THE YANCEY JOURNAL
VOL. 3, NO. 11
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New Sign For Chamber
A new sign for the Yancey County Chamber of Commerce was placed on the building
on March 7th at its new location on the South side of the Burnsville Town Square. The
sign was made by the Trade and Industrial Education Department of Cane River High
School, under the direction of Jack Buckner and Flay Hensley.
Chamber Os Commerce Plans
Highway Improvement Push
The Board of Directors of
Yancey County Chamber of
Commerce met at First-Citizens
Bank and Trust Company at
8:00 p. m. on March 7th. Pre
sident J. Ardell Sink presided
with almost full attendance of
directors.
Many items of business ap
peared on the agenda and were
handled with much enthusiasm
on the part of the directors.
William Hess, temporary
chairman of the Yancey County
Bicentennial Committee, at
tended the meeting and repor -
ted the organizational progress
of his committee which is spon
sored by the Chamber of Com
merce.
The directors passed a reso
lution requesting the upgrading
and completion oi the section
of Highway 19 between Cane
River bridge and the Madison
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New Board Members Sworn In
Madeline Bryant, Assistant Clerk of Court, officiated at the swearing in of Janice
Boone and Luther Aye* to the Yancey County Board of Elections. According to a Repub
lican spokesman this is the first time in 72 years that there has been a Republican ma
jority cm the local Board of Elections. The State Board of Elections which was sworn in
last November, also had a Republican majority for die first time in modem history. Mrs.
Boone was elected chairman of the board at a meeting following the ceremony.
County line. Letters and tele
phone calls are being made al
most daily to the Governor and
the Highway Commissioners in
an all out effort to get this sec
tion of highway improved.
The Medical Search Com
mittee reported that prospects
are good for additional physi -
cians and a dental surgeon to
locate in Yancey County in the
near future.
The "face-lifting" project
in Burnsville is moving forward
rapidly and soon the building
previously occupied by the
Chamber of Commerce will be
removed from its present loca
tion to make room for improve
ments on the Town Square.
Plans are being made for
the Annual-Chamber of Com
merce dinner meeting to be
held in April and committees
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Farewell Dinner Honors Good Friends
Rev. and Mrs. Harold McDonald were feted with a gift, cards, and many good wishes
at a dinner held at Beams Restaurant on Monday night, March 11. Attending were Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Holcombe, Dr. and Mrs. Garland Wamp
ler, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Hensley, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Young, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hunter,
Mr. and Mrs. Ardell Sink and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Yuziuk. Next Sunday will be the last sen
vice for Rev. McDonald as minister of First Baptist Church here, as he moves to a new
ministery at First Baptist Church of Albemarle, N.C.
Schools To
Get Funds
Yancey County Schoolswjll
receive a total of $6, 556 • 00
in previously impounded feden
al funds for occupational edu
cation programs. These funds
are part of almost $1.5 million
allocated to North Carolina
schools in 1972-73, but im
pounded by President Nixon.
Every school unit in the
State will receive money for
equipment, materials, and pro
fessional development of oc
cupational education programs
The school unit must reserve
a portion of this money to pay
for local participation in the
following three state-sponsored
institutes! one or more teach
ers to attend a middle grades
exploration certification work
shop; one or more persons to
attend a vocational guidance
counselor workshop; and a
chairman of a local occupa -
taonal advisory committee and
local director/planner to at
tend a three-day local advisory
committee chairman workshop.
Good Quality Hardwood Is
'Nearest Thing To Gold’
(Information taken from an
article in The Christian Science
Monitor, Wednesday, March 6,
1974, written by Peter Tonge.)
In some parts of the United
States walnut rustlers prowl,
lured on by the soaring price
of this fine hardwood. A farm
er recently cut down an old
black walnut tree at his home
in the Seattle District of Wash
ington. Then, because the
felled timber was the "nearest
thing to gold" he'd ever see
lying around his front garden,
he quickly camouflaged the
logs with pine boughs and set
off to find a buyer. Nowadays
this is deemed a wise precau
tion, as the demand for quali
ty hardwoods is soaring.
Remember! Friday,
March 15, is the dead
line far obtaining your
1974 license plates.
