keep faith
VOLUME NINE
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—Men In Service-
Missing In Action
Pfc. Paul Bailey, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Wes
Bailey of Higgins, has been
missing in action in
since Sept. 28 his' parents
have been informed by the
War Department.
u _. Promoted
Seth S. Peterson haa been
promoted to the rank of
Staff Sergeant and is now
serving as a mortar platoon
section Sergeant in the wes
tern Europe area, accord
ing to a news release re
ceived here.
Floyd Stone of Bee Log
was slightly wounded in
action in Holland, his wife
has been informed by the
War Department.
Milton Shuford who hasj
been overseas for several
months has returned home
and is now at Celo.
Sgt. Woodrow R. Matth
ews has been sent overseas
according to information:
received by his sister, Mrs.'
Dora Hillemon.
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Pvt. James H. Arrowood
who is stationed at Ft. Jack
son, S. C. spent the week
end with his wife at Bee
Log.
Staff Sergeant John Mc-
Courry who has been in a
station hospital in Califor
nia because of recentTinjur
ies, is now improving ac
cording to a report sent his
mother, Mrs. Barbara Mc-
Courry of Bee Log.
James T. Walker of Fort
Knox, Ky. has been horn 3
on leave.
Harold Harris is now at
the naval training station,
Bainbridge, Md. for boot;
training. He is the son of I
Mr. and Mrs. Sol Harris of
Burnsville.
Cpl. Frank 0. Ray, sno of
Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Ray, has
now landed safely overseas
according to Unformation
received by his" parents. He
entered service In August,
1943 and was stationed at
Fort Jackson, Ft. Leonard
Wood, Camp Claiborne and
Granite City, 111. before
going overseas.
Pvt. James A. Edwards
is with the sth Ferrying
Group, Love Field, Dallas
Texas.
Hello, Home Folks, I’m!
now somewhere in England,!
and it has been about 4
months since I received a
copy of the good old home
news. Being overseas, any
of us surely wants to hear s
from home and if you will
send it to me I will appre
ciate it.
The country here is nice
but nothing like the good
old N. C. mountains. I have
visited Liverpool, England.
Tell every one of the
many friends in Yancey
county Hello for us boys ov
er here and we hope to be
back soon.
Pvt. Ned Evanß.
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THE YANCEY RECORD
"DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” .
SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR.
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r Killed In Action
, Pvt. Homer Peterson was
killed in action on Septem
-1 ber 28th in France, accord
| ing to a telegram received
‘ last week by his parents,
| Mr. and Mrs. Chris Peter
' son of Day Book.
Mr. and Mrs. Milt John
son of Bolens Creek have
received a telegram from
, their son, Pfc. Jack E„
‘ Johnson, that he has arriv
ed in California. He has
1 been with Marine Corps
’ forces in the Pacific area
and has been wounded
‘ twice. *
r Herrick Peterson, Naval
’ R. 0. T. C." Student at Duke
\ University, is on leave vis
[ iting his parents here. His
room mate, Ray Nunnally
of Oklahoma came home
ij with him.
| Pfc. Iliff E. Clevenger:
1 been transferred from
Camp Stewart, Ga. to the
. Salina army air field, Sa
i Una, Kansas.
; Cpl. Wesley McCurry is
j stationed with the 201st Ih
| fantry, Fort Jackson, S. C.
Howard Bennett, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Pender Ben
nett of Burnsville, is at the
Naval Training Station,
Bainbridge, Md. for boot
training.-
£yle Dean, S. 2c, former
ly of Cheoah, N. C. is now
serving with the Pacific
fleet.
William Blalock, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Worley Bla
lock of Horseshoe, is now
at the Medical Field Service
School, Camp Lejeune, N,C.
Bill Mclntosh, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Mclntosh is
taking boot training at
■j Bainbridge, Md.
Pvt. T. M. Swann, J'r.,
who has been stationed at
Qamp Wheeler, Ga. is now
in a station hospital in Vir
ginia. Mrs. Swann has gone
to see him there.
