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VOLUME TWENTY-TWO
New Law Requires Extra
Dollar For Auto License
RALEIGH The first two
wdek’s experience under North
Carolina’s new automobile liabil
ity insurance law indicate that
car owners generally understand
it, Motor Vehicles Department
officials., said this week.
During the first two weeks
there was some indication that
the- automobile owning public is
more familiar with the liability
insurance law than with the oth-
N«ws From The
County Agent’s Office
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°A sheep producers’ meeting
will be held in the County Court
house Friday night, January 17,
at 7:30 p. ip, -
Insurance on sheep and other
farm property will be explained
by a representative of a local
insurance company.
Plans for the dog warden pro
gram will be discussed and other
problems of sheep production will
be explained. All sheep producers
are urged to attend,
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All demonstration farmers will
bring: their record books for both
1967 and 1908 to the County Ag
ents Office Monday, January 20,
t 0 be summarised. Please consult
the schedule sent you and be on
time with your books completed.
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Dairymen and other cow own
ers will meet at the courthouse
Thursday, January 23, at 9:06 a.
m., to discuss mastitis control. If
you have not had trouble you pro
bably will. More dairy cows are
lost because of mastitis thaft TB
or bangs. A panel of veterinar
ians, producers, and state college
specialists will discuss the pre
vention and control of mastitis.
Don’t miss it)
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There will be an Apple Growers’
Meeting at Sprude Pine City Hall
January 16, at 10:00 a. m. State
College specialists will discuss
spraying and othter problems of
apple growers. All orchard men
in Yancey, Avery and Mitchell
counties are urged to attend.
Yancey Hospital
$ ... 4 ~ 11
Report _
BIRTHS:
A son, Larry, born Jan. 9 to Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Yelton of Rt. 1,
BakSersville.
A daughter, Jynd 0 Diane, bom
Jan. 8 to Mr. and Mrs. Raymon
Robinson of Rt- 3, Burnsville.
A daughter, Donna Lynn, born
Jan. 13 to Mr. and Mrs. Hubert
Young, Burnsvillk-
OTHER ADMISSIONS:
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Master Steven Briggs, Mrs*. Joe
Briggs, C. H. Hughes, Rt. 2, Bur
nsville; T. Luther Renfro, Rt. 1,
Green Mtn.; Lee Griffith, John
Young, Mrs. Mary Penland, Lithy
Austin, Hubert Justice, Mrs. Thel
ma Layell, Nina Marie Penland,
Burnsville; Master Tommy Har
ris, Star Rt., Burnsville; Miss
Mattie Fox, Mrs. Marjorie Edw
ards, Rt. 1, Burnsville; Mrs. Daisy
McCurry, Miss Tony Ann Thomas,
Mrs. Vlelvle Yelton, Green Mtn.;
Mrs. Gwenda Bodford, Rt. 3, Bur
nsville; Mrs. Eva Wallace, Mica
vtlle; MUs Brenda Higgins, Rt. 4,
Burnsville.
ON N.C.NIGHWAYS
Raleigh—The Motor Vehicles
Department’s summary of traffic
deaths through 10 a. m.—January
13. UM: |
Killed This Year: 20
Killed to Date Last Year: 43
Subscription: $2.00 Per Year
er new law which requires an ad
( ditional payment of $1 on each
license plate, the procfeeds t 0 be
. used for the driver education'of
I teen agerr in high school.
t 'y During the first week of the
tag sale 162 of the thousands of
, applications received by mail
t were returned for* the lack of an
5 "FS-1" 'certificate of insurance.
r But during the same period 497
. nailed applications were return
ed unfilled because car owners
‘tad not included the extra dollar
for education.
Officials reminded those who
j have not bought new tags yet
they nfay secure them over the
counter at branch offices or by
E writing direct to Raleigh. They
■ also emphasized the importance
• of having, in either case, an FS-l
for each license tag ordered, 1958
* registration card, and an extra
I dollar for plates formerly costing
I $lO or more.
Another indication is that many
■ are not yet ready to buy both
' their license plate ands the liabil-
I ity insurance they must have in
i order t 0 get their tags.
Officials estimate- there are
still somte 200,000 uninsured own
ers, although deadline for neW
tags comes February 15.
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In other words, the sale of
1958 license plates is proceeding
[ smoothly but slowly when com
pared to last year, according to
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Miss Foy Ingram, director of the
agency’s registration division.
By February 15, all autos and
trucks must be re-licensed, or be
' kept off the streets and highways.
