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ESTABLISHED JULY, IMS TRENA P. FOX, EDITOR ft PUBLISHER MISS. ZOE YOUNG. ASSOCIATE EDITOR THURMAN L. BROWN. SHOP MANAGER ARCHIE H. BALLEW. PHOTOGRAPHER ft PERSSMAN PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILLE. N. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1967 NUMBER FORTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00 PER YEAR OUT OF COUNTY $4.00 PER YEAR Scene From Top 0’ The Hill By: Jack Kelly One of the big troubles with people who work in Washington it that they don’t have any sense. Naturally, most all of them have brains and are smart trot tt*. y common sense or common knowledge. You tnfr* 1 ke when I came back to work from my vacation down home in Burnsville. I came back and showed everybody the present that Ransom Higgins had given me. Every one of the people I showed it to said it was f ne. Nobody knew what it was. Fin ally, one young fellow, new to Washington, asked what is was. The fart that he let on that he didn’t know something proved be was new because, n this Town, you don’t ask questions. As a matter of fact, all you 'et by asking questions is a repu tation for asking questions. No one ever gives you a direc tans wer to a quest on. Mostly, they ask you one in return. For ex amp’e, if someone asks how to do this cr that, the person a-k --eJ will counter by asking “What do ycu mean?” Anyway, I brought Ransom’s fine present; down to the office with me. in my breast pocket, where I carry t for good luck because Ransom assured me it was a very potent luck charm. At the coffee break,— that's the period every morning and every' afternoon when peo ple decide they just can’t go any further with their work of run ning the Country except they troop out some place and get a cup of coffee,—l pulled out my Higgins’ gft and very casually stirred my coffee with it. Well, the three fellows at the table watched me but I didn’t say" anything. Just returned it to my breast Didn't say any th ng. Just noticed that they had sort of popped the r eyes at it. Finally, when I stirred my sec ond cup of coffee, one of them commented “I haven’t seen one of those for a long time” and reached out for it. I handed it over to him and he turned it s x ways from Sun day as he examined it. After a while, he handed it to another fellow and “That is a beau tiful piece of bone carv ng, where did you get it?” Before I answered him, the others at the table were all examining it. Everybody agreed that it waa, in truth a fine piece of carving. Two of them used i tfor a atir rer before it was returned to me. One of them commented he had seen one something like it down in the Virgin Islands. Now that waa h s mistake, because $ have worked the Virgin Islands more than semewhat, and I know a little bit about them. So, I cut him off. “No," I said, “ycu are thinking of the bam boo swizzlestick they have down there. Thia one s bone.” The fellow wasn’t thinking of any such thing. He was talking through the top of his hat, but like mos tWashington people, when someone imputes know- ledge to you, you don’t deny t, and he agreed it was tHe bam boo he was thinking of, and al lowed he had never before seen one carved from bone. I then explained that, in my mountains of North Carolina, they came in all sizes and that my fr end Ransom Higgins was the greates texpert in the Coun ty on producing them and that he spent all of the winter mon ths just carving on the bones that he located during the aut umn months. Then I lied and explained that Ransom was making me a complete set in asserted sizes. Right away, ev en though nobody knew what it was that they had examined, all of them wanted to know how much a set cost. Actually, since they didn’t know what it was, they had no idea of how many came to a set, but no one want ed to d splay his ignorance so no one asked that question. I in formed them that Colonel Hig gins,—l just added that title to make it sound more impress ive,—was making me a set for th rty-flve dollars. Everybody seemed to think that the price was reasonable and made com ment that good carving like “Kelly has there 1 is becoming a lost art” and things like that. One fellow allowed that a com plete set of them would look wonderful on the buffet table at a cocktail party and asked “How large a set d d you say you were getting?” Now he knew that I hadn't mentioned any number at all, but he was curious, so I told him I had just ordered a small set of twelve but that a really full set was eighteen. He said “That’s what I thought." We finished our coffee and re turned to work. Later in the day, two of them dropped by to enqu re if I could possibly drop a line to Ransom and find out vfhat he would charge for a "full set of eight een” of my now famous North Carolina Mountain Swizzle-sticks. I stalled them off by telling how Ransom only did it as a person al favor for me. They left my off ce very down-hearted and I yas laugh ng to myself. Then, just before quitting time, a friend of mine, George Turner frem the Kentucky mountains, dropped by and enquired about the “bene carving” I had brou ght back. I showed it to him and George put on hs 1 ttle