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Clearmont Gym-Lunch
Room Destroyed By Fire
. The Clearmont School gymnas
ium and lunch-room building was
destroyed by fire early Wednes
day morning about 1:15 a. m.
By the time the Burnsville Vol
unteer Fire Department arrived
on the scene, the flames had gain
ed considerable headway. The
firemen battled the blaze for two
hours, Chief Bob Hilliard reported,
in an effort to keep the main
school building, approximately 50
feet away, from burning.' Before
the blaze was completely exting
McCurry Sentenced
In Manslaughter
... Trial
McCurry, 32, of Route 1,
Burnsville, pleaded guilty to a
charge of manslaughter in Yancey
Superior Court last Monday, and
received three to seven years in
state prison.
Judge J. Will Pless of Marion
continued prayer for judgment for
five years,, against the defendant
on charges of hit-and-run driving
and no operator’s license.
On a charge of drunken driving,
McCurry drew a twelve-month
suspended sentence^
The four charges stemmed frqni
an aqtqrqobile accident on Qct. 3 1 !
1955, on N. C. Highway 197 two
miles north of Burnsville, in which
Mrs, Robert Gouge, 72, of Celo was
fatally injured.
Investigating officers testified
McCurry was operator of a car
Involved in a headon collision
with an automobile operated by
Mrs. Gouge’s daughter, Mrs. Love
Carroway, of Celo.
McCurry was arrested shortly
after the accident by State High
way Patrolman Arnold W. Rector
and Sheriff Terry Hall.
McCurry was prijpnaljy tfied by
a jury at the March term of court
and received seven to ten years
on a charge of manslaughter.
Judge Pless set aside the jvfry
verdict and judgment and ordered
a new trial sos McCurry whgu
was found that portions of the
testimony were not admissable as
evidence.
McCurry has been held under
$5,000 bond pending hjs second
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Payton Rubber Five
Burnsville Volunteer Fire Dept,
All Stars were defeated in their
first game here Monday night
when Dayton Rubber Company
fought out a 7-point victory for a
final score of 78 to 71.
The Fire Dept, team led the
Dayton five during most of the
game, but weakened in the last
quarter of play to lose by the
small margjm
Maurjcs Rucbper led the local
team in scoring with twenty
points.
Saturday night the Fire Depart
ment All Stars will meet £dney
ville here,
As thg spaspn progresses, it is
expected that several of the
American Legion team will enter
the scene. - v
Plgyerij on the local tepm Mop-,
dev night were Ben Bunks, Jinyny
Jtyill, Maurice Bpckner, Levoid
Bpckner, Ledford and ’R. Buckner,
Men’s Club Hold
’ Final Meeting
For Year
The Burnsville Men’s Club met
Monday evening at Micaville High
High School. Dinner was served in
the school lunch room by the ladles
of the MiguvlJla Pps,byp,rian
phurch.
Fpllpwing the dinner, the presl
"“jjent, T. M. Tyner, presided over
the business session.
There will be no further meet
ing of the club until January.
THE YAHCEY RECORD
; uished, the pumps of the fire
truck froze, but the blaze had
been confined to the foundation
walls.
I The fire was discovered around ,
1:15 a. m. by Friel Young, who)
, lives near the school. Young had
, to drive to Burnsville to report
the fire.
The loss to the building and its (
i contents, including lunc.h-room
, equipment, was “ estimated at
,j $30,000, Hilliard said. Damage to
the main school building was es
timated at SSOO.
The frame and stone structure
was partially insured, Hilliard
said.
cause of the fire has not
beep definitely determined, but
according to Chief Hilliard, it is
thought the blaze originated eith
er from a gas stove in the lunch
room or from a dropped cigarette
in the gymnasium at a basketball
game the night before.
First Reports High
On Tobacco Sales
Yancey County tobacco growers
began selling their crops on the
markets in Asheville, Greenville,
Johnson City apd Boone op Tyesr
( day of thjs week,
According to E. L. Dillingham
county agent, reports have been
received of several growes aver
aging over 60 cents per pound. The
darker leaf seems in greater de
i mand as was true last year, due to
increased demand for filter-tip
cigarettes.
