“WHAT CAN YOU
SPARE THAT THEY CAN
WEAR?”—Give to the Un
ited National Clothing Col
lection during the month of
April.
VOLUME NINE
--Men In Service--
Killed In Action
T. 5 Linzie J. Buchanan
wag killed in action in Ger
many on April 4, his moth
er, Mrs. Diana W. Buchan
an of Newdale has been in-j
formed by the war depart
ment-
“ Wounded In Action
Pvt. Grady Fender was
slightly wounded in action
in Germany on March 31.;
Hi s wife, Mrs. Alice Hen-;
sley Fender, resides at
Bald Creek.
Wounded In Action
Pfc. Gus Proffitt was
slightly wounded in Ger
many on March 23, his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest!
Proffitt of Cane River have
been notified.
Pfc. Proffitt entered ser
vice on Oct. 20, 1942 and
hn s been overseas for the
F I 7 months. j
A C Cedric v\ Hunter,
of Mr. and Mrs. J C.
Hunter of Day Book is home
on furlough. He received
his wings recently at Pana
ma City and will return to
P.n a Raton, Fla. where he
will taka a special course in
preparation for duty on the
P-Gl (Black Widow) night
fighter He has been in
training at Keesler Field,
Maxwell Field, Shaw Field,
University of Chattanooga,
Lakeland, Avon Park, Tyn
dall Field, Appalachicola,
: nd Boca Raton, Fla.
Cadet Hunter and his
v ife, the former Miss Vel
da Greer, are spe ding the
week end with fri >nds and
relatives in Boone, N. C.
Pfc Robert M. Cheadle
v ho returned several mon
ths ago from overseas ser
vice in the sortb Pacific is
now at the naval hospital,
1 enil worth.
•-*. Roy Lee Fox, who
entered service recently is
now stationed at Ft. Leon
ard Wood, Mo.
Pvt. James Proffitt is
stationed at (.’amp Bland
ing, Fla.
3 Sgt. Charles H. Piercy,
\ho \,v.i st vaoned at
Columbia army air base,
Columbia. 3. C. has been
* ■ msfered to 0. R. D.
Kearns, Utah where he will
await overseas assignment.
Sgt Piercy is Tit home with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.
A. Piercy of Day Book, on
a short leave before report
ing to his station. Sgt.
Piercvs’ brother, Pfc Fen
ton W. Piercy is stationed
in Rome Italy.
Headquarters Panama
Canal Department. The
■ emotion of S. Sgt. Carson
B. Sikes, son of Mr. and
John M. Sikes, Rt. 2,
Polkton, N. C., to the grade
of technical sergeant is an
nounced by the Sixth Air
Force Albrook Fielcl Base.
A graduate of Burnsville
high school, Sikes entered
the service in July, 1941 and
has been in the Panama
area since June, 1944. He is
currently serving His squad
inn as an . airplane crew
chief. *>
THE YANCEY RECORD
SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR.
Promoted
Earl Simmons, son of Mr.
and Mrs Oscar L. Simmons,
of Hamrick, has been pro-i
moted to the rank of Cap-!
tain. He is with the Third
'Army in Germany. Two
brothers are also in service',
Clarence who has been aj
prisoner of war in Germany
since 1942, and Ted who is
on Submarine duty with
jth 3 Navy.
Camp N. C
Marine Pfc. Jack E. John
son, 22, son of Mr. and Mr*.
MU t Johnson, Burns
ville, has been presented
the Purple Heart medal in
an informal ceremony here
j The medal was given him
l for wounds received in the
action on Guam while he
was serving with the Third
Division.
Johnson is now with the
, engineer battalion here.
y>- -Miami Beach, Fla.—Tec.
1 5 Ralph W. Calloway, 23,
i son of Mr. Ernest Calloway,
Burnsville, N C., has re
turned from service outside
the continental United
States is now being pro
, cessed through the Army
(Ground and Service Forces
Redistribution Station in
Miami Beach, where his
next assignment will be
determined.
>
Cpl. Calloway served 26
, months as a telephone line
. man in the Pacific theater
(of operations. While there
he was awarded the Bronze
Star medal for meritorious
achievements.
: Armv Ground and Ser
v;ce Forces Redistribution
(Stations are located in var
ious parts of the United
(States. Military personnel
returning from overseas
are processed through these
i stations before assignment
to military organizations
and installations within the
! United States
During the period that
returnees stay at an Army
Ground and Service Fare is
i Redistribution Station, they
are given a painstaking oc
cupational and physical clas
sification as well' as physi
cal and dental recondition- 1
ing together with various
| lectures designed to reor
ient men recently returned
.from combat areas.
