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ESTABLISHED JULY, 1930 IRENA P. POX. EDITOR ft PUBLISHER BOSS. ZOE YOUNG. ASSOCIATE EDITOR THURMAN L. BROWN, SHOP MANAGER ARCHIE H. BALLEW. PHOTOGRAPHER ft PERSSMAN PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1967 NUMBER FIFTY-TWO SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00 PER YEAR OUT OF COUNTY $4.00 PER YEAR Scene From Top 0’ The Hill By: Jack Kelly Hie vacation is over. The plays have closed. Gordon Bennett’s daughter is married. My gal Blanche and I had to go back to Washington to our temporary heme. Worst of all, I had to go back to work. Surely wish some one would invent an easier way t(< pay your bills. If you learn of cne, don’t wait to write. Phene me collect! Mentioning the plays, like I did in the opening paragraph, makes me think of a comical thing that happened during the run of “Everybody Loves Opal” which starred my ever-loving wife, the gal who most every body complimented me on. I ao preciated those kind words be cause most folks don’t strp to ernsider how much training a husband gives his wife. What you all didn’t kr°w V’QQ fV*o ble I had with the cat who p'av ed in that show. I mean the real genuine feline cat, not any of the actors of the human variety being a married man, Blanche keeps me away hem the other brand of cats. Anyway, the Playhouse made a deal with the Earl Boyles to borrow their lady-cat. Well, this lady-cat named Sunshine didn’t take kindly to impersonating a gen tleman-cat cn stage. She just didn’t like being called “Mister Tanner” which the play called for. Also, the timing of the play failed to coincide -with Sun- * shine’s personal p’ans. You see Sunshine is a brb tailed lady-cat and some folks came through Town and put up at Pollard’s Motel, and they had themselves, a bob-tailed gent'e man-cat. He was a born trouble maker. He had to be parading himself around the Square, step ping high and showing off in general, just as Blanche and I drove past to her dre-s rehear sal She was driving and I was petting Sunshine. I felt I was doing a real good job tco. Just proved you can’t trust cats. You knew what Sunshine did to me? She dug her claws into my thigh and gave a bound out of a nearly closed window, made a running tumbersault across the Crreen and greeted that old bob tailed tom-cat like he was her very oldest friend. If he wasn’t sucii. all I can say is that cats surely do get acquainted fast. Anyway, suffice it to say that we had us no cat for the rehearsal. I almost caught them two or three times but when I got close to them, they glared at me and I got the message that there were more important things in the life of a Burnsville cat than a stage play. Next night, when the play opened, we had better luck. We brought the lady-cat to the thea tre in a carton so she couldn’t see her friend if he was still In Town Turns out he had left any how. I guess Doc and Irene turned the scoundrel out after my complaint to them about how their guests were acting in our Town. After all, you run a Motel and have that type cat putting up there, well, your place would n’t keep its reputation too long. Anyway, Blanche and Sunshine both did a fine job and nobody in the house on opening night knew that Sunshine Boyles had misconducted herself in a scan da’ous manner less than 34 hours before. I swear that cat looked as innocent and gentle as you could want. Her success went to her head. Typical young ac tress! When the play was oyer, Blanche and I gathered up the cat to bring it back to the Boy les and, just as we were putting it into the car, Bruce Wes tall had to come up and say some thing nice to Blanche. If he had stopped there, everything would have been all right. But he didn't. Bruce, being a kind soul, and a charming men, he had to say something kind to the lady cat. Well, when we drove away, I had two ladies just purring in the car. That Bruce really lays it on. As we came to the Square, old Sunshine seemed to realise that, where Blanche had me, there was no one for her, so she did something about it. How she got out of the closed carton and teen out of the car through the ventilator, I never will under stand. Somehow or other, she did it though. Off she streaked to tell the local cata of her dramatic triumph. We got heme and 1 had to try to explain to the Boyles what had happened to their cat. It didn’t even make sense while .1 was telling them but they were sympathetic souls and we sat and talked for some time. They* acted real nice but I had the feeling that if Sunshine didn’t get back because she had run off to New York to swing at the Big Time, well, it would be like I had stolen the family silver or something. On that happy note, Blanche and I retired for the night. Next morning, a little before seven, I drove down town to get my newspaper. At the big curve, 1 had to slam on the brakes be cause yonder comes Sunshine. She stalked, not walked, right up the center of the road! Both sides were hers! She wasn’t about to walk around my car either. She made me back up until she passed by. A star was bom and she had had a night! French Broad Electric To Close labor Day The French Broad Electric Membership Corporation (ft fice in Burnsville will be clos ed on Monday, September 4, 1667 for Labor Day Holiday. - 1,1,11111 * ' m. i . jflra JB .JBp i •jnyl jjjHj jE. IH-. ALASKA CELEBRATES ITS CENTENNIAL The following article was con tributed by Mrs. Ingeborg B. Wilson of Fairbanks, Alaska. She is the wife cf Ed Wilson (sen cf Mr. C. D. Wilson of Pensacola). Mrs. Wilson