PAGE 2 I THE YANCEY JOURNAL DECEMBER 9, 1976 LOWER MINIMUM DEPOSITS ON HIGH YIELD CERTIFICATES. it’s easier than ever to take advantage of our high yield Certificate savings! Even our 7Y4% Certificate (effective annual yield 8.06%) requires just a SIOOO minimum deposit. And your money is insured by an agency,of the United States government. a, Call or come by Asheville Federal Savings 1 today, where you get the highest interest rates j permitted by law, with the lowest minimum deposits available . . and all with complete safety! CERTIFICATES* Term Minimum Rate Yield 3 mo. $ 500 5.75% 5.92% 12 mo. SI,OOO 6.50% 6.72% 30 mo. SI,OOO 6.75% 6.98% 48 mo. SI,OOO 7.50% 7.79% 72 mo. SI,OOO 7.75% 8.06% ‘lnterest on all savings plans is compounded daily. Federal law requires a substantial inter est penalty for early withdrawal of Certificates. PASSBOOK SAVINGS v /vy /y /-w y Effective .25% wi,h 5.39% sr 1 . c/lshei/ille rx : ijT (federal kIB W «o MO POO aoi/mgs Black Mountain Mars Hill Asheville Skyland 669-6432 689-2600 254-7411 274-3337 Timex f Amity West Bend I Billfold’s Slo-Cooker Big Selection Men & Ladies Mens & [mm r>. ... —% Ladies jsSSF Discount ’ W Prjces • Discounted All Discounted | «► j CMt(§/uce® 1 R|** Cologne 1 Rea *?oo | Self-Buttering ||, 1 1 Corn Popper f '' *• |5 West Bend I . r . „ . „*[ if , * r\ Bun Warmer I :it,„ JlmakSb':- L_ H ■ use as serving tmu.l IqHKS - I ip»i 1 7fva && POLLARD’S W DRUGSTORE Burnsville Phone 682-2146 Farmers Gun Be Certified ---- —__ - •/ Yancey County Farmers' who would like to become certified to apply restricted use pesticides now have the opportunity to do so. Johnny Hensley, Yancey County , Ass’t. Agricultural Extension Agent, said a series of classes are planned for farmers on pesticide use. By attending two 2-hour classes farmers can obtain a form which they can use to get a certificate from the N.C. Department of Agriculture. Under a new federal law, farmers must have this certificate before they can buy restricted-use pesticides for their 1978 crop. This means that farmers will need to attend the classes by the fall of 1977, Hensley said. Hensley said the classes are being organized and taught by the Agricultural Extension Service. “We try to make the classes as meaning ful to farmers as possible,” Hensley added. Topics co vered include pest identifica tion, types of pesticides and how they work, and pesticide safety, equipment, applica tion rates and regulations. V $4050 -''mm odd & Ends j 6 mA fa 50% off C J or more ' S Ladies Jeans, BlousesJC Slacks ||U Tops, & Vests V *4 50 % \ l ft OL—BIJ 11 S 1 l AT LOW PRICES^ Q Mon-Sat \lk 9-5 tjl Xmas J 6 Montane Outlet^ O Old 19W West of Burnsville C ’ Hensley estimates tha about 1900 farmers in Yance; County currently use restric ted-use pesticides. These ar< pesticides that have beet declared potentially danger I ous to people, animals or th< environment. Training will be conductet for several weeks with aboui 100-150 farmers per class Farmers will be notified bj mail of which class the) should plan to attend. Those not receiving a letter righi away are encouraged to wait until they receive a letter tc attend the classes. Plans are to involve people from one community per class until everyone who needs to be certified has received the training. Lodge Plans Special Electioi Stated Communications of Burnsville Lodge No. 717 AF <fc AM on Thursday, Decem ber 16, 1976. There will be “Special Election of Offi cers.” All members are urged to attend. ttnimj II nR.HI IH Jig I I I nnoni inn ; v p| IMllHh I ■■HHr -v IS —rt tr i nn> art it A; ' ft- VtlUrrVltli I K " K l l- Brush Creek Award d The Western North Carolina Development Association held their 27th Annual Awards meeting Saturday, December 4, at the Asheville Civic Center. Among those communities receiving awards was Brush Creek Community in Yancey 7$ County who received honorable mention and SSO in the F Division A category. Pictured are Nelle Johnson, Lydia Deyton lJ[ and Elsie Haaker with the weD-eamed award for Brush Creek. THE YANCEY JOURNAL lAftermatT BOX 667 Us Burnsville, N.C. 28714 T) j L Phone 17041 682-2120 \JI JjUB Edward Yuziuk,Publisher * * s -m M| I Carolyn Yuziuk Editor A PPlflPYlt Pat Randolph Manager l Brenda Alien-Staff fCont’d from page 1] Y Published Every Thursday Representative asking rxi * , that the mountain counties in North Carolina be given £) Twin Cities Publishing Co. TT! ° f IT T 2nd Class Postage Paid schedules. The H At Burnsville. N.C. County Comm.ssK.ners, who took ottice only this week, are Pfc Thursday, Dec. 9, 1976 already looking into the if Vol. 4, Number 49 matter of the purchase of the three additional buses needed by the school system. jL All these measures are Subscription Rates by Mail: reassuring, but it s too bad Z. In Yancey County everything had to be trigger i * One Year $5.00 ed off b >' an accident. The Six Months $4.00 onl y consolation we have is that perhaps the nationwide Out Os County or S.atc 8 attention given to the cause of One Year $7.00 I the accident in Yancey County Six Months $6.00 I ma >’ prevent an even greater | tragedy, here or ejsewhere, in the future. 