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' 4 «■■■■■»!» i in i mi ■ irwni ■ ■■■■» %h t Caaleemee Sountal i VOLUME NO. 60 G. E. Smith Former Principal At Cooleemee KANNAPOLIS - George Edward Smith, 68, of Enoch ville Avenue, retired school principal, died at 7 o'clock Friday morning, June 0, at Rowan Memorial Hospital in Salisbury. He suffered a heart attack Thursday morning at his home but his condition became worse this morning. He died shortly after being admitted to the hospital. A lifetime resident of Ro wan County, he was the son of the late Elias Leroy Smith and Delliah Bostian Smith. He was a graduate of Lenoir Rhyne College and had served as principal of schools in Clay ton, Cooleemee, Cornelius, and Harrisburg. He was principal in the WilkesbOro schools tor 14 years before his retirement three years ago. He was a member of St. Enoch Lutheran Church and was a veteran of service in the U. S. Marine Corps during World War I. He is survived by his wife, the former Rachel Hickman; two sons, George Edward Smith Jr. of Charlotte and Jerry Leroy Smith of Dur ham; three sisters, Mrs. Paul ine (Polly) Smith Howell and Miss Bella Smith of Enoch ville Ave., and Mrs. H. C. (Rose) Petrea of Salisbury; one brother, Floyd B. Smith of Moo res ville and four grand children. Funeral services were held Sunday at St. Enoch's Luther an Church, Kannapolis and interment was in the church cemetery. PFC Morgan Attending School Pfc. and Mrs. Wade .Mor gan moved recently to Mem phis, Tenn. where he is at tending Air Maintenance School at the Marine Base. Mrs. Morgan, the former Mary Nesbit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Talmage Nesbit of Woodleaf, has made her home with her parents since her husband entered service on December 27. She is a gradu ate of West Rowan High ' School and of Salisbury Busi ness College and has been employed by Bendix-Westing house in Salisbury for the past year. Pfc. Morgan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morgan of Route 6, Salisbury, and has completed Marine Training at Parris Island, South Carolina and Camp Lejeune, North Car olina. He is a graduate of West Rowan High School and attended Rowan Technical In stitute and before entering ser vice, was employed by Ame rican Moistening Co. at Cleve land, North Carolina. Mrs. Morgan is the grand > daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Shepherd of Cooleemee. ■ A; iH s TAKE TRAIN BIDE—On Wednesday, June 7, Ron nie Webb and three of his classmates who were in the first grade with him at Cooleemee Elementary School, took a train ride. They boarded the train at Mocks ville and traveled to Morgan ton, N. C. by Southern 1 Railway, of which his father, Bill Webb, is an engineer. This was an all day trip and the boys enjoyed a din ner aboard the train. They returned to Mocksville at the end of the trip. Pictured above are, Flagman Scott TUrberfield, Larry Daniels, Ronnie Webb and the Conductor, Tom Wakefield, standing on the steps ate Kenney Barnes and Pat Spencer. Z*- S >■ «i' fjEtjjj?- V £ f'S S | ■ ' yS^^M' i pP ft - 'm » I ■. i ■Hi ■I B BP mm W |i H I I PI ■ flßiifflM - II I M HHK 9M ■ M? gfc ■ll||r f -** ,# t * ; WRL .-.■ p . V ''' : '" V .;' ■: . ■. '> £i::";,' / - i . . ' - v"'' •-' '- JOINS WlCS—Miss Josephine Plowman Job Corps Enrollee left June 13, for Hazelton, Pa. She is the daughter of Mrs. Annie Plowman of Route 1, Advance. Josephine was encouraged to join the WICS. She is 16 and a school dropout. They are trained to work in business offices, hospitals, stores, beauty shops, res taurants, nursery school, or in other jobs that are available. They also learn to handle home and family responsibilities. (By—Photo and Gift Shop WadeMcDaniel Hurt In Fall Wade MoDaniel local car penter and painter, was injur ed Tuesday evening in an ac cident, near his home in North Cooleemee while at work on a roof. A small portion of the roof collapsed and fell on top of him. He has a crushed joint in his back and will have to stay in bed for at least three wreks and then more Xrayg will be made. He was carried by ambulance to the Davie County Hospital. Ruth Hoyle Attends Meeting In New York Miss Ruth Hoyle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hoyle of Ruffin Street, Cooleemee, left Monday morning for New York City by bus from Sal isbury, where she will at tend a United Nations Seminar Miss Hoyle will represent the Cooleemee Methodist Church at the seminar which is con ducted each summer by the Western North Carolina Con ference. A total of 100 young Methodists will attend from North Carolina. The group is scheduled to study the Arab-Israeli situa tion in the Middle East, a program which was planned several months before the cur rent crises took place. They will spend three nights in New York and then go to Washington, D. C- Thursday night, and on Friday make a tour of the Capitol and ee the change of guard at the 'lptional Cejnetery at Arling ton. Neighborhood Com. Council The Neighborhood Comunity Council meeting was held at Friendship Church in North on Monday night. Mr. Gene Harris; Assistant Di rector of Neighborhood Youth Corps was speaker.