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Clean-Up Fix-Up Paint Up Clean-Up Fix-Up Paint Up - Clean-Up Paint Up i»iraiianaiigifiVißiißiiaiiaHai:»i!»iißiiaii«ii*MßM«tiaiiana>ia»» VOLUME ELEVEN SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. College Center Will Operate Again in Coming Year The Burnsville College Center of the University of . North Carolina will op erate again during the com ing year, and will be open to veterans and non-veter ans interested in freshman level work, it has been an nounced by Frank-W. How ell, Director. All expenses plus subsis tence allowance will be paid for any veteran who wish es to enroll. Expenses for non-veteran students, in cluding tuition, books, re gistration fees, etc. will run at approximately S2OO per school year. The work done during the past year in the College Centers has been approved by all the colleges and uni versities in the state, and most of them have signed an agreement to give pre ference of admission to FUNERAL SERVICES FOR A. P. HENSLEY Funeral services for An drew Parson Hensley, 66, prominent resident of the Swiss Community, who died at his home Wednesday April 30, following a leng thy illness were conducted Sunday morning at 10:00 at the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church at Swiss. The Rev. E. J. Hall, pastor, and the Rev. W. L. Edwards of Barnardsville officiated. In terment followed, in the church cemetery. Masonic rites were con ducted at the grave undei the direction of District Deputy Grand Master John R. Vance of Asheville. Mr. Hensley was past Master and Treasurer of the .Bald Creek Chapter of the Masonic Lodge. Masons were pallbearers and nieces of the deceased Laymen’s Group WiJl Sponsor “A Pound a Person • Laymen o f Burnsville met In their bi-monthly supper meeting at the Pres byterian church Tuesday at 7:30 p. m., with H. Grady Bailey, chairman, presiding * The men decided, among other things, to support and promote the I'HURCH WORLD SERVICE pro gram fpr collecting cloth ing, bedding and shoe's for the needy overseas. This program will get under way in Yancey county next Sunday. Mother’s Day, and will continue through “the rest of May. Seventeen de nominations have united in this effort. The Rev. Henry G. Ruark of Chapel Hill is heading up this program in North Car olina. Over 70’ counties haVe already been organized; with the slogan “A Pound a Person.” Rev. Ruark has appointed the Rev. Sam B. Moss of Boone to direct the work in our territory. Rev. Moss accompanied by Capt. DeLima, retired army offi- THE YANCEY RECORD students who have attend- i ed these centers. This j means that if you attend . Burnsville College Center ] during your freshman year < you will then be accepted without question to any of the schools in the state Credit earned at the Burns ville Center will be listed as University of N. C. cred it, since the center is a part of the University at Chapel Hill. . „ \ Standard freshman work will be offered, and the student will gain forty-five! quarter hours credit if a ' full year is completed satis-j factorily. Classes operate] ‘ from 4t07 in the evening! at the local high school building. Any interested person will please contact Mr Howell or Mrs. Banner at the Superintendent’s office, 1 if possible by June 1. were flower bearers. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Texannah Tomberlin Hensley; 10 children, Mrs. Mamie L. Hill of Bristol, Pa Vance Hensley of Burns ville, Mrs. M. L. Lewis of Albany. New York, Flay Hensley of Swiss, Mrs. Preston Phoenix of Swiss, A. W. Hensley of Atlanta, Ga.. Lola Anne, Bill, Jennie and Geraldine all of Swiss. He is also survived by seven grand children, one brother, the Rev. B. S. Hen sley of Sylva; and three sis ters, Mrs. W. M. Watts of Erwin, Tenn., Mrs. Troy Buckner of Burnsville, and Mrs. Bert Edwards of Bee Log. NOTICE - l There will be a Singing , Convention at Mt. Pleasant ■ church, Swiss. N. C., next Sunday. All singers are ( cordially invited. , cer also of Boone, came to Burnsville Tuesday after noon and made arrange ments for the collection in Yancey county. On nomination of Dr. C 1 W. Harris, the Burnsville