THE YANCEY JOURNAL OCTOBER 10, 1974
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12-2146 Burnsville, NC.
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Preaching
Mission
The Reverend Wallace Ro
berts, pastor of Central United
Methodist Church in Columbus,
Mississippi, will be the preacher
for the Preaching Mission to
begin at the 11:00 a.m. Worship
Service at Higgins Memorial
United Methodist Church on
October 13.
The Preaching Mission will
continue each night, Sunday
through Wednesday, beginning
at 7:30 p.m.
Ken Roberts will be leading
the congregational music and
singing at each service. He has
performed at Carnegie Hall and
has been guest soloist at Billy
Graham Crusades.
The community is urged to
attend these services. Nursery
facilities will be op°n.
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Revival Set
Special revival services will
be held October 13-17 at
Windom United Methodist
Church. The Reverend Jack
Taylor, pastor of First United
Methodist church, of Tarpon
Springs, Florida, will be the
guest evangelist.
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University, Atlanta, Georgia.
He has served churches in Fort
Walton Beach and Orlando,
Florida. He and his wife, Kay,
have three children.
Services will be held each
evening at 7:30 p.m. and the
public is cordially invited to
attend.
Revival Set
Evangelist Tommy L. Rogers
will be at the Cane River Baptist
Church from Sunday, October
13 to Sunday, October 20 to
conduct a Revival Service.
Tommy has already preached
seventy-two Revivals in his
Tommy Rogers
short ministry and has become
well-known and loved through
out the area.
In a letter which describes
his early youth, Tommy stated
that he really had problems with
drinking and drug abuse. He
writes: “I thought it was a big
tiling to do. All the other
musicians, when we were
playing at sock hops and school
parties, would be drinking. As I
moved into senior high school I
started smoking pot and drop
ping pills, too.”
“In 1969,” said Tommy, “I
started working the Southern
Beach and night club circuit as a
musician. I started doing the
heavier drugs such as heroin,
and LSD, and was
more heavily. 1 began to land in
jail up and down the country.”
Tommy’s letter goes on to
state that in 1971 he was in jail
four times in two months.
During his last jail term he was
sent to Broughton State Hos
pital for rehabilitation.
“ON May 1, 1971 1 was
released...after this I had a
meeting with Brother Jack
Holland who invited me to a
cottage prayer meeting where
on Thursday night. May 3, 1971,
at 7:45 p.m., I was saved by the
amazing grace of God. On June
1, 1971 I surrendered to the
ministry of God’s Holy Word.”
Make plans now to join Cane
River Baptist Church in this
Revival
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School
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Nutritious
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nutrients.
Through the National School
Lunch Act, the USDA requires
school lunches to include four
basic food groups plus butter or
fortified margarine in each Type
A meal served. When a student
eats lunch at school, he can be
assured of receiving proper
nutrients and foods for good
health.
A typical hot school lunch
will provide protein in meat,
fruits and vegetables for ener
gy, and vitamin C for healthy
cells and blood vessels. Bread
supplies iron. Milk provides
Vitamin D and calcium, phos
phorus and riboflavin.
All of these nutrient re
quirements are served in one
school lunch at a much lower
cost than would be paid at “the
drive-in around the comer.”
Knowledge of good foods
and nutrition is an important
part in a student’s learning
process. School, each and every
day, provides the perfect
“tuning in” place to learn the
right answers about nutrition
and eating. For answers about
nutrition and food, Mrs. May
berry invites parents to talk to a
school lunch manager or talk
with her to learn more about the
“Type A” lunch.
Holstein Sale Cancelled
WM. C. BLEDSOE
County Extension Chairman
Due to the marketing condi
tions of Holstein Steers at this
time, it has been decided to
cancel the sponsored Holstein
Steer Sale in Asheville, October
22.
The Holstein Sale in Harris
burg, Virginia, which for the
past several years has been a
large sale, averaged $22.18. The
Roanoke, Virginia sale averaged
$22.00. The Holstein Steer sale
in Jefferson on September 20
Spruce Pine
Club Holds
Bazaar
The Spruce Pine Junior
Woman’s Club will hold their
2nd Annual Bazaar on Saturday,
October 12, at the Spruce Pine
Shopping Center at Grassy
Creek. The hours are from 10:00
a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The
members have been working for
several months on craft items to
be sold at the bazaar. There will
be lots of good Christmas gift
items, and also baked goods for
sale.
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with Roger* Whili-nrr
Folk-Ways for this week
consists of a series of reminis
cences by Mrs. Thelma Johnson
of Bristol, Virginia. She moves
easily from topic to topic,
ranging from pioneer foods to
medicine shows, providing en
joyment for herself and the
reader along the way.
Her letter reads: “Dear Mr.
Whitener: I read your column in
the Bristol Herald Courier
paper. I really enjoy reading
about the “good old days”. It
helps brighten my day. Arid it
sure takes me back. Guess most
any one over sixty-five has
"memories” of those gone but
not forgotten days. And judging
from some of your readers, I
guess life goes on about the
same all around us. And I sure
do remember the old time
‘going ons’ around Bristol
where 1 was when I was real
young.