There are 1,900 growers in the
county with 1,130 acres this year
as compared to 1,142 acres in 1955,
Dillingham said. The decrease is
due to combining allotments and ■
divisions. 1
Marketing pjirds should be called
for at the ASC office in the Briggs <
Building before going to market ]
and should be returned promptly, 1
Dillingham saifl.
On the Asheville hurley tobacco ;
market Tuesday, a $5991 average
established an all-time high for
opening day. The total cash and
average price also topped last
year’s starting figures by cgipforr
table margins, it was reported-
The Bppne byrlpy market opened
its 1958-,57 season surrounded hy ,
a two-inch snow and 23 degrees
temperature most of the day, The
first day average of $59-92 topped
Ja*t year's which was only $65,75,
The market at Boone is operating
a three and one-half hour day,
Monday through Friday.
At both the Asheville and Boone
markets, the general cold snap
slowed movement of tobacco to
warehouses.
All markets will at t|ie
end of the sales day Dqc. 19
the Christmas recess, reopening
January 2.
Warehouse operators said all to-;
bacco on the floor would average
as good in quality as the earjy
offerings.
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And Sale Scheluled
The annual 4-H Tobacco Show
anci 'Sale is scheduled for- Wed
nesday, Dec. 6, through Saturday,
Dec. 8, at Planters 1 Tabaeoq Ware
house, Asheville- Crops will be
judged at l p, m, Dec. 7, and sold
at 10 a. m. Saturday, Dec, 8.
FFA and 4-H boys and girls,
their teachers and assistants will
be guests at a luncheon given by
he tobacco warehouse at Tingles
Case at 12:30 Saturday, Dec. 8.
•Miss Molly Miller of Route 4,
1 Burnsville; and Keith Styles of
1 Route 1, Burnsville wil represepl
• Yancey -H members ini
1 the sale. ,
‘ Mr. and Mrs. Billy Pate and
p Miss Vergle Duncan, who are
teaching at Ellerbe, N. C. t were
• at home for the Thanksgiving
holidays.
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SUB. RATBS $2.00 YEAR. BURNSVILLE, a. C„ THURSDAY, NOVMBER 29, 1956
Burnsville Hiyh
Wins Two Games
From Bald Creek
The Burnsville High School
basketball teams took two games
from Bald Creek Tuesday, Nov.
27. The Burnsville boys beat the
Bald Creek boys 58-35. The Bur
nsville girls won their game by a
score of 49-37.
I Donald Banks led the Burnsville
team in scoring with 12 points,
Ralph Buchanan and Frank How-
I ard Lewjs each made 11 points.
' David Wheeler, a newcomer to
the Burnsville team, went in -at
the fourth quarter and came out
with 8 points.
Judy Briggs led the Burnsville
girls with 22 points. Nancy Brown
got 18. The Burnsville guards
-were outstanding throughout the
whole game. Lillian Berry, a new
comer to the Burnsville team,
played, a good game as guard and
went through the entire game
without committing a personal
Lineups: Burnsville Boys—Banks
12, Buchanan 11, Hensley 6, Har
ris 2, Lewis 11. Subs: Ray 4, For
4, Wheeler 8, Randolph, Wells.
Bald Creek Radford 11, Pit
man 2, Tipton 5, Fender, Mathis
17. -Subs: Horton, McDowell,
Buckner. i / j
Lineups: Burnsville Girls —.
Brown 18, Briggs 22, McCurry 5,
Bennett 4, L, Gardner, Berry.
Subs: Angel, I. Gardner, Woody.
Bald Creek Girls Robinson
14, Ledford 8, Foxx 14, Ayers, Pate
Hylemon. Subs: Bailey, Thomas.
Six Convicts Draw .
Additional Terms, :
Six convicts who escaped from a
Yancey County prison camp road
gang in September and robbed a
motorist of his car at gunpoint
were given additional sentences
last week ip Ypnpey Superior
Cour£. ;
Judge J. Will Pless of Marion
sentenced Wayne P. Joyce, 26, of
Pilot Mountain to two to five years
in state prison, and Herman Pat
terson, 25, of Shelby sq three to
five in state prison. ,
The other four men were each
given sentences gif five to eight
years. They wete Payton Watts,
28, of Whitevilie; Raymond Gilley,
30, of Big st°ne Gap. Ya-; Gml R-
Roberts, 33, of Qrl&ndo, Fla.; and
John Wood Jr., 31, of New York
City,
All six of the men were serving
long terms at the time of their
escape,
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Hospital Report
The Yancey Hospital Reports
four births and sixteen other ad
missions during the past wee.lt.
