WABIY Beard To Moot Jan.
24 In Spruce Pine
The Board of Directors Os
W.A.M.Y. Community Action,
Inc., w:ll hold us regular
quarterly meeting Tuesday,
Jan. 24, at 7 p m. in Spruce
Pine. TTie meeting wdl be held
in the Audit: r,um of Harrs
Elementary School.
This wll be the first meet
ing of the newly re-organized
Born. Officers will be elected
at the meeting, which will be
open to the public.
One-third of the 60 mem
ber Board is elected at im
munity elections in Watauga,
Mitcholl, Avery and. Yancey
Counties; and the other two
th’rds of the Board Is appoint
ed by civic groups, and publie
5 tgcnts In the four counties.
The Board is a Policy mak
ing body of WA.MY, and it
makes the final decision on
programs to develop human
resources in the four coun
ties. It is res onsible for sub
mitt:ng requests to govem-
and private sources
for money to run. the W. A.
M Y. rrngrem in the area.
CHURCH
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NEWS
Miss Janet Wilson, daugh
ter of Mi - , and Mrs. Charles
Wilson, Jr., of Route 2, enter
tained the Youth Fellowship
of Martin’s Cnapsl Methodist
Church at a ±.any on Friday
night. About 20 young people
attended. Rev. and Mrs. Jones
• and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
chaj roned the group.
•• • •
Rev Woodward Finley of
the Burnsville Presbyterian
Church was elected Modera
tor of the Presbytery of Hol
ston of the United Presbyter
ian Church at a meeting in
Erwin, Tenn. on Saturday,
the 14th.
The Women of the Church
of Burnsville Presbyterian will
meet in Fellowship Hall at
the Church on Tuesday night.
•• S e
January Bible Study Week
will beg : n at the First Ban
tist Church on Sunday, the
22nd, and run through the
26th. The first class wll be
at 6:30 Sunday and adjourn at
8:15. Classes through the re
mainder of the week will be
gin at 7:00 and run until 8:30.
There will be classes for be
ginners through the adul’s.
A nursery will be provided for
children under three.
Sunday, Jan. 22, is desig
nate,) as "Baptist Men’s Dav".
Ed Buckner, Pres, of Baptst
Men’s Organi/a'ion, will pre
side over the Sundry morn
ing worship service. The mes
s-ice will be presented by I. E.
Clevenger, Dover Fouts, and
Bill Banks.
•• • •
A snecial course on Meth
odist BePefs, as'related to the
New Tes‘ament, is being con
ducted by Rev J. M. G. War
ner, paster, att Higgins Mem
orial Me‘hod'st Church each
Sunday evening at 7 o’clock.
•• • •
The Wes f em Nor’h Caro
lina Baotist Pastors’ Confer
ence will hold a snecial called
meet ng on Monday, January
23. at 10-30 am., at the First
Bsntlst Church of W«ynes
vil’e. This meeting was re
quested by of the Con
ference at the last regular
meeting.
THE YANCEY RECORD
Several new prrdeets are to
be d : s-ussed at the meeting.
One of thpse is on-the- ; ob
training, which h*s been ap
proved and is awaiMng the
final signing of contrect in
Wssh-ngton. This program
will pry small business men
for training new workers in
their business.
Ano'her program would
provide job ejmerienee for
unemoloved men through
work on beautifying and Im
proving common : tv perks,
playgrounds, brit-Mug* a nd
other public property.
A ih'rd pro-ram
expected to be hel-'ul to
town and countv hesPh boar
ds Is a human resour-** Plan
ning project that would do
r««ear-h to find out wh-t ad
ditional resources develop.
Want rr"»*ect* need
whrt government end
rfvate resour-ag are available
for youth in the area.
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Burris Joins Community
Action Program
Eugene Burris, a Baptist
minister from Raleigh, lus
joined thir Yancey county
community action program as
coordinator for the Vv.a.m.y
staff in the county.
Burris succeeds Ken San
chagrin in the position. San
chagrln, who has worked as
acting coordinator while Bur
ris completed his seminary
training at Wake Forest, will
continue to work for W.A.M.
Y., temporarily doing research
in the marketing of local
fruits and vegetables.
As W.A.M.Y. Coordinator
in Yancey County, Burris will
be responsible for seeing that
all the community action pro
» grams In the county are car
ried out smoothly and effi
ciently.
Eurris is a native of Albe
marle, North Carolina and
worked for nearly seven years
as pastor of the Zion Baptist
Church near Statesville. He
also served as pastor of the
Hi hland Baptist Church in
Raleigh for 15 months.
He attended Mars Hill Col
lege for two years and trans
ferred to the Southeastern
Seminary at Wake Forest to.
complete his undergraduate
study with a degree in educa
tion.
He worked as a school tea
cher in the Yadkin County
schools for three vears before
entering the Wake Forest
seminary in 1963. He graduat
ed from the seminary this
month with a Bacelor’s Degree
in Divinity.
Burris is the minis
ter to work fey W.A.M.Y. ns
a county coordinator. Bob
Wagoner, Avery county coor
dinator is a’so a Baptist min
ister. A third. Hu"h Wire In
Watauga Cowiptv, W.-S a min
isterial before Hoing
the WAM.v. s taff. Mitchell
countv coordinator Jason B.
THURSDAY. JAN 1<), 1967
Rotating
Tobacco
Pays Off
roMi Blankenship 0 f .t a -ks
C-eek community : ias frun.l
that r.'trting h s burley t, -
tac-o rays off.
Blankensh'n said that, he
used two fields for p-rowi g
tobreco. On one field*' he
grows his tobacco for the
current year. On ihe o!her
field he uses a grass sod.
The next year he reverses
the crops
He has been able to get a
better yield of h'rher quality
tobacco from his rota*, ion. In
addition to being free from
brown d sease, the soil absorbs
more water, works better,
and has less erosion.
Dpvf.op formerly superin
tendent of schools in that
county.