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GIRL SCOUT WEEK
MARCH 12-18, 1961 *
Girl Scrat Week is being cele
brated this week throughout the
nation. Lo( 1 Ci 1 See; is are join
ing 3'_■ million girls and adults
across the country in observing
the 49th annive-'sm y- o.* the round
ing- cf Girl Scouts of the U. S. A.
Brownie Scout Troop 89 has a
member liip of ID girls and the
leaders are Firs. Jess Styles,‘Mrs.
Bob Hilliard and Mr:-. Nick -Hus
key. This troop is' sponsored by
the American Legion . Auxiliary
ar.d.was organic: d about ‘a it years
ago ,by Mr.--. Tony Zelensjcjg^,
The troop meets etjeL at
Allofmenl legii
bfbri-i Changed
r Farmers who soil a„ portion of
r their farms for non-agricultural
use can npv,- -keen their commodity,
.allotments on th- maining land,
according to Fred i . Anglin, Agri
cultural St.abiliiiaUa a mid Conser
vation County Office Manager.
tKf-om of
the first amendments of regula
tions issued by Horace D. Godfrey
after assuming office as Adminis
trator of Commodity Stabilization
Service, an agency in the United
States Department of Agriculture.
For many years prior to his ap
pointment as Administrator, God
frey was State Administrative
Officer of the North, Carolina Ag
ricultural Stabilization and Con-)
servation State Office. During this
time he vr requipy! to enforce
the regulati ms which provided
that whenever a farmer sold any
cropland his farm and allotments
were divided proportionately.. This
warirt only-difficult t<r administer
but it greatly impeded the indus
trial growth and development of
towns and cities, particularly those
in eastern North Carolina due to
farmers’ reluctance to sell a por
tion of their fams which also re
sulted in less es allotments.
Under thp new regulations, land
may be sold for no t-agricultural
use without loss of allotment pro
vided, the local AFC county com
mittee determines, on the basis of
an agreement sTi nod" by all per
sons interested in the transfer,
that the land transferred is in face
to be changed to nomagrictflturai
use during the current or succeed
ing year. Ff the prescribed agree
ment between the buyer and
seller is not obtained, or if the
land being sold is not to be retired
from agricultural prediction* the
allotments will be divided accord
ingly.
Godfrey’s quick action to change
the regulations in this respect was
welcome and looked upon favorably
by farmers, businessmen, mid ASC
officials alike. The action should
speed up the industrial and resi
dential devoloptnont of many areas
throughout Nopth Carolina,
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RALEIGH —The Motor Vehicle
Department’s suminary of traffic
deaths' - throu'-'h TO A. M.
March-13, 3 9(5U : u
KILLED TO DATE . J 73
KILLED TO DATE Last Year 183
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Subscription $8.50 Per Year
! the Burnsville Elementary School.
They have been working with arts
fine craris this year.
The Brownie Troop sold 377 boxes
of cookies this year. Janice Crisp,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ' Joe
Crisp, sold 71 boxes; Dianne Angel,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carrol
Angel, sold 68 boxes, and Pamela
Styles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.-
Jess Styles, sold 46 boxes. These
three girls received prizes —for
selling the most chokies. Winners
last year were Deborah Hilliard,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Hilliard, and Linda Deytob, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mis. 0. W Deyton
Intermediate Scout .Troop 88 is
. under the leadership of Mrs. P. C.
Coletta and Mrs. Max Penland and
sponsored by the Senior Woman’s
Club and has a- membership of
around 40 girls.
The immediate objective of Girl
Scout Troop 88 is the earning of
Proficiency or Merit Badges,
During the past year in Scout-
Jpg, Girl, Scout Troop 88 has un
dertaken and accomplished several
projects. The first was the holding
at Spruce Pine of a Girl Scout
Rally at which four troops met to
hear Miss Lunette Barbar from
Raleigh speak on “Nature And
Its Vast Resources.” Another Girl
Scout Rally will be held on April
17 at Burnsville when Scouts from
both Spruce Pine and Marshall
will be guests of Troop 88,'
, Another activity of the Inter
mediate Scouts has been the
“adoption” of two physically
afflicted children in Yancey Coun
ty and visiting them and providing
them with toys at Christmas.
