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Pictured above is Miss Florenc3
Princess, crowning Miss Regina
(ommltte Explains WAMY
Projects Under EOA
The Advisory Committee,
'operating In conjunction with
the Economic Opportunity
Act, Incorporating the coun
ties of Watauga, Avery. Mit
chell and Yancey, held & com
munity meeting in the Burns
ville Community Building
Monday night. Many county
officials and community lead
ers attended the meeting, tak
ing part in discussions of the
different phases of the
WAMY program.
Jeff McA thur, Assistant
Director of the Advisory Com
mittee, in outlining projected
programs pointed out that the
Advisory Committee is two
years o'd, although the Fed
eral Government's Economic
Opportunity Act was
In 1964.
WAMY, the assistant direc
tor said was formed when the
Ford Foundation fund allocat
ed eleven million dollars to
assist in North Carolina Com
munity Development. At the
time the N. C Fund became
available, 66 counties, making
up 7 county p-ojects were sent
in proposals. The four-county
project of WAMY was one out
of 7 selected as a pilot test
ton Community Development
under the N. C. fund.
Upon the passage of the
Economic Opportunity Act by
Congress in 1964 the WAMY
Advisory Committee concen
trated their efforts for funds
from the Federal Government.
Burnsville Mayor Robert R.
He'.mle, who p-esided at the
meeting said the four-county
area has been able to secure
federal grants in different
community development pro
jects due to the early WAMY
organization under the N. C.
THE YANCEY RECORD
Hilemon, last year’s 7 Dairy
Robinson, this year’s princess
Fund program. 'Many .rural
sections in the Una*4 states
have had difficulty in reav
ing any funds because they
did not have organizations
competent in unraveling the
red tape connected with the
Fede al Economic Opportunity
Act. He pointed out that due
to the early organization of
the four-county program and
efficiency of the leaders in
.setting up the program, Yan
cey and the other counties
have been given several
grants. ——
Thirteen programs of work
under the organization were
outlined at the meeting.
These p ograms included
Agricultural Community Pro
ject, Mountain Crafts and
Marketing program, Farm
Production and Marketing,
Better Health Education, Ad
ult Education, Physical Fit
ness Programs and others.
Superintendent of Schools,
Hubert Justice, said that pre
sently 84 Yancey County
youths were working under
the program.
Ernest D. Epley, Executive
Director of W. A M. Y. Com
munity Action, pointed out
that this program should no
be confused with the Appala
chia Act recently passed by
congress. The Appalachia Act,
he said was passed and must
be utilized for the economic
development of the mountain
area. The program W. A. M. Y.
under the Economic Opportu
nity Act is designed and is
operating for the development
of the people.
The function of the o"ganl
zatlon he said is not to do for
the individual but to train
and incite individuals to do
something for themselves.
Dpdicottd To Th# Progrtss Os Yoncty Connty
Burnsville, N. C. Thursday, June 17, 1965
Regina Robinson
Wins Dairy
Princess Title
Miss Regina Robinson, dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Robinson of the Double Island
Community, was crowned
Yancey County Dairy Princess
at the annual Dairy Princess
contest held at the Commun
ity Puilding here Friday night.
Other girls entering the
contest were Lu Ann Banks,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Banks; Jackie Byrd, daughter
of M’s. Kathleen Byrd; Cathy
Deyton, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. O. W. Deyton; Vickie
Eagle, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Slagle.
The contest is an annual
affair sponsored by the Yan
cey County Dairymen Assoc
iation in cooperation with
the Dairy Commission of the
Agricultural Development Co
uncil.
The winner will be entered
In the Junior Rhododendron
Festival to be held at Bakers
ville June 23.
All entrants were given a
gift and corsage.
Local Children
Win In
Memory Work
Judith and Barry Cornwell
and Janice Hunter were State
Winners in the Junior Mem
ory Work tournament held in
Fruitland Monday.
Judith, Barry and Janice
ere members of the Flint Bap
tist Church in Burnsville.
They were church winners,,
associational winners a fid al
so won in the regional tourna
ment held in Bekersville. In
order to be State Winners
no mistakes are allowed. The
participants are asked to re
peat one verse of scripture
and if they do not know the
yerse they are called on to
repeat they do not get anoth
er chance.
All Juniors partlc'patlng in
the tournament who could
repeat the scripture asked
them were State Winners.
Judith and Barey are dau
ghter and son of Dr. and Mrs.
Julian Cornwell, and Janice
Is the daughter of Mr. and.
Mrs. Edgar Hunter, Jr. of
Burnsville.
'Headstart’ To login
Monday
Program Headstart for the
pre-school children will
gln Monday, June 21 at all
the elementary schools In the
county. Sessions will begin at
8:30 a. m. Ih»s program Is
kindergarten for the pre
school child.
•The Summer Enrichment
proerram for the 2nd and 3rd.
grade chl’dren will also begin
Monday morning at 8:30 a.
m. all over the county.
