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Fourteen members of Scout Troop 502 and three members
of the, Burnsville Senior Girl Scout Troop and their leaders left
Monday morning for Marion, Virginia. The group plans to hike
50 miles on the Appalachian Trail. The hike will end next
Saturday at Damascus, Virginia. Pictured above are Scouts
who participated and adults who accompanied them. Shown
left to right [front row]: Mr. Nolan Hess, Beth Bailey, Tammy
Chamber Concerts To Begin
This year the Celo Cham
ber Concerts of Music in the
Mountains will begin in
Burnsville at the Presbyterian
Church on Sunday, June 27,
at 3:30 p.m.
Returning for the Celo
Concerts this summer, in
addition to Mr. Frank Ell,
Music Director and clari
netist, will be Ruth Geiger
and Eve Lynne Reeve, key
board artists who have been
with the festival ffom -the
beginning. Eva Ell, wife of
the Music Director, will be the
featured guest artist in the
fourth concert when the
Schubert Cello Quintet will be
performed.
Following the splendid
precedent of the Buffalo
Quartet, Mr. Ell has secured
string players of exceptional
excellence for the concerts.
Ralph Matson of the Cleve
land Orchestra and Ronan
Lefkowitz of the Boston
Symphony, violinists, will be
joined by Maureen Gallagher,
viola, and Dana Rusinak,
cello, familiar to audiences of
the 1975 season. William
Purvis, horn, and Benjamin
Kamins, bassoon, whose
playing last summer acquired
for each a number of
devotees, will be joined by
two fine woodwind players,
Michael Parloff, flute, and
Janet Rarick, oboe.
The Celo Players will be
heard m works by Handel,
Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven,
Bach, Chopin, Schubert,
Haydn, Ravel, and other
composers in programs which
offer variety, virtuosity, and
youthful zest of musical
performance. Most of the
Celo performers are in their
mid-twenties.
The two regular series in
Burnsville and at Warren
Wilson College will include
six concerts each. This year
the Celo Players can be heard
in a third series of four
concerts beginning on July 9
in Hendersonville. An addi
tional concert will be given at
UNC Asheville on July 6.
Noting the additional
number of concerts and the
new locations where they will
be given, Mary Ballew,
President of Music in the
Mountains, commented that
Mr. Ell has achieved a
Yancey Scouts Plan 50-Mile Hike
Music In The Mountains:
reputation of professional
excellence for the Celo-
Concerts, coupled with an
informal atmosphere which
allows the great chamber
music works to be disarmingly
accessible to the listening
audience.
In announcing the summer
schedule, Mrs. Ballew remin
ded music lovers of the
anticipated Lili Kraus Benefit
Trailer Fire Kills
5-Month-Old Child
A trailer blaze of unknown
origin took the life of
5-month-old Angela Michelle
Waldrup last Monday night,
while her parents were at a
nearby dairy barn.
At approximately 7:30
p.m. a fire started in the
mobile home on Wilson
Branch in the Jack's Creek
section of Yancey County. It
possibly started around a gas
stove in the kitchen.
Both parents, Glenn and
Vivian McCurry Waldrup,
were in a dairy barn not far
away, where Glenn Waldrup
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BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
Laws, Charles McLawhom, Robert Proffitt, Scoutmaster
Johnny McLain, Cindy McLain, Brian Hensley. [Second Row]
Mr. Mike Griffith, Greg Edge, Joe Gillespie, Donny Laws,
Davis Gillespie, Jerry Layell, Doug McLain, Todd Bailey,
Wendell Wilson. At the door of the bus are Mr. Kenny Deyton,
Jeff Harding and Rocky Styles.
Recital scheduled for Sunday
afternoon, August 15, at 3:30
p.m. in Burnsville. Mme.
Kraus’ solo performance for
the benefit of Music in the
Mountains will be given in the
auditorium of the new Yancey
County consolidated school,
Mountain Heritage High
School.
