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<• - *I»E YANCEY JOURNAL JANUARY 13, 1977
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Store-Wide Sale
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Reductions up to on some items
20 % off~ -25 % off 50 %ow
Lingerie Gloves Dresses Skirts
Bags Luggage Pantsuits Pants
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Ginny-Lisa Shoppe
Banka Family Square „ Burnsville, N.C.
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Had Taken Advantage of the Great Supply of
4-Wheel Drive Vehicles
at
Greene-McKinney
in Spruce Pine
765-4235
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POLLARD’S
DRUG STORE
Phone 682-2146 Burnsville
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Dear Editor:
Within reach of the people of the Tri-County area-Avery,
Mitchell, and Yancey CountJe*-Ue opportunities that atfr the
imagination. Economically, this area can be one of the moat
productive parts of North Carolina. We have the people with'"
the capabilities and the skills, or the potential for acquiring the
skills, to perform any Jobs any business or industry may
require. Culturally, we have writers, painters, musicians, and
craftsmen who could bring new glory to the area. Intellectually,
we have pre-school, elementary and secondary schools, phis
institutions of post-secondary education capable of becoming
pre-eminent centers of learning and leadership. All of these
things are possible for oar area daring 1977. Why wait any
longer?
Instead of merely trying to achieve some national or state
average, this area mast Join ins sustained effort to advance the
qualities of oar own area. Though we recognize die
Inadequacies that plague as, it is rot necessary to belabor
them. While much progress has and Is being made, it mast be
accelerated sharply. We need to look to the future, not to the
past. During 1977 we should seek positive, constructive
thought and action. «
* The hour is late for ooiwarea. The gap to be overcome is
substantial, bat the opportunities whicL beckon are great. Let
us pursue them with all the strength and courage and
determination at our command.
What will we be able to list as our accomplishments at the
end of 1977; 1 don’t know, bat I do know that they will depend
upon what we plan for and take action upon immediately.
Dr. O.M. Blake, Jr.
President, Mnyland Technical Institute
News
yMjjj|| <0) Yancey County
Teams in the Yancey
County Women’s Volleyball
League have been given
numbers to facilitate the
schedule of their games as
follows:
76’ers #l
Burnsville Bombers #2
Ben Franklin #3
Spikers #4
Lucky Ladies #5
Charlie’s Angels #6
Games through January are
slated in the order listed
below:
January 6,1977
7:00 p.m. 4 V sl
7:30 p.m. 6vs„2
8:00 p.m. 5 vs 3.
V
January 13,1977
7:00 p.m. 4vs2‘
7:30 p.m. 1 V sS
8:00 p.m. 5 vs 6
’cation Commission
January 16,4:00 p.m.
9vs. 5 2 vs. 3
January 19, 6:00 p.m.
9 vs. 7 2 vs. 5
January 19, 8:00 p.m.
1 vs. 6 3 vs. 4
The Yancey County Men’s
Basketball League teams are
as follows:
1. Celtics
2. Clearmont
3. Dragons
4. Henredon
5. Maxwells
6. Mjcaville
7. Mitchell County
8. Robo
9. Super Stars
Games are scheduled thru
December and January as
follows:
At East At Cane
Yancey River
January 5,6:00 p.m.
3 vs. 1 5 vs. 8
January 5,8:00 p.m.
4 vs. 6 vs. 7
January 9,2:00 p.m.
7 vs. S 9 vs. 3
January 9,4:00 p.m.
8 vs. 4 lvs. 2
January 12, 6:00 p.m.
4 vs. 2 6 vs. 9
January 12, 8:00 p.m.
5 vs. 17 vs. 8
January 16, 2:00 p.m.
8 vs. 6 lvs. 4
S=St!IMs2MSS\
Hard, heavy white heads of
iceberg lettuce mean they are
too mature and bitter.
THE YANCEY JOURNAL
BOX 667
Burnsville, N.C. 28714
Phone (704) 682-2120
Edward Yuziuk.Publisher
Carolvn Yuziuk-Editor
Pat Randolph-Manager
Brenda Alien-Staff
Published Every Thursday
By
Twin Cities Publishing Co.
2nd Class Postage Paid
At Burnsville. N.C.
