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FHA Works
For Yancey
The Farmers Home Admin
istration in Yancey County has
been working long and hard to
service the needs of people in
this area. And they have met
these needs through the past
year in a concrete and realis -
tic maimer, having loaned al
most 2 million dollars to fa
milies and businesses during
the period July 1, 1969 to Oc
tober 31, 1970.
The 49 Real Estate Loans
approved for this period came
to nearly half a million dollars.
Farm loans were made in
the amount of $79,870. These
included loans for operating ex
penses, -Emergency loans, Eco -
nomic Opportunity loans, and
Soil and Water Conservation
loans.
One Group Type loan o f
$17,500 wax made to the Yan
cey County Co-op which ser
vices 152 families in this area.
The estimated amount ad
ded directly to die county tax
base (Includes estimated amt.
used for equipment porch axes
and real estate improvements)
was over $3,000 for the period
July '69 through June 30,1970.
One important loan which
has been counted towards the
FHA $1,922,164 expenditure fer
Yancey County is the $225,600
earmarked for die Town of
Burnsville. This loan, which
awaits final action, is to be
used to help finance the towif s
water system improvement.
FHA has also made an outright
grant of SIO,OOO to die Town
of Burnsville for this purpose.
FHA Supervisor for Yan
cey County, Wilbur Howard,
(Cont'd on page 3)
Fender Found
'Not Guilty 1
A "Not Guilty" verdict was
returned in Federal Court in
Asheville November 17.
Tilden Zack Fender of Rt.
4, Burnsville, was found "Not
Guilty" by Judge Wilson War
lick. Fender had been ..in
dicted by the Federal Govern
ment and Sheriff Hermit Banks
for having 2 gallons non-tax
paid Com Likker in his posses
sion.
After reviewing the evidence,
the verdict of not guilty was
returned by Judge Warlick in
the case.
Fender was represented in
this matter by Attorney E. L,
Briggs of Burnsville, N. C.
) Carol Ann Bass t
I In Christmas Parade j
\ Miss Carol Ann Bass from Salemburg, North Carolina #
f will appear in the 1970 Christmas Parade sponsored by J
J the Yancey County Jaycees. I
% Miss Bass was crowned Miss 1971 Rhododendron Queen )
I this past summer atop the world's natural rhododendxm \
1 gardens on Roan Mountain. Miss Bass knows what tra- f
% veling is; she was the 1969 North Carolina Blueberry 1
/ Queen and traveled some 60,000 miles over 21 states. %
1 When Carol completes her reign next June, she will f
C have earned another title—"the second most traveled 1
f Queen in America." m
1 Miss Bass will arrive in Burnsville on December 5, /
f 1970 around noon at the Mountain View Motel. She 1
J will ride in the Parade which starts at 2:00 p. m. Satur- f
\ day afternoon December 5, 1970. #
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Thi Hurt Souids Screening Progran in Yancey County got
imdor way at Burnsville Elementary School last Monday af
ternoon, following a training mnoting for volunteer tnchni -
clans and aides held that morning. Approximately s,QQO
students wilt ho toottd for heart dnfoeto during the 11-day
poriad the ttomt Testing Unit will bn in Yaneey County.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1970
Community Thanksgiving
Service Slated For Nov 25
| The Annual Community
Thanksgiving Service will be
' held this year at the First Bap
| tist Church on November 25 at
7:30 p. m. Refreshments will
I be served Immediately follow -
| ing the service by the women
of the First Baptist Church. The
| service will provide an oppor
| Unity for giving thanks through
reaching, prayer and song.
| Reverend Eldin Wells will
l give the message entitled "Let
* Us Thank the Lord". The text
| for his message is Ralm 107.
l Rev. Eldin Wells serves as the
f pastor of the Newdale and Gras
| sy Creek Presbyterian Churches.
A native of Kansas,he and his
r wife moved to Yancey County
| following his training at Louis
ville Theological Seminary In
' Louisville, Kentucky.
i The offering taken at this
service will go to support the
| work of the Church World Ser
i vice through its agencyC.R.QP.
CROP is the Community Hun
) ger Appeal of Church World
Service. It functions in nu -
' mere us ways to help stop hun
| ger—providing high-yielding
S6OO Short
' Os UF Goal
The Yancey United Fund
| campaign, now In its final
stages, is close to achieving
1 its goal of $9,900. As we go
to press, only S6OO is still
needed to send the mercury on
the thermometers on the Town
square clear to the top of the
columns.
Campaign Chairman Mack
B. Ray and vice chairmen Mis.
Pat Guyer and John Martin are
confident that with a final de
termined push the goal can be
reached. Having come ao
close to a successful conclu -
(Cont'd on page 2)
United Fund Honor Roll
Businesses And Offices
Where All Personnel Hare Contributed
Schools Where All Teachers Have Contributed
School Superintendent’s Office Pensacola School
Department of Social Services Clearmont School
Farmers Home Administration South Toe School
Soil Conservation Service Agricultural Extension Service
Pollard's Drug Store Deyton Farm Supply
Western Auto Store Northwestern Bank
Phoenix Beauty Shop 0i Town of Burnsville Employees
Agricultural Stabilisation Conservation Service
seed and fertilizer, reclaiming
unused land through "food for
work", developing water re
sources in needy areas,suppor
ting family planning, granting
loans to cooperatives,and many
other ways. CROP cooperates
with others who also help to
stop hunger all over the world.
A poignant slogan they use
on literature which describ es
their efforts is: "Everytime
.you breathe, someone, some
where, dies of HUNGER". . .
This relief work has played a
significant part in alleviating
hunger in tragedies such as
Biafra and Peru. Your giving
enables others to go on living.
The Annual Community Ser
vice is a project planned and
supported by the Yancey Coun
ty Ministers Association.
m Fights
Frustration
By Bob Helmle
Critical, desp>erate and in
soluble were words repeatedly
used at the Burnsville P. T .A.
meeting last Tuesday night to
describe the situation fa c ing
the Burnsville elementary school.
A few of the more irate of the
parents employed even stronger
words to describe the holding of
classes in the basement of the
old agricultural building.
The meeting, attended by
some 60 parents, may be de
scribed as an exercise in frustra
tion. Little in the way of pos
sible solutions was offered for
the predicament of the Bums -
ville school. Many seemed to
accepit the situation is insolu -
ble, in view of the following
facts:
Superintendent Landrum Wil
son reported that he had re
ceived definite, positive word
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