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VOLUME TWENTY SIX UF Drive To Be Launched Monday ~ The seventh annual drive of the Yancey United Fun<l will get Undpr full steam next Monday to raise a budget goal of SB,BOO, de tails of which are shown else where on this page. This is the big annual coopera tive effort of Yancey County to O Yancey Hospital Received Funds From Duke Endowment Charlotte, N. C.—For 1960, The Duke Endowment contributed the record sum of $2 Mi million to mere than 200 hospitals and child cai'e institutions in every area of North Carolina and South Caro ls lina- - This brings to more "than s4l million the. amount The Endow ment has contributed to such in stitutions since its founding in 1924, according to Marshall I- Pickens, director of The Endow ment’s Hospital and Orphan sec tions, which issued their annual reports today. The Endowment, which helps in the care of the needy sick on the. basis of $1 for each day of free bed care in assisted hospi tals, reported that for 1960 total hospital payments (including special appropriations for capital purposes) reach'd an all-time, high of $2.1 million, with 179 hos pitals (nine-tenths of all non- Federal general hospitals) parti-1 cipating. Geographically, the as sistance virtually blanketed the Carolinas, with 83 of North Caro lina’s 100 counties and 38 of South Carolina’s 46 represented. In addition, 43 child care institu tions received approximately $400,000- The Duke Endowment is a per petual trust founded by the late James B. Duke for the “greater of North Carolina and South Carolina and “to make provision in some measure for the. needs of mankind along phy sical, mental and spiritual lines.” In addition to aiding Carolina hospitals and child care institu tions, it provides funds for Duke University, Davidson College, Furman University, and Johnson C. Smith University, and for aid to rural churches and retired preachers, J In 1960, The Endowment gave $996,094 for free patient care to 179 hospitals, an increase of $90,641 over 1959. The funds were distributed to 124 North Carolina hospitals with 614,794 charity days and 55 South Caro lina institutions with 381,110. Funds given for such capital purposes as new or expanded plants and equipment amounted to $1,109,976 to 29 hospitals, $909,076 to 21 in North Carolina and $200,000 ‘to eight in South Carolina. The amounts given for new plants, additions, and equip ment reflect The Endowment’s interest in helping hospitals in their effort to provide facilities in keeping with the need of the - people they serve.' Contributions to North Carolina institutions -for free care includ ed The Yancey Hospital in (the amount of $639,00. Funds appropriated for capital purposes included Yancey Hospital in she amount of $5,000. Senior Officers Elected At \ Cane River The Cane River High School senior class of 1962 elected of ficer* for the coming year on Tuesday, September 26. The following officers were elected: Pat Johnson, president; Donald Stiles, vice-president; Barbara Ball, secretary; Sammy :** Riddle, treasurer; and Jim Frou la, reporter. The Yancey record Subscription $2.50 Per Year -_ # • combat disease, suffering, the effects of poverty and misfortune, and in a variety of ways assure the oncoming generation greater advantages and a better county in which to live. The drive this year is under the direction of campaign chairman, Leslie Hensley, who will be as sisted by a civic-minded team of voßinteer workers. A partial list of these volunteers, together with the fields they will cover is as follows: ... _ Burnsville merchants Bas Penland and Roy Ray; Mills : Ted Ballou, Don Burhoe and C. O. Ellis; Medical profession and hospital Dr. Garland Wampler; Schools Charles Edwards; Court House Evelyn Pate; Mines and railroad Pete Col ette; Lawyers and Insurance of fices Dick Bailey; Agriculture offices and forestry Don Par- Community Clubs and Home Demonstration June Street and Mrs. H. D. Ray, Jr.; Bank Reece Mclntosh; Highway and Prison Camp Warren Frank lin; Dairies Mack B. Ray; Saw mills and builders supply Max Penland. The rural merchants are being grouped in five divisions, who will be solicited by a team of two workers for each division- A kick-off dinner will be held