VOL. 3, NO. 9
World Day Os Prayer
Has Theme Os Peace
Tl|e annual World Day of
PrayeJuWorship Service will be
held on Friday evening, March
1, at 8:00 p. m. at the Fist
Baptist Church, Burnsville.
The theme of this year's
service is "Make Us Builders
of Peace. " It was written by
a group of Japanese women.
The World Day of Prayer is
officially sponsored by Church
Women United, hi the service
in Burnsville, women from the
Newdale Presbyterian Church,
Faith Fellowship, West Burns
ville Baptist, Higgins Memor
ial Methodist, Bolen's Creek
Baptist, Sacred Heart Catholic,
Griffith Chapel AME Zion,First
Presbyterian, and First Baptist
Churches will participate.
The Keynote speaker will
be Miss Edith Morgan,minister
of the Bald Creek Methodist
Charge and former toreign mis
sionary.
Sheriff At
I
USC Program
Sheriff Kermit Banks of Yan
cey County is presently part of
an intensive training program
in the latest management tech
niques at the University of Sou
thern California. Funded by a
grant from the Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration of
the United States Department
of Justice, the program is spon
sored by the National Sheriffs'
Association through its National
Sheriffs' Institute. The train -
ing is provided by the Universi
ty's Center for the Administra
tion of Justice in its School of
Public Administration.
Along with 66 other sheriffs
from 30 states, Sheriff banks is
participating in classes on super
vision, leadership, and motiva
tion of personnel; effective
communication; jail manage -
ment; agency goal-setting and
guidance; budgeting and fiscal
control; administrative law;
and numerous other subjects.
T his program represents the
first organized attempt to deal
with the management role of
the elected sheriff. Most train
ing efforts in the past have con
centrated on the law enforce -
ment, court, and correctional
i*. duties of the office, while ig -
ntring the fact that the sheriff
must be an effective manager
if he is to successfully perform
these other roles.
These two weeks on USC's
campus do not represent the end
of the training program. Each
sheriff has committed himself
to continue the educational pro
cess for several mare months.
The National Sheriffs' Instituted
training staff will be in regular
contact with Sheriff Banks, pro
viding him with reading, cor
respondence lesions, and tele
phone consultations dealing vith
day-to-day management prob
lems. This pioneering effort
combines the forces of the Na
tional Sheriffs' Association, the
United States Department of Jus
tice, the University of Southern
California and concerned sheriffs
to strengthen this key office in
our criminal justice system.
THE YANCEY JOURNAL
The offering will go to
help mission projects through
out the world, including aid
to Christian colleges for wo -
men in Asia, shoes for child -
ren in Headstart in the United
States, health programs in Me
xico, Jamaica, Curacao,Trini
dad, and Lebanon, and a minis
try among women political
prisoners in Indonesia.
On this World Day of Prayer;
we will be joining people in
over 160 countries in an ecu -
menical expression of our inten
tion to be "Builders of Peace?'.
Everyone—men, women,
youth, and children are invited
to attend.
Candidates
For Office
The deadline for filing for
various offices in the May 7th
Primary in Yancey County was
February 25th. On that date,
the following people had filed
as candidates:
On the Democratic side and
listed according to the date on
which they filed: for sheriff-
R. B. Deyton, Ben Lee Fox, Jim
Chandler, John P. Ollis; for
Clerk of Court—C.Wintz Mc-
Intosh and Bill Bailey. O. W.
Deyton and Harry Hayter have
filed for Chairman of the Coun
ty Ccmmissioners and Troy
Boone, Arthur Proffitt and Frank
Fox have filed for places on
the Board.
On the Republican side,
Kermit Banks filed for sheriff;
Arnold Higgins for Clerk of
Court; Woodrow Ballew for the
County Commissioner. Dean
Chrisawn filed for the State
House of Representatives for
the 41st District.
The School Board election
will also take place on May 7.
