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THE YANCEY JOURNAL
VOL. 4, NO. 13
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Members Os School Boards And County Commissions Attended Dinner Meetings
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O.W. Deyton, James Ledford, Fred Bentley
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Charles Tolley
Tolley
Named
General
Manager
Charles R. Tolley, who has
been serving as Acting
Manager at French Broad
EMC since August 1975, has
been named permanent Gen
eral Manager of the Corpora
tion effective April 1, 1976.
This action was taken by the
Board of Directors at their
regular meeting in March.
Mr. Tolley is a native of
Madison County and a gra
duate of Mars Hill High
School. He graduated from
Clemson University with a BS
Degree in Electrical Engin
eering. He served .in the
Armed Forces attached to the
18th Airborne Corp and later
the 160th Signal Group, and
saw service in Vietnam. He is
married to the former
Landers and they have' a
one-year old daughter, Caro
line Leigh.
Appalachian Heritage Recalled
In State-Funded CR T Production
BY SUSAN LARSON
One of the first celebra
tions of the bicentennial here
will take place on Thursday,
March 25, at 8:00 p.m. in
Spruce Pine at Harris High. It
is “Appalachia Sounding”
which captures the spirit of
the year in telling the story of
a mountain family whose
pride and independence sus
tain them in the face of the
many changes which take
place over the two hundred
years they are here.
Writing in the program of
“Appalachia Sounding”, Cra
tis Williams of Appalachia
State University where much
of the research was done for
the play says, “Today it is
fitting that the Appalachian
heritage be sounded anew in
an attitude of genuine appre
ciation of its richness, its
worth, and its long reach back
into the history of our nation
and our people. Contempor
ary Americans, loaf ' and
searching for identity, can
certainly find in Appalachia
grandmothers and grandfa
thers whose songs and tales,
folksay, and arts and crafts
they can identify with in their
search tor cultural roots and a
place to call home the heart.”
Some of the grandmothers
and grandfathers of whom
Mr. Williams speaks will be in
the audience Thursday night.
A busload of senior citizens
Church
Ceremony
The Mt. Celo Presbyterian
Church will be observing
groundbreaking ceremonies
Sunday, March 28. The public
is cordially invited to attend.
Rev, L. Dietz, pastor.
BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
from Yancey County will
attend. Mary Helmle, who
was responsible for tickets in
Yancey County, made the
arrangements for this with
WAMY. \
Other Yancey board mem
bers of the Toe River Arts
Council who have been
working to bring Appalachia
Sounding to this area are
Theresa Coletta, who has
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College Hosts
Dinner Meeting
Mars Hill College was hofrt to the County Commissioners
and Boards of Education front Yancey and Madison Counties at
a dinner meeting on Monday, March 15. President Bentley
expressed appreciation to the community leaders for their
excellent service to the region. In addition, President Bentley
spoke of the commitment of Mars Hill College to the people of
the Southern Highlands and indicated his desire that the
cooperation presently existing between the College and
community leaders continue Jo develop.
Oscar Deyton, of Yancey County
Commission, and Mr. James T. Ledford, Chairman of the
Madison County Commission, discussed recent community
development projects and future plans for each county.
Mr. Ed Hunter, Superintendent of Schools, Yancey County,
and Mr. Robert Edwards, Superintendent of Schools, Madison
County, related recent developments in education.
Pictured above [l. to r.] standing: Don Anderson, Claude
Vess, Romie Bums, Bill Roberts, Emery Wallin, Dedrick Cody,
Dr. Fred Bentley. Seated: Robert Edwards, Ed Hunter,
William A. Banks.
handled the publicity and
Joyce Johnson, who assisted.
The Senior Girl Scout Troop
also gave their time to put up
posters.
The essay contest for high
school students on “Indepen
dence-An Appalachian Tra
dition” was coordinated in
East Yancey and Cane River
High Schools by board mem
ber Judy Norris. The winners
of this competition, for which
the first prize is a SSO savings
bond, the second prize a 525
savings bond given by NCNB
and the third prize is $lO
donated by the Spruce Pine
PTA will be announced
Thursday evening at the
performance.
Tickets are available at the
door, from the Yancey County
Country Store, the Pendulum
Shop, the First-Citizens Bank,
or from any Toe River Arts
Council board member. They
are $2.00 for adults and free
" for students.
Appalachia Sounding is
produced by the Carolina
Readers Theatre and funded
by the Appalachian Regional
Commission and the state of
North Carolina.
Church
School
At Higgins
Week Day Church School
will begin Thursday, March
25, at, Higgins Memorial
United Methodist Church.
