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Governor Robert Scott (I.) And Dr. George Hyatt Jr., Extension Service Director, Discuss "Impact ’76”
Yancey Extension Staff To Reveal Special
'lmpact 76’Plan At Countywide Meeting Jan.3l
By Wm.C. Bledsoe
Extension Director, George
| Hyatt, Jr., announced Thua-
I day, January 13th, a long
i range plan for developm e nt
of the states key natural
i and human resources. It is
[called Impact '76. The news
conference was held in Ra
leigh and was carried live
on station WKYK.
Governor Bob Scott failed
the program and said, "It
reflects thoroughness, ima -
gination and much citizen
'involvement, which are all
necessary ingredients in any
successful program. " The
Yancey County Extension
Staff will reveal the Yancey
County Impact *76 plan in a
program for the public Janu
ary 31 at 7:00 p. m. in the
courthouse.
The program outlines the
goals in agriculture, forestry,
family living, youth develop*-
ment and community re
source development. It also
gives majoT attention to the
environment and to the ex
tension service's role in help
ing disadvantaged citizens.
Hyatt said that although there
have been two other such
long-range programs over the
past decade, "Impact '76
tends to emphasize people
and internal adjustmerts in
agriculture while earlier pro
grams tended to emphasize
gross farm income, which
has increased about SSOO
Mental Health
Ass’ll Meets
The Yancey County Men
tal Health Association held
its monthly meeting at noon
Tuesday, January 11, in
Amberjack Restaurant,with
Reverend Don Elly, presi
dent, presiding.
Rev. Elly anno unctri that
Mr. Ralph P. Campbell Jr.,
Administrative Director of
the Blue Ridge Community
Health Council, will be
guest speaker for the Febru
ary meeting.
Wanda Edwards, public
health nurse, reported that
a second day of Mental
Health Clinic is being of
fered at the Yancey Coun -
ty Health Department on
the third Wednesday in each
month. Bill Hutchinson,
psychiatric social worker
from the Blue Ridge Health
Clinic, Asheville, will be
in charge. Many in the
community may remember
Bill when he helped set up
the Day Care Center for re
tarded children. Although
Bill will be spending some
time with adult patientsfhe
major emphasis of his ser
vices will be for children.
Harvey Austin is also
joining the Mental Health
program to do family coun
seling and will see patients
at the Health Department
on the same Wednesday as
well as throughout the rronth
as needed.
million over the past decade."
Hyatt said, "...our real
measures of progress over
the next five years might be
how well our farm people
adjust to such challenges as
urbanization, tobacco mech
anization, environmental
concerns, low net profits,
overproduction, changing
markets, competition for
labor, 'engineered' foods
and inefficient production
units." He said the exten -
sion service would move vig
orously to make 4-H type
programs available to all
Yancey Has This Year’s First Case
Os Hong Kong Flu In The State
North Carolina's first diag
nosed case of Hong Kong flu
is from Yancey County said
Dr. John Mac Cormack, chief
of the communicable disease
section of the State Board of
Health, last Friday, January
14th. The case was diag
nosed from a blood sample
sent to the health ooard lab
oratory in Raleigh and was
the first case of Hong Kong
flu to be confirmed in North
Carolina.
Dr. Mac Cormack said
that in light of this documen
ted case, the Hong Kong
strain is "probably the cause
of the flu-like illness we're
seeing across the state. "
Reports of a flu-like ill
ness began to filter into the
state health board offices
last week. Most of the re
ports were sent from Robe
son, Orange, Durham and
Guilford counties.
The state board of health
Men’s Club
Will Meet
The Burnsville Men's Club
will hold its January meeting
next Monday at 7:30 at the
Community Building. The
ladies of the Nev/dale Metho
dist Church who have won a
well deserved reputation for
the excellence of the meals
they have provided the club,
•. ill serve the supper.
The program for the even
ing will be provided by John
McLain, relative t» the Boy
Scout activities in Yancey
County.
The Men's Club has been
promoting a number of pro
jects and activities for im
proving life in Yancey Coun
ty. President Mack E. Ray
has announced the following
committee chairmen for this
promotional work: County
wide sanitary land fill (gar
bage program) VV. C.Bledsoe;
Yancey United Fund-Dr. Car
land Wampler; Schods-O. W.
