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A HvprtiHcrK -Tkit? v i a Give Best Buys VOLUME TWENTY-ONE - -- —■ — - -- ■*— i Two Injured In Auto Accident Saturday Night Two men were injured Satur day night wh6n their cat* l hit a power pole and then ran into the side of a barn on US Highway 19 about eight miles west of Burns ville. The accident occurred around 9:45 p. m. Saturday. Injured were Charles Roscoe Rubber Co. Sponsors Soil Conservation Akron, Ohio—Plans to cohtinue Goodyear' 'Tire & Rubber Com ' pany’s soil conservation awards program for the tenth straight year were announced today at St. Louis. “ A. H? Settle, director of the firm’s soil awards program, out lined his company’s future con servation awards plans to 2000 members of the National Associa tion of Soil Conservation Dis tricts, who are attending the or ganization’s- annual meeting. He said his company’s fourth anual program on a national scale ends on April 30 and the new pro gram year begins on May 1. The Akron rubber firm conducted its contests to provide recognition for outstanding soil conservation dis tricts and most cooperative far mers and ranchers on a regional basis for the first five years. Competition in the awards pro gram is conducted on state lev els. Judging is done by state committees of outstanding o lead ers of soil conservation. JsJrand award in the yearjy con test is’ a vacation trip to Ari zona’s luxurious Winter resort, the Wigwam, at Litchfield Park, each December. Winners receive also bronze plaques at regional meetings or NASCp. « Arizona vacation trips go to one hundred of the nation's top foil conservationists, fwo from cash of 50 competing unifs. M°fe than 600 of the nation's leading , exponents of sound soil conserva tion have made the- vacation ex , Arizona thus far. The country is divided equably for competition purposes into 50 bal anced sections rather than follow strict state lines. Grand award winners in each unit are the out-: Standing farmer from the best district and one member of first place district governing body, selected by voting members. Employment For Handicapped In gtate Increases RALEIGH A total of 6,311 physically handicapped persons were placed on jobs in North Carolina during the past year, (he Employment Security Cam jnission reported today, This was a slight Increase over the 6,246 placements in 1955, one of the Commission’s best years in placement of the physically han dicapped. “The increase in placement of .the physically handicapped though moderate follows a pattern that has developed in re centyears," ESC Chairman Henry E. Kendall said. “It is encourag ing to note that more and more North Carojina employers are ye? alizing that a properly placed handicapped worker is just as est ficient as his able=bodicd co worker,” ■ JJd I *wills«i>RE ON N .HIGH WA r S RALEIGH—The Motor Vehicles Department’s summary of traffic deaths through 10 a, m. February 4, 1987: Killed This Year: 110 . Killecl to Date Last Year: 9? If safety is worth a lfte, drive at)d walk carefully! J V « i s.'d v \.\t \ * ,v « l J. 'a.* -uUD w w ju. - J vv u;. v - w ■ The Yancey Record I Pate, 23, of Burnsville, and Clyde Mclntosh, 23, of Route 1, Burns ville. Both men were taken to the Yancey Hospital .for treat- I ment. Mclntosh, who is still in the hospital, was reported to be in good condition. Pate was dis charged from the hospital Mon day. i State Highway Patrolman^”*A. W. Rector stated that the inves tigation is not compllete ‘at this time. It appeared that the driver j lost control p it high speed, he ■ said. Both men were thrown out i of the car. Patrolman Rector identified ; the car as a "Police Ford Inter ceptor”, a vehicle manufactured > for law enforcement officers. . Preliminary Hearing Waived In Assault Case «* / ■ The preliminary magistrate’s hearing for Eugene Proffitt, who is charged with assault with al deadly weapon with intent to 1 , kill after he allegedly shot Ralph 1 , Peterson on the morning, of Dec. 1 31, has been waived to the March I term of Superior Court, accord-1 ing to Yancey Sheriff Terry Hg|l. The hearing was for Wednesday. «• It was necessary for Peterson to return to the Memorial Mis sion Hospital, Asheville, on Tues day of this weqk for further treatment. Peferson ha<j been hospitalized iq Asheville since the shooting and had been at his home here for one - week before his return to the Asheville hos pital. Sheriff Hall stated that he had been notified by Proffitt's attor , ney that a writ of habeas corpus will be served to bring Hall be / fore Judge Frank Huskins on ' Saturday, Feb, 9, at 10 a. m. In an' effort to lower the 36,000 bond' on which Proffitt is being held in the Buncombe County jail. The bond was set at $6,00Q by Magis trate Gaston M. Angel. Medical Society Urges Thirci Polio Shot Raleigh, Jan, 19 —In a final re port on the Emergency Poliomye litis Vaccine program conducted last summer by the Medical So ciety of the State of Caro lina, a spokesman for the Society urges persons who had the first two inoculations then to avtpl themselves of the third s)hot now. The third dose should be given Seven months after the 'second. For persons who received their first two po|io during