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! ESTABLISHED JULY, USB TRENA P. POX EDITOR & PUBLISHER 10SS. ZOE YOUNG. ASSOCIATE EDITOR j THURMAN L. BROWN. SHOP MANAGER ARCHIE a BALLEW, PHOTOGRAPHER ft PRESSMAN PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILLE, N. C THURSDAY, JULY 11, 196$ NUMBER FORTY-FIVE SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00 PER YEAR “ OUT OF COUNTY $4.00 PER YEAR Scene From Top O’ The Hill ° By: Jack Kelly Burnsville’s Parkway Play house opens tomorrow night with a renowned North Caro lina stellar attraction, “Look Homeward Angel”, the play based upon Asheville’s son, Thomas Wolfe, and the strug gle he had to free himself of his family ties. This play is loaded with human interest connected with the family struggles. Humor, pathos, love, haired, bickering, sordidness every angle of family life, including greed, will be witnessed by those who are fortunate to at tend one of the four perform ances. The set designed by Frank, Silberstein, for this opening play of our Season is one that you will not forget. I am willing to wager that it will make more than one of you drive over to Asheville and take another look at (he Wolfe home, called Dix ieland in the play. I won’t go into a description of it because that sight of the set is a .de light I want reserved to you per sonally when the curtain opens upon the performance you at tend. Incidentally, there are still Season Tickets nv able at only $8.50, which all: -. ; you re served seats for all six produc tions, two of which are Musi cals. That figures out, roughly, only a buck-forty a show. Also, two pre-college students can use one ticket and that figures out to about seventy cents a show— a real bargain in anybody’s town! “Woody” Woods who has act ed innumerable roles during past seasons, will Direct the opening play and he has assem bled a cast that I have watched in rehearsals and have no hesi tancy in assuring you that it will be the most splendid acting job you have ever been fortu nate enough to watch. I don’t know whether “Woody” is just lucky or extremely talented in casting, whatever it is, we in the audience will get a real "break” from watching the tal ented actors he will have upon that stage. Since this is not a review, there would be no point in list ing the names of those involved In the production, therefore, fven though it requires re straint upon my part, I won’t nrme them. However, I know that, after viewing the opening Play, each of you will pick some favorites that you will de light in watching in subsequent plays throughout the Season. All we need for the greatest season the Playhouse has ever had is your support. This we must have. You owe it to your self and your Town to get be hind this Season of six plays and fill that Playhouse. Not only will it be good for you from a personal enjoyment an gle, it will be good for you from the prestige it gives your Town, Many townspeople have al ready done more than their share toward assuring the suc cess of the Playhouse this sea son. Ladies have gotten mater ial and made and hung drapes in the dormitory and the apart ments connected with the ven ture. They took hours away from their personal tasks to perform this work. Businessmen have taken and are taking time to push the ticket sales. There is not enough space to list the names of all who have gone out of their way to assist this ef fort, but it would be remiss on my part if I didn’t mention the special effort put forth by Mark Bennett, Paul Biggerstaff, and Mayor Jim AogUa. In the event, unlikely I trust, that you don’t buy suffi cient Season Tickets to carry you through the Summer, the prices at the box office are two bucks for adults and one for pre college studen's. You can hard ly see a good movie for that money and no movie gives the feeling that will come to you at a live stage production. There are many people in this area who have never at tended a play. Somewhere, some place along the line, someone put out the idea that the Park way Playhouse wasn’t hr every one, that it was only for Sum mer visitors and monied people, and well, ridiculous things like that. So I will give a personal guarantee to anyone who works at anything, whe her it be a job or a profession, that if he or she goes to this play “Look Homeward AngeJ”. and sincerely does not think he or she got full value for the money paid, I will barbecue the entire cast of the play upon the “Hill” where I live and feed their bones to my politically inclined dog. Hobo, who is snif fing about me right now with his nose out of joint because this article does not concern it self with politics. (Hobo just suggested that I had invited everyone to attend the perform ances but had not specifically mentioned Republicans by name and, since he claims Rocky may be running the Country, I here and now specifically invite all Republicans to come also.) In cidentally, some of these actors, despite the fact that they are good, just happen to be - 4 though a n accident of birth Republicans. They will not be listed as such in the Program billing. Surprising though it niay be. those folks look and " Topping Oat ” A New Heme On Rt. 2 JL jJwJM ElJw -x-S 'iMp: gHR iiiiiMMr • tBP % “Topping Out” a new home being built on Route 2, Burns ville, N. C. Pictured are: Law Yancey County Native Enters Presidential Race A new Presidential candidate has appeared on the scene, and a Yancey County native, no less, namely Rev. Kiity James Hensley. D.D., Phd., met. D (all mail order degrees), nominee of his Universal Party (headquar ter* in California) for tha y»- tion’s highest office. Rev Hensley, who is visiting with relatives in Relief, drop ped by THE RECORD office Tuesday morning. Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hensley of the Low Gap section, Hensley was an aspirant to the Presidency in 1964. He founded and is Pre sident at the Universal Life Church, Inc., which came to being six years ago, and is based in Modesto, California. Hensley stated that his Chur ch and his political aspirations are in no way related If elect ed President he says he would seek to abolish all taxes; intro duce legislation seeking to au thorize issuance of a fixed amount of money each year (said amount being previously determined as the precise a mount needed for that year, regardless of budgets, federal deficits, etc.); and restore the •government to the people. While he claims to support integra tion, he does not sanction inter racial marriage. His party’s platform includes protection of the national health from conta mination of waters, food and air; civil treatment and protec tion of people from other worlds visiting esrth, etc., e*c. In other words, if Mr. Hensley is elected Utophia will have ar rived Hensley was nominated at a convention of the Universal Party in Denver, Colo, on March 4, 1968. The goal of Mr. Hensley’s Uni versal Life Church is to “bring freedom of religion to every one”. The Church will ordain act like ordinary human beings —on stage, that is In any event, tomorrow is opening night, and I want to see a whole crowd of you rence Towe, contractor; A. Dudley, Bruce Garland, Ernest Roberts and Kenneth W« stall. anyone to the ministry. with'Mit price and without question. He savs that any minister ordain ed by hie church is recognised by laws of all IB states and many foreign countries and are legally entitled to perform ser ah weddings. ftMseds, ordaia others aad establish churches. Tbs clmrdi now boasts about 10,008 members and 900 church es throughout the world Min isters ordained by this church are exempt (ran the draft. The Universal Life Church has no doctrine, but believes that ev eryone should have a right to his own religious con vie. ions. It is supported by free-will of ferings and contributions. Hensley believes that the "Eternal Being” if within each person. At the convention at which he was nominated for President four years ago, he said; “It is the same when you realize that God is not a per son sitting up there on a throne somewhere, directing this pow er and that. That is the sensi ble idea that a lot of the chur ches have. But to think that there is some reality up there doing something for me is just foolishness I get what I want through my own understanding of laws of nature and my own self-effort. Self-bragging? Yes, but it must not be a false brag. Don't make a fool of yourself and be found out, but you will be real if you learn how all tbs laws work.” Hensley claims that his doc trine (or lack of doctrine) la very big with college students. All this from, a Yancey Coun ty man of humble beginn'ngs, who, starting out as a Baptist minister, claims to have explor ed (and rejected) the doctrines of numerous Protestant church es. as well as Christian Science, and Catholicism. Rev. Hensley, married to the former Lyda Gouge of Mitchell Countv. resi'Vs with his wife three children in Modesto. California Letter Os Thanks Mrs. W P. Honeycutt, Chmn. Yancey County Mental Health Association, Rt. 1, Box 128 Burnsville, N. C. 28714 Dear Mrs. Honeycutt: I have just returned from va cation, hence, my delay In say . ing thank you for the money and items Yancey County do nated to our people here at Broughton. We are in need of everything you sent and they were most appreciated, the clothes went to the Sunshine Shop, the elec tric shavers, flower arrange ments. records, costumes, and record player went to wards and the other items went to the Recreation Department All are in use. And now) for the money from various clubs and groups in Yancey County. The unit which serves this county has many things in mind they would like to buy, drapes being one of them, and with money left over they will be able to buy some of the other things. Your coun ty sent a total of $58.00 which greatly helped the bank account. I want to try to write each donor of money but I have in adequate addresses on some of them because the address on the check is all I have so if some of them don’t receive a thank you note, please let them know how very much we appro c: d their donation!. Sinceredy, Ruth Poaa Mrs Stuart Pena Director of Volunteer Servicoe Support Os Citiens Urged In Bleed Program Dr. George Lacy, Chairman of the Asheville Regional Red Cross Blood Program Advisory Committee, urges ‘the support of residents of Western North Carolina in the Red Cross re gional blood program during the summer months. Dr. Lacy states that injuries from traffic accidents increase greatly during the summer months, and since the normal medical requirements for blood continue at the same high level, there is a greater need for con sistent blood donations. The Bloodmobile will be in Burnsville, at the Armory, Wednesday, July 24, from 11:00 to 6:00 Everyone eligible and willing to donate blood is urged to sup port this program. Yancey County consistently falls short of her goal, and noticeably so mi the last visit of the Blood mobile. Blood is badly needed by patients from the county la the local hospital, and also by those in hospitals in Asheville and elsewhere. NOTICE If you would like to enroll in a sewing class to be held at night, please fill in the form below and return to Shirley Anne McAllister, Box 596, Bur nsville, N. C. Name Address • Night Sewing Class'
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