Volume 30
Medicare Registration
Days Announced For
Counties
‘•Medicare Registration
Daysr’ have been scheduled
in Yancey, Mitchell, Avery,
and McDowell Counties to
give people 65 years old and
oiaer the opportunity to sign
up for this health insurance
program under Social Sec
urity.
D. C. Nichols, field repre
sentative from the Asheville
Social Security district offi
ce, in announcing the sched
ule of “Medicare Sign-up
Days,’’ emphasized that' all
those 65 or over or who
will be 65 by June 1, 1966
and who have not already
signed up for this hospital
and medical benefits protec
tion, “should do so without
fail and without delay.”
Nichols urged all aged
people to ccme in if (1) they
are receiving Social Security
benefits but have not sent
back a marked and signed
card-form regarding the
supplementary medical plan,
(2) they are receiving wel
fare assistance but have not
completed and returned the
blue application form re
cently sent to them, or (3)
they are not receiving either
S~cial Security or Welfare
Assistance, and have not al
ready signed up for Medicare
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Baptist Theological Seminary Group Sings Here
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The residents of Burnsville
and surrounding communi
ties enjoyed a rare privilege
on Friday night, the 28th,
when the SEMINARIANS,
und§r )the direction of Will
iam y Hooper, presented an
unus>nUly fine concert at the
First Baptist Church. The
eighteen young men in the
group are students at the
THE YANCEY RECORD
Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancty County
Burnsville, N.C.
Robinson Wins
' Book Design
Award
RICHMOND, VA. A
Book design by Doyle Robin
son has won a first place
award in the fourteenth an
nual Southern Books Compe
tition. The book selected by
the group is from the John
Knox Book, Selected Pray
ers, by Karl Barth.
Of the more ■> than 500
books entered in the compe
tition, only 21 were singled
out for first place awards.
John Knox ls 4he only reli
gious press to make the list.
Mr. Robinson, who designs
most of the covers for John
Knox books, also recently
won an award in the Richr
mond Art Director’s Exhibi
tion.
Mr. Robinson is a former
resident of Burnsville. His
• mother, Mrs. Lillian Robin
son, now lives in Asheville.
February is
American Heart
Month!
School or Church Music, New
Orleans Baptist Theological _
Seminary. In spite of the
very severe weather and
deep the church was
filled almost to capacity by
a very enthusiastic audience.
The choir of the church
entertained the grouD with a
supoer in Fellowship Hall
before the concert. They were
Thursday, February 3, 1966
Messer
Announces For
House seat
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ERNEST MESSER
Ernest Messer, a member
of the North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly from Haywood
County, announced today
that he is a candidate for
ope of the House seats in
■ —tfie newly created 47th
House District, composed of
Yancey, Madison, and Hay
wood Counties.
Messer served in the 1963
and 1965 General Assemblies.
In 1965 he was vice-chair
man of the committees on
Education and Manufactur
ing and Labor, and was a
member of the., Appropria
tions, Counties, Cities and
Towns, Insurance, Public
Welfare, Roads, and Salaries
and Fees committees.
thrilled by an overnight stay
at Nu-Wray Inn, and the
‘ special interest taken in
them by Mr. Rush Wray and
family. Because of the fri
endly Interest shown them
bj the Burnsville commun
ity, and particularly the
choir of the First Bontlst
Church and Mr. Ru'h Wray,
we feel that they will be fine
ambassadors of Burnsville.
Carolyn Ray Receives
Reynolds Scholarship At
School OYlledicine
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WINSTON-SALEM, N. C
Miss Carolyn LeNora Ray of
Burnsville is one of eight
North Carolina college stu
dents who have been select
ed to receive Reynolds
Scholarships for study at
the Bowman Gray School of
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MISS CAROLYN RAY
Meet Set For
Work-Study
Positions
Representatives of Public
Agencies and other qualified
organizations who will be in
terested in hiring Work-
Study students this summer
are urged to attend a meet
ing in Spruce Pine on Feb.
3. High School seniors who
desire work-study positions
In colleges for this fall term
are also Invited to attend.
The meeting, under the
supervision of T„. A. “Tag”
Guiton, Jr. of the N. C.
State Dept, of Public Wel
fare, will be held at the Old
Shop building of Harris Ele
mentary School at 4 p. m.
Messer is a native of Hay
wood County and now lives
in Canton, where he is em
ployed as a supervisor in
the Wood Procurement De
partment of Champion Pa
pers.
He Is a graduate o! Carson
Newman College and, after
graduation, taught In the
Haywood County schools for
three years.
A Navy veteran of World
War 11, Messer Is a member
of the American Legion and
the Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
Messer is a member cf the
Canton First Baptist Church
and the Canton Lions C’ub.
He is on the board of direc
tors of the Haywood County
Mental Health Association,
the Canton Red Cross, Rob
ertson Memorial YMCA, and
the Champion Credit Union.
Nnnihur Twenty Thru*
Medicine.
Miss Ray, a senior at Duke
University, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Mack B. Ray
of Burnsville.
The scholarship program,
sponsored by the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation , will
provide each of the reci
pients $14,000 during four
years of medical school. In
addition, the foundation will
supplement the internship
salary of each scholar, dur
ing the fifth year of medi
cal education, providing him
an income of $5,000 for that
year.
Selection of the scholars
is made by the medical
school’s committee on ad
missions on the basis of
character, scholarship, po
tential as a physician and
financial need.
The scholars, who will en
ter the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine next
September, include Robert
G. Austin Jr. of Monroe, a
senior at Davidson College;
J. William Eakins of Ivan
hoe, a junior at the Univer
sity of North Caro’ina; Wil
son O. Elkins of Greensboro
a Junior at the University
of North Carolina; Jimmy
G. Harris of Valdese, a sen
ior at Wake Forest College;
Hersey E. Miller of Waynes
vllle, a senior at Wake For
est College; John C. Morri
son Jr. of Raleigh, a senior
at the University of North
Carolina; and P. Samuel
Pegram Jr. of Greensboro, a
senior at the University of
North Carolina.
The formal presentation
of the scholarships will be
made May 18 at the annual
swards banquet in Winston-
Salem.
During the nine years the
scholarship program has
been in effect, the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation has
awarded more than $1,350,-
000 in scholarships to sup
port medical education.
In order to be ei!«>We for
a Reynolds Scholarship, a
student must be a native or
a legal resident of North
Carolina. The recipient is
expected to fallow his pro
fession in North Carolina
after the completion of his
formal medical education.
Miss Ray, who will receive
her B. A. degree in June, Is
president of the Order of
Hippocrates, honorary pre
medical society at Duke. She
also has served as vice pre
sident and secretary of the
Duke Pre-Medical Society.
The recipient of a schol
arship for ranking second
in her freshman class, she
was an Angler B. Duke Fi
nalist, a scholastic honor
for freshmen and sopho
mores.