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
<asva result thereof most of the
citizens, residents and votws of
Yancey County are unaware of
the capricious attempt on the
part of the Defendants and
Board of Elections of Yancey
County to cancel the existing re
gistration.”
“Yancey County is a rough,
mountainous county with bad
roads and bridges and without
adequate telephone service . , ,
and voters in the above precin-
Nnmb«r Five
cts are rural people, many of
whom are engaged in fanning
for a livelihood; October is oca
of the busiest times of toe year
for such fanners to harvest
their crops. It is at this time of
the year when such farmers are
engaged in harvesting and car
ing for their .burley tobacco,
which is the chief money crop
of said region. Most of the other
citizens, residents and voters in
the precincts hereinafter nam
ming, work at industrial occupa
tions far beyond toe borders of
Yancey County. . . . Defendants
who are farmers would be un
able to register without grave
hardship because of their agri
cultural work . . . those work
ing beyond the borders of Yan
cey would find it imprtwibte in
many instances to re-register
prior to toe general elec-ion of
November 5, 1968.”
Charles Gillespie, Chairman,
•aid that in order to comnlv
with the state law requiring**,
stallation of loose-leaf registra
tion by 1970 it will be necessary
for the legislature to a
special act enabling Yancey
County voters to hold a re.
registration in 1969.
Blood mobile
Collects 103
Pts.
The Yancey County Blood
mobile collected 103 p>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.