TWENTY-NINE
Burley Tobacco Refer
endum February 25
President's Johnson’s references
to acreage-poundage tobacco le
gislation in his farm message to
the Congress last Thursday has
no beaming on hurley tobacco re
ferendum coming up on Thursday,
F. hruary 25 Statement was
made today by A. P. Hassell,
Obiiuaries
WALTER E. RAY
Walkr E. Ray, 60, of the
Concord community, died to an
Asheville nutsing home Friday af
ter a long illness.
, He was a native of Yancey
County,,, and a retire.! farmer. .
Surviving arc, two daughters,
Mrs. Margarie Pagan of Vienna,
Va., and Miss Doris Jean Ray of
Burnsville; a son, Rex C. Ray of
Burnsville Rt. 2; and seven
grandchildren.
Services wtero held at 2 p. m.
Sunday in the chapel of Hol
combe Brothers Fcneral Home.
The Rev. Jack Green and the
Rev. A. Z. Jamerson officiated
and burial was in Penland
Cemetery.
MRS. IDA LEFLER
, Mrs. Ida E. Lefljter, 60, of tha
Celo section of Yancey County,
died Sunday in her home follow
ing a long illness.
She was a retired postmaster
of Pompano B.ach, Fia., and a
resident of Yancey County for
the past 2 years.
Surviving are the husband,
W. A. Lefler; the father, Ray
mond W. Keith of Ripley, N. Y.;
a sister,. Mrs. John Gage of Kau
neonaga Lake, N. Y.; and a bro
ther, of Ripley.
Services were held Tuesday at
2:30 p. m.. In Brown’s Creek Bap
tist Church.
The Rev. Ralph Mumpower
officiated and burial was in Carra
way Cemetery. Pallbearers were
members of the Adult Men's Class
of the church. ""
MRS. ELLA ROBERTS THOMAS
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella
Roberts Thomas, 60, of Green
Mountain RFD 1, who died at
her residence Friday after a long
illness were held Sunday at 2
p. m. in Pleasant Grove Baptist
Church.
The Rev. Park Whitson and
thei Rev. Earl Blankenship offi
ciated and burial was in the
church cemetery.
Mrs. Thomas was a member of
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
and a daughter of thei late Tho
mas and Elizabeth Jaraett Rob
erts.
Surviving are the husband, Cas
Thomas; four daughters, Mrs.
Helen Smith of Eau Gallie, Fla., I
Mrs. Joycsi Cranford of Marion,
Mrs. Willa Mae Whitson of Bur
nsville, and Mrs,, Vallie Rae
Pendell of Detroit; two sons,
p Clayton of Walled Lake, Mich.,
and S. F. Thomas of the home;
-three sisters, Mrs. Virgil McCur
ry and Mrs. Howard Johnson of
Kingsport, Tenn., and Mrs. Gteo
rge Thomas of Erwin, Tenn.; five
brothers, Bob of Marion, Ed of
Kingsport, George of, Burnsville,
Loozo of Leesburg, Fla., and
Manuel Roberts of Orlando, Fla.;
ami 13 grariSchildren.
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Basketball Game
Proceeds To Aid
Heart Fund
The Cana River All Stars will
play the East Yancey AU Stars
on Monday, February 22 at 8:00
p. ip. in the East Yancey gym
ntslum.
AH proceeds from th» game
will go to the Yancey Heart Fund.
fTMNOIMN AMIUCA'S PtACt fOWHI
U. S.
SAVINGS
o3Bsbonds.
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The Yancey record
Subswiption $2.50 Per Year
Jr., Executive Director of the
Agrioultcral Stabilization and
Conservation Service.
, “Burl.ty growers of this State
are voting only on whether or
not the present acreage allot
ment and price support programs
for hurley tobacco will be con
tinued on the rnixt three crops.
In his message to the Cbngress
on Thursday, February 4, the
President called for price support
anr production adjustment pro
grams now in effect on major
farm commodities to bte continued
and improved a,:4 added, with re
lation to tobacco prograins
specifically,". . legislation is
needed t oauthorize production
and marketing limits on an
acreage-poundage basis. . .”
