival opens on June 15th-16th, a panel of five qualified Judges from dif ferent walks of life will be Intro duced. Chairman of the Judging staff will be Mr. W. W. Hoy, President of the Security Bank and Trust} Company in Rutherfordton. , Mr. I Earl Crawford, a professional judge and manager of the Caro lina’s Carrousel in Charlotte will be on hand. Making his first trip Mr. Harvey Dinkins, of WSJS-TV in Winston Salem and Mr. Charlie Choo-Choo Justice of Asheville. Mr. Justice an oil distributor In Asheville will also be making his' first trip to the Roan. The fifth judge will come from Chapel Hill, Miss Joanne Aldridge a former Miss Chapel Hill herself. Is also a professional judge or beauty pageants. Miss Aldridge ls‘ a field director now with the j North Carolina Heart Association.] The Junior Miss Pageant to bej held on Thursday night, June 14th will have a different set of judges which are yet to be announced. About twenty five young ladies from over the state will try for the crown now worn by Miss Gail Robertson of Spindale and to be come the 16th North Carolina Rhododendron Queen. The Bakersville Lions Club, who sponsor the North Carolina Rhodo dendron Festival have announced the final tour of Miss Robertson as their 1962 Queen. Miss Robertson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Robertson of Spindale will leave Cullowhee and Western Carolina College on June 2nd for. her home. She will arrive in Greensboro on Monday, June . 4th, for one appearance in Win | ston-Salem. She will appear in Greensboro on Radio and TV on Tuesday, June sth and do a fash ion show in High Point on June 16th. She will appear on the Pat Lee Show over WBTV in Char lotte on Thursday, June 7th and return to her home that night. On June Bth she will speak to the Spruce Pine Rotary Club in Spruce Pine at their Ladies Night Ban quet and then rest four days be fore leaving for the South Caro lina Peach Festival in Greer, South Carolina. Miss Robertson will leave South Carolina on June 13th, and return to Bakersville where she will open festivities on the 14th for the 16th annual Rhododendron Festi val. She will relinquish her crown on the 16th to her successor who will be chosen from a field of 26 contestants from over most of North Carolina. , Miss’* Katheryn Zuver, daughter lof Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Zuver of Burnsville 'has been sponsored by the Burnsville Lions Club as a con . testant to represent them at the' ' Festival this year. Miss Hensley is a graduate of Cane River High School, class of 1960. Deane Horiftrutt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Haskie Honeycutt, play ed the part of 3rd. Conveener in “The Skin of Our Teeth.” He U a graduate of Cans River High School, class of 1961. Dr. Mantra Speaks To Planning Board / Dr. Hagh B. Masters, director of the Georgia Center for Con tinuing Education discussed , the opportunities offered by recreation j and tourism for improving the economy of our mountain area before a meeting of the Yancey Planning Board on May 31. Dr. Masters, .who has a dis tinguished career in education and as a director of the W. K. Kellog Foundation, has an abiding in terest in outdoor recreation. In this connection he has been follow ing closely numerous experi ments in the profitable conversion to recreational uses of land re tired from agriculture. He feels that the whole field of outdoor recreation needs imagina tive study, and advocates the es tablishment of recreational ex periment stations comparable to the agricultural experiment stat ions, which have contributed so greatly to the Improvement of agriculture. \ _He forsees great expansion of tourism and recusation in this area but at the same time feels it will be a mistake for western North Carolina to attempt to I imitate the attractions offered in Florida for entertainment of tourists. „ Local Students Graduate At Berea Miss Christa k. Schwintzer, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sch wintzer at Birasville received a B. A. degree to Biology at the commencement exercises held -11-lfnr JtMM 3 at Indian Fort Theater, Berea, Ky. * Miss Jo Ann Husktns, daughter |of Mrs. Kate Huskins of Burns :vllle, received a B. S. degree in I nursing at the commencement ex « ercises. Miss Huskins •is a 1958 graduate of Burnsville High Scho ol and while in high school she . was a member of the Beta Club and was salutatorian of her class. In college she was vice president of the Student Nurse’s Association. Miss Mary Ellen Ballew, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Reid A. Bal ! lew of Burnsville received a B. A. degree in Elementary Education the commencement exercises at Berea. ‘ Miss Ballew is a 1958 graduate of Micaville High School and was a member of the Beta Club and an honor student while In High School. Speaker for the commencement exercises was Dr. Kenneth Irving Brown, Executive Director of the 1 Danforth Foundation and former 1 President of Denison University. The candidates were presented ' to Berea College’s President Dr. ' Francis S. Hutchins for their de- I grees by Dr. Louis Smith, Dean , of the College. . Berea College is a non-sectarian i co-educational school. It serves . the Southern Appalachian Area . with high school and college pro . grams. The present enrollment of the Foundation high senool is ap proximately 300 students and the L college, approximately 1300 stud t onto. I ; Mr. and Mrs. ;! Herring Arrive >lln Burnsville * t Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stanley I. Herring, who are part owners and operators of Seecelo, Burnsville Painting Classes, arrfeed in Bur nsville this week' from Milledge -1 ville, Oa. where ’they have been during the winter mopths. This will be the 17th season for ’ the Painting Classes. In addition ' to teaching Classes in portrait, still-life and landscape parting, - there are regular criticism per ■ lods and demonstrations. The 1 students come Irwp/ all -over the 3 country. Plans for the opening 1 of the school will be announced later. I Local Youth To - I Attend Con ference | North Carolina will send some I of tnelr older 4-H boys and girls I to the seventh annual 4-H Regional I j | Resource Development Conference J ( at Fontana Village, June 4-8. Coming from 15 of the western , counties Jackson, Haywood, ( Buncombe, Clay, Henderson, Gra- , ham, Yancey, Watauga, Avery, ( Transylvania, Mitchell, Madison, Bwain, Cherokee, and Macon—the . 4-H’ers will join some 300 out standing rural youths from the I seven states served by the Tenn essee Valley Authority. They will j study the resources and develop- f ment of the area in which they live. Delegates from Yancey County include Joan Gortney and Glenn Presnell. Accompanying the dele gates will be M. P. Zuver, Charles Steelman, .and Mrs. Julia Banks. Theme of the conference is “Resource Development Youth’s Greatest Challenge.” Each delegate will take part in discussion groups on forestry, water, air, soil, mineral, wildlife and human resources. Leading these discussions will be experts from TV A and the land-grant colleges in the Tennessee Valley. The boys and girls will take much of the responsibility for con ducting the study groups and gen eral assembly programs. Leaders addressing them will include Louis Van Mol, general manager of TVA, Knoxville, “The TVA and Its Program;” and Lloyd Ruthledge of the Federal • Extension Service, Washington, D. C., “Keys to Your Future.’’ The conference will Include or ganized recreation and tours of Fontana Dam and other points of interest. Sponsoring tlie conference is the Tennessee Valley Association of Test-Demonstration Farm fami lies in Cooperation with the Agri cultural Extension Services of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tenn ' essee, and Virginia and the Tenn » essee Valley Authority. Bank To Close At Noop On Wednesday Tlje Northwestern Bank will close at noon each Wednesday be ginning Wednesday, Jane 13. This | has been the practice of most of the business places in Burnsville 1 during the summer months for several years. The Bank will an- nounce the date this fall when ; they will resume their old schedule k Crestview Play . ground Opens i crestview Playground opened to the public on Friday. June 1. The ! pool is open from U a. m. to 6 3 p. m. with a lifeguard on duty at t all times. The Playground is owned and t operated by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. . Banks and the opening of the pool . is awaited with great anticipa . tion each season. Mrs. Banks will conduct swim ming classes this year and the dates for these classes will be an nounced later. " Bible School To Begin At Micaville Church Daily Vacation Bible School will begin at the Presbyterian Church at Micaville on Monday, June 11 and run through June 22. Classes will begin each day at i 8:30 a. m. through 12:00 noon. • Teachers are Gladys Buchanan, . Mrs. Mary Sue Marsh, Mrs. Lora - Hilliard, M*. Zara Anders. Mrs. 5 Lela Harris and Mrs. Bulah Wa e lock with the Rev. Frank K. Chapo, i pastor, as director. a All children are welcome to at tend the school. „ fbet Par Copy; Fire Santa 1 Northwestern Bank Observes Anniversary Over 700 people gathered in Boone Wednesday, May 30, to celebrate the 25th. anniversary of the Northwestern Bank. Officers, directors,' employees and their families from 39 offices in North western North Carolina made up this huge observance. This all day celebration included I Films To Be Shown at Library The public is invited to at tend the showing of two interest ing and worthwhile films at the Yancey County Public Library Burnsville, at 8:00 P. M. Thurs day, June 14. The films, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, are WILDERNESS ALPS OF STHEKIN AND WILDERNESS OF ZIN. WILDERNESS ALPS OF STE HEKIN, a 29 minute color film, has an narrator a father who is taking his two pre-teen sons on a trip in .the Stehekin mountains, a range of the Cascades in the state of Washington. The beauty in the unspoiled scenes of nature is used to support the theme of the film, which is that we are learning to keep some of our land in its natural state in order to seek from it answers to the many questions we ask. The Jilm is a moving essay on the aesthetic