VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT
Specialists Say N. C
Farm Income Will
Remain Stable In '64
It Is possible lor North Carolina
farm income to remain stable in
1964 despite a 10 per cent cut in
flue-cured tobacco allotments and
Obituaries
KELSE BARNETT
Kelse Barnett, 40, a native c£
Mitchell County, died sudd; nly
Monday in Toughkenamon, Pa.
where he had lived for the past
* 12 years.
He was employed in the mush
roomgrowing industry.
Surviving are a son, Larry Bar
nett of Toughkenamon; the par
ents, Mr. and Mis. Garther Bar
nett of Relief; the paternal grand
mother, Mrs Victory Griffith Bar
rett of Relief: three sisters, Mrs.
Lassie Lo.ws, and Boris Es
tep. all of Johnson City. Term.,
and eitgfit brothers, Jim of Unicoi,
Jeke and Bobby of Relief, Ralph
Clyde, and Doyle, all of Tough
kenamon, Pa., and Lawrence and
Glenn Barnett of Johnson City,
Tenn.
Services were held at 2 p. m.
Wednesday at Pigeon Roost
s Churchy of the Brethren.
The ‘Rev. Calvin Barnett and
the Re?V. Joe Brawn officiated and
burial In Peterson Cemetery,
i. .
WALTER GIBBS
Walter C bbs, 80, of the Celo
sertion of Yancey County, died
Friday afternoon in an Asheville
hospital after a long illnes..
Services were held Sunday at
2:30 p. m. In Estatoe Presbyterian
Church.
The Rev. Bert Styles officiated
and burial was in Ballew Ceme-
t< ry.
LEWIS BALLEW
Lewis Ballew, 77, of Spruce
Pine Rt. 1, died in a Spruce Pine
hospital Friday nyht after a |
short illness.
He was a farmer, son of the I
late Sidney and Laura Hilliard,
Ballew. He was a deacon in Black
Mountain Baptist Church at Little |
Switzerland. j
Mr. Ballew had lived most of
his life in the Little Switzerland
section.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Mable Glenn Ballew; a daughter.
Mrs. J. Astor Buchanan of Spruce
Pine; two sons, Lewis B. Jr. of
Asheville and Sgt. David Ballew
of the U. S. Army stationed in
Germany; three sisters, Mrs.
Pearl Young and the Misses Effie
and Ruby Ballew all of Burnsville;
and a brother, Sam, also of Burns
ville; 10 grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 2
p. m. Tuesday in the Black Moun-j
tain Baptist Church with the Rev. 1
Lloyd Glenn officiating.
Burial was in the Glenn Ceme
tery. j
were Allen
and Boyd Parsley, Lawrence.
Buchanan, Jeter Mace, Joe Bid-1
dix and Clyde Hollifield. Flower
bearers were ladles of the churrh.
GILBERT RANDOLPH
Gilbert Randolph, 89, of Burns
ville Rt. 4, (lied unexpectedly In
his home Saturday morning.
He was a retired farmer and a
lifelong resident of Yancey County.
He had been a member of Bald
Creek Masonic Lodge for 56 years.
Services were held Monday at
2:30 p ,m. in Elk Shoal Baptist
Church.
The Rev. Donald Noblett and
the Rev. Niram Phillips officiat
ed and burial was in Mclntosh
Cemetery.
Masonic graspside ittes were
conducted by Bald Creek Lodge
No. 397,
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. Clyde Potter of Belhaven;
six sons, Biss and Wilkie of
Burnsville Rt. 4, Chester and Lan
don of Royal Oak, Mich,, Gus of
Miami, Fla., and Zeb ,of Alexan
dria, Va.; 19 grandchildren and
21 great-grandchildren. ,
. a possible drop In cotton income,
i This is the conclusion reached
i by a group of extension special
-1 ists at North Carolina State. The
groups had been asked by Exten
sion Director George Hyatt to
study 1964 Income prospects “be
cause of anxiety over what may
be done to maintain farm income
the year.”
“’ng* specialists based their “cau
tions optlhHsm” for 1964 on two
things;
1. Opportunities that they be
. lieve exist for farmers to increase
income from certain commodi
. j ties; and
. ( 2. their belief that “the tobacco
income picture may not be as
. serious as the 10 per cent cut In
. allotment might imply.”
Commenting on this last point,
the specialists point out that some
increase in tobacco yields can be
expected with a favorable season
1 and “if farmers react to this cut
in the same manner as they have
[ reacted to previous cuts.”
