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Conserve Food and Feed. Contribute to Over Seas a Relief VOLUME TWELVE Plans Outlined For Summer School of Fine Aits <K- * * t ; Officials of Woman’s College and lineal Directors Confer Officials of Woman’s Col- ! lege of the University of North Carolina and direct- 1 ors of the Burns Ville Play house, Inc. met here Satur-J day afternoon to review last summer’s activities and to discuss plans for the com ing year. W. R. Taylor, -head of the drama department of Worn-* an’s College, C. W. Phillips, 1 director of public, relations of the college, and' John C.j Lockhart, business manag er, were present. Nine, local directors and Iliff Cloven-1 ~*ger, business manager of, the Playhouse, also attend ed. The plan for the summer! program here, as first out-' lined, was' for the estab-j lishrnent of a school of fine, arts. During the past sum mer, courses in drama were offered and the repertoryj theatre organized. The ad-, dition of classes in music, I art and crafts is expected to be made for the 1948 session 1 Carnegie Foundation Funds Mr. Lockhart announced that $4,000 had already been received from the OPTIMIST BOWL SCHEDULED FOR ASHEVILLE DEC. 13 Another bowl game has been addetl to the long list of post-season games in the state. The most recent is the Optimist Rowl to be played in Asheville, on Saturday, December 13th. This was the result of a meeting of the Optimist club of Ashe ville at the George Vander bilt hotel October 12 attend ed by representatives from the 17, western North Caro lina counties from which 44 players will be picked. These high school and prep athletes, all 22 mem bers of both squads will be guests of the Asheville Op timist club for a week of practice and entertainment in Asheville preceding the game, and each player will receive some .sort of an award, including a week’s vacation at the Optimist Toe River camp next sum mer which is something worth looking forward to. Since the contest is ex pected to be an annual as- Smokey Says : U SORRY BUPOV-IT MIGHT ■ H I HAVE BEEN AN UNTHINKING ) ) W K. FRIEND-WHO MEANT r —", O S i Carrlessness lias caused many woods lue» Think before that match or cigarette is thrtwn a'vvay. , # THE YANCEY RECORD SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. Carnegie Foundation which has made a grant of $10,090 I to the project, payable over a period of four years, j . in making the announce ment, Mr. Lockhart' said that request for the grant had been made last spring by Dr. Frank Graham, pre j sklent of the Greater Uni jversity of North Carolina. One of the important fac tors which influenced the Foundation to make the grant, Mr.. Lockhart said, j was the interest arid coop -1 eration of the people of this community. J - The -definite dates for next summer’s session, what courses will be offer led and instructors will be taken up within a' short | time at the college. Wheth jer the college will again of jfer summer work for teach ers who wish to renew or | raise their certificates will | also be decided. Last summer, 4 two weeks courses were taught .here and proved of great , interest and benefit to tea chers of this section. Mr. Phillips who is director of ! extension work of the col lege said that the same plan might be in effect again if | there was a demand for the classes. FARM NOTES N. C. State College is offering certificates to N. C. farmers who make 100 bushels of corn or more per acre. This entitles a farmer to he a member of the N. C. 100 Bushel Corn Club. The County Agents will be glad to assist any farmer with checking his yield if the farmer will ask .about it. Also, certificates will be awarded to associate mem bers, or those that make 75 to 100 bushels per acre. In addition, the Yancey County Farm Bureau is of fering a Trophy to the Yan cey‘county farmer growing the most corn on a per acre basis. The field must be,-of l /> acre or larger. The far-! mer’s name will be inscrib-| ed on the trophy and if a farmer wins it three years in succession, iftAjecomes his property. The Trophy and ( certificate awards will be made in January or Febru ary/1948. farmer with ' 1 •_> aerg orTilbre corn may enter. | Thfe corn may be checked, in the field by selecting five plots of two rows 25 foot long and weighing the corn from these plots and multi-* plying by a factor that will give bushels per acre or he may measure the corn as he shucks it or in the crib. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Anglin and son of Phoenik,! Ariz., are visiting Mrs. J. T. l Anglin and other relatives here. fair all the pre-game details were placed into the hands of a coaches’ committee who will report to the Bowl Committee of the Optimist club. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” Bulwinkle to Europe Rep. Alfred T7.' Bulwinkle, congressman from this dis trict, left New York Satur-j ' day aboard the Queen Mary to attend a meeting on | world aviation agreements at Geneva, Switzerland, i November 3. J | Grady Edwards Seriously Injured in Wreck • - ■■ J Grady son of • Mr. and Mrs. Gus, Edwards 1 of the Mine Fork" section, ' was critically injured in a , car wreck Sunday after • noon. The wreck occurred ? just beyond Edge’s Store on ]East Main Street when the' • car left the road and turned , over several tirries. Mr. Ed - wards was taken to Moore > General hospital where he : is reported in a critical con • dition. { , LEGION MEETING 1 Memebrs of the Legion [post held the regular Oeto-j . her meeting on Tuesday : evening with Mark Bennett, | : commander, presiding. -j The membership drive . which is now under way ‘ will be climaxed with a din ner meeting on Nov. 25. Announcement was made jof the 31st district meeting which will be held in Mar ion on Friday, November 7. | All who plan to go should ! notify post officials as soon |as posible so that rcsorva . t-ions may be'made. i “ " “ “ i I ARMY RECRUITING • Capt. John J. Nowack, . commanding officer of thei ‘Asheville Sub-Station of [.the United States Army i and United States Air For ‘ ce Recruiting Service an* .[nounced today that there i are a large, number of open ■ [assignments with the Ninth i Air Force at the Greenville; Air Base, Greenville, S. C., kShaw Field, Sumter, S. C., 1 ■land Langley Field, Virgin-' • jia. These assignments call ;' for many military occupa tional specialties, and they must be filled by former .[servicemen with those spec- 1 . ialties. Any Air Force veteran of ( World War 11, who is inter ested in one of these initial, j assignments, should contact the local Recruiting Sub , Station or an Army and Air | Force Recruiting Sergeant to. ascertain if his military j occupational specialty i s among those listed as criti cally needed at these instal- ( lations. If so, and he can < qualify for enlistment, he i 1 will be initially assigned to i duty at one of these three bases. , ( An Army and Army Air 1 Force Recruiting Sergeant 5 is at the Courthouse, Bur- ] nsville, N. C. Monday and i I Tuesday of each week, and < i will be glad to give vou any j information about these as signments. The Rural Electrification Administration a p proved i loans totaling $3,420,000 to 14 borrowers in 14 states < during the week of October I 6-10. ' j BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1947 4-II CLUB MEMBERS ATTEND MEET —I — Imogene Proffitt of the Bald Creek L-II Club and Ross Bailey df the Micaville; Club attended the 4-H Bet ter Methods Electrical Con test which whs held in Ral- I eigh this week, j . The contestVas sponsor ed by the Carolina Light [and Power Company, the [ Virginia Eledr ij and Pow er company arid the Wes-' tinghouse Electric company. Each student some phase of farifi .work and contrasted how it could be done more quickly and eas- 1 ily by using eifectricity. D. D. Baggett, assistant county agent, and * Mrs. [Baggett accqtnpanied the club membersubn the trip. I Mr. and Mik Arney Fox and Mr. and Mrs. Roland I Glenn are on a: two-day trip to Fontana, i v ‘ Examinations Will Be Held For Naval ROTC \ — £ — j November 10 is Deadline For Applications | Captain A. M. Kowaizyk, I Jr., professor of Naval Sci -1 cnee, Naval Reserve Offic ers’ Training Cqrps, Duke 1 I University announced that December 115.I 15 . :would be the date of the second annual j nation-wide aptitude jest 1 which is a prerequisite [for entry into the college Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps for the 1948 