Mrs. Ballew also pointed
out that the final concert of
was working. By the time the
blaze was seen, however, the
trailer * was consumed by
flames. It was completely
destroyed.
Firemen were called to the
scene, but the fire had already
gutted the trailer and claimed
its victim. The child’s mother
was brought to Yancey
Hospital, treated for shock,
and released.
The funeral for Angela
Waldrup will take place
Thursday at 2 p.m. in the
Chapel of Holcombe Brothers
Funeral Home.
the Burnsville Series on
August Ist will be performed
in the Spruce Pine United
Methodist Chutch.
Tickets to all the concerts
can be procured at the door.
Admission is $2.50 for the
Celo Concerts, $5.00 for the
Lili Kraus Benefit Recital.
Also available are season
tickets at $12.00 for the six-
Celo Concerts. The six
missions can be used to invite
guests to single concerts or to
attend the entire series.
Students under 18 will be
admitted to all but the Benefit
Concert for SI.OO.
For more information or to
secure your tickets ahead of
time, write or call Music in
the Mountains, Burnsville,
N.C. 28714, Tel. 675-4060 or
675-4659. Tickets are on sale
also at the Nu-Wray Irin and
at the Yancey County Country
Store in Burnsville. ,
Pictured with this article,
Robert Helmle, Burnsville
Mayor, chats with Ruth Pope
and Joan Reeve, Board
Members of Music :n the
Mountains, and with Eve
Lynne Reeve, Celo harpsi
chordist, about the 1976
season.
French Broad EMC Urg es Members
‘Tell Congressmen To Support Bill’
1 The latest increase in your
EMC’s wholesale power costs
would have been prohibited
under terms of legislation now
pending in Congress.
The legislation, known as
the McFall Bill or the Electric
Utility Rate ReforrrTand
Regulatory Improvement AetT
(Senate Bill 3311) would bar
private power companies from
seeking a new rate increase if
they are awaiting a decision
from the Federal Power
Wagon
Train
To Roll
Wagons will roll again
July 1-4, leaders of the
four-year-old Madison County
Wagon Train have announ
ced. About 20 wagons and 200
horseback riders are expected
to join the trek this summer,
said Arthur Thomason, who
will be wagon master of the
ride, along with Ernest
Bo^ne.
The trail will start near
Mars Hill and wind up at
Madison High School in time
for the Bicentennial Indepen
dence Day program there.
On July 1 the wagons will
roll out from Mars Hill
Elementary School and travel
the Bruce Road through
Murray’s Gap to James
Ramsey’s farm near the head
of East Fork for the first night
of camping.
The train will leave on its
second day’s leg by traveling
through Bear Wallow, Plum
Orchard, Meadows Gap down
Long Branch, and down
Laurel to Cody’s farm on Old
Grapevine Mountain Road.
-The third day the train will
travel across Old Grapevine
Mountain down Grapevine to
Cargile Branch, across the
mountain and down Heck
Creek to camp on the Landon
Roberts’ farm on Walnut
Creek.
On July 4 the wagons will
continue from the Roberts
farm down Walnut Creek to
Marshall.
Water and rest room
facilities will be provided at
each camp ground. Chief
scout for the train will be Bill
Murray.
The Madison County Wa
gon Train is one of three
which traditionally redch their
destination in Western North
Carolina on July 4.
For information contact
Herman or Danny Hughes,
682-6264.
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1976
Commission on an earlier rate
hike proposal.
Under present regula
tions, the power companies
have no restriction on the
number of rate increases
which can be proposed and
placed in effect under bond,
subject to refund when the
FPC rules on the cases. This
practice is known in the utility
industry as “pancaking”
since the rate hike bids can be
stacked one on top of another
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Committee Receives NCOA Citation
Yancey County Committee on Aging received an Operation Independence Citation from the
National Council on Aging. The award was presented at a recent Institute on Aging held in
Raleifeh. The Citation was awarded for special services provided for Senior Citizens in Yancey
County, including a telephone hotline that uses volunteers to put senior citizens in touch with
agencies or volunteers who can help meet their needs. The photograph shows Rev. Don Turman
lI.J, P*s‘ Chairperson of the Committee on Aging, receiving the citation from Dr. Ellen Winston,
Member of the NCOA Board of Directors, and Mr. Richard Ellis, Executive Director, N.C.
