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: THE YANCEY JOURNAL FEBRUARY 7, 1974
Are IVe Losing Control Through'Regionalism'?
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pie. Early la>t month the District Director horn Boone saw
fit to fire the well-liked nurse who for over a year had work
ed exclusively in Yancey County building up and conducting
the program Home Health Agency. The point we consider
most significant to our argument is that not one of the Yan
cey County board members knew anything about the firing
until after it had occurred. Nor had any one of diem re
ceived any intimation that there were any shortcomings in
this nurse's performance. ,
It is not our purpose here to review the alleged justifica
tion for the firing. Here, we will only say that after a
thorough inquiry it appears to us, crystal clear, that the
firing was a blunder. Further, we feel sure that had Yan
cey County been running its own health department, the
cruel injustice to thii nurse would not have been perpetrated.
Directive Effectively Muzzles Local Employees
If further evidence is needed to show how local control
gets suppressed under regionalism, here is a good example
—a Ist horn the Health Department. In a mimeographed
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directive recently issued to employees from the headquar -
ters in Boone, we find the following:
"No discussion of internal district problems shall
take place with either Board of Health members
or County Commissioners witliout specific appro
val of the Director."
This order muzzling employees cannot fail to stifle local
control. Under it, not one of the nine health department
employees working in Yancey County is permitted to talk
directly about department problems to precisely those peo
ple who, as board members, should keep best informed
about the health department problems affecting our county.
The question now remains: Has Yancey County given
up its voice in too many local affairs in return for bright
promises of bureaucrats from Raleigh and Washington, who
have everything to gain and nothing to lose by insisting
that counties be grouped into regions or districts to reap the
benefits of what is actually our own tax money to begin with.
We believe that decisions for or against joining "regiona
lism" set-ups should be made with full awareness of how
much of our precious freedom to govern ourselves will be
lost in the process.
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THE YANCEY JOURNAL
Box 667
Burnsville, N.C. 28714
Ed Yuziuk-Publisher
Carolyn Yuziulr- Editor
Patsv Randolph - Manager
Published Every Thursday
liy
Twin Cities Publishing Co.
2nd Class Postage Paid
At Burnsville, N.C.
Thursday, February 7, 1974
Number 6
Subscription Rates By Mail:
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Six Months $3.12
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** VA News Report **
A record $303.8 million in
Veterans Administration insur
ance dividends will be paid to
nearly 3.9 million veterans in
sured under World Wars I and II
government life insurance po
licies, starting this month.
H. W. Johnson, Director
of the Winston- Salem VA Re
gional Office, said increased
dividends result chiefly from
higher interest earnings in the
National Service life Insurance
(World War H NSLI) and United
States Government Life Insu* -
ance (World War I USGLljfund*.
"Veterans expecting checks
need not contact VA concern
ing dividends since they will
be paid automatically on a uni-
Happy Haven
For Widows
By Mimi Cunningham
Although the War Between
the States is long over and its
veterans dead and buried, the
State of North Carolina each
year pays a total of $13,500
in pensions to 15 widows of
Confederate soldiers. Each
widow receives $75. 00 a ironth.
And, one of two such remain
ing homes in the South, the
Confederate Women's Home,
located on Fort Bragg Road in
Fayetteville, provides housing
and care for one of the widows
and 31 of the daughters of the
men who fought for tile Stars
and Bars.
With a total of 14 employ
ees serving 32 clients (or grests
as they are called), the Con
federate Women's Home is
one of the smallest components
of the Department of Human
Resources. It is also one of
the most unusual.
For 58 years, it has served
a* a "happy haven" for needy
widows and daughters of Con
federate soldiers. An act of
the 1913 General Assembly es
tablished the institution with an
appropriation of slCl,ooo for
building purposes and $5,000 a
year for maintenance, ft first
opened November, 1915.
Today the Home operates on
a $144,821 yearly budget. Ap
proximately one-third of the
funds come from the residents'
pensions or social security
checks which are signed overt©
the Home as part of admission
requirements.
In return, the ladies are pro
vided with food, lodging, plus
the services of a full-time re
gistered nurse. Perhaps most
important, they know that some
one cares about them and will
try to make their last years
pleasant.
To qualify for admission,
one must be over 65 and "must
; show herself to be a needy wi
, dow or daughter, of a North
* Carolina Confederate soldier
who saw active service. "
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niversary this month? How
about flowers from the flo
rists with the “extra touch?”
FTD florists have a special
Forget-Me-Not Bouquet for
those special days. And this
month has been special for
many reasons over the years —
FES. 4. On this date in
1861, delegates from six se
ceding southern states formed
the Confederacy.
FEB. 9. In 1718, the first
French colonists arrived in
Louisiana.
FEB. 10. In 1763, France
ceded Canada to England as
the Treaty of Paris was signed,
ending the French and Indian
War.
FEB. 14. Arizona was ad
mitted to the Union as the
48th State on this date in
1912.
FEB. 18. In 1861, Jeffer
son Davis was sworn in as
President of the Confederacy
at Montgomery, Alabama.
FEB. 24. Impeachment
proceedings against President
Andrew Johnson were begun
in Congress on this date in
1868.
