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VOW ME TWENTY FIVE iGirl Scout Rally Held Here A Girl Scout Rally of Browniea ! and Girl Scouts from Mitchell, i Madison, and Yancey Counties was held in the Higgins Memorial Methodist Church on Monday even- Obituaries MRS. PEARL ALLEN RAY Mi-s. Pearl Allen Ray, 64, of Swannanoa died Sunday night in an Asheville hospital following a long illness. A native of Buncombe County, she was a daughter of the late Ullis and Mary McMahan Allen. Mrsnßay had 1 been a resident of Swannanoa for the past 28 years. Surviving are the husband, H. E. Ray; a daughter, Mrs. Willis Ballard of Swannanoa; two sons, Paul of Old Fort and Ernest Ray, Jr. of Swannanoa; five sisters, Mrs- Plato Penland of Burnsville, Mrs. Jess Silvers of Old Fort, Mrs. Quincy Woods and Mrs. Bill Hensley of Swannanoa and Mrs. Chloe Boone of Black Mountain; a brother, W. H. Allen of Black Mountain; 14 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. Services were held at 11 a. m. Tuesday In Swannanoa Free Will Baptist Church. The Rev. Milton Hollifield, pastor, the Rev. Wayne Smith and the Rev. John Cansler officiated- Burial was in Ray Cemetery in Pensac la. MRS. T. E. WOODY Mrs. Hezettia Shepherd Woody, 73, of Burnsville,- died at noon Saturday in her home after a long illness. Surviving are the husband, the Rev. T. E. Woody; a daughter, Mrs. H. L. Morison of Asheville; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Roy Harris and Mrs. James Griffith of Burnsville and Mrs. Garrett Hensley of Weaverville; three stepsons, Joe and Willis of Bums - Zack of Knoxville, Tenn.; four sisters, Mrs. James Jones, Mrs. Reggie Penland and Miss Goldie Shepherd of Asheville and Mrs- Willard Moxley' of Mars Hill; live brothers, Horace and Oscar Shepherd of Colorado, Boyd and Don of Burnsville and Webb Shepherd of Asheville; and one grandchild. Services were held at 10:30 a. m. Monday in Green Mountain Free Will Baptist Church. The Rev. E. P. Blevins, the Rev. Charlie Miller, ' the Rev. Sam Moore and the Rev. Guy Honeycutt officiated. Burial —otb in the Pete Young Cemetery. M. C. WYATT M. C. Wyatt, 71, died at hU home near Burnsville Monday morning after a long illness. Services were held at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday in Windom . Baptist Church. * _ _ The Rev. Lee Woody and the Rev. J. R. Dawkins officiated. Burial was in Will Young Ceme tery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Pansy Carols Wyatt; one daughter, Mrs. Ellef? Green of Raway, N. J.; two sons, Kenneth of Marlon and Hershel of Wayne, Mich.; one sis ter, Mrs. Minnie McLyea of Biue field, W. Va.; one brother, - John Wyatt of Erwin, Tenn.; eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. LAT W. EVANS Lat W- Evans, 72, a retired Yancey County, farmer and merch ant, died Monday morning at his home on Rt. 1, Burnsville. Services were held at 2 p. m. Wednesday in Jacks Creek Pres byterian Church. \ The Rev. John Forbes, the Rev. Howard Buchanan and the Rev. A. Z. Jamerson officiated. Burial was in Cemetery. • Surviving are the widow, Mrs- Fannie Duncan Evans; one daugh _ ter, Mrs. Ralph Smith of Cleve , land, Ohio; five sons, Ned, John Bill and Frank of Burnsville and Roy of Norfolk, Va.; two sisters, ’”Mrs. Nora Renfro and Mr*. Oscar Ayers of Rt. 1, Burnsville; and eight grandchildren. SABSORIPTION ing, April 17. Girl Scout Troop 88, under the direction of Mrs. P. C. Coletta and Mrs. Max Penland, ; leaders, served as hostesses. Miss Lunette Barber-, of the State Wildlife Commission at Raleigh, was the guest speaker for the evening and spoke on Con servation of Our National Resour-j ces. She supplemented her talk with a showing of slides of unus ual pictures of beautiful birds of North CaCrolina. Girl Scout Troop 88 presented a program of two puppet numbers: a song entitled, "The Wedding Os The Fainted Doll”, and a playlet, "Old Mother Hubbard.” This re presented the culmination of their project on the Puppeteer Badge in Scouting. Mrs. Ruby Smith, in behalf of the Senior Woman’s Club, present ed a new American flag containing 60 stars, to Mrs. Don Burhoe, who accepted the gift in the name of all the