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Flores Duo Featured
TRAC To Sponsor
Dance Performance
The Toe River Arts Coun
cil is sponsoring the first
performance of the North
Carolina Dance Theatre’s
season with their appearance
to Saturday, October 1, 8
o’clock p.m., at Mountain
Heritage High School Tom
berlin Auditorium in Burns
ville.
This professional touring
group of fifteen dancers,
directed by Robert Lindgren,
delighted a filled auditorium
last fall with their beautiful
and moving pieces of work.
Most notable of their perfor
mance last September were
their two ballets, “Changes”
and “The Grey Goose of
Silence.” This season’s pro
gram offers "Sunny Day,” a
dance newest to the repertory
of the troupe choreographed
by Charles Czarny. In addi
tion to “Sunny Day” the
company will perform “Alle
gro Brilliante,” “Pas de
Quatre,” and “Reflections.”
Regular admission tickets
are $3.50 with a small
reserved seat, section of $7.00
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Vets In Farm Program
The Yancey Veterans Farm Program will graduate 13
members this month. For some 27 moo tin the group has
attended night daaaes twice weeldy, studying subjects such as
feed crops, raising livestock and production of Burley tobacco.
Belated shop courses enabled them to Improve skills la metal
and woodworking with Individual and group projects.
Tbs group has attended workshops, participated la farm
tours and conducted an expanded farm program at home. In
addition, they have grown test demonstration tobacco,
promoted agricultural organisations and, on nmaslims.
tickets. Although tickets will
be available soon for purchase
at several businesses in the
Yancey-Mitchell County area,
the mailing address to order
t ickets is TRAC, 408 Altapass
Road, Spruce Pine, Nil
28777.
More information may be
obtained by contacting Ther
esa Coletta at 682-2282 or
Susan Larson at 765-4673.
Board
To Meet
The Yancey County Board
of Education will meet on
Tuesday, September 6 instead
of Monday, September 5 for
their regular meeting. This
will be a joint meeting of the
Board of Education and the
principals of the schools. '
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Yancey County Schools
will be closed Monday,
September 5, for the Labor
Day holiday.
Circus Coming To Burnsville!
It won’t be long before the
Big Top goes up in Burnsville
for the star-spangled, fantas
tic, and fabulous 1977 edition
of Roberts Bros. Three-Ring
Circus, one of America’s
finest and most popular
traveling shows. The 1000
seat canvas arena will be
erected, for one day only, on
Monday, September 19, at the
Carnival Grounds, 19E By-
Pass. The props and perfor
mance equipment will be set
THE YANCEY JOURNAL
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VOL. 5, NO. 36
MTI Exhibits
Print Collection
A collection of Contem
porary European Prints as
sembled by the North Caro
lina Museum of Art as a
traveling exhibition will be on
view at Mayland Technical
Institute from September 2 to
September 26, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Benjamin of Greens
boro and New Orleans gave
the eighteen prints to the
Museum for this purpose and
also provided funds for
framing and crating the works
to travel.
All of the graphic works
which comprise the show are
by contemporary artists who
are best known for their
paintings or sculptures. The
French school artists predom
inate-Pablo Picasso, Jean
Carzou, Marc Chagall, Jean
Dufy, Japanese-born Tsugou
haru Foujita, Aristede Maillol
and Maurice Utrillo—but
Swiss artists Hans Emi and
Alberto Giacommetti are also
included.
Os special interest is
“Illustration for ‘Carman’,”
one of five works by Picasso in
the exhibition. This particular
graphic work has been execu
ted by the intaglio process in
which lines are cut into a
metal plate, which is then
inked and pressed into dam
pened paper.
Picasso has etched the
lines with a "pencil” made of
hard steel and left the metal
furrows, or “burr” on the
plate to catch the ink and add
richness, a printing method
called drypoint. Another in
assisted needy fanners. Qualified new Veterans are now !»«<■»
enrolled.
