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Protect our Wildlife. Prevent Forest Fires^ if tiaoauaif wua VOLUME TWELVE SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. Wildlife Club Will Meet The Yancey County Wild Life Club will hold a sup per meeting in the Micftville school lunchroom on Friday night. May 7 at 7:30. G. W. Lessee, commis sioner for this district of the North Carolina WiltT life commission, will be principal speaker. Matters of business con cerning hunting and fish ing will be discussed and voted on. All members of the club and all interested sports men are urged to attend. Jack Patton is president and Jim Anglin secretary of the club. JUDGING TEAM WINS The life stock judging team off the local Future Farmers of America chap ter -won .second place in the Buncombe, Madison, Yan cey county judging contests held in Buncombe county last week. Members of the team are Reed Hall of Riverside, Jack Autrey and Port Tay lor of Burnsville. The team will go to Stat e: ville Saturday to compete with other district winners. R. M Proffitt, teacher of agriculture, will accompany them. PRE-SCIIOOL CLINIC A pre-school clinic will be held at the Lost Cove scho ol on Monday, May 10. RADIO STATIONS WILL BE INSTALLED ALONG PARKWAY " One of the largest two wa ' frequency modulation radio systems in the nation will be installed along the I •IsiLmile Blue Ridge Park way next month, it was an nounced recently by Sam P. Weems, Parkway superin tendent... The-modern system will be installed by the National! Park service and will be used in the administration and protection of the Park way area and to aid rang ers in law enforcement and i providing better service to tourists. Complete commu nication is expected to be ] attained between all points from Waynesboro, Va., to i Asheville, through use of repeater control stations on the highest mountain peaks of the parkway. Work on the communica,. tion system will begin May 1 1 and is expected to take about 45 days. As construc tion of the Parkway pro gresses the radio network i will be extended to the < Great Smoky Mountains i National park, Mr. Weems ; said. i The system will provide immediate contact between , all parkway administrative 1 1 offices, maintenance areas and patrol* cars. Initially there will be transmitting and receiving facilities installed in 15 pa trol cars and others will be added later. Present plans (Continued on page 4) THE YANCEY RECORD Commission Will Meet Clyde P. Patton, Execu tive Director of the N. C. Wildlife Resources Com mission announces that the N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission will meet on Monday, May 10th at 10 a. m., in the City Hall Council Room, Asheville, N. C. This meeting will be a public hearing to ascertain the public sentiments on hunting laws and regula tions for the coming season in Western North Carolina. It is hoped that all the spor tsmen in Western North Carolina will be able to at tend this meeting. LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. G. R. LEWIS Mrs G. R. Lewis, 51, pass ed away at her home at Bee Log on Friday morning Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at j the Little Creek Church of God with the Rev. Robt. Randolph. Burial was in the family cemetery. Surviving are the hus band, G. R. Lewis; one dau ghter, Miss Milam Lewis; J one son, Arvil Lewis; two sisters and six brothers. DEATH CLAIMS W. S. BRYANT OF CELO W. S. Bryant, 75, promiJ nent Yancey county citizen, died Tuesday morning folJ lowing a short illness. Mr. Bryant was a merch-j ant and a former postmas ter at Celo. He was a memJ her of the first road com-| mission named in Yancey county. j Funeral services .will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Celo MethJ odist church, with the Rev. D. B. Earley officiating. Burial will be in the Hol combe cemetery here. Hol combe Brothers Funeral i home is in -ehin’ge of ar- j rangements. \ Surviving are the widow, I Mrs. Sarah T. Bryant; one daughter, Mrs. Charles J. Hawkins of Fayetteville, and two sisters and two brothers. , Wake Forest Fund Meeting Will Be Held Here A drive for funds for the' purpose of moving Wake Forest College from it s present location to Win_| ston.Salem is now under way. Horace Eason, director of the drive, will be in the county on May 14, and a supper meeting will be held at the Burnsville Baptist church on that evening. Pastors, deacons and oth er leaders of all Baptist churches in the county are 1 invited to'attend this meet ing. Stanley Riddle who is a member of the U. S. Naval j Reserve is now on a six week’s cruise to Turkey, aboard the U. S. Siboney. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” CORRECTION In listing the candidates who had filed for oft ice, a mistake was made last ■ week. The Republican candi • dates w r ho filed for the ! Board of County Commis -5 sinners are: for chairman, 1 Claude Peterson: for mem • bers. Hiram Hensley and Oscar Simmons. Campaign Manager For Broughton i . Mrs. C. P. Rogers, Jr., has been named Yancey county campaign manager for J. M. Broughton, candi -1 date for the U. S. Senate in the May Primary. Campaign Manager For Johnson Mrs. Sam J. Huskins has : been named Yancey county f campaign manager for ; Charles M. Johnson, candi : date for governor. . NOTICE OF DEMOCRA ! TIC PRECINCT MEETING The State Democratic : Executive Committee has haet May 8, 1948, as the date for holding the precinct meetings for the election of the Township Executive committees. Therefore, the present chairman in each of the precincts of Yanecy county will hold a meeting , in their respective Town ships on Saturday; May 8 at 2 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of electing Town ship Executive committee, 1 the chairman of which com mittee will, on the following ! Saturday, May 15, attend a j County Convention to be i held at 2 o’clock p. m. in the CourMiouse at Burnsville, | North Carolina, at which time the county chairman, vice-chairman, and secre lary will be elected and delegates named to the State Convention. C. P. Randolph, Chair jman, Yancey County l)e --| mocratic Executive Com mittee. MONTH IN EUROPE 1 Ten American Farm Bu j reau leaders, including R. Flake Shaw, Greensboro, Executive Vice-President of the North Carolina Or -1 ganization, will leave May 22 for a month’s study of European agricultural pro- I blems and their effect on the American Export Mar ket. The Farm Bureau leaders will try to acquaint Euro peans more fully with the facts about American farm conditions and products, and at the same time learn as much as possible about farming on the Continent, i Farms and agricultural ex periment stations will be! visited during the trip,! which will end in New York City June 30. Visits will be j made to the British Isles France, Belgium, Holland Luxemburg, Germany and Denmark. j BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1948 TAX NOTICE ? ■ *: —| i All persons owing any ; County taxes prior to and | including tax for the . year 1946 should immed ; iatelv make settlement . with the County Accoun , tant in order to avoid . additional cost of tax 1 foreclosure action. | Very soon actions will have to be instituted on above tax sales certifi cates and it is requested that this information he , given throughout the /, County. >’ Dover R. Fonts, Coun -j ty Attorney. *i‘ xjr Presbyteri«s Plan Building Program .*» j~ At a meeting Tuesday 3 night the offices *of the r Burnsville P ||e s b yterian r j church met wit® officials of the Presbyteryjpr. Richard Comfort and Epy Howland, representing tfie Presby tery, and eighjflocal church officers attend#! the meet | The propdßd building program w r as Milly discuss “ ed. The planspre to make * both interior And exterior t l alterations anc| repairs. r r AAA ‘IfoTICE j s It will be impossible for 1 orders for pasture seeding to be issued after May 14, > 1948 through the Yancey * I County A. A. A. | . , The Petroleum Situation: * Currently, in most sections * of the country, there is a ■ critical shortage of fuel oil • and liquefied petroleum gas 1 and fanners, may encoun ter difficulty from time to 5 ['time during the summer in | ►i obtaining gasoline. In a few 1 1 