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ESTABLISHED JULY, 1936 TRENA 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 — - SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY, NOV. 9, 1937 NUMBER TEN SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3 00 PER YEAR OUT OF COUNTY $4.00 PER YEAR Scene From Top 0’ The Hill By: Jack Kelly This article is being written down home here where I am subject to at least several thou sand d stractions. First and foremost, I would rather be downtown talking to people but I can’t do that because Blanche took the car to run to the store and probably will drive our ihi Rise-guest arocnd and about for 3n hour or so to show that gal what our area looks like. I don't know why she would do that since they could look out the w.ndows and see more than they will riding around. Blanche i- real proud of all of Yancey County and she will probably end up wth making this other p- promise to seriously consid e getting a place down here. •Might tie a little difficult he cause Rosetta, that’s her name, and her last name is Croccia That*' Italian. And the History Books all cla m that Italians are a warm-blooded Race.) Well, as you know, last Saturday night was anything but warm and this Rosetta gal. well, at breakfast on Sunday, she s«rt of commented that it was a bit —— -"n xeu-TOCTii me mem hefonr and, based upon that, she calculated it might get downright cool when winter t«'Tries t spent a good portion oi the day or. Sunday, expla ning to Blanche and Rosetta Uiat ti was m-t going to get to<> cold he ■-ause Roy Ray claimed *hat skunks were not walking anx'ml with .me eye closed, wh eh Rov claims is the only sure sign of a cold Winter com ing The way Roy explained it, the skimk does th ; s to keep from having t*»th of his eyeballs freezing at the sime time It sounded as sensible as the sure sign an old gentleman told me about down at the hospital v “ms 'ike he is exj>ecting his J t grandchild and he was ir.d tha' the kid might be n w th ~ wart on his thumb. " theor sounded a bit more inntif'c than Roy Rav s It stands to reason that if a ''■•■* baby is bom with a wart « e Vs thumb we are bound to ' <ve a cold winter Bark when I was a kid. w» had the finest weather barome ter »ou ever could see My '•i.i man bad a fellow hanging «round who used to do odd jobs. M's Time was Smple Jim ‘-ai: >'hing-or other No one ever , ailed him anything but Simple. Now. hack then, all of us eleven Kellys .id the greatest regard for my old man's opnion on everything As a matter of fact, his .pm inn just natural Iv he value ours That was the iy l*< p i .ai hs hous. Real «> ‘•rat I ri i Iml> i the hous, could vail- on .my hject at any lime He had ->nh me require ment v i had h h iv#- a ballot N" v .since Pop wa (he man who issued the ballots, he had no worry on the outcome ,>f my proposition He jest didn't pass* • Hit any ballots. We used to mar vel at him, early in the morn ing when he would get us out of bed and announce that it was going to be a cold day. We would dress accordingly, and Pep was always right. I didn’t find out until I was an adult grown that Pop knew it would be cold by the way old Simple had come to work. If Simple had jest two pairs of pants and a couple of coats, that was one thing, but when Simple had four cr fve pairs of pants and three coats and an overcoat, then my old man knew it was cold, and so announced it. He had no truck with frozen-eyeballed skunks or babies with warts. Shoe I am of a more modern generation than my Pappy, I would rather go along with the more scientific data funrshed by my Burnsville friends. I have no cho'ce, Simple has been dead for years. My whole train of thought, if 1 had one, has just been de railed. Blanche and Rosetta re turned and insisted I stop and f x a fire in the fire-place be cause they were cold, so I did it. They did not bring home j»nv runyc nIW tn inf/»m me mat apprasors were going arrund looking at property for the purpose of re-assessing val ues few tax purposes. In the event those tax-people don’t get here before we leave. 1 trust they will make note of the falling-down condit’on of my place. They might ktv'ck off a couple of thousand dollars more for the fact that when the snow comes, us Kellys can’t set off the Hill, and any number of things. I th'nk it would be great if those fellows would make His tory in Burnsville and assess my ptaee downward. If they don’t I’ll out a hex on them. Everybody knows that the Town and County have to raise taxes to keep operating and everybody is in favor of it, so long as tlieir personal taxes are net rased That puts the tax assessor in a tough spot. In this present go-round, someone should be commended for bringing in outs.ders to assess valuation. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like taxes any better than anyone else, and if these outside gen tlemen clout us real hard, I trust someone will save us a place at the wail ng wall *o I can gnash my teeth and beseech the Heavenly Powers for rebel from the scounderly tax-gatherers I will weep and wail along with the best of you. NOTICE The Burnsville office of the French Broad Electric Member ship Corporation will be dosed Veterans’ Day. November 11. NOTICE The Health Center in Rirns viltc wilt tv* closed cr 'ny. Ncvomlier 1 i /, o|*vc ,>«>•- if \ etc m's ' ", *v Winter is here again. And from the signs of the old timer, black coated wolly worms, thick com LETTER TO CITIZENS Dear Fellow Citizen: I am writng to you because I think you will my con cern about the oLvival of W.A. M.Y. Community Action, Inc., and the anti-poverty efforts in Watauga, Avery, Mitchell and Yancey counties. Next week, toe week of Nov ember 7. the U. S. House of Re presentatives will vote on pro posed amendments to the Econo mic Opportunity Act One of these proposed amendments -'VMakk ■-«- ■ ~ NKW pay 10% of the cost of anti-pov erty programs in cash. Up to now, this “local matching” for federal grants could be in the form of donated building space, donated material, and volunteer services. This is bow our four counties have been providing matching so far. The rest of our local matching (about $60,000 per year) has come from the North Carolina Fund, and this money will run out by I*o9. If this proposed amendment were to pass Congress, our four coun ties would have to come up with $58,000 in cash ebery year just to keep W. A. M. Y.’s present Community Action Program op erating at its present level. I don’t think our four counties can come up with this kted of money. I don’t think it’s fair for this area, with one of the low est per capita incomes in the U. S„ to put up the same kind of money that richer parts of the country are asked to put up. I believe such a cash requirement would kill most of toe anti-pov erty efforts in the rural areas of the United States, especially the South, where it is needed most. After it passes on the Amend ments to the Economic Oppor tunity Act, toe Congress will vote on how much money to pro vide for ant ; -poverty efforts. Hie House has been threatening to cut anti-poverty appropriations below the current level. I hope to jo'n Mr. Jason *Dey ton and Walter Vance of our Board in a trip to Washington next week to see our represen tatives in Congress about these matters. This trip will be at pri vate expense If you agree that anti-poverty efforts should continue in ocr four counties. I hope you will take th's opportunity to write letters to /our Senators. Renre sentnMw-v and the Pnrsi-Vnt and to.' ' 'em bow ym toH giteprt shucks, and a heavy crop of nuts, we are in for a rough tire. requiring more local cato and cutting federal funds for this program. Persons to write: If you live in any county: President Lyndon B. Johnson, The Wh.te House, Washington, D. C.; Senator Sam Ervin, Jr., U. S. Senate, Washington, D. C.; Senator Everett Jordan, U. 8. Senate, Washington, D. C. If you live in Watauga or Avery county: Representative James T. BroyhiU, The House !».»■■ ~, ■ r D. C.; Representative Basil Whi toner, The House of Repre sentatives, Washington, D. C. If you line in Mitchell or Yan cey County: Represented be Roy Taylor, The House of Repre sentatives, Washington, D. C. You can send these letters dir ectly to Washington or to me. I will see that they Me delivered. If you write, please write soon; the House of Representatives may begin debate on the Amend ments next Monday. Yours Truly, $ Lawson Tate, M. D. P. S. I am writing to you after an emergency meeting wth oth er members of toe WAMY Board - from Avery county last night. Dr. Plemmons was unable to attend, but he sent word that he favored action by the WAMY Board in support of the anti poverty program. He said Chat he would have gone to Wwh ington persona” v except for pro viouscommitments. £ GRASSROOTS f^OPim COATESVILLE. PA. REC ORD "The next tme they hold hearings on firearms regula tions we hope someune will mention what happened in the <Vngo Belg ans there used to ctt. i y firearms fer protection then the President. Joseph D Mobum went in for firearms regulations n a big way. He f'roc.! fne Belgians to give up all 'lu-r firearms in fact. h*> lied th. ■ . S.'-ee M , 1 'III •11 n ■ 1(1 ;s r, i e 'm. ■ i, i . This picture, taken Sunday on the Mt. Mitchell highway, may be only a mild preview of things to come. day in Belgians' homes.' Os course such a thing couldn’t happen here. We are, after all. a law-abding people.” • M • EVERETT. WASH., HERALD: ‘‘The apathy of the American people toward spending today seems to indicate that the myth of the federal solution is still strong. When the people reject this myth—and other myths of federal spending—they will asain speak up to Congress. After mere than 30 years Os exper'efl ce with centralization, with bureaucratic red tape, with waste and dupl oa+ion, there is a stirring in the grassroots. The possibility e* a better way is being weighed ” •• » • WATERLOO. WISC., COURI ER: President Johnson has premised the postal employees an increase in wages and has tied (the) raise in postal rates to the packace. The auestion becomes: Is the posit off toe de partment a service of the gov ernment for the petite cr ! s it to be a self-supporting institu tion? If it is to he se’f-support ire we feel that the government should get out of the business. It won't he lone before it wiM be out of the parcel post business anyway as private piTel de livery servtees are taking over in many area* due to ouieker service and tie'ter We look for an increase to he adopted to is fall, . . . F,”ery person throughout the country will be affected by postal rati increas es Those who use few postal stamp.- will feel the bite in other ways business people who opunatie un small profit margins will have to raise tlieir prices to ahs; rh the cost of their mail ings '' ■a • . • (X ALA, FLA . STAR-BANN ER: Charles Evans Hughes, the farm us American jurist, observed that a man has to live with h mself, an! he shoo'd see to it teat he atwavs has pr I e* nr any Corne’ius Van f'erb! *hr American nor-
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