.11 NO. 19
Bessemer City Record
A Newspaper Devoted To The Service And Betterment Of "The Town With A Heart”
BESSEMER CITY
RECORD
Published every Wednesday by
General Publishing Company, Inc.
Bessemer City, N.C. 28016 Office
at 211 W. Washington Ave.
Phone MA9-2654
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BESSEMER CITY, NORTH CAROLINA 28016-WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6,1969
PRICE - 10c
The Contestants
City Gives Go-Ahead
HARRIETTE LEE DAVIS
For ABC Construction
Harriette Lee Davis is one of the ten contestants who will
ipete on August 23 for the title of Miss Bessemer City 1970.
: pageant is sponsored by Bessemer City Jaycees and is to
e place in the auditorium of Bessemer City High School.
; rising senior at BCHS is the daughter of Mrs. Harry Lee
ds and the late Mr. Davis. The blonde, blue-eyed candidate
studied art for four years and been a member of the school
id for five years. She has had a year of baton training. She
ns to present her art for her talent. At BCHS, she is feature
tor of the Purple and Gold and belongs to the Beta, Journa-
1, French' and Dramatics clubs and the FTA and FHA. She
ald like to further her education at Wake Forest College.
: is five feet and seven inches tall and weighs 118 pounds,
pageant hostess is Mrs. Allan Farris.’
A public hearing was held
Monday night at city hall for
the purpose of rezoning pro
perty on West Alabama Avenue
for the erection of the town’s
first ABC store.
The property is located on
Alabama Avenue and is almost
directly behind Robert’s Super
Market. It is part of the late
S. J. Durham estate and is now
owned by Plato Pearson of Gas
tonia.
The request for the rezoning
was made by the ABC board.
Serving on the ABC board are
R. W. Thornburg, chairman,
Roy J. Bullard, Clarence
Adams, D. W. Smith and Boyd
Morgan.
The full city council was
present, including Mayor
Clyde Servis, Ted Williams,
Donald R. Carpenter, Neil
Barnes, Jackson Parker, S. B.
Pearson and Meek Capps.
There was no formal pro
test to the rezoning request.
The council granted the re
quest
The brick and block ABC
building will consist of the
ABC store with offices and
warehouse facilities. The
store is expected to be in
operation by October.
Other items of business were
also done at the meeting.
The town at its last regular
monthly meeting, had voted to
join the Gaston County Regional
Planning Board, joining at that
time With Gastonia and Dallas.
Now as a member of the board,
the town votes on other county
municipalities joining with the
planning group.
At the meeting Monday night,
Bessemer City approved of Mt.
Holly joining the group. Mt.
Holly had filed an application
to join.
The tentative budget allotted
$3,000 for Bessemer City’s
joining the county planning
board.
The council granted a re
quest from the Woman’s Club
to permit the organization to
place a cement picnic table and
trash collector container in the
downtown park.
The town has purchased a
used patrol car from the State
Highway department The
council voted to keep the old
police patrol car, keeping it
on hand as an auxiliary to the
recently purchased patrol auto.
Mayor Servis appointed Par
ker, chairman, Williams and
Pearson to a committee to out
line work projects for city em
ployees to follow. The projects
will be scheduled according to
need, priority, etc.
Second Class Postage
Paid At Bessemer City, N.C.
25 Years Ago-
In Bessemer City
SPLASHING GOOD FUN FREE FOR ALL-Pictured above is
the first group of swimmers in the portable swimming pool
which is now opened free to the public at the Bessemer City
Community Action Center at 127 West Pennsylvania Avenue,
the pool was given by The Charlotte Observer Charities to the
Gaston County Red Cross unit which is loaning it to the Commu
nity Action Centers in the county. The Red Cross unit supervises
its use. The pool is opened from 9 a.m. until S p.m. and is closed
during the noon hour. Life guards on duty have their salaries paid
for by the Town of Bessemer City. Tom Ritchie, center director,
says that depending on the usage, no set schedule for the differ
ent ages will be made. Should the need arise, a schedule will be
arranged in order to see that all age groups can take advantage of
the free swimming. Tommy Sherrill is assistant director of the
center. Photo by Rev. Mr. George Shuford.
DONNA EUGENIA DAVIS
Donna Eugenia Davis is a rising senior at BCHS where she
i varsity cheerleader, was first runner-up for Miss Golden Hours
e, served as Junior-Senior waitress, and belongs to the Drama-
>, French and Journalism clubs. She would like to further her
■cation at either Sacred Heart College, or, take training for an
stern Airlines Hostess in Miami, Fla. The daughter of Mr. and
s. H. E. Davis, Jr., she is five feet six inches tall, has brown
r and brown eyes and weighs 132 pounds. Mrs. Edgar Hol-
>ok is her hostess.
MABLE LOUISE DAVIS
The following news items
were carried twenty-five years
or more ago in the GASTONIA
GAZETTE. Lois Lynette Sex
ton was correspondent.
