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2101 Better Printing and ^ THE EACLE _I VOLUME FORTY-NINE ^ (Published Every Wednesday) Cherryville, N. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1954 * NUMBER SIXTEEN GARDNER-WEBB HITS PJC HERE SAT. NIGHT ^j,,^********* ************** ********** ************ ************ ****** WOMAN'S CLUB TO PRESENT OPERETTA THURSDAY APRIL 29th ***,********• ************** * ******** * ************ ***** * ****** ***** A. A. U. CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING TOURNAMENT APRIL 30-1st At Starnes Auditorium The Cherryville Woman’s Club will sponsor an operetta entitled ‘ White Gypsy” to be given at the Starnes Auditorium on Thursday evening, April 29, at 8:00 o’clock. This operetta will be presented by the three seventh grades of Elementary School Number One, the grades of Miss Fannie Farris, Mrs. D. O. Rudisill, and Mr. L. Berge Beam, Jr. The tickets are being sold by members of the Cherryville Wo man’s Club. Adult tickets are 50c and children’s tickets are 25c. Mrs. Eli Beam Returns From Florida Trip Mrs. Eli Beam has just returned from an extended visit to Florida where she visited her daughters, Mrs. Richard Carpenter in Home stead and Mrs. John Passage in Miami. While there Mrs. Beam visited many of the local points of interest and together with Mrs. Passage made a trip to Havana, Cuba on a Pan American Airways Constellation. They saw many in teresting historical sights includ ing the capital building, the old Catholic churches, the City Ceme tery, the World famous Corona tobacco factory and an »Ilig£.*u. goods factory. Another day they ? made a tour of the countryside and learned how Cuban farmers lived. Also Mrs. Beam and Mrs. Passage visited historical Morro Castle which is one of the oldest forts in this hemisphere and guards the entrance to Havana Harbor. Mrs. Beam returned home Mon day via Eastern Airlines. Last Rites Held For Clarence D. Mode Mr. Clarence Dixon Mode, 77, retired farmer of Lincoln county, died Sunday, April 18th, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. C. L. Crowder, Jr., of Cherryville. Funeral services were held at Reep’s Grove Methodist Church at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon. The Rev. Donald Fisher was in charge of the service assisted by Rev. E. S. Elliott and Rev. Archie Turner of Cherryville. Pallbearers were grandsons: Harold Saine, Fermon Mode, F. E. Thornburg, all of Newton; Cle ment Dellinger and David Brid ges, Jr., of Cherryville; and Bob by Costner of Lincolnton. Honorary Pallbearers were: D. M. Tallant, I. I. Putnam, Gaston Wise, Ellis Hoyle, Swayne Hoyle, John Boyles and Fred Shuford. Flower girls were grand-daugh ters and friends of the family. Mr. Mode was born in 1876 and joined Reeps Grove Methodist Church in early manhood and re mained a faithful member until death. He had been in declining health for several years. . Surviving are his wife, Martha Hoyle Mode, eight daughters, Mrs. C. L. Crowder, Jr., Mrs. John Dellinger of Cherryville; Mrs. Nettie Saine, Mrs. Edna Costner of Hickory; Mrs. Juanita Sigmon, Newton; Mrs. Russelle Dodson, Boone; Mrs. Beulah Boy les, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. W. Webb, Mooresville; Three sons, Jim Mode of Lincolnton: Henry Mode of San Francisco, Cal., and Hughes Mode of New Brunswick, N. J. One son, Archie, deceased, fifteen great-grand children also Twenty-nine grand children and survive. Burlm Craig With Carpenter’s Funeral Home Ins. Dept. Mr. Burlin Craig, operator of the Lusterway Dry Cleaners, is now representing the Indepen dence Life Insurance Company of Charlotte which is operating through Carpenter’s Funeral Home Office at 704 East Main St., also Carpenter’s Burial Associa tion. The Independence Life In surance pays off in cash to a bene ficiary which issues policies from one day to seventy years of age, payable in cash. He will also write Burial Association Members from 1 year to 66 years, paying $100 and $200. Mr. Craig has been with the Im perial Life Insurance Company for ten years and is well qualified as an insurance salesman. Contact him for «*<»• and in formation or call Carpenter s Fun eral Home. Girl Staters FRANCES ANN HARRELSON Miss Frances Ann Harrelson and Miss