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VOLUME NINETEEN
Contracts For Pensacola
School Building Awarded
The general construction bid
for the proposed Pensacola
school wis let to Clarence hfor
rison of Shelby. This bid, which
was the lowest of those submit*
ted beat the highest by ’-over
SIO,OOO. Morrison bid $57,350
with the stipulation that the
building be completed by Aug
ust 30. High bid for the s&me
work was $68,700.
The plumbing contract went
to the Hickory Plumbing Co.,
for $4150. Plumbing bids ran
close, the highest being $5,800.
The only local firm to win a
contract was the Burnsville
Electric Shop which won the
«lectrical work for $4,600. Like
•the plumbing, these bids ran
close. High bid in this field'
was $5,754. The heating con
tract went to the Gouge Plumb
ing Co. of Spruce Pine.
Bids were Qpened at eleven
o’clock on January 11 in the
Tipton Hill Takes
Two From BVille
Reporter, June Mclntosh
Tipton Hill won a double
header from Burnsville last
Friday night, Jan. 7th. The
girls won 51-34 and the boys
57-45. S. Whitson led the Tip
ton Hill girls with 19 points
and “Judy.’ Briggs led the Bur
nsville girls with 16 points.
For Tipton Hill, Slagle scored
23 points and Lloyd Hensley led
the Burnsville boys with 18
points.
Officials: Gaddy and Colag
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PVT. BJLJFa THOMAS
SERVING IN JAPAN
Marine Pvt. Billy G. ' T 'homas,
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Tho
mas of Green N. C.,
is serving in Japan withthe 9th
Marines, infantry regiment of
3rd Marine Division.
The 9th Marines completed
in December a month-long tra
ining exercise on the slopes of
snow-cappedv Fujiyama, Japan.s
extinct volcaW The regiment
has returned to its home base at
Camp Sakai, where beds and
barracks replace the sleeping
bags and tents of the Fuji
maneuver area.
Sakai is located in southern
Honshu, near Osaka_ second lar
gest city in- Japan.
FUNREAL SERVICES
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ELBERT CROWDER
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Funeral services for Elbert
Crowder, 77, Mars Hill, RFD 2,
were, held at 10 a. m. Friday in
Ivy Gap Baptist Church.
The Rev. Jay Blankenship
officiated and burial wad in the
Windy Gap Cemetery.
Survivors include the widow;
two sons, Fbtcher of Ansted,
W. Va., and Albun of Warwick,
Va.; and five grandchildren.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our thanks
and deep appreciation to our
many friends for the flowers
and sympathy shown us during
the death of our beloved father.
Family of B. C. Mclntosh
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to .express our thanks
and deepest appreciation to our
many friends for the flowers
and sympathy shown us during
the recent illness and death ol
our husband and father,
Mrs. Miram A. Hensley and
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SUB. RATES $2.00 YEAR.
Superintentendent of Schools :
office in Burnsville. The con- ,
tract calls for the construction
of a masonry building with ap
proximately 10,700 square feet !
of floor space. It will consist
of five classrooms, a multi
purpose room, and a kitchen.
Plans were drawn by Six Asso
ciates, Inc., an architects and
engineers firm in Asheville.
Jacks Creek Holds
Community Meeting
Jacks Creek Community Club
met Monday night January 10,
at the Clearmont High School.
William Bledsoe, assistant cou
,; nty agent, attended the meeting.
After the regular business had
been discussed, Mrs. Willard
Honeycutt, president appointed
a nominating committee for the
coming election in March.
The February meeting will be
under the supervision of Mr.
Bledsoe, who will plan a pro
gram for the young people of
the Jacks Creek Community.
Wilson Appointed
To Apple Growers
Committee"
C. D. Wilson of Pensacola
was appointed to the member
ship committee of the North
Carolina Apple Growers Asso
ciation at a meeting of the or
ganization Jan. 6 and 7 at the
George Vanderbilt Hotel in
Asheville.
Other persons for Yancey
county attending the meeting
were County Agent E. L.
Dillingham and Oliver McMa
han of Vixen. ... -
Other apple growers in this
area wishing ter join the asso
ciation should get in contact
with Mr. Wilson who will issue
a membership card upon re
ceipt of the $5.00 membership
fee. .
“The association is doing a
great deal of good for the apple
growers of the state and needs
the support of ail apple grow
ers. It is important for local
growers to belong because it
gives them a vote in all the im
portant activities of the or
ganization. It will .ajso help the
merchants and consumers by
providing- them with apples
grown in our state, graded and
packed by the most modern met
hods, thus retaining the delicious
flavor which is growp into
them,” stated Mr. Wilson.
