i ..Jit! hG| St j|Kj|pß!f Jp|, pfc jp ?B|j| |Sp mm, Jj VOL. 4, NO. 12 ft, K JH&. HK a «i ■ ilfei / Mk^ fla 'II k SBdHBS^ ■ HP "m iA »H p ■" v y r Bs cggk J 0 VV^* C ,« ;*gHH»s^K£p£. President Ford To Visit President Gerald R. Ford is scheduled to visit the Tri-County area this Saturday, March 20, 1976. The President will arrive at the Avery County Airport shortly after 4530 p.m. on Saturday aboard the Presidential Helicopter, Marine One. Mr. Ford is slated to speak and personally greet the people of this area. A special program of country music, clogging teams, and school bands will begin at 3:45 p.m. at the airport. The public is Invited to attend. There will be plenty of parking on the airstrip. The airstrip will be closed to airplanes for most of the day to allow for the necessary arrangements of the Presidential , Visit. [Directions: To Avery County Airport-5 miles East of Sp.'uce Pine oh 19E. Turn south at Myron Houston’s Store on Bushy Creek Road. Follow signs.] Local Program Uses HUD Grant 'The Yancey County and ToWfn of Burnsville Commun ity bevelopment Program is the result of a grant from the lI.S, Department of Housing andjUrban Development. The Town and County received a grait for $322,039. The grant *as for rehabilitation of twenty-five houses in the easjtern part of Burnsville, Toe, and Newdale; a sewjer line extension to Lincoln Park; a multi-purpose bulling for South Toe; a mul|i-purpose building for the part of Burnsville; and for equipment for the county’s three fire depart ments. The program has been operating at full capacity for four months. Twelve houses have been rehabilitated, al though outside work remains I ®>s T - m \ I W \ uT I \jgßi 4 Appalachia Sounding’ Hie Character Lady [Marian Baer] enjoys a square dance song at the huskin’ party in CRT’s ’’Appalachia Sounding’’, . coming to Harris High School In Spruce Pine at 81UO p.m. on March 25. Tickets are available at the Yancey County Country Store, The Northwestern Bank, and the Pendulum Shop. on some of those houses. The first phase of the sewer line extension is to begin soon. A building in South Toe has been purchased by the County to be used as a multi-purpose building by the South Toe Community. Construction of a new fire house for the South Toe Volunteer Fire Depart ment has begun adjacent to the South Toe Elementary School. A new fire truck is on order for the Newdale V.F.D., and the Burnsville V.F.D. has purchased communications equipment. Presently, there are twen ty people employed by the program. There is a director, a bookkeeper/secretary, a housing specialist, and the balance are carpenters and laborers. At the end of four rCont’d on Dane 21 BURNSVILLE,. NX. 28714 Chamber Urges YES I of<>: For Amendment 2 HiMHI Voting next Tuesday in favor of Proposition #2 which authorizes by constitutionals amendment the issue of industrial revenue bonds is receiving wide and strong support. The Board of the Yancey County Chamber of Commerce is convinced that our County stands to benefit, and urges an affirmative vote. The board of the seven county Region D Council of Govern ments, centered in Boone, likewise sees benefits for the western mountain counties, and urges support. The ‘ Commissioner of Labor of the State, T. Avery Nye, Jr. has sent out a strong appeal for support, stating that the decision will have a profound effect on the future growth and development of our State. The proposed amendment will authorize the issue of revenue bonds to provide funds for industrial facilities, including pollution control facilities. The interest paid to investors who purchase the bonds would be tax exempt, making the bonds attractive to investors, and in turn making it more economical than otherwise for industry to finance expansion and pollu tion control. At the same ?l.me A the Flaherty To Speak At GOP Dinner David T. Flaherty, 46, Secretary of the North Caro- j lina Department of Human Resources since January, 1973, when he was appointed by Governor Jim Holshouser, will be the Keynote Speaker for the Republican Dinner on Friday night, March 19, at East Yancey High School. The dinner begins at 7:00 p.m., v and anyone wishing to attend may buy a ticket at the door or in advance from any local Republican. Flaherty, in one of his first acts as Secretary of the Department ofj Human Re sources, returned $4.3 million to the 1973 General Assembly from the Department’s base budget request. These monies came from the reorganization of the management end of the Department, and represented no decrease in services. The Department was created by the 1971 Executive Reorganization Act. It in cludes 41 agencies, boards or institutions. The largest of