Volume 31
Mrs. Graham Named
laster Seal Chairman
CHAPEL HILL Mrs.
Billy Graham, wife of the
famed evangelist will serve as
1967 Easter Seal Chairman
for North Carolina, it has
been announced by L. H.
Mount, of Durham, preside.
of the Nor.h Carolina Society
for Crippled Children and
Adults.
This marks Mrs. Graham’s
second successive year as
Cha rman of toe Annual Eas
ter Seal Campaign. Last year
she spearheaded the most
successful drive in the hEtory
of the Eas.er Seal Society in
its appeal to the public for
support of Ls programs in re
habilitation of toe physically
handicapped.
Thousands of volunteers
will be involved In the an
nual solicitation of funds for
crippled children in North
Carolina, according to Mrs.
Graham.
"There is nothing so im
portant as seeing that our
children get the r’ekt start
in life, she said. "And believe
me, there is certainly noth
ing more important than see
ing th t crippled children with
handicaps of any kind have
Employers Urged To Take Advantage
Os On-The-Job Training Program
Small business men in Av
ery, Mitchell, Wautauga
and Yancey Counties can
now take advantage of a
government specialized train
ing program £hat previously
has been reserved for large
employers, accordlrg to
Claude Williams, WAMY coor
dinator for on-the-job train
ing.
"New programs," Williams
said, "will not only help
small employers to gut »w
workers, but will assist indi
viduals who need on-the-job
training and employment.”
In ithe past it has not been
poss.ble for small employers to
engage in and obtain financial
ass stance for conducting su h
a program for new employees.
This Is bectfuse of the cost of
THE YANCEY RECORD
Dedicoftd To Thm Progress Os Yancey Counfy
Burnsville, N.C.
a chance to either correct or
overcome the‘r handicaps and
grow up alongside normal
children."
"We wate, all of our child
ren to have full, good lives
lives of dignity and independ
ence. Camp Easier in the
Pines, the Society’s Camping
facility at Southern Pines, as
an example, helps many crip
pled children each year in
this respect.”
“I haven’t a question in my
mind that when our neighbors
know what Ea.ter Seals are
doing to make this a better
world for crippled children
and adults, as well th?A
they willl be generous in their
support. It is our neighbors
and their children who bene
it from these services —« to
day and tomorrow. We will
all help, I know.”
The Campaign opened on
February 20, and will contin
ue until March 26, Easter
Sunday.
Burnsville
School Has
Citizenship
Program
The Burnsville Elementary
School held £helr Parent Tea
cher Associatios meeting Tue
sday evening in the school
auditorium..
The program, under the dir
ection of Mrs. Kenneth Liu
ghrun, was on Citizenship
and Patriotism.
Members of the 6th, Th,
and Bth grades participated in
toe program with Johnnie
Biggerstaff and Jeff Bailey
singing The Star Spangled
Banner..
Miss Sarah Hensley was
paper work necessary and toe
number of people involved in
the program:
On the other hand, large
businesses employing many
people have been receiving
funds in substantial. amounts
for years to cover training
costs through such a program.
One of the important situa
tions from the employers veiw
po nt will be the reimburse
ment of up to $240. to cover
cost for training new em
ployees in new skills. Also,
community groups and other
workers wtoin the WAMY
organization will aid in loca
ting new employees to fill
available on-the- job training
positions.
Under toe procedure, po
tental trainees will register
with the local employment
Thursday , February 23, 1967
TOE RIVER BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
BEGINS AT EAST YANCEY SATURDAY
NIGHT
Appropriation
To Parkway
Playhouse
Rep. Ernest B, Messer ad
vises this week that he and
Rep. Liston Ramsey of Mar
shall recently l Produced a
$25,000.00 appropriation bill in
the General Assembly for aid
to the Parkway Playhouse.
The Bill specified tha.t the
appropriation "shall be used
for the purposes of construct
ing, altering and improving
•the physical plant of the
Parkway Playhouse, Incorpor
ated
Since the Board of Education
of Yancey County holds title
•to the property, with a lease
to the Directors of the Prak
way Playhouse, it was speci
fied in the bill toat the Cnmty
Board of Education would dir
ect and supervise expenditure
of the funds.
Rep. Messer has been as
s gned to -the following com
mittees: Chairman, Manufac
turers and Labor; Vice Chair
man, Senatorial Districts-
Vice Chairman, panel Institu
tions: member, Appropriations;
member, Congressional Dis
tri'to; ' member, Education
member, Wildlife; and meml
ber, Salaries and Fees.
narrator for the proram
which emphasized Freedom in
our country.
