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Buy Mort Hr Frttdom't Snkt War Bonds VOLUME EIGHT Men In Service San Diego, Calif., Aug. 28.—James B. Stamey, U. S. Marine of Burnsville, North Carolina, has grad uated from the Field Tele phone School at the Marine Corps Base here. Pvt. Stamey is now ready for assignment to a combat unit as a telephone man, or to advanced training in communications. C. D. Gibbs, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Gibbs of Celo is' now in Australia. He entered service in July, 1942 and has been overseas for the past three months. Pfc, Lester Holcombe is now with the American forces '‘Somwhere in Sic ily”, acording to a letter to relatives here. Pfc. Edward E. Harris I of the U. S. Marine Corps was honored with a birth day dinner at the home of; his mother, Mrs. Grace Harris of Micaville, Wed nesday, August 25. He had as a special guest Cpl. Tho mas Shephard, also of the U. S. Marine Corps. Both Harris and Shephard are now stationed in Quantico, Va. They served for 27 months in the Virgin Is lands and returned to the r states June 1. Pvt. Paul J. Holcombe is now at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. _ Howard seaman first class, is stationed in South Brooklyn, N. Y. Lloyd Phillips is now tra ning at the station, Bainbridge, Md. Sgt. Carl E. Tipton is stationed at the army air base, Pocatello, Idaho. Damon Fender has re turned to camp after spen ding 8 days with his parents here. He is attached to the Hospital Corps in the U. S. Navy. Sgt. Frank B. Briggs, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Briggs, is now stationed in T^xas. The promotion of Arthur A. Patton, Jr., of Celo, N. C., from the grade of Tech nical Sergeant to Master Sergeant was announced recently “somewhere i n England” b y Brigadier General Frederick L. An derson, Commanding Gen eral of the Eight Air Force Bomber Command. Cpl Seth S. Peterson of Fort Dix, N. J. has been visiting his wife and par ents at Day Book. Yancey Record: Just a few lines to let you. know I have been receiving the paper since my address was changed. I enjoy it very much, especially this summer because my has had foreign duty. The paper brought a lot of news which you do not get in letters. Tell all my friends hello Ralph Bailey S l.c (Continued on Back Page) THE YANCEY RECORD •f ' * “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” SUB. RATES: SI.OO YEAR. CAPTAIN RAY M. HimARD ON LEAVE Hilliard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee M. Hilliard of Micaville, is at home on leave after twenty months in the Pa cific area. He is a fighter plane pilot in the army air corps. - Captain Hilliard 1 holds both the army air medal and the distinguished fly ing MEN LEAVE FOR CAMP * The following men left, Wednesday, September 1 for Camp Croft, S. C. whe re they will take military examinations. Those who | pass will be inducted into j soma branch of the mili ! tary service. Pershing Angel, J. B. King, Ralph Tipton, Eugene .Patton (vol, Aleck Ed Jar rett, R. G. Fender; Merritt Banks, Charles Tipton, Ralph Wm. Hugh es, Bill Bailey, Talmadge Hensley i vol); Guy Honeycutt, Jess Honeycutt, Warren Dewey Laws, Caslee Thomas, Ral ph Eugene Parker; Phillip Hughes, Deck Webb, Arthur Ledford, Roy Garrett Buckner, Per ry Parker, Cecil Mclntosh, Earl McNeill; Jennings Beeler, Clarence Morrow, Ramon Robinson,! Emery Lee Shepherd, Oval Tomberlin, Cedric Hunter, Brooks Holcombe. A. C. Angel, Jr. is now stationed at the Naval tra-j ining station, Bainbridge, Md. Earl Deyton who has been stationed at Sioux City, lowa is home on leave. Keesler Field, Miss., Sept. B—Pfc. Ottis C. Johnson, son of Mrs. Cordellia Sil vers, Rt. 1, Burnsville, was graduated today from the B-24 Liberator bomber me chanics school here and is now ready for active line! duty. Pvt Johnson, however,! may be sent to a factory school for further special ized trailing or to one of the Army Air Forces Tra ining Command’s flexible gunnery schools to become an aerial gunner. | BONDS OVSft AMERICA * * * | , j— — T „_ . v * ( }’ V % sine* isos Ameri- Entrance—Union Stockyards. Chicago can atockraiaera 1 maintaining an ?n --1 9 —the fannera are pn> ducing too, but their product goea to Nazi < ■■ • Germany to feed the Keep *u ld . i I * r * .u ho *s* 1 Ouv Traditions ~ \ ? r iMm who o*. Buy More War BondsSSmnyJ" formof 1 1 — ” Ij i ■, BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1943 NAVY RECRUITER 1 ] A recruiter for the U. S. Navy will be at the court house tn ■ Burnsville from i 12:00 noon until 5 p. m. oh 1 Monday, Sept. 6. ] COUNTY QUOTA IN 3rd WAR LOAN DRIVE IS $69,000 Yancey county’s quota in i the third War Loan Drive * has been set at $.69,000, ac cording to figures released this week. The quota in the second Loan drive in April was $40,000, and this .amount was oversubscribed by ap 1 proximateiy $5,000. *•, NOTICE ■ Due to ihe fact that the < First. Monday, Sept. 6th is Labor Day, the County Commissioners will meet .