| For local news details\ the Yancey Rec- I

t ' ord Every Week. v ]9- _-•-- i

VOLUME FOUR

BASKET BALL TOURNA-MENTS BRGIN FRIDAY

• > The County Basket BallTournaments will begin onFriday, February 23 whenfour of the boy’s teams willmeet on the Bald CreekHigh School Court.

The gatnes will begin at7:30 with Burnsville play-ing Bald Creek. The BeeLog team will then play theClearmont team. •

On Saturday morning at;t 10:00 Micaville willplay the/ winner of the Burnsville-

Bald Creek contest.Finals Saturday NightFinals willbe held Satur-

day night when the winnerof the Saturday gamemeets the winner of theBee Log-Clearmont battle.Girls’ Tournament Next '

WeekThe Girls’ tournament

will be played on the Burns,ville High school court nextweek, on March 1 and 2.

Burnsville will play BaldCreek and Micaville willplay Bee Log on Fridaynight. The winners of thetwo games will meet for thefinals on Saturday night.

Unusual interest is beingdisplayed in the champion-ship tournaments this yearas all teams are well or-ganized and well coached.

- WINDSTORM HERESATURDAY - SUNDAYDOES DAMAGE

Oflkr of the hardest wind-storms ever to visit the sec-tion struck" Saturday nightarid -continued most of theday Sunday. All sections ofthe county reported dam-age done to houses andother buildings and totrees. Roofs suffered mostdamage, in many placesbeing almost entirely re?moved.

An unusually heavy rainfollowed or accompaniedthe wind storm. Fortunate-ly, severe cold did not pre-vail while the wind was sohigh.

CELO NEWS NOTESNearly 55,000 persons

were in attendance at therec en t Founder's WeekConference of Moody BibleInstitute, Chicago. Regis-tered visitors and speakerscame from 37 states, Alas-ka, Canada, and 11 foreigncountries.

Those on the program in-cluded a Hebrew-Christianevangelist, a lyric darmatictenor from Oslo, Norway,a missionary who had beenheld for 18 months by Redbandits in China, and othermissionaries from all partsof the world, a convertedcommunist, a bishop of theReformed Episcopalchurch, pastors and Bibleteachers from many otherdenominations, an educa-tor, a Wall street publisher,a banker, a scientist.. Among those present atthe conference was MissBessie Bishop of Celo.

Milk Consumption *The consumption of fluid

. • milk and cream increasing,following the improvementin business employmentand payrolls, reports theU. S. Bureau of Agricul-tural Economics.*p± , \

SUB. RATES: SI.OO YEAR.

COUNTY TEACHERSMEET AT BALD CREEK

«j . -

The regular county tea-chers’ meeting was held atBald Creek High school onFriday afternoon, Febru-ary 17. An unusually goodattendance was reported.

Rasse H Howell, princi-pal of ti.e Bald Creekschool, presided at the gen-eral session. The school gleeclub, under the direction ofMrs. Mary C. Severs, sangtwo selections. Superinten-dent James Hutchins thenintroduced the guest speak-er, Mrs. McCray.

Mrs. McCray who is fieldsupervisor for the NorthCarolina Commission forthe Blind, discussed the

, problem of the proper careof children’s eyes, and thecorrection of sight defects.

The teachers then separ-ated into groups '.for ob-servation in the various de-partments.—' . *

Members of the HomeEconomics Departmentwere hostesses to the visit-irfg teachers in the HomeEconomics room. TheWasbington’s Birthdaymotif was used most effec-tively in all decorations.Tea was served by the girlswith Mrs. Phil Hensley dir-ecting.„ The next meeting will beheld at Burnsville onMarch 22.

Census of AgricultureAnd Population Begin-ning April Ist, 1940

During the month ofApril the government facesthe task of visiting everyhome “in the nation andlisting the names of everyman, woman and child un-der the flag. It will setdown the color, sex, age,marital state, degree ofeducation, occupation,earnings and other salientfacts relating on loyalty;it controls lo alty as themembers fee that the*church is fill og a vitalneed. The chinch aids thespiritual development ofcmldren, therefore children-should be interested in acti-vities.

Mr. Neff gave the resultsof the censur which wasmade last yea# in the Bur-nsville school. Os all pupilscontacted per centattended Sunday school andchurch; 35 percent did potattend any religious servi-ces regularly;!

Mrs, C. R. Hubbard, Sr.discussed the ideal home,and the development of thechild in -Shoumnily group.Dover R. Fouts discussedthe responsibility of thecommunity for the welfareof its children, and thegroup on the subject of theimportance of teaching thechild in relation to theschool, especially in relationto the character develop-ment of the child.

