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Lightning Threat Is Real;
Safety Tips May Save Life
. Lightning kills more persons
each year than tornados and hur
ricanes together.
At a given moment, there
are some 1,800 thunderstorms in
progress over the earth's surface,
and lightning strikes the earth
100 times each second.
Secretary John Tolson of the
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Resale Squad
Organizers
Ask Support
Early in April of this year,
a meeting was announced in
the Yancey Journal and on WK
YK Radio. The meeting was
for those people in the Yancey
County area who were interes
ted in the organization of a
Rescue Squad in the County.
There were twelve individuals
along with an employee of the
North Carolina Insurance Com
mission, who explained the or
ganization, purpose and func
tions of a Rescue Squad, at this
meeting. Five persons were se
lected by the group to act as
Directors and to make applica
tion for a Charter. Application
was made and on the 17th day
of April the Charter for the Yan
cey County Rescue Squad was
granted.
On April 11 the five acting
Directors met and discussed a
set of By-Laws that had been
formulated. Some minor chan
ges were made in the proposed
by-laws. A called meeting was
held on April 25 at 7t30 p. m.
in Room 3 of the Courthouse.
Eleven of the original twelve
people were present and the by
laws were read and unanimously
accepted by those attending.
A public meeting is to be
held May 15, 1973 at Bs3o p.m.
in the Courtroom of the Yancey
County Courthouse. Those peo
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Bald Creek Students Tour Burnsville
The first and second grade classes of Lola Hensley and
Doris Tomberlin from Bald Creek Elementary School visi
ted the town of Burnsville Monday afternoon. Included in
the tour were visits to Northwestern Bank, the Yancey
THE YANCEY JOURNAL
Department of Military and Ve- I
terans Affairs cited these fig
ures to alert North Carolinians
to the dangers of lightning in
thunderstorms.
Although specific data is not
available for North Carolina,
data assembled by the National
Center for Health Statistics in
dicate that lightning kills about
150 Americans per year and in
jures about 250. Property loss
—fire and other damage to
structures, aircraft damage,live
st ock deaths and injuries, forest
fires, disruption of electromag
netic transmissions, and other
effects—is estimated at more
than SIOO million annually.
Persons struck by lightning
receive a severe electrical shock
and may be burned, but they
carry no electrical charge and
can be handled safely. A per
son "killed" by lightning can
often be revived by prompt
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,
cardiac massage, and prolong
ed artificial respiration. In a
group struck by lightning, the
apparently dead should be trea
ted first; those who show vital
signs will probably recover spon
taneously, although bums and
other injuries may require treat
ment. Recovery from lightning
strikes is isually complete ex
cept for possible impairment of
sight or loss of sight or hearing.
These safety rules will help
you save your life when light
ning threatens:
—Stay indoors, and don't
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Changes In
Clink Dates
Please note two changes in
the May Clinic schedule for
the Yancey Health Department.
Child Health Clinic will be May
15 instead of May 14; Maternal
Nurse Clinic will be May 29 in
stead of May 15.
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Yancey Ramp Festival Was Breath-Taking!
Members of the Yancey County Jaycees are shown fry
ing a pan of "ramps", the wild anion-type vegetable that
is sought out in the mountains of North Carolina each year
at this time. The Jaycees held their annual ramp festival
last Saturday on the Burnsville Town Square, serving the
Yancey MHA Spokesman States Plans And Goals;
Members, Guests Urged To Attend Annual Dinner
' By Zoe Young
The Yancey County Mental
Health Association will be hold
ing its fifth annual membership
dinner on Friday, May 18, at
7:00 p.m. in the fellowship hall
of the First Presbyterian Church,
served by the ladies of the
church. Guest speaker will be
Terry Madlin, Western Region
al Vice President for the N.C.
Mental Health Association. All
members are expected to be
present. All non-members who
Journal, Post Office, Board of Education and Burnsville
Mill of Mohasco. The group of students from the Bald
Creek school was accompanied by several parents and
by Principal, Ronnie Proffitt.
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THURSDAY, MAY 10,1973
are interested are cordially in
vited. For reservations call
682-269 3 or 682-2059.
You may ask, "What is the
Yancey County Mental Health
Association?" We are sure many
of you are not familiar with it.
For this reason we would like
to give a brief history of the
Association, as well as some of
our accomplishments and goals
for the future.
The present Yancey County
Mental Health Association was
overpowering vegetable with beans, slaw, potatoecom
bread and of course, country music. All things
it was a breath-taking affair —and will be for several days
fcr those who ate the odiferous vegetable, and for those
who get within smelling distance!
organised in 1968 as an out -
growth of the Yancey County
Mental Health Society. Much
credit is also due to the Yancey
County Home Extension Clubs,
one of the sponsoring agencies.
