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—— ; M , - - VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN Subscription $2.50 For Year BURNSVILLE N~7TI*SuRS - .»—_ U s DAY ' FEBRUARY 7, 1963 Price Per Copy Ftr* Ceuta NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE . i'll’ "■•/• MU X 9f n^Mj^£tMjK*raS«K i Cife>' jjP /r ' 7»e»v4|G r, .Sfc|fJta **-• ■*. ~q, v r ~ tugU jg*.t: ! -;• . ■ ' ~ •“' ' . ■ .' \ fyau iAeti? Recognize this village? It’s prominent in Yancey Coun ty today . . . two of the county's most heavily traveled highways' intersect there . . . it’s the site of one of the county’s largest schools . . . It’s Micaville. This picture, donated by Mrs. A. N. Thomas of River Rouge. Mich., was shot shortly after th? turn of the century from a spot! west of the village (near the right of-way for the new bypass). The large building prominent in 1 Summer Schoa! Session Scheduled At Cufbwiiee CULLWHEE Plans are near ing completion for the 1963 sum mer term at Western Carolina ment from Professor W. B. Harrill. siunmer school director. The first i session is set for June 10 and July | 12, and the second will run from; July 15 to Aug. 16. In addition to its regular aca- j demic program for undergrad uates and graduate, WCC offers several special features that attracted nation-wide attention. These include a program for both highly gifted fifth and sixth grade children and intellectually superior high school students. This program Yancey Calendar FRIDAY 10 a. m.—Open meeting for dis cussion and planning of proposed County coutrhouse-jail; 7:30 p. m.—Basketball, Cane River at > East Yancey. SATURDAY 8 p. m.—Friends c f the Library meeting, Burnsville Public Library TUESDAY 1:30 p. m.—Pleasant Grove Home Demonstration Club, Com munity Building; 7:30— Cranberry at East Yancey and Cane River at Hot Springs. WEDNESDAY 1:30 p. ’m—Arbuckle Home De monstration Club, Community Building; 4 p. m.—Yancey County Red) Cross " Chapter, Cour»‘ty Courthouse. THURSDAY 1:30 p. m.—Green Mountain Home Demonstration Club, home of Mrs. Lloyd Hoilman; 7:30 p. m —Georges Pork Home Demon stration Club, home of Mrs. Dean Wilson. FRIDAY (FEB. 15; 2 p. m.—Burnsville Home De monstration Club, home of Mrs. Julia Gillespie; 7:30 p. m—Bas ketball. Crossnore at East Yan cey and Cane River at Spruce Pine. _ • ■ «. e. RALEIGH The Motor Ve hicles Department’s summary oi traffic deaths through 10 A. M. Monday, February 4, 1963: Killed To Date 99 Killed To Date Last Year 86 THE YANCEY RECORD j the middle of tOie nature is a stor' which was owned in those days b j J Alex Silvers and others. It was j later owned and operated by Shelby Hall. The main section o: the building still stands. That wag on trail in front of the store is now U. S. 19E. The structure tc the left of the huge store was a blacksmith’s j J shop first run by Jim Wilson an 1 j I later by Murpby and others, i | Th;s spot Is new occupied by the j | Dellinger-Silver , and Lee Robinson | in a sense, constitutes a “school , within a school, ar*d is correlated j with other phases of the 1- V 1 l "' rrrTrTV ‘ “wa***"' * edueatioft/ A new course in the curriciflm Background of Arithmetic, is de j sighed for elementary teachers who are changing to modern ap proach in teaching ar: hmetic. It,- was.added because o? popular-de mand. Following past successful pro cedure. WCC will offer a number of short courses of two-weeks duration, which will cover a wide range of acdemic areas. Twenty three such courses have been de finitely set, and others are •in the making. One feature of WCC’s summer school which has proven to be pop ular is that an entire family can participate if they wish to do so The college operates a demonst ration school for children from first grade through rioqst ofr the high school subjects stu dents mostly are fronr "Surrounding counties who commute by school bus, the school is open to the children of visiting faculty