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VOLUME TWENTY SIX Rhododendron Queen Crowned Saturday Miss Betty Rae Lawhon of Rutherfordton was crowned North ‘ Carolina Rhododendron Queen for 1962-63 on Saturday afternoon, j James Steer To Speak To Men’s Club James Steer, North Lima, Ohio will show slides on his recent trips to Israel, Arabian and Scandina vian Countries, according to an announcement by the program. committee of the Burnsville Men’s Club, at their regular meeting onj Monday night, June 25 at 7:00 p. m. in the Community Building. Wiley Blevins of Burnsville showed mineral specimens native to North Carolina at the last Men’s Club meeting. Services For Mrs. Simmons Mrs. Wood Simmons, 85, of the Celo community, died Thursday night in the home of a son, Arce mus, after a short illness. Services were held at 2:30 p. m. Saturday in Brown’s Creek Bap tist Church. The Rev. Ralph Mumpower of ficiated. Burial was in the Autrey "Cemetery. Pallbearers were Philip Sim-1 mons, Claude, David and John Young, Jack Powers, Arthur Caudle, Robert Kennedy and Richard Holllfield. Surviving in addition to the son are four daughters, Mrs. Walter Young of Hudson, Miss Sallie Simmons and Mrs. Robert Greg ory of Marion, and Mrs. Harold Gibbs off Rt. 5, Burnsville; and another son, Russell of Asheville; two sisters, Mrs. Laura Westall of Rt. 5, Burnsville and Mrs. Rita Byrd of Asheville; a brother, W. M. Westall of Burnsville; 10 grand children and 11 great-grandchild- ren. Services For Honeycutt Infant Michael D Honeycutt, six-day old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Honeycutt of Burnsville, died in an Asheville Hospital Tuesday morn ing. Services were held at 2:15 p. m. Wednesday in Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home. , The Rev. Dave Z. Jamerson officiated and burial was in the Honeycutt Cemetery. Surviving in addition to the parents are one brother, Marty, of the home; the maternal grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seth Honey cutt of Burnsville. Locals Mrs. Jeanne Crowgey of Tay lorsville is visiting her grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Proffitt of Burnsville. Mrs. Rush T Wray underwent surgery in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Asheville this week. Miss Peggy Jean Huskins will undergo surgery in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Asheville this week. Col. and Mrs. Sam Huskins, Jr. and children of Macon, Ga. are visiting his mother, Mrs. Sam J. Huskins, here this week. Col. Huskins is stationed at Robbins Air Force Base in Macon. Corp. Bill Huskins of the State Highway Patrol Headquarters in Raleigh is also visiting his mother here this week. Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Bailey will j leave Saturday for Spokane, Washington where they will visit Mrs. Bailey’s sister and will also go to Seattle to the World’s Fair. Mrs. Ethel Boone underwent surgery in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Asheville this week. Mr. Clarence Hunter and Mr. Dean Brown of Hampton, Va., are visiting friends and relatives here this week. THE YANCEY RECORD "Dedicated To Tike Progress Os Yancey County" Subscriptlon $2.50 Per Year I June 18, climaxing the 16th. an . nual North Carolina Rhododendron Festival held in Bakersville and on top of Roan Mountain. She was j crowned by Miss Gail Robertson Jof Spindale 1961-62 queen. First runnerup was Judith Bow er of Jefferson, second runnerup was Sheron Freeman of Asheville. Miss Barbara Deal of Lenoir was voted Miss Congeniality. The coronation ceremonjy cli maxed a three-day festival which began Thursday night with the selection of a junior queen in j Bakersville. I The festival came to a close j Saturday night with a coronation ball in Asheville City Auditorium. Members of the Bakersville Lions Club and Cosmic Club of Asheville sponsored the ball. The authentic figures on the at tendance last week-end are as follows: Friday, June 15, 500 per sons; Saturday, June 16, 2580 persons; Sunday, June 17, 6570 persons. Forest Service personnel attend ing were Assistant Regional For este:\ John Springs, Atlanta, Ga.; Forest Supervisor, Peter J. Han lon, North Carolina National For ests, Asheville; District Ranger, Earl Parsons, Chattahoochee Na tional Forests; District Ranger, Clark Sell, Cherokee National For ests; Fire Contra. Technician, Roy Dennis, North Carolina Na tional Forests; District Ranger, Dinnie Lambe/Cherokee Nation al Forests; District Ranger, Dick Bonyata, Florida National Forests, District Ranger, Maxie Gates, South Carolina National Forests; and District Ranger, John W. Chaffin, North Carolina National Forests. SUBSCRIBE TO The Record M1 jjfca *4j& . • * 'm 'fjpr f Jr YOU’LL HAVE TO WAIT, ELME R says Marine Corps Reserve Private Gary Carroll Boone of Bur nsville, North Carolina, as he takes time out from his regular occupat ion as a blacksmith to “shoe” a “mechanical mule” while fulfilling