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.RE^H VOLUME SIXTEEN Wilson Building Ready For Opening The Sam Wilson Building, next to the American Legion Memorial Building on Robert son Street, is being completed this week. Work has been car ried on for several w’eeks in the building, giving it a gen eral face-lifting as far as in side appearance is concerned. The American Legion, with the cooperation of the Legion Auxiliary, Woman’s Club, and Men’s Club, have carried, on the repair work. Complete cooking facilities are being installea. A stove, table and chairs, former ly equipping the club room at Roberts and .Johnson Lumber Company, were purchased for installation in the newly re novated building. A refriger ator for the kitchen was do nated to the American Legion by Roberts and Johnson. Besides being used for a meeting place for the various clubs and organizations, the building will be available for public or private use for ban quets, parties, dances, meet ings and other uses. The committee selected t?o be in charge of the building during the next three months consists of Mrs. D. R. Fouts from the* Woman’s Club, Mrs J. B. King from the Legion Auxiliary, Max Penland from the American Legion, and G. Leslie Hensley from the Men’s Club. Bruce Westall has been named as the person who will haye charge of the booking dates for the building by pri-' vate individuals and organi zations not on a regular meet ing schedule. All the clubs and organiza tions sponsoring the building will cooperate in holding a formal opening banquet in the near future. The public will be invited to attend the ban quet. RITES PLANNED FOR MRS. C. M. GILBERT Funeral services for Mrs C. M. Gilbert, 42, .of Burns ville, who died at her home Wednesday following a shor illness, will be held at the home, Saturday at 2 p. m. The Rev. E. G. Adkins will officiate and burial will be in Holcom be Cemetery. Surviving, in addition to the husband, are one daughter, Evelyn Gilbert of the home; five sisters, Mrs. Earl Led ford of Johnson City, Tenn. Mrs. Talvie Letterman o f Jonesboro, Tenn., Mrs. Ralpt Garland and Mrs. Dalton Gar land of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Arthur Silver of Burns ville; and one brother, Dewey. Lewis of Johnson City, Tenn. Newdale Student Wins Post-Graduate Study The faculty of Columbia Presbyterian Theological Se minary, Decatur, Ga. has an nounced that Mr. Thomas Young of Newdale, has been awarded a fellowship entit ling him to a year of post graduate theological study. Mr. Young is one of five stud ents so honored by the semi nary faculty this year. The' citation for the award reads in part: This fellowship is awarded “on the basis of a distinguished record in scho larship at the seminary and of general promise for useful ness in the work of the minis try”. Winners of fellowships may select to use them at any time within the next five years for graduate study at approved educational institu tions of America, or of Europe. Mr. Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Young of NewdaJe, is a graduate of King College, Bristol, Tennessee. He will graduate from Columbia Semi nary on May 26. the Yancey record •s~ - 0 StJB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. The building is named in honor of Mr. Sam Wilson, who gave a generous donation to the Earl Horton Post of the American Legion here. ANNOUNCEMENT I wish to announce that I am a candidate for renomina tion for Member of the House of Representatives in the next General Assembly of North Carolina subject to the will of the Democratic Con vention of April 19, 1952. During the 1951 Session of the General Assembly I tried in every respect to carry out the wishes of the people of Yancey County and if elected I shall do so in the next ses sion. I have never deceived or at tempted to mislead the people of Yancey County in regard to my position on any public question. I have always con tended that the people were entitled to know what they were voting for as well as who they were voting for. I am opposed to the propos ed Central High School for Yancey County. Regardless of the propaganda to tl\e con trary Yancey County does not have sufficient funds to build and equip such school. Neith er do we have suitable roads for such transportation as would be involved. If such plan is carried out a few peo ple and firms in the Town of Burnsville will be benefited and the children m the rural sections of the County will be the victims. The present high schools in the County are doing a great work. I think they should have greater support from the. Superintendent and Board ofj Education. The people i n the' rural sections of the County should realize that if a Cen tral High School