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“The Invasion Is On. Invas ion Is Costly. Your Country Calls For Your Support Os The Third War Loan.” VOLUME EIGHT Men In Service Lt. W. E. Anglin is spending a short leave wit! his parents, Mr. and Mrs George W. Anglin. He is stationed in Charleston. James I>. Edwards oi Camp Crowder is here or leave. He is the son of Mr and Mrs. V. L. Edwards. 7—— Pvt. James G. Laws, sor of Mrs. Rena Laws is al home on a ten day furlough He is stationed at Fort Devens, Mass. R. W. Ramsey, naval av iation ordnance man, re turned to , Norfolk tliii week after leave spent here Frank Butner, Coxwain’s mate U. S. Navy, is home , on leave. He is with the Pacific fleet. Ernest Banner of the U. S. Navy is at home on leave visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Banner. Four Sons and Son-in-law In Service Mr. and Mrs. Will Young have had four sons and a son-in-law in service until recently when one son, Burl, was given a medical discharge. He was a para trooper and was injured in training. He is now em plQyed in Baltimore. The other service men are: Smith who is tail gun ner on a bomber in Eng land. Bob is a paratrooper and has been in Africa for several months, and was in the Sicilian campaign. A fourth son, Harry, re cently joined, the navy and is now at the naval air station in St. Louis, Mo. A son-in-law, Lawrence You ng, is also in the navy and is now at sea. All of the boys are grad uates of Micaville high school. Kenneth W. Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Car ter of Bald Creek has been promoted from Private to Corporal. Cpl. Carter spent the first three months in service at Vancouver, Wash. From there he was transferred to desert man euvers in California. He has been in service now for 8 months. Before entering the army Cpl. Carter was connected with the Full-Fashioned hosiery mill at Morganton, N. C.. Arnold E. Higgins is* now at Fort Jackson, S. C. , Cpl. Bayard T. Howell who has been stationed at Camp Custer, Mich, is now at Camp Grant, 111. - Harold Bennett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pender Ben nett is at home from Camp Campbell, Ky. He has been given a medical discharge from military service. R. G. Fender left last Monday for the Navy. He was accompanied to Ashe ville by his wife, his moth er, Barbara Angel, Anna Katherine Peterson, and Earnest Robertson. | ... THE YANCEY RECORD SUB. RATES: SI.OO YEAR. f NAVY RECRUITER h 3 ; K. E. Handy Spl. c (R) * will be in Burnsville at the Courthouse o n Tuesday, f Sept. 21 from 9:00 a. m. to n 3:00 p. m. for the purpose , of accepting applications from 17 year olds for the Navy. He will also have in n formation on the Seabees t and application forms for h the WAVES, t ■ - —— REGISTERED DURING AUGUST ! ‘ The following boys who s j became 18 during the mon eth of August registered g with the local Selective Service board: e Ray Bruce Robertson, Vixen; Charles Wesley Ed wards, Cane River; Claude . M. Murphy, Micaville; Wm. i | Oliver Riddle, Star route ;,i Burnsville; Charles R. •jHamrick, Burnsville; Ken neth Letterman, Day Book; James C. Robinson, Green Mtn.; Charles A. y Branche, Micaville; J. D. ’ Silvers, Bald Creek; War . ren Blevins, Burnsville; 1 Bruce Shepherd, Swiss;! j James. Lee Silver, Newdale; 1 _ Bruce James Taylor, Rt. 1 Burnsville. Durham, N. C., —Among j the 1,600 enlisted students who are training at Duke ] University in the Navy ’ College Training Program, r V-12, is Herrick Roland j Peterson of Yancey county. The Duke Navy program lists nearly l,00(f navy tra j inees, 600 from tfye marine . corps, and a number from the coastguard. " The Yancey county stud-; j ent is a member of the Navy group. RIVERSIDE BOYS 1 IN SERVICE i The following boys from . Riverside community are iin service: Cornice Gibbs, , Grady Gibbs, Oscar Gibbs, Jr., Ottis Gibbs, John Mc i Kinney, Eulyes Silveif, Ot tis Roland, Lee Evans, Edd i Ayers, Clyde Ayers, Vyron . Riddle, Hubert Riddle, , Clarence Ball. Berea, Ky., Sept. 3. George Blake, Burnsville, N. C., son of Mrs. Julia A. Blake, is among the 300 men assigned to the V-12 Navy College Training Un it at Berea College, Berea Kentucky. Blake is a graduate of the Mars Hill high school and was formerly a stud ent at Berea College. He is classed as a senior. S. 2c. Damon Fender of the U. S. Navy spent the week end with his parents and friends. Josef Wilson of the U. S. Navy spent a short leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Wilson. " Ralph Bailey of the U. S. Navy is here on leave. Mail packages to men overseas Sept. 15--Oct. 15. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1943 . NOTICE Yancey County Local Board for Selective Service is making a complete inven tory of all registrants on September 16th through ‘ September 30th. Owing to ’ the large amount of work 1 to be done, the office will ' be open to the public during ' the mornings from nine to ! eleven o’clock only. No one will be admitted to the of [ fice after eleven o’clock during the above stated : time. Yancey County Local j Board No. 1. V BAPTIST CIIURCII I £ ' Rev. G. Carlton Cox, pas | tor of the Merrimon Ave. ( Baptist church of Asheville, will bring the message at ’ the Sunday morning ser vice. ■ j NOTICE— 'j AH registrants 18-38 not essentially’ employed, sho uld register with the U. S. 'Employment service not later than September 17. - ■ ■ ■ - • WINS AWARD J Charleston, S. C., Sept. 6.—Jake Ramsey, formerly of Burnsville, N. C., a lead- I ingman pipefitter in the [Charleston Navy Yard, has been awarded a cash prize of $18.75 —coincidently the price of a $25 War Bond—*! for a beneficial suggestion! to speed production on ; warships for the Fleet. Ramsey suggeeted the in stallation of safety shields on certain machines in the Pipeeover Shop. HOME AGENT NEWS An organization meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Silas Hensley to which ladies of the Prices Creek section were invited. Miss Russell, home agent, dis cussed plans with them for a demonstration club in their community. The Cane River Club held the regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Lela Sams. The subject of discussion for all clubs this month is “How Safe Is Your Home?” Mrs. Bill Edge will be hostess to members of th& Newdale club this after noon, and the Higgins club will meet at the home of Mrs. Dewey Higgins on Friday afternoon. NOTICE To all persons using trucks for the purpose of transporting school child ren to and from Ball Gam es heed not apply to the Farm Transportation Com mittee of Yancey county for any Supplemental Gas oline, for it will not be ap proved. The gas that they already have should be used for essential hauling and not for pleasure. Luke L. Laughrun, chair man Yancey county Farm Transportation Committee. Edwin Duncan, executive vice president of the Nor thwestern Bank is in Burn sville today. < N. C. E. A. LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD HERE — A leadership conference, sponsored by the North Ca rolina Education Associat ion, w’ill be held at the Burnsville school on Wed nesday, September 22 at 3 o’clock. School superintendents, principals, and of Madison, Buncombe, Yan cey, Mitchell, and Avery counties will attend. The N.C.E.Ai, is arrang ing the program which will consist mainly |of a discus sion of problems relating to the schools. f FORM PARTNERSHIP t Col. James O. Safford of' Burnsville and Edwin O. Fitch of Asheville have 1 formed a partnership to carry on the activities of the Safford Company. For several years the company has j been manu- 1 facturing a number of typ es of cleanser products, and recently perfected the for- 1 mula for an iiiectiside call-' ed “Sass" which has met with marked success dur ing the past season in this 1 and several surrounding counties. It will be placed: on sale for the general pub lic next year. % The company uses local-1 ly mined ami processed; feldspar in manufacture of the various products, thus! utilising raw materials of the county. In addition, all materials that