Ken tucky smile aa he examined it, then he asked "Didn’t even one of them know what it was?" I told him no they didn’t. Then George said, “Kelly, if you start a business of sell ng these, your frend Ransom Higgins will de populate the mountains of rac coons, won’t he?” So now, what was once of use only to a raccoon has become a desirable piece of equipment to a cocktail party. Step up. Folks. Get your real, genu no North Carolina Moun tain Swizzle Sticks. Made from real, genu ne raccoon "you know-whats”. **r^^/opeH M Tu’raif jl V AoveaTiseo 000a aki cusar oa* a*c tw*t*s when RALEIGH REPORT By: Ernest Messer Although much remaps to be done here in the General Assem bly, the day of adjournment is now n sight. The Department of Revenue has increased its est mated tax take for the next biennium by $28,400,000. The Governor im mediately recommended dispo sition of all but $6,000,000 of this revenue. Included in the Governor’s re cemmendaton was $9,600,000 to increase teacher pay by a full 20% instead of by 17.58%, as had been previously recom mended. Although there will be some moves to increase teacher pay by more man 20%, this will prr bably be the official figure that will prevail. Moves to go beyond the 20% fgure wll be mostly politically motivated with little expectation that they will be adopted -4 and with no revenue to back them up if they wore adopted. •• • • The bill to permit the “elec tr'c c ties” to buy power faci lites in newly incorporated areas was killed by the Senate • Utilities Cimmlttee. A Senate bill to abolish auto mob le nspection was killed by the Senate Highway Safety Com mittee. The local option, or “piggy back” sales tax, and SIO.OO town and city automobile tag are both dead. There has been considerable criticism by indivduals and newspapers about the number of local bills that must be Dass ed by the General Assembly. There are many of these bills, but they are given more careful consideration than we are led to believe. Each local bill must be con s derel and passed by a com m ttee in each house. Most of these bills are written by some one in the office of the Attorney General, then they are scrutini zed by the introducer and by the pe"p!e back home. The newspapers carry accounts of all these bills and the Institu te of Government sends a list da ly to every county and city board. The charge that local bTla are carelessly prepared and passed is not justified. There are, however, too many local bills. They deal with many matters that should be handled by County Boards of Commis sioners and by town boards. But the people seem to want the final power left with the General Assembly Some time ago I permitted a local paper to state that we were gv ng consideration to placing Hay wood C"unty under the Home Rule Act which vrtfid per mit the County Commissioners to set pay sca’es fer all working in the Court House. I immediat ely rece ved several protests but not a single call in support of such an idea. • • There will be a hearing this week on bills that have been in troduced in both houses to re quire the election of all County Boards of Educaton. «« • « I was able to amend the bill to regulate the teaching of Cos metology in the public schools so as to permit the continuance of classes now in existence. This protects the classes we now have in Haywood County. There is a lot of to this bill. It may not pass. ( ACROSS ■ 1. FBI operator 5. Flapa 9. Black and blua 11. Recipient of a gift 12. Run away to Gretna Green 13. Italian vol cano tvar.) 14. Lair 15. Dispatch 17. Like 18. Erbium (sym.) 19. Points 20. Measure (Jap.) 21. Land measure 22. A toolhouse 24. Pretended writer of nursery rhymes 27. Curved molding 28. Insect 29. Biblical city 30. Chtep 31. Greeting 33. Southeast (abbr.) 34. The south of France 35. Forbid 3«. Locations 38. Lurk 40. Biblical name 41. Clear up, aa a mystery 42. Horee'a hoof plate Loner To The Editor Pensacola? N. C. May 28, 1967 To the Editor of THE YANCEY RECORD Burnsville, N. C. Dear Sr: The women of the Burnsville Garden Club have shown great civic pride in taking the ; r time, effort and money to beautify the city park with dozens of flow ering plants for many to admire dur ng the summer. Some c tizetis of Burnsville lacked this civic pride when they allowed the beauty of their park to be n'* -red consenting to that ugly building f afli signs being placed n such a promi nent location. Let’s hope that some day soon these men will realize how many were hurt gy their thoughtless nvstake, and find another loca tion for this building and signs. Sncerely, (Mrs. Wm. F.) Grace Grass muck. j CROSSWORD 43. Not eatlr DOWN 1. European kite 2. Track man 3. Shake* speare'a river 4. Pinch 5. Having digits 6. Pismire 7. City on the Gangee 8. Vacation spot 10. Covet 11. Boy’s nick name iposs.) 18. Came out into view 19. Pain 21. Cor roded 22. Cleans. Ing agent 23. Torrid 24. Frozen dessert (pi.) 25. Like a monster 26. Metamor phic rock 3Q. Location of “Leaning Tower" I 1 * 4 7T7 7; T ' W" II “Pi * ff* vr ;pi 11 y&-H4- Answer 31. Bisect 32. Blackened 34. Sheer 35. Tulip, for one 37. Also 39. Hawaiian timber tree
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