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CENTRAL CAROLINA BANK TO
ERECT MOCKSVILLE OFFICE
A contract for construction
«4 a building to house the
Mocksville Office of Central
Carolina Bank and Trust Co.
has been awarded to Hendrix
and Corriher of Mocksville.
Charles F. Behnson, who will
be in charge of the new bank
office, made the announoe
ifcent and said that if weather
frfermits construction will be
gin this week, with comple
tion expected by late sum
mer.
The site of the bank will
be on property purchased last
summer, and located on the
northeast corner of South
Main and Water Streets. The
building will be one story,
brick and block construction,
'containing 4,200 square feet
of usuahle floor space.
The plot on which the bank
will be situated is 82 feet
wide by 220 feet deep, per
mitting 25 paved parking spa
ces and providing ample area
for drive-up window service,
as well as planting and land
scaping.
The architect is Archie Ro
yal Davis, A. I. A. His choice
oi materials such as hand
made brick, and his use of
traditional detailing will give
to the building's appearance
• Willamsburg feeling.
The new bank office will
contain a spacious lobby with
terrazzo floor, vaulted ceil
ing end panelled wainscoting.
There will be provision for
six teller windows, and adja
cent to the large reinforced
concrete vault will be three
coupon booths for the con
venience of safe depoeii cus
tomers.
Other features oi the build
ing | fiyi
ofcroeted private office and
conference room, a secretary
and loan officer's area, an
employee lounge, and ample
spaces for storage.
Heating and cooling through
out the building are arranged
for maximum year-round com
fort The different segments
of the building have indivi
dual controls to enable each
area to function separately.
Behnson noting that the
cost of the new building will
be in excess of SIOO,OOO said,
"Our bank has unlimited con
fidence in the future of Da
vie County. We are looking
forward to becoming partners
'in progress with Mocksville,
and to the opportunity for
greater service to its peo
ple.'' J
Bahnson acknowledged the
| advice and assistance of the
bank's Mocksville Board, whose
members are: ML H. Murray,
Chairman; Ren C. Ellis; Geo.
Hendricks; Robert Hendricks;
T. L. Junker; D. J. Mando;
Lester Martin, Jr.; George
Merrell, Jr.; Sheek Miller,
E. C. Moms; W. W. Smith;
and Paul H. Stroud
J.l. Bowman
1 Named To
HoipHal Board
James H. Bowman of Mocks
ville, has been appointed to
ithe Davie County Hospital
Board of Trustees, filling the
unexpired term of Arthur
Upshaw.
Mr. Bowman was appointed
by the Davie County Board
of Commissioners last week
to serve until December of
1068,
Assistant Supt. at the Br
win Mills in Cooleemee, Mr.
Bowman is active in various
phases of civic activities. He
: is a member of the Mocks
| ville Rotary Club; chairman
' of the camping activities com
mittee in the Davie District
i of Boy Scouts of America;
a member of the finance com
'• mittee of the local Girl Scouts
!• and is an active member of
• the First Presbyterian Church
• of Mocksville.
™ Other mmten of the Da
r (vie County Hospital Boacd of
*' c Trwtees include: C. D. Jam
v/eraon, Chairman; V. G. Mm,,
Vice-Chairmen; T. L. Junker.
Treasurer; Mrs. Helen G. Wil
.son, Secretary; James K. Es
u, sic, Charlie F. Bernhardt, Mm.
, u , George Martin, Claude Caxt
nar, Herman Brewer, G. R»
Madison and tngene Vqg
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POPUB
CHARLES F. BAHNSON
Bobby Edwards
Locnl Agent At
Raleigh Office
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. -
Bobby Eugene Edwards, a na
tive of Davie County and a
graduate of Cooleemee High
School, has been appointed a
local agent in the Raleigh of
fice of the State Farm Mutu
al Automobile Insurance Co.
Edwards, who formerly wor
ked for the C and O Railway
Company, received his B.S.
degree from Appalachian State
Teachers College is 1860.
Mrs. Lakey, 91,
Of MecksviHe
MOCKSVILLE Mrs. Mag
gie Lankston Lakey, 91, of
Route 5, died Tuesday in the
Surry County Hospital.
She was born August 28,
1875, in Davie County, the
daughter of John Lewis and
Elizabeth Summers ClodfeLter.
She had been married twice.
Her first husband was Max
C. Lankston, and her second
husband was Thomas G. La
key.
