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1 .heUNITEDway % VOLUME TWENTY-THREE Record Price Set At Yule Tree Sale Here | At least 21 interested Christmas tree buyers from different sec tions converged on Burnsville Mon- Home Demonstra tion Women To Bold County Achievement Program * By: June Street, Home Agent The Yancey County Home De monstration Club women will have their annual County Achievement Program November 7 at Firth Carpet "Company cafeteria at 6:30 p. m. After a" covered dish supper, a short program will be held. Mrs. J. B. Stamey, County Council President, will preside. Mrs. Ralph Proffitt, former State Home De monstration Club president, will install the 1959-61 County Council. Officers. Several talent numbers will be presented by 4-H Club members. Those doing talent acts include Louise Mathis, Cane River Sr. 4-H Club; Jerlean Harris and Barbara Brewer, Micaville 4-H Club; Blaine Whitson, Clearmont 4-H Ckib; Becky Proffitt and Marilyn Wilson, Cane River 4-H Club; and a group from South Toe 4-H Club. FLOOR FINISHING DEM. A floor finishing demonstration has been planned at the home of Mrs. Latt Elliott, Jr. of Newdale Wednesday, November 12, at 1:30 p. m. Mr. Curtis Crolius, represen tative from a floor finish company, will discuss finishes for various types of woods. He will actually put a floor finish on one room. All persons Interested in finish ing furniture or floors are invited to attend. Certificates Os Commendation Presented To Clubs By: Lewis Danieron, Soil Conservationist Jacks Creek Community, Brush Creek Community, and Mr. John M Deyton were presented certifi cates of commendation for their work in behalf of the “Keep North Carolina Beautiful” pro gram Monday morning by Mr. W. M. Hall, Chairman of Yancey County Board of Commissioners. The communities and Mr. Dey ton were presented these awards for promoting and carrying out an outstanding soil and water con servation program in their areas of Yancey County. Through the care and management of their natural resources, they have help ed to beautify their communities as well as to care for and improve the land. Other work carried out by indi viduals and groups in Yancey County to improve and beautify the county and North Carolina has been seeding of church and school grounds, clearing and seed ing of cemeteries, and individual home improvement by both adults and 4-H Club members. Tobacco Grading Demonstrations To Be Held In County Tobacco grading demonstrations will be held in two different parts of the county Friday, according to E. L. Dillingham. The first meet ing will be held, at the farm of Nelson Woody on Jaoks Creek at 9:00 a. m. Then, at 2:00 p. m. a demonstration will be held at the farm of Mat Whitson in the Ram saytown section. Dillingham said a government grader will hold the demonstration to give farmers a better idea on how to grade and tie their burley to -get the most per pound from sales. Farmers who attend the demon strations are requested to bring stalks of their own tobacco so that they may see exactly how the government representative grades the tobacco and use the graded hands as samples to grade by. Every tobacco grower is urged to attend the grading demonstra tions, since grading is important Subscription: $2.00 Per Year day for the only sale of Christmas trees cut from Federal land in the Southeast. The annual sale of balsam fir trees to be taken from Roan Mountain was held at the Com munity Building here where sales were made through oral bids. Only 16 of the 21 bidders were success ful in buying trees at the average price of $1.39 per tree. This year 12,965 trees were bought for 18,075,35. These trees were sold in 31 lots from 105 to 1000 trees, according to James Froula, forest ranger. The sale was conducted by U. S. Forest Service district ran ger. Clifford Faulkner. According to Mr. Froula suc cessful bidders came from Win ston Salem, Newland, Blowing Rock, Asheville, Johnson City, Tenn. and Birmingham, Ala. The 31 cutting units from which | the trees will be tajken covers an area of approximately 99 acres according to the Forest Service of ficial. Trees to be taken are pre viously marked by the Forest Ser vice. The cutting will be done toy the buyers, under the supervision of the Forest Service. Twenty five percent of the total income realized from the tree sale will be returned to Mitchell County in.lieu of taxes and .20 per tree will be returned to this dis trict. The use of fir from this section for Christmas trees, wreaths and other Yule decorations seems to be becoming more popular each' year. Although, more trees were sold last year for this purpose with a price of sl.ll