THE v • YANCEY t. . ; j-.. ¦ RECORD m “Dsdlented T# The Progna* Os Yuvmj County* ** J | VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN Subscription $2.50 Per Year BURNSVILLE, N, C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1962 -je» ~Prire Pot Copy Flt» NUMlEll'FOUR »¦¦ ¦ »i. -¦¦¦ ¦ - -- - * I I ¦in ii¦ ¦ 11 - n n ¦ smm —III Hi —I ». | V" \¦¦ !¦*•*» I.llMW.'ium I "lOunr-n i«¦ —¦ ¦ '4*. mmmmvm .1 i 11 1 m i.i. 1 , , • ¦ FHA Loans Helping Civil War Docu- Census Seeks I ment Has History Polio Shot Mrs. Williams Speaker Economy Which Greatjy Information I Overall Affected War Special questions on polio shots At Republican Dinner A large number of Yancey headquarters in Burnsville. and also on Injections for protect- THE LOST - A slow- ion against several other diseases The top woman In the GQP will St. Petersburg, Florida, assistant County fanners are now taking Better farm incomes can be ex- i DISPATCH ly-fading document in the manu- will be asked in the Septembe be the main speaker at the 11th chairman of the Republican Na- advantage of the supervised credit pected with substantial increases RepuWhftto , script the Department Congressional District by X.'. ¦ collection of Current Population Survey, it was tfonal Committee and director t% program offered the Farmers income where diversification is Rally-Dinner J* of Archives and History in Raleigh today by In Asheville Satur- women’s activities for the Republi- Home Administration according to being emphasized along good announced the Bureau of with has a history which greatly affect- day, September 22nd, at 7:00 p. m. can Party. Non-politically, she Is Mack B. Ray. County Supervisor managerial practices being the Census, U. S. Department of carried ed the qf the Civil War and, in the Battery Park Hotel. active in tee National Federation for Yancey County, with office out successfully. course Commerce. possibly, the course of our national are She is Mrs. Clare B. Williams of of Business and Professional Wo* During the past year loan limits The immunization questions destiny. men’s Clubs and Daughters of the of tbe agency have being asked at the request of the been moderniz- paper is a copy of Special American Revolution. ed H This U. S. Public Health Service to ob- Senior Girls to meet the changing and in- pPMgMraHjir ' Order No. 191 in the D. H. Hill Friends Os Libra- A 6:00 p. m. reception at the creasing requirements for more tain information for use in plan- Collection and was penned by ning nationwide Battery Park will precede the Enlarge Troop capital on the average farm. Sev- health protection Stonewall Jackson. programs. ry Sponsoring * dinner. eral changes have been made that The polio protection During the September, 1862 questions persons Announcement of the rally- By: Frances Coletta, will now permit the agency to Sharpe, will be asked of R. Y. President, Pilot Maryland ques- Experimental dinner was made Jointly by Gar- Secretary Troop 66 serve a greater of 1 Campaign, which culmi- under 50 years of age while numbe,r family Freight Carriers, Inc., Winston- rett Bailey of Burnsville, life Con- farmers who may supervised -1 Hated in the bloody battle of Shar- tions on diphtheria, ...whooping Senior Girl Scout Troop 66 met need Salem, president of the Theatre gressional District Republican credit to work their way psburg (or Antietar'. where so cough, and tetanus protection will at the Community Building in out of Carolina Motor Carriers Associa- Chairman, and Robert Brown of their difficulties. North Carojinians lost their cover children 14 years of age or Burnsville on September 6. With the price tion. The 33rd anniversary conven- {many By: Marietta Atkhw Asheville GOP candidate for squeeze becoming lives, Confederate'( General Robert younger. Con- The membership of the troop greater, pro- tion was held, beginning Septem- “It may be teat the Great gress from the ilth District. duction costs higher and . E. Lee decided on a daring maneu- The polio questions will Include was increased by seven new mem- net farm ber 9, at the Jack Tar Grove Sleeping Giant has awakened at District Chairman Bailey urged .income lower, most ver in the face of a far numerically the number of polio shots or in- farmers - bers. The new girls are: Julia need Park Inn in Asheville, N. C. last." This was the conclusion of all Republicans from the life Dis- stop and really superior Yankee force. jections (Salk