THE YANCEY RECORDV' I Pi Pi H*W •—t“DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF YANCEY COUNTY”

VOLUME TEN SUB. RATES: $1.50 YEAR. BURNSVILLE, N. C\, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1916 NUMBER TWENTY-THREE

--Men In Service-- !I WEATHERAGAIN

! VERY COLD ANDjSNOW FALLS

! After a few days ofj moderating weather dur-

i ing the w eek end. a coldwave moved in Mondayand sent the temperaturedown to 8 degrees hereTuesday morning. A lightsnow also fell on Monday.

Wednesday the tempera-ture rose enough to meitthe snow considerably, buttoday (Thursday), with thetemperature around 30,snow has been falling ra-pidly since before daylight.Sleet is forecast for the

i Asheville area but it is coldenough here for snow in-stead.

liraveil conditions areagain dangerous with a !coating of ice and snow onthe highways but bus sche-Jdules were maintained thismorning.

COURT WILL CONVENE

The January term of!Superior Court is schedul-,ed to convene here on Mop- 1

! day, Jan. 21. Civil cases'will be heard during theweek sessoin, with JudgeWilliam H. Bobbitt o f

I Charlotte presiding.FU NERAL SERVICESFOR MRS. J. M. BYRD

Funeral services for Mrs.James M. Byrd, 76, who

, died at her home in Relief| Sunday after a week’s ill-!,

ness were held Tuesday!i afternoon at 2 o’clock in!¦ the home by the Rev. Ova

! Edwards and the Rev. J.;W. Honeycutt. Burial fol-lowed in the family ceme-tery iin Mitchell county.

Pallbearers were Levijand Henry Edwards, Wadej Whitson, Sherril, Shelton 1and Parke Byrd.

A lifelong resident ofj Mitchell county, Mrs. Byrdj

I was very active in the, 1Brethren church at Relief.r

I She was married over 50! (/years ago to J. M. Byrd,who died several years ago.; Survivors include fourdaughters, Mrs. Joseph Ed-

! wards of Tilford, Tenn., :Mrs. J. R. Sheppard ofSwiss, Mrs. A. J. Johnsonof Huntdale, and Mrs. Os-car Whitson of JohnsonCity, Tenn., and five sons,'Robert, Charles and OscarByrd, all of Relief, LamarrByrd of Green Mtn., andFloyd Byrd of Limestone,Tenn.; four sisters, Mrs.Julia Bennett of Burnsville,Mrs. Charles Dayton ofVici, Okla., Mrs. Nora Hu-ghes of Canton and Mrs.

! Pless Jones of Erwin.

BIRD COUNT MADEAT WINDOM

Annual CountResults of the 1945 bird

count made at Wiindom,Dee. 27 between the hours •of 8 a. m. and dusk by sev-'en observers in two partieshave been announced £yJames Hutchins. The con-;nts have beep made annu-jally at Windom for the pasteight years, with the ek-Jception of one year.

The count Uiis year re-!vealed 19 species and 543individual birf.s. Participa-ting in the col.nt were Mr.'Hutchins, Roosevelt Hugh-es, Paul Hughes, PhilipStyles, J. C. Styles, BettySue Gibson, and Msr. C. P.Gibson. The . count was

imade for 16 hour s and 12jmiles were covered on foot.;

Birds observed follow:j Cooper’s hawk, one; bob-;

! white, one; bluejay, 23;crow, 57; chivkadde, one;

j tufted titmouse, nine; Car-olina wren, four; easternbluebird, 12: /starting, 14;English sparrov. r , 156; mea-dow lark, four; cardinal,31; goldfinch, 2t) \ red-eyedtowhee, fo.r; junco, 36;field sparrow, 55; wr hitethroated sparrow, three;fox sparrow, ore; and songsparrow, 96.

HOME AGENTS NOTES

—4*H -Slnir flfwTTngs . iu»vcbeen scheduled as follows:

Friday, Jan. 4—The StarLight Club at 10:30; thePensacola Club at 1:30.

Tuesday, Jan. B—TheBald Creek Club at 8:40;the Clearmont Senior Clubat 10:30 and the ClearmontJunior Club at 1:30. ;

The County Council of!4-H Clubs will meet on!Saturday, Jan. 12.

