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Join the “March o f Dime s”, January j 15-30. Fight Polio by contributing generously to the campaign VOLUME TWELVE March of Dimes Campaign Begins Today - . .. Workers Are Named and Plans Cortipleted & Workers have been nam " ed and plans completed for the March of Dimes cam paign in Yancey county, it was reported today by Mrs. Ernest Briggs, chairman, and Mrs. B. S. Connelly, as sistant chairman for the drive. Fred Proffitt was again named treasurer. The campaign opened in! the schools on Monday, and will officially open in the county today, January 15.- [ The workers are: Mrs. D. D. Baggett, Mrs. Bill Banks Mrs. H. G. Bailey, Mrs. Roy Ray, Mrs. Vincent Westall,' Mrs. John Banks, Mrs. C. H. Burton, Mrs. L. G. Deyton, Mrs. John J. Edge, Mrs. Harlan Holcombe, Mrs.; Dover Fouts, Mrs. Troy Mclntosh, Mrs. G. L. Hen-: ley, Mrs. Paul Laughrun, Mrs. Mack B. Ray, Mrs. I C. L. Proffitt, Mrs. Yates Bennett, 7 'Miss Ruby Robin- Leadership Conference A Baptist Missionary Society Leadership Confer-! ence will be held with the- J; Ts Creek church on TuesdaY, January *2O. The session will begin at 10:30 and lunch will be ser ved at the church. All members o f missionary m-h nt 1 al 1 pastors a re 1 invited to attend. j The Rev. J. B. Folds/ pastor of Central Baptist rhutch of Spruce Pine, will bring the conference mes- LAST RITES FOR El) RATHBURN Funeral services for Ed Rath-burn, 10, native of Yancey county and resi dent of Buncombe for 22 years, who died Sunday were held in the chapel at Brownell-Dunn and Lovin funeral home Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock. In terment was in McClurd family Cemetery at Pensa cola. Surviving are >Jm4 widow, Mrs. Georgia Rathburn; two daughters, ’ Virginia and Elizabeth Rathburn; the mother, Mrs. L. M.* Rathburn; four brothers, 1 Wiley, Wayne, Rollin, and Paul Rathburn, all of Ashe-| ville; four sisters, Mrs. 1 Pansy Ogle of Pensacola, and Mrs. William Ogle, Mrs Harold Goins and Mrs. R. Kent, all of Asheville. j Mr., and Mrs. •J. R, Pate of Bald Creek announce the arrival of a daughter on January 14 at Mission hos pital. War on rats in every ru-J ral community in the Uni-' ted States, to protect- the, food and feed supplies on' farms from costly ravages,' has been declared by the U. S. Department of Agri culture. THE YANCEY RECORD SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. son, Mrs. Stanley Riddle, Mrs. Hubert Mclntosh, Miss Lucy Gibbs, Mrs. Frank King, Mrs. Phil Ray, Mrs. Roy Silvers, Mrs. C. P. Rogers, Mrs. George Robin-! son, Phil Hensley, Seth 1 Honeycutt, Selwyn Hen- 1 sley and Frank W. Howell. Civic groups, business ! firms and offices, and indi vidual persons will be con-! tacted by the workers, and the schools and veterans’ i classes will contribute through the school fund. During the past year, Yancey county had two pat ients receiving treatment for polio in the Asheville' Orthopedic hospital. , Ex penses have been paid by the local chapter and the national foundation. | Contributions to the 1947 campaign were approxi mately SISOO. During the second week of the campaign, all work ers will be asked to meet so . that reports may be made [ and progress checked. Woodrow L. Shepherd, chief fire controlman, USN[ son of Mr. and Mrs. Jj j Shepherd of Swiss, N. C., ! has visited Lima, Peru, aboard the submarine ten-, Jder USS Orion. During the cruise from Balboa, C. Z., to Lima, the Orion entered the Domain of Neptunis Rex, the Ruler of the Deep, and while he and his Royal Court pre -sided, 250 crew members and passengers were ini tiated into the mysteries of the deep. j While in Lima, the sail j.ors enjoyed the. friendli ness of the Peruvian peo ple and the manner in which they bargain before ; making a purchase. j District Forest Fire Report Twenty three fires oc curred’in the 8 cooperating counties in District One of the N. C. Forest Service during the past 6 months. A total of 107 jtcres of tim ; her land was burned over by fire in this 6 months period ending December 31. This was the lowest num ber of fires and the least acreage burned over in any , six months period since the district was organized ap proximately twenty years [ago. Sixty two fires occur red during the correspond ing 1946 period which re sulted in 400 acres of burn i ed timber land. I , The reduced number of fires indicates better coop eration on the part of the public and forest users. 1 During this period no fires i were caused by pr.. j debris burning and only one fire was caused by smoker, 1 [compared to 16 fires caused by Smokers last year. The remaining fires and causes are as follows: 36 percent of the fires were; caused by campers and hunters. 21 percent were of. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” Baptist Church At the 11 o’clock service on Sunday morning the pastor, Rev. B. J. Mclver, will have as his subject, “The Tragedy of Excuse Making”. At the evening service the subject will be | “How to Live.” j Sunday School will begin .at 9:45 and Training Union [at 6:45. OFFICERS NAMED FOR RED CROSS CHAPTER ■ — msp&r-r George Robinson Again Named Chairman Officers of the Yancey county chapter, American ißed Cross were named at a chapter meeting held here Monday. I t The following will serve during the coming year: chairman, George Robin son ; vice chairman, Mrs. Harmon Peterson; secre tary, Mrs. Craig English; treasurer, Miss Ruby Rob-- inson; home service secre tary, D. R. Fouts; disaster chairman, Hershel Holcom be; first aid chairman,' Vernie Wilson; Junior Red i Cross chairman, Mrs. C. P/ ; Rogers, Jr.; home nursing chairman, Mrs. Hazel Bea-, vers; nutrition chairman, Mrs. D. R. Fouts; publicity i chairman, Mrs. O. R. Ham rick; production chairman, Mrs. Juanita Rush Evans. Mrs„ J. B. King is home service secretary of the chapter. j W. D. Debriil, general field director, was present for the meeting, and the past years activities were reviewed. Mrs. Hazel Bea rers was elected chairman for the 1948 Fund Cam paign. C. C. Higgins has been ill at his home for the past week. - - incendiary nature, , 30 per cent were caused by rail roads and 9 percent were from miscellaneous causes. | J. Craig English, county forest, warden of Yancey county, had one fire dur ing; this period which burn-,; ed oyer 20 acres of timber! land. The other 7 cooperat ing counties of this district and their fire records are as follows: i Buncombe county, 8 fires with 31 acres burnecL^Mad-! 1 ison county, 5 fires, with 18 acres burned; McDowell county, 6 fires, 22 acres 1 burned; Polk county, 2 fir (es, 15 acres burned; Ruth erford county, 1 fire with 1: acre burned. No fires were, reported in Henderson and Mitchell counties during this six months period. Permits are required for ■burning of trash, brush, ! old fields, or any other type of burning during October and November in I the fall and from the first of February through May in the spring.’ A total' of | 11,024,698 acres of privately owned forest land is pro jected in this district. 1 i BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1948 • I' ■■k- Y 'liH—MMnU—lllhJiiltiii l ii I I H H imhlml I WtM: gjjJH • : ■ 1 ■■GyKk PARALVSIS LAST RITES HELD FOR WM. M. MCMAHAN ! i i William M. McMahan, 66, i widely known citizen of Burnsville, passed away at ' his home night following an extend ed illness. He was a native of Yan cey county and had made ibis home here for most#of 1 his life time. He had long 1 been a member of Higgins i Memorial Methodist church i Funeral services were ( held at the church Satur- 1 day afternoon at 2 o’clock { I with the Rev. Paul Taylor, 1 l pastor, and the Rev. B. J. 1 Mclver officiating. Burial was in the Holcombe ceme- !- tery in east Burnsville. ! Pall bearers for the -ser- * ! vices were Denton McMa- 1 han, Alfred McMahan, J. E. ! Banner, Joe Banner, E. F. | Roland, H. C. Wheeler, J. 1 A. Goodin and J. H. Ray. i | Surviving are the widow; * two sons, Garmon of Bur- 1 nssville and Arthur of ‘ Weaverville; and five ( I grandchildren. 1 I h LAND RESOURCES 'NOT BEING USED |' SPECIALIST SAYS j Evidence of improper use! ;of land resources in North Carolina last year lie's in’ the fact that about 12 per cent of the cropland in the 1 state was idle and even a larger per cent not fully , I used, C. Brice Raichford, in charge of* Farm Manage ment for the State College Extension Service, said; j here this week. j< Land devoted to cash crops such as cotton, tobac co, peanuts, and cominer- i cial truck has been wellji utilized and have normally ! rendered a good return, i Mr. Ratchford said, but the ’ jland devoted to the non- 1 cash crops such as corn, hay : and pasture has not been | utilized to the maximum. ] Farmers have normally carried out recommended 1 practices on the cash crops j but they not' carried out the recommended prac- 1 tices on the non-cash crops. Adoption of these practices mi "ail crops grown on the farm would pay high re tui ns, lie* declared. One-half of the land in North Carolina is devoted to woodland, and on many farms the woodland has given a very low return. 1 Even though many of the crop land resources have been fairly well utilized, the land devoted to forest has been ‘more poorly uti-,' lized. Labor, North Carolina’s greatest resource, has not been fully used, he stated. Most farmers have felt there was a shortage and this has been true, yet, on these same farms there has been idle labor. Systematic farm plann ing will indicate ways to use all the land and labor, and those who take time, out during the bad weather this winter to plan their; farm operations for 1948, •will be spending their time well, Mr. Ratchford said. Banks-Young Motor Company Will Have "Open House” First Showing Here of New Ford Truck The first public showing in Burnsville of the new 1948 model Ford trucks will take place Jan. 16 at an “open house” to be con-j ducted by the Banks-Young Motor Company. With the streamlined new trucks—the first post- 1 war products of the Ford Motor