two weeks annual summer train ing with his ready Reserve unit at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Boone, a member of the 57th Rifle Company, Greenville, S. C., is a seventh generation direct descend ent of frontiersman Daniel Boone. (OFFICIAL U. S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO BY SGT. P. T. CUM MINGS) .iL ... * If " 4 r m i iwl^i«s3regaMßraßßßM»M | ; \y j&l, Mi k PICK * PICK a NORTH CAROLINA EGGS ONLY* . . . Steve Wilson, produce merch andiser and dairy buyer for Colonial Stores, holds the permanent display sign to be placed over the „refrigerated egg case in each of the seventy-nine Colonial Stores in North Carolina. The signs sup plied by the North Carolina Egg Marketing Association call atten tion to the fact that this large chain sells only eggs produced in North Carolina. ! *il LU6 • r‘ I E. B. Bailey, Educator, Dies At 60 Erskine B. Bailey, 60, of Green Mountain died Tuesday afternoon t in a local hospital after a lengthy j illness. Mr. Bailey was a member of 5 j East Yancey High School for the past three years and had taught in Campbell College at Buies j Creek. He was principal at sever al schools, including Mars Hill , for seven years, Clearmont High School in Yancey County for 16 years, and Bald Creek for two t years. , He was a member of Zion Bap , tist Church, Burnsville Men’s Club, The NCEA and National , Education Association. He was a j former member of Burnsville Lions Club. . Services were held at 2:30 p. m. , today (Thursday) in Zion Baptist Church. The Rev. Jesse Hughes and the Rev. E. G. Hall officiated. Burial was in Bailey Hill Cemetery. ! Pallbearers were Woodrow Ang ! lin, Burl Maney, Lyda Ray, Ford Bailey, Robert Howell, Bruce Phillips, Herbert Allen, Bobby Thomas and Janie Tutterow. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Gladys Honeycutt Bailey; three daughters, Mrs. Lee Wallace of Green Mountain, Mrs. Hershey ’ Hipps of Burgaw and Mrs. Robert Bengston of Asheville; four sons, ’ Edward of Pasadena, Tex., Earl of Smyrna, Ga., Claude of Burns ’ ville and John Bailey of Green Mountain; the mother, Mrs. D. C. Bailey of Green Mountain; one sister, Mrs. Everett Johnson of Green Mountain; two brothers, Yates Bailey of Bald Creek, and N. G. Bailey of Garden City, N. Y.; and 10 grandchildren. BURNSVILLE, C„ THURS BAY, JUNE 21, 1962 ■ - Pin I* . n—JM— ma* MI I .1— - - - - » - - -’3" ■ ■ Boone Completes Summer Training With Marine Corps Daniel Boone’s son has just completed two Weeks of annual : summer trainingj with the Marine ■ Corps Reserve at Camp Lejuene, : North Carolina, j ; He commented! before his de parture that he had “really en . joyed summer cfflnp” and that he i was . “really Impressed with the i base.’* Ihese words Were spoken by Gary Carroll B lone, a seventh generation descedant of one of America’s most legendary figures, Daniel Boone. Gary is a rileman with, the rank of private In the 57th ‘Rifle company Organ!ed Marine Corps' Reserve, Greenvflle, _ South Caro- 1 lina. The unit, 130 men strong, completed two bee ks of annual summer training at this vast Marin ■ base totay. As a civilian! Gary lives with his family and b a blacksmith by trade in his hohe town of Burns ville. N. C. “Blacksmithingl has been in the family since the!days of the first] Boone," Gary :ommented. “My father, Daniel, rins the shop now but when and if he retires I plan to follow in iiis footsteps and carry , on the family tradiion.” Gary started helling his father . in the shop when h: was 13 years ■ old. His father, Whi started when i he was 16, haa bea a smithy for . 47 years. i “To my knowledge there are [ only 13 blacksmith., in the coun , try," Gary stated. “I mean real smithys ones tljat use a fur nace, make their ovn horse shoes and forge the ntatelal.s they use.”| My father and 1 order our steel I and melt an d shape the metal to / fit the job at hand,” he said. Gary, related that while a young man, his father, then a corporal in the U. S. Cavalry, shod 7,000 horses. “And (bring World War II", Gary contiiued, “My father made more thai 11,000 hunting knives for sportanan and service men alike.” Gary explainec that the knives were made upo. special order and that only tH best Swedish tool steel was usd in their manu facture. “Dad still ma.es knives upor request", Gary says, “the detai going into each tnife determinin; its cost.” Gary was bon In Burnsville N. C., (pop. 1,34) 20 years ago on April 11, 194 and is one of six children. He Recalls how as a child his father fould prop him up on his knee, bhng out tije fam ily scrapbook and fell him bedtime stories about the “Greatest front iersman of them ill.” Gary graduated from East Yan cey High School here his favorite subject was jes, you guessed it American h tory. “I enjoyed reading about those early days and of course about Daniel,” Gary said. “My classmtes knew I was related to Daniel Boone but after awhile forgot it. I guess and I resumed being a