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Jaycee Valentine Dance
Changed To Saturday
Cooteemee Jaycees have changed the date for
their 6th annual Valentine dance from thursday
to Saturday, Feb. IS at the Davie High Cafeteria.
The dance will be hdd from • to 12 p.m.
with music by the Charade's Revue Combo.
A Valentine Queen will be crowned with prises
going to the winner and nmners-up. Contestants
for the event will be selected by a group of Davie
High School students.
Admission to the dance will be $2.50 per
or SLSO stag. So make your plans to attend the
gala Valentine Dance and have yourself a ball.
Proceeds from the dance will be used for
Cooieemee Jaycees Community Development Pro
jects.
"Miss Vic"
k Dead
at 92
Mia Victoria Byeriy, 92, of
Rt. 4, Lexington, N. C., Ruddy
Creek community, died
Monday morning at the Haven
Convalescent Nursing Home in
Lexington. She had been in
dedming health for 6 months.
She was born February 2,
1877 to Wesley and Eliza
Swicegood Byeriy. Miss Byeriy
was a member of PriendAip
United Methodist Church,
Eastern Star of Mocksvffle,
Alumni of Woman*s College,
Greensboro, now the
umveißtty o( North
Swvhm include one sister,
Mis. Ida Byeriy Holt of Rt 4,
Lexington, and a number of
neices and nephews.
Funeral services wiD be
conducted at 2 p. m. Friday at
Friendship United Methodist
Church by the Rev. David E.
Hubbard. Internment will be in
the church cemetery.
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The family request in lieu of
flowers, memorials may be
made to the bufldiog fund of
the Friendship United
Methodist Church.
DAVIE HIGHWAY
1969 BOX SCORE
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| No. People Injured ..11
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Hugh Gabbert-
Cooleemee Cowboy
By HEALTH THOMAS
A recent national news story
pointed with anguish to the
American young generation who
finds the farm way of life not
to their liking.
hi short it was a replay of
that old song of several decades
ago "How Are You Going
to Keep Them Down on the
Farm?*
The agonizers could dry their
tears if they'd visit 13-year-old
Hugh Gabbert, a seventh grade
student at Cooteemee school.
Nobody i* going to keep Hugh
from keeping himself down on
the farm The husky, blue-eyed
lad is one-fourth the labor force
on the 409 acre dairy farm
operated by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Roger W. Gabbert.
There is just no labor prob
lem at the Gabbert
Farm where a herd of 116
Jersey milkers are kept in a
style to which few cows have
been accustomed. For here is
a 100 per cent family labor
force: Hugh, his father, his
mother, Alice, and his 16-year
old sister, Jennifer.
The kids hit the deck at 6
a.m. and attend to injuring
chores before meeting the
school buses. The work, where
all are concerned, is enjoyable
fun.
This results from a family
attitude. No cow nor chalf on
the farm is just another animal.
All the cows are named and
the many-worded registered
names are not used. No.
Now if Anna or Ramona or
dozens of other feminine names,
usually attributed to people, are
mentioned, every one in the
family knows which milker is
being talked about. The cows
and the ponies, too, are sort
of an extension of the family
circle.
Prince is a pony, foaled five
years ago on the Gabbert Farm.
He is owned lock-stock-and-bar
rel by Hugh. la naming the
lovely little pony, Hugh went
a step further than bestowing
a knighthood from the Gabbert
kingdom. For "Prince" denotes
true royalty.
Hugh broke and trained the
pony. If a herd needs to be
brought in from a pasture,
Hugh mounts Price ra »J the lit
tle pony knows exactly the work
that has been cut out for him.
Dairy cows are more gentle
than most of the beef breeds.
So Prince needs little in
struction from his young
master. The pony will circle
the herd and get them moving
with as much intelligence as
a trained sheep dog in turning
stragglers in the right direction.
In addition to working with
the dairy cows, Hugh is a
master at operating farm
machinery.
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