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NC Changes
School Bus
'Stop’ Law
RAILIGH - North Carolina
motorists were advised today
that state law requiring drivers
to exercise extreme caution in
the presence of school buses was
strengthened by the 1969 Ge
neral Assembly to require addi
tional caution during the school
year now beginning.
According to Bob L. Tho mas,
driver education representative
for Yancey, the primary change
in the law will require motorist;
to stop at the first visual indica
tion that a school bus is in the
process of stopping to discharge
or receive passengers. In the
past, the law had specified that
vehicles approaching or follow -
ing a school bus must stop when
the bus is "stopped" and in the
process of receiving or dischar
ging passengers.
The new alteration in the law
expands the regulation to re
quire that motorists stop "at any
time while such bus is displaying
its mechanical stop signal. "
"The new regulation," Mr.
Thomas said, "is being integra
ted to mean that even though
the school bus may be in mo -
tion, either stopping or starting,
it cannot be passed in either di
rection as long as the mechani
cal stop signal is displayed. "He
added that school bus drivers
are being instructed to use the
mechanical signal with discre -
tion and only when definitely
stopping to receive or discharge
passengers.
The law also applies to pri -
vately-owned buses transporting
children to and from school
church or Sunday school. It does
not apply to vehicles on four
lane streets and highways "that
has separated into two roadway
by intervening space or a phy
sical barrier."
Jaynes Host
Breakfast
The Yancey County Jaycees
are hosting a prayer breakfast
Wednesday, September 17, at
the Amberjack Restaurant in
Burnsville. Breakfast will be
served at 6:15 A. M. and the
program, with Bill Banks as giest
speaker, will begin at 6:45. All
interested citizens are invited to
attend. Cost of the breakfast is
$1.15 per person. If you plan to
attend, please contact a mem
ber of the Jaycees.
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Excellent Crop Os Game Birds This
Year-Hunting Season Opens Mon.
RALEIGH - The Wildlife Re
sources Commission has announ
ced the seasons and bag limits
on doves, marsh hens, woafcock
and Wilson's snipe. The dates
and bag limits were selected
from a framework authorized by
the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisher
ies and Wildlife, Washington,El
C.
First to open will be shootiqg
for doves and marsh hens on La
bor Day, September 1. Dove
hunting will begin at 12:00 noon
and end at sundown daily
out the season. Shooting hours
for marsh hens will be from one
half hour before sunrise to sun -
set.
Biggest surprise to gamebird
hunters is the bag limit on doves:
18 birds daily, 36 in possession
after opening day. The Com
mission was not given an alter -
native to the 18-36 bird bag li
mit. Biological studies have
Thmfry, Aigut 2t, 1969
The Commission chose the
latest allowable dates for wood
cock and Wilson's snipe to take
advantage of flights of birds
coming in from New England.
The woodcock season will
open on November 28 and run
through January 31, with a
daily bag limit of 5, 10 in pos
session after the first day, while
the season on Wilson's snipe will
begin on December 13 and end
January 31. Bag limits for the
snipe are 8 daily and 16 in pos -
session after the first day.
Seasons on ducks, geese,and
other waterfowl are still under
consideration by federal and
state suthorities and will be an
nounced early next fall. An ex
cellent crop of birds this year is
not expected to be reflected in
any important relaxation of sea
sons and bag limits due to an
accumulated shortage of birds
during the past decade.
shown that 80 percent of the
summer population of doves each
year are lost by natural mortali
ty by the beginning of the next
breeding season, regardless of
whether or not they are hunted
The 50 percent increase in the
bag limit this year is an experi -
ment to determine whether the
heavier gunning of doves would
have a noticeable effect on
next year's crop of birds. The
increased limit applies only to
states east of the Mississippi Ri
ver.
The first segment of the Live
season will end October 11. The
second segment will run from
December 18 through January 15,
1970.
Bag limits on marsh hens will
be 15 daily, 30 in possession af
ter opening day. This limit may
Include any single species or a
combination of several species
of marsh hens.
NiaUr Fifty -Om
Gas Causes
Explosion
At Station
Bob Hilliard found him<-_if
doubly involved last Tue sd a y
morning when he was roused to
his job as Burnsville's Fire
Chief and found that his cwn ser
vice station prompted the alarm.
Tuesday, August 26, at 1:45
a. m. an explosion at the Hill
top Sinclair Service Stationwcke
Mr. Farrell Wilson, who was
sleeping in a nearby apartment.
Mr. Wilson turned in the fire
alarm which summoned the fire
department to the scene.
Mr. Hilliard reported, after
inspecting the damage, that the
evidence points to the work of
vandals who must have opened
the valve on a Propane gas cy
linder - enough to cause the gas
to seep into the soft-drink cool
er standing nearby. Somehow,
probably due to contact with
electrical wiring and cir c u its,
the gas ignited and an ex slo -
sion ripped the lid off the cool
er. The lid hit one of the gas
pumps and knocked it off of the
island onto the ground.
In the meantime, the pro
pane gas caught on fire, and the
cylinder was rolling around on
the ground spewing flames like
a blow torch, according to Mj;
Hilliard.
Besides the damage to the
gas pump, the soft-drink cooler,
and loss of the propane cylin -
der, 7 windows were blown out
of tire service station by the ex
plosion.
last Call For
Wee Mayers
Labor Day, Monday, Septem
ber 1, 1969 will end the offi -
cial recruiting drive for Pee
Wee Football Players. All boys
in the Ist through the sth grade
report to practice by that date.
Any boy reporting later will be
accepted, but he will be behind
the other boys. The Pee Wees
now have 28 boys in the Ist, 2nd,
and 3rd grades and 28 boys in
the 4th and sth grades. The Ist
Bobcat game will be with Sprice
Pine. Practice will be on Mon
day and Tuesday night fro m
6:30 p. m. until dark and scrim
mages will be on Thursday after
noon from 5:30 until dark. Any
one wanting to donate eq u ip
ment or money, contact John
Mattox at Banks Pharmacy or
call 682-3696.