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Protect our Wildlife. Prevent Forest Fires. ; VOLUME TWELVE » Health Department Urges Precautions Against Polio No Cases In County At Present There are, as yet, no cas es of Polio in Yanctv county or adjoining counties. In order to prevent any incid ence of the diseast here, the local health board is urging; that every precaution be! taken. 7 Parents Urged to Cooper lie Voluntarily So far, no general quar antine has been imposed but .parents are urged to co operate in every way so| that a quarantine will not; be necessary. Camps Quarantined Directors of both the Girls’ Camp and the Boys’ Camp have decided to con fine the campers to the camp grounds and to permit no visiting as a precaution ary measure against Polio. This regulation is already in effect, and directors of the camps request that no one come into the camp 1 grounds except on urgent business. . Bible Schools Cancelled The Vacation Bible school which was planned for Up per Jacks Creek community under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caughey and Geonge Gillette has been cancelled. It was sche duled to start July 19. The School that was plan ned for rhe Mine Fork com munity has also been can celled. Avoid Crowds Perhaps the most urgent rules for young children are to stay out of crowds, stay off the streets, and to avoid fatigue and over ex ertion. Voluntary coopera-J tion in doing these things will be of great value. fiOAN MOUNTAIN ROAD ■ IS SURVEYED Engineers are surveying a 12-mile stretch of Roan Mountain road in Mitchell county leading to Carver’s Gap, Carl -Krueger, super visor, Pisgah-Croatan Na tional forests, reported yes terday. “This particular road is at the top of the list so far gs national forest highway construction is concerned in North Carolina,” Mr. Krue ger pointed out. Plans call for conversion of this link of thg road into a modern, two-lane, hard surfaced highway, which will be coiineeted with the improved [highway section being constructed from the Tennessee'/ side of the mountain.; Mr. Krueger explained certain major roads, such as Roan mountain, In national forest areas, or immedia tely adjacant thereto, where considerable public travel is involved, are set up in the forest highway system. “The U. S. Forest service, through the Public Roads administration, contributes to such construction. In- THE YANCEY RECORD SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. POLIO CLAIMS FIRST VICTIM OF.COUNTY “Parson” Rogers Succum bed Saturday George Floyd Rogers 11, “Parson” as he was known to all, the 7 year old son of ! Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Rog ers, died in an Asheville hospital Saturday of Polio. Young Rogers was one of four children who became ill of the disease in a sum mer camp near Brevard. Earlier last week his condi ! tion showed improvement but became critical o n Thursday night. Survivors include the parents, one brother, Car roll III; the grandparents, the Rev. and Mrs. George Floyd Rogers of Asheville, and Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Rogers, Sr. of Tryon. Funeral services were I conducted Sunday after ! noon in Trinity Episcopal church. Asheville. The Rev. John W. Tuton, rector, of ficiated. Interment will be in the Tryon cemetery at Tryon. FINAL RITES FOR MISS BIRDIE HUNTER Miss Birdie Hunter, 47, died at her home in the Cox Greek section. of Yancey county Sunday afternoon. Funeral services were held at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with the Rev. A. Z. Jamerson of ficiating and burial was in the family cemetery. She is survived by the parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. I Hunter; four sisters, Belle, Georgia and Grace of the, home and Mrs. Mae Will-j iams of Asheville; four bro-l 1 thers, Claude and Sanford of Cane River, Ec|;ard ofj Burnsville and Burrie of the home. Holcombe Brothers Fun eral home was in charge of arrangements. Baptist Church The Rev. Ben Jay Mclver, pastor, will speak on the subject, “Jesus And Self” at the 11:00 a. m. worship ser vice, and on “Redemption In A Word’” at the 8:00 p. m. worship service. Mrs. Sallie Kate Butner, C. F. Beaver of Bristol, and Daphne and Wood Butner of Alexandria, Va., attend ed the funeral services for Mrs. Butner and Mr. Beav er’s brother, Latt Beaver, in Wilmington, Del., last Sat urday morning. J. P. Huskins who is edi tor of the Statesville Daily Record has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Huskins. formation should be avail able shortly whether this , highway strip can be finan i ced by the federal govern i ment during the present . fiscal year,” he said. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OP YANCEY COUNTY” 1 BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 15,1948 SGT. RALPH WILSON CPL. JACK WILSON Funeral services for two Yancey copnty men who were killed in action in World War II will be held at 1 p. m. Wednesday at Salis bury. They are Staff Sgt. Ralph Wilson and Cpl. Jack Wil son, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Elzie Wilson of Cane River. The bodies will be interred in a Salisbury cemetery. Sgt. Wilson was killed Aug. 28, .1944, in France, and Cpl. Wilson, a marine, was killed on Iwo Jima. L Surviving are the paren ts; four sisters, Mrs. John Denzing and Miss Myrtle Wilson, both of Asheville, Miss Kathleen Wilson and Miss Lucille Wilson both of the home, and three broth ers, Herman, who is stat ioned in England with the U. S. air force, Frank and Otis, both of the home. NATIVE OF YANCEY COUNTY DIES IN ATLANTA, GEORGE Miss Margaret C. Honey cutt, once a resident of Micaville, N. C., and one of the first W A C’s to enter Paris during World War 11, died in Lawson General hospital, in Atlanta, Geor gia, at 12:50 a. m., Monday, June 28 after an illness of about 4 months. Mi.gs Honeycutt is surviv ed by two sisters, Mrs. E. B. Bailey, Toledo, N. C. and Mrs. Richard Grimes, Sav annah, Georgia, two broth ers, Earl W. Honeycutt, Savannah, Wayne Honey cutt, Spruce Pine asd her step mother, Mrs. Lucy! Honeycutt, Spruce Pine.j She was the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. jCiontz of Micaville and re sided with them until she i was twelve years of age. She graduated from high school at Crawford, Ga., after which she entered Nurses Training. Miss Honeycutt later joined the Woman’s Army Corps and was a Sergeant, stationed in London, for a time and was with the first detachment of the Wacs to encer Paris, where she re mained for several months. She was discharged from the army at Ft. Bragg, N. C., in September 1945. Miss Honeycutt lost' a brother in the Italian SecJ tor in April, 1945, Leftridge W. Honeycutt, who was,j since the war, awarded a citation by the University of Georgia., The funeral was in Ath ens, Georgia, Wednesday, Jund 30, at 11 o’clock a. m. with full military honors. Mr. and Mrs. Harold But ner visited relatives in Al exandria, Va., during the past week end. Mrs. Carl Silver, Jr., has been named secretary to the Chancery .Court judge in Knoxville, Silver is attending the tsrti_ versity of Tennessee there. Installation Services Will Be Held For,New Pastor Installation services will be held on August 8 for the Rev. D. A. ; Mcßight who has recently—come to the Holston Presbytery to take charge of /.the Micaville group of churches. The Rev. Mcßight comes from the Birmingham, Ala. Presbytery. He was for merly at Waycross, Ga., Uvalda, Texas and Carbon Hill, Ala., and came from the latter pastorate here. The Micaville group of churches includes the New uale, Micaville, Estatoa and Paint Gap Presbyterian churches. The Rev. A. R. Craig of Spruce Pine will preside at the installation services which will be held at the Micaville church at 10 a. m., at the Newdale church at 11 a. m., at the Paint Gap church at 3 p. m., and at the Estatoa church at 8 p. m. The new pastor is resid ing at the manse in Mica ville. He and Mrs. Mcßight have one 8 year old son, Danny. 