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THE YANCEY RECORD
Suras villa, N.C.
MARS HILL, N. C. Among
the 210 students awarded de
grees at Mars Hill College, last t
Sunday were the following from
Yancey County:
BA Mrs. Barbara June Fox
Bacon, daugh'er Mr. and Mrs.
James Thomas Fox, Longview
Drive, Burnsville.
Mrs. Bacon left Monday, May
20th, to join her husband, Ale
Richard N. Bacon in Turkey.
Airman Bacon is the son of Mr. 1
and Mrs. Fred Bacon of Burns
ville.
BA Mns. Carolyn Warner of
Burnsville, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William Harvey Pope of
Roeehill, N. C.
BS David Warren Edwards,
•on of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Edwards, RFD 1, Burnsville.
BS David Robert Mclntosh,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Reeßce
Leroy Mclntosh, Burnsville.
BS Mrs. Peggy Yorir Ledford,
daughter of Mrs Willie Kate
Yoork, RFD 3, Burnsville.
BS Charles Ronald Proffitt,
eon of M. and Mrs. Charles
Oris Proffitt, RFD 3, Burns
ville.
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Receives
Bronze Star
MY TOO, VIETNAM (AHT
NC) Army Sergeant First
Class Lonnie D. Bradford
(righ*), son of Mr. and Mrs.
Monroe Bradford, Route 4,
Burnsville, N. C., receives the
Bronze Star Medal during cere
monies near My Tho, Vietnam.
April 11.
Congratulating him is Cotoa
el Walter B. Todd, senior ad
visor "to the Vie'namese Armys
7th Infantry Division near My
Tho.
Sgt. Bradford received the
award for outstanding >neritor
ious service in combat opera
tions against hostile foccw in
Vietnam from Maron 1907 to
March 1968
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Mrs.
Blankenship
Elected To
International
Platform Assoc.
The Board of Governors of
the International Platform As
sociation wish to announce the
‘ election of Mrs. Wayne G.
Blankenship to its membership.
Mrs. Blankenship, the former
Vaughtie. Hensley of the Pen
sacola community, daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Welsie
Hensley, is East Tennessee
ViceJVes. of the Tenn. Fed
eration of Music Clubs; Pro
mo; ion Sec. of the Tenn. Wom
an’s Christian Temperance
Union; member of the Revis
ions Committee of the Tenn.
Federation of Woman’s Clubs.
She is listed in the third,
frurth, fifth and sixth edition
of “Who’s Who in American
Women; the ninth, tenth and
the third and fourth edition of
the Dictionary of Internation
al Biography. She is a past
president of the Knoxville
Woman’s Chib.
The 65-year-old International
Platform Association is an
organization of distinguished
persons from all over the world.
It was originally brought Into
existence by Mark Twain.
William Jennings Bryan, Theo
dore Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg,
President ;; Wm. Howard Taft,
Gov. Paul Pearson, and others
and celebrities of the Platform
Kindergarten Graduation Tuesday Night
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held in the First Baptist Char*
ch here last Tuesday sight.
Pictured abeve are members as
the graduating class and mar-
Thursday, May 23, 1968
First Youth Jamboree For
Yancey Scheduled * For August
Sponsored by the Yancey
County Chamber of Commerce,
the first annual Yancey County
Youth Jamboree is scheduled
for p'esentation in a local au
ditorium on Thursday night,
August 8, at 7:30 p. m. The per
. formance is planned for Aug
ust 8 in order that it may be
come a traditional part of the
Mount Mitchell Arts and Crafts
Festival held in Burnsville each
year.
Given enthusiastic support by
the Chamber of Commerce, and
endorsed by the Burnsville
Lions Club, the Yancey Youth
Jamboree is to be a high qual
ity program consisting of folk
songs, folk ballads, spiritual
or religious songs, instrumen
tals, smooth square dancing,
western square dancing, buck
dancing, folk dancing and clog
fin«.
A Steering Commitfee has
beer formed to help give direc
tion in future planning the
Jamboree. Mr. Claude Vess,
Mrs Z. B. Byrd, Mrs. Oriena
- K‘**Hlat£th r jlforgan7 ~MrsT
Cora Cqx. and Mrs. Charles
Wesson are members of this
committee.
An effort is being made to
locate talent by working in the
schools of Yancey County. Cop
its distinguished members, liv
ing or dead, include Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt, Wm. How
ard Taft, Franklin Roosevelt,
John Kennedy - and Lyndon
Johnson, as weH as many of
the celebrities of the news asl
entertainment madia, the preM,
TV, Radio and thsatra.
shale They are left to right,
(first row: Stapi'ea Coupey,
Sanya Ridde, Amy Proffitt,
Jerry Baker, Mike Wilson, Jeha
Guyer aad Aan Hunter; second
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its of the Jamboree Rules and
Regulations, and application
blanks for performers have
been sent to each school.
In addition to the above, the
following are taking care of
applications and encouraging
students in their respective
schools to enter the program:
Mrs. Max Hughes, Mrs. Shelby
Robertson, Mr. Baxter Silvers,
Mrs. Vemie Wilson, Mrs. Thel
ma Gomto, and Mrs. Hubert
Justice.
Many plans have been made
already, and much interest and
excitement has been shown ov
er the fact that Yancey Coun
ty young people of school age
will be given an opportunity
to display talents relating to
their rich backg'Ound of folk
singing, dane ng and music.
Only traditional folk, religious
songs, and music w U be pre
sented in the Jamboree. This
is in order to encourage the
youth of Yancey County to use
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music. #
Talent competition will be
conducted, and awards will be
presented to winners in each
division. Every effort w'll be
made to insure that all judging
will be fair and impartial.
Many of the performers or
the program have been on stage
at the Mountain Youth Jam
bo”ee in Asheyille. Their tal
ent, along with all the other
talent wh ch will be entered,
should make a night of enter
tainment which will become a
part of treasured memories.
music.
row: Gale Burner, D*bk*e
Woody, Bobby Rqth Webb, Han
Banks. Joyce May, Mary km
Allen, Samuel Young and Mb*