North Carolina Newspapers

VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT - f _ la __aMHm In nHH ■••*~. f% zaPHfEjK jh • v/*’.' 'Bm «*•*--"w* fP r rJ"* > . j i£ —sifif- W. T. Martin, postal service officer, of GreenvAUe, S. C. is shown above presenting M Paul Buck certificate of appointment as acting postmaster in Burnsville. Mr. G. Leslie l ensloy, retiring - postmaster, is shown looking on. Paul Buck Appointed Acting Postmaster At Hensley’s Retireir ant On Deosinber 30 G. I«eslie Hensley retired as Burnsville postmaster after 30 years and s ' x months service. lie began his duty as postmaster on June 23, 1933. Paul E. Buck has been appoint ed as acting postmaster 'for the Burnsville office. Curing Mr. Hensley’s years of service as postmaster here, he was very active in civic and chinch affairs. He was a charter member of the North Carolina chapter of the National Associa tion of Postmasters. He served as state president of the organisation, was a national director, and held all offices Os the state chapter at some time during his 30 years P S_" Higgins Joins Sports Staff Os Charlotte Observer J. Tom Higgins, former editor and publisher of The Record, will join the sports staff of the Char lotte Observer on Jan. 3J. Higgins will ecUt tb« outdoor page for the Charlotte paper, will joe a special writer on participa tion sports *nd will also cover some competitive sports. Higgins, 86, the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Higgins <rf Burnsville, was affiliated with The Record throuhgout 1968. A Yancey County native, he has prior experience in the sports field. He was a sports reporter for the Durham Mom'#g Herald before joining The Record, and before that was a member of the sports staffs of the Vpinston-Salem Journal and Senti nel and Asheville Citizen-Times. - a 1955 graduate of Burnsville *Htgh School, Higgins attended Brevard College for two years and his newspaper career in 1957 as reporter-photographer for I the Canton Enterprise. j While ip Burnsville he was a • inember of the Burnsville Men’s pub and the Methodist Men’s Chib of Higgins Memorial Meth-. oflist Church, Mrs. Higgins, the former Caro line Plemmons of Winston-tiaJem, was actve in local club and chur ch work. She was secretary of the Carolina Hemlock Junior Woman’s ptfb, was teacher of the Junior Sunday School class pt the fcfeth pdist Church and was counselor of the church’s Youth Fellowship organization . The Higgins’ and their son, ppip, plan to move to Charlotte] within the next few days, Subscription $2.50 Per Year service as postmaster. Mr. Hensley to a member of Higgins Memorial Methodist Church, to a charter member of Burnsville Men’s Club and served as president of that organization He has been chairman of the savings bond program in Yancey County since 1940 and has receiv ed several national awards for 'achieving the bond quota in the county. The son of the tote James B. Hensley and Mrs. Hensley of Asheville. Leslie moved to Burns ville to 1906 and has resided here since that time. He has been as sociated with Yancey insurance Agency for several years and ex pects to be more active with the agency during hto retirement. He says, also, that some of his time will be used to fishing end vis iting. And at the present time he is visiting hto son, George Les lie, Jr., to Sebring, Fla. He has one daughter, Mrs. Russell w. York, who resides to Asheville. Paul E. Buck, appointed as act ing postmaster upon Mr. Hen sley’s retirement is the son of the late Mr. D. M. Buck and Mrs. Pearl Buck of Bald fountain. % ft. HpkUng, Kreaipent of the statewide Firs Citizens Bank & Trust Company, ha s been named North Carolina C wirman of the 1964 American Cancer Society Crusade. In making the announcement or Holding’s acceptance to the position, Senator Irwin -Belk, Vice President of the North Caroling Division, American Cancer Boelet ty, stated the young bar exeou. II tive would assume his leadership duties immediately and he would I ’'be a wording chairman across the State, day and night.” THE Y MICEY RECORD X ■ '■ * - “Dedicate i To The Progress Os Yancey County* Mr. Buck, following h gradUß-j tton from high school : Yancey J County, attended the Un arulty ot ■North Carolina where h majored in Personnel Manager nt. He was employed with Gif Raven ’ijltK MTBs as an laditor al Engi neer after