Burley growers will vote in
thei referendum on February 25
for or against continuation of the
present acreage allotment and
price support program for the
years of 1905, 1966 and 1967. A,
two-thirds favorable vote is ne
cessary, every hurley grower is
urged to make his choice by vot
ing.
Legislation now being consider
ed by the Congress provides ‘ for
an acreag>poundage program,
but only if a majority of the
growers of any types of tobacco
rote in favor of it in special re
feivaidums, indcatng their prefere
nce to it over the present acreage
allotment program. In no other
manner can acreage-poendage be
put into effect, und.r provisions
of legislation now pending.
Listed below are communities
and voting plac.s for the 1965
Burley Tobacco Referendum:
East Burnsville ASCS Office;
West Burnsville, Ben Banks Store
and J. F. Robinson Store; Cane
River, Proffitt’s Store & Fred
Silvers; Upper Egypt, Lloyd Mil
ler Store; Lower Egypt, Arthur
Edwards Store; Ramseytown, Re
gular Voting Place; Green Moun
tain; Regular Voting"" Place;
Brush Creek, Regular Voting
Place; Upper Jacks Creek, Hig
gins Store; Lower Jacks Creek,
Clearmont School; East Crabtree,
Woodrow Howell Store; West
Crabtree, Delling.r & Silvers
Store it Ed Gouge Store; Upper
South Toe, Woodrow Ballew Store:;
Lower South Toe, Chrisawn Store;
Pensacola, Brooks Wilson Store;
Prices Creek, Regular Voting
Place.
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
RALEIGH —The Motor Vehicles
Departments, summary of traffic
deaths through 10 A. M. Monday,
February 15:
KILLED TO DATE 166
Killed To Date Last Year 174
Duke Endowment
Officials Announce
Appropriations
CHARLOTTE, K. C.,-Appro
, priations totaling $1,454,208 to |
assist Carolina hospitals and child
-care Institutions in financing
charity services were announced
today by trustees of-" Thci Duke
Endowment.
The checks are being mailed
this week and will ‘ bring to
$38,650,230 the amount The En
dowment has provided for this
• purpose in the 40 years of its ex
istence. The appropriations, bas
ed on charity services of the in
stitutions in the fiscal y.ar which
ended Sept. 30, 1964, include
$926,328 to 138 hospitals and
$527,880 to 41 child care instltu
: tions.
| Additional allocations will be
made later this month when trus
tees will consider hospital appli
cations which havo been com
| pleted since the current appro-
I priations were mad*, Thomas
L. Perkins, chairman of the
“Dedicated To The Os Yancey Omnty*
Highway Patrol
men Urge Ped
estrian Caution
Patrolman Adams and Patrol
man Warren have made the fol
’ lowing statement cone rning dea
hsths in Yancey County from ve
il de accidents:
j "According to actual records
during the year 1964, four persons
| wjre fatally injured on state high
ways in Yancey County from mo
(tor vehicle accidents. Os the four
killed two were pedestrians struck
down by automobiles While" cross
. ing the roaa.
Sc> far in 1985 there lias been
one fatal accident in Yancey
County which involved a ped.s
trian crossing the highway.
The --Statet Highway Patrol is
asking not only that drivers of
automobiles take more care, but
; that p:rsons walking on the
! highway be particularly careful
while crossing from one aide to
the other.
More caution by operators of
motor vehicles and by pedestrians
cn the highways can cut the death
i rate in this county."
| Vandals Destroy
Church And
Town Property *
Vandals had a holiday last
Thursday night throwing rocks
and bottles through windows in
| Burnsville business places.
| A window im-tn; Farmers Fed
eration Building which is occupied
Iby Blue Ridge Hardware Co. and
a window in Hillliards Service
Station were discovered broken
early Friday morning.
Tw’o pan ils of glass in the front
door of TotvnT Hall were broken
and a window at the side of the
; building was also smashed.
Although it was not found what
instrument was used to break the
j plate glass window at Blue Ridge.
, Hardware Cq., two bottles were
j used to smash the window at
I Hilliard’s Service Station and
! rocks were used to damage) Town
Hall property.
