North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE TWO THE YANCEY RECORD ESTABUSHED JULY, 1936 Editor * 1 R. Hamrick Managing Ed ~ Lee E. Edwards Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING CO. A Partnership Entered as second-class matter November 11th, 1936, at the Post Office, at Burnsville, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. » FORESTER OFFERS TIP ON HOW TO DRY WOOD A tip to farm people on away to dry fuel wood in the shortest possible time is offered by W. J. Barker, assistant Extension forest er of N. C. State College. He pointed out green wood and its failure to burn, is the cause of scores of per sons turning to some other type of fuel. “Fuel wood normally re quires from six months to a year to season properly,” ’ Barker explained. “There fore, if the wood is intend ed for next winter’s consul mption, it should be cut not later than this sum mer.” The Extension worker said that persons attempting to speed up the seasoning of fuel wood should under stand the process through which wood goes when it normally dries out. “The leaves of a tree act as 4 pumps,” stated B a rker, v “and the leaves are con tinuously drawing water through the body of the tree. “To hasten the drying out process, the trees can be cut down and left .un trimmed for two to three weeks. This cuts the trees off from the source of-the water supply in the gro und. Still, the leaves con tinue to draw water out of Your Greatest Contribution to Victory Now Is Rubber Actually, the rubber shortage is far worse than most people seem .to realize. The enemy controls 90 percent of the world’s rubber producing areas and every ounce of our stock pile is needed badly for the armed forces. Our biggest stock pile of rubber is on our cars; these tires must be preserved. According to a report sent to Helen R. Goodman, chairman of salvage committee, from James Volger, Executive Secretary, N. C. State Salvage ■ Committee, every citizen can and must adopt a five-point conservation program. A- Stop driving your car exctept when necessary; make it last. r 2. Drive under 40 miles per hour. 3. Shift tires from wheel to wheel and inflate them properly. -4- 4. If you drive to work, drive your friends and neigh bors. Car pooling is essential. 5. Remember that rubber save it; every car is now a vital part of )he nation’s transporta tion system. All old scrap rubber can be reclaimed and used again. But we cannot process rubber that is in base ments or back yards or garages of the country. Old tires, tubes, rubber shoes, hose, bathing caps and other articles may be turned in if we are to main tain the capacity of reclaiming plants. We must see that every ounce of old rubber we own gets into war channels. t The President ordered a rubber drive which began Monday June 15th and is to last until June 30th. This sdrap rubber can be left in charge of filling stations. CASH j PAID FOR LOGS I .We buy Oak, Birch, Hard and Soft Map-1 le and Ash Log's. One load or more delivered at our mill, i For prices See Luther Ayers at Old Pollard Plant i Penland & Ayers BURNSVILLE, N. C. NOTICE TO ALL MER CHANTS OR RETAIL CONCERNS OF ANY TYPE IN YANCEY COUNTY- Quite a few Merchants and Retail Concerns have failed to comply with the regulations in —regard-to I price control. Each and every Merchant is required to comply with this order Sand any Merchant who does not have information in regard to this is advised jto consult the Rationing ! Board of Yancey bounty immediately. Any person failing to comply with the ; regulation is subject to j severe penalty and pun , ishment.—i Y ancey County Rationing Board.* the tree.” Barker says this method of harvesting timber will result in dryness equal to tnree months of usual sea soning. The trees should be left on the ground, un trimmed, for two weeks in the summer for all kinds of trees, and three weeks in winter for pines. After • the “sapping out” period, I the wood can be cut into the lengths desired and handled in the usual man ner. The Extension forester’s office is urging that farm ers prepare to use wood in stead of other types of fu el for their home needs this year. STATE COLLEGE, HINTS FOR FARM HOMEMAKERS A hobby is valuable in war time* and peace time. Did you know all great in ventions have been the re sult of an avocation, a play thing during rest