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The Yancey Record Established July, 1936 Treaa P. Fox, Editor l 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. i THURSDAY, FEB. 16, 1967 NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE Subscription Rates $3.00 Per Year Out of county $4.00 Scene From Top O’ The Hill By: Jack Kelly ALAN S. EOxD D. O. T. ' About a hundred and f.fteen „ or twenty years ago, a gentle man in New York City de cided that the place was too crowded. Not only that, but he decided that the crowds did not move from plaqe to pla:t fast enough to suit him. New, most people, having reached those obvious decs , ions, would have said “To Heck with it’ ’and ei-her for gotten or ignored bo h situa tions. As a matter of fact, most people did just that. Which wa s possibly one of the reasons the conditions con t imed to exist. But our Coun try produced great men, even a century ago which might surprise some of our leading c tir-ens of today, who think they invented “greatness.’’ So, New York City produced a great ma \ who refused to ignore the condition of the crowd and its look of mobility. N t only did he refuse to ig nore it, he decided to do something about it. He invented the horse-car, did John Stephenson, and ramed it the “John Mason.” New this was a great in vention and a terrificj stride forward in mass transporta tion. It may appear as comi cal, in retrospect, but," in its \ day, it was literally the "hot test” thing on wheels. Two dreadfully important things s emmed from this invention, imporiant, that is, to me personally. As a kid, I have heard my Pappy tell tales of the numerous ways in which or by which his Daddy almost made a fortune. One of tthem was his inventon, which never really got mov ing, and, for sure, never reaped any financial success. This particular invention had to do with moving New York’s crowded populace about the City, just as did “Hoss-Car Harry’s” invention. It appears, according to my Pappy, that his father had coined the nickname * ‘Hoss-Car Harry” as a derisive term, which, if it caught-on, would send Mr. Stephenson and his invention down the drain, and, as a re sult, my Pappy’s pappy wtflld take over the newly invented traction system with his own invention, for moving the crowds about the great Cty Os New York. Also, his name, Daniel Jeremiah Kelly, would be emblazened across the skies as, not only a great in ventor who served and saved suffering cltirers, but, at least as important; the Kelly would become one of them there “millionaires.” Alas, the Fates did not de erte success (or Grand-Pappys invention, which, in many ways was the equal of old “Hoss-Car Harry’s” and, if' Grandpa’s story was to be be lieved, vastly superior in most ways. The Kelly invention would transport eight more persons than could the one invented by the enemy. And “enemy” is the correct word, since anyone who disagree with an Irishman on anything, au omat cally becomes an enemy. Now, since Grandpa* at that time was newly re tired as a Captain in the British Merchant Marine and had decided to make America even greater by moving there to become a citizen, he held very strong views against any “nat ve” who had. the gall to oprose him in anything. The orgi-al Kelly, fresh from the sailing vessels, be thought himself of a splendid invention. He would make a cart of cx remely large pro portions, and in the cart he would transport crowds from one place to another so they could/ be crowded in a differ ent s-ot. (Pure Irsh logic.) The b : g point to fi~ure out was the means by which ha great cart fu'l of people could be moved. Obviously, such a contrivance could be pulled by a team or two horses. But where was there a-iy imagina tion in such a contraption? Also, nags had to be fed —a no ~ inexpensive point to be reckoned with, when start ing a commercial enterprise to become a tycoon. Grandpa solved h : s problem simply. •Put a sail on the bloody contraption and your upkeep was free as the air, to coin a phrase. The Kelly :machine” wade its appearance on the City streets and was wafted creakily down sth Avenue Every hing went fine until it reached 14th Street, or maybe it was Bth. Anyway, a horse-drawn cart, overfilled w th people, one of “Hoss-Car Harry’s” vehicles, (wouldn’t you know) came