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Local CAP
Aids Search
The Mountain Wilderness
Composite CAP Squadron was
alerted at 3:00 a. m. Monday
morning, May 28,that a plane
believed to be carrying Audie
Murphy and several other per
sons on a flight from Atlanta
to Roanoke, Virginia was dowrj
possibly in the Roan Mountain
area.
When they received this in
formation, members of the
Yancey County unit of the Civil
Air Patrol joined searchers
from 28 units of the N. C.Wiqg
of the CAP, including five
other mountain-based units, in
their first official air search and
rescue mission, since the unit
was organized last month. The
CAP searchers flew over 5,625
square miles of mostly rugged
mountains Monday morning
looking for the downed plane.
Pilots, observers and planes
from the Asheville, Henderscn
ville, Haywood County, Moun
tain Wilderness (Burnsville and
Spruce Pine) and Tri-Cities
Squadrons and Group IV Head
quarters flew over 100 horns
and more than 30 sorties in the
search. Lt. Col Erwin Roberts
of High Point, N.C. mission
co-ordinator, said more than
half the state's squadrons and
groups participated.
The search ended when the
wreckage of a chartered plane,
a twin-engined Aero Comman
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Communities
In Contest
Five Yancey County com
munities are among the 7 2
organized communities who
have entered the 1971 Western
North Carolina Community De
velopment Program, according
to Morris L. McGough, execu
tive vice president of the
Asheville Agricultural Develop
ment Council and Jack Krause
of Union Mills, area chairman
of the program.
The five Yancey communi
ties are Arbuckle, Brush
Jack's Creek, White Oak Creek,
and Green Mountain.
The community develop -
ment program, now in its 22nd
year, is a program of compe -
tition among organized rural
areas. Objective of the prog
ram is to encourage people to
plan together and cooperate in
building better communities in
which to live. Each communi
ty develops and carries out im
provements according to their
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PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT Mr s ert V»*ce of Spruce Pine watches the chllfren of
the Yancey County Child Development Center play on a swing set donated by Women of
The Moose, Chapter 1582, of which she is Senior Regent. This organization is an auxi
liary of the Loyal Order of Moose, Spruce Pine Lodge. One of the objects of the organi
zation is to foster aid in the community as the members see fit. The Spruce Pine Lodge,
although made up in majority of Spruce Pine women, has shown an interest in the Child
Development Center and made this contribution to assist this worthwhile enterprise.
Awards Presented To Senior Citizens
At First Yancey Friendship Festival
One highlight at Yancey
County's first Festival of Friend
ship was the presentation of
awards to senior citizens who
were outstanding in several
areas. There were many no
minations for each award, and
choosing the recipients of the
awards was a difficult task.
The oldest person award
went to Mr. A. F.Hylemon of
Swiss who is 100 years old. The
oldest person present was Mrs.
Harriet Ledford, 94, of Burns
ville.
The couple married the long
est was Mr. and Mrs. Jerome
McCurry of Green Mountain
who will celebrate their 68 th
anniversary in July. Mrs. lona
Price Honeycutt and her hus -
band will be married 68 years
in December.
Mrs. Marcia Higgins Phil
lips, who has a total of 129
grandchildren, great - grand
children, and great-great-grand
children, won the most grand
children award.
Dr. Winston Sargent was
cited as being the senior citi -
zen most active in helping the
elderly and Mr. RobertHelmle
won the award for being most
active in community work.
Mrs. Maggie Blevins and
Mr. Steve Ledford won the re
newed friendship award. They
saw each other at the Festival
for the first time in 54 years.
The awards were small,gold
hand-thrown pots made by Jim
THURSDAY, JUNE 3,1971
and Kore McWhirter. They
had the name of the award and
the place and date of the Fes
tival written on them,and were
ornamented with a little moun
tain scene.
In addition to these awards,
certificates of appreciation
were given by the Department
of Social Services to the Fami
ly Care Homes and Homes for
the Aged in the county. They
were received by Mr. and Mrs.
