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VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN "ifubsevtotiQn 52.30 P*r gear BURNSVILLE, N. C.. TOURS DAY - - rtr - IT - t — . “ ~ -wr Burnsville Native Higgins Becomes Record Publisher J. Tom (Tommy) Higgins, a 25- year-old native of Yancey County became this week the editor and publisher of The Yancey Record. Higgins, son of Mr. and MrsT Milton Higgins of Burnsville, comes to the Record from the Durham Morning Herald, where he was associate sports editor. He previously was a- sports re porter for the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel, and prior to that with the Asheville Citizen- Leaving World Os Sports : Brians Back Fond Memories u a By: Tom iHigglns 1 When I left my desk in. the sports department of the Durham! Herald for the final time last •week, I had a feeling of apprehen sion probably not too much un like that, which the veteran ath ...... tote senses when he has played his final game. Although the departure was made without regrets, there was a gnawing pain that warned that, life at the axis cf the sports | world would be missed. Not, in particular, the contests themselves. For a sportswriter, the basket at the buzzer which' won' which game or the decisive long touchdown passes or home runs eventually become hopelessly enmeshed. But the cast. ... it is indelibly cast on the brain. 'Who could forget Horace '(Bones) McKinney, bouncing his unbelievably angular frame off the bench and striding the side lines, exhorting his Wake Forest College basketball team in a fash ion that would have made even Billy Sunday envious. . . Or “Sunny Jim” Tatum, the late University of North Carolina foot ball coach, standing in the middle of a busy street and commandeer ing a police car to get himself and two sportswriters to an air port in,,time to catch a plane. ' Or Arnold Palmer, the man who has forearms like drivers on a locomotive and who candidly admits that the word “impossible” Isn’t in his vocabulary when it comes to playing golf, noncha lantly i sinking puts on which thousands of dollare are riding. . . Or Don Cardwell, the normally affable major league pitcher from Winston-Salem, settling a grudge with one searing, vengeance-filled performance that brought him baseball immortality: a no-hitter N. C. Has An Unwanted Record: Traffic Deaths Are Up Aaain FROM THE DURHAM HERALD North Carolina has broken its record for highway deaths in a single year. If these unfortunate persons and the tens of thousands of others who were “only” injured on the highways had been struck down by a disease, the public outcry would be as awesome as the death fig ures. As it is. though, 1962's grisly j record will be shrugged off by I many persons and ignored by even more. Worse than that, a sizable per centage of Tarheel motorists will actually fight the remedies for this bloody sdourge. They will balk at both 'the sane driving habits and the tighter highway safety laws that can prevent new bloody high way records. Many motorists will insist on the right to believe they are good enough drivers to take repeated risks on the highways. They will fight stronger safety laws as though they were bills of attainder invoked in the name of George HI. ’ “Convenience” and the “neces sity” of licensing every man. wm TO THE YANCEY UNITED FUND ~ THE YANCEY RECORD Times. i Higgins was born in Burnsville ' in 1937 and attended both elemen- 1 tary and high school here. He was editor of both the school paper l and yearbook, and- was also a, participant in three varsity sports '—-basketball, haseball and soft ball. He was a starter on the Burns ville basketball tea mk~which woni the county tournament in 1954 1 and the Toe River Conference | , against the St. Louis Cardinals. . . i j Or Eddie Darrell, the rotund, I self-styled "golf detective" who (makes owners of “All You Can •Eat” establishments wince or ’ else bolt their doors when they see him approaching. . . Or Billy Packer, the mighty mite of Wake Forest’s great bas ketball teams of the past few years, bawling out giants , twice his size and prodding them—and i thus,-the team—to national promi- J nence. . . Or Argentine Rocca, the wrestler, who acts like an