THE YANCEY JOURNAL
VOL. 3, NO. 3 ‘
Victory Breakfast For UF
Honors Volunteer Workers
A victory breakfast, in re
cognition of the successful clo
sing of the 1973 Yancey United
Fund campaign will be held
at the Methodist Church in
Burnsville on January 20. This
breakfast will honor the team
of volunteer workers whose gen
erous contribution of time and
effort made possible the suc
cess of the campaign., The
meal is being provided jointly
by the Methodist Men and The
Northwestern Bank.
Last week the Journal re
ported the closing of the UF
campaign with the hopeful pre
diction of Chairman Hazen Led
ford that when all the contri -
butions had been tallied, the
budget goal of $14,988 would
be reached. Now, Mr.Ledford
reports that the goal is definite
ly attained.
Last minute contribu.ions
Schools Add
Band, DT
Instructors
The employment of a band
director and a drivers training
instructor was announced this
week by Edgar Hunter, Super
intendent of Yancey County
Schools. The band director
is Miss Lisa Lamb, a recent
graduate of Mars Hill College.
Miss Lamb began work on Jan
uary 14. She will work with
students in grades 6-8 in Bald
Creek, Burnsville and Mica
ville School in the beginning,
with the program to be expan -
ded as soon as practical.
Mr. Bob Hudspeth will be
gin drivers training instruction
at East Yancey High School on
March 1. Mr. Hudspeth, a
native of Yadkinville, will
complete his work at Appala
chian State University at the
end of the winter quarter, Fe
bruary 26.
May land Tech
Survey Class
Mayland Technical Insti - ‘
tute will sponsor a class in Land
Surveying to be held on cam -
pus. The organizational meet
ing will be held Tuesday, Janu
ary 22, at 7*oo p. m. in the old
Presbyterian Church Building on
Upper Main Street in Spruce
Pine. Mr. S.V.Griffith cf
Creasemen Associates of Ashe
ville will be the instructor.
All persons interested in
learning more about surveying
either on a professional basis or
non-professional basis are invi
ted to attend. There will be a
$2. 00 registration fee.
South Toe
PTA To Meet
South Toe PTA meets Mon
day, January 21»t, at 7:30 p.m.
The program is "family music"
by the Boyd Deytons, Thurman
Hus kins, Charles Jones, Phillip
Simmons and Claude Vess.
The purpose of the program
is to show how music can draw
families together and bridge
the generation gap.
The public is invited.
from the Blue Bell Company
and from Dr. R. K. Ransom put
the drive over the top. These
last gifts qualified the two do
nors for inclusion in the UF
Honor Roll, but arrived too
late for the last publication of
the honor list.
The dozen agencies for
which the local UF undertakes
to provide financial support
will receive their first checks
shortly. Since a number of
pledges were received which
have not yet been paid, the
total amount budgeted for the
several agencies cannot be
paid out until later.
Open House
At Westco
Want to see what makes
a telephone work?
You'll have a chance to
do so January 26th and 2 7th
when the Wsstco Telephone
Company holds "Open House"
for residents of Burnsville and
vicinity.
Behind-the-scenes tours
through the telephone plant at
Burnsville will be conducted be
tween 1:00 and 6*oo those even
ings. A preview showing of
local telephone facilities for
telephone employees and their
families will be held the pre
ceding evening.
In issuing a general invita
tion to the public to inspect lo
cal telephone operations, C. O.
Stafford, telephone company
manager in Weaverville, said*
"Our open house will give the
Burnsville residehts an opportu
nity to go behind the scenes
and see the nerve center of lo
cal communications at work.
Visitors will see the most mo
dern telephone equipment hand
ling routine local calls. "
The tour of the building
will take from 45 to 55
Stafford said.
Attendants will be station
ed throughout the building to
explain details of the improve
ment and expansion program
which has been carried out by
the telephone company here,
and a special slide presentation
will be shewn featuring the com
pany's Western North Carolina
service area.
Road Projects
Slated Here
Secondary road projects to
be built in Yancey County dur
ing 1974 have been announced
by the Department of Tram -
portation. The projects have
been discussed with the Board
of Commissioners and work will
be done with allocations made
for the fiscal year.
Work approved for Yancey
County Included* SR 1138
Grade, drain and pave 0.69
miles from US 19E to SR 1437,
$70,000.00; SR 1410 Exten -
sion—Grade, drain 0.50 miles,
$10,000.00; SR 1170—Grade,
drain and pave 0.90 miles from
SR 1154 to dead end, $90,000.
00; SR 1345—Grade, drain and
pave 0. 30 miles from SR 1336
to SR 1347, $45,000.00.
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Cub Scouts Display Works Os Originality Ani Creativity At Pack Meeting
Soil And Water Conservation District Supervisors
To Discuss Energy Crisis, Sediment Control Law
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The Energy Crisis and North
Carolina's new sediment con
trol legislation headline a Tues
day morning assembly of Soil
and Water Conservation Dis
trict-Supervisors and their guests
as topics of discussion at the
thirty-first Annual Meeting,
scheduled for January 20- 23 at
the Wilmington Hilton (former
ly Timme Plaza) in Wilming -
ton, North Carolina.
