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YOUR CONTRIBUTION IS NEEDED FOR THE U.F. TO REACH ITS GOAL Volume 33 Thomas Named District Court Prosecutor Phillip M. Thomas was sworn in as Prosecuting Attorney at District Court in ceremonies in the office of the Clerk of Super ior Court here Monday morn ing. - i Thomas was appointed by Re sident Judge W. E. Anglin as Prosecuting Attorney of the Dis trict Court in the 24th Judicial District for a term of two years. Mr. Thomas graduated from Berea College, Berea, Ky., in 1966 after which he worked as assistant administrator of Spruce Pine Hospital until Sep tember of 1961 He then entered the University of North Caro lina Law School and graduated in May 1965. He passed the Bar in August 1965 and opened a law office in Burnsville in September 1965 and began law practice here. Mr. Thomas is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowe Thomas of Bur nsville and is married to the former Reba Buchanan and they ere the parents of a son and daughter. He will close his law office in the old courthouse here this week and will move into an of fice in the new courthouse pro vided for the District Court Prosecutor. Other elected and re-elected county officers, as well as those who will be holding county offi ces under appointment, were sworn in during the ceremonies he~e Monday. Those sworn in were O. W. * Deyton, Chairman Board of Commissioners; Frank Fox and Earl Young, members; Fred Proffitt, Clerk; Miss Glecna Thomas, Assistant Clerk; Mrs. Jewell Mclntosh, Deputy Clerk of Superior Court; Mrs. Grace M. Ayers, Register of Deeds, and Mrs. jean B. Buchanan, As sistant; Boyd Laws, Tax Col lector, County Accountant; and Mrs. Paul Hughes and Mrs. Nan Proffitt, assistants; and W. A. Higgins and W. M. Hall, Magis trates. the former full time and the latter, halftime; and Bill Atkins, County Attorney. Following the ceremonies re freshments were served by Mrs. Grace Ayers and Mrs. Buchanan THE YANCEY RECORD Awards il/leeting In Asheville Saturday Several hundred rural and civic leaders from throughout Western. North Carolina will be on hand in the Asheville City Auditorium on Saturday, Dec ember 7 at 12 noon for the 19th annual awards meeting of the Asheville Agricultural Deve lopment Council. Highlight of this event will "be the announcement of the top winners of the Western North Carolina Community Develop ment Program for 1968. The meeting will climax a year’s work by the 114 organized areas in 16 counties that have com peted in the community im provement program this year. • Dr. Paul Miller, director of University Planning Studies of the University of North Caro lina at Charlotte will be the principal speaker. Dr. Miller, a widely known speaker, has served in numer ous capacities, having been a county farm agent, director of the Michigan Agricultural Ex tension Service, president of the University of West Virginia and until recently Assistant Secre tary of the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Wel fare in Washington. Over $4,500 in awards will be presented to the organized com munities in the area judged to have made the greatest progress during the year. An additional SB,OOO in prizes have already been presented by local spon sors in county contests. Sixteen county winners competed in the final judging of the non-farm division in mid-November, 13 in the farm division ami 15 in the youth program. Representing Yancey county in the area finals were Newdale community in the non-farm di vision, Green Mountain in the farm division and White Oak in the youth program. Tie WNC Community Pro gram is sponsored by the Ashe ville Agricultural Development Council and the agricultural ag encies in each county. Tba awards meeting on Decembar 7 will mark the completion ol 19 years of operation of the Ag ricultural Development Council as an area development associa tion for the western counties. Farm division awards and sponsors are as follows: first prize, S4OO, Bears, Roebuck k Company; second prize, S3OO. The Northwestern Bank; third prize, S2OO, Ivey’s of Asheville mid fourth prize, Gerber Pro ducts Company. Honorable men tion awards of SSO each are sponsorel by: Arbor Acres, As heville, Lowe’s of Asheville, K- Mart, Matthews Motors. FCX. Inc., Rose’sWestgate, Biltmo a Dairy Fartns, Gerber Products Continued on inside Burnsville, N. C. Rev. Styles Accepts Pastorate "imriiijgainiiiiiii ms" j m "*rn in* V * '• 'if *s**. g ' •.•W* Rev. and Mrs. Bert Styles, who arrived from their borne in Kingsport, Tenn., four weeks ago to occupy the Micaville-Estatoe Presbyterian manse in are welcome additions to that community. Rev. Styles is pas tor of the Micaville-Estatoe Presbyterian churches. Natives of the Paint Gap sec tion of Yancey County, Rev. and Mrs. S'yles have since 1946 divided their work between Ten nessee and North Carolina. April 7, 1946 the Style’s moved to Buladean, N. C., where Mr. S'yles was ordained and became pastor of four churches in Mit chell County and part time ev angelist for Holston Presbytery. Following his work in Mitchell County Rev. and Mrs. Styles moved to Roan Mountain, Tenn., where he continued preaching at Roan Mountain and out-lying churches, and doing evangelistic work for six years. The next move for the Styles’ was to Kirgsport, Tenn., living in the Central community and work ing for five yea** with a two church field, moving from