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Three Cherryville Residents Have Big Parts In “The Sword Of Gideon” Drama Kings Mountain—Four Cherry Ville residents have been given prominent parts in the 1954 pro duction ot THE , SWORD OF GIDEON, opening July 22 in Kings Mountain. Paul Taylor will be seen as the tirey Indian brave, “Draggin’ Canoe". Paul is a student at CherryVille High School and has held such offices as President of bis class and student council vice president. This will make his sec ond year with THE SWORD OF GIDEON. As “Winston”, pompous, dog matic American officer, will be seen Ben Dale, who is also a stud ent at Cherryville High. He has been very active with the drama group and among his other activ ities, has been a member of the student council. Martha Sue Hayes and Dawn j Davis will both dance with this year’s production of THE SWORD j OF GIDEON. Both are members of numerous Cherryville High School organizations. The dances of THE SWORD OF GIDEON will include original English Country Dances and Minuets, in addition to traditional Folk Dances. Nancy i Dill, originally of Williamsburg, Va., is choreographer. She has danced with THJE COMMON GLORY in Williamsburg for sev eral years. Rehearsals are now in progress for THE SWORD OF GIDEON, which will run July 22 through August 14 at the Kings Mountain National Park in Kings Mountain. Performances will be held Thurs day, Friday, and Saturday nights each week. Curtain time will he 8:15 p.m. Spectacular New Highway Open For Mountain Travel A spectacular new stretch of highway has just been opened for smooth! easy motoring up and down the Blue Ridge Divide in North Carolina. It is a paved four-lane link on transcontinental U. S. Highway 70 between the towns of Old Fort and Ridgecrest, and was complet ed at a cost of $3,000,000 to re place the hairpin curves and steep grades of the old two-lane con crete section build in the early 1020’s. Construction of the new road involved the greatest earth-mov ing project in the history of North Carolina’s extensive road building program. Three million cubic North .Carolina Boy Designer^ Win W-XN'ERS in the annual model car compelilion of Ihc ' ' i Body (raftsman's Guild are Albert II. Carrier, III, (upper ri.' V), ( haiiolle, who took first state honors in the Junior Division (ages 1J • through 15), and Charles II. Stewart of Lillington, whose boa::' ' I mode! car won first in the Senior Division (ages 16 through 19). Ea: "i j received a cash award of $150. Both boys’ models went on to take regional honors and a chance to win a university scholarship in the national competition. 4-H CLUB SCHOLARSHIP GRADUATES MEET YANKEES’ ALLIE REYNOLDS Fourteen yonii" men. who have just firadiiaird from aari cullural collej'e with the help of Ksso l-II Cluli Seliolarship.'. meet A11i<- Reynold*. tlie 1 -i” Chief” of the W orld Champion New York Nankee.-. These voting men were re cent!-. finest- of lv-so Standard Oil Compaux on a lour ol _Y\x 1 \ ork (!it\ to <c!i-!iiat.- the completion ol their eollo;i:> ''education*. One lii"lili"lit oi their \isit to the city ua* a! 1 tendance at a haschall »atnc I in \ aiikeo Stadium. xvhen^ they met .many other ^ arkee I stars he* ides Hex Holds. How To Influence Your Pay Gash ...See Us! Extra Low Interest Rates On New Cars INSTALLMENT LOAN DEPARTMENT CHERRYVILLE NATIONAL BANK OPEN TIL 5:00 P. M. EXCEPT TUESDAYS & SATURDAYS Tuesdays Open til 12:00 Noon Saturday Open til 3:00 P. M. yards of earth and stone were whittled off mountains and pushed into fills before bituminous paving began on the 6.15 mile stretch of highway. At one point, the road’s two 22-lfoot wide sections rest of a 185-foot high fill containing almost a million cubic yards of earth and stone. The new highway climbs 1,420 feet with a maximum grade of 5 per cent and TJ easy spiral (Hives; on ihc 8-mile section of U. S. 70 which it replaces there are 08 sharp curve • oft an a--cent of 1,215 feet. A four-foot wide raised median strip marks the center of the route, and there are 10-foot shoulders on the fills ajid 8-foot shoulders in