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VOLUME TWENTY FIVE Rural Areas Entering Development Contest - A total of 41 rural areas have entered the 1961 Western North Carolina Rural Community De velopment Program to date. Or ganized communities in Yancey county that havb entered ineltt^ .Mass Meeting Thursday, April 6 A mass meeting will be ■ held on Thursday, April 6th. at 7:30 p. m. in the county courthouse for tbe purpose of selecting candi dates for the town election to be held on May 2, 1961. AH citizens of the town are urged to attend the meeting. Time Extended . For Making Feed Grain Acreage Reports * Farmers who grew field corn in lyo9 and 1960 and are 'i hnv tc reduce their acreage for 1961 should contact the A. S. C. office as soon as posible. The time for making feed grain acreage reports has been extend ed indefinitely. Since March 21 has been carried as the final date’ for filing such reports, a special effort should be made by all far mers who might be interested in filing a report are informed of ) this extension in time. The general provisions of the bill are: 1. As a condition of eligibil lty for' price on the support on the 1961 crop of com,- grain sorghums and any other feed grain crop designated by the secretary, the producer must participate in a special Agricultural Conservation Program. 2. The producer will have an option of reducing up to 20% of his acreage for 1959-1960 or up to 20 acres, whichever is greater, for which .the payment may be in cash or in kind at the discretion .c;of the secretary in an amount' Hot in excess of 60% of the nor mal production, based on the 1069- GO crop acreage. Payments in kind may be made by the secretary for the diversion pf an additional 20% of such acreage at an amount not in excess of 60% of the normal production, based on the 1959-60 . crop acreage. 3. The diverted acres, to be eli gible for diversion payments must follow such conservation practices as the secretary shall designate. 4. The diverted acreage may be planted to sunflowers, sesame, saf flowers or castor beans to be eli gible for price supports. Such acre age will not be eligible for diver sion payments. 5. The secretary has authority to sell such feed grains, up to the amount of certificates he holds, at market price. ■ ■ ■ -...A Club Members Will Attend District IV Meeting • ■’>»• *■’ Yancey Comity Home Demonst ration Club .ntembera will attend the annual District IV Home De monstration meeting at the Manor in Asheville on Thursday, April 6. Registration will begin at 9:30 a. m. The meeting will begin at 10: a. m. The speaker forthe 1 day will be Mrs. Betty Feezor, WBTV Home Economist. Her Subject Will be “Living Up to Expectation.” Those participating on the program from Yancey County will be: Mrs. Horace Daniel Ray, Jr. Pensacola; \Mrs. Brooks Wilson, Pensacola; \Mrs. Ralph Proffitt, Cano River,; Mrs. Champ Ray. Newdale; Mrs. / Harry Bowen, Burnsville; Mrs. Clyde Edwards, Newdale; Mrs. Herman Howell, Arbucklef and Mrs. O, W. Deyton, I Brush Creek, Saftwriptwn 98.50 Per Year Horton Hill, Brush Creek and Newdale. Participation in the area wi<h improvement program is open tc any rural area which is actively engaged in an organized improve • Entry deadline .’is May 16. A total of 128 communities in 15 counties competed in the pro gram last year and even more are expected to enroll this year. Cash awards exceeding 310,000 will be presented to the communities making the most progress. Area awards amount to $3600 . and the remainder will be in local county awards. This year for the first time the communities will be judged in two separate divisions, farm and non farm. Communities in which 60 percent of the families farm, either full-time or part-time, are in the farm division. . All others will be judged in the non-farm group. Duplicate awards will be presented in each division. Com munities will be judged next fall on the basis of community im provements, home improvements, increased income and youth pro gram. In addition to the overall prizes, SSOO in awards will go to the five communities having the best youth programs. The area program is sponsored by the Asheville Agricultural De velopment Council in cooperation with the county agricultural ag encies and local sponsors. According to John W. Spiier of Ashevillle, president of the Agri cultural Council, “The Community Developmeirt*"!