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KSTABUBBBD JULY. 1M TUNA P. POX, EDITOR ft PUBLISHER MBS. ZOE YOUNG. ASSOCIATE EDITOR THURMAN L. BROWN, SHOP MANAGER ARCHIE & BALLEW, PHOTOGRAPHER ft PRESSMAN PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILLE, N. G. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1966 NUMBER THIRTY-SEVEN _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES *3.00 PER YEAR OUT OF COUNTY SIOO PER YEAR Scene From Top 0’ The Hill By: Jack Kelly I had expecLcd to write a column on politics, just for a change, this week but. the vis it ng season opened a bit early on the Hill. Our son J.J. (short for John Joseph Pa.rick) came down for a visit and and brought his girl along name of She la Fallon. This gal is okay. I reserved opinion until •my neighbor and confi dante Ransom Higg ns and I held a ccnsultatioß on her. We lagreed die is a right pert filly with a good dispos tion. Ran s:m sort of stroked her over be'Jter than I did because on Sunday he took J.J., Sheila, and my wife Blanche in hs jeep and drove them up to the fire tower. Somehow or other, lie neglected to ask me and Lizzie to accompany him. Pos sbly we world have crowded the car or, more likely, cramp ed his s'yle Thus far, Sheila and J. J. have proven to be fine visitors. Not obnoxous at all. For the first three days, I didn’t have to put even one “X” under neath either one of their nam es because neither one of them made any suggestions about what I should have done about the Hll house. I think Ran srm saved Sheila once though. She got a look on her face that sort of showed she might be going to make a suggestion and Ransom yelled “Snake!” and by the time that gal set tled down, I guess she forgot about it. On the tr p they took to the Fire Tweor, a black-snake, net quite eleven foot long, made an appearance and J.J., being city-bred, would have tried to kill it except Ransom had pre sence of mind enough to trip him as he slashed ait it. Snake wriggled away. As I mentioned earlier, Ran som left me and Lizzie in Town when he took the kids and Blanche on the Tower tour. However, he left Lizzie at Monk and Maud’s and me on my part of the H 11. While ho was gone, my dog "Hobo” am bled up and asked me what I thought of the “stuation” now. I knew he meant the political scene so I didn’t waste any time, and we got into it. Hobo assures me that there is no truth in the rumor* that LBJ is using Humphrey for a stalking horse or a pace-setter. He says lo!s of stuff will be written about Papa Lyndon trying to get Bobby and Happy Hubert nto a Mexican-standoff so that the Delegates will grab up an LBJ banner and trium phantly nominate him aga n, hut, according to Hobo, that wll not happen. He claima that, as of now, Kennedy will beat out McCarthy and Humph rey because poor Hubert has to follow the Johnson-line and wiie her he likes it or not, he can’t ignore the fact that the rHs were a product of the Johnson Adm nigtration <he o her opponent, McCarthy, will run out of steam even be fore the Califoroi a Primary and will then plump for Hun phrey. Hobo sta ed confident ially that McCarthy won’t ac tually run out of steam be cause he never really got ig> a full head of it. As to Bobby personally, Hobo is inclined to think that brother KewnHy may make a tour through the Southland munching on con pone and gr ts and giving full credit to Southern cooking for his virility and seven of hs eleven kids. The other four, ac cording to Hobo, he wII credit to New York food so tm to keep his Senarte-seat safe there in the unlikely event the Coun try should swing for the you know-what Party. Talking generally, Hobo sa ; d that what North Carolina needs right now is lots of Federal money and that it can not get it by riding with a loser. He says that right now you can’t find many Kennedy adherents around the State, except in the upper eschelon of politic ans, but when the band-wagon gets rolling then the Court House gossip will change and various good po nts about Kennedy will be unveiled and mayhap even Terry Sanford will be mention ed as a running mate. Then, with Federal money assured, the Tar Heel S ate will roll along w ith the Kennedy wagon. At this point, 1 thought I could trip Hobo since he had pre viously mentioned a Texan as Bobby’s Veep. I d dn’t ruffle |him at all. He said Nor.h Car olina would have more effect on the South as a group of States than would Texas and that Bobby had learned that since Hobo had made his ori g nal claim. Polics is subject to change, I gathered. Hobo claims the Wallace sit uation has worsened for Wallace and the Republicans because the new Governor just might break away from old George and bring • Alabama back ; nto the Union. If he dees, Alabama will save lots of money by not having to finance its favorite son’s political chase about the Country. Then the Out-and-out Wallaceites wll vote hard aad often and will draw from the vote total that the Republican Candidate might have rece ved in the various Southern and Eastern States. We concluded our talk with h s assurance that Roy Taylor will have an easier time this elect on for his Congressional seat than he d d two years ago. Hobo thinks *he world of Mister Taylor and told me to get out and wor) for him andswore he wcjld bite me if Roy didn’t w'y, big &ICKLEYAND PICKLEV ARE TRYING T 6 GASS EACH dTHER. ON THE SIDE -WALK Blsr JUST CAN'T GET THE.tR SIGNALS STRAIGHT... THEY DODGE FROM S»DE TO SIDE TOGETHER - - ■ fT’S STALINS TO LOOK A NEW KIND Qf FAN DANCE ? I _.v.v ly/1v.v.......y. 