THE YANCEY RECORD
Established July, 1936
****** P. FOX, Editor ft Publisher
THURMAN L. BROWN, Shop Manager
ARCHIE BALLEW, Photographer ft Pressman
PUBLISHED EVERT- THURSDAY BY
YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY
Second Class Postage Paid at Burnsville, N. C.
THURSDAY, OCT. 14, 1965 NUMBER SEVEN
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The Great
Cucumber
Shuffle
The Great Cucumber Shuffle
There comes across the
desk a copy of the August
issue of Produce Marketing,
a business publication de
voted to the growing and
selling of produce.
Page 49 contains a photo
of cucumbers from Milan,
Tenn., being unloaded in
San Francisco, Calif. The
story accompanying the
photo said that for the first
time in memory, California
growers could not meet the
demand for cucumbers be
cause of inadequate labor.
So they bring them in from
Tennessee, although Califor
nia’s mammoth truck farm
ing industry can grow en
ough cukes to supply the
citizens and then some.
One would imagine that
California housewives arc
having to pay a higher
pree for the Tennessee
cukes because of transporta
tion costs Why? Because
Secretary of Labor Wirtz’
dizzy scheme of prohibiting
importation of farm labor
from Mexico.
The cucumber situat s on in
California is no different
the citrus picture in
r Florida, the peach and ap
-1 pie-picking situation in New
England, Georgia and
South Carolina, or the car
rot situation in Texas.
It’s time Mr. Wirtz real
izes he has goofed and mod
if;es his dictatorial ruling.
It’s becoming increasingly
plain that Americans aren’t
interested in harvesting
crops.
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Number 22, an East Yan
cey back, just before he was
Ranger
Rumblings
By: Helton Carmichael
Have you ever wondered
about some of our roads?
Perhaps the following poem
might be the answer:
THE CALF PATH
One day through the prime
val wood
A calf walked home as good
calves should;
But made a trail all bent
askew
A crooked trail as calves all
do.
Since then three hundred
years have fled
And I infer the calf is dead.
But still he left behind his
trail,
A"rf t>>«reby hangs my mor
al tale.
The Trad was taken up next
day
By a lone dog that passed
that way;
And then a wise bellweth
er sheep
Pursued the trail over vale
and steep
And from that day, o’er hill
and glade
Through those old woods a
path was made.
And many a man wound in
and out
And dodged and turned and
bent abnut,
Ard uttered words cf right
eous wrath
Because ’twas such a crook-*
ed path;
But still they follqw do
not laugh
The first migrations of that
calf.
This forest lane became a
road,
There many a horse with
his load
pulled down following a long
run against Bowman.
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Toiled on beneath the burn
ing sun
And travelled somg.„ three
miles in one.
A~d thus a century and a
half
They trod the footsteps of
that calf.
The years passed on in
swiftness fleet;
The road became a village
street;
And this, before men were
aware,
A city’s crowded thorough
fare,
And men two centuries and
a half
Trot in the footsteps of that
calf.
A hundred thousand men
were led
By one calf near three cen
turies dead.
For men are prone to go it
blind
Along the calf paths of the
mind.
And work away from sun to
sun
To do what other men have
done
They follow in the beaten
track
And out and in, and forth
and back,
And still their devious
crurse pursue
To keep the path a sacred
groove
Along which all their lives
they move
But how the wise old woods
gods laugh
Who saw that first primeval
calf.
WHICH PATH HAVE YOU
CHOSEN?
Send Paperbacks to Russ'a
There was a time a Rus
sian couldn’t buy a book
dealing with sex.
Now there is a boom on
over there. At least in vol
umes have been published
recently. They came after
considerable press criticism
that some text books we*-e
needed for the sake of sex
education. The 10 recent’y
published volumes are text
books.
Here's a ripe way for tho
United States to get rich.
Start exporting to Russia
some of the paperback’s
found over here.
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Ronnie Rob'lnson of East
Yarcey Panthers lays his toe
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high stepping on a wet field
at the homecoming game at
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game spectators stand in a
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Although Cane River lost
to Mars Hill in the home
coming game, the Rebels
got off some- thrilling runs.
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A small section of specta
tors sit in the cool night air
to watch East Yancey defeat
to the ball for an extra
point Friday night. Robinson
Cane River between the
Cane River Rebels and Mars
Hill High School.
brellas, to see their favorite
team play on a water-soak
ed field.
Here a Rebel is being hauled _
down following a pass and
run.
Bowman High School Friday
night.
Placed three between the
uprights out of four tries.