THE YANCEY JOURNAL VOL. 4, NO. 41 • ’ • •• •" I I 1 yc^jf '1 Kj JKil 3 fitaf' • ” I EEaF I-, -tea S\ \\ i. Yancey Railroad Opens Door To Adventure With Excursion Train s^lpjf A once-a-year opportunity to take a Yancey Railroad Color Excursion along the South Toe, is being offered by the Spruce Pine Junior Women’s Club, which is chartering the train for this event. Open observation cars of the “Sooth Toe Rambler will enable passengers to take photographs of the sparkling Toe River through the colorful autumn foliage, and there will be unlimited photo stops for leaf-lovers and railroad buffs. The “Rambler” travels from Burnsville Three Candidates For Town Board The Burnsville town elec tion to be held on November 4 will apparently be a quiet affair. The three candidates who have filed for positions on the three-man town board are Bob Helmle, for mayor, and David Mclntosh and Charlie Hensley for the two positions as commissioners. Since the deadline for filing has passed, only these three names will appear on the ballots. Write-in votes Public Hearing Planned Two public hearings con cerning the HUD Community Development Act plans for Year II are scheduled by the Town of Burnsville and Yancey County. The first public hearing will be held on Tuesday night, October 14, and the second public hearing will be held on Thursday night, October 16. Both public hearings will begin at 7:30 p.m. and both will be held in the courtroom of the Yancey County Courthouse. Every resident of the Town or County who wishes to express his or her views concerning the plan for Year 11 is urged to attend. | For' Senior Citizens Out Reach Effort ! SCORE Volunteers Needed j Telephone hotline volun teers are now needed by the Yancey County Committee on Aging in order to put SCORE into operation. SCORE (Se nior Citizen Outreach Effort) i will at first be a County-wide communication system (hot line telephone) for senior citizens. The purpose of the hot-line telephone will be to put senior citizens with needs directly in touch with volun teers or service agencies who can meet those needs. may be cast, but the likelihood of serious competi tion for any of the three offices seems remote. Bob Helmle served pre viously as mayor for three terms between 1961 and 1967, and since then has been a member of the town board. David Mclntosh is proprietor of David’s Limited, and Charlie Hensley holds an administrative position with the school board. These two younger men have both been active in community affairs. Both have served as president of the Jaycees, and Mclntosh has served additionally on the board of the Yancey County Chamber of Commerce. Mayor James Anglin, who has served four terms and Pete Coletta, with sixteen years on the town board, both declined to run for re-election. Shepard On Board Mayor James A. Anglin announces the appointment of Mrs. Alma Shepard to the Burnsville Board of Elections. This Board, which will con duct the Town election on November 4, is now madeup of the following: Chairman- Gene Higgins, Secretary- Linda Edge, Member -Alma Shepard. The hot-line volunteers will man the hot-line tele phone, insuring that no call of need will be unanswered. The hot-line will initially be in operation from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday above Pollard’s Drug Store. If you would like to help in this volunteer effort and can give a few hours one day each week for this service, please call Rev. Don Turman (675-4110), chairman, Yancey County Committee on Aging. J I BURNSVILLE, fk. 28714 to Kona and back, after stopping for a picnic on the island at Kona In the confluence of the North and South To# Rivers. The train will depart from the Burnsville Station at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 18, and will return around 6:00 or 6:30 p.m. Reservations must be made in advance; send $4.00 for each ticket to Carol Westveer, Spruce Pine Junior Women’s Club, Box 444, Spruce Pine, N.C. 28777, and a packet of information will be sent upon request. Mrs. Wottvoorcan also be reached by calling 765-7242. MS.. . $ Rev. Funderburk Revival Planned By Methodists Revival services will be held each evening at 7:30 p.m., October 12-16, at Celo United Methodist Church. Rev. Donald K. Funderburk, pastor of Bethlehem United Methodist Church of Ad vance, North Carolina, will be the visiting evangelist. Rev. Funderburk is a native of Matthews, N.C. and a graduate of Brevard Col lege, Lenoir Rhyne College, and Candler School of Theo logy, Emory University. He has served churches in the Statesville and Thomasville Districts of the United Meth odist Church, The public is invited to attend these services. »‘. c » v .:-y. •-»./ '■ Finances Reported By Chamber Board At the October Yancey Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors monthly meeting, Ben Floyd, Chamber Presi dent, released the financial statistical report of the 1975 Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair and Youth Jamboree. The report’s figures clearly showed this to be the Chamber’s most successful financial year with the Fair and the Jamboree. The total receipts from the Craftsmen’s registration, 10% of their sales and the concession were $4,139.13. The expenses for the Crafts Fair totaled $735.79 bringing the net profit for the Crafts Fair to $3,403.34. The receipts for the chicken barbecue totaled $3,853.80. The expenses for Math Teachers To Meet The North Carolina Coun cil of Teachers of Mathema tics will hold its annual conference in Western North Carolina for the first time. On October 17 and 18 there will be 76 sessions on all phases of Mathematics at the UNC-A campus in Asheville. Any teacher of a mathematics class, kindergarten through college will find many ses sions of interest during the conference. This is a rare opportunity for teachers of this area and their support will determine any future meeting this far west. The Western North Carolina offi cers indicated to the NCCTM Board of Directors that teachers from Murphy and all points in the western part of the state have just as much right to a convenient confer ence as any teacher in the state. The state certification committee has made it possi ble for teachers to receive one certificate for attending the [Coat’d oa page 21 the chicken barbecue totaled $1,787.13 bringing the net profit to $2,066.67. The total net profit for the Fair and the chicken barbecue totaled $4,872.97. The receipts for the Youth Jamboree totaled $1,147.05. Th« expense* for this activity totaled $448.78 bringing the net profit for the 1975 Yancey Janboree to $698.27. The profits earned from th< Fair, chicken barbecue and Jamboree are spent by thd Yancey Chamber of Commerce in industrial pro motion, tourism publicity, the town facelift project, educa tional scholarships and other civic community projects for Yfucey County. . ‘v.