North Carolina Newspapers

Bonds will help bring Vic tory faster. Buy all you can « often M you can. VOLUME EIGHT SUB. RATES: SI.OO YEAR. BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1944 v NUMBER FORTY-FOUR —Men In Service— Lt. Carl B. Hyatt Home From European Area First Lieutenant Carl B. Hyatt is at home on leave j after serving for 20 months in the European Theatre. He is with the anti aircraft, division and was in action in Africa and Italy. Lt. Hyatt has been visit ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hyatt, Sr. in Ta koma Park, Md. and will report in a few days to Camp Butner, N. C.* \ Major Clarence McCour 'r ry is now somewhere in England with U. S. Army forces. Pfc. Craig Styles of the Marine Corps is stationed at Washington, D. C. John Cooper has receiv ed a medical discharge from service in the Navy and is now at home. Pvt. Emerson J. Woody,i son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Woody of Burnsville is now stationed at North Camp Hood, Texas. Mack R. Higgins has re ceived the rating of Petty officer in the Navy. He re cently spent a twelve day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Higgins of Cane River. He also spent a three day visit with his brother, T. Sgt. Jack Higgins at Fort Moultrie, S. C. Camp Barkeley, Texas.— Pvt. Avery Deyton, Day Book, N. C. was presented the Expert Infantryman Badge recently by Maj. Gen. Carlos Brewer, com manding general of the 12th Armored Division. The award was made during a formal military ceremony at Camp Barkeley, Texas. The Badge is presented to all infantrymen who have achieved a high de-j gree of proficiency in the many phases of doughboy training. Those qualified to receive the award are| determined through a ser ies of tests—oral and de monstrative, according to regulations of the War Department. A board of eight officers test each man volunteer ing to take the test. In cluded are exercises on scouting and patrolling, first aid, field sanitation, bayonet, discipline and courtesy, field proficiency and weapons, individual and small unit protective measures and personal ap pearance. The Badge is a miniature silver musket mounted on an infantry blue field with a silver border and is worn above the left breast pock et of the soldier’s blouse in the same position as the airman’s wings. Deyton is the son of Mrs. Martha J. Deyton, Burns ville, N. C. He is assigned to C Company of the 66th Armored Infantry Batta lion at Camp Barkeley. THE YANCEY RECORD Missing In Action Mr. and Mrs. Dave Whit son have been notified by the Navy Department that their son, Bennie Whitson is missing in action in the ' Pacific area. He is in the | Navy. Mr. and Mrs. Whitson who now reside in Erwin I but are formerly of Bee Log, have three other sons I in service. » The following left Friday to report for duty in the Navy: James Larry Burle ' son, Bruce Westall, Perry l i England, Champ McMahan, r Ralph W. Byrd, Clarence Presnell, William Dallas , Byrd, Robert Daniel Car- I rowav. Cpl. Philip D. Evans who has been at Camp Reynolds ’ Pa. for some time is now stationed at Camp Crowder Mo. I Cpl. John P Howell is [ now stationed at Camp ; Picket, Va. I ' 1 Pvt. Ralph W. Calloway, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Calloway, Star Rt., Burns ■J ville, N. C. was recently promoted to Technician ■ Fifth Grade, and awarded the Good Conduct Medal. Prior to entering the ser -1 vice Tec. 5 Calloway was ► employed by the Carolina * Mountain Telephone Com pany, Burnsville. Tec 5 Cal ; loway is now stationed in the Aleutian Area. New Registrants The following boys be ! came 18 during May and f are now registered with the local board: Green Mtn.: Lan do n