Newspapers / The Yancey Journal (Burnsville, … / April 16, 1970, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Yancey Journal (Burnsville, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
I ESTABLISHED 1936 EDWARD A. YUZIUK- EDITOR S PUBLISHER JAROLYN R. YUZIUK - ASSOCIATE EDITOR I ARCHIE BALLEW - PHOTOGRAPHER & PRESSMAN I MES PATSY BRIGGS - OFFICE MANAGER I PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY | YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY 1 SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILLE,N,C. THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1970 NUMBER SIXTEEN j SUBSCRIPTION RATES $3.00/YEAR OUT OF COUNTY $5.00/YEAR strstiglxt Y tafOc By Tom Anderson THE AIRLINES, THE UNEMPLOYED AND POLLUTION Our airlines are in financial trouble. They are being treated unfairly by Big Brother, who conceivably would like to take them over. How do airlines fare in Socialist countries? Columnist Henry J. Taylor said recently: “In Russia, Aeroflot, the government (and only) airline, doesn't even issue timetables for its domestic service. Its planes frequently leave a day after intended and passengers often spend a whole night or a day or two waiting at the airport for the departure announcement. Ex cept in a few major cities, these airports are mere shacks with outdoor toilets which, re marks an editor friend of mine, ‘defy descrip tion in a family newspaper.’ “Aeroflot flics two-engine jets ready for in stant conversion into bombers. Many lack seat belts, there is no air conditioning, you usually roast on the ground and freeze in the clouds, and the rule is to haul all your ba^a o . in with \ou if you expect to see it again,” concludes Mr. Taylor. It's nice to know Russia hasn't changed much since I was there 10 years ago, at which time, paraphrasing General Sherman, I wrote: "If I owned Russia and hell, I’d rent out Russia and live in hell.” Back to airlines, the Feds should (1) let them raise their rates to where they can make a reasonable profit (2) increase taxes on buses and trucks. The government should not subsidize any By Marilyn Manion TROOP WITHDRAWAL MUST INCLUDE AMERICAN POW'S Twenty years ago, a young American marine "was killed in action in Korea. His grief-stricken lather, although he had lost his own son, was moved to help the agonized parents and fami lies.,of the prisoners of war in Korea. Captain Eugene Guild (USA Ret.) founded an organization called "The Fighting Home Folks of Fighting Men," and he began his cru sade to locate, publicize and rescue those held captive by the Communists. It has been an uphill battle for Captain Guild ever since. In a recent appearance on the Manion Forum radio network. Guild recalled some of the roadblocks which have repeatedly interrupted his quest: ". . . 01 course, there were also men who had been shot down by the Soviets—34 planes with over a hundred men. in fact. In 1956, the State Department said that they were com pelled to believe that the Soviet government vs as holding those men. They gave chapter and verse and prison camp and so forth about those men and demanded that they be ac counted lor or released. Os course, the Soviet government denied any knowledge whatsoever !trout the situation and we quietly let that * frhe State Departcm pt has wriiu „ SenaW Hart, of Michigan, a letter, in which they stale that the Reds have told them that tlujy wjJJ not even discus,s the release of-dta&Mvici-if? caps they hold in Korea unless the Taiwan, oC F drnipsa k ts : >eulctl,to their satisfac-!, tion. Meaning, if we will abandon Taiwan to Abolish AH i Hay-laters It wasn't until 1951 that Con gress got around to passing a bill abolishing thelAhite House stables. Until then, a law re quired the Army's Quartermas ter General to provide suitable quarters for the President's hor ses. Now if Congress would just get around to doing something about reducing the number of hay-eaters in its own body, the American taxpayer would emit a sigh of relief, and feel a lit - tie more secure in life and pro- A perty. -Baldwin Free Press kind of transportation. I fly maybe 60,000 miles a year. Why should anybody else be taxed to help pay for my flying? Commuter trains now run at a big loss and are heavily subsidized. Why should rural people be taxed so New Yorkers can live in the suburbs? If the commuters can't pay the railroads a profit able price for their tickets, they ought to either find some other way to commute or stay at home. • • At the urging, or shall we say at the dicta tion of Big Brother, Big Business has hired a passcl of hard-core unemployed. Recruiting, hiring and training the hard-core unemployed is only the beginning. Keeping them working is something else. • • • The "in” things now are “pollution,” “en vironmental control” and "ecology.” The latter, says my dictionary, means: (1) a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments. (2) the totality or pattern of relations between organ isms and their environment. The New Left, the Marxists, the “Liberals,” the do-gooders and President Nixon have all embraced pollution as their new “thing.” Let us always keep in mind that, polluted us we are, there are worse things than pollu tion.