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Buy Christmas Seals VOLUME THIRTEEN SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. Good Farming Practices Pay Big Dividends ~ YANCEY COUNTY BOR ROWER IS LEADING GUERNSEY BREEDER When C. M, Deyton ap plied with the Farmers Home Administration for assistance he was heavily in debt, in poor health, and with his family of ten living on the farm was difficult and unpleasant. His finan cial picture was as follows: Owned 84 acre mountain farm, valued 'at $1620.00, -one mule and one milk cow, valued $140.00, with total assets of $2080.00. Liabili ties: National Farm Asso ciation, $585.00, plus appro ximately SIOO.OO county taxes and $200.00 store ac counts and doctor hills, 1 leaving a net worth o f $1195.00. His total income the year prior to his accep tance on the FHA Program was $283.00. When Mr. Deyton and the County Supervisor an- ! alyzed his situation the fol lowing major items were agreed upon. In consulta tion with a representative from NFLA foreclosure was postponed for two years and a new repayment •schedule worked out start ing after this extension period. New sources of in- 1 come wwe worked out. Mr. G. A. Coronation Service Will Be Held - A Coronation Service of the Girls’ Auxiliary mem bers will be held at the Burnsville Baptist church at 7:30 Monday evening/ December 13. UUs Lucille Sawyer of the Mars Hill college fac-' ulty will preside at the service. I hose who will be crown ed queen are Betty Pate, Frances Wilson, Dorothy, Smith, Nancy Buckner, Sue Banks, Rhita McCurry, PatJ La;-ghrun H Sallie Mcßae, 1 Polly Peterson, Mary Lou Fox, Nelda Peterson, Lynn Hare Laughrun, Bobbie Ruth Banks. Ladies-in-waiting are Ba rbara Ann Peterson, Ge nene Bailey. Princesses include Jean Ray. Jeraldine Ray, A the-; lone Jamerson and Glenna Banner. • Maidens are Norma Ban- 1 ner, Frances Ilobinson,l Mary Lee Hall, Margaret Allen, Helen Allen. Presbyterian Church 10 a. m. Sunday School. II a. m. Morning worship. Sermon: “Life’s Supreme Satisfaction.’ Dr. Harris will speak on December 12 and 19th. Christmas exer-j cis«»s on Dec. 26th. : ,A cordial, invitation worship with us. Baptist Church H he Rev.T H. Kendall m il] speak at the 11 o’clock service on Sunday. There wiil be no evening service, but a rehearsal for the' Christmas music program! well-be held at 7:30. THE YANCEY RECORD Deyton agreed to try dairy ing. His farm was too steep to, cultivate intensively, yet it would produce excellent : pasture with good treat ' ment. Fieldg w r ere run down ‘ and eroded, all farm build ii gs were in need of repair. When Mr. Deyton saw his farm changing almost overnight, his income in-! creasing and his debts de creasing, his worries were over. He stopped visiting his doctors and in a period ’of three years his health 1 had improved to the extent ho can now do a full day’s work, where earlier he was prohibited from working at ; all. His laild is now produc-j ing 75 bushels of corn per, j acre where five years ago it produced only 25 bushels I per acre and other crops production are in this ratio. From the one cow Mr. Deyton owned when start ing with FHA he now owns eight Registered Guernsey cows, twelve Registered Guernsey .heifers and a Re gistered Guernsey bull, one 1 | of-the most outstanding in! Western North Carolina.! He now owns one of the lar -1 gest herds in the county. By using plenty of lime and phosphate, ladino clov er, lespedeza, orchard grass, 1 I and red top Mr. Deyton now ! (Continued on page two) CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Christmas holidays for Yancey county schools will begin after classes on • Fri day, December 17. Classes will begin again on Thursday, December 30. ) Attend Farm Meeting Rex Mclntosh of Bee Log has been named the dele gate from the Yancey Cou-J ntv Farm Bureau to attend: the annual meeting of the I American Farm Bureau j Federation in Atlantic City, I Di. Gus Laughrun who has been ill for the past week has returned home from the hospital and is improving