Harriette Ann Seals, Juniors of Cherryville High School, have been chosen by the American Legion Auxiliary to at tend the Fifteenth Annual Girls State at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, June 6-11. Girls’ State is an educational program in Americanism. The Cherryville American Legion. Auxiliary is sponsoring Miss f antes Aim Harrelson and Miss Harriette Ann Seals, because of their high rank in scholarship and citizenship, their qualities of lead ership, dependability, mental alertness .and participation in many school and community ac tivities. Miss Frances Ann Harrelson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C.. Harrelson, she is in terested in and participates in many school activities. A member of the Cherryville High School Band, Glee Club, Beta Club, Fut ure Teachers of America Club, Future Homemakers of America Club, Dramatics Club, Allied Youth. She is pianist for Cherry ville High School orchestra and finalist for World "Speaking Con test, which was sponsored by the Cherryville Woman’s Club. Miss Harrelson is a Junior Marshal and plays for the graduation exercises for the Senior class of Cherryville every year. She is quite active in church work, and assistant organ ist at the First Methodist Church. Also officer and pianist for the Methodist Youth Fellowship, Sun day School pianist, and recently received a five year perfect at tendance pin for Sunday School. HARRIETTE ANN SEALS Miss Harriette Ann Seals is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Seals. She participates in many school activities and belong to the following clubs: Beta Club, Future Teachers of America Club, Music Club, Glee Club, Phy-Chem Club, Dramatics Club, and Allied Youth. She is a Junior Marshall and was a finalist in the World Peace Speaking Contest, which was sponsored by the Cherryville Roman's Club. Miss Seals is afto a good athlete and wait a member of the varsity basket ball team of the Cherryville High School. She is active in the work of the First Methodist Church, and is an officer of the Methodist Youth Fellowship. Cherryville is indeed proud of these two young citizens, typical of many of the fine students in the local schools, who contribute their time and talents to the bet terment of the civic and religious life of Cherryville. The Cherry ville unit of the American Legion Auxiliary is glad to have the priv ilege of sending these two girls to the Tar Heel Girls’ State, which was originated and established in 1940 by the American Legion Auxiliary Department of North Carolina as an Americanism pro ject for high school girls of the State an opportunity to study and practice citizenship in a demo cracy. For fourteen years it has developed within several thousand young leaders a deeper sense of their responsibility as citizens and proved to be a practical source of instruction in the structure and operation of the State Govern ment. Holding Revival REV. C. C. BROWN Revival At Church Of The Nazarene A Revival meeting will begin at the First Church of the Nazarene at the corner of East Carroll and South Jacob Street on Monday, April 26th, and will continue thru Friday, May 7th. Services will be conducted each evening at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. C. C. Brown will do the preaching with special singing by Rev. and Mrs. Robert F. Turner. Mr. Turner is pastor of this church. The public is cordially invited to attend these services. MRS. W. T. ROBINSON UNDERGOES OPERATION iMrs. W- T. Robinson underwent an operation at the Rptherford ton Hospital Tuesday ana is get ting along nicely. Haywood Kendrick Wins Video Set On "Place Face" Haywood (Bud) Kendrick of Cherryville couldn’t “place the face” last Thursday night, but he will recieve a Capehart television set for his elforts. Haywood was called by tele phone from California, where the “Place the Pace” television pro gram originates. The Cherryville native talked to Bill Cullen, who conducts the program. He was given an opportunity to name one of three persons whose faces appear in a special “face” shown weekly on the TV progfam. If he had given the correct iden tity of one of the two unidentified faces represented in the contest, Kendrick would have received $23,000.00. . Jimmy Stewart has been