Among boys who will report
to the navy induction center
at Camp Croft on Saturday are
Jerry Savage, Meek Capps, Bob
Kincaid, Bob Payne, Stowe Wy
ant, Bayne Whitworth and James
M. Whitworth...Joe Lemaster
has returned from Squantum,
Mass., where he visited with
Lt. ( jg) and Mrs. Caleb M. Le-
master. Lt. Lemaster is with
the Naval Air Corps. Joe also
visited in Baltimore, Md., with
Mr. and Mrs. Fred New. Mrs.
New is the former Elizabeth
Hoover....Mrs. Paul Long has
returned from Duke Hospital
where she received treatment
Pfc Wilbur Tucker of Texas
City, Texas, is visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. T.
Tucker....Pvt Ruben Jenkins
of Fort Bragg spent the week-
end with his parents....
Herbert Whitley is a patient
at Duke Hospital where he is
undergoing treatment..Harry
Dameron is stationed at Low
ery AFB Base, Colo, and Pvt.
Fred Dameron is at Miami
Beach, Fla. They are sons of
Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Dameron...
Pvt Robert Metcalf spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ross Metcalf...Mrs.
G. H. Tarpley is a patient at
City Hospital, Gastonia, suf
fering from a broken arm and
leg. She was struck by an auto
while leaving Gambrill Milt
According to police report, no
eye witness to the scene has
been found....
A feature article with photo
carried on Staff Sergeant
Ralph J. Boone gave the ac
count of his receiving two oak
leaf clusters and the silver
star along with three stars for
three theaters of war, pre-
Pearl Harbor, flight, good con ¬
duct and AmericanDefense rib
bons. He is quoted as giving
the Red Cross workers a plug-
especially the girl Red Cross
workers, saying, “We fly for
coffee and the Red Cross Mo
bile Unit,” but hastily added,”
and to chalk up those missions
that are so necessary to get
us back home.” He serves as
an aerial photographer gunner
on a B-26 ‘Marauder and com
pleted forty combat missions.
Along with Red Cross workers,
he enjoyed seeing the enter
tainers, Kay Francis, Martha
Ray, Carol Landis, Bob Hope
and others
An impressive Memorial Day
program took place near the
honor roll board in the down
town park on which names at
the boys and girls who are
serving in the armed forces
are listed.
Mayor 0. R. Black made the
address. The National Anthem
was played by the Bessemer
City Band; the Boy Scouts of
Troops 1, 2 and 3 gave the
Flag salute, taps were played
by Dot Sisk and Arnold Shul
man. Rev. J. B. Pearson of
Garrison Memorial AR Pres
byterian Church, led in prayer
and Rev. G. W. McClananhan
of Grace Lutheran pronounced
the benediction....
Miss Carrie J. Mauney left
Monday for Greensboro to at
tend the 25th annual session
of the North Carolina Pastors
School and School of Missions...
Pfc Harley W. Whitesides has
been promoted to corporal at
Fort Sam Houston, SanAntonio,
Texas....Mrs. Ernest Carroll
and daughter, Mrs. Gary Hollis,
have returned from visiting Pvt
W. A. Buddy Carroll at North
Camp Hood, Texas. Pvt. Car-
roll has been made co-captain
of the 140th Bat. Baseball
team at Camp Hood....Mrs.
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OES Masonic Banquet
Was Held Monday Night
Hable Louise Davis is a 1967 graduate of BCHS where she
nged to the French. Beta and Dramatics ciubs and the FHA.
lists hei hobbies as sewing, cooking and basketball. She
Id like to further her education at Gaston College. For her
it, she will recite an original skit in which she will also sing,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey L Davis of Route 1, she is
feet' four and a half inches tall, weighs 120 pounds, and has
■m hair and brown eyes. Mrs. Don Carver is her hostess.
The members of the Besse
mer City Chapter of the Order
of The Eastern Star No. 263
entertained Monday night at a
banquet social which honored
local Masons and their wives.
The Masons are members of
Whetstone Masonic Lodge No.
515.
The banquet took place at
the Masonic Temple on West
Pennsylvania Avenue where
special guests along with the
OES, Masons and their wives
were Mrs. Janie Dodd Kin
caid of Kings Mountain, Grand
Treasurer of the Grand Chap
ter of OES of North Carolina,
and Mr. and Mrs. John Owens-
by of Gastonia. Mrs. Owens-
by is the District Deputy
Grand Matron of the 17th Dis
trict.
Guests were greeted by Mrs.
Charles A. Harmon, Worthy
Matron and Floyd Noblett,
Worthy Patron. Mrs. Noblett
kept the register.
Appetizers and punch were
served upon arrival b£ Mrs.
R. M. Kiser, Mrs. Dan Rhyne
and Mrs. Edna Hoyle.
Dinner was served in the
dining room where the table
laid with covers for seventy
four were placed in U-shape,
covered with white linen cloths
and centered with pink runners
interspersed with miniature
pink roses and ivy. A large
greenery centered the officers
table.
