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The Yancey Record Established July, 1936 Trena P. Fox, Editor & Publisher Miss. Zoe Young Associate Editor Thurman L. Brown, Shop Manager Archie H. Ballew, Photographer A Pressman Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING Company Second Class Postage Paid At Burnsville, N. C. f THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1967 NUMBER THIRTY-THREE Subscription Rates $3.00 Per Year | Out of county $4.00 - Scene From Top O’ The Hilh By: Jack Kelly If you can’t be in Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day, the next best thing is to be in Boston. Massa chusetts, that is. I was there this past Patty’s Day, as I have been on several past occasions. This time it was icy cold. Tempera tcres ranged from maybe 5 to 7 degrees above zero. That is cold for watching a parade but, for those who marched, it was worse- It is the first time I have ever-seen Irish gals tor any oth er Nationality, for that matter' with "blue legs”. Blue from the cold Hnv they stood the march ing with the scant clothing, I’ll never know, because, to have enquired would have been to in vite a punch in the nose. But, the Parade wds grand and the colleens were beautiful, despite their dreadful hued legs. Everything else was green, as was fitting to the occasion. Even the beer was green. Green in color, that is, not in aoe. It takes a hit of nerve to drink a glass of green colored beer. No place but Boston will you find it. I was told. I don’t vouch for it because, in Boston, the Irish will tel! you many things. Es pecially will they do so on Saint Patrick’s Day. I missed mv old Jriend "Hiro- Hup" Kelly. Poor dear "Hup- Hup” was called home, so to speak, when he crossed the street aea : nst traffic about three o’clock in the morning. Or may be it was the other way around. In any event, poor dear “Hud- Hup” lost the contest. One of the few he ever lost in his 80 or §5 years of life,all spent in Bos ton. Mr. Kelly received his pen sion from the State of Massa chusetts for lo these many years due to his faithful service to "His Honor” Michael J. Curley. Mr. Curley, of -course, was Mayor, Congressman, and Gov ernor repeatedly. Once, he even was elected while he was in joil. But this is an article on the late departed "Hup-Hup” Kelly, who served "His Honor” well. His job was relatively sim ple, and the nickname derived from it. All Mr. Kelly did was to enter offices, banquets, gather ings, and whatnots, just prior to the Grand Entrance of James Michael Curlev. Mr. Kelly would bellow out !-Hup Hup on your feet' And all of those gathered for the occasion would arise, and cheer their heads off. Thus! they kept on the payroll, pot contracts, and whatever else comes to those who back a win ner. Old "Hup Hud” kept hi, job. which defied an official listing, and eventually retired on a pension sufficient to keep him in coffee money. Coffee, I said. "Hup Hup” did njt touch the hard-stuff. This year, I missed Mr. Kelly’s not telling the splendid tales of the old Irish. He told political tales of Boston, and folk-tales of Ireland. Whether he was bom in the United States or had ever been in Ireland, I never knew or inquired, because good manners forbids questioning a man who tells a fine story as to its ac curacy of detail. Hup-Hup had a splendid tale of thg wise old lady in Ireland who was the on ly person there ever to find a stick with only one end to it. Sure now, when you get t o thinking in if, it wiuld be won derful thing to see indeed. It pure defies the imagination. I have thought on it quite a bit, but, as yet, I have not conjured up a vision of what it would look like. Once, I mentioned it to “Mutt” Burton, who assured me he would think on it too. Now we all know that Mutt is a philoso pher of no mean degree, but, would you believe it he has ne' T er yet reached a conclusion, although I do understand h : s wife that he searches dili gently for one to confound me. Good luck to Mutt In his search and God grant Hup-Hup reached home safely. Drugs Effective In T B Cure Pills, pills, pills. Millions of people those who need them and those who don’t take them all tlie time. What about those who do need them and don’t take them? When the illness is a serious one —for example, tuberculosis some problems and some dangers arise. Since the early 1950’5, when effective drugs were developed against TB, prolonged hospitali zation of patients has been de creasing. The majority of known TB suffers today are clinic out patients. Their treatment con sists mainly of drugs (usually in large quantities) provided by the clinic and taken daily at home. Unfortunately the system doesn’t always work smoothly. A patient with TB in mild form can feel fine and start wonder ing why he has to go on taking those endless pills. The people at the clinic whose job is to help hiim get well may forget that they are dealing, in some cases, with a person unaccesUmed to carrying out strict instructions or perhaps unable to grasp them fully. Sometimes an extar effort is needed on the part of tho clin-’c worker to put himself ia the patient’s place and try to bridge a gap in understanding or emotional conditioning. Various methods have trren tried for surmounting this "com munications gap". Some clin<cs have supplied medication dis pensers, with each day’s supply of pills in a dated compartment. Others have experimented with TOM. ARE BOV— I'LL YOU ALL SET TOR] SfV* i AM The boss' f Supposing 4 k TESTIMONIAL ¥ YOU PICK ME Dinner JLup at EiGhT^ 'Pied Piper Os Hamelin’ Given Raleigh By Elementary School /flay 12 Report Members of the Burnsville El ementary P.T.A. are busily en gaged in getting ready for the school production of “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, which will take place