And in the case of an overwhelm
: ing majority, the vehicle ownbr
must have automobile liability
insurance beforte he can buy his
■ license plate.
ACP Open To All
N. C. Farmers
Any Tar Heel farmer is eligible
to participate in the 1958 Agricul
tural Conservation Program and
may sign-up now to cooperate in
this national program of soil and
water conservation, Fred L. Ang
lin, Yancey County office mana
ger for the Agricultural Stabili
zation and Conservations County
Committee, said today.
To sign up, a farmer should con
tact his local ASC Office. In sign
ing a request under the ACP to
carry out approved soil and wat
er conservation practices, the far
mer does not obligate himself in
any- way, but he does make him
self eligible for program assist
ance In carrying out needed con
servation practices.
Under the 1957 Agriculturall
Conservation Program, approxi
mately 81,000 North Carolina far
mers used the Program to streng
then the Nation’s soil and water
resources. Anglin pointed out that
the fact that there are now ample
supplies of all major foods to
meet our domestic and export
needs is an indication of the ef
fectiveness of the program in
which the farmers and thfe Nation
share the cost of practices which
protect the Nation’s food and
fiber producing ability.
Farmers wh 0 cooperate in this
program must put up their share
of the out-of-pocket cost of the
approved conservation practices,
as well as perform all labor in
volved. In turn, the farmer and
the Nation enter into a contract
which works to the benefit of
both.
Alvin Pate, Chairman of the
Yancey County ASC Committee,
said that farmers of Yancey
County have until January 31 t
1958 to get in on the ground floor
and b $ eligible for assistance in
carrying out soli and wat£r con
i servatlon practices under the 1958
« Agricultural Conservation Pro :
t gram.
Chairman Pate urges farmers
> who have not signed up for 1958
I to contact their local ASC office.
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The Yancey Record
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‘Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey County”
4-H’er Proves
Poultry Is
Paying Enterprise
By Roger Hyatt
Assistant County Agent
Joan Gortney, of Green Moun
tain Community, is doing a bang
up job with her hens which she
grew from the 4-H Pullet Chain
last year, 1957. Last March, Joan
received 100 day-old Warren
Rhode Island chicks, and now
she has about 70 hens frdm which
she is receiving 50 eggs per day.
In November, Joan’s hens be
gan t 0 drop in production, so she
was advised to place a light in
the house. Shfe turns the light on
about 6:00 a. m. and keeps it on
until daylight and then she turns
it on about 5:30 p. m. and keeps
it on until 9:00 p. m. The first
week she used the light, egg
production picked up 10 to 12
eggs a day.
In December, Joan sold 135
dozen eggs at 60c per dozen for a
total of SB2. Her feed cost was S3O,
therefore, she had a net profit of
$52.
Joan has proved to her family
that poultry is a paying enter
prise if it is managed properly.
Her brother is anticipating being
a member of the Yancey County
Pullet Chain in 1958.
Yancey Pharmacy
Leased To McNeil
The Yartcey Pharmacy in Bur
nsville has been leased to William
McNeil, of Marion, by the owners,
W. A. Banks, Jack Patton and
Dr.. Melvin Webb.
Both Mr. McNeil and his wife
are natives of Yancey County and
former residents of Burnsville. At
pleeent, they are making tjbpir
home at the Banks’ Apartments
on Orchard Street and are plann
ing to build a home near Pensa
cola.
Health Dept. News
Recent visitors to the District
•Health Department from the State
Board of Health were Dr. Martin
Hines, chief of the Veterinary j
Public Health Section, and Dr.
Jacob Koomen, chief of the Com
municable Disease Section and
assistant director rof the Division
of Epidemiology. While here,
they visited the Firth Carpet
Company plant with the district
health director, and als 0 present
ed a program at the monthly
meeting of the Mitchell-Yancey
Medical Society on Jan. 8, in
Spruce Pine.
Everton B. Powell
Dies In New York
Services for Evterton B. Powell,
a resident of Burnsville since
IbM, were conducted Monday at
the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Culver Allan Smith of Ithaca,
N. Y.
Services wtere also held at 1 p.
m. Wednesday at the Hines Fun
eral Home in Washington, D. C.
Burial was in Rock Creek Ceme
tery, Washington, beside the
grave of Mr. Powell’s wife. They
had been married 62 years when
Mrs. Powell died a year ago.
Mr. Powell was born in 1872,
went to Washington from Indiana
as a young man in 1889, and lived
thlere for 30 years. He married
Isabel Douglas in 1894.