Mr. Earl Young, Chairman
of the Yancey Soil and Water
Conservation District reports
that "General John J. Tolson
111, Secretary of the Depart -
ment of Military and Veterans
Affairs, and Chairman of both
the Governor's Panel on the
Energy Crisis and the General
Assembly created Energy Crisis
Study Commission, will ad
dress the group on the energy
crisis and its effect on North
Carolina.
Ehiring the same program
James E, Harrington, Secre&ry
of the Dept, of Natural and
Economic Resources, will ad
dress the group on the role of
the State Soil and Water Con
servation Committee, Conserva
tion Districts, and local govern
ments in carrying out provision
of the Sedimentation Pollution
Control Act of 1973".
The meeting is sponsored
by the North Carolina Associa
tion of Soil and Water Conser
vation Districts, and will con
vene on Sunday night, January
20, with a Memorial and In
spirational Service. Mr. Young
continued that "the Supervisors
get down to serious business
with committee meetings on
Monday afternoon, following
the Keynote Address that morn
ing by George R. Bagley of
Louisiana, Vice-President of
the National Association of
Conservation Districts (NACD)."
Also scheduled during the
Tuesday morning session, along
with Secretaries Harrington aid
Tolson, is an appearance by
Kenneth E. Grant of Washing -
ton, D.C., Administrator of
the Soil Conservation Service,
USDA, to discuss the working
relationship between SHI and
Water Conservation Districts
and the SCS in seeking a quali
ty environment.
"Highlighting the meeting
will be a Tuesday evening ban
quet featuring North Carolina
Congressman Charles G. Rose
lit, of the Seventh Congression
al District, who will address the
group, " Mr. Young added.
Veterans Administration Health Care
Explained By Oteen Director
The Veterans Administra -
tion health care program for
certain dependents of veterans
will be carried out through pri
vate physicians and hospitals
for the most part, H, W. Mere
dith, director of the OteenVA
Hospital, explained today.
V A ho spitals have been
advised to refer applicants to
participating private physicians
and hospitals and to admit eli
gible dependents to VA hospi -
tals only when they have a
unique capability not available
in the area and when these fa
cilities are not needed for treat
ing a veteran.
The new medical program
enacted last August, covers
spouses and children of veterans '
totally and permanently dis- 1
abled by service- connected con
ditions and widows or widowers 1
and children of veterans who
died from service connected
conditions. ]
The Civilian Health and 1
Medical Program—Veterans Ad
ministration (CHAMFVA) close
ly parallels the Department of
Defense program for depencfents
of retirees. Benefits are essen
tially the same, and claims
will be paid through the fiscal
system that already existed for
the military program (CHAM -
PUS).
CHAMPVA covers a wide
range of outpatient and hospital
care, but eligible patients must
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17,1974
"Congressman Rose, a member
of the House Committee on Ag
riculture, has expressed a strong
interest in the conservation of
our valuable natural resources
and especially in the programs
of Ncrth Carolina's ninety-two
Soil and Water Conservation
Districts.
'The meeting shapes up as
an outstanding one. Those pre
confirm in advance that the
physician or other source of me
dical care will participate in
CHAMFVA, Meredith explained.
Mst medical facilities in the
United States have received
forms and instructions for mak
ing claims for reimbursement,
and forms are available also
from CHAMPUS fiscal agents
throughout the country. Names
of fiscal agents and full infor -
mation on the CHAMPVA prog
Dr. Blake To Teach Class
In Leadership At MAY Tech
Mayland Technical Institute
will offer a class in Leadenhip
begt-nirg Wednesday, January
23rd, at 7*oo p. m. The instruc
tor will be Dr. O. M. Blake,Jr,
Resident of Mayland T echnical
Institute. Dr. Blake, a former
public school teacher, has held
management positions with Sea 1-
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sent will address themselves to
gome of our most pressing prob
lems, and the task of finding
equitable solutions to
of course, doesn't mean that we
will solve the energy crisis or
our sedimentation problems,but
we certainly will attempt to
gain a better understanding of
what needs to be done on the
local level. "
ram are available through VA's
170 hospitals.
A s in the military program
far retirees, the VA program
pays 75 percent of the reason -
able charges for outpatient ser
vices and far hospitalization. For
outpatient services, the benefi
ciary must also pay the first
SSO each year, or the firstsloo
when two or more members of
one family use the program.
test Foods, bic. and with the
Winston-Salem Journal. He has
also been a management con -
suit ant to indimtry and holds a
doctor's degree in organization
and administration from North
Carolina State University.
The Leadenhip course will
cover the following areas* de
finition of leadenhip, character
istics of a good leader, demo
cratic venus -
ship, leadenhip as a variable of
the personality, group and
situation, and the identification
and selection, orientation,train
ing and evaluation of leaden.
The coune will be held in
Room 1 of the Church building
every Wednesday evening for
eleven weeks from 7*oo to 9*oo.
