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Contribute To The ll)48 • Red Cross Fund Campaign f VOLUME TWELVE SUB..RATES: $1.50 YEAR. F ebruary Savings Bonds Sale The total of U .S. Savings Bonds sales in Yancey cou nty during February am. ountecl to $34,312.50, ac cording to., announcement made today by G. L. Hen ley, county chairman. The amount was in E Bonds. ! Mr. Hensley announced that the . Treasury Depart ment supported by the American Bankers Associa tion. industrial and farm leaders, the National Retail Dry Goods Association, U. S. Chamber of Commerce and other state and nation al public spirited groups will put on the first all-out, post-war Savings Bonds SERVICES HELD FOR FORMER CITIZEN Augustus Bascomb Will iams, age 05, passed away! Saturday morning at 0130 .at the Appalachian hospi-; tal in Johnson'City. ' J The deceased was a mem-1 her of the Hulin Avenue, Baptist church, and dn em-! plovee of the Clinchfield Railroad Company for the r 'si twenty-three years, coming to Erwin from Bur-J nsville, N. C. Services were conducted; Monday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. from the Hulin Aven-j ue Baptist diurchyin charge j of the pastorTUe Rev. Ray 1 Riddle and the Rev. Robert, 11. Dills, pastor of the Nin th Street Baptist church.! Interment was made in the " p Fen (lemetery a t Erwin. y Survivors are the wife, Mrs. A. B. Williams, of, Erwin: one son, Baccus WilHams, of Erwin; one. brother, Roy Williams, of Asheville, N. C.; Two sis-; terr, Mrs. W. 1. McLaughlin of Erwin and Mrs. Marion Phillips of Burnsville, N. C., ami six grandchildren. VETERAN SERVICE OFFICER TO HE HERE Jack o*. Winchester, as | sisumt state* service officer of the North Carolina Vet erans commission will be in Burnsville at the court house on Thursday, March 25 from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m. i Mr. Winchester will as sist veterans and their de pendents on questions co’n- ! corning on-the job training, pensions or compensation claim for back pay, Nation- 1 al service life insurance, lost discharge, burial allow-! once, social security as per-, tains to veterans after leaving service, and any! other matters about which veterans may wish to con sult with him. A veteran may also rein state his National service life insurance Joy paying only two monthly premiums the same as he did in ser-j vice, provided that he is in as good health as. at the time of lapse of term in- 1 surance. The reinstatement privilege has been extend- 1 ed through -July 31, 1948. About 85,000,000 living persons have Federal social security accounts. THE YANCEY RECORD Campaign April 15 through June 30. It will be known as the Security Loan and will compare in its promotional aspects and public appeal to 'the last of the great War Loans—the Victory Loan. ! The purpose in conduct ing the Security Loan, said Mr. Hensley, is to encourJ age Americans to build greater security for them selves through greater sav ings, to spread the national debt widely among individ uals, to relieve inflationary pressures on our economy. -The slogan for the Security 1 Loan will be “America’s Security is Your Security.” j NOTICE TO ALL FARMERS Any farmer who has not made application for- 1948 Conservation Material' should come by the county! ! office by March 15th, 1918 ' as an application cannot be taken after that time. J. B. Briggs, Secretary Yancey County ACA. | FORESTRY MEETING SCHEDULED Monday, March 15, 10:00 ja. m. Burnsville School; i 2:00 p. M. Clearmont school, ; 7:30 p. m. Micaville school. 1 I Tuesday. March 16,.10:00' a. m. Bee Log School; 2:00 p. m.