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PAGE 8 THE YANCEY JOURNAL APRIL 29, 1976 [bo-It-Yourself Plumbing Helps Budget Home Plumbing How-To's I Higher prices are forcing Inore and more of us to be come do-it-yourselfers. So, Ivhy Rot ‘ add some simple ■dumbing skills to your list of Accomplishments? Here’s low: [ CLOGGED OR SLUG xJISH DRAINS can be cleared fcrsecond* with Drain Power ■rain opener. Instead of using Hazardous lye or acid, Drain ■ower sets up pressure waves tthe standing water which >p” the dog and send it Fox Real Estate 19 E At Mt. View Motel DWELLING . Dwelling on 1 acre off paved road. 3 bedrooms, living room, kitchen-dining, bath, screened back porch, « basement, gravity water, hardwood floors with sheetrock interior. Bargain price for quick sale. yp' ■« ■■ ■-i • r HERE IS A BARGAIN New 4-bedroom, two and one-half baths, spacious living room, fireplace, well water, on almost three . ★ acres. Bay house at less than $17.00 per sq. ft.-Get land with large barn free. * I THREE-BEDROOM FRAME Three bedroom frame on 1 9/10 acres, well, spring, In quiet community. Priced to sell. | THREE-BEDROOM i Three-bedroom, living room, kitchen-dining, basement, central hot water heat. Close in on I'A acres, .JL. beautiful view in excellent community. ! TWO-BEDROOM X Two-bedroom, living-dining, bath. On approximately V* acre. Priced for quick sale. Terms. X P 50 ACRES . 50 acres, more or less, owner says more, 2-story nine-room and bath farm house, upper and lower W porches overlooking river, well, spring, barn, crib, smokehouse, tobacco allotment. Bargain. 240 ACRES . 240 acres wooded and open, log cabin, springs, tobacco allotment. $225.00 per acre for quick sale, good * AT terms. * i BEAUTIFUL FARM X 50 to 60 acres, farm house, 2 bedroom, living room, kitchen-dining, bath, basement, large barn, good X tillable land, woodland and pasture, springs. Must see to appreciate. * 90 ACRES * « 4 With 4-bedroom house, living room, kitchen-dining, bath. Springs, tobacco allotment, barn, pasture O and woodland. Bargain at less than SSOO per acre. * ~ ♦ , Jp “« t 75 acres woodland, highway frontage Overlooking river. Young timber. Good Investment for probable -JL high appreciation. Under S4OO per acre. Terms. ” 45 ACRES j acres open and wooded, bordered by river. Good location for A-Frame and chalet type dwelling. X X Less than S7OO per acre. Terms. " ; 9 ACRES acres on paved road, spring, wooded and open. Ideal for cabins or permanent residence. i Other tracts listed from less than one acre to 300 acres, also dwellings, both frame and brick. some By- If We Don’t Have What You Want, We’ll Try To Locate It For You. 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Pull out the valve unit by using the handle. At the bot tom of this unit is a washer held in place by a screw. Re place this washer with a new one and reassemble the han- - ; steps. Presto, your faucet is fixed! , ... - Easy? You bet! And think of how great you’ll feel when you hear your family’s appre ciation this evening. !■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Read f The Ads .fIH Jr I fWmZ 1/ TOIL jMSw ; Hr w m / ||H / -v w'lDv 1 nl k, I. A ■ 91 r > f -Mm Iff -dpWfc Photo by Brian Westveei Train Ride, Anyone? The Spruce Pine Boy Scouts are offering a 4*/i to 5 hour trainride from Burnsville to Kona and return. The Yancey Railroad “Rambler” will carry passengers through the •• mountains and along the sparkling Toe River. The train will leave Burnsville at 10:30 on Saturday, May 1,1976. Passengers will picnic at Kona. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children. All tickets are sold in advance and may be purchased by sending a check to Box 444, Spruce Pine 28777. A train will also run on Sunday, May 2, leaving Burnsville at 1 p.m. A new time will be announced in case of bad weather. For Safety & Economy TIME-SAVING TALES Conserving time is a major concern of today’s busy homemakers. One way to keep house cleaning simple is to do little jobs more often! Food spills on stove and counter tops, for example, can be cleaned more simply if you grab a sponge and wipe them right away. Once a spill has hardened, it often takes real muscle to get rid of it. ( Baked-on foods and dirty cooking utensils, when soaked immediately, also become a cinch to clean up later. H'S An easy way to keep your carpet looking great all the time is to clean it two or three times a year. This pre vents grease from the air and tracked-in dirt from dulling the colors. With Spray ‘n Vac rug cleaner, you just spray, wait while the foam does the work, and an hour later, vacu um the dirt right up. It’s like shampooing your rug while you vacuum! Finally, don’t things around the house.Uet rid of old magazines and newspapers and store those items you rarely use. Follow these easy, time saving suggestions and you’ll have less worry about house cleaning and a lot