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VOLUME TWENTY-NINE * *■' - iv East Yancey FFA Wins Tool Contest The Blu« Ridge Federation held ] Its Tool Identification Contest at ] Clyde A Erwin High School on ( November 12 with 10 teams from ( the Madison, Buncombe and Yan- ( cey countieg participating. The ( East Yancey team finished first with a perfect score, followed by Glen Raven Sup ervisors Attend Management Course During the past few weeks .sev eral supervisors from Glen Raven Bilk Mills, Inc., have attended management courses in Greenville, South Carolina. The courses are oonducted mon thly in a specially designed class room in the Henderson, Lindsay * Michaels Building in Greenville. Henderson, Lindsay & Michaels Is a management con sulting firm that Glen Raven em ploys. along with professional societies and associations to keep abreast of development* in man agement techniques. The following men have partici pated in the management course this year: Bill Silver, Plant Sup erintendent; J. H. Cooper, Depart ment Head, Cloth Grading and Shipping; Jame 3 B. Gardner, Cloth Room Supervisor; Nick Huskey, Shift Supervisor Weaving and Pre paration; Ned Wilson, Department Head, Weaving and Preparation; Charles E. Gibbs, Shift Supervisor Weaving and Preparation; and Robert Renfro, Shift Supervisor, Weaving and Preparation. The: course provides practical trilining for industrial managers ai d supervisors in economics, or ganization, problem solving, em ployee induction, quality control, cost control, production control, work simplification, timestudy and operator training. Each session is limited to a maximum of ten men who come from industrial plants throughout the Southeast. In addition, James Hoover at tended Henderson, Lindsay & Michaels’ two-week course in In dustrial Engineering. Ben neH-Gould Vows Spoken In St. Thomas Mrs. John B. Bennett announces the marriage of her daughter, Joy, to Mr. Robert Seymore Gould on November 8. The wedding took plaee in the Virgin Islands Hilton Hotel in St. Thomas, Virgin Is lands. The ceremony was solemniz ed at s'oo p. m. followed by a wedding supper in the hotel. The groom is the son of Mr. ar.d Mrs. Harry Gould of New York City and St. Thomas. Mrs. Gould is also the daughter of the late Mr. John B. Bennett, formerly of Burnsville. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gould were . graduated from Richmond Profeas % tonal Institute, Richmond, Va. last June. The bride received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Interior De signing and Decoration. TJie groom received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Fine Arts. He is now a part owner of the St. Thomas Construction Co. of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands where they are making their home. Carson To Speak To Legion- Auxiliary Samuel Carson of Litlte Switzer land will apeak to members of the American Legion-Auxiliary at their regular meeting to be held Tues day, November 24 at 7:00 p. m. at the Community Building. Oil* will be a covered dish supper meeting. The Yancey record SmtHertpton S*.SO Par YHr i«: ■ V >«;■» < Erwin, Marshall, Reynolds and t North Buncombe. The winning ( team members included Keith 1 Chrisawu. Jack Hensley, Sammy 1 Carroll and Charles Blevins and ' coached by Herb Allen. Citizens’i Hardware provided the tools for h the event and made awards to the : individual top scorers. i 1 11 m District Governor Visits Local Lions District Governor Robert Davis, SIB, of West Jefferson, paid the local Lions Club an official visit Thunsday night. He paid tribute to the local club for their efforts in raising funds through selling fruit cakes, brooms and other acti vities to flnancs the tri-oounty eye climo held each month in Burns ville, Ralph Peterson’s blind stand, and other blind activities. Lions L. G. Deyton, Dr. C. If. Whlsnant and E. L. Dillingham were presented certificates for their long-time servics to the lo cal club. All three are charter members and Lion Whisnant was & member of the original Lions Club that existed here before the depression. Hl'n: EB ipßf ■ ,mU Shcrec Liao Banks Will Ride In Christmas Parade Sheree Lisa Banks, pretty nine year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Banks of Burnsville, has been scheduled to ride in the Bur nsville Christmas Parade on gat j urday December sth. A The Junior Queen, a student at Burnsville Elementary School, won the title over twenty five other en tries from the state last