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Plane Missing Since 1946,
Found on Gibbs Mountain
Two Lost Lives
A wrecked plane contain
ing human bones was dis
covered Sunday at 3 p. m.
by Asheville hikers in the
rugped terrain of Gibbs
M nuntain.
The plane was found on a
timbered slope of the 6,224-
I'oot peak north of Mt. Mit
chell and part of the Black
Mountain Range.
Discovery of the wreck
age is believed to have
cleared up a four-year-old
mystery of a plane that,
disappeared on a flight
from Lincolnton to Morris-1
town Tenn., August 18,'
1946, with Robert Wayne
Heavner as pilot and John
Helton as passenger. Both
were from Lincolnton.
r. This belief was confirm
ed Monday when Yates
LAST RITES FOR
S. C. BLANKENSHIP
Funeral services were,
conducted for S. C. Blank
enship, 76, wh o passed
away at his home at Pensa
cola, April 15, at the Laurel
Branch Baptist * Church
Sunday afternoon at 2 p. m.
The Rev. A. Z. Jamerson
officiated and burial was in
the Ray Cemetery.
He was a native and life
long resident of Yancey
County. I
Active pallbearers were
g lain Isons, and granddau
ghters were flower girls. J
Honorary pall bearers,
were Dr. W. B. Robertson,
Roscoe Banks, Fred Prof
fitt, Tom Gortney, Benja
min Franklin, Welzie Rid
dle, Cleophas Robertson
and-C. L. McMahan.
Surviving in addition to
the widow are six-(laugh-,
ters, Mrs. C. C. Banks of
• Paint Gap, Mrs. Grady El
kins of Prices Creek, Mrs.
C.--C. Beatty of Dillwyn,
Va., Mrs. .Magdalene Rans
dell of Lenoir, and Mrs. Ray
Riddle and Mrs. Dewey (
Jamerson o f Pensacola; J
‘two sons, Ray and Alvin ofj
Pensacola; two sisters, Mrs
Jim McClurd of Stocksville'
and Mrs. A. N. Shepherd of
Knoxville, Tenn., 37 grand
children and 19 great grand
children.
Bald Creek P. T. A.
Sponsors Boy Scouts
The Bald Creek Parent-
Teachers. Association voted
in its March meeting to
spons6r*lfßoy Scout Troop.
On April 10, the first meet
ing of the Boy Scouts was
held with twenty-six boys
attending, representing the,
entire Bald Creek school
district.
J. J. Nowicki, president)
of the P. T. A., was voted
Scout Master and the fol
lowing were elected to the
local council committee:
Ottis Gibbs, Jack Mclntosh,
Earl C. Wilson, Fleet Prof
fitt and David Peterson.
The troop will meet each
Monday evening at 6:30 in.
the high school library for
a recreational hour and
instructional work will be
gin at 7:30.
Reverend Holland, pas
tor of the Bald Creek Met-
The Yancey Record
>r--. i
Heavner of Crouse and i
Johnnie P. Jones of Lin
colnton visited the wreck
age. - i
Heavner confirmed the ;
belief that his brother and]
Helton perished in the p
plane when it crashed and ( <
Jones identified the crafty
as one he had rented the
pilot for the trip.
.... Members of the hiking
party who found the plane
were pushing through a
dense timber growth. It
was about a quarter of a
mile from a narrow road
that once was a rail bed for
bringing timber down from
the rugged slopes.
In the plane were found
the remains of the two bod :
ies, two decomposed wal
l-lets and scattered articles
of clothing and flying
equipment. 1
Burnsville High School :
Junior Class Play
The Junior Class play,
“And Came The Spring”, '
'will be given Thursday
evening. i 1
Members of the cast are: '
Kenneth McCourry, Reece '
Brinkley, Frank Wilson j
Tommy Tilson, Arthur 1
Dover, Reid Hall, Jack
Edge, William Fojgt Frank
jlin Woody, Doris Styles,
Virginia Caldwell, Maud
Phillips, Mary Louise Ev- I
|ans, Agnes Blankenship, 1
Evelyn Watson Riddle,
Helen Westall, Mary Lou
i Hall.
