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- —— — ■—— . **s% ■ -1 , - . - - -- - ; —-- —■ - j--,- - 1T | - VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN Subscilprion $2.50 Per Year BURNSVILLE, N. jC.. TOURS BAY. APRIL 25, 1963 Price Per Cspy Fire Cmti NUMBER THIRTY-SIX J''-’ ' ' % * . ... -• -’■ ,;..;%':,.v» v ■ nSfr-i --„ -■* . _ . HyuMVW{ -r.TL fAtf. Jg> ;-l * • ji , A djp. '"'oicßr' • * . . a > %'-■/• iJjgaSM i * .j&a ’ljQ.u HememM&i? An education was hard to come by in Yancey County around the turn of tire century. Schools few and fan be —tween and even those that were .established were usually one-teach er institutions woefully lacking in materials. The Presbyterian Church moved to solve the problem in 1899 by j „ establishing the Stanley McCormick Academy (pictured above ein Burns ville. Some families living in remote sections of the county sold their land and moved to. town so that the youngsters might attend school. They came not only from rural Yancey, ..‘but from all over the Southern Appalachian region. There were several students enrolled from ■ Tennessee, and Virginia. C. R. tfubbard, one of the acad- j emy’s founders, was principal of J&A. MFI , REV. SLAYTON Laval Baptist Slate Revival | Th# Rev. Wayne f'aton, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Bry son City, will conduct the annual revival services at Burnsville’s, First "Baptist Church this year. | ReV. Slaton wi'l bring ' his first) message Sunday (April 28) at 8 p.m.jpn Monday through Saturday services will ..begin at 7:45 p.m. Slatoi- will concluded the'revival + by poaching at the regular Sunday, morn&g services May 5. ■ ! Rei Slaton ,-'is no stranger to Bumiyille. He was here for a youth revival while a student at Southern Sem'mr.-y in Louisville and later for sA revival - wiule in present pastorate. MrA. Slaton is the fo! - mer Evelyn Hamfick of Burnsville. Rev. Mr. Slaton has been pastor of student churches near Wake Fore st. College and in Ken tucky! H's first full-time pastorate was the Third Baptist Church, Owensboro. Ky., where he served as associate pastor. He came from that to Central Baptist Church in Spruce Pine. Presently he i$ a member of the General BoarfJ cf the Baptist State Conven t'en Ar.d a member of the R. A. Camjp Committee, a sub-committee of thd- Programs Committee of theh General Board. W CLUB TO MEET The Burnsville Garden Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Paul H. Fall on Friday April 26 at 8 p. m. Mrs. E. L. Beeson is asso t elate hostess and Mrs. Grady Bailey is program leader. THE YANCEY RECORD I ' « ‘ Charles Proffitt of Burnsville, ..... . , , - ,! ~ , . _ , The biuldmg in front of the pine ! who attended Stanley McCormick ; , ’ • . , ri ,„ - , .. ... , thicket near the center of the pic fer four years, recalls that although . , . , , , .. , , , v ...... ... ture" belonged to the school, also. It L.-oard was a strict ddisciphnar- . _. ;.T . , , , was the parsonage. The infilmary ian, he was also veiy popular with . , .... . . , . * the students. fnct v slble in plcture) sat neart>y | Approximately 200—including the J Two ether' buildups owned by J elementary from Burns- ' Hie college are still in use. What !: ville and the immediate area—at-! w , new the Burnsville Community j tended the school during the peak Culler was then a shop. The present ! yeans. Mason'c Temple was the Stanley There were, eight buildings that McCormick dining hall. were in use-most of the time. Prof- Stanley McCormick ceased to op f.,t said. . crate as an Academy in 1922. It The school was located - on a 1 knell in West Burnsville atop which int ° a sch f l the'First Presbyterian Church now caUed Carolllia Now CoUege ’ but stands after a few years, as more and The brick‘building with the hel- mcre p ’‘ bl ' C schook were opened ' fry was the main building which this sohnol- 100 was ! contained the olassrooms. The struc- This P krtflire was donated to the j turn just to the left of tthe main Record by Mrs. S. A. McEwen of j building in the picture was a gilts' Erwin, Teiui.. who, incidentadly, was dormitory, which later burned. At | the first nurse to register in