laymen appointed a com mittee of three, soon to be enlarged to about 15, to be- 1 gin immediate work on this project. The committee is composed of Rev. C. M. Smith, chairman. H. G. Bai ley and J. S. LeFevre. It is, hoped that many pounds or clothing, bedding and shoes will be secured in Yancey - iby the end of May. New or J used articles may be turned in. In the case of used ar- ' tides, it is requested that 1 they be clean and in good ' repair. '• It was announced at the 1 meeting that the speaker ' for the community service 1 in May (last Sunday will be 1 Judge Guy Weaver of 1 Asheville, and that the ' speaker in June will be Dr. J RoswellC. Long of Banner Elk. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947 TOWN OFFICERS ARE ELECTED Clyde M. Bailey was elec ted Mayor of Burnsville and J. N. Barnett and J. W. Autrey were named Com missioners at an uncontest ed election May 6. NOTICE The Board Commiss ioners of Yancey county, sitting as a Board of Equ-) alization and Review, will meet in Special Session in ! the Register of Deeds offi ce in the Courthouse in Burnsville, N. C. on May 16: ! and 17, 1947. to review and ] ! equalize the property, real | and personal listed for tax ation in the various town ! ships of Yancey county for the year of 1947. At said time and place the Board will hear any and all tax payers who own or control taxable property assessed for taxation in the county in respect to the valuation of said property, or the property of others. This May 5, 1947. Board of Commissioners, by Bill Atkins, County At torney. r* , NOTICE A representative of the Asheville field office of the Social Security Adminis- j tration will be at the Re- j gister of Deeds Office at 10:00 A. M. on May 15. There are two times for action in social security: HOME AGENTS NOTES Miss Lar n a Langley, House Furnishing Special ist for the State College Ex tension Service, will give a demonstration on Refinish ing Furniture Friday, May 9 at 2:00 in the Methodist church. Everyone is invited to attend. In order that your pres sure canner may give you excellent service it is nec essary that you have it checked once a year. Please bring your canner to the Burnsville: Furniture and Hardware Store on or be fore Saturday, May 10. NOTICE The Board of Commis-i sioners of Yancey County ! has appointed Mrs. Floyd j Miller, as local registrar of Ramseytown Township to succeed Miss Lydia Atkins, recently resigned as local registrar of the township. Tobpcco Blue Mold Now is the time of year for tobacco farmers to be on the lookout for Blue; Mold in their tobacco plant j beds. The symptoms very usually starting with wilt ed leaves, pale green color! and later dead leaves. Usu ally, there will be grayish blue moldy spots on the un derside of the leaves. Also the leaves will have spots that resemble scalded leav i es and as the disease pro-] gresses, the bed will have a musty odor. t Fermate dust or spray Burnsville Students Win County Speech Contests “t Genevieve \ Angel -of Bur nsville high school won! first place in the county! reading contest, and Jakie ! Dayton, also a student of. Burnsville high school, won 1 first place in the declama-! tjon contest held Wednes-) day evening^ Second pluses went to Ada Lee Bailey of Clear-} |mont high School and Earl Ray of Bald Creek high ! school. Other contestants were' Llewellyn Briggs of Bald high school and Elizabeth ! Hall of Micaville high school; Lloyd Hensley of Clearmont and Roy Phil lips of Micaville. The winners were award ed handsome gold medals. High School Commencement Programs Are Planned \ '■ a i Bald Creek High School . | ■ Baccalaureate se r vices will be held in the Bald Creek school auditorium on Sunday afternoon, May 11 at 2:30. The Rev. Moody; Smith, pastor of the Burns ville Methodist church and former pastor of the Bald Creek Methodist church, will be the speaker. The Junior play, “The i Yellow Shadow” will be {given on Tuesday evening May 13. Graduating exercises will be held Thursday evening, May 15 at 8 o’clock. R. M. Lee, dean of Mars Hill Col lege, will deliver the ad dress to the Seniors. The following will re ceive diplomas: Katherine King, Bobby