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J rwpiii I At) Wei States \ ( Release Buds J VOLUME SIXTEEN One Killed, One Seriously Injured In Auto Accident One person is dead and ano ther in a serious condition from results of the first ma jor automobile arrident to oc cur in Yancey Cohnty for some time. Willie Laws, 21, of Burns ville died early Monday morn ing in a Spruce Pine hospital from injuries suffered in an acridqnt on the Pensacola highway about two miles from Burnsville. Lloyd Bodford, 36, also of Burnsville is still in a Spruce Pine Hospital in ser ious condition, according to reports. Driver of the car in which the men were riding was Espie R. Black, 29 year old Spruce Pine man, according to Patrol men C. H. Long and H. J. Welch. Black was charged with manslaughter and releas ed under a SSOOO bond for his appearance at the October term of court. Long said the car in which the men were riding was being driven toward Burnsville at a high rate of speed on Highway 197, highway between Burns ville and Pensacola, when it swerved from the road, turn ing over. three times before it came to rest against a tree The Yancey County Jail i getting to be a popular place,; according to Sheriff Terry Hall. The • jail has been more or less crowded with men, ar rested on drunken driving charges mostly, he said. The Sheriff was a track man in high school, and according; to what he reports, his train-| ing as a runner comes in-handy | sometimes. He said a feW| nights ago, after driving around ninety miles an hour to catch an automobile, the driver jumped from the car and had to be caught on foot. Anything for a good' race. The Sheriff won,*though. LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. S. ILSCRONCE Funeral services for Mrs. S D. Sronce, 87, who died at he home at Swiss after a long illness* were held today at p. m. in Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. The Rev. Y. L. McMahan and the Rev. W. H. Ballard officiat ed. Burial was in the Burton Cemetery Surviving are five daugh ters, Mrs. H. W. Bridges of| Swiss, Mrs. C. W. Shepherd of Democrat, Mrs. Earl C. Hen sley of Bee Log, Mrs. Ada Fid wards of Cane River and Mrs H. W. Hensley of Burnsville. Also three sons, Cloyd and Jeter of Swiss, and G. A. of Mars Hill; one sister, Mrs Myra Ponder of Mars Hill; one brother, Marion Tomber lin of Swiss; 23 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. REDS DELAY TRUCKS , . ■■ ... . • • ' *■■■ *> ■ ■ - i' ; • • > i / ■ '• . <> I* > ' 11 * ■* ™ i jhp.. Berlin, Germany—Heavy freight trucks are shown stalled (.Sept. 6) at the Helmstedt Marienborn crossing in Berlin, tied-up 25 to 30 hours as a result of a road tax slapped on West* German vehicles by the Communist - controlled East German Government. „ <» . • The Yancey record SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. above a 25-foot embankment. Laws and Bodford were pinned beneath the car when it stop ped. Officers said Lee, Ed and Henry Griffith, all of Burns-! ville, raised the aotomobile off the two injured men. Two other men identified as Lloyd Silvers and Billy Hugh es were passengers in the au tomobile when the accident oc curred but escaped seriou injury. Graveside rites for Laws were held Tuesday at 2 p. m in Bailey Hill Cemetery with the Rev. E. P. Blevins officiat ing Surviving are The parents Mr. and Mrs. Biss JLaws of Burnsville, three sisters, Mrs James Hamby, Miss Lola Laws and Miss Lena Laws of Burns ville; -four brothers, Lloyd Carl, Howard and Leonard Laws of Burnsville. Author Os “Unto These Hills’ Speaks To Lions Kermit Hunter, author of “Unto These Hills”, Cherokee Indian pageant that has won so much acclaim, is scheduled to speak at the regular meeting of the Lions Club here tonight ; Mr. Hunter, co-chairman of the Crusade for Freedom in North Carolina, is here in be half of the Crusade. E. L Dillingham, officer in the Lions Club and co-ehairman of the Yancey Crusade for Freedom i Drive, said the author will ac | quaint members of ■ the itMt I with the importance of the I campaign. Mr. Hunter recently re turned from Illinois where he has been working on a pageant about the life of Lincoln. 5 4-H CLUB MEMBERS WIN RED RIBBONS Five 4-H Club members from this county brought home red ribbons from the Westen North Carolina Junior Dairy Show at the new Hominy Horse and Hound Club pavilion a Asheville Tuesday. Entering animals from thi county were Tommy Ray, Lois Randolph, Richard Conley Agnes Hensley, and Donald Buchanan. Donald Buchanan and Tom jmy Ray entered two calves each while the others entered one each. Red ribbons were awarded to all the entries from this county. Judging the events were Dr Dean W. Colvard, head N.-C. State College departinen of animal industry; Burk County Farm Agent, Charlie Speas, and Homer Sink of th ' Mountain Test Farm nea Waynesville. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGBSBB OF YANCEY COUNTY’ BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1951 BUCKSKIN MAKES GOOD GLOVES Some people don’t know how to get the most out of a buck (deer) after he has been bag [ ged, but Claude Peterson does. . Claude believes in a little more' service from his bucks beside venison steaks and ornamenta i tion of hide and horn, f Last season after he killed a buck in the South Toe River , section, he sent the hide to a' I New York firm for tanning.' I After the skin tfas tanned, 1 j Claude decided to have some gloves made from it and ml structed the firm to make 1 them. Early this week he re-| 5 ceived the gloves, a beautiful tan and soft as a breath of 1 spring. Claude figures to keep his hands warm while he sits and . waits for his next horned vic- L tim this season. He had three pairs of gloves made. I LOCAL STUDENTS LEAVE FOR COLLEGE Ths list of students leaving for the different colleges to date are as follows: , To University of North Carr j olina, Charles Gillespie, Char 'l les Lee Griffith, Tommy Tilson |i Ted Bailey, Peggy Johnson and Rush Beeler. To Berea: ' Elizabeth Hall, Barbara Jean , Simmons, Wayne Silver, Mil ton Young, Aaron Wilson and! 1 Ethel Dayton to Berea High 1 School. | To Meredith: Mary Evelyn , Hensley. i To Western Carolina Teach . ers College, Cullowhee: FranK » -Wilann Rflp-.mio —i Jjpjf . Edge, Mary Louise EvansaSa Paul Burton. To Wake Forest: Elizabeth } Ann Roberts, Danny Fouts l and Sarah Hamrick. To State in Raleigh: Robert Tilson, Charles Homer Parnell and R. L. Bailey, i To Woman’s College, Greens boro: Sue Koenig. To Appalachian State Teach ers College, Boone: Lucy Bai ley and Llewellyn Ray. i To University of South Car olina: David Covington. THEY EXPECTED IT; BUT NOT SO SOON Raleigh—Although William i B. Umstead of Durham for several months had been re- I garded as a certain candidate for Governor next year, his decision to. announce in the i middle of September, nine [ months prior to the Democra k i tic Primary, came as a surprise tto some political observers here. They first heard about it on > Tuesday morning before hi announcement on Tuesday ev ening at 6 o’clock. Until the » word leaked to them from the wire services and the radio stations, they were sure tha Umstead would wait severa weeks to make his formal an nounceraent. He was urged to announce his intentions last June, but was dissuaded from doing so, feeling being that he would be setting himself up as a target to be shot at for nearly a year His announcement at ttu time adds weight to statements that Umstead will be “his own 1 man” and will make most of the important decisions in his campaign, whoever his manag er might be. Talk of a manager, now hinges around B\ll York of Greensboro, outstandin Legionnaire, Fred Helms, pro minent Charlotte attorney; and Hamp Price, Senator, lawyer! and politician of Rockingham county., • Campaign headquerters wil be opened around the middle of January in the Hotel Sir Walter here, with sub-head quarters planned for Charlotte Greensboro, Asheville, Eliza beth City, Winston-Salem, and Wilmington. STATE MENjpND EQUIP MENT NOT ip BE USED ON STREET Mhflft In a meeting of the State Highway Commission this week it was 9Mded that the Highway Deplpfcment does not have the worlds and equip-' ment to spare ~ib help munici | palities wil®. non-highway . .street work under the Powell Bill. | The Powell;Bill, enacted by, I the late legislature, entitles cities and towns to share in' more than four million dollars in highway funds foY work on I non-highway :.|atreet systems I I Burnsville is Jjto ggt around four thousajfel dollars for streets here uguler the bill. I Some small -downs have re quested the Si&te Highway De- 1 partment to jffirnish men and equipment f||§-work on city] streets with going to the 1 department iiom State funds. I Dr. Henry |. Jordon. Com mission chairman said the commission fdft that the de partment is t(jo busy with the State’s secondary road pro gram to do the work on streets. Gov. Scott, vtf&o also attended ’ the meeting, expressed the opinion that $ highway work • comes first bjjrt; help for town ■ should be faifhished if the de i partment has time. i JL COMMITT|b CHAIRMAN .. i !&&■...}■;. i§S % , mk 11 m/m I i James Ray LOCAL OPS COMMITTEE APPOINTED James Ray, local merchant, was named chairman of a local; OPS committee on Monday of this week, it was announced by Mayor Mark W. Bennett Other members appointed on the committee were Vincent Westall and J. Bennie King. The Charlotte office of OPS requested the mayor to appoint a local volunteer committee to head a Field Service Office here for the price organization. The office is to be set up for the convenience of merchants and others coming under price regulations in this area and will be open one day eaclii week, according to Bennett. The local organization has not designated a day the office will be open for service. CLARENCE B. RAY DIES AT NEBO Clarence B. Ray, 59, a for mer resident of the Pensacola section of \ancey County died suddenly Wednesday night at his home in Nebo. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Grace Ray; one daughter, Mrs. Kirby Brown of Nebo; two sons, Vincent Lee of 1 and Clarence of Fairbanks Alaska; two sisters, Mrs. Ella Ray of Candler and Mrs. S. B. | Penland of Pensacola; two , brothers, Ernest of Swannanoa ; and Zeb L. of Loveiand, Colo.; and five grandchildren. Complete funeral arrange ments have not been made; j however, it was said that the services will be held in tne Pensacola Baptist Church and burial will be in the Ray Cemetery. Mrs. L. F. Lawhern of Cane River is visiting relatives in Ky., Ohio and Inu. Mrs. Law hern will be gone for several days. _ „ WEAYERVILLE GIRL WINS BEAUTY CONTEST Finals in the co-op beauty • contest to select a girl to re- I present the French Broad Elec tric Corporation in the State contest to elect" “Miss REA" I --'ere held at the Parkway • i layhouse Saturday night. 1 First place was won by Joan 1 Ledford of Weaverville, while second place was awarded Llewllyn Ray of Burnsville I and third place went to Patsy Reaves of Walnut. Other girls lrom this area entering the J contest were Margaret Mc- I Dowell of Walnut, Betty Sue i Peterson, Relief, and Juanita Harrell of Forbes. Prizes for the winners were $ complete wardrobe from lo- I cal merchants while the sec- J ond place winner received a ,'550.00 bond. Winner of the state contest > to select a “Miss REA” will . receive an expense-paid trip . to Chicago next year to enter [ the contest for the title of s ,‘Miss Rural Electrification.” Peterson Promoted Fort Benning, Ga. August 31—Carl F. Peterson, son .of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Peterson, of Day Book, N. C., last week was promoted from private to pri vate first class. He is in Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 30th Infantry, Combat Training Command, Fort Benning. ■ *TT — 1 """" { Woman’s College Chancellor Edward K. Graham, Chaniel lor of the Woman's College and Vice President of the Univer sity North Carolina was in Burnsville last Friday on bus iness concerning the Burns ville School of Fine Arts. He met with several members of the Board of Directors here to discuss plans for the future. Dr. Graham expressed his gratitude for the way in which , citizens of Burnsville had join ;ed in cooperating with the school. He also said Burnsville is in an almost pefrect location for a drama department such as the Parkway Playhouse part of the school. The Chancellor also said he hoped the school might be ex panded in some phases in the , future. J i FINAL MEETING ON FARM REVIEW ANNOUNCED Farmers and others interest : ed in farm life in Yancey County are invited to a county wide meeting at the Yancey Theatre on Sept. 17, at 10:00 a. m., called by the County Ag ricultural Mobilization Com mittee. The meeting will give rura people a final chance to make recommendations on Depart ment of Agriculture programs as part of the Family Farm| Policy Review. At the same time businessmen will have an opportunity to report. Mr. Hensley, chairman of the County AM Committee, strongly urged all rural citi zens to take advantage of this chance to have a voice in' farm programs. “I am especially, anxious that Yancey County’s report express just what far mers hereabout want. Thej county report will not be what State or Federal agencies think about farm programs; it will reflect just what local farmers recommend and nothing else.” I After the County meeting,J Mr. Hensley said that therej will be a great volume of work 1 to be done by his committee ini compiling the recommenda tions and expressions es farm ers. Yancey County’s report to the State Agricultusal Mobl lization Committee mußt be ready by September 28th, he said. I Yancey Asked For 550 Pints Os Blood The Defense Department in cooperation with the American Red Cross is asking for 300,000 pints of human blood per mon-J 1 th. This program of blood pro curement will operate until' June, 1952. One half of this 1 amount has been allotted to , the military to supply and the, i public is asked to donate the [ other half. In view of this in-' > creased need for whole blood ■ the quota for Yancey County i has been upped to 550 pint > for the subject period. Having sufficient supply o i whole blood and blood plasma t available at all times is as im-j portant as food for the fight } ing men. Shortage of either is . a cause for greater loss of . lives. Will you help by giving j your