Volume 29 uSsHm agpufe The Burnsville Kindergarten, tlon Thursday night front row: Bobby Holcomb<e, Natlle Fox, Janet Presnell, Donald, Susan Alien and Lyne WAMY Grant Announced By Director Plans For June Dairy Ernest D. Epley, Executive ■ director of W. A. M. Y. Com munity Action, Inc. has an nounced that he has been notified of a $584,538 grant to W. A. M. Y. from the Office of Economic Opportunity to operate community action projects in Watauga, Avery. Mitchell and Yancey Counties during the next twelve mon ths. ‘ The W. A. M. Y. Community Action Proposal was submit ted to the office of Economic Opportunity in February. It consists of 13 projects which provide a comprehensive pro gram designed to help local citizens raise their standards of life. The 13 projects are: Community Organization Project, Volunteers in Service to America Project, Mountain Crafts Training and Market ing Project, Small Farm Pro--* duction and Marketing Pro ject. Public Hea'th Education Project, Marginal Families Welfare Project, Community information and Group Ser vices Project, Manpower De velopment and Vocational Education Project, Basic Ad ult Education Project, Sum mer Sessions Project (for en tering second and third grad ers), Summer Recreation and Physical Fatness Project, Re medial Reading Project, and Guidance and Counseling Project. The last four projects will be administered by the local Boards of Education through the public schools. The Com munity Development and Sma'l Farm Production and Marketing Projects will be administered by The Agricul tural Extension Service. The Marginal Families Wel fare Project will be adminis tered by the local Welfare THE YANCEY RECORD Burnsville, N. C. Thursday, June 3, 1965 under the direction of Mrs. at the First Baptist Church Michael Cornwell, Tammy Joey Hensley, Larry Hunter, Boyles. Departments. Public^ Health Education Yfroject will be administered through the Public Health Departments. The Community Information , and Group Project wi'l be„ ( administered by The Public ] Libraries. 1 s Fppley said that this grant j for Community Action Pro jects is in addition to other j grants received recently for ] Project Head Start and Neigh- , borhood Youth Co-ps Projects. | He said that the W. A. M. Y, ■ grant Is the largest a~noun- 1 ced for anv community in North Carolina. Notification of the grant came first from Representa tive James T. Broyhill and Senator Sam J. Ervin. A tele gram was also reoeived from Bargent Shriver, Director* Vacation Bible School Boflin At Methodist Church Vacation Church- School will open at the Higgins Mem orial Methodist Church here on June 7 for a two weeks session. Classes v/tll be held In the Kindergarten, Prima-y, Jun ior and Senior High Depart ments. The nursery wil! be open. The time, 9:00-11 a m. The workers will be Rev. Raymus Hilliard, Mrs. Billie Hi’.lliard, Mrs. Lucille Pie rev, Mrs. Do-othy Westall, Mrs. Mary Ann Warn pier, Mrs. Martha Westall, Miss Faye Letterman, Mrs. Ilene Bigger staff, Mrs. Beckie Gil'esple, Miss Helen Waldrop, Miss Claudette Cooper, Women of Missionary Society and Mrs. Maphra B. Bennett, General Superintendent of the schoal. All who would like to at tend the school are welcome. \ \ Jess Styles, held their gnadua here. They are left to right, Brown, Mary Louise Wray, Diane Carol Mc- Moath Announced Plans for June Dairy Month activities have been complet ed, according to Bobby Gus Randolph, chairman of the Yancey County June Dairy Month Committee. The plans Include a Junior Dairy Princes Contest to be held Friday night, June 11. at the Community Building at i£:00 p. m. Burnsville merch ants and other businesses have been invited to sponsor entries. The deadline for en tering is Saturday, June 5. The winner will be entered in the Rhododendron festival at Bakersvllle which is sponso~- ed by the Lions Club later in June. A new feature of June Dairy Month will be the exhi bit of a complete modem! pipeline milking parlor. This exhibit will be on the square in Burnsville Thursday, June 3, and Friday, June 4, and Saturday, June 5. The exhibit will be open to the public and a representative will be on hand to demonstrate It and* to explain the operation and to answer questions. The daPy Industry brought around $700,000 In #ash to the 50 Grade A dairymen In Yan cey County during 1984. E. L. Dillingham, County Extension Chairman, said that while the number of dairies Is not In creasing due to the base re quirements and large Invest ment required, that the pre sent dairies are getting larger and more efficient. The Health Deoartment, dairy plants. Extension Ag ents and others are