THE YANCEY JOURNAL
VOL 3, NO. 13
Garden Month Proclaimed
COUNTY OF YANCEY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Whereas, the well-being of all the county's citizens de
pends in large measure upon adequate exercise and a plen
,, tiful supply of nutritious and wholesome food; and
Whereas, there is an opportunity for many people to pro
duce their fruit and vegetable needs; and
Whereas, gas shortages limit weekend travel and rising
food costs promise to promote an interest in home gardening;
and
Whereas, there is growing interest among families and
individuals to spend free time in a constructive manner;
Therefore, the Board of Commissi oner’s proclaims the
month of March 21 to April 21 to be
HOME GARDEN MONTH
and commends this observance to the county's citizens.
For the Board,
O.W.Deyton, Chairman,
Board of Commissioners
Burnsville, N.C.
Extension Service Plans
Gardening Workshop Here
By Johnny Hensley
The Yancey County Exten
sion Service Staff will conduct
a county wide Gardening Plan
ning Workshop on Thursday,
March 28. The workshop will
be held in the courtroom at
1:30 p. m. All interested gar
deners are encouraged to attend.
Backyard Gardening, Mini
gardening, Disease and Insect
Control Tips are planned to
acquaint gardeners with the
opportunities possible with home
gardening.
The first 30 days of spring,
March 21 to April 21, have
been proclaimed "Home Gard
en Month" in Yancey County
in keeping with a statewide
proclamation by Governor
James E. Holshouser, Jr.
The County Board of Com
missioners joined in the state
observance —the first of its
kind in North Carolina —by
adopting a local proclamation.
Special emphasis is being plac
ed on home gardening by the
N. C. Agricultural Extension
Service in all 100 counties
through a program called GIFE,
for 'Gardening Is For Everyone."
There is expanding interest
throughout the state, including
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Men's Club Installs Officers
The Burnsville Men's Club entertained a large group at Ladies Night program Monday.
A delicious meal prepared by the Jaycettes began the evening enjoyment. Incoming offi -
cers: (left to right) John Martin, Vice President; Hazen Ledford, President find Vemie Wil
son, Secretary, were installed by O. W. Deyton. For entertainment, a skit was performed
by Men's Chib menhers. Group singing was led by Thom Koch. Also included for enter -
tainment was a performance by the Country Store doggers and The Eubank: Family.
in our own county, in people
growing part of their fruit and
vegetable needs.
With the rising food costs
and the gas shortages that lim
its weekend travel, this year
should be an ideal year for
home gardening. Printed ma
terial on Gardening and other
assistance are available from
the County Extension Office.
Ceremony
Planned
A ground breaking cere -
mony for the new high school
is scheduled te be held-Simday
afternoon, April 7, at 3;00p.m.
At this time a scale model of
the building and all facilities
will be on display on the school
site. Following the ceremony
guides will be on the site t o
point out the various locations
of the buildings and facilities.
All interested people are invi
ted to attend. In case of in
clement weather conditions an
announcement will be made on
WKYK Radio about the cere
mony.
BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
Architect’s Model Os Old Northwestern Bank Building Shows Renovation Plans For Library Facility
Library Construction To Begin Soon;
Final Building Plans Await Funding
Plans are moving ahead for
the renovation of the old North
western Bank building on the ,
square in Burnsville which was
donated by the band to Yancey
County for use as a new library.
The architect, JanM.Weigman
of Asheville, N.C. and his
associate John Reid have de
signed an exciting system of
visually open meaanines- —to —
house the library functions. The
manner in which the mezzan -
ines are organized inside the
existing building makes a var -
iety of people-sized spaces on
and around the mezzanines, yet
leaves the essential qualities of
the great old banking space.
The existing ceiling is high
enough for three levels of stack
space if carefully designed. The
new library is so organized that
the circulation desk, the card
catalog, most of the books
(approximately 10,800 voluncs)
places to sit, read and work,
and the restrooms are on the
street floor. A meeting room
for approximately fifty people
is on a mezzanine ten feet above
the street floor, and two separ
ate levels 8 feet and 16 feet,
respectively, above the main
floor will house the planned
3,600 volumes for children arid
2,700 volumes in special
collections.
An open stair wanders up
and through the space and is
enough a part of each mezzan
ine to allow the borrower to
know about the use and quali -
ties of the whole library and
the relation of the level he is
on to the Whole space.