J %
Before entering the ser
vice Cpl. Calloway was em
ployed as a linesman.
Word has been received
from Pfc. Dewey C. Davis
who is somewhere in Bel
gium. He has been in ser
vice since 1942 and has been
overseas since 1943. He has
served in England. France
. and Belgium His wife, the
i former Gladys Parker, is re
i siding with her mother, Mrs
I W. G. Parker in Pensacola.
, Earl Davis, F lc, brother of
s Pfc. Dewey Davis, is at the
• naval station, Port Ever
* glades, Fla
J Pvt. Charlie Jarrett is at
l home on a 13 day furlough
1 He is the son of Mr. and
l J Mrs. Robert Jarrett of
s Green Mtn. He took his trn
- ining at Camp Wheeler. Oa
i r and will report back to Fort
| Meade, Md.
“DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY”
BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1945
MEMORIAL SERVICES
HELD FOR PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT
ROOSEVELT
The citizens of Yancey
county , joined the people of
i the nation and of the world
jin paying tribute to Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt
who passed away suddenly
on April 12. Flags at Post
offices and schools have
been at half mast and Spe
cial tribute has been paid at
various club meetings.
• Schools of the county held
memorial services on Friday
and a special union prayer
service was held at the Bur
nsville Baptist church at 4
o’clock Saturday afternoon.
The service flag in the
home of Mrs. Cora McCurry
of Micaville contains two
blue stars
Cpl. Adam J). McCurry
entered service February 19,
1942. After eight weeks
training at Ft. Bragg, he
was sent to the Hawaiian
j Islands where he served a
,| year in artillery. He was
. then transferred to Austra
, lia and New Guinea and
■ was stationed there until
■ the invasion of the Philip-
I junes. He landed there in
one of the first convoys. He
is now serving with the
! eighth army and has been
i in service 38 months.
3 A brother, T. 5 Wesley J.
i McCurry entered service
June 22,1943. He took train
} ing at ('amp Haan, Calif.,
- Camp Carson, Col., and Ft
■ Jackson, S. C. He has been
i in service 22 months and is
j now serving with the Infan
try in Germany.
\- San Francisco Conference
| Statement by Department
Os State
When the representativ
es of thp United States meet
in San Francisco on April
25, they will bring with
thorn the support of Their
peoples, founded upon the
beli 2f that there must be
drafted there a Charter for
;• wo) Id organization with
jthe power and the‘will to (
maintain world peace and
i security. I
As we go into that Con
ference, it is essential thatj
we understand exactly what:
is its purpose. For it will
not b? a peace conference,
lit will not deal with boun- 1
daries, or reparations, or,
questions concerning the
disarmament, and control of
the Axis countries. The
Conference will not be con-j
cerned with the trial and,
punishment of war crimi-:
nals. _
The United Nations Con-'
iference will have one pur
pose, and only one= To pre-|
pare the Charter of an in-;
tsrnational or g a nization 1
for presentation to the pro
posed member nations for
adoption. This is, however,'
the basic task, the founda
tion stone for the structure
of international coopera
tion In working toward this
accomplishment, the dele-,
! crates must reach agree
! ment upon the most effec
tive machinery for the
peaceful settlement of dis
putes, and at the same time
how best to employ force to
TOWN ELECTION WILL
BE HELD MAY Bth
A mayor "aKd two com
missioners for the town of
Burnsville will be elected at
the town election to be held
on Tuesday. May Bth.
H. G. is unopposed
for mayor, ahd four have >
filed for -commissioner,!
from which ticket two wall
be elected. Those for com-;
missioner are: Troy Mcln-j
tosh, J. B. King, Gaston
I Angel and J. H. Wilson.
MARY MARTHA “BAN KS
TO WASHINGTON
, Mary Martha Banks has
ibeen appointed secretary to
[the south eastern regional
director of the AAA and will
leave Monday for Washing
ton, D. C to take up her
duties there.
Miss Banks has been con
nected w r ith the AAA e for
several years, in the county
here, in*Asheville, and,
in Raleigh. \
COUNTY WIDE TRAIN
ING UNION MEET
i
The Baptist Training Un
ions of the county will meet
with the Mt. Mitchell Bap
tist church at 8 o’clock Tues
day, April 24. Dr. Hoyt
Blackwell of Mars Hill Col
lege will be speaker.
Mr. and Mrs D. H. Cooper
'and daughter of Bee Log
met Pfc. Charlie Cooper at
Spartanburg, S. C. and spent
the week endr with Mr and
Mrs. Wilson Coggins of
Spartanburg. Pfc Cooper
has recently been sent to
'Fort Benning, Ga. from
]Salina, Kansas.
