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Let's take this holiday as a
time to reflect on all that we
have to treasure. And celebrate
Thanksgiving in the true tradition -
of peace, unity and love.
NCSU Agriculturalists
Meet With Area Farmers
An area meeting has been
scheduled for Marion on
Tuesday, December 9, to give
local people an opportunity to
discuss agricultural matters
with several people from
North Carolina State Univer
sity.
W.C. Bledsoe, Yancey
County extension chairman,
said the Marion meeting has
been planned for the people of
Yancey, McDowell, Alexan
der, Burke, Polk, Catawba,
Avery, Mitchell, Rutherford,
Cleveland, and Caldwell
counties.
Fourteen such meetings
are planned across the state in
an effort to improve com
munications between local
citizens and the School of
Agriculture and Life Sciences
at NCSU, Bledsoe explained.
"The people from NCSU
will report on what the school
is doing in the way of
Agricultural teaching, re
search and extension work.
Local citizens will have an
opportunity to Hisrnss their
needs and offer suggestions,”
Bledsoe added.
Farmers, agribusiness
men and other people with an
interest in agriculture are
invited. Starting time is 2
o’clock p.m. and the place is
the McDowell County Admin
istration Building in Marion.
AH who are interested in
please contact the
Agricultural Extension office
ifbr reservations.
Representing the School of
Agriculture and Life Sciences
will be Dr, J.E. Legates,
dean; Dr. E.W. Glazener,
director of academic affairs;
Dr. K.R. Keller, director of
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the Agricultural Experiment
Station; D.G. Harwood, Jr.,
assistant director of the
Agricultural Extension Ser
vice; Mrs. Ada Dalla Pozza,
state home economics agent;
Dr. K. L. Knight, head of the
Department of Entomology;
Dr. C.B. McCants, head <a£
the Department of Soil Sci
ence; Dr. J.W. Strobel, head
of the Department of Horti-
Mill/KWH
Increase Is
Approved
For EMC
Mr. Charles R. Tolley,
General Manager of French
Broad EMC in Marshall,
N.C., announced today that
the Board of Directors has
approved an increase of one
mill per kilowatt hour (KWH)
to be effective on the
November 20 bills. This will
amount to $1 per 1000 KWH
and will be included in the
Purchase Power & Fuel
Adjustment Charge on the
bills.
The rate increase that
went into effect in May of
this year covered only the
increased cost of power
purchased from Carolina Pow
er & Light Company and did
not allow for additional
revenue to cover the increas
ed cost of operations. This
one mill increase is necessary
to cover the increased cost of
materials, supplies and day to
day operations.
THE YANCEY JOURNAL
VOL. 4, NO. 47
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culture Science; and Dr. T. J.
Mann, acting assistant direc
tor of the Agricultural Exper
iment Station.
consuming. rrom one- collections. qutrements.
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Troop 502 On Campout At Briar Bottom
The Boy Scouts of Troop 502 went on a cam pout at Briar
Bottom, a part of Black Mountain Campgrounds, on November
6 and 7. The night of the 6th was veiy windy and some of the
tent pegs were blown right out of the ground. Among other
things there was a football game, a compass hike [ln which the
boys lost the scoutmasters], and after dark the scouts played
“capture the flag” then had a campfire with sldts and a ghost
Loose Leaf Burley
Display In Asheville
BY W.C. BLEDSOE
County Extensiqjn Qmfrman v
"A display of loose-leat
packages for future sale of
hurley tobacco will be held at
the Dixie Big Burley No. 2
Warehouse in Asheville (be
hind the Western Carolina
Livestock Market) on Novem
ber 30-December 9. Loose
leaf tobacco is not tied into
hands but is packaged in
sheets or pressed into bales
for comparison with conven
tional hand-tied tobacco. The
bales are formed in a
homemade press box and
weigh 60-75 pounds each,
while the sheet package is the
same as used in the
area and weighs 150-180
pounds each. Equipment used
to form the sheets and bales
will also be displayed.
The display is part of a
larger over-all experimental
effort being conducted in the
burley states and involves
producers, warehousemen,
tobacco companies, and the.
Federal Grading Service. The
tobacco for the North Carolina
display was grown by Mr.
Rogers Shelton of Jackson
County and will be purchased
by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company.
Under existing marketing
regulations, burley tobacco
must be tied into hands in
order to receive government
grades and therefore merit
price support. Consequently,
permission has been obtained
from the proper authorities to
waive these regulations for
sale of the experimental
loose-leaf tobaccos in the
cooperating states.
Rising production costs
and continued scarcity of
labor have caused burley
producers to become keenly
interested in loose-leaf hand
ling as ameans of reducing
both production costs and
labor requirements. The pre
sent method of stripping
burley tobacco and tying it
iato hands is laborious and
time consuming. From one-
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fourth to one-third of the total
time required to produce an
aCre of burley is expended in
stripping and preparing for
market. Preliminary time and
motion studies carried out at
the University of Kentucky
have shown that loose-leaf
handling will redupe market
preparation time by as much
as 30 to 40 %. Most of the
major American tobacco com
panies have indicated that
they can handle burley in
loose-leaf form provided that
they are given sufficient time
to change certain machinery
and handling procedures.
But, they stress emphatically
that growers will have to offer
burley for sale uniformly.
That is, it will either have to
be all bales or all sheets.
This necessity for uniform
ity is one reason the experi
ments are being conducted
throughout the 8-state burley
area. These displays and
related evaluations by produ
cers and tobacco companies
will give all segments of the
Quarterly
Tax Report
The collection andvdistri
bution report for the minty
sales and use tax levies for the
quarter ending September 30,
1976 was recently released by
the North Carolina Depart
ment of Revenue. The report
shows Yancey County collec
ted $63,930.28 for that quar
ter; of this amount, $544.69
was the cost of collection,
making $63,385.59 the net
distributable proceeds.
