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Politician: A man who can sit on top of the fence and still keep both ears to the ground. VOLUME FIFTEEN SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. ’ First Tobacco From County Sold Yesterday The first tobacco crops from Yancey County this year were sold in Asheville yesterday. These crops were of Turkish tobacco which was raised by Fred Honeycutt of Day Book, Barnett Ray of Celo, and Claude Presnell of Boon ford. Fred Honeycutt topped the Turkish tobacco mark et with an average of 90 cents per pound. According to Couhty Agent, E. L. Dillingham, Honeycutt’s to bacco was sold in four grad es. Three bales brought $1.25 per pound, one bale sl.lO, one bale S.BO and one $.40." Although this was the {test crop of Turkish to grown by Honeycutt. buyers complimented himj on the way the tobacco had; been grown and on the way it was cured and prepared for market. Agent Dilling ham said Honeycutt and| his family had cared for, the crop in accordance to instructions and recom mendations set forth by the’ Extension Service. I FINAL RITES HELD FOR J. Y. REID J. Y. Reid,_ 60, passed away at his home here Fri day night following an ex tended illness. Surviving are the widow, a son and daughter, Buddy Reid and Annie Peppers of Charlotte; two grandchild ren ; two step-daughters, Mrs. Ruble Ealy and Mrs. George McMahan of New port, Tenn.; two step-sons, Loyd Hill of Newport, Tenn., and Junior Hill of High Point, N. C. , Funeral services were held at the home Sunday afternoon at 2:30 with the Rev. Truman Conley and the Rev. H. M. Alley offi ciating. Pall bearers were Clyde Edwards, Reece Edwards, George McMahan, Loyd Hill, Bryan Griffith, and Tom Jones. Those in charge of the flowers were Mrs. Virginia Mitchell, Mrs. Luther Bai ley, Mrs. Arvin Angel, Mrs. Reece Edwards, Miss Irene Mitchell, Mrs. Guy Mitchell, Hetty Stewart, Betty Long, Mrs. Howard Hall, Mrs. Fannie Styles, Mrs. Ophie Wheeler, Miss Virginia Mitchell and Miss Yvonne Peterson. Burial was in the Hol combe Cemetery with the Holcombe Brothers in char ge of arrangements. Invasion Successful ' dL wBHL i JbßhL-.^hkf # ...»YjJMMk j^'y~~?jt v . *#s •'*'• * IL. «**% '' United States Marines are shown in an Alligator as -their craft passed a control boat and headed for the beach at.Wolmi Island, off -"' ins.hjßb.iT 1-X •*■ *W-~ The Yancey Recoi The Turkish tobacco was not sold at auction, Dilling ham said. The Southwes tern Aromatic Tobacco Company of Anderson, S. C had representatives there who graded the tobacco in to seven grades. .Prices were already established for the different grades and ranged from 15 cents to $1.25 per pound, the Farm agent said. ' Turkish tobacco is more difficult to grow than bur ley. It is necessary to prime the leaves from the bottom as they ripen, and then string on twine in a man ner similar to the way flue cured tobacco is hung. This variety also differs from burley in that the tip leav- ht«in<v •< higher-price than: ;do the middle and bottom 1 i leaves. * i Dillingham pointed outj that one incentive for Yan-| cey County farmers t o 'grow the Turkish variety lof tobacco is that an acre age allotment is not neces- I sary as it is in growing bur- I i e y- We are glad to see that Philip Ray has been able to return home from the hos pital where he has been undergoiryj treatment dur in g the past two weeks. Legion Auxiliary Names Committees Chairman o f standing committees for the coming year were named by the Legion Auxiliary Unit at the regular meeting on Tuesday night. These are: child welfare and community service: Mrs. Dover R. Fouts; reha bitation, Mrs, Kenneth Robertson; membership, Miss Wilma Allen; finance, Mrs.. John B. Bennett; hos pital, Mrs. J. G. Low. Girls’ State, Mrs. Mack B. Ray; legislative and nat ional security, Mrs. E. B. Powell; music, Mrs. H. G, Bailey; program and Pan- Americanism, Mrs. David B. Swartz; poppy, Mrs. Alonzo Roberts; publicity, Mrs. C. R. Hamrick. Plans were also discussed for the Christmas program at the Veterans’ Hospital, Swannanoa. Members of ,the unit will go on Satur day, November 18 to wrap gifts for the men in the hos pitals to send for Christ mas. Delegates were also nam ed to the Area meeting which will be held in Mor ganton on November 3. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OP YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1950 In Korea Sgt. Joe Revis, who has been stationed at Air Bases on Okinawa and Japan since last January has been transferred with the combat 51st Lighter Inter ceptor Squadron-Jet, to Kimpo Air Base Seoul, Korea. Sgt. Revis has been a crew chief since his grad uation from the Technical School at Chanute Air Field, 111. in November 1949. He is the son of Mrs. J. J. Nowicki of Swiss, and the late Joe Revis of Asheville.