VOL. 2, NO. 45
United Fund
Honor Roll
The Yancey United Fund has
now passed the SIO,OOO mark
toward raising the $14,990 goal
set for the 1973 campaign.
The second publication of
the UF Honor Roll, shown be
low, is known to be incomplete,
owing to the slowness of reports
to reach Mrs. Ruby Smith, the
UF treasurer. Hazen Ledford
urges businesses and offices
where all employees have con
tributed to report either to him
or Mrs. Smith.
UF PATRONS
(contributors of $300)
Northwestern Bank
Dr. Garland Wampler
UF PATRONS
(contributors of $200)
First Citizens Bank
Dr. Melvin W. Webb
Mr. and Mrs. Mack B. Ray
Pollard's Drug Store
Bob Helmle
CENTURY CLUB
( contributors of SIOO to $200)
The Country Store
Styles G Company Automotive
Supply
Dr. Fergus Pope
Deyton Farm Supply
Yancey Builders
Burnsville Fum. G Hardware
G. D. Bailey
Holcombe Brothers
Hazen Ledford
Mr. and Mis. John M. Martin
Dr. W.A.Y. Sargent
Mrs. B. R. Penland
Milton Weiss
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Dr. E. R. Ohle
Roberts G Com and Roberts
Insurance
Students of Cane River High
School
BUSINESS G OFFICES where
all employees have made con
tributions, and SCHOOLS where
all teachers have contributed:
Yancey County Department of
Social Services
Yancey County Child Develop
ment Center
Yancey County Health Dept.
Cane River High School
Bible Ledures
Will Begin
God's Kingdom of a Thou
sand has approached. This is
the stirring title of a new Bible
Study aid. It contains 412 pag
es of information on the com
ing of God's Kingdom Rule of
a thousand years.
Beginning this November
11th a series of Bible lectures
will start, running through
December 30th. They will
deal with God's Kingdom and
the thousand years of Peace it
will usher in. All are invited
to attend, Sundays 9:30 a. m.
at the Kingdom Hall, located
East of the Radio Station across
from Carroll's Market.
Woman’s Club
fleeting Set
The Burnsville Woman's
Club will meet on Thursday,
November 8, at 8:00 p. m. at
the Community Building. Mrs.
Joan Reeve is the program lead
er and the guest speaker will be
Mrs. Sue Koch. Hostesses will
be Mi*. Mack Ray, Mrs. Dover
Fouts, and Mrs. Phyllis Bailey.
THE YANCEY JOURNAL
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American Legion Award Given
Mr. Ralph G. Faulkner, Supervisor for Services to the Older Worker, Employment Secur
ity Commission, Raleigh, presented the American Legion Citation Annual Award to Spruce
Pine Mica Company at the regular monthly meeting of American Legion Earl Horton Post
122, Burnsville, in October. Mr. Hugh Wiseman, President of Spruce Pine Mica Company,
accepted the award. Pictured (1. to r.) are Bill Payne, Veterans Employment Representa -
tive, Mr. Wiseman, and Mr. Faulkner. This award is presented annually to employers se
lected by the American Legion Posts throughout the nation from a list submitted by the offi
ces of the Employment Security Commission. Areas considered are number of older work
ers, number of veterans employed, veteran-non-veteran ratio, and male-female ratio.
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Duke Endowment Gives Blue Ridge
Hospital Program $750,000 In Aid
Since the conception of the
joint effort by Yancey and Mitch
ell Counties to join medical fa
cilities and attain better patient
care, the Duke Endowment has
followed the progress with great
interest and last week Mr. Don
ald B. Carlisle, Executive Dir
ector of the Blue Ridge Hospital
System received a letter from
Mr. James R. Felts, Jr. Execu
tive Director of The Duke En
dowment advising the Trustees
of The Duke Endowment appro
priated $750,000 to the Blue
Ridge Hospital System for assis
tance in the construction and
equipment of additions and al
terations to the Spruce Pine
Community Hospital and a new
60-bed hospital in Burnsville.
