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Contribute To The 194$ Red Cross Fund Campaign VOLUME TWELVE SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. Motor Inspection Lane Will Be Open Here April 6-16 Raleigh. The Depart-1 ment of Motor Vehicles announced, today that a! mechanical inspection lane* to test motor vehicles will be opened in Burnsville from April 6-16. The Inspection Program calls for the inspection of every motor vehicle regis tered in North Carolina! once during 1948 and twice a year thereafter. It is de-J signed to save lives by cut A ting down on numerous highway accidents and fa talities caused by defective 1 equipment on vehicles. , The lane will be one of 36 operating throughout the State at this time. After it leaves Burnsville, the lane will have this schedule: Marshall—-April 19-Ma.v 6 : N owl and—May 8-2 d V I . Boone—May 27-June 15 j Republican Convention | The County Republican convent toil will be held at the court house on Friday night, March 26 at 7:30 for the purpose of nominating a ticket for the coming election. - I All party members in the county are urged 4o attend, 1 1 iEOfON POST MEETS Members of the Earl Horton Post of the Ameri can Legion met on Tuesday in the new Legion building wit h air unusually good at tendance. Reports were heard from the treasurer of the build ing fund and from the com mittee for repairs to the building. The repairs are going forward”steadily, and is soon as they are complet-l ect a dedicatory service will be held. Rians were a Memorial Service to be held i on the afternoon of MemJ mini Day, May 30. Dr.j Robertson is chairman ofi the committee to arrange : this and I>r. C. F. Mcßae! and J. J. Nowicki are mem_ bers of the committee. A 1 meniber of the Auxi 1 iary unit will also be asked to* serve. Permission was given the Boy Scout Troop to prepare and use a room in-the east building. Mehibersof the auxiliary met with Mrs. Yates Ben nett. , / Mrs. J. Bis Ray is confin ed to her home because of, illness. S® l^S&don’t lose \&W ■» IgsBECAUSE j Replacing I 861,8/1 J lost cards lasi yr*or . r P sf Uncle Sam the price of SSO jeeps THE YANCEY RECORD ! West Jefferson—June 17- 29. | Spruce Pine—July 1— ! The Department urged; all citizens in the Burns-* ville area to have their ve-j (hides inspected as soon as[ the iane is opened. Officials ■ stated that they wanted! j vehicle owners to visit the | lane and see just how the i program is being carried i Main points to be empha sized in the inspection are STOPPING, SEEING, jAND STEERING. If the !; lighting equipment, brak (ing and steering mechani , sms are in good order, the ! car will have no difficulty! 1 in passing the test. Already! ; several very old models, among them a model Tj I Fora, 1911 model, and a 1912 Oldsmobile, are bear-! ! ing their blue approval I stickers. | Purchases Property 1 Sam A. Huskins of Toledo [ recently purchased two houses in east Burnsville. The property adjacent to' Daniel Boone’s Forge and! owned by Mr. and Mrs.* | Dewey Mitchell, and thej nearby house • Mrs: - Fannie styles were bought by Mr. Huskins. REVIVAL MEETING A revival meeting began' at Zion Baptist church at Toledo on March 22. Rev. 1 Jesse Hughes, pastor, Rev.j E. J. Hall and Rev. E. G. ( Adkins are preaching. Everybody is cordially in- 1 vited to attend. Mr. and Mrs. B'. 13. Byrd of Marion and Mr. and Mrs. iO. G. Stevens of Asheville 1 were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Pet erson. Telephone Company Files Petition For Rate Increase t y I ! Officials of the Carolina Mountain Telephone Com-!' 1 pany announce that a peti- 1 ' tion has been filed with the 1 * North Carolina Utilities! I Commission, asking for an ( increase in rental rates on!' I all telephones within its system, including the Bur- ( nsville Exchange. Mrs. Theresa Valentine , secretary-treasurer of the 1 company, stated that it was 1 ( necessary to .increase the 1 , rates in order to meet the 1 ( increased costs of wages to 1 ' | its employees and costs of j! I materials and supplies. The . increases asked for at the Burnsville Exchange range from 25c to SI.OO per tele- 1 phone, dependent upon thej class of service that is furnished. ! Mrs. Valentine further stated that the company spent large sums of money at the Burnsville Exchange! during the past few years in improving and expand ing the service and that plans are now under way to increase the switch “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” NOTICE The Northwestern Bank will be closed on March 29 for Easter Monday. MAJOR BULWINKLE HERE Major A. L. Bulwinkle, representative from this Congressional District, was in Burnsville today. He is making a short visit to counties in his district and will return to Washington the latter part of the week. FULL MILITARY HON ORS GIVEN PVT. RAY Impressive services mar ked the last rites for Pvt. | Rex F. Ray, held Sunday | afternoon at the Laurel Branch Baptist church. I Rev. Pyler McMahan of ficated at the services, and j full military honors were accorded the deceased vet-1 !oran by a guard of honor from the Earl Horton Post of the American Legion. Burial Was in the family! cemetery at Pensacola. Pvt. Ray