- FINAL RITES HELD FOR TAYLOR BYRD Funeral services for Tay lor Byrd, 74, who died at his home in Burnsville Rt. 1, after a short illness were held this afternoon (Thur i sda\ v Tirr2 p. m. in the Jacks Creek Baptist church, with 1 | the Rev. A. Z. Jamorson I officiating. Burial was in ' the Byrd Cemetery. Pallbearers were T. J. Renfro, Nelson Woody, Bernie Hunter and Vernie Wilson. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Hettie Green Byrd three daughters, Mrs. Dem psey Hopson, and Mrs. James Elliott of Burnsville, and Mrs. Norman Roung, Johnson City, Tenn.; six ' sons, C. M. Byrd, Franklin, N. C., Ernest Byrd of the home, Roy Bvrd, Baltimore, Md., Emmett Byrd and; 'Wayne Byrd, Asheville, and; Charles Byrd, who is in the; ‘ Navy; two brothers, Char ‘ les Byrd, Erwin, Tenn. and ! Grant Byrd of Spartan - burg,' S. C. 12 Thousand Visit Parkway On Week End Blue Ridge Parkway ran gers report that the Mount Mitchell area of the scenic boulevard saw the heaviest traffic in Parkway history two weeks ago when fall colors were at their peak along this stretch of wes tern North Carolina’s mountains. A total of 2,875 cars car rying 12,550 people used the Parkway to visit Mount Mitchell during Saturday and Sunday, October 14 and 15. On Sunday the cars ran almost bumper to bumper up until 4:45 p. m. with a total of 2,331 cars carrying -10,174 people. Color in this area, while slightly past its peak at that time, remained attrac tive in this area of the Parkway until the past week. Coloration north of the Mount Mitchell turn-off— from Blowing Rock to Buck Creek Gap was at its height rangers report, with Octo ber 19-24 being “peak” days Brilliant displays of the late-turning oaks are now appearing near Parkway mileposts 325 and 327, aro und Little Switzerland and Crabtree Meadows. BLOODSHED 3OXSCORE On N. C. Highways Killed October 20 through Injured October 20 through October 23 168 Killed through October 23 this year ...„..^.;.*j. vr .... 763 Killed through October 23t 1949 666 Injured through October 23 this year 9,760 Injured through October 23, 1949 ... 7,694 '' t,/>. ■a mm ■. *k ■' X : sjsg Mm 'IIIhMp ijssip Wm £ ijrap $ 1 IIUGR MONTIETH TO SfIAK TO LIONS ' 11 » Hugh jjßjpfttieth, Gover nor of flpErict 31-A of the Lions' CT®. of Sylva, will pay an official visit to the BurnsvillefLions Club meet ing tonight TThursday) at 7:30 atr4lpk- .Roberts and Johnson--Mub Room. Mr. IsHpeth. a charter member cStbe Sylva Lions Club, is a graduate Os Wake Forest College, and has practiced Ifew in Sylva for 27 years. He is serving bis second term as president of the Danjei Boone Council, Boy SeoutS Os America. Mr. Montieth is a trustee of Mars Hill College, and. may- In addition to being a charter Mnember of the Lions lie Has a ten-year perfect attend ance record. I LAST RITES HELD ~ FOR GRADY ALLEN Grady Allen, 48, of New dale, died at his home Tues day following an illness of three weeks. Mr. Allen, son of tire late ' Mr. and Mrs. | Creed Allen, was a miner and had been a life long re sident of Yancey County. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Luther Winters of Spruce Pine, and three brothers, Emery and Kirby ;llen o f Newdale, and Grealy Allen of Marion. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Creed Hollifield at the Blue Rock Baptist Church Wed nesday at 2 p. m. Burial was in the church cemetery. GOOD HUNTING, WARDEN REPORTS According to Milton Hig gins, State game warden for Yancey County, hunt ing in his department has been good since the squirrel season opened. Higgins re ported Tuesday that dur ing the ten day period prior to that time, he had arrest ed nine men for hunting and fishing violations. Only one man was arrested for violating the fishing laws, the others were for hunt ing. The majority .of the violators Were from out of this state, the warden said. Ayers Graduates From Training School Pfc. Be.n L. Ayers, son of.i Mr. ami Mrs. Bascomb 1 Ayers of Burnsville Rt. 1, who is visiting his parent, here this week, graduated on Saturday, October 21. with a new class of Secur ity Patrol Air Police, ac cording to a release fromi Tyndall Air Force Base,' Florida. For the last four week , Pfc. Ayers and his class mates, most of whom came to.the Tyndall Base Tiri from basic training at Lackland Air Force Bast . Texas, have been un ! going a ygul course or in-; st ructions. The intensive in strut tions has