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PRINTING Let us do your Printing for you. We can not only give you High Grade Work manship and Quality Paper, but can also give you a good price and quick Service on all of your Printing needs. Call 6752 for your Printing, and we will do the rest. THE EAGLE '■tfWWWtfWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW? OFFICE SUPPLIES We have purchased the entire Stock cf Office Supplies from the Hutto Office Supply of Cherryville and have it on dis play in our Office. We can save you money on your Office Supplies. See us now. THE EAGLE VOLUME FIFTY (Published Every Wednesday) Cherryville, N. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1955 NUMBER FORTY-FIVE RIDDLE GASTON COUNTY'S HONOR VETERAN CHERRYVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY OBSERVING FIFTH ANNIVERSARY VETERANS PARADE IN GASTONIA FRIDAY AT 5:30 P. M. Friends Invited To Pay Visit Next week the Cherryville Pub lic Library will be celebrating a birthday. On November 14 the Library will be five years old. All friends of the Library are invited to visit daring the week. As an added feature to help celebrate our birthday, no over due fines will be charged during next week. If you have a book which you have forgotten to re turn to the Library, next week will be a good time to return it. Whether the book is two weeks or two years overdue, no fines will be charged. In next weeks Eagle all contri butors fce the Library Drive will be listed. The book “Furniture Making and Cabinet Works” by Felton has been placed on the Memorial Shelf by Mr. and Mrs. Tom Henry in memory oi' Ron Kelly Henry. THIS IS BOOK WEEK! Next week is Book Week. Cer tainly a majority of us, young and old, in this community is in terested in books for children. Without this common interest Book Week would not have sur vived these 40 years. The idea for Book Week was introduced in 1915 by the late Franklin K- Mathiews, then chief librarian for the Boy Scouts of Amercia. Mr. Mathiew used to tour around to see what boys ere reading and what ne dis vered made him unhappy. He ew up a lust of pood books for .mys, pot a few stores to display iho books for one week in No vember, and an idea was under way. In the yea*- of that first Book Week, exactly one American pub lishing firm boasted a children’s book editor. MJost major houses now have them and the wealth of our children’s books is improving. Every year thousands of dollars are spent for books for children. Gay new title© crowd the chil dren’s book shelves in our public libraries. Yet the question may be raised,” But why do books help children?” Books offer children opportuni ties for identification with char acters through whom they may find solutions to their own prob Books provide ‘‘stuff” of imagi nation through which much of the objective world may be clarified. Books extend experiences, pro vide new names for new ideas, and help to give new meanings to old ideas. Books provide opportunities for the joy that comes from shared laughter. Books assist children in de termining what is acceptable be havior in their world.. Books can help in making right deci sions. Book Week will be celebrated at your library the week of No vember 13-19. Visit the library with your children, and see the wealth of readable books which you will find th«re. For the very young there are picture hooks and easy-to-read books which help the child to dis cover for himself that fun, ad (Coatimaad on page four) DR. HANS G. HEYMANN Lenoir Rhyne Prof. To Speak Here Dr. Hans G. Heymann, Profes sor of English and German at Lenoir Rhyne College, Hickory, X. C. will speak on the subject: “The Christian Mission in a Re volutionary World.” Monday evening, November 14th at 7:30 o'clock at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. A warm and cordial invitation is extended to the public to hear this most timely and splendid lec ture. Following the lecture an in formal reception will be held to afford the citizens of Cherryville the opportunity of meeting Dr. Heymann. Dr. Heymann, a native of Ger many, having been born in Berlin and brought up in a small village near Stettin, is most qualified through vital experiences in his own life to speak on the subject: “The Christian Mission in a Revo lutionary World”. At the end of 1!)39 he was called for military service. World War II, and serv ed as an officer, fighting against the Russians and in North Africa. He was taken prisoner by the English on the occasion of the breakdown of the German Africa corps and, as a prisoner, was transferred to the United States, where he stayed until the spring of 1946, a period of three years. While a prisoner in the United States, Dr. Heymann volunteered for work and served as an inter preter for Geiman-E|nglish and also as a teacher of English at Come, Mississippi. Later he work ed at the Reynolds Tobacco Com pany, Winston-Salem, N. C., and on