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- NEGRO STAR TRIUMPHS AT MET—Marian. Anderson,
the first Negrro to sings o lead role with the Metropolitan Opra, is
congratulated by Rudolph Bing, Zompany general manager,
after making her debut as the sorceress m Ulrica, in a revival
of Verdi’s “Masked Ball”, Miss Anderson won a wild ovation
from a packed house for her performance. _ v
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The Yancey Record
Phillip J. Howell
Appointed Assistant
FHA Supervisor
Phillip J. Howell of Green
Mountain has been “appointed
to succeed. David S. Cook as. as
sistant county supervisor of
Farmers Home Administration,
according to Mack B. Ray, cou
nty supervisor. Mr. Howell
started January 11 in the posi
tion vacated by Cook, who re
signed to accept a position with
the National Farm Loan Asso
ciation in Winston-Salem.
Howell was born in 1928 at
Green Mountain. He attended
Clearmont High School and
East Tennessee State College
in Johnson City. In 1943 he was
drafted and served in the arm
ed forces for 34 months. He
served in five major engage
ments in the European theatre.
After being discharged in
1945, he worked in Yancey
County as assistant instructor
in the Veterans Farm Training
program, working with R. M.
Proffitt. Then he started farm
ing near Green Mountain until
he accepted a teaching post in
the Clearmont School, fie ser
ved in this capacity until Jan. 7.
Executive Meeting Os
Garden Club Held
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Officers of the Garden Club
held an executive meeting Mon
day evening at the home of
Mrs. Grady Bailey. The follow
ing committees were appointed:
Ways and Means: Mrs, John
Watson, chairman, Mrs. C. M.
Shotts_ Mrs. Troy Ray, Mrs.
Dawson Briggs and Mrs. R. Y.
.Titaoa; jtr; i tii
Civic committee: Jlr»7Creorge
Robinson, chairman, Mrs. D. B.
Fouts, Mrs. Fred Proffitt, Mrs.
John Robinson and Mrs, W. L.
Bennett; Program committee:
Mrs W. A. Y. Sargent chair
man, Mrs. Brooks Wilson, Mrs.
Charles Proffitt, Mrs. Wayne ■
Ray and Mrs. E. B. Powell
The, committees are asked to
have their reports ready at the
next meeting of the Garden
Club, which will be a dinner
meeting on the 28th of January.
New Patrolman
Assumes Duty
Better keep your eye in tha*
rear view mirror a little mqre
from now on. Yancey County
now has two State Highway
Patrolmen. Joe Hollar, origi
nally from Hickory went on
duty in the county December
28. He has been with the de
partment for a year already as
radio operator in Asheville.
“DEDICATED TQ THE PgfpiftESS OF YANCEY COUNTY”
BURNSVILLE, N. C WJRSDAY, JANUARY IS, V
ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC
SCHEDULED
The montHlyfOrthopedic Clinic
will be held Wednesday, Janu
ary 19 in office of the
Spruce Pine Health Department.
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Farmers Urged To
Record Purebred Sires
The, ..Bette? Sires Contest
sponsored by the Agricultural
Extension Service of North
Carolina Stiff College will con
tinue in 1955, announces Coun
ty Agent E. L, Dillingham. .
The applies to the
number of purebred registered
sires (beef Mills, boars and
rams) in proportion to the to
tal livestock* population of each
county entering the contest.
This means a county with
a low livestock population will
have more points per sire than
a county with 'a high livestock
population so that competition
can be fair.' ’ /.
One extension worker and
one teacher of vocational agri
culture in tha. county receiving
the highest of points
will be awarded;'® free trip to
the International Livestock
Show in Chicago. The commit
tee in charge, of the contest
consists of Van. Holsapple, Jim
Graham, and animal Hubbandry
Extension Specialists.
Credit will be given in the
contest for g|i|9 reported from
last NovemtNlfP 1 until next
October 1. Registration num
bers of sire and dam of sire re
ported will be accepted. The
reports are to be made on stand
ard report forms by the Exten
sion Agents. District winners
1 county agratsiirneeplng trick
of purebred sires, the Animal
Husbandry Extension office
. will mail the agents a list of
farmers purchasing purebred
■ sires in each purebred sale.
The Extension service re
-1 ports that last year was oiie of
the best so far in the purebred
sire project, and looks forward
to a good contest this year.
Five Cars Damaged
In Accident
Two forest service pickup
trucks, a jeep and a Ford Sedan
were struck by a 1950 Ford
driven by Jack Allen, 37, of
► Burnsvilie at about two o’clock
Wednesday morning. About five
minutes after the accident,
Sheriff J. Frank Randolph, ar
rested Allen who is now out on
: bond.
