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CURB REPORTER Charlie Lynch’s barbecue at Harmon Field Saturday night was a big event. It celebrated the opening of the new Harmon Field read. It also was a testimony to the spirit of fellowship and co operation existing among the civic leaders of North and Souto Carolina. The barbecue and re freshments were all the enter tainment needed to have the men mix and mingle with one another. The host served barbecued perk and lamb, potatoes, rice, corn bread. pickles, green tomato pickles, cole slaw, quartered firm red tomatoes and coffee. Repre sentative Carroll P. Rogers was toastmaster. Malcolm Ainsworth manager of the Asheville Cham ber cf Commerce led the 200 guests in a song of praise to Charlie for his hospitality. High way Commissioners Tom Wolfe and T. Max Watson gave enter taining accounts of how the Har mon Field road was built. Tryon Town Commissioners, the Polk County Commissioners, county and town officers were present as well as many citizens of the commu nity. Other distinguished guests included State Highway Commis sioner Ben Prince of Raleigh, Commissioner Carroll L. Wilson of Roanoke Rapids, State Equipment Engineer S. C. Austin of Ashe ville; Lt. W. B. Lentz, Corp. Chas. A. Speed, and Patrolmen Robert Miller and E. L. Kemp cf the Highway Department. From Co lumbia, S. C., to celebrate the event came .Mayor L. B. Owens, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce William Lvkes, Jr., Dr. J. May Macaulay, George W. Collins and Chief of Police L. J. Campbell and Sam Sweeney, all old friends of Mr. Lynch when he lived in Columbia and was an alderman there. The Asheville delegation of civic leaders included Deacon Green, Don Elias, co pub lisher of the Asheville Citizen- Times and president of the Ashe ville Chamber of Commerce, Otis Price, assistant general passenger agent of the Southern Railway, Burnham S. Colburn, Sr., piesi dent of the First National Bank and B. S. Colburn, Jr., Lemuel Bridges, president of Smoky Mt. Tours, Frank Coxe, president Wheat-Heart Co., Roy P. Booth, John S. Carroll, Judge Hubert Jarvis, Jack Atkinson, Charles Parker, Harlan Sanders, Brandon Hodges, Albert Bauman, Jack Enright, Bill Penland, A1 Reyn olds, all of them civic leaders of Western North Carolina. Others j noted there included Div. High-1 way Engineer Hugh Noell of Shelby, F. I. Barber of the For est City Coca-Cola Bottling Co., who was a big supporter of Har mon Field, Chas. Z. Flack and Oscar J. Mooneyham of Forest City, Judge Chas. Gold of Ruth erfordten, Monroe Reddin of Hen dersonville, Representative A. B. Storey of Morganton and other guests throughout the county. Frank L. Jenkins, General Pas senger Agent of Southern Rail way telephoned from Washington his regret at being unable to at tend. The visitors from Colum bia presented to a number of guests histories of the City of Columbia commemorating the 150th anniversary of the South Carolina capital. They also left wooden n c-kel souvenirs for all thei guests present. These wooden" nickels were used in connection with the sesqui-centennial celebra tion. Someone asked why Charlie Lynch gave the party. I didn’t ask him, but if you had given a lot ot your time day after day for years to give the community and county one of the most at tractive recreational centers in the world, and had the thrill of friends coming to the rescue following a fire to rebuild the plar-e. and then have the governor of the state and the highway commission to build a road to serve that field, wouldn’t you want to celebrate, too! The Continued on Next Page
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