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' -1.1. ■■■- ■ . 1■" ■■■■■ A THE YANCEY RECORD Established July, 1936 ARMEY ani TRENA FOX CO-PUBLISHERS A EDITORS MISS HOPE BAILEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR f. L. BROWN SHOP MANAGER Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY 1 -- L -*■* A Partnership * Second Class Mall Privileges Authorized at Burnsville, «. C. THURSDAY. JUNE 19, 1968 NUMBER FORTY-THREE SUB. RATE $2.00 PER YEAR »■■■>■ - J * -- Overlook On Life - 1 By WARREN S. REEVE L The idea of “Overlook” is taken front the Overlooks provided tor viewing panoramas along the Blue Ridge Parkway. 1 — - —» History shows, I think, that de mocracy does., not always work successfully, not always, even among people that are supposed to be highly civilized. Whether or not we could go so far' as to say that recent developments in France and in Algeria indicate that demo cracy there had failed might be a debatable question. Careful think ing, however, will make clear to us that there are degrees of failure and degrees of success. What has happened recently in France and in Algeria is evidence that demq rcatic thought and < practise have have fallen far short of working in a perfect way, and that they have, in fact, failed to a certain degree. My thesis is, that if a democrat ic society is to be a safe and happy society in which to live, the people who make up that society have to b e people with disciplined charac ter. When things go along nicely," when ther e is prosperity, \yhen everybody had a job and few peo ple gre poor, a democratic social order and political structure will work all right. Even a non-demo cratic system will sometimes work smoothly and without being chall enged by public ’ opinion when peace and prosperity prevail. But let trouble come on a people. Let there be widespread unemploy ment. Let there be poverty. Under such circumstances, groups or blocs are likely to form, and by bringing into their circle the right personalities, they may, even though they are numerically j@nly a small minority, be able to take over the government. They may succeed in throwing democracy out. Such is the general pattern of what has happened numerous times in the last one hundred and fifty years. It happened in Ger many twenty-five years ago. It is probably happening in the Near East country of Lebanon today. Ther e is at least a semblance of this kind of a development in France right now. We Americans who so often pay devout lip service ,to democracy arte self-deceived if we let the concept of democracy be un qualifiedly exalted as the supreme system of political and economic See Us For The Best \ \ DRUG BUYS for SUMMER WHY PAY MORE ? - You can’t buy a better prescription service at any price. ** Jr-*. Bring your doctor’s prescription to nil »- v W. M. McNEILL, Manager W. E. BLACK, Pharmacist Tel. MU 2-2485 BURNSVILLE, N. t* social order. The order of democracy is in deed a' great idea. It presupposes, however, a certain faith that every being and that all the larger and smaller group ings of human beings that there are in the world are each of infi nite' worth. assumes, furthermore, that the rank and file of people have* good sense.-A suc cessfully working democratic po litical and social order means that th e majority of the people are endowed with good judgment and. that they have sufficient strength of character both to do what is right and to insist that what is right shall be done by them all as a group. Let us examine, now, these pre mises of the philosophy of demo cracy. Do we all indeed believe that every single human individ ual is a creature of infinite worth? Are we persuaded, without one tinge of doubt, that even the most primitive human creature is worth an infinite sacrifice, worth dying for? Such a question, taken ser iously, may well caus e us great heart searching. It will make us. loth, I think, to babble too facil ely about the universal practical ity of democracy. The next premise is that people _ as a whole have good sense. How do you answer that preposition? ' My answer is: Sometimes they : have; sometimes they haven’t. On 1 occasion, they will surprise the 7 world by the uncanny wisdom that ! inheres in a popular mass instinfct. 7 But on as many occasions the 7 things that a majority cry out for will be all wrong. A majority were ! Th favor of the crucifixion of * Jesus Christ. A majority of Fren ‘ chmen in 1939-1940 approved, I * suppose, of collaboration with ■ , Hitler. | Thus, I say, th e opinion of she f majority is not reliable. You can’t 1 count on it as being right. It is sometimes right, but it is often ' wrong. There is always need for 7 a searching analysis of every sig nificant popular idea or enact * ment, to see wherein it is right : and wherein it is in order. : Th e third great premise of de- r - % Effective Way To Secure Industry (from N. C. Industrial Newsletter) Remembered by many,, practiced"? by many, and probably ignored by too many Is the age-c'i maxim that “The Lord helps those who help themselves.” This old Truism may well be applied to those of you who are endeavoring to provide more; in dustrial payrolls for the communi ties in which you live and at the same time help build a bigger, bet ter and more prosperous North Carolina. “Yes, the good Lord does help those who help themselves. This fact is made crystal clear by the results being obtained at local levejs throughout North Carolina. It is especially true of communities which hav e live, ac tive development organizations, whose