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Volume 31 Junior Scout Troop Visits Nursing Home •<®g • 3%®3gga& a , V ' s v % ' : 'l jBWWBpT W p Vp: y|M - -iff | \ if*' Junior Scout Troop Number 88 are shown with patients of Sun Valley Nursing Home. The Troop; under the direc tion of Mrs. Ben Banks and Mrs. George But Tier, made gifts for each patient in the Taylor Appointed To Law Review Comm. # WASHINGTON Con gTossman Roy A. Taylor has been appointed to the Public Lond Law Review Commission by House Speaker John W. McCormack. The 19-member commission reviews laws covering feder ally-owned public lands in the United States and devel ops recommendations for fu ture policies and legislation. These lands include Notion al Park Service and Forest Service property in Western North Carolina. Policies sub ject to commissios review would include those affect ing land recreational use, es tablishment of wilderness ar eas, timber sale policies and multiple use of forest service lands. Taylor is a member of the Missionaries Speak As South Estatoe The Rev. and Mrs. Harold Stcbens, who have spent the last seventeen years in South Africa as Missionaries, will ~ speak at the eleven o'clock serv'ce Sunday, Feb. 19 at v South Estatoe Baptist Chur ch. They will also be speaking and show a film of the'r work at Browns Creek Baptist Church at 7:00 p. m. the same day. Mrs. Stevens is the former Miss Josephine Mumpower, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. R. C Mumpower. Rev. Mumrower is pastor of both the South Estatoe and Browns Creek Baptist Churches. THE YANCEY RECORD Dedicated To The Progress 01 Yancey County Burnsville, N.C. home and visited them last Tuesday. The gifts were de corated containers for the patients to keep their person al belongings in and were made by the Scouts. This is a step toward their My Com- House Interior Committee, from which six appointees to the commission were selected. The Congressman recently became chairman of the Na tional Parks Subcommittee. Interior Committee Chair man Wayne Aspinall (D- Colo.), who also heads the commission, observed that “as an Easterner, Congressman Toylor is from an area of one of the most accessible nation al parks, the Great Smokies, and hs point of view will be valuable to the commission.** OBITUARIES gudoer Mclntosh Gudger Mclntosh, 81, of H’ckory, died unexpectedly at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Milt Robinson of Icard, Mon day morning. He was a son of late Marion and Rebecca Mcln-V tosh of Yancey County. V Surviving in addition to ■ Mrs. Robinson are five other daughters. Mrs. D. L. Aven of Jacksonville, N. C, Mrs. Frank Phillips of Weaverville Mrs. Oscar Tipton of Mica ville, Mrs. Lee Mclntosh tod Mrs. Bill Holcombe, both of Icard; 24 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Senr.ces were held at 11 a. m. Wednesday in Liberty Baptist Church, Hickory. Another service was held at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday in the chapel of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home, Burnsb : lle. Burial was in Mclntosh Ce metery, Burnsville Rt. 3. Thursday , February 16, 1967 Number Twenty Five munity Badge. Mrs. Banks reported that they were very cordially received at the Nursing Home and had a very pleasant visit with the patients and staff. NOTICE The Burnsville Home De uionsrtation Club will meet with Mrs. P. c. Colette an Friday afternoon at 2:30. Girl Scout Cookie Time The Girl Scouts are asking for your assistance in the annual COIKIE SALE. Orders will be taken February 17 or 18th through March 1. Deliv ery will be made March 21 through April l. The cookies are of excellent quality and only 50c per box. MR B. MECKFESSELL Mrs. Maude Sheppard Meckfessell, 82, of South Main St. Weaverville, died unexpectedly at 10 a. m. Tues day. A native of Yancey County she/ was an employe or Qeiz enhamer Rest Home, until her retirement in 1951.. She was a member of the Luther an Church of Clevelanl, Ohio, and had lived there until 18 years ago. Surviving are two ssister* h(rs. Rose Johrson and Mrs. John Silvers, both of Wea verville; two brothers, Lee of Weaverville and Tom Shep pard of Asheville; and several nieces