serving in th U. S. Air dforps during World War It. Since 1950 Mr. Buck : been managing hto'Yanh and to moth er’s farm at Bald Mou ain. Mr. Buck’s father r unseated Yancey County in the N( th Caro lina Legislature five times. And his sister, Hope Buck, rved an superintendent of Yance - County Schools for four years. Mr. Buck and the form r Maude Peak of Erwin, Tenn. v, re mar ried in 1942 and reside at Bald Mountain. They have ere son, Frederick Charles. Mr. Buck has served on the tocal draft board since 948 and served ten years on the ire Log School Board. Presently lie is a member of the Citizens C mmitfcte For Better Schools, by Governor Sanford, and is a mem ber of the Moorehead F andaUon of the University of Noi h Caro lina. ■rv i : " : " ••- •- •* BURNSVILLE, SI. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1984 * t , -- U Examination For Postmaster Announced An examination for Postmaster at Burnsville, North Carolina, $8985 a year, will be op’n for ac ceptance of applications until Feb ruary 11; 1964, the Commission announced today. This examina tion has been announces under - re vised qualifications standards [ agreed upon between th Commis sion and the Post Office Depart ment. Competitors for the - postmaster vacancy in this city mu t have at least 3 years of e x perit nee (edu cation above high sc! 00l level may be substituted for IVb years cf experience) showing that they have the ability to cor 'met and manage the community's postal business efficiently and to super vise employees so that customers are satisfied with the ervice. Competitors must also how that they are of good reputation and that they can deal with he public agreeably and effectively. Applicants must take a written test. Those who pass w U be as signed final ratings on the basis of this test and on their experi ence, and fitness for th' - position. They must have resid id within the delivery of the offic- for one year immediately preceding the dosing date of the examination. In addition, they must have reach ed their 18th birthday on the clos ing date for acceptance of appli cations; however, this a e limit is waived fbr high scho 4 gradu ates. They may be appointed j when they reach their sixteenth I birthday provided local child labor law pewniis. Persons over 70 years of age cannot be ap pointed. examination requirements and in struct!one tor filing applications may be obtained at the post office for which this examination Is being announced. Application forms must be filed with the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington 25, D. C., and must be received or postmarked not later than th« dosing date. Plans For Museum Aboard U. S. S. North Car. Underway Plans for the establishment of the Museum aboard the U. S. S. North Carolina Battleship Memor ial have progressed to the point where the Roll of Honor of North Carolina’s World War II Dead are ready to be submitted to- the engraver. This Roll cf Honor will be the most important feature of the Museum. Every effort is being made to insure that there will be no omissions or other errors in It. For that reason we are pub lishing the list of names of the men from this county who lost their lives to World War H while In a line-cf-duty status. It is re quested that our readers report any discrepancies directly to the Battleship Memorial, P. O. Box| 417, Wilmington, North Carolina. Following is the list of r imes of those who tost their lives during the conflict; Baltow, Edward E„ Beaver, Joseph C., Bennett, S m 8., Blankenship, John W., B chanan, Edison, Buchanan, Linzie J., Bur lison, Wefdf&m C., Chrisavn, Olto 0., Deybon, Paul y„ Edwards, Plen, Effter. Arnold A., Fields, Willis L., Jr., Fox, Warren C.. Galloway, Alfred L-, Gibbs, Walter, Gouge. J. L., Had. George W., Haney. Vester, Hensley, War ren J., Higgins, Ned, Ilitomon, Ward F., Holloway, J< e F., Hon eycutt, James E., Loftte, Howard D„ Marsh, »!», WcCurry, Seth. Hdpsuitols, Theron E., Mclntosh, Jack Nash, William Peterson, Homer, Rathbone, Alvin C., Rath bone, Mack T., Ray, Rex F., Rid dle, Luther A„ Robinson, Jack W., Roland, Verlin B. Saylor, Edw ard, Taylor, Arthur, Thomas. Guy D., Tipton, Isaac W., ’Whitson l Senate, WUson, Ralph J., Wilson, fade R., Young, Smith J. Duncas i Reports Progress Made Las Year By Bank The Stockholders as The North western Bank met it 11 