VOLUME TWENTY-THBEE Construction of Highway 19E From Spruce Pine Assured' A delegation of Yancey County citizens which attended a meeting of the State Highway Commission at Waynesville Monday morning returned with assurances thaf con tracts will be let for the con struction *of the new Burnsville- Spruce Pine highway in January or February next year The apparent standstill bn this - _ l _ ■ Mrs. G. C. Graham Is Guest Speaker At Garden Club Mrs. G.' C. Graham, of Kona and formerly of London, England,/ was guest speaker of the Garden Club Friday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Proffitt. Mrs. Dover Fouts, program leader, in troduced th e speaker. Mrs. Graham’s subject was English gardens, particularly the public gardens. The most beauti ful of all is Hampton Court, she told the members of the club. This garden, 15 miles from Lon don, was built by Cardinal Wbol sey and later was presented to Henry VII. Mrs. Graham described the Dutch and Italian gardens, Hyde Park with its acres of crocuses in early spring, St James Park, Regent’s Park, and Lime walk which is reputed to be haunted. The most outstanding feature of the Buckingham Palace v gardens, she said, is the large bed of red tulips followed by red geraniums. She also described th e Shakespeare garden at Stratford on Avon and told of the garden at the hopse Shakespeare lived as- a still stands in this garden, Mrs. Graham said. In telling of the different gar dens, she related the legends con nected with each. Mrs- Brooks Wilson, vice president of the club, presided at the business session in the ab sence of th e president, Mrs. W. A. Y. Sargent, the treasurer’s report was given by Mrs. E. L. Beeson. The civic committe e re ported on the replacement of missing street markers in town. These markers have been made by the Rev. H. M. Alley, and the hand-wrought iron brackets were made by Daniel Boone VI. The town board will furnish and set the posts for these signs, it was reported. The club voted to send a note of j thanks to th e mayor and town | board for their assistance. , During the social hour, a dessert course was served by the hostess. East Yancey P. T. A. To Meet Monday Night, Oct. 6 The Parent-Teachers Associa tion of the East Yancey High School will meet Monday, Octo ber 6 at 7:30 p. m. in the school cafeteria. Immediately following the PT. A. meeting the Boost er’s Club will hold their meeting. ’ Burnsville Senior Woman’s Club To Me6t Thursday 'tfhe Burnsvill e Senior Woman’s Club will hold its regular meet ing Thursday, October 9 at 8:00 p. m. in the Community Building. Final plans for the district meet ing, which will be held here on Monday, October 13, will be made at this meeting. The District meeting will be held at the Higgins Memorial Methodist Church beginning at 9;30 a. m. A luncheon will be served at the community building at 1:00 p. m. and Mrs. Raymond S. Dent of Spruce Pine, state president, will speak after the 1 luncheon. Mrs. James Ray, president of the club, urges all members to be present at th e regular meeting in order that all plans may be ar ranged. The iancey record Subscription: $2.00 Per Year project during recent months, com mission members stated, has not been a period of inactivity by the Highway Department but has been devoted to work of acquiring right of-way. Under, the new procedure applied by the department, thorough study and accurate appraisal are required, of each right-of-way acquisition before the property owner is approached. This work has been going on, but exceptional difficulties have been encountered in determining title to certain properties involved, it was stated. Under the new practices of the Highway Department, a large pro portion of the right-of-way must be acquired before contracts are let. In an informal discussion following th e meeting, Highway Director W. F. Babcock stated that although the new procedure seemed slow during the early stages of a project, it had advan tages in the long run, and in particular is fairer to the property owners affected. In response to inquiry regarding th e improvement of highway 19 and 19E west of Burnsville, Chair man J. Melville Broughton of the Commission stated that the Com mission is mindful of the desira bility of this project, but could give no assurance of any work at this time, except that it is defi nitely under consideration along with many other important pro jects throughout- the state. The Yancey County delegation of twenty two men included County Commissioners Mark W. Hall and Lloyd Millar, representatives of the school board, BurnsvM e and Men’s Club, and industry and Agri culture in the county. Yates Bai ley of Bald Creek acted as spokes man. | United Fund Directors Announce Budqet Goal Directors of the Yancey United Fund have announced a budget goal of $8,790 for the fourth annual fund raising drive .which is’ sched uled to start later this month. In cluded in the budget are funds to help support 16 important health, welfare and character building agencies which serve to benefit! Yancey Gounty and its citizens. | The new budget goal is $2lO lower than the total for last year, but is about $1,500 larger than the amount actually collected last year, when the campaign rais ed 80 per cent of th e goal. Despite the decrease in th e total, the new budget apportions approx imately the same amount as last year to local Yancey County acti vities. An increase of S9O was made in the amount for the Yan cey County library, and $l4O in th e amount for the orthopedic clinic, which next year for the first time will be held at th e Health Center. Mr. George