Volume 31
Burnsville Receives Powell
Bill Funds
Burnsville is one of 420
munic'palities to share In
more than nine million dol
lars which will go to qual
ifying towr.s and chies in N.
C. this year under the pro
viso s of the Powe 1 Bill. The
'total amount a’localed to
these tov;rs amounts t o
$9.322,714 20.
The funds equal to the
amount produced by one
half ce it of .he regu ar six
cents per gallon mo or fuel
tax levied by the Sta e. are
returned annua lv to partlci
pati g municipalities ! n pro
port o-al shares, based on
the re’at ve non-s'ate s rect
mileare. aid the relative
p-pu’at'o-s of each of the
mu'-icpahtles.
Towns and cities oua’ify
for partic pation under the
Powell Bi 1 bv submittln-r to
the Hghway Commission
each voar data concernl-g
ad va’orem taxes, other
sources of revenue budget
and municipal
e’ecMors.
Burnsville’s share of' "he
“klttv” based on the I Q *O
Ce-sus oouira l ion of ! 3RB,
First Baptist Church Plans
Building Fund Day
The Burnsville First Ba£.-
tst church has set next
Sunday as Lauding Fund
Lay, and the goal for at
tendance Is set at 200 resi
dent numbers at the morn
ing worship hour. This will
mark the first major church
w'-de move set by the finan
ce comm.ttee for the build
ing fund drive..
Rev. Haro d McDonald,
pas or, w.ll use as the tit.©
of h s Sunday mornmg, “It’s
Tme To Move,” based on a
text from Duet. 2:3. This
serv ce wi 1 beg n the ac
tive phase of work toward
fund ralsng for the buld
ing pro ram of the church.
The per od of time be-ween
two aud four o’clock Sunday
afternoon has been set as
ide by the finance committee
to ca’l at the home of every
resident church member to
get building fund pledges.
According to Rev. Mc-
Oona’d, a card has been
prepared for esch member
of the church, ch ldren as
welt as adults, on which
members w : U make pledges
for the bu'ldtng fund. The
Cards w’l be completed In
the homes when a
cal’ed uDon. and the c-rds
w l’ be returned to the chur
ch the same by
the fund raisng commttea
member
THE YANCEY RECORD
Burnsville, N.C.
a~d C«rMf ? ed non-system
mi"** of 10.15, amounts to
$8,503 09.
County To Get
Share From
Timber Sale
Yarcey County will re
ceive its share of more than
S2OO thousand to be pa'd to
25 North Carolina counties
for the sa'e of timber from
Natonal Forest land, it was
announced last week
Federal law' provides that
»25 per cent of the receipts
from timber sold be returned
to the county from which
the t mber was sold and cut.
The money to be re umed
to the var.ous counties) is to
be used for schools and
roads in those counties.
Yancey's share of the re
ceipts wLI be $4 498.96.
The goal was set and ad
opted bv the church to
ra se $50,000 from the per
iod cf Sunday, September 1.
to December 31 of th : s vear.
An additional SIOO,OOO will
need to be ra sed by the chur
ch in 1967 and 1968.
The church, whch wll
include an educat-'onal bu ld
4"g, has been estmated to
cost
w : th architectural fees a d
fumlshmg to cost an addi
tions’ $50,000.
Plans are that the ground
breaking for the new
church p’ant will beg'n work
next Anri 0r May.
Architectural p’ans call
for a seating capacity of
approximately 360 in the
sa-ctnarv, w\h a two-story
educational bu ;, ding ade
quate to t"ke care of 300
peonie. A’so. the budding
is being dps gned on the
church proo»rty so that fu
ture expa-s'nn may be made
when needed.
The firm h'red to do the
arlhitectural work for ihe
church is very adept and
capab e About 85% of their
work is in church buildings.
THE NAME’S THE SAME
The most common surname
in the English-speaking world
is Smith. There are an esti
mated 1,290,000 Smiths in
the U.S. alone!
Dedicated To Thu Progress Os Yancey County
Mrs. Deyton
Takes Pest
With Stoat
Council
Mrs. Mary Margaret Dey
ton has joned the s.aff of
the PiSgah Girl Scout Coun
c 1 in Ashevil e as a field
advisor for Yancey, Mitch
ell. Mad son and Avery
Count es
‘‘v
Mrs. Deyton who is well
known throughout Yancey
and Mitchell Counties, took
rnp her dutes in th s capa
city the f.rst of September.
She Is a graduate of Ashe
ville Normal College and
has worked as Home Econo
mcs Agent in Transylvania
and Mitchell Counties. She
also taught in th e Buncombe
County School system for
one year and at Clearmont
School in Yancey County
for one year.
