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Volume 32 ' '' wmM m HI * ffiHMfMh lifts i * h wt %»"*% J % ;>■»»: mV; :. s' ■ -1 SIB 4 vMm w- * R: ■; 4* s y S?! 1 -$% ingf f Wmm 1 Jffi. - |H I o r|i JHjL- < : - Uyf * Jr Jp; < # W %, mm m m J m JHk I fmmm.w ■& JSL Imm M W' Jf I h|A [mHB) laat .Jp Mfl j |||g Jp9| gw*. fIHL 111 i ■ I £J| ,JB lik^ V || •; -\, y->" WHIP' THREE YANCEY FIRMS RECEIVE SAFETY Last Frday night an awards banquet sponsored by Western Carolina Industries was held at the Greek Community Center in Asheville. Three firms frctn Yancey County were represented and received awards, they were the Burnsville Hosiery Mills, Penland Hardwood Lumber Com pany, and Glen Raven Mills, Inc. In order to qualify fcr this award, which is offered annually by the N. C. Department of Labor, an establishment must do one of these three things: (1) By reducing the plant’s lost time injury frequency rate by 40% for the year; (2) By having an accident free or perfect saf ety record for the year; (3) By faintaining] a rate of 50 percent or more below the state wile rate for then* particular indus try. Glen Raven Mills qualified on all three conditions. They have operated for five corsecutive years without a lost time or disabling injury. This amounts to almost 15 million man hours. Only five firms of the 226 W. N. C. firms receiving the award qualified for the fifth year. Two qualified for the sixth year. Featured speakers at the ban quet were Rep. Roy A. Taylor and Mr. Frank Crane, N. C. Commissioner of Labor. Repre sentative Taylor noted that the record established by the firms represented at the affair estab lished safety records that were only one fourth of the state average and one sixth of the rate for the nation as a whole. Commissioner Crane spoke of Western North Carolina as being the “mother lode of safety", the first safely council was or ganised here and others throu ghout the state emanated from it. “You set the pace,” he said, “and now you are setting the record.” Industries can compensate in div duals for the loss of an arm or leg, butt they cannot replace THE YANCEY RECORD AWARDS the personal loss suffered by the victim. The best contribution that can be made is the preven ten of such loss in the first place. This these three Yancey County firms have done. James C. Byrd Receives Scholarship James Calvin Byrd has been selected by the Awards and Scholarship Committee of the North Carol na Association of School Librarians as recipient of the N.C.A.S.A. scholarship for the amount of $500.00. The award is to be used for eduoatonal improvement in the field of Lib rary Science. Mr. Byrd s e native of Bak ersville. North Carolina, and pre sently lives in Burnsville, North Carolina. He receved his B. S. degree at Berry College, Berry, Georgia, and has attended Wes tern Carolina University at Cul lowhee, North Carolina. He has been employed by the Yancey County School system for fve years and is currently teacher librarian in the South Toe Rivsr School of Burnsville. \ Don’t Forget To Vote Satarday . . . > A. Burnsville, N.C. Thursday, May 2, 1968 Northwestern Bank Names Anglin To Board At a meeting in H ck'-ry last Thursday, James A. Anglin was named to the Board of Directors of The Northwestern Bank to fill the vacancy left by the re cent resgnation of B. B. Pen land. Anglin, who is mayor of Burnsville and a merchant here, was also named to the Local Board of along with James W. Ray and Edgar F. Hunter, Jr. The three new members were recommended by the local mem bers here at a recent meeting. Untl the new appointments, the Local Board of Directors of the bank here was composed of five members. The board will now have eight members. M.r. Penland, who was on the main Board, of Directors of the Northwestern Hank, has been a member of the local d recurs since the bank began opera'.ons here in 1937. He will remain active on the local board. Other members of tie local bank board are J. G. Edge, Reece MclntO;n, Robert Pres i.ell and Joe Young. Mr. Mclntosh was recently named as charman. At the meeting in Hickory, Edwin Duncan, Sr., president of The Northwestern chain, told the d rectors that since March 