at his home. E, F, and G Drivers Must Get License By December 31 The time is fast running out for E, F, and G drivers, the Motor Vehicle Depart ment announced today. All drivers with last names beginning with eith er E, F, or G, are required to cake an examination for a driver’s license by Decem ber 31, as a part of the Highway; Safety Act passed by the 1947 General Assem bly, The Department re i ported that this group of j drivers had been very slow |to report, and that if they procrastinated much longer it would mean they would have to wait in long lines to take their tests during the last few days of December. Department officials also announced that the 100 ex amining station located throughout the State would be closed several days around Christmas, and that. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” NORMAN CORDON WILL GIVE CONCERT HERE . ON DECEMBER 18 Metropolitan Opera Star From North Carolina Norman Cordon, who went from his native North Carolina to achieve fame with the Metropolitan Op era Association, will give a concert in Burnsville on Saturday evening, Dec. 18. j This was confirmed in a letter received this week from C. E. Mclntosh, assis tant director of North Car olina College Centers. The concert here will be spon sored by the Burnsville College Center. Further details will be announced within the next jfew days, and tickets will go on sale the first of next I week. Robert Reuter will ac company Mr. Cordon. Charles Gardner Enlists In U. S. Air Force 1 . ' Charles Eugene Gardner, ; son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles ,|F. Gardner of Burnsville 1 Rt. 1, enlisted in U. S. Air j Force on November 30th, i just six days before his 18th birthday. He wall be station ed at USAF Training Base in Texas for 13 weeks for j primary training and it is ! believed that he will elect to attend one of the Air For ces technical schools at a later date. Charles Gardner better known as "Gene” has been ’ a student at Burnsville high school and plans to continue his education through the USAFI training program currently open to all service men. Gardner was one of 82 men enlisted through US & j USAF Recruiting Station in Asheville during the month j of Nov. Columbia, S. C. dis trict. which covers North and South Carolina, has re- 1 ported a grand total of 1269 enlistments for the same! period. North Carolina’s hybrid; seed corn crop this year is 58 times as large as it was five years ago. motorists who put off theii tests might find it impos sible to get them later. There will be no exten sion to the deadline, the Department said, for E, P, and G motorists have had since last July to get these examinations. Beginning January 1, 1949, persons with last 1 names beginning with H, I, J, and K will begin taking ' their tests. Taking drivers, in alpha betical groups, the re-ex ' animation program will be ci;rpleted June 80, 1951. The Department reported that any E, F, or G driyer ; caught driving on an ojd license after January 1 will be found guilty of a misde meanor and will be subject to a fine of not less than $25, or 30 days imprison ment, or both, in the discre- BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1948 WILL CAST VOTE FOR PRESIDENT Dover R. Fouts, presiden tial elector for the 11th Congressional district, will go to Raleigh where the votes for president and vice president Will be cast at noon Monday. | COUN'If OFFICIALS TAKE OFFICE I Yancey | County officials elected in*the November 2 1 election were sworn in at noon Monday, Dec. 6. Fred Proffitt, clerk of i court, administered \h e oath of office to the follow ing: W. M. Hall of Micaville, 1 i chairman of board of coun ty commissioners; J). Harrison of Celo and S. C. I Edwards of Bee Log, mem bers of the board of com missioners Yates R. Ben nett, register of deeds. j AAA Committeemen Named i 4? • At the jeygnt AAA elec tions in Yancey county, the county committee was nam ed as follows: W. M. Hen sley of Bald Creek, chair man; S. R. Randolph of Green Mtn.; vice