The members are, left to right [front row] Wade Austin,
Steve Souther, C.E. Boyd, Mike Peterson, James Bnckner,
Phillip Caudill, Jack Ramsey, Bill Randolph) [middle row]
Jimmie Harris, Daniel Glenn, James McCurry, Ken Howell,
Kenneth McCurry, Fletcher McCourry, Ray McCourty, [top
row] Russell Burnett, Roy Burnett, Wayne McCurry, Danny
Wright, Donald Tipton, Alton Robinson, and DeWltt Fortner.
Members not present are James Pate, Alan McCurry nnd
Archie Wright.
up for two performances only,
scheduled for 6:00 and 8:00
p.m. the midway, with its
side-shows and concessions
will open one hour before the
first performance. The circus
is coming as a fund-raising
and community service pro
ject for the Burnsville Volun
teer Fire Department.
This year circus officials
are promising the most
exciting performance in the
BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714
taglio print, “Breton Mother”
by Etienne Ret, is made by a
tone etching process called
aquatint. The aquatint tech
nique is used to produce
transparent effects similar to
watercolor. A copper plate is
covered with a porous ground
in which the design is etched
by the artist, and then acid is
poured over the plate in
various stages producing tiny
tone dots which form the
design when the plate is
printed.
Other well-known graphic
works on view in the show are
Jean Cocteau’s “Clown” and
Jacques Villon’s “Portrait of a
Man.” These are among the
lithographs, which result from
printing a treated stone,
metal plate, or other hard
surface on which the drawing
has been made with a waxy
material. Ink is poured over
and absorbed by the surface,
except where the wax is
present. When paper is
pressed to the stone the
impression is made by the
inked and non-inked areas.
The collection is one of nine
traveling exhibitions currently
being circulated by the North
Carolina Museum of Art.
Senior Project
Seniors at Mountain Heri
tage High School will be
selling magazine subscrip
tions through September 19.
The sale is to raise money for
their senior trip.
show’s history. Describing it
as an action-packed, thrill
filled, magic mixture of color,
sight, and sound, capturing
the hearts of children and
reviving the youthful enthu
siasm of adults. Star circus
performers and animals from
all over the globe have been
gathered to make this one of
the most memorable perfor
mances in circus history.
Highlighting the 1977
Yancey Cattlemen Organize
Agricultural Income in Yancey County Is now approaching
six million dollars annually. Tobacco accounts for about half of
that total. Second only to tobacco is the production of livestock.
The beef cattle producers of the county recently met and
formed an organization to be known as the Yancey County
Cattlemen’s Association. There has been a recognized need for
such an organization for several years. The purpose of the
Cattlemen’s Association Is to promote interest in the
production of cattle and to assist members in raising the
quality of cattle so that at marketing time a higher profit will be
realized. County beef cattle producers can pocket that extra
profit when they adopt Improved methods of feeding,
dehorning, castrating and keeping animals free of internal and
external parasites. Beef producers can cut losses by making
Improvements In i«»»«HHwg methods, providing shelter for
animals and by being able to recognize disease and act early
EMCs File *l5O Lawsuit
Charging Power Monopoly
French Broad Electric
Membership Corp, Marshall,
is among the 16 rural electric
cooperatives in North Caro
lina which have filed a $l5O
million lawsuit against Caro
lina Power and Light Com
pany and South Carolina
Electric and Gas Company
charging that the two giant
utilities have engaged in
monopolistic practices.
The suit, filed in Federal
District Court in Greensboro
August 18, claims the two
firms have prevented the
EMCs from developing their
own generating plants by
restricting their access to bulk
power “exchange services.”
The services involve ar
rangements under which var
ious power companies pur
chase electricity from one
another to adjust to changes
in customer demand.
The cooperatives would
have to be allowed to
participate in such an ar
rangement, according to the
lawsuit, for construction of
their own generating facilities
to be feasible. Up to now, the
suit charges, the utilities have
restricted the cooperatives’
access to this power exchange
grid.
