The Yancey Recerd
Established July, 1936
Trtaa P, Fox, Editor & Publisher
Miss. Zoe Young Associate Editor
Thurman L. Brown, Shop Manager
Archie H. Ballew, Photographer A Pressman
Published Every Thursday By
YANCEY PUBLISHING Company
Second Class Postage Paid At Burnsville, N. C.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1967 NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT
•Subscription Rates' $3.00 Per Year
|out of county $4.00
Scene From Top O’ The Hill
By: Jack Kelly
Washington is a strange
Tuwn at any time but Come
GeOige Washington’s B.rth
day it very often becomes
absolutely weird. The merch
ants invented the B.rJiday
Sales for th.s da.e for an
unknown reason. The sales
coiMt.in some truly fantastic
values, if such they may be
called. On Washir.g.on’s Br
thday, ju;»t passed, one mer
chant iold a live boa-consjric
*tor for 99 ce.its. Ano-her one
d sposed of a fifty dollar
Camera for 99 corns. Suits,
furs, anything you can ima
g ne. go on sale for real sav
ings. The 99 cent items, ob
viously. arc tye-catchers. The
c#.her genu ne bargains act
to cle.r off the shelf for the
m< rch; r.-t an<l allow the long
suff( ring cus cmer to get a
bar. am on things he does or
Oops not nce.\r -*
l’cople start forming a line
in front of the stores with
the advertised bargains as
so 11 ,s ( he store closes the
prevois evening. Thait means
that some folks get in line
about r.:30 or 7:CO o’clock in
the evening and remain
(there u til tho s’ore opens
the following morning some
t me around nine or ten. That
means a 15 hour vigil throu
ghout Ahe nght on the side
walk, regardless of weTh’r.
When the s ores ooen, ■there
is a sort of a. mini-Aure riot
as folks push, shove . and
crowd iheir way into the otore
of (heir choice.
These terr sic sales are no 6
reserved to the larger s’ores.
Every ge‘s in on Ahe act,
so to speak. Th«
estimate the Ao'al day’s sales
a anywhere
dollars up. That’s a lot of
cash regis'er action. The
buil’-up star s a week or so
before. For example, Blanche
j*ors i-ita a building that has
a lar"c cafeter'a. This cafeter
ia had a 5-galloh crock
chocked hill of cherries and
invited ore and all to guess
how cherr'es were in
th" crock. Now my wife
Blanche is a conWor from
way back She didn’t even
to read what the prl-e
was for Ahe best or nearest
guess. If she had, she might
have paused to wonder what
she would do with 22 cherry
pics if she won them b A,
I doubt it. Cantes ors Ju't
live to co"A‘'s f . In any event,
Blanche filled o-’t a blank
and es i: m»ted the* 1 there we-e
of the large cherries
in the crock.
A A 2:00 p. m. on February
22, 1907, a deliverymar ap
peared at our apartment and
delivered us exactly 22 cherry
p es. Now, everyone who has
ever lived, at one A.me or ano
*-•»
then, has had a friend drop
by the house and leave a large
ba.ch of smelly fish, recently
caught on a tr.p. Well, y»th a
fish present, you thank the
person kindly, and then wrap
the gi-'fc in newspapers and
put it in the nearest garbage
pail, as soon as Ahe donor
leaves your house. Cherry
Pes are somehow different.
Believe me, it is stili quite a
problem <to go around, call
around, do every th ng you
can to get rid of a dozen
and a half or more cherry
pies. Everyone you contaot
ossumes you are selling cher
ry pies, and, people who Ike
them cr think they should etut
one on Washington's Birth
day well, they already have
one or two. The nore you
explain you are g ving them
away, the more they become
doub ful of your good inten
\\or». We finally got rio ot
merit of them, except for
nre we hod to keep.
Blanche was nonchaltent
about the wirnin" of the con
test. She said she knew Wash
ington was born in 1812 (she
was wrong, A was 1732) so
she took two-’hirds of that
and get 1231 (instead of 1221)
(hen sbe mult "lied It by 2
and ad’ed how nany years we
had been m?r ed and when
she got Ah«t *he "threw in”
350 more. Shn guessed 8383
and it was 5271.
Letters To
Tho Editor
March 2, 1987
The Yancey Record:
Keep North Carol .na Cle*a
and Beautiful
"Every Litter bit Hurt#”
A request from the White
Oak Community:
A gre t stride forward was
taken last year when dump
ing places were provided for
the public to dispose of TIN
CANS GLASS RUBBISH
We thank those who have
Coopera ed to make this pos
sible. Our mountain streams
are showing great improve
ment.
However! A new problem
has arisen. Paper should be
burned at home in suitable
containers. When paper is
thrown in the mine holes,
wind soon p cks it up and
scatters It far and wide along
the country aide.
Please do not throw paper
in the dump! Burn paper saf
ely at home.