and adults who are enrolled at the college. Professor Harrill said t hat a di versified schedule of recreation and entertainment is planned, for which the college camp, at Lake Thorpe will be available. A full schedule of campus events, sight seeing trips, and visits to places of interest in the region, will offer summer school participaants a i variety of extra-curricular activi- I vities. Bee Log Faces Heavy Schedule Bee Log Elementary’s basket ball teams enter the second half of their schedule Friday (Feb. 30) in good position to capture champ ionships in both the boys and girls divisions. The boys have a 4-1 record and are tied with Burnsville for the lead. The girls are 5-1, and are in second place behind unbeatin Micaville. * - Janet Cox and Lois McCurry .are the leading scorers while David McCurry and James Arrowocd have paced the scoring for the boys. The boys face a busy schedule t within the next week, playing at • Bald Creek Friday and at Sou h Toe on Tuesday. The girls play 1 Burnsville at Bee Log Wednes -3 day. A “Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey County" stores. * J. D. Marsh built the house at the right. It, too, yet stands and is owned by his daughter, Mrs. W. A. Hutchins. The building in the left fore ground was a case owned and operated by Mis. Adda Hyder. Believe h_jp;. -®ot .that white straak through the picture—jg j Crabtree Creek, which today is ; .unify half. as .large. .The creek | was almost frozen over at the j time the photo was made. Feed Grain Signup Time Is Underway RALEIGH—-The signup period.! for coni and sorghum crops undei^j. ; Mart® 22, A.' P. Hasseltr -Jrr. *arr-- cutive Director for the Agriciil tural Stabilisation and Conservat ion Slate committee, announced : Thursday. The signup period will apply to : 1933-crop acreages of barley, corn, 1 and grain sorghums. Fall seeded wheat was signed up under the I wheat stabilization program dur ing the period ended Dec. 14. I Under the two programs, Has sell explained, farmers help bring production into line with needs by - wheat and feed grain acreage to approved conservation uses. The early signup dates will give farmers and farm servicing industries an opportunity to make early plans for The coming crop year. As outlined by Hassell, the main provisions of the. 1963 feed grain program are: (1 > voluntary participation, (2) acreage diversion of not less than 20 percent of the aase acreage (1959-60* as adjust ed, <3> payments to be made on acreage diverted from feed grains Ito soil-conserving uses, and (4) advance” payments, and (5) price support to cooperators on the nor mal production of acreages planted to feed grains. Barnett Fc:rJly Keeps Growing The Ray Barnetts of Relief, Rt. 1, have gone four-up on the chap who figured that kids came “cheaper by the dozen.’’ i Mr. and Mrs. Barnett became last Friday the parents of a dau ghter, Mable. The newcomer is their sixteenth. Baby Mable, a 7Vi - pounder 1 was born in the Urquhart Clinic at ■ Higgins in Yancey County. 1 All the Barnett’s children are ; living and are : brine. 1 They are: Josephine, 21; Tony, 20; Zula, 19; Tr’da, 18; Coy, 16: * Zora, 15; Clay, 14; Owen, i 3; j Opal, 11; Emibert, 10; Francis, 9; j Barbara Kay, 8; Noah, 6; Linzy, e 3; Oma Lee, 1. rtowever, the Barnetts have not e been able to achieve a feat that ,t both their parents pulled. Both Mi', h and Mrs. Barnett are twins. . y Barnett is a farmer and, like his ! * wife, has lived in the Relief sec tion all his life. Public Meeting is Set Friday On Courthouse-Jail Proposal BlocdiVisit Slated Here On Fdb. 20 The Red Crops' .“Bloodmobile” is scheduled toms it-. Yancey coun ty Feb. 20. \«? * Headquarters tvUl be established in the First Baptist Church in Burnsville from jt—s:3o p. m. The quota. for|{he county (based on the county’s §r -;ei this trip is 100 pints. -E An organizational meeting to lay plans for the visit will be held Feb. 13 at 4 p.