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VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN gly * /&& jff afc^jßßHF. Jt i 4fWiif - 'psi srßPu ft" i | M % ■ * I’ml 4aJH. . t ■ i 3 ‘ ■ ;* dK '•' IL\* *■ * • ' -■ —_ - '* ,*■* •'^*Y j »..•,«•* I -M » , Life in Yancey County in the early 1900 s would seem mighty monotonous to we moderns. The roads_to_ the _world outside the towering mountains were poor, and very little came in or went out. For that matter, the roads were so crude there was little travel from one section of the county to the other. Bo folks stayed close to home in those days. But the say they didn’t mind. Yancey Roundup Baptist To Convene _ For SSth Mooting The 85th Annual session of the Yancey County Baptist Associat- j ion will be held Thursday and Friday < Aug. 15-16) at the Cane River and Zion (Green Mountain) Baptist Churches respectively. The Rev. E. H. Hall will serve as moderator. Thursday's speaker will be M. H. Kendall, professor of re ligion at Mars Hill College. The Rev. A. Z Jamerson of Bolens Creek Baptist Church and B. M. Tomberlin o f Swiss will speak at Friday's session. Several representatives from the Baptist State Convention are expected to attend the session. •* * * The United Pv- hyterian Worn-! en’s organization will meet Thurs day (Aug. 15 at the First Presby terian Church in Burnsville. The meeting will b g'n at 7 p. m. following the regularly sche duled session, Mrs. Joe Lo Picolo of Celo v'Ml show slides she made on a r'cant round-the-world Parkway Given ( OK For Musical You c..’3 almost smell the ( piairie sage last week during the ( Parkway Playhouse’s presentation ( of “Oklahoma!” Rodger."’ and Hammer&tein’s '< jail-time favorite has ph'obabty seldom been treated better by a , company of comparable size and means than that assembled by Director Anthony Maltese. It was the kind of show that makes you wake up happy the, following morning. . .maybe even humming "Oh. What a Beautiful Mornin’.” Jim M.rris and Leoni Horton were well matched as Curley and Laurey. Val Mamches was a de lightful Aunt Eller and Lauren | K. Woods made hair stand on the neck playing the villain. Jud. However, Irene Manger, Rich ard M. Oxman and Jon Cutaia very nearly stole the show from the lead roles with their perfor mances as Ado Annie, Will and Ali Hakim, respectively. It was a tremendous way . to close a season. . .makes next summer seem far too long away. —By Tom Higgins. THE YANCEY RECORD “DedkrtaA T* Tk* PNWi Os Yancey County” Subset \v ion $2.50 Per Year The highlight of the week was! Sunday when everyone went to I church and the cousins from down the “lioller” came for dinner and to visit. One of the most remote chui-ch es in the county near the turn of the century was the Big Creek Free Will Baptist Church (pictur ed above* in north Yancey Coun ty. The area was then known as •j Sioux (it’s not called that too ■ often anymore since the Sioux } post, office has been discontinued). jaunt. She will feature pictures of i Hong Kong and Thailand. ***' Dr. Paul H. Fall, retired presi dent of Hiram (O.) College who new makes his home in Burns ville. will speak at the 11 a. m. services Sunday in Higgins Me-j morial Methodist Church. He is substituting for the Rev. j R. F. Hilliard, who is vacationing. ‘ The Rev. Donald H. Noblitt of 1 the Bald Creek Methodist Church will conduct the evening service at 8 p. m. *• • • The annual decoration services at the Bailey Cemeteries in the Upper Jacks Creek Community I have been scheduled for Aug. 18 at 2:30 p. m. ** * * County and community com-] mitteemen who will administer ASCS programs in 1964 will be elected by theif fellow farmers in September. The community committeemen will be elected Sept. 17, and county committee men will be elected Sept. 20. These committeemen will tak oCfice - i. 4 Oct. 1. The present community com mitteemen have the responsibility | of selecting nominees. In addi tion to nominees selected by the j committee, the names of persons nominated by petition will _be added to the slate. All petitions* must be signed by six or more j eligible- voters and submitted to the ASCS county office by Aug. 21. Those eligible 'to vote in the annual ASC committee elections are persons of legal voting age who have an interest in a farm as owner, tenant, or sharecropper, and who are participating or eli gible to participate in the pro grams administered by the County ASCS Committee. 