Frank McMahan, Wm. Er nest Gardner. Burnsville Rt. 1: Wm. Floyd Fox, Kennie Ernest Ray. Bee Log: Ralph Brad ford. Bald Creek: Ruben Har ris. Cane River: John C. Ay ers, Braskie Albert Allen. ( Swiss: Tommy W Buck ner. Higgins: J. C. Hensley. Celo: Reed Her mon Moody. Micaville: Wm. J. Hall. Toledo: Jesse Lee Wal lace. Day Book: Isaac Walter Tipton. Burnsville: Frank Rol and. Brevard College: John Lee Ray. Earl C. Bodford is taking boot training at Camp Peary, Va. - Pvt. Raymon Robinson son of Mr and Mrs. Bail Robinson, is now serving with the U. S. army in England. Mrs. W. A. Rathburn of Windom is recovering from an operation in the Mission hospital. Cecil Angel who is em ployed in Anstead, W. Va. will spend the week end at home. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BILL MUMPOWER DIES IN MARION HOSPITAL Bill Mumpower, 30, of Micaville died in the Mar ion hospital this morning following a sudden illness His mother, Mrs. Leona Mumpower, survives. life] 'I tails of the funeral ar ! rangements were not learn ed. i t PRISONER IS SHOT ! AND KILLED ij I George A. Miller, Jr., | serving a 15 to 25 year sen tence from Gaston county for robbery with firearms,! " was shot and killed Mon-: r day afternoon in the Egypt » section of the county. Prison officials said that ’ Miller and another prison-j ‘ er, James Lee Massey, j made a break for freedom; , while at work on the road s and that Miller was shot ■ when he failed to stop at 1 • the command of guard, W. L. Silver of Bald Creek. Massey surrendered to the > guard without trouble. » Miller was sentenced in Nov. 1943 and was located • in the Yancey Prison camp. • Mr. John E. Floyd, Dis . trict State Milk Sanitarian r is working in this district i this week with Jake F 1 Buckner, district sanitarian Leave for Pre-Induction Exams M ij The following men left .j Monday for Camp Croft M where they took the pre j induction examination for service: Murphy Edwards, Ray ; Boone, Woodrow Young, 1 Clay Edwards, Coy Austin,) 1 Carlo Riddle, Roy Biggs, 1 Vergil Presnell, Manassie Gouge, Arvy Simmons, Ed Hedrick, Lawrence Hiie. 1 mon; Yates King, Coy E. Presnell, Eddie Calloway,, Isaac Ray, Joe Fox, Burl Maney, Edmond Hensley, Odell Phillips, Lawrence Winters, DeWitt Thomas,! Vaughn McMahan, Zeb Hudgens; Wm. Edward McMahan, Albert Wilson, Baxter Pate,! Tom Wheeler, Byrd Met-j calf, Paul McCourry, Troy McCourry, Hershel Hig gins, Bill Blalock, Edward Harris, Roy Cassida, Ralph Hyatt; , j Claude Riddle, Herbert OFFICIAL PRIMARY VOTE . . ! ' i ;• ' i i, ‘ precincts | gif b f 1 I sali t?lftld%§! 4 | | I = 1 f ! I o c +£ <x> o o >»wsJ 3^cs L -jx:o X & £ S £ mom Burnsville 264 6 71 23 75 3 227 232 18 26 237 29 215 53 35 227 Cane River 155 3 2 9 44 *. 1 140 47 65 18 102 39 87 48 27 105 ! Egypt 50 11 14 7 71 30 16 6 51 4 42 4 13 34 ; Ramseytown 51 2 1 18 1 72 45 8 . 1 24 29 18 30 12 Green Mtn. 80 1 * 6 . 75 7fx 1 4 77 1 71 6 4 75 Jacks Creek 101 1 6 5 11 1 106 47 • 25 17 50 36 41 40 20 61 Brush Creek 36 1 2 41 16 8 26 4 23 6 3 27 Crabtree 69 2 9 30 51 42 8 2 38 9 39 10 6 South Toe 47 1 8 40 24 6. 10 34 7 29 13 16 24 Pensacola 18 1 10 10 10 8 7 12 l 16 Prices Creek 25 U • .5 8 27 11 6 1 11 2 9 3 14 TOTALS 896 14 13 8 86 201 - 5 860 577 163 93 660 168 581 230 140 657 , LIBRARY COMMISSION DIRECTOR WILL BE HERE Will Meetfwith Local Cit»ens - l; - "r -- - 1 Miss Marjririe Beal, sec-! retary and |i rector--with\ {the state lib|ary—commis sion, will come to Burns-! ville on Tuesday, June 6 at 10:30 o’clock Jo discuss with] the) countyfcommissioners: and other ciazens of the {county plana for county- 1 wide library service. Representatives from all sections of ale county are! urged to attind the meet-j ing so thafcj