VOLUME TWENTY-ONE
Governor Hopes For
Million Votes Saturday
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Raleigh, N. C. Governor Hod
ges has voiced the hope that one
million North Carolinians will
vote on the public school amend
ment on September 6.
“A turnout by that many North
Carolinians, representing both
major political parties, would be
a fine exhibition of our attitude
toward our great school system,”
he said. '
The public school ballot will
allow properly registered persons
to cast ballots “For” or “Against”
Bald Creek Lions
Sponsor Youth Night
The Lions Club of Bald Creek
is sponsoring a "Youth Night”
every Saturday night from 8 to 11
p. m. in the fellowship hall of
Bald Creek Methodist Church.
Two members of the Lions Club
will be present each Saturday
night to conduct a program of re
creation including ping-pong,
shuffle-board, carrom, horseshoes,
hand ball, and other games. Soft
drinks, potato chips and other re
freshments may be purchased.
All young people between the
ages of 12 and- 23 are invited to
take part. President Ron Wilson
believes that during the coming
month, the “Youth Night” pro
gram will grow to include many
varied attractions for the youth
of this area.
WILSON REUNION
( PI .AN NED
The family and friends of “Big
Tom” Wilson will observe a home
coming day and reunion next
Sunday, Sept. 9, at the Pensacola
Methodist Church. The home-corn-'
ing day program will begin at
11 a. m. with the regular worship
service, A male quartet from Yan
cey County will provide a program
of music. Lunch will be served at I
1 p. m. at the church.
Randolph Appointed To
F. H. A. Committee
John M. Randolph of Burnsville
and Green Mountain is the new!
member of the Farmers Home
Administration county committee,
Mack B. Ray, county supervisor,
has announced.
Mr. Randolph’s appointment be
came effective July 1, 1966. tfhe
committee on which he will serve
determines the eligibility of local;
farmers who apply for Farmers]
Home Administration loans.
The -new committeeman oper
ates a Grade A Dairy and .Burley
tobacco farm in the Brush Creek
Community. He is a TV A Demon
stration farmer and is active in
the Community Development Pro
gram having served as fir3t pre
sident of Brush Creek Community
Club. He is also past president of
Yancey County Farm Bureau and
for several years has served on the
North Carolina Farm Bureau Bur
ley Tobacco Committee. Following
the drought of 1962, he was Dis
aster Loan Supervisor for Farm
ers Home Administration in Yan
cey County. Mr. Randolph succeeds
Yates W. Randolph of Green
Mountain whose term expired
this year.
The other two members are
Fred E. Bryan who operates a
Grade A Dairy in the Cane River
section and Chappie T. McCurry
who operates a Beef Cattle and
Burley tobacco farm in the Bee
Log community.
Each agricultural county in the
nation has a similar committee of
three members who are responsible
for determining loan applicants’
eligibility, certifying thp valye of
Don’t Forget To Votp SATURDAY, September Bth
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The Yancey Record
“DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OP YANCEY COUNTY”
a constitutional amendment which
if adopted, would allow local op
tion units to close their schools if
conditions become intolerable, and
allow the use of State and local
funds for education expense grants
Os course, no school could be clos
ed without a vote of the people.
This proposed amendment, sub
mitted to the people by an over
whelming vote of the legislature,
is what Governor Hodges calls
"stand-by” legislation. The gover
nor is very hopeful that it never
will be needed. Instead, he has
urged voluntary segregation in
the public schools, and use of the
1955 pupil assignment statute to
.its fullest extent.
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An affirmative vote by the peo
ple on September 6 does not mean
that either local option or educa
tion expense grants will go into
immediate use. They would mer
ely be “safety-valves” to be used,
in case the other courses did not
work in a manner acceptable to
the people.
These merely are facilities for
carrying out what the Pearsall
Advisory Committee and the Gov
ernor believe to be the concensus
of the great majority of North
Carolinians: and that is that no
child should be forced to attend
public school with members of
another race if the parents of
that child object.
Registered people, no matter
whether they are Democrats or
Republicans, can vote.
Voting will be held at regularly
established precincts.
WORSUH* SERVICES BE
HELD AT PENSACOLA SCHOOL
Worship services will be held
each Sunday afternoon in the old
school building at Pensacola, be
| ginning at ?:20. These services
) will be conducted by the Rev,
Kilby and Carter Ogle of Swan
| nanoa. The Ogle family will pro
■ vide music for the services, and
other singers will be welcome to
* come and take part.
| farms being purchased or improv-
I ed through Farmers Home Admin
istration loans, and making re
commendations on loan approvals
and loan servicing actions.
Each member is named for a
3-year term ahd one appointment
expires each year. A member com,
pleting his a-yegr term cannot
succeed himself. At least two of
the members must be farmers.