Mr. Ed-rar Hunter, prfaci
c»l discussed the school
building program which is in
the planning s’age..
Refreshments were served
by the hostesses and the col
or scheme was red, white
and blue.
security office which will re
port to employers.
Hie employees will, of
course, hire and supervise their
trainees in the same manner
as they would any employee,
The employers may, at the'r
own discretion, relieve trainees
at any fine for fa-lure to re
spond properly to training and
work assignment.
Persons interested in fram
ing through this program
should contact their nearest
local employment security
representative. If th ! s is no*
convenient, they should con
tav, WAMY office or Claude
Williams.
The employer should con
tact Williams Individually or
the nearest WAMY office.
WAMY offices have telephone
directory listings.
The annual Toe River Bas
ketball Tournament will be
s.aged on the East Yancey
ccuft again this year.. The
opening game will begin on
Saturlay at 6p. m.., when
Newland and Tipton Hill boys
meet.
East Yancey girls will meot
Newland High at 7:30 Satur
day ni|.ht, the Crossnore boys
will take on Bowman of Bak
ersville i«t 9 p. m’
On Tuesday night, Feb. 28,
at 6p. m. Crossnore and
Cranberry g rls meet.. At 7:30
Cranberry boys and Harris
High of Spruce Pine clash,
anl at 9 p. m.. #ihe strong Re
bel team of Cane River will
take on Tipton Hill girls..
The final first round will
be Wednesday night, March 1..
Spruce Pine and Bakersville
girls meet at 7:30. But the
fir:it game of the night will be
Cane River and East Yascey
at 6 o’clock.
Heart Sunday
And You
'to
The Heart Fund volunteer
who rirgs your doorbell with
in the next several days de-
Sprves to be greeted with a
smile, a warm handclasp and
a generous contribution.
In a se. se, she is working
for you, and over the years
her services combined with
•those of millions of other
volunteers have helped to
save thousands of lives.
She Is fully entitled to share
with medical science the cre
dit for dremrf’c advances
achieved over the past 15
years in the fight againrti
heart and blood vessel dis
eases.
To be sure, these specta
cular gairs were achieved *o
•the scientists. But never for
get that much of this re
search act'vVy was underwrit
ten by dollars which she and
others like her so laboriously
collected. .
So give generously. Put o>-t
welcome mat. Make this
Ihe ' moV successful Heart
Sunday appeal in the history
of our community. Give so
more will live!
Number Twenty Six
Champions of the tourna
ment last year were Cane
River’s and East Yancey’s
boys. These teams are lead
ing in the conference again
th s year’
Full outline of the tourna
ment schedule may be found
on the inside in this issue.
Semi-finals and finals will
be played Friday and Satur
day nights of ne it week
N.C. Fund
Receives
Grant
Durham, N C. The
North Carolina Fund an
nounced today that it has re
ceived $4,500,000 in grants
from its three supporting
foundations. The Fund, a
three and a half-year-old or
ganic it on created to experi
ment wUh solutions to the
ibate’s poverty problem, re
ceived $3 million frdm the
FOrd Foundation, $975,000
from the Zachery Smitr Rey
nolds Foundation, and $525,-
000 from the Mary Reynolds
Babcock Foundation, to fi
nance the Fund’s activities
ithrourh a period ending in
Sentember, 1968.
The $3 million from the
Ford Foundation is the final
ir.tellment of a total $7
million tentatively pledged to
toe Fund in 1963. The recent
grants from the Reynolds and
Babcock foundation are the
balance of a total $2.5 million
tentatively appropriated by
those foundations in 1963 as
metohing funds to combine
with the Ford money in sup
port of the North Carolnia
Fund effort.
Since 1963 toe Fund has
supported 11 community ac
tion programs in various parts
of the s’.'to, plus many ex
perimental projects Including
the North Carolina Volun
teers, studying effectiveness
of college students in com
munity action work; Man
power and Mobility, two pro
grams aimed at relieving un
employment problems of for
mer agricultural workers.
Other Fund activities include
one of the nation’s most com
prehensive research efforts in
the area of poverty problems.
The Fund also made many
direct grants to community
action programs, e ’uc.'tional
institutions, and civic organ
izations concerned w’to prob
lems of poverty. Fifty-seven
per cent of tre Fund’s grant
monies ($2.1 million) has gone
directly to state agencies to
finance special programs in
‘ the areas of education, men
tal health end technical as
sistance to community action
programs.