Volume 31
Staff And Students To Arrive
At Playhouse This Week
Activity picked up this week
at Parkway Playhouse. The dor
mitory cleaning was finished
and season schedules were mail
ed out to the mailing lists. Invi
tations for the opening night
performance have been mailed.
Over 150 invitations have been
sent fcr the premiere showing
of POOLS PARADISE.
The Playhouse’s new design
er, Terry Bennett, who has
taught at Gustavus Adolphus
College, St. Peter, Minn., for
the past two years, has arrived.
Terry is married to a charming
young lady who was born in
Germany and who recently
graduated from Gustavus Adol
phus. She finds the mountains
of Burnsville and vicinity very
similar to those of southern
Germany, her home district.
Mr. Bennett is a graduate of
Baylor University and has his
masters degree from the Uni
versity of Texas. He has design
ed for the University of Corpus
Christi and for the Camille
Playhouse in Brownsville, Texas,
as well as at the school where
he has been teaching.
The remaining staff and stud
ents are expected this weekend
and before Wednesday, the 19th,
when classes and rehearsals for
the first production begin. Ap
proximately 25 students and 6
faculty members will make up
the company this year. Nine of
last year’s students will return.
Season ticket sales continue,
with tickets available at the
Chamber of Commerce, Pollard’s
Drug Store, the Nu-Wray Inn,
the Playhouse, or from any
member of the Men’s Club. The
first play opens on July 28th.
Information concerning the
plays, the season schedule, sea
son tickets, personnel, courses,
or other matters may be had
by contacting Mr. Kerns at the
Playhouse, or by calling 682-
2196.
JOHN R. FOX
Funeral services were held at
SJO p. m. Sunday in Crabtree
Baptist Church for John R. Fox,
78, of Green Mountain RFD
2, who died Thursday night in
an Asheville hospital after a
brief illness.
The Revs. E. J. Hall and
Jesse Hughes officiated and
burial was in Pleasant Grove
Cemetery. Grandsons were pall
bearers.
A retired farmer, Mr. Fox was
a lifelong resident of Yancey
County.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Lizzie Laws Fox; four daugh
ters, Mrs. Edgle Ayers of Green
Mountain, Miss Carrie Fox of
Spruce Pine, Mrs. Joyce Bowers
of Micaville and Mrs. Perry
Briggs of Candler; four sons,
Rotha of Elizabethton, Tenn.,
Luther of Sellersville, Pa., and
Vernon and Avery Fox, both of
Micaville; four sisters, Mrs.
Maggie Laws of Burlington, Mrs.
Lillie Henley of Jonesboro, Tenn.
Mrs. Maggie Brown of Eliza-
THE YANCEY RECORD
Memorial Book
Presented To
| Library
By: Ashtcn Chapman
the memorials to the
late Charles Deyton is the im
portant volume, THE PROFES
SION OF PHARMACY, donated
to the Yancey County Public
Library by Norris Deyton’s Brid
ge Club.
The authors of this work are
Richard A. Deno, Professor of
Pharmacogenory, Thomas D.
Rowe, Dean and Professor Phar
macy University of Ca'ifomia.
The text’s potent documenta
tion for the classification of
pharmmacy as a profession
leaves no important field uncov
ered. One cannot read this vol
ume without coming away with
the fee’ing that pharmacy is a
proud profession and right
fully so.
Religious Film
To Be Shown
Sunday night, the 16th, a 60-
minute sound-color film, entit
led “Magnificent Heritage”,
will be shown at the regulair
worship service at First Bap
tist Church. The film is being
used in connection with Relig
ious Liberty Sunday, and the
Fourth of July emphasis on free-’
dom. It is the story of John
Leland, an outstanding Baptist
leader during the Revolutionary
period. The pastor and congre
gation would like to extend a
hearty invitation to all to attend
the showing of this film, which
is most interesting and instruc
tive.
OBITUARIES
bethton and Mrs. Hubert Hughes
of Burnsville RFD 2; two bro
thers, Thurman of Burnsville
RFD 1 and Billy Fox of Green
Mountain; 36 grandchildren and
18 great-grandchildren.
JAMES N. ANGEL
Funeral services were held
Saturday in Cane River Baptist
Church for James N. Angel, 84,
of Burnsville RFD 3, who died
Thursday.
The Revs. Grady Shepherd
and Vivian Brown officiated and
burial was in the church ceme
tery. Pallbearers were Billy Ray
Bailey, Alvin Hensley, Bury
Maney, Francis England and J.
F. and Johnny Robinson.
Mr. Angel was a deacon of
Cane River Church.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Irene Galloway Angel; two dau
ghters, Mrs. Glenn RaHibum of
Burnsville RFD 3 and Mrs.
Charles Reel of Asheville: a sis
ter, Mrs. Lizzie Angel Robinson
of Burnsville; four grandchild
ren and two great-grandchildren.
Dudlcatud To Tho Progross Os Yaocoy County
lurnsvillu, N.C.
Thursday, July 13, 1967
Now Camper
Park To Open
Shanty Town. That is the name
of a new trailer court under
construction near Pensacola,
which will be open to the public
next week.
The court, constructed by
Gilmer Bagwell, is above Mur
chison on the Ewart Wilson Road
It is near Cane River.
The camping facility is con
structed to take 16 traders or
campers, and when open will
give campers instant hook-up
with lights, water, and sewer.
Rental on the sites may be had
frcm one day to one year.
The name “Shanty Town” was
given the court because it is
located where the old railroad
camp was, in tite shadow of Mt.
Mitchell.
Vacation Time -
It’s Here
It’s here again! That good old
summer time!
