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VOLUME TWENTY FIVE
1961 Poster Child tor March 6f Dimes
Is. Victim of Two Grave Birth Defects
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PLEASE SAY YES TIO THE NEW MABER
This likeness of Linda Breese appears on millions of posters and coin collectors
Linda Gail Breese, a pic
torial and high-spirited .
young lady of / four, who
lives in Columbus, Ohio,
was named this week as the
1,9,61. ishiw March of Dimes
National Poster Child.
Selection of the vivacious
•child, a victim of the grave
birth defects of an open .spine
and excess fluid on the femin,
was announced by Jlasil O’Cor;-
nor", president of The National
Foundation, parent body of ,the
New March of Dimes. Study
and patient aid in birth de
fects and arthritis, together
with continued work in polio,
embody the expanded program !
v of the health organivialion.
In January, during which j
the New M;m>ch of Dimes will.l
be held throughout the nation, 1
Linda will probably feel she is ;
facing mirrors everywhere she j
.. travels. That’s h ".cause millions
of-posters with bear her like
ness which, in drawings and •
photographs, will also be pub
lished in thousands of news
papers and magazines. The
blonde ap,d.bh.js-eyed child will
also appear bn network tele
vision
? , Linda's parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Depn A. Jh eese. Her father .
is an indusirirl engineer. Her 1
mother,. Dorothy Lohr Breese, |
jn addition to Linda, has an- 1
other, daughter, Susan, 14, and 1
fwosons,' Rdniiie>,d-2, aud Terry, j
six. Tragically, since there *ls |
Farm Census To Be Taken
With Tax Listing
—The County Extension Office
is cooperating with the county tax
* supervisor and tax listers in the
annual farm census. E. L. Dil
lingham, County Agricultural Ag-
BUBNSVJLLE NATIVE -i>'
DIES IN VIRGINIA
Word'has been received by Mrs.
Mary Lou Sorrells Fulmer, for
merly of Burnsville, of the ‘.death
of her cousin, Alvin York Gardner,
formerly of Columbia, S. C. Born
in Burnsville.
He died suddenly at his home at
600 Johnson Place, Alexandria, Va. I
pn December 24, 1960.
Mr. Gardner i$ survived by his
wife, Marguerite; three daughters,
Jane, Kay and Anne; hjs mother,*
MF9- Wm. S. Gardner, Sr. of Alex
andria, Va.; one brother, Wm. S.
Gardner, Jr. of Miami,- FTfr.; one
sister, Mrs. Q. S. Johnson (Mary
Ellis) of Alexandria, Va.; and sev
eral aunts and unejes; t.wq pieces,
and one nephew.
Services were conducted in
Alexandria, Va, at 1:00 p, m. Wed
nesday with burial in Arlington
Military Cemetery, Arlington, Va,
Mr, Gardner was the nephew of
the late Mantle Gardner Sorrells of
Burnsville,
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RALEIGH—The Motor Vehicle
Department’s summary of traffic
deaths through 10 A. M. Tuesday,
January, 3, 1961:
KILLED TO DATE 7
KILLED TO DATE Last Year 10
The Yancey Record
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Subset Hgtion $2.90 Per Yipar
handicapped Linda among the 1
Breese children, Ronnie is a
'victim of cerebral palsy but his
general physical condition is
described us good.
Mrs. Breese has been a Moth • I
ers’ Marcher for the annual :
March of Dimes,
“My husband and 1 are deep
ly grateful that at last some
thing constructive is being
done about birth defects,” she
says. “We pray that The
National Foundation which,
through public contributions to j
the March of Dimes, financed 1
the development of tne Salk |
polio vaccine,-will in time also
solve the puzzle of "bixth de
| feels, which are. the largest
I unmet childhood medical prob-
I lem in our country today.”
Emphasizing the enormity of
| the problem, Mrs. Breese cit
ed statistics showing that 250,-
000 infapts in the United
: States ore born annually with
signirtcapfr birth defects. Also,
ibecause of, these congenital!
malformations, 34,000 batiies a
year ’in the'nat ion are stillborn 1
or die in the first lour weeks
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• Jrtnrla- anddgwefit-.surg-ovy'to,
clpse her rpii'te.jyhyn she- y r as
less than a dav old.-The opera-'
1 tiOB was performed at Chil-.
