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tiianaiii' iiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiaiiaiiai \ Your Country needs Scrap Materials. Throw your Scrap into the fight for Victory! — ‘ —— ~ ■ - VOLUME SEVEN SUB. RATES: SI.OO YEAR. BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1943 * - NUMBER THIRTY Men In Service Pvt. Dewey Moss is now* stationed at Camp Edw ardsTMassTTaccording" to in formation received from his mother,, Mrs. Novella Moss of Paint Gap. Ray Mclntosh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mclntosh of Bee Log is now station ed in the Technical school of the army air corps at St. Petersburg, Fla. Pvt. E. R. Riddle, son of Mr. and Mrs., Pearson Riddle of Pensacola, is sta tioned at Camp Miss. Pvt. Riddle is a twin brother of Pearson Riddle, Jr. who is interned by the Japanese in Shanghai. Pvt. Stanley Bailey spent a short leavg here with his father, C. M. Bailey. Pvt. Bailey is now stationed at Camp Gordon, Ga. Pvt. John G. Edge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Edge of Burnsville is, stationed at Camp Edwards, Mass. Pvt. Ralph W. Byrd is now at Camp Swift, Texas. Frank Silver and Jay Bodford are at the Navy Training Station,- Bainbri dge, Md. Pfc. Raymond D. Rob inson is stationed at Camp Livingston, La. Robert V. Robertson is now at the Coast Guard Training School, Curtis Bay, Md. Pfc. Earl L. Bailey is lo cated with the Coast Guard at Cameron, La. Pvt. Elbert L. Jenkins is stationed at Keesler Field, Miss. Robt. W. Ramsey, Jr. of the U. S. Navy is here from Norfolk on leave. Ward Bennett who is stationed at Camp Murphy, Fla. with the Signal Carps is spending a leave with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Bennett. Ben Lee Griffith, son Mr. and Mrs. Bryon Grif fsth of Burnsville is spend ing a leave at home. Frank Briggs of Burns ville rt. 1 is here from Fort Jackson on leave. Sgt. Howe Deyton and Jay Deyton spent the week end at their home in Day Book. They' are stationed at Fort Bragg, N, C. Pvt. Arthur Tipton was home from Fort Bragg for the week end. Pfc. Seth Peterson of Fort Benning, Ga. has been home recently. Lieut. Clyde A. Ayers is here on leave. He received his commission last week at Fort Benning, Ga. and has been assigned to Fort Mc- Clellan, Ala. THE YANCEY RECORD * RECEIVES COMMISSION Fort Banning, Ga.—*Spe— 1 cial) Clyde Augustus Ay- ] ers of Burnsville, N. C. was 1 commissioned a second lie utenant In the Army of the 1 United States today upon 1 successful completion- o f the Officer Candidate Cou l|rse at the Infantry School at Fort Benning. Lt. Ay ers is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Ayers of Route 1 1, Burnsville. The new lieutenant en - listed into the army on ’ July 29. 1942 and served 1 with the 28th Inf. Training [ Bn. before going to Officer : Candidate School three months ago. He held the . rank of Corporal before ' being commissioned. The new officer is a graduate o f Burnsville high school in Burnsville and Mars Hill College * where he was prominent ; as a student, member of | the Literary Society and i Athletics." ' At The Infantry School, 5 world’s largest institution lof its kind, the local officer; 'took a three months’ cour-! ]'se to fit him for his new j responsibilities. The cou rse covers the technique of handling all the varied mo dern infantry weapons and the tactics of, leading small infantry units in combat. It also includes study of 5 many varied subjects whi- Ich future officers must 3 know along the lines of ad ministration. military law, etc. j - The men who attend the 1 Officer Candidate Schools are the best privates, cor-| porals and sergeants from 3 the entire army, selected: , by their superiors for out standing intelligence and qualities o f leadership, f During the course even the i mildly incapable are weed ed out, so that the men who graduate with commissions s are America’s finest sold , iers, fully qualified to be 5 the leaders in our army. * Stationed in