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Cgr-Karam, \*Mn r \ «nui> • <*** WAR BOROS VOLUME NINE —Men In Service— Killed In Action Pvt. Alvin C7 Rathbone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Rathbone of Pensacola, was killed in action in Germany on Nov. 20 his parents have been notified by the War Department. Killed In Action Pvt. Plem Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Edw ards of Bee Log, was killed in action in Holland on Nov. 5 the War Department has notified his parents. He was a member of an in fantry company. A brother, Gus Edwards, was recently, seriously wounded in action in France. Ralph Bailey of the Paci fic fleet was visiting rela tives here for a few days this week. Ensign Martha Plonk of the WAVEs was visiting friends here Wednesday. * She was formerly home ec onomist with the F. S. A. here. ■ Sgt. Jack Renfro, Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ren fro, Sr. of Green Mtn., N. C., has been promoted to the rank of Technical Ser geant. Sgt. Renfro has been back in the states for a year after doing 4 years service overseas. His addresß is: Sgt. Jack Renfro, Jr., Co. B 261 Inf. Camp Shelby, Miss. Pvt. Herman Styles is now stationed at Fort Geo rge Meade, Md. Pvt. Arthur Wilson is sta tioned at the army air field- Sioux Falls, S. D. Pvt. Ernest Whitson who recently returned from ov erseas duty is stationed at North Camp Hood- Texas, j Pvt. Walter H. Tipton is! now stationed at Tyndall Field. Fla. Frank Cooper, F 2c is now at the naval Station,! Boston- Mass. The following reported on Tuesday to Camp Croft for induction: Kenneth Blalock, Arvy N. Simmons, Adam Mitchell Clingman R. McPeters. Eldie B. Calloway, Isaac Ray, Arnold Whitson; Albert Wilson, Robt. L. Riddle, Lloyd Bryant, Gai ~ ther Edwards, Earl Black, Baxter Renfro, Bill Hyle mon, John B. Westall. Register Here The following boys be came 18 during the past month and have registered with the local board: Charles Phillips, Bee Log, Addren Raymond Robinson Hamrick; Dick H. Peterson,; Day Book; Carson Howell, Jr., Rt. 1 Burnsville; James Wesley Hoover. Celo; Geo-' rge Raymond Banks, Rt. 1 Burnsville; Isaac Wheeler, Rt. 1 Burnsville. Attend The Bond Rally. Theatre, Dec. 12. 7:46 THE YANCfcY RECORD “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY" SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. - : 1 * 1 Wounded In Action i Sgt. Nick Whitson was seriously wounded in action i in Germany on Nov. 22, ac cording to a message re i ceived Wednesday by his • parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adler Whitson of Sioux. Wounded In Action , Pvt. Virgil L. Hicks was slightly wounded in action in Germany on Nov. 18. his father, Lewis Hicks, of Newdale, has been inform- Jed by the War Department. 'j Wounded In Adtion » i Pvt. M. L. Phillips, son of t Mr. and Mrs. Will Phillips of Ramseytown, was woun ded in action in France on Nov. 19, his parents have been notified by the. war department. , Burnsville Soldier Wounded - A U. S. / Army General Hospital. England Pfc. George W.. Tomberlin, of Burnsville, was wounded by shell fragments from a ! mortar burst while cutting off a road vital to the Ger . mans in supplying their troops trapped at Saint Lo. 'j Landing on the beach of Normandy shortly after , D-Day, he took part in the action that * smashed the j Nazig at Cherbourg ancf spearheaded the assault on St. Lo. “We were trying to cut -j the road to prevent the Ger mans from using it to bring up supplies,” said Pfc. Tom | berlin. “The Jerries spotted us and let go with their mortars. A mortar shell ex : ploded a few yards away and got me in the leg.” He was given first aid by a medical soldier and re moved to a field hospital. (He was later evacuated to (England by hospital ship, j Pfc. Tomberlin entered the Army in November, 1942- at Camp Croft, S. C. 1 He is the son of Mr. andj I Mrs. Henry Tomberlin. of Burnsville. With 157tiTRegiment Sixth Army Group, Fra nce—Pvt. Robie Wilson of Swiss is a member of the 2nd Battalion. 