VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT
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A A!i7/ 7 o Remember
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C. E. (Speedy, Bailey of Green
Mountall.l killed his first buck deer
last week, and it was one that
he’ll be proud to remember. The
'deer weighed 163-pounds field
dressed (meaning that prior to
dressing it weighed well over
200) and It had a marvelous eight
Nickels Program Okayed
Yancey Roundup: i
Yancey County farm people j
approved the “Nickels for Know- j
Hew’’ Progiam Nov. 19 by a vote!
of 417-64. i
Nickels for Knc .v-How is a pro
gram by which [awn people con
tribute to agricultural research and
education In .Noi&i Carolina. They
contribute a riJcfcel f&f 'tfifi
feed and fertilizer they buy to'
North Carolina State to support in
peseanch, teaching and extension.
The plan was first adopted by
a favorable vote in November,
1951. The plan was again ap
proved in 1954, 1957, and 1960. By
law, a vote on the plan must be
held every three years. Thus, this
month, another Nickels referen
dum Was held at 2.50 Q, polling
places throughout North Carolina.
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Series E and H Bond sales in
North Oarolljna during October
amounted to $3,856,357, an in-
crease of 13.9 per cent over the i
same month a year ago. >
Bond sales during October in I
Yancey County were $52,598 ac-'
East Yancey,
C. River^Set
Cage Schedules
East Yancey and Cane River
High Schools open their basket
ball seasons Tuesday night (Dec.
3) away from home against Mit
chell County opponents.
East Yancey meets Bakersville
and Cane Rfver faces ’Tipton
HUI.
Both games are Appalachian
Conference contests.
The schedules:
CANE RIVER
Dec. 3—at Tipton Hill; 6— Mars
Hill; 16—at Spruce Pine; 13—East
Yancey; 17—at Bakersville.
Jan. 3—Hot Springs; 7—at Blue
Ridge (Hendersonville); 10—at
East Yancey; 14—Marshall; 17—at
Mars Hill; 21—Spruce Pine; 24
Blue Ridge; 28—Bakersville; 31—
—Hot Springs.
EAST YANCEY
Deft 3—at 6—
SPruce Pine; 10—at Mars Hill; 13—
at Cane River; 17—Crossnore; 20—
Newland;
Jan. 3—at Marshall; 10—Cane
River; 14—at Tipton HUI; 17—
Cranberry; 21 Marshall; 24—at
Cranberry; 28—Tipton Hill; 31-
Mars Hill.
:...Febl 7—at Cane River; 11—at
Crossnore; 14—at Spruce Pine;
18—at Newlasd; 21—Bakersville.
(Editor’s Note: A complete
roundup on both the boys and
the girls teams of. each school
be carried in next week’s
issue of The Record)'.
Subscription $2.50 Per Year
point rack. Btailey made the kill
*|.i FlattoP Mountain Refuge,
checking in at the Poplar Station.
Unofficially, it is the largest deer
ever to be brought out of that
station. Pictured with Bailey
(ceiijer) are McCoy .and Clessen
Letterman (right).
| oerdjrjg to Mr. G. L. Hensley of
! Burnsville, Yancey County Volun
j teer Savings Bond Chairman. For
| #’3 yeiir, sales totaled $67,615
i which 1)3 51.2 per cent of the Coun
ty’s quota for this year.
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The monthly meeting of the East
I Yancey High School Farent-Teach
'-M .‘'AitiiiwF . i
' Dcd. 2, has been postponed indefi
nitely. ;
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Lu.'her Ayers of Rt. 2. Burns
ville, ard Thad Ray of Star Route,
Burnsville, are the only candi
dates for the post of supervisor
of the Yancey County Sol and
Water Conservation District.
According to District Chairman
George King, the election will be
held in accordance with state law,
Dec. 7. The Polling place will be
Deyton’s Farm Supply
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A revival is now in progress at
I Bumsvijlle’s Church of God of
| (Prophecy. The Rev. D. L. John-
I son of High Point, evangelist, .'s
I conducting the services i
On The Road Without A Radio: A Hunger For The Facts
BY TOM HIGGINS
Record Editor
Where were you when IT hap
pened?
How did you hear IT?
Virtually every American has
been asked—or has asked—these
(two quest'lons in the past week.
| IT, of course, was the news of
j the assassination of President John
IP; Kennedy in Dallas, Tex,, last
Friday.
My wife Caroline and I, along
with our two-year-old son, Chippy,
were motoring to Durham Friday
for the annual Duke-North Caro
| IJna football game, which was to
[be played Saturday.
| In mid-afternoon' we stopped at a
drive-/n restaurant near Hickory
for lunch.
! I went inside to' pick up some
gum, and happened to overhear
someway say: “The governor is
still alive too.” Not wishing to
be rude, I dfld not Interrupt to ask
the person what he was talking
'i about.
