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- j UtiU ttiaf f J fiivpiai 1 /buy Mti Stales 1 ( Ptfme Ms J VOLUME SIXTEEN • f Yancey Betterment Association Formed The question, “Shall we ex pand Burnsville’s tourist busi ness?” is being answered by organization of the Yancey County Betterment Association last week. A meeting was held last Thursday riight with- commit tees from the different clubs and organizations of the coun ty being present. G. Leslie Hensley, v president o f the Men’s Club presided at the meeting. Prior to the meeting Thurs day night, each organization taking part in the program ap pointed a member to comprise the Steering Committee for the Betterment Association. The members are Max Penland Men’s Club; Howard Johnsor, Lions Club; James Timmony, American Legion; Mrs. Don Burhoe, Woman’s Club; and Mrs. Troy Ray, Garden Club. Howard Johnson was named chairman of the committee. Mr. Johnson, following his appointment as chairmar, named twelve persons to aid in securing finances for the op eration of the Association. The goal set in securing money with which to advertise Yancey County as a tourist center and to pay the initial costs of certain recreational facilities was $2500. It was re ported that $1339 of that amo unt has been secured along with pledges for other contri butions. According to present plans Mrs. Mabel I. West will head the Betterment Association i;i the advertisement and recrea tional field. Mrs. West, wh> has had much experience i.i the promotional field, is al ready at work securing adver RITES TO BEHELD FOR CPL. HURLEY WILSON Funeral services for Cp l . Hurley Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Wilson of Bee Log, who was killed in action in Korea on March 31, will be held Sunday at 2:00 p. m. The Rev. Quince Miller wil officiate and burial will be in the family cemetery. Surviving are the parents, two sisters, Mrs. Tate Ramsey of Erwin, Tenn., and Miss Milan Wilson of Bee Log, and three brothers, Harry and, Hoover Wilson of Erwin, Tenn. and Ford Wilson of Bee Log. Cpl. Wilson, 24, had been in the Army for a period of five years prior to his death. When he was killed in action, he was attached to a heavy tank out fit fighting in Korea. A SNEER FOR THE WEST I* I •. jf ■ nreißiL. jgiW I . /*■§ .■» ' +■ Korea—With typical Communist arrogance, North Korea Gen. Chang (left) answers correspondent’s ques tions by a sneering grimace as newsman tries to learn progress of Korea armistice parley at village of Panmunjom. The correspondent is Bob ‘Vermillion. With Chang is a Red liason officer. * The Yancey record SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. Named Chairman Os Steering Committee d Howard Johnson *—..." ■ ■ ■ tising rates of various publica n tions in different states. I She stated this week that a i. reply from the Travel Editorl i of The Miami Herald contain ed a voluntary promise to sea s ture Burnsville in an article in , the publication, when more in-j I formation was furnished. The - advertising manager of the ' Palm Beach Post-Times also g said in a reply that Burnsville j e was one of his “favorite” vaca t tion spots, and that he spent l part of his summer, vacation 1 here, Mrs. West said. *j Most people who have given, * thought to the idea indicate ? that they believe Yancey Coun-J -ty can be one of the leading mountain tourist centers with 1' in a few years. J Mrs. George Roberts visited friends in Charlotte this week. | j 1 Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Young of j Newdale recently moved to Asheville, N. C. ' OPS UNCOVERS , VIOLATIONS BY 750 | MEAT PACKERS Charlotte. —The current na j tional investigation into slau ghtering operations has un covered thus far almost 2,000 * violations by about 750 mea | firms among the 1,953 packing 'plants inspected by OPS agents, the Charlotte OPS has 1 been informed from Washing 'ton. A total of 87 court actions ’ already have been filed and i others are contemplated, l' The Washington OPS fore 1 cast the lowering of beef pri ' ces at retail in the near future jas one result of the drive. Ob servers have noted that top , prices paid for live cattle at , Chicago have declined for all , grades except prime by from . 