; dren’f Kosplta), Cpiumbus,"
j where. The National Foundation
[with March- of- Dirges funds
i-established the nation’s first
ent, said that the information fur*
nished? by farmers at tax listing 1
time was very valuable to all agri
cultural agencies in planning their '
programs and also in measuring >
results of various farm programs.' ■
Dillingham pointed out that to be 1
4if...rcal: all concernedJhat
tne given must be
accurate, \ ~ v •****•• •
Farmers should come prepared . 1
to give the total number of acres j -
in their farms and the breakdown j
of this total into the number of j
acres in each crop. The number and j
kind of livestock ahdTpoUttry is also i
called for along with other ques- ’ ;
tions of importance. |
! All land owners w’eli «s far- i
mens, are urged to cooperate with
the tax lister, according to Dil
lingham.
Lists of places and dates of 'tax
listing will be posted and anno
unced in local papers,
All farm information given is
confidential and will not be. used
for tax purposes. \ •
PROFFITT' MAKES
HONOR CLUB
! Ralph T. Proffitt, Burnsville
Insurance man, has qualified for
' Mutual Os Ndw York’s National
> Field Club, a sales-bonor organi
zation,
Membership Is awarded annually
to about one-third of the firm’s
8500 field underwriters for high
standards of production and service
of life and accident & sickness
insurance.
This is Mr. Proffitt’s fourth
I qualification for the gdoup,
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NUr IC E
There will be a New Year's Dance
at the Community Building in Bur
nsville Saturday, January 7 at 8:00
p. m. The proceeds wijl go to the
United Fund. Everyone is invited to
attend.
“Dedicated To Hie Progress Os Yancey County”
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Linda Breese
filter,.'she again had surgery
far on- the brain,
and the today wears
'a.' 'Ttop'f’ 't-uSc to dri-ifi off
- this liquid. Linda also .uses
cputches .biff has been aple to
ddseard her. l’eg< braces,
fi while helping hes
reiotijee wash (fishes, she took
three steps without her crutch-
memorable apd honeful
flWSlnllL ‘'ISPTt^ISSS
. Obituaries
MRS. MARY ANN GREENE
Mrs ,Mary Ann Greene, 79, of
Burnsville RED 2 died Tuesday in
a Spruce Pine hospital after a
\Ayog- illngss.
' Services’ were held in Youngs
Chanel Baptist Church at 2 _p. m,
Wednesday.
The Rev~R. M. Caesity, the Rev.
Jeff the Rev. _ G. H.
Dellinger officiated and burial was
in the Young. Cemetery.
She was .the widow of the late
Wash Greece. Surviving are five’
daughters, Mrs. Brown R(ddle ps,
Spruce Pine’ RFD .2, Mrs- Frank
Burleson anil Mrs. Maude Boone of t
Burnsville RFD 2, / Mrs. Fray |
-Williams of - Marion and Mys. Law- j
rence Carraway -of Celo; two sons,,
Sam Greene of Burnsville RFD, 2. i
and Paul Greene of Spruce Pint,
RFD 2; three si&tets, Mrs, Pink
Bajlew of Hamrick, Mrs. Martha
Robinson of Prices Creek and Mrs.
Cornell Good of Hickory; ont, bro
ther, C'/.arl jo Me Peters of Wood
lawn; 19 grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren,
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MRS. GRACE LEWIS
Services for Mrs. Gracp Lewis,
62. of Erwin, Tenn,, who died
Sunday morning.were held at 2
p. m. Wednesday in Robert l,edford
Funeral Hojna in Erwin,
Bui-ial was ,in the Green Moun
tain" Cemetery. -'i
Mrs Lewis, a. native of Yancey
Cousty and a membed of North
Bend Methodist Church, had lived
in Erwin for the past 10 years.