is built as planned the Bald Creek High School, Bee Log High School, the Clearmont High School and Micaville High School will all be discontinued. l)o the patrons of the four high schools outside the Town of Burnsville wish to see this done? Approximately /600 of your children in the high schools outside of Burnsville will be involved. If the people of Yancey County were con sulted and permitted to vote upon this question such plan would most certainly be de feated. Why does the Superin tendent of Schools , and the Board of Education persist in their attempt to proceed with plan over the objection of the majority of the people of Yancey County? Why did they not explain the plan to the people before advertising for bids and not wait until they had been halted by. a re straining order and then at tempt to mislead the citizens? The authority of all public officials come from the people. Their wishes should be complied with and not cir cumvented or over ridden. I am in favor of repealing the Old Age lien - law. The little "Romes of many of the recipents is all they have to look to if they need to raise money for unexpected hospi tal expenses. With a lien in favor of the Federal Govern ment, State and County on re-, cord against such property no private loans on such pro perty can be expected. The part of an old age assistance grant paid by the county is very small. Most of the funds come from the Federal Gov ernment and the State. Only two other States have similar laws. Why should we oppress our aged and infirm to collect such moneys when some of the States receiving the most from the United States Gov ernment make no attempt to do so? I am in favor of a bal anced budget, but I am op (Continued on back page) “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” ■ . f jcsgt dgtfl n BILL ATKINS FORESTRY MEN HOLD I MEETING 1 Local woodsmen and sav, T mill operators will have a chance tomorrow to see how quickly a saw or an ax in ! their own hands will eat thro ugh a saw-log, according to E. L. Dillingham, who announ ced that wood chopping and I* sawing contests will be held at the demonstration meeting 1 scheduled at Banks and Pat ton sawmill at Newdale Champions wil receive prizes, , he said. The meeting will be gin at 9 a. m In addition to the contests, ■ several expert forestry men will give demonstrations of various operations required in forestry and sawing. John Gray, forestry spec ialist with the N. C. Extension Service, will demonstrote log scaling, and Dr. George Eng lerth of the Southeastern Ex periment Station wiH dtUCttsm the operation of scaling. Fred Whitfield, Extension * Forester of the Western District, Mr. Kiser of the State Forest Service, and Dr. Bethel of the . State College Forestry School | will demonstrate and discuss > planting, selective cutting, and mill Operation and main tenance. Today approximately seven ty farmers attended a live ‘ stock school held in the Yan cey Theatre. Problems of pro duction, feeding and manage ment, and marketing livestock were discussed by extension specialists. LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. SALUE HENSLEY Funeral services for Mrs. Sallie Hensley, 76, who died Friday morning at her home in Pensacola following a short illness, were held Sunday at 2| p. m. in Laurel Branch Bap tist Church. The Rev. A. Z. Jamerson, the Rev, Grady Fender, and the Rev. H. M. Alley officiat ed. Burial was in the Penland Cemetery. Pallbearers were Clyde Penland, Champ McMahan, John Ray, Grover Ray, Bobby Hensley and Billy B. Wilson. Mrs. Hensley was a life long resident of the Pensaco la section and was a member of the Laurel Branch Baptist Church. Surviving are three • daugh ters, Mrs. Floyd Ray and Mrs. Elzora McMahan of Pensacola and Mrs. Emma Burleson of Aqheville; one son, Oscar Hensley of Burnsville; one -brother, Lat Penland of Or lando, Fla.; nine stepchildren and four grandchildren. NURSES OF THIS AREA TO MEET IN ASHEVILLE Miss Lula'Craig, President of the North Carolina Nurses Association, District 1, an nounced this week that there will be a meeting of this dis trict at the Apheville Court House at 4:00 p. m. on March 12, 1952. A panel discussion on Struc ’ ture Study of the American Nurses - Association will be presented by the District Committee. BURNSVILLE, N. f- THURSDAY, MARCH 6. 