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letter To
The Editor
Dear Editor:
The Trustees and Steward Board of Griffith Chapel A.M.E.
Zion Church sent a letter to Mr. Bob Ingles, owner of Ingles
Supermarkets, on October 31. We would appreciate your
publishing this letter so cur appreciation to him may be made
public.
“Mr. Ingles, Griffith Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church wishes to
thank you for the check in the amount of $163.52 for the grocery
tapes turned in by Mrs. W.A.Y. Sargent in the total sum of
$16,352.00, which check will be used on the church building.
“We wanted you to know of the efforts and good will of our
community in collecting these tapes and list below Just a few of
the organizations who have helped with this project:
The United Methodist Women
Higgins Memorial Methodist Church
Burnsville Woman’s Club
Burnsville Garden Gub
Burnsville Homemakers Gub
And a host of other friends and business concerns
“We again extend our sincere appreciation to you for the
check.”
Charles Young, Chairman
Beacher Griffith, Preacher Steward
Selelia Griffith, Secretary
Boy Scout Event At LeesMcßae
Boy Scout Troop 502 will
participate at a Court of
Honor at Lees Mcßae College
on Saturday night, November
9. The local Cub Scouts will
participate in a Pinewood
Derby event Saturday after
noon and all scouts are
admitted to the football game
free of charge when accom
panied by an adult.
The highlight of the
evening will be the banquet in
the new MacDonald Dining
Hall where awards will be gi
ven for table decorations from
each troop as well as
advancement, merit and skill
awards to boys who have
passed various levels of
achievement since the last
Court of Honor.
Dinner will be served at a
nominal fee of $1.50 instead
MD Opens
Practice
In Celo
Dr. Judith McGahey of
Celo was recently licensed by
the state of North Carolina
practice family medicine,
including obstetrics and me
dical gynecology. She and her
husband, Robert, moved to
Yancey County this fall after
spending the past year
traveling around the world.
Mr. McGahey, a native of
Alabama, is the Director of
the Arthur Morgan School.
Dr. Judith comes from
Rock Island, Illinois. She
graduated from Stanford Uni
versity in California in June,
1968, and the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, New
York, in December, 1971. She
then spent a year and a half of
internship and training in
Obstetrics and Gynecology at
the University of Alabama in
Birmingham.
Her office will be open in
the Celo Health Center from
12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednes
day and Friday.
Mt. Wilderness Civil
Air Patrol will meet every
Monday night at 7:30
p.m. at the Mountain
Wilderness Office, Pen
sacola, N.C. Anyone in
terested in joining this
group will be welcome to
attend any Monday night
meeting. All visitors are
welcome.
THE YANCEY JOURNAL
Box 667
Burnsville, N.C. 28714
Ed Yuzluk-Publisher
Carolyn Yuzluk-Editor
Patsy Randolph-Manager
Brenda Webb-Staff
Published Every Thursday
By
Twin Cities Publishing Co.
2nd Class Postage Paid
At Burnsville, N.C.
Thurs., November 7, 1974
Number 45
Subscription Rates By Mall:
In Yancey County
One Year $4.16
Six Months $3.12
Out of County or State
One Year $6.00
Six Months $5.00
MHA Fills
Community
Need
[Coat’d from page 1]
MHA Convention held in
Raleigh. A plaque a*d gift
were presented to Senator
Sam Ervin for his contribution
and advancement of services
toward mental health in the
state for the past fifty years.
The delegates were surprised
to learn that the Yancey
Association exceeded in its
projects, programs and ac
tivities many more heavily
populated counties in the
state.
Yancey Mental Health
Association recently sponsor
ed a picnic for forty Brough
ton Hospital patients and
ADAP clients at Mountain
Wilderness.
of the usual covered dish
meal. Please contact Mrs.
Yvonne Edge for reservations
if you have not already made
them.
Teaching
Os Bible
Prophecies
Attention please all Bible
lovers, especially those who
are interested in the Bible
prophecies of the last days.
Reverend Howard T.
Munsey, director of Cross
Beams Missions and pastor of
Midway Baptist Churcn in
Morristown, Tennessee will
, be teaching this week and
i next at the Prices Creek U nion
Church on the Book of
Revelations and related pro
phecies throughout the Bible.
Rev. Munsey is an able
preacher and teacher and
uses charts to make his
teaching clearer.
All are invited to come,
especially young ministers
and students of the Word.
Services begin each even
ing at 7:30 p.m.
Jaycees
Invite New
Members
The Yancey County Jay
cees met on November 4 ai
7:30 in the Community
Building. A regular business
session was held and the
Region D Vice President, Mr.
Norman Club from Asheville
was guest speaker.
Anyone interested in join
ing the Jaycees is invited to
be at the Burnsville Com
munity Building the first and
third Mondays of each month.
Mr. Doug Jones, a local
member now who was Past
President of the Hyde County
Jaycees in Eastern North
Carolina will be giving a talk
on the Jaycees ROC and
POAC points at the next
meeting.
