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VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT Court To Hear School Integration Suit On Sept 26 BY TOM HIGGINS | Record Editor Whether or not there will be further integration at Burnsville Elementaiy School will apparent- i * 1 k.%' i 1 i* - « ■«.' y.dm&W ,-4 /Mw-,- - • Eg f. Igrafr; ■J§EK?J jn»A\ tfafg. •. Ja> [ r kj «X\ ry • • .)& ,; rglaKM : &ki^M£'^4§£s*£'' 3 ~/ . 1 jjPpb- ■; : ; ' %^»3sjgf 4 5)0 demzml&l? Remember when Charles L. MdPeeters built his home, The house took three years to build, and understandably. When it was finished. Yancey Countians said that there was nothing like It anywhere in this section. There still isn’t. McPeeters, a Marshall mer chant, moved to Yancey County in 1895 and constructed the mansion, with which he is pictured above, in the years between then .~ and 1900. " The unusual home was located on ‘Possum Trot on a huge tract of land McPeeters purchas-ad from the Proffit clan of Yancey County. The structure still stands, and is in an amazingly good state of -preservation. The home has a full base ment—an unusual feature for that era in Yancey—into which sev Yancey Roundup Paul Burton Awarded Grant To Wisconsin U. •j Dr. Paul R. Burton of North field, Minn., a native of Burns ville, has received a one-year, post-doctoral grant for study of electron microscopy at the Uni versity r c Wisconsin. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Burton of Burnsville. Dr. Burton will take a one-year leave of absence from North field’s St. Olaf College, where he is a member of the faculty, to accePt the grant. His wife and two children will move with him to Madison, Wis., where the uni-; versity is located. i Burton, a graduate of Burns-, ville High School and Western j Carolina College, was awarded, his Phd. at the University of North Carolina in 1960. He had aIBO previously attended the Uni versity of Miami, (Fla). At UNC Burton was winner of the coveted William Chambers Coker award for the best disser tation in the field of natural sci rnces. The award is presented an nually by the El’sha Mitchell Society. Dr. Burton has Just completed a two-year research project on para sitolojjy, made possible by •• rants from the Atomic Energy Commission. During the study he had several articles published in national scientific Journals cov ering research on i-adioactive substances. ti • • Ralph Robinson, a Yancey County native, has been awarded a $2,000 grant by the State Depart- THE YANCEY RECORD Subscription $2.50 Per Year I ly be decided at a Federal Court ! healing in Asheville Sept. 26. This action seemed assured Tuesday following a brief session j here between the Yancey County | eral teams of horses could be taken to unload cargo. There are : 16 rooms on the second and third levels. On the fourth level Mc- Peeters had his canning quarters, where he personally prepared the [ foods' ra’sed on his land and' placed them in tin cans. McPeeters was known far and w : de for his unusual dwelling, and that probably was a big fac tor in his being easily elected to re preseat Yancey in the 1893 legis lature. A Raleigh Observer of that year described McPeeters as “. . .the efficient and popular Democratic member from Yancey.’’ It sa>d that he was "one of the most at tentive listeners in the legislature and carefully inspected each mea sure before casting his vote.” It was McPeeters who led a fight that prevented passage of a ment of Public Welfare for a year of study at the University of North Carolina. Robinson will begin his work in September at Chapel Hill toward completion of the requirements for a Masters Degree in the field of Child Welfare. He IS the son of Mrs. Cora Rob inson of the Bald Creek section of Yancey County. Robinson graduat ed from Bald Creek High School in 1956 and from Berea <Ky.) College in 1959. 1 Since his graduation he has 1 been employed by the Forsyth j County Welfare Dept., in Winston- I Salem. ** * * The Toecane Ranger District of the U. S. Forest Service wiU conduct a tour of its facilities on South Toe River Sept. 11. The tour, which will be conduct ed by District Ranger Harvey Price, will emphasize recreational facilities. ' -Area businessmen a:t specifi cally urged to participate but any others who are interested are invited to go along, too. Price said that _the party will leave the town square at Burns ville at 1 p. m. *• * • i Yancey Countians with connect ions to the Burbank Free WiU ! Tenn., have been invited back to Baptist Church at Roan Mountain, annual Homecoming services Sept, 'v ®. I Rev. Holt Harrell of Relief, pas - tor, said dinner will be served "Dedicated To THe Profreoi Os Yancey County" Board of Education and the par ents of six Negro children who are seeking reassignment from j Oakcrest School to Burnsville I Elementary. bill that would have lopped off I one of Yancey’s townships and placed it in Mitchell County. MoPeeters was