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•*i««ai<aH«iißi»aii a ii a „ a< , a , lß^iaiianana(linianvn9iraw VOLUME FIFTEEN LOCAL MEN VISIT TESTFARM Livestock and poultry feeders from this county including Tommy Godwin, assistant farm agent, Fred Bryan, Oscar W. Deyton, 1 Mack Mclntosh of Burns ville, J. G. Robertson of Cane River and Lee Wal lace of Toledo were visit ers at the Ralston Purina Research Farm at Gray Summit, Missouri last vV^ek. The 738-acre farm de monstrates normal, aver age farm conditions and the visitors were shown how grade anmals and poultry can be graded pro fitably under typical farm conditions. Among the pra ctical operations inspected were the hog farrowing and fattening units, the dairy cattle project, dry lot and show calf feeding, broiler installation, laying flocks, ducks, turkeys, rab bits, goats, game birds and fur bearing animal units. | Following the day long farm tour, the visitors were entertained at the general offices of the Ral-| ston Purina Company in' St.'Louis and the next day toured the Research Lab oratories and saw how var ious types of feeds are manufacthred in the St. Louis Purina Mill. MRsTeD WILSON DIES WEDNESDAY Mrs. Alma P. Wilson, 19, wife of Ed Wilson of Bee Log, passed away in an Asheville Hospital Wednes day night following a short illness. Surviving, other than the husband is the mother, Mrs Mira Parker of Bee Log; three sisters, Mrs. R. C. Hughes of Burnsville, Mrs. Wally Miller and Mrs. Ar nold Griffith of Erwin,' Tenn.; two brothers, Har-| ley of the U. S. Navy and Hall of Bee Log. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Proffitt Assigned To Camp Detrick Chmp Detrick, Md.—Pvt. Land on M. Proffitt, 22, of Burnsville, N. C., has been assigned to Camp Detrick, Frederick, Md. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Proffitt, of Bur nsville. Pvt. Proffitt holds a bachelor of science degree in agricultural engineering from North Carolina State College, Raleigh, and was employed by the Peru Lum ber Co., Peru, Nebr., prior to his induction into the Army in January, 1951. He was transferred to Camp Detrick from Fort Jackson, S. C., where he un derwent basic training. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Anglin and two ( sons of Phoenix, Ariz. spent a week here visiting relativ es and friends. Vernon is employed with the Grey hound Bus Company and has lived in Phoenix for six years. SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. FORMER YANCJ3Y RE SIDENT FEATURED IN NATIONAL MAGAZINE The June issue of The American Magazine is fea turing a former resident ■of Yancey County in its “Interesting People” sec tion. The picture-story fea 1 - ture is about Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ferguson £tnd thg ir pottery business at Pig eon Forge, Tennessee. The magazine article tells how son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fer guson of Bald Creek, start ed out to be an artist and changed his profession while testing glazes and clays and equipment in a TV A ceramics research la boratory in Norris, Tenn. It tells in the article how Ruth and Douglas worked, planned and economized for 11 years and then put their savings into the pot tery business. “The Fergusons do every thing from digging the clay Ito designing, decorating, I and manufacturing the sugar and cream sets, tea pots, ash trays, vases, pit chers, and other pieces (which are sold all over the country,” states the maga zine. Illustrating the story is a picture of the couple at work in their plant. Douglas attended school at Bald Creek and at Mars Hill College. McCURRY WITH SIXTH FLEET James W. McCurry, ma chinist’s mate, first class. USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dolph McCurry of Route 2, Burnsville, N. C., is serving aboard the destroyer mine-, sweeper USS MaCombs 'with the Sixth Fleet in the 1 Mediterranean. The Sixth Fleet is one of the largest continuous op erational fleets afloat to [day, second only to the Sev enth Fleet which is sup porting United Nations ef forts in Korea. On the Mediterranean cruise, the MaCombs crew-| men will be conducted on special tours to Rome, Italy Paris, France; Switzerland, 1 and other cities and coun tries that are inland from the coast cities. SEN. KEFAUVER NAMED “FATHER OF YEAR” * ’ ■ ' j • i - Washington, D. C.