June In Bakersville, home of the well known fstival. Beauty alone does not capture the tibia of either the i Junior or Senior queen, but it takes a combination of three basic, qualifications of which beauty is one, this must be combined with - talent and personality, gheree won . the title and crown by a wide . margin. With a mother who could pass ► as a beauty queen herself, and a! father who might pass as a movie star, Sheree was well qualified from the very beginning. . . She, ‘ * n excellent swimmer, having been Instructed by her mother— she Is also a good dancer, being a student of the Fletcher School of Dance in Asheville and having as her instructors Mr. and Mrs. ' I Beale Fletcher, who’s own daugh ® j ter Maria was Miss America of r j 1962. . . 'I Arrangements for Sheree , Lisa t to ride in the Burnsville Parade 11 were completed last week with her '■ manager, Mr. O. D. Calhoun ofj “Dedicated To The Program Os Yancey County" 1942 Christen - 1 bury 7 earn Won- * ored At J?CG East Carolina College’s only un defeated and united football team, the Pirates of 1942 known as the Christenbury Team, wre« honored in Greenville Saturday as a high light of the college’s homecoming weekend. At least 21 of the original 35 team members arranged to attend. Included in those attending were George Roberts of Burnsville, Jack Young of Ahoskie ond Bob Young of Bethel, formerly of Burnsville. The program lincluded an honor ary luncheon, special recognition at halftime of the afternoon foot ball game, at 5 p. m. reception by the Alumni Association and guest chairs at the annual dinner meet ing of the Society of Buccaneers at 6 p, m. Arranged tnough cooperation of the ECC athletic department and. the Alumni Association, the Satur day honors for returning team members paid tribute to the mem ory of the coach of the ‘42 team, j the late John B. Christenbury whoi was coach at ECC from 1940 un til he obtained a leave of absence in 1943 and entered the U. S. Navy. Many of the team mem bers followed his lead. The coach was killed shortly 1 thereafter in a munitions ship ex plosion at Port Chicaago, Calif. Spruce Pine, who schedules all personal appearances for both queens throughout the year for the festival. . . Calhoun said sev eral requests for the Junior Queen each year were rejected due to their school activities, but Miss Banks has been booked for Par ades with Miss Bryant, Senior Queen, in the big Carolinas Carrou sel on Thursday November 26th in Charlotte and televised over Chan nel 3. She will work with Miss Bryant in Morganton, Lenoir and | Forest City Parades also, j Perhaps the biggest honor to come to our Junior Queen since the Junior Pageant Was started four years ago, is that Sheree Lisa will be the first one to ride ,*n a convertable with an official j N. C. State flag on each front fen- I der. The flags sent for her u«e I are two small ones and those to Ibe used by Miss Bryant are lar ger, This makes her the first Jun ior Queen authorized to use this official flag in parades. . Sheree is & member of the First Baptist Church of Burnsville and a member of the Girl Scouts— She likes to play “Football and baseball with the boys” and most of all she likes being a real beauty Queen at the age of nine. •heree Lisa was sponsored In the Festival by The Yancey Coun jty Chamber of Commerce. BURNSVILLE, N. C\. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1964 State Represen tative Commends UNICEF Drive Mrs. T. S. Ntwbold, State Repre sentative for UNICEF in North Carolina, wrote a letter of con gratulations to chairman of the UNICEF drive in Yancey County this fall. Yancey County this year collected $179.90 for the UNICEF drive. This was a little short of last year’s total of $190.96. In Burnsville the participating churches were: First Baptist Church, Griffith Chapel (A. M. E.l Zion), West Burnsville Baptist, . Sacred Heart Catholic, Presbyter ian and Higgins Memoral Metho dist. Mrs. C. B. Gillespie, Jr. was coordinator for the group. The groups out in the county which took part this year were: Bald Creek-Elk Shoals young peo ple, an interdenominational group .of children and young people on Jacks Creek, Pensacola Methodist children, Celo Methodist children, Arthur Morgan School and Mar- I tin’s Chapel Methodist children. This was the eighth year in which there has been some degree of Yancey County participation in the program for the needy child ren of the world. It is hoped that lit will be truly county-wide next ’ fall. Recently it was announced that the Xeroz Corporation of Roches ter, N. Y. had allocated four mil lion dollars for a series of six MV minute dramatic “special” pro grams about.