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VOLUME TWENTY SIX Health Plan For Aged Announced CHAPEL HILL, N. C. 'A| proposed plan to enroll the na tion’s over - 65 population in Blue Cross with the federal government assisting in pay- WSCS To Meet At Methodist Church On Thursday, January ISth, at 6:30 o’clock, the members of the Woman’s Society of Christian Sc rvice from the Methodist churches of the county, will have a covered dish supper a t Hig- j gins Memorial Church, honoring. Mrs. C. G Norton of Hendersort ville, the Secretary of Spiritual Life for the Asheville District. At 7:30 Mrs: Norton will teach the Spiritual Life study for the year, “The Meaning Os Suffering by Dr. Ralph W Sockman. Obituaries MRS. ENGLAND Mrs Mamie Higgins England, 66, died at her home on Rt.' 3, Burnsville, Wednesday morning after a long illness. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday in Paint Gap Presbyterian Church. The Rev Bert Styles will offi ciate and burial will be in the Higgins Cemetery near the church The body will remain in Hol combe Brothers Funeral Home and will be taken to the church, to lie in state for one hour prior to services. Pallbearers will be Jack Mc- Intosh, Mark England, Arthur Lttterman, Garrett Pittman, Don ald, Marvin and Arby Higgins and Mack Hensley. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. J. B. Anders of Mars Hill; five sons, A O. Harry, Edd and Howard of Burnsville and Clay England of Morganton; 14 grtmd •o children; one sister, Miss Jorie Higgins of Spruce Pine; and one brother, Ector Higgins of Burns ville. SHERMAN RENFRO Sherman Renfro, 86, of Green Mountain died at his home Thursday afternoon following a long illness. Services were held in Hol combe Funeral Home Chapel at 2:00 p. m. Sunday with the Rev. Gilbert Akdins officiating Bur ial “was in Fairview Cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Liddia--Peterson Renfro; two rs, Mrs. Hank Kissinger of* Chicago and Mrs. George Kilmer of Green Mountain; three soils'' Cecil and Charles of Green Mountain and William Renfro witiT the Air Force in New York; two sisters, Mrs John G. Peter son of Green Mountain and Mrs. Rtebe Pederson of Burnsville; and two brothers, Gaither and Burt Renfro of Green Mountain. S. R. McINTOSH Samuel R Mclntosh, 75, of Burnsville died at his home Thursday afternoon following a long illness. Services were held at the First Baptist Church here, of which he was a member, on Sat urday at 2:00 p. m. The Rev. Charles B Trammel, pastor, and the Rev, H. M. Alley offi ciated. Bhrial was in Mclntosh Cemetery. . SurviViHg are . the widbw, Mrs Sudi'v Angel Mclntosh; one dau ghter, Mrs. Milton Jones of Bur nsville; fsur grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; one half-sister, Mi’s. Rex King of ■Santa Rosa. y Texas; and . fiVe half-brothers, ■ Noah of Caropolis, Pa., and Tohv, IToy, Reece and Delzie Mclntosh of Burnsville- , WiO Per Year l ling the premium if necessary was anounced last week by Hos pital Saving Association, the Blue Crsos and Blue Shield Plan of North Carolina The program, introduced by the American Hospital Association and the national Blue Cross As sociation, would provide a com prehensive scope of benefiti for aged persons. The program would be under private control and .is the Blue Cross answer to the Ad ministration’s program to put health care for the aged under Social Security There -are over 300,000 persons l in North Carolina above the age I of 66, making up 6.7 per cent of 1 the population, but this same age "group represents about eleven per cent of all general hospital pat ients. The number of persons over age 66 la North Carolina is increasing three tunes as fast as the total population If the Blue Cross proposal were adopted, Hospital Saving Association would expect to join with aihar Blue Cross Plans to put the nationwide program into effect. Hospital Saving’s prepay ment programs have always in cluded continuous protection for its subscribers after they reach age 66. For persons who had no protection before attaining that age the Association introduced three yfars ago a special “Senior Certificate” which provides bar 6ic Blue Cross hospital and Blue Shield doctor benefits in a pack age designed for older persons. 