00 in the Directors Room oL the Home Os : fee in North WUk boro on Tues day, January 21. Mr. Edwin Duac- :i.TBr.,- presi-, 1 dent off Th* Nort: astern Bank, mad© the foltow'n. report; “It is with pleas e trat we re port the net open ng profit* in ~ "* - I Dr. Davet jic rt Will Spec c o Coin Colli cl >rs The public is invited to attend a coin show, spon-ored by the collectors in dus area, in the Community Builds r in Burns ville, Sunday, Jam ry _3th from 2:00 to 3:00 p. m. Dr. William Dave. ix>rt of Spruce Pine will show par: cf hs famous Collection and will spe. i to the group. This part of lie program is set for 2:30 and w 1 be of inter est to the amature cotoctor and the beginma*, who a they will perhaps get a cl . nice to see specimens that they have never seen. Dr. Davenport ha: been inter ested in the hobby for several years, and he has been collecting atrwe 1903. He lias shown his collection at many of the large stows and ha> won several awards for bte disp' ays. There wiR be no c harge fjorr ad mission, and all col rectors is this area are asked to faring their i eneotenoo*, or etAtoct: -aw, large or small'to show. Any aaie wftfh a . sma4l or large collection of coins or currency, a single coin or any other item cf intere st to the coll ector is urged to bring them along. Senior Girl Scouts Available For Baby lifting The Senior Girl Sc rets, all high school girls, are available for baby sitting In the evening. The standard Price will be 50c pc hour which is standard price of baby sitting ip Burnsville, where one is avail able. Whenever possible » two girto will serve as baby sitters togeth er, but the price wiU remain 50c an hour. Miss Annie Hassell, Sen ior Giit Scout Lead; r, has stated that she will endeavor to have at least one of the two girls sitting to baa high school junior or sen ior as they have «xf, a experience and training to hand ng children. Many of the girls Live first aid training as well as •ateing-.froan their Girl Scout prog am in Child care. Pemoms wishing to use thto ser vice should ?&U Miss Hassell. 682-2375, or Mrs- Ci >g English, 682-2133 as far in ad ance of the | date baby sitting is required m possible. The girls plan to use th’s money to build a fund for a proposed! trip to the beach this summer. 1 ________ : Courthouse-Jail Property Purchased Wednesday 1 i The site for the nr v cr lrthouse . ’ tuid jail was selected W dnceday ] 1 1 and the transfer of pro, wty to Yancey County is underway, ac cording to County Attorney. BUI Atkins. The site selected is an the Oast end of the square and south of , Main Street and Is < vned by the ■ George W. Anglin heirs. Mr. Atkins said that Henry . Gaimea, architect, a member of , the Six Anocdajtes Arch tecturaJ .Finn of Asbaville met with the Price Per Copy Five Cents nil tm ■ - ■ - nr - . - - - - --- 1953 were $3,013,638.21 as compar ed with *2,lS»,4xrte.C3 in 1962. Tiro net profits, after income tax was paid and accrued for 1953, were 713.03 compared to $1j»78,- , 287.97 in 1962, or 85.46 per Share agatost $4.08 per share on the av erage outstanding shares in 1962. number of people. Ten new plants began operations and several ex- £ j Group Meets With Governor On Winter Star Project Yates Bennett and Mark Ben nett were in Raleigh Tuesday for a meeting with Governor Sanford concerning the Winter Star project on Cattail Creek. Also to the meet i to- was Attorney Stone of Black : Mountain who represents Frank iT. Scdiacok, the Chicago finan cier of the proposed) Winter Star , project, and Percy Threadgill of Miami, Fto. owner of the Cattail Creek property. Bennett said the project had re cently bagged, dowyi due to con flicting interests to the leas# for the parties concerned. Yates Bennett was to Miami, Fla. last week where he conferred with Mr. Thread gill concerning further negotiations between him and ihe Chicago parties. Mr. Bennett stated that their ( meeting with the governor gave , premising Indication that the . state proposed road would be con structed as was previously planned !If workable negotiations are brought about by Mr. Tbreadgill and Mr. Sedtocok. It was under stood, however, that unless the project was not-, to be a reality the road would not be constructed. A new tease on the property in volved has been drawn and sent to Chicago for the approval or rejection by Mr. Sedlacok. Mr. Bennett