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Oakes Wins Title
Glenn Oakes wasn't the 97-pound weakling who had sand
kicked in his face, but he admits he was a "150-pound weak
ling who lost a fight over a girl" four years ago. Today, he
is one of the strongest men in Florida.
Glenn, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Newell Oakes of Burns
ville Route 5, began lifting weights after that fight and re
cently he was named Florida's: 1973 power lifting champion
in his weight class—l9B pounds. To win the title, he lifted
a total of 1,285 pounds in three different lifting categories
during the meet. The categories in the power lifting con
test are bench press, squat and dead lift.
Oakes is a Hollywood, Florida patrolman assigned to the
K 9 squad and usually works out at a private gym with ano
ther K 9 officen He says he works out at the gym about 12
hours a week to keep in shape.
This coming March, the 24-year-old bachelor is sche -
duled to compete in the national police meet for vfr'e ig ht
lifters which is to be held in Los Angeles. It will be the
first time he has competed in a nationwide contest.
Find out which of the hundreds of different job-training
courses are open to you. Visit the nearest Army Reserve Center
The Army Reserve.
It pays to go to meetings.
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I Cane River High School News Foraml
Chriftrna* Program!
Cta January 3, Cane River's
Speech and Drama Club, with
assistance from the French
Club and Beta Club, presented
the belated Christmas program.
The program was not presented
on the scheduled date because
of the snow. The Speech and
Drama Club began the prog
ram with the presentation of
the first of its two skits "The
Christmas Dress", which in
volved two elderly sisters with
only one Christmas dress. Next,
the French Club sang several
Christmas carols in French.
Then, the Speech and Drama
Club presented its second skit
"Christmas Shopping Early" in
which efficiency tries to rule
Christmas. Following the play,
the talent winners at the dis
trict Beta Club convention sang
several songs. The program
ended with Pete Hensley's sing
ing "Amazing Grace". After
wards, Mrs. Cox thanked the
student body and teachers for
the gifts they had presented to
her for Christmas.
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Cane River Boys
Beat East Yanceys
The Cane River boys' vanity
team defeated East Yancey on
January 2, 1974, for their se
cond straight Conference win.
This upped the Rebels' overall
record to 4 wins and 3 losses.
The game was a very tight
and low-scoring contest. Cane
River scored the winning bas
ket, with only 20 seconds re
maining in the game, on a
tip-in by James McKinney.
This made the final score,Cane
River 29, East Yancey 28.
Larry Honeycutt, with 13
points, and Rodney Deyton,
who added 10, led the scoring
for the Rebels; Joey Bigger -
staff, with 10 points, was high
scorer for East Yancey.
**
Cane River vs
East Yancey (Jr.Vars)s
Cane River's Junior vanity bas
ketball team played host to the
East Yancey Junior vanity team
on Wednesday, January 2,1974.
The Rebels got off to a good
start the first quarter with a
score of 12 to 6.
In the second quarter Eric
Penland netted 8 points for the
Rebel team. This gave the Re
bels a 28 to 20 lead at the end
of the first half.
The Rebels continued to
hold the lead over the Panthers
in the 3rd quarter with the score
41 to 32. The game ended with
a 58 to 41 scare in the Re’oeli
favor.
Eddie King of Cane River
and Ricky Ray of East Yancey
were the high scorers for each
team with 17 points each.
**
Cane River Girls
Defeat East Yanceys
Cane River girls defeated the
East Yancey girls in a close
game Wednesday night, Jan. 2.
East Yancey was leading at half
time with the score 19-20.
Judy Waldrop led the Cane Ri
ver girls with 10 points while
Gayla McCurry added 8. Sheik
Parker and Tina Gouge had 13
and 11 points respectively for
5 East Yancey. The game ended
with Cane River victorious
34-37.
**
Edneyville Girls Win
Over Cane Rivers
On January 4, 1974 Cane River
girls played hostto Edneyville
girls, who are in first place in
the Blue Ridge Conference. The
final score was 31-49 in Edney
ville's favor. High scorers for
the Rebels were Linda Doan
and Gayla McCurry with 8 pints
each.
**
Edneyville JV's Victorious
Over Cane Rivers
On Friday, January 4, the Cane
Riv* JV’s played host to the
Edneyville Yellow Jackets in a
tough conference battle. The
Yellow Jackets dominated the
early part of the game vuth
its first quarter ending 18-5 in
favor of the Jackets. But then
the Rebels began to rapidly
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close in on the Jackets to end
the first half with a score of 25-
23 in favor of the Jackets. The
second half was closely fought
through the 3rd and 4th quarter
to the final minutes with the
score 48-45 in favor of the Jac
kets. Eddie King scored 21
points in the game.
**
Edneyville Downed
By Cane River:
J-arry Honeycutt hit 18 points
and teammate David Hopson
added 8 Friday, January 4 to
bring the Cane River Rebels to
a 42-40 victory over the Edney
ville Yellow Jackets. By half
time the Rebels had tied the
score 22-22. Kenny Jobe with
6 points, Rodney Deyton and
Jim Robinson with 5 points ®ch
helped lead the Rebels on to
victory.
THE YANCEY JOURNAL JANUARY 10, 1974
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-Out Our Wayi
By Mrs. Jim Anowood
Mis. Tillie Brooks from Har
din, Ky. has been visiting her
daughter and many other friends
over the holidays.
* *
Mr. William Pryor from Chi
cago, M. has been visiting
friends here. He also took Can
dy Pryor and Billy Pryor to 111.
for the holidays.
* *
Mr. Francis Parker from In
diana visited Mr. Jim Anowood
over the weekend.
* *
Mr. and Mrs. Randy Frank
lin and son from Spruce Pine
visited the Airowoods over the
holidays.
* *
Mr. and Mrs. Doug Hughes
from Shelby, N.C. visited Mrs.
Jeanette Waldrup due to the
death of Mrs. Martha D.Thomas,
Mrs. Harmie Briggs Just re
turned from a trip to Mexico,
California and Arizona. She
visited her sen in Calif, and visi
ted the Southwestern Indian
School and saw the many won
derful things that Mollie Hens
ley is helping to make possible.
Mollie, is a native of Yancey.
* *
Miss Diane Ledford of Route
1, Burnsville has finished col
lege at Cullowhee and is now
teaching Speech and Hearing in
Buncombe County.
* *
Mrs. Marie Ledford, Diane
and Kim Robertson spent the
Christmas Holidays in Florida
visiting J. F, Brinkley of Jack
sonville. They also visited
Daytona Beach, St. Augustine
and Disney World while there.
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