the July to September campaign the proper time for the third ap proaches, , f Dr. S. F. Ravenel of Greens boro, Chairman of the State Medi cal Society’s Emergency Polio myelitis Vaccine Committee, says that more than 269,000 vaccina tions were given duriiig the em ergency campaign last summer. The State Medical Society through its Emergency Po|iqmyp litis Vaccine Commie under took the mass) vaecinatlon cam paign in the summer of 1956 to encourage persons in the most susceptable age brackets ,to ob tain polio vaccine as a protective measure, In addition to the clinics, em phasis was placed on the immuni zation program in the offices of private practioners. In most cases the mass clinics were named by private practicing physicians who volunteered their services. As a precaution against polio In 1957, Dr. Ravenel stresses the importance of beginning Salk Vaccine shots now for persons who have not previously Been Immunized so that at least the second dose can be administered by March 1. “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY” ' ... . rs.- SUB. RATE 3 $2.00 YEAR. BURNSVILLE, N. C„ TJIUHSDAr, FEBRUARY 7, 1957 . r . rl “BIG BROTHER AWARD” I In a. . White House ceremony, Pre sident Eisenhowef presented ac tor-comedian' Danny Kaye with a | scroll honoring him as Big. Brot her of the Year 1956. The award was in recognition of Kaye’s un selfish contribution of time and talent in bringing hope for a bet ter future to, children all over the' world. Automobile Clips Telephone Pole In Two '•-u ««mcvmT>e Omn/ty men es j caped serious injury Wednesday i evening in a wreck west of Bur i nsville which completely ° de molished the car in which they were traveling. According to State Highway Patrolman Pruett, Robert Miller, 22, and Glen Ray White, both of Rt. 3, Asheville, crashed Into a telephone pole across the high way a few yards east of Economy Center, ripping the pole in two. Miller, the dHYep, lost control of the eastward bound car just before reaching the Economy Center, ran off the pavement on thp right of the highway, then swerved back across the road in a skid to clip off the pole, Patrolman Pruett said.' The 1941 Pontiac In which the men were riding had skid completely around and was head ed toward Asheville when it struck the pole. The right side of the vehicle struck the pole. The driver of the automobile was not injured. White, the pas senger, suffered laceration? abpve the right eye and op the nock, the Patrolman said. The Injured man was treated by a local doctor. Cause of the accident was said to be a wet pavement and ex cessive speed. The driver of the automobile was cnarged with reckless driving. Pruett stated that for the first sixdays of February three acci dents in the county kgd been inr i vestigated, while only three wer* reported during the month of January. T- • c Historic Guide Lists , Nu Wrsy Inn | North Carolina's historic hom- ’ es and other structures of inter est to tourists are described in a new guide just issued by the * State Advertising Division in Raleigh. Listed in the guide is the Nu- Wray Inn, established in 1833. The Inn has been operated by the Wray family for three gener ations and is noted for its family style table and early-Amepcan furnishings. Geographically, the structures listed in this guide cover the '‘Variety Vacationland State” from "the GrW Smoky Mountains' to the Atlantic Ocean, The new guide is available free on requestfrom the State Adver tising Division, Department of Conservation' and Development, Raleigh, N. C. <■> W ———mx—— ymmmm — DEACON FELLOWSHIP MEETING CANCELLED Due to unavoidable circum stances, the Deacon Fellowship 1 of the Yancey Baptist Assaoia • tion will not r hold the regular t quarterly meeting which was I scheduled for February 10. i All deacons and pastors will be ! notified as to the time and place I of the next Deacon Fellowship meeting. « , Burnsville Girls Tied For First Place In Conference By Gerald Murdock The Burnsville girls basketball team has a good record this year. They are second in the Toe River Conference with an 11-3 record. They are tied for first place in the County with Clearmont with a 5-2 record with both teams yet to play Micaville. Burnsville has scored 815 points this year to their oppon ents 639 total points. They have an average of 58 points per game to their opponents 45 points per game. Coach Woodrow Anglin has 8 players who are regulaar starters, Judy Briggs McCurry, one of the leading scorers, is a Senior. She Is now one of the most ex perienced players on the team. Evaline Bennett is a Senior at Burnsville, another high scoring player. ’ :v She has played both guard and forward on the ‘team, but this year she has held down a place at forward. Nancey Brown,' a junior, is an excellent scoring forward and J'can look forward to a good year next year. Suzie McCurry, a junior and the other starting forward, is a good long shot artist and also has another year to play. The defensive part, which has been an outstanding factor /or the success of the Burnsville team, is made up of Lillian Berry Silvers, a Senior, who Is playing her first year on the team and is doing an excellent job of de fense; Vera Angel, a Senior, who