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.' ' «•- _ . c * . iv : \;A .A|! : I : 1.-. \\ ■•/' 1. \\' \ v v \i ;\ ' !™| THE YANCEY RECORD : |ip3| “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY* 1 \>\ V1- || ,; \t >!' 'W- VOLUME FOUR SUB. RATES: SI.OO YEAR. BURNSVILLE* N. C., APRIL 11, 1940. \ NUMBER THIRTY SIX POSTMASTER GENER AL VISITED POST OFFI CES IN COUNTY. Made Brief Speech in Burnsville Postmaster General James A. Farley visited Burns ville, and other post offices in Yancey County, on. Wed nesday morning. He was accompanied by the second assistant Postmaster Gen eral, Ambrose O’Connell; the fourth assistant Post master "general, Smith W. Purdum; Paul Younts, Postmaster of Charlotte and president .of the Nat ional Association of Post masters; Wythe M. Peyton* Asheville Postmaster; and a number of other officials and private citizens. Mr. Farley, Mr. O’Con nell, Mr. Purdum and Mr. Younts visited, the local post offices, and greeted the personnel there. Then the party proceeded to the Nu-Wray A Hotel. There Mayor J. Frank Huskins greeted them briefly, and G. L. Hensley, Burnsville postmaster, introduced Mr. Farley, Several hundred citizens and school children were assembled on the public square, and the post master general addressed therh briefly. He expressed his pleasure in being in the south, and in coming as a representative of one of thu greatest and im portant departments or the government. Mr. Farley then paid tri bute to the present admin istration, and mentioned some of the constructive programs that are now in force. He spoke also of Congressman Bulwinkle, dnd expressed pleasure in being in his home district.* Following the closing re marks in which h : e again thanked the group for as sembling to meet him, Mr. Farley shook hands and personally greeted all those present; £ m he party left Burnsville to make other stops along the route to Boone where Mr. Farley was to dedicate the new post office build, ing. G. L. Hensley, Burns ville postmaster, accompan ied the group to Boone. Mrs. Will Bennett is sick in a Johnson City, Tenn., hospital. MICKIE SAYS— C - -to sewovouTais papers, th' bos? /aust PAY BIOS fcV’RY YOU ' SHOULDN'T Ml MO IP HE m ASKS YOU TO PAY VUS BIU EV’RY YEAR / V. * ' *" J N.YA. PROGRAM IN THE COUNTY IS EN LARGED New Equipment and Larger Quarters Obtainedj_ New development and new progress in the Nation al Youth Administration’s program in Yancey county have been evident during the past few weeks. New equipment and better quar ters will be a continued aid in the fine work that is be ing done. ■ , The girls’ group moved last week into their home making shop on the second floor of the Peoples’ Bank building. The ample, space provided vvilF be divided into four rooms, a kitchen, dining room, work room and county, office. Thus the work can be carried on more efficiently and every phase of home making can be practiced by the girls. The kitchen is already partially equipped; a range and refrigerator will be ad ded soon. Here the group will learn to plan and pre pare a balanced meal, and will study difierent methods of cookery, 'and the latest developments along thjjs line. Once Miss Maria Alley, Rome de monstration agent, visits the shop, and part of her time is spent in the kitchen. The dining room training is invaluable, and under the direction of the capable leaders is very practical. The work room provides space for craft work, sew ing, crocheting, chair fini shing, etc. Chair making has been the largest and most valu able to the county of all the projects undertaken. The boys make the chairs and the girl 3 put in the seats of binders’ twine. Most of the chairs have been absorbed by the schools of the county as new equipment or as re placements for worn out equipment. <;r / f furniture for the home making shop was made by the , boys, and they also did the partitioning and refinishing work on the walls. The girls will make curtains, seat covers, rugs, etc. jUst as they would in their own homes, and they will have expert super vision m the work. In addition ,to the pro gram of varied -activities, the girls devote some time each day after work hours to different phases of re lated training. A first aid course has already been begun r and classes