Severs, Elea nor Ledford, Margaret Lawhern, Van Johnson,! Edna Jamerson, Atlas Shepherd, Mary Chadwick Pate, Russell York, Ernest Blankenship, J. G. Buckner, Earl Ray, Warren Banks, Helen Tipton, Beatrice Mc- Intosh, Doris Maney Allen. . Clearmont Baccalaureate services of Clearmont high school will be held in the school audi-j torium on Sunday after- 1 noon, May 11 at 2:30. The Rev. A. Z. Jamerson will preach the sermon, iwith the subject, “Making ja Life.” | i Graduating exercises will be held Thursday evening, May 15 at 8 o’clock. J. Frank Huskins will give the literary address. . The honor students are i can be used as a preven tive only. It should be ap- plied twice a week from now until setting time and j the directions on the con - - tainer should be followed. Fermate dust should run 10 1 jto 15 percent active ingred- 1 ient while Fermate spray 1 will run 70 percent active ' ingredient. If the spray is used, a pressure sprayer : should be used, j After Blue Mold appears, j the only cure known is Paradiehlorobenzine or Pa - ; ra-Baco. This is a crystaline > (Continued on page 4) Honor Students Katherine King, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Fulton ! King of Swiss, is valedictor ian of the Senior class of 1 Bald Creek high school, i Bobby Severs, son of Mrs. Mary C. Severs of Bald I Creek, is salutatorian. I Junior Class Play The Junior class of Bee Log high school will pre-j sent the three act romantic ! comedy-drama “All Throu gh The Night” on Friday evening, May 9th. The cast of characters in cludes: Geraldine Ledbet ter, Cora Whitson, Wade Holloway, Eloise McCurry, Pauline Williams, Holt Miller, Ralph Cox, Jack Mclntosh and Irene Tipton. Lloyd Letterman, saluta ; torian, and Annis Melton, valedictorian. . The following will receive 1 diplomas: Virginia Evans, J Annis Melton, Lloyd Letter man, Frank Huffman, Rob ert Renfro and Leonard Ayers. Micaville High School The x annual commence ment exercises of Micaville high school begins Friday night, May 9th with Glass Day exercises, “Follies of 1947,” under the direction of Mrs. Mildred Hyatt. Baccalaureate will be Sunday evening, May 11 at! 8 o’clock. Rev. J. B. Folds of Central Baptist church of Spruce Pine will deliver the sermon. Final graduation exercis es will be held Thursday (evening, May 15 at 8:00 o’clock. Hugh Beam, super intendent of City schools of ; Marion, N. C.,.wi1l deliver! the graduation address.!, Diplomas will be delivered by H. D. Justice, principal. Members of the Senior j class are: Fern Jones, vale-! dictorian; Violet Silver, Sa-i lutatorian; Ruth Autrey, 1 l Grace Buchanan, Margaret i Ballew, Rena Chrisawn Ruby Duncan, Faye Deilin- I ger, Georgia Huskins, Ed ith Hughes, Francis Harris Ethel Howell, Jessie Mur ,phy, Thelma Rector, Flossie 1 Rector, Vernon Presnell i Frankie Simmons, Evelyn Smith, June Thomas, Dollie Wyatt, Dewett Wyatt, Bil ! lie Young and Arnold Fort i ner. 1 THOMAS RABY LAST RITES FOR J. J. Thomas Raby, 81, of Franklin died Saturday fol-J lowing an extended illness. 1 He ~waS the father of Mrs. i A. F. Bryson of Burnsville, j Other survivors include ( the widow; two other dau- 1 , ghters, 3 sons, 8 grand children and 1 great grand child. Mr. Raby was a life long resident of Macon county,' the oldest deacon in the Cowee Baptist church, and had served for a number of, years as Sunday School superintendent and teacher of the Men’s Bible class. Highway Accident Is Fatal to Green Mountain Man —~ I 1 Funeral services for Tho- ; mas Buchanan, 29, of Green > Mountain, who was killed Saturday night when the car in which he was riding struck a bridge o n the Erwin-Johnson City, Tenn., highway, were held Mon day afternoon at 2:30 ' j o’clock at Horton Hill chur- ; I eh, near Green Mountain. The Rev. C. C. Higgins and the Rev. Farrell Sparks of ficiated. Burial was in Fair view cemetery. j Dock Renfro, Ernest Hughes and Miss Ruth Hughes, a sister of Ernest all of Green Mtn., were in jured in the accident and J Baptist j Rev. M. H. Kendall of jMars Hill College will prea ch at the 11 o’clock service on Sunday morning. Baccalaureate Services! ’ for the Burnsville high! school graduating class will ? be held at 8 o’clock Sunday) > evening. Rev. C. Moody; ■ Smith will preach the bac • calaureate sermon. Methodist Sunday School begins at 10 a. m. with Mr. Smith’s • class leading the opening ! worship. The pastor will 1 preach at Concord church 5 at 10 a.m. and at Higgins! f Memorial church at 11 a. m. ! 