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ft ft VOLUME TEN --Men In Service-- i William Briggs, M.O.M.M 3c, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wel zie Briggs of Micaville, is now stationed in Tientsien China. He is a diesel engi neer aboard an LCI. - Briggs received basic training at Great Lakes, 111. and completed further tra ining at Chicago, 111., De troit, Mich., Solomon Is lands, Md., Portland, Ore. and San Diego, Cal. Prior to entering service Briggs was employed by the United States Coal and Coke Co., at Gary, W. Va. Aboard the USS Cheval-j ier, Tokyo Bay.—Garrett Lewis, 26, seaman 2c, Bald Creek, N. C , today had. a second look at the Japanese; Empire from the decks ofJ “ this 3rd Fleet Destroyer. The Chevalier which had previously dropped anchor for a few hours on Septem ber 11, has been operating! with the Navy’s fast carrier) forces off the entrance to Tokyo Bay. - Lee Jarrett, S 2c, is serv ing aboard the USS Sumter with an amphibious task force near Wakayama, Hon shu, Japan. The men of this task force put Ameri can occupation trodps as hore here Sept 25. The troops were landed at this harbor on the south eastern coast of Honshu for the occupation of Japan’s inland cities of Kobe and Osaka. Kenneth N. Clontz, M M 2c, received his discharge from the navy at Charles ton on Oct. 22. He entered service in June, 1944 and! served on base duty with a' submarine repair unit in] Brisbane, Australia and Subic Bay, Philippines. He wears the Asiatic and Phil ippine Liberation ribbon. Capt. Sam J. Huskins was home on leave last week from Chanute Field, 111. Harold Presnell, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Presnell of Newdale is home oi leave after 18 months in the south Pacific combat area. Pfc. Arnold Mclntosh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mc- Intosh of Bee Log, is now with the 81st Wildcat Div. in Japan. He has been in ''service for 39 months and has been serving in the south Pacific for 16 months. He writes that he expects to be on his way home by January. Pvt. James H. Arrowood has returned to Camp Liv ingston, La. after spending a 15 day furlough with his wife, Mrs. Edith M. Arro wood at Bee Log. Pfc. Ray J. Mclntosh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Me-] In tosh of Bee Log, arrived in the states Sept. 27, after serving 10 months overseas. He is now spending a 30 day furlough with his wife in Portland, Ore. Pvt. Lewis Butner has returned to Fort Bragg af ter spending a 45 day fur lough at home. _ - ■ ■ ■•• THE YANCEY RECORD SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. I Bronze Star Award Pfc. Charles B. Honey cutt has received the Bron ze Star Medal for heroic achievement in action. The citation read: “Pfc. Honey cutt assisted in carrying machine gun and rocket ammunition to the battal ion command post where the companies had better access to it. During this ac tion which lasted four hours Pfc. Honeycutt was work ing under sniper fire, mak ing it necessary for him to run from building to build ,! ing, using whatever cover \ presented itself. The cour age and aggressiveness dis-i played by Pfc. Honeycutt 1 J reflect credif upon himself land upon the armed forces 1 of the United States”. Pfc. Honeycutt is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Honeycutt of Burnsville. j Pfc. Harue Hensley of the famous Red Arrow div | ision with the 32nd Infan try returned home on Oct. 4 and has received an hon orable discharge with a to tal of 101 points. He is a veteran of six operations] during 40 months in the| south Pacific area. During! this time Pfc. Hensley was] stationed in Australia, New Guinea, the Netherland pic les. He holds the Asiatic-] Pacific campaign ribbon with 4 bronze stars, the] Good Conduct medal, Dis- | tinguished Unit badge, Phi lippine Liberation ribboir with one service_star. He’ had 13,000 hours of combat ; duty. He is the son of Mr. (and Mrs. Mack I). Hensley jof Bee Log. Pvt. Crawford Angel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlie An-j gel of Swiss, N. C., is now: in Tokyo. Pvt. Angel enter ed service Oct. 13, 1944. He has served overseas for six months and was in battle forty days somewhere in the Philippine Island Letter Describes Typhoon ) The following