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VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT ______ Bond Election Is Carried By Bit; Majority Vote Two Men Hospitalized After Shooting Affray Two Yancey men were hospital ize >! from injuries which resulted from a shooting early Friday morning during a ruccus in the poticd, filiation or I2iin-maiton House on the town square. Rufus Fender of the Bee Log section was sent to ait Asheville hospital and Charles 'Fox. sher iff’s deputy and jailer, was taken to Yancey Hospital following the affray. Pender had a leg injurd about the knee, and the deputy had a flesh wound in his lower leg- According to an official the trou ble began when J. B. Fender and ISk ; i ' 'W| ,c - m 'Wf |ll|. ' f •• 1 JP t • ’ 5 - ■ , % ROBERT ALLAN MOORE Celebrated hu third birthday on January 10, 1904. He is the son of Mr. and Mis. R. A. Moore of Or lando, Florida and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs Clyde Banks of Burnsville &FD 3. I ■■! ■■■■ TRAFFIC FATALITIES RALEIGH The Motor Vehi cles Department’s summary of 1 traffic deaths through 10:00 a. m. Monday, January 13: KiUed to date 43 KWed to date last year 32 National Science Foundation Meeting In Texas Boon©—Dr. F. Ray Darrick, professor and chairman of the Ap palachian State Teachers College department of biology, will attend a meeting of the National Science foundation in San Antonio, Tex as, on January 16-17. Dr. Darrick said that the two day meeting is being held for the purpose es making plans tor the summer science training pro grams for high school students on the various campuses across the country. This meeting is also for the directors of the campus pro grams. This is the fifth consecutive year that ASCS has participated in the National Science Founda tion program. A cosmopolitan grow of 25 high school boys and 23 girls will be selected to attend the training Program at ABTC this summer. Half 0 f the group will be selected for studies in | biology and the other half fori studies In geology. Students will be selected by | screening tests and interviews at testing centers in Boone, Winston- Salem, Charlotte, Asheville, John son City, Tenn.; Augusta, Ga.; | Greenville 1 . S. C.; Charleston, S 1 C.; and Columbia, S. C. To be selected a student must be in the top 10 per cent of his class in science. Dr. Darrick said that the Summer Science Train ing Program is for high-ability secondary students in science. The purpose of the program is to encourage the scientific interest of high-ability secondary students by providing opportunities for such students to study and work with experienced scientists- Subscription $2.50 Per Year Rufus Fender appeared at the station, allegedly to get two men, also from the Bee Log section, who had been arrested earlier Thursday night. The Fenders took blackjacks from two of the officers, beating Deputy Charles Pox to the floor, it was said. And during the scuf fling, Roy Fox, also a deputy and brother of Charles, drew his pis tol and fired wounding Rufus Fen der and' accidentally wounding h!s brother. J. B. Fender was released un der a $2500.00 bond, wri’-e Rufus is stall in the hospital. Locals Col. and Mrs. W. C. Airheart, stationed in Chinhae, Korea, spent the Chrissmas holidays in Hong Kong. Col. Airheart is Senior Mar ine Corps advisor in Kora. Mrs. Airheart, the former Miss Edna Atkins of Pensacola, is principal of one of the service schools in Korea. Mr. Dean C. Plemmons of To ' baccovilie, N. C. suffered a slight] stroke at the heme of his daugh- 1 ter, Mrs. Tom Higgins and Mr H’ggins, here this week. He re turned to his home near Winston- 1 Salem for medical treatment in Baptist Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Edge are on a buying trip to Charlotte this wcc fc Mr. and Mrs. George W. Roberts visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Lamb, in Sampson Memorial Hospital in Clinton, N. C. over the week end where they are recuper ating from an automobile accident on Christmas Eve. | Mr. Plato Penland has returned to his home here after surgery in Mission Memorial Hospital in Asheville, he is reported to be get ting atong well. Mrs. Tom Griffith is confined to her home here due to illness. Mr- and Mrs. G. LesUe Hensley visited Mr. Hensley’s brother and family in West Jefferson last week-end. Mrs. James Ray is undergoing treatment in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Ashevile. 