Burnsville Men’s Club Bunquet Slated
The Burnsville Men's Club
will hold its annual Ladies'
Night Banquet on Monday at
6:30 p.m. at the Community
Building. Members, former
members, prospective mem
bers, their wives and other
guests are all Invited to attend.
The occasion Is a tradition
al social affair of many years
standing in Yancey County,
held every March. The only
club business conducted at the
dinner is the installation of of
ficers for the coming year.
An entertaining and stimu
lating program has been ar
ranged , and the dinner will
be served by the Senior Girl
Scouts. Tickets, which are
$2.50, may be obtained from
Roy Ray, John Martin, Ned
Jestes, E. L. Dillingham and
Bob Helmle. In order to de
termine in advance how many
meals will be served, all those
planning to attend are urged to
contact one of the ticket sel -
]en before the end of the week.
The Burnsville Mens' Club
has a long record of useful
service to the county, inclu
ding such activities as furnish
ing support for the Yancey
United Fund, for Boy Scouts^
To Those
Farewell
Yea. though I walk through the
valley of the t hadow al death
I shall fear mo evil, lor Thou
art with me. 23rd Psalm
Mis. Julia Young Blake,Bo,
of Duncan, S.C., a native of
Newdale, died Thursday in a
Greer, S.C. hospita' after a
long illness.
A daughter of the late Tho
mas and Harriett Gibbs Young
and a former resident of Burns
ville, Mrs. Blake had lived
for several years with a daugh
ter, Mrs. John R. Cape 11 in
Duncan. She was a member
of Higgins Memorial United
Methodist Church inßirrsville
and the widow of Ed Blake.
Surviving in addition to Mrs.
Capell are two sons, John of
Duncan and George Blake of
New York City: and a brother,
Lat Young of Newdale •
Services were held at 2:00
p.m. Saturday in Newdalefrffl
byterian Church.
The Rev. Eldon Wells of
ficiated and burial was in the
•church cemetery.
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for the annual clean-up drive,
and far providing recreation
for the youth of the county.
In order to make its efforts
more effective, the club re
cognizes that membership needs
to be maintained at a broad
level. The annual Ladies'
Dear Dr. Clara: A Health
Department Forum
DEAR DR. CLARA:
Grandma said in a letter
to you that, in the old days,
people buried their horses. Did
she mean that we should dis
pose of our old cars in the same
way? Well, I'm an old-timer
myself, and I'd like to put
Grandma straight on a couple
of points. I remember only
one or two cases of farmers
Combined
Facilities
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county. Operating and obste
trical facilities, toother with
most highly sophisticated
equipment will probably be
located in Spruce Pine. The
Burnsville facility will have a
considerable number of beds
for extended care patients,to
gether with beds for shortterm
general care and emerge nc y
cases.
The decision to join with
Mitchell County in this under
taking accords with a definite
trend in the provision of faci
lities and services in North
Carolina. This trend is for
counties to abandon the con
cept of "going it alone", and
the substitution of mere effi
cient cooperative undertaking?.
In the hospital field the
tremendously high costs of fa
cilities meeting present day
standards, makes it virtually
impossible for a small county
like Yancey to "go it alone".
In recent conferences, the
figure of $40,000 per bed-has
been stated to be the current
cost of building a complete
hospital meeting Federal stan
dards. With costs of this mag
nitude, coupled with the limi
ted "Hill-Burton" funds avail
able (these are the Fed eral
funds for aiding hospital con
struction) it is quite unrealis
tic to suppose that Ya ncey
can afford a complete hospi
tal.
A further important in
ducement for the joint Mitch
ell-Yancey project, is that
in the administration of the
various financial aid pro grans,
cooperation between counties
is viewed with special favor.
Mr. Henderson states, for
example, that the maximvm
Hill-Burton aid for a single
county project would be 40
percent. He appears confident,
towever that our county joint
project will be given 60 per
cent. There Is hope that the
Duke Endowment will similar
ly look with special favor on
our cooperative project.
Night affair serves the purpose
of stimulating support for the
club's useful activities. Al
though the club bears the name
of Burnsville, its field of ser
vice has always covered the
entire county. '
burying their horses, and that
was because they had natural
gullies which they wanted to
fill up. Mostly we took a bunch
of carcasses to the glue factory
in Asheville where we did n ’ t
get much of a price for them,
but it was easier than digging
holes. Later, the glue plant
came out and collected our
dead livestock.
As for an old car, it's a dif
ferent story altogether. I use
the parts off my old car for all
kinds of repair. A dead horse
is a dead horse, but a dead
car is a regular machine medi
cine cabinet.
Old Timer
DEAR OLD TIMER:
If you wish to save an old
car for parts, put a screen or
something around it. It may
not have as strong an odor as
a dead horse, but it doesn't
look much better.
Collection of dead livestock
by the glue plant has a modem
parallel. In the near future a
car-crusher will visit Yancey
County to get rid of many of
the cars left along ourreadsides.
Mr. Masters, Sanitarian, hopes
that this will occur on a regu -
lar basis, because the crushing
companies are glad to get the
scrap from the cars that are
abandoned every couple of mi
nutes in this country. But again,
it is going to take effort and
good will to bring the old cars
to the locations where they can
be crushed. In one respect,old-
Timer, dead horses and broken
down cars are the same. They
don't have much sale value.
