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Project Designed To Attract
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Men To Furniture Industry
HIGH POINT, N. C —The
Southern Furniture Manufac
turers Association, whose 300
members are faced with a
critical manpower shortage,
and the National Council of
the Boy Scouts of America
are launching a joint project
'designed to attract young
men to the Southern furni
ture industry.
J. Smith Young of Lexing
ton, SFMA president, said the
furniture manufacturers
trade association has adopted
ithe Spocia’-Interest Explor
ing Pregram of the Boy
Scouts of America as its
youth project.
Young, also president of
Dixie Furniture Co., said the
association’s 300 members
will be invited to sponsor lo
cal Special-Interest Expir
ing pots SFMA has mem
bers in 123 cities in 19 Sou
thern and Southwestern
states.
“Within a year,” Young
said, “we hope to set up at
leat 100 new posts with
1,500 high-school agje boys as
members.
“Manpower, both at the
craftsman executive
, level, is our number one pro
b’em ” Young said. “We feel
the Exploring Program offer
an effective way for us to
reach hlgh-schpol boys and
tell them about our Indus
try. We pan to give them
shoulder-rubbing experience
with the best men in our
W.A.M.Y. Announces
Approval Os Grants
By: Ed Anderson
W.A.M.Y. Community Ac
tion, announces the approv
al of four Incentive Grants
to assist Avery County Com
munities with community
development proj ects.
Blevins Creek was awarded
$273.75 to hep with their
water project which will sup
ply running water to 25 hou
ses in the valley. Carey’s Flat
will receive $929.14 to help
develop an outdoor recrea
tion area. Roaring Creek re
ceived SI,OOO to complete a
cemetery beautification pro
ject and LlckLog was grant
ed SI,OOO to complete reno
vation of a community build
ing so that it can be used
for all community activities
These communities select
ed and planned their own
projects and submitted appli
cations to the Screening
Committee In Avery County.
On Thursday, July 28, this
committee approved all four
grants after carefully con
sidering each.
These grants were approv
ed on the basis of the follow
ing criteria: need, particlpa- )
tlon in other projects. Invol
vement of the entire com
munity, adequacy of plann
ing, Importance of project
to the life of the community
THE YANCEY RECORD
P«6icit«6 To Hit fugrtn Os Ywy (o«aty
l•r■!vlll•, N.C.
industry.”
Special-Interest Exp'orlng,
described as “the university
of the Boy Scouts of Ameri
ca,” is for boys between the
ages of 14 and 18. Vocation
al guidance and social acti
vities are stressed over the
mor e wide’y known Scout ac
tivities such as camping and
knot-tying.
Youn" said SFMA mem
bers will have a wide variety
of “spec*a l Interests” from
which to select the one most
suitable for the post the
manufacturer will sponsor 1
They lnc’ude production,
sales and marketing, indus
trial relations, traffic and
transportation, accounting,
forestry, conservation of nat
ural resources, advertising
and many other*.
Offlcia’s of the Notional
Bov Scout Council sa’d the
Southern furniture Industry
Is the first in the nation to
adoot Spec’al-Interest E.x
p’or'ng as an Industrywide
youth proiect.
The S^ecia’-Interest Ex
ploring Program. started In
California In 1956, was laun
ched nationwide In 1959 by
the National Council.
Ther Special-Interest Ex
piring Program was devel
oped to meet the needs and
desires of high-school age
boys as revealed in tne Uni
versity of Michigan survey.
and indication of good faith
to continue to work together
The seven-member Sreen
ing Committee consists of
representatives from commu
nities and public agencies In
the county. The chairman
Is Mr. Walter Hicks from
E.k River, the vice-chairman
Is Mrs. Celeste Brinkley re
presenting the Health De
partment, and the secretary
is Mrs. Edith Barnes from
Carey’s Flat. Other mem
bers of the committee are:
Mr. Ernest Fpplev represent
ing W.A.M.Y., Mr. George
from the Farmers
Home Administration, Mr.
Elbert McCourry from Cran
berry, and Mr. Bill Wilkins
representing the County Ad
visory Committee to W. A.
M Y
Mr. Edward F. Hilton, Jr.,
the Community Develop
ment Specialist with the Av
ery County Agricu’tural Ex
tension Service, helped these
communities to meet togeth
er, discuss their plans, and
prenare their applications.
Any other communities
that are Interested In aoo’v
lrg for an Incentive Grant
should contact the local Ag
ricu’tural Extension Service
or WAM Y : Community
Action. Inc., In Boone, North
Girollna.
Thursday, Aagast IS, 1966
RECORD STAFF
TAKES
VACATION
We first thought we would
not publish a paper this week
so that the Record Staff
could take a well earned va
cation. Then we discovered
that because legal advertis
ing must be run four con
secutive weeks, and because
we had several legal ads,
that we would be competed
to publish a paper this
week. So we all got together -
on| Friday and this is the
result. Just as little as we
could get by with. }
The Editors »
Veterans
Apply For
Home Loans
Nearly 42,000 applications
for home loans under tne
new GI BUI program alreaay
have been received, W. K.
Phil ips, Manager of th«
Winston-Salem Veterans Ad*
ministration Regional Office
reported today. t
A VA study to determine
what Impact the Veterans
Readjustment Act of 1906
(new GI BU ) has bad on the
nation’s economy also show
ed 135JfT|v veterans had IP
plied for certificates of eli
gibility.