- He brought a very good talk on Neighborhood Youth enroll ees and what they are doing in Davie County. This was 'a very interesting meeting and ww well attended. COOLEEMEE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1067 Bank Hosts Dinner On Thursday. June 15th, the Central Bank and Trust Co. of Cooleemee was host at a luncheon at the Woodleaf School Gymnasium. 'TCiis is the seventh year which has be come a tradition with them. No planned program, just good food and fellowship. Tlie ladies of Woodleaf prepared the food Mr. and Mrs. Buck McLimon and children and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Spillman and daughters spent last week end camping at Kerr Scott Dam. f »• BLAINE HANCOCK GRADUATES - Miss Eli zabeth Elaine Hancock gradu ated from Durham High School, Class of '67, and has accepted a secretarial position with General Telephone Co. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hancock of Durham and granddaughter of Mi*. Mollie Hancock of Rt. 14, Moduvilfe Davie Centy Schools Calendar For IM7-68 August 24 lst Teacher Day. August 25 2nd Teachers Day August 28 Teacher-Pupil Orientation Day August 29 September 26 —lst Month. September 27-October 25 2nd Month. October 26 - November 22 3rd Month . November 27 - January 3 4th Month. January 4 - January 31— sth Month. February 1 - February 28— 6th Month February 29 March 27 7th month. March 28-April 26 Bth Month. April 29 - May 24th—9th Month. May 27 —lst Make-up Day. May 28 2nd Make-up Day. May 29 3rd Make-up Day. May 30 4th Make-up Day. May 31 sth Make-up Day. HOLIDAYS September 4 Labor Day September 29 NCEA Dis trict Meeting. November 23, 24 Thanks giving. December 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 Christmas January 1 April 12, 15 Easter Headstall Program For 1967 Davie County's Head Start program will begin June 28, 1967, and continue through August 4, 1967, at the Mocks vijie Primary School. This program is sponsored by the Davie County Board of Education through the Yad kin Valley Economic Devel opment, District, Inc., an ag ency of the Office of Econo mic Opportunity. The daily program will be gin at 8:00 A M. and ter minate at 12:30 P. Mi. each day, Monday through Friday. The daily activities will in clude a mid • morning snack and a hot lunch for every child as well as many pre school experiences for every child in attendance. The Personnel Selection Committee, a sub-committee of the Delegate Agency Poli cy Advisory Committee for the Davie County Head Start program, met on June 5, 1967. The committee consists of four voting members, Mrs. Pru dance Johnson, Mr. Leo F. Williams, Mrs. Hazel Howell, Mrs. Bern ice Anthony, and two non-.voting members, Mr. Charles J. Wells and Will ard Swift. The following personnel di rectory was approved: Direc tor, A. M. Kiser, Jr.; teachers, Mrs. Mildred S. Brooks, Mrs. Ruby P. Brown, Miss Nelda Chunn, Mrs. Nell R. Day, Mrs. Susan H. Johnson, Mrs. Agnes S. Leary, Miss Rita Linker, Mrs. Martha W. Fleming, so cial service director, Mrs. He len Evernart. Miss Kay Fran ces West will aid Mrs. Ever hart in social services. Teacher aides will be: Ernestine La- Verne Grant, Alice Lee Gai ther, Faye Anne Porter, Myr tle Jean Bledsoe, Lucille Faye Bledsoe, Kau.e Lee Smiley, Wilma Kay Reavis, Pauline Faye Barnevcast.e. Bus driv ers for the program are: Wil lie Tabor, Dennis James, Lyn Keaton, Rcger Spillman, Ma rie Cope and Jessie Lowery. Mrs. W. F. Furches will man age the lunchroom and will be assisted by Mrs. Louise D. Boger and Marie Cope. Mr. Jessie Lowery will also serve as Janitor. V. i. Prim will be the director of all Head Start pro grams in Yadkin, Surry, Stokes and Davie counties. All parents of pre-school children approved for Head Start will be notified by mail by A M. Kiser, Jr.. Davie County Head Start Director. Mrs. J. G. Crawford is a patient at Forsyth Memorial i Hospital to Winatoo - Mm. Davie Schools Receive Grout For Innovative Educational Center Attending Conservation Classes The Third Annual Resource Conversation Workshop will I be held on the North Carolina State University campus, June 12-16, 1967. The boys selected from Da vie County are: Richard Wayne William, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin L. William of Route 1; Nelson Tutterow, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Tutterow of Route 4, and Mike Mailer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Miller of Route 2, Mocks ville, N. C. all parts of North Carolina are expected to attend for an intensive week of study of all aspects of conservation. Sponsored jointly by the N. C. Chapter, SCSA, the North Carolina Association of Soil and Water Conservation Dis tricts, and thgt Water Con servation Committee, the Workshop is designed to cre ate a keen awareness of the value of conservation in the minds of youth and hopfully to help direct some toward conservation careers. The outstanding student of the Workshop will receive a $250 scholarship to the insti tution of his choice, according to George Winchester, Work shop Chairman. Other prizes will include a SSO bond, a $25 bond, and several cash prizes of $lO and $5 denomi nations. Duke Power Co., Carolina Power and .Light , Qp-, and Vir ginia