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THE YANCEY JOURNAL JANUARY 9, 1975 PAGE 2 Jan. 9, Thursday, Family Planning, Dr. Webb 8:00-12:00 Jan.l3,Monday, Immunization Clinic 8:00-11:30' Jan. 13, Monday, Nurse Screening Clinic 1:00- 3:00 Jan. 14, Tuesday, Child Health Clinic “ 8:30- 3:30 Jan. 16, Thursday, Maternal Nurse-Miss Kingham 4:30- 7:00 Jan.l7, Friday, Eye Clinic (App’t. Only), Dr. Rogers 8:00-11:30 Jan. 18, Saturday, Maternal Nurse Clinic 8:00- 3:o^ ' i}k, ■ .i ’ Misis Kingham Jan.2o, Monday, Immunization Qinic 8:00-11:30 Jan.2o, Monday, Nurse Screening Clinic 1:00-3:00 Jan.2l, Tuesday, Maternal Health, Dr. Hemphill 8:00-12:00 Jan. 23, Thursday, Family Planning, Dr. Webb 8:00-12:00 Jan. 27, Monday, Immunization Clinic .. 8:00-11:30 Jan. 27, Monday, Nurse Screening Clinic 1 1:00-3:00 Jan.2B, Tuesday, ChUd Health Qinic * 8:30-3:30 Dial 682-2146 Burnsville,N.C. J IPJ (5) PHARMACY Jfs- COMMBITS p.j rO Your Rx Specialists: Jam Charles. Gillespie, Jr., \ ’ and Ferril McCurry Advice on Alcohol: Heed It! “Drunkenness spoils the health, dismounts the mind, and reveals secrets. Inebriation is impudent, dangerous, and mad.” So says William Penn, and I must agree. Alcohol is thought to act as an agent which causes the - , -A \ formation of morphine-Jike * substances in the brain with i , the effect of gradual depend- ° J* \ ency upon the drug, alcohol. - fj My purpose here is not to at- r tack the use of alcohol so much as to remind you of the re sponsibilities that go with its use. Each year well over 30,- • 000 peo-ple die on our highways because of drunk drivers not to mention alcohol’s effect on the heart, the liver, the pancreas, and other organs. How many marriages and families do you suppose alcohol usage has destroyed? If you must drink, heed this ad-vice: Take it slowly, in small quantities, and infrequently or. not at all! We try to give the beat prescription service at the low est possible price. Always feel free to call us. ■———— ■■■ . I -I ’a , ■ . m- .y-.- ..." •" , ‘ - : . ''' -- ~~ . ■ 'if /. ~~ Nir ia»<M!«§?Bfes:*A-. .. : - «*• > . ,«* .• '• '"' . . . ■ 'v-i.: ■ . Summertime English Ironstone dinnerware from Northwestern really brightens Up a breakfast table. Start with yellow or green placemats topped with place settings of Summertime. Pile omelets and bacon high on the big 12 iijch platter. Add a good hot cup of coffee and toast. Summertime fruit or soup dishes double for cereal bowls. Then for that extra special touch, include a fresh, yellow daisy. At Northwestern, you can get a complete set of Summertime when you save. Start by saving $25 or more and get your first place setting free. Then pick up an accessory piece, or additional place settings, each time you save $25 or more. Youll get the highest legal interest rates on your savings and beautiful Summertime dinnerware! \ THE NORTHWESTERN BANK One free place setting per family. Free offer ends HRjruary 28. . I 7 FDIC insurance has been increased to $4(^000. : Member FDIC * A Summertime Breakfast! 1974 School Report [Cont’d bom page 1] assumed the position of supervisor. BAND DIRECTOR Early in January Mrs. Lisa Mauney was employed as band director. The band was formed of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students with plans to follow through with these same students through high school. At this writing the band consists of some ninety members. - TITLE II FUNDS In February it was learned that the Yancey County schools would receive Title II funds in the amount of $13,405 plus Approximately $3500 at a later date. These {unds were appropriated for purchase of library books and materials for the upper elementary grades with the idea that most of these materials would be moved to the middle schools upon completion of the new high school. ’ ... , CHILD PLACEMENT Policies for placing child ren in the following programs were adopted during the ‘ year: trainable mentally Re tarded, learning disabilities, gifted, and talented, and educable mentally retarded. Policy concerning use of gymnasiums by non-school groups was established. At its December meeting the Board notification to the State Department of its intent „ to seek accreditation for the Yancey County schools, pre liminary review having al : ready been made. ' ATHLETIC PROGRAM With the consolidation of the two high schools in the near future, the state athletic - department advised that they would approve combination of the sports programs begin ning in the fall of 1975. At a special called, meeting on November 11, 1974 attended by both high school principals and athletic personnel, it was agreed to consolidate the entire sports program and apply for admission to the Mountain Athletic Conference (3A). The conference, com prised of Buncombe county,- Henderson county, Mitchell and Madison county schools, accepted. Mr. Charlie Hens ley was appointed interim athletic director and it was decided to search for a new football coach to direct that aspect of the consolidated program. ' BOARD OF EDUCATION Two board members, James Gardner and Charles Hopson, concluded two year terms in November. In De cember Charles Gillespie and Romie Burns began four year terms on the Board and letter To The Editor 1 Tj J| & Dear Editor: .