the cuts. The entire route is located on southern slopes to minimize ice and snow hazards in winter. Designed for both . leasure motoring and commercial traffic, the route offers scenic vistas at many points, among them a view of the falls on the Catawba River. The North Carolina Hijrh'wi 1 Commission has' announced that the old route between Ridgecrest and Old Fort will be kept open as a secondary road. At the time it was built, it was considered a marvel of highway engineering, but in recent years had become a bottleneck on a primary east-west route traveled by an average of 2.500 vehicles a day. Tobacco Outlook Fa’’r In Columbus Columbus County Negro farm ers can expect to make consider ably less money from tobacco this year than last, according to .1. .41. Spaulding, Negro county agent for the Agricultural Kxtension Spaulding recalled that Colum bus farmers fared well weather \. i: e last year. ‘‘They averaged 1.500 pounds per acre arid receiv ed an average of $1,000 per acre. But the crop forecast looks very gloomy now in comparison." Crops, especially tobacco, corn end garden", are suffering severe ly from lack of rain, said Spauld ing. Cotton, peanuts, and soy-' beans seem to he doing a little better. But tobacco, the principal money crop, has already been cut more than half on many Columbus I News In The World Of Religion! PY W. W. REID i The Rev. Kail Rodman Bari, 'Jr,, ihirty-year-old asistanl minis- | ter of the Church of St. Paul and St. Andre win New York City, has been named a missionary to v Hallies island, Puerto Rico, ; where he will pilot his own plane | from Church to church. Mr. Barr ! learned to fly in the United .States : i.Xnny Air Force during the war.: 'lie had already applied for mis-i shin service when the opportunity ' ramp to take over the Vieques . iai'-sion, with the return of the: "flying missionary,” the Rev. John > Kenneth Vincent to the United ; Ctales. Mr. and Mrs. Barr are ] tvc.'v on Vieljties Island to take ‘ oX-c-r the many ‘‘pilot projects" j ■i Published by Mr. Vincent in his | seven-year ministry there. These j ::ielude, in addition to the church, ; a f.-'mie, a program for U. S. ser vieemen, a housing cooperative, a j : dem.onst ration farm, a vast reore a‘:'aial program for island youth, and the flying ambulance service t'- ferrv seriously ill patients to the mainland of Puerto Rico for Saint Mary's Catholic Church, in the open country west of Toledo, Ohio, has a Credit Union of 7.r>4 members which helps settle l young families in the parish. The total amount loaned since it was organized is over a million dollars. This money has all been subscrib ed by the local nienters during the fifteen years. Twenty-one ' connles have been helped to buy farms in that community. Young fams, especially in the Southern biff of th(> county running along tb • South Carolina line. Voting tobacco is suffering more | than older strand*. =avs Snau'd ing. The sun is scalding the young 1 plants in the tops and the hot sand | is parching the lower leaves, cans- j ing an almost total loss in some | tie'ds. For older tobacco, the crops j suffering least of all are those j that received applications of 1-S- j 1(1 fertilizer at a depth of about people have been able to borrow money to go to college or to build a bou’se. There are now 300 fam ines in this open country parish. According to L)r. Ralph A. Felton, rural sociologist at Drew Theolo gical Seminary, this type of ser vice by the church in the farm areas of America is being prac ticed i y a large number of par ishes and sonic* denominations, and is the. hope of the nation in keeping young people from mov ing off the farms jn even greater . ..:.vei ; than ill the past. pp . ii late'.. 