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VOL. 4, NO. 21
Clark Young
City Exec
At First
Citizens
Clark E. Young, assistant
cashier of First-Citizens Bank
& Trust Company in Ram
seur, has been named city
executive of the Bank's
Burnsville Office. Sidney A.
Hughes, senior vice president
and regional supervisor,
made the announcement on
May 10.
As city executive, Young
will have full management
responsibilities for all aspects
of the First-Citizens Bank’s
Burnsville Office, which will
include administration, lend
ing and business develop
ment.
A native pf Smijhfield, he
joined First-Citizens Bank in
1972, with its offices in
Louisburg. Young is a past
member of the Ramseur Lions
Club and past president of the
Ramseur Jaycees.
He is ritarried to the
former June Sanders Smith of
Smithfield. The couple atten
ded Jordon Memorial Metho
dist Church at Ramseur.
GOP To
Meet Friday
There will be a Republican
Meeting at the Amberjack
Restaurant Friday night. May
21, at 7 o’clock. Everyone is
invited to attend.
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Some New Charges:
Westco Rate Hike
The North Carolina Utili
ties Commission today gran
ted Westco Telephone Com
pany rate increases totaling
$617,503.
“We asked for $1,198,089
in additional annua! revenues
in October 1975,” said Paul
Wooten, District Commercial
Manager for Westco Tele
phone Company at Weaver
ville. "We are disappointed
that we were not granted the
full amount, but we’re pleas
ed that the commission
recognized our need for
increased revenues.”
‘“The retroactive bocal
service billing to the May 1
effective date will appear on
customer bills rendered on
and after May 16, 1976,”
Wooten added.
“In addition,” said Woo
ten, “the Utilities Commis
sion granted increases in
service connection charges on
a five (5) tier basis with the
costs for business and residen
ce service charge for the type
of work function required,
such as a premise visit, line
work, dial office work, etc.
Also the rates for certain
supplemental services and
equipment such as business
extension, key system and
PBX extensions, certain types
of directory listings, etc. were
increased. In addition the
commission established char
ges for calls to directory
assistance information. Dir
ectory assistance has been an
increasingly expensive ser
vice to provide, and till now,
all customers have paid for it
equally, whether they use the
service or not. We’ve found
that a small percent of the
customers make about 90
percent of all calls to directory
assistance. It’s hardly fair to
ask those people who use
their telephone books to pay
for a service they don’t use,”
Wooten said.
The directory assistance
plan means that a customer
BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
will be charged $.20 for each
direct dialed inquiry for local
directory assistance beyond a
five call allowance per month.
Each telephone number re
quested constitutes an inquiry
except the first two numbers
requested on any one call is
considered as one inquiry.
Directory assistance calls
within area code 704 to the
uniform directory assistance
number 555-1212 will result in
addition to the five call
allowance, one directory as
sistance inquiry at no charge
for each sent paid 704 area toll
call appearing on their month
ly bill. These charges do not
apply to customers who are
blind or otherwise handicap
ped to the extend they are
unable to use their telephone
directory. <
Wooten said, “The num
ber for directory assistance
outside North Carolina 704
area is “ 1 ” pluMhe-oxea code
of the oifcryou wank then
555-1217. It’s the same
numbar everywhere, and can
be dialed direct at no charge.
Church
Dinners
Slated
The North Bend Free Will
Baptist Church will have a
dinner on Saturday night.
May 22, from 6:30 to 7:30.
Proceeds will go to the
Building Fund of the church.
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Griffith Chapel Church is
having a supper on Saturday,
May 22.. They will begin
serving at 2 o’clock. Plates are
$2.50 and you can have a
choice of fried chicken, beef
stew, with green beans,
macaroni and cheese, candied
yams, tossed salad, hot rolls
and a variety of desserts with
tea or coffee. Everyone is
invited.
If a customer is in doubt about
which area code the city is in,
he or she can use the map at
the front of the telephone
directory to find out.”
Charges for directory as
sistance calls go into effect
July 1, 1976. Local service and
other rate increases as pre
viously indicated became ef
fective May 1, 1976 and will
first appear on customer bills
received on or after May 16,
1976. “We urge customers to
call our business office if they
have any questions about
their bills.”
In response to our ques
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Playschool
Program
Burnsville Playschool will
close for the summer with a
program to be held in the
Fellowship Hall of the First
Baptist Church on Friday
night, May 21, at 7:30.
The program will consist
of poems and songs learned
by the children during the
year. Friends and relatives
are invited to attend.
Those participating in the
program are Donald Banks,
Reed Brown, Scotty Cooper,
Bo Dover, Christopher Evans,
Dawn Francis, Joel Hughes,
Tanya Laws, Karen Maddox,
Carrie Stewart, and Christal
Styles.
Playschool will reopen in
September. Any parent in
terested in registering a child
3-4 years of age may do so by
calling Mrs. Jess Styles at
682-2524.
Notice
The Burnsville Veterinary
Clinic will be closed May 22
through June 6. It will reopen'
on Monday, June 7.
Boy Scouts Camp
At Briar Bottom
Bov Scout Troops from Yancey, Madison, Mitchell and
Avery Counties spent the weekend at Briar Bottom at the foot
of Mitchell along the South Toe River. For many scouts it was a
first camporce. Each patrol set up campsites with patrol flags,
tents, ax yards, cook-fires, water buckets, food storage
facilities (including natural refrigerators], and bedding.
