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'Realtor
RANCH OR
TWO-STORY?
The two basic struc
tures of single family
homes are the ranch and
the two-story home.
They both have their
pros and cons and the
ultimate decision nor
mally rests with the in-
dividual's style of living
and needs.
A ranch Is appealing
since living is all on one
floor and there are no
steps to climb. However,
a ranch has disadvan
tages as well. A one-
story house takes up
more space on its lot and
it has greater foundation
cost per square foot of
Interior living space.
You can get the same
interior size on half the
amount of foundation
in a two-story home.
Construction cost per
square foot is reduced to
a minimum in a two-story
house. Despite this cost
saving factor, • the
nationai trend has been
and stiil is strongiy
toward one-story homes.
Homeowners don’t seem
to like climbing stairs.
Remember though,
ciimbing stairs is said to
be good for your heart,
and so is more house for
less construction cost.
For expert handling of
all -your real estate
problems, see the
Professionals at Cy Jor
dan Reaity'-office below
the post office and town
square, Burnsville. 682-
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Highway
Accidents
(Editor’s note: The infor
mation supplied in the ac
cident report is taken directly
from the State Highway
Patrol report, and reflects the
opinion and estimates of the
Trooper Investigating the
case.)
A 74 School bus was in-
I volved in a two-car accident
I that occurred Thursday,
January 17, at 4:10 p.m.
Melvin Keith Henson, 19, of
Burnsville was driving the bus
south along Clate Wheeler Rd.
.1 mile south of Burnsville
when he met David Hall, 32, of
Route 2, Burnsville traveling
north in a 75 Toyota. Henson
stated that he had started
around a curve when he saw
Hall and pulled the bus as far
to the right as possible. The
left bumper of the bus struck
the Toyota causing an
estimated $150 damage to the
vehicle with $5 damage to the
bus. Hall stated that he had
pulled the Toyota right as far
as possible and that the bus
had struck the bank causing it
to slide into his vehicle. No
charges were filed. Trooper
W.A. Ward investigated.
A two car accident involving
a parked vehicle took place
Friday, January 18, in a
private drive within Bur
nsville City Limits. The
parked vehicle, a 73
Chevrolet truck belonging to
Bruce Edwards of Route 1,
Burnsville was struck in the
front by a car driven by
Carolyn Sue Medford, of
Woodfin, N.C. MEdford en
tered the parking lot in a 73
Ford, struck the Chevrolet
which rolled down a steep
bank, and left the scene to an
unknown destination.
Damages were estimated at
$200. Trooper R.L. Cooper in
vestigated.
A one-car accident injuring
two took place along US 19 8.1
miles south of Burnsville.
Francis Michael Oaver, 24, of
Route 2, Burnsville was
driving a 77 Toyota north
along 19E Saturday, January
19 at 8:15 a.m. when he hit
some ice in a curve and lost
control of the vehicle which
overturned down an embank
ment and into a creek. Two
passengers, Kevin Whalen, 26,
and mark Miller, 22, were
taken to Burnsville Hospital.
Damages were estimated at
$1400. Trooper C.R. Franklin
investigated.
James Gregory Fender, 17,
of Burnsville was the driver in
a one-car accident that in
jured him and a passenger.
Fender was driving a 76
Triumph north along Jacks
Creek Rd. Sunday, Jan. 20, at
1:30 p.m. when he rounded a
sharp curve and lost control of
the vehicle. The Triumph ran
off the left side of the road,
crossed back over to run off
the right shoulder where it
continued on to strike a rock
and a tree and then traveled
52 ft. down a cliff and came to
rest in a creek. Fender and a
passenger, Rhonda Doris Ren
fro, 17, of Jacks Creek wre
taken to Spruce Pine Hospital.
Fender was charged with Ex
ceeding the Safe Speed.
Damage to the Triumph was
estimated at $3000. Trooper
W.A. Ward investigated.
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TO THE EDITOR
(pie Journal welcomes letters expressing all points of
view. We ocasionally condense letters when space is a
problem. Letters must be signed, but the name of the
writer is withheld on request. Anonymous letters are
never published.)
Dear Editor:
More than 70 days have elapsed since the goons of Iran
kidnapped our citizens in our own Embassy in that
heathen nation. The most that has been done since such
a nefarious act has been a few million condemnatory wor
ds and the expulsion of our correspondents from that
benighted nation because the correspondents would not lie
and distort the matter in favor of the thugs who are
keeping our people imprisoned. Economic sanctions were
a small step in the right direction but it has not gone far
enough, at the rate we are going by sanctions, the
American prisoners in the hands of the jackets of Iran and
the crazy loon who sits upon the Peacock Throne will die
from old age without ever being released or breathing the
air of freedom.
We should bar the sale or transportation of everything
to that heathen country. The sale of foods, medicines and
every commodity whatever should be banned by our
Government. The only thing we should send to Iran is our
bombers and battleships. Drop enough bombs and lob
enough shells into that God forsaken country that it will be
so desolate that a buzzard flying over the country would
be forced to carry its own rations on its journey.
