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r Nit Mij § I tof Met States 1 ( Peimu loads M VOLUME SIXTEEN' SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. 4-H Achievement Day ScheduledjHere Saturday The Achievement Day pro gram of all 4-H Clubs of the county will be held in the court house here Saturday Ynorning. Ten o’clock has been set as the beginning time of the. joint, meeting. , „ The program has been an nounced as follows: Club Pledge and Motto, led by Joyce Wilson, presiding officer; song, “It’s A Good Time Jo Get Together”; wel come, E. L. Dillingham; devo tional, Rev. David Swartz; song, “O, Little Town of Bet helem”; recognition of par ents, leaders and guests, Dav id Gillespie; roll call by clubs, Earl tone Bryan;' 'introduc tion of speaker, 0. H. Phillips Assistant State 4-H Leader; guest speaker, Miss Elizabeth Guice; presentation of awards Home /gent, Mary Ileler Neill aid Assistant County Agent T. S. Godwin. The pr.ncipal speaker, Miss Elizabeth Guice, is from Hen derson County and is one ol‘ the outstanding 4-H members in North Carolina. During the summer she spent several weeks in Europe under the International Farm Youth Ex change She is now a sophomore at the Univer sity of Tennessee. LASf RITESHELD FOR MRS. ALLEN SHUFORD Funeral services for Mrs. Allen-Shuford, 61, of Celo, who died Friday-morning in an Asheville hospital after a lorig illness, were held Sun-j day at 2:30 p. m. in Brown’s Creek Baptist Church. The Rev. Arnold Wilson and the Rqv. Sewell Woody officiated and burial was in the Ray Cemetery. Surviving are the husband; seven step children, Mrs. • • Vernon Burleson of Baranrd-| sville, Mrs. Arnold Whetstine of Glen wood, Mrs. John Mc- Neil of Marion, Bill Shuford of Marion, Jess Shuford of Barnardsville, Molt Shuford of Wee.verville and John Shu ford of Mills River. Also ( three sisters, Mrs. Herbert Ogle of Celo, Mrs. Sallie McMahan of Vixen and Mrs. Mollie Huskins of Ashe ville; one brother, C. A. Mc- Mahan of West Asheville; two half-brothers, Azain Ray and Barnett Ray of Celo. YANCEY NATIVE DIES IN OKLAHOMA > Dr. George M. Holcombe, 65, a native of Yancey County recently passed away at his home in Okeene, Oklahoma, according to information re ceived here. Dr. Holcombe, born at Bald Creek in 1885, was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Holcombe. He reeceivd a de gree from Wake Forest Col lege in 1914 and a degree In medicine from Washington University. St. Louis, Mo., in 1916. Following World War I, in which he served as a commis sioned officer, Dr. Holcombe moved his family to Okeene where he served as a physi cian and surgeon until his re tirement. Among the survivors is one sister, Mrs. S. M. Hughes, who lives in Burnsville. Pfc. Carl Peterson Arrives' In Korea Pfc. Carl F. Peterson, son of Mr. arid Mrsr. Ben Pteerson of Day BooR) recently arrived in Korea. He is serving with the Third Army there. Pfc. Peterson was one of the first tpen to be called in the last Selective Service Act. Before going overseas, he was stationed at Ft. Benning, Ga. The Yancey Record “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY" BALD CREEK PTA TO - MEET TUESDAY The Bald Creek Parent- Teacher Association will have a meeting on Tuesday, Dec ember 18 at the school -—— A musical program will be presented by children of the ; school at this regular Decem ber meeting. The program will include numbers present ed by the Rhythm Band, the Flutphone Band, and the Tonette Band. Besides the in i strumental selections, a Cnr istmas cantata will be given, as well as special selections ’ by both glee clubs. ( , The public is cordially in vited to attend the program. Y~ PARKWAY LINK OPEN FOLLOWING SLIDE G. P. Hultman, District Ranger on the Blue Ridge Parkway reported this week that the link of road between Buck Creek Gap and Gillespie Gap has been opened again for travel. That part of the Parkway has been closed since early in November because of a slide occurirg just north of Crab tree Meadows picnic area. It was estimated before tne obstruction had been cleared, that approximately 1,5u0 yards of dirt and stone had slipped on'o the roadway. The slide was caused from heavy rains, freezing and thawing. MICAVILLE CAPTURES TWO GAMES FROM j HARRIS HIGH SCHOOL Micaville High School cage teams won both games ag ainst Harris High School of Spruce P iie Tuesday night. The girls racked up 50 points ' while the visiting team scored j only 28. The boys won with a I smaller margin, the score being 43-30. Anna Ballew and Hope Young tied with 17 points to lead the Micaville girls in scooring, while Peggy Ross of Harris High chalked up the sane number of points to lead her team. ’ Simmons with 13 points ami Young witli 11 were out front for she victorious Micaville boys. Ellis led the losers with 11. INTEREST GROWING IN CHRISTMAS DECORATION CONTEST - The closing date for enter ing the Christmas Decorating Contest has been extended to December 20, according to Mrs. Hobart Ray, chairman of ‘.he T egion Auxiliary De coration Committee. A ruling was first established by the committee that the contest could be entered at any tin e from December 1 througn December 15. Extension of the entry date was made so that persons who plan to de corale their homes only a few days before Christmas will be able to ente'r. Mrs. Ray pointed out that the term “outside decoration” used in describing the contest did not mean that it was nec essary to have outside decor ations. Window or door de corations are permissible, she said. It is necessary, how ever that all scenes or lights be placed so that judging may be done from the out side. Persons entering the con test since last week include Mrs. D. I. Burhoe, Mrs. John W. Brown, Mrs. Mark Ben nett, Mrs.