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PAGE TWO —“- I - - THE YANCEY RECORD ESTABLISHED JULY, 1936 Editor v . Mrs. C. R. Hamrick ''" :■ - , ~ ; .... , Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING CO. A Partnership Entered u second-class matter November llth, 1936, at the ' Post Office, at Bornsville, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1878.. ■■■■■■■■rmmimmbmmmmmrbbr^rbrrrrmmmbmmmmbmmbmmmbrmbmmmmmmi PULPWOOD NO LONG ER “A FORGOTTEN CROP* ~ “This is a crop I’ll never neglect again”, many farm ers today are saying of pulpwood because of their experience during the last year. Many farmers starting thinning their woodlands a year ago in response to 1 Government appeals and, because it was a patriotic, thing to do. Now they are! keeping it up because* they’ve found pulpwood cutting is also good busi ness. A year ago Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wick ard observed that many! American farmers “have a! forgotten crop that can bej harvested any time” in an appeal for greater pulp wood production. Today he would have to change his description of pulpwood. It! is no longer “a forvotten crop.” Lots of farmers have. War Bonds to show for the pulpwood they have sold in the last year. Others have’ new farm equipment or cancelled mortgages. All have improved woodlands if they thinned their trees properly, Pulpwood has been a life saver for many small farm ers who heretofore relied on a single crop for their livelihood. Too often a per-’ verse weather—a long drought or a severe storm wiped out their season’s work before harvest time. Patriotism often pays in cash as well as in the satis faction of knowing that one is serving his country. I BUY WAR BONDtv i r“ — ' ' ~ The Farmer and by Mr. \. S. Go*. r , f BL *|H Matter of the Motional (,run%e VI7E FREQUENTLY hear farm- Vr ers raise the question as to whether or not they shou’.d buy War Bonds as long as they are in debt. The answer to this question should depend in large measure upon the nature of the debt and whether or not it is current. If part of it is past due, and the borrower expects to experience difficulty in meeting past due payments, he probably should bring his debt into current position before investing in Bonds. If, however, his pay-, ments are current, there seems tp, be no reason why farmers should not buy as many Bonds as ttoey are able. Most individual invest ors in government Bonds are car rying debt in one form or an other, at rates higher than the Bonds will yield. This is as it should be if the purchaser is in an earning position which permits the accumulation of some surplus, for we all owe It to our government to do our utmost in the financing of the war t even, though the trans action may- result in our paying some extra interest on outstand ing debts. When a fanner owes money, he Is always concerned as to whether his crops will sell at prices which will enable him to repay his debt. When prices are high It Is good business and conservative finance to reduce the debt as rapidly as , possible because when prices are low, it takes more crops and more efforts to make the payments. We sbeuld net forget, how eeer, that a government Bond «« * iHD pay off ait equal amount of dollars of dobt, no matter wfeafkar prices are high or whether prices are lew. It la, therefore, a sound and con ••**»«*« practice to bay gov- ] cram sat Bonds and lay them CARELESSNESS CAUSE OF MOST FARM FIRES Every fifteen minutes there is a farm fire some -1 where in the United States, destroying precious crops, equipment, buildings, and the Nation’s most valuable asset —human life. Accord ing to the records, eight hazards cause eighty-five per cent of America’s farm fires and all of these haz ards stem from careless ness or failure to create adequate bulwarks against ! known fire dangers. The period of October 8, to 14 has been set as Fire Prevention Week. Farmers have been asked to study their fire hazards and build {defenses against them. David S. Weaver, hpad of the Agricultural Engi neering * Department at State College, suggests that farmers consider defective I chimneys and flues, the danger of sparks lighting on flammable wmoden roofs and the equipment