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.
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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.
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