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Volume 32 First Baptist. Congregation Accepts Bid According to announcement by officers of the F.rst Baptist Church here, beginning on new bu.lding construction is not too far in the future. On Monday night, February 5, the church Building Committee met and voted unanimously to recommend to the church con gregation that the low base bid of $299,800 be accepted. With the funds now on hand, plus pledges that have been made, $125,000 will be sufficient to secure a turn-key job, complete to the fullest detail. 0 -. The motion was put before the church Sunday mom : ng, and, following dscussion, the motion was approved unanimously by standing vote. The motion placed before the church was two-fold. F'rst, that the bid made by Morrison Cbn struct'on Co..with acceptable al ternate, be accepted and a con tract be drawn up. Second, that the church trustees be authoriz ed to borrow a sum up to $125 000 as needed. Construction, will be»» n Dromo tly as weather conditions per mit. In the meart'me. work will en forward clearing the grounds and setting everything in readiness for ground break ing. The htr'ld'ng, with all fuHM<-i'i»>"c wdu cost an es timated $315,000. Doan Hicks WMF Appear In College Production Dean Hicks of Newdale, N. C., Freshman at Mars Hill college will appear in the college pro duction of the controverciai po litical satire "macbird” written by 26 yr. old Barbara Garson. * "MACBIRD" opened off broad way in January of 1967, and has been playing there, as well m in hundreds of theatres both in and out of the U. S. A., ever since. “MACpiRD” {a a parody of Shakespeare’s "MACBETH" and can be considered a sharply ponted sat re or merely a high spirited low comedy. It is most commonly played as a peculiar mixture of both. The Mars Hill College produc tion of "MACBIRD" is under the direction of James Warren Thomas, assistant professor of drama at the college. The cast includes: Dan Hayes, Soph., drama major North Wilkesboro, in the t tie role; Barbara Whis nant from Salisbury, as Lady Macßird; Ken Goble of Clinton, N. as John Ken O’Dunc; Joe Bingham from Miami as Rob ert Ken O’Dunc; and Joe Cec ch'ne, another New Jersey na tive as Teddy Ken O’Dunc. Oth er members of the cast include Jim R'herts, Janet Van Proy em. and Mrs. Beverly Hough. The performances are sched- THE YANCEY RECORD Drama Dept. Announces Workshop The Mars Hill College Depa, merit of Drama has announced its second Summer Theatre Workshop. The workshop will be conducted on the Mars Hill Col lege campus, located in the beau tiful Blue Ridge Mounta ns near Asheville. The major act vity of the Summer Theatre Workshop which runs from June 5 through July 11, will be the product on of three plays. Last summer in its premiere, the workshop produc ed MARY, MARY; A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM; and DEATH TAKES A The 1968 Workshop wll prcduceV the highly successful Broadway l comedy, LUV; the p'pular child- ' ren’s muscal, THE WIZARD OF OZ; and one drama which will be named later. Mars Hill College offers three k nds of credit for the special summer program: pre-college trahing for high school students, one unit high school ad dit onal experience in practical theatre for high school teachers, six semester hours credit appli cah’e toward certificate renewal. The Mars Hll College Sum mer Theatre Workshop is under the d’rect on of Professor Char les W. Cox and James W. Tho mas, both of the college drama department. Interested persons should write Summer Theatre Workshop, P. O. Box 51, Mars Hill, North Carolina, 28754. <3 Sponsoring Group Mamed For Day Care Center Friends of the Day Care Cen ter in Burnsville met at Pete’s Snack Bar Tuesday to determine ways to help in this worthy cause. Mrs. W. P. Honeycutt presid ed over the meet ng. Dr. James T. Mcßae, president of the Blue Ridge Health Council, spoke to the group. He explained that the Health Council would serve as an umbrella group over the Center. v . A sponsoring Group to serve as a Board of Drectors for the Yancey County Day Care Cen ter was elected. Th s group will assume the responsibility of the Center. Other members of the committee will be named later. The Center must have a Board of D rectors and meet certain standards before they can apply for State Aid. The Sponsoring Group will ar range for financing, staffing and ' transportation. uled March 2. 4. 5, at 8 00 p. m. in Owen BuTding on the cam pus at Mare Pro College. Ad mission is FREE. . . Burnsville, N.C. Max Proffitt, 66, Passes Max Proffitt. 66, of Burnsvijie RFD 3, ded in Yancey Hosp tal Wednesday around noon after an extended illness. He was a graduate of N. C. State University of Raleigh, and d d graduate work at UNC, Chapel Hill and Duke Univer sity, Durham, in the field of Horticulture and Agr culture. He taught in the Yancey Coun ty School system for 30 years before retiring iir 1966. He was active in the Methodist Church, and had been a Sunday School teacher for the past 50 years. He was a member of the Bald Creek Lodge No. 397 and was a past Master. . _ j He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Eunice Rollins Proff tt; one daughter, Mrs. C. W, McCall Jr., of Germany; one son, Steve of tiie home; one sister, Mrs. Dillon A. Green of Sherwood, Torn. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:30 p. m. in Bald Creek Method : st Church. The Rev. Thomas Weeks will cffi c'ate. Burial will be in G'.bbs Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be James Proffitt, Earl C. W Ison, Yates Bailey, Jack Buckner, Harold and Carroll Ray. Phillip T ckett, and Charles Tomberlin. The body will rema n in Hol combe Brothers Funeral Home until 30 minutes prior to the service when it will be taken to the church. The fam'ly will receive friends from 7:00 to 9:00 p. m. Thurs day evening at Holcombe Bro there Funeral Home. Scholarship Available To School L&rarians A scholarship for $500.00 la available to school librarans, it was announced today by the chairman of the North Carolina Association of School librarians, Mrs. Gladys S. Honu. The scholarship is awarded each year to an applicant who al ready holds an undergraduate degree but who wishes to cer tfy or do graduate work in library science and be a school -librarian. The aim of the scho larship is to encourage entrance into the field of school librar ianship or advancement for those already members of the pro fession. Appl cations may he obtained from each county and city sup erintendent or from the scholar sh!p committee Chairman, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Store. 514 Lake side Drive, StatesvitJe, North Carolina 28677. Deadl’ne for th’o v „ year’s applications is April L Thursday, February 15, 1968 Governor Moore Recommends Funds To Support Economic Development Project Tobacco Referendum The referendum on marketing quotas for the next three crops of Burley tobacco wll be con ducted by mail during the per iod February 26, to March 1, 1968. A ballot will be mailed each person known to have had an interest in a 1967 crop of Burley tobacco. Any person who shared in a Burley crop in 1967 who does not receive a ballot may obtain one by calling, wr.ting or visting the ASCS county of fice. All ballots must be return ed to the ASCS county office, or be postmarked, no later than March l, 1968 in order to be counted. - Notices of farm acreage al lotments will be mailed to all Burley tobacco farm operators ,so that they may know what the r allotments are in ad vance of the referendum. If at least two-thirds of the growers voting in the referen dum votes YES, quotas and al lotments will be in effect for the 1968, 1969, 1970 crops of Burley tobacco. Penalties for marketing excess tobacco w'H be in effect, and price support will be available to growers who do not exceed their farm allotments. If maiketing quotas are not approved, that is, if more than ©ne-th'rd of these voting vote NO, there will be no quotas or penalties, and no price support on the 1968 crop of Burley to bacco. In that event, another referendum would be held next year on quotas for the follow ing three crops. Hensley Elected President of Blue Ridge Federation Jack Hensley, president of the East Yancey FFA Chapter, was elected President of the Blue Ridge Federation on Feb ruary Bth, in an organizat onal meeting conducted at Clyde A. Erwin High School. The meeting was attended by delegates from 12 FFA Chap ters located in Buncombe, Mad ison and Yancey Counties. Jack was selected on the basis of his demonstrated organizational and leadership abil'ties and wrfll be responsible for the over-all or ganization of the Federarion. The purposes of this organiza tion are to strengthen relation ships between local chapters' and the State FFA Organisa tion and to develop competent agressiv* agricultural leader ship. Number Twenty-Four Governor Moore today recom mended approval of $76,300 in Federal funds to suoport an eco nomic development project in Appalach an North Carolina dur ing the first six months of 1968. The project, involv ng new sewage treatment facilities at Bakersville, is el g ble ' for a Federal grant under the Appa lachian Regional Development Act of 1965, which is seek ng to promote long-range economic de velopment of the Appalachian region through a coordinated •Federal, State and local program of investment. The project was iniriated at the local level and endorsed by the Mountain Scenic Economic Development Commisson serv ing Avery, Mitchell, Watauga, and Yancey counties. Eugene Penland of Newland is chair man of this Commssion. The Governor’s recommenda tions wll be forwarded to the Appalachian Regional Commis sion in Washington, D. C., foe f'nal approval. Os general internet to citizen* in the Mount a : n Scene District is the fact that Governor Moore has recommended aonroval of a $231 thousand pnant t< r construc tion of Wiseman’s V'ew Access R°ad near Linv lie Falls. The Governor’s recommenda tions in the -Mountain Scen'c Dis trict were Dart of an overoll re commendat'on of $5 039 932 in Federal funds to sun*vwt econo mic development Defects =n the 29-oouptv Anoalachian area of North Carolina. Yancey Hospital Gets $4,608.00 From Duke Endowment CHARLOTTE, N. C. The Duke Endowment i 3 distributing this week $2,016,665 to . hospitals and child care institu tions it assists. James R. Felts, Jr., executive d rector of the Hospital and Child Care sections of TTie En dowment, said 191 hospitals are receiving $1,369,950 and 43 ch'ld care institutions, $646,715. North Carolina's total is $901,508 for hospitals arid $428,991 for child care institutions; South Caro l’na’s, $468,442 for hospitals and $217,724 for child care institu tions. , Appropriations made to hos p tals in Yancey, Mitchell and Avery are as follows: Spruce Pine Community Hospital, 50 beds, $2,269; Garrett Memorial Hospital, Crossnors, 35 bedte, $43100; Yancey Hospital, wh’ch includes extended care (Sun Valley Nursing Home). 63 beds, $4,608.00.
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