Newspapers / The Yancey Journal (Burnsville, … / May 13, 1971, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Yancey Journal (Burnsville, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
if V0L.35, N 0.19 MHA Dinner Meeting Set The annual dinner meeting of the Yancey County Mental Health Association will be held on Friday, May 14, at 6:30 p.m. The ladies of the Higgins Memorial United Meth odist Church will prepare and serve the meal in the Fellow ship Hall of the church. Guest speaker will be Mr. Carlos Young, Shelby, NC. who is a member of the North Carolina Board of Directors. Members of the local Board and the As sociation members are invite d to attend the dinner. The American Medical As sociation has called mental illness "the nation's most pressing health problem. "Ffere are the startling facts to bear this out: Mental illness strikes one person in everytte a total of 20,000,000 Americans —child- ren, teenagers, young adults, (Cont'd on page 16) Growers In Burley Contest Five Yancey County Burley Tobacco growers have received placings and received checks as a result of entering the Bur ley Tobacco Contest during January-February of this year. The purpose of the contest is to recognize growers who fol low production practices re commended by the N.S. State University. Those entering tit; contest filled out a question - aire on practices from plant bed preparation through final marketing. Yield was only one of the 48 factors consider ed. The placings were as fol lows: Less than 0.5 acre ca tegory, Dock Cooper won first; Raymond Wilson won second; Leonard Chandler was third. Above 0.5 acre, category was Hobart Banks, first; George Byrd, 2nd place. Prize money was sponsored by Dellinger and Silver, Dey ton Farm Supply, J, F. Robin son, Johnson and Co., Mack Miller & Son and O.C. Whitaon. The above winners were au tomatically considered in a state contest. Winners were announced at the Tobacco Ban quet at the Battery Park Hotel Friday, April 23rd. Mr. Coo per and Mr. Banl<s received plaques in their categories as second place state winner. Both first place honors went to Madison County growers. ' < * le - V » fljr Little Randy Mitchell, Now Fully Recovered, Bears Long Scar From Heart Surgery Heart Sounds Screening Method Proves Effective In Testing When a little boy can show a 52-suture scar running from the base of the neck to just above the waist, he's really a big man. Randy Mitchell of Burns ville will be 10 on June sth. Commissioners Study Budget Request From County Schools The Board of County Com missioners is now in the midst of reviewing, revising and approving bucjget requests of the various governmental agen cies dependent for support on Yancey County tax revenues. The proposed budget for the county schools, which takes a good size bite of avail able county funds, is illustra tive of the budgeting function of the county government. The Yancey Gets Road /Roney Yancey County has been al located $54,000 for three secondary road projects, ac cording to an announcement just released by the State High way Commission. The three projects are: Grade, drain, base and pave 1. 30 mile of the Seven Mile Ridge Road (SRI 167) to dead end) estimated to cost $28,000. Grade, drain, base and pave 0.8 mile of road from NC 197 to dead end, estimated to cost $16,000. Surveys and right -of -way acquisitions for secondary road plan, estimated to cost SIO,OOCI THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1971 He's shy, alert, reddish blond haired, freckled, sunny-faced, wiry, and weighs 44 pounds. That's five pounds more than he weighed before his open heart operation October 30 at N.C. Baptist Hospital in Win fiscal year for which the bud get is now being prepared is from July 1, 1971 to June 30, 1972. The estimated current operating costs of the schools which must be borne by local tax revenues are as follows: General A3 ministration $16,946 Instructional service 21, 860 Operaticn <f Buildings 20,500 Maintaunce <f buildings 45,945 Fixed charges 11,690 Transportation 9,936 Total $126,877 The local funds for schools amount to less than a quarter of the total expenditures of the county. At the same time, the $126,877 shown above is only a small fraction of the total cost of operating the Yan cey County schools; the great er part of the cost of schools comes from State and Federal funds. The percentage break down between the three sources of school finances for the *69- '7O fiscal year (the most re cent year available) was as follows: State 74. 9% Federal 18.0% Yancey County 7. 1% Although the County Com missioners are obliged to find .. , (Cont'd on page 16) ston-Salem. Randy had an "atrial septal defect, secim dum"--in plain English, a hole (half-inch in circumference) between the upper two cham bers of the heart. The hole was a terrifying surprise to his parents — even though they knew about the big computer screening prog ram at school to find hidden heart disease and even though Randy had been called in later for a follow-up examination ty a heart doctor. The Heart Sounds Screening Program is administered by the North Carolina Heart Associa - tion of Chapel Hill with a skeletal paid staff and 100 to 200 volunteer aides and tech - nicians in each of the moun tain counties involved. It is (Cont'd on page 2) Week Os Soil Stewardship The opening of Soil Ste wardship Week, May 16 to May 23, will be widely re cognized from the pulpits of Yancey County chinches this coming Sunday. Most church bulletins will carry an insert expressing the general environmental con cern with the urgent problems of pollution, erosion, and other widespread practices tending to degrade the earth's surface. The attempt is made to appeal to every individual to "Consider the earth; Con sider it well!" Soil Stewardship Week has (Cont'd on page 16) Postal Rate To Increase Postmaster Paul Buck said today that increases in most postage rates will take effect May 16, 1971 as the new Uni ted States Postal Service be gins its task of achieving self sufficiency as required by the Postal Reorganization Act. Mr. Buck explained that the new increases will raise first-class letter rates from 6 to 8 cents an ounce, and air mail letter rates from 10 to 11 cents per ounce. Post cards will go from 5 to 6 cents each and airmail post cards will gp from 8 to 9 cents each. The increases will be home more by business than by indi viduals, the postmaster poin - ted out, since about 75percent of first class and air mail is from commercial mailers. In addition to first-class mtes, second and third class will also go up on May 16. However, since the postal reform legis lation contemplates that such increases be phased over a five year period—or ten years for nonprofit organizations— the increases to become effective May 16 will generally be only 1/sth of the total increase pro posed by the Postal Service. No changes are to be made (Cont'd on page 16) ■ ■■ ■ Hazen Ledford Vice President 9f local Bank Edwin Duncan, Jr., presi - dent of The Northwestern Bank, has announced that Hazen Led ford is now executive vice president of The Northwestern Bank in Burnsville. Ledford was named cashier of the Bank in Bakersville in 1964 and vice president in 1971. Mr. Ledford is secretary of (Cont'd on page 16) 10<
The Yancey Journal (Burnsville, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 13, 1971, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75