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North Carolina Trellised Tomato
Growers Association Mooting Held
By Allen L, McMurray
Extension Agent
The 3rd Annual meeting
of the North Carolina Trel
lised Tomato Growers Asso -
ciation will meet in Ashe
ville on Wednesday,Februay
16, 1972.
This meeting is open to
all tomato growers and to
interested people.
An added attraction this
year will be displays by se
veral companies. These will
feature spraying equipment,
harvesting aids, irrigation
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WINTER RETURNS —With last weeks' snow, scenes such as this one were common In
the area, and made people aware of the fact that it is still winter in the mountains of
Western North Carolina.
East Yancey Students Gather For An International Luncheon
EY Girls Enjoy A Different Kind Os Lunch
equipment and spray mater
ials and fertilizes.
Registration for the all
day meeting will begin at
9s 30 a. mat the Holiday
Inn, West in Asheville. Dr.
H. F. "Cottan" Robinson
from Purdue University will
deliver the morning address
Buffet lunch will be ser
ved, and the afternoon ses
sion will include Dr. Ralph
McCracken, Assistant Dir
ector of Research at North
Carolina State University, as
speaker, a business meeting,
and a panel of specialists to
discuss problems and answer
questions from the audience.
All Trellised Tomato
Growers in the area are in
vited to attend this meeting.
Transportation will be avail
able leaving from the court
house in Burnsville at 8:00
a. m., or the county build -
ing in Bakeisville at 8:00
a. m. Groweß should call
their county Extension Office
if they would like to attend.
Seniors
Stage
Dinner
Photos and Story
by Jody Higgins
Tuesday, the halls of
East Yancey High School were
filled with the aroma of fine
cooking. The aroma came
from the classroom of Mb.
Kate Zuver, where she and
her 4th period senior geogra
phy class held an Internation
al Dinner.
The students worked hard
to prepare foods from other
countries to broaden their
knowledge of international
cuisine and of the different
places they are studying in
geography class this year.
The luncheon consisted
of salami, pizza, taco pie,
shrimp with butter sauce,
assorted cheeses, smoked
clams, goose liver, beef and
pork fondue, french bread,
German chocolate cake, figs
and other international foods.
While Mrs. Zuver and her
class were enjoying their
lunch, another East Yancey
teacher, Mr. Kenny Sparks,
was attracted to the class
room by the aroma of good
food. After filling his plate
a third time, Mr. Sparks
said the food was "De-scrunp
tious", and suggested thst
the class have another inter
national luncheon next year.
After eating most of the left
overs, Mr. Sparks was said
to have complained,"! can't
believe I ate that whole
thing."
Employers
At Meeting
Yancey County employers
were invited to a meeting
Tuesday, February 1, at the
courthouse in Burnsville .The
meeting was organized for
the benefit of employers, but
items disctssed could bene
fit the total community.
The first speaker was Mr.
Ned A. Thompson, Industri
al Representative for Gerber
Products Co. Mr. Thomp -
son introduced a Child Care
proposal whereby an indus
try can provide a building
plus upkeep and Gerber will
provide a Comprehensive -
Educational Day Care Cen
ter. For a price compar -
able to baby sitting fees in
the area, mothers could send
their children to a center
with a well-balanced prog
ram and trained supervision
According to Mr, Thompson
he would recommend that
a town such as Burnsville
combine the efforts of indus
try and community.
The second speaker was
Mr. Paul English, Director
of Adult Education for the
Mayland Technical Institute,
Mr. English presented the
group with a list of curricu -
lum Mayland Tech can pro
vide for industry employees.
The two courses he elabora -
ted on were Supervisory De
velopment Training and
Multimedia Training on
Health and Safety.
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V0L.36, N 0.6
Yancey Coordinating Council Wins
Unanimous Vote For Incorporation
Major strides were taken
last Friday at a meeting at
the Courthouse toward or
ganizing a Yancey County
Council for the coordinating
of the numerous proposals,
projects and programs con
tinually under consideration
for the betterment of Yinoey
County.
After considerable dis
cussion, a voice vote unani
mously approved a motion
to proceed with the forma -
tion and incorporation of
the proposed county council.
No one voted against the
motion. About 30 people
attended the meeting at
which Rev. Don Elly served
as chairman. All these
Who participated in the dis
cussion favored the new
council.
Bob Helmle based his
support of the council aithe
fact that it would provide
better control by Yancey
citizens of the many projects
and programs which so im -
portantly affect the county.
