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THE YANCEY RECORD
ESTABLISHED JULY, 1936
Editor - Frances M. Hamrick
Published Every Thursday By
YANCEY PUBLISHING GO.
A Partnership ,
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Entered as second-class matter November 11th, 1936, at the
Pott Os flee, Burnsville, North Carolina, under the act of
March 3, 1879.
AROUND THE DISTRICI
By George Vitas
U. S. Forest Ranger
Mt. Mitchell District
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The rains have been most
welcome. However, it will
be a long time before we
forget the f'.st crisis thro
ugh which we have just
passed. Don Morriss, Pis
gah National Forest Sup
ervisor, tells us that he
searched through the For
est fire records and found
that this spring’s fire sea
son was the most critical in
26 years.
Our thanks go out to the
many U. S. Forest Fire
Wardens, Lookouts, fire
dispatchers and all the
many folks who worked
nplflw ensemble
. Zippity Grip pedal pusher* and ((X
; *hortß can be had with matching or W ’
contrasting sport coats and crew hats.’ 1 U l
” ere * 8 the newest and most comfort* ) •
Cable fad for 1
ECONOMY CENTER
BURNSVILLE, N. C.
■ WHAT'S THE REASON?
:
Why Hatbands
on Man's HatsT
' Early Egyptian men favored
a -page boy bob" haircut. To
. ksep ie hir out of their §
’ eyes. they wore !. ‘udbanda.
Now hat maker* still pro
vide a headband but it’s out
aide the hat —a useless ‘extra/
Why Put Cross Thread*
► In Tiro Cords?
No good reason 1 They're a
useless "extra." too put
there only to hold tiie cord*
during a step in tire manu
facture. In the finished tire,
these cross threads prevent
cords from working together,
may cause weak spots.
BFG tiro cords have NO
cross threads. That’s why
y ‘Rythm Ride'gives you morel
•3. F Goodrich
11.75 plus las
f fggL
M Amazing Bargain! In nutad Mllnag,
I 00.001=00.00
■ TRADE tires today and savel
f _ AUTO & HOME CENTER
one Burnsville, N. C.
1
HEADQUARTERS
assess
with us to keep the forest
green. We want to thank
McDowell County
Warden M. U. Marlowe,
Mitchell County Warden,
Frank H. Bryant and Yan
cey County Warden, J.
Craig English for their ex
cellent cooperation. We al
so want to extend our (
thanks to the hundreds of *
fishermen who patiently
waited three weeks until
the woods were safe enou
gh to fish in.
John Spring, Forest Fire
Inspector from the U. S,
Forest Service Regional
Office in Atlanta, spent two
days on the District with
Forest Supervisor, Don
Morriss and Asst. Supervis
or, A. A. Grumbine. We
BEST TIRE VALUE
starts INSIDE
ggB.F. Goodrich
'Rythmßide
Stop la today sss for
Orsslf how tbs nsw illffllll
'• Goodrich "rythmic- lllfMi mjSm,
n* cords" ere pre- dtffHsißßS
vision spacad, ssalsd In {HCH
live rubber WITH NO
CROSS THRE ADS. That
means a smoothsr. safsr, inWTH jl
looser utUajr* rids —a nil 11 IHB /SI
“Rythm Rids." iIIIIIHMhI
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Sgal Puneturat At You Rido
Safety Tubes
$1 25 A MONTHS
•Dowa W TO p AY
Sill •.00-14
Huckleberry Workshop-
Camp Plans Schedule
Hendersonville.— Evelyn
Haynes, Director of the
Huckleberry Moun ta in
Workshop-Camp, ihas an
nounced the schedule of
special sessions and instru
ctors in the creative arts
for the summer season of
the camp.
The regular camp-school
sessions will open on July
2nd,and run for three terms
of three weeks' each, clos
ing September 2nd. The
following courses will ye
offered: Advanced Creative
Writing, Creative Writing,
Playwriting, Painting iin
all . mediums, Ceramics,
Journalism and Feature
,Writing, Juvenile Fiction,
Poetry, Weaving and Con
sulation on Markets.
This summer Huckleber
ry instructors will include
Vivian Laramore Radar,
poet, editor and columnist,
teaching poetry for the
11th summer; Georgia.
Nicholas, author and liter-!
ary agent, conducting crea
tive writing classes for the
sth season Edwin Osgood
Grover, consultant on mar
kets; Martha Harnish, tea
cher of painting in all med
iums; Douglas Fields Bai
ley, author, editor and pub
lisher, teaching journalism
and feature writing; Don
Waters, author of books,
stories and articles, teach
ing advanced creative writ
ing; Helen Deihl Olds, au
thor of over 300 short stor
ies published in leading
juvenile magazines and
seven books, instructor in
juvenile writing; Lee Edw
ards, playwright, actor in
| six Broadway shows, Dir
ector of the Asheville Com
munity Theatre, and form
er student in Max Rein
hardt Workshop and Ame*-
rican Theatre Wing, teach
ing dramatic writing.
