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The Yancey Record Established July, 1936 TRENA P. FOX, Editor & Publisher THURMAN L. BROWN, Shop Manager ARCHIE BALLEW, Photographer & Pressman PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING Company Second Class Postage Paid at Burnsville, N. C. THURSDAY, JAN. 27, 1966 NUMBER TWENTY-TWO 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.50 PER YEAR LETTER TO PARENTS The following letter ad dressed to the parents of all East Yancey High School students has been received in the RECORD office. The letter is of such importance to the parents, we feel that it should be published exact ly as written. In order to stress the importance of this meeting to the parents, the letter will appear in next week’s issue as well as this issue. Dear Parent: February 7th is the date of your next East Yancey PTA meeting. If you have any in terest in your school, now is the time to show it. We ask as many of you as possibly can to come Monday even ing at 7:30. A lot of hard work has been done to get the school ready for accredi Go To College, Play Football And Become Rich The football season is drawing to a close. A few more pro games and the cur tain will be dropped on the current season, and it is just as well, perhaps, before the professional clubs run out of money with which to buy college stars. Last year when Joe Nam ath, of Alabama, signed with the New York Jets for some where in the neighborhood of $400,000, eyebrows of college professors and students working for an academic de gree must have been raised faster than an express ele vator. This year the going price, according to the sports pages, is even higher. Tom my Nobi, of Texas, is reputed to have signed for a fantas tic sum of several hundred thousand—more than Nim ath got. Others are report edly getting anywhere from $500,000 upward, some more some less. The clubs are cagey in saying what they paid. While it is agreed the con tracts, actually, may not call for the efctremely high fig ures reported, because of certain qualifying classes, the headlines are neverthe less telling stories of riches to be made on the gridiron. And more power to the gridiron heroes for getting the best contracts possible. One can hardly blame them But just the same, it does seem a little ridiculous that a boy goes to college to get an educa and p’ay foot ball for football’s sake, winds up with a half million dollar contract, while a lad pores over books day and night for tation. Mrs. W. E. Harvell, chair man of the Steering Com mittee, will give the intro duction. The following fac ulty members will report on what has been done in each field: Mrs. Mack Ray, School and Community; Mrs. Don Westall, Philosophy and Ob jectives; Mr. Vernie Wison, Program of Study-Curricu lum; Mrs. Edgar Hensley, Student Activities; Mr. Ken Damkins. Science and Math. The program will conclude with a summary by Mr. Anglin, The teachers need to feel pour interest and support by seeing you present at this meeting. Executive Committee Don Burhoe, President five years to become a phar macist, or eats hamburgers for 10 years to become a doc tor, merely gets a diploma and still has to work like mad to accumulate a few dollars in the bank during a lifetime. Next year the football club owners may come down to level ground. The Silly Stage Some of this civil rights business is verging on just plain silliness. Look what happened in Pittsburgh the other day. A new parking garage used colored strips to desig nate each floor and labeled the colored strips with Eng lish, German, French and Spanish words for respec tive colors. One word “negro”, which is Spanish for black, was used to de note the floor of that color. Along came the United Negro Protest Committee. It said the Spanish word was offensive and demanded Its removal. It was nMnted out by the management. Next along came the Con gress of Racial Equality. No, it said, the word was not offensive. The organization said put the word back. It was re instated. It all sounds downright silly, doesn't it? IT NEVER FAILS B:an i pick 'em boys, R can i Pick 'em—i/Mv -A3* ok at that ball Jm // X \ L 'YOU GUVS OJI ' i \\ eiOi —But just let the boy- W will ya get a load of iMOiirsrp urtrti/ a /V"»i iOi c sfj AIM KILLIN’SNAKES AGAIN VNi/NUtK HOOK ft COUPLE sM -—OH, WHAT A HACKED ME / into The turned our toBEj T6u / » P k . l!v k Extension Narrative 1965 (Continued from last week) The major improvement has been in land improve ment and in the increase in food production. Ba.ikers Short Course Jerry Howell, young com mercial vegetable grower, represented Yancey County at the short course in mod ern farming. Jerry is presi lent of the Arbuckle Com munity Club and is a mem ber of the Unit Test Demon stration Program. Burley Tobacco Warren Westall of the Prices Creek Community