—Sen. Estes Kefauver, (D) Tenn, who was named “Father of the Year” by the Natidnal Father’s Day Committee, is pictured with his wife and their four children (L to R) Diane, 3; David, 5; Linda, 9, who is holdling Gail, aged 7 months. Sen. Kefauver led the recent Senate Crime Investigating Committee. The Yancey Record “DBDKjATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY* Celo Sunday Evening Fellowship Series Planned The Youth Fellowship of the Celo Methodist Church is planning a series of Son ’ day evening meetings for ; | the entire family to be held ! on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month throughout ' the summer. The first of • the series will be held on ( June 10th at 7:30 p. m. with ' community singing, the showing of a filmstrip, “Is i Your Home Fun?” (show ling the differences between ,a happy and a quarelsomfc ifamily), and a closing ser vice of worship included in i the program. i Publicity committee i n ; charge of making posters • about the series includes Nell Gibbs, Barbara Geou ge, Nina Gibbs, Grace Gibbs Bobby Murphy, Claude Sparks, and Miss Margaret Calbeck, counselor. All families in the area are cordially invited to at tend. Mr. and Mrs. Don Walsh of East Liverpool, Ohio wero the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Koenig here this week. LAST RITES HELD FOR JOHN FLOYDCOOPER Funeral services for John Floyd Cooper, 50, for mer resident of Bee Log, who passed away at his home in Farmville, Va. Fri day following a long illness were held at Bee Log Sun day. Rev. Frank Jones of ficiated and burial was in the Cooper Cemetery. Mr. Cooper was a mem-, ber of the Little Creek! holiness Church. He had ,been a resident of Farm ville for about four years and had been ill for almost three years. Surviving are the widow, I Mrs. Martha Cooper; one ,son, Cannon; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Coop-i er, Bee Log; one sister, Mrs! Dora 1 Hendrix, and one 1 brother, Harrison CooperJ both of Bee Log. Pallbearers were Alison Edwards, Rueben Haney j (George Edwards, Sam Mc i Curry, Sam Edwards, and Lee Edwards. Flower girls were relatives of Mr. Coop er. BURNSVILLE, N. C. t THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1951 Singing Convention To Be Held! At Greej| Mountain ? Announcement has been i made that therd will be a ‘ singing convention at the * North Bend Free Will Bap t tist Church, Rf. 1, Green 7 Mountain, Saturday night, t June 2. The public is invit- E ed to come and take part in i the convention.! i jL. ; OPS Informa tion Release r ~~ M * Charlotte. —Retail stores ( doing less than’; SIOO,OOO to -1 tal; store volume a year may elect not to file a chart ] under Ceiling Price Regu ’ lation No. 7, itlwas announ ' ced from Washington this , week in a dispatch to Dir | ector Ben E. Douglas. ' Further relief is given to ' stores doing a relatively small vnlpme 0% business in ; housewares, notions, sport ing fgnods, silwjrware, chin aware, glasswjpe, jewelry, watches and clicks. Stores | (doing less thafi $60,000 an ! nually in these- categories ' of items may eject to price 1 them under General Ceil ing Price Regulation rath er than under iffo. 7 irres pective of the l&taj volume Os business ipne by the These are tfetwo main tains a principle of the ori ginal regulation No. 7 whi ch gives the option to any i retailer whose total sales of the items covered by No. ( 7 is less than $20,000 annu ally to remain under the (General Ceiling Price Reg ulation, the message to Dir ector Douglas made it clear In announcing today that the amendment was forth-, coming, the Washington! OPS .warned that all other retailers selling items con trolled by CPR 7 and its | amendments must file their pricing charts by May 31 if | .they want to continue to |sell legally after that date. ( 'There will be no extension’ |of that deadline, it was emphasized. It was also pointed out I that a retailer who elects) 'to remain under the Gener-, al Ceiling Price Regulation does not have to notify OPS. If a retailer who has already filled his chart un ler Regulation 7 and is not eligible to remain under GPR and wshes to do so, he has until July 2 to re quest the return of his chart from his OPS district office. If he has not so re quested, then after that date he must continue to price under Regulation 7. In announcing this am endment OPS also announ ced that an amendment to GCPR is also being issued which will give relief to certain “squeeze” condi tions in which merchants have been caught under General Ceiling Price Re gulation. It is estimated that at least one-third of the stor es originally covered by No. 7 are now eligible to elect to remain under the Gener al Ceiling Price Regulation Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brown moved into their new home this week. Pfc. Ray Returns From ' Korean Battle Front i Pfc. Merrill C. Ray of i Prices Creek arrived home today from the Korean ■ War. Pfc. Rav, who has i been in the Marine Corps , for four years, arrived in ■ the States two weeks ago i by ship. During his active duty in Korea, he battled to within 70 miles of the Man churian border with the Marines. His feet were severely frozen during the , winter campaign near the .'border. After spending his fur lough here he will be sta* Jtioned in Charlotte, it was .said. Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Evans of Detroit, Mich. , spent this week visiting ,'Mr. Evans’ father, J.E. I Evans, and other relatives . here. WOOL BRINGS HIGH PRICES FOR COUNTY PRODUCERS -*V *’ Thirteen Yancey Coiihtyj sheep producers received what is believed the high est price for wool ever re ceived by local farmers when they marketed their products through the ‘‘wool r 4hio k. Producera received $1929.50 for 1263 pounds of wool, or an aver-, age of approximately- $1.50 per pound, according to E. L. Dillingham. This aver age is thought to be the highest known in this: area. 1 The wool pool is sponsor-1 ed by the county agent’s office in cooperation' with the United Wool Growers 1 Association. j The wool was delivered to Boone Tuesday where it was graded, bagged and combined with wool from other counties in this area for shipment. I Sheep growers market ing their wool through the 1 ! pool were Wilson -S. Edw-i ‘ards, D. L. Hurst, Gus Ed | wards, Cirt Higgins, Tar ’ter King, Sam King, Mon roe King, Hiram Higgins, land Avery Silvers of Cane River, W. B. Wilson of Bald Creek, Paul Higgins and S. W. Hilemen of Hig gins, and Carlie Rice of Burnsville. I The farm agent stated that if present prices were maintained on sheep and on wool, sheep would pro duce the highest income per dollar investment of j anything grown on the farm. GRAVESIDE RITES FOR JOE JOUCK, 61 Graveside rites for Joe Bolick, 61, farmer of Rt. 2,| Burnsville, who died last Fritay night in the Marion' Hospital after a long ill nens were held Sunday at II a. m. in Ballew Cemetery The Rev. Theb- Letter man officiated. • Surviving ire the widow, Mrs. Allene McMhhan Bo lick; three daughters, Ar thurine, Arthur Mae and Lrcile Bolick, all of the home; and one brother, J. R. Bolick of Marion Rt. 1. Revival To Begin At Methodist Church On June 10th | p"* 1 -' : §BB FRED W. PASCHELL Hendersonville Minister To er, having graduated from Hold Revival Here Dr. Fred W. Paschall, minister o£ the First iwerTi“J odist Church, Henderson ville, N. C., will begin a re-j vival series at the Higgins i Memorial Methodist Chur-, ch here beginning June 10 and continuing to June 16. J Dr.- Paschall is a well trained minister and speak-1 Regular Meeting of ’ Uoits HeW Thursday i I Dr. Melvin W. Webb, pre sident of the local Lions Club, announced at the Club’s regular meeting last i Thursday night that a net i total of $302.00 had been made in their recent scrap drive. i Perfect attendance pins .were awarded to Lions H. iW. Johnson, M. W. Webb, J. J. Nowic-ki, C. O. C. F. Mcßae, C. 0. Reckard, E. L. Dillingham, W. M. Gladden, and ,E. B. Powell. New members taken into the Club during the last month are Warren F. Good anti James F. Timony from i the Duplan Corporation, and Fred C. Phillips from Glen Raven Mill. j Dinner was served to memgers by the American Legion Auxiliary; and for j the piogram, a movie on science and its part in the defense program wa s shown by Mr. Reckard. ( Riddle Catches Prize Trout In Cane River Kermit Riddle of Pensa 1 - cola brought in proof Sat urday that the large ones do not always get away. He had the realization of a fisherman’s dream coming true when he hooked and landed the 26 inch Brown j trout just below Pensacola The trout, whch was cau-| ght on a minnow, weighed six and three-quarters pounds and was too long to rest on the bottom of an ordinary washing tub with-, out the tail doubling up the side. Fishermen agree that this is probably the largest Brown trout ever taken from Cane River. 1 Lee Griffith is out again after having been confined witli illnesk for several days. gjkdhfd NUMBER THIRTY-NINE the Westminister Theolo gical Seminary in Mary i Jnuluili 1 ii«ii r~ 11 IT * I fP* (eoftne degree of Doctor of ,Sacrgd Theology. The pub i lie is cordially invited to at tend the services and hear ,Dr. Paschall. I Holy Communion will be J administered at the morn ing service of the church 'Sunday, June 3rd. Mrs. Huskins, Mrs. Bean -Visitors Here Mrs. Frank Huskins and Mrs. J. W. Bean of Raleigh have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Huskins here this week. Mrs. Bean’s husband is a member of the Industrial Commission. Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Briggs gave a picnic supper Sunday night for Mrs. Bean, Mr. and Mrs. Hus -kins. Mr. Huskins, Chairman of the N. C. Industrial Commission has been in Spruce Pine this week holidng hearings for the Commission. He will hear complaints i n Burnsville Friday and will be in Ashe ville next week, it was said. LOCAL STORE TO SPON SOR FISHING CONTEST With fishing season now in full swing and “the fev er” mounting each day among fishermen of the county, Lloyd Owens, own er and manager of the , Western Auto Associate Store here has announced the opening of a contest for fishermen of Yancey County. Prizes will b e awarded the person catch ing the largest bass and the largest trout, Owens said. Prizes will be $5.00 | worth of tackle for each of the winners. i The only rules of the con test, according to Ovens, are that it is only open to residents of Yancey Coun ty and that fish must be I brought to the Western Auto. Store for checking. I The fish may be caught anywhere. " 6 Dr. and Mrs. Leroy Wolfe of New Milford, Conn, were the recent i guests of Dr. and Mrs,. [ Melvin W. Webb. Dr. Wolfe [ and Dr. Webb were in | Navy service-together.
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