North Carolina Newspapers

theUHlEEDway VOLUME TWENTY FOUR Robinson Sentenced To 6-10 -Years Burnice Robinson, 39, was sen tenced here Monday to 6. to 10 years tor manslaughter but clear ed of a murder charge in the June 2? shotgun slayings of his Micaville School Has Fall Festival Program Micaville Elementery School held their Fall Festival on Friday, November 20th. Each room sponsored a King and Queen. The winner in the primary contest was Miss Doris Young’s 2nd. grade com bination, and Mr. Lloyd Dey ton’s Bth. grade won in the grades contest. Miss Anita Fox, daughter of Mrs. Brady i'-Fox and the late Mr. For, was ' crowned as queen and Fred Allen Self, so n of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Self, of Burnsville was crowned King in Mss Young s room. Miss Betty Jo Robinson, daughter of Mr. Paul Robinson of Micaville and the late Mrs. Rob inson, was crowned as the gram ml£r grade queen and Gary Rob inson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Robinson of Micaville, was crown ed king. Runners up were Miss Diane Styles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kivit Styles, of Burnsville RFD, and Jackie Boone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Boone, of Micaville . from Mrs. Hubert Justice’s room; and Miss Elaine McKinney, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Mc- Kinney, of Burnsville RFD and Ronnie Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Thomas, of Green Mountain’ from Mr. Charles Jus tice’s room. Miss Young’s and Mr. Deyton’s rooms won by around 2000 votes. ' _ Each room presented a program at the festival in which all the children participated. Presbyterian Men To Meet The Presbyterian Men’s Group will have breakfast together in the church on Sunday, December 6th at 8 o’clock. Mr. E. L. Dill ingham will lead in a discussion of the Sunday School lesson, and Mr. Donald Burhoe will preside over the business meeting. At the morning service at 11, the subject of the sermon by the minister, Rev. Warren S. Reeve, will be “The Servant-Status of True Christians". I Mr. Reeve and Mr. Clifford R. Faulknpr will represent the Bur psville Presbyterian Church at the quarterly meeting of the Holston Presbytery to be held on Saturday of this week in the Salem Presby-. terian Church a t Washington College, Tennessee. Mr. Reeve V ill preside also at the service to be held > n the Covenant U nited Presbyterian Church, Tusculum Heights, Tennessee, at 4 p. m. Sunday afternoon for the installa tion Qf the Rev. Carroll D. Payne gs pastor of that church, Yancey United Fund Honor Roll' In the following places of busi- ' ness 100% of the employees have j contributed to the 1959 campaign of the Yancey United Fund. Deneen Mica Co. Feldspar Corporation Firth Carpet Company Glen Raven Silk Mills Northwestern Bank B. B. Penland & Son Co. Roberts Chevrolet, Inc. Yancey Builders Supply, Inc. ASC Office Farm Home Adm. Office. French Broad Electric Corp. South Tog Rive r School County Agent’s Office Yancpy Bar Association r """ - i GIVE TO THE YANCEY UNITEDTuND The Yancey Record “Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey County* Subscription $2.00 j»er Year wife and Roy Lee Turner, 37, of Oakley, near Asheville. J. Frank Huskins, Yancey Sup erior Court Judge, imposed the prison term after Robinson plead ed guilty to manslaughter in Turner’s death. The murder charge In the death of his wife, Mrs. Ethel Robinson, 32, was dismissed by the judge because state’s evidence showed that her death was accidental. Robinson had not pleaded guilty to this charge. Testimony showed that Mrs. RobinsOn ran between her hus band and Turner and grabbed the shotgun from her husband after die told Turner to leave his home end Turner refused. The gun acci dently discharged and struck her. Turner was killed about two miles away up Cattail Creek Road. The shootings occurred shortly after. Mrs. Robinson arrived home from Swannanoa, where she was working, with Turner in his car. Kobinsbn had bee n charged with two counts of first-degree murder but had been free o n SIO,OOO bond. Rev. David A. Staley Called To