across the intersection, with absolute for the Rules of the Road, Which every seafaring man knows gives the right of way to a “sad” and Grandpa luffed” but the idiot hosses persisted and collided with the Kelly-machine. The polfee came. The Refuse Department hauled away the debrs the remains of Grandpa's splend id invention. Thus did the horse-car take an unfair ad vantage, and survive. Grandpa always claimed that “they” took advantage of him because he was an emigrant. Possibly they did. Regardless of the reasons for his lack of success, I find IT NEVER FAILS HjSgJIM WONDER YOUR LiTTCE GtCL I Think SHE P6ODO T, C : = - f A IANAVS WANTS TO CONIC HERE —SHE ) HAS REAL <f BESSIE I WE'LL 6o they paid T z ( voG'v/e got to V r.i "I *IOOOFOB. —jri'^ HANOI* By: Helton Carmichael You may be a pretty smart outdoorsm&n, but did * you ever s.alk a wild animal until you got close enough to see what it was doing? Brother, thats a trick that takes pa tience and skill. Now in stalking animals, there is no ues looking for moose in Tennessee, coyo.es in Georgia or prarie logs in North Carolina. You just won’t see any. The best fust step is to find out which ani mals are found in your lo cality, read up obout them anl get to know some of their habits. Then, when you are hiking, you will know where and when and/ how to look for them. A very good place to see animals in theT native habitat is in your National Forests. Its mostly a matter of keep ing your eyes open. Look for signs all around you for tracks, burrows or dens, run ways, feeding places, spots where the animals come down to the water to drink’ When you have discovered their haunts, you con hide nearby best at dusk or in the early morning and you’ll have a good chance to see the animals. Start out stalking some of the easy ones. Take the chipmunk for instance. Some time on a hike when you pass a stone pile or an old log, you may glimpse a little ailmal wi h a long slender brown body with black stripes on its back. Get close ond 6tand perfectly still. As soon as the chipmunk gets used to you, he will s t up on his hind legs, stare at) you, then go about filling h : s cheek pouches with food stuff. Find a group of oak or h ekory trees and chances are you will find the grey squirrel. r myself today, not the graid eon of a millionaire. Not the Secretary of Transportation, the new Department formed by LEJ. Ins.ead, I find mysefl working for the grandson of old ‘ Hoss-Car Harry", because the new Secretary is Alan 8. Boyd, of the hprae-car de scent. Mr. Boyd probably has no knowledge about the fact that) if his Grandpa had observed the Rules of the Road he might be working for me. HAMBLIN* '• w * If you see one “freeze" and kiss the back of your hanl wth a squeaky smack. A curious squirrel may come up so close to you that you can almost touch it. , In an open feld you may th’nk that a stone la suddenly moving and turning on end. The “stane" is o woodchuck or groundhog getting up on its hind feet for a look around You disturb it and It scamp ers off and pours Rself into its hole with anoying soeed. Now is your chance. Move to within a few feet of the hole Flatten yourself on the gro und. A few minutes po by A head peers up cautiously, then the whole, chunky body comes out. There are some of the small animals whch are re la. My easy to stalk wnh a liotle practice. After you be come good at stalking you may want to try your luck on the more difficult animals such as the fox or the deer. G.od luck on your hunt. I ACROSS 1. Before (naut.) 8. Slight taste* 10. Part of hl-fl set 11. Join 13. Change 14. Deceive 15. Weight (Dan.) 16. Come out into view 17. Jewish month 18. Three handed card game .-10. Restaurant employee 7 32. Metal - 25. Acclaim 26. Ooddess of peace It. The firmament 20. Deprive of courage. 31. remale horse 32. Boy's nickname 38. Rock layers 86. Hi (var.) 38. Mohamme dan nymph 30. Teams 41. Companion to video 42. Greek weights 41 ager 44. Ruined one (slang) DOWN 1. Luton native THE BEST A BONDS/ BUY EVER? J I'M NO . "you have an iN&ECuRrry'A COMPLEX--VERY SIMPLE I TO OVERCOME JUST I r BKCUWTY//~y , x •JPCT 3REAT.' |'LL X Ol. 7 ( PAYROLL SAVINGS CROSSWORD 18. Position C 20. Cunning L 21. Exclam- 1 ation * 22. Thrice ■ (mui.) i 23. Cajole 24. 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