North Carolina Newspapers

Hb£i “DEDICATED TO THE PROGMy OF YANCEY COUNTY” ' VOLUME NINE SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. —Men In Service— Ward Smith, son of Will ard Smith and the late Mrs. Evie Smith, is home after serving four years with the army. He was in Hawaii at the time o£ Pearl Harbor attack. He left for service on Sept. 6, stayed 4 years and returned home Sept. 6. Pfc. Clayton Whitson of Camp Atterbury, Ind. was ! recently home on furlaugh,j visiting his parents, Mr. and' Mrs. Hobert Whitson of Sioux. Another son, Pvt. Niram Whitson is now in Sicily where he has been stationed for several mon ths. Word has been received by Mrs. Mary Jo Curtis that her son, Pvt. Lawren ce Curtis, who was wound ed in the fighting in Fran ce, had returned to duty on August 20. An Eighth AAF Compos ite Station, England—Sec ond Lt. John H. Galloway, 26, of Burnsville, N. C., has been in the European Thea ter of Operations two weeks and is now at this B-17 Flying Fortress station where, before going into combat operations over Europe, he is receiving a final phase of training in the latest developments of aerial warfare in this thea ter. After he has completed this brief training period, in which he is being in structed by some of the Eighth Air Force’s veteran airmen, Lieutenant Gallo way, a navigator, will go directly to a combat unit to begin taking part in aerial offensive against the Nazis The Lieutenant is the son of S. W. Galloway, of Miami, Fla., and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Galloway lives at Burnsville, N. C. Before entering the service in January, 1943, he was with the Safford Company, Burnsville. Ralph W. Byrd, son es Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Byrd of Pensacola, has recently been promoted to the rank of Sergeant. He is some where in New Guinea and has been overseas since April 1944. Before enter ing service, he was employ ed in Goodyear Airplane plant at Akron, Ohio. He writes that he is get ting along fine. “Just keep the home fires burnings we’ll be coming home soon.”- Cpl. Ralph Mclntosh of Camp Mackall, N. C.' is spending a ten day fur lough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mclntosh of Bald Creek. Cpl. Philip D. Evans re cently spent a furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Evans of Ashe ville, former resident of Burnsville. Cpl. Evans is in the Sig nal Corps and is stationed at Camp Crowder, Mo. En route home he visited Mr. and Mrs. Claude Goins and son of Oak Ridge, Tenn. THE YANCEY RECORD With Paratroops Pvt. Frank D. Gillespie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gillespie of Micaville, N. C, has won the right to wear Wings and Boots of The United States Army Para- 1 troops. He has completed! four weeks of jump train-! ling during which time he | made five jumps, the last a | tactical jump at night in- 1 volving a combat problem on landing. Jumping at The Para chute School has been steadily developed to a re cognized war science. There is less than one percent chance of injury while jumping at the school. In addition to producing jumpers, Parachute Spec ialist Training is given to qualified men in Communi cation, Demolition, Riggers and Sewing Machine Main tenance, vital skills for Air borne troops. Pvt. Dean B. Higgins is now in Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta, Ga. after being wounded near Rome on June 13. Pvt. Higgins served in helping take Naples, Anzio Cassino and Rome. He now; holds the Good Conduct Ribbon, four campaign rib bons the European Theatre! of Operations Ribbon, the Purple Heart, and the In fantry badge. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs M. Higgins of Sioux, N. C., and prior to entering the service, was a graduate at Bee Log high school. James Boyce < Busterj Stamey, of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Stamey, was with the Marines who took Guam and is now stationed there. | Sgt. Joseph Goodin, Jr., is now on the Island of Guam, according to a letter received recently. S. Sgt. William Max Howell is serving with the Marine Corps overseas. Charles Radford has been promoted from the rank of seaman first class to Fire controlman. He has been with the Pacific fleet for several months. Thurman Hollifield is here on a 19 day furlough from Wichita Falls, Kan. T‘ > - .. - Robert B. Deyton is with the 18th Training Battalion 'at Camp Wheeler, Ga. ’• Lee Wallace, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wallace is with the 6th Training Battalion at Camp Wheeler, Ga. Cpl. A1 J. Dolence is now stationed at Camp Barkley, Texas. Pfc. Burnie Peterson, son ' t of Mr. and Mrs. Burnie Peterson of Huntdale, is | now with the U. S. Marines ' i somewhere overseas. Theodore M. Swann, Jr., . is now with the 6th Train -1 ing Battalion at Camp Wheeler, Ga. BURNSVILLE, N. C. SEPTEMBER 14, 1944 QUARANTINE LIFTED The quarantine against infantile paralysis will be lilted Friday, September 16 according to an announce ment from the county Board of Health today. SCOUTS WILL MEET MONDAY NIGHT The local troop of Boy Scouts will hold their regu lar meeting on Monday 'night. OFFICERS ARE NAMED AT BAPTIST MEETING The following officers ' were elected at the Yancey Baptist Association meet to serve during the coming I year: Moderator, A. Z. Jamer son; Associate Moderator, 1 D. R. Fouts; Clerk, Laura Mae Hilliard; Associate Clerk, Mrs. A. Z. Jamerson ; Sunday School Superinten dent, Arthur Thomas; As sociate Sunday School Sup erintendent. Rich m o nd Bennett; Training Union ! Director, Mrs. Andrew Johnson; W. M. LT. Super intendent, Mrs. A. Z. Jam erson ; Superintendent of Evangelism and Enlistment H. M. Alley; Vacation Bible School Director, E. J; Hall; i Orphanage Representative !Jesse Hughes. ,j The Association will meet . next year with the Mount Mitchell church on Friday and Saturday after the fourth Sunday in August. ATTENDS MEETING E. 0. Fitch of Burnsville attended a government con t- tract termination conferen i ce held Thursday at Char lotte, N. C., for contractors l and subcontractors of the ICarolinas, according to a {release just received from ; Colonel C. W. Woodward, : commanding officer of the Charlotte Quartermaster | Depot, who made local ar rangements for the meet : ing. . - ; The conference was held for the purpose of giving j’war contract holders an ? over-all picture of govern , ment procedures in contract | termination. Army, Navy and Air Corps officers who spoke at the conference stressed 5 that all contractors be pre -1 pared for the time when j their contracts will finally ( be terminated. , The meeti»g in no way indicated that termination was to be expected in the . immediate future but was 1 held for educational pur t poses in order that contrac tors might select and train qualified personnel, set up ' adequate records and un ’ der3tand the financial as jpect of the operation, ac j cording to Colonel Wood -2 ward. j Prompt payment to con -5 tractors by the government financing plans to assist contractors during recon , version, steps that will be - taken ttf review contractors E> claims promptly, and the methods and basis for set County Schools Open Monday M ~ m■■ #! Teachers warned County school!.will begin the 1944-45 3ess»n on Mon day morning, Slfotember 18. A county wifft teachers’ meeting was heffl this morn ing, and Fridaypwill also be given over to Preparatory work at the schools. The revised mt of teach ers is as follow's: Burnsville: B, M. Tom- 1 berlin, principal; Emmett Sams.'TClonnie Haskins, Mrs Mae Young, Mildred G. Hyatt, Mrs. Swann,! Mrs. Vinita Poland Rob ertson, Guss Person, Ber tha Husking Bsrs. Maude Lyon, Nettie Bennett, Mrs., Zula Wilson, ||rs. Mattie Sorrells, Willie 8. Hensley, Mrs. Joyce Shepherd, Osie Bennett, firs. Chas. Proffitt, Della Tipton, Mrs. Ollie S. Young, Bess Lewis < Mrs. Vernie