*Wgrnm has proven what ccn be done by the people in our rural areas working togeth er. All Western North Carolina has benefitted from the spirit and enthusiasm of the organized com munities. I urge leaders in those communities not in this program to contact one of the agricultural agencies and get organized now.” Faith Fellowship Announces New Location Faith Fellowship Mission will observe Easter Sunday with spec ial services on property which the group has bought in the Mitchell Branch area.. A small house has been converted for temporary use in regular Sunday School and church services. According to Evang. H. M. Alley, Director of The Faith Fellowship program, a church building will be erected on this property as soon as sufficient funds and materials can be secured. Mr. Alley states that the entire property will be deeded to the members of Faith Fellow ship as, an operating church group, and will be administered by a re sponsible board of trustees. Any person or group interested in help ing financially in this badly needed mission program are asked to see or write to Mr. Alley, whose home adjoins the above property, or whose address is P. O. Box 368. All donations will be promptly acknow ledged with the Faith Fellowship official receipt, signed by the Director and the treasurer bf the Finance Committee, who is Mr. Ben L. Riddle, also p.Bujms'tille.fEither of these will beglad to" furnish any desired' information Relative to the whole enterprize. ,* The general public is eprdially invited to attend the opening ser vices on Easter Sunday, beginning with Sunday School at ten o’clock, followed by preaching at eleven a. m. The evening service will be at ‘ 7:30 p. m. Special singers have been invited. ~ Mr. Alley suggests that visitors, who are not familiar with this new location, turn north on Burnsville’s town Square, and drive straight ahead to where The Health Center Building appears on left Directly opposite, turn square to right on gravel road which leads to Mission I within 150 yards. The Vaneev Record Holiday Fatalities For Holiday Period Estimated Charlotte The N. C. State Motor Club estimates that at. least 15 persons will die in traffic accidents on North Carolina high ways during the Easter weekend. Highway fatalities for the holi day period will, be counted from € p. m. Friday through" midnight Monday. The state’s Easter traf fic toll last year added up to 12 killed and 335 injured in 694 ac cidents. •H , Os the 619 driver violations re ported, the leading causes of ac cidents were speeding, failure to yield right of way, following to closely, driving under the influ ence of alcohol an*’, driving or the wrong side of the road other than passing. r North Carolina’s highway deaths for the first three months of this year are running neck and neck with the pace set in 1960, when the traffic toll reached 1,220, second highest on record, It was exceeded only in 1941, when 1,289 persons were killed. Thomas B. Watkins, president of the motor elub, urged drive is to heed rules of the road and exer cise courtesy and caution in an all-out effort of cooperation in Gov. Sanford’s new highway saf ety program to reduee the state's highway slaughter by at least 160 victims this year. Ofcituariau MRS. OLA DODD Mrs. Ola Laws Dodd, 62, di- uj Friday morning in Yancey Ho - pital after a long illness. ; Services were held at 2:30 p. i ~ Sunday in Covey Roek Free W: ' Baptst Church. The Rev. Jesse Hughes and ti - Rev. Charles Webb officiate and burial was in the family cem ! tery. Surviving are the husband, W; . j | J. Dodd; one daughter, Mrs. Fate ! Deyton of Hickory; two sor. i Paul Laws of Green Mounts and Tommy Laws of Hickor | the mother, Mrs. Charles Laws c:'j Green Mountain; a sister, Mr Ray Fox of Green Mountaii three brothers, Glen Laws of Erwin. Term., Jack and Bill Laws of Green Moutain; two step-daughters. Mrs. J. Z. Peterson of Weavervillc and Mrs. Gay Bailey of Detroit, Mich.; a step-son, Henry Dodd of Asdtvflle; and five grandchildren. MRS. PANSY YOUNG Mrs. Pansy McCurry Young, 72, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. R. L. Whitson of Johnson: City, Tenn. Saturday morning. Mrs. Young was a native of Yah cey County, the widow of Carl T. Young. Services were held at 2 p. m. Monday in Holcombe Brotders Funeral Horn* here. The Rev. Carl C. Murray offi ciated. Burial was in Wilson Cemetery. Surviving in addition to the daughter are another daughter, Mrs. T, A. Buchanan of Burnsville; a son, Norman L. of Daytona Bench, Fla.; five grandchildren; And five brothers, R. A. McCurry of McMinnville, Ore., L. C., Frank R. and Jeter McCurry of Seattle, Wash,, and C. C. McCurry of Del Paso Heights, Texas. HOBARf McPETERS Hobart MclPeters, 63, of Pensa cola, died in an Asheville hospital Saturday