‘•Lon Roberts, Mrs. Yates Bennett, Mrs. E. W. ' Koenig and Mrs. R. A. Howell Judging will be done on the • 21 and 22 of December. Judg i es will consist of disinterest ed persons. BURNSVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1951 ‘Christ Os Nazareth’ To Be Shown At Baptist Church Sunday Night Dr. William Gladden, teacher of The Confederates of Christ —17 and 18-year old boys of Sunday School in the First Baptist Church here, announced this week that the religious picture, “Christ of Nazareth”, will be presented by members of tne class Sunday night, Decem ber 16. The program will be gin at 7:30 p. m. and every one is invited to attend. The boys are presenting the picture by their own ef forts. During the past sever al days they have been taking orders for Christmas trees land will pay the expense of showing the film with money received from the sale of trees. * SUPERVISORS TO IN STRUCT TAX LISTERS Chapel Hill, ,N. C. The 1,200 township list takers in North Carolina will receive instruction aid from the Uni versity of North Carolina’s Institute of Government in preparation for the listing January 1 property subject to county and municipal taxa tion, it was announced here today. The program of instruction will be given in more than 90 of the 100 counties in the State on Monday, December 17, under the sponsorship of the Institute and the State Tax Supervisors Association. In each county the tax sup ervisor is acting as instructor and will use as his textbop£ the Institute's Guideboolcrlbr List Takers and Assessors, compiled by Henry Lewis of the Institute’s staff. Carl Young of Day Book is tax supervisor i n Yancey County. Eva Boatwright’s Orchestra To Play for Dance Here The entertainment commit tee of' the American Legion announced this week that Eva Boatw'right’s orchestra will play for the Legion sponsored dance on December 28. Miss Boatwright and orchestra are from Asheville. CHEROKEES TO GET AID PROGRAM Cherokee —A long-term con structive aid program to ben efit the Cherokee Indians in Western North Carolina is being launched by the Chero kee Historical Association. Aimed at raising the living standards of the Cherokee, the program has been made possible by the success of the association - sponsored drama, “Unto These Hills”, which in two years has provided the Cherokee Indians approximat ely sloo,ooo in salaries. The constructive aid pro f Continued on back paj?e»j 6 County Short On Blood Quota, Says Chairman J. J. Nowicki, chairman of the Red Cross Blood Recruit ment Program of Yancey County, announced this week that the. blood mobile unit from Asheville will be in. Burnsville on Friday, Dec ember 21, from „10 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. The unit will oper ate in the Higgins Memorial Church during this visit in stead of in the Legion Build ing. The chairman pointed out that at the present time the Armed Forces need an aver age of 300 thousand pints per month and that the national average of ' donations per month reach only 36 thousand pints. ' Yancey County has fallen far short of its quota, he said. And bodhuse of the lack oi QUADRUPLE AMPUTEE TO WED Mtt/ ... Oakland, Cal.—Love trails cends the tragedy of war as Marine Sgt. Walter Reininger 22, who lost parts of four limbs in Korea, and Jeanette Stretton, 21, reveal their en gagement amid smiling em brace. Couple will marry in •June: COURT OF HONOR The monthly Boy Scout Court of Honor for the Toe River District was held Dec ember 11 in the new South Toe Rivei School near Celo. Chairman of the court was Dr. C. F. Mcßae of Burns- The invocation was given by C. B. Rennet*, principal of the school. The court clerk was Kelton Geouge, the colors were ad- : vanced by Glenn Westall, and the Pledge to the Flag was led by Don Sparks, all scouts of the Celo Troop. i£ts9Ml ner, Scout Executive of the Daniel Boone Council, to Gary Lee McAlister and Scotty Greene of Spruce Pine, and Doran T. Robbins and Mich ael M. Stewart of Pineola. Second class rank awards were presented to Thomas L Geouge and Paul D. Geouge of Celo by Carl Stewart of Pineola. Merit badges were present ed by Dr. William M. Gladden •jf Burnsville. Those receiving badges were Frank Lewis, for cooking; Joe Coletta, for phy sical development and safety; Charles Buckner, for physical