Butterflies were also used
in the table decorations, which
symbolized the Worthy Grand
Matron’s symbol of “Happi
ness.”
Mrs. Harmon gave the wel
come and Mr. Noblett gave the
invocation.
David Kincaid, Mastor ofThe
Lodge was introduced. He in
troduced the Masonic officers
and the past Masters of The
Lodge.
During the evening, taped
recordings prepared by Nancy
Harmon Spencer were played.
Waitresses for serving the
meal were Angie MacDonald,
Susan Lindsay, Rosemary Bry-
mer, Mary Harmon, Pat Har
mon and Nancy H. Spencer.
Officers of the OES had
charge of the dinner arange-
ments.
LINING UP FOR NEW ADVENTURE-Youngsters were stand
ing in line Wednesday morning, waiting to take advantage of
a public portable swimming pool. Some of the eager swimmers
had never known the thrill of taking a plunge before into a gen
uine swimming pool, a situation that added a touch of tension
to the fun. The swimming pool is free to the public with the only
restrictions that swimmers must be at least seven years old and
four feet tall. These restrictions are for safety purposes. The
town of Bessemer City is paying for the services of life guards
for three weeks. In case more money is donated to the project,
the swimming pool can be left here for an additional week. The
pool is located on the grounds of the Bessemer City Community
Action Center at 127 West Pennsylvania Avenue (the Woltz build
ing). Photo by Rev. Mr. George Shuford, Action Council Chair
man.
Head Starters
Visit Library
Students enrolled in the Head
Start program at Central School
were guests recently at the Bes
semer City Branch Library.
Sixty children were conduct
ed on a tour of the library and
were instructed in checking out
books for reading from the lib
rary stock of books.
Stories told the group were
“Rosa Too Little” and “Char
lie, Did You Carry The Flag?”
Each student received a book
let containing information about
the library, giving its opening
hours, etc.
Book markers in the form of
book worms were given as fa
vors. They had been made by
Faye Varnadore, library youth
worker.
Mrs. T. A. Lynn is librarian.
MAKES VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wright
and sons of Illinois visited with
Mr. Wright’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Wright, and with Mrs.
Wright’s mother, Mrs. C. A.
Summitt. Robert Wright is a
U. S. Navy career man. Mrs.
Wright is the former Pearl
Summitt.
Church Women Sewing
To Build Parsonage
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Bessemer City Church of God
have a sewing program under
way as a financial project The
women are making face wash
cloths in the fellowship hall
where they have set up three
rented commercial sewing ma
chines for the operations.
The sewing is done by volun
teer work of the church women
who take turns sewing on the
machines from 9 a.m. until 12
midnight
The women have an order for
140,000 dozen terry washcloths.
The order was placed by the
Church of God state office in
Charlotte. The state office will
use some of the finished wash
cloths for is own uses in plac
ing them in church institutions
such as the state orphanage
supported by the church, youth
camps as well as distribution
to other church women groups
who will in turn sell them,
also as financial projects.
The women mark, cut and
sew and pack the wash cloths.
The state office sends a truck
to pick them up.
This past week the women
were able to ship twenty-five
dozen cloths.
Although the women do the
sewing, youth of the church
assist in marking, cutting and
packaging the cloths.
Proceeds from the sewing
project are to be used to pay
for the church’s new parson
age which is now under con
struction. The brick parson
age is located adjacent to the
church building on the Besse
mer City-Gastonia Highway
near Sisk Funeral Home.
Profits from the sewing pro
ject will also go for paying off
the remainder of the debt owed
for the church sanctuary and
fellowship hall, and for pav-
ing a parking lot area.
The church’s fellowship hall
is air conditioned.
Rev. Winston F. Clark is pas
tor of the church.
The Ladies Auxiliary has
three presidents who work with
different groups. Auxiliary pre-
sidenis are Mrs. Jesse Lowery,
Mrs. Erney and Mrs. Lloyd
Butler.
Calvin Wins
Tweetsie Trip
Calvin Johnson was the lucky
winner of a free visit to the
tourist attraction “Tweetsie”
at Blowing Rock. He also ap
peared on a pre-taped pro
gram of the “Little Rascals”
which appeared Sunday over
WBTV on the Fred Kirby show.
Calvin participated in a con
test to win his Tweetsie and TV
visit. His card was drawn as
the lucky winner and his name
as winner was announced on
the “Little Rascals” program
this past Sunday.
He went to the WBTV studios
in Charlotte on Thursday where
he was taped for the Sunday TV
program
Calvin is the eleven-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy John
son.
AT SIX FLAGS
Among local residents visit
ing “Six Flags Over Georgia”
in Atlanta this week are Mr.
and Mrs. A. G. Phifer and son
Jimmy, Lisa Smith, Mr. and
Mrs. Patrick Kane and daugh
ters, and Mr. and Mrs. Char
les Burnett and daughters.