Newspapers / The Yancey record. / April 12, 1951, edition 1 / Page 1
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■uuun^ußuauiiiaiiuiiuaiiauauaiiaiiaiiftiiaiiSHaiifl.iftH*. VOLUME FIFTEEN SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. Food Handlers To Hold Meeting A school for food hand-j lers in this county will be. held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week according to ‘Jake F. Buck ner, State Department of Health sanitarian for Yan cey, Mitchell and Avery Counties- This will be the first school for persons handling food to be held by the State Department in this county; however, it is hoped that such a school may be held annually here-j after, he said. The program will be changed each day, with a class beginning at 9 a. m. and ending at 10:30, and theJgame information being repeated at a class beginn ing at 2:30 p. m- and ending at 4:00. To receive full be nefit from the school, it will be necessary to attend eith er of the classes for the three day period, Buckner, said. The school will be held under the direction of the MINIJN G MEETING WELL BE HELD A meeting to and expand mining in Wes-| tern North Carolina will be | held in Buncombe County | Courthouse, Monday, April 16, at 10 a. m. with several members of the U. S. House of Representatives Sub comittee on Mines and Min ing attending. Representative Monroe M. Redden of Henderson ville, a member of this Sub committee, has indicated that representatives of the U. S. Defense Minerals Ad-| ministration, Bureau o f Mines, General Services' Administration, Emergen cy Procurement Service and Defense Minerals Ad ministration field office of Knoxville, Tenn. will at tend. -'Director George Ross and representatives of the North Carolina Depart ment of Conservation and! Development will be in 1 Asheville for the meeting- J. Richard Queen o f Waynesville, N. C., former secretary to Senator Brou ghton and Senator Graham and presently Staff Direc tor for the Mines and Min ing Subcommittee, is com ing to Western North Car olina this week. He will hold a series of preliminary meetings with various op erators and miners and will be available to help them draft the type of programs which they feel would be the most feasible for them to operate under during this present emergency. Up to the present time the Defense Minerals Ad ministration has not re commended any programs applicable for the minerals found in Western North Carolina. For this reason 1 the Asheville meeting tak-, es on added significance-j No doubt the recommenda tions of the operators and miners will carry much weight with the Subcom mit.tAg and Gnvflrnmont 1 the Yancly Record I State Health Department land the North Carolina Restaurant Assoc iation, with persons from Bun-j combe, McDowell and Bur-, ke counties participating in the program. A certifi-j cate will be issued to each' person who completes the school, and for food hand ling establishments whose personnel completes the course, a plaque will be I presented i Wholesale suppliers will j I have on display all types of 1 equipment used in food handling. Proper methods of serving and waiting on tables, and care of equip ment and utensils will be taught. j The sanitarian expressed a desire for persons not! employed as public food handlers, such as house-J wives and domestic work-: ers, to attend the meetings.! I 'Establishments i n this county that are classified as public foodhandlers are:' Bald Creek School Lunch Burnsville School Lunch, 1 Bee Log School Lunch, Bus! Station Case, Carolina' Case, Clearmont School , Lunch, Mt. Mitchell Motel, I Micaville School Lunch, ,Nu-Wray Inn, Oscar’s Grill, | Pete’s Snack Bar, Sunrise ,Case, Young’s Case, Edge’s Meat Market, Economy Center,’ Johnson & Com- 1 pany, Proffitt & Company, Ra/s Grocery, Super Mar ket, Young’s Market, New dale- Mrs. Howell Reports on Easter Seal Drive I * Mrs. Frank W. Howell, I chairman of the Easter i Seal Drive, reports that to i the present time $378 has been collected for the aid of crippled children. Mrs. Howell wishes to thank all who have taken part in the drive and those who made contributions- A request has also been [made by the chairman that [persons who plan to make donations to the cripple children’s fund do so as soon as possible so that a report may be made to the State Organization. SPY GETS 15~YEARS ■ - . . « ■ ■; i I _ , - .~ m New York, N. Y.—David Greenglags, spy, was sen tenced to 16 years in prison for the part he played in ] stealing America’s World War II atomic bomb secrets for Russia. This relatively light sentence was recom , mended by U. S- Attorney I Trvinff H Satrrv/%1 (wunnan A# “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY* BURNSVILLE, N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1951 13 MEN NOTIFIED FOR MAY DRAFT Induction notices have been mailed from the local Selective Board to thirteen men who will report for in duction on May 2. j Those notified for the I May quota are Kenneth | I Peterson, Kermit Blanken- I ship, William R. Young, 1 i Robert Hall, Perry Pate, 1 Vestel Edwards, Ramus Autrey, Ward Phillips, Hershel Phillips, Alvis Me-, Mahan, Richard D. Kates j Lester McKinney, and Ar-, Inold Peterson | The clerk to the loeal board said application cards and copies of &• Bulle-, tin of Information are available in the office here! for those college students :Who wish to make applica-j Ition to take the College, , Qualification Test. Defer-j ment of college students is, controlled by grades made; ion these tests. The Bulletin jof Information specifies places where such tests may be taken, the .clerk stated. 