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AtiaiitctiitiraiiaiiiMiui'ianMMVcaiitiitutiftiicirtuant'rQMa Aid in the Fight Against Tuberculosis. Buy Christ mas Seals. They Will go on Sale Monday. ••tMiiaNaiiaiiaiiauaiiaHatiaiiaiiaiiaitatiaHaiietiaiiaiNhtaiiaiia VOLUME ELEVEN SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. 1 —— - .. i ■ ■ ■■■ ! County Officials Take Office j Sworn In At Noon On Monday Count/'officials elected in the General Election on Nov. 5 were sworn in and | assumed the duties of offi-,! ce on Monday, Dec. 2 at noon. Fred Proffitt- reelected: as clerk of court, was first sworn in by Gaston Angel, justice of the peace. i Max Yelton Receives Presidential Citation The Presidential Unit Ci-I; tation was presented on 1 Oct. 29, 1946, .to all those | who served on the U. S. S.j: Cowell. Max Yelton, son of I Mr. and Mrs. Rex Yelton of Paint Gap, was attached to : the Cowell. \ The citation .read: “For extraordinary heroism in j action as a Fighter Direc- j tion Ship on Radar Picket j duty during the Okinawa! campaign. A natural and frequent target of heavy Japanese aerial attack while occupying advanced stations, the U. S. S. Cowell , defeated all efforts of my planes to destroy her.| ( Constantly vigilant an d ready for battle, she down- j ed ten hostile planes, shar-‘ ed the destruction of others' ( and routed many more; .de stroyed two torpedo-boat 1 type surface craft, and for ; a total of 36 days rendered 1 valiant service. A 1 fighting ship, the Cowell, A her officers and her -men 1 withstood the stress and ( perils of Radar Picket duty, ' achieving a gallant combat 1 record”. _ j COUNTY-WIDE B. T. U. e MEETING 1 j. The county wide Baptist t Training Union meeting will be held at the Burns- j ville Baptist church o r r Friday evening at 7:30. Rev. M. H. Kendall of 1 Mars Hill college will be *■ principal speaker. The Mars 1 Hill College quartet will'. also attend. Representatives from all ‘ churches in the association 1 are urged to attend this ' meeting, An attendance banner j; will be awarded to the 1 union having the largest percentage of its active * members present. Pfc. Lloyd Williams has t returned from overseas s duty in Japan and is visit- i ing relatives in Alexandria, a Va. «*ft! c JOIN THE AMERICAN LEGION POST *> V- f —r ; —— *- T- —-j W——W —— ——r —-———-—=— ' ;j . » . . „ : , - Membership Goal for County by Jan. Ist—7so Membership of Post To Date— THE YANCEY RECORD Then Mr. Proffit admin-! istered the oath of office to the following: Suel Anglin, sheriff; Lee Boone, ! first deputy sheriff; E. N. Stamey, chairman of the board of county commis sioners; Molt Hensley and R. E. Holloway, members ; of the board of county com missioners; W. M. English, coroner. RED CROSS SWEATERS Many children’s sweaters are needed for overseas re lief. Any one who will make these garments may get the material by calling at the county agents office, or by | calling telephone number! 2. Supplies will then be sent all requesting them. ' Burnsville Seaman Is Member of Naval Expedition to South Pole Billy Smith Sails For Antarctic Regions One Burnsville boy wrote I home last week that he would probably spend Christmas “on an iceberg”, and on Dec. 2 sailed with Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrdj on the Navy’s Antarctic expedition. The boy is Seaman First Class Billy J. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ras Smith of Burnsville. The ship to which he is now attached,' the U K S. S. Currituck, is : one of the ships assigned to the force that will ac company Rear Adm. Byrd. The form letter sent out by members of the force stated that “We are due to be gone approximately five months and during that time it is expected there will be no mail service eith er to or from the ship. There is a chance of one mail delivery during the period but this will depend upon developments.” Seaman Smith added: “This leaves me just fine; and I think I will enjoy the | trip. I hope that all of you( will have a very Merry! Christmas and am sorry that I can’t send any of you anything for Christmas.” Preparations for the ex pedition to the South Polar' regions have been under w§y for months. Every-J thing from airplanes to sleds is included in the eq-j uipment. Six planes aboard a seaplane tender, a scout; observation plane, two hell-1 “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS CJF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1946 MANY N. C. MERCHANTS PLAN 2-DAY HOLIDAY All banks in North Caro lina will observe a two-day holiday, December 25 and 26 by proclamation of Gov. Cherry. Many merchants of the state will also be closed for the two days, according to : a report from the State Merchants’ A s-s o c iation. This report was made fol lowing & survey conducted last week. No statement has been; made by local merchants about the Christmas vaca-| tion. whether business firms’ will be closed one or tvco; days. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Conen- 1 ericki of Norfolk, Va., are, visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rex Yelton. copters, three patrol bomb ers and an amphibian plane will handle the faster tran sportation. Byrd’s flagship also carried 27 huskies j brought from Labrador to! | supply power for the slow-! jest stages of the operation. ! I Among the more import-! ant equipment are huge I quantities of photographic, [supplies, scientific instru ments and weather record ing devices. Most import ant to the crewmen are en ormous supplies of food— enough to last 8 months if necessary. One purpose of the expe dition is to explore the An tarctic regions and to deter mine the extent of mineral deposits. Some deposits of coal, gold, silver, copper and other minerals have al- ! ready been found by ex plorers and the present ex-! pedition will seek to learm as much as possible about this. This geological explora tion will be carried out during the trip but the Navy has stated that its principal objectives were cold weather tests of ships, men and equipment and 1 study of the weather, ocean currents and winds. The Navy is most inter ested in adding to the know ledge of weather conditions, problems of cold weather lubrication and operation of machinery and many kinds of instruments, the efficiency of certain types, of clothes and shelters, what kinds of food give best pro-| tection, and other questions' NEW FIRM OPENED ON SATURDAY Blue Ridge Hardware Co. Now in Operation The Blue R dge Hard ware Company, located in the Edge building adjacant to the Farmer# Federation Warehouse, wa opened on Saturday. In . addition to hardware, the;* firm will carry electrical appliances, household articles and num erous other items including feeds and farm* and garden seeds. R. W. Ramsey, Jr., and Henry Butne* are local managers, assisted by B. F. Blackburn of Spruce Pine. Mrs. W. C. Gillespie and Mrs. L. V. Pollard returned Tuesday from Tampa, Fla., where fh'ey w§ss called be cause of the illness of Mrs. Jack Brown. School Childzen in Health District Given Tuberculin Test Positive Reactors Will Be X-Rayed The District Health Offi j cer announces that the , school children i n this Health District have been Tuberculin tested. 9307 children were given the, test. 8536 showed no reac-: tion and v.ere negative. 771 showed- ome reaction ■ and- were I&eacd' posi tive. Most of these children were X-rayed by Robert Padgett of Raleigh for the: Division of Industrial Hy giene and the Division ofi Tuberculosis control. These; R-rays were entirely free of charge. We wish to thank these two divisions for their kind ness. We also wish to thank the superintendents of the ‘schools in all three counties,; the teachers, bus drivers and students for their coop eration. The Power Com pany in each county made the hook-up promptly to give us power. The French Broad Electric Membership Corporation made no char ge for their power and this was appreciated. It will of a similar nature. Though it will not be pos sible fto get mail direct fron the 4,000 man expedition, radio and wireless reports of progress will be made and citizens of Burnsville will follow these more clos ely since at least one boy from Burnsville is included in the force. HOME AGENTS NOTES The Home Economics class at Bee Log high school will be given a demonstra tion in stenciling on Friday, December 6. The Busick Home De monstration club'will meet at 2 o’clock Monday, Dec. 9 with Mrs. Tom Huffman. The Cane River club will meet with Mrs. Harmon Peterson on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 2 o’clock. The Willing Workers club will meet at 7 o’clock on Wednesday, December 11 with Mrs. Maude Flack. The Newdale club will meet with Mrs. Paul Robin son on Thursday, Decem ber 12 at 2 o’clock. Pfc. Lloyd Peterson is home on 30 day leave from the Veterans’ hospital in Augusta, Ga. visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Peterson of Day Book. take about a month to have these films developed and read by Dr. T. F. Vestal, Director of the Division of Tuberculosis control. 906 films were made. Some few adults were included in this study. I Soon we will know who showed healed lesions, and doubtless some will have active Tuberculosis. W e know at once that every ( rcase both healed and active in children was infected through exposure to anoth er case. Most of these other’ ■ cases are members of the children’s family. In order to profit fully by the work | already done, it will be ab- 1 solutely necessary that we R-ray (1) the positive reac-| tors who were not in school when the clinic was held j (2) re-X-ray those showing; active disease, (3) X-ray at intervals the healed cases in these children to make certain that they do not be-j come active, and (4) X-ray all adults and other mem-! bers of the families of these; children who have Tuber- 1 culosis. All this work will have to be done by our own depart- 1 ment and our films are all; large and cost almost one dollar each. The Health Department’ has no funds with which to buy films to X-ray thesej people. These films are pur-} chased through the • Seal Sale funds. Let’s all buy seals and more seals. Men’s Club Endorses Plans For County Hospital Cites Great Need For Hospital Care ■, The Men’s Club of Burns ;; ville, at its regular meet -1 ing on Noveßmber 25th, ap i proved and unanimously ij endorsed the building of a i hospital at Burnsville for .! the use and benefit of the i 17000 people of Yancey • county who do not have ac l cess to a hospital within the county. It is 40 miles from Burns -1 ville to the closest hospital 1 • and the county definitely • needs hospital facilities. ; The Men’s club" of Burns ville invites the help of all ’ the citizens of Yancey cou l|nty in the building of said ; hospital. 