THE YANCEY JOURNAL
VOL. 4, NO. 37
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80 Years Os Progress: 1896-1976
Yancey County’s first high school was far from
being a “little red school house.” It was, in fact,
the ornate three-storied structure shown in this
picture, which is believed to have been taken 78
years ago at Bald Creek.
Next week, a special edition of The Yancey
Journal will show the changes time has wrought in
Red Cross Bloodmobile Visit Set;
Free Blood Pressure Check Is Bonm
On Monday, September
13, the Red Cross Bloodmo
bile, sponsored by the Yancey
Radio Patrol, will be at the
First Baptist Church, Burns
ville, from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.
The Red Cross hopes to reach
a goal of 100 pints of blood
during thjs visit.
An interesting and vital
fact of the Red Cross Blood
Program in this area, which
encompasses 27 counties in
Western North Carolina, Eas
tern Tennessee, and Northern
Georgia, is that over 150 pints
*of blood need to be collected
every working day to meet the
area needs. The total blood
needs of patients in 37
hospitals are met through the
program.
The need for blood is a
constant, ever-growing one.
Blood needs in this region
have risen by 7,000 pints in
the last three years. Unfor
fit
Rev. R.W. Shores
Assumes
Church
Ministry
Rev. R.W. Shores, a
native of North Carolina of
Yadkin County, has assumed
the ministry at the Church of
God in Burnsville.
Rev. Shores has been in
the ministry for several years,
having taken his schooling at
Lee College in Cleveland,
Tennessee.
He will be serving as
District, Overseer of the
Churches of God in the
Burnsville District.
tunately, only a small percen
tage of eligible persons
donate blood. Many feel they
will never need it or they
scared of the needle. Still
others just never think about
it. Some even feel that if they
need it, they can buy it
somewhere. However, that is
not the case in the Asheville
region. Blood is available only
through the Red Cross. Either
the Red Cross has it, or they
don’t. And that depends on
the number of people who
Commencement
Slated At MTI
Dr. Edgar J. Boone,
Assistant Director of the
North Carolina Cooperative
Extension Service and Head
of Department of Adult and
Community College Educa
tion at N.C. State University
at Raleigh will deliver the
address at Mayland Technical
Institute’s fourth commence
ment program to be held in
the auditorium of Grassy
Creek Baptist Church near
Spruce Pine, Thursday, Sep
tember 16 at 8:00 p.m.
Dr. Boone is serving
presently as Assistant Direc
tor of the North Carolina
Cooperative Extension Ser
vice and as professor and
Head, Department of Adult
and Community College Edu
cation, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh. He has
served in similar positions at
the University of Wisconsin,
the University of Arizona, and
in related work at Louisiana
State University. In 1974 Dr.
Boone received the outstand
ing Adult Education Award
for North Carolina. He has
served as president of the
AduH/iEducation Association
of the USA and Chairman of
the National Resources Plan
ning Commission on Adult
Education. He holds the PhD
Degree in Adult Education
Administration from the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. He has
served as consultant in
agriculture at the University
of Puerto Rico, and the
University of West Indies.
Diplomas and Degrees will
be presented to one hundred
ten students and a reception
for graduates and others who
BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
our school system since this building was
completed in 1896, by. presenting stories and
pictures about the new Mountain Heritage High
School, just completed this past summer.
Yancey County’s attention to the educational
needs of its citizens is a tradition we carry on with
pride.
donate at the bloodmobile
operation.
There is a bonus offered to
Yancey Countians at the
bloodmobile operation. And it
is available to anyone, whe
ther they donate their blood or
not. The Red Cross is working
with the Heart Association by
offering to check blood
pressures of everyone who
comes in. If the pressure is
high the person is referred to
his or her doctor. This has
been done for a year or more
attend the program will be
held in the Church Fellowship
Hall following the program.
Degrees and diplomas will
be presented to the following:
ASSOCIATE IN APPLIED
SCIENCE DEGREE
Accounting: Vickie Duncan,
Patricia McCurry, Jim Phil
lips, Roy Ronald Mclntosh;
Business Administration:
Quentin Buchanan, Jr., Gary
Guinn, Patricia McCurry,
Mary Kay Sparks, Katherine
Stinson, Richard Grindeland,
Sandy Hylemon, Kevin Peter
son, Roy Ronald Mclntosh;
Secretarial Science: Lana Gail
Boone, Brenda Hoilman, Twi?
la Stafford Howell, Kimberly
McKinney Huskins, Pamela
Gail King, Glenna Alice
Burleson Odom, Susan Dan
iels Roberts, Janice Karen
Woody, Juanita Young, Mar
garet Murdock; Early Child
hood Specialist: Marcia Ann
Goodfellow, Debra L. McKin
ney.