- the United Nations. The series, to be shown during I the 1964-65 season, is designed to illustrate for the American public I the world organization’s economic I I and social activities. UNICEF is I I an important of these activi-1 ‘ ties. " r ' ‘ Services Held For Carl Estep Carl Estep, 64, of Burnsville Rt. 2, died unexpectedly Sunday afternoon In his home. He was a native of Yancey County and a farmer. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Harriett Ledford Estep: seven dau ghters, Mrs. James Abbott of Black Creek, Mrs. Barris Adkins of Bur nsville Rt. 4, Mrs. Sherrill Swann of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Mrs. John Holland of Hawaii, Mrs. Bruce I Hunter of Asheville and the Misses Kane and Pat Estep of the home; two sons, Charles of Candler and Robert Estep USMC Camp Pendle ton, Calif.: four sisters, Mrs. Eli zabeth Wheeler and Mrs. Berdie Hilemon of Green Mountain, Mrs. Lydia Brock of Rock Hitt, S. C. and Mrs. Lela Wyatt of Asheville: four brothers, Zonie and Robert of Forest City, Habron of Shelby and Starlen Estep of Bryson City: and 1 14 grandchildren, i Services were held Wednesday r at 2:30 p. m. in Bee Log Baptist . Church. a Officiating were the Rev. Nir&m o Phillips, the Rev. Junior Estep s and the Rev. Emory Edwards. - Burial was in Watts Cemetery. ' r J ; “Vanishing Fron ; tier” To Be 1 Shown at Library > , VANISHING FRONTIER, the 1 film made in Yancey an<l Avery 3 counties by the North Carolina e Film Board, will be shown at the j Yancey County Library in Burns vllle on Saturday evening, Novem -6 ber 21st at 7:30 p. m. The public o | is Invited. •- The film Is an hour-long docu i- mentary showing many old land s marks and photographs as well as interviews with citizens and offi it cials of Yancey County. It gives d glimpses of the history and back - ground of life in the mountains as d| it has changed during the past it, hundred years. Dr. Weatherford y comments on the prospects of change and progress In the future, n The film is sponsored by the Yan >-. cey County Friends of the Lib rary. , RetK McDonald To Preach 7 hanksgiving Sermon Before many tackle t*rkey and trimmings, residents of Burnsville will gather Wednesday evening, November 25, at 7:80 p, m. in the! Higgins Memorial Methodist Church for the traditional coxnmun- * ity-wide Thanksgiving Service. Preaching the sermon for this spec ial service will be the Rev. Harold | McDonald, the new Minister, of! the First Baptist Chui Jh. In this gathering, Burnsville re. sidents will be merely following President Johnson’s injunction in * his Thanksgiving Day proclamation that: “All Americans gather In their appointed places of worship to offer praise and thanksgiving to God for His goodness and mercy toward us.” The new Baptist Minister’s ser mon topic will be; “The Solid Rock.” Mr. McDonald recently moved to his position of leader ship in First Baptist Church from Fairmont, N. C. where he served as Assistant Minister of the influe, ncial First Baptist Church in that Tar Heel city. Music for the Thanksgiving Ser vice will be provided by a Joint choir composed of voices from Higgins Memorial Methodist Chur ch, First Baptist Church, and First Presbyterian Church. Individuals and families are invited to begin ■ the holiday season by participating • in this community-wide experi • ence of worship. Masons To Burn A A. M. will have a note burning Thursday at 7:30. The Stated Com munication will be held in th© Lodge hall on Robertson Street at 7:30 P. M. and all Master Masons are cordially invited. The building was purchased from the Earl Horton Poet of Am- 1 erica off in August this year. Edgar B. I Hensley is Master of the lodge, I United Fund Honor Roll In the following places of business 10b% of the en»ftUyesg fcaye contributed to the 1984 Yancey UF campaign. They art listx&P her# alphabetically. -r Agricultural Extension Office A. Se C. S. Office Ben & Batty’s Economy Center Burnsville Americon Service Sta. Burnsville Super Market ♦ Carolina Tire Department of Soil Conservation FHA Office French Broad Elec. Mem. Corp. Members of Yaney County Medi cal & Dental Association Pollard* Drug Store Ray Brothers Food Center Roberts Chevrolet-Buick Inc. Town Os Burnsville Yancey Hospital Burnsville Mill of Mohasco Ind. Ben franklin Store Nu-Wray Inn