< in regular session on i Tuesday, Sept. 7th. :— i NOTICE " The Northwestern Bankj will be closed on Monday, j September 6, Labor Day. ! - • 1 RATION BOARD NEWS ■] ] Old type B & C Coupons i and 100 gallon bulk coupons j must be exchanged for new ; type by Sept. 1. i If any one has B or C I coupons on hdnd these may i be turned in for new cou- 1 pons of equal value. < ! ' IN. C. NAMED NAVAL SHIP TO BE LAUNCHED Charleston, S. C., Sept. 1 —A knife-bowed destroyer I escort, to be named for a North Carolina Naval hero, Lt. William Perry Kephart, a Naval flier, whose par- 1 ents live at Blowing Rock, N. C., will be launched Mon day, Sept. 6, in the -first Labor Day event of its kind in the history of he Char leston Navy Yard. The USS Kephart is one of two new destroyer es corts to be launched the 1 same day. The other is the USS Cofer, name for sea- ! i man first class John Joseph j Cofer, of Louisville, Ga., ! who was killed in action a- 1 board the USS Aaron Ward 1 and posthumously awarded 1 the Silver Star Medal “for 1 extremely gallant and int repid conduct.” There wil be no launch- 1 ling ceremonies. ■, - f HUNTING REGU LATIONS § -t? — "2 ' In discussing the approa ching hunting season, Game Warden J. Craig English said this, week that here has been widespread misunderstanding concern ing regulations this year. The state game laws are very nearly the same as last year except for minor changes in the seasons and variation in dates. The schedule now is: Squirrel: Oct. 1-Dec. 15. Bear, coon, possum: Oct. 15-Jan. 1. . Grouse, quail, rabbit: Thanksgiving Day-Feb. 1. Deer: Nov. 1-Ndv. 30. Licenses are now on sale at the principal, stores in each community in the county. t i Although state laws will permit hunting with the changes mentioned above, the greatest difficulty will be in obtaining ammuni tion. THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE _ J ;•) Gov. J. Melville Brough- ( Jton will officially launch North Carolina’s third war loan drive for $145,000,000 in war bonds and other government "securities with j an address over the state’s , radio networks Wednesday, from 7:30 p.|, m. to 7 :4h p. m., according to an announcement yester day from -Clarence T. Lain bach, .Winston-Salem, chair man of the North Carolina war finance committee. Former Resident Passes Away » —•- ——————— w Passes Away. Aug. 20 R. H. Blankenship pass ed away at 9 o’clpck Friday morning, August 20, as the Mark Swan home in Mora, Minn, following a long ill-; ness. Mr. Blankenship suf-, sered a stroke in May, 1942 1 from which he had never fully receovered. He was 78 years and 8 months of age. Robert Henry Blanken ship was born in Yancey county, North Carolina, December 22, 1864, where he spent his boyhood, com ing to Pine county, Minn., in 1887. He was married to Anne Estelle Hay at Pine City in September, 1897, to which union three children were born: Ros well R. (Ross), Clifford James, and Howard, who survive their father. Mrs. Blankenship died August 17, 1905. He is also surviv ed by a sister, Mrs. Lillie Proffitt of Burnsville, N. C., and nine grandchildren. After completing his ed ucation Mr. Blankenship taught in Pine county scho ols for a number 1 of years. He was elected county sup erintendent of schools of Pine county in 1894, serv ing in that capacity until 1910, and was again elected superintendent in 1912, re tiring from office in 1918. He also published the Sand-r stone Tribune from 1912 until it was discontinued in 1915. Following his retirement as a oounty official he far- “VICTORY WINDOW’’ Bruce West&ll is plan ning for a display of pic tures of the men in the fighting forces in the win dows of the Young and Westall store. The display will be arranged by Sep tember 13 and will remain during the rest of the month. Mr. Westall asks the co operation of families and friends of service men in sending or bringing in pic tures so that they may be on hand by Sept. 11. Re gular photographs in fram es. or folders are preferred as these will show up ]bet>- ter. Return of the photo graphs, personally o* oy mail, is guaranteed by Mr. Westall. ! Save All Fats With millions of pounds of waste kitchen fats still needed to meet war de mands, Paul C. Cabot, Dir ector of WPB Salvage Div- »—„ ~ In his address the eve of the nation-wide cam paign, the largest financial program in the history of the world, Governor Brou ghton will appeal to the citizens of North Carolina to support to she limits of their ability America’s drive for $16,000,000,000 to help finance the war. Governor Broughton is honorary chairman of the executive board of the state war finance commit tee. V \ . med several years near Hinckley, taught school there and at Sturgeon Lake where he also conducted a I resort. He came to Kana | bee county in 1929, where I he taught several terms in Hillman and Knife Lake schools. He opened a fish ing resort at Knife Lake in 1931, - which he conducted until his health failed last year. Since then he * had made his home with his son, Ross, at Mora. Funeral services were conducted at the Dresser chapel in Mora Monday af ternoon at 2:00 o'clock, Rev. Stanley A. Wick offi ciating. Following the ser vices here the remains were taken Birchwood ceme tery at Pine City and he was laid at rest beside his wife. Committal service at the grave was conducted by Rev. Wick. Out of town relatives at tending the funeral were Howard