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THa yancry record RrtablkAed July, 1936 ARNEY and TRKNA FOX CO-PUBLISHERS TREHA FOX, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY . A Partnership Sacond Class Postage Paid at Burnsville, N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1961 NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT SUBSCRIPTION RATE; $2.50 PER YEAR . School and Your Child By: John Corey Education Department Appalachia n State Teacher* College Do We Overemphasize Competitive Athletics?* Football and other team sports from university to Junior high school stand to be thrown for a terrific loss if advioe by Or. James B. Conant, former Hansard University president, is heed ed. ' » In his most blistering attack yet on unworthy school practices, the renowed education reformer flatly states in a national magazine article that there’s a “vicious overemphasis on competitive ath letics.” *' •—i, J Conant points out that the “life of the school (Sometimes re volves around the athletic field, not' the classroom” and that “over concern with the development of prize athletes might well jeopardize our future." To win the real struggle, the Cold War, “we must improve the academic' output of our ed ucational system,” says the better schools crusader. One step in this direction, Con ant thinks, will be to shift glory from field of sports to the realms of academics Honor the students who excel in tiieir books. Deemphasize importance of the 'big game-” Abolish competely SAY IT WITH FLOWERS .-,... - { 1 •••-> ' ■ - - • ..-•* v . • \ The Original Emblem of Mother’s Day CUT FLOWERS Carnations Roses - Glads Mums POTTED PLANTS Azaleas Fushias Mums Hydrangeas Geraniums CORSAGES Orchid Roses Carnations LoVely Mother’s Day arrangements for the home GIFTS Franconia China Noritake China \,. Companion Chrystal Wall Decors Dish Gardens &a*Ju tylaute* & Qift Simp. . PHONE MU 4-2324 : BURNSVILLE, N. G , HI XAJCCBY, RECORD | THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1961 I junior high school interscholastic competition and marching bands. - 1 Dr. Conant by no means unjder , rates' the value of physical edu [ cation and sports, however. He beli j eves they’re most valuable. But for all students, not just the out standing athletes. When Junior comes home, he should be abje to tell Jyis parents what he did on the field that day, not what he saw the st»rs d°. TV viewing and the automo bile steer us toward the seden tary, onlooker role. To counteract this tendency, energies of school coaches should be aimed toward obtaining maximum participation in athletics by all students—not toward high-powered winning teams with five per cent of the youngsters participating while .the other 95 per cent sit looking on. Dr. Conant savs that “all public school pupils should devote a period a day to developing their muscles and body co-ordination.” He implies that a well-managed intramural sports program in a school is good. Rather than empha size the “big *<*eam” that plays other schools, a school should de velop many teams to play each other. With proper ~ organization, i T-- - I T . ,-v ■ ' '*. t J KEEPING UP ON FARMING WITH UNCLE WALT “Live and" learn and die and forgeCjt a*l.” I hadn’t heard that old sayin in I „ don’t know when ‘til the other day when ,Ned Cunningam stopped by the house on his wny to sell a load of com. I was out at the crib shuckin a few ears of com for Nancy, my old brood sow, when Ned pull ed in- First thing he said was, “Walt, what makes, you crib your ” I corn in the shucks ever year ?" I allowed as how he knew I didn’t raise much corn and that I jest soon shuck, it as I needed it in sfead of dcin it aU at one time, so I sorta ignored , his question. I c jest passed If off by sayin, “Why, don’t you know that, people don’t . have corn shuckins no more?” I asked Ne«J ~ where he was . gonna take his corn to sell and he t told me up to Bill Spears place. - He said Bill wfis. pultin up a nc, a storage • bin at , bis .place f; which > would hold I forgot how many , bushels but it,-was a passel more t every pupil could be included. 5 What do schoolmen say about Conant’s strong remarks on ath letic overemphasis?'' - • Dr- Stanley Elam;"'editor' of Phi 1 Delta Kappan, ' the professional 1 educators’ journal surveyed the I reactions- of nearly; 200 schoolmen i who at one time or another have [ had direct contact withjtbe problem. ( 1 Eiam reports that a majority of - the respondents agree? in a genera! ? way, with Conant’s strongly-stated views. But they.-- reserve blanket, c approval because-of a feeling that 1 Conant overgeoeralizes from dub: 3 ious facts. - > ■ A California, principal said, -We 1 need to emphasize-., intramural t sports - rather- than interschool. .IsportsJV-' ... ..... A vWisconsin college .professor: “Training in individual sports is considerably more .. worthwhile. Why don’t we .leave team sports to pros?” ... theio ware defenders _of. interscholastic, competitive athlet ics, which Conant "calls “the poison ivy in our schools.” Said a California school adminis trator, “For spine individuals, (such competition) provides the only opportunity to excel. For oth ers, able academically, it provides the interest in school' which increase es holding power.! h Probably the most common view was .. that taken by Editor ' Elam himself. A former, coach 'apd sup erintendent “w|o, reads the' sports' page before .the, editorials,.” Elam admits warm sympathy for those who love athletic .competition.' But the editor, . wHo" keeps ih tune with the pulse-beat "of the.' educa tion, world through his highly re spected magazine, is “convinced that too many schoolmen have been unable or unwilling to withstand the pressures of overemphasis to which Conant objects.” - In fact, Elam "reveals he • once fell into the' net- Today he harbors a sense of shame