sections, serious shortages; > of kerosene already devel ■ oped. ■ Current and future shor tages -are d ie to the fact that the instruments of ■ consumption, such as auto ' mobiles and oil-burning ■ heating plants, have in creased more rapidly than the facilities for production We must produce food and feed, and wa don’t want to : see the farmer crowded in-! to /a corner for lack of ade quate gasoline lor his farm operations. All farmers j should be urged to cooper- 1 ate with their local distri butors in securing gasoline supplies for agricultural purposes as much in ad.» vance of their actual needs as possible. )' Price supports stabilize' farmer’s market: Farm price supports are intended 'to stabilize the farmer’s j market,/not ‘’hike” it, W. M. Hensley, Chairman of the Yanecy County Agri-j cultural Committee, said, in j commenting on the recent? j announcement of Govern- 1 ! ment price supports for hogs during the next Six 6 months. “Many consumers jump to the conclusion that support programs are keeping prices .at '• cfltreflt (Continued on page four) H. R. CLAPP TO SPEAK TO FARM BUREAU H. R. Clapp, director of the Mountain Experiment Station, will speak to Yan cey county Farm Bureau members on Wednesday, May 12, at 8:00 p. m., in the Burnsville high school au ditorium. Mr. Clapp will tell of the very interesting work being carried*on both with field crops and livestock at the station in Haywood county. In addition to the talk by Mr. Clapp, W. O. Briggs, j local Farm Bureau member, will tell about his trip to Washington w'here he tes tified before a senate com mittee in behalf of the T. V. A. agricultural program. All members are asked to r attend and bring a non- J member with them. ; [I SCOUT TROOP NEWS , The Burnsville Scout - Troop 1 base ball team play i ed the Fletcher high school . team at the annual May Day celebration on May 4. £ Tl*le Burnsville team won -by the score of 6-3. ; Bobby Connelly for the • scouts was pitching his first game, pitched for the entire 9 innings, and in the last four innings pitched himself out of a tight place • 4 times. He struck out 10 >’ players during the game , and gave up 4 hits. T \ Jack Autrey led the bat ting for the scouts, with 2 for 3 and did an excellent : job at catching. l and Autrey, the Burnsville I players are: R. Tilson lb, i P. Burton 2b, .Charles Lee Griffeth ss, William Fox 3b, Charles Pate iff, Jimmy, Hughes cf, T. Burton and) B. Ramsey If. The following firms and j individuals donated suits to the teiam: Burnsville Clean ers, Silex Coffee Shop, Rob-j erts and Johnson, Pollards,! Ray Brothers, Burnsville Furniture and Hardware,! j Anglin and Westall, I. F. McCourry, Mark W. Ben-! nett, , B. M. Tomberlin,: Quality Cleaners, Styles | | Garage, B. B. Penland and I Son, Holcombe Brothers,! ! Burnsville Feed company, i Bill Jobe also gave a con-? ! tribution to supplies.— H. W. Johnson is in New] York City this week on 1 business. J. T. Fox returned home last week from Baltimore Where he has been employ, ed. Mrs. Ethel Williams and Lloyd Williams of Alexan dria, Va. are visiting rela tives and friends here. They are enroute home after vis iting in Oklahoma. HYLEMON-BUTNER Miss Nina Mae Hylemon, daughter of Mrs. Bryan Hylemon of Cane River, and Harold Butner were 1 married on April 17 at the home of the Rev. E. G. Ad kins who officiated. Mr. and Mrs. Butner are ’ now residing in Burnsville., Legion Post Membars Plan Program of Activities A called meeting of the Earl Horton Post of the American Legion was held » in the Memorial building on Wednesday evening, for the ■ purpose of discussing mat- 1 ters of business. Mark W. Bennett, com_ : mander, presided. Yates Bennett was nam :ed chairman of the fund ! drive which will get under way at once and will be concluded as rapidly as! 1 possible. ’ Last summer while the 1 drive was unplerway, plans for the purchase of a lot were changed and the drive ' was discontinued at that ' time with the understand ing that it would be renew- ; ' ed when definite plans for a lot or building were decidJ ed upon. Committees o f Legion ’ members w r ere appointed