TOP COOKIE SALES GIRLS—As Girl Scout cookies were delivered throughout the county
it was determined that Wnnda Young (1.) of Troop 88 was the leading sales girl in Yancey
County, having sold 227 boxes of cookies. Alicia Yelton (r.), daughter of Kathy and James
Lee, was second, selling 199 boxes for Troop 86. Debbie Horton (center) of Troop 65,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Horton, was third in sales with 120 boxes of cookies.
Army Reserve Recruiting Campaign
Announced By Unit Commander Tedder
An Intensive Recruiting
Campaign designed to enlist
men in Company E, 1/518 Re
giment, local Army Reserve
Unit, was announced today
by 1 It. Ronald M. Tedder
Unit Commander.
Company E, 1/518 Regi
ment, which trains at Orchtrd
Ave. , Burnsville, has open -
ings in the fields of Adminis -
tration and Training.
Men recruited will enter
the Reserve under the Reserve
Enlistment Program which is
based on PL 88-110, 3 Sept.
1963. Under this program,
qualified men between ages
17 and 26 are offered the op
portunity to fulfill their Mili
tary Obligation by enlisting
in the Army Reserve for a per
iod of six years.
Each man will be interview
ed concerning his desire to be
assigned to a specific opening
in the unit. He will then be
given tests to determine his
aptitude to learn the skills re
quired to fill the vacancy.
After passing these tests t!v
enlistee will go on active duty
training for the specific job
for which he enlists.
Each man will know, in
advance of enlisting, exactly
the job he will do in the Re
serve and the length of active
duty time required for the spe
cific job learning.
Kenny Deyton
Stout Will
Get Award
Next Tuesday night Kenny
Deyton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Prank Deyton of Burnsville,
will receive the Eagle Scout
Award. Kenny will be the se
cond boy in Yancey Comity
to ever receive this high hon
or. The award will be pre
sented by Mr. Paul Wi 1 lis,
District Scout Council Chair
man, of Spruce Pine.
Kenny, a senior at East
Yancey High School, has been
very outstanding in his scout
ing activities. He has served
as Patrol Leader, Assistant
Senior Patrol Leader and Sen
ior Patrol Leader. He has re
ceived the 50 miler award,
Junior Chaplin Certificate,
Junior Leader Training Certi
ficate and was recently selec
ted by the Troop Committee
to go to Philmont Scout Ranch
in New Mexico.
Under normal circumstan -
ces the man will leave for
active duty within 180 days
after enlisting in the unit.
Lt. Tedder explained that
after the man completes "lis
active duty training he will
return to Burnsville and con
tinue his training with Com
pany E, 1/518 Regiment.
The local unit meets every
month at The Reserve Center,
Ochard St., Burnsville and
participates in a yearly two
week summer training period
at a military installation.
In discussing the Army Re
serve Program, Lt. Tedder
pointed out several distinct
advantages for a young man.
First, he is able to complete
his military obligation in or
near his home, allowing him
County Council To Meet,
Consider County Problems
The recently formed Yan
cey Country' Council will meet
on Monday, March 13,at 3:30
p.m. in Room 301 in the
Courthouse.
The new organization is
designed to serve as a clearing
house of information and as a
coordinating agency for the
promotion of progress in Yan
cey County. Supporters of
the council claim that it will
give the citizens of the county
a more effective voice rela
tive to projects and programs
affecting the county.
Officers of the Council
have pointed out that the in
corporation papers and bylaws
give the organization much
flexibility, and that in its
operation the guiding purpose
will be to serve where it can
be most useful. In discussicns
relative to forming the coun
cil the view has repeatedly
been expressed that in view
of the trend toward multi
county regionalization o f
agencies and programs there
is an important place for a
council that can view nutters
Producer Meet
The Yancey County Pro
ducers Association's annual
meeting will be at the Court
hoise Monday, March 13 at
7:30 p. m.
1971 was a good tomato
year. All interested growers
are invited to the meeting.