arrangements may be made for inaugur ating this very important ‘service to thVcounty. Com j mittees from civic groups will attend, ft In 1941, tl* state legiria ’ ture appropriated money for library! service, and made it av|ilable if the counties codil provide ade quate facilities. Yancey county coult| not, at that time, take advantage of the aid and net county-wide service seen possible, j The impoftance of this service cannot be too great ly stressed June! since the service is pinned for the entire, couna, all interest-] ed citizens Ire invited bo meet. Mr l • - i Ji,., Hilliard. Yshv .Leroy .Clau sen, Jack Gillespie, J. T. 1 i Blalock, Edgar Hpnter, Jr., i Earl Blankenship, Handy Deyton, Ralph Wince Hile jmon, Hoyle Hilemon, Wm.j Reece Higgins, Robt. Stan -1 ley Rathburn; . Frank Laws, Jr., Ned Austin, Dick Mclntosh, Howard Wyatt, Harold Ce cil Thomas, Vincent K. Rid dle, Lester Hensley, Alfred Gurley, R. B. Fox, Johnnie Peterson, Odis Wilson, Dock Renfro; Edgar Ledford, Albert Fender, Bruce .Silvers, Bus ' ter B. Hughes, Charles 1 Neill, Garfield Autrey, j Harley Shehan, Ruben Har ris, J. C Ayers, Wm. Robt ' Ball, Walter Edwards, J. K. Lamb, Clarence Gibbs, Jack B. Hensley, Carl Bis Young. Transfers: Jr. McNeill,! David H. Burleson, Claren-! ee Styles, Arthur Jarrett,! Jack McAlister, Ernest J Wilson, T. M. Swann, Jr. | CLEAN-UP DAYS Don’t forget Clean-Up days, today, Friday, Satur day. Adequate facilities are being provided to remove all trash collected and all citizens of the town are urged to cooperate to full est extent. 4-H CLUB WORK A schedule for the June 4-H club meetings has been arranged by Miss Russell and Mr. Shepherd, and is i printed on page 2 of this j issue. Please attend the : meeting nearest your home so that the summer pro i gram for the clubs may be successful as -possible. FU N ERA 1. SERPICES FOR HENRY SILVERS Henry Silvers, 52, passed away in a Marion hospital i Saturday morning as the result of injuries sustained the week before. He was a widely known citizen of the Celo community Funeral services were held Monday morning at 11 o’clock at the Browns Creek Baptist church with Rev. Ben Lee Ray officiat -1 ing. Members of the Men’s Bible class of the church | were pall bearers. Burial I was in the Carroway ceme j tery. i Surviving are the widow, the former Miss Hattie , Robinson; three daughters, Mrs. Fred Shuford, of Celo, Gilberta Silvers of Arling ton,- Va., and Marjorie Sil vers of Celo; two sons, Marshall of the U. S. army, now in the south Pacific and Dale at home;-, his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. (J. E. j Silvers of Celo ; three sis ters, Mrs. J. R. Gibbs of Marion, Mrs. Oscar Sim mons of Hamrick and Mrs. Edgar McNeill of Spruce Pine; one brother, A. L. Silvers of Celo. A two-week drive to step up Burnsville’s Price Con trol program will open May 29, when each one of the three members of the Burnsville War Price and Rationing Board will be asked to recruit one' Price ! Panel assistant, Mr. Rogers board chairman, announced today. BONDS FOR FREEDOM Hoey And Cherry Win Primary J Clyde R. Hoey for senate . and R, Gregg Cherry for .’governor won the nomina [ tion in the 1 state primary , by overwhelming majorit- J ies.—Hoey is eandidatc for j seat now’ held by Robert R. Reynolds in the U; S. Senate. James M. Thomas, Formerly Os 1 Micaville, Is Pacific Hero — \ The following story, ] from the Asheville Citizen, i I tells of the exploits of Pfc. * James M. Thomas, son of [ Mr.. and Mrs. Dewitt Tho mas, formerly of Micaville: Once upon a time there was an Asheville high school- boy who joined the marines and went to Nam ur island, Kwajalein atoll, in the Pacific and killed 1 more than 60 Japs - Maybe that sounds like 1 the start of a fairy tale. 1 Certainly it is not the kind 1 of thing that happens more ithan once in a generation, 2 but it has happened. 