Burnsville Girl Scouts. A flag ceremony followed, in which the old flag was removed and the new flag was posted, as Taps was played at the piano. During the social hour Mrs. Amey Fox and Mrs. Charles Gillespie presided at the punch bowls. Local Girl Scouts assisted in serving. Approximately two hundred guests attended this Girl Scout Rally. Scott Speak* To Men's Club Robert Scott, son of former gev emor, and U- S. Senator, W. Kerr Scott, was the speaker at the April meeting of the Burnsville Men’s Club, held last Monday evening. Scott, whose experience and educa tion have been in agriculture, is now associated with the N. C. Grange. His talk related to the im portance of agriculture to the eco nomy of this state, and included a review of opportunities for com munity improvement in agricultur al areas such as Yancey County. This was the first meeting of the club under the new officers who , were installed at the March meet ing. President Ralph Adair in op ening remarks outlined objectives for the club for the eoming year, ss suggested by the executive com mittee- These included preparation of material for the attraction of industry to Yancey County, the promotion of adoption of a zoning ordinance for Burnsville, certain improvements in the town square, and the raising of funds to liquidate the debt of the Commun ity Building. ■■■■■■■■ > . fill Annual 4-H Talent Show To Be Held Friday The annual 4-H Talent Show will be held in the Burnsville elementary school gymnasium Friday, April 28, at 7:30 p. m. Admission will be 25c for children and students; 50c for adults. \ Tickets may be obtained by con-1 tacting 4-H Club members or the County Extension Office. Tickets will also be available at the door j on Friday night. The talent will be made up of Club members from the various clubs in the county. A blue ribbon group will be selected to participate in the District 4-H Talent Show to be held at the Clyde Erwin High School in Asheville- Everyone is invited to attend. It will be an evening of fun for .he whole family. Civil Defense Day\ April 28 , .1 Operation Alert 1061 will get underway Friday. April 28 at 4:00 p. m. with the fullest participa , tion possible by North ’Carolina ■ Civil Defense forces, State Director t Edward F. Griffin announced (Continued on back page) The Yancey record I * Raleigh Report (By: Representative Holcombe' Reading his mail last week an t1 nothing that many of the fo’. back home were in favor of the : governor’s educational program b thought that it should be. finane I by increased or new taxes on x baeco, beer, wine, and whisk one legislator sighed: “That would be a good plan b , ’ what the public doesn’t realize is that we can’t sin fast enough to provide enough money to do the job.” No one in Raleigh has any ’ clear idea as to what the finance committee will come up with or what it will recommend as -L c sources in the final draft" of the , revenue bill. One guesl is as good as another and not even the com mittee members seem to have ary, ’ lead on what the group is thinking. But more and ,nore observers who have followed the legislature , for years are expressing their opinion that the governor will got his program when the final votes are counted.' * These people are hard to pin down and no one will reveal his source of information or how he or she arrived at the above con clusion. Those of us on the appropriations committee are standing by waiting to see what happens. NEW BILLS _ . A flood of new bills are hitting the hopper now as the General Assembly turns past the halfway —mark. Many of these are local measur es and will bring on no debate but still -remaining on the calendar for discussion are such controversial acts as court improvement, con gressional and senatorial redistric ting, and a proposal that member ship of the house of representative:, be raised to 160. There are sever:: others- « SUBCOMMITTEE Announcement of approp riation subcommittee last week caused an explosion in Raleigh heard all the way to the Tennessee and Georgia lines. The reason was obvious. Not a single member of the powerful group from the mountains was ! named. At first the reason given j was that there