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Simple interest early each month or pay?ng extra* 9 2W&'KSf PayAnyDay r Before you buy, borrow, finance or sign anything, insist on a PayAnyDay loan at First Cm™™ "***' —•.... .*** °' Wcugh your dealtf REPORT FROM U.S. Senator JESSE ★★ & HELMS I WASHINGTON—Perhaps a few comments are in order concerning the constantly increasing number of political pressure groups which take it upon themselves to attack Senators and Representatives with whom they disagree. These pressure groups can be found all across the poli ■ tical spectrum. Some operate on big budgets with large staffs. 1/ Others are small —some of them are individuals with a politi i cal ax to grind. And all of them count on the news media to get their "message" across, free of charge. HUNGER- -For example, in late October, just before the election, an outfit piously catling itself a "Christian citizens lobby," issued a press release in which it launched an attack on a number of members of Congress. Many newspapers, two or three of North Carolina, published the press release without raising a single question about its validity. Even one of the major press associations rewrote the press release only slightly, and distributed it to hundreds of news papers across the country —never bothering to wonder about the basis for such an obvious political attack, let alone the m issues involved. " The outfit calls itself "Bread for the World," and its press release accused several Senators and Representatives of "voting so consistently against hungry people, both herfi and abroad." The press release added, "It's hard to beiieve j that U. S. voters, if they know the record, would not think ,1 twice before returning these people to office." s How's that for a last-minute political attack, just before y an election? e n DISCLOSURE —There was no hint in the press release as to the identity of this so-called "Bread for the World" outfit. No mention was made, for example, that it is headed [1 by a man named Eugene Carson Blake, generally regarded as one of the most politically activist clergymen in the country. Dr. Blake is a former leader of the World Council of Churches. Over the years, his advocacies have embraced almost every ultra-liberal proposal that has come up. Let me quickly add that Dr. Blake is entitled to his views, but he is subject to question when he uses a vague press release, issued just before an election, to attack those with whom he disagrees. 1 > ISSUES—Dr. Blake's so-called "Bread for the World" press release did not list the issues on which it based its > , "ratings" of Members of Congress. It simply singled out > Senators and Representatives who,’ for example, have been raising questions about the waste and discovered in the food Itamp program. These same Congressmen have objected to spending hundreds of millions of dollars of the American taxpayers' money to send grain to subsidize com „ munist and socialist governments abroad. I lam one whom Dr. Blake's outfit criticized. So is Senator Goldwater. I hope I continue to merit Dr. Blake's criticism, because I .contend that American tax dollars ooght ! not to be used to subsidize communist tyrants around the world. Much of the grain and other foods which American taxpayers are sending abroad does not go to hungry people— it goes to dictatorships which deliver the food only to people , who happen to have the money to pay for it. The hungry citizens in those countries are out of luck if they have no money. To illustrate how the system operates, there is at least one foreign government that derives 80 per cent of its income by selling —to its own people—the food sent to them by our country, paid for by the American taxpayers who are being led to believe that we are helping the poor, starving people of other lands. I would emphasize that there is nothing unlawful about Dr. Blake's attempt to propagandize the American people. Still, it is clearly a blatant political activity—one that is counting on the news media to ask no questions. And in this instance, too many didn't. I Christmas I I Mistletoe & Holly I I CouMty I I CouwTßy Store I

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