Surviving are two sons, Roy
and W. M. Lankston, bath of
Rt. 5, Mocksville; and two
stepsons, Roland and Evan
La key, both of Route 2,
Mocksville.
Funeral services were held
Thursday at 3 P.M at Eaton's
Funeral Chapel by the Rev.
B. Z. Mac Murray and the
Rev. Wade Hutchins.
Burial was in Eaton's Bap
tist Church Cemetery.
GOP Women
To Meet
*n»e Davie County' Republi
can Women's Club will meet
Monday, February 27, at 7:30
P. M in the Girl Scout Room
of ■ the Davie County Court
. House.
Miss Venita Shore of Sal
isbury, formerly of Coolee
mee, will present, .the prog
ram. She will show slides of
her recent European trip.
PPC. DONALD OVKBCASH
APPOINTED ASSISTANT
CHAPLAIN Pfc. Donald R.
Overcash, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Overcash of No. 50 Duke
Street, Oooloemee, has been
appointed Assistant Chaplain
in Viet Nam.
Pfc. Overoaah took basic
training at PL Jackson, & C.
He received a 13-week course
at Fit. Buitis, Va. HuU Re
pairman before going over-
PTA Meeting
Oi Feb. 21
On Monday evening, Feb
ruary 21, the Cooleemee
School Parent-Teachers Asso
ciation will hold a meeting
at 7:30 P. M. A film, "Mathe
matics for Tomorrow", put
out by the State Board of
Education will be shown. This
film is to help parents to
learn the importance of this
new method of teaching math.
All parents of pre • school
children are especially invited
to attend.
David Cook of the U. S.
Navy is spending a leave until
February 22, with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Cook. He
took his basic training at
Great Lakes, 111. and will now
be stationed at Pensaoola, FLa.
Davie Wins
Over North
Rowan
MiOCKSVILL»E Davie Coun
ty High's Rebel* pulled away
Jtrona a stuMxvo North Ite
wan High quint for « 08-40
victory in the North Piedmont
Conference here last Tuesday
night.
The Rebels, who occupy sec
ond place in the league race,
managed a slim five-point
lead, 25-20, at h&Lftame, but
they exerted their power in
the last two stanzas to roil
up the 18-point victory.,
Davie out scored the Cava
liers by 18-12 in the third
period and 15-8 in the *«u»i
quarter.
It was the ninth conference
win against two setbacks for
the Rebels. They are 12-3 for
the season. The loss was
North's ninth in the loop a-!
gainst two wins. The Cavs are
2-13 for the campaign.
Randall 'Ward and Jerry
Hendrix set the pace for Da
vie Comity with 13 points
apiece. Fred Bailey followed
with 12 and Willkm Carter
added 10.
Benny Craig fired in 16
points to lead the Carvalierß.
Tommy Thompson was run
ner-up in the scoring with 12.
In the opener of the twin
bill, Davie County's girls edg
ed North Rowan, 35-31. They
broke a 22-22 deadlock at the
end of the third period to take
the win-
Marsha Bailey fired in 19
points to lead the Davie girls.
Grace Wraight had 16 points
for North Rowan.
Davie's girls remained in
second place with a 9-2 rec
ord. They are 11-44 for the
season. North is 3-8 in the
conference and 4-10 for the
year. ♦
i Hie summary:
Girls Game
NORTH ROWAN (31)
Wraight 15, Allen, Lackey 2,
Brooks, Bowen 8, L. Barnes
2, J. Barnes 1, Graham 2.
DAVIE COUNTY (35) Bai
ley 19, Jordan 10, Hiartman,
Markland 4, Brigman, Miller,
N. Allen, Cornatzer 2.
Score by quarters:
Davie County 9 5 8 13-35
North Rowan 5 7 10 9—31
Bon Game
Pos.
»*vle County .58
F Hendrix 13
F Bailey 12
C Deadmon 8
0 Ward 13
G darter 10
North Rowan (48)
F T. Thompson 12
F Craig 16
C Redding 2
G Ward 2
G 4
Subs: North Rowan —Mel
ton 2, Sparger! Davie Coun
ty Mando.
Scan by quarters:
1 Davie Oaoßfcr 11 12 18 15—88
North hmaa 18 18 18 I—lß
COOLEEMEE, N. C. t THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1967
Liria Allen b 1967 Betty
Cracker Homemaker Of Tomorrow
Linda tfaye Allen, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Gaither Allen of Route 2,
Mocksville, North Carolina, by
finishing Hirst in a written
homemaking knowledge and
attitude examination for seni
or girls December 6, became
Davie County High Schools
1967 Betty Crocker Homemak
er of Tomorrow.