Deyton; Sc exiting-John Mc-
Lain; Community Club Worh-
Patrick Guyer; Recreation for
the county-Jim Gardner; Girls
Haven-Randall Peacock; \fcrr>
bershi]>Herbert Allen; New
Hospital-Vemie Wilson.
citizens, rural or urban. The
goal, he said, is to double
4-H participation by 1976.
Concerning environmen
tal protection, Hyatt said,
"You'll hear extension work
ers talk more about pest
management and less about
just piesticides. You will
see us emphasize Water mana
gement instead of just drain
age and irrigation. Youwill
hear us stress sound land use
above jißt production and
development. Youwill hear
us emphasize proper waste
disposal as the first step in
laboratory i* continuing to
look at specimens sent from
those counties, Dr.MacCor
mack said. Reports of the
flu have not been received
from other counties, he ad
ded, but since reporting of
the flu is voluntary this does
not indicate that other coun
ties have not been hit by the
bug.
According to Dr. Garland
Wampler, who has treated
a few cases of Hong Kong flu
in Yancey County recently,
symptoms are much like
those of any kind of flu. But,
he adds, complications are
Construction Underway
On Town Water System
At long last, after more
than four years of planning
and negotiating, construction
work on the $470, 000 project
of improving the Burnsville
water system is under way. A
heavy buildceer started last
Monday to prepare the site on
the waterworks hill overlook
ing the town for the building
of a new two million gallon
reservoir.
At a pre-construction con
ference held last Friday, at
tended by town officials, con
tractois, engineers and a
representative of the FHA, the
go-ahead signal was given.
The Brown Construction Com
pany of Concord whose bid won
the major part of the contract;
agreed to start to work atonce.
The laying of new water lines
will begin next month.
The contractors have 270
days under the contracts to
complete the job, which pla
ces the deadline for comple -
tion in October. According
to the work schedules they
have drawn up, the construc
tion should be finished a month
or more earlier than this.
The contractors expect to
do all the work of placing ne.v
facilities in service, and re
building cr remodeling old
facilities with no more than a
few brief interruptions of tl*e
town's water service. They
give assurance that at notime
./ill the town's citizens be
poultry and livestock pro -
duction."
Scott told the extension
officials, ''North Carolina
needs the progress which you
say is attainable under im
pact '76. Therefore I chal
lenge you to make the goals
that you have set forth a
reality."
The governor said he is
delighted that attention to
the environment, to the
state's disadvantaged citi
zens, to young people and
to rural development are
included in the program.
usually mo re severe.
Symptoms include chills,
high fever, headache, gen
eralized aching of the whole
body. In general, if you
stay in bed, take aspirin or
other medication for temper
ature and drink plenty of
fluids, your recovery will
be uneventful. It is not
necessary to call a doctor
unless you have complica -
tions or some other condi -
tion which would warrant it.
Hong Kong flu is hardest on
older people who may have
a pre-existing condition to
complicate matters.
handicapped in maintaining
the usual frequency of their
baths cr ether domestic use of
water. Insofar as practicable;
notice will be given in ad
vaice of any interruptions of
service.
During the Town's recent
disastrous fire, town officials
and fire chiefs were for a time
uncomfortably uncertain as to
how well the town's water sup>-
ply would hold out. Seven
fire hoses delivering water un
der high presure consume a
great amount of water. Hap
pily, the water supply held
out very well. At the same
time, the new improvements
to the water system now being
started will provide the town
with a far larger and more cer
tain water supply for meeting
any pcssible future fire emer
gencies.
Sioufs At
Compovf
On January 8, Boy Scout
Troop 502 went on an over
night campout on Seven Mile
Ridge. The troop hiked in
from Busick to an old farm
house on top of the ridge.
The first afternoon the
boys constructed two signal
.towers and the next morning
each patrol was assigned ob
jects that had to be located
by use of contour mup6 of lit
area.
THE YANCEY RECORD
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Phone Companies Seek
Statewide Rate Increase
The Western Carolina aid
Westco Telephone Compan
ies on January 14, 1972
asked the North Carol ina
Utilities Commission for the
Company's first statewide
general rate increase since
1964.
The telephone company's
proposed schedule of rates
calls for increasing the aver
age monthly charges for bas
ic service by approximately
3394, Increases likewise
would apply for some option
al and miscellaneous savices
and other services which vary
with usage. The amount of
these increases would depend
on the type of service or
equipment and usage.