academic year. The program is open to college students, high scho ol seniors and graduates be tween the ages of 17 and 21, who meet required mental and physical standards. It provides four years of gov ernment subsidized college ; education at 52 universities! j and colleges i n various 5 | parts of the country, in I which NROTC units are es , tablished. I ,1 In this program the Navy ; Department pays for books, tuition, and the normal fees required by the college, and jin addition provides the! ; student with a SSO a month [living allowance. The stud-' j ent may take any course leading to a baccalaureate .degree that he desires, sub-| jec’t to include therein cer tain naval science subjects.'! In return he is required to i Presbyterian Notes Morning service at 11 o’clock in Burnsville, pre ceded by the Sunday school. Afternoon service at 3 p. m. in Low Gap. People having small chil dren are encouraged to bring them to the morning | service. During the period there is a. nursery in the room below, „ with competent persons in char ge. Dairy farmers with an abundant supply of good quality hay and other rou ghage can Cooperate in the Nation’s food conservation campaign and at the same! time cut down feed bills by, feeding considerably less* 31st DISTRICT LEGION MEETING IN MARION The 31st district of the North Carolina department of the American Legion will hold a meeting at the Mar ion Community building Friday night, November 7, j at 7:30. Main speaker for j ! the occasion will be Ray ] Galloway, Commgnder of • the American Legion in , North Carolina. « The 31st district is com posed of McDowell. Yancey , and Mitchell counties, and , delegates are expected . from all posts in the three ! counties. * McDowell Post 56, with ; Watson Wilson as Comman der, will be the host club. Mark W. Bennett, Com mander of Earl Horton Post 122, Burnsville, and Mrs. Bennett have been in vited to attend the banquet 1 as personal guests of' 1 Cecil 1 Dcjbson, Commander participate in certain drills' and cruises, and upon grad uation to accept a commis sion in the Navy or Marine Corps if qualified. —, After two years of active duty he may elect to trans-j fer to the Naval Reserve and return to civilian life,' or he may request ' reten- 1 tion in the Regular Navy, ; and if selected, make the Navy his career. The Aptitude Test will be given in 550 cities widely distributed through the United States and its terri tories. Applicants desiring to participate in this pro gram must submit an appli cation for the test prior, to November 10, 1947. Appli-i cation blanks and Bulletins [ giving a full description of [the program may be obtain ed from high school princi pals, college deans, the pro- fessors of Naval Science, Duke University and Uni versity of North Carolina, Offices of Naval Officer 1 Procurement and all Navy Recruiting Stations . The University of North Carolina and Duke Univer sity are the only two schools in North Carolina with the Nava Braining units. Young[ men chosen from the apti tude tests in this State will have a choice of either in stitution. Greenville, N. C.—The first executive meeting of the Young Democrat Clubs of North Carolina will be a banquet meeting at the Highland Pines Inn in Sou thern Pines Saturday, Nov ember 1, starting at 7:30 p. m., it was announced yes terday by E. Hoover Taft, Jr., president. The speaker for the Sou thern Pines gathering will be W. J. (Jim) McGarity, newly the Young Democrat Clubs of South Carolina. It is expected here that meeting will be well at tended and that groups will i discuss political matters of j local and national scope, es pecially topics of current 1 interest Daniel Boone's Locomotive Will go on Exhibition Tour Model of Union Pacific Engine Daniel Boone’s locomo tive engine, a model, com plete in every detail, of a Union Pacific engine will “take to the road” this week. In fact, the tour has' already begun in the county On Wednesday the en gine was on exhibit at Bald; Creek, today is being shown at Micaville and on Friday will be shown at Burnsville.! It will run on the 32 feet of 3V,”- gauge track. Exhibits are already scheduled at Appalachian State Teachers College, 1 Boone, and Orlando, Fla. Invitations have