The birSis iclude a sqn, Darrell
Stuart, born Nov. 25, to Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Metcalf of Mars HIU;
a daughter, nqt yet named, born
Nov. 23, to Mr. ancl Mrs. Jpaf
Phillips of Route 3, Burnsville; a.
daughter, not yet named, born
Nov. 24, to Dr. and Mrs. R. K.
Ransom of Burnsville; and a son,
Ronnie Eqgenp, born Npv. 94, |o
Mr. and Mra. Jaok Fenland of
Route If Burnsville,
Other admissions during the
week include Brenda Phoenix,
Pansy Ray, Walter Huskia and
baby Brenda Yqung, all of Bum*,
villo; Mary Styles, Lizzie Peterson
and Nellie Chandler of Route 1;
Carsie Boone and Randy Lee
Banka of Route 2; Charles Martin
Edwards of Route 4; Edd Gibbs of
Celo; Fleet Hensley of Pensacola;
Grace Hall of Newdale; Maude
Tolley of Green Mtn.; and Frank
McKinney of Bakersville.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilson ,of
Nasheville, Tenn., spent . the
| Thanksgiving holidays with their
I parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Angel and Mr. and Mrs. fQafi
Wilson of Route 3, Burnsville. Mbs.
Fred Wilson is attending Peabody
College, and Mr. Wilson is attend
ing the Auto and Diesel College of
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Nasheville.
U F Reaches 76 1
Percent Os Goal
Yancey United Fund contribu
tions have reached 76 per cent of
1 the goal for the various health,
• welfare and character building
• agencies, according to R. K. Hel-
J mle, president of the organization
The drive opened on Oct. 22,
1 with the announced goal of $9,200.
Around 37,000 has been collected
! to date and there are contribu
> tions still to be reported.
The United Fund still lacks
‘ some $2,200 needed for relief to
1 stricken families, for the Red
' Cross, for 4-H club work and
' other equally worthwhile projects.
The services of the United Ap
! peal agencies- are vitally .needed.
The budget represents the mini
mum of these agencies, and
without the full quota, there will
be needless loss of opportunity for
service to the community. "
In last year’s drive, only 80 per
cent of the goal was raised. This
year’s budget goql is $2.100 less
than the first fund raising cam
paign in the county, and with the
full support of every citizen, the
fu.al 24 per cent can be reached
to put this year’s drive over the
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I Clearmont Juniors
' f JCo Present Play
The Junior Class of Clearmont
High School wIU present "Meet
Me In St. Louis” on Wednesday
evening, December sth at 8 p_ m.
in the high scbeol auditorium.
The play is on the best
selling novel by Sally Benson,
which involves fa typical Ameri
can family at the turn of the
century. j
. cast off characters - arc as
'follows: G«wva
* ColHs, Janet Sje Gornto, Barbara
Hughes, Jessie Betty Lou
Peterson, Laur| Phillips, Nadine
Whitson, Dwight McCurry, Don
ald Canipe, Ekise Tipton, Jim
Evans, A. J. La\ss, Theron Woody,
Edgar Byrd aj)d Mary Agnes.
TlUey.
For a fun-fest evening of enter
tainment, it siggested that you
attend the perfqmance of this
delightful family comedy.
The play Is wider the direction
of Robert C, Hiwell.
Social Security Ser
vice Incisases Here
Field represt itative of the social
Security Adm istration in Ashe
ville, D. C. Nidols, has announced
an increase injhe service for resi
dents in Yanc< County. ' %
.
Beginning i December, Mr,
Nichols will b< at the pourthouse
in Burnsville < the second and
fourth Mondajj of each month.
The increase service was made
necessary, MrjNichols stated, by
the large voipe of work origina
ting in County, arising
from interest i the benefit pro
-1 visions of the iociaf Security Act:
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PFC. 80881 if. SHEPHERD
STATION El IN KANSAS
Fort Riley, Kan. (AHTNC—
Pfc. Bobby ] Shepherd, son of
Mr. and Mra.forace L. Shepherd,
Route 3, Bur tdlle,. N. C., is par
ticipating in cercise Red Arrow,
a major Arn maneuver at Fort
Riley, Kan., iding December
Shepherd a other members of
the Ist Infa y Division’s 16th
Regiment wei flown to the mane
uver area in ansport planes, re
presenting 0 first landing of
U. S. forces i inst a mock enemy
attack.