J if. !
settle disputes, if force
should prove necessary.
They must decide upon such
questions as the most ef
fective way of stimulating
international economic, so
cial and humanitarian co
operation, and the relation
ship of regional organiza-.
tions to the proposed gen
eral organization.
The Dumbarton Oaks
Proposals will provide a
igood pasis for this discus-'
sion. Nevertheless, it will be;
!a difficult task. The Chart-!
ier which will emerge from
I this Conference will of ne
cessity be the result of
[compromise and adjust-!
iment. It may not meet in !
its entirety the wishes of
■ any one nation; rather, it
will be a syntheses of the
wishes of all those
concerned. But the real
purpose will have been ac
complished if the San
) Francisco Conference crea
tes a framework for world
; organization that can com-[
mand the support of the
; great majority of all those
who believe in freedom,
and one that will be flexible
enough, at the same time,
ito permit changes and im
provements in the light of
future experience.
There have been doubts
in the minds of some per
sons as to the wisdom of
'establishing the world or
ganization apart from the
settlements that will follow
victory in this present war.
Mature judgment should
| (Continued on page 41
Burnsville Man Returns
From Brazil
Coral Gables, Fla., April ,
6—To study new synthetic
training devices for use at {
Escola Teenica de Aviacao,
Dover R. Fouts, Jr., son of v
Mr. and Mrs. Dover Fouts, g
| arrived in Miami, Florida,
Sunday from Sao Paulo, j
. Brazil.
After a few days’ visit t
| with his family in Burns
ville, he will go to Wash- c
i ington, JD. _ C., and New',
York and later will visit ‘
schools and bases incidental
to procuring equipment for •
the Brazilian school, which (
is operated for the Brazil- j
h.n Air Ministry by John’.
Paul Riddle of Miami.
Fouts was among ‘‘he j
very first of the North *
American inspectors who
flew to Sao Paulo in 1943
to h.lp establish the avia
tion technical school where
• Brazilian cadets are train-ij
ed for service w’ith their .
fighting Air Force. This is
his first trip back to the
11 otitinuAd on Dace four)
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR MRS. DOROTHY
may Freeman
; Mrs. Dorothy May Free
dman, 24, of Fletcher, and her
j infant' daughter died Tues-
Jday in an Asheville hospital;
following a brief illness.
; Funeral services will be!
“ held this afternoon at 2;
j o’clock at the Presbyterian
» church, Burnsville Rt. 1.
. Burial will be in the Deyton i
familv cemetery at the Bai-
J ley Hill.
! She is survived by her
husband, Hubert Freeman;
' >ne daughter, Nora Ann;
j her parents, Mr. and Mrs. U.
; j. Deyton of Burnsville Rt.
hi; three sisters, Mrs. Hill
•I Ray of Green Mtn., and the
l i Misses Edna and Edith Doy
l'ton of Burnsville Rt. 1; three
brothers, Russell, Richard
and U. B. Deyton. Jr., of
Burnsville Rt. 1, and her
grandparents, Mr and Mrs.
Z. V. Renfro of Burnsvillee,
Rt. 1. |,
COUNTY' SPELLING
CONTEST
James Mclntosh repre
j senting Bee Log school won
I first place in the county,
, spelling contest.
Representatives from Mi
i caville, Clearmont, Bald
[ Creek and Burnsville tied
(for second place. These con-[•
testants were Adalean Tlio-,i
mas, Earl Bailey, Wilma i
June Angel and Sarah Ham- ;i
I rick '
Others who competed i
were Annie Belle Garland
i from Deyton Bend and Otto 1
Boone from Pensacola.
i (
; James 0. Melton of Bur- -
nsville Star Route is now at
the field artillery training ]
i center, Fort Bragg for basic ,
[ training. i,
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Mc
• ~nt,o‘ h and son, James visit-.
!ad the J. H- Mclntosh’s in
Rutherfordton, N. C. lest
veek end. J
; Mrs LioneL Smith and
son, Tommy of City
hare visiting Mr. Mrs.
! Wilson Edwards of Cane
r | River.
:| Verna Deyton spent the (
’ week end with her narents,
i Mr. and Mrs. G, B Payton. '
m
National] Clothing Collection
Have you cleaned out
your clothes closet this past
week? If not won’t you
please do so before April
30th; and give any good
wearable clothing you can
spare to the needy people of
the war torn countries of
Europe.
The drive in Yancey coun
ty began April 16th and
will continue through the
30th. A drive is' being held
at each of the schools and
one in town of Burnsville.
