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tOCALS Mr. and Mrs. George Roberts returned home this week after visiting Mrs. Roberts' mother / in Ingold, N. C., and also vaca tioning for a few days on the Outer Banks. Or. and Mrs. Melvin Webb and son Clifton are home, fol lowing a week’s vacation in Myr tle Beach, S. C. Benson Tyner left Tuesday for New York City, where he will visit his uncle, Lewis Swink. for a few days before entering Mars HiU College. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hedrick and t children of Knoxville. Tenm, spent last week with her moth er, Mrs. Edgar Hunter in the Jacks Creek community. Mrs. It. C. Orr of Asheville and her daughter,- Mrs. Row enna StapWpne of Durham, vis ited Mrs. yrr’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Proffitt over the week-end. Mr. Mack Pate of Swannanoa was the week-end guest of his sisters. Misses, Ruby, Flora and Ruth rate in Burnsville. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Martin of Atlanta, Ga. dropped into the RECORD Office on Tuesday to renew their subscription and in fo* med us that after Oct. l, they uid be full time si dents of Burnsville. They have bough, the Hylemon property on Sw’ o Avenue. Just from our snort talk with the Martina we feel sue they are going to be fine additions to the town. Mrs. W. C. Murphy returned home Saturday following sur gery a Memorial Mission Hos pital. She is presently staying with her daughter, Mrs. Lee Boone sr»d Mr. Boone at the Mt Mitchell Game Refuge. Dr. and Mrs. Solomon and children of Presbyterian College St Pet -sburg, Fla., were guests of Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Whisnant this week Lela Ruth Whisnant was a :oag the students who spent * *ner in Sophie 1 nive; shy yo, Japan, which tour was d* ted by Dr. and Mrs. Solo/ 1 Mr. f Edward Buck ner. f * Mike and Julie dt few Ab ingdr«> v . 9 heve *** - d will make their Mr. : A. Monroe Nich ols and f-i ;n of Knoxville, Tenn., v. v: ng her mother. Mrs. T: %- user, here this week. Mr./ j. p. Robinson and dai% ere on vacation last wee Misses a and Irene Col on a. daug* of Mr. and Mrs. ** L & have returned from Wa; on, d. C„ where they sper- n days visiting sister ant, husband, Mr. and Mrs Char - Hoke. Jr. Irene left Wedne y, the 21st, for Belmont, N. C., where she will be enrolled as a freshman at Sacred Heart College. Miss. Reeve To Appear In Concert With Oratorio Singers The Oratorio singers of Char lotte. with Earl Berg as guest conductor are presenting a con cert of choral & instrumental music at Wildacres, near Little Switzerland, with harpsichord ists Joan Reeve ft Anita Bult man, Friday, Aug. 23rd, I*6B. at 8:00 p. m. Admission Frsa. Everyone welcome. THE YANCEY RECORD * ' . v '" \<V«SSN ■■ x> Miss Whisnant To Be Presented At Debutante Assembly In New York Miss Lela Ruth Whisnant, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Clyde Maclver Whisnant of BurasviHe, is among the 30 debutantes to be formally presented at the 47th Debutante Assembly and New Year’s Ball, a dinner dance for debutantes, on Jan. 1, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The debutantes and their mothers will be honored at a membership tea and reception to be given by die chairman of the ball, Mrs. Robert Stith Five Ymey Comity Yeath Attend 441 Conference Five Yancey County youth at tended the 13th Western District 4-H Leadership Conferance at Swannanoa 4-H Camp August 5 - 10. Eighty-five delegates from 18 western counties had an opportunity to explore and secure broader visions of the scope of 4-H Club work. Train ing was designed to help dele gates be a more effective 4-H member in junior leadership and were challenged to look for ideals, the inspiration and tra ining that will help each to be a better individual. Workshops included sessions on Teenage Decisions, Finer Things In Life, Junior Leader ship and Records. Special inter est classes included Crafts, Home Improvements You Can Do, Recreation Leadership, Communications, Nature’s World and Personal Appearance. Attending from Yancey Coun ty were: Benita Ball, Vickie Whitson, Dianne King, Sam Anglin and Mark Warner. Mrs. Mary Margaret Deyton, Home Economics Extension Agent, was one of five Western District Extension Agents who served as a counselor and accompanied <he Yancey delegates to the Conference. Williams, Jr., and the commit tee on Sfcpt. 4. at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Lela Ruth is among the 230 debutantes featured and her picture selected out of the 3,000 listed to appear in the 1980-67 Debutante Register. Her chief marshal at the debutante ball will be her father, Dr. Clyde M. Whisnant. Her marshal will be Carl Daniel Killian of Cullo whee, N. C. Many of the young ladies are second generation debutantes, their mothers having been pre saged at the assembly in past yean. This season wiH marie the 47th year of the assembly, end the ball is one of the high* lights of the New York social season. The young ladies will come from many parts of the U. S. as well as Europft. Miss Whisnant was presented at the Western N. C. Sub-Deb Ball in Shelby in June, 1067. She will leave for Presbyterian Col