Also, the announced price sup
ports for the 1964 crop have been
set at 0.6 cents per pound (60
' cents per 100 pounds) higher than
they were in 1963.
In view of both hdfeher expect-
J ed yields and higher price sup
ports, the specialists feel that to
bacco Income for 1964 will be
down only about 5 per cent from
i 1963. This would mean a drop of
' about $27 million.
After studying 1964 farm in
come prospects commodity-by
commodlty, the specialists agreed
that the biggest percentage gains
1 are likely to come from soybeans,
! horticultural crops, hogs and tur
keys.
Some increase, they said, Is
possible in the sale of peanuts,
corn, wheat and other small
i grains, forestry, hay, milk and
broilers. Production of cattle and
eggs is expected to increase, but
J prices are expected to decline,
I leaving total Income from these
two commodities about the same
as 1963.
| While Income from some com
. modifies may go up, while income
1 from other commodities remains
stable or igpes down, the special
ists pointed out that the ups and
downs will not always be shared
by the same farmer.
In other words, there are indivi
dual farmers—the specialized to
bacco farmer, for example—who
can expect to have less income
in 1964 than he had in 1963.
By the same token, there are
entire regions of North Carolina
which might expect less Income.
These would be regions in which
fewer non-tobacco sources of in
' come have been developed.
Along with doing the best pos-
I sible Job on available commodi
ties, the specialists said farmers
lin 1964 must follow “good farm
' business practices” if income is
|to be maintained.
YCABA To Moot
Tuesday
l The annual meeting of the Yan
cey County Artificial Breeders
Association will be held in the
courthouse in Burnsville Tuesday
nirlht, March 24 at 7:30 p. m.
Jorn Brown, American Breeders
Association representative, will
show a movie on the sires and
their daughters and explain the
new testing program recently
started by the AB6.
| E. L. Dillingham, County Exten
sion Chairman, urged all dairymen
to come to the meeting and take
part in the election of otffioers and
other phases of the program.
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
RALEIGH— The Motor Vehicles
Department's summary of traffic
deaths through 10:00 A. M. Mon
day, March 16:
KILLED TO DATE 273
k Killed To Date Last Year 213
THE YANCEY RECORD
‘Tttdlmtffdl To TV* Prtgrm Os Yancey County"
Subscription $846 Per Year
Feed - Grain
Program ienefits
Detailed
Growers who participate In the
1964 feed grain program will have
definite advantages over growers
who elect not to participate, ac
cording to J. T. Randolph, Office
Manager, of the Yancey ASQ3
County Office.
First, he explained, toe partici
pating grower earns a diversion
payment for reducing bis 1964
acreage of corn, thereby assuring
himself of a substantial income
from the diverted regard
less of drought, flood, insects,
hail, or crop lisease.
This is also true of toe price
support payment which is made
on the acreage planted in 1964 to
one or more of the three feed
grains—no matter what disposition
is 'made of the crop, the price
support payment is assured.
Third, price-support loans and
purchase agreements will be avail
able on a participating farmer’s
entire 1964 production of toe three
feed grains.
And, if the participating farmer
request it, an advanced payment
of part of the diversion payment
will be made at the time of sign
ing up or as soon as possible after
that time.
Growers take part in the feed
grain program by diverting at
least 20 percent of the farm’s feed
grain base acreage into gn ap
proved conserving use and carry
ing) out other provisions of the
program. If more than the mini
mum acreage is diverted, a higher
rate of payment will apply.
The minimum rate of payment
Is based on one-fifth of the coun
ty’s total price-support rate; the
maximum or higher rate Is based
one-half of the support rate.
Farm operators may ffia ansAk
cations to take part iii the 1964
fted grain program at the Yancey
ASCS County Office. The signup
period extends from February 10,
through March 27, 1964.
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One Name Ad
ded To Gallon
Club List
According to information receiv
ed this week by Mrs. Bob Rhlne
hart, Assistant Chairman of the
Yancey County Blood Program,
Mrs. Clyde Edwards’ name wai
left off toe Gallon Club Members
In last week’s Issue of the paper.
Mrs. Edwards has contributed one
gal. one pt. of blood to ’too pro
gram.
..Anyone who is eligible to belong
to the Gallon Club and their name
has been left out are urged" to
contact Mrs. Rnlnehart ,so that
she may get her records straight.