- 4 in; in the court room at the eftunty courthouse. , Carlie Rice of Burnsville, Blood mobile chairman, and Mro. Evelyn Pate, chairman of the local ' chapter of the RIS Cross, will be iilCTnnr ft a Officials are punWiprtßE' strn-~ . this time to meet the quota. . ‘-‘We've beenj-.hwowjbefore,” said Bn* TminchalfS-bioodmobile vice-chairman, “but we’ve never quite made it over the top.” Mrs. Rhinehort reminded Yan cey Countians of,the slogan: “It's too late to give- blood when you need it—give new.” A coiuity-widg;: i|W. Cross meet ing was held - courthouse F. i) Mrs. Pate iptreltaced Mrs. Ruth j tt-,1..i...r. ™.i-_.i tisF-Regrarrai ktT Asheville, and Mrs. Frances Koeth/ of Atlanta, Director of Education/ for the Southeastern Area. Mrs. Koeth addressed the group and offered suggestions about the blood program. - Labor Sirvey Set In Mars -fill - ( A labor surve. in Which Yan eey Countians ii'e been invited to participate ill be conducted Friday (Feb. fj and Saturday (Feb. 9) at the Immunity Center in Mars Hill. It is contemn ed that a sew-! ing plant will bponstructed near Mars Hill and fpresentalives of the company V supervise the survey. ! Applications M be taken from women only ( the following jobs: sewing ijhine operators, trimmers, inspers and pressers. William Powf spokesman for the Mars Hill velopment Com mittee, said tl his organization cannot yet divu the name of the company intere in building the plant, but that e have examin ed its employ: structure thor oughly and hi found it to be i excellent.” j j rv—, *5 s, r ii'ts. : 1 Durham V tal and preside,,* .*, ~ „ . 31 tTK3 Association overnor met wit h T „ . Ca s, olina Heart in Raleigh to kick off the*”*l “ eart Pun * ***** Campaign rt the Heart As ***“ Februai \ fund raising and comn srvice programs. ‘ s research, education - ' .. . * * REPRESENTS YANCEk „ . _ .. , . , ... , .. . . . .Mark W. Bennett (above) this week began his second term in tK. ... , „ „ ... ~,, House as representative of Yancey County. Bennetts son, “Mark.,, , _ , . ... .. . „ . .. . "is in Raleigh with his father, serving as one of the ten page bo. . . „ in the State H„uso. v. . • .-‘T I Bonoral Auenhty In New State Voose )| BY TIIAD EURE ,j N. c. Secretary of State I General Assembly facts: j | The 1933 General Assembly of I North Carolina the state’s! 125th— convened Wednesday (Feb. 6) in Raleigh. . . It w'as the first to convene and hold its sessions in the new State House. The first session to con-' vene in the Capitol was on Nov., 16, 1840, during the administration of Gov. E. B. Dudley (the old ‘- me House burned in 1831 ). The longest sessions were in 1931 and 1955, each lasting 121 legislative days (exclusive of - Eundays and days abandoned bv 'joint resolution>. The 1955 session covered the longest period of time. . . Prior lo 1957, the General As sembly convened in January rath-I er than February. . . Governor! Sanford is the 93rd citizen to hold the post. . . Five women will serve in the ‘63 General Assembly, equalling a record. . . First woman to serve was Miss Lillian Exum Clement. She represented Buncombe County in 1921. . . j Oldest member of the i.„ I ate is Claude Currie of Din. B*”' 8 *”' j who is 72. . . Currie also is*™. etmor senator in terms of tenure | this being his tenth. . . Youngest senate member is 36-year-old Thomas W. Seay of Rowan. Oldest member of the House u 1 Jchn W. Umstead, Jr„ 73, o! Orange. . . Umstead and George j R- Uzzell of Rowan have each served 14 terms in the House. bu‘ neither continously. Youngest member of the House ,is Thomas E. Bebber, 25 nf 1 Alexander. .. ' ’ 01 Duplication of names in tiu I current assembly Morgar j ( Cleveland and Harnett); Bennett I Cartaret and Yancey t; Brit I 1 J°bnson and Robeson >; Evam j (Chowan and - Mecklenburg•: Johnson i Allegheny and Duplan): i McMillan (Robeson and Wake); Ramsey (Madison and Person): i West (Cherokee and Clay); Will iamson (Brunswick and Colum bus); Woodard (Northampton and Wilson) . . . Previous legislative record of Senate: 17 were in 1961 Senate, him llfni.A : inn. .. two were in 1961 House, 71 have served in previous sessions and A j are new members. . Previous legislative record of House: 72 were in 1961 House, six have served in previous sessions and 42 are new members . There are 48 Democrats and two Republicans in the Senate, 99 De mocrats and 21 Republicans in the House. Micaville Plays Burnsville Friday Micaville Elementary’s strong basketball teams are scheduled to meet Burnsville at Micaville Fri day (Feb. 8) in a crucial basket ball doubleheader. The Micaville girls sire unbeat en, and their first place standing will be at stake. Burnsville’s boys are in a similar position, being tied with Bee Log for the lead. Johnny Hughes led Micaville to a 31-29 victory over South Toel Toe last week, scoring 15 points. I The girls, meanwhile, tripped Clearmont 23-2 as Idnda Smith set the pace with eight points. Architect Will Show Drawings An open meeting on the pro posed construction of a r.ew, com courthouse-jail for Yan iey tounty has been sot for 10 a. f*' /* Yida y 'Feb. 8i in the court £oofii of the present courthouse in ■ttrnsville. T’he County Board of Commiss .oners set the session Monday dur ing their regularly scheduled meet ing. Meeting with the commissioners, local members of the bar associa tion and leaders of the project will be Henry Gaines of the Six Asso ciates Architects of Asheville. Gaines has drawn a set of plans or the proposed building, and will exhibit them Friday. The drive for the new building *s based on the assumption that the federal government will grant -66, per cent of the necessary con struction funds from an appropria tion made by the last Congress to stir employment in depressed areas. When the plans have been final ized and assurances received from the federal government, the com missioners are expected to call a vote to determine issuance of bonds to cover the county’s share will be approved, i Burnsville attorney Bill Atkins, one of the leaders of the project, said Thursday that if the proposed building becomes a reality, it will probably be located on the site occupied by the present court house. There had been some discussion ♦ placing the building on a new but land costs have proved 3rolll “ive, said Atkins. The courthouse and the Jail, wh:ch . located several hund ied yards east of the court build mg. were built X 1908 and tave become insufficient. Several county agencies are u &V L- 1008 ted -afK Privately-owned buildings and 'the county is paying several hundred dollars per month in rent. The jail has been con- Jdemned several times by state I Jail inspectors. •• • * In other action Monday, the commissioners approved road pe titions for the paving of the Bee Branch Road in the Low Gap section and improvement of 'the Alec Branch Road on Prices Creek. They also arew the jury for the term of superior court beginning March 4. SCENE • piece Os straight, dried, weed stem ajainst a sole of a boot in Z attempt to correctly fit her son th^M C °f <tot miSS 801,031 for the trip to town) Miles-long crosses in the skv during the beautifully clear days , week ’ put there by visible only when the sun glinted against them. . Sports fans frantically aiming their TV antennae toward Char lofcte in hopes of picking up the elerast of the University of Nor th Carolina-Duke basketball game (and those without a prayer of Picking up Charlotte inviting themselves to a more fortunate neighbor’s house to watchi . Crowd gathered about a confis cated still setting near the court house (and more than a few sniffing the air and then smiling with an obvious satisfaction that meant booze manufactured in this I apparatus would have passed their test' . . . Kinds lined up on Saturday after noon awaiting the opening of the the Western double feature). . .
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