The Grant will be appropria
ted over a period of three years,
$250,000 each year for the
three year period, according to
Mr. Carlisle.
Mr. Carlisle also noted pre
vious support from Duke for the
two hospitals is $90,149 for oper
ating and building purposes .This
amount would include the mon
ies appropriated for the con -
struction of the two present
hospitals in the two counties,
totaling $27,000. The remain
der is payment cost for statisti
cal data and subsidy for losses
in free service paid on yearly
basis over the intervening years.
Subject to availability of funds
Duke Endowment assistance will
total over $840,149 by the end
of 1975 for our two counties.
Hospitals are among major
beneficiaries of the Duke En
dowment, founded in 1924 by
James Buchanan Duke. They
are assisted in the financing of
construction and equipment of
their plans, paying for charity
care, and expanding patient
services.
Duke Endowment also pro
vides hospitals with services of
two national information and
statistical organizations through
which they are informed on a
current basis of what other hos
pitals in their respective cate
gories are doing,thus they can
judge their own records and
make changes if necessary in
the interest of more efficient
operation and better patimt care.
There are also other non
profit institutions in the Caro
linas that are assisted by Duke
Endowment such as child-care
and educational institutions—
Duke, Johnson C. Smith, Fur
man University and Davidson
College; rural United Metho
dist Churches in North Carolina
are assisted also, retired Metho
dist ministers, as well as widows
and dependent orphans of de
ceased ministers who have serv
ed United Methodist Churches
in the state.
At the end of 1972 total ap
propriations from Duke Endow
ment to beneficiaries totaled
more than $362,000,000.
First-Citizens Offers
New 1 2 A% Savings Bond
First-Citizens Bank G Trust
Company will offer a new seven
and one-quarter percent savings
bond effective November 1,1973,
These new savings bonds will
be available with a deposit of
SI,OOO or more, and the funds
must be left on deposit for a
period of four years.
Interest will be paid either
quarterly, annually or at matur
ity, as the customer elects.
Compounding of interest will
be annually. These bonds are
insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation to the
maximum liability of the FDIC.
In announcing the new seven
and one-quarter percent four
year savings bonds, Lewis R.
Holding, president of Fiist-Ci
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THJRSDAY, NOVEMBER 8,1973
Since this is not the first
time Duke Endowment has par
ticipated in health care con -
struction in Mitchell and Yancey
Counties, Mr. Milton Burleson.
Chairman of the Board of Dir -
ectors for the Blue Ridge Hospi
tal System, says "It is only by
further participation by Duke
Endowment that we are now able
to realize what the people of
the area have been working to
ward for the past two years,
Duke representatives camp to
all the meeting: during the mer
ger of the two counties and lis
tened to what the needs for the
area were, then at all times
during our Development Cam
paign supported us morally un
til such time we were able to
show public interest and finan
cial support. Now they have
come thru in this overwhelm -
ing manner with a Grant that
has pushed our building program
to realization,"
tizens Bank, explained, "New
federal regulations permit the
higher interest and in First-Ci
■ tizens' tradition of always pay
ing the highest savings interest
allowed, the bank will offer the
program on November 1. "This
is the effective date of the new
interest rates.
First-Citizens Bank will per
mit early withdrawal on all or
part of a savings bond, before i
maturity, upon written notice
of hardship.
Federal regulations require
that banks impose a substantial
penalty on such withdrawals. It
requires that you receive inter
est at the regular savings rate
for the period held, less 90 days
interest.
Mercedes From Hitler Era
On Exhibit In Asheville
j Ch: April 30, 1945, artillery
shells horn the guns of an ap
proaching Russian army slam -
med into Berlin, Germany. In
a private bunker deep berfeath
the crumbling walls of %We burn
ing city, Adolph Hitler and his
blond wife of one day,Eta Braun,
committed suicide.