Bicentennial. [Photo Courtesy of the N.C. Dept, of Cultural Resources]
Mtn.Heritage Needs Funds
For The Auditorium Seats
In planning the new
Mountain Heritage High
School, the Board of Educa
tion felt a very strong need for
the inclusion of an auditorium
that would not only serve the
school needs, but would also
serve the community (county)
needs, since there is not such
a facility in the county. This
was planned although the
Board realized that funds
probably would not be readily
available to completely fur
nish the auditorium by the
time the school is completed.
The auditorium will be com
pleted by July and will be one
of the most attractive and
most adequate auditoriums in
Western North Carolina, with
modern lighting and Sound
systems, and a stage large
enough to accommodate any
type of performance. It will
have a seating capacity of 760
people.
Since funds are limited,
and in order to provide
seating comparable in quality
to the building, a number of
citizens have suggested that
contributions be solicited for
this purpose from individuals.
The Board has elected to
accept these suggestions, and
will be receiving such contri
butions during the next two
months.
The auditorium will be
named the "B.M. Tomberlin
Auditorium” ip honor of one
of Western North Carolina’s
most outstanding educators.
A dedication ceremony will be
“ honor Mr -
like pancakes. The wholesale
power customers have no
choice but to pay the higher
rates while the matter is
pending in the FPC.
As consumer-members of
French Broad EMC you are
currently victims of “pancak
ing” by Carolina Power &
Light Company, which sup
plies the wholesale power for
the Cooperative. You became
victims of this practice on
May 1, when CP&L instituted
Tomberlin soon after the seats
have been purchased and
installed.
Persons who wish to
purchase a seat or seats
should send their check to the
Yancey County Board of
Education, Box 218, Burns
ville, North Carolina. This, of
course, is a tax deductable
gift. The price is $50.00 per
seat (actual cost is $54.00). All
seats are completely uphol
stered with a durable fabric.
Contributors’ name will be
permanently inscribed on a
parchment to be mounted in
the lobby of the Auditorium.
In addition to this recognition,
name plates will be mounted
on individual seats. The
contributor may elect to have
his or her name or the gift
may be a memorial to a family
House Is
Offered
By Board
The Yancey County Board
of Education is offering for
sale on Saturday, June 12, at
10:00 a.m., the new house
constructed by the Cane River
High School carpentry class.
The sale will be conducted
on the house site near 19E at
Riverside, Prices Creek Town
ship. A description of the
property can be found in a
legal notice in this issue of
The Yaaoey Journal.
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its second rate increase within
a 16-month period. The first
increase went into effect
January 1975 and is yet to be
decided by the FPC. HAD
THE McFALL BILL BEEN IN
EFFECT, this second rate
increase would have been
prohibited as long as the FPC
was considering the earlier
proposal.
The proposed legislation is
now before the House at^rid
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member or friend. In this case
the contributor will specify
the name to be inscribed.
Contributors who wish to buy
a section of seats will have
their name inscribed on the
parchment by sections pur
chased.
You are invited to send
your contribution, using the
form below to show name(s)
to be inscribed.
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Democrats
Sponsor
Get-Together
On Saturday night, June
19,1976 at Bald Creek School,
all Yancey County Democrats
are invited to attend a friendly
’’get-together” with supper
from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Music
and a spfeial program is
planned. All county Demo
cratic candidates are invited
to attend. Also other Demo
cratic candidates for office
have been invited to attend
The precinct committee
from Cane River, Prices
Creek, and Pensacola will
host this . county-wide meet
ing. Tickets for the supper are
now available. However, if
you do not get your tickets in