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Shown above are the Micavffle
Cloggers. They are front row,
left to right, Mitzi Laughrun,
Wanda Jo Edge, laary Ann
Gibbs, Anita Boone, Billy Marie
Yancey Youth Win Awards At Youth
Jamberee
Burnsville’s youngest perfor
mer, or the youngest we have
any record of, captured the audi
ence both Friday and Saturday
nights at the Mountain Youth
Jamuoree in City Auditorium.
Little 3-year-old Raylene Fox
sang, tapped and clogged her
way into the winners circle and
brought home a trophy. Raylene,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond Fox of Burnsville, won as
best g'rl dogger and/ as young
est performer. Raylene's song
was “Old Dan Tucker”.
Cathy Griffin from the South
Toe community woo a trophy
in the division of folk songs.
Mrs. Artie Lee Peterson’s Ml
caville Cloggers went into the
Saturday night finals of the
Jamboree.
For several years Mrs. Peter
son has had a group of cloggers
from the third and fourth grades
at Micaville. She teaches third
grade in the Micaville Elemen
tary School.
Last year the young cloggers
from Micaville School were in
vited by Mrs. Hayes to perform
at the Jamboree without enter
ing the competition. Also, last
"The Crucible” At E.Y.
May 4,5
The meaning of "Crucible” is
little known. Before 1624, the
word meant a Jug which strain*
ed and purified the contents as
they were poured out. In 1624,
the word began to figuratively
mean a test or trial of such
severity that all were pure af
terwards. Such a test was the
witchcraft trials in Salem.
Massachusetts.
In 1692, ten girls, ages nine
through sixteen, accused the
West Indian slave of Reverend
Parris, Tituba, who had taught
THE YANCEY RECORD
Burnsville, N.C.
Gilley, Sheree Peterson, Kimber
ly Buchanan and Patricia For
bes; seccnd row, left to right,
Phillip Deyton, Randy Laws,
Tom Griffith, Niles Howell, Tony
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year the group was invited to
dance at the Roan Mountain
Rhododendron Festival at Bak
ersville. The group has perform
ed at the Crafts Festival here,
also.
Mrs. Peterson was invited this
year to enter her doggers in the
Jamboree to compete. The group
woo Friday night and went into
the finals Saturday night
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Mrs. Peterson
them magic tricks, and two
other women of witchcraft. In
the excitement that followed,
hundreds of Salem residents
a were imprisoned; nineteen of
'{ these were hanged.
Arthur Miller’s play "the
Crucible” is a factual drama
based on the Salem trials. The
play centers upon the relation
ship of John Proctor with these
trials.
“The Crucible” will be given
May 4 and 5 at 8:00 p. m.
in the East Yancey High School
Gym.
Dedicated To The Progress Os Yontey County
Oean-up
Campaign
Taking Shapt
Efforts to face-lift Yancey
County’s highland landscape,
tainted by winter’s seige and
human clutter, are now idling
shape 6s plans begin to unfold
for a county-wide CLEAN-UP,
SPRUCE-UP campaign during
the first two weeks in May.
Two prominent Yancey resi
dents, Bob Hilliard and Mrs.
Becky Gillespie, are co-ordinat-
ing the face-lifting effort by the
Chamber of Commerce and are
in the process of securing the
help of clubs, organizations, and
business places in Yancey Coun
ty.
Giving impetus to the cam
paign, several organizations are
already pitching in with plans
that will be carried out early in
May. The Burnsville Volunteer ‘
Fire Department is slate d to
wash Burnsville’s Main Street,
once, a month for a period of
four "months, from Yancey Hos
pital to Young Auto Sales,
around the town square, and
the section of North and South
Main Streets from Higgins Mem
orial Methodist Church to the
19-E intersection.
The firemen have also agreed
to tow away several junked cars
from the central business area.
Members of the Burnsville Sen
ior Woman's Club are scheduled
to do some planting around the
new Courthouse.
Young women of the Carolina
Hemlocks Junior Woman’s Club
propose to do come planting
around the Sun Valley Nursing
Heme and the Boy Scouts of
Troop 502 have three clean-up
projects in m nd within the en
virons of Burnsville.
