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VOLUME SIXTEEN
Shall We Expand Burns
ville’s Tourist Business?
By Mrs. Ira West
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What could an expanded
tourist business mean to Bur
nsville and Yancey t County V
In a State Advertising Bulle
tin received recently from Ral
eigh it was pointed out that
last year 4,750,000 tourists to
North Carolina spent $216,000,
000 while touring the State
This is a daily average of $8.50
per person. It was also estima
ted that in 1951 a final total oL
6,500,000 persons will have
spent $250,000,000, making an'
average daily expenditure of
SIO.OO each.
If we in Burnsville were en
tertaining an average of 100
summer visitors at the aver j
age daily expenditure rate of
other North Carolina commun
ities, it would mean SIOOO per
day circulated in this area
from an entirely new source
than we have known before.
The tourist dollar spreads
quickly through the whole eco
nomy as the hotel, restaurant,
service station man and the re
tail merchant passes it along
for goods and services of all I
kinds. Percentages of the dol |
lar average spent for different
items vary with the states, but
here is the generally accepted
tourist dollar breakdown made
by the American
Association: 20 per cent goes i
for transportation (in motor
travel, for gasoline, supplies
and garage), 20 per cent for,
overnight accomodations, 21
per cent to restaurants, 25 per
cent to retail stores, six per
cent to wayside vendors, and
8 per cent for amusements. j
Editor Victor Meekins of the
LAST RITES HELD FOR
JOHN L. BLANKENSHIP
John Lee Blankinship, 62
of Swiss died in Mission Hos- |
pital Monday night from in
juries received when struck
by an automobile in Buncombe
County around the first of
August. He had not been con
scious since the accident.
Graveside rites were held at
Chandler Cemetery at Swiss
Wednesday afternoon with the
Rev. Edwards officiating.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Della Blankenship; one
son, Clarence; two daughters
Willie and Agnes; one sister,
Mrs. Virgie Shook of Madison
County; two brothers, Andy of
Asheville and Mack of Burns
ville. His father, K. L. Blank
enship of Madison County, al
so survives. . |
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Buenos, Aires—Dictator Juan J’eron is still firmly in the
saddle in Argentina after crushing a revolt. Attempt to make
his blonde actress wife (with him, above) vice president
was “last straw” for foes. He holds, perhaps symbolically,
two cigarette lighters, shaped like miniature pistols.
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The Yancey Record
SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR.
I Coastland Times said of tour- (
ist trade: “One fine thing
about the tourist dollar—lt is
all cash on the barrelhead. No
credits, no trade-ins, no re- j
turns, and no bad accounts un
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Mess we offend or drive them
' away. Another thing, the tour-|
ist requires nothing in return
( after he is gone. He doesn’t
use our welfare, or our schools
’ and he will continue to adver
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I tise us in whichever manner f
! |we have shown him we deserve
; to be advertised, by the treat-j
ment we gave him when he
was here."
Burnsville has many more
I atlvactions to offer tourists
J than most people realize. 1
Next week there will be an ar-i
v icle in this paper summam-'
ing those attractions.
SEI *' EMPLOYED PEOPLE
NOW COVERED BY
SOCIAL SECURITY
Are you one of the millions
of self-employed people newly
[covered under Federal old-age
| and survivors insurance? If
’you are, you need a social sec
-1 urity account-number card, ac
cording to Glenn H. Pittenger
manager of the Asheville Soc- .
1 ial Security Office. J (
1 “Self-employed people who (
■ were brought under the Social
1 Security Act by last year’s
'changes in the law will report
their net income from • self
employment at the same time
' they make their Federal in
come tax returns early next
j year,” Mr. Pittenger said. At
that time, they will enter their
social security numbers on the J
tax form, together with other ,
information.
I Mr. Pittenger indicated that'
although the numbers will not (
actually be needed until . arly '
next year, self-employed busi
nessmen should apply for them 1
I now. This will help avoid any
delay when the numbers are 1
ineeded. '
“If you have ever had a soc-
ial security number, that same f
number should be used,” Pitt-1
enger said. “If you’ve lost your '
card, we can get a copy of it '
1 for you, bearing the same num
ber.”