mornihg. * Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Mae Mathis McPeters; four daugh ters, Mrs. Jessie Landeeker of Ramsen, N. Y., Mrs. Berlyn Allen of Swannanoa, Mrs. Clarence Pate of Burnsville, and Mrs. Mary Aim Miller of . Los ' Angeles, Calif,; three sons, Ray and WaynS ? G f Pensacola and Carroll of Ypsilantl, Mich.; two sisters, Mrs. Belle McDowell and Mrs. Dosha McMa han of Pensacola; and three, bro thers, Woody of Burnsville, Joe and G. G. of Pensacola. Services were held Tuesday at 2:00 p. m. at Laurel Branch- Bap tist Church at Pensacola. The Rev. Ralph Mumpower and the Rev. A. : Z. officiated. Burial was in Penland Cemetery. “Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey County” &IWffIULL* N. 6, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1961 ' ,-Qi. ■Jtk .. I. : Garden Club Meets With Mrs. 1 i « f -• • ©. L. Brown The Burnsviße Garden Club met at the home of Mrs. O. L. Brown with Mrs, I. R. Laughrun as associate hostess. The program led by Mrs. Daw son Briggs, featured original liter ary work by members of the club. Mrs. Briggs an .original com position entitled “Some Thoughts In Regard To Spring”. The piece . was. couched in lilting prose, rang ing from the Whimsical to the . serious. Poems Were read; “Spring . Trilogy” written by Mrs. Fred , Proffitt, and “My Garden At , Night” written by Mrs. Grady . Bailey. Mrs. Fred Proffitt read the , poem “My Garden” by Ralph , Waldo Emerson. , Mrs. D. R. Pouts, first vice president, presided at the business i session. It wad announced that the maple and dog wood trees, destroy ed during the winter, had been replaced on the‘.'square and that arrangements had been made to trim the shrubbery. The club voted, to sponsor, again this year, the flower box contest for public places. This beautifica tion project is under the direction of the civic committee, composed of Mra. Tray Ray, Mrs. Charles Proffitt, ahd Mre. law son Briggs. Judges will be appointed and i prizes offered. More information about the contest will appear in the Record hext week. During the social hour the hos tesses served a dessert course. Mrs. Hattie E. Clevenger was a guest and Mrs. W. L. Bennett, who ' has been Spending the winter in j Florida, wap ■welcomed back to (the elub. ' M«H»di,ts To Hold Meetings The Methodist Churches of Yancey County will unite their j efforts for a series of meetings on : ‘he theme “Into All The World Together”. Each of the four meet ings will be held at 7:30 in the , evenings at the following places, j April 6, Bald Creek; April 9, Pensacola; April 16, Celo; and April 20, Burnsville. The theme for the worship services will be “Mighty Winds of GoW\ &Ls. O. L. Brown has made a sketch to illustrate this idea. Representatives from the seven churches are working with Airs. Tillie Brooks to prepare for these services. The program is, planned with adults in mind, but young people will be welcome. It will include group discussions, special reports, slides, film strips and a drama. , Virgil Settle To Speak To Community Club Virgil Settle, representative of the State Grange, will be the speaker at the Pensacola Commun ity Club meeting Tuesday night, April 4. All elub members and others are urged to attend. The meeting will be held at the Pensa cola^School. E# L# Dillingham Attends Raleigh Meeting E. L. Dillingham, member of thr Statewide Committee on Lions Club Blind activities, attend ed the meeting in Raleigh Satur day, to assist in judging the blind activities reports from all clubs in the state. Winners will be announced at the State Lions’ “ Convention in Greensboro in June. 09 9 C.HIGHWAYS RALEIGH—The Motor Vehicle Department’s summary of traffic deaths through 10 A. M. Monday, March 27, 1961: KILLED TO DATE 217 KILLED TO DATE Last Year 22Q Sunrise Service To be Held Sunday Morning ■ The First Presbyterian Church, . Higgins Memorial Methods, i Church and First Baptist Chfcrch of Burnsville will unite iri an early service Easter Sunday morn ing to be held in the Higgins Memorial Methodist Church. The service will begin at 6:46 a. m. The Rev. o,_ Li-Brown, pastor..of ' the church, will have charge ..of • ■ the service. The members of thfe > choirs of the churches participating : are requested tn help with the i music under the direction of the : choir director of the Methodist ’ Church. . f - . r The Rev Charles B. Trammel, pastor of First Baptist Church, will bring the message this year, i The services rotate among the i First Baptist Church, Higgins ■ Memorial Methodist Church and ■ the First Presbyterian Church. t ■ American Red Cross Gray