The new schedule of rates
I $ lg
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Army Fox
Fox Heads
Project
Amey C. rox, Cashier of
Northwestern Bank, has been
named by the Young Bankers
Division of the North Caro
lina Bankers Association to
coordinate the activities of
Project TELL (Teach Econo -
mic Literacy Lectures) in
Yancey County. Project TELL
is the primary public service
effort of the Young Bankers
Division.
The statewide program
was developed by the Young
Bankers Division in coopera -
tion with the State Depart -
ment of Public Instruction.
Project TELL makes available
the experience of young ban
kers as resource people for
classroom lectures on econo
mic subjects. It is designed
to suppliment economic edu
cation programs offered
through the public school
system.
Each county representati\e
is provided a kit of approved
classroom lectures on econo
mic related subjects, but
flexibility of presentation is
one of the chief assets of the
program.
"We encourage all of our
representatives to work close
ly with the teachers and try
to deal with whatever econo
mic related subject they feel
will be most helpful as a
supplement to the courses
they are teaching," said J.
Curtis Hendrix of Greenville,
president of the Young Bank
ers Division.
Project TELL was origina
ted by the Young Bankers
Division in 1963 and is rapid
ly gaining recognition for its
contributions to the improve
ment of economic literacy
among the young people of
North Carolina. A Project
TELL representative has been
appointed for each of the
state's one hundred counties.
ter February. L. T. Moore,
president in charge of the
company's North Carolina
operations, pointed out that
the company's last statewide
general increase in rates oc
curred eight years ago.
"There have beenchangps
in some of the rates for our
services during this time
some up, some down— but
the net result is that at the
end of 1971 overall telephone 1
rates had gone down since
1964."
"While some telephone
rates for local and long dis
tance service in North Caro
lina were going down, the
cost of living has been rising
at a more accelerated rate,"
Moore stated.
"Our record of price per
formance is one which few,
if any, businesses in North
Carolina can match," he
continued. "But we have
reached the time when it is
no longer possible to absorb
the impact of inflation on
our operations and achieve
an earnings level which will
support the new capital com
mitments required to meet
service demands. A regula -
ted utility is subject to the
same economic facts of life
with which every business is
faced. It is unrealistic to
expect any business —regula-
ted or unregulated--to pro
vide a level of service in
keeping with 1972 standards
at a price which is below the
level of 1964, eight years
ago."
If the corrpany's earning?
permit, Moore indicated,
Western Carolina and Westco
plan to spend nearly $2 2
million in North Caro lina
over the next three years for
the construction of new Tele
phone facilities. Moore poin
ted out that much of this
money would flow into the
local economy in the form
of new jobs and payrolls,pay
ments for local materials and
supplies, and in state and
local taxes.
Western Carolina and
Westco service approximate
ly 52,000 telephones in
North Carolina and are affi
liates of the Continental Te
lephone System.
Meeting Held
The Women's Society of
Faith Fellowship Church
dale, N.C. held its first
meeting on Thursday, Janu
ary 13, 1972 at 7:30 p.m.
Officers were elected as
follows: President,Mrs.Nan-
C-- Eoonc*"Yoi.?h Assistant,
Miss Kimberly McKinney;
Vice President, Mrs. Floraice
Woody; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mrs. Melba Randolph; Pro
gram Chairman, Mb. Frances
Wyatt .
Plans were discussed for
the coming year. Refresh -
ments were served and the
fellowship was enjoyed by
all.
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Coun tft Store
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20,1972
I Lightning Strikes Home; 1
Blasts Hole In Ceiling |
The home of Mr. Brown
Gortney of the Green Moun
tain Community suffered se
vere damage last Thursday
evening during a storm.
Lightning apparently stock
the flue, demolishing it in
the attic, throwing block aid
tile through the ceiling in
Concrete Blocks And Mis Litter Lising Rom After Homs Stuck By Lightning
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Force Os Lightning Blast Shattered Glass And Splintered Wood Os Cabinet
Hole In Ceiling Was Made By Concrete Blocks Blasted Through By Lightning
the living and dining area.
Damage in the living room
was from blocks thrown down
through the ceiling, andfian
lightning entering the room
byway of antenna wire.
The blast demolished
most of the glass in an an
tique show case, with sever-
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al valuable antique stems
destroyed. Damaged also
from the blast were two win
dows blown out in the living
room.
Five persons were in the
house at the time of the in
cident, but no one was
injured.