letter was received this week from Fred Sams and tells of the recent typhoon: “I am still on Okinawa and we all survived the ty phoon o. k., although it is the most memorable day and night of my life. I will tell you a few of the things we went through ourselves “Last Wednesday morn ing they announced from the orderly room that we were going to have a typ hoon and asked us to tigh ten our tents for a wind ex ceeding 100 miles per hour. We fastened them down as best we could and about noon the storm began. ‘ ‘.lt wasn’t so bad for the , first few hours, but about supper time it was terrible, l Tents, buildings and every thing was blowing away. Our tent would start cav ing in on one side and we i would get boards from - buildings that had already blown down and reenforce it. By dark we had a solid “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1945 Discharged From Service 'the following men have: reported to the local Selec tive service board after re-j eeiving their discharge from serivee: Woodrow Pritchard, Paul Pritchard, Ossie Edwards Fred Ray, Ray Cooper, Bruce King, Claude Will , iarns. Cecil Edwards, Char . les Harris, Frank Thomas ; Lester Holcombe, Ottis Rol ■ and, Ralph Ensor, Milton Silver, Jr., Thomas Buchan , an, Starling Boone, Glenn Hughes, Paul Harrell, Lew is Webb, Troy Silver; Eldon Beaver, Browi Buchanan. John Howell Roy Silver, Emory Silver, • Harold Anglin, Reece Edw ards, Monroe Edwards, J. ,* Maurice Styles, Quinton ' Towe, Earl Edgins, Richard 1 Howell, Eugene Patton Henry Butner, Joe Goodin Jr., John Low, John W Bro\yn, , Stanley Bailey Woodrow Ayers, Charles Hopson, Jack Tipton, Brady Fox. ", , Tyndall Field, P4a.—S. Sgt. Charles H. Harris of Micaville, has been honor-] ably discharged from the; i Army Air Forces, accord-: | ing to an announcement jfrom Separation Base | Headquarters iff Panama ] City, Fla. ! S. Sgt. Harris has been in the Army.for 27 months,; serving with the 15th Air] Force in the European Xho-j ater of Operations for 7j I months. He was awarded, I the Air Medal with 3 Oak [Leaf Clusters, the Presiden tial Unit Citation with 1 ! i cluster and he wears the t European Theater Ribbon with 5 Battle Stars. He completed 28 Missions with the 484th Bomb Group as a Ball Turrett Gunner on a B-24 Bomber. “Promoted, to Lt. Commander Frank Huskins was re cently promoted from the rank of Lieutenant in the Navy to Lieutenant Com mander. He is now serving i network of braces all over the tent and it still looked as though it were going to come down. Every other tent in the area had blown down before tften. “We decided to leave the tent rather than have it blow down on us in the night. We went to the mess hall which was already minus a roof # and several times en route we thought' that it would be impossible to make it through the wind and rain. We stayed there until about 10 o’clock. The storm began to settle a little, so we decided to go to our tent and see if it were still standing. 'lt was but one end had caved in. “We built a fire in the mddle of the floor and dried ourselves. Our blankets were dry so we managed to sleep some. We were lucky because the rest of the boys had no blankets -and dry clothes and had to sit up all night. We are fine now with a better tent than we ever had.” REV. CROY BEGINS PASTORATE HERE ■4 ; Rev. and lilrs. O. E. Croy arrived in Eurnsville last week and M=r. Croy has be gun his duties as pastor of the Memorial Met hodist church, succeeding Rev. F. R. fiarber who was transferred eto the Midland ] church. Mr.’and Mrs. Croy] have one daughter, nine! year of age | MACK B. RAY HERE Mack B. , Ray, former county supervisor of the Farm Security Administra tion, was in Burnsville Wed nesday for i a visit with friends. He fwas accompan ied by Mrs. Ray, their 7 months old 'daughter, Caro lyn, and Mr*s Ray’s sister, Miss Stewart. Mr. Ray entered service in 1943, and recently re turned from overseas duty. He has received his disch arge from the army. For Induction - - The following men lefc 'Wednesday for induction into military service: Ausy Lue Allen, Bruce Watts, Dan Wilson, G. D Robinson, Alvin Silver I ‘Wayne Williams, Jo hr Mill**. t \ NOTICE j A number of young men are coming to the Local Board and registering for Selective Service lief