1952 REPUBLICANS BEGIN CAMPAIGN_PLANS Much interest and enthus iasm were displayed at the in itial county Con vention held "lat the Roberts and Johnson llub room last Saturday nijrht, indicating full narmony and cooperation for the coming campaign. The meeting, whicL was held for the purpose qf , electing dele gates to the district meeting and to name ip. candidate as a delegate to the National Re publican Convention at Chi cago. The convention went on re cord as favoring State Sena tor Donald Banks of this coun ty as a delegate to the Chicago convention, danks announced himself as a fc : candidate for delegate to Jfjhe convention some weeks atfo. Approximately 60 .men and women from 131 townships at tending the /meeting elected the following* persons as re presentatives ofrom Yancey County to meeting at Marion |p**i March 15: Burnsville, Robert Presnell; South Toe, /l- Fin Caraway; Green Gus Bailey; Cane River, J. J. Nowieki; Brush Creek, €. W. Sparks; Jacks Creek^S Lawrence Hall; Crabtree, Charles Hyatt; Pri ces Creek, |smmett Ledford; Ramseytown, M. W. Higgins; Egypt, Allison Edwards; and Pensacola, Ramsey Riddle. The Rev. Charles B. Tram mel, pastor of the First Bap tist Church -here, is out again sjsl case of flu, his daughter/ Becky been ill for several days with flu. Committeemen Named At Stockholders Meeting At the annual stockholders meeting of the Farmers Fed eration held at their ware house here last Saturday, G. McClure Clark, executive yice-president of the coopera tive organization, told stock holders that poultry and eggs being produced in this area were being shipped all over the southeastern United States Bryan Collins, farm manag ing specialist of the N. C. Ex tension Service, was a visitor to the meeting and discussed with farmers and stockhold ers the distribution of TVA fertilizers in this and other counties. Tom Ray and Wilson Edw ards were re-elected to repre sent local stockholders in the Asheville stockholders meet ing. The following were elect ed a3 Yancey County commit teemen of the organization: H. W. Higgins, Grover Robin son, Sam Hilemon, A. P. Hon- TRY “MOSQUITO” HELICOPTER » - -* ft - a •• v^,- jfjtr . l[ **&***’' , / * ••:'•;•-•• . -■- . h i?. Washington 1 , D. C.—The ar my this week revealed devel opment of new-type helicopter, XH-26, which can be drop ped by larger planes, unpacked by twi> men wd put in air in 20 minutes. Tiny craft holds two, weighs 300. pounds. TII*f6N HILL, BAKERS VILLE WIN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Tipton Hill girls aftd Bak ersville boys walked away with the Toe River Conferen ce basketball championship trophies Saturday night. The Tipton. Hill girls de feated the Burnsville six in a hard fought game, ending with a 41-34 score. Bakers-, ville boys defeated Cranberry, the defending champions, 46 to 31. Byrd of Tipton Hill out scored the other girls on both teams, burning the net with 23 points. Olin Higgins led Burnsville girls, and was next high scoring player with 18 points. Dick Baker of Bakersville was high score man in the second game with 19 points, while Callahan, also of Bak ersville, displayed hot work on the floor. Odon) scored 16 points for Cranberry. Named on the girls’ all tournament team were Olin Higgins, Burnsville; Jean Byrd, Tipton Hill; Alice Ram sey, Clearmont, forwards; and Alice Byrd, Tipton Hill; Wattson, Cranberry; and Hall Micaville, guards. The boys all tournament team: Odom, Cranberry; Bak er, Bakersville; Greene, Cran berry; Coffey, Newland; and Laws, Clearmont. In the semifinals Friday night, Bakersville defeated Newland boys with a score of 64-45; Tipton Hill girls de feated Cranberry, 35-31; Cran berry boys defeated Micaville, 53-32; and Burnsville defeated Clearmont, 56-45. Olin Hig gffis looped Tft'3s pints fbr Burnsville girld, making an j easy victory over Clearmont. eycutt, John Hannum, Lester, Bailey, E. N. Stamey, Dr. W. L. Bennett, Thad Ray, Grover Anglin, T. K. Riddle, Joe Lew is, G. Dewey Ray, Roscoe Banks, W. R. Robinson, Char les Thomas, T. H. Phoenix, J. R. Ferguson and date Hay. Rev. Dumont Clark gave a report on. the Lord’s Acre program sponsored by the or ganization. Music was furn ished by the Farmers Federa tion String Band, Both officials and stockhol ders joined in praising Nor man Barnett, manager of the local warehouse, for the way business had been conducted during the past year and for the condition of the store. John N. Presnell is criti cally ill at his home at New dale. Robert Presnell is confined to his home this week due to a severe case of flu. Blood Chairman Appeals For Donors The Red Cross Blood Mo bile unit is returning to Bur nsville next Thursday and J. J. Nowieki, chairman of the local blood program for the American Red Cross has this to say concerning the pro gram: . “The blood program is a community program, because it can serve anyone or every one in the community. When you volrnteer to give blood, you are not donating blood to the Red Cross itself. You are donating to an organization through which your blood is made available to a neighbor in the community or to the armed forces needing its life saving