THURSDAY, MARCH 14,1974
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Successful 'Open House f Held
Tours were conducted of the doctor's office facilities and refreshments were enjoyed
at a highly successful "Open House" held last Sunday, March 10. The affair was sponsor
ed by Mrs. Janet Banks, Mrs. Betty Young, Mrs. Ginny Banks, Mrs. Billie Marie Ray and
Mrs. Julia Ray at the new office building in Banks Family Square Shopping Center.
As with the walnut, many
of the fine hardwoods are fast
becoming a priceless commo
dity. While hardwood growth
in the U. S. exceeds annual
demand by 25 percent, the
quality of much of the acre
age leaves much to be desired.
Too many trees competing in
an overcrowded environment
appears to be the problem.
Plastic substitutes, almost
perfectly imitating the beauty
and texture of wood, relieved
the scarcity of good hardwood
in the past. But the
more discriminating now, re
jects the plastic substitutes
and wants the "real thing. "
The shortage of petroleum,
from which plastic is derived,
can only make the situation
worse.
Hardwoods are used for
floors and fittings of house % for
kitchen cabinets, sporting gaod%
musical instruments. Hard -
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Girl Scout Week 1974, the
9th through the 16th of March,
marks the 62nd anniversary of
the founding of Girl Scouting.
The observance of Girl Scout
Week commemorates the es
tablishment of Girl Scouts in
the United States when Juliette
Gordon Low held the first troop
meeting in her home in Savan
nah, Georgia, in 1912, thereby
initiating the Girl Scout move
ment which has reputedly in
fluenced the lives of 33 mil
lion people.
Numerous localized events
are planned by various Yancey
Girl Scout troops as they pre
pare for this special week. Ob
servance of Girl Scout Week
began with Brownies, Girl
Scouts, their scout leaders and
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Girl Scouts To Print Paper
Girl Scouts in Troop #65 in Yancey County are going to print a "newspaper" of Girl
Scout News and Burnsville School News. The name of the paper will be Tiger Express,
The girls will be taking orders from the school kids and papers will be sold at 54 each.
All profit will be for the Girl Scouts, and girls involved in this endeavor will be printing
to earn their Reporter Badge. Troop #65 includes Mary Ann Black, Debbie Ray, Lavenia
Peterson and Marie King. Patrol leader is Jean Mclntosh, Assistant Patrol leader is
Dayna Aldridge. Shown above, the girls inspect the newspaper makeup of The Yancey
Journal at the office in Burnsville. ,
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members of the Yancey Neigh
borhood Service Team attend
ing a joint worship service at
the First Presbyterian Church
of Burnsville on Sunday, March
10th. Miss Karen Mclntosh
of Senior Troop #66 delivered
to the congregation a resume
of. Girl Scout activities in Yan
cey County.
During the week, a Girl
Scout display can be seen in
the window of Ye Old Fabric
Shoppe. This exhibit is pre
pared by Cadette Troop #65.
On Fiiday, March 15th, at
6:30 p. m. in the social room
of the Burnsville Methodist
Chinch, a Girl Scout family
night cover dish supper will
climax the week's activities.
All iroops will be participating
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New Social
Security Law
A new law which would
affect 5,300 disabled people
in North Carolina is under con
sideration in Congress, acccr -
ding to A. Glenn Moore, Mana
ger’ of the Asheville Social
Security Office.
"The bill, which was pass
ed by the House of Representa
tives March 5, would prevent
an April 1 cutoff in Supplemen
tal Security Income payments
to people who started getting
disability payments from the
State after June 1973, " he ex
plained.
" Under the original law,
which was passed in 1972, we
would have continued payments
to everyone who has been get
ting disability payments from
the State in December, " Mr.
Mocre said.
"But a change made on De
cember 31—after the first
month's checks were already in
the mail—requires us to make
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in the planning and hostessing
of this event. A film, "Give
Her Love, " a yearly report on
the activities of the Pisgah
Girl Scout Council, is schedul
ed as part of the evening's en
tertainment planned by the
troops for their families and
friends.
The purpose of Girl Scout
ing is beautifully expressed in
the words of Cathy Chapim
Together,hand in hand
Withiopen hearts
We seek reality;
As a girl in search of truth
Flies among the clouds.
L ooking into ourselves,
To one another, and to
the Great Spirit
We have found real life here
Among our sister scouts.