THE YANCEY JOURNAL
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Children's
Workshop
Scheduled
A fine opportunity for sum
mer fun, which is also exciting
and educational for children,
will be available soon at the
unique Music in the Mountains
Children's Workshop.
Two classes are scheduled,
one for first, second and third
grades and another for fourth,
fifth and sixth grades, each
Monday and Thursday fro m
9:30 until 10:30 ajn. beginning
June 25 and running through the
19th of July. The classes will
be held at the First Baptist
Church, Burnsville. Registra -
tion day is Monday, June 25,
9 tOO until 9:30 at the First Bap
tist Church. Oie child will be
charged SIO.OO for the work -
shop.... brothers and sisters of
a full paying participant will
be charged only $2.00 each .
Instructors of the Children's
Workshop, Susan and Tom Koch,
emphasize that learning and en
joyment will be combined in
the workshop to enhance each
child's appreciation of music.
The students will learn how
much fun music can be, dis co
ver some of music's secrets,
learn how instruments make
sound, hear fine musicians play
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Statewide School Bond Issue Termed Crucial;
State School Superintendent Urges Support
"North Carolina voters will
make a momentous decision on
the fixture of their public schools
this fall when they decide the
fate of a S3OO million state
wide band issue," according to
State School Superintendent
Craig Phillips. "The decision
will have a direct influence on
Tar Heel children for genera -
tions to come," Dr. Phillips
added in urging support for the
School Bond Issue.
The S3OO million school
construction bond issue, to be
voted on November 6, was auth
orized by the 1973 General As
sembly. The money would be
used to build new schools and
to enlarge and renovate exist -
ing facilities.
If the bond issue is approved,
allocations will be made to
each of the state's 152 school
systems on the basis of its 1971-
72 average daily membership .
The allocations will range from
$182,393 for Tryon to over
S2O million in Charlotte-Meck
lenburg. "In short, the money
Public Notice
The tentative budget for the
fiscal year beginning July 1,1973
o i Yancey County was on June
4, 1973 presented to the County
Board of Commissioners, and is
available for public inspection
in the office of Register of Eted*
clerk to the board. A public hear
ing will be held at 9soo a. m.
Monday, July 2, 1973 in the
Commissioners Room, Yancey
County Courthouse, at which
time any persons who wish to be
heard on the budget may appear.
- - O. W. Deyton, Chairman
County Commissioners
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Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair Planned
Tfc-j 17th annual Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair, sponsored
by the Yancey County Chamber of Commerce, is now be
ing planned for Am. ’st 3 and 4 on the Town Square, Burns
ville. Craftsmen fiom Yancey, neighboring mountain
counties, other sections of North Carolina, and other states
will come to display, demonstrate, and sell their hand -
made crafts in the two-day event which brings countless
people to Burnsville. The Fair will open on Friday morn -
ing and will end late Saturday. There will be games, en-
will go where the students are,"
said Dt. Phillips.
Each school unit would sub
mit plans for their building pro
jects to the State Board of Edu
cation for appnoval.The schools
would receive technical assis
tance in surveying their needs
and planning the improvements
from the Department of Public
[Community Events |
Contrary to rumors that are
circulating, there are no plans
to begin Yancey County Schools
early this year, according to
Edgar Hunter, Superintendent.
The rumor probably began as a
result of the fuel shortage and
predictions that schools might
have to close during the winter
months because of a lackoffuel.
Although a definite date for
opening school will not be set
until later this month, present
plans are to begin about August
20, Hunter said.
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The Church of God of Pro
phecy, Meadow Road, Burns
ville will begin a Revival on
Sunday night, June 10th at7«3o
with Rev. R. D. Langley from
Canton. Pastor David Russell
invites the public. There will
be special singing every night.
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The Yancey County Cham
ber of Commerce is preparing
a new Accommodation Etochure
that will be inserted in the re
gular brochure. Anyone who
would like an ad in the brochure
please call the Chamber of Com
merce at 682-2312. The dead
line for ads is June 12th.
Division of School
Planning. M
"This bpnfesnoney will make
possible better facilities,class
rooms, lunchrooms, media cen
ters, gymnasiums, and auditor-"
iums for children all over North
Carolina," said Superintendent
Craig Phillips.
"This is the biggest and the
The board of directors ofthe
Yancey County Chamber of
Commerce will hold their re
gular monthly meeting this
Thursday night at 7:30 p. m. at
Town Hall in Burnsville. Plans
and new projects will be out
lined at this meeting by J. Ar
dell Sink, newly elected presi
dent of the local Chamber. It
is also expected that plans will
be finalized for this years Craft
Festival.
The Avery-Mitch ell-Yanc. ey
Regional Library bookmobile
will be visiting the following
persons or residences on the
Seven Mile Ridge run in Yan
cey County on Thursday, June
14, 1973:
George Hall, Linda McKin
ney, Mrs. James Hoover,An(£la
Robinson, Clara Lee Chris awn,
Mrs. Gfeace Blalock, Carolyn
Miller, Violet Ray, Coraßyrd,
Maxie Burg in, Westall's Gro
cery, C.A. HollifieldjMargiret
Gouge, Pearl Thomas.
Anyone else who lives clae
to these people and who widles
to have bookmobile service,
please contact Mrs. Barbara
Dupkoski after 4 p. m. Tuesday,
Wed. or Thursday at 765-4673.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 7,1973
tertainment, and refreshments. On Saturday, chicken bar
becue will be sold to those in attendance at the Fair. The
first weekend in August will be a big one in Burnsville. In
addition to the Crafts Fair, the 6th annual Yancey Youth
Jamboree, featuring traditional folk music, singing, and
dancing and also sponsored by the Yancey County Chamber
of Commerce, will open at East Yancey High School Audi
torium on Thursday night, August 2, and will be presented
again on Friday night, August 3.
most important school bond is
suo: North Carolina has had,"
he emphasized. There have
been three other statewide bond
issues since World War 11, one
in 1949 for SSO million, one
in 1953 for SSO million, and
cne in 1963 for SIOO million.