Lady Class Formed i Plans are under way to form a l new American Red Cross Gray i La'-y class to serve in the Yancey . Hospital. Women in this area who 1 are interested in joining this class, i or who think they might be i interested, should be at the Com munity Building in Burnsville • on April 10th at 8:f/0 PM to meet . professional workers from the Red l Cross office in Asheville. At that ■ time" a date will be set to begin the training course. A “capping” service will also be conducted on April 10th for ten women who have served their probationary period in the Yancey Hospital. The public is cordi ally'invited to attend this capping rervice for the first class of Gray Ladies . ° - It will be at the convention of | the capping service that the Red Cross personnel will meet with the prospective Gray Ladies. If furth er information ia desired before | April 10th, it may be obtained by telephoning either Mrs. Harlon Holcombe, MU 2-2330 or Mrs. Robert L. Ilhinehart, MU 2-2123. Pre-Schoo! Clinics To Be Held" Pre-school clinics will be hei at Pensacola School on Tuesday i April 4th,. and at Clearmont School on Friday, April 7th. These clinic will begin at 9 A. M. Parents who ■ have children entering either of < the above schools for the first ! time this fall are urged to bring < their children to the clinics. 1 Presbyterian Church News j The Rev. A. Alden Pratt of ; Banner Elk will supply the" polpit ( at The first Presbyterian Church j here Sunday, April 2. t Rev. Warren S. Reeve, pastor, } who is undergoing, treatment at j Western North Carolina Sanator- j ium at Black Mountain is ttnprov- j mg. He lias been a patient there for around a month. '■q? -] T. A r OES To Hold Pub- 1 Sic Installation ; Bald Creek Chapter No* 276 Order of The Eastern Star hold public installation at ttejSurj hsville Masonic gall on ( Frida( March 31st. at 8:90 p v m. , J Officers to. be installed iriffudi ] Nancy ‘ Matron; Fiank Bowditch, Worthy £atrod; Billie Jean Styles, Associate Mat- i: ron ;Lloyd Miller, Associate' Pat- 1 rori; Sarah Hensley,, Secretary; £ Betty Hensley, Treasure; Cora ( [Cox, Conductress; Margaret Nlilher, i Associate Conductress; Alma She- \ phitrd, Chaplain; Robbie jjeavener, J Marshall; Ajnastaaja Tomberlin, 1 Organist; Alma Holcombe,*Adah; l June Miller, Ruth;,Edna Bowditch, i Esther; Mary Alice Miller, Martha; Lillie Ballew, Electa; Louise ( Robinson, Warder; Harlon Hoi-, j combe, Sentinel. ■ The public is cordially invited to attend thr installation services. * i ’ ■ .’rice Per Copy: Fire..Ceuta .—-j - ■ 4.: Whitener Appointed To Special Textile Com. Washington, D. C. The special Textile .Committee composed., of members of the United States House of Representatives under the chairmanship of Carl Vinson (D-Ga) met with the Cabinet Textile Study- Commtitee and County Com. Oil Aging Meets The need for nursing home facL lities that can meet the new state requirements was stated to he one of Yancey County’s urgent prob lems at a meeting., .of * the - county' Committee on Aging held on March -23rd at the library ,in Burnsville .A second need is for sendees to the aged in their own homes. It has been estimated that 70% of the health needs of the older age population could be met at hdWe if help was available -to teach home nursing skills to the families of older persons. The County Committee is gath ering informatron about the num ber of persons requiring institu tional care, the number now in nursrng homes, the. number need ing occassional homemaker or nursinh care in-Yancey County. A general meeting is planned in May when the facts can be pre sented and the-problem discussed by interested- citizens. Persons in terested in the problem are asked to get in- touch with any member of the present committee: Miss June Street, secretary; Mr. Hub ert D. Justice; Rev. O. L. Brown; Miss Laura Hrlliard; Mr. Harold Steadman; Mre. Arthelia Brooks: "Mr. L. G. Deyton? Mre. Annie W Ballar'd; Mr?: Dorothy Thomas. The Yancey County Committee was appointed 2 years ago by the Governor’s .Coordmating Commit: tee on Aging. It represents a con certed effort in North Carolina to understand. the problems and the possibilities. of. the steadily nr creasing segment of the population that is made, up of “‘senior citizens.” Revival Services At First Baptist Church A series of revival services will begin at the First Baptist Chureh, ( on April' 2;--. Services-will be held- ‘ daily from April 2 through April | 9 at-7:30-p. m. Thera, will be no day service, however, service will be held on Saturday evening. The guest minister will be The Rev. Lowell F. Sodeman, pastor 1 of the Fit-st Baptist Church in ' Rocky' Mount, N. G. Rev. Sodeman * is a former pastor of: Mars Hill ! College Baptist Church, and Porter ‘ Memorial Baptist Church, Lexing ton, Ky. He is currently serving 1 as trustee'of Wake Forest College * and in other responsible places of 1 leadership ki the North Carolina ' Baptist State Convention. 