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THE YANCEY JOURNAL VOL. 8, NO. 4 BURNSVILLE, N.C. 28714 THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1980 15^ Yancey Shares In Road Holcombe Dies, Civic Leader The North Carolina Board of Transportation allocated $10 million from funds authorized by the State Highway Bond Act of 1977 for improvements to the state’s large secondary road system at its January 11th meeting held in William- ston. Yancey County’s share of the $10 million allocation is $69,902, based on a formula established by the state legislature. According to the formula, each county receives a percentage of the total funds available, determined by the unpaved miles of secondary roads in the county in relationship to the total mileage of unpaved secondary roads in the state. Yancey County has 137.52 miles of unpaved roads, while the total mileage of unpaved state maintained secondary roads in North Carolina is 20,000. Secretary of Transportation Tom Bradshaw commented, “Again, we are glad to be able to put the highway bond funds to work for the citizens of Nor th Carolina. It was the citizens’ overwhelming sup port of the 1977 bond issue that made these funds a reality. “These additional bond fun ds for the secondary road system-our ‘home-to-work’ transportation network- together with our regular secondary construction and maintenance funds will allow us to make vitally needed im provements to the more than 59,000 miles which comprise the nation’s largest state- maintained secondary high way system,” he added. The $300 million highway bond act, approved in Novem ber 1977, directs that $75 million will be used to improve the state’s secondary road system, while $175 million is for improvements to the primary system and $50 million is for the state’s urban road system. The highway bond funds allocated for secondary roads will be used for improvemetns to the system such as new paving, widening existing paved roads, improving un paved roadways to an “all weather standard,” repairing and replacing substandard bridges and strengthening paved roads to relieve present weight restrictions. “In order to utilize the $10 million allocation most effec tively,” Bradshaw explained, “our board members and division engineers are in the process of reviewing secon dary roads in each county. As county-by-county im provement programs are compiled, they will be presen ted to each respective county board of commissioners. “Public meetings will be held in each county to give citizens an opportunity to ex press their views on secon dary road needs. The com missioners then will review and forward recommen dations to the Board of Tran sportation for implementation by state forces.” In February 1978 the tran sportation board approved an initial allocation of $30 million from the bond issue for secon dary road improvements. An additional $15 million in bond funds was approved in January 1979 for improvemen ts to the system. Yancey County received $207,314 in bond funds in 1978 and $103,685 in 1979. Total bond funds, including today’s allocation, amount to $380,901 for the county. Harlon Holcombe, 62, of Burnsville died Tuesday mor ning in an Asheville hospital after a brief illness. He was a son of the late Fred H. and Kimmie Davis Holcombe. A native of Madison County, he had resided in Burnsville sin ce 1939 and was president of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home, Inc. He was a World War II Ar my Veteran , represented Yancey County in the General Assembly during the 1957,1959 and 1961 sessions, was Past Master of Bald Creek Masonic Lodge No. 397 AF & AM, was a Charter Member and Past Master of Burnsville Lodge No. 717 AP & AM, and was a York Rite Mason. Mr. Holcombe was the first president of the Yancey Coun ty Chamber of commerce, former member of the Bur nsville Town Board, former chairman of the Yancey Coun ty Democratic Party, was a member of Yancey County Democratic Executive Com mittee and a member of the library board. Surviving are the wife, Alma Robinson Holcombe’; two daughters, Jaan Warren of Kemersville and Patti Dun can of Burnsville; three sisters, Irene Holcombe and Margaret Rymer of Mars HiU and Hazel Greene of Boone; two brothers, Herschel Holcombe of Burnsville and Elsberry Holcombe of Raleigh; two grandchildren. Actress To Give Dramatic Program The Toe River Arts Council has invited actress Cheryl Earp to give a dramatic presentation for the public on Saturday, February 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the Grassy Creek Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall in Spruce Pine. She will be accompanied by Preston Tinsley who is the program media specialist at Tuscola High School. Ms. Earp is currently Visiting Ar- CHERYLEARP tist at Haywood Technical In stitute in Clyde and as such does exchange programs with other communities. There will be no charge for this Ground Hog’s Day event in which Earp and Tinsley