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Children’s Home Society Asks For Help
To Meet 1967 operating Expense Budget
"Christmas has come and
gone, but the Little Red Stock
ing of The Children's Home
Society of North Carolina,lnc,
is still hanging, waiting to be
filled", announced How ard
Holdemess, Society
today.
"We are deeply grateful to
the many people across the
state who have sent gifts tor
our Red Stocking, and we hope
there are other friends who
wish to have a part this year
in the work of the Society. The
extent of our services to child -
ten in 1970 is contingent upon
our success in balancing this
year's budget. Our goal of
$107,700 is needed to meet
1969's operating expenses. As
of Christmas Day, we had re
ceived $78,664", Holdemess
reported.
According to Mr. Holder -
ness, December has been a
particularly exciting month in
the Society's nursery. During
this month 35 little boys and
girls, most of them about six
weeks old, were placed in the
eager, waiting arms of their
new motheis and fathers. The
creation of a family through
adoption is a very special ex
perience for all concerned. It
brings love and security to a
child who otherwise would not
have a permanent home, and
makes a house a home forthe
parents who have taken the
child into their hearts.
Finding permanent homes
and just the right parents for
homeless children is the missin
to which The Children's Home
Society of North Carolina has
been dedicated since its found
ing in 1903. The services of
this statewide, non - sectarian
agency are made possible sole
ly through Voluntary dir ec t
gifts and through the local Uni
ted Funds, which contribute
4694 of the Society's annual
budget. A major portion of
the remaining 5494 of the ex
penses have been traditionally
met by gifts to the Society's
Little Red Stocking during the
Christmas season.
t
This year more than 300
children have been brought in
to the family circles of their
adoptive parents. In addition
to the adoption services for in
fants in the Society's temporaiy
residential care, the agency
assists in finding permanent
homes for older children re -
ferred by other child-care pub
lic and private agencies in
North Carolina.
"We know there are many
. children needing our help
next year", Holdemess stated:
"We hope North Carolina citi
zens who care about the future
of our little ones will help us
fill this year's little Red Stock
ing, so that in 1970 we will
not have to cut back on our
services to the babies and
children needing the loving
* security of a permanent home.
Tax-deductible gifts may be
sent to the Administrative Of
fice of The Children's Home
Tbarsrfay, Jaaaary 1,1970
Society of North Carolina,lnc
740 Chestnut Street, Greens
boro, No£h Carolina, 27405,"
said Holdemess.
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New Officers listalled At Berisville Lodge
New Masonic Officer £
On Monday night Burnsville Lodge # 717 AF GAM in
stalled its officers for 1970. The newly elected and in
stalled officers were as follows:
Howard W. Nelson, Master
Carter Thomas, Senior Warden
Lawrence C. Wilson, Junior Warden
John Earl Allen, Treasurer
Herschel W. Holcombe, Secretary
H. Paul Branton, Senior Deacon
Wayne A. Branton, Junior Deacon
Ben Lee Hensley and William C. Davis, Stewards
Bruce G. Smith, Chaplain
Wade H. Styles, Tyler
■ Herschel Holoombe w »s the installing officer and J.
O. Shepard was the Marshall.
Add Conservation To Your
New Years Resolution List
Put soil and v&ater corner -
ration on your New Year's re
solution list.
With most of the fieldwork
done on the farm until next
spring and with a new year
ahead for which to make plan%
now is the time to do seme po
sitive thinking and planning
about your conservation pro -
gram. The plans for urgent
action on resource conserva -
tion involves not only the
farmer, but the municipal, in
dustrial and urban people as
well.
Consider what you might
give the land and soil in return
for what it producesior you-r_
food, water, clothing shelter,
beauty and the mediumthragi
which we may accept our own
place in nature. The field
which is eroding could be given
a conservation cropping system,
a stripcropping system, some
contour cultivation or a mini -
Number Out
mum stillage system. The
pasture which is being worn
out could be given some rest
along with more plant foods
and lime. Urban dwellers may
give those bare eroding road
banks or exposed critical areas
around town and mining areas
some trees, or seed lime and
fertilizer to help hold the soil
in place; not only keeping the
silt out of the streams, but
adding to the comtnon scene
of beauty. Those areas ex -
press a real gloomy feel ing
during our joyful holidayseason
The new year is celebrated
as a time of joy and with good
intentions to improve over the
old year. The land frcm vihich
we derive life's necessities
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should be remembered and
considered as all of its prepare
New Year's resolutions. Give
the land a conservation gift
this year and it will be for
- grateful. The Yancey
Soil and Water Gonservat ion
District and the Soil Coaser -
vation Service would be most
happy to assist you in making
your resolution a-reality.
The Supervisors of.the Yan
cey District wish to expre s s
their thanks to The Yance y
Record for their fine policy of
resource conservation and also
for this opportunity to wish
you all a most fulfilling and
prosperous Happy New Year.
Enrollment For
Adolt Classes
The Adult Basic and High
School Equivalency Classes en
rollment will be held as fol -
lows:
Burnsville Elementary Sch.
Tuesday, January 13,6:30p.m.
Fox Creek Church Monday,
January 5, 6:30 p.m.
Prices Creek (Miller Led -
ford's Store) Tuesday, January
6, 6:30 p.m. *
Classes sue for all adults
who want to leam to read and
write, take a refresher course,
or complete their high school
education.
If further information is
needed, call Shirley Anne Mc-
Allister at the W. A. M. v . Of
fice 682-2610.