THE YANCEY RECORD Established July, 1936 LESSOR ABNEY POX EDITOR and PUBLISHER ERLING TONESS Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY V - A Partnership Entered as second-class matter November 11th, 1936, at the Post Office, Burnsville, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879. EDITORIAL COMMENT We hope that you read Rev. H. M. Alley’s column in this paper last week. He has a force ful style of writing in calling attention to local problems, and deserves much respect for ex pressing his views in as forth right a manner as he does. Too many people are afraid to stick their necks out in the slightest degree to express themselves on local issues. Yet we feel obliged to take issue with Brother Alley on cer tain points in his article of last week. He seemed to be more condemnatory of the second broadside that was sent out concerning the bond election than he was of the first. He de nounced the implied falsehood of the second, without mention ing the direct falsehoods of the first, such as “Yancey County VIOLET RAYS ONODR WAYS By H. M. Alleys •# # • Note: This column is written with malice toward none, but with the common good of all in mind. t* » * Among other things,—Life Down on the farm “ain’t what it uster be no more.” F o r inst ance all kinds of new machines and gadgets used in the fields, in the house and out in the barn, have steadily increased the out put per man, and also increas ed his earning power. Conse quently fewer men are needed on the farm. Fewer men on the farms naturally mean fewer women and children, and event ually fewer farm homes. True, we’ll continue t o produce enough feed and food for the masses who live in towns and cities, looking down their noses at the dwindling farm populat ion that provides their bread. DEYTON FARM SUPPLY Yancey County y CHECKERBOARD V NEWS XC*T: m I by . Os Deyton A comparison of the average milk production per cow for the same month of two successive years will often bring out some interesting figures. In Bruce Bailey’s herd, the average for August 1954 was 687 pounds. One year later in 1955 the aver age per cow was 854 pounds. • These records were made in the same month of two successive years of keeping records on the _ Purina Program and shows that nutrition has a long time effect on milk production. It is the results of proper condi tioning the cow and building' her reserves for long time production. NOW SELL ALL THE MILK AND GROW BETTER CALVES ' ( . More and more dairymen are i selling all of their milk and i raising better calves at lower 1 Deyton Farm Supply PHONE 189 ' BURNSVILLE, N. C. L i now has the highest rate of county in the State.” The Yancey Record had noth ing to do with either circular, and published no literature about the election except that which appeared on the pages of the Record itself. Nor do we approve of falsehoods, either direct or implied, even for a good cause; or of anonymous circulars for which no person or persons are permitting themsel ves to be held responsible. It is only when discussion is out in the open that error and false hood can really be pinned down. We feel that Brother Alley’s column would have been much more effective had he been as zealous in his condemnation of the first broadside as he was in taking the second one to task. i The ones whio remain on the farm, being well paid for their crops, better paid than in many long years, will barely take notice that a large percent of their produce goes to feed people who scorn country life and farming as things beneath their notice. #* * * Even so, it is sad to realize that all these machines and modern methods in farming and marketing, eventually means fewer„ ~neighbors out in the cou ntry, fewer bright-eyed boys and girls with rosy cheeks rom ping and playing over the mead ows and hillsides, and merrily splashing in the pure waters of the brooks and creeks. Alas! In most cases those waters are not so pure.any more! Upon reaching scjbp.ol age, modern farm boys and girls do not see too much of home any more, and, taken from their own into other communities for their ■ schooling, most of them soon lose their love for the old home neighborhood and rarely return to it beyond their school days. But few, comparatively speak ing, return to farming, and farm cost in the deal. Purina Nursing Chow and Cajf Startena make it easy and rewarding. Take calves off cows at 3 days and put them on Nursing Chow gruel. Costs only about half as much as milk. Feed for 30 days—2s lbs. per calf. Start self-feeding Calf Startena on fourth day and teach the calf to eat it. Keep block salt, water and Startena before calf at all times. On this program many dairymen are getting 310 Holstein calves 4 months. How do you compare ? HEALTH HINT Several days before cow is due to calve, clean and disinfect* calving stall and cow’s flanks and udders with Purina Disin fectant. Simply follow the dir ections on the bottle. Cows and calves are most susceptible to disease at this time. Precau tions pay off. living. And why should | they ? They really are not needed, as they once were. And many of the charms and tie 9 of country life, that onc.e held farm fam ilies, have been commercializ ed off the scene. *» * • We call it PROGRESS, and so it is. But where, in the Tong flowing advance of the years,"ls it leading us as a people and nation ? Will our rapid com mercial strides lead to perman ent stability, or in the long by and by will they turn down hill ■ toward financiaPcollapse ? Will the present and future depletion of farm populations, occasioned by machines taking the place of men, enhance and strengyien the bulwarks of American dem ■ ocracy, or will it add to the , moral and political decline of our people, and make them more susceptible to the insid ious influences of foreign isms 1 and ideoligies ? •ft # * * Uncle Josh says: “Me, I ain’t agin progress, becaze I’ve lam ed ye just about hafter go along, THREE PIECE BATH OUTFIT i ‘ i 5 ’ Recess Tv^ v Large Lavatory, Close Coupled Toilet, ■ Complete with All Brass sgß.oo THREE PIECE COLORED " . 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But all the same I [ sometimes hanker fer the ole - days an th« ola ways. Fsr in-' . stance, before our naybors . started buying these here new fangled contrapshuns like Frig gyaters an Deep Freezers, we , kept our milk-first rate in- a- ole : wooden' ice’ box*, an out iri the Smoke -House w< alius had .enuff home r canned'stuff, taters, an smoke pork to last us bount iful. But rite, off when the Lige Lanksters an the Bud Bunsons bought their Tectric ice boxes. [ Salley, my wife started fussing 1 ’bout our milk not being cold | enuff, a/i the butter didn’t smell • jist rite. Next she begin hinting 1 around how that frizzen foods , were a heap more handy to fix . fer comp’ny than t’other kind. E So, we’uns were ’bout the fust i to git a Deep Freezer ’stalled in . the kitchin. Next the ole black j coffee pot what had made gal lons of good stout coffee went out the dore, and in comes one t o these Tectric perkylaters. Then the ole washing board an battlin stick what uster be good t ... ...•*• enuff to rub an beat the dirt an sweat outen our clothes went in ter the trash pile, an in their place comes a passel of cop- ( traptions \hatTl do ’bout every thlfig ’eept darn a man’s socks arid sew buttons on* his shirt. “Also moreover hit weren’ti long, afpjrg .galley started fussin bout us bavin.-to Tide /in the ole -buggy, ..when our naybors were a stepprrn out m ther new auty, mobeeles. Waal, ye know how all a woman is when she gits her heart sot on havin what she wants. So, I sold ole Prince an the buggy an borryed the bal ance fer the down payment on a cyar, an I bin s’prized ever since how them things .save a body so much time in making necessary trips, thct he has plenty of time left to go to t’other places whar. he aint' got no bizness- atall, ’cept fer to see and be seen.. Waal, by ’n .bv eomes a fellar down to Cedar - Crick a sellin these here .T.ell-it-visions, a n when- he told us Jed Judson, an Tim Timmons an Sli Slander, an Ben Binder an a few others down the Crick had bought ’em, we had one put in our house whar the fireplace uster be. Ye see we don’t use the fireplace no more since Sally ’sisted we had to have a furnace like the Jim Jimisons, “All ; in all, I reckon- we’uns air getting Tong ’bout as well as the rest of the folks.' in these parts. ’Course the bank holds a mor’gage on our home, a n nigh about every week we haf ter make a stalling payment , on ' ~~ V 11 - —— r ' ’. ’ » SHOW! 'WstS sussh] • with BS bb mb hi eb§ h|k Bb IB - 1 n Hl^* €s © * u^fl jplenty of nl big: have a good supply S SAM BtiRLESCM ' ; ' NOTICE OF COMMISSION ER’S SALE In Tli* Superior Court NORTH CAROLINA YANCEY COUNTY THE TOWN OF BURNSVILLE, North Carolina, by its Mayor, ■ REECE McINTOSH, and Board of Commissioners* JAMES W. RAY and W. J. BANKS vs. JAMES B. YOUNG, and wife, ZORA MAE YOUNG, et al. Under and by virtue of ‘a Judgment of the Superior Court directing the undersigned Com missioner to make sale of the property to satisfy the Judg ment in this cause, the said Commissioner will, at 10:00 o’clock A. M., December 7th, 1955, at the Courthouse door in Burnsville, North Carolina, sell to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy the 4axes, interest and cost as provided for in said Judgment, those lots or parcels of land situate in the Town of Burnsville, Burnsville Township, County of Yancey, State of North Carolina and being de scribed as follows: FIRST TRACT: Being Lot No. 1 of the Alfred Bowditch somethen or other. But like I tells Sally, if -the bottom drops out of things we’uns won’t be the only ones to hit the cellin. An I figers if the worse do come we’ll still be in the same crowd we’ve beeh keepin up with all these years. A’body can nigh about stand anything, just so he don’t hafter face hit alone.”— ’Nuff Se.d. , * ...' 1 ’ ■ U, • i I THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10, 1955 L lands. BEGINNING on an iron stuke, the Southwest corner of her house lot, and. runs South 30 East 50 feet to an Iron stake; North 70 East 50 feet to an Oak stump; North. 73 East 115 fee* to a stake in Ed Bryant’s line; thence with Ed Bryant’s line, a South 87 West 105 feet to a stake; thence with Ed Bryant.’s line/ North. 34 feed to a s'hke; thence North 80 West 41 feet to a. stake, the Northeast .corner of the' house lot; thence with the house lot line South 13 East 50 feet to a stake; North 86 West With the house lot 50 feet to the BEGIN NING, containing 13 of an act*!, , SECOND TRACT: BEGIN NING on an 18 inch Oak stump and runs an East course about 50 feet l-.bove the Alfred Bow ditch spring/ and runs thence a West course about 50 feet to an iron peg, North- from Alfred Bowditch’s spring; thence a North direction about 50 feet to an iron peg; thence an East course about~~so feet to a Locust stake; thence about 50 feet to - the BEGINNING, containing a lot 50 feet by 50 feet and being the lot on which ELU Mae’s house is now located,. TOGETHER with a right of way to the Alfred Bowditch spring and the right to use wat -6r from said spring as is con veyed in Deed Book 82, page 491, Records