identified by a former con testant as a part of the facial fea tures, and the contest is continu ing until the other two persons are named. “Bud” gave .the name of Winn Elliott for his guess of one of the feces. Mr. Cullen informed the contestant that Elliott was not represented in the “face.” However, Mr. Kendrick, the popular Cherryville man, who en ters practically every contest on TV, Radio or otherwise, was told that he would receive a TV set for his participation in the con test. Mrs. Jack Randall Chm. Cancer Drive Mrs. Jack “Randall, member of the Junior Woman’s Club has been appointed Chairman for Cherry ville Township for the Cancer Drive which is being conducted during this month throughout the nation. The Cancer Drive in Cher ryville Township is sponsored by the Junior Woman's Club. Sponsored By Legion Post 100 Cherryville A. A. U., Champion ship Boxing Tournament will be held in Cherryville beginning on Friday, April 10th, and continue ing through May 1st. The Tour nament is being sponsored by the American Legion Tryon Post No. 100 here. The event will be held at the Cherryville High School Gymn at 8 P. M. each night. Boys from Lincolnton, Newton Mount Holly and 'other cities will compete. Nice trophies donated by Cher ryville Merchants and business men will be awarded on the final night. Weigh-In will take place on Thursday afternoon. April 29th, from 1 to 5 P. M. The admission is $1.00 for adults and 50c for the children. This is the first Boxing tourna ment to be held in Cherryville and a large crowd is expected to turn out. Cherryville has a good boxing team, be sure and come out and see them push the leather against their opponents. Deadline Rush Sees 59 In Gaston Races Gaston County voters have five weeks to study the candidates be fore marching to the polls on May 29 to vote in the Democratic primary. The filing deadline passed last Saturday, April 17th, with 50 can didates seeking the nominations of the Democratic Party in var ious township or county contests. Nine Republicans are running. The Republican Party has no pri mary this year, and its nominees won't go before the electorate un til November 2nd. Here is the full list of candi dates: County race*: State Senate, Pat Cooke and Kenneth Dellinger, Democrats; Bill Puett, Republican. iState house, David P. Dellinger, C. B. Falls, Jr., and Charles K. Bryant, Democrats; Paul Best and Hayes Armstrong, Republi cans. Sheriff. Hoyle Efird, Dwight Beam and Woodrow Austin, Dem ocrats; John W. Quinn, Jr., Re publican. Coroner, W. J. McLean and Harold W. Caray, Democrats. Clerk of court, Paul E. Monroe, Democrat. iCount.v treasurer, J. A. Or mand and Guy C. Ballard, Dem ocrats. . County surveyor, Janies Find lay, Democrat. . Dallas township: Commissioner, Dan Buckner and Robert F. Rhyne, Democrats; W. C. Walters, Republican. Constable, Raymond Teague, A. G. High, Jr., and Grady Clon inger. Democrats; Paul Walters, Republican. River Bend township: Commissioner, O. E. Massey, Democrat. Constable, J. C. Gowan, O. W. Cloninger, M. T. Welch, Jimmy Crump, C. T. Murphy, William G. Cloninger, Luther Abernathy, C. L. Huffstetler and Tom Mpr gan. Democrats. Gastonia township: Commissioner, W. B. Garrison, Democrat; Johnny Russell, Re publican. Constable. G. Phillips, J. B. Holt and Boyce Brandon, Demo crats. Magistrate, J. White Ware, Roy Jordan, D. Beatty Price and Benny Briekett, Democrats. Crowder’s Mountain townishp: Magistrate. M. L. Rhyne, J. W. F. Davis and William "M. Spivey, Democrats. Constable, oJhn A. Queen, R, E. Absher, Jake Black and Roy H. Barnes, Democrats; A. W. Hoyle, Republican. Cherryville township: iMagistrate, H. Clay Kiser, Democrat. Constable, R. E- Guffey and Garland H. Hallman, Democrats.. South Point township: Magistrate, W- N. Craig, Demo crat. . Constable, Roy M. Costner and Miles F. Hamyick, Democrats; J. R. Auten, Jr., Republican. FATHER OF MRS. HA > PASSES Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Harris were called to Robinsville in the 'Wes tern part of the state this morn ing due to the death of Mrs. Har ris’ father, Mr. J. W- Eller. Fun eral arrangements were incom plete, but probably will be held tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Harris have the sympathy of their many friends