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PAGE 2 THE YANCEY JOURNAL I ‘DwpSfoie}*(\ ' 1 Dial 682- 2U6 Burnsville.N.C. | yjjjf AND OTHIB rMAXMACY COMMENTS 1 HEALTH renews W / Charles Gillespie, Jr., Mike Eudy, .H.—and Ferril McCurry Something To Become Incensed Over! Ten years ago, the National Cancer Institute set up a special program to determine whether viruses cause can cer in man and ii so, to develop means of preventing or controlling these cancers. Now, _ 10 years and $250 billion later -L --v,n v , the same two objectives re- M / main. H if And why? Federal funding | l[ policies require prospective cancer research projects to submit a detailed plan before approval. But how, may we ask, do you “discover” the un known with a detailed plan? Historically, major medical t discoveries spring from the unsuspected! If we keep mapping out rigid, inflexible investigation routes in order to obtain federal research grants, we’ll never find the cause and cure of cancer. Bureaucratic rules and procedures seem to be strangling our struggle to con quer cancer. Each week we present the above comments for your information. We very much appreciate your reader ship and would be especially happy to have you ex press your views regarding the contents of this space. I SUMMER SMi 1 I QT LOTION 1 f 2 Oz. Tube $1.59 s l l9 | SOLARCAINE § Aerosol Reg. $2.19 59 B COPPERTONE ■ SUNTAN LOTION l jgggl 40l Bottle $-1 29 1 Reg. Sl-79 1 ■ "cOPPE RTONE ***** SUNTAN OIL 40l Bottle *4 29 | Reg. $1.79 * 1 I FOR SUMMER EYE STRAIN VISINE Vi Ol Plastic ■ Reg. si-65 IPOLLARD’SI I Drug Store I [ Burnsville , N.C. Phone 682-2146 I JUNE 20, 1974 LILT I PERMANENT | Gentle-Reg.-Super ) LISTERINE I fifi I Reg 89* W V I SECRET I Perspirant i Reg. $1.40 B 99* I / 8&| DEEP I (TWfl WOODS i V/ I OFF! I I FRo* Tue UI*»ER CouNTny S-roߣ THE YANCEY JOURNAL Box 667 Burnsville, N.C. 28714 Ed Yuziuk-Publisher Carolyn Yuziuk—Editor Patsy Randolph - Manager Pubhshod Every Thursday i By Twin Cities Publishing Co. 2nd Class Postage Paid At Burnsville, N.C. Thursday, June 20, 1974 Number 25 r Subscription Rates By Mail: In Yancey County One Year s4.iti Six Months... *3.12 Out of County or State One Year *6.00 Six Months *5.00 IjfoTk-’Wiiys aijd ""t"™! of SOUTHERN APPAI.ACIIIA I with Rogers WhiM-mr ffm « V I As I occasionally sift through past installments of Folk-Ways, it is interesting to note patterns in reader response. Sometimes one topic may engage reader interest for several weeks and then abruptly give way to another. Sometimes what 1 think will prove an interesting topic will draw little or no response while a minor item will attract dozens of letters. Recently the tendency has been toward general remem brance of olden times where the writer moves from one topic to another without dwelling at lengt 1 ' on any single item. In the following letter, for instance, Mrs. Grace Revis of Route 1, Marion, North Carolina, begins with corn shuck beds and ends with candy-making. | / “Dear Sir: Making hominy in the column I have just read brought memories back to mind. When I was growing up I came up in that time of making hominy and also soap and shuck beds. My Dad would go out and shuck corn to get new shucks and he would empty the bed ticking'and fill the tick full of good fresh shucks and it would lay so good! My granddaddy was in the Civil War and also fought with the Indians. Oh, he has told me all about scouting the Indians. There was a band caught him and cut his toe nails off and almost scalped him. 1 also remember when people mined for mica a lot when I was eight or ten years old. 1 had a friend whose name was Molly and we would go scraping, as they called it. Me and Molly would take shovels |i CMURCH OF CHRIST || •, . Burnsville. Ol d Green Mr. Rd. * i < \ Bible Questions < j ;» Phone 675-5169 ANYTIME ]» ; | INVITES YOU TO THEIR SERVICES ( ! 1 1 Sunday 10-U 1 1 (» RADIO PROGRAMS MON, G WED. 11:45 ! ] STATION WKYK ! ( 1 Send all mail to : Rt. 3 Box 90 i 1 Weavjrville, N.C. 28787 \ Because we offer a super ior automatic reserve checking plan,we ask: 'Why pay interest on money you don’t need?” First-Citizens Bank’s Checkline Reserve was designed with today's consumer in mind. In addition to providing all the benefits of other automatic reserve checking plans. Checkline Reserve gives you two important advantages not offered by most other plans. These advantages can save you money. General Features of Checldine Reserve Checkline Reserve permits you to borrow in excess of your checking balance. You simply write checks up to your established credit limit. Anytime. Anywhere. For any purpose, including cash. With this flexibility and freedom, you can be your own banker. Credit liipits range up to $5,000 and generally equal your monthly income. Since you write your own loans using your regular, personal checks, you make your loans in utmost confidence. You also can avoid the embarrassment of