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] Ul tlilt t J rnrptot I /tar BtiM Stotts w ( Pihast Buds I VOLUME EIGHTEEN School Calendar Has Full Schedule Several contests are scheduled --for the schools of the county on the 1953-54 school calendar,, ac cording to County Superintend ent of Schools Hubert Justice. A soft ball tournament will be held on October 16 and 17. In “ November thwe will be an ora tion contest at Clearmont on the 19th and a reading contest at Micaville on the 20th. February 15 to 20 is county tournament week, with, the ti i county tournament following from the 22nd Bald Creek will be the scene of the - spelling contest March 25. -The. one-act play contest will come off at the Parkway,, Playhouse on May 13 and 14. The date for the World Peace contest, will be announced latei. It is to be held at Bee Log High j. " ' '* Yancey Dairy Entries Make Good Showing Seven 4-H members entered animals in the W. N- C. Junior Dairy Show at Enka Septembei 1-2, according to T. S. Godwin, assistant county agent. Mem bers entering animals and their placings are:' Ronald Peterson, blue; Aubrey Duncan, Beverly Silvers, Tommy Buchanan, Tom my Gibbs and Danny Wilson, red; and Donald Buchanan, white. Beverly Silver worn second place in showmanship and the best fitted animal in the shire breed. 'T ..These animals were competing against the best animals from 21 other western counties. FUNERAL SERVICES W. Z. ROBERTSON Funeral services for W- Z. Robertson, 67, who died Wednes day afternoon in the Yancey Hospital after a long illness, will be held at the First Baptist Church Friday .at 2:30 p. m., with Rev. Charles B. Trammel, pastor, oficiating. Burial will be in the Robertson cemetery. He had been co-owner of the Robertson Brothers Drug Store here for 40 years prior to his re tirement from business about eight years ago. He was a trustee and deacon of the Burnsville First Baptist Church. Surviving are the widow, the former Miss Sallie Lou Banks; three sons, Dr. M. E. Robertson of New Windsor, Md., Kenneth ( Robertson of Burnsville and Lee ’ Ray Robertson of Morristown, Tenn.; one brother, Herbert of Morganton; and three grand ch’Tdren. SAMUEL W. ROBINSON Samuel William Robinson, 54, died at his home in the Brush Creek section of Yancey County on Sunday, September 6, He was married to Lillie Thomas on February 27, 1921, who survives; also surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Virgis Anglin of Burnsville, Mrs. Dock Woody of Green Mountain, ’ Ila Kay Robinson of the home, nine sons, Harold, Brown, Wyman, Eldon, Parian, Loyd and Ila, all of Green Mountain, James of Burnsville, Dewey of "Clasrkton; five brothera,-Karl r Lydia, Virgil of Green Mountain, Phillip of Detroit, Mich., Herbert of As heville; and four staters, Mrs. Sam Buchanan, Mrs. Theodore’ Freeman and Miss Belvia Rob inson-o,f Green Mountain, and Mrs. Fred Jenkins of Jonesville, the stepmother,, Mrs. Martha —Robinsofl of Green Mountain and eights grandchildren. •*\'' •• 'V - r —'-V ,m & THE YANCEY RECORD '■ ' * . “ 1 ■'■ • ' •• . /. ' . i"! : SUB. RATES $1.50 YEAR. School, thus giving every high school one of the regular pro grams. Judith Kates of Micaville High School wonjhe county and district World Peace Contest in 1951, thereby winning a trip to New York to participate in the national speaking contest. Music programs will be held j in schools throughout the county the first two weeks in April. A special school bond election will be held October 3. Holidays include Thanksgiving j November 26 and 27, Christmas land New Year December 18 to January 4, Easter, April 16 ' (Friday and April 19 Monday). Students will, have an additional holiday October 9, when the teachers meet in Asheville. Regular county teachers’ meet ings are scheduled at Burns ville each month a different school responsible for each pro gram. The first will be Septem ber 25 at 2:15 p. m., with Bald Creek School in charge of the program. Yancey County Board of Education meets the first Monday in each month. Baccalaureate Services on May 23 and graduation on May 25 will conclude the school year. Federal Funds For Farm Loans Announced i A new allotment of federal funds for farm housing loans in Yancey County was announ .cetLlhis week by Mack B. Ray, supervisor of the Farmers Home Administration at Burnsville. | Purpose of the credit