Candler Rev. David A. Staley, "former pastor of the Mt. Pleasant Bap tist Church, Yancey Association, has accepted the pastorate of the White Rock Baptist Church in Candler, Buncombe Association. Rev. Staley had been pastorof Mt. Pleasant Church here since September 21, 1958. He accepted the White Roek- Baptist Church pastorate o n November 22nd, and he and Mrs. Staley have moved to the parsonage there. He is a graduate of Boyden High School, Greensboro, graduat ing from Catawba College and from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary at Fort Worth, Texas with a B. D* de gree. He had special .training with the Department of Pastoral Care of the N. C. Baptist Hospital. In 1954 he was married Eb the forme r Miss Betty Lee West’ of Salisbury,, a niece of Mrs. Will ard P. Honeycutt of Rt. 1, Bur nsville . Locals T Sgt-. and Mrs. Chester L. Canipe of Barksdale Air Force Base, La. announce the birth of • V a daughter, Lucretia Ann, on Nov ember 23rd. The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Canipe of Gree n Mountain and Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Blankensdip of Bur nsville. . I Mr. and Mrs. Johji M. Fonts and children of Louisville, Ky., * ahd Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. 1 Fouts and children of Greensboro were recent visitors of Mr. and! Mrs. Dover R. Fonts here. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Shepherd vis ited their daughter, Mrs. Ralph Lewis and her family during the Thanksgiving Holidays in Erwin, Tenn, Mr. rind Mrs. R. C. Orr and daughter of Asheville and Mrs. H. G. Crowgey and daughters of Taylorsville spent part of the Thanksgiving week-end with thei r parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Prof | fitt, here. * Mr. and Mrs. Carl Carter and son, Barrow, attended the wed ding of their son, Carl Edward Carter to Miss Nancy Kay Fergu son, i n Del City, Okla. on Nov ember 28th. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Laughrun spent the Thanksgiving Ho »>y,-j with their daughter, Mrs. Bill Cherry, and family in Sumter, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Hale Bryson and children. Tommy, Jane and Jim my of Shelby visited thpir parents * Mr. and Mrs. A. F.-Bryson and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Brown here during the Thanksgiving Holidays. I Revival Services To Be Held At Tabernacle HERMAN ANDERSON A series of revival services will begin at the True Gospel Taber-* nacle in Burnsville on Sunday night, December 13th at 7:00 p. m. The services will be conducted by Evangelist Herman Anderson, pastor of the Oak Glen Indepen dent Missionary Baptist Church of Yuma, Va. .... Everyone is urged to attend and pray fo r a great revival. Ferguson, Carter Vows Spoken Miss Nancy Kay Ferguson be came the bride of Carl Edward Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Carter of Burnsville in the First Southern Baptist Church in Del City, Okla. Saturday. The Rev. A. M. Stone of Corsicana, Texas officiated. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Connie Ferguson, Jr. of Del City', and yas given in marriage by her father. She wore a dresg of lace over taf feta with * tiered skirt extending into a chapel train. Her veil was attached in. a_c.QEQn£Ljeold she car ried a white orchid. Mr. Carter was his son’s best man and ushers were Barrow Carter, brother of the bridegroom and James Ferguson, brother of the bride. Mrs. Roy Lee Bowling was the bride’s attendant wearing emerald green peau de soie and brocade and carrying chrysanthemums. Sherrie Ann Stone was junior bridesmaid and Carolyn Ferguson and Jeri Stone were flower girls. Janie Sue Stone and Frankie Fer guson lighted candles. Mrs. Carter is a graduate of Del City High School. Mr. Carter is serving i n the U. S. Air Force as a rawinsonde specialist. The couple will return to North Caro lina in January, following his dis charge, and Mr. Carter will re sume his college work at Mars Hill College, Cane River FHA Holds Meeting By: Marilyn Wilson, Reporter | The Cane River chapter of the Future Homemakers of America met on November 30th for their