157th Regi ment, about which the fol lowing story was released: -Eighty-six days and nights of combat—from the beaches of Southern France to the wet- treacherous hills of the Vosges Moun tains on the Seventh Army front—has given the 2nd Battalion of the 157th Reg iment, 45th Division, little time to reflect back upon i other days and nights of (battle. Sicily, Salerno, Italy ' Anzio—where the going was just as tough—is pay ing off in dividends of ex perience Lessons it has learned in previous cam paigns are giving the Ger mans plenty of bad news in Eastern “France- where (Continued on page 4) Attend The Bond Rally. Theatre, Dec. 12. 7;45 BURNSVILLE, N. C. THpSDAY, DECEMBER 7,1941 ROAD NAMED IN HON OR OF WAR HERO Mrs. Arnold Effler has J received from the com-! manding officer of an engi neers corps a photograph of a road sign, naming a road in Normandy. France in honor of her husband, Pvt. ! ■ Arnold A Effler who was (killed in action on June 14, ! 1944. . j The letter accompanying the picture stated that “This tribute indicates in some small measure an ac knowledgement of the preme sacrifice your * hus band made in the worthy cause, of our nation. Other | roads in the same area are named for his departed comrades. Thus, there is always before us here pri vileged to carry on, a mem orial to our heroes and a reminder to all who pass, of the great debt to them j which we must always re-j member.” Capt. Sam J. Huskins Gets Enemy Plane An Eighth Air Force Fighter Station, England—, During the greatest sky battle of the war- which | took place over Germany November 2, Capt. Sam J. 1 Huskins, Jr., Mustang flight commander of Burnsville. N. C., shot down one of the 200 enemy fighters destroy jd»- ■ Capt. Huskins* flight had escorted U. S. heavy bomb ers to their targets when he became separated in the overcast from his group and found an ME-109 “tail ing” him. He broke away, only to find another Jerry above which he then pur sued. “I joined another P-51 and we fired on the ME-109 at about 100 yards,” Capt. Huskins related. “Every shot seemed to go right in the cockpit and he started ( smoking. ) *: “He rolled over on his back and spun down throu -1 gh the thin layer of over cast, still smoking.” Jack Anglin, son of T. T.j Anglin, is home on 10 day leave from the naval train ing station, Patuxent Riv er, Md. Mrs. Lawrence King has returned from Texas where she has been with Sgt. King who is stationed there. BUY WAR BONDS Eye Clinic Will Be Held Here On Dec-13 at 9:00 a. m., an eye clinic will be held at the Health Dept, in Burns ville. An eye specialist wor king with the State Com mission for the Blind will be here. Notices have been sent out to the parents of 75 children who need glasses; but only a very few of these , people have responded. TTiere will be 50 children taken into this clinic. If you feel that your child needs Attend The Bond Rally. • Theatre, Dec. 12. 7:46 Stice The reiular January meeting of the board of - county cojynissioners will net be helcflbn Monday, Jan. I 1 as this if a legal holiday, but will M held on Wed., i Jan. 3> 1941 FUNERAfSERVICES FOR JOSJ|PH P. HONEYCfIT r Funeraliservices for Jos ; eph PenlwH Honeycutt, 84, i were held tot Windom Bap ■ tist churcf Friday morning ,at 10 o*clc|Jc, the Rev. Rob ert Arrowbod and the Rev. D. T. Blevins officiating. 1 Burial wasrin the Honeycutt cemetery.' Mr. Honeycutt died Thur i sday monSng at the home of his son. Claude, following ■ a lengthy, illness. He was a native of Yancey county and was a fanner. He was a i member jf the Windom j Baptist church. In addition to his son, he is survived by two daught. ers, Mrs. Holland Black of Windom and Mrs. Sallie Brinkley of Asheville; 24 grandchildren; 35 great, grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. i FUNERAL SERVICES ARE HELD FOR RACHEL ROBINSON > Miss Rachel Missouri Rob away at the IL. Robinson of Newdale J Tuesday morning. She was 68 years old and had been ! an invalid for the past 25 1 years. Funeral sendees were i held at the Double Island ' Baptist church Wednesday • afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. Jimmy Thomas offi-j ciating. Burial was in the: 1 Double Island cemetery. Surviving