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ESTABLISHED 1936 - ■
I EDWARD A. YUZIUK - EDITOR & PUBLISHER §
I CAROLYN R. YUZIUK - ASSOCIATE EDITOR
MBS PATSY BRIGGS - OFFICE MANAGER
I FLOYD GEOUGE - PRODUCTION I
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I YANCEY PUBLEHING COMPANY I
I SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVELLE,N,C. I
I THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1970 NUMBER FORTY-TWO I
SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00/YEAR I
1 OUT OF COUNTY $5.00/YEAR J
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Grants Aid Yancey Schools
(Cont'd from page 1)
is requited by local school au
thorities to take hill advantage
of all available programs.
There is, moreover, in some
of the programs considerable
competition for the lim i t e d
funds. Yancey, for example,
is just one of twenty count i es
in the State having one ofthe
new programs.
The source of most of the
grant aid comes from Federal
money appropriated under the
Elementary and Secondary Ed
ucational Act. Title lof this
act provides for 100 per cent
of the financing of a variety cf
school activities where pupils
come mostly from low income
families. All seven of Yan
cey County elementaryschcols
qualify, but neither of our
schools quilifles.
Some of the subsidized pro
grams are restricted to child -
ren horn low-income families
Under other Title I
if the school qualifies, all the
children in that school are eli
gible for the activity.
The kindergarten program,
now in all seven elementary
schools, is fully financed un -
der Title I teacher's pay,
equipment, materials, lunches
and transportation all being
paid for. Kindergarten classe
were first started experimental
ly last year at Micaville and
Bee Log, and this year were
extended to all seven elemen
tary schools. Participation is
limited to children from low
income families, and only 18
children can be accommodated
in each school.
Other Title I programs that
have been in operation longer
--mostly since 1966—are read
ing improvement classes, now
in six of the elementary sc two 1$
the employment of 15 teacler
aids (one for each five teacher}
and one library aid for each
elementary school.
The lunchroom program re
ceives major , aid under Title I,
a subsidy of 20 cents per lunch
for 300 low income elementa
ry school children.
The State school planners
from Raleigh, who follow the
grant program closely, have
stilted that Yancey ranks strong
the ten top counties in effec
tive utilization of the aid avail
able under Title I.
In the field of vocation a 1
education four new high school
courses were started this
and a fifth started last year.
These were all aided by fede
ral grants Tanging from 50
to 100 per cent. These are
all practical courses: power
mechanics, health occupations;
office occupations, trades and
industry, and an experimental
course in which boys over 16
work one half day for outside
employers and go to sch 00l
the other half.
The Yancey Record believes
the impressive array of new
school activities is of suffi -
cient interest to justify a series
of articles, this being the first.
A photographic record of the
new programs will accompany
future articles.
Guess who said this: “The capitalist forces constitute our
natural enemy despite the fact that they helped us to defeat
their most dangerous representative. It may happen that
we shall again decide to make use of their aid, but always
with the sole aim of accelerating their final ruin.
“Our present policy should therefore be to follow a
moderate line in order to gain time for the economic and
industrial reconstruction of the Soviet Union and other states
under our control. Then the moment will come when we can
hurl ourselves into the battle for the final annihilation of
reaction.”
Yugoslavian dictator Tito said that in 1946. He has never
renounced it. No Communist leader has ever renounced the
unswerving 50-year goal of Communism: to destroy capitalism
and the United States, and then enslave the world.
On his recent visit to Yugoslavia, President Nixon praised
dictator Tito as a World War II resistance leader who “will
be remembered in history as a man of peace.”
Peace. The peace of the graveyard. The peace of the
prison cell and slave labor camp. The peace of the firing
squad. Tito the tyrant established peace by murdering his
opponents, confiscating the land and industries and enslaving
the people. Sweet peace! What outrageous falsehoods are
concocted in thy name!
Nixon and Tito reportedly hit it off famously. Or, rather,
infamously. Could it be that Tito might replace Rebozo?
Regardless, Nixon invited his bloody buddy to visit the
United States soon. Criminal, murdering, atheist, slavemaster
Communist dictators are welcome here. But an elected
Christian gentleman named lan Smith, President of the Free
Republic of Rhodesia, can’t even get a visa< to enter “the
land of the free and the home of the brave.”
USDA has made huge grants to Yugoslavia so that enemy
can better control respiratory disease in young cattle. This
treason was committed as our own cattlemen were going
broke in the cost-price squeeze.
\ We have given and/or sold for “soft currency” more than
a billion dollars worth of food to our arch enemy Yugoslavia
under the “food for peace” program.
Yugoslavia sends medicines, the Arabs send cotton and
clothing, Poland sends machinery and other steel items, and
Britain sends anything she can’t sell to the Vietcong. The
Vietcong would collapse in a few minutes without the mas
sive Russian aid. Russia would have collapsed long ago with
out our aid.
W'e “sell’’ (on credit) Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
Rumania, East Germany and other Russian satellites: radia
tion equipment; airborne navigational devices; rolling mills;
chemical plants; vacuum gauges; food; radio communications
equipment; chemicals; electronic computers; relief maps and
coast and geodetic survey charts of our entire coastline;
technical data and design specifications for construction of a
glycerol (the main ingredient of explosives) plant—all of
which they use to help kill American boys in Vietnam. Ameri-
Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor:
In last week's edition of
The Yancey Record there was
a public announcement that
the Yancey County Board of
Education would hold a closed
meeting October 9 at 8:00pm
I am concerned since theypub
licly announced to those pre
sent at one of their first meetirgs
the policy of the present Board
of Education was "Hold public
open meetings and wAnted the
people to become informed'}
that now they feel it is neces -
sary to have closed meetings..
