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| ito/w tch) t j jwpiij I /iif United States % ( defense Bends a VOLUME SIXTEEN * Yancey County To Have Hospital In Near Future Plans For Memorial Day Program Being Made The American Legion and Legion Auxiliary are attempt ing to compile complete re cords of Yancey County cas ualties in World War I, World War II and the Korean con flict. The following list is of Yancey County boys who lost their livgs serving their coun try in the three wars. It is re quested and urged by the Legion and Auxiliary that the parents or next of kin of those listed contact J. J. Nowicki of Swiss, either by telephone or by letter, giving information such as the near est, of kin, the date the soldier lost his life, place, etc. This information will be used in a Memorial Day ser vice planned for this month. “ World War It John Edward Adkins, Dop Anglin, Edd Bod ford, Isaac Duncan, Floyd Gibbs, Earl Horton, Fex Hughes, Charles Howell, Ewert Jamerson, Turner King, Joe Laughrun, Arthur Mcln tosh, Jark Macapher, Milt Proffitt, Mack Robinson, Car via Robinson, Iss Renfro, and Ellis Williams. World War II: Sgt. Edward E. Ballew, Second Lt. Sam B. Bennett, Pfc. John W. Blank enship, T-5 Linzie J. Buchan an, Sgt. Edison Buchanan, LAST RITES HELD FOR ABBIE B. ARROWOOD Funeral services for Mrs. Abbie Barry Arrowood, 59, of Burnsville, Rt. 1, who died Tuesday afternoon in an As heville hospital, were held Thursday at 2:30 p. m. in Jacks Creek Baptist Church. The Rev. Arthur Pate offi ciated and burial was in McCurry Cemetery. She was the wife of Robert Arrowood. Surviving in addition to the husband, are five daughters, one son, one brother, one sis ter and 18 grandchildren. NOTICE Dr. C. M. Whisnant will leave Sunday, May 11. to go to the State Dental Society meeting at Pinehurst. He will be out of his office all of next week. SGT. MILLER RETURNING HOME FROM KOREA With The 7th Infantry Div 1 in Korea —Sergeant Firs Class Holt Miller, son of Mr and Mrs. Charles Miller, Ram saytown, N. C., is returning home under the Army’s rota tion policy after serving with the 7tli Division on the Kor ean fighting front. During recent action the division has been probing Communist positions in the mountains north of the 38th parallel. The 7th has been playing a major role in the Korean war since landing at Inchno in September, 1950. Sfc Miller, who was tank commander of the 81st Infan try Regiment’s Tank Company received basic training at fort Jackson, S. C. Before entering the Army in December, 1960, he had at tended Bee Log High School and was employed as a textile worker for Glen Raven Silk Mills, Burnsville, N, C. SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. , Cpl. Weldon C. Burleson, T. Sgt. Olin C. Chrisawn, Pfc. Paul F. Deyton, Pvt. Arnold A. Effler, Sgt. Willis L. Fields, Jr., Pvt. Warren C. Fox, T-5* J. L. Gouge, Pvt. Warren J. Hensley, T-5 Ward F. Hilemon , Pfc. Joe F. Holloway, S. Sgt. James E. Honeycutt, Pfc. Bill ’ Marsh, S. Sgt. Seth McCurry, Pfc. Jack Mclntosh, Pvt. Hom er Peterson, Pvt. Alvin C. 1 Rathbone, Sgt. Mack A. Rath ; bone, Sgt. Jack W. Robinson. Pvt. Edward Saylor, Pvt. Arthur Taylor, T-5 Guy D. Thomas. Pvt. Isaac W. Tipton, S. Sgt. Ralph J. Wilson, S. Sgt. Smith J. Young, Cpl. Zack R. Wilson, and Sgt. Walter Gibbs. The Korean Conflict: M. Sgt. Jack Renfro, Cpl. Hurley Wil%pn, John Hylemon, and Robert D. Autrey. MICAVILLE BOY MISSING IN LAKE JAMES AT 21-year-old Micaville boy, Terrell McCurry, lost his life in Lake James sometime Sun day afternoon. He was rep >rt ed missing by his fishing s«-a,panions, France and Albert i'homas, both of Micaville. According to reports, McCurry was missed by his companions about 7 p. m. when they drew .within- ahaujfc Mto *l>—-tu- .. shore. The three Micaville men went fishing in a Burke County section of the lake Sunday and were returning to shore when the boy’s absence was noted. Searches for the body have been made with no