Mr. Powell lived in Maplewood,
N. J„ where he was an engineer
with the Radio Corporation of
America for many years. He re
tired in 1944, and he and Mrs.
Powell made their home In Bur
nsville. i
Surviving in addition to
Smith are a grandson, Navy
Commander Douglas A. Powell,
Jr., who is with the Staff Com
mand of the Seventh Fleet; a
granddaughter, Sarah Isabel
Powell of Asheville; and two
great-grandchildren.
BURNSVILLE, N. C, THURS DAY, JANUARY 16, 1958
Four Youths Arrested
Here Saturday
Four youths were arrested Sat
urday and charged with breaking
into the Halliday house on Chur
ch Street and -several buildings
on the grounds of Mt. Mitchell
Camp for „ Girls, Sheriff Terry
Hall reported.
Hall said the four now being
held in Yancey \ County jail are C.
A. Hensley, 16; Paul Wayne Mcln
tosh, 18; C. F. Gillespie, 16; and
Clarence Mitchell, 18, all of Bur
nsville. Bond for each one has
been set at $2,000.
Two of the boys, C. A. Hensley
and Clarenc e Mitchell, have waiv
ed preliminary hearing, . the
Sheriff sfaid.
Farm Pond Provides
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For Increased Milk
Production For
Yancey Farmer
By Lewis W. Dameron
Soil Conservationist
Nelson Woody of Jacks Creek
reports that his farm pond began
to pay off almost immediately af
ter being constructed late last
summer. Not in fish production,
but by increased milk production!
Mr. Woody constructed his pond
in a pasture where his water sup
ply dried up during late summer
and fall. Athough there was only
a small spring to feed the pond7
sufficient water accumulated in
the pond within several weeks to
provide water for his 20 head of
holstein dairy cattle. Nelson rb
ports that within a few days af
ter his cows had access to the
pond, his milk production in
creased.
Hoy. 'WnjffPhjji f ij.~l would be
: worth in terrhs of increased milk
production, Mr. Woody did not
know exactly; however, he said,
“I believe this pond will increase
my milk income at least SIOO a
year.” |
Os course this is not the only
value this pond will be to the
Woody family. Bluegill sunfish
were established in the pond last
October and largemouth bass -will
be added this spring. These fish
I will no doubt provide food for
I the family table, plus plenty of
“fishing fun” for all.
Fish for stocking purposes were
furnished free of charge .by the
Fish and Wildlife Service. Yan
cey Soil Conservation Service
personnel assisted Mr. Woody in
surveying, designing, and super
vising the construction of his
farm pond. ’
l|wo Yancey Men
Overcome By Fumes
Two Yancey County jaen were
admitted to Memorial Mission
Hospital about 3 p. m. Monday,
after they were overcome by
t fumes at the Hicks Corporation
plant in Asheville.
Thor Anglin, 47, of Bald Creek,
and Wayne Fox, 43, of BurnSville
RFD 3, were victims of fumes
created when a quantity of mag
nesium caught fire at the plant.
They were attempting to exting
uish the fire and inhaled sumps
from the burning metallic element
Their conditions were reported
as satisfactory.
Mrs. Shotts To
Entertain Presby
terian Women
Mrs. C. M. Shotts will open her
home this evening, Thursday,
January 16th, to the Presbyterian
Women’s Association for their
January meeting. Mrs. G t A.
Bradshaw will assist her as co
hostess. The leader of tlub meet
ing will be Mrs. John Young,
On Sunday, January 19th, - the
Holy Communion will be celebrat
ed at the Presbyterian Church in
the 11 o’clock service. The minis
ter, Rev. Warren S. Reeve, will
have as the theme of of the Com
munion meditation: “The Christ
Who Comes To Us”.
ij Whitener Bill :
| Would Reinstate
j' GI Home Loans
\ Representative Basil L, Whito
-3 ner, of the 21th Congressional D.r
--j trict, has introduced a bill to en
s courage new residential construc
tipn for veterans’ housing in rural
areas, .and small cities and towns.
’ _ Whitener bill is identical
to one passed by Congress during
} the closing days of the first ses
sion of the 85th Congress. The
bill was then vetoed by President
3 Eisenhower.
In his remarks to the House of
[ Representatives at the tim e of the
■ .introduction of the bill, Whitjenex
3 said: “It is my hope that this bill
can be given early consideration
by the Congress since a rebirth
j of a G. I. home loan program is
urgently needed in this country. .
All econo.mic reports seem tp in
dicate that there is a great need
the revival of this veterans’
.home loan program, with the
very realistic interest rate of 4M.-
per cent upon such loans”.
