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o VOLUME TEN SUR RATES: $1.50 YEAR. BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1945 NUMBER TWENTY TWO --Men In Service-- i fc /, : Pfc. Paul McCurry, son of Mr. and Mr.s. I. F. McCurry of Burnsville, is now with occupation troops in Ger-' many. S. Sgt. Garmon Ballew,i son of D. W. Ballew of Hamrick and Pfc. Paul Edwards, son of Martin' Edwards of IJiggins, are on their way home and were! ' scheduled to have landed in Seattle about Dec. 23 aboa rd the USS Berrian. Joseph B. Wilson, ARM 2c, has received a discharge from service in the navy at the Separation Center in Charleston. Wilson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Wil son of Burnsville, served 28 months in the "Navy and wears the American Thea tre and \ Asiatic-Pacific cam paign ribbons and the air medal. Alvin K. Edwards, sea man, second class, USNR, Ramseytown, N. C., is at tached to Air Transport Squadron 4 based at the 1 Naval Air Station, Oakland,! Calif. The squadron is thej heavy maintenance unit for the Pacific wing of the Na val Air Transport Service Command. The men have kept the giant Navy Sltymaster?, used by NATS, in perfect flying condition for their regular trips between Oak-' land and far Pacific out-{ posts. < F S A Service to Veterans G I FARM LOANS PROVIDED BY FSA It was announced todav by Mack B. Hay, Farm Se- ( eurity Administration Sup ervisor for Yancey county, that special privileges and considerations will be given all returning veterans by the FSA—making farm loans ■and other assistance provided by FSA. In addition to all provis ions granted under the G I Bill of Rights, FSA will provide funds to purchase family-type farms and the loan may be spread over a 40 year repayment scheduled The interest rate of three per cent is the same as for other farm loans provided for tenant farmers under the Bankhead-Jones Farn Tenant 4 l ‘t. By a Family-Type farm it was explained, the farm must be large enough to sup. ort thi* family for a noimal livelihood, pay tax es, operating expenses, and have something left during normal years to apply as repayment on the loan. In I addition the farm should 1 provide adequate pasture,! crop land, including mead-' ow and hay land and if mostly up land-*-the farm’ should be of sufficient size to allow a good crop rota-! tion system. Although the size of loans is limited to tenant farm- i ers of the county. Veterans may obtain loans up to .$12,000. All applications and i THE YANCEY RECORD Discharged The following men have | received discharges from j service and are now at | home: Warren Hensley, Scott Hensley, Fleet Proffitt, Jack Riddle, Fred Edge, Charles Allen, Jr., Gibbs Bailey, Otto Proffitt, Coy | Bennett, Charles C. Johnson Ralph Mclntosh, Billie Crain, Willie Harris, Elzie Ledford, Herman Bostian,' John Evans, Adam McCur-J ry, Dewey Moss, ; Charles Radford, Fermanj Weatherman, John Silver I : Dewey Pate, f Charles Nelson' Boone, Carmel McPeters, E. R. Allen, Ransom R‘ad-1 ford, Leonard Chandler Ray Boone. Seaman J. E. Wilson has been home on leave for the past week. Sgt. Rush Beeler has been home on leave from Washington, D. C., wherre! he is now stationed. , Seaman Royce Silver* , was home on leave for, the (holiday season. ) * Sgt. Frank Phillips ofj Camp Butner was home on! leave for Christmas. Sgt: Paul -D. Ayers'-M the 1 Marine Corps arrived home in time for Christmas after 1 returning to the states from { service in the south Pacific area. loans if granted must be certified by the local FSAj committee. The committee! is composed of three Yan icev county farmers, E. E. I King Burnsville, Carl You ng, Day Book, and R. C. Devton, Green Mtn. i If she veteran has his own! farm or lives on a rented farm and does not desire to buy a farm and needs other financial assistance, regu lar FSA loans are available. Loans of the type may be made for building mater ials roofing, fencing, land: developments, livestock, in-| eluding workstock, seeds! and fertilizer, and may be repaid ove'' a period of from one to five years. Detailed information re garding loans to veterans | and FSA assistance may be obtained at the local FSA i office at Burnsville. All f tenants and low income far mers needing financial, as jsistance are advised to con tact the FSA committeemen or local FSA supervisor and I discuss their needs or prob-j Jems and if elegible—assis tance will be provided iit j was announced. j —i ■■■■ ■, ___ —* I Wallace Edge who is] I stationed in Dayton, Ohio! is home on leave for , mas. R. C. Orr of Raleigh hasj 'been spending the holidays! with his family here. r Vance Hensley of Bolens! Creek has been ill for the' past week at his home. i “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” I NOTICE J Town Officials have is sued the following state ment in connection with! the disruption of the water; supply service: At the time that the trouble occurred at the wat er intake on Tuesday night there was enough water in; the reservoir to