VOL.I, N 0.39 M i n ,s>*k mv. .> m ; M' f. mBwP HHb r S» Inc l-Jffijk jESH"/ jp ' 1:1 av * v' B- t * f . .-j-m nrM MHH.. i- _ ? T 1 jh «mht — Get Ready, Get pg. 3) 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 llM IM Tn Tllill iIMIII II 111 l Hill ■ i r W L , ■■ ** ('(■Cii Sr , T ll ’f Nffc jjk 1 ; ‘ 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. 1 k. v ■ ■%- A tfSfL k . k m ¥ JwPl S */• r » ■ '^,' K::. fgj Jk _ l^M JlHmSk Vk ■,» jg • . £?||B * ‘ifr'jfcaft-'v •^ 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 o ? 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. jt 4 & f er us. a. t .prrwT.x 1 ** . a- j.*!* y V A fj| M Ml, 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. n q fij v : » 3 o V J (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\^ v*** 0 ®j 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. —— . .. -■ 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.