at Pete’s for all campaign work ers on Monday at 7 p. m. Final j j plans for the drive will be made 'at this dinner-meeting. Third Annual Homecoming At Cane River Cane River High School will hold their 3rd, annual Homecom ing on Friday, September 29 as tht y play host to Tryon High School- Each home room has elected the following Homecoming Queens Senior Class—Barbara Ball. Pat Johnson and Viann Duncan; Junior Class Katrinka Webb, Joan Mathis, Elaine Silvers and Carolyn Wright; Sophomore Class fillaree Blankenship, Judy Ledford, Sue. Grindstaff, Ann Angel, Bernice Adkins and Irma Miller; Freshman Class Pam Burton, Clara Lee Brinkley, Dixie Fender & Wanda Riddle. The queen having the most money accredited to her will win the crown for 1961-62. AH 17 contestants will ride in converti bles led by the Stephen Lee High School Band of Asheville. Each class will sponsor a float which will be the last item in the parade which will start at the Burnsville city limits around 4:30 4>- m. on .Friday, September 29 and continue around the square. The Homecoming Queen will be crowned before the game by I Regina Gardner, the 1960-61 ; Queen. The floats will be judged II at halftime. Admission will be i SIOO adults and .50 children. i Tickets may be purchased from any high school student or at the i gate. Everyone is invited to at ■ tend this exciting event. Civil Defense To Meet The local Civil Defense will meet on Tuesday night, October 3rd, In Firth Carpet Co. Cafeteria at 7:30. Discussion of fallout shelters and plans of what may be done in case of emergency will be discussed. The public Is urged to attend this important meeting. NOTICE The East Yancey PTA will meet in the school library on Monday, October 2 at 7:30 p. m. “Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey County** BURNSVILLE. N. G, THURS DAY, SEPTEMBER ?8, 1961 I Visiting Hours At Hospital To Be Enforced Visiting hours at Yancey H. pital will be enforced beginnin Sunday, October 1. The visiting hours art; 2-4 PM and 7-8 P? . Everyone is asked to cooperate i i making the new system effective and efficient- Gray Ladies and Senior Girl Scouts will be on duty during the evening hour to aid the visitors and distribute visiting cards. Below’ are eight rules to rem ember when visiting the hospital . These rules are reprinted from the Hospital Management journal WHEN VISITING IN THE HOSPITAL 1. Be sure that visitors are al lowed. When you enter a hospital room walk up to the bed so the patient can see and touch you. Remember the senses of a sick person are not so kern as those of a well person. Don’t stand against the wall or sit in a cor ner and mumble to a friend you might have brought with you and shout at 4be patient in the bed. 2. Don’t diseUss the illness or that of anyone else try to talk about pleasant, amusing things to cheer them up. 3- Limit your call to 10 min utes; sick persons tire faster than they themselves realize. 4. When sending flowers send something small one flow’er a day is a nice thought. Remember the ropms are small and super heated and too many large bou quets are over-powering with fragrance for both patient and nurse. About the rycest thing to send a sick person is the one-a* day card group found in most department stores. It gpves the patient something to think about and to look forward to. —«*■ . 5- If you feel you would like to spend a lot of money on your friends wait until they are well and take them out to dinner. Then they can have a good time too. 6- Never take food to the hos pital. The doctors prescribe the diets for the patients. If you must show off your cooking, think of the family of the patient who. spends every spare moment at the! hospital. Never feed hospital pa tients. Every hospital room should have signs “Don't feed the pat ents leave it to the nurses.” 