is a good and more experienced guard; Dolly Woody, a junior, another good guard who has ano ther year-on the team; and Libby Gardner, a junior, who also has another year on the team. Other players are: Senior, Ruth Thompson; Juniors, Linda Banks and Cynthia Randolph; Sopho mores, Judy Ray, Mary Martha Ray, Brenda Anglin, Shirley ’Gardner and Jean Shepherd, i Betty Wells is manager of the team. Automobile Horse power Cut Asked By AAA Charlotte, N. G—ln calling for a legal halt to the preset k/aca»- power race by automobile manu facturers, Thomas B. Watkins, president of the N. C. State Au tomobile Association, today de clared, “The time has come when egr makers should give serious t thought to the death potential they are creating by steadily in creasing |hp horsepower of auto* mohites,, "While this question up tq this time has been considered a more lor less untouchable subject, this j I club, acting in the interest of the motoring public, must goj ’on record as favoring a reduction of horsepower as the most logi cal way of reducing our moun tain highway fatalities,” he said. “Our grandfathers would have had tpore sense than to use a twenty-mule team to bring home a bushel of potatoes, and yet we give the fantastic power of the new cars, some with a ridiculous three-hundred-plus horsepower, to opr wive? to' go shopping, to our teen-age children for their en joyment, pnd to ourselves to commute to work.” Congress members have ex- I pressed growing concern over the increasing number of traffic fa talities, which reached a record 40,200 last year. Sen. Gore (D- Tenn.) suggested that the "time may come when some regulation ot horsepower and highway speeds may be necessary." He referred to action by Congress. DR. WHISNANT TO BE OUT OF TOWN Dr. C. M. Whisnant will be out of his dffic* next week on Mon day, Tuesday and until 1 o’clock Wednesday. Dr. and Mrs. Whis -1 nant and daughter, Lela Ruth, ! will be special guests of the Eli 1 Lilly Pharmaceutical Company to Indianapolis, Ind. * ;J. ■■ ' . ' ' I Rep. Holcombe Leaves For Legislative Duties Yancey County Representative l Harlon Holcombe, member of the . 1957 General Assembly, left - Tuesday for Raleigh in order to , be present for party caucuses Tuesday night and for\ the con i verting of the House oP Repre ; sentatives at noon Wednesday. Reyresentative Holcombe was i accompanied by Mrs. Holcombe, . who will remain in Raleigh until f the end of the week in order to attend the receptions, the pre inaugural ball, and other social events on the program for the week. The new Legislature formerly opened Wednesday at noon .in their Capital chambers. A joint General Assembly session meet ing at noon today (Thursday) will see Governor . Luther H. Hodges and other state officials take their oathß and hear the governor’s inaugural rtiessage. i The capital city’s Memorial Auditorium will be the scene today i for the inauguration ceremonies when Governor Hodges will take the oath for a four-year term. Hodge's is the first chief exeeju-' tive to succeed himself In mod-. ern times. In his inaugural address, the governor will not detail his leg islative program, but will have p separate message for the: General Assembly at a later date. Nine other top state officials also be' sworn In today for new terms, with only one being new to his office. He is Lt. Gov ernor Luther H. Bamhardt of Concord, elected to fill the post left vacant two years ago when Hodges moved up to the chief executive on the death of’ Gover nor William B. Umstead. A military escort will bring Governor and Mrs. Hodges from the Executive Mansion in Mem orial Auditorium shortly before noon today. A 19-gun salute will boom for the state’s first couple when they leave the auditorium ( after the inaugural ceremonies. After reviewing a Darade, the governor and the inaugural party will return to the Executive Man sion for a buffet luncheon. They will meet the public at a two hourreception at the mansion to night. February 15th Deadline On License Plates RALEIGH Tar Heel enr and truck owners are securing their new license plates at pretty much the same rate as last year, accord ing to Motor yeWcle Department officials. \| ' Deadline for--display of the new license plates, a single tag to be attached to the rear, is midnight, 1 Feb, 18, Illegal use of 1966 tags {after \ that date constitutes a ' misdemeanor, officials warned, and calls for a fine of $lO and court costs upon conviction. jyt. H b O' v- ■ s \ FLOOD DISASTER ’STATUS President Eisenhower declared three states, Virginia, West Viral nia and Kentucky to be in a state ( of flood disaster as the continued spread of death and misery " strikes out at a seven-state area. Flood warnings are still being * issued to new areas as some of the towns begin to clean-up in the 1 wake of passing floods. Shown, >bpve, National Guardsmen in ' Pound, Va., remove furniture from a home. Arrow .shows the high water mark on this new: brick home. * IfilAJ . Rural Telephone Committee Asks For More Applications Rural families who desire tele -1 phone service should make appli -1 cation immediately through the Rural Telephone Committee or the county agent’s office, accord ing to E. L. Dillingham. t