The committee works with the
county supervisor in connection
with all types of loans. These in
clude farm operating loans and
loans to buy, improve, or enlarge
efficient family-type farms in
this area. They also include loans
to farmers or their nonprofit as
sociations to establish and carry
on approved soil and water con
servation practices including im
proving permanent pastures, ter
racing, soil erosion measures,
farmstead water systems, irriga
tion, drainage, and many other
conservation practices.
Most of the soil and water con
servation loans and loans to buy
or improve farms are made from
funds advanced by private lenders
and insured by the agency. Some
of these loans, however, and all
loans for operating farms, are
from annually appropriated funds.
No loaan of any type can be ap
proved for an applicant whose
credit needs can be handled ade
quately by other credit sources.
The Yancey County Farmers
Home Administration Office is
located in The Northwestern Bank
Building ip BurnsviDe.
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PRESIDES OVER SUEZ TALKS
, —Australian Prime Minister Rob
ert Menzies arrived last week in
London, England to preside at a
meeting of the five nation P Suez
committee. An Egyptial announce
ment said that Cairo has been set
as the site of President Nasser’s
talks with the committee on the
Suez situation.
NCE Magazine
Mailed To School
Personnel
Thirty thousand copies of the
50th anniversary issue of North
Carolina Education, featuring a
full report of the Special Session
of the General Assembly, will be
received by public school teachers,
administrators, and lay friends of
education prior to Saturday’s vot
ing on the Pearsall Plan.
In making this announcement,
Mrs. Ethel Perkins Edwards, ex
ecutive secretary of the . North
Carolina Educatfoft AssScfatlon/
explained that this special Issue
contains an analysis of the Pear
sall proposals, pro and con edi
torial reprints from North Caro
lina papers, and a copy of the en
dorsement of the Pearsall Plan
by the NCEA Board of Directors.
“We are making every effort,”
said Mrs. Edwards, “to give our
members complete information on
the current issues to be decided
on September 8. No group can
possibly be more interested in the ,
welfare of our schools than are
the teachers of North Carolina’s
children.”
This anniversary issue of the
official publication of the NCEA
is the largest Septembee edition
in the history of the Association
and is supported by the largest
volume of advertising ever to ap
pear in a single issue. Ninety oAt
advertisers are represented in
this edition. ’?
Copies of the magazine have
been sent directly to the princi
pals of every white public school
in North Carolina for distribution
to individual NCEA members.
The first Issue of the journal
was titled North Carolina Journal
of Education. This journal was
published twice monthly in Dur
ham and was edited by E. C.
Brooks. The present editor is Dr.
W. Amos Abrams and the adver
tising manager is John G. BTkleT
North Carolina Education is con
sistently received high ratings
among educational journals of
the United States.
Marcus L. Bennett
Observes 100th
Birthday
Marcus L. Bennett, who observ
ed his one-hundreth birthday on
September 3, was honored with a
birthday dinner given by his son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. >
Jerry Bennett, of Rt. 3, Burnsville. |
Out of town guests who were
present for the event were Mr. and
Mrs. Nealie Bennett of Blane,
i Tenn., Mr. and Mr*. Floyd Tolley
i and family and Mr. and Mrs. BUI
: Bennett of Erwin, T en h > and Mrs,
' Wesley Tallent of Burlington. N.C
13th Division
Reports Progress
Raleigh, N. d.—The State High
way Commissfii brought 58.84
miles of road Improvements to
completion durfil* July in the 13th
Highway Division, Commissioner
J. Fleming Snipes of Marion has
announced. .
He commended State highway
and contractor ‘ forces upon the
vast amount of finished work.
Yancey, Ruth
erford, Buncombe, Madison, and
Mitchell counties comprise the
13th Division; Headquarters for
the 13th are in Asheville. A veter
an highway builder, W. M. Corkill,
is Division Engineer. J. T. Knight
is ( Assistant Division Engineer.
For efficiency in maintenance,
the 13th is subdivided into t.wo
districts, and B, S. Connelly is
District Engineer at w Asheville
for Yancey^Jßujnc ombe, Madison
and Mitchell counties.
f n Yancey County, State high
way forces resurfaced, with a
bituminous stone road mix and
•ueal, 0.5 mile oflß-foot wide NC
197 from Green Mountain toward
Red Hill. Another 9.6 miles of NC
197 was improved by retreatment
and bituminous seal from Green
Mountain to the Mitchell County
line and from Burnsville to Grggn,
Mountain. The highway
width from 18 to 20 feet. ’ j
State forces also paved the 2k
foot wide approaches to the Crfne
River Bridge. The work was Vs
mile longhand involved a retreat
ment and bituminous seal.
n Delegates To Girls’
And Boys’ State
Report To Legion
At the joint meeting of the
American Legion and Auxiliary
.Tuesday gening, aH -28, the re
pre&emauves to 'Ghw • anST BoyV
State made detailed reports TBp
their activities during the week-,
long events last June. I
Girls’ and Boys’ State weeks are
sponsored annually by the Ameri
can Legion and Auxiliary in every j
state in the Nation. The purpose
is to give young people actual
training and experience in gov
eminent. Four students are pick
ed each year from the ten top
students scholastically in the jun
. ior class to represent each county.