Returnig to the car, I told Caro
line what I had overheard and
1 sat'd that I feared Governor Terry,
1 MRS. BLACK PASSES ,
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Black died
recently in Concord Hosptal in
t Concord, N. C., after a long Ill
ness.
She was (the wife of Wiliam E.
! Black, who was druggist at the
1 Yanoey Pharmacy in Bur'nsvdle
1 for several years before moving
' to a pharmacy in Concord.
The Blacks resided in Burnsville.
THE YANCEY RECORD
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••Dedicated To The Proofs** Os Yancey County*
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Assassination Chills Yancey _
Beautiful Day Will Live In Infamy
It was virtually the same in
Yancey County as eisewticre
across the country.
The hoiisewives were the first
to know that Presi4pr.lt Kennedy
had been shot.
Most were busy at their house
hold duties, listening to radio or
to t “soap opera’ 1 on TV, when
the news first flashed around the
land.
W thin nvnutes practically the
ert re county was informed as these
women called husbands and friends
UF Drive ,
Continues
BY FR. DON KAPLE
United Fund Chairman
The United Fund Drive is en
tering its final Phaase.
Glen Raven Mill and Burns
ville Mill of Mohasco have un
offica'ly reported returns from
employees. The reports indicate
that the employees of the Mohasco
Mill have doubled their contribu
tions of previous years.
We have reached approximately
71 percent of our goal wh eh is
about S2OO more than was finally
attained last year. However, we
still have more than $2200 to go.
" I can see no reason why we
shor;'d not accomplish our goal. I
would like to urge everyone who
has not yet made their contribu
tion to do so tills week. Send your
lyssa#. llfiied w-, P“
100 PERCENT HONOR ROLE V
B. B. Pen land & Son
Burnsvi'He Mill of Mohasco, Inc.
Glen Raven Mill
Pensacola School
Clearmont School
S. Toe School
Bee Log School
Yancey Hospital
Central Barber Shop
Yancey Barber Shop
Ray Bros. Food Center
Pollard’s Drug Store
DEMOCRATS TO MEET
The Democratic Women’s Club
of Yancey County will hold its
monthly meeting Dec. 5 at 7:30 in
tlhe courthohse at Burnsville.
Sanford had been in an acci
dent .
We do not heve a radio on our
car, so we sat speculating about
whait could have happenet.
“Oh, President Kennedy :6 in
Dallas.” said Caroline. “Remember
what happened to Stevenson
(Ada, 1 !) down there? I hope they,
haven’t done something to the
Precedent.”
. Just seconds later the curMtop
delivered our order and con
firmed my wife’s fears. “The
President and Texas’ governor
have been shot,” she said.
“They're both still alive, but
they’re in critical condition.”
The sandwiches that the waitress
brought—which had been so eager
ly anticipated—-suddenly did not
appear so delicious at o|'l.
Our hunger now was for
facts, not food.
Shortly, a car parked beside us
and the occupants were obviously
JUtening to the radio. We lowered
our windows to try and hear. Re
ports were stilf skimpy, but said
that the President was still
; a’ive.
We decided to eat en route and
hurry to Winston-Salem, where we
planned to spend the night, so
that we con’d listen to radio or
watch news of the incident on TV.
All along our route there was
evidence of the drama gripping
the country.
Occupants of those cars with
radios bentt forward to ijsten. At
service stations and restaurants
people were knotted around cars,
listening to the news.
BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1963 ~
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to spread the nfttnblng alarm. ,
In Buaasviflc gathered
abcut cars with: 'radios to keep
abreast of developments. Many
shoppers cut their, chare in half to
hurry home to watch and listen
to the news.
Normal activities came to a j
standstill all across the county. |
“My place was packed with peo
ple,” said one Ibcal businessman,
who has a radio,in hli e.s.ablish
ment, “I don’t think anyone could
really believe it when the an
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KENNEDY
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“ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNT Ri CAN DO FOR YOU. ASK WHAT YOU CAN »b FOR YOE ?
COUNTRY.”
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Upon reacting Mocksvil'e we
decided to stop and inquire, about;
the latest dfito'opments.
Many other motorists apparent
ly had the same idea, for there
was litt’e parking room at the
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LYNDON B. JOHNSON: “I WILL DO MY BESI\ . . I ASK YOUR
HELP-AND GOD’S.
, noun-cement was made that the
President was dead.
I “And then they begin to slip
away, one-by-one. Proxy toon
tJ f Plaice was empty, and it
staged that way the rest of the
day.”
I The dawn of Friciby, Nov. 22,
| was unusually bright for a
'.November day in Yancey County.j
As the sun lose 4, burns, away the]
la aces of fog clinging to the
peaks and by mid-monr.ng the sky
| was cloudless.
service station where we pulled in.
J I went inside the on and
one look told me I did not
have to ask the big question.
There were about a dozen men in
the little room and all ap
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' PriA far Copy Fhrh Odttli ~ 1 NUMakilt FIFt&EN
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In contrast to a Week be£a«,
when it snawed. sevwrSfl pejviona
were waUfyg about town in
ehirt-sleeves, cwmPlwtaly comfort
able in the wurartto.
