■■■ ■ ■ ■ i ■■ m i >m,i ~ THE YANCEY RECORD * Established July, 1936 ARNEY and TRENA POX CO-PUBLISHERS & EDITORS MISS HOPE BAILEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR r. L. 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 By Margaret B Xaughrun With roses in full bloom and shedding their fragrance every where, there comes to many of us memories of the lovely rose garden of Dr. Charles W. Harris at Weaverville. In recalling his love of flowers, many other facets of his personality come back to con tinue teaching us after he is gone. He was a wonderful philosophy of life! He controlled his thinking. If situations got unpleasant, he simply • lifted himself by his “mental boot straps” into at realm above and away from the unpleasantness. He believed in a “God of Love” and theye was no place or time in his life for unhappiness of any sort. If 'one was troubled or anxious Dr. Harris, without any seeming lack of interest, simply 1 channelled the conversation and train of thought into a more pleasant and positive realm and caught one right up out of his- trouble, enabling him to share the peace he knew. He appreciated the least act of kindness and ignored anything un kind. He simply was not there if there was anything unkind. A re markable quality this, and most certainly a requisite of a peace maker; for it would be totally im possible to repeat an ugly story if one was not there to hear it! Dr. Harris enjoyed nature in all its aspects, and growing was one of his hobbies along with fishing with his friends. His home was a veritable flower garden and he wanted all his friends to share his roses from the first bud to the last petal. , Even though he lived alone for several years while Mrs. Harris was in a nursing home, I doubt that he was ever much lonely for he had a huge library of books - friends that kept him company when he was not working in his garden or thinking up one of his beautiful sermons which brought peace to the soul. No one enjoyed fun more than he and he was ever telling some joke • imm s - , GLAMOROUS, i / SURE- mmm f . t , /•; Y* tWVW \l > V VoUl f /,‘WI * S“TTS§BttHr ’ ■ ill w lMmy/| / '“'» I ■ \ » '.. ,yf\ '.,i. * - J ‘'■ "• ’ « , 1 " . • r' Turn Chevy out on the road to discover its real charm! For this is the beauty that recently raced 2,438 miles in 24 hours to set a new com petition track record! >i •AH CONDITIONING —TEMPERATURES MADE TO ORDER-AT NEW LOW COST. IET US DEMONSTRATE. v\: • i * f t ;»/ ‘ ' ROBERTS AUTO SALES, Inc. » PHONES *M *lO No. 1019 BUBNSVILLE, N. C. ■' I — ■ ■■ - on himself describing the predica ments he got into while trying out a new recipe some friend had 1 given him but he had neglected to write down. He claimed-to liave in- 1 vented some new sort of leather by his style of cooking certain meats. One can well imagine the fun he had watching his old, almost tooth less dog “Link” trying to eat some of his culinary mistakes. As Dr. Harris neared the close of his life and disease took its toll, he maintained his same calm gentle ness and his same great interest in Burnsville and its people he loved. Even the intense pain he suffered brought no bitterness nor resent ment to him as he committed both body and soul to that God of Love” he had believed in and tried to re veal to us all. I think the transition from the river of life into the ocean of eter nity must have been comparatively easy for him, so long had he lived with tranquil thoughts and love for God and man. Patience Strong, in her poem “MY CREED," must have had some one in mind when she wrote: I believe in homely ways; I believe < in quiet days; i believe in Joy that springs - out of spiritual things. ’ X believe in noble art—that which 1 purifies the heart. . . Books and songs and poetry; cul ture, grace and harmony. I believe the world is fair- though so full of grief and care. . . I believe in One above - and His everlasting love. I believe in Miracle; I believe the Beautiful; Breaking bud and leafing tree —life and immortality. I believe there is a Plan—for the destiny of Man. . . 