Both new and duplicate
cards can be obtained through
the Asheville Social Security
Office. The address is 203 Flat
iron Building. Mr. Pittenger
asks all self-employed people
who have any questions about
their coverage under social
security to get in touch with
j this office.
“DEDICATED TO THE PROGHjSS OP YANCEY COUNTY”
BURNSVILLE, N. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4,1951
EVERY TOP STAR
TO APPEAR DURING
‘MOVIETIME’
“This isn’t an all-star pic
ture,” Manager Lum Clevenger
of the Yancey Theatre declar
ed here today, in explaining
'the nationwide “Movietime, U.
S. A.” program for all the na
r tion’s more-than-23,000 movie
'theatres. “This is an all-star
.'season.”
Commemorating the half
century since Talley’s Theatre
in Los Angeles was built spec- 1
ifically for the purpose ofi
showing films, the “Movietime
U. S. A.” jubilee opens in Oct
ober with an outstanding ar
ray of Hollywood’s finest pro
duct.
1 Outlining the plans made on
la national and state-wide scale
'Clevenger said: “It’s Movie
time, U. S. A.” is the name of
'a committee, and it’s also the
title of an idea. This is the way
lit works: All the studios in
Hollywood got together to sign L
their best stars, their outstand
ing writers, their top directors
and all their most distinguish
ed technicians; then they made
a determined effort to produce
the very best films they could.
These films will all be released
in one top-notch jubilee season
and of course, we’re going to
show them right here in this
theatre.” i
The North Carolina “It’s
Movietime, U. S. A.” commit-1
| tee is headed by H. H. Everett
lof Charlotte with Manager i
Clevenger spearheading the
local drive.
Made To
Show Burnsville ThroTifch '
Television
Mr. and Mrs. James Bing
i ham, new owners of Camp Mt.
i Mitchell for Girls, are deter- ,
mined to place Burnsville
the tourist map if it is possible. I
On Tuesday of this week
i Clevenger of Lum’s Picture' (
'Service spent most of the as-J (
ternoon taking moving color (
pictures of Burnsville and j
business people to be shown (
over the television station in (
Jacksonville, Fla. I (
. The shooting of scenes star- ,
ted in west Burnsville and con-'
itinued to the business section
of town. Before shooting was 1
completed, Lum ran out of;
film, but he expects to finish'
the photography when the 1 ,
trees take on more color. |i
About 30 or 40 minutes will (
be required to run the entire'
film when it is completed, Mr.ji
Bingham said. When televised'
from Jacksonville the first
moving color picture of Bur-1
nsville may be seen by most of
Florida and southern states.
Local Librarian Attends
. Meeting In Asheville
An In-Service Training
Workshop for non-professional
library workers in western
North Carolina was held in the
I Pack Memorial Library, Ashe
ville, October 1-3. This work
shop was the first in a series in
a training program sponsored
by the Public Libraries' Sec
tion of the North Carolina
Library Association.
The subject so this workshop
was The Public Library as an
Information Center. Mrs. Ellyn
Beaty, head of circhlation,
Carnegie Public Library, Win-.
ston-Salem, and Miss Gladys
Johnson, librarian of the North,
Carolina Library Commission, 1
made up the faculty, ans Miss
Evelyn Mullen, field librarian
of tie Library Commission,
served as director. Miss Jane
B. Wilson of Durham, Presi
dent of the North Carolina
Library Association, and Dr.
G. B. Ehlhardt, president of
Brevard College, were the
guest speakers.
Persons attending the work
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X-RAY SURVEY RESULTS
The total number of persons
X-rayed in jMjmcey County
during the maltfjjt survey held
during September was 3,859.
The total for ,t|e Avery-Mit
chell-Yancey flpairict was
11,885. This wra less than had
been hoped for,, but it Is felt 1
that the survJt : was definitely!
worth while. . Mrs. Harmon l
Peterson of i.sane River is 1
chairman of the* County Tuber-j
culosis Committee, and Mrsj
'Ernest Briggf\-■ of Burnsville'
! was the Survey
' Committee.
The District Health Depart
ment wishes' to thank all who
helped in any jway with the
survey. Thanks are due espec
ially to the 'bounty commis
sioners, who advanced funds to
supplement thpse of the Tuber
culosis Association; to the
French Bi uadi Electric Mem
bership Cordpration, which
made all the Ateetrical connec
tions without,any change; and
to all who sai’Ved as volunteer
hostesses. -Mi
AYERS ON FURLOUGH
FROM KOREA
.
