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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM—Judges stand with members of the
Jack's Creek Community on the occasion of their visit to judge the Community
Development and Youth Programs. Five Yancey County communities entered
the contest. Shown (1. to r.) are Miss Marie Scott. Judge; Mrs. Bruce Bailey, a
community member; John Martin, Judge; Vernie Wilson, community member; Mrs.
Donald Woody, community member; Herbert Speas, Judge.
Or. O.M.Blake
Trustees
To Meet
By O. V. Tally
The Board ofTrustees from
the three counties forming
the Mayland Technical Insti
tute have called a meeting
for Monday, October 29, at
7:30 p.m. to hear Dr. O. M.
Blake, Jr., President of May
land Technical Institute ,gi\e
a brief story of the purpose
of the technical institutes in
the State of North Carolina
as well as this particular in
stitute. The meeting will
be at the Harris High School
Auditorium and the public
is invited.
Special invitations have
been mailed to all of the
County Commissioners in
the three counties,the Boards
of Education, the County Su
perintendents , the school
Principals and Counselors of
all the schools. These peo
ple, as well as theotherswho
come, are vital to the pro
per development of the co
ordinated educational pro -
gram of the technical
institute and the 3 school
systems.
Gospel Sing
A Gospel Sing will beheld
Saturday, October 23rd, at
7:30 p.m. at Beech Glenn
School, located two miles
East of Man Hill cn old US
19. The Gospel Sing is for
the Building Fund of Middle
Fork Independent Baptist
Church and there will be no
admission charge.
Groups taking part in the
Gospel Sing are Maple Ridge
Quartet of Candler; Skylan -
ders Quartet of Asheville;the
Heaven Bound Trio of Wearer
ville; Gethsemane Qusutet
of Spruce Pine; Happy Echoes
Quartet of Swannanoa; the
Gospel Notes of Fairview;
Grace Trio of Weaverville;
Gospel Tones of Franklin,N.
C.; Bee Log Quartet of Burns
ville; Joyful aires Quartet of
Alexander, N. C. ; Prayerway
Quartet of Mars Hill.
Dennis Parris will be Mas
ter of Ceremonies.
VOL. 35, NO. 42
Community Development
Awards Program Saturday
The Yancey County Com
munity Development Awards
Program will be held Satur
day, October 23rd, at 6 :30
p.m. at the Clearmont Ele -
mentary School.
The occasion will be a
covered dish supper after
which Dr. O. M. Blake, Pre
sident of Mayland Technical
Institute, will speak.
Awards will be presented
to five communities entered
in the Community Develop -
ment and Youth Program. The
Craftsmen To Exhibit
A t Christmas Show
Fifty mountain craftsmen
from Watauga, Avery, Mitch
ell, and Yancey Counties will
be demonstrating and selling
their wares in the largest dis
play of mountain handicrafts
ever presented at the Southern
Christmas Show this year.
About 10,000 square feet
of the Charlotte Merchandise
Mart will be transformed into
a Craftsman's Marketplace by
the Blue Ridge Hearthside
Crafts Association. Demon
strations of weaving, doll
making, leather carving,gun
making, candle making and
tin smithing will be given
throughout the show, which
runs November 11, 12, 13
and 14.
The Hearthside Association
is a young cooperative ventwe
that just recently entered the
retail market. Based at Sugar
Grove near Boone, it was be.-
gun in 19G8 as a mountain
crafts program started by the
Office of Economic Oppoitun-
Parking Areas
This year huntets will be
able to park at designated
areas on the Blue Ridge Park
way to obtain access to game
lands below. The four desig
nated parking areas in Yan
cey and McDowell counties
are as follows:
Lick Log MP 349.2
Mt. Mitchell MP 349.9
Green Knob MP 350.4
Big Pine Bear Stand
MP 352.6
Parking in these areas aid
other similar areas further
south on the Parkway requires
a permit which can be ac -
quired , free of charge, at
the Toecane Ranger Station,
Courthoise Building, Burns
ville, North Carolina. A
permit must be visibly dis
played on all vehicles park
ed in these areas.
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communities include Brush
Creek, Arbuckle, Green Moun
tain, Jacks Creek and White
Oak Creek.
Awards will also be made
to four communities who en
tered in the Roadside Im
provement Contest held Au
gust 31st. Placings have
been announced fbrthe Road
side Contest as follows: First
place, White Oak Creek;
second place, Jacks Creek;
third place, Brush Creek; and
fourth place, Green Mountain.
ity for Watauga, Avery,Mitch
ell and Yancey counties.