Drama Set
There will be a sacred dra
ma, "I Dreamed I Searched
Heaven For You", presented
at the Valley Forge Free Will
Baptist Church, Route l,Eli
zabethton, Tennessee Satur
day night, March 11 at 7p,m,
according to pastor,Rev.Hok
Herrell. Everyone is invited
to attend.
to pursue his civilian occupa
tion or education without seri
ous interruption. Secondly,he
will enlist and be trained in
the job vacancy of his choice
which may open new fields of
civilian employment for him.
In addition, tire Reservist may
earn extra income while serv
ing with friends from his own
community. Men in the
Burnsville area, Spruce Pine,
Bakersville, Mars Hill and
Marshall area interested in ful
filling their military obliga -
tion under this program should
contact Lt. Ronald Tedder,
P.0.80x 453-T, Mars Hill,
N.C./ Phone 689-3530; or
ISG Arnold Higgins, P.0.80x
402, Burnsville, N.C J Phone
682-2122 for detailed infor -
mat ion.
from the Yancey County point
of view.
Previous meetings have
largely been devoted to or -
ganization matters, including
incorporation, adaption of
bylaws and election of offi
cers. With these formalities
largely completed, the meet
ing on Monday is expected
to get down to the considera
tion of county problems. All
interested citizens are invited
to attend.
All-Conference
Teams Chosen
Monday night, February 28,
1972, the coaches of the Blue
Ridge Conference elected the
members of the all conference
basketball teams at Bucks
Restaurant in Asheville. The
following is a list of the all
conference teams:
Boys: Gary Early of Tryon,
Albert Booker, Tryon, Ronnie
McKinney of Harris, Terry
McMahan of Harris, Jimmy
Miller of Bowman, John Craig
of Bowman, Stew art Holcanbe
of Cane River, Keith Webb
of Cane River, Rickie Harris
of Polk Central, Bobo Waters
of Edneyville and Jim Norris
of East Yancey.
Girls: Kathy Griffith of East
Yancey, Sandy Ray of East
Yancey, Shelia Parker of East
Yancey, Vickie Pryor of Ed
neyville, Sharon Pryor of Ed
neyville, Freda Sheehan of
Polk Central, Janice Calloway
of Harris, Ester Wilkins of
Tryon, Pennie Street,Bowman.
Notice
The White Oak Creek Com
munity is having their first
meeting of the year Monday,
March 13th at 7:30 p. m. The
meeting will be at the Commu
nity Building. Pat Guyer will
show the film, "Trouble With
Trash."
BURNSVILLE,NORTHCAROLINA
Vol. 38, No. 10
EHT ♦ IE
Deborah Edwards
Yancey High School Students Selected
As Outstanding Teenagers Os America
By Cfeborah Grindstaff
Three students from Cane
River High School have been
selected as Outstanding Teen
agers of America for 1972, ac
cording to Cara Cox, princi
pal at Cane River.
Selected for the Outsland - *
ing Teenagers Awards Program
automatically qualifies these
students for further state, re
gional and national lionors and
scholarships totaling SI,OOO.
local nominees are Marie
Maney, Deborah Edwards aid
John Renfro.
Marie is the daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Beryl Maney, Roue
3, Burnsville. She is a risin;
senior at Cane River. Sh:
participates in Beta Club,Gle
Club, Monogram Club, Pe]
Club, and is a member of th
school newspaper staff and
cheerleading squad.
Deborah is the daughter o
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Ed
wards of Route 3, Burnsville.
She is a rising senior at Cam
River and participates in Beti
Club, Glee Club, Monogran
Club, Pep Club and is a men
ber of the cheerleading squae.
John is the son of Mr, anl
Mrs. Joe Renfro of Route 3,
Burnsville. He is a senior at
Cane River and participates in
Beta Club, Science Club, Stu
dent Council, French Club: ,
Pep Club, and is a memberof
the annual staff and school
newspaper staff.
★
East Yancey High School
students have been selected as
Outstanding Teenagers of Amer
ica for 1972, according to Mr.
Woodrow Anglin, principal.