The Toledo home demon-stration ciub will meet atThe home of Mrs. ErskineBaney at 1 o’clock on Jan.j9th. ’

The Possum Trot club 1will meet at the home ofMrs. Ernest Ray on Jan. 10at 2 o’clock.

LAST RITES FOR MRS.MARGARET KING

Mrs. Margaret RobinsonKing passed away at thehome of her daughter,Mrs. Cleveland Proffitt,Sunday morning followingan extended illness. Shewas 90 years old.

Final rites were heldi Monday afternoon at 2! o’clock at the Elk Shoal

1 Baptist church.; Adkins officiated, assisted|by Rev. J. R. Bowman.Burial was in the Kingfamily cemetery at Elk

I Shoal.Surviving are five dau-

-1 ghters, Mrs. Proffitt, Mrs.John Pate, Mrs. Jeff Phil-lips, Mrs. Hattie Phillips

1 and Mrs. Clark Hall; foursons, Zeb, Edd and Nelson'of Burnsville and GeorgeJof Cane River; 47 grandchildren, 97 great grand

I children and 13 great great! grand children.

Pall bearers for the ser-vices were grandsons andgreat grandsons, and theflower girls were grand-daughters and great gran-ddaughters.

Holcombe Brothers fun-eral home directed arrang-

D. E. Bruhl, Red Crossfield representative for the!area, is in Burnsville andjwill meet with the execu-tive committee of the

todavy > t. ¦ m 4Mrs. Pless Jones of Er-

win, Tenn., has been visit-ing her sister, Mrs. JuliaBennett here.

Thelma Allen and MaryPeterson visited friends inPittsburgh, Pa., during theholidays.

jMrs. Luther Tomberlin

and children were theguests of Mr. and Mrs.Lewis Tomberlin last week.

Cpl. James G. Laws has.received a discharge fromthe Army and is now athome. He served for twoyears overseas in the Eu-ropean Theatre in Franceand Germany with the

I hospital unit.

Board of Health Named

A new district board ofhealth in the area compos-ed of Mitchell, Avery andjYancey counties this week'¦ supersedes the former cou- 1

i nty boards of health. Thisis in accord with a lawr pass-

[ed during the last state> legislature.

I It£e Stu Js of Lkwille,Jchairman of the county[ board of commissioners of

, Avery , county, Jason B.; Deyton, of Spruce Pine,

; superintendent of Mitchellcounty schools, and Grady¦ Bailey of Burnsville, Yan-i

, cey county, have been ap-jpointed by Dr. Carl V. Rey-]

; nolds of Raleigh, head of• the state department ofi health, as ex-officio mem-

s bers of this new districthealth board.

1. ; i.During the eight years

of its existence the Nation-al Foundation for InfantileParalysis, which conducts!

! the March of Dimes, Janu-jary 14-31, has disbursed

• over $8,000,000 for resear-,;Ch and education, and over!j$2,000,000 for emergency!

¦laid in epidemics. Epidemic!• aid supplements the ex-penditures of local chap-ters. In 1945 alone, local[chapters disbursed close to$5,000,000 for care and

'treatment of local polio-!myelitis patients. One-half

. of all contributions to the. annual March of Dimes re-

, mains with the chaptersfor this work.

These three men willmeet this week with Dr. B.B. McGuire of Spruce Pine,

[who is the health officerpr the three counties, andwr ho, also, acts as secretai*yfor the board, to elect fourmembers of the board.

Three members will bechosen—one ’a %****,fields of physician, dentis-try, and registered drug- •gists. The fouhth memberwill be a public-spirited cit-izen interested in the wel-fare of the district. Thesepersons will serve terms of

j four, three, two and onei year respectively,i During the first week inJanuary of each year theex-off ico members willmeet to elect a member totake the place of the one

, whose term expires.7 ‘

Presbyterian NewsThe Low Gap Sunday

School meets at 10 and, preaching at 11; at MineFork the Sunday School isat. 2, and preaching at 3;

iat Denlinger Memorial the[Sunday School is at 10:30,Jand worship service at 7.

The Sunday School at Up-per Jacks Creek church isat 10, at Banks Creek at 10,and Higgins at 10:30.

These services are for all.

I T. Sgt. and Mrs. Oscar T.Gibbs, Jr., Mr. arnT

; Oscar Gibbs and L. B. Sil-verss were Sunday guestsof Mr. and Mrs. George

.Wagner.