Faye is now eligfcle for pos
sible state and national scho
larship awards. Her test also
earned her a specially design
ed silver charm from General
Mills, sponsor of the Betty
Christine Ann
Geselbracht
Mr. and Mrs. Kim Gordon
Geselbracht of West view Apts.
Remount Road, Charlotte, an
nounce the birth of a 6 lh.
12 ounce daughter, Christine
Ann, on February 4th at the
Presbyterian Hospital m Char
lotte. Mrs. Geselbracht is the
former Miss Linda Schladens
ky, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Schladenaky of Mocks
ville.
The paternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ges
elbracht of Charlotte.
Two Cooleemee
Youths Hurt
Two Cooleemee youths were
injured Sunday morning at
12:30 February 12, five
miles south of Mocksville, on
RFR 1802.
Thomas Allen McSwaim was
a passenger in the car and
was taken to Baptist Hospital
in Winston-Salem for treat
ment
Donald Jacobs was taken
to Rowan Memorial Hospital
and later transferred to a Fort
Bragg Hospital.
Completes Special Management
Course For Supervisors
MONTGOMERY, ALA.
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel
William A. Coat, son of W.
Ansel Cox Jr. of 406 Longview
Ter., Greenville, S. C. f has
completed a special personnel
and resources management
course for supervisors at
Montgomery AFB, AM.
Colonel Cox, a personnel
staff officer, is assigned to
USAF Headquarters in Wash
ington, D. C.
The colonel, who served
during the Korean War, was
commissioned in 1950 upon
completion of the Air Force
Reserve Officers Training
Corps program at The Citadel,
Charleston, South Carolina,
Library News
Great Decisions - 1907
February 20-7:10 P M. •
Davie County
Public Library
Subject: Viet Nam
Leader: Marty Btchison
Film showing - February
27 7:30 P. M.
Davie County Public Library
"HE IS RISEN"
Did you know that your
library receives sixty-four pe
riodicals subscribing to
thirty-six of them and receiv
ing the others as gifts? Some
ot the subjects covered in
these are antiques, travel, cur
rent events, sports, home-mak
ing, science, nature study and
literature.
Several are for young peo
ple, Including Seventeen for
teen-agers and a practical lit
tle craft magazine for young
er children.
When you have time, come
in and enjoy sampling the
variety of periodicals ready
and waiting beside the com
fortable, inviting chairs. Set
tle back luxuriously and take
a little vacation from daily
routine while you catch up
oil your favorite subject Wa
will be ioahtag far jraul
Crocker Search for the Ame
rican Homemaker of Tomor
row.
A State Homemaker of To
morrow and runner-up will be
selected from the winners of
Tomorrow.
A state Homemaker of To
morrow and runner-up will
be selected from the winners
of all schools in the state,
with the former receiving a
$1,500 college scholarship; her
school will be given a com
plete set at Encyclopaedia
Britannica by Encyclopaedia
Britannica, Inc. The runner
up will be awarded a SSOO
educational grant.
The Betty Crocker Home
maker of Tomorrow from this
state, together with those from
all oher states and the Dis
trict of Columbia, each ac
companied by her school
advisor, will join in an ex
pense paid educational tour
of Colonial Williamsburg, Va.,
and Washington, D. C., next
spring.
The national winner the
1967- All-American Home
maker of Tomorrow will be
announced at a dinner in Wil
liamsburg. She will be chos
en from the state winners on
the basis of original test score
plus personal observation and
interviews during the tour.
Her reward will be an in
crease in her scholarship to
$5,000. Second, third, and
fourth ranking national win
ners will have their original
scholarship grants increased
to $4,000, $3,000 and $2,000, re
spectively.
This is the 13th year of
the Betty Crocker Search for
the American Homemaker of
Tomorrow, initiated in 1954-55
by General Mills to empha
size the importance of home-'
making as a career. More then
5,000,00 senior girls have par
ticipated in the Search since
its inception, and 1,256 win
ners will have earned schol
arships totaling $1,371,500 at
the conclusion of the current
program.
The 581,334 girls and 14,-
753 schools registering for the
1967 Search established a new
record for the program.
where he received his B.A.
degree in history.
The Greenville Senior High
School graduate received his
M.A. degree in political sci
ence from Syracuse (N. Y.)
