•HSIISHSWSneWSMSIISHSMSIWHfHSIISttSMSMSHSIISHSItSIISHtIISM I For local newa detaik | Read the Yancey Rec ord Every Week. ••ia»iaMa»iait«ii«ii«M«ii«'‘aiiaii»iianaiiaiNiiia<«iiiaMamnMiiiaaaM> VOLUME FOUR RIA. PROGRAM PLANNED FOR THE COUNTY Electricity Can Be Made Available For Farm Homes '* ' . ■■■ :v - :’~r ■ ... ... , ■ • - ' -1», 1 A meeting was held Fri day morning in the court house to discuss the -pro posed REA (Rriral Elec trification Administration) program for Yancey Coun ty. By this plan the advan tages of electricity may be made available for the ru ral homes* of the county at a cost that almost anyone can afford. In addition to the group iof interested farm men and women present for the meeting, representaties of the REA and others at tended. J. J. Ausen of Washington, field repre sentative for the coopera tive relations division of the REA and Kelly Rusk, representative of the pro ject engineers, discussed the proposed plan, and ex plained many points about it. " ' Others attending the meeting Friday included Philip Elam, Madison coun ty farm agent,. H. Guy Roberts and M. L. Buckner of Marshall, R. H. Crouse, county farm agent v fcacf Miss Maria Alley, home de monstration agent. The project has already been inaugurated in, Madi tion for building 105 miles of line has already been made, and a cooperative organization formed. 7 For Yancey county, a “B” ap plication in the same pro ject would be made so that plans may be worked out in shorter time. Committees have been appointed to contact the people in each township that the proposed line would serve, and to sign up members for the project. In order that the farmers may have a better under standing of the proposed plan, a brief review is giv en here. The Rural Electrifica tion Administration Was first set up in 1936 under an. excutive order of the president and at the next regular meeting of Con gress was made a perman ent governmental agency with an appropriation each year to finance the build ing of self liquidating power distributing lines in rural communities where electricity is not available. After the preliminary work is done and the pro ject submitted and approv ed, plans and specifica tions are drawn up and the contract let for the conj struction of lines. * The membership fee in the company is $5.00, and the members must give the right of way on their farms for the construction of the power lines, and must agref to use electric current and to pay indivi dual monthly electric bills. One poipt which Mr. Aussen emphasized is this: The government, through the REA, loans all money for the construction of the electric fines and the mem ,, - ■ THE YANCEY RECORD SUB. RATES: SI.OO YEAR. THIRTY-TWO BOYS EN ROLL IN CCC CAMP Thirty-two boys from Yancey county left last week for enrollment in the Civ i 1 i,a n Conservation Corps Camp. They were the following: John Isaac Wyatt, Tom Wilson, Gus Thomas Wil son, Charles Webb, Jack Tipton, Clyde Cecil Tipton, Jack Tate, Stanley Charles Peake, Dock Raymond Me- Curry, Johnnie Street, Harold Robinson, Sam Mc- Curry, Earl Mitchell, Lee Jarrett, Mark Hughes, Fil more Hughes, Roy John Howell, Kenneth Honey cutt, Edd Hensley, James Garland, Clarence Deyton, Frank Harold Cooper, Hapr o 1 d Milton Banks, Frank Black, Phil Adkins, Homer Howard Robinson, Hugh Eugene Hopson, Lee Byrd, William Lee Bart lette, Paul Banks. Colored: Adam Horton, Ralph Rol and. Meeting Is Held At Holland Memorial Church A general rally of all co unty churches of the Fren ch Broad Presbytery was held recently at the Holl and Memorial church, Hig gins. Rev. Stephen Bara bas conducted the worship, after which group confer ences Were held. Miss Isabel Miller of Hot Springs, president of the ... I*4 *Y+fyyi ■ . h 4\ /l 4- *} >«. a ; *g?nd*■ “ ■ ■r’mwjgFjr'vvJ.i' al, addressed the women's group; Mr. Robert Muir of