This will be a final election
and not subject to the Novem
ber General Election. School
Board members are elected on
a county-wide non-partisan ba
sis. Two of the five positions
on the Board are to be filled
this year and the following peo
ple seek election to these two
seats, listed according to the
date on which they filed:
Charles Hopson, Charles Gilles
pie, Jr., Romie Burns, Jim
Gardner, Carolyn Yuziuk.
ASU Course Set
For Burnsville
Appalachian State Univer -
sity will offer an off - campus
coune this spring, Economics
48 l t Current Problems in Eco -
nomics, for school penonnel,
both college credit and renewal
—elementary and secondary.
The coune will be taught at
the Burnsville Elementary
School by Dr. Bairy Elledge
from March 6 through May 8,
4:30 - 7:30 p. m. The coune
will meet for ten weeks or thir
ty clock houm. The cost of
extension tuition is $12.00 per
quarter hour per person plus
SIO.OO initial coune fee for
those who have not previously
registered with Appalachian.
BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
4-H Poster Contest Will
Stress Traffic Safety
To help young people be
more aware of traffic safety, a
4-H Poster contest is being con
ducted. Any boy or girl 9-12
yean old may participate in
the contest by making a pos
ter cn one of the follow ing to
pics: bicycle safety, pedestrian
safety, automotive safety,safe
ty belt usage, motorcycle safe
ty, or school bus safety. The
poster should be on 8 1/2" x 11"
paper. The person entering
the contest should print his
name, address, age, parent!s
name, and county on theback
of the poster. The poster must
be mailed to: 4-H Poster Con
test, North Carolina State Uni
venity, Raleigh, N.C. 27607.
The postert will be judged on
creativeness, attractiveness,
Republitans To
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Hold Dinner
There will be a Republican
Dinner in Yancey County on
March 2, 1974, starting at
7 o'clock p. m. The dinner
will be held at Cane River High
School at Cane River.
Guest speaker will be Grady
Franklin, Executive Secretary
of the State Republican Party
and W. Scott Harvey, Secretary
of Commerce. Kermit Bank%
Arnold Higgins, Harey Hayter,
Woodrow Ballew, Dean Chri -
sawn and Earl Young will also
be present.
Following these speakers,
Dean Chrisawn, who is running
for the House of Representathes
in the Yancey and McDowell
District, will also be a speaker.
Republicans in Yancey
County are looking forward to
a huge crowd. If anyone does
not have tickets, please call
R. C. Parsley, Janice B. Boone,
Kermit Banks and they will see
that you get tickets—or you
may purchase them at the door.
A county-wide Republican
meeting will be held at the
Yancey County Courthouse on
Friday night at 7:00 p. m. All
Precinct Chairmen and Judges
please be present.
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Burnsville Third Graders Perform
A special program was presented at the Burnsville Elementary PTA meeting February 19,
by the Burnsville 3rd graders assisted by their teachers: Mrs. Billie Jo Deyton, Miss Made -
lyn Bailey and Miss Linda Campbell. Appropriate for February, the boys and girls dressed
in red, white and blue, spoke on George Washington, Abe Lincoln and other great leaders.
and educational value.
Each person entering the
contest will receive a safety
belt game. One winner in
each county will receive a bi
cycle maintenance and safety
kit, and one state winner will
receive a bicycle. The con
test is being sponsored by the
North Carolina Agricultural Ex
tension Service. If you need
more information contact the
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Yancey County Extension Of
fice.
Bald Creek
Cubs Have
Banquet
The Bald Creek Cub Scouts,
Troop 810, held their first Blue
and G o ld Banquet February 23,
1974 at 7:00 p. m. Cub master
Bobby Proffitt, presided over
the meeting, which was held
in the school cafeteria.
The cheerleaders served the
meal that parents and den mo
thers had prepared. Rev.Har -
old McDonald gave devotions
and some magic tricks which
the boys haven't solved yet.
