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VOLUME EIGHT SUB. RATES: SI.OO YEAR.
—Men In Service—
Pvt. Albert Whitson has!
returned to Camp Howze,
Texas after spending a few
days with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Whitson qf
Ramseytown.
Mark W- Bennett is visit
ing Mrs. Bennett and other
relatives here on leave.. He
is stationed at Fort Mif
flin, Pa.
Pfc. Hoyett King spent a
10 day furlough with his
family at Cane River. He
is stationed at Camp Mc-
Cain, Miss.
Bill Wyatt who has re
turned to the States after
serving several months in
North Africa has been vis
iting his grandparents, Mr
and Mrs- Griffin Chrisawn
of Micaville. He has now
returned to camp.
Fred M. Sparks, seaman
2nd class, who recently com
pleted his boot training at
Jacksonville, Fla.’ is now at
the naval school in Mem
phis, Tenn.
Clarence Boone, son of
Mr and Mrs. Douglas
Boone, is at home on fur
lough from Camp Barkley,
Texas
Sgt. Luther B. Ray is at
home on furlough from
Camp Barkley, Texas.
James Brown, son of Mr.
and Mrs. George Brown, is
visiting home folks on leave
He is with the air forces,
Sheppard Field, Texas
Cpl- Lee B. Silver who
has been stationed at Camp
Mackall, N. C. for the past
year is now at Camp Polk,
La. He is still with the
Glider troops.
Mack Thompson has been
home on furlough from
Fort Belvoir, Va. where he
has been stationed since
entering military service.
Charles W. Silvers, sea
man 2nd class, has complet
ed boot training at Bain
bridge, Md. and has enter
ed naval air technical scho
ol at Jacksonville, Fla- ~ ,
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Ray,
formerly o f Pensacola,
have received news of the
safe arrival of their son,
Lawrence Milton Ray in
Great Brittain
Pampa Army Air Field,
Texas. North Carolina’s
v lone representative in the
current lower class of Avia
tion Cadets training at this
twinengined advanced fly
ing school of the AAF Cen
tral Training Command is
David N- Low, 20, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Low
of Burnsville.
Cadet Low is a graduate
of Burnsville high school
and was attending North
Carolina State College
when he enlisted in the
Army in February of 1943.
At the completion of his
rigid training here, he will
be assigned to duty as an
instructor or a combat pilot.
THE YANCEY RECORD
“DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY”* | -
Thunderbolt Pilot
Once he took wide-eyed
citizens for a Sunday plane
ride . . . now he flies a
Thunderbolt fighter on es
cort with the bombers
pounding Europe. He’s Lt.
Sam J. Huskins, Jr., 22-
year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam J Huskins, Sr.,
of Burnsville.
A former student at Mars
Hill college, and at Indiana
Technical college, Fort
Wayne, Ind., Lt. Huskins
was employed by a flying
service at Fort Wayne be
fore entering the service.
He trained at Pine Bluff,
Ark, and Sherman and
Foster fields in Teras. He’s
rated a “sharpshooter” in
aerial gunnery, and has al
ways been r prowling over
the bomber formations on
several highly successful
raids in Germany and
France.
Before going to England
with a fighter group, Lt.
Huskins was stationed at
Mitchel field, L. 1., and
Westover field, Mass
A. S. William A. Banks,
19, son of Mr. and Mrs. W
K Banks of Burnsville, has
arrived at Washington Un
iversity, St. Louis, Mo., for
a course of Army Air Force
instruction lasting approxi
mately five months, prior
to his appointment as an
aviation cadet'in the army
air forces. During this per
iod he will take numerous
academic courses, as well as
elementary flying training
Upon completion of the
course he will be classified
as a pilot, 1 navigator or
bombardier, and go on to
schools of the flying train
ing command for training
in these specialties.
Virgis Anglin of the U.
S. Marine Corps is home on
leave visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Richmond
Anglin. He has been sta
tioned at Bayonne, N. J.
John J. Edge who has
been stationed at Camp
Edwards, Lass, was recent
ly transferred to the army
air corps and is now at the
Greensboro, N. C. air base.
