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Advertisers Give Best Buys V GLUME TVVENTY-ONE County Tournament To Begin Next Wednesday By Gerald Murdock Both the Yancey County Tour nament and the Tri-County Tour nament are to be played at Bur nsville this year. The standings and pairings for the Tri-County Tournament are not complete and will appear in this paper Avery Leads District In Salk Injection During 1956, the District Health Department 'and private, physi cians in Yancey, Mitchell and Avery counties gave a total of 12,679 injections of Salk vaccine, supplied through the State Board of Health, to residents of this district. These injections were given ' in each county to persons under 90 as follows: Yancey, 4195 doses; Mitchell, 3280;’ and Avery, 4998: and to expectant mothers: Yan cey, 131 doses; Mitchell, 22; and Avery, 53. The State Board of Health, the District Health Department, and the state 'and local medical socie ties join in urging all persons un der 20 and all expectant mothers who have not had the Salk vac cine, to receive it without further delay. After June 30, the State Board of Health may not have funds to buy more Salk vaccine for free distribution, in which case the vaccine would have to be bought and paid for locally by parents. BiJt~ E ’the more-important reason is that by taking the first dose of the vaccinq now and the next one four weeks later, a child will have time to build up some immunity against paralytic polio, before warm weather, even thou gh 7 months must elapse between the -second and third doses; The vaccine should be started as early as 3 months of age, ac cording to authorities in this field. There have been almost no reactions after the use of the vaccine, even in ba kies as young as 3 months. All private physicians in • the district have supplies of the Salk vaccine. It may also be obtained at any office of the District Health Department, on the fol lowing' schedule: Burnsville Mondays, 1-5 p. m.; Spruce Pine.— Mondays, 8:30 a. m. to 12 all day on Thursdays; Newlaml Tuesdays, 8:30 a. m. to 12; and Bakersville— Fridays, 1-5 p. m. PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN’S MEETING X —— The organization of Presbyter ian Women will hold their mon thly meeting n the church tonight JJhursday, Feb. 21) at 7:30. They "will ’‘enjoylooking over the re furnished nursery and under the leadership of Mrs. Joe Young,j will consider the parental coop eration required for the adequate Christian education of the child ren. Mrs. George Anglin is hostess. Mrs. Ralph Laughrun, president of the organization, and Mrs. O. K. Masters attended an executive committee meeting of the Presby terial Society in Grace Presbyter ian Church, Kingsport, Tennes see, on Monday. Next Sunday morning the sub ject of the sermon to be preached by the Rev. Warren S. Reeve will be "Life With God”. 1 ON N.C.HIGHWAYS RALEIGH—The Motor Vehicles Department’s summary of traffic deaths through 10 a. m. Febru ary 18, 1957: deaths through 10 a. m. Feb. 11, 1957: If safety Is worth a life, drive and walk carefully! next week. The standings for the girls are: ■ Burnsville and Clear mont tied for first place with 6-2 records; Bee Log second with 4-4 •record; Bald Creek an dMicaville tied for third place with 2-6 re cords. The Boys standings are: Clear mont first with a 7-1 record; Burnsville second with a 6-2 re cord; Micaville third with a 5-3 record; Bee Log fourth with a 6-2 record and Bald Creek fifth with an 0-8 record. The Tournament will begin Wednesday, Feb. 27 with Micaville girls playing Bald Creek girls at 7,: 30 and Bald Creek boys playing 1 Bee Log boys at 8:30. Thursday .Bee Log girls will play Clearmont 1 girls in the opener and Micaville boys will play Clearmont boys in the last game, Friday Burnsville girls will play the winner of the Micaville-Bald Creek game and Burnsville boys will play the win ner of the Bald Creek-Bee Log game. Saturday night will be the finals. Admission will be 25c and 50c for the first three nights and 50c and SI.OO for the final night. Officials will be Rogers