regular person to them.” Burnsville, N.iC., is located some 400 miles from Camp Le jeune, and the tom Boone, N. C„ named after Danel Boone, is ap proximately 60 riles across the mountains from Etrnsville. When this reporter asked Gary why his family lied in Burnsville rather than Boons N. C., he re plied, “I don’t ki>w. I was born in Burnsville, m family lives there and there ire will stay, I guess”. Gary enjoys working with his hands and his hoi >ies include any thing that can b put together: “Just sort of a handyman"? I asked. “That’s rifct”. he replied. ( He also enjoys Waiting squirrels . and rabbits near is Smoky Moun- ( tain home. This raised the ques tion of Just how food a shot he was. “As far as the Marine Corps is concerned”, Gatf said, “they aren’t losing anyf sleep over my breaking any recfrds. I have t ') MemorialCollac i tion Receives New Additions The Memorial Collection in the Yancey County Public Library 1 1 which honors the late Mrs. J. 1 Frank Huskins has received sever , al additions this week. Two sisters , of Mrs. Huskins, Mrs. R. V. Day and Mrs. Harmie Briggs, have . I given the following fine books of •prose and poetry: the classics » “The Black Arrow” and “Treasure » Island” by Robert Lewis Steven son, "Adam Bede” by George r Eliot, “Tess Os The D'urbervilles" i by Thomas Hardy, and “Sense And Sensibility” by Jane Austen; as well as these standard collec tions of poetry: The Complete Poetrical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Portable Emerson, ! The Oxford Book of English Verse, j and The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. The memorial collection has been planned and established by Judge! J. Frank Huskins. It is already enriching the county library and | will mean much to both young and old readers of the county. Books and recordings in the col lection will be'available for regu lar lending after July 1. As books are received at the library, other donors and titles will be announced. The library at Burnsville is open on Tuesdays, 2-5 p. m.; Wednes . days, 9-1, 2-5; Saturday mornings, 1,9-12- 1. ~ (film Sponsored ; By u FriendsjOf 1 Library Shown June 28 I A film sponsored by the Yancey County Friends of the Library ! will be shown at the library in Burnsville on Thursday evening, June 28th at 8 p. m. The film, EGYPT AND ISRAEL is a report by Edward R. Mur row on the Arab-Israeli dispute. It begins with a brief review o' the geography of the region, ther shows the historical, political and cultural heritage of the nations People from all walks of life - frorr refugees and Israeli fai mers to national leaders are inter viewed for their views. The filrr s 90 minutes long and was mad in 1953, but still provides th' >asic information for understand ■ig the great undersolved conflic if the Middle East. In view of the. length of the dm. the Friends of the Library lave planned a break between -eels for refreshments. The public s invited to attend this film in the study-discussion series. little difficulty shooting with sights that have elevation and windage adjustments. Just give me that ’ole Kentucky windage”, he said, “and I’ll hit what I’m aimin’ at”. The conversation drifted to the future of the blacksmith profess ion. I asked Gary what he planned to do if and when horses outgrow their need for shoes. “Oh, shoeing horses is really in cidental now”, he replied. “We shoe an occasional riding horse or farm mule, but the biggest call for blacksmithing comes from people interested in having furni ture made". “Furniture”?, I said inquisitiv ely. “Yes”. He answered. “Wrought iron furniture for patio use, wrought iron lamps and wrought iron gates and hingesare our big gest work orders at the present”. "And”, I added, “A little safer than shoeing mules, I would imagine”. “Well, I’ve only been kicked once”, Gary stated. “And that was by a mule. They’re harder to shoe because they’re so jumpy and quick-tempered”. “Well, I guess that about does it”, I said. “I have all the inf or-., matlon I need”. I thanked Gary for his time, we shook hands and “Crunch”! Darned If he didn’t leave his brand on me. Price Per Copy Five Cents >3 - T- Rev. Finley To Be Installed as Pastor Here The Rev. Woodard Nelson Fin ley, and wife, will arrive in Burns- 1 , | ville on June 27th to assume his *i - . I®'/;"-r I I Hi 9 lgHi| ■ B 1 mm,Mm * . - REV'. WOODARD N. FINLEY duties as pastor of the Presby terian church here. Mr. Finley who graduated at Thor Research | Center Awards Certificate To Hensley sented with a in Farm Mechanics, awarded by .he Thor Research Center for Setter Farm Living, Huntley, 111., for showing the greatest farm mechanics ability among the grad uating seniors of East Yancey J High School. Neil C. Hurley, Jr., founder off che Thor Research Center, a non-1 profit farm research organization i located in northern Illinois, es- ] tablished the Farm Mechanics : Award to honor the member of | each senior high school class [ deemed