regular meeting. The president, Be-;ky Proffitt, presided over the meeting. The devotional was given by Freida Hill who read the poem, “If For i Girls”. Helena Hensley gave a talk on/the FHA degrees ■ avail able to FHA club members and mentioned the number of degrees for the Cane River Club. Barbara Pate gave a report on the trip to the Western District Rally which several of the Cane River Club members attended. Those attending the rally included Becky Proffitt, Elaine Hensley, Irma Radford, Loraine Letter man Lois Styles, Helena Hensley, Ca therine Stiles, Barbara Pate, Belinda Proffitt, Edna Pate, Lou ise Proffitt, Freida Hill, Mrs. Pauline Hensley, Mrs. Irma Peter json and Mrs. Roy Pate. The theme of the program yas “Gutting to Know You”. Plans, fo r the Christmas meeting were | also discussed. BURNSVILLE, N. G, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1959 Highway Commission' Calls Fdr Bids On Road Work Raleigh— The .State Highway Commission today caller for more bids on more than 22 miles of road work in 10 counties across the State. ' Bids will be opened. at the highway letting on December 8 and low bids will be reviewed by the Commission at its meeting in Raleigh on Decembe r 10-11. Among the projects in the call for bids is 3.79 miles of US 19-E from a point approximately 5 miles southeast of Burnsville in Yancey County,, east to the Mit chell County line. Urquhart Clinic Report The Urquhart Clinic reports 1 Tour births during the month of November. They include a daugh ter, Sharon Lynn, born to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Peterson of Relief on November sth. A daughter, Debra Ann, born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence James Inman of Black Mountain on November 9th. A daughter, Vicki, born to Mr. and Mrs. Troy, Griffith of Relief on November 11th. A daughter, Mona Lisa, born to Mr. and Mrs Ezra Fender of Burnsville on November 21st. Yancey Hospital Report BIRTHS: A daughter, ' Phyllis Ann, born November 24 to Mr. and Mrs. Aught Putman, Rt. 2. Bakersville; a daughter, Rhonda Lynne, born November 28 to Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Canipe, Kings port, Tenn. ADMISSIONS: Floyd Fox, Al bert Jones and Irene Peterson, Rt. 1, Burnsville; Madeline Putman F-crggy. au.TtH, -«%•-.— Qi- Bakersville; L&yd Peterson, Faye! Holcombe and Anna Ruth Tho mas, Burnsville; Fred Young, Mi caville; Rettie Tipton and Nancy Webb, Rt. 4, Burnsville; Shirley! Canipe, Kingsport, % Tenn.; Ralph Griffith, Rt. 2, Burnsville; Melba I Carroll, Rt. 5, Burnsville; and Claude Hoilman, Bakersville. 4-H Club News BALD CREEK 4-H CLUB NEWS By: Steve Pate, Reporter The Bald Creek 4-H Club met, on November 23rd. After the de-■ votional Mr. Charles Steelman talked to, the group about the dis- i ferent projects the members could take and gave them their cards ’ and record books. Officers were elected during the business meeting. They in-j eluded Fay Baker, vice president;! Steve Pate, reporter and Sandra Buckner, song leader. MICAVILLE 4-H CLUB NEWS By: Patsy Parsley, Reporter The Micaville sixth grade 4-H Club meeting was held In the Micaville school auditorium on Wednesday, October 14th. The* meeting was called to order by 1 the president. Pledges were led by! Sheran McMahan. Elizabeth Young was in charge *©f devotion. | Gerline Branch read the minutes of the last meeting and then the meeting was turned over to the vice president. A Thanksgiving program was presented; then the meeting was turned over to Miss Cox and Mr. Steelman. The next meeting will be held on Wednes day, December 9th. . SOUTH TOE JUNIOR 4-H CLUB NEWS By: Romopa Bowditch, Reporter The Soqth Toe Junior 4-H Club hpld a meeting Wednesday, Nov ember 18th. Louise Ballew, presi-* dent, presided over the meeting. A Thanksgiving program was. presented by Carolyh Carroll, Louise Pritchard, Mona Harrison and Louise Ballew. , A movie on “How To Be Trust worthy" was shown during the ‘meeting. ! PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, it is increasingly apparent that our security as a state, as individuals and as mem bers of a free