VOLUME TWENTY
Work Toward Surfacing j
Town Streets Underway
Burnsville is on the way toward
having more paved streets, ac
cording to a statement this week
from Mayor Reece Mclntosh. In
the statement concerning street
improvement that is now under
way, the Mayor named seven
streets that are on the list for im
mediate surfacing.
1 Longview Drive has been graded
to the extent necessary for an as
phalt surface. Academy Street will
be extended to the' cemetery.
Hospital Report
The Yancey Hospital reportes
no births and fourteen admissions
this week. The following were ad
mitted to the hospital during the
week: *
Ralph England, Route 1; Rob
ert L. Rhinehart, Nellie Styles,
Norris Deyton, Carl Riddle, Ruby
Edwards, Barbara Lovelace, Bur
nsville; Bessie Barnett, Route 2;
Ethel Phillips, Gwen Bailey, Rt. 1;
Betty Lee Dale, Rt. 2; Geneva
Melton, Pensacola; Gwendolyn
Shade, Plumtree; Willard Buchan
an, Green Mountain.
HOME DEMONSTRATION
CLUB SCHEDULE
The Yancey County Home De
monstration schedule for July was
announced this week by Miss Sue
Nottingham, home agent.
Jacks Creek No. 1 will meet
with Mrs. Burn Hunter on Friday,
July 20, at 7:30 p. m.
Newdale Club Will meet .wia*
Faye Boone an#Juanit* |Vifa<ffi
on Thursday, July 26, -at 7:SB p. m.
Brush Cree'k, Club will meqt
with Mrs. Claude Hughes on Wed
nesday, July 18, at 7:30 p. m.
Jacks' Creek Club No. 2 will
" meet with Grace Duncan for the
July meeting. The date will be
announced later.
Bald Creek Club will meet at
the Methodist Church on Tuesday,
July TL~at 8:00 p. m.
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MISS VIRGINIA HART ' j
Miss Virginia Hart, director of
Physical Education, Women’s Div
ision, at Mars Hill College, will in
struct classes in swimming at
Crestview Playground, just west
of Burnsville, for six weeks this
summer. Registration is being
held this week, and the classes
will begin next Monday, July 9.
Children between the ages of 8
and 16 will be eligible to register
for the classes.
Miss Hart was swimming in
structor and life-guard at Camp
Mt. Mitchell for Girls in Burns
ville for the past two summers,
and she has been director of the
Physical Education at Mars Hill
College for the past eleven years.
Miss Hart has had her Red Cross
Water Safety Instructors certifi
cate for a number of years.
Dover R. Fouts, who underwent
surgery last week at the Memorial
Mission Hospital In Asheville, is
expected to be released from the
hospital today.
Misses Ruth Hensley and Mad
lyn Bailey left Saturday for a
vacation in New York City.
The Yancey Record
SUB. RATES $2.00 YEAR.
Grading for the extension has been
completed.
Glendale Street, running from
Acaderpy to Swiss Ave., has also
been graded and will be surfaced.
Grading has also been completed
on Church Street, Bennett Street,
and an extension graded on Sun
set Drive.
Pavement of these streets will
begin soon, Mclntosh said. How
ever, a contract for paving has
not been let at this time.
Plans for surfacing additional
streets are under way, he said,
but he did not mention the other
streets being considered. The ex
tent of work which will be done
is determined by the funds, avail-,
able at this tim.e
Funds for paving and improve
ments of streets come from the
State as provided for in the Pow
ell Bill, which was adopted several
years ago by the General Assembly
The bill provides for amounts of
state money to be allotted to cities
and towns for street improvement,
repairs, upkeep and resurfacing.
The amount which a town or city
receives is based on the mileage
and popuation of the town or city.
Powell Bill funds "comes from
gasoline tax collected by the State.
Federal Gas Tax
Boost Effective
Last Sunday
Motorists of North Carolina were
reminded today that on Sunday, the
wem up
cne cent a gallon, as part of the sl3
billion increase in federal automo
tive taxes enacted by Congress this
"jteWLfor financing the 13-year fed
eral highway program.
S. Gilmer Sparger, Executive
Secretary of the North Carolina
Petroleum Industries Committee,
noted that this increase, added to
the present 2-cent federal tax and
the 7-cent state tax, will bring
total state and federal taxes on
gasoline in North Carolina to 10
cents a gallon. This, he said, is
equivalent to about a 47 per cent
sales tax on gasoline. ,
He said the 1-cent federal in- J
crease, expected to yield more than
half a billion dollars a year nation
ally, will bring to about $35
million the amount of federal gas
tax collected annually in North
Carolina.
Motorists have a great stake in
highways, Sparger said, but cer
tainly they are paying for them.
He noted that the present tax hike
is the general increase in gas tax
rates motorists of this state have
been called oft to pay in the 35
[years that gasoline has been taxed
j here.
