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VOLUME ELEVEN SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR.
Facts Concerning Re-Issuance
of Drivers Licenses
In accordance with the
law passed by the 1947
General Assembly of North
Carolina requiring the re
issuance of Motor Vehicle
driver licenses, the follow
ing schedule has been made:
the period beginning July
1, 1947, and ending on Dec
ember 31, 1947, is the time
for all driver license hold
ers, whose sur-names begin
with the letters A or B to
apply for new licenses. Per
sons whose names do not
begin with one of the above
letters cannot apply for re
issuance of license in this
period.
The period ebginningi
January 1, 1948, and ending
on June 30, 1948, will be the
time for all operators
whose sur-names begin
with either of the letters C
or D to apply for re-issuan
ce of licenses. All Motor
Vehicle drivers whose sur
names begin with a lttter
other than A, B, C or D
will be notified by press re
leases, at the proper time
as to when they should ap
pear for the re-examina
tion.
The operator’s license is
sued under the 1947 Safety
Act shall automatically ex
pire on the birthday of .the
licensee in the fourth year,
following the year of issu
ance, and no license shall be
issued to any operator af
ter the expiration of his lic
ense until such operator
has again passed the re
quired examination.
Everyone will get a com
plete examination. The ex
1947 COMBINE AND
THRESHER INFOR
MATION
Operators of combines
and threshing machines are
reminded that they are re
quired to obtain permits to
operate their machines in
North Carolina. The per
mits arc Lo be obtained
through the Register of
Deeds Office in each county
of the State. There is rarely
any charge for these per
mits, although handy daily
record books are provided,
along with forms on which
to report the acreage thres
hed and bushels obtained
from this acreage.
The purpose of this law
is for information and not
for revenue. It seeks coop
erative aid and interest and
not compulsion or resent
ment. Reliable plans must
be developed from informa
tion originating at the
farm;, thus, the threshers’
records provide the best
basis for county grain sta
tistics for program plan
ning usage.
The source and usage is
within the county itself.
Operators must obtain
from the Register of Deeds:
(1) Permit or license card;
(2) Daily record book; and
(3) Report blanks upon
which to report their entire
operations for the season.
Private and public machin
es, alike, are no exception
or exemption, even for
those outside the State if
THE YANCEY RECORD
amination is made up of
four parts. These parts are:
(1) An Eye test (2) High
way Sign test (3) Driving
Rules test (4) Road test.
The poorest visual read
ing that will permit passing
with glasses is 20-50. This
may be with both eyes to
gether, or it may be with
best eye alone. The Sign
test consists of the showing
to the applicant several pic
tures containing Warning
signs. The applicant will be
requested to tell what a
driver should do when he
comes to such a sign. Ina
bility to read i s not
grounds for denying a driv
er license.
The Rule section of the
examination consists o f
twenty-five simple ques
tions that deal with the
safe operation of a motor
vehicle.
The Road test will con
sist of a drive of some
, twelve to fifteen city blocks.
In the past some applicants
have begun road tests with
the understanding that the
Examiner would tell him to
pass red lights, exceed
speed limits, and otherwise
drive improperly. This, how
ever, has not been the pol
icy in North Carolina noi
will it be during this re
issuance.
Previous practices gov
erning the issuance and use
Os Learners Permits will
not be changed. The only
change that will occur with
respect to fees charged will
be the increase in the cost
of an operator’s license
. from one to two dollars.
Health Department News
The district board of
! health met at the Spruce
! Pine office May 27th. Lee
Sturgill, chairman, presid
' ed.
1 Dr. R. E. Fox, director of
the division of local health
; administration, State Board
■ of Health, Raleigh, attend
ed the meeting. Other
board members attending
J. B. Deyton of Spruce Pine,
Dr. Emma S. Fink of Cross
jnore, and H. G. Bailey of
Burnsville.
The Board accepted with
regret the resignation of
Dr. B. B. McGuire as dis
trict health officer. The
chairman appointed an in
terviewing committee com
posed of Mr. Deyton, chair
man, Dr. Fink and Mr.
