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. '••• . The Yancey Record Established July, 1936 Trend P. Fox, Editor A Publisher Miss. Zoe Young Associate Editor Thurman L. Brown, Shop Manager Archie H. Ballew, Photographer & Pressman Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING Company Second Class Postage Paid At Burnsville, N. C. THURSDAY, JAN. 12, 1267 NUMBER TWENTY Subscription Rates $2.50 Per Year Scene From Top O’ The Hill By: Jack Kelly Washington has gnoe “bug" CfaZy. In any o.her tiwn, if folks found they had an infesta- - tlon of bugs, they would do the sensible thing and call an exterminator, if they couldn’t cope with the situa tion by themselves. But Washington is different , So are the “bugs" of which they complain. The Washington bugs are electronic do-hickeys that prtva’e and Governmen'al in vestigators have planted in peoples telephones, homes, of fices, and, allegedly, even in ladies and Gentlemen rooms in Government buildings. Sects like these bugs are con nected by wires or by electro nic devices to recording ma chines so thst listeners can got in on'lo’s of secrets. The only exterminator available appeared to be the Supreme Court, and that learned Body has done its best to eradicate these bugs from ynur Csp : tal City If they haven’t stopped these hu-s. they have at « least and at la?t declared them to be illegal. As i result of all of this Court Ruling on the subiect, we m w have a rather comi cal situation in various dac es We have the ex-Attorney General of the U’vtod States and the FBI Director charg ing and counter-charging about the knowledge of the use of such things and the r mis-use. Not to be outdone by Washington, gnod old New York Citv had to get into the act District Attorney Ho~an brought m same 28 indict ments or else he Indicted 28 rersons for engaging in "ille gal'’ bug-in t, most of whom were private ind'vFuals. not Government or state Inves tigators. This <anpc >red, on the face of it to be a very fine ?ct on his part to protect the private citizens aga : nst this unwarranted and illegal procedure. Unfor f unately, someone always has to be a wise-guy and ask questions/' So, someone enquired of the D strict AUornev if he and his staff had done any “bug ring'' to make the case ag aus* the 28 neoplee indicted. Po sibly this was an em bnrrassing ouest : on, because the D. A. hasn’t even hinted at an answer y e t. Legally, he is doubtless right iin his po sition of ng to answer, since the Justices of our Supreme Court are not exact ly of one rn-nd on how much privacy a person can main tain. Justice Douglas implies that he feels th right to pri vacy is absolute, while the eminent Justice Black has implied that he feels privacy may be Invaded if there is no Constitutional clause pro* hi b ting the Government from so doing. President Johnson, baek In 19CS, banned all bu~gng by the Government except in cases involving National sec ur.ty. Anyone who objected to that order should be "bugged.” Bugging is bad enough but, If things cont'nue, one won* ders how much privacy will be maintained in our private mail. If that privacy gets In vaded, then we might all Just learn to send up smoke a : g* nals because everything will •be like a camp-meeting Open* confessional. Perhans, before the nuth'Mr it:es get through with the subiect, someone will check into the moral issue involved in one's rl-ht to pr’vacy. On second thought, maybe that wouldn’t be a idea It mi-ht rot work out- real well if we submitted the Ten Commandments to the Courts or Congress for IrFereretat’On because, the fi-st thing you know, one of them would bo * that the word “not" had been included here and there and all of the psvehl»triots would clap their hands in Klee. Letter To The Editor As a favor to Mrs. Michael E. Staple-ton, Wichita Falls, Texas, we quote in full letter received from her in Dec.: “I am tracing the family tree of Mrs. Billie Owens back five generations for a college history assignment. However, I have hit:- some si.ags at the fifih generat on and would greatly appreciate any of the following missing facts that you might possibly be able to fill in from your records: “John Pierce Hensley and Margaret MacMnhan (?) had a son, Goo.lson McDaniel Hensley, on July 1, 1845 at Burnsville, Yancey County, N. C. Do you know the birlh date and place, marriage date and place, and death date and place of bo h John Pierce Hensley and Margaret Mac- Mahon ? "Charles Abery Byrd mar . ried Jane Hamvton in 1829 at Jacks Creek, Yancey Co., N. C They had a dnugh “or, Mvra Aletha Byrd, who was born on Aug. 19, 18'5 in Yancey County. Could you give, me any information about the birth da*e and place and the dra h date and place of Jane F-mpton? H°r huft’and w->s born on July 1?. 