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THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1967 NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT ~ ~ /ft. VF fgCihj/
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LETTER TO f
THE EDITOR
Miss Mollie Hensley is the dau
ghter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
James Hensley of Windom. Her
B ; sters, Mrs. Watson Boone and
Mrs. Tom Branch, also a broth
er, Pershing Hensley, all reside
in Windom.
Miss Hensley is a 1934 gradu
ate of Micaville High School,
and a graduate of Asheville
Normal. Sre taught in Yancey
County Schools for a number of
years, before becoming a teach
ing Missionary at Southwest In
dian School in Arizona.
RALEIGH
REPORT
By: Ernest Messer
A bill to impose a tax of five
cents per pack on cigarettes and
an equivalent tax on other to
bacco produ rts was introduced
in the Houst last week.
The tax ,ou!d raise approxi
mately $31,000,000 and w:uld be
redistributed to the local gov
ernments.
No real support has developed,
as yet, for this tax. However,
I’m sure Munic palities and coun
ties arc interested.
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One of the big fights now
raging in the General Assembly
is over Congressional D stricts.
A Senate redistricting bill has
been reported out of Committee,
but met such oppostion on the
floor that further eons : deration
was postponed until next Wed
nesday.
This Senate plan would move
Mitchell County out of the 11th
Congressional District.
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In a cemetery, there are 900
graves per acre.
A bll has been introduced in
the Senate to repeal the Auto
mobile inspection.
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Interest on home loans may
now be as high as 7 percent. A
bill was passed last week by the
General Assembly to make this
possible.
A constitutional amendment
wlvch would have lowered the
voting age to 18 was killed by
the House last week.
Revenue bonds are now legal
in North Carolina. The NVrth
Carolina Industrial Development
F.nanring Authority will be set
up and all industries w'sh'ng to
Issue bonds must be approved
by this authority.
The bonds will be available to
new industry coming into North
Carolina and to estabbshed Nor
th Carolina industries which
wi; h to expand.
The properties of these indus
tries will 1* fully taxable at the
local level. The bonds will be
the full responsibility of the in
dustry issuing them. The inter
est will not be taxable as in
come
It is believed that the avail
abil ty of revenue bonds will aid
our industry hunters in attract
ing Industry to North Carolina.
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Say 1%7
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oneetlngA fnom the land ol cowboy and nedA > zinA!
At thtA mnltina me ane Ln the onoceAA of flniAhing up a yean hene. cvt Southwest
Ondian School . Lven.tj.one haA plenty to do. the childnen ane. thnlLLed and Impatient f
aA ane childnen evenywhene the la At month of. the Achool jean.
0 face the end with mixed emotionA, {.on thlA La funlouah jean. ThtA enxU my.
Aixth yean of Aenvice hene. Ot mill be a.ood to be bach in Month Canolina son, at
leaAt, a few month a. 0 mill be livina neon mu AiAien and bnothen in 3unnAvilie t and
it mill be ane at to be mith loved oneA and fniencU again. But 0 am Auneltj going to
miAA theAe bnoun fnceA and the fellow mtAAionanieA hene in Anlzona. SunpnlAing horn
emotionally involveA one can ret in ao Ahont a time!
0 am olao looking, fonwand to Aeeina you, mho have Aupponted me ao faithfully
theAe Aix uccka. Ton many of you it mill be the finAt ttme f and 0 am Aune 0 mill not
be able to tell, any of you hom indebted. 0 am to you, but it mill be gneat to Ahake
youn hand. So doubt, you mill be neceiving a letten fnom headqpantenA neganding a
a viAit fnom me, on a meeting in youn clunch on pnayen ynoup.
0 cm only Any that fnom my heant 0 thank the Land fan having had thU pnivilege.
Unity he could have made the way. Thanh you son obeying. Him.
On cl. a Ain g. could 0 aAk youn continued pna/enA? Deputation monk La new son me.
PleaAe onau that 0 till be a bleAAing in the placeA 0 viAit; and that in Hla time,
J ajlc - io AhaneA 0 need and netunn to the bnoun-faced peoole who
need ao do Ape natal- 1 the meAAage of Salvation.
Sincenely in Him, jidh?