development and safety; and David Buckner, for pathfind ing, bookbinding, animal in dustry, physical development, and surveying. All boys re ceiving merit badges were from Burnsville. Scoutmasters present at the Court of Honor were Wendell Hinkey of Celo, Tom Bass of Burnsville. D. M. Nichols of Spruce Pine, and Carl Stewart of Pineola. Edward T. Robbins of Pine ola, commissioner for the Toe River District, was present. Special recognition was given Scout Jerry Arnold of Spruce Pine, who recently re ceived Ihe God and Country award for service to his j church. donations to the blood bank, it is nearing £he point where civilians from this county in need of transfusions will be forced to find some person who will give blood direct, Nowicki said. Arrangements have been made by the American Legion tne Red Cross Committee and the Women’s Volunteer Ser vice organization to trans port donors to the unit. . The blood program chair man and the Yancey Chapter of the American Red Cross urge every person who is physically fit to give a pint of blood during this visit of the mobile unit. \ There is no physical pain or danger involved in giving blood, and only a few minutes of time is-involved. BURNSVILLE TEAMS SPLIT GAMES WITH TIPTON HILL Burnsville High School uasketball teams split games last Tuesday night when they met Tipton Hill High School at Tipton Hill. The boys fought out a victory with a final score of 41-39, while the girls lost a hard fought game, 42-41. Both games were won in the final quarter of play. Slagle, on the rival girl’s team looped in 24 points to lead both teams in the scor ing. Higgins of Burnsville led the losers with 18 points, while McCurry followed close behind with 14. Perkins led the Burnsville boys to victory by scoring 19 of the 41 points. Street was high score man for Tip ton Hill with 10 points. Burnsville girls: Brinkley, Higgins, McCurry Wilson, Peterson, and Evans. Tipton Hill girls: Slagle, Stanley, Hughes, Byrd, Whitson, McCurry and Harrell. Burnsville boys: Higgins, Burton, Perkins, Banks, Silver, Robinson, and Taylor. Tipton Hill boys: J. C. Street, Honeycutt, Whitson, M. Street, Hopson and Perkins. • Tomorrow night (Friday) the local teams will meet Har j ris High of Spruce Pine on 1 the home .court. Miss McCurry Elected As Officer In College Club Berea, Ky. Miss Elbise McCurry, a senior in Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, has been elected Treasurer of the Agriculture-Home Economics Club at the college. Miss McCurry is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Mc- Curry of Bee Log, N. C. She graduated from Bee Log High School in 1948. J. L. Dowdee of Charlotte was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Roberts here this week. U.S. Needs Civil Defense TEN BASIC SERVICES FORM CORE OF HOME FRONT PROTECTION (This is the ninth of o seri ot of articles on civil defense, based on the booklet "This Is Civil Defense" frefoeed by the federal Civil Defense Administration. It may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Government P. inting Office, Washington, D. C., foe ten cents.) By MILLARD CALDWELL Federal <!ivil Defense Administrator @The Federal Civil Defense Administration, for the sake of national uniformity, has set up these ten basic services: Warden, Fire, Police, Health, Wel fare, Engineering, Rescue, Communications, Trans portation, and Staff. You can imagine what a gigantic task it will be to man these various services. Some 15,000,000 volunteers are needed for this purpose. * The backbone of ciril defense is* the warden aervice. It is the source of neighborhood defense 1 leadership before, during, and after 1 an enemy attack. The. warden’s job is to help save lives and property. Before an emergency, his main duty is to help people prepare; during an emergency, he conducts people to safety; after the emer gency, he helps restore order. Wardens must be volunteers, well known and respected in the community, whose leadership will be accepted by their neighbors and fellow workers. As a gen eral rule, each warden post will be responsible for a residential block or factory proa where about 600 people live or work. Several wardens ' tay he assigned to such a post. They will teach people how to protect themselves, instruct them in civil defense regulations, dis tribute civil defense information, keep lists of the in their charge, and gather about buildings and equipment in their neighborhoods. Their records will ioehide the home address, ago, and physical condition of all psraoha charge. They also should know which people need special care and how to get in touch wjth tlieir datives and friends. Jl « Other Important Duties Wardens hav» other important duties too. If sounded, they would conduct workers or the State Patrolman To Fight Christmas Accidents Raleigh—The State High way Patrol is readying its , forces for an all out fight against traffic accidents in the weeks- before Christmas. ; Colonel James R. Smith, Highway Patrol Commander, said the 500 men of the Patrol