1 11 * i '-4 m i i ,4 ] i Atkins Commissioned Second Morris D. Atkins, son of Mrs. T. M. Atkins of Pensacola, was i commissioned a second lieutenant {December 20 on graduation from th* Officers Candidate Course at Marine Corps Schools, Quantlco, Va- Leadership and physical fit l ness were emphasized during the 12-week course. Mrs. W. A. Banks of Burnsville is Shown pinning the lieuten i ant bars on her brother, Lt; At l kins, while his mother, Mrs. T. i M. Atkins looks on !• He is now attending the 26- ; week Basic School required of all newly commissioned Marine offi THE YANCEY RECORD "Dedicate. To The Prograw Os Yancey Cownty" I Highway Expenditures In 1963 I Re leased By Department RALEIGH During 963 ttie j North Carolina State Highway ! Commission let to cont act 1,109 contract miles of imp ivements of highways, streets ar second ary roads. Actual cont: ct value of these' improvement totaled $59,233,755. A breakdown of e: endltures shows that $15,164,913 va-a for stage construction pr ects in some 50 miles of inters te High ways, and the rema ng $44 million was distributed between Trunk System Routes, e Trunk Feeder System, the Rur Collect or System and the aeondary Road System. Carry-over projects w ch had been let in previous y irs and were completed in 196 totaled $67,914,423 in actual cont ct value on 1,236 miles of road ays. $37 million of the total an ant was Burnsville Sc tool PTA To Meet Monday Burnsville Elementary School Parent-Teacher Associat. a will meet on Tuesday. Janus: / 21 In the school lunchroom. Mrs. P. C. Coletta, _ program chairman, will be In chgi a of the program. She will preset a film entitled “Angry Boy.” Due to Mr. Ralph Ada -, pseai dent, moving away from Burns ville, Mr. Harold Harr , vice president, will take over he dut ies of president and wii-pragfato at the next meeting- SECOND STORM OF TK YEAR STRIKES MOUN3 ' The second snow store of tre New Year struck West*. T North Carolina Sunday. Sc hoc s wer* closed from Monday thro ;h Wed nesday and business was at a near standstill. Traffic w ; 'block ed in most places and th second ary roads were almost c mplete ly cut off. Temperatures dropped to near zero. Mt. Mitche report ed hum 10 to 12 inches >t snow in the last storm which fell on the layer still 0 n tre gro id from the New Years storm. Tuesday temperatures started upward and fair weati r haa prevailed through this w: ing. cers. Upon completion of the ad vanced course 'he will be issigned to a Marine CorPs unit >r duty or to another school so further training. Lt. A'tikins received his BS de gree from Western Caro ia Col dege, CuUowhee in June after three years of study. Mr. and Mrs. W, A. B iks and children, and Mrs- T. IV". Atfrins attended his graduation i om the Marine Corps School in juantlcc in December. Lt. Atkins has re turned to Quantico after tv o weeki leava which he spent tor e wit* his mother and other relatives. BURNSVILLE, N. C., THURS DAY, JANUARY 16, 1964 : I spent on work for the Interstate ’ I System. $23 million on other Trunk I Routes, $lO million on .the Trunk i Feeder System, $4 million on the - Rural Collector System and sl4 j million on the Secondary System. 1 At the end of 1963 contracts valued at $66,534,735 v re still }i active and had -not bean com ’ pleted. i Total value of all contracts ac - live sometime in 1963 is $134,348,- 1 162. This amount does m t include i right of way acquisition, engineer : ing or contingencies, nor work - completed by Highway work for ’ ees or maintenance. Since 1953 the North Carolina 1 > State Highway Commis, on has 1 received a total 6f 2,991 ocmtraete I for 14.743 miles of contract work i with a^total contract value of ’ $.68,687,353 for the 11 year period i ending December 1963- Newdale Y© jfh Group Presents Program To Lions The Newdato youth group gave a program for the Lions Club Thursday night ’ featuri g the phases of their program t.iat won the county youth development con test and also honorable mention in the WNC Development Council contest. Rev. Thomas Rutledge, lewder of the youth group, and Charles CJrowder, preaictent of the N'VJaie Oomr-iunity Develop ment Club, we*« n charge Os the President Jack Kelley annotlnc-" ed that the Club had sold 30 fruit cakes and that the profit on them went toward the b’ind aid fund, Including Christmas pre sents for 27 adults and Chechen. March Os Dimes Sing In Asheville The Big Annual March of Dimes Gospel Singing will be held at the Asheville City Auditorium on Sat urday, January 18 from 7:30 to 11:30 p. m. AH singing groups ard indi viduals, professional or o'.herwise, are invited to participate in this worthy cause. There win be no admission charge. However, an opportunity will be provided for the.