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Conserve Food and Feed. Contribute to Over Seas Relief VOLUME TWELVE Farmers Federation Declares Dividends Record of Progress The executive committeeJ of the directors of the Far mers Federation yesterday' declared a semi-annual di-, vidend on preferred and common stock payable Jan-; uary 1, 1948, to all stock-' holders of record Decern-j her 15, 1947, it was announ ced by James G. K. Mc- Clure 7 , president of the or ganization. Mr. McClure pointed out that this-will be the 28th consecutive semi annual dividend to be paid. There were mpre than 20,000 members of the Fed eration as of July 1, 1947, and Mr. McClure pointed out that there has been a considerable increase since that time. The Farmers Federation was organized 27 years ago to create market facilities and services which will de velop into agricultural pro duction in Western North Carolina. Beginning in a small way with a handful of farmers and one ware house. the organization has grown to 26 warehouses with more than 20,000 members. The Federation has de veloped, markets for poul try,' eggs, ‘ forest products, wood products, dairy pro ducts, vegetable and handi craft articles. In addition to the 26 warehouses, the Federation now has in op eration seven freezer locker plants, situated in Asheville, Brevard, Hen dersonville, Marion, Way nesville, Tryon and Spruce Pine, and another plant is scheduled to open in Spin dale in the near future. Yancey county directors are: Wilson Edwards of Cane River and Tom Ray of Burnsville. COMPLETES TRAINING Otis Blankenship, sea man, second USN, of Swiss, N. C., has completed recruit training at the Naval Tra ining Center, San Diego, Calif., and has been advan ced to seaman, second class. Recruit training is the sharp break between civil ian and Naval life in which the new Navy man learns the fundamental principles of a sailor’s life. In the course of his tra ining the recruit is taught seamanship, Navy customs and terms, basic ordnance and gunnery, signaling and navigation He learns pro- ! per diving and swimming,' life saving, and shipboard fire fighting. Upon completion, "frFhis training the recruit is as signed either to uniits of the fleet or to a service school for specialized train ing. Mr. and Mrs. Rhea Pen land, Mr. and Mrs. Lee. Yel ton, Mr. and Mrs. Max Pen land and Zeb Bgnnett will lie at home from West Palm Beach for the Christ mas holidays. THE YANCEY RECORD SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. NORTH CAROLINA IN i 1 ! THE NEWS 1 Stories about North Car i olina will appear in a num ber of national magazines within the next few weeks. The January issue of PARENTS’ magazine will i carry an article entitled ■l.‘North Carolina Discovers .Its Children”; the Febru-' ■'•ary TRUE magazine will | have a color layout on the! ; Cherokee Indians, and the 1 • February FORD TIMES j - will have a story on North Carolina bear hunting.' i Both January and Febru- j -| ary issues of HUNTING &\ FISHING will carry North iI Carolina outdoor stories,; and the spring edition o f ■ HIGHWAY TRAVELER; will feature Asheville, i Stories on the Blue Ridge, i Parkway have been order-] Ved by both FORD TIMES - and BUICK magazine, to - appear in forthcoming edi t tions. [i YANCEY HUNTERS | KILL NINE BEARS , A group of bear hunters, i including some of Yancey county’s most enthusiastic Nimrods, have returned . from a very successful 3-| day hunt in the eastern! ’ part of the state. Nine bear were killed in ( the 3-day hunting, five in Jone day. The largest weigh ted 364 dressed. The real hunters in the t group, the men all agreed, . were the 16 dogs. These in j eluded the Blevins bear , dogs and several other , packs, and were both Plott ! hounds and black and tan lcrossed. The dogs had largest . bear treed within 15 min utes after they were turned loose, and another bear was killed within 7 minutes af ter the dogs started in the thick underbrush. Late Friday afternoon the hunters completely lost the dogs. On Saturday af ternoon they found the dogs again, still after the but in such heavy! thickets that although the hunters were close enough 1 to hear it, none of them could see to get a shot at x it.! Those who went on the hunt were Corb Robinson, Jackie Blevins, Print Blev ins, Marion Blevins, War ren Blevins, Rich Taylor, Gold Allen, Dee Curtis,! Monroe Harris, Rose Miller,] Rothie Austin, Gene Patton* i Paul Harris, John Cason/ | Luther Farley and Ray , Gardner. NOTICE 4 Proofs of photographs,, 1 ] imade last week by the Man-1' zen Studios will be shown at the Nu-Wray Hotel on next Monday, December 22j! from 11 a. m. to 6 p. m. De- I ,*, layed shipment of proofs caused the change 'in time of showing. There is still time to pur f chase Christmas Seals at j the Woman’s Club tonight. 