who served with the field artillery in the South Pacific area, died in service there on February 6, 1943. Surviving are the father, r 3. B, -Ray of HPensatTrtTfT three brothers, Bruce of Swannanoa, Theodore o f Pensacola and the Rev. Ben Lee Ray of Avondale; five sisters, Mrs. Robert Ballard Mrs. Clarence Ray, Mrs. J Howard Gardner and Mrs. I Jack Hutchins of Swannan-' 1 oa, and Mrs., Ophus Ledford of Erwin, Tenni I . —1 DIVORCES GRANTED Two divorces were grant ed in Superior court this vveek: Ohloe Banks Higgins vs. Cecil Higgins; William V. Anglin vs. Kathleen Anglin. board facilities here and also to add an additional circuit to Asheville, and the company proposes to do everything possible to im prove the service to all customers served by the Burnsville Exchange. Officials of the company stated that the Southern Bell Telephone and Tele graph Company and the majority of the independ ent companies within the state have, during the past year or more, petitioned for and received permission to increase the rates thro.' ughout the state, and that the petition of the Carolina' Mountain Telephone Com. pany was made absolutely ! necessary in order to per mit it to operate and fur- 1 inish reasonable and ade quate service to its cus tomers. The Carolina Mountain Telephone Company operJ ates exchanges at Marion, 1 Enka - Candler, Leicester, Bakersville and Hot Springs, in addition to that at Burnsville. BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1948 METHODIST XHURCH PURCHASES HAMMOND ORGAN | Members olf the Higgins Memorial Methodist church have purchased a Ham mond organ, |nd it was in stalled Tuesday. Mrs. C. L.* Proffitt is orjanm. | The organ,® the- latest model, cqmjflpe with the chimes attachment so that ! the beauty aid fullness of tone of a Regular pipe i organ is reproduced. '! The instrument is being used this wl'ek for the nightly meetings for prayer that are being held at the church, and , on Sunday morning will add to the special Easter’ music ——jip.— Easter Services Will Be Held * —— i Special Easter Services will mark the observance of Sunday in the churches of Burnsville. " Presbyterian Church | The sermon for the Eas ier service on Sunday I morning will be brought by I the pastor, with the sub ject, “Because I Live Ye Shall Live Also”. Special music of the sea son will be given by the Girls Chorus of>tfee Mica direction ox Mrs. Lillian 1 Robinson. The selections are: “Once in a Garden,” i “Fear Not,” and “Glorious Easter Dawn”. Sunday School will be held at io o’clock, i Methodist Church All denominations are COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS IS NAMED The county board of elec tions has been named by the state board. Members are: Bill Atkins and James Hutchins, de mocrats, and Luther Ayers, republican. Enlistment Day at Jacks Creek Church “Enlistment Day” will be observed at the Jacks Creek Baptist church o n next Sunday, March 28? A special program has been planned for the all day meeting. LAST RITES TODAY FOR MRS. MARY JANE ( McMAHAN Mrs. Mary Jane McMa- 1 han, 90, passed away Wed- f nesday morning a t the home of her son, S. L. Mc-j Mahan of Vixen, following a long illness. F uneral services are planned for 10:30 o’clock this morning (Thursday) at the Low Gap Free Will 1 Baptist church, with the 1 Rev. Pret Blevins officiat ing. Burial will be in the Low Gap cemetery. Surviving are four sons, 1 S .L., C. L. and J. E. of 1 Vixen and S. B. of Black Mountain; one brother, George Autrey of Vixen; 19 grand children and 22 great grand children. Group Given Charter Certificates of incorpor ation filed this week in the office of Secretary of State, Thad Eure included that of the Yancey Cooperative Breeding Association, Inc., of Burnsville to deal in 'farm products. Authorized capital stock $50,000 with $6 stock subscribed by C. B. Gillespie of Burnsville, C. N. Deyton of Green Mtn., Dewey Silver of Micaville j and others. MEETING PLANNED The Woman’s Society of Christian service will meet with Mrs. W. W. Hennessee j on Thursday, April Ist. ,! invited to be present to * night, March 25th at 7:30 ji for a special Good Friday service. Special music will be rendered and the pastor will deliver a short sermon. Sunday morning special r ' Easter services will be held. At the morning hour of ; worship we are anticipating l special music by Miss Jean I Bennett and a guest who 'I will be visiting in her home I I fwfeister. jfL, Baalist Church . ’i Special Easter music will jbe presented by the Girls’ Chorus at the morning ser jvice on Sunday. . The subject of the pas_ J tor’s morning message will he “The Meaning of an Empty Tomb.”. At the ev ening service the subject will be “Back to the Task”. 