feels that it pays to let to bacco mature before harvest ing. Westall used the 21 varie ty of burley tobacco. The to bacco was allowed to stand in the field until it was yel lowing in the top of the plant. The tobacco was cut before the bottom leaves were lost. Due to a dry season in pans of the county, burley yields will be off about one fourth to one-third. How ever, Westall thinks that to bacco planted early and on land that is not too dry, yill yield around 2000 pounds per acre even during a dry season Ike this year. Dove Atkins and Jack Hensley of the Ramseytown Community had one of the most uniform and promising tobacco crops in the area. They followed recommenda tions of applying 4-8-12 fer t'lizer and 20 per cent super phosphate at planting time. No nitrogen was used as sidedressing. The No. 21 var iety was used. The tobacco on this f£rm is rotated every two to three years. The comnvttee for the to bacco referendum was com posed of E. L. Dillingham, Chairman, Mack E. Ray, Vice-Chairman; and Hubert Justice, Secretary. Yancey County burley to bacco growers led the voting in the referendum wth a total of 4799 for and 27 against. Four tobacco demonstra tes were carried out in 1965. The reductiion in acreage will amount to approx,that- ely 100 acres. Plans are being made with growers and bus inessmen to replace this loss of income by additional in come from livestock, fruits and crops. Burley tobacco growers produced 108881 acres of to bacco on 1829 farms this year. The allotments averag ed around .5 of an acre. The tobacco should average around 62c, bringing a total of around $1,520,000. Sixty-one allotments fail ed to get planted for lack of labor or other reasons. This failure to get out 20 acres resulted in a reduction of 46,713 pounds or a loss to the county agricultural income of $28,962.00: Community Development Newdale community was declared over-all winner, in Community Deve lo p ment. First prize was $l5O. Newdale Club was also first place winner, in the Youth Divis ion, winning a cash award of $75. Other winners were: Dou ble Island 2nd place $100; Micaville 3rd place SBO and 2nd place in the Youth division SSO; Arbuck le 4th place S6O; Mine Fork sth place, $25; Mine Fork also county winner in the Roadside Improvement Contest, $25; Brush Creek 6th place, $25 and winner in the Farm Division; Rocky Springs was winner of an honorable mention, $lO. The County Steering Com mittee is composed of George King. Mack Ray, Alice Hop son, Mrs. Andrew Johnson and Mrs. O W. Deyton. County Extension Agents are cooperating with other agencies in an effort to in crease income possibilities, especially with families un der the S3OOO figure. Dillingham said that the production of vegetables and shrubbery small fruits ' are well adapted to the Yan cey County area. The out look is very favorable for marketing these products. Brush Creek Community Club held its annual rabbit supper this year with 75 peo ple present. Brush Creek is the-oldest •community club t,. / _ (Continued on back page) feCMSSMOTS fs, OPINION MORRISTOWN, - ILL., NEWS: “Peace on Earth Good Will to Men—the an gels sang at the birth of Christ. How disappointed our Master must be with we humans. The world, so full of greel, crime, hate, cheat ing, killing. The ten com mandments ‘Gone down the drain.’ How far we have strayed from His plan. We cannot lay the blame at any one person’s door. It is uni versal. Christmas has be come Xmas. The meaning lost to many in this troubled old world. If we all could live the meaning of Christ mas a'l year round the Mas ter would be pleased with His plan on sending His on ly son into the world to bring Peace on Earth—Good Will Toward Men." •• # • PARSHALL, N. D., RE CORD: “In the old days when someone was in need. . no one would think of going over and saying, ‘Here I want to give you this’, in stead they would say, ‘I don’t need this right now, bring back when you get through’ ... If this same idea was used today in giving millions to other countries, I am sure the image of the ‘Great America’ would be uplifted greatly in our foreign coun try transactions. . . The art of giving is the ability to help a man and not hurt his pride,' not just giving to give because we have so much.” •• • • HARMONY. MINN., NEWS: “I think LBJ drove a poor bargain with Castro. In oth er words he goofed. I don’t know just how many refu gees we are supposed to ab sorb but I think we should have Insisted on reciprocity. If we were allowed to export to Cuba one home grown communist for every refugee coming over here it would have helped a lot.” •• • • CIRBALLTS, ORE., GAZ ETTE-TIMES: “Somewhere along the line we have trou ble distinguishing between the Inherent American right to protest the action of our government and outright treason."
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