Sgt. Max Penland, son ofMr. and Mrs. B. B. Penlandhas landed in Californiaand will be at home withina few days. He has been 'overseas with the Marine!Corps for the paist year, i

/ Bruce Westall has re- jC ceived a discharge fromy the navy and is now atj home. He was in service

{ two years and on sea dutyVXoi* the past 12 months.

Lt. Ralph Bostian re-turned Tuesday to Miamiwhere he is stationed afterspending the Christmasseason here.

Pvt. Vernon Wheeler isspendiing a 30 day furloughwith his grandmother, Mrs.)J. J. Wheeler, Rt. 1, Bur-nsville.

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Register in December*. —"

The following men be-came 13 during the monthof December and register-!ed with the local board:

Wayne Pate, Mack Hon-eycutt, Ferland Haney,!Charles W. Hensley, RoyLee Small, Buster Phillips, 1Arthur McPeters, Claude 1Dulaney J. D. Brinkley,!Glenn Hedrick, Guy Hen-sley, Jim Thomas.

For Preinduction

The following men re-:ported to Fort Bragg forpre induction examination:)

Alvin McCurry, DazzieVance Riddle, Virgil RoyThomas, Floyd Ledford,Burdette C. Robinson,Kenneth Adkins, Ollis R.jRobinson, Willard Wyatt/Ben Lee AaiiKS, JamesHomer Shepherd, MaxAutrey, Boone Wilson, WmCoy Wilson, Rome Bailey.

Robert Peterson, S 2c,son of Mr. and Mrs. Har-mon Peterson is now atthe Naval base, SaipanIsland.

Paul Wilson, Bee Log, N.C., enlisted in the Regular'Army recently at CampHood, Texas. He enteredthe army in June, 1944 andjreceived his basic training!with the 128th Tank De-jst l < yer Battalion at CampHood, Texas. He went ov-,erseas with the 265 Ord-nance Evacuation companywhich operated in the Rhurpocket. He wears the ETOribbon with one star, Vic-'tory and the American De-jsense ribbons. He was as-signed to the 661st Tank'Desdioyer Battalion upon!ret lining to Hood.

ARMY RECRUITINGSERVICE

T. Sgt. R. H. Lewis andSgi. Alex Baron of tharmy recruiting service wilbe in Burnsville on Thurs-day of each week for thepurpose of giving information and accepting men forthe regular army.

Headquarters will be inthe county Selective Servicoffice from 9 to 5.

Edward Adkins is homeon leave from the Navy.

MEMORIAL SERVICES !

Memorial services for)S 1-c George WashingtonHall, 19, who was killed lastApril while serving aboardthe destroyer, USS Bush,hr the. vicinity of Okinawa,were held at Newdale Pre-sbyterian church Sundaymorning at 11 o’clock. Thepastor, Rev. Ernest Wilsonwas in charge.

Seaman Hall was the son iof-Mr. and Mrs. HerbertHall of Newdale. Surviv-)ors also include one broth-,er, Howard Hall of Ashe-|ville, and two sisters, Mrs.Ralph McNeil of Newdaleand Miss Donn a Gay Hallof Newdale.

He attended school atMicaville and prior to en-tering the service was em-ployed in Asheville.

He received his boottraining at the Great Lak-es Naval Training stationand was sent from there toduty at sea.

Discharged

The following men havereceived discharges fromservice and are now r athome:

Daniel W. Patton, John|C. Ray, Wade Randolph,Ray Leroy Burgin, Robert;•Hatt, Roy F. Wilson, Elet'k'•Jarrett, Bruce Westall,

i Everett Banks, Crate Bai-jley, Bruce Byrd, Roy L.Byrd, Charlie Chrisawn; !

Bil IDeyton, Shelby C.tHiggins, John H. Howell, 1John Marsh, Rose Miller,Troy F. Riddle, HermanSilver, Wm. Smith, Aina:Westall, James L. Williams, 1Edwin Wilson, Joseph Wil-son, Robert Souther, Al-.fred Ogle.

NOTICE !

r- he Yancey county Wild-;

life Club will meet onMonday, Jan. 7th at 7:30at Bald Creek, N. C. Allsportsmen of the county)are urged to attend this'Meeting.