To the present time more than one hundred rural residents have made application. The committee and Agriculture Department in the county are interested in helping secure phone Brief History Os State Distributed To Libraries . *" . . ‘* «v • - A widely accepted story of how ' North Carolinians came to be called Tar Heels, the “Tar Heel Toast”, a brief history of the ' State and the stories of its flag, motto, Great Seal, song and illus trations in full color of North I Carolina’s official State flower j and bird are contained n the 1957 . edition of “The Tar Heel State”, | just published by the State Adver tising Division of the Dept, of Conservation & Development and obtainable free on request. • The 8-panel folder also has a map, in color, showing the 100 counties and surface divisions of the State, and pictures of the Capitol and' Blue Ridge Moun tains in full color. The new publication was pro duced primarily for use as a‘ general background source in con nection with other literature in acquainting students with the opportunities for employment and advantages of living in North Carolina. It is being distributed through schools and libraries both within and outside the State. It is used in combination, with another Advertising Divis- j ion publication, “Facts About I North Carolina”, a current statis tical summary. Scout Court Os Honor Scheduled The monthly Boy Scout Court of Honor for the Mayland District will be held at 7:00 p. m. Thurs day, Feb, 7, in the Spruce Pine Presbyterian Church. All Scouts and their parents and friends are asked to attend. This will be the last Court of Honor in this district for Bob Garner, who has served the May land District as Field Scout Exe cutive for the past eleven years. He has accepted a similar posi , tion In ' the Central eGoorgia Council. , ' Harry A. Lantz, district chair man, and Dr. Cameron F. Mcßae, district commissioner, urge all friends of Mr. Garner to turn out so that this Court of Honor will be a memorable one for him. “Advertisers - Give Bert Buys NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR - service for fanners and other? in - rural communities if residents of e the areas are interested in the r server. Mont of the applications filed to date have been from the Egypt ! Ramsaytown section, with others ; from Brush Creek, Green Moun tain, Pensacola and South Toe. ; Mr. ‘Dillingham said that if , enough persons apply for tele ; phone service,-the committee and other county agencies will hold . meetings with the telephone com pany now serving Yancey County and with State R. E. A. officials in an effort to secure service for these communities, Members of the committee to whom application may be made are Dr. Ost, Dr. Whisnant, and j John Randolph. ; A “good faith” fee of $lO must b& paid when the application iu . filed, Mr. Dillingham said. How , ever, if service is not secured, the . fee will be returned to the indi viduals. , Yancey County is next to the ■ j bottom of all counties in the state : in rural telephones, Mr. Dilling ham said. Hospital Report The Yancey Hospital reports two births and twenty-five other admissions during the past week. The births include a son, Rob -1 ert Chris, born Jan. 29 to M!r. and Mrs. Robert Boone of Rt. 2, Burnsville; and a son, not yet named, born Feb. 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Hughes of Rt 2, Burnsville. Other admissions were Fairy Robinson, Barbara Lovelace, Lee Ester Ball, Charles Pate, Mary Garland. D. fL Covington and j Geneva Bailey, all of Burnsville; | Laura Rathburn of Star Rt., Bur- I nsville; Mary Davis, Clyde Mcln tosh, Omega Mclntosh and Ruby Wheeler of Route 1, Burnsville; Adam McCurry, Vernon Robin son an 4 Dessie Wilson of Rt. 2, Burnsville; An ice Shepherd of Route 3, Burnsville; G. W. Wheeler of Route 4, Burnsville; Alice Bailey and Dock C. Bailey of Green Mtn.; Virginia Barnett of Relief; Rosa Edwards, Francos Conley, Wade Willis, Elizabeth Hughes and Helen Runion of Bakersville; Local Group Plans Pen Women Organization A group of local women met last Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. R. K. Helmle for the purpose of making plans to ward the organization of a branch of thd "'National League of American Pen Women. Miss Elta Handte Blanchard, N. C. State president, and Mrs. Evelyn Fairchild, both of Ashe ville, were present at the meet ing to explain the functions of the organization and to help with plans for organizing the local branch. .. The Natipnal League "of “Ameri can Pen Women is an organiza tion composed of writers, artists, musicians, and those interested in crafts of various kinds. Pro spective members must have sold at least two items in their field to be eligible for membership. Those who are interested in be coming although they have not sold . any of their work, may join as associate members. Those present at the meeting in addition to Miss Blanchard and Mrs. Fairchild were Itfrs. Fred Proffitt, Mrs. Joe Godfrey, Mrs. Ralph Laughrun, Mrs. Guss Peterson, Mrs. Eriing Tontiess, Miss Hope Bailey, and the hos tess, Mrs. R. K. Helmle. v ! s-r ■ v ~ f ' ■ Saturday, - March 2, at 3 o clocß.
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