“I envyy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.” ~ Browne VOLUME FIFTEEN SUB. RATES $1.60 YEAR, Telephone System Here To Be Improved • Thomas H. Sawyer, Vice President and General Ma nager of the Carolina Moun tain Telephone Company announced this week that construction of new and larger telephone cable for Burnsville will commence the week of Sept. 11. This project when completed will replace all existing telephone cable with nefy and larger cable and will extend into sections now being served by open wire. This new construction will enable the Company to take care of all held applications for telephone service in the Town of Burnsvile and pro vide adequate outside plant facilities for future growth It will also make private line service avaiable. to these now served on a party line who may desire a re grade of service. A part of the cable is expected to be placed into service dur ing September or early Oct-j ober, and the entire project is expected to be completed during the months of Nov ember and December. The Company installed a two-position switchboard early this summer with a capacity of 600 lines, capab- Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ed wards of Cane River, N. C. have receievd letters from their sons, Jack and James, who are in Korea. Jack served on Okinawa during World War II and has just gone into action with U. S. Forces in Korea.! James reported in his j letter that he is now rest-! ing after having been in; battle 56 days without re-! relief. He is attached to the 24th Inf. Div., the outfit from which General Dean was lost. According to Mr. R. N. Silver, Chairman of the Se lective Service Board, 35 men from Yancey County are being called into service this month. These men are from the 25 year age group. .IS \ i-■"&w-’ ibsesr* gpg mmm s S Sr • 1 .JHEKu mam mm)m . * Hrif ; Jw ■ <* HI? * kfrjlf' jM/mtumt \ W), Carolyn “Miss North Carolina 1950” Edwards, center? registers early at Western Carolina Teachers College, Cullowhee, prior to participating in the Migs America contest being held at Atlantic City, N. J., September 4-10. Registering the 18 year old beauty is Miss Addie Beam, college registrar, and John Sasser, her high school principal. Miss Edwards plans to follow a pre-nursing curriculum. She is the dau ghter of Mr. Mrs. J. B. Edwards of Leaksville. ' The yan&y Record le of serving from 1200 to to 1800 subscribers. The new cable construction, to gether with the installation ; of the switchboard, is de- I signed to take care of the ' increasing demand for tel ‘ ephone service in Burns -1 ville. Mr. Sawyer also announ ced that equipment had been ordered which will add ! two more toll circuits from Burnsville to Ashevile,mak ; ing a total of five circuits | between these points. The two additional circuits are required due to the tremen dous increase in traffic to and from Burnsville, par ticularly during the sum mer months. The Com pany has already tripled its toll facilities from Bur nsville to Asheville. One circuit was added in July, 1949. at which time the toll pole route between Burns ville and Asheville was I completely rebuilt, and an other circuit was added in late June of this year. The equipment for the two ad ditional circuits is expected to be shipped in time to be | placed into operation be (Continued on page two) Mrs, Dale Honeycutt. Trimmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Honeycutt was scheduled to return home Wednesday from travels in Europe. Mrs. Trimmer has spent the past month in Holland, ! Denmark, Sweeden, and | Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Robert i Hurst of Durham, N. U, Mr. and Mrs. Raymosd Perry and children, Lowell and Jano, and Fleming Der ry were the week end guests of Rev. and Mrs. Trammel. The condition of Charlie Byrd, who is in Mission Hospital, is reported im proved. SUBSCRIBE TO THE RECORD “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OP YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C., TBjfRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1950 LANDSCAPING MEETING HELD Approximately 50 Yan cey County people attended the landscaping meeting which was held Wednesday at the home of Jesse How ell, Brush Creek. The meeting was con ducted by Mr. John Harris, State Landscaping Special ist. During the meeting, shrubbery plans were dr awn for lawns of" several persons attending the meet ing. Mr. Howell’s lawn was used as an example for land scaping, and a flannel bo ard with movable shrubbe- Iry to show different de signs and arrangements. A sketch of the Burns ville Square was made by Mr. Harris, and a landscap ing program suggested, which will be carried out in the future. Boxwood should be used extensively on the Square, the specialist point ed out, due to easy main tenance of the, shrub. BAPTIST HOLD ASSOCIATION The , Yancey Baptist Association held 5 its annual sessions with the Banks Creek Baptist Church Friday and Saturday, September I—2. The 33 r churches q i the association were represented by mes- 1 sengers who constituted the association. Rev. E. J. Hall, pastor of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Chur ch, presided over the sess ions. Miss Laura Mae Hilliard was named to ser ve as clerk for the session. Later Mr. Brantley Briggs was named as clerk for next year and Rev. Hall was re-elected for next year also. It was voted by the association to hold the annual meeting next year with the South Estatoe Baptist Church. Among the outstanding speakers representing the work of the convention were: Dr. E. U- Spivey, as sociate secretary o f the Baptist State Convention; Burnsville livening College to Begin JSeptember 18 Burnsville Evening Col lege will Jlegm Monday, ; will be .hMain the Burns ville High School Library Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Classes will begin i , Tuesday afjernoon. The Cottle will be spon , sored again by Woman’s College of f University of t North Carolina with Frank W. Howell |s local director, s All classes ire also approv ed by the Jreterans admin istration. f Two yeafjs standard col lege work frill be offered • both veteniis and non vet erans. ’ All veterans who plan to ■ attend are urged to fill out elegibility papers in the 1 office of the Service officer l H. G. Bailey at once in or ! der to be feady for regis tration on |he opening date ■ of the collfge. LASTR HIS FOR MISS BIDDIE RANDOLPH Funeral services for Miss Biddie*'Randolph, 66, who died Sunday at the home of a sister,lMrs. M. E. Rid dle, were field Tuesday in < Zion Baptiit Church, To | ledo, with the Rev. Jesse j Hughes huiial. was in-flKnt Cemetery. Surviving are four sis ters and a brother. 4-H CLUB NEWS ££ = One hundred and four animals from Yancey, Mit chell and Avery counties were exhibited at the first | annual* Tri-County Cattle Show which, was held in Spruce Pine September11 1 There were 34 animals exhibited by Yancey coun ,ty farmers and 4-H Club members. The following 4-H Club . members entered calves in the show and won blue rib ! bons: Joe Gillespie, Wayne Silver, Edgar Bryan, Ed | win Bryan, David Gillespie, ; Loraine McCourry, Billy ’ Pittman, Barbara Ann Mc- Courry, and Tommy Ray. In addition to winning blue ribbons Barbara Ann Mc- Courry won Junior Guern sey Championship, and tommy Ray won Junior Holstein Championship. Those winning red rib bons were: Wayne Silver, David Gillespie, Richard Conley, Lois Randolph, Hugh Teague, Reed Hall, Billy Byrd, Richard Briggs, Luther Laughrun, and Ver lean Silver. • v , Jimmy Roland won first place on showmanship ’ and Joe Gillespie, won third Dr. W. K. McGee, pirector of the departmest of Relig ion, Baptist Hospital, Win ston-Salem; Dr. J. C. Can ipe, executive secretary of Evangelism, North Baptist State Convention; Rev. E. C. Wilkie, pastor of the Baptist Church, Kennedy Home, and Rev. H. M. Ken dall, professor of Religion at Mars Hill College. The Banks Creek Church served dinner to the mess engers and representatives of the churches on Friday at noon. COLLEGE STUDENTS The list to date of boys and girls leaving for Col lege from Yancey county are as follows: To Boone: Lucy Bailey, i and Margaret Silver. East Tenn. State: Lou- i etta Randolph.. To Clemson: David Cov ington. * i Lees Mcßae: Max Buck- ( ner. Meredith: Mary Evelyn Hensley. Woman’s College, Green- ( sboro: Sue Koenig, Clara D. Banner. 1 Wake Forest: Elizabeth , Ann Roberts, Sarah Ham- : rick, Dick Bailey, Charles Trammel, Danny Fouts. ; Wesleyan Conservatory: Evelyn Hamrick. Furman: Ruth Banks. University of N. C.: Ar liss Young, Charles Lee Griffith, Charles Gillespie. N. C. State: Charles mer Parnell, R. L. Bailey, Robert Tib on, and Phillip Banks. Berea: Ross Bailey. )Tio Greensboro College: Llewellyn Ray. Crossnore Business Col lege: Mary Huffman, Mar tha Huffman, 'Donna Tho mas, Barbara Robinson, Joyce Hilliard. W. C. T. C. Cullowhee: ] Hale Bryson and Wanda Johnson. - ..... ? ' "warren Wilson: Wilma V Wyatt. Woman’s Missionary Society , ■““““ i The Woman’s Missionary . Society of the Baptist, Church will meet at the church next Tuesday even ing at 7:30, with Mrs. J. A. ' Watson as program leader. The subject of the program will be “State Missions”. Hostesses for the social hour are Mrs. Hershel Hoi- i combe, Miss Clonnie Hus kins and Mrs. Cecil Angel. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Spencer and sons, David and Kenneth, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hedrick, all of Knox ville, Tenn., were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hunter. place. David Gillespie won first place on Best Fitted animal while Wayne Silver won second place. In the Farmer class, those winning blue ribbons were: C. B. Gillespie, S. B. Randolph, Bill Edge, and Frank McCourry. Those winning red rib bons were: S. B. Randolph,! Bill Edge, Roy Duncan, Holt Whitson, Yates Ran dolph, Wade Randolph, and W. O. Briggs. The animals shown from Yancey county were better as a whole than have been shown in the past. This fact was established by the fact that no white ribbons were placed on Yancey county stock. ——i i ... BLOODSHED BOXSCORE o On N. C. Highways Killed September 1 through September 4 15 Injured September 1 through September 4 .... ~. 233 Killed through September 4 this year 605 Killed through September 4, 1949 547 Injured through September 4 this year 8,031 Injured through. September 4, 1949 7,239 V Duplan Makes Report “There has been a major increase in activity in the ; last three months. Our! sales have been 25 percent; ahead of last year,” E. C. • Grier, Chairman of the Bo ard and Lyman B Frieze, ; President of the Duplan » Corporation told stockhold-; ers in the 1950 Annual Re-; port, just released. During the past year! there was an increase in the I quantity of fabrics sold, but; 1 the dollar voume was less.; The yarn throwing was! also less. Sales exceeded ! $16,000’000 for each 6 mon-j th period, compared with; sls million and s2l million i in the previous year. . < In the past four years; Felts Furniture Store to Open September 22 According to Fred Holli- 1 field of Spruce Pine, the s new Felts Furniture Store will have its grand opening i on September 22. Mr. Holli- 1 field, who is associated with ! the Felts Store in Spruce ' Pine said the Ray-Ayers Building was completed i in fine shape to begin ar ranging furniture op the floor to show at the open ing. There will be a prize to ( each adult member visiting • ►thfiualare at j MRS. NEAiTmASON 1 The body of Neah Mason, 53, of New \ ork i City, who wag killed instan- 1 tly Monday when a car in which she was riding with her husband, Stephen W. 1 Mason, ran off a 45-foot 1 ; embankment on the Blue; Ridge- Parkway, was sent to New York yesterday for 1 funeral service and burial, j Mason was driving the car and was striking at a 1 bee when he lost control of i the vehicle. He was thrown! from the car and suffered } bruises. - - .. . . r » - ■ ■ i ■ i . - ■ - I. n < RED CROSS Rev. F..R. Barber, Chap- 1 ter Chairman, has announ ced that the Yancey Coun ty Chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross will have a meeting at Roberts and. Johnson’s Club. Room, Thursday, Sept. 7, at 7:30. , The purpose bf the meet ing is to discuss, the Chap ter’s responsibility in the Blood now, that 4tre Red Crsss is send ing blood to our armed for ces overseas. „Rev. Barber urges that a£l interested citizens of the county. attend this meeting. “We have a big job to de, ano we rtiust have cooperation from all citiz ens in the county tc do this great work”, he said. It has been reported that some of the blood givxtn by employees of the Glen-Rav en Mill has already gone to our fighting men in/Korea. N »■ “The mind is its own place, and in itself, Gan make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” Milton - - - NUMBER ONE the company has spent $9. 300,000 for expansion and (plans -to spend $5,000,000 more before the end of its 1 1951 year. Duplan has been rapidly expanding its mills in the | South and by the end of 1 1951 expects to have 60 per ■cent of the original cost of [its plants and machinery in | this part of the country. In 'December it will start its latest weaving mill in Bur- Ins ville, making a total of mills in the U. S. and 2 *; in Canada. Government orders are now in production and add itional volume can be pro duced without changes in machinery. Mrs. Wilson Wyatt of Washington, p r ominent Democratic leader, will be j the principal speaker at the second annual Democratic ; Women’s Day planning meeting at 11 a. m. at the banquet hall at Breece’s landing in Fayettevi’ie on Tuesday, September 12. A luncheon and river cruise down the Cape Fear River on Breece’s Yacht will, follow the meeting. Business men of Fayette ville are providing the lun cheon. Charles N. Meakin, will preside. 1 LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. IDA B. PRYOR Funeral services for Mrs. Ida Belle Pryor, 66, of Hen dersonville, who died Sat urday night at her home after a brief illness, was held Monday at 2 p. m. in Anderson’s Chapel. Elder M. O. Williamson officiated and burial was in Liberty Cemetery. Pall beareris were: Les ter Wilson, Rex Freeman, | Woodrow and Delma Pryor and L. K. McMinn. | Surviving are the hus band, Guy V. Pryor; two daughters, Mrs. J. Craig English of Burnsville and Miss Jennie Pryor of the hofneV two sons, Freeman and C. F. of Henderson ville. Also one sister, Mrs. L. iW. McMinn of; Asheville one half-sister, Mrs. 'T?. A. Barnwell of Henderson fille; one half-brother, M. T. Freeman of Flat Rock, and eight grandchildren. __________ • I Vic Vet says r WEY, MAC ! 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