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GLEN RAVEN PLANS OPEN
HOUSE MAY 20
Plans are being made at
Glen Raven Silk Mills, Inc.,
for an Open House, to be
held Friday, May 20, 1966.
This Open House, to which
the public is invited, is
being planned and imple
mented largely through the
efforts of Glen Raven em
ployees.
There will be displays illus
trating a variety of subjects.
The Fire and Safety Brigade,
under the direction of
Champ McMahan, will have
a display on safety and the
mill’s safety record. Edgar
Angel, Brooks Boone, Zenus
Metcalf and Howard Bennett
from the shop are working
on product displays and
lighting. Paul Fox, David
Boone, Jodie Russell and
( Arsenic And Old Lace’
Howling Success
Joseph Kesselring’s com
edy, “Arsenic and Old Lace",
presented by the Drama De
partment of the East Yan
cey High School Friday
night, the 29th, directed by
Mrs. Elizabeth Westall, as
sisted by Student Director,
Ramona Penland was a
“howling success”, as eviden
ced by the applause and
laughter of the large crowd
in attendance.
This comedy, long a fav
orite of stage, screen and
TV, is centered about the
Brewster family, and the en
tire action of the play takes
place in the living room of
the Brewster home in Brook
lyn. The play centers about
the “hobby” of the two
Brewster sisters Abby,
played by Jennifer Fox, and
Martha, played by Linda
Wilson, and their three ne
phews, Teddy, played by
Gary Blankenship, Mortimer,
played by Dan Banister, and
Jonathan., played by Ronnie
Webb. The pecu’ar hobby of
the two spinster sisters, Is
giving a home to lonely old
men, who they feel will be
better off dead, which, after
a proper period, they cheer
fully go about accomplishing
through the serving of their
famous e’derberrv wine laced
with arsenic. The disposal
of the bodies is carried out
by their “teched” nephew
Teddy, who believes himself
to be Teddy Roosevelt and is
kept busy digging the Pana
ma Canal in the basement
of the Brewster home, which
proves a handy burying
place for the dear departed.
The “good works” of the
sweet old * ladies, aided and
abetted by Teddy, goes along
smoothly until nephew Mor
timer, the only normal one
In the family, discovers a
body in the window seat
awaiting proper time for
THE YANCEY RECORD
Burnsville, N.C.
even Champ McMahan’s son
and daughter, Jerry and
Lynda, have been making
posters.
Besides local displays,
/there will be exhibits from
the American Textile Manu
facturer’s Institute, Draper
Corporation, Alcortt Boat
Company, Snowiss Fur Com
pany, DuPont, Steel Heddle
Manufacturing Company and
others. Penland School will
have a hand loom in opera
tion to illustrate the differ
ence between the “old and
the new".
A guided tour through the
mill will be the main fea
ture of the event, showing,
the modem machinery and
Improvements being made
at Glen Raven.
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burial. About the same time
nephew Jonathan (Ronnie
Webb) appears on the scene,
accompanied by his partner
in crime, Dr. Einstein (Dean.
Hicks), who are on the run
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Mrs. Angell
Dead
Word has been received
here of the death of Mrs.
Agnes Angell of Miami, Flor
ida, on Sunday, April 17th,
(n Miami. >
Mrs. Angell was returning
from church with friends,
and on their way to a res
taurant for lunch, she co’-
lapsed with a heart attack
and died instantly. She had
requested that her body be
cremeated and her ashes be
buried with those of her
mother in Graceland Ceme
tery in Miami, which request
was carried out on Wednes
day, April 20th.
Mrs? A" veil is survived by
three grandchildren and one
son, Ronald of California.
Mrs. Ange’l, a well loved
and long time summer res'-
dent of Cattail Creek, will
be remembered here for her
sunny disposition and inter
est and participation l" a’l
communltv activities. Wh'le
at her home at Cattail she
contributed a weekly column
to THE RECORD of the
doings of the Cattail
and Pensacola community;
also, upon her return to
mlaml she was in contact
with summer residents of
Burnsville and Cattail, and
kept the readers of the RE
CORD informed of their ac
tivities through a week.y
column.' She shall be greatly
missed by all knew her.
Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey Connty
Banks Youth
Drowns
Funeral services for Hugh
Carson Banks, 14-year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger
ranks of Marion, were held
*in the chapel of Holcombe
Brothers Funeral Home here *
Tuesday of last week at 2
p. m.. Rev Sam Miller and
the Rev. Lois Woodard of
ficiated. Burial was in Banks.
Cemetery.
The youth drowned in a
pond near Marion Sunday,
April 24. He was swimming
in. the pond while a friend
paddled In a canoe neartW.
The boy in the canoe said he
saw the Banks youth go un
der and tried to rescue him
but was unable to do so. He
called for he’p and Banks’
body was recovered. Mc-
Dowell County Rescue
Squad administered artifi
cial respiration, but the
youth was pronounced rear
at a Marlon hospital where
he was immediately taken.
Hueh Carson was a native
of Yancey Countv. but had
• lived in McDowell County
with his family for some
time.