1 This will make the third time ’ "Rev. Sodeman has . bean, guest minister for revival services in the 1 Burnsville Church. .. 1 'Mqgic will be provided by the church choir directed by Mre. Charies 1. Wiker; Rev. Charles B. Trammel is pastor. * ■? * l : i i ■ | Catholic Holy Week Services < . i Holy Week Will be held ] in Spruce -Pine only. On Holy | Supper logins at 6:00 p. m. The 1 Good Friday services commeorat ing Ouf Lord’s Passion and Death i will begin at 8:00 p. m. Father ; Raymond in charge. The Night , Watch, of the Resurrection will begin at 11:00 p. m. Holy Sature* day. Easter Sunday morning the Maas ,of the Resurrection will be offered in the Burnsville Sacred Heart Chapel at the usual time, 9:00 a. m. Ail people are welcome to at tend all of these services. ‘ number'TflLßTY-T^O with President John F. Kennedy at the White House on Monday. Congressman Basil L. Whitener of the 11th District is the North Cariffina/seepiber erf,, the special committee. - At the morning meeting held in the office of Secretary of Commer ce. Luther Hodges,, the committee members ' 4pjjjjj£ Ydesire for immediate relief from foreign imports of % This plea was *mad« to Secretary H<*d ges and to the jp«nbers''of“’liis Cabinet Textile Committee, com posed of .of state, Agriculture, Treasury and Labor. In the afternoon the grbupvaiqt with President Kennedy for an hour- and fifteen minutes at which time each of the congressmen was called upon to express views upon the prit?-ml textile problem. _ Congressman WTlitener ‘ pointed out to rthe president that ,his dis trict .was the largest textile pro ducing district in America - and that one fourth of all textile, esp , ployees in America are residents of the state of North Carolina. He further pointed out that the textile 1 industry is an efficient industry but that notwithstanding its effi ciency it was faced with a critical competitive problem through ex cessive imports of foreign made textiles. Whitener also told • the president that in addition to the job loss being experienced by the people in North Carolina that the flow of foreign made textile* was, having a harmful effect upon the wage scale of American workers ps well as the Work toad bring re quired of them. In addition he stated that this increarirg work " rod hindrance to better Wages was contrary to the natlonarinter-' est of our country having almost the same amount of impact as the loss of job opportunities. On being asked as to his; bh pression of the meeting with’the president. Congressman Whitener stated: “ The president is 'very knowledgeable in the textile field and I am convinced that he has a strong-desire to be of ° in meeting this serious problem. I am m*st optimistic after having had the privilege of meeting with President Kennedy.” Home Demon stration County Council Meets -* • • .4 By: June Street, Home Ec. Agt. The Yancey County Home De monstration County- Council met at Firth Carpet Company.:, cafeteria on March 23 to make plana for the spring activities Mrs. J&JD. Bay, Jr., president, presided. i ; Mrs. Ray reported on the Pis trict planning Meeting which was held in * Asheville. Plans wore made for the Yancey,- Buncombe, Madison County -district meeting which is scheduled- at the Manor in Asheville for April. 8. The fol lowing people were nominated to serve on the program ahd com mittees: . Mrs. Brooks Wilson, Pensacola— Response to Welcome; Mrs. Horace Danief Ray, ' Jr., Pehsacpltf—R<st Call of Cngnty; Mra. Ralph Prof fitt, Cane >Ri vep—lnstallatinn Jf Officers;- Ray, New dale—ReswlttioiS' Committee; Mrs, Harry Bcw&i, l ''fSr navi lie—Courtesy Committee* , Clyde Edwards, Newdale-—Place ‘ Committee; Mra. Herman Howell, tration Committee; and Mra. O. W. Deyton, Brush Cregkfj-Nomi nating Committee, The date of National Home De monstration Week was ar.nouneed and plans were made for its observance. ' l l ' A report from the Home Agent On the Home Demonstration Bundl ing Fund was given; 9U4 has been paid to the state treasurer. New dale, Brush Creek and Burnsville were recognized' for having paid their total amount. Jacks Creek Club has contributed a good por tion of it* share. , - , * ■#..
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