There will be a $2.00 registra
tion fee.
Cub Scout 'Genius Night’
Featured Creative Work
That's right! Genius Night!
And Burnsville sports an up
and coming group of geniuses.
That was the conclusion of
the panel of judges who had
the responsibility last week of
picking prize winners of some
seventeen entries.
Cub pack 502's latest as
signment was for each boy to
take a bag full of odds and
ends (clothespins, pieces of
wood, nails, pieces of paper
and cloth, some thread, dis
carded spools from a local
mill, etc) and create. There
were no limitations on the
creations except that the boys
were to try to be original. Se
crecy held up pretty well, re
sulting in only one or two
duplicate projects.
Cub Master Joe Maxwell
introduced the judges* Carlyle
Bledsoe, Danny Bledsoe, and
exchange student Ricardo
Checchia. While the judges
deliberated, each den demon
strated its genius with humer
ous skits. David Styles added
a touch of Magic to the show.
Plans were made for the
up and coming Pinewood Der
by just after the announcement
of the winners. Ist, 2nd, and
third prize were. ... "more like
Warning On
Siphoning
A person who decides to ma
nipulate a tank of gasoline by
siphoning with a rubber tube is
risking severe illness and possi
ble death, according to Dr. Ro
bert Neely of the Division of
Health Services.
Neely said there are two
danger* in siphoning gasoline.
'The possibility of drawing
gasoline into the lungs during
the siphoning process is very
real, " Neely said. "Gasoline
is a hydrocarbon, volatile and
can cause irritation of the small
air sacs of the lung—resulting
in pneumonia. Less than a tea
spoonful is all it takes. Gaso
line vomited from the stomach
and drawn into the lungs can
have the same effect, "
Neely said gasoline fumes
have the same effect an a per
son's brain that glue sniffing
does. Sniffing gasoline fumes
continually over a period of
two hours has been knovn to
cause death. He pointed out,
however, that some individuals
can tolerate more fumes than
othen.
"When gasoline fumes enter
the windpipe they can cause
bronchial spasms and the vic
tim can smother to death if
Immediate aid is not given,"
Neely said. "Aid should con
sist of mouth to mouth resusci
tation and immediate medical
care. The patient should never
be made to vomit. The gaso -
line should be removed from
the stomach under medical su
pervision. "
There are commercial de
vices that can be purchased if
a person finds it necessary to
transfer gasoline from one con
tainer to another via thesipton
method. However, Neely ad
vised extreme caution when
made equipment.
10 c
a tie. . . " according to judges.
Recipients were Bill Koch,
Billy Woody and Tommy Max
well. Seven boys were awar
ded honorable mention.
Pack 502 is now under the
sponsorship of Higgins Memor
ial United Methodist Church.
Boys from 8- 10 interested in
joining cubs are encouraged to
bring their parents to a month
ly pack meeting. Meetings
are usually held at the Metho
dist Church on the second
Thursday of each month. To
verify meeting time
contact Joe Maxwell or Mr.
or Mrs. Thom Koch.
I Wildcat 1
Basketball |
By Wade Biddix and
Chris Chrisawn
On Thursday, January 3,1974,
the South Toe Wildcats defeat
ed the Burnsville Tigers by the
score of 36 - 28. Leading the
Wildcats were Darryl Huskins
with 14 points, Scott Westall
with 10, Wade Biddix contribu
ted 8, while Chris Chrisawn
made 4 points. South Toe had
two players who played and did
not score. South Toe wasO for
2 from the free-throw line, and
Burnsville was oof 4. This
made South Toe 1-0 and Burns
ville 0-2. South Toe's next
game will be with Burnsville on
the 17th.
The South Toe girls were de
feated by the score of 37-30 in
a game with Burnsville girls.
The Wildcat's scoring was led
by Sue Wilson with 12 and Ca
thy Murphy with 8. Rounding
out the scoring was T eresa Bart
lett and Pam Biddix with 4 and
6 respectively. Everybody
played for South Toe who was
suited up. This makes the girls
record 0-1. Leading Burnsville
scoring was Sandra Fox with 21
and Jeannie Biggerstaff with 9.
The South Toe girls went 0 for
3 from the foul line , while
Burnsville was 6 for 11. Fouled
out were* Sue Wilson and Pam
Biddix for South Toe.
Fall Quarter
Honors At ASH
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Students from Yancey Coun
ty were among the total of
1,250 students who earned fall
quarter academic honors and
have been placed on the Dean's
List at Appalachian State Uni -
versity. The students are*
Clara Jean Biggerstaff, a junior,
of Burnsville; Janice Gail Hun
ter, a sophomore, of Burnsidlle;
Marilyn Ruth Laughrun, a junior;
of Burnsville; James A. Norris,
a sophomore, of Route 2,Burns
ville; Diana Lynne Styles, a
junior, of Route. 2, Burnsville;
Janice Lelan Young, sephomore,
of Route 2, Burnsville.
To qualify for this honor, a
■tudent must maintain a B ave
rage on at least 12 quarter lours
of work with no grade below C.
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