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» VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHT Anglin Named Chairman For Kennedy Memorial Fund Drive RALElGH—Governor Terry San for'i has anounced the appoint ment of William E. Anglin of Burnsville to ( be Chairman for Yancey County in the state-wide drive to raise North Carolina’s ■portion of funds for the John Fitzgerald K&nnedy Library. Rabies Clinic Dates Announ ced By Hea!th Department Rabies clinics for Mitcrell and Yancey counties have been sche duled as listed below: * MITCHELL COUNTY Spruce Pine, on the Ball Ground, Wednesday, April 29th 3:30 to 6:09 P. M. Bakersville, Bowman High School Grounds, Wednesday, May (ith 3:30 to 4:30 P. M. Ledger, on School Grounds, Wrdnesay May 6th S:CO to 6:00 P. M. P £ YANCEY COUNTY Micaville, on School Grounds, Wednesday, May 13th 3:30 to 4:30 P. M South Toe School Grounds, Wed nesday, May 13th 4:30 to 5:30 P. M. Burnsville, at the Health Center, Saturday, May 16th 1:00 to 3:00 P. M. Bald Creek, on the School Grounds, Wednesday, 3:30 'to. -£;JO P. M.„. , .. Pensacola, at H. D. Ray’s Store, Wednesday, May 27th 2:00 to 3:00 P. M. Wilson’s Store, Wednesday, May 27th 3:00 to 4:00 P. M. Chamber Os Commerce To Meet April 30 The annual meeting, of the Yan- cey Chamber of Commerce will toe held Thursday, April 30, at 7 p. m. in the Burnsville Community Building. This wild be a supper meeting, combining a good meal with a fine program. Guest speaker will be Ray Bras well, president of the Avery Coun ty Oiamber of Commerce. Avery County is making an outstanding record of civic achievement. Mr. Braswell, who is a brilliant speak er, will discuss their program, and since many of their problems are the same as they are in our county, everyone yill profit by hearing him. , .. ■ »—■*► 'WmlSm&xrJ - wMm§sMMff ‘.’ > IBBSw jgKjjNS r : ' \.- i*J3sw ■ -•^v' Birthday Greetings to Gregory, one-year-old son of Mr. and M r Mrs. Bill Laws of Burnsville. Subscription $2.50 Per Year Dr. Billy Graham will be one of - the featured speakers paying tri f bute to President'John F. Kennedy ’ in Kenan Stadium-tin Chapel Hill i on Sunday, May 17, to close the > North Carolina drive for eontri i buttons to the Kennedy Library. All persons contributing $lO in ' Yancey County will receive tic kets to the Chapel Hill event from Anglin land members of the local committee. Each person receiving the $lO adult ticket may request a ticket for a child 15 years and younger at no additional cost. Members .of both political par- I ties were appointed by Governor Sanford to sponsor the drive in North Carolina for the library which will house historic papers that came into the nation’s pos | session during President Kennedy’s term. Democrats on the State Com ( mittee for the Kennedy Library in clude U. S. Senators Sam J1 Er vin. Jr., and B. Everett Jordan, ( hs well as Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges and State Party Chairman W. Lunsford Crew. Prominent North Carolina Rr ! publicans on the non-partisan State Committee for the Kennedy Lib rary Find are Congressman ■Charles Raper Jonas, J. Herman Saxon. J. E. Broyhlll, and Federal j District Judge A. L. Butler. Sanford said it will be more meaningful for North Carolinians to make a united contribution to a major national memufjpl to honor the late Fresdent than it would be to name various public facilities in North Carolina for President Kennedy. Hugh Morton of Wilmington, owner of Grandfather Mountain And Chairman of the U. S. S. North Carolina Battleship Com mission, was named by Sanford as chairman of the State Com mittee for the Kennedy Library. G. I Andrew Jones, Jr„ State Budget Officer, is Treasurer for the drive which has $230,000 for its mini mum state goal. Persons interested in purchasing tickets to the May 17 tribute to President Kennedy, or 'in helping in the local drive, should contact Mr. Anglin. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends, relatives and neighbors for all their many acts of kind ness and the beautiful flowers re ceived, during the recent illness and death of our husband and father. The Waldrop Family THE YANCEY RECORD “Dedicated To TKe Progrow Os Yancey County" a-a v ’;- Hk 1111? > £ •*' V- „ \ 'dm CHARLEL W. STEELMAN Charles W. Steelman has been appointed assistant county Far mers Home Administration super visor for Buncombe County. Steel man, a native of Asheville, is a graduate oto Leicester Hgh School and N. C. State College, where ha irtijored in field crops. After four yeare sendee in the U. S. Navy, he was named assistant agricul tural agent for Yancey County, a post he has held for the past five years. Steelman is married to the former Helen Maness, and they have two daughters, Fiances Anne and Charlene Helen. He and his family plan to move to Lei cester in the near future. 1 Former Resident Dies In Mass. Mrs. Ada Belle Hall, 66, for . merly of Yancey County, died Fri day morning in her home in Bed ford, Mass., after a heart attack. She was a daughter of the late W. Nelson and Harriet Ann Tip ’ton of B-g-navilie, Mrs. Hall graduated from Wood vllle Hospital Nurring School in Woodville, Pa. She entered gov ernment service In Johnson City, Tenm, and served in Akron, Ohio; Alexandria, La.; and at oteen VA Hospital near Asheville. She retired 10 years ago as head nurse of a veterans hospital in Boston, Mass. Surviving are the husband, D. E. Hall; a daughter, Mrs. Charlie DVeau of West Acton, Mass.; five sisters, Mrs. L. A. White of Wash ington, D. C.; Mrs. J. J. Nowlcki of Asheville Rt. 2, Mrs. Sue Oof fey, Mrs. Claude Honeycutt and Mas. Luther Banks, all of Burns ville; two brothers, H. G. Tipton of Marion and Jason Tipton of Renfrew, Pa.; two grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. Mrs. Nowlcki, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rcvis and Miss Pat Banks left Asheville Friday to join relatives in Washington who attended ser vices in Bedford Sunday. Burial was m the HaU cemetery In Free dom, Maine. .V»v» wl «W WUlt). UPON THIS ROCK, by Frank G. ■ Slaughter. The stoiry of Simon Peter from boyhood to fisherman dlsciple t( > preacher of the *• ~*T' word. & : v y f . J*f Bo?nsvi»le PTA gL *3sUF To Meet Tuesday 1 TV Burnsville Elementary Hi ' 5 *4o%* 9 i School Parent-Teacher Association ,»-A wlll tvo'd its fu.ial m.cling of the 3f school year on Tuesday, April 21 Hg£||||f ' 4 T / at 7:00 P- Pi- in the lunchroom. l / This will bi: a covered dish supper. fIUHr * ' j i -y,W U Installation of officers for 15KM-65 g will b « held at tills meeting. it .. M \ 1 * Tem L, Mallonce K i> ' J Vl| To Be Ir. County Ja p Tom 1, Mallonce, 11th. Congress ,; . ' , .-* ... <]gj|f , *fe. & If v\ 'I ~. ~ w .,■ •/"•'/'*’ • Bbt ‘ ' -r 1 ■ 1:| :I 1 111 h T :, •(■ll■■ II •- £* jg .', 3rafegfflff i -J:s~(l the r aunties. : '•. l:i\. M.iy will lx ; • ' 'll Ihi Vaneev County Cimi f!ii.usc. V*"' '' ’ But tisville. from 1:30 to 2:30 p. m. ; 'I: ; ■ An y Person who has plans or v .y... ~.,.m. ~;; :#!: . official business pertaining to w. . y „u, Congressional matters they wish E„ tert Boone i «j^v«“‘:r time. BURNSVILLE, N. €., THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1964 Democrats Name Candidates For Office Yancey County Democrats nomi nated a full ticket of candidates for county offices in the November election at a oounty convention in the courthouse here Saturday. AH candidates named for the Convention are incumbents with the exception of the nominee for the register of deeds. Mrs. Grace lAyiers won over Mrs. Evelyn H. Pate who has served in that capa city for the past 12 years. Mark Bennett was named as the party’s candidate for the House of Representatives: J. Bis Ray for chairman of the Board of County Commissioners; Floyd , Wilson and Clarence Wheeler for county commissioners; and G. M. Angel for justice of the peace for Burnsville Township. Nominfatafl to seek reelection on the County’Board of Education were J. Leland Robinson, C. W. Mclntosh. Ben Wilson, R. b. Dcy . ton and R. A. Radford. Yates Btnnetl was reelected : chairman of the Yancey County Democratic (party; Mrs. Fried Young, vie* djhairman; (and Jack Boone, secretary. The following Resolution was introduced to the delegation by DR. Pouts, a delegate from Bur nsville precinct; NOW, THEREFORE, be it RE SOLVED by the Democratic Con vention of Yancey County in sess ion assembled on April 