“I remember my mother and
both my grand-mas making
“apple-butter”, hominy, “lye
soap”, drying apples and
‘punkin’ and drying green
beans on a string. When dried,
they were called “leather
britches”. You had to soak them
overnight to soften them for
cooking. They were dry and
rattled like dry ‘corn shucks’.
“Each year I dreaded
“Molasses making time”, I sure
averaged about $20.00. After
checking with most of the large
steer producers in Western
North Carolina, stock yards
personnel, representatives from
the College and the Cattlemen’s
Association and County Exten
sion Chairmen, it was the
combined concensus of the sales
letter To
I The Editor
Dear Editor:
How proud the citizens of Yancey County should feel to have a
Sheriff of your beautiful county [Kermit Banks namely] whom I
never knew-not until I returned from the Veterans Hospital after a
week and I found my lovely home broken into. My TV, stereo, and
guns were stolen and window broken, etc.
I arrived back late at night, approximately 12 midnight. When I
found what had happened I did not touch a thing, but immediately
phoned the Sheriff’s office and made a report of what happened. In
a matter of minutes, to my dismay, a State Trooper, named Stallings
and the Sheriff responded to my call. I couldn’t believe that at that
hour and way out on State Road 1169, South Toe River, one could
get to me so fast.
So I met the Sheriff and he came back the next day with hardly
any sleep and spent many hours finger-printing, etc. He got some
clear fresh prints. Again I want to thank the Sheriff’s office and
Officer Stallings.
Sincerely,
Cuthbert H. Taylor
hated the “sulpher-molasses
bit”. However I did like eating
them after putting a pinch of
baking soda in them turning
them yellow like pulled taffy
candy.
“I loved the wild strawber
ries and wild salad greens. The
greens sure had some wild
names-“polk”, “lambs quar
ter,” and “shepherd’s hook”,
speckled britches or some such
name. Do 1 ever remember my
Daddy gathering Ginseng and
Golden seal roots! Sometimes
he would take me with him to
carry the flour sacks he used to
put the roots in.
“Back in those days, flour
was put in cloth bags instead of
paper ones like now. Golden
Eagle flour was its name!
Arbuckles coffee was a treat for
the kids. A stick of pepper mint
candy was in each bag. The
ladies found a use for the flour
sacks. The bags were bleached
by boiling them to remove the
lettering and used to make bed
linens and children’s under
clothes.
“The material used for the
bags was a sort of soft broad
cloth like material. When rightly
made, washed and ironed, they
were pretty. Lucky was the little
girl that had lace trimmed
underclothes. Only the so-called
very rich could order ready
made things from “The Sears
committee to cancel the sale for
this year.
Plans at present are to try to
have a Holstein Steer Sale in the
Spring in connection with a Beef
Stocker Sale and possibly in the
Fall in connection with the last
Yearling Steer Sale scheduled
for Asheville.
Roebuck” wish book.
“What the folks made and
used for medicine would make a
dog sick. Yet strangely enough,
some of their ‘concoctions’
worked. I remember the ‘Jockey
Lots’ here very well. Once each
year a medicine show suppos
edly from New Orleans (always
from New Orleans) would set up
on the lot in Winston Alley
between Lee and Moore streets.
The “barker” would chant like
an auctioneer the qualities of his
medicine. It was supposed to
cure any and every thing. You
name it and if cured it. It was a
priceless potion to heal man and
beast and even make hair grow.
All just for the price of one
dollar. And to prove it they
brought out a fovely woman
about 20 or 25 years old. About
five feet three with thick red
hair falling down her shoulders
to the floor.
“For free they put on a
pretty good show on the
platform to entice people into
the one tent they had. There
were ‘black face minstrels’, tap
dancing, a clown, a live boa
constrictor, fiddle and banjo
players, a real live Indian in full
war dress. To a child that was
wonder of wonders.
“Mr. Whitener, in one of
your columns you mentioned in
recalling their good old times
people jumped from one thing to
another and never wrote long on
any one subject. (That’s life.
Life is made up of a series of
events, not just one thing
happening at one time) These
events happen one at a time and
then like a recording tape
played back, the memory runs
them back just as they happen--'
one thing at a time.
“Memory tries to recall and
cover as many events as
possible. The impression of
these events on the mind are
recalled by memory. Are recall
ed by memory, grass hopper
method, just as they happened.
Our minds are smarter than we
think. To dwell on any one
subject too long would be dull
and distasteful. Suppose ond*
reader wrote you on one subject
about seven pages on how;
daddy dug “ginseng” root with,
whatever he dug it with? Or how'
Mamma made two big hot pots
of apple butter? The mind gives.
out just enough to make it really;
interesting. And tells it like it is.
Writing a book may be to dwell
longer on any given subject. I
don’t know—l’ve never written a
book. Just perhaps that is what
accounts for so many dull,
uninteresting books. Maybe?
Who Knows?”
Please send all material to
Rogers Whitener, Folk-Ways
and Folk-Speech, Box 376,
University Station, Boone, N.C.
28608.
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THE YANCEY JOURNAL
Box 667
Burnsville, N.C. 28714
Ed Yuzluk-Publlsher
Carolyn Yuziuk-Editor
Patsy Randolph-Manager
Brenda Webb-Staff
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Thursday, October 10,1974
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