Wilson, sub stituting for Miss Tipton). Pensacola: C. B. Bennett, principal; Edna Adkins, Mrs. Clyde Young, Aldine Bald Creek: R. H. Howell principal; EvelyitHill, Irene Edwards, Buii Maney, l Anastasia Tombtrlin, Billy Marie Bennett 1 , Hattie 1 Phoenix, Charles Tomber lin, Mrs. Maggie H. Robert son, Mrs. Lola Hensley, |fctrs. Lena Tilson, Zenebia* Edwards, i Madge Pergu&ewf Irene Hensley, Hope Edwards, Mrs. Phil Hensley, Vergie Duncan, Mary Frank Hen sley, Madge Carter, Annie Lee Bryson, Mrs. Tensde Wilson. Bakers Creek: Mrs. Pearl Austin. Prices Creek: Mrs .Edrus Ledford. Horton Hill: Mrs. George Mclnturff. Bee Log: Monroe Mcln tosh, principal; Mrs. Veo Pate Burnette, Max Prof fitt, Jack Mclntosh, Opha Shepherd, Mrs. Elizabeth E. Buchanan, Mrs. Vera Carter Ray, Inez Edwards, Mrs. Verna Angel, Sarah W. O. Griffeth who was taken to an Asheville hos-j pital last week for exami- ; nation, returned to his home on Tuesday. He is reported to ba resting well. Henry Stamey has re turned from an Asheville 1 hospital where he under went a thyroid operation last week. Mrs. Grace K. Hubbard of Charlotte is the guest of friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Mc- Kinney of Newport News are here for a vacation visit. tlement were among topics discussed. Colonel Woodward stat ed that termination proced ures have been set up with the least amount of red tape in order that the gov ernment can expedite set i tlements. A great deal, i however, will depend on the i form in which contractors - keep their records, he said. Hensley, Mrs.' Har mie Briggs, Mrs. Ruby B. Ad kins, Edna Wheeler, Bessie Wilson, Mrs. Lillian Mcln tosh, Mrs. Una Maney. Little Creek: Barter Sil ver, Edna Shepherd. Piney Hill: John W. Ed wards. Big Greek: Vaughtie Holloway. White Oak Flats: Joseph S. Young. Lost Cove: Mrs. Etta} Peterson. j Clearmont: Vernie Wil son, principal; -Margaret Banks, Ora Deyton, .Walton Angel, Mrs. Florence Hugh es, Cecil Deyton, Claude, I Hughes, Ola Edwards.! Maglee Ray, Mrs. Madge j Byrd, Mrs. Maphra Bennett j Mrs. Glessie Stamey, Edith} Huskins, Ruth Jobe, Clar-! ence Bailey, Ruth Hensley,! Mrs. Arta Lee Higgins,) Lois Moody. Deyton Bend: Mrs. Max ine Grimes, Jenny Deyton, Mrs. Geneva Gouge. ; Micaville: H. D. Justice, principal; Lyda B. Ray, Mrs. Phyllis Bailey, Dellma . Hensley, Violet Navy, Maude McMinn, Mollie Hen , sley, Frances Ensley, Mrs. Lillian Robinson, Mrs. Jean ette Penland Bailey, Mrs. ) Gladys Gillespie, Mrs. Hel-i 'en Silvers, Mrs. Bernice i Justice, Alberta Campbell, i 1 Mrs. Minnie H. Young, Clyde Young, Margaret P. f Chandler, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Hughes, Mrs! Pearl Ran-1 . dolph, Madlyn Bailey. Double Island: Edith Robinson, Dorris Young. Shoal Creek: Mrs. Sarah ( Silver. I Celo: Wesley Angel, Mrs. Mollie Patton. Harvard: Mrs. Luna Ray,, Mrs. Maphrie Wilson, Mrs. I Clara B. Byrd. { Locust Creek: Mildred, Robinson. Busick: Sam J. Byrd, Mamie Evans. / Seven Mile Ridge: Dew ey Gurley. ■ Burnsville Colored: Ger trude Hudson. i i . Dr. and Mrs. C. B Quincy jof Williamson, W. Va. are here for a vacation. They have been coming to Bur nsville for a number of years. i Dr. G. C. Kilpatrick of Mobile, Ala. is here for a vacation at the Nu-Wray. Mr. Edwin S. Drake of Ohio State University is spending a vacation at the Nu-Wray. He has been va cationing here for the past 25 years. Mary D. Bailey has re turned to Detroit where 1 she is employed, after spending several weeks at home. i Miss Bonnie Mclntosh of | Bald Creek has returned . j home after spending a few .' weeks visiting Mr. and Mrs. i Frank Mclntosh of Stocks- I ville and other friends and . relatives. ' Charlotte Ray is home f from Clinton, Tenn. where » she has been employed and 3 will leave to attend Greens boro College. - I * * BONOS OVSJt AMIKICA * * ) Th* tomb of the Un known Soldier overlook* Hallowed Ground the peaceful Potomac „ „ .... River, at Arlington, Va. It