in Cherryville. Band Enters State Contest Friday Friday morning at 6 o'clock, the Cherryville High School Band will load up to travel to Greens boro where they will participate in the State Contest Music Festi val. This trip was made possible through band’s efforts and super id** rating which they received at the district contest Festival held in Salisbury on March 19. This year the band will be in the clas sification of Grade IV along with schools such as Gastonia, Salis bury, Charlotte Myers Bark and Durham. In the district contest at Salisbury the band received three superior ratings from the three judges. The band is schedul ed to play at 10:55 a. in., Ay cock Auditorium, W.C.U.N.C. ICn May 3 the band will present its annual Spring Concert, Star nes Auditorium, at 10:30 and 8:00 p.m. On this program the band will feature as guest soloist Mr. William Walsh, a profession al clarinetist. The band will ac company Mr. Walsh in three se lections. The second half of the concert will be presented by the band. Admission prices - 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for stu dents. The 10:30 a.m., concert will be given to the student body and admission will be 10c. The May 16 concert will be the traditional Sunday afternoon Se nior Farewell Concert. This con cert has been the tradition for the past seven years and is dedicated the seniors in the band, who make up the officers: Bob Long, President: Martha" Jon Blackwel der, vice-president; Mary Ann Austell, Treasurer; Nancy Harris, Secretary; Librarian, Meta Daug alis. Revival Services At Bess Chapel Church DR. W. O. WELDON You are invited to worship at the Bess Chapel Methodist Church during the Revival Servic es, April 25th to May 2nd. Dr. Wilson O. Weldon will be the visiting minister. The pastor will preach Sur day morning, April 25, and Dr. Weldon will preach Sun day night, April 25th and each evening thereafter at 7:30 o’ clock. You are cordially welcome tc come and enjoy good preach ing and congregational singing.. Dr. Weldon is a very outstand ing minister of the Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church. He acquired his education at the University of South Carolina and Duke Uni versity. He has done outstanding work in the field of Christian Ed ucation, and has been a success ful, and loved minister in all his appointments; s-rving at present in the Main Street Methodist Church, Gastonia. He is a Rotar ian, Mason, and Shriner.. He is married and has three children. The public is cordially invited to all of the services. MATTHEW A. STROUP RETURNS TO HOSPITAL Mr. Matthew A. Stroup, local Attorney, Secretary-Treasurer of the Cherryville Production Credit Association, Attorney for the Cherryville B. &. L. Ass’n., and City Attorney for the town re turned to Gaston Memorial Hos pital in Gastonia today for fur ther treatment. MR. T. E. SUMMER IMPROVING NICELY ( - The many friends of Mr. T. E. Hummer will be glad to know he is improving nicely at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Otto Dell inger and Mr. Dallinger in Shel by after being ill for several weeks. 4 Boy Staters W. CONE CARPENTER, Jr. A committe of faculty members and American Legion official: selected in a meeting on April 15 two members of the junior class at Cherryville High School to re present the local Legion post at Boys State in June. William Cone Carpenter, Jr., and Charles Black, Jr., were selected by the commit tee on the basis of their leader ship qualities, conscientiousness, and service to the school. Cone, Jr., is a .member of the Allied Youth, the Beta Club, Student Council and is a member of the First Methodist Church. Charles is a member of the Allied Youth, Monogram Club, a member of the football team, is homeroom presi dent, and is vice president of the Student Council. He is a member ol the First Baptist Church. Boys State has been conducted at Chapel Hill each year by the CHARLES BLACK, Jr. American Legion since 1939. Out standing rising high school seniors selected from all over North Carolina are sent to the Univers ity of North Carolina’s widely recognized government - teaching branch, the Institute of Govern ment. to hear lectures and discus sions1, by public officials, faculty members, and leading Legion naires. As a