7. Never stand outside the room and talk to a group of people in an undertone. Wait until y6u are out of the building to do your talking. Naturally the patient thinks you are talking about him j and that you are keeping some thing from him. 8. If you have the well bein ; of your friend at heait, you will be welcome in any hospital room. Welding Clinic j Held More than 200 people attended a welding clinic held recently at Andy-Oxy Compacyu Henderson ville, N. C. William Anderson, head of the company formerly known as Hendersonville Welding & Sup ply, said that metallurgists, en gineers, superintendents, foremen, purchasing agents and others from all parts of western North Carolina’ attended. There were demonstrations of NCG welding equipment and many of the visitors tried their hand at welding. A complete line of personal protection equip ment was displayed. Also on ex hibit was medical equipment for use in emergencies in Industrial plants and hospitals- A number of medical people also attended. Officials of the NCG Division of Chemetron Corporation * assisted Andy-Oxy-Company. An NCG Combo Kit, Sod-R- Braze outfits, fire extinguishers and other pieces of equipment were given as door prizes. W. H. Ward of Brevard, N. C. .won the major door prize. Memorial Books Presented To Librant The family of the late Rever end Warren Reeve of Burnsville has present;, d, a memorial book tp the Yancey County Public Lib rary in hi 3 memory. The book Chios’ nas such, a memorial is one which will be 1 used a great deal by librarians and library borrowers alike. It is the American Book - * of 1 Days by Grorge William Doug-. | las. Known as The Book -of Days, this volume contains information, about holidays, festivals, anni versaries, Christian and Jewish feast days, and the birthday - of notable Americans. Arranged 1 chronologically by months, .Janu ary to December. Each day in the! month, that has any significance, l is given with a description of the events and incidents which oc : cured to make that particular day important in American his tory. As an example, September eleventh is listed as Day of the battle of Brandywine in 1777. It also describe the sesquicenten nial of the bgttlf which was ob ' served in 1927. i ■" The book Contemporary Peren nials or planning, planting and t propagation of a successful gar den has been presented to the I Yancey County Public Library in Burnsville by the Burnsville ' Woman’s Club ».$ a memorial to Mrs. George Robifison. With this book as a'guide, it should be possible, for any home j gardner to plantflower garden, that will be a thing of perennial | beauty. Such Itetf,? as placement by color; plyymffijny seasoq, of bloom; placement by habit, form or texture reveal the role of pernnials in the planting scheme of things. Also included are Plant Fam ily and Common Names and Common and Botanical names of species and plants discussed in the book. This book should prove a “Liv ing Memorial” to one who en joyed flowers so much. , I East Yancey High School Student Honored Principal W. M. Anglin of Eastj Yancey High School announced ■ today that one student from the j school had been given recognition for her high achievement in .the initial stages of the seventh an nual National Merit -Scholarship competition. I I Mr. Anglin stated the student | was a semifinalist in the 4261-62 i Merit Program as a result of ■ her outstanding performance on j the National Merit Scholarship 1 Qualifying Test. This student is| Martha Bradshaw. This 'student is one of 10,000' seniors throughout the country who attended semifinalist status through her high score on the qualifying examination, a test of. eduact ional .development given I last March in more than 15,000 high schools. The srmifinalist is composed of the highest scoring students in each state and in the U. S- terri tori s. In 1961 there was a total of 576,435 students participating in this- In the state of North Carolina there were 267 semifi nalist with 98 high schools in the state that lmd semifinalist. Miss Bradshaw will take anoth er rigorous examination on Deq ■ ember 2, 1961. Students Who I score on the second test will be- come finalist in the competition. Miss Bradshaw is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs- Glen A. Brad shaw. Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw and children recently moved to * Coe 0 *' Homecoming To Be held at Easf Yancey Oct. 6 The Homecoming Football game and program at East Yancey High School will be held Friday evening, October 6 and will begin at 8:00 p.