Tommy Ayers, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Ayers of Rt. 1,1
Burnsville, ia home on fur
lough for a month. Ayers, who
is attached to the 629 Medical
Clearance Company, has been
in Korea fed* the past eleven
months. s'■ £
He entered the Army in
1948 and saw L 5 months ser
vice in Okiggj|KpAfter his re-
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Fouts Named WaKeTdYSst :
Campaign Chairman Here
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President Harold W. Tribble
of Wake Forest College has an
nounced the appointment of
Mr. Dover R. Fouts as chair
man of The Greater Wake For
est Campaign in Yancey Coun
ty. Mr. E. Z. Stines, Manager
of the Jefferson Standard Life
Insurance Company for West
ern North Carolina is General
Chairman of the Wake Forest
Campaign for Western North
Carolina. Mr. Fouts will work
in cooperation with Mr. Stines
in enlisting the support of
Alumni and friends of the
college in this county.
The campaign that is being j
conducted by Wake Forest
College is part of the program
designed to move the college
from Wake County to Forsyth j
County in the near future. The i
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
in Winston-Salem has given
I the college a guaranteed in
come for the operation of the
school in perpetuity after the
school is moved to Winston-
Salem. Since 1946 the college
has been soliciting funds for
the construction of the build I
ings on the new campus, and
l by January of this year appro
ximately $7,500,000 had been
■ secured.
In April 1951, the Trustees
of the school estimated that it
would take $15,500,000 to con
struct the buildings essential
to the removal of the school
With $7,500,000 already raised,"
this left a balance of $8,000,-
000 to be secured.
In the .Meantime, the build
ing program is ‘getting under
way. The road into the new
■ campus, which is being donat
ed to the college by Mr. and
Mrs. Charles H. Babcock of
1 Winston-Salem, is being con
structed, and ground-breaking
exercises will be held on Octo
ber 15th for the beginning of
construction on the first build
ing. The .Trustees of the school
confidently expect to proceed
with the building program this
Fall. By early 1952, construc
tion on several buildings shou
ld be under way and it is hoped
that by 1954, the initial group
of new buildings will be ready
REV. BARBER CALLED 1
TO LINWOOD, N. C.
LA*’A • *—
Rev. F. R. Barber will end ,
his fourth appointment as pas-'
tor of Higgins Memorial Meth-Ji
I odist Church here, and will |
I move to his new church next .
[Wednesday. At the annual ‘
(Western North Carolina Con- 1 r
l ference at Greensboro which'
[ ended Monday, Rev. Barber
j was appointed to a pastorate
i at Linwood, $L C. j [
Not only has Rev. Barber j
been a leader in his church hut
has taken part in all commun-'j
ity and youth activities in',
Burnsville. He first came to'
Burnsville in 1944 and was re
appointed the following year.
Then at the Western N. C.
Conference two years ago he
was again appointed to fill the 1
pastorate he.-e an A was again 1
reappointed for another year.
The Rev. B. B*. Alderman was
appointed to the church here
to fill Rev. Barber’s place. Rev-
Alderman will come here from
Emory University*
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Powell of ‘
Concord have returned to their
home after a month’s visit in
New York, Washington amt
Belhaven. N C.
turn to the United States for 1
a five-month period, be was 1
shipped out to Korea where he '
has been since.
At the end of his furlough,
Ayers will report to Ft.
son for reassignment.
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DOVER R. FOUTS
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and that the college will be (
moved to the new campus in
the summer of 1954.
The Wake Forest Enlarge
ment Program is attracting;
widespread attention. It does
not happen very often that a
college that has served in one
community for 117 years is
moved 110 miles to a new com-j
Imunity upon the offer of new
and large resources for sup
port. In addition to the College l
of Arts and Science, Wake
Forest also has a good law
school, established in 1894, a
good medical school, establish
ed in 1902, (which was moved
to Winston-Salem in 1941), a
good school of business admin
istration, established in 1949.