in other related subjects will be taught from time to time. The boys’ wood work shop is one of the finest in the state. It is now located in the brick structure origin ally built for the manual arts shop of Stanley-Mc- Cormick school. The build ing is approximately 40x70 feet and is all in one room. Windows on all sides give fine lighting, and half the floor is concrete thus giving a good base for the machinery and equipment. W. L. Blevins is supervis or of the boys’/workrand it |is due principally to his knowledge of the work, and (Turn to page three) - PROGRAM WILL BE PRESENTED AT THE PENSACOLA SCHOOL . The first, second,. third and fourth grades of the I sent their annual program on next Tuesday evening, j April 16. The first grade, under P the direction of Miss Al ! dine Pleasant, will present the operetta, '‘ The Magic I Dream”. The second grade will give a playlet, /‘Spring Awakening”. This will be | directed by Miss Della Tip ; ton, and Willie Lou Pres ; nell and Charles Lindberg " Ogle will have the leading i Parts. T.'- t <v The third- and fourth ’ grades will present, “Sleep ‘ ing Beauty” directed by ' Miss Mae Hunter. Lead -1 ing characters will be, the princess, Amaryelis Hut -1 chins; the prince, J. U. Mc- Mahan; the king, Alfred Parker; the queen, Betty Jean Wilson. ' ' A chorus, ‘ God Bless America, by Irving Berlin, will be sung by all four grades. MENS CLUB MEETING The Burnsville Men’s Club met in regular ses sion on Monday evening. The meeting was called to order and presided over*by the club president, W. B. Wray. Reports were heard from a number of committees. The president stated- that some of the seats for the town square had already been completed by th§ N. group. Dr. C. M. Whisnant and Furman Souther discussed the Boy Scout program. R. H. Crouse, county agent, presented the pro posed cotton mattress pro ject for low income families of the county, and the club was asked to lend its sup port to this program. TSover Houts was appoin ted to have charge of the program f&r the next meeting. ~ , , JL, BALD CREEK NEWS Mrs. R. C. Burton visited relatives in Johnson City Sunday; Her mother, Mrs. Anne Ray, returned home with her. Mr. Luther Watts who has been confined to his home with flu is able to be back at the store, Mrs. Watts is improving slowly. Mrs. Jane Edwards and Mrs. Gus Edwards visited Mrs. Wales Monday. Mrs. Bill Proffitt return ed to Asheville after spend ing two weeks vacation here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Proffitt. . Earl- Proffitt is here from Detroit. • 0 Mrs. J. H. Ray of Burns'- vill<e spent Monday with Mr.' and Mrs. A. F. Hensley. » BULLS The county commission ers in Avery County have appropriated SI,OOO to buy eight registered Hereford bulls to be placed on /arms to encourage better live stock, reports J. E- Pen land, assistant farm agent. # bv ■ *— - r~, —-—; —r. J—. HOME DElvi (NSTR ATION AGENT’S NpTES M i s s Am t a C. Rowe, Western Dial rict agent, or ganized the lounty council of home pemonstration 1 clubs Friday!April 5. The ■ following officers were el ected. President, Mrs. A. Ewart Wilson, Pensacola • Club; vice president, Mrs. Jessie Radfold, Bald Creek ■ Club; secretary, Mrs. Clyde Young, Mlcaville Club; 1 treasurer, Mjfe, J. M. Pric - thard, Estatak Club. ; The' County Council is ■ composed of pie officers of • the local dun and the co • unty project leaders. This > council acts the advisory J committee tojfche Home De -1 monstration agent in deter • mining plansT policies and programs, Npe Tome De ■ monstration jDlubs have ! been organized: Bald ■ Creek, E s t|jf oe, Jacks ■.Creek, Mfaville, Mary 1 Martha, Mt. Mitchell, tPen sacola, Welt Burnsville, Upper Jacks /Creek. ; West Burnsfille Club was • organized Monday after noon. The following offi cers were ejicted: Presi dent, Miss Alee McPeters, vice-pres., Mik Geo. Brown, secy., Mi's, lartha McFall, 1 Treasurer, Mm Ros eb e ■ Banka; r 'M; •/ - / ■ jw-v 1 Upper Jaelfe Crbek Home Demonstratiojyplub was • organized A|ll 10. The of ■ Fret.;- l /dent, Mrs. Bruce Bailey, • vice preside it, Mrs. Shelby - Hensley; secretary, Mrs. A. ‘Z. 1 Jamerson, treasurer, Daphne Williams. County Council Notice 4-H Club Meeting A special meeting of the 4-H County Council will be