been re ceived from a number of county school departments in Nrirth Carolina and from the Chamber of Commerce in Miami. An extended tour is planned, and the intiner ary will be more definite within a few weeks. The locomotive which was completed in 1942 took Mr. Boone nearly (5 years to build. It is an accurate scale model, is made entire ly of metal and contains ap- Church Building Planned A lot has been purchased 1 on Mitchell Branch and 1 plans are nearly complete 1 for the construction of a' small community church building there. Mrs. J. A.! Banks is chairman of the building fund committee and citizens of the town are asked to contribute to .the ! fund. The lot has already been paid for and any do-! i nation made toward the ; building will be greatly ap preciated by the Cornmittee. Baptist Church The pastor’s subject for [ the Sunday morning service will be “Walking by The Light”, and for the evening service, “All in Christ”. ; The special “Stewardship Emphasis” week will con tinue through Friday, with Mrs. John Waycaster teach-j ing each evening. On Friday, 1 afternoon at 4 o’clock she I will speak to the Intermed iate R. A.’s and G. A.’s. The U. S. Department of Agriculture has announced a price support program' for hairy vetch, crimson clover, and Austrian winter' peas of the 1948 crop. _ nokey Says: •'* •' , i m£lP NOME WHAT Ht OUOHf yW 1 MO' OAT MAN HE TO DO PlOvO UNOEO THE j OONf 'BURN UP PE COTTON VTAI-KS AS SOOM I »MC>OPf» AN HiS &O 0? 1 M j Tin' d.imagr to ■ wodHlaiul burned is bit ■eoi'f than the damage the boll weevil l-tied, could possibly do, Conserve Food and Feed. Contribute to Over Seas Relief NUMBER FOURTEEN I proximately 4,000 parts, i The engine is 72 inches long, 14‘A inches high and weighs 300 pounds. It oper ates at 125 pounds steam or air pressure and is capable of pulling 1200. pounds. There are head lights "and cab lights, a whistle that is really a “scream” and a tiny bell that rings. In the new shop which he recently built, Mr. Boone constructed a circular track around which the locomo -1 tive ran. On the exhibition tour a straight track will 'be used to simplify carry ing and assembling, j Daniel Boone himself will not take the locomotive on i its journeys as he is much too busy teaching a class of GPs the art of wrought Iron work, and is trying to I catch up with the many ! orders which he now has on “hand, His brother, Marion Boone, will take the locomq 1, tive on the exhibition tour. ! A carrying case has been i built and all pieces of the : entire outfit have been num ybered, thus simplifying the * task of taking down and ■ | assembling it. The shipping i weight is 500 pounds. L BURNSVILLE— “S« They Say” | The weather: Cooler to day but sunny and fine. We. appreciate it more when we remember a big snow | one October 23. | About town: Some one really “came to town” Sat urday night about 12. Drove around the square a time ’i or two then straight into ' | the side entrance of Anglin 1 and Westail’s store—knock ed out both plate glass win dows, drove four feet into the store, backed out and left town fast! . . For a long time we’ve hoped for this—that Daniel Boone’s locomotive could be seen by people far and wide! Its a marvel of mechanical skill as well as about the cutest 1 model of anything we’ve ever seen. Marion Boone is , taking it on tour—in the j county .schools this week, then to a number of places lin the state and on to Or i lando, Fla. anti other places 1 there! .... Folks from College here Sat urday to talk over' plans for I the coming summer and it all sounds wonderful. Hope ,to add music (and this might tie in with the great interest at B H S for a band), art, crafts and per haps other courses next summer. . . Number from Burnsville and Micaville to very lovely wedding of Jo Ellis and Carl Silver, Jr., in Hickory Sunday afternoon. . . . The Baptist Missionary Society is giving a shower for Dorcas Mclver Morgan at the church Saturday af ternoon. Ladies of three churches are cordially in vited. . . Hallowe’en pro gram at B H S tonight. . . and number of the young sters in town so eager to see the circus tomorrow that the Dads will have to take them!..
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