VOL.I, N 0.32
Local, State And National Election Returns
UNOFFICIAL RETURNS
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President;
George McGovern* • • ....*2o3¥
A Richard M. Nixon "SOO2.
Governor;
Sidpper Bowles 15T73
"A Jim Holshouser.... 1 41?
U.s. Senate;
Nick Galifianakis(D). ..... 0,5 S 7
VlTJesse Helms
U.S. Congress;
Taylor (D), .....2J03
Jesse Ledbetter(R),. .... „233&
State House of Rep:
Glenn Morris(D). 188 8
Jack Wa1ker(R).......t...|7fc2.
LT. Governor:
sfjim Hunt(D).,... I.SBH
Johnny Walker (R) JS2 ?
Secretary of State;
tfThad Eure (D) 2S^4
Grace Rohrer(R) 25&5
Halloween Pranksters
Cause Extensive Damage
By Jody Higgins
Halloween has always meant
a time of enjoyment for child
ren, but for another group it
has come to meaq a license
for destruction.
It would be difficult to es
timate the damage done each
year to private property, but
the State Highway Maintenance
Department knows all too well
how much Halloween prankstas
cost them in time and money.
Last year the damage for Yan
cey and Mitchell County to
taled nearly $3,000.
This year the Highway Dept,
was not the only one on the re
ceiving end of the damage. Ac
cording to District Sanitarian
Keith Masters, the new garbage
collection program in Yancey
and Mitchell County also suf
fered a severe blow from the
pranksters.
In Mitchell County a number
of dumpsters were pulled out
onto the road, causing one un
suspecting motorist to crash
into the trash receptacle. For
tunately, there were no injuries,
but the 1968 Ford was demolish
ed and the dumpster will have
to be replaced.
Nine dumpsters were set on
fire in Yancey County on Hallo
ween night and three were burn
ed in Mitchell County. A num
ber of these will have to be
replaced at a cost of $252 each.
"This program is 80% feder
ally funded," said Masters,"and
Jt is conceivable that these acts
would be a federal offense. If
we find anyone burning or da
maging dumpsters in any way,
they will be prosecuted to the
limit."
According & Masters,a dump
ster burned on HkJJoween night
in Mitchell County has caused
one of the two collection trucks
to be out of service.
The driver of the collection
truck, said Masters, waited un
til Saturday to empty the dump
ster into the truck thinking the
fire was out. When the driver
•aw that the garbage was begin
ning to bum in the truck, he
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THE YANCEY JOURNAL
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'pvuKenty 76e 'tyoMietf TQecvtd
started for the Booneford Land
fill. As the truck was crossing
a bridge in the Green Mountain
area, the heat caused the hy
draulic fluid to expand and open
the lid of the truck which caugxt
on the bridge. As the lid con
tinued to open, the pressure
caused the rear of the truck to
break through the bridge.
Said Masters, "Moving the
truck would cause severe dam
age to the bridge, and most
likely the vehicle would fall
through the bridge about 25 feet.
We should be ablO to move the
truck sometime this week when
the bridge is sufficiently re
paired. "
Masters explained that this
will hamper garbage collection,
with only one truck operating
in the two counties. The truck
suffered only slight damage and
repairs should not take long.
Fred Phoenix of the State
Highway Maintenance Depart -
ment estimated that Halloween
night damage will exceed last
year's total of around $3,000.
Damage last year in Mitch
ell and Yancey County included
366 signs pulled up along the
roadways. Most of the signs
were left intact and were re
placed by the Traffic Service
Dept, at a cost of $5 per sign.
Forty signs with posts were
completely destroyed and had
to be replaced at a cost of $25
each.
This year, according to Phoe
nix, approximately 25 to 35
trees were cut across state roads,
requiring two crews with chain
saws to work all night to keep
the roads safe for traffic.
Phoenix said that all High
way Department crews,' and
one crew of free labor were re
quired to clear toads and repair
damage the following day.
Traditionally, Halloween
has been a fun-filled occasion
for youngster*, but for the High
way Dept, the Health Depart -
ment and the many individuals
who were plagued with sense -
less damage this year, Hallo
ween was anything but fun.
State Treasurer;
JC Edwin Gill(D) 2*'//
Ted Conrad(R) 2SoS
State Auditor:
•JrHenry Bridges (D) ,2S
Norman Shronce(R) 2.5 17
Attomeu Generali
Morgan(D) 29%0
Nick Smith (R)
% Commissioner of Agri;
ikjim Graham (D)
Kenneth Roberson (R)i
Commissioner of Insurances
■fcjohn Ingram (D) XSCd 7
Bud Douglass 2^73
Commissioner of Labor;
A Billy Creel(D)i.
Frederick Weber(R) 2208
Sunt. of Public Instruction;
*Craig PhiUip<D) ASSO
Carl Eagle (R) SSI S’
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Burning Trash In Collection Truck Caused Severe Damage
Photos By Charles Hopson
Bridge In Green Mountain Threatens To Collapse From Pressure
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Fund-Raising Play is Success
A group of Yancey County
acton, under the direction of
Blanche Kelly, scored a thea
trical, as well as a financial
success with their benefit
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Chairman-County Comm: j
*O.W. Deyton(D) 2.BfS'
Vernon Presnell(R). ........ 05&5
Bd. Members-County Comm;
JfFrank Fox(D). 270$
James Pr0ffitt(D)...........^5^
Melvin Webb (R)... 2Si3
*Earl Young(R) ...28^
Register of Deeds;
Ayers ( D)j*. OilL
Myrle Slagle(R). ; 2.K3
School Board;
fcfcClaude Vess(R) 7^4
11. Mark Bennett (D). Jtk!T9
Albert Edwards(D).......J|fc3
Ralph Silver(D). 3.112.
