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Chamber Group Makes Presentation To C. & D. An important effort toward attracting new industry to Yan cey County was made some weeks ago when a task force of our Chamber of Commerce made a presentation to the staff of the State Department of Con servation and Development of what our county has to offer industry. This undertaking was, in short, an effort to "sell” Yancey County to the C. & D. people, who in turn are in a position from time to time to direct this way some industry that is looking for a plant loca tion. me presentation appears to have been an outstanding suc cess. It was made in the C. & b. offices in Raleigh by Wood ward Finley, Bill Banks and Philip Thomas, Olen Shepard and Bob Helmle went along on the trip to assist in the presen tation and to answer questions. In order to keep in touch with the prnb'ems of industry loca tion at the grass-roots level the C. & D. people have established a practice of inviting each mon th one county to come to Ral eigh to make its presentation and informally discus its prob lems. Through the C. & D. office in Sylva arrangements were made for our Chamber of Com merce to participate in this program. f. Y. Working Toward Southern Assoc. Accrediction East Yancey, in the desire to" become a member of Regional Accrediting Agency, the South ern Association of Scrools and Colleges, has been following, the necessary procedures. Both East Yancey and Cane River ILgh Schools have been accredited with the State Sys tem since 1959. Neither of the high scrools, however, is a member of the Southern Asso ciation of Schools and Colleges. East Yancey is working to that end. t\ complete State reevaluation is necessary , and for East Yancey this was the first step taken. A complete initial self study by each department of the school was the first step in tre process. And in the study of the departments, care was taken to be objective in all areas, stress ing particularly strength and weakness. The weaknesses ascerta'ned by the study were strengthened as much as possible prior to visitations by State Department officials. Each department of the school was visited by appropriate f fate personnel, and their help ful find ngs were reporied t 0 the local school board end to the school. The final overall vis it by state officials came March 21. The formal report which will determine the status of the school will be received at a lat er date. It is expected, however, that the school will be accredit d by the State System another a —^ e ditation is necessary vear. * . "1 yearly report by * /fy. officials wil 1 be group, with * by' s " toe South- Pc s V* K valuation THE YANCEY RECORD Our task force carefully pre pared and rehearsed its pre sentation, all of which was ill ustrated with projected colored slides. The scenery, general features of the county and pro spective plant sites were all photographed. Charts showing significant economic informa tion, particularly regarding our labor supply, were also made into slides, as were also plats of our plant sites. Woody Finley made the gen eral introduction of the presen tation, including the basic infor mation regarding our county’s economic problems. Bill Banks gave an entertaining descrip tion of the County’s chief fea tures, making Yancey County sound very attractive, indeed. Philip Thomas discussed in seme detail our labor supply, and the sites available to In dustry. The presentation was follow ed by informal general discus sion. At the close of the meet ing staffmembers expressed themselves as highly pleased with the presentation, describ ing it as perhaps the best that had been so far made. Our fa»«k force returned to Burnsville well satisfied that good relations with the C. k D. people hM been established. Now! CAMARO PACESETTER SALE! ...... . ' Comoro's lower, wider,heavier,roomier then ony ether car at its price. And starting today, there's another reason fc buy right away: specially equipped Comoros ot special savings. | a55-hpSix, I tra interior trim, I yards, front and rear, ody side striping. T! h6C<* - Mripe d transhT.i**' on ost! and save! 500 PACE CAR -- | BUICK, (NC. u rnsville, N.C. facta rer ’ s License No. 110 Yancey Library Shows Progress By: William N. Hess, Asst. Regional Librarian From a slow beginning when first “unofficially” organized by the Burnsville Women’s Club, in 1923, the Yancey County Public Library has continued its progress forward in step with the rest of Yancey County. In 1945 the “official” puu.ic library was organized by reso lution of the Yancey County Board of Commissioners, and the firdt $300.00 of State Aid was obtained. In 1950 county wide bookmobile service began. After many moves (from the second floor of tha Briggs Buil d.ng, and the basement of Lloyd Elliott’s Building,) the library is now located in the Randolph Building on Academy Street. This last move will not be soon forgotten by the parfeipanta therein, for it was accomplish ed in a driving, freezing, all day rain and snowstorm, on January 19, 1961. In 1952 a co-operative effort with Avery and Mitchell County libraries led to the establish ment of an excellent mineral collection, still growing and part of a special state-wide interlib rary loan collection, f nanced w : th a special state appropria tion. In 1957 a federal aid grant for a three-county cooperative service and walk-in bookmobile was obtained, and a subsequent spec'al federal grant paid the cost of producing catalog cards for all of the 3 county libraries. In 1961, Yancey County Public Library joined with the county libraries of Avery and Mitchell counties to establish the Avery- Mitchell-Yancey County Region al Library, thus making the to tal library resources of all three county libraries available to any library patron in any of those counties. The Yancey County Library patron now has available more than 33,000 volumes of fiction, non-fiction, and reference ma-> terial. In addition phonograph records of many types of mus ic, as well as tape recordings are available. Under the aus pices of the state-wide Adult Fi'm Project, a patron may book over 1,000 films for snow ing to any interested group As well, the Library has films pro vidtd from many other sources, one of which is the Canadian Travel Bureau, gnd easily av ailable, with ume advance not ?ce to the i . a! librarian. \ lo ••*! history file ' is been started and an effort will be rade soon t tone regard the “memores” of many of our early settlers to provide a "living ristory” of Yancey County. The excellence of the Avery- Mitchell-Yancey Regional Lib rary was recognized nationally in 1965 when the Library was the recipient of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher award o f $1,000.00, being one of 10 libra ries throughout the United Stat- THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1967 Freeman Assigned To Military Police Bat. % SAIGON. VIETNAM (AHTNC) —Army Private James D. Free man. 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert W. Freeman, Burnsville, N. C., was assigned to the 716th Military Police Battalion near Sa'gon, Vietnam, March 24. Freeman, a military police man with Company A of the battalion, entered the Army In October 1966 and was last as signed at Ft. Gordon, Ga. He was graduated from East Yancey High School in 1964 and from Blanton Business College in 1966. H s wife, Deana, lives at 457 Hendersonville Road. Asheville, N. C. 'a es so recognized. Current members of the Yan cey County Library Board are H. G. Bailey, Chairman; Edgar Hunter, Jr., Secretary: Har'on Hollombe, Rev. Woodward Fin ley, Boyd Laws, and Yates Ba : 'ev. Regional Library Board mem bers are H. G. Bailey, Charles Edwards, and Mrs. W. A. Y. Sargent. The local librarian is Mrs. Mary M. Young.
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