The present vogue for re
gionalism favor.td by the
Raleigh and Washington Bu-
Plan Fair,
Jamboree
At the monthly meeting
of the Yancey County Cham
ber of Commerce in January,
the dates were planned for
the sixteenth annual M t.
Mitchell Crafts Fair to be
held on the Town Square, Fri
day and Saturday, August 4
and 5, and for the fifth an
nual Yancey Youth Jamboree
to be staged at East Yancey
High School on Thursday and
Friday nights, August 3and4.
In regard to the Crafts
Fair, the craftsmen who dis
play and sell at the two-day
event should begin now to
plan to have their crafts
ready for an occasion which
is looked forward to from
year to year. Once again,
there will be entertainment,
and barbecued chicken will
be sold on Saturday.
Concerning the Yancey
Youth Jamboree, students en
rolled in the public schools
of Yancey County will be
displaying their talents agrin
in the traditional mountain
folk music, singing, and
dancing.
At the annual Yancey
County Chamber of Com
merce Dinner this springy
two $200.00 Yancey Youth
Jamboree Scholarships will
be awarded to a senior at
each of the two county high
schools.
Files For
Candidacy
I, Clarence Wheeler,lave
filed as a candidate for a
member of the Board of Com
missioners of Yancey Count#
with the Board of Elections
of Yancey County, subject
to the forthcoming Democra
tic Primary.
If nominated and elected
I pledge myself to work for
the best interest of all the
people of Yancey County.
Your work and support
will be highly appreciated.
—Clarence Wheeler.
reaucrats, he said, was ten
ding to deprive citizens at
the county level of effec -
five control.
At present, he stated,
Yancey County is involved
in at least eleven regional
agencies, some of whose
functions overlap. With
this complex situation in
volving duplication of ef
fort, failure of communica
tion, jealousy between the
agencies, and failure of
local board members to at
tend meetings and thus de
priving themselves of effec
tive control, there exists an
important need for a coordi
nating council. A council
can give assurance that
Yancey County's needs are
not overlooked.
Reverend Paul Woodall,
who has been outstanding in
Avery County community
affairs, reviewed the rea
sons Avery lias undertaken
FBE Announces Massive
Improvement Plan
French Broad Electric Membership Corporation to
day announced an electric system improvement plan
totaling more than $l.B million. French Broad EMC
presently serves more than 15,300 families, businesses
and industries in five counties of Western North Caro
lina and Eastern Tennessee, and is the major electric
utility in the area north of Asheville to Erwin and New
port, Tennessee.
This large investment in new electric facilities will
be required to continue to provide increasing service to
the present member-owners, and to extend service to
over 1500 new members expected during the next two
years. Some of the larger electric loads already under
construction which the electric cooperative will serve
include the new Madison County Shopping Plaza, the
Marshall Housing Authority and the new Madison Coun
ty Consolidated High School. These are all in MarsMl
and are all total electric projects. The expansion of
Mohasco Industries at Burnsville, plus a rapidly expan
ding overall economic base in Yancey County will re
quire the cooperative to invest large sums over tfe next
few months.
The development of the Wolf Laurel project near
Man Hill, bit covering a several thousand acre tract
in Madison, Yancey and Unicoi Counties, will require
the cooperative to continue to provide rapidly expan -
ding electric service in this region.
From the northern suburbs of Asheville throughout
the entire service area of French Broad EMC, the elec
tric service requirements of the member-owners is
growing at a record pace. The overall electric system
wide load of the cooperative will grow by at least 33%
in the next two yean. Hundreds of miles of new lines
will have to be constructed, many of these completely
underground. Service will continue to be increased to
all members of the cooperative in every area of the
system. Several hundred thousand dollars will be in
vested in more and better equipment to increase the
regulation of voltage and provide sections 11 zing to re
duce the effects of storm damage to electric service.
French Broad EMC is proud of the record of electric
power service made during 1971. The number of mem
ber hours without electric service was one of the lovrest
in the entire nation.
A part of the cooperative's new system improve trait
plan includes modernization of office facilities in Mar
shall and Burnsville in 1972 and in Bakersville in 197*3,
to provide better service to the members and the public.
Even though the Cooperative serves a geographic re
gion with a low per capita income, and low per mem
ber electric usage, and less than half the revenue per
dollar invested in plant than the private power compan
ies, French Broad EMC still provides electric service
at LOWER rates in all classes of service than other pow
er companies, from minimum billing to the largest In
dus tri a 1 accounts.