—American Way Features them, they'll talk about releasing the Ameri cans whom they hold. "Now, that's simply blackmail and that's simply the experience with the Reds—showing that it you do as we did in the Korean situa tion and take away all of our troops and leave the prisoners of war there, without any bar gaining force behind them, 'hen the Cornmu n;sts are going to get what they can in a blackmail way out of those prisoners of war. "Now. there are in Vietnam today between 500 and 1,000 I’OWs who were shot down or captured, who arc believed to be still alive. We know 400 by name, but the rest we don’t know about, In other words, the parents and the wives do not know whether their kin arc alive or dead. "Our organization has proposed to the Presi dent, by letter, that as a part of the withdrawal r>! American troops, that ail of the troops be withdrawn, including the prisoners of war, who are part ol our troops. We can't withdraw our troops unless we withdraw our prisoners. We arc getting into the same situation that we hud iii Korea. . \ V\Ve must withdritw:\he prisoner along w'?F Mild hey ‘hoolfi’lv \hn ugirt fiorne with them %*ave them ;fot MjjiiCkmail- bait is a treason* * bHrfUuatjon. M is wajjjlutely failing to give the loy Tty from toe tile), ,«se vau* .killed.W> »t*, can Way Features 1 ' ' 9 ■ wm 11 <3f Northwestern Bank Grows, Retains Local Officers On Time 30, 1969, The Northwestern Bank concluded its 32nd year of operation. From original resources of exact ly $2,600,000 on July 11, 1937 to resources on June 30, 1969, of $459,000,000 , the Bank has come a long way. Think of that growth in terms of mountain miles reaching out from North Wilkesboro, Sparta, Boone, and Bakersville to offices as distant from each other as Bryson City, Burling ton, Hendersonville, and Charlotte, and the extent of the Bank's achievement becomes even greater. Northwest an row operates 101 offices in 59 communities in Western and Pied mont North Carolina. One way of accounting for such growth is to saythat North western happened to be in the right place at the right time. Certainly, there have been steadily increasing demands for the services it is prepared to provide. But careful amlysis has characterized the Bank's every move. An examination of all pertinent factors is made in advance of each new market en try. Within the limits of the considerable autonomy granted by the ®oard of Directors to branches, services are tailo re d to the needs and convenience of local customers. The result general directors and officers feel, well justifies the some what greater pains required to fit services to customers ra - ther than customers to services. It should be kept in mind that The Northwestern Bank does not seek bigness for its own sake. Much of its increase in total resources is associated with long-established offices and in greater use of the Bank's services by long-time cus - tomers. Northwestern's philosophy of banking is best expressed by President Edwin Duncan, who often explains, "Our growth is due mainly to the fact that authority is not taken from the local people. We firmly believe local officers and loc a 1 boards of directors have a better understanding of their cus - tomeis and their banking needs than Home Office personnel. Assistance is always available from the specialized depart - ments of the Home Office in North Wilkesboro. One of the keys to our good relationships with branch personnel is our policy of selling them on the merits of new services ani ideas rather than demanding their cooperation. " By the end of 1962, Northwestern was operating in 34 towns and cities in Western and Piedmont North Caro 1 ina Total resources reached $172,000,000 at year end 1962when only two years before at year end 1960, Northwestern had reached a landmark in total resources of $101,285,000. But 1962 saw major changes in Northwestern's system of banking. For many years, management has been aware that three major cities are the marketing centers of the western half of North Carolina and the area serviced by the Ba nk. These cities, Asheville, Winston-Salem, and are money centers as well) it is to these populatibn centeisthat ycung people whose parents traditionally bank with North - western, migrate. It is only natural that "their bank"shoiid follow the population to these marketing centers. And this it did, in only a few short years. Northwestern now is firm ly established in all three of these major cities. In order to continue to conpete in the rapidly changing field of finance, a one bank holding company has been or ganized. The Bank became a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwestern Financial Corporation on August 1,1969. This one bank holding company will enable the Bank to eng a g e in additional financially related activities. Strong leadership has been a. marked characteristic of the Bank. Rufus A Doughton; who had served as North Carofoab Commissioner of Revenue, Lieutenant Governor, State High way Commissioner, and seventeen terms as a state legisla - tor was die first president. Dr. B. R, Dougherty, former pre sident of Appalachian State Uriversity and the second jTesrlal of the Bank, gave direction to this growing country bank. In 1957 when Edwin Duncan of Sparta assumed the reins of lead ership, the Northwestern Bank embarked on a period of phe nomenal growth—growth through mergers with other bank% establishment of banks in new towns, and opening addition al offices in towns already served by the bank. Under Mt Duncan's leadership the Bank has grown from total resources of $70,281,000 at year end 1957 to over $486,000,000 on December 31, 1969. The banking structure which has served the Northwestern Bank and its predecessor banks in Burnsville will now operate as the Installment Loan Office of Northwestern Bank inßums vfiill. The officers of the Northwestern Bank in Bums vi lie are: Amey Foot, \(ice-Presideutj Flavil McCurry, Cashiei; Roger McKinney, Cashier, Installment Loan Department . : Uc v ■ x n< . too. •? . ; ’ übe Fu;! and, v distantOiKhfcjs Janie - A. Anglia of -iurnsville serves ort the overall Board y’ 1 "utecic. for.the Banh. Members of file Burnsville Board J. G. Edge, Edgar F.Hun .iyr >, Jf> > Reeca Mclntosh, Robert ' WRw '>’ • v'oW s** 5 ** ** . ■*_* . ...• ,»V.» -. . . fi ///;V //Sw * 1 v x\-V
The Yancey Journal (Burnsville, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 16, 1970, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75