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Poem Reveals
Retarded 9 s Feelings
Retardation affects about 6.5 million Americans (3 c i of
the population). Yet, given the opportunity, the over
whelming majority of retarded persons can live produc
tive lives in their communi
ties.
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Two important develop
ments may aid the future of
retarded children and their
concerned parents: 1) the
right to an education in
public schools at govern
ment expense; and 2) ef
forts to keep retarded peo
ple out of institutions and in
local communities at
home or in group houses
where they can lead lives as
close to normal as possible.
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information. We very much appreciate your reader
ship and would be especially happy to have you ex
press your views regarding the contents of this space.
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letter To
| The Mitor CP
Dear Editor:
The Yancey County Extension Staff and “Food Fui”
participants join me in thanking yon for the excellent publicity
which you gave our Food Fun Activities program.
It was a good experience for all of us and we are proud to have a
newspaper that helps tell the story about educational opportunities
for our youth.
Thank you again for your fine spirit of cooperation.
Mary Margaret Deyton
Home Ec. Ext. Agent
f Community Events j
Dr. I. M. Ellis, a graduate of
Moody Bible Institute and
Union Seminary in Virginia will
be guest speaker at the Newdale
Presbyterian Church this week
end. Services will be held Friday
and Saturday nights, Sunday
morning and Sunday night, July
26-28. - Evening services will
begin at 7:15.
The speaker has a wide
range of experience as a pastor,
as evangelist, as director of
Christian Education, youth work
and as a singing leader. Though
retired. Dr. Ellis still supplies a
small church near Old Fort and
leads youth recreation two
nights each week.
Singing will be a vital part of
these services and the church
invites you to share the singing
and hear these four vital
messages.
Rev. Ernest Wilson serves
as pastor of the Newdale
Church.
***
There will be a special song
service at the Covey Rock Free
Will Baptist ■ Church, Green
Mountain, N.C., Sunday night,
July 28 at 7:00 p.m. according to
pastor, Rev. Holt Herrell. The
“Covey Rock Church Youth
| Choir”, the “Mocassin Gap
! Quartet” from Gate City, Va.
Radio Station, little “Lesia Joe
Potter”, soloist, Mr. Rotha Ogle
and Mrs. Leland Scott from
Burnsville will be singers. The
“Happy Pilgrim Gospel Sing
ers” from Erwin, Tenn. will be
there, as well as the “Revival
aires Trio” from Bristol, Va.,
the "Moss Family” from Mars
Hill, and the “Gospelaires
Quartet” from Spruce Pine,
N.C.. Everyone is invited to
attend this special song service.
Yancey County School prin
cipals attended a four-day
conference for elementary and
high school principals in Myrtle
Beach July 14-17. The confer
ence was sponsored by the
principals’ division of the NCAE
and was conducted by the North
Carolina Department of Public
Instruction. Those attending
were Mrs. Cara Cox, Mr. Boyd
Deyton, Mr. Larry Howell, Mr.
Ronnie Proffitt and Mr. Kenny
Sparks.
Edgar Hunter attended the
state conference for school
superintendents in Wilmington
July 21-24.
***
There will be a weekend
revival at Newdale Presbyterian
Church beginning at 7:30 Friday
evening, July 26, running
through Sunday evening and
including Sunday morning at
11:00 a.m. Dr. I. M. Ellis of
Black Mountain will be the
speaker. The public is cordially
invited.
***
Missionary Evangelist Rev.
Jimmy Lyons will be the guest
speaker at the 11 o’clock
services at the National Pres
byterian Church at Celo on
Sunday, July 28.
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i'night at 7:30 p.m. at the 1 !
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1 1 Pensacola, N.C. Anyone < |
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| .will be welcome to attend any i 1
( JMonday night meeting. All ? [
i [visitors are welcome. ■ i 1
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Last Thursday was a special day for Girl Scouts in Yancey
County as they ate and talked with sister Scouts from 34 states and 2
foreign countries. The visitors obviously enjoyed the picnic on our
town square as well as visits to the Nu-Wray Inn, Country Store,
and Johnson 9 Co. They were entertained by local singers and
dancers whose talents were greatly appreciated by all. Everyone
was sorry to see the fellowship end, but were richer for having had a
part in Pisgah Girl Scout Council’s “Good Ole Mountain Do.” In
talking with Gayle Graff of Cordova, Alaska, we found that many
girls had never before seen clogging or heard bluegrass music,
Playhouse
Seeking
Musicians
The Parkway Playhouse is
anxious to be put in contact with
musicians who would be avail
able to play in the orchestra for
My Fair . Lady. Various parts
have been filled but others are
still needed. Most desperate is
the call for violinists.
The first full orchestra for a
playhouse musical was the 18
piece orchestra for last season’s
Oliver! So many favorable
comments were received that
the Playhouse management is
working diligently to gather the
best available musicians to play
Lerner and Loewe’s fabulous
score.
Rehearsals will be the week
of August Ist with performances
scheduled for August 6 through
August 10.
All interested people should
call the Playhouse at 682-6151.
Dividend
Declared
The Trustees of North
western Financial Investors, a
real estate investment trust
headquartered in Charlotte,
North Carolina, have declared a
dividend of 30 cents per share
for the quarter ended June 30,
1974. The dividend is payable
August 12, 1974 to shareholders
of record on June 29, 1974. The
dividend is being paid from
second quarter earnings of
$519,620.00 or 34.41 cents per
share. Earnings for the first half
of 1974 now stand at $1,093,898.
