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jniVUa HllllhMM4lft.ißua.ia VOLUME FIFTEEN Camp Open To Local Girls This Year Mrs. Lillian Bingham, director of Camp Mt. Mit-j; chell for Girls, announced this week that local girls, ' ages six through sixteen, will be accepted as “day-j campers” at the camp this] season. They will be accep ted for the full session or for part, she said. This is the first summer that camp facilities have been open t 6 local children or* a “day-campers” basis. Mrs. Bingham, who has been associated with the camp for 15 years, made the decision, she said, be cause in the past both child; ren and parents have ex pressed a desire for day camp facilities. Local girls entering the camp will enjoy all camp facilities, she said, with the exception only of break fast, supper and sleeping facilities. Children will be brought to the camp at 9 a. m. and will return home at 5 p. m., Mrs. Bingham said. June is the date set for the official opening of the session which will con tinue for eight weeks. Twelve college trained women will be in charge of l teaching tthe girls dancing,! drama, swimming, riding,' archery, tennis, badminton, 1 hand-crafts, and nature 1 lore, along with one trained nurse and dietition. Parents wishing to en roll children may see the director at the camp or may phone her at 2251. Pvt. J. T. Fox has return ed to Fort Benning, Ga., af ter spending ten days leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Fox. I sctNK. nrs in< jfl l if ~ YRNCEV CDUNTY / Showing) Location H hmk MOUNTAIN RESORTS \ Fooporoa by ne DODGE CFEEN ■■■nil#* n SHRDivTtVo^ntNt The Yancey Record SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. “Green Pasture” Contest To Be Held A “Green Pastures” com mittee for Yancey County has been formed which will organize and promote a campaign in cooperation' with the State Committee, j This organization is for-J med in tlie different coun ties to promote better pas tures throughout the,State.' Farmers who qualify in 1 the “Green Pastuses” cam-1 paign will be presented' with a certificate and a* sign simiilar to the “100 bushel” corn award, it was 'said. Any farmer who has as much as one and a half ac res of improved Ladino grass pasture per animal unit should make applica tion to the committee for approval. An animal unit is one mature cow, a horse, or its equal, according to E. L. Dillingham. In mountain aseas one acre of blue grass-white clover pasture may be substituted for one half acre of Ladino Clover grass pasture, he said. The county committee is made up of Max Proffitt, vocational agriculture tea cher; Mack B. Ray, Farm and Home supervisor; J. B. | Briggs, P. M. A. secretary; ; Hiram W. Higgins, S. B. j Randolph, and W. M. Hen isley, P. M." A. committee, i The committee will.be en larged later, it was said, to include seed, equipment, and fertilizer dealers, ban kers, merchants and other interested parties in the county. Neighborhood com milt tees and local leaders will organize and conduct the contest in their local com munities. A plaque similar to the food roads and school awa- “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 21,1951 VETERAN CLASSES IN COUNTY STOPPED i I i All Veterans .tration vocational trade , j schools and the higd school iaccelerated course has been' (temporarily interrupted in | Yancey County, according' lto an official with the VA organization in the county.* J The official was not able jto give a reason for the in terruption for the training program. Approximately 400 vet erans taking training in auto mechanics, electricity,' carpentry, brick masonry, painting, wrought iron and accelerated school were effected by the move. *sAn average of ssubsist ance drawn by each veter an per month wasslos.oo, according to the official. This is an income of $42,000 per month or more than half million dollars per year. In speaking of veterans training schocfls, E. C. ; Hemmingway, Chief of Vo cational R ejiia'bti Jitatlon with the Admin istration of North Carolina said there were fewer ad verse training situations in Yancey County than in most other parts of the State, according to the spokesman. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Phillips of Newdale, a son, Thursday morning at Williams Clinic, Spruce i Pine - I ' rds will be presented to the county if 60 per cent of the , farmers qualify in the con . test. I ' ’ Bloodmobile Gets - 40 Pints Here The bloodmobile unit of the Red Cross received 40 pints of blood frond donors of this county Tuesday. (This amount matched the amount prisoners from I Camplol4, Cape River, do nated earlier this month, j , Seventeen pints tdf the blood collected Tuesday I will be processed into plas ma for the armed forces in .Korea while the remaining 23 pints will be reserved for hospital use loyally, it was said. A total of 106 pints have I been donated by citizens of this county, leaving 312 pints of the yearly quota to be filled. At the present average rate of blood requirements for patients from this county, blood is being used much faster by this county than is being donated. The Red Cross Bank in Ashe ville gives blood for trans fusions regardless of the statues concerning quotas for a county. For this, Yan-I cey County shopld b e thankful. FINAL RITES FOR MRS. JANIE BJBUCM Funeral service s for Mrs. died Tuesday at her home in Bald Creek after a Tong illness will be held in the Ivy Gap Baptist Chiirch Friday at 2 p. m. The Rev. W. H. Ballard will officiate. Burial will be jin the Divide Mountain I Cemetery in Madison Cou nty. Surviving are one broth er, W. R. Barrett of Rt. 1, Mars Hill; several nieces' and* nephews. Mrs. Caldwell Honored • v - f By Annual Mrs. R. V. Caldwell Re ceived the honor of having the Winecoff High School annual, “Wineprints”, de dicated to her. The first edition of the annual was given to Mrs. Caldwell. ! Prior to her marriage, Mrs. Caldwell was Miss , Mittie Huskins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Husk ms of Burnsville. Mrs. Huskins received her B. S. degree from Ap palachian State Teachejrs | College, Boone, theri tjug ht twelve years in Yatfcey and Transylvania Counties prior to her present posi tion iii Winecoff High Sohool. She has been asso ciated with that school for 18 years. Highway Patrol Gets Salary Increase i * Raleigh, N. C.