society is. dependent upon strong non-military defense and WHEREAS, a strong non military defense can serve as a deterrent to war as well as effective protection in natural disasters, and WHEREAS, the total defense we must achieve is equally dependent upon positive protective measures by individual citizens and action by government at all levels, and WHEREAS, the President of the United States and the Governor of North Carolina,. re cognizing the importance of having every individual citizen place <?ivil defense in its proper perspective, have designated Monday, Decembe r 7, 1959, as Civil Defense Day, NOW, THEREFORE, I, Mayor of Burnsville, do hereby proclaim the aforementioned day as CIVIL DEFENSE DAY and recommend to my fellow citizens appropriate observances of this day set aside to symbolize the need for concerted and individual action to achieve a proper state Os preparedness. Dover R. Fouts, Mayor George Young Dies In Asheville Nursing Home George Young, 71, of Boonford died in the Parkway Nursing home in Asheville Tuesday at 7:15 p. m. after a long illness. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Rilo Godfrey of Va., Miss Gladys Young of Char lott.e Miss Clara Young of Burns ville, Mrs. Edward Holder of Can ton, Ohio, and Mrs. Bill Greene of Philadelphia, Pa; two sons, Philip ' and- tftyser; of Ar~ Va ; !4 s/randehildren,- a 'great-grandchildren; two sisters. Miss Della Young of Boonford and Mrs. Leona Hoyles of Boon | ford; one brother, Will Young of Newdalc. Funeral arrangements are in complete . i Services Held For. Mrs. Ben Riddle J Funeral . services for Mrs. Ben W. Riddle, 49, of Burnsville who | died in an Asheville Nursing Home Sunday after a long illness, were j hedd at the Riverside Baptist Church Tuesday at 2:00 p. m. !The Rev. H. B. Dendy, the Rev. |E. G. Adkins and the Rev. Ralph * Young officiated. Burial was in j the Cane River Cemetery. j ‘ She is survived by the husband; two daughters, Mrs. Arnold Rob' insori of Burnsville and Mrs. Clyde Edwards of Asheville; the father; four sisters and three brothers. - •«*** 4 - --jgjirirr"^^^- — * I :Wme a Sis a *, JH ■'■:'■> S T V: i/ ;£> * * * * v* 1 jf ",' ,!^’T^*^^H fc > J : W * *' * MOBILE RADIO truck, designed and paid (or by tbe Seventh-day Adventist Disaster Relief group, is Inspected by some of the mem bers of the National Advisory Connell on Rural Civil Defense, a committee of prominent farm leaders, teachers and writers who advise the Office of Civil and Defease Mobilisation on its rural civil ( defense program. Mobile control unite would be needed after a nuclear attack to direct rural survival and to help marshal the | nation’s food production for victory and recovery. <ocdm Photo) Rrtc# Per Copy: Five Cents Winning Rural Community To Be Announced Satufdpy Winning rural areas in the 1959 Western North Carolina Rural Community Development Program will be announced at the annual awards luncheon at the Asheville City Auditorium, on Saturday, December sat 12:00 noon. The awards program will climax the tenth year of this rural improvement program. Sev eral hundrerd rural. and -business leaders from all over Western North Carolina are expected to be on hand. A record 120 organized com munities in 15 counties took part ured In New Book The Nu-Wray Inn, Burnsville, is featured in a new book, “This Is The South,”- just published by Rand-McNally. It is among 70 Southern hotels, motels, resorts- and restaurants included in the chapter, “Eatin’ Out,” written especially for the book by Roy H. Park, a native North Carolinian, who is now editor-inchief of the renowned Duncan Hines guide books, pub lishde by the Duncan Hines Institute, Ithaca, N. Y. Park is one of the 31 contri buting etitors to this new 300- page volume about the South, edited by Robert Howard. Some of the other contributing editors are Hodding Carter, Editor and Publisher, “The Delta Democrat Times,” Greenville, Mississippi; Dr. Thomas D. Clark, Depart ment of History, University of Kentucky; Ivy W. Duggan, Vice President, Trust Company of •Georgia, Atlanta'; Paul-- Green, Chapel Hill, North Carolina;; Har nett