At present the Intermediate
Scouts are. working on four bad
ges: Rambler, Personal, Health
Good" Grooming and Pappeteer.
Eight Scouts have envollcd in a
Charm Course in Asheville.
This scouting year is not over,
and as spring approaches the
Scouts plan to plant QOO seedlings
of Multiflora Rose which" have
been ordered from the Wildlife De
partment in Raleigh. These seed
lings will serve both as a refuge
-and food for the birds,
Senior Girl Scout Troop 66 has
had an active, fun-filled year,
There were two camping trips
during the summer, and the Senior-
Scouts also helped with the., day
camp last year. Several" girls at
tended a foreign dish luncheon -at
Girl Scout camp at Brevard lust
year. A Halloween party was held
by the Marion Senior Trocp last
fall which the Senior Troop 66
attended,
Winter was probably the most
exciting season for the Senior
Troop. The girls collected toys
which they repaired and gave to
needy children during Christman,
and there was also a Girl Scout
Christmas dance held at the Com
munity Building,
The most exciting event of the
year was the trip to Davidson and
Charlotte, where the Scouts attend
ed a Science Conference given by
the Mecklenburg County Senior
Girl Scouts with the cooperation of
Davidson College, and Douglas
Aircraft Co.
The Senior Scouts expect the
conning year to be even more er
ecting thttfi the past year. The
Senior Troop has a membership of
20 girls and their loader is Miss
Annie Hassell.
The VfiNttf Begord
Obituaries
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Mrs. Gertrude Banks . Benneti,
85, formerly of Asheville, died
Monday .night in a Spruce Pine
hospital.- -
A native as Yancey County, she
r-oved to Asheville in 1921. where
she .resided until recently when
/he went to Spruce Pine to make
-her home with a daughter, Mis,
Landon Young.
Mis. Bennett, a member of Cal
vary Baptist Church in Asheville,
was a daughter of the late Wesley
B. mid Mary Ray Banks and the
widow of Augustus SI. Bennett.
Surviving, in addition to Mrs.
Young, Wre three other daughter-
Mrs. W, S. Ruckman Sb. of Naples,
M«s« J. W. Graven Sr. of Ash
v- le amt Hr Chaney Phil U-
Byron, Calif.; t son Clyde SI
lhnfett of AjiniUe. four sister.,
M’s. B. B. Pm,i n-1, Mrs. Lra 4>
.'"Young, Mrs. Grover Anglin and
> Mrs. Wesley Hensley, all of Burns
ville; two' brothers, Luther and
Will Banks of Burnsville; 10
grandchildren; and 19 great
grandchildren; and four great
great-grandchildren.
Services were held at 3 p. m.
Wednesday in Calvary Baptist
Church. The Rev. Ralph Hensley,
the Rev. Niles Tiarson and the
Rev. R. N, OasSjty officiated'. Bur-
I ial was in Green Hills Cemetery,
in Asheville. '
Active pallbearers were James.
Paul and W. S. Ruckman Jr., Max
Penland, Edgar Hensley, W. J.
Banks, I. B. Anglin and Yates
Benne'tt. Deacons of Calvary Church
and employees of Bennett and Fel
me.t Auto Service and Ruckman
Bros, were honorary pallbearers.
MRS. GARLAND
Mrs. Marcia Griffith Garland,
69, of Relief, died Tuesday morn
ing en route to a Johnson City,
Tenn. Ug-gUfaJm
Surviving are the husband, Na
than Garland; six daughters, Mrs,
Kelly Gage of Spruce Pine, Mrs.
Jim Gage of John non City, Tenn.,
Mrs. Troy Johnson of Bakersville,
Mrs. Wayne Love of Erwin, Tenn..,
Mrs. Vann Parkey of Rockwood,
Tenn., and Mrs. Sam Riddle of
Burnsville; four sons, Earl of
Relief, Burl of Bakersville, Ross
of Unicoi, Tenn., and Lloyd of
Johnson City, Tenn., 18 grand
children; two great- grandchildren;
eight sisters, Mrs. Char-lie John
son of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Gur
ney February and Mm. Leatei
Hughes of Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs.