The present Association car
ried on the Day Care Center
for Retarded Children which
was started by the Mental
Health Society, and met intis
basement of the Catholic Onucl}
staffed by Vista workers and
volunteer personnel. In 1970,
the State took over this respon
sibility and the Day Care prog
ram was moved to the Mica -
ville Elementary School.
Under the leadership of Mrs.
Luella Honeycutt the Associa
tion got off to a good start.
After the work was well estab
lished Mrs. Honeycutt resigned
as Chairman, and Rev. Don
Elly was elected to take her
place. In the fall 0f1972 Rev.
Elly resigned as President and
Mrs. Wanda Edwards McNeil
was elected to fill the vacancy
The goal of the Yancey
County Mental Health Associa
tion has always been for the
betterment of the mentally
and emotionally ill o f the
county. Thinking of the men
tally ill we are inclined to
consider only those admitted
to mental hospitals, and net
the many who need psychiatric
care and counseling and are
not admitted to such institution.
The first step taken by the As
sociation was the establishment
of a mental health clinic in 19-
69 in the public health building
A drug program was added hr
1970. This program has bene
fitted hundreds in the county
and has been instrumental in al
lowing many people to receive
treatment in * > home. Pa
tients are refen'c clinic
by their doctors, an agency and
Broughton Hospital. One of the
functions of the clinic is follow
up of patients returning from
Broughton. Patients going to
the clinic are able to consult
with a psychiatrist once a mc-nth.
Through an arrangement „with
Broughton Hospital, Blue Ridge
Mental Health Center and the
local drug stores patients are
able to purchase drugs at cost
plus fee for filling prescription.
The mental health clinic has
grown from one clinic a month
in 1970 to five clinics monthly
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rNew Officers For Chamber Os Commerce
Ardell Sink (left) was installed as the president of the Yancey County Chamber of Com
merce for the coming year as a new slate of officers were elected last Thursday at the May
meeting of the Chamber. Sink succeeds Mack Ray as president of the Chamber of CJinmsrce.
Olin Shepherd (right) will continue in the position of vice-president and Grace Bantu will con-
Authorities Warn: Protect
Mountain Environment
The quality of old-time
mountairr life is something spe
ciaL It's why people are leav
ing the cities and coming to
the mountains, Gratis Williams
thinks.
"Modem man has lost the
technique of enjoying time for
itself, a technique the native
mountaineer still enjoys. Many
of us grew up on the mountains
and on a farm, and we could
sit and enjo"' a morning if it
happened to be the kind of
morning we couldn't work in
the fields, without feeling com
pelled to engage in -
tion if there was no subject of
interest to us," he said.
Williams, dean of the gra
duate school at Appalachian
State University, was one of
seven panelists here Monday
w!x> looked at the quality of
mountain living as it's being
affected by a development
boom. In the forum, the first
of a series to be sponsored by
the Appalachian Consortium,
folklorists and developers and
planners agreed that if more ur
banization comes to the moun
tains without careful planning,
it's going to destroy anyspecial
charm that mountain living
still holds.
"Without planning and zon
ing regulations to protect the
people from uncontrolled deve
lopment, the quality of life
in our mountains is going down
faster than the standard of liv
ing is going up," said panelist
John Shore, coordinator of the
Planning and Zoning Education
Program for Northwestern North
Carolina.
"But there's an ethic of the
land emerging among our peo
ple. They're more willing to
invest their money in a second
home in a place they know will
be protected environmentally,
and developers are beginning
to make money by advertising
that they're going to protect the
environment, "Shore said.
Still, Shore contended, peo
ple in the mountains are doing
a better job selling their land
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than planning for the consequen
ces of it.
One major resort developer
in the mountain has built only
one tenth the number of homes
planned for a certain commu V
nity, and already it has discov
ered a water shortage,Shoresaid,
"They're still selling land,
though, and people who are
coming to the mountains to es
cape problems of urbanization
are going to find the same prob
lems here in the mountains in
just a few years," he said.
Panelist Rebecca Shields,
a sophomore at Warren Wilson
College, said the quality of
mountain life, "from a young
person's point of view, is stagr
nant. "Are mountains just for
r etired people? I think that
youth is the forgotten genera -
tion in the mountains. There's
no place to swim, no place to
play tennis, there aren't enoigi
parks, and there's no cheap
transportation like busses that
young people can afford," said
Miss Shields.
"Only the people themselv*
can tell us what's happening to
the quality of the lives they
live, and we're trying to give
them an opportunity to speak
out at other forums like this
one," said Borden Mace,direCr
tor of the Appalachian Consor
tium project which is studying
the effects of urbanization on
the Southern Appalachians.
Youth Injured
In Accident
Pete Hensley of Bald Creek
was injured Monday night when
he was struck by a truck while
walking along Highway 19-E
at the Jack's Creek intersection.
The accident occurred at
9:30 p. m. Hensley was taken
to Yancey Hospital, then tran»-
ferred to Memorial MissionHas
pital in Asheville.
The attending physician
said Hensley suffered a broken
leg in the accident.