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Volume 33
Multimillion Dollar Showplace Plan
For Carolinas Will Rival Disneyland
By Carolyn Yuziuk
Yancey Countians now are
going to have a multi mi 11 ion
dollar national showplace, en
tertainment center and recrea
tion facility in their own back
yard, or at least in easy driving
distance. A $250 million plan
ned resort community called
Caro Winds and featuring a Dis-
Yancey Man [
Dies In
Car Wreck
Alden Pate, 33 year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Pate of
Route 4, Burnsville, was found
dead Sunday morning after a one
car accident Saturday night on U.
S. 19 West, according to State
Highway Patrol.
Patrolman Max W. Greene
said Pate was pinned under his
car after it plunged down a 75-
foot embankment about 5 miles
west of here and overturned into
the Cane River. He was alone
in the car, Greene said, and was
found by his father, Baxter R.
Pate.
Or. W. A. Y.Sargent attri -
buted death to chest and skull
injuries.
Surviving in addition to the
parents are three sisters, Mis.
Johnnie Robinson, Mrs. Leonard
Fender, Mrs. Jimmy Phillips,all
of Burnsville, Route 4; two bro
thers , Reece and Ronald Pate of
Burnsville, Route 4; and grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison
Phillips of Route 4.
Funeral Services were held
at 2s 30 p. m. Tuesday in the
Bee Log Baptist Church. The Rev.
Niram Phillips and Rev. James
Beaver officiated. Burial was in
the Bee Log Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Max and
Howard Whitson, Arthur and
George Edwards, Bumie Rarrsay
and Gaither Bailey.
Blood mobile
The Red Cross Bloodmo
bile will be at the Armory in
Burnsville this Thursday, Octo
ber 16 horn 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Everyone is urged to come
and help us reach our goal.
neyland type amusement park
will be located in southwest
Mecklenburg County, North
Carolina according to Charlotte
industrial developer E. Pat Hall
"There has been a critical
need for a major recreation fa
cility in our area for years, "Mn
Hall said. "We are meeting the
need. We are bringing a new
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Banks Crowned EY
Queen At Friday's Football Garnet
By Janice Robinson
and James Bagwell
Friday night, October 10,
dining the Homecoming Game
between the East Yancey Pan
thers and the Hot Springs Blue
Devils, the 1970 Homecoming
Queen of East Yancey High
School was chosen. The Queer
shared honors with four runners
-up and all were selected from
among the many contestants
one from each homeroom at East
Yancey.
Fourth runner-up was Miss
Donna Allen from Mrs. N>m Efey
ton's room. Donna is the daugb
ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Allen
of Burnsville. She was escorted
by Bill Bartlett.
Third runner-up was Miss
Mitze Presnell from Miss Gwei
Young's room. Mitze is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clar
ence Presnell of Newdale. She
was escorted by Glen William*
Second runner-up was Miss
Linda Shuford, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Shuford of
South Toe. Linda is horn Mrs.
Kate Zuver's room and she was
escorted by Terry Willis.
Jaycees Manning To Make ’69
Christmas Parade The Best
The Christmas Season is
once again drawing near. This
year the Yancey County Jaycees
have agreed to sponsor a Christ
mas Parade. The Parade will
be on Saturday, December 6,
1969 at 2:00 p.m.
Any club, group, or indivi
dual who would like to enter a
float, marching group, or band
please contact Charlie M. Hens
ley at Box 742, Burnsville, N.
Carolina as soon as possible.
First, Second, and Third
Thursday, October 16,1969
concept of living to the Carey
linas. We are putting togeth e r
something the Carolinas will be
very proud of."
With Gatlinburg on one side
of us and Caro Winds growing up
on the other, Yancey Countians
may well take deep thought to
our own future. With a great
deal of foresight and some astute
*j 4 M
Jjm
Vicki Lynn Banks
The Homecoming Queen
of 1970 is Miss Vicki Banks, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Banks of Burnsville. The Ra/
diant Queen was presented with
the crown from last year's queen,
Miss Wanda Slagle, who also
presented her with a spray of
Yellow Chrysanthemums. Vicki
was escorted by Jack Boone, Jr,
Place Awards will be given for
the best floats. A prize of SIOO
for First, SSO for Second, and
$25 for Third Each float en -
tered will receive S2O for en -
tering the parade if your flo a t
does net win one of the first 3
places.