values of unspoiled nafure. WILDERNESS OF ZIN will be' especially good for those who are interested in the actual settings of the Old Testament. Using the Bible as a blueprint, Dr. Nelson Glueck. president of Hebrew Un- j ion College, and other archaeolo- j gists, explored the Negev Desert in Israel for five years. They studied past cultures and gather ed information about develop ments in the Negav today. The film has won the annual award from the National Council of Jewish Audio-Visual Material for an outstanding film of Jewish in terest. It will appeal to any church groups for the photographs of Old Testament areas. The film is 25 minutes and in color. Dr. Fall To Speak At Methodist Church Dr. Paul H. Pall will be the guest speaker at the 11:00 a. m. worship service at the Higgins Memorial Methodist Church on Sunday, June 10. He will be as sisted by Mr. Don Pardue who is the Church Lay Leader for the new conference year. Rev. R. P. Hilliard, pastor, will be attending the Western North Carolina Annual Conference June 6 through Sunday June 10 at Lake Junalus'/.a, N. C. Heavner Gradu ates From Citadel Cadet Lester R. Heavner, Jr., son of Mrs. Lester R. Heavner, Sr., Robertson St., Burnsville, N. C., was graduated on June 2 from The Citadel with a B. S. degree in business administration. During his senior year at the military college he held the rank of second lieutenant. He is a 1958 graduate ‘Of Randolph „Macon Mili tary Academy, Front Royal, Vat” 1 Heavner received The Daughters of the American Colonists Gold Watch Award, presented to the cadet with the best record in con duct and, discipline for the four years. Attending the graduation exer cises were his mother, Mrs. Rob > ble Heavner: Mr. Molt Hensley; 1 Mrs. MargareJ Miller and child • ren, Cordellia and Margaret: Miss ' Betty Hensley; Miss Sara Hensley: ■ Miss Willie Molt Henaley; and Miss Maglee Ray, all of Bum£ • ville, and Miss Joanna Powell of Mt. Holly, N. C. * NUMBER FORTY-TWO tours to Tweetsie Railroad, the Rock at Blowing Rock, and the Cone Estate. Golf, fishing, dan cing and dining were also part of the program. Wade Brown, Mayor. Town of Boone, made an address of wel come at the Horn in the West j Grounds. I Vernon Deal, Senior Vice Presi i dent, was master of Ceremonies; Wade H. Shuford, Vice President introduced the speaker, Judge Wilson Warlick, Western North Carolina District. Edwin Duncan, President of the Northwestern Bank, presented awards to those who had twenty five years of service. Robert Presnell and B. R. Penland with the Burnsville Branch were among those receiving gold watches and pins for their 'service with the Northwestern Bank. Amey C. Fox, Cashier of the 'local branch and Mrs. Ralph Pen land, Reece Mclntosh and Joe Young received ten to twenty year pins. Flavil McCurry, Mrs. Mary Lou Hall Ayers, and Virgin ia Peterson received five to ten year pins. Those attending the celebration from Burnsville were Mr. and j Mrs. Robert Presnell, Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Penisrd, Mr. and Mrs. I Reece Mclntosh, Mr. and Mrs. I Jay Edge, Mr. and Mrs. Flavil , \ McCurry, Mr. and Mrs. Amey ’Wag mmd Auightow, mmtl • Lisa Fox. Former Students Os Seecelo In fatal Plane Crash i Three former students at the Burnsville Painting Classes were in the fatal crash of the Air France jet-liner in Paris on Sunday. Those killed were Mr. and Mrs. E. B. ■ Glenn of Atlanta and Miss Dolly "Brooks of Griffin, Ga. The crash took the lives of 121 members of the Atlanta, Ga. Art Association, 8 crew members and , Air France’s Atlanta manager. Only two persons, both Air France hostess, survived. The death toll rose to 130 Sunday night when one of the chartered Boeing jet’s stewards, who had been pulled from the flaming wreckage, died in a Paris hospital. The Air France jetliner was filled with American tourists and crashed and burned on takeoff Sunday, killing 130 persons. Proclamation WHEREAS, The people of Bur nsville for generations have enjoy ed a high standard of healthful living in which dairy foods provide an important share of the well balanced diet, and, WHEREAS, The dairy industry is an important part of the eco nomy of our Town with farm i families producing nature’s most nearly perfect food on a highly ef ficient basis so that all our citi zens can enjoy milk and miiir products in our diet at a very low cost, and i WHEREAS, Every man, woman, and child benefits from the phy sical wellbeing and health which originate from the dairy industry and its products, NOW, THEREFORE, I Robert K. Helmle Mayor of the Town of in recognition of the opportunities presented for con structive public service, do here by proclaim the month of June, 1 1962. DAIRY MONTH in the Town of Burnsville, and do urge civic and business associat ions to cooperate in this obser vance in public and private in order that we may enjoy improved health and increased prosperity,, .... (Seal) Robert K. Helmle Id witness. whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of Town teCbe , affixed this Ist day of June in the year 1 Ann ■ —-
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