each. Forest officials stated that fjjrs from Roari Mountain are classed among the best for Christmas de coration uses. The demand for firs is increasing most likely for the reason that needles from these trees do not shed so readily and stay green longer than most com mon types used for Christmas de corations. Trees bought at these sales are re-sold by buyers all over ’ the Southeast. The cutting of trees on Roan Mountain is so arranged by the Forest Service that remaining trees improve their growth from year to year. Scouting In This Area To Be Discuss ed At Meeting All fathers of Boy Scouts in Yan cey County, and all others inter ested in supporting a strong Scout organization in the county are in vited to attend a meeting to be held Monday night, November 10th at 8 p. m. at the Burnsville com munity building. Joseph D. Edwards, Scout Exe cutive of the Daniel Boone Council of Western North Carolina, and Walter Whitakes, Field Scout Executive of the Council wiy dis cuss the status of Scouting in this area, with particular regard to the importance of strengthening the organization in this county. Barley Market To Open ■ November 24th Announcement has been made by the Burley Sales Committee that the date set for opening bur ley markets will be November 24. The committee set auction sched ules for the eight-state burley belt. Many Yancey County farmers 1 have begun working their tobacco Into grades, and it is estimated that more than 60 percent of Yan cey’s crop will be marketed before the warehouses recess for Christ mas. ‘ County farm officials believe that more tobacco will be mark eted this year than last, and that quality of the leaf will be higher. An increase in price is almost in -1 sured this year, since the govern i ment support price Is increased i more than two cents. I In 1957 tobacco was.grown on • 1900 Yancey County farms. Elev > en hundred thirty-three acres of ’ land was used to more than twp - and a quarter million pounds of He Films Available Through Spruce Pine! | Public Library . , • r~ Informational films available for, borrowing from Avery, Mitchell and Yancey County libraries dur ing the period November 3-28 has been announced by Mrs. Z. V. Hall, librarian. The “Oregon Trail” recreates the tremendous saga of the West ward movement. It presents some of the important reasons for the migration to Oregon in terms of a pioneer family group involved not only in the forces of history, I but also with their own family problems. __ - - “Sibling Relations And Person ality” demonstrates the relation ships a child has with his brothers and sisters throughout develop -mental years, an important factor in personality shaping. It empha sizes the importance of under standing complex personality in ’ fluences in helping youngsters * through childhood and adolescence “Resolve of Patrick Henry” re constructs March 23, 1775 in Rich mond, when Patrick Henry’s fam ous speech swayed Virginia con vention in favor of establishing the proposed militia, a major event in the growing rebellion of the colonies. “The Synagogue”—Two thousand years in Jerusalem, the passover meal is served. Men accompany women to the synagogue where they sit in separate pews. Prayers, the singing of psalms, and the threefold ceremony of the passing of the cup are observed. All films should be booked through the Spruce Pine Public Library, which handles films for the Tri-County area. Reservations may be made by telephone. ‘ ~ ■*>.. X.r. V'..— -.. i „ Yancey Schools Admitted Tb Skyline Conference Both Cane River High School and East Yancey High School were admitted to the Skyline-A Conference at a meeting of the athletic conference in Asheville Monday night. , Attending the conference from this county were Hubert Justice, Robert Peterson, Glenn Painter and Reece Wilson, who represent ed the two new Yancey County high schools. To be able to enter into athletic with other schools, it is necessary to be a member of a conference. The Skyline Conference covers, so many counties that it was be-1 lieved by Mr. Justice, who was I named to the committee, that the] conference may be split into two divisions. Mr. Justice pointed out, however, that due to the size of the two Yancey County schools they would probably have to play teams from schools larger than those found in this conference. Others on the conference com mittee besides Mr. Justice are Brown Griffith, Clyde, N. C., chair man; W. A. Hord of NCSD, John Norton of Spruce Pine, and How ard Barnwell of Marshall. cey farmers received approximat ely sixty cents per pound for their craps. Last year this county ranked fourth in burley production. Although the beginning of the