University.
His wife, Ruby, is the dau
ghter of Mrs. S. A. Bailey
o# 15 Erwin St., Cooleemee,
N. C.
GEORGE C. CASTOR, JR.
Castor Named
Supervisor
George C. Castor, Jr. has
been named Supervisor of
Erwin Mills, a Division of
Burlington Industries.
Mr. Castor was born in
Rowan County, graduated
from Granite Quairy High
School and completed the In
ternational Correspondence
Ourse in Yarn Preperatkm.
He is married to the former
Miss Rachel Rebecca Brady
of Karmapolis and was asso
ciated with the Cannon Mills
Company in Concord, North
Carolina for 17 yeara. MR
Castor is a member of the
Ml Mope United Church of
Christ and is Assistant Sooisfc
Master at Troop 3M in Salis
bury i
Flying Saucers Over
Cooleemee???...
H COMMENTS
by Mary Alice Hasty
The setting was like something from Mark Twain.
The night is lighted solely by a pale quarter moon glimpsed
occasionally through heavy, low-lying clouds. The hugh frame
structure, windows boarded shut for several years, has *»h~»
into a pitiful state oi disrepair; what the elements have spar
ed the vandals have destroyed, and where gaiety and warm
lights once prevailed there is now only eerie grotesqueness.
Weeds are head high, and one has to walk carefully down the
steep path leading from the yard to the mounds of coal
beside the railroad tracks, and on to the river beyond. Trees
raise naked limbs in silent protest to the February sky. The
only sounds come from the rustling: of the weeds and the roar
oi the water in the blackness below. One would not care to
go there alone, even when the sun is shining.
It is possible, however, that there have indeed been many
visits made nearby, by persons indescribable riding in objects
unidentifiable from planets who-knows-wbereable?
We were there Wednesday night, aloof with about 54
others, and we stood precariously on the *iw»R coal -""■'T
shivered in the cold wind, talked to persons unrecognisable by
flashlight, as we stared into the sky.
It all started last summer, but word has just gotten out
because most people are prone to be sceptical when excitable
teenage boys get excited.
Terry Ridenhour was walking home from Scout meeting
one night when he saw what appeared to be a bright object in
the sky that was like nothing he had ever seen before. It
was hovering over the river beyond the abandoned hotel.
No one would believe Terry except his buddy, Gary Mee
«vfc Both saw it the next night and the next, and the neat
Nothing much happened after that until last Sunday. The boys
took two teenage girl friends over for a look, and lo and behold,
all four of them saw something
Now if no one will listen to excitable teenage boys, they
certainly will to excitable teenage girls ... or else they would
never stop talking ... so the parents investigated and word
got around.
Rumor has it that the same bright object (or objects that
behave in the same pattern) has been seen Sunday. Monday,
and Tuesday nights of this week, usually between 8:00 and
9:00 p.m. at the same spot over the river.
I arrived on the scene at 8:30 Wednesday night and was
apparently too late for the show. A group of young boys was
leaving as I arrived, and they were convinced they had Just
seen something.
Things were in a general state of confusion until I spied
Harold Foster calmly smoking a cigarette and clutching a
powerful flashlight. He had, indeed, just minutes before watch
ed three objects in the sky through powerful binoculars, and
then severail other persons had observed the same scene
through the same binoculars.
The objects were between them and the cloud-obscured
moon. There appeared to be three of them flying in a V for
mation until they were overhead and then one seemed to
merge with another and then there were only two. They ap
peared to be quite large, were brilliantly lighted (the light was
yellow-orange and did not flicker) and looked as though
there were lighted windows all the way down the sides. They
were cigar-shaped, had no visible wings, no vapor trail, and
made no noise until they passed almost directly overhead:
then they emitted a high-pitched humming sound as they
moved away and finally out of sight.
Other observers state emphatically that the objects were
two jets and one prop-driven airplane.
Perhaps the argument will soon be settled. Harold operates
the Photo and Gift Shop, and he had his camera ready. He took
pictures of whatever was in the sky over the South Fork River,
and if the exposure was right we shall soon know more.
The performance tonight does not match what Terry and
Gary insist they have seen several times over.
I saw nothing but an abandoned and dilapidated building:
Got chilled, plus dirty feet from the coal pile, and a column
that might be of Interest to UFO addicts.
I do not scoff. I believe just about anything is possible,
but I'll have to do mi own seeing. This means that any UFO
I see will have to be practically withing touching distances
since I can't tell the Milky Way from the Big Dipper, or an
airplane from a star.
