THE YANCEY JOURNAL
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VOL. 4, NO. 26
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Bent rails and missing ties and timbers attest to the force of flood waters at Mlcaville.
Cloudbursts have almost eliminated small mountain railroads. Walls of tree-carrying water tear
away embankments and carry off track and bridges. In the 1940’5, rains carried the famous
“Tweetsie” bridges away and trains to Boone stopped forever. During recent weeks the Yancey
suffered from sequential cloudbursts. The first floods took two bridges on the Bowdltch division.
After repairs were completed, five bridges between Mlcaville and Burnsville were lost.
Other railroads might have given up. General Manager J.V. Cannon and his crews set to work.
Not a single freight run to Burnsville was missed. By the following Monday, trains rolled to
Bowdltch. In years past, such damage took seven weeks to repair.
Passenger charters offered by the Spruce Pine Junior Woman’s Club were ,«!
remain available. Tickets for Color Runs on October 9 and 17 are on sale now. Write Box 444,
Spruce Pine, N.C. 28777. Photo by Brian Westveer
Music In The Mountains
Concert Program Slated
Music in the Mountains
announces the program for
the first Celo Concert to be
held in Burnsville at the
Presbyterian Church this Sun
day, June 27th, at 3:30 p.m.
The program will open
with Handel’s Suite Vll in G
minor for Harpsichord, per
formed by Eve Lynne Reeve.
As founder of the Festival,
Miss Reeve has been asked
each year to open the concerts
with a major harpsichord
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Ralph Matson To Perform At Concert
Track’s Back!
work, a tradition much appre
ciated by the audience.
Next will be Schumann’s
Violin Sonata, No. 1 perform* 3
ed by Ralph Matson and Ruth
Geiger. Mr. Matson, who
joins the Cleveland Orchestra
this fall, ha« had solo recitals
in several major universities
and has performed as soloist
with orchestras in Michigan
and Ontario.
For the final work, the
string quartet will join Ruth
Geiger in performing one of
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the great piano quintets in
chamber music, Brahms
Quintet in F minor.
Tickets are available at the
door or can be purchased
ahead at the Yancey County
Country Store and The Nu-
Wray Inn. Or call Music in the
Mountains, 675-4060.
Following the concert the
public is invited to a reception
for the Celo Chamber flayers
in the Moody Gallery, off the
Square, above the Ice-Cream
Dipper.
Movin’ Out Soon:
Wagon Train
Do you have your bonnet
starched and overalls ready?
Well, better “get a move on”
because in only a week the
wagons will hitch up and roll
out on the fifth annual
Tri-County Wagon Train. The
finishing touches are being
applied on the colorful wa
gons and the harness is
getting a special shining up in
preparation for the 45-mile
trip.
For fie fifth year in a row,
the Association, made of
members from three counties:
Yancey, Madison and Bun
combe have gathered to enjoy
fellowship and fun while
riding horses and wagons
over some of the most
beautiful country in the world,
and you know, it’s even
prettier when seen from a
wagon or a horse.
This year’s trip will be
mostly in Madison since last
year Yancey hosted the event.
All the wagons will travel
paved roads and gravel roads.
Interested spectators are wel
come to come and see the
train off at 8 o’clock the
morning of Wednesday; June
30. Wagons and horses will
assemble at Beech Glenn
School off Highway 19 in
Madison County on Tuesday
night, June 29. Bright and
early the next morning folks
will prepare to leave camp for
the first day’s ride. The route
will be from the school to
highway 19 up to the top of
the mountain, to the Madison-
Yancey line and then on to the
Windy Gap Road in Yancey.
Wagons will follow Windy
Gap Road to the camp at
Ebb’s Chapel School. Enter
tainment is being planned at
Tonya Allen
Youngest
Entry In
Contest
North Carolina Miss U.S.
Teen’s youngest entry to be
accepted to date is Tonya
Allen, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Allen of
Burnsville.
Tonya is a seventh grader
and holds a 92 scholastic
average. Her church activities
include Sunday School and
Youth Choir at Green Moun
tain Free WUI Baptist Church.
She is a member of Burnsville
Jr. High Beta Club.
Tonya has been a first
runner-up in the 1974 N.C.
Rhododendron Pageant and
3rd runner-up in the same
pageant in 1975. She has held
the title of America’s Most
Beautiful Petite Majorette.