season this year took on a dismal ! outlook because of the excessive' wet weather, this season has turned out to be one of the best for tobacco growers in several seasons. The extended harvesting period gave farmers a better chance to permit their crops to grow to a ripening stage without fear of getting damaged by frost. And since harvesting, the weather has been excellent for air curing. The recent cold snap did crops no damage. The tobacco had cured out sufficiently that the cold had no effect on color or other da mage to the crop. According to farmers and county officials, Yancey may expect the highest income from tobacco that ‘‘Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey BURNSVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1958 1 Yancey County | School Children To Be Examined By: B. B. McGuire, M. D. District Health Director j I ■yt The District Health Director has • started examining the school child ren in Yancey County. The third grades in Bald Creek and Clear mont schools have already been examined. One of the most amaz ing things concerning the exami nations was that of seventy-four ’ children examined in these two j schools, twenty one did not have i smallpox scars. It has been a law in North Carolina for some years that all children before entering school must have a smallpox scar. These children are now in the 1 third grade, and 21 out of the 74 have failed to have a successful vaccination. For those children whose par ents were not present for the ex amination, a notice will be sent to the school for the parents, urging that certain defects be corrected and that they see their private physician or dentist for this work. For those children who have no smallpox scar, it is urged that they be taken to their private phy sician Immediately for this vacci nation- The Health Department is ready to give the vaccination free to children whose parents are not able to pay their doctors to do it. The Superintendent of Schools, through school health funds and the Health Department is plann ing for a more accurate and ex tensive examination of children’s eyes in order to determine which children need further examination by an opthalmologist. The charts and' view boxes for these examina tions will be ready Very soon. Lawrence A. Butner, Well Known Farmer, Dies Lawrence A. Butner, 82, well known farmer and life long re sident of Yancey County died sud denly with a heart attack be tween 10:30 and 11:00 a. m. at his home yesterday. Mr. Butner, who turned 82 Mon day, was near his home spreading ■ gravel on a driveway when he was seized with a heart attack, it was reported. , Dr M. W. Webb was summoned as early as possible following the attack but Butner was reported to be dead when the Doctor ar rived . Survivors are the wife, Mrs. Anna Butner; three daughters, , Miss Mary Lou Butner of the 1 home, Mrs. Elmo Edwards of | Burnsville, and Mrs. Floyd Banks (of Maryville, Tenn.; one son, 'Henry Butner of Orlando, Fla.; and four grand children. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Holcombe Bros. ' Funeral Home will be in charge. United Fund Drive Extended United Fund officials for Yan cey County announced this week that the fund drive will be extend ed to November 15. This extension *of time has been made to give workers more tVe to collect their pledges and to give people who have neither given nor pledg ed a chance to contribute to this worthy cause. The goal set by the United Fund, budget committee is $8,790.00. To date only a small percent of the goal has been sent in to the treas urer of the drive. "Several of the workers have not yet turned in funds collected, and collections * from some of the schools have not been made. Officials of the fund drive urge that each person who has made a pledge to get their donation in as soon as possible and they also urge persons who have not pledged or donated to do so. The Yancey County United Fund | is designated to aid many local or ganizations who no longer make ; separate fund drives. i Sr. Woman’s Club To I Hold Regular Meeting ' The Burnsville Woman's Club j >J will meet at the Community. : | Building Thursday, November 131 Jat 8:fi0 p. m. * I *•••• ••mmmrnd Democrats Sjk&MTicfo >t Tuesday fn.M^^WMotirg I Yancey County split candidates j between Republican and Democrat ic parties Tuesday in what is termed as one of the most mixed Jack Kelly Receives | Nomination To k Ford Foundation For Playwrights Playwright John Barry (Jack) Kelly of Miami, Fla., well known to summer theatre fans here for his work with the Parkway Play house, recently received nomina tion to the Ford Foundation for Playwrights. Kelly, with bis and