1 The vaat network of Blue Cross, prepayment Plans covers s 0 57 million persons', tacisdihg million who are over age 66. One of the first officially approved Blue Cross plans was that of Hospital Saving Association Founded in 1935, Hospital Sav ing now provides hospitalization coverage to some' 630,000 North Carolinians under its several pro grams. It is the North Carolina administrative agent for Medi care, the government's program for servicemen’s dependents, and also covers over 30,000 federal employees and their dependents under an extensive prepayment program In effect for over two years. Walter J. McNerrv y, president of the Blue Cross Association, stated, “Hospitals and Blue Cross Plans have from their beginnings been dedicated to the concept that all persons needing and seeking care shall receive it. With the American Hospital As sociation, we have reaffirmed our willingness to continue this tra ditional role, and have expressed our determination to set up and implement a program so that all aged persons may obtain the care they need. We have recognized, after an exhaustive research in to the economic and social sirt.a rlon of the aged, that many aged persons will need financial as sistance to enable them to pur chase this program We have said that we believe this assist ance, if it is offered to the aged by government, should be re lated to the income, levels of re tired persons over age 66. “Blue Cross already has the national mechanism to imple ment such a program.— we have the controls, the technical skills needed, the personnel, and the know-how to do this Job more quickly, more effectively, and at less cost than could any other agency in the country. In keeping with the tradition that government does not set up pro grams to do that which can be done vtell by private initiative* we believe that our proposal is not only appropriate but that in view of the acknowledged need I of some of the aged for assist ance it deserves the earliest pos sible study v y the appropriate op/ncUs of •oAgrc;* and The ad ministration,” MiNerney coPclud r- ■ .. . *- The Yancey record ' Diabetes Detec tion Campaign To Begin The MStcheß-YaUcey ttjftriat Jtalth Department, in coeperav ioh with local physician*, *.<d with the support of the North Carolina State Board of is starting a diabetes detection program. The reason Ur this program, according to Dr Wm. B. Sthyker, District Health Director, Is that many, people have diabetes, and don’t know it. It i# important for these people to find out' they have diabetes so that tlfiy can obtain medical care. Aitho«*gh this disease cannot be catted, with proper control measuJp's most diabetics can live a nor mal life span, and, thtr® need b" j little or no interference with ppr ‘ mal activities. ~‘rN Health Centers at BuftjavU and Bakersville Will be to perform blood sugar tests, tfcs is one of the best methods .’de tecting diabetes. If the te*ti~per formed by the Health Department show high blood sugar levels, the individual will be advised to consult his private .lip 1 * further evaluation and treatspefM The Local Health will perform these testa, with-it charge for anybody sent fib tSV Health Centers by local phy sicians, and for other people wt > may apply directly to fhafth Center for this service. „ r*. “We want to concentrate our 1 efforts on the people most likely to have diabetes,” said Dr. Stry- Iker. ‘-These ar e the people , oVcr forty years 0 f age, j women, people who are over i weight, th« relatives of known .diabetics, and persons who hav great hunger**- ' ■ Recent development of a rela tively simple method of bloc sugar tenting, using cquipmer that is not ton expensive,, ha; made the introduction of- tihi program Possible It is estimated that between 200 and 260 people, in these two counties have dia betes and don’t know it. In the drive to fiad. as many of these cases as possible, all physicians in the district art? cooperating. “If we are to get results”, said Dr. Stryker, “we need the help and cooperation of various civic groups in pi%peuig the Informa tion to the people %nd in urgjijg those most likely to have the disease N to take advantage of this simple littl« test”. Beginning next week in Burnu ville on ’ Mondays, in on Tuesdays, and Sprue* Pine oh' Thursday afternoons, Wood sam pler for thi* teat will be drawn, .preferably one or tw« hours af ter a regular meal Wm. B. Stryker, M. D. District Health Director