and nephews. Services were held at 10 a. *n. Thursday in West Funer al Home Chapel. The Rev. Hermes Dilday and the Rev. H. 8.. Denby officiated and the body was sent to Cleveland for bural in Lutheran Cemetery. Ne phews served is pallbearer* New Employment Program Underway In W.A.IHI.Y. Area E.Y. Tramples Spruce Pine East Yancey’s teams tramp led Spruce Pine’s Harris High teams on the East Yancey court Tuesday night. In the girl’s g-tme, B. Jones led the scoring with 17 points to lead her team to victory With a 41-17 score. In the first half scoring the Panthers led 21-11. And dur ing the last half of play Spruce Pine scored six more points while the local f.rla dropped in 20. Other girls in the game Were L Jones 0, L. Grind staff 7, Boone 4, Bartlett 2, Wyatt 2„ J. Grindstaff, J. Harris; Hollifield; K. Harris and Murphy. For the Panther boys of East Yancey, it was a run away from the start. ih« final score was 84-46, and the half ime score was 31-21. Hoover led the Panther* with 31 points, with Gibbs second hgh for the tetun with ten. Other players for the Pan thers were Westall 8, Silvers 8, Riddle 8, Young 7, Cleven ger 6, Mayberry 2, Cates 2, Edge 2. Cane River Betas Meet The Cane River Beta Club ■met Tuesday, February 14. The Club first brought up the new business wh'ch was about the officers for the nex:: year, the Beta ccftven tion. We also discussed the Be a Club picnic, new mem bers and entertaining the seniors. The program coiftnittee was selected for the next rronram. They were Theresa Boone, Helena King, and Joyre Chandler.' The peonle on the progarm for Tuesday were Sovnia BpiJry, Devotion; Brenda Buchanan, Prayer; and Ther esa Letterman directed the onen d’scussion on having ac tivities after school andno homework. Rev. Brown Author Os Mediation Burnsville friends of ltev. 0. Lester Brown (former pas tor at Higgins Memorial will be interested to know that be contributed the April 29. h meditation in the March-April issue of the Daily Devotional Guide, THE UPPER ROOM. The problem of high unem ployment existing side by Side with many job vacancies may scou be paiu.ally soived wi.r the start of a new em ployment program in Watau ga, Avery, M.tchell and Yan cey counties. The U. S. Department of Labor announced ihe start of an On-the Job training pro gram in the four counties to train 150 unemployed adults to fill jobs in the aeea. The new program will be supervised by W.A.M.Y.. Com munity Action, which applied for the program through the Labor Depar*ment’s Bureau of Apprenticeship and Train ing. Under the program, small businessmen may be paid up to $240 per trainee to cover training costs 6* HSt? em ployees recruited by W. A. M. Y. Many trainees will come from the ranks of the Neigh borhood Youth Corps, but all unemployed a’ults 18 and over will be eligible for trail*- ing. The program will have the support and cooperat on of the Employment Security Com mission, which has found that many small businessmen in the area need more iem plcyees, but in many caS£s cannot afford the hin-h cost of training new people. W.A.M.Y. Youth Corps of fic:als believe the job training program will round out their own progress by providing many permanent jobs for youths after they com plete the Youth C~rps Train ing period wrich runs from 6 months to a year^ Cost of On the Job Training program will be $40,583 for 1967. / Director of the progarm will be Claude Williams of Avery County. Employers and unemployed persons In terested in the program should contact Williams at the Boone W.A.M..Y. office* Students On Dean’s List MARS hill Sixty Mars Hill students achieved places on the Academic Dean’s Honor List on the basis of grades for the recently-ended fall-wmter smester. To be eligible for the honcr a student must score at least a 2.5 grade ratio while taking at least 12 semester hoar* of studies. This means an over-*u average of at least be.ween "B" and “A". The school is a liberal arts Baptist college of nearly 1400 students, located in the moun tains near Asheville, N. C. Among those mak ng suffi cient grades to achieve the honor are Barbara June Fox tod Wanda Jtkn Riddle' Os Burnsville.
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