Accord ng to Policeman Ralph
Penland, none of the places seem
ed,-to have beh entered by the
: vandals. None of' the businesses
, reported anything missing,
j The person or persons who
used the stores and bottles in
their course of vandalism were
o
damaging church property. Both
the Blue Ridge Hardware annex
buiding and Hilliard’s fVrvice
J Station are ownal by the First
Baptist Church of Burnsville.
Police Penland said that in
vestigation into the matter is
1 continuing. ‘ ,
trustees, said.
North Caroina institutons are
receiving $805,496 of which $526,-
201 is Being sent to 96 hospitals
and $339,263 to 24 child care ins
titutions. The amount appropriat
ed for South Carolina institutions
is $588,712 jvith $400,127. going to
42 hospitals and $188,585 to 17
child care institutions.
Institutions in Yancey, Avery,
and Mitchell counties were in-1
eluded in the appropriations. The
30-day bed Yancey hospital at
Burnsville will receive $1,938 to
ward its charity costs, compared
with $1,116 it received last year.
Spvuocr pine’s Community hospital
will receive $2,758 and the Charles
A. Cannon Jr., Memorial hospital
at Banner Elk, a 100-bed institut
ion will get $6,654. Last year It
received $9,439 toward its char
ity Orandfather Home
J for ChildrefC also at Banner Elk,
| was appropriated $14,33?.32.
BURNSVILLE, N, C.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY lITIWS
Heart Sunday
Set For Feb. 21
The fight against heart and
blood vessel diseasa, number one
killer of our time, will be carried
to every home in the Burnsville
area Sunday, February 21, when
, volunteers will call on the citizen
in observance of Heart Sunday.
If no on: is home when the
volunte-r arrives she will leave
an envelope In which the contri
bution can be mailed.
Mrs- Bill Fouts is Chairman of
the Hlearit Fund drive in Yancey
County this year.
Heart-Days-for Business is al
ready underway. This is a very
important phase of the month-long
Heart Fund Campaign. Burnsville
Businesses, are urged to contri
bute generously to this great
cause.
The Burnsville Girl Scout Cad
(ette Troop sold balloons for the
| benefit of the Heart Fund Satur-,
i day. They collected approximately
80X0 according to the Heart
Fund Chairman, Mrs. Fouts.
Telescope Will
Salute Burnsville
And Yancey
County Feb. 22
TELESCOPE will salute Burns
ville and Yancey County, on Mon
day,, February 22 from 9 to 9:20
a. m. This program is televised
over Channel 4, Greenville, S. C.
The Yancey County Chamber of
Commerce bas compiler! the ma
terial for tlie program.
TELESCOPE salutes a certain
'town within-the viewing area of
j Channel 4 each week.
| The Chamber of Commerce has
! work, d hard to get the material
together for |he program and the
citizens of the county should keep
| the date in mind.
New North Car
olina Vacation
Guide Published
The State of North Carolina
has just published a new 64-page
L guide to its travel attractions from
seashore to mountains at all
seasons. * ,
The 1965 edition of ""North
Carolina, VairHety Vacationland",
illustrated with more than 150
color photographs, is available)
free on request to the State Tra
vel Information Division, -< D.part
ment of Conservation and Deve
lopment, Raleigh, North Caro
lina. -
Parks, historical and recreation- ‘
al sit:s, sports, outdoor dramas
and summer theatres,, festivals,
and. gardens are among the many
Variety Vacationland features pre
sented in words and pictures.
Thesci features in localities from
Atlantic Ocean beahees to Southern
Appalachian ranges where there
are the tallest peaks in Eastern
America, ar;i within a day’s tra
vel or less for more than hjilf the
peopki ip U. S. A.
‘‘Vairiety Vacationland is far
more than a slogan in North
Carolina,” writes Governor Dan I
K. Moore in his introduction to
the new travel guide.’’ It is an
accurate description of a state
that offers the' visitor matchless
vacation adventure. , There is
exciting contrast and warm hos
pitality along each of the more
than 500 miles that range from
rugg d Cape Hatteras on the
coast to the Blue Ridge and
Great Smoky in the
west.
“Visit with us in North Carolina.
I will be a rich memorable experil
ence. A warm welcome awaits
you.”