several farms in North Caro lina, thus becoming acquainted with life in the U-S.A. and making friends here. After his release as a prisoner of war he worked for one year as an interpreter for German-Eng lish at Neumunster, Germany, 1946-417 and then continued his studies at the University of Frankfurt!Main, Germany. From 1950-51 he taught English at the German Federal Ministry of Traf fic; and also from 1950 until early 1953 he taught English and (Continued on page four) Fund Drive For The Handicapped The Ga-ston Center for the Handicapped is staging thir drive this month, osters and cups have been placed at the Carolina Freight Carriers, Dora Yarn Mill, Carlton Yarn Mill, Rhyne Houser No. 1 and No. 11 mill, Howell Mifg. Co., Nuway Spinning Co., and at The Eagle Publishing Com pany. This organization is not includ ed in the United Fund Drive and the only way they have to receive help is through this fund drive. The Handicapped Center provides special services for the mentally or physically handicapped chil dren and young people of Gaston, Mecklenburg and Lincoln coun ties. Your help is needed to aid the Handicapped. The poster for the Handicapped is a picture of a Dal las lad. It is a true picture and he like many others need your gifts of money. STAFF WORKERS A staff of ten persons, includ ing a doctor, psychologist, social workers, teachers, drivers, voca tional instructors, and therapists are kept busy meeting the in creasing demands of its patients. Medical, social, educational, rec reational, vocational, and trans portation needs of the handicap ped and their parents are taken care of by the staff at the center. All expenses are met on a week to week basis, accord ing to Mrs. O. C. Clemmer, school director. All income is from individuals and orga nizations on a voluntary basis. The average cost per child is $65 per month, and Mrs. Clemmer says that no one has been turned away through inability to pay. This unique school was orga nized here to take care of a growing need. It is one of the few of its kind in th South. It is not supported in any way by funds from any source other than that contributed solely for its pur The Gaston Center for the Handicapped provides a haven f°r those unfortunats for whom no one is held legally responsible for training, Mrs. Clemmer stated. Kenneth Mayhew, Jr Honored At Duke Omicroti Delta Kappa, national men’s leadership honorary, tapped 11 men. including Kenneth Mlay lew, Jr., into its ranks at Duke University last week. Mayhew, rectntly named to Phi Beta Kappa, is also a member of Phi Eta Sigma, national scholastic honorary for freshmen. He has served as a house presi dent, president of the Interdormi tory Council, and as a student government representative. He has also been intramural manager for his dorm, a member of the college newspaper staff, and active in the Methodist Stu dent Movement at Duke. Tobacco growers in all parts of North Carolina lost tobacco to brown spot disease this year, says Furney A. Todd, extension tobac co specialist at State College. Joe Billy Pharr Enter Leadership Fraternity At College Joe Billy Pharr, of Chen yville, and an outstanding senior at Davidson Collette, was tapped into Omieron Delta Kappa, national honorary leadership fraternity, during its fall tapping exercises in chapel on November 1. This is one of the greatest honors which a student at Davidson can re ceive. Joe Billy is certainly de serving of this honor, since he is serving in several positions of top leadership on the Davidson cant-' pus. Here are some of his activi He is the president of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, and has been a member of promise ever since he has been at Davidson. He was awarded the George Sum mer Best Pledge award during his freshman year, and has served the fraternity in numerous ways, having served as Vice-President and Sports Manager, among other things. Currently he has the high est average in the fraternity well over a B-plus. Joe Billy is also the Cadet Regimental Commander of the Davidson ROTC program. This, the rank of Cadet Lt. Colonel, is the highest rank in the ROTC de partment, and would itseif insure election into ODK. Joe Billy has distinguished himself! along other lines, too, and he is serving as President of the Honorary Frater nity Council, and of Sigma Pi Sig ma, honorary physics fraternity. In scholarship, also ,he has proved himself, outstanding, placing in the upper 10 per cent of his Bess Chapel To Have Cake Sale Bess Chapel Methodist Church will have a Cake Sale at Rhodes Appliance Store on East Main Street on Saturday morning No vember 19th, beginning at 9 o’ clock. Don’t forget the date and be ready to buy a cake. Condensation on spark plugs will ground the ignition and pre vent firing. Wipe off plugs with a dry rag to remove ground. 