George A. Struble, craft
sman potter, Director of
the Southland Pottery and
School of Ceramics, St. Pet
ersburg, Florida, will teach
advanced ceramics. Minnie
Reese, specialist in adult
education in crafts, will
teach weaving and wood
carving.
W. E. Anglin of Burns
ville was named to the ad
visory committee last year.
made the two and one-half
mile climb to the top of
Woods Mountain Tower.
The inspectors were very
much impressed by the
clean neat appearance
of the tower which is man
ned by Ben Elliott.
We welcome Edward M.
Smith, our new Junior For
ester, to the District. Ed
hails from Marblehead,
Massachusetts. He is a gra
duate of the Yale Univer
sity School of Forestry. Ed
is a veteran of the last war,
having served 23 months in
the Navy.
Smokey Sayt:\^
ff manih-donY burn brush
Pfr UKE
dis —if your
•way!
More than 12 million
Government insurance pol
icies have been dropped by
veterans since World War
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SHE YANCEY RECORD
Compare Their Records
of Public Service!!
' *■ . .»
It’s Fair to Ask the Candidates for U. S. Senate Just What They’ve Done for Their Fel
lowman. In Other Words, Does His Past Record of Performance Show He Is Interested
In You and Your Family?
FRANK GRAHAM HAS DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO THE WELL-BEING OF OTHERS!
HERE IS HIS UNMATCHED RECORD OF PUBLIC SERVICE:
1. Vice-Chairman of the Consumers Board of the
National Recovery Administration, and in the fall
of 1934 was appointed Chairman of the National
Advisory Council to the Cabinet Committee? on
Economic Security.
2. Twige President of the North Carolina Confer
~ ence of Social Service which prepared and sponsor
ed the first Workmen’s Compensation Act in North
Carolina, still considered the best in the Southern
States.
3. Founded the Citizens Library Movement, the first
in the United States, which seeks to expand the
library facilities of every North Carolina commun
ity.
4. Member of the President’s Committee on Educa
tion.
5. In 1920-21 in charge of the, statewide campaign
for a $20,000,000 building program for state insti
tutions.
6. MeJlber of the U. S. Commission go study the
University of Puerto Rico as a possible inter-
American University.
7. Given the responsibility by the Board of Trustees
for writing the plan for the consolidation of the
three institutions of higher learning which now
constitute the University of North Carolina.
8. President of Sigma Epsilon, national intercolleg
iate literary society.
9. President of National Association of College
Writing Groups.
10. Vice-President of Tau Kappa Alpha, national in
tercollegiate debating fraternity.
11. Chairman of the Industries Committee of
American Railroads.
12. Member of the National Defense Mediation
Board, 1941-42.
13. Public Member of the National War Labor
Board, 1942-1946.
14. Member of the Maritime War Emergency Board,
1942-1946.
VOTE FOR
FRANK GRAHAM
FOR U. S. SENATOR
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“Champion of Democracy”
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Contributed by Supporter* of Senator Graham in Yancey County.
15. Chairman of the Public Hearings Committee of
the President’s Labor-Management Conference,
1945.'
16. Chairman of the Oil Panel of the President’s
Labor-Management Conference, 1945-1946.
17. Member of the Phi Beta Kappa Senate, 1946.
18. Member of the President’s Committee on Civil
Rights, 1946-47.
19. Member of the Central Committee of the Ameri
can National Red Cross, 1946-47, and elected to the
newly-formed Board of Governors of the American
National Red Cross to serve from 1947 to 1950.
20. One of the organizers and first president of the
Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies at Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, 1946-1949.
21. President of the National Association of State |
Universities, 1947-48.
22. President of the North Carolina Historical and
Literary Society.
23. President of the Board of Trustees of the Car
negie Foundation for Advancement of teaching,
1947; elected Vice-Chairman of the Board, 1947-48.
24. Appointed by the President to serve as the United
States Representative on the Good Offices Commit- -
tee of the Security Council of the United Nations
on Indonesia, 1947-48.
25. Appointed by the President on recommendation
of General George C. Marshall to serve as Advisor
to the Secretary of State with regard to Indonesia,
February 1948.
26. Appointed by Governor W. Kerr Scott as United
States Senator on March 22, 1949, to succeed the
late J. Melville Broughton. Sworn in as United
States Senator from North Carolina on March 29,
1949.
27. Appointed to the Senate Committee on the Judi
ciary and the Senate Committee on Rules and
Administration.
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1956