THE YANCEY JOURNAL
VOL. 4, NO. 43
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Saturday, October 11, was “All University Day” at North
Carolina State University in Raleigh. Thirty high school Juniors
and Seniors from Yancey County attended Open House
activities at NCSU. They were among the more than 3,000
students, parents and guests of the university for the annual
event. Students visited different schools and departments and
Participation Plan Allows Citizens
To Help With CommuhityTJtfvelopriieni^
The town and county have
devised a community parti
cipation plan to allow citizens
input into the current Com
munity Development Program
and into the plans for next
year’s program. The plan
includes the appointment of a
five member citizens advisory
committee designed to de
termine which houses are
selected for rehabilitation,
selection criteria, and mini
mum standards for houses
which are chosen. The com
mittee will also be asked to
make recommendations re
garding next year’s plan. The
five members of that commit
tee are Mr. John Ramsey,
chairman, from South Toe;
Mrs. Willard Crowder, New
dale; Mr. Grady Riddle,
Burnsville; and Mr. Walter
Edwards and Mr. J. Hubert
Cooper, at large.
In addition to the advisory
Garden
Club Meets
The Burnsville Garden
Club will meet at Joan
Reeve’s home on Thursday
afternoon, October 23, at 3:00
p.m. with Mrs. W.A.Y.
Sargent as assistant hostess.
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y Micaville Students Visit Burnsville
Approximately fifty students from second and third grade classes at Micaville Elementary
School visited In Burnsville last Friday, October 17, accompanied by their teachers, Mrs. Boilman
and Mrs. Whitson. The class trip included visits to the courthouse, fire department and The
Yancey Journal, and a picnic at Black Mountain Caaspground was especially eqjoyed by everyone.
committee, other agencies
have been asked to lend their
input into the program for this
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The Cane River Baptist
Church will hold a Revival
October 26 through 31 at 7:30
each night. Carl W. Pointer,
pastor of Rehoboth Baptist
Church in Piedmont, S.C.,
will be the evangelist and
there will be special singing
every night. Everyone is
invited.
Banks Creek Church will
have a benefit gospel singing
Saturday night, October 25.
Benefits are for Oscar Tipton,
member x of the church..
Featured on this program will
be the Revelation Quartet,
Singing Gospel Tones, Living
Faith (all ladies), Payne
Family and Harmony Trio.
Sherri Whitson is pastor;
Ed Ball will be in charge.
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Special Evangelistic Ser
vices will be held October 26
through 31 at Faith Fellow
ship Baptist Church on
Mitchell Branch, Burnsville.
BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
discussed the educational possibilities with members of the
faculty and some of the students at State. Yancey County
students were accompanied by Mr. W.C. Bledsoe, County
Extension Chairman, Johnny G. Hensley, Ass’t. Agr.
Extension Agent, and Mrs. Linda T. Hensley, Teacher at East
Yancey High School.
y ear and plans for next year.
Those agencies are Farmers
Home Administration, the
Rev. Amos Clark is the
speaker for the six nights of
services which will begin at 7
o’clock each evening.
Rev. Clark of the
Rev. Amos Clark
Tabernacle Baptist Church of
Morganton, N.C.
Pastor Richard Buchanan
and the church invite the
public to attend the services
which begin Sunday night and
continue through Friday.
Health Department, WAMY
Community Action, and the
Department of Social Ser
vices.
Two public hearings were
held in Burnsville, one on
October 14 and the other on
October 16, 1975. The pur
pose of those hearings was for
the Town and County officials
to listen to the ideas and
concerns of citizens. If there
are concerns or ideas which
have not yet been voiced, any
citizen is invited to relay those
concerns or ideas to a
representative of one of the
above-named agencies, to one
of the Town or County’s
commissioners, or to one of
the advisory committee’s
members.
Once the plans for next
year are developed, they will
be made available to the
public through the radio and
newspaper and will be avail
able for inspection during
business hours in the new
Town Hall and the County
Courthouse.
Volunteers
Needed For
; Hot Meal
i Program
WAMY Community Ac
j program for our elderly.
Persons who are isolated,
' lonely and do not want to eat
alone; who lack adequate
income to purchase adequate
nutritional food; who are
minority; who lack mobility
[ needed to shop and prepare
meals; or who do not have
I needed skills or knowledge to
prepare well-balanced meals,
are served daily. Also provi-
I ded with the meal is a whole
[ series of supportive services
ranging from Nutrition Edu
cation to Recreation, from
Shopping Assistance to Coun
seling. ,
Volunteers are desper
ately needed to help with this
piugiaai. Contact
Hazel Thomas, the project
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Yancey School Pi
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Students in Yancey Coun
ty Schools will be given a
two-dey vacation on Thursday
and Friday, October 23-24
while their teachers work at
school. Thursday will be a
workday for teachers to
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BURNSVILLE
IN FIRST PLACE
Burnsville took over sole
possession of first place in the
Tri-County football confer
ence Monday night by defeat
ing the then first-place team,
Marshall, by the score of 20 to
0. Marshall dropped to third
place after the defeat.
This weeks games at Cane
River will be the last home
games for Bald Creek and
Burnsville. Game times are
Burnsville vs Flat Creek at 6
o’clock; Bald Creek vs Bears
at 8 o’clock.