accidentally overdrawing your checking balance. After your Checkline Reserve application is approved, there is no charge for the service until you exceed your regular checking balance. This means you have the satisfaction of knowing your Checkline Reserve funds are always available if and when you need them. It rovers vour checks whenever . ..eH. and hoes and a big pot of water and some spoons. When we 1 would get our sacks full of mica we would take it to the little old grocery store and get sugar and make candy right on the mine dump. Oh, it was fun, but them good old days is gone.” Another reader, Ed McClain of Bluff City, Tennessee, calls attention to the early names of Bluff City, moves on to planting "signs,” discusses folk medical practices, and then describes the “dowser" skills of his father. “Dear Sir: I have been reading Folkways in the Bristol Herald-Courier and 1 must say 1 enjoy it a lot. Talking about towns and places witji unusual names. Bluff City first was named Choats Ford, as people used to drive their hogs across the river to the railroad. Then the name was changed to Zollicoffer (1 don’t know why) and then to Bluff City to this day. Speaking of signs in doing spring planting, my father and mother did all their planting by the sign. They planted beans and cucumbers on good Friday always and potatoes when the horns on the new moon were pointing up. They said if the horns were pointing down the potatoes would grow ' ->o deep in the ground. My parents lived to be 86 years old and I am 67 years old. I remember when I was just a small boy nine or ten years old, people would bring their child ren to our home and have them measured for the “tisic”. Dad would get a sourwood sprout, stand the child by the door casing, and then make a mark Checkline Reserve gives you two extra advantages that save you money. Extra Advantage No. 1 Unlike most banks that automatically transfer fixed amounts up to SIOO to a checking account when it exceeds its balance, First-Citizens transfers only the exact amount of your overdraft. For example: If you wrote a check that exceeded your balance by $4.25, most banks would transfer a fixed amount up to SIOO to your checking account. And charge you interest on the full amount from date of transfer. With Checkline Reserve, however, only s4.2s—the actual amount of yout overdraft—would be transferred to your checking account. And you would pay interest only on $4.25 from date of transfer. Extra Advantage No. 2 The simple interest rate for your Checkline Reserve funds is deter mined by the information you furnish on your application as well as your checking account relationship with the bank. We guarantee you that your in terest will be less than the maximum legal interest rate permitted, as charged by many other hanks. Also your interest rate on Checkline Reserve will be less than the interest cost on revolving retail credit plans. If you presently have a reserve checking account at another bank. &■ on the door casing at the top of the child’s head. Next he would take a lock of the child’s hair, put it in the hole, and then cut a plug off the sourwood sprout and drive it in the nole. By golly, it cured the child. Dad could also take warts off of anyone by rubbing his fingers over the wart and at the same time quoting something from the Bible. It sure worked, but he never did tell what the scripture was. He said if he told anyone his power over it would be gone. Dad always gathered gin seng and golden seal root for medicine. He kept a ball of pine rosin to cure kidney ailments. He also gathered a large bunch of old boneset which grows in swampy places for tea in the winter time. To boil it too strong would take the hair off a mule. He also kept sassafras to make tea, and it was spanking good too. My Dad was a water witch or dowser. He could locate under ground streams and tell people where to drill a well. People came from miles around to get him to go locate water for them. He used a peach tree fork or a dogwood limb. He could tell how many feet to the water.” I’d like to ask again for information about the old time medical practice of pulling the sick through the forks or blanches of trees to heal them. If readers know of this method of healing or have seen pictures of a person being treated in this way, please pass the informa tion along to Folk-Ways. Please address all letters to: Rogers Whiter er, Folk-Way? and Folk Speech. Box 37 >, University Station, Boone, N C 28608. \ it will pay you to replace it with . Checkline Reserve. In most eases, First-Citizens can arrange for you to i pay offyour present outstanding i balance. Come in and discuss it with a Checkline Reserve specialist. Pick up an application form at any First-Citizens office or use the coupon below'. You do not have to be a First- Citizens customer to obtain Checkline Reserve. Upon approval of your appli cation. you'll be ail set to write your own