Mr* and Mrs* Mark Lours T# Obsarva Anni versary Mr and Mrs. Mark Laws of Burnsville RFD 4, will obeerve their Golden Anniveraary with open house at their home Sunday -from th* hours of 1:00 to 6:00 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Laws have lived in Burnsville sinci their marriage on. January 23, 1912 They have ' nip* children ( which Include Charles of Relief} Clarence and; Lloyd of Bufpsville RFD 1; Rotha and Mark Jr. of Brevard; Arnold of Erwin, Tenn.; Wayne of Marion RFD 2; 8. C. of Bur. nsvijle RFD 4; and Miss Marie iaM of the ■>? -3 1 Mts. Laws ia the former Mj&« K.ig, daughter of the, late S* :> and Julia of , this mortv, and Mr. Laws i* tfes «od of the late Albert and Milandt.* Laws, also of the bounty 411 friend#'and* relatives arc Invited to call at the Lawa home on Sunday from 1 to 5 p. m. •■ " i ‘Dedfaatui T»TKe PtOgrmt Os Yancey County** Mi <£, ‘OUBiDAY, JANUARY 18, 1962 March Os Dimes | Teforomo To ***** t A itar-sSaßjfd 18 hour Tele -4 ttfyjWW winlf -up the 1962 Caro i >lina triad campaign for the New j 1 March of W. A McFi , duff, Buncombe County North i Carolina, Cunipaign Director, an nounced toddfc. | , the Teleraiaa will take place j ; the teeeiartMt|Ej| February 10 and t 11 beginning at 11:00 p. m. Sat j urday, and Continuing non-stop j ; until 6:00 p. m the following, l afgfttoon. It may be seen over f WioS-ty, i villa The sta it n is contributing ( Its time and facilities as a public , service. ' ' Many natfoflfeUy known tekvis « lon and fUiwl personalities, ex . peeled to be ItPown Shortly, will jejin with oulslanding area talent aid pfr son&tfti#* in an all out j |. egtartainmenCNjgpeal for the New [ v Buncombe County Chapter said, “We . think this will be the and successful char | itable pfogriji ever produced in r thi* are* to back it to the hilt 'and hope the gens i’al - public will jjSfpond with t same ? amount of <^thusia«n.” , Eighty-two cooties from six stated, including North and j South Carolina, Georgia, Tenn , eaaee, Kentucky and Virginia. will btftefit from funds raised on r the Teleraasa. Contributions rc oetved from .outside Buncombe . County will be credited to the t- respective chapters for use in , their own area*. Fund 9 raised by the Teleram-, h will provide mueh-ne. Jed firfan r. dal assistance for the medical <>nr« , of from. and arthritis. ; f Th* New March of Dimes j funds wifi also be used to save : and protect human life through | research, and prevent suffering by supporting a professional edu - icational program concerned with t training health workers. Plant For Sum mer School At WCC Callowhe* Plans are near completion for the 1962 summer school at Western Carolino Col lege, according to Professor W. j B Harrill, summer school ' dir- J ector. . The first term is scheduled for | June )1 —• July 13, and the sec ond term will run from July 16 -pa August 17. Twenty workshops .and two-werks abort courses will .'be conducted at various times. ■ throughout the two terms. *• Professor Harrill stresses the 1 | fact that the summer term oper a fourth quarter of the j year, and that a stude-nt j may obtain a Coilege degte e in three years by attending three regular terms and three summer sea# lons. In addition to the curricula leading to-- (, the bachelor’s - and master’s degree*, WC6 conducts special programs in a variety of r field*. These include a demon ; stration school for children from I first grade through certain hteh j school subjects; classes for gifted 5 tod superior children; classes ' so» teachers of gift d children;' i limited student teaching; library science; workshops for school a Administrators; music camp for ■ Ugh school student# ssor Harrill said a num ;”ter of distinguished visiting pro ; feasors will conduct summer 1 jouPsee at the college, as will as - most of the WCC faculty. 2 —• “ 11 11 ■' ' , Lagion-Auxiliary jfo M**» J t'Ths Lepon «nd-Le?