The stairway and the mezz
anines come close to, ' but do
not touch the existing walls
with the elegant arched wind
ows opening to the towh squares
The library user will find com
ers clo: e to windows with a com
fortable chair to relax and read.
Under the low mezzanines
adjacent to the stacks, tables
and chairs for reference work
and study are available.
The mezzanines hold addi
tional books and have conveni
ent seating on the spot, so that
a library user can browse at
ease at the stacks. The mezz -
anines are places somewhat to
themselves (such as a child -
ren's area, a place for research
work, a place for special col
lections, etc). The platforms
get smaller as they get higher,
providing a spacious feel in
School Hours
To Change
Yancey County Schools
will return to normal school
hours of B*3o - 3:00 o'clock
beginning Monday, April 1.
Schools will operate on this
schedule for the remainder of
the school year.
tight quarters. The spaces at
the stack and aisles are mini
mum height. The places for
working are at the outside edjps
nejar the elegant arched wind -
a s and under the high coffer
& ceiling built in the Twenties.
The meeting place is usable
ii a variety of ways. It is
a nezzanine level connected to
tab main level and the stack -
rsiding mezzanines by the open
ss lir, and it is also connected
d ectly to the existing street
b means of the existing stair
si ving the top floor of the
h tiding. The space is design
eto seat about fifty people
f< formal meetings and work
st sions. By sharing the same
c Efered ornamental ceiling with
tit rest of the library,it streqgth
e ; the awareness that the meet
i]; room is very much a part
a the library. Yet it is close
e augh to allow meetings and
c ildren's hours during normal
li rary activities.
ilusic Program Features
' our Hands At The Piano #
Virginia Garcia and Nan
Si anson of Swiss Pine Lake will
dl nonstrate four hands at the
pi no on Tuesday evening at
8i op. m. in the First Baptist
0 arch, Burnsville. These two
rM sic- lovers, whose friends tap
is :emented by twenty years of
pi ying together for fun while
r| ring children and running
bi y households, will turn their
at :ntion from the two- piano
r< ertoire which they love to
th < "vast and neglected liter
al re" of the Piano Duet,which
is omparatively new to them.
These wives of two Board
rs mbers of Music in the Moun
ts is were asked how they
c| le together in their musical
c< laboration. "We had over
la aing daughters who became
cl le friends, and this is how
wi found each other. "
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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1974
The basement houses the
heating system and cooling sys
tem for the building and may
be used by the library. Access
to the basement is provided
through the public stairway.
It is exciting to see the old
fortress, designed to impress the
community with its ability to
protect its financial holdings,
re-designed to impress its com
munity with the accessibility of
its holdings as a library. The
boldness and openness of the
scheme encourages an associa -
tion with the whole of the places
the library, a place where bits
and pieces of the communicable
range of human experience is
available to be used. ,
Authorization has been receiv
ed from the County Commission
ers to complete the working draw
ings and specifications. The
construction start will be deter
mined as soon as complete
funding is in reach. The anti
cipated cost of the project has
been budgeted at $125,000.
Mrs. Swansen, whose mother
was a music teacher and whose
grandfather had been a capped
meister in Germany, received
piano lessons in her youth, but
Mrs. Garcia's childhood instru
ment had been the cello. Only
after their marriages did these
ladies move from the dabbling
stage into working at the piano
more seriously. With the in -
centive of playing toget’ier as
an inspiration, they developed
a team which, despite the
avowed modesty of the two
players, has been called upon
to benefit several educational
and charitable causes.
All are welcome to hear
Garcia and Swansen present the
Piano Duet in what promises
to be a most interesting pro
gram.
Board Os Elections Met;
Precinct Officials Named
Luther Ayers, Mary Ohle,
and Janice Boone, members of
the Yancey County Board of
Elections, met at 10;00 a. m.
on Monday, March 25, 1974
for the purpose of appointing
Precinct Officials. The follow
ing people were named to serve
for a period of two years:
Precinct I—Luther Banks,
Rep. Judge, Ben L.
Hensley; Dem. Judge, Gaston
Shepherd.
Precinct 2—Johnny Buckneij
Registrar; Rep. Judge, Willard
Ayers; Dem. Judge, Yates
Bailey.
