THE YANCEY JOURNAL
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MTI Learning Resource Center Opens
Finishing touches we finally complete at Mayland
Technical Institute’s new Learning Resource Center and It Is
now open for public use, die Institute announced this week.
The new Leaning Resources Center to located in the- new
facUlty located on the MltcheU-Avery County line on Hwy. 19E.
The Center Is comprehensive in scope, offering a library with
approximately 6500 books and over 100 different magazines
add containing microfilm of various state and county
documents and other materials; audio-visual and media
services, with motion picture and other A-V equipment and
materials; and an individualized instruction center for adults
pursuing the Adult High School Diploma or Its equivalency, or
Weather Wrecks Budgets
The severely cold weather
has caused undue hardships
both financially and otherwise
for many North Carolinians
from east to west. Those who
affected the most
Oil Paintings By Beecher'
On Exhibit At Library
Barbara Beecher, whose
oil paintings are currently on
exhibit at the Yancey County
Public Library, is a native of-
San Francisco where she
majored in art at college, and
afterwards studied oil paint
ing the Jonathan Batchelor in
Oakland.
After marriage to poet
John Beecher in 19SS, she and
her husband founded the
Morning Star Press in Cali
fornia, renamed the Rampart
Press when they moved to
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are those with fixed low
incomes, such as the elderly
and those families where the
breadwinner has become un
employed because of the
energy crisis.
Arizona in 1958. Productions
of theirs won Western Books
Awards in 1960, 1961, and
1963. Roderick Cave’s defini
tive The Private Press
(London & New York, 1971)
singles put' her block-print
illustrations for special praise
and states that “the Rampart
Press books are among the
most harmonious and impor
tant American work.” She
also has been written up in
The American Book Collector
and Lois Rather’s Women aa
Printers.
BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
who are seeking development In areas of personal interest.
A photocopier Is also available for public use at 10c per copy
for copying both personal or library documents and materials.
The Learning Resources Center, located on the second floor as' M
MTl’s new Main Campus facility comprises 3320 square feet
and is open from 7:45 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday through
Thursday and from 7:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Fridays. The piddle
is encouraged to visit and use the Center and to call on any of
its 9-member staff for assistance. For further Information on
how you can use and take advantage of LRC services at MTI
call 765-7351, extension pi.
“Thousands of families
and elderly people have found
themselves with not enough
money to pay other increased
costs of living and have
enough left to buy adequate
Since 1972 she has studied
with Everetfe Kivette and
John Bryans at “Painting in
the Mountains” in Burnsville.
Her oils and prints have been
shown at the Verde Gallery in
Arizona, Arizona State Uni
versity, University of Califor
nia at Los Angeles, Walker
Art Gallery in Minneapolis,
Fairleigh Dickinson Univer
sity in New Jersey, and at
graphics exhibitions in Eng
land and Germany. She has
also had shows in Columbia,
S.C., and Atlanta.
food. On top of this dilemma,
the cold weather in areas that
produce vegetables, seafood
and other foodstuffs have
forced prices on these items
sky high. Cabbage is a good
example,” John Kerr, chief of
the food assistance section of
. the North Carolina Division of
Social Services said.
According to Kerr, this
dilemma has caused an influx
in food stamp applicants at
many county social services
departments across the state.
Many of these people have
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Burnsville
Fire Calls
February 24, Thursday at
11:30 a.m. Mutual Aid-
Gasoline Tanker Fire at
Coulter Oil Co. storage tanks
at Yancey-Mitchell line. New
iale, Spruce Pine, Burnsville,
Crossnore and South Toe
Departments responding with
men and equipment. 17 men
responding.
February 24, Thursday at
8:20 p.m. Johnny McFeters
residence on Sam Robertson
Road at Bald Creek. Oil stove
flooded. No damage to house.
18 men responding.
February 26, Saturday at
12 noon, Grass Fire near Mrs.
B a scorn b Hensley’s residence
on Banks Creek. 8 men
responding.
February 27, Sunday at
8:50 p.m. Virgil Robinson’s
residence on Long Branch
above Bee Log School. House
and conforms completely de
stroyed. Undetetmined origin
of fire. 14 men responding.
Notice
Telephone bins may now
be paid at Pollard’s Drug
Store. If you have a question
concerning your bill please
call or bring those bills by the
U wT?coTefo U ph^ S CoSany
Accidents On
Yancey Highways
A two-car accident on
Monday, February 21, at 4
f p.m. occurred on N.C. 197 N 2
miles opt of Burnsville.