-'e who wish to make a contribu ion to The New March of Dimes. Everyone is unged to come and. bring their friends. AH proceeds will go to the March off Dimes. I C. E. Bailey is chairman of ar- j : rangements and Master f Cere monies w-ti bo E. J. Ball, assisted by Flunk Reed. The sing is being sponsored by the New March of Dimes. Personal Income i Low, Report SI cws Governor Teny Santoro today ( termed the report on ipeivonal in- 1 come in North Carolina “as fur-j ther proof, if they were needed, that we must itdouble our efforts in North Caroliaa to lift the eco nomy of aU lections and all - citizens. ! 1 The North Carolina Department r of Tax Research released a county r toy oounty brelk-down on “Esti -1 mates of Personal Income in Nor -1 th Carolina for 1982.” It showed - the per capita income of the State r as a whole at for it >2. Said Governur Sanfoid: “While i these figures show an mprove a ment in our State over previous • years, they show, at the same o time, the long distance we have s- yet to go. a “There are «tany historical rea h sons why North Carolina’s pet capita is low. But future histor Brush Cre Club Holds Am ud Rabbit Su >psr Brush Creek Community CHib celebrated its 12’h anniversary by holding its annual rabb t supper on Friday, Jan. 10 at 7:09 p. m. at the Community sadd vg. The snow, ice, and coir weather did n’t seem to keep folks away. Sixty people were laeseni In sp'te of the weather and n spite of an exciting basketball ame between the keen rivals ol Care River and East Yancey. Mia. Mary Mar a ret Dayton, Director from Yanc y C unty, of the Western North taro aa Agri ocltural Devt-lopm nt Council, greeted the visitors hi?b included Everett Dillingham, Char: as Steel man, and Alice Ho- on 'ram the Extension Office: Mck B. Ray with the Farmers H me / dm,, the Mayor of loafers Glory, Fred » Garland, and his wife aid daugh ter. There was no plained program. The only speeches ver allowed on this occasion are just a few words to say, “I a: i glad to be here,” by the out of-cc .nnmmity dignitaries. The *n»n in toe commurity start hunting rabbits just as soon ‘ as the season opens ar. keep it up until the supper. TP - women in the community cook the rabbits in every Possible w y they can be cooked- In ad-ditii a, they have other foods and a wide selection, off desserts. \ Evident&ily, rabbit is not too hard on the stomach or else there would be a loA of atok pvapto in ■ Yancey and adJdßint counties. Sign-Up Fc r Food Grain Praf rem To Bogin F b. 10 The sign-up forth 1954 feed grain program wiU b gin on Feb ruary 10, and run through March 27, according- to J. T. Randolph, County Office Manas or of the Yancey Agricultura l Stabilibation and Oonservai’on C uity Office, lHe said further that he 1964 pro- I gram is essentially fie same pro gram that was ffvafi ble in 1963. The program will be voluntary, aU basds are eombir :d, and far mers must divert at least 20 per cent of the total has- to be eligi ble for diversion pa ments and price support. Randolph explained 'hat in "some cases, farm era will get slightly ■ higher payments this year. Farm ers that divert over 40 percent jof their base wiU get the higher payment rate on all the diverted acreage. They may divert the larger of 29 acres tr 50 percent of their base. Any farmer with , questions about his in lividval farm ' should contact his / 3CS office. ians will not excuse us of this j I generation if we far to ake the J steps necessary to raise that per capita. “These figures on per capita again point up the reed for a continuing drive to improve our educational system. They show al so the need for yet g eater efforts in our campaign for new industry which set a hew rec rd in 1933. “And these figures point up the challenge inherent i.; i- ograms like the Nortti Carolina Fund and our- general Assault on ; poverty. “North Carolina. lu>s,“ in this century, pulled itself " up by its bootstraps. We need to pull even higher. We cpa. We will.” Estimated population for Yancey County 1962, was 18,745 with a total personal income of $10,622 and per capita personal income of $991 and Oounty rank of 95. Price Per Copy Five Cents ■**&**&&&&■ „ • nj| DR. J. IVERSON RIDDLE Dr. Riddle W II Speak To » Woman’s Club r Dr. J. Iverson Riddle will speak to the joint Senior and Junior Woman’s Club meeting on Monday, January 20 at 8:00 p. m. Dr. Riddle is currently employ ed by the State of North Carolina as Superintendent of Western Carolina Center, which is now under construction at Mcrganton. He is Clinical Instructor in Psy chiatry at the University of North Caro l ina, Chapel Hill, School . of Medicine, and hjs special interest is emotional problems of brain , injured children.. 