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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
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Toorer Canipe And Ed Hunter, School Superintendent, Inspect Wreckage Os Bus
(fit Yancey PTA Meets Mon
The East Yancey PTA will
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"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.
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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
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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.
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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!