1 Yesterday Mrs. DeWitt s T. Thomas, of 102 Houston i street, mother of Janies M. - Thomas, the former high s 'school boy who made it n happen, told a Citizen re .l porter about it. -j Pfc. Thomas writes his rrjother regularly. She is , only 17 years older than he a is and looks more like site i,, might be his sister. But he i, never tells Mrs. Mrs. Thom -as says, anything about - what he is doing. j Size Makes No Difference , Sgt. Edward F. Ruder, * marine corps combat cor - respondent, writes that . Janges has proved to his - Leatherneck buddies that ’ size makes no difference - when it comes to battle, Sgt. Ruder says: *| “Although only five feet . seven inches tall and weigh ing but 150 pounds—one of the smallest men in his out-' i fit—Thomas killed more Than 60 Japanese during i the battle of Namur in the ‘ Mar. halls campaign. . . The > citai' n accompanying the awa:d said he was credited by bis squad leader with having killed personally , more than 60 of the enemy It also stated that Thomas . repeatedly exposed himself to danger from the enemy) while carrying out his mis Food Will Help Win Tfce War. Plant a Victory Gar den and grow all you can. iintaul fjherry w r on the nomina , tion for governor-,- which is equivalent to election in ! N ovember. : ■ In the county, the offi cial returns show big leads by Hoey, Cherry, Ballen tine, Pou and Johnson over j their opponents, "jv.i-■ - , sions and his intelligent use , of his machine gun was an , important factor in the de ’ struction of several enemy ■ strong points.” When he received the ■ Bronze Star from the hands of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, d commander in the Pacific area, for his exploits, he 'mailed that home, too, but he did not say anything about killing a single Jap, much less 60, He just wrote: | “You can save it to put |in my scrap book.” So, except for the text of i the citation, and newspa per stories about the fabu lous exploit of her son, Mrs. Thomas knows about the more than 60 Japs who have gone to join their ancestors in front * of her son’s machine gun. She can tell plenty about her son. He was a student i in Lee H. Edwards High d, school and crazy about s football. Then, when he was (17 years old, he went to ■ Micaville where the family ; was living to persuade his father and mother to sign papers that would permit him to get in the marines. James, who had been liv ing w’ith his grandmother, Mrs. D, M. Young, of Oak ley, and going to school in Asheville, was determined to join the leathernecks. His parents naturally hesi tated because of his youth but he was so insistent that they finally consented. : “I think his father was (Continued on page 4) FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. RENA LAWS Mrs Kenn Laws, SC, died Saturday night at 31 o’clock after an extended illness. I Funeral services were held at the Mine Fork Baptist chu rc h Mon day at 2:00 o’clock with ! Rev. James Deyton, Rev. | Zeb Renfro, and Rev. A. H. Mutschler officiating. Bur ial was in the Bailey Hill cemetery. i Surviving are three dau jghters, Mrs. T. L. Brown, Mrs. Clyde Ledford of Burnsville Rt. C Mrs. Ray Bailey of Toledo; one son, Grant Laws, who is with the U. S. Army in England; five brothers, Wess, Guss, Walter, John Edwards of Burnsville Rt. 1, and J. S. Edwards of Erwin, Tenn.; four sisters, Mrs. Zeb Ren fro, Mrs. Mary Henson, Mrs. Carrie Deyton of Bur nsville Rt. 1, and Mrs. Jeff Collis of Green Mtn.; 13 grand children. Holcombe and Edwards were in charge of arrange ments.