66th Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Silver of Colo, celebrated their i tiOth wedding anniversary | Feb. 27, at the home of ; j their daughter, Mrs. ©scar , Simmons, Hafhrick. Mr. and Mrs. Silver are both natives of Yancey! county. I The anniversary was ob served by a quiet family reunion. Children of Mr. and Mrs.j Silver are Mrs. Simmons, Hamrick; Alonzo Silver, Celo; Mrs. Edgar McNeill, Spruce Pine; Mrs. Rush Gibbs, Marion. | \ Missionary Society The Presbyterian Miss_ l ionarv Society will meet tonight with Mrs. George Robinson. f Tournament of Champions The Clearmont girls team i lost to the Bethel team 49-23, in the quarter finals! of (he “Tournament of Champions” at the Ashe ville auditorium on Thurs day night. The Burnsville boys team was also defeated Thursday, night, losing t o Valley Springs by the score 44_37. Semi-Finals The Micaville girls team ’ was the only team from! Yancey county to reach thej , semi-finals. They lost to ; j the strong Mars Hill team lby the score of 24-11 on Friday night. WNC Farmers Planting Half Million Trees A half million forest tree seedlings were distri-. buted this week to more* 'than 250 farmers and other landowners in the fifteen i Tennessee Valley counties of Western North Carolina.' State district forester B. H. Corpening, who is in charge of the distribution, I stated that “the trees were produced by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Under a cooperative agreement, the North Carolina Division of Forestry and Parks is dis_ t tributing them through the ! Agricultural Ext en s ion Service, free of charge, to farmers for erosion control and reforestation purposes.! Some of the trees are being distributed to lumber com. i panies and muncipalities. for forest planting and : watershed protection, j The first truck load of seedlings arrived at the State Forestry warehouse this week from TVA’s for.i est nursery a t Clinton, Tennessee. Within t w,o hours, the 160,000 white pine, 48,000 shortleaf pine,! 28.000 yellow poplar, andj 6,000 black locust seedlings had liCch fransFerred to [ other trucks, and were on ; their way to the landowriers ( in Haywood, Buncombe, | Henderson, Madi&on, Mit- I chell, Yancey, Avery and | Watauga counties. About ! 25,000 of the trees will be planted in Yancey county. A second truck load of trees was being delivered at Sylva, from where dis tribution will be made to * ♦ LAST RITES FOR MRS. CVM. CHEADLE ( Funeral services for Mrs. ! |C. M. Cheadle were held at I 12:30 o’clock Friday after-' noon, March 19 at the HigJ, (gins Memorial Methodist , church. j The Rev. Paul Taylor, j 1 [pastor, conducted the ser- ' vices. Pall bearers were Dover R. Fouts, B. R. Penland, H. | G. Bailey, B. M. Tomberlin, (‘ J. H. Ray and Mark W. Benrtett. Burial was in the 1 . Burnsville cemetery. Mrs. Cheadle who resided in Burnsville for approxiJ; mately 20 year, had made ! her home in Asheville for the past two years. She ! passed away March 16 fol lowing a short illness. |. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Genevieve! Dennis of Wyncote, Pa.,* Mrs. Hardin Masters of Deerfield, 111., Mrs. Manley. Cheek of Monroe, N. C., and Mrs. Gene Bowyer of Coral Gables, Fla.; two sons, C. M. Cheadle of. Minneapolis, Minn., and Harold Cheadle of Long Island, N. Y.; ten grand children and seven great* grand children. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Hen sley, Betty Wray anti Geor ge Leslie Hensley were in Charlotte for two days this week. --■■. . . , f Contribute To The 1948 Red Cross Fund Campaign NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE I . 1 landowners in Transylvan ia, Jackson, Macon, Graham "(Swain, Clay and Cherokee counties. Farm, management sup ervisor W. B. Collins, who I was also on hand to help with the tree distribution, I stated that “there are about • 25,000 acres of idle and eroded land on farms in • Western North Carolina (that should be planted to • trees, and I don’t doubt that there’s three times that I much cut-over woodland ( area that needs to be under planted in order to make it produce what it should pro duce. We’ve got a big job ahead of us. We’re making a small start now, but next i year we hope we can- get 2 million trees for the farm ers to plant’’, j In discussing how the i landowners can obtain the tree seedlings, Mr. Corpen ing said anyone who is in terested in planting trees ! on his property should get in touch..,.with the County farm agentor any member ,of the North Carolina Div ision of Forestry and Parks He said there is no charge ' not to be used for orna mental or landscaping pur poses. The landowner must agree to plant the trees promptly and protect them from fire and grazing. Mr. Corpening emphasized the importance of fire protec tion by saying that fires will retard growth and da mage large trees, but small trees are killed outright by fire. James Ray of the Mer chant Marine is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hob art Ray. Lyle Jones, Sanitarian trainee of Haywood county with the state board of health, was in the county this week, working with Jake F. Buckner, sanitarian for this district. Mrs. Zeb Fox is confined to her home because of a heart attaek. Veterans of World War II have special protection under the Social Security Act. Surviving relatives of such veterans who die with in three years of honorable discharge should apply to the nearest Social Security Field Office for assistance in filing claims immediately Jmo.’icy Says: * [ ALL THINGS HAVE SMALL *££} k BEGINNINGS—SEE WHATj|>] Just nnr match thrown carelessly can Lain up years ol growing timber!
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