We are striving to have one
of the largest parades ever and
we can do this if you will give
us your help and support.
Looking forward to seeing
you at our Christmas Parade!
planning, we can guide our own
area away from being a flam
boyant souvenir shop-entertain
ment complex center and de
velop it into a wholesome,
quil vacation area;
The really wonderful part
about this major attraction, re
portedly planned to rival Dis -
neylamd and Six Flags in size
and is the representative of Mrs.
Thana Davis' room.
The crowning of the Home
coming Queen and the Home
coming Game at East Yancey
are major events of the School
year. A large crowd was in at
tendance to support the Panthers
in what turned out to be a most
victorious game; and to applaud
the newly-crowned queer; Miss
Vicki Banks.
At East Yancey's Home
coming game the Panthers wete
host to the Hot Spring's Blue
Devils.
The Panthers jumped to an
early lead by scoring 3 times
with extra points without let -
ting the Blue Devils manage to
score. East Yancey's touch
downs were scored by Number
41 (Rodney Bishop) and 21(Ken
neth Winters). James Ray,no.
40, scored the extra points af
ter each of the two touchdown*
The third touchdown was scored
by Number 12 (Kenneth
followed by one extra point by
number 83 (Randy Banks).
The second quarter East
Yancey scored twice again by
number 40 and also number 20
(Forrest Westall). . Half time,
the score stood at East Yancey
38 - Hot Springs 0.
After the halftime, both
teams played an even match.
Neither team managed to score
during the third quarter.
The fourth and final quar
ter Hot Springs scored 3 times.
East Yancey did not score for
the remainder of the ballgame.
The final score of the
'football game was East Yancey
38 - Hot Springs 20. <
This Friday night, October
17, East YanCey will play host
to Spruce Pine for the last hone
game of the season. Plan to
attend and support the Panthers
Nu«ber Fifty-Seven
and appeal, is that those of us
in Yancey County can "have our
cake and eat it too". The en
tertainment complex will be a
couple of horns drive or more
from our peace and tranqu i 1 ity
and thus will be a pleasant days
outing or weekend trip if we
get the notion.
In announcing the project,
Hall said, "Caro Winds will be
come a national showplacq com
bining recreation, amusements,
historical heritage, education,
love of nature and pleasant liv
ing into a center that is unparak
led anywhere else."
The amusement centerwill
have churches and an operating
miniature farm.
"The major attraction will
be an amusement park planned
for a 500 acre site split by the
North-South Carolinabortfer and
fronting on Interstate 77 eight
miles south of Charlotte," Hall
stated. "With both states as
part of the project, it will have
a true Carolinas theme. "
The Caro Winds resort com
munity will be three miles west
of the amusement park. Located
on a 2,000 acre site with six
miles of shoreline on Lake Wy
lie, it will feature a resort-con
vention hotel, a 36-hole cham
pionship golf course, parks,lux
ury apartments and environmen
tal designed residential units.
Construction on the first
phase of the complex will begin
in 1970. The total project will
be developed in four phases over
a ten year period.
A portion of the Caro Winds
site is owned by the C res c ait
Land and Timber Company, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Dile
Power Company. Crescent Land
and Timber Company is provid
ing land and is a participating
partner with Hall in the venture
Shuford Mills of Hickory, N.
C., is another principal. Hall
said other participants would be
named later.
A site development plan
for Caro Winds was prepared by
A. G. Odell Jr. and Associates,
a Charlotte architectural firm.
Economic and population sur -
veys by the Stanford Research In
stitute of South Pasadena,Calif,
and Hammer, Greene, Siler &
Associates of Washington, D. C,
indicated more than 1.2 million
persons will visit the amusement
park when its first season opera
in 1972.