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J impiii I /toy Met Slates m ( fielme Bonds M VOLUME SIXTEEN ATTENDS CONVENTION i Hensley G. L. Hensley, local post master, left this week to at tend a Postmasters’ Conven tion in Washington, D. C. Mr Hensley was accompanied by his son as far as Front Royal Va. where he will enter school AIR SHOW SCHEHULED AT BALD CREEK SUNDAY People of this area will have their first opportunity! Sunday to see an air show staged in this county. Two pilots from an air service at Fletcher have been coming to Bald Creek each Sunday to carry passengers. The bottom belonging to Gus Edwards be-i yond Radford’s service station is used for a landing field. As an added attraction, 1 some sciYt of air show is sched | uled at the field next Sunday. 1 Complete information was not gathered as to how many planes will be involved in the show. But because of the size of the field, light planes in the' Piper class will probably be used. One feature planned is a parachute jump if weather ( conditions permit. Moderate or, no winds at all are usually re-J quired by show jumpers be-' cause of added hazards brou ght on by high winds. Plans Made For Christmas Musical Program Members of the Baptis, Church Choir voted last night to give a program of Christmas Music again this year. A musi | cal program at the Baptist Church and other churches in Burnsville has been one of the | highlights of the Christmas' season for several years. For some Christmas prog-, rams in the past all the church] choirs here have joined for special music, usually the Sup-' day pight before Christmas. | According to present plans the musical program will be given on Sunday night, Decern-] ber 23. Directing the choir is Mrs. R. I. Wicker, with Mrs. Phillip Ray as organist. INVOLVED IN FRACAS v : . M HgSraßL \ | Hr; PSp lsj| 5 . •'>- - v r t *** Hollywood,- Cal.—The .lov triangle among film beauty Barbara Payton and actor Franchot Tone and Tom Nea (above) exploded (Sept. 14) in a melee of flying fists outßide the actress’ home. '.When the battle was over, Tone was out] cold, suffering from multiple face fractures, but Neal, a for mer amateur boxer, was un marked. The Yancey Record SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. ——————————— " 1 " '■■■" . fin , ■ • 1 County-Wide Farm Policy Review Held Monday The series of meetings con | cerning Farm Policy Review was brought to a close with a| countyrwi.de meeting at the Yancey Theatre Monday Morn ing. Approximately 150 farm ers from every part of the county met to discuss and vote on different resolutions and re commendations that had been brought up at community! meetings during the past few weeks. Five community meetings 1 have been held in each of the high schools in the county to discuss the different phases of farm programs carried out by! agricultural agencies in the county. In eadv'Yneeting heads' of the various agencies ex plained the work carried on by them. Farmers and others attending the meetings were' asked to recommend changes in the programs, discuss phas es to be eliminated and phases to be retained. At all the meet ings a general approval was given as to the satisfactory 1 way all agencies were being ' operated. 1 In the final meeting Monday presided over by W. H. Hig gins, vice-chairman of the PMA Committee, the following resolutions were passed: |\ Mr. J. J. Nowicki, president qf the Bald Creek PTA, recom I mended that federal funds I should be provided to construct I a County Agricultural Build ! ing to house all agricultural agencies and provide a meeting place for such agencies. | • Yates Bailey, president of the Farm Bureau; made a mo-j tion that funds be provided to reinstate home managemen | ; supervisor in county Farm 1 Home Administration Offices and that Yancey County have 1 an assistant home agent. | Clyde Ayers, veterans’ tea- I cher, recommended that ailot i ments of loan funds be increas ed to allow worthy applicants’ to purchase, develop or en large family type farms. E. B. Bailey, principal of j Clearmont H. S., recommended ( that all agencies should stress the dairy and poultry industry in the county. Phillip J. Howell, veteran I teacher, recommended tha , more funds be set aside for ex perimental work on the con i ■ SERVICE OFFICER TO BE I HERE ON SEPTEMBER 27 ’ Jack C. Winchester, Dist rict Officer, N. C. Veterans! I Commission, will be in th | County Service Office, Burns- | 1 ville Thursday, Sept. 27, to ( I assst veterans and their de-, pendents. < ANe*! ! Mr. Winchester stated that granting of Direct Loans by. VA to WW II veterans which went into force in August 1950 expired on June 30, 1951. Congress has now extended the time in which these loans may .be obtained to June 30, 1953 The Direct Loan is for pur chasing new or old homes in areas where regular G. - I.' Loans are not available. The ergular loan will be available to veterans where lenders wish to participate nutil July, 1956. The Direct Loan is made in any amount up to SIO,OOO in purchase of a home. There were several