Davie Library 5-3-66
Mockaville, N C 27028
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Clothing From Cooleemee
Makes A Big Hit In Vietnam
Don Overcash
Gets Plaque
For Service
Remember last Christmas
when you received a plea for
clothes to be sent to Vietnam?
Maybe you don't realize it,
but you came through in a big
way: Thirteen boxes of clothes
from Cooleemee were the first
to arrive in the Cam Ranh Bay
area.
The man behind this project
was Spec./4 Donald R- Over
cash, son of Mr'and Mrs. Ray
Overcash of 50 Duke Street.
Donald went to Vietnam last
August, arriving on the seventh,
as * welder in the 150th-TTans>~
portation Battalion.
In his spare time, he began
working with chaplains in thfr
area and he soon learned that
we needed to send clothes as -
well as guns to win the battle
over Communism there.
He wrote each church in
Cooleemee, eiplaning the prob
lem and asking for you to help
by sending clothes. Many pieces
of dothing in the 18 baskets
sent by the churches and the
Davie Republican Women's Clob
were distributed in what was
then Viet-Cong held territory.
Many of the little boy* and
girls were , running around
naked until Donald received
your hues. * Under the chap
lains' guidance, da, including
Donald, distributed Ihe clothes
and ehippetf Jfciraiy of their
own to buy food and toys from
Okinawa.
It wafe t big Christmas Ike
Cam Ranh Bay'area for the
Vietnamese children thanks
to the folks in Cootoeaee.
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Dm OvaiCMfc mopt o picture off CoohiiiM clothing bihg dhtHbilil li Vithw.
Meanwhile, Donald becMßt to
Interested in Hie aid program
that he was transferred from
the transportation battalion to
the chaplain's office as an aa
aiatant chaplain
ln Memory Off Miss Rosa Mae Tatum
BY A FRIEND
"Hello, Mia Rode," seemed
to be uttered by two genera
tions el cUMim
Of entree, adults called her
TMHsb Rosa" and some parents
even on their children
saying "Rosa." but It was
"Roslo" spoken affectionately
.by the majority.
Walking with her by a group
oi boys eagerly engaged in a
game, not one, but ell ealled
out "Hello, m« Basle," and
back to fee game. She bed been
tfufhT Hi «iif if not more
of their primery grades. They
inspected her fur she nntctttt
May t parent, hevol htiei
•ay, "T» gled my boy b in
Wrtwfi toom for 1 know
she" vfll make him behave Urn
vutfams
R*a, ehe also drilled honesty,
fair play, and conrteey, end
tteeejvho rf ttne
mm Rene Tatum's rspertnre
- MM ROSA TATUM
.«• ms-ifcv
was the last link the First Bap
tist Church had with its foun
ders. She wts the youngest of
the six members of her family
thet made up half of tho
charter members when the. ■
church w|e organised in 1M&
Two otter members of . tfit -
family, Mrs. Sedie Tatum DWFi:
ham of Lumberton and Ho.
Pattie Tatum Moore of Wash
ington, D. O, moved their smub
bership upon leering Coolsemee.
The others are iscssssi
Mas Reea wes In bod health
when An wont te the with bar
brother snd becense ehe Idt
put in the Flnt Baptist Church
of Salisbury, the decided to
it had been during her active
years. She loved her church
mil |a the s^k*!
and was loader of the Sun
beams (a missionary organisa
tion for children) for many
years.
Later she became president
of the Woman's Missionary So
ciety and led all the missionary
organisations for fourteen years.
It was after many years of
her leadership that her church,
for the ftxst and last time, re
.firind highest recognition In
~fks-Jtite as being an A 4
vjlu. ~
The Tattfm family lived en
tech Street in the boose now
sssMpisd hp Mr. and Mrs. L H.
ttuske Her father died in his
early fifties. Her brothers sad
sisters made homes of their own
an 4she was left to care *r
her nislhsi who lived la a dpe
eld age.
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