vaccine) received, Ballou, Mariya Brooks, Carolyn |to analyize their the library’s Tuesday night movie trict's fourteen counties, particul- fanning He spMt tbe tpugh-fighting Army of doses of vaccine Harris. Sharon Howell, Julia Rut- overall situation with res- the number on South America, land of white arly county pect of Northern Virgink parts (Sabin vac- v chairmen, vice-chair- to farming and doing very uito five taken by mouth oral * ledge, Helen Young, and Marie the Gov* llamas and whiter cities. men, precinct chairmen and pre- 'best Job possible. They Sanford to meet the enemy as he headed cine) and the month of the most Banks. These girls were welcomed need a good On Tuesday night, September ,18, cinct workers, to attend the rally- picture in their own toward Pennsylvania. Colonel R. H. recent oral dose. For children 14 by Doris King, president. minds of In County perhaps another "sleeping fiant” dinner. where they are, where they are Chilton, Lee’s Assistant Adjutant- years and under the. questions will A slumber party was planned will awaken in the Yancey Lib- "“Mrs. Williams has worked her going, and how are they going General, prepared six copies of cover the number of shots or in : September to September rary! The Friends of the Library way up the political ladder," Bal- for 7 for the whole . get there. 24 Special Order 191 detailing Lee’s they have had immu- jeotions to known for their bright colorful troop. The girls had a covered Too many plan. against diphtheria, let said. farm families are School children and citizens of nize them - every dish supper, attended a ball game, now movies and weekly discussion "She has served at level i merely providing a subsis- Yancey County will the op- These copies went to Jackson, whooping cough, and tetanus. and then returned to the Commun- have groups, are now sponsoring an "ex- in both tee Republican women's , tenee livelihood. They need to portunity to Mctaiws, Longstreet, Walker, Stu- The special immunization ques- ity Building to “slumber.” ,1 hear the Governor perimental theatre." Led by Ralph clubs and the regular Party struc- better utilize their labor supply, art, and D. H. Hill. Jeb Stuart de tions are in addition to the regular speak on his education program ai Adair and William Hessj this ture. She was a poll worker at 21, On Saturday, September 8, Troop their present land resources, andj stroyed the copy sent him. Long- inquiries on employment and un- I East Yancey High School, Monday Tuesday’s 8 o’clock meeting will learning about getting, (but fee 66 was represented in Asheville at whatever potential they may have street read his copy, placed it in employment asked each month in night September 24, at 7:30 p. m. be devoted to Ibsen. Following vote, and drove voters to fee polls the Senior Planning Board by Dor- for increasing their income should I his mouth and chewed the paper the Current Population Survey. a o’clock. Also talking part in the biographical sketch of tee play; aa soon as she had a driver's lie- is King, Lynne English, and Am- be fully explored. Generally speak- to a pulp. The Current Population Survey they program will be high school stu- wrigbt’s life and a synopsis of "the Tfese. S}, elia Penland. Other Scouts from ing, if are to provide a Jackson got Ids copy and im- will be conducted here and in 332 1 dents and elementary pupils of the play will be a shared reading “Mrs. Williams plans and directs the troop attended the meeting better livelihood for their family, mediately proceeded to prepare a sample areas of the country county schools. other from an act in Ibsen’s The Enemy' tee Annual Republican Women’s also. Plans were formulated at including some of the modern con- copy for his brother-in-law, D. H. during the week of September 17. School of the People. Parts will be Conferences held each spring in this time for the coming year in veniences of today, then some officials and Mr. Paul Hill, whose division was in collected lo- Jack- Information will be cast at tee meeting, for tee Washington. These training sess- the Pisgah Girl of the must items will include Buck. Chairman of the Citizens son’s corps L. Harmon, sold Scout Council. and who was mention- cally by: Mrs. Edna recognized good Committee for Better Schools, in- Asheville, purpose of such readings—as ex- ions are as a signifi- On Monday, Seeptember 10. management, including ac- ed in the order. X 61 Wolfe Cove Road, vite and urge