Things are happening with
the Yan.'Oy County Jaycees.
Contact Mr. Thomas Storie if
you have questions on be
coming a member.
Inflation
Hit Us Too!
The price of paper has
gone up three times daring
1974 and printing costs have
risen to a record high.
Postage has increased consi
derably for newspapers as
well as for the general public.
Because we cannot continue
to absorb these higher prices
with our present rates, we are
forced to raise subscription
rates, but we are trying to
hold them within reasonable
limits. Effective December 1,
1974, local subscriptions wUI
cost 80c more, becoming $5
[lncluding tax] for one year.
Out-of-county subscriptions
will increase to $7, which Is
$1 more than our previous
rate.
Phc Melanisi.nc believe that
the first man was made from
the rib of the first woman!
J'oTk-Wfjys andj^k-^pcecfi
of SOUTHERN APPAI.ACIIIA
with Rogers Whilrnt-r
One of the time honored
folk customs in Southern
Appalachia is the practice of
water witching. While not
confined to these mountains,
of course, its percentage of
practitioners is high. Some
foik experts estimate appro
ximately 30 diviners to every
100 thousand people in the
region.
Most readers of this
column would probably agree
that the estimate is certainly
not exaggerated since almost
every mountain town and
community boasts one or
more water witches in its
area.
Sometimes these persons
are difficult to locate, since
they usually are modest
individuals who disclaim any
personal skill but simply say
that the divining gift comes
from God. As a result most
will seldom accept pay for
their witching, looking on the
work as a neighborly act
► which a man should rightfully
perform for those who call on
him.
One such person is Kyle
Hodges, who lives near Deep
Gap, North Carolina. He
makes no great case about his
divining power, how he
received it, or how it works:
“All 1 know is that it will work
for some people and for some
people it won’t. I don’t know
the scientific reason, but it
works.”
It worked well recently
It’s More Than Cookies!
Scouting Belongs
BY THERESA COLETTA
Yancey GS Publicity Chinn.
Looking back at my first
years in Girl Scouting, it
seems as if it were just a
couple of years ago that 1
belonged to Brownie Scouts
with my troop leader being
Mrs. Donald Burhoe. Those
were Monday afternoon meet
ings held in the basement of
the Burnsville Community
Building, and oh what fun
days they were for me and my
Brownie friends!
I stayed with Girl Scout
ing, “flying up” to the
different troops throughout
my elementary and high
school years. And, needless to
say. Girl Scouting has stayed
with me long after my Senior
Girl Scout days ended.
MORE THAN COOKIES!
What is so special about
Girl Scouting? Most likely,
you are remembering the Girl
Scouts who ring your doorbell
in March selling those Girl
Scout Cookies! So you ask,
“What’s so great about
that?” Well, Girl Scouting is
more than Girl Scout cookies
by a long shot! It is one of the
nicest things ever to happen
for girls in Yancey County.
GIRL SCOUTS GIVE
Girl Scouting brings to
gether all kinds of girls; there
are no social, ethnic, or racial
barriers. It gives these girls
from many backgrounds the
opportunity to learn how to
get along with each other
regardless of their age differ
ences and individual interest.
It is a learning of tolerance
early in life. It is a giving of
services to one’s community
as seen in Yancey Girl Scouts
when they visit the Sun Valley
Rest Home, make clothes and
Christmas gifts for the child
ren at the Yancey Child
Development Center, and
provide recreational outings
and tutoring services for
children less fortunate than
they. But Girl Scouting
reaches out beyond Yancey
County when Yancey Girl
Scouts visit and provide social
activities for girls of their own
age in one of the cottages at
the Western Carolina Center
at Morganton. It is the giving
of oneself and of one's time
when Yancey Girl Scouts take
the time to smile and to listen
as they visit the patients at
the Black Mountain Sanatori
um. It is exposure to problems
of society as Girl Scouts
become socially aware of the
needs of others in their own
communities as well as in
communities beyond Yancey
County lines.
LEARNING SKILLS
It is a learning of outdoor
skills when Girl Scouts go
hiking and camp out...and of
equal importance, it is the
learning of social skills as
Yancey Girl Scouts plan
dances for their troops and
when Joe Miller, a Boone
pharmacist, called on Hodges
for help in locating water on a
prospective home site in rural
Watauga County. According
to Miller, "Kyle walked about
in a casual manner with his
divining rod (a forked stick)
held loosely in front of him
with the palms of his hands
turned upward. All of a
sudden the rod began to
tremble and then point
downwards with such force
that the bark began to twist
off the two prongs held in
Kyle’s hands.”
“There’s your water,”
Kyle told Miller. He then
proceeded to find two addi
tional well sites in the
immediate area, still using
the divining rod to establish
the water vein.