blood at the Blood Mobile Unit Tuesday, September 18 j. between the hours of 11 a. m. , and 5:30 p. m. at the Legion Memorial Hall? j! Cooperating in this projec !»' for blood donors are the fol lowing organizations and in dustries: Ameriran Legion and Auxiliary, Lions Club, Church es and schools, and the textile and lumber industries of the \ county. ■ In addition, community com mittees are Dr. Melvin Webb 1 and Mark Bennett, Burnsville SIX CALLED FOR ARMY THISMONTH Six boys , from this county will leave for induction into been sent to Kenneth M. Pet ’ erson, Joe Lee Phillips, Tony Reid Johnson, Theo Gibbs Edwards, Eugene A. Young, 1 and Eugene A. Buchanan. For the Angust call from [ this county 10 men were in- 1 ' ducted. Those reporting were f William R. Young, Mark Mc- J Intosh, Edwin E. Buckner, Robert H. Hall, Ward Phillips, 3 Hershel Phillips, Alvin McMa -1 han, and Lester D. McKinney. [ Only one map was • called ' from Yancey in July. i Examination and induction 1 quotas for this county have | been increased recently, ac -5 cording to the Selective Service Clerk. The number being call ' ed this month was smaller ' than that of August because of 5 the number of volunteers, she said. Twenty-five are to be 1 called for examination for I October. The clerk stated that Paul' Phillips of Bald Creek is now classed as a delinquent be r cause the board has not been able to locate him. His name , will be reported to the District Attorney soon if he does not get in touch with the local office, she said. Decoration Notice There will be a decoration | at the Byrd Cemetery on Byrd j Branch Sunday afternoon a ,2:30. Blue Gems Win Two Games The Blue Gems are primed Jto take another victory when 1 I they meet the Flat Creek team , here Sunday. The visitors are I from the Buncombe League. | j j week the Gems kept up their winning spree by de feating Black Mountain with ! an easy 10 to one Saturday at §tamey Field. Then on Sunday I the local boys finally pulled! 'ahead in the last Dining to' t win 6-4 over Blowing Rock. The winning was scored/ j when Fleet Hfimby, on leave from the. Navy, hammered outj a long hit, bringing in Speedy ( Bailey who was on base- after getting a double. The game Sunday will be' played at Stamey Field at the 1 I usual time. T iukiittt) [ J j mpit) I / hi) United States 1 [fieftnst Bauds I NUMBER TWQ Mrs. Luther Banks, Bolens Creek; Dr. Ohle and Miss Margaret Calbeck, Celo; Dr. Walter Ost, Higgins, Wayne Tipton and Mrs. Bill Gibson, Windom; R. N. Silver, Mica , ville; Mrs, Jack Young, New dale; Mrs. Brook Wilson, Pen sacola; Mrs. H. D. Ray, Jr., I Vixen; Miss Anastasia Tom- I berlin and Clyde Buckner, Swiss; James Proffitt, Bald i Creek; Mrs. Frank Howell, Green Mountain; Mrs. Harmon Peterson, Cane River; Erskine Bailey, Clearmont; and Mon roe Mclntosh, Bee Log. OVER 1500 GET X-RAYED FIRST WEEK The mobile x-ray units oper ating in the tri-county area re port a good beginning. Throu gh last Tuesday 1835 persons in Yancey County had been examined. A “floater unit” that has been stationed at communities throughout the county reports that 1524 x-rays were taken in those places. At( the end of the first day the Burnsville unit reported 3H persons x-rayed. Totals for the various com munities are as follows: Mica ville, 375; Celo, 174; Cane River, 294; Bald Creek, 468; Prison Camp, 108. The survey will continue through Sej/ember 29, with a mobile unit stationed in Bur nsville just off the square near the Methodist Church. This days and Mondays. The District Health Office urges every person in the coun ty over 15 to take the examina tion. Persons who were not able to take the x-ray exami i nation when the “floater unit’* was stationed at the different communities may get it here, an official of the office said. - | YOUNG DEMOCRATS j HOLD MEETING . The Young Democrats or ganization of Yancey Cpunty Jmet last Saturday and elected officers for the coming year. Mark W. Bennett was elect ed president of the club, while Woodrow Anglin was elected ; vice-president, and Ford Bai ley was. named as secretary- I treasurer. A motion was made and , passed by the group that any member from this county at tending the State Convention may act as a delegate. The con vention will be held at Caro lina Beach fron September 13 through 16. Officers and delegates to re present the state organization will be elected at the Carplina Beach convention '' : “ / TRIES TO DISRUPT CONFERENCE a San Francisco, Cal.—Japan became a free .nation (Sept. 8) when representatives to the Japanese peace treaty ednfer | ence ratified the document , which officially ended World War II —all despite the stren uous efforts of Russian dele gate Andrei Gromyko (above), J.... tiiwoti nU fL a nvAoaad i n /»o I ’.j .
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