Rhododendron Queen Will Be
Crowned At Roan Festival
You often read a news re
lease that refers to our state
as “Variety Vacationland”, or
“From the Mountains to the
Bea’’ Well, you might com
bine them both and come up
with a pretty good answer to
what will take place at this
years North Carolina Rhod
odendron Festival to be he'd
here June 23-28th. You have
a variety of outstanding tal
ent which will be displayed
by pretty girls from across
the state of North Carolina
and they come fom the
Mountains to the Sea. from
Asheville - to Wilmington * and
in between you have the fol
lowing entries: Miss Mary
Lynn Wilson of Bakersville;
Miss Patricia Linn of Ashe
vil'.e; Miss Linda Faye White
of Statesville; Miss Donna
Jean Finley of Winston-Sal
em; Miss Penny Turner of
Greensboro; Miss Angela
r i ’* , ck'nnd o f
Miss Jeane Rhodes of Matt
hews; Miss Martha Jane
Jones, Kernersville; Miss Beth
FaN>n, Chadboum; Miss Don-,
na Lee Hartman, Mount Airy;
Mfss Judy Moss- Hickory;
Miss Elaine Gibson, Stanfield;
Mias Martha Lynn Henry of
Charlotte; Miss Melba McCall
of Asheville; Miss Sharon
Waldo of Skyland; Miss Flcka
Stephanie Yarborough
burham; Miss Susie Harrlll
of Spindale; JMlss Carol Elaine
Smith of Wllmlrgton; Miss
Elizabeth Graham of West
Jefferson
Then there is still one to be
entered from Newland mak
ing a total of twenty-one
lovely young ladies who will
compete for the Miss Rhodod
endron title and cxwn now
being worn by Miss Judy Bry
ant of Spray, N. C One of
these young :adles will carry
back to her hometown a title
that is almost unmatched by
any other beauty pageant in
the south.
Along with it will go a
SIOOO 00 scholarship to the
school of her choice awarded
by Mr. J. E. BroyhiU, Presi
dent of Broyhlll Furniture
Company of Lenoir. She will
receive a new white converti
ble for her travels during her
reign as the Flower Queen. A
$500.00 wardrobe designed by
Tanner’s of North Carolina,
a gold wrist watch given by
the Citizen Times publishing
Company in Asheville, also
the famous Blanton Trophy
and a S3OO 00 scholarship to
Blanton’s Business College in
Asheville. A years exciting
travel plus many smaller
awa~ds not yet confirmed.
This Is a part of a fantastic
success story which has been
written by a small, but dedi
cated lions Club in a town
with about 300 population In
Western North Carolina start
ed in 1947, to focus attention
to the world’s largest natural
dfspay of purple rhododen
dron only twelve miles’ from
No. 43
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the county seat of Bakersville
in Mitchell County, it has
grown now to what seems to
be perhaps one of the best
known events in the south
land if not the nation. Miss.
Judy Bryant, who will c
her successor on Saturday,
June 26th will have complet- —
ed more than 100,000 miles
traveled in the short span of
a year. She has traveled in
five contients and from coast
to coast in the United States.
• She has told the Variety Va
cationland story everywhere
she has traveled. What is in
store for the new Queen, we -•-
wou d guess, much of the
same thing, many personal
appea-ances are already sch
eduled for her.
The Rhododendron Festival
officials feel that the bloom
in the gardens will be at it’s
peak during the week of the
event. Parking facilities on
the Roan were recently im
proved by’ the U. S. Forest
Serv:ce which should elimi
nate any traffic problem to
and from the Gardens.
Judges for the Junior Miss
Pageant have not yet- been
announced,, however the Jud
ges for the sehrof pdgeaflt Are;
Mr. Walter Thomas, MGM
Pictures; Mr. W. W. Hoy,
Rutherfordton; Mrs . Ruth
Sisson,' Chattanooga, Tenn.;
Mr. Reese”® „ /Charlotte, and
Winston-Sa.em, N. C.
Rsv.Hilliard
To Greensboro,
Rev. Warner
Comes Here
LAKE JUNALUSKA, N. C—,
Bishop earl G. Hunt, Jr., who
presides oyer the Charlotte
Methodist Area, today < (June
13) announced the appoint
ments of clergymen to the
pulpits of the Western North
Carolina Methodist Conferen
ce for the 1965-66 church year.
The bishop read the list of
appointments following deliv
ery of a Conference Sunday
se mon before more than
2,000 worshippers at the Con
ference’s closing session in
Stuart Auditorium here.
Among the appointments
are about 200 clergymen who
wl l be moving to new pastor
ates. The "remainder of the
mote than 750 clergymen who
preach in the Conference will
return to their present char
ges.
Rev. R. F. Hilliard who has
been pastor of Higgins Mem
orial Methodist Church for
the past four years will go to
Lowe’s Chapel in the Greens
boro District.
Joseph M. G. Warner will
come to the Burnsville Chur
ch. He is coming from Oakley
Chureh in Asheville.
• Rev. Hilliard will leave for
his new pastorate next .week
and Rev. Warner will arrive
in Burnsville then.