Pvt. Luther L. Byrd who
has been stationed at Fort
Lewis, Wash, for several
months and is now at
Shreveport, La. has been
home on furlough visiting
his wife at Higgins. He is
the son of Mrs. Ida Byrd
of Burnsville route 1.
Cpl. J. B. Wheeler of the
Army Air Corps has been
spending a furlough with
his mother.
Charles Elliott who has
been attending Berea Col
lege, Ky. has been inducted
in the army and Jeaves for
active service this week.
I Sgt. Hiram Witeon is now
stationed at Sheppard Field
Texas.
Weldon C. Burgin of the
U. S. Navy is now at Little
Creek, Va.
BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, JANURAY 27,1944
— W- ; :
TAG DAY FOR INFAN- LEGION MEETING
TILE PARALYSIS DRIVE Members —the Earl l
January 29, Saturday, Horton Post of the Ameri-,
has been set as Tag Day can Legion and the Auxili-i
, for the “Fight Infantile ary met at the home of Mr.
; Paralysis ” drive- All es- and Mrs. Dover Fouts on
forts will be made to com- Tuesday evening
1 plete the county quota on The report of Mrs. Ho
" this date. bart Ray, chairman of the
Miss Hope Buck, chair- Christmas seal sale, was of
man, states that a number particular interest to the
jj of citizens have already unit_ She reported a total
contributed and that eontri- sale of $142 if which $lO4
’ butions will be accepted at will be kept liy the local
any time by members of group to be psed in the
| the committee. county. |
Through the efforts of Mrs. Ray also read a let
the entire nation during ter of commendation from
r i the past years much pro- the N. C Tuberculosis As
’ gress has been made in sociation officials and state
! raising funds to fight this staff for the: work of the
‘j dread disease, and much local committee. The group
j progress has been made, voted to purchase suggest
,in the fight against it. ed supplies for the schools,
j This year there is an es- and to cooperate in every
pecially urgent appeal to way possiblerwith Dr. B.
. aid again in this great B. McGuire, district health
t cause. 1 officer in the program
i Schedule For Bond sales
l _ , TT " , . the county to issue War
1 G. L. Hensley, chairman Bonis 1
• for the F ourth War Loan please be on tiipe at your
j Drive, has announced the post office asuhis will give
following schedule for vis- him a greater opportunity
its to the post offices of to contact all purchasers.
’ Tuesday, Feb. Ist 1944
9:00 A. M. Windotn Post Office
10:00 A. M. Micaville Post Office
12:30 P. M. Newdaie Post Office
2:00 P. M. Celo Po3t Office
3:00 P. M Hamrick Post Office ‘
Wednesday, Feb. 2nd 194*
i 10:00 A. M. Day Book Post Office \
r 11.30 A M. Toledo Post Office
12:30 P. M. Green Mountain Post Office
! Thursday Feb. 3rd 1944
9:30 A. M. Higgins Post Office
! 11:30 A. M. Bee Log Post Office
2:00 P. M. Ramseytown Post Office
3:00 P M. Sioux Post Office’
• Friday, Feb. 4th 1944
10:30 A. M. Vixen Post Office
; f 12:00 Noon Pensacola Post Office
Tuesday, Feb. Bth 1944
9:00 A M. Paint Gap Post Office
10:00 A M. Cane River Post Office
11:30 A. M. Bald Creek Post Office
2:00 P M. Swiss Post Office
HO KIDDING.-ARE
REALLY DOING THE sf^U
' Be 2£ ! —
v U, $. Trttuury D*f.rtmtnt
jSTUDENT NAMED TO
OFFICE IN COLLEGE
‘j Hasket Charles Deyton,
( son of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll
| Deyton, of Green Mtn. has
been named president of
the senior class of the Uni
versity of Louisville <Ky.)
[ school of dentistry, accord
ing to information receiv
hed here He was president
of his sophomore and jun
ior classes.
Young Deyton graduated
‘ from Clearmont high scho
ol in 1937 and did pre-med
•iical work at Berea college,
1 Ky. He resigned a tem
porary commission as sec
‘ ond lieutenant in the medi
-5 cal administrative corps to
> go on active duty as a pri-!