Scene From Top O’ The Hill
By: Jack Kelly
Blanche and I drove down
home for a coaple of weeks for,
I think to take a rest. Well,
anyone who ever took a trip for
a rest, without any other guar- .
antee than his wife’s statement,
probably ended up like I did.
I’m not complaining, you under
stand, it’s just that I will have
to get back to work to get that
rest I thought I needed. Blanche
was real nice about it though.
She did all the driving on the
way down. Actually she did the
dr.ving after we arrived too,
. but then she drove me, not the
car.
It was a fine Saturday for
driving. Rained for the first 250
miles, then the sun shone all the
way to Burnsville. The trip it
self was most uneventful if
you don’t count the time on In
terstate 81 when Blanche cut out
to and we saw a 24-carat
idiot driving right at us, on our
side of the median strip. Blanche
followed my instructions and we
got back out of the way as the
car zoomed past. R ght smack
behind him was a State High
way Patrol car with hs s ren
blaring. So, I guess he caught
him. After that we didn’t see
anything unusual until we took
the cutoff to Burnsville, after
we left Johnson City. Then, as
we made a turn, there was a
Cadillac back ng up the road in
front of us. Goins., the same way
we were, fortunately. We timed
him with our speedometer and
he backed up that mountain it
better than 45 miles an hour, I
was right proud to note that
nether of these we ! rd driving
gents had North Carolina paltes
on the car.
We arrived at Ray Brothers
Grocery at exactly 1:15 p. m .
Loaded up with groceries and
drove up to the Hill. The place
looked great. Ransom Higgins,
with his usual kindness had
turned on the water, and gotten
the lawns mowed. Johnny Flack
d'd a nice job but he left me a
few leaves. (Blanche showed me
how to use a rake, so I got them
up, later on.) We began unload
ing the car and Ransom and his
grand-daugfter, along with hia
new grand-son-in-law drove up.
Th ; s made the home-coming
something special. After all, I
never dreamed that a bride and
groom would take tiipe out from
a Honeymoon and drive up to
great us. Everybody knows that
Nancy Ann Higgins was as pret
ty a giirl as there was in Yan
cey County, and the surely
makes a pretty bride. She must
have a lot of sense too, because
this lad Blackburn, Joseph Ron
ald Blackburn his full name is,
well, he is one of the most pre
sentable and interesting young
men I have met in many years,
and Nancy met him and married
him. Blanche and I sincerely
join with all of the'r friends and
relatives in wishing them a long
and happy marriage.
I had a meet.ng of adifferent
kind on Sunday, right after
Church. We came home and ata,
then I went out to look at the
view the Lord gave this place. I
stood th*re, mind ng my own
business, when suddenly, out of
nowhere, my neighbor. Whopper
Boyle, whom I had never met,
was upon me. He kicked me In
the forehead and cheat at the
same time. I did what I was sup
posed to do. I fell down. Good
neighbor Whoppy then commen
ced to lick my face in a most
fr endly way. As Boon as I de
cided he wasn’t going to eat me,
I got up, and took a good look
at him. Whopper turned out to
be a dog, six feet tall, nne feet
leng, and he must weigh close
to 350 pounds. The more I look
ed at him, the more I waa glad
that my ne ghbors are friendly.
Give me my choice and I’l! take
Bride and Groom greetings.
It turned out that Whopper
Boyle is owned by my good
neighbors Earl and Margaret
Boyle and that they don't know
how to spell real good because
they spell Whopper's name
“WAPI” and anyone who looks
at that canine gentleman just
knows it has to be spelled my
way. Incidentally, Earl Boyle
has a better view than I do, but
I wouldn’t admit it for anything
in the world.
Our son Barry and hia w'te
Beth came up for the weekend
They arrived at exactly 4: IS a.
m. Not over a couple of hundred
yards behind them, the Police
arr ved. Chief Penland’a force is
on the ball. Barry wondered if
he had maybe done something
wrong coming through Town but
t explained to him that our
Police, and Chief Penland just
d'dn’t take k'ndly to young cou
ples driving up Water Tank Hill
•t 4 o’clock in the morning and
since him and Beth had left
the r marriage license back
home, well, trey nvght have
been in trougle if Blanche and
I had not been home to greet
them.