- iou Auxiliary will hold their re ' gular meeting at the Community Building on Tuewiay, January 23 % aO7d)o p. n». All member are . urgFd to be present. | Weather Sum mary For Week Ended i Jahuary 13, 1962 Last week was a week of hard] winter weather throughout North 1 Carolina As the week began, low pressure moving eastward across the Great Lakis had just swept ] a cold weather front across the State. High pressure which 1 moved in following the front was [ large and strong, but settled over J the central pari of the nation so that offshore storms contiim d to affect North Carolina weather un til Saturday, when fair weather finally, spread over most of the State. January 14-15-16, 17,18 1962 Rising temperatures Sunday were followed by warm,- showery weather Monday, clearing an<l colder Tuesday, and Wednesday, dowdy and cold Thursday with snow predicted Thursday night. Temperatures The week edding January 18th was the eoldest week of the win ter season, and the minimum temperatures recorded Thursdax morning, January 11th, were in some areas the coldest in many years. Zero reading occurred in the Mountains and at a few of the coldest places in the Piedmont while low t-roperatures betweer zero and ten degrees we*e com mon over the rest of, the Pied- I mont and interior Coastal Plain ! Along the immediate coast low , est readings w. re between 1C ; and 20 ‘ PRECIPITATION Rain ended Monday of thi? week. Snow began in the Moun tains and western Piedmont Tues day night of last week and spread across the , State Wednes ; day, las£ week, b ringing awsuhu j iatioUfi of snow ranging mostly between two and six Shclies to the western and central portions of Norih Carolina. In the southern Coastal Plain and along the im mediate coast ruin and sleet were < mixed with the snow and accumu lations were small. Brush Creek Club Holds Annual Rabbit Supper The Brush Creek Community ■ building was the scene for the 1 traditional “Rabbit Supper” on Friday night, January 12. More than 75 members, their families j and friends gathered for an old fashioned evening of feasting and fellowship together. Yateß Randolph, elub president, welcomed the group and Rev. Thomas, pastor of Pleasant Grove I Baptist Church, gave the invoca tion. Though this popular January j event originally fiatured rabbit as the main attraction on the J menu, the table becomes more laden each year with a wide vari- ( ity of delicious foods as each i homemaker displays her best j skill in home, cooking. j Physical improvements to the community building already this ■ yi a r include a new double com partment sink with built in cabi nets for the kitchen Last week club members met for a work ■ shop and rr-bottomed six chairs I which were in need of repair. J Other chairs will be repaired at a j workshop in the near future. O. W. Deyton introduced the following guests who attended the meeting? Mr. and Mrs Fred Anglin, Mr. and Mrs. Don Partlue, Mts. Alice Hopson, and Charles Steelman, agricultural represen tatives; Mr. and Mrs Cartie Rice, /Burnsville,, artd Fred Garland, Mit eh, 11 County. The next regular meeting wifi be held at the community build ing on Friday, February 9 at 7:30 p. m. ' ’ J RALEIGH The Motor Vehi-j cles Department’s summary cf j traffic deaths through 10 A. Monday, January 18,71962: KILLED TO DATE 24 KILLED TO Date Last Year 31 Prite Par Copy: Fiv« CaaUa Five Injured In Automobile Accident ] Five people were injured in an i automobile accident occurring on Norih Carolina Highway 80 in Celo Wednesday evening araund Dr. Masters Chairman District Board of Health The Mitchell-Yancey District Board of Health, at a regular quarterly meeting held January Bth in Burnsville, elected Dr. W B Masters, dentist, of Bakers villr, as chairman of the board. The new chairman replaces Dr. E. R Ohio, physician,- of Celo, who has served in this position since 1959. Othr r members of the. prsent board, jn addition, to Dr. Masters and Dr. Ohle, -are: J. Bis Ray, Chairman, Yancey County Boord of Commissioners, J E. Peterson, Chairman, Mitchell County Board pf Commissioners, Walter B. Thomos, Superintendent, Mitch ell County School System, Robert K. Helmle, Mayor of Burnsville, G. L. Hensley, Postmaster, Bur nsville, Mr. L G- Day, Pharma cist, Spruce Pine. Dr. Wm. B- Stryker, District Health Direc tor, . acts as Secretary of the ’ Boord At the m eting, January Bth, gome recent activities of the Health Department were review ed, and plans for some new acti vities were outlin' d by Dr. Stry ker, A diabetes detection progrom feo include blood sugar tests .gj. for- .