A round table discussionof a number of problemsrelating to these subjectsconcluded the program.

Brief Founders’ Day ex-ercises were held, followingwhich the hospitality com-mittee served refresh-ments.

Business was carriedover to the March meeting.

The county WPA office :has been moved from the ;court house to third floor :of the Peoples Bank Build- .mg. The new quarters will jprovide additional officespace which has been need-ed Tor sometime. <s* —“ i

MICICIE SAYS—-r v-

A SORTA -neKU$HrASSIGMMENT 'THATSth 1 Subject o’topays

SOM'PIKi'at Some of touse

Should be ....TO 'p you SPECT-mis newspaper to

KEEP IDTOU

FUNERAL SERVICESHELD FOR UNCLEJERRY FERGUSON

services wereconducted last Tuesdayafternoon for “Uncle” Jer-ry Ferguson, 94 years old.Services were held at thehome with Rev. W. B.Sprinkle of Canton, Rev. B.T, Nanney Rev. Drakeof Swiss officiating.

The following nephewsserved as active pall bear-ers: Wilson Ferguson,.Douglas Ferguson, Jr.,Laurence Ferguson, Theo.B. Gibbs, Rex Sprinkle andTroy Knapp.

Mr. Ferguson was bom inthe Cane River section ofYancey County; on August4, 1845. He spent all his lifein the county except thetime that he served in thearmy during the civil war.

In 1865 he married MissSamantha Roland who wasa member of one of the old-est and most widely knownfamilies in this section. Shepreceded him to the gravelive years ago.

The survivors include twonephews, J. J. Fergusonand U. D. Ferguson of BaldCreek, a niece, Mrs. Theo.B. Gibbs of Swiss, also Mrs.C. A. Poteat of Morgan tonand a number of other re-latives in Asheville, Virgin-ia and Colorado.

4-H CALENDAR FORYEAR IS ANNOUNCED

' h-~.-Dates of events import-

ant on the North Carolina4H Club calendar for 1940nave been announced by L.R. Harrill, State 4H leaderof the Extension Service, jThe list begins with theperiod from April 27 toMay 4, which has been de-signated as Boys’ andGirls’ Week. <

Harrill has called upon 1che 4-H leaders in the co- junties to cooperate withcivic clubs and other or- 1ganizations in presenting }programs on 4H work dyr- <mg that week. ¦' r t

Leaders’ schools will be <held during the month of 1JVlay. The first will be at 1the Millstone 4-H camp ]from May 7 to 11, the nextat a place yet to be selected ifor Eastern Carolina from iMay 14 to 18, and the third *at the Swannanoa 4H campMay 21 to 24.

The State Older YouthConference, for Service tGub members, will be held 'at N. C. State College June4 to 8. The National 4-H ]Club camp in Washington,D. G., will be from June 12 'to 19. North Carolina will jsend a delegation of two \~oys and two girls, -v *

The No. 1 event of the ,year ori the 4H calendar isnext on the list. It is theannual 4-H Club,. Short 1Course to be held at State ’College July 22-27. Follow-ing this will be the State <Wildlife Conservation Con- ‘ference, to be held at ft !camp not yet Chosen, fromAugust 27 to 31.

The State 4H Dress Re- :view at State College s setfor October 4, and the N.C. State Fair in Raleighwill be held October 8 to 12.The National Dairy Showis scheduled October 12 to18, and the State contest at

THE YANCEY RECORDJACK BOWDITCH DIESIN VIRGINIA

Jack Bowditch, 27, diedin Richlands, Va., Tuesdaymorning at 2:80 o’clockfollowing a brief illness. Hewas employed as an X-raytechnician in the MattieWilliams hospital in Rich-lands. .

The funeral serviceswere held at the Presby-terian church at MicavilleWednesday afternoon at 2o’clock. The pastor, theRev. Walter K. Keys, offi-ciated.

Active pallbearers wereJoe Ledford, Bill Mumpow-er, Earl Hall, Mark Hall,and Jay Silver.

