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Volume 33 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE BY HORTICULTURAL CROPS COMMISSION A $500.00 per year college scholarship will be awarded to a high school graduate of the ?8 county area of Western North Carolina by the Horticultural Crops Commission of the Ashe ville Agricultural Development Council. Purpose of the annual scholar ship, the first of which was awarded in 1965, is to encourage young people from this area to enter the professional field of horticulture and to provide fi nancial assistance to them in attending college. The recipient must pursue the four year course leading to a degree in horticul ture in a college with'' an ap proved horticulture curriculum. Other recipients of the schol arship, all of whom are now at tending college, iuclude Robert Spencer Hamilton, Rutherford ton! Gary Randolph, Mars Hill; Dennis Deyton, Green Mountain and D. C. Cos ton, Henderson ville. Applications for the scholar ship and details can be secured from high school principals, guidance counselors, vocational agriculture teachers or 4-H Club •gents in the area. Deadline for making application is April i, IMV. The winner will be an nounced by May 1. High school graduates of the 18 counties composing the Agri '%s&£'•? : ’:'•#> ■■ : ‘*3^*tßi3&- : %^^-^' ■:: v w..-.. :&:• ■■ys&r*- : -?? < ' - ■>*:■:: ivt mMHNMnVw ■& - '' ■ X* : '<£ -WU 1 "^»k ; . -.]2&i%/3K&j^^V9 p SHADES OF CASEY JONES * • ’ • OLD NO. 1 RIDES AGAIN The almost long-forgotten sound of a s eam engine’s shrill whis le resounding through the countryside, and the sight of i/a billowing smoke as it winds its way along the terrain, once again become a reality on the Clinchfield. THE YANCEY RECORD cultural Development Council are eligible. These include: Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Chero kee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Trans ylvania and Yancey. The grant will be awarded on the basis of interest, relative need, scholastic record, leader ship and citizenship. The committee responsible for reviewing the applications, interviewing applicants and a warding the scholarship is com posed of Bunveil smith, Ashe ville, Chairman; H. R. Caldwell. Fletcher; Ellis Lyda, Sky land; W. J. Nesbitt, Edneyville and Paul Pe*enon, Sky land. in announcing the scholarship, Harley Blackwell of Fletcher, Chairman of the Horticultural C cn<? Commission and Superin tendent of the Mountain Horti cultural Crops Research Station stated, “The Horticultural Com mission is pleased that we can again effer this $2,000 scholar ship to assist a boy or girl from Western North Carolina to go fto college and study horticul ture. This is the fastest-growing agricultural enterprise in the area and offers many opportuni ties for young people with pro fessional training." OLD NO. I RIDES AGAIN The C’inchfield Rail-wad Com pany has brought back to our modern world of transportation an aura of nostalgia of by-gone days, by completely refurbish ing the ’’Old No. 1 Spot”, con sidered to be the oldest operat ing steam engine in the coun try. “Old No. 1" will, in the very near future, be p'aced in ser Burnsville, N. C. Young. Anderson Directors Os Alt. Mitchell DHIA BURNSVILLE Earl Young. Yancey County dairyman, and Franklin Anderson, Madison County, dairyman, was elected new direc'ors of the Mount Mit chell Dai"y Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) at a meet ing held Tuesday night in the Courthouse at Burnsville. This was the annual meeting of the cooperative association. E. L. Dillingham, Yancey County Ex tension Chairman, was elected ns public director. The mem bership is made up of 20 dairy men from Madison, Mitchell and Yancey Counties. Crisp Appointed Heart Fund Mr. Joe Crisp of Burnsville has been appointed Heart Fund City Chairman. Mr. Carlie Rice of Burnsville has been appoint ed Heart Fund Rural Chairman. These appointments were an nounced by Yancey County Chairman, Mrs. Hazel Hensley. Mrs. Hensley said, "Heart dis ease is still the leading killer in North Carolina, the nation, and the world. ’ Last year in North Carolina alone, 23,000 par sons died from cardiovascular disease. The best way we caa help to stop this ww to hty contributing to the Heart Find Thursday, February 6, 1969 vice hauling special and excur sion t-ains over Clinchfield scenic rou'e, at a nominal cost to the public. Informa ion pertaining to rese-- vaMons and ticket fares, to ge’her with the dates of sched uled trips of this ."old timer”, will be forthcoming. "LOOK WATCH—LISTEN” FOR DETAIL^. MESSER AND RAAISEY