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<Btfft--iaiiajiaiiaiiaiiaiiaiiaii»iißuftiiaiisii*f>aii«n«iißiiaiiai<*M* Conserve Food and Feed. Contribute to Over Seas Relief VOLUME TWELVE Vocational Agricultural Building Nears Completion For Use of Classes in Agriculture The vocational agricul ture building, now under, construction at Burnsville' high school, is expected to be completed by January 15, school officials here' have said. Estimates of the cost are approximately $25,000. Work on the building has been done almost entirely by the veterans’ training classes in brick masonry. BURNSVILLE— “So They Say” The weather: If this were Christmas week we’d al most 'be willing to promise a “White Christmas” to those who are wishing for that! It’s that kind’of wea ther—very dark and cloudy and not too.cold. About town: More of the season's atmosphere, with the Christmas lights shin-! ning around the square and out Main Street, and the store windows decorated. .. Those bubble lights fasci nate us—it’s really a very simple idea. Enough heat is generated to make the liquid bubble. Again we wonder why we can’t think of some such get-rich easy gadget! . . . Eloise and Ernest were married Wed nesday morning at 10 and' left for a wedding trip to Texas and Mexico. . . Gar ret Wray will be coming from that section (Arizo na ) for a holiday visit with relatives and friends here. . Carroll Gillespie has a sug gestion for you to make to Santa—ask him to leave a fire extinguisher in your Christmas stocking. Carroll . was on way home when the wiring in his car caught on fire. He couldn’t locate anything to smother it with so jerked the wires out— with some badly burned fingers as a result. Just as lie finished getting 'the wires out, a bus pulled up beside him and the driver handed him an extinguish er! Now, however, he has one of his own in his car.. . New arrivals: The Max Proffitt’s son arid the Clar ence Hughes’ daughter. . . . Hazel Beavers has resigned as public "health nurse but 1 will still be with us as she’sj accepted position as nurse at the Laughrun clinic. . . J RELIEF CLOTHING DRIVE IS PLANNED 4 “Fill a Ship with Friend shin” is the goal of the sec-j ond statewide overseas re- ! lief drive to be conducted in. North Carolina by the state Council of Churches, it was announced today by the, Rev. Ernest J. Arnold, exe- ( cutive secretary of the Council. • j At a meeting held this week in Durham, field wor-| kers now organising the county by county collection! throughout the state, dis-J cussed plans and set the goal for the drive. THE YANCEY RECORD SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. They will also complete the interior plastering and fin ishing. There are now 339 en~ | rolled in the veterans’ farm I training classes in the i county. The three story brick I structure will Be used as an agricultural building by the , high school agriculture I classes and by the county j veterans’ training classes, j Considerable equipment is I already on hand and will be moved in within the next few weeks. Methodist Church Dr. Dwight R. Ware, Sup erintendent of the Ashe ville district, will preach Sunday at 11:00 a. m. in the Higgins Memorial Method ist church. Immediately fol lowing the morning wor ship, Dr. Ware will hold the first Quarterly Conference for the current year. Dr. Ware’s sermon on Sunday morning will be of interest to a great many, since his preaching here in the past has been so well received and his personal contacts have made s o many feel they are his friends. Everyone is invited to attend both the morning worship and the Quarterly Conference. Every officer! of the church is urged to be present. Presbyterian Church Sunday at 11 a. m. in Burnsville worship Dr. Harris and Miss Smith will { speak. Afternoon at 2:30 service at Mine Fork. Miss Smith I will speak. I Afternoon at 4:00 re hearsal for Christmas ex ercises. Thursday, Dec. 18'Miss ionary meeting at Mrs. Claude Petersons. a“A gift service.” J Popular Show Will Be Presented Here Saturday Night Sponsored by the American "ZT Legion Possibly one of the very best hookings in Burnsville this season will be the en gagement of Polly Jenkins | and Her Musical Pals at the ! Burnsville court house 'Night, Dec. 13 at 7:30. With Polly and her Pals is good old “Unde Dan,” who is too well known to go into detail. Dan is the same good-natured old rural boy who has a million jokes up | his sleeve and knows how to pass them out at the right time. Dan’s comedy nas always been clean and wholesome and never gets on the “Blue Side” of the | book. Polly Jenkins and her jPals are and always have been great stars of Radio, j Screen and Vaudeville. Their great screen success es with Gene Autry have I made them famous, to say nothing of with the National Barn “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” - - '■ BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1947 Registration for Winter Term Off-Campus Center Registration for the win ter term of the Burnsville ■ Off-Campus center will be ! held at the high school building on Friday, Decern-! her 12. • ■” f | During the fall term, 33 ; studentsfhave- been enrolled Freshman college credit j will "be given for all work satisfactorily completed. On USS Orion Woodrow L. Shepherd, Thief fire controlman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Laskey J. Shepherd of Swiss, N. G.', is serving aboard the sub marine tender USS Orion, based in the Canal Zone as ja unit of Submarine Squad jron (i. The submarine tender serves as a Navy yard and supply base made into one. She stands ready at her j pier to overhaul, replenish and reprovision the sub marines under her com mand. Commissioned 'Sept. 30, ,1943, the Orion began her war career the latter part iof November of that year, j Spending most of her time in Australia and New" Gui nea, the Orion mothered a squadron of 10 submarines that sank more than a mil | lion tons of enemy shipping j and damaged half - that; j much more. | Crew members will enjoy a five-day pre-Christmas visit to Peru, South Amer ica, early in December be-! fore returning to the home' inert in Panama. .