in each township in the coun • ty, to make a complete can. \ vass by May 15. The mem. 1 bers will work in teams. The following were nam. 1 ed: Prices Creek township, Clyde Ayers, Ralph Edwar ds, Bill Jobe; Jacks Creek, [ Fred Anglin. Freil Young, 1 b Jack Tipton; Burnsville: j Mark Bennett, Dover Fouts Mack B. Ray, H. G. Bailey, j C. L. Proffitt, Kenneth Rob. ertson, Roy Lee Fox, Ben Banks, Ward Bennett, | Frank Huskins; > Presbyterian Church orning worship at 11. [i Sunday School at 10:15. ', Subject of sermon, “It Nev ; er Fails”. j Mine Fork'service May i 9th at 2:150 p. m. Methodist Church Special Mother’s Day ser_ | vices will be held Sunday, 1 with preaching Sunday [morning at eleven o’clock ! in the Higgins Memorial church in Burnsville, at 3 | o’clock in the Concord church, and at 8 o’clock ini : the Bolens Creek church, | ; Dr. Mcßae will be in charge of the opening de votions at the Church SchoJ ol Sunday morning. A great many have expressed the desire that Dr. Mcßae, who has been greatly appreciat ed in his teaching of the Young Adult class, have charge of the opening of the Sunday School, in order that those not in his class may have an opportunity of hearing him. I Pfc. Samuel H. Ball is; now stationed at the Lang-J eley Air Force Base, Hamp ton, Va. | Carter Bradford was taken to the Marion hospi tal Tuesday night follow ing a stroke he sustained earlier. His condition is serious. Mr. and Mrs. William P. Cain of Miami have return ed to their Cat Tail Creek i home for the summer months. S. 1L Mrs. J“. A. Goodin under went an operation at the Biltmore hospital this week.| i—mini i mu IniiiliH i I m— «—mm Protect our Natural re sources. Prevent Forest Fires. NUMBER FORTY-ONE ! South Toe township: Buster Stamey, Junior Ramsey, Drate Banks; Pensacola township: Max Penland, Bill .Fouts, Ed Branch; Green Mountain township: Iliff Clevenger, Oscar Deyton, Jesse How ell, Bill Bailey Ford Bailey; Ramseytown township: Oscar Fender, B. S. Con nelly, Paul Buck, Guss Pet erson, Bill Huskins; Cane ißiver township: Bill Banks, i Harlan Holcombe, Lee Yel !ton; Crabtree township: R. N. Silver, John Blake, Yat es Bennett, Brady Fox. All business firms and in dividuals w T ho did not con tribute before are encour j aged to do so now. Repairs on the Memorial Building iare nearly complete but the Sam ! Wilson building needs extensive repairs im mediately. Membership Drive Two captains have been appointed and the Legion members will be divided in ito teams to complete the membership drive for this year. The quota is 299 mem bers, and the campaign wall be completed by May 30. William T. Jobe and J. R. Miller were named captains State Headquarters is of fering a prize., of $25 to the Legion member in each dis trict who secures the larg est number of new or re newed members by May 30. Baptist Church I . The Rev. Ben Jay Mclver, . pastor, will preach on the . Subject. “Endearment of Motherhood,” at the 11 a. r m. service at the church Sunday. A special program will be given at the evening wor .'ship hour by the Young , People in our church. We • invite you to attend this : service. [ Sunday School meets ev_ 5 ery Sunday morning at i 9:45, and Training Union 1 meets every Sunday even | ing at 7:00 p. m. We wel come you to all our church services. i The acreage of hybrid corn has increased from 0.1 per cent of the total in 1933 to 21.7 per cent of the total Mm 1947—0 r from 143,000 to more than 61 million acres. . Over 92 per cent of the corn in the North Central region is planted with hybrid seed. The use of hybrid seed, plus i more liberal fertilization an d improved cultural i practices, has increased [corn yields 22 per cent in the past 20 years. The demonstration i n corn production is being conducted in Nash county, while the eight demonstra tions in cotton production are being held in Richmond, Scotland, Hoke, Cumber land, Harnett, Wake, Edge comb, and Halifax counties. . The demonstrations will continue with the necessary cultivations, on schedule, until the crops are laid by in mid-summer.
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