HE§MM€EiriKI€#RlS Volume 33 ? : 'T' ?' 3a*> ,4&j^HK§^BKtlll§l,.. !.4 r . ;■- ' * . --7 wNSMLw • ■ ~ Crowned i The windy, rainy, cold weather may have dampened the zest of some youthful Trick or Treaters on Hallo 'ween night, but the gloom was an ideal cover for intrepid Pranksters who decided that Captain Otway Burns should have an adornment. Crowning the noble captain, impaled on his cap, is the age-old symbol of Hallo'ween: A Jack - O - Lantern The pranksters' identity remains a mystery, but a likely line-up of suspects can be found on page 14 of this issue. NC Heart Assoc Sponsors Heart Scan For Children Volunteers using a compu terized heart scanner will be gin a two year program in January to detect heart mur mers among some 1 3,000 school children in Wataugp, Avery, Mitchell and Yancey Counties. The project, sponsored by die North Carolina Heart As- Season Ends The East Yancey High School football season has come to an end. The Pan - ther's final record was 3 wins and 7 losses. The boys who played showed a great deal of improvement over the season We would like to thank every one who has helped the athle tic program this year. The support of many people work ing and many more people supporting is at our game was a big help to the program. We would like to than k everyone who has backed the athletic program at East Yan cey. -Butch Sursavage & Harold Bennett, Jr. sociation, is aimed toward discovering heart defects in children and referring them for treatment before their hearts are damaged. The tests are free without cost to any one for children from the Ist through the 12th grades. Laymen volunteers will use a machine called the Phono Cardio Scan, which is able to detect a murmur in a person's heart within two aid a half minutes. This causes no pain, no medicine is in volved, no needles, said Mrs. Mary S. Wilson, area coordi nator for the project. A training program for volunteers will begin in De cember with the screening of children at Deyton Elementa ry School in Spruce Pine. Children will be tested on ly with their parents perm is - sion. If a murmur is found in a child, another machine test will be made and if the murmur is certified, a doc tor will visit the school to make a diagnosis. Thursday, November 6, 1969 Economic Impact Os 6,000 Acre Resort Will Be Felt Through Entire Region An announcement was made last Friday regarding ai estimated sls million expan sion of the resort and residen tial facilities at Bald Mum tain. Authorities stated that "he 6,000 acre tract being leveloped takes in parts of Yancey and Madison Count ies in North Carolina and a part of Unicoi County, Ten n. Most of the land is in Madi son County. There was an enthusiastic attitude shown by the invest ors and developers regarding the future growth of the Bald Postmaster Announces The ’69 Christmas Time Table From Paul E. Buck, Postmaster The Christmas season is al most here again. We should mail our packages and Christmas greetings in time for them to reach their destination byChrist mas Day. In order to do this the following time table shouU be used: Mail to Armed Forces Over seas - APO & FPO: 1- mail should be in the mail by November 8, 1969. 2- SAM Mail should be mail ed by November 22, 1969. 3- PAL Mail should be mailed by November 29, 1969. 4- Air Mail should be mailed by December 13, 1969. Be sure to include the APO or FPO number in the mailing address. Domestic packages and greet ing cards should be mailed by December 15. All packages ei ther domestic or foreign should have inside the package a list of the contents and the address of the mailer and the addressee so that the package can be de livered even if the wrapper is detached. Patrons on rural routes who mail cards and letters during De cember must affix the post age stamps. The rural carries are not required to perform this ser vice during the month of Decern Snow Flurries Many Yancey Countians saw their first snowfall of the winter season on Monday af ternoon. Snow flurries con tinued at intervals through - out the night and the early morning hours. Mountain resort and one auth ority noted" The economic impact of this development.. .. will be felt throughout the entire region." A five-year development program will be prepared this winter to complement the spectacular mountain golf course which opened last sum mer and the partially com pleted Wolf Laurel Ski Village. Plans now are for the ski facility to be opened in the winter of 1970. There will be three ski slopes inclu d e d in the complex and two 18- ber. Please buy stamps during this period and DO NOT LEAVE MONEY IN THE BOX. The personnel of the Bums - ville Post Office will try to be of any assistance that we can to patrons during this period. Please give us your cooperation and we will do our best to expedite ytur mail service. Merry Christmas! Highway 19 Heads List The improvement of US 19 from Burnsville west to Cane River has been recommended as a top priority highway con struction project by Novile C. Hawkins, area Highway Com missioner from Mars Hill. Hawkins said this week he had called for action on the project which was suspended when the Highway Comir.is - sion was unable to sell the last S6O million of its S3OO million bond issue became of interest rates. The two-mile stretch of road is expect ed to cost $1,200,000. Right of way acquisition, which was sus - pended when the bonds were frozen, can be resumed as soon as the Commission ap proves the project. Other projects in his area to which Hawkins assigned pri orities were US 25-70 in Ma dison and Buncombe Counties from Marshall to Weaverville; N.C. 213 in Madison County from Mars Hill to Marsh a1 k N. C. 209 in Haywood Coun ty from Lake Junaluska north to Crabtree school and a by pass of 19-E at Spruce Pine. i Number Sixty 'mle golf courses, one par hree golf course, fishing, bri ial paths for horseback ridiqg. and hunting. Also under study at this :ime are ski dormitories, mo tels, and shopping center, a craft shop and summer thea ter. Road construction will be completed soon by the State of North Carolina to tie Bald Mountain area and will ac - celerate the building program which contemplates the crea tion of several hundred new jobs by mid-1970. The developer and ori - ginal planner of this multi million dollar resort, C. P. Edwards m, was lauded for the business vision and darirg he exhibited in this project. Edwards began developing the 6,000 acre area several years ago and will now take a seat on the board of directors of the new company which is to rake over the expansion and ; complet ion of the resort. The company which now holds tic majority interest of the Bald ! Mountain Development Corp. and Wolf Laurel faoperties , Inc. is named Dynamic Sys tems, Inc. and is a subsidiary of a public company called 60 Minutes System Inc. This resort and those at Seven Devils and BeechNbun tain will make this area the ski center of the south said a spokesman for Dynam i c Systems Inc. 1( Saks Tax Defeated Here The results of Tuesday's election on the Option l