Arthur Morrison, Trooper State
Highway Patrol, gave the boys
a talk about bicycle safety, pe
destrian safety and answered
questions. He also talked with
parents about speed timing de
vices and answered questions
from individuals about motor
vehicle laws.
Ronnie Proffitt, School Prin
cipal gave the boys and parents
a talk about scouting and the
goals scouting will help the boys
to reach if parents and teachers
help these boys in their youth.
The Cubs and Webelos pre
sented to their mothers a beau
tiful corsage. Several of their
projects were on display. One
project was bird feeders that
Jack Buckner had helped the
boys from Den 3 construct.
The Webelos received their
athletic badge that leaders Per
ry Norton and J. T. Randolph
helped them achieve. Rodney
Garland, new scout in Den 2,
received his Bobcat Badge; and
other Cub Scouts received their
Bear and Wolf Badges.
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David And Marlene Goodrum And Rachel
Couple Called To Ministry
By Nat'l Presbyterians
David and Marlene Good
rum have recently been called
to serve as Minister to the Na
tional Presbyterian Churches of
Estatoa and Frank, North Caro
lina. They look forward with
great expectation to the work
ahead of them.
Dave and Marlene have been
married for nearly six years and
are the proud parents of 15-
month-old Rachel. The first
three years of their life together
was spent in Dave's completiai
of college and seminary, that
time ending with graduation
from Covenant Seminary, St.
Louis, Missouri. During that
time in the state of Virginia
and Missouri, Marlene taught
math and art in junior and sen
ior high schools. Before their
acceptance of the call to serve
in North Carolina, tiis young
couple were involved in an ef
fort to reach the mission field
in Kenya, Africa. They were
accepted candidates under
World Presbyterian Missions of
the Reformed Presbyterian
Church. For many reasons and
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1974
after much thought and prayejj
however, they decided to re
main in the States and serve.
Dave grew up in the mission
field in Congo (now Zaire), Af
rica. His parents were involved
in industrial mission work, such
as construction, maintenance,
architecture, and the like. His
father kept the mission going
i n the physical sense. In this
adventuresome land, Dave liv
ed with his three brothers and
one sister, spending a great
deal of time in boarding sc hod
Jbr missionaries' children. Al
though he got into a lot of
scrapes, a lot of them the re
sult of his mischievious, inde- ‘
pendent nature, he remembers
his childhood days in Congo
with much fondness and delight
Even though every-four-years
furloughs in Houston, Texas
(his home town) were some -
times eventful, he always look
ed forward to returnirig to his
home, Congo. There he shar
ed in adventures of hunting
hippo and crocodile, eating
eels and manioc mush, inter* —""
preting for UN troops, driving
truckloads of evacuating mis
sionaries to safety, etc. His fa
ther was mission pilot and air
plane mechanic, and from this
Dave developed a love for the
adventure of flying. Prom his
Heavenly Father, Dave receiv
ed his desire to tell others of
redemption through Jesus Christy
and this he did in his latteryears
in Congo, as a young evangel
with an African friend.
Marlene grew up as the dug li
ter of a Baptist minister in West
Virginia. She and two sisters
loved the life of P. K. 's in the
rural hills of that area. Perht.ps
that is one reason she loves it
in North Carolina so much. Her
love for working with her hands
making something out of noth
ing, and her love for "Justphin
folks" make her feel right at
home in theae mountains.
The Goodrums are looking
forward to the birth of their se
cond child the first part of May.
They are presently 11 ving in
the cabin owned by Mrs. Dixie
Mayberry In Celo.
Young Men Are Required
To Register For Service
Your" men bom in 1955
will have their Selective Ser
vice lottery numbers drawn on
March 20, William H. McCache
ren, State Director of Selective
Service for North Carolina, an
nounced today.
Even though there are no
plans to resume call- ups for
involuntary inductions, McCach
ren stated that the annual Se
lective Service lottery drawing
for young men who become 19
years of age during 1974 will
be held in Washington, D.C.,
on the above date.
