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i«>mJiftb»H ■r> . «?** r "•* * . VOLUME TWENTY-THKKE fern Ckißlntas ■' A V ' J <3 . I' auu n ~ „■ MmMmfm \ «* ' * *► ■ '1 •’ ’ » Lions Club Members' Distribute Baskets ° Members of the Burnsville Lions Club ar e distributing 17 Christmas baskets in the county. The Bald Creek Club is distributing five additional baskets. This* is an annual project of the • clubs. NOTICE The French Broad Electric Co. offioe will be closed trum neon, December 24, until December 27 when the offic e will be open un til 12:00 noon, per regular schedule. * Locals Rommie Burns with the U. S. Air Corps, formerly of Burnsville, has been promoted to the rank of Captain. Captain and Mrs. Bums are living in Buffalo, N. Y., where Captain Burns is an instructor in the University there. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Peterson and daughter’s, Sandie and Jeannie, of Birmingham, Ala. are visiting relatives in Burnsville during the holidays.. Miss Betty Presnell of Char lotte is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Presnell, here during the holidays. Mrs. J. G. Fox is spending the Christmas holidays with her son, A. J. Fox and family, in Fernan dina, Beach,, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. E. Y. Fox of Morganton visited relatives here Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Styles and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ramsey and son in Hickory recently * Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Holcombe of Mars Hill are visiting relatives here during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. John English apd children of Hickory visited Mr. and Mrs. Roy King last weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wilson of Maryland ar e visiting relatives here and in Pensacola during the holidays. Many of th e town and county college students are home for the holidays. Tommy Tilson and Mur riel England from the University of Tennessee, Charles Adair, Frank Howard Lewis and Gerald Murdock from Mars Hill. Lester Ralph Heavner from The Citadel, Teddy Styles from Carson Newman, Joan Husklns from Berea. Barbara and Beverly Hensley from Woman's College, Greensboro, Ronnie Pet erson and Gleen Fox from Wake Forest, Linda Banlts, Susie Mc- Curry Gale Hall and Mary Ann Buchanan from Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone, and Cynthia Randolph from Salem College, Winston Salem. Hh' The Yancey Record *• r -\ * * “Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey County ■ ■ '■ I■! I llj I ■ . «l ■»»! ■ ' Subscription: 12.00 Per Year “God With Us” I t» < \ \ A CHRISTMAS STORY - “Mamma”, exclaimed Helen, who came, bursting into the kit chen where her mother was busy preparing breakfast. “I dreamt that Harry will be coming home for Christmas! It was such a real dream. I saw him coming in the door, and all of us being so excited we were crying. Oh, Mamma, when a dream is so clear as that* mustn’t it come • truer--vStr —Manana ?“ site cried. Her mother turned from the stove and gasped, knowing not what to reply, for two opposite emotions were violently struggling within her* Helen’s excited cer tainty that Harry was alive and would soon be back with them bumped against hard common sense and against her disciplined acceptance of facts even when they were grim.— —— Harry, the only son in the fam ily, had rerished when the plane of which he was the pilot tad crashed in the Caribbean three or four months earlier. Alfredo Perez, a Venezuelan youth, on his way to enter Columbia Univer sity in New York, was the only survivor a rescue ship had been able to find. He had suffered so much from shock that he had not been able to give a very coher ent report of what happened, but it would appear from his story that Harry must surely have perished. ' Poor Mrs. Philips, widowed four years earlier when her hus- j band had died of cancer, was overwhelmed with this second loss, and at the time of Helen's dream was only at last becoming reconciled to the fads. Her mini ster h'ad ben in to see her fre quently, and gradually, more by the spirit that emanated from him than from what he said, she began faintly to perceive that be hind the two colossal losses that she had suffered there was a strain of divine wisdom and mer cy. She asked derself whether maybe there would come a day when she would really feel God had been loving her most in those hours when she was most crushed. And so she was