Bill Howard who has
been in service for several
months was recently given
a medical discharge and
has been visiting relatives'
at Bee Log.
Dee Adkins, seaman, 2c
has been spending a leave |
with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Gilbert Adkins of
Huntdale.
j Pvr. Paul T. Robinson is
'stationed at Camp Joseph 1
T. Robinson, Ark. j
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BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1944
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NOTICE
The Board of County
Commissioners will hold the
regular November meeting
5 on Nov. 8, 1944 instead of
J Nov. 6.
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CALVIN EDNEY WILL
1 SPEAK HERE
t** . .
- Calvin R. Edney, candi
date for State Senator from
the 30th Senatorial District
* will speak at the Republi
\ can Rally Friday night,
Oct. 27 in the Court House.
* Voters of the county are in
. vited to hear Mr. Edney.
5 RIDINGS WILL SPEAK
i .
1 Solicitor Clarence O. Rid
ings of Forest City will
Speak at the Cane River
1 precinct Democratic Rally
1 J which will be held at Bald
■J Creek on Saturday night,
5 Oct. 28. All voters are in
r vited to hear Mr. Ridings.
; Clyde R. Hoey will be
the speaker at the county
. wide Rally to be held at
■ the Court House on Friday
| night, Nov. 3.
“No Place Like Ho|e M
i Especially When Hurricane
Strikes
I ,
I wonder if the editor of
j the Record ever sat in
' gloom and darkness for a
'.period of six hours in a
»j tropical hurricane expect
: ing every moment to be
wafted into Kingdom
Come? That - was what
happened to me last Thurs
, day—and boy, was I scar
ed! For the time being it
seemed that every wrong
r act of my life, from the
. cradle to the present time,
, bobbed up before me like
> specters in the dark. For
, the first time in my life a
j storm so grated on my ner
! ves, and I felt I needed Al
-1 mighty’s protection badly.
I sat in a chair shak
ing and trembling, my 89
year old blind brother felt
his way from room to room
with his lips moving in
prayer for our safety.
V According: to the weath
erman, this little bubble of
| trouble played around in
' the Carribean for two or (
three days, then decided it,
would see what it could do!
in the way of destruction!
and- incidentally put fear
'into people's hearts. >
It started on its journey,
, gathering force as it made
] its way. The papers tell you
what it did for Cuba. Cross
ing the Gulf of Mexico .it
| struck Florida, and crossed
1 the inland part of the state
i to Jacksonville, where Sou
th of the city it made its
way into the Atlantic and
'thence up the East coast
through the Carolinas, into'
; Virginia where breathed its
i last and went to sleep
i among the Virginia hills.
The hurricane struck)
I Jacksonville around 7:00
o’clock Thursday morning, j
| coming in off the ocean. It
was hot and sultry. Dark-j
ness crowned the city* as
waves of mist hugged the
earth like a smoke screen
on the western front. With
in an hdur after the storm
hit the city was in darkness
“A” BOOK APPLICA
TIONS ABE AVAILABLE
: Application blanks for re
‘ newal of “A” or “D” gaso
line ration Looks are now;
available at the local ration- j
ing board office.
All car owners are urged
to get this bla|k filled out!
. and the board
t i before NbvJlj so that the!
[ new books Thai be sent out
j in time for fchtfr use begin-!
i ning Nov. 8L
The A gasoline ration 1
’ book in use mpt be mailed
'in with ea<£ application,
and bctweetQkw and the
expiration dke of Nov. 8.!
A-ll good if de
tached. be re
-1 n.oved for between
j now and the 8 time the new
I 'coupons will become valid. j
. R. N. Silvered Dover R.
• Fouts attend#! a meeting
of county offi
> cials and regiaial and coun
r ty leaders inlJaheviHe on 1
t Wednesday. jPlans were
r outlined for ||| Sixth War
Loan Drive f§
*'as the power Options were
all out of conirifcsion. Trees
that have gr|c« the city
‘ for more that la century
i were uprooted louses were
i unroofed, costhlplate glass
i windows in R| business
. houses of tha jcity were
i QjtMahed-. That
i wore idle. Praorally every
; business house jlas closed
. and people stay id at home
. to be with theii| families.