held at Burnsville Club House Monday April 15, at seven o’clock. The following program will be given: Pledge, song, devotional, home beautification, team demonstration, Bald Crk.; discussion of plans for Summer led by County Agt. Home agent and assistant county agent; social hour, ClearmqnL in chprge. NO TI CE The next regular meeting of the Earl Horton Post of the American Legion, and. the Auxiliary, will be held, at Bald Creek on Tuesday evening, April" 23. Follow ing meetings will be held at Micaville and Celo. FORESTS Five National forests in North Carolina contributed $9,882.74 to the State as 25 percent of the gross receipts from operating the forests in 1939. NO TICE A special meeting of the Grade Mothers of Burns ville School has been called for Friday afternoon, April 12 at 2 o’clock in the school auditorium. B. M. Tomber lin will meet with the group and several matters of special importance will be discussed. All grade moth ers are especially urged to attend. " ! T -\ r " ' 1 - — r "*"—... l LEGION POST WILL SPONSOR SQUARE # DANCE, AI’RIL 20| • \\l \ ■ Proceeds will be used fpr Club House Fund \ f —7 “M The local Post of the American Legion will spon sor a square dance to be given Saturday night, Apr il 20, at the Burnsville school gymnasium. Pro ceeds* from the affair will be applied to the fund for payment of the club house, of which the. post and the Auxiliary as a unit own a one fourth interest. On the committee for arrangements are H. S. Edge, C. L. Proffitt and Dover Fouts. Already two of the best string bands in the section/have been en gaged to furnish music, all other plans are well un der way. Latt Carter who ’is a past master in the art, will serve as caller,"" plans for the dance, the first of the kind to be held here in t some months, will be announced within the next few days. LOW INCOME FAMILIES GET COTTON MATTRESSES —% "f Cotton and other mater ials for the making of mat tresses is being given to low income families of the State through a coopera tive program of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the State College Ex tension Service. Already six counties have availed themselves of this oppor tunity to receive without cost surplus cotton held by the Surplus Commodities Corporation. •> - The materials for mak ing cotton mattresses for low income families" are furnished in any county where the County AAA committee certifies that there are at least 120 rural families in the specified low income group. The Extension Service, through its county agents, takes the lead in conduct ing demonstrations to show members- of the families and other leaders how sto make the mattresses, arid in distributing the cotton and ticking. ■; | Farm families with a total cash income. for the calendar year of not more than S4OO, and non-farm families- with a gross in come for hb’yeaf of not more than SSOO, are eligible to participate 4n. the sur plus cotton program. The first counties ap proved were Anson, Mc- Dowell, Alexander, Person, Halifax, and Wayne. In addition to these six counties, applications have been received from Hoke, Avery, Vance, Bertie, and Yancey Counties. John W. Goodman, assistant direc tor of Extension, and Miss Ruth Current, state, home demonstration agent, are in charge of the program for the Extension Service. Miss Pauline Gordon, Ex tension economist in home management and, house furnishings, * and Eugene Starnes, assistant farm agent-at-large, are conduc ting the demonstrations. ■ LOCAL iraA SUPERVIS OR PURVEYS RESULTS Farm Security Borrowers In State Gain $2,000,000 \ln Income and $3,000,000 In \ \ Net Worth; 30 Percent : \ The. average Farm, Secur ■ iiy Administration borrow i e? in Carolina “is m ■ civasing his income, gain l ing'\fh net worth and mak * ing, a better living,” accord , ing to results of a survey • received by County FSA i Supervisor, Paul LaugHrun, The survey which intslud ; es progress figures from ‘ the 145 FSA borrowers in 1 Yancey jCounty as well as othen Carolina coun ■ ties shows that the 11,677 i farm families who got stan dard rehabilitation f loans 1 last yeari in the State are worth Pearly $3,000,000 more than they were worth when they came op the FSA program. The average per family gain in net worth-povelr artd above