were no democrat ; j available and that the quota of | republicans had been filled by, Snyder of Davidson County. This was found to be slightly in j error as there were actually eigh ( democrats from the mountain: ' available. Os the fifteen member:, selected seven were from the Pied mont area and eight from the East No member West of Cleveland County was named to this house committee, and Northwestern Nor th Carolina was also sold short on this assignment. SHUTOUT We didn’t mind so much being shutout as we did the fact thm some counties had two member and that six came from an are: surrounding Mecklenburg County, j The appropriations subcommittee I is the group that works out the j proposed budget and submits it to I the full committee. >’ I H , I. I ml .; r-■:■■ i -■ ' * fiß^ ,jj ; : ■■r ■■hv MMrstf j^^HOJKV IBB9|y : §1 /rV -; " ; , r ; .. flh .At ff vP . v F Vt C ifF 1 •; A jUsT afilrf pr 4 Jfpi. lilBP i|ljnSflp. jt JJ^jffi . T « 1 'i^jC r >, |QL ijjll|®P' % y v- \ 9^SPi?iP "Pictured above are Girl Scout Troo p 88 of B nsvillo who participated in the Girl Scout Rafiy held here Monday night, April 17th. They are shown holding puppets which they mad or the two puppet numbers they presented during the program. They are left to right first row; Carolyn Johnson. Julia Pate, Trula Hu ty, Irene Coletta, Patsy Hughes, Deborah MeCurry, Lynn Buckner, Brenda Sparks, Mary Bui hoe; second row: Mary Ellen Bradshaw dargaret Riddle, Dana Proffitt, Sandra Pox, Jean Holcombe, Faye Letterman, Arlene "Rector Christie Froula, Reta Silver, DelOrea Aust Cathy Cooper; third row: Linda Mai ton, Doris Chase, Sueette Peterson, Brenda Mace! - Ra * nona Penland> Claudette Cooper, j ean Ba i, Linda Cherry, Cheryl Roberts, Lynn English, Erwin Burhoe, Amelia Penland, Julia Ballou and Jennifer Jarrett. I " “Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey County” BURNSVILLE N. G, THUlti PAY, APRIL 27, 1961 I FEEI*GR4IN program does I NOT APPLY TO OTHER GROWERS 17 <s* The recently enacted 1661 feed grain program applies only to i producers of corn and sorghum, Alvin Pate, Cliaiman, Yancey County Agricultural Sta-j bilization and Conservation . Committee, said today. It does , not apply to prdocers of other i feed grains only. In reply to inquiries as to how the program affects farmers who produce ‘“other” feed grains—such as barley, oats, or rye, the Chair man explained that a farmer’s participation in the 1961 feed grain program will be caculated from records of his farm’s corn sorghum production during the years 1969 and 1960. From . these records, will be determined the “minimum” amount of acreage the grower must divert from such production into a soil-conserving , use, and also rate of payment applicabfe to the farm. For diverting acreage under the program, the com and grain sorghum producer will receive a special payment, and he will be eligible for price support on the normal production of his 1961 corn and grain sorghum acreage and also on all of his other feed crops— barley, oats, and rye. Where a fanner did noT produce either corn or grain sorghum in 1959 or 1960 and where he does not intend growing these crops this year, the feed grain program does not affect him at all. Such a farmer will be able to obtain price support on his “other” feed grains justn-fts in other years—without regard to the 1901 feed grain program. Prodcers of com and grain sorghum wijl find it definitely to their advantage to participate in the feed grain- program, Mr. Pate declared;' Besides qualifying for price support on 1961 feed grains, the cooperator will be as sured of an income from the diverted acreage regardless of drought or other production haz ards, and, for most producers, the payment will return an amodnt greater than the net income from j a normal crop on these acres, j Furthermore, up# to half of the j estimated total payment will / be • made in advsnee if the farmer r ; so wishes and files such a request. The nonooperating corn or i grain sorghum producer, on the , other hand, Wll .have no price 1 support availade for any ot his 1961 feed gran production, will not be assurd of net income from any of to 1961 feed grain icreage, will recede only the market price or his crop—what [ ever that ma: be, and will get tt> part of hi.