Donate Generously to the Legion Memorial Building Fund. VOLUME TWELVE SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEATL College Center Here Will Reopen on September 22 Large Registration C. E. Mclntosh, in charge of the N. C. College Cen ters with headquarters in Chapel Hill, was in Burns ville today conferring with) Supt. Frank W. Howell about the college center lo cated here. Mr. Mclntosh said that he was delighted with the work done in the Burnsville College Center! in 1946-47 and he was very! happy that this community is to continue college work at freshman level. With the enlarged grad uating classes from the' high schools last spring and} wih still heavy pressure from returning veterans,; the colleges have been crowdedhwith far more ap plications than they can ac cept. The centers are de signed to give the same work as is given on the NOTICE An examination for fill ing Telephone Operator po-j sitions at basic annual sal aries of $1,954 and $2,168 was announced today by i the U. S. Civil Service Com-; mission. Vacancies are in Washington, D. C., and nearby Virginia and Mary land. To qualify in the exami-; nation, competitors must pass a written test. In addi tion, they must have had from 6 to 18* months of ex perience as a telephone op erator, the amount requir-! ed depending upon the type! of experience they have 1 had and the grade of the position for which they are rated. Detailed information is given in the examination anouncement. Information and applica tion forms may be secured from the Commission’s Lo cal Secretary, Ashton Ram sey, located at Burnsville, Mrs, H C. Ball under went an operation Wednes- 1 clay at the St. Joseph hos-' pital. •- | Hunting Season Regulations Are Given 1947-48 Season The hunting seasons and regulations were adopted by the North Carolina Wild life Resources Commission : at a meeting held in Raleigh 1 August 11 and 12. They are given here as they re late to Yancey County 1 hunters. Open Dates for Hunting BEAR: October 15 through January 1. Exception: Bear hunting is * allowed only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays in the following counties: Bladen, Brusvfick, Colum bus, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, New Hanover, Robe son, Sampson and Scotland. DEER: (MaleV (Must have antlers plainly visible to the hunter.! On Nov. 10, 11, 12, 20, 21 and 22 deer hunting is per . » THE YANCEY RECORD campus at Chapel Hill and the studies which have,been made show that last year the work done in the twel ve college centers correlat es almost precisely with that done on the campus at Chapel Hill in the same classes. Mr. Mclntosh made it clear that the college center is for earnest students who ! expect to go on for a col jlege degree. Supt. Howell | stated that the quality of, applicants was very high and that he felt confident that they would • do good •work. } Official registration will be held at the high* school building in Burnsville on Monday and Tuesday, Sept.; 22-23. Class work begins on Wednesday, Sept. 24. All students desiring credit will be required to register be fore Septembev 30. Methodist Church Sunday .School begins at 110 a. m., with the Intermed iate class in charge of Op ening Worship. The pastor ; will preach at 11 a. m. on 'the subject “How to Face i Bad Treatment.” He will also preach at West Burns jville at 7:30 p. m. 4 Baptist Church The services for next Sunday are as follows: Sunday School at 9:45; preaching services at 11 a! jn. and 8 p. m. . with the | pastor speaking on “The ! Lord’s Dwelling Place” at the nVor.ning service. Peggy Jean Huskins, soloist, will sing “How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings.” The Traiining Union will ! meet at 7 p. m., and the ev ening subject will be “A Distressed Parent.” Hope Bailey left Tuesday for Southern Pines where she will again teach in the, | schools there, Miss Bailey [studied voice at the Juilli ard School of Musio this I summer. mitted in that portion of; McDowell * county lyingl north of U. S. Highway 64- 70 except on Mt. Mitchell Wildlife Management area, and in Yancey county ex cept in Mt. Mitchell State; Park and Mt. Mitchell Wild life Management area. OPOSSUM-RACOON: With 1 dogs and guns October 15} through Feb. 15. QUAIL: In and west ot* Alleghany, Wilkes, Cald- 1 well, Burke, and Ruther ford couhties open season is Nov. 27 through Jan. 1. RABBITS: Nov. 27 through Jan. 1. SQUIRRELS: Sept.lll5 1 through Dec. 15. i No open season on Southern Red Squicrels—Boomers, r RUFFLED GROUSE: Nov. 27 through Jan. 1. WILDCAT, WEASEL, and SKUNK: No closed sea- 1 son. I “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE. N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1947 T 41, COUNTY SCHOOLS OPEN Schools of the county ! opened Monday for the , 1947-48 session with capa city enrollment reported from each of the consolid ated schools. The greatest number of | students ever reported in the elementary grdaes 'were enrolled Monday. MISS COWAN KILLED IN CAR WRECK Had Been Art Student Here _ ! Miss Ida Cowan of Dur ham and Myrtle Beach, S. C., died in tire hospital in Conway, S. (’., on August "27 of sustained the ,day before. She was riding I with members of her family . in a ear preceding the am- * balance in Which her broth er was being taken to the hospital, when she fell from i the car and fractured her ! skull. Miss Cowan was widely known in educational cir cles and had retired this spring from teaching in the Durham city selv 4 system. She had studied painting classes here both last summer and this sum- : mer and had returned to ] Durham on August 23. ; While here., ..she had made hfTwiiTe*7n ro!o*b f tfTOfnrfiT will regret to hear of her ! passing. —* HOME LS WHERE YOU MAKKJTT SAYS COL. McCURRY The following, take n from the Ford Ord, Cal., paper, was headed “Home Is Where You Make It”, and tells how Lt. Col. and I Mrs. Clarence McCurry sol ved a problem for themsel ves and others. “One February '"flay a., big, shiny. 