ia a national shrine, honoring all the heroic — t __ dead of the United f , States of America. , * | . American creases with • simple inscription— name and serial num ber mark the world _ . _ . . battlefronts for llbera- POr a Fra# W oriel *“ tion, from Normandy to Buy War Bondi bd P * n National War Fund Campaign j Two noted personages iwill make public addresses jin Asheville, N. C. on Fri , day, September 22, in behalf of the United War b und of ' North it was an nounced today by Dr. J. G. K. McClure, District Chair man for the War Fund. Mrs. Mark W. Clark, wife of the general commanding the victorious American Fifth Army, and Mr. W. W. Bell, Senior Secretary for War Prisoners Aid work in j India, will make public ap jpearances in the auditor ium of the First Methodist j church at 3:00 o’clock on | that day. Dr. McClure will i preside. The speakers will !be presented by Mr. D. ADDRESS SERVICE MEN’S MAIL COR RECTLY Atlanta, Ga.-—There is nb A. P. 0. in Atlanta, but ! some people seem to think | there is, according to Major | | Robert H. McCormack, , Fourth Service Command ! postal officer. Only recent-, jly several letters addressed 'to soldiers at APO J Atlanta, Georgia, have been deposited in the mail. Some of these have been sent to Major McCormack’s! I hands and he has spent con -1 sidei able time tracing them i to their source, only to dis cover that these letters were wrongly addressed through pure absent-mind • edness. i Despite the fact that the War Department as well as i the regular postal authori ties have been urging peo ple to address their soldier mail correctly, thousands continue to address illegi bly and incorrectly. This explains why soldiers’ mail goes “haywire” in some cases. Another thing which causes the War Depart ment trouble, state officials is the lack of the corrects address of a soldiers next 1 of kin. Throughout the 1 United States from 200 to 250 messages giving casual ty information are sent every day to the wrong ad dresses, because they are , the only ones the War De ! partment has in its files. i Bruce C. Mclntosh is now at Camp Parks, Calif. back em up NUMBER SEVEN f- : ! Hiden Ramsey. The public mee.ing will ■ be preceded at 12:30 noon ! by luncheon for women .'War Fund campaign work _l ers from twenty nearby counties in honor of Mrs. Clark, in the Presbyterian j church. At the same hour, r the Kiwanis Club will have \ Mr. Bell as guest speaker, with men War Fund cam r paign workers as guests, !in the Methodist church . dining room. -I Several representatives t from Yancey county plan lto attend this meeting in 1 Asheville, Guss Peterson, 1 county chairman, has an . nounced. COLTRANE SEES MORE FEED DURING COMING YEAR Raleiyh, Sept.—D. S. Col -1 thane, assistant to the Com | missioner of Agriculture, (told representatives of the N. C. Feed Manufacturers Association, at their ,ing at Black Mountain last week that grain production lin this State during 1944 will be around 10 per cent larger per animal unit than in 1943. Coltrane attributed the per animal increase to ltie decreased production of hogs and poultry in North Carolina during the past 10 months, declaring that “re ductions in the numbers of pigs and broilers and the relatively favorable grain crop in 1944 mean that the feed supply situation dur ing the 1944-45 feeding year will be much more fav orable with respect to live stock requirements than in 1943-44. He said that the total in dicated production of grain in the Nation will total ap proximated 112,000,000 tons compared with 115,000,0)0 tons last year. The corn ! crop, Coltrane asserted, will total 2,929,117,000 bus hels this season, and will be the fourth largest crop on !record. i “Large increases in live ! stock and poultry numbers ,in 1141-43, compared with ’ feed production, caused feed reserves to be sharply reduced. In fact, our reser ves-4iave been drawn on to 7 such an extent that the (Continued on p«c« tour)