ape in the ring, but who is really an articulate col lege graduate who holds several degrees. . . . Or Norman Snead, the bashful ex-Wake Forest quarterback who surprisingly took charge of the Washington Redskins and made fans stop saying "Ugh” and startl saying “How.” 1 Or the sportswriting crew un doubtedly one of the most colorful clans in the country, bluff inf and cussing their way to stories . . . or else hiding their “scoops” with the slyness of a CIA agent. . . The list could go on and on— It’s far too long to record here. Nevertheless, none will be for gotten. All will be missed. Still, it’s great to be home. I sincerely hope that our associa tion will prove fruitful for ail of us, but more important still, fruit ful for our town and county. woman and fool to drive these . are the sort of arguments used|, against effective safety measures. | In the name of convenience. North], Carolina leaves vehicles on the highway that menace everyone who approaches them. Countless 1 juries, prosecutors and judges give| drunk drivers the benefit of every, doubt because they are loath to 1 take away the driving privilege | even though it has been grossly ■ abused. The driving privilege is cham pioned as a “right” even for young drivers in an age group , I H a.C.tIttVAYS I 1 ItALTOOH The (Motor Ve- • hides Department’s summary of ’ traffic deaths through 10 A. M. • Monday, December 31, 1962: -j KILLED TO DATE 1307 , KILLED To Date Last Year 1255 "Dedfeated To Tke Progress Os Yancey County* ! title in 1935. * ! Higgins enrolled at Brevard ; College in 1955. At Brevard he also edited the sports section of | , both the school paper and year- 1 book while again competing in ■ three sports.—basketball, baseball and track. He began his newspaper career in 1957 as a reporter for the | Canton Enterprise. I After three months at Canton, he moved to the sports department ; j of the Asheville Times for a year, | then was employed for four years •by the Winston-Salem papers. He ! had been in Durham 10 months ! when he decided to return home to Yancey County. I Higgins’ assignment at Asheville , was the Western North Carolina j prep sports beat. At Wlnston-Sal 'cm he specialized In golf writing, edited the papers’ outdoor page and also covered Atlantic Coast Conference athletics. | In Durham, he continued to cov ! er the golf beat and the ACC and ' also wrote a thrice-weekly col -1 umn, “Along the Sidelines.” Last fsll he realized an ambition of • long standing when he was assign ed to cover the University of Nor th Carolina football team. During his career Higgins has covered several of the southern sports world’s “classic” events, including the famed Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga., the World softball tournament in Clearwater, Fla., the now deft met Dixie Classic basketball tourna . ment and the ACC basketball • tournament. j Higgins’ association with the sports scene was so close that it, even carried over to the wedding] ceremony which united he and the j former Caroline Plemmons of i Winston-Salem. Wake Forest Col-1 lege basketball Coach Horace (Bones) McKinney, who is also a J Baptist minister, performed the i ceremony. ■ The Higgins have cue child, a | son, J. Tom (Chip). Jr., 2, Cane River Club To Present Play Cane River High School’s Dra matic Club, “The Red and Gray Players," will present a hillbilly comedy in three acts, “A Feud ing Over Yonder," Jan. 10 at 7:30 p. m. in the school auditor ium. The play is extremely funny and' Should be enjoyed hy the whole family. Admission is 50 oents for students and 75 cents for adults. which accounts for just 15 per cent of the driving public but is involved in more than 27 per cent of the nation’s fatal accidents. I It is not an accident that the I only encouraging part of North Carolina’s 1962. highway death I record comes from the six-county | Operation Impact area where ah Intensive program of law enforce ment and safety engineering is in progress. Though the experiment has barely began, It is showing what other similar experiments have shown-. The deadly dangers of highway travel can be reduced. Tighter laws, law enforcement highway engineering, and improv ed signals won’t make highway safety