Hodges, unlike some wa
ter witches, refuses to esti
mate the amount of water in
one of his finds. He simply
determines whether there is
an adequate supply for the
purpose needed by the
strength of the pull on the
rod. On the Miller land his
estimate of “an ample sup
ply” was accurate: a few days
after the “witching,” a
well-digging drew found a
strong water vein at a depth of
two hundred feet.
At $5.00 per foot (the
going rate of well-digging in
Watauga County) that still
comes to a tidy sum. Miller,
however, noted that a friend
luncheons to honor their
mothers.
SCOUTING BELONGS
Girl Scouting belongs in
Yancey County not because
“we think it is a good thing
and we do hope it will do some
good.” Girl Scouting belongs
in Yancey County because we
have seen it in action and we
know that it works! How do
News Roundup]
BY THERESA COLETTA
GS Publicity Chairman
Brownie Troop #B6: For the
month of October, the Brown
ies have been having special
visitors at their meetings-the
Cadette Girl Scouts. In
connection with their Game
Badge, the Cadettes have
been visiting the Brownies,
teaching them numerous and
different games, and taking
them on hikes and marshmal
low roasts.
Junior Troop #88: The Junior
Scouts have taken to the
woods for the month of
October with hiking and other
outdoor activities. Just re
cently, they hiked to Water
Tank Hill and had a cookout at
the home of Mrs. Albert
Williams.
To become more proficient
in the skill of knot tying, the
Juniors invited Tim Thomp
son to join them at their
meetings for several sessions
of demonstrations.
Junior Cadettes (for 6th
Grade Girl Scouts): These
Scouts are working on the
Sign of the Arrow and the
Sign of the Star Badges. Some
of their plans include an all
day hike for Saturday, No
vember 2, and a Christmas
project of making gifts for the
children at the Yancey County
Child Development Center.
Cadette Troop #65: Cadettes
in the 9th Grade Patrol are
planning a special service for
all new Cadette Scouts-the
Investiture Service. This ser
vice is scheduled for Novem
ber 6th.
As a troop, the Cadettes
are completing their york on
the Child Care and Game
Badges. Too, plans are in the
making for then annual
Christmas Dance with money
making projects for this dance
including a skating party open
to the public on November 7,
raking leaves, washing win
dows and baby-sitting assign
ments.
Senior Troop #66: In
connection with their numer
ous service activities, on
recently by-passed the witch
ing operation by simply
drilling two “dips” on his
land. Both turned out to be
bone dry though bored to a
depth of 400 feet. Finally he
called in a water witch who
located a strong supply at only
80 feet.
"Based on his experi-
CL
a- .
ence,” said Miller, “I’d say
I’m well ahead of the game,
especially since Mr. Hodges
refused to take any pay for his
services.”
If Folk-Ways readers know
of water witching practices in
their neighborhoods-how the
gift was acquired or known,
type of rod used, method of
holding the rod, procedure for
walking the land, means of
determining capacity-I’d be
pleased to hear about them.
Please send all material to
Rogers Whitener, Folk-Ways
and Folk-Speech, Box 376,
University Station, Boone,
North Carolina 28608.
we know that it works? Ask
some of “today’s female
citizens” where they were
“yesterday.” Most likely,
they grew up with Girl
Scouting!
Remember that when you
contribute to this year’s
United Fund, you are helping
to support Yancey County Girl
Scouts.
October 28th the Senior
Scouts visited the Black
Mountain Sanitorium and
gave apples and books as they
visited with the patients
there.
For the month of Novem
ber the Seniors plan to work
closely with the Social Servi
ces Department by decorating
and serving the Thanksgiving
Dinner given by this depart
ment to the senior citizens of
Yancey County.
T W E
CHIP'S
Tilly Witch, written and
illustrated by Don Freeman,
was read by Theresa Coletta
to 42 “little people” this past
Monday and Tuesday at the
Children’s Hour programs
held in the Yancey County
Public Library. Following this
story, the children were
shown the film, "The Naugh
ty Owlet. M The Children’s
Hour concluded with the
song. “I’Wa little Jack-O-
Lantem.”
Those children attending
the Childrens Hour programs
were Pam Biggs, Pam Fain,
Chris Fain, Paul Edwards,
Barry Edwards, Sam Robert
son, Angela Hudgins, Jamie
Bryant, Sherry Yelton, Melis
sa Yelton, Wanda Fox,
Jeffrey Buchanan, Shelby
Parker, randy Ray. Christie
Hughes, Sonya Shade, Royce
Chrisawn, Wanda Moss, Jeff
Sheehan, Ricky and Randy
Allen, David Land, Eric
Williamson, David Harrison,
Shawn Duncan, Beth Ann and
Diane Upton, Timothy Laws,
Norma Elkins, Greg Moore,
Kenny Lane, Freddie Bean,
Jamey Proffitt, Christy Boone
and Traci Buckner, Scotty
Cooper, Bo Dover, Brandy-
Kaye Hemphill, Joel Hughes,
Heather Mclntosh, Stephanie
Shortinghouse, ard Cary Tur
man.