in every county of the State , have received orders to “en y .force every motor vehicle re gulation to the limit,” in an , effort to cut down auto fatali ties duiing the holiday season ► • Beginning next week, Smith said, the officers will take on , another job in addition to , their regular patrol duties. ■ Christmas courtesy cards pre pared by the Department of Motor Vehicles bearing a word of caution will be pass ed out by the patrolmen. The Department has ordered ap • proximately 60,000 of the cards and they will be shiip . ped to patrol headquarters l over the state soon. Smith said his men will begin dis tributing them to motorists along with a personal word of advice to drive carefully. Pedestrians will figure in the patrol’s program, too. Smith especially warned ag ainst drinking and wandering up and down the highway. He also cautioned pedestrians walking on the highway to face oncoming traffic and not stand on the pavement to thumb rides. “The commonplace practice of soliciting rides from the shouldre of the road is parti cularly dangerous at. this time of the year,” Smith said. “With longer hours of dark ness and generally bad wea ther it is difficult for drivers to spot people on foot. It’s best not to walk along the highway at night unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Traffic deaths in North j Carolina are approaching the j 1,000 mark, the Patrol Com mander pointed out. There’s a i good chance that the State’s I,oooth fatality will occur during the Christmas season 1 unless every motorist and pe- 1 r ■. ■ . occupants of buildings to shelter areas. They would have the respon sibility of helping to prevent panic among the population, rendering first aid, and performing light rescue duties. If needed, they would help other services to fight fires and clear debris. They also, would help restore the orderly life of the community im mediately after an enemy allac... They would take a roll call of all people in their areas. If anyone were missing, or needed nursing or medical care, they would report the facta at once to the control center. The warden service works directly with individuals, fami lies, neighborhoods, and employee groups. It is the link between * the specialized civil defense sc. - vice and the people. Women Have Important Rola Women must play an iniporUui. part in the warden aervice. This is especially true of housewives, for most women are «t their home posts day and night. Usually they know their own neighborhoods better than ipen can ever know them. Women should interest them selves in the warden service as a first step in the organization of civil defense for their neighbor hoods. Outstanding men and women who can assume responsibility are urged to volunteer for the warden I service. „ (The next article v ill > .uss other civil defense servicer.' V.' it*-.' ' r Ml tatir t J roerpiaj I /toy Unites States m ( fitfease tuts J NUMBER FIFTEEN destrian cooperates with men of the Highway Patrol and other enforcement officers, Smith said. “Our men, he said, “have instructions to spend every moment possible patroling the highway throughout Decem ber.” Special efforts will be maae, Smith said, to see that every car, truck and bus on the road observes the State’s le gal speed ’imit. Close? attent ion will also be paid to vehic les with faulty equipment, bad lights and other mechani cal defects. Drivers of such vehicles are subject to arrest and the patrolman have ord ers to ngidly enforce Motor Vehicle Laws. camFownerslhow BURNSVILL FILM IN NORTH Mr. and Mrs. James Bing ham, owners and operators of Camp Mt. Mitchell for Girls here, returned to their home in Jacksonville, Fla. last week for a short stay. They recently returned from a trip into several states in the North where they were cm business in behalf of the camp. During the business trip, the -color film of Camp Mt. Mitchell and Burnsville in general, which was filmed late last summer by Iliff Clevenger, shown in such places as Hazard, Ky., Phila delphia-shd New York City, Arrangements were made in Hazard, Ky., for the pic ture to be showm in a private home; but when time came to show, so many people were present that they were forced to have the showing in a church auditorium, the Bing hams reported. Great interest was shown in the camp and in Burnsville by people who saw the pic ture, and especially by par ents who have had children * attending camp in the past. The picture—besides show ing business places, people of the town and color scenes of surrounding mountains in cludes snow scenes filmed last \finter and a water ballet giv en by campers last season. TRUCE TALKS DRAG ON || g ** f V9MH| - |g». y Panrmmjom, Korea—Fram ed by bayoneted rifle in hand of Communist ifu&rd, Gen. Nam 11, senior North Korean delegate to the Jfctill-fruitless Korea truce parley a, arrives for another unproductive ses sion. Though p«£ce seems no nearer than in \ July when talks started, endless "nego tiating” continue^
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