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(I. to r.) Carlyle Bledsoe, Herbert Allen, Frank Deyton, Ned Jestes, and Mack Ray
Burnsville Men’s Club Installs New
Officers At Ladies Night Banquet
The Burnsville Men'* Club
installed new officers for the
coming year at the club's an
nual ladies night banquet held
last Monday at the newly re
modeled Community Building.
Seventy memben, wives and
guests attended the affair.
Herbert Allen assumes the
office of president; Carlyle
Bledsoe is the new vice-presi
dent, and Frank Deyton takes
over as secretary-treasurer
from Ned Jestes who has filled
that office for the past 2 years.
Mack B. Ray, retiring pre
sident, in his farewell re marks
stressed the important role of
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the Men's Club in serving the
interests of Yancey County,
and reviewed the several pro
jects to which the club has lent
its support. A standing ova
tion was given Ray in appro -
ciation for his outstanding ser
vice as president for the past
two years.
Herb Allen, in his inaugu
ral remarls gave assurance that
the club's record of good work
will be continued.
Entertainment for the even
ing was furnished by Margaret
Tyner who gave a comic por
trayal of a lady dispensing ad
vice on polite social manners.
Supper was served by the Wo
men's Society of Martins Cha
pel Methodist Church,Newdale.
The meal added to the already
high reputation achieved by
these ladies in furnishing meals
for the club.
The banquet was the first
affair held in the Community
Building following its major
remodeling. Admiration was
widely expressed for the hand
some Job of improving the in
terior, undertaken as a vocation
al training project by students
of the Cane River High School
under the supervision of Jack
Buckner, instructor in carpen
try.
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Yancey School
Schedule Set
Yancey County Schools will
be closed for an Easter holiday
on Monday, April 3. The
schedule tor the remainder of
the year has high school gradu
ation exercises scheduled for
Saturday, May 20, Wednesday,
May 24, will be the last day
of school for all students.
Teachers will complete
their work on May 26, but the
principals will be on duty un
til June 13. There will be no
make-up days on Saturdaythis
year since only seven days of
school were lost because of
snow.
Extension
Gets Grant
The Yancey County Exten -
sion office in cooperation with
the Tennessee Valley Authority,
has received a $1,000.00 grant
for a "Hash for Kids" vegetable
project.
The emphasis of the project
will be on trellised tomatoes
which has proven to be a very
high income per acre cropwith
little cash investment.
The purpose of the project
is to assist and promote youth
in the production of vegetable
crops and to provide summer
employment.
Terms for the tomato pro
ject allow for 6090 of the cost
of production or approximately
S3O. per 1/10 acre for youth
18 yearn of age or under.
For further information con
tact the County Extension Of
fice in Burnsville.
Easter
Service
The young people of the
First Presbyterian, First Baptist,
and Higgins Memorial Metho -
dist Churches will be in charge
of the annual Easter Sunrise
Service, The service will con
sist of traditional hymns, con
temporary music, Easter scrip
tures, and slides from the Holy
Land.
A combined choir and solo
ists will present special music.
Reverend Harold McDonald
will be in charge of the slide
presentation.
Following the service, a
breakfast for the youth—sev -
enth through twelfth grades—
will be served in the Fellow -
ship Hall of the Higgins Mem
orial Methodist Church. Adults
and children will be served a
snack breakfast in the Fellow
ship Hall of the First Baptist
C hurch.
The service, to be held in
the sanctuary of the First Bap
tist Ciiurch, will begin about
6:15 a. m. The planning com
mittee encourages both youth
and adults to attend.
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WINS FIRST PLACE
Cynthia Ann Whitson, nine
year old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Sherwood Whitson of
Burnsville, won First Place
in the Special Beginner-
Best Appearing catagory in
the Southeastern Regional
Contest of Drum Majorettes
of America. The contest
was held in Charlotte.
THURSDAY, MARCH 30,1972
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SPRING SNOWFALL—Spring, and this hillside of daffodils experienced a rude intrusion of
winter weather over the week-end. Snow began falling early Saturday morning and continued
most of the day, blanketing Western North Carolina and pushing temperatures down in the
’teens.
Cane River High School Students
To Help In Six-State Project
Thirty-five students from
Cane River High School Science
Club will be participating din
ing the week of April 6-13 in
a six-state research project
that should provide much use
ful information to environmen
tal researchers who are study
ing new methods for solid
waste disposal and managonoit.
The project, named WASTE
(Waste Assessment and Stucknt
Training Experiment), is being
conducted by the Cooperative
Science Education Center in
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the
states of Alabama, Georgia,
Kentucky, Mississippi, North
Carolina, and Tennessee,
This is the second exten -
sive public participant pro
gran conducted by the CSEC,
under a subcontract with the
Oak Ridge National Labora -
tory, and with funding horn
the National Science Founda
tion under the RANN ( Re -
search Applied to National
Needs) program. Recently,
the CSEC completed analy -
zing data from an air quality
experiment that involved
25,000 Tennessee highschool
students, teachers and parents.
In Project WASTE, the
approximately 100,000 parti
cipants will be asked to col
lect the trash and garbage at
their home for one week and
to separate it into the various
components such as paper,
glass, plastic, metal, etc.
They will weigh and record
the amount of each compon
ent. The recorded weights
and other pertinent data will
be sent to the CSEC for com
puter analysis and interpreta
tion.
The feasibility of recycling
familial solid waste is depen
dent on the percentages of
recycleable material that are
present. While the content
of industrial waste is fairly uni
form and such percentages can
be projected, home waste ap
pears to be highly variable
from region to region and frcm
home to home. Therefore,this
study should provide valuable
Yancey Farmers To Vote In
Pork Referendum April sth
Mr. J. V. Jones,chairman
of the Pork Producers Referen
dum Committee for Yancey
County, wishes to remind pork
producers of their referendum
on Wednesday, April 5, 1972.
Pork producers are asked to
vote on a 6 year continuation
of their $.05 cents per head
assessment on market hogs to
finance a program of promo -
tfon, education, and research.
North Carolina had the first
successful pork producers or
ganization with a program to
promote pork and work in the
interest of producers. This
Association was organized by
producers because they felt
that hog farmers needed a
representative organization. It
is controlled by pork producers
through a Board of Directors
elected by producers and fi
nanced by producers through
this assessment program to
work on behalf of producers
wherever their interest is at
stake.
The outstanding program
of promotion carried on by
:io c
data for the researchers, ft can
be of much help in finding ac
ceptable techniques for deal
ing with the ever increasing
amounts of tnsh and gaibage.
The final results of the stu
dy will be made available to
the scientist as well as the at
tentive public. Each partici
pating school will also be pro
vided copies of all reports
derived from the study.
the Board of Directors through
the Association office in Ra
leigh has focused the atten
tion of pork producers nation
wide on the need for a repre
sentative organization. It has
helped stimulate the develop
ment of a strong national
pork producers council. The
council is developing a na
tional program to keep pork
before the people and involve
itself in programs of interest
to producers. Ballots will be
available at the polling placet
on April sth.
Club To Meet
The Cane River Booster
Club will meet Thursday, the
6th of April at 7s 30 p. m. at
the High School. Members of'
the Booster Club especially
invite all parents of
freshmen to attend this meet
ing.
All it takes to be a mem
ber of the Club is a willingness *
to work.
Come out and help support ■
your school!
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