success. He is servived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter McCurry, and a sister, Mrs Queen Stevens, all of Mica ville.. ‘Here Comes Charley,’ To Be Given By Clearmont Juniors The juniors of Clearmont will present a three act play, “Here Comes Charley,” in the school auditorium next Friday night, May 16. Walton W. Angel is direc tor for the play and the cas of actors includes Alice Gar land, Jess Fox, Jean Garland Faye Presnell, Ruby Jean Warrick, Palma JJennett, Lloyd Deyton, -■Claude Bailey, Philij Thress, and Alice Ramsey. E. T. S. C. Alumni Dance Announced Johnson City Tenn. —The advisory committee of the East Tennessee State College Alumni Association voted last "night to admit alumni of the State College to the school’s spring formal dance Monday evening by alumni card only. Anyone who has attended the State College for a year or more is eligible for an plumni card. In Burnsville, alumni cards may be secured from Mr Claude Hughes, Green Moun tain, N. C. A i Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Bailey • visited their daughter, Miss • Hope Bailey, in Wadesboro ’ last week end. Mrs. Bailey re ' mained for a visit this week. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey also vir.it ) ed Mr. and Mrs. Brady Thom- I a« and family while in Wades i boro. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas c are former residents of Bur nsville. _ 4 The Yancey Record BURNSVILLE MAN FOUND INJURED BY HIGHWAY Jerry Hughes, west Burns ville resident, was found in jured by the side of the high way near his residence late last Thursday night. The in jured man "Was found almost ’ in the highway by a passing motorist. He was carried to a Spruce Pine clinic where it was re ported that his injuries in cluded bone fractures about the face and head. From his injuries, it was thought he had been beaten by an assailant. STATE BOARD APPOINTS TWO MEMBERS TO LOCAL EDUCATION BOARD The State Board of Educa tion last Thursday appointed two members to the Yancey County Board of I/iucation replacing two members said to be holding board offices illegally. Everton B. .Powell of, the Concord section and Rush T. Wray of Burnsville were named by the state body to replace Mark W. Bennett and Raleigh Radford. A North Carolina law pro hibits persons from holding two public offices. Bennett’ has been mayor of Burnsville , for several months and Rad ford is postmaster at Cane River. |' The appointment of Powell and Wray by the Sti&Jte Board! or cnu l atrvrrj ttto, mas, one remaining old mem ber, constitutes a legal local board. ■ Announcements of gradua tion exercises for the high schools in the county have been made by high school principals as follows: Bee Log High School Baccalaureate services will be held in Bee Log High Scho ol auditorium Sunday, May 25 at 3:00 p. m. The Rev D. D. Alderman, paster of the Hig gins Memorial Church, Burns ville, will deliver the message. Graduation exercises will be held in the high school au ditorium Monday, May 28 at 8:00 p. m. Dr. P. L. Elliott, president Gardner-Webb Col lege, will, give the address. Honor students are Hazel Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Wilson of Sioux, valedictorian; Jay Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Miller Ramsaytown, salutatorian. Members of the graduating class are: Myrtle' Adkins, Freda Bradford, Martha Edw ards, Alma Pate, Maxine Pet ersowf Rosaline Peterson, Haz el Wilson, C. A. Adkins, Plen Adkins; Charlie, Edwards, Clay Edw ards, Edd Edwards, Raymond Edwards, Reece Edwards, Jay Miller, Jack Parker and Jap Phillips. Micaville High School Baccalaureate services will be held in the Micaville Pres byterian church at 11:00 a. m. Sunday, May 18. The Rev. John S. Yelton of Johnson City Tenn., will deliver the message Graduation exercises will be held in the school auditor ium Tuesday evening, May 20. W. B. Harrili, director of pub lic relations at Western Caro lina Teachers College, will de liver the address. - Honor students are Sabra Sparks, valedictorian |ind Richard Young, salutatorian. Other students who have an average of 92 are Thelma Sty les, Erma Shuford, Clara Lee Randolph and Judith Cates. Members of the graduating “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 8. 