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Students Achieve Dean’s List
A total of 1,961 students
earned fall quarter academic
honors and have been placed on
the Dean's list at Appalachian
State University.
To qualify for the honor, a
student must maintain a B aver
age on at least 12 quarter hours
of work with no grade below C.
The list of honor students
from Yancey County includes
Clara lean Blareerstaff. Burns
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Christmas Trees From Yancey County ~
Thousands of Christmas trees produced by Yancey farmers have been shipped to various
eastern states to make a more enjoyable holiday season. Trees produced in this county are
of prime quality for beauty and needle retention. The most popular tree is the Fraser Fir.
Seedling trees are set in the springtime at 6ftx 6ft spacing. Careful attention to weed
control, fertility and shaping results in a beautiful tree 8 to 10 years later. Yancey produ -
cers are finding Christmas tree production a profitable business, and are expanding their
production. Photo shows N. C. State Forestry specialist, Fred Whitfield, looking over trees
1 with Mr. Carl Autrey.
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THE YANCEY JOURNAL
ville, a sophomore; Alice Tho
mas Chatmon, Route 2,a junior;
Janice Gail Hunter, Burnsville,
a freshman; Marilyn Ruth
Laughrun, Burnsville,a sopho
more; James A. Norris, Route
2, a freshman; Mona Lisa
Chandler Roy, Boone, a senior;
Diana Lynne Styles, Route 2,
a sophomore; Rebecca Thomas,
Route 2, a junior; Janice Lelan
Young, Route 2, a freshman.
Environmental Clean-Up
Poses Complex Problem i
By Wes Lefler
Cleaning up our environ
ment is a complex problem
complex in fact that environ
mental do-gooders are being
urged to do nothing until they
kndw exactly what to do and
how to go about it.
Dr, Daniel A, Okun,one
of the nation's most bitter cri
tics of environmental pollu
tion, even cautions fledgling
environmentalists against eli
minating one hazard only to
replace it With another that
may be more serious.
"Virtually every human ac
tivity has a potential for a harm
ful impact on the quality of
every facet of the environ -
ment," Dr. Okun says. In order
to choose a proper course of ac
tion in the light against environ
mental pollution we must first
educate ourselves—a function
of the University in our society
—and then we must organize
ourselves for action.
The latter role can be car
ried out by community groups,
regional committees’or state
organizations. The newest ef
fort is a statewide program,be
ing organized at the local level,
r > by North Carolina Jaycees who
> plan to spearhead an attack on
environmental pollution.
It is not uncommon, Dr.
Okun says, for some types of
pollution to go unnoticed. Every
> one knows about industrial pol
lution of our streams, the need
> to clean up sewer treatment fa
-1 cilities and the need to clean
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up our sources of water supply. J
But what about some of the less |
, well-known problem areas?
Construction is a good cram*
pie. In the name of progress, !
construction across the nation „
continues relentlessly—homes,
j.. factories, highways, commer - |
cial centers, he says. And yet |
the sediment runoff in these J
areas is some 200 tons per aero |
per year, about three inches an-1
nually. This runoff is 10 -fold
, greater than from forest.
With construction goes the >
downstream impact of SISOO per t
acre in damages to water supply,
fishing, boating and aesthetic j
values—not to mention its con-
tribution to floods and drought,
prodigious amounts of solid
wastes and attendant increased
noise andjdust.
Private transportation, con
sidered vital to all of us,is not
without its serious environment
al pollutants, Dr. Okun says.
Exhaust emissions into the air
account for 60 percent of all g
air pollution, and it is rising, f
monoxide emitted is from pri
vate transportation.
"It is now known that,some
30 years after exposure to asbes
tos dust, workers with asbestos
in construction face an increas
ed risk of contracting mesothe
lioma, an invariably incurable
cancer. An epidemic is predic
ted soon among WWII shipyard
workers. Some four million tors
of asbestos is produced annually
in this country, and of course,
asbestos is incorporated into
brake linings and finds its way
into the atmosphere, particular
ly near urban thoroughfares. "
lh fanning, fertilizer and
animal wastes is a problem, Dr.
Okun says. In fertilizer, for
example, there are eight times
as many phosphates as in deter
gents. Also, one cow is the
equivalent of 17 people and one
pig is the equivalent of two peo
ple. The total waste burden is
equivalent to that of some one
billion people.
"And with the development
of agri-business these sources
are no longer diffuse, but are
heavily concentrated. The con
centration of pollutants in waste
waters from modem feed lots
may be more than 40-50 fold
greater than in domestic waste
water, " Dr. Okun says.