Misses Beverly and Barbara
Hensley, twin daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Selwyn Hensley of Bur
nsville, represented Yancey Coun
ty at Girls’ State held at the
Woman’s College U. N. C. in
Greensboro. They eaeh gave very
interesting accounts of the daily
activities, Including a day in Ral
eigh where they had an actual
session of the legislature In the ,
capitol and heard lectures by .
State ifficiala.
Ffank Howard Lewis, son o?
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis of
Burnsville, and U. B. Deyton, son ‘
of Mr. and Mrs. Uranus Deyton (
of Clearmont, were the Yancey (
County representatives to Boys’ ,
State held In Chapel Hill. They
gave detailed accounts of the lec- ’
tures, elction of State officials,
and their experience in govern
ment.
Robinson Returns
From England
Airman First Class Claude
Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Robinson of Celo, arrived
home Sunday following his separ
ation from the armed forces.
Airman Ribinson had been sta
tioned in England for over two
years prior to his return to this
country. He served four years in
the Air Force, and before going
overseas he was stationed at i
I bases in different points of the,
United States. j
James Robinson, a brother of
Claude’s was stationed In Japan
with the Air Force until his dis
charge a few months ago. The
brothers had not seen each other
fop mope than five years until
Claude’s arrival Sunday,
Hospital Report
The Yaancey Hospital reports
three births an& twenty-three
other admissions during the past
week.
The births include a daughter,
Sheila Yvonne, born Aug. 31, to
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hill Jr. of
Burnsville; a son, not yet named,
born Sept. 4, to Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Sparks of Spruce Pine; and
a daughter, Judy Ann, born Sept.
3, to Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Webb
of Relief.
Other admissions this week in
clude Charles Murphy, Mark
Bennett, Jennie Ruthledge, Carrie
Blankenship, Ralph McMahan,
Donna Pate, all of Burnsville;
Delia Gardner, Faye Hill, Rt 2,
Bakersville; Dorothy Banks, Star
Rt., Burnsville; Patricia Hylemon,
Bald Creek;-M. M. Wetzel, Jacqpe-
line Webb, Relief; Esther Edwar
ds, Columbia Bta., Ohio; Ethel
JBoone, Kathleen Robinson, Rt. 2;
Dot Austin, Sheila Ham, Edith
Silver, Elsie Byrd, Rt. I; Louise
.-Edwards, Star Rt.; Annie Mae
Brooks, Marie Sparks, Dennis
Roberts, Spruce Pine.
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Tar Heel Farming
A new book of interest to Nor
*th Carolina farmers is “Agricul
tural Developments in North
Carolina. 1783-1860, by Professor
C. O. Cathey of the University of
Carolina History Depart
ment and published by the UNC
press. It costs $2.50
°rof. Cathey denies the state
ment sometimes made that North
Carolina • farmers have never been
“shientific-minded”.
In the 1850’s, for instance, the
world’s first class in agricultural
chemistry was started at Chapel
Hill.
- Moreover, farm machinery was
booming invented by North
Carolinians, too.
Among the patents secured in
this state, were: one corn husker,
one corn harvester, three cotton
seed planters, one cotton-thinning
plow, one cottonseed cleaning
machine, one stalk cutter, four
jtraw cutters, seven plows, ten
cultivators, two seed planters, one
hillside plow, three sowing mach
ines, one harvesting machine, one
thresher, one potato-planting plow,
one wagon brake, four manure
carts, one feeding apparatus for
a grain thresher, one self-dump
ing truck, one marl lifting mach
ine, one excavator, one hand
truck; one water wheel, one pump,
one oarrlage spring, one hoof par
ing knife, one machine for stuff
ing horse collars.
One farmer invented a “self
waiting” table. Another invented
a “ventilating” rocking chair.
The Cathey history of farming
in North Carolina from 109 to 180
years ago will be interesting to
farmers of today because some of
the “ problems are the same, and
the difficulties of those days set
the stage for the agricultural
scheme in North Carolina in the
20th century.
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FARM SURPLUS SALE TO INDIA Agriculture Secty. Ben
son (center) talks with former Ambassador to India John Sherman
Cooper (left) and Minister H. Dayal, of the Indian Embass in ,
Washington, D. C., after announces a trade agreement for the sale
of $360 million worth of surplus agricultural products to India. ,
Soil Bank Program To
Begin September 15th
RALEIGH ln most North'
Carolina counties, farmers will be
able to begin their sign rjp under
the Conservation Reserve phase
of the Soil Bank Program by the
10th of September. H. D. Godfrey,
Administrative Officer for the
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation State Committee,
reported that his office is now
holding instructional meetings to
train ASC personnel in every
county in the state on procedure
under this new program.