SPONSOR BILL TO AUTHORIZE NEW REGISTRATION Representatives Messer, and Ramsey of Madison, are spon sors of a Bill to be entitled: An Act to authorize County Boards of Elections to cnoduct a new registration of voters during the year 1969 pursuant to installing loose-leaf registra tion as required by G. S. 163-65, The General Assembly of North Carolina dp enact “Sec ion 1— There shall be conducted in those counties listed in Section 2 —a new regist-ation of all qualified voters within each said county during the period from April 1, 1969, to September 30, 1969. Such new regis.ra'ion shall be conducted in accordan ce with the provisions of Chap ter 163, Section 67 (a) of the General Statutes, except that the registra.ion books, in addi tion to the time prescribed in Section 67 (a) of Chapter 163 may be available for registra tion in the office of the County Board of Elections or at some pre-announced location or loca tions during the week days of said period. The cost of conduct ing such new registration shall he allocated by the respective Board of County Commission ers. See. ?. Counties covered un der >h;s Act are Ashe. Colum bus. Haywood, Stokes, YadKin, and Yancey. Sec 3. Any and all Counties ordering a new registration as Authorized by this Act shall, up *n determining to order such new registration, notify the 8! ate Board of Ejections of the decis ion and publish notice as is now required by law. LAUGHRUN HEALTH DIRECTOR The Mitchell-Yancey County Health Department is fortunate in at last having a Health Dir ector in the person of Dr. Wm. A. (Gus) Laughrun, who began his duties this week. Dr. Laugh run was appointed to this posi tion by the local Board of Health. Dr. Laughrun is certainly no stranger to the people of Yancey County, having been born in the Jacks Creek section of the coun ty, and he has many relatives in the county. He received his BS Degree from Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn. From there he went to Wake Forest College for two years. He re ceived his medical training at the University of Kentucky in Louisville. He also studied at Tulane University in New Or leans. He did his internship at Charity Hospital, Louisville, Ky. Dr. Laughrun practiced medi cine in Burnsville for several years in fact Yancey Hospi tal had its beginning in the clinic and offices he built now occupied by Dr. Webb. He is a licensed physician in the states of N. C.. Ark. and Kentucky. Number Twenty - Two Sec. 4: All laws and clauses es laws in conflict with this Act are hereby temporarily, until Sept. 30, 1969, suspended. Sec. 5: This Act shall be in full force and effect from date of ratification. Mrs. Tom Griffith Dies M-s. Tom Griffith, 78, of Bur nsville, died Monday morning in a local hospital after a brief illness. She was a lifelong resident of Yancey Court y. Surviving a e three daughters, Mrs. W. J. Banks, Mrs. T. G. Edge and Mrs. Robert Hilliard, all of 'Burnsville; two sisters, Mrs. W. O. Griffith and Mrs. E. B. Silvers, both of Burnsville; two brothers, Welzie W. of Lakeland, Fla., and J. C. Ray of Asheville; and three grand children. Services were held at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday in First Baptist Church of Burnsville, of which she was a member. The Rev. Harold McDonald officiated. Burial was m Pet# Young Cemetery. Pallbea~ers were Robert, Jam es and Roy Ray, James and Amey Fox, Ben and Edgar Grif fi'h, Paul Eckstrom and Paul Biggerstaff. In lieu of flowe~s, contribu tions may be made to First Baptist Church of Burnsville. He was a major in the medical corps in the Second World War. where he contacted a severe case of arthritis from which he still suffers. Dr. and Mrs. Laughrun moved here from Nebo, N. C , where Dr. Laughrun had been in prac tice. They bought the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Bingham, where they expect to entertain their five children and families as well as their friends. Their children are Dr. W. A Laugh run, Jr., a practicing physician in Denver, Colo.; Lynn Hart Blackwell of Charlotte; Miss Tommy Lou Laughrun, a teach er in Spartanburg, 8. C.; Sally Black, married to Travis Jones, and living in Akron, Ohio, Pam. the youngest, married to Ten ent Teeter of Marion, N. C.. who is in the School of Phar macy at the University of N. C . Chapel Hill, and' expects to go into medicine. Pam is Secre tary to Dr. Campbell, Highway Safety Director, Chapel Hill. We welcome Dr. and Mrs. Lau ghrun back to if.eir home town, and a-e very happy he is to be connected with our Health De partment.
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