veterans who filed for the Direct Loan but a decision was not render ed pror to the deadline of las June 30. Those veteran wil have 15 days from date of a letter'coming from VA within which to notify that they are r still interested in obtaining the loan to purchase the same pro perty for which application i was originally filed. ! Persons who failed to • fil ‘application before June 30, tj 1951 and wish to take advan-' s tage of the Direct Loan should ■ certainly make plans in plenty of time to have all completed prior to June 30, 1963. “DEDICATED TO THEPROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” “— f 1 1' . SIP" ■■■ - BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, September 20, 1951 i trol of burley tobacco diseases. ; Ot h e r recommendations | were made that did not pass I by vote. Vote On State “Dog Law” Farmers voted at the final meeting in favor of having the' State “Dog Law” made effec-j tive in Yancey County. The law which was passed i by the last Legisatlature leav-] ’es the final passage to county] commissioners of the individ-] ual counties. It provides that 'all dogs must be vaccinated; 1 that they must be listed for taxes; that each must wear a 1 'collar tagged with owner’s 1 name. The law also provides] i that each county hire a “dog catcher” to see that the men-| tioned rulings are not violated i by dog owners. i Passage of the bill for the county is in the hands of the commissioners. Gain In Enrollment Noted In Yancey Schools According to a report receiv ed from the Superintendent's Office, an increase in students] attending Yancey County Schools is noted this year above last year. The available 1 information indicated that ap-! proximately 132 more students were enrolled this year than' for the 1950-51 school term. | Last year the total ran 4,140 for all schools, both elemen-| tary and high school, while this year the total is approxi-] | mately 4,272. j The elementary department [of the Micaville Schobl prcr-] bably has fewer students this I year than in past years due to] the construction of the new! elementary building in the South Toe District. Formerly students in the higher elemeh- 1 tary grades were allowed to attend Micaville School. How ] | ever a ruling was made this < year that students in that dis-] trict were to enroll in their community school until the . new building is completed • The new, modern brick build -1 ing is expected to be complete’ ed in the near future. At the j completion of the building, 1 those students will move from the old buildings. PAINTING CLASSES ENDED SATURDAY Burnsville Painting Classes owned and operated by Frank Stanley Herring and Edward S. Shorter, endeed its sixth I season Saturday. Classes be-! gan June 23 and were contin-| 1 ued through September 15 1 with a capacity enrollment of pupils. • Eighty students from twenty states, composed of persons I frtom all walks of life, were here for the art courses this summer. GOOD RESPONSE ON EXAMINATIONS SHOWN A total of 2831 chest x-rays • had been made in this county] through Saturday, September 15, during the mass survey] which began the first of the month. Os this number, 996 were x-rayed during the past week. All students fifteen | years of age or older have ’ been x-rayed, as well as young-] er children referred by the District Health Department because' of exposure to tuber culosis. One of the mobile units was located at Green Mountain on Wednesday and Thursday of ] last week, before moving into the lower part of Mitchell County. Another unit moved into Burnsville on September 11, and will remain here till the end of the survey on Sep- 1 tember 29. This trailer is locat-J ed on the street between the Square and the Methodist ' Church, and is in operation' I from 11 a. m. to 6 p. m., daily! | except Sundays and Mondays. WILSON, §ND KOREAN HERO OF JrHIS COUNTY, TO BE BROUGHT HOME Mr, and M®B. Hurley Wilson of Bee Log received a telegram from the WafDepartment last week that are being made the body of their son,»)pl. Hurley Wil son, for burim here. Cpl. Wilsoft, was killed in ] action in Koif|a March 31 of this year. Hi had been in I Korea for approximately nine months with l 4he 73rd Heavy ] Tank Division! when he was I killed. Cpl. Wilson, who was a ,tank driver, pad pulled his tank back of £he battle line to the protection!of a ridge for, ] refueling an enemy shell fell, according to information' received by th£ family. I He had been in the Army 1 four years an| had been with j the Occupation. Forces in Ger many' prior the Korean campaign. Kermit Hunter Spe?ks In Behalf Os Garusade For Freedom Kermit Hunter of Chapri' l Hill was gues# speaker at the l, regular meeting of the Burns *, ville Lions Club on last Tues day evening. He spoke in be | (half of the Crusade for Free dom. i Hunter is author oi the , Cherokee Indiap pageant “Un to These Hills,? and the page I ant “Forever This Land,’ I based on the Iffe of Lincoln. I He is serving jlqne of the vice , chairmen of the Crusade and i gave two weeks time in the I western partjfcf