Volume 29
Mrs. Fox Selected N. C. On Producer
To Attend Science
Institute Dairy Honor Roil
Mrs. Jeanette B. Fox of-
RFD l, Burnsville was select
ed to attend the NDEA Lib
rary Science Institute at Ap
palachian State Teachers
College, Boone. This program
is under the National Defen
se Education Act, as amended
in 1964. The institute is being
held June 7 through July 13,
with fifty persons attending
from North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, and Vir
ginia.
The content of the pro
gram will be organized around*
six areas: I—Building a Basic
Collection for an Elementary
Schoo: Libra y; 2—Evaluating
Children’s Books and Mater
ials; 3-r-Folklore, Fantasy, and
Storytelling; 4—Books of In
formation; s—Poetry; and 6
Writing, Illustrating and Pub
lishing Books for Children.
Many noted authors, illus
trators and editors will serve
as lecturers and consultants.
Miss Beaulah Campbell Is
di ector of the Institute.
Mrs. Fox Is a teacher in the
Burnsvi le Elementary School,
and she participated in the
Comprehensive School Impro
vement Project in the school
this year. She is a graduate
of East Tennessee State Uni
versity and is an alumna
member of Phi Mu Fraternity.
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THE YANCEY RECORD
Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey County
Burnsville, N. C.
Jake F. Buckner, District
Sanitarlah, Spruce Pine, N. C.
has announced that he has
Just received a letter from the
U. S. Pubic Health Depart
ment listing all the counties
and cities that attained the
Hanor Roll in their p oducer
dairies and for their milk and
the enforcement used.
In order for a County or
City Health Department to
make the Honor Roll the lat
est U. 8. Public Health Service
Milk Ordinance and Code
must have been substantially
complied with.
Listed below are the states
having county or city Health
Departments and the Dairies
that made the Honor Roll.
Out Os the fifty states only
18 states made the honor roll.
The number of departments
In each of these 18 states a r e
listed. They are:
Alabama 1; Arizona 1; Ar
kansas 1; Colorado 15; Nevada
l; New Mexico 4; North Caro
lina 69; Oklahoma 14; Tenn
essee 37; Texas 37; Utah 3;
Virginia 7; Washington 4;
Wisconsin 21; Georgia 19;
Kentucky 22; Mississippi 23;
and Missouri 7.
Mr. Buckner stated that It
was very gratifying to see
that No th Carolina led the
other states by a large per
cent. He stated that it was es
peclalJSf gratifying to learn
that 1 |*itchell and Yancey
Counties made the honor roll
by making above 90 per cent
average on a'l dairies.
On the latest milk sampling
report 40 dairies cut of 41
that was tested had a bacter
ia count that met the require
ments. Mr. Buckner, district
sanitarian, reports that he Is
very proud of this record. He
stated that the credit belongs
principally to the dairymen
and their splendid coopera
tion with the Health Depart
ment.
Junior Training Union is the
climaxed with a tournament,
association and next in the
three tournaments are eligible
will have three participating
Cornwell, Janice Hunter and
pants are members of First
Thursday, Juaa 10, 1965
Parkway Playhouse Announces Opening
Os Eighteenth Season
Local Girl Needed
For 'Miracle Worker’
Coming soon after the an
nouncement of the season’s
plays, is a ca l from the Park
way Playhouse for a local
girl to portray Helen Keller
in the opening production,
“The Miracle Worker.” The
role is the one which started
the successful career of Patty
Duke, that of the young Helen
Keller during her first meet
ings with . her renowned tea
cher Anne Sullivan.
“The script says Helen is
six and one-half yfcars old,”
stated the director of “The
Miracle Worker,” Ed Ander
son, “but that seems too
young for the actress I want.
I think’ a girl around nine,
ten, or eleven would be much
more suitable.”
Mr. Anderson also mention
ed these things as Important
to the casting opportunity;
availability for the Play
house's lengthy rehearsals,
natural .intelligence, self con
fidence and a lack of stage
fright, good powers of con
centration, as well as talent
as an actress.
“And, though it is certainly
not a requirement, I must ad
mit to a slight prejudice to
wards long hair..” Mr. Ander
son mentioned. “The most
important single factor, be
sides taient, is physical sta
mina. The role is exhausting
because of the fights with
Annie Sullivan and the un
ending concentration. It is
very difficult to portray a
person who is both deaf and
blind and cannot speak, and
it is only through sheer con
centration on her character’s
personal thoughts that the
actress can communicate
anything.”
Photo by John Robinson
promotion of Memory Work
A tournament is first held in
region. Those who have been
to participate in the State,
in the State Tournament at
Judith Cornwell pictured
Baptist Church here.