and Brown. Get Permits Before Burning Trash, Warden Warns Burning permits are required by state law for any brush or debris burning within 500 feet of woodland. according to Craig English, Yancey County forest ranger. Burning may be done be tween the hours of 4 p. m. and midnight without a permit, he said. Permits may be obtained free of charge from Mr. English, the U. S. Forest Service Office, the county agent’s office, the ASC of fice, any district warden in the county, or ’stores in most com- I munities in the county. Town residents who plan to burn brush and debris should con tact Fire Chief Bob Hilliard con cerning the new town ordinance controlling burning within the city limits. j Spaghetti Dinner Sponsored By Juniors, Seniors In order to raise money for a trip to Washington, D. C. in the spring, the junior and senior 'classes of Burnsville High School are sponsoring a Spaghetti Sup per. It is to be given this Satur day, Feb. 23, between the hours of 5:30 and 8 p. m. in the school lunchroom. V Tickets are $1.50 for adults and SI.OO for children. Ldcal, Students Enter / Asheville Contest f Members of the Burnsville chapter of the Future Farmers of America will represent the local organization in a Ritual and Par liamentary Procedure Contest to be held in Asheville today. The contest includes schools in the Blue Ridge Federation of FFA, Yancey, Madison and Buncombe counties. Local students who will enter the contest are Dan Lewis, presi dent; Danny Wright, vice presi dent; Gerald Honeycutt, sentinel; Philip Bailey, reporter; Jerry Wil son, treasurer; and C. W. Edw ads, secretary. Advisor for the local organiza tion is R. M. Proffitt. DR. BELL IN WINSTON SALEM THIS WEEK Dr. W. L. Bell is attending a post-graduate course in the scien ce of .chiropractic care at Win ston-Salem this Week. His office • will be closed through the remain der of the week. i Regular office hours will be re sumed on Monday, February 25. X , \ L o 1 o a V# V V W V -A** The Yancey Record SUB. RATES $2 00 YEAR. BURNSVILLE, N. C., TIIURB DAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1957 Founders Day Program Featured A Founders’ Day program was featured at a meeting of the Bur nsville Parent-Teacher Associa tion Tuesday night in the school library. The program theme, "Through The Years”, showed the progress of the organization from the date of its founding to the present day. The devotional was given .by the Rev. Worth B. Royals, pastor of the Higgins Memorial Method ist Church. Representing the founders of the national P. T. A. were Mrs. Henry Stamey and Mrs. Fred Phoenix. Miss Sarah Hensley, program chairman, recognized the past presidents of the Burnsville P. T. A. and gave a history of the local organization from the date of its founding in to the pre sent day. J} A silent tribute- was pc id to Mrq. C. M. Cheadle, who served as the first president of the or ganization. Mrs. Cheadle was re presented by her vice president, Mrs. Charles Proffitt. Other past presidents who were recognized were Mrs. Zeb Hall, Mrs. R. W. Wilson, Mrs. H. Grady Bailey, Mrs. C. R. Hamrick, 'Mrs. Milton Higgins who was represented by her vice president, Mrs. C. P. Randolph, Mrs. Gameron Mcßae, Mrs, Olin Shepard, Mrs. Hershel Holcombe, Mrs. Clarence Burton? MrS". Annie Bennett, Mrs. Roy Ray, I. E. Clevenger and Don Burhoe. Mrs. James Ray, who is now serving as president, and Max Penland, vice president, also were recognized. - Mrs. Ray presented a 25-year certificate to Mr. Guss Peterson, a charter member of the organization^^ Students taking part on the program were Mark Bennett, Ist grade; Linda Laughrun, Bth grade; and Susan Mclntosh, high school, who represented a chall enge for the future of the organi zation. A song, "School Child’s Pray er”, the words of which were com posed by Mrs. Robert I. Wicker, was sung by Miss Hope Bailey accompanied by Mrs. Wicker. The program’ was concluded with a litany for parents and tea chers by Mr. Royals. DR. McRAE ATTENDS HEALTH MEETING Dr. Cameron F. Mcßae attend ed a meeting of health officers from all over the