She died in a hospital in Unicoi,
Tenn., following a long illnessi,
She j« survived by four sons, a
daughter, five brothers, two sisters
and four grandchildren,
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MRS. VALERIA RAY
1 Mrs, Valeria Ray, 61, died at
the home of a daughter, Mrs. L. D.
Young, in Burnsville Tuesday.
Services were held today (Thurs
day) in Mt. Olive Baptist Church.
‘ The Rev. J. H. Smith officiated,
Burial was in the church
* In addition to Mrs. YouOi she
- is survived by five sons, Ron of
» Mars JHill, William of_„Cincinnati,
Alvin of Washington, D. C., James
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BURNSVILLE, -N. C., THUR 3 DAY, JANUARY 5, 1961
Robbery Under
Investigation
Officers of the Yancey County
Sheriff's j[ Department are still
inveatigatipg the double robbery
that occurred in Burnsville on
Dec. 22. i-'Two, Burnsville “lousiness
places were entered and robbed
sometime’fiuring- the night of Dec.
22. The burguiars entered the Caro
lina Craft Shop in the basement es
Ray Bros, Fdod Center and took
several items from the shop. Then
the burgularg apparently fired
.tools from the shop to effect their
entrance Into Ray Bros. Food Cen
ter. They cut a hole in the floor
the establishment from below and
made away with about $l5O in cash
and an undei-termined amount of
merchandise.
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Adult Education
Courses At Lee
Edwards High I
* Registration for winter adult
trade and technical classes will get
under way on Monday and Tues
day nights, January 16 and 17, at
i :00 p. m. in the Lee H. Edwards
High School Vocational Building.
Residents of North Carolina six
teen years of age or older who. are
not enrolled in the public schools
are eligible to attend. The courses
are free except for a nominal fee
charged for the cost of supplies
and use of equipment. Information
on these courses may be obtained
'from Thomas W. S'mpson, Director
of the Industrial Education Center,
whose office is cn the eighth floor
of the City Building,, telephone AL
4-4300. These classes will be trans
ferred to the new Industrial Tlduca
tion Center on Victoria Road. as.
soon as these facilities ate avail'
able. >
Courses to be offered: , -
MACHINE SHOP —a 1080 hour
certificatacourse whidfitofApproved
for veterTO3fifetk*ir^hijKfc4 a _.i C laßß
meets on. "WondSy,’’ Irtm«i toy,.
nesday, and Thursday nights, 6:30
to 10:15 p. m, It is open to any
individual who desires to become a
machine operator or machinist. Re
gister January 16 at 7:00 p. m.
Related machine theory and shop
practice. Mr. William E. Black .and:
Mr. Earl Elliott are instructors..
BASIC ELECTRONICS TECH.
NOLOGY —a three month’ beghm--
ing course in Electronics covering
basic electron theory, circuit com
ponents, -vacuum tubes, amplifiers,
and complex circuitry. Meets on
Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday anil
Thursday-nights from' 6:30 to 10:15
p. pi- Lecture and laboratory work.
Approved for -veterans training.
Register January 16 at
Mr. Steve Creasman and Mr. Dan
iel Bums are instructors.
ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY,
Second’Quarter. any student who,'
has had tvurent, voltage, power, I
series and parallel, D. C. circuits,
and fundamentals of A. C, is eligi-!
ble to enroll. Class meets on Mon-1
day, Tuesday, . Wednesday, and j
Thursday nights front 6:30 to 10:15
p. m. Lecture and laboratory work.
Approved for yyterans- training.
Register January 16 at 7;OQ p, iq,
Mr. Steve Mr. Dan
iel Burns are instructors.
ELECTRICAL . APPRENTICE
RELATED- a 144 hour certifi
cate r!i»s» which .meets on ..Tuesday
and Thursday from 7:00 to 9:30 p>.
m. This class is designed to provide
the related theory /or trainees in
the electrical field. Register for
this class January 17 at 7:00 p. m.
Mr. Bynum Reege i« instructor.
