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VOLUME 34
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Volunteer Workers In Clean-Up Campaign
j Clean-Up Day
The Clean-Up Campaign in Yancey County on Saturday,
| May 16, was termed a success by those who participated in
J the activities. Yancey County Girl Scout Troops, the South
g Toe Youth Council, East Yancey High School students and
■ a few adults worked together to pick up trash. This one
"Clean-Up Day" was not a permanent solution to the litter
■ problem in Yancey County, of course, but hopefully it will
■ bring about an awareness in our population of each
responsibility to do his part in keeping our environment clean.
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New Dance
Teams Will
Perform
Burnsville Elenentary School
now has five dance team&They
will be dancing in the area
and around the state this sum
mer. The newest teams are
the Mt. View dancers, the
Yancey Travelers, The Burns
ville Jr. Cloggers and The Bims
ville Cloggerettes.
Burnsville Jr. Cloggers
and The Burnsville Clogger -
ettes danced for the first time
at the May meeting of the
Burnsville P. T. A.
The Burnsville Cloggeetes
are girls in kindergarten and
grades 1-3. Included in this
group are Vickie Hughes,Sher
ri Phillips, Kristie Sout he r%
Sherri Styles, Debbie
Jill Mclntosh, Debbie Woody,
Beth Fender, Tonya Allen, Re
vonda Edwards, Kathy Allen,
Marie King, Cindy Higgins and
Toni Banks.
The Burnsville Jr. Cloggers
are grades 1-3. They include
Sonya Riddle, Davis
Ronnie Riddle, Joe Gillespie,
Raylene Fox, Bradly Grind
staff, Susan McDonald, Renee
Riddle, Gail Butner, Andrew
Wampler, Janet Buchanan,Me
ri Wilson, Charlie Brown,Tina
Banks, Willie Riddle, Anne
Hunter, John Anglin and Bryan
Hensley.
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The Burnsville Jr. Cloggers
Men’s Club To Hold Box Supper May 25;
Active Membership Drive Under Way
By Bob Helmle
The Burnsville Men’s Club,
together with members’wives,
will hold an old time box sup
per on the coming Mon day
night, May 25, at the Commu
nity Building.
The occasion will be a pure l
ly social one, without the
usual business meeting. Enter
tainment will be furnished by
Wanda and Linda Ho 11 ifi eld,
whose talented singing of the
Old mountain songs has gained
them wide recognition. Both
of the sisters, who come frcm
the South Toe area,havebeen
award-winning participants in
tike annual - iubert Hayes Youth
Jamborees, held in Asheville.
THURSDAY, MAY 21,1970
Check Correspondence Schools Before
Sign-Up Warns Better Business Bureau
Graduating seniors who are
unable to continue their edu
cation at some college or uni
versity may be interested in a
report from the Better Business
Bureau which indicates that
some correspondence schools
will mislead them and their
parents in order to sign than
up for an expensive home study
course.
Although there are many
reputable correspondence schools
in the country, the files at the
Better Business Bureau indicate
many of our local citizens
can be hoodwinked. In an
effort to help you distinguish
between the reputably opera -
ted school and others, the Bet
ter Business Bureau hereby sets
forth a few suggestions which
it hopes will help you to avoid
the minority of unscrupulous
operators.
With reference to employ
ment promises, job seekers can
Wanda Hollifield has been the
recipient of a Hubert Hay es
scholarship, one of the highest
awards made at the Jamboree.
The executive committee d
the Men’s Club has been acti -
vely developing plans for a
program of useful service to
the county for the coming -year.
Os high priority on the pro -
gram is the promotion of effi -
cient and effective trash col -
lection, and use of the new
county trash dump.
In line with the present
wide-spread efforts toward clean
ing up the county, the County
Commissioners have expressed
the hope that the Men’s Club
avoid disappointment and loss
by insisting upon proof of any
published or verbal claims as
to furnishing jobs or in any
way helping students to obtain
jobs. Request names and ad
dresses of a substantial number
of graduates for whom the
school claims to have obtained
positions and then write or con
tact those purportedly satisfied
students for the purpose of ob
taining first hand information
on their experience.
Most schools insist thatstu
dents sign a contract so that
there will be no misunderstand
ing about the amounts and
terms of payment, cancella -
tion provisions, courses
etc. This is for your protec -
tion as well as the school. Do
not sign unless you w ish to con
tract. Read and understand
before you sign. Remember
that the school agrees to sup
ply only what is in the WRIT -
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The Burnsville Cloggeretts
can be of major assistance in
this needed effort.
Other projects which the
club has supported over the
years, and which will be con -
tinued, are support of the Boy
Scouts in the County, assistance
in maintaining the Community
Building, support of the Ymcey
United Fund, and ass istance
toward providing recre ati o n
for the youth of the county.
In order to make its efforts
effective toward realizing these
goals, the club recognizes that
its membership needs to be ex
panded. Toward this end, an
active membership drive is now
under way.
NUMBER TWENTY-ONE
TEN CONTR. .CT. Therefore,
do not rely solely upon ORAL
REPRESENTATIONS of the
salesman.
Beware of the salesman who
employs high pressure methods
such as "You better sign now
the price for the course is go
ing up next week, " thereby try
ing to obtain your signature on
the contract before you inves
tigate. A legitimate and repu
table institution will always
stand investigation; it is proud
of its reputation of honesty and
integrity, and will be glad to
have you check with unbiased
individuals.
The most serious problem
regarding correspondence schools
is with so-called "Civil Ser
vice Schools, " and the follow
ing information supplied by the
United Stated Civil Service Com
mission will be of interest to
applying for a civil service po
sition;
1. No Civil-Service school
has any connection what ever
with the Civil Service Com
mission or with any other
of the Government.
2. The Commission has no
agents who sell "civilservice"
courses or accept fees or com
missions for securing applica -
tions for Government positions.
It does not conduct such course.
3. No school can pr ope r1 y
promise success in passing the
Civil-service examinations or
guarantee Government employ
ment.
4. No school is given advance
information regarding the need
for civil-service emp 1 o y e e s.
They do not know in advance
of coming examinations.
5. No school is given infer -
mation regarding examination
questions or any other civil
service information that is not
available to the general public.
6. The Commission tcom -
mends no school. It is unne -
cessary to take a course with
any so-called civil- service
school in order to compete in
any of the Commission exami
nation, or to leant about them.
Free sample questions showing
the type and kind of questions
that will be asked in any parti
cular examination are usually
available for individual use.
The Winston-Salem Better
Business Bureau will attempt to
furnish factual information but
no advice, about specific schools
whose names you supply. The
Bureau does not recommend nor
act as a reference for any sc tool,
nor does it give a list of schools.