ore they reach the age of 18 years, claiming that they are 18 years of age. This is a violation of the Selective Service Act just as much as failure to register when they do reach the age o' 18 years. as operations officer on the staff of Capt. John Myer,: USN, Commander Training Group, Chesapeake Bay, area. Lt. Cdr. Huskins re ceived his law degree from the University of North Carolina and maintained a law office here until he was commissioned in th* Navy in July, 1942. He resigned during his second term as mayor of Burnsville to ac cept the commission. MILDRED WESTALL BROADCAST FOR B. H. S Mildred Westall, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. I B. Westall and a member of the Senior class at Burns } ville high school, gave a fivt j minute broadcast over sta tion WWNC on the “Know, Our High Schools,” pro-' gram. This is a regular weekly feature of the radio station, featuring high schools of the section. Miss Westall has a most pleasing radio voice and gave a fine performance. Re-enlisted The following re-enlisted in the U. S. army this week: Ray Carson McCourry, Clyde Fox, Birgious Fox, Thomas Fletcher McCourry.’ FRIDAY IS V-8 DAY An automotive public that ha s not seen a new car since the vsr will get the first op portunity to view the 1946 Fords on that day. Every Ford Motor Com pany dealer will have at 1 least one of the new, im ! proved models on display. J. R. Davis, Director of 'Sales and Advertising, said ! that the Company long had ] planned to be first in public | display of automobiles. He said it had been hoped that prices of the new cars could be announced at the time of the public showing, but now it doesn’t appear as 1 though a price would be re-! ceived from OPA by that] tune. Consequently, dealer deliveries to the public ap parently will be delayed. “Dord production is roll ! ing now and if we can go i ahead unhampered, we ] should have hundreds of Fords in every sales area within a few weeks’’, Mr. 1 Davis said. “We will contin-i ue to seek a price arrange-: ment so persons who want to buy Fords may do so as soon as possible.” FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MISS POLLY BYRD Funeral services for Miss Polly Byrd, 85, of Burns ville, Rt. 1, who died at her • home last Saturday follow ing > Jong.. jJUiess were held ii last Sunday at her home, with the Rev. A. Z. Jamer son officiating. Burial was 'in the Byrd cemetery at Coxe’s Creek. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Hester Honeycutt of Burnsville, and two broth ers, W. J. Byrd and C. C. Byrd both of Burnsville. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. ANNIE WILLIAMS Mrs. Annie Williams, 84 died at the home of her son, John Henry Williams, in Erwin, Tenn., Friday night following a short illness, i She was a member of the Bee Log Baptist church. Funeral services were held at the home of another son, Isaac Williams of Bee Log Sunday afternoon at 3; o’clock, with the Rev. Ulyses Adkins, former pastor of the Bee Log Baptist church, officiating. Interment was in the family cemetery at Bee Log. She is survived by three sons, Mark of Asheville; Is aac of Bee Log, and John Henry of Erwin; two daug l hters, Mrs. Sallie Phillips of I Marion, and Mrs. Annie ! Lewis of Bee Log; one bro ther, Pitman Williams and ! one sister, Mrs. Lydia Moore both of Bee Log; 27 grand children and a number of great grand children. Will Attend Conference I V. J. Goodman, county| agent, and Miss Juanita; Rush, home agent, will at-! tend the annual conference: in Raleigh from Oct. 29 to Nov. 7. Mrs. Edd Roberts and young son, Jame 8 Edward, 1 are now at home. New Tobacco Warehouse R. C. Coleman, member of the Burley Tobacco War , ehouse in Boone, is doub ling the warehouse <japa , city there by the construc tion of a concrete and cin . der block warehouse. W. C. Greene, the con -1 tractor, says that he will have it ready for the open ing of the tobacco market J. B. Deyton is Guest Speaker Jason B. Deyton o £ Spruce Pine was guest speaker at the regular sup jper meeting of the Men’s ! Club on Monday evening.) !His subject was the history of Yancey county from the days of the earliest settlers, and his talk proved a weal- G. L. HENSLEY ELECT ED PRESIDENT OF POSTMASTER GROUP ! G. L. Hensley, Burnsville