1 believe a human clod— can become ' the child of God. SUBSCRIBE TO THE kECORD 1 It happened at the famed Darlington Raceway. A '56 Chevrolet, with 225 h.p., poured it on for 24 straight hours, averaging 101.58 miles per hour, to top oq 6 stock car record by 280 miles! Here’s proof of perform ance, stamina, stability and sureness of control that no other regular pro duction car on the road can equal! Stop by for a sample! VIOLET RAYS ON 1 OUR WAYS BY H. M, ALLEY •* # • Note: This column is writ I n ti 1 malice toward none, but u»ih « common good of all in unnJ Ever and anon conies the report that soffife new industry is about to ro-open the Duplan plant in our community. But when weeks go by without bringing a puff of smoke ut of the plant’s smokestack, or the sound of operating machinery, or | the sight of happy workers passing' new pay checks across the counters of our stores, one wonders if such 1 reports are but idle rumors without | any foundation of fact or promise. If so, the long range effect can be more depressing than if naught were ever said about it. ** * * The old Indian rain sign was: “Heap plenty clouds and water falling." Applying this logic to the above situation we might say that the best sign of renewed operations at the Duplan Plant will be smoke ascending, spindles whirling, shut tles flashing, and Shifts of workers passing in and out’of the gates dvery eight hours around the clock. Untit then, to repeat another old saying, “No news is good hews.”^~ InsteatFof trying to “sit it. out” until Duplan or. some other Corpor ation decides to re-open the plant in question, wouldn’t it be wiser if the town and county business men would seek and invite other types of industry to consider locating in our neck of the woods?-There are. many wonderful sites for industrial plants in different sections of Yan cey County. And if we hope to keep* our own people at home and to in-1 vite others to make their homes I within our borders, -it is imperative ' that every means be employed, and with ail possible haste, to secure ifferent types of dependable manu facturing enterprizes. ** * * When wc have more payroll in dustries, that will automatically give rise to more and bigger stores, 1 Keener competition, greater variety and better prices, mat in turn would keep tne merchants busy be hind their counters, instead of landing in the doors or peeping out the windows watching potential eustbmers and dollars drilting by enroute to larger markets. ** * * It has been suggested that we’ll never gel outside capital and in- ' ' -- - THE YANCEY RECORD DR. McRAE CONTRIBUTES .... DEVOTIONAL TO “UPPER ROOM Nashville, Tennessee—Dr. Cam eron P. Mcßae of Burnsville, North Carolina, is tjie author of the med itation printed below which* is being used" on Tuesday, July 24, by an estimated eleven million people around the world who are readers of The Upper Room. The Upper Room, a devotional guide under the editorship of Dr. J. Manning Potts, has a world cir culation of more than three million copies. It is published in 32 editions including 2T languages and Braille. Because of the wide readership and popularity of The Upper Room, iit is considered a high honor to have a meditation selected and pub- I lished in the world’s most widely .used devotional guide. i Read Acts 10:9-16. And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call common.” (Acts 10:15. RSV.) Early in Chapter 10 of the Acts of the Apostles, we see Peter as a l rtus try to come our way until we build bigger and better schools. That, too, can help. Only we must face this fact on the school front: BUILDING BIGGER SCHOOL BUILDINGS WILL NEVER GIVE US BETTER SCHOOLS UNTIL \ND UNLESS OUR SCHOOL SYS TEM CAN BE COMPLETELY DIVORCED FROM POLITICAL MEDDLING AND DICTATOR SHIP! ! ! *• t I Only the other day we heard by I way of the grapevine system about | a would-be political boss approach ing a certain school committee, a few hundred miles south of New York, and proposing that certain teachers should not be re-hired be cause they had not voted “right” in ' a preceding election. Other similar reports that stink just as badly are in circ.ul&tipn.. Whether they be true or false could not be verified with out a thorough investigation by the proper authorities. But the old adage still holds that, “where there is smoke, there’s bound to be some fire.” Uncle Josh says: “The rever-rant Samuel Goforth in one of his recent sermints lately Towed that con sidere up one side an down t’other, politicks hev done a heap more damage to the kentry than tater bugs and bean beetles combined. Moreover he sed also thet givln boys and girls a edication were a curse ‘sted of a blessin onless they’ uns teached ‘era, along with tber