Whitener predicted that in the
light of developments in the
i homebuilding industry in recent
l months, that the White House
. would not disapprove this type of
t legislation again.
! COMMUNITY CLUB
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News
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r The Hardscrabble Community
- Club met January 10, at the
i home of Mr, Rassie Proffitt.
, They elected newgp officers for
f the next year as follows: Presi
. dent, Leslie Proffitt; vice presi
. dent, Mrs. Lee Evans; secretary
, and treasurer, Mrs. Handy Bai
ley; reporter, Mrs. Ernest Buck-,
ncr; song leader, Mrs. Biss Ran
dolph; scrap book, Mrs. Wintz
Mclntosh, Mrs. Otl* Proffitt an§
Mrs. Otto Proffitt. «
A large crowd was present with
the young people singing songs.
Brenda Buckner sang a solo and
Lewis Dameron, the soil and wat
i
er conservation leader, gave an
interesting talk on finer
contest.
m he ne.it meeting w.ll b e the j
10th of February. |
Yancey’s Industrial Growth Reflected In
Statistics * Released By Dun & Bradstreet
Each January business concerns
in all parts of the United States
receive from Dun & Bradstrfcet
requests for their annual finan
cial statement. This year the
number es requests going out na
tion-wide will approximate three
million, with over 100 going to
Yancey County businessmen.
The growth and the industrial
development of Yancey County
is reflected in statistics just re
leased by the credit reporting
firm. Thomas E. Kane, Manager
at Knoxville, which covers this
area, says that this year there
will be more requests for finan
cial statements made of business
concerns in Yancey County than
usual.
The Yancey County section of
the current issue of Dun & Brad
street Reference Book contains
listings of 150 local names com
prising manufacturers, whole
salers and retailers. It does not
include some .of the service and
“professional” businesses such as
barber and beauty shops, real es
tate and stock brokers. Thus the
figure of businesses in Yancey
County would actually be higher
than the 150 quoted above.
During 1958, Dun & Bradstreet
estimates they will be required to
make about 20 changes in the list
ings of business enterprises in
Yancey. County. These changes
will result from adding the names
of new businesses, and deleting
the names of those who have dis
continued; as well as accounting
for changes in ownership, trade
names and credit ratings. *
Better than 96 percent of all
commercial transactions in the
United States are made on credit
terms and the buyer and the sell
er are brought together by means
of credit information. *
When the owner of a business
or his accountant retartw <bis fi
nancial statement to Dun &
Priced Per Five Cents
Remote Lost Cove In
Yaocey Now Deserted
(Reprinted from the Asheville
Citizen-Times)
Velmfer Bailey, his wife Servill'a,
and their children, Priscilla, Hos
ea and Isaiah, have moved out of
Lost Cove, nfcver t Q return.
For a hundred years the strange
and isolated community of Bai
leys, Bryants, Arrowoods and Tip
tons, once as many as 15 families
lived and prospered in this almost
unknown corner of Yapcey Coun
ty. -
Velmer Bailey’and his family
were the last to forsake their old
homeplace. They, and the others
wild since last summer’s harvest
haVe turned down the steep
mountain trail for the last time,
have left behind them not a down,
at-the-heel Cluster of shacks, but
nine still sturdy- well-built homes,
one consisting of seven rooms.
“We don’t want to leave,” said
Bailey, “but we have no choice.
The others, have left. We can’t
stay here alone.”
Lost Cove is a good two-hour
tramp from Briscoe. Peterson’s
store at Poplar; the only way
from that direction being across
the railroad trestl e over the .an
gry winter waters of Toe River,
then along the Clinchfield Rail
road tracks that wind through
the gorge, until you see th e sign
painted on a rock pointing up in
to a forest of hemlocks and rho
dodendron.
All through the gorge, thunder
ing from rocky wall to wall, ech
des th e increasing roar of the riv
er, drowning out the music of
cascading, falling, leaping waters
from live . springs far above;
drowning out %ven the warming
clamor of an approaching dTeStl
train.
Surrounded by the Flat Top
Wildlife Refuge and hidden high;
above' the Toe, Lost Cove is a
place •to excite the wonder of any
visitor. Cleared fields, open to the
Sun and, rain, are protected from
erosion by rock walls. Whrt e iefap
j board houses rest on ro6k forinda-'
I tions amidst close-clipped lawns,
Bradstreet, the owner has taken
the first step in establishing his
responsibility as a seeker of credit
The statement becomes a part
of the credit report on his busi
ness along with a financial analy
sis, a description of what the
business does and a record of how
it pays its bills.