Almost everybodywho lives
in these mountains says they
love them, yet we disfigure
them with junk. What kind of
love is it that says "Darling, "
with a slap that hurts and dirties
the beauty of the beloved.
Pre-Fab Class
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particular aid is Title I of the
Elementary and Secondary Edu
cational Act, which provides
100 per cent financing of cer
tain school activities in areas
where a considerable number
of pupils come from low - in
come families. The financial
aid being received by Yancey
County under this particular
program is now running at the
rate of about $240,000 a year.
In a month when Yancey
Countians are struggling with
their tax returns, it may to a
slight extent alleviate the un
pleasantness to know that our
school authorities are succeed
ing in getting some of the tax
money back into the county.
THE YANCEY RECORD
INme childrens!
Chanticleer And The Fox,
written by Geoffrey Chaucer,
adapted and illustrated by Bar
bara Cooney, was enjoyed by
twenty-four "little people" at
the 10 a.m. CHILDREN'S
HOUR this past Monday morn
ing in the Yancey County Pub
lic Library. Following this
story and The Picnic.written
and illustrated by James Daugp
tery, the children enjoyed
dancing with Miss Theresa Co
letta to the tunes "The Muffin
Man," and "Here We Go Loo
bie Lou".
A 'Man Os Action’ Dies
Herman Robinsorfe influence
as a "man of action" was deep
ly felt in the counties of Yan
cey, Mitchell and Avery. His
recent death was mourned by
all who knew him.
He worked diligently for
improvement of U. S.HijJvway
19E. He served as Tennessee
Co-Chairman of the N.C.-Tem
Highway and Tourism Develop
ment Association from the very
beginning of the organization
until his death. As a matter of
la ’Who's Who'
According to C. E. Waller,
Dean of Students, Wayne Co
mmunity College at Goldsboro,
North Carolina, Darius Robert
son,' a student at Wayne Com
munity College was selected to
be named to Who's Who Among
Junior College Students of
America. This is a very high
honor. The criteria for se
lection is of such that the stu -
dent has to be outstanding.
Wayne Community College
has 2,000 students.
Darius is a graduate of Eart
Yancey High School. He is
studying for a degree in Na
tural Resource Biological Tech
nology. He is the president of
the College Forestry Club. Dar
ius is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. W. Robertson of the Pensa
cola Community.
Council Met
Thursday evening,March 11
the Adult-Youth Advisory Coun
cil had their second meeting
at the county courthouse. The
purpose of these meetings is
to discuss the various educa -
tfonal and recreational oppor
tunities offered Yancey County
youth. Eleven adults and three
/outh were present at the
neeting and each person ex
pressed his opinion of the prob
lem.
The group was in common
agreement that youth of this
area have very little opportu
nity outside of the public
schools. The main concern
throughout the discussion was
lack of adult interest in youth.
Some concrete plans were ap
proached and future meetings
are planned.
MARCH 18, 1971
Those children attending
the CHILDREN'S HOUR were:
Greg, Sharon and Kim Yuziuk,
Valerie Kampf, AnneWestall,
Christopher Fender, Pam Me-
Galliard, Keith Deyton,Tania
and Julie Peacock ,Andy Brown,
Darrin and Karen Byrd, Terry
Hall, Stuart Hensley, Laura
Holcombe, Sharon McClure,
David Ivan Peterson, Angie
Randolph, Russell Roland,
Butch Yelton, Lisa Young,Re
nee Robertson and Julie Bu -
chanan.
record, Herman Robinson went
to Washington, D.C.only last
year to speak to the Fe d e ral
Co-Chairman of the Appala -
chian Regional Commissionai
behalf of the Association's de
sire and drive to get U.S.I9E
established as an Appalachian
Corridor.
Although 19E is not listed
as a part of the Appalachian
Highway network system,Her -
man Robinson did more than
any other single individual in
trying to get it added to that
list. He was able to obtain a
committment from the Cover -
nor of Tennessee and the Te
nnessee Department in
early February of this year, to
reconstruct 19E from Elizabeth -
ton to the N. C. State Line.
Herman's absence from fu -
ture meetings of the N.C.-Tenn.
Highway Association will be
greatly felt. "To know him
was to love him," said Mrs
Ruth G. Johnson, Secretary-
Treasurer of the N.C.-Term.
Highway Association, "and I
feel that it was a great honor
and privilege to have known
him some twenty years."
£ Yancey News
The East Yancey Beta Clul
met Friday, March 12 to elect
new officers for the coming
year. Johnny Blair will lead
the club as President; Jimmy
Norris was voted in as the new
Vice President; Janice Hunter,
Secretary; and Janice Youngs
Treasurer. Plans were made
to attend the State Beta Club
Convention in Asheville this
April.
Also news on the East Yan
cey Campus, the Literary Ma
gazine Staff has completed the
publishing of their yearly ma -
gazine, "Reflections". Nu
merous entries were chosen by
the staff to be printed.
Note Os Thanks
The family of Mrs. Helen
Edwards wish to express their
sincere gratitude to those who
brought food, the beautiful
flowers, the comforting words
of sympathy and all other kind
deeds.
—Gus Edwards and family.
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