Carter Thomas(D) 111 6 !
A Bill Banks (R) 2.315"
it James Gardner(R) 2flO
Tk Charles Hopson(R) 2 IPP
Wade Styles(R) 23V0
formancc of "lo And Behold"
last Saturday night.
According to Jack Kelly,
382 people attended the play,
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 9,1972
Laige Voter Turnout Sweeps Republicans
To School Board Victory In Yancey
which was presented to raise
money for the Blue Ridge Hos
pital Development Fund. Kelly
said that proceeds from the
play totaled around $485.00.
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By Carolyn Yuziuk
fa a sweeping upset that sur
prised Republicans and Demo
crats alike, voters in Yancey
County elected five new men
to the Yancey County Board of
Education. The fact that all
of the men are Republican is
in itself a tremendous change
fsr this office which until this
year has been filled by appoin
tees of the Democratic Ex ecu -
live Committee.
A large voter turnout in the
precincts, attributed to the fact
that this is a presidential elec
tion year, may also be credited
to the people's concern for
education here in Yancey Cou
nty and their desire to work in a
positive maimer for the best
school system possible. In
expressing this concern by their
vote, the citizens here have pre
sented a challenge to the new
School Board to "show us what
to can do."
The men elected to the "Yan
cey County School Board, al
though all of one political party,
have expressed their opin ion
publicly on many occasions that
members of the board should
be chosen on a non-partisan ba
sis and should work in that
manner. Now that they have
been elected to this important
Cara Cox Accepts Position
As United Fund Chairman
The Yancey United Fund
has been saved from abandon -
ment. Following an emergen
cy meeting held last week to
save the eighteen year old
organization from its earlier
failure to get organized ,a strong
working group of volunteers is
being formed. A final organi -
nation meeting will be held this
Thursday at the Cane River
High School, and the kick-off
of the campaign has been set
for the following Wednesday,
November 15.
Mrs. Cara Cox, Principal of
the Cane River High School, has
accepted the position of Cam
paign Chairman. She will be
supported by a team of forty
volunteer workers, who will co
ver the county. Mack B. Ray,
President of the Yancey County
Chamber of Commerce, Dr.
Garland Wampler, and John
Martin, past president of the
UF, have played an important
role in getting the UF organized
this year.
Faced with a previously an
nounced budget goal of $13,900,
the second largest to date, the
UF directors recognize the im
portance of having a competent
team of workers. Announce -
ment of the team membership
will be made as the campaign
begins.
The directors express them
selves as particularly pleased
to have a campaign chairman
from the school system. An
important reason for organizing
the Yancey UF in the first place
was to relieve the schools from
involvement in much of the fund
(Cont'd on page 2)
Mis Plant
Phased Oat
Glen Raven Mills will close
its Ellis Plant in Burnsville,ac
cording to an announcement
by Roger Gant, Jr. , company
president.
The operation will be phaasd
out ovep the next two months,
and the employees there ware
informed of the closing several
days ago.
The plant, which manufac
ture women's pantyhose, has
sixty employees with an annul 1
payroll of $210,000. Mr. Gant
stated that the closing is for
economic reasons, and tint the
production now being handled
at this plant will be absorbed
at the Glen Raven Plant loca -
ted in Newland, N.C.
position, it is the feeling and
heartfelt hop>e of the many
citizens who voted them into
office that the schools will be
free of politics at last.
"The school system should
be run in a businesslike manner"
says Bill Banks. He and the
other Republican candidates
united solidly behind a platform
of change and progress for the
educational system in Yancey.
Cara Cox
TWUA Union
/Hooting Sot
The T.W.U.A. will have a
meeting for all hourly paid em
ployees of Glen Raven S ilk
Mills, in Yancey Theatre, Sa
turday morning, November 11,
9:30 a. m.
The purpose of this meeting
is to discuss wage increases and
a union contract.
Yancey Voter For 73 Years
,
Samuel Sparta of Route 2, Burnsville has been a regis
tered voter In Yancey County for 73 yeas and has never
missed an election. When asked who he cast hit fist pres
idential ballot for, Mr. Sparta replied, "1 don't remember,
but he was a Republican." Spades was surprised on June 22
of this year when he received a message of congratulations
from President Richard Nixon on the occasion of hh 94th
birthday.
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They have gone on record
to say that the school board
should be a policy-making tody
which must make unbiased de
cisions based on merit rather
than race, social status or po
-1 litical affiliation.
The men, by expressing thett
favorable stand on school con
solidation, have raised the bop>e
in many Yancey Countiansthat
this issue will not be a divisive
factor in the county. Their
approval of school consolida -
tion, based on the premise that
it "can be funded without an
undue tax burden on the people
and providing conditions canto
worked out that are acceptable
to the citizens of Yancey Coun
ty, " seemed to win a vote of
acceptance at the polls which
hop>efully will carry through
when the issue comes before the
people.
to the statewide picture, for
the first time in almost three
quarters of a century a Repub -
lican Governor has bben elec
ted. Jim Holshouser, in defea
ting his opponent "Ski pp>er"
Bowles has stepiped up to the
highest office in North Carolina.
And in another close-fought
race, Republican Jesse Helms
scored a decisive victory over
Democrat Nick Galifianalds.
Across the county, state and
nation voters have reacted
strongly to the ideals and prin
cipals in which they believe.
In many instances this has meant
giving up their political affilia
tion to vote for the man, rather
than the party, and this is not
done without an inner struggle.
To the winners go not only the
laurel wreaths of victory, but
a challenge from the voters to
live up to the high standards
and the high hopes of people
who are depending on them.