On the basis of the information
in the report, a rating is assigned
and the businessman is listed in
the Dun & Bradstreet Reference
Book. This makes it possible for
his suppliers and insurance un
derwriters, who use the book to
look him up and in this way he
is assisted in getting his goods
and insurance.
In other words should a manu
facturer or wholesaler receive an
order for merchandise from a
merchant in Yancey County, the
listing and the rating of the mer
chant can be checked in the Re
ference Book. And it mhk<es no
difference where the seller is lo
cated. The listing of the -Yancley
County businessman appears in
every issue of the Reference Book
ip the United States.
A Reference Book listing con
tains the names of the business
and the rating. The rating con
sists of two symbols. The first,
a letter of the alphabet, indicates
financial strength of capital. It ie
the difference between what the
business owes and what it owns.
The second symbol, a numeral,
reflects a composite of financial
stability and payment record. '
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: Burnville PTA TO
Meet Tuesday Night
The Burnsville PTA will meet
• Tuesday night, January 21, at
7:30 in the school lunch room.
Advertisers ?
Give The Beet BuyS]
number twknty-onb
still green long after summer.
Clear cold springs well up from
’ rocks and tree roots, gather force,
and run sinking through the cove;
the sound of them is everywhere.
In December th e place was lovely;
what can it be in spring, with the
peach and apple and wild
plum in bloom?
Th£ fove consists of a three
hundred .acre tract of land, be
lieved to, have been acquired
, shortly before the Civil W r ar by
Morgan Bailey, who built the first
ciabin there. Five generations "of
his children and grandchildren
and great-grandchifdren not only
survived there without, the mod
ern conveniences of electricity,
telephone, and water pipes, but
prospered and° lived .together in
peace. They attended one church,
one school. As far back as any of
them can remember, there has
been a" sawmill. Once there was a
corn mill,, and 'even a store.
When asked what the commun
ity did when a doctor was need
ed. Velmer Bailey answered,
“We’ve stayed pretty healthy.
The water is the best in the world,
and contagious diseases
reached us. But, above- all, we
had faith in the Lord.”
Inside the homes can be found
doors of unusual panel design,
joined with wooden pegs; fire
places of stone and clay; cook
stoves intriguingly named “Diana”
In the yards ar e the neat barns,
corn cribs, „ a few ancient hewn
log structures belonging to homes,
of past generations. One unus
ually minute barn, was complete
with hail and four stalls, but
high. Beehives everywhere. the
honey, regardless of winter, tast
ing tangy with a streak of sour
wood.
In addition to the path already
mentioned, there are two other
way's of reaching Lost Cove,
neither of them simple. One is a
rough road leading up from Lost
Cove Station, two miles around
Jth£_.£encL beyond ...the path. From
here the household furnishings
of the people moving out had to
be loaded on a freight car and
shipped to their destination.
Th e other way, winding up over
a shoulder of Flat Top Mountain,
is the sled road, which in the old
days was quite passable. It was
a county road then, and kept in
condition by a system of free lab
or that was common at on e time
throughout the mountain- region.
Now it is run down and rarely
used, the shortest and quickest
communication with the nearest
post office and stor e being by the
footpath and the railroad tracks
across the trestle to Poplar. For
lack of a road Lost Cove has
lost its. people.
They have not sold their land
and their homes. No one has of
fered to buy. Yet the 10 or 12
lots which make up the original
Morgan Bailey tract are for sale
either to the Wildlife Commission
or to those who have the vision
and the means to keep this lovely
land from melting back into the
forgotten past.
On the wail of the schoolhouse,
the building that for mor e than
half a century served both as
school and church, can be sefcn
these words:
"Last Sunday School, Nov. 26,
1957; Last Revival, Nov. 1956,
Clyde Fender, Evangelist. School
closed forever at Lost Cove Dec.
17, 1957, Sinclair Conley, 75 yrs.”
Conley, in spite of rheumatism,
trod the path from Poplar to the
cove, week in and week out dur
ing the school season, for years,
in order to give of his wid e know
ledge to she boys and girls of a
people who richly deserved his
efforts. They were far from stup
id or dull, th*se children, If we
can judge froth Hosea and Isaiah.
They showed a promise which was
engendered by the atmosphere of
Lost Cove Itself.
Today, except for the chuckle
of the streams, of whispering
rain on wooden shingles,..the oc
ter, the cove lies silent waitlne
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