state, held Feb. 13 in the auditorium of the State Laboratory of Hygiene, Raleigh. Dr. Mcßae made the trip to Ral eigh in company with Dr. E. D. Loftin and Sterling Taylor of Marion, health officer and school superintendent respectively for McDowell County. Conrad Was Guest Speaker At Lions Meeting Lion George Conrad of Bakers ville was the guest speaker at the Lions Club meeting last Thursday night at the Presbyterian Church. Lion Conrad is a former district officer of Lions and is county farm agent in Mitchell County. He showed slides of the Rhodo dendron Festival on Roan Moun tain, sponsored annually by the Bakersville Lions and ’ Roan Mountain Tenn. Club. Conrad also explained the army reserve program in this area and described the new reserve build- A Ing here. M. F. Zuver, assistant county agent working the TVA Test Demonstration Program, was in ducted as a new member of the club. Lion L. G. Deyton was elected as a director to replace W. H. Anderson, who has been transfer red to Boone. The club approved SIOO. for glasses supplied through the N. C. Commission for the Blind. This money is to be spent locally by the County Welfare and Health Departments through their regu lar clinics. . ( j “DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY* Burnsville Boys Win 13 Games, Lose 3 » In Conference \ v By Gerald Murdock - Burnsville boys basketball 1 team has an excellent record now. The scheduled ggames have ; all been played and their record is complete. In the Toe River Conference Burnsville has won 13 games .end lost 3. In the coun ty they have a 6-2 record. Their overall record is 14 won and 4 lost. The extra game was with 1 Mars Hill; they won one and lost one with them. The other games lost were: Clearmont, Bakersville, Micaville,. • . _ : Their total scores, fist the year is 873 to their opponents 755. They have an average of 56 points per game to (#ieir oppon ents 47 points per game. Coach Vernie Wilson has an * excellent .-starting* -team and a good supply of reserves. The us ual starting liineup is: Donald Banks, a senior, is a good high scoring forward; Hr plays well under the basket and is one of the fastest members of tbe team. Raleigh Buchanan, a junior, the other starting forward is better on long shot and jump shots. He scores well and has a high average. Charlie Hensley, a junior, is- center for the team. He is good on rebounds and is also a good shpt. Lane Harris, a senior, is a guard. He is not a very high scorer but is a great help to the team with his good guard work. Frank Howard Lewis, a senior, is a high scoring guard. He has a -good set shot and is also good under the basket. The other players are: Raymond Fox, a junior, a guard is not a regular starter but he is needed a lot by tbe team when a, man fouls out or a player is unable to start. David Wheeler, a sopho more, is the substitute center. He plays "well under the basket and is capable of making several points in a game. ‘ • Space does not permit me to say a great deal about the rest of the team, but they all play an im portant part on the team. Needless to say if it were not for them there would be no team. They are: Tommy Ray, senior; Robert Wells, Terrell Randolph, Jakie Arrowood, juniors. - Parsie Hensley is manager for the team and Jerry Holcombe is the team’s score keeper. Future Farmers To Give Program - I At Club Meeting The February meeting of the j Men’s Club will be held Monday | night, Feb. 25, at 7 o’clock in the j Bald Creek Methodist Church. The ladies of the- Bald Creek W. S. C. S. will provide the supper Members of the Future Farm- | ers of America organization of Burnsville High School will pre sent the program, under the lead ership of Max Proffitt, vocational agricultural instructor at Burns vllie School. The March meeting of the Men’s Club will be the annual - Ladies’ Nngha, hetdat the Com munity House. There wil be a guest speaker for this meeting. South Toe Farmer Uses Unique Method For Erosron Earl Teague of South Toe area I has a good idea on stopping ero sion, according to Assistant County Agent Roger Hyatt. Tea#- gue