Miss Evelyn Briggs i s
'directing the production. |
Legion Sponsors A “Go To
Church” Movement
■
1 Following the' suggestion
1 o f National Commander
George N. Craig of the
American Legion that, all
posts promote a “Go to
Church” campaign in coop
eration with other civic and
i religious groups, the Earl
i Horton Post No. 122 of
Burnsville, N. C., has re-'
icently organized a commit
tee of Legionnaires and
their wives to sponsor such 1
a program in Yancey Coun-j
ty during the week of
April 16th-23rd. The com
mittee hopes to inform all
residents of the county of
the need of spiritual guid
ance through faithful
church attendance and re
gular Bible reading in the
homes.
Across the business dis
trict in Burnsville is now
displayed a banner with
“See You in Church April
16th-23rd”. Articles in local
and area newspapers, spot
announcements from near
iby radio stations, and prin
ted posters in business es
tablishments will carry
publicity for this religious
appeal. A notice of the Le
gion’s interest in the spiri
tual welfare of the county
will be given to each stud
ent in the county schools in
an effort to reach in their
homes many of the 3,000
hodist Church, has shown
much interest by helping
in the planning and organ
izing of the troop,
i
“DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS* OP YANCEY COUNTY”
BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1950
Correction
... I
In last weeks paper we
stated that the contract for
th e new school building at
Bee Log had been let to the
Burnsville C o nstruction
Company of B. B. Penland
and Son Company
The Burnsville Construc
tion Company to whom the
! contract was let is compos
ed of Rhea Penland, Vance
[Hensley and Utah Styles.
Blue Cross Enrollment
Pollard’s Drug Store
Is Center
The Blue Cross Hospital
Care Campaign is now un- 1
der way in Yancey County'
Th e Association will op- (
'erate an enrollment center,
in Pollard’s Drug Store,
Burnsville, from 9 a. m. to 5
p. m., Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of this week. All
persons in the county inter- 1
ested in joining the Blue!
Cross Plan are asked to
come in and enroll. \
I John Miller and Joe Mc-
Ginnis, representatives of
the Hospital Care Associa-[
To Washington
Sue Koenig has returned
home after accompanying
'the senior class of the
Erwin, Tenn., high school
on a trip to Washington, D.
|C. She was a member of the
class before moving to'
I Burnsville.
j
I veterans of World War I|
and 11. These veterans will'
be urged to consider more'
seriously their religious re-'
sponsibility to their child
ren and to the church in
their community. |
The members of this
I committee are Commander
'Mack Ray and Mrs. Ray,
Chaplain D. F. Swartz and
'Mrs. Swartz, Mr. and Mrs.
Grady Bailey, Mr. and Mrs.
j Bruce Westall, and Mr. and
Mrs. Lon Roberts. I
TO ALL VETERANS '
MAKE A HABIT OF ATTENDING THE
CHURCH IN YOUR COMMUNITY
EACH SUNDAY
ESPECIALLY APRIL 23
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SPONSORED BY
Earl Horton Post 122
IN COOPERATION WITH THE 1
NATIONAL “GO TO CHURCH” PROGRAM
1
Burnsville’s ‘‘New Look”
Burnsville ngs a “New
Look”. Many »ew homes
have been bujlt recently
and thirty are at pre
sent under construction.
In order toJshare this
“New Look” with our
readers, especially those
who haven’t Kisited the
Hometown recently, we
are planning a series of
advertisement, illustra
ted with pietlres of the
new homes. ;
The first of these ad
vertisements Ivill appear
in next weekf* paper.
" "Pibfi
I
i V; ®
tion, are at the Nu-Wray
jinn this ceek, and any place
of business interested in
getting Blue Cross protec
tion for its employees
[are asked to get in toucli
'with Mr. M|)ler or Mr.
McGinnis.