MRS. ERDLE IS SUMMER
VISITOR IN BURNSVILLE
Mrs. Mary R. Erdle of Coral
Gables, Florida, recently arrived
in Burnsville where she will spend
the summer as a guest at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Mack B. Ray.
Mrs. Erdle has been a summer
visitor in Burnsville for several
years.
Dale Training At
Camp LeJeune
Camp LeJeune, 1 C. IFHTNC)
Marine Pvt. Wade Dale, son of
Mrs. Missouria B. Dale of Route 1,
Green Mountain, N. C., is attend
ing a special training course with
the Ist Infantry Regiment at the
: Marine Corps Base, Camp Le-
jeune, N. C.
The four-Week course Includes
all phases of combat training co
ordinated with the training taught
in “boot” camp. Graduates will be
transferred to permanent duty
stations.
“DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY*
BURNSVILLE, N. C„ TIIURS DAY, JULY 5, 1956
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ANTI - COMMUNIST , REVOLT
IN POLAND Polish Prime Min
ister Josef Cyrankiewic* (above!
hnd other members of Poland’s
• Communist Government departed
[ hurriedly to Poznan, a Polish
industrial city of 350,000 midway
' between Berlin and Warsaw. The
! city has been the scene of rioting
against the Polish United Workers
(Communist) Party. Many deaths
occurred and there is great unrest
in Poland.
Group On Southern
Tour Stops In
Burnsville
Weary and tired, and some of
them slightly sick, from the long
hours of yavel and from the lur
ching of the chartered bus in
which they were traveling, twenty
vwo jouug ireop» «™ it*-! aaurtst
ffomme tYcmnsrown area of Penn-1
syl vania arrived in Burnsville j
late last Sunday 1 night, having
traveled fro mßoanoke during the
afternoon and evening.
Twelve Presbyterian households
of the town entertained these peo
ple as guests over night. Leaders
of the delegation were Mr. and
Mrs. William H. Williams, Jr. of
Johnstown, Pa., who were enter
tained by Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.
Laurents. The Rev. Dr. Edward
M. Flanagan, of Irwin, Pa., —an
old acquaintance of Mr. Reeve, the
minister here, —and Mrs. Flanagan,
1 stayed at the Manse. Dr. Flanagan
1 had not known until his arrival
here that Mr. Reeve was in Burns
ville, and Mr. Reeve did not know
beforehand that Dr. Flanagan
would be in the party.
Last year the Rev. Joseph J.
Jones, of Charlotte, had visited one
or two of the churches and a
young people’s camp in Pennsyl
vania, and so incited their interest
in North Carolina, that they plan
ned this tour of the mid-soutn
area. From Burnsville, the party
went to Warren Wilson College
where they were to have lunch on
Monday, before driving over to
Maryville College, Tenn. Later in
the week, their itinerary will take
them to Charlotte where they will
meet the Rev. Mr. Jones.
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Vacation School at. the Presby
terian Church will close on Friday
of this week. Visitors will be cor
■ dially welcomed that morning.
On Sunday, both in the Sunday
School hour )9:45) and in the ser
vice of Divine Worship, which
follows at 11, children and young
people will receive recognition and
have parts to take. The minister,
Rev. Warren S. Reeve, will preach
on the subject, “The Stones of
the Bible’’,
Mr. George Robinson, superln
’ tendent of the Sunday School, has
1 announced that there will be some
1 promotions in the Sunday SchooL
The young people of the church
will meet on Wednesday of next
week at 7:30 p. m. in the church.
Mr. and Mrs. Mack B. Ray and
daughter, Carolyn, are expected
to return Sunday from an extend
ed motor trip through the west.
i REVIVAL SERVICES AT
MT. PLEASANT CHURCH
Revival services will -begin Sun
day, July 8, at the Mt. Pleasant
Baptist Church under the direction
of the pastor, the Rev. M. H. Ken
dall. The guest minister will be
the Rev. R. M. Cassity of Spruce
Pine.
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The vacation Bible School, which
has been in progress at the Mt.
Pleasant Church for the past two
weeks, will close with a program
Thursday night. .
Work On &E From
Spruce Piife
Under Study
Reconstruction $f the 16 miles
of Route 19, between Burnsville
and Spruce Pine, is being studied
by the State Highway Commission.
Thus far, only a very general
study has been given to the re
building of U. S. 19-E from Mica
ville to the Yancey-Mitchell line;
and no definite plans have been
made for rebuilding the link of
highway from Burnsville to Mica
vllle, contrary to a recent press
report which was widely circulat
ed; and actual planning is not at
present in the commission’s pro
gram.