New Hampshire First Lieut. Jesse Webb, f, son of Mr. and Mrs. John - Henry Webb of Green - Mtn., is stationed in New Hampshire. Lieut. Webb has had 28 - years service in the army, t He served in France in World War I, in Panama and Hawaii, and under 1 General Pershing and Gen t eral Wood on the Mexican r Border. He is now an 1 inspector with the army air corps. Lieut. Webb married s Miss Mafra Renfro, daugh r ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack son Renfro of Toledo, N. C. in 1930. They have one f son, 10 years of age. Cpl. Elmer Ballew has been home on furlough* vis -9 iting his mother, Mrs. Res j sie Ballew of Hamiick. t Pvt. Paul Pritchard of s Hamrick is home on fur - lough. He is stationed in Arizona. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” THE SHARP-SHINNED 1 HAWK The Sharp-shin, “Little t Blue Darter,” next to Coop-1 j er’s Hawk is the most destructive to poultry ( Quail and songbirds. The | examination of the 'crops ' of a great number of birds showed the remains of more than fifty small birds. Small rodents and insects j constitute a part of the diet , | It dwells in thickets and ] in woodlands near fields ■ and is frequently seen on a convenieht perch ready to ' pounce onto any unsuspec ting QUail or songbird that comes near. The Sharp-shin is con-: siderably smaller than its cousin, Cooper’s Hawk. I However, the k females ofj Hawks are muqh larger than the males. A large fe.- Sharp-shin is almost; as large as a small male of the Cooper variety. The ! square tail of the Sharp shin serves to distinguish it from the round-tailed, Cooper’s. The range of this species is fery extensive. During ; the winter it .moves south ward from the northern | extent of its range, some times hundreds being to gether in migration. . The nest is built of sticks inrirees and is frequently lined with soft material.! The eggs, four or five in, Humber, are dull bhiish or greenish-white with spots of brown. __. j It should be borne in ! mind that most species of Hawks are on the whole j beneficial in that they re duce the destructiveness of rats, mice and other rod-] j snts and do not often both- 1 er poultry and smaller birds. The ornithologist Rex Brasher says that the Sharp-shin, Cooper’& and the Goshawk are the only varieties of Hawks that should be killed, except very rare individuals of other species that bother poultry.--(James Hutchins) Earl C. Wilson is a new member of the Ration Board for Yancey County.! Mr. Wilson took the place of CVF. Gardner who re signed several days ago. ★ What you Huy With WAR BONDS ★ ★ That new cooking range, whether it be gas, electric or otherwise, is something to look forward to when the War is won. But you can start | saving now to buy it. Put a definite! amount, every payday, ten percent •f your pay check . . . into War Bonds today. 1 When your Bonds mature you will have the money ready for that new range. You will have made a good investment, getting back $4 for ev ery 93. And your purchase of War Bonds is helping that boy, husband or sweetheart on the fighting front. V. S. Tr*u*ry Dtfirtmtnt MINING CORPORATION RECEIVES* CHARTER ■ A charters£pf incorpora tion for the fHawk Mining Company—aiph principal office here, Was been issued by Secret*# of State, Thad Eure. | The purpose of the cor-; poration is w carry on a general mining business. It has authorized capital stock of $25p)00 and sub scribed stock of $309 by W. ! W. Hennessee and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Proffitt of Bur nsville.