It is headed by Jim Weaver;
29, who grew up in an Ashe
County mountain home, gra
duated from Appalachian State
with a degree in Industrial Arts
and who has guided the coop
erative into a highly success -
ful wholesale concern. Mem
bership in Hearthside includes
craftsmen from all over Ap
palachia.
In the first two years of
operation, Hearthside's sales
rose from $12,000 t 0558,000.
They zoomed to $128,000 last
year.
Its participation in the
Southern Christmas Show is its
first appearance at a public
exposition.
"Hearthside is coming to
the Christmas Show filledwith
enthusiasm. Their work is of
excellent quality and the live
demonstrations promise to be
one of our most exciting fea
tures," commented Bob Zim
merman, president of South
- Shows, Inc., which
produces the Southern Christ
mas Show.
Notice
The Board of Elections of
fice in the courthouse, room
8, now has a telephone: 682-
3950. A reminder that the
office is open Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday mornings.
Voter registration may be
done on those days, or with
the precinct registrars. Any
one with questions about the
voting procedure may call
the above number diu'ing of
fice hours.
Notice
French Broad Electric
Membership Corporation will
be closed Monday, October 25.
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ROADSIDE IMPROVEMENT CONTEST—Ist Place is the Roadside Improvement
Contest, held August 31, went to White Oak Creek Community. Shown above is
just a sample of how this community works together to beautify their area. The
Litter Buggy is being pulled by a tractor-type vehicle and the youthful clean-up
orew collects the litter.
| Publisher's Note f
Beginning with this issue, The Yancey Record will
ft be published in full size instead of the previous tabloid ;|;
size. Both newspaper sizes have certain advantages,but j;j
•j; we believe that the larger page size will allow us to jjjj
give our readers more local news each week, to make v
y. better use of pictures, and to print more interesting and ;j;
•:<: informative feature articles.
We hope our readers will like our new size—although j;|
old-timers may contend that the size is not new at all, >j;
but simply a return to the original size of The Yancey
Record as it was published several years ago.
Yancey County To Share
National Forest Receipts
National Forest rec e i pts
within the state totaled some
$827,000 last year. The
amount each county receives
is based on the number of
School Lunch
Revision
Responding to Senate
pressure, the Department of
Agriculture has substantially
revised regulations whi ch
would have had the effect of
seriously curtailing the school
lunch program.
The action came after the
Senate had adopted by a 75-
5 vote an emergency mea
sure, S.J. Res. 157,directirg
the department to allocate
whatever funds are needed to
provide a free or reduced
price lunch for any needy
school child during this fis
cal year.
As now re vised, the regula
tions would guarantee a state
wide average reimbursement
rate of 40 cents for each free
or reduced price lunch where
as the original rate had been
set at 30 cents. In addition
schools will receive 5 cents
for all meals served under
Section 4of the National
School Lunch Act. The total
reimburse me rrt for free and
reduced price meals will
now be 454.
The reimbursement will
apply on lunches provided for
children from families with
an annual income of up to
$3,940.
Course Begins
The Defensive Driving
Course begins Thmsday night,
October 21 and continues each
Thursday night through No
vember 11th. Hours are from
7:00 to 9:00 p, m. in the
Fellowship Hall of the First
Baptist Church. To be eli -
gible for the certificate of
completion each participant
must complete the 8 - hour
course. For licensed drivers
only. This course is free.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER * 1911
acres of National Forest land
within the county. Federal
laws calls for 25 percent of
the receipts to go back to the
counties for use onschools and
roads.
Timber harvesting by pri
vate operators accounts for
the biggest single amount in
the receipts and during the
past year timber operations
brought in almost SBOO,OOOI
Other National Forest resour -
•ces are water, recreation,
wildlife and forage,
Supervisor Thorsen said
that the Forest Service's sys -
tern of land management
makes certain there will al
ways be a supply of timber for
the nation. It also provides
for protection of wildlife, re
creation and aesthetic values
of the Forests.
The money received by
the counties on the T o ecane
Ranger District is partcf about
$5,500,000 being returned to
counties in the 13 state South
ern Region of the U, S. Forest
Service.
Forest Supervisor Del Thct
sen said today that Mitchell,
Yancey and Buncombe Coun
ties will receive a total of
$11,887.97 as their share of
receipts on the National For
est in the state during the past
fiscal year.
Tax News
Checks totaling over $12.5
million are being sent to 428
North Carolina cities aid towns
this week under provisions of
the Powell Bill, which alio -
cates gasoline tax funds to
municipalities each year.
This year's payment is a
record, exceeding last year's
allocation, the highest up to
then, of $11.9 million.
