The Yancey Record
Established Jaly, 1936
TRENA 7. FOX, Editor A Publisher
THURMAN L. BROWN, Shop Muufer
ARCHIE BALLEW, Photographer & Pressman
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BT
YANCEY PUBLISHING Company
Second Class Postage Paid at Burnsville, N. C.
THURSDAY, NOV. 11, 1945 NUMBER ELEVEN
SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.50 PER YEAR
Yeah, A Fireplace Is Great,
Backed Up By A Furnace
The man at the coffee
break made mention of the
trend toward the younger
generation building homes
with fireplaces in the living
room. But, the man added,
there’s also a furnace to
backstop for the fireplace.
Those young married cou
ples who are extolling the
wonders of a bright, cozy
fireplace these cool autumn
evenings are correct. There
Is something wonderful a
bout sitting in front of a
grate, or log fire. With the
lights in the room turned
low, and a comfortable chair
to rest one’s weary bones in,
there’s something relaxing
about sitting, watching the
embers glow, and the smoke
snaking upward into the
chimney. A fellow can sit
and think, and dream and
get sleepy enough so that
when he climbs into bed he’s
ready to really snooze away.
But there’s another side
to this fireplace business
the youngsters don’t know
about, and it goes back a
many years ago to the
times when people depended
exclusively on the fireplace
for heating There were no
thermostatically controlled
furnaces. Just a grate or a
log firep’ace. or maybe a
pot-bellied stove In the liv
ing room.
Like the man at the coffee
break said, these young folks
who rave about the wonders
of a fireplace in today’s
modem home, have never
crawled out from under a
half dozen quilts on a cold,
cold morning and put bare
feet down on an icy, frozen
bedroom floor. They ve nev
The Program Is Hero
To Stay
Now they’re talking about
pensions in the poverty war,
more formally known as the
Economic Opportunity pro
ject.
Recently the Atlanta offi
ce’s board of directors re
commended adoption of a
“generous” pension plan for
officials and employes.
Under this plan, pension
benefits wocld be retroactive
to Jan. 1, 1965 and It would
be possible for some execu
tives to get more .than
SI,OOO should they quit the
poverty agency after Dec. 31
of this year.
But the proposed pension
plan would not be applicable
to some of the lowest paid
people, the neighborhood ser
vice aides who work in low
Income areas It would apply
to “key management people”.
The officials said that in
order to obtain key people
er shivered and shook, with
a poker in one hand and
tried to poke all of the ashes
out of the grate, hoolng that
underneath somewhere there
were enough red embers to
rel'eht the fire and get It
going. Sometimes It was a
race to see which made the
most noise clattering away,
the poker or the man’s
teeth.
And then when the fire
pot going good, the man hop
sklpoed across the cold floor,
to the bed. pulling the quilts
ud over him a”d he spent
aether 20 minutes or so*
waiting for the fire to catch
up and get the room sort of
half warm.
No, sir, the man said,
young folks don’t bother
about building a fire In the
fireplace mornings in these
modern houses they’re con
structing today. Instead,
they turn off the electric
blanket, Jump out of bed
with ’ feet touching warm
carpeting, dash to the ther
mostat, turn It up, then race
to the kitchen to plug In the
already set automatic coffee
perculator, stick a slice of
bread in the toaster, speed
to the bathroom where warm
water awaits a shave and a
bath, dash back to the kit
chen where the toast, pro
perly browned has automa
tically popped up, and the
coffee, brewed to Just the
right taste and temperature,
has stopped perking via an
other thermostat.
No wonder, the man said,
the young folks see the ro
mantic side of a glowing
fireplace in today’s modern
home.
an incentive is needed.
And get this. One official
said:
‘I think you are going to
have to take the a+tttude
that this plan (pension)
must be favorable if we are
to attract and recruit people
needed for this program.
We are having trouble con
vincing people the program
is here to stay”
That last sentence Is a
whopper.
Mo*t of us have been un
der the impression the John
sonites were going to elimi
nate poverty even though
we’ve had It since Biblical
da vs.
Now taking this statement
for its face value, it looks
like poverty Is going to be
around for awhile.
A"d seemingly, the great
boondoggle of the poverty
war is growing every day,
hour by hour.
