fffivHiiii'ißi'iMßiiiiiiiia'iai'iiiiiitMaiifiiittatrftirffTTftfmnsira Food Production and Conservation are more Im portant now than ever be fore. Do Your Part. iairaiiaiiaiiaiiaiiaiiaii«ifaiiaiiaiiaiiaiiaHaiifliißiiaiiaMaiiaii»ia VOLUME ELEVEN Democrat Candidates Win in County Election Republicans Win in National Contests The Democrat party won the county election on Tuesday 'with perhaps the largest vote ever polled in the county. Unofficial returns from the General Election give substantial majorities to all Democratic party candi dates for office. All reports received by noon Wednesday have been tabulated below. Canvass of Votes The official count o f votes will be made today and the official returns will be given rcxt week. Fred Proffitt, veteran clerk of court, led the tick et in number of votes re- FARM NOTES Will Attend Conference “V7J.- Goodman, countj agent, D. D. Baggett, assis tant county agent and Mrs Juanita Rush Evans, Home Demonstration agent wil attend the Annual Exten sion Conference in Raleigh November 11-16- However the office will be open dur ing the regular office hours Mrs. Drate Banks of; Cane River is very ill in the Norburn . hospital, Ashe ville. ■» -.,_s' 6 S B Q Z> O O 0 -^0 3 PS u o * O 03 O 03 ,—, *— . • Q **H *H W *JH Q | CS t£ W Burnsville 795 826 485 810 508 791 497 785 784 500 500 791 494 Cane River 412 443 234 402 278 405 247 393 386 255 281 404 246 Egypt 259 264 267 255 284 259 271 258 254 270 272 258 270 Ramseytown 203 211 191 209 192 203 193 223 202 178 195 204 196 Green Mtn. 176 182 147 188 142 175 156 176 174 154 156 176 154 Jacks Creek J 379 166 380 165 : Brush Creek 163 172 75 172 73 160 79 162 162 76 76 173 75 Crabtree ~ 482 500 322 493 340 467 347 480 479 330 331 485 330 South Toe 307 333 238 321 255 283 288 301 296 * 253 251 305 253 Pensacola 88 222 63 248 Prices Creek 155 187 286 130 354 154 303 151 152 304 304 150 297 TOTALS ~ 2933 3585 2633 3391’~2840 2897 2381~ 2929 2887 2320 ‘ 2366 2946 2315 JOIN THE AMERICAN LEGION PDST &, - • »,v . - r I; Membership Goal for County by Jan. 1 st—7s® Membership of Post To Date-300 , m SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. ceived, and Suel Anglin, G I. candidate for sheriff won by a substantial maj ority. • A- L. Bulwinkle, running for reelection to congress and Rex Wilson, candidate for State Senate from the district, also received jjood majorities in the county. Nation Goes Republican Throughout the nation however, a Republican land slide swept the pa,Ay to victory in contests for gov ernorship of a number of states and for seats in Congress- Latest returns show a substantial majority of seats in both the Senate and the House of Repre sentatives won by Republi can candidates. .. - , Capt. and Mrs. Jack Galloway and son are here for a visit with relatives Capt. Galloway has been transferred to the West Coast and will leave soon on that assignment. Mrs- Galloway and son will re main here for the present. Herrick R. Peterson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Peter- 1 son of Burnsville, has ac- 1 cepted a commission in the Navy and will report with-1 in a short time. At present he is on the staff of the' Asheville Citizen-Times. Unofficial Returns In General Election County Ticket r THE YANCEY RECORD “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1946 [EALTH DEPARTMENT The District Health Offi ?r announces that the very County Nurse has ?en granted a two months ave of absence. We re re t to state that all our [Torts to get a nur.se to ibstitute during Novem jr and December have met ith failure. Miss Grace Bailey, Clinic urse from the Spruce Pine [fice will be at the New-- nd office each Saturday orning and Monday morn ig during these tyvo mon is. Dr- McGuire will hold le Spruce Pine Clinic one each Saturday morn g and will be at Newland ,ch Monday morning for e Clinic. In this way the )ruce Pine office will be ithout medical or nursing rvice on Monday morn gs only. The present U. S. turkey op will furnish a record pounds of turkey for ery person in the nation. Presbyterian Newg Church sendees on Sun day, Nov. 10 a£ Banks Creek and Higgins be conduc ted by a group of students from Warren] Wilson col lege, under trie direction of Mrs. Frederick Franklin -1 The message £will be brou ght by Mrs. Franklin. The service! hour will be 11 o’clock at | Banks Creek and 3 o’clock, at Higgins. Sunday School will be held at the regulajr hours. Rev. Sanfofd, with some of the other iministers of the area, is Attending the national conference on town and county which is now being held at Des Moines, 111. No Young peoples group meetings will !be held in any of the churches for the next two Sundays. Plans are! now being made for paAies foi the; two Youth gfoups on Nov.! 22 and 23. Details are being worked out by committees. ; HOME AGENTS NOTES The Demonstra tion club atl Busick will meet with |Mrs. Nannie! Robinson at $ o’clock Mon-; day, Nov. ll.| Mrs. C. A| Proffitt will! be hostess of the Home ibemonstration; club on Friday, Nov. 15 at 2 o’clock. c - Join The American Legion Post RESEARCH REPORT NOW AVAILABLE The 68th Annual Report of the N. C. Agricultural Experiment Station is now ready for general distri bution; Designed as a progress report on research work conducted at the College for the period December 1, 1944 to November 30, 1945, the report covers every project in which substantial progress has been made. 7 It has been planned so as to be of value to the far mer interested in keeping his farm in step with the latest scientific develop ments. Copies will be sup plied to county agents, vo cational agricultural' teach | ers and other workers in the field of agriculture, but the primary object of the 1 publication is to supply in formation for the farmers of the state. Free copies of the publi cation are available upon request to the Agricultural Editor at State College, Raleigh. Requests should be made for the 1945 An nual Report of the N- C. Agricultural Experiment! Station, title of the publi cation is “Research an Farming”. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Wick er of Savannah, Ga. an nounce the arrival of a son Nov. 7- Mrs. Wicker is th( former Miss Louise Woody Home Administration Is Inaugurated The Farmers Home Ad- ; ministration, as authorized ■ by the Congress, began op-j eration in North Carolina 1 Nov. 1, says Mack B. Ray,' ;! FSA Supervisor for Yan-! > cey county, who recently; f attended a meeting at; t Asheville, of personnel who t will direct the affairs of I the new agency. FHA replaces both the , Farm Security Administra tion and the Emergency , Crop and Feed Loan section lof Farm Credit Adminis ’ tration, and takes over the personnel and assets of both agencies. Mr. Ray said /that for the time being j FHA offices will be mnin j: I tained with the same per sonnel at all points where 1 FSA and ECFL have opera -5 i ted. Both agencies have 5 j made loans to small' farm jers and the new agency "; will continue to serve this [! group. Also attending the meet j ing at Asheville was Miss! l j Irene Edwards, FSA Home *i Supervisor :j Two types of loans wall 'be made by Farmers Home' Administration, Mr. Ray said. Farm purchase loans will be made to tenants,' sharecroppers, farm labor-! ers, and veterans with ag-i ricultural experience and training. Loans can be made: for the purchase, develop-; ment and improvement of family-type farms. The in-! terest rate is 3!-> per cent: and loans are repayable! Last. Rites for Rev. J. H. Griffith Funeral services for the Rev. Joseph H Griffith, 71, who died at his home at Relief Tuesday morning af ter a long illness, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Upper Brummitt Creek Brethren church. The Rev. Fred Dan cey will be in charge, assis ted by the Rev. Martin Edwards, the Rev. R. V. Tipton and the Rev- Grady Masters. Burial will follow in the Tipton cemetery at Relief. Mr. Griffith taught in Mitchell county schools 30 years and served on the board of county commis sioners a number of years. He was ordained an elder AMERICANS URGED TO BUY SAVINGS BONDS Washington, D. C., Nov. 11—The period between two memorable dates in American history, Armis tice Day arid Pearl Harbor Day, will this year be de voted to a nation-wide pub licity campaign by the Terasury Department— a campaign which will urgej Americans to continue thffj regular purchase of United States Savings Bonds; to buy extra bonds whenever possible. To encourage the build ing up of reserves by the average citizen, the Treas ury pays a substantial pre mium on E bond savings One of the long-range pur poses of the current drive Food Production and Conservation are more Im portant now than ever be fore. Do Your Part. •■"•Manaiia'iaiiauaiiviiaHaiiaiiauaaaiiaiißMeiiaMfuaiMMNMl NUMBER FIFTEEN ! over a 40-year period. A variable repayment ! plan will make it possible 1 for borrowers to make larger than average pay ments in years w’hen farm income is high or above normal, and less than aver age payments in years ■ when farm income is be low normal. Production and subsisten • ce loans, the second type, will be made to farmers 1 and stockmen for the pur chase of livestock, farm i equipment, seed/Tfertilizer “ and other farm and fib Hie [ : needs. Such loans can be^ • made to either owners or . tenants who live on and op-- - prate family-type farms > and who derive the major / ..portion of their income/ ( from farming- These loang . carry an interest rate or 5 - per cent and are repayable ; in from one to five fears. To be eligible for an FHA ■| loan an applicant must be tunable to get adequate fi nancing on reasonable : terms from other credit sources available in the community where he lives, jSuch as banks, insurance companies and the Federal Land Bank. “FHA is not in ! competition with any exist | ing credit source, private or Federal,” Mr. Ray said. Applicants must be dertl 'fied as eligible by a com mittee of three individuals residing in the county where he lives, at least two of whom must be farmers. in the Brethren church in 1912 and served as a minis ter 40 years. Surviving are his widow; three daughters, Mrs. E. M. Bryant of Forbes, Mrs. Hayden McKinney of John son City, Tenn., and Mrs- Charles Peterson of Will iamsburg, V r a. • four sons, Garfa, Harvey and Park Griffith, all of Relief, and Maloy Griffith of Forbes; five sisters, Mrs. James Hughes, Mrs. Nora Edwar ds, Mrs. Harrison Phillips, Mrs. Fonza Harrell, Mrs. Zack McCourry, all of Re lief ; and two brothers, Clayton and David Grif fith, both of Relief, and 15 grandchildren- Mr. and' Mrs. Percy Threadgill left Wednesday for Miami where they will spend the winter- They were accompanied by Mrs. Nellie Riddle who will also stay in Florida during the winter months. ! Mrs. Lee Ponder had as her Sunday guest, Rev. Ward P. Shepherd of Wea iverville. Rev. Shepherd is ; pastor Riverside Baptist "hurch and is heard over Radio Station WKHP Hen dersonville, N. C., every Saturday at 9 a. m. . is to insure the future fi nancial security of this im portant segment of the American family, the Jmv stone of the arch that uu holds our national economic structure.