Jess feterson, Mrs. Ervie Lewi
and Mis. Corman Evans of Erwin,
Tenn., Mrs. Lester Bailey of Bur
nsville, and Mrs. Melvin Bennett
L*'s'V .
Jt Relief; two half-sisters, Mrs.
Briscoe Tipton of Relief and Mrs.
Zelda Deyton o ? Burnsville; three
brothers, Matthew Griffith anil
Garvey Griffith of Erwin, Tenn.
and Homer Griffith of Detroit,
Mich.* and three half-brothern,
Robert and Lonnie Griffith of
Ohio and Fay Griffith of Johnson
City, Tenn.,
Services were held at 2:30 p. m.
Thursday (today) in Lower Breth
ero Brummitt’s Creek Church. The
Rev. Holt Griffith officiated, as
sisted by the Rev. Holt Harrell.
Burial was in Griffith Cemetery,
MRS. HIGGINS
. Mrs. M. W. Higgins, 77, of Rt,
1. Relief, died Friday night in an
Erwin, Tenn. Hospital after a
brief illness,
Mrs. Hlggins wagra.. daughter of
the late Zeke and Mary Chandler
Howell.
Services were held at 2 p. m.
Monday tn Big Creek Free Will
Baptist Church at Relief.
The Rev. Jack Green and the
Rev. Handy Wilcox officiated. Bur
ilal was in Hhghes Cemetery. -
Surviving are the husband; two
daughters, Mrs. Maude Hollifield
df Kingsport, Tenn, and Mrs. Reba
Rayner of Detroit, Mich.; six sons.
Albert of Hialea, Fla., Herman of
Winston-Salem, the Rev. Cecil J.
Higgins of Elizabethton, Tenn.,
Baird and Dean of Relief, and
Breece of Detroit, Mich.; a sister,
Mrs, Kitty Angel of Marshall;
and two brothers, Garrett and
James Howell of Rt4ief; 22 grand
children; 17 great-grandchildren)
and one great-great grandchild.
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“Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey County”
HUJtNSyiLLE, JjtoXLNTHUteS DAY, march 16, relo
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Game Scheduled
ToßEgfe
Cane Kivefi?fL h School Parers=
.j. Teacher
j teams wiljLripir < H3iirn«yi!ie Eie
j mentary Scblol Parent-7 \ acher
I Atsocjation terras, en the Burns
: ville Court TMjrsday ni ht for the
i second y.-nr- The ieartu
niet pn with both th-.
men and wom|j£..af the Cam-- hi...
~PTA dptea’-Sft . the Linn- vile
teams while o| Bin, if
! tci-’y School JgU’feam defeated the
| Cane River jPpffteam.
The terms wp! j--;t started at
j 7:60 p. m. wfHntU; TIU: ,> ,]y
team will asrejfc meet the Cine
j River J v the Burnsville
;PTA .women m« vi;< L.f h. I
jht 8:00 p. m. ascLib.p inn at 9*oo.
j Proceeds from the games will be
! divided bet two •pfgr.r.iza
t tions. AdmissMn will b'e ,49 a
i .75.
Honor *
Announced As
East Yancey i
The following- students made the '
“A” honor roll/for the first semes
ter at East Yinc-ey High School.
To qualify, the student must have
an average of 0,5 or above for
that semester. _
9th grade—-jqjiie Bailey, Joyce
[Bishop, Alden Chrisawn, David
| Coletta, Geraljjl J'ender, Detty Har
! ris, Gwen Haj-ris, Linda Hensley
Sharon Howejf, Donna Lewis, Nor
man Ray, and Jen-y Newton.
10th grade Frances Coletta,
Janet Ohle, afidt La* Sakwintoer. !
11th 4*- Karen Blalock, j
Martha Bradsjiatv, Susan Delling
ham, Sue Joyce Mitchell, [
Carolyn .Dianre Roberts,
W|aou,
Tli anna Black, Celia Coletta,
Nancy Dawkins, Naomi Ferguson,
Judy Harris, Myra Holcombe,
Tommy Mclntosh and Paul Ohle.