| Attend Funeral Services ; Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Angel jof Wayland, Ky., and dau- Jghters, Barbara and Helen,! iwere in Burnsville today enroute to Waynesville to attend funeral services for, Angel’s mother who pass ed away suddenly on Tues day. 1 They plan to return to ißurnsville within a day or! I two. | Dance in Chicago for sever al seasons. Polly and Her Pals, to-! gether with Uncle I)anj have been a headline vau (Continued on page two) " * "** Jlf If /WLi|B I M Ijj II H | j a •■ ■■ Polly Jenkins, Uncle Dan, and Texas Rose, who will appear with the Musical Pals at the Court House Satur | day Night, at 7:30 p. m. Sponsored by the .American Legion. * Parkway If? Inspected • "“p" . Officials of the Blue jud ge Parkway iho were on an inspection Lur of -the parkway this £ week have, reported process of the | work. ) Sam Weems, superin tendent of Parkway, stated that up to the time the work recently had to be suspended on ' account of cold weather, jpaving of ap proximately 210 miles of the 355 mile it,retch from Rock Fish in Virginia to the presen £ terminus of Toe River gap had been completed. He also staged that con tracts had, been let for com pleting about 235 miles -of the. parkway I beyond Mt. Mitchell in the direction of Asheville, and that this stretch should be ready to he opened fortßravel during the summer o| 1948. On Ho|br Roll * Donald Twnberlin has been listed or|the “A” hon or roll for thp fall quarter at Western Carolina Teach ers College. I m ■ ' —f Examination I j Route The United!. States Civil Service Comn|ssfon"has an j nouncetLajjL -lamination to 'fill the position of rural I carrier at Green Mountain, North Carolina. The exami ; nation will be held at Bur nsville. L Receipt of applications f will close on Jan. 15, 1948. ■ The date of examination ( will be stated on admission cards mailed to applicants iaft.er the closing date forj receipt of applications. ! The examination will be open Only to citizens of, or! persons who owe allegiance! I to, the United States who' ;are actually residing in the i territory of the Post Office i where the vacancy exists,! who have been re siding there for one year! next preceding the closing date for receipt of applica tions, and who meet the other requirements set for-, th in Form 1977 of July! 1946. Both men and women, if qualified, may enter this I examination, but appoint ing officers have the legal right to specify the sex de-j MOTORISTS WARNED OF HOLIDAY HAZARDS Raleigh.—Don’t let death 1 take your holiday! With that slogan as a keynote, Motor Vehicles Commissioner, L. C. Rosser today asked all North Car olina motorists to exercise special care in their driv ing during the approaching ' holiday season. The Christmas-New Year holiday season has proved to be the most hazardous single period of the year, Col. Rosser said. Heavier i travel and the festive spirit of the season increase the - normal winter driving haze - ards, such as bad weather, r slippery roads and more . hours of darkness. f Many Fatalities \ During last December, ) 103 persons were killed on T North Carolina streets and highways. Sixteen of these Tost their lives during the Christmas holidays from s the 23rd through the 25th i- of December. And on Chr r istmas Day alone, 11 per - sons met their deaths on 1 our highways. For Rural Mail Carrier ,'sired in requesting certifi _ cation of eligibles. j Fqrm 1977 and applica y tion blanks can be obtained from the vacancy office ’ mentioned above or from the United States Civil Ser ivice Commission at "Wa&lv ington, D. C. Applications ' must be on file with the Commission at Washington 1 25, D. C., prior to the close 1 ; of business on the date ; I specified above. lIAStIhTES HELD FOR JOHN C. TAYLOR ! John C. Taylor, 80, of the i Sronce Creek section of Yancey county died Thurs iday at the home of a dau ghter, Mrs. Carley Angel. I He was active in the af fairs of Mount Pleasant j J Baptist church, and the Bald Creek Masonic lodge, j Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2 ! o’clock at the Mount Plea jsant church, with the Rev. E. J. Hall an dthe Rev. W. H. Ballard officiating. Bur ial was in the Swiss ceme- | tery. Surviving are six daugh-; ters, Mrs. John Hylemon ofi Conover, S. €., Mrs. B. F. Fender of Fair,view v Mrs.) Charlie Ferguson, Mrs. Al- ( vin Thompson, Mrs. Roy Buckner and Mrs, Angel, all of Swiss; four sons, C. C. of Swiss, Richard of Bur-, nsville, Haskett of Woodfin and Floyd of Virginia. Holcombe Brothers fun-! eral home was in charge of. arrangements. Baptist Church At the