12 or 72.44 cents per share. The
Trust also announced that
August 13, 1974 has been set as
the date for its Annual
Shareholders Meeting to be
held in Charlotte.
Apply Now
The Yancey County Tomato
House is now open. Application
for employment may be made
from 8:00 to 4:30 Monday
through Friday.
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Yancey Girl Scouts Entertain Visitors
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An interesting item in a
recent edition of the New York
Times may bring knowing
smiles to those who remember
the folklore of the “missing
hitchhiker” from the days when
the grandparents of the present
hitchers exercised their thumbs
along the nation's highways.
Story after story emerged in
the 30’s and 40’s, usually about
a young girl picked up on the
roadside who mysteriously dis
appeared during the course of
the ride and was generally
conceived to be an angel or
other heavenly visitant.
Now, according to the Times
story, the hitchhiker is invari
ably a handsome young male
hippie dressed in white who sits
in the rear seat, buckles himself
into the seat belt, and begins to
talk of the second coming of
Christ. Then he asks his
automotive hosts if they believe
in the Second Coming, but when
they turn to answer him, he has
vanished.
Over 60 reports of such
mysterious hitchhikers have
been collected in upper New
York over the past months, most
of the incidents supposedly
occurring on the New York
Thruway and reported by
motorists rather than by toll
collectors or other highway
workers.
The Times article indicates
that motorists have varying
interpretations of the mysteri
ous hitchhiker. Some believe he
is Jesus Christ, some call him an
angel, a false prophet, John the
Baptist, and even the anti-
Christ. The conception appar
ently varies with the religious
denomination of the teller.
Folklorists no doubt, will
soon be tracing the phantom
hitchhiker not only on his New
York circuit but throughout
these United States. All South
ern Appalachia readers of
Folk-Ways are invited to send in
things we take for granted! They were finding our food “fantastic”
and still had many adventures to anticipate. An Explorer Scout
[member of a co-ed Scout troop] from Florida said she chose to
apply for this event over others in the nation because she felt it
offered something of more lasting worth than the others. It would be
an opportunity to learn about disappearing arts and crafts, as well
as an opportunity to become acquainted with an area of the country.
The result has been a desire to preserve these traditional crafts and
a real respect for the people of Western North Carolina.
their accounts.
Received an early response
to a recent item about a weed
which supposedly enabled a
blacksnake to recover from the
bite of a rattlesnake to the
extent that he killed th»>
rattlesnake. Arnold Barker, of
Appalachia, Virginia, writes:
“Dear Mr. Whitener: I have
just read your article in the July
14, 1974 Kingsport Times
concerning the weed used by
blacksnakes for poison remedy.
I know of the weed and it
grows in abundance in this area.
It is simply called rattlesnake
weed. It’s deep green in color
with a jagged stripe of black and
white running through it. It has
the shape of a philodendron
plant.
I have seen a copperhead
and a blacksnake fight, although
I did not see the blacksnake
come back to kill the copper
head. I did see it crawl away.
But I have heard of this tale all
my life.
If you wish to experiment
with this, I will be glad to assist
you in locating a poison snake, a
blacksnake, and the weed.
i know a couple that took a
sourwood stick, measured it the
size of their child and hung it
over the front door for the cure
of asthma. Also an uncle of mine
is supposed to have cooked a
Corporation Report
Unaudited, consolidated net
earnings of Northwestern Fi
nancial Corporation for the first
half of 1974 were $3,978,682 or
87 cents per share. This
compares to $4,452,565 or 98
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skunk and eaten it for the cure
of asthma.
There are lots of tales of this
type passed down from genera
tion to generation in this area.
The old people here lived by this
folklore.”
A note from Adele Lawson of
Los Alamos, New Mexico,
comments on the expression
“pawn my honor” sent in by
another reader. She also offers
several superstitons commonly
heard in her Tennessee past.
“Dear Sir: In regard to an
item in the Morristown (Ten
nessee) Tribune, ‘pawn my
honor,’ I recall this expression
by older people in Appalachia
(Hancock County, Tennessee)
where 1 grew up. I finally
realized many years later it was
the Old,English vow, ‘upon my
honor’ found in Canterbury
Tales and the works of
Shakespeare,
Others 1 recall: If your nose
itches you are going to have
guests. If your ear burns
someone is talking about you. If
you see a redbird you’ll have
goodluck. Find a pin and pick it
up and all day long you’ll have
good luck. If you cup your upper
teeth before the lower you will
die by drowning.”
Please send all material to:
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University Station, Boone, N.C.
cents per share the first half of
1973. The resulting 11.91 per
cent decrease was due primarily
to unprecedented increases in
the cost of money. Total interest
expense for the first six months
of 1974 was over 63 per cent
higher than 1973.
The Northwestern Bank,
largest of the Corporation’s
subsidiaries, reported total de
posits of $877,444,048, repre
senting deposit growth of
$85,217,522 or 10.76 per cent
since June 30, 1973. Loans
butstanding increased $73,145,
078 or 12.12 per cent and now
total $676,654,124. On June 30,
1974 total assets were reported
as $1,017,416,279, up $102,271,
421 from June 30, 1973.
In addition to the Bank,
other subsidiaries include
Northwestern Security Life In
surance Company, M & J
Financial Corporation, First
Atlantic Corporation, North
western Advisory Corporation,
Northwestern Factors, Inc., and
Financial Supplies, Inc.
CREEPING GRASS
Metal or plastic strips
and mechanical edgers
can help keep creeping
grasses out of lawn bor
ders, flower beds, etc.