- ,% '/ : MINING MEN HERE : nM, — Several out of state men who are in min ing in this county are re i gistered at tl?.e Nu-Wray Hotel. G. W: Kunstman of j Chicago, C. P. Robertson of Stoneville. N,-;C. and Frank Fisher of Newark, N. J. Who is with the Meyer and i Brown Corporation are here. Mrs. Fisher and dau ghter and Mrs. Robertson are also here. IN AUSTRALIA —— Cpl. John King, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. King of Burnsvile is npsv in Austra lia. according boa letter received froiir him this week by his Barents. He was, in training at Fort Bragg and .ikmu. Col. bof cf£ fofflßgsenTo vwt MEN WILL LEAVE FOR MILI TARY SERVICE ON MARCH 41 List of Availables i A total of 57 men will leave on March 4 for Camp Croft, S. C. for military ex amination, and possible in duction into military ser vice. The following are avail able- and 57 of them will leave on March 4: Chas. Samuel Riddle, 1 Pensacola; Dewey Haney, Hamrick; Joe Hensley, Swiss; Lee Jarrett, Burns ville; Hensley, iCane River; John Silver, Celo; Bill Turner, Burnsville st. rt.; Maurice Wm. Burnett, Hamrick; Billie W. Hen sley, Swiss; Taylor Byrd, Rt. 1 Burnsville?; Kenneth Banks, Burnsville st. rt.; Lonnie Haney, Bee Log; | Donald Lee McFalls, Rt. 1, Burnsville; Edd Hensley, Log; Ralph Wesley Ayers, Day Book; Bruce ! Laws, Green Mtn.; Albert Wyatt, Micaville; ; Charles Tipton, Boonford; Glen Hensley, Swiss; Troy 1 Riddle,, Pensacola; Roy Lee I Robinson, Windom; Wade Proffitt, Jr. Swiss; , Calvin Coolidge Miller, Higgins; Jack Tatte, Swiss; Gibbs Bailey, Green Mtn.; Arvold Fortner, Micaville; Sammie Edwards, Bee Log; Woodrow Pritchard, Ce k>; Talmadge Wilson, Bur nsville; Stanley Lewis, Bee Log; Keith Penland, Paint Gap; Calvin Phillips, Ram seytown; James Wilson, Hamrick; WILBURN HONEYCUTT DIES IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Wilburn t Honeycutt. 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Honeycutt of Windom, was fatally injured in an auto-| mobile accident at 11 o’clock] Sunday night, one and a; jhalf miles east of Burns-! villeu Mr. Honeycutt was alone !at the time of the accident He . was driving toward I Spruce Pine when the car! left the road and overturn-,] ed. Mr. Honeycutt is surviv ed by his wife, the former; Miss Ruth Taylor one small i child; his parents; three brothers, Kenneth of the] U. S. army, stationed in; ■ Michigan, Roy and Charles >at home, and one sister, Miss Dorothy Honeycutt. He was employed by the Yancey Cyanite Company. ; 11 Funeral arrangements . were incomplete Wednes day morning. PROMOTED • Clarence S. Laws of Bur nsville rt 1 has been pro . moted from technician sth . grade to the rank of ser-i I geant. He is serving with , the detachment medical department at the Station! i Hospital, Fort Jackson, S. — V George Scott, Cane Riv er; Floyd Phillips, Bee Log Harry Wilson, Bee Log; |; Harold Boone, Celo; Hob i art Byrd, Burnsville rt. 1; j Gate Whitson, Sioux; . Ben Gardner, Burnsville; . Ollis Thomas, Celo; Jack Wilson, Burnsville Rt. 1; Melvin Fox, Burnsville; Laurence Edwards, Bur nsville rt. 1; Willie Ray,| 1 Paint Gap; Bill Higgins, |! Higgins r* Za c k Wilson, I Cane River; Bill Bennett,j ! Greten Mtn.; Phillip Garland, Burns ville rt, 1; Gold Bolick, Burnsville; Verlin Fields, Burnsville-; Troy Smith,! Burnsville; Hobart McMa han, Micaville; , Bert Foxy, Swiss; Brooks Autrey, Burnsville,; Feet chel McMahan, Pensacola; Burnie Mclntosh, Bee, Log; ! Coy Robinson, Burnsville; Harry Young, Newdale; Braskie Anglin, Cane Riv er; Cornelius Williams, Bee Log; Chag. Edwards, Bee Log; Earl McMahan, Pen- Nicola y Garrett Wilson, i Swiss; Fred Mclntosh, , Bald Creek; James Buckner, Burns f ville; Marcus Laws, Burns ; ville rt. 1; Howard Bryant, l Sioux; 011 i s Hudgens, ; Cane River; Paul Elliott, ; Burnsville rt. 1; * . Frank Burleson, Cane . River; Donald Metcalf, . Cane River; Earl Ogle, : Pensacola; John Murphy, . Huntdale; Rufus Ingle, Swiss; Samuel Randolph, Swiss. MINERAL SURVEY OF STATE WILL BE MADE Raleigh, Feb. 13.