11, 1964: 1. That * delegates are op posed to the intipd’jction of pass age of any legislation in the Gen eral Assembli o# .AS&6., authorising the establishment •‘at Alcoholic Beverage Contoß Store, or stores. In Ya.icey Colity, or any munici pality . there»#A *~ —■- - $ ' f**j 2. That no legislation, local or general, ne enacted authorizing or legalizing) the aale of wine, beer, or other alcoholic beverages ir any way or nanner in Yancey County, or any municipality thereof. The fonegoiig RESOLUTION adopted by vots of the delegates to the Democntic County Conven tion April 11, 1964. Three local Students Named On Horor Roll Cullowfiee— I Tiree Yancey Coun ty students are (among those list ed on the honcr roll for the win ter quarter at Western Carolina College. Those listed <a Alpha honor roll are: Raleigh Cruelius Buchanan, of Burnsville; Rosemary Celia Jamerson, of Bfd Creek. Named • to tb Beta’ honor roll is: Frances El.*n# Hensley, of Burnsville. w PnC * Per Copy H * e C*** Ntfftttttß VtTtVK gatm East Yancey Betas frijn Win First Place In V-fT Talent Contest i Jmsk Photo by John Robins** | Miss Mary Louise Boone and Steven Anthony Young plan a June wedding. She is the daughter 'I of Mrs. Frank Daniel Boone of Newdale, who announces the en gagement, and the late,Mr. Boone. 1 He is the son of [Mrs- Grady 1 Young of Burnsville and the late ■ Mr. Young, and is attending Mars Hill College. ! New Books ! Available At Library * ’ New books now available on the . shelves of the Avery-MitcheU i Yancey Regional Libraries in clude the following: DECISION-MAKING IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Theodore So renson. Forces, Influences, limitat ions, etc...upon decisions made by the Ppgjtoient. With a forward by John F. Kennedy. THE GREAT TREASURY RAID, by Phillip Stejm. A very readable survey of- the. loopholes in our < system of individual taxation. THE . HIDDEN GQD,< by Cdeaoth " BKfcaaK KJmSBlr" significance found in works of authors Heming way. Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot, War ren. RASCAL: A MEMOIR OF A BETTER ERA, by Steriing North, Best seller about an author’s boy hood in Wisconsin, his pets, es pecially his raccoon. Rascal. THE WINE IS BITTER, by Milton Eisnhower. Our former president's brother tells of his experiences in Latin America when he was Ike’s special re presentative there from 1956-1961. PA, A NOVEL, by Cofhbum O’Neal. A Texas oil millionaire’s warm relation to his childien, his cmdness of manner, his sterling worth. SAND PEBBLES, hy Richard McKenna. Best seller. A man’s life on an American gunboat on the Yangtze River. , SILENCE IN CRETE, by Eliza beth Ayrton. Novel of a deaf man who becomes involved in illegal archeological digging in Crete. A TIME TO SPEAK, by Jane Drummond. Novel of citizens in a small town on the African veldt , and their reaction to crisis The State Beta Convention held at Raleigh this past weekend sponsored a talent show which m*i sisted of the .ten best talent pfcr iornaanoea, including liv* spots and five skits, m North Carolina. Under the directon or jg r s. Ellasa beth Westad, the Eost v*<mcey Betas entered a skit (a pern*** 1 1 manoe of ten minutes) and won first place prize for fifty dollars. Excerpts from Edgar Lee Mfts- E ~ Episcopal Church ! Women Sponsor s Card Party The Parish Hall of Trinity j Episcopal Church, Spruce Fine, will be tlie scene of a dessert Bridge and Canasta Party next Wednesday afternoon, April at, at I:SQ P. m. Refreshments will be served first, after which tables of bridge, and canasta, or. any other card game of choice, will be In play. Players are asked to bring their own cards. There wfll he table prizes, and several door prizes. Tickets are fl.od p«r son. Members of Trinity Church Women in Burnsville arj serving on the party oommitte** and would like to sea a turnout from ! 