time and away from regular em ployment? The father of photogra phy was an army officer; of the electric motor, a clerk. The in ventor of the telegraph was a portrait painter; and of the Jacquard loom,’ a dressmaker. A farmer tirn kered up the typewriter; a poet, the sewing machine a cabinet the cot ton gin; and a coal miner*, the locomotive. The tele phone was the “after-scho ol” work c os a teacher of the deaf; the disk talking machine, the night work of a clothing saleman;-the wax - cylinder phonograph of a lawyer’s clerk; the typecasting machine, a groceryman. A physician made the .first pneumatic tire be cause his little son was a Wheel chair invalid. The hand camera w r as invented by a bank clerk; the film roll, by a country preacher; the motion picture, by a stenographer. The steam automobile, was the play thing of a photodryplate marker; the dry-blast steel process, thg/brain child of a preacher’s son { the tunnel ing shield, of an editor; the stock ticker, a dentist; the long distance telephone loading coils were figured out by a professor of math ematics. Bicycle repairmen made the first mancarry ing airplane; a soldier, the wifeless telegraph; and a druggist’s clerk, the loud speaker. Why not have a hobby— and ride it hard? OFFICE OF PRICE ADMISTRATION “X” cards, providing for gasoline, are eliminiated in the new coupon plan for rationing gasoline- which the Office of Price Admin istration will put into ef fect in the East Coast area next month, Price Admin istrator Leon Henderson | announced today. This plan; will supplant the emergen cy plan now in operation. No motaijAst under the plan receive gasoline J -imexcei^J of"what he needs' toVarr/ on his work, ex-; cepr-Phat all motorists will have a basic ration to pro-i vide for household and other necessary family driving. Coupon books will take the. place of the “meal; ticket” ' type cards, Mr. Henderson said. In fact, 1 the new plan will require l coupons for all gasoline; purchases. Coupons, issued 1 to car owners in several types of books, will be torn out by the dealer when gasoline purchases are made. The dealer in turn must turn in these coupons when getting new stocks from his supplier. This “flow back” of coupons, it was explained, will provide an audit control of every , IN MEMORY In loving memory of husband and father, Mr. W. T. Robertson, who died two .years ago today (June 17). Sad and sudden was the call Os one so dearly loved by all; V Your memory is as sweet today \ As in the hour you went away. We sit and think of you Anti think of how you died, And that you could not say goodbye Before you closed your eyes. —Mrs. W. T. Robertson and Wanda THE YANCEY RECORD N. C. BIRD BOOK WILL BE ISSUED V (Raleigh, June —An official, authenic and com prehensive book on birds of North Carolina—t h e first to be issued .since 1919 will be ready for delivery in June, Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott, announced todajy. Authors of the book, “Birds of North Carolina”, are C. S, Brimley, H. H. Brimley and T. Gilbert Pearson, nationally known ornithologists. The publication, sponsor ed by the State Depart ment of Agriculture, will cover 440 pages, including 20 full-page color plates, 17 full page black and white .plates and 140 text figures of individual spe cies. “The issuance of this book will be welcome news to the bird and nature lov ers of North Carolina and other states,” Commission er Scott said. “The popu larity and value ~of this monumental work are at tested by the fact that 1,600 orders for the book are already placed. There is no money making motive behind the issuance of this book, therefore, pre-publi cation subscribers will be g i ven a special price ($2.25) which is made poss ible by volume printing and the fact that much of the material and manuscript were furnished gratis by the authors and others.” Orders or inquiries should be sent to Harry *f. Davis; in care of the State Mu seum, Raleigh, N. C. After pre-publication offer ex pires, the books will be sold at a slightly higher price ($3.50 per volume, ef efctive late in June*. The experience of the Brimleys, both of the Department, aggre gates 116 years while Pear son’e experience and know ledge of bird life covers about 45 years. All three men are recognized as out standing authorities on birds and bird life through