are availab le in the county or state are used, and the labor is entirely from this section. The recently formed par tnership will make it pos sible to take care of the in creasing demand for the •products of the company. FAMILY REUNION OF MR. AND MRS. ZEB KINGS FAMILY A family reunion was recently held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Zeb King of Burnsville. Those pre sent included all their married children, their wiv es, husbands, and all the grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Zeb King. Attending were Mr, and Mrs. Clifford King of Buf falo, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. Clarence King and two sons, Dennis and Charles, of Waco, Mr. and Mrs. Eu gene. King, their son and daughter, Eugene, Jr. and , Norma Lonelle of Lake Toxaway, N. C., and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Peterson ( and two children, Clifford and Barbara Ann, of Bur nsville. Three children were un- \ able to attend, a daughter, ] Celia King who js employ ed at Spray, N. C. and two . sons, Bruce and Roy King ' who are in overseas service. , Mr. and Mrs. Vernon An- | glin of Elizabethton spent j the week end with relativ- ] es here. ] Virinia Atkins who has j been employed in Detroit < is visiting her mother at j Pensacola. i i» mm Ipf’ JSmA Captain Hilliard -sr.- ; yj, *- WAR LOAN ‘f | Sales of War Bonds in | the county to Thursday morning totaled approxi mately $25,000, chairman j ;R. N. Scott reported this ; morning. j The county quota is $69, 000 and all potential buy-; jers are. urged to make their? i purchases *as rapidly as possible. The drive lasts [through tlie month of Sep ; t ember. TOWN PROPERTY WILL BE ADVERTISED ; All town property on! which 1942 taxes have not! been paid will be advertisedi for four weeks, beginning Thursday, September 23. The property will be sold on Monday, October 18. Town officials urge all delinquent tax payers to pay these at once and save additional cost. MERCHANT MARINE A post-war merchant ma rine program, planned to serve our national defense at all times and return benefits to our economic security, has just been an nounced by the American Merchant Marine Institute City. Citing the need for a merchant marine fleet whi ch will continue to be a vi tal arm of the Navy and Army anrt also “an effect ive instrument by which the United States will pro mote the stabilization of in ternational conditions thr ough a more extensive par ticipation in world trade,” the Institute offered a ten point program of recom mendations to post-war planning groups which are developing the shipping po licy of the United States. The program takes into consideration that this cou ntry will have a preponder ance of the world’s tonnage when hostilities cease; that it will have a well-trained list of sea-going personnel . for manning of the vessels and also a large number of i privately-owned companies ! which alread/*have proved ' themselves competent to * operate all the increasing i tonnage being turned out < by our shipyards. i It also sets forth the eeo- 1 nomic value of our merch ant marine in terms of in- 1 direct employment lent 1 farms and factories throu- < ghout the nation ] 11 Captain Ray M. Hilliard Has Made Great Record — 4 Back Home After Much Action (The following is taken from the Asheville Citizen, Sept. 14). Wearing the bars of a captain and with 146 com bat missions asl a pursuit pilot from basesyin Austra lia and New Guinea at the age of 23, Capt. Ray M. Hilliard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee M. Hilliard of Mi caville, Yancey county’s No.j 1 airman of world war No.! 2, has come back home for a well earned rest. In the first group of American pursuit pilots to land in Australia after war was declared by the United States, Hilliard wa s one of the little band of; ! fliers who turned back the'; (Japanese airplanes there as! they attempted to attack; the Australian continent in ;the early days of the war. To New Guinea He later moved on to New Guinea and has seen