Roberts, Chairman of the Budget Committee, states that in setting up the budget the The budget as adopted, included the following: 4-H Clubs , . $760 Rural Community Development Program SSOO For blind and sight conservation S3OO Orthopedic clinic at Yancey Health Center' S2OO Boy Scouts ’ — SSOO Girl Scouts , sjjsQ Yancey Coilnty Library S3OO ... Yancey Hospital SSOO American Red Cross , “ $2,400 Aid for adoption of homeless children $193 USO s2x4 Care and protection of unmarried mother and her child $99 Medical research in N. C. sl7l Dread Diseases SBOO Cerebral Palsy Ass’n—for work in WNC SIOO N. C. Ass’n for mental health $32 Affiliat ed with Carolinas United program $136 Miscl. small contributions jr jgg Expenses of United Fund »-. lco Reserve * $550 TOTAL $ 8(7fl0 The SBOO item in the budget for combatting dread diseases may be employed at the discretion 0 f the executive committee for research work under the United M e dical Research Foundation of N. C., and the rehabilitation of Yanc ey County children crippled by dread diseases. ‘Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey County” - New Amendments To Social Security Act This is a fourth in a series of I articles by George F. Leinwall, ot the Asheville office of the Social Security Administration, and field representative for Yancey County, on the 1958 Amendments to the Social Security Act. The new provisions in the law now make it possible for widows, dependent widowers, aged parents, or disabled children 18 or over, i who are receiving benefits to con ■ tinue to receive these benefits if ■ that person marries someone also ; receiving one of these social sec l urity benefits. I The amendments also provide i that a person receiving dependent or survivor benefits who marries > an old-age or disability insurance . beneficiary need no longer wait ; three years to qualify as a depend ent of the new spouse. The former determination that, with remarriage, the dependent or survivor had a new source of sec urity was not supported in those instances wher e two persons re ceived dependent or survivor pay ments married one another and their social security benefits were terminated. These couples, more often than not, had no other sour ce of income and were forced to secure public welfare aid in many , instances. Under the new amend ments, both will receiv e the bene fits for which they qualified be fore the marriage. Those persons who had married and had their social security bene fits discontinued prior to the new amendments may b e eligible for resumption of the benefits, if they married someone who is, or was, collecting old-age or survivor benefits. These payments can be resumed only upon th e filing of an application with the social secur ity office.- f pamphlets s«» the new amendments may be ob tained by writing to George F. I Leinwall, Social Security Adminis tration, - Asheville, N. C. guiding principle has been to allo cate funds to the various activities in amounts which will bring the greatest benefits to the county. At the same time, th e committee has recognized that Yancey Coun ty should bear a fair share of the cost of certain well-managed | state-wide and national activities | which clearly benefit Yancey Cou nty. The principal national ap peals included are the Red Cross, and the USO. The amount included in the budget for the Rural Community Development Program is SSOO, with the additional provision that in the event additional community clubs are organized and active, SSO will b e added for each new club, to be donated from the UF reserve, after approval of the Exe cutive Committee. Members of the budget commit tee are George Roberts, chairman; Clarence Bailey, Mrs. Ernest Briggs, Dover Fouts, Robert Hel mle, Mrs. Fleet Proffitt, Bruce Wcstall, find Mrs. Jane Wray. BURNSVILLE, N. O. TOURS DAY, OCTOBER 2, 1958 Five Men Arrested On Whisky Count * ’ ‘‘As much as Wine has played | the IrfideL 1. And robbed me: of my Robe of I * Honor , I wonder .often what th fc Vintners ! buy, | One-half so precious as the stuff r they 8611." ( v Three Yancey County men must ■ have had the same idea concern ing their product that Omar Khay . yam had of the product of th e vine, t At least, according to . Sheriff , Terry Hall,, the men wer e so car . ried away by their (“precious stuff” that they were found in a drunk , en condition at a still site in the t Pensacola section last Thursday j night. One of the men escaped , but was captured later the same . night. * According to Sheriff Hall the arrests of the three men came from a raid on th e still by him • and investigators of the Federal . Alcohol and Tobacco Tax unit , and a deputy U. S. Marshal. Arrested were Roscpe McMahan, . Homer McMahan and Lee Rath- I burn, all of the Pensacola section, . who were charged with the illegal . manufacture of whisky. In the raiprt may be expected. Price Per Copy: Five Cents Brush Creek Wins - • Finer Farms Contest Brush Creek Community gained high honor' and won first prize money of $350.00 in the Carolina Power and Light Co. Finer Farms Program,..which was announced last week by the sponsoring com pany. - , The community won this dis tinction in the Soil and Water Conservation program by showing more progress during the 1957-58 contest in the conservation field Highway Work , Approved In County Raleigh, N. C —The State Hgh-i I way Commission has approved and set up funds for road work in 1 Yancey County. This work involves grading, grading and stabilizing a total of 6.1 miles on the following roads: l. miles of Baker Creek Road; three miles of Blue Rock Road; t 0.5 mile of Arbuckle