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Miss Doan Will
Attend UN
Seminar
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Miss Lois Evelyn Do*n,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jeff Doan of Route 3, Burns
ville. has been selected,
while serving as the Presi
dent of Yancey County Met
hodist Youth Subdistrict, to
attend the United Nations
Seminar in New York the
week of June 13th. Lois Is a
member Creek Met
hodist Church, and will be
a senior at Cane River High
School this fall.
Uoo*i her return from New
York, Lois will work at Camp
Celo the remainder of the
summer.
Dr. Pierce To Speak On School
Building Program
As an outgrowth of a
proposal made by Dr. J. L.
Pierce, Director of School
for the State De
partment of Public Instruc
tion, Mr. R. a. Radford.
Chairman of Yancey Coun
ty Board of Education, is
announcing a public meet
ing, with Dr. Pierce as
speaker, on Monday even
ing. June 13, at 7:30 o’clock
in the Yancey County Court
house. Members of the civic
organizations', professional,
educational and lay leader
ship, and all Interested citi
zens are urged to attend
this Important meeting.
Dr. Pierce, with the aid
of four associates, made a
complete survey of all the
schools in Yancey County In
January. From their study
they made definite recom
mendations as to how the
$338,000.00 bond money
should be spent. Dr. Pierce
is expected to iiscuss alter
nate plans for an immediate
and long range building pro
gram. He will answer ques
tions to help clarify con
cepts, and formulate poli
cies and plans for the im
“provement trf public educa
tion at the local level.
• It is most urgently request-
THE YANCEY RECORD
Inrnsville, N.C.
Miss Phillips
In Scout
Training
Program
Miss Betty Phillips of Bur
nsville has been chosen to
participate in the program
aide training of Pis'ah Girl
17 at Camp Marion.
A member of Troop 16*
and student of Harris High
Sohoo’. she will loin 16 other
Girl Cadettes and Sen
iors from Ashevll’e, Hender
sonvPe. Columbus, Marion
Waynesville. They will
take training which wl’l pre
pay them to give service to
Girl Scout Troops, dav camps
and other community youth
groups bv sharing and tea
ching skTs in which they
are proficient such as mus
ic. folk dancing, crafts, arts,
drama, nature and camp
crafts.
Upon completion of the
course, they will receive
Program Aide Insignia and
be readv for placement with
troons or In day camps by
neighborhood cha’rmen and
dav camp directors.
These plr’s were chosen
because of th*dr proficiency
in particular skids ability to
work successfully with child
ren and adults, p~d willing
ness to give at least 50 hours
of service following training.
ed that this very Important
meeting be well attended In
order to accelerate plans In
the development of the buil
ding program.
County Ropro*
tented At 4-H
Conference
By: Wftightstlll Avery
Two Yancey County youth
are among 300 boys and girls
from seven Appalachian stat
es selected to attend the
1966 4-H Regional Resource
Development Conference at
Fontana Dam.
They are Nancy Randolph,
dughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Randolph of Bald
Creek, and Dennis Devton,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Yates
Deyton of Green Mountain.
Dates of the conference
are June 8-10. The theme is
“Education and Leadership-
Keys to Resource Develop
ment."
Sponsored by the Tennes
see Valley Authority and the
Tennessee Valley Test De
monstration Association,- Inc.
ip cooperation with state ex
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Didicotcd To Tli> Prograss Os Yaaciy Comfy
cap’ Price Cleanup Campaign Gets Underway
Named To fa County
Atlanta Office
Harvey R. “Cap” Price
becomes first “graduate” of
Job Corps Conservation Cen
ter staffs in North Carolina.
He has been Director of the
Arrowood Center since its
opening in February 1965
among the first in the
United States.
Price wi’l be detailed to
the Atlanta Regional Office
of the Forest Service and
assist in the administrative
direction of the Southern
Re-ion’s seven Centers. Ad
vantage will be taken of his
uniaue experience as a Dir
ector. Joe P. Meadows will
serve as Acting Director at
Arrowood He ha s been De
puty Director in change of
Edrcation since the Center’s
beginning. in announcing
this change. Forest Super
visor Hanlon praised the job
done at Arrowood under
Price’s guidance. “Price has
done a tremendous job In a
pioneering program in
education, job training, con
servation work, and com
munity relations. It took
great personal effort and
dedication an around-the
c’ock effort. An evidence of
this is that “Cap.. sacrific
ed 19 days’ annual leave In
1965 in order to solidify Ar
rowood’* program. Forest
Service and Job Corps peo
ple commend him highly.”