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Music Workshop
At Methodist
Church
A Music Workshop will be held
Wednesday, March 25th,_ at 9:30
a. m. In the Higgins Memorial
Methodist Church. This workshop
is being conducted by Dr. Melvin
Good, State J|usic Consultant
from the Department of Public
Instruction, Raleigh, and Is being
sponsored by the Home, Demon
stration Club members hut It is
open to all persons Interested In
good music. Come and- bring 11
covered dish for lunch.,, and we
will work until 2:30 p. m.
4-H Achievement
Night March 20
4-H Achievement Night will be
held Friday night, March 20th, at
7:30 p. m. at toe Qcgnnumlty
Building in Burnsville. t
The highllfcht of this event will
be the presentation of awards for
club members who have done out
standing work In state phase of
4-H Club work. _
As a special feature, Pensacola
4-H Club will share seme of the
Information and techniques they
learned in a recent, first-aid
course.
BUBiiSVfIEUC N. C». THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1964
Paul Suck And
Mika Whitson on
Lions Program
Paul Buck acting postmaster,
spoke to toe Lions Club Thursday
night on toe ZIP Code and how it
applies to people In this area.
Buck explained that the 2 in the
ZIP Code designated the area of
the U. S. The 8 Is for N. c., the 7
Is for the Asheville district and
tlie 14 is for the Burnsville Office.
The ZIP Code was drawn up to
eliminate confusion caused by so
many postofflees named about
the same. Buck urged everyone
to use the ZIP Code numbers. He
pointed out that a town had to
have 2500 population before it
could get city delivery of mail
and that unless Burnsville grew
faster In the future than it had
in the past, city house to house
delivery of mail would be a long
time off.
The future plans are for all mail
from toe Burnsville Office to be
handled out of Asheville office.
Buck said that a letter mailed In
Burnsville In the afternoon would
be delivered in New York the
next morning.
Mike Whitson entertained toe
Club with special music on his
accord lan.
Locals
Mrs. George Roberts visited her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
Lamb, in Ingold, N. C. last week
and she also attended toe funeral
of her aunt in fit. Paul, N. C.
Mrs. Elizabeth Silver who has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Jack Risers, and family has re
turned to her home here,
Mrs. Iliff Clevenger is a patient i
in Yancey Hospital here.
•Harold Hijglne/ *
warren wrSfci. A’College, Swaiv
nanoa, visited hiv parents, Mr,
aixjLjMrs. Ray Hlftfna. here last
wees-end.
Mrs. Charles B. l-ammel visit
ed her son. Charles Trammel, Jr.
and children in Elkin last week.
Mrs. Max Fox and son of Boone
were guests of her parents, Rev.
and Mrs. Trarrmel, here during
the week.
Miss Lisa Fats of Greensboro,
granddaughter if Mr. and Mrs.
D. R. Fouts, isvisitlng her grand
parents this wek.
Mrs. Robert 3 |-esnell has been
confined to heriome here for the
past week due o Illness, she will
go to Durham Saturday where
she will enter lice Hospital on
Monday of nej tweek.
Mrs. Robert JUlard returned to
her home Satutay after several
' days in Yance; Hospital here.
M. D. Bailey mdei went surgery
1 in Mission Meortal Hospital two
weeks ago ands reported to be
making satisfaary progress to
ward recovery. |
, Mrs. C. (P. liidolph entered
Mission Hospltaln Asheville last
Thursday. She offered a broken
hip Thursday nftilng and under
went surgery H evening. Mrs.
Randolph was Hng to reach a
j child that had tinted during a
school program when she fell at
. the Burnsville lementary School.
Mr. and Mr B. R. Penland.
* are vacatlonlngin Florida this '
1 week.
[ Adler Byrd vtt enter Baptist
; Hospital on Me ay, March 24
for a checkup, ; will probably
| be there for a n ;k.
( Mr. and Mrs. . r Edge and Mr.
and Mrs. C. O. lUs have return
‘ ed home after i sationing in New
Orleans and Mil 1, Fla. for about
ten days.
Mr. and Mn P. C Ooletta,'
' David and Iren visited Frances
and Theresa C tta last week
end at Sacred lart College, Bel
mont, N. C. Wt there they at
• tended the Fresl an Follies, which
1 was under the c action of Theresa I
' Ooletta as Sort Chairman and ]
Frarc-s as Pr ram Chairman.
1 Both twins are members of the
staff of the Cc ge newspaper,
' serving as refill r columnists,
f Frances recen had a part in
a three-act pla; entitled, “Nine
1 Girls.” Theresa s recently elect
’ ed to be one of ye attendants of
the May Queen, , festivity which
1 takes place in (ay when the
Queen -s crown .