—Effective ’ July 1, 1951, the starting * salary for patrolmen will be $2688 annually or $224 1 monthly, Colonel James R. ' Smith, Commander of the State Highway Patrol, said this week. The Patrol School just completed and the second school, which began June 18th, will furnish the addi tional patrolmen needed to bring the Patrol to its newly authorized, strength of 528 men. Recruits attending the school will receive board and room during the train ing period, the regular sal ary to begin upon certifica tion by the Department of Motor Vehicles upon com pletion of the training per iod. Uniforms and equip ment are furnished each ' 'patrolman who successfully, completes the school. ( Candidates for the Patrol ( are citizens of the United ] States and residentns of j North Carolina for the past five years; are between 21 and 31 years of age and not ] subject to induction into . the armed forces under, present selective service re- ( gulations; weigh at least ] 160 pounds; be at least five ] feet 10 inches in height; 1 have completed av high \ school education or the equivalent; be of good mor al character and have no criminal record; and have no relative now employed by ~the Department of i Motor Vehicles. All pros- *■ pective patrolmen are re-, quired to meet the same t physical standards as ‘ those required by the Army Singing Convention \ The Yancey County Sing- 1 ing Convention will meet j with the Bible Baptist 1 Church, in Burnsville, on • Sunday, June 24th at 2:00 p. m. All singerß and the public is cordially invited to attend and take a part. « Mr. and Mrs.. J. Roy 1 Moore of Lenoir visited Mr. Moore’s sister, Mrs. C. L. Proffitt and Mr. Proffitt over the week end. • Pvt. Landon. Proffitt of Camp Detrick, Md., also spent the week end with his par- i ents. —i it pL jHHtapf If. . , |yj ■|| 1 jj Pictured above is Dougles Ferguson shaping a vase in his pottery shop at Pigeon Forge, Term. Douglas Ferguson, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Fergu son of Bald Creek, and wife, Ruth, will exhibit ; some of their finest works of pottery at the Crafts man’s Fair which will be held in Asheville July 10 through 13. The Fergusons and their Pigeon Forge Pottery were featured in the June issue of the American Magazine in the “Interesting People” section. The article states that his pottery pieces “are sold all over the country”, however, Ferguson says this is an error, that the pottery is retailed locally! i I ■ Eagles To Play Ball Saturday, Simday Announcement has been made that the Burnsville Eagles, colored has eball team, will play two games on the new Stamey field this week end. The Eagles will play one game Satur day afternoon and one Sum day afternoon. It was not learned who the visiting teams were to be. Newdale—Mr. and Mrs. Latt Young, Betty Young and Mrs. Brady Fox atten ded the graduation exercis es at East Tennessee Col lege last Friday morning. Ray Young, Mr. and Mrs. i Young’s son, was one of the graduates. Rhododendron Festival Held Wednesday Thousands o f people from North Carolina ana Tennessee, among which were the governors of the states, braved the rain Wednesday to attend the Rhododendron Festival on top of Roan Mountain, ac cording to reports. North Caholina Goven nor, Kerr Scott, and Gover nor Gordon Browning of Tennessee, pledged high way improvements for the Roan Mountain section of the two states, it was said. 4 As another highlight to the Rhododendron Festi val, which has been held in the gardens *of Roan Moun tain for the past five years, was the crowning of a fes tivol queen. Miss Wilma Shephern, 18 year old Eli zabethton, Tenn. girl, was picked as Miss Rhododen dron from a group of 29 contestants. " 11l mmmmm—mmM—mmmm NUMBER FORTY-TWO ■l— —HH ■ | , only- The story is publicized that a mud dauber found the clay and the location ' for the pottery. Ferguson 1 says mud daubers nests were found at an old water mill in Pigeon Forge and were put through a “fir ing” process which proved the clays in the nests were suitable for pottery. Only native clays are used in the work and native subjects inspire the designs. The artist says methods for shaping vases have changed little since Bibli cal times, and that this is one of the oldest known ! creative works of man. Mrs Swartz Speaks To H. D. Clubs Mrs. David Swartz of Burnsville was the princi pal speaker at the 4th Dis trict Federation Meeting held at Harris High School, Spruce Pine, last Thursday Approximately 250 Home Demonstration Club mem bers attended the meeting from Burke, McDowell, Mitchell and Yancey Coun ties. Mitchell County Home Demonstration leaders were in charge of arrange ments for the meeting. Lunch was prepared and served by the Cterrissa Club, the Snow Creek and Ledger Clubs were in char ge of dining room decora tions and the Estatoe Club was in charge of stage de corations. Mrs. Jason Dey ton arranged for the spec ial music presented by Mrs. M. A. Anderson, Jr., Shir ley Wright, Joyce Woody, Martha McKinney, and Peggy Duncan. The spaeker was present ed by Mrs. Oscar Deyton, Home Agent for Mitchell County. During the business ses sion which was held in the afternoon, reports were given by council presidents of the different counties and by the various commit tees, along with the elec tion of officers for the dis trict. Women from this county elected to committee offices were Mrs. Ed Hunter, nom inating committee; Mrs. Ralph Proffitt, Resolutions; Mrs. Joe Godfrey, Regis tration; and Mrs. E. L. Dillingham, Courtesy Com mittee. , '
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