cooperat ing with the dairy lamp to insure the best and safest milk that has ever been av ailable to consumers. Campaign Underway To Find Jobs For Youth This Summer A nation-wide campaign to find, jobs this summer for at ’ least one-half million 16-21 1 y6ar olds has been announced by President Johnson. The President made an ap peal to employers through- * out the najlon to provide at ■ least one job for youths in this age group. He asked lar ger employers to add one ex tra summer trainee for each 100 employees. The first employer to re zspond to the President’s call was Jerrold Corporation of Philadelphia, Pa., an electron ics equipment manufacturer which wired Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor its Intentions to hire at least 15 under the program. Folowing the President’s announcement on the Youth Opportunity Campaign on Sunday, the Secretary of Commerce wrote 900,000 em p'oyers asking their coopera tion. “Surely the summer offers more opportunity for the two million youths out of school then lying around all morn ing, sitting down all after noon in front of TV sets, and prowling around all night," Secretary of Labor W. Willard* Wirtz said. Preparation Day At First Baptist Church Preparation Day will be held the First Bap tist ChurcfT here. This is a program held in preparation for Bible School. There will be a two hour schedule, beginn ing at 8:30 and lasting until 10:30 a. m. The first hour will be spent in practice of the worship preg -am and the sec ond hour will be held in the different departments. The children and faculty wi). meet in front of the church at 8:30. I Bible School will begin Mon day morning at 8:30 a. m. and will be held each day, Mon day through Friday, for a two weeks period from 8:30 to 11:33 a. m. Commercement exercises will be held on Friday even , lng, June 18 at 7:30 p. m. in the church for the parents to visit each department and see what each deoartment has accomplished during the two weeks of Bible" School. Fire Deportment To Spoasor Singing Don Reno, a Country Sing ing Group, will be at the Burnsville Elementary School gymnasium Friday, June 4 at 7:30 p. m. The program Is being spon sored by the Burnsville Volun teer Fire Department and promises to be an evening of good entertainment. Advance tickets can be pur chased from any fireman. Admission is $1.50. No 4] To get the program under way, President Johnson dir- T "~ ... Federal agencies to find worker trailing opportunities * for one extra trainee for every' 100 persons now em ployed. . extension of the Neigh borhood Youth Corps for an additional 50,000 boys and girls this summer Interested employers are asked to contact the nearest „ office of the State' Employ ment Service. Letters were also sent to governors, mayors, school of ficial and others to encour age their participation In the campaign. fiICREATION FEES ADJUSTED WASHINGTON No fees will be charged for the use of recreation areas in Western North Carolina’s national for ests earlier than July 1, Con gressman Roy A. Taylor said here Friday. Forest Service had pre viously announced plans to put the new fee effect by June 1. Forest officials will use the 30-day postponement ,to re study fees proposed for 18 de signated picnic and camping sites in Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests. Taylor said. Hie congressman requested the restudy recently when he launched a fight against fees with federal agencies named to set up the schedule of charges. Ren. Tay'or said he had re ceived assurance from Peter J. Hanlon, Supervisor cf Nor th Carolina National Forests, Ithat the restudy would be made with a view toward a more lenient fee schedule. It was the originally an nounced intention of the For est Service to charge 50 cents per adult per day for picnick ing. Taylo- said Hanson had Informed him this might be reduced to 25 cents and a proposed $2 50 seasonal rate to $1.25. Certain types of recreation fees were authorised by the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. Generally, these are u*er fees for Indi vidual facilities. Under a special of the law written by Taylor, the J Great Fmoky Mountain Na tional Park, Blue Ridge Park way and principal highways in the national forests are exempt from overall entrance or admission charges. How ever, user fees may be charg ed for the use of facilities In designated recreation aneas within the parks and forests. Taylor’s strongest criticism has been against a charge fe* n'enicklng. He has been joined In his fight by a grow ing numbe** of other Congress mes and Senators. \

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