In order to participate in the
Conservation Reserve Program
this fall, farmers must sign pp
RAY IS MEMBER OF SQUARE
DANCE EXHIBITION TEA#
Ronnie Ray of Burnsville, who
is a member of the Bailey Moun
tain Dancers, was a participant
in the square dance finals in the
annual North Carolina Apple Fes
tival in Hendersonville last Sat
urday night. The Bailey Mountain
Team won the Friday night event
but lost to Enka Dance Team in
the Saturday night finals.
They also won top honors and
were presented the Pless Cup at
the annual Folk Festival in
last month.® On Aug. 16,
17 and 18, the Bailey Mountain
Team presented square dance ex
hibitions at the Folk Festival in
Virginia Beach, and their ■ most
recent performance was in Canton
for the Labor Day celebration.
Cimmission Placed
Many Veterans
During Year
Jobs were found for 29,190 vet
erans during the year ending
June 30, according to a report re
leased today by Henry E. Kenlall,
chairman of the Employment Sec
urity Commission of North Caro
lina.
Os the total number of place
ments, 2, 474 yere physicallp han
dicapped veterans, the report
shows.
The report, prepared by R. C.
Godwin, State veterans employ
ment representative, covers non
farm work.
Last month, a total of 2,484
veterans were placed in jobs, the
report said. A breakdown shows
that 85 were placed in profession-'
al or managerial positions, 177 in
clerical and sales work, 247 in the
“services,” 511 in skilled trades,
485 in semi-skilled work, and 979
in unskilled and other classifica
tions. I
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David Low spent the Labor Day
week-end visiting his mother, Mrs. |
J. G. Low. David, a DuPont engi-. ’
neer, stopped by on his way to'
San Francisco where he will help '
start an organic chemical plant 1
there. *
NUMBER TWO
' under the program not later than
October 15th. The program will
run from 3 to 15 years depending
on the practices to*bt carried out.
Godfrey explained that payments
available for participation under
this new program are of two
kinds—an establishment payment
which may cover up to 80 percent
of the cost of starting the prac
tice, and an annual rental pay
ment for the period of the con
tract. Rental payments in North
Carolina, he said, will be at the
rate of 310 per acre.
When the land to be placed In
the reserve is already In an ap
proved vegetative cover, no estab
lishment payment will be made;
however, the annual $lO per acre
payment will be made during the
term of the contract In this case,
contracts will be from 3v to 5
years. Contracts for ' vegetative
cover practices established under
the Conservation Reserve Pro
gram will run from 5 to 10 years.
Tree practices lO to 15 years.
These practices will be eligible for
both Conservation Reserve and
annual payments,
According to Godfrey, the total
payments that may be made to
eligible farmers in North Carolina
are limited, and for this reason
he urged farmers who desire to
participate to visit the County Of
fice and sign up as soon as the
county announces the opening of
the program.
Church To Sponsor
Buffet Supper
zMembers of the Higgins Memor
ial Methodist Church will sponsor
a buffet supper this Saturday
evening, September 8, from 5 un
til 8 o’clock at the Community
Building in Burnsville.
Tickets are being sold this week
by members cf the church, or
they may be purchased at the door
Saturday night. Adult tickets are
$2.00 each and children’s tickets,
are SI.OO. Everyone will serve
themselves from the buffet table
and will be able to eat any amount
they want.
The buffet supper is being given
to raise money for the building
fund for a new Educational Build
ing for the church.
During the evening, home-made
( cakes will be auctioned to the
highest bidders.
Farm Program To
Increase Income
Planned
Plans to increase the net farm
income will be made at a second
meeting which will be held in the
Yancey courthouse Friday night,
September 7, at 7:20 p. m. The
purpose of the meeting will be to
devclope a long' time farm plan.
This plan, now called program
projection, will be aimed at set
ting up goals and agreeing on
ways and means to increase the
net farm income of the County.
One-hundred families will be
selected to work as a unit. Em
phasis is being placed on assisting
the entire family rather than the
enterprise approach, such as beef
ctfttle, home demonstration, or
4-H projects.
PFC, RAYMOND STYLES
STATIONED IN GERMANY
Bamberg, Germany—Pfc. Ray
mond K. Styles, 18, son of K. R,»
Styles, Route 3, Burnsville, N. C.
recently was graduated from the
85th Infantry Regiment's drivers
school in Germany. < ' VJ * J
Styles, an assistant machine *
gunner in the 85th Regiment’s
Company H, entered the Army
In February 1955 , and arrived
cverseaa last NovCtnber. “TV*"*