“We think our fathers fools, so wise we' prow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.” Pope VOLUME FIFTEEN Telephone Co-op For County Discussed A meeting was held Monday night in the court house here to discuss the possibility of establishing a telephone cooperative i n Yancey County. Approxi mately fifteen men repre senting several localities of the county were present for the discussion. Mark Bennett, manager of the Yancey County bra nch of the French Broad Electric Membership Corp oration, and moderator of the meeting, explained the purpose of the meeting andi the way a telephone coop-j erative would operate if es-l tablished. Mr. Bennett said the French Broad Electric Membership Corp., had no intentions of going into the telephone‘business here but had been delegat ed to aid and guide groups in establishing rural tele phone service. Federal aid may be secured in estab lishing telephone coopera tives in rural sections in the same manner it secured in establishing rural elec trification, he said. Some members of the group who are thoroughly acquainted with the pre sent telephone situation of i the county stated that the Carolina Mountain Tele-; phone Company definately had no plans for expansion J into rural areas, and that the only way rural teleph-l one service could be secur ed ...would, be through other sources. Mr. Anderson, Educa- | tional Director of the Fre nch Broad Electric Mem-; bership Corp., told of the: success of other ,coopera-1 Bradford Visits Relatives ■ ■—«o—■■ u Arthur Bradford, who has been employed by the State in Raleigh for sever al years, is visiting relativ es and friends at Cane River and in Tennessee. Mr. Bradford will return to his work in Raleigh this week end. J. M. Lyon, who has spent the summer in Bur nsville returned to his home in Knoxville, Tenn., on Monday, October 2. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Burton of Weaverville spent Sun day with Mr. Lyon and oth er friends in Burnsville. The At/AWST { Hvygr'* ***T! JTroia The LouiaVMle Courier Journal The YANCfeY Record SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. tives operating in North Carolina. He also gave data concerning the rural tele-' phone situation in this cou-.| rity which had been secur ed through the REA Coop erative. Mr. Anderson poin ted out that certain criter ia as to the number of members comprising the cooperative must lie met before aid under the Fed eral Cooperative Act may be secured. Also, since the system will operate on a purely cooperative basis, I the more members secured the less cost per member ! for telephone service, he said. Everett L. Dillingham, j County Farm Agent, was! elected by the group to ] head the County Organiza-; tion Committee. Mr. Dill inbham selected the follow ing men to aid him: J. J. Nowicki, Swiss; E. B. Pow ell, Burnsville, Star Rt.; 'Frank Howell, Green Mou ntain; Mark W. Bennett, Burnsville; John Randolph Green Mountain, Rt. 1; Luther Robinson, Celo; Benjamin Wilson, Pensa cola; and Paul Buck, Bee ; Log. 1 j A meeting of the com mittee with persons inter j ested in securing telephone service will be held in Bur nsville Monday, Oct. 16, and l at Bald Creek Tuesday, i Oct. 17. Meetings for Bee Log, Micaville, Clearmont, Pensacola, Green Moun tain, and Celo will be sched uled within the next two | weeks. Persons in each area will receive notice as to the Hate the meeting will be | held in their locality. Orthopedic Clinic The monthly orthopedic clinic for the Avery-Miteh ell-Yancey district will be held Wednesday morning, October 18, in the Spruce Pine office of the District Health Department. Dr. James H. Cherry of Ashe ville will hold this clinic. Patients should be at the office not later than 11 a. m Mrs. R. N. Silver of Mi caville and Mrs. Vincent Westall of Burnsville visit ed their sister, Mrs. Sarah Barbee in Concord during the past week. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OP YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12,1950 L' 2 * - MAN STRUCK BY HIT-RUN DRIVER Alvin Vernon Edwards, Day Book, was seriously in jured last Friday night when he was struck by an automouile or truck while] 'walking along the highway a few hundred yards above C. M. Bailey’s store east of j Burnsville.- Edwards was found lying in the weeds beside the highway by an Anglin man who lives near where the accident happened. Anglin, it was said, was attracted to the scene by hearing groans, and upon investi gating found the injured man. First reports were that Edwards said he did not know how he came to be there; however, it was lat er learned that he said he was struck by a vehicle. He was unable to determine I whether it was an automo bile or truck. Sheriff Anglin said that bruises o n the injured man’s hip indicated he was struck by a truck, or at least by a vehicle with a high bumper or fender. The Sheriff said that al lhough Edward’s left hip was broken, no other part of his body was injured. Edwards, who lives near Clearmont High School, was on his way to the thea tre in Burnsville. He had caught a ride to the junc tion at Glen Raven plant and was walking into town from there ..... School Health Conferences Several members of the District Health Depart ment staff attended the recent conferences on the 1950-51 school health pro gram, held by the School- Health Co-ordinating Ser vice. “Carolina Sweethearts” Gain Popularity 1 The “Carolina Sweet hearts”, Lois, Grace and Louise Brown, young dau ghters of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Brown of Burnsville, and Thelma Williams, are gain ing popularity with radio listening circles in this sec tion, through appearing on the Spruce Pine Barn Dan ce held each Friday night. On Saturday morning part of the Barn Dance, which has been recorded, is broad cast from Marion. The Brown sisters have appeared on the radio pro gram for several weeks. Since their first' appearan ce on the program, they have received requests to play and sing over other radio stations, some of them out of the State. Attention was first drawn to the girls’ talent of singing and playing the guitar when they took part in the talent show sponsor ed by the Farmers Federa tion at the annual picnic held here July 4. The Aug ust issue of the Farmers Federation News carried a picture of Lois arid Grace as they appeared before the microphone at the picnic. They were tagged “Caro lina Sweethearts” recently by Mr. Calhoun, master of ceremonies for the Barn Dance. - - . MICA PLANT BURNS ‘The Lun4| Mica* plant, owned by the Newdale Mica Co., tfi|& completely consumed byjriire last Fri day night Iround 1. a. m. .Officials staged that it was not known how the fire . started. i ‘The plarfffjvvhich was lo cated near sbna was for merly ownsp&y the Harris Clay and used in the processing of clay. About four jjpears ago the plant was fajken ever by the Newdale wKica Company for the ulfK in prolessing mica, Officials a new plant is now under construction and will be Completed with in two or three months. The value of the plant whi ch was burned or the cost of the newHplant was not learned. ’Bln Lundy plant was one of the largest pro cessing mills for mica in this area. r-&—, HOME AGENT The following are the club notices for the week of October 16th: Micaville Club will meet Oct. 16 at 7:00 at the Mica ville Lunsiy|om. Bald Creek Club will meet Oct. 17 at 8 at the Home Depart ment, Hardsera v I * 01 ub will meet Oct’. 20 at 2:00 at the home of Mrs. James Robin son. Burnsville Club will meet Oct. 18 at 10 a. m. at Rob erts and Johnson Club room for an all day work" day. The Burnsville 4-H Club will meet at 11 a. m. Oct. 18. The Bald Creek Junior 4-H Club will meet at 10:15 Oct. 19th. The Bald Creek Senior 4-H Club will njget at 10:45 Oct. 19th. Highway Department Completes 2.5 Miles The State Highway Com mission has finished anoth er 2.5 miles of road impro vements in Yancey County under the accelerated road building program. L. Dale Thrash of Ashe ville, Tenth Division high way commissioner, has an nounced the following work completed during the month of September: Grading and surfacing with traffic-bound maca dam the following roads: Ayers Creek Road, 0.2 mile; Wheeler Road, 0.1; Tom Higgins Road, 0.3; Wane Garland Road, 0.7 Lankford Branch Road, 0.1; Horton Hill Road, 0.5; Whittington Road, 0.3. Strengthening and stabi lizing the following road: Lotties Creek Road , 0.3 mile. Dr. Henry W. Jordan, , chairman of the Highway Commission, reports more road work under construc : tion at this time than ever before in the history of the i Commission. Numerous primary am} secondary projects will be finished ! before the end of the-195(J construction season. As of September 10, the Commission had spent ' $49,874,221.50 and allocated , $95,067,744.27 of the first $125,000,000 in bond funds. Selective Service Registers Doctors Doctors and dentists and those in allied categories in Yancey County affected by Presilent Truman’s procla mation of October 6 will be registered in the Selective Service Local Board Office located at Burnsville, N. C., it was announced this week N. Silver, board j chairman. Required to register are those male persons who have received degrees in a medical, dental or veteri nary course of study and who were students in thq Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) or any similar program adminis tered by the Navy or, who were deferred from service during World War II for the purpose of pursuing a course of instruction lead ing to such degrees, and who had less than 21 mon ths of active duty with the armed forces subsequent to completion of 'such course of instruction. Those who received such degrees on or before Octo ber 16, 1950, are required to register on that date. Those who complete their courses of study after Oct ober 16 are required to re gister within five days af ter receiving their degrees. ; Tt /yhe presidential procla mation affects male persons with the following degrees: Bachelor of Medicine, Doc tor of Medicine, Doctor of Dental Surgery, Doctor of Medical Dentistry, Doctor of Veterinary Surgery and Doctor of Veterinary Med icine. Ten Students From Yancey Attend Berea Among the 1450 students enrolled in Berea College for the fall term there are ten from Yancey County. Eight are registered in the College Department and two others in the Found ation School, the high scho ol unit of the college. In the college there are Louella Briggs, Milton Young, Will oree Young, ißumsville; Leslie McCurry,Elouise. Mc- Curry, Bee Log; Mary Margaret Hughes, Green fountain; David Ross Bai ley, Day Book; Wayne Sil ver, Micaville. In the Foundation School are Aar on Wilson, and Ethel Lear Dayton, Burnsville. Berea' College is the old est of the mountain schools, founded in 1855. It serves youth living in the Appa lachian territory. The other ten per cent comes from other parts of the United States and many foreign countries. The college is noted for its unique labor program,wh ereby every student earns part and in some cases, all 1 of his expenses by work in one of the several indust ries maintained on the campus. BLOODSHED BOXSCORE On N. C. Highways Killed October 6 through October 9 25 Injured October 6 through October 9 204 Killed through October 9, this year 707 Killed through October 9, 1949 624 Injured through October 9 this ytear 9,228 Injured through October 9 1949 ) 7,279 Breeders Group Attend Policy Session Yancey County Coopera tive Breeding Association’s i Policy C o m.mitteeman, Charlie Deyton, of Green Mountain, met with the Southern Artificial Breed ing Association’s Policy Committee at the Sales Arena', Irdell County Fair grounds, 5 miles south of ; Statesville, on Tuesday, ; October 10th W. Lee Meri dth of Trinity, Chairman of the Policy Committee, called this meeting to order The Policy Committee is] made up of one member selected from each coopera tive or breeding service purchasing semen from the 1 Southeastern A r tificial Breeding Association, an American Breeders Service Various matters of policy are discussed and voted up-' on by these representatives Policies of the Southeas- ; tern Artificial Breeding- Association are determined by its customers who make iup the 97 cooperatives and (breeding associations in 7 states who are furnishing dairymen service from the Association’s High Index Proved Sires. The Yancey Breeding Association is helping to ] improve the dairy herds in the county by making avail able this service. Besides the Policy Com-; 5 mitteemen, most of the dir- 1 : ectors and officers of North j ; Carolina Associations were; • at the meeting, along with ! j County Agents asd repre- 1 ’jsentatives from N. C. State Other representa-j ■ tives from Yancey County were Seth Peterson, tech- 1 nician for the Association! and County Agent Dilling ham. Plans are being made for a meeting of the local Asso ciation to discuss policies taken up in the meeting at Statesville. Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Ed wards have moved back to,: Burnsville. l/iey have been living in Waynesville for some time. i ■ According to reports, the ] . condition of Dr. Robertson j has not improved since he | entered Rutherfordton Ho-; spital last week. Mrs. Robertson is visit ing the Doctor and their, son, Burdette Jr., in Ruth erfordton this week. Rev. Barlow from John son City is taking over the pastorate of Micaville, Newdale, Estatoe, and PPaint Gap Presbyterian i Churches, Sunday. ■ u* r Sgt. Ball Visits Home i ■ - i Sgt. Samuel H. Ball, who ■ is stationed at Andrews Air i Base visited his home here 1 last week. Sgt. Ball was i wearing the new blue uni ■ form which the Air Force i recently issued to its per sonnel. “No man can justly censure or co» demn aonther, because indeed no man truly knows another.” Browne NUMBER SIX Draft Board Reclassifies 40 Men At the 4 regular meeting of the Selective Service Board, the following men were reclassified: Roy C. Thomas, 5-A; Loss Hopson, 5-A; James R. Robertson, 5-A; Ford W. Hensley, 5-A; Cread S. Hylemon, 5-A; Hubert Swann, 1-C; E. A. Peterson 3-A; Kenneth Maney, 3-A; Garrett D.; Bailey, 2-A; Willie Henson, 1-C; Edw ard L. Beeson Jr., 2-A; Merritt B. Robinson, 2-A; iCarmon Williams, 4-F; Charles B. Allen, 4-F; Otis Blankenship, 4-A; Earl V. Carroll, 1-C; Oscar Sparks, 1-C; Frank L. Gurley, 1-C; Leonard Hughes, 1-C; Rob ert R. Severs, 2-A; James IV. McMahan, 2-A; Jack W. ; Griffith, 1-C; Charles P. :Taylor; 1-C; Eugene Shep herd, 1-C; Earl E. Shepherd 3- Roy A. Laughrun, 4-F Arthur A. Woody, 1-C; Alden J. Metcalf, 2-A; Vestil Edwards, 2-A; Ker mit Blankenship, 4-F; Wal ter G. Woody, 1-C; George D. Ray Jr., 3-A; Ben Hun nicutt, 1-A; Glenn Silver, 4- James Webb, 1-C; Le jland N. Westall, 2-A; Ben L. Bailey, 1-A; Paul D. Webb, 1-A; S. J. Edwards, 1-A; Charles V. Higgins, 1-A. According to the Board ]Clerk, 1-A means, available for service, 2-A is occupa tional deferment, 3-A is a I married man, 4-A is a man ]who has completed the re quired training time, 5-A lis a man over the 25 year age limit, 1-C is a man al ready enlisted, and 4-F is a man found disqualified for service for some reason. Injured In Korea Cane River—lnformation has been received that Pfc. Junior Parker of the U. S. Marine Corps has been wounded during combat in Korea'. Pfc. Parker has been transferred to Yoko homa Hospital in Japan for treatment. The extent of i his injury was not learned. I Monroe McCourry o f I Washington, formerly of ; Burnsville, was a visitor here this week. Painting of the Court • Housfe in Burnsville which has been under way for sometime is nearing com pletion. The final alumin um coat for the metal dome was completed this W VETERANS WHO OEVEIOP | tuberculosis WITHIN 3 I YEARS after discharge I FROM SERVICE MAY BE * V COVERED BY A NEW LAW ] FOR COMPENSATION.HOSPITAL JZATtON, AN f J for full information contact nn noaroot . VETERANS AOMI^t jiATIQN o*oo *