If anyone who reads this Article has a friend or relative
in the Teamster Union or the Longshoremen’s Union, I
suggest that you contact such person and ask that they
urge their Unions to refuse to handle any article consigned
to either Iran or Russia.
We heard last night over television that some of the
vipers In Greenville, South Carolina, who face depor
tation, are planning to marry local American girls to
prevent such.
Did you know that the Persian scum who are enrolled in
our schools are being supported to a great extent from
taxes paid by you to our Government? Ask our Senators
and Members of the US House of Representatives. Ask
Health, Education and Welfare. Do you wish to continue
supporting such vipers? Let us amend our Immigration
Laws by changing the formula. We should enact a law
providing for the forfeiture of American citizenship of any
American marrying a person from another nation who
has not been naturalized. Senators Helms and Morgan and
Representative Gudger are entitled to hear your view on
these matters of such grave importance. I suggest that
you inform Messrs. Helms, Morgan and Gudger as to your
views in this matter.
Very truly yours,
BUI Atkins
Dear Editor:
I am back in the Sbrlner’s Hospital in Greensville, S.C. I
am going to have to have another operation and I would
love for everyone to pray for me and write to me. How I
enjoy getting a letter from anyone.
Your Pharmacist at
I Pollards Drug
I g-jiyg Downtown, Burnsville
Your Pharmacist
Charles Gillespie, Jr.,
Rundown on cold preparations
There are five basic types of medications used in cold
preparations: Analgesics (anti-inflammatory); Antihista
mines (reduces secretions); Decongestants (constricts
smaller arterioles); Antitussives (centrally acting cough
suppressant); Expectorants (loosens chest congestion).
Each may be delivered alone, or in combination. Al
beit, there is a growing skepticism within the FDA to
ward multi-ingredient products and the marketing of
such. Over 300 such products are now being marketed.
Is there any wonder patients need a personal phar
macist to help them deal in this complex world of
drugs? I hope you’ll choose us for your per
sonal pharmacy!
Jill
1980 OFFICERS Patti Coe, left,
secretary-treasurer, Charles
Hodshon Jr., president, Jack
Allen, director, and Barry
Weaver, director, were installed
by the Mitchell-Yancey Board of
Realtors at their January
meeting.
Realtors’ Board Installs
New Of fleers At Meeting
The Yancey-Mitchell Board
of Realtors held their In
stallation Meeting on January
14,1980, at Tyner’s Dipper and
Deli with a covered dish din
ner.
Realtor Charles Basker-
iville, Vice-President of Region
I?, installed the 1980 officers as
follows: CJharles Hodson, Jr.,
president; Benson Tyner, vice
president; Patti Coe,
secretary/treasurer. Direc
tors installed were Larry
McKinney, Benson Tyner,
Jack Allen and Barry Weaver.
Realtor Baskerville com
mended the Yancey-Mitchell
Board of Realtors for their
outstanding achievements and
accomplishments during their j
founding year. The Board'
received first place awards
Lyerly Files For
District Judgeship
[ am Angela Wbisnaht, daughter of Rita Hughes and
David Whisnant. Everyone down here needs your
prayers. I am enclosing a picture of me and my address is
Shriners Hospital, Pleasantburg Drive, Greensville, S.C.
My home address is Route 9, Box 537, Morganton, N.C.
28655.
I want to thank everyone who has written to me
prayed for me and a special thanks to the Burnsville
Hospital and Health Care FacUity.
Love,
Angela Whisnant
Dear Editor; ^
Last Tuesday, January 15, was the birthday of Dr. Mar
tin Luther King. He was a great negro leader, and he was
a Christian man. He was for the poor blacks and the poor
whites alike and he wanted everybody to love each other.
In his speech one day Martin Luther King said we will
have peace with our God one of these days. I hope one of
these days the people in the world will see the promised
land like our great leader said. Martin Luther King was a
dreamer, but he wasn’t a sleeper. He was awake to all the
bitter things people said about him. He just talked to God
and God let him see the promised land.
I think our blacks ought to honor his birthday and
always remember how far he brought them to be free and
to stand up for their rights and to team to love each other
and to help each other.
Mrs. Charlotte Barnett
Dear Editor ^
I attended a Mayland Tech extension course in Bible
Basics, taught by Frances Radford. If you are interested
in an informational and Inspirational class in Bible, I
recommend you attend her next class.
Lois Anglin
The Dependable Drug Store
Pollard* Drnc 8t
Roy Alexander (Alec)
Lyerly, Newland attorney, has
filed as a candidate for the
Republican Party nomination
for District (^uit Judge for
the 24th Judicial District for
the May 6 Republican
Primary. He seeks to be
nominated to the seat presen
tly held by Judge J. Ray
Braswell who will retire at the
end of his present term. The
Twenty-Fourth Judicial
District includes Avery,
Madison, Mitchell, Watauga
and Yancey (Aunties.
