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sdfadfadf Volume 33 %e is r ' ~ j *l~~’ ~~- •'’ • - -■_ .-. Youth Opportunity Tosk Forco Plans Socond Annual Yancey Youth Jamboree Members of the Youth Oppor tunity Task Force of the Yan cey County Chamber of Com merce and teachers from local schools met recently to begin formulating plans for the Second Annual Yancey Youth Jamboree to be held again this summer in conjunction with the Mt. ‘'Mit chell Crafts Fair. The Fair in cluding the Jamboree is spon sored annually by the Yancey County Chamber of Commerce and has become one of the out standing events of the county each year, attracting visitors and craftsmen from far and near The Jamboree will be staged two evenings, August 7, 3 with judg'ng and awarding of orizes each evening. Participants in grades 1-6 will perform August 7th who 7-12th grades perform ing the evening August 8. Last year’s Jamboree consst ed of 33 entries with each Yan cey County School represented. The Folk Five of Fast Yancey High School Janet Crisp, Bonnie Hess, Martha Hess, Pa tricia Randolph and Jerry Clev enger was named Grand Champions. South Toe River School s/ Smooth Dancing Team won the Team Dancing Award. Wanda Hollifield of East Yan cey was the Individual Talent Winner; Willoree Baker and Norma Jean Allen of Cane Riv er High School won the Group Talent Award. As in the past, talent is being recruited through the schools of Yancey County Participation is open to all regularly enrolled students, grades 1-12 in the coun tv schools Applications must l»e submitted through teacher repre sentative for the Jamboree. Mrs. Virginia Phillips, Bee Log; Mrs. Eva Robertson, Bald Creek; Mrs. Judy Sparks, Cane River; Miss Sarah Hensley, Burnsville; Mrs. Ruth Rice, Clearmont; Mrs. Or lena Williams, Pensacola; Mrs. Louise Hughes, East Yancey; Mrs. Bernice Justice, Micaville; Mrs. Caroline Deyton, South 'jilt - S'-. r ’ ii ' I *,' ml lx- JSsr •&’* V-"7'S . Hk 'V i JBM jelalßT 381 Ilk NT if iflKf Jft mm k. ■Mg pmM Thursday, April 3,1969 Toe; and Mrs. Gretchen Robin son, Robinson’s School of Music. The Yancey Youth Jamboree is to provide an opportunity for school children to display tal ents relating to their rich heri tance of folk singing, dancing and music. James Byrd and Claude Vess are chairmen of the Jamboree Committee. HILLBILLY WORLD ARTICLE OFFERS FACT FRAGMENTS SAYS LOCAL WRITER (Reprinted from Greensboro Daily News) BY W. C. BURTON The title of the piece is "the bittersweet world of the hillbilly girl.’ It is set like that, in low er-case letters. It appears in the February issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. It is about how girls in and around Burnsville, North Carolina, live and pass the time. At least that is what it pre tends to be about. It is, in fact, as affected and phony as the ty pography and wording of the ti tle. The piece is by a fellow named John Bowers. He may be a nice guy, personally. TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM As the author of a piece about Burnsville, a town I know and love, I find him superficial, trite, false, patronizing, superci lious, archly titillating, and un scrupulous. In other words he is a skillful professional magazine feature writer, and the truth is «..• in him. Cr if M is, he to going to see that it doesn’t come out. It would! ruin too many of his stories. Fragments of truth flicker, if rather feebly, now and then in Mr. Bowers’ article, but careful ly selected fact and half fact are more frequently passed off as substitutes. Truth is pruned and garnished to the writer’s taste and purpose. The techni que is familiar; it serves to con ceal rather than reveal the true picture. Bowers even brings in that hoary cliche, by intimation, that moonshining and bootlegging are Number Thirty standard occupational choices among the mountain men of e Yancey County. Yancey is a "dry county,” which means that it is legally or nominally dry, not actually dry, just as it does in every "dry county” in the Unit ed Staltes. Bootleggers exist but the vast majority of pecplS In Burnsville and Yancey County are as law abiding, upright, de cent and moral as those of any place you care to name. In describing on? "mountain girl,” Bowers observes that “her accent would be better under stood in Elizabethan England of four centuries ago than in the America of today." Since no one actually knows what the speech of Elizabethan England sounded like this is a pretty loose as sumption, tossed into the piece (Continued on page 3) Town Board Announces Election Day The Town Board of Burnsville has announced that the bi-annual election of mayor and commis sioners will be held in the Town Hall on Tuesday, May 6th. The town board has appointed John G. Wilson as registrar and Loy McCurry and Philip Ray as judges for the election. Regis tration bodes for new qualified voters will be open from Friday, April 18 through Friday, April 25, excluding Sunday. On Sat urday, April 19, the books will be open at the Town Hall all day. On other days new residents of Burnsville may register at Mr. John Wilson’s home on Longview Drive during the hours 9 A M. until 5 P. M. The residence qualification for voting in the town election is residence in the State for one year and in the Town of Burns ville for one month preceding the election. Challenge day will be on Sat urday, April 26, on which Hay challenges may be entered from 9A. M. until 3 P. M. at the town office. Under the election laws of North Carolina governing this municipal election, candidates are not limited to those nomi na ed by mass meetings, and the election is held on a non partisan basis. Candidates may file to have their names on the ballot up until noon on Satur day, April 31. The resolution of the t«wn beard covering further details of the election Is posted in the town office.
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