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THE YANCEY RECORp I Established July, ARNEY and TRENA FOX CO-PUBLISHERS & EDITORS MISS HOPE BAILEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR > T. i. BROWN SHOP MANAGER Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY 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 S By Margaret B .Laughrnn The closing of school always brings mixed emotions which accompany any commencement festivities.- The good feeling of scholastic accomplishment, mixe'’. with the sadness of separation from teachers and classmates. As I re-live my school days,l am possessed with an urge to turn back as did the tenth leper in the Bible, to thank all the fine teachers who did so much for me. Thus it is time that I should thank my second teacher at ‘‘Old Academy Hill School,” Mrs. Belle Erwin, sister of Rev. John Young of Burnsville, and mother of Lucille Sledge of Brevard. Not only for myself, but for all the students she ever taught. Yancey County lost two except ional teachers when Mrs. Erwin and Lucille left us to live in Bre vard. I feel 'sure that Lucille is a great teacher too, for if there’s anything to the saying “like Mother like daughter/* she would have to| be! Mrs. Erwin may be called a pioneer in education for when -she grew up, even a high school educ ation was an exception in “these parts" for there was no high school, wear her - With an inherent desire for learning, “Miss Belle,” as she is affectionately known by her many 1 pupils, was not content with a grammar school education. She went to Greeneville, S. C. and stayed with a relative until she graduated from high school. It was not just | V jß® ** " * mS *4’ ■ x- : -\y-^a> .... &v Fn) V H j) , Xf j| • Jt fc%.t/ISEiSS *//i PEPSI COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, Inc. . SPRUCE PINE, N. C. sr:^-—- “midnight oil".she burned, for more often she studied and read all night, so eager was she to absorb all the learning available to her. Still not satisfied with her educ ation, she went to Greensboro College for Women and worked her entire way from the first day to her diploma. Perhaps that is why education.has always meant so much to Mrs. Erwin. She earned -tsbenefits. . _ As is usual when one becomes the possessor of something great, Mrs. Erwin immediately began sharing her knowledge. It was not so easy then to “get a school," for schools were scarce. However a minister who was also an 1 * eduentor, Rev. J. E. Harris established what he called “Mission Schools” during the summer and brought college girls to the moun tains for sort of “paid vacations*’ to teach short schools. Interested families in the community boarded the girls and they taught mostly for | the love of it. This is how “Miss i Belle’ began her teaching, and for years and years, she taught “one teacher schools” where she taught all classes ' from the first grade i through the seventh. She walked miles to her home and did the lousehold chores after her long day This was not just a means of livelihood to Miss Belle. It was her very life and she taught with joy in her work and with great creative skill. And she is still teaching in a i very real way not only by her in-* fluence to all around her, but many of her students caught a spark VIOUET RAYS ON I OUR WAYS BY H. M. ALLEY •• • • Note: This column is wrili-n lit malice toward none, Itnl milt . common good of all liihmtrri ** * * S*matterf Were many of the Burnsvillites away on early vaca tion during the two-weeks Clean lip” campaign? Esther there must have been some who were out of town, or out of sympathy with Mayor Reece Mclntosh’s “Clean- J Up” proclamation. In either case, it sure would help if all the stra gglers would" fall in and “Brighten the Corner," just where they are. • * *, • 1 After all, the quickest, best way to clean up and beautify a toWn is 1 for every resident to begin right around his own doors. Then let All 1 public spirited ” citizens, having swept off their own doorsteps, con verge upon public spots that have collected too much debris and re fuse. Os course we are talking about eing up the physical and nat surroundings of our homes, to go about cleaning up and , fumigating other spots ip our town ( and county, such as f the rash and I trash df dirty