78 ENROLLED IN SUMMER CLASSES There are 78 students now enrolled in the exten sion classes! and drama course? offerea here by the Woman’s College of the University of North Caro lina. Thirty eight are enrolled in the science class, 20 in the music clais, 8 in the drama classes/and 12 in the Einglish classj Other stuleits plan to en ter as the ses lions progress. | Forestry Department Reports Fiie Loss For District Seven Fire; in Yancey Co inty During the last six mon ths period, fist half of 1948 173 forest fies occurred in the & coopenting counties in district or; of the N. C. Forest Servi ?. These 173 fires burned |i total of 1055 acres or an Average of 6.1 acres per [fire, which amounts to a loss of one tenth of one percent of the area under protection in this district. In comparison with the same period of 1947, this shows 187 f es occurred in ! the district which Burned 1 1798 acres o an average of ,9.6 acres pe fire. The area lost during this period amounts t twenty one hundreds oione percent of the forest nd under pro tection. Following ire the fires by causes that iccurred in the district: Debris bi ning, 67 or 38.7 Smoking, 4or 23.1; Rail roads, 26 o: 15 percent; In cendiary, 2 or 13.9; Camp ers and hi ters, 9 or 5.2; Miscellane( s, 6 or 3.5; Lig htning, 1 o 0.6. This sbo s 99.4 of- the fires occur ng in the dis trict were nan caused and BUYS HOME HERE Bailey has bought'from Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Roberts the house in east Burnsville which they formerly, occupied. She plans to move to Burnsville within a short time. FARM NOTES The Agronomy tour held , on Tuesday, July 13, was i attended by approximately 110 farmers. Dr. E. R. Col lins, in charge of Agronomy ’ Extension, discussed the . cultural practices of Ladino 1 Clover pastures, Alfalfa, i corn. The farms of J. H. Ray, I E.‘ C. Blankenship, H. E. i Duncan, Champ L. Ray, and lj Grover Robinson were vis ited. At the E. C. Blanken ? I ship farm, a six year old > alfalfa field was inspected , and maintenance fertiliza. i tion discussed. Hybrid corn' seed production was discus.; . ued at tht H. E. Duncan Jfarm, and an excellent Lad- I I ino Clover pasture was wit , nessed at the Champ L. Ray farm. Dr. Collins discussed the i good and bad points of var ious practices of growing each crop and their related - values to better farming. • | He 4 stated that throughout i 1 che state in 38 counties 245 ;! farmers- had entered the ' 200 bushel per acre of corn . contest. I The TV A tree seedling allotment for the 1949 plan ting season has been receiv ed in Yancey county and is as follows: white pine, 35,- 000; short leaf pine, 5000; black locust, 2000; yellow poplar, 5000; white ash, 500; could have been prevented had proper precautions and care been exercised. J. Craig English, County t I Fortst Warden of Yancey county, an dhis . organiza tion handled 7 fires during this period. These fires burned a total of 4 acres of forest land. The other 7 coJ operating counties of this district and the fire records are as follows: Buncombe county, 56 fir es with 351 acres burned; Henderson county, 11 fires with 42 acres burned; Mad ison county, 20 fires with 245 acres burned; McDowel, county, 22 fires* with 123 acres burned; Mitchell county, 13 fires with 124 acres burned; Polk county, ■ 22 fires with 40 acres burn ed; Rutherford county, 22 fires with 126 acres burned. During the spring period of 1948, of the 172 man caused fires occurring, 114 or 66.3 of the responsible parties were determined and reprimanded. Os this number some law enforce ment action was taken on 75 or 43.6. Brush burning permits are required for burning brush, trash, old fields, and other materials within 500 (Continu«d on pa#« 4) New Regulations For Motor Vehicle Inspection Lane Will Reopen Here Friday According to the latest release from the Mechani cal Inspection Division of the Department of Motor vehicles, the Inspection lane will return to Burnsville on July I6th and remain thru July 24th. The lane will be open from 8 A: M. until 5 P. M. except on Saturday when it will close at 12:00 o’clock. .... Particular attention i s called to the dates just re leased as to the deadline on which different year mod els must be inspected. The year models and dates fol low : All year models up to'and including the year model! ! 