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The Yancey Record Establlskud July, 1936 Irena P. Fox, Editor & 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. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1967 NUMBER THIRTY Subscription Rates $3.00 Per Year Oul of county $4.00 Scene From Top 0’ The Hill By: Jack Kelly Everybody is reasonably fami liar with the F. 8.1. and the Sec ret Service and the Postal In spection Service and pays them their well merited homage i and credit. However, the Govern ment has many other investiga tional agencies, albeit, less well known. Such an outfit is the A & I. These initials stand for Audits and Investigations. This A & I is a small ball-bearing in the great cogs of the govern mental machine that, literally, keeps the wheels turning. A & I numbers among its component parts auditors, investigators, engineering advisros .real es tate specialists, right-of-way men and the necessary clerks, typ ists, secretaries and messengers necessary to bring to a cohesive fruition its efforts expended in assuring the Public that it gets the roads it pays for. A & I ovresees and checks into any and all complaints hav ing to no with roans tmttt try or various States with Federal-aid Assistance, whether they be pri mary, secondary or Interstate the greatest mechanical achieve ment even conceived and pro duced by a fhee society, ins entire operation, involving the expenditures of billions of dol lars, is supervised, nay, handled, by one of the few men if not the only man who could possibly conduct its operations. The ap pointment of this man, by our own Luther Hodges, little men tioned at the time, will doubtless prove to be Mr. Hodges’ most splendid choice. Joseph M. O’Connor 'the M is for Michael) a former FBI Sup ervisor came into be ; ng when Luther Hodges realized that he and his Department of Com merce needed a special group of specialists to keep a check rein on the immense expendi ture of money going into our road program. Hodges picked O’Connor for the usual and var ied reasons of ability,. tact, back ground and so forth. O’Connor was originally, one among many aspirants for the position. Few people conceded him m«v»h chance of getting it because, to use a Washington expression, "He wasn’t wired as good as some” Wired, in Washington, means political contacts. Ac tually, this lack of wiring prov ed to be O’Connor’s saving i grace. Everyone in North Caro lina knows that Luther Hodges was a past-master at politics. This knowledge stood the Secre tary in good stead. He knew that he needed an able man, not a politician for the position. Be sides, from his personal inter views, he had determined that this handsome Irishman, who broke six-foot and 300 pounds, had the added gift of a persua sive tongue and a sense of humor. A certain twinkle in his eye could replace the icy glare when needed. He was selected by Luther, and the numerius political selectees returned to their tents to lick their wounds, with no understanding of the reasons behind the O’Connor ap pointment. They immediately be came candidates for other posi tions which, if the Country was lucky, they could fill. In the five years that O’Con nor has conducted the A & I, his savings of money and man-hours to his Country is beyond esti mate. His representatives go in to all fifty States. Obviously, from time to time, his men have caused a ripple or two of ill will but, the overall picture pro ves that, by and large, they have engendered much more good will and have placed the stature of A A I on the peak of the various agencies. Mr. Hodges can well be, and, j I know, is, proud of the O’Con nor appointment, a Massachus etts man chosen by a Tar Heel. SautmS' W#?* JSStSt the States can be proud of the fact that A A I, the "seeing eye” keeps a watch on the con struction of your roads as well as expenditure of your tax pay ments, under the vigilant super vision of Secretary Hodges’ moat productive appointee, Joseph Michael O’Connor, Director of Audits and Investigations. DAWN By : A Senior at East Yancey High School Dawn is to many of us today something that is of very little importance ether than the chan gng of another ordinary night to another ordinary day. But to many peop’e, dawn has a very different meaning. To the hunter, dawn is when fer the f'rst t'me he will be able to spot Ivs prey.. It is a’so the time when the hunted must leave his protection in search of food and match wits with the dread ed enemy. The thousands of men during D-Day wa'ted long and patiently for the dawn when at last they would be able to abandon their filthy ships and fight for their country. For many of them dawn was certa’n death. The caps zed sailor floating on a seemingly boundless sea waits for the dawn which brings with it a new hope of land that will save him from his isolated starvation. During his trans-Atlantic flight Charles A. Lindbergh wel comed the dawn that brought landmarks and an end to his fears of be'ng off course. To the many people at Sunrise Services on Easter morning, dawn marks the time nearly two thousand years ago when the* Savior conquered death and as cended into heaven. Yes, dawn is something differ ent to everyone. What is dawn to you? IT NEVER FAILS P*/ LOOK at JT CAROS — I'M :hool with you /oue TEACHER/^ Drive Carefully During Holidays Easter