last for sev eral days if it had been used wisely by all citizens. However, within a very short time this supply was exhausted. . There are numerous in stances where the faucets are left open so that the | pipes will not freeze and ; this great drain on the water supply was to a great extent responsible for he lack of an adequate supply. Tuesday night and Wed-j nesday. ■* Since the winter months are always a hazard to a water system and' since some times it takes hours; to make repairs, all citizens of the town are urged to ( cooperate by closing fau-; eets and by using water as wisely as possible when there is an emergency. If this is done the supply jof water in the reservoir will take care of all normal needs till service is restored. ARMY RECRUITING SERVICE ! T. Sgt. iTTI Lewis and Sgt. Alex Baron of the army recruiting service will be in Burnsville on Thurs day of each week for the purpose of giving informa tion; and accepting men for the regular army. Headquarters will be in the county Selective Service | office from 9 to 5. | John and David Low, sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Low of Burnsville, have en rolled for the winter term at North Carolina State j College. John who was a 'member of the Senior class ,-in architectural engineer ing at the time he entered service has recently been discharged; David who was la member of the Junior class in civil engineering, is now on terminal leave from j the army air force. 1 70 OUP READFPS" FPjENDS... ll The New Year is the traditional season o! hope. Hope for a lasting peace. Hope for a speedy reunion with loved ones far distant Hope for happiness and hope for health. j 1 1" Each of us has a stake in this harvest of hope. How we reap will depend on how wo cultivate the opportunities that lie ahoad. \ j Just as a merchant takeqt stock at the beginning of la Hew Year and closes his books on the Old. so we at this season ought to take menlaS Inventory and do some spiritual bookkeeping. The past is goc»a jonjy as Its achlevementsetrengthen us for the tasks of the future—only as its mistakes I The road of the past was paved discontent card tyranny. We must pave \ the road of the future with hope, confidence, and neighborliness. The world is no better or np worse thcmwe ourselvls Jnake it It is the sum of thousands of communities like our own. dll’added together. We each have responsibilities as individ uals and citlsens to make It better. / 'll With the coming of 1946 let li/resolve to work and live so that peace on earth may be | j a reality rather than a dreanLvThen the horrors of tiattie\w!ll not be visited on the next, j generation and the sons of tomorrow will not have to go forth to war. The future offers challenging opportunities. Strengthened by our nation's achieve ments in the past four can meet these opportunities with confidence. f So it Is with a spirit of hope, fortified by a feeling of thankfulness that this newspaper * T,rY ° n ' O,YTO 7lewtytaA. \ HAPPY NEW YEAR | |TO YOU! -«v •. . ☆ , . * Mr r - - ■ Clothing Collection .... i New York-, —St on after 1 post offices rare cleared of ! the last Chr|stmas packag es, they will begin to receive! : clothing gilts from the American people to the suf -1 sering peopl? in bombed-, ■ out lands, according to an 1 order of Postmaster Gen |eral Robert E. Hannegan which was made public to-' day. i- Henry J. Kaiser, national l chairman of the Victory ! Clothing Collection, declar ied that the order to all postmasters authorized and directed them to permit local eommk tees of the na tion-wide ek>thing drive to place boxes in post-office lobbies to receive elothing donations, k Mr. Kaiser also announc ed that Nekon A. Rocke feller,. former Assistant Secretary will ser ve as the New York City chairman of the Collection. 1 MODERN BETSY ROSS ! ;] ! For 45 months in capti vity, Master Gunnery Ser geant Bernard 0. Ketner, 37, of Morehead City, N. C., 1 dreamed of seeing the Am erican f-ag once again. He had been captured at Wake Island, where he had fought the bitter fight aga in.A overwhelming odds in the first chapter of the war, and had b< j en removed to Japan as a prisoner. “Betsy Hess could have done no better than this gang of 200 half starved i Marines when the word came that Japan had sur rendered,” Ketner reported on his arrival in the states. “We searched for suit Mr. Kaiser also announc ed that 9,607 communities I throughout, America are or | ganized to conduct clothing drives under .the local chair manship of 4,313 men and women, many of whom will j ! direct county-wide drives. * i One community, South iHero, Vt., has completed its clothing collection. The 606 I residents of this village on an island in Lake Champ lain began their drive a month in advance of the national campaign. Mrs. Henry Buermann, local; chairman* explained that, three pre-Christmas sewing bee s were held to salvage! garments were worn! and ripped. The Victory,Clothing Col- ( {lection, scheduled from Jan.; 7-31, seeks 100,000,000 used! {garments, in addition to shoes and bedding. Each contributor is invited to at tach good-will* messages to clothing gifts. able flag material, found la white bed sheet, a red; parachute and a number of; blue handkerchiefs. The ac tual work on the flag was done on a battered British I sewing machine. “Half an hour after the 1 | flag was raised the Japa-; nese left the camp in a huff. The Stars and Stripes slut- 1 tering in the breeze in their homeland was more than they could stand.” __ i NOTICE i The Woman’s Christian; Temperance Union will meet at the Baptist church,! Thurhday, January 3rd, at 7:30 o’clock. BUY VICTORY BONDS Extreme Cold Spell Broken The extended spell of extreme winter weather with snow 7 and ice has at last been broken and though temperatures continue low,' sunshine has made good progress toward melting the, ice and snow. Fortunately, Yancey cou nty escaped the worst ef-{ sects of the sleet and ice ' storm which gripped most of western North Carolina and the adjoining section of South Carolina. This storm came on Chri-j stmas morning and there! was enough sleet and rain; freezing on trees artd pow er lines to cause great da-J | mage in many places. In the county, the fall was not great enough to cause much of this. ' In sections where the sleet and icy rain was heavy trees and shrubbery suffer ed severe damage, and pow er and telephone lines were i—- - - - - - - . ; j - Accident Toll I T. Boddie Ward, Com-; Enclosed in the letter, was I missioner tJ North Carolina the following bulletin, pre j Department of Motor Ve-;pared by the National Saf i hides, has sent out an ap-Jety Council of Chicago, giv ! P ea l to ail citizens of the ing figures on War casual j state to do everything pos- ties compared to home front isible to cut down the tragic accident toll from Pearl itoll of traffic accidents. Harbor to V-J Day: COMPARISON OF WAR AND ACCIDENT l CASUALTIES IN WORLD WAR 11. (From Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1911) to V-J Day (August 14, 1945) WAR CASUALTIES (From the Army and Navy) Kille d 261,608 . Wounded 651,911 i Missing 32,811 i Prisoners 124,194 Total 1,070,524 . THE HOME FRONT ACCIDENT TOLL (From the National Safety Council) Killed 355,000 Injured 36,000,000 (Including 1,250,000 cases involving some permanent disability) THE TRAFFIC TOLL ALONE Killed 94,000 Injured 3,300,000 TIIE TOLL IN HOMES ALONE Killed 118,000 Injured 17,500,000 ; Note: The National Safety Council offers the foregoing comparison with no thought of implying that war time activities on the home front compared in dan ger with actual fighting on the battle front. The figures are presented merely to show the enormity of the accident toll and to emphasize the importance of preventing accidents—in war or in peace, at the Christmas season or any other time. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM The program of Christ ! mas music 1 given Sunday , evening was ojityof the most beautiful and effective ever| pr esented i n Burnsville, i With the background of Christmas greens and light ed 1 , by the soft glow of can dle's, the scene was one that added to the spirit of rever ence. The old familiar car ols and the special selections were presented most im pressively and the music of; the organ added the beauty i I that was most fitting for this season of the year. This Christmas program is one of the annual customs which Burnsville has long! observed, and which, like all things of true beauty, are ever old yet ever new. . . To our readers near and far may we say: May this Pi fesj down. There was a slight in terruption of service here I Monday night but for only a short time. \ However, a pipe which burst at the main w 7 ater in take ca'used the water to go off late Tuesday night and 1 though work was begun im mediately to repair this, it was not possible for service to be resumed until Wed nesday night. Everything is apparently ;back to normal now- 7 w r ith I practically all traces of the ■ big snow gone, and temper atures considerably higher in the day time, though still 'low at night. Schools are 1 scheduled to reopen on Mon day, Dec. 31 after an ex-, tended vacation due to wea ther conditioons' and the prevalence o f sickness. However, the county roads are reported to be in very poor condition because of the deep freezes and thaws. NOTICE » The Library is now open ion the ' regular afternoons. | It was closed during the ex tremely cold weather until a new stove could be in stalled. Lt. Ralph Bostian is home on leave from Miami, Fla. where he is stationed with the army air corps. Seaman Harold Harris is home on leave visiting his ( parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sol 1 Harris. New Year be a happy and successful one for you. May the things you plan and work for come to pass, and ijiay there also be all along through the months to come many happy, and un anticipated incidents which shall brighten the year. 1 ... .
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