1 Thursday, Jan. 13, 1977
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Subscription Rates By Mail:
In Yancey County
One Year $5.00
Six Months $4.00
Out Os County or State
One Year $7.00
xSijb-Months $6.00
I Health News I
ImlM C¥iews
Aged need attention
when on drug therapy
,/^ e .handicaps of honesty, I can see little dif
older citizens are often ference between the handi
overlooked. Diminishing cap of old age and that of
mental and physical con- extreme youthfulness
ditions can leave the aged where strong drugs are
person m a feeble-minded, indicated. *
child like state. Yet, many Like children, older dti
of these same people are zens need special atten
pyen the responsibility of tion while taking medi
takmg powerfully potent cines. Let’s make it our
medications —a respon- business to help the elderly
sibuity we d never dream use drugs safely and
of giving our kids! In all properly.
Pollard’s Drug Store—
-682-2146 Burnsville
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Dr. Flrrest McCall
To Practice
Dentistry
Dr. Forest S. McCall has
opened an office in Burnsville
for the practice of dentistry.
The office ii located on the
corner of Ray St.' and 19
Bypass. The phone number is
682-7419.
Dr. McCall is a native cff
Spruce Pine and graduated
from Harris High School. He
graduated from the University
of North Carolina School of
Pharmacy. While there he
„ was elected to Rho Chi, the
National Honor Society for
Pharmacy students. Upon
graduation he was employed
at Pollards Drug Store for two
years.
In 1976 he graduated from
the University of North
Carolina Dental School where
he was a member of Delta
Sigma Delta Dental Frater
nity.
Dr. McCall, his wife Patti
and their two daughters live
in Burnsville. They are
members of the Higgins
Memorial United Methodist
Church.
Funds For
New Bridge
The North Carolina Board
of Transportation approved
today $230,000 in construction
funds for replacement of a
Yancey County bridge. 1 The
I bridge to be replaced is on
Murphytown Road (Secon
t dary Road 1343) over the
Cane River, north of Bums
j ville.
The Yancey County bridge
is one of four bridges to
receive approval for construc-
I tion funds, totaling $1.2
million, duHng the Board’s
n meeting in Raleigh on Janu
j ary 4. The other bridges to be
f replaced are in Buncombe,
e Stokes and Anson Counties.
All four of these bridges had
previously been approved for
replacement and are included
in the latest update of the
North Carolina Highway Im
» provement Program.
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A Good Sign
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LIFE & CASUALTY
Roberts
Insurance
Agency
Phone
682-2191
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Keprimed From |
‘Asheville Citizen’:
Bob Terrell
Food For Thought
The Lisa Haney incident, in which the 16-year-old
Burnsville schoolgirl was paralyzed in a school bus accident
Nov. 12. has opened an old can of worms.
The state's offer to pay a maximum
of 1600 toward her expenses bewildered
“f and angered her friends and neighbors
and. indeed, many others who read the
4g| story.
Because the bus wreck did not
k result from negligence, the state said,
/ no one is liable, and therefore Lisa and
her family are not entitled to more
Jlf than *6OO
- must be little consolation to
m i the young girl who faces the remainder
I - Mi 1 m ol her life unable to walk because the
imn tl-odl'i . brakes failed on her school bus.
BUB TERRELL ft is also food for thought,
Where you and I are required by state law to carry
liability insurance on the automobiles we drive, insuring each
passenger for $15,000 and each accident for $30,000 before we
can get license tags, school buses, which carry the most
precious cargo on the road, are required to carry no liability
insurance on their passengers.
In simple terms, the state operates on a self-insured basis,
and school systems financed by the state are considered to be
municipalities which are not subject to the liability insurance
laws.
No Negligence
The Charlotte Observer quoted Herbert Lamson Jr., a Tort
Claims attorney in the Attorney General's office, as saying
that Lisa’s family could have been awarded as much as $30,000
from a special Tort Claims Act if the wreck of Lisa’s bus had
resulted from the driver's or another employe’s negligence.
There was no negligence. A brake line simply failed, and
the bus plunged off the road, and Lisa’s spine was crushed, her
wrist was fractured, her ribs were broken, a lung was
punctured and she was, in an instant, doomed to a life of
immobility.
