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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1957 ROCKINGHAM POST-DISPATCH, RICHMOND COUNTY, N. C. PAGE TWO nncnn Tn o 1QAQ Pifldmnnt DISPATCH Dec. 18, 1915 ruai ail jy Consolidated into Rockingham Post-Dispatch Dec. 6, 1917, by Isaac S. London. Sold to J. Neal Cadieu April 1, 1953. -Nifinnni Arivurf teinsr Representative WEEKLY NEWSPAPER REPRESENTATIVES, Ind Fntered as second-class mail matter at the at Rockingham, Richmond County, N. C. Dec' 6, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Postoffice 1917 ISAAC S. LONDON, Editor DIAL phone 4056 PRINTED EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON Subscription Rate: $3.00 One Year; $1.75 Six Months; Three Months Subscription $1.00; Single Copies 74 Outside Richmond and neighboring counties $4 a yehr. GLIMPSES 0U THE CUFF Brevities About This n' That. Issue of February 7, 1957 HISTORY. Under the History heading in this issue, we start a series on the various dams built on Hitchcock Creek, from the John Smith dam at Ledbetter's in 1791, down the creek successively to the Eli Terry Dam, the Shortridgt dam, the Tod Robinson dam (with Pee Dee No. 1 dam built on this site in 1875.) and the Walter F. Leak grist-mill dam at end of North Lee street etc. The series gives the John Shortridge family lines, and the Dr. R. J, Steele 3rd lines the Doctor s son Thomas J. Steele marrying Eliza Shortridge, aid his daughter Rosa Pauline marrying Louis Shortridge brother and sister marrying brother1, and sister. Included in the series is data on Toddy Robinson (1766-1838) who was a bij: land speculator and Town lots owner and had a store and black smith shop on the corner where the Leder store now is. Only a limited number of extra copies are printed each week, so if you want extra copies, you'd better speak up now. Insofar as the writer knows, none of this history has ever been iprmt- ed before. Kin &tfi nniVM TMnch snace is devoted this issue to the elegant new $180,000 Baptist Church building, for the first time February 3, 1957. The issue is worth occupied slaving. BIRTHDAYS. A long list of birthdays on this page for the roretty breet, r. C. ensuing week. Among them we note that of the energetic M. F. Grantham of the Richmond County Bank for Februarl 11th. Also for February 11th is the sixteenth birthday of my granddaughter, .Barbara York London, of 116-Polk Raleigh. Then on February 12th is the 97th birthday of G. Vardell, the Grand Old Man of Presbyterianism who found ed Flora Macdonald College in 1896. The fifteenth birthday February 13th of my grandson Eddie Hurst And on the lighter side is the 24th birthday February; 13th of actress Kim Nota avh lighter, on February 14th is the 63rd birth-; day of comedian Jack Benny whose real name was Benny Kubelsky of Waukegan Jack still dead-pans that he is only 39 Speaking of actors and their original names, io you think Eddie Cantor would have been just as successful if he had adhered to his real name, which is Izzy Iskowitz ' How about Judy Garland whose real name is Franches Gum n? Or Cary Grant who was christened Archibald Leach? Or Greta Garbo who was Gussie Gustaffson? Then there is "Red ' But ton the name he started life with was Aaron Schwatt. . . . The first names most disliked by men, and most frequently changed, are Egbert, Rudolph, Cuthbert, Percy, Clarenje and Jonah. The names most disliked by the women are Bertha, Elsie, Liza, Bridget and Mildred. The selection of Miss Grace Pemberton Coppedge, y the State Supt. of Education, to be on the important committee to study school libraries for the Southeastern States Work Conference to be held at Daytona Beach in June, is a decided honor to a Rockingham girl. Her work as Principal of Main Street school in Mount Airy is outstanding. Bigamist is one who loves not wisely but two well North A movement is on foot in Moore county to have a Central high school for Aberdeen, Southern Pines and Pinehurst, lo cated between