automatic. The human fac tor can always produce an acci dent under the safest conditions. Out with tighter laws applied through a statewide Operation Im pact and backed up with more uniform treatment of traffic law violators by the courts, the pre dictable causes of accidents can be checked. So too can the grow ing death toll. jm in i,mi —- CELEBROTES BIRTHDAY . Mrs. Edmonia Horton, pictured above on the 100th observance of her birth in 1962, begins another J century January 4, • jMrs. Horton Begins 1 2nd Century Friday j Mrs. Edmonia _ Horton will be* j gin her second century Friday, a distinction no other Yancey 1 Countian can claim. Mrs. Horton, who has made her home in the Paint Gap community for all her*Mol years, is, unoffi cially, the oldest person now re siding in the county. The honor apparently fell to her Tuesday upon the death of Mrs. Savannah Elizabeth Gouge at Rt. 5, Burnsville. Mrs. Gouge was 103 j Mi’s. Horton’s health, excellent' for her first 100 v°ars, is failing ' 'now ar.d she is -confined to her bed. | ‘A grand-daughter. Mrs. Annice| Maney, shares the residence with her. Mrs. Horton was born just eight months after the siege at Fort Sumter, S. C„ started the Civil View. The daughter of Na- Club Schedules To Be Published Have a tough time contacting all the members of your organi zation when an important meeting is coming up? You can solve this problem by ] either dropping a card or phoning, the Record. Beginning next week there will be a weekly front page section—“ The Yancey Cal endar.” Stork Grounded? Despite the beautiful weather of the past few days, the stork has apparently been grounded as far as Yancey County Is concerned. At Record press time Thursday, the county was unofficially still awaiting its frst newcomer of 1963. A check with the Yancey Hospi tal revealed that no babies had ' been born there during the New Year. A hospital spokesman said it • was very improbable that a baby i had been delivered within the • bounty—but outside the hospital— since Jan. 1. I’ than and Elizabeth Stewart Hor ton. Mrs. Horton says tl at she can recall the influx of the so called “carpet beggars” into the south in the chaotic, years follow ing the war. She married William Her ton on May 3, 1879. They had three child ren—Frederic, Alvin and Estell all now deceased. Her husband died in the 73rd year of their mar riage, only two years short of the i extremely infrequent diamond an i niversary. Mrs. Horton has six living grand children. In addit-ion to Annice ! Macfy they are: Lee Maney and ' Mafra Maney Robinson, both of Rt. 3, Burr.sv “e; Grace Maney] Spires, Atlanta: Mary Alice Man-! ey. Black Mountain; and Margar et Maney Clarke, San Bernandino, Calif. She also has eight great grand children and seven great great I grandchildren. j United Fund Honor Roll 100 Per Cent Contributing ‘ \ In the following organizations 10G per coat at emplayees have contributed to the 1962 campaign of the Yancey Uaited Fuai. ASCS Office County Agent’s Office » The Northwestern Bank Carolina Tire Co. Doctor’s and Hospital Staff > . -4,; C-, Farmers Home Administration ;| South Toe School Oak Crest School Town of Burnsville Employees Roberts Chevrolet-Buick, Inc. French Broad Eldc. Mem. Carp. _ &L Patrolman Rector Moved To McDowell i —...-........ ! Veteran £tate Highway Patrol | man A. W. (Arnold) Rector’ last ■ month was : transferred from Yan ,cey to McDowell County. ■; j , Rector beqame somethin* of an . exception in the Highway Patrol,! ' which normally rotates its men j I ~ j Presbyterians 1 Slate Meeting | In Spruce Pine i The quarterly meeting of the Presbyterian Men of Mitchell and Yancey Counties is scheduled Jan. 9 in the F.rst’ Presbyterian .Church of Spruce Pine. I : A dinner at 7p. m. will Jet the meeting under way. j Program arrangements are being made by E. Mi Sifigleton, president of the Men of the Spruce J Pine Church. The Rev. Joseph B. j MacLeod. Director of ‘ Christian 1 Education for the Hoiston PreSby | tery will speak and show slides iof the Presbytery's camp a: I Banner Elk. Officers elected fur 1968 at the last meeting are: President. Charles Edwards, Secretary and Treasurer, Lester Holcombe, Vice- President, Fred Anglin. Edwards and