—ffi? when East Yancey will meet Oak Hill High School. Admission will be SI.OO and .50. The highlight of the evening will be the c('owning of the Home . coming Queen whose identity j will remain a secret until the ap pointed time. She will be selected on .the basis of tickets sold before the game. Candidates for Queen and their escoits include Glenda Hall, Troy Shuford; Patsy Robinson, Doug ■ Shuford; Melody Howell, Terry Murphy; Carolyn Autrey, Byrl Ballew; Cheryl 'Roberts, Joe Moody;. Donna Shepard, Charles Rock; Dons Blevins, Harold Ang lin; Saundra Garland, joe Ben nett; Sharon Howell, David Col etta; Brenda Hunter, Tommy Johnson; Rita Hensley, Frank Hensley; Gwen Young, Alan Bailey; Karen Black, John Branch; Betty Jo Robinson, David Mcln tosh; Brenda Peterson, Dennis Phillips; Linda Robinson, Hamil ton Sheretz; Linda Boone, Gordon Banks. j A dance will be held immediat . ely after the game in the gym j nasium. Everyone is invited to j attend. > 11 * " 11 ■■ i ...I Britt To Serve Yancey As Social Security Rep. I Effective October 1, Mr. Jack Britt, field representative of the Social Security Administration office in Asheville, will serve Yancey County, Mrs. Lucille M. Rickman, field representative who formerly worked in Yancey Coun ty, announced today. This change is due to a change in territory served by the various field re presentatives. Mr.. Britt will be in the court house in Burnsville every Wed nesday, beginning at 9:30 a. m., and will be glad to assist Yan cey County residents on all social! security matters. j United Fund Directors , Announce Budget Goal Directors of the Yancey United Fund announce a budget goal of SB,BOO for the seventh annual fund' raising campaign 0 f the or ganization. Included in the bud get are funds which will assure the continuation and improvement in services to Yancey County by a score of agencies operating in the field of health, welfare, char acter-building education. The total budge t is S2OO less than last year, a total which the j directors point out is . practical and attainable. J Budget committee chairman, , Edgar Huntil - , Jr. states that the j budget figures were arrived at * after careful revi w of the re quests received from the various agencies. j A guiding principle observed I ! by the committee was to allocate • the funds to the various agencies I in amounts which will bring the' greatest benefits to the county. At | the same time the committee re- i cognized that Yancey County; The budget as adopts d is as follows: 4-H Clubs j_i: ■.; SBOO Rural Community Development Program v 400 For Blind and sight conservation 300 Orthopedic Clinic and other Health Center work 300 Boy Scouts 800 Girl Scouts * 800 Yancey County Library 400 Yancey Hospital 500 . Bed Cross (including funds for blood program) 2,845 Maternal and child care, and aid jn adoption cases 412 USO ' 270 Medical research in N. C. 245 Cerebral palsy for work in western N. C- 100 ' Mental Health 4 *' 60 . Dread Disease (for Yancey County victims) , 400 , Affiliation with United program 161 Small contributions to T -agencies 57 ’ Expenses of United Fund : L ’ 150 J Total 8,800 i Price P.r Copy: Five Cents Blevins, Smith Sentenced 8-10 Years Warren Blevins, 35, and How ard Smith, 43, both of Burnsville were tried this week in a special term of Yancey County Superior Court on charges of first degree Gray Ladies Received Caps Sunday Nine women received their Gray Lady caps in a formal ceremony Sunday afternoon in the Com munity Building. Mrs. Robert L. , Rhinehart, Yancey County Gray I Lady Chairman, presided and in troduced the speakers who were: Miss Ruth Lockman, Red Cross Field Representative for WNC, and Mrs. Arthur Wagner, Na tional Red Cross Volunteer-at large. Both women work out of the Asheville Red Cross office. The invocation was given by Dr. W. A. Y. Sargent s The caps were placed on the . women by Mrs- Cecil Anglin, Yan •, cey Hospital Administrator. Mrs. Wagner pinned on the Red Cross badges, and Mrs. Roy Pate, Yan cey County Red. Cross Chairman, 5 presented the certificates. Upon completion of the capping the group was presented to the hospital Board of Director-s, and accepted by Horace Edge, Board member. Dr. Garland E. Wamp ler, member of the medical staff of Yancey Hospital, accepted the group on behalf of the profess j ional staff and expressed appre ciation for the service the Gray Ladies are