and healing powers. “The ultimate goal of the Red Cross National Program is to supply blood, or its pro ducts, whenever and wherev er they are needed, without charge. There may be a labor atory and physician’s fee for administering the blood, but there is never a charge for the blood itself supplied thro ugh the Red Cross. “When we fail to supply INDEPENDENT TOURNA MENT GETS UNDER WAY Coaches Five of Asheville took Clearwater for a 49-39 ride in the opening game of the third annual independent basketball tournament here Tuesday night. Fullams of Canton swamped Morgan Manufacturing with if score in the second game. Coaches Five, led in scoring by Colagerakis with 16 points, took an early lead in the first game. They racked up a 15- point lead by half time and coasted to ah easy victory over Clearwater. Stamey led Fullams with 16 points, while Trull and Moore, if the same team, both follow ed with 13 points. Last night Bald Creek All Stars defeated Tipton Hill Terriers in a game ending with a 2-point margin. Led ford of Bald Creek was high score man in that game with 14 points. Edwards followed with 13 for Tipton Hill. In the second game Cullo whee College Shop ran rough shod over Crossnore All Stars with an ending score of 65-29. Ray of Cullowhee scored 14 points for high honors. Two games each night will be played through Saturday when finals will be played. wr - - , | CASH NAMED TO REPLACE BASS IN FHA OFFICE HERE Joseph B. Cash has accept ed the position of assistant supervisor for the Farmers Home Administratiin here. He is replacing Thomas Bass who recently resigned to take another position. Cash, a native of Ruther ford County, came here from Shelby where he has been working with FHA for several months. He is .the son of Mr-, and Mrs. T. C. Cash of Forest City. A veteran of World War 11, Cash spent three years in service with the U. S. Air Force. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in animal hus bandry at State College and as a student there he was a member of Alpha Zeta, honor ary agricultural fraternity, the Agriculture Club and the Animal Industry Club. Cash has moved into the house near the Methodist Church recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Dale Banner, Bass, former assistant sup ervisor in the FHA office here, accepted a position as office manager for McNair’s Field Tested Seed Company of Laurenburg. w mm lujii i''* RED CROSS blood needed by our own com munities, based upon actual usuage of this county, then it is something that should be of great ~ncern to us. We have fa.ied each other in our own communities. “The Red Cross mobile unit will visit Burnsville on Thurs day, March 13, and will be lo cated in the First Baptist Church from 11:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Come and help us meet our quotp of 150 pints set for this visit.” The following persons are cooperating in recruiting don ors for the program in their communities: Rev. D. B. Al derman, Rev. David Swartz, Rev. C. B. Trammel, Rev Vaughn, Rev. Shankle, James Proffitt, Mrs. Roy Pate, Mrs. Clyde Whittington, Miss Mar garet Calbeck, Dr. Ohle, Wayne Tipton, Mrs. Bill Gib son, Rev. Jamerson, Mrs. Lu ther Banks Sr., Dr. Walter M. Ost, Mrs. Ed Hunter, Zeke Byrd. c 3 Mrs. Pearson Riddle, Rev. Aired, Rev. Moffatt, Mrs. R N. Silver, Mrs. Friel Young, Paul Buck, Mrs. Jack Hensley, Sherril Whitson, Gus Bailey, Mrs. Horace D. Ray Jr., Mrs. Ralph Edwards, Mrs. Wood ard, Miss Jennie Proffitt, Don Bgrhoe, Carter Rhinehardt, Mr. Carson, E. H. Koenig, Frank Howell, Mrs. Jobe Thomas, and members of the Burnsville Lions Club, Men’s Club, and American Legion. » ; ■ ■"' T 11 - - SEEKS PRESIDENCY /JR jpWHgfcp:;' Washington, D. C.— Sen. Richard B. Russell (Demo crat) of Geoorgia announces he will seek his party’s Presi dential nomination. Russell’s “state’s rights” platform may draw Southern suprort away from Sen. Estes Kefauver and President Truman if he runs. LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. ff. M. MCCURRY Funeral services for Mrs. Will M. McCurry, 51, of Cand ler Rt. 2, who died ,in an Ashe ville hospital Friday follow ing an operation, were held at the Green Mountain Church Sunday at 2:00 p. m. The Rev. Garrett Props of ficiated and burial was in the McCracken Cemetery. Surviving, in addkjon to the hus’ and, are one daugh ter, Mrs. Geneva Matthews of Candler; one son, Dock Mc- Curry of Burnsville; five sis ters, Mrs. Pansy Letterman and Mrs. Sudie Letterman of Asheville, Mrs. Biddie Wal lace if Chesnee, S. C., Mrs. Laura Mitchell of Burnsville and Mrs. Cora Ray of Mica ville; five brothers, Sol, Wess, Oscar and Charlie Fox of Burnsville and Kell Pox of Oteen, N. C.
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