"We have more children now
and we are further behind than
we were when the earlier bond
issues were approved," said Dr.
Phillips. "We need to catch
up and now we have that
chance."
Gortney Is 4-H
Representative
Steve Gortney has been cho
sen the 4-H representative from
Yancey County to participate
in the 19th annual 4-H Forestry
Camp at Camp Millstone near
Rockingham.
The son of Mr. and Mis.
Brown Gortney of Route I,Green
Mountain, Steve is one of al
most a hundred boys—each cho
sen to represent his county as a
4-H Club Forestry Leader.
Both Southern Bell and the
Agricultural Extension Service
at North Carolina State Univer
sity sponsor this program which
is geared to the development
of leadenhip and know ledge
in forestry.
Special activities conducts
at the camp for young foresters
include the planting of and car
ing for trees, the .identifies -
tion of trees, the proper cutting
of forest for timber purposes,
the safe use of forestry equip -
ment and the study of fire fight
ing techniques.
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Tweetsle Railroad Opened Saturday
Tweetsie Railroad, North Carolina's original "theme
park" began its 17th season of entertaining the traveling
public on Saturday, June 2. The old west park built around
a narrow gauge railroad with antique steam engines and
open-air passenger cam, first opened to the public in the
summer of 1957 at its present location on U. S. Highways
221-321 between Blowing Rock and Boone. Close to three
million persons have taken the now-famous three mile train
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Wildlife Afield:
New Concept In Camping
By Jim Dean
There was a time when camp
ing was a fairly simple thing.
You pitched a tent, cooked over
a bed of glowing coals and spent
very little time fooling with
your gear. Camping was away
of feeling nature's pulse at close
hand, and nobody paid much at
tention to the gear that made it
possible.
Over the past decade this has
changed. How you camp is now
more important than why you
camp. The whole concept has
changed, and the camper is no
longer a pure-minded Thoreau
seeking escape from the ravagps
of civilization.
P erhaps it is an unfair judge
ment, but it seems that more
of today's campers are interes
ted in the social status convey
ed by owning certain types of
equipment than anything else.
Sw ethic seems to be
oodland "keeping up
_ rneses".
Far instance, I took my fam
ily to a big campground this
past weekend, and although I
have always considered our
equipment fairly sophisticated
(we have a gas stove, lantern,
tents, sleeping bags and cooler)
I was amazed to find that most
of our neighbors in the camp
ground felt that we were really
"roughing it. "
By their standards, I suppose
we were. The family next to
us (maybe it was two families
camping together) had at least
$30,000 worth of gear, and that
is no exaggeration.
They had two trucks pulling
large fifth wheel campers which
are more like mobile horns than
anything else. They also had
—I counted them —eight motor
cycles and trail bikes. Every
member of the party, including
the kids, had at least some form
of two-wheel conveyance.
A later afternoon walk
through the campgrounds re
vealed that this was not at all
unusual. In fact, besides my
family, only two other groups
actually slept in tents. The rest
had truck campers, fifth wheel
campers, tent trailerjcampers,
and a few even had full trailers.
There were outboard
four-wheel drive vehicles and
enough motorcycles to start a
large cycle agency.
N eedless to say, the experi
ence of camping was not one
of quiet appreciation of nature.
A few years ago, one could
sit around a campfire and hear
the birds chirping and the creek
bubbling. The only "noise "was
the occasional sound of an ax
splitting firewood or the distant
laughter of children.
Now, from roughly five o'
clock in the morning until mid
night, all you can hear is the
constant putt-putt-putting of
two and four cycle engines. I
should point out that, with *ew
exceptions, those who used their
motorized vehicles took consid
erable care to drive them as
quietly as possible while in camp*
but the sound of 30-40 motor -
cycles—even politely idling—
is not conducive to calm nerves.
For the families who g o
camping to escape the bustle
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ride complete with outlaw attack and Indian raid in the six
teen years since opening. Tweetsie also features a live
show at the Tweetsie Palace and a chair lift ride up Magic
Mountain and a complete amusement park with * dozen
traditional amusement park rides. Tweetysie Junction,where
every traveller begins and aids his visit,' is a complete wes
tern town with general store,newspaper office,western thou
blacksmith shop, gift and refreshment shops and depot.
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of the city, there seems to be
but one alternative. That is to
camp in areas devoid of other
campers, and finding such an
area is no easy task.
Another solution might be
to ban ce itain types of equip -
ment—particularly cycles— in
public campgrounds, but this is
not likely because the majority
of campers now use such equip
ment in their camping.
Perhaps the best solution for
all concerned would be to im
pose a partial ban on the use of
cycles, setting aside some
campgrounds where they would
be permitted and others where
they would be banned, and en
forcing those rules. Where rules
presently exist, they are not
enforced. Some campgrounds
could even be set aside solely
for tent campers.
Another problem caused by
cycles—particularly in wilder
ness or semi-wilderness areas
—is the serious erosion of trails
and silting of streams caused by
countless wheels. There is also
evidence that wildlife is dis -
turbed by cycles.
It is likely that many areas
will be closed to off-road mo
torized travel—some are now.
No one would argue that trail
Mk»s and cycles are fun to
but the rapidly growing sport of
riding them in wilderness areas
needs some looking into.
One thing is certain. Camp
ing has changed. Whether those
changes are good or not de
pends upon how you look at it.
I, for one, think something
wonderful is rapidly being lost.