Aberdeen and Southern Pines. That would leave the present high school facilities in those three towns able for future expansion in the elementary and junior Such a plan was broached three years ago for Rocking ham, Hamlet and Rohanen but didn't get even to first base However, such a time may come by 1965 when new big bond issues become' necessary for overflowing schools. avail-highs First Englishman: "I was frightfully sorry to hear you had buried your wife." Second Englishman : "Had to. Dead, you know.' Then there was the hillbilly cousin who was not accustom ed to city ways. "He was so frightened the first time we necktie on him, he stood in the same place for two thought he was hitched to something." Cloudy McLean over WBTV each night tells us about high that put a hours. He terms of air pressure and low pressure, and few know what the mean. . . . About all any of us know about fluctuations is the discharge of energy in the form of radiation from the sun to the earth. This starts the cycle which eventually pro duces weather Strapless gown: when a woman doesn't shoulder her responsibility. If you have quit saying "what's new?" and say "I remem ber when", you are getting old. Hi: "I'm going to see the doctor about my wife. 1 don't like the way she looks." Fi: "I'll go with you. I don't like the looks of mine, either." BIRTHDAYS HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU Send the Post-Dispatch the Birthday Dates of Members of your Family. FEBRUARY 8TH Lilyan Meacham Billy Mitchell, 1941 H. Manship, 1874 (d) T. A. Morris Sr., 1884 Mrs. Charles L. Heitt Wm. Rape Webb, 1921 Lyn-Sue Kennedy, 1948 Harold Lee Gibson, 1927 John Calvin Wood, 1921 Hilda Faye Collins, 1942 John Jesse Clark Jr., 1926 Gayle Auman Miller, 1923 Chas. Everett Benoist, 1943 Jessie Steele Simmons, 1920 Bobby Edward Morgan, 1926 Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hasty married Feb. 8, 1893. Birth Rate n County Larger 9 Above National Average. b: FEBRUARY 9TH Viola King C. S. Thomas Ted Waters, 1929 Chas. M. Garrett, 1926 John Alfred Cox, 1902 Mrs. Walter S. Thomas Richard G. Criscoe, 1928 Mrs. Kathryn McRae (d) Martha Jane Melton, 1924 Howard C. Meacham, 1924 Sarah Elaine Parker, 1947 Miss Jo Len Jamerson, 1937 Alexander P. Covington, 1949 Tom C. Guthrie Sr., 1865 (d) Catherine Marie Stanley, 1943 Mildred Garrett Kirkley, 1917 NEW YORK, Jan. 28 Rich mond County is achieving a na tural solution to what ' is an economic puzzle in many sec tions of the country. " The problem is how to utilize the growing volume of consum er goods and the increased pro duction of farms made possible by new scientific tools, equip ment and methods. To match the enlarged pro ductive capacity, the consump tion of goods and services must increase in proportion to it, points out Arno H. Johnson, well known marketing authority. ' In Richmond County; swer to it is found largely if the new market created bythS Atty. Jim Blount Speaker February 6 Changes Are Made In Forestry Office J. A. Pippin, District Forester of the Rockingham District Of fice of the North Carolina De partment of Conservation and development, Division of Fores try nnnmincpd this week two ! changes in the personnel attach- at a noon meeting of the 12 ed to the Rockingham District Office. Wayne Hartman, Service Forester, has been transferred Six Named To C Of C Board The remainder of the 13-mem-ber Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association board of 1 directors was named yesterday babies are proving a blessing to the business community as well i asito their parents. Each child I monthly meeting Feb. 6 JAMES BLOUNT James Blount, Rockingham Attorney of the legal firm of large, oncoming generation.New U-eath and Blount addressed the FEBRUARY 10TH W. V. Nelson Glenn Mabe, 1939 Betty Jernigan, 1936 Paul K. Dillman, 1924 Jimmie L. Corder, 1927 Edw. R. Caldwell, 1913 Susan E. McLean, 1952 Georgia Shepard, 1926 Daniel T. Atkinson, 1910 James Leo McKay, 1930 John Perry Fielder, 