1 i ; r Many Attend Fellowship Meeting | More than sixty younjf people and their adult ad-| visors attended the Yancey, County Subdistrict Meth-'i odist Youth Fellowship meeting Monday night at the Burnsville Methodist, Church. Burnsville won the l banner for the highest at tendance with Bald Creek and Martin’s Chapel run-' ning close seconds. The following officers were elected for the com-; ing year: President, Betty Ann Yelton, Bald Creek;' Vice president, Thelma 1 Ann Styles, Windom; Sec retary, Sabra Sparks, Oelo; Treasurer, Christine Bar ber, Burnsville; Publicity Chairman, Ralph Boone Windom. Other officers will be appointed by this execu tive committee at its first meeting on Sunday, April 22 at 3 p. m- at the home of Margaret Wilson, retiring president. Installation of officers will take place at the next Subdistrict meet ing, Monday, May 7, at Martin’s Chapel. Plans were made for re presentatives to attend a District Rally in Asheville 1 on Sunday, April 29. The' group will leave immediat ely after church services and will have a picnic din ner together at Lake Lou ise before going on to the Rally. Announcements were made concerning a 1 retreat —* - Burnsville Hosiery Mill Being Remodeled Work is being carried on toward expansion of Bur nsville Hosiery Mill. A new brick addition is being con structed on the south side of the building where the office will be located in the future. Mr. C. 0. Ellis, manager of the mill, said - placement of new knitting machines in the mill made the expan- Cl w Artonnn TT_*Jl I RAY COMPLETES BASIC TRAINING Pvt- William 18. Ray, son, of Mr. and Mrs. Blake Ray of Burnsville, sis one of | three Western North Caro lina men whoi have just 'completed 14 weeks train ling with Service Company, ,61st Infantry, of the famed Bth (Golden Arrow) Infan try Ehvision, at Fort Jack son, S. C. 1 Pvt. Ray attended Bald Creek High School and was lan employee of : the Crown Corkseal Company of Bal timore, Md-, prior to his in duction in December, 1950. J 5 Pfc. Junior C. Griffith I from Camp Rucker, Ala., 1 jis at home here on emer-, |gency leave due to the ill !ness of his grandmother. Pvt- William M. Gardner, who is stationed at Fort Ord, Cal., is home on emer-, gency leave dtte to the ill ness of his mother, Mrs. 1 Lela Gardner of Riverside. i foi*' ofaeV ;youth to be held May 25-27 at The Cove, E- T. Erick son’s place near Kalmia.J Tentative dates for an In termediate Camp were set for June 18-22. The camp) site will be announced later After the business meet ing, a 1 program concerning, the camps sponsored by the! Western North Carolina Conference of the Method ist Church was presented. ; L. G. Deyton told of his ex iperiences at Camp Tekoa , last summer, and Miss Wil son described the Assembly at Lake Junaluska- Colored slides of both events were shown with a narrative by Rev. Manuel Holland. Rev. James Allred led the group in prayer. Following the program there was a social hour with games led by Mr. Phillip Nordstrom of the Celo MYF- Refreshments were served by the ladies of the Burnsville church. FINAL RITES HELD FOR DIXON INFANT Funeral services for Bar bara Ann Diron, ten-mon [ths old daugheer of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dixon of Asheville, were held in the West Burnsville Bap tist Church Sunday after noon. Mrs. Dixon was formerly Miss Edna Styles of Burns ville. Mr. Dixon was origi nal’y from Marion. per week. But with the use of the new machines, pro duction has been stepped up around twenty-five per cent, raising finished units to 5000 dozen pairs per week, the manager said. The hosiery mill, which was the first of Burns pille’s textile plants, to be gin operation, started pro duction about five years ago under Mr. Ellis' man Former Burnsville You|th Home From Korea Pfc. Garrett H. Riddle, son of Mrs. Herman Banks of Charlotte, who formerly resided in Burnsville, and the late Hobart Riddle, is a happy Marine. Garrett recently returned to the U. S. from the fighting in Korea on the rotation sys tem. He enlisted in the Mar ines in August of 1949 from Burnsville, and since that time, has seen some pretty heavy fighting, according to news realeases. When the fighting broke out in Korea, Riddle was on duty with the Navy’s Sixth fleet in the Mediterreanean . area. After the invasion of South Korea; he was placed i on another ship which was headed in the direction of the fighting. He arrived in the fighting zone in time to help in the Jnchon land ing and aided the Marines in the recapture of Seoul. Through the thick of some of the hottest battles, Pfc. Riddle escaped injury; however, one day while on patrol duty, his luck eased r -Tirg pacrw ‘ Tnnr stopped to rest and Riddle , removed his helmet to wipe the sweat from his brow 'when a sniper took a crack shot at him. The bullet 'grazed his head and put him in the hospital for five days. Following the few days in the hospital, he re i turned to duty and more ' fighting. Riddle is home visiting his mother in Charlotte while on a relocational fur lough. He will have 30 more days coming sometime this year. He is the brother of Mrs. ! Henry Butner of Burns-: ville. . . i—i.