- vate first class in the army
. specialized training pro
' gram. Upon his graduation
• from the university, he will
I be commissioned a first
! lieutenant in the dental
branch of the medical corps
He is worthy master of Ep
jsilon Epsilon chapter of
r Delta Sigma Delta, interna
tional dental fraternity.
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i Leave For Pre-Induct ion
J Examination
; The following men left,
jfor Camp Croft, S. C. on
January 22 for a Preindue-;
tion physical examination:!
Burnsville : Ernest Dell- j
inger, Milton S. McKinney,!
Claude W. Hughes, Ward I
B Price, Grady Edwards,
Jay If. Styles, Melvin Fox,j
Edd Gouge (Vol.i, Bruce A
Bodford (VolJ, Claty JJ
Taylor, Charles E. Black,
Talmadge Elkins
Hamrick : Hubert J.
Gouge.
Swiss: Wesley T. Shel
ton, Britt Williams. ~* «
Bee Log: Hubert Brad
ford, Ossie Edwards, Sam
W. Bradford.
Poplar: James T Lau
ghrun.
Green Mtn.: Jess W.
Buchanan, Dewey W. Laws,
Jim McCourry, Loss Hop
s'on.
Micaville : Filmore Hu
ghes, Junior Lydie Wyatt,
Charlie A. Harding (Vol)-
Windom : Grady Whit
son, Seagel Carroway.
Newdaie: Virgil L.
Hicks (VoU, Andy Robin
son, George W. Hall (Vol),
William H. Presnell
Celo: Harold Boone.
Higgins : Clarence Mar
row.
Vixen: James Robinson.
F. S. A. NEWS
“Human destines are in
volved in your decisions”,
Frank Hancock, North Car
olina lawyer and former
Congressman who recently
was appointed national ad
ministrator for the Farm
Sec u r ity Administration,
has stated in letters to Ed
King, Burnsville; John Hol
combe, Paint Gap; Dewey
Silver, Micaville; and R. C.
Deyton, Green Mountain,
farmers who are members
of the County FSA Advis
ory Committee.
“I want to see our help
extended in away that will
make the recipents inde
pendent of help and able to
carry on without assistan
(Continued on P«X« four)
l
< Promoted
Seth McCiirry has- -been
promoted from Sergeant to
Staff Sergeant He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Clate
McCurry of Day Book, N.
C. S. Sgt. McCurry has
been in the army since Jan.
18th 1941 and is now sta
tioned at Camp Atterbury,
Ind.
14,000,000 Cords - Your
Boy’s Supplies
Why are 14,000,000 cords j
of pulpwood « needed in
1944?
A clear-cut answer may
be found in the disclosure
that the Army Service For
ces, whose job it is to equip
American invasion forces,
plan to land six tons of sup
i plies initially for every
; American overseas and an
additional ton for the first
sixty days.
ij What’s the connection.
Well, practically every
* | bit of equipment, all food
and medical supplies, and
most ammunition are all
packaged in paper or pa
perboard before being ship
ped abroad And that tak
! es a lot of pulpwood.
Without the production
: of pulpwood products, many
jof these vital supplies
might never reach their
(destination or else be un
;usuable because of spoilage.
! Pulpwood shields them
,from bad weather, salt
! water, and cushions them
against the inevitable rou
gh handling.
Many persons have In
come callous to appeals
based on big figures since)
the outbreak of the war.!
One reads daily about bill-1
ions of dollars being spent, 1
millions of this or that j
being needed. So let’s put'
it another way:
Your boy or your neigh
bor’s boy overseas, poised
for the invasion, needs six
tons of supplies packed in
pulpwood. How many cords
are you going to cut for
him?
“DON’T PUT THIS
IN THE PAPER”
“Don’t put this in the pa
per, for nobody will believe
it.” This remark was made
by Mack Ruffin to County
Agent Joe Powell of Edge
combe County one day last
fall, says E. C. Blair, Ex
tension agronomist at State
College. The occasion was
the harvest of their winter
legume demonstrations.