Very little has been turned
in to the central collection
center, the club house in
Burnsville, but it is hoped
That everybody is doing their
part at home and getting
things ready before the drive
is over. The club house is
open each afternoon from
4 to 6 p. m. and on Satur
days from 3 to 6 p. m.
All wearable clothing will
|be accepted Children and
infants clothing and bedding
is especially desired. Woolen
clothing need not be sent to
■the dry cleaners, however
we are asjsed to wash cotton
and other washable clothing.
Lt. Carl B. Hyatt Is Speaker
At P. T. A. Meeting
i.
j The Burnsville Parent
-1 Teacher Association held
ithe regular April meeting
in the high school building
Tuesday evening with 50
i members and guests in at
tendance.
The invocation was given
by the Rev F. R. Barber,
following which the Rev.
Tom Higgins led in a spec
ial prayer of guidance of j
the nation during the pre-j
sent conflict and in the es-;
forts to establish a lasting i
peace.
Ist Lt. Carl B. Hyatt, Jr,
of Asheville, speaker of the
evening, was introduced by
B. M. Tomberlin. Lt. Hyatts’
subject was the Dumbarton
Oaks plan for a w r orld or
ganization
Lt. Hyatt who served 20
months overseas is now as
sistant chief in the depart
ment of education of the
Asheville redistribution'fcen
ter, and spoke first of the
program of the center
Then, in discussing the
Dumbarton Oaks plan, Lt.,
Hyatt said that it “concern
ed the whole future of this
country ahd the world in
general. the last war,
the United' States drew
apart, but this policy will
not help solve problems.
We made mistakes then,
but we must see that these!
CHANGES IN SALES 1
TAX LAW
The General Assembly
made certain changes in the
Sales Tax Law, which chan
ges are effective immediat
ely.
The following exemp
tions were extended by the
recent Assembly:
Sales of medicine sold on
prescription of physicians,
or medicines compounded,
processed or blended by the
druggist offering the same
for sale at retail or sales of
drugs or medical supplies to
physicians or hospitals or
by physicians and hospitals
Let us give thanks that
our homes are not torn
down and our lands laid,
waste- And let us show that
gratitude by giving 1 6
Clothing Collection.
NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT
It need not be pressed.
The need for this clothing
is very urgent. Many child
ren stay out of school for a
lack of clothes while others
wash their lone garment and
put it back on wet which in
turn causes a lot of sickness.
Lets make Yancey coun
ty’s quota as large as pos
sible
Collection Point
The club house will be
the collection center for
Burnsville, and beginning
Monday, April 16th some
one will be at the club
house each afternoon from
3 to 6 to receive donations.
The clubs of the town are
cooperating in this.
Kinds of Clothing
All types of good, servic
able clotting are needed,
with bedding and infants’
wear urgently requested.
Coats, Sweaters, Skirts,
Shoes, etc., in fact, any ar
ticle of clothing that will be
of use to men, women, or
children may be given.
Clothing that is out” of date
may be given if it is still
, servicable.
same mistakes do not occur
again. We are in part of the
world and must accept our
_ responsibilities ”
: Reference to a wall chart
made clearer Lt. Hyatts’
explanation of plans for
the world organization. He
contrasted the proposed
plan with that of the Lea
gue of Nations and said
that the nation’s attitude
j toward it must be both rea
: listic and idealistic if it be
comes a working basis for
world citizenship.
Lt. Hyatt closed his ad
dress by calling attention
to our responsibilities, and
to the fact that every na
tion most be ready to seek
earnestly to make the plan
a successful one. “Every
nation must be prepared to
make some concessions,”
he stated. ,
For the attendance ban
ner, Mrs. Shepherd’s 2nd
grade and Mr. Peterson’s
7th grade tied in the ele
mentary department, and
the 9th grade won in the
high school department.
A social hour followed
the program, and Carl B.
Hyatt, Sr., of Washington
spoke briefly during this.
In addition to Mr. Hyatt
and Rev. Higgins, Mrs.
Carl B. Hyatt. Jr., accom
panied Lt. Hyatt to Bum -
! ville
Ito patients in connection
with medical treatments.
Sales of seeds, feeds for
livestock and poultry, and
insecticides for livestock,
poultry and agriculture.
Sales of repair parts and
accessories for motor vehi
cles and airplanes, and lub
ricants and other articles
used in servicing motor ve
hicles and airplanes, when
made to the owner and op
erator of fleets of as many
as five or more vehicles or
airplanes, shall be classified
ias wholesale sales, and
■ therefore only subject to
i the wholesale rate of tax.