included train in in the use of weapons, it el exercises, security pai:. , and many other .phase- <■. poTlcF'RMflrTha l-wfir i protection of U. S. Air r. and air bases against ei - emy agents. This Air Polk School is one of the re highly- specialized enure-, of the 150 types of the A Force educational ?y a it is said. Burnsville Flowers Remain Beaut R.J •""'The mountains around; Burn-vi; • for some time with u. rich fall colors. The-a ; ntain colors are fading fast, but it may be noted -h.n “ several homes around' to r 7 continue to be bright v. : fall flowers decorating: their lawns and gardens. The vuri-colored garden ; of chrysanthemums on the edge of Bruce Westali’s jlawn is one of the brightest in town. Bruce, who says he lias fifteen different varieties of the flower with as many different colors, re ports that many people have visited the - garden. Other flower gardens worthy of note in Burns ville are those of Mrs. Nine Barnett and Mrs. Hubert Justice. Mrs. E. C. Clark of Miami is visiting her mother, Mr. Commodore Rathbone, o i and friends and relatives in Burnsville. ~tftlia» i latfaainß ! '’-yr■ in y • , * . V 1 - <' iffi i - ' Senator Tpm jCpfflhally fiX, Te *■:.}, Chairmi i o ’ the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, confers with le.;din?> f reign affairs experts (1. to r.) Secretary of State Dean Achesbn, Ambasador-at-large Philip Jessup and Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R., Mich.). Sjc’i meetings have been frequent as the Administra tion follows its program of calling in Republican foreign affairs leaders in shap ing and carrying out the nation’s bi-partisan foreign policy, ' ‘ '" • ’ ". ’• *•' •■' ~. * >;, ■ : b;'.|H New-Burley Tobacco Queen To Be Elected —. j Plans hare been complet ed for tiie Mglub annual ' thovVle 1 •:.- V ’T U Toi^o^ announced -v Li wart M. test, whicli ,Lnsor e ed C the Ashevniu r.utueco mar-s Any girl. * c» age lor over, wh ‘ •• uaUy i-ftr—helps ro 'e tobacco, -i I either her . or that oi ; ! her • lamilv, cUTiule* it • : testarits- ax a ■ rd to send) 4 jthe i v namt*. { re sb, age : an * \ any o r her inxorniation \ j d{io*n t noJicj'iVoß oi lnei j. ; SBa * 11 1 - —1 V w \ \' Ctjj •‘ S' X- 1 ■ d Ut. '«* ♦ . ;>y' • V p \V h-: roil OL I I v, in x'w* v ; Uv.en lor I ■ ;’ -., I»Tr OX Jlc-, 1 .CUUTIi.v , - -—I tl- • •vai no * vector, became queen ■ Mrs. u. L. lien -;oy, who 1 has been in an Asheville ' iiospltal, auiif ho!: - ■ Wed-j • fiesuay. Abe wiii return fori further treatment on Tues ! -j -' ' day. Mrs. K K. Daniels, Col-: umoia, t'!. i was Leo week; [end guest of Mr. and Mrs.! iH. I). ( - mi in Burns-', \ die. airs. Daniels is Mrs. U wing Lon’s sister. David, in wiled at the Uni i'vorsity of A M, and Doro- A'c '*• ip. •io i; 1 1> mat ion: Mrs. J. -7. Hig g'ins: of Ramsey town is in an Asheville hospital sor 1 treatment of a broken leg. : l want a government that win live within its income and without most of yours. James F. Byrnes NUMBER EIGHT Cfssive queens from Madi son county. Last year’s qudeh, who will relinquish h r crown at the annual ival at the City auditor ium on the night of Decem r 2, was Miss Mildred Robinson of Yancey coun y. To date, one queen has me fran Buncombe cou ru>. two from Yancey, one irom Haywood and three from Madison. Each candidate for queen this year will be mailed a supply of postcard ballots wii h spaces for her name, ■ ! the name and address Os- the tobacco grower who for her. The cards d.! la: self-addressed so 7 the candidate may get th' ; 1 s.igned and drop them i k. mail. Closing date uif contest has been set November 14, it was ~i~!;■! a!! votes must - tmarked by midnight of that date. ’) 'ring the annual festi ve • meet at the City audi } ium on December 2, the g u i will be crowned and . :d with gifts'. She ■rill be guest of honor at meetings of several civic ■lubs and will open the Ash evil] e Burley Tobacco market, selling her tobacco jirrt. ■lams for queen re urged to send in their t ies as soon as possible i n order that balloting ; naM full instructioss and vies may be sent out im mediately. a illips Attends Bowling Green Joe Lee Phillips, son of |Mr. Arthur Phillips of Bald Creek, is now a junior at the Bowling Green College of Commerce, Bowling i Green, Kentucky. Phillips attended Bald Creek High . hcol and Mars Hill Col lege before entering this institution. He is pursuing course of study in Higher Accounting.. We are happy to hear that the condition of Mrs. vv rence Butner is im proving. She is in an Ashe \ ilie hospital for treatment <'f a broken hip.
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