a lot of action over the Southwest Pacific islands, particularly in the Buna iarea. He wears the Distinguish hed Flying Cross, ’mostly {for his dive bombing and | ground strafing in the Buna area; the air medal with oak leaf cluster; and the citation ribbon for two citations given his group by congress and the president for outstanding action in combat. The slightly built (he tips* the scales at 135 pounds) airman is reluctant to talk about what he has seen and done during the 20 months he spent in the middle of the fight against the Japa nese. Tight Places Yes, he has been in some ’ W “ IB (Continued on pug* four) Funeral Services Are Held For Edgar W. Ray Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Septem ber 12, sor r Edgar William Ray, 34, w-ho died at his home in Newport News, Va. September 9. Services were held at the Pensacola Baptist church and burial whs in the cemetery there. Surviving are his widow; the former Miss Vera Car ter, and small son Edgar Wtltiak Ray, Jr.; his mo ther, Mrs. B. B. Ray; two brothers, Hobart Ray, Bur nsville, and Wayne Ray of Pensacola; five sisters, Mrs. T. J. Wilson, Mrs. Ew art Wilson, Mrs.- Crate Blankenship, Mrs. J. T. An glin, Burnsville, and Mrs. J. B. Riddle, Morganton. Active pallbearers were nephews including Harold, Bruce and Vernon Anglin, Ted Wilson, James Ray, Alvin and Ray Blanken ship, Joseph Bennett Rid dle, Ned and Tom Lee Wil son, Albert Jamerson and Brooks Boone. Honorary pallbearers were John B. Banks, Ralph Laughrun, Dr. W. L. Rob ertson, Troy Ray, Charles Proffitt, Aldin Tomberlin, Italy Has Surrendered. Let’s AH Help Finish The Job. Buy War Bonds Now. NUMBER SEVEN pretty tight plates, he ad mits, his plane has been / shot up some, he will con i fess if you press him close , enough, “but it has never been shot up too much. “I’ve* . always managed to get ■ back,” he adds with his . slow smile. There is one thing he is not hesitant about telling _ you though, and that is ’ that it is going to take lon ger to whip the Japs than {the average person thinks. They have good equipment, a well trained army and they fight to the last. “I have a lot of respect for those fellows,” he says. Jap pilots are plenty will ing to mix it up with Amer ;. icans when their paths cross , in the air, the young veter an has found, but they are usually willing to break off j the engagement and go home if they are unable to finish off their foe after brief encounter. No Clay Pigeons “You certainly don’t feel like you are going out to shoot clay pigeons when you go out to meet a Jap figh ter,” he declared. The principal duties of his squadron was to turn back Japanese bombers and their pursuit escorts attem pting to bomb cities and, military installations in the Australian area. He re mained there for six mon ths before moving to New Guinea where he was based up until August 24 when he started his trip home. In New Guinea,- he devoted most of his time to strafing and dive bombing with his light plane. He sees the position of the united nations as much improved in the Southwest Pacific area now. We have i Frtnt i minil am —— J V Lawrence Littlejohn, Dr. J. B. Riddle, Ewart Wilson, T. J. Wilson, L. R. Carter, E. G. Carter, Crate Blan kenship, J. F. Anders and Ralph Shepherd. Flower girls included Nona Runion, Anaastasia Tomberlin, Mozelle and Madge Carter, Thelma and Elizabeth Anglin, Mrs. Brooks Boone, Mrs. Bruce Anglin, Mrs. Bruce Tom berlin, Mrs. Vernon Anglin, Mrs. Tom Lee Wilson, Or lena Jamerson, Nelleea Robertson, Mrs. Joseph Bennett Riddle, Mrs. D. J, Jamerson and Mrs. Fran-» ces Zelaska. Mr. Ray was a native off “ Pensacola and was former ly connected with the Full- Fashioned hosiery mill in. Morganton before taking a position in the ship yard in Newport News, Va. Services were conducted by Rev. Ben Lee Ray and Rev. Zemri Jamerson, as sisted by Mr. B. M. Tom berlin. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Holcombe and Edwarda funeral home of Burnsville^
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