loans in seconds. Open or move your reserve checking account to First-Citizens Checkline ,r Reserve. It's up-to-date for today's consumer. And two ways more bene ficial to you. Cheekline Reserve Department First-Ciiizens Bank & Trust Co. - P.O. Box 1.51 Raleigh, N.C. 27602 I Without obligation, please send me full information and an applieation for Checkline Reserve. Name Address : . .. City State Zip Only at First-Citizens. TheCanDoßank. MEMBER ED »C © Ift74 FIRSt CITIZENS BANK N IRUBI COMPANY | R OI 40 I latter To ZZ |fte IdHor © sgggj Dear Editor: I wonder if you would print this for me In the Yancey Journal? We read and hear so much that Is unpleasant I think it is good to stop and think of the really good things and good people around us. Recently when the Chamber of Commerce started their drive to raise money for the Town Square Facelift, we needed a drawing of the architect’s plans to put in the full page ad yon did for ns. We called Yancey County’s own James [Jim] Presnell [who does such beautiful rock work with native stone] and explained what we needed. His answer was, ‘‘l don’t know how good a job I can do hot I will try.” He did the drawings for ns and did an excellent professional job. When I asked him how much the Chamber of Commerce owed him his reply was, “Why I’m glad to help any way I can, you don’t owe me a thing.” I would like to publicly thank Jim for this contribution to the Town Square Facelift and Chamber of Commerce. Sincerely, Grace Banks, Secretary Yancey County Chamber of Commerce ★ Dear Editor: Please print the following letter received by the Chamber of Commerce: “Dear Mrs. Banks: I have learned about your County’s splendid project for the Town Square in Burnsville! “This is wonderful that yon have so many public spirited people in your area! * “I am enclosing a cash contribution. Sincerely, E. V. Garren Dade City, Florida Dear Editor: As a fairly frequent visitor to Yancey County who would someday like to build a summer home there, may I congratulate the Chamber of Commerce for beginning the “Facelift” of the Town Square in Burnsville. It is certainly a heritage worth preserving as one of the few old-time “squares” left in the Country. I will be sending a check to the Chamber to help in this project. Good luck with your plans and keep up the good work. Lt. James Hardekopf Pensacola Naval Base Pensacola, Florida Dear Editor: I would ilke to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to the people of Yancey County for their support in the recent primary elections. I would also like o express my respect and appreciation to my worthy opponents and their supporters for the manner in which their campaign was conducted and for their support in the coming general election. I am looking forward to working with and for all the people of Yancey County in the future. Democratic Candidate for Sheriff of Yancey County R. B. Deyton june is dairy month Trail Bike Regulations Are Needed (Cont’d from page 1) stream, and after a lot of tugging, he managed to get it out of the water and running again. Wc saw bikers roaring up and down the hillsides, cutting new trails. We saw several bikers cutting “circles” in the sandy bottomland along the creek. Twice, we were nearly hit by bikers who came zooming dangerously up the narrow trail. NO WILDLIFE IN SIGHT We saw no deer. In fact, we saw no wildlife at all except a few slow-moving salamanders and a box turtle. Scott, of course, was disillusioned. He coultn’t understand why such idiocy was permitted. Neither can 1. Trail bikes silt the streams, frighten wildlife and even destroy young trees and other valuable plants. 1 could cite an extensive list of damages, but it is enough to understand that trail bikes are not compatible in any way with these public lands. The bikers claim that they have a right to use these areas the same as hunters, fishermen, hikers, loggers and all the rest. But that holds no water when you consider that trail bikes infringe on the rights of all tht other users of such areas including the wild creatures ant plants that live there. OPPOSITION IS GROWING The problem is certainly no confined to the area we visited, have encountered the same and even worse-problems oi other public lands across th< state. As expected, oppositioi to trail bikes on public lands 1 growing. Hunters and fisher men are disturbed, as are hiker and nature lovers. There art stories-sotne gruesome—abou clashes between trail bikers ant other users of public lands. Nt doubt such incidences will increase. Stronger regulations that prohibit the use of trail bikes on public lands are needed, and those regulations must be enforced. If not, we stand to lost a great deal that is virtually irretrievable. It is bad enough to see public lands diminished by any sinister force, but to see them turned over to the motorcycle is truly unthinkable.
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