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Food Production and Conservation are more Im portant now than ever be fore. Do Your Part. VOLUME TEN Guernsey Promotional Sale BE HELD APRIL 26 The first purebred Guer nsey promotional sale ever to be held in Yancey county will be held at Zeb Young’s farm east of Burnsville on Friday,- April 26 at 1:00 o’clock. Announcement of plans j for the sale was made by| the county agents’ office; last week, and unusual in-! terest is being shown not only by members of the Yancey county Guernsey breeders’ association but) also by other citizens who; recognize the importance of the entire better cattle F. S. A. Families Cooperate in Emergency Food Program According to information; received from Vance E.j Swift, State Director of the Farm Security Admin istration, all FSA families] throughout North Caro-] lina are cooperating in the 1 Emergency Food and Feed Program to help feed the] starving millions in war-: torn countries throughout the world. In addition to reaching the goals recommended by the Famine Emergency Committee of; namely, a reduction of 40 per cent in the consumption of wheat products and of 20 per cent in food fats and oils during the next three months, FSA families are being en couraged to increase sub !' .aiUially both the produc tion and conservation of. coin, i ay, pastures, and vegetables and meats for home use during the com i g year. Since our nation is com mitted to help feed the starving people in war-torn countries and since our pre stige as a world power hin ges on our ability to do the job during the next ninety] days, or until these people! are permitted to make a! crop, all families must coop erate or thousands will ac tually die from starvation. In Yancey county, accord ing to Mack B. Ray, FSA Supervisor, FSA families are cooperating by preven ting waste of bread and fats, substituting other : foods for bread and by sav ing and reusing fats and |« BALD CREEK HIGH SCHOOL NEWS Student Council The Student Council of Bald Creek high school has held three meetings. In the first meeting the following officers were elected: Van Jamerson, president; Earl Buckner, vice president; Ruth Buckner, secretary; Warren Banks, reporter. School imp r o vements have been discussed at the meetings. The first discus sion centered around the lunch room, and a plan for lining up and entering the lunchroom waS put into practice. Other projects include loading the buses and solv ing the problem of “traffic jams” in the halls. THE YANCEY RECORD SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. program for the county. The sale is sponsored jointly by the county asso ciation, the North Carolina' Guernsey Breeders’ asso ciation, the N. C. State College Extension Service and the Carnation Milk Company. Harry M. Ham ilton, Jr., county agent of j Watauga county, will be | auctioneer. Twenty consigners will offer a total of 22 calves, bred heifers and cowhand 1 bull for sale. Among these ! consigners are some of the leading Guernsey breeders of the state. ! oils for cooking purposes. Since wheat and its by products and fats and oils are being shipped in large quantities abroad to help teed starving people, it is a known fact these items will be scarce in the near] future. To alleviate this sit-j uation all FSA families in' Yancey county are being ; urged to do the following: I. CORN: 42 per cent ■ more corn to be produced I, and conserved by FSA 1 . families this year over last I ] year. j 11. HAY: 33 1-3 more hay 1 ( to be produced by FSA 1 j families this year than they' ( produced lastly ear. Hi. Permanent Pasture: ( 20 per cent more grass pro ' auction in 1946 over 1945 ; n farms operated by FSA ( borrowers. , | IV. Food Production and * Conservation: Both food ( pi eduction and conserva tion are to be increased by at least ..5 per cent this . year over 1945. It is not only our patrio- ■ tic duty as citizens to help in the Emergency Food and:' [Feed Program by saving I food and eliminating waste, !by producing more corn, ha}, pastures, and vege- ( tables for home use on our .. local farms thus allowing ‘ t our surplus to be sent i abroad—WE MUST DO r THIS—or we will be with ost these items in