DIPLOMA
Automotive Mechanics: Billy
Buchanan, Roger Burnette,
Jerry Buchanan, Steve Cuth
bertson, Harvey Grindstaff,
Roger Wayne Huskins, Mike
Keating, John McGuire, Jun
ior Stamey, Bill Stanley,
Douglas Staton, Kim Taylor,
Gary Thomas, Steve Whitson,
Audie Winters; Diesel Mech
anics: Emerson Howard Aut
rey, Johnnie W. Calhoun,
Robert Garland, Earl H.
Peterson, Billy Simmons;
Child Care Worker: Michael
Thomas Rohr, Rebecca S.
Woody. Betty Jean Carpen
ter, Jean Frances Duncan,
(Cont’d on page 2J
in Yancey County and the
service provides a significant
contribution to reducing early
disability, morbidity and mor
tality from high blood pres
sure.
Every blood donation is of
.equal value. Each donation
can save a life. And with
today's technology, one unit
of blood can even help more
than one person.
So remember the impor
tance of blood donations when
the bloodmobile comes,, to
Burnsville this coming Mond
day. This is something almost
anyone can do to make the
world a better place in which
to live. One donation does
matter-every donation mat
ters. And the very act of
donating blood may help the
donor-not only because every
person may need blood
himself at some time, but also
because it’s a good way to
have blood pressure, pulse,
temperature and hemoglobin
checked. The entire process
takes only 45 minutes, which
includes time for a few
minutes in the canteen, which
area churches take turns
operating.
So donate if you are able,
and encourage your friends,
relatives, neighbors and co
workers to donate also. The
whole Red Cross Blood
Program depends on people
like you.
Griffith
Chapel
SingA-Rama
The Griffith Chapel AME
Zion Choir of Burnsville
invites you to attend a
“Sing-A-Rama”. The pro
gram is an effort on the behalf
of the choir to make their final
contribution in paying off the
mortgage due on the church.
The Griffith Chapel Choir
has asked each church choir
or group to contribute two
songs to their program.
Because they are expecting a
good number of churches to
attend, they are having the
program at the East Yancey
I Gym. The date is Sunday,
September 12, beginning at
2:30 p.m. Everyone is urged
to attend and help make this
effort a success.
Special Program Funded:
MXI Receives Grant
The wJjK.Kellogg Foun
dation of Battle Creek, Michi
gan has awarded Mayland
Technical Institute a $38,890
gram for a three year program
to improve cohimunication
and mathematics skills among
the institute’s students.
The grant will enable
Mayland Tech to create a
developmental studies pro
gram which will aid students
to gain “catch-up” skills
necesary for success in all
subjects. In order to imple
ment this program, all new
students are being adminis
tered the Cooperative Gui
dance and Placement Test to
determine their educational
needs. The information ga
thered from this test will be
used to design a program of
study for those students who
lack skills necessary to suc
ceed in post-secondary educa
tion.
Dr. O.M. Blake, Jr.,
President of Mayland Techni
cal Institute, believes that this
program will enable many of
the institute’s students to
benefiKniuch more from their
studies by helping them
become more proficient in
communication and mathe
matics skills.
“This project is more than
J another remedial program,”
* Blftke said. "It will help
students who are having a
hard time with reading,
speaking, writing and math. It
will help any student who
Former Yancey Girl Will
Represent NC In Pageant
This summer, Susie Prof
fitt got a new job-and the
crown that goes with it. She
was* named Miss North
Carolina 1976.
And she definitely sees
the title as a job, agreeing
with one of her counterparts,
“It’s the most intensive PR
work a person can do. It’s a
year-long public relations job,
and you have to work hard at
it.”
“It’s a job, and on this one
you have to work on week
ends!" said Susie. “You have
to be good at public relations,
because you’re representing a
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1976
wants to do well.”
Mayland Tech's allocation
was part of the $663,226 grant
awarded by Kellogg to Appa
lachian State University and
13 Piedmont and Western
North Carolina community
colleges and technical insti
tutes. All of these schools
are members of the Western
North Carolina Consortium.
The two year schools receiv
ing funding, in addition to
Mayland Tech, were the
community colleges of Cald
well, Surry, Western Pied
mont and Wilkes plus the tech
nical institutes of Asheville-
Buncombe, Blue Ridge, Ca
tawba Valley, Forsyth, Hay
wood, McDowell, Southeas
tern and Tri-County. The
Bicentennial Event
At Newdale Church
Bicentennial will be ob
served by the Newdale
Presbyteri:|jn Church on Sun
day, September 12, from 4:00
p.m. until approximately
eight o’clock.
The festivities will start
with games for young and old,
led by County Recreation
Director Gordon Banks, fol
lowed by a chicken barbecue
supper.