Bailey to solicit and inter
view candidates for the po
sition of health officer.
The Board of Health re
commended that the respec
tive Boards of Commission
ers of the three counties
join them in requesting the
i stfte board of health to ap
, point the health officer as
i county registrar of vital
statistics.
The Merit System Coun
-1 cil has made mandatory an
i increase in salaries for the
i personnel of the health de
, partment. The boards of
■ commissioners in each of
i the three counties will be
• asked to appropriate more
! j funds for the coming year
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“DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY”
BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1947
R. A. Tomberlin Named
Executive Head of Ashe
viile-Biltmore College
Alden Tomberlin of Swiss
district superintendent of
Weaverville schools, has
been named executive head
of Asheville-Biltmore Col
lege for the summer session
it was announced this
morning.
EDWARD S. SHORTER
HERE THIS WEEK
Completes Plans for the
Summer Art Classes
Edward S. Shorter of
Columbus, Ga. spent the
week end in Burnsville.
While here, he completed
some of the plans for the
summer classes which will
be taught here, beginning
, July 12.
Meeting Saturday With
Recreation Commission
c
Harold D. Meyer, direc
tor the North Carolina
! recreation commission, will
be in Burnsville Saturday.
; An open meeting will be
i held at the Nu-Wray hotel
1 at 2 o’clock.
1 A committee has been!
named from the civic clubs'
of the town, and the com-J
mittee members and all
other interested persons 1
are invited to attend the
meeting.
Peggy Johnson is home
from Berea where she at
tended college this year.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Young and children of Pitt
sburgh, Pa., are visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Delzie Styles
and other relatives in the
county.
to cover the increased sal
aries, cost of travel, and
general c jerating expenses.
NOTICE
On Tuesday, June 10th,
2 p. m., an important meet
ing will be held at the
Town Hall in Spruce Pine,
for the owners and employ
ees of all hotels, restaur
ants, meat markets, etc. of
Avery-Mitchell and Yancey
Counties.
M. M. Melvin, executive
vice president of the N. C.
Restaurant association will
be present. Films on food
handling will be shown.
Every one engaged in this
work who can is expected
to attend. It will be your
meeting and worth your ef
fort to attend.
District Health Depart
ment, by Jake F. Buckner,
sanitarian.
The staff of the district
Health department attend
ed the Western North Car-!
olina public health associa-i
tion meeting at Lake Lure
on Friday, May. 23rd.
Jake F. Buckner, district'
sanitarian was called to!
Asheville Saturday May 24
to take the sanitarian’s ex
amination , given b y the
state merit system council.
Bliss Maggie ; Honeycutt
has been very ill for the
past week but is now im
proving.
MICAVILLE MAN KILL
ED IN CAR WRECK
Word was received at
Micaville Wednesday that
Jimmy Gardner* 21* —was
killed in a car wreck in
Michigan.
The body will arrive inj
Ashevilll* today and will be 1
be brought to Micaville for
funeral services. Arrange
ments are incomplete.
Mr. Gardner was a broth
er of Clinton and George
Gardner. I Details of the
wreck have not been learn
ed... f
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Pfc. Ben Banks who has
been stationed in Korea
for the past year is now
home on germinal leave.
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Legion Memorial Building
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The site has been selected
for the - proposed Legion
Memorial Building, a fund
raising committee has been
appointed, ancl work will
begin immediately to bring
to completion this proposal,
adopted several months ago !
j by the loeal American Leg-j
! ion Post.
I At a special meeting of
! the post Tuesday night, the
! members discussed the pos
sible sites for the building
■l and by vote selected the
! one which they thought
most suitable.
It w a- most commenda
ble gesture on the part of
several citizens of the town
that lots were offered for
the site of the memorial.
A. G. Edge offered to do
nate a lot in east Burns
ville, and Banks Brothers
one in west Burnsville J
These lots were both of.
adequate size for the erec-j
tion of almost any type of
building desired. The rea
son that the group felt that
these would not be entirely!
satisfactory was the fact ;
that both lots were some '
distance from the highway,;,
and from the center ofi,
town, thus
construction of a road way (
to them.
