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Jamboree In Third Year
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al event of this county. The
purpose of the Jamboree is to
encourage preseivation of our
mountain heritage in dance
and music. The program is
to be a high quality p erf or -
mance consisting of folk song;
ballads, spirituals and reli -
smooth square dane-reg^twes
tern square dancing,folk danc
ing, buck dancing and clogg
ing. The Jamboree also gives
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opportunity for young people
to display their talents, and
for the folks of this are ato see
those talents which otherwise
would stay hidden in the coves
and hollows of these moun -
tains. And lastly, but not
any less important, as Bill
Cosby would say, the Jarabo -
- fee & just "gaiSgraTfim!" 5 "
So tune up your instrument
" polish those dancing shoes,
K We're gonna raise a
ruckus that night!
Self Study Essential For Accreditation
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and to review the policies and
procedures being used and to
find the areas of the school pro
gram that needed further im -
prove ment. Also, the study wcs
an attempt to increase the un
derstanding and support of the
school by the community. It
was hoped that the study wouH
enable the school to meet state
- standards which would allow it
to become accredited by the
North Carolina Department of
* Instruction in the Spring of
1970.
Cooperation and coordina -
tion are essential elements of
a successful program. The re
ward of accreditation was made
possible by the united efforts
of .the general .public, studmt;
representatives of community
agencies, parents, teacher* ad
ministrative personnel, mem
bers of the board of education
and the local.school committee.
The South Toe Elementary
School has had a history of sa
tisfactory scho.ol-commun i t y
relationships and under the di
rection of P. T. A.
Claude Vess. much. . .of the
needed community support was
utilized. Thq community is
to be thanked for its active sup
port and interest.
Faculty members were or
ganized into committees for
self-study and the preparation
of reports. This active invoke-
meat of the faculty was encou
raging. The compiling and
writing of the self-study was co
ordinated and edited by Jama
C. Byrd, Teacher-librarian.
Other faculty members making
outstanding contributions were
Mae Chrisawn, Clara Byrd,
Billie J. Deyton, Caroline Dey
ton, Opha Hylemon and Roy
Lee Anglin. Mr. Bemie FDey
ton, principal, demonstrated
effective* leadership.
The students themselves
have been involved. They are
interested in what is being done
to make South Toe Elemertary
a better school. They, too, re»
lize that it is better for them
to be a part of an improved
school which is seeking to nrve
Epidemic Os Rubella Due
In Yancey This Spring
; For years everyone thought
German measles—rubella-was
nothing but another routine
nuisance-disease. Some peo
ple still think so. But it's not
the case. In 1941, all that
changed. In Australia that
year , research suddenly un
covered a definite relatiorship
between the rubella virus and
serious birth defects, specifi -
cally cataracts of the eyes.
S ince then, further study has
shown that when a woman in
Hensley Invited
To Conference
Mr. Charlie M. Hensley of
Burnsville, Title I Coordinator
for Yancey School System has
been invited to attend an Area
Conference concerning many
aspects of the program suppor
t ed by federal funds through the
State Department of Public In
struction.
State School Superintendent
Craig Phillips said the federa 1
program, known as-Title I,pro
vides programs designed to
meet the special education a 1
needs of educationally disad -
vantaged students—public and
non-public—who live in areas
of high concentrations of child
r en from low income families.
Funds go to the schools in this
county to assist in instruction -
al activities and supporting ser
vices, designed to meet pre -
viously unmet educational mds
of many of our school children
The conference for this
area will be held on April 23-
24 at Grove Park Inn ,Ashe villa
Harold Webb, Title I Co
ordinator for the Department
of Public Instruction, in an
nouncing the conferences, poin
ted out "We feel that the pro -
gram functions to be discussed
at these meetings will be of
tiie utmost importance to any
personnel at the local lev el
who has responsibility for
planning, development, eva
luation, implementation, and
- dissemination of inform a t ion
related to these federal pro-
ahead and prepare them for life
in the future.
The help and cooperati on
of many persons have made
state accreditation possible for
South Toe School. The citizens
of Yancey County should deep
ly appreciate what has been
accomplished at South Toe. The
faculty of South Toe Elemen -
tary School believes that the
elementary school should seek
t. 6 give a child the best possitib
education according to his
interests, and varying abilities
through a balanced and well
planned program in a desirable
learning situation. May others
in our county catch this vision
and work to see it realized in
each of our schools.
early pregnancy gets even a
mild case of rubella the odds
are that her baby maybe kill
ed or crippled by the disease.
Rubella, it turns out, re
sults in miscarriages; still
births; early childhood deaths;
defective bones, brains, hearts
and other organs; cerebral pal
sy, mental retardation, blind
ness, deafness, and many oth
er physical and mental handi
caps*
Rubella epidemics recur
every six to nine years, and
public health officials see ear
ly 1970 as the beginning of the
next one. hi the one before,
1964, an estimated 5 0,000
babies were killed or maimed
in the womb by the ravages of
rubella. Fortunately there is
now a rubella vaccine to fight
with.
Rubella is usually a mild
illness for children, but when
they carry it to where tiny live
and play it can infect the po
tential mothers in the neighbor
hood and attack their unborn
children. The disease is now
known to be extremely con -
tagious, frequently spreading
in a subclinical form, unnoti
ced and detectable onlytlioqji
laboratory testing. An infected
child can infect others both be
fore and after he shows any
sign of having it——if he shows
any signs at all.
The women of child-bearing
age can't be protected directly
against the threat of rubella,be
cause medical experts do not
generally recommend the vac
cine for adults. Besides the
epidemic threat does not come
from the adults; it comes from
the youngsters.
It is clear that if our child
ren attend school, if they play
with other children, if they
live anywhere outside an iso
lation ward it is part of paren
tal responsibility to approve
their immunization when the
program reaches them.
If we don't, in a very real
sense we may become acces -
series to the mutilation or mur
- dar 'of an unknown, unborn in
fant.