1 “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N C., TfURSDAY, DECEMBER 18,1947 DIRECTOR FOR MARCH OF DIMES Mrs. Sam J. Huskins has been named as the director in Yancey county for the March of Dimes campaign, ; Presbyterian Church Morning worship at 11:06 Sermon “Meaning of Chri stmas”. Christmas songs by choir and congregation. Sunday School at 10:15. j The Christmas vesper | service at the Burnsville , Presbyterian church will be ; held on Sunday afternoon | Dec. 21 at 4 o’clock. The program will consist lof songs and Christmas' ] stories, and an offering will jbe taken for the children i of Europe. : At the conclusion of the I program, children of the ; group will gather around, the Christmas tree for a ! visit from Santa Claus. Children who will take part in the service are Kay I Beavers, Johnnie Connelly, 1 Susan Shepherd, Susan Mclntosh, R. L. Mclntosh, Charles Deyton, L. G. Dey-, ton, Joe Peterson, Linda Lou Laughrun, Brenda Pet erson. Attend Conference Dr. C. F. Mcßae, Jr., Dis trict Health officer, attend-' ed a conference last Wed nesday at the Western Med' ical Center, on Morris Field near Charlotte. On Friday, Dr. Mcßae and Mr. Jake FT Buckner, district sanitarian ] attended a conference on milk sanitation at the City Health Department office in Asheville. ■* * * * '* * *• ***; . Xj’HL V? ■’[ | , P Pledge your support to the Citizens Pood IP ★** • I f Committee. | \ I'd IBy eating only what you nee and not wasting I ;*A ’ N f food—you can help fight the hunger of America’s G , ★ \ i| friends abroad. ★ pi i | jiThis program of saving food is vital to SAVING ★ (i l TUB. PEACE. Do your part! f * * Nr ' ; ★ !I . I % . . . - • _ ★ f \ ' y A public service project of The Advertising Council : i! * i * *fr* *★**★★★**★**** Homer Jafifett Is Supervis-j or with M|tor Inspection Homer Wf Jarrett is one of the 40 iuperyisors for the mechanical inspection ■ |of motor tve hides which 'goes into affect on Jan. 1. A total of 40 supervisors and 18 inspectors have been j named, ancF these 58 men jweTe graduated Saturday, I from a 3 weeks' intensive! training ,cohrse at Chapel Hill. '£ p i The new law requires! every vehicle in the' state; to be inspected once during: : 1948 and twice every year | thereafter^ (LAST RITES FOR MRS. JULIA MtfMPOWER Mrs. Julia Mumpower, 71, of Pensacofa died at the home of a frrandson,, W. E.j 1 Mumpower |of Swanna noa; Tuesday. | Funeral services will be held at Pensacola Free Will Baptist church Thursday, morning at 11 o’clock, with The Rev. TjE. Woody offi ciating. Burial will be at ; 1:30 p. m. in Oak Hill ceme” tgry at Johnson City, Tenn. The body!will remain at! Holcombe Brothers funeral; home until time for the service. ■' 7 . . .. Mrs. Muippower' was a -member o4Jie First Christ /lan churchofaohnsoii CTty. ■| Surviving are two sons, ! the Rev. R. C. Mumpower , and Fred J. Mumpower,] both of Swannanoa; three] grandchildren and a grand-] son; one sister, Mrs. James j Feathers of Johnson City, I and a brother, W. G. Scott | of Johnson City. TAX LISTING WILL BE GIN ON JANUARY 2 Listing of property for taxes will begin on Janu ary 2, according to a state- t merit this week by Carl T. , Young who is county sup- i ervisor. The following listers for j the townships have been;; named: Burnsville township: Bob ; Peterson; Cane River town 'ship: E. J. Angel; Egypt - township: Rex Mclntosh; * ; liamseytown, tow ns h ip: Richmond Bennett; Green Mtn. township: D. C. Bai- !ley; Jacks Creek township: Glenn Bailey ; Brush Creek township: L. D. Thomas; Sbuth Toe township: Will ard Robinson; Pensacola township: Mrs. Dewey Jamerson; Prices Creek township: D. L. Hurst. «, NOTICE I All offices of the Avery ] Mitchell-Yancey Health Department will be closed I ■j for Christmas from Dec j ember 24 through Decern-! her 27, both dates inclusive J Christmas Program A Christmas program will be presented in the ZiorT Baptist church on i Sunday, December 21 at 7:30 p. m. A picture, “The Christmas Story”; will also jbe shown. B. R. Penland, W. E. Anglin, - A. G. Edge and Mark Bennett are in Bur : ling ton today on business, j ■1- Hope Bailey will be at home from Southern Pines ! for Christmas. Accepts Pastorate in Whitesburg, Ky. The Rev. W. Ernest Wil son has accepted the pas torate of the Graham Mem orial Presbyterian church 1 in Whitesburg, Ky. Mr. Wilson has served as] pastor in Yancey county, for the past" eight year& four years at Prices Creek and four years at Newdale.j Members of the Newdale church and people of the entire community regret to have Mr. Wilson leave. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and their children plan to leave on December 22 for Whit esburg. FINAL RITES FOR ALBERT ALLEN v , ■■ Funeral services for Al bert Allen, 78, who died Friday at his Pensacola home, were held Sunday as-j ternoon at 3 o’clock at Lau jrel Branch Baptist church, with the Rev. Ben Lee Rayj j officiating. Burial was in I the family cemetery, j Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Lora Buchanan and Mrs. Edith Algood of Akron, Ohio; seven sons, Blake and Lau ghton of Pensacola, Will iam of Charlotte, Hobart and Clyde of Akron, Leo-; nard of Washington, D. cj and Kermit of the Merch ant Marine. Featured in Camp Newspaper ! Parris Island, S. C., (De layed i.—M ari n e Private William Ledford, Jr., 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ledford, Route 1, Bakers ville, N. C., was recently featured in “BOOT IN-. PUIRES” column of the' BOOT, the post weekly newspaper. This column is devoted to questions on current events, - sports, and activities of the Marine Corps. A veteran of two years with the Army, Led’ford en listed in the Marine Corps on September 15, 1947, and is currently undergoing training with Platoon 100, First Recruit Training Battalion, here at the Mar ine Corps Recruit Depot. Ledford has requested duty with a Motor Trans port Unit as a mechanic upon completion of recruit training. , Mrs. Maggie Bailey, 84, Passes Away Mrs. Maggie Bailey pass ed away Wednesday after noon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clayton Sparks of Estatoe follow ing an extended illness. She was 84 years of age. Funeral arr a n gement plans are incomplete at this time. Mrs. Bailey was the dau ghter of the late Dr. andj Mrs. W. M. Austin, pioneer citizens of Burnsville. She was the widow of the late James Bailey o f Jacks Creek. Known to a wide circle Conserve Food and Feed. Contribute to Over Seas Relief NUMBER TWENTY-ONE MRS. BEAVERS RE SIGNS AS PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE Accepts Position Here 1 Mrs. Hazel Beavers who j has served as public health nurse in Yancey county for the past five years, has ! resigned this positic 1 , ef fective January 1. | Mrs. Beavers has accept ed the position as nurse at the clinic which Dr. Gus (Laughrun o f Burnsville | will open here in January. The clinic building is now , under construction on west Main street here and will be completed within a short time. Mrs. Beavers is a gradu ate of the Fort Sanders hospital school of nursing in Knoxville, Tenn. After her graduation there in May, 1938 she did institu tional work in Canton, Ga., ]at Cokers hospital and in I Murphy, N. C. at the Petrie hospital. I In 1942 she returned to Fort Sanders hospital for further training in operat ing rffom work, and early in 1943 she entered the school of public health at ; the University of North /Carolina, with field work ■in the Durham health de partment. Mrs. Beavers I came to Yancey county in i June, 1943 and has beer here, .since .except . whexu&ha. was granted a leave of ab sence in 1945 to return to the University of North J Carolina to complete her course in public health nur sing. | This wide background of training and experience has help to make her work here as public health nurse un usually successful. Mrs. Beaver’s successor jhere with the public health I office has not been n*amed. LAST RITES FORIviRS. LILLIE FAUBION Funeral services for Mrs. j Lillie Faubion, 71, who died at her Celo home Friday, were held Sunday after noon at 2 o’clock, with the Rev. Roy Buckman officia . j ting. Burial was in Ballew cemetery. ’I Surviving are one son, 1 Willie J. Faubion of Green jville, S. C. ; two sisters, Mrs. R&oda White of Celo and ' j Mrs. Anna Tallent of Greenville. j Holcombe Brothers fun jeral home was in charge of arrangements. of friends and relatives as “Aunt Maggie’’, Mrs. Bai ley was a life long resident of Yancey county, living either here or at Jacks Creek. "She was for many years a devoted and loyal member of the Higgins Memorial Methodist church here. v Surviving are three dau ghters, Mrs. Sparks, Mrs. Minnie Greene of Burns ville and Mrs. Sallie Will iams of Asheville; one sis ter, Mrs. C. C. Higgins of Burnsville, and 11 grand children.
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