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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. ■»
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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
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Membership Goal for County by Jan. 1 st—7s®
Membership of Post To Date-300
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.