Volume 33 Wins First Mate In Competition Steve McClure woo firet place in "he 11-year-old claw in the punt, pass and kick competion in the Mitchell County dis rict held at Deytoni Field in Spruce Pine Saturday. The competdlion was sponsor ed by the Mineral aty Ford Co. Spruce Pine and is a nation al competition sponsored by Ford Motor Co. Steve won with a 204 point score and will go to toe zone competition Sa'urday. He is in the sixth grade at Burnsville Elementary School and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Mc- Clure of Burnsville. There were 12 entries in his age group. Terry Childers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Childers, won third place in the 9 year-old compe tition. This is a nationwide competi tion and the boys are judged on accuracy and distance. offtran Os CMHity 4-H CmocK wirilj; If I S 9 Officers of the Yancey County 4-H Club Council are Ronnie Randolph, recreation leader, Ramseytown Club; Susan Wilson recreation leade", Pensacola 4-H Club; Vicki Whitson, presi dent, Lower Jacks Creek Club; THE YANCEY RECORD State Highway Approves Bridges At theft- meeting in Hckory on October 3, 1968, the Highway Commission approved construc tion of three bridges -ft Yancey County across Cane River on 19-W. Work Order for this work will follow within six weeks or two months. At that tfme, with right of way being acquired. t the State Maintenance Forces will begin building approaches to the brdges. The bridges will be built by contract and the contract is expected to be let in the spring of 1969. It is understood that the loca tion of the new bridges •?» such that toe flow of traffic on the old bridges will not be inter rupted during constructor. Es timated time of construction 2 years under favorable conditions The above information fur niahed by the Division Office, Asheville, North Carolina. We SaM 4-H LEADERS MEMBERS PARENTS Wanda Kay Young, Song lead er, Arbuckle Club; Ronnie Byrd, vice president, Ramseytown Club; Marvin Hensley, song leader, Brush Creek Club and Kay Ogle, reporter, Lower Jacks Creek Club. Imrmsville, N. C. Railroad To Begin Operation Saturday The Southern Appalachian Railroad anticipates operating their Engine Saturday, October 12, according to the owner, Mr. Edward Bernard. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard and children, Eddie and Earleen, of New Jersey moved to Burnsville in the early part of the spring. During this time they have been as busy as bea vers getting the train ready for riding. The locomotive was built for a construction project in South Carolina in 1917. During ' the IWi it was sold to Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Com pany where it was engaged as a waterfront switch engine. Mr. Bernard bought the engine in 1965 from this company, had it completely overhauled and brought it here. The Engine is « tWO saddle tank locomotive, weighs approximately 63*4 tons, and is capable of pulling 3,000 ton. One of the cars was origi nally built as a coach and waa later converted to electric pow er and then converted to ji coach. Again ft was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and *i g Q used by them during 1916. The overall size of this car Is 64 feet and 5 inches long and holds a capacity of 72 people. The second car was built by the Jersey Control Lines in 1915 and is * good example of the tran sition period of wood and steel cars; the outside being steel •nd the interior wood. This car is 72 feet long and holds a capa city of 75 people. The train trip will begin at the Burnsville Depot and will carry a good, heavy load to Micaville and back. The trip is approximately 9V4 miles and takes routftly i* hours. Future 9* l * l hr the railroad is a traia trj all tbs w* to Fares are: 93.00 Adults and a,fldp “- Troin tickets will be an sale at the Deoot Saturday, October 11 Free rito ee for all service mqi i n uni. form. Train rides to h»gtq a t ? °° P m *nd there will be lVb hour interval between trip* U.F. Kick-Off This Week The Urited Fund Drive will kick off this week according to the UF president, E. L. Dil ingham. The proposed budget this year' is 18,814 and the organization members are going all the way to make the goal. Team Cap'ains are: Industry, Carroll Angel; Merchant Em ployees, Oscar Deyton; Govern ment, James Ray; Professional, Dr. Garland Wampler; Trades, Herb Allen. The purpose off the team cap tains is to coordinate the pur- Coatinued on back Thursday, Octobar 10, 1964 BOARD PASSES ORDER TO REINSTATE OLD REGISTRATION BOOKS The Yancey County Board of Elections met Tuesday night and passed an order reinstating the old Yancey County registra tion books in order that the citizens of the county might be able to vote in the November general election and to enable any qualified voter to register in all precincts in the county. None of this effects the Buts ville precinct as the re-regis tration of this township was held before the May prima y. Burnsville residents will be ab le to register any new voters as will the rest of the county on each Saturday, October 12, 19 and 26. Also voters in the Bur nsville precinct who did not re register before the May primary do so on these dates. The poll ing places in all county pre cincts will be open on these dates. Burnsville residents will register in the Burnsville Ele mentary School gymnasium in stead of the courthouse. This Board became the second county elections board recently to be served with a restraining order preventing the re-regis tration of voters. Charles Gillespie, Chairman of the Board of Elections, said the order also instructed toe board not to cancel the present registration of voters. But Gill espie said, the elections board had canceled the registration books three weeks ago in com pliance with state elections laws. The cancellation- was run as a legal notice in the Yancey Re cord on September 5, 12, and 19. The restraining order was is sued by Superior Court Judge Thad W. Bryson, Jr., and Plain tiffs were Willard Fox, Charles Bradford, Woodrow Tipton and U. B. Deyton. Bradford is a for mer Sheriff of Yancey County.. Bill Atkins, County Attorney, waa attorney for them. Reasons calling for the new registration was to comply with state law requiring that all counties in North Carolina have loose-leaf registration by Janu ary 1, 1970. And second, to cor rect conditions leading to voting irregularities in the 1966 election The two reasons given for the injunction were “The notice had only been published in The Yan cey Record, a small weekly newspaper, published in Yancey County and having a circulation of 1250 in the entire county, that nts of Wood last Thursday, Oct. 3rd. The Red Cross reports that this is the first time since May, 1964 that Yancey County has reached its quota. The Red Cross officials would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Melvin Webb. Dr. Sargent, Mrs. W. P. Honeycutt and Wanda Edwards, registered nurses on duty; the Women’s Society of Higgins Methodist Church, in charge of the can teen; and all the citizens who helped to make this endeavor possible. Local Red Cross volun teer assisted the Red Cross s'aff. All the officials of the Red Cross would like to thank WKYK for furnishing records to Blood donors and also for a live coverage of alf that went on at the armory. Since the Red Cross Chapter is in the process of reorganizing and merging with Avery and Mitchell counties and has no blood chairman, Mr. Neil Had ley, National Field Representa tive; Mr. Robert Cooper, blood recruitman chairman; and Leon Pearce, administrator of area office, came to Burnsville and put up posters and acted as temporary chairmen. This merger will be known as the Mayland Chapter.