The children are out of school
and under foot. The baby cries
from a heat rash, most crops
are getting too much rain, and
weeds and Morning Glories are
taking the garden. It’s too hot
to work outside, and too hot in
the kitchen for a woman to cook
a decent meal . We’ve even
heard that Dog Days have set
in. But it’s that way every year
about this time. And isn’t it
wonderful?
It is vacation time, when ev
ery one is expectant, loading
the children in the car, bag and
baggage, with hardly enough
room for the driver. Sun-glare
on the payement making the
- eyes burn, sun bum and blister,
mosquitos and gnats, returning
tired and edgy.
But as we said before, it is a
wonderful time. And the Record
staff is going to try it again
next week. And there won’t be a
paper published on July 20.
Suspocted Robber Arrested
An Asheville man arrested by
Yancey County officers Monday
night was turned over Tuesday
to police from Erwin, Tenn.,
where he was wanted in con
nection with an armed robbery
of an Elks Club Monday.
He was identified as Guy Wal
ter Metcalf, 62, of 1005 Tunnel
Road.
Sheriffs deputy Kermit Banks,
stopped the car Metcalf was
driving about midnight in the
Bald Creek section of the
county.
A passenger with Metcalf leapt
from the right side of the vehi
cle with a sack, turned toward
the deputy and snapped a pistol
which failed to fire, three times.
The man escaped.
Metcalf was charged with
Local Girls Travel In Europe
And Japan
Lions To
Sponsor Circus
The circus is coming to town!
Burnsville Lions Club Presi
dent J. Yates Bailey announced
this week that the club is spon
soring a circus, the first in Bur
nsville in many years. Thursday,
July 27 is the date, and the time
will be 6 p. m. and 8 p. m. The
big top will be set up on the lot
at the comer of 18-E Bypass and
Pensacola Road. The lot is own
ed by Silvers & Dellinger of
Micaville.
The long established Clark k
Walters Circus of Hugo, Okla
homa, is making its first Eas
tern tour in many years.
General Admission tickets are
priced at fifty cents for children
12 and younger, and one dollar
for adults. They will admit pur
chasers to any seat under the
circus Big Top at no extra char
ge as reserve seats are not sold
at this circus.
The 1967 performance of the
Claris & Walters Circus features
two prominently known circus
family groups of versatile per
formers. They are the Connors
group and the Dick Johnson
Family. A score of trained ani
mal acts, aerial and ground cir
cus acts, and the three perform
ing ponderous pachyderms,
clowns, and lovely ladies round
out a well-balanced and fast
moving program of Circus Am
ericana.
Due to the prevailing warm
weather, starting time of per
formances will be at six o’clock
and eight o’clock, with doors to
the Big Top onening about one
half hour earlier. A circus zoo
animal annex containing a doz
en cages of jungle beasts and
four-legged animals comprising
one of the largest collections of
zoo animals with any circus this
year, is a feature of the circus
midway which may be visited by
circus patrons on their way to
the main tent. An admission of
25 cents for this attraction is
charged.
failure to stop for a siren and
carrying a concealed weapon,
according to Sheriff Donald
Banks.
Metcalf was driving a N. C.
car which was licensed to him,
according to the Sheriff’s De
partment. His residence is in
Asheville, it was said.
One of the Elks Club men in
volved in the holdup identified
clothing, masks and ropes which
he saw during the robbery.
The robbers used a rope iden
tified as being one used to tic
up one of the Elk Club men dur
ing the holdup.
Officers found track of the sec
end perron in the car leading
east of 19-E, then circling around
and back into Hardscrabble
Road.
Nvabur Forty-Six
Burnsville girls are
traveling abroad this summer.
Miss Lela Whianant, daughter ,
of Dr. and Mrs. Clyde M. Whis
nant, is one of several Florida
Presbyterian College Students
(St. Petersburg, Fla.) who left
the United Slates June 22 to take
part in FPC’s Summer Institute
Abroad on the study of Asian
Culture. Home base for the
students will be Sophia Univer
sity in Tokyo, but during their
stay they wih visit several other
places of interest.
The Institute on Asian Culture
is one of five programs offered
this summer by Florida Presby
terian in cooperation with Aus
tin College, Florida State Uni
versity, Davidson College and
St. Andrews Presbyterian Col
lege.
Another Yancey County girl,
Silvia Schwinfzer, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Schwintzer,
and a rising sophomore at FPC,
is taking part in FPC’s Summer
Institute Abroad on the culture
of Germany. The students will
receive college credits for their
studies.
Miss Whisnant is a 1967 grad
uate of R. J. Reynolds High
School in Winston-Salem, and
will enter Florida Presbyterian
in the fall as a freshman.
Another of Burnsville’s travel
ers is Erwin Burhoe. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. D. I. Burhoe.
Erwin, who has been attending
Converse College in Spartanburg,
and will enter the University of
N. C. at Chapel Hill in the fall
as a Junior, is on a tour with
25 young people, several of
whom are her classmates. The
tour is sponsored by the Spar
tanburg Historical Association.
They will visit the Scandinavian
countries, England, and the
Continent of Europe. The high
light of the trip’ will be a two
weeks cruise of the Mediterran
ean. The tour had included Eg
ypt, Beruit and. Alexandria but
this part was cancelled because
of the trouble in the Mid-East.
The party left June 12th and
will return August 3.
Carolyn Ray, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Mack Ray, and Susan
Dillingham, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Dillingham, along
with a classmate of Susan’s left
Wednesday, June 28th, for a two
months tour of Europe. Their
first stop was London, where
they spent several days with
Burnsville friends Mr. and
Mrs. John Shepherd (Mrs. Shep
herd is the former Dian Roberts)
They rented a car and took off
for a tour of England, France,
Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Holland,
Germany. They will be stopping
at youth hotels along the way.
They plan to be away about two
months, returning the last of
August
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