1030, and motor-vehicles of : ; year models 1947 and 1948 ! shall be inspected on or be- ( ; fore August 31, 1948. All motor vehicles of the j year models 1937 and 1946 « I shall be inspected on or be-'; ! fore September 30, 1948. ] All motor vehicles of the year models 1938, 1939, 1943 ; 1944, 1945 shall be inspected ] on or before Oct. 31, 1948. • | ] All motor vehicles of tho t r year models 1940 and 19421 - i Methodist Church 1 The general business ; meeting of the church will !be held Thursday evening, July 15 at 8 o’clock. Every i officer of the church is in- I eluded in this meeting, and any other member who is ' interested is invited to at tend. At t,he Sunday morning! worship hour R. Dwight Ware, D. D. will bring the message. The quarterly conference will be held im mediately after the service. Mrs. John Robinson has been with her mother, Mrs. Margaret Boone, in Mars Hill since Mrs. Boone un derwent an operation. Betty Jo Banks who has ! been ill in the Morganton hospital for the past two weeks is improving. and red cedar, 500. Orders will be taken for any of , ihese seedlings at the Cou nty Agents’ office from now until the supply is gone. Jack Young, of Crabtree township in Yancey is making remarkable proJ, gress as a farm and home ' demonstrator. He is operating a 183 acre farm, of which 79 acres are cropland, 92 acres pasture, 1 10 acres woods and two' acres of other land occupied by buildings and roads. Wltli only 1.3 acres tobac co. allotment, Mr. Young’s principal income was from 1 beef cattle, of which he had,; 24 head in 1946. His plans i are to increase his beef cat J < tie to 40 head by 1951. He is| making definite plans to 1 produce feed and increase pasture land to take care of 1 the additional cattle, 1 - Protect our Natural re sources. Prevent Forest Fires. NUMBER FIFTY-ONE shall be inspected on or be fort November 30, 1948. All motor vehicles of the year models 1941 and 1949 shall be inspected on or be fore December 31, 1948. Provided: That any vehi cle may be presented for in spection at any time prior to the expiration of the time limit for such motor vehicle as set out above. Any person operating a motor vehicle over the streets or highways of the State which hays not been presented for inspection within the period designat ed by this regulation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be arrested and motor vehicle stored. In connection with this a high way includes any trunk line highway, state aid road or other public highway, road, street, avenue, alley, driveway, parkway, or place under the control of the State or any political sub division thereof, dedicated, appropriated or opened to public travel or other use. Motor vehicle includes» any rubber-tired vehicle propelled or drawn by any power other than muscular. This includes trailers, semi trailers, and motorcycles. MRS. T. M. BAKER DIES IN PORTSMOUTH, VA. Mrs. Lydia Bailey Baker, of 2001 Lansing Ave. Ports mouth, Va. died suddenly Tuesday morning, July 6. She was stricken at her home and was taken to the hospital, but was gone upon arrival. She was a native of Yan cey county, N. C., and had lived in Burnsville for sev eral years. Here she had many friends. She was the daughter of the late Alfred and Jane Bailey. She made her home with her daugh ter, Mrs. Floyd W. Baker, and family. She was a de ! voted member of the Pren j tjfe Park Presbyterian chur ch. She is survived by the daughter, Mrs. Baker,' five grand children and two I great grand children, all of j Portsmouth, Va.; two bro thers, John M. Bailey and James D. Bailey of Erwin, Tenn.; one sister, Julia B. Crisp, Greer, S. C. I uneral services were c inducted by her pastor, Rev. J. Clyde Mohler Thur sday morning from the Snelling funeral home Bur ial was in the Olive Branch cemetery. Pallbearers were: Troy H. Carter, Charles S. Brooks, James Merritt, Roy Rogers, Lonnie Smith and Dick Britton. Presbyterian Church Morning worship at 11, Sunday, July 18. Sunday School at 10:15. Adult classes as usual. Dr. Richard Comfort wiU be the guest speaker and moderator of the congrega tional meeting following the church service. *
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