Many sectiondof the city
: were under wat r. In this
i town of two huidred thou
, sand inhabitant not a sin
i gle person was (i the street,
■ while the stoni raged. j
Down at acksonville
. Beach, waves 2( feet high'
rolled in from the ocean
flooding houses nd in some,
instances un er mining
i them and caning them
, away. Three th isand pep-;
pie have their permanent :
homes on the each. Be- 1
fore the storm eached its
worst, scores of uses brou
ght 2500 peopl from the
place and they ’ ire housed
( in buildings in. icksonville
, that were thou it to be
!safe. Children with dogs
| and cats in th r arms—
some crying, soi t laughing
ere among th numbers,
while Dad and a sat or
stood with fedr id suspen
se showing in tl r faces, i
The hurricane asted un
til the middle o the after
noon when ther came a
period of quiet nd not a
leaf stirred unt 7 o’clock
Thursday night. Then the
sjeond edition 0 ;he storm
came and !aste< all night,
I but was net a", s >re as the
first part.
I have driftei around a j
?reat deal over > country
or the past 20 ars andi
never have I so d a spot
that, will com re with j
good old Yanci county..
North Carolina! Some of
these days I ho) to come
back home, and my pre
sent state of in 1 main
tains, I never ;pect to
leave the mount! s again.
J. M. Lyon. 1
NOTICE
! The Social Security Board
Field Office at Asheville
i now maintains regular scr
| vice on claims and account
i numbers at the following
i place and hour:
! Burnsville, N. C., 11:00
i A. M., Nov. 1, 1944, Regis
ter of Deeds Office. First
Wednesday in Feb., May,
Aug., November.
I SCOUTS ADVANCE
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At the district Boy Scout
Court of Honor held recent
! ly, Hale Bryson and Laridon
j Proffitt received the rank
of Life Scouts.
Charles Lee Griffeth ad
duced to Star rank and
Danny Fouts to tenderfoot
, rank.
Merit badges were awar
‘ ded Phillip Banks and Lan
lon Proffitt.
, UNERAL SERVICES
HELD FOR WILLIAM
CALLOWAY
William Thomas Callo-
I wav. 25, of Pensacola was
Hilled instant!} Friday
j flight when struck by a ear
on the Asheville—Black
> Mountain highway. The
■ car was alleged to have
been driven by Lt. M. East
■ man of Burlingome/Cal., a
i patient in Moore General
: hospital.
Mr. Calloway was em
i, ployed hv the Beacon Man
ufacturing company at
Swannanoa.
Funeral services for Mr.
Calloway were held at the
Free Will Baptist church at
Pensacola Sunday after
noon at 2 o’clock, the Rev.
Mrr-Woody officiating.
* surviving ai*e his parents
j Mi-, and Mis. William L.
Calloway; three brothers,
! Lawrence and Eddie, of
Pensacola, and Roy Callo
, way, of Swannanoa, and
five sist?rs, Mrs. Luther
Harris, Mrs. Lake Roland,
Mrs. Floyd Hollifield, and
the Misses Pearl, Mae and
Marion Calloway, all of
3 Pensacola.
-• Pall bearers were, Ken
j'neth Autrey, Carrol Raj
I Richmond McMahan, Hdw
; ard Edwards, Oalbdrne Hig
gins, McKinley McMahan
; Joe Hollifield, Kirmet Rid :
- die, Lawton Allen, Pearson
Those in charge of the
,i flowers were Mrs. Kenneth
Autrey, Mrs. Dewey Davis,
Tara Parker, Marjorie
Riddle, Della Dodd, Cora
Buchanan, I: :ne McPeters,
Gladys Ogle.
Riddle, Charlie McMahan.
Funeral ar r angements
were in charge of Harrison
Funeral Home, BlackMtn.
BARBER RETURNS TO
BURNSVILLE; RUFTY
TO MICAVILLE f
The Rev. F. R. Barber
was assigned to |he Burns-,
ville Methodist church for,
another year at the annual'
conference. Rev. W. E. Ruf-1
ty was also reassigned to I
Mica ville.