j postmaster, was elected president of the North Car olina chapter of the nation al association' of postmas ters at the annual conven- I tion in Wmsion-Salem. Mr. Hensley was one of the 15 charter members when the chapter was or ganized 11 years ago. He wag named county chair- J man then, and the next ; year was elected district chairman and served in this (capacity for three years. ’j He was vice president for , a term several years ago and last year was reelected 'i vice president, and this ; year elected to the presid ; ency of the organization. FINAL RITES FOR MRS. NETTIE ROBINSON Mrs. Nettie Robinson, 79 passed away Thursday mor ning at the home of her son, Kelse Riddle, following an illness of three months. Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock Saturday at the Burnsville Baptist church, with the Rev. Bar nett of Union Mills officiat ing, assisted by W. M. Sweatt, also of Union Mills. Burial was in the family cemetery. Surviving are three sons, ; Kelse Riddle and M. E. Rid ]]dl3 of Burnsville, and ! John Robert Riddle of Fair view. A number of grand | children and great grand- : ’ children also survive. ■, 'j Holcombe and Edwards j funeral home was in charge of the services. Miss Doris Hunter and 1 June Ayers will attend the Home Coming events at ASTC, Boone during thei week end. David Cheadle is now sta-j tioned at the naval training center, Camp Peary, Va. for boot training. He graduat-] ed from Lee Edwards high! school last spring and vol-j unteered for the navy. At the time he was called into 'service he was a student at 1 | High Point college to which ihe had been awarded a I scholarship as an outstand ing high school student. His brother, Robert M. Cheadle, 1 has recently received a dis charge from the Marine Corps. * * NUMBER THIRTEEN Jat an undetermined date ! early in December. This warehouse covers 1-2 acres. The roof is supported by fabricated steel. Mr. Coleman says that with the new warehouse, he wiil be able greatly to im ' prove the quick service and ' good accomodations w T hich ] has heretofore been given ■i to the tobacco growers. ’ th of information on this ; topic, and a deep under standing of the peoples and i development of this section, j Reece Mclntosh presided at the brief business session and H G. Bailey was pro gram. Thirty five members and visitors attended. Promoted to Captain Headquarters, A f rica ] Middle East 1 heatre ; (AMETi, Cairo. Egypt.— First Lieutenant Hugh ■ M. Tomberlin, son of Mr. ■ and Mrs. W. T. Tomberlin, -of Swiss, has been promot - ed to the rank of captain. Capt. Tomberlin came ov • erseas 29 months ago as an > enlisted man. He is at pre • sent assigned to tfte Dispo sal Division, of the Army ■ and Navy Liquidation Com mission. As an enlisted man t* and as an officer, he had to j! solve problems concerning ' the disposal of materials rjand installations, as well as > in civil affairs in liberated l areas and also to pick up ;| and analyze transfers be .] tween the United States i and United Kingdom Gov -1 ernments. During the oper ational phase, he took care of the evaluation and ae j counting of Lend Lease, re . ciproeal aid, and post war • interests in the Middle East, r Capt. Tomberlin was as signed to the Research \ Branch, Economics Divis - ion, Headquarters ADET ■ on June 13, 1943. He receiv .ed direct commission on . June 6, 1943. In Dec. 1944, he was promoted from 2nd j Lt. to Ist Lt. Capt. Tomber -ilin attended the Western I Carolina Teachers College, and received his B. S. De ’ gree in 1938. Later he did j Post Graduate work at the University of North Caro- I lina. MEN INJURED IN .CAR WRECK Clarence Banks was ser ; iously injured when the car in which he was riding left the road and overturned into a culvert at Riverside j Monday night. He is now re ! eeiving treatment in the .] Mission hospital. Olin Shep -1 herd who was driving sus tained cuts and bruises on 'his head but is able to be jout again. The car wa9 j badly wrecked. j For Pre Induction Exam The following boys left this morning for pre-induc tion examination: 'i Philip Clarence Har-is, H. B, Adkins, R. L. Allen, Richard C. Edwards, Geor ge Wm. Jones, Max Phillips, > Perry D. Wilson, Lee Gar land.
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