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Volume 30
Brownie Float Wins First Place In Parade
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Hours of work and pleas
ure went Into the launching
of the “U. 8. 8. Brownie” of
the ‘‘Tug Boat Annie Line”—
the first prize winning float
in Saturday’s Christmas par
ade. The theme of the float
was “Sailing Home for the
Holiday’s”. The color
SI,OOO To Bo Given In Trade-
At-Home Campaign
Many retail business plac
es in Yancey County are
again joining in a “trade-at
home’ campaign to stimu
late business during the
Christmas period.
Cash prizes amounting to
SIOOO 00 will be given to
lucky shoppers. Prizes am
run ting to $300.00 will be
given away on December 18
at 2:30 p. m. in the Town
Square. First prize will be
$l3O 00; second prize, $100.00;
and third prize, $50.00. On
December 23 at 2:30 p m.
on the square S7OO 00 will be
given away. First prize being
S3OO 00; second prize, $l5O 00
third prize, SIOO 00; fourth
prize, $75 00; fifth prize,
SSO 00 and sixth prize $25 00
making a tn-and total of
SI,OOO in cash to be given
away during the Christmas
season.
Participating in the
Christmas trade campaign
are the Doris Shoppe, Town
Country Shoe Store,
Blue Ridge Hardware Co.,
Roberts Chevrolet-Bulck, Inc.
J. F. Robinson, General
Merchand'se; J. F. Robinson
Furniture and Appliances;
A-'glin and Westall, Burns
ville Furniture and Hard
ware Co.. Young Auto Sales,
Carolina Tire Co, Ben Frank
lin Five and Ten, P-Mlanl's
Drug Store, Ray Brothers
Food Centr, Burnsville Sup
er Market, Western Auto
Store, B & B Super Market,
Burnsville Department Store
and Styles & Co.
One ticket for each dollar
purchase will be given custo
mers by each of the above
business places. *
THE YANCEY RECORD
Burnsville, N. C.
scheme of blue and white
was beautifully carried out
throughout, with the boat
load of cute little Brownies—
decked out in blue Jeans,
white sweat shirts with sail
or colars and sailor hats.
Sponsors for this floatw ere
the Doris Shoppe and Town
Traffic Cases
Take Most Os
Court Time
The number of traffic vio
lations should bring home to
all the fact there are a lot of
irresponsible and reckless
drivers on the highways.
Listed below are some of the
traffic violation convictions
handed down to date in Sup
erior Court being held here
this week: Billy Ray Young,
speeding 68 miles in a 55
mile zone cost. Tommy Lee
Phillips, speeding 70 miles in
a 55 mile zone—cost; Char
les William Blevins, reckless
driving s2s 00 fine and
cost; Roger Lee Boone, no
driver’s license, cost; Roy
Vance King, expired opera
tor’s license, cost; Charles
E bert Ray, speeding 60 miles
In 45 mile zone, cost; Calvin
Godfrey Penland, speeding
50 miles in 35 mile zone,
cost; Dorice Bradford, speed
ing 68 miles in 55 mile zone,
cost; Luther Porter Robin
son, speeding 55 miles in 45
mile zone, cost; Jenifer Sue
Fox, speeding 67 miles in 55
mile zone, cost; Stegial Lee
Hensley, no operator’s lic
ense. cost; Preston Ray,
zo-e and no operator’s lic
ense, sls 00 fine and cost;
Lark Alfred Adkins, sneering
65 miles in 55 mile zone, cost,;
Billy Bruce Ray, driving in
toxicated, SIOO 00 fine and
cost; Clinton Penland, no in-
Dedicated To The PftTfress Os Yancey County
and Country Shoe Store.
Work on the float was start
ed as early as September.
Credit for the making should
go to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ay
ers, Mr. and Mrs. George
Butner, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Young, Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Edge, and Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Styles.
Harold Stanley Evans .reck
less driving, cost; Terry Lee
McEntyre, no insurance and
no registration, $75 00 fine
and cost: Teddv Joe PaHev,
driving intoxicated. $l5O OU
and cost; Wm. Franklin Da)p,
speeding 68 in 55 mil° zo">e.
