PAGE 2 THE YANCEY JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 12, 1474 HEARING AID WEARERS latter Sarvict Far Yaar Haari«« AM Maaas Batter Fm Y " iflttcrics I I* Svrt T. VWt Fr " Oar Naxt | Baltaaa Sarvica Caatar Waca: Mt. MHcbaN Motel Barasaila , N.C. Data: Thursday, September 19th., Tiaa: 9:00 A.M. -11:00 A.M. Tel. 252-1354 uabinc service 87 Patton Avenue AS NEVILLE. N. C. £B6O 1 t BwC& 'DictyStone |r£ 12-2146 Burnsville,N C PHARMACY COMMENTS EAITH NEWS Your Rx Specialists: Charles Gillespie, Jr., Mike Eudy. and Ferril McCurry Verdict On Safety Caps The verdict is out among pharmacists about safety packaging for drugs. Its problems, disadvantages and new dangers apparently outweigh any safety gains that these FDA-enforced child-resis-P — tant containers offer. pEI J&' At the drug store level. everything from forcing, to 3k smashing, to switching drug ft* containers has been noted. : // : Frustrated customers have sSSBBf C/.^A employed the use of screw So, we must plead with drivers, pliers, nut crackers you to use sound judgment and hammers to get into in storing your medicines stubborn medicine vials, especially around small Demolished safety caps children. If you have trou leAve the drug contents vul- ble, let us demonstrate the nerable to the prowling proper method for opening, hands of little toddlers as Or, we’ll dispense your well as to the deteriorating medicine in non-safety con effects of humidity. tainers. Just ask. Each week we present the above comments for your information. 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Expanded kindergartens, additional programs for more exceptional children, new courses in occupational, education, more instructional materials, emphasis on reading skills, reduced class size, expanded physical education for the lower grades, and more help for teachers lead a long list of better learning tools and methods. In the past few years we have noticed an upward trend toward more positive attitudes concerning our schools. We attribute this to the day-to-day activity of school administrators and other school personnel in communicating with citizens through the North Carolina news media. This has been accentuated by the emphasis placed on positive approaches to learning in individual schools and school systems. I firmly believe that the emphasis we have placed on communicating information, both from the state and local school systems, is leading to a better understanding. Please let me take this opportunity to thank you and your staff • for the very excellent state and local coverage of Education news mm during the past school term. As we begin a brand new year, we again ask for your cooperation, your understanding and your help In informing our citizens what public education in North Carolina Is all about. Sincerely A. Craig Phillips, N.C. School Superintendent Foster Parents Meet Foster parents for the Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina in the western area of the state will meet THE YANCEY JOURNAL Box 667 Burnsville, N.C. 28714 Ed Ynziuk-Pnblishef Carolyn Ynziak-Editor Patsy Randolph - Manager Publ’iihod Every Thursday i*y Twin Cities Publishing Co. 2nd Class Postage Paid At Burnsville, N.C. Thursday, September 12, 1974 Number 37 Subscription Rates By Mail: In Yancey County - One Year $4,16 Six Months $3.12 Out of County or State One Year $6.00 Six Months $5.00 September 14 at Broyhill Home for a seminar on foster child care. Foster parents from Yancey County include Mrs. Ernest Miller of Burnsville. The seminar will be conduc ted by Hugh Starnes, area administrator and Broyhill su perintendent; Miss Evelyn Hor necker and Mrs. Gayle Black ney, social workers; and Robert Stump, coordinator of social work for the agency. Both licensed foster parents and foster home applicants have been invited to the event. !; CAP Meeting ; i k Mt. Wilderness Civil Air] 1 1 Patrol will meet every Monday i ] * night at 7:30 p.m. at the 1 i [ Mountain Wilderness Office, ] ' i Pensacola, N.C. Anyone i 1 interested in joining this group i 1 ! will be welcome to attend any 1 xMonday night meeting. All ] f visitors are welcome. .] 1 l * JsIOTICE ■*■*■***- AT TH[ CLOSE OF BUSINESS SATURDAY. SEPT 14,1974. WE WILL DISCONTINUE TOPVALUE STOMPS IN OUR BURNSVILLE STORE. WE URGE YOU 10 FILL YOUR SWER BOOKS B/THIS DATE. ifa 1 * , JNGLES MARKETS * * BURNSVIUJE Jsf.C. I CovNTy -^T ant I I t“ Tu« *r e yi sVru I |W ® F”R*C vn>s . ■ I vv L*W Av/av v—» I I wifp H I k/Afy'Rftu C<-jecs« I I 'fltro CddK 3**» (T V of SOUTHERN API'AI.AMIIA MJ with Rogrn Whitrmr 1 AT As indicated in last week’s Folk-Ways, a number of addi tional letters bearing comments on snakes have come our way. Perhaps some readers would just as soon have us drop the subject, but it remains a fascinating topic for many people. Mrs. George Teague, of Kingsport, Tennessee, is such a person. In the following letter she testifies to the existence of a Weed previously mentioned in Folk-Ways as an antidote for snake poisoning and also comments on other items recently discussed in this column. "Like Mr. E. E. Judkins, I remember the jockey lots. When I was a very young child, I recall the one we had here in Kingsport. It was located behind Dobyns Taylor and I can recall traders, some on horse back, leading long strings of horses. Some came in wagons, bringing their families with lunches packed, prepared to stay all day. I didn’t actually know just what was going on, but everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves so much ’ that 1 wanted to stop and join in. "Parts of an article in a ’ recent issue of a local paper prompted me to write this letter. The article was by a man interested in reptiles and he 1 disputed a common belief of old timers that there is a weed that counteracts against venom poi soning. He did say, however, 1 that blacksnakes are deadly enemies of poisonous snakes. “I’d like to say for the 1 benefit of those in doubt of there being