018 fiatftosvitt* area. Mrs. Evelyn Dobbins, Spruce Pine, Is general chairman. Reservations may be 6®-are&. Farther details may he obtained from either ot these numbers, ju B % Clyde M. Norton, Democratic: candidate for nomination to the state senate from the new JHth. district comprised of MdDower, Madison, Yancey, aad IdtOhell ■ counties. Norton was bom and reared at Marion and attended schools tilers. He i* the owner-operator of a furniture store at Old Fort, has been a county commissioner for eight yeans. Hie served a si* year term running to liBB. He haa been active la the Qe. mocratlc party of the county and the state for a number of years and was a delegate to the igGQ Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. During World War fit Norton was a security risk investigator in Richmond, Va., and Knoxville. Tenn. For the ghat 18 years fee has owned and upemte* his store in Odd Post. A Baptist, he Has bees a dMAilt and taught a Sunday School class at Old Fort Baptist Church far 16 yekrs and is a Ma§on and past master of the Odd Fort lodge He is active In the McDowell His torical Society and L, t of Rctary Club and McOswoll Chamber of Commence. His the former Jiaet Nodine, teaches In Old Fort Ele mentaay School. Their three cfliid ren are Kenneth, a |unior In |*h Toratny - * arader •wa Sarah, wtu> will enter schoel IW * l wmr. (Is Nortons Uv» m ■mte an ROM b m Fnt. 1 **' • r g m. / i tens’ apooc RlVer Anthology ra- I presented to the audience the ■ various types of ewto found in ■ small America® toyms. Ibe eerie • etfeest «ts tb* performances began . Immediately when Fml - taaa sang “Gon* Awaar" » thg ' curtains slowlar qpened {o a dark i dmdtd in «d>- proertat* • ed on the stage. A totals spo*n*i» picked them op in the fallowing' order: David Ogfetta, Harry WU manS: Lyttn English, RebectSa Waason; Gary Roy, Coony Potter; Byivuj Zuver. Judgjy foyers; David Thomas, ioaeoe PeekipUe; Jo* Moody, Andy the ejgihtvrat)*: Nor man Ray, fiddler Jones; CSmaiy* Plate, Lupthda Matiock. Jerry Ayers did the lights. The ellniax was reached when "Sp«m River” was sung by Amelia Fwiland, an® Nornaan Roy completed the perfor maube with * closing epitaph. iinc« the talent show was given at th* first general session 6f the convention f» Friday eight, thirty*- fix Betas under the aupemsi® ot Mrs. Dortsthy Ray, Wub sponsor, and Mta- WbStaH, left eafiy that mottilbg tor Hjatatgh on a charter •d bus. m adtation to the Ones ta the skit the following Betae went: Janl* Bail**, Bailey, Bar bara Brower. BBrold Bowditrh, i Gerald Pender, Barbara Mae, i Betty Harris Owes- W4* Mufttock, Dadtar fWtartwa, Gary SoWHSdP;, *»y Rpbinaon, p&trida ftoMtaqo, JuJltfoaa Rattadge, Doyle Btytea, Benson Tyror, CSwries Billls, Dai Wsm, Quod Young, fto the way to the convection tb* Betas saw WSUte Rarest cyb«p. and vikitpd the tti mil lisa dollar Whitaker Parte Cigarette Wg*L «r» the R. J. Reynolds Ttt b&Aeo domtbaya Uugtsnt atnyi* units which (»*r ag «t-- tire fourteen acres-. The fieeand Genera} smSioa at the ctanventkta was h*id ed Satar day morning to tb# Manorial Auditorium. Superintendent Ctnrv f«s P- Carroll, fitata at Bdnetttga, gave thy addeana to anwnd f«ur thousand Betas, Tte tftemeon wan free , for sgetoc The Ea« taaeiy gta <tont» Visited the aew Legbilativ* Building, tbs Mufeedro off Art,, tae Museum of Natural Htotwy, and HaU JRstary. The hlghUgfat of the wertomd was the bemauet at the Sir Waitta MSI 6 A W cgfp toria with ton *in** foHunrtar in toe auditortdp. Tk* Betad tefflitoed Bopdgf. On 1 their way. (shew had fommst «. Duka and sitmk* mrvmm at tithe Dutt oh um mm (Bum , lawiig at ou of M» Wa <#** I tolas. State CMNCfc AflCfc-eW j {Jdhasaa’s b{rQ«bh%. 4p«t atw*L ,v»B Wem «ist tmtH mtsm. m r r<«a» % BuriUWllla ® said that ans *m*a mm dranwaliMi waa al «a of | tt« xnkt saMWMte 4»3 hwofest eteats i» tka ft*u» of T5aS» y*Q j stoSmlfc ■* , ™ — '•••lf iu Rites Held For Mrs# Laura Haney Hm- I'WHi. ton*. 47. of Ss|l *, died « Vattfltw told Ixo% sty afismowt aft*r a la* &•**. «ervt*9 WWW Wd at * n,. WahesHgy (s HStgbQa Bap tot Gfcureh. Th* HfV, Dave Blevins ed. Burial mfc fa the dhurch <wme-. tery. __ * Brrvivfi!* ara t*» tmstond. ftolos limey: a dattgitter, Mrili »ri BUlcklaad, W five spm, RolwA Tipton and Grady, Pant, M«wa and Osenm (Sanqr. all dP RHJ «, SarrißVllle: four Asters. Mrs. Wiley McPetera end Mrs Don Wilson, both of Marion, tin ffwa mmmrn to., .«n» toltor of fUPD Sr a Boa Mdliip. of m S. •«S WOW pWnfktdML I «*«..«a ' . *
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