In the confusion following
their deaths and the throes of
the third reich, a Nazi Secret
Service guard, his automatic
machine gun on the seat beside
him, slipped away in a black
and silver Mercedes-Benz.
The soldier was Eva Braun's
personal chauffer, and the car
was a gift from Hitler to his
beautiful mistress.
For 20 yea® the car sat co
vered with hsy in a bam in
Austria. In 1965, the
by then a peaceful farmer,died
of a heart attack; an American
newsman interviewing the wi
dow rediscovered the treasure.
Today the Mercedes is at
the Tunnel Road Shopping Cen
ter in Asheville.
It is being exhibited byMrs.
Hilda Onofrey, a Detroit wom
'an’Vho bought tiro car from the
and whojvfor the past
twayears, has toured the U.S.
shoeing her prize.
And prize it is. The car,
repanted in sparkling gold, is
a sinster symbol of the power
at tie inner circle of the Nazi
regJne. It is imposing in both
sizeiind design.
The Mercedes weighs 7500
pot^ds —almost as heavy as
twefCadillacs. Beneath the
streamlined hood is a 400 hp.
motor with two transmissions
to Bush the machine to 175
miles per hour.
large whitewalled tires en
circle 22 carat gold hubcaps
emtlazoned with the Nazi swas
tika. Atop a sparkling silver
radiator is a gold eagle perch
ed on the symbol of World War
II Germany.
A sign outside the display
booth expresses Mrs. Onofrey's
feelings about the Mercedes.
"It is not our intent to glorify
Hitler or his regime," the sign
reads in strict, black lettering.
"We hope the showing will
remind you of the atrocities
of the era from which it emer
ged. " "If this car is shown
periodically, " she said, "may
be what happened might not
happen again. Maybe people
will recognize another Hitler
if one comes along. "
Mrs. Onofrey logged 103000
miles on the road last year. She
lias crisscrossed the country
since she began a five- year
exhibiting tour in 1970 after
her husband's death.
At each stop, she gives the
local shopping center's mer
chants association up to SIOOO
to contribute to local charity.
From donations at the exhibit,
she must then pay the cost of
moving the Mercedes and the
salaries of her three-man tra
veling staff. Any extra she
f keeps. Merchants at the Tun
t nel Road Shopping Center are
donating the money to the
United Fund.
' Mrs. Onofrey said she does
not charge admission to see the
car because "I don't want to
r turn away anyone who cannot
s afford to pay." Instead, she
7 relies on donations of "what -
ever you can give. "
She will be at the Tunnel
Road Shopping Center through
Saturday, November 10. From
there she will head west, and
eventually will exhibit the car
in Canada, Australia andßnope.
When she travels, the Mer
cedes is hauled in a tractor
trailer, although the auto is
licensed and operable. "It is
just too hazardous to drive on
the open road," she said.
"People get too excited
when they see it. I saw one
man lose control of his car and
cross the median strip when he
saw it. Luckily he wasn't hurt."
Once, Mrs. Onofrey said,
she determined to drive the
Mercedes fast enough to feel
it shift into its second transmis
sion at 120 mph. "I lost my
nerve at 90, " she said.
Postmasters
In Charlotte
Seventy postmasters from
throughout the Charlotte Dis
trict of the United States Postal
Service convened in Shelby,
N.C. on October 29 for an in
tensive three-day training school.
Postmaster Howard Young of
Burnsville is one of the designa
ted postmasters enrolled in the
training school which is design
ed, according to the Postmaster
William A. Lattimore,District
Postmaster Training Officer, "to
teach an experienced and quali
fied postmaster to train new
postmasters coming into the pos
tal service."
John J. Wise, Cl*arlotteDis
trict Manager, told the postmas
ters at the beginning of the ses
sion that their mission was to
"go into the field and use this
learning experience here in the
school plus your own experience
in your respective post offices
to train new postmasters com -
ing into the service as well as
continue to keep your assigned
associate office up-dated on the
new postal procedures that are
constantly being implemented."