bought some very eroded land several years ago, Hyatt said, and today- you can’t tell that it once was eroded. v Teague dug up blue grass sod and broadcast it over the eroded soil, then went back over the land and turned over the sod which had the roots turned up. Accqf:ding to' Teagug, this is the fastest and most economical way • of stopping erosion triat he has found. ... V" ~ ■ Child Injured In Auto Accident Sunday Three persons escaped serious injury's, in an automobile accident which Sunday night aseund 7:30, six miles west of Burnsville near Prices Creek. A car driven by Don Miller of Ramsaytown, slid to the wrong side of the road and collided with a car driven by Wallace E. Hen sley *of -Asheville, son of Geter Hensley of Celo. The ten-year-old j son of Wallace Hensley received facial; lacerations and bruises about the head and body. Both drivers escaped injury. A hearing is .scheduled for 2 -p-.-m:- -Saturday before -Magistrate •G. M. Angel. PremeasureMfcnT Os Tobacco Land Available ' T Fremea.surement of tobacco ac reage is available to all farmers -with--tobarco-atfotmentsy accord-' ing to fred L. Anglin, Yancey ASC office manager. The rate is $4.00 per farm with one field, and SI.OO extra for each additional field. Premeasurement is not com pulsory, Mr. Anglin said, but it is to the farmer’s advantage -to have the field measured before any tobacco is set. When the field is premeasured, an outline is' made with stakes and the farmer knows that he will not be over planted on his tobacco acreage. During regular tobacco measur ing time, a representative from the ASC office will visit .farms in the county. If a field ' has been premeasured, the reporter will simply check the stakes and get the farmer’s signature on the .ac reage report. Conservation Reserve The deadline for signing ..Con.-- servation Reserve contracts has Been extended "from March is/un- " til April 15, 1957. LEGION-AUXILIARY TO MEET TUESDAY The American Legion and Aux iliary will meet Tuesday evening, Feb. 26, at 7 o’clock for a covered dish supper meeting at the Com munity House. All members and friends are urged to attend. ' _ I y ijpaßr |C/i foitrlifflrytt" ■-- * " TOM HIGGINS BREVARD, Feb. 14—Tom Hig gins, pictured above, will be in ' + the starting lineup when Brevard i College basketball team plays in i the conference tournament at Harris High gym, Spruce Pine, February 21-23. Higgins , who leads the team in rgcftvering re bounds, was a star player at Bur nsville High School before enter ing Brevard College. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. 1/ B. Hig-1 gins, of Burnsville. - T Warrants Issued For i Drivers Blocking Firemen Seven warrants were issued . here this week for parking with , in 400 feet of a fire truck, block ing the fire truck’s source of sup ply and blocking the firemen in , carring out their duties, accord ing to Patrolman A. W. Rector. I The warrants were issued to violators following the fire truck Churcljes Film On Martin Luther Thefilm, "Martin Luther”, is to be shown ‘ Sat. night, Feb. 23, at ' 7:30 at the Borings Chapel Meth odist Church, and Sunday night, Feb. 24 at 7:30 o’clock at the Bald Creek Methodist Church. This film is the outstanding re-1 ligious film of our age. It concerns the life of a Roman Catholic monk who became the founder of the Protestant Church. It was filmed in Germany in the sur roundings in which Martin Luth er actually lived, and the film is a full length feature. There will be no charge for the showing of the film at Borings Chapel; however, a small admis sion of 25 cents will be charged at j Bald Creek to cover the cost of. securing the film. All persons in the county are invited to attend the showing of this outstanding movie. JVomen Hear Program On Music Appreciation The Woman’s Club met last Thursday evening at "the Commun ity House. Mrs. R. K. Helmle, president, presided' over the busi ness session. Mrs. Worth B. Royals presented a program on music appreciation, "Moods In Music”. Local talent taking, part on the program wer< Miss Marietta Atkins, who play ed