will perform Jules Feiffer’s “Boy, Girl; Boy, Girl” plus some shorter pieces. They will also involve the audience in role playing. Cheryl Earp, dramatist, is a native North Carolinian. She received both her un dergraduate and her master of arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also studied toeatre at the Univer sity of London in England. Ms. Earp has been active in, all phases of theatre including acting, directing, and technical production. She was previously at Halifax Com munity College in Weldon, N.C. While there she directed, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” “The Glass Menagerie,” “Boy, Girl; Boy, Girl,” “Bell, Book and Can dle,” “Grimms’ Tales,” “My Three Angels,” and “Mary, Mary.” Ms. Earp perform^ in a number of these plays, and she designed sets for a number of others including ‘ ‘Star-Spangled Girl. ’ ’ Her acting experience began in high school.and con tinued through college and| professional theatre. While in college, Ms. Earp directed and produced “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Maids.” She performed in “As You Like It,” “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,” “The Lady’s Not for Burning,” “A Time to Die,” “Threepenny Opera,” and others. , She has been associated with numerous theatrical organizations including “Unto These Hills,” The Carolina Playmakers, UNC Readers Theatre, The Roanoke Valley Players, and organized the Milltown Players for Halifax Community College. She is also experienced in costume, lighting, set design, make-up, and various areas of speech including oral inter pretation and Readers Theatre. Area Counties Raise Funds; Solar Building Gets Go-Ahead HARLON HOLCOMBE Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Burnsville First Presbyterian Church of which he was a member and elder. Revs. Scott Howard and Richard Muri will officiate and burial will be in the Holcombe Cemetery with Masonic rites conducted by Burnsville Lodge. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Wed nesday at Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home where the body will remain until taken to the church to lie in state 30 minutes prior to the service. The family suggests that memorials be made to the First Presbyterian Church or the Heart Fund. BY ELIZABETH HUNTER The approximately $50,000 in local funds to cover cost overruns on Mayland Technical College’s 12,500 square foot solar-heated vocational building has been raised and letters of commitment have been sent to low bidders for the general, mechanical, plum bing and electrical contract, ac cording to MTC Board of Trustee chairman Bill Wilkins. Wilkins told the Mitchell Jour nal Friday that Avery county had informed the board that it had voted to appropriate its share of the local money Thursday in a special called session of the Avery County commissioners. Yancey and Mitchell commissioners had already voted to appropriate ap proximately $17,000 each to cover cost overruns discovered when bids on the building were opened in December. “The Board of Trustees is very pleased that the three counties saw the need to appropriate the additional money so the solar building be constructed,”, Wilkins said. “We have advised the contractors that the trustees passed a resolution Thursday night to award the contracts to the low bidders.” The contracts will actually be awarded when the paperwork from the state and from the Appalachian Regional Commission for their share of the approximately $200,000 in ad ditional monies for the project is completed. Prior to last month’s bid opening, the school had ap proximately $580,000 from the Appalachian Regional Com mission ($413,000), the state ($84,000), and Mitchell, Avery and Yancey counties ($84,000 total for the three) to spend on construc tion of the model building, which is to be built on the school’s cam pus across from the existing building. However, low bids plus architects’ fees brought the cost of the building to about $780,000-- $200,000 more than the school had on hand for the project. •After the bid opening, the school received a verbal commitment from ARC for $100,000 more and from the state for an additional $50,000 provided $50,000 could be raised locally. Last week, the three counties each agreed to pay about $17,000 to cover the local share. Wilkins said Friday that he hopes that groundbreaking on the project will occur no later than April 15, and that the entire building can be completed in about four months, though the contractors have 360 calendar days in which to construct the building. The structure will be the largest public solar heated building in the state (it will have a backup electrical heating system as well). Low bidders for the project were: general contract, Wilkie Construction Co., Lenior, $364,391; plumbing, Winkler Plumbing and Heating, Boone, $33,400; mechanical, Price Piping Co., Asheville; and electrical, Kenilworthy Electric Company, nk:kor\% $71,219. / March