is to fi nance homes and farm buildings for farm families. Veterans re ceive preference. Since this new type of credit was established by Congress four years ago, about 16,300 farm throughout the country have used the aid to im prove their homes and buildings.] Loans amounting to $81,416,000,' nation-wide have been made for, new houses, for repairing and | remodeling old houses; 'for new barns, poultry houses, and other, buildings, and to improve exist ing buildings, Ray said. The loans bear 4 percent in terest and are repayable over periods up to 33 years. In the last three years, 29 families in this county have borrowed ap proximately $152,050 to improve I County School Athletic Program Scheduled ' The Yancey County Athletic Association was organized re- 1 cently for the promotion of bet- j ter sportsmanship and a more adequate' recreation program in | the county schools, according to, Hubert Justice, superintendent of county schools. At their or- j ganization meeting the group elected Woodrow Anglin of the Burnsville school as president, j Ernest Banner of the Bee Log school as vice president; and Ford Bailey of the Burnsville school as secretary-treasurer. The group drew up a soft ball schedule for the county with a final tournament scheduled for October 16 and 17. The associa tion will govern athletics in the county schools and will strive to broaden the program to include more activities. Various committees will be selected from time to time to handle special problems that may arise. ..'..A. NOTICE' ] _j The Woman’s Bible Class of Higgins Memorial \ Methodist Church will meet with Mrs. Fred Proffitt on Thursday, Septem ber 17 at 3:00. .—a « “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” BURNSVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER io, 1953 Committee Chosen For Challenge Farm Program Yancey County's Challenge program designed to raise the standard of rural living, has gotten welljMlrer way with the selection of eight committees to work on the various farm and home problems. The following committees will serve: cash crop dealing with tobacco, pepper ahd other market crops, live stock (including beef cattle, j sheep, and hogs), dairy, poultry, Live at Home, health, home im provement, and community or ganization. These committees are made up of farmers represent ifig all parts of the county. All the official agricultural i workers in the county are activ ely participating in the program , in addition to Mr. John Craw ford and Miss Florence Cox, pro gram planning specialists from State College. On September 17 a meeting is planned for all agricultural workers and home economics' teachers in the county. All the' committees will be invited in to a meeting planned for Septem ber 29 in the court house at 7:30 p. m. At this meeting definite plans will be made to bring the program into all parts of the county. The public is invited to attend. ! inadequate housing, according to FIIA officials. Since the demand for these loans far exceeds the limited, loan funds, only farm owners re~ , ceiving all or a substantial por -1 tion of their income from the sale of farm commodities may qualify as borrowers. A loan may I be made to a farm on which the operator works off the farm only if he or members of his family are farming on a sizeable scale. These -loans may not be used to construct rural j residences or other buildings for 1 families not generally recogniz ed as farmers, Mr. Ray said. ! An FIIA committee in each 'county, composed of three local farmers, decides who is eligible.' In Yancey County, committee! members are C. Rex Mclntosh, I Bee Log; Earl C. Wilson; Route 1, Burnsville, and Yates W. Ran dolph, Green Mountoin. Recorder’s Court Two out of the three jury cas es heard in Recorder's Court last Monday resulted in ver- ( diets of not guilty. These were the cases of Ed Lingerfelt, tried 1 for driving drunk and Ed Mit-| chell, tried for violation of the ! prohibition law. The third case, I that of Robert Jolly Jarrett, I was declared a mistrial in that , the jury could not reach a unan . imous decision. j Four men pleaded guilty to ! driving ( drunk — two of these i second offenders. Ulyses Silvers, ' who pleaded guilty to his second ’ offense was fined S2OO and costs. | | Pershing Angel also pleaded ' . guilty to a second offense and was sentenced to