that the people plained by the innovators—is to cant factor in winning fee ma- Troop 6G resumed its work program curate farm and home record keep- of Here we a problem. N. C. Yancey County give read a play, or part, every no# jority of women’s votes for tee at the Yancey County Hospital. ing, using modern technology, in- attend and Hill, never a blend of Lee, but Census Bureau activities in this I the support pro- and teen at the library meetings Republican presidential candidate The Girl Scouts on duty at the cluding up-to-date information Governor for his quite intimate Jackson, had i area are supervised by: Joseph R. gram and big w||k and to just “read it as dramiti- in 1960 and in the grass-roots gains hospital are to limit the being provided by our State Col- a welcome to our] jbeen placed in corps Im- • Norwood, Regional Director, U. S. visitation * - Republican county, * cally possible." , of the PARTY SINCE hours. The patients, leges and Universities through mediately after Battle of of the Census, 1105 Johns- as X doctors, and our',I E Bureau . THAT - ¦¦¦ I !¦ M ——» ¦II ¦ I—nm All bams and friends of tee Fri- TIME.” nurses have found this program Extension Service, diversification, Chantilly ; ton Building. Charlotte 2, N. C. ' ends’* are invited to attend. very helpful in helping the patient and again doing the very best job possible Miss Styles Prac* boad of Lee's march, to a speedy recovery. Troop 66 and with whatever enterprise Hue of Hill raily-dhmereand^ they bad been detained to cover ?at tee the hospital staff hope that the follow. the Salem Defeats tice Teaching In rear of the army. Junior Woman’* Introduce Mrs. Williams, adder! public will give its full cooperation Operating loans are now being feat anyone Since Hill was much closer to East Yancey By who is interested is in this matter at all times. This is ; made to purchase farm tools and . cordially Winston-Salem Lee (in Hagerstown) than he was Club To Moot invite. a community service to help the j equipment, seeds, fertilizer.perma- “Mrs. Williams is in great de- to Jackson (maneuvering in front One Point hospital function better, and to as- nent seeding practices and fenc- | mand as a speaker before Styles, Harper’s Ferry), Sept. 17 both patients ing, Zula Kate daughter of of Lee considered I sist the to rest more livestock and home equipment won over) nonpartisan and partisan groups,” Mr. and Mrs. K. O. Styles living him to be under Ms (Lee’s) direct Salem High School comfortable during their illness. and home repairs, including paint- Yancey Friday night by Tbe Carolina Hemlock Junior ßiwn said. 2, Burnsville, now doing command :, thvr-ure, East here t M - at Rt. is H- had two - ...... H ing, installing water systems with in Woman’s Club will hold its -first "And, although she travels thou- student/teaching copies of Special Order one point, the score 26-25 the bath rooms, running hot and cold at Dalton Junior 191 direct- meeting of tee fall on Monday; sands of miles year football game of the * each mobiliz- High, Winston-Salem. ed to him one from Chilton and first home Mrs. Hensley water, screens, etc. Where major September 17 at 8:80 p. m. ing women’s efforts for the GOP. one from Jackson. season. changes are needed real estate Miss Styles is taking part dim- Yancey Mrs. Charles B. Gillespie, ,1 am sure feat everyone would not Due to an unknown circumstance, East scored two touch- Jr. is Celebrates loans are available through the ing the fall quarter, September 11 downs in the quarter but fail- hostess for this meeting and th§ (Only enjoy hearing her but also however, Hill only first received the •- Farm Ownership loan program. through November 21 in the stu- ed to make one of their extra group will meet at her home. -Would profit from attending the 86th present copy sent to him by Jackson. Birthday At Rural Housing loans are dent teaching program of Appala- points. The score at halftime was Mrs. Dot Williams of Black (rally-dinner meeting.” being processed Somehow, possibly because of the at either construct chian State Teachers College. 