After supper a program
will be held in the sanctuary
of the church, consisting of
congregational singing, spe
whole state, as well as an
organization, tfie Jaycees
(sponsors of the „Mjss North
Carolina program).”
Susie is the daughter of
Mrs. Clarence Pegg of Black
Mountain and the late Fleet
Proffitt of Bald Creek. She
was born in Yancey County
and lived in the Bald Creek
section until she \yas in her
Susie is the grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Proffitt of Bald Creek.
Her first big “assign
ment” as the state’s repre
sentative will be in Atlantic
City the week following Labor
Susie Proffitt
grant was the culmination of
over 9 months planning by
coordinators from each of
these institutions. Louise
Hembree represented May
land Tech at the planning
sessions and will be the
institute’s program coordina
tor. Appalachian State will
coordinate the developmental
studies programs among the
various institutions.
Appalachian and the 13
two year schools have been
working together within the
consortium for the past four
years in the area of faculty
development, study of educa
tional needs of the population
they serve, and adaptation of
curricula and services to meet
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rial music; a talk on Religion
in Colonial America by Rev.
Pat Hardy; history of Yancey
County by James Byrd;
humorous readings by Miss
Ethel Boone; and short
histories of the Presbyterian
and Methodist and Baptist
churches in the county by
Clyde Young, Jr., Mrs. Flora
Belle Roberson, and Dennis
Howell.
All members and friends
are cordially invited to attend
and enjoy an evening of fun
and entertainment.
Day, participating in the Miss
America Scholarship Pageant.
Then-if she doesn’t have to
give up the North Carolina
crown to accept that of Miss
America-she will spend the
upcoming year making ap
pearances statewide and on
North Carolina’s behalf out
of-state as well.
Being Miss North Carolina
is “being a unique kind of
career woman, and it’s a very
demanding career,” said one
of the 22-year-old’s advisors.
For that career, North Caro
lina’s 40 JCPenney stores
presented her with the JC-
Penney Fashion Award, a
SI,OOO wardrobe to prepare
her for every kind of
appearance, from a morning
business meeting to a formal
evening dinner. Pictured,
Susie heads for an appearance
in this fall's sweater look-a
two-piece sweater dress in
black, cream, rust and dusty
blue over a rust cowl-neck
sweater and rust suede boots.
The ensemble is part of the
SI,OOO JCPenney Fashion
Award wardrobe given the
new Miss North Carolina by
the state's 40 JCPenney
stores to prepare her for the
early September Miss Amer
ica Scholarship Pageant in
Atlantic City and for her
year's reign.
Susie, a 1975 graduate of
Western Carolina University
in home economics and
merchandising, was on the
dean's list at the college, a
member of the chancellor’s ad
hoc committee, a member of
the Marshalls Club, a varsity
cheerleader and, in 1973 and
1974, a member of the
homecoming court. During
college, she served a three-
Atlanta department store,
also working summers and
her mother’s specialty shop.
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Joe Johnson
Johnson is
Campaign
Chairman
Joe Johnson, Assistant
Vice President of The North
western Bank in Burnsville
has accepted the position of
Campaign Chairman for the
22nd annual Yancey United
Fund drive which will be
conducted this fall.
A team of volunteer
workers is now being enlisted
to carry on the drive which is
scheduled to start with a
kick-off breakfast on Septem
ber 19. An organizational
meeting of these volunteers,
many of whom will come from
the various agencies for whom
funds will be raised, is
planned for Wednesday even
ing, September 15, at 7:30
p.m. in the main courtroom
upstairs at Yancey County
Courthouse.
The new chairman came to
Burnsville last fall to serve as
assistant vice president and
assistant branch manager of
the local bank. He is a native
of Wilkes County and is a
graduate of North Carolina
State University. He is mar
ried to the former Lou Eva
Howard, and has one son.
The directors of the
Yancey United Fund held a
long session last Thursday
evening, getting organized for'
the coming year, and also
serving as the budget commit
tee for the forthcoming
campaign. Requests from all
agencies desiring to be
included in the united appeal
were reviewed. This budget
will be announced in the next
week’s issue of the Journal.
Staunton Norris was elected
to serve as president of the
UF for the next year.
Antique
Dealer f
Show,Sale
Twenty antique dealers
from North Carolina and
Virginia will participate in the
. fourth annual Antiques Show
and Sale, September 11-12 at
the Halifax County Acadepiy,
U.S. 501, South Boston,
Virginia. Admission is $2 for
the two-day event and pro
ceeds will go to the school.
The show is excelled and
well worth the drive. It will be
open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday and 12:30 to.* on
Sunday.
A complete line of anti
ucAicrs. nome-cooneci mttli
and Brunswick stew will be
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curator of the Greensboro
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