Asheville Farm School ad dressed the men, and Rev. Persons of Carmen led the young people’s discussion. There was a very good attendance from most of the churches invited to at tend. REV. W. L. PATTON TO PREACH HERE SUNDAY Rev, W. L. Patton of Jefferson City, Tenn. will preach at the Burnsville Baptist at the Sun day morning service, July 14. Services begin at 11:00 o’clock. bers are not liable in any way for the indebtedness. As a further aid, loans are available for the wir ing, etc. and the board of directors ckn.make use of self help. This provides for the men to work on all un skilled labor jobs, such as clearing right of way, dig ging holes and, setting poles, etc. The money earn ed may be applied on mem bership fees, to wire homes or to buy appliances. In timber areas where proper poles can be cut the farm ers may also furnish poles. She plan for the set up is a strictly cooperative, profit organization. The membership fee is comparable to a share of stock; each member has one vote in the election of the directors who in turn run, operate and manage the Corporation. The REA. is pot a new thing but has been in, ope ration since 1936, and is serving many rural com munities in other states, and in a number of coun ties in North Carolina. o' ' “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C; THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1940 _ -ifiiW.... N. C. BANKS MAKE 300*000 LOANS IN 1939 Chapel Hill, N. C.; July 11.—Twenty-seven per cent of .North Carolina’s com mercial banks made more than 300,000 loans totaling over $416,000,000 to busi ness firms and individuals throughout the Tarheel State during the year 1939, it was announced by Rob i ert M. Hanes, president of the American Bankers As sociation and president of the Wachovia Bank and i Trust Company, at the N. • C. Bankers Conference at i the University, of North Carolina here tonight. ; Mr. Hanes gave the re -1 suits of a survey of bank • lending activity in North > Carolina made by the Am -1 erican Bankers Associa • tion. He stated that: - ' ‘The survey, which was participated in by 54 banks or 27 per cent of the 196 commercial banks of North Carolina showed a defini te expansion of bank credit in the field of new loans. The number of new loans made between July 31 and December 31 ~ was 2,982 1 greater or 4 per cent great er, and the dollar volume of new loans made during ' this period was $27,104,175 or 50 per cent greater than reported by an equivalent number of banks for the previous six months. “The 54 banks reported macnr. 14T,Z12 new loans : totaling $134,647,925; 177,- 160 renewals of loans total ing 274,331,218 ; 4,984 mort gage loans totaling 7,762,- 044, totaling 323,356 loans amounting to $416,741,187. “The survey also reveals that business firms in the state are using only about one-half of the ‘open lines of credit’ maintained for their usdT on the books of the banks,” he said. “Fif teen banks in larger cen ters of the state reported that they carried on their books during the second half of the year $5,690,800 in ‘open lines of credit’ consisting of specific amounts of credit offered tp and kept available for established borrower for use as needed Tby them. Os this amount $2,'710,274 or 47.6 per cent was actually used. “The average number of new loans per bank was 2,615 and the average new loan was $954. “The average number of renewals per bank was 3, 281 and the average renew al was for $1,548. “The average number of mortgage loans per bank was 92 and the average mortgage was for $1,557. “The North Carolina survey was' pa*t of a na tional survey of bank lend ing activity made by the American Bankers Associ ation. “For the country as a whole 6,333 or 44 per cent of the commercial banks reported ' that they made 24,998*000 credit exten sions totaling $39,810,810,- 000 during the