jUjiTfr-w / J (UTpiSJ I /tor Mei Sf3fss \ { pe!ir,:i Ewis i VOLUME SIXTEEN Merchants To Sponjsor Christmas Jubilee FOR THIS WE GIVE THANKS * *• I Last Rites Held For Samuel F. Holcombe Samuel F. Holcombe, 78- year-old native of Yancey County and retired business man of Statesville, died from injuries received in an auto mobile accident late Sunday afternoon. The accident occurred when the car in which he was j riding collided with another, automobile at a street inter- j section in the city limits of -Statesville, Both ''Holcombe and his wife were thrown | from the car in which they 1 were riding when the vehicles collided. Mrs. Holcombe, the former Miss Mary Moore of Burns villet was also seriously in jured. Mr. Holcombe was the son of William Milton and Nellie Hensley Holcombe of the Bald Creek section. Funeral services were held at Johnson Funeral home chapel in Statesville Tuesday afternoon at 3:00, and burial was in Oakwood Cemetery. Among the survivors is a sistor, Mrs. James Henry Wil son of Burnsville. Scout Troop Celebrates Anniversary Members of the Girl Scout Troop 1 of Bald Creek cele brated their first troop birth day last Wednesday. The cel ebration consisted of a party at the home of Mrs. Yates Bailey. Mothers of the Scouts and the Lone Troop Commit tee w T ere guests at the party. During the afternoon, there was an investiture ceremony for four new Girl Scouts and a flv-up ceremony for five Brownies who were advanced to Intermediates. Belinda Ann Bates and Jean Wilson re ceived Brownie pins; and Pauline Mclntosh and Edlin Pate were invested as Inter mediates. Girls receiving Brownie wings and one-year member ship stars were , Donah Bur ton, Linda Jane Briggs, Linda Ann Neill, Sarah Ellen Prof fitt, and Jo Alice Wilson. Members of the Brownie Pa trol who received one-year membership pendants were Mary Kathryn Bailey, Barba ra Pate, Helen Louise Prof fitt. Rebecca Proffitt and Marilyn Wilson. Troop I is sponsored by the Bald Creek Home Demonstra tion Club and is under the leadership of Mrs. Yates Bai ley and Mrs. James Proffitt. I The Lone Troop Committee members are Mrs. Ralph Prof fitt, Mrs. Vera Ray and Jam •es Proffitt. SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. BOY SCOUT COURT OF HONOR The monthly Boy Scout Court of Honor for the Toe River District was held Nov ember 13, at the Spruce Pine Presbyterian Church. Bob Garner, Scout executive for the Daniel Boone Council, and Dr. C. F. Mcßae, advan cement chairman for the Toe River District (filling out the Rev. Fred Barber’s unexpired term), presided. The follow ing Scouts of Troop One, Bur nsville, received awards: Joe Coletta, merit badges for bookbinding and cooking, presented by Dr. W. M. Glad den. .Waliv Koenig, Star Rank award, presented by the Rev. J. B. Bradley. Joe Higgins, Life Rank award, presented by Tom Bass, who is succeeding Car ter Rhinehart as Scoutmaster of Troop 1, Burnsville. At the district committee meeting after the Court of Honor, Warren H. Pritchard of Spruce Pine was elected district chairman for 1952; Dr. Cameron F. Mcßae of Burnsville district vice-cha irman; and Edward P. Rob bins of Pineola, district com- 1 missioner. Among the mem bers-at-large of the Toe Riv er district committee, the fol lowing were elected from Yancey County: J. J. Nowicki of Swiss; C. B. Bennett of Micaville; James E. Johnson, Jr., of Toledo; Rev. D. B. Alderman, Rev. Charles B. Trammel, Rev. David F. Swartz, Her shel Holcombe, G. Leslie i Hensley. E. L. Dillingham, S. T. Ray* Dover R. Fouts, L. G Deyton, Dr. W. M. Gladden, Carter Rhinehart, Jake F. Buckner, and Reece Mclntosh all of Burnsville. FOURTH GRADE FORMS NEW CLUB Mrs. Madge Byrd’s fourth grade of Burnsville has re cently formed a Committee Club. Officers of the club are Vinita Miller, president; Sus an Gibbs, vice-president; Mickey Shoies, secretary; Billy Blankenship, road Pa trolman ; and Patsy Roberts, reporter. Other members of the new club are Linda Metcalf, Char les Randolph, Jackie Miller, Jimmy Lewis, Joan Baker, Peggy Randolph, Gary Honey cutt and Nancy Higgins. OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks to the people who were so kind to us and .to the ones who sent such beautiful flowers at the death of our loved one. Mrs. Hattie Fox and family The Yancey Record LOCAL TEAMS WIN STARTER GAMES The Burnsville high school basketball teams got off to a good start this season with both teams winning their tilt with North Cove Monday night. The girls came through with an almost doubled score to down the visitors by 47 to 25. The boys won with a score of 46-39. ' Although every member of the team played an outstand ing game, Olin Higgins and Rheta McCurry led the girls to victory with their superior work on the offensive while Mary Glen Evans and Fran ces Wilson played a specta cular defensive game. Tommy Burton led the boys to win by sinking 13 points, while Burl Perkins fought through North Cove’s stub born defense to rack up 11 points. Line up for Burnsville Girls: Mary Cecil Anglin, Mary Glen Evans, Polly Pet erson, Frances Wilson, Betty Jo Brinkley, Rheta McCurry Olin Higgins smU Norma Pat ton. ’ -w Boys Line-up: Tommy Bur ton, Joe Higgins, Burl -Per kins, Knarld Carroll, Arce mus Silvers, Gene Banks and Jack Taylor. The next home game for the Burnsville teams will be on November 30, when they will meet Bald Creek High School in the Burnsville gym nasium. The presence otj the Birnaville Schcrbl Baud t 6 play during half-time wiH be an extra attraction at the next game. CHURCH TO SPONSOR SINGING PROGRAM The Bald Creek Methodist Church is sponsoring a good time Friday night, November 30, for people who like to eat good refreshments and hear good singing. The program will be held in the high school auditorium at 7.30 p. m. Good singing will be fur nished by such noted artists as the Gospelaires Quartet of Radio Station WISE, Ashe ville, the Harmony Four and the Roberts Family, all of Asheville. “Slim” Jdmerson and his singers, along with the Mountain Home Trio, will be there from Hender sonville. Besides the singing pro gram, there will be cake walks and good refreshments. The program is being spon sored in behalf of the build ing program of the Method ist Church there, and pro ceeds will be u#ed for the new building now under con struction. Church members are in j hopes that the roof on the building may be finished this week. When roofing is completed, work will be v tar ried on inside regardless qf the weather, a spokesman said. According to plans, the church will be ready for use by Christmas o r shortly thereafter. SOCIAL SECURITY FOR THE SELF-EMPLOYEt) J. G. Woodson, Field Rep., of the Social Security Admin istration Field Office, Ashe ville, was Federal Civil Defente Administrator @ Civil Defense does many things before an attack. The most important is preparedness. : It giVes you • information on how to safeguard your home, how to light fires, and what steps to take against atomic, biological, and chemical warfare. It arranges for shelters and operates the warning system which notifies you when to use them. It gets medical supplies and special equipment ready, trains technical services needed to reeytore a stricken area, and organizes mutual aid and mobile support* There are two steps which every-i r one can take to get into civil de fense. The first and most basic is to inform yourself what you and your family as individuals can do lo protect yourselves against enemy attack. You can learn how to protect your home from fire, how to handle injuries among your family until trained first aid help can be obtained, how to minimize the dangers of attacks by poison gas and biological warfare. You can do this by reading a series of booklets available from the Super intendent of Documents, Washing ton 25, D. C. They are: “Survival Under Atomic Attack" “What You Should Know About Biological Warfare” “This Is Civil Defense” “Emergency Action to Save Lives’’ “Firefighting For Householders” But this is just the beginning. The second step, and it can be taken at the same time you are studying the booklets, is to join .your local civil defense organization. There you will get professional training in meeting the dangers of an enemy attack and become