'T:: jjk ! Mans For County-Wide Garbage ■ Disposal We hope and believe that a garbage and re fuse collection will soon be a reality for Ml home owners n Yancey County. This means that we hope to see every fam ily in Yancey County willingly partic paling in this much needed program which will no doubt prevent many diseases, as well as make your homes and places of business more attractive. A truck w'll come to your home once each week and pick up your garbage. All garbage anl other wasie must be kept in regulation type garbage cans with lids, and the lids must be kept on the cans. The cans must not be larger than 20 gallon sze. Oil barrels, boxed, etc. will not be considered. For the average size home, the cost to you will, be $2.00 per month. The cost by law ranges from $2.00 to $7.00 per month. You, the home owner, are to pay the mart who picks up the garbage. The county is not respons ble for garbage pick-up money. No one is allowed to go into this business unless he holds a valid permt signed by the County Commissioners. Whether you participate in this program or not you are to keep your garbage in cans ■with lids, and dispose of it in a manner that is acceptable to the Health Department and no one can do this foi the small sum of $2 per month. This much neede d proiect will help the citizens of Yancey County in many ways such as attract ng tourists, causing in dustrial executives to want to locate plants in the county, causing retired couples and many others to want to purch ase homes or land in Yancey County, and it will go a long way toward cleaning up our beautiful streams. „ District Health Department, Jake F. Buckner, R. S. District San tation. PICK - UP PAINT - UP PATCH - UP IT NEVER FAILS But, ah ./ They e<srH make up THEIR MINDS... ,1b GO FORWARD AT THE SAME TIME,ON THE SAME SIDE ... /r /V£i/2=7? FA/LS - (T£0.(illlfoll-* _ Mrs. Jelley To Be Commended ' A ’TT'" '*' • -v- . m For Work At Burnsville School During the greater part of this school year, the Burnsville Elementary P.T.A. has spon sored token music classes in the school. Mrs. Lillian Jelley has been givng instruction to the third through sixth grades for two hours per week, which means that each grade receiv ed one-half hour instruction a week. Last Thursday the th rd and fourth grades gave a pro gram of chorus music which was attended by a number of parents, teachers and children, li was the opinion of all who were privileged to lsten to these children “sing out”, that if they could put on a perform ance that thrilled everyone How Much Rubbish Have You Collected? In Tuesday’s (May 14) Ashe ville Cit zen, columnist Sylvia Porter reported that, “The U. S. population as a whole now discards a s’aggering 440,000 tons of rubbish EVERY DAY and 160,000,000 tons EVERY YEAR. If yours is an “average” fam ily”. she reported, "you throw out about 20 pounds of vege table parings, beer cans, soda bottles and other rubbish EVERY DAY.” If any “average” family in Burnsville or in Yancey County has allowed this quant ty of rubbish to accumulate since last spring’s CLEAN-UP cam paign then you now have a staggering pile of 7,300 pounds CHUCKLE CORMKft HUBBV AND I NEVER QUARREL ! I RIWAVS LET HIM HPNE MV WAV /" - present with only one-half hour traning per week, it was just too bod the Yancey County schools could not have a regu lar curriculum of public school music. You would go far to find a moire talented group of child ren than are to be found in the county, and It is just too bad they cannot be given the nec essary training in public rchorf music to realze their full po tential. Mrs. Jelley is to be commen ded for the fine work she has done with these children, Mid the Burnsville Elementary P. T. A. should be g'ven a vote of thank* for making this «m.n beginning in the school. or 3.65 tons of rubb'sh on pour premises! In last week's Yancey Re cord all men and women aad boys and girls were urged to cooperate in this month’s CLEAN-UP effort, including al so the breaking of the bad hab't of littering our streets, walks, and roadsides with paper cups, cans, bottles and wrappings. Won’t you join whole heart edly in the daily campaign to keep Burnsville and Yancey County CLEAN and thus restore the natural beauty erf our- YOUR town and county? We can all then have REAL PRIDE in being a citizen of Burnsville and Yancey County.
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