ELECTRICAL CODE CLASS
60 hour class for electricians. Meets
on Tuesday and Thursday nights
7:00 to B:30 p. m. Textbook is
American Standard Electrical Code
manual. Register January 17 at
7:00 p. m. Mr. Charles Gudger
City Electrical Inspector Is instruc
tor,
SHEET METAL LAYOUT 5O
hour course which meets on Tues
day and Thursday nights from 7:00
to 9:30 p. m. Advanced course to
cover triangulation and simplified
triangulation methods. Register
January 17 at 7:00 p. m. Mr. Sher
man Phillips is instructor.
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of Portsmouth, Va., and Preston of
Asheville; and the mother, Mrs.
Mary Ray of Mars Hill.
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Radio System Benefits .County
14 New Businesses
Listed By L D
“There are 14 more business con
cerns in Yancey County today than
there were last year,” says Thomas
G. Johnson, manager of the Knox
ville office of Dun & Bradstreet,
Inc. Basing his facts upon a phy
sical count of the January, 1961
Holcombes At
Inauguration
Mr. and Mrs. Harton Holcombe,
Miss Myra Holcombe and Charles
Hensley are in Raleigh this week
where they will attend the inaugu
ration of Gov. elect Terry San
ford. Mr. Holcombe is representa
tive for 'Yancey County.
The inaugural period began of
fically at noon Wednesday by pro
clamation of outgoing Gov. Luther
H. Hodges.
Gov. -elect Sanford will take the
oath as governor-on Thursday at
Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium. H.
Cloyd Philpott of Lexington will be
sworn in as lieutenant governor
and members of the Council of
-Start.e will be sworn in for, new
terms. ■>. '*
A public reception will be -held
at the Governor’s mansion cto Thurs
day. Mr. and Mrs. Holcombe and
Miss Holcombe and her escort,
Charles Henley, will attend the
reception : inaugural ball -op
Thursday nigljt. , ii
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Presbyterian Church
. .. Mewa-fajiaLAflaa
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4*n '''my, —l' I, rtii" "
are returning home at the end of
this week after, a two-wefek holiday
in Pennsylvania. Mr, Rpeve will
again be in the pklpit of hid church,
the First, Presbyterian, on Sunday
morning, January 8%-at the:
o’clock.■ service,-‘TheV Climax:! of
Chnktipn Worship” will ./ be ; the
subjects ahhisi- sermon. .
The men of the church will'
their monthly breakfast together in
the basement ropms of the church
8 o’clock Sunday morning.
NOTICE
The deacons meeting which was
scheduled for Jpn, y at River
side Baptjst Church has been post
poned’ due to plans for a study
course not being corqpleted,
SUBSCRIBE TO THE RECQHD I
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United Fund Honor Roll;
; 1 100 PERCENT I
ASC Office ~ !
County Extenson Service
FHA Office
Feldspar Corporation
Glen Raven Mill
Northwestern Bank
Post Office
Roberts Chevrolet-Buick, Inc.
French Broad Elec. Memb. Corp.
Yancey County Health Center
Medical Profession in Yancey
Robinson’s Dairy
' South Toe School
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B. B. Penland & Son
Prise Per Copy: Hi* Onto
edition of the Dun & Bradstreet
Reference Bock, T. G. Johnson
points out that in 1960 149 busi
nesses were listed in Yancey County
and today 163 businesses are listed.
According to Mr. Johnson, each
January business eoneedns in all
parts of the United States are asked
by Dun & Bradstreet foe copies of
their financial statements. This year
requests are being sent to appro
ximately three million business
concerns —to the comer grocery
store worth a few thousand dollars
as well as to businesses worth
millions.
The Dun & Bradstreet Reference
Book, lists those manufacturers,
! wholesalers, and retailers who seek
ior grant commercial credit but it
does not include some of the ser
vice and professional businesses
such as beauty and barber shops,
security dealers and real estate
brokers. Therefore, the figures for
total business in the United States
would be higher than the three
million quoted above.