that 1 protects buildings from 'lightning. He further suggests that growers watch for spon taneous ignition, careless handling of matches and 1 cigarettes, careless use of| gasoline and kerosene,* dj feetive and improperly | stalled stoves and furuaceß, and faulty wiring asud. mis iuse of electricity. The barn is a particular ly good place U p* c he start ing of a fire, It should be thoroughly checked from every angfe and kept clean “In fact, the week of Octo bers to 14 is a good time to do the fall cleaning for the house, the barn, and all out buildings and to study the fire prevention set-up on the farm,” Weaver says. aside to make payments on , existing debts when, fall , due. In fact, qui.|e sfddr from fl the patriotic it to good I business to buy Boo'd* rather f • than fr (-payment* on v i deb ‘> because the time may 1 come vheu the ready caah to needed and the money tied up ; in pre-payments cannot be re turned, If this money is in- j | ! vested in Bonds, It can be con- i I ! V? r *ed into cash to meet any seeds which may arise.. K everyone followed, the policy of buying no War Bond#; until their dobts were paid, fe* Bonds would be sold to the public. We have an obligation to, help finance this war which is vastly more important tnan me taeome we may receive W.rXSr"™ 1 01 to Farmers are finding It Impossi ble to maintain their machinery I ' and building, in a satiafactory I repair. They are finding ‘ ' that they cannot replact worn-out ' . equipment except at excessively 1 ' high cost. .. It would seem to be sound and conservative business ! . practice to lay aside money * to moke the repairs and re- 1 place worn-out •qulpment when material and machines are again available. Ne safer place can be found to lay aside '1 money for such purposes than In government Bonds. Every time we buy a Bond we 1 ■are not only assisting in financing , the war, but we are also doing our /! * bit to prevent that most dreaded C economic disaster called Inflation. I' If each one of us would invest es ' much at we could in government Bonds, the danger of inflation r would be greatly reduced. V. S. Trtatury Dtfarhnm, 'Wn 11 VV AMERICAN PEOPLE * GIVE 30 MILLION DOL LARS IN 11-YEAR FIGHT <JN POLIO In the last eleven years the American people have contributed $29,562,742.54 to conquer infantile paraly sis, Basil O’Connor, Presi dent of The National Foun dation for Infantile Para lysis, announced today at , the opening of the annual ‘ meeting of t|ie Medical Ad visory Committees of the National Foundation at the 3 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. At that meeting applications ■’ for grants to carry on med j ical research will be consid j ered and further plans for ? carrying on. the fight aga “ inst infantile paralysis will ' be made. ' This money was raised through the Celebration of President Roosevelt’s Bir , thday and the March of ! Dimes, held in January of each year* starting in 1934. Sixteen million dollars, [•or more than half of the total given, was rrised in [the two years of 1943 and I Mr. O’Connor 9aid. LATE SEEDED GRAINS 1 COST GROWERS MONEY With the same land, lab or, ; seed, and fertilizer, small grain yields may be ( considerably increased in ‘ North Carolina, if crops are 1 planted at the ideal time, says W. H. Rankin, associa te agronomist qf the Agri cultural Experiment Sta . tion at State College. Records for three years i at the Piedmont Test Farm near Statesville clearly ’| prove the point. Note th > ] following seeding dates and - corresponding average aero , yields for oats during th > ■ period: October 1, 6322 bus hels; November I, 3&9 bus . hels; and November 15, . 