In addition to the father
ar.d mother, he is survived
bv four brothers, Roger
Banks, Jr., who is a student'
at Mars Kid College, Mich
ael, Richard, and Jesse
Banks of the home; his pa
ternal grandfather, Hugh
Bannbs of Burnsville; and
the maternal grandfather.
Post Office
To Be
Remodeled
WASHINGTON —The Post
Office Department will spend
$4,080 00 to remodel the Bur
nsville, North Carolina, Post
Office, Congressman Roy A.
Tay’or announced Friday.
The Postal Department
;will also renew the lease on
the building with Mr. E. L.
Briggs, for 5 years, with S
two-year renewal options.
Rep. Taylor
Announces
Grant
WASHINGTON: Eleventh
District Representative Roy
A Taylor Thursday announ
ced an Office of Economic
Opportunity grant of $21,732
to Watauga, Avery, Mitchell
and Yancey Counties, North
Carolina, for a health fol
low-up program for more
than 400 children. Most of
these children have been en
rolled in Project Head Start.
This program calls for the
coordination of all public
health and community re
sources in the area. Social
workers, nurses, teachers,
and parents will help de
velop plans for treatment of
individual cases.
Thursday, May 5, 1966
BURNSVILLE SCHOOL HOST
TO YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Hie Burnsville Elementary
School was host on Saturday
morning, April 30th, at ten
o’clock, at a concert in the
school gymnasium, rendered
by the Asheville Symphony
Youth Orchestra.
Over 300 school children
and interested adults from
Bee Log, Pensacola, Micavllle
Bald Creek, Clearmont, Sou
th Toe, Hie Arthur Morgan
School, and Burnsville com
posed the very receptive au
dience. It Is felt that lack of
transportation cut down con
siderably on the attendance
of school children.
Mr. Ed Hunter, Burnsville
Elementary School Principal
and Mrs. Don Burhoe, Gen
eral Chairman, gave brief
introductory talks. Mrs. Bur
hoe stated that It was thro
ugh the cooperation of the
Burnsville Elementary Scho
ol and the generosity of the
Asheville Youth Orchestra
that the concert had been
made possible, she also men
tioned that this was a Girl
Scout project, which had
been endorsed by the coun
ty-wide public school system.
Mr. Joseph E. Fischer, con
ductor, and Mrs. Helen Sor
ton, Manager, were intro
duced to the audience. Also
present, and assisting with
the handling of instruments,
was Mrs. Betty Edwards, of
Asheville, District Advisor
fbr Pisgah Girl Scout Coun
cil.
Hie 35 members of the or
chestra ranged In age from
10 to 17, the majority being
In the 12 to 13 age bracket.
Luncheon for all members
of the orchestra was served
in the school cafeteria,
through the courtesy of the
Burnsville Elementary Scho
ol.
Coletta
Member Os
National
Group
BOONE David Coletta,
son of P. C. Co’etta, Burns
ville, is 41 member for the
current term of the National
Newman Student Federation
at Appalachian State'‘Teach
ers College in Boone.
The Newman Student Fed
eration is a national organi
zation of Catholic culture
and fellowship that fosters
the spiritual, intellectual,
and social interests of Cath
olic students at Appalach
ian. The group is organized
on a local, dloceslan, region
al, and national level and
works with other Catholic
groups to promote under
standing of Catholicism.
Coletta is a 1964 graduate
of East Yancey High Bchool
and a college sophomore.
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This concert, which might
be cal’ed the of
the school year, and the 800
children who sot sp-Tbound
during the entire concert, as
well as the "umber of
ested teachers and adults
present. M.n> emohnsis to
the desi*>ab»Htv n f a broader
PUHHc school )nn*l(< rt-'V'r« Tn
in our county school system.
LcG. Deyton
Passes
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L. G. DEYTON
Services for L. Gibson Dey
ton, who died Saturday,
were held at 3 p. m. Monday
at Higgins Memorial Meth
odist Church.
The Rev. J. M. G Warner
and the Rev. Ervin S. Cook
officiated and burial was
in Garland Cemetery, Red
Hill. Pallbearers were Har
old and Johnny Ray, a. G.
and Ronnie Deyton and
Jerry Mann.
Honorary pallbearers were
members of the Men’s Bible
Class of the church.
Mr. Deyton was - a gradu
ate of Rutherford Co’lege
and the University of North
Carolina and had taught
school in Yancey County for
a number of years.
He was county treasurer
for two terms in the early
19305, was director of Public
Welfare here from 1939 to
1965, jWhen he retired, and
was a past president of the
N. C. Welfare Association.
He was a member of the of
ficial board at Higgins Mem
orial Methodist Church and
was a past president of the
Burnsville Lions Club.
Surviving are the widow,
Mrs. Norris Roberts Deyton;
two sons, Charles E. of Char
lotte and L. G. Deyton Jr.
of Edenton; four sisters,
Mrs. Thad Ray and Mrs.
Arthur Letterman, both of
Burnsville, and Mrs. D. H.
Greene and Mrs.. Ne’oe Bur
leson, both of Bakersvllle;
two brothers, R. T. of Kan
napolis and Earl Deyton of ,
Burnsville.