THE YANCEY JOURNAL
VOL. 4, NO. 38
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Wurm Tones Os Wood And Brick Knhancc School Pho ‘° by Jody Higg,n *
NC Firewood Ratings:
Fire Up With Firewood
BY HOWARD S. MUSE, JR.
Wildlife In N.C. Magazine '
Summer is slipping away,
the lengthening shadows of
autumn are edging across the
* land, and it’s only a matter of
time before the chill of winter
arrives. It's time to stock up
with firewood, for after
several mild winters in a row,
we are due for a cold one.
Wood cut, split, and stacked
in the fall will be ready to
warm chilled bones in Janu
ary and February.
Until recently cutting fire
wood and keeping the home
fires burning were tasks that
the modern generation were
losing, but thanks to the
energy crisis many are dis
covering the joys of wood
-burning fireplaces and stoves.
And little wonder, for a cord
of good hardwood (that’s a
pile Bx4x4 feet) contains as
many BTU’s of heat as
150/175 gallons of fuel oil,
24,000 cubic feet of natural
gas. and almost as much as a
son of coal.
Aldo Leopold, the father of
American wildlife conserva
tion. had this observation
about fireplaces: He said
modern society is forgetting
where our food and fiber
comes from and also where
we get our heat. For one to
avoid this, he wrote in his
classic Sand County Almanac,
“He should lay a split of good
oak on the andirons, prefer
ably where there is no
furnace, and let is warm his
shins while a February
blizzard tosses trees
outside.”
"If one has cut, split,
hauled, and piled his own
good oak, and let his mind
work the while, he will
remember much about where
the heat comes from, and with
it a wealth of detail denied to
those who spend the weekend
in town astride a radiator.”
If you don’t want to buy
green firewood at S2O and-tip
for a random pickup load
(which should be about a third
of a cord), and you have a
place to cut wood, all you
really need are a small
BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
crosscut saw, axe, sledge
hammer, and wedges. For'
SIOO to $250 you can buy a
lightweight, non-professional
chain saw. McCulloch,Home
lite, and Poulan are the
Chevrolet. Ford, and Ply
mouth of chain saws, with
Stihl, a German make, the
VW, finding increasing ac
ceptance with professional
i woods workers of its
quality construction and re
liability.
The old five-foot crosscut
saw, or "misery whip,” is
coming back into favor. It
i gives the users that good
I old-fashioned sweat-and-
I simile exercise, conducive to
I Turkey
1 Shoot Set
The Pensacoia School PTA
1 is sponsoring a. Turkey Shoot
* Saturday, October 2 from 10
' a.m. until 2 p.m. at Pensacola
1 School. Everyone is invited to
1 come out and win a turkey or
I h^m.
friendly conversation and
-plenty of satisfaction. Some
even prefer the easy rhythm
of a two-man, cross-cut saw to
the bulk of a chain saw, and it
doesn’t require fuel or main
tenance or bully your ear
drums either.
An informative booklet,
“Firewood for Your Fire
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GOP Supper
Is Slated
A covered dish supper will
be held at Republican Head
quarters oh Saturday evening
at 7:30 p.m. This is a
countywide meeting and all
Republicans are urged to
attend. All County Candidates
will be present.
The Headquarters is loca
ted beside the old WKYK
Radio STation in East Burns
ville. Everyone is invited to
prepare their favorite dishes
and attend this meetifig and
Yancey County
Salutes:
Mountain
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Heritage
High School
(See Section B)
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Brush Creek Community Competes
Brush Creek Community members make preparations for Area competition. They are
representing Yancey County In WNC Beautiful 76. Evaluation of 7 communities and organizations
of work in Yancey Beautiful on September Ist gave Brush Creek responsibility of representing
Yancey County in the area program.
The K,tension Community Development program thin yen, le compound of throe phnsee.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1976
Yancey UF Adopts
Goal Os *19,000
With the adoption of a
budget goal of $19,000, and
the scheduling of a kick-off
breakfast for next Sunday, the
1976 annual campaign of the
Yancey United Way is off to
an early and encouraging
start.
