64rii Year
No . 5
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Rainy Day Smile
Eugene Reynolds flashes a rainy day smile after school during a recent bad weather spell.
More pictures relating to wet weather in Cooleemee can be seen on page three of today's
Journal. (Photo by Barringer).
Davie's Martha Ann Barney
Nominated For Scholarship
GREENSBORO Miss Mar
tha Ann Barney of Route 3,
Mocksville, is one of 13 high
school seniors from seven area
counties who will be inter
viewed here Wednesday, Feb. 4,
by the Katharine Smith Rey
nolds Scholarship Committee
from District Five.
The 13 young women will be
Mrs. Davidson's
Fifth Grade
Visits Center
Mrs. Vallie S. Davidson and
29 fifth grade students from
William R. Davie Elementary
School were special guests ol
the Salisbury-Rowan-Davie
Supplementary Educational
Center on Wednesday, January
29,
Each of the 4 Center Special
ists, James B. Lloyd, William
W. Suggs, Mrs. Beatrice H.
Blount, and Mrs. Thelma V.
Hamilton, assisted the teacher
in her daily schedule of Social
Studies, Space Science, Nature
Studies and Art. Mrs. Davidson
taught the boys and girls other
subject matter during the day
that she would have taught had
they been in their own class
room. They had a planetarium
program and saw the current
African Printmaker exhibit in
the Center Art Gallery.
competing for a Reynolds Schol
arship to the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro.
The scholarship will be worth
$6,400 for four years of study at
UNC-G.
Mrs. Walter Abbe 111 of Win
ston-Salem is chairman of the
committee which will select two
district finalists. The district
finalists will be interviewed in
Greensboro March 16 by the
Reynolds Scholarship Central
Committee.
Jaycettes Valentines
Dance Set Next Sat.
The annual Valentines dance,
sponsored by the Cooleemee
Jaycettes. will be held Satur
day, February 14, at the Cool
eemee Gymnasium beginning
at Bp.m. until 11 p.m.
The entertainment will be
provided by the "Absolute Mi
nority Group." a combo from
Statesville.
A Valentine Sweetheart will
be crowned by last years win
ner, Miss Annette Eckerd, dur
ing the evening.
All girls, who are students at
Davie High School are eligible
to enter and are asked to contact
any Cooleemee Jaycette. The
girls are also asked to please
turn in a photograph of them
COOLEEMEE. NORTH CAROLINA
Wednesday, Fdiwn; 4,1970
The Central Committee will
name one winner from each of
11 districts in the state, and will
also choose one winner-at-large
from the 22 final nominees.
The Reynolds Scholarships
were established in 1962 by the
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
in Winston-Salem in memory of
Katharine Smith Reynolds, wife
of the founder of the Reynolds
Tobacco Company, an alumna
of UNC-G, and mother of the
late R. J. Reynolds Jr.
selves to Mrs Dorothy Richard
son, a teacher at Davie High.
The price is $1 stag and $1.75
per couple. The concession
stand will also be open.
Holland Serving
In Albany, Ga.
Navy Petty Officer Third
Class James W. Holland Jr.,
husband of the former Miss
Karen Morton of Cooleemee,
N.C., is serving at the U. S.
Naval Air Station in Albany,
Ga.
Cooleemee Man Named
Davie County Manager
MOCKSVILLE - John Bar
ber of Cooleemee is the first
county manager of Davie Coun
ty-
Barber. associated with Bur
lington Industries, was hired as
the first official county man
ager during yesterday's meet
ing of the Davie County Com
missioners.
Barber, who worked at the
Erwin Mills plant until the re
cent closing presumably will
assume office in his new capac
ity after working a notice with
the company.
Commissioners voted una
miously to hire Barber as coun
ty manager, who will in the job
coordinate all county offices
and functions.
Commissioners previously
had set up a SIO.UUO item in the
budget in anticipation of hiring
a fulltime manager.
Barber's "office" will be a
shared arrangement in the
county accountant room, specif
ically because no vacant space
exists for a private office in the
courthouse
In other action yesterday,
commissioners re-appointed for
one year terms the Davie Coun
ty Fire Commission members
including Wade Groce, Andrew
Lagle. J. W. Everhardt and
JohnM. Bailey.
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Davie cheerleaders, Lou Young, seated, and Teresa Cook
and Joyce Call, standing, whoop it up during a recent Rebel
victory. Davie is riding high in the North Piedmont boys
race and is a strong favorite to snare its second straight
championship.
12 Pages
10 Cents
John liarber
Three road petitions were re
ceived. approved and for
warded to the Slate Highwway
Commission for action.
The petitions included re
questing state maintenance of
the Sam Howard Road in Farm
ington Township, and for black
topping an unnamed rural road
1405 off Highway GUI North and
for Cedar Creek Koad number
1434.