the most outstanding in his proficiency to apply farm i mechanics to the effective use of j arm shop equipment and tools, j m the maintenance of farm mach- 1 nery and in building projects to rovide improved farm living and operating efficiency. The '(■lectio is made by the student’s ocational agriculture teacher, Herbert Allen. Recognition of outstanding high school vo-ag is part of the Thor| Research Center’s program sor 1 oonoring vo-ag teachers, out-1 landing agriculturists, and others j who have contributed to farm progress. The Center also works closely with high schools, col-! leges, 4-H Clubs and Future Far-1 mers of America groups in semi nars and is the site of a Model Farm Shop which features more than 2.500 tools. The Thor Research Center de votes much time to the study of new methods in mechanization and modernization of the farm. Hurley, board chairman and presi dent of Thor Power Tool Com pany, founded the non-profit cen ter in 1956. Lions Hold lr stallation Service Installation services were held at the Lions Club meeting Thurs day night, June 14. Past Deputy Governor, Yates Bailey of BakJ Creek installed the new officers. Officers for the coming year in eluded Raymond D. Shepherd, Jr., ] president; Jack Kelly, first vice president; John Chaffin, second vice-president; Robert Wright, third vice-president; E. L. Beeson, j secretary; Herman Bostian, treas-l urer; M. P. Zuvtr, lion tamer; O. D. Bailey, tail twister; E. L. Dillingham, Hubert Justice, Ralph Peterson and L. G. Deyton, direc tors. Mr. Bailey made a talk on the .Lions Clubs in the county and sug gested that they take part in more civic projects for the betterment of the community in addition to their regular blind activities work. NUMBER FORTY-FOUR . Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, ■ Louisville, Ky. this June has ac cepted a call from the Burnsville j Presbyterian Church and will be , installed as pastvr at a service in the church at 7:30 p. m. Sunday, July Ist. Rev. Finley is the grandson of the late Dr. Woodard E. Finley, who was at one time Principal of the Stanley McCormick School and pastor of the Burnsville Pres byterian Church. He is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Ted Finley, missionaries in Xocenpich, Yuca tan, Mexico. P.ev. Finley received his high school education at Polytechnic High School, Riverside, California and Warren Wilson College, Swan rianoa. In 1956 he received his AA degree from Warren Wilson College where he was President of the Men’s Student Govern ment. In 1958 he received a B. A. degree from Guilford College, where he also served as president of Men’s Student Government. His four years of seminary train ing has been at Louisville Pres byterian Seminary where he re ceived his bachelor’s degree. While there he served' as Vice Modera tor of the Student Body. He has served his ministerial internship in the First Presbyterian Church cf St. Joseph, Missouri.. For sevpn summers tie served as counselor in summer camps in New YOTK, Colorado and North Carolina. During the summer of 1959 he did . field research in West Virginia for > the Southern Appalachian Studies. In August, 1959, Rev. Finley was J married to Miss Barbara Coreen | Case, of Charlotte, North Carolina. ' who is also a graduate of Warren Wilson and Guilford Colleges. 1 A cordial invitation is extended I to the public to attend the instal lation service at the Presbyterian | Church on the evening of July Ist. Faye Harris Wins ’Teachers Contest Miss Faye Harris, second grade teacher of Harris Elementary School, Spruce Pine, formerly of Yancey County w r on first place in the 1962 Silver Bear Teachers Con test. This entitles Miss Harris to a three-day expense paid trip to New York. The contest is sponsor ! ed by the Silver Bear Manufactur ing Company of paper school supplies. i Miss Harris plans to. go to New Yon: for the 3 day all expense paid trip the latter part of June. I She is the second teacher from Harris Elementary School to win this trip. Mrs. Tillie Brooks won several years ago. Mrs* McCurry Celebrates Birthday On Sunday, June 10, Mrs. Dem mie McCurry of Micaville cele brated her 76th. birthday by at tending a pl.'.nic dinner given in her honor at the Carolina Hem lock picnic ground?. The occasion was arranged and sponsored by her close relatives and friends. Those attending included Mr. and Mrs. Guy McCurry of Mica ville, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Mc- Curry of Asheville, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mayberry and family of Celo, Miss Tina Byrd of Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone, Mr. and Mrs. Brant Chrisawn, and Mr. and M**s. Joe Sherertz and son of Micaville. iiisiwlt OH H.C. HIGHWAYS *. RALEIGH The Motor Vehi cles Department’s summary of traffic deaths through 10 A. JYL Monday, June 18, 1962: KILLED TO DATE 512 KILLED To Date Last Year 484
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