The lot offered some time i
ago by B. R. Penland andji
Luther Ayers, and the one'j
finally selected Tuesday
- is the lot on the cor- 1
ner of Main Street and i
Swiss Ave./known as the j ]
Buffalo lot as it was owned <
Presbyterian Notes
Dr. Harris wil speak in
Burnsville Sunday, June
8 at 11 o’clock. His topic will
be “Your Life Is Planned”.
He will also speak at
Mine Fork at 2 p. m. A cor
dial invitation to visitors.
BIG FISH
| Bob Angel, life longer,
fisherman in the streams,
|of Yancey county, had his
.reward last week. He cau-
I ght a really big one—and
;it didn’t get away! More
over, he has a picture of
himself and trout to show
for it.
The speckled tropt, cau
ght in Cane River, measur
ed 23 inches long and weigh
ed 3 pounds, Mr. Angel re
ported, and was mighty
good eating!
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District Meeting Attracts
Large Crowd
The annual meeting of
district 2 of the North
Carolina Federation of]
home demonstration clubs
had one of the largest
j crowds in attendance ever
reported in the district.
Approximately 600 worn- t
en from the 9 counties at- (
tended. ,
The program was of wide
interest to the group, and
the meeting was most sue- \
cessful in every way.
BALL GAME SATURDAY !
Burnsville will play Mar
shall here Saturday after- 1
noon at 2 o’clock.
i for many years by Mrs. A.
|R. Buffalo.
It was voted by the
group to purchase from Mr.’
Penland and Mr. Ayers an
adjoining lot so that the
entire lot would give ade
quate space for a building
I and for parking facilities, j
j One other donation was
jmade. The lot as acquired
by the Legion post was con
siderably narrower at the
rear than it was at the
Main Street frontage.
In order to straighten the
line, make the lot rectangu- ■
lar in shape and of suffi- ■
cient si2e for the proposed 1
building, Mr. and Mrs. Sam
J. Huskins donated a trian- {
gular strip from the adja- j
oent lot which they own.
The civic interest which
all these citizens have
shown is most commenda- !
ble, and we add this public ’
expression of appreciation 1
to that of the Legion Post
members. ►
The memorial building is 1
a most worthy undertaking. ]
It is also a very consider- 1
able financial undertaking. 5
Those who offered lots, ‘
whether these were selected ,<
or not, showed their civic* l
mindedness and spirit of,
cooperation. ; l
The same spirit of coop-jt
eration must previal among,'
us all if a worthy mem'orv
ial is finally achieved. You *
will be contacted by mem- 1
bers of the committee, and 1
the measure of your sup- J
port will determine the suc
cess of this undertaking.
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Graduates 1
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Miss Marie Beeson, dau- *
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. 2
Beeson, Camp Mitchell, was
among the 118 seniors who
graduated with a
of Arts degree on June 2 1
at Agnes Scott College com
mencement exercises.
She was a emmber of Pi j
Alpha Phi, debating society,'
’and worked on the staff of| £
the Silhouette, college an- 1
nual. i
The graduating class (
an address by Dr. 1
Rufus C. Harris, president
of Tulane University, be
fore degrees were confer- 1
red by Dr. J. R. McCain,
president of the colleges.
Jack King of Charlotte is '
visiting his grand parents, 1
Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Horton. !
Construction Begins On Farm
Vocational Building
Supt. Frank W. Howell |
has announced that preli
minary work has begun for
the construction of a voca
tional agriculture building
to be used as a shop for the
400 trainees on the Yancey
County Veterans Farmer
Training Program.
The structure, located on
the lot back of the Burns
ville High School building,
is being built according to
regulations and prints of,
NATIVE OF PENSA
COLA PASSES AWAY
Mrs., J. B. Riddle, Sr., 64,
prominent resident
ganton and a leader in soc
ial and religious affairs
there, died about 5:30
o’clock Sunday afternoon in
a local hospital following
a short illness.
