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" THE YANCEY RECORD
ESTABLISHED JULY, 1936
Editor & Publisher Arney Fox
Published Every Thursday By
YANCEY PUBLISHING CO.
A Partnership
Entered as sc-cond-clasa matter November 11th, 1936, at the
Post Office, Burnsville, North Carolina, under the act of
March 3. 1879.
CRININAL AT LARGE
Somewhere "in this area
a dangerous criminal is on
the loose. He not only is a
criminal as defined in the
code book of the law but is
a criminal as defined in the
minds and spirits of men
endowed with a humane
feeling and a thought of
human decency toward oth
ers. Not only is he a crimi
nal but a yelloc coward.
Something that would
strike you on the heel and
go slithering off through
its own slime to hide. He is
a hit and run driver. He
passed this way Friday
night.
Anyone who drives an
automobile knows that an|
I “Believe It Or Not” !
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There is a COLD WAVE coming within GO *
* days. You may have to get out your undies and fire $
* up your stove before you know it. *
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Have you made any provision about keeping i
i warm this winter? „ ?
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We have plenty of good, clean coal on hand and *
i can give you all you need if you take it now. 2
The coal situation for the winter looks bad. 2
* The mines will not promise us any additional coal 2
| above the amount we got last winter. i
If you do not have your bins filled now, you J
I may have to take it by the bag this winter. J
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accident can happen. It can
happen with another auto
mobile, and more often
with careless pedestrians.
No one may deny the fact.
However, when one of the
se misfortunes occur, any
man with enough internal
steadfastness to digest
strained pea soup, will stop
to investigate the damage.
But not the driver who
struck Alvin Vernon Edw
ards east of Burnsville Fri
day night. This accident
may have been unavoidable.
He may have been blinded
by lights from another car.
But in any event, he sud
denly changed from a 1 law
abiding citizen to a criminal
when he failed to stop. He
may not have been at fault,
I but he is a criminal now.
AROUND THE DISTRICT
By George Vitas, U. S.
Forest Ranger
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We owe a lot to old tim
ers like Tom Murphy of
Celo. For almost 40 years!
Mr. Murphy wasa National
Forest Fire Warden on the'
Mt. Mitchell District of the
Pisgah National Forest, j
Many of the foot trails on
which hunters, fishermen
and hikers walk today were'
first laid out or constructed)
by Fr Murphy and his men.
Mr. Murphy can remember
when folks used to burn the
woods each year for no ap-.
parent reason except to be
burning. Many is the
time that he and his men
shouldered their fire fight
ing equipment and rations
and started up the mount
ains of the District on foot
to a fire. It sometimes
took eight hours of walking
to get there. And when
they got to the fire the men
would be so worn that they
had to rest before they
could hit it. He recalls the
days when some of the fine
motor roads on the District
were nothing more than
muddy wagon trails. Mr.
Murphy is now retired
from Tire fighting, but he
is still intensely interested
in the welfare of the Dis
trict, and manages to at
tend the Fire Wardens
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THE YANCEYSECORD
training meetings. Last
Friday he inspired the
younger members of the U. !
S. Forest Service with his
recital of the sacrifices
that were required of old
time rangers and fire war
dens. Mr. Murphy is mod
est and grateful to the
I folks with whom he has
i lived all his life on the
(District. If you compliment
I him on the progress that
j has been made in fire pro
jection on the District he
i tells you. “Give the credit
|to the folks in McDowell,
I Mitchell and Yancey coun
ties. It is their cooperation
that has made it possible to
keep the Mt. Mitchell Dis
trict green.”
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As you drive through the
Pisgah National Forest did
it ever occur to you that
the income from every
fourth tree—of those mill
ions of trees—is slated to
be turned over to the local
school and road fund in the
county in which it grows?
Yes, it’s true. Under the
law, 25 percent of the in
come taken in by the feder
al government from sales
of timber is returned to
the county in which the
tree that produced that
income was'cut. An addi
tional 10 percent is return
ed to the Forest Service for
construction and mainten
ance of national forest
(Continued on page 4)
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Halsey B. Leavitt
NOTICE
A Mass Meeting of Yan
cey County Republicans
will be held in the Court
House in Burnsville Friday
October 13th at 7:30 p. in.
Come, see and hear your
Candidates for County of
fices.
Halsey B. Leavitt, Can
didate for the United
btates Senate will be pre
sent and will discuss Nat
ional and State affairs.
EVERY ONE WELCOME
I Paid Political Ad )
Attend Presbyterian
Meeting
Local people attending
the District meeting of the
Holston Fresbyterial of the
Presbyterian Church which
was held at Walnut Wed
nesday were Mrs. Reece
Mclntosh, Mrs. Warren
Goode, Mrs. 0. K. Masters,
Mrs. Ralph Laughrun, Mrs.
Anthony Zelinsky, Mrs. Zeb’
Young, Mrs. Lon Roberts,!
and Mrs. David Swartz. I
Wild.'.fe Meeting
There will be a Wildlife
Club meeting on October!
12, at 8 p. m. in the Court
House.
Everyone interested in
Wildlife of Yancey County
is urged to attend this
meeting.
There will be a movie on
Big Game of North Ameri
ca shown.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1950
LIBRARY NEWS
Encyclopedias have been
ordered for two of the cou
nty libraries in this area.
The “Encyclopedia Ameri
cana” has been oredered
ifor the Mitchell County
Library headquarters a t
Bakersville, andjthe “Wor
ld Book Encyclopedia” has
I been ordered for the Yan
cey County Library head
quarters at Burnsville.
The addition of these sets
of reference books in the
; latest editions will greatly
increase the usefulness of
the county library in pro
viding information to ad
ults and young people. The
-sets will not be lent ( for
home use, but may be con
sulted at the library, it was
announced by Dorothy
Thomas, county librarian.