stated that it wa3 generally felt by the group who met concerning the project that new documents would probably be acceptable to both parties. And if the lease is negotiated it was thought that some actual work should fc>© begun on the project before tong. Wilson Will Take Farm Course At State College ... Billy Wilson, a~ commercial ap ple grower of Pensacola Commun ity, will represent Yandby County to the Short Course in modem fanning at N. C. - State College January 27-February 7. Young Wilson has been active to 4-H, Community Club, and other youth activities. He to a' member of the active army re-| serve. * Billy is at present working with his fatrer, C. D. Wilson, in the operation and management of the Ihore orchard consisting of ap proximately 50 acres of trees and a stoiage and grading house. Board cf County Commissioners aixl r<-commended that the Ang lin properly would be the most appropriate site for the new ooun ty building. The cost of the property is $60,006 which will leave $531,000 from the bonds and federal grant for the actual building construe tion. Mr. Atkins said that it wag, thought that arrangements" - for bids Jfx the construction of the courthoUHe and Jail would be made within 30 days. NUMBER TWENTY-THREE The ’substantial increase in loans * during 1963 has resulted in a larg ! er Reserve for Possible Lean Los - > es which in turn has reduced in come tax for the year. If our - loans do not increase proportion ally in 1954, a gi-eater portion of our earnings will go into income tax. In our trading area business conditions were spotty. Farni pro duction was affected by the worst drought in years as well as low prices. Tobaepn..j n volume was off .25 per- cent or more. On the other hand, industry employed a record isttog plants increased their faci lities, hirtog more people and pro ducing more goods than in any olher year. The tourist business reached an all time peak with more than five million people traveling the Blue Ridge Park way. The net result of these acti vities was the increase of our total resources from $170,000,000 to $190,000,000. As in the past, all assets con sidered for federal examiners, state examiners, or our auditors were charged to expense or re serve accounts.” B. R. Penland of Burnsville was ... re-elected as - director '"from the 1 Burnsvilto Branch. A ! Miss Hassell-Mrs. Tyner Will Speak At Library Meeting sre* - » • —. ’ Highlights of their European trip will be given /by Miss Annie Hassell and Mrs. T. M. Tyner at the Yancey County Libraiy, Burns ville, on Saturday evening, Janu ary 25, at 8 p. m. “SIGHTS, SOUNDS, AND SOU VENIRS OF EUROPE” is the title of their presentation which wiU combine an account of their trep last September with ancedotes pictures of places visited, and a display of some of the souvenirs they could not resist. The talk is sponsored by the Yancey County Friends of the Library. The public to invited. Locals Mr. and Mrs. Leßoy Hunter and children of Statesville spent last week-end visiting relatives here. Mrs- Hunter’s father, Mills Edge,, is very iU at his home to Newdale. Clarence Edge of Florida also visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mills Edge, of Newdale due to the i]toes of his father. Mr. and Mrs. R. V- Robinson and children of Asheville visited Mis. Rcbtoson's father, Jess Buch anan, and her sister, Mrs. Jean ette Randolph, and family here Sunday. Mr . and Mrs. G. Leslie Hensley j are visiting George Leslie, Jr. in Sebring, Fla. this week. B. R. Penland, Jay Edge and Robert PresneU attended the Stockholders meeting of The Nor thwestern Bank to North Wilkes boro Tuesday. Mrs. Ray Bodford is under ; going treatment in Yancey Hospi tal here. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Davi* • and son, Jan, of mother, Mrs. W. C. Murplh^^£re* v Susday. Mr- Ted Phillips who is employ ed in Johnson City, Tenn. vtoited his family at Newdale tost week end. Zoe B. Young of Durham who has bees visiting relatives in the county since Christmas returned to her home i n Durham last week. Mrs. Ethel Hughes is a patient in Yancey Hospital where the to i usdergotog treatment. Mrs. Emory Roland o! Burns - ville underwent surgery to an ' AsheviUe Hospital this week. , Mrs, Charles B. Trammel vtoit : to Boone the first of this week’, ; while Rev. Trammel attended a meeting in Raleigh.