THE YANCEY JOURNAL
VOL. 4, NO. 23
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On Tuesday, May 26, the K-3 faculty of Burnsville
Elementary School entertained the parent volunteers and other
adults who have worked with the children throughout the
school year. At the tea in their honor, each volunteer was
presented an appreciation certificate by Larry Howell,
principal, on behalf of the school and the PTA. Also present to
express her appreciation was Miss Iva Nell Buckner,
supervisor of education. These volunteer persons have given a
total minimum of 1300 hours this year. Special recognition was
given to Harriet Buckner, Marsha Sigmon and Rose Tschudy
Candidates File For County Offices
And Board Os Education Seats
The Yancey County Board
of Elections announces the
following people have filed for
candidacy subject to the
August 17 primary:
Alton Robinson, Clay Mil
ler and Carlson John Tuttle
have filed on the Democratic
side for the two member seats
available on the County
Commission. Carl Carter-D
has filed his candidacy for the
chairmanship of the County
Commission and will not be
on the primary ticket as he is
unopposed. On the Republi
can ticket, J. Ardell Sink has
filed his candidacy as Chair
man of the Yancey County
Trout
Dinner
There will be a Trout
Dinner at Griffith Chapel
Church on Saturday, June 5,
beginning at 2 o’clock until ?
The price js $2.50/plate.
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Scouts Offer U.S. Flag Kit
Now is the time for all good men to fly their colors. Boy Scoot Troop 502 Is offering a complete
U.S. Flag Klt-100% cotton flag, pole, lanyard and triumphal eagle-for the modest fee of 16.00.
The entire Burnsville Community should prepare to By 01’ Glory on the Fourth. Contact any Boy
Scout or stop by Johnson's, Pollard’s or Joe Young Ford.
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Volunteers Honored By Faculty
Commission; Walter Edwards
and Kenneth Lyda Letterman
are candidates for member of
the County Commission.
Two Democrats have filed
for Register of Deeds subject
to the primary. They are
Grace Ayers-Incumbent, and
Jean S. Buchanan. No Repub
Westco To Charge For
Directory Assistance Calls
On July 1, 1976, Western
Carolina and Westco Tele
phone Companies will begin
charging for :alls to Directory
Assistance.
According to Paul Woo
ten, District Commercial
Manager, customers will be
allowed five free calls to
Directory Assistance within
their local calling area, or 704
area, each billing month.
After the five call allowance, a
charge of 20c will be made for
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BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
who have each given over 300 volunteer hours, and to Kathy
Burns and Betty Garland who have no children in school. PTA
officers for next year are already planning a volunteer corp.
Pictured [left to right] Larry Howell, Joanne Tipton, Zena
McDowell, Nancy Crout, Harriet Buckner, Wilma Bennett,
Marsha Sigmon, Bunny Mclntosh, Patsy Miller. Absent when
picture was taken: Rose Tschudy, Kathy Burns, Gladys Ray,
Betty Garland, Billie Jean Thompson, Mary Nell Penland and
Lena Briggs.
licans have filed for that
office.
The non-partisan election
of Yancey County Board of
Education members will take
place during the August 17
primaries. Two members of
the five-person board will
remain in office for another
Assistance or to long distance
Directory Assistance within
your 704 home area. Calls to
local Directory Assistance are
those calls made by dialing
either "O” (Operator) and
asking for Directory Assis
tance, or 411, according to the
instructions in the front of
your telephone directory.
Jn addition to the five free
call allowance, one free call to
long distance Directory Assis
tance in the 704 area (reached
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two years. They are Romie
Burns and Charles Gillespie.
Members of the board not
running for re-election, whose
terms are expiring, are
Claude Vess, Bill Banks and
Wade Styles. Candidates for
the three available seats on
the School Board are Kenneth
P. Hunter, Thomas H. Robin
son, Artie Lee Peterson,
Garrett D. Anglin, Wanda
Proffitt, Hazel Gilley, Dudley
Robertson and Kenneth
i Laughrun.
Mountain
Dancing
Course
The Continuing Education
Program of Mars Hill College
will offer Smooth and Clog
Mountain Dancing (Music
073) for the residents of
Yancey County 1 during the
first term of the college’s
summer session.
The class will begin
Tuesday, June 8, and meet on
Tuesday and Thursday nights
from 6 to 9 p.m. An exception
will be the week of July 5-9
when the class will not meet.
The end of the first term of
summer school is July 29.
Participants will receive
four semester hours of credit,
or the course can be audited
taken but not receiving
college credits. The tcacuvt
will be Lou Therrell, well
known mountain musician
and the leader of the
Appalachian Folk mountain .
music band. The class will
meet at the Micaville School.
Registration for the Yan
cey County course will be held
the first night of class, June 8.
Costs are SIOO for the
students who want to receive
credit for (he class and a S2O
audit fee for those who wish to
participate but not to receive
college credit. Further infor
mation on the CEP classes can
be obtained from the Admis
sions Office, Mars Hill Col
lege. Mars Hill, N.C. 28754 or
by calling 704/689-1201.
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Parkway Playhouse Schedule:
Plays Reflect Bicentennial
Parkway Playhouse, a
summer stock theatre located
in Burnsville, has scheduled a
full season of American plays
this year in observance of the
nation’s upcoming 200th
birthday.
The playhouse, now in its
30th year of operation, will
open the season July 7 with
Thornton Wilder’s ‘‘Our
Town.” The play, which will
run through July 10, depicts
American life in small towns.
It will be followed July
14-17 by “Dames at Sea,”
which focuses on American
entertainment. Next will be
"The Matchmaker,” July
21-24, depicting American
romance. “The Glass Mena
gerie,” a Tennessee Williams
drama about an American
family struggle, will run July
28-31. Climaxing the season
will be “South Pacific,” a
musical comedy about Amer
ica in war. The popular
Rodgers and Hammerstein
play will be presented August
4-7 and August 11-14.