two piano selections from a modern musical comedy; anc Charles Adair, who played e Cljopin Prelude. Hostesses were Mrs. B. R. Pen land, Mrs. Troy Ray, Mrs. Reece I Mclntosh and Mrs. W. E. Black. Wf' -’jft xK?fe-3j§BlMft %Sfib wSff JgmßSi BHl ' TfwjKnPfl LLOYD HENSLEY * BREVARD, Feb. 14 Lloyd Hensley, freshman at Brevard College, has been on the injured } list but is expected to see action I in the conferense basketball tour nament which will be played February 21-23 in the Harris High gym, Spruce Pine. Hensley has l been outstanding in recovering rebounds. The son of Mr, and Mrs. Harold Vance Hensley, of Burns ville, he was an outstanding ath lete at Burnsville High School before entering Brevard College. ■*» * - . NUMBER TWENTY-SIX last Saturday night when a barn on the Lee Banks farm in Pine Swamp community was complet ely destroyed by fire. The fire oc curred around 11 p. m. According to North Carolina law, Patrolman Rector said, a car shall not follow , within a distance of 400 feet, a fire truck answering a call to a fire outside the city limits; and parking Is not allowed within 400 feet of a fire truck. Regardless of the distance from the truck, jf a car blocks the source of supply or blocks firemen trying to reach the fire, it is a violation of the law. * Sm) Upon conviction, a violator is fined not less than $lO or more than SSO; ' a This law will be_rigidly enforc ed, Rector said. Church Club To Sponsor Box Supper The Methodist Men's Club of the Higgins Memorial Methodist Church will sponsor a box supper, beauty contest and cake walk, Friday evening at 7 o’clock In the cafeteria of the Firth Carpet’ Co. (old Duplan Plant’. This is a family affair. Bring your basket for a wonderful time. Admission will be 25c for child ren and 50c for adults. Beauty queens are Harry Bow en, "Ethel”; Ike Laughrun, “Mable”; Bruce Westall, “Dinah”; and J. H. Cooper, “Sally”. Vote for your choice lc a vote. CAP Unit Scheduled To Meet Friday The Civil Air Patrol will meet tomorrow night (Friday* at 7:30 in the Burnsville ' High School BuildingT” ”■ Company Comihander Carl Mc- Intosh was in Charlotte yesterday to pick up the orders and equip ment. All members are urged ■ ; attend so the organization can be activated and a training schedule begun as soon as possible. Hospital Report The Yancey Hospital reports eight births and forty other ad missions during the past week. The births include a daughter, Karen Denise, born Feb. 12 to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mclntosh of Burnsville; a daughter, Teresa Diane, born Feb. 12 to Mr. and Mrs. Vincent McMahan of Star Rt; a daughter, Mary Colleen, born Feb. 12 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Runion of Bakersville; a son, Burle, born Feb. 15 to Mr. and Mrs. Floyde Huskins of Celo. Also a son, Dale Edward, Lorn Feb. 15 to Mr. and Mrs. Edd Eng land of Rt. 3; a daughter, Shan non t Dale, born. Feb. 16 to Mr. and Mrs. David Styles, of Rt. 3; a son, not yet named, born Feb. 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Gardner of Burnsville; and a son, not yet named, born Feb. 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Conley of Bakersville. Other admissions included Mae Angel, Mary Martha Thomas and —- Glenna Gardner of * Burnsville; Ruby McMahan and Patricia Scorsone of Star Rt; Patricia Walker, Mary Elkina Nina Hon eycutt, Ronald Dean Fox and Edith Silvers of Rt. 1; Vernon Robinson, Bernice Norris, Mona Lee Robinson, William E. Norris and Liddie McCracken of Rt. 2; Helen England, Linda Silvers, Samuel Silvers, Irene Styles, Ruby Fox, Grady Penland, Irene Hullett and Kate Conley of Rt 8. Also Pansy Silvers apd Edith Edwards of Rt. 4; Robert Wilson, Cora Robinson and Rose McMa han of Micaville; Howard Biggs of Green Mtn.; Robert Webb of Toecane; Arthurene Huskins of Oslo; Mrs. R. W. Higgins of Bee Log; Sarah Webb, Alma Griffith, June Gouge and Dallas Gouge of Relief; John Higgins of Drexel; Julius JHenline and Mackie Pitman of Spruce Pine; and Norval Hen sley of Asheville. i. * '
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