I fill PBANKUN ttOCibY c — S v Li ' 11 , Artists Drawing Shows Blue Ridge Hardware And Adjoining Stores With Special “Facelift" Burnsville Post Office, Ray Brothers Food Center, Ben Franklin Shown With ‘Mall’’ Concept And Attractive Storefronts Mi Toorer Canipe And Ed Hunter, School Superintendent, Inspect Wreckage Os Bus (fit Yancey PTA Meets Mon The East Yancey PTA will feet Monday night, Decem |er 20th at 7«30 p. m. A _— r” "Cross Beams” Featured Included in this weeks edition of The Yancey Re cord and Mitchell Ledger is a special feature article about "Cross Beams", the coast-to-coast radio work and international missionary of Miss Frances Radford, a local Free Will Baptist pastor who is one of the few ordained lady minister in that denomination. "Cross Beams" began on one station in 1962 and has grown now to network proportions, being heard on I approximately 50 stations now with contract for over 100 early in 1972. Perhaps the most unique feature of the Cross Beams ministry is that Miss Radford has never made an appeal to her audience for financial support of the radio work. She simply tnsts God, she says, to meet the increasingly heavy costs. She has never been late with a payment, and she attributes this simply to the power and faithfulness of God. "Cross Beams" is heard locally each Sunday after noon at 1:00 p.m. over WKYK. Other stations in the local area carrying the programs are WWNC, Ashe ville, 8130 a. m.; WHKY at Hickory, 2:30 p. m. and WEMB, Erwin, Tennessee at 1:30 p.m., all on Sunday. Any reader who wants to receive Miss Radford's News letter or ask any further questions about the work may either write her at Box 155, Burnsville or call her at 682- 3852. special Christmas Program will be presented by the Glee Club and Drama Club. # « § | | | am jmt '• .fgsSlPipe M m 1 ifjak. W* I'* 1 '* 1 JHPh j&W? -9 I g. P jo jßraf wt |T| - Jr * M ■ V K IfigS^iiilisr' l ! JfMf 9 A r ’ H W,\ \« & ffJ|ff I | --'ff * ff 'iff" Mff *^UBmmTW s » \ J/ffißm. ct • vi 'IBHF ' 4i fefo. •• . THL.; tr BPK y 'h ■ if.. m -'■'.-'c - wk.,. iflLjj* £T'ffV>V“&£BKk i Bl9R3Riit ■■■ «Bj *jjB. t jPIBIBBSMUfei £ CHRISTMAS WITH MRS. SANTA—7S to 100 eager “little people” took their turns rocking in Mrs. Santa’s lap as they gave their Christmas list to her at the CHILDREN’S HOUR Christmas Party this past Monday morning at the Yancey County Public Library. Assisting Miss Theresa Coletta and Mrs. Mary Young in a very special way with the Christmas party was Mrs. Fred Bacon. Assisting Mrs. Santa with ’goodies” from her kitchen were the Yancey County Jaycettes. A jolly time was had by all! School Bus Accident Injures Eight In Neor Disaster A school bus accident on Tuesday aftemoon,December 14 at approximately4:3o p.m. sent eight Yancey County school children to the hospi tal with injuries. The acci - dent occurred six miles South of Burnsville on Halls Chapel Road off Blue Rock Road. The bus left the road on a sharpe curve and plunged over an embankment, over turning nine times before it reached the bottom of the hill. According to State High way Patrolman A. T. Canipe, this is the second accident of this nature so far this school year in which "rough housing" on the bus was ap parently responsible for the ifte;, 1 ; ii : 2 i nliii'wwiiiiiiwiwifriiiii liSf V0L.35, N 0.50 Downtown Burnsville May Get Boost "Facelifting” Program To Be Considered accident. "Charges are pending an investigatiorfj he said. RickHusldns, 16--jear-old driver of the bus was admit - ted to Yancey Hospital with injuries, Wanda Blevins, 14, and Dana Cheren, 8, were: first taken to Spruce Pine Community Hospital and were sent from there to Me morial Mission Hospital in Asheville where they were admitted. Willie Mae Ble vins, 13; Wilma Blevins, 9; Judy Robinson, 11; Linda Hart, 9; and 6-year-old Ho ward Blevins were treated at Spruce Pine Hospital and re leased. All of the children were from Route s,Bums - ville in the Celo Community. School Books, Papers Scattered From Broken Windows Os Overturning School Bus THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16,1971 Christmas Holidays Christmas holidays for students in Yancey County schools will begin at 1 *OO p. m. on Tuesday, Decern - ber 21. Schools will remain closed for the holidays lions To Visit Burnsville Lions Club members will pay their an imal visit to the thirty-one blind or visually handicap - ped persons in Yancey Coun ty a week before Christmas. The Christmas baskets, made up of fruit,cake, can dy and other goodies, will cost the Club approximately SIOO.OO. You can have a part in the project by pur chasing a fruit cake from a member of the lions Club. For further information about price and delivery, phone 682-2160. lodge Meeting Burnsville Lodge No. 717 is having a Stated Communi