Legislation To
Restrict Importa
tion Os Meat
Introduced
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Congress
man Basil L. Whitener has intro
duced legislation in the Congress
to restrict the rapidly Increasing
importation of meat and meat
products into the United States.
Statistics rcleased by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture show
that 1,885,000,000 pounds of
and meat products, or the equi
valent of 3,250,000 cattle, was Im
ported during 1963.
Whitener’s bill, which has been
referred- to the Houre Ways and
Means Committee, would Impose
a quota on the Importation of
meat and meat products equi
valent to the average amount im
ported during toe past 5 years.
In Introducing his measure White
ner declared that the importation
of meat, principally from New
Zealand and Australia, is having
a disastrous effect on the Ameri
can cattle Industry, particularly
In the Southeastern United States.
The 10th District Congressman
said that from 1956 to 1963 fresh
or frozen beef and veal Imports
alone have Increased by 3546%
or 38 times as much as they were
In 1956. In the same period, White
ner said, lamb and mutton Im
ports were 58 times as great as
the 1950 imports.
“The American cattle industry,”
Whitener declared on introducing
his bill, “has now joined a long
list of other American industries
suffering by reason of an un
realistic foreiyn trade policy. It
is imperative that the Congress
I restrict the Importation of meat
I and meat products if the American
[cattle raiser and feed' grain fav
mes are to maintain their present
standard of living.”
N. C. Volunteers
Program Designed To
Break Poverty Cycle
Jim Beatty, of the North Caro
lina Fund, today announced his
plans for a statewide recruiting
drive which starts Wednesday on
Tarheel college campuses. Beatty
wants to enlist 100 college students
for summer service in the North l
Carolina Volunteers.
The North Carolina Volunteers,
a program which has been care
fully developed since July 1963,
Is designed to put young North
Carolinians into the state’s cam
paign to break the poverty cycle.
Beatty, who returned to North
Carolina In October 196’ to direct
such a volunteer program, and
Curtis Gans, a graduate of the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, will conduct the re
cruiting program. Both men will
speak at college campuses throu
ghout the state, within the next
| few weeks.
Beatty started the recruiting
push Wednesday In the Charlotte
area, speaking Wednesday and
Thursday at Quens College, David
son College, Johnson C. Smith
University and Charlotte College,.
At the same time, Gans will
explain the North Carolina Volun
teers program to students at
Greensboro-area schools including
I North Carolina Agricultural and
Technical College, Bennett Col
lege, Un versity of North Carolina
at Greensboro, Greensboro Col
lege, and Guilford College.
The following week (March 21-
127, the two NCV recruiters ’ will
|be on campuses of North Carolina j
State of. the University of North
Carolina at Raleigh, Duke Uni
versity, University of North Caro
lina at Chapel HiU, Shaw Univer
sity, St. Augustine’s College, Ap
palachian State Teachers College,
Pfeiffer College, Livingstone Col
lege, LenOir-Rhyne College, East
Carolina College, and Wake For
est College.
At the campus meetings, Beatty
Price Per Copy Five Celts
■' _ ..an ... .
Motion Pictures Os N. C.
Released This Month
The Old North State will soon
see Uself In motion pictures.
This month the North Carolina
Film Board begins releasing the
first of a dozen movies interpre
ting the state and changes taking
place within its boundaries to Tar
Heel citizens.
James Beveridge, director of the
Film Board, announces these
Annual Daffodil
Show In
Asheville
The Sixth Annual Daffodil Show
sonsored by the French Broad
River Garden Club will be held
April 2nd and 3rd in the Gold
Room of the Battery Park Hotel,
Asheville. This opening event of
the horticultural year will be open
to the public and all amateur
growers of daffodils are invited
to participate.
Simultaneously, the American
Daffodil Society will hold Its an
nual national convention. It will
be worth traveling hundreds of
miles to hear the speakers and
view the Daffodil Show. Mr. Willis
Wheeler of Arlington, Virginia is
President of the Society and Mrs.
Clarence Heer, Chapel Hill, N. C.
Is Regional Vice-President. ,
For complete details of the Daf
fodil Show write Mrs. Frederiug
L. Worcester, 403 Vanderbilt Road,
Blltmore, N. C. or Mrs. Robert L.
Montague, 40 Dogwood Road,
Asheville, N. C. I
Several exhibits of cut daffodils!
are expected to be shipped to
, Asheville by growers in Ireland,
Holland, England and America.
I
I
or Gans will give, a short talk,
followed by a questlon-and-answer j
session, and an informal period i
of person-to-person conservation.