“Parkway is presenting
this summer’s shows as
examples of the diversity of
American life and talent with
the assurance that they will
bring added pleasure and
enrichment to audiences as
V»it of the Bicentennial
celebration,” stated a spokes
man for the playhouse.
Parkway Playhouse was
founded in 1946 as an offshoot
of the now-defunct Burnsville
School of the Arts. From the
beginning it was affiliated
with the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. For a
few years, the University of
Driver’s Ed
Course Set
An Adult Driver’s Educa
tion Class for anyone 18 years
or older is being sponsored
through Mayland Technical
Institute. The class will begin
Tuesday, June 15, 1976 at
6:00 p.m. at Cane River High
School. There must be at least
15 enrolled in the class. The
cost will be $22.50.
Anyone interested should
contact Dan Wilson, 682-
6501, or Mayland Tech.
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Micaville Students Visit Burnsville
Mrs. J. Robinson's second graders from Micaville
Elementary School visited Burnsville on Thursday. The
children had lunch at Bantam Chef and Ice cream at the
Dipper. W.A.M.Y. furnished transportation for the studenta,
for which they expressed their appreciation. Pictured on the
Tew. Square are: [front, left to right] Michelle Hughes,
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1976
Miami took the helm, but in
1964, UNC-G once again
resumed its ties with the
theatre.
Dr. John Joy, an assistant
professor of drama and
speech at UNC-G, will serve
as managing director of
Parkway this summer. He
joined the UNC-G faculty last
fall, and directed the UNC-G
Theatre production “Twelfth
Night” in February. Joy will
direct two of the Parkway
plays, ‘‘Dames at Sea” and
“South Pacific.”
James Reynolds, an in
structor in drama at UNC-G,
will servj assistant director
atPp.k*,. and will also direct
two pi? i, “Our Town” and
"Gla c . Menagerie.” Dr. Da
vid Uatcheller, director of the
theatre division of the UNC-G
Department of Drama and
Speech, will direct the re
maining play, “The Match
maker.”
About 32 students, re
presenting both the under
graduate and graduate levels,
will be enrolled at Parkway
this summer. They will take
drama courses for academic
credit as well as participate in
the various plays to be
produced. Altogether, the
students can earn seven
semester hours at Parkway.
Because of the short time
Sponsor
Variety
Show
Newdale Community Club
is sponsoring a Variety Show
Saturday, June 5, at 7:30 at
the - Micaville Elementary
School.
Local talent will include
the Micaville Cloggers, a skit
by the men teachers at
Micaville, the R.M.S. Rock
Band, etc.
There will be items to be
raffled, donated by Henredon
Furniture and Sullins Music
Center. Proceeds will be used
for recreation facilities at the
Newdale Community Club.
Tickets may be purchased
at the door. $1 for adults, 50c
for children.
lapses between plays, there
frequently are two or three
plays being rehearsed at the
same time. Those not in the
cast in a play are assigned to
costume, lighting or scenery
crews. Before the season is
over, everybody will have
done something of everything
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which precisely fits the
playhouse's purpose of giving
students "total theatre train
ing through various experi
ences.”
In addition to the 32
students enrolled at Parkway,
this summer for the first time
a small acting staff of six
persons from will be
available to perform some of
the very difficult roles. The
six aPe Ms. Barbara Black
ledge, Ed Simpson, Ms.
Nancy Watkins, Ms. Pam
Giannasio, Paul Tauger and
Garth Schumacher.
The playhouse also will
include in its cast again this
summer its perennial guest
artist, W.p. *‘Mutt” Burton,
the retired Reidsville news
paperman, raconteur and
actor, who has been with the
playhouse every season since
it first opened. He will be
re-creating his first Parkway
role, portraying the Stage
Manager in “Our Town.”
The playhouse will have a
number of full-time staff
members. These include
James Parker of Catawba
College, who will be back as
scene designer; Arthur Mere
dith of Northern Kentucky
Monica Woody, Billy Tipton, Chris McMahan, Rachel
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University, lighting designer;
Ms. Leslie Knox, a graduate
of Indiana University, proper
ty mistress; Randy McMul
len, who received his master’s
degree from the University of
Missouri, technical director;
Ms. Teresa Keller, a UNC-G
graduate student, publicity
and box office assistant;
Roger Brechner, an incoming
graduate student at UNC-G,
production stage manager;
Ms. Eugenia Kehoe, another
incoming graduate student at
UNC-G, choreographer; Ms.
Terry Jones, photographer;
and two UNC-G home econo
mics students, Ms. Maggie
Jenkins and Ms. Doris Eck
ard, who will operate the
cafeteria.
Life at Parkway is some
what comparable to college
itself. Students are housed in
dormitories that were once
part of the Yancey Collegiate
Institute, a 1930 s vintage
school that trained people for
jobs during the depression.
Through a $25,000 grant
by the N.C. General Assemb
ly, some extensive renova
tions have been made on the
playhouse for this summer, as
well as some repairs in the
dorms.
Tickets to the plays may
be ordered.by writing the box
office in Burnsville, fT.C.
28714 or telephoning 682-6151
(area code 704) after June 18.
Prior to that time, orders may
be placed through the UNC-G
Department of Drama and
Speech.
Grant
Approved
Congressman Roy A. Tay
lor announced Thursday the
approval of 4 grant of $31,590
by the Appalachian Regional
Commission )to the Appala
chian District Health Depart
ment in Boone.
The grant proceeds repre
sent the fifth and final year
funding of a comprehensive
home health services project
to serve residents of Avery,
Mitchell, Yancey, Alleghany,
Ashe, Watauga, and Wilkes
Counties.