Inspections of campsites and meals were made by official
scorekeepers. District Executive Wiley Ward presented
awards at closing ceremonies. >
Scouts learned-by-doing at Saturday workshops in first-aid,
leaf identification, cooking, archery, knot-tying, fire building,
wood cutting, and teamwork. Fishing and hiking occupied the
rare “free” time.
Scouting is alive in this area and appreciates your support
and encourages your participation as a scout or leader. See
additional picture of Briar Batten campers on page 6.
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Girl Scouts Learn Crafts At Workshops
Among the activities of Girl Scout Troop 331 this year have
been several Art and Craft Workshops. The most recent was a
wood carving workshop with Peg Smith as instructor. The
learned basic carving as they created fish from wood.
At another workshop, Mr. John Blair instructed the girls in
basket making. Pictured with the finished baskets are
Toe River Arts Council Is Offering
Summer Classes For Children
The Toe River Arts Coun
cil is offering summer classes
for children, twice a week
from July 6 to August 6.
The classes, covering a wide
variety of arts and crafts, will
be held in Yancey and
Mitchell Counties and stu
dents are being given an
application form to take home
and fijl out with parental
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THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1976
approval.
Registration fee is only
SI.OO--to be paid after accep
tance into a class. Since class
sizes are limited, names may
have to be drawn from a hat if
there are top many applying
for one class. Transportation
must be furnished by the
applicant, who is asked to
attend every session. Appli
cants may put down a Ist and
2nd choice, although he or she
will only be chosen for one.
Yancey County classes are
as follows:
1. General Crafts-Norma
Cheren, Tuesdays and Thurs
days 9:30 a.m. to 12, S. Toe
Community Center, ages 7 to
10 (batik, tie-dye, weaving,
stitchery)
2. Music-Tom Koch, Tues
days and Thursdays 9:30 to
12, Burnsville Elementary
School, ages 7 to 12 (Con
struction of toy instruments,
music listening, singing and
dancing, and recorder les
sons)
3. General Crafts-Marilyn
Cade, Tuesdays and Thurs
days 9:30 to 12, Newdale
Community Center, ages 8,9,
10 (Paper making, painting
and drawing, collage)
4. Painting & Drawing-
Becky Gray, Mondays and
Wednesdays 9:30 to 12, Arbu
ckle Community Center, 6 to
10 year olds (Painting and
drawing techniques for be
ginners)
5. Drama-Joy Dearien,
Parade On
Saturday
The Yancey County Little
League Parade, which was
cancelled last week because of
rain, is now scheduled for this
coming Saturday, May 22.
The teams have worked hard
on their floats, and everyone
is urged to come to town and
watch the parade which will
start at Roberts Chevrolet at
9:30 a.m.
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members of the troop: [front, I. to r.) Bee Young, Hollie Sides,
Jan Blair, Lisa Silvers, Joy Bennett, [Back I. to r.) Cassandra
Wilson, Brenda Williams, Cheryl Styles, Alecia Lee, Linda
Bess, Lisa Grindstaff and Angie Wheeler. Leanne McCurry
was absent when picture was made. Leaders for the troop are
Eloise Williams and Louise Blair. Photo by Ann Hawthorne
Tuesdays and Thursdays,
9:30 to 12, Clearmont-Pigpen
Community Center, ages 10 to
12 (Plays, mime, skits)
6. Drama-Theresa Coletta,
Mondays and Fridays 2:30 to
4:00, ages 9 to 13, Yancey
County Library (Puppetry,
creative dramatics, conclud
ing play performance)
7. Painting and Drawing
for High School Students-Bob
Johnson, every afternoon for
two weeks, June 28 to July 9
at Laurel Mtn. Craft in
Windom, Route 80, Burns
ville, near East Yancey High
School.
Methodist Men Hold
Quarterly Meeting
The United Methodist
Men of the Asheville District
will hold its quarterly meeting
at Central United Methodist
Church in Asheville on
Friday, May 21. Dinner will
be served to the men at 6:30
p.m. in the Social Hal).
The program will begin at
7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
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Dr. J.E. Lowery
and will be open to the public.
Featured speaker will be the
Rev. Doctor Joseph Lowery,
Minister of Central United
Methodist Church of Atlanta,
Georgia.
A native of Alabama Dr.
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Mitchell County classes
induce General Art and
Crafts-Wanda Levin, Weav
ing-Ruth Kelley, Group In
strument Playing-Parker La-
Bach, Recorder-Keamey
Smith, General Crafts-Jack
Heddon, Drama-Jim McKin
ney, Dance-Leslie Greene.
Students who take home
application forms are asked to
return them to their teacher
by Thursday, May 27, and
they will be notified before
the end of school about their
class. Anyone who has ques
tions should call J. Johnson in
Yancey County 675-4555
Lowery holds A.8., 8.D., and
D.D. degrees. He was recently
awarded the degree of Doctor
of Divinity by Clark College
for outstanding ministry in
relating the gospel to the
totality of human need,
dedicated service and leader
ship on a national and local
level for human betterment.
A close friend of the late
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Dr. Lowery is a founder of the
Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference. During his
ministry in Atlanta, more than
400 persons have be in added
to the membersnip of that
Church. He serves on the
General Council on Ministries
of the United Methodist
Church. He is in wide demand
as a preacher throughout
Methodism, having spoken
recently at the Witness-76
Rally held by the WNC
Conference of the United
Methodist Church in Greens
boro Coliseum.