part of their train ing, the delegates attending each year have organized their own cities, counties, and state, elected their own officials, and put into practice some of the theories of government they have studied. The session of Boys State this year will be held June 13-20 and we are certain both delegates from Cherryville will serve their school, town, and Legion Post well hi performing their duties while at Chg,pel Hill. Dr. & Mrs. Metcalf Attend C. of O. Education will be the keynote when optometrists from the Sou theast attend the 30th annual Southeastern Congress of Optom etry in Charlotte April 25-28. In addition to the educational values for the optometrists, who will learn the latest optometric developments for vision analysis, a good portion of the meeting will , be devoted to . the problems of vision in the schools. North Carolina school teachers will he invited by the optome trists throughout the state to hear Dr. F. M. Root of Cedar Fall, Iowa, an outstanidng authority on vision and its relationship to school reading, spepak on the vis ually handicapped in today’s class rooms. . Today’s child reads some 15 times as much material as was required in the schools of 1900, and Dr. Root will point out a number of systoms that a teacher may observe in the classroom to determine when a child’s difficul ties are stemming from inade quate vision. Other speakers at the meeting will be Dr. A. M. Skeffington of St. Louis, Mo., educational direc i tor for the Optometric Extension Program, and Dr. T. R. Mur roughs, associate director of psy chology and director of the labor atory "of Binocular Seeing at the Northern Illinois Colleg of Optom etry. Ahout 300 optometrists from ton Southeastern states are ex pected to attend. Attending from C'herryville will he Dr. and Mrs. [Charles G. Metcalf, j The spring meeting of the North Carolina State Optometric i Society and its women’s auxiliary [ will be held in conjunction with i the Congress, and a n ew slate of officers will be elected. Dr. James A. Palmer of Charlotte is the present president. The meeting will he held at the Hotel Char lotte. j Scottish Rite Re Union In Charlotte The Scottish Rite of Freema sonry will hold their Spring Re union in Charlotte next week for four days and nights beginning Monday morning, April 26th at 8:30 o’clock. Candidates from Cherryville during this re-union are the foll owing: Messrs D. Ray Ballard, Fenton L. Larson and Fred K. Houser. Those participating in the conferring of the degrees will be Dr. R. J. Morrison and Hon. David P. Dellinger, both of whom hold the 33rd, degre# which is the highest degree to be conferred 1 anywhere. ’■«•. \ '.... - Golf Tournament At Country Club The first and second rounds of the Spring Tournament at the Country Club saw five “Sudden Death,’’ Playoffs with Ben R. Ru disill defeating Martel Beam 1 up on the 19th; Glenn Leonard defeating F. L. Larson 1 up, on the 2lst; B. B. McKelvey defeat ing Paul Marklin 1 up on the 19th, Jack Middlebrooks defeat ing Dr. L. L. Chastain I up on the 19th, and Pete Blackwelder de feating Carl Stevens 1 up on the 21st. Final rounds will be played this week. PAIRINGS: Fir»t Flight: M. E. Seals or Hugh Putnam vs Raleigh Putnam. Second Flight: Ben R. Rudisill vs Glenn Leo nard. Third Flight: Arthur Knight vs B. B. McKel vey. Fourth Flight: Dave Thornburg vs L. B. Dog gett, . Fifth Flight: Russ Boggs vs Pete Blackwel der. Sixth Flight: L. S. Stroupe vs Carlyle Sum mer. Seventh Flight: Jack Duffy vs Tom Mundy. Eighth Flgiht: K. B. Beam vs Howard Houser. Ninth Flight: J. B. Dellinger vs Jimmy Put nam. Rev. George Riddle Is Commissioner ATLANTA, GA., April 16— The Rev. George Riddle of Cher ryville, N. C., pastor of the Cher ryville Presbyterian Church, was certified today as an official com missioner to the General Assem bly of the Presbyterian Church, u. s. ! Announcement that Rev. Riddle will bake part in the May 27— June 1 meeting of the highest court of his denomination was made here by Dr. E. C. Scott, Stated Clerk of the General As sembly. The meeting will be' in M entreat, N. C. As a commissioner, the Cherry ville minister will represent Kings Mountain Presbytery, and will consider, antong other things, the proposed union of the United, U.S. (Southern), and