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Wage-Hour
Law Change
"The standard federal mini
mum wage continues at $1.60
an hour. However, since cer
tain employees who were co
vered under the February 1,
1967 amendments will go to
$1.60 an hour effective Febru
ary 1, 1971, rumors have de
veloped that the standard mini
mum has changed. This is not
so, " according to Henry Huett
ner, regional director of the
Wage-Hour Division, the U.S,
Department of Labor, Atlanta.
For employment c o v er ed
prior to February 1, 1967 the
minimum wage remains $1.60
with overtime after 40 hours
per week. Such employment
includes establishments engag
ed in manufacturing, whole
saling, and certain large enter
prises having some employees
engaged in handling, selling,
or working on goods that have
moved or will move in inter
state commerce along w ith
large retail enterprises w ith
volume in excess of $1 million
per annum. Certain jobs are
specifically exempt from the
overtime provisions of the Act.
Minimum w age for employ
ment brought under the Act
on February 1, 1967, such as
hotels, motels, restaurants,and
smaller retail enterprises whose
volume was $500,000 per an
num to February 1, 1969, and
$250,000 per annum thereaf -
ter, was subject to $1.45 from
February 1, 1970 to January 31,
1971. On February 1,1971 this
rate goes to $1.60 per hour.
Overtime is applicable unless
specifically exempt.
The new rate also applies to
hospitals, laundries,some con
struction operations, and cer
tain other businesses not co -
vered prior to 1967, without
regard to the dollar volume of
the establishment.
The minimum wage for ag
ricultural field labor re m a ins
at sl. 30 per hour with a com
plete exemption from the over
time requirements of the law.
Huettner reiterated that there
are no changes in the law rai -
sing the minimum wage above
$1.60, Whether establishmeits
or their employees are covered
by the Act or exempt from sane
of its provisions depends on the
facts in each case,hecautioned.
To learn about the applica
tion of the law to any particu
lar establishment or enterprise,
contact the nearest office of
the Wage Hour Division, Uni
ted States Department of Labor
located at 316 East Morehead
Street, Charlotte, N,C. 28202,
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Yancey Girl Scouts try the taste test on sample boxes of Girl Scout Cookies which arrived
last week. The big Girl Scout Cookie Sale began Friday. Enjoying their “samples” are
Junior Girl Scouts Beth Bailey, Janice Biggerstaff, Cindy McLain and Renee Peterson (1.
to r.) Cookie Coordinator for Yancey County, Mrs. Garrett D. Bailey, shares a cookie with
Brownie, Beth Peterson.
Gurley Competing As EY's
Homemaker Os Tomorrow
East Yancey High School's
1971 Betty Crocker Homema -
ker of Tomorrow is senior Flora
Vicky Gurley. Selected for
her performance in a written
knowledge and attitude exami
nation administered to senior
girls on December 1, Vicky
Gurley will receive a specially
designed award from General
Mills, sponsor of the annual
education program. Addition-
Hwy-Tourism
Assoc Meets
The North Carolina-Tennes
see Highway and Tourism De
velopment Association held its
annual dinner meeting on Wed.,
January 27 at the King-of- the-
Road Restaurant in Roan Moun
tain, Tennessee.
Thirty-eight members were
present. They represented "Yan
cey, Avery, and Mitchell Coun
ties, North Carolina and Carter
County, Tennessee.
Following a brief business
session and a status report from
Tennessee Co-Chairman Her
man Robinson, officers for the
coming year were elected.
Officers who had served dur
ing the past year were unani -
mously reelected: Herman Ro
binson , Elizabethton, Temesse e,
Tennessee Co-Chairman; Bill
Wilkins, Plum tree, N.C. ,N>rth
Carolina Co-Chairman; Mrs.
Ruth G. Johnson, Spruce Pine,
N.C., Secretary-Treasurer.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1971
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Flora Vicky Gurley
ally, she is now eligible for
state and national honors, in
cluding one of 102 coll ege
scholarships totaling SIIO,OOO.
The national first-place
winner—the 1971 Betty Croc
ker All-American Homemaka 1
of Tomorrow —will receive a
$5,000 educational grant. She
will be chosen this spring from
51 Homemakers of Tomorrow,
representing each state and the
District of Columbia, at the
close of an expense-paid edu
cational tour of Washington D.
C., and colonial Williamsburg,
Virginia. Each of the state
winners will be accompanied
on this tour by a school advi -
sor. Second-, third-and fourth
place national winners will be
awarded $4,000, #3,000 and
$2,000 scholarships; the other
State Homemakers of Tomor
row will receive $1,500 grants.
State judging centers o n
scores of school winners in the
December 1 test, with person
al observation and interviews
during the tour added factors
in national selections. Second
ranking Homemakers of Tom
morrow in each state received
SSOO educational grants. The
school of every $1,500 scho
larship winner receives a set
of Encyclopedia Britannica
from Encyclopedia Britannica,
Incorporated.
, All judging and selection cf
winners is done by Science Re
search Associates, Chica g q
which also constructed and
graded the written examina -
tion in December.
The Betty Crocker Search
for the American Homemaker
of Tomorrow is the only na -
tional scholarship program ex
clusively for high school senior
girls. Begun by General Mills
in the 1954-55 school year to
emphasize the importance of
homemaking as a career, it
will, with the 1971 grants,
have awarded more than $1
3/4 million in scholarships dur
ing its 17-year history. This
year's enrollment of 6 5,000
senior girls brings total parti -
cipation since the start of the
program to almost seven and
three-quarters million.
Mrs. Mack Ray and Mrs.
Max Hughes have been the
Home Economics teachers of
Miss Gurley since she has been
at East Yancey High School.
Biggerstaff
Is Nominee
Alumnae committees ap
pointed for every county in
North Carolina are interview
ing this month more than 200
nominees for the Ka t h arine
Smith Reynolds Scholarships
at The University of North C
arolina at Greensboro.
Serving on the committee
for Yancey County are: Mrs.
Edgar Hunter, Chairman; Mrs.
Patrick Guyer and Miss Bar
bara Hensley.
Nominees from each county
are selected by the various higji
schools. This year's nominee
from Yancey County is Miss
Clara jean Biggerstaff, senior
at East Yancey High School
Jeannie is the daughter, of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Biggerstaff of
Burnsville. She will be inter
viewed by the District Com -
mittee in Asheville at a later
date.
Twelve scholarships are
awarded to each freshman clasi
The awards, covering board,
room, tuition, fees,books and
miscellaneous expenses, are
valued at $1,600 and are re
newable for four years cf study.
The selection of Reynolds
finalists was delegated to the
Alumni Association of UNC-G
by the Reynolds Foundation
when the program was initia -
ted in 1962. District commit
tees were appointed to serve
this function.
The Reynolds Scholarships
were established by the Z .
Smith Reynolds Foundation in
memory of Mrs. Katharine
Smith Reynolds, a Woman's
College (now UNC-G) alumna,
wife of the founder of Rey
nolds Tobacco Company, and
mother of the late R. J. Rey
nolds, Jr.
Fire Destroys
IMobile Home
A fire destroyed the mobile
home of Mr. and Mrs. Wade
Tipton of Windom community
on Sunday morning at approxi
mately 11 a. m. The couple
were at church at the time the
blaze occurred.
A heater was said to be the
cause of the fire.
Both the Burnsville Fire De
partment and Newdale Fire De
partment were summoned and
arrived quickly on the s c ene,
but the blaze was already out
of control. Efforts of the men
to save the home were to no
avail.
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