13-7 East Yancey. The other ! Mountain, District 2 Junior Direct Williams will be accom- Mrs. James B. Hensley of Ashe- disaffection of a cornier or because two! new dwellings or needed farm Boone, N. C. In this program stu- touchdowns were scored in the last ] tor, and Mrs. Margaret Whitmire panied to Asheville by Robert Qa- ville celebrated her 86th. birthday of carelessness on the part of Lee’s 1 buildings, or to repair or renno- dents devote approximately twelve quarter again Hendersonville, via of Sanford, GOP State Chair- Sunday, September 9, but the team failed of Norte with a din- vate farm dwellings and other weeks to student teaching In the or Hill’s staff or a combination Simpson ner to make their extra points. East Federated Woman’s Club 3rd, "man, Mrs. E. W. of at the Community Building farm buildings. field for which they of these things the Chilton copy Charlotte, have been Yancey led in first downs. , vice president and State Junior , president of fee North here. never reached HilL ¦ For detailed information on ser- preparing. Miss Styles is teaching East Yancey will play Bakers-*‘Director will be present at tee 'Carolina Federation of Republican Mrs. Hensley is a former resi- & vices available through 7 9 grades under the supervision On the morning of September at Bakersville next Friday meeting. Women, and Mrs. L. G. Rogers. dent of Burnsville and the mother the Far- ville of Mrs. Dean. 13th, the 27th Volunteers they also Republican Hensley mers Home Administration office Indiana night and on the 21st. will Mrs. Whitmire will install - tee I of Charlotte, nat- of G.Leslie here and encamped D. H. contact fee local office for addi- As part of the Student teaching on the site of Jiill’s play Glen Alpine at Glen Alpine. officers for the new club year and ional committeewoman from North sister to Mrs. J. A. Watson and former tional information. Office hours program, the Appalachian student campground, about one speak about work of tee genfefal- Carolina. Mrs. Fred Proffitt gs Burnsville. Moun- are 5 p. Monday usually community mile east of Frederick, Maryland, c-ssful bid for time at South ** v Attending the birthday 8 a. m. until m., lives in the J federation. Mrs. Williams wai ' Coobainnen for tec dinner will dinner near crossing Monocacy tain and J * Marylander, sympa- were through Friday. near the school and participates in the of the talk about District and State work. .he a pair of Ast.evillians. Mr*. Mr. and Mrs. Hensley, Mr. River, cause, who community activities as well as Private B. W. Mitchell not- ( , thetic to the Southern Wesley J. Potter, and Mrs. James Hensley, another in This should be a most informative present chair- !. | ! school activities. The student de- Iced three large cigars wrapped rode into Stuart’s lines at the base man of fee son, of West Jefferson: Mr. and and stimulating evening. j Buncombe County Re- votes full time in the school and loosely in a folded paper on the of South Mountain giving news of I publican Women’s Club, and Mrs. James Fortner, a daughter, Cane River To All members of tee Junior Mrs. gradually takes over the full tea* ground. the finding of the order. Yfo-1 [Charles M. Britt, chairman-elect of Asheville, and their daughters, man’s Club are urged to attend I .' Meet Hot ohing load, always under the sup- Mitchell, at first more interested Lee’s army was forced to fight sot tee same organization. Frances Fortner of Wilmington Springs Sharpsburg Sep- A special invitation is extended to ervision of the supervising teach- in the cigars (as were most of the for its life at on » Clay too Hannon will be arrange- and Sylva Fortner, a Junior at all Interested young women, un- Here er and the principal. The local men in the tobacco-starved Union tember 17. Thanks to good luck and ments chairman for the rally- Woman's College, Greensboro; Friday der tee age of 33* of Yaoce* school’s participation wife Appa- Army), soon took notice of tbe hard fighting the Confederates were "tanner. Tickets ($5.00 each) may Victor Knxvi js o f Wilmington County to meet with tee group. The Cane River High School Re- lachian’s student teaching program paper, it was Chilton’s copy of able to savp their army, but not be gotten from him, from fee var- Miss Frances Hensley’s fiancee; | --¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦» bels will open their home football is a valuable asset to the general Special Order No. 191 addressed to the campaign. On the evening of* ious county chairmen Mr. and Mrs. George Leslie Hen- and co-chair- season on Friday night, September education program of North Caro- D. H. Hill. September 18th, Lee’s weary veter- men, or from fee Buncombe Coun- sley, Jr. of West Chester, Pa., and 7on their field here when tney lina. Tbe excited Mitchell showed the ans recrossed the Potomac back j Hat Workshop ty Republican Headquarters at young daughter, Beth; Mr. and I play the Hot Spring Tigers. The Zula Kate Styles graduated order to bis First Sergeant, John into Virginia and temporary safety. 