Selection for the Outstand
ing Teenagers awards program
automatically qualifies these
students for further state, re-
Women’s Club
To Meet
"It Takes More Than Coco
nut Cake", an entertaining
and informative filmstrip,will
be shown at the regular meet
ing of the Burnsville Woman's
Club on Thursday, March 9,
at 8:00 p. m. at the Commu -
nity Building. Program leaders
are Mrs. James Ray and Mrs.
W. A. Y. Sargent. Hostesses
will be Mb. George Roberts,
Mrs. E. L. Dillingham, and
Mrs. Sarah Barbee.
The public is invited.
H W^~
John Renfro
gional, and national honors
and scholarships totaling $7
thousand. Ixyral nominees are:
Janice Hunter, Ernest Howard,
Charles Boone and Catherine
Deyton.
Nominated by their pirinci -
pals, the Outstanding Teenagers
of America are chosen from
individual schools across the
country for excellence in com
munity service and academic
achievement. The local stu
dents will now vie for the Out
standing Teenager of the Year
Trophy to be presented by the
state's governor. Similar
trophies will be presented to
winners in other states. The
state winners are selected by
the Outstanding Teenager
Awards Selection Committee,
in cooperation with the Board
of Advisors.
The 50 state winners will
be eligible for awards totaling
$7,000. One boy and one
girl will be chosen for nation
al scholarships of SI,OOO each
to be used at the college or
To Coordinate Campaign
John W. Gils trap, assistant
to the president of Asheville
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
has been named coordinator
for the 18 county western area
for a North Clean Sweep Cam
paign planned lor May,by the
Governor's Beautification Com
mittee.
The Agricultural Coun c i 1,
along with other area develop
ment associations in the state,
will be assisting the Governor!!
Beautification Committee with
the statewide clean-up effort.
In each of the state's 100
counties, the N. C. Agricul -
tural Extension Service has
tamed a County Beautificatiai
Coordinator and an Extension
liaison Agent. The coordina -
tors will work with local beau
tification organizations, civic
and garden clubs, youthgoups
and rural community clubs in
carrying out the clean sweep
program in each county.
Mrs. Eloise Briggs, Burns
ville, is the Yancey County
coordinator for the Governor's
Beautification Committee and
W. C. Bledsoe, Burnsville, is
the Extension liaison Agent.
A special committee of tte
Governor's Beautification Gom
tiittee has been named to
sjiearhead the campaign for
tile state. *
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1972
PI _ v P
Marie Maney
university of their choice.
Ten regional winners will also
be selected from the remain -
ing state winners to receive
SSOO regional scholarships.
In recognizing the special
talents of these Outstanding
Teenagers, former Secretary
of the Interior Walter J. Hie -
kel said, "I congratulate you
. . you have been recognized
for what you did yesterday and
what you are today. "
These
also have the "opportunity to
become great national laid ‘is
and doers," President Nixon
said in a congratulatory mess
age to the nominees.
Under the guidance of the
Board of Advisors, the Out
standing Teenagers of Ameri
ca program was created in
1967 to encourage young peo
ple to take full advantage of
the opportunities in our coun -
try. The awards are presen
ted each spring, and biogra -
phies of all those honored are
recorded in an annual volume.
Further details of the cleai
sweep drive are expected to
be announced at a meeting
of the coordinators for the 18
western counties at a meeting
in mid-March.
Director
Jim Mallory will become
the Director of Occupational
Education at Mayland Tech,
on Monday, March 20. In
this position he will be in
charge of all full-time curri
cula and the faculty who will
instruct in them,
Mr. Mallory will come to
Mayland Tech, from Guilford
Technical Institute where he
has served two yeais as Direc
tor of Evening Programs.
Before assuming his duties
at Guilford Tech., Mr, Mal
lory was Dean of Men at Lees
Mcßae College, Banner Elk.