*- ■ 'Will you please print the following article in your Journal. I think Jt would be very fitting for our county since so many places of business do remain open on Sunday. I would like to express my appreciation to all those who do close their doors on the Lord’s Day. Thank you, Mrs. Helen Young, Newdale [The following Is reprinted from the Philadelphia Inquirer]: “Our great-grandfathers referred to it as the Holy Sabbath. Our grandfathers called It the Sabbath, and our fathers p»l|ed It Sunday. Now people call it the weekend.’’ A declining concern for observing the Lord’s Day properly was criticized by Methodist Bishop Arthur J. Moore of Atlanta, and reported In newspapers. He said, “For many today the religious Sabbath has been Invaded by the say and the godless.’’ The bishop further stated that “No civilization can ultimately survive without faith In something beyond itself...lt Isn’t enough that we believe In America. We must believe in God—the God of America. The secular can only be made secure by the spiritual.” _ , Accessory Pieces Price—, 4-Fruit Dishes $3.50 . ; :l ' 4-Soup Dishes $4.95 4-Salad Dishes 1 $4.25 i 1-Open Vegetable Dish $3.95 1-Gravy Boat $5.25 1-Sugar & Creamer $5.50 1-12” Platter - $5.75 1-14” Platter $7.50 1-Covered Casserole ’ $9.50 /• ~ Additional 4-Piece Place Setting $3.95 Plu* North Carolina Sales Tax. Claude Vess was re-elected Chairman. The Yancey County Board of Education meets the first Monday evening in each month in the superintendent’s office in the Briggs Building. All meetings are open for public attendance but not participation; executive ses sions concerning personnel are closed. Lions To Meet ). >• . , The Burnsville Lions Club Board of Directors will meet Thursday, January 9, 1975 at 7:00 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church. All members please attend; , . * ‘ l / r I J?ofk-Wiys an#l jj of SOUTHERN APP4i.4t:lllA f with Rogers Whilrm-r J| | Long before I had de veloped more than a passing interest in.folklore, I recall that one of the interesting features appearing in the Watauga (N.C.) Democrat and several other mountain papers was a column under the heading, News From Pigeon Roost. Written by a man with no great - amount of formal education, it revealed a natural style of story-telling and a down-to-earth manner of relating the every day events in a small mountain community. It was a comumn to which I turned with anticipation and one in which I was seldom disappointed. Because it had not ap peared in the local paper in recent months, I had come to., the conclusion that the col umnist had either passed away or grown weary of the task of rounding up enough information to meet a weekly newspaper deadline. Happily 1 have discovered that the columnist, Harvey J. Miller, and his column are both hale and hearty at this writing. In addition, through the good offices of Eliot Wigginton a compilation of 25 years of the column has been printed as an issue of Foxfire, and additional copies have been printed under the title, News From Pigeon Roost. j_ Wigginton notes that in selecting the columns to be reprinted, he waded through a "three-foot high stack ,of material” and became thor oughly engrossed in the lives of the people who found their way into Miller’s column: “Holt Herrell, for example, NG Textbook System Best [Cont’d from page 1] teachers or principals in the high schools. There is an added proviso that one of the members will be a county or dty superintendent. The State Board of Educa tion authorized textbook adoptions as set forth in the State law. The State Superin tendent notifies members of the Commission that there is to be an adoption in a given subject ' area. The State Superintendent also notifies all textbook publishers of the adoption call and invites them to submit any materials they would like to have considered. Before books are consi dered, members of the Commission and the profes sional staff of the Department of Public Instruction develop a thorough overview of the program of studies and develop a concise statement of philosophy, goals, and objectives for the subject area under consideration. This statement reflects any chan ges or innovations in the program and takes into account current trends and emphasis stemming from,, 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 thjs group will be welcome to attend any Monday night meeting. All visitors are welcome- THE YANCEY JOURNAL - Box 667 Burnsville, N.C. 28714 Ed Yuziuk-Pubiisher Carolyn Yuduk-Edltor Patsy RamMph-Manager Brenda Webb-Staff Published Every Thursday By Twin Cities Publishing Co. 2nd Class Postage Paid At Burnsville, N.C. r Thursday, Jan. 9, 1975 V 01.4, Number 2 Subscription Rates By Mall: In Yancey County One Year 85.00 Six Months $4.00 Out of County or State One Year $7.00 Six Months $6.00 who started out as a merchant on Pigeon Roost and would up preaching. Or Donald Mc- Coury, whose birth was duly recorded, and who progressed through the columns from a cv w child weather recorder to a father of two children whose parents were visiting him rather than the other way around. Personalities emerg ed, grew and faded; roads were washed away in spring floods, then paved; and Personalities emerged, grew .and faded; roads were washed away in spring floods, then paved; and always in the background