1935 Mrs. W. C. McQueen, 1867 Addie E. Harrington, 1922 Lee C. Mullowney Jr., 1938 Ina Carolyn Haywood ,1943 Sara Blanche Crawford, 1940 Douglas Winford Hamer, 1911 J. Pickett Leak, 1900 Mary Lynne Latham, 1956 represents an added demand for jconsumer goods. ! Richmond County, from latest Governmental and other data, is witnessing a birth rate that is running 9 per cent ahead of the average of the United States. . While the rate, 27.6 births per 1,000 among local residents, is high, it is as nothing compared to what is expected to occur in the 1960's, when the huge crop of babies born in the last ten years begins to reach marriage able age. By 1065, according to arr esti mate by U .S. News and. World Report, consumers will require 30 per cent more goods and services than are being pro duced today, simply because there will be more consumers. It presumes a continuance of the present rise in the standard of living. to Whiteville. Floyd Arnold, As sistant District Forester at Whiteville, has been transferred !to Rockingham as Service For ester. Mr. Arnold holds a B.S. degree and M.A. degree in For estry from Syracuse University at Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold have moved to Rocking ham and are now living at Route 3, Rockingham. John D. Harris of Granite Falls has been employed by the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, Division of Forestry, as a Fores try Aide and is attached to the Rockingham Office and will work with the Soil Bank Pro gram. Mr. Harris received ma college training at Appalachian State Teachers College. Mr. and Mrs. Harris have moved to Rock inghm and are now living at 206 Deweese Avenue. Other personnel attached to the Rockingham District Office of the Division of Forestry are: ing a oroperly prepared will was - ", most informative. jF. A. Boehler, Assistant District . Forester: Mrs. Bob Sandford, Of The Richmond ounty Associ- e . . w lice ocviciaiji , "u. , District Forest Ranger. The. of- programsi . . 00,q ivl 4-i-ifi Haspmpnt. liLC IO lUUtt UVU 111 UXAV V Richmond County Association of Life Underwriters at their Ralph Harris, program chairman, in troduced Mr. Blount. His address dealt with the legal implications of settling an estate where no will had been prepared by the deceased. Mr. Blount's discussion of the North Carolina laws relat ing to the settlement of an es tate and the advantages of hav- FEBRUARY 11TII Odell Hines John T. Baxley Hugh Miller, 1925 William C. Swink. .... Caroline Hunter.-.;. . Mrs. Frances Gaddy G. C. Coble, 1871 (d) Paul Thompson, 1927 Helen Beckman, 1927 Jimmy L. Miles, 1937 Roy Ann Payne, 1934 M. F. Grantham, 1909 E. J. Steele, col., 1885 W. Clifton Grady, 1912 Garren F. Moss Jr., 1938 Mrs. S. R. Suber Jr., 1918 Dr. Vernon Mangum, 1921 Goffie C. Luther Jr., 1924 Mrs. Worth Hamilton, 1922 Mrs. Walter S. Hasty, 1903 Floyd Vance Haywood, 1933 Jerry Vance Esenhower, 1947 Barbara York London, 1941 Felton David Hall Jr., 1940 Callie R. White Jr., 1927 (d) Mary Elizabeth Lewis, 1953 Mrs. John W. Covington Sr. Charles Donald Storey, 1950 Mrs. Melvin Gardner, 1934 R. Graham Nichols Jr., 1956 Eugenia. Tull, 1949 Mrs. I. B. Matheny Paul P. Melton, 1870 Wayne Bledsoe, 1923 Clifton Blue. Jr., 1941 Paul Crawford Gibson John C. Morgan, 1885 Lester C. Long Jr., 1921 Wm. A McAulay, 1956 i Hannah Entwistle, 1927 ! L. D. Frutchey, 1885 (d) Wm. C. Thompson, 1888 Deborah Lynn Tate, 1952 Kim Novak, actress, 1933 Edwin Wm. Hurst 3rd, 1942 Jerry Kaye Rummage, 1939 1 Roland Thomas Bailey, 1950 T Walter Marquis Arnett, 1953 Linda Lou Hall, 1944, twin tsrenaa sue nail, iy44, twiswi tion of Life Underwriters meet each month and the are developed around topics . that the Association members can use to render a greater service to the insuring public. FRED NOW AT KING'S Fred Alvin Martin, born July 28, 1934, and serving in the army draft from Sept. 28, 1954, to Sept. 1956, cn February 1st entered King's Business College at Char lotte. He is taking the Junior