Lyerly is a native of Banner
Elk, North Carolina. He is the
son of Carlyne Banner Lyerly
and the late R.A. Lyerly of
Banner Elk, and the grandson
of Mrs. Eva Lowe Banner and
the late Robert 0. Banner of
Banner Elk, and the grandson
of Mrs. Beulah CHine Lyerly of
Winston-Salem and the late
Rev. Samuel Badger Lyerly.
He is married to the former
Brenda Elaine Smith, and has
one son, Keir.
Very active in Republican
Party politics at both national,
state and local levels, he ser
ved two elected terms as State
Treasurer of the Executive
Committee of the Federation
of Young Republicans, a for
mer precinct chairman and
member of the Avery County
Republican Executive Com
mittee, and former (Airman
of the Avery (iJounty Young
Republicans and District
Director of the Eleventh
Congressional District.
He received his education in
the public schools of Avery
County and Lees-McRae
College. He holds a B.S. in
Political Science from Ap
palachian State University
and his Doctor of Laws degree
from South Texas, Houston,
Texas. Lyerly taught in the
Avery (^unty public school
system prior to going to law
school, and taught in the
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school there. He was the 1971
Honor Teacher from A.S.U. at
Avery (jounty High School. He
has been an instructor at
Mayland Technical Institute.
Lyerly is a member of the
American Bar Association,
the State Bar of Texas, the
Houston Bar Association, the
North Carolina Bar and the
North Carolina Bar
Association. He is also a
member of the Association of
Trial Lawyers. He is a mem
ber of the Family Law Section
of the American Bar
Association and a member of
the American Lawyers
Association.
He is the immediate past
president of the Avery County
(Chamber of Commerce, and a
member of its Executive
Board. He is also on the Board
of Trustees for Crossnore
School, Inc., and a member of
the Executive and Finance
Committees for Crossnore
School, Inc. He was named as
an Outstanding Young
American Man for 1979. He is
a Mason and a member of the
Scottish Rite.
Before returning to Avery
County ip 1975 he was with the
Houston Legal Foundation. He
has been a partner in the law
firm of Johnson and Lyerly,
Newland, since 1976.
East Yancey
Class Of 1970
Plans Reunion
The graduating class of 1970
of East Yancey High School is
planning a reunion. All mem
bers of this class who are in
terested please meet at
Higgins Memorial Methodist
CJhurch on Saturday, January
26, at 2 p.m.
For more information call
Mrs. Pam Anglin at 682-3055.
from NCAR in their Private
Property Week and Make'
America Better projects.
They also received
recognition for their con
tribution to RPAC.
President Charles Hodshon
Jr. presented outgoing
president Wanda J. Eh-offitt, a
plaque from the Board in ap
preciation of her leadership
during their founding year.
NF Corp.
Reports
Earnings
Northwestern Financial
Corporation earned $11.7
million in 1979 before
securities transactions and a
gain on the sale of a sub
sidiary, an increase of 3.2 per
cent over the $11.3 million
earned in 1978. On a per share
basis, earnings were $2.26 in
1979 and $2.20 in 1978. Accor
ding to Northestem chairman
Ben T. Craig, 1979 earnings
were reduced by $1 million or
$.19 per share as a result of the
recently announced tentative
settlement of Northwestern’s
long-standing Federal income
tax matter. “Prior to this
charge,” Craig said, “our 1979
earnings before securities
transactions and a gain on the
sale of a subsidiary totaled
$12.7 million or $2.45 per
share, which was 12.1 percent
above 1978.”
Fourth quarter earnings
before securities transactions
were $2.4 million or $.47 per
share in 1979, down from W-2
million or $.61 per share in the
final three months of 1978.,
Prior to the tax settlement,
1979 fourth quarter earnings
were $3.4 million or $.66 per
share, a gain of 9.2 percent
from a year earlier.
“Financial reporting
procedures provide that the
amount of the tentative tax
settlement be recorded as an
expense in the foiuth quarter
of 1979,” Craig said.
“However, in evaluating Nor
thwestern’s 1979 financial per
formance, we feel it is impor
tant to look at earnings before
this charge, since the set
tlement relates to tax matters
dating back a number of
years.”
Net income for 1979 totaled
$13.3 million or $2.57 per
share, up from $11.2 million or
$2.17 per share in 1978. The
1979 amount includes an after
tax gain of $1.8 million or $.35
per share realized on the sale
of Northwestern Security Life
Insurance Company in
January 1979. Fourth quarter
net income was $2.3 million or
$.44 per share in 1979, down
from $3.1 million or $.61 per
share in the final quarter of
1978.
Prior to the tax settlement
The Northwestern Bank ear
ned $12.1 million before
securities transactions in 1979,
or 14.5 percent more than in
1978. Combined net earnings
of Northwestern’s consumer
finance, mortgage banking
and factoring subsidiaries
totaled $432,(X)0 for 1979, down
from $495,000 in the prior year.
This decline resulted from
sharply lower consumer
finance net earnings in 1979,
partially offset by improved
profitability of the factoring
subsidiary.
Total deposits at the end of
1979 were $1,409 billion