-persons f who may have diabetes, is one of the services to be started liext week. Another st rvice to be re started at the H alth Centers is the operation of “planned parent hood” clinics. Mrs. McElyea Speaks To PTA Mrs. A. M. McElyea, Executive J Director of the Pisgah Girl Scout ! Council from Asheville, j .;d a very informative program Jon fjjrl Scouting at the meeting ! of the Burnsville Elementary' ! Pa'h nt-Teacher Association in the school lunchroom on Tuesday evening."' ' Mrs. McElyea explained the purposes, methods and procedures used in the field of scouting -by the Brownies, Intermediat s and Senior Scouts She illustrated her talk with slides which showed the various in scouting. Members ‘of the Brownie Scout | Troops, Intermediate Troop and l Senior Troop performed the Flag Cere mory. Mrs. P C. Coletta, program chairman, introduced the speaker , and also members of the Scout 1 Troops who p: rformed the Flag Ceremony. „ , • ■ Highway Comm. Hearing In Hickory ,i Raleirh The State Highway Commission will hold a public hearing in Hickory at the Muni cipal Courtroom on Thursday, 1 January 18, 1962 at 11:00 A. M j j The hearing is on the proposed ’ ■ addition of two travel lanes for US 64 and US 70 from the east ! | end of the Int rstate 40 connect j ion to the west end of the four j lane Hickory Bypass. A map is posted in the Burke j County and Catawba County Courthouses showing the location ’of the proposed project. I The public is isvited to att nd j the hearing and all interested ■ persons will be given the - oppor i tunity to be heard at the hearing ■ In charge? of the hearing will be Highway . Commissioner Mur \ ray Tate of ' Hickory, Highway, ' Commissioner R. W. McGowan and Public T Relations Officer Roger R. Jackson. Jr. ■ NUMBER TWENTY-tira 6:40 p. m. Thomas Hensley, of Marion Rt 5; Mis 9 Naomi Googe, Luther Robinson and Charles and Angela Robinson all of Burnsville RFD 6, were admitted to Yancey Hos pital Wednesday night with lac erations of bead, face and body. The accident occurred 6*49 p. ». Wednesday as Thomas Heagle.J of Marion RFD 6 and Misg GdOfT of Celo were headed •wrtfe. «R NC 80 and Lutbtr KohinsoO and two grandchildren, Angela yp4 Charles Robinson, all of Crfk were going north and th* . tWV cars collided. Both antamokiies, Hensley was driving a 63? and Robinson a 60 Fors total losses. IcatrolmaO Investigating officer, stated that investigations were incoibblate ahd no charges bad been mad* *e Ear due to the condition of the occupants who a?e still in Yancey Hospital and unable to discuss conditions of the accident as yet Mr. Robinson is suffering from broken ribs and lacerations of the body; Angela Robinson, grand daughter , has a broken leg, aad Charles Rohin#ou, grandson, ha# bruises of the face. Muss Gouge . and Mr. Hensley have laceration* and bruises of the face and body. - All patients were reported te be in good condition thi# morning. .Herman Wilson as Celo. brought- ' Mr Robinson and grandchildren and M>s Gouge to the hospital and Holcombe Brothers ambn !ance carried Mr. Ffemtley, If"*!* Purchase** To f Be Surveyed Families living on farms and in towns of less than 2,569 popu lation in North Carolina will be asked by the U- 8. Department of Agriculture to report on thfcgs they r bought and the money they spent in 1961, it was announced today- by Henry L. R»*or, State Agricultural Statistician. The interviews will be part of a nation-wide survey to gather information for -use in the Con- . - sumer Price !*dex, a government : figure which measures the cost of living It has been 29 year* since such a survey was made, which included rural as well a# city families. ... The study is being made jointly by the U. S. Department of Agri culture and the Department of 1 Labor. The Consumer Price Index is issued monthly by the Depart ment of Labor. Eight counties in North Caro lina will be included in the nation-wide sample of rural fami lies living on farm# and axtail towns The counties are Ashe, Cherokee, Cleveland, Duplin, Martin, Pift, Richrtngd and Stokes. About .39 families in each county will be interviewed The information wfll be confiden tial and will be combined with information from other families and used only for statistical pur -1 poses, Mr. Rasor stated. Interviews , will begin on Janu ary 29 and will continue through February. Counties chosen to represent the nation and families cho*en fie represent the county were select ed by scientific sampling meth . ods - - - ii m Ivy diri Scwtit Caokfa*
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