The credit tor the success of the past for
French Broad EMC must be given to the directors elec
ted from the members, and the members themselves
who over thirty years ago banned together out of neces
sity to form an electric service system.
The management of the Cooperative today is pleas
ed to announce the planned expansion of the Coopera -
tive's service and operations by better than $l.B million.
This will enable the Cooperative to continue to provide
for tomorrow the needs of the member-owners of French
Broad Electric Membership Corporation.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1972
the incorporation of a coun
cil similar to the one pro
posed in Yancey. He spoke
with feeling of the complex
ity of the many agencies,
the interminable succession
of meetings, and the fre
quent failure Os communica
tion. His endosement of
county councils as a step
toward simplification, effi
ciency and better control at
the local level, was whole
hearted.
Woodall answered some
of the criticism leveled at
the county council idea. Cri
tics have charged that it is
a step toward relinquishing
control to "outsiders". Quite
the opposite is true, he said.
The idea of councils is to
keep a reasonable measure
of control at the grass-roots
level, and curb the growing
control by "outside"bureau
crats.
Anti-Smoking Fortos
Launch New Attack
By Senator B. Everett Jordan (D-NC)
WASHINGTON—Anti-smoking forces in the govern
ment and on Capitol Hill have launched a new attack
on the tobacco industry.
And this time they are broadening their target to in
clude users as well as manufacturers and advertisers of
tobacco products.
The assault was opened last week in hearings staged
by the Senate Commerce Consumer Subcommittee,
chaired by Senator Frank Moss of Utah, a long-time foe
of the leaf industry, with an immediate indication that
the goal will be an imposition of further restrictions on
the tobacco trade.
The proposal being used as a focal point for the
hearings is a bill (S. 1454) which would give the Feder
al Trade Commission authority to set arbitrary cigar -
ette quality standards.
Even before the hearings opened, however, chair
man Moss made it clear he has other targets in mind
as well.
One would be the consideration of legislation re -
striding smoking in public places and on interstate
transportation facilities.
Another would be an effort to expand the Cigarette
Smoking Ad of 1969 to include little cigars such as
the R. J. Reynolds new Winchester brand.
And, finally, the plan would call for additional
pressure on the broadcast industry to increase the num
ber of anti-smoking commercials despite the ban on
radio and television advertising of cigarettes.
I consider these proposals unwarranted, excessive
and a serious threat to North Carolina's agricultural and
industrial economy and to the broadcast industry lfi the
state.
For that reason I expressed my strong opposition to
them in testimony before the subcommittee on the first
day of the hearings and will continue to oppose them
with all the resources at my command. In closing
my testimony I w amed against adoption of hasty, ill
conceived measures that could irreparably damage a
major industry and its people.
Candidates File Far Sthool
Beard, Caanty Commission
Democrats TroyG.Boone
and Clarence Wheeler have
filed as candidates for the
Board of Commissioners of
Yancey County, subject to
the forthcoming primary.
Filing as candidates for
the Yancey County Board of
Education, subject to the
Democratic Primary, are
Ralph Silver, Carter
Albert Edwards and Mark W.
Bennett from District 2.
Claude Vess has filed as
candidate fer the Board of
Education subject to the Re-
Notice
Yancey County Board of
Education will meet Friday
night at 7i30 at the Superin
tendent's office.
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BURNSVILLE DRIVE-IN NOW OPEN—Joe Crisp, owner
operator of Burnsville’s newest eating place, announces
hours from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekdays and from 12:30 un
til 9 p.m. on Sundays. Serving Dinner Specials,. Short
Orders, Plate Lunches, and Sandwiches. Curb Service is
available. Phone 682-6168.
10 e
publican Primary, from Dis
trict I.
Another Democratic can
didate for the School Board,
William Hes, filed last
week, issuing a nine-point
plan to make clear his posi
tion on vital issues.
Woman’s Clab
meeting Set
The Woman's Chib will
hold its regular meeting on
Thursday, February 10 at
8:00 p. m. at the Communi
ty Building. Mrs. Ernest
Briggs will be the program
leader tor the evening. Hos
tesses will be Mrs. Margaret
Tyner, Mrs. Tessa Swinkarxl
Miss Annie Hassell.
The public is invttgd.