*v. :w- M BBBaP|S..:. . A r HiHHHßPfc*' 1 - ' -TL . wrr £*■' - Hi x^jmi fJ|JMWMB§|r pßipl ni !■ . .. s,„w a„«„ v,„ f.„ r wen tv-eight senior citizen, from Yancey County recently p ticipated in an all-day trip to the WNC Fair at I idersonvilie, sponsored by the local Community Action C ce. First stop was at Kentucky Fried Chicken of THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1975 Westco Proposes Increase: Rate Hike Sought Declining earnings, a trend that has already hurt its ability to compete for expan sion capital, has been cited as the reason Westco Telephone Company must again seek a general rate increase. According to Westco Pre sident Norman Gum, “It’s true that we just had an increase, but it simply was not enough to offset the continu ing drop in our level of earnings. We filed for that increase in May, 1974, using year-end 1973 financial data. We received our answer in May of this year, but then wer granted only 60 percent ’ of what we knew was needed to improve our company’s eco nomic health. “We’re like any other business that has been caught up in the present cycle of inflation. Our costs, like those of the retailer or manufactur er, have increased and we must again offset the effects with a compensating increase in what we charge for service. The increase we’re asking for would add no mure than from $2.65 to $5.20 a month to basic residential rates, and no more than $12.95 per month to business individual line rates. increase in residence exten sions to $1.35 a month and $2.10 a month for businesses; charging $30.00 for new installations and $17.50 for installations where the pre vious customer has left the Rummage Sale Set By STVFD The South Toe Volunteer Fire Department is holding a Rummage and White Ele phant Sale at the South Toe Elementary School on Satur day, October 11, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Anyone wishing to donate baked goods or articles to be sold can contact Florence Yaffe at 675-5214 and she will be glad to arrange to have them picked up. —lilulM.j i, 1 * 'n , existing phone in place; and other related changes for supplemental services and equipment. “The combined increase would generate approximate ly $1.2 million in additional annual revenue. "Today’s harsh reality is that the company’s net income has actually declined by some 25 percent when compared to year-end 1973,” Gum pointed out, “and this is a trend that cannot be allowed to continue if we are to protect the integrity of our company and its service to the customer. It’s already severe ly impaired our ability to attract outside investment capital that historically is used by our industry to finance expansion.” He said the company is unable to meet most of the standard economic tests used by investors in measuring the safety of investment opportunities. “Our only al ternative has been to use funds generated from within the company as much as possible, but this has provi United Way Donors Make Honor Roll The first publication of the 1975 United Way Honor Roll is shown below. The source of the information is Mrs. Ruby Smith, Treasurer of the Yancey United Fund, who is keeping track of the progress being made in the campaign. She recognizes that the list may not be complete, owing to slowness of reports to reach her. UNITED WAY SPONSORS [Contributors of SSOO or more] Mr. and Mrs. Mack B. Ray UNITED WAY PATRONS [Contributors of S2OO to ssoo] Deytons Farm Supply Pollard’s Drug Store Dr. Garland Wampler Blue Bell Employees Bob Helmle CENTURY CLUB [Contributors of SIOO to s2oo] Yancey Builders Supply Burnsville Furniture & Hdwre display, a large section being devoted to Hendersonvillo Apple a nearby apple orchard. To see such great as was Sabra Phillip. More allday trips are telngnfcumed If ° M * nd nicraiiM, please call 682*2610* 10 c ded us with only a minimum of dollars and we therefore have had to cut back our construction program accor dingly,” Gum added. Westco’s annual construc tion expenditure has fallen from $2.6 million in 1974 to the estimated $l.B million for 1976. “That’s a particularly disturbing curve to us be cause the demand for improv ed service is still there, We have done a lot over the past few years to meet customer needs, including major im provements in long distance service and the elimination of multi-party lines, but there’s still more to do, and we know it. Yet we can only go as far and as fast as our available dollars will let us.” In discussing his com pany’s drop in net income, he said it is tied directly to a corresponding rise in com pany expenses. For example, the company’s total operating expenses rose by an average of more than 2 percent a month from December, 1973, [Cont’d on page 2] Fortner Insurance Drs. David and Carolyn Cort Edward L. Greer Art Asher Hazen Ledford Dr. R.K. Ransom Wm. O. Cullom Mrs. Grace Grassmuck Blue Ridge Hardware Mr. and Mrs. John Martin Milton Weiss A happy note in the campaign was furnished by receipt through the mail of a hundred dollar check from a newcomer in the community, Wm. O. Collum, who recently purchased property in the county. This gift is spepially appreciated since it is learned that the donor also contri butes to a United Way ~ campaign at his home in Florida. In fact, Mr. Collum is serving as a chairman of a drive in the Miami area.

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