Civil Defense
Meeting To Bo •
Held
Yancey County Civil Defense
! meeting will be held Tuesday ii • Jit
at 7:30 p. m. at Finn'Car-,et Co.
National Civil Defense Day will
l ' e -observed On April 28, starting i
j at 4:30 p. m. when all radios aid
j TV’s wilt leave th* air. —* —
Yancey County has been asked
to takt* part in National Civil De
fense Day.
Local Women
Attend Luncheon
| Local women attending tire 14s
trict Woman’s Club Fine Arts
Luncheon held at the Battery Paik
Hotel in Asheville this week in
cluded Mrs, George Roberts, Mi .
D. R. Fouts, Mrs. O. L. Brown, |
Mrs. Ralph Proffitt and Mrs.
Clarence Burton..
Mrs. the
local club in the Vogue Fashion
Review.
4-H Achievement
Night Scheduled
By: Charles Steelman, Ass’t
County Agricultural Agent.
The Yancey County 4-H
Achievement Night has been sche
duled for March 21 at 7:30 p. nr.
at Cane River High School. W. F.
Algary-will be the main speaker.
Mr. Algary is a member of the'
Ashaville Agricultural Development
Council and is manager of J. C.
Penny Company in Asheville. \
Awards will be presented to th\
4-II Club members who have done
outstanding work in the projects
and other 4-U activities. Along
with the program, each club will
have a display of project work.
Awards will be given to the clubs
having the best .exhibits.
Club members, parents, and fri
ends of 4-H are urged to ettc.-d
Mjiis program which is toe high-
I light of the’ year.
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ranee Agent
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14, ',-.4sv.T;-.- >. in, Chester D.
| ’>*< ■ y, Ci. ...ales . Manager
[fir .lie companies, announced. 4 s
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( A. i- !)•• h:is also com
p i . . . :'i Carolina State
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l foi:i o of ii surance including
I 1)44, and accident and
I sickness. ..
I Ii -is a graduate of Burnsville
• Fish School of- Burnsville, N. C.
and attended the, ’Hnivcriity- of
No Co, Catollna,. Western. Carolina
Wversity ,-Las
'iejit. Fi n IrwTto 1958 ne.
seir 1 in the Naval A.ir Corpsi
(Is . which, tr.r-,2 ho received
sev•:: 14.1 s.• ! Ismci-n. Mein-'
ter': isi-iied to t : e former
• -•rt Lawhern' of Burnsville'
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Vc-trv’i Nf'rtK Curoli-'a’s Bette r Living'Exposition opened Wetf
r-ev’-y at G:3O o. m., m Asheville’s City Auditorium.
Present for the occasion was “Miss North Carolina” (JMiss Ann
Farrington Herring of Winston-Sa’cm),' ‘'Min-, Dixie” (Miss Norma
Ann Bueharrn of Eik Park) and **sSs3 Ehododendron of North
Cnrolin;*.” (Miss Gail Bailey of Forest Oily). Emmett Kelly, Jr.,
Amelia’s -nd-fared Clown entertainer, will delight visitors with his
-hilarious antics throughout the Exposition’s tcur-day period, Wednes
day through Saturday,-
.."Brice per v.<)o\ : h ive Cento
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Spuandry Os Gov.
Sanford’s Revenue
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(-•vr-r-i.-i- L-.-'foid discussed the
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j i duration-, f r N. rth Carolina
I c’nldren, and ieviewe t the poss
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Attend Zone
—T!-,o Lio-i Club has moved its
re.'-.tib- r jnneting, of Thursday
right, March 23, up to Friday
ni''t, March 17, in order for the
local i _-b ■ amaibers and .their i
vriu-a to {“ - - ! the zone sqcial at j
11: ris High School cafeteria ini
by '.co Pino, Zone
vi t- Dale has announced that Lion".
-Tn-' o F. rCii-.ig wfll be the guest I
.-;-t \cr and that Proffitt’s fam-|
cos ecuntey-cj red ham will be on
the -meTiu.-.C-ihor 'special entertain- 1
| merit \viii*be 'o?i the program.