Company—as the main attraction, the Banks-' Young Motor Company will welcome the public to its showroom, service, and parts and v accessory de partments. Dairy Improvement Program Sponsored By Federation Artificial Breeding Association Formed Asheville. The South eastern Artificial Breeding! association, a new project sponsored by the Farmers Federation with the coop eration of the extension service of the North Caro lina department of agricul ture, has begun operations here, it was announced yes terday by James G. K. Mc- Clure, president of the federation. The project is predicted to double the milk produc-! ticn of the average Wes tern North Carolina cow within the next ten years.; A battery of 25 high-index proven sires, representing registered Holsteins, Jer seys and Guernseys are now situated in the barn and activities have begun which will allow each far mer in North Carolina to improve his dairy herd, it, was pointed out by Mr. 1 McClure. The barn was construct-! ed with special attention to !, safety features to protect ’The caretaker of the bulls ! as well as laboratory tech nicians. A modern 'labora tory in the barn with aIL !,A necessary equipment to 3 j carry on the work, and a modern home has been con structed adjacent to the ' barn to house the caretak ! er and his family, j Only proven bulls will be ! used in the stud, Mr. Mc- Clure pointed out. He ad ded that a nation-wide search has been made for bulls that will come up to the standards required by SAVINGS BONDS i Mr. G. Leslie Hensley, county chairman of the U. S. Savings Bonds Commit tee for Yancey county, an nounced today, that, accord ing to information received from Allison James, state [director, in Greensboro, sales of Savings Bonds for the period December 1, through December 31 for Yancey countv totaled $11,671.00. I A special campaign to increase Bond sales in Jan uary and February is un-l derway. “We arranged an ‘open house’ program for public announcement of the 1948 truck line because we feel phat this is the most im portant new truck showing * in Ford history,” said W | : ( J. Banks and Joe C. Young )of Banks-Young Motor ' Company. I “We are entering the greatest truck market of 'all time with the widest range of models and capa- 1 cities Ford has ever pro-, duced. We expect to receive trucks during the coming months in quantities in-, [ creased sufficiently to per-j - mit us to meet the heavy. I demand,” Join the “March o f Dime s”, January 15-30. Fight Polio by contributing generously to the campaign NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE the Southeastern Artifi cial Breeding association and no bull will be acquired 'for this purpose unless the records of his daughters show that he transmits high milk and butterfat production. N J. R. Prentice of Chicago [is the proprietor of . this service. Mr. Prentice and his assistant, Philip Higley, [formerly with the Dairy Extension department at j Cornell university, have been here recently making [arrangement for the open jing of the new enterprise. I Maury Gaston, former cou ' nty agent of Iredell county, ,is extension representative jOf Southeatern. Dairymen of many Nor th Carolina counties hav»-- formed associations within their bounties to work in conjunction with Southeas tern. Technicians have been [trained at State College to ; aid in the work. Iredell county already has 2,000 cows signed up in its association, Mr. McClure ■ said, and Buncombe county 1 has formed an asociation for this purpose •j The North Carolina Ex- Ltension service, the North > Carolina department of ag i riculture, teachers of voca ' tional agriculture and the - Farmers Federation are all cooperating in this new en terprise. * In speaking of the pro ject, Mr. McClure said, “The Southeastern Artifi -1 eial Breeding association ' offers to the dairy farmers of North Carolina the ser (Continued on page two) BURNSVILLE— “So They Say” The weather: Cold, down past zero—weather report ers say 3 to 5 below. Which is plenty cold and we’d pre fer not to have any such temperature as this to brag about for the remainder of the winter! About town: Very little happening that we could see or hear. . . One visitor in town last week inquired: ‘‘Where’s that new plant ] I’ve been all through town [and I didn’t see it”! We | can’t report any such pro gress but all agreements, resolutions by county and town boards of commission ers, etc. satisfactory, and representative of company ; here this week. So grading ’ should start any day! .... Basket Ball season in full ' swing and you’re missing some good games if you I don’t see the All-Stars play. High school teams good too. I March of Dimes campaign starts today. Let’s make this one most successful i ever held in .county. . . P. iT. A. meeting Tuesday night at high school. Par .ents urged to attend. . . . Note: We enjoyed movie mat’s on tonight. j j Mrs. Laura Mclntosh is .expected to return home today from the hospital.
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