for having orgah ijzed an alumni ‘“Bird Dog Club" ito ferret out' 'cOllege-calibeV ath letics in small high schools' with out at the same Yftne trying "to . ! spot a nd help prize scholars. ; i Editor’s note: Headers having quest 1 tions concerning education are in vited..to send inquiries to School and Your Child, Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone, N. C. Z. -- '* ■ .:•* '• TOYS One Lot at Half Price-* Now is the time to get those Christmas & Birthday Toys at a saving WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE BURNSVILLE, N. C • V\* .. . v v r "" than what Ned had on {ps truck. So; we got to talkin about all of these grain bins you see around at these different places and Ned knowed a lot more about it than I figgered he did. Fact hr, he knowed so much about it ‘til I was almost sorry 1 even mentioned the subject- I’m one of these fellers who likes to put in his two-cents worth ever I once in awhile and I jest didn’t know enough about all of these things Ned -was tellin me to hardly open my mouth. So I jest set there in the door of the corn crib and listened to him. Come to find out though, be fore he got through, that he „was jest quotin somebody else. He’d been over to the school house the night before' to' a meetin where m bunch of them got together to hear one of them fellers from Raleigh talk. Ned said the feller doin the talkin was a Mr. Lane, ’ Pete Lane I believe he said, and that he worked with the State 1 ’ Agriculture Department on the marketin of grain all over the state. Anyhow, he must of been quite a talker ‘cause I know old Ned didn’t know .nothin about all. of this • before he heard him the night before. —_ . I asked Ned if this feller Lane said anything about why they was a . so many grain bins bein put up all over the state. That was, t another mistake I made because it - took him a good twenty minutes to tell me jest what was said i about 'em, The way Ned give it [ in, I reckon we’re- producin more . grain in the state about ever year- Seems, to me like he said Mr. Lane said we had around 127. fmillion bushels produced in the state last year. That sounds like - an awful lot but I know that’s 1 the figger he used. That bein the i case, 1 guess we need all the bins i that have been built so far and then some. Fact is, Ned said they weren't enough commercial > storage space in the state to take I care of a fourth of the grain we 1 are producin- That raised another question in my mind so I asked Ned if most of the farmers couldn't take care of what-'grain they produced right on their own farms. He said they j weren’t- nearly enough good storage space on farms to where grain could m . , . . . ] of like it ought to be. He also I said that a lot of people like to I sell their grain as soon as they got it harvested and that filled up the storage bins in a hurry. I reckon they’e fi lot of people who’d ruther hold on to their. J grain and sell it later but they have to sell at harvest time be- ' cause they need the money. Ned went on to say that as more storage space for grain fras built-in the. State it would mean more money to the farmer- Natu rally, T wanted to know why. -So he' said “If we had Enough space to store our grain ever it wouldn’t be necessary to ship so much of it out of state after all the storage space gifts filled up and then bring more grain back in the state later in the year to be made up Into feed That' made sense to me. Another interestin thing he "' ■ ~ ——— —■——- -—— - . ™ It unwinds the twistiest roads •*'*-'• *••••♦•• f ••••• •• M4444.«r» Mf»iM. , |t((#|#| r#t#M #| # |Mf#j SEE YOUR LOCAL AUTHQRIZE D QUALITY BUICK DEALER NOW ... IN ROBERTS CHEVROLET-BUIGK, loc. ' ST. r ,„_ • LICENSE M 7 -: BURNSVILLE, N. C, '1 - * *' • * ‘ # ' ~T” ‘ - - '”•■•*-" ' '• - - - ...... ..,. '. ... •.., •■’ Si » '•/•ctionl Big yaluisl So. your Bu/cfc D.a/.r for Doubt* Chock Used '"- 1 | - '•* s| t *—“—7", ' •■"."’*••■' V...v 4 .... ''. -r- ■' ~" ’7 ■ ■ -=—■’ * s * * said was that the U. S- Depart ment*-of ■ Agriculture has worked l out a plan where a farmer can I boYow up to 95 percent of- the » cost for buyin storage and dryin eqpuipment for grain. I believe >. he said-the loans run for three ' ' years at- four percent interest. He > j told a whole bunch more about it ' t but I didn’t quite .git Everything ' he sai.d- I do remember him sayin - though" that if a body wanted to * git one of these loans, they 1 would have to git it through • their ASC office. After Ned left, I set.there in my little old crib and shuck ed a few more ears of com and I got to thinkin. I figgered if they wasn’t some place better to store cam and other grains in the state than in a crib like mine, then we was in a bad way. In my case though, I don’t grow, no grain for sale jest enough for the rats which I have ever year and t my few head of livestock is all. MONTHLY REPORT NORTH CAROLINA, YANCEY COUNTY. APRIL 4th, 1961 Exemptions $61.20 Poor *. $360.62 | General $4,891.46 ' MAY 1, 1961 Debt $18,472.57 Exemptibns $32-20 Poor $263.00 General $4,433.06 I, Evelyn H. Pate, Clerk to the j Our Store Was Made for Mom j It MHIS Dl First Rate Gifts : T for your first Lady I Mothers Day is next Sunday, I IL', May 14th. See us I for the perfect gift I Bags Jewelry Gloves I Lingerie Hose Blouses I Sportswear Sweaters Dresses I DORIS SHOPPE PHONE MU 2-2254 BURNSVILLE. N. G, I Board of County Commissioners, do hereby certify that the foregoing amounts are and true and exact copies of the minutes of the April and May meetings of the Board of County Commissioners. Witness my signature and official seal this the 3rd day of May, 1961. Evelyn H. Pate, Clerk to the Board'of County Commissioners. » • —.- If You Have TERMITES call • * Rudd’s Termite Control COLLECT 9 AL 4-6180 - AL 2-7516 The Man Who Treated » , « .. 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