When the owner or officer of a
business enterprise, or his accoun
tant, fills in and mails his finan
cial statement to Dun & Bradstreet,
it becomes a part of the credit re
port on his business and a factor
in determining the credit rating of
his business. Mailing the state
ment, rather than, .waiting for the
S^Bj^ads|reet„ reporter’s call
impQitaai .sup
pliers .. ,wiUi„: quickly . have the
Idlest facta, o»'which to make credit
.and, saiea decisions. When the Dun
A’ reporter receives a
'statement in adfance of
caa
eial condition of the business and
dismiss .its operation more intjsfii- j
gently. ... :
; of each listing of a busi-1
ness in ;!|hp; Reference Book is a,
Dun] &i' Bradstreet credit report.
The ' report includes the following
k• .•. of- the business (who
it, who runs it, and how long
It Kasi.been operating-); a deocrlp- ,
tion of what kind of buafnesa does I
and ho.w It does it; a financial sec
tion which. = usually indudes the .
latest financial statement; and a i
record of how the business pays I
its bills, * "’ r ’
While credit reports are primar-! <
ily used by business men who want i
to evaluate the credit risk of a i
business before shipping or selling, c
insurance underwriters also use
credit r eports to review risks, rates, t
and coverage for fire and other c
types of insurance. ~ i
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NUMBER TWENTY
Now In Fourth
Tier Of A Uio
The month of January 1961 will
see the fourtu anniversary of the
installation of the Yancey County
Police Radio System. This is a sig
nificant celebration in the lives of
the people of Yancey County. Few
people are aware of the benefit*
that this step in the progress at
Yancey County has brought to its
people.
The County Radio system is con-
I trolled by the base station, “Burns
. ville—Klßl-610.” Its transmitter is
located atop Phillips Knob with
controls in the Yancey County JaiL
This base station as supplemented
by eight mobile units in,the. county
and contact with three other base
stations in the state. The eight
county mobile units are divided
among the Sheriffs Department,
the City Police Department, the
City Fire Department, the County
Civil Defense, and one walkie
talkie unit. The stations that are
in direct contact with Burnsville
are: Asheville Highway Patrol,
which maintains contact with all
highway patrol cars in this area;
the Spruce Pine Police Depart
ment; and the Lincoln
Department. Indirectly,
the Burnsville station is in con
tact with all police radio stations
in North Carolina and several in
other states.
This station does not only func
tion as an aid to law enforcement
officers in their relentless pursuit
of law-breakers, but it does many
jobs for the average citizen This
station, which is active 24 hours per
day, 365 days per year, performs
many civil services. The stations
handles, for instance, about 160.
death and emergency messages
each year. These are messages, i'
about the death, injury, or other
emergency arising in the lives of
of people in Yancey Coun
fr-i mi -vt--, Irr ririivered.
. Dee of charge, alt all hours of the
j night or day when all other means
! of communication have failed.
. The radio may also be used to
call electrical workers to the scene
of a burning building, report an ac
cident to a cruising patrolman, call
an ambulance to the scene of a
serious accident,‘and perform many
Other services for the average
citizen.
The radio is also an invaluable
aid to law enforcement in the
county. It is used to report crimes *
to officers cruising in the county
when they could not be reached hy
any other method. It is used to
identify license numbere on suspic
ious vehicles and check to see if a
car is stolen.
In case of a national emergency,
the radio system will be used to co
ordinate Civil Defense procedure*
in the county.
In the four years that the radio
system has been in effect in the
county, it has proven to be worth
far more than the cost to the
county. ~
This week we s#lute the men who
had the foresight to plan for the
purchase of this system and the
operators who have kept it going ,
in the past four years.
196 L LICENSE PLATES p "
GO ON SALE HERE J
The new 1961 License plates went
on sale here at the Carolina Motor
Club, Tuesday, January 3. The
Motor Club reported that sales for
the first day lagged somewhat be
hind for the same period last year.
Motorists are urged to get tha'
plates early to avoid last minute
lines.
Locals
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Miss Jean Cooper, student nur*«
at Rutherford Hospital, spent the
holidays with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Cooper, here. Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Hall and girls, Deb-,
bie and Karen, of Johnson City
Tenn., also visited their parents
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, during the
holidays. •
Mr. and Mrs, Warren Franklin
and children vacationed in Fl.f4.fi
during the Christmas holiday*
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