Volume 30
CHRISTMAS PARADE SATURDAY
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Kenneth Laughrun and
Joe Crisp are shown “clip
ping Santa's Reindeer' 1 . The
reindeer will appear on the
Cadette Oirt Scout Float Sat
urday. More than 60,000 pa
Seventeen Floats, Two Bands To Open Season
Burnsville's second annual
Christmas parade to be held
Saturday afternoon promises
to be one of the best small
town parades to be held In
Western North Carolina. Sev
enteen floats are scheduled
for the parade, twelve of
which will be made by busi
ness and organizations in
Yancey County, with five
floats coming from the nei
ghboring town of Spruce
Pine. Two bands will be In
the parade the outstand
ing Harris High School Band
along with the Cranberry
Band will march with the
floats.
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Dan Purr of Charlotte puts
the finishing touches on
cleaning his deer before
cleaning. The buck Is a
THE YANCEY RECORD
Burnsville, N. C.
per napkins and 12,000
square feet of chicken wire
have gone into the making
of this float. It is approxi
mately 43 feet long. Beside
the Girl Scouts, approximate
The parade will start
promptly at 3:00 p. m. at
“LTI Smoky” drlve-in east of
Bumsv lle, and wl l end at
Johnson’s Store west of Bur
nsville.
Prizes will be given for the
best floats. Nine floats from
the county are entering In
competlt’on. Those compet
ing for prizes are: Girl Scout
Troop 65, Brownie Scout
Troop 86, Q’.rl Ecout Troop
88, Burnsville Presbyterian
Church, Yancey Hospital,
Cane Rivr Hieh School Bap
tist and Methodist Church.
South Toe Elementary School
and East Yancey High
sp’ke, weighing C 3 pounds
dressed. The kill was made
Monday in the Mt: Mitchell
Refuge hunting area.
Dedicated To The Progress 0! Yancey County
sty 25 persons have worked
on this float. An estimated
3 000 hours of time will have
gone into the float when it
enters the parade Saturday.
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Hie eight floats to appear
In bhe parade, but not com
peting for pr'zes, include
five from Spruce Pine, one
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Over 500 Deer
Heaters Take
to Weeds
Opening Day
. More than 500 deer hun
ters entered Wildlife areas
in Yancey County as the sea
son opened on bucks in the
western part of the State.
Many more hunters took to
the woods on private and
hunting club property in
different parts of the county.
In the Mt. Mitchell Refuge
area 160 hunters were check
ed in, and in the Flat Top
Mountain area 360 hunters
entered with the hopes of
getting a shot at a buck.
Forty-eight men registered
for the three-day hunt in
the Camp Alice area, accord
ing ,to Lse Boone, manager
of the Mt. Mitchell Refuge
Area. The biggest buck bag
ged during the season was
killed Monday on the Camp
Alice hunt, a 200 pound, nine
pointer. Another, a large
sp'ke buck was also killed in
that area Monday. The deer
were killed by men from
Wilmington and Llrcolnton.
Seven deer In the Mt. Mit
chell a r ea were killed Mon
day. The largest was a 107
pound, s'x Doint buck.
Yancey County men mak-
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Newdale Wins Highest Awards
In Community Contest
Netydale Community was
declared over-all winner in
Community Development at
the annual awards meeting
held here Tuesday night.
First prize was $150.00. New
dale Club was also declared
winner in the Youth Divis
ion, winning a cash award
of $75 00.
Other winners were: Dou
ble Island Second Place,
$100.00; Mlcaville Third
"Place, SBO.OO, and second in
the Youth Division, SSO 00;
Arbuckle Fourth Place,
SBO 00; Mine Fork Fifth
Place, $25.00,- and winner in
the Roadside Improvement
Project, $25 00; Brush Creek
Sxth Place, $25 00, and
winner in the Farm Division;
Rocky Springs was winner of
an honorable mention with
an award of SIO.OO.
Mr Ernest Epplev, Execu
tive Director of WAMY (Wa
tauga Avery, Mitchell, Yan
cey Community Action, Inc.)
under the Economic Oppor
tunity Act and one of the
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Helton Carmichael, repre
senting the Yancey United
Fund, presents check to
Kenneth Dawkins, president
ing a kill on the first day of
hunting were renorted as
Frank Fox. O. B. Wyatt, and
Joe Ca’-roll. Wvatt and Car
roll are Micaville residents,
and Fox is from Burnsville.
According to Lee Boone,
hunting this year has lump
ed off to a better s f a*t this
year than In the 1964 sea
son He said on the first day’s
hunt last year. 2no hunters
only two bucks
Nunbur TMrtuti
judges in the county contest
reviewed the judging and
gave suggestions on improve
ments that the county
should wo k for in 1966.
A. C. Sutton, SCB. Tech
nician .President of the Ag
ricultural Workers Council,
presided.
Helton Carmichael, Chair
man of United Fund
Drive, presented United Fund
money. French Broad Elec
tric was also a sponsor, along
with Northwestern Bank, re
presented by Amey Fox, lo
cal cashier.
E. L. Dillingham, County
Extension Chairman, intro
duced guests, including Ken
neth Saochagrln, Assistant
Exttension Agent, Commun
ity Development.
The meeting was held in
the cafeteria of the Mohasco
Plant of the Burnsville Mill.
Retorts of the highlights
of their accomo-ishments
were made by local clubs.
A movie. “Cow*. Xkb, and
Co-Ops” concluded the
meeting.
of the Newdale Community
dub. The Newdale Club was
first place winner in two
Classifications.
Wildlife Manager Boone
reported that hunters spot
ted three turkeys in the Mt.
Mitchell Refuge Boone said
that the area was s*<v*ked
w'.th turkevs apnroximately
two years a«m. His belief Is
that the turkevs are devel
oping In number and will
provide some good hunting
when the season is opened
on them some time In the,
future.