According to Sheriff Ran
dolph, Alien drove up the hill on
the east of Burnsville, turned
the wrong way around the
square and sideswiped the, Ford
which was parked in front of
the Nu-Wray Inn. After hitting
the Ford he skidded 71 feet
and hit a jeep owned by the
Department of agriculture and
by the forest service. The
jeep was thrown against a
pickup which was pushed ag
ainst a second pickup truck.
Both pickups are forest service
trucks. Sheriff Randolph said
considerable damage was done
to all the-vehicles.
Clearmont And Bee
Log Split Games
Reporter , Gerald Murdock
Clearmont and Bee Log took
one game apiece Tuesday night
at .Clearmont. Clearmont girls
won|out over Bee Log girls with
a score of 61-53. Young led the
Cleajrmont girls with 32 points
and Wilson scored 34 for Bee
Log.
Bee Log boys defeated Clear
mont boys ending up with a
score of 84-89. Fisljer was high
scorer for Bee Log with 16 and
Ray led Clearmont with 18. 7"
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DR. SAM SHEPPARD’S
MOTHER KILLS HERSELF—
Mrs. Edythe Sheppard, mother
of convicted wife slayer,. Dr.
Samuel H. Sheppard, shot her
self to death in a locked bedroom
Her body teas found sprawled
fully clothed across a bed by.
another son, Dr. Stephen Shep
pard with whom she had been
staying. A penciled note lay
nearby. It said: “Dear Steve: I
canH manage alone without
father, er ”. Mrs. Shep
pard’s husband has been in Bay
View hospital for several weeks.
‘Gone With the Wind’
Returns On
Wide Screen
Everyone who has seen David
O. Selznick’s production of
“Gone With the Wind,” consid
ered the most thrilling motion
picture ever made, and those
.who have never seen it before,
jail want to view the wide,
: screen presentation of this epic
; dramk, opening Sunday at the
I Yancey Theatre for four days.
> Here are some facts and fig
ures ' about this celebrated mo
l tion picture, a production in
Technicolor, which has won
- virtually every award ever pre
f sented fdr film artistry, includ
l ing 10 Academy Awards.
David 0. Selznick bought the
motion picture rights of Mar
garet Mitchell’s novel, “Gone
With the Wind,” on July 30,
1936, for $50,000, the highest
price ’ever paid for a first novel
up to that time.
The title is a quotation from
Ernest Dowson’s poem about
Cynara.
The book, which consists of
1037 pages, had surpassed fifty
thousand copies on the first day
of sale, shattering all existing
fiction records. It has now been
translated into 16 foreign lan
guages and has sold more than
twp million copies.
Seven Technicolor cameras
were used to film the fires of
Atlanta in duplicate of the ac
tual scenes of more than seven
ty-five years ago. Flames 500-
feet high leaped from a set that
covered 40 acres. Three 5000-
gallon water tanks were used to'
quench the flames after the
shooting.
Royal Tire Service
AiinouUce New Tread
_ The Royal Tire Service of
Burnsville has added a new
tread mold to its recapping
equipment. The new mold is
for a high-traction snow and
mud tread.
A new tread is designed for
maximum traction with the ad
ded advantage of being a silent
tire. In addition to eliminating
the noise that’s typical of the
hub-type mud tire, the new tire
pattern is designed for longer
life by having a greater road
contact surface. Not only is the
tread a fulT inch wider but it
has a greater gripping area per
square inch of surface.
Dr. William Gladden will >be
out of town Monday and Tues
day, January rs and 18.
Bloodmobile To Visit
Yancey County Jan. 26
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The Yancey County Blood ■
Mobile visited the State Prison i
Camp on Saturday 9. 48 pints
of blood were donated by the
inmates and prison guards.
West Burnsville Baptist Chur
ch furnished volunteers and
served refreshments. Those par
ticipating were. Rev. Eules Ad
kins, Mrs. Lloyd Elliott, Mrs.
Caa-l Penland, Mrs. Pansy An
gel Mrs. Donald Southers, Mis
ses Wanda Adkins, Nancy
Hospital Reports
Three Births
,’WThree .births and seventeen -
other admissions were reported
by the Yancey Hospital for the
week. ■. "
The births were a son, James
Gordon, born January 5 to Mr.
and Mrs. Arnold Robinson of
Burnsville; a daughter, Sharon
Elizabeth, born January 7, to
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Blankenship
of Burnsville; and a son, Larry
Dean, born January 10 to Mt.
and Mrs. Gold Bolick of Rt. 2.
The o|her admissions include
Mrs. Mable Henson, Jack Grif
fith, Miss Wanda Greene, and
Oscar Fender, all of BurnsvilFe;
Louise Honeycutt, Garry Hon
eycutt, Miss Helen Proffitt,,
and Mrs. Irene Styles, all of
Rt. 1. William Ingram of Baker
sville; Arnold Penland of Paint
Gap; Mrs. Jewel Byrd of Rt. 2;
| V Baby David Hopson of Spruce
5 Pine; Hoover Johnson of R*m
saytown; Mr*. Dorothy Banks
of Star Rt.; Paul Haney of
Hamrick; Mrs. Kate Huskins
of Green Mountain; and Mrs.
1 Bruce Rylemon of Bald Creek.
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l FASTER LOAN SERVICE ONE
, OF F. H. A. DEVELOPMENTS
Building improvement loans
end faster service in getting
loans approved and processed
are some of the new develop-'
ments in the farm ownership
loan program carried on by the
Farmers Home Administration,
Mack B. Ray, the agency’s cou
nty supervisor serving Yancey
county, said this week. Insured
funds advanced by banks and
other private lenders are being
used to a greater extent.
The building improvement i
loan, made available only re
cently, is for the farmer who
ha 3 an adequate farm but needs
to construct or repair essential
buildings. Loans can be made
to build or remodel farm dwell
ings, barns, milk houses, or
other outbuildings needed to
carry out sound farm manage
' ment practices.
The agency supplements rath
er than competes with private
or cooperative credit. No farm
ownership loan of any type, or
loans for soil conservation or
farm operations can be mad? to
Pvt J. B. Tipton
In Alaska
71st Div., Alaska—Pvt. J. B.
Tipton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jake Tipton, Green Mountain,
N. C., is serving in Alaska with
the 71st Infantry Division’s
4th Regiment at Ladd Air
Force Base. .
The 71st Division, deactivated
in' 1946, was recently reactivat
ed and assigned £o Alaska, al
though certain units of the di
vision are located in the con
tinental U. S.
Private Tipton entered the
Army in June 1964 and com
i pleted basic training at Camp
■ Gordon, Ga. He was last station-.
ed at Port Jackson, S. C
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NUMBER TWENTY
Cooper, Nancy Browh, Beatrice
Randolph, Vera Angel. Nurse
services were volunteered by
Mrs. J. J. Nowicki and Mrs.
Willard" Honeycutt.
The next visit of the Blood
Mobile to Burnsville will be on
Wednesday, January 26. Opera
tions will be set up in the Diip
lan Plant. The quota for this
third visit of this fiscal year is
125 pints of blood. J. J, Nowicki,
Blood Program chainqan, re
quests volunteers to recruit
blood donors and help make this
operation a success. Prospective
blood donors are reminded to
bring your personal Credit cards
so proper record-may be made
on these cards.
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Ezra H. Franklin
Gets Army Discharge
Pfc. Ezra H. Franklin, bus- *=*
band of Mrg. Hazel Franfclin
of Cane River, N. C., was dis- -
charged from the U S Army at
the Transfer Point, Special ,
Troops Command, Fort Benn
ing Georgia, on Dec. 3, 1954.
While at Fort Benning, Pfc.
Franklin was assigned. to Ser
vice Co., 136th Inf. Regt. as a
truck driver.
P T A Meeting
Scheduled Jan. 18
A regular- meeting" of the
Burnsville PTA will be held
i Tuesday, January 18 at the high
• school lunch room at 7:30, The
i president, Iliff Clevenger re
' j minded members that this is
| the first meeting of the year
, and much important business
' is expected to be discussed.
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farmers who are able to get the
necessary credit from other len
ders at reasonable rates and
1 terms.
Other types of farm owner
ship loans include: (1) farm
purchase, for renters, share
croppers, or farm laborers —
usually veterans or other young
farm families —who are ready
for farm ownership; (2) farm
development loan** for farmers
w&e6e farms need, for example,
(such land developments as pas
ture, improvement, gully filling,
reorganization of fields and
fencing, and some repair or re
modeling of farm buildings;
and '(8) farm enlargement loans
for those who need more acres
to make their farms efficient.
As a means of speeding up
services to farm families and
cutting costs at Wmq,.
appraisers who are qualified ds
county supervisors are located
in county offices throughout
the State. They are more acces
sible for appraisal work than
were the more limited number
who formerly were stationed in
the State office.
Farmers apply for loans at
the county Farmers Home Ad
ministration office, located at
Burnsville. Applications are re
ferred to the agency’s local
county committee, consisting of
Chappie T.‘ McOurry, Bee Log;,
Yates ,W. Randolph, Green
Mountain; and Earl C. Wilson,
Route 1, Burnsville. This 8-
member committee decides on
the applicant’s eligibility for
the loan. Veterans with farm—,
ing experience have preference.
In determining eligibility the
committee considers character,
ability, and whether the appli
cant and his family are likely
to succeed on the farm they
have in mind dr with the im
provements they intend to un
dertake.
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