Jone of the first from Yancey to ship crops to [ faraway markets. He was most famous for his I apples. In the 1900 Universal Ex position in Paris McPeeters' Possum Trot apples won a first Striae. Mt'Peeters died in 1930 at the a@B of 89. A daughter, Mrs. Helen Dilling ham of Oklahoma City, donated this picture to The Record. A son, Francis, resides in Detroit. Two of McPeeters’ grandchild ren, Mrs. L. V. (Bob) Pollard and Byrd Gillespie, still reside in Yancey. A third grandchild, -Mrs. Lucille Brown, is a former Burns ville resident. They are the child ren of McPeeters’ third child, the late Mrs. Mary Gillespie. : m BIG GIRL HAS BIG HOPES—Jeanne Swanner of Graham could be the midst of realizing a big airtbition this week. She hapes to be named Miss America in Atlantic City Saturday night. If the current Miss North Carolina takes the title she will be the tallest contestant to do so. She is 6-2. ( BURNSVILLE, N.' C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 .-,. —■ mm t. Oakcrest is attended only by 1 1 Negroes. There is one Negro stu- j 1 dent attending classes at Burns-1 : ville Elemehtary. Both Yancey) I High Schools, Cane River and) East Yancey are totally integrat-! ed. j j 1 The Board ,of Education origl- 1 nally deu-ed the reassignment ap-! pi cations in August, and did so! I again Tuesda^. I The hearing' in Asheville will! ! apparently be held before U. S. D strict Jud'.-t Wilson Warlick, no stranger to Yancey school into-! gratiou suits. ", Warlick issued in 1930 an ordeH ■‘'•rmanently. restraining tfeej Board of Education from all action I I regulating assignment of stu i dents on the basis of color. However, list August Warlick j granted the Board another year! j f o perfect, school intesration plans, j Tuesday’s hearing in the Vance -1 County Courthouse was attended! by Board of -Education membersj Raleigh Radflkf, Ben Wilson ar .1 R. O. Deyt.'m, Superintendent of Schools H. 0. Just-ce, and th • Board of Education s attorney Bill Atk-ns. Parents of the students attending were Mrs. SHeKa GrifGfh, Mrs. Peg.y Wih son, Mrs. Genevieve Lottahall : James Griffith and Junior Wilson Lawyer Reuben Salley of Ashe ville represented the Negro stu dents. The Board* explaining its de -1 nial of the ' reassignment applicat ions, said that Burnsville Ele mentary is already extremely overerc-wded. that 4 reass'gnmeiit ■if transpor ts on of the served the d out that] •ated with j w ! th two! ¥ mms ird added that the texts used are the same as those in other Yancey Schools, and that Public Library facility* are oPen to all. Atkins further pointed out that the Oakcrest School is modern in every way, attractively located and has an excellent playground. The Negro parents reiterated, however, a preference to have their children assigned to the I same school as other children in the district in order that: “(l)| The same system of teaching be available to them. . .that is, one j teacher per grade; <2> the samel opportunities and facilities be j available for all; (3) their child ! ren’s rights as citizens to equal | treatment be respected; (4 > ass;gn | ment, which is now on a basis of j race- since white children living I nearer to Oakcrest are assigned j Burnsville Elementary, be stand- ASC Candidate* |. Are Announced | Ballots were mailed Tuesday to vote- 3 eligible to participate’ in the annual election of , AfiCS com ! mtinity committeemen. I J. T. Randolph, new Yancey ! County ASC cff.ce manager, sa : J j that the election will be held by I mail this year, and he urged j voters to have f u-’r ballots bari jn the office or post-marked by Sept. 13, Cand dates for various com mute 1 ; ,.5: PRICES CREEK--Creed Austen, Ewc-fe Banks, Bill Buckner, Ar m*h O England, Hunter Maney, Jack McTntcsh, Merritt McPeterte Mack Robinson, Mack Styles,; . Kenneth WestaH; . RAMBEYTOWN—Darius Hens-’ ley, Britt Hulk-way, O. C. Honey-, . cutt, Hoover Johnson, Iteece Mur- ■ . phy, Niram Phillips, Ottls Robin-1 . sou; r EAST BURNSVILLE—Edd Ban s her, Arnold Briggs, Edward Har rs, Ech-rd Hunter, Jim Riddle, Joe Woody; UPPER EGYPT-Crate Bailey, iL vi Bailey, Max Higgins Jr., ;] Carl H : lemon, Lige Hylemon, 1 1 j Troy Mathis, Avery Silvers,, , S Rasst-s Silvers / J LOWER EGYPT-Chap y i’ender J ! Tikfe-n Fender. Edd Honsley,} Nealie Ledfordi Robert M ide, ! Carl Wilson: WEST BURNSVILLE S. J. Ben- - 1 nett, Craig Franklin, Biimie Pit , man, Carlie Rico, George Wheeler, 1 jytllard Wright FT. LOWER JACKS CREEK—Lan don Briggs, Frank Evans, Johnny E. Fox, Sherman Fo.xx, Emory i Laws, Gene Thomas, Jack Webb, : J. B. Wheeler, • UPPER JACKS. CREEK—Ray English, Johp Evans, Hollis Honeycutt, Carl Jobe, Leroy Sil vers, Lark Wright: CANE RIVER—Jtss Buckner, „ -Tommy Buckner. Nealie Edwards, j Eugene Hoimes, J. W. Tomberlin, Rex Yelton; BRUSH CREEK—Brown Gort uey, Harrison Gortney, Kenneth Johnson, Elmer Peterson, Yates • Randolph, Elmer Sparks, J. B. Thomas;’ EAIf CRABTREE—Louis Bart