SVETEMNS’
Lowtr Fraighf lUfes
Or Grali B•R•fftf^A9
Mora Os Sovtli’s
Agri-business
Three and a half years
ago, Southern Railway star
tled the transportation
world by announcing it was
putting Into effect drasti
cally reduced rates on coarse
gTalns into the South from
the midwest. These rates
were based on 60 per cent of
the old ones. Using 100-ton
super-hopper cars in five
car lots, the Southern said
this would enable them to
meet competition, mostly
Itinerant truckers hauling
agriculture products. These
truckers are non-re?ulated
by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The rates were hailed as a
boon to the poultry and
livestock business in the
South, especially poultry.
The south produces most of
the chickens sold in the
United States.
Now it seems that another
phase of agri-business in the
South is benefitting, too.
The lower rates on grains
used in making dairy feed
can mean as much as $9,500
a dav for Georgia alone, the
Southern i says. There must
be advantages and savings
for the other states, too.
The South is, and has been
for a number of years, a
grain deficit area. Most of
the nation’s grains are pro
duced in the West and Mid
west. The South’s climate is
ideal for raising chickens
and livestock Chickens are
very susceptible to cold wea
ther and houses in which
they are grown in the colder
climates are very expensive
to build and maintain.
For cattle in the South,
there's grazing most of the
year. This reduces the am
ount of feed that has to be
fed in the winter.
The lower grain rates also
means that it is now practi
cal to establish feedlots in
the South for finish-feeding
of these cattle. Formerly,
they had to be shipped into
the grain country for fat
tening.
Southern says S 5 new feed
lots have been built In the
South since May 1963. More
are coming.
Swine production is also
on the Increase “Hog par
lors” are being built where
the hogs are fattened to
slaughter stage. Experienced
th'cken growers are adopt
ing some of their mass pro
duction methods to hogs.
Sixteen of these “pig par
lors” have been built since
1965. More are also coming.
The time may come when
the West will specialize in
producing feeds and the
South will produce the meat.
And milk, too, perhaps.
P«d«straiAS Decths
Tsrmtd Stmeless
Within the borders of Nor
th Carolina last year 304
pedestrains were killed on
the streets and highways.
Their deaths were as sense
less as they were unexpected.
The unfortunate victims
were killed by automobiles*
Probably the drivers respon
sible (or maybe the
themselves) could be accus
pH r>**iy rvf carelessness. It
happens that way most of
thj t me.
But what an incredible
thing!
To be run down, smashed
and killed because someone
was careless.
What is so hard about
giving a pedestrian the right
of way while he’s attempt
ing to cross the street?
What is so difficult about
walking to a comer to croee
the street, or looking care
fully both ways before leav
ing the curb?
What possible reason
could there be for not being
careful about something
that can very well kill you?
A spokesman for the De
partment of Motor Vehicles
wonders: Have traffic dea
ths become so commonplace
that the average persons
accept them as an Inevitable
part of dally living?
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CANE RIVER
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HIGHLIGHTS
By: Dana Proffitt
We at Cane River appre
ciate all that our Principal,
Mr. Ed Wilson, is doing to
Improve our school. Not only
has he recently purchased a
new TV set for the library,
but he has started a new
project of landscaping a
round the school buildings.
We plan to have a flower
bed along the front windows,
• ar.d shrubbery in the grass
ed oval in front of the build
ing.
On Wednesday, Oct. 21,
the Beta Club had the sec
ond meeting of the year.
Plans were made to enter a
float in this year's Christ
mas parade in Burnsville. It
was also decided that the
Club would present a Christ
mas program, in cooperation
with the Glee Club, at school
before the hol ! day season.
The first edition of the
school paper, “The Rebel”
came out Tuesday, October
26. Everyone is looking for
ward to the coming Issues,
which w'li be published each
six weeks.
Tuesday, Oct. 19, was a
very busy dav for the Jun
iors most Sectors at
Ca-e Fiver. At. 10-nq Mr.
J~hn Bruce took for
the c’ass rings At 12:45 a
number of CoFege Board
Juniors
preliminary Scholastic Apti
tude Test, which lasted al
most three hours. Results on
grading will be due in Dec.
The game with Blue Ridge
*oe River was can
celled Friday, October 23,
because the referees did not
show up at game timq Ord’-
rarily cane River would
have had to forfeit the game
to the visiting team, but, B’ue
Ridge declined. Rain checks
were distributed wh'ch were
used for Friday night game
with Hot Springs. Riv
er won that game with a
score of 27 to 7.