1 on the subject “The Church Is Like a Good Mother.” i The. pastor will preach - the baccalaureate sermons; 5 at Bald Creek at 2:30 p. m.J 1 and at Burnsville at 8 p. 'm. on the subject “Great Causes For Which to Live.” < Presbyterian Churches Next Sunday is Rural Life Sunday. The sermpn theme will be “The Church 1 iand Rural People”. Services J | will be held at Banks Creek i* at 11 a. m. and at Higgins 1 {at 3 p..m. Sunday School| ! I will be at 10 a. m. in these ' | two churches and at Day 1 j Book. Sunday School will be 1 {at 2 p. m. at Upper Jacks , Creek. | < The Young People’s': Group at Banks Creek will ! meet at 5 p. m. The theme.] Annual Poppy Day, May 24 May 24th will be Poppy Day in Yancey county and throughout the United States, Mrs. Hobart Ray, President of the local Unit] of the American Legion! Auxiliary, announced today On that day everyone will be asked to wear a memorial poppy in honor of the dead of the two world, [wars and to make a contri-] bution for the welfare of, the disabled veterans, their (families and the families of the dead. : Mrs. Mack B. Ray, Poppy Chairman of the Auxiliary,' will be in general charge. Plans are being made, to cover the county so that (everyone will have an op-| portunity to honor the war dead and aid the living vis -of the two conflicts, i The Saturday before Memorial Day has been ob ed earnings. Clean-Up Fix-Up Paint Up Clean-Up Fix-Up Paint Up Clean-Up Fix-Up Paint Up «a'fi.taiiaiiatiaiiaiia<i«ii«iiaiiaiiß>iauaiiaHauauai<auauailMi NUMBER FORTY-ONE taken to a Johnson City hospital for treatment. They were reported to be recovering s a ti sfactorily Monday. Mr. Buchanan was a na tive of Green Mtn., com munity and had served five years in an infantry divis ion, receiving his discharge 30 days ago. He is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs.. Isaac Buchanan of Green Mtn.; three sisters, Mrs. Blanche Garland of Day Book, Mrs. Hattie Davis of Old Fort and Miss Mary Buchanan of the home; four brothers, ’ J. D., Howard, Dannyf Jack, all of Green Mountain. FINAL RITES FOR MRS. S. ff. HILEMON Mrs. S. W. Hilemon, 68, !of Higgins, died in an Asheville hospital Tuesday following a short illness. | She is survived by the husband, S. W. Hilemon, four daughters, Miss Linnie Hilemon, Miss Maggie Hile mon, Mrs. Clay Morrow and Mrs. Clyde Higgins, all of Higgins; three sons, Carl, j Floyd and Earl, also of Hig gins and one brother and ( one sister. Funeral services will be held today at 2 p. m., at j the Elk Shoal Baptist chur | ’h, with the Rev. Eulas Ad kins, pastor, and the Rev. Robert Sanford officiating. Interment will be in the family cemetery at Higgins Holcombe Brothers fun eral home is in charge of arrangements. The memorial poppy of the American Legion Auxi liary is a crepe paper repli ca of the wild poppy which grew on the World War I and II battlefields in Fran ce and Belgium. All Ameri can Legion Auxiliary pop pies are made by disabled of the meeting will be “Foreign Missions”. The meeting will be lead by Tes sie Griffeth, Marjorie Ang lin and Joy Anglin. served as Poppy Day in all parts of the country for many years. Poppies have been worn in memory of ! the war dead ever since the 'close of World War I. They are replicas of the wild flowers which grew on the battle fields of France and Belgium, fought over in both wars, but they have (come to symbolize memory for those wh’o died in any part of the WorKT. The poppies which the Auxiliary will distribute are all hand-made, shaped from crepe paper by disab led veterans working in hospitals and covalescennt workshops throughout the country. The disabled men take pride in making the flowers to honor their fal len comrades and the work is valuable to them as*occu pational therapy, besides bringing them much need-
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