1 The Club appointed a committee composed of C. P. Randolph, Dr. W. L. Bennett, Dr. W. B. Robert son, O. E. Ellis, B. R. Pen land and Hershel Holcombe to select the site and make the necessary plans for the building of a hospital. This committee will coop- MEN IN SERVICE Bad Tolz, Germany November 20. 1946 Dear Editor: It’s been quite some time since I’ve received a copy ,of the paper, but I assume there aren’t any objections ito me writing. This is one w r ay to say hello to the friends I don’t hear from! as often as I would like.! , and I’m sure my correspond dence has been very poor.! I’m sorry folks, but I have been rather busy for the | past few months, believe! it or not. I I hear you people had a, l big day not so long ago, | Well of course the “Elec j tion”. “C ongr atulations, Suel,” hope you do as good a job as you did while serv-j , ing in the army. 1 Maybe I should tell you (people some of the latest ! things that have happened | with me. I am proud to an nounce the arrival of a seven lb. daughter Novem ber 12, both wife and Betty Claudine are doing fine, i Well I guess this is about ! all for now, people. I’ll be | seeing you all in_anotherj year or so. Please accept my very*best wishes for a Merry Christmas for every-! one, and Happy New Year.! A Yancey Soldier, Joseph, F. Beaver. Ist Sgt. Med. Det. 39th Inf.. APO 9 c. Postmaster, New York, N. Y. Mrs. Julia Mclntosh has returned from a two weeks visit with her daughter in Lenoir. Mrs. R. E. Powell and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Powell and children were guests of latives and friends here last week. 4 Bryan King has opened a new store at Elk Shoal. Marion Proffitt has re turned from the hospital where she underwent ah operation recently. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Proffitt. Aid in the Fight Against Tuberculosis. Buy Christ mas Seals. They Will go on Sale Monday. NUMBER NINETEEN erate with the Federal and State Good Health Pro gram in an effort to get as much help as possible in the construction and equipment ! of a hospital here. Since Yancey county is one of th poorer counties of the st of North Carolina, it shoui, be in line for considerable i help from the Federal and ; State Funds created for the purpose pf establishing hos pitals throughout NorU ..Carolina. However, in additio 1 help from these agencies Tt will be necessary for the citizens of Yancey coun 1 to make certaip contr’U tions necessary to o' ’ hospital here. It may come necessary to build am' and equip said hospital m dependently of helo f JV\" either *of said agencie- Therefore, the committee earnestly pleads for the co operation and support of every citizen of Yancey county in this much needed and worthy cause. Presbyterian News The Sunday School in the Denlinger Memorial churca has been reorganized unde* Miss Doris Hunter, the Superintendent. Mrs. Friel Young has joined the tea ching staff. Beginning next Sunday, December 10, e ; ery pupil who is presen. and on time each Sunday in December will receive an award in recognition of loyalty. Awards will be giv en every month until Jun and every pupil with five perfect months out of the six will receive a Bible. The Christmas party in low er Jacks Creek will be held Saturday, December 21. Sunday School is held eacl Sunday at 10 a. m. Under the direction c Mrs. Vono Anglin and Mrs Clifford Hensley, the Sun day School at Banks Creek is preparing a Christmas play to be given at the Christmas party, December 23. Almost every child in the community is taking part. Public worship will be held next Sunday in the church at Banks Creek at 11 a. m. and at Higgins at 3p. m. Rev. Robert San ford will preach. BURNSVILLE— “So They Say” The weather: Ole Man— Winter really called on us at last! Temperatures down around 12 or 15 but warm er today. About town: Just in case you are thinking that this present weather is pretty nippy, remember that one Burnsville boy sailed on Monday with the Byrd ex pedition for a six month’s visit to the South Pole! Seaman Billy Smith is at tached to one of naval ves sels and writes that he’ll probably spend Christmas on an iceberg! He should have some mQst interesting tales to tell when he gets (Continued on page tour)
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