North Carolina Newspapers

I I For Victory... I 1 Buy I J U. S. DEFENSE bonds STAMPS VOLUME SIX May Sale Os War Bonds Doubles Quota In County i NEAR $12,000 IN BONDS PURCHASED IN MAY Quota for June is $7,600 —Citizens of Yancey eo unty responded enthusias tically to the call for the purchase of War Bonds and Stamps. The county quota for May was $4800.00 and this was more- than doubled. The total amount sold was $11,975. This does not in clude the sale of stamps which are on sale at post offices, the Northwest Carolina Utilities, 'theatre and other places in the co unty. R. N. Scott is chairman for the county. GOVERNORS WILL DISCUSS WAR PLANS (Raleigh).—Chiefs of all federal war agencies will take part in a round table discussion of the war ef fort at the 34th National Governors Conference in Asheville June 21-24, Gov ernor J. Melville Brought on announced here. The war effort discus sion will take place at the morning session Tuesday, June 23, at the Grove Park Inn, which will be vacated by alien diplomats now in terned there in time for use as convention Jfead qugrters for thq/'uover nors, nearly all of whom have indicated theK will attend their first national meeting since the UAS. entered the war. Ambassadors of three of the principal United Na tions, Great Britain, Chi na, and The Netherlands, will be heard \on the day proceding the war effort discussion, the British Am bassador addressing a lun* cheon meeting at the Grove Park Monday, and the Chinese and Dutch ambas sadors speaking at the States Dinner in the Ash eville Auditorium Monday evening. ~ ; Taking part in Tuesday’s War Effort round table will be: Jesse Jones, Secretary of Commerce; Wm. C. Pat terson, Under Secretary of War; Ralph Bard, Assist ant Secretary of the Navy; Donald Nelson, Chairman, War Production Board; Leon Henderson, Adminis trator, Office of Price Ad ministration; Paul V. Mc- Nutt, Chairman, War Man power Board; James M.' Landis, Administrator, Of fice of Civilian Defense, and Joseph B. Eastman, Director, Office of Defense Transportation. Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota is conference chairman _ and Governor Broughton of the s host state of North lina is honorary chairmans. Decoration At Peterson Cemetery; Jacks Creek A decoration was held Sunday at the Peterson ce metery on Jacks Creek. THE YANCEY RECORD “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” SUB. RATES: SI.OO YEAR! \ f •#» j . » _i_ WANTED Any persons who are wi 11 ing to volunteer their services in the Gas • Rationing which wi 11 • take place the latter part ; of June are asked to 1 i communicate with the | undersigned or with the • Yancey County Ration* > ing Board at once. The . Registration will be held > at the various school ■ j houses in the County.— >| (Dover R. Fouts, Chair j man County Defense Council.) I. B. ANGLIN REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION Mr. and Mrs. Grover ju Anglin of Bolens Creek have been notified by tne | War Department that 1 their son, I. B. Anglin, is '“Missing in action” follow ing the fall of ,Corregidor. Mr. Anglin was attached ' to the 31st Division which was in some of the heaviest 1 fighting in the Philippines. ' The last letter received from. him was written after the fall of Manilla and said that he was “safe and well.” i . . . .... WILL ATTEND SYNOD MEETING ON JUNE 16 Rev. Paul H. Merkle, I Robert Clementz and Mr. land Mrs. J. S. LeFevre will attend the meeting of the Synod of Tennessee of the I Presbyterian church, USA. which will be held o;i June 16 in Maryville, Tenn. The , synodical or woman’s divi , sion will also meet. At this time the Synod of Tennessee will be dis solved and the Synod of the Mid South will be inau gurated. This will include Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and this section of North Carolina which has been a part of the Sy nod of Tennessee. More Sugar Will Be Available For Canning Sugar rationing regulat ions have been amended to make morq sugar available ; for home canning, reports : Mrs. Cornelia Morris, Ex- ■ tension food conservation ist of