The travel gufaki was presented
by the staff of the State Travel
Information Division. Photographs
are by Division personnel and
oth ir North Carolina photogra
phers.
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Man Diet As -
Result Os Auto
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.Injuries
Zeb Hughes, 71, of Pleasant
Gap Community, died Saturday
night in Yancey Hospital f rom
injuries received in an automo
bile accident February 9.
According to Patrolman ~ Ad
ams, who investigated the acci
dent, Mr. Hughes was walking
down highway 19 E near East
Yancey Hugh School when the
accident occurred. H.i was walk
ing East on thei left side of
the highway when someone who
knew him came by and pulled
off on th: i right shoulder of the
highway to pick Mr. Hughes up.
As he started across the road to
tije pick-up truck he walked Into
the paith of a car also headed
East.
Ttrer' car which struck Mr.
iftighes was driven by a Mr.
Self of Spruce Pine according to
f
Patrolman Adams.
Two witnesses of the accident
stated that it was unavoidable,
the patrolman said.
Cpl. R. E. Pipes, Higwway Pa
trolmare from Mairon aided Pat
rolman Adams In the investigat
ion.
Funeral services tor Mr. Hugh
es were held at 2 p. m. in Plea
sant Gap Baptist Church.
, The Rev. Lydia Ray and the
Rjv. J. N. Black officiated and
burial was in the Pete Young
Cemetery. Pallbearers were mem
bers of the Mm’s Bible Class
of the Church.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Sinnia Styles Hughes; fve daugh
ters, Mrs. Rex Ray of Burnsville
RF© 2, Mrs. Zal Quick of Greens
boro, and Mrs. V.rnon Woody,
Mrs. Johnny Buchanan and Mrs.
Polly Hughes of Green Moun
tain; six sons, Scotty of Burns
ville rfd 2, Vero Hushes of
Hickory, James D., Paul, Billy G.
and Roger Hughes, all of Green
Mountain; two sisters, Mrs. Sarah
Jane Hutchins of Marion and
Mrs. S rena Riddle of Green
Mountain; a brother, Robert
Hughes of New York; and 11
grandchildren.
Six Persons In
jured In Car-
Truck Accident
Six persons were hospitalized
from a car-pick-up truck ac
cident on highway 19E mar Cane
ftiver High School last week.
Patrolman Tommy Adams, who
investigated the accident with
Deputy Charlie Chrisawn, said
that a pick-up truck driven by
Virgil Robinson of RFD 4 and a
car driven by Bill Arrowood RFR
3, w.re involved i n the accident.
The car rammed into the rear
of the pick-up which had slowed
down according to the patrolman.
Robinson and three passengers
to the pick-up truck and Arro
wood and his passenger were all
hospitalized. -
Both vehicles werg total losses
the patrolman said.
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HOPE SPRTNGGS ETERNAL. , , for tile human heart.—Actor
Bob Hope, national sponsor of the 1985 Heart Fund campaign and
honorary' chairman of North Carolina's '’Hope for- H arts” crusade,
discusses matters of heart with state heart group leaders at Dur
ham. With Hoss are Dr. Eugene St ad d e ft(, chairman of Duke
•University Medical Center’s department of Medicine, and Dr. Her
bert O. Sicker, also of Dukei, president of the North Carolina Heart
Association. Inset, Peter Harden, of Burlngton, a Bob Hops looL
allksi and art Fund chair moo for Alamanes County,
Price Per Copy Five Crate
Job Corps Conservation
Center Staffs Arrive
For Training
Harvey (Cap) Price has been
in Franklin since the first of
January whfcre ha heads the Ar
rowood Jol> Corps Corporation
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Center near Franklin.
Mr. Price - was District Ranger
here 2Vi years. He and his fam
ily moved herei from Franklin
Rev. Boky To
Speak To
Methodist Men
The Htev. Ross Baky, Vicar of
Trinity Episcopal Churc In Spruce
will be the speaker at the
Methodist Men ( ’s Breakfast on
Sunday morning, February 21, at
8:00 a. m.
| He i& the former pastor of St.
George Church in Asheville where
he was for three and a half years.