1802 in Yan cey County, if that helps. “Any of this pertinent in fnrmafon you might he able when Those yjLO they'ce *t it V nitwits thcow ps ■ Di'jHgS *<3A(N, POP/ oar) CtfiSMBAKE. tHCV a to y bowon EweevTVu VUHN- e«2 )| 1 1 5iT On The ]( But The waIIPAPEK* / N<3 11' I - < 3uRE J liV Fuooct y/zy RANGER RAMBLIN’S By: Helton Carmichael What do you know about the county you live in When was it founded and by whom? How did the Toe River get its name? I’ll bet most Yancey folks can’t answer these ques tions I just happened to find some of these answers in old books in our library and so will pr.ss on some of this in formation to you as I think it interesting. , It seems very probable that De Snto’s Span'ards explored, »n<J minen m tnip re gion as early as 1540. They were seeking gold and it seems probably that they mined in Yancey County. In 1887 General Til Clingman, member of Congress and U. S. Senator observed timber standing in the wastes of Sink Hole Mines which he s'ated had been growing there for 300 years The Region of the Tee R v-, er Valley was not legally op ened up to se tlement until 1778. By Royal Proclamation, in 1763, all lands west of the Blue Ridge had been reserved ior the Ind ans, and individ uals had been forbid-Nn to purchase from them. The cen sus of 1790 lis s only eighty families living in the Toe River Valley. Some of these early settlers in Yancey Coun ty were James Hol land Higgins. James Barnett, John Edwards, Robert Baker, Ira-'c Anglin and John Ren frew These family names are s’ill famil ar ones in Yancey County. Indian leirends are few, but the one explaining how the Toe R : ber pot its name is wrr h preserving. Tile s‘ory is to the effect that there was a beau' f d Indian Prin cess named Es’atoe who Pved somrwhere in the Toe River to provide wo M be vry helpful and greatly apprecia ted. F vou would send the in formation to: Mra. M|ch~el B Staple'on, 2403 Bth St., Wich ts Fa’ls. Texas 76301 I will gladly pay for any charge or pos‘a"e.” If there ere anv relatives of these tersms in the co-m --tv. rr loci htsmnans who have tb<» information V'u would be doing M r s. B*anleton o favor by passing same on to her. IT NIjVER FAILS Va”ev. A ywi-e Indian t-rave from the Re-ion on rw>e of h ; s huntmg into the va'ley chanced to gee the Princess, and it was a case of Pve at fimt g'-ht. Pre'tv soon after th’s he re t”pr<ed and mi'le knmvn to Fs f atoe h ; s love for h«r and rihe a-reed t,o elone wi'h But they wer® nurs”ed bv her k’vßmen as they fled the river, were an-i the voung brave was k :, led. was so over w»i*iTqen bv tbe loaj or her lover th?t she cast herself Into th e riber and was drown ed. The river after that t ; me was caUed Estate®, god ev entually the whites abbrevia ted the nam# to Toe. IRAN OF THE YEAR % By: Bill Armstrong Dept. Motor Vehicles At this time of the new year, b.g puolications, j.ro fessonu organizations and civic groups crank up the ma chinery designed to find and honor a ‘ man of the year” for 1966.' Each candidate for such honors is measured against certain criteria of accomplish ment. Always, the accent is on the positive. We would Ike to advance our own candidate for 1966 honors. This fellow must be annonymous, because we don’t know him. He may not even exist. We propose to honor our unknown gentleman as “Pri vate Automobile Driver of 1966.’’ He is a man of consid erable accomplishment, but his important qualifications for the honor lie in what he did not do. Let us examine the nega tive virtues of our anony mous but honorable driver He received no traffic cita tions dur ng the year, ex cept, perhaps, one parking ticket which he paid promp tly. He d : d not roll through a single stop sin-n or cheat at a single traffic lights He never ex %'ded the speed limit by more than a mile or two. And when he discovered his error, he al ways let up quickly upon the gas. He nrver foiled to curb h » impatience when c.u-t.t be hind a slow- i!rivv r - safe passing space If he bought a rev. ? , dur ing the year, he firr.,ie s s f cd the temptation to dis cover how far above sixty he s~e«d<>meter caugo could climb. If he had a cocktail at a party or a beer at home, he always arranged for someone else to do the driving. And during the entire year, he uttered not one uncompli mentary word about the pol ice or the Hi-hway Patrol pleking on inoffensive drivers while the dangerous drivers went scot-free. Is there such a driver? Somewhere, we believe, there is. ALL PURPOBE 3-INONEOIL Oils Everything Prevents Rust REGULAR-OIL SPRAY-ELECTRIC MOTOR Fill Cracks And Holes Better ~ Handles like putty. Hardens like wood. PLASTIC WOOD’ The Oenuinm - Accept No Substitute. 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