Ayers Commended
For Record
The following statement
has been received by Mr.
and Mrs. Clvde Ayers from
Harry C. Kelly, Dean of the
faculty, N. C. State Univer
sity at Raleigh.
“N. c. State University at
Raleigh commends Jerry
C’yde Ayers for the attain
ment of an outstanding
scho’astlc record during the
second semedar of the aca
demic year 1965-66.”
Jerry Clyde Avers Is the
son of Mr and Mrs. Clyde
Ayers of Burnrvllle.
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A group of beginner and
Nursery children line up
outside the First Baptist
Church. These children and
their leaders, Miss Elizabeth
Thursday, June 9, 1966
An ambitious cleanup ef
fort has been set in motion
during the month of June
with the hope of reclaiming
the attractive, unlittered
beauty of Yancey County.
Under the tag line,
“Spruce-Up Yancey,” a coun
ty-wide campaign is gaining
momentum to rid the county
roads and Burnsville streets
of unsightly Utter, debris,
and junked cars.
The Yancey County Cham
ber of Commerce, which is
promoting this face-lifting
venture, hopes to enlist the
help of individuals, com
munity clubs, civic organiza
tions ,&nd business establish
ments in any project which
will restore the natural beau
ty of our area.
Visible results are already
evident after the first week
of the campaign. In the
Town of MicavUle, for ex
ample, three vacant lots were
cleared-and-mowed by Hob
art Hardin as an enterpriz-
Jng token of community
service.
Arrangements are present
ly being carried out to re
move unsightly junked cars
from county roads and town
streets and transport them
to a final resting place in a
couple of mine holes in the
Mine Fork and Browns
Creek areas, on properties
owned by Johnny Fox and
Dr. Melvin Webb.
Roberts Chevrolet-Butck,
Styles and Company, and
Young Auto Sales are pro
viding the trucks to do the
moving, and the Yancey
County Chamber of Com
merce Is footing the expen
ses.
The Town of Burnsville,
meanwhllle, has redoubled
its effort to remove trash
and litter from the streets.
Town employees recently
removed the unsightly Junk
along the road leading to
the Burnsville water-works.
With the help of W. A.
MY. Neighborhood Youth
V
Anglin and Mrs. Bob Hill
iard, were photographed at
the Dally Vacation Bible
School Preparation Day last
Friday.
Number Forty One
Corps personnel, the Town
completely renovated * the
cemetery at the head of
Academy Street. Town em
ployees are presently reno
vating the old dormitory
and apartment house of the
Parkway Playhouse.
The “Spruce-Up Yancey”
Task Force, promoting the
clean-up campaign for the
Yancey County Chamber of
Commerce, is composed of
Roy Ray, Chairman, Harry
Hayter, George King, John
Powers. Carlie Rice, and
Charles Wesson.
Mars Hill
Awards 193
Degrees
MARS HILL Among the *,
193 students awarded degrees
at Mars Hill College at the
spring commencement this
week was Mrs. Mary Anne
Gibbs, daughter of Mrs.
Willie Ray York of Burns
ville.
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Mrs. Gibbs received a
Bachelor of Science degree
In Business Administration
“cum laude" with honor.
A record crowd of nearly
1800 persons witnessed the
graduation exercises i n
Moore Auditorium on the
campus. They herd Dr. Ben
tley, president-elect of the
college, address the graduat
es. In a speech entitled
“Getting Ahead - Ahead of
What?” he cautioned the
graduates to be sure their
goals in life challenge their
abilities.
"It is myopic,” he said,
“for us to simply do a little
better than the man next to
us; rather, we have to dedt
cnt« our entire lives to the
pursuit of knowledge ,to the
development of our whole
being.
“If we give our all to a
partlcu'ar task or situation,”
he explained, “then, after a
few years, when we pause to
take of our lives, we
will find we have spent ouc»
years wisely.”