were the ever present hills-noted, rever enced, studied, exploited and loved.” Perhaps Folk-Ways could perform no better service than to offer a sample of Pigeon Roost news as seen by Mr. Miller. The following column appeared in March of 1965 and readers can judge from the items noted why the column has continued to be V . S-rs ■ published over the years. “There came a new heifer calf on Friday, February 19 to sound, authoritative research and experimentation. REVIEW PROCESS During the review and evaluation process the Com mission members secure the help of as many advisers as they wish. The number will vary, but the usual practice has been for each member to select 8 to such advisers. Each member tries to secure a representative group includ ing classroom teachers, col lege personnel, supervisory and administrative personnel, lay persons, and students. Once process is completed, each Commission member files a written eval uation of every book submit ted. These reports are deli vered to the State Superin tendent. At the next meeting of the State Board of Education after evaluation reports are filed, the mem bers of the Commission meet -with the Board for joint review and considerations of the reports. In the evaluation of textbooks, the members of the Commission do not concern themselves in any way with * the prices of the book or its physical features. CALL FOR SEALED BIDS Following the joint session of the Textbook Commission and the State Board of Education to consider the findings and recommenda tions of the Commission, the Board officially calls for sealed bids on those books which' the? Commission found to be most appropriate. Bids are customarily received on five to eight books. At the next meeting the bids sire opened and contracts are awarded. Where significant differences ’in the appro priateness of books were noted by the Commission, the Board traditionally has placed priority on securing the best materials available. The text book selection process nor mally takes four to six months. North Carolina carries a massive inventory of text books. According to Claude Warren, director of the Division of Textbooks for the State education agency, the State has an inventory of about 10 million basic text books. In an average year, about 3 million new books are added. - - The current trend is for multiple titles to be adopted at each grade level, Warren said. Selecting texts from the multiple listing is the responsiblity of each school Unit. The Division of Text- 7 * books purchases and distri- the farm of C.W. Hughes * Byrd Creek at Pigeon Roost that had a bob tail of about only two inches long. Hughes said for one thing sure the shorttailed calf will never have the ‘hollow tail.’ All the old timey cattle raisers of this hill country says when a worm gets in a cow’s tail or any other kind of big cattle, if their tail is not split open in the middle and salt put in the wound, the cattle will die. They also said that sometimes to pour turpentine on the cow’s tail will kill the worms. One old timer recently reported to the writer that he once found a cow that was so sick that she was down and couldn’t get up, and he got him a short plank and held the cow’s" tail on it and split the cow’s tail with his pocket knife where he could tell it was hollow. He put salt on it and tied up the tail with a piece of cloth and it wasn’t long until the old cow got up and began to eat some corn meal mixed with black soot from the chimney. It was the, first thing that she had eat in two days. It’s balm of Gilead bud picking time again.” News From Pigeon Roost may be seen in the current volume (VII) of Foxfire Magazine or may be ordered at $2.95 per copy from Harvey James Miller, Box 293, Relief Route, Greenmountain, N.C. 28740. . Please send all material to: Rogers Whitener, Folk- Ways and Folk-Speech, Box 376, Univ. Station, Boone, N.C. 28608. butes the textbooks to the schools. N.C. SYSTEM IS MODEL North Carolina’s textbook selection system has become a model for the nation and people from other states often visit to see how the system works. “It has given us the best possible textbooks at the lowest possible price,” noted Warren. CANE RIVER |\ A HIGH SCHOOL J‘L I BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 1974-1975 SEASONI Jf A Rosman Nov 26 H Polk Central Nov 29 H Edneyville Dec 3 H W Henderson Dec 6 A Bakersville Dec. 10 Open Dec 13 Open Dec 17 A East Yancey Dec.2o A Edneyville Jan 3 H Spruce Pine Jan 7 A Tryon Jan 10 H Rosman Jan 11 A Spruce Pine Jan 14 H Bakersville Jan 17 A N.C.S.D. Jan 20 I H East Yancey Jan 24 i H Tryon Jan 28 A Polk Central Jan 31 H N.C.S.D. Feb 4 A W Henderson Feb 7 COACHES: J.V. Arthur Hawkins Giris-Ben Deyton Boys-Blaine Whitson Principal Mrs. Cara Cox EAST YANCEY _ HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 1974-1975 SEASON H West Wilkes N0v.26 ft. Edneyvllle N0v,29 A West Wilkes Dec. 2 A Polk Central Dec. <r A Try on DecjlO H Bowman Dec. 13 A A. C. Reynolds Dec.l6 H Cane River Dec.2o H Madison County Jan. 2 H W. Henderson Jan.lo A Bow m..-' Jan. 14 H Try on Jan.l7 A Madison County Jan. 18 H Spruce Pine Jan. 22 A Cane River Jan.2s A W. Henderson Jan.2B A Edneyvllle Jan.3l H A.C. Reynolds Feb. 1 A Spruce Pine Feb. 4 H Polk Central Feb. 7 COACHES J.V.-Mr. Bennett 1