the nearjp future as they will become scarcer on the markets and harder to get at higher , costs. READING CONTEST The annual Reading Con test will be held at Burns ville high school tonight i Thursday >at 7:30 pr m. The following will parti cipate in the contest: Lou Etta Randolph, Betty Fox, HojUe and Genevieve Angel, Wilma Anglin, Elizabeth Ramsey, Mary Evelyn Hen sley, Mary Blake' Wilson, Ruth Banks, Freida Brown, Peggy and Alberta Par rish, Clara D. Banner and Martha Bailey. Mr. John R. Cruse, Sani tarian Trainee of the Surry County Health Department spent the past week in thjs district taking fjeld train ing under Jake F. Buckner, district sanitarian. ‘DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1946 Discharged The following men have received their discharge Earl Ogle, Ashton Ram sey, Paul Edwards, Will iam McMahan, Clyde Tall | ent, Ralph Hughes, Wood ; row Whitson, Arthur Hug ! hes, Wayne Banner, Fred ; Ramsey, Alvin Burgin, . Mack Ray Higgins, Leroy Hunter. TO HAWAII Mis s June Murphy who been employed by the North Carolina Merit Sys tem Council in Durham, is 1 spending the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. i.iurphy before leaving for Hickam Field, Hawaii, where she has been assign ed by the U. S. Civil Service Commission. PROPERTY SOLD *IN CATTAIL CREEK SECTION During the past few months there have been j a number of sales of prop | erty on the Mt. Helen Es i tates in the Cattail Creek Section. Mr. and Mrs. Percy I Threadgill returned this , week from Florida, and I from them it was learned ■ that 8 of the houses in the ] development were sold re iC-ently. These included the i lodge house and the small er house and cabins owned ' hy the Threadgills, and six other summer homes. ■ Mis s Anne J. Ferry and her sister, Mrs. M. I. Baker of Miami purchased e the lodge. They have named it l “Altitude Lodge” and plan 1 to open it as an inn on June Ist. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Baker, also of Miami have purch ased the smaller house, cab- 1 ins and swimming pool and plan to operate them this summer. Mr. Baker is the! son of Mrs. M. I. Baker. Since the Threadgills be-; gan development of the. Cattail Creek property as a summer resort section,! there have been 45 homes built. When asked how] many were planned for con-b struction this summer they said “as many as it is pos sible to obtain materials for”. Lumber for the cot tages has been cut on the ; ' property so that this will be on hand. Orchard Demonstration An orchard demonstra tion meeting' was held Tue sday at the Pearson Riddle farm, Pensacola. The coun ty agentg and representa tives of t,he extension ser vice met with the group of farmers to discuss care of orchards and insect and disease control. “Chick” Sheh, one of 21 Chinese Extension workers now studying agricultural conditions in the United States, believes that adequ ate food supplies in China could end that populous na tion’s cjvil strife. Remember Clean up days Friday and Saturday . Graduates Chanute Fpld, lil.-Capt. Sam J. Huskies, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.feam J. Husk-' ins of Burnsville has com-j pleted training and has] been graduated from this'; school of the! Army Air] Forces Training Command.! While attending this] Army Air Forces Training Command school he receiv ed instruction in the Air craft Maintenance Officer course, and in various tech nical operations vital to the 1 maintenance of the 6 count-; ry’s fighting .planes. ASSISTANT COUNTY FARM AGENT D. D. Baggett, a native of Dunn, N. C. } began work in the county, on April Ist as assistant county agent'; and T. V. A. assistant. Mr. Baggett graduated from the N. C. State Col lege of Agriculture in 1943.' During the time that he was in college he did part time work ii: agricultural research. fe i He entered ' service im-j mediately after graduation' and served 30|months in the army, 18 months of this 1 overseas in tlie European 1 Theatre. ! Since coming to the coun-, ty Mr. Baggett has assisted' actively with the farm ag-j ent work amLjjas come in' contact with many fanners of the county. He says that : he like s the work and the 1 people w T hom he has met, 1 and has been very favorably impressed with the pro gressive prograpi which is being followed. J. B. Bennett, B. M. 2c, 1 who is now stationed at Norfolk, Va. was at home over the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John' Bennett. Another son, Bas-j combe Bennett of the navy is stationed at New York. Hjs parents have received word that he has been pro moted from F2cto F lc. j . Cpl. J. B. Wheeler is spending a 10 day furlough, with hjs mother, Mrs. J. J. Wheeler of Burnsville Rt. 1.