Her greatest ambition in
life is to develop whatever
talent she possesses to the
fullest potential. She wants to
strive to become a well
rounded person and a respon
sible member of society.
North Carolina, and espe
cially Yancey County, is proud
of our first 13-year old entiy.
each night’s campground with
square dance groups and live
bands.
Thursday, July 1, wagons
will head out from Ebb’s
Chapel and follow Bear
Branch through the Raymond
Ramsey porperty, down Long
Branch to Roscoe Briggs’
farm for the second night’s
camp.
The third day, July 2, the
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Terrell’s
New Book
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"A Touch Os Terrell”, by
Bob Terrell, like its forerun
ner, “Fun Is Where You Find
It!”, is designed purely to
entertain. “If ever the world
needed a laugh,” wrote the
author in the foreword, “it
needs it now.” That’s what
this book was written for-to
make its readers laugh.
In its pages are the
funniest columns written by
Bob Terrell in a 27-year career
with the Asheville Citizen
Times. The stories are largely
about the mountain people of
western North Carolina, the
people with whom the author
*grew up, the people whose
hilarious deeds he recorded
both on paper and in memory,
and included in this volume of
humor.
Bob Terrell has also
authored two other books:
J.D. Sumner’s “Gospel Music
Is My Life,” and “Holy Land,
A Journey Into Time”.
In his newspaper career,
he has won various awards,
including first place in the
N.C. Press Association’s fea
ture writing division in 1971,
and first place in the N.C.
Associated Press feature writ
ing division in 1974. He was
honored as the Most Distin
guished Alumni of Western
Carolina University in 1965.
Bob Terrell has been
variously described as hu
morist, adventurer, world
traveler, after dinner speaker,
hiker and horseback rider to
high mountain places, people
watcher, airplane pilot-and a
man who treasures his friend
ship with Congressmen, en
tertainers, athletes, a host of
plain people, and a lot of
bums. 44
“A Touch Os Terrefr” la
available at the Yancey
County Country Store, on the
town square, Burnsville.
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Pictured with their new tanker are Newdale Volunteer
Firemen. The tanker has a 1200 gallon capacity. It can be filled
In about four minutes, and It has a “quick dump” feature that
allows the tank to be emptied In less than one minute. The
tanker was assembled by C.W. Williams and Company of
Bosky Mount an a now Ford chassis with a 389 c.l.engine.
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1976
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FFA Members At Convention
The East Yancey Chapter of Future Farmers of America won Second Place in the flw»k of the
Dairy Judging Contest held at the 48th State Convention in Raleigh, on June 14, 15 and 16. The
group which includes [pictured above, left to right] Scotty Hicks, David Gibbs, Randy Crowder,
and Harold Young; received a plaque, a check for SSO and recognition on stage.
In a related contest, the East Yancey FFA Forestry Team placed Bth in fids four-part event
which includes saw timber cruising, pulpwood estimation, forestry management and tree
identification. These members are [pictured left to right, below] Ricky Buchanan, Frankie
Geouge, Randy Styles, and Robin Parker.
In the business session the State FFA Association conferred the degree of State Fanner on the
following members: Steve Robinson, Randy Crowder, Scotty Hicks and David Gibbs.
Accompanying the group were Herb Allen and Carroll Fender.
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WAMY Crafts Fair Held This
Weekend At Glen Ayre School
The W.A.M.Y. Craft Fair
will be held at the Glen Ayre
School Building June 24-26,
1976.
Craftsmen from Mitchell,
Avery, and Yancey Counties
will be participating again this
year. This fair has proved to
be one of the major events for
our local crafts people, giving
them the opportunity to
display and sell their crafts
locally.
There will be entertain
ment daily and a concession
stand open from 10:00 a.m.
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Funds to purchase die truck were secured by the Town and
County Commissioners as a part of a Community ™—rlinmitst
Block Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development Shown [l. to r.] are Wayne Young, Bill Crowder.
Ray Wyatt, Herbert Teague and Ricky Hoover.
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15 c
until 6:00 p.m.
If there are craftsmen who
have not been contacted and
wish to participate in the fair,
more information may be
obtained by contacting the
Burnsville W.A.M.Y. Office
at 682-2610.
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