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Volumt 31 Schools Got $203,600 Basic Grant i The Yancey County School System has received a basic grant o i 1203,600.00 for use by the schools in the county this year. These funds were received through the Elementary & Sec ondary Education Act of 1965, an act designed to meet the needs of educationally deprived children in areas having high concentrations of children from low income families. The program this year will be concerned with the teaching of Reading, Math and Social Stud ies in all the schools in the coun ty. Supplementary services will include guidance and counseling services in the two high schools, free lunches for needy children, and medical and dental services for children of low income fami lies. Special reading teachers have been employed to work with un derachievers in the Bald Creek, Bee Log, Burnsville, Clearmont, Micavii’e and South Toe Elemen tary Schools. Other services will include the provision of audio-visual materials and equipment, teach er aides, instructional supp’ies. and In-service Training courses for teachers in the county. Thank Yoa, Playhouse Personnol We feel that the people of Burnsviue and surrounding ar eas would like to join us in say ing a great big “Thank You” to the directors, students and Ralph Kerns, Managing Director, for a wonderful summer of good theater. It has added much to the enjoyment of the “natives”, and we feel sure has been a real boon to the summer visi tors. as the old saying goes, the Playhouse this year really sav ed the “best for the last”, as “ONCE UPON A MATTRESS” was superb in every respect. Every member of the cast de serves praise, but for the sake cf brevity we will only mention a few. Amelia Penland as Princess Winnifred "cut Caroled” Carol Burnett herself, and we mean this sincerely. Ame’ia is a won derfully talented girl, and we wish fcr her only the best of everything as she leaves Burns ville for her new home in Greensboro. We expect to see hor name in lights one of these days. Alyson Tanner as the mean old Queen Ageravain was so re alistic in the part, ,cne wanted to get un from the audience and smock her. THE YANCEY RECORD larßsvilla, N.C. Qainn Receives Ph.D. An Edwin K. Quinn, who married Judy Anne Ray of Burnsville, re ceived his Ph. D. Degree in Chemistry at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, Sat urday, August 26. Dr. Quinn, originally from Mitchell County, is a graduate of Bowman High School Bakers ville. He received his B. S. and M. A. Degrees in Chemistry at the East Tennessee State Uni versity. During a three-year period with the U. S. Air Force, Dr. Quinn took part in Electronics School training and served as instructor in the Training School. He has had a position with the S. E. Massengill Co. as Resear ch Chemist and also served as a consultant for the company. Campus honors and activities for Dr. Quinn while he was in school included membership in the Society of the Sigma Xi and The American Chemical Society. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ray of Burnsville were present at the University of South Carolina when the Ph. D. Deeree was conferred upon their son-in-law. The mute King Sextimus, played by John Alice, was just about the cutest thing we have ever seen, particularly when he was trying to tell his son, Prince Dauntless, the facts of life in pantcmine. We do not cease to be amazed at the versatility of Bill Cwi kowski, who played the part of Prince Dauntless. We feel sure that we will all be saying some time “we saw him when". He is really a marvelous actor. The casting and directing of “Once Upon a Mattress" by Ralph Kerns proves that he is as fine a director as he has ptroven to be in his role as busi ness manager. V As the group leaves us this week they take with them our very best wishes, and the hope that they or s-w lust as fine, will return next year DHicafad Ta Tht Profrtss Os Yaacay Cavafy Local At an Injured On Highway Claude Hughes of Burnsville is in an Ashe vane hospital wi h in juries not yet explained. Accoraing to information from the Sheriff's office, Hughes was found Monday night around 10:30 on or beside the highway near Celo Clinic. Indications were, according to the informa tion received, that Hughes had been dragged along the highway for approximately 600 feet. He was unconscious when found. u lido not ncen ueiermined if the injured man had been struck by an automobile or if the drag ging had been deliberate. Much of the flesh had been scrapped from the victims legs and one knee cap was almost tom eff, it was said. Although Hughes was able to talk to officers early yesterday, he shed little light on what had happened to him. Bailey Will Direct Stickley Campaign Here It was announced today by Marcus T. Hickman of Char lotte, State Chairman of the Draft Stickley for Governor Com mittee, that Garrett D. Bailey would serve as campaign cha r man cf Yancey County. Bailey, known as “Dick”, is a prominent attorney of