lett, Andrew Bishop, E. W. Has kins, Sherrill McKinney, TJiss Young, Guss Young; WEST CRABTREE—Mark Hall, Scotty Hughes, Crawford Jones, Horace Jones, Thad McCurry, Guy Young; GREEN MOUNTAIN - Luther Ayers, Worley Ayers, Andy Ed- j wards. Clyde Fox, George King, Clessen Lctterman; UPPER SOUTH TOE—Eugene Harrison, Walter Taster, Oscar •Continued on back' page - Dr. T. f. Hahn Assumes Duties Here Dr. Theodore P. Hahn assumed dut es th's week as Health Direc tor of the Yancey and Mitchell Cr inty health departments. j He succeeds Dr. W B. Stryker,) vhho resigned last summer. Dr. and Mrs. Hahn and a son, R : chard. who has enrolled in the senior class at Cane River High School, are residing on Shepherd Way in Burnsville. The Hahns have three other children, two of them married and a daughter, Jennifer, who is a sen‘or at the University of Florida. Dr. Hahn comes to Burnsville after practicing medicine for 30 years In Deland, Fla. However, he is no stranger to Price Per Copy Five Cents .a 1 .zed: •5) the unsanitary practice of transporting lunches fiom Burnsville Elementary to Oakcrest in a car be discontinued.” J The parents further charged that the problems of teachers at Oak crest was complicated by alleged enrollment of underaged children. In his 1952 order granting a de lay, WarPck stated. . .“The court reiterates again that the Board of Education of Yancey Cour.y begin imrned-ately a determined study < £ ‘, ft’ § W I I - - ■' ■’ r "' ,ap;4,\4 im -- - : i ■■ • Bhfe Sen Fall? on Cane R ver - Two Escape Injuries In Tumble Over Falls Two Florida youngsters were miraculously unhurt last month when they were swept over 73- foot Blue Sea Falls on Upper Cane River. . | Dr. W. A. Y. Sargent of Burns ’ ville Wednesday confirmed reports that the incident had occured. i 1 Dr. Sargent said that last month he examined Mary Fay Nicholes, 17, and Leo E. Schnupp Jr., 18, both of Miami, after they had tumbled over the high fall. - “They had a fsw bruises and scratches. That’s all," said Dr. Sargent. j Young Scnr.upp's parents are long-time summer residents of Yancey’s Cattail Community. 1 He and several other young peo- j pie from Cattail were taking Miss Nicholes, a house-guest of the Schnupps, on a sight-seeing tour i around, Yancey when the mishap occured. The group had gone to Blue Sea Falls on the Wilson Boundary !in Southern Yancey to make p»c- I tures. Western North Carol"na or to Yan cey County. The Hahns for several years have spent their summers |at a cabin in the rugged Cataloo-j I chee section of Hay rood County, [ I and they have visited often with' friends in Yancey’s Cattail Com-; munity. “I know we’re going to love it! here,” said Dr. Halm. “We have< grown mighty close to the people ’ of Western North Carolina. And 1 our hobby Is hiking, and I under > stand th ;’£ plenty of fine terti- E tory around Yancey County for j that.’’ 3 j Dr. Hahn was bom in Mexiqp, i) where his father was serving as a Presbyterian missionary, o After the Mexican government NUMBER THREE reap J.lfv ■ . : ,«p of the school situation under its jurisdiction and that at tlie begin ning of the school year in Sept ember, 1953, it have plans ready to use every avaßable space un der its jurisdiction for students’ benefit and that its attention is called to the -fact that the two room Oakcrest School with only 18 students, as of this 1 ' time, repre sents a failure oa its part to uti- Lze all existing factors.” Miss Nicholes climbed a steep path around the edge of the fall and waded into the river to make a picture of her companion stand ing below. She had made the pic ture and was wading back to shore when she lost her footing ; and fell. 1 A few feet above the falls she grabbed a limb on an overhang ing bush and hung on. Schnupp climbed the path and waded to her resuce, but when she releas ed her hold on the limb the swift current swept both over , the falls. | Veteran wardens on the Wilson Boundary said that to their know ledge no one had ever gone 1 across the falls before, j Others familiar with tlie area said it was “pure luck’’ that the two were not injured. “They ap parently went across right at the midpoint of the river and fell in* i to a deep pool bel-ow,” explained one. “They had to. ..to either side of the center of the fall there are boulders as big as a house just below the surface of the water." forced foreign missionaries from the country, the Hahn family lived in California, New Orleans, New i York City and Scranton, Pa. Following graduation from high school in Scranton, Dr. Hahn en | tered Yale University where he obtained both his B. S. and M. D. degrees. I He interned at Grady Hospital 1 in Atlanta and at Lankenau Itos- I pital in Philadelphia. He then went to Florida and set up a practice in Deland. Mrs. Hahn is the former Helen de Monmollin of Palatka, Fla. FOOTBALL REPORTS Sports coverage this week is on page four.
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