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MICAVILLE PTA
CARNIVAL
The Micaville Elementary
School PTA is sponsoring a
Carnival on Saturday, October
25 in the schpol auditorium.
Admission will be SI.OO for
adults and $.50 for elemen
tary students.
The program will start at
grades 1-3, and grades 4-8.
There will be drawings for
several door prizes.
There will be several
games including Cork Gun
Shooting, Battle Toss, Bean
Bag Toss, Basketball Throw,
White Elephant Sale, Cake
Walks, and many more.
Sponsors wish to thank the
J.L. Robinson Store, Bob Hall
Service £fttion, Dellinger &
Silver Stole, Henredon Furni
ture, Styles Automotive Sup
plies and Robinson Brothers
Texaco for the fine door prizes
ranging from $89.00 down.
Legion
Meeting
The American Legion and
Auxilliary will meet Tuesday,
October 28, at 7:00 p.m. A
covered dish dinner will be
served, followed by a pro
gram, “What’s Right With
America” by Oddvar Bery.
The program will be intro
duced by Mrs. O.W. Deyton.
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Darrel Boone
Boone Is
Ranger
Darrell F. Boone, a gra
duate of Haywood Technical
Institute, is now employed
with the Forestry Service as a
Custom Ranger. His head
quarters are in Fayetteville,
North Carolina.
Mr. Boone’s work extends
over six counties: Cumber
land, Hoke, Hornett, Robe
son, Johnston and Sampson.
He commented, “The work is
very eiyoyable, but UtiU miss
of Mrs. yj-joSI
THOR&DAY, OCTOBER 23, 1975
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fews:
Vacation
compile grades, prepare re
port cards and other reports.
Friday will be observed as
Parents’ Day. Parents of all
students are encouraged to
visit the school and talk with
the teachers about their
child’s progress. Report cards
will be picked up by the
parents at this time. Parents
may visit the schools any time
between 1:00 and 6:00 p.m.
on Friday. Those who will be
visiting the high schools are
asked to visit as early in the
afternoon as possible, since
high school teachers will be
involved in preparing for the
homecoming football game
and activities early in the
evening.
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LEARNING f
PROJECT
Mrs. Ann Levy, training
specialist from the New
Adventure In Learning De
monstration/Diffusion Cen
ter, Tallahassee, Fla. spent
October 15-16 in Burnsville
Elementary School where she
provided special training for
the participating teachers in
Burnsville’s New Adventures
In Learning project. She also
visited Pensacola Elementary
School where she made
m C °gnn^ a concerning
ways they may adapt the
methods and techniques used
by the project
A presentation of the
project will be given at
Pensacola PTA meeting Oc
tober 20 and at a special
parent meeting in Burnsville
October 27. All parents are
encouraged to attend.
New Law Practice
Attorney Norris Opens Office
Attorney Staunton Norris
has opened a law office in
Burnsville. The location is on
the town square above the
new Yancey County Library.
The phone is 682- 7410.
Norris has practiced for
the past year with G.D.
Bailey. He did his undergra
duate study at Florida State
University and Appalachian
' State University. He was
graduated Summa cum Laude
from ASU. He attended law
school at the University of
North Carolina and was
admitted to the Morth Caro
lina Bar in September of 1974.
He is married to Julia
Bennett Norris. She is the
eldest daughter of Mr. and
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New Regional Bookmobile
The Avery-MHchefl-Yancey Regional Library has recently purchased a new bookmobile which
will be serving the throe-county area. According to Mrs. Barbara Dupkosld, Regional Beelaaohle
Librarian, the bookmobile routes are set up so the entire area serviced can be covered once during
a 4-week period. The roving library is in use S full days a week. Mrs. Georgln Cannon travels wRh
various^ elementary schools on Mondays to conduct a Story How far
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Jaycees Sell Giant Books
As a special fund-raising project, the Yancey County
Jaycees are selling Giant Coloring Books for Christmas giving.
The books, which cost $3.00 each, can, be ordered by calling or
will be delivered by the Jaycees in time for Christmas, will
benefit North Carolina’s new “Burn” hospital in Greensboro
as well as other Jaycee activities such as the placing and
lighting of the cross atop Tower Knob for special holidays.
Pictured above, Burnsville student Greg Yuziuk holds the
coloring book which is almost 2 feet long by 16 inches wide and
has approximately 25 pages telling “The Night Before
Christmas” story with large pictures of Santa and his reindeer
rollicking through the pages. Order your copies now for
Christmas giving.
Mrs. Mark Bennett of Burns
ville. The Norrises have two
children: Heather, age 8, who
attends Pensacola Elementary
School; and Staunton Jr., age
3. The family resides’ in
Pensacola Township.
Norris currently serves as
Power Interruption
French Broad Electric Membership Corporation
announces a scheduled Power Interruption for
Sunday, October 26, 1975, from 1:00 p.m. to 6too
p.m. that will affect the following areas: Micaville,
South Toe River, Blue Rock Road, Ed Young Road,
Double Island Road, Brush Creek, Toecane,
Bandana, Kona, Wlndom, Mine Fork. This
interruption is necessary to repair damage to
I transmission line. i
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the vice president of the
Yancey County Chamber of
Commerce and as the Chair
man of the Directors of the
Madison-Yancey Youth
Achievement Home. He is
also a member of the County
Recreation Commission.