26.4 bushels. A delay of . forty-five days in seeding i the crop brings a 34.8 bush el decrease per acre. With oats at 90 cents a . bushel and a farmer plant ing 30 acres; the loss is $20.88 a day, when he waits 45 days to plant. The / barley records at Statesville for the three year period show an aver age yield of 41.6 bushels on October 1, 34.9 bushels a month later, and 28 bushels <m November 15. The aver i yield of oats is about ’SO per cent greater than barley „ when planted on October 1 but the yields are about the same when both crops are seeded November 15. Some years late seeded | grains., are almost complete failures. Growers need to wait lat er to seed wheat because of the Hessian fly damage. Average yields of wheat at Statesville were 25.2 bush els for October 15, 22.8 bus hels for November 1, and 18.1 bushels for November 15. “deeding small grains on time is 1 cur-cost insurance (for better yields,” Rankin S3yß. t 1-v u The U.. 3S. has 5,000 fro zen-food locker plants— lowa, s&ty: Minnesota, 470; 34; Gewgmt, 27; and Nor th CaroKaa, 14. ' R’ B mighty earty to jump from scarcity to a surplus. The late summer onion crop is reported at 300 million pounds more than thei re cord crop of 1939. y There are nearly five ac- 1 t'es of forest land in th & United States for each man , vqn jan and child. THE YANCEY RECO RD ■■ ■ ■ ’ ■ ■ ■» ■ . Additional Lumber for Farmers Farmers in the county! are permitted under recent WPB Orders to obtain ad [ ditional lumber without ! getting a certificate from; ’ the County Committee, ac ' cording to information re ceived by Mr. J. A. Han num, Chairman of the Yan ’ cey County AAA Commit : tee. Under one of these provisions certain lower ! grades of lumber can now |be obtained until October 1 without any certificates. This includes No. 4 or lower 1 grades of Southern Yellow ‘ Pine, No. 3 or lower grades of Hardwoods, and all culls ana rejects at sawmills or yards. Another order provides | that any farmer who cutsj trees on his own farm to have sawed into lumber may receive up to 5,000 board feet of lumber sawed from such trees in a calen dar year without giving the . sawmill a certificate or ■ rating. This applies to saw mills cutting more than 100,000 board feet per year as well as the smaller mills. ONE FOOD SHIP | Atlanta, Ga.—With all phases of the 1944 food production battle virtually complete and going into thej i final drive—harvest Head j quarters, Fourth Service j Command released figures today showing that the pro-| ducts from 3,824 average farms are required to load I a single ship with food for] • fighting men overseas. 1 Just how much work is required on the home front is indicated by figures ! showing that the average United States freighter, bound for a foreign port, will be loaded with: 6,000 barrels of dried eggs—a • year’s work for 228,137 • hens; 6,000 barrels of dried f milk—a year’s work for • 2,783 cows; 16,522 cases of evaporated milk—a year's 1 work for 304 cows; 20,000 ' boxes of cheese—a year’s, 5 work for 3,037 cows; 14,500 • big cans of pork—the meat from 5,021 hog§; 16,800 boxes of lard—the fat from • 27,622 hogs; 6,061 sacks of flour—wheat from 838 ac -1 res; 26,111 cases of canned 1 vegetables—equal to the 5 yield from 40 acres of to ‘ matoes, 100 acres of snap ■ beans and 102 acres of peas. i 1 V-DAY SERVICES i 1 A union service will be held at the Burnsville P;ap -1 tist church at 8 p. ni. on the day that Germany surrend ers. Members of the congre gation of the churches and all other interested per sons are invited to attend ■ this service. ; .Wood cellulose, chemical , Iy treated, can be changed into gunpowder, paper, ra-j I yon, felt, alcohol, photogra phic film, cellophane, imita tion leather, glycerine, sug ar, plastics, molasses, yeastl lacquers and food proteins j I BUY 1 , VJSBMI UNIT®I>). USTAT E Si Ijl WAR vflir ONDS | STAMPS | In case the farmer requires : 'more than 5,000 board feet, which has been cut from i his own trees, he may ob , tain such by providing the sawmill with a certificate from the county committee or a rating. The provisions regarding farmers obtaining lumber for maintenance and repair of farm dwellings and ten ant houses are still in ef fect. These provide that he may obtain without a certi ficate small quantities of lumber under an allotment for that purpose issued to each dealer, or by having his own lumber sawed at a mill producing less than 1 100,000 board feet annually, :or by obtaining a prefer ence rating from the county ■ committee for certain uses ' for necessary repairs or by applying to the county com mittee for a certificate to be used for rebuilding or restoring a tenant or dwell ing house* damaged or de stroyed by fire, flood, or other disaster within 90 j days. 1 CHURCH NEWS i Presbyterian