The NCV program offers quali
fied college students an li-week
experience in community service,
(at a pay rate of $250 for the 11-'
week period). “The big payoff!
for the student,” says NCV dir- 1
ector Beatty, “is the new experi-1
ence he’ll get from a summer of
unselfish work in The North Caro
lna Fund’s program for breaking
the poverty cycle.”
“The North Carolina Fund will
start 10 community projects, |
spread throughout the state, ex-1
perimenting with solutions to
these communities’ poverty pro- j
blems. The Fund has a limited
amount of money to spend. And
we think one way to make these
programs more successful, and
make the available money go fur
ther, is to recruit volunteers from
among, our college men and
women.’’
Says Beatty, “we are confident
that these students benefit from a
summer of unselfish service, as
much as the communities benefit
from the students’ help.”
NCV members will work under
the supervision of North Carolina
Fund project directors. Wherever
possible, they’ll live and eat at
college campuses near The North
Carolina Fund community pro
jects. Where no campus is nearby,
Jthey will, be housed in private
homes in the community.
Interested students should con
tact The North Carolina Fund
office in Durham. Initial screen
ing of volunteers will he handled
by selection boards located in die
several areas of the state in which'
colleges are concentrated.
The North Carolina Volunteers
staff itself will do the final screen-
NUMBER THIRTY-ONE
first releases:
“The Ayes Hava It,»’ a “candid”
documentary on toe State Letts
lature; “The Road to Carolina,”
a history film produced for the
Carolina Charter Tercentenary
Commission; and “Dying Fron
tier,” an hour-long review of
pressing problems in the Appala
chians.
Other subjects to follow in
clude : consolidated schools in a
changing educational pattern,
prospects for Eastern North Caro
lina, an art film on Tyron Palace,
the shift towards food processing,
the fishing Industry in North Caro
lina, and the Outer Banks area.
During the past year whirring
cameras have been recording
these stories on celluloid at many
localities in Carolina from toe
mountains to the sea. Most of th*
films are in color.
As each film is completed, it
will become available for show
ing on television, in schools,
through 'various State a&encies.
at civic clubs and through national
film libraries.
Beveridge and his assistant dir
ector Ben Mast serve in Raleigh
as executive producers for the
documentaries, which range In
length from 30 minutes to an hour
each. The productions are con
tracted to well-known directors
and cameramen for filming.
. The North Carolina Film Board
was established In 1962 under a
three-year grant from the Richard
son Foundation in New Yoik. Th#
State Department of Conservat
ion and Development admlnis
lters the grant.
I The Film Board is directly re
-1 sponsible to toe office of Gover
nor Terry Sanford, which was in
strumental in securing the grant.
| Director James Beveridge was
I formerly an executive producer for
the National Film Board of
Canada, with additional back
yround In film-making in England
and India.
Assistant Director Ben Mast, a
native of Watauga County, has
previous experience with the Am
erican Broadcasting Company’s
news and public affairs division,
the United States Information
Agency and the United Nations
I Information Service. Mast is a
I graduate of Appalachian State
I Teachers College and University
l of North Carolina.
Three world leading film-mak
ing experts seive on the advisory
council to the unique North Caro
lina Film Board, believed to be
first state agency of Us kind In
j the nation.
j They are John Grierson of Scot
■ land, the founder of the lnternat
] lonal documentary movement;
Borden Mace, % native of Beau
fort and graduate of UNC, now an
executive of Heath Deßochemont
Corp.: and George C. Stoney, a
Winston-Salem native and UNC
I graduate, now a highly regarded
j film writer and director in New
York.
j Other prominent North Caro
linians on the advisory council:
Dr. Lewis Dowdy, president of the ,
Agricultural and Technical Col
lege, Greensboro: Harmon Dun
can, general manager of WTVD
TV, Durham; James Gray, Wins
ton-Salem; Paul Green, Pultiaer
prize winning playwright, Chapel
Hill; Dr. Horace Hamilton, North
Carolina State College, Raleigh;
Mrs. Guy Johnson. Chapel Hitt;
P. R. Latta, Raleigh; Dr. David
R. Middleton, East Carolina Col
lege, Greenville; Sam Ragan, exe
cutive editor of the NEWS AND
OBSERVER, Raleigh; Dr. W. D.
Weatherford, Black Mountain;
and Lawrence O. Weaver, Greens
boro.
Singing Program
At big Creek
Church
A program of singing will ba
' held at the Big Creek Free Will
| Baptist Church Saturday night,
J April IS, beginning at 7:30 p. m.
, All singers and the public ate in
vited to attend.