cation Meeting at 7:30 p.m. December 16th. New offi cers will be elected. All members are urged to attend. By Carolyn Yuziuk Burnsville merchants are becoming cautiously optimis tic as they consider a plan of action which could help businesses on Main Street flourish despite an expected "boom" in business develop ment on the By Pass. Franklin Moody, an artist of considerable renown who has traveled widely around the United States, but also spends much of his time in Yancey County, has offered his invaluable assistance in the planning of a new con cept for the downtown busi - ness area. As a first step, he has sketched a series of archi tectural drawings showing Burnsville as it could be. "Most of the changes in store fronts or facades would cost very little, "said Moody. "A strong and vigorous beau tification program should be undertaken immediately," he added. This program would be important in attracting the kind of tourism we want to have in this area—tourists who come into an area be cause of its simple, natural beauty and restfulness and are not looking for garish, neon-lit souvenir shops or the hustle and bustle of a through December 28, Tues day. Classes will resume on a regular schedule on Wednes day, December 29. Schools will be closed again for the New Years holiday Monday, January 3. Students will also get a short break this week as the schools will close at I SOO p. m. Thursday afternoon,De cember 16. All teachers in the county will have an in-service training meeting that afternoon at East Ytncey High School. MAY Tetli News May land Technical In stitute in cooperation with the Industrial Services De partment of the North Caro lina Community College System entered into an agree ment last week with the Henredon Furniture Industries to train twenty-five n ew employees for the second shift. Fifteen new employees will be trained for the Ma chine Operator, five for the Assembler, and five new employees for the Finisher. 10 e thrill-seeking vacation throng. According to Moody, the appropriate period for Burns ville seems to be from around 1830 or 1840 to 1900. This leaves the planners a wealth of fine possibilities to work with. Already on the square are several build ings that blend in with the early periods: the new coun ty courthoiae, the new bank building, the Country Store, Nu-Wray Inn, the old bank building and the old County Courthouse. Os course, the old courthouse needs careful and loving restora - tion, but it can beandshouH be a matter of pride for the county. The Architectural plan of the building is beau tiful, said Moody, and with a new peaked roof on its central tower it would be complete. When restored it could house the Chamber of Commerce which, if the town is refaced, will grow by leaps and bounds. It can continue to house the police department and its upstairs courtroom can easily be con verted to a town me et ing room or the like. The idea of "facelifting" a town is not a new one,nor is it an untried one. Eden ton, N. C. is doing it—and among other thing? they are replacing the cracked, ugly concrete sidewalls with old brick. New Bern, N.C. is restoring old homes and buildings—the restoration of the palace there brings an estimated $500,000 per an num to New Bern. Helen, Georgia was dying. Shopping centers were being built, downtown business had fal len off to almost zero, some thing had to be done. A few active and interested busi - nessmen took the bull by die horns and "converted" the entire downtown area into a Swiss village—inclu ding chalet architecture and fountains. Now, less than three years later, Helen is beginning to boom. People visit and people buy—whe ther ifr groceries, clothes, knick-knacks or hardware —they buy! Burnsville has been es pecially blessed because it has been placed in an area of great natural beauty. It still has a chance to act con structively and creatively and "save" the downtown area. So many towns are doing it and the response has been overwhelming in increased urban spending,in creased tourist buying, and juat plain pride of the towns people in their town. A Mall concept is one very attractive, utilitarian idea for Burnsville which Franklin Moody has depic - ted in his initial sketches. "Stace die ideal ' format' for Burnsville is an Early American-Victorian, agrl - cultural one, a mall could easily be constructed as part of the new store fronts plan ned. A meeting of merchants and other bisinessmen will be held soon to discuss plans and ideas for the restoration of "downtown" Burnsville. Already, a few interested ci tizens are looking into the prospect of Federal and State aid for the project and are encouraged by the possibili ties. Burnsville jist maybe —on the move!

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