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The Yancey Record Established July, 1936 Trena P. Fox, Editor t Publisher Miss. Zoo 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. i THURSDAY, FEB. 2, 1967 NUMBER TWENTY-THREE Subscription Rates $2.50 Per Year Scene From Top O’ The Hill By: jack Kelly The lUo/ e—uu.i of the World Aimanac is on the newsun.GS a.iu, as usual, it is the greatest buy you can gt* lor the pr.ce. This edi tion sella for $1.65. I have been buying it irotn the t.me it sold for 50c a copy. Tins is the 99 ib year of i.s publica ton an<j is properly describ ed as the World’s most au thorise ave single-volume re ference work. In ad s ncenty, it is as necessary for worldly informa don as the Igible is for our Divine informat.on. In its 912 pages, it covers over a million facts both well-known and little-known. It has a series of full-color maps of the world *ts well as facts and figures on 251 Re lig ons bo lies covered. Despi e this enormous amount of different Churches and Re ligions, there still remain some 70 million people in our Country who have no Rel g ion. Makes you wonder what they are wa ting for. Seems like a man ought to be able to - satisfy himself within one out of that many. Just imagine the chaos we would have if we had as many polit'cal parties as we do Religions es.:ec'ally if e.- ch one got equal time on T-V. The book names the newly created Department of Trans . portat on among the Cabinet positions and that brings us up to twelve such posts. In order to help you remember the’r rames. I made up a mnemonic. That is the' word for a memory assister. It is also the only word in 1 the English language that begins "m-n” and the “n” is silent. Anyway, you just remember the name “J. T. CHATSIL, ph. D.” and you w : ll have all of the Cabinet posts. "J’* is Justice and “T" i s Transpor tation. Figure the rest. In the past several weeks I have worked in Georgia, Nor th Carolina, (not our part, unfortunately, but over in the Raleigh area) *and row I am up in Boston, Massachusetts. I onlv added the word Mass aohusetts because it m-kes the folk* up here mad. Th»y claim there is only one Bos ton and everyone knows where it is. All T know about it u. .hat u is, and has ueen bioo.iy cold a.nee I have been hfcic. Tne people are kind of cold too. You smile at a per son a.id say “Oood Morning" and they act bke you have comnu.fced a crime. Worse than that, they don’t ans wer you. You don’t have to wonder what them people are talking about. They are talking poli tics. They talk it all the time. Funny th ng is, they rarely discuss National polifcs. Strcily Bta e and Local. Basically, they are all either Democrats or Republicans but and that is a big but each of those Parties have splinter groups that you couldn’t imagine. You would n’t even want to. Naturally, in this state of confusion, sometimes Democrats and Republicans find themselves feeing the same goal. That’a when the argument really starts. Right away, each Party claims the other one stode the’r idea, when no one will admit the theft, both of them become opponents of what they had prevously advo cated. The trouble with these folks is that they hate facts that they d’sagre* with. That’s one reason this new edition of the World Almanac won’t sell too well up here. These people don’t want to know, they just want to be l eve. And they don’t neces sarily want to believe the truth, they prefer to beVevei what they think, and some times they th ! nk wrong. That’s where the Almanac comes in handy. It atoos argu ments by proving someone rin-ht and someone wrong. Get yourself a copy. Opportunity Loans For Rural Families These loans have been av ailable for tht pasw two years. However the maximum has recently been increased from ti. 500 to SJSOO. These loans may be used by fann ers to fu.ance farm improve ments and development, in cluding the purchase of land and family operated tracts or serv.ces that increase in come; such as welding, re pair shops, carpentry, etc. Loans may also be used by rural residents not farming to finance a trade of service that will increase family in come; such as pulpwood, re pair shops, carpentry, plumb ing, brick laying, etc. Mr. Bechler, County Sup ervisor stated that from the standpoint of eligibility that all persons in Yancey County were considered rural resi dents For further information call at your County Farmers Home Administration office, located in the Citiaena Bank Building. ARTHRITIS-RHEUMATISM Do claims and double talk make you doubt you can get any relief from arthritic and rheumatic pains ? Get 100 STANBACK tablets or 50 STAN HACK powders, use as direct ed. If you do not get relief, return the unused part and your purchase price will he refunded. Stanback Company, Salisbury, N. C. February is American Heart Month!' S—i ~1 1967 jM, HEART foMnd Give—So More Will Live! (Editor’s Not*) Mrs. Dessie Honeycutt of Rome 4 has sent in two pOjms written by her son, Tony G. Honeycutt, now sia..oned in Germany with the 3rd Missile Bn., 7th Art. • Divsion, which we are pleased to share with our readers: Day Dreaming By: Tony G Honeycutt I do3e my eyes and I see The Blue Ridge Mountains above me And though I am far away, I know I’ll return some day. I can hear the muffled calls Os a thousand water falls. I can hear the rustling sound Os the leaves on the ground. And the air smells so fine When it carries the scent of pine; Then before I open my eyes The vision I