Church In the . town church, Sun ‘l day School will meet * at ) 10:15. The worship service i I will be at 11 o’clock. i The Women’s Missionary . Society will meet with Mrs. ; George V. Anglin on Wed nesday night at 8 o’clock. [Mrs. A. H. Mutschler will be the leader. In the out of town chur ches there will be preach ing services at Mine Fork at 2 o’clock; at Lower Jacks 1 Creel: church at 3:30 and at Low Gap at 3 p. m. f | , * I FARM PRICES HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR Raleigh. Prices rtx'iv-- jed by North Carolina far * mers for corn sold ‘ n A uj * ust averaged $1.64 per bus- 1 ! ihel, 10 cents more per bus- 1 Shel than that pf August 15. j ' 1943, according to • Clyde Willis, State Department of ‘ Agriculture' crop economist Wheat sold for $1.62 per ■ bushel as of August 15, 1 oats, 96 cents; barley, $1.40;i 1 and rye, $1.77. The drop in hog prices | ' halted at $12.30 per hund-j * red on June 15, held steady at that level on July 15, and on August 15 moved to an average of $12.90. Cotton brought an esti mated 21.1 cents per pound, as compared with 20.6 cents on August 15, 1943. MONTHLY REPORT NORTH CAROLINA, •YANCEY COUNTY. The following exemp- I lions were issimd: $32.79. The following vouchers , were issued: i From General Funds: , $2,141.31, I From Poor funds: $121.61 ■ From Debt Service 47.55 From Health funds 120.00 I, Earl C. Wilson, Regis ter of Deeds, in and for Yancey County, State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Yancey County Board of Commissioners, as of September 4, 1944. Witness my hand and of ficial seal this the 11th day of September, 1944. Earl C. Wilson, Register of Deeds, Yancey County, North Carolina. r- —t A single seed tree left by loggers to reseed surround-1 ing areas may release as) man, 1 as several million! seeds— BURNSVILLE WOMAN’S CLUB CALENDAR 3944-45 • " IV. Sept. 14.—Subject: Fall Flowers. Leader:.- Mr?. Troy Ray; Hostesses: Mrs. Clarence Briggs, Mrs. H. G. Bailey. Mrs. J. B. King. v Oct. 12.—Subject: Our rseponsibility to our government Leader--Mrs. R. V. Wilson; Hostess 3g; Mrs. W. B. Wray,Sr., Mrs. G. L. Hensley, Miss Tiilie Rotha. Nov. 9.—Subject: Armistice Program; Leader: Miss Tiilie Rotha; Hostesses: Mrs. D. R. Fou.s, Mrs. Fred Proffitt, Mrs. H. G. Crowgey. Dec. 14.—Subject: Christmas Program; Leader: Mrs. T\ P.. Barber; Hostesses: Mi«. C. P. Randolph, Mrs. L. G. Deyton, Mrs. Hershel Holcombe. Jar. 11.—Subject: The Library as a factor in Educa io*\ Leader Mrs. JS. LeFevre; Hostesses: Mrs. J. A. Oodin, Mis. Troy Ray, Mrs. C. L. Proffitt. Jan. Hr—(Open Mieting at Club Housei Subject: Inter national Relations. Leader: Mrs. D. R. Fouts. Hos tesses: Mi s. A. 11. Mutsqhler, Mrs. J. A. Watson, LI rs. F. R. Barber,. Mrs. Geo. Robinson. Feb. B.—Subject: Today in American Drama. Leader: Mrs. Joe Young. Hostesses: Mrs. Hobart Ray, Mr;i. W. W. Hennessse, Miss Osie Bennett. Mar h B.—Subject : Progress of North Carolina School i in last decade. Leader: Mrs. C. L. Preffi tr - Hostes ses: Mrs. J. P. Lyon, Mrs. J. S. LeFevre, Mrs. Clar ence Berryman. April 12.—Subject: Birds and Wild Flowers of North Carolina. Leader: Mrs. V. J. Goodman. Hostesses: Mrs. J. L. Ray, Mrs. A. E. Parrish, Mrs. R. Y. Tilson, Mrs. P. C. Colette. May 10.—Subject: Music and Art. Leader: Mrs.- G. L. I Hensley. Hostesses: Mrs. Vernie Wilsun, Mis. V'. ,1. Goodman, Mrs. Joe Young. © 1" K ONI COAT COVIM WALL. ill RAPIR, painted waN«, walU rwf Sj board, baoomont wo**. WWmIJA-sAL f ARUMS IASILY wttfa o wWo IMBiffiWJ [ bruth or wttb lb* Kom-Tooo I i Rollor-Koator. | ONIOAUONROttTMAVM. (DOVB| I i I AM ROOM. WITH WATOM WAUPANM ' Km-Tmt ”*• BSSPB j ROLLER-KOATER K||Lg ever you* V watli qulob- injy. \ Sfij WARMS i > t mtSSfl mmmmm | for protection tkat fasti MUT.II ' ' * w* RAVI MM YOU BUT R m y -M-AUMZINR low PRIO tour bom mttur m rrautmm •—rn Per Cu.”on W* RRAUTT bONMR N BOOM ppt s3.ft WIW THI NIW WQ&Q* MiRACif wau ftmjH mrmA «. I B. B. PENLAND & SON Lumber & Building" Supplies * BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1944 Almost five h uicLr - J (years before Columbus, ( Vikings made .regular trips f to get timber for their sailing vessels.
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