is a writer of some note, having contributed to several newspapers through out the country, including the Asheville Citizen-Times. Since receipt of this article Fairbanks has suffered a terri fic flood, which doubtless wiped the Centennial off the map. By: Ingeborg B. Wilscn 100 years ago Alaska was pur chased) from Russia for a mere $7.3 million, and the Centennial * celebration is in full swing. Though most Alaskan towns have donned festive garb, the main attraction is in Fairbanks in Interior Alaska. Here, 40 ac res make up the exposition site. Much planning and work has gone into the exposition, whose management hopes that 330,000 visitors vail have passed the gates by titf|ine it ends on Sep tember W. This figure lies 80,000 above the entire popula tion of Alaska, but Alaskans are optimists! In order to show Alaska at the turn of the century when gold lured people North( many old Fairbanks cabins were re furnished and make up Frontier Town. Each has its own story to tell. As for instance the Kitty Hensley Welcome Center. A ship’s captain built it out of his ice locked ship’s lumber ter his lady love. Across from it stands Fair banks’ oldest church, and it is hoped that a ycung couple will be wed there attired in old-fash ioned costumes. The stemwheeler Nenana, which plied Alaskan waters for mere than 20 years, has a'so been refurnished. It sits in an artificial pond and its restaur ant offers rest and good food. A narrow-gauge railroad takes the visiter over the whole area. In my opinion, It is the best way to see it all with the least effort' The Native Village acquaints the visitor with the life of Alaska’s Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts. Beautiful ivory carvings, strange Indian masks, tanned moose hides, miniature akin boats (exact replicas of the ones which are actually used in life size), windbreakers out of seal intestines 'these are the items one can purchase. They are all hand-crafted, truly “Made in Alaska.” Alaska’s native animals like moose, reindeer, caribou graze peacefully on five acres. It wouldn’t be an Alaskan show without gold panning. A man made waterfall provides the wat er, and if one is lucky, one may take a gold nugget home. In ire broad plaza site the Civic Center which houses a theater and an art gallery, and which is one of the finest addi tions for Fairbanks for future years. Edna Wilder, an Eskimo sculptor, gives demonstrations on how she carves a ptarmigan (Alaska’s state bird), a seal or other wildlife from soapstone. Other indoor exhibits include Alaska’s history, and Canada’s in their own pavillion. There is much to be seen at A-67 as the Centennial has been nick-named and the sun riitnes 24 hours long! Two Minutes um THE BIBLE BY CORNILIUt S. (TAM RRIS. •IRIAN SISLI SOCIITY CHICAOO, ILLINOIS 60635 TITLE: ARE YOU SURE? Would you like to have the knowledge, the assurance and the joy of sins forgiven? Would you like to be sure of heaven? Well, the first step to heaven is to realize that you cannot get there by trying. You can’t Walk there. You can’t climb there. You can’t fly there. Only God can take you there. Many try to earn heaven. They try to climb there cn a ladder of good works They talk about “adding another rung." But look out for that good works ladder! It’s not an chored at the top and the high er you climb the farther you will fall. God’s Word says that salvation is "the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast”, (Eph. 2:8, 9). He is not going to have boasters in heaven-there •re enough of them on earth and nobody likes them. All of us should realize that even the best are not good eno ugh for heaven, for “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23), but Mexican Com Broad Recipe Your editor received an inter esting letter from Mrs. Clarence J. Pegg (the former Mrs. Fleet Proffitt of Bald Creek). Knowing that many of our readers would be interested in the doings of Mildred and her family, we are happy to bring to you a few excerpts from her letter, along with a recipe for MEXICAN CORN BREAD. “We love it here very much (Black Mountain). The people are wonderful, but we still mist Yancey County and feel very close to the people there. “Fleet. Jr., has been accepted at Oak Ridge Military. Institute, Oak Ridge. N. C. He will enter the llth grade. “Susie is a freshman at Owen High. She is an excellent student “I’m working at Kearfott as Secretary to the material con trol manager and like my work very mudt. “Belinda and Urn are living in Greenville, S. C.” MEXICAN CORN BREAD 1 cup corn meal 1 small can creamed corn (4 os.) \ cup milk % tap. soda 1-3 cup shortening 2 eggs 1 small can green chillies (any pepper can be used) 1 onion minced (optional) Combine all ingredients. Bake 400 degrees, 40 minutes. in this same statement the Ap ostle Paul declares that believ ers in Christ, who died for our sins, are “justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 3:24). “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom. 5:1). So, friend, it is not by trying, or Crying, or praying, or paying, or doing anything that you will reach heaven—it is only by be lieving. God says He loves sin ners, and that Christ died for our sins. Will you believe this and trust Christ as your Savior? "For the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands. He that believ eth on the Son hath everlasting life, and the that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth m him” (John 3 35, 36). It’s as simple as that.
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