Leonard Widawski, 59, of
Route 2, Green Mountain was
driving a 1968 Chevrolet
truck. Biuy Anglin, 27, of
Burnsville was driving a 1966
Mercury north on NC 197 and
slowed to make a left turn into
a private drive. Wadawski
was 'traveling north on NC
197, came in behind Anglin
and attempted to pass on the
left side. The Widawski
vehicle collided with the left
front of the Anglin vehicle.
Widawski’s vehicle continued
north and struck a telephone
pole.
Widawski was charged
with improper passing. There
were no other passengers in
either vehicle and no injuries.
Damage was estimated at
SBOO to the Chevrolet and
S3OO to the Mercury, and $75
to the telephone pole. Trooper
A.T. Morrison investigated.
A two-car accident on US
19W 8 miles out .of Burnsville
involved Floyd Wheeler, 23,
of Route 4, Burnsville and
Troy Mathis, 51, of Route 3,
Burnsville. The accident oc
curred on Tuesday, February
22, at 3:40 p.m.
Wheeler was driving a
1972 Chevrolet south on US
19W and approached the
intersection of US 19W and
Hardscrabble. Mathis was
driving a 1971 VW and turned
into the path of vehicle 1 and
was struck by vehicle 4.
Mathis was attempting a left
turn. The Wheeler vehicle
came to rest on the right
shoulder of US 19W. The
Mathis vehicle came to rest in
the southbound lane of US
19W.
Mathis was charged with
safe movement violation and
Wheeler was charged with
equipment violation.
There were no passengers
and no injuries in Wheeler
vehicle. Mathis and one
passenger, Frank Chandler,
7, were taken to Yancey
Hospital but were not serious-
Iv ininrpH Humaop was
ly injured. Damage was ponce responaea. a, i.ju p.m. cordially invited.
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- ECF Nears Completion
The Blue Ridge Hospital System’s new Extended Cara
Facility in Burnsville Is nearing completion. The question
being asked most frequently, however, la net “Whei wffi It
open?” but “What am we getting?” At this point, no one
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1977
estimated at S2OO to the
Chevrolet; SBOO to the VW;
and $25 to a sign. Trooper
C.D. Thomas investigated.
A non-highway accident
occurred on Thursday, Feb
ruary 24, at 11:15 a.m. The
accident occurred in Mitchell
County, 5 miles out of Spruce
Pine on the Burnsville High
way.
Brady Mosley, 66, of
Concord, N.C. was backing a
1974 white tractor trailer
south in the Coulter Oil
Company parking lot, struck a
fuel line, caught fire and
burned. Mosley was taken to
the Spruce Pine Hospital and
was immediately transferred
to Asheville.
$14,000 damage was esti
mated. Trooper James New
ton investigated.
Mallonee
To Visit
Tom L. Mallonee, 11th
Congressional District Assis
tant to Congressman Lamar
Gudger, is now making
scheduled visits to the county
seats and other sections of the
'counties. ’’’aZA™ 3
On Tuesday, March 8, he
will be at the Madison County
Courthouse, Marshall, from
9:30 to 10:30; at the Yancey
County Courthouse, Burns
ville, from 1:00 to 2:00; and at
the Town Hall, Spruce Pine,
from 3:00 to 4:00.
South Toe
Fire Calls
February 25, Friday at
3:45 p.m. Brush Fire on
Lower Browns Creek near
residences of Thelma Gouge
and Mrs. Cal Street. Neigh
bors working with Steve
Whitson, USFS firefighter,
did a fine job of putting out
fire. Fire Department only
had to mop up. Boxwood
planting damaged. One truck,
10 firefighters, and 2 fire
police responded.
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Art Os Puppetry
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Ann Peterson works on a puppet’s arm In a concentrated
month-long Berea College course on the art at the puppet. Abb
Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Peterson of Route 2,
Green Mountain, and is a graduate of Cane River High School.
Making hand puppets, marionettes, stick puppets and
shadow pupets, the class studied Joint construction and control
strings and designed their puppets’ continues, features and
personalities. Then they wrote scripts for the new-born actors,
staging short puppet shows and learning how to operate [and
untangle] the strings. Poppets are no strangers to Berea
College—Nell DiTerressa of die arf department has raised a
large family of them and each yew gives shows for chßdrea to
“A Summer Puppetry Caravan for Appalachia”. His puppetey
workshop on campus is a department in the student labor
program.
Luncheon Sponsored
There will be a Luncheon
at the Higgins Memorial
United Methodist Church on
Sunday, March 6. Serving will
begin at 12:15 until 1:30 p.m.
must soon be forthcoming. The Yancey Journal Is planning a
be published at or near die time the new bcHtywpeTs Its dUf
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Adults 53.00, children under
10 $1.50. The Luncheon is
sponsored by youths of the
church and the public is
cordially invited.