The suit asks the court for
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1977
a permanent injunction re
quiring the defendant com
panies to deal with them on ai
equal basis in the exchange o
power, and damages amount
ing to $l5O million.
The figure for damages is
based on the EMCs’ conten
tion that they could have
saved their members about
SSO million over the past fbui
years if they had been
operating their own generat
ing facilities. Under the
anti-trust laws, if they can
prove their case, they can
Sales Tax
gl Collections
Local 1% sales and use tax
collections by county were
reported for July, 1977 in a
recent news release from the
N.C. Department of Revenue.
The .report shows Yancey
County collected the sum of
$18,565.92 in July.
This compares with the
amount collected by Madison
County of $14,516.45 for the
same period. Mitchell County
collected $22,579.44; Avery
County collected just over $24
thousand.
edition is one of the world’s
most unique aerial attrac
tions. Bob Top and Edna
performing on special rigging
high above Ring Three, on
roller skates! Other featured
aerialists include El Eirocco
on the Cloud Swing, Miss
Tanya on the Swinging
Ladder, Gabriel on the Tra
peze, and Sabrina on the
Spinning Spanish Web.
Circus tickets are now on
when It strikes. It is very important to know when, where and
how to market cattle in order to get the best possible price.
The Cattlemen’s Association will endeavor to provide
timely information to the membership. The information may be
presented by guest speakers, in films, demonstrations, articles
and by other means.
Officers elected by the members and currently serving are:
President, Cariie Rice; Vice President, Ken McCurry;
Secretary/Treasurer, Herb Allen; Directors, Warren Weotal,
Donald Tipton and Breece Morrow. Carlyle Bledsoe, County
Extension Chairman is active In the association and is giving
the full support of his office. Contact any of the above named
persons for information or membership application.
Pictured left to right, front row, Ken McCurry, Cariie Rice,
Herb Allen; back row, Warren Wes tall, Donald Tipton, Breece
Morrow.
e- collect three times that
i- amount.
in The EMCs buy more than
jf 90 percent of their overall
t- power requirements from the
three major utilities serving
is North Carolina, with the
i- remainder coming from hy
e droelectric projects supplied
it by the Southeastern Power
it Administration, an agency of
n the U.S. Department of
t- Interior. All of the power is
e purchased *>♦ bulk or whole
n sale rates for resale to the
n consumer-members of the
cooperatives.
“If we want to sell power
that is competitive in price •
and reliable as that obtainable
from existing suppliers, we
must be able to get special
kinds of electric power from
. the power exchange grid,”
said Alton P. Wall, acting
general manager of the N.C.
, EMC, the state association of
electric co-ops.
; N.C.EMC, which filed the
p suit on behalf of 16 of its
member co-ops. was organiz
. ed as a power generation and
transmission agency but has
been unable to function in
r that capacity primarily be
. cause of the activities of
CP&L, South Carolina E&G
sale. You can save fifty cents
on each ticket by buying in
advance from any member of
the Burnsville Volunteer Fire
Department, or at those
businesses displaying “Tick
ets on Sale Here” signs. The
advance price is $1.50 for
children fourteen and under,
and $2.50 for adults. At the
circus box office on show day
children’s tickets will be $2.00
and adults $3.00. .
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M. %/
bers of the ' CARVA Power
Pool, according to the suit.
The EMCs claim the four
former CARVA Pool members
which also included Duke
Power Co. and Virginia
Electric and Power Co.,
operate a power exchange
grid which has never been
available to the comps except
in limited cases. Neither Duke
nor VEPCO were named as
parties to the suit.
Benefit
Gospel
Sing Set
The Second Annual Gos
pel Sing for the benefit of the
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
will be held at Moore
Auditorium at Mars Hill
September 4, at 7:30 p.m.
A Free Will offering will
be taken by the Madison
for the benefit of children with