1952 Closing Exercises An nounced By Schools NOTICE The State Democratic Exe cutive Committed has set Sat urday, May 10, 1952 as the date for holding precinct or ganization meetings. This meeting will be held at 2:00 o’clock p. m. on said date at the voting places in each of the townships in Yancey Coun ty. At said meeting you will elect an executive committee of each of saidlprecinct con sisting of five active Demo crats, at least two of whom shall be women. Said precinct committees elected shall elect from its membership a chair man and vice chairman, one of whom shall be a woman, and one member should be elected as secretary'. The chairman elected in each precinct ‘With the dele gates elected at said township meeting will attend the coun ty convention to be held in the courthouse :at Burnsville at II :00 o’clock a. m., on May 17, 1962. At the county con vention the cotmty chairman, vice chairman and secretary to the Democratic Executive Committee will be elected and delegates named to the said convention to be held in Ral eigh on May 22, 1952. All Democrats in various townships of Yancey County are urged to attend the pre — *•» —u . -trr• hub—rftTfiers of their town-1 ship. C. P. Randolph, Chairman class are: Kenneth Bailey, Clyde Blalock, Etta Vee Boone, Ralph Boone, Jack Buchanan, Jean Carroll, Nell Gibbs, Dail Gibbs, Jeanette Gibbs, Fred Hall, Joyce Hall, Herman Howell, Emma Grace Harding, Geneva Honeycutt, Kate Huskins, Charles Husk-1 ins, Phillip Jones, Judith Cates; * Juanita Gurley, Jack Hugh es, Charles Nordan, Betty Ogle, Kenneth Presnell, J. C. Robinson, Clara Lee Randolph, Leona Robinson; Sabra Sparks, Thelma Styles Norma Jean Thomas, Dean Thomas, Louise Wyatt, Terrill Ray, Faye Ray, Maisie Robin son, Bruce Sparks, Erma Shu ford, Dorthy Thomas, Phillip Thomas, Ona Wilson, Fred Young and Richard Young. Clearmont High School Baccalaureate services will be held Sunday, May 25 at 2:80 p. m., in the Clearmont High School auditorium with the Rev. J. G. Allred, pastor of the Micaville Methodist Chur ch, delivering the message. Graduation exercises will be held in the auditorium at 7:30 p. m. May 27. Dr. Hoyt Blackwell, president of Mars Hill College, will deliver the address. Honor students are Anna Belld"Garland, daughter of Mr) and Mrs. Lester Garland of Green Mountain, valedictor ian; and Mabel Tipton,'daugh ter of Mr. and Mrsu Gug Tip ton of Green Mountain, salu i tatorian. * Members of the graduating cfess are: Mary Lois Ayers, terta Byrd, -®Hoyt Bennett, Briggs, Dayton Bennett, nces COIII9, John Elliott, Gftrlene Evpns, Fox, Ahne Belle Garland, Bill Laws, Catherine Presnell, Catherine Briggs, Opal Robin aofi and Mabel Tipton. ,* Burnsville High School Baccalaureate services wil (Continued on page two) ■ * i SPEEDING LEADS VEHICLE VIOLATIONS IN STATE Raleigh— Speeding, driving , without an operator’s permit, . and reckless driving continued j to lead the Department of I Motor Vehicle’s monthly sum t mary of traffic violations in > April. The agency reported 3,906 I speeding convictions; 1,870 j for driving without a license;! . and 1,860 for reckless driving. Ail three violations are cus-J j tomarily at the top of the sum mary but do not require licen-, se revocation or suspension for the first offense. i Other violations reported in April included 792 convictions for faulty equipment; 751 for failing to stop at a stop sign;) 278 for improper lights; 269 for passing on hills and cur-l ves; 125 for following too closely; and 115 for driving on the wrong side of the road. Speeding convictions, the Department noted, were the highest in April since the first of the year. There have been 14,255 