This payment is for the fis
cal year 1970-71, and will
double next year since an act
of the legislature raised the
Powell Bill source from one
half cent per gallon of the gas
tax to a full cent.
Burnsville's allocation was
• $9,943. 33.
Farmers Nominating Candidates
For ASC Community Committeemen
Yancey County farmers
are sending in their nomina
tion petition for candidates
for ASC community com -
mitteemen says Pate, Chair
man of the County Agricul -
tural Stabilization and
Conservation (ASC) Com -
mittee.
This year the election of
ASC committeemen will be
held December 1. All pe
titions to nominate candi
dates must be filed at the
County ASCS Office by close
of business October 27.
A recent change in elec
tion procedures permits the
petitions to be filed when
signed by only 3 quail fi ed
farm voters, instead of 6 as
required last year. Also, the
petition, or any accompany
ing signed piece of paper,
must contain a statement that
the candidate is willing to
serve if elected. Petitions
are still limited to one no
minee each, but farmers may
sign as many petitions as
they wish.
If a community doesn't
rrominate a full slate of 6
candidates, the community
committee will add the' num
ber of names required to fill
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BIPARTISAN RALLY—Hugh Morton (right), unannounced candidate for Governor of North Carolina, in
shown with Congressman James T. Broyhill (left) and Blue Ridge Parkway Superintendent Granville Liles
during the bipartisan rally on the environment in the Greensboro coliseum sponsored by the Jaycees. Morton
was recently re-elected Vice-President of the Blue Ridge Parkway Association and contacted Congress
man James Broyhill and Congressman Roy Taylor at the rally for the Parkway Association, seeking funds
in the next Federal budget for completion of the last four-mile stretch of the Parkway. President Nixon
has omitted funds for completion of the Blue Ridge Parkway from his last two budgets. George Downing
of Burnsville is President of the Blue Ridge Parkway Association.
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AWARDS PROGRAM JUDGING—Brash Greek Community members gave judges
a royal welcome when they arrived to jsdge the community in the Yancey County
Community Development Awards Program. They are (1. to r.) Miss Sue Fox, Mar
vin Hensley, David Hopson, Mike Hopson, Larry Hall in front row. Back row:
Miss Marie Scott, Judge; Pam Hopson,; John Martin, Judge; Tommy Hopson; Mr.
Charles Hopson, and Mr. Herbert Speas, Judge.
out the slate.
"We're hoping to have
the full support of the farm
community this year in no
minating, voting for, and in
willingness to run as com
mitteemen candidates," Mr.
Pate said.
Each ASC community will
elect 3 regular community
committeemen and 2 alter
nates to represent the com
munity. Three committee -
men from each community
will serve as delegates to
the county convention,where
farmers will be elected to
United 5 & 10 In Burnsville Plaza
To Have Preview Opening Thursday
The United 5 & 104 Store
located in Burnsville Plaza
on Highway 19 E,Burnsville
will have a Pre-Opening on
Thursday, October 21. You
are invited to oome in and
inspect the big new store,
which is one of 54 stores now
located in South and North
Carolina and Georgia, and is
a Division of McCrory Corp.
ylocal manager is Mr. Ra
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fill vacancies and name the
offices fbrthe County ASC
Committee.
The County Committee
locally administers farm ac
tion programs. Community
committees help keep farm
ers in their districts informed
of changes in program pro
visions and other farm pro -
gram news.
"Together, the communi
ty and county co mmittees
serve as representatives of
farmers, and as spokesmen
for the Departmsit of Agri
culture in Washington, for
mond Vess, who has 6 years
experience with the company
He previously managed stores
in Pickens, Black Mountain
and Chester. Mr. Vess is
married and will reside in
Burnsville. He is no stranger
to the wonderful mountains
as he was bom and reared in
Black Mountain, N.C.
About fifteen persons will
be employed in the United
5 & 104 Store at present. All
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such farm programs as REAP,
Feed Grain, and Burley To
bacco,"Mr. Pate said.
Male and female farm
owners, tenants, and share -
croppers, of legal voting age,
are eligible to participate in
ASCS programs and take part
in ASC committeemen elec
tions regardless of race-coloq
creed, sex or national origin.
Other details on vot in g
and committeemen require -
merits are available at the
Yancey County ASCS Office,
located at the Yancey County
Courthouse.
are local people who we know
will appreciate your dropping
by to greet them.
The store is under the su
pervision of Mr. James Hines,
who has directed the opening
of the store, ably assisted by
Mr. Wayman Brown, Mr. Ar
ledge, Mr. Green, Mr. Lynn,
Mr. McCavitt and Mr. Whit
lock who have been with the
company for many years.