is a glorious time of reverence and solemn reflec tion; don’t shatter its tranquil mood by driving inti one of the thousand or more traffic acci dents on North Carolina's streets and highways which the N. C. State Motor Club warns may take up to 19 lives during the extended weekend. The state will officially count its holiday traffic deaths from 6 p. m. Friday, March 24, thro ugh midnight Monday, March 17. %■ ■l y »uluA. North Carolina’s Easter toll last year climaxed to 30 fatali ties, after five delayed deaths were reproted. Anither 703 per sons were, inlured in 1,017 acci dents. N ! ne of the deaths occur red on Easter Sunday. Os the 944 driver violations re ported, the leading causes of acc'dents were: soeedlng, SMI; failure to yie'd right of way, 144: driving left of center, 143; driving too closely, 24; and reckless driving, 71. B. Watk'ns, president of N. C. State Motor Club, said Ea«ter traditionally opens the sprine travel season and motn r . ists will be encountering addi tional hazards on congested high wavs. “Please be cautious and con siderate and drive carefully yourself,” he urged. J Vue FtitiT A/kim STemepest wA6 Ellen church. who mape Mee FLIGHT MAV 15,1930, BETWEEN SAW FRAWCISCO, CALIFOEWiA, ANP CHEYENNE, WVOMING ! xo, THAN 10,000 <\ - PEOPLE APE - EMPLOYEO 5Y GMT /W POMESTIC E AIKLINES,WHIIi ~ Afjour 1,000 ,f-~ MAKE OVERSEAS \ ~ FLIGHTS/ STEWARPEfS' r poise IN PEAUN6 ,| WITH PtOPIB Jrtd, 15 AH ASSET WHICH TCWj REMAINS WITH HER EVEN Oyjt after she leaves the ■ / AIRLINE. IT WAS THIS TJ FACT THAT INSPiCEP PAUL ■ I CORRERI-HIMSELF AN 11/ - Ey. AIRLINE STEWARD.. •'ll .to start TMg COR-Alg-Y GIRL*. 1270 4VE.OF THE AMERICAS, IN NLN ' YOkfc CITY, AM OB64MIZATIOW -jo EMPLOY THfe £eev/c£S or k£ce*rtY kETI«€P SteiAMßptSseS FOR Conventions, trape Shows anp ot hlr SIMILIe EVtNtS WHERE THEIR trainm* \ ANP l »r£ HENCE CAN PE VERY VALUABLE -J WHY HENRY HANGOVER/ NO WONOER THE TwiNS ARE SO BAD. W»Th YOU . for the\C Father i! DON'T you' remember, you were in This very Y class over twenty years ago, J —and i'll never forget it/ you \M were positively the snorst f Remember once—' *j|j^' 27 NX. Colleges Sign Contracts With PACt Twenty-seven colleges and universities in Norht Caro- Lr.a rave signed contracts wi.h the State Department of Public Welfare to participate in PACZ, INC. (Plan Assuring College Education in Nonth Carolina, which helps ot pro v.de summer employment for needy students to financ* wieir college education. The par tic,,a .ir.g institu tions are: AtlanLc Christ an College, Agricultural * and Technical College, Bennett College, Campbell College, Central Piedmont Community College, Davidson College, Duke Unlversty, Eton Col lege, High Point College, Johnson C. Smith Un versLy, Lees-Mcßae College, Lenoir County C immunity College, Leno r-Rhyne College, Living stone College, Meredith Col lege, Montreat-Anderson Col lege, Mount Olive Junior Col lege, Noith Carolna Stats University, Pembroke College, Bacred Heart College, Sand hills Community College, St. Andrews Presbyter an Col lege, University of Nontr Carolina Chapel Hill, Char iot 1 e, and Greensboro, Warren W Ison College, and Winston- Salrm State College. La »t year, 995 college stud ents earned $529,749.04 to ao- Ply to their college expenses at 37 colleges. They resided or worked in 83 different count es in North Carolina and helped provide additional services to Tar, Heel c tisens throrgr 363 agencies. Th?y worked In recrea’ion pro proms, welfare departments, health departments, educa tional TV, law enforcement agencies, agricultural exten sion, research, schools and school offices, h storic sites, piarks, highway commissions, l brrries, hospi'a’s and many other services. This was pro vided at a local cost of $79,- 462.36 and the students spent in commun ties $68,244.- 81. The average gross aem isgs per student was $532.41. All this yas a result of Ahe College Work-Study Program (Title IV B) of The Hi-her Education Act of 1965. On Ahe besis of survey of the stud ents. most of I'hem would not have been able to f.o to col lege or been able to remain in college had it ncA been for this program. The North Cnrolina State Department of Public Welfare through its Community Ser vices Divison developed the idea of a coord natod approach A r *«<l»nt who needs finan cial assistance to go to col lege applies for participation in the Plan. If Ahe college is one of the instnut.ons coop erating in Ahe program and if the student Aid Officer deems the stude:A eligible on an academic and needs bas s, PACE ac.empts to help Ahe student find a work opportun ity in his own home commdn ity. Thus the stude A earns money Aoward his college ex penses, helps provde addi tional service to his commun iAy, is able to work when it w.ll not interfere with his study time, and can stay in his own home. SAudents interested in ap plying for participation in PACE should co.tact their Guidance Counselor, local Welfare Departme A, Com muni y Serv ces Consultant, Stui’ent Aid Officer, or write PACE. INC. State Department of Pubic Welfare, Box 2599, Raleigh, N. C. 27602. Non-profit agencies having work whore students could perform but having limited bul-ets should contact the local Welfare Communi'y Servers Consult arA. or PACE at the address above. A \ ARMY RESERVE
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