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The Yancey Record Established July, 1936. Trena P. Fox, Editor t Publisher Miss. Zoe Young Associate Editor Thurman L. Brown, Shop Manager Archie H. Ballew, Photographer & Pressman Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PlFBLISHING Company Second Class Postage Paid At Burnsville, N. C. THURSDAY. DEC. 15. IM* NDIUBER SIXTEEN Subscription Rotes $2.50 Per Year Scene From Top O' The Hill By: Jack Kelly At a family Thanksgiving ga'hering I overheard two things that sort of hit me. One came about when an adult remarked that it was a shame that one of the little kids present ^ad to wear glasses. The kid overheaid it and said “I m glad I wear glasses. They keep boys from hitting me and girls from ki.~sing me.” The second thing was a conversation where o’le of the younger matrons was coiTiplaining rbaut ihe fact that she anj her hus- ba. nd fussed all the time. An civic r lady, a widow, com mented to me “Betier quar- th:\n lonesome.” Sinc. this lady did not look like a philosopher, she sort of surpri.sed me. (Come to think of i‘, vvhat should a philoso- rher 'cr-.k like ) Any way, I rot to talking with her and hal iOme ri-ht pooH theories. She. said that W'omen were Ir.ss poll e than men. She cited that .sii'''' had ohsem-ed in \Va-:hipgton that generally, in a crow’ded bus. it w’as al- v. nyc- a niiddle-e-en or e’derly man who gave his seat to a pr gnant woman while young girls i nnred h?r. She said quite a few things that I didn’t a'-ree with but, on her advice. I went to a Depart ment store and wat'-hed wom en tear into each other at a Monday sale. Wow! Tf men ac ed like that — pushing and shoving and tearing things from e^ch other’s hands — well, you’d have a riot on your hand’s. Over the HoTday, I read an interesting article on he early history of tobacco, wdiirh concerns all North Caroliniars and the U. S. ton, since i‘ gets a heap of taxes from the weed. The artic’e .stated that one John Haw kins. a voya-er to America in the 16 h Century, made a r.Y ort of the natives (In dians) use of tobacco. His re port was recorded in Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navi'^a- tiors .published in 15S9; “The Floridians, when they travel, have a kind of dried herb, who, with a cane and an earthen cup in the end, with fire and the dried herbs put together, ,do suck through the cane the smoke thereof, which smoke satlsfieth their hunrrer, and therewith they live four or five days with out meat or drink.” While engaged on the same reading-kick, I learned that the subject of eating too .much is not new at all. Away back yonder, one Sydney Smith (1771-1S45), figured out that he had eaten and drank, be tween the age of ten and seventy, some forty cart-loaJa of fooj and drink more than hr neeiel. He estimated that he had thus spent close to 40-50 thousand dollars on pure waste. I don’t know that I can do anything about Hr. Smith’s figures, or whether you people who reshd this wi.l worry about your own figures. All I know is that my Pappy told me a worm can’t win an argument with a hen. As you can gather from the mish-mash already related above, I am still tr3ring to clean out my skull so I can replace the vacant space with new and possibly more useless information. Therefore you jrst have to be told that the present Library of Congress, the greates’: Library in the Histoiy of the World, stems from the ppersanal library of Thomas Jefferson. Seems like the British burned the origi nal Library of Congress, so, in 1814, Corgress bought Jef ferson’s personal library to rep" ace it. All of the documents in the Library of Congress are of inesTrrable Importance and Value but, as an economlcsg student stated, they do no" compare with the two more modem documents that have contributed most to our Ck>v- emment. When pressed for h^s answer he stated "good oM reliable Form 1040 and 1040-A.” I’m glad to get a^l of that out of my system because mavbe I can get back to writing something else, maybe more imnortant, like about Yancey County. Right now, X am sitting up in northern Maine where the folks can’t get over the fact th«>t they Somehow or other elected a Democrat for Governor when that did not seem to be fash ionable around the Nation. Who said “As Maine goes, eo goes the Nation”? IT HAS BUM A BtAUTY It haa been a beauty. A spor.s