Honorary pallbearerswere Dr. Harold Satter-white, of the state sana-torium, Dr. B. R. Bitting-er, of the Black Mountainsanatorium, Dr. Skeins, ofthe state sanatorium; thestaff of the Mattie Willi-ams hospital, Richlands;the Rev. Frank Jones, ofRutherfordton, the Rev.Horace Bohck, of Fletoher;Edgar Tufts, of Lees-Mc-Rae college ; Leo K., Pritch-ett, of Banner Elk; JohnBowditch and Frank Bow-ditch of Busick, KennethClontz, Clarence Robinson,Terry Hall, Bill Harris,George Hall, H. G. Bailiff,Ralph Young, R. N. Silver,Gus Silver, Blake Silver,Welzie Robinson, JamesMarsh, Will Hall, DfeweySilver, Edd Bowditch, E. B.Silver, Frank Baucom, C&riSilver, and Tom Edge. -

Those in charge of theflowers were Mrs. Joe Led-ford, Louise Silver, Kath-leen Silver, June McGrftdy,Winnie Gouge, and RehaHall.

Mr. Bowditch, the son ofMr. and Mrs. John Bow-ditch, of Micaville* was agraduate of BurnsvilleHigh School andt :Bees-Mc-Rae college, Banner Elk.He also attended WakeForest college and complet-ed his training course as «technician at the state san-atorium at Southern Pines.He had been employed as atechnician for severalyears. **

He is survived by hiswidow, the former MissSula Gardner, of Hamlet,and bis parents.

Lodge Officials ElectedBald Creek Lodge No.

397 A. F. & A. M. met in aregular communication onJanuary 27 and elected thefollowing officers* for theensuing year:

Max Proffitt, W. M.; W.L. Phoenix S. W.; W. G.Willis, J. W.; A. P. HensleyTreas.; W. T. Tomberlin,Secretary.

A. G. Wilson has been onthe sick list the past few

ir Q»»VvlV£>,

, Mr. and Mys. SylvanusMcMahan of Black Mtn.are visiting here.the short course will deter-mine the North Carolinarepresentatives. Conclud-ing the calendar are fthpNational 4H AchievementDay radio program pn Nov-ember 2, and the Internaltional Livestock Show andNational Club Congress atjChicago December I to &

j*";

———

NUMBER TWENTY-NINE

COUNTY AGENT’SFARM NOTES

, (By R. H. Crouse, Agent)‘ *» . . r ¦

Meetings have been sche-’ duled to be held throughout

r the county for the purpose: of explaining the 1940 Soil

' Conservation Program andassisting the farmers withplans c whereby they canearn all of the soil-building

s allotments set under the; program.

J . The following schedulewill be observed:' Cane River: Proffitt’sStore Wed. Feb. 21, at 9:30.Elk Shoal church Wed. Feb.21, at 1:80.

Egypt: Markle BuildingThur. Feb. 22, at 9:30.

Bee Log School: Thur.Feb. 22 at 1:30.

Ramseytown: Little Cr.School, Friday 23, at 9:30.Ramseytown voting placeFriday Feb. 23, 1:30.

Pensacola: Pensacolapostoffice, Sat. Feb. 24, at9:30. Vixen postoffice Sat.Feb. 24, at 10:30. \

Jacks Creek: 1 ClearmontSchool, Monday Feb. 26, at9:30. Presbyterian CenterMonday, Feb. 26, at 1:30.

Crabtree: MicavilleSehocd, Feb. 26, at 7:00 p. m.

Greeh Mtn.: J. W. How-ell’s store Tuesday Feb. 27,at§:3Q.

Brush Creek: Votingplace Tuesday Feb. 27, at1:30 p. m.

Prices Creek: Silas Hen-sley’s store Wed. Feb. 28,at/9:80. store onWed. Feb. 28, at 1:30.

South Toe: Thur. Feb. 29,WilsbiTs 1 Store, Busick at9:30 a. m. W. L. Patton’sstore at 10:30; Lonnie Bai-lees store at 1:30; EdGibb’s store at 2:45.

Lime and Superptosph- ,ate can be obtained through -the Soil Conservation Pro-gram as a Grant of Aid.Orders for this materialshould be placed as soon aspossible by coming to theCounty Agent’s office or atthe township meetings.Under the program thisyear lime may be applied toany cropland or pastures;but the phosphate must beapplied to pastures, mea-dow, lespedeza or grassesand clovers grown alone.The entire cost of this lineand phosphate (includingthe freight) will be paid bythe Government and de-ducted the 1940 SoilConserving Allowance,

Last year the smallerfarms were allowed onlya few units to earn, butthis year a minimum of S2Ocan be earned on any farm.This increase in allowancewin enable farmers to se-cure more lime andphosphate to be used thisye **L_FUNERAL SERVICES *FOR ANDY LEWIS

Andy Lewis, 64, died ; at -his home atr Bee Log Sun-day merning at 10:30.

Funeral services wereheld at the home at 2:80Monday afternoon withRev. Ulas Adkins officiat-¦ ing. Brriad was in the fami.ly ccm .tery.

f