N. C. State Colege. ; Each family will be alowed one pound of sugar for each four quarts of finish ed fruit they have to can. Mrs. Morris also said an aditional pound of sugar for each person in the fam ily will be allowed to make a small supply of jams, jelies, and fruit buters. “A famiy will be permitted to can all the finished fruit it needs,” she declared. Families should apply tp boards for with which to can. Tne.person making application) for a Sugar Canning Certificate will be required to answer these questions: (1) How many quarts of fruits did you BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1942 FEDERAL AUTOMOBILE STAMPS NOW ON SALE The $5.00 federal stamps . for motor vehicles are now' o,n sale at post offices and must be purchased by July 1. It is required that these stamps be attached' to the windshields. j' A second registration for gasoline ration cards, will be made before July 1 as the present cards will have no value after June 30. Every person who expects to receive a ration card for gasoline must have the | $5.00 Federal stamp as it iis compulsory that the , number of the stamp be ! written on the correspond ing gas ration card, j. The local ration board has asked that this be call ) ed to the attention of all jjnbtbK vehicle owners so that there wilFbe no delay qrieffusion in obtaining cards. Mary Covey is ill at; : h&x-home of an attack of j 5 appendicitis. Roy Moore of Lenoir is, . visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. L. | Proffitt. i Bob Burton has return-; ; ed to Flint, Mich, after a . visit with relatives here. | Fred Hensley, Jr., of Bee i Log spent the week with! i Mr. “and Mrs. Craig Eng ; lish. Miss Wilma Allen finish-! ed at Johnson City Busi ness College and ha! gone :to Washington, D. C. to, accept a civil service job. I She spent a week at home! • before she left. • * I WILL ASSIST WITH PRESBYTERIAN WORK r-- ■ ■ ( ii Robert Clementz of . ! Bloomfield, N. J. is now in . Burnsville and will assist with the work of the.Pres [ byterian church in the co . unty through the summer months. Mr. Clementz is a of the Bloomfield : Theological Seminary.— >" * , t _ There will be a decorat i ion at the Honeycutt ceme • tery at Day Book, N. C. June 14 at 3 o’clock. can last yrnr? (2) How many quarts of fruit do you plan to can this year? and (3) How many quarts of last year’s fruit do you still have on your pantry shelf? The Extension worker said that every jar of home canned fruit leaves a can of commercially packed fruit for our armed forces and our Allies. Ev ery jar of * fruit put up leaves a little more freight space to carry war mater ials. “Our sugar supplies must be carefully used,” Mrs. Morris emphasized. “Submarine warfare and the need for ships to carry war materials mean that imports of sugar will be far below normal. Every boatload of sugar that is shipped endangers the liv es of American seamen. (Continued on back pagejr FSA DISTRICT MEETING HELD IN pHJRNSVILLE On June f | and 10, Mr. Harold Wisft Regional Forester ‘foi&the Farm Se curity Adwnistration in Raleigh, coffiucted a two day meetin® on Improved Farm Practices “ in WesterifflNprtb Caroli l na. He wasassisted by Mr. ; Roger Hum representa ■ tive from « State Fores ■ j try DepafWient, Raleigh, >,and Mr. jmrmon, repre? • j sentative a* Pisgah Nati ; onal Forest* of Asheville. . FSA personnel from eight 1 western counties and Dist-' ‘ net personnel from Ashe ville attended the meeting. Particularyemphasis was I given to sej|ctive cutting, timber improvement, use of log scale‘rules, and the ' value of timber land as an annual cash crop. FSA families having timber and especially farms being pur chased with funds loaned .through the Bankhead- I Jones Farm Tenant Act, are being encouraged to cut their timber on a sel ective cutting basis, and by: doing so they can cut over; j their boundary approxi mately every ten years, and in this manner in crease their farm income. AN APPEAL We must t have more wotm*rrifrbtr are" Willing to devote some time to sew ing and knitting for the Red Cross. A goodly num | ber of garments