Robinson s Dairy Glen Raven Silk Mills The U. S, Post Office Petes Snack Bar Yancey Builders Supply Blue Ridge Hardware New members ol th« 100* dub will be listed am wmk. - Prtne Pit OepyFW* Cents -■ •- '*”*'*" -- _ w. i - ’ Burning Permits Canceled |n Thirty N. OCounties I Critically dry woods ha/v# forced State Forester Fred daring# to , prohibit all burning In or near woods in 30 North Carolina ©ouu ties including Yancey and other WNC counties. His announcement oame Monday afternoon as about 10© acres of Girl Scout* Fro lent Fragrant Honoring Parents Th* members of Brownie Troop 06, Junior Girl Scout Troop 68, and Cadetto Troop 65, presented a very interesting and unusual pro gram on Saturday evening, honor-! ing their parents and out at town guests. Tfa« affair was held in ths Burnsville Elementary School Au ditorium. The Brownies, under th* direct ion of Mrs. Jack Edge, gave a delightful interpretation of a dance, Mother!” to the tuna of “Hello! Dolly!” They'''impersonat ed glamorous young ladie* at tho 1 fashion word. Tho Browni* leaders are Mrs. I. B. Pierey and Mrs. Paul Laughrun. The Junior Girl Scouts presented a pantonine, entitled “Pdfcey- Huntus,” which was a satire on both drama and history. The Jun ior Girl Scout leaders are Mrs. P. C. Oolctta add Mrs. William Hess. • 1 Ttee Cadett© Girl feeuti danced a Square Dance. In which one-half of tho troop Impersonated bays. The Oadette Leaders are Mrs. Ken neth Laughrun and Mrs. William Pouts. • A special number was a Tap Dance by Susan Proffitt and Pam Young, i The Cadettes were in charge of refreshments, rotating at the I punch bowls, and serving the .two hundred guests who were present.' NUMBER THIRTEEN government timberiand flamed up in Fisgah Ranger District near Brevard. N. C. National Forests Super- visor, Peter J. Hanlon said the number of fires in the next day or two will determine whtther or not Federal lands will be closed to hunters. Foresters in the Bth and 9th District? Sunday advised Hunters to be extremely cautious. The woods are extremely dry, and a fire, which could be easily started, would be very nard to put out, according to District 8 Fores ter B. H. Corpening. Fires which start back in the heavy brush oountry will be much harder to control because of restricted ac cess, the foresters said. Prohibition of burning will con tinue until further notice accord ing to foresters. Foxmar Yancey Principal Earns Doctorata i John McXnitt Alexander Junior High School principal,! John/ Haa sil is one at two prnusipajs in Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s sprawling system of 10© schools with an earned doctorate. The other is Dr. Laird Lewis of Myers Park Kigb School. , Dr .Hansil completed require ments for the Doctor of Education degree ait the University of Tenn essee early »n 1964. The doctorate In this area of study is designed for school administrators and sup er visors. Dr. Hansil earned his B. S. de gree and M. A. degrees at Wes tern Carolina. He began h© teach ing career at Fayetteville. After teaching there for a year, he be came principal of dearmont i School at Green Mountain. He re mained at Green Mountain for two years before coming to Hun tersville in 1957 as principal. In 1961 he severed connection with the nortyi end school to return to the University of Tennessee as a grad uate student. In 1962 he became principal of Alexander junior High School. A resident of tho Sherwood For est section of Huntersville, Dr. Hansil has been a community lea der since he took up rsidence in the town in 1957. He was president of the Lions Club, chairman of the local Piedmont Area Develop ment Association annual competi tion. a member of the Community Council and superintendent of adult education at Huntersville Baptist Church. in 1961 he was named Lions Club “Man of the Year” for his outstanding service to the com munity. Married to the former Wanda Lee Johnson, of Yancey County, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everette | Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. Hhnsil are the parents of three children; Johanna Meg, •; John, Jr., 5; and Mary Susan, 2. Mag land District, Bog Scouts, Will Meet Monday The Mayland district committee as the Boy Scouts of America will meet next Monday night, Novem ber *3, at 7:30 in the Spruce Pine Town Hall for Its annual business (meeting. Election of 1963 officers and members of the committee, including Institutional representa tives and members-at-large, are urged to attend.