- income ‘from an tdvanee paynait spring. Farmers wb are interested n the feed fra in program for •'om and gain sorghum are rged to get in touch with the county ASC committee without j delay. 1 In order togfet in on this pro | cram produers must file their farm acreag reports not later than May 2141961. Sunday School Convention To Be Held A Sunday School Convention will j be held at tha First Baptist Church here on May Ist. There will be two sessions, the first one to begin at 5:00 p. m., there will be a covered dish supper at 6:30 p. m., and the second session will begin at 7:15 p. m. The afternoon session, will close with a period of inspiration led by Miss Hilda Mayo, elementary r worker of the Sunday School De partment of the , Baptist Stat Convention; the evening sessu will close with a message by Re- W. E. McPeters, chairman .-of evangelism of the Yancey Bapti Association. Conference leaders for age group workers for afternoon and evening sessions include Mir 3 Hilda Mayo, Nursery and Begin ner; Mrs. Bruce Tomberiin, Junior; Mrs. B. R. Penland, Intermediate; Mr- E. F. Hunter, Jr., Young Peo ple; Mr. Jack Mclntosh, Adult; General officers, Pastors, and oth ers, Miss Laura Mae Hilliard, missionary and " the Rev. A. Z. Sunday School Superin tendent, Yancey Baptist Associa tion. Gray Lady Course To Begin Monday A new American Red Cross Gray Lady orientation course will Ire gin Monday, May first at 7:00 PM in the home of Mrs. Reece Robertson in Rocky Spring Heights, Burnsville. There will be two aessiona in the course. The secohd session will be held m {Ee Community Building on Monday, May 8, and the time and date for the third and final session will be announced later. Fifteen women have already, signed up for the course, and other women in Yancey County who are interested in becoming a Gray Lady and serving in the Yancey Hospital are urged to be' present for the first class. Before a woman can begin her prohation- ary period in the Hospital she/ must have completed the orien tation phase of her training. Professional Red Cross ■ workers will be in Burnsville, for the orien tation course, and another course will not be offered for some time. A “home sewing” group is being organized in conjunction with the Gray Lady program for those who would rather serve the Hos pital by mending linens at home in place of working in the Hos pital. These women will not be required" to take the course or purchase a uniform, but will act as an auxiliary to the Gray Lady j program. Women interested in j this phase of the work are asked | to contact Mrs. Robert L. Rhine-! hart, Yancey County Gray Lady j Chairman, for further information. Price Per Copy : Five Cents .. ■ . f ,.- -■ ~ l -,- TT II mA- East Yancey Seniors Visit Washington Sixty members of the . Senior : Class of East Yancey High School left Burnsville Sunday night for! the Nation’s Capitol. They will J Rev, Warren S. Reeve, Minister, Dies The Rev. Warren S. -Reeve, 61, ! pastor of Burnsville First Presby- ■ j terian Church, died Thursday right in a Buncombe County hos-. . ital after an illness df~ several 4 | months. j Mr. Reeve was a native of ' Princeton, N. J. tie was a grad- i ■ uate of Princeton University and! 5 a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and 1 ■ of Princeton Theological Seminary.! i He was awarded a muchmore j ! I Scholarship and studied a year at; ■ Cambridge University in England. He also spent some time in Ger many. - In 1927 he was appointed by the ■ Presbyterian Board of Foreign ■ Missions as a missionary to Japan, ■ where he served until 1940, He taught in the Polytechnic Institute in San German, Puerto Rico in 1942 and 1943. He later was pastor of churches in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.”' Mr. Reeve was a member of the Burnsville Lions Club and the club secretary at the time of his death. He was active in community civic affairs and wrote a weekly editor- j ! ial column, “Overlook on Life,” for The Yancey Record. Surviving are the widow, Mrs, 1 Joan Price Reeve, formeriy of ' Dovershire, England; a daughter, ' Miss