have been' made and some of our wo-1 men have devoted a lot ofj time to this work, but this! is something that should not be left to a few to do. iWe all want to help and this 0 is one big way of doing that. The garments to be made do not require expert workmanship and a fair knowledge of sewing .is all that would be neces sary. . It may be that, you have no “spare time”—we are all busy—but it is a job that must be done and we can find time. There is j something that every wo man in the country can do to forward this work and this appeal is to no parti cular section or group—it is to the women of Yancey County. Wq need your help and we must have it. I shall be glad to give you any information or in struction toward this ef fort.—(Dorothy P. Turner, Chairman, Production Am erican Red Cross). ON THE OFFENSIVE I AMERICA! ★ * * Wsrs art wan by attacking, net by lifting in a fortl* And today America it taking the offensive againit the Axis with hard-fighting, non->toppab)e man and materialil Wa'ra taking tha offensive, too, j againit the enemy at home—the inflationary 6th column that blows' prices sky. high. _ , You can halp in both fights by y. . saving at least 10% of your money in U. S. War Bonds every pay day. Attack the Axis with your dollars today. You can start with as littleV#s a , 10c War Stamp and you can get a $25.00 War Bond (maturity value) for only sls.7s—at your local post office, bank or other convenient sales agency. j. V. S. Trtaiury Dihartm.nl | ■ NUMBER ATTEND HOME CANNING DEMONSTRATION Twenty two women, rep resenting the Demonstrat i ion clubs throughout the ■ county, attended the can- I ning demonstration which 5 was _held at—RurnsvlHe ■ School on Friday morning, •i Miss Myrian Clinard re - presenting the Ball Bros. ■ Company demo ns t rated > the'latest methods of can *i ning, and gave some very - helpful suggestions for the . | preservation of foods. Wo men are being urged, she ■"j said, to plan a balanced ■ canning program so that .[vegetables and meats as ( well as fruits will be given , a place in this program. 1 Miss . Dorothy Turner, home agent, -presided at i the meeting and represent atives of the F. S. A. were also present and assisted. TIRES • ■ ,j Permits for the follow ing tires and tubes were issued by the Yancey Co unty ratroning board June 10, 1942,tq the following: New Passenger Tires Dr. W. L. Bennett, one tire and one tube. Recapp Passenger Tires Earl Deyton,* '"one tire; ! James O. Safford, two tir ■fes; Mack B. Ray, one tire. •1 New Truck Tires M L. Q. Miller, one tire and lone tube; John Bennett, ! one tire and one tube; W. |O. Briggs, two tires and two tubes. Truck Tires Recapped j G. B. Hensley, one tire; |V. L. Edwards, one tire; Louis Shufford, two tires; Harmon Edwards, one tire, Lawrence Hall r one tire; Clay Miller, one tire; W. T. McPeters, lone tire; Smith Howell,, one tire; Gus Bailey, one tire; M. /D. Coxx, one tire. Products in larger dom estic supply in the United States* this year include fresh fruits and vegetables fluid milk and cream, eggs, jbeef, wheat, lamb, and mutton. Men Will Leave Here For Military Service June 19 The following men have had the physical examin ations and are now avail able for call to military service. They will leave on June 19 for induction into service: Thomas W. Laws, Green Mountain; Lawrence Earl Young, Boonford; Rush T. Wray, Burnsville; Wayne Hudgins, Cane River; El zie Ledford, Cane River; Ralph C. Robinson, Swiss; Lewis McNeill, < Celo; J. Alvin McCurry, Day Book; Roy D. Laws, Green Mtn; Jack Tipton, Burnsville; Burl Murphy, Huntdale; Micaville; Luther Bailey, English; Ernest C. Fender, Swiss*; Bill Marsh (Being returned), Micaville-; Suel Anglin, Burnsville; Bristo I Wallace, Burnsville; Law rence Gouge, Celo; Diony sus Randolph, Higgins; Herman Gouge, Celo; Dav is Ledford, Bee Log; , ' . NUMBER FORTY-FIVE Men Charged With Vio lation of Selective Service NOTICE A 2 per cent discount will be allowed on all —L942--¥ancey-county Utax es paid during the month of June. All tax payers who wish to take advan tage of this may come in at any time and pay to the county accountant. I SERIES OF MEETINGS WILL BEGIN JUI r. 14 A series of meetings will I begin at the Burnsville Baptist church on next Sunday, June 14* and con , tinue for two w r eeks. The Rev. J. D. Moose of Char i / - lotte will preach, and two [Services will be held daily. 