According to McCachren,
there are approximately
young men born in 1955 who
are registered with North Car o
lina local boards, and who will
have their lottery numbers es
tablished by this drawing.
" As a result of the lottery
numbers which are drawn, "Mc-
Cachren said, "some of the
young men born in 1955 will be
placed in a class available for
service by their local boards.
This group will form a standby
pool of 'readily available'men
diving 1975. This pool will be
available to supplement the
volunteer armed forces in the
event of a national requirement,"
According to McCachren,
the Militaty Selective Service
Act requires all young men to
register with the System during
the 60-day period beginning
FHA Has Funds
To Build Homes
The Farmers Home Admin -
istratfon has fundi to finance
homes, building sites, and es
sential farm service buildings.
Home Ownership loans may
be used to build, improve, re
pair or rehabilitate rural home:
and related facilities, farm ser
vice buildings and waste dispo
sal systems and to provide an
adequate safe water supply for
household and farmstead use.
Prior to this article we were
ably able to assist families with
adjusted income of $9300.0(1
We are happy to announce now
we can assist eligible families
with an adjusted income of
$11,500.00. This is a very sig
nificant change. This means
that FHA can assist many more
families.
If interested, please come
by the FHA Office in Burns
ville or call 682-2319.
Sales And Use
Tax Report
A report of local IK Sales
and Use Tax collections by
county for January, 1974, was
published recently by J. Howard
Coble, secretary, North Caro
lina Department o i Revenue in
Raleigh.
The report shows Yancey
County collected the amount
of $19,471.05 during January.
This compares favorable with
Mitchell County collect!one of
just over $20,000 and exceeds
of $14,05“ «>. Maditon COUnty
10‘
30 days prior to their 18th birth
day. "Failure to register, "Mc-
Cachren said, "can bring a
penalty of as much as 5 years
imprisonment or a fine of $lO,
000, or both, " McCachren
f urther added that Selective
Service has provided ways which
enable young men to register
with minimum inconvenience.
"Volunteer registrars, many
of whom are located in our
high schools, have been ap
pointed in counties where there
are no local board offices, "
and McCachren further added
that 18-year-old young men in
Yancey County who have not
yet registered may do so with
Mrs. Jewell W. Mclntosh, Ve
terans Service Office in Burns
ville, N.C.
Pastor Takes
New Position
Reverend Harold McDonald
pastor of First Baptist Church,
Burnsville far more than nine
> years, recently presented his
resignation to the deacons of
that church. In a special calk
ed business meeting on Sun
day morning, February 17, the
letter of resignation was presen
ted to the church by the dea
cons and accepted by the church.
In his letter, Rev. Me Don -
aid said, in part, "It is, there
fore, with deeply mixed emo -
tions that I announce to tkif
church that I love so dearly tint
I have received and accepted a
call to become pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Albemar
le, N.C. There is an excite -
ment in accepting a challenge
to which I feel so certain, after
four months of prayer and deli
beration, that God is leading
me. But there is an abiding
sadness that receiving this call
of God necessitates leaving you
who have come to mean ao
much to me. The years that*!
have spent as pastor of this
church and the people who have
become so much a part of my
life, will never be. forgotten. "
In speaking of the building
program of the church, in which
a new church was erected div
ing his pastorate here, Rev .Mc-
Donald said, ’The experience
of undertaking a building prog
ram of the size and magnitude
of this one was, indeed, a ven
ture of faith that bound pastor
and people, church and God,
closer together."
Rev. McDonald's resigna
tion will become effective as
of Sunday, March 17, 1974. In
the called business conference
of February 17, the deacons
recommended the acceptance
of their pastor's resignation by
the church and suggested that
the church authorize the d«cons
to serve as a Nominating Com
mittee to select and present to
the church for consideration
names of those to make tin .
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A "Farewell Dinner" was
given for Rev. and Mrs. Me Don- §
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