political tactics that break forth on occasion, -well your , guess would be as good as mine. I But all must surely see that these I things can mar and befoul the . beauty and purity of a- town and ! county’s atmosphere far more than , the weeds, tin cans, bottles and candy wrappers that sometimes make a mess about our doors. *• * # And while we are on the “Clean- Up*’ subject, -whose place is it to clean-up or CLEAN-OUT offices from the torch she held and there will be no end to the light that passes from one to another, right on through time. | Books have always been Mrs. Erwin’s best friends and even now she is ever surrounded by a host of them. It is hardly possible to mention a subject with which she ft unfamiliar, and her highly deve loped mind is as keen now as it was in her twenties. The wonderful thing about the mind is that the more knowledge put Into 'it, the more it can hold. And Miss Belle has certainly kept her mental store -1 house well stocked! Knowing her background,, pro fession and interests, it is no sur-J prise to find Mrs. Erwin possessed of two of the noblest qualities a person can have. First she loves people of all sorts and ages. She gets along eq *ally well with a todder, a teen-ager or people of her own age. She loves people, not for what she can get from them, but rather for what she can give to them. (A quality not too easily found.) And she has so much to give. Secondly, she possesses great tolerance. Even though her stand ards are so high, if any one fails to live up to them, she is understand- : Ing and slow to blame. After such a lifetime of enlightenment and en lightening, how could she be other- j wise? Years after she taught me in < school she influenced me greatly : by her faithfulness in church work. ’ No matter what the church func tion, Mrs Erwin was there, ever pleasant in mood, ever ready to converse on any subject, ever ready to share her light with any one who would take it, —always bringing out the best in everyone because of the challenge of her own mind. < “To get wisdom is better than gold; Understanding is to be chosen rather than silver." “The lips of the wise spread know ledge.” Official Democratic Returns For County Officers • | , a „ i ’ ~ - oCrt . § 'C <o£?» 0 ►> TOWNSHIPS . | I- 5 .... ■ ■ « I 8 b - f f ”§ 8 -a § ‘S s | a i 2 I 1 I I | 5 I 1 f T~ ‘f I # » g « I * « * q- a co Oh " | ■ * i i 2 ! t - River 606 74 541 il2 429 130 73 456 433 76 96* 5T 548 Jig plF‘~'%q', *" ” Egypt 100 244 116 173 74 103 89 196 HO M 4 141 186 180 im K “ 109 Haxnseytown " * 144 W 143 ' 34 125 14 38 12 » 2 137 48 »35 27 -25 124 3 79 100 Kamseytown i M 62 97 40 ““ 4/ -25 124 36 27 30 35 Green Mountain . 112 15 118 33 67 55 ftft io »« Jacks Creek 184 “ 180 30 124 19 13 58 -*124 01 24 28 136 un no 32 36 46 Brush Creek 240 45 212 61 164 66 39 168 1« 33 70 50 218 im «! “ * 13 14 larusn creek i.,, 135 6 08 40 103 10 17 78 92 27 is io 148 29 29 33 South'Toe - 396 1W 188 820 372 28 124 327 229 29 94 112 265 l£ 2 “ * 50 19 • “ “ “ “ 54 23 2,8 « « » » .« £ S 2 2 "if «• SfafigL 1)2 • 128 12 02 !, * 2 2 2 2 “ 2 23 7 a » ” TOU " m iil ' M m 1W w „ m Z a '£ THE YANCEY RECORD PROFFTIT ELECTED TO HIGHEST OFFICE IN PRESBYTERIAN CtftfcCH By Bev. lAatren & BeeVe Mr. David Proffitt, whose home is in Maryville, Tenn., but whose j family roots are in. Yancey Co., has been elevated to the highest office in the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Only rarely is a layman sol ' j honored as to be elected to the] I moderatorship of the Presbyterian I Assembly. Although Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, pastor of'the church to which President Eisenhower be longs, also was presented as a candidate, the Assembly chose to elect Mr. Proffitt to its moderator ship. FoY two reasons, this year’s General Assembly has special signi- 3 ficance. This is the 250th anniver sary of the founding of the first presbytery on this continent. In the year 1706, one of that band of intrepid Scotch Irish preachers, the Rev. Francis Makemie, assembled A little group of Presbyterian div ines in Philadelphia and initiated under God a duly ordered Presby terian polity in this country. From this first presbytery, there grew the two great denominations, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. with