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Dave Cover and Wayne Wagner left Tueiday with
a truck packed to capacity with more than 75 boxes
of supplies to be sent to the disaster areas.
Jaycees Collect
Items For Many
Disaster Victims
Local Jaycees are participating in a state-wide drive
to collect food, money and clothes for the victims
of Hurricane Camille on the Gulf Coast and in Virginia.
President Dave Cover met State President Jim Ollis
Monday at the Winston Salem Airport for a conference
concerning the collection.
Cover said that the most needed supplies at the
moment are medical and monetary with which to rebuild.
However, any items collected and not needed in
Mississippi or Louisiana will be sent to Virginia and West
Virginia.
The pickup drive will be held through Thursday.
Those wishing to contribute to "Operation Helping Hand"
may do so by contacting any Jaycee or calling Cover at
284-3024. Checks should be made out to operation helping
hand.
Items donated will be transported to the disaster
areas by the huge transport planes of the North Carolina
Air National Guard.
Packaging and loading of the supplies will be done by
the N. C. Truckers Association.
Legion Post No. 54
Wants New Members
American Legion Post No. 54 has opened its annual
membership drive which will continue through Novem
ber.
Members of the Post have divided into two >Aamt
for the drive. Tom Vogler and Donnie Correll head up the
teams and are co-chairmen of the drive.
Each Legionnaire signing up 10 members will be
eligible to attend a go-getter banquet. The goal for the
Post is 200 members.
Special emphasis is being given to recruiting World
War I and Vietnam veterans. The Post last year had 170
members.
The drive will be climaxed with a steak dinner for
veterans and their wives to be held around Veteran's Day.
Story Hour Is Scheduled
Story Hour for the four and
five year-old children will be
held again this year at the
Cooleemee Recreation Center.
All four-year-old children will
attend morning classes each
Monday from 9 to 11 a.m.
beginning September 8. The
five-year-olds will attend after
noon classes from 1:30 to 3:30
p.m.
The classes will consist of
stories, songs, fingerplays, col
oring, a game period and re
freshments.
The children are asked to
bring 15 cents each week for
their refreshments.
Mrs. Janie Vogler and Mrs.
Elizabeth Shepherd will be
teachers again for the 1960-70
year. Anyone interested in send
ing their children to Story Hour
may make arrangements to
enroll them on September 8, or
call Mrs. Shepherd at the Rec
reation Center.
Mills Final Gasp Is Dying Whistle I
It was a sad sound over the entire community at 10 cried when she heard the final dying sound,
p.m. Friday night when the mill whistle blew for the last Good grief.. .we'll all miss hearing that old familiar
time. sound at 6 a.m., 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. after all these years.
The men in the Boiler Room blew the whistle until The only employees remaining at the mill now are
there was no steam left—and then complete silence. warehousemen, a group of workers to handle the village
One lady in the community commented that she even maintenance, and a skeleton office crew.
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SEE PAGE 3
Lions Begin Annual
Birthday Calendar Drive
It's Cooleemee birthday ca- "Just about everybody in has sponsored this project for
lendar time again, and the spon- Cooleemee knows that today is years," he said,
soring Lions Club has begun the birthday of Myrtle Byrd, Calendars are sold at cost and
collecting the birthday dates of Emma Dedley and Lester Over- the proceeds from the advertis
local residents for the calendar cash. ing sales of the listings go to the
to be published soon. "In a community the size of club's many charitable outlets
Vernon Stout, chairman of the Cooleemee, nobody outside the and results in civic betterment
publication, stressed the valu- immediate circle of relatives all over.
able role the calendar plays in a nd close friends would know or If you are not contacted and
keeping the sense of togeth- C are about such an important wish to have your birthday and
erness in the community. date in the lives of a neighbor anniversary listed on the Cool-
big city does have some Hie calendar lets you know. eemee Community Birthday
advantages, but there's nothing "The Lions Club can be cred- Calendar call Stout at 284-4661,
as friendly and comforting as ited with helping neighbor know or any Lion can be of service to
living right where we are," more about neighbor. The club you.
Stout said.