The only condition attached
to the gift frdm the Reynolds
Foundation was that the col
lege be moved to Winston-Sal
em. It will remain, as at pre
sent, under the control and
ownership of the Baptist Con
vention of North Carolina. The
move means, therefore, that a
fine Christian college is being
moved into the western section
of the state, affording new and
great opportunities for educa
tion to the youth of this pari
of the state. Perhaps no other
single event in the life of opr
state at this mid-century point
will have greater significance
for all of this area than the
realization of The Greater
Wake Forest Program.
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C. O. Ellis, A. C. Spivey to Open
New Plant In Newport, Tenn.
C. O. Ellis, Vice President,;
Treasurer and general manag
er of the Burnsville Hosiery
Mills, announced this week
that he is to be vice-president
and secretary of a ,iew hosiery
finishing plant at Newport,
Tenn.
The new organization, nam
ed Car-Tertn. Textiles, Inc., is
owned by Mr. Ellis and A. C.
Spivey of Newton. Spivey, who,
has been superintendent of the
Newton Knitting Mills, will be 1
president and general manag--
er of the new mill.
Ellis said fn announcing the
new organization that the mill
will consist of a finishing de
partment, dyeing department
and shipping department. The
, plant will be housed in a three-j
floor brick building with a|
floor space of 12,000 square'
feet. The building formerly
housed a hosiery mill and was
BALD CREEK P. T. A.
HOLDS FIRST MEETING
The Bald Creek P T A this
week held its first meeting of
the 1951 school, year. The
meeting was held in the audi
torium of the high school, with
the president, J. J. Nowicki,
presidiug. Thirty-six parents
and teachers were present for
the meeting.
During the program, the
nineth and tenth grades pre’
seated a pumber of songs re
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Principal R. H. Howell spoke
of plans to beautify the school
lunchroom. The organization
considered taking the lunch
room as a project for the year,
to make it more home-like for (
the children. Members voted ,
to contribute $50.00 for the in
stallation of drinking foun
tains and basins in the first,
second and third grades. ,
During the business session!
the following committee chair-'
men were elected: Mrs. Maxi'
Proffitt, ways and Means; Miss I
Tensie Bailey, Program; Mrs.''
Pauline Hensley, Welfare;,
Charles B. Tomberlin, Mem- 1
bership; Mrs. J. J. Nowicki,
Lunchroom; and Mrs. R. K.
.Howell, Hospitality.
After the program and busi
ness session, the faculty ser
ved refreshments of cider and
ginger bread topped with
whipped cream.
The next meeting will be
held on Monday, October 8.
Clarence "Buiton and son,
Tommy, are visiting in Flint,
, Michigan this week.
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thing when you’re at the front. Fighters of the Ist Marine
Division, wounded in battle fora hill, support each other as
they painfully struggle to the rear for treatment at a base
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C. O. ELLIS
equipped with a boiler, steam
j heat and a sprinkler system.
; Plans 'are that approximat
ely 150 persons will be employ
ed as loopers, inspectors, and
in other departments when
the plant opens in about three
weeks.
Mr. Ellis pointed out that it
was his desire to expand the
Burnsville Hosiery Mill plant
here to operate the finishing
department but the lack of
facilities and personnel prohi
bited the expansion.
Mr. Ellis opened the hosiery
mill here little more than five
years ago with twenty-five
machines and ten employees.
Since that time 75 additional
machines have been added and
the number of personnel em
ployed now i» around fifty.
The mill has enough machin
es to knit 7,§OG dozen pairs of
looping process which' foiiows
knitfing, only 4,000 dozen
paii-s are completed each week.
There are 11 looping machines
in homes in Yancey County op
erated by housewives during
their spare time. Ellis said,
Ik: ides the maeh.nes bem a
used in the mill. \rd at le„ t
twenty more persons are need
ed to operate looping machines
to bring production to its peak
he said. He paid high tribute
to his staff of employees for
!their loyalty and high class of
work.
Mr. Ellis said the C'ar-Tenn .
Textiles, Inc. will not be con
nected with the Burnsville
Hosiery Mills in any way other
than to loop and finish their
prod etion.
Scout Court Os Honor Will Be
Held Here Tuesday Night
Announcement has been
made that the Boy Scout Court
of Honor will be held in Hig
gins Memorial Methodist
Church here on Tuesday night,
October 9th.