out the Nation. Freen and mandatory in spection of tobacco on 49 flue-cured tobacco markets in the South has been ap i proved in a special refer endum by more than 70 per cent of the farmers j voting. ! j The sowing of 21,000 po unds of guayule of 520 acres has been completed in Salinas, California, as one of the first steps to ward providng needed rub ber for the country. gallon of gasoline distri ; buted under rationing. Under the new plan | there will be six types of books for highway uses. The “A” book, containing 48 coupons, will provide the basic ration to which every passenger car owner is en titled. These 48 coupons will be good for one year. “B” and “C” books will provide suuplementary ra tions for passenger cars for vocational, governmen tal and war purposes in ad dition to that provided by the “A” book. GOVERNORS WILL DISCUSS WAR PLANS , > mmmatmmmmrnmm ■ ; ,i.< ■■■■■ " * " -KO ’\7 .| J 4Ptaleigh).—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 head quarters for the Gover nors, nearly all of whom have indicated they will attend their first national meeting since the U. S. 1 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. j Taking part in Tuesday’s" War Effort round table will be: , t _ 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 host state of North Caro lina is honorary chairman. Mr. and Mrs. Pat Hobson and family came up last week to spend the summer in Burnsville. “*■ •" ‘ 11 11 ■ i '■ ——* s - “ ' »«- Advertising Notice FOR 1941 TAXES The 1941 taxes on your property are overdue and delay means extra cost to you. * PAY NOW AND SAVE Penalty and advertising costs DONALD BANKS Tax Collector of Yancey County - * v„* • . 4 ' •*' ' j > - w -r-feL Men In Service These men will leave to morrow morning 8:00 o’clock. 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; v ßristo j Wallace, Burnsville; Law rence Gouge, Celo; Diony sus Randolph, Higgins; Herman Gouge, Celo; Dav is Ledford, Bee Log; Cicero Peyton, Sioux'; Charles Dellinger, Burns ville* Arthur Bryant, Hunt dale; Bernard 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, Cane River; Hubert Gou ge, Hamrick; Edgar W. McMahan, Vixen; Charlie Bradford, Bee Log; Willi iam L. Bartlett, Newdale; Frank D. Curtis, Burns ville; Brad Campbell, Mi caville ; Charles Deyton, Green Mtn; Troy Angel, Burnsville. • ■ PROMOTED TO PFC. Wiley H. Blevins, 22, /Son of Rev. and Mrs. E. P. Blevins of Windom has been promoted to the rank of Pfc. in the Medical, corps at Camp Rucker, Ozark,! Ala. He has been in the ser-j vice three and one half months and likes it fine. Philip Evans who was called into service in June has been placed in the Sig nal Corps at Fort Mon mouth, Red Bank, N. J. Cpl. Grady B. Gibbs who is stationed at Fort Jack son, S. C. was home on fur lough last week. THURSDAY, JUNE JB, 1942 MEN IN CAMP The following list was made up of last addresses received here. Leslie Peterson, c. Post master, New York; Sgt. P. T. Phoenix, Tyndall Field, Fla.; Earl Rathburn, Camp Bowie, Texas; Guss Fender, Camp Claiborne, La.; S. Sgt. Carl M. Met calf, Kintland Field, N. M.; Pfc. Marion P. Ballew, - Canal Zone; Frank Brig gs, Camp Croft, S. C.; Lee R. Young, Camp Wallace, Texas; John McKinney, Ft Knox, Ky.; Ralph Mcln tosh; Camp Claiborne, La.; Charles Tomberlin, Camp Croft, S. C.; Henry But ner, c. Postmaster, New*/ York; Henry Dodd, Syra cuse, New York; Starlon Boone, Camp Shelhy,Miss.; Monroe Edwards, Camp Grant, 111.; Harlon Holcom be, Camp Barkley, Texas; Wm. Lee Robinson, Camp Edwards, Mass.; Roy Rob inson, Fort Bragg; Lee Ra thburn, Ft. Sill, Okla ; Frank King, Keesler Field, Miss.; Bob Cheadle, care of Postmaster, San Fran cisco ; J. M. Blankenship, Fort Bragg. Carl M. Metcalf who is stationed at Kintland Field in Albuquerque, N. Mex. was recently pro moted ;from sergeant to staff ser geant. MONTHLY REPORT North Carolina ! Yancey County The following amount of exemptions were issued: $410.46. I The following vouchers were issued: From General Funds, $1316.50; From Poor Funds, 332.28; From Debt Service Funds, 540.75, From Health Funds,l3s.oo; From Dog Funds, 32.00;. I, Earl C. Wilson, do he reby certify that the above is a true and, correct copy of the minutes of the Yan cey County Commissioners as of June 1, 1942. I • " EARL C. WILSON, Reg ister of Deeds, Yancey Co unty, North Carolina.