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11 Utah 1 wifi# IP Ifiiiiiu j j Volume 33 Local Woman’s Untimely Death Saddens Town T Mrs. Jeanette Penland Bailey, 48, of Burnsville, died Monday morning in a local hospital after a brief illness. Surviving are the husband, Bill Bailey; two sons, Alan and Jeff Bailey, bot?l of the home; three sisters, Mrs.' Latt Fox, Mrs. Sol Harris and Mrs. Ver nie Wilson, and a brother, Max Penland, all of Burnsville. Services were held at 2 p. m. Tuesday in Burnsville First Bap tist Church. The Rev. Harold McDonald, the Rev. J. M. G. Warner and the Rev. Don Elly officiated. Burial was in Carro way Cemetery. Pallbearers were Jerry Clev enger, Ed Gardner, Charles Harris, Sidney BaHey Jr., Dwane Penland, Lee Yelton, Edgar Hunter and James Byrd. Mrs. Bailey attended Asheville Normal College, a teacher train ing school, and graduated from Western Carolina College. She began her teaching career in the Yancey County schools where she taught for al period of 15 years. She was quite active in church affairs serving as a Sunday School teacher for approximat ely 18 years, helping in the nur sery and a choir member for many years. Mrs. Bailey was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Penland and was married to Bill Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Bailey of Burnsville. Memoria’ gifts may be made to the buiklfng fund of First Baptist Chufch, which she at tended and served for many years. K AMT; *-' '“S^H ' ’*•* * ■» v " *ww* *, » v o, V s B JtlonHrTTrftriWPi: owi. iiiii i1 mim iimimiMjUK. •**• # sfl IK, •" #* mw^^m wm r •* v > M IS V*| m*I*TR ■ 1! I * New Organ For First Baptist Church NC Commissioner Opposes Gov Tobacco Ad Censorship Statement by James A. Graham Commissioner, North Carolina Department of Agriculture, April 24, 1969. Appearing before Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com merce House of Representa tives in Opposition to HR. 1237 to Prohibit Certain Cigarette Advertising Mr. Chairman, I am James A, Graham, Commissioner of Agri culture of the number one to bacco-producing state in this nation. I am, also, president of the Southern Association of State Deppartments of Agricul ture, which includes fourteen southern states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. In this area are located the major tobacco producing states of the United States. It is because of the import The First Baptist Church’s New Organ Narrowly Escapes Inferno In Asheville Members of the First Baptist Church in Burnsville will have more to be thankful for than they perhaps realize at the de dication of their new church building. Along with expenditur es for building the beautiful new sanctuary and educational building on the town square, the church had purchased a new organ, custom-built and costing about $12,000, from the Dun ham’s Music House in Asheville. As most people have already heard, the most expensive f : re in Asheville’s history raged Tuesday in the heart of down town Asheville, destroying two buildings and injuring six peo Thursday, April 24, 1969 ance of tobacco to the overall economy of my state as well as many of the other states, and the lack of conclusive medical and biological evidence to jus tify such strong punitive meas ures against tobacco as proposed in legislation now before this Congress, that I appear before this honorable group to regis ter my firm opposition to HR. 1237 and other similar bills that would prohibit or restrict cigar ette advertising and further harrass tobacco. Gentlemen, tobacco is a crop grown legally in Puerto Rico and twenty-one states of the United States as follows: North Carolina, Virginia, South Caro lina, Georgia. Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Mary land, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, ple. (hie of the buildings which was destroyed was Dunham’s Music House. According to information re ceived, the $12,000 organ left the store less than one hour be fore the store was burned to the ground. It was still en route at the time the $2,000,000 con flagration was raging in Ashe ville. Shaw Announces His Candidacy For Burnsville City Councilman Cecil Shaw announces' he is a candidate running for City Coun cilman with 6 years past experi ence in City government. He is now employed by Roberts Chev rolet-Buick and is married to Nancy Shaw who is presently employed as a registered nurse at Yancey Hospital. Mr. Shaw is an active mem ber of H'ggins Memorial United Methodist Church and a 32nd degree Mason. Shaw attended Hardbarear Business College, Raleigh, N. C. and has worked 15 years with National Trailway Bus system, held the position of sales super visor and has worked 2 years as s a sales representative with Storr Sales Co. Raleigh. Mr. Shaw has been interested end active in several of the civic clubs of Yancey County and knows and understands the urgent needs of the County. “If elected I will try to carry out Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota, Louisiana, Alabama, and New York. Tobacco is cessed and manufactured leg ally in more than a dozen States. Tobacco products are sold leg ally in every state in this- na tion. Tobacco and tobacco pro ducts enter legally into world trade where they contribute al most |7OO million annually to the balance-of-payments in in ternational trade. Last year more than 200 million pounds of unmanufactured tobacco was exported through North Carolina ports alone. There are those today who would destroy this legally grown U. S. crop and the farm pro grams under Whferff"ft protfuc- v ed because of the erroneous be lief that the support program is a liability to taxpayers. It should be pointed put that to- Reverend Harold McDonald, minister of the First Baptist Church in Burnsville, expressed his pleasure that the new church building has its organ in time for the dedication and first wor ship service to be held there May 4. As one church-goer expressed the feeling—“it proves we’re on the right side, doesn’t it?” : "^SsK Jill; '' jSI.vL • v.ic : Cecil Shaw the bigger projects now in pro gress and set in operation some of the smaller ones which the town really needs." Number Thirty-Three bacco is not only self-supporting, but that it provides more than three times the amount of rev enue needed to finance all of the farm commodity program, through the more than $2 billion collected annually by the Feder al Treasury from excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco pi-oducts. It is significant to note that the entire tobacco pro gram has cost only about S4O million since .its beginning .in the mid 30’s, while revenues collected from tobacco products by the Federal Government dur ing this period amounted to some $52 billion. Since tobacco is a legal, self supporting agricultural commo dityr this entitles cigarettes and > other tobacco products to he advertised legally through any med’um radio, television, newspaper, magazines, or by other means without Federal agency censorship. The propos ed legislation now before this comm : tfee would make tobacco the first legal farm commodity to be given such restrictions. If any government agency can set up such rules and regulations as now proposed by some agen c;es for a single farm conuqg dity, it is logical to assume that other farm items also could be regulated all under the guise of health. Once the precedent is set, there may be no end tc -re gulations and restrictions cn other farm commodities and consumer goods. For example: beef, pork, eggs, milk, andebut ter could be restricted because of too much cholesterol and fats. Peanuts could be restricted because of their abundance 'of fatty oils. and trucks could also be restricted because of air pollution, and the list could go on .and on. , - ‘ Gentlemen, tobacco is already sorely beset and harrassed by many foes and now some Fed eral agencies *toould presume to take over authority and prero gatives that the U. S. Constitu tion gives only to the Congress. Therefore, I urge that this com mittee of Congress give H.R. 1237 and other similar bills an unfavorable report. At the same time, I urge that this August committee give fav-. orable consideration to H.R. 6543. or similar bills that would extend indefinitely the provis ions of the existing Federal Cigarette Labeling and Adver tising Act, which is scheduled to <XP : re on July l, 1969. Thank you, gentlemen* an<J let me say again that I appreciate*'* this opportunity to record my grave concern relative to these major problems facing tobacco today.
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