speeding convictions re corded since January, almost' twice that of reckless driving offenses for the same period. The total number of North Carolina drivers convicted , last month came to 10,556. Out of state motorists found guil ty added 1,667 for a combined total of 12,223 persons con victed of traffic violations on ' -J-. -x AU- L AST RITES HUMOR J. C. ALLEN, 21 # Funoral services for J. C. Allen, 21-year-old Newdale re sident who died last Thursday in a Winston-Salem hospital after a long illness, were con ducted Saturday at 2 p. m. in Lily Branch Baptist Church. The Rev. James Allred offi dated and burial was in the. church cemetery. Surviving are the stepfath er and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Estel Peak of Newdale; and 1 the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Grind- 1 staff of Newdale. Evans With Marines In San Diego J Frank D. Evans, -driver, ' USN, of Route 1, Burnsville, j is presently assigned for duty , at the U. S. Naval Training Center, San Diego, Calif., as . a member of the Transporta- j tion Department as a driver. ( Evans was advanced to his present rating vpn April 16, after having successfully passed the required competi- ( tive examination. He entered . Naval service March 1, 1950, ( and received his recruit train- . ing at the U. S. Naval Train- j ing Center, San Diego. Local Men Named To ] Hereford Association j < ] Kansas City, Mo.—Melvin ' and Martin Webb and Zeb C. 1 I Young of Burnsville today ' were named to membership ini the American Hereford Asso ciation, the world’s largest purebred registry organiza-1 tion, with headquarters in 1 Kansas City. Twb hundred apd. eighty Hereford breeders were plaqed on the Association's official ~ roster during March. f 1 Report Made On Cancer Drive - j Mrs. Troy Ray, chairman of the county Cancer Fluids drive reported this week ttatu'a to- i tal of $185.66 has been donat ed to this date. The quota set up for Yancey County is $425.00, she said. Excess Os $60,000 Donated To Date “A hospital for Yancey County is a reality, as real as * your arm,” Bascombe R. Pen land, chairman of the nine man Yancey Hospital commit tee told a group of citizens at a meeting in the cafeteria of j Duplan Corporation plant j Wednesday morning. ’ Assurance that a hospital for this county would be con structed was given at a mass 1 meeting of interested citizens held in the Sam Wilson Mem orial Building Monday night. ’ The group approved with a unanimous vote a hospital plan suggested by a nine-man committee appointed by Mack B. Ray, president of the Men’s Club at a club meeting here Monday night of last week. The committee to investigate plans and means of construct ing a hospital, consisted of B. R. Penland, chairman, with the following members: H. S. Edge, Tony Zelinski, H. W. Johnson, D. R. Fouts, T. M. Tyner, Reece Mclntosh, J. A. Anglin and W. E. Anglin. Plans adopted at the meet ing of interested citizens are that the hospital will be built with donations made by thei citizens of Yancey County and) operated -by. a non-profit cor poration, governed by a board) of 12 trustees chosen from the, 1 named at the first nuffimSS ing Monday night. After plans bad been adopt-! ed by the group of more than) 100 Yancey County citizens Monday night, the committee 1 selected at the Men’s Club! meeting was voted full autl r ity to take necessary steps to ward the goal. B. R. Penland, chairman, immediately asked for donations and pledges from the assembled group. Before the meeting closed ap proximately $60,000 of the SIOO,OOO estimated cost of construction was donated in cash and pledges. . | The much talked of hospital for Yancey County became more thah a dream when Dr. Melvin W. Webb of Burnsville) offered to give his clinic, along with a substantial cash dona tion, to the cause. The propos-, ed hospital will be built on property donated by Dr. Webb,‘ and the present clinic will be a part of the hospital struc ture. He will hold