—A con- i tract which envisions the i placing of North Carolina ~i among the important metal I producing areas of the na-; [tion has been entered into |, ; between Herman T. Bras- i jsert Co., internationally noted engineers, and the ; State of North Carolina, the terms of which call for |an exhaustive study of the 'mineral deposits in North 'Carolina, the most feasible methods of producing vit ally needed metals there-; from, with specific recom 'mendations regarding con-; struction of plantfe. This; j survey will be started im-: | mediately, it was announc ed today by Governor J. | Melville Broughton... Prominent among the metals which are now need led in the war effort are sponge iron and magnes ium. j Sponge iron will help an swer the need for scrap j iron, necessary for the pro duction of steel, and mag jnesium is the tremendously Allied troops fighting in j North Africa are familiar] with rationing of the scar cest commodity there—w ra ter.- From private to gen eral, water rations are id- I'lfr •• *" 3& ijn^'iUtiiffM'' TOBACCO GROWERS RECEIVE MORE FOR THIS YEARS CROP I Raleigh, N. C. Feb. 23- North Carolina producers of tobacco realized $63,324, 813 more from their leaf crop during the current ! season than in the boom year of 1919, according to figures released yesterday -by W. P. Hedrick, tobacco marketing specialist with the State Department o f Agriculture. The average | price in 1919 was $52 per hundred pounds as compar ed with $38.83 for 1942.; Although the acreage was much larger in 1919, the increase in yield per acre was substantially greater in 1942. Total sales were $237,324, 813 for 611,154,857 pounds during the current market ing season as compared! 1 with $174,000,000 for the 1919 crop. Growers of flue-cured to bacco sold 605,295, 532 pou-; nds in 1942 as against 476, 050, 545 pounds in 1941. Last season’s crop averag ed $29.31 per hundred pounds. In the Old Bright Belt inj the current season, 78,649, 426 pounds sold for an av erage of $40.06 per hund red pounds; Middle Belt, 109,193,856 pounds at $41.70 per hundred; New Bright Belt, 312,069,247 pounds at $37.86; and Border Bek, 106,383,002 pounds at $37.30 per 100 pound®. Burley tobacco averaged $42.08 per hundred pounds on sales totaling 6,829,326 pounds. -[i . • Subscribe to the Record MAKE Jg EVERY PAYDAY ■bond oay ■ I. ■■■—M ,4 important metal which combines the qualities of aluminum and steel ' Mr. Brassert’s prelimi nary report substantiates opinions expressed previo usly by engineers who had investigated possibilities of a huge metal industry i n North Carolina. Mr. Bras sert, who has built blast furnaces in almost every metals area in the world, is immediately qualified for this investigation, and his report will have important acceptance by engineers I and the metals industry i generally. That the people not only in North Carolina but thr oughout the nation are keenly interested in the possibilities of this new in dustry is evidenced by the response received by the j Department of Conserva tion and Development sin ice first announcements iwere made concerning Nor th Carolina’s long-neglect ed minerals. jDR. BENNETT HOME FOR WEEK END Dr. W. L. Bennett, repre sentative in the state Leg islature, was home during ind» Here- - ’turned to Raleigh on Sun day so that he could be pre sent for the important ses sions this week. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. HICKS Funeral services for Mrs. Nora Hicks, 89, were held Monday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the Bolens Creek Baptist church. Rev. A. Z. Jamerson and Rev. Ellis Donohoa officiated. Bur ial was in the family ceme tery at Windom. Mrs. Hicks had been a member of the Baptist church for many years. She is suryived by one daugh ter, Mrs. Angie Banks, two grandsons, Herman and Clyde Banks, three great grand children, and a host of friends. i j Mrs. Lester Hevner of Lincolnton is visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hensley. RATION REGISTRATION Registration for per manent ration books will begin in Yancey County on March 1. Complete instructions, including a form which may be filled out at home, will be car ried in this paper next week. Watch for this, and read anything you may see in the Asheville or other papers. The regis tration will be held at the high schools, and fin al details will be arrang ed at a meeting of school principals today. _,
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