part of the team defending your com munity. Organize Mutual Aid One of the most important func tions of civil defense before an attack is the organizing of mutual aid and mobile support. The first is help from the neighbors. No matter how well prepared a city might be, after attack it could not take care of itself. It would have to look to neighboring sub urbs, cities and. states for help. And that help must be just as wall organized and trained as the civil defense organisation in the city which has been knocked out That is the meaning of mutual aid. - ■ “>■ RAY WINS HONORS IN JUDGING CONTEST Earl Ray of Burnsville, who is a student at N. C. State College, won the honor of being the third highest ranking individual in an East ern States Meat Judging Con test which wsa held this week in Timonium, Md. The State College team also won the third place in the contest. They also ranked second place honors in judging pork and grading beef. This is the third year that Ray has been mentioned with honors for his work with the State College Meat Judging Team. The contestants were re quired to class and grade all types of meat. Meat judging j is a part of the teaching pro j gram in livestock production I at the college. Health Office Releases Os Work In Schools Dr. C. F. Mcßae released a District Health Department report this week on the amounts spent from Yancey County school health funds for the correction of physical defects in children of this? county. A breakdown of the cost is as follows: Tonsil operations, $537.22; dental'work, $822.12 crippled children, $120; glas ses (6 pairs), $44. The total combined cost was $1,523.34. Dr. Mcßae pointed out tout the amount shown' came from State funds rather than | from local funds.'Corrections were made for children whose parents could • not have af forded to have work done I otherwise. — Mutual aid picts to help each other in case of disaster or enemy attack have been drawn up by many cities. In operation it works like this: If your'eity were hit by an atomic bomhj nearby towns would send fire, police, and rescue crews to help out, or your city would do the for other com* munities, for mutual aid works both ways. Thfr same operation would take placfi between Staten since many of Athena have sis* drawn up aid pacts. ■' ~ Mobile suppose is organised t* j supply more heljp, but on a State wide or scale. It is made up of jmu which can 1 move rapidly. ‘Hume teams weald be loaded into cats, trucks, trains or planes and. rushed to the scene of disaster. Sack a stricken area might be |a another pert of the State, instead es aezt dear, or in another State altogether. Mobile support groups will bo manned by people on farms or in small cities and towns outside of target areas. They will assemble outside of such areas and function just like the civil defense or ganisations in the larger cities. Help From Neighbors Some Statu do not call theh mutual aid or mobile support sys tems by the same namu and not all of them are organised'exactly alike. But the important thing k, all States have a “help from and for the neighbors” operations plan. It is your duty, no matter where you are, to serve in some civil de fense organisation. You may' bt called upon to take your part fee any on# of thus civil defense operations. Be ready. Knew what to do whan that time cornu. (The next article will di»»— your part in civil defense) SENATOR TAFT TO SPEAK ASHEVILLE Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, “Mr. Republican” him self, is scheduled to speak in Asheville next Tuesday mor ning at 11 o’dlock at the Bat tery Park Hotel. Senator Taft is in the South in behalf of his campaign for Presi dent. LAST RITESHEIF FOR HUSKINS CHILD , t Funeral services for De wain Huskins, one-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Huskins of Celo, who died ■ Tuesday were conducted Thursday morning at 11 i o’clock in Browns Creek Bap tist- Church. The Rev. R. E. Pate and the Rev. E. J. Hall officiated. Burial was in the family cemetery. Surviving, in addition to the parents, are three sisters, Doris, Helen and Nancy of the home; three