This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history.
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Forty-seven years ago this week, West McDowell Junior High’s float was the prize-winning float in the homecoming parade. The float features Disney characters and the junior high band. The students and the parents handmade the costumes for the float and all character heads were fashioned out of paper mache with assistance from the school’s art department.
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During the week of Oct. 20, 1979, First Lady Rosalynn Carter was the guest of honor at a fundraising dinner in Asheville for her husband, President Jimmy Carter’s reelection campaign. Several residents from McDowell County attended this dinner, which raised $54,000 for the Carter-Mondale campaign, and The McDowell News got this photo of the first lady of the United States talking to a supporter. Those attending from McDowell were Mr. and Mrs. John Gilkey, Mr. and Mrs. Everette Carnes and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hunter and McDowell News photographer Eric Miller. The dinner was held at the Deer Park Restaurant on the Biltmore Estate.
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Members of the newly formed McDowell Housing Corp. board of directors posed for this photo. In the photo are (front row, from left) Chairman Allen McKinney, Secretary and Treasurer Tilly Twitty and Guy Hensley and (back row, from left) Bill Ledbetter, Brady Brooks and Howard McCurry. The board was trying to raise $10,000 to start a housing project for the elderly and disabled in McDowell. This eventually became Blue Ridge Terrace Apartments.
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National School Lunch Week and School Lunch Week in North Carolina were observed. As part of the local observance, 80 local employees in School Food Service prepared special meals, and parents were invited to attend the school of their choice for lunch. In this photo, Ola Mae Burnette, lunchroom manager at West McDowell Junior High, is shown as approximately 820 students file into the cafeteria for their midday meals.
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Gene Hollifield is shown with an eight-point deer that he shot in the Woodlawn area of McDowell. He used a .45-caliber muzzleloader handmade by Marion’s Wayne Westall to bag the deer.
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The officers of the West McDowell Junior High School Career Club were announced. They were (from left) President Selena Avery, Vice President Tammy Hogge, Secretary and Treasurer Angela Ferrel and Reporter Charles Durham. The club, part of the eighth-grade career class, was sponsored by teachers Paul Schooley and Carolyn Forbes.
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Roger “Hammer” Hensley, a senior member of the McDowell High football team, was selected by the Titan coaching staff as the Athlete of the Week in The McDowell News. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Hensley of Marion.
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Residents of Marion had mixed feelings about the proposed U.S. 221 bypass. A meeting and public hearing about the ambitious project was held by the N.C. Department of Transportation at East McDowell Junior High. These DOT officials studied the maps and answered questions from interested residents about the planned bypass.
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This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history.
This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history.
This feature mines the McDowell News archives for what was going on this week in local history.