Electric Power Co. as sist financially in sponsorship ■jjL* - : |B i ■ 'wP K ■ m I m ■ NYC ENROLLEE OF MONTH Miss Betty Dur ham of Route 4, Mocksvile, has been chosen NYC Enrollee of the Month. She is seventeen and the daugh ter erf Mr. and Mrs. Harold Durham. She is a rising senior at Davie County High School. She has been very active in school activities. Betty is under the supervision of Mrs. Mildred H. Foster; Office Head of Community Action Program. She has been work ing approximately 5 months with the program. She enjoys her work very much and feds that this Will help her in the future. She plans to attend Business School after graduation. During the school period 15 students were under NYC. At the present time there are 35 Neighborhood Youth EnroUees work ing In Davie Cbunty. .(By-Photo and Qtt t Shoj>; of the Workshop. The boys of Davie County are being sponsored by the Central Carolina Bank of Coo leemee, the Bank of Davie and the Davie Soil and Water Conservation District. Reading Program At Cooleemee To Begin Cooleemee area students, who need special assistance in reading will begin summer classes at the North Coolee mee Elementary School on Monday June 19. Mrs. Giles Sexton will conduct the pro gram. Class schedules are as follows: ' Ist class 8:30 10:00 A. M. 2nd Class 10:30 12:00 3rd Class 1:00—2:30 P.M. The class will continue for four weeks. Students who are to participate have been no tified; anyone interested in their children attending these classes contact Mrs. Giles Sex ton in Cooleeme (284-2861.). A four-week's reading pro gram will also be held at the Mocksville Elementary School beginning July 17th and continuing through Auust U. Parents interested in their child attending this program cr.ntact Mrs. Sexton at ttie above number. PUBLISHED THURSDAI Verbal communication from the U. & Office of Educa tion has assured approval of a project submitted under Ti tle 111 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for an Education Development Center in the North Coolee mee School. The grant, totaling approxi mately $73,000 for the first year of operation, is awarded • for projects exemplary and ■ innovative solutions to educa tional problems. The multi-phased project of fers adult-education clstt—, reeding programs, art and music classes, lectures, edu cational movies, story hour, discussion groups, a listening and viewing center, a materi als-preparation center, teacher workshops, a periodical* add research area, and a curricul i um materials display. The pro ject will include programs for adults as well as students; local news media will keep j residents of the county in formed of center activities and program schedules. The materials preparation center will provide transpar encies and other visual materi als to the schools and pro duce requested visual materj- | als for all schools in the couifc* ' ty. A workshop for primary teachers in the county is sche duled for August in the Edu cation Center. This workshop will involve techniques used in the teaching of reading and art in the elementary schools. Professional personnel who will work with cen'sr activi ties are: Charles Wells, direc tor; Mrs. Mary Sexton .ready ing programs, and Locin on, art an music programs: Harold Odom will pe project bookkeeper and secretary. •] "Title in holds the promise ; J stimulating learning activities 9 in our schools through the vi tal supplementary services that it will afford for our stud ents as well as adults," said school-superintendent Junes c*. This project of fered under the aegis of the United States Office of Education will give us the op portunity to provide services for our students and teacher* - i that we could not have other wise afforded. Title 111 grants to schools are difficult to ob- \ tain; we feel fortunate in se curing this grant, and we be lieve the activities and prog rams the Education Center will offer will warrent the support and participation of all our ci tizens." Nurses Assoc. Meeting Held Last Thursday night, a meet ing of the District 6 Arae- | rican Nurses Association met for the first time in Davie County. About forty-five Re gistered Nurses attended, rep resenting Stanly, Rowan, Cab be rus, and Davie Counties* The meeting was held in the "all-purpose" Room of the Da- j vie County Library. Dr. Eloise Lewis, the Presi dent of North Carolina Stata Nurses Association, Dean at the School of Nursing at Greensboro, Chairman ef N. C. Board of Nursing, and a j member of the North Carolina Committee on patient care waa the distinguished guest speak- | er for the meeting. Her talk J was based on the "Structure of American Nurses Association on National and Local Levels" | and continuing education for nurses. Refreshments were served after Dr. Lewis had completed |S Meny of the people who ;l attended the meeting express- 1 ad their desires to have Davie J County as the regular meeting | place for the Association. Mrs. Velma Mixon, Direc- M tor of Nurses, made this "TfTr ,'j ment: "I appreciated the rtfb 1 resentatkm and pantidpattoa of the Davie County NuraeS. t f, want to eneouraga all Regis tered Nurses in this area jj
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