Surely they have the privacy
to discuss anything at their exe
cutive sessions. Is it the fact
that some criticism has been
directed against some of their
decisions that they now hold
closed meetings so the public
won't know what is being done?
The people who have atten
ded any of the Board of Educa
tion meetings were there only
because of their genuine con
cern for all the schools in Yan
cey County and die welfare of
the children who attend these
schools and hope in some way
we might be of help.
In the years past when the
Board didn't want to vote on
an issue, it was customary to
straight Y taxte
By Tom Anderson
OUR ENEMIES—WITHIN AND WITHOUT
postpone these meetings or not
enough members would attend
so they could not vote. "What
the people don't know can't
hurt them" is a phrase too of
ten used in Yancey County. It
is time the public knows what
conditions our schools are in
and what is being done about
these conditions.
Are the people afraid to
speak out and express their
opinions? If we don't, I can
see our people in a few years
like puppets nodding their
heads only when the right strip?
is pulled. I feel the people
should have the right to state
a fact or correct someone. This
is supposed to be a democratic
society so let's keep it that
way. The people have a right
to know about our schools.
Mrs. Bob Proffitt
Rt. 2, Burnsville
★
Dear Editor:
After the shock of read ing
Saul Friedman's view of us,our
neighbors and what we're all
about, it was with great plea
sure that we read Carolyn Yu
ziuk's article in The Y a ncey
Record. Mr. Friedman assured
can money, American tooling and American knowhow have
been used to build an auto plant in Russia so that Soviet
trucks could peacefully haul ammunition and equipment to
North Vietnam to kill American men. Nelson Rockefeller
and Cyrus Eaton have even formed a special corporation to
sell to the enemy.
Russia is one of the most backward nations in the world,
outside of Africa. Most of Russia's scientific and techno
logical developments and knowhow—including the bomb
were stolen from other nations or given to the Russians by
our own traitors. In the past three years, hundreds of Russian
scientists and spies have combed this learn all we -
know about atomic energy, oceanography, chemistry, com
puters, astrophysics, electronics, meterorology, medicine, ma
chine tools, assembly line production, urban planning, agri
cultural know-how . . .
On a bitterly cold day at Valley Forge, General Washington
sank to one knee and asked for divine guidance. Later he
met with his military leaders and with tears in his eyes
not tears of fear or failure, but tears of pride in the heroes
surrounding him and in our new Republic —he gave a clear
and simple command: “Put none but Americans on guard
tonight!” A few years ago, Commander-in-Chief Johnson
stated unequivocally: “We’re going to fight from now on and
we’re going to beat them to a standstill!” Not the Vietcong'
He was talking about the Republicans. He had no intention
of beating the Vietcong because it might offend Russia, which
supplies 80% of the Vietcong’s war material. And neither
does President Nixon, who has also requested even more
taxes, more “cultural exchange” and more “bridge building”
to help our Russian and East European criminal, heathen
enemies, while we surrender in Vietnam.
Some patriots contend the menace to our country is al
most entirely from within. Others agree with Phyllis Schlaf
ley (who with Admiral Ward wrote “Strike from Space”)
that Russia may bomb us from fcuter space, without warning.
I agree with Mrs. Schlafley that a surprise attack by the
Russians is a distinct possibility. But why is it a possibility’
Simply because our one-worlding, bridge-building appeasers,
opportunists and traitors have disarmed us to the extent that
Russia could conceivably destroy us. Russia will attack when
ever and only whenever she can do so and survive annihilating
retaliation. If we are attacked from without, it will be because
of treason within..
The American government, for the past 35 years, has done
more to help Communism succeed than have all the non-
Communist nations of the world combined. Results out-rank
motives.
Some Americans want to try some of our anti-American
anarchists and traitors for treason. But are Eldridge Cleaver
Robert Williams and Stokely Carmichael any more guilty
of treason than some of our leaders are? Why start at the
bottom instead of the top? Why attack the monkey instead
of the organ grinder?—American Way Features
us that he wanted people to see
us as we see ourselves, and so
be reassured of any doubts they
might have regarding cur being
here. Unfortunately, his vision
is clouded by too many hyster
ical mass-media articles and
he tried to cram us into his
pre-formed mold.
I won't go into a detai led
rebuttal of all the slanted or
invented descriptions of us and
our lives here, but the many
neighbors who live near us, vi
sit us, deal with us profession
ally- -in short, who know us—
were just as angered by his
libelous opinions as we were.
We came here just because the
country is wide and beautiful
and because the people here
respect craftsmen, farmers and
people who mind their ow n
business except to be friendly
neighbors. Our children get
along well at school and are
proof of what kind of home
life they have.
We are reassured that we
have chosen the right place to
live in harmony and are glad
we left the kind of urban, am
moral environment which nur
tures those like Mr. Friedman.
Yours truly,
Norma Chereu,
Sunshine Handcraft Company