Cooleemee Boys Vie For
Tournament Champs
On Saturday, February 18th,
the Cooleemee boys will meet
the Mocksville boys at 8:00
P. Ml at Advance for the
Tournament Championship of
the Davie County Junior Ath
letic Association Basketball
Leogule. During the regular
season play Mocksville finish
ed in first place with %n 8-1
record. Cooleemee l«>t to
Mocksville by one point the
last game of the regular sea
son; thereby, missing a tie
for first place. In the first
round of the Tournament
Mocksville boys defeated Ad
vance and Cooleemee boys de
feated Parmington. Chevie
Boyoe was the leading scorer
for Cooleemee with 16 points.
Ttm OmtixHn— girk Mtftad
their season by losing to
Mocksville in the first round
of the tournament The girli
wound up regular season play
with a 2-7 record tying for
third place with Farming ton.
On Saturday night the Mocks
ville girls will play Advance
at 7:00 P. M. for the girli
Championship. In Jfct Hint
roung of the Tournament Ad
vance girls defeated Farming
ton and the Mocksville girls
defeated Cooteemee.
In regards to the Tourna
ment admission is 60c for ad
ults and 25c for students.
The Cooleemee Boys would
appreciate a great (foal of sup
port for their game this Sat
urday night. Let's all go and
i bring teak *• Gmafrm
PUBLISHED THUBSDAt
An increasing number of
local citizens have reported
seeing Unidentified Flying
Objects in the Cooleemee are*
in the last several weeks.
Most reports at toe UFO"«
in the past week were Might"
ed near the Cooleemee Dam.
Several people have irfiiniai
a strange lifted object swoo
ping down over the old ho
tel and landing in the woods
across the river.
During the past week large
numbers oi people have been
gathering behind the old ho
tel, along the railroad tracks
and around the dam observing
the strange lights.
Wednesday night b«tam—
-7 o'clock and 9 o'clock ap
proximately 25-30 objects wane
sighted. Most at them MM
identified as airpUm** but
some had beautiful brilliant
colors, others stopped com
pletely still in the air, son*
turned their Ugh to complete
ly off and two appeared im
be wingless and cigar shaped
with lighted windows.
Other sightings were re
ported from North CooleasaM
and Greasy Corner.
We hope to have a norm
detailed report in next nneafe
Journal.
SttwrCjtizws
Eighty-three ffr citiaagfct^H
with three visitors, Mrs.
becca Byerly Htnkle of Wins
ton - Salem, sod MHIIW
Swaim and Chamberlain at
Salisbury' met Monday morn
ing. After singing the opening
hymn, Chaplain, Mrs. Annia
Miller brought our intern#*
ing devotional on Mioses, the
great leader of God's choseji
people. She read the iwmdiftg
90th Psalm which he wrote
and brought out highlights oi
his life. She also rend n rate
from the 34th Chapter of Deuk
teronomy and quoted a poem
on The Burial of Moses, clos
ing with prayer.
Mrs. Ida Foster brought a
lovely arrangement of flowern.
We also had a beautiful floral
bouquet of pink gladiolee
which were given in honor ot
our president, Mr. Granville
Spry and Mrs. Spry's 48th
wedding anniversary.
Get well cards this month
were sent to Mrs. Louis Kir
dares, Mrs. Ida Massey, Mrs.
Granville McCullough, and Mr.
Lindsey Head, was the ooig
member known to be on the
sick list at the present
The program was a humor
ous one, Mrs. ML H. Riden
hour read the poem, "St Pe
ter at the Golden etc?" ant
then five women and five
men had a 2-minute confab ;
without the use of any per* 1
sonal pronouns. If you vent >
to know how difficult it
just try it.
After singing 'The More
We Get Together", refresh- |
ments and informal singing {
was enjoyed.
Our February birthday par
ty will be on February 37,
at 10 A M.
Episcopal Church
Women Meet
On Wednesday evening the |
Episcopal Church woned of
Cooleemee and Fork held
joint meeting at the hoM o
Mre. Lucille Greene in Fork*
Sevan members Iran Cooiee*» .
mae and se>ven from Fork
were present tor the mepßl
ing. After separate business
sessions, the group aaosmMrj «
for the pnogram on The MH
er Book pvosautfed by
Alvin Pott# with Mjeq.
Swicegood. M the close
the meeting, the hostess
Lillian Si
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