year. These consisted of the following: 12,680,000 new loans total ing $23,120,000,000; 12,033, (Continued on page four) COURT WILL CON VENE ON MUST 5 Judge Bobbift Will Preside A two i»eks term of Superior Qwrt will con vene in Buiwville on Mon day,, August|s. Both crim inal and civ|l cases will be heard. JudgifWm. H. Bob bitt of ChaJlotte will pre side: || Juriors (Sawn for the ‘ term are: 1 First weei: O. E. Allen, A. E. Wilson, Mack Hort on, Haskett pensley, Arth t ur Ledfordt Charles Ed wards, R. t>. Dale, Fonz . Hughes, Hegbert Higgins, : O. S. William W. W. Pen i land, J. Edgjtr Banner, Ed . Gurley, W.gD. Adkins, J. . O. Roland, Jl. B. Higgins, I. T. Wilsoiii Sam Adkins, , David Harrfll, T. G. Dell , inger, W»H&rd Buckner, ; Henry G. |Roland, Rich mond Wilso®, Cannon Ed . wards, Waßer H. Jones, Max Silver, Claude Honey cutt, Isaac TiFox, Bis Ran ; dolph, M. D. Cox, W. C. [ Byrd, K. MJ Hensley, Iss i Wyatt, R. A, .Peake, Ern ; est R. Wilson, W. S. Wea therman, L. jC. Thomas, C. .W. Sparks,* R. C. Angel, ; Jim Byrd, Clate Adkins, Dallas Penlind. Second wile; H. G. Bai ley,'W. T. McMahan, J. M. England, James Higgins, Glen Evans, John M. Banks, jj. R "Young. L, P, Uzf»»illigftes. Geo. W. Robinson, Bill Blevins, Irkshire Miller, Talmage Price, W. E. Hughes, Car mon Silver, Carl Silver, Hugh E. Styles, G. C. Ang lin, Jake F. Buckner, John E. Fox, W. F. Howard, Ce cil Deyton, D. E. Styles, Lloyd Fortner. COUNTY AGENT’S FARM NOTES (By R. H. Crpuse, Agent) Rural Electrification Plans The meetings scheduled below are to be held to dis cuss the project and ways and means to Secure elec tricity for rural homes where service is not now available. All who are ift» terested are urged to at tend these meeting and as sist in any way possible. A county organization has al ready been formed with Frank W. Howell as Coor dinator and approximately fifty committeemen in the various communities nam ed to assist in making a survey. Information in re gard to proposed lines in the county and the general plan may be secured at the county agent’s office. Schedule of Meetings Friday, July 12th at Zion church, 4:30 p. m. Friday July 12th at Bee Branch school at 7:30 p. m. Friday July 12th at 0. K. Master’s store at 6:00 p. m. Monday July 15th at W. 0. Briggs store at 6:00 p. m. Monday July 15th at Shelby Hensley's store at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday July 16th at Mrs. Mac Mclntosh's Home at 6:00 p. m. Tuesday July 16th at V. (Continued on page four) REVIVAL MEETING AT BALD CREEK A revival meeting began at the Bald Creek Metho dist Church on last Sunday evening. Rev. H. H. Cash of Micaville, former con ference evangelist, is prea ching, asssi&ted by the past or, Rev. JX Snow; t A Daily Vacation Bible School is being held in con nection with the revival. LARGE CROWDS AT TEND AT MICAVILLE The attendance at the union services at Micaville, conducted by Rev. Dan Graham and party, has in creased during the pro gress of the meeting and large crowds come each time to hear the messages arid to take part in the ser vices. Continued interest is being shown by people of this community and from other counties. ; X ' " np ■ Quarterly Conference The third Quart er 1 y Conference of the Method ist churches will be held at the Bolens Creek church on next Sunday evening, July 14 at 8:00 o’clock. All members of the churches are urged to attend. FARMERS PICNIC Between five and six hja&citiNii persons enjoyec the first Farmers Federa tion Yancey County picnic at Burnsville high school Saturday. James G. K. McClue, pre sident of the Federation, R. H. Crouse, Yancey Co unty agent, Allen Coggins of Swannanoa, and the Rev. Dumont Clarke, director of the Lord’s Acre work, de livered short speeches. The morning program be gan with string music and solo and duet singing. Fred Chandler of White Rock, Verril