Evelyn Joan Reeve of Phila- ’ delpMa, Pa.T -the parents, Dr. and Mrs. John T. of Syracuse, N. Y„ and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Reeve LtoUs of Baltimore and Mrs; Katherine Kilpatrick of New York City. , Services were held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday in Higgins Memorial Met hodist Church. The Rev. Wesley Hyde, the Rev. O. L. Brown and the Rev. C. B. Trammel officiated. The body was sent to Bernards vllle, N. J. for burial. The family requested that no flowers be sent but suggested that memorial Conations could be made i to the church. Deacons and elders of Burnsville Presbyterian Church were active and honorary pallbearers. Girl Scout Troop 88 To Be Heard On WTOE Girl Scout Troop 88 will be on the air at 2:30 p. m. on Wednes day, May 3rd over Radio Station WTOE. A varied scout program of songs choral response* and a one art play entitled “The Girl Whose Fortune Sought Her” will be pre sented. NUMBER THIRTY-Jk (return sometime early SaturcJay morning, according to the senior trip advisor, Mr. Howell , Some of the places they will visit while in Washington are: Mount Vernon, Arlington, Na tional Cemetery, Lee’s Mansion, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Mem orial, Washington Monument, The White House, United States Capi tol Building, Supreme Court ■ Building, Bureau of Engraving, ; Congressional Library, National Archives Building, National Gftl : lery of Art, Natural Museum of 1 History, Lincoln Museum, Ran j American Building, Smithsonian Institute, Franciscan Monastery, j Washington Cathedral, Washing • ton Zoo, ride down Embassy Row j and other points of interest. ! Their itinerary will include the | following: Monday night they wjll j attend a famous movie or show; Tuesday night a Moonlight Cruise down the Potomac River; Wednes day night a concert by the Nat ional Symphony Orchestra; Thurs day night they will go to Glen Echo Amusement park for a night of fun. On Wednesday afternoon the group will go to Annapolis to visit the Naval Academy and to watch the midshipman on parade. Those making the trip are as follows: Janeth Westall, Edna, Robinson, Cynthia Chrisawn, Lucy Robinson, Jean Edwards, Mary Louise Bishgp, Carolyn McCurry, Veronica Johnson, Judy PresneU, Viola Hollifield, Donna Jean Styles, Lana Howell, Peggy At kins, Sandra Higgins, Louise Riddle, Joyce. Riddle, Mary Martha Hunter, Linda Metcalf, Ronnie Tomberiin, Junior Shuford, Jerry Davis, Leonard Ray, Paul Ohle, Ernst Schnwitzer, Russell Boone, Brown Sparks, Chailes Carroll, Loki Wilson, Tommy Murphy, Pat Banks, Cynthia McCurry, Carolyn Banner, Myra Holcombe, Judy Harris, Thana Black, Alice Hen sley, Pat Mayberry, Nancy Daw kins, Lila Taylor, Barbara Wilson, Peggy Smith, Celia Coletta, Caro lyn Clevenger. Ronnie Beckwith, Ben Geouge, Claude Sparks, Ron- nie Robinson, Freddie Harris, *Steve Young, Gerald Penland, Jerry Griffith, Tommy Mclntosh, i Ben Howell, Jimmy *P. Young, Jimmy. W. Young, Scott Silver, Wynford Bodford, Douglas Hue kins and Naomi Ferguson. Mrs. Flavil McCurry and Mrs. ‘ Carl Carter will chaperon the group. Construction Os Highway 191 Underway The construction of Highway 19E, State Highway Project 8.18942 in Yancey County between Micaville and Crabtree Creek is progressing rapidly at this time. All work has been completed except the bituminous surface treatment and grass seeding opera ions. The contractor‘has completed conditioning the base course and . irimin.7 was bogun on April 25, 1961. The surface treatment should be completed by the 6th of May providing weather conditions per mit,- : " The contractor has closed the entire road to through traffic and “ be asks that motorists use the de ovrr between Burnsville and Spruce Pine. The completion of this project year. -, >v Lions Club To Meet April 27 The Burnsville Lions Clpb will meet at 7:30 p. m- on April 27th at Pete’s Snack Bar. g Bill Huskins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam J.Huskins here, and « member of the State Highway Patrol will be guest speaker. He will present a program on high way safety. The public is invited to attend.
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