72 Units Will Cover Six Blocks (.ASTON I A, Nov. 9—The pomp and precision of military units, ‘lie carnival giitey of miles of colorful floats, and the pula3 of martial airs will site a:, expected 30,00(1 spectators lining Main Avenue curbs here Finlay at 5:30 p.m., as the Absher-Flowers Post 9.330. Veterans of Foreign Wars, sponsors its first county-wide. Vet erans Pay observance. But behind the festival dress of the 73-unit, procession will be a sober purpose—rememoerance of Gaston veterans who laid down their lives on foreing battlefields. All Gaston will be here to commemorate the day, formerly known as Armistice Day, in what is expected to be the longest and most impressive , Gastonia parade since shortly after World War I. High school bands from all over the county, veterans bands, bands from C.arolinas camps, and from Charlotte reserve units, will march at. intervals in the 12-sec tion parade, which will form on Main south on Broad Street and move westward over six blocks to Trenton Street. MANY DIGNITARIES Dignitaries of local, state, and national scope will occupy a giant reviewing stand which will he erected on South Street", north of Main, between the Children’s Shop and Carolina Florist. .. General program chairman is r^oyce Robinson of the local VFW, and parade chairman is Capt. Roy Short of th Gastonia Police Department. Leonel Brun nenter will have charge of dis tinguished guests, Ed Fox of transportation and feeding, H. R. Hughes of the numerous floats, and Dr. J. Philip Malone of pub licity. Henry Bliss is post com mander. The order of march in the giant parade tells its own story: SECTION ONE 1. Escort by Gastonia Police Department; 2. U. S. Marine Col or Guard; 3. Mayor Leon 1. Schneider; ’ 4. Ninth Air Force Band; 5. Gaston’s Veteran of the Year;" 6. the Veterans Day Pa rade “Queen;" 7. VFW float; 8. VFW Auxiliary float; 9. VFW Auxiliary 2oat; 9- VFW marching m SECTION TWO 1. State Highway Patrol es cort; 2. Rambling Rebels; 3. Op timist Club float; 4. . “Optimist Queen” Beatrice Bradshaw; 5. War Mothers; 6. Travelers Pro tective Assn’ car; 7. Gold Star Mothers; 8. Nurses’ car; 9. Am erican Legion Auxiliary. SECTION THREE 1. County police escort; 2. Ash lev High School Band; 3. Ashley High School “Queen;” 4. Gaston ia National Guard: 5. Tagles Club float; <i. Eagles Club car; 7. Ki wanis Club car; 8. Carothers am bulance; 9. Pocahontas float. SECTION FOUR 1. Gastonia city police escort; i 2. Cherryville High School Band; I 3. 'Cherryville ‘‘Queen;’’ 4. Cher i rvville merchants float; 5. Nike Missle unit; fi. Seth Lumber Co. I float; 7. Bell Telephone Co. 1 (Continued on page four) Annual Sales Meeting Is Held By Carolina Freight Carriers FORTY-TWO REPRESENTATIVES ATTEND ANNUAL SALES MEETING—Shown above is a group picture taken of Carolina Freight Car riers Corporation’s salesmen who attended annual sales meeting in Cherryville, N. C. Freight Carriers Cor eld its annual sales October 28-29 in the Carolina building at Forty-two represent ative* attended the meeting. OWNERS OPEN MEETING President C. G. Beam and Sec retary-Treasurer D. F. Beam «** tended greeting) to the reprteent Careliaa po ration h meeting on new Club atives and commented briefly on the propress and growth of the company within recent years. Plans for future expansion of terminal facilities and equipment were discussed in length by the owners. Announcement also was made of new building sites acquir ed recently by the company for contraction of new terminals in Cherryville and Charlotte, and Worcester, Massachusetts.. The re presentatives were informed that construction work on the Char lotte and Worcester terminals had already begun and would be com pleted before the end of the year. VICE PRESIDENT SALES PRESIDES E. L. Noffitt, vice president, sales, presided over the meeting and introduced participants ap pearing on the two-day program. Speakers included John L. Fraley, executive vice president, and C. R. Cook, vice president, opera tions, who discussed new policy procedures initiated by the com pany to improve service and to enhance operational efficiency; J. L. Boies, general claims manager, who presented a summary analy sis of claim costs; and L. B. Doggett, traffic manager, who dis cussed general traffic problems. The meeting was adjourned Saturday, following a general luncheon at Carolina Freight Gar ners’ Restaurant. BEAM RAPS MILK PROGRAM GASTONIA, Nov. 7—Dr. Jack Ramsaur, county health officer, took a verbal lashing1 today from County Commissioner Grier Beam during a discussion of the health department’s milk control pro I)r.. Ramsaur, at home sick in bed d,id not hear the criticisms heaped on him. Around the commissioners’ ta ble. heads nodded in agreement as Commissioner Beam attacked the health department’s handling of the milk inspection program. ‘‘I’m in favor of giving him the money he needs,” said Beam, re ferring to Dr. Ramsaur’s request for a budget increase of $7,660. NOT INTERFERE “But if we give him the money,” the Cherryville commis inner added, