BUY EASTER SEALS VOLUME TWENTY Communities Continue . Work For Phone Service The Community Development Clubs of Jacks Creek, Brush Creek and Green Mountain are making an all—out effort to secure tele phone service for their commun ities and other rural communities in the county, according to John' Randolph of the Brush Creek Club. Representatives from these comm unities and other communities in the county have met with officials of the Western Carolina Telephone Company to discuss means of sec uring service in rural areas, Ran- Typhoid Cases Reported In Bald Creek Section Two cases of typhoid fever have been reported in the Bald Creek area by the Health Department this week. Since the cases were diagnosed, 207 children have been inoculated for typhoid in the Bald Creek School, and 126 have re ceived inoculations at the Dis trict Health office in Burnsville. Dr. C. F. Mcßae, district health officer, said that it is always ad visable to take the inoculation be fore hot weather. Burnsville School Orchestra To Flay Over WTOE The Burnsville Elementary School Orchestra, directed by Mrs. H. K. Helmle, will present a short program on the Children’s Rtour over*WTOE, Spruce Pine, at 9:00 Members of the string section of the orchestra are Carolyn Ray, Marietta Atkins, Janet Gornto, Martha Bradshaw, Robert Allen, Charles Adair and Mrs. R. K. ! Helmle. The wood-wind players are Nancy Higgins,. Judy Ramsey, Susan Hall and Selden Gladden. Members of the brass section are Jimmy Lewis, Rafe Arrowood, Mickey Sholes, Charles Randolph, Donald Anglin, Barrow Carter and Bobby Angel. The drums and other percussion instruments are played by Ronnie Bailey and Garry Honeycutt. The orchestra will be accom panied on the piano bj*>Mrs- War ren S. Reeve. . \ f Mrs. LeFevre Passes Away In Nursing , Home The Intelligencer-Journal o f Lancaster, Pennsylvania, carried the following notice in its issue of March 21st, 1956. Mrs. Rose D. LeFevre, 82, wife of John S. LeFevre, formerly of Burnsville, N. C., died at 2:45 p. m., March 20, at the Fairview Manor Nursing Home, Columbia, > after a long illness. She was a guest at the home for eight months and prior to that time resided with a nephew and : niece, Mr. and Mrs. Earle R. Le- Fevre, 140 S. Queen St. She was a daughter of the late Charles and Ellen Gillette Day and her late husband was a miss ionary in Burnsville ' before his death. She was an active member of the Burnsville Presbyterian Church and was instrumental in the organization of the Burns ville library. Surviving are a brother and tw < Leads In State’s r 7-1 Conviction ] Raleigh The Motor Vehicles t Department reported today the ’ convictions of 1,453 motorists for drunken driving in February and the subsequent revocation of their legal driving privileges. - Speeders were close on the heels of the tipsy drivers, the agency said. Also deprived of r their driv er’s license during February were 1,289 speeders—most of them in the over 70 mph bracket. Speeding an auto over 70 is a mandatory revocation offense, the department noted. Other offenses reported for the month included reckless driving (two counts) 180; driving after li cense revoked or suspended '113; transporting Intoxicants 49; and larceny of automobile 20. In all there were 1,688 licenses suspended and 1,601 revoked, the department said. Mrs. J. G. Low returned last week from a three months visit with her sons in New York and Wil mington, N. C., and with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shorter in Milledge vllle, Ga. Mrs. Low also took a cruise from Miami, Fla. to Nassau |in the Bahama Islands. 67 Donate Blood At Micaville Bloodmobile operations were conducted at the Micaville High School,' Thursday, March 22, to secure whole blood to be used by Yancey County citizens and Vet erans Hospitals. This operation was sponsored by members of the Micaville PTA. . Shelby Robinson, principal of Micaville High School, and Mrs. Jack Young, PTA president, # re cruited volunteer workers and pro vided refreshments. Sixty-seven volunteers reported for donations and fifty-nine were accepted. Dr. Melvin Webb and Mrs. Luella Honeycutt, RN, volun teered their services for the ex amination of blood donors, and Mrs. J. J. Nowicki, chief of volun teer workers, was in charge of assignments. Mrs. Arthelia Brooks and E. L. Dillingham became members of the “gallon club”, making a total of 45 Yancey Cojtygty people who now belong to club. The 45 members have ddWated more than 500 pints of blood, with Dr. Cam eron F. Mcßae having donlted a total of 31 pints. (Continued on page two) Parkway To Open April 15th Sections of'the Blue Ridge Park way that have been closed for the winter will be opened April 15, according to an announcement of acting superintendent, Howard B. I Stricklin. He states that the Park Service Rangers are preparing for the largest season the highway has ever had. Last year more than 4,500,000 visitors drove over the Parkway. During February 155,084 persons' in 23,*2 cars traveled the Park way. This number is eighteen per-' cent greater than that of Febru- j ary, 1954. The second week of April will see the wild flower season get un der way along the Parkway and in all Western North Carolina. The many attractive spring-blooming ground flowers will make a show spread on the forest floor during this period. Some of the well known flowers to show during this period are wild geranium, Columbine, Dutchmen’s Breeches, larkspur" merry bells,~SncT blood-' root. Early blooming trees and shrubs attract attention. Among these are the hobble-bush, the shadblow, the flowering dogwood and the silver bejl tree which is in ance near Mt. Mitchell. During the first two weeks of May, the flame azalea will start a : colorful display at the lower ele vation. Mountain laurel will start blooming also during this period. < Pink azalea will be at its best ( during the first part of May, Ran- 1 gers predict. '< I ?wuLl9r / U. S. AID FOR ARGENTINE FOLIO EPIDEMIC The first shipment of boxes ofc Gama Globulin from the U. S. to fight against the Argentine polio epidemic are unloaded at the airport in Buenos Aires. Mass inoculation of 500,000 children has begun in an attempt to curb the worst polio epidemic in Argentine history. Welfare Commissioner - Speaks .To Men’s Club Dr. Ellen WiUbton, Commission er of Public Welfare, was guest speaker at the annual Ladies’ Night banquet held by the Burns ville Men’s Club here Monday night. In giving a history of welfare work in North Carolina, Dr. Win ston said 1868 saw the first such work in this state and in 1917 state legislation was passed for the basic organization as is now known. She pointed out that each of the hundred counties in North Carolina have a Welfare Board that is tied in with the state and federal aid programs. Local re sponsibility in this state is greater ■ than that of any othej; state in • welfare programs, she said. 1 There art three financial aid * programs in North Carolina, the ’ Commissioner said. „ There is the Old Age Assistance program which provides aid for persons 65 years of age, or older, who have lived in the state for at least one year, and need such as sistance. The average age for as sistance in this group is 75 years, the speaker said. And the number under the program stays relatively constant. In Yancey CSunty, according to Dr. Winston, from 425 to 450 per sons in this program are given as- 1 j sistance. The average monthly fi- Bailey Transferred To New York The Glen Rayen Silk Mills, Inc., . of this week that Jack F. Bailey has bee?" ap pointed to their sales force in the J New YoFk office; For the past three and a halt, years, Mr. Bailey has been associated with Glen Raven Mills in Burnsville and ov erseer of the preparation and throwing departments. ► Mr. Bailey, a graduate of Wash ington and Lee University, has been associated with the textile business approximately 24 years. He is originally from Chickasha, Oklahoma, but for a number of years before coming to Burns ville, he and his family resided in Elizabethton, Tenn., where he was associated with the American Bemberg Corp. • Mr. Bailey left Wednesday for New York, but Mrs. Bailey and the children plan “to remian in Burnsville until living accomoda tions can be•arranged for them in New York. * Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Bryson and Charles Brown visited their grand daughter, Patricia June, born to Mr. and Mrs. Hale T. Bryson on St. Patrick’s Day. BUY EASTER SEALS NUMBER TmBTY-OME nancial aid given to this group is $26,00, while the State average is $31.50. The second program is the Aid to Dependent Children. Approxi mately 400 children receive assist ance in this county, and the* aver age amount is $12.75, while tbs State average is $16.0(1. The third part of the welfare program mentioned was the aid to permanent and wholly righted persons. There are sixty such cas es in this county, with the aver age amount received being $27.00. The state average for the same as sistance is $37.00. Dr. Winston pointed out that each person certified 1 for assistan ce is covered by the hospitali zation program. Yancey County pays five per cent of the cost of the program, it was pointed out, while the average county in North Carolina pays twelve percent of the total wnt. Dr. Winston cited the low tax rate in Yancey County as causing the difference in county-cost per centage. Valley of The Moon Nursing Home at Celo was mentioned as one of the 280 nursing homes in the state licensed to care for the aged. Because of the service rendered in North Carolina, Dr. Winston said that juvenile delinquency was falling each year. She also point ed out that Yancey has a heavier load of cases for the amount of welfare workers than found in, most N. C. counties. R. K. Helmle, prograraTcKalT man, introduced the guest speak er. The "Rev. Warren ft Reeve gave the Invocation. , . Mrs. Wallis Speaks To Legion And Auxiliary V At a joint meeting of the Ameri can Legion and Auxiliary Tuesday evening, Mrs. E. S. Wallin* of Princeton, N. J. gave a Very inter esting and informative taller o n “The Signers of The Declaration of Independence” and shewed color slides of 38 of the 39 iaomes of the signers that are stl# in ' existence. Mrs. Wallis began her talifrjwith the signers from New Hamp shire and discussed other signers from various states on the i east coast, including North Carolina. She showed slides of the WHliami Hooper home in Hillsboro Which is the only home of the &. C. signers still in existence. In her talk, Mrs. Wallis pointed out the sacrifices and courage of— the signers. Most of them ‘ were men of wealth but,lost everything for the sake of the countryV- The signing of the Declaration of In dependence was a courageous act, she said, since it left the country without any formal law. * Mrs. Wallis was born in Vermont and educated at the' University of Vermont; and for several years, she was principal of Waitsfteld High School. For the past .'thirty years, she has resided in prince ton where her husband is a pro fessor of chemistry at Princeton University. Mr. and Mrs. Wallis have traveled in Germany, prance, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and England. During the summer of 1954, Mrs. Wallis accompanied her husband to Germany where he gave a series of lectures at the University of Bonn. For several years, Mrs. WFallis has made a study of the rngners of the Declaration of Independ ence and has Collected- greet deal of source material dp the subject. A great deal of ial has been gathered from six very rare volumes in a ejection at the Princeton UrtiVersltJr Lib rary. Mrs. Wallis was introduced by her sister, Mrs. W. A, T. of Burnsville. • - ;- 5 I '