26 foot Glider i Trailer slowly wended its way up to the rambling, old hill to the site of- the ■ American stockade, parked at the top ard out of it ! stepped the first two citi : zens of Fort -Ord’s newly ! established Trailer Park. They were Lt. Col. McCurry! | and his wife —but . they ! were also the spirit of the old. pioneer coming hack to . ; stake his claim. Yes, it was j just another wonderful ex-1} . ample of what the real ' American does when put to' the task of solving the; housing problem. “What started with one 1 trailer-has now grown to a. 1 smart little community of | fourteen families, What ! had once been a grim re- < [minder of war has been ; [transformed into a heaven- j I sent answer to “where shall ( |we live.” Gone are the 1 . prisoners. . . in their places ’ happy, care free children play. | r !" “As soon as the McCurry s’ j were settled, in moved < ‘neighbors’, and with the 1 neighbors a set of By-Laws to conform with Post Re gulations. Once all the pap- 1 or work was done there was I much to be accomplished in ; beautifying the land. Sand was replaced by grass, and j (Continued on page 4) [ . ' .. - * NAMED SECRETARY TO SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION Mrs. Johq English has been named*- secretary-” to Frank W. flowed, county superintendent *of educa tion, succeeding Mrs. Dale Banner wh<* resigned. Mrs. Banner will joih fwr * hus band in Kansas City where he is attending “the Univer sity of Kansas City. At the sarhe time, George Robinson whs named clerk for the Veterans Training- Program in the county. This work had been com bined with fiat of the sec retary to the superintend ent but because of the in-! crease in thfc number on tl\e Training - program and the expanding program in the county, a separate clerk was appointed. Fellow Officer of Jack Newsom Here For Visit Spent Many Months To gether During Internment Lt. Col. Allen Peck, a fel low officer qf Jack H. New som iii the Philippines, ( stopped over in Burnsville [ last week ind while en , route to Fort Benning, Ga. .. be had ; heard Mix Newsom speak so often of Burnsville while they were together in pri soner of war camps that he wished to come by, see the own for himself and get the latest news of Mr. Newsom. At the beginning of the war the two men, both of whom were reserve army officers, joined the Ameri can forces and were captur ! ed in May, 1942. They were together then for-2' a years, first at camp at Davao then District Vocational Meeting : ! A district V A Farm: Training meeting is in ses sion today at Burnsville, i high school. All vocational l teachers and assistant tea- r chers of the western dis-f trict are attending. } ( A. L. Teachey, state sup-; ervisor of the Veterans Farm Training program,'; and Tal Stafford, district ' supervisor, are here for the ) conference. | ( f inal Report on Clothing Drive FINAL REPORT ON CLOTHING DRIVE - '« The Laymen’s Movement of Burnsville, which spon sored the campaign, re ports that 580 pounds of clothing, shoes and bedding have been shipped to New Windsor, Md., for immed iate shipment overseas. The local cost of shipping was $7.78. The chairman of the drive, the Rev. ,C. Moody Smith, made this re- 1 port at the monthly union service at the Methodist church last Sunday night.! On behalf of the laymenj and the needy overseas,! Mr. Smith wishes to thank, all who have helped in this 1 worthy work. NOTICE t —— ‘ - *■ The executive committee |of the Young Democrat. Club will meet at the Courthouse at 1:30 p. m., Saturday, September 6th. Each officer is urged to be present. RECEIVES DEGREE Joe Goodin, Jr., received his A. B. degree in jour nalism at the University of Missouri last Friday and is now at home. He plans to enter the University of North Carolina* this fall to work toward a master’s degree. ' - HOME IS PURCHASED Milt Murphy of Kings port this week bought the Fred Blankenship homo "''in east Burnsville. in Manilla. After Gen. MacArthur landed in October, 1944 the Japanese planned to take the last group of officers' to Japan. The ship on which Lt. Newsom and ('apt. Peck were traveling} was sunk by aerial bomb but both survived. They al-i so survived a second bomb-} Trig 'before reading Japan? After arriving in Japan, Lt. Newsom was sent to Korea and Capt. Peck to Manchukuo. They did not sec "each other again. • Peck remained in service when he returned to the states, and Lt. New som also remained in the army and at last report was stationed in the far . East. With Col. Peck when he 1 visited Burnsville were his wife and his mother of Denver, Colorado. PURCHASE FARM Mr. and Mrs. Herbert C La Fata and Mr. and Mrs. C. Cummings of Miami, Fla., have purchased the Richard} Taylor farm near Burns- 1 ville and plan to reside here during, the summer months. Mr. and Mrs. Reece Mc- Intosh and Mr. and Mrs. Torh Mclntosh visited rela tives in Pittsburgh, Pa.- re cently. ‘ / Presbyterian Notes The Presbyterian church | announces an 11 o’clock service in Burnsville, three o’clock at - Low Gap and 7:30 at Mine Fork. Dr. Harris will speak at the three church services. Mine Fork Church The revival services will be continued next Sunday evening. A special feature will be the singing of gos pel songs. A girls trio and Bruce -Westall, soloist, will ,give special numbers. This is a community service, j Everyone is invited. .The Wesleyan Guild will meet Friday evening with Mrs. Mark Bennett, i , Summer Activities Comes To Close — ——— This week will mark the! 1 close of an unusually varied; ■ season of summer activities} ‘ j in Burnsville. The inauguration of sum mer classes here by the' Woman's College of the [ University of North Caro lina was an important event ■ in the educational program . of the section. Four two , weeks sessions offered clas ? ses in public school music, > art for elementary grades, j] child guidance and ecluca tional tests and measure jments, to teachers and oth ers who wished credit on degrees or certificates. ■ Instructors in. these olas ■'; S6y: w Miss GraeA Van i Dyke More, Mrs. Calliel Braswell, C. W. Phillips ah