31, 1967, the bank's deposits have increased more than 19 percent, or an increase of more than $56 million. The Northwestern Bank now has 83 offices n 53 communities in Western and Piedmont North Carol na. PRIMARY ELECTION SATURDAY , POLLS WILL OPEN AT 6.30 In Yancey County Saturday, as in other North Carol na coun ties, both Democrat and Repub lican voters will go to the polls to determine who will run for off ce in the November Gener al Election. Polls will open for the Prim ary Election at 6:30 a. m. and' will close at 6:30 p. m., accord ing to Elect ons Chairman Char les B. Gillespie, Jr. For Burnsville precinct , the courthouse is the poll ng place. Regular polling places will be used in the other precincts of the county. Voters will be voting as follows For 47th District. House of Re presentatves (vote for two), Democrats, J. Yates Bailey, Ernest B. Messer, Liston B. Ramsey. No Republicans run * ning. United States Senator (vote fcr one), Democrats, Fred G. Brummitt, Sam J. Erwn, John T. Ga’hings, Sr., Char'#) Pratt; Republicans (vote fcr one), Robert Vance Somers, -Edwin W. Tenney, Jr, J. L. Zimmer n.an. State Senator. 31st Dist rct (vote for lwo\ Republican, Bruce Briggs, R. T. Dent, Jesse L. Ledbetter. No Democrat running. Governor (vote for one). De mocrat, Reginald A. Hawkins, Robert W. Scott, J. Melville Broughton, Jr. Republican, Jack L. Stcldey, James C. Gardner. Lt. Governor (vote for one), DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE TO BEGIN HERE MONDAY NIGHT An 8-hour Defensive Driving Course, sponsored by the Drver Education and Accident Records Division of tho N ( C. Dept, of Motor Vehicles, wll begin Mon* day night. May 6, from 7:30 to 9:30 at Higgins Memorial Meth odist Church. The course wll continue each Monday night through May. at the same piace, same hours, and at no co6t ex cept your time. The course will! be taught by J. M. Bennes of Asheville and Bob Thomas cf Burasv He. V * The object o£ th* course is to teach experienAdf drivers k to im prove their hnl ij i and to make 'tbeSS more ..(aware of accident 1 |PfJfllitjn o*l then part, afl yMKMf itydk? fellow traveler Aj|riOe,JwioWß’ fact is that it is tie jkMi (flyers who have the ■jp^holi <k&s.‘A Sta tisticai’ next 12 months one lx# of five good diri Number Thirty -Five Democrat, Mrs. James M. Har per, Jr., Frank M. Matlock, H. Pat Taylor, Jr. Republican, Trosper Noland Combs, Don H. Garren. For State Treasurer (vote for one), Democrat, Sneed High Edwin Gill. No Republican rv ning. Attorney General (vote one), Democrat, Robert gan, Thomas Wade Bruton Republ can running. Commissioner of Labor (- for one), Democrat, John Wardell, Jr., Frank Crane. Republican running. Commissioner of Insun. (vote for one), Demo: George A. Belk, Fred Bet John S. Wh tley, Edwin S. L ier. Republican, Carl W. Ru Everett L. Peterson. Superintendent of Public In struction (vote for one), Demo crat, Wiliam D. Harrell. Ray mond A. Stone, Wendell W. Smiley, Everett Miller, Craig Phillips. No Republican run n ng. Judge Court of Appeals (vOu for one), Democrat; Kidd Brew er, Raymond B. Mallard; (vote for one), Walter B. Holton, Naomi E. Morris. Member of Congress 11th Dis trict (vote for one), Republican, W. Scott Harvey, Robert W. Daughtr dge. Court Judge 24th District (vote for two), Republican, J. E. Holshouser, Sr., J. Ray Bras well, Wood Hall) Young. vetrs will be nvolved in an ac cident, and for most of those drivers it will be their f rst ac cident. .So a good driv ng record is no guarantee against accidents in Hie future. Instructors for the Defensive Driving Courses are trained and certified by the Nat onal Safety Council. They are volun'eers and serve without pay. Instructors are provided with a wde as sortment of teaching aids that make sessions lively and inter esting. The graduates of the course will be issued Certificates of Ocmplet on which will be re corded on their driving record in Raleigh. You may think you are a fne driver and don’t need this in struction. We inv te you to sign up for this course and find out just how much you need to learn or unlearn, as the case may be.
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