20Q.HH0 persons are starving in the Philippines as a re-iijt of destruction by ravag ing hands of rats in a huge farm Mg ;ife.i in two provinces of Min danao ’Island, according to news reports. An estimated HP per cent of this, year's crop has been des troyed in Cotabato province. Also hard-hit is the Davao region. The l-'niiei! Nations and some other relief oi iranizat ions have sent powdered milk'and food package to the area, but the need is still great. This is an area where mis sionaries of the MethodistChurch have beep serving for fifty years, anil tile Methodist Committee for Overseas Relief has now issued an. appeal to the denomination to come to the relief of victims of this rat plague. ‘•('hristiaiin people may differ m minor matters, hut so long as they acknowledge .lesus Christ to no the Son of God. King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, they ar cunited in that which matters most,’’ say thc Council of Bishops in a .state men'- to the Methodist Church. Continuing, the Bishops said: •'The l united Nations is a symbol. 1- -eryes to remind u- that there ahoiiH-r kinship besides the b'nthc hood of faith — it is the brotherhood of a universal need and yearning, and it embraces all mankind. The people of every land arid race are attempting to find a way to economic security and justice and freedom and peace. The soil of this modern parliament of man is a sense or humanity’s essential oneness in its basic needs and yearnings. We confidently believe that divisions that sometimes appear so threat ening to man’s well-being can best Lt settled around a common eoun cb table, and that the Dinted Na tions is our best hope for world peace . . . When we speak of achieving a social order after the mind of Christ, we must not let slip a more fundamental trum. \To order of society is better than the men and women who compose it. The soul of all reformation is the reformation of the soul. The appeal of the gospel is addressed primarily to the individual. There fore, it iiehoVQes us in season and out of season, to the public wor 'ship of God and the preaching of j the gospel." j An experienced builder, with a degree in engineering and in con struction. is needed to serve the Division of World Missions, j Methodist <'iuiroh. in rebuilding I war-torn Korea. Such a construc tion engineer is sought to assist in rebuilding churches, residences, ; .-drools, and other structures needed bv the church.. Since ; World War II. the Board of .Viis | - ions has sent eight builders to i various parts of the world. In i'crested persons should write to j Dr. M. O. William-, oll'iee of mis j-hniary personnel. Jot) Fifth A\ eiiue, Xew Vork 11, N 'i Cataloochee Beef , Shoot August 4 The shooting will start bright and early August. -1 in North Caro ! !inVs Great Smoky Mountains, j And by late afternoon, when j the smoke from ancient muzzie \ binding rifles has cleared away from Fie Top Mountain and Mile-high Cataloochee Ranch, marksmanship honors for the Great Smokies will have been set tled for another year at the Kdh I annual Catalooehee Beef Shoot, i The colorful contest atta.cts up j wards of 1(10 marksmen of all ages, and a large crowd of speeta I tors. The Beef Shoot, so-called be cause prizes are. quarters of beef, 1 is.open to mountaineers and "foi ! cigiiers" alike, but. the choice of i weapons is limited to loiig-bai relb • al rifles reminiscent of the days when a man’s chances for survival in the mountain country were only as good as his prowess with a gun. For the mountain residents, the Beef Shoot is the occasion for tinholding family pride as well as for. winning fresh beef. Some of the old-timers can remember when '•shooting- feuds" were even more ■ rious affairs. I Spectators enjoy not only the marksmanship contest but the elaborate preparations which in clude the melting of lead and pouring of bullets, and the care ful measuring of powder charges (sometimes in a hollow bear’s tooth). Throughout the day, there are lively discussions of the merits of favorite rifles, which often have names like “Ole Betsy," “Ole Fleabitten Kustry," of. “01c Kiich. contestant makes his own j target of charred wood in any form he wishes; it i- the closeness of the pattern of three shots at : • id yards that decides the winners# ) The judges use caliper- to meas- j lire lie patterns. Marksmen arc j elas-itied in four age brackets, i with the oldsters competing in the ■v,v. • go" division and the young ;*(' i" s in the “.under 2 o' group. J i 'and prize in each' division is 3 quarter of beef, and there are : additional .prizes for the second ; and third place winners. _ tins! of the shooting , i- done i from prone position, and a log or other rest may lie used for the ,;flle. Some, of the marksmen fire ! a position flat on their back.