Accounting course. Fred is son of Mrs. Sam Little. He graduat ed from Rockingham high June 3, 1952. of the Rockngham Post Ofice. The Rockingham District Of fice supervises all phases of for est fire control, forest tree planting, forest management, forest insect damage, and forest industrial problems for the North Carolina Department of Canservation and Development, Division of Forestry, cn 1,260,000 acres of woodland in Anson, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, and Scotland Counties. elected recently at the annual banquet. Named yesterday were Tom Hunter, James Blount, Dr. Ed Sutton, L. F. McCaskill, S. A. Black, and W. H. Entwistle Jr. Also elected to office was Claude Maske as treasurer of the organ ization. In selecting the six additional men, various groups are given representation in the Chamber cf Commerce. Hunter will repre sent the insurance industry, Blount the attorneys. Sutton the doctors, McCaskill the tourist in dustry, Black and Entwistle the manufacturing concerns. Applications for executive sec retary of the Chamber of Com merce are now being received, with personal interviews to be gin soon. It is hoped that a se lection for the position can be named within 30 to 60 days. Mrs. George Ormsby Died February 3rd Mrs. George Ormsby, the form er Sarah Sanford, aged 64, died Sunday morning, February 3rd, in Memorial hospital at Rocking ham. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon, February 5th, at 3:30 from Trinity Methodist Church, a mile southwest of Rockingham, conducted by Rev. George Tyson the pastor. Watson-King, undertakers," carried the casket to the church an hour before the service. Burial was in Eastside cemetery. Mrs. Orms'oy was born March 15, 1892, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hamer Sanford. She Is survived by her husband and by two daughters Mrs. Ben Parker and Mrs. Ruby Croke, and three grandchildren. Also there is a brother Frank Sanford and a sis ter Mrs. Irene Lee of Hartsville. business. New Well to Be Bored atJ Ellerbe Ellerbe's town board contract ed Friday for a new well to boost the community 5 water supply. '.. Ellerbe and the area served by its water company depends en tirely upon wells for supply. The board contracted with Graham Well Company to dig a 10 inch well at the cost of $6.00 per foot. One board member estimated that the cost would not run over $1,800 total. An alternate proposal was pre sented to the board by Heat er Well Company. This organi zation offered to guarantee a supply of 100 gallons per minute plus pumping facilities for ap proximately $12,000. The board rejected this proposal, however. Board Chairman Brady MyncK reports that at present, town's one main well is working almost to capacity, xwro functioning wells furnish only negligible amounts of water. "We felt that another wen is needed in case another indus trial user should want to locate here," said Myrick, "and insure an adequate supply for our pre sent users during peak periods. Myrick said digging of the new well should begin within the next 30 days. HOBBY SHOP OPENED ON US n BY-PASS 3111 Martin and Bill Keziah have opened their Hobby Shop, for the sale of fishing equipment,: i 1 . t-c in o nPW hllllCi- DOatS anu muiuio, " - ing beside Tanner's Concrete Works on Highway 74 m Rock ingham. The two local men have been in the boat business in Richmond County for the past two years. According to an announce ment in today's Journal tha shop will be a completely equipped as a headquarters for fishermen and boating enthusiasts. Also m their work will be the repair of outboard motors and power lawn mowers. Martin is a factory trained out board motor mechanic. The new shop is now open for FEBRUARY 12TH Gladys Snypes Gene Davis, 1931 P. P. Greene, 1920 Mrs. J. M. Sedberry Mrs. Edgar Barrett John L. Lewis, 1880 Robert Walker, 1928 Anne Milton Bryant Tracey Reynolds (d) S. L. Dobbin, 1855 (d) W. P. McRae, 1879 (d) Dr. C. G. Vardell, 1860 J. M. Castleberry, 1953 Ernest