rendering. Mrd. Ang-’ : lin welcomed the new class to" the hospital. , The Gray Ladies receiving their caps w re: Mrs. W. K. Banks, Mrs. Katherine Cherry, Mrs- Iliff Clevenger,' Mrs. Howard Garland, Mrs. Guy McCurry, Mrs. Roy • Pate, Mrs. Re ce Robertson, Mrs. W. A. Y. Sargent, and Mrs. Luther M. Wells. Ten women signed u p for the new Gray Lady class which began Tuesday, September 26th from 5 J PM to 8 PM in the Yancey Hospi- I tail dining room. should bear a fair share of the cost of a few state-wide and national activities which clearly benefit citizens of this county. The principal national appeals in cluded ape Red Cross and USO, The item of S4OO .for the benefit of local victims dread diseases, will be administered by the Yan cey County Dread-Disease Com mittee of which Fred Aytlin is chairman. The reduction in amount assigned this committee as com pared with. last year,, is explained by the fact the committee has an unexpended balance in-the UF j treasury. Members of the budget com mittee this year are; Edgar Hun ter, Jr., chairman; Woodrow M. I | Angliji, Clyde Ayers, Don Burhoe, j ! Ted Ballou, Ernest J. Bannef, 1 Mrs. Stanley-Urquhart, Mack B. ; Ray, U. |D- Justice, Charles Edwards, Charles Wi sson, Monroe I Mclntosh, and Dr. Garland Wam- I pier, ex officio, President" Yancey ! UF. ( burglary and robbery. The men were accused of rob bing Mrs.’Mary Henson, 80, in her home here in August. Judge George Fountain of Tar boro imposed sentences on each of 8 to 10 years on the burglgry charges, a nd of five years each on the robbery charges, to run consecutively. The sentences for (the robbery were suspended for five years on court conditions. Mrs- Addie IBedford Blevins, 45, of Burnsville was sentenced to 12 to 18 months on Tuesday after she entered a plea of guilty Jto a charge of furnishing poison to prisoners in jail. Pender Pate, 61, of Schronce Creek section, who was awaiting trial oh a charge of murdering his uncle, died September 12 in the county jail here. Coroner Dr. Melvin W. Webb ruled Pate died of a selfadministered dose of poison- Mrs. Blevins is the wife of Pate’s cell mate, Warren Blev ins, who was sentenced Monday. Robert Jariett, 53, of Asheville was sentenced to 5 to 7' years on two counts of forgery. Charles Phillips of Burnsville and Oscar Taylor of Asheville were allowed nonsuits in companion cases. Tommy Letterman, 18, of Bur nsville was sentenced to 18 mon ths in a youthful offenders camp after he entered a plea of guilty to larceny. ~ —— Garden Club Meets With Mrs. Proffitt The Garden Club met FVRlay night at the home of Mrs. Charles Proffitt with r Mrs. R. Y. TUson as associate hostess. Mrs. Grady Bailey introduced Mr. Jack Kelly who gave an in teresting and informative lecture on “Conservation.” Mr. Kelly is connected with the U- S. Forest Service and he and his family have lived in Burnsville for the past year. Mrs. E. L. Beeson, president, presided at the business ses sion- Mrs. E. R. Gillespie gave the report of the menu committee and Mrs. W. A. Y. Sargent, chairman of the Civic committee, announced plans to n place the arbor-vitae on the Square with - rhododendron plants. Final plans were made for the Men’s Club dinner., During the social" hour the hostesses srrved a dessert ! course. Mrs- Paul LaUghrun and Mrs. C. A. Russell were guests of the club. The club will meet in October with Mrs. Troy Ray and Mrs. W. L. Bennett will be associate hostess. Mrs. John Robinson will be program leader. Senior Woman's Club Holds Meeting The first fall meeting of the j Burnsville Woman’s Club was held September 14th, in the Com munity Building. The meeting was a planning session outlining tie coming year’s work. A gener al discussion of ways and means to help finance the maintenance of the building was discussed and it was decided to work together with the other civic clubs in pro grams and projects to meet the financial needs above what the ( general club dues afford. It was announced* by the presi dent, Mrs- Clarence Burton, that Woman, magazine will carry local advertising. This magazine goes to every federated club woman in the state. ' ’ An announcement was made ( 'nnr.ro i. L. ueoige rcoomaon io oe given to ,NUMBER SIX
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