In North Caro Una, Phil
lips said the Winston-Sal
em Regional Office had pro
cessed 3503 requests for eli
gibility under the program,
and 1202 applications for
loans had been received.
The number of app’lcatlons
for GI home loans is consid
ered Important because the
lender usua'ly makes the ap
p'lcation, Indicating the loan
has gone through the initial,
or Interviewing stage.
Nearly 15 000 of the new
OI Bt'l loan applications
were made in June. 1116 ap
plications by the peacetime
and Vietnam veterans were
about 60 p°rcent of the
total receivel for the month-
EH, WHAT
A real fine lady who Is in
terested in our welfare call
ed us a few nights ago. She
suggested that we purchase* a
real good Eng lsh Grammar
book before we publish
another Issue of The Record-
We thought about doing
that once. But we finally
settled on buyln<r a copy of
"How To Win Friends And
Influence Peop’e.”
We make mistakes. And
yo« know, not buying that
grammar book may have
been our biggest
Regional Library Hat
Os Now Rook*
By: Ashton Chapman
GOOD HOUSEKEEPINGS
BOOK OF TODAY’S ETI
QUETTE, by Louise Redmond
with Good Housekeeping In
stitute, includes many pic
tures and tells us not only
about the formal etiquette
of weddings and other cere
monial occasions, about in
vitations and replies, proper
forms of address, and all the
other things that most of us
need to look up, but also
answers many questions
about the manners which
apply to the active, Infor
mal life which most of us
lead. ,
TAI-PAN. In this turbu
lant, panaramic novel of
Hong Kong, James C avell,
author of KING RAT, nar
rates the saga of how Straun,
with maiestis vision, ruthless
will and ingenious grasp of
command, guides the devel
opment of a colony destined
to influence the course of
history.
HENRY WADSWORTH
LONGFELLOW, nils study
by Cecil B. Wiliams under
takes, first of all, to redis
cover Longfellow as he was
In the eyes of those who
knew him as a man and |*n
author; it then traces In
extraordinarily full detail
Ii i v he became a national
and world figure In litera
ture.
NATHANIEL HAWTHOR
NE by Terence Martin, who
believes that consideration
of Hawthorne’s “natural
ground of fiction” adds a
dimension to knowledge of
Hawthorne as a writer and
that this can best be under
stood by placing him In the
context of his culture, a
culture Insistently suspicious
of the Imagination.
' -J
THE LIBRARY OF CON
GRESS by Gene Oumey is
the fascinating story of the
world’s largest library, with
over 200 photoes.
I, THE KING by Francis
Parkinson Keyes Is the story
of Philip IV of Spain and the
woman who most influenced
his life. Mrs, Keyes’ avid
readers will probably consld- ,~
th’fc one of the best Vof
her half-hundred novels.
NEVER CALL IT LOVING.
Across the pages of this am
bitious novel by Dorothy
Eden move some of the lead
ing political figures of the
Victorian period Parnel,
Gladstone. Forster, . Joseph
, Chamberlain and the
author has brought them to
vivid, dimensional life.
CARL 1 SANDBURG, This
study by Richard Crowder
focuses on Sandburg’s two
sides: the noisy, brash re
presentative of the laboring
class and the brooding, gen
tie observer of the Ameri
can scene, whether rural or
Nvnbtr Fifty Oit
urban.
O- HENRY by Eugene
Current-Qarcia. Author of
nearly 300 stories, many still
enjoyed throughout the wor
ld in dozens of translated
versions. North Carolina’s
“O. Henry” presents the
paradox of the phenomen
ally popular writer whose
works manage to survive
both the superficiality of
their immediate contempor
ary appeal and the dispara
gement of literary critics.
EUGENE O’NEILL by
Frederic I. Carpenter. This
full-length study of the great
playwright includes Carpen
ter’s attempt to outline
O’Neill’s theory of tragedy,,
in order to describe and to
criticize his plays In terms
of what he was trying to do
rather than In terms of what
critics think he should have
done-
Sample Now
For Fall
Seeded Crops
Now Is a good time to
start sampling your soil to
determine lime and fertiliser
neels for crops to be seeded
this fall says i Mr. E. L.
Dillinghom, County Extension
Chairman. Most small grains
and permanent pastures are
fall seeded and frill require
lime and fertilizer at seeding
time for top returns.
Just because a small grain
Crop fol'ows a highly ferti
lized tobacco croploes not
r.| cassarily mean no fertili
zer Is needed at seeding time.
Likewise It is extremely Im
portant that the lime anl
phosphate needs of perman
ent pastures be app'led and
>bll mixed with the soil at
or before seeding the crop.
Neither lime nor phosporus
move readly in the soil and
thus both are much more
effective when mixed with
the soil before planting ra
ther than topdressed after
the crop Is seeded.
The only accurate way to
determine lime and fertl’l
zer needs Is to have your soil
tested reminds Mr. Dilling
ham. Samp'ing now will en
able you to get the results
back quick'y as lime and fer
tl’liter needs can be deter
mined and app'led by the
timt the crop is to be seeded
this fall.
Fall seeded crops need not
be just something to keep
the soli covered during the
t- winter months. They can be
X profitable if properly man
aged. Don’t neglect fall
crops; get them off to a good
start by having your soil
tested now Then use the. re
su’ts *» a ba»ta for a souhl
fertilization program.