U.S.A., (Northern) Presbyterian Church es. Swafford or Pearson To Hurl For Baptist - BY RONALD KISER - Cherryville’s one and only chance to see college baseball this season comes Saturday night at the local high school park when Gardner-Webb’s Bulldogs play the Scotties of Presbyterian Junior College in an 8:00 encounter. A 1 large crowd is expected for the return of G-W boss Norman Har ris, who guided the legion team here last summer. Harris lost most of the cham pion'hip club last season but has once again turned up with a top notch club. Three wins have been recorded by the Bulldog nine to date against but one setback. As of Sunday, they were deadlocked for third place with Louisburg. P.7C hasn’t won a loop tilt thus far but several non-loop foes have bowed to the ever-dangerous men from Maxton. Either Gaddes Swafford, a lefty, or Righthander Hal Pearson will toe the rubber for Coach Harris’s outfit Saturday with Luther Keels the probable starter for the visi tors who play the first of a two game set with the Bulldogs E'riday afternoon at Boiling Springs. Swafford, a big southpaw hail i mg from Cowpens, S. C., has won two games to date against one reverse. He hurled three frames vs. Spartanburg in the season opener, won by G-W 13-2, then trimmed EMI 3-2 on four hits and Spartanburg again 5-2 on five safeties His setback cam* at the hands of a powerful Cunpball club 14-2. Gardner-Webb’s other 'win came at the expense of Pfeif fer 3-2. Pearson gained credit for that win. Other Bulldog hurlers are Dale Hart, Jim Gamble, and Richard Bass, the latter coming from Belmont. rnree oiner uaston v/ouniy lads will be in the Gardner-Webb lineup Saturday, also a Lincoln ton product may start. Bessemer City’s Gene Huss has developed into a top flight shortstop while Gastonia’s Joe Long, a former Gaston County legion star, shares duty in rightfield with Howard Procter of Lincolnton, Stanley's Joe Saunders is the No. .1 receiver Expected to open at the initial sack for the Gardner-Webbers Saturday is Grady Thomas, a con verted catcher. Thomas, who saw little action with last season’s championship outfit, starred on the diamond at North Mecklen burg High, Charlotte. Bill Kiser, a Dover Mill, Shelby product, will do the second basing for the Bull dogs while another Cowpens lad, Dennis Dcrman, operates at the hot corner. Dorman, one of the ' state’s finest third sackers, is the No. .2 batter among Bulldog bats men with a .298 mark. Dorman has handled 14 chances to date without an error charged against the clever Cowpens first-year man. Dennis batted .317 for the state legion runners-up in 19t>0. Procter, outstanding football and baseball star at Lincolnton High, or Long, a power-laden youth, will open in rightfield with Ernie Byerly in left, Jim Srhith or Dee Nanney in center. Byerly batted .299 for last season’s state i ..amnions, rated among the fin est ever produced in the Junior college league. Ernie, a Thomas ville iau, lias been put in the lead off position by Parris, is hitting .212 to date. Smith and Nanney, from Rutherfordton and Forest City respectively, has been alter nating in eenterfii-ld thus far with Smith, a powerful left-hand swinger, getting the best of his I Forest, City mate. [ Campbell, Chowan, Wingate, . Louisburg, Oak Ridge, and EMI have taken the measure of the Scotties to date witll Coach Don Harding’s club clipping the Red Springs semi-pro nine twice, also the Norwood semi-pros. Coach Harding’s prize possession this season is Centerfielder Tom Bracey. Bracey, a powerfully (Continued on page four) GARLAND H. HALLMAN ENTERS THE RACE FOR TOWNSHIP CONSTABLE Mr. Garland H. Hallman, life long Democrat, has entered the race for Constable from Cherry ville township. i This is Mr. Hallman’s first time to cast his hat into the political ring, Mr. Hallman is married to the former Miss Marjorie Ray, and they have three children. He at tends the First Baptist Church. Mr. Hallman and his family live just below the Carlton Mill on the Cherryville-Dallas Highway. iMr. Ralph Guffey has served as Constable from Cherryville township for many years and is seeking re-election in the Demo cratic primary election to be held Saturday, May 29th, 1964.
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