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Donald Banka, Sheriff of
Yancey County, and Deputy
Erwin Higgins are shown with
Sheriff’s Dept. Makes Big
Whiskey HauU
A raid last Wednesday
night, January 11, netted the
Sheriffs Department here a
goad whiskey haul, according
to officials.
According to officials seven
teen and one half gallons of
white, non tax paid whiskey,'
12 pints of tax paid whiskey,
and 41 pints of beer were tak
en at the home of George
Anglin, Bakers Creek.
The whiskey and beer was
found in Anglin’s home,
smokehouse and barn , the
Sheriff’s Department said.
, Anglin, who is out on bond,—
charged with violation of
fthe prch law.
Sheriff’s deputies who made
the ra’d were Fred Robinson
and Erwin Higgins.
Law Officers
Install Radio
System
An official radio system was
completed in the county yes
terday which will g ve the city
police department, the fire de
par.jnent, and the county
sheriff’s department radio
contact with each other, ac
cording to an announcement
by the police department.
Radio contact can be made
to and from vehicles of each
of the named departments.
Contact by town and coun
ty derailments to the Btate
Highway Patrol units In the
county may be made through
the Ashehilie radio system of
the Highway Patrol, it was
Said.
THE YANCEY RECORD
Burnsville, N.C.
the w’vskey haul they made
on January 11.
The jail register indicates
that since December 5, 1966
eighty-one persons have been
arrested and lodged in Jail.
According to the record, 41
were jailed for public drunk
enness, one for murder, 14
driving drunk and the others
for non-support, larceny,
worthless checks aryf traffic
Violations.
Edge
Candidate For
Morehead
Scholarship
Among the 24 candidates
for 1967 Morehead Scholar
ships Awards from the 10th
District to be interviewed
Monday was Wallace Stephen
Edge, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace Edge, and a Senior at
East Yancey High School.
Each award pays the full
expense of a student for four
years at the University of
North Carol na at Chapel
Hill. While Stephen was not
among Uie lucky ones to be
given this award, it was none
the less an honor to have
been sJecccd to enter the
competition.
Two alternate finalists
were selected from the 10th
District, f.rst alternate being
James Kermit Buchanan, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Buch
anan of Route 1, I’akcrsville,
a senior at Bowman High
School.
Dedicated To The Progress Os Yancey County
Bank To
Sponsor
Farming
Short Course
The Northwestern Bank
will sponsor a scholarship 10
the Modern Farming Short
Course at North Carolina
State Un.vers.ty January 23
throu h February 3.
This course is open to a
selected group of young North
Carolinians involved in Agri
culture who, because of their
interest have been chosen to
attend from their county.
Each person desir.ng to at
tend should get in touch wuh
E. L. Dill ngham, County Ex
tension Cha rman at the Yan
cey County Courthouse or
Arney Fox, Key Banker at
the Northwestern Bank at
once.
Scholarship rece : pients will
be young men who plan to
farm, or employed in agri
business closely related to
farming. They must have
shown leadership ability
through church, school, FFA,
4-H rr other aetiv : ties.
The county committee will
select one outstanding young
man from the applications re
ceived.
Bevc»ei young dairvmen
and ethers lv’ve a f tend»d
from the county in past years.
Powers iletted
Director Os
Agri. Council
Reverend John Powers of
Micaville has been elected a
director of the Asheville Ag
ricultural Development Coun
cil for 1967 representing Yan
cey county. The election to>k
place at the Council’s annual
meeting last week.
The Agricultural Develop
ment Council is an area de
velopment association cover
ing the 18 westernmost coun
ties of the state. Purpose of
the program, which is operat
ed by a board of directors re
presenting all counties, is to
help promote farm and rural
improvement projects on an
area basis.
A major activity of the Ag
ricultural Council is sponsor
tern Nor A Carolina Rural
Community Development Pro
gram in cooperat on with the
agricultural agencies and lo
cal spo in each county.
Th : s program of competition
among organized communities
was launched in 1950 and
over the years has beer, re
spons b’e for bringing about a
tremendous amount of pro
gress and community Im
provement.
