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aiuiftiianaiiaiiaiiiuauaimiaiiaiisiiaiiftiiaiiiiiiiiftutiifeifci^ VOLUME FIFTEEN Wildlife Commission Names Trout Streams In Yancey The Nor th Carolina Wildlife Resources Com mission of Raleigh an nounced this week the, following regulation con cerning Yancey County: In accordance with the provisions of Regulation 1* 51, Section f, of the Inland Fishing' Regulations for 1951 adopted by the North Carolina Wildlife Resour ces Commission on Novem ber 24, 1950, notice is here by given that the following waters of Yancey County are “D es i gnated Trout Waters.” South Toe River, G miles, Celo to clear Creek; Middle Creek, 1 mile, below man agement area; Rock Creek, 1 mile,bellow management area; Roaring Fork Creek, 3 miles, entire stream; Clear Creek, 3 miles,entire | stream; Colbert Creek, 2 miles, entire stream; Lo cust Creek, 2 miles, entire stream; White Oak Creek, 2 miles, entire stream; Shufford Creek, 3 miles,' entire stream; Ayles Creek 3 miles, Upper 3 miles; Lit tle Crabtree Creek 3 miles, entier stream; Brush Creek 4 miles, entire stream; North River, none; Cane River 10 miles, Mur chison bridge on Highway 197 to Bolens Creek; Cat tail Creek 5 miles, entirfe stream; Big Creek 4 miles, entire stream; Big Bald Creek 6 miles, entire stream; Bald Creek 7 mil es, Highway 19 W to head; Lickskillet Creek 4 miles, entire stream; Bolens Creek 6 miles, above Bol ens Creek Church; Prices Creek 10 miles, entire stream; Little Creek 7 mil- DEPARTMENT FIGHTS BROOM SEDGE FIRE The fire department was called out Wednesday af ternoon to control a fire in a lot above the home of Mrs. Charlie Thompson which had caught from a burning trash pile near by. When the fire started, the wind drove it across the lot covered with weeds and broom sedge, endangering buildings in the vicinity. The fire was stopped be fore any damage had been done. UN FORCES CONTINUE TO DRIVE AGAINST COMMUNISTS If MsM Jr Korea — Sgt. Doyle Smith, Livingston, Texas, surveys town in which he has just arrived. This K orean settlement has changed hands five times within a week. UN forces are in their sixth day of a new drive against Chinese and Korean communist forces. __ ' , x~. The Yancey Record SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. es, entire stream. * Regulation 1-51, section g, states that “It shall be unlawful to take, or at tempt to take, fish of any kind by any manner what soever, from designated trout waters except during the open season for trout fishing.” FUNERAL SERVICES FOR IEE YOUNG, 46 Funeral services for Lee Young, 46, of Micaville, who died Monday of a heart attack as he return ed home from work were held today in the Micaville Presbyterian Church at 11 a. m. The Rev. JE. J. Hall and the Rev. Charles B. Trammel officiated. Burial I was in the family cemetery near the home. Mr. Young who was a veteran of World War II is survived by two sons, Bobby of the U. S. Army and Billy Joe of the U. S. Navy; the father, T. M. Young of Micaville; six brothers, Shell and Bart Young, both of Micaville, Ralph Young of BmraavilWy ■ Hobart Young of Asheville, Glenn and T. G. Young, both of Pittsburg, Pa # FINAL RITES HELD FOR BURGIN ADKINS Funeral services for Bur gin Adkins, 49, of Ramsay town, who died in a Win ston-Salem hospital follow ing a long illness, were held Wednesday at 2 p. m. in the Ramsaytown Baptist Church. The Rev. E. J. Ad kins officiated. Burial was in the Adkins Cemetery. Surviving are the widow; two daughters, the Misses Blanche and Dottie Sue Adkins, both of the home; six sons, H. B. Adkins of Candler, Clyde of Detroit, Mich., Douglas, Clinton, Duff and Warren Adkins, all of Ramsaytown. BROTHERHOOD WEEK FEBRUARY 19 24 r . ' “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1951 Legion Plays Clowns Sat. The American Legion basketball team will meet the Carolina Clowns at the 1 Burnsville gymnasium Sat urday night. The Clowns, Chapel" Hill American Leg ion team up of for mer and present Univer sity of North Carolina ball players, last yea* won 63 out of 64 games played. With a record of this kind, the game Saturday night promises to be one of the fastest at the gym this season. *« The visiting team is com posed by well known U. N. C. basketball and football stars such as Art Weiner, Dick Bunting, Irv Holdash and Coy Carson. Charlie Justice, all-American foot ball player, has been ap pearing with' the Clowns in some of the games this season. Tickets for the game are on sale at Pollard’s Drug Store and Ray’s Grocery Store. Tonight (Thursday) the Legion team will meet Bea con Mills here. Plans are underway for the Burnsville __ American Legion tournament, accord ing to officials of the team. It is hoped, they said, that -twalva , af—U>* best teams in this section will appear in the