Rev. Baky studied engineering
and worked in the construction
field and for Bell Telephone) Sys
tem for many years. He studied
for the ministry after agei 40.
Toe River Bas
ketball Tourney
Set For Feb. 24-27
The Toe River basketball tour
nament -will be held February 24,
25 , 26, and 27. The first games
will start on Wednesday night,
February 24, in the East Yancey
gymnasium.
The sjemi-finals will be. played
on Friday night in the Harris
High gymnasium. The finals will
be played on Saturday night In
the East Yancey gymnasium.
The boys and girls teams to be
entered include Newlahd, Cran
berry, and Crossnone from Avery
County. Harris High, Bakersvll]e„
and Tipton Hill from Mitchell
County, East Yancey and Can::
River from Yancey County. The
pairings for both boys and giris
beams will be announced later.
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number twenty-six.
where he was District Ranger.
Mrs. Price and daughters, Cathy
and Ruthie are still living in
Burnsville and will be hero until
April.
Jack Kelly will 'be assistant
to Mr. Price in his new position.
Mr. Kelly was assistant ranger
here for around 4 years. He left
here around a year ago for
Gainsvillie, Ga. where he was
ranger. Hie and Mrs. Kvlly and
children have already irioved to ■
Franklin.
Helton Carmichael is the new
District Ranger here. H:i came
here from Murphy where hr has
ben assistant ranger. Mr. Car
michael’s family, Mrs. Carmiqh* '
ael and two children, have not •
moved to Burnsville yiet. They
will move here in April.
Ranger Carmichael took up his -
duti is here on February 8
About 70 Job Corps staff mem
bers aAe slated to arrive at tha
Arrowood Job Corps Conservation •
Center near Franklin, N. C. for
an intensive 2 weeks training ses
sion starting this week, according
to Peter J.. Hanlon, Forest Super
visor of the National Forests in
North Carolina. *
The Supervisor also revealed
that the first group of 22 Job
Cnrpsmen .to be. assigned to the
Arrowood Genter are expected to
arrivci Friday, February Ift.
The visiting staff personnel will
soon be starting new Centers lo
cated at Breyard, N,; C,; Cape
Cpd, Mass.; Marienvtlte, .Peonft.;
[and Williamson County, Illinois.
|’Thn Arrowood staff headed by
I Director Harvey (Cap) Price
j and specialists from the Office
,of Economic Opportunity, the
j Department of Interior, <3and the
jU. S. Forest Servico will cooper
ate in pre.renting the training
program.
Objectives of this training ses
sion will include, working out the
details of each C~ uteris education
al and work programs. The Job
Corps will provide a total learn
ing experience including work,
training, skills, individual study,
recreation, physical activities, and
discussion. The program will
srek to combine basic * education
stressing reading, writing, and
arithmetic along with vocational
training ana practical work ex
perience in a plan gfcared to each
man’s ability,' speed, and interest.
| Job Corps, under the Economic
| Opportunity Act of 1964, will pro-
I vide* work training experience to
male volunteers 16 through 21
y;ars of age. Corpsmen will be
! given career guidance and Itelp
' up to a maximum of 2 years. Tha
Job Corps program is the basic
rung in the anti-poverty ladder
and as such will not produce high
ly educat d citizens or skilled
technicians but will give the Cor
psmen the skill and education
: . tools" necessary for employ
ment, or further educational and
vocational training. To accom
plish this obj ctlve requires much
idnivklual attention. All super
visory personnel in the Centers Jf|
will be instructors and examples
for the Corpsmen.
Upon completion of this train
ing s'ssion Genter staffs will go
to their respective Centers and’ J
open Job Corps Conservation
Centres.
Hat Party Sale
February 26 7
Everyone) in this area is eager
ly awaiting” Hat Party Sale” on
February 26. Friday, 10 .$. m.-» .
,P m., at the Nu-Wray Inn. This
Wat Party Sale, i* sponsored by
the Burnsvile Womans dub. All
the ladles are urged to circle this <
viatri on their calendar. There
will be an infinite, variety from
small to large,. all different-all
for $3.98. The latest spring fash
ions from diarlotte, New York
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