chairman; Paul Higgias of Higgins, ■ member; Glenn Bailey of i Burnsville Rt. 1, first alter -1 nate; C. M. Deyton of Green Mtn., sec-. Jim alternate: The following community committee had been elected earlier: Fast Burnsville: G. C. Hunter, Joe Lewis. Edw ard Harris; West Burns ville: W. L. Wright, Mack Mclntosh, W. L. McClelland Cane River: J. R. Ferguson, S. T. Doane, W. H. Peter json; Upper Egypt: Dewey Higgins, Hiram Higgins, Alvin Pate; Lower Egypt Coy Williams, Bruce Mcln- Attend Meeting J. Frank Huskins, Yan cey county member of the! 1949 State Legislature, and! IC. P. Randolph, chairman ;of ti e Democratic execu tive committee, attended a meeting of Western North Carolina members of the! Legislature and party lead- 1 ers in Asheville last Satur-| day. HALIFAX FARMER f MAKES RECORD YIELD OF CORN l A r.ew record in North 1 Carolina corn production! for 1948 was reported thisf week from the farm of a Halifax county farmer, H. F. Hudson of Enfield. His yield, according to Dr |E. R. Collins, in charge of agronomy extension at State College and chairman oC the State Corn Contest! Committee, wa§ approxim-j ately 143 ImshelaLof shelled, corn on one acre. The exact! yiehl will not be known un-j til the moisture content of the corn has been determ ined in laboratory tests. The best previously re ported yield this year was 136.24, bushels " pe'r acre, made by 77-year-old J. R. Simpaon of ’Union Cbimty. Buy Christmas Seals Program of Christmas Music Will Be Presented December 22 Final plans are being ar ranged for the program of Christmas music which will be presented at the Higgins Memorial Methodist church on Wednesday night, Dec ember 22 at 8 o’clock. The choirs of the Meth odist, Presbyterian and Baptist churches will pre sent the program. Mrs. John B. Bennett is director and Mrs. Phillip Ray is organist. I A chorus of women’s voi ces and a chorus of men’s voices will present numbers Several special selections! 'will be given, and the audi ence will join in singing, 1 seme of the best known ! carols. , A final rehearsal will he , held on Tuesday, Dec. 21. Buy Christmas Seals if , .! tosh, Arthur Edwards; J Ramseytown: M. W. Hig gins, Conway Higgins, Les _ ter Peterson; Green Mtn.: I- T. Bailey, C. M. Deyton, j. Gus Bailey; Upper Jacks 1 Creek: Glenn Bailey, Calvin ’;Evans, Ben Wilson; Lower P Jacks Creek: Carl T/You _ ng, T. _ B. McCurry, Sid /Laws; Brush Creek: R. C. Deyton; L. D. Thomas, An gus Masters; East Crabtree JjR. T. Ensley, Bill Edge, Edd !Burleson; West Crabtree: • D. T. Gibbs, J. S. Young, Percy Hughes; Upper Sou " th Toe: B. F. Gibbs, Frank J Bowditch, Rhonda Westall; 1 Cower South Toe: W. F. ; Bennett, G. C. Bailey, Wal ter Young; Pensacola: Wayne Ray, J. E. Byrd, ’ Pearson Riddle; Prices Creek: D. L. Hurst, T. H. ■' Phoenix, Harmon Edwards. Raleigh. Which vehic les operating on our high-' j ways should be equipped j with turn signals (direct ional lights) ? Some vehicles on the roads, where even if the 1 driver gave the proper hand | | and arm signals, they would ' not be visible, especially to' | the vehicles to the rear, be- 1 | cause of the construction or jof the'load being carried. | : For this reason, the law provided that a vehicle so' l ioati *d or constructed that it lie hand and arm signals 1 1 are}- not clearly visible both j 1 to, the front and rear of the; 1 fehicle shal 1 be equipped with directional signals. Friendship Train Collections Will Be Made >■ CROP Drive Is Planned i —- Plans are being made this [week in 17 Western North i Carolina, counties to collect j carloacls of farm produce for the North Carolina Friendship Train. *The train is sponsored by the Christian Rural Over seas Program (CROP). This is an interdenomina tional overseas relief drgan iiation designed to primar ily to give farm people the opportunity to contribute Pvt. Homer Peterson The remains of Pvt. Hom er Peterson who was killed in France on Sept. 29, 1944/ will arrive at the Holcombe Brothers funeral home on Friday afternoon. Funeral services will be held at 