tourna-j ment again this year. Ac cording to the present plans being worked out, the tournament will be held the week of March 11. BROTHERHOOD WEEK FEBRUARY 19 24 Corn Growers Honored At Meeting Today Handy Riddle of Green Mountain was awarded the trophy as the champion corn grower in Yancey County this morning in a meeting held in the Yancey Theatre for farmers and com growers of Yancey County. Thirteen other farmers who exceeded 100 bushels of com per meas ure! acre were awarded certificates. Dr. Emerson Collins of the State Exten sion Service awarded the trophy and certificates. The agronomy team con sisting of Dr. Collins, S. N. Hawks, Sam Dobson, and Dr. Nelson gave talks on different phases of farm* ing. The lectures were ill- 4 ustrated with color slides pictures. A motion picture* was shown on farm pastur es, Slide illustrations were shown on Rowing burley. tobacco, from seeding to marketing. « 7 ;! The meeting was one of? a series held in counties. Other out of county visi tors attending the meeting were Ben Jenkins, Jr., Western District Farm Agent, and Brian Collins, Supervisor of. the Demon stration Farm Program in Western North Carolina. LAST RITES FOR MRS. LEE BUCHANAN Funeral services for Mrs. j Lee Buchanan, 21, who died in a Marion hospital 5 Sunday morning after a' short illnessjjwere held in the Bolens 'Creek Baptist Church Monday afternoon at 2 p. m. with the Rev. A. Z. Jamersbn officiating.; Burial was in the Young Cemetery. % \ Surviving are, the husband;' two children, Richard and Yvonne; the ‘parents, Mr.! *md Mrs. Wallace Mc- Dowell; three sisters, Mrs. Earl Ogle, Mrs. Charles Harris and -Mrs. Ronald Gregory; two brothers, J. B. and Ralph McDowell, all of Burnsville, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McDowell of Cane River /and Mr. and. Mrs. E. T, Lawing of Marion. ATTORNEYS ATTEND HEAjjUNG D. R. Fouts"_and C. P. Randolph were in Raleigh this week to appear at a hearing before the Utili ties Commission concern ing an increase of rates asked by the Carolina Com pany for services in Yan- I cey County. > The two attorneys ap peared at the hearing on behalf of Yancey County citizens who subscribe to telephone service and upon request of the Lions Club and the Men’s Club of Bur nsville. A decision of the Utili ties Commission concern ing the increase of rates will be given at a later date Atkins Introduces School Bill Representative Bill At kins introduced legislation in the House of Represent atives last Friday to name the Yancey County Board, of Education. This is the first bill to be introduced concerning schools during this session of the General Assembly. The bill would appoint three men to the board of education who were nom inated In the Democratic convention for the county held last summer. The men nomin ate d were Jobe Thomas, Mark Bennett and Clyde Ayers. If the legis lation passes, the men will take office at the regular date for installation of the -board in this county, the , first Monday in April. if The bill would change ithe date the superintend ent takes office to July 1 instead of the first Mon day in April. m The measure would pro vide for appointment of a ;Klhree member school com mittee in every school dis; trict in the county to serve for two-year terms. School ; committees would elect teachers for their respec i (live schools subject to the , Approval of the board of ■ education and the superin i tendent. The legislation followed Noted Artist Visits Here Mrs. Mary Dean, noted puppeter of Boston, Mass., • visited in Burnsville for Several days last week as the guest of Rush T. Wray at the Nu-Wray Inn. Mrs. Dean is a former head of the Puppetry‘Department of the Curry College of Speech, Boston, where Mr. Wray was a student in her I class. ' Mrs. Dean is well known throughout New England, j having given shows at col leges and schools in the field of Puppetry. She is a member of ,Puppeters of Amerira, Punch’s Work shop, and chairman of the New England Puppetry Institute. She is also the author of “The Play Lib rary for the Puppet Thea tre.” While in Burnsville, Mrs. Dean gave a show for Mrs. Madge Bailey’s 4th grade class in the Burnsville school. She also gave a de monstration and talk at the Woman’s Club meeting on Thursday evening. Mrs. Dean is on her way to Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. She plans to give a show at Fort Ben ning, Ga., for the wounded soldiers who have been re turned from Korea. Buckner Trains in Texas Mr. and Mrs. Jake F. Buckner have received a letter from their son, Max, I that he has arrived atl Lackland Air Base, San 1 Antonio, Tex., where he 1 will receive boot training in the Army Air Corps. Max, who was in school at Lee-Mcßae College, vol-[ unteered fo£ the Air Corps recently. i the general line that has been used in the county j in that no teacher would be permitted to teach in a school without first having been elected by a majority of the district committee in which the person is to 1 teach. Compensation for the board and superintendent would follow that which is provided in the general State Laws. | CHAPEL OF THE FOUR CHAPLAINS DEDICATED 4, a m A r % |m| ' y^?