Shepherd, jeep driver in the
regiment's t ipany K, entered
the Army in :obcr 1955 and com
' pleted basic training at Fort
. Jackson, S. <
! The 22-ye soldier attended
Bald Creek [h School
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' Formal Opening
Os New Post
Office Saturday
Formal opening of the new
Burnsville Post Office will be
held Saturday, December 1, at 2
p. m„ according to an announce
ment made by Postmaster G.
Leslie Hensley this week.
The formal opening, or dedica
tion program, will be held in the
new office building recently com
pleted for the purpose by the L.
E. Briggs family. The program
now scheduled will include the in
vocation by a local minister,
song, a welcome address by a
town official, and a dedication
address by R. G. Hawn, Manager
of District Two, Post Office De
partment, Charlotte, “Nr C. Re- ’
fieshments will be served, and the
public is invited <to attend the
formal opening. •
Mr. Hensley, who has been post
master here for more than twen
ty-three years, said that during
his period in the Burnsville Post
Office,. business has increased
greatly. In June, 1933, -postal re
ceipts for the year were $3500.00,
while the report for June 1956
showed receipts of approximately
$22,000.00 for the year, Hensley
said.
Service to patrons has also in
creased during the 23-year period
in the form of extended rural
free delivery from Burnsville of
fice. There was only one rural
• route in 1933, with a total dis
- tance of 3 miles, Today there
are four rural routes serviced
from Burnsville with a combined
daily distance of little less than
280 miles. This distance does not
include the star route coverage in
Hie county out of Burnsville. ,
The growth found in the postal j
service here Is indication as to I
the population and economic
growth in Burnsville and Yancey-
County during the period of years]
indicated. 1
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Soil Supervisor
To Be Electel j
James B. Stamey, chairman of
the Yancey County Soil Conser
vation District, announced today
that an election will be held dur
ing the week of Dec. 3-8, to elect
one supervisor for a three year
term on the district board.
The duties of soil conservation
district supervisors are to develop
and direct a program of soil and
water conservation whereby far
mers cooperating with the dis
trict may receive technical assis
tance in planning and apply
ing a complete conservation plan
to improve their farmland.
Ballot, boxes will be placed at
Proffitt's Store, Bald Creek; Dey
ton Farm Supply, Farmers Feder
ation Store, Burnsville; Silvers & i
Dellinger Store, Mioaville; Ed 1
Hipkins’ Store, Jacks Creek; and 1
WaR Howell’s Store, Green Mtn. 11
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HUNGARIANS ARRIVE Hungarian refugees, eacorted by ar
my personnel, carry some of their belongings upon their arrival in
New Jersey following a 38-hour flight from Vienna, Austria. These
refugees, among the first to flee from Soviet terrorism in Hungary
later moved to Camp Kilmer, a section of which has been rehahillta
and renamed Camp Mercy as a reception center for thepx.
Communities In WNC
: Contest To Be Judged Sat
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Top communities the 1956
Western North Carolina Rural
Community Development Program
will be named at an awards lunch
eon in the Asheville City Auditor
ium this Saturday, December 1.
Several hundred rural, business
and civic leaders from over west
ern North Carolina will gather for
the presentation of the awards and
to recognize the accomplishments
of the organized community clubs
participating in this rural improve
iment program.
___Ai total of 105 communities in 16
counties have taken part in the
program this year. Judges visited
the Brush Creek community, win
ner in Yancey county, two weeks
ago in the final judging to select
the area winners. '
Cash awards exceeding $2,000.00
will go to the communities judged
to have made the most outstanding
progress in community, home and
farm improvement during the year.
Top award is SSOO, presented- by
the Farmers Federation. Second
Briggs Honored At |
U. Os Richmond
J. Maurice Briggs of Alexan
dria has befen duly honored at the
University of Richmond by being
tapped into dmierbn Delta Kappa
national honorary leadersh p fra
ternity and being named to ap
pear in the 1956-57 edition of
“Who’s Who in American Univer
sit es and Colleges.”