two boys, spent three seasons * here working in different capacities with the personnel of the Parkway Playhouse. Two of his plays, “Goodnight, Mr. Lincoln", and “Gulbranic’s Panic” were produced on the stage of the Playhouse. His wife, Blanche, is remembered fori her outstanding character roles in many of the summer productions here. > . The Ford Foundation for Play wrights has received two plays from Kelly, "Gulbranic’s Panic”, first produced here, and “The Line”, a new play. The Ford Foundation Program for Playwrights has been estab lished to assist the qualified play wright by making his work visible, and by affording him experience in the technical problems of writ ing production. Under the Foundation Program up to ten new plays worthy of pro duction will be selected hy a panel of Judges. Neither adaptations of another’s work nor plays that have beeh produced professionally will be considered; Each of the | plays selected will be given a pro duction, at one of the ten theatres outside New York under subsidies I from the Ford Foundation. In ad- j dition, each paywright will re-1 ceive normal royalties and travel and subsistence allowances per-” mitting him to join in the produc tion from casting through perform ance, as well as an opportunity to make desirable script revisions which develop from the production process. The ten theaters will express their choices among the ten scripts, but in the event of duplicate choices, the playwright will decide which theater will produce his play. Candidates for selection must be nominated by qualified persons. To be eligible for nomination, a { playwright must be an American citizen and must have completed | at least two full-length original plays. It is expected that the scripts chosen for production will be an nounced in the late spring of 1959, with performances in most cases being in the fall of 1959. j The ten theaters participating in the program for 1959 are: The ‘Actor’s Workshop, San Francisco, Calif.; Alley Theatre, Hbuston, Texas; Arena Stage, Washington, D. fc.; Boston University Division of Theatre Arts, Boston, Mask; Carnegie Institute of Techonology Department of Drama, Pittsburg, Penn.; Margo Jones Theatre, Dallas. Texas; The Omaha Com munity Playhouse, Omaha, Neb-, raska; Playhouse, Erie, Penn.; j Stanford University Department of Drama and Speech, Stanford, Calif.; and Tulsa Little Theatre, j Tulsa, Oklahoma. Blood Mobile Unit To Be In County Tuesday ,y The Red Crosa i„Blood Mobile unit will be lit EasV' Yancey High School November 11* from 1:00 to 6:00 p. m. The Parent Teacher’* Association is host ipr this visit. I Citizens are urged* to make this day a real Armed forces Day by helping to give somjeonc another 1 chance at life. ‘ i Mrs. Evelyn Chairman of I the Yancey CounQVßlood Bank, stated that onlsr*3s%»intt of blood were donated at, last visit of the Blood Mobile to‘Yancey Cpun iS&yJLz °"* # (31U15 $ i balloting in the history of the county. * Mgefhrli' For county offi*^ State Senator and Democrats won four places and I gave up six to the Republic'SßS. 11 Canipe of Mitchell County db feated Brown for the Senate with a majority of more than 2000 votes. However, Brown led his opponent in Yancey County by 111 votes. For County officials Republican Donald Banks defeated Sheriff 4-H County Council Holds Meeting f By: Virginia Cox, AwOfc Home Agt. The first 4-H County Council for the school was held October 30 at the Community Building. There 1 were approximately 85 members present and 5 adult leaders. Ar lene Grindstaff, president for 1957- 58, presided. Becky Proffitt was in charge of devotions. The fol lowing officers for 1958-59 were | elected: Arlene Grindstaff, presi dent; Mary Alice Miller, vice president; Becky Proffitt, secre tary; Claude Sparks, treasurer; Louise Mathis and Everett Ran dolph, song leaders; and Ronnie Bailey, reporter. After the election of the county council officers, the 4-H club of ficers from each sehool met in groups to discuss the responsibility of the particular office which they hold. The discussion leaders in the. various groups were as follows: president group, Don Pardue; As sistant County Agent; vice-presi dent group, Roger Hyatt, Assist ant County Agent; secretaries’ group, June Street, Home Agent; r sortg leaders, Claude Sparks and j Sandy Garland, 4-H dub members, ' adult leaders, and Virginia Cox, | Assistant Home Agent. The group reassembled for a Ifew minutes of recreation planned to help them “get acquainted”. I Ralph Proffitt Attends Insurance Workshop Ralph T. Proffitt, Bald Creek insurance man, has returned from Charlotte, N. C., where he and other Mutual Os New York spec ialists