* Bald Creek School. T. V. A. and Extension Foresters will be here to i talk on care and manage ment on forest. Special em phasis on Pines. Farmers Federation Meeting | ( i Wilson Edwards was nominated for reelection as director of the Farmers Federation for Yancey county at a meeting o f Yancey stockholders in the federation warehouse i n j Burnsville ‘ Saturday. The election of directors will be held at the general stock holders’ meeting in the 1 Buncombe county court house i n Asheville o n Marc* 27. i i Zeke Blankenship and Grover Anglin were elected ! to serve on the Yancey county committee forthe 1 j next year, and former dir ; ectors who were elected are las follows: H. W. Higgins, Grover Robinson, A. P. Honeycutt, John Hannum, Charles Byrd, Lester Bailey, E. N. Stamey, Dr. W. L. Bennett,, and Thad Ray. 1 The other director for YanT cey county, who was'elected , last year, is Tom Ray. The meeting was opened by James McClure Clarke,! iField secretary -of the or- 1 ganization, who also served as master of ceremonies. jTne Rev. Will Baker of i Burnsville pronounced the i invocation. I In speaking of the .fed i erat,ion’s activities during i the past year, Mr. Clarke told of the hatchery depart ment* Each baby chick, sold by the federation, he' said, has the inheritance to| jay 250 or more eggs per^ “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1948 REPUBLICANS EN DORSE .PRITCHARD FOR GOVERNOR Republicans of Yancey county, in the county wide! 1 meeting Friday night, en dorsed George Pritchard, Asheville attorney, for gov ernor. C. Y. Nanney of Union ; Mills and Calvin Edney of Marshall were guest speak- I ers at the meeting. County chairman Moody presided and plans for the coming election campaign were discussed. Delegates were named for the congressional conven tion which will be held in I Columbus, Polk county on March 13. , Meeting Tonight A second meeting was called for tonight (Thurs day i in the court house at 1 7:30. _ i FINAL RITES HELD FOR A. H. RIDDLE, 84 Funeral services for A. H. Riddle, 84, who died at his Pensacola home Friday, were held at Laurel Branch Baptist church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, with the Rev. Ben Lee Ray and the Rev. Pyler McMahan officiating. Burial was in jthe family cemetery. Surviving are th'e wfdow'; one daughter, Mrs. Belvia | Robertson of Black Mtn.; five sons, Q. E., Elmer and JG. K.j all of Pensacola, W. H. of Kannapolis and Car lyle of Statesville; one bro ther, S. M. of Vixen. 'year, compared with the average of about 60 jeggs per hen per year. Mr. Clarke also told of Skyline cooperative dairy, recently opened by the fed eration near Asheville, and of Southeastern Artificial breeding association, open- I ed recently on t.he Asheville ! Charlotte highway near (Asheville. This new enter- ' prise, he explained, will enable each dairy farmer in Western North Carolina, 1 whether large or small, to , have the best bulls available (Continued on pajre 4) SERVICES HELD FOR < CHARLIE CONNELLY Funeral services for Charlie Connelly, 64, o f who died about midnight Sunday in a Ban ner Elk hospital, were held ! Monday afternoon at Wiin dom Methodist church with jthe Rev. D. B. Early, offiJ ciating. [ Mr. Connelly was a native of Mitchell county but had, lived in Yancey county for 35 years. He was a carpen ter and a member of the [ Windom Methodist church. ! j His wife, the former Miss! Julia Hyatt, died two mon-| ths ago." Survivors include one sis-! ter, Mrs. Bradley* Johnson j of Asheville; three brothers Jerome of Ledger, William of Penland; ami Joe of I Granite Falls. J. E. HUSKINS SELLS STORE BUSINESS J— ~ J. E. Huskins who has operated a store near Bur nsville school for a number : of years sold the business < this week to E. N. Stamey. | Mr. Huskins has* been in i the mercantile business for 35 years. He had a store at Toledo, N. C. for several years then moved to Burns-j ville wherc-.Jhe has contin > ued in the same business » . Mr. .Stamey who is a well : known farmer and business . man has taken over opera-' • tion of the store. Court Will Convene Monday i