see dies. I th-ink the Lord that I can see My beloved mountains in memory For while those phantoms rise above I am returned to the land I love. if I Were Home By: Tony G Honeycutt I’d walk the hills as I please And smell the scent of hick ory I’d wa'ch for squills In those trees Hid ; n? there among the lea ves. If I were home when leaves do fall i I’d see the valleys from moun tains tall Yes, miles and miles of col ored leaves Hanging shimmering from S mil Ton trees. , I’d like to drink from a moun ts n spring And watch for trout in a crystal stream. I’d like to hear ■ fat grouse “beat", And s*e the print of a big buck’s feet. I’d like to wake in the early dawn Back in the hills where I belong. From those hills I’ll never roam, For there and there only is -v ' my home. RANGER RAMBLING By: Helton Carmichael A suauen change in weath er this past week has set me to think.ng about the wea ther. “Everybody talks about the wea.her, but nobody does anything about it.” Os course the reason “no body does anything" is Quite simple. There ls’nt much we can do. Our weather is caused by three th.ngs playing togtth er, the air, the sun and the movement of the earth. We live at the bottom of an ocean of air that rises above us, gradually thinning out until at about 200 miles above the earth, there is almost no air left. The air contains a number of things (oxygen, nitrogen, carbort dioxide and o.hers), mosture in the form of invisible vapor and a lot of fine dust. The air rests on the earth with the we ght of about 15 pounds to a square inch at sea level and exerts a press ure equal to this weght. When air over a certain place heats up it expands, as it expands it gets lighter and the cool air that surrounds it pushes it upward. As the warm air rises, there is less air bulbs to press on it and so its pressure becomes low er. As you see differences in temperature cause differen ces in pressure and these pressure differences in turn cause the air to move in ar rant moves over the earths surface we call wind. It is of course the sun that heats the air, mostly by first heating the earth wh ch then heats the air above it. But the sun doesn’t heat the air evenly The air over de sert land gets hot quickly. The air over the ocean takes longer to warm up. At the equa'or it is very hot, at the poles il is very Cold. Because the ear.h rotates from west to east like a top around its own axis, a : r movements are thrown off their direct courses. The final resutl is that in our country most currents of ar and therefore our weather in gen eral comes from westerly directions. • The wea:ner moves across our country from the Pacific to the Atlantic at an average Speed of 500 miles per day during the summer, 700 miles in winter. «: • When you ar e out in the forest camming, hunting or fshine, you won’t have much chance to study weather maps and yet if y o u intend to eo out you will want to make sure the good weather w 11 hold. There are several things that will help you forecast the weather. The wind ftr enam„:le, the west wind that is the wind coming from the west almost always br ngs clear, bright and cool weather. East of the Rockies the aest wind generally brings ra'n and north wind brings clear and cold weather. The sou'h wind heat and also often quck shower*. In winter when the wind shifts to the northeast there is snow ahead. In the sum mer a rainstorm is on its way. The northwest w r nd brings cold waves in winter and cooler weather in sum mer. The winds from the southwest is warm in the summer often scorch'ng. The winds from the southeast is the wettest of them all. Throughout the ages peonle h-ve tried to make un rules about the weather. Often it rhvmes s-me of them are senseless, others have a sound foundation, in fact although thev mav rot always be rir-ht. Take ths for exam ple: “Rainbow at nmht —a sa’iors delight, rainbow at morning sailors take war ning" Correct —a r>>'nbow is formed in rain clouds In the onprs te direction to the sun. In the evening the sun is in the west, therefore the rain bow is in the east. Since weather generally moves from west to east, the rain clouds have already passed, on the other hand a rainbow form ing in the west in the morn ing indicates that rain clouds are on their way. “A ring around the moon means ra ; n, the larger the ring, the nearer the rain.” Correct! The ring is a halo formed by the moon shining through several stratus Clouds forerunners of unsettled wea.her. “When the clouds appear like rocks and towers, the earth refreshed by ferquent showers”. Correct Singular clouds is forming, it will be pour ing shortly. Otheer th'ngs that tell the weaher. You can usually figure that fair weather la sheaj when the sun goes down as a ball of fre, or the sunset clouds brilliantly red. The same hoPs true when the insect catching birds such as swallows fly hi-h. When the smoke from the fire r ses straight up in the a'r, when the spiders sp : n in the grass, when there is a heavy dew at night or syWpn l : ght morn ing log hangs ovtr the valley. On the other hand there is bad weather in store when the sun rises red and the sun set grey and dull, when the swallows skim low over the lake, when the smoke hangs on the ground or when there is no deew at n'ght. I auißiul GILLETTE Bright guard AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR DEODORANT 791 HIFECI NISONII limit DtODOIHI RIGHT GUARD jOtOPO^ANTj
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