participated in a two-day workshop on new methods of busi ness insurance planning. Conducting the workshop was a team of experts from MONY’s home office in New York City, in cluding Paul Brower, director of advanced underwriting, Richard T. Borah, assistant director of employee benefit* sales, and Will . iam J. Neilan, advanced under writing specialist. | Topics discussed included the ■ development of practical pension programs for small employers and the use of insurance to fund exe cutive compensation plans, in cluding stock bonuses, purchases and options, and deferred com pensation plans. Benefit Supper To Be Held At Mt. Pleasant Church Saturday The Mt. Pleasant Church at Swiss is sponsoring a benefit sup per Saturday, November 8, be , ginning at 6:30 p. m. The supper J will be held at their Community I Building and plates will be served l at SI.OO each. Proceeds from this supper will be applied on the parsonage debt. ty. Mrs. P-:e also pointed out that people of this county have already! received more. than 80 pints of blood through the Red Cross i • Blood Bank since the last visit * b"re. This blood has been admin- * istered to Yancey County citizens in the Yancey Hospital and in ’ other hospitals in surrounding counties. Dr. Stanley Purquhart of Hig gins and Mrs. Mary Melton of Pensacola are the attending phy sician and nurse for this visit. j $ ij* I V EL * *Mk «J«I1 a mrnm WAI numleßtE jcven Terry Hall by a margii of 812 IvUttt aasb hitor>»« , ,Jhe figures on the vot lg at this tfme Are ?lfsrfMikl. Fo lowing is the unofficial balloting or county •wfimm. .J Albert Canine (D) 308$l Charles L. BfMtt 1 [ : For Represents ive: Har lon Holcombe (D, j leumbent) 3415. Bill Blalock (R) d 71. \ For Clerk, urt: Lowe Thomas (D, incumbent) 3347. Mrs. Lawrence°Hall (R) 3081. For Sheriff: Terry Hall (D, in cumbent) 2831. Donald Banks (R) 3643. For Chairman, Board of County Commissi e srs: Lloyd Fortner (D) 3073. Rooert Presnell OR) 3363. i For Member, Board of Commis sioners: (two elected) Lloyd Miller (D, incurnben,t) 3113. D. H. Har- . risen (D, incumbent) 2999. Clayton Whitson (R) 3278. Rotha Bailey (R) 3189. For Coroner: Oscar Fender (D) 2968. Dr. M. W. Webb (R) 3325; ' " Officials stated that Gaston Angel <D) defeated W. L. Allen (R> as Justice of the Peace in Burnsville Township. However, actual balloting figures were not available. Frank Lewis was elected ac County Surveyor. He was unop posed. Next week we expect to have in formation available to give official balloting by precincts. Movies On Forest And Game Conservation Available A series of free-on-loan sound-* color (16mm) movies on forest and game conservation are avail able to teachers of Yancey, .Mit chell and other counties it was stated in Burnsville last week by W. L. Shaddix, a former teacher, who represents the Free Film Library, Southern States Forest fire Commission, Inc. In addition to the conservation talking pictures the Commission on application will also send a list of free visual aids on travel, including Niagara Falls, Grand Canyon, and oth«r interesting tourist attractions. The work is financed by • about 1,000 lumber, * banking, and furniture interests of both Southern and Northern states. The program was begun in 1939, and is well known here .in the rural areas as the sponsor of “Grand Ole Opry” broadcasts in appeals for “volunteer brush top help” when and wherever a fire is seen in any woodlands. The cam paign has been so practial that the Virginia School Board has made it an official > part of the school training the volunteer fire brush top fighting. This program will help educate the younger generation on how to provide paper wood from defect ive, crooked and diseased trees in stead of denudating off all healthy young poplars, aine, and gum. “A healthy tree twenty years old that will sell for only fifteen cents for pulpwood now will bring ten times this if held a few more years until large enough for lum ber logs, Mr. Shaddix stated. He was here to discuss the work with some local school authorities. Mrs. Susie Cuthbert son Appointed As Public Health Nurse In Avery County Mrs. Susie Cuthbertson of New land has been appointed as Public „ . Health Nurse for , Avery County. I Mrs. Cuthbertson is a native of Johnson City, Tennessee and is a I graduate of Appalachian Hospital I of that city. She is a graduate of Washington College High School, Washington College. Tennessee. She has done private duty at Banner Elk and Crossnore and general duty at Crossnore and Spruce Pin* hospitals. Department officials feel that they are JajrtSh nate in having the services of Mn.
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