Mrs. Riddle was the wid
ow of Dr. Jk B. Riddle, pro
minent Morganton physi-
Ician, who died Jan. 1. She
[ Was a native of Pensacola,
Yancey county, and was a
member of the First Bap
tist church of Morganton.
Surviving are two daugh-
Mrs. Richard Kerr of
Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. Roy
ster Chamblee, of Raleigh,
and a son, J. B. Riddle, Jr.,
of Morganton.
CHARLOTTE RAY EM
PLOYED WITH ELEC
TRIC COMPANY
Charlotte Ray is now em-i
ployed with the Common
wealth-Edison Electric com
pany of Chicago.
Miss Ray received her B.
S. degree in home economics
at Greensboro college in
1946, and taught home eco
nomics at Micaville high
school for the past year.
She is now doing commer
cial demonstration work
with the electric company.
This work consists princi
pally in demonstrating how
to use electric kitchens
which the company installs,
and all types of electrical
appliances.
RITES FOR
JOE A. CHRISAWN
Funeral services for Joe
A. Chrisawn, 60, were held
Tuesday at 2 p. m. at the
Mt. Mitchell Baptist church
He passed away suddenly
at his home at Hamrick
Sunday afternoon.
The Rev. Steve Shuford
officiated, and burial was
in the Robinson cemetery.
Surviving are the widow;
two daughters, Mrs. Ross
Effler of Hamrick and Mrs.
Isaac Harrison of Celo; one
son, Ben Chrisawn of Ham-j
rick; five brothers and six
sisters.
Holcombe Brothers fun
eral home wfes in charge of
the services.
Little v Mfss Shelia Taylor,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William A. Taylor, who has
been visiting her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wade
Honeycutt returned to her
home in Washington, D. C.
Sunday.
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| the N. C. State Department
if or Vocational Agriculture.
Material from the Deyton
Bend School, no longer in
use, is being used.
Ap p r oximately SIO,OOO
worth of machinery and
equipment has been secured
through the Farmer Train
ing Program, and recently
officials stated that no
more equipment would be
available until suitable
housing for the equipment
i is
Quartet Singing
The Middle Fork Quartet
will be at the Bowditch
Union church near Celo at
8 o’clock Sunday night,
i June 8 for a song service.
» The public is invited.
;! Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Tay-
I lor, Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
. Chichester and Dr. A. C.
. Hall of Woman’s College,
. W. B. Harrih, E. C. Hem
i ingway and W. S. Lee of
, I the Veteran’s Administra
tion, Winston-Salem, were
.in Burnsville Wednesday
to confer with a local group
. concerning the proposed
f summer theatre here.
W. M. U. MEETING
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1 The Yancey Baptist W.
M. U. convention meets at
Bolen’s Creek on Friday,
June 13th.
The afternoon session
will begin at 2:30" o’clock
land the evening session at
7:30 o’clock. A state "worker
and missionary will speak in
the afternoon and a page
ant, “Faith Is The Victory”
will be given at the evening
session.
ATTENTION DOG
OWNERS
Several days ago a dog in
the Bowditch community
is, believed to have gone
mad. In making a round <sf
this section it bit six people
and a number of dogs. These
people' are now taking
Rabies treatment.
The Health Department
made a thorough investiga
tion and as a result has
twenty dogs confined un
der observation and if rab
ies symptons occur in any
of these, an analysis of the
head will be made and
those affected destroyed.
„ This is too serious a mat-"
ter to take lightly. Before
it is too late it is urged
that every one owning a
dog have it vaccinated
against this dread disease.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Trim
mer, after spending sever
! al days with Mrs. Trimmer’s
! parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wade
Honeycutt, left for their
home in Washington, D. C.
j Miss Frances Riddle at
tended funeral services
which were held at Tweeds
Chapel near Asheville for
Mr. Charles Nesbitt last
Sunday.
George Wheeler returned
home Sunday after spend- .
ing a few days with his
uncle, G. W. Wheeler in
Lakeland, Fla.