75 cents to $1.25 per hundred pounds since the investigation i got under way. "DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY* BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1951 electric Power to be OFF SUNDAY Mark W. Bennett, manager of the Burnsville branch of REA, announced this week that electric power will be off t in the Yancey area on next Sunday, October 21, from 1:00 to 5:00 p. m. [ Bennett said maintenance work is to be done at that time which will probably effect the entire REA system covering Yancey, Mitchell and -Madison counties during the four-hour period. LAST RITESHELtT FORBILLWILSON, 72 Funeral services for Bil Wilson, 72, who died Sunday morning at his home in Bee Log after a short illness, were' held Tuesday at 2 p. m. In Bald Mountain Baptist Church. The Rev. Quince Miller offi ciated and burial was in Watla f Cemetery. Surviving are the widow Mrs. Texie Phillips Wilson | two daughters, Mrs. Lifus W j Edwards of Bee Log and Mrs 'Cecil Webb of Marion; two sons, Luster of Bee Log and | Alvin of Erwin, Tenn.; three' l sisters, Mrs. Charlotte Hen-' sley, Mrs. Nettie Fender and Mrs. Sallie Howard of Bee | Log, and several grandchild ! ren. J I W. J. Fox of Burnsville, Rt. 'll, is improving from an opera tion he recently underwent. CAMPAIGN BEGINS I<ERE ON ‘NICKELS FOR KNOW HOW’ I The “Nickels For Know How * camprign wiU get under way in Yancey County tonight with the first organized meet ing to be held in the county agent’s office. O. W. Deyton, permanent chairman, and Miss Mary Hel en Neill, co-chairman of the local organization have called the meeting of the Education Committee and Election Com mittee to plan an educational I and vote campaign. The Elec tion Committee is made up of Brantley Briggs, Jess Howell, J. Yates Bailey, Hiram Hig gins, and Luther Robinson. On the Education Committee are Z. B. Byrd, Arney Fox, Mrs. Max Proffitt, Mrs. Ransom Silver and Carmon Hensley. “Nickels For Know-How” is a plan to expand agricultural research and teaching in Nor th Carolina through farmer contribution of five cents per ton on all feed and fertilizer sold in the State. The idea was originated by farm leaders of the State. The 1951 General Assembly passed an enabling act that gives farm people the opportunity to contribute directly for expand ed research and education if they approve it in a referen dum to be held November 3. The referendum "is to be con ducted by the N. C. Grange and Farm Bureau and the Agricul tural Foundation, Inc., at State College. Farm leaders say North Carolina has such a varied climate and agriculture that more money is needed to solve the insect, disease, and w£ed problems of farmers. Even the generous appropriations made by the last two legislatures fall far short of the needs. Since farm people cannot ex pect more than their share of public funds, the additional money must be raised in some other way. In the referendum, all per sons who use feed or fertilizer and their wives or husbands will be eligible to vote. FFA, NFA, and 4-H Club, members with crop or livestock projects of their own are also eligible. State Helith Officials Work In Y mcey, Mitchell Miss Winstdn Osborn, nutri tion consultant with the State Board of Health, is working 'with teacheraHn the Yancey and Mitchell As part |of her work in the two coun-| 'ties, she recently made a sur-j vey of dietary, habits among' children in Micavlle School and Harris Elementary School! at Spruce Pinq. : Other persons who have been working In this area with the local healiti authorities in-' elude Dr. A. Branch,! director of thll Oral Hygienel Division, Dr. l)tto J. Swisher,' director of thl Division of In-; dustrial Hygfene, and Mrs.' Louise P. East! nursing consul tant for the Western District. 1 Dr. Edwaip T. Koonce, 1 ' School is continuing his work in th«schoMs of Yan-' jcey and Mitch§H Counties. Dr.' 'Koonce dental work among children the week scho-' ol opened anM will continue through a twelve-week period. : Local health officials re minded that this is the last week of x-ray follow-up clinics 1 in the Sprucefpine health of-' fice. Ail. persdls receiving let- 1 ters asking thsn to have a 1 large chest x-ray, following the mass survey last month, are urged by officials to go there either Friday or Satur day for the follow-up exami nation. | Miss Margarfet Lewis and Miss Elsie Ly|n, % technicians with the of Health are assisted ibPtheoe follow-up clinics irt Spruce • Pine by the public health nurses of the district. Mrs. W. A. Presnell has re turned to her home at Newdale from Durham where she re cently underwent an operation in Watts Hospital. • • U. S. Must Build Civil Defense AIR FORCE CHIEF SAYS ENEMY BOMBERS CAN ATTACK AMERICA (Thu it tkt f*st of t teritt-of orticlot on civil dtftnse, hosed on the booklet “Thie /» Civil IJefense prepored by the Federal Civil Defense Administration. It may ho obtained from tho Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for ten cents.) By MILLARD CALDWELL Federal Civil Defense Administrator , ©General Hoyt Vandenberg, Chief of. Staff of the United States Air Force, has made a startling state ment one which most Americans find hard to believe. He had said that at best we could knock down only 3C out ox every 100 enemy planes attacking the United States. That means that at least 7 out of 10 would get through. Despite our traditional attitude that “it can’t