the status of chapel mission church es to fully organized churches— Central Presbyterian Church and Br id well Heights Presbyter ian Church, both of which chur ches Mr. Styles helped in or ganizing and getting started on their own. Following five years t the Kingsport churches Mr. and Mrs. Styles moved to Newdale, N. C., where Rev. Styles accept ed a call to serve the Newdale- Grassy Oeek Presbyterian Churches, which pastorate he kept for more than six years, when he returned to Bridwell Heights Presbyterian Church hi Kingsport, where he remained until accepting the call to the Micaville-Estatoe charge. Mrs. Styles, the former Lucy i'enland, also a native of Yan cey County, has been of great assistance to Mr. Styles in his work. They are the parents of one daughter, Mrs. Ray English of Kingsport. Mr. and Mrs. Eng lish have two daughters, Donna Rhea and Rhonda Kay Thursday, December 5, 1968 STATE S NEW JUDICIAL SYSTEM > i NOW OPERATING IN YANCEY The judicial powers of the State, as set forth in Article IV of its Constitution, had for al most a hundred years continued without any material change until in 1962 an amendment to the Cons' i'ution was adopted by a majority vote of the people entirely re-writing this Article IV and until enabling legisla tion was provided by the 1965 session of the Legislature, de signed to implement this Article IV and thereby “promote the just and prompt disposition of litigation”. Now under the State Consti tution as so amended, and under authority vested by the said amendment, there is a new sys tem of courts an over-all GENERAL COURT OF JUS TICE made up of four divisions: (1) the Appellate Division, con sisting of the Supreme Court and the recently created Court of Appeals; (2) the Superior Court division; (3) the District Court division (new); and (4) Magistrate division (replacing the office of Justice of the Peace, which has been abolish ed). And then there is the recently established Administrative Offi ce of the Courts, which has the responsibility of supervising the transition from the old to the >new system, with authority to prescribe uniform business ad ministration methods, systems, forms and records for the office of the Clerks of Superior Court which offices have the re sponsibility of keeping the re cords not only of the Suoerior Court but of the two inferior courts of the system ard of supervising thereafter the op eration of such office,. The .»-w system became op erational in twenty-two counties of the state in December of 1966, sixty-one other counties were brought in on Monday of this week leaving seventeen to be brought in before January 1, 1971, when the system will be fully operational over the State. In its operation the powers and authority of the Appellate Division and the Superior Court Division will remain unchsngvrf, although the wnrk-load of (ha latter will be greatly reduced by the operation of the new Dis trict Court division this court having original jurisdiction for trial of criminal actions, includ ing municipal ordinance viola tions, below the grade of felony. Nor will there be any change in the probate jurisdiction of the Clerks of Superior Court, who will continue as ex-officio judges jf probate, with authority to -ake proof of and admit to pro bate wills of deceased persona and qualify executors; appoint administrators of persons who have died intestate, appoint gua~dians or trustees of minors and mentally incompetent per Number Thirteen sons, and to supervise the ad ministration of estates entrusted to all such fiduciaries. The cost of operating their 'our's has always constituted a financial burden for the counties of the State, It is natural, there fore, that the people of the coun ty should be concerned about now this burden will be affected Dy this change of systems. Per naps only time will supply an answer to this question. But it would certainly appear that the burden will be reduced. Under the old system, only the salaries of the Judges who presided over sessions of the Superior Court and the prosecuting Soicitor were paid by the State. Under the new system, the Clerk of Superior Court, the Assistant Clerk and the Deputy Clerk are all salaried officers of the S ate, as are the two Magistrat es (one full time, one part time) allowed the county. And. too, all equipment and supplies for the Clerk’s office are supplied bj the State so that only twmfcfaf and lighting will constitute ast expense by this office to tha county. But, except for the creation of a uniform and (hi most coantiaa at least) improved system of record keeping in the offices of the Clerks of Superior Court fe the various counties of the state, the abolishment of the fee sys tem some times maHnj pgg. Bible “fee grabbing” is par haps the greatest advantage M the new over tha old rytam 711 Deer Hunters In Refuge Last Week Lee Boone, Director of the Mtw Mitchell Game Refuge, sta.es that last week’s deer hunt in the Refuge brought out 711 hun ters from all over the stale as well as neighboring states, with a total kill of 39 deer. The hunt, which starred Nov. 25, will last through this week. Tie bow and arrow hunt, which took place in October and lasted one week brought out 382 hunters, who bagged 8 deer and two beam. The two day either sex hunt, P*'*e»nh®r 2»*th «md tut, wUI wind up the season. BUY A FRUIT CAKE FROM A LION
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