Men's To
Insvall New , •
Officers
Dr. Paul Fall, retired presi- j
dent ( f IT:ram CoPege in Hirani,
Dldc, and now a -resident of Burnt
rfvillo, will bo sp,akev at the an
nual ladies night and.' Installat
ion of officers of the Burns Mile
Men’s Slub on Monday night,
..Match 27th. in the Community
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Newly elect ;• officers who will
be —. led . this time are Ralph
Ad:.h- . : Rr. Garland Wam
pler, ' : e •)>:•' : r.t; ar.d Charles
si may tre: ire. fle
tiv.n-!- y, ~■ , 0.-i-ii- Deyton,.
t will » -a e as i.v tailing officer.
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V-l r-J HONOR THE FAIT
>✓ SERVE m FITTOKI
NlAlflEß THIRTY,-
ible sources of the additional re
venue which will be required t*
provide tnat education.
Increased liquor tax. The Gover
nor slated that he had concluded
that the tax on boor and wirie is
already 4s high as is consistent
with ou. regulatory responsibilities,
but that an increase in the whiskey
tax from the present 1047 to 12%
in 20% jump) would be feasible; a
greater increase would probably
reach toe point of diminishing re
turns.
Soft drink tax. The Governor
rtalrtUdiat he was unable to justi
fy a tax on soft drjeks any more
than on ice -cream, candy, etc.* He
1 stated 'that this tax tends to de
| feat itself in diminishing sales,
‘ and- that if lias not been widely
(.adopted. He felt that it is fairer
- t0 tax soft drinks at the regular
: sales tax rate, as is presently
| being done.
I tobacco tax. The Governer
\ stated that representatives of more
than half the counties of the state
had advised, against a tobacco
tax, and that many had made
campaign pledges 'against a to
bacco tax,,He stated that although
he does not fully understand this
: widespread sentiment, he does not
now recommend a special tobacco
tax, but would continue the pre
sent sales tax oa tehaeco
product hi -
Leal estate- and ether pt-eperty
taxes. The Governor noted that
the State has decided to leave real
estate taxes to. counties and eities,
and to tax money rather than pi-o-
opposes any changc'rtm--
Hns T(?ngrscrept^f'’ , apgrM.
Income tax. Income taxes are
already burdensome. An- increase
in th,- st</te tax, without some re
lief from the 'federal tax, would
be too burdensome. As there ap
pears to be no such relief in sight,
no increases of state income taxes
is recommended.
Sales tax. Two poss-ibdittos were
considered —— ( 1 ) an increase in
"te or (2) a removal of exempt
ins. Our sts,sties u,.u study show
a. inci «; g the to- to 4% on
■iiocs. clothing and other items
would reach approximately the
same people in. the same amounts
us would a tax at the present 3%
level across the hoard without ex
emptions, and a tax without ex
-•nip; ions would be easier to ad
ministrator and collect. Therefore,
(he Governor recommended that
rdl exemptions -from the sales tax
would be removed. He will submit
a proposed bill which will
place the sales tax at 3% across
the board, except that farms and
industrial items and equipment
used in production would be tax
-lat 1% and motor vehicles
would be taxed at 2%. Items such
, . farm products sold f*r further
processing and subsequent taxat
ion, and gasoline already taxed by
another method, would not be
subject to the sales tax.
The recommended changes will
bring in an estimated SB3 mill
ion during the next biennium.
Board of Education require S7O
million. Os the remaining sl3
million, the Governor recommend
ed an additional $3 million for
higher education “B” Budget re
quests; $500,000 additional to men
tal hospita's; $2 million for
welfare and a reserve of $3,505,00#.
This leaves. $4 million to be used
in partial support of the prison
budget, releasing an equal amount
to the highway fund .for use in
urgently needed, secondary road
construction.
Support of the recommended
budget requires continuing support
of the people. To make certain that
popular attention is directed to
the continuing need, the Gover
nor recommended that his tax pro
gram be enacted for a 2-year period
and that the proposition be aub
i.illtcu to a vote of the people neat
fall to determine whether the ten
level of support will be cohtlmi
ed after July.l, 1963. ’
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