office space in the present clinic building, but the entire hospital will be operated by the governing trustees selected by citizens from every part of the county.' Dr. Webb, a native of Mit chell County, has been active in civic organizations and church work since coming to Burnsville in 1949. And one of his dreams since beginning medical practice here has been a hospital for Yancey County. Dr. Webb is a gradu ate of Wake Forest College. Bowman-Gray School of Medi cine at Winston-Salem, and served in the Navy medical corps several years duriqg World War 11, Plans were fjjiopted for a 20 to 25-bed hospital constructed with brick and cinder block. Two floors have been planned with both private room and ward facilities. Space will al so be provided for colored 'patients. One member of the steering committee stated that plan 8 were to build a hos pital good enough for the wealthiest and not too good for the poorest in this county. l The building will be con-, Volunteer workers. for the l thHff Mi/ m J mp*» 1 / ter Bated Stales \ I /X fan i a *—l l frrTrHSr DOndS m NUMBER THIRTY-^ lin, Edgar Hunter, Jr., Hubert Justice, Vincent Westall, B. B. Penland, J. J. Nowicki, B. R. , Penland, H. W. Johnson, D. R. Fouts, T. M. Tyner, Reece Mclntosh, Tony Zelinski, W. E. Anglin, J. A. Anglin, H. S. Edge, Luther Ayers, Robert Presnell, Alonzo Roberts, and Roy Ray. Rev. David Swartz, Rev. D. B. Alderman, and Rev. Char les B. Trammel, pastors of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist churches in Burnsville have volunteered their servic es in contacting other minis ters in the county to set up an organization of women to con tact each home in the county for a donation. The steering committee and volunteer workers have re ported much enthusiasm from every part of the county and donations are coming in on every hand, but one worker pointed out that the full coop eration of every citizen of the county will be needed to push the hospital program over the top. In addition to cash dona tions, many pledges of free work have been given. Earth moving equipment has been pledged for the necessary ex j cavation. The entire electrical | wiring of the building has 1 been promised. Furnishing for HMilk'VooTO been pledged. I price by two building-material | companies here. Plans em r ployees here are donating one day’s pay to the project. Engi neers and architects are do nating their time and services on drawing up plans for the building. Persons who believe in the need of a hospital for Yancey County citizeng are urged to send in contribution or pled ges of a donation without waiting to be contacted. Dona tions and pledges may be sent to James A. Anglin or B. R. Penland, trustees for the hos pital funds, or to any member of ihe steering committee. Actual work toward ' thei construction of the building will begin within thirty days, but cooperation of the entire county will be required for its completion. Women Recruited In Drive Enlistment of women thro ughout the county to do house to house canvassing for the hospital fund is being organi zed. The committee organiz ing this group consists of Rev. Charles B. Trammel, chairman Rev. David Swartz, secretary and Rev. D. B Alderman, in charge of grouping. Mrs. George Roberts i s chairman of the women's group with Mrs. Torey Tyner as associate chairman, and Mrs. Olen Shepherd, secretary treasurer. The women will go in couples from house to house to give every family in Yancey County an opportun ity to contribute to the hospi tal. They will work Burnsville township this week. Monday they will go to Bald Creek township, and Wednesday to Ctabfcree, where they will work for the rest of next week. Other townships will be named later. This is s county effort and will be worked one township at a time. ! NOTICE eeMMHMi ' Dr. Walter M. Ost of Hig gins will be out of his office on Monday, Tuesday, and j Wednesday, May 12, 18 and 14.
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