Mts.. Deyton was chair
man of the Western North
Carohna Community Devel
opment Counc'l for three
years and for the rest two
years she has worked as
agent for Hospital Care As
soc. She is the wife of O.
W... Deyton who owns and
operates Deyton Farm Sup
p’y here and she and Mr.
Deyton and the : r two daugh
ters. Ca‘hy and L : nda, I've
In th e Brush Creek section
of Yancey County.
Thursday, Suptumbtr 8, 1966
Scott Praises Democrat
. /
Leadership In Speech Here
Saturday
Approx mately three hund
red democrats from Yancey
and surround ng counties
gathered at Cane River High
School last Saturday n ght
to har Lt. Gov. Robert
Scott extol Democratic lead
ership from Jefferson to
Johnson.
‘The Democrat c Parly has
led North Carolina to the
place that she is the envy of
the Soiuh and a model, in
one respect or another, of
every s.ate in the Union..
“There s scarcely a month
that passes without office’s
from some Other state that
are here to exam ne some
aspect of our state govern
ment, to see what we are
do ng and how we do it,”
Scott sa ; d.
He also said. “And wh'le
these v : s'tors are with us,
we point with justfiabe
pr de to the fact that our
s'ate government provides
the many services we re
ce ve at a low cost and it is
operated in an effeent
manner”
In speaVng of You-g De
mocrats Scott sa d “The op
or,. unities that are ours
here in North Carolina
ithat are ours in the South—
w;'l demand the best in
leadership that we can pro
duce.”
Lt_ Gov. Scott arrved in
Bur sville in the ear’y after
noon Saturday. Hs plans to
v'sit county farms were
proh'bited because of the
Two Cennty
IRen Assigned
To Germany
WORMS, GERMANY (AH
TNC) Two Army Privates
from Burrsvil'e. N. C., Jack
E. Smith and Stanley l
McMahan, were aasgned
August 17 to the Bth Infan
try Division in Germany.
The sold ers are assigned
as cooks in Headquarters
Company, FTst Batta’ion of
•ihe dvisjon’a j»th Infantry
in Worms. They entered the
Army in March 1960 and
were previously ass’gned to
Army Quartermaster School
at Fort Lee, Vo.
Smith, 19. is a 1984 gradu
ate of Cane R'ver High
School in Burnsville, and ho
Is the eon of Mr. and Mrs.
Oval B. Bm ! th, Route S.
McMahan, 19, is the son
of Mr., and Mrs. Clarenco
Y- McMahan, Route 2, and
he is a 1984 gr-dua'e of
East Yancey H'gh School...
H a wife Be*ty, lives at Bax
27. Broughton Hospital,
Morganton, N. C.
Numbar Two
many peop’e who came by
to dscuss lmp-r.ant State
affa rs with hm.
Mark W. Bennett, Cha r
man of the Democratic
Parly in Ya cey County was
the master of ceremo-res.
Beonelt introduced pol't'cal
leaders and impor‘aot guests
frem th's and other coun
ties. .
R. A Radforl cha’rman
of the Poar l of Education
here, gave an address of
we’come.
D'sl-ngulshed guests at
the fn-d-ra : s<ng
supper and meeting irclud
rd F-iperor Judge
W Ham E Anglin, who
introduced Lt. Cov. Scott,
Coopres«man Pov A. TaVor,
Fr»nk H Watson. Herbert
Er-est Merser, L’ston
Ramsey, Ma-v Fave Bnimhv,
I "cy Thornbure. Gn-do-i
Gree*>wn-d H~rshel
i”s. Zeno and Robert
Huffman. President of North
Caro> : -a Young Democ-ats.
Many other candidates
and political leaders in sur
rounding counties were pre
'sent.
Ten Youths
Leave For
Military Service
Ten Yarcey County youths
left here August 30 . for mil
itary serv'ce according to
an announcement from the
office of the Board of Selec
tive Service.
Those called In August
were Claude Charles Dey„on,
Benjamin Lee Brewer, James
Garrett Ridd.e, Gary Carl
Jobe, Arnold Lee Ball, Avln
Wa lace McDowell, Leroy
Allen Hughes, Ro er Steve
Fox, Wil iam Dwight Wheel
er, and Billy Vance Hensley..
The next draft call Is
schedulel for September 15.
A.S.C.S. Comm.
Flections In Sept.
The real key to the sUv
cess of all ABCS programs Is
the farmer committee sys
tem .
These committee elections
are very Important. We
urge all eligible voters to be
sure and vote for the best
qualified persons on the
ballot. Committeemen elect
ed will take office on Octo
ber l and serve through
September 80, 1987.