1- : ; Fined For Speeding On Parkway j- Larna McCoy Miller of i Boone was fined $lO and* given a four month’s sus ■ pend eel sentence for speed-' ing on the Parkway. Thei hearing was held before E. L. Briggs, U. S. Com missioner, and char ge s were brought” against Mill er by George Soine, forest' ranger of Spruce Pine. REVIVAL SERVICES j The Rev. John S. Yelton who is Superintendent of; Home Missions of Holston, Presbytery wil preach in a revival at Newdale, N. C beginning Monday night at} 8:30 p. m., June 15. '• ~ ~T~ :; USE STAMP 3 NOW . j t> Q* r - Stamp 3 in . your rat ion book may now be used for the purchase of sugar, and will be good until June 14. It must be used within that period or the consumer will | lose that much of the purchase power of the stamps. Cicero Deyton, Sioux; Charles Dellinger, Burns ville; Arthur Bryant, Hunt dale; Bernard F. Deyton, Higgins; Kester J. Wyatt, Micaville. Claude Ivory Wilson, Bee Log; Lawrence Neil You ng, Washington, D. C.; Jay James McCracken, Win dom; Raymond Wilson, ■ Sioux; Arvil Lee King, ; Cang River; Hubert Gou ; ge, Hamrick; Edgar W. , McMahan, Vixen; Charlie ; Bradford, Bee Log; Willi ;am L. Bartlett, Newdale; Frank D. Curtis, Burns ; ville; Brad Campbell; 'Mi-. , caville;-. Charles Deyton, , Gregn Mtn; Troy gfVngel,, ; Burnsville. ' —\ Major Hugh L. Caveness i of State headquarters vis ited this office for a short while on June -3. Major Caveness is in. charge of occupational deferments. (Continued on Back Page) ' MAKE every PAYDAY R |c\|Z4BOND DAY B Rev. Jeter Hensley and Son to Federal Court - Rev, Jeter E. Hensley was given a preliminary hearing Tuesday before U. Commissioner E. L. Briggs for violation of the -selective service act. Mr; Hensley was charged with refusing to register or to permit his son, B. Hensley, ' to register as required by : the act. . Marvin C. Rice, special agent for the F. B. 1., and Robert H. Beam, deputy U. S. Marshall of Asheville, were present for the hear ing. George Robinson clerk the local board, testifi ed that Mr. Hensley had been notified to register , and that he refused. Bond was set for Mr. Hensley at S2OOO and for his son at SI,OOO for their appearance at the Novem • ber term of Federal court in Asheville. Bond was not • raised and the two were Taken to the Buncombe county jail. NOTE ON VICTORY GARDEN CONTEST I The Burnsville Woman’s Club, sponsor for the Vic tory Garden campaign and donor of the prizes, has asltqd that one rule be re- I stated. The only gardens eligible for the judging and i prizes are those within the incorporate limits of the town. The county agent and as ! sistant agent are judges but they do not determine the eligibility of the en • tries. Judging will be begun this week. LAST RITES FOR MRS. ELIZABETH HENSLEY Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Hensley, 72, who died Saturday at her home after several weeks of illness, were conducted on Jacks Creek at 2:00 o’clock Sunday afternoon with Rev. A. Z. Jamerson officiating. Burial was in the family cemetery. Mrs. Hensley is survived by her husband, Jasper Hensley; three step child ren, Mrs. J. W. Horton of Hampton, Tenn., Miss Myr tle Hensley of Burnsville , and Mrs. S. L. Hensley of Burnsville; two sisters, Mrs. Charlie Bryant of Er ■ win, Teton, and Mrs. S. W. ’ Byrd of Texas. Also 12 step grand children. , ’ She joined the Jacks , Creek Baptist church in ■ early life, and was a faith ful member until death. ! She was a devoted wife and a faithful mother, and we firmly believe she has I gone home to be with God. j .Flowerbearers were Mrs. . | Bruce Bailey, Miss Hilda Hensley, Miss Doris Hens ley, Miss Bailey, i Miss Nell Bailey, Miss Pat Greene, Mrs. Mild re d ; Woody, Mrs. Maxine Hor -1 ton, Mrs. Bettie Horton. i Guss Fender is home on furlough from the army.