trying on these autum mornings just to be pati ent and to bear her pain of heart without complaint. Then came Helens dream. Dared they hope it meant Harry i was alive and would be with them ’ at Christmas? Oh, nov, she had 1 not courage to yield to such hope, 1 because if it weren’t trub, the 1 disappointment would be too aw • ful to face. : She phoned her minister and ■ asked him to come around. She 1 told him the whole story and won- J dered how he would advise her. * He, of course, listened with the 1 greatest interest and sympathy, but something within him re BURNSVILLE, N.. O, THURSDAY; DECEMBER 25; 1968 by strained him from encouraging her too much. It is better to be cautious, he reasoned, Dreams are mysterious things and have, to be sure, deep significance, and might point to what is fact. But not necessarily. And it would be better cautiously to restrain our over-egar spirits. They prayed for grace to take the wary of pat ience and to live just one day at T""TtTTH"; -courtewl- to' \*A - t-Le future be what God would make it. They prayed that if Harry were alive, God would be with him and bring him home. But if he were dead, they asked for faith to be glad that he was where all things are perfect and where he would ( face no more dangers or tempa tions or struggles. Mrs. Philips, much comforted by this interview, steeled her self" to go on living day fey day as if only in Heaven she would ever again see both Harry and her dear -husband. Helen, in her youthfulness, could not be equally as restrained; and as Christmas drew near, felt she just had to make preparations for Harry’s coming. She fixed up his room and she bought him some Christmas presents. This she did as secretly as she could because she knew instinctively her mother was against their doing anything out of the ordi nary. I Christmas morning Helen was up bright and early, putting the | finishing touches on preparations , for Harry’s coming. Mrs Philips too, could hardly keep herself from an indulgence in the same excited hope that animated Helen. While they were sitting at the breakfast table, Helen said, “Mamm.a let’s not open our Christmas presents yet. If Harry cama it would be much nicer to open them after he got here”. All during the morning Helen thought he might come; and, with any unusual sound, she dashed to the door to see if it could be he, and each time, her heart sank. No one was there. The day wore on. exasperating for both Helen and her mother, in the disappointment it brought them. The , iffralrT -of expecting Harry’s "coming and the repeated frustrations of their hopes left them exhausted by night. They had not the heart now to open | any Christmas presents which still lay so prettily at the base of 1 the Christmas tree. After supper Mrs. Philips sug gested they read trun. the Bible, i Selecting the fourteenth chapter' 1 of John, she read it through. Com -1 fort came to them as they heard ' the Lord’s biddings and promises. “Let not your heart be trou ! bled. . . .1 am the Way, the > Truth and the Life. . . .1 go " away, . . . .If I gb and prepare i W ARREN S. REEVE | a place for yoil, I come again and i will receive you to myself, that] where I am, there ye may lie [ also. . . .Let not ’your heart be j troubled. . . . Peace I leave with you”. They were silent for a time. Then after a while, the mother said “Isn’t the meaning of Christ mas summed up in just orte word that we often forget? D'6 you re member Matthew’s story of the coming of Jesus a special, extra name was given Him? He was to be known as ‘ Emanuel' which means .‘God-With-Us’. To many people nowadays this is an odd name, hard to understand, but in Palestine everybody knew at once what it meant. Whenever they saw Jesus and thought of His name, they wer e to be assured that God Himself had come to them. We, too, must remember and believe that.” They sat quietly, then, for a while, until presently Mrs. Philips continued; “Th e ‘Emanuel’ who was born at Bethlehem is with us too. God is here, indeed, my darling girl, and if God is here, everything- is all right. This i s truly the peace that Jesus said He would give usv a peace that the world cannot give—His peace', H e called it." Bed time drew near, but no Harry, in any physical form, had come home. Strange to say, how ever, the frustration and disap pointment of the day had gone, and in their hearts even a quiet contentment had come. “Mother”, said Helen, “the name, ‘Emanuel,’ never meant any thing to me