& , -
»THEMSItJ<EY 'RECORDS!
Volume 33
WKYK Radio
Station Gets
New Owner
The First of this week, Radio
Station WKYK, Burnsville came
under new ownership and man
agement. J. Ardell Sink, for
merly of West Jefferson and
Laurinburg, North Carolina is
now President and General Man
ager of Burnsville Broadcast-
Inc., which operates the local
station Mrs. Sink is now Vice
President, Secretary and Treas
urer of Burnsville Broadcasting.
Sink is a native of Davidson
County, North Carolina and a
graduate of High Point College
with a degree in Business Ad
ministration. He was with
WBUY RADIO. Lexington, N.
C., for 4 years and for 9 years
was General Manager of Radio
Station WKSK. West Jefferson.
For the past year, Sink was
Executive Vice President and
General Manager of the Curtis
Stations, a group of 4 North
Carolina Radio Stations based
in Laurinburg, N. C. Sink is a
former President of the Ashe
County Chamber of Commerce,
the West Jefferson Rotary Club,
and Director of the NW North
Carolina Development Associa
tion. The Sinks have 3 children
and now reside on . SHEPHERD
WAY, in Burnsville.
Sink announced that Nick
Lovin of Rockingham, North
Carolina has been named Assist
ant Manager of WKYK and Ted
Boys worth, Chief Engineer.
Sink laid i number of improve
ments planned for exoanskJn
and new services by the local
station.
Dr von Braun To Deliver Inaugural
Address At The Western Carolina U
CULLOWHEE, N. C., AprU
12 Dr. Wernher von , Braun,
director of the George C. Mar
shall Space Flight Center of
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, will de
liver the address at the inaugu
ration of Dr. Alex S. Pow as
Taylor’s Aide
To Visit Here
Tom L. Ma'lonee, 11th Con
gressional District Assistant to
Congressman Roy A. Taylor, is
ni'tt making scheduled visits to
the county seats and other sec
tions of the counties.
On Thursday, May I, he will
be at the Yancey C'wnty Court
house. Burnsville, N 0., from
lno to a.on p m.
•' .—I
ipi m
iffgliiPi :
Calvin Wilson Shows His Trout
Right Kind Os Fish Story
For Hopeful Anglers
By: Rebecca Boone
Now is the time for all fisher
men to head for the mountains.
The trout are practically jump
ing out of the water.
The fii*st weeks of the moun
tain trout season is history de
spite inclement weather condi
tions during the first few days
of fishing. However the anglers
braved the rains and came out
to wade their favorite streams.
Mr. Lee Boone, manager of
the Mt. Mitchell Wildlife Com
mission reports that for the last
two weeks of trout season the
the sixth president of Western
Carolina University.
The inauguration convocation
Dr voi Irauit
Thursday, April 17, 1969
management area has had their
share of fishermen who caught
their limit of native trout.
As evidence of the good fish
ing conditions, Calvin Wilson of
Rt. 5, Burnsville caught these
two large brown trout in the
South Toe River near Carolina
Hemlock last week. The fish
weigh 6 lb. 4 oz. and 7 lb. 7 oz.
and are approximately 26” and
27” in length.
So all you fishermen pack up
your gear and come on up to the
Yancey County Mountains for
good fishing.
will be held at 2 p. m., April 24,
in Reid Gymnasium, on the Wes
tern Carolina campus.
Dr. Von Braun’s acceptance of
the invitation to address the
inauguration convocation will
bring to the Cuilowhee campus,
and to Western North Carolina,
the world’s foremost auihority
in the sciences of rocketry and
space flight. The convocation
will be open to the public.
Under Dr. Von Braun’s direc
tion, the Marshall Space Flight
Center group has several
“firsts” in space, including the
first nose cone of a ballistic
missile to reenter the atmos
phere from space; first primate
to journey into space (monkeys
AbV and Baker*; and the laun
ching of Explorer I, the first
U. S. earthi sat elite
Hugh Tomerlin To Speak
At Annual Chambet
Os Commerce Dinner
Mr. Hugh M. Tomberlin will
be the guest speaker at the
Yancey County Chamber of
Commerce annual dinner to be
held at East Yancey High Schcjl
April 22 at 7:00 p. m. in the
cafe.eria.
Mr. Tomberlin of Asheville, a
former resident of Yancey Coun
ty received his B. S. Degree
from Western Carolina College
and his M. A. at University of
North Carolina. He later did
additional graduate work at the
University.
During Mr. Tomberlin’s Col
lege years he w-as President of
Men's Government and Mono
gram Club, President of the
Senior class, and received Var
sity Letters in Football, Basket
ball, Baseball and Track.
Entered Military Service in
1942 and received direct com
mission as second Lieutenant,
U. S. Army. He was later pro
moted to rank of Capta'n and
assigned to Department of State,
Middle East Theatre, Economic
Intelligence.
He has served as principal of
several schools including Enka
High School which was the first
public county high school in
Western North Carolina to be
accredited by Southern Associa
tion of Colleges and Schools.
His other administrative activi
ties include: Member of North
Advertisers Help Keep
Newspapers Independent
Political and economic inde
pendence are inseparable. No
better illustration of this fact
can be found than in the opera
tion of that mainstay of liberty,
the free press. To be free the
press must be self-supporting.
The practical side of press
freedom was described by the
advertising director of a major
metropolitan newspaper: “While
the First Amendment (to the U.
S. Constitution) guarantees free
dom of the press, it is the
strength provided by advertising
revenues that makes it possible.
No subsidized press can hope to
be objective and unbiased in
news treatment or editorial pol
icy. . . 1 believe that America's
newspapers . . . ly advertising's
vigor-imparting revenues, are
the most objective, the most {in
formative, and the moat relia
ble newspapers in the world.”
The oft heard statement that
private enterprise and a free
press will live or die together
is no exaggeration. Neither is it
an exaggeration to point out that
representative government and
Number Thirty-Two
Jlllk
Hugh Tomerlin
Carolina Committee of the Sou
thern Association of Colleges and
Schools, President of North Car
olina High School Athletic As
sociation. member o f Leg!Ca
tive committee of North Caro
lina Chapter, and a member of
Phi Delta Kappa, Western North
Carolina Chapter.
Mr. Tomberlin is a Deacon
and Sunday School Teacher at
West Asheville Presbyterian
Church.
liberty itself will stand or fall
wi.h private enterprise and a
free press. And so we should be
thankful for the advertising
horsepower that keeps a good
newspaper solvent.
Spruce Pine
Men Jaded
According to Deputy Sheriff
Fred Robinson, Ralph Butner,
Cecil Butner and Frank Reese
were arrested April 14th for im
proper use of alcoholic beverag
es. Ralph Butner of Rt. t.
Spruce Pine was charged with
operating a motor vehicle while
intoxicated. The other two men
were jailed for public drunken
ness.
Robinson also reports that
Peggy O’Nell Bennett, of Erwin,
, Tenn., was arrested and charged
with driving intoxicated last
week-end.
At this time Ra’ph Butner Is
still being held in Yancey County
Jail. Cecil Butner and Took
Reese have been released.