^ j |p|| | Philadelphia, Pa.— President Tniman appears at tho dedica-| ■ tion of the Chapel of the Four Chaplains. Standing in front of > the mural which honors the memory of four heroic chaplains, a p Catholc, two Protestants and a Jew, who perished in the sinking of ' the transport Dorchester in the North Atlantic during World War 11, are President Truman, Maj. Gen. William J, Donovan, vice chairman Chapel of Four Chaplains, apd ReV. . Daniel A. Poling, l father of one of the chaplains. , / ~' v f" Town To Get $4,058.00 If Bill Passes Basing the population on| the 1940 census, Burnsville i will receive $4,258.00 from State funds for city streets if the municipal aid bill passes the General Assem- j bly, according to W. D. Snider, Information Direc- j tor of the State Highway and Public Works Com mission. Thirty of North Caro-! lina’s largest cities would get approximately $3,000,- 000 and the remaining $2,000,000 will be divided among 353 other cities and towns under provisions of the Powell municipal aid bill, according to prelimin-j ary estimates made by the j Division of Statistics and' Planning of the State Highway Commission. i The bill, which is now in' the Senate Appropriation 1 Committee, would allocate -5,000,000 directW to each town’s governing body for use on streets which do not' form a part'of the state highway system or county road connections. The Sta- MARINE CORPS NEWS Asheville.— The U. S. _ naw accenting applications from young men and women who desire Marine Corps commissions Capt. M. E. McNeil, Pro curement Officer for the •southeastern states, has an (nounced. College seniors and gra duates may enroll in the Officer Candidate Course— i the first class of which will I begin on April 23, 1951. This is a ten week course, j Qualified undergraduat es now 7 attending college [may enroll in the Platoon • Leaders Class or the Wo men Officer Training Class j attend two six-week class es during the summer and receive their commissions upon graduation from col-1 lege. I Captain McNeil is cur i rently touring southeast ' ern colleges interviewing applicants. Interested per sons may contact Captain' McNeil through their local I j Marino Recruiting Office. dlove NUMBER tWENTY-FOUR Jte Highway Commission 'Would continue to maintain all streets forming part of its highway system inside muncipalities. j - The State Highway Com mission opposes allocating $5,000,000 annually for street purposes unless ad ditional revenue is made j available. In a hearing on •the bill this week, Commis sion officials said all cur rent highway funds are badly needed for $300,000,- 000 worth of deficiencies on the state’s primary highway system. None of the $200,000,000 bond issue • funds may be used on pri mary highways. I The $5,000,000 break down estimates are based lon the 1940 census since 11950 figures have not yet • been released by the feder al government for all cities and towns. The accompany ing list shows the approxi -1 mate break-down of the municipal fund for each municipality eligible for funds if the bill should pass High School Tournament Starts Next Week The Yancey County High School Basketball Tourna ■ merry itrbcgiii here in the gymnasium next Thursday night: A drawing.of teams and the schedule of play had not been made today. The Burnsville High team will play Micaville here tomorrow (Fri day! night, schedule for the Burnsville team m eludes a game with Bak ersville here Monday night and one with Bald Creek Tuesday night. SCOUTS HOLD COURT OF HONOR HERE A Scout Court of Honor | was held Tuesday night in j the Burnsville Baptist I Church. Scouts entering the Bur nsville troop as Tenderfoot Scouts were Ted Miller, •Frank Lewis, Robert Lau ghter, Robert Curtis, Jim my Curtis, Joe Coletta, and Gale Hall. Scouts advanced to Sec ond Class were Gerald Pet erson and D. Smith. Glenn Fox and Wally Koenig were awarded to First Class. Twenty merit badges were awarded boys of the Busnsville Troop. Two boys, Ronnie Ray and George. L. Hensley, were examined for the rank of Star Scout. They will receive that rank at the next Court of Honor. Orthopedic Clinic - The monthly Orthopedic clinic for the Avery-Mitch ell-Yancey district will be held Wednesday, February 21st, in the Spruce Pine of fice of the District Health Department. Dr. James H. Cherry of Asheville will hold this clinic. Patients , should be at the office not later than 11 a. m.
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