in addition to. r the brother, is her mother, Mrs. Columbus Robinson of 1 Newdale. H. G. Bailey was called to a District meeting of the General Electric Dealers of Western North Carolina on Tuesday night of this week, i The meeting was held in the Display room of the Morganton Hardware C 0. ,! ■ Morganton, N. C. Mr. Bailey, informs us that he will be selling these famous Gen- 1 eral Electric Appliances just as soon as production is again permitted by the W. P. B. Replacement parts for G E appliances are now available. glasses, please bring him to the Health Dept, on or be-[ fore Saturday, Dec. 9, from 9-12 a. m., so that wo may examine his eyes and regis ter him for the clinic if he does need glasses. The en tire cost of the glasses and registration will not be ov er $5.00. The charge for re gistration will be SI.OO, which will be applied to the cost of the glasses when they arrive. Attend The Bond Rally. Theatre, Dec. 12. 7:45 To the People of this Community GI Joe in his Pacific foxhole— maybe he is your brother, hus band, sweetheart or friend—is listening in on you today. tHe knows you have a date with a Victory Volun* totrf, a neighbor with a \Ji t Bond order in his or her . hand. The two of you hnay talk it over at your w o r <; bench, in your Office or in your home. Will Gl Joe Pick ud phrases like “I can't afford it," ‘ Why do they have to have more money?" "We’ll lick Japan with one ..and tied behind our back"? Gl Joe counts on you to have enough sense and knowledge of the facts about the Pacific war lo back him up in his foxhole. The exfra SIOO War Bopd you buy 1 today is a War Bond with the most power. It given GI Joe the support he must have at the time when he needs it most. It tells Tckvo you're in the fight to the •finish. T THE EDITOR. FARM CENSUS WILL BEGIN IN JANUARY T he agricultural resour j ccs and the production of tj. S. farms will be measured by the coming U. S. Census of Agriculture schedule to begin on January 8. Basic information on agriculture, including statistics on farm acreage, crops, livestock, farm labor- and other items ; related to farm operations will b? obtained. ! SWT«S MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETS The Woman’s Missionary Society met at the church Saturday afternoon Dec. 2 at 2:00 o’clock. A prografh was given and the following officers were elected for the coming year: President, Mrs. Oscar Ferguson; vice president, . Mrs. W. T. Tomberlin; Sec- I retary and treasurer, Mrs. | A. C. Angel; program com mittee, Mrs. Nell Shepherd; stewardship chairman. Wa nda Robertson; - personal service committee, Vergie Duncan; Mission study tea cher, Mrs. Roy Pate. The members met Tues day afternoon at the home of Mrs W. T. Robertson. A lesson on Foreign miss ions was taught by Miss Laura Mae Hilliard, our ! field worker. I The society will meet at :he church the first Satur day afternoon in each mon th and the circle meeting will meet on Friday after noon before the third Sun day in ;ach month. All the ladies of the church are in cited to attend each meet ing. HONOR ROLL , Guss Peterson has • an nounced the following hon or roll for the 7th grade, Burnsville school for the third month: Charles Gill espie, Arliss Young. Charles Lee Griffeth, Sarah Ham rick, Llewellyn Ray, Eliza beth Roberts, Hope Angel, Montez Peterson. Annie Ruth Smith, Loyce Woody, Reba Banks, Vedia Thomp son. Attend The Bond Rally. Theatre, Dec. 12- 7:45 NUMBER NINETEEN SIXTH WAFTLOAN DRIVE SPECIAL 6th WAR BOND RALLY On December 12th, 1944,! Yancey county will observe a Special War Bond Rally, j Guests for this Rally will be thirty-five officers and enlisted men from Mooreij General hospital who will present a program of band' musir, speeches, etc. The Rally will be held at the Yancey Theatre. Bonds will be sold at the Rally, and may also be pur chased in the lobby at any time during the program on I Dec. 12. Theatre Schedule The Theatre will have a matinee, showing the pic ture, “Candlelight in Alger ia”, beginning at 12:30 and ending,at 5:43 during which . time all children sixteen years of age and under will be admitted free