- He is expecting to get a discharge soon. He will re port 1 ack to Fort Bragg. Seaman Dick Baiby who is stationed with the Coast Gra d in Seattle, Wash., is 1 home on leave visiting his 1 mother, Mrs. G. D. Bailey. I ClubJObserves “Ladies’ ’*Night” 4 f Over 100 club members and guests attended the “Ladies Night” meeting of i 'he Men’s club which was' held at the Nu-Wray Hotel on Monday evening. Dr. O. E. Croy gave the invocation and . Dover R. 1 Fouts, president of the' club, was master of cere- 1 monies. Reece Mclntosh, 1 retiring president and chairman of the program committee, introduced the guest speaker, Dr. Charles Harris. Dr. Harris, pastor of the Burnsville Pre s b yterian church, is widely known as’ a lecturer, traveler and ed- 1 l OPERETTA WILL BE GIVEN AT CLEARMONT The operetta, “The Gold en Whistle”, will be pre sented by the primary grades of Clearmont school on Friday night, April 12 Admission 15 and 25c. P. T. A. MEETING The Burnsville Parent- Teacher association wil hold the regular meeting on Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30 o’clock. A covered dish supper w'ill be a feature of the meeting and a full re presentation of parents and teachers i s urged. YOUTH RALLY The county wide Baptist ' Youth Rally wdll be held at the Mt. Mitchell Baptist church on Saturday even ing at 6 o’clock. 1 This is Southwide Bap tist Youth Week, and Bol ens Creek, Jacks Creek, Byrds Chapel, Zion and ; Pleasant Grove churches' I are observing this. On next , Sunday morning all church es, offices will be filled by i young people of the chur ches. NEW BOOKS RECEIV ED IN LIBRARY The Yancey County Lib lary has recently received a shipment of new' and at tractive books. Among them are: Mrs. Palmer’s Honey by Cook;' David the King by Schmitt, Human Life of Jesus by Erskine, Brave Compan- 1 i ions by Knight, Best Car-] 1 toons of 1945, Plantation Parade by Kane, Country Mouse by Kent, Memoirs by an Old Tar Heel by Bat -1 tie, Patton, the Fighting I Man by Mellon, Son of Thunder by Carson ; Echo of a Cry by Sze, Arch of Triumph by Re marque, Appointment in {Manilla by Chamberlain Story of the Bible by Bow ie, and many others. The Library is now loca-i ;ted in the Briggs building next door to the district health office. It is for the entire county and any one who is interested in obtain ing reading material will be most cordiallv welcomed., ■! < * ! Remember Clean up days j I Friday and Saturday . ucator, and his after dinner speech on the subject of men and women was proof ; that he is also gifted in this kind of speaking. Officers of the Men’s j club, in addition to Mr. Fouts, are G. L. Hensley, 'vice president; Yates Ben ' nett, secretary-treasurer, i Since its organization a year ago the club has been very active in the civic and business affairs of the com munity. It has sponsored and carried through to a j successful conclusion a num ber of projects, and is plan ning a long range program of improvement and devel -1 opment. A State to Develop Mitchell Park A comprehensive pro gram for developing Mount Mitchell State Park, prob ably in 1947, was announced last week by the State De partment of Conservation and Development. This program will include construction of an inn, camping facilities, a mus eum, a system of trails,] shelters, water, sewer and; other sanitary facilities, picnic grounds and a ser-] vice center. Funds for the work will 1 be sought from the legisla-i ture in its next session. The State Highway and; FUNERAL SERVICES FOR TROY J. SPARKS : Troy Joseph Sparks, 49, ' of Mitcheli county, died in a Johnson City hospital early Sunday morning fol ' lowing an illness of seven • weeks. ■ A native of the Bear I Ci'eek community o 4 Mit -1 chell county, he resided in 1 Spruce Pine for 18 years. 