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House Trailer After Fire
'Operation Santa Claus’ Offers An
Opportunity To Share At Christmas
Reverend Donald Elly,
Chairman of "Operation Santa
Claus" in this area, has an
nounced the fallowing chain
men of the committees which
will spearhead this worthwhile
project: Social Chairman,Mrs.
Louella Honeycutt; Mental
Health, James W. Riddle; Co
chairmen, Yancey Countyjay
cees.
"Operation Santa Claus"is
the annual effort of the North
Carolina Mental Health Asso -
Briggs And McGuire Join Staff
The Yancey Record staff
is happy to have two new ad
ditions to our work force, Miss
Patsy Briggs and Mr. Jerry Mc-
Guire.
Miss Briggs, who is our
Office Manager, has been with
us for several weeks now and
was pinch-hitting for a time
selling advertisement. She
is 18 years old, a 1969 gradu
ate of Cane River HigiSchool,
and lives with her parents in
the Cane River Community.
In her job she handles the sub
scription and news departments.
She also adds considerable
Patsy Briffs
ciation to make sure that every
one of the several thousand pa
tients in North Carolina mental
institutions will have some ap
propriate gifts this Christmas.
Last year, "Operation Santa
Claus" produced some 45,000
gifts to bring Christmas Cheer
to North Carolina's mental pa
tients. North Carolina Mental
Health Association leaders are
shooting for as many or more
gifts this year.
Each local Mental Health
charm and sparkle to an other
wise dreary man's enterprise.
Mr. Jerry McGuire, our
Advertising Manager, was ed
ucated in Avery CountySchxk
and attended Palmer College
in Augusta, Georgia. He
formerly worked as sales ma
nager for Krispy Kreme Ebus>-
nuts Company in Augusta, Ga.
Jerry is 27 years old, married
to the former Marilyn Over
street of Davisboro, Ga., and
is die father of two boys,Clint
age 3 and Stephen age 1. He
presently resides on Main St.
below the town square.
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Thursday, November 13,1969
Furnace Blast Causes Sudden Fire-
Total Destruction Os Trailer Home
A fire destroyed the trail
er home of Mr. and Mrs. W ade
Gurley at 8:30 a. m. on No
vember 10th.
According to Mrs. Doris
Gurley, she was sitting on a
couch in the living area with
her children close by when
the furnace door blew open
and flames started shooting
out. She hurried her four
Association across the state is
directing the project in its own
area. Residents of those areas
are urged to participate in the
various gift-collection pro -
grams set by the local Asso -
ciation.
Residents of areas where
there is no local MentalKballh
Association are urged to set up
their own gift-collection pro
grams through church groups,
schools, or civic organizations.
The gifts may be delivered
either to the nearest Mental
Heal th Association or Clinic,
or to the Director of Volunteer
Services at the Regional State
Hospital or Center for the Re
tarded.
December 14th is the
deadline for gifts to be deli -
vered to the proper places so
that gifts can be selected for
the individual patient. Gifts
should be new and unwrapped,
but wrapping paper should be
included with your gifts.
Children's toys for any
age are needed, such as balls,
dolls, educational toys, re
cords, games and sturdy cars
and trucks.
Individual gifts could be
shirts, sweaters, belts, hand
kerchiefs, purses, lipstdckand
shaving products, etc.
'Larger gifts for the wards
in general could be washers
and dryers (needed by Brough
ton sewing machines,
hair dryers, pianos, popcorn
poppers or recreation equip -
ment such as fishing supplies.
There are 15,000 pa
tients and students in the stale
hospitals and centers for the
retarded in North Carolina. In
contributing to "Operation San
ta Claus" everyone has an op
portunity to share their Chris
tmas with someone.
children out the door and in
a matter of minutes, by the
time a neighbor got to the
trailer, the blaze was uncon
trollable. The trailer is lo
cated on Highway 80 inCelo.
Mr. Gurley, who is in
the construction business and
is now w Drking at Grandfath
er Mountain, was at work at
die time of the fire. Mrs.
Gurley, who was at home at
the time with her four daugh
ters; Judy, 11 years old; Lisa,
5 years old; Tresia, 4 yeas
old; and Marinda, 6 months
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Mary Selene Duncan
Rhododendron Queen
Will Ride In Parade
Miss Mary Selene Duncan,
from Laurel Hill, North Caro
lina will appear in the 1969
Christmas Parade sponsored by
the Yancey County Jaycees.
Miss Duncan was crowned
Miss 1970 Rhododendron Queen
this past summer atop the
world's largest natural rhodo -
dendron gardens on Roan Main
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old, escaped any injury as
did her girls.
The Gurley's lost all of
their belongings which were
in the trailer, and the trail -
er itself was a total loss.
Presently, the family is
staying with Mr. Gurley's fa
ther, Mr. Paul Gurley, in
his home at Route sinCelo.
Anyone who wishes to
contribute to the gifts of clo
thing and other necessities be
ing collected, can do so by
leaving them at FredHuskirfc
Esso Station in Celo.
tain. Miss Duncan has tra
veled many miles selling our
beautiful state to everyone she
comes in contact with.
Miss Duncan will arrive
in Burnsville on December 6,
1969 around noon at the Moun
tain View Motel. She will
ride in the parade which starts
at 2:00 p.m. Saturday after
noon December 6, 1969.