three months I on the road to “run concurrently with the sentence that the de j fendant is -now serving under aj Judgment of the Superior Court' .of Madison County,’' according' to records in "Clerk of Court Fred Prpffitt’s office. William Floyd Edwards and Isam Sutton, 1 who pleaded guilty of a first of fense were both fined SIOO and --eosts; —- Leslie Peterson, who was ad judged guilty of violation of the prohibition law, appealed to Superior’Court upon feeing fined $26 and Costs. , V. A. Wilson and U. B. Banks were each fined $25 and costs |, for speeding. Lavern Black 1 ( pleaded guilty to assault and ' | was sentenced to four months | suspended on payment of costs. Institute Warns Os Traffic Dangers A predicted 2,000 children ua der 14 will be killed* on their way to and from school during the coming term. Thousands more will be injured, many for life. But it need not happen to your children if you tike the respon sibility for getting them off to school with a safe shirt. In making this grim predic tion the Institute for Safer Liv-{ ing of the American Mutual Lia- < bility Insurance Company, ur ges parents to personally escort younger children to and from < school until good safety habits are established. The following rules are suggested. I 1. Work out and use the saf est route to and from school with your child, taking into cossider ation not the shortest distance, but rather the safest crosswalks, and available traffic police pro tection. 2- Where there is no police man, teach the youngster to atop , on the curb, look both ways, and , , watch for turning traffic before i walking across. j 3. If it is necessary for your , child to walk on a roadway, teach , him ta-walk on the extreme left edge of the road, always facing traffic. | - j 4. Impress your children with the need for obeying all traffic J officers, school crossing guards, school safety patrols or mechani cal signs and signals. 5. Insist on no playing in ' streets, alleys, or driveways. 6. No roller skating to and from school. / *** 7. No hitching rides on motor vehicles when cyclfrrg to and from school. 8. If an older brother or sister is accompanying your hunger ; children to and from school, go over the route with both child ren and insist on responsibility from the older one, asd recogni-J tion of authority by the younger one. Labor Gets Wage Increase Under New Contract International Mineral and Chemical Corporation plants lo cated at Kona and - Lunday, N.' ‘ , C., and the United Textile ! | Workers of America A. P. L. j• i gnd its local union No. 242 sign-j |ed a contract effective August < ' 30, with a general wage in- ' I crease of five cents and also fringe benefits amounting to about two cents an hour. These benefits pertain to job classifi cation and double time for Sun-! day and holiday pay. Negotiations were held by! company management, interna- * tional union representative B. 1 S. Whitmire, the local's presi- * 1 dent Vernon Fresnell and com- 1 (mitteemen Frank Thomas, Wees Hoilman, John McMahan, Jam- I es English, and Charles Cassidy. 8 a Merchants Meet 1 September Isth t The board of directors of the * Yancey County Merchant's asso ciation will have a meeting at the ‘ nforpiation house at 8 o’clock I September 15. I Officers and directors of the association are B. R. Penland, j president; Vincent Westall, vice', 'president; Reece Mclntosh, sec ’ retary; Horace D. Ray, Jr., E. W. ] f Wilson, E. B. Chrisawn, Luther j I Banks, Lloyd Owen, Ben Banks, 1 Ivan Peterson, J. L. Robinson, H. . W. Johnson, H. N. Robinson, | Roy Ray, and G. C. Robinson. \ RUMMAGE BAKE SALE | ' TVia nimmay«julf» gjtlfl npon-’ sored by the Woraan’ajClub for ■ the benefit of the Yancey Hospi- 1 • tal will be held on the town > square, Saturday, September 19. 1 The chib will use the proceeds to furnish a childrens room in' i the new hospital. j 1 ’ Anyone who wishes to send • rummage or- bake goods is re -1 quested to call Mrs. Jack Bailey, | 1 phone 2222, who will pick them “«• J LARGEST TEN. COMMAND MENTS FOUND IN N. C. mountains The largest Ten Command ments are to be found on a mountainside near Murphy. At Fields of the Wood, a religious assembly ground, the Church of 'Prophecy Marker Association has spelled out the Command-! ments in white stones on the I mountain. Passengers on planes | flying over this resort area can [read the inscription. | .As many as 3,000 sightseers -Visit the assembly ground on Sundays. Throngs attend Easter and autumn assemblies at Fields of the Wood. It is near Lake Hiwassee on N. C. Highway 294 [near the Tennessee border. 1 4-H Dairy Show Has Many High Winners All of the twenty-two animals entered in Yancey County’s first 4-H dairy show made good show ing by winning all blue and red ribbons, according to T. S. God win, assistant county agent. 4-H members entering animals and their placings are: Junior Guernsey, Tommy Gibbs and Gale Duncan, blue ribbons; Joe Gillespie ( and J,im Wilson, red. Holstein, Tommy Ray and Tom my Gibbs, red ribbons. Senior Guernsey, Tommy Buchanan, ■ —r Yancey County Debt Lowered From a high of close to a million dollars in 1947, the coun ty debt has been cu(£ down to a little over $650,000 according to information received from the office of Luther Robinson, County Accountant. A complete account of Yan jcey County’s debt was given in 'a letter to Mr. Robinson from the North Carolina Local Gov ernment Commission. The letter states in part: . £ “We now show the following amounts outstanding: $66,000 School Refunding, $547,500 Gen eral Refunding, $12,000 Road and School Refunding, $31,000 School Funding, asd $1,039.02 Interest Funding. | “This is a total of $657,539.02 outstanding 6-30-1953, accord ing to our records.” * First < Meeting Tuesday The Burnsville Parent-Teach er Association will hold the first meeting of the year Tuesday evening, September 15 at 7:30 p. m. in the High School Library. Mrs Roy Ray, president, will preside over a short business ‘ session, following the business session a social hour will be held honoring teachers. All parents and everyone in terested in the school are urged to attend. Marriage Licenses Issued Three marriage licenses were issued recently by the office jf Mrs. Evelyn Pate, Register of De.eds They were issued to Law rence McMahan, son of Bis Mc- Mahan of Micaville and Madge Duncan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Duncan of Penland; \ Harold Geouge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Geouge of Spruce Pine and PhyiHg wmja [ Hgn^M<.i. Mr. and MrSTGrover Willis of Penland; and to James Ellis Hoi- 1 lifield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Hollifield of Celo and Shirley Barnette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Barnette of Celo. i ■___— | Mr. and Mrs. Jack Edwards } and daughter, Suelien, of laeger, West Virginia, spent the week | end with Mrs. Edwards’ parents; Mr., and Mrs. B. E. Ledford of [Bee Log. * . Hospital Opening Attended By 1500 Approximately 1500 people at j tended the open house service at the Yancey Hospital last Sun day afternoon. After the dedica tion ceremony at which the hos pital was formally presented to the people of the county, visitors continued to come in until about seven o’clock in the evening. Practically all of the hospital personnel was present at the opening. Dr. Sargent had arriv-j ed the day before after driving (from Evarts, Ky., to meet' his blue; Senior Holstein, Edgar Wheeler, blue; Peggy Ray, red. Junior Yearling Guernsey, Ron ald Peterson, blue; Jim Wilson, i Duncan and Richard Conley, red. Junior Yearling Holstein, Danny Duncan, red. 1 Senior Yearling Guernsey, Au- '■ brey Duncan, .blue; Richard i Briggs; jped; Senior Yearling jersey, Danny Wilson, blue. Senior Yearling Ayrshire, Bev- i erly Silver, blue; Verleen Sil vers, red. 2-4 year old Jersey* Edwin Bryan and Edgar Bryan, blu J 4-H members placing in show manship were first, Donald Buchanan; Second, Edwin Bry an; Third, Beverly Silvers. Placing in best fitted animal were first, Peggy Ray; Second, Aubrey Duncan; third, Tommy Ray. All of the animals handled very well, however, some of the calves were not fitted as well as they could have been. Atkins Injured In Fall Bill Atkins, county attorney and representative to the state assembly from YhneCy County, suffered *a broken leg when he , fell from a bridge early Tuesday ipoming. The accident occurred between four and five o’clock Tuesday morning in front of the Leßoy McCurry home, according to ■‘reports. Mr. Atkins apparent ly fell off the edge of a < bridge over Mine Fork Creek. 