A survey will t|e made, however;
of the Chalk Mountain Road be
ginning at a poif|t about 1,000 feet
west of the Crabtree Creek bridge
on U. S. 19-E and. extending to
Spruce Pine. This survey will start
as soon as engineers of the State
Highway Commission are avail
able; and it is expected that funds
for the construction of pro
ject may be allocated TfSm the
commission’s 1956-57 budget.
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J Division engineer, stated vefcently
I that this year the State Highway
I Commission will rebuild only five
miles of the road from the Yan
cey County line east to Spruce
Pine, but that no money has been
set up to carry the work on to
Burnsville. The overall project,
he said, would be an almost com
plete relocation of the highway,
including a bridge over the South
Toe River near Newdale.
Welfare Board Licen
ses Fund Raising
Organizations
During the month of June licen
ses were granted by the State
Board of Public Welfare to seven
organizations to conduct fund
raising campaigns through public
solicitations for the support of
their programs it was announced
by Dr. Ellen Winston, Commis
sioner while one organization did
not meet licensing requirements.
Six of these organizations were
re-licensed in accordance with pro
visions of the state solicitation law.
They are the American Founda
tion for Overseas Blind, Associa
tion on ‘American Indian Affairs,
Boys’ Clubs of America, and Sea
man’s Church Institute of New
York, all of which have headquar
ters in New York City; the Na
tional Wildlife Federation at
Washington, D. C.; and the North
Carolina Council on Human Rela
tions at Charlotte.
The Big Brothers of America at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania receiv
ed a license for the first time.
The total amount which these
seven organizations will seek
from the public at large in North
Carolina is approximately $35,000.
The organization which failed
to meet requirements under the
law for the license is the National
Muscular Dystrophy Research
Foundation at Liberty Texas. j
It was also announced that dur
ing the month of June the Cbris-
tlan Children’s Fund at Richmond,
Virginia solicited citizens of< this
state. The State Board of Public
Welfare is pointing out that such
> solicitations are in violation of
I the law since this organization is
' not licensed in accordance with
its provisions.
Whitener Says
‘Thanks* To Voters
Gastonia Basil Whitener, the
next congressman from the 11th
District, issued a statement today
thanking the people who voted for
him Saturday, June 23, in his run
off victory over Ralph Gardner.
Said Whitener; “The victory
that was won was that of many
hundreds of people in all walks
of life who gave of their time,
talents, and energy.
“I am certainly appreciative of
every one of them. The opportun
ity which I will have to serve all
segments of our population in
Congress is the medium through
which I expect to repay them for
their efforts, by giving the best
service of which I am capable.
“My family joins me in saying
a mammoth ‘thank you’ to every
one who aided in our cause.”
Whitener piled up a 1,106-votfi
• lead over Gardner in the run-off
■ primary for the Democratic nomi
; nation.
i Whitener had 22,247, Gardner
’ 21,141. These are complete but un
■ official returns from the 153 pre
cincts of the district.
Cardner conceded Monday, say
ing he would not ask for a re
count. He sent a congratulatory
telegram to Whitener.
The State Board of Elections
met today to canvass the vote.
Whitener won’t actually be el
ected until November 6: But
I his election is assured since the
Republicans aren’t offering a
candidate.
He said he would stay on as/
solicitor until after the
election, possibly until January 1.
j , He goes to Washington January
Congressman Woodrow Jones,
first elected in 1950, is retiring at
the close of his third term.
Smth Injured In
Auto Accident
- Elwood Kermit Smith, 30, of
Burnsville was seriously injured
when his car and another automo
bile driven by Carroll Rufus Mar
tin, 30, of Johnson City, met head
on in a curve about a milDe and a 1
half south of the Madison-Bun
combe county line on U. S. 19-23
at 5:45 Sunday morning.
Smith, who was thrown from his
car, was taken to the Memorial
Mission hospital in Asheville where
he is reported to be in serious
condition, having suffered a frac
tured skull and brain injuries.
Martin and his wife, who was
riding with hint at the time of
the accident, were treated at thei
hospital for minor injuries.
Mrs. Marion E. Brown is spend
ing the remainder of the summer
with her daughter, Mrs. Cecil G.
Anglin, on Jacks Creek.
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IKE LEAVER HOSPITAL President and . Mrs. Eisenhower
wave from the President’s suite of rooms at Waiter Reed Hospital
in Washington, D. C. The, picture shown above, one of the first pic-
I lures made 01 the President since his operation three weeks ago,
was taken prior to his departure for his Gettysburg farm.