At a long meeting of the
local United Way Board last
week, acting as the budget
committee, the requests of
fifteen agencies were review
ed and a budget finally
adopted. This budget, which
is somewhat below that of last
year’s drive, is shown below.
In the meantime Cam
paign Ltiairman Jpe Johnson
is actively enlisting a team of
volunteer workers, and other
wise laying out the strategy
for the drive. The kick-off
breakfast will be at 8 a.m.
Sunday at the Burnsville
Methodist Church, at which
time the campaign material
will be distributed to the
volunteer workers.
The directors express con
fidence that a painstaking job
was done in setting the
budget goal, taking into
account for each item the
benefit to be derived here in
Yancey County. By far the
major part of the money
raised will be spent here in
the county, and the rest will
be returned in indirect bene
fits.
The Erectors of the local
United Way organization,
who set the budget are:
Staunton Norris, Presi
dent, John Martin, James
Hoover, Dr. Garland Wamp
ler, Bob Helmle, Rev. Ralph
Jacks, Hazen Ledford, O.W,
Deyton, Mack B. Ray, Cara
Cox, Charles Aldridge, Ruby
Smith.
In the main the budget is
similar to that of recent year,
although a number of items
were reduced, while others
were increased. Few of the
agencies received just what
they requested; two of the
Fire Dept.
Dance Set
The South Toe Volunteer
Fire Department is sponsor
ing a dance on Friday,
September 17 from 8 p.m. to
12 p.m. at the Toe River
Ranch and Campground. Mu
sic will be furnished by
Ronnie Robinson and Topaz.
15 c
agencies included in previous
years were dropped from the
budget this year.
Most of the items in the
budget are self-explanatory,
although a few need clarifica
tion. The N.C. United “Pack
age” includes Yancey Coun
ty’s fair share of support for a
group of agencies financed
jointly by all United Funds in
the State. Among these are
the USO which furnishes
recreation and other benefits
to those in military service,
the Florence Crittenton Ser
vice of N.C.; the Children’s
HOme Society of N.C.,
Mental Health Association of
N.C. and medical research at
Bowman Gray and Duke.
UNITED WAY BUDGET
4-H Clubs SSOO
Community Development 400
Orthopedic Clinic 300
Red Cross 3,000
Boy Scouts 3,000
Girl Scouts 2,000
Emergency Medical 200
Yancey Co. Library 200
Adult Day
Activities Program 2,000
Revolving Loan Fund 200
Yancey Little League 1,200
Yancey Radio Patrol 500
Yancey Rescue Squad 500
Yancey Committee for Aging
3,000
Carolina United Package 1,400
Administration and
Contingencies 600
Total $19,000
Revco
Celebrates
20th Year
More than 17,564 candles
will be lit in 21 states when
Revco D.S., Inc. celebrates its
20th anniversary September
22. In each of the company’s
824 stores, five warehouses,
and the company headquar
ters in Twinsburg, Ohio,
10,000-plus employees will
mark the retail drug chain’s
birthday with a cake and 20
candles.
The highlight of the
chainwide festivities will be
the awarding of a plaque for
filling 200,000,000 prescrip
tions.
Store manager Buster
Deyton of the Revco store
located at Burnsville, and
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Fall Color
Railroad
Excursions
The Yancey Railroad
Charter Excursions will leave
Micaville on Sundays, Octo
ber 10 and October 17 at 1:30
for a three-hour round trip
along the sparkling South Toe
River to Kona.
Ticaets (adults $4 and
children $2.50) may be
ordered from the Spruce Pine
Junior Woman’s Club, Box
444, Spruce Pine, N.C. 28777.
All tickets are sold in
advance. For additional in
formation send a 13c stamp or
phone 765-7242.
Lutheran
Services
The Lutheran Worship
and Fellowship services will
be held at the hojte