The Parkway Playhouse an
nounces the opening of its
18th season of summer stock
in Yancey County. Gordon R.
Bennett continues as execu
tive director; Edward A. An
derson will be company man
ager and direct the opening
presentation o f “Miracle
Worker”, playing July 8,9, 10.
Vem Smith, in addition to
set design, wil be technical
director. Lister Moore, Assoc
iate Director, is completing
his Ph D this summer and is
expected to be at the Play
house for a short time oiily.
A newcomer on the staff, Miss
-Eleanoij Smith, will direct the
children’s theat _ e and present
an original play on Saturday
afternoon, July 31. Lauren K.
Woods is returning as stage
manager and director.
“Mary, Mary”, the witty,
wildly successful Broadway
comedy by Jean Kerr, is
Farrell Wilson Serving
At Carnegie Hall
Farrell Wilson, the son of
Mr. and Mrs Brisco Wilson, is
in New York City, where he
is serving as an assistant
stage manager at Carnegie
Hall, in prepa-ation for the
New York Festival which is
to be held June 17-20. He
• secured the position through
the Stage Director. Kurt Cerf.
Mr. Cerf was in Swannanoa
recently to review the play,
“For Once Then, Something”,
written by Billy Edd Wheeler
and produced by the Warren
Wilson College D oma Work
shop. Wilson was the Stage
Manager of this play.
The New York Festival will
feature some thirty of the
leading folk singers of the
United States, including Chuck
Berry, June Carter, Johnny
Cash, Grandpa Jones, and
Billy Edd Wheeler.
During the past year, Far
rell Wilson has been a con
tributor to The Quill and
Shadow”, the college’s litera-y
publication and is one of the
nominees to receive a poetry
prize at the annual - Honors
Night.
SP-4 E-4 R. L. Mclntosh,
• son of Mr. and Mrs Reece
Mclntosh of Burnsville, is
spending 14 days leave 'with
his parents here. SP-4 Mcln
tosh is stationed at Fort
Sheridan, 111. and he is with
the Military Pe-sonal Divis
ion. He will return to Fort
SheHdan at the end of his
4 days ieaye..
The director will be avail
able every aft«<noon, June
11, 12, 14, 15, at the Playhouse
unti: about five o’clock. He is
hoping for a number of ap
plicants. “I see no reason to
suppose the young girls of
Yancey County are any less
talented than those of New
York or Miami," he con
cluded.
No. 42
scheduled as the second pro
duction for July 16 and 17,
to be directed by Fred Koch!
Jr. Following “Mary, Mary” is
The Happy Time” an hilar
ious comedy about a French
Canadian family of men no
torious for their philandering;
it is written by Samuel Tay
lor and will play July 22, 23
and 24.
“Hasty Heart”, by John
Patrick, is the story of a
Scottish youth wary of friend
ship, because “sor-ow is born
in the hasty he’rt“. It will be
presented July 30 and 31.
An original musical, “Lady
Bountiful”, written and to be
directed by Vince Petty, will
be the final production of the
season on the nights of Aug
ust 6. 8, 9', 10.
The Craftsman’s Fair will
qccur on the square Aug. 7.
?Adula Art classes will be
given July 21 August 6.
Matting On WAMY
Program Monday
Night
The Community Action
Program of W, A. M Y.
(Watauga, Avery, Mitchell
and Yancey) for which a
Federal grant of over $500,000
was recently announced, has
been the subject of much dis
cussion and speculation in re
cent weeks. A meeting will be
held Monday in the Burns
ville Community Building at
7:30 p. m. at which all inter
ested people may learn what
the program will mean to
Yancey County.
At this meeting, the organi
zation will be completed of
the Yancey County Advisory
Committee for W. A. M. Y.
This organization is being
undertaken in accordance
with the provisions of the
Federal Economic Opportun
ity Act requiring broad parti
cipation at the local level in
the planning and administra
tion of the “war on poverty.”
. Invitations have been sent
out to approximately irTurnd
red representative people in
the county. In addition, any
others interested in making
‘the "W. A. M. Y. community
action program a success in
Yancey County are invited to
attend. The various job op
portunities to be opened up
under the program will be
outlined:
An important object of the
meeting will be the formation
of several sub-committees to
plan and supervise the pro
grams. Bob Helmle, who is
serving as chairman of the
Yaicey County Committee,
that numerous in
quiries have been regarding
jobs under the various work
programs. This meeting will
help clarify the situation with
respect to the work programs
that will be undertaken in
this area.