Burns ville. He has long served the Republican Party: Chairman of Yancey County, and Chairman of the 11th Congressional Dis trict. In accepting the appointment, Bai'ey said: “I have known Jack Stickley for a number of years and consider him one of the leading citizens of North Carolina. His leadership is need ed in the office of governor.” Mathis Assigned To Vietnam DUC PHO, VIETNAM (AHT NC) Army First Sergeant Thomas C. Mathis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Back Mathis, Route 3, Burnsville, N. C., was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam, Aug. 14. First sergeant of Company D, Ist Battalion of the division's 35th Infantry located near Due Pho, Mathis entered on active duty in August 1944 and was stationed at Ft. Jackson, S. C., before his arrival in Vietnam. The sergeant, whose wife, Hilda, lives at 1116 Foxcroft Road, Columbia, S. C., received his high school education throu gh the General Education De velopment program. Thursday, 31, 19*7 Banks Killed By Shotgun Blast High School Graduates Enter College Yancey County is sending a fair crop of 1967 high school grauuaies off to college and oth er scnools of higher education. We list below the students and the schools they are attending: East Yancey graduates: To Mars Hill College Mike Hoover, Paul Dean Hicks, Jean Hoiccmbe, Dewitt Howell, Faye Letterman, Margaret Riddle, Douglas Silver, Sharon Young, Kirk Young. Florida Bible College, Ramona Bowditch; Marion Industrial In stitute, Larry Brewer; UNC— Chapel Hill, Stephen Edge; Wingate College, Sandra Fox; Catawba Valley Tech., David Griffith, Linda Griffith; Appala chian State University, David ilUespie, Kenneth Nelson; Le noir Rhyne, Ida Jane Maney; Western Piedmont Community College, Roby Wilson; Blanton’s Business College, Peggy Hensley; Grace Hospital School of Nur sing, Patricia Silver; Home Study, Dennis Fortner. Miss Linda Underwood, a 1966 graduate of East Yancey, will enter Woman’s College, Greens boro, this fall. 1967 Cane River Graduates: Mars Hill College: Edgar An glin, Van Sandra Buckner, Soyna Bailey, Susan Hensley. University of N. C., Raleigh, Dennis Deyton, Billy Buckner; East Tenn. University, Janet C"X, Dafia Proffitt, Sheila Pate, Wanda Woodby, Ann Deyton, Brenda Miller; Appalachian State University, Grady Bailey; Warren Wilson College, Helen Deyton, Kermit Whitson, Caro ls Tn’ent; Western Piedmont Community College, Larry Rid dle. Tommy Rohertson; Ashe vi”e Technical institute, Joan Buckner, Jan Whitson; Blanton’s Business College. Helena King, Carolyn Cox, She’’a Honevcutt, Janet Hensr-n, lyillie Henson, Nellie Parker, Jerry Griffith. ÜBOR MY, MY TO BE PftOUD^ o ******** i — ( "" " " J Naailar Fifty Two Tragedy struck in the Bolens Creek section of the county last Thursday which left one man dead and another jailed and charged with the shooting. According to officers, Lewis Banks, a well known resident of the county, was killed around 10:30 a. m. by a shotgun blast to the head. Monroe Calloway, also well known as a brick and rock mason, was jailed and charged with the killing. The killing took place at Cal loway’s cabin near the Ray Mines on Bolens Creek. Although no details of the shooting been given, re ports are tint die shooting may have resulted fra n .in ir jument. Funeral ser. ices for Lewis Banks were he:d Saturday at 2:30 p. m. in West Burnsville Baptist Church and burial was in Banks CeouYiV. Rev. Fred Harrell officiated. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Vemia Scott Banks* two daugh ters, Mrs. Emerson Wcody of Burnsville and Mai. Ralph Raley of Callaway, Ma.; a son, Ray Banks of Elizabelhtnn, Tenn.; four sisters. Mrs Hush Stacy of Henrietta, N. C., Miss Lilia Banks of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Glenn Sumner of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Mrs. Charles Samp son of Knoxville, Tenn.; fi-e brothers, Wa’ter, C’yde. Lee and Boyd, aU of Burnsville, and J"hn H. Banks of Greenville, N. C. Water Mellon Cutting By Lions Clab An old fashioned water mellon cutting will be held at Pensaco , la on Labor Day, according to officers of Burnsville Lions Club who is sponsoring the activities. Arrangements have been made for those fine Rutherfordton County mellons to be served, and a sufficient supply has been ordered. The cutting will be held at Ray V. Miller's Mountain Wild erness Camp near the Pensacola Elementary School. A number of tables have been set up at the recreation area and sufficient number of furnace grills are available for those who wish to bring a holiday lunch. Proceeds from the water mel lon cutting will be used by the Lions for some of their worthy projects in the county. The dub sponsors an eye clinic at the Health Center here and. earlier this year, sponsored a Glaucoma CHinic in Spruce Pine. Those are only two of the many projects * aided by Lions Clubs. Everyone is invited to the fes tivities at Pensacola on -Labor Day.
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