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Governor Bob Scott Does Justice To A Juicy Slice Os Watermelon On The Town Square
Winners In Yancey Youth Jamboree
By Bob Helmle
In the rush of preparation
for Governor Scott's visit, the
Yancey Record failed lastweek
to report on the results of the
two-day Youth Jamboree held
at the East Yancey High School
on August 6 and 7. Here are
the award winners:
Grand Champion, Class I,
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Photo by CRAIG JENKINS
Trophy Vinners And Participants In The Yacey Youth Jamboree
Raylene Fox; Grand Champion
Class 11, Wanda Hollifield.
Both of these winners were
competing in the singing of
folk songs and folk ballads.
Other cup winners in folk
and ballad singing were Doris
D eyton and the quartet com
posed of Bobby Angel, Donnie
Laws, Greg Bryant and Doug
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20,1970
Vance.
In Smooth Square Dance the
winners were the teams from
South Toe and Clearmont.
hi clogging square dancing
the Clips were won by the Burns
ville Elementary and the Burns
ville Country Store teams.
In folk dancing, Mb. Dey
(Cont'd on page 5)
Town Turns Out To Meet
Gov. And Eat Watermelon
By Bob Helmle
Governor Bob Scott's visit
to Yancey County on last Mon
day and Tuesday was a triumph
of mountain hospitality in its
bestinformal tradition..
The Governor enjoyed it; his
charming wife enjoyed it, his
gracious mother enjoyed it.
They all said so publicly and
repeatedly, and with ob v i ous
sincerity. And the large num
ber of our citizens who gathered
on the square for the waterme
lon cutting, and the hand shak
ing and shoulder rubbing shaved
every evidence of aijoying it
too.
Bob Scott's zest in meeting
people is something to see, as
the photographs contained in
this issue of the Yancey Record
so clearly show. But the Go
vernor's trip was no mere sight
seeing and hand shaking trip.
see at first hand what's going
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what's being done about them.
Clearly he went away with a
greatly improved knowledge of
Yancey County.
Both the Governor and his
wife inspected the antiquated
Burnsville elementary school,
condemned for a generation as
hazardous and unfit for school
occupancy. In addition to the
county's difficult school prob
lem, they recognized the ser
iousness of the county's popula
tion loss, and considered the
problems of getting a new
hospital.
The Governor's party arrived
at the Nu-Wray shortly before
supper on Monday. Included in
the party were the Governor' s
wife, Jessie Rae Scott; also
our State representatives Liston
Ramsey and Ernest Messer, as
well as a contingent from the
State Highway Patrol. The
Governor's mother was already
staying at the Nu-Wray.
Bob Scott set the tone of
informality for the evening by
discarding his jacket.Fcllowing
supper he joined the festive
Summer’s Over,
School Begins
School officially starts for
Yancey County students on Fri
day, Augurt 21st when they
must report for a half-day ses -
sion. School buses will pick
students up at their tegular
time and will return them after
school lets out at 11:30 a. ru.
watermelon party on the square,
where for two hours he chatted
and shook hands with the hun
dreds who were present. Enter -
tainment was provided by the
winners of the recent annual
Youth Jamboree —dance teams,
instrumentalists and singers.
The Governor, in brief re
marks from the dance platform
explained his purpose in coning
here for this visit. He said he
recognizes an important need
for visiting around and seeing
at first hand what is happening
in the State. Mrs. Scott fol -
lowed with an expression of
pleasure at participation in the
visit. Then the Governor's
mother, who is physically a
small lady, delighted the crowd
by calling attention to the dis
parity in size between herself
and her bulky son. The Gover
nor, she explained, simply ate
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the
the courthouse for chats in the
several offices. Inspection of
the new Northwestern Bank
building, the Yancey County
Country Store, and the new
Baptist Church followed. At
the Yancey Record office he
chatted with some of the lo
cal pupils from Painting in the
Mountains, and was photo -
graphed w ith them look ing
(Cont'd on page 8)
Gov’s Mother
Reminisces
As told to Ed Yuziuk
During her son's visit to
Burnsville, Mrs. Kerr Scott,
wife of a former Governor of
North Carolina and mother of
the present one, reminisced
about her own days on the 'bam
paign trail" with her husband.
She expressed admiration for her
daughter-in-law, who has, in
her words, "fulfilled a difficult
double role of the wife of the
Governor of North Carolina and
the mother of five
ing children."
This charming and gracious
lady, during a brief visit tx>
The Yancey Record, gave a
- mothers view of the early years
of her son's political career
and of his wife, the former
Jessie Ray Osborne ,as follows:
"A native of
N.C., classmate of Robert
Scott at Alexander WilsonHgh
School in Alamance County
(Cont'd on page 9)
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