Of Dimes Mothers March Set Sunday, Jan. 27 Mother's March Sunday will be January 27, 1980. Not only will marchers be collecting for the March of Dimes, but they will also be passing out survey forms, “Children having children...everyone’s prob lem.” According to March of Dimes spokesmen, adolescent pregnancy is a major cause of birth defects, jeopardizing the healthy, lifelong potential of these babies. Premature motherhood can put the teenager’s own health at risk. School drop-outs, inability to care for these babies, lack of job skills, financial dependan- ce on families or society^ emotional turmoil, all become community responsibilities in one way or another, reports the March of Dimes surveys. According to statistics, one- million teenage girls will get pregnant this year and 225 thousand babies will be born to girls under the age of 18. This is a problem which without attention will only grow worse. When the survey is left with you, please fill it out and mail it in to the ad dress given. The results from this survey will be very useful in determining what the needs of each community are. The March of Dimes remin ds you that one out of every twelve babies are born less than perfect. So when a mother comes to your door, please give generously-every child has the right to be born perfect. ‘Yes’ Vote Urged In Beeferendum John Sledge, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, has urged beef cattle producers and dairymen to register between January 28 and February 6 in order to be eligible to vote February 19-22 on a proposed nationwide beef research and information program. Producers may register and vote at local ASCS offices. Registration and voting can be completed by mail if infor mation and ballots are requested in advance. According to Sledge, the referendum is a cattle in dustry effort to win approval Men’s Club Meeting Set Johnny McLain, head of the Toecane Forest Service station in Burnsville will be guest speaker at the regular monthly dinner meeting of the Burnsville Men’s Club on Monday, Jan. 28, at the com munity building. Time is 6:30 p.m. All members are urged to attend. Call friends who have been inactive and bring prospective members as guests. Important matters of business are on the agenda. The ladies of the Newdale Methodist Church will serve the dinner. of a uniform collection plan for beef research, consumer information, promotion and foreign market development. The Beef Research and In formation program will be established if a majority of cattlemen vote “yes” in the referendum. Youth League Night Set At East Yancey Thursday night will be Youth League Night at East Yancey gym. All Little League Basketball players will be admitted free to see the game between East Yancey and the Avery Panthers. The girls game starts at 6 p.m., followed by the boys game at 8 p.m. All Little League players planning to attend Thursday should get free tickets from their coach. MICKEY Antalek and his motorcycling chimps add to the In Civic Center merriment in this years Ringiing Bros. Circus, coming in February Circus Coming Soon Mail orders are now being accepted for the forthcoming engagement of the spec tacular new 109th Edition of Ringiing Bros, and Bamum & Bailey Circus which opens at the Aaheville Civic Center on Friday, February 22, for 7 ex citing performances through Sunday, February 24th. Tickets to the Greatest Show on Earth go on sale Monday, January 21,1980. This sensational new Edition of “America’s Living Tradition” presents the un precedented Gunther Gebel- Williams commanding tigers, leopards, panthers, pachyderms and horses; gorgeous Dolly Jacobs, America’s aerial sweetheart, on the Roman Rings; 15-year- old Gino Farfan’s “first time ever” ZVz somersault on the flying trapeze; the rebounding skills of three troupes of top flight trampoline artists-The Astorellis, the Canestrellis, and Los Huracanos-maklng their debuts with The Greatest Show on Earth; the trapeze artistry of the Flying Farfans and the Flying Segreras; marvelous monkeyshines from the Rudi Lenz Chimps and Mickey Antalek’s Chim panzees; Naghtin’s Bear Sen sations and a galaxy of other international Circus favorites. Mail orders should specify the desired performance, and include a check or money or der payable to “Ringiing Bros. Circus” to cover the price of tickets. A self- addressed stamped envelope must accompany all orders. Ticket prices are $5.00, $6.50, and $7.00. Performance times are: Friday, February 22 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, February 23, at 11 a.m., 3 p.m., and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, February 24, at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Children under 12 save $1.00 at the two eleven a.m. performances. The mail order address is as follows: Ringing Bros. Bar- num & Bailey Circus, Asheville Civic Center, P.O. Box 2194, Asheville, N.C
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