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Science Fair Theme Is 'Learning Skills *
Today For Better Living Tomorrow'
CaneßiverHigh School will
present its fifth annual Science
Fair April 1,2, and 3. The
theme of the Fair will be "Learn
ing Skills Today for Better Liv
ing Tomorrow." The Fair is
to be open to the public April
1 from 7:30 p.m. to 10:00pirn
and will continue through Ap -
ril 2 and 3.
Three departments will par
ticipate in the Fair, and there
will be cash prizes given to
the fist, second, and third
place winners in each depart
ment. The departments that
will participate are Trades and
Industry, Science, and Home
Senator Ted Dent Announces
His Cwdidacy For Re-election
State Senator Ted Dent of
Asheville announced todaytfaat
he will seek re-election to a
third term in die 1971 North
Carolina General Assembly.
Senator Dent is a Republi -
can who served as Vice Chair*
man of Rules and on the com
mittees of Conservation and
Development and Higher Edu -
cation which approved Ashe*
ville Biltmore College becom
ing a part of the University of
North Carolina system during
the 1969 session.
During the 1967 session,
Economics.
The Trades and Industry
Department has chosen the
following theme: . "Pre pare
Youth to Accept the Challenge
of This Industrial Era." This
challenge can be accomplished
by those that are unafraid to
tse their hands as well as their
minds and by the desire to ach
ieve competence in responsible
and rewarding skilled careers.
The students in T$ I will
display a variety of individual
projects constructed during fois
year. These projects will rmge
from a trivit to a hutch cabinet
The theme of the Science
Dent served on a special three
man subcommittee of Conser
vation and Development and
did extensive work in writing
North Carolina's Air and Water
Pollution Control Act.
Senator Dent is a native of
Spruce Pine and serves as Re
sident of Diamond Mica Com
pany which has business inter
ests in Mitchell and Yancey
Counties. He was recently ap
pointed by Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor
to serve as one of thiee Senate
Members to the Citizens Ad -
visory Committee on the
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1970
Planners Recommend One
High School For Yancey
By Robert Helmle
The school planning experts
- from the State school headquar
ters in Raleigh presented their
eagerly awaited survey of Yan-
Annuol Ladies’ Night Held
By Burnsville Men’s Club
The Burnsville Men's Club
annual Ladies' Night Banquet,
to be held next Monday night
at 6:30 p. m. at the Communi
ty Building promises to be an
outstanding community affair
of the winter season. An ex -
Department Is "Be A Scienti -
fie Citizen by Learning Skills
In: 1. Conservation, 2.Elec
tricity, 3. Mechanics, and 4.
Anatomy." The Science De
partment will have various pro
jects dealing with conservation
of our natural resources, elec -
trie motors, batteries, simple
though complex machines and
on the structure of plants and
animals.
The Home Economics De -
partment ’.hose as their theme,
"Beat the Money Squeeze Thro
ugh Home Economics." The
exhibit will give money savixg
ideas for better home living
using ones talent and creative
ability.
The following chibs will
also participate: Beta
Student Council, and Science
Chib.
The Beta Club is preparing
information to display an ex
hibit on the three greatest do
mestic problems of the world
today - drugs, inflation, and
pollution. They plan to try
to display it in such away as
to make one visualize the dan
gers and ill effects.
The Science Club will be
doing their project on the his -
tory of the development of
motors. They will start with
jimple levers and pulleys and
trace the development up
through the various types of
motoß to the atomic powered
motoß.
cey County schools last Thurs
day before an audience of over
200 deeply interested citizens.
The planners' recommenda
tions, if carried out,will make
cellent speaker, Kays Gary,loig
a newspaper columnist, will
speak on western North Caro -
line's greatest asset, our beaut
iful environment, and its po
tial for development of tourism
and recreation.
The Ladies' Night is also
the occasion for installation of
officers for the coming year.
Mack B. Ray is the new presi
dent, succeeding Jim Gardner;
Bob Helmle, the new vice
president follows Roy Ray and
Ned Jestes follows Dr. Paul
Fall as secretary-treasurer. D
over R. Fouts, as on numerous
previous occasions, will pre -
side over the installation of
the new slate.
The program committee, of
which Don Burhoe is ch air
man, feels fortunate in having
obtained Gary as speaker. His
daily column in the Charlotte
Observer over a long per io d
of years has gained him wide
recognition. Western North
Carolina has long had a spe
cial appeal for him, dating
back to his stud era days at
Mars Hill College. This atti
tude has been reflected in his
columns urging readers to "go
west", meaning western North
Carolina. A year ago he was
happy to follow his own ad
vice in accepting the posi -
tion as Director of Public Re
lations for the Carolina Cari
bean Company at Beech Mtn.
Gospel Singing
The Winaom Methodist
Church will have a Gospel Sing
ing this coming Sunday after
noon, March 22, at 2HX) p. m.
The Gospel Notes Quartet of
Asheville, The Peace-Maker's
Quartet of Asheville, The Shin
ing Light Quartet of Burnsville,
The Nick's Creek Trio of Old
Fort and many other singers me
to be thane.
Everyone is welcome.
NUMBER TWELVE
far reaching changes in the
county's school system. At the
same timqTit was made clear
that these recommendations are
in no way compulsory, and that
the final decision regarding their
adoption rests with the Yancey
County School Board.
As the planners view the
long-range future, Yancey
County should have a single,en
tirely new high school serving
grades 9 through 12. Our two
existing high schools should be
converted to serve grades 5
through 8 for the entire county.
The primary grades, including
kindergarten, which the plan -
nets confidently expect to be
included shortly in the State's
educational program should be
served from three new schools,
one of which-would be in the
Burnsville. area.
The Raleigh planners recog
nize that all these long-range
developments are a consider -
able distance in the future. The
construction program involved
would cost about $3,200 , 000
at present building costs, and
this money is now simply not
insight. Accordingly, the
planners recommend taking a
first step which they call the
interim plan. This would con
sist of adding clasnooms to our
two present high schools, and
moving all the 7th and Bth gra
ders to these two which
would then serve grades 7 thru
12.
This interim plan would cost
about $600,000 for the enlarge
ment of the two high schools,
an amount the planners see m ~
to believe the county could
comfortably stand, particular
ly since the $338,000 from
the 1963 school bond election,
which belongs to Yancey Coun
ty, is lying untouched, and
could presumably be med to
finance, in major part, this
interim plan.
In the lively question period,
(coat'd on page 3)
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An Apology
..Goes to the men of New
dale Fire Department. Their
prompt response has been in
strumental in putting out se -
veral fires in this area,bat due
to erroneous fact-finding they
Received no mention in The
Yancey Record.