Murphy Higgins and Mis .Nancy
King of Pleasant View Home,
Mrs. Vemia Stanley of The
Winners In
Campaign
. Roberts Chevrolet-Buick-
Jeep, Inc. recently an
nounced the winners for
their May-June Sales Cam
paign. Winners of the
prizes were as follows:
First Prize of SIOO was
son by Shirley Yelton of
Route 2, Burnsville.
Second Prize, which was
a TV Set, was wontyEfean
Phillips of Route 1, Relief.
Third Prize was won by
Monroe Mclntosh of Route
3, Burnsville. It consisted
of $50.00 worth of grocer
ies or a tape player.
Stanley Home, Mr. and Mrs.
Karl Erickson of Valley of the
Moon Home, Mr. John Brink
ley and Mrs. SavannahOwenby
of the Free Will Baptist Home,
and Mrs. Cecil Anglin and her
staff of Sun Valley Home.
The success of Yancey Cou
nty's first Festival of Friend
ship, even in spite of inclanait
weather, was due to the co-op
eration of many persons and
agencies who contributed their
energies in individual ways to
the project. To those persons
who helped by beingbuddiesly
providing transportation, by
loaning their equipment, and
by giving the Festival the time
and moral support which was
so necessary, the Department
of Social Services wishes to
say "thank you. "
We also wish to thank the
following merchants for the
donations they gave to the
project:
The Amberjack Restaurant
Burnsville Supermarket
Chrisawn's Store of Celo
Circle price Pine
City Drive-In S andwich Shop
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of
Spruce Pine
Dellinger-Silver Store
Hickey's Supermarket of
Spruce Pine
Howell's Grocery, Newdale
Lacy Johnson's Store
L'il Smokey*s Drive In
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Fire Claims
Two Lives
Fire of an undetermined
origin claimed two lives Wed
nesday, May 26 at 2:00 a. m.
when the Chandler home at Ivy
Gap, near the "Vlhnoey-Madison
county line, was destroyed.
Binned to death was Ella
Marrow Chandler, 82, and a
son, Guss Chandler, 45. Four
others in the home escaped un
harmed.
The Burnsville volunteer fire
department answered the alaim
and assisted the Yancey County
Ambulance Service in recover
ing the bodies.
Mrs. Ella Morrow Chandler
was the wife of the late lee
Chandler who died in 1965.
Surviving are four daughters,
Mrs. Arthur Robinson, Mrs .Ada
Shepherd, Mrs. Joe Frank Fox,
and Mrs. John Shook of Mars
Hill Route 2; six sons, Nelson
Chandler of Weaverville, Ro
bert and Bill C handler ctf Burns
ville Route 3, Raymond and
Paul Chandler of Mars Hill
Route 2 and Fred Chandler of
Highland Park, Mich.; 4 5
grandchildren, 36 great-grand
children. Also a half-brother,
Fred Morrow of Marshall.
Guss Chandler, 45, is sur -
vived by the wife, Dollie Cole
Chandler; three daughters,Mrs.
Fred Blankenship and Mrs .Earl
Ponder of Mars Hill Route 2
and Mrs. Bill Lynch of Weaver
ville; 2 grandchildren. Also
surviving are the four si s t ers
and six brothers listed above.
Funeral services were held
Friday at 2:30 p. m. at Ivy
Gap Baptist Church. Rev. Ebb
Jenkins, Rev. Bill Hensley,
Rev. Alvin McPeters and Rev.
Earl Cole officiated and burial
was in the family cemetery.
Giris Haven
Plans Made
By Randall Peacock
Where is Girls Haven at this
time? Girls Haven stands an
excellent chance of being star
ted in eastern North Carolina.
Why is this true? Yancey
County has not taken the small
steps necessary in helping to
begin the establishment of
Girls Haven. For instance,let
ters to all county ministers
asking for assistance in locat -
ing several foster homes that
could accept one or two girls
each has not shown anyresults.
Property prices, as well known,
are beyond reasonable levels
in Yancey County.
several individuals are working
diligently to locate a house
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