"We welcome Postmaster
Young into the ranks of those
dedicated career postal manage
ment personnel who are striving
to bring about a more efficient
operation of the postal service','
Wise said.
Postmaster Young has been
in the postal service for 10 years
and was commissioned Postmas
ter of Burnsville on October 14,
1973 and is one of the 809 post
masters in the Charlotte District
which comprises all of North
Carolina and part of South Caro
lina employing nearly 12,000
postal career employees.
More than 20 instructors and
postal officials from the Char
lotte District's six Sectional
Centers and from the Southern
Regional Headquarters in Mem
phis, Tennessee were on hand
to conduct the school.
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William Daniels,Jr.
Dental Health
Edura tor Here
William H. Daniels, Jr.has
been employed by the Preven -
tive Dentistry Education Prog
ram as the new Dental Health
Educator for Yancey County.
The project, which is fund
ed through the Blue Ridge
Health Council with Appalachi
an State University serving as
the grantee, will be operating
again this school year in Yan
cey. Bill Daniels will be work
ing with all sth, 7th and Bth
grades in the county as the
school year goes by.
Mr. Daniels graduated from
Newland High School in 1968,
and from Appalachian State
University in 1973 with a degree
in Health and P.E. He is mar
ried to Jane Greene, and they
have one child.
Fire Dept. Distributes
Special Tot Finder Decals
The Burnsville Volunteer
Fife Department will be distri
buting within the city limits
of Burnsville Tot Finder Decals
on Sunday, November 11,1973
between the hours of 2:00 p. m.
and 5:00 p. m.
Members of the Burnsville
Volunteer Fire Department will
come to your home to distri -
bute these Tot Finder Decals,
These are weather-resistant
decals and should be placed on
the window of the child's room
facing out or at the bottom of
interior doors facing into hall
way. The Tot Finder Decals
can also mark the rooms of in
valids and other family mem
bers who require special atten
tion or are disabled.
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A Day For Ricky
Ricky Shehan, a 12-year-old patient at Western Caro
lina Center in Morganton, had lots of excitement October
24th. Ricky has muscular dystrophy and doesn't get home
for Ricky to spend the day in Burnsville where he visited
with his brothers and sisters and had a real party. He re
ceived some new clothes and what he wanted most a cap
10*
sth Birthdoy
Celebrated
At High Pastures, the fifth
birthday celebration began on
Wednesday, November 7, with
a supper at 6:00 p. m. followed
by a 7:30 p. m. service. The
main speaker for the ceremon
ies of praise, celebration and
thanks, is Floy Cox, pastor of
Forest Drive Baptist Church of
Columbia, S.C. He and his
wife, Ruth, are widely known
for the ministry of the Word,
music and praise. The public
is invited to participate at this
special time of thanksgiving
during which the new buildings
at High Pasture will be dedica
ted to the Lord.
On Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, 9:30 a.nvserviceswill
be held and are open to the
public. Thursday and Friday
evenings, a 7:30 p.m. service
will be held, and all are invi
ted to attend. In the afternoons
there will be free time to me-?,
ditate and communicate with
the lord on the many hiking
trails.
Tours will be conducted on
Saturday afternoon for those
who have not yet seen the new
buildings. They will be dedi
cated at the 7:30 evening ser
vice on that day. On Sunday
morning at 10:30, guests will
partake of the Lord's Supper*
These days of dedication
and celebration at High Pas -
tures will be memorable for
those who participate.
Children account for over
one third of the nation's fire
casualties. And no wonder.
In the confusion of a fire, fa
milies often become separated
All too frequently the result is
a child trapped in his room,
cut off from, rescue. The Tot
Finder Program is designed to
help avert this tragedy.
The basis for the program
is the Red Tot Finder Decal.
Highly visible during the day
and reflective from a light
source at night, the attractive
decal clearly marks the loca -
tion of a child's room. Should
fire strike, the decal will alert
your local firemen to clearly
marked areas fust.