Briggs of Bald Creek, Mrs. Elizabeth Ang lin of Jacks Creek, Eugene Johnson and Ralph Gard iner of Burnsville, the Hon eycutt brothers, and Clift on Wheeler of Burnsville were among those who per formed. The duet combin ation of Verrill Briggs and Mrs. Elizabeth Anglin was received with particular enthusiam. Ivy Gap’s choir, led by Alburn Crowder, won the singing competition the right to enter the finals at the district picnic which will be held at the Swann anoa Mountain Experiment Station in August. A quar tet from Ivy Gap, composed of Alburn Crowder, Conn Crowder, Gaza Crowder Revis and accom panied byElizabeth Hen sley, was also chosen first by the judges. Verrill Briggs, * James Miller, Arnold Styles and Grady Shepherd won the men’s tug-of-war contest. Brothers Arthur and Ralph Robinson of Buckner were first in the men's relay race while Bernard Allen and , Royce Horton of Burns ville captured the junior relay. The junior tug-of war ended with a complete (Coatinuid on p**« four) LEGION TEAM DROPS 2 GAMES; WILL PLAY SATURDAY The Burnsville Junior Legion base ball team was defeated by the Unicoi, Tenn. CCC team on July 4 by the score of 6 to 5. This was one of the most inter esting games played on the local, field this year; ahd displayed fine team work by both teams. The local team, was also defeated by th# v Marion CCC team on Saturday, July 6 at Mari on. Game Here Saturday On Saturday, July 13th the Legion team will meet the Roan Mountain Colle giates on the Burnsville ground at 3:30 p. m. This will be the best team the Legiorr team has played this year, and promises to be a real ball game. R. A. Charles is coach and manager of the local team. ZZ7I NOT ICE The chairman of all com mittees for the Red Cross War Relief Fund drive are asked to send in their re ports as soon as possible. The quota for the county has been reached, and a complete report will be made as soon as all town ships are heard from. NOTICE Commissioners will meet 1 on Thursday, August 1 in stead of Monday, August 5 as the August term of court convenes on August sth. Charles L. Brown, Chairman, Board of Coun ty Commissioners. Missionary Society Organ ized at Swiss The Ladies of the Mount Pleasant Baptist* church met Thursday, July 4 and organized a Missionary So ciety. Officers were elected as follows: President, Mrs. J. S. Hill; vice president, Mrs. H. L. Shepherd; Recording ' secretary, Mrs. Monroe Mclntosh;, treasurer, Mrs. A. C. Angel; mission study committee, Mrs. B. M. Tdmberlin; personal servi ce committee, Mrs. Oscar ; Ferguson. We were glad to have Mrs. W. Z. Robertson of Burnsville and our pastor and wi|e, Mr. and Mrs. Bascombe Hensley with us. ] The next meeting will be < held at the church Satur- ] day August 3. All members 1 are urged to be present, 1 Celebrates Birthday Mrs. A. J. Banks celebra- i ted her seventy second bir- ' thday on Sunday, July 7th with her children and i grand children. i Mr. and Mrs. Cread Mc- Intosh of Indio, Cal., Mrs. J. C. Brown of Maine, Mrs. Gustie Brackens, and dau ghter and B. H. Chandler of Black Mountain were the guests of Gudger Mc- Intosh and family Satur day. " Base ball Saturday, 3:00 o’clock. , * y huni t * newsDaner carrier all i local new*. 1 *——— imuin.i,ii.inn,n,ii„i t n,|,ff NUMBER FORTY-NINE LAST RITES FOR DELBERTjnVOMAS Delbert Thomas, 43, died at his home near „ Micaville at 5 o’clock Tuesday morn ing following a long ill ness. Furieral services were held at the Micaville Pres byterian church on Wed nesday morning at 10:00 o’clock with Rev. Euranous Hall and Rev. Dan Graham officiating. Burial was in the Micav|lle cemetery. Pall bearers for the ser vices were Mills Hall, Her bert Hilliard, Troy Hilli ard, Bob Hilliard, Lawren ce Hilliard, Jack Thomas. Those in charge of the flo wers were Misses Betty Hall, Joyce Hilliard, Ruby Young, Mary Nell Y