The current Blue Cross
'campaign in ‘ls Western
North Carolina counties is
being sponsored by the 22
[hospitals of the 10th Medi
cal District, j
i The Asheville office of
Hospital Care- Association
!is located in the Miles
j Building, Room 212.
finaltoST
FOR SAM MILLER
•
- Sam Miller, 78, died at |
j his home, Burnsville, Rt. 1
Sunday morning after a 1
short illness. '
Funerl services were
held Tuesday at 10 a. m. in
Higgins Baptist Church
with th e Rev. Cecil Higgins
officiating. Burial was in
Higgins Cemetery.
| Survivors include the
• widow, one daughter, Mrs.!
(Bessie Silver of Burnsville J
Rt. 1; five Sons, Joe and;
(Mark of ConsbhockenJ
iPenn., Quince of Higgins, 1
'J. H. of Burnsville, Rt. 1,1
and Carter of Jonesboro,'
Tenn.; and four sisters.
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Mrs. P. B. Hensley
derwent an operation at
Biltmore Hospital Tuesday
morning. Her condition is
'satisfactory.
! ‘ County Convention
The County Convention
of the Democratic Party
will be held in Burnsvi.le
Saturday, April 22 for the
purpose of naming candida
tes for ehe general election
next fall.
Banquet Honors Legion
Basket Ball Team
The Burnsville Legion
Basket Ball team was hon
ored Saturday night at a
banquet given in the Rob
erts & Johnson Club room.
Approximately ninety at
tended, including members
and officials of the team,
their guests, members of
the Post and of the Auxil
iary Unit.
Dover R. Fouts served as
master of ceremonies. Each
member of the team receiv
ed a gift from the merch
ants of the town. The Men’s
Club had ordered sweaters
for each player and these
were presented later.
Duplan Corporation News
New Officers
E. C. Geier has been elec
ted Chairman of the Board
of Directors of The Duplan
Corporation.
. He started with the
Company in 1909 as a tech
nician. In 1918 he was elect
ed as director and in 1927 a
Vice-President. He became
President in 1937.
Lyman B. Frieze has
been elected President of
(The Duplan Corporation.
He first joined the Com-v
pany in 1926. He became a
director in 1927 and has
been senior Vice-President
since 1937.
L. C. Easter To Manage
, Mill Here
S. C. Veney, southern div
ision manager of the Dup
lan Corporation, has an-
Inounced the appointment
LAST RITES FOR
MRS. E. H. J.RIFFETR
j Mrs. E. H. Griffeth, 52,
passed away at her home at
Huntdale Saturday morn
ing following a short ill
ness. She had recently un
dergone an operation but
seemed to be making a sat
isfactory recovery.
She was the former Miss
Ida Peterson, daughter of
Mrs. J. A. Peterson and the
late Mr. Peterson of ' Bur
nsville. Si.
Funeral services were
held Tuesday afternoon at
one o’clock at the home.
Burial was in the Hol
.combe Cemetery in Burns
ville.
Surviving are the hus
band, the mother, four dau
ghters, Mrs. M. M. Bartlett
of .Baltimore, Md., Mrs. P.
Five Hundred Students —n
Attend Career Day I:
Approximately five hun
dred high school students
of-Yancey County partici
pated in the Career Day
exercises at Burnsville
High School last Friday.
The program marked the
culmination of guidance ac
tivities that have been car
ried on in the high schools
throughout the year.
Republican Party Names County
Committees andjCandidates
The Yancey County Re
publican s met in Conven
tion April 19, 1950 for the
purpose o f reorganizing
the party, and selecting
candidates for the 1950
election.
Ben Banks was named
County Chairman, Mildred
Gibbs, vice chairman and
Claude Peterson, secretary.
Township chairmen were
named as follows: Burns
ville, Robert PresneJl; Cane
River, Horton Gibbs; Egy
pt, Allison Edwards; Jtarn
seytown, M. W. Higgins;
' Green Mountain, Park Pet
erson; Jacks Creek, John
Byrd; Brush Creek, C. W.
Sparks; Crabtree, Charles
Hyatt; South Toe, Morris
Simmons; Pensacola, Way
ne Ray, Prices Creek, Dot
Austin.
Candidates Named
The candidates for coun
ty and state offices were
i
of Lonnie C. Easter as
manager o f the textile
firms newest mill to be con
structed in Burnsville.
The new mill is scheduled
to be completed and in pro
duction in 1951.
L. C. Easter, a native of
North Carolina, was born
i in Lexington, N. C., and at
i tended public: schools in
High Point. In 1920 he was
3 employed by the Stehli Silk
f Company and 8 years later
. joined Hill Crest Mills.
■v Prior to joining the Duplan
t organization in Oct. 1949;
J Mr. Easter was a plant
: manager for Burlington
Mills.
Mr. Easter, who now
makes his headquarters at
■ Duplan’s Lincolnton, N. C.
■ plant, will take up his resi
■ dence at this
: summer.
Methodist Church
Mrs. W. R. Reed of Salis
bury who is director of
youth work in the Western
North Carolina Conference
conducted a Vacation Bible
School Institute at the
church on Tuesday. * She
was assisted by Mrs. P. M.
Camak and Mrs. Bridges,
both of Hendersonville
Different churches in the
county were represented at
the meeting.
A special Rally Day Pro- :
gram will be presented at
thb church school hour on i
next Sunday. The service
charge of the Women’s
and Men’s Bible classes
H. Edwards of Memphis,
Tenn.,, > Mrs. Carroll Angel
of Burnsville and Mrs. ,
Kenneth Hilliard of Spruce •
Pine.
Twenty-five adult speak- :
era, representing various
social agencies and voca
tions, led the discussion
groups.
The following group
meetings were held: Reli
gious work, agriculture,
business, trades, armed
services, nursing, medicine,
teaching, engineering,
home making, boy and girl
W I
NUMBER THIRTY-NINE
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named as follows:
For State Senate: Don
ald Banks.
For Representative: Lon
zo Roberts.
For Sheriff: Bill Buckner
For Clerk of Court:
Mack Ledford.
For County Commission
ers: Dewey Ray, chairman;
John Byrd and Gaw Sparks
members.
BURNSVILLE—
“So They Say”
Came the Day—Saturday
April 15—Trout Season op
ening date. Everything in
readiness —tackle all lined
up, plans all made. Every
thing ready, that is, except
the weather. It was so dry
that the Refuge streams
wer e not opened because of
the fire hazard and it was
so cold that one not-so
ardent fisherman declared
that he wouldn’t go “if I
thought I’d catch a whale”!
Brief comment: New
store. Jay Edge plans to
open a complete shoe store
in the building now occu
pied by the City Case . . .
New homes: Jess and Nel
lie Styles are building on
the lovely hill top just be
fore you come to the Styles
home on the Green Moun
tain Road—and Lucius and
Ruby Smith on one of the
lots’with a beautiful view
in the Sholes-Westall deve
lopment ... the new depart
ment store held the formal
opening Friday with much
interest shown by the many
visitors who stopped in . . .
On Sunday to Kona (which
is becoming quite a busy
place) to visit Monroe Tho
mas whom many of you will
remember well. He has
been confined to his home
almost from the time he
was in school here but is
still deeply interested on all
that goes on and all the
people he once knew while
in Burnsville ...
The “Along about this
time of the year” depart
ment: One of the immed
iate needs is a new supply
of benches at the east en
trance of the court house!
The whittlefs have about
reduced the two that are
there and if that ancient
and honorable art goes on
there must be some new
material—Some one sug
gested iron seats. Heaven
forbid! But we would like
to know how long the pre
sent ones have lasted . . .
then along about this time
we are most envious of the
“other side of the moun
tain”. -Go- over the moun
tain in any direction (and
this is necessary to get out
of Burnsville) and there
spring has already come!
Flowers blooming, etc. etc.,
and we have to wait. How
ever, it can’t b e very long
till spring reaches us. The
sarvis trees already white
and the apple trees just be
binning to bloom—and the -
ramps about ready! ....
That’s another thing that
peeves us. Why didn’t we
start a “Ramp Cohvention”
instead if reading the glow
ing accounts from Canton
Hay!
wood County convention
there on May 7. ... The