2p. m. Sunday af ternoon at Clearmont high school with the Rev. Gibson Atkins officiating. Burial will be in the Pet erson family cemetery and the Burnsville Post of the American Legion will be in charge of the military rites at the cemetery. Pvt. Peterson entered 'service Oct. 20, 1942. He !wasi,9 years old at the time of his death. Surviving are the parents Mr. and Mrs. Cris§ Peterson iofWindom; three sisters, j Mrs. Grace Cooper of Pop- Mar, N. C., Mrs. Oma Silvers and Miss Ethel Peterson of Wincom; five brothers, C. R, and Fred of Windom, . Jo b of Pennsylvania and j Brite of Erwin, Tenn. FIVE YOUNG TAR HEELS GET NATIONAL HONORS :i !. Five young North Caro ■ | limans received high honors iat the National 4-H Club j Congress held in Chicago * 1 last week, according to L. j R. Harrill, State 4-II Club . le. der for the State College ' 1 Extension Service. One of ’j (hem was listed as a sec tional winner and four re ’ ceived national awards. ’, Betty Moore of Iredell ■jcounty was awarded top . j honors in clothing achieVe ' • ment and will receive a ,S2OO ; college scholarship, j Hilton Brooks, 17-year , old Union county youth, was a national winner in poultry; He will also receive S2OO scholarship. The son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Brooks of Wingate, Hilton ha s been a member of the Union 4-H | Club since 1945. , Sue Nichols, a young ' Wake county girl who ov- I ereame fallen arches and excess weight to achieve a ' glowing “new look” 0 f 1 health, w r as placed in the Blue Award group for heal ! th improvement. Sue is 17 and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Nichols of Raleigh, Route 5. S Warren Mallard of Jones county, 17-year-old son of W. G. Mallard of Trenton, Route 1, received a free trip to the Chicago Con- foodstuff's raised on theiri own farms to the hungry, overseas. In North Carolina the program- is sponsored by leaders of major church , groups and by. farm leaders j The first meeting to lay, plans will be held tomorrow j, at 2 p. m. at tb,e Methodist < •church. All interested per- j ] sons throughout the county ] are urged to attend. (See page 2 for further : details about the organiza- 1 tion). C 4 WVw •/vwvwwwwO FIGHT TB Buy Christmas Seals NUMBER TWENTY ; ~ xiit / - JOIN NOW Schedule for Special Christmas Services [I" / " / A7'the Presbyterian'clrti /rch in the following com munities a special Christ , mas worship service will be | presented in color and song. Fitting music has been ’ planned for each service , and two stories, “When the ! Littlest Camel Knell” and the “Holy Child*’ will be ' presented by the pastor. All j members of each ee ;nun ity are cordially invited. | -Services begin in each 1 at 7:30. Upper Jacks Creek, Thu rsday, Dec. Kith. Lower Jacks Creek, Sat urday, Dec. 18 th. Low Gap, Monday, Dec. . 20th. > Higgins, Tuesday, Dec. 7 'tline For!:, Thursday, ) Dec. 23rd. Jo. Banks Creek, Friday, Dec : 24th. "j Miss Hazel Shelton of '| Carmen - Community in Madison county has accept -led a position under the * Board of National Missions " of the Presbyterian Church U. S. A. v here in Yancey j county. She will share the | responsibilities of the Sun idav School and youth acti vities in the six rural com munities with the Rev. ahd Mrs. David F. Swartz. Miss Shelton is a gradu ate of Warren Wilson Col lege and has been employed 1 during the past year with the Bell Telephone Com pany. While at Warren Wil son College, she majored in business ad m i nistration, was outstanding in sports, and received the Bible Award her senior year. Miss Shelton will be living with Mr. and Mrs. John S. LeFevre. : if jMdEL JO 13 Shopping Days Till Christmas gross as a national winner in recreation and rural arts. The sectional winner was James Wright Jackson, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper D. Jackson of Godwin, Sam psoif county. James Wright was honored for his work in soil conservation and re ceived a free trip to the National Congress.
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