these are Health, Mental Health, Social Services, Vo cational Rehabilitation, Ser vices for the Blind and Deaf and Youth Services. The Department is one of the largest in state government. The 1973 General As sembly enacted legislation allowing Secretary Flaherty to further restructure the De- Art Class Sponsored The painting class taught by Robert Johnson and sponsored by the Mayland Tech Adult Education Pro gram will continue. Registration will be Tues day, March 23, 6:00 p.m. at East Yancey High School. The class will meet from 6:00 until 10:00 p.m. every Tuesday evening for twelve weeks. The only charge is a three dollar registration fee. New students are welcome to join the class. amendment does not pose any tfireat of added tax burden. Both interest and principal payments on any bonds that may be issued would be paid by the industries benefitted. Neither the state nor the counties guarantee these pay ments. Nor will the facilities built by the proceeds of the bonds be tax exempt. The Legislators Endorse . .. - -, 0 - v . -• • ~ - . - v V Bond Referendum Twelve Western North Carolina legislators this week jointly endorsed the $43 million bond referendum for higher education to be voted on March 23. “The Bond Referendum for the University of North Carolina has our full support” the statement reads. “It provides for badly needed buildings at Appalachian, Western and UNC-A. The state can afford the repay ment and the buildings will help improve the educational experiences for young people all over Western North Carolina. 'We voted for the measure in the Genera] Assembly and'-’WTippt mu-- voters will approve it on ' March 23.” Joining in the endorse ment were Rep. Glenn A. Morris of McDowell County, Reps. Claude Deßruhl, Her bert Hyde, Mary Nesbitt and John S. Stevens, all of Wr I T --I f 4 % jk\ David 1 Flaherty partment. This legislation set nent and Manager of the up seven divisions within the Nasties Division for Broyhill Department and established "urniture Industries. He was new guidelines for the many vice .elected-to the North Boards and Commissions. arolina Senate from Burke Flaherty entered public nd Caldwell Counties, in life in 1968 in Lenoir where "'*'B and in 1970. While in the served as National Manager enate he served on various of the Advertising Depart- (Cont’d on page 2] I m Ltle League i *gistration 10 fee and birth certificate. The Yancey County Little ioths for different age League Program will hold oups will be set up and registration for the 1976 aches bf the various teams season Saturday, March 27, at ill be present. East Yancey High School l There will be a meeting of gym. All boys who plan to ttle League coaches and participate in the Little npires March Thursday, League Baseball Program this arch 25 in the courthouse, year should come by East ly person interested in Yancey any time from 9 a.m. lping with the Little League until 3 p.m. Saturday and ogram is urged to attend bring your registration form, s meeting. taxpayer is in no way threatened. North Carolina is now the only state which does not have comparable legislation per mitting the issue of tax free revenue bonds for attracting new industry. Our state has consequently labored under a distinct disadvantage in the [Cont’d on page 2] Buncombe; Sens. I.C. Craw ford and Lamar Gudger of Buncombe, Sen. Joe HI Palmer of Haywood, Sen. Cecil J. Hill of Transylvania and Rep. Jeff Enloe of Macon, Rep. Liston B. Ramsey of Madison and Rep. Ernest Messer of Haywood. Among other projects, approval of the referendum would mean a $3,328,000 library addition at ASU, $1,900,000 for a classroom office building at UNC-A, and $3,423,000 for an administra tion building-mountain heri tage museum at WCU. In addition to the joint statement, Rep. Messer said, '—r consiner un. approval vtr these bonds to be very essential to our mountain Universities. It is the only one within my memory that gives the Mountain counties a fair share of the proceeds. I hope everyone will get behind this bond issue and help pass it.” THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1976 Wagon Train Winds Slowly Through Mountains —** Bicentennial Wagon Train Preparing Summer Jaunt If’o a « It s time to get ready to 1 “hitch up your wagon”, or saddle that “hoss” and listen for that familiar “Wagons Ho!” once again. “Wagons Ho!” is music to the ears of a group of horse lovers and ever since last year’s trip they’ve been ' The Tri-County Wagon Train 1 Association is headed this ' y ear by Wagonmaster How ard Higgins and the chief scout Phil Briggs. Other members of the committee for Men’s Volleyball League The Yancey County Re creation Commission will sponsor a