'He wa s a fireman for the Sparks plant of the Harris Clay company for the past five years. Funeral services were conducted in the Bear Creek Baptist church Mon-] day morning at 11 o’clock/ with the Rev. Bruce Buch-1 anan and the ftev. G. H»i Glass officiating. Inter ment was in the church 1 cemetery. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Faye Duncan Sparks; one daughter, Miss | Faye Sparks; two sisters, Mrs. Roby Burleson, of Rock Creek, and Mrs. Lynn Young of Micaville; three brothers, Ken neth and Lawrence, both of Marion, and Jeter Sparks, of Min doro; and the father, W. M. Sparks of Rock Creek. yOME AGENTS NOTES] Bee Branch —A demon on the “Care of the Sewing- Machine” will be given Sat urday, April 13 at 3:00 at the home of Mrs. Julia Campbell. Ramsey town—The Home Demonstration Club will meet with Mrs. Lester Pet-, erson April 16 at 2:00. The group will discuss the “Con trol of Plant Diseases and Insects.” Burnsville—A demonstr ation on “Stenciling” will be given at the home of: Mrs. Sid Connelly Wednes day, April 17 at 2:00. Eve ryone is urged to attend. Newdale—The demonstr ation club will meet with Mrs. Grace Harris April 18 at 2:00. A demonstration on the “Care of the Sewing Machine” will be given by Mrs. Welzie Robinson, clo thing leader of the club. Toledo—A demonstration on the “Control of Plant Diseases and Insects” will be given at the Zion Baptist church April 18 at 2:00. Hardserabble—The home demonstration club will meet with Mrs. L. L. Prof fitt April 19 at 2:00. A de monstration on the “Care of the Sewing Machine v> | - • , ■IIWIM Food Production and Conservation are more Im portant now than ever be foie. Do Your Part. NUMBER THIRTY-SEVEN Public Works Commission announced last month that it would build 4.7 miles of highway to connect Mt. Mitchell and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Mt. Mitchell Park now includes most of the Black Mtn. Range where the Ap palachian Mountain sys tem reaches its greatest height. Mt. Mitchell itself ha s long been one of the ] greatest attractions in this part of the state and was reached either from Black Mtn. or from Burnsville via Pensacola and the Big Tom Wilson Motor Road. MITCHELL FISHING DATES SET > Open dates for fishing in i the Mt. Mitchell wildlife 1 management area of Pis -,gah forest, beginning May i 7 and closing Aug. 11, have ;been announced by C. N. * Mease, refuge manager. 1 Dates on which fishing 1 will be permitted follow: ■ May 7,8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 27 ',28, 29; June 7,8, 9, 18, 19, 1 20,28, 29, 30; July 9, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21,29, 30, 31; Aug. 9, 10 and 11. Checking stations will be i at the forks of Curtis creek ; and at the field office on South Toe river, Mr. Mease said. He pointed out that a ' charge of $1 per day will be made in addition to the re gular fishing license. He suggested that in or der to avoid delay that fish ermen obtain the necessary fishing license before ar riving on the area to apply for a fishing permit. TOWN OBSERVES THURSDAY CLOSING Business firm s and offi ces of the town will be clos ed each Thursday after ! noon at 1 o’clock, according jto the following agreement i We, the undersigned citi zens of the Town of Burns ville, N. C., agree to close our places of business each Thursday afternoon at 1:00 o’clock beginning Thursday April 4th and continuing through October 31st 1946. Buckner Shoe Shop, Bur nsville Furniture & Hard ware Co., Fred Proffitt, Frank W. Howell, Dover R. Fouts, Briggs Grocery, H. S. Edge, Pollard’s Drug Store, Ray’s Grocery, J. B. Wilson, Post Office, Yates Bennett, Troy Mclntosh, Cut-Rate Furniture Co., Mclntosh Radio Supply, District Health Dept., Young & Westall, Dr. C. M. Whisnant, Farmers Feder ation, Northwestern Bank, Byrd’s Beauty Shop, J. A. Goodin, Burnsville Super Market, Cooper Bros. Groc ery, Johnson & Co., Edge's Grocery Store, Cash Groc ery Co., Burnsville Radio Service, J. B. King, Fay’s Beauty Shop, James A. , Anglin, J. Y. Reid, W. H. c Holleman. Other business firms have not been contacted, and if i there are others who will close, the name* will be pub lished next week.