By comparison, Madison
County collected the amount
of $42,680.07 for the quarter
ending September 30; Avery
County collected $69,751.67
for that quarter; and Mitchell
County collections were SB3,
437.52 for the same period.
The cost of collecting the
tax is $.852 per SIOO of
collections.
stoiy. Pictured at the campsite are {left to right] top row: Dan
Maxwell, Brian Hensley, Greg Edge, Robert Proffitt, Jerry
Layell, Joe Gillespie, Steve Maxwell, Davis Gillespie; bottom
row: Jesse Buchanan, Andrew Wampler, Eric Hensley,
Stewart Hensley, David Fortner, Kevin La ugh run, and Tom
Maxwell. Ass’t Scoutmaster Joe Maxwell Is standing;
Scoutmaster Wampler took the picture.
_ _ the influence of alcohol.
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1 industry a chance to investi
? gate both bales and sheets,
i The present system of tying
burley into hands and selling
I it on baskets has been used
for about 75 years. Therefore,
’ any new system of marketing
r that is introduced may be
used for a long time, so it is
necessary to test each system
thoroughly to make sure the
one chosen is suitable to all
segments of the industry.
Both systems offer advan
tages and disadvantages.- For
man can handle
■ a bale but two are required to
lift a full sheet. Bales stack
r and load more compactly than
sheets but bales may damage
if tobacco is in high case.
i Sheets may not pass readily
through conventional strip
ping room doors. Warehouses
can Randle baled tobacco in
1 about the same volume as
they now handle baskets, but
handling sheeted tobacco is
less efficient. A method of
warehouse designation simi
lar to that in use for flue-cured
markets may be required for
sheeted tobacco, particularly
in Kentucky.
Trial marketings of loose
\ leaf burley in either bales or
/ sheets at designated locations
may become a reality in 1977.
1 Consequently, all burley
: growers should make an effort
, to come by the Dixie Big
/ Burley No. 2 Warehouse in
Asheville between November
t 30 and December 9to inspect
the different methods of
handling burley in loose-leaf
> form. Representatives from
, N.C. State University will be
t at the display site between 10
a.m. and 12 noon on
i November 30-December 3to
discuss the different methods
of handling with interested
growers.
Burley Producers should
keep in mind that this is an
experimental display only.
The general crop for 1976
must still be tied in hands to
meet current marketing re
auirements.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25,1976
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Ann Parks Hawthorne
Hawthorne-MTI
Visiting Artist
o
From now through June,
* 1977, Ann Parks Hawthorne
will serve Yancey, Mitchell
and Avery counties as May
land Technical, Institute’s
Visiting Artist. Initiated in
1971 by the Department of
Community, Colleges and the
North Carolina Arts Council,
the Visiting Artist Program is
designed to deepen the--
appreciation and cultivation of
the arts within the sponsoring
institution and community.
Through this program pro
fessional artists are placed in
North Carolina’s technical
institutes and community
colleges for one-year resi
dencies.
Ms Hawthorne brings to
this community diverse skills
as a photographer and artist.
Following study in art history
at the University of North
Carolina, she worked as a
free-lance photographer in
Chapel Hill for five years.
During this time her work
appeared in various national
and regional publications-
American Horticulturalist, the
New Yorker, N.C. Wildlife,
etc. She was an instructor in
photography at UNC and
photographer for the More
head Planetarium and the
North Carolina Botanical Gar
den. The position as Third
Century Artist with the Toe
River Arts Council brought
her to this area in January,
1976. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Haw
thorne of Statesville.
While in the Tri-County
area, Ms Hawthorne will work
on a number of projects
relating to photography and
the arts in general. Her
principal project is the collec- 1
tion of photographs of various
local communities to create a
"portrait” of our area.
According to Ms Hawthorne,
"The Appalachian mountains
have for too long been shown
only in the precious stereo
type of bonnets and hardship. , 1
I feel it is time to show a more
honest mirroring of the life
and the people here.”
Ms Hawthorne is available !
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for talks, exhibits and work
shops with schools, clubs
churches and individuals
within the three counties
served by Mayland Tech.
Arrangements must be made
in advance through the
Visiting Artist advisor at MTI,
Dr. Kearney Smith. Ms
Hawthorne may be contacted
directly at 765-7549 on any
Thursday from 8 until 11 a.m.
or at Box 547, Spruce Pine,
N.C. 28777.
Drive With
Care Over
Holidays
Edward L. Powell, Com
missioner of Motor Vehicles,
reminds motorists that the
Thanksgiving holiday week
end is one of the most
dangerous of the year on
North Carolina’s streets and
highways.
Powell said that during the
4 day (102 hours) holiday
weekend last year (1975),
there were 1,546 traffic
collisions, 978 persons injured
and 26 persons killed on North
Carolina streets and high
ways.
"As we approach this
dangerous holiday weekend
with 1302 fatalities this year,
we can improve this record,
but we need the cooperation
of the public. I am asking all
motorists to drive defensively
and cautiously” Powell said.
Colonel E.W. Jones, Com
mander of the State Highway
Patrol said the patrol will be
out in ful| force patrolling thcs
streets and highways. "While
particular attention will be
paid to speeders and suspec
ted drunken drivers, the .
troopers will also be on the
lookout for all clear cut
violators.” He also reminds
motorists that half of the‘
traffic accidents involving!
fatalities last Thanksgiving I
weekend were caused by \
speeding and driving underl
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