1 Dr. Riddle’s father, Harry Lee i Riddle, is a former native of Yan-1 cey County, leaving the county when he was a young man- and, he is the present Mayor of the town of Morganton. r " "* Dr. Riddle i» a native of Mor ganton. He attended Medical School at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine: also took h's undergraduate tiaimng at the University of N. C. He ser- Ived a General Rotating I- i ernship in Winston-Salem. He hac; three years Residency in Psychiatry at North Carolina Memorial Hospi-j tai in Chapel Hill; attended the) postgraduate course in Mental Retaidation offered at tile Nation al Institute of Mental Health at Letchworth Village in New York State in 1959; and served two years as a Lieutenant Commander as a member of the Psychiatric Staff at the U. S. Naval Hospital in Charleston, S. C, The public is invited to hear Dr. Riddle at the Community Building on Mondaya night He will speak cm Emotional Problems of Child ren. GERALD MURDOCK Murdock Reas signed To Chanute AFB LACKLAND AFB, Tex.-Airman Gera'd L. Murdock, son cf Mr. and Mrs. Geroge CMuidock of Burns ville, N. C., is being reassigned to Chanute AFB, IU., for technical training as a. United States Air Force communications analysis specialist. ’Airman Murdock, who enlisted-in the Air Force a short time ago, has completed his initial basic military training here. *«• The airman, a graduate of Bur nsville High School,' "attended Mars Hill College, I ~ number twenty-two T ; ~ ~ ” ■" ■' | Burnsville Nears 10 to 1 For Issue The election on a bond issue of $250,000 to erect a new courthouse and jail was carried by a great majority Tuesday. More than two thousand voters braved the icy weather to go to the polls. And 1715 voted in favor of the bond issue. Burnsville township, as was ex pected cast the most votes of any polling place in the county. Sevenr hundred fifty votes were cast in favor of the issue by BumsviHa citizens, while only seventy eight cast their votes against issuing bonds for the new construction. Only one township cast more ballots, against the issue- Ramsey town cast twenty-six votes for the bond issue and twenty-seven against it. AH other precincts were in fav or of the issue, and in most places by a large margin. The Federal Government is giv ing the county a grant of $341,000 to - aid in constructing the new -building. At the .time of this writing, location for the courthouse had not been obtained nor decided upon. Several locations have been considered, and settlement on a site fho-ted be made within a short time, officials believe. Business Haces Close Wednes day Afternoon Burnsville establishments wai-e closed Wednesday afternoon. It was decided by members of the Merchants Association that busi ness places will close from Janu ary through November at noon : Wednesdays j In the past grocery stores have not closed, and it is understood that they will not close this year. The Wednesday afternoon clos ing will include the postoffice and bank. Services Held For Former Resident In Oregon Thomas K. Wilson, 73, of Portland, Ore., brother of Mrs. S. K. Ray of Asheville, died Nobember 13, in Clackamas, Ore., ater a long illness. A native of Pensacola, he was a son of the late I,lr- and Mrs. R. S. Wtison and grandson of j Big Tom Wilson of Pensacola, I friend and guide s os Dr. Elisha Mitchell for whom Mt. Mitchell ‘ was named. Mr. Wilson went to Oregon in 1903 where he worked for a number of years as a locomotive engineer in the lumber camps of Oregon. While an engineer he in vented the friction Week for lo comotives, which lie patented- At the time of his death, Mr. Wilson owned Columbia Manufac turing Co. where he made the friction blocks and also manu factured rifles. He was a member of Sunnyside Lodge No. 163, AF and AM and A1 ICader Shrine. Services were held Nov. 20 at McGinnis and Wilhelm Funeral Home chapel. Burial was in Port land Memorial Cemetery. Surviving in addition to the sister are the widow, Mrs. Lem ra J. Wilson: a daughter. Miss Pa tricia J. Wilson of Pendleton, Ore.; a son, Theodore T. of Clackamas. Ore.; another shster, Mrs. Lucy Wifeon SturgiHe of Oakley; four brothers, Entitt, George, penver r* *" * p ™* eo1 *- I two grandchildren.
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