Blankenship of St. Paul; Mrs. E. L. Steph an of Hinckley, and Mrs. A. H. Stephan and son Junior of Harris. A son, Clifford J. Blankenship of Biloxi, Miss., who is in artAy ser vice, was awaiting orders in the south and unable to attend the funeral. A grandson, Robert J. Blank enship of Mora, also in army service, had left for training camp in Oregon last week and could not at tend. — (Kanabec County Times, Mora, Minnesota). j- \ Fire Control Tower On Phillips Knob Is Completed The Forest Fire control tower on Phillips Knob north of Burnsville was completed last week. The ! tower which is 65 feet high was given by the U. S. Forest service, and has been constructed and will be controlled by the state j forest service. The site was donated by Lester Bai- , ley and Clyde Bailey. The new look out will af ford an approximate cov erage of six counties, Av- 1 ery, Mitchell, Yancey, Mad ison, Buncombe and a smalß portion of Haywood. In addition, all the Tennessee line from Roan Mountain to Bald Mountain is within range* thus covering sever al thousand acres along the state line. The added forest fire protection which the new tower will give may be of invaluable benefit to this! section. It completes a triangle of lookouts within a radius of twenty miles, and will enable a cross Increased Pulpwood Production Is Urgently Needed i The campaign through out the 27 pulpwood pro ducing states to increase the supply of this critically needed material is bringing very encouraging results, according to reports from national headquarters. The present campaign was planned to bring to the attention of the nation the increasing demand for wo od, the thousands of ways in which it is necessary to the war effort and the need for enlisting every person who can help to in crease production. Farmers who have only a few cords are urged to make an effort to cut this and get it to the mills. “A cord per man” is the slo gan in one section where there are no big bound aries but where nearly ev ery farm has some wood available. ' Mills Cooperate Paper mills throughout ■ the country are giving the , drive full support because ■ it is only by having an ade • quate supply of raw mat erials that these plants can . fill the ever increasing s orders. \ .In th i 8 section, the Champion Paper and Fibre i company of Canton is urg-|i ■ —l V'-.;,:,:;-. ■■—— ■ Labor Mobilization Board Raleigh, N.C., Septen*- ber I.—With the appoint ment yesterday of Dover R. Fouts, Burnsville, as chairman of the Labor Mo bilization Board for Yan cey County, Governor J. M.j Broughton served definite notice on local loafers that they must find gainful employment within the next few days or be charg ed guilty of a misdemeanor and subjfect to punishment by a prison sentence, a fine, or both a fine and a prison sentence. , • "' *"* - ... ißVtoton Cost: jM| MM Momy— | Payroll NUMBER FIVE E” ' " check which will give an accurate location of any fire which may break out, and will thus make possible much more effective pre vention and control work. The three other towers in this section are Mt. Mit chell, and two maintained by the U. S. forest service, Devil’s Nest on the Tennes see line and Green Knob on the Scenic highway. The tower will be man ned on an average of five months per year, depend jiftg of course, on the sea | sob and the severity of the fire threat. A cabin will be built within a short time. The road which in dry weatjher is good to within one quarter mile of the top has already been construc ted. Plans now are to wid en it and cover with crush ed stone all the way to'the top. ' The telephone line from ; the tower to connect with the telephone system here is expected to be completed in two weeks. ing full cooperation of all producers. Any of the foll owing woods are now urg ently needed, chestnut, cot : tonwood, maple, hemlock, , buckeye, gum, pine, poplar, i basswood, cucumber and willow. War Material Piflpwood is a vital war i material. The two largest • percentages of uses are 25 ; percent for containers (for i shipment of ammunition, > food, blood plasma, etc.) r and for wrapping paper. •In addition it is used in manufacturing s m okeless powder, hospital and sani i tary waddings, s anitary i toweling and tissues, print ing paper, etc. On May 15th Donald M. Nelson, chairman ,of the | War Production Board, | emphasized the seriousness of the rapidly decreasing production of pulpwood and struck the keynote to the solution of this prob lem when he said: “If every one of the 3,- 800,000 farmers in the 27 pulpwood producing, states were to devote three extra days in 1943 to cutting pulpwood we could over come the threatened 2,500,- jOOO-cord shortage with ex tra wood to spare.” Governor Broughton na med the following as mem bers of the Board to assist the chairman in putting all idlers of this county to work: Fletcher Phillips, (Spruce Pine; Clarence E. (Briggs, Burnsville; L. G. Deyton, Burnsville; Miss Hope Buck, Burnsville; John W. Holcombe, Prices Cfreek; Noah Whitson, Ramsey town; George Rob inson, Burnsville, Roy Bai ley, Bald Creek; and J. H. Ray, Burnsville. In announcing the ap* (Continued on pgg* fan) J
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