before. But now it has a world of meaning. Harry I suppose, is dead, but I see that God gave us a substitute. God Himself cam e to us in place of Harry. Yet. Mama, how wc want Harry too!” “Helen dear” said Mrs. Philips, “w e have Harry. We mustn’t say that he is dead, or that Daddy is dead. If ‘Emanuel’ means all j we think it means then every body who is dear to God is al ways with Him. And if God has actually come here tonight to be with you and me. Daddy and Harry cannot be far off". Again they were quiet nnd in I Helen’s mind her mother’s words kept recurring,, ‘Daddy and Harry | . . . .not far off! . . .If God is here, everybody dear to Him is here, too. ’ The minutek passed, and still they sat, absorbed in thought, j Then an extraordinary thing hap pened. Simultaneously, they each had a thought, a vision so start ling that in unison they cried out; “Harry!” They saw him there. He was utterly real. He had come, no doubt about it. It was—«yily a vision, you will 1 7 _ Tax Listers For County Appointed I" 1 . ■ | Tax listers for Yancey County have been appointed by W P. ! Honeycutt, tax .supervisor, and •o approved by th e Board of County Commissioners. The listers include' Charles L. Brown, Burnsville township; Clyde Buckner Cane River Township; Den Renfro,, Egypt township; O. C, Honeycutt, Ramseytown Town ship; Noah Hughes, Green Moun tain township; Ray Higgins Jacks Creek township, Gaw', Sparks, Brush Creek township; Elbert Brewer, Crabtre e township; Fred . Robinson, South Toe township;! Billy B. Wilson,, Pensacola town-1 ship; and Lawrence Towq Prices' Creek township. Tax listing will begin on Janu ary 2, and listing places will be posted at various places ip, the townships, say, but to them it was ‘Harry. Never had he appeased so hand some or so glorious. They thought he looked like Jesus Himself! He did not open his mouth to say a word, but in h : s eyes they could se 0 him saying: “Mother Darling, Helen dear, don’t sorrow any more. Where Daddy and I are. Life reigns gloriously. You have Gcd’s Great Name, ‘Emanuel’, to hold Ly. Glorious Life that we. have in full abundance in Heaven falls on too, as long as you let LOVE shine in your hearts. Lov e brings you up to Heaven, I and by Love we come down to' i you. Abide in Love. ‘Abide in Me,' said Jesus. That is the way to Emanuel’s Land”. Then,, again, a wonderful thing' happened. Helen and her mother caught of Daddy, too, j standing a littl e back of Harry. , On h's face there was a sweet ness that surpased anything they had seen when he was alive. Helen gasped. “Mother, how lovely! God not only brought Harry back to us on Christmas Day but | sent Daddy with him, too!” I The vision faded, now, and Hairy and Daddy were gone. But the feeling was, they hadn’t gone, and never would go. For where God is, they are, "God is with us”, they repeated. “Emanuel will never leave us or forsake us”. As they turned to go to their rooms for th t . night Helen looked into her mother's face and said “Mummy, my dream did come ,tru e after all didn’t it. . . .only in a different way from what I expected. Perhaps it is more won derful the way it is than if It had been the W'ay I thought I wanted”. “Yes„ my dear”, said Mrs. Phil ips,, “I believ e that i® true. And certainly It is true that ther e Is nothing more wonderful than ‘Em anuel, God-With-US." » Price Per Copy: Fin* Oeirta Eighth Grade Os South Toe School Receives Message A telegram was sent to th e Bth grade of the South Toe River School on Monday of this week, arriving via radio from a ship at sea it contained this message: “Best wishes to your class from the Captain and crew of th e S. S. American Chief. ” The message arrived after school had closed for the holidays and it is hoped that most of the class will see this issue of the Record. This is the latest communica tion in a correspondence that has been going on this fall between (the South Toe Eighth Grade and | the American Chief, a freighter •in service between the U. S. and Western Europe. This is part of the Adopt-a-Sh p program whereby : American school children are in correspondence with ships of the American Merchant Marine. The local children have been learning tft e operations of an ocean-going ship and also be coming familiar with the route covered by a freighter on regular tansatlantic service. The children ; send their questions and the Cap tain and members of the crew i writ e at least once on each voy age. The latest letter came* from , Lremerhaven, Germany . .''