Mr. Mallory is a graduate
of St. Leo College Preparatory
School, St. Leo, Florida, the
Memphis State University,
BBA degree, Memphis, Tenn,
and Appalachian State Univ.,
MA degree, Boone,N.C,
Mr. Mallory said in an in
terview, "I believe in Voca
tional Technical education
and intend to do all that is in
my power to promote it. "
Chamber of Commerce
To Discuss ’Facelift’
♦
The Yancey County Cham
ber of Commerce will hold its
regular monthly meeting to
night at 7:30 at the Court
house. Claude Vess, presi
dent of the Chamber of Com -
merce said this meeting will
be of special interest to local
businessmen and invites all
merchants and interested citi
zens to attend. Speakers will
include a representative of
TVA and a architect who will
discuss facelift plans for the
downtown Burnsville’ area.
The Chamber of Corrmcrce
will discuss the proposed face
lift plan which could help bus
inesses on Main Street flourish
despite the rapid business de
velopment taking place on the
By Pass. The plan would in
volve refacing the present
structures in one style of arch
itecture.
It has been suggested that
the appropriate period for
Burnsville seems to be from
around 1840 to 1900. There
are already several buildings
on the square that blend in
with this period: the new
county courthouse, the new
Meeting
Mrs. Ruth Penn will be
guest speaker for the next
meeting of the Mental Health
Association to be held at the
Amber jack Restaurant at 12
noon on March 14. All inter
ested persons are invited.
Bee Log 4-H
Bee Log 4-H Club will hold
their meeting after school on
Monday, March 13 at the Bee
Log School.
f
; il OF ECOLOGY *,
i i This is the first of a series on Facts From Our 3 1
( ' Environment taken from the fall, 1971 issue of the -f '
( t Better Crops Magazine. This series is designed to
< 1 help people better understand the role of agricul - » )
ture in our environment and correct some of the
{ , myths associated with the business of farming. 1 |
( > We are a searching generation. We search for <g 1
peace. We search for economic stability. We
( , search for solutions to crime and drug abuse, to X ,
< 1 pornography and pollution, and in the quest, we • 1
bicker much and agree little.
( , We want to "return to nature" and at the same * ,
<> time to heap our table with the most nutritious, f 1 ■
convenient food man has yet known. And we want
« > to eat it in air conditioned comfort while two can X r
I > wait our bidding in the carport. #
( ( To endure such pleasures, we allegedly take
( > more pills than any previous generation. The cur
'' rent headache is pollution. In recent months,
O 4 <
i , American agriculture has been called to the stand.
II We, associated with Soil and Water Conservation, Xl
have long been convinced that land must be used
{ , to serve man, not abused nor preserved nor coddled I,
< > to destroy him.
Fact No. It An acre of com producing 100 bu.
~ grain removes 7-8 tons of carbon dioxide and adds
<> 5-7 tons of oxygen to our atmosphere— enou g h »
oxygen to keep 12 people breathing for a year. If
X the com is fertilized to get 150 bu. per acre, you „
♦ can add 2-4 more tone of oxygen and 6 more peo
ple for a year.
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and old bank buildings, the
Country Store, Nu Wray Inn,
and the old county courthouse.
Tonight the Chamber of
Commerce will discuss the
possibilities of starting such a
project and exactly what would
be involved. Discission will
include what the merchants
can do, and what funds might
be available for this type of
project.
Burnsville, because it has
been placed in an area of
great natural beauty, has a
chance to act constructively,
and creatively and give nety
life to the downtown area..
Many towns have undertaken
facelift projects, and the re
sponse has been overwhelming
in increased urban spending,
increased tourist buying, and
pride of the townspeople ito
tlair town.
Supper Set
Do your Girl Scout good
deed on Sunday, March 12th,
National Girl Scout Sunday!
The Burnsville Senior Girl
Scouts ask your support of
their Senior Scout Spaghetti
Dinner being served on this
Sunday from 12:12 to li3o
p. m. in the Fellowship Hall
of Higgins Memorial Metho
dist Church.
Although tickets may be
purchased at the door, if pos
sible, the Senior Scouts ask
that you purchase your ticktfs
prior to this Sunday from any
Senior Girl Scout (call Janice
Hunter, Senior Scout Presided
at 682-3113).
Price of tickets range as
follows: Adults $1.50, Stu
dents SI.OO and pre - school
children 50<t. Support a
worthy organization!