The March term of Sup s erior court will convene in 1 Burnsville on Monday, ■j March 15, \ with Judge George A. Shuford of Ash | eville presiding. Both civil and criminal I cases will be tried. * The following jury list has been drawn: First . week: Virgil Presnell, E. Riddle, Harry G. Gibbs, , Paul Smith, Bert Young, Gus Buckner, Medford Woodford, Charles Shep herd, John Ray, Dewey Ray, Claude Chrisawn, ! Rass Styles, Albert H. Young, Lee Ponder, B. E. ' Bradford, Elzie Silver, G. M. Gibbs, J. J. Hensley, Horton Gibbs, J. B. Briggs; I Henry Grindstaff, Jess Buckner, M. B. Metcalf, Roy Ray, Ray Boone, Coy E. Sparks, George Ledford, 1 Art birr Ball', James R. ! j Hughes, Joe Silvers, Ran- 1 ! som Riddle, Herbert H. : Gt 2s To Switzerland Fred H. Trimmer, hus- j band of the former Willie ! Dale Honeymtt, will leave k from New Turk on March 1 12th aboard she Queen Eli- 1 zabeth" for Geneva,, Swit- \ 7 zerland. At Geneva, he will work as a memberbf the United States delegfion to the International High Frequ ency Broadci ting Commit tee which \\ 1 attempt to work out a mid plan of, j frequency as gnments for i the Interna onal Broad j casting servi s for all the countries. Th ph i will he j presented t the world High Freque y Broadcast ing Conferei e which will" convene at 1 sxico City in October of th year. Mr. Trimnt r is chief of the Facilitie Planning Di vision of the Itate Depart | ment’s Inter itional Bro -1 adeasting D ision which operates ths country’s ‘Voice of Anrica”. f ■ Buy Savi js Bonds IT'S YOUR RED'CROSS.?: KEEP IT GOING dßi . / * • v‘V‘*'-V’ ’. 'V L . ‘V **\* • ♦ - : ■—— ’ J. W. HOWELL BUYS McDOWELL COUNTY FARM J. W. Howell, prominent merchant and business man of Green Mountain,, has purchased a 235 acre farm in McDowell county. The transaction was handled by W. W. Hennessee, Burns ville real estate man. The property, known as the Chambers Farm, is one and a half miles from Dysartsville and 12 miles from Marion. It has 235 acres, some of which is in I fine timber. Higgins, W. L. Allen, Ottis Johnson, Gus Bailey, J. T. Marsh, Charles Byrd, C. C. Allen, Harrison Gortney, Dewey Silver, Herman Murphy, Flcryd Thomas, Craig Franklin, Rex Brad-i ford, Clarence Hughes. Second week: W. H. Gornto, , Grady Woody Douglas Robinson, Russell Howell, Herbert England, 1 Luther Ayers, D. C. Bailey, j Miram Whitson, James Fox i 1 Bruce Bailey, Grover Wes-j tall, C. P. Gibson, Roy Dun-! can, Gus Ledford, Luther jWatts, H. C. Styles, Crock ett Cassida, Jack J. Young, W. H, Peterson, Mack Allen UtfrTC Biuley, Fonz Hughes. State Cancer Control Program —————— Raleigh, March 10.—A cancer control program un excelled in any other state got well underway with the appointment of Dr. Ivan M. Proctor of Raleigh, as dir ector of the cancer control division of the North Caro.' lira State Board of Health. 1 His associate is Mildred Sehram, Ph. D., Philadel phia. . /n umneement of the ap pointments was made byj Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, sec retary of the State Board of Health, He stated that the new members of his ■staff have been given offi ces in the Health Building in Raleigh and reported for duty on March 1. The financing of the cancer control division’s 1 program is a cooperative effort. Funds have been! made available from three Sources, an appropriation by the 1947 General AssemJ )ly, ; i appropriation by 1 ■ Congress and allocated by the United States Public Health Service, and a grant from the North Carolina 1 Division of the American 1 Cancer Society. < Creation of the cancer ( control division was auth orized by a bill enacted by 1 the 1945 General Assembly. I Repairs Are Under Way On - Legion Memorial Building Repairs on one of the buildings recently purchas ed by the American Legion post are going on rapidly, and will be ready for the regular March meeting of the