Yaniey i top right is tae boys’ dormitory. (County. .. u r m * Tri Oounhi iVrea To Get i School For Drop-Outs? j A program of vocational educa tion d.ogr.cd to h:-ip older bojr, art your.g men .who have dropped cum fr m scihool before graduating * from high school, is being sc t up fer ; the so-called tri-county area, Yan cey, M tchol! and Avery. This an nouncement was made Tuesday by E. L. Burkhart. Supervisor cf ARA training for North Carolina, at a meeting of educators and other civic lealers held at Harris High school in Spruce Pno. The purpose cf the project is to provide both vocational and gen eral education for those in the age group 16 - 22 who for one reason or another have failed to graduate from hgh school. The aim of the I project will be directed entirely toward improving the ability of the trainees to gain employment and im prove their earning power. High school graduates in this age group I who have failed to got jobs may also be eligible for the trailing pro ' gram. The project, which is- beng fi nanced under the Federal Area Redevclpment program, is one of I the first of its kind in the nation, j It is considered as a pilot stuly, designed to yield valuable informa ton for the later expansion cf the program to other, areas. Governor Sanford has participated in the planning of the project, and has stated that it should be an important step in developing man power training for the State and nation. The planning is being done with great care and thoroughness. Representatves from various - Feder al and State agencies have been involved, as well as an educator from Harvard University. Two or three other areas in North Carolina are under consideration for similar programs, the only oth er one so far announced being Lin coln County. The selection of the Avery-Mitchell-Yancey area, accord ing to Burkhart, -was based on' the fact that these counties have all been designated as eligible for ARA aid; and they have shown an ex ceptionally cooperative spirit in Wi/rkirg with ARA. In this connec tion. he mentioned specifically the haad work done by the Yancey County Planning Board under chairman Bob Helmle. Good cooperation from the com-. To TKe Progr«*4 Os Yancey County* munity is v.ewel as essental for the success of the project. The frst part of the program will coas’st of a comprehensive sui-vey of the drop-’ out situation in the county. First,* it will be necesssai-y to locate all the unemployed drop-outs with the • Cprnknued on b*ck page- ■I ni q» » s?:™. ' V Jag m “AM I SEEING THINGS?”—This question is asked frequently'by visi tors to Yancey C ’nty when they see a teen-age gll wrestling the steering wheel on a big schoo l bus. The answer, as the picture above indicates, is_ that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the unbeliever’s vision. Typical of the students who drive buses on Yan cey’s winding roads is petite Linda Hensley (above), a student at East Yancey High School who makes the Double Island run. According i to Woodrow j Anglin, principal, Linda i is a highly competent driver. Once Officials Voice Optimism On Ski Resort’s Chances Rep. Mark BerpfPti of ? fiumsvi]!<> t sa d last .wo.-'ke'ijdf that chances of ; uh'> pr pose ,o:i Cattail J C: ek becoming mpalky has "ft i en sOO.O.'iO perp^T” ®fcssett*4 o 1 from the l Sttri r w.., - D tturimant’s esti-. mates on c A cf* cojistruettng in ace i. ad into “gp remote, nigged area In Yancey/ - County’s Black Mountain Range Wtijjre the $7,000,000 j-ear-roiurd .will be The Yancey said that State; Commission! engineers hadkM«tned him that preliminary of road con l scructon costs rimt foin $500,000 (it j > was this figure ffirwhlch Beßnne:; . . based his c k -'’),l t 00*, depettdinf*|lt£ the grade on ; which the roadyfec’built. Initially. eral millton dollanj would be in [ voiced in bniWtog the mad, Bi > r nett said. “W -> t But engineCKS' have made ,me r Umtonry investigations witch show a 16-foot wide aco*?s road could be built on a bea - cent grade over a distance of 8.5 miles feel ; $675,000. Bennett raid. ' ’ 1 1 He said : tliey • eMeulaie that by j ; increasing the steepne.ss of the ) route to a 10 per cent grade, there-! by cutting the 6.8 nsdles, *l»e same, t6-foot- wide road could) be built for $500,000. •Bennett: said a trio of Illinois' developers who hare announced 1 ©lans for building a s elaborate ski | ngt . and ; ■ c a to post a. mom CAsb-bond . With the state Commission | guaranteeing .that if the l-oari .is built, the taurlst. resd|'t will bt;--de- Iveleped. v~ Meanwhile, Nick Stiga.il., of Oak , Pai - k, 111., the project’s developer. , and two ski resort experts. from i Nsiw Hampshire have been busy run ( ning surveys on the . 