brothers, Donald, Fred and Billy of the home; the paternal grandfa -1 ther, J. B. Huskins of Bostic; and the maternal grandmoth er, Mrs. Joe Bolick of Celo. REGULAR P. T. A. MEETINGHELD The Burnsville Parent- Teacher Association held its regular monthy meeting in the school library last Tues day night. Rev. D. B. Alderman, pas tor of Higgins Memorial Met hodist Church led the devo tional. During a business session problems concerning the lunch room, athletic as sociation, and general condi tions of the buildings of the school plant were discussed by both teachers and parents. Iliff Clevenger, treasurer of the organization and festi val committee member, a report on the outcome of the Harvest Festival and of the general financial condi tion of the association. B. M. ‘ Tomberlin, principal led a discussion on home work. Other teachers parti cipating in the discussion were Miss Nelle Bailey, Mrs. Frank Howell, Mrs. Vernie Wilson, and Mrs. John Byrd. The elementary attendance banner was won by Miss Nelle Bailey’s room while the nineth and eleventh grades tied for the high school ban ner. MSS SMITHWINS2ND ‘PLACE IN contest - Miss Zula Kate Smith, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Smith of Burnsville, won sec ond place in the Tobacco Fes tival Queen Contest held in Asheville City Auditorium last Friday. Miss Smith, who was awarded a fifty dollar Savings Bond for second place winner, was sponsored by the Bolens Creek Com munity, and many citizens of Yancey County were there to roar the applause when she was named. Although eleven beautiful girls from this county were among the fifty-five from other parts of Western North Carolina in.the contest, Miss Smith was the only one re called following the first eli mination. The final decision was made from eleven girls who were recalled from the various counties. Miss Doris Pery of Watau ga County was named queen in the contest. j Jw* Mit f J four pill 1 /tor Met Stites 1 ( Ptftisi inis 1 NUMBER TWELVE Santa To Visit Here Two Days Burnsville merchants and | owners of business establish ments made plans this week for one of the biggest Christ mas campaigns and celebra tions this county has ever witnessed. According to mem bers of the planning commit tee appointed at the first meeting of the merchandising group, the “Shop at Home Jubilee” will begin on Dec j ember 1 and continue throu -1 gh to Christmas Eve. From the way thiiunf* now, Santa Clausprou ly reach Burnagrf^" e before visits any *urroundii territory. Con^MP I**** 1 **** niembei believe he v'illl^® ) P €ar in town on December *nd again on December 24 YBP distribute candy to the children, and he never one. It has not been leaßfled yet how Santa will here. Planes are not able tB {and in this area and witß the great crowd of boys girls expected to be Ifere when he arrives, he probity would not want to trust Ira raindeer. But in any even\ he should be able to get toV Burnsville on those days \ somehow. The children are not the , the only ones to benefit from this jubilee. Plans * are being made tor hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise to. be given free before the cam paign ends. Final Rites For Seymore Ayers i - Funeral services for Sey more Ayers, 82-year-old re tired farmer of Toledo who died Tuesday morning at the home of a Sop, Worley Ayers, after a brief illness, were conducted today at 1 p. m. in Zion Baptist Church, Toledo. The Rev. Steve Clark offi ciated and burial was in the family cemetery. Surviving are five daugh ters,. Mrs. James Letterman of Elizabethton, Tenn., Mrs. George McKinney of Kings port? Tenn., Mrs. Merrill Donaldson and Miss Virgie Ayers of Asheville and Mrs. T. T. Eiehelberger of Balti more, Md. Four sons, Worley and Ed gel of Toledo, Robert of As heville and Flordie of Erwin, Tenn, CIRCUS GIRL KILLED OM ■pP’ ' - ••••• WM" miM ■■ J Jgt J| I) MSB mJPW* % f'M Baltimore—The thrill o f watching Evy Trosti, 17, dance on high wire at circus, was turned to horror for 7,500 watchers an aerialist fell 60 feet. Her father, “the great Arturo,” reached Evy’s side before she died, gasp ing: “Daddy, I can’t breathe”