its two and three-quarter million communicant members, and the‘Presbyterian Church U. S, A. \yith its almost one million commu nicants. A third church, the'United | Presbyterian, somewhat smaller than either of these two, will vote at its forthcoming assembly on the question of merging with the Pres byterian Church U. S. A. Under Mr. Proffitt’s moderator ship, the General Assembly of the latter voted last week that the two denominations will become one in that are shamed and reproached by incompetent men, whose per sonal habits and public conduct should make decent and law abiding people blush with embarass ment, to say the lfeast. Mark you, j we are not calling names. Neither are we directing this particular Violet Ray at any one man. Please note again that we use the plural word: MEN. •* * * Inquiring recently how a certain fellow, -starting from scratch, had made enough money in a very short while to move to a larger town and go into business in a bigger way, we were told that he did it by "boot-legging". That re minded us of the day when we followed this certain fellow, on a certain highway, for about three miles, during which he emptied and | threw out of his window 3 beer cans, Os course all of you readers would like to know, -"WHO, WHEN, and WHERE. Well, we might say that it was a certain guy from Constantinople, on some Wed nesday last summer, and on the outskirts of New York. But, as you realize, that answer would be WRONG. It is said that about 73% of American citizens are car owners, and that 14% of that number have more than one car! All of which makes It wiser and safer for the rest of us to spend more time at home. t »• * At least one thing can be said in favor of the cold, damp weather of early June, -there have been no dust storms. Which must also be a year-around advantage of living near the North Pole. • • is The U. S. Labor Department has undertaken an extensive research project to determine the causes of m-employment and to correct them. We would like to Suggest that LAZINESS is one of the main causes; and could be cured in many cases by giving a man his choice of a stiff sentence at hard labor on the roads, or going to work at whatever honest occupation might be available. ‘Nuff Sed. MISS HUTCHINSON >8 ART BOUGHT BY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS V Miss Jane Campbell Hutchinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Hutchinson of District Heights, Md., and formerly of Burnsville, has been accorded the honor of having her etching and aquatint, “Street at Night”, purchased for the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. From the 1,175 submitted from Oberlin College, where Miss Hutch inson is doing graduate 'work, her print was chosen to be one of the 200 for the 14th National Exhibi tion at the library. The Washington Post “Gallery Notes” reports that it was also cited by the jury for its quality of “luminosity and technical excell ence.” Mr. Hutchinson, former art in structor in the Burnsville schools, is now a photogrammetric engineer in the Navy’s Hydrographic Office at Suitlahd, Md. Mrs. Hutchinson is the former Miss Leone Warrick and is a piano teacher and organist in her church in District Heights. Miss Hutchinson is a grand daughter of Mrs. Minnie Warrick of Burnsville RFQ 1, formerly of Green Mountain, ‘ and the late Charles Warrick. , * The Hutchinson family plans to go to Oberlin to bring their daugh ter home for a brief visit before she embarks for a three month’s tour of Europe. She has been chosen to make this tour with a group from Oberlin sailing from Quebec late In June, . p union to be consummated in 1958, if the United Presbyterians also approve, and it seems very probable that they will. SUBSCRIBE TO THE RECORD 1 the safest tire ;; , ever built! > We have it! New Safety Age U.S. Royal Master— , (he only tire with a flexible steef Scfety Oov.nTßTiLy.-' that makes tread BLOWOUT-PROOF! . AMAZING TESTS PROVE IT!" I **» "«"••'> -I U.S. *9,0! p^.-> 0 ewe Irntmtrf, CoW, new safety age U. S. Royal Master' * _ THE, SAFEST TIRE EVER BUILT -i; - ■ ■ --5. HH DRIVE IN FOR TRIAL R?DE...KING SHE ALLOWANCE...EASY TERMS IB' " Royal Tire Service ‘njsjjjjyfifi phone 135 BURNSVILLE, N. 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