“It is almost unbeliev
able that a crop of Austrian
winter peas can boost the
yield oT corn from almost
nothing to 35 bushels per
acre, yet such was the
case,” Blair reports-
On October 1, 1942 Mack
Ruffin and Joe Powell sow
ed Austrian winter peas on
half of a small field, leav
ing the other half bare. By
May 1, 1943 the beas had
made a good thick growth,
almost knee high. .
They were turned under
at that time, and in a few
days corn was planted on
the whole field. The corn
all had the same kind and
(Continued on back page)
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BACKm ATTACK
NUMBER TWENTY-SIX
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To the People
of thi* Community
THINK IT OVER „
How about doing a little cold
turkey thinking after you lay
aside this newspaper tonight?
Vou’ve got a good job. The
chances are there is someone
> else in your
family, per
haps two or
three, work
ing. Your
son or your
brother
may be away
at war.
This war
-w must «nd
sometime. Your whole 'family,
your neighbors, are praying "it
ends soon and those fighting boys
of yours will come home safely.
But will you be ready for
whatever happens when petfee
i comes? Will you have some
| thing laid away? We’re all hop
ing there’ll be jobs aplenty, jobs
which mean making something
for somebody’s happiness and
not for somebody's sorrow.
That’s where your War Bonds i
come into the picture. Sure.
Americans own billions of dol
lars of War Bonds now; and be
fore this 4th War Loan ends
the.v„will have put away billions
jmore. But how about you?
You’re the one that counts. 'The
bigger the pile of War Bonds
you have when peace comes, the
bigger chance you'll have to slip
right into the post-war world
you’re dreaming about tonight.
So "Let's All Keep on Backing
the Attack "
THE EDITOR, j
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COMMITTEE FOR
FOURTH WAR LOAN
The committees named
are: Green Mtn., township,
Mrs. Clarence Bailey, Os
car L. Young, George Tur
byfill, J- W. Howell, Mrs.
Monnie Johnson.
| Newdale: Robert Pres
, nell, Mrs. Frank Wilson,
’ Joe Gibbs, Grover Robin
son.
Windom: C. P. Gibson,
James Hutchins-
Pensacola: T. J. Wilson,
Mrs* Pearson Riddle, Mrs,
P. B. Wilson, H. D- Ray.
Cane River: R. A. Rad
ford, T. H. Phoenix, Gus
Ray, Mrs- Hattie Peterson,
Sam King.
Bald Creek: Rassie How
jell, Glenn Proffitt, Anaa-
I tasia Tomberlin, Edd Pate,
Irene Edwards.
I Paint Gap: Robert Man
ey, Vergie Penland, J- W.
Holcomb.
Jacks Creek: Mrs. Mack
Bailey, Edd Hunter, A. P.
Honeycutt, Jesse Howell,
Luke Laughrun.
Egypt: Niram Hensley,
Edna Wheeler, Martin
Pate, Alma Buck, Garrett
Wilson, Rex Mclntosh.
Ramseytown: W. D Ad
kins, J. A. Hannum, R. E-
Holloway.
Micaville: W. B- Robin
son, Lee Hilliard, R. N. Sil.
ver, Mrs. Georgia Silver, H.
D- Justice.
Celo: Edd Gibbs, C. C.
Robinson, R. -S. Ballew,
Mrs. Nolen Westall, Galen
Silver.
Burnsville: B- R. Pen
land, Edd Roberts, Hershel
Holcombe, Guss Peterson,
D. H. Covington, L. V. Pol
lard, Reece Mclntosh, Thel
ma Anglin, Mrs. C. V- Bel
* garde, Bruce Westall, Nor
man Barnett, Mrs. C. R.
Hamrick.
Farm group: V- J. Good
man; school group, Hope
Buck; - industrial group,
Carroll Rogers.
Miss Lora Lee Riddle
who is employed in Balti
more is spenling a vacation
with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ransom Riddle.
Barbara Jean Allen, lau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Lon
nie Allen is recovering
from a Mastoid operation
in St. Joseph’s Hospital.