THE YANCEY JOURNAL
VOL. 4, NO. 1
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Blood Donors Give
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‘Most Important Gift
BY ASHTON CHAPMAN
When the bloodmobile
from the Asheville Red Cross
Blood Center made its sche
duled visit to the Armory in
Burnsville on Wednesday,
December 18, under sponsor
ship of the Yancey County
Rescue Squad, a total of 82
men and women presented
themselves to make a gift of
their life-saving blood, accor
ding to Earl Van Horn of
Spruce Pine and Altamont,
Chapter Chairman of the
Mayland Red Cross Chapter,
which serves Yancey, Mitch-
Report Os
Sales Tax
Collections
Report of local one percent
Sale and Use Tax collections
by county has been received
for the month of November,
1974. The report, sent by the
North Carolina Department of
Revenue in Raleigh, shows
Yancey County collections
amounted to $16,268.45 for
November. This compares
with Avery County collections
of just over $17,000 and
exceeds Madison County col
lections for November of sl3,
532.29. Mitchell County col
lections for the same period
#ere just over $23,000.00.
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The Junior Girl Scoot Troop 88 Joined Santa Claus to help the children at Yancey Start
eelebrate Christmas at their family sapper on Friday, December 20. While Santa talked with the
children, the Girl Scoots presented them with gifts of staffed toys. The toys were made by the
girls, who have been busy recently working on the Toymaker Badge for this special pntfect. The
Troop leaders are Mrs. Albert Williams, Mia. Jem? Wheeler and Mrs. John Blair.
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ell and Avery Counties.
Mr. Van Horn and all
other Chapter officers extend
thanks to each of these
persons who, on the week
before Christmas, volunteer
ed to give one of the most
important gifts it is possible
for any person to make. Blood
donated to the American Red
Cross has been the means of
saving thousands upon thou
sands of American lives which
might otherwise have been
lost.
Twelve of the persons who
donated blood on December
18 were making their first
donation. Mr. Van Horn said
he hoped that each one of
these men and women will be
“repeaters” and offer blood
again during future visits of
the-bfoodmobile. A total of 69
pints was donated; 13 of the
82 who offered blood had to
be declined at this time for
medical reasons. Thirteen of
the pints donated were given
to replace blood which had
already been used by Yancey
County patients while they
were in local hospitals or
elsewhere.
Thanks are also extended,
not only to members of the
Yancey County Rescue Squad
but to everyone who volun
teered to help make the
bloodmobile visit successful.
Without these local volun
teers the bloodmobile visits
would not be possible.
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Yancey Development
Corp. To Sell Land
The Yancey County De
velopment Corporation which
for three years has been
endeavoring to locate a new
industry on a 30 acre site
owned by the corporation, is
abandoning the effort and
offering its tract of land for
sale.
The development corpor
ation, organized by forty
Yancey County citizens ten
years ago to encourage the
location of new industry in the
county, recognizes that it can
no longer finance the owner
ship of the tract in question.
The 30.7 acre tract, located
east of the Cane River High
School, has long been recog
nized as one of the best
H & R Tax
Service At
True Value
Mr. Rodney Beauchamp
announced that the H & R
Block Tax Service will be
available in the True Value
Hardware Stores id Spruce
Pine and Burnsville beginning
Monday, January 6, 1975. T
Mrs. Gay Holcombe ~will
be tax consultant in the
Spruce Pine office and Leo
nard Wiggins will be tax
consultant in the Burnsville
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Ben Floyd Named
County Key Banker
To coordinate the agricul
tural activities of the N.C.
Bankers' Association in this
area, Ben G. Floyd has been
named County Key Banker for
Yancey County.
NCBA President Hugh L.
McColl, Jr. has announced
that Mr. Floyd will serve as
County Key Banker during
the next twelve months. He is
Assistant Vice President of
First-Citizens Bank & Trust
Company in Burnsville.
available industrial sites in
Yancey County, fit fronts on
Highway 49 and extends to
the Cane River, offering
abundant water for. fire
protection and other indus
trial use.
The tract has frequently
been referred to as the
“Hanes Site”, as the Winston
Salem Company owned it for a
number of years. The Hanes
Company had purchased it in
1967 only after extensive
search in the etm&y, and after
drilling had shown that it was
suitable for the erection of a
sizeable factory.