Leroy Cole, 1926 John D. Chalk, 1884 (d) Barbara Ann Long, 1952 Nancy Anne Eddins, 1937 Miss Marjorie Clark, 1936 W. F. Hasty, 1874 (d 1918) Wm. Benson Baxley, 1920 Michael Gray Lewis, 1949 Winfield S. Terry Jr., 1913 Roger Scott Thrower, 1955 Lucy Bernice O'Brien, 1899 Martha Mcintosh Williams W. F. Henry, 1874 (d-9-1918) Shelby Jean Richardson, 1938 Bruce Goodwin Jr., 1938, twin Roberta Goodwin, 1938, twin tUARY' 14TH Floyd Jenkins -" William Scales Thomas Ratliff H. J. Rogers, Jr. Mrs. Roy Benoist -Myrtle L. Caulder Orean Smith, 1928 Mrs. Ila Covington John W. Covington Mrs. J. M. Davidson J. W. Dawkins, 1894 Alton E. Neese, 1927 Edward Ruffin, 1926 Mrs. Harold L. Webb Mrs. Billy (Ann) Poe Wm. M. Lampley, 1878 Charles T. Allen, 1908 Mrs. J. W. Chavis, 1886 Carl Alton Hogan, 1928 Carl Sidney Webb, 1943 Colon B. Wallace, 1877 Mrs. Willie Norris, 1908 Eugene Hudson Jr., 1953 Nancy Lee Stewart, 1941 J. F. Rivenbark Jr., 1955 Rex Woster Russell, 1925 A. G. Corpening. 1876 (d) 1 Mrs. W. M. Matheson, 1869 Mrs. James Edwin Bethea Ed. E. Vuncannon 3rd, 1956 Kenneth C. Boone Jr. 1956 Comedian Jack Benny, 1894 Cecil Thomas Jernigan, 1936 FEBRUARY 13TH Roy Holder joe Brigman Sr. Mrs. Belle Gordon Federal Pharmacy This Sunday From 2 to 6 Housework Easy Without Nagging Backache Nagging backache, headache, or muscular aches and pains may come onwith over-exertion, emotional upsets or day to day stress and strain. And folks who eat and drink unwisely sometimes suffer mild bladder irritation ...with that restless, uncomfortable feeling. If you are miserable and worn out because Of these discomforts, DosJS's Pills often help by their pain relieving action, by their sooth ing effect to ease bladder irritation, aritf"13r their mild diuretic action through the kidneys tending to increase the output of the 15 , miles of kidney tubes. So if nagging backache makes you feel dragged-out, miserable with restless, sleepy less nights don't wait . . .try Doan's Pills:.! get the same happy relief millions have en joyed for over 60 years. Get Doan's Pills today! Doan's Pills TIMBER of all kinds wanted Especially interested in timber lands in any quantity. SEE D. L. ALLEN route 3, phone 4782 or write NORMAN LUMBER CO. Norman, N. C. REMOVE MOUNTAINS? IMPOSSIBLE! NOT AT ALL About 2,000, years ago a man by His own life gave each and everyone a perfect pattern for living, a blue print ofthe best and fullest life possible. Jesus Christ lived it and proved its practibility. Once He itated that all any of us needed was a tiny bit of faith and we could remove mountains. Down through the centuries that followed, man considered this statement visionary and impossible of fulfillment. But someone with just a little faith came along and the power shovel resulted. With just the, "practical" ones we would still be using the lab orious hand shovel. Now faith has produced the split ting of the atom by which mountains can be moved. To acquire even as much "mustard grain" of power, you need but follow the plan that has been Available to each and every human being. There is a church that will aid and enable you to understand the plan already provided and help you acquire the faith to live it. These Religious Messages are Being Published Each Week in the Post-Dispatch Under the Auspices of the Rockingham Ministerial Association, and are Sponsored by the Following Interested firms; Jesse P. Phifer General Contractor Phone 3250 T. R. Helms & Son Jewelers Since 1912 Phone 2936 Economy Auto Supply Claude Maske Phone 450? "On the Corner and Square" Fox Drug Store Mrs. L. G. Fox, President Phone 2456 W. H. Parker Insurance and Realty Company Long Bldg, Phone 2505 Marks Funeral Home 406 E. Franklin, Phone 3355 RAYMOND MARKS Seago Beverage Co. Sandhill ' Road Belk's Department Store Home of Better Values Phone 5611 Penegar Motor Company Heath Penegar 2409 Olds Pontiac GMC Trucks Richmond County Memorial Park Steele Bldg. Phone 2778
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