Holcombe are both I members of the Paint Gap Church. I Anglin belongs to tha Burnsville Church. .... Mars Hill Edges Cane River Boys Cane River split, a high school basketball doubleheader frith' Mars Hill Tuesday night in the Cane River gymnasium. •; The Cgne River girls triumphed by 30-26, but the boys were beat en, 48-47, in a game that was hotly-contest throughout. ’ * r ■ The Rebels are idle Friday night, but their cross-county rtre als, the East Yancey Panthers, are scheduled to travel to Tipton Hill tor a dotihleheader. GIRLS GAME MARS HILL (28)—Edwards &, Ramsey 4, Peek 11, Flagle T; Boss I. Allen 3, Ledford l, HenSley, B. Peek. • ■ CANE RIVER (30)—Burton 4, ■McCurry 15, Ballew ; 2 4 • Evans 9, J. Ballew, Mathis, Qrindstaif; Morrow. ’ % L. Halftime: Cane River -~f BOYS GAME MARS HILL (48 )M3aus 7, Dick erson 13, Buckner,-11, Green 17, Anderson, Hembree, • Rayi CANE RIVER f<7)—Byrd 6' Proffitt 10, Fox 7/ Smith t, Whil 'son 18, Edwards. Styles, McDowell I Holftime: Mars Hill 22-20. approximately every two years. He came to Yancey m August at 1952—this was his first station— • and remained here until his trens flpz just before Christmas, j The Buncombe County native J was especially papular with the teenage: < of the county, and gained recognition when the Students at Cane River High School dedicated & year book Jo him. Patrol officials in Raleigh said they couhi not remember any sueh smilar honor being be stowed upon a patrolman. Rector’S wife. Jo, and two dan gbteis are malaUining their resi dence in Burnsville, but the fam ily plan lo mov& to Marion soon. R: R’. 'M.Kinney, a McDowell Cboniy native, is now the patrol- I'rnafi stationed in Yancey. Whether or not a second trooper . will be sent here has not been J determined. Be Careful! There’s Danger Os Frostbite Coldweather is back again and with -it ..comes the health hazards ■ that accompany subfreezing tem peratures.. An ever present winter danger, is frostbite. Frostbite is, naturally, more of a problem in the northern states, but' even in most of the south there are occasional periods of weather coid enough to nip unpro tected noses and fingers. Frostbite cap be very painful for a period. can result in ampu tations. and can leave the victim hypersensitive to cold for the rest of his. life. In some wpors the ' damage of frostbite is similar io a bum. .Injuries to both deep add shallow tissue are compar able. First degree frostbite, like 1 sunburn, is an injury to surface Skin. it .is likely to attack ears, toes, lingers, cheeks or nose. Sec ‘ ond -degree frostbite produces ■ buyers as in second degree bums. l ln third ...degree frostbite the damage is deep and much of the frozen part may be lost. ■Prevention is the best protection against frostbite.. This means being .... properly dressed in warm clothing, waterproof shoes and heavy, dry socks, and with good covering for bead and ears. Keep clothing dry from both outside : moisture , and . perspiration and avoid tight... clothing or garters that may restrict circulation. Motorists traveling across eoun ■ try in subfreezing weather are ad |yised to have heavy clothing and Shoes.in the car, in the event that there should be a breakdown and it becomes necessary to hike for help. If your auto is stalled in snow or ice same distance from help, it may be »fer to stay in the car than to walk a long distance in vextrerife cold with clothing that is J too light, The first signs of frostbite are "pins and needles” prickly feel ing and then numbness. The ef fected part will turn white or gray and later red. First aid possibilities are limit ed. Thawing of the tissue as soon ’* as possible’ fs the major considera tion, and this can best be accom plished by getting the patient in doors Into a warm room. Treat the frozen part ' with gentleness and do not rub or massage U. The old technique of rubbing snow or . ,ice water on the frozen part does more harm than good by (May ing thawing. Medical treatment is needed promptly in frostbite. Control of the often severe pain n required and antibiotics and antitetanus in jections may be needed if the skin will erentunQj, atougb "ctT* SUBSCRIBE ...» 4 ttliwri
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