-.;'’other's sit on a chair or kneel. They may take as long as three minute's to aim, and their a--i-tants are allowed to shade the sights or breechloeks of the rifles from the sun Long-barrelled rifles are not «o ■ plentiful as in the past, hut Toni Alexander, operator of Cataloo chee Ranch, always manages to j assemble a good supply for the) Beef Shoot with the help of neigh boring families. Many of the rifles were made in the Gataloo rliee area; others were imported "Mg ago from Lancaster. Pa., and ■are known as “Lancasters.” All of the guns arc locally referred In - “hawg rifles.” The shooting!) contest last,; from ahd:u:t it a.m. until :!;.‘10 p.m. and contestants and spectators begin ai riving by dawn. During tne day, mountain music by the best ot local tiddlers and banjo pickers is | heard between firing rounds. At noon:, picnic lunnche are spread out under the big trees. ('atuloochoe, reached by 3 t■■ce-nvMe gravid road connecting j with L. S. 1!) near Wuynesviile. X. is a dude ranch in the heart of the Great Smokies and a base for pack trips into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. First Honduras Mahogany Arrives In North Carolina Another first for North Caro lina—According to Colonel Rich ard S. Man, Executive Director of the North Carolina State Ports Authority, the first shipload of Honduras mahogany for North Carolina furniture manufacturers will arrive tomorrow at the State Port in Wilmington. This first shipment of Honduras mahogany is being imported by the Robinson Lumber Company of New Orleans and is being distii butod in the North Carolina area by Ralph Elliott of the Elliott Lumber Company of Greensboro. “This is another example of North Carolinians using their home ports for advantages result ing in a saving of snipping time and costs,” said Marr. The lumber arriving aboard the y s .MAY HAVEN tomorrow came directly from Beliz, British Honduras. . Colonel Marr said, “This may well be the beginning of numerous future shipments of Honduras mahoprany to come through North Carolina's State Ports for use m our state.” The lumber is being handled by the Wilmington Shipping Com pany, who is also agent and freight forwarder for the MS MAY HAVEN. This shipment of lumber is a step in the plansn of the State Ports Authority to have many other “first cargoes” come through the State Ports of North ('arolina. PVT. GLENN F. MACE JOINS 3rd INF. DIVISION IN KOREA 2d I)iv., Korea — Army Pvt. Glenn F. Mace. 20, son of Odell Mace, 2On E. Fifth ave., Gastonia, N. C., recently joined the 3d In fantry Division in Korea. The “Rock of the Marne” divis ion. which saw bitter fighting in the Iron Triangle and at Outpost Harry, is now training as part f the i\ S. security force on the peninsula. Private Mace, a radio repair man. . entered the Army in May tnrbj and completed basic training at Camp Gordon, Ga. MEN'S PANTSi 100 Pair o’i Pants J NYLON CORDS I AND RAYONS Values To $5.95 $3.00 pr. Big Stock of other PANTS at Reduced Prices SHIRTS 500 SPORT SHIRTS Plisse Skip - Dent Slug Broadcloth $1.00 each ALL SPORT SHIRTS Formerly $2.00 NOW $1.50 ALL SPORT SHIRTS Formerly $3.00 NOW $2.50 MEN'S SHOES 200 PAIRS OF MEN'S SUMMER SHOES Formerly up to $10.00 $5 - $6.50 - $8 Mens Nylon Mesh BLACK AND BROWN Special $13.50 MEN'S HATS Panama Hats Values up to $3.00 Now $1.50 Swim Trunks ALL MEN'S AND BOY'S SWIM TRUNKS 1-4 off Terry cloth Shirts Values up to $2.00 and $3.00 Now $1.50 - $2 MEN'S BLUE CHAMBREY Work Shirts $1.00 Each MEN'S | SOX'S 4 pr. lor $1.00 MEN'S BOXER SHORTS 2 pr. for $1.00 MEN'S ATHELETIC SHIRTS 3 for $1.00 HANDKERCHIEFS 12 for 50c MEN'S 8 OZ. OVERALLS $2.58 100 PAIRS BOY'S PANTS Values to $5.00 Now $3 and 3.50 MEN'S TEE SHIRTS 2 for $1.00
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