members, Mark W. Bennett, post commander, stated this week. The former dining hall will furnish space for as-| ! sembly meetings of all j kinds, with, adequate space for kitchen and serving rooms, rest rooms and stor age rooms. The plaster had all been removed and the large room has already been re plastered. The other rooms . on the main floor will be ,!completed within a few i —— —— ,-j NOTICE . | Beginning March 6, 1948 the Yancey County AAA r Office will be closed every [ Saturday. i : * Baptist Church I The pastor’s sermon sub-1 [ject on Sunday morning will be “The Sinner’s j Home”, and the evening, service, “Going the Second; Mile’ . Sunday School meets! a* Ar-ts and Training Union' at 6:30 each Sunday. ! Ut remained, however, for jthe 1947 General Assembly] to appropriate'funds. The, program is to be adminisJ tered by the State Board! of Health, with the cancer committee of the Medical] j Society of the State of i North Carolina serving as an advisory agency. The immediate task be fore the cancer control di vision, according to Dr. Procter, is that of setting up a series of cancer clinics and cancer detection clinics in various parts of the state It is planned to have 10 detection clinics, which are designed to serve persons who appear to be well and who have no symptoms of cancer. The cancer clinics, ; will serve persons who have symptoms indicating that cancer may be present, will be seven in number. • Mrs. V. J. Goodman and daughter have returned home from an Asheville, hospital. j „ Rhea Penland of Burns ville and Bill Hensley of Bald Creek who have been, employed in Florida return-! ed home this week. Mrs. Jess Styles and son 1 returned home Tuesday' from an Asheville hospital, j Contribute To The 1948 Red Cross Fund Campaign • •irauaiiauaiia '•"••laiiaitaiiar.aMßitaiiaiiaiia-iaiiaiiaiiaiMkM NUMBER THIRTY-THREE i f days. Painting will start as soon as the plastering is all j completed. When all repairs have been finished, a special de dicatory service will be p eld and -this, known as the Legion Memorial Building • will be dedicated to the memory to the men from ,i Yancey county who Vave ; their lives in World War it. 1 The other building which ; will be known as the S. M. ■ Wilson building will be re paired and fitted as a re 1, creational building as soon ■ as possible. Funds for the purchase 5 o f the buildings an d - grounds was raised by the \ ’ Legion post last year. J LAST RITES FOR JOHN H. EDWARDS i L ! Funeral services for John 1 H. Edwards, 71, who died at his home near Burnsville Sunday, were held at the Green Mountain Baptist church Tuesday morning at 1 10 o’clock, with the Rev. Quince Miller officiating, j Burial was in Holcombe cemetery here. Surviving are the widow, five grandchildren and.two great grandchildren. * Holcombe Brothers fun eral home was in charge of arrangements. LAST RITES HELD FOR MICHAEL SOUTHER Michael Souther, three ] months old son of Mr. and Mrs Chester Souther of | Burnsville died at 11 o’clock lakt Thursday night at an Asheville hospital following a short illness. Funeral services were conducted Friday after noon at 4 o'clock by Rev. B. J. Mclver, pastor of the Burnsville Baptist church, i Survivors . include the parents, and the grand parents.'Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hensley of Burnsville and Mr. Fred Souther of Hen dersonville. DRIVE IS BEGUN BY FARM BUREAU ! Raleigh.—Leaders of the North Carolina Farm Bu reau today launched a pro gram to raise a $35,000 fund to lure top scientific talent to North Carolina State .college for a battle against Plant diseases which cause an estimated loss of SBO,OOO, i OOO a year in the state./ : More than 10Q Firm I bureau leaders throughout I state approved the \ plans to raise the supple . mentary fund at a meeting | in Raleigh.
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