What all this means, in layman's terms, is that when a
school bus ventures onto a road, those who drive it, those who
maintain it, and the kids who ride it, are insured against
accidents caused by negligence but the children who ride
the buses are not insured against accidents in which
negligence does not exist.
Andrew Vanore of the State Attorney General’s Office
confirmed that statement by telephone. “You are correct in
what you say," he said.
State and school officials are in sympathy with Lisa and
her family, but are powerless to help. They must operate
within the limitations of the law, and the law after all the
mumbo-jumbo is eliminated clearly provides little help for
Lisa.
To a man. the school system superintendents of the state
are considerate and conscientious people who would allow no
school bus to operate on a dangerous road.
But who can predict the whims of the weather here in the
mountains?
Who can insure, with any degree of accuracy, that any
school bus in the heart of the winter will not round a curve and
be confronted with a sudden-formed sheet of ice?
Food for thought?
A Pressing Problem
All of this, however, does not ease the plight of Lisa Haney,
nor that of her family.
Lisa’s father, Reuben Haney, is a 56-year-old man who is
disabled by arthritis and other ailments. His income is a
monthly check for $lB6 from the Veterans Administration.
The family has no car. The Haney home is humble, and
will need many modifications to accommodate a handicapped
person when Lisa is finally able to go home from the hospital.
The most pressing problem, however, is finances.
The Rev. Frank Phillips, a tall, likeable Baptist minister,
and two fellow preachers, the Rev. Howard Wilson and the
Rev Harlan Ramsey, set up a Lisa Haney Fund through the
First Citizens Bank in Burnsville, ana hundreds of persons
have contributed money in an effort to ease the family’s
financial pains.
What we’ve gotten so far," said Phillips, “is only a drop
in the bucket to what they'll need. When the state could only
pay S6OO. the whole financial burden was thrown upon the
family.”
Phillips said that Lisa’s hospital bill for the first four
weeks amounted to $5,580. "That doesn’t include the seven
doctors and the X-rays, or the surgery yet to come,” he said.
He envisions medical expenses of $30,000 or more before
Lisa is released from the hospital.
Fund-raising events have been held, and others are
scheduled A benefit gospel singing arranged by the three
ministers raised $7,446 Burnsville CB radio operators collected
$2,100 more on a cold, rainy day. Students and faculty at
Mountain Heritage High School, where Lisa went to school,
gathered more than SSOO to put an electric water heater and
a washing machine into the Haney home in the Little Creek
community 16 miles northwest of Burnsville The WAMY
Community Action Agency installed a new commode and
.remodeled the family's bathroom.
Lisa s school insurance is helping, also. Ed Hunter, the
Yancey County school superintendent, said it will pay $35 a
day on her hospital room, and other benefits, up to a total of
$7,500. But, Phillips said, the maximum benefit from this
insurance can be obtained only when the hills run to enormous
proportions. '*
Humble And Appreeiative
“The family," Phillips said, "is very humble and
appreciative. Through no fault of their own, their backs have
been placed against the wall. It all just doesn't seem fair to
Lisa and her family. She didn't cause this, and she deserves
to be looked after."
To add to the family’s problem, the youngest of the five
Haney children, 11-year-old Stella Gay, suffered a fractured
pelvis in the same bus wreck, and incurred bills of about SI,OOO
for the eight days she spent in the hospital.
Phillips. Wilson, and Ramsey are administering the Lisa
Hanev Fund, and Phillips said anyone wishing to contribute to
it should make check or money order payable to Lisa Haney
Fund, and mail it to Rev Frank Phillips. Route 6, Box 414,
Burnsville. N. C. 28714
Many readers of The Citizen have telephoned to ask where
they could send contributions. Quite a few were incensed over
the whole affair
"1 don't know how this could happen in the United States."
one man said. "I don't know how I can be forced by
compulsory law to put my children on a school bus, uninsured,
yet I am forced to insure my own car to carrv them to the
grocery store."
He said he had telephoned state legislators about the
possibility of amending state laws to give protection to
children riding school buses, and to provide more care for Lisa
Haney and any other student so injured in a school bus
accident.
Tha* is another epn of worms that should be opened