lege, St. Petersburg, Fla., Sept. 1, where she will enter her so phomore year. She will spend the week prior to the opening of school at a workshop complex as a representative for the le gislative council for the school. She will join her mother in Char lotte for the flight to New York for the membership tea and re ception to be held on Sept. 4. Girls’ State Representatives Wit Speak To Club The American Legion-Auxili ary will meet on Tuesday, Aug ust 27 at 7:00 p. m. at the Com munity Building. The meeling will be preceded uy a covered dish supper. Misses Anita Anglin and Susan Mclntosh, representatives to Girls’ state, will make interest ing reports on their experience while at Girls’ State.j Admissions TeNetphd Admissions and Discharges Yancey Hospital: Admitted Aug. 14: Nora Jean Hopson, Floyd Huskins. Disch arged: Danny Keith Walker. Admitted Aug. 15: Lawrence Bolick, Mary Huskins, Ernest Proffitt, Pansy Byrd. Discharg ed: Mildred Austin, Annie Head, Ada Buckner, Welzie Robinson. Admitted Aug. 16: Patricia Hughes, Mary Esther Hughes, Bertha Ball, Maggie McMa) an, Ellen McNeil. Discharged: Ron ald Peterson, Mary Alice Ben nett, Polly Williams, Lindall Fisher. Admitted Aug. 17: Ida Bell* Carroll, W. E. Scott. Discharg ed: Ellen McNeil, Mary Husk ins. Genevie Whittington, Nora Jean Hopson, Cordie Tipton, Lawrence Bolick, Floyd Hus kins. Admitted Aug. 18: Hoyle Led ford, Ronald Peterson. No dis charges: Admitted Aug. 19: Jettie Tit tle, Mary Jane Styles. Joyce Buchanan. Discharged: Fatricia Hughe,-*. Ida Bell Pairoll, Pansy Byrd, Brenda Mclntosh, L. B. Robinson. Admitted Aup„ 20: La.vrencs Bolick, Florence Burnett, Ruby King, Sallie Wilson, Edward Carter, Guy Mitchell. L. B. Rob inson. Discharged: Hansel Hen sley, Ronald Peterson. BIRTHS Births Yancey Hospital: To Mr. and Mrs. John A. Buchanan Rt. 1. Green Mountain, a son, Ma *k Dwayne. Oldest SBC Senday School Teacher *Wm Mrs. Belle G^Roland A 97-year old adult teacher holds the longest record of Sun day School teaching in the Sou thern Baptist Convention. Mrs. Belle G. Roland, member of First Baptist Church. Tucum cari, New Mexico, has been teaching for 80 years. She be gan teaching in a summer “sub scription school”, in which Bible was a major part of cur riculum, at the age of 15, and in Sunday School in Scott Coun ty, Virginia, at the age of 17. * She taught for many years in Burnsville, N. C., where her husband, G. G. Roland, served as deacon in First Baptist Church. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs S. H. Gold, Mrs. Roland was bom Dec. 12, 1870, and was graduated with honors from college in 1802. Daniel Boone of Burnsville is her nepWew. Since moving to New Mexico in 1921, she has taught adult classes, having taught the T. E. L. Class of First Baptist Chur ch, Tucumcari, for more than 13 years. THURSDAY. AUGUST 22, IMS 1 "■■■ !■ | , , ■j?a ~ Jrf; dRrV Miss Anglin To Attend Conference Miss Anita Anglin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Anglin of Burnsville, is one of 640 Girl Scouts selected from throughout the nation this summer to at tend the World of Arts Confer ence at Edith Macy Training Center in Pleasantville, New York. The World of Arts Conference was designed by the Giri Scouts of the U.S.A. to enable some of it’s members to explore the arts in a series of 4 workshops with 159 girls attending each session. Miss Anglin is presently at tending a ten-day “Folk Arty of the Fifty States” session which has as its focus the American handcrafts and arts that have come down through the genera tions and to the present day. The girls at this workshop will not only learn from experts in this wide field, but also from each other as they share infor mation about their respective areas through conversation and demonstrations. Miss Anglin is a member of the Senior Girl Scout Troop in Burnsville and her trip as well as those of three other WNC girls was sponsored by the Pis gah Girl Scout Council. Oa her return, Miss Anglin will share her new knowledge with Girl Scouts in this area, for eat of the prime purposes of the conference is to stimulate as interest in the arts on the part of Giri Scouts and others in tbs community. HE Club Mutts 22 members and one guest of the Burnsville Home Extension Club enjoyed a business and soc ial meeting Friday afternoon, Aug. 16, at the home of Mrs. Troy Ray. with Miss Zoe Young as co-hostess. Mrs. Mary Margaret Deytoa, Home Extension Economist, in troduced Mr. Pat H. Guyer. 4-H Club worker, who showed slides illustrating community beauti fication. Mrs. Deyton, who works with Mr. Guyer in 4-H dub work, stated that since Mr. Guy er’s arrival in May. 6 4-H Clubs had been reactivated, and that three more were being organis ed this week. Community beau- * tification has been adopted as a project by the Pensacola Club, and it is expected that this pro- * jeet will be adopted by the other dubs. The Club voted to join with other Home Extension Clubs is the county in sponsoring a pic nic for patients in Broughton Hospiaal in Morganton, a defi nite date to be set later. Yancfj County has been assigned a group of patients at BrougtUtoa for special attention.
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