1 The bridge is about ten feet high : over a rocky stream bottom. The < Holcombe ambulance carried Bill i Atkins to the Marion Hospital where he arrived at 6:50 in the i morping. According to hospital reports he is in good condition, j; Autumn Colors Are Coming Early This Fajl Color is appearing earlier this year in Yancey County, the Blue Ridge, and Great Smoky Moun tains where millions come to see the autumn foliage change from the highest places in Eastern America. Already reds and yellows are appearing at mile-high and med ium altitudes in the most, used National Park facilities io the' nation, and indications are that autumn travel along the Blue Ridge Parkway and into the vast I resort area of Western North ! Carolina will exceed last year’s record-breaker. , Peak autumn color at around 3,000 feet usually occurs around Jhe middle of October, but from above 6,000 feet to the foothills, there is color in varying degrees from September 1 into early November. National Parks and Forests will remain open until Novem ber, and in the mountains will remain open through October. This is a change that has occurred since World War 11, as prior to then 1 the season whs considered over nt *\ . NUMBER ONE wife here who also arrived Sat urday fropT Vermont with her brother-in-law, H. A. Bailey. The laboratory technician, How ard M. Wright will be he/e by the first of October. Up to the present time (Thursday noon) there have been nine people admitted to the hospital. Several of these were prospective mothers hoping to have the first Yancey Hospital ! baby. All of these were released ! after it was found that theasym l ptoms were false alarms. * Among other hospital admis sions were W. Z.__ Robertson, Blake Ray, who was .released Thursday and Mrs. W. J. Dowd who tfbs admitted Thursday. Foreign Students 1 Will Visit Yancey A group of about 25 foreign students who are studying at various American colleges and universities will be visitors in Yancey County from Friday ev ening, September 11, to Sunday morning, September 14. They are on a tour between Washington, D. C„ and the TVA, sponsored ,by the Committee on Friendly Relations among Fcyeign Stud ents. Leader of-the tour is Miss Jean Carlisle, Program Associa te of the Committee. Although the Committee’s na tional office has designated the students as guests at Celo Com munity, they will be entertained in various homes in the county. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barrus of Celo are in charge of arrange ments. The schedule of activi ties is not complete, but there are prospects of a mountain climbing trip, a visit to Penland School, and a picnic with the Bald Creek Methodist Youth Fellowship. Students making this trip are I from the following countries: France, Nigeria, Ceylon, Philip?-” pines, Turkey, China, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Japan, Sweden, Israel, Belgium, Fin land, and India. j-- Other points on the tour are Colonial Williamsburg, Hamp ton Institute, University of Nor th Carolina, Knoxville, Norris Dam, Oak Ridge, Fort Loudon Dam, Fontana Dam, University of Virginia, and Monticello. At Knoxville the students will view films and hear talks on the work of the Tennessee Valley Author ity, in addition to visiting dams, rural electric cooperative head quarters, a test demonstration farm, and other exalples of TVA and its related activities. on Labor Day. Now October Is the fourth heaviest travel month in the year. Gums, sumacs and bushers are the first to turn, and- the first colors to greet early aut umn are red and yellow. As the season progresses, the color ran ge increases and the color seems ' to burst into flame with a vari ety‘of orange and brilliant yel lows, contrasting with ever greens and earlier turning foli* age which becomes a soft brown. More people include the Blue Ridge Parkway in their autumn foliage tours than any other National P,ark’facilities. It ran ges nearly 500 miles from the North Carolina entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains Park to the Skyline Drive through the Shenandoah National Park in . Virginia. About 25 miles of the j Parkway follows the- Yancey i County line. The highest Moun ■ | tains are accessible front the Parkway, including . Mitchell, t ‘ highest peak east of the Missis i' sippi; Grandfather, *with , its ! spectacular, Mile-High Swinging Bridge; T Blowing Rock. Craggy • and Roan.
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