Pobert Keith Rathbnne,
speeding 66 miles in 51 mile
zone, cost; James Lewis no
operator’s license, cost: Lar
rv Garland, speeding
50 in 35 ml’e zone. s"’s 00
and cost; June Edwards Fen
der, allowing unlicensed per
son to ©Derate motor vehicle,
cost; Fred Roberts Johnson,
speeding 75 In 55 mile zone,
cost: Wl’bum McPeters, Jr.,
speeding 70 in 55 mile zone,
$25 00 and cost; Ernest Gene
Jones, speeding 75 miles in
5* mile zone, $lO 00 and cost:
Fielding Gentry, speeding 60
in 45 mile zone, cost: Steve
Horton, driving intoxicated,
SIOO 00 and cost; Vernon
Blevins, driving intoxicated,
SIOO 00 and cast: Kenneth
Fdwin Maney, speeding 66 in
55 mile zone, cost: Everett
Hvlemon, driving Intoxicated,
slof> no and cost.
Other sentences handed
down were: Ronald Honey
cutt, destruction of property,
$47 95 cost; Calvin and Jam
es A. Hicky, breaking and
entering, S3OO and cost; Troy
Honeycutt, assault with
deadly weapon with intent to
kill, $5020 cost; Troy Hon
eycutt and Coy Higgins, as
sault with deadly weapon,
cost $58.95; Teddy Joe Bai
ley, breaking and entering a
dwelling house in daytime,
pleaded forcible trespassing,
12 months sentence, suspen
ded for five years Cost
$44.45. \
Thursday, Naviwbar 2, 1965
Group Hears Smith On
Industrial Possibilities
Jack Smith, regional repre
sentative of the Commercial
and Industrial Division of
Conservation and Develop
ment, met in the Community
Building here Tuesday morn
ing with a group of Yancey
civic and business leaders
interested in the deve'op
ment of Yancey County along
these lines.
Approximately one hund
red citizens from all walks
of life in the county heard
Smith outline the work of
the Conservation and Devel
opment Commission with
communities in getting new
industry and expanding ex
isting industry.
The Commission has set
ud 5 regional offices in Nor
th Carolina to aid communi
ties in securing new indus
tr'es. Yancey Countv is one
of the 19 western counties of
District 1.
Regional aire deign
ed to work with communi
ties. HowA’fer the r®n-e*en
tat’ve pointed out that new
industries usually were see
communitv in
dustry. He pointed out also
the greatest, expansion
of industry in North Caro
lina had come from the ex
pansion of existing indus
tries in the state. Al c o, the
organization works with pro-
Two Injured In Auto, Train
Accident
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Around 9:30 a. m. Monday
morning two Burnsville men
were Injured in the collision
of a pick-up truck anl a
diesel engine of the Yancey
Railroad.
Injured were Kenneth
Laughru** and his father, I.
R. Laughrun, who was re
ported to be the driver of the
pick-up truck.
The acc’dent occurred east
of Burnsville at the railroad
crossing near the Bill Allen
Branch Road. According to
reports, a pick-up truck driv
en by I. R. Laughrun, with
Number Fourteen
soective. industries in locat
ing suitable communities in
which to build.
In relat’ng requirements
usually demanded by indus
tries looking for new loea -
tions, Mr. Smith pointed out
that suitab’e plant sites
the first prob’em. A so'taMr
building site would rot re
quire an excessive amount of
earth moving to make a con
struction site. The site must
be accessable to roads and
ra’lroads, have sufficient
water available required by
the particular industry Ade
quate sewerage facilities and
electric power is a’so a re
ouirement. The attitude of
the community as a whole
toward the new proposed in
dustry and a possib’e means
of financing were high on
the list of requirements.
To obtain industry suitable
to the resources of anv com
munity, Smith summed up
the means in two words,
work and money.
Following a question and
discussion period, members
of a 1/waJ iiuliutrioJ rornora
tion—an outgrowth or me
Yancey Countv Chamber of
Commerce, called a meeting
of the corporation’s directors
at a later date to discuss
further points and problems
pointed out in the meeting
Tuesday.
his son as passenger, was
headed west toward Burns
ville. The train was headed
east.
Cause of the near head-on
collision and total loss of the
pick-up truck was not con
firmed. Damage to the deisel
e"' T ' n e was estimated at
$25 00.
Kenneth Laughrun was ad
m’tted to Yancey Hospital
with a cut on the neck. His
father was treated for bruis
es. and released, according;
to reports.