more time for fun l JoTk- \\^ys awl J^k-^p cvc |,^ From time to time this column has carried observa tions and accounts of the role of oxen in the mountains prior to the coming of power machinery. Few correspondents have been around long enough to remember the actual every day workings of those slow, powerful creatures, though matched pairs of oxen are still to be found as parade and exhibition features. An exception is Mr. Bert McCrary of Fall Branch, Tennessee, now ninety but with a clear memory of their usefulness. He writes: ‘‘We had two yokes of cattle and there were several others around here. We logged with them and also plowed corn with just one, or what we called a half-yoke. “We moved a big boiler from Jonesboro, Tennessee. It took fourteen yokes of oxen to pull it on a big wagon. We was six days moving it to the zinc mines at Fall Branch. That was about 1910 when they were building the C.C.O. Railway. We camped along the road for several nights on the trip.” Mr. McCrary also recalls the use of oxen to operate the early model threshing mach ines used in the mountains. “It took two yokes to pull \u| the machines and also two yokes to pull the engine. This was before there were any Jfjr traction engines and for a threshing machine they also wi'U■ t used horses to power them. It ’> y took eight horses and they ’ fV went around like pulling a cane mill. There wasn’t many of these around, for they took lots of feed for both the horses and the men who worked with the threshing. Os course, we always had plenty to eat as the women would all throw in together and help fix it.” Mention of oxen reminds me of several incidents related about those beasts in Shepherd Dugger’s The Bal sam Groves of Grandfather Mountain and War Trails of the Bine Ridge. On one occasion he describes a fight between two oxen contending for passageway on the same trail. In another he recounts an oxen race which gains in vividness . and excitement when one rider has his girl friend place a chestnut burr under the tail of his oppo nent’s oxen just as the race begins. * il ' Readers interested in the high flown description color ing turn of the century American literary style might do well to these books. Folklorists and histor ians, of course, would be delighted with their contents. Long out of print, they have been reissued by the Pud dingstone Press at Lees-Mc ♦ Specialist For $ 4 Color TV, Stereos, ♦ Antennas 1 t (afMii REPAIRS 4 Dependable Service ♦ ♦ For Home Service 2 t Or Carry In 1, ♦ Channel Master AntennasJ*' J Rotaries, Boosters X; 4 Installed & Repaired ▼! ♦ 682-7349 ♦ t Open 9:00-9:00 Mon thru Sat 4 {Mountain view! J TV Service I ♦ Mtll * VIBW M ° tel ?» ®hr&r FRANK T. HENSLEY ■! ; Frank T. Hensley, 57, of Morganton, Route 4, die 4 Tuesday night in Graqd Hospital, Morganton, after an extended illness. He was a native of Yancey County, the son of Mary McMahaq HensSey and the late Bascdnq fjpnsley. He was a World Wat II veteran having served several years on the U.S.S. Hope Hospital Ship. He was a retired employee of Brough" ton Hospital in Morganton, N.C. Surviving in addition to the mother are the wife, Irene Jamerson Hensley; two sdos, Beryl Hensley of Morganton and D.F. Hensley of Axle, Texas; four daughters, Mrs. Joyce Willis, Misses Freida and Barbara Hensley, Mrs. Maxine Lane, all of Morganton; one step-son, Howard Robinson of Burns ville; three brothers, Charles Hensley of Roanoke, Va., Jack H. Hensley of Louisville,. Ky. and Donald Hensley of. Texas; four sisters, Mrs. Madalyn Johnson, Mrs. Lotus Riddle and Mrs. Inez Barber, of Roanoke, Va. and Mrs.. Leona Horton, Chattanooga,. Tenn.; 6 grandchildren also survive. . *J Funeral services were held Friday at 2:30 p.m. in the.- Chapel of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home. Rev. Douglas St. John and Rev. Walserj Penland officiated and burikl, was in the Banks Creek Cemetery with military side services. $ Rae College, which is to be commended for the under-) taking. , Mention might also be; made here of the outstanding publications on Appalachia by the Appalachian Consortium- Press, located on the campus at ASU. , Beginning with Drs. Ina. and John Van Noppen’s Western North Carolina Since, the Civil War several years i ago, it has gradually expand ed offerings to twenty-one titles dealing with the life and • literature of the southern mountaineer. Latest to reach me is Mountain Measure, a South ern Appalachian Verse Note book, by Francis Pledger Hulme, with photographs by Robert Amberg. Hardbound or in paper, it is a beautiful work, exuding the beauty of, the mountains and the spirit of the folk. Royalties from sales, by the way, go to Warren-Wilson and Mars Hill Colleges. Readers are invited to send folk material to: Rogers Whitener, Folk-Ways and Folk-Speech, Appalchiaa State University, Boone, N-C --28608.
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