T. Kane, New Orleans; Jesse Stuart, Riverton, Kentucky, Rupert B Vanie Department of SU’UCTjgy, of North Carolina. In the chapter cn where to eat in the South, Park names some of his favorite eating places among the establishments “Recommended by Duncan Hines.” The Nu-Wray Inn is included in “Adventures in Good Eating,” which lists 4000 j of the best places to eat in North America. He advises “At Burnsville, don’t rush by the Nu-Wray Inn. At this country hotel, you will just pull up your chair with the rest of the boarders and help yourself to a half-dozen kinds, of jelly for the hot biscuits and Wray cured Ham. The smothered let tuce and corn pudding are deli cious here, too." Park, who has been a long-time friend and traveling compan ion of the late Duncan Hines, takes the reader on an eating tou r of every Southern state from Virginia to Texas. - - Jra ■T 3 I • Y‘ ; |f\ theuNlTEDway ■ _ - - J NUMBER FIFTEEN in this community, home and . farm improvement program during 1959". The winning community in each of the participating coun ties was visited by a team of judges in mid-November. 1 Double Island community re presented Yancey County in the final judging. , Principal speaker at the meet ing will be Brooks Hays, Director bf the Tennessee Valley Authority former congressman from Little Rock, Arkansas and immediate past president of the Southern Baptist Convention. President at the awards lunch eon will be Lerjiy H. Feagin, president of the Asheville Agri iultural Development Council of he Ashville Chamber of Commerce, which sponsors the area develop ment program in cooperation with the agricultural agencies. The luncheo n is sponsored by the Ag ricultural Council. Cash awards of $2,000 will be presented to the winning com munities. These are in addition to approximately SIO,OOO which has already been presented by local businessmen and organizations on a county level. Top prize is $500.00, given by Sears, Roebuck and Co. of Ashe ville . Stcond place award of S4OO is sponsored by The Asheville Citi zen-Times. Third prize of $300,00 is given by Sealtest • Southern Dairies, fourth prize of S2OO by- Mountain Poultry Co, and fifth prize of SIOO by ■ the Parkland Chevrolet Co. of Asheville. Awards Os $50.00 each will go to all honorable mention communities. A plaque will, be presented to the county which was judged to have done the-best job of promoting - and sponsoring the Community ■ Development Program during 1959. “¥ special award ~o£ SIOO.OO will also be presented by the Champ- J ion Paper and Fibre Co. to the organized ..community in Western North Carolina which success fully planted the greatest number of pine seedlings in the 1958-59 season. I —Yancey County will he repre | sented at the Community Awards Meeting in Asheville Saturday, December 5, by-community offi cers and leaders from 10 organi zed communities in the county, including seve n from Double Island, Ist place winner in the county in 1959. Special guests from the county will include civic leaders, business and professional men and agri cultural workers. E. L. Dilling ham, County Agricultural « said that he expected a group Os at least 25 to 30 from the county to be at the meeting. He stated that it is important for each community to be represented at the meeting since it is time to get reorganized and started on the 1960 program. The winning community from each county is awarded a cash prize and a plaque at the District Awards Meeting. First place win ner will be announced at the Asheville meeting’. I karen. Woody, four-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Byrle Woody of •Double Island Community, has been invited to sing at this meeting. Jr. Women’s Club Considers Kindergarten The Burnsville Junior Women’s Club is considering sponsoring a kindergarten here during the winter months. Before further plans are made the members would like to know how many in terested persons there would be In this project. Parents who have kindergarten age chi ildren who would be interested in sending their children ts kindergarten are asked to contact Mrs. Earl Young Burnsville, MU 2-2628.