The local development
corporation, sponsored by the
Yancey County Chamber of
Commerce, and organized
without the profit motive, has
been active in the effort to
attract new industry to the
county. When the Hanes
Company abandoned plans to
locate a factory in Yancey
County, the development
corporation purchased the site
from them.
Since acquisition of the
tract it has been shown to
numerous industrial pros
pects, a number of whom
were sent to look at it by the
State Department of Natural
and Economic Resources.
Representatives of this State
department have long viewed
the site as having exceptional
advantages for an industrial
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For thirty years the NCBA
has received national recog
nition for its far-reaching
program of service to agricul
ture in North Carolina.
McColl called attention to
the projects that are sponsor
ed by the Association such as
the Annual Agricultural Cre
dit Conference which will be
held in 'Raleigh, January
13-14, 1975, the two-week
school at N.C. State Univer
sity for young farmers who
are provided scholarships
given by their home commu
nity banks, and the co-spon
sorship of the Land Judging
Meet in the interest of soil
conservation. He also said
that the banks of North
Carolina continue to be a
major source of agricultural
credit to farmers.
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Blue Bell Gives Service Awards ;-
On Friday, December 20, Blue Bell, Inc. presented nine
employees with Service Pins. Two Bine Bell employees, Billie
Tomberlin and Ruby Campbell, were awarded Ten Year
Service Pins; the seven other employees were awarded Five
Year Service Pins. Pictured left to right [first row]: Doris
Wilson, Grace Silvers, Viola Miller, Ruby Campbell [second
row]: Maude Murphy, Mary Rose Silvers, Margie Higgins,
Patricia Thomas and Billie Tomberlin.
Forty employees at Blue Bell, Inc. received their Five Year
Service Pins last year, November, 1973. They include Bernice
Autrey, Shirley Ayers, Louise Bishop, Gertrude Boone, Ruby
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Music In The Mountains; • '
P* ogram Had Music For Everyone
S. turday night, December
28, at the Presbyterian
Church, Music in the Moun
tains presented its first
annual holiday program. The
vfried program had some
thing for every kind bf musical
taste. —’
Beginning with the Koch
group of Thom, Susan, Billy
and Tommy and their balalai
kas, the Russian folk songs
were different than folk songs
heard later by the Deyton
THURSDAY, I JANUARY 2, 197*
Family. The Deyton’s perfor
mance was in their well
known style.
Miss Rosalynde Jacks
, sang a portion of her senior
recital last spring. She was
accompanied by Eve Lynn
Reeve. Rosalynde is the
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. W.
Ralph Jacks of Burnsville.
The Huskins girls sang
several songs as a group and
Emily also sang a solo. They
are the daughters of Mr. and
Mr* Ttmman H«t«lrinc
Campbell, Alma Cook, Carrie Fox, Vera Gouge, Alma Greene,
Lena Howell, Betty Jean Laws, Mildred McKinney, Dale
Melton, Fred Boyd, Carl Harding, June Knight, Lewis
Duncan, Ester Hensley, Georgia Burleson, Louise Hughes,
Lillian Parker, Lillie Parsley, Kathleen Pluta, Janie Silver,
Marilyn Wilson, Vada Woody, Nina Robinson, Shirley Tolley,
Mae Hughes, Janette Kates, Edith Letterman, Janette
McMahan, Margie Bolick, Sammy Miller, Marcella Hughes,
Nell McGee, Henrietta Tomberlin, Morris Husldns, Susie
Wilson and Hazel Thomas. Bide Bell, Inc. is proud of the long
service records of these employees.
Billy Gouge, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Gouge, played
an Intermezzo on the piano
and was then joined by Mrs.
Charles (Susannah) Jones and
her son, Amos, for a piano,
cello, violin trio.
Ruth Pope accompanied
by Eve Lynn Reeve was
on ths printed program. A
treat was in store for the
10 c
evening being “Folk Songs”
by Bela Bartok. Mme. Lili
expressed her pleasure at the
vast amount of talent being
and thaTother
the people areiocal residents.
with Mozart s Turkish
Refreshments were served
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