1 Ballots will be mailed to j ail eligible farmers by Sept. 3. These ballots must be returned to the county office by Sept. 13. AM farmers Sire urged to vote their balibt' and return it to the Yancey ASCS Office. The committeemen plays a very vital role in the administration 1 of ASCS programs. All farmers are urged to vote in the elect ions in their communities to select the best qualified persona as committeemen. The Lower Cane River Valley was a haven for Scotch-frish clans which settled Yancey, as this picture, taken in 1916, testi fies. Everyone in the picture is either a Whitson, Atkins, Howell, Byers. Warrick, Byrd or Adkins. Included in the group is Bill Atkins, who was destined to be come a Yancey County represen tative to the N. C. Legislature. 1 He is now a Burnsville attorney. l This photo was donated by! Bonnie Adkins of Rt. 1, Relief. Bald Creek Wins ; Softball Crown ■i A b&ses-loaded homer in the j final inning by Dean Wheeler gave t Bald Creek a 12-10 victory over | Micaville Wednesday and the re 4-gmai eiußuu enanupHUUMlHi 'Til tafe j I Yancey Softball League. -I t(TI 1 IJ. 1.1 A A _ i A I Wheeler’s line blast to right-j center on the Burnsville Elemen- ( tary School field brought Bald Creek from 10-8 deficit and aver ted a playoff for the regular * season title. Bald Creek had en tered the contest a half game i ahead of Micaville j The victory, Bald Creek’s eighth I as against two losses, earned the ) winners No. 1 seeding in the play offs which begin Thursday (Aug. 15). Bald Creek will meet Saw mill Hollow at 5 p. m. on the Burnsville field. Green Mountain and Micaville tied for second place with 7-3 records. Green Mountain won sec ond seeding in a flip of the coin and will meet Indian Trail (6-4) at Burnsville at 6 p. m. Thursday, j Micaville plays Double Island . <2-8) at Micaville. , ’ Winners of the Green Mountafc , Indian Trail and Micaville-Dou ] ble Island games play at Burns- I ville Friday at 5 p. m. to deter mine who plays the Bald Creek , Sawmill winner in Saturday’s j championship contest, which will also be played at Burnsville. School Insurance Switch Stirs A Controversy BY (TOM HIGGINS - 1 Record Editor A dispute over insurance cover- : age for football players may cost!l the East Yancey High School; 1 team the services of some of its starters. The parents of several veteran players told the Record this week that they would not permit their ■ sons to participate in the football I Program if they are compelled toj purchase the type insurance se lected by the Yancey County board of Education, “I’ll be willing to pay SIOO for insurance coverage for my son if I must,” said the father of one player. “But if he cannci play without taking the insurance the Board specifies, then I am pult i ing him off the field.” , The' fathers of two other play . ers said they would do likewise, j and said that there were several, j other parents who had Indicated, | that they would follow suit. BURNSVILLE, N. C„ WW»DAY, AUGUST 15. 1963 _ :——— t»-M County’s Deadline Expires, Town To Set ABC Election r Rep. Taylor; Is Opptsed To Charges Ss :i House Nat ional Parks last week parsed a lab conservation bill containing ' amendments ( introduced by Conju ssman Roy A. Taylor designed 4 Prevent the imposition of fee-j «• the use of roads through fediltl park and forest lands in yjstern North j ! Carolina. •* j The first amendnint would per mit cost-free use tl any national parkway or established federal highway considered a public ac cess route aeross-ede rally-owned park and forest laags. The second amendment would jfgive special consideration to statts, like Nortli Carolina, where a, luge percent age of federal recreation lands ( were originally donated to the j t government. .% f j Rep. TavJir, a member' of the subcommittee, said that while a final interpretation of the bill Is still, forthcoming, he believes his .first amendment Provides suffi cient authority to keep tolls off such roads as the Blue Ridge Parkway, U. 5. s4l through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and moat toads in the nat -tnnnl )-■■*■- -4 ■' '« ■ I '‘These are all rearer -«*nror “try I the motoring public as a means (of access between points outside i federally-owned property?,” said - ILk> second amendment declares that in federal recreation areas ■where more than half of the prop erty was originally acquired by contribution from the state, the imposition of fees shall be de layed until the governor of 1; state has made his recommendat ions and has been given the op porunity to request consideration to be given to all obligations, legal or otherwise, that the fed eral government mav own the state and its citizens. The overall land conservat'on bill is designed to help staffs the acquisition, planning and'. de velopment of additional outdoor recreation faculties. _ The bill approved .by the sub committee would authorize fed eral grants to states for these • purposes. It also provides addi ■ tional federal land acquisition for • outdoor recreation, with 40 per t cent of the funds going for fed l eral and 60 percent for state pur | Poses. The controversey centers around, a swittll by Yancey schools ’ from Standard Life Insurance to Pilot Life. I ; The aroused parens contend tliat i the switch is inefeasing the cost* (of insurance for football players from $2.85 to sl2j • However, H. D, Justice, super intendent of Yfecey Schools, I speaking for the Board of Edu j cation, said that! the griddw’s’ insurance this yor would act ually be cheaper han that rf.tlve 1962-63 school yei . “Unbeknowst ti the Board of i Education, the insurance lor > all the children overed by last r year’s policy ws increased by i 25 cents each. The quarters were ■ divided by the ro high schools and helped defra the cost of the ■ insurance for th< football players r from approximat / sls to $2.85. l ; “The Board fe that this prac- I tice was unfair, id that in some cases—in cases here there are - I Yancey County Rodents ' Have Very Expensive 7 aste Rats! This is an American slang term of derision and disgust. A Yancey County resident is reportedly using the term more emphatically that anyone in these parts ever did before. This person, who will not con | firm or deny his story and thus will remain anonymus, has good reason to ge disgusted. . and for that matter, distraught. Thirty years ago this fellow l was virtually wiped out during I the Great Depression. He vowed never to let a bank handle his money again. He kept his promise to him self, and kept his money on his Person or in a secret hiding place in his house. Finally, he accomulated such a sum that it was necessary to find a bigger hiding place. The money was packed in a ) cardboard box and hidden in the | hayloft of a barn near the house. It was seldom bothered, except 1 when there might -be some addi -1 tional funds to add to the “kitty." I Yancey Obituaries | > MRS. MAGGIE HIGGINS i " I Mrs Maggie Higgins, 90. of the j ■a.wiiuwjii * ir~ figatunv,-’' nr wjtt r Tibffir Sliitfray tmer a 8 long illness. 1 ■ She was the widow of J. Will I Surviving are three daughters. Mrs. Wilson Edwards and Mrs. Page Hunter of Burnsville and Miss Maude Higgins of the home; three sons, Paul and Bryan Hig gins erf Rt. 4. and Maj. Bruce Higgins, U. S. Air Force, Colo rado Springs; 19 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. Services were held (Aug. 6) at Byrd’s Chapel. The Rev. A. Z. Jamerson offi ' crated and burial was in Byrd Cemetery. Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home was in charge, a Pallbearers were Burton Ed • | wards, Kenneth Hunter. Clifton •'and Tony Miller, Cecil Penland, I Charles Galloway, Kenneth GU ! bert anu Carl Bailey. t : LONNIE PRESNELL Services for Ljonnie Presnell, r 57, of Rt. 5 Burnsville, who died - Friday, were held at 2 p. m. - Sunday in South Estatoe Baptist - Church. The Rev. Dave Blevins offi- . five or six children from one family attending school—that it worked a hardship on the Par -1 ents. _ | i “And haj-dship or not, 't isn’t j j right to have football insurance j paid by parent* who have never se*n a football game and very] likely will never see one. “Besides. Pilot Life policy,, in my opinion, is much bettor. | In case of serious injury requir ing a long hospitalization per-, iod. it is definitely better.” The players’ father® previously mentioned, and some members of the East Yancey Boosters Club, contend'd that last year’s Policy Is superior, and said it appear ed to them that some members of the board of education were “politically motivated” in their choice of policies. “For instance, last year’s cov erage enabled us to make sub stitutions," said one Booster? Club member. “If a player was Price Per Copy Five Cento Last winter and during the spring of this jrear there was \ little hit'jme, js> the cardboard | box and its contents remained untouched. By human hands, that '* Recently, on the spur of the moment, this fellow decided to check and see how his money was doing. He opened the box and. . . Approximately half the bills were gone. What remained had been shredded to bit®. Rats had eaten a hole through the side of the box and carried off much of the money. What they hadn’t pilfered, they had shredded. The loss, according to a re liable source, was slightly over $13,000. Meanwhile, there have been few rodents seen latelv around die barn where the disaster took Place. they didn't skip with the . loot. The place is brimming 1 l ,vith poison. —By Tom 'Higgins. ciated. Burial was in the churcto! [ cemetery. j l rug- nmjg wr-r 1 "hwwhihw. 