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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
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THE YANCEY RECORD
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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.
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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,
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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
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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 £
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.