— a— i - - w RISKS LIFE FOR FELLOW OFFICER * I . 1 I i 1 i -- - -jUT < 1 Washington, D- C.—The ] Navy has announced that i Navy Pilot Lt. (JG) Thom as J Hudner, USN, Fall River, Mass., above is the Navy’s first winner of the ' medal of Honor for action 1 in Korea. Lt- Hudner risk-' ed his life in an attempt to rescue a fellow airman En sign Jesse Leroy ’ Brown, ; first negro Naval Officer to lose his life in any U. S. war. ' BLOODSHED BOXSCORE On N. C. Highways Killed April 6 through April 9 7 Injured April 6 through April 9 l 184 Communities Invited To Enter Contest The WNC Rural Com munity Contest is open to Yancey County communi ties again this-year. According to officials of l the Asheville Agricultural; Development Council, the contest is held each year! between communities and is based on the theme: “There is no limeit to what a community can do—if it wants to.” It is purely a community project and* was started a few years ago to: aid in the improvement of; rural communities in this section. Any community in this county may enter the con test, but the closing date for entry in the community project is May 15. The con test will close on Novem ber 15 and judging will be made following that date- As prizes for the win ning communities, -sllsO. will be given. The Asheville Citizen-Times is giving SSOO. for first prize, S3OO. by Parkland Csevrolet as oecjna~TTrtre antt *szno- Toy Awards Again Offered 4-H’ers in Clothing and Food Projects One of the oldest and one of the newest sponsors of; national 4-H programs will; continue to offer awards for outstanding work in the 1951 projects, accord ing to G. L. Noble, director, National Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work. 1 They are Spool Cotton ' Co. of New York, which is i beginning its 11th year as sponsor of the 4-H Clothing Achievement program, and Kelvinator Division o f Nash-Kelvinator Corp., De troit, which offered awards in the 4-H Food Prepara 1 - tion program for the first time last year. The projects are well un der way in North Carolina. At the end of the 4-H Club year, members’ records will be judged on county, state) and national basis. The, county and state awards) are the same in both pro-) grams: A gold-filled medal for each county winner, and an all-expense trip to the National 4-H Club Con gress in Chicago for the state champion. In the clo thing project, 12 national champions |are ‘selected, and each receives a S3OO college scholarship. Six na- 1 tional food preparation ex perts are chosen who also ; are given S3OO scholarships. ' By making their own Born to Mr. and Mrs. Carl T. Dover of Burnsville a son, Carl Thomas Dover, Jr., April 9. Mrs. Gus Buckner o f Bald Creek was taken to an Asheville hospital for an emergency operation Tuesday- —— , 1 NUMBER THIRTY-TWO the same company as third prize, SIOO. and SSO. will be the fourth and fifth prizes offered. A score board will be kept in each community. ! Points will be given for [such activities as painting mail boxes, roadside beau tification, improvement of churches and grounds, com munity picnic, recreation programs, etc. Scores will also be made for farm and home improvement such as | putting in electricity, run 'ning water, painting hom es, seeding pastures and improving farm buildings-. Morris L. McGaugh, manager of the Asheville Agricultural Council, and Burwell Smith, Agricultur al Agen| for the Carolina' Power and Light Co. have been active visiting com munities in this county dur ing the week. Visits were made to Celo Community, Bolens Creek, Jacks Creek, Brush Creek and Bald Creek where they ptadkad with varinm ...flfwmr munity and church leaders concerning the contest. Farm agent Dillingham reported that great inter est has been shown by sev eral Yancey communities I and he hopes the county will be represented in the contest- A meeting will be held in the Bolens Creek commun ity at the church Wednes day night, April 18 to dis- their entry into the contest. Rev. A. Z. Jamer son will preside at the meeting- VISIT HAS TRAGIC ENDING Mrs. Claude Hunter of Cane River experienced a tragic visit to the home of her son, C. L. Hunter, in Morganton last week end. She arrived at the home of her son Sunday. Early Monday morning she and her daughter-in-law left the house to do some groc ery shopping before break fast. The son was left as leep. When the women re turned about fifteen min utes later, they saw the house enveloped in flames, with two fire engines and neighbors trying to get the fire under control. Mrs. Hunter said she almost died when she saw the flames for she thought her son was still in the house. She was told by spectators that her son was in a neigh bor’s house, badly burned. An oil stove, which was between the sleeping man and the door, exploded. He . awoke with flames all around him and ran for the door. Unabfe to open the door, he kicked a window out and jumped through. He was seriously burned about the face and hands, according to Mrs. Hunter. Nothing in the house was saved and she left her son in the hospital under going treatment for his burns * but. whon Mrs Him-
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