Designed to give pre-school
children (ages 3-5) a learning
experience within a religious
atmosphere, the Church
School will be held on
Tuesday and Thursday morn
ings from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at
the church.
Teachers are Mrs. Suzan
Hughes and Mrs. Linda
Gillespie. The cost is $2.00
per day. Scholarships are .
available for children in
special cases.
If you are interested in
enrolling your child in this
program, please call the
church office at 682-2835.
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1976
Local Committee On Aging
Gets National Recognition
Yancey County’s Com
mittee on Aging is one of 1-2
community organizations in
the United States to receive
national recognition for “uni
que service contributed to
older Americans through ac
tive participation in Operation
Independence.”
Operation Independence
is a three-year project whose
major objective is to help
ensure that vulnerable or
handicapped older persons
are not unnecessarily institu
tionalized. The project has
been recognized by the
American Revolution Bicen
tennial Administration as an
official Bicentennial program,
the only one of 140 national
programs to deal exclusively
with aging.
The award was presented
by NVOILA, the National
Voluntary Organizations for
Independent Living for the
Aging, a program unit of The
National Council on Aging.
Across the United States
more than a million older
adults are confined to their
homes, and millions of others
are coping with conditions
that threaten their indepen
dent living and severely
restrict the quality of their
MooresviUe
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Lions Host
Big Event
The MooresviUe Lions
Club has completed plans for
its 36th Annual Old Time
Fiddler’s and Blue Grass
Convention according to Shaw
Brown, chairman of this
year’s big event.
This big Tri-State event
wUI be held Saturday, March
27, 1976 at 7 p.m. and will be
held at the Roland R. Morgan
Auditorium on East Center
Ave. in MooresviUe, North
Carolina.
Dwight Barker of Radio
Station WHIP will again be
Master pf Ceremonies.
We wUI have ample
parking and seating, but due
to the interest in this years
convention, we would suggest
thet you come early to get the
best. We again promise the
same sound system as last
year. We have been advised
that this system has been
updated and improved.
Ribbons and SSOO cash
awards wUI be presented to
the winners. A trophy and
cash awards will be presented
to the best Fiddler.
Prizes wUI be awarded as
follows: Best Fiddler, Best
Old ‘ Time Band, Best Blue
Grass Band, Best Banjo, Best
Mandolin, Best Guitar, Best
Bass, Best Buck Dancer, and
Most Promising Talent.
Competent Judges wUI be
secured to pick the winners of
this big event.
Entries are now being
received for this big contest.
Any bands, fiddlers, buck
dancers and other contestants
who wish to compete for the
large cash awards please
write or call Shaw Brown,
Chairman. P.O. Box 1,
MooresviUe, N.C. 28115 (704)
664-1182.
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Revival In
Progress
Revival Services are now
in progress at Bowditch Union
Church on NC 80 South. Rev.
T.A. Greene of Greensboro is
evangelist. Services start each
night at 7:00. Everyone is
invited. Rev. Frances Radford
is pastor.
lives.
•• - The Committee on Aging
received its award from
NVOILA in recognition of its
Telephone Hotline for Senior,
Citizens, the only program of
this type for Senior Citizens
known to be in existence. The
Telephone Hotline is a county
wide effort in which Senior
Citizens with specific needs
call a central number and are
put in touch with citizen
volunteers and agencies who
are able to assist them. The
Committee on Aging is
composed of interested citi
zens and representatives from
churches, community organi
zations and government agen
cies in the county. Rev.
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Profits from the sales of Lions products benefit children of
Yancey County. Those people in the county who have bought
brooms, light bulbs, Halloween candy or fruit cakes have »«ui»
this possible. The Burnsville Lions Club this week donated one
hundred dollars to the Mountain Heritage Band. Pictured
above, Lisa Mauney, band director, accepts the check from Joe
McFee of the Lions Club.
The Burnsville Lions will meet Thursday, March 25, at the
community building. French Broad EMC will present the
program for the evening.
Little League Presidents
Romle Burns, put president of Yancey County Llttk
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Richard Muri, pastor of
Burnsville’s First Baptist
Church, is chairperson of the
committee. Worth Crow, from
Newdale, is chairperson of the
SCORE (Senior Citizen Out-
Reach Effort) Task Foret
which was responsible for
developing the Telephone
Hotline and getting it into
operation. Mr. Crow and Mrs.
True Elliott, worker with
WAMY Community Action,
Inc., have worked together ip
directing the program since
operation began last Novem
ber. Volunteers from all over
the county man the Hotline,
Monday through Friday, 8:30
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The
number is 682-6011. vv