happen here,” we must believe these facts. This does not mean that our Air* Force ia ineffective. We have an excellent air force and our anti aircraft defenses are good. In the last war, the Germans also were well equipped with defense weap ons, but they were not able to stop our attacking bombers. On the average, we lost fewer than 10 out of each 100 planes. That gives us something to think about! We know that everything pos sible will be done to stop the enemy at our borders, and to prevent sabotage within, but we also can be sure that, in case of war, a good percentage of enemy attacks would be successful in spite of all that we could do. That is why we must have Civil Defense. The wide oceans which once pro tected us have given way to global ; bombers. Today we face more kinds of attack than ever before, and our danger is much greater. There is only one sure way to keep any enemy from knocking us out of a war. We must know how to save lives and property, restore our cities and industries, and carry on the fight no matter what kind of attacks are hurled against us. . Russia Has Bombers Russia has hundreds of heavy, long-range bombers patterned after our B-29s which could get through most of our defense setups. We know that Russia has atomic bombs and that their heavy long-range bombers are capable of delivering them anywhere in the United States at any time the Kremlin dictates. She can wage biological warfare THREE YANCEY GIRLS ENTERED IN BURLEY QUEEN CONTEST Three Yancey County Girls have entered the Queen Con gest of the Asheville Burley I Jubilee to be held in the Ashe- Iville City Auditorium on Nov ember 16, according to Morris L. McGough, manager of the •Agricultural Development Cou- I ncil of Asheville. The girls are Miss Anna Lee Fender of Bee) I Log, Miss Opal Robinson of (Toledo, and Miss Shirley Whit ,son of Ramsaytown. I A royal ransom in prizes ] awaits the young lady who is! (chosen to reign as queen of the Jubilee. She will go to .Daytona Beach, Florida, for a I week, with all expenses paid for herself and a chaperone. She will fly to Florida and jback by Delta Airlines, and will also be awarded a ■’com (plete wardrobe. I Tke runner-up will receive a SSO Defense Bond, and all oth j er contestants will receive gifts ' In addition, they will ride in ,a parade on the afternoon of November 16, and will be the 'l guests of honor at a banquet that evening. McGough pointed out that the final date for entering the Queen Contest is November l. ; ' Judging will be on the basis of heauty and poise. Entry re- I quirements are that the girls 'must live on a farm, be be tween the ages of 16 and 25,J and either be a high school* graduate or in school at. the 1 time' of- the contest. ! i Entry blanks for the contest, ’ Are available at the office of E. L. Dillingham, county agent Mrs. David Swartz of Burns , ville was speaker at the Ach-J ievement Day program held by the Avery County Home De-! monstration Club at Newland Wednesday. a- " for she has scientists capable of preparing diseases for use against people, plants, and animals, and trained secret agents who could spread them. It is certain thj|t she has the major war gases, including the new and deadly nerve gas developed by German experts prho were taken into Russia at the?-end of’the last war. That is not all we must plan against. In some types of biolo yical warfare fifth columnists could be gin work without waiting for a war to start. Saboteurs too, could . attack from within “and wreck our defenses and war production out put Hit Without Warning All these enemy weapons could hit us without warping. The outcome of modern war is not necessarily decided by armies . in the field. Wgrstr today can be won or lost on the heme front The home front cannot be hidden, and it cannot retreat—not if we are to survive as a free people. Millions of Americans must be trained in civil defense before this country can be sure it is ready for enemy attack. Meanwhile, that attack might come at any moment. We have no time to lose in pre paring to ward off such an attack. Your home, your job, your family, your own life may be at stake. Civil defense is the sure way— the only organised way—for survi val on the home front. (The next article will discuss what is civil defense and how it can help.) Superior Court Will Convene Here Monday October term of Superior Court will convene next Mon-' day with Hon. William H.' Bobbitt presiding. The following persons were | drawn to serve as jurors: First Week": Floyd Miller, 1 Seth Peterson, Stanley Autrey,' Fifus Hensley, Bruce Westall. (Ray Gardner, Joe Renfro, Earl I Higgins, E. G. Adkins, Jack (Mclntosh, Neal Elliott, Guy (Young, Fred Robinson, George |Tipton, John H. Edwards; Sam Silvers, Lester- Wilson Jr., Willard Styles, Joseph Banks, Clyde Phillips, Ottis