members work together for the common good of their respec tive areas. Furthermore, this fact was re cently brought into sharp focus by Harry W. Clark, former executive director of Wilmington’s Indus trial Development Council and now mocracy is that the people as a whole hav e what we call “charac ter”. They are people both with a conscience, and with the moral courage to see that what is" right is done. "* T When we come to talk about how much character and how much moral courage a group of people, perhaps even a whole nation of people, have, we are dealing in a generality that is hard to handle. How much character, how much moral courage, let us ask, do the people of Burnsville have? The question is almost unanswerable. Even if there were available a measuring rod to guage how much each individual had, we should find it difficult to give an answer about a whole community of peo ple. And if we go pn to speak of "the whole United States, the diffi culty, of course, becomes many times greater. In view, then, of this intangible aspect of the problem of demo cracy, there may be those who ' would challenge me when Igo on to suggest that the frequent poli ""ticai disorder and revolutions in Latin America, and the* political instability of France in recent -de cades reflect a widespread inade quacy of “character”, an unhappy deficiency in moral courage in those peoples. Let us conclude by urging it upon us all that here in America , the destiny of democracy hinges , on the moral' character of all our people. It hinges on you and me. . If we begin to cease to be a dis ciplined people,»we are already sounding the death kneel to demo cracy. Discipline we sorely need, I feel self-discipline; (jiscip ’ line of tongue; discipline of ap petite; discipline for work; dis cipline for being “different” from the crowd when the crowd starts to go off on the wrong track; ' discipline to tak e 'the hard way, I when the hard way is called for. I Democracy is in crisis. What do j you and I do about it? I MOB YANCEY RECORD vic e president of Fantus Area Re search, Inc., with headquarters in Atlanta. , 1 Addressing some 80 business men attending the Industrial 1 Workshop sponsored at Elkin by 1 the Northwest North Carolina De- 1 velopment Association, the ener- ’ getic Mr. Clark urged-develop- 1 ment of active area organiza- 1 tions r community organizations, * and efforts of individuals as an I effective combination! to.’ guide and promote a community’s indus trial development. Said Mr. Clark and we quote 1 him: “America will change wheth- 1 er Northwest North Carolina 1 changes or not—and communities 1 which do not quite fit into tha industrial picture will dry up.” We agree, Mr. Clark, Fire Chief Urges Clean-Up Fires that started in rubbish caused property loss of $11,000,000 in IPSC. Old magazines and newspapers, discarded clothing and furniture piled into attics, basements and garages and store corners and .dried leaves dropped 'by the wind around buildings give fire. |i good place to start. “Take tim e to clear out these • accumulations of rubbish,” advis ed Fire Chief Bob. Hilliard. “You may avoid a fir e that,, could de stroy your property and your ; neighbors.” J. W. Howell Dies At 91 Final rites for John' ’ Wesley! Howell," 91, Yancey County mer-' chant for many years who died at his home at Green Mountain, on Wednesday, June 11, were con ducted -at 2:30 p. m. Frida/" in Green Mountain Presbyterian Church. Masonic rites were con ducted by the Bald Creek Lodge. Mr. Howell had served as de puty U. S. marshal, Green Moun tain PvstmastftW-and chairman of ' the Yancey Selective Service Board in both World Wars. He also had been a member of the County Board of Education for six years. He was a member of the Green Mountain Church and the oldest member of the Bald Creek Masonic Lodge. Surviving are the widow, the former Miss Lucretia Horton; three daughters, Mrs. Clarence E. Bailey of Green Mountain, Mrs. J. . J-.. Sullivan of Columbus, Ga., and Mrs. C. P. Randolph of Burnsville; five sons, R. C-, Richard and J. Walter of Green Mountain, Capt. E. M. Howell of Austin, Tex. and Frank W. Howell of Marion; a brother, Jesse of Green Mountain; •20 grandchildren, and 11 great - I grandchildren.: [ Arrangements were under direc- Ition of Holcombe Brothers Funer al Home. iTops Record Albums From Classics To “Pops” Our Selection Is Tops! —^ HERE ARE JUST A FEW: Cole Portei-Irving Beilin Favorites, Square Dance Party, Kiddie Favorites, Lena Home Sings, For Men Only, 'Classic Favorites, Favorite Hymns, Eddie Truman & Beverly Laine Organ Favorites, and many more. .Western Auto Associate Store BURNSVILLE, N. C. Market Price Important in Wool Program Payments .«• — Farmers who sell wool below the national average price for the 1958 marketing year will wind up getting less for their wool than the national incentive price of 62 cents per pound, according to Al vin Pate, chairman of the Yancey County ASC Comniittee. Mr. Pate cited the following example to show' how the wool payment pro gram works: For the 1956 marketing year (for which payments were made in the summer of 19.57) the na tional average wool price was 44.3 cents per pound. The. incentive payment rat e was 40 per cent of the average price in order to Obituaries * W. A. RANDOLPH Willard A. Randolph, 75, died suddenly at his home, Burnsville RFD 4, Monday., Services were held ih Little Creek Holiness Church Wednes day at 11 a. m. The Rev, Robert Randolph officiated and burial was jn Honeycutt Cemetery. Surviving are the wife; a dau ghter, Mrs. Ray Wyatt Os Caro tcerr; two sons,- Roosevelt of- the Army, Ft. Knox, Ky., and Dover of the home; two step-sons. For est Parker of Arlington, Va., : and Roland Parker of Oregon; and four grandchildren. L. B. SILVER L. B. Silver, 80, of Burnsville J died suddenly at the home of a daughter, Mrs. L. A. Autrey, of Pensacola, Monday about noon. -Services were held Wednesday at 2 p. m. at Pensacola Methodist I Churchy The Rev. O. L’ Brown 1 and the Rev. Jim Hall officiated, I and burial was in the Pensacola J Cemetery. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Autrey are three- other daughters, 'fOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS t. By Clare D. Smith I Teens, Pannis Each Have Problems safďfa A teenage friend in New Jersey • writes that she is fifteen but her parents will not let her date on Saturday nights. She also says her parents listen to her telephone conversations and if she talks 15 minutes makes her get “off the telephone.” Dates and telephones! I can’t think of two 'greater teenage prob- bring the average price up to the i incentive level. • A farmer who i sold his wool for 35 cents per pound received a payment cf 40 - per cent of this amount, cr 14 cents. This gave him a total rate of 49 cents per pdund. A grower who sold his wool for 50 ce,,ts a pound during the same market ing year received a payment of 20 cents per pound, giving him a totat-rate of 70 cents per pound 1 for his wool. * WooL payments, said Mr. Pate, 1 are true incentive payments. The ! more a farmer gets for his wool when h e sells it the more pay -1 ments he gets. Mrs. Hal Gibbs of Burnsville, Mrs. W. K. Wood of Swannanoa and Mrs. Hosea Angel of Detroit. Mich, three sorts, Alphonso of San Diego., Calif., Charles, of the U. S. Navy, Galveston, Texas; and L. B. Jr. of Clarkesville, Ga.; a sister, Mrs. i Lilli e McMahan of Morganton; 14 grandchildren; 20 great-grand children; and 2 great-great grandchildren. Mrs. Dies At 102 Mrs. Mary Higgins, 102, widow of the late Marcus Higgins, died at th e home of a daughter. MrST J. E. Hipkins of Burnsville RFD 1, Sunday after a short illness. Services were Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. in Free Will | Baptist Church. The Rev. A. Z. Jamerson and the Rev. E. G. Ad kins officiated and burial was in , Higgins Cemetery. I. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Hipkins, Mrs. Betsy Higgins ' of Green Creek and Mrs. Bertha 1 Price of Shelby; four sons, C. J., ’ Noah and Linville of Lakeland, 1 ‘ Fla., -and Charlie of Inman, S. C.; j6l grandchildren; 92 great-grand . children; and 13 great-great , grandchildren. 4ems. But let’s take them in order. Dates: Many parents allow their children to date at the age of fif teen. Some do not. Our young friend has indicated that when she is 16 she will be allowed to go to Saturday night dances. At the moment that seema like a long time in the future, but actually it rarojWDA*. TON* UL UN ■V ■ i.mJ i IJhf'-A * ' Smoke Takes Life Os Man John W. Bowditch, 48, a World , War II veteran, was found dead , of suffocation on his burned mat . tress in his home at Hamrick Sat i urday morning, Coroner Willard Hensley reported. The coroner attributed the death to an accident and no inquest , will be held. He said th e eviden ce indicated the mattress, had caught fire and that Bowditch had i attempted to beat th e blaze out I 'with his hands before he was ov ercome by smoke. Th e origin of the fire was not immediately de , termined. Hensley said Bowditch lived . alone, and his body was found by a brother, Frank Bowditch, also of Hamrick. Services were held at 3 p. m. I Sunday at the South Estatoe Pres . byterian Church. • Th e Rev. John W. Young and ■ the Rev. Horace Stoessel officiat : ed and burial was in th G Ballew . r~Fr" ■ • • Cemetery. 1 Surviving in addition to Frank Bowditch'is another brother, R. S. Bowditch of Charlotte; and a sis ter, Mrs. Lawrence Gibbs of Mica ville. Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home was in charge of the ar rangements, DECORATION-MEMORIAL 1 SERVICE ;) A decoration and memorial ser vice will be held at Penley Ceme | tery at 2 p. m. Sunday, June 22. The cemetery is located in Mid dle Fork section of Madison County. 1 Music for the service will be furnished by the Singing Prayer ’ Band and the West Asheville Trio, with Eddie McGlamery. i Speakers will be the Rev. Les ter Edwards, pastor of Locust .’! Grove Baptist Church; and the ’; Rev. Grady Harris, pastor of the 1 Asheville Free Will Baptist Churchy is only a few months away. Be patient. One thing disturbs me, however. Our friend says she knows many girls who are dating at the age < f 12 ar.d 13. This is entirely too young. Telephone: Our young friend also resents her parents listening to her conversations on the tele phone. This, I think, is justified. Parents should respect the pri vacy of their children’s conversa tions the same as they would other individuals. I must, however, agree with the parents that a 15 minute telephone conversation is long enough. Te’e phones are not instruments visiting. If a teenager has friends and they call often the tele phone can be tied up for hours and days. All teenagers should remember that other member's of the family have telephone privileges also. If you have a teenage problem yen want to diecuee, or an observation ta make, address your letter te FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS. NATIONAL. WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVICE, FRANKFORT, KY.
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