Omicron Delta Kappa recogni
zes men who have * achieved a
high standard of efficienly in col-,
leglate activ ties while qualifica
tions for election to “Who's Who”
include outstanding academic and >
leadership achievement and ser-1
vice to the school.
(A senior at Richmond College
the liberal arts division of thi
University, Briggs has been chap
lain of his sophomore class, sena
tor of his junior class, co-chair
man of Evening Watch, chairmar
of the Practical Ministeries Pro
ject, chairman of the program
committee for Religious Empha
sis Week, and secretary of Siyma
Phi Epsilon social fraternity.
His present offices include vice
president of the Richmond College
Student Government and presidenl
of the Religious Activities Counci
Briggs is the son of Mr. anc
Mrs. Clarence E. Briggs of 260’
Valley View Drive, Alexandria
Va,, and formerly of Burnsville.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles King have
moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where
Mr. King is employed. Mr. and
Mrs. King formerly lived on
Route 1, Burnsville.
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place award is S4OO, from the Ashe
ville Citizen-Times; third prize of
S3OO. by the Asheville Agriiultural
Development Council; fourth prize
of S2OO. by Sears, Roebuck& Co.;
fifth prize of SIOO. by Parkland
Chevrolet Co.; and SSO each to all
honorable mention communitiles,
given by Smoky Mountain Hatch
ing Egg Service nnd the Agricul
tural Council.
These awards are in addition to
approximately SIO,OOO which has
already been presented by local
sponsors in the various counties of
the - area; —— — —— _____
According to George H. V. Cecil,
President of the--'Asheville Agri
sponsors of, the area contest,
“There has been tremendous in
terest and enthusiam in the, com
munity development program over
western North Carolina this year.
The progress made by the ogani
zed communities in . improving
their communities, their homes, in
developing extra income and in
bettering rural life in general has
been remarkable. Their achieve
ments show what can be done
when rural people, towns people'
and the agricultural agencies form
a real partnership for progress.
Principal speaker will be Dr.
Paul A. Reid of Raleigh, former
president of Western Carolina
College at Cullowhee and now
Assistant Director of the State
Board of Higher Education.
Attending the awards program
will be representatives of all of the
organized communities, city and
county officials of the area, re
presentatives of the public agri
cultural agencies, and county and
area sponsors. _,
The community development
program has played a significant
part in the rural life of this area
in recent years. Community build-
ings have been erected. Churches
have been improved. Cemeteries
have been cleaned off and land
scaped. The roadsides have been
mde neater and more attractive.
Garbgae disposal programs, test
of water, garden and yard contests,
cutting right-of-ways for electri
city and telephones, helping neigh
bors in distress, all these are but
only a few of the projects that most
of the communities have worked
on.
“The goal for 1957 is to get still
more communities working on an
organized program,” says Mr. Cecil.
“Town and country alike have a
real stake in this work. The com.
muity development program pre
sents a great opportunity for the
entire area
Garden Club
Elects Officers,
On Friday evening, Mrs. W. L.
Bennett was hostess to the mem
bers of the Garden Club and their
guests at the home of her dau
ghter, Mrs. Ernest Briggs.
Mrs. W. A. Y. Sargent, president,
presided over the business session
during which new officers for the
coming year were elected and plans
made for participating in a county
wide plan for landscaping the
grounds of the new Health Center.
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The new officers are Mrs. W. A.
Y. Sargent, president; Mrs. W. L.
Bennett, * vice president; Mrs.
Wayne Ray, recording secretary;
Mrs. R. Y. Tilson, corresponding
secretary; and Mrs. I. R. Laughrun,
treasurer;
Mrs. Grady Bailey was in charge
of the program and presented Mrs.
Fred Proffitt who gave a book re
view, “Mrs. Appleyard’s Year,”
and Mrs. Ernest Briggs who spoke
on Christmas decorations, using
as illustrations several beautiful
arrangements carrying out the
Christmas motif, which had been
placed through the rooms.
Guests were Mrs. Harry Hoskins
of Sheldon, -Vermont; Mrs. Daniel
Fouts of v Winston-Salem; Mrs.
Dixon Bailey and Miss Hope Bailey
of Burnsville.
A dessert coursi was • served by
the two hostesses..^
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