Rev. J. G. Allred will goj
to Balfour, and Rev. J. R.|
Bowman who has been pas
tor at Rosman will come to
the Bald Creek church.
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NUMBER THIRTEEN
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♦ * 90MPS 9Vtn AMintCA . . ■
Old Spanish Lighthouse, I
San Diego, Calif., was C n -T- !. C__ O'
v built in 1835 from *dobe Opain 111 oanlsiego
bricks taken from the JtF* .
, old Spanish Fort Gui- jr£*~ Md
Jarros. If is near Point WT i
Lome where Juan Bod* T &SL
riguea Cabrillo landed m. P|| -IsT
in 1382.
From the entire Coati-
For . United Am.ri«a
. ... _ world” Wokingfbr free-
Buy War Bonds dom opportunity.
National War Fund Campaign
At the request of the re P ort others,
county War Fund Commit- , '‘°' vnshl P f n d
tee, we are publishing nam- J f cks . Creek llav *
es of contributors to the exceeded their quo-
Fund. Several lists of nam- ta J w >th Brush Creek only
es reached us too late for a le . w behind on th,
this issue of the paper, but
j will be printed next week vo 3E. , m* 6 *
: 8 fiMl be Mica Co" the HaS
j , -ponae to the
) fin!” h h b - been n unu sually county agents and AAA of
> fine, chairman Guss Peter- 1 fi ce
son said today, ‘‘and the on- Those who have not yet
a—a b ? 6n sent in their contributions,
ontactmg individuals and )0 r workers who have f not
business firms. reported, are urged to do
No report has been re- so as early at} possible so
•jeered from Pensacola that a complete report may
township and only partial, be made next week>
TOWNSHIP REPORTS
QUOTA DONATED
$1025 1943.20
CANE RIVER ~ 300 J 97 00
RAMSEYTOWN 125 8 5(l
GRFEN MTN 100 2 8 00
JACKS CREEK 150 156*25
BRUSH CREEK 75 70!55
CRABTREE 400 343.25
SOUTH TOE 125 10.35
PENSACOLA 100 1 No Report
PRICES CREEK 100 M
TOTAL f $2650 slßß9rio
-MICAVILLE FACULTY
TO PRESENT PLAY
The faculty of Micaville
school is working hard on
. its annual play, “Professor,
j How r Could You?”, an amus
»mg 3 act farce starring
t Lyda Ray as the professor
and Delliiia Hensley as
J Vicky Randolph, the love of
, his life. Other members of
the cast are Hubert Justice,
an amusing Grandpa, Mol- :
lie Hensley, a doting Grand-1
ma. Clyde Young, Madlyn
Bailey, Violet Navy, Mar
garet Chandler, Maude Ms-
Minn and Frances Ensley.
Much interest is being
shown by faculty and stud
ents alike in the coming pro
duction which will be pre
sented in the Micaville aud
itorium in early November.
j Mrs. Lat Fox returned
last week from Black Mtn.
I where she has spent the 1
1 past year.
j Mrs. David Ogle under
-1 went an appendectomy at
an Asheville hospital
Edith Ramsey came over
from Asheville for the week 1
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DIVORCES GRANTED
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, The following divoi jeg
[ were granted in Superior
Court Monday:
; Frank Miller vs. Ida Jans
. Miller.
Edith Cooper Hawkins
1 vs. Oscar Hawkins.
Hugh McCall vs. Dorothy
. McCall.
Sam Autrey vs. Gracs
Autrey.
Lester Edwards vs. Chris
tine Edwards.
Smoke Haze Halts Pilots
U. S. Military authorities
say that many hours of
flight training were lost
last year by Army student
pilots in some parts of the
South because of the blind
ing haze of smoke resulting
from woods fires.
Pvt Howard W. Nelson
is stationed at Fort Bliss,
Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion
Boone of Winston-Salem
visited relatives here over
the week end. Charlotte
Ray, student at Greensboro
College, accompanied them.