Road and one mile of Arbuckle Road. It is anticipated’ thpt work __ on these roads will be completed on or before October 15, 1959, at an estimated cost of $68,450.00. Once funds have been approved and set up for simitar projects, the money is encumbered until such time as the work is completed. _———— i Junior Woman’s Club To Sponsor Children’s Clothing Closet The Carolina Hemlock Junior Woman’s Club, co-operating with| i th fi Yancey County Welfare De partment will "sponsor the Child ren’s Clothing Closet for the first time this year, according to a re cent announcement by Mrs. Mel vin W. Webb, the club president. The Children's Clothing Closet project is a community service project sponsored by the Junior Woman’s Clubs of North Carolina in cooperation with county de partments of public welfare. It had its beginning as a state wide project at the Federation convention held in Goldsboro in J 1949. Carefully developed policies! have guided the project from- its inception. The Carolina Hemlock Junior Woman’s Club hopes to furnish needy children in Yancey County with adequate clothing for the winter. A committee for the drive :has been appointed with Mrs. Bill Banks as chairman and Mrs. Earl Young, Mrs. Lewis Dameron and Mrs. Julian Cornwell as members. The Welfare Department has provided a room in which to store the clothes. The room is located in the post office building and across the hall from the Welfare Department. Mrs. Banks, chairman of the project stated that members will begin work on the room immed iately so that it will be ready when th e drive begins. The project has not only helped people in need but has saved the taxpayers a great deal of money since these clothes did not have to be purchased by county depart ments of public welfare. Presbyterian Church To Observe Worldwide Service The Presbyterian Church will observe Worldwide Communion Service next Sunday at 11:00 a. m. The Rev. Dr. Asa J. Ferry, a retired minister now living in Asheville, will be in charge of the service. A congregational meeting and a covered dish supper will b e held in the church Tuesday, October 7 at 6:30 p. m. The Rev. Warren Reeve, pastor of the chtirch, who recently under went surgery, returned to his home Saturday from the Yancey Hospital. He* is making daily im provement at his home here. NUMBER SIX than any other communities in th e fifty one North Carolina coun ties and twelve South Carolina) counties eligible to enter con test. A prize of $150.00 also went to the Yancey County board of con servation supervisors, and $50.00 to John M. Deyton, supervisor of the community. Jacks Creek with J. B. Stamey as supervisor and Hardscrabble with Thad Ray as supervisor were also entered in the contest. Jacks Creek Community was awarded $50.00 for outstanding conserva tion work. Soil Conservation Specialist, [ Lewis W. Dameron, states that i there ar e 40 farms in Brush Creek Community. According to Damer on approximately 50% of the total land is in woodland, 24% in pas ture, 21% in perennial and (s % n row crops. ( ■ Some of the accomplishments by the community and methods of conservation considered in the program included waterway devel opment, farm drainage, contour farming, strip cropping, crop rota tion, method of thinning and cut ting woodland and land used for wildlife conservation. Brush Creek Community has for several years been one of the most progressive communities of the county. In 1952 a community club was organized with Mrs. Nell Johnson as th e first president. O. W. Deyton is the current presi dent. Past presidents include John Randolph, Claude Hughes and Jess Howell. Since forming the club the community has won $50.00 awards three previous years in the Better Farms Contest and has won first place three times in county in the Western North olina Agricultural Development contest The farms, which were a few years ago ordinary mountain farms, have been developed into some of the most productive farms in Yancey County. At the present tim e there are six grade A dairies in the community operating on farms owned by Elmer Peterson, Howard Garland, Virgil Presnell, I Isaac Thomas. Cas Thomas and John Randolph. All of these far mers are active members in the community club. There ar e more acres of alfalfa in the Brush Creek area than any other com parable area in the county. One of the first 4-H Clubs in the county was here and sponsored by the community club. Th e community also boasts of a Hunt Club, controlling sever al specifically planted for wildlife food and cover. ' A recent addition of 16 foot to the community club building was financed from prrize money. In stallation of a new range and re frigerator for the building is now being planned. Probably one of the most unique activities of the club is a rabbit supper which is scheduled for the second Friday night in December. This has been an annua] event for the past five years. The Hunt Club provides wild rabbits for this supper and the women of the community prepare the game, along with other dishes to round out the meal. Th e supper group will usually number from 75 to 95. County 4-H. Dairy Show To Be Held Wednesday The Ynnce y County 4-H Dairy show will be held Wednesday, October 8 at 10:00 a. m. behind Deyton Farm Supply. According to Roger Hyatt, as sistant county agent, approximat ely twenty five 4-H dairy cows and heifers will be shown. The registered animals which win blu e or red ribbons in the county show will go to Asheville Wednesday afternoon to compete in the District: Dairy* Show which will be held on Thursday, Octo ber 9. Everyone is invited to attend the show.