Playhouse Actor Stars
With Steve Cochran
Andy Prine, whom Parkway
Playhouse theatregoer’s will re
member for his roles as Mr. Kimber
in “George Washington Slept Here”
and as Mookie McGoogins (as true
as h« is rustic) in “Dirty Work At
The Crossroads,’ has just completed
u very successful engagement in
The Roosevelt Theatre’s (Miami
Beach) production of “The Rain
maker’. Andy Prine played opposite
Steve Cochran, Hollywood Star, in
the successful run of the play'. Andy
will once again be at Burnsville’s
Parkway Playhouse for the 1956
season, and is expected to be called
Two Charged With
Post Office Robbery
Two men were reported lodged
in the Federal section of the Bun
combe County Jail last week in
default of bonds of $3,000 each,
facing charges of post office rob
bery on June 15, of the Bald
Creek R'jraViStation of the Burns
ville Post Office. „
The two men, Charles Winter of
Asheville, and Eugene Peterson of
Asheville and formerly-of Yancey
County, were arrested in Asheville
by Federal, State and City offi
cers on charges of breaking into
and robbing the Bald Creek Sta
tion, which is located in the ser-
I vice station and store building of
Roy Buckner.
Winter and Peterson waived
preliminary hearing and U. S.
to .be tried in the regular Novem
ber tohn ot tr. a. District Court
in Asheville.
Burnsville Defeats
Upper Laurel
~ By Boyd Deyton
The Burnsville Ramblers base
ball team ran their victory margin
to 2-0 Saturday by defeating the
Upper Laurel team 11 to 2. The
Burnsville team banged out 10
hits while Justice and Gibbs ctilnf
bined their talents to hold the vis
itors to 3 hits.
Frank Robinson and Fred
Young sparked Burnsville *at the
plate with 3 for 4 each, while
catcher Raburn Robinson chipped
in with 2 for 4
Gibbs and Justice helped things
along by striking out eigteen men,
their highest total of the season
This Saturday, the team from
the Mars Hill Recreation Center
will be at Burnsville to meet the
Ramblers on their hmne field. The
two teams are currently-tied for
first" Ipace in the Tri-County]
League,
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on to display his fine talent more
than once. Andy is a student at
the University of Miami where he
majors in Drama.
When asked how he felt about
being noticed by Miami and New
York Columists, he said, “it was
just great working with such a
fine cast aftd especially Steve
Cochran, who treated me like a
younger brother.” v - v , z
Andy is expected in Burnsville
> early this year to see many of the
i sights of Western North Carolina
l which he failed to see and visit
■ last year. Starting July 9th, Andy
starts work at the Playhouse on
this season's schedule. The bill in
' cluctes , ‘‘Sabrina Fair”, which opens
the season on July 20th, then the
riotous comedy about American
PW’s during World War H,
“Stalag 17”, the third production
will be Shakespeares comedy, “As
You Like It”, which will be pre
sented in the open air theatre, on
Aug. 3rd and 4th. “Cradle Song’.’
will be presented, and as a close
to what will be a most successful
season, Gordon Bennett, Director
cf the Playhouse, has chose: the
Richard Rodger’s-Oscar Haim.jr
stein musical, “Carousel”.
Tickets for each performance,
with the exception of “Carousel”,
are $1.25 for adults and .50c for
children. Prices for ‘“Carouaei”are
$1.50 for adults and .75c for child
ren.
Season tickets are $5.00 and
. be obtained at leading bust.
or at the Parkway Playhouse.
Be sure not to miss any of these
fine presentations of the 1956 sea
son.
Vincent R. Marclay
Clinic Set For
■Teacher Examination
As in past years, the State De
partment of Public Instruction re
quires that all teachers have a
physical examination made during
the summer. Dr. Cameron F.
Mcßae has offered the services of
the District Health Department for
this purpose, as in the past. To
avoid congestion and delay at the
end of the summer, it is requested
that all teachers who wish to
avail themselves of this service
and who will be at home during
July come to the Burnsville health
office on the following schedule
as far as possible:
Bald Creek— Monday, July 9,
8:30-11:30 a. m. _ : ..
Mlcaville— Wednesday, July 11,
8:30-11:30 a. m.
i Burnsvi"e— Wednesday, July 11,
] 1:00-5:00 p. m.
South Toe, Pensacola Friday,
July 13, 8:30-11:30 a. m.
i Clearmont Monday, Julv
3:30-11:30 a. m.
Bee Log Friday, Julv
3:30-11:30 a. m.
Dr. Mcßae stated that teachers
who will be out of .the County on
the above dates will have an op
portunity to have their physical
examination during; August, on
daya which will be announced
later in this newspaper. He called
ettention to the fact that any
teacher may have the physical ex
amination made. by his or her
own physician if so desired, ob
taining the blanks from the Coun
ty Superintendent of Schools.
Dr. Mcßae also announced this
week that the third *4 polio
myelitis may now be given to any
children who received a second
dose as long as seven months ago.
Parents who wish their children
to have the third vaccine may
bring their children to the cilncl
in the Burnsville office of the
Health Department. The clinic is
held regularly every Monday as-
ternoon between the hours of 1
and 5 o’clock.
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