S. Gibbs, Rufus Mclntosh, Les ter Edwards, Earl King. Second week: Clarence Fort [ ner, James Wilson, Clingman [Ttobinson, George Young, John . Hylemon, Paul Price, Kimsey, Lewis, Lester Murphy, Ralph { W. Howell, Bruce Fender, Bradley Silvers, Isaac Silvers; J ,' Carl Chrisawn, Gus Ledford,. , Walter Riddle, Harvie Buckner ! Molt Hensley, Rama McKin . ney, Bascomb Ayers, Isaac, ; Thomas, Jeff Doan, Clifford (Honeycutt, G. C. Bailey and .'Frank Hensley. . Cases appearing on the cal endar scheduled to be tried f during the term are: Monday, ..Town of Burnsville vs. Olen [ Shepherd; Mae Wilson, et. al. .'vs. G. W. Chandler; Sherbert „I McKinney vs. Deneen Mica [* et. al.; Grant Hensley and wife i vs. C. S. Randolph and wife;! j Town Burnsville -vs.*HL“‘Ri* . Bailey and wife. • Tuesday, Calvin Gortney vs. FINAL RITES HELD /FOR FREDPIERCY, 71 l Funeral services for Fred Piercy, 71, retired farmer of the Day Booy section who died at his home Sunday morning after a short illness, were held Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. in De-j linger Memorial Church at Day Book. The Rev. David Swartz, pastor of the Burns ville First Presbyterian Chur ch, officiated. Burial was in the Horton Hill Cemetery. <- J Surviving are the widow,' Mrs. Dollie Lewis Piercy; four daughters, Mrs. Guy Wiseman of Spruce Pine, Mrs. W. R. Tippett of Greensboro, Mrs. Earl Wilson of Burnsville and Miss Patricia Piercy of Day Book. Three sons, Holt of Nor wood,, Pa., Fenton of Spring field, Pa., and Charles of Asheville; a sister, Miss Grace Piercy of Brevard and a broth er, John of Erwin, Tenn. Cabinet Secretary Speaks - To Lions Robert R. Barnes of , Cand ler, Cabinet Secretary of Dis trict 31 of the Lions Club, spoke to members at their re gular meeting Thursday night Barnes talked concerning dif ferent reports to be made by clubs in the district, how tl\p Burnsville club ranked with other clubs within the district, ' and state and national pro grams carried out by Lions. James Timmony, Director of Personnel At Duplan Corpora tion, will ‘be the principal speaker at the next regular meeting. He Vill explain and demonstrate, with help from heads of the different depart ments of the plant, exactly what work is carried out in the new plant here. Bell McCurry who has been working in Baltimore, Md., is at home visiting her mother,' Mrs. Carrie McCurry k j i MiMafi J /nrpin T / btj Mti States 1 [ptfmtMs J NUMBER SEVEN 18. M. Waycaster and others; |W. B. Hutchins and wife vs. (Ralph Silvers and wife; James |A. McMahan and Charles Bur dette Allen vs. Ivan Westall. Wednesday, Terry McCurry jvs. Clara M. Cannon; Banister Tipton and wife vs. Lennie Hensley and others; Ethel H. Threadgill vs. Fred J. Fugate. Monday, Oct. 29: Oma Ayers vs. Luther C. Ayers; Carmon Harding vs. Joe Atkins; Rat cliff Motor Co. vs. Clayton G. Ledford; Mae Carroll vs. Ver lin Carroll; Clair Laws and wife vs. French Broad Elect. Corp.; Coy Higgins vs. Roy Fender. Tuesday, Oct. 30: Auto and Hbme Center vs. Smith John son; 1 W. Clark Hall and wife vs. Grover Bailey et. al.; Tom . Duval vs. Chester Street, et. al •Velma Ray vs. Charles Edw ards, and Burnsville Hosiery • Mills vs. Newton Bonded Ware ! house. !’ Other cases not requiring jury decision will be heard at times designated by the judge. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR KELSE THOMAS, 85 Funeral services for Kelse Thomas, 85, who passed away Wednesday night at his home on Prices Creek after a long illness, will be held at the home of a son, Dave Thomas, at Prices Creek Friday after ( noon at 2:00. | The Rev. Elzie Ray will offi .ejate andburialwill be in the I Concord Cemetery. Surviving are the wdow; one daughter, Mrs. Lindsey Ogle of Cleveland, S. C., and one other son, R. C. Thomas of Rt. 1, Burnsville. Water Situation Not Dangerous Yet Town officials, along with , residents, are happy that dras tic cuts in water consumption has not been necessary here since the dry season began. Mayor Bennett said that ev en tho,ugh the streams supply ing the water for Burnsville had fallen greatly, an adequate supply of water still flows through the city system. The i supply is not enough to keep" 1 the city water tank full during the day, but at night when little water is used, the tank is filled to capacity, he said. The mayor pointed out, however, that if too much water is used for non-essentials and dry weather continues, the supply could reach a danger point. PRINCESS ELIZABETH inflMfiHi .MM <***•"**s&► m M u '" u y m ■ ■- ] Detroit.—A gracious royal princess and someday queen of England, Elizabeth of Brit ain continues to ’ captivate hearts on triumphal tour of I North America. She is pictured (waving a dainty gloved hand Ito well-wishers along route of parade.
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