in the Parkway Play house Friday evening, May 12. Rehearsals are underway; cos tumes, chairmaned by Mrs. Bill Hess, are in the making; Mrs. Vint Westall and her co-work ers have their job cut out for them in getting the playhouse all cleaned up and in readiness. Kenneth Laughrun, head of the scenery committee, is doing his usual fine Job; Mrs. Scotty Moore, sound effects, is working out her problems; Mrs. Paul Blggerstaff, business manager, also has her work cut out for her. And boss of it all is Mrs. Joe Warner, President of PTA. Now if you PTA members think the people mentioned above ex pect to do the whole job you are sadly nvstaken. They are de pending on all of you to pitch in and help. So, If you have not already done so, get on the tele phone to any of the above men tioned and volunteer your ser vice. This is an ambitious un dertaking, and will need the co operation of everv PTA member. And what would the "Pled P : per” be without lots and lots of children, which there will be in abundance. The cM’-acters w : Il be drawn from children in the uDDer with Mark Warner as the "Pled Plner”. H : s cast includes CharVe Metcalf, Martha Ponks, Bvrd. Carnhm A”en. MarPtm Lauphnin, Janet R'» r hAe, Harri son Tvner, and Choree Boone. Os course there will also he a number of children In minor ro’es. "pill calendars” with the day’s dose physically attached to each date Dr. Thomas Moulding, of the National Jewish Hospital at Denver, suggests the possibility of supervisory home visits by nurses or health workers. Writ ing in the National Tuberculosis Association Bulletin, he acknow ledges that this would be expen sive but points out that It wosdd help free some public funds now "Pent on TB patient hoapltaliu. Any way yo U look at it. TB remains an important problem. Ask your Christmas Seal asso ciation for its fr«e booklet Fac Aboct TB and HD ratory Disease. rr NEVER FAILS BuT WOU NEVER TO The Dinner That night— r TnAiftTc^ ThE ' £ # HOd SMOKE!/1 1 Just dgoW. I i vm here's That* f COLLAR BUTTON?] n 6 CftNT PtNO 07/ I 'k m rqJ 'i \ An '' JJH TMg prom ; ces to he an enter tain® ewn'ng Let’s all Pet be hind the PTA *n every wav pog. s iW e. and don’t forest to recerve that niPH »»av 12th PARK WAY PLAYHOUSE. Lei’ • sup port our school, o"r children, and especially our PTA. Fire Drill Urged As Highlight Os Spring Clean-Up Spring Clean-Up Week, which serves the dual purpose of brightening your home and getting rid of fire hazards, is also a good time to hold a fire drill if your family has not done so recently, the American In surance Association recom mended today. It’s very simple: • Gather all members of the family together tonight and work out two ways of escape from the house in case of fire. 1 hen, if one escape route is blocked, you can use the other one. • Tell the children to go to their beds and hold a practice drill as if a fire occurred in the night. • In the drill, one of the parents at an unexpected moment should shout, "FIRE! Lets get out of the house.” • With a little practice two or three rehearsals every member of the family should , he able to get outside of a one- ! story or two-story home in less \ than a minute. • And, in working put your escape plan, instnut all mem bers of the family to go to ;i pre arranged meeting plate upon leasing the house so it tan he ascertained that everyone is out side. IN CASE OF FIRE At home Quickly get everybody out of the house. Call the fire department immediately. (Be sure everyone in your family knows how to call the fire department.) At public gatherings Walk, do not run, to the nearest exit. Call the fire de partment immediately. Keep calm. K —American, Insurance Association By: Ernest Messer On April 5, the North Carolina House of Representatives pass ed a “brown bag” bill. Under the provisions of this act, whiskey is permitted to be stored and consumed in homes and in clubs in dry counties. Wet counties can, by issuing a license, permit whiskey to be consumed in restaurants. I tried to amend the bill to submit the entire question to a' vote of the people. My amend ment was killeck A bill to inquire the picture of the—owner to be on every drivers’ license \ has already passed the SenateT Proponents of the bill c’aim it will prevent the falsification of driver’ licenses and will prevent persons who have no license, or whose license has be4n revoked, from using a borrowed license. Such a card would also provide adequate identification fr other purposes say, for one who needed to cash a check. My objection to the "picture’’ license is that it will / increase the cost for a driver’s license from the present $2.50 to $3.25. There will also be some prob lems in processing the license. A bill to permit abortions un der certain conditions is getting considerable attention through out the State. The bill has al ready passed the Senate and now goes to a House Committee. Representative Clyde Auman introduced a bill last week to ex empt persons over 65 the provision of the law which re quires, them to have a fishing license and a trout stamp. This bill will have a lot of opposition but it may pass. A move to restore the use of planes for patrolling the high way is having trouble in the Senate. But indications are that the Senate will restore the use of planes to the Highway Patrol. Then the proposition will have a chance for a trial flight in the House. The Appropriatioons Committee will have to make the final de cision about State Aid for local airports. The bill to provide this aid has been approved by com mittees in both houses and re referred to the Appropriations Committee. Since I have been annotated to serve on the Appropriations sub committee. I will have no furth er predictions to make concern ing appropriation. ??
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