if they ; purchase a War Savings i Stamp in at least the sum . of 25c. All adults who pre ( sent a bond purchased dur , ing the 6th War Bond Drive will also be admitted free. i - -- - . - ' ' * i County Officials TakeJOffice Officers named in the November election to serve in Yancey county for the next twnyear&-were sworn into office Monday by Fred Proffitt, Clerk of Superior ■ Court. i The following took the FUNERAL SERVICES FOR BRUCE PATE j Funeral services for! ' Bruce Pate, 15, of Bee Log who died at his home . Thursday morning, follow ing a bfeif illness, were held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the Bald Creek Baptist church, Bee Log, N. C. The Rev. E. G Adkins officiated, assisted by Rev. Emory Edwards and Rev Digh. Interment was in the Lottis Creek cemetery. He is survived by his par-; ents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Pate, two sisters, Miss Alma and Lillian Pate; one bro-j ’her, Bronas Pate all of Bee Log; his grandfathers, D. F. Pate and H. H. Mcln tosh of Cane River; seven aunts and eight uncles,, in cluding Lessie Mclntosh who is serving in U. S. army, in France and Lancord of the U. S. Navy. He also is] survived by many cousins and a great host of friendsJ i J. W. Webb funeral home 1 of Relief was in charge of, arrangements. Medical kits valued at $87,500 are being purchased by the American Junior Red Cross National Child ren’s Fund for immediate shipment to schools in Yu goslavia, Greece, Belgium and other countries, both liberated and enemy occu pied, through the Joint Commission of the Interna tional Red Cross in Geneva. Attend The Bond Rally, Theatre, Dec. 12. 7:45 1 ■" mmmammnmmmmrnL rupunmnnoi nCti mUn 9mm imm ■jiiin (The above age limit for children will apply on Dec ember 12th only, this being a change made by reason of this War Loan Drive. All other persons who do not comply with the above re quirements will pay the us-.- I ual admission charge). ; The evening schedule will be as follows: Box office will open at 7:00 and at 7:15 I shorts, newsreed and pre views will be shown, follow ed by the Bond Rally pro gram. Following this, the serial and feature picture will be shown (one- time .only). Admission for the even ing performance will be the same as in the afternoon— purchase of stamps and bonds, or exhibit of bond bought during the 6th War Bond Drive. During the entire Bond Drive there is to be some one in the lobby of the Yan -1 cey Theatre selling bonds for the 6th War Loan Drive and bonds may be purchas ■ ed in the lobby of the Thea -1 j tre any time during the pro | gram on December 12, 1944. i oath of office: Loyd Fort ner. chairman board of com missioners; E. N. Stamey .and L. Q. Miller, members 'board of comihiSeionefs; ‘Yates Bennett, register of deeds; J. C. Turner, coron er, and Arthur Patton, county surveyor. QUESTIONS FOR EACH FARMER TO ANSWER Since recently announced war goals call for increases of practically all food and ■j feed crops for 1945 and sin ce practically all tillable ac res are already busy, the question arises as to how these goals may be reached. Enos Blair, Extension ag ronomist at State College, suggests that each grower ' ask himself the following questions: “Am I getting I ready for 1945 crops by j doing all the fall plowing I can? If not. am I ready to begin preparing the soil | early in* the year? “Do I realize the great importance of turning un der legumes to increase crop yields? “Do I have all the seed necessary to plant my crops , and is the seed of good quality? “Should I not plan to use more fertilizer and lime ' next year, in view of the increased demand for food and feed crops? Do I know the best kind of fertilizer to use or do I plan to take whatever my dealer hap pens to have? Have I plac ed my order for fertilizer so that I will be assured of early delivery. “Do I realize the impor tance of planting all my crops on time? Is all my equipment in good condition and am I ready for soil pre paration, planting, cultivat < Continued on naftfoar) Attend The Bond Rally. Theatre, Dec. 12, 7:45
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