all debts—s 237 6r a gain of 30 perdtent; There was a similar 30 percent gain in income, the average net income last year being $628 per family, as compared witji $483 the year before they came to ; the FSA. P r . “This means in annual gain in purchasing power r Qi-nearlyjtwu jnilUon dob lars”, it was pointed o ut * The survey shows fur ther that FSA borrowers in the State, “by following supervision in approved farming practices,” are getting away from one crop farming and making a better living. They pro duced $4,452,557 worth of goods for home consump tion last year, as compared with only $3,413,421 worth before they came into the FSA program. Live-at home production this past year included 2,227,738 , quarts of fruits and vege tables canned; 5,326,931 gallons of milk; 34,914 tons of forage, and a great quantity of other food and feed supplies. , : Some 7,828 tenants And j sharecroppers in the State ( have improved their ten ure, or leasing%agreements; t 5,709 tenants have obtain- , ed written leases in place , o f verbal agreements; 1,741 sharecroppers have ( advanced to tenant status; j and, under FSA’s.gradually , expanding tetiafit-purchase- ' program, 378 tenants have . bought farms of their own. ! The figures did not include ' farm purchase loans for ! the present year, but it was ! pointed out money is avail able for 450 or 500 of these loans this year. FSA farmers in North Carolina already have paid back nearly $4,000,000 of the $6,000,000 borrowered, although much of the mon ey loaned will not be due for four or five years. Grants in the State, made only to a few families in ex treme need and to supple ment loans to needy fami lies to tide them over until a sound f arm plan could be made for them, averaged only $lB per and r "" M y ' i \4 ■ ■ - ~' h -hiffir' number file for de mocratic PRIMARY 1 j «« It * I To date the f]ollowing have filed with the county board of elections as candi dates in the coming Demo* cratlc primary, i j \ \ Fcjr representative: R. C. Bey ton, E. L. Briggs. -■ > . For chairman. Board, of Coupty commissioners: IM. D* Luther JkjL ißob inßon, \\ ' \\-\ \ For members, Board bf Couljty commissioner: Grover Hunter, Gro v ek Robinson. \ For Register of Deeds: \ Ha|r m o n Edwards, Tom Edge, J, A. Goodin, Brady Fox, rr Earl C. .Wilson, R.,|has filed for Register of Deeds). -FI \ Ir— , /B v 4 \ ■ EYE CLINIC • ( ——, ' • The Health Department • has been working on an eye s clinic to be held in Yancey i County April 18th 1940. • The clinic is primarily for i those who cannot afford to ! pay the usual private fees t to an eye specialist, and is restricted to those over 10 ) years of age. > So far the response has ; been very slow. In order , for the Health Department s to sponsor an eye clink, » there must' be at least twenty-five appointments made fori eye examinations . before we can secure an eye specialist to _ _ A large niqnber of schboT children have been tested " and found to need glasses. ; The parents of these child ren have been notified of the child’s need of glasses, and of the clinic through the schools. "*'r / It is suggested that those desiring appointments for the eye clinic, please make their appointments before Saturday, April 13th, 1940. If we do not obtain twenty fiv| appointments by that date the clinic will be post poned until fall. ’ Anyone desiring private work done while the spec ialist is in the county may also make appointments for this clinic at the Health Department Office. To make an appointment it is necessary to place a dollar on deposit at the " Health Department office. This is refunded if for any reason the patient is not seen. I hope the parents in the county who have children in need of glasses will take . advantage of this oppor tunity of having their Child ren seen by the specialist, and have their eyes correct ed before any further da- \ mage is done the child due to poor eyesight. Dr. R. O. Jones, District Health Officer. DAMAGE After only 100 years of intense cultivation, farm land in the United States which has been destroyed, seriously damaged or thre atened with destruction to tals an area nearly equal to all tho land from which crops are normally harvest- , ed. this figure covers a 4-year period* it was pointed out,