model. “Hottest thing on the road,” said a Highway Patrol trooper. Capable ot doing 150 on the straightaway. It wasn’t beautiful now. It wasn’t mudi of anything but fragmented junk. ’The trans mission had been slung aside. ’That super powerful baby of an engine had parted com pany with the chassis and had charged ahead through the air on its own. Misce laneous parts marked a trail down the embankment off the Balelgh ^Itiine. No one, will ever know the exact speed of that beauty when it left the betline stral-htaway. No human eye beheld the wheeled proiectile during those last midnight moments when it flashed Into the curve that wasn't made. Teher were unofficial, but educated, estimates; “At least 120—maybe 140 or bet ter.” Onlookers walked past a 20-foot gap in the guard rail. ’That part of the metal bar rier was at the bottom of the Slone, mixed up In the debris of the onetime beauty of a car. ’The ocounants? There were two of them. One was bur'ed out at first imnact. His crump led remains lay unon the road shoulder. ’The o'her rccunant rode the wreckage down. Part of him had been .scooped aW'V bv flvin" fragments. ’The Palelgh he'tline is a floe road It’s also a good race track. You ran reaUv pour on the gas on those Inn"-, stra ight, stretches, A 'ot of those sleek b”bles are out there in the ni-ht hours. The Highway Patrol catches some. Meat of them make a curve. This one didn’t. By Diane Wilkins America's Junior Miss-'1966 A Question of Color ff We JHIust Do Something” Golden bells, Christmas char acters—they can all be made out of the soft drink bottles and cans you have around the house. Just enjoy the contents and then try your hand at making yourown pop art for Christmas. CHAPEL HILL — “If wO would all look to the Lord lor advice in all our governmen tal probleini inatead ol de pending on our own Meait X believe we could put a ring in the nose of CemmuaiM and meet our peaceful goal!” H. F. (Chub) Seawea Jr. of Carthage told this to near ly 200 potential lawyers at the University of North Carolina Law School in Manning Hall this week. “The Lord is always present to give us the k-.owledge we need to have,” he continued. “All we have to do is look to Him and ask. The strength of our nation is determined by our faith in God. * Seawell emphEtsi&ed the Im portance of the Bible and the word of God as law. As he preached to his audience hie presentation seemed like an evangelical assembly. “The freedom of our coun try depends on what you ae young lawyers can do,** ho exclaimed. “President Lyndon B. Johnson says :we are for peace and that’s why we*re fightirg ’ Yet his words are like one who puts vitBunina in his liquor to build himself up whi c he is tearing him self down. “We as (Christians must do something!’ ’ In his usual informal ttan* ner, Seawell digressed on governmental problems and a number of law case^ with which he has been coTifronted since he was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 192S, Being a teen-ager today is more fun than ever. The fashions for us are so young and kicky. Color is exploding all around us: zing pinks, wow I purples, flash • greens, electric blues. And now there’s new Mod-ern think- : ing about hair % color, too. Om. ,1 Color is even going to our heads! Lots of teen-agers are putting in streaks, or using temporary rinses! It’s fun and faddy and it’s absolutely harmless to healthy hair. But it’s very possible for hair color to be here today—and gone tomorrow. Many times the beautiful gold turns to brass and last week’s rich chestnut brown is this week’s peanut beige. What to do? The answer is using the right kind of shampoo —one that’s especially made for hair that’s been changed. The best is Breck Shampoo for Color Treated Hair which comes in two formulas; the blue liquid keeps the delicate sha'des of lightened hair from becoming brassy and the green formula prevents hair that has been col ored from fading. This special color shampoo by Beautiful Hair Breck helps keep hair at its pret tiest color peak. If you’re On The Verge of shifting hair color, remember that you’ve got to maintain Keep- Up and Up-Keep. If this doesn’t daunt you (and it shouldn’t) you may be well on your way toward a more color-ful you! 4 u/ka, ^i(-+ IS f'Cver "te ,,-fkc sfcrc, is alioSi^ still life f ■ i
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