Precinct 3 Don Renfro,Re
gistrar; Rep. Judge Andy Ed
wards; Dem. Judge, Til Fender.
Precinct 4—Dean Higgins,
Registrar; Rep. Judge, Charles
Wilson; Dem. Judge, Wade
Holloway.
Precinct s—Mary Hall, Re
gistrar; Rep. Judge,Ellis Ren
fro; Dem. Judge, Roy Laws.
Precinct 6—Cathie Buchan
an, Registrar; Rep. Judge,Carl
Evans; Dem. Judge, Fred Ayers,
Precinct 7 Alberto Ram -
sey, Registrar; Rep. Judge,
John H. Knight
Church Holds
Revival Here
Revival services will begin
at West Burnsville Baptist
Church on Sunday night, March
31st. Rev. John H. Knight
will be bringing the messages.
Rev. Knight is pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church, Ashe
ville. He has held many im
portant positions in our State
Baptist Convention and has tra
veled extensively across the
world in Rome, Egypt, Pales -
tine, Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon
Syria, Jordan, England,
Switzerland and Cuba.
Rev. Knight holds the B.A.
f degree from Wake Forest Col
lege and the Th. M. degree
from Southern Baptist Seminary.
In a day when the Church
is weakened by carelessness,
indifference, and arrogance,
tire members of West Burnsville
Baptist Church invite you, the
public, to hear God's man
bring God's message.
Burnsville PTA
vs Bald Creek
Yancey County residents
are in for a real treat this Sat
urday night, March 30, when
the Burnsville Elementary PTA
challenges the Bald Creek Ele
mentary to a return basketball
match. The excitement starts
at 7too p. m. at Burnsville Ele
ralTts^for^t.* 1
far adults, 50, for students.
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Virginia Presnell; Dem.' Judge,
Enzy LeHerman.
Precinct B—R. C, Parsley,
Registrar; Rap. Judge, Joim
Dale; Dem. Judge, Kenneth
Nelson.
Precinct 9—J.W. Miller,
Registrar; Rep. Judge, Della
Ogilivie; Dem. Judge, Arthur
Robinson.
Precinct 10—Billy B» Wil
son, Registrar; Rep. Judge,
Mary A. Miller; Dem. Judge,
Dawson Briggs.
Precinct 11—Hobart Banks,
Registrar; Rep. Judge, Lela
Austin; Dem. Judge, Viola
Buckner.
A date far an instructional
meeting will be set at a later
date. When the instructional
meeting is held, all Registrars
and Judges will be asked to
attend.
The Board would also like
to remind everyone that the
Registration Books, which have
been open all year both in the
Board of Elections office and
with the precinct Registrars,
will close on April 8, 1974 un
til after the Primary is over.
Office hours in the Board office
are 9 to 5 Monday, Wednesday
and Priday. The telephone
number is 682-3950.
Please note also that you
can vote absentee in this Pri
mary.
Quarterly
Sapper Set
The quarterly supper meet -
ing for men of Mitchell arid
Yancey Presbyterian Churches
—will he held at the First Presby- —
terian Church, Burnsville,, on
Monday, April 1, 1974, 7soo
p.m. This will be Ladies Night.
The speaker for the evening
will be Rev. Clement E. Lam
berth, Senior Presbyter of Con
cord Presbytery.
Please notify Rev. Patrick
J. Hardy, pastor of First Presby
terian Church, Burnsville, the
number your chinch will guar -
antee at $2. 00 each. Let him
know by Thursday, March 28,
1974. The number is 682-6339.
Playschool
Applications
Burnsville Playschool is now
accepting applications for the
fall term which will begin on
Tuesday, September 3. Child
ren who are 3 or 4 years of age
may be registered by ca 11 ing
Mrs. Jess Styles at 682 - 2524.
The hours are from 8:15 to
11:15 daily, Monday through
Friday.
Stocker Sale
To Be Held
A total of 8,000 head of
stocker cattle will be sold in
eleven state graded sales dur
ing March and April in North
Carolina.
The stocker sale for this
area will be held in Asheville
on Tuesday, A pril 9th. Cattle
are to be weighed in on Mon
day. For the first dm*., Hol
stein Stocker Steers will be
sold in this sale. Anyone ne:d
ing additional information,
oleasc contact rmmtv r v