White Oak Creek Comrnun
ity
Carl Erickson. Chairman.
Gertrude Romsey, Corns
ponding Sec’y.
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Raluigh Report
By: Ernest Messer
Letters about liquor legisla
tion, wh.ch began to arrive
in volume even be-ore me
General Assembly convened,
have not appreciably uim.n
kheJ. They are less noticeable
now, however, due to the iact
viii-'u peo.-ae are beg.nxnng to
write aoout o-her mavi«ers.
Lct.ers liquor are in
greatest volume. I have re
cent d only two le.iters from
indivku\_ls in Haywood-Mod
iiOn-YanCt-y that have advo
cated relaxing the liquor laws.
All the others several hun
dred m number have advo
caed leaving the law as it
now stands or even making it
more restrotiVe.
This is not an easy issue
to settle. Beginn n? Tuesday,
March 14, hear ngs will be
held to determine, if possible
what the people really want
to do about the liquor ques
tion.
According to my ma 1, hers
is how people s.aud on other
issues.
They are against whiskey
advertisements; They favor
more pay for teachers; They
are for Daylight Saving
Tme; They oppose increasing
the base cf compulsory auto
mobile insurance; They favor
the full U 32 of planes by the
Highway Patrol.
Two problems that confront
Western Nor h Carolina legis
lrtors are the setting up of
an Upper French Broad De
velopment Commission and
secumg funds to complete
the Agricul ural Center at
the Asheville-Hendersonville
Airport. Some leg slation deal
ing with 'these two matters
will probably be worked out
soon.
An organization to bring
about the abolition of Caoktal
Punishment ha. started func
tioning here in Raleigh.
Three bits dealing with
Capi al Punishment have al
ready been introduced. Each
one of those dra’c with the
sub.iect only in part.
too excited with the time
clock showing six minutes.
A bill to completely abolish
Ca •‘•(al Punishment will pro
bably be introduced in a
few dry a. I don’t knoy Wheth
er such a bill can be passed
this year, but indications are
Abat the move to obol sh
the dea'h penalty will be
more rowerful this year than
ever before.
Yanay Farmer
’Hogs Down ’
Corn
A visitor to Yancey C>unty
could get confused thinking
that he is in the midwestctn
hog cour/ry, according to E.
L. Dillingham, County Ex
tension Chairman.
Byrle Robnson had a field
of corn that fell down, and he
was unable to harvest it all
with a corn harvester.
Af.er a discussion with Ahe
County Agricultural Exten
son Chairman, Robinson con
tacted on Eastern North
Carolina pi£ market regard
in? sales dates He attended
a and purchased 92 hogs
weighing from 50 to 100
pounds each.
Af:-er putting an eleotric
fence around the field, the
r’rs ”-gre turred in the field
and seemed to like the moun
tain scenery and found de
light.
While "hogging dowh com”
is a new system for Yancey
County on a falrlv lar"-e bas
is, it is being watched wPh
considerable jp/erest by nei
ghbors and interested persons
in the county. *
E. L D llimrhqm, County
Extension Chairman, said Ahat
it might be that this would
be a possjb’s solution to the
high labor required of some
farm enterprise.
13 seconds of the period Icf,
and Ahe score 5-17.
Book On
Summer Jobs
In i.Y. Library
Information on 45,000 sum
mer Job openings throughout
Ahe United S ates ond Canada
for 1967 has just been receiv
ed by East Yancey Hi h
School Library in a book tiA
led, "Summer Employment
Directory. ’
are names and ad
dresses of employers, specif c
jobs they have available, sal
ary and in making ap
plication. High school seniors,
college studeiAs and teachers
are invited to make applica
tion.
The outlook for 1987 sum
mer Jobs throughout Ah* cou
ntry is bright! Early applica
tions is strongly suggested,
however.
There continues to be s
heavy demand for camp coun
selors ares 19, 20 and older.
Camp salaries are up: mini
mum salaries have increased
350-100 while max mum sal
aries have pushed ahead S2OO
-
Openings are for waitress
es. clerks, bus boys, mads
cooks, kitchm helpers, life
guards. musicians, and ma'n-
Aerance workers at resorts
(and national parks.
Actresses, actors, tech-’i
c ans and other personnel ar«
needed at summer Aheatret.
Office help and workers of
manv types are wanted by
ranches, restaurants, b-siness
indus ry and govemmerA.
Information on summer
job openings is obtained an
' Jiually from extensive sear
ch conducted among ir*ny
thousands of potential sum
mer employers The research
' findings are comnUed before
December for publication iin
each new eidtit ; on of "Sum
mer Emnioyment Directory.”
The 1967 “Sumner Employ
me’-A Directory’ ’may he nur
chased through any bookrAore
or ordered by mnji by send
ing $t to the puHisrer, Nation
al Dre Aory Serv ce, Box
82065. Cincinnati, Ohio 45232