FEB. 25. In 1913 on this
date, the 16th Amendment
to the United States Constitu
tion went into effect, giving
Congress the authority to levy
income taxes.
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Letter To
The Editor ©
Dear Editor: -
So, at laat, Yancey County 3* beginning to experience
"the gasoline crunch". In my opinion,* there would be
3096 more gasoline for those who truly need it if some of
the senior citizens, including the writer, would permittheir
vehicles to set 5 days out of each week. (Unless hauling
wood from the forest, the writer does this consistently).
There are families who are running 2 or 3 cars needless
ly every day of the week. Many students probably are dri
ving who could ride the bines, and even walk to keep in
condition for athletics. People who live in town could
walk 3/4 up to 1 mile and probably accomplish what diets
and health fads do not do.
The electiical, energy crisis could be alleviated a bit,
if some of the Yancey County citizenry would not fire up
an automatic washer 4or S days out of each week — once
weekly should be enough if one can manage at all.
Trapping and poisoning rats and mice would hblp ease
the flour and wheat shortage more than one might think.
ft is the duty of ministers of their congregations to at
least encourage car pooling for church attendance. Teach
ers of public schools might form a car pool or two, also.
Serious gardening to fight the unreasonable prices of
food where there's been none before, would also help.
Many people are burning wood for heat and for cooking.
It can be done in many instances without any suffering or
sacrifice.
Many prices on consumer items today are away out of
, line, and where legitimate protest is justified consumers
should protest. Perhaps the truck lines have a justifiable
complaint. Maybe American citizens, 200 million,could
live less expensively and less cramped if exports in wheat,
oil, and cotton were decreased.
You may "hate me" for saying these things and writing
this letter, but the "sad sack" truth of it is that 200 mil
lions of us are so thoughtlessly wasteful and so pampered
in unnecessary luxury that we cannot even try to econo -
mize, save, and eliminate waste of all commodities. As
many do realize it is probably past time and away part due
for millions of us to change our wasteful, materialistic
ways of living.
If you have any better ideas, Pd like to see thom in
print, including those of the Journal Editor, President of
the Chamber bf Commerce, Chairman of County Commis
sioners, and Superintendent of Schools.
Yours Sincerely and Respectfully,
Vernon D. Stenzel, South ToeTowahip
Yancey Health Dept.
FEBRUARY SCHF.DULE
Feb. 4, Monday Immunization Clinic 8:30 - 11:30
Feb. 5, Tuesday Nurse Screening Clinic 8: 30 - 12:00
Maternal Nurse Clinic 12:30- 3:30
Feb. 6, Wednesday Eye Clinic (App't only) 8:30-11:00
Feb. 7, Thursday Mental Health Clinic (App't only)
Feb. 11, Monday Immunization Clinic 8:30 - 11:30
Nurse Screening 1:00 - 3:00
Feb. 12, Tuesday Child Health,Dr. Pope 8:30 - 3:30
Feb. 14, Thursday Family Planning Clinic, 8:30 - 12:00
Dr. Webb
Maternal Nurse Clinic, 4:30- 7:00
Miss Kingham
Feb. 18, Monday Immunization Clinic 8:30 - 11:30
Feb. 19, Tuesday Nurse Screening 8:30 - 11:30
Maternal Nurse,
Miss Kingham 12:30 - 3:30
Feb. 25, Monday Immunization Clinic 8:30 - 11:30
Nurse Screening 1:00 - 3:00 _
Feb. 26, Tuesday Child Health, Dr. Pope 8:30- 3:30
Feb. 27, Wednesday Orthopedic Clinic,
Dr. Galloway 8:30 - 10:00
Feb. 28, Thursday Family Planning Clinic,B: 30 - 12KX)
Dr. Webb *
Maternal Nurse, 4:30- 7SOO
Miss Kingham
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The Sleeping Partner, by
Winston Graham. 1956. Dou -
bleday and Co., Inc., N.Y.
L erve is blind (so they say),
but just how blind can a hus
band be when his wife practical
ly flaunts her infidelities in his
face? So blind (or stupid) that
he actually encourages her in
it—all in the name of good
faith, of course. Such is the
story (or mystery) of the chill -
ing suspense novel, The Sleep
ing Partner, by Winston GrAam.
Starting from scratch, Mich
ael Granville, successful young
seeks to unravel the
mystery of his missing wife,
- Lynn. True, she had left him,
bag and baggage, with only a
Dear John note for a clue. Un
wittingly, another minor clue
sparks his search! she had tak
en his toothpaste, which he
knew she utterly despised. Her
signature at the bank did not
look exactly right, either. One
thing leads to another until he
finally discovers the double life
that Lynn had been leading,
which finally had led to her
murder.
During Michael's search for
Lynn, an unexpected love
story develops from another
quarter. It has complications
also, but of a different nature.
So different that the readerwon
ders if this is for real. How good
is good if a man goes all the
way to save the life and repu -
tation of a man who has won
his own wife's love?
With out preaching or moral
izing (much), the story abruptly
comes to an end. It sounds plau
sible (we suppose) when Mich -
ael decides "to thine own self
be true, and it must follow as
the night the day, thou canst
not then be false to any man. "
So, off he rides into the wild
blue yonder—in this case,Africa,
So ends the story.