•*' y ■ - Up mm 1 • J|gr ' LACKLAND AFB, TEX..—Air man Donald R. Tipton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Tipton, of Bald Creek, N. C., has been assigned to a unit of the Mil tary Air Transport Service at Charleston AFB. S C., for training and dutyi as a Painter. He recently comple ted bas e military training here, j Airman Tipton is a graduate of Bald Creek High School. i Airman assigned directly to a duty station from basic training at Lackland will receive on-the-job training under highly-qualified special sts. They are selected fer assignments on the basis of in terests and aptitudes. NOTICE North Caroling license tags I and title transfers available at i Yanew Merchants Association on the Square. GIVE i.eUNITED»>i NUMBER EIGHTEEN Farmers Urged To Tn I Vui. i ar tlvipatt: tit vvlt“ servation Program Yancey County farmers will be given an opportunity to request the Federal Government to share the cost, if needed, to aid them in carrying Out eligible*-practices on their farm, according to ASC cfficials here. Th e Yancey County. ASC com mit(*Ft' has set, the' initial spring sign-up period f6ry#iling requests under the Agricultural Conserva tion Program from January 5 to January 20„ 1959. Th e forms on which th e requests for cost-sharing must be made, if cost is desired, may be obtained at the ASC county office during the sign-up period. Each farmer is requested -to-study carefully the conservation needs of his farm and try to de cide, in advance of th e meeting or visit to th e county office, on i wrhich one or two practices ACP cost-sharing is most needed. Tile Agricultural Conservation Program is for every farm in the county and the ASC officials en courage farmers to request a needed conservation practice to be carried out on their farm. It is hoped that 90% of all farmers in the county will participate in the 1959 Agricultural Conservation Program, * (• . - NEW BURLEY ALLOTMENTS Farmers may apply for a new farm allotment anytime before' th e 15th of February if they can meet the following requirements: Experience-The farm operator shall have had experience in grow ing th e kind of tobacco for which an allotment is requested either as a sharecropper, tenant or as a ... farm operator during two of the past five years: Provided that a farm operator who was in the armed services after September 16, 1940 shall be deemed to have met the requi rements of this subparagraph if he had such experience during one year either within the five years immediately* prior to his entry into th e armed services or within the fiv e years immediately following his discharge from the j armed services and if he files an application for an allotment with- v in fiv e crop years from date of discharge. - And provided further produc tion of tobacco on a farm in 1955, j 1956, 1957 or 1958 for which, in ! accordance with applicable law and regulations no 1955. 1956, 1957 or 1958 tobacco acreage allotment, respectively was determined shall not be deemed such experien ce for any producer. The farm operator shall liye on and obtain'-50% or more of his% livelihood from-the farm covered by the application. The farm covered by the appli cation shall b e the only farm owned or operated by the farm op erator for which a burley tobacco acreage allotment is established for the, 1959-60 marketing year. The farm shall be operated by th e owner thereof. Further information may be obtained at the ASC office. < " Th e ASC office will be closed on Decmber 25, 26 add January Funeral Services For Wesley E>. Edwards - Wesley D. Edwards.-76. died at his home near Burnsville Sunday. Services were held Tuesday at 2 p. m. in Mine Fork Pres byterian Church. The Rev. Wal ser Penland and the Rev T. E. Woody officiated, and burial was in McCurry Cemetery. | Surviving are the wife, Mrs. Rebecca Renfro Edwards; four i | daughters, Mrs. F. R. Deyton of Erwin, Tenn. Mrs. Biss Laws of i Burnsville KFD 2 Mrs. Paul Al dridge of Jonesboro Tenn., and Mrs. J. E. I.'nnerof Mesa, Ariz.; four sons, Clarene e of Washing ton' D. C. Garth of K’nston, „Ga. Boyd of W’iynesvJle and Ed of u Burnsville RFD 1; four brothers, J. H.„ J. W. and Gus of Burns ■ ill- and J. R. of E"’" , n, Tpnn.; "*id three sisters Mrs. Martha Renfro, Mrs. Carri e Edwards and Mrs. Mary Henson of Burns ville . Pallbearers were U. B. Deyton, John Fox. James Walker, Jess Edwards, Ivan McCurry and Mil ford Waldroup.
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