Another growing problem,
according to the UNC environ -
mentalist, is emissions from
more than 110,000 ships and
some eight million recreational
water craft such as boats. These
are creating highly objection -
able wastes over wide areas of
the nation and world both from
fuel exhaust and in liquid.
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Tomatoes Grown And Packed By Yancey Producer's Ass'n
Trellised Tomatoes Yield
Good Profits For Farmers
By Allen MbMmny
AssH Extension Agent
Almost every trellised to
mato grower in Yancey County
is pleased with tomato crop re
turn for 1972. Prices received
by farmers marketing throuj x
the Yancey County Producers
Association (Tomato Co-op)
averaged a healthy 10 cents per
pound. This represents 2 and 3
cents per pound more for to
matoes than in 1971. Three
cents by itself doesn't mean
much, but when you multiply
3 cents by 50,000 pounds this
means a $1,500.00 increase in
sales ove r 1971.
Eleven Tomato Demonstra
tion farmers in Yancey County
averaged $4086. 30 net returns
per acre after all expenses were
paid. Gross sales averaged
$5022. 38 per acre. Expenses
of fertilizer, spray materials,
labor and other cost averaged
$936.08 per acre. This means
11 tomato farmers bought $lO,
296.85 worth of goods to pro -
duce their crop in Yancey
County.
Mr. Wayne McCurry has
made public his individual to
mato record. Wayne set 3,700
tomato plants in May on . 4 of
an acre. From the .4 of an
acre he marketed $3028.15
worth of tomatoes with the To
mato Co-Op. His expensesware
$465.90. This left him a total
of $2,562,75 for approximately
450 hours of labor or an aver -
age of almost $5.75 per hour.
Plans for the 1973 tomato
crop are already under way.
Early planning for trellised to-
mm«bm I* essential to have a
first rate crop. If tomatoes in- •
terest you for 1973, the Agri -
cultural Extension Office in the
Courthouse in Burnsville is
anxiotß to work with vou.
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(l-to r.) Mrs. Nettie Adkins, Mrs. Lula McCurry, Mrs. Lola Deyton Work On Sign
MAY Tech Approves Avery Building Site
On Tuesday, November 28,
the Board of Trustees of May
land Technical Institute unani
mously approved the Lentz pro
perty, located in Avery County
just across the line, as the per
manent site for Mayland Tech
nical Institute. The site con
sists of approximately 33 to 35
acres of landT /
On Tuesday, December 5,
a Site Visitation Team compos-
By John McLain rn\^
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Operation Mainstream Continues
In September the L.S. Forest Service began a program
known as Operation Mainstream. The purpose of the prog
ram was to provide meaningful employment for persons 55
years of age and older who needed a supplemental income.
In order to qualify a person has to fall within a certain in
come category.
Since most of the Forest Service jobs atffe df the woods
work type, only men • were expected to apply. That is, un
til Mrs. lola Deyton, Mrs. Lula McCurry and Mrs. Nettie
Adkins, all of Relief, stopped by our office in Burnsville aid
wanted a job in our Mainstream porgram. Because these
fine ladies were so persistent, we decided to give the idea
some real serious consideration. After considerable thought
and some reservations we decided to try them at refurbishing
our recreation area signs.
The following Monday morning the ladies were on the
job painting signs at our Busick Work Center. We only ex
pected the project to last abo’it two weeks but they were do
ing such good work we decided to have them repaint all the
signs on the District. What had started out to be a two week
job lasted, for over two months and resulted in a real face
lifting for the National Forest.
The sign painting is just one example of the fine work
being done by the men and women working in the Mainstream
Program. They are doing much needed work in wildlife im
provement projects, timber stand improvement and facility
maintenance. They are also building a new storage building
at our Busick Work Center. The Forest Service is very proud
of these people and the work they are doing.
’ Anyone interested in the Mainstream Program should
stop by our office in the Courthouse in Burnsville or call 68 2-
2567 and we will be glad to furnish additional information
about the program.
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ed of Dr. Edwin Beam,President
of Caldwell Community College
and Technical Institute, and
Tony Bevacqua, Julian Wing -
field, Joe Sturdivant, and Vin
cent Outland from the Dept, of
Community Colleges in Raleigh
met with staff members of May
land Technical Institute to view
the site for the purpose cf makfcf
their recommendation to the
State Board of Education.
10 c
e Mr. Bill Wilkins, Chairmen
of the Board of Trustees of May
land Technical Institute and Dr.
Blake, President, appeared ber
£ fore the State Board of Educatim
on December 7to present to
r _ them the local Board of Titb
tees' recommendation concern -
big the site. The State Board
also unanimously approved the
Lentz property site.