Buit shortly after Mm a chill
ffruck and a wall «f {town de
soer.ded.
, 11 has not yet vom&mUr lifted.
One said fiaturdag
■ w as day knm a trade
a lauig,. long time.’’
On Sunday, all trio ahurdtes re
corded an increase attendance.
o
peared tto be a
eded attendant appraohed me.
v'el attendant approached mi.
“Have you heal’d?” . ha asked,
tears streaming down Ids (Cheeks,
“President Kennedy is dead.”
Although the reports we bad
1 fo'ard in History were geatraiis
"Xic, the news was stejl muapiag.
Having bee* associated with
newspapers for yastrs aad knowing
j of several Lnstaocss ia which re
-1 ports had been based an namf
lend 'later proved salsa, I trttef te
convince myself tfcis was such a
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I So did my wife,
I “it must not fae so,” ska said.
“Think of an be sum tkreugti in
the Pacific when his boat sank, t
A man like that sewns charmed, j
He just can’t be dead.”
But upon arrival i* hftksgaa-
Sstem we learned that t*« y/uag
ast U. S. President, the h«e if
FT-109, was indeed Cues.
I can’t remember a nwre son-!
ber woeekend, espeeiaSgr to & eUy
the size of Wfestxm-batom. . J
People to the streets went afcaitt!
their business very 'serieufely. Ri
vemed eodb’emetr edd te gee
someone even entile.
Bn route te Bumsyile Sunrigy via
Beane there seemed eh;
e-i Tie, atmosphere along B. B. 4*l.
Then realisation cam*
| Although it was a beautiful
olaucfea. day—a day fen-fret ha
visiting the jpeuntoias te which
No. 421- tauto-ther* was haxtUr
.way eV-'
very day of the year.
America nu grieving Re Irefer.
> to# «o one stirred in the alter*
1 bbhi. Most people stayed home,
1 although Lt was anpther cloudless,
- beautiful day.
Monday, declared a national day
1 of nmuming by Prescient Ly*N»
- 8. Johnson, tanned Burnsvilla int*
a ghadk town. A few peofOe tur«-
. «d out for memorial sendees wc
t •hund»9 across oartaW.
i ’Rifti'a were a few signs 01 a
return to normalcy Tuesday and
• Wtedrwshay, but a depressive at
, moitphsre etjl p^wailed.
A Poem
For JFK
BY FR. BON KAPLE
Three shots rang out!
A hßb a»st>ed r ■
'o® no!”
And held in her lap
H 53 wounded head
And wept:
I '£pnfc to w!
“ftoeak to as!”
Me replied fcwna the dead:
”S* av
®«<i in tt» judge us my lie.
Sistcry Eh« test of the work I
have ctone
These few short years.
«Rt new my vac* is a efepeus,
Mr temgue fje lagioas.
Wage Mthr w.
Pr I Rave twined tbe raabt of
Mtriets
Wh» have given tbftr liysw.
Many have gone before me:
Mcww'ill ftOow after me,
it ..OMtan jrmbM* i» vm». - 1
**"* tenlll “^
T®at aa men are crested aqunl
And ORtowwd by Ohetr Qwstar
Wlft Certain fnaiienabH rights.
Wfc heCewe in I berty and Justice
fa»' All;
•quality of apportonESby for ah
And far that «onvfctt«R
Wo tb*.
'Wtet abail ymi soar?
Ebekets end bombs., sacks and
Ktn»?
Ob am!
Clear hatred.
My assasSn’s name was hatred.
Fear bcjuattce. thw tood of
- tyranny
®!e«r apajthy n«f lack c# aour
, *&;
Botflness, both nural and phy
steal;
Vtotoace,
totateranee.
and greed.
These me your enemies—(the ene
mies as Democracy.
“Yes, now the drums are
muffled;
Ttee saddle is empty.
- Pea- I nave fallen in battle.
Hut the fight is not last.
The FUroggle continues.
And we staty miss your ready
smile,
Your ffbqaence and charm.
Your <yier#y and courage.
But wa ana grateful.
We shall never forget you.
You have- taught ns agate the
meaning etf America.
We kneel and kiss your eoflte.’-’
.Local Airman
In Honor Guard
Notes ob the assassination at
PrrsideiDl Kennedy :
OeraM Murdock, eon of Mr.
(date Mrsv Georg* Murdock of Bur
rewiße, want among the last Hew
ftousasrf u see President Kete
[aady alive,
Young MurdMk. an Airmpp
8 e who entered tin Air Farce in
■August, was a member of the
hopre guard which greeted the
•tehsbjbot Nov. 21 upon his arrival
» Vernas at Lackland AFB near
fta Antonio.
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Mi ». ttfcgfcs and Baarem Hig
«b» as BumsviUe jatuaeyed K>
f ."'■Oka** awtey te wita am Vug
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