Thursday,
January 19,JJ67
New Board Os Elections To
Be Named This Week
Medicare
Helps 50,000
Eligible
Citizens
4
The first six months of
Medicare ended in North
Carolina on December 31 with
hospitals aumimsiering care
to more than 50,000 eligible
citizens in the area.
According to officials from
the two Blus Cross Plans ac
ting as Administrative Inter
filed ary in Nor.h Carolina,
nearly $9 million was paid to
hospitals for 31,000 inpatient
claims for an everage of S2BO
per claim. In addition to in
patient admiss : ons, hospitals
aiministered care I to some
4,000 out-pat ents j and sub
mitted claims totaling $12,000
for an average of $3 per
claim.
A total of over $lO million
has been paid to the state’s
hospitals for services to date
—51,700,000 of wh ; ch hns been
in advance payments pending
receipt of payment for servi
ces rendered bo beneficiaries.
These figures reflect cla ms
prid only to hospitals and d 0
rot include those paid to phy
sicians for their s°rv : ces un
der Pa-t R of Medicare.
Hosnita! C"re Association of
Durham and Hnypie*!
of Chapel Hill are
N-rth Caro Fara’s two Blue
Cross Plans acting as inter
mediates. The'r func*on is to
process claims received from
h-snitrls for the Social Sec
urity As of
January l. HCA and HSA al
so assumed resronsibilHy as
intermediary for the Extend
ed Care part of the medicare
program. <
SSA Commissioner Robert
M. Ball recently commended
Blue Cross nationally for
their performance in the role
of Administrative Intermed
iary. According to Commis-
3all, 2.5 million cit'aens
have been treated In the na
tion’s hospitals under Medi
care and claims totaling nearly
$1 billion have been received
during the first six months.
RADISHES FOR WINTER
Two six-inch deep flats in
.vour greenhouse will give
you radishes all Winter.
Start sowing seeds in early
October and continue about
every three or four weeks
Radishes like a spot in the
cool section of the Orlyt
greenhouse where the tem
perature at night is about
45 .
Number Twenty - One
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The State Board of Elec- -
tious m Rale gh will announce
this week Uie appointment of
a new Yancey County board
of Elections.
The County has been with
out a Board of Elect.ons sin
ce the ouster Dec. 7 of T.
Adrian Buchanan, Chltln.,
Thos. G. Edge, Sec. Fred
Robinson, the Republican
member, had previously re
sted to accept the position
of Deputy Sheriff.
The new members will ap
pear before Yancey Clerk of
Superior Court, Fred Proffitt,
to rece ve the oath of office.
An organizational meeting
will then be held by the new
county board of elections, and
one of the two Democratic
members will be named chair
man.
Mr. Smith, Chmn. of the
State Board of Elections, said
in December that names of
new members to "Serve on the
Board would not be made
public until the oath of office
is administered to them.
At that time he ordered all
election materials not in cus
tody of the Board
rounded uo by SBI agents and
turned over to the Clerk of
Court for safe keeping. The
Clerk will turn the materials
over to the new Board after
the members have received
th*» oath of office.
There has been little spec
ulation as to who will be
namH to the new Board.
County election board mem
bers are recommended hv the
party executive committees to
the state party chairman, who
in turn recommends to the
8t«r» Board of El«€t'o”'B.
Although not hound by
law. the state board as a rile
accepts party recommenda
tion* for county election
boards.
Swann In
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Vietnam
WITH U. 8. COMBAT AIR
FORCES, Vetnam B. aft
Sergeant Sherril D. Swann,
aon of Mr. and Mrs. O. D.
Swann of Rt. l. Cullman,
Ala., on duty at Tan Son Nhut
AB, Vietnam. Sergeant Bwann
an adminis rattve spedai’st,
has been in the fight againat
Communist aggression since
November 1965. He is a mem
ber of the Pacific Air Poroec.
the nation’s combat-reedy air
arm guarding the 16090-mile
Bamboo Curtain. Before hia
arrival in Southeast Asia, he
was assigned to the 4410th
Combat Crew Training Wing
at Hurlburt Field. Fie. The
eerreanfa wife, Alma, la the
daughter of Mrs. carl letep
of Rt. 4, Burnsville, H. C.