THE YANCEY RECORD if]
July, 1936 njJU
ARNEY and TRENA FOX CO-PUBLISHERS & EDiTORS I |
MISS HOPE BAILEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR II
T. L..BROWN SHOP MAN AGEiT* ,||
Published Every Thursday By
YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY , U
A Partnership
Entered as second-class matter November 11th, 1936, at
the Post Office, Burnsville, North Carolina, under the act of
March 3, 1879.
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VIOLET RAYiS
ON 00 R WAYS
By H. M. Alley
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Note: This column is written
with malice toward none, but
with the common good of all in
mind.
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Just i - more days says the
calendar. Just 15 more days
say a hundred thousand adver
tisers. Just 15 more days-and
the tempo of searching, sel
ecting buyin, and wraping of
gifts rises like Rood waters
in a turgid stream-filling the
pockets of those who sell, and
emptying the pockets' of those
who buy. Just 15 more days
and the air of excitment and
expectancy mounts in. the
hearts and gleams front., hte
eyes of boys and girls the
world around, wherever the
age-old spirit and customs of
the Yuletide hold sway-. 'Just
15 more days, and the mails
are choked ' with x millions of
Greeting Cards and packages
going and coming north, south,
east, and west. JUST 15 MORE
DAYS!
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The average kid of three to
i lie avciagt rvivi v/x vu* vv i/v
five in this ultra smart age
age knows more about the real
identy of “Santa Claus” than
his grandsires did at nine to
twelve.
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To wit: We heard the other
SuggesTed TiTTop and Mom
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MAKE THIS A
WHITE CHRISTMAS
AND YOU WILL
STOVES - REFRIGERATORS
FREEZERS
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WESTERN AUTO, ASSOCIATE STORE
Lloyd Owens, Owner
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when they were trying to con
ceal a .bulging package: “Why
don’t you bring that out and
show it?”
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A mother inquired of the
Home Department editor of
a certain magazine where she I
might successfully hide a|
Christmas present from her
little w illie was told: “If your
little boy is like most, the old
family Bible would be the
safest place to hide his present!”
One wonders if that would
n’t hold just about as true for
the adults as for the Juniors.
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Little Johnny, wanting to
help his mother with the Pre-
Christmas house cleaning
caught up a large dust-covered
book lying on a corner shelf
and inquired what he should
do with it. “Oh,” exclaimed
she, “put i t back on the shelf,
that’s God’s book.” Whereupin
the child said: “If it’s God’s
Book I think we should send
it back to Him. No one in this
huse ever seems to use it.”
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Then there’s the one about
the visiting minister asking
the mother if she would hand
him her Bible that he might
read a passage before offering
prayer. Calling one of her
, • 1 til / 4 _ * --1 amm
small children from his play
the good woman said, “Sonny,
run in the ’bed room and bring
the preacher that dear old
Book that you’ve seen mother
read so much.” Obediantly the
little fellw went, and Teturnl
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CHEESE-CAKE . . . Julie Padul-
W (Swisi born) help* new Mi
ami Beach hotel publlciie open
tag "seated atop huge Swiss
ckeeae, which wUI he served up
aa cheeoocifce. . v *
~r_ ONLY VETERANS IN FARM 1
TRAINING UNDER THE KOREA Gl
BILL ARE ENTITLED TO AUTOMATIC
INCREASES IN THEIR VA ALLOWANCE
CHECKS. THE BOOST DOES NOT
APPLY TO ON-THE-JOB TRAINING
OR TO SCHOOL TRAINING UNDER
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Robuck’s Catalog!
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Uncle Josh says, “Back en
durin the war when everthing
was bein rationed, whether hit
were meat er gassylene, me an
ole Tom Turner ‘sided we’d go
un -»v 10 set TIIG
Christmas fixins. Not havin no
cyar we rid the bus what cames
through Cedar Crick, U. S. A.,
an landed n due ti.me. Come
dinner, we’uns went inter one
o them hi-folutin restyrants
an ordered hamburger steaks
an Irsh taters. Atter we’d et,
the waiter come by to leave t>e
price tag an says, sweet like,
to ole Tom, says she, ‘Mister, i
Ihope y'all found the steak all
right. An ole Tom ketchin the )
Holiday speerit, says, ‘Shore
honey. No truble a’tall. I jus )
moved a piece o’ tater, an
thar’s the steak as plain as
enything.* ” i
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Recent news item indicates
that the idolized modern im
personator of Davy Crocket
losing some of his appeal to
the thousands of hero worsh
iping American boys and girls.
Sky-rocketing sales of Davy
Crochet hats, T-tshirts 1 , toy
guns, etc., seem to have
reached the zenith and about
ready to decline. But even in
the Heyday of his glory, there
seemed to be fewer worshipers
at this Shrine than there were
to idolize the fictious Hoppy-
Long-Cassidy whom Davy Crd
cket supplanted, Os course Will
iam Boyd the creator of the I
modern version of Hoppy, is]
_said ao have had five living
wives, which doubtless won for
him the glamor appeal of thou
sands of gals from sweet six
teen to sad-sixty,
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One wonders who will next
be promoted by the imagiative j
commercial moguls to fire the
hero-worshiping instincts of 1
boys and girls. It is safe to say
that these money-mad creators
of idols could make additional
fortunes by resurrecting such
infamous characters as John
Diflinger or A1 Capone, and
bedecking them in the glamor
of modern advertizing bally
hoo. And of course there would
be-literally thousands of near
- sighted daddys and mamas who
weprid bedeck little juniors from
3*o J 5 years with the mas- 1
qferading togs of the under- |
wprld and think, “Oh, isn’t he
jost foo cute!’'
Bah! Ye ged} kindly indulge
us gullible modems, as we adopt
•very silly fad that comes Ij
along, and call ourselves a sup
er minded race . . , .‘Nuff Sed. jgj
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4k SCIENCE IN I
J® YOUR LIFE I-!
I’ll L
j Laboratory Earth
1 The ancient Greeks pictured' U.
earth as a flat disc floating , on tl
surface of a world otfean.
Today, almost any schoolboy c-r..
describe the earth’s true shaj &, it
dimensions and its maj' r land ur,
sea lnaoses. K
» can probably tfe
you somethin'.
AW mA i.bout the othc .
planets in oui
solar systerfi, tea
tyP| and about sfan'
\\VvAti •'1! / and galaxies.
\\*/// The naive co.v
jettorcs of anW.-.-
qjS} - uity have been dis
■v i T»IEj placed by a-body
of-precise knowl
edge drawn from centuries of sc:
entitle observation, experiment, anc
exploration. But much is still to be
learned about our physical world.
More than three million squart
! miles of Antarctica remain unex
| plored. The ocean depths still hob.
many mysteries. Weath r and cli
mate are not fully understood.
Scientists believe that many ol
the blank pages in our terrestrial
book of knowledge will fee 7 tilled din
ing the forthcoming Internationa
Geophysical Year.
Since the earth its.': Is tkelabo
ratory of the geophysicist, nature’,
l wt’tina must be
scale. *
Beginning in July, 1057, scientist;
of 39 countries will co-operate in a
simultaneous probe into the physical
nature of man’s environment. They
will join in an intensive-exploration
' or the Antarctic. A nc-twoi kof cV
servation sites will be establish -
all over the World.. liaekCi' wiii J
launched * explore heights '
250 miles: »■* •' •
From this mats’ of concerted,
serrations, scientists ei.ptct to
gather data to answer many of the
unsolved questions in our physical
universe. They also hope that the 1
Geophysical Year will provide a
common effort on which all nations
can agree. The planet Earth is,
after all, the one place that all
claim as_“home.”_y
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Examination! • •• - ~ -
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Ramsaytown Office
May Be Closed
Acording to a report from
Mrs. C. R. w illiams srho has
served as postmistress at Ram
seytown since May, 1937, a
statement has been released by
Regional Manager H. B. Dean
that tne post office at Ramsey
town may be discontinued.
Mrs. williams was thie as
sistant postmaster and clerk
for her husband, the late C. R.
Williams, for 20 yeai'3 before
she was commissioned post
mistress in 1937, after the
death of her husband.^
Mrs. Williams plans to retire
in case the Ramseytown post
office is discontinued. After
her retirment, she plans to vis
it her son, Coy Williams, of
South Plainfield, N. J-, and
also friends in Illinois and
Michigan. •
Special slippers were created
< ing ago (or Oriental potentates
vho refused to place their feel on
.'neomfortahle uncarpeted floors.
his footwear is known today as
■ e carpet slipper.
Skunks brought into close pro:;
unity to man at an early age rare
- ly exhibit belligerence later, ex
) | cep.t occasionally to strangers.
sitiona are located in Raleigh
with the 'Employment Security
Cqmzt4ty|tap,>. Stete Board of
Health, aha the State Board
of Public Welfare.
Exmirtaiions will be given
for the* 'following posotions:
aldressOgraph operators It!
>.nd I; graphotype operators;
il and I; duplicating machine:
operators 111, II and.. I; book-j
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(ESC); bookkeeping machine
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q—Ai « World War II veteran 1 have a SIO,OOO term Insurance policy
that is nearing the enjl of Its current term. I would like to convert
$3,000 to permanent insurance and drop the other $5,000. If, at a
later date, 1 wont to pick up the Insurance 1 drop, will 1 be able
to do so?
A—No. Under the law, once a World War II Gl term insurance policy
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pires when you allow it to pass the end of its term without renew
ing it tor another term, or converting it.
Q —Have there been proposals for flood eont-ol In the v - cw Flng'and
states, for Instance on the Mad, the Naugatuck, the liousatonic and
the Norwalk rivers? If so what happened to them?
A— Yes. there have been three complete programs advance by the
Corps of Army engineers for New England flood control. These pro
posals were made in 1936, in 1944 and in 1050, After the 195 d flood
the New England states negotiated an interstate compact cover
” ing the Connecticut basin, in which they agreed, to transfer tne
“lands for flood control reservoirs lo the federal government, but
the right to develop hydro-electric power to private compan s was
reserved to the states. Congress refused to go along. In 1944, the
Flood Control bill included a complete combination of flood control
and power projects, but New England members of the Congress
voted to strike it from the bill. In 1950 by direction of President
Truman a New York-New England Inter Agency committee was
- established to report on best use of natural resources for the area.
Until 1952. the committee favored both flood control and power
development multi-purpose programs. New Hampshire, however,
led a fight to -separate flood control and power development and
the plan ha? pot matured.
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