morning service Sunday, the pastor will} preach on “Grace for Liv j ing” and at the evening service, “Climbing to Jesus’ Mr. and Mrs. Clarence ] Hughes of Micaville an [ nounce the arrival of a dau ghter at the Biltmore hos pital, Dec. 10. State Law Prohibits Use Os Fireworks Law Passed by 1947 Legislature ! AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE PURCHASE, SALE, TRANSPORTATION, PO * SSESSION, ADVERTISE MENT AND USE OF I PYROTECHNICS < FIRE WORKS! IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA I Manufacture, sale and use of pyrotechnics (fire works) in State prohibited: | Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any individual firm, partnership or cor | poration to manufacture, purchase, sell, deal in. tran sport, possess, receive, ad vertise, use or cause to be j discharged any pyrotech j nics i fireworks) of any J description whatsoever ; within the State of North 1 Carolina: Provided, how ever, that it shall be per missible for pyrotechnics _| to be exhibited, used or at public exhi bitions, such as fairs, carni . vals, shows of all descrip tions and public celebra tions : Provided further that the use of said pyro technics in connection with - public exhibitions, shall be under supervision of ex - perts who have previously i secured written authority a from the board of county i commissioners of the coun- Jty in which said pyrotech nics are to be exhibited, s usefl w discharged. 3P ~ ' ' j Stationed In Wash. i ———. i Pvt. Jack R. Grindstaff, ' son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. a Grindstaff of Celo, is a member of the ninth “Man chu” regiment of the famed “Indianhead” second infan . try division at Ft. Lewis, : Wash. ■ Pvt. Grindstaff is taking special pre-Arctic training on the rugged slopes of the Cascade mountains in pre | paration for “Exercise ,Yukon.” In the near futurfe ! he will fly to Alaska in one of the famous C-82 “flying boxcars” to participate in Arctic maneuvers for one month” near Big Delta. Prior to entering the army, Pvt. Grindstaff at-, tended Micaville high school LpCAL POET WINS j RECOGNITION j Miss Grace E. Edwards of Cane River is one of the 'authors whose work has merited a place in “Import ant American Poets and Songwriters”, this year’s most outstanding volurpe of j lyrics and poetry. Thou sands of manuscripts were !submitted from every cor-, ner of the globe and com petition for a place in this volume was. very keen. Many of the authors re-, I presented have been pre-| jviously published in other, I important books, magazin es and newspapers. Some of them have authored out standing volumes of their own. so that to have won a place in this volume is an achievement worthy o f wide recognition. Conserve Food and Feed. Contribute to Over Seas Relief NUMBER TWENTY Section 2. That in case of jsale or purchase of pyro technics, where the delivery ,! thereof was made by com mon or other carrier, the ’ sale shall be deemed to be " made in the county wherein | the delivery was made by such carrier or the consig ‘ nee. \ Section S. That possess- 4 ion of pyrotechnics by any person, for any purpose ' other than those permitted by this act, shall be prima ! facie evidence that such, l pyrotechnics are kept for " the purpose of being manu factured, sold, bartered, ■j exchanged, given away, re ceived, furnished, other ? I wise disposed of, or used in "i violation of the provisions i of this act. r\ m Section 5. That' for the 1 I proper construction of the x provisions of this act, “py ’“j rotechnics” as is herein s |Used, shall be deemed to be r , and include any and all “ kinds of fireworks arid ex i- plosives, which are used for »■ I exhibition or amusement ~ purposes. r | Section 6. That any per - son violating* any of the 1 provisions of this Act, ex cept as otherwise specified -jin this Act, shall he guilty y'|Of a misdemeanor, and up yjOn conviction shall be fined, V,or imprisoned or both, in - the discretion of the court. - The Act was in full force -land effect from and after 1 July 1, 1947. s DRIVERS’ LICENSE y' Raleigh—Persons whose i last names begin with A or - B have only 17 days left in I which to renew their driv . ing licenses without fear of penalty. The Motor Vehicles De partment announced today U that out of the estimated i 150,000 A and B drivers in I North Carolina, only arou nd 90,000 had thus far ob tained new licenses, i Time is drawing short, . and persons whose surnam es begin with A or B who are caught driving after January 1 on an old licence will be found guilty of a misdemeanor and will be fined not less than $25. A schedule for other groups of drivers follows: C and D from Jan. 1 to June 30,1948; E, F, and G— ! from July 1 to December 31, ' 1948; H, I, J, and K—be tween January 1 and June 30, 1949; Land M—between ijJul.v 1 and December 31, ; 1949; N, O, P, and Q—be tween Januarv 1 and June j 30, 1950; R. S, and T—be tween July 1 and December 1 21, 1950; U, V, W, X, Y and Z —between January 1 and 1 The examiner for drivers' 1 license is in Burnsville each Thursday and Friday. The Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners for the 1 Nashville District, Corps of Engineers, Department of 1 the Army, announces an ex amination for powerhouse [ attendants, including oner- Vators, mechanics and elec- I tricians.
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