> ■■-. s':s‘M3BmSm£SSKIHM VOL. 5, NO. 33 <& ' '' dL jl **|ddsßS£Ey9H^ » - ■"" |( I R — |: rjLeS’aSR • ir *43? M '-s•■ ain *|T #®SJO. ?B®fC m Wip&isi^ |R|^^ ** yp * .■>.- M " t*L Jr* k *jrafl iMwiriltf B»^m 4wir ligJl ‘ ;:i lrlMi' “<&*“ * /< ‘\ t .F. VVeslvcer Fair Visitors Relax On Town Square To Eat Delicious Barbecued Chicken Craftsmen, Visitors Praise Planning; Thousands At Crafts Fair BY CAROLYN YUZIUK The town square in Burns ville was the center of activity for seven to eight thousand people during the 21st Annual Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair last Friday and Saturday, August 5 and 6, according to a police estimate. This made Yancey County’s 1977 Festival the best ever, with sales up all around—from the craftsmens booths and concession stand to the chicken barbecue which served 2,000 dinners to the hungry crowd. Barbecue re ceipts alone totalled nearly $5,000, which was $1,500 more than last year; while the concession stand made twice as much as in 1976, with $1,500 to their credit. it (community!^ 1 CALENDAR jj Flea Mart There will be a Flea Market at the First Presby terian Church, Burnsville, on Saturday, August 13. * ‘49 Reunion Burnsville High School Class of 1949 will hold a class reunion Saturday, August 13. The reunion is set for 7:30 p.m. at the Oakwood Cottages Motel and Restaurant on Burnsville Rd., Spruce Pine, North Carolina. ★ Fellowship The Mountain Lutheran Fellowship is set for Sunday, August 14, at 11:00 a.m. at the Toe River Campground. Refreshments will be served after services. All Lutherans and interes ted parties are cordially invited. See you there. A A V I The success of the fair was never in question, however, as long as mother nature helped with the weather. Hard work and serious plan ning by the Yancey County Chamber of Commerce, plus many volunteer man-hours contributed by year-round and summer residents of the county, has caused our annual “big event” to blossom into a beautiful promotion for the mountain way of life. The craftsmen who de monstrated, displayed, and sold their wares on the Burnsville Town Square this year were selected with care and consideration by a Cham ber committee to assure Fair visitors of variety and authen Decoration There will be a Decoration at the Academy Hill Cemetery on Academy Street in Burns ville on Sunday, August 14, at 2:00 p.m. * ★ Softball Micaville All Stars will meet the Carter County, Tenn. All Stars for a Softball Game on Sunday, August 14 at 2:00 p.m. at Micaville Elementary School. ★ ‘67 Reunion The Cane River High School graduating class of 1967 is having a Class Reunion on Saturday, August 27 at Cane River Middle School. The dinner will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Dancing will follow from 8 p.m. to 12 midnight at th: Community Building. . I BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714 ticity. One hundred and seventy five crafts booths featured needlework, stained glass, metal sculptures, paint ings, weaving, leatherwork, pottery, wooden toys, hand made furniture, dolls, jewelry and even brooms and apple butter to sell. It was a delightful experience just making the round of the booths to see the items which the skill and talent of the craftspeople produced. The South Toe Stompers gave a clogging exhibition ★ Horseshoe Champs! Eleven teams of two men each competed at the Mt. Mitchell Crafts Ftflr for the Horseshoe Pitching Cham pionship. The event was held on Saturday from noon until 4 p.m. on the Courthouse lawn. Hundreds of spectators cheered on their favorites as the men threw their ringers or didn’t! Os the competitors, three teams were from Bun combe or Madison County; the other eight teams were Yancey County’s finest. The Yancey County Re creation Commission spon sored the horseshoe tourna Chamber Concerts End With Octet The final concert of the Music in the Mountains 1977 summer series will be held Sunday, August 14 at 3:30 in the Spruce Pine Methodist Church. The final concert is held in Spruce Pine each year since many of the season ticket holders live in that area. Featured on the program is the Schubert Octet for \ during the Fair this year; the Parkway Playhouse crew per formed occasional skits, and Campers in the Forest, a local folk music group, provided all kinds of music to add to the festive atmosphere. The town square was spruced up for the occasion with flowers all in bloom, the weather was made-to-order, entertainment was mountain style fun, the chicken smelled and tasted delicious-in short, everything man could do was ★ ment in conjunction with the Crafts Fair, as it does each year. Trophies are presented to the First Place Winners. This year the Ftrst Place Trophies and Horseshoe Pitching Championship went to the Yancey County team of Freddie Penland, BiJrnsville and Randy Buckner, Bald Creek. Runners-up were J.B. Fuller and Roy Littrell from Madison and Buncombe. The Yancey County Re creation Commission would like to express their thanks to Sam Styles and Jackie Mathis for their help in putting on this event. Strings and Winds with Ralph Evans, violin; Ann Leathers, violin; Jane Grimaldi, Viola; Dana Rusinak, cello; Michael Goldring, bass; Frank Ell, clarinet; Robert Barris, bas soon and Bruce McLellan, horn. Other .works on the pro gram are the Mozart Duo for (Cont’d on page 2] done well and with mother nature doing her part, the 21st Annual Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair rose to new heights in 1977. It will be a hard act to follow! ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 1 1 If WKBBBKKm S jfl njObk* jgßp Ik J* mL. I if -A'-’’* Photo hv Joe Mnodv - * U J J ITHHW J run And r follow In now To Succeed' v' ' " "' * 11 THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1977 —* igi&z —-— lkm ill! mp f Social Security J Forum Is Slated Congressman Lamar Gud | ger said today that he has | scheduled a Social Security I Forum to be held Monday, I August 22, in the courthouse ! at Bakersville, North Caro lina. The forum will begin at 2:15 p.m. “This forum, which is the > first such meeting in the ( area,” the Congressman said, | “will give an individual from I the Mitchell, Avery and I Yancey areas the opportunity to discuss their needs and concerns in person with representatives of the Social | Security Administration.” The forum will open with ‘ comments from Congressman 5 Gudger and an explanation of the program by the Social 5 Security representative. A question and answer period will follow. Time will not permit the discussion of all individual cases, but she I names and addresses will be i taken and a follow-Up will be * made on each case. Parkway’s Final Play Is Smash-Hit Musical “There’s No Coffee” is one of the songs in the musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING at Parkway Playhouse, Au gust 10-13 at 8:30 p.m. in Burnsville. The plot centers around the schemes of a young businessman, J. Pierrepont Finch (Steve Washer) to become an executive at tlie World Wide Wicket Com pany. Pretty secretary Rose mary, played by Kat Dobson, falls in love with Finch and decides that she would be “1 hope each and every citizen of the Mitchell-Avery- Yancey area who has a concern about Social Security will attend the forum,” the Public Meeting For Highway Planning North Carolina Depart ment of Transportation offi cials will conduct a public meeting in Asheville to provide area residents with an opportunity to participate in the annual update of the State’s Highway Improve ment Program. Scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 18, the meeting will be held in the Carmichael Humanities Buil ding, UNCA, in Asheville. The meeting will be chaired by John M. Gilkey of “Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm.” Bud Frump (Paul Webb) is the boss’s nephew who tries to get Finch fired, and Smitty, played by Emily Green, is Rosemary’s confi dante. ' Guest artist Garth Schu macher, seen last summer in Parkway’s SOUTH PACIFIC will play the part of J.B. Biggley, the company’s boss. Biggley’s interest in Hedy La Rue (Deborah Kintzing) adds a spicy complication to the show. Hedy’s arrival into the action prompts the musical number of “A Secretary is not a Toy.” 15 c Congressman said. “It is my hope that the discussion will 41 help each to better under stand the program of the Social Security Administra tion.” Marion. Gilkey was appointed to the Board by Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. last month to represent NCDOT’s High way Division 13, which encompasses Buncombe, Ma dison, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Rutherford and Yan cey Counties. the Highway Improvement Program is a planned and programmed course for high way construction that balan ces anticipated revenues against estimated highway [Cont’d on page 2] HOW TO SUCCEED, with fourteen musical numbers, Is intended purely for entertain ment. Choreographers for the show are Dr. John Joy, former Broadway performer, and Keith Martin, theatre student at UNC-Greensboro from Hie kory, North Carolina. Teresa Keller from Abing don, Virginia, is director of the production; Nathan Mat thews is musical director; James Parker is set designer, and costumes are designed by .Del Risberg and Dru Minton- Gark. The musical closes Park way’s 31st season which began with the critically acclaimed MAN OF LA MANCHA and included CAC TUS FLOWER, ROYAL FAM ILY, and TEN LITTLE IN DIANS, all under the leader ship of Pr. John * Joy, Managing Director. Reservations for HOW TO SUCCEED may be made by calling 682-6151 or tickets may be purchased at the door. High School Registration Freshmen and transfer students will register at Mountain Heritage High School between 8:30 and 11:30 on Tuesday, August 16. Students in grades 10, 11 and 12 who pre registered before school closed in June should not report to the school until Thursday, August 18. Al requests for schedule changes will be considered on that date. Power ° uta S e Set power interruption Sunday, August 13. weather permit ting, from 100 to aonroxi-