men’s volleyball league to be held in the Burnsville Elementary gym. Persons interested in hav ing teams in the league should attend the organiza tion meeting Wednesday night, March 17, 7:30 p.m. in the Burnsville gym. League requirements are that persons must be 18 years of age or older, must be residents of Yancey County, and everyone is required to wear tennis shoes. Coffee Break There will be a Coffee ' Break on Saturday, March 20 at Micaville Elementary School, sponsored by the Mt. Mitchell C.B. Club at 6:30 p.m. Everyone is invited. The Pigeon Valley Cloggers will be there and there will be music and lots of fun for all. Bloodmobile Visits Burnsville Mondav BY PHILLIP RAY Editor, Cane River ‘Rebel’ On Monday, March 22, 1976 the Red Cross Blood mobile wii| be in Burnsville, operating from the Fellowship Hall in The First Baptist Church from 12:30 until 6:00 p.m. The bloodmobile, which comes from the Red Cross Blood Center in Asheville, is making this visit under the sponsorship of the Yancey County Unit pf the Radio Patrol Emergency Team. Now, with the increasing need for blbod, a donor’s job is more important than ever. Somewhere in the United States someone needs blood every seventeen seconds. The people that you help with your blood donation-sometimes as 0 this years trip are from r • Madison and Yancey County. Anyone who is interested 5 in joining the Wagon Train may contact Ottis Honeycutt at 682-3742 or Dan Wilson at ; 682-6501. t i Any person or group is .1 welcome to join the train. The committee has drawn up a set i of rules and anyone who joins i the train must obey the rules. The purpose of the trip is ' good clean fellowship for those who enjoy horses and wagons and who like to sit around the campfire after a good ride and swap “horse tales.” Os course, everyone is expected to furnish his own Transportation, sleeping accommodations. Those interested may join for just one day or the whole trip. Many who planned to go one day last year just couldn’t leave-they had so much fun, and ended up making the whole trip. This year’s trip will start at Beech Glen Elementary School located off 19E at Eatmons Grocery in Madison County. People planning to go on the train will come to Beech Glen Tuesday, June 29. The train will pull out Wednesday, June 30 at 8:00 a.m. The train will travel NE on 19E to Yancey County and turn left onto the Windy Gap Road, traveling to Ebbs Chapel School for the first camp. Thursday, July 1, the train will travel up Bear v wallow Road to Laurel and camp at Roscoe Briggs property. Friday the train will travel to East Fork for the third day. The final day, July 3, the train will pull into Mars Hill for a big Bicentennial 4th of July Celebration. The train will camp at the Mars Hill many as four persons at once-may be victims of a vehicle accident or a fire, people in shock, infants of their mothers, sufferers from leukemia or hemophilia, or patients undergoing surgery. People of all ages, from * seventeen through sixty-five, give blood. Retirees as well as high school and college students can donate, provid ing they are in good health **»d weigh at least 110 pounds. The parents’ permis sion is required for all seventeen-year-old donors to be able to donate. When the Bloodmobile comes to Burnsville Monday. March 22, won’t you please give the gift of life? Please give blood. 15 c , School grounds Saturday night and disband on Sunday, I July A. l To cover incidental expen t ses such as garbage bags, t rental of portable bathroom facilities, etc. the Committee is selling chances on a jprize * 200 lb. hog. Please support : the Wagon Train and buy a * ticket. Contact any member of 5 the committee for a ticket. After expenses are paid remaining proceeds will fee donated to a worthwhile charity or organization. I I i' Hi M. Blickenstaff Piano Concert : ■ t..' .>■ -■ Tonight Marvin BlickenstaiT. Pro fessor of Piano at tfte University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, is the featured artist in the fifth Mayland Concert on Thursday, March 18, at 8:00 p.m. in the Presbyterian Church, Burns ville. Mr Blickenstaff, wbp has studied with Lili Kraus -Is a graduate of Oberlin aMD Indiana University. He has received outstanding recogni, tion since childhood and hfs performed throughout this country as well as in Germany and Austria. His New Yofk debut was in 1%9. Mr. Blickenstaff s pro gram will consist of wotiks by Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Copland, and Bartok. Tickets «* *1.50 are available at the door. Student tickets are SI.OO. Those who have attended the previous Mayland Con certs presented by Music in the Mountains have been j v v|uaii|j OT