Thursday April 27,1147
Hughes, Thomas Buchanan, Der
ek Hughes, and Mike Thomas.
Mike stood hr for Dennis Dale
regular member of the dance
team, who was not present for
the picture.
YANCEY COMMUNITIES
ENTERING DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM
A total of t£ organized com
munities 1 in 15 counties and the
Cherokee Indian Reservation
have entered the 1967 Western
North Carolina Community De
velopment Program to date, ac
cr'rdne to Jerry Sutton of
Franklin, Chairman of the area
development program for the
Asheville Agricultural Develop
ment Council.
Two community clubs in Yan
cey county have entered the
area program at this time.
Those entered are: Double Is
land and Green Mountain.
The deadline for communities
to enter the program is May 15.
Participation in the Community
Development Program is open
to any section, whether it be a
farm area, rural non-farm or a
small town, which is carrying
cut an organised improvement
program. Purpose of the com
munity contest is to encourage
community cooperation and
working-together to solve local
problems and to help provide
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New Directors Named
At Chamber Dinner
Rev. Woodward F'aley, presi
dent of Yancey County Chamber
of Commerce, was master of
ceremonies at the Chamber’s
annual banquet last Friday night
at Eeast Yancey High School
when six new members were
elected to serve for the coming
year.
Named as directors were Gar
rett Dixon Bailey. Phillip Tho
mas, Ray V. Miller, Earl L.
B-vies, J. C. Styles and Claude
Vess.
Aii of the newly elected direc
tors are either professionals or
bus ness men who are interested
in Yancey County.
Jack Belt, news director for
WLOS-TV, Asheville, was guest
speaker. In his excellent talk to
the me nbers and off cers of the
Chamber of Commerce, Belt
pointed out the need for every
individual and every community
to cooperate to make Western
North Carolina a better place to
live, and to get the necessary
wm To Go
On Air Soon
Radio Station WKYK in Bur
nsville located in the Wyatt
Building will go on the air some
time during May. Opening date
will be announced later. Tenta
tive plans were for open house
on Sunday afternoon, April 90.
But due to delay in installation
this will not be possible.
According to officials at the
station they will be on the air
possibly the second week in May.
Watch this paper for opening
date.
Numbtr Thirty-Four
do an outstanding job. The pro
gram is sponsored by the agri
cultural agencies in each county
and the Agricultural Develop
ment Council.
Area awards totaling $4500
will be presented tc\ the com
mmrties judged to have made
the most improvements during
the year. In addition, sponsors
in the counties will provide an
estimated SB,OOO in local awards.
The communities will he judg
ed in two groups, the non-farm
areas and the farm section*
Spec al awards will also be pre
sented to those communities
with outstand ng youth programs
and to the areas doing the best
job on clean-up and beautifica
tion.
Communities interested in get
ting organized and enter'ng the
Community Development Pro
gram before the May 15 dead
lne are urged to contact the
County Extension office or other
■« M^OUCIQI,
industries to hold our youth. He
said that the individual needed
to be a "square” to fulfill his
obligations to himself and to
the community.
Among "squares” playing a
part in American history, Belt
mentioned several. He let the
group draw their own conclus
ions as to the couape of Ameri
ca if Patrick Henry had said,
“I like freedom; I think we
should have freedom. But let’s
not be too hasty. British rule is
not too bad. And besides, if we
start something, somebody may
get hurt.” Or if Paul Revere had
said, “Who? Me? Do they think
I own the only horse in Bos
ton?”
Mental Health
Week Observed
At Brooghton
MORGANTON ln observan
ce of Mental Health Week, Bro
ughton Hospital at Morganton is
inviting the public to Open
House on Sunday, April 90, from
1:00 to 9:90 p. m.
Visiters are to assemble at the
Employees’ Cafeteria on the hos
pital compound, where refresh
ments will be served. Torn of
treatment units will be conduct
ed by staff members. A nursery
will be provided for small child
ren who accompany their par
ents.