NOTICE

The Woman’s ChristianTemperaifce Union will notmeet Thursday night, Jan.3, because of illness.

T. Sgt. Oscar T. Gibbs,Jr. has returned to campafter spending a Christ- 1mas furlough with his'wife and other relatives, j

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Last Rites for S. C. Ledford-Curtis Ledford, 67, died

at his home at Prices CreekFriday evening at 6:30o’clock following a long ill-'ness.

Funeral Services wereheld at the Prices CreekBaptist church on Sunday'afternoon, with Rev. M. B.Westall officiating. Burialwas in the Ledford ceme-|tery at Prices Creek.

He is survived by his| wife, Mrs. Addie McNau- 1jghton Ledford; seven chil-dren, Geter Ledford ofSwiss, N. C., Emmett andMack Ledford of PricesCreek, Cpl. John Ledfordof the U. S. Naval Hospi-

I lul, Philadelphia, Pa., Maejand Madge Ledford ofPrices Creek, Mrs. Kate

Oak Ridge, lTenn., also 15 grandchild-ren, one brother, S. T. Led-ford, and 4 sisters, Mrs.Tames Scott, Mrs. RoscoeBurlison,, Mrs. A. C. Led-ford and Mrs. Hattie El-kins all of Price s Creek.

Flower girls were: EdrusLedford, Pauline Austin,

j Aldia Ledford, GertructeI Smith, Mollie Scott, Texie'Jones, Mamie Jones, CamyBanks, Billie Jean Ayersand Vernie Banks.

I Active pall bearers were:'i Miller Ledford, Elzie Led-ford, Hershel Scott, ClaudeBurlison, Edd Willis and IWillard Smith.

Honorary pallwere: Donald Banks, BobBanks, W. K. Banks, J. R.Banks, Louis Banks, ClydeBanks, Lee Banks, Walt

1 Banks, J. S. Greene, J. H.Wilson, B. R. Wilson, HollisWilson, Louis Robinson,

| Creed Elkins, KennethWestall, Grover Westall,Marcus England, Sam

I Wallace, Moscoe Towe,i Hughie Ball, Jay Ball,| George Ball, S. C. Ball,Burgin Arrowood;

| Lat Arrowood, Francej Arrowood, Floyd Blanken-ship ,Douglas Blankenship,

i Utah Blankenship, MurrayElkins, Dan Hurst, DeweyHurst, Creed Hurst, C. L.Robertson, Harmon Edw-ards, Jim Edwards, S. R.Hensley, Lifus Edwards,Allison Edwards, Coy Phil-lips, Lonnie Allen, .ClaudeGillespie, Roscoe Burlison,Gyady Roland, Sherrif Ro-

land, Clyde Allen, CharlieAnglin, Roscoe Rice, Hub-ert McPeters, DouglasRobertson, Wilburn Mc-

jPeters, John McPeters,Bill Buckner, Geter Austin,Coy Austin, Fate Jones,Freburn Jones, Guy Jones,Carlie McCandless, NoahScott, Sidney Melton, PatLedford, Ewart Banks,

!P- M. Banks, John Banks,S. H. Banks, Lonnie Banks,H. G. Bailey, Dr. W. L.

.Bennett and Mark Bennett.Holcombe Brothers fun-

eral directors were i ncharge of arrangements.

Dr. Charles Harris who,has been away for several

; i weeks has returned honje, and services will be held at

11 o’clock at the BurnsvillePresbyterian church.

BONDS FOR VICTORY*

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County Schools Opened MondayI

Schools of the county, 1system opened Monday af-ter a vacation for the':Christmas holidavs whichbegan earlier than sched- :uled because of the weath-er and illness.

Attendance was report- ied fairly good in the schoolsalthough the weather con-’itinues uncertain and some'of the roads are in poorcondition. There are also :numerous cases of coldsand flu still though not so 1:widespread as before the :¦ j

holidays.Three new teachers be-

gan work when the schoolreopened. Ottis Gibbs isnow teaching in Burnsvilleelementary school whereMrs. Vernie Wilson resign-ed leaving a vacancy.

Mrs. Howard Barbee re-signed at Bee Log and Mrs.Zeke. Byrd is teachingthere. Zeke Byrd is teach-ing at Bald Creek where avacancy was left by the re-signation of Chester Buch-anan.