1 Westgate (Telephone Mrs. Russell York and children, 254-0801. game will begin at 8:00 p. m. from East. Yancey in 1959. M. Bloss. Captain Kopp of E. D. H. Hill was accused of care- To Hold Tommy, Julia and Mary Katherine, it Company was informed. The lessness concerning the “Lost Dis- of Asheville: and Mrs. J. A. Wat- soon September excited men hurriedly carried the patch" in the summer of 1868. Por 21 Kdwardi son of Burnsville. Mill order to Colonel Silas Colgrove, the rest of his life he was forced to who in turn delivered it to Colonel defend himself from numerous at- A Hat Workshop on a county- Accepts Position Services For John S. E. Pittman, Adjutant-general to tacks that he indirectly, through < wide basis is scheduled to be held General Alphesus S. Williams, carelessness, lost the war for the on Friday, September 21, *•?,?s P. With Tol. Co. *. i, , commanding division. Pittman, who South. M„ at Firth Carpet Co. Cafeteria. N. Blankenship animosity Miss Sybil Annette Edwards, bad known Colonel Chilton in the The personal between Mrs. Do Salyer, a millinery ex- a in daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde "Old Army" when both were sta- Hill and Lee was also factor pert, willbe tee Instructor for fee John N. Blankenship, 87, of Rt. Edwards of Burnsville, who is ‘a tioned at Detroit, this dispute. ffiH'6 acid tongue and latest designs In fall and winter 3, Burnsville, died in his home on Identified the recent graduate of Blantons Busi- cutting comments (for example. hats. The workshop’s luring spon- Sunday afternoon after a long handwriting as Colonel Chilton’s ness College in Asheville, Hill’s attack of Lee’s trow dispo- by Burnsville Home -De- has sc- Illness. The order was immediately passed sored fee a position as secretary [to sitions both during the Seven Days monstration Club, hut it is open to •feted with Services were held at 2 p. m. General McClellan, commander Western at Antietam) were certain to mem- fee Carolina Tuesday in Indian Creek Baptist of the Union Army. and all Home Demonstration Club Company the subject numerous rebut-, county a here. Church. As Dr. Lenoir Chambers so aptly be of bers in fee on "ftret expresses tals. Hill stated, years after the come, first served” basis, as Mrs. The Rev. James Beaver officiat- it in his book stonewall war: Salyer ed. was family Jackson: I can Instruct only 18 mem- Burial in the ceme- Maryland tery. “When McClellan looked at the* "I went into under bers at a Workshop. The charge is! MKHMXSftK document Jackson’s command. I was under first three hours of. »»,• PIWIWMI Surviving are the widow, Mrs. he saw,*, blueprint of SI.OO for tee » ' Lee’s his command when Lee's order was instruction, with the cost being! Ellen Anderson Blankenship; two whole campaign, and knew issued. It was proper that I should limit. daughters, Mrs. Annie Rafeburn, that Lee’s army was scattered and doubled after that time Each J wide open to destruction by an op- receive that order through Jackson person making a hat must bring* and Mrs. Iris England of Rt. 3, READY FOR MARKET ponent who was as near as and not through Lee. I have now thread and one half yard of mater- he M Burnsville; a sister, Mrs. Matilda Jamestown, Rolfe, Mc- r Veh Va. John the man who married Pocahontas, powerful before me the order received from Clellan was, as as Me-1 j ial or more If they wife to msk« a Department’I Bu r y ( Oreenwood of Asheville; a brother, wheels a barrel through gate m«« !f of tobacco the of James Fort in a re* 'Jackson. . . My adjutknt-general resources large - Zeb of Burnsville; six grand- Qellan’s were, and as] hat. * iLr u -a. 1 . enactment of the planting and harvesting of Rotfe’s first crop back years ago, traffi rL.fk. u children and two great-grandchild- well armed with information as 1 matte affidavit, twenty Reservations may be made ih In 1812. The original : ad- fort has been reconstructed at Jamestown Fes- that no order was received at our ' ren. McClellan now was." vance by calling Mrs. Harry Bow- jttv j , tival Park a 350th anniversary WTT.T 826 celebration. _ w TODATE History tells of D. H. Hill's sue- (Continued on back page) en, MU 2-2249. KILLED Id Date Last Year 768 '