2,000-acroi leased from. Percy Threadgill. Sel Hannah, president, of Sue Engineering, Inc., of Francn'a, N.H., . j and Ted Hunter, an asaociate in he said, she stopped her bus to put on chains, and a truck driver offered to help her. He took aoj ! long, Anglin said, that Linda told j him. “H you don’t mind, I’l l just j put them on myself. I’m in a hurry ” I And she did. Neither she nor any other of the drivers, who must take buses over 646.3 miles of .the | narrow roads, wherife the shoulders off 2SO to 300 feet, has had an ac cident tills year. Girls, said Anglin, make excellent school bus drivers. Joe Bermes, driver education repre* ( sedative of the Department of Mo the E. H. and M. K. Hunter resort i architectural i'irxn c-f Hanover, I N. 11., huve been plotting the loca- j tion. of the proposed ski resort stiruc- j turns acec- .ory atti-actions. j “Wo have made an. intensive sur-' vey' ai.ri ii-ri that we have ma lea ] reality . cs'.tiprehensive evaluation of the’ site.” said Stigai o. “I must say that we feel very optimistic. ‘•Hannah and Hunter wlio have had yeans of experience in this | field and are both expert skriers, ' are' very excited. They are intimato , : : Two Yancey Men Killed jt In Auto Mishap On 197 A “test drive’, of. a new automo bile resulted in the death of two Yancey Caunt-y men last Saturday i April 20). Ray Hyleman, 36, and David Bu chanan, 23, became Yancey’s first highwhay fata! ties of 1983 when the car in which they were riding en N.C. 197 south cf Burnsville spun J out of. control, plunged over a 40-1 ) Lot embankment aiid came to rest in Bolen’s Creek. j Two others in the car, Charles ] Atkins and Charles Fate, also Yan • cey CQunliaans, sustained serious' j Injuries and are confined to an * ' Lsßcville hospital. | i Attcris, 31, of Rt. 4 Bui-nsvl'le.J j the owner of the threc-weedc-old 19*« m»del.. vehicle, recounted the trage , dv thus;. '" : ' ;i .ligicl‘ reaeived! bow It drove and rode. H ho liked '%■ he planner to purchase the same \ model and style car th? hext weck. l - Hylcmon slid under the .wheel in BIU-nsvi’.le and the quartet - headed lip’ 19?. On one cf’a series of steep, curves just 1.5 miles- south of Biters- j ville, Hylemon lost control cf the 1 strange auto and after sliding down the h glv.vay for several yards, it dropped over the shoulder of the road and plowed through a firid and .into the creek, —is. -: All the ocoupahp were thrown tcr Vehicles d i Hay,vcod, Madison, 1 ! Yancey aid M'lchfU er-ufs'Jes, who* j trains that young drivers, agreed. I The youngs,‘ers take I.POI students | to and from school—high s<hocl and elementary, inc'ud'.ng East- Yancey J Eijh. South Toe, Burnsville and Micav.il? elemenetary schools—each 1 | day. All of them,-like Linda,'are! high in scoiai-tdc standing, too. lAnda is also president of the student council. The roads, witch have nu merous hairpin turns, and are paver',’’ graveled or just plain dirt, seem not to firghten any of them. One w'to riri lesoa-ts around the world | and tiiey feel we casi liave one I ! u.