the state. | ! Hunter stressed the fact that ( the purpose is to fight com imnnism by spreading behind ithe Iron Curttain, the truth of the democratic ideal. Commun , ism is an agressive force and , we must fight it aggressively, he stated, through the cam | I paign we may fight it with , ideas. The success of last , year’s campaign cannot b e I measured. For the first time, many of the enslaved peoples heard the truth during the past year when Radio Free Europe broadcast and messages were i : I BALD CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ELECTS CLUB OFFICERS Several organizations and classes in Bald Creek High School met last week to elect officers and advisors for the school year. Officers and members to I serve on the Student Councli for the year were elected as | follows: Miss Clara Dee Baa * ner, faculty advisor; Lois York, president; Betty Jean Yelton, vice-president; Mary Ann York, secretary'; Betty, | Ann Fender, treasurer; Betty | Jean Yelton, reporter. Mem | bers from the different high school classes elected were Jo Alice Wilson and Billie Ray I -Bth grade; Barbara Mathis and Jay Riddle, 9th grade; Mary Ann York and George Hearst, 10th grade; V. A. Wilson, 11th grade; and Betty Ann Fender and Reece Jamerson, 12th grade. Senior class officers elected were Daphne Randolph, presi dent; Winnie Bailey, vice president; Mary Alice Ray secretary; Betty Ann Fender treasurer; and Geneva Fender ' reporter. The Program Com mittee consists of Lois York ; Daphne Randolph, Reece Jam erson, and Buster Bailey. | Grade mothers selected were i Mrs. T. H. York, Mrs. Bob Banks, Mrs. Jace Allen, Mrs. ’ Frank*Ray, Mrs.' Elzie Ray, i Mrs. .Gus Randolph, Mrs. Hugh Baker and Mrs. Clyde Fender. - The 4-H Club, with about 1 fifty members present, met on September 18 and elected offi -1 cers as follows; Lee V. Buck [ ner, president; Jimmie Neill, secretary and treasurer; Betty Jean Yelton, reporter; Mary ' Ann York and Ward Mathis . song leaders; and Maxine Rathburn, pianist. “ANCIENT” AUTOS VIE IN RACE Up v gjl ! Cleveland, Ohio. A 191 Stoddard Dayton (left), a gas powered automobile driven by Rube DeLaunty, and a 191 Stanley Steamer, with Jack Brause behind the wheel, speed 'down Prospect Av. (Sept. 13) ’headed for New York. They are engaged in the “Race of ] the .Half-Century,” which be i gan in Chicago, Sept. 10. The -]cars have nothing on their i drivers, however: Brause is 170, DeLaunty is 73. jsent by leaflet. Last year 16 million Ameri cans signed the Freedom i Scrolls and contributed dur I ing the campaign. This made ' possible the Freedom Bell in | Berlin, one radio station Free ' Europe and millions of leaflets in the languages of the coun tries under communist domi nation. This year three more broad- are planned and millons more of the leaf lets will be dropped. Many of .those who broadcast will be 'people, who have actually es caped to freedom and who will tell their friends back in the communist countries that there is still hope that all may yet know what freedom means. In Yancey County citizens are responding to the cam , paign by signing the scrolls 1 and making contributions. E. L. Dillingham and Mrs. C. R. Hamrick are co-chairman and Mrs. Juanita Masters is treas urer. Scrolls and coin boxes have been placed in a number of places in the county. Please sign and make your contribu 'tion aS soon as possible. What School Will Show The Greatest Response? What school in the county will show the greatest respon se and interest in the Crusade for Freedom? All students ex cept those in the primary , grades will have an opportun ity during the. coming week to sign the Freedom Scrolls,! and make a contribution. They| will receive a Freedom Bell badge to show that they have joined. All workers for the Crusade for Freedom, national, state and local, ase volunteer work ers, contributing their time and efforts to a cause which they believe will have a far I reaching effect in the conflict between Democracy and Com munism. Dr. Webb To Attend Conference Dr. Melvin, W. Webb an nounced today that he will be away from his clinic from Sep tember 26th through Septem ber 27th. He will attend a medical conference at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem during that period of time. Dr. Webb is a graduate of ( the Bowman Gray Medical i School. Mrs/*E. L. Dillingham, J. S. LeFevre and Rev. and ( Mrs. David Swartz attended a' Presbyterial meeting at the ■ Olin Presbyterian Church near Erwin, Tenn. Sunday. Burdette Dillow was home last week end from Baltimore, Md. where he is employed. Burdette is working in the Glen U Martin plane plant. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ken i neth Silver of Burnsville, a daughter, September 20th. I Farmer’s Herd Expands By Two Sets Os Twins Beef production is an impor tant phase of farming pro grams. It is usually an extend ed process with the herd grow ing slowly. The law of averages was ' shot to pieces, however, on the Jess Howell this summer. On July 16 twin calves were dropped, one heifer and one bull, and on August 5 a second cow calved, dropping another ’set of twins, both heifer calves 1 Since Howell had started his] herd in the spring with only two cows and two young heif-j ers this increase was a little better and faster than he’d ! hoped. ■ The background to this un > usual event is interesting. In 1946 Jess Howell, a young veteran, and his wife purchas ed a 46 acre farm in the Green Mountain Section of Yancey County. The farm was in only average Condition and needed land development, permanen seeding,, fencing, and repai for most of the farm buildings But both Mr. and Mrs. Howel were determined that they| would make theirs a highly, productive farm. Today it is easy to see th progress that is being made Pastures are seeded in ladino clover and orchard grass, al salsa is growing hardily, am TWO GAMES SCHEDULED - BY EAGLES The Burnsville Eagles, col ored baseball team, announced that two games will be played on Stamey Field during the week end. The first game,; which will be played Saturday, , afternoon, is with Forest City; | . and the other, to be played 1 ( Sunday afternoon, is with Old Fort. Both games are schedul ed to begin at 2:30. [ P. T. A. MEETING HELD The Burnsville P. T. A. held; the first fall meeting in the high school library on day evening. The president, | , Mrs. Clarence Burton, presided [and members of the faculty were hostesses. The Rev. F. R. Barber gave the invocation and reports ( were heard from Guss Peter-j] I son, treasurer. Miss Evelyn ] Briggs, school treasurer, and ; ’Mrs. John B. Bennett, chair-]' man of the committee to pur- ' chase playground equipment. The following committees 1 were named: ] Budget and Finance: Bruce Westall, chairman; Guss Pet- ’ erson, IlifF Clevenger, Mrs. ' Lon Roberts and Mrs. Wesley 1 Roberts. Membership: Mrs. Gibsoi Deyton, chairman; Mrs. An thony Zelinski, Mrs. Bruce Westall and Mrs. Vance Hen sley. Program: Mrs. Mark Ben nett, chairman; Mrs. Frank Howell, Miss Nell Bailey and Mrs. Iliff Clevenger. Publicity: Mrs. C. R. Ham rick, chairman; Evelyn Brigg • and Mrs. Royec Masters. Hospitality: Mrs. John Ben , nett, chairman; Mrs. Roy Ray : Mrs. James Ramsey, Mrs. ,'ohn I Wilson and Mrs. Zeb Young. I Project and Planning: Mrs Reece Mclntosh, Chairman Mrs. William Higgins, Mrs John Bennett, Mrs. E. L. Dill, ingham, B. M. Tomberlin and , Dr. William Gladden. Muaic: Miss Doris Hunter chairman; Mrs. Charles Prof fitt,jMrs. Madge Byrd and Mrs. {Garrett Bailey. Recreation: Miss Laura Mae Hilliard and Miss Margare Calbeck. Menu: Mrs. Helen Ramsey chairman; Mrs. Jake Buckner Mrs. Hershel Holcombe, Mrs Joshua Banks and Mrs. Mack I*** • I J Wptol 1 /kj United States 1 ( Ptfmi Bonds J NUMBER THREE the expected corn yield would have sounded ridiculous ten years ago. The Howells realized that they were making good pro gress on their farm but it was requiring the uSe of most of their farm income and very little was left for home im provements. They took the problem to the Farmers Home Administration office in Burnsville and found i that they were eligible for a ' loan with a long repayment I period and a low interest rate. ! With this they could build the new home of their dreams. They applied for and were approved for the loan in 1949. Today MY. and Mrs. Howell and their three children have a beautiful modern home, with all conveniences to make farm (Continued on page 3) Clearmont H. S. Holds First Club Meeting For .Year The Clearmont 4-H Club held its first regular meeting of the 1951-52 year on Tuesday of last week. ' The following officers were elected to serve during the year: Palma Ben nett, president; Opal Robinson vice-president; Alberta Byrd, secretary and treasurer; Joan Hensley, reporter, and Johnnie Robinson and John Bailey, song leaders. It was decided that the club will meet twice each month ; this year instead of once a month as has been the practice i in the past. ] The club predicts a record membehship this year with a high percentage of records completed. 70 PINTS OF BLOOD DONATED The Regional Red Cross Blood Center mobile unit was donated 70 pints of blood by - Yancey County residents Tues ’day. The mobile unit was stat ioned at the Legion Memorial jHall from 11 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Forty-eight pints of the blood were started immediat ely for Korea where it will be used to aid in saving lives of our fighting men. The remain der of the blood will remain at the Regional Blood Center for use in hospitals in this area and by local doctors for patients not in hospitals. Yancey County has been asked to supply 550 pints of whole blood before June, 1952. The Defense Department is asking for donations of 300,000 pints each month throughout the nation. SUCCEEDS MARSHALL Hr ... S MB i H fU PH HH I mgr f /flit P ■ "/rt 4i ( ym ! f- K - » pmWH mmm' V■? Washington, D. C. — Robert Lovett (above), Deputy Secre tary of Defense, was named by President Truman (September 12) as new Secretary of De fense after the chief executive oLicpicu wie 'resignation ox | Gen. George C. Marshall.