1 j Brothers Funeral Home until ; taken to the church for sendees. l Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Maybe!le Wiseman Presnell; two daughters, Mrs. Charles Webber of Fayetteville and Miss Mildred Presnell of the home; five sons, Haston of the U. S. Army in Germany. Lowell of the U. S.| Army, Ft. Benning, Ga.. andj Max. Vernon and Howard of the home: the mother, Mrs. SeMyl Ogle Presnell of Rt. 2, Burns ville; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth 1 Webb of Brevard; three brothers,; Stanley, Herman and Amos of Burnsville; and six grandchilti i ren. WNC DAIRY SHOW SET The 19th annual Western North Carolina Junior Da ; ry Show will be held Tuesday, (Aug. 20) at the Western North Carolina Fair grounds at Hendersonville. This event is open to 4-H Club and PFA members in all the western coun- 1 ties and is sponsored by the Agri- j cultural Extension Service, limited td purebred animals and . over 100 Prize aivmals are exipect j ed to be shown, including several - from Yancey County. ■ forced from competition by an. : injury or else quit, then we could 1 put another player in his place t at no additional charge. But with j the Policy they are getting this I yeah, you can’t do that. It a boy. quits, your money goes down the J I drain. H>s replacement mast also take out a Policy.” The disgruntled Boosters and I the fathers based their “politics’’ j contention on the fact that most )of the board of education mem i bers are Democrats while the ma jority of the owners of the Burns ville Insurance Agency, which sold the schools the policy last year are Republicans. They were also disturbed about the fact that the Pilot Life policy which the board has recommended will be sold to the schools by Pat Whitmire of Hendersonville, son in-law of R. A. Radford of Ctme River, the chairman of the bdbM of education. Whitmire is 'h ; Pilot Life agent. if . NUMBER FIFTY-TWO -yyft— —* Vote Still Month Off Says Mayor The Burnsville Town Board will act shortly to set in motion the holding of an ABC vote bene Mayor Robert Helmle said Wednesday that as soon as a meeting between be and Commiss ioner P. C. (Pete) Coletta and B. R. Finland can be arranged a date for the election will be 6 set. The final obstacle blocking a . municipal vote on the establish ment of an Alcohol Beveral Con trol outlet here was apparently cleared Wednesday. A 60-day period in which a county-wide ABC vote would have invalidated any town election ex pired Wednesday. “We feel the way is clear now,” said Hel-mle. “When we are able to call a meeting, “we’ll do so and set the date for the election. I ; would think that our meeting would be within the next week-, at least.” The board is compelled by state law to call a vote. J This legislation was introduced jib? Rep. Mark )W. Bennett of i Burnsville last Jane, amending a [bill originally introduced by Sen. [j. Yates Bailey of Bald Greek. town board to call for an elect ion on its motion, but stipulated that a oounty-wide vote within 60 days of passage at tbe bill would invalidate a municipal election. Bennett amended Bailey's bill to make tbe calling of a town election mandatory, but lie did not change the portion of the bill concerning a possible county -1 .wide election. j Consequently, the town board delayed calling for a vote until ; the 60-day deadline in Bailey’s bill had passed. The board, explained Helmle. did not want to go to the ex pense of setting up an election only to have the countv commiss ioners invalidate it with « call for a county election." ‘‘Should the county have called for a vote after we had set one up, then St would have been quite a bit of money down the drain for us,” said the mayor. It will probably be at least a .month before tbe election can be • (held. I Helmle pointed out that ‘‘it is j law we must give 29 days notice ' of a registration period, hold ne- gistration for seven days and hold I a challenge day.” j The board apparently made ao mention of compolilag football players to buy the Pilot Life Policy at & recent meeting called to discuss the insurance problem. ) Presumably, this point would he ’cleared up at the next boded meeting, or a meeting railed to make clarification. I At any rate, since the state re qu-'rcs all football players to he insured, some action obviously must he taken before Aug. 30. ■when East Yancey is scheduled to (open its season. The Record could not confirm rumors that school principals aad 'some board members disagreed , Vehemently at the meeting ever I the insurance switch. However,. a L Very reliable source sa'd t&t . the priacipals refused to vote bn > > their preference ot three Policies d after being' told that their deci . sion would be “reviewed” by the board members. »
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