- ml to any of them. [ “Our slopes will be the highest j ea' t of the Rockies. And we will! * haw a slope that extends 1,800- j | feet veiticajly-few fn the country': will be able .to equal that.” j Bernett said it is planned for a j number of Westeni North Carolina j poli ical, civic and business loaders ; to be invited to a mec-ting wtb Guv. Sanford to discuss the ontire project. from the auto as it b.mncrd thnxigh the field . . . Surviving Hyemon, who res'des on Rt. 4, Burnsville, are -the w.dow, I Mrs. Opha Shephei-d Hylemon oi Rt. 4; the mother Mrs. Bryan Hyle mon: a sister, Mrs. Haarold Bul ner of Burnsville; and two broth ers. Andy of Burnsville ar.d Creed j of Asheville. i Funeral services were conducted I Monday in the Elk Shoal Union Church. The Rev. Donald NobJetl aid the Rev. ffirman Phillips cf j ficiated and burial was in Edwatxis Cemetery. j Surviving Bucharan, a ÜB. sol- j j dier from Burnsville who was sched-' uled tori rove s. on for a tcur of duty! in Europe, are his bride of six months, Mrs. Grace Fortner Bucli -1 bnan «• *ll * tw * ’ or ' Rt! 2, n twin brother, j Daiiel &f Burnsville; and six sisters, Mrs. C. J. The mas of Daaniel, Va.: Mis. N. R. Canfpe and Mi-s. Ron ald Sheaffer 6f Kingsport, T-*n.. j. Mrs. . Fix. ik Phillips, Mrs. Reed ! Bofir Id and Mrs. Ar.dy Brc.vn, all of Burr.svil'e. Services were conducted Tuesday in the Windom Baptst Ctrhureh. The Rev. Wade Boone, the Rev. Lee Woody and the Rev. Astoi Buchanan officiated and burial was in M:caville--Cemetery. j girl, ra'd Benryrs, was a\n «* side-, f.Wiped by a mica truck last year. I The bus, loded with youngsters, was about to topple off a 50 to 75 ifoat chep into the Toe River, half on and half off the road. She calmly herded the kids off the bus through j the emergency exit, took them to I a made them sit down unia the bus could be pulled back ; onto the road. Then she ■ ‘ her run. This is typical, said Ben 'j ness, of the competence of -the girls, i j for a picture of all of East Yaftoey’e * | dr'vers, turn to Page Seven. j The original expenditure an* I ncunced by the developers of tho report \v*is estimated at $5,000,000. r ’ j However. Beuiiett said, this figure ! ef'Cealy has been upped to s7,* j 008,0.0 t » eover expanding plans. W. j .he lowered high!,way cosit '" j ewt'.Ti* - s, Bennett sad werk would I be speeded on the surveying of the i site. But he cautioned that whi'e the j State Highway Oommmiss’ca is co operating fully, the “only thing now is the. moaay becoming available for the read.” SaS|Hi6eiSs^P^'?ir~iki~' Tr,? ' —ris’ %W.- i. at-, • r! ' "♦ | *et }. • - v tr - mKmm l WLL ATKINS 1 • (Three To Seek City Positions Three candidates barely jog&t 4he ttSKI t Ul'lieJ J3fs/ S ITI ic* taH > • an nnevaotf* Burnsvilte dt? etec-' i tten into what couM becona? a tor - --... rid contest. ‘ , : ” i Filing just minutes before the noon cutoff tenia wei-e Bill Atkins, 1 wlio wai Ojgpoae incumbent : Bob Helar/.e for tew mayor's post; and Ralph Paterson and Malt Hensley, whs will gmii »he two crmmiss'bner spots. Th>> irsurubeul cammrisi oners, B. R. Periand and C. P. Coletta. are a'so sacking office again. The election will be hold Satur day, May 7. The palling place will be the Town Hall. Registnaimn deadlins forthose j eltgfble to vote hut net on the boa*;* is Friday (April 36) at' 5 pm. The registration is being con ducted at the Trwn Hall. Atlrir.*. a Burnsvi’ls attorney, mid Hensley are no new-comers to the polrt'cal baU’?iieii. Aildns is pres ently the county attorney ar.d has served as the Yancey representa tive to the sta-te legislature. Hens ley 4s a former Yancey Clerk of Court. Prtercon, who lust his vision dur ing a gun bat'la whle serving |aa Bumssk 'j F- -e Or.e f scveial years ago, is making his first bid for elec tive olfioe. W One Vets 7o Meet Sunday Raymond J. Jeffreys of Raleigh, state commander of the Veterans of Wrrkl War - 1, and Mrs. Pearl Smith, state president cf the Ladies Auxiliary, will speak at the meet ing of the World War l veterans in Burnsville Sunday (Apnil 28 », at 2:30 p.m. ' : Jahn C. York of Waynesville will he in charge of the meeting, and 1 delegations wild b» present from j many tcrwns In this section, v t i Commander Jeffreys will bring ! the latest information from Wash ; tagton regarding the World War 1 ; : penskm bil now before Congress i “All veterans es the lint World , War and their wives are urged to , 1 hear this important report, if they , »re interested in their pension,” i says Jeffreys. Jefttejw Is the author of two. • books OH veterans pensiors. called * • wri»l*« MX ««,*.• books two of WI «wn wtwaxi i t/inTMi vwu W s which wsre chosen as books-of-the-
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