a plant or weed that does ] act as a cure for venom | poisoning that 1 can remember ’ living in hills of Virginia where we had many snakes, including the deadly rattler and the copperhead. WeCalso had a dog called Call who hated ' snakes with a passion-1 believe because he loved us kids so 1 much and knew they were a . danger to us. “I have seen him bitten by them. He’d kill the snake as quickly as possible and imme diately run off to the stream of water nearby and search out and eat a particular plant. He would lie down and chew on this plant for quite seme time, but never do I recall Cell ever being sick from a snake bite. - “I can also recall my mother telling of watching a black snake fighting with a copperhead. She said that each time the copperhead would get a good strike at the blacksnake, the blacksnake would quickly run off into a patch of weed and come back swallowing some kind of plant and start fighting again, finally killing the copper head. My mother was a good Christian woman and a firm believer that God put a cure on earth for everything. “One Indian friend of my mother’s taught her how to make a poultice from boiling slippery elm bark that brought back my eye sight which a doctor had told my parents there was nothing he could do to report u.S. Senator FROM . . ITTIHIIHH JESSE ★★ ■ heims WASHINGTON—I have been pleasantly surprised to note that many people aife highly interested in the details of how a Senator's office operates. They ask all sorts of questions—how many hours we work, how many days, how much mail we receive, how many telephone calls, how many visitors, etc. I never go to North Carolina that I am not asked many questions along these lines. Each Senator is free to operate his office as he chooses. Some offices open at 9:00 a.m. Ours opens at 7:30, and more often than not you will find Vicki Davis answering the telephone cheerfully at 7:00 a.m. We almost never close the office until 7:00 p.m., or later. On Saturdays we close shortly after noon. >*. ... 1 BEST —I personally feel that we have the best staff in Washington, but I acknowledge a bit of affectionate prej udice when it comes to the fine gentlemen and ladies associated with me. As for the work load, perhaps the statistics from 1973 will be indicative. We keep careful records, and I am in formed that last year our office received 80,804 pieces of mail, 21,799 telephone calls, and approximately 14,500 visitors. Some days, the mail runs as high as a thousand pieces. It averaged 311 per day last year. This'year it has been even heavier. The telephone calls average one every six minutes. Visitors to the office average almost 50 a day. Last year they came from 94 of North Carolina's 100 counties, and from 40 other states, and from twelve other nations. LEGISLATION—Insofar as legislation is concerned, we have been even busier this year than in 1973. But last year was no breeze. In 1973, I sponsored or co-sponsored 105 bills and 30 amendments. Roughly one-third of them were approved—and we came close on many others. For example, I was defeated by the margin of just one vote on an amendment that would have put an absolute end to forced busing of school children. I lost by a margin of only three votes when I submitted an amendment that would have re quired the Federal Government to operate on a balanced budget. Back then, it wasn't fashionable to push for a balanced budget. But now, everybody is talking about it, including President Ford. It's the only way we're going to curb inflation. This is something that the people of North Carolina have known for a long, long time. WORK WEEK—I am often asked about my own sched ule. I averaged about 70 hours a week on the job. Most mornings I am at my desk at home about 7:00 a.m., work ing on correspondence, or speeches. I rarely leave the office before 7:00 p.m., and generally it is absolutely essentia! that I take work home with me. It's necessary to do several hours of work every weekend, just to stay even with the work load. Some of the old-timers in the Senate recall what they call the good old days" of 25 or 30 years ago, when the Congress adjourned in late June. Senators had the rest of the year off in those days. Last year, the Senate was in session until two or three days before Christmas. This is exciting work, but it isn't easy. Nevertheless, I shall always be grateful for the privilege of serving in the U.S. Senate for six years—or however long the people and/or the Lord ordain that I be here. spy prevent my losing the sight of my eyes. Young as I was, I can remember my mother keeping those poultices on my eyes as hot as I could bear them. The poultices and my mother’s prayers brought back my eye sight. “Yes, I too believe God put a cure here for everything, and the way I find that cure is faith in Him.” Another report on healing by passing the body of the sick person through the split trunk of a tree. Jim Byrd, a resident of Valle Cruris, North Carolina, remembers a young boy being cured of the colic when passed through the trunk of a white oak tree which had been split by the use of large wooden wedges. According to Mr. Byrd, the boy recovered and lived to a ripe old age, but the tree died, possibly after being struck by lightning. A mound of stones still marks the spot at which the cure took place. Readers who know the Valle Crucis area will be pleased to know that Valle Crucis Day, held August 17, was a tremen dous success in making both visitors and area residents aware of its rich history and traditions. In addition, the Day helped to provide funds to bring needed repairs to St. Johns Episcopal Church, a small, beautiful white frame building which has served the commun ity for over a hundred years. A visit to Valle Crucis is always an enriching experience. Valle Crucis Day made Satur days visit something special. Please send all material to Rogers Whitener, Folk-Ways and Folk-Speech, Box 376, University Station, Boone, N.C. 28608.