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A , • ■ art a. aM«ra«‘avanai»a»ia ianaiiaiiaiiatiaiiai'ai<aMa>iaiif aiiatiaiianatiaiiauauiiiaiiaua VOLUME TEN SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. --Men In Service-- I James Johnson, S lc, who has been in Hong Kong, China with U. S. naval for ces has left to return to the slates. i Champ McMahan, S lc, is now at home after return ing from sea duty for the past 12 months. Ernest fanner, Q. M. lc, is home on 30 day leave af ter returning from duty in the south Pacific area. Kiffen Hennessee, S lc, is at home on Jeave after returning to the states from sea duty. Capt. Earl Simmons has been home on leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sknmons of Hamrick after returning from over seas service in the Euro pean Theatre. John and George Blake are now at home after re ceiving discharges from service, John from the ar my and George from the Navy. James Boyce Stamey of l&te Marine Corps has re-1 ceived his discharge from seivice and is now at home. Cpl. Howard Autrey spent 30 days with his mo ther, Mrs. Marion Autrey. Cpl. Autrey is a patient in the hospital at Atlanta, Ga. LAST RITES FOR MRS. BETSY HONEYCUTT Mrs. Betsy Phillips Hon ■eycott, Si. died Saturday morning at her home in| Bee Log following a brief illness. She was the mother of j eleven children, nine of whom survive, 67 grand children, 31 great grand | children and 5 great, great; grand children. Funeral services were held at the home Sunday afternoon by Rev. Edd Rid dle, Rev. Emery Shepherd and Rev. McMahan. Inter ment was in the family cemetery near the home. Tobacco Allotments All eligible producers in terested in applying for a ‘new growers’ tobacco al- 1 j lotment should file an ap-! ( plication at the Yancey,, County AAA office prior, ‘ to February 1, 1946, M. D. ( Bailey, Chairman, of the j County AAA Committee said here today. Ile pointed out that in order to be eligible for a new 7 tobacco allotment, the following conditions must be met: (1) The farm op erator shall have had ex perience in growing the kind of tobacco for which an allotment is requested either as a sharecropper, tenant, or as a farm opera tor during the past five years, or if the farm opera tor has been in the armed services of the United Sta tes, within five years prior to his entry into the armed services; i 2) the farm op • ' I THE YANCEY RECORD ’ ' • .if V “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” M. Sgt. Paul R. Westall is home from India, where j he soent 23 months in the * AT Force. He has been in ’ the army for the past 5 • years. — Discharged | The following men have 1 received their discharges 1 from service and are now ] ’ at home: Max W. Penland, Clyde 1 McCurry, 0. C. Honeycutt, Arthur Jarrett, Grover 1 Penland, L. B. Silver, Jr., I ■ John Gibson Hughes, Jay ; Thomas, Charlie M. Silver, I Welzie H. King, James G. ! Laws, Lonnie W. Wilson, ’ Robert B. Deyton, Roy ] 1 1 Silver, Lee Evans; ( Lawrence Higgins, Lee Jarrett, John English Emmett Byrd, Perry Par- 1 ker, Ward P. Shepherd, i Wm. J. King, Frank Briggs \ Brown Williams, Samuel [ Rathburn, Wesley McCurry l , S. Sgt. Leroy Hunter has I been discharged from the ; army after two years ser vice in the Mediteranean v Theatre. Sgt. Hunter is a|, I veteran of Anzio, Arno, 1 J the battle for Rome and ; the Po Valley. He was al- : so in North Africa, Austria , r Germany, Belgium, Fran - ce and Switzerland. He says , . his experience in Anzio [ Beachhead will be long re- Jmembered. ( ARMY RECRUITING SERVICE T. Sgt. R. H. Lewis and Sgt. Alex Baron of th 1 army recruiting service wil I be in Burnsville on Thurs j ; day of each week for the • purpose of giving informa tion and accepting men for the regular army. Headquarters will be ii | the county Selective Servic office from 9to 5. - B. R. Penland is in Col umbia, S. C. to attend a Carolina and Building Supply meeting. Give Used Clothing- erator shall be living on the farm and largely de pendent on this farm forj his livelihood; (3i the farm covered by the application shall be the only farm own ed or operated by the farm operator on which any to bacco is produced; and <4i no kind of tobacco other than the kind for which ap plication for an allotment is made will be grown on such farm in 1946. He emphasied that the only exception that would be made in the date for fil ing applications would be in the case of a, farm opera tor being in the armed for ces on that date. Under this condition, application may be filed not later than the time tobacco is sub stantially all planted in the 'county, or within 30 day's following his discharge from the armed forces, whichever is earlier. BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1946 BURNSVILLE SUPER 1 MARKET WILL. OPEN The Burnsville <Super: Market, owned and operat ; ed by Ivan M. Peterson will open next Tuesday Jan. 15th. The new building, recent j ly completed, is of concrete ; block construction with|, glass front, and is approxi-i mately 25x50 feet. The lat est in display and refriger ation equipment has beta installed. Mr. Peterson recently purchased the Sorrells pro perty on west Main Street and the Super Majrket building was constructed adjacent to the home. Lee Jarrett is now at home after receiving a dis charge from the . Navy. . C. M. Bailey left last week for a few weeks visit in Florida. Annual Red Cross Meeting S Officers and Committee Chairmen Named The annual meeting of the executive meeting of the Yancey county chapter, American Red Cross was held Thursday afernoon. D. E. Dibbrel, district field representative, was present Officers and committee chairmen were elected dur ing the business session. Mrs. Sam J. Huskins ten dered her resignation as chapter chairman and Dr. 0. E. Croy.was elected. Mrs. Harmon Peterson was named vice chairman | of the chapter; Mrs. Craig I English, Secretary; Miss rßuby Robinson, treasurer; Mrs. C. P. Rogers, Junior chairman; Mrs. C. 11. Ham rick, publicity chairman; Frank W. Howell, Fund Chairman. D. R. Fouts was named chairman of the Home Ser vice committee, with Mrs. English and Miss Robinson as committee meipbers; Vernie Wilson is First Aid! chairman; Miss Juanita 3J Bw Ik, *-- - - V ———- COURT WILL CONVENE Jurors Named The January term of Superior Court is schedul-i ed to convene here on Mon-! day, Jan. 21. Civil cases; will be heard during the week session, with Judge l William H. Bobbitt of; [•Charlotte presiding. The following jury listj has been drawn: J. W. McAlister, H. W ; -Burleson, Grayson Robin , son, H. H. .. Mclnturff Charley Hall, Robert Gou ge, Leslie Proffitt, Lynn Carroll, Sam Wilson, Sr. j W M'. Westall, Monroe King, Joseph M. Robinson; C. E. Silvers, Cling Thomas, Mosco Tow r e, Hal Young, Yates' Randolph, Charley R. Boone, Wesley J. Thomas, W. J. Banks, R. B. Adkins, Vincent Westall, Willard Buckner, A. L. Johnson. Rush, production chairman; Hershel Holcombe, disaster chairman; Mrs. D. R. Fouts nutrition chairman and Mrs. Hazel Beavers, home nursing chairman. Mr. Dibbrel spoke on the present and future activi ties of the Red Cross. He stated that the work of the home chapters S is now and will continue Jkti b? much heavier as service men come home and request aid' in making readjustments! to civilian life. However, Mr. Dibbrel stated, the w T ork, of the na tional and international Red Cross had become cor respondingly lighter, and would continue to lessen. H. G. Bailey is executive secretary of the county chapter. Mrs. R. A. Peake visited l her mother, Mrs. Julia Bennett this week. Government price sup ports and heavy demand are expected to keep dairy ' products high during the first half of 1946. NOTICE FOR AAA 1 FARMERS J All farmers who received 1945 Burley Tobacco cards are requested to return the i cards to the AAA office as < soon as sales are made. i 1 DISTRICT HEALTH COMMITTEE MEMBERS The three ex officio members of the New Dis trict Board of Health met today at the Health office, Newland, to elect four pub lic member's. Lee Sturgill, Chairman, Avery County Board of Commissioners acted as temporary chair-1 man. J. B. Dayton, superin-; tendent of schools of Mit chell county and H. Grady Bailey of Yancey county, mayor of Burnsville, were in attendance. The meeting was called to order by Mr.; Sturgill. Dr. Emma Sloop Fink of Crossnore was elected to serve for three years, Dr. W. B. Masters of Bakers ville was elected to serve four years, and R. A. Glenn of Burnsville was elected to serve two years. The fourth member elected was Mr. Carl Loven, mayor of Spruce Pine, who will serve j for one year. Mr. Lee Sturgill was elected permanent chair man of the District Board of Health. Dr. B. B. McGuire, Dis-j trict Health Officer, acted! a s Secretary to the Board. i SERVICES FOR MRS [ SALLIE GIBBS A LITRE Y £ i ( Funeral services was con- £ ducted at the Ballew ceme- £ tery by the Rev. S. W. 1 Shuford and Aaron Shu- < ford Sdnday morning at 11 i o’clock Jan. 6 for Mrs. Sal- ] lie Gibbs Autrey. She died ] at the home of her daugh- ] ter, Mrs. A. R. Westall, ; Jan. 3. ] Mrs. Autrey w ? as born < May 8, 1891 at Celo where she spent most of her life.. She professed faith in j Christ when a young worn- < an and joined the Baptist church. Due to ill health she had not been able to at tend church for many years She was the wife of Jas on Autrey who departed [this life Sept. 30, 1917. She ;i 8 survived by 3 daughters,! Mrs. A. R. Westall and Mrs.i Marion Autrey, both of j Hamrick, and Mrs. Clara Godfrey of Hickory and 13 j grand children. OLD INDIAN CUSTOM j * “Many - blankets from American homes are now walking down the rubble strewn streets of European villages on the backs of men.’’ This is the observa tion of Sgt. Thomas Brown-' lie, of New York City. Noticing man after man wearing an overcoat ob viously made from a blank et, Sgt. Brownlie inquired about them and learned that the blankets were dis- I tributed by UNRRA work ers who said that they had been donated by the Amer- I ican people in the United Five School Lunch Rooms Now In Operation in County The school lunch room at Burnsville school began op eration on Friday, Jan, 4 and approximately 35.0 lunche s are being served each day. There are now 5 school lunch rooms in operation in the county, at Bald Creek school, Bee Log, Micaville Deyton Bend and Burns ville. The ones at Bald Creek and Deyton Bend were opened late in the school term last year; the others have been ‘opened [this year. 5 School officials and pa trons have been working toward this goal for sever al years, but it was not nu til tiiis year that ii was pos sible to make the necessary arrangements. « The present Board of; Education had, when it 1 came into office, two goals,; to put into operation lunch-j rooms in each of the scho ols, and to help equip each school with new classroom furniture. Toward these goals, the following amou nts were set up- in the 1 County Budget: Lunch- I rooms, $5650.00; New Eq uipment, $4500.00. Each school was handi capped because of a lack of Rites Held for L. L. Hill] | Funeral services for Dr. L. L. Hill were conducted at Mt. Pleasant Baptist church Monday, January 7, at 3:00. He was born Janu ary 31, 1898 and died Janu ary 5, 1946, of heart attack, at his home in Bristol, Pa. Interment was in the chur ch cemetery. Officiating w r ere: Rev. R. D. Ponder, Rev. A. Z. Jamerson and Mr. B. M. Tomberlin. The Bald-Creek Lodge of A. F. and A. M., of w'hich Dr. Hill was a former member, concluded the services. The pall bearers and, flower girlg were cousins and close friends of the deceased. Dr. Hill is survived by, his wife, Mamie Hensley Hill; two sons, L. L. Jr. 12, and Nonnan 10; his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Hill; four sisters, Mrs. Les lie Proffitt, and Mrs. Jack Mclntosh of Burnsville, !Mrs. Cleve Mosier of Mars' Hill, Mrs. Martin Grovman,! Asheville; three brothers, 1 Edd of Swiss, Kelly of Ad-1 dison, Pa. and Browdus of Asheville. J Dr. Hill was graduated (from Bald Creek high scho ol, Carson and Newman col lege, University of North Carolina and Cornell Uni versity, from which he re } National Clothing Collec ■jtion of last spring. Resour-j ceful wives decided that i their husbands needed coats - to wear to work this winter -'even worse than their fami shes needed warm bed cov -1 ers. * | ■j Give your old blankets in • the clothing drive! 1j 1 I - 1 Give to the National 1 i Clothing Drive !•- - I **«•<» •.. ■ lit 11 ft. I* **"•*•**•+** . ■ • - .FT • Tj Pt Pi Pi — .■iiti.alii.tfiiiHiui.itMaiiaHiMtMHfiiaiiaiiaHMißMMM NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR space. At Micaville and Bee Log 4 was necessary to build k separate building for the lunchroom. At Dey ton Bend a room in , ,the school building] was equip ped, and at Balq Creek last year the old teacherage was remodeled and space thus provided. At Burns ville, the large basement room in the high school building was completed to give space for the lunch room. To do this it was ne cessary/ to grade and con crete the floor, enclose the space and build the requir ed storage and cabinet space. In addition to providing space for the lunch rooms, the county school board al jso supplemented funds for equipment for the larger 1 schools by approximately S2OO to each school. Lunches are provided for a minimum charge through the cooperation of the state and federal government. These agencies grant 9c per lunch and the student pays 10c in cash or the eq ivalent in food products which are exchanged for lunch tickets. Approved menus must i Continued on page 3) ceived a Doctorate of Phil osophy. He was professor of Bio logy at Washington and Lee University for eight years. / “"During this time he was teacher of the Young Men’s Sunday School class of the First Baptist church of Lexington, Va. He left Washington and Lee to do field research Work for Cornell and while there he was listed in Who’s Who a s an outstand ing figure in the field of i Entomology. ; He left Cornell to join the Field Research Division iof Rhom and Hass Com pany. The winters of 1943- 44 he perfected insecticides to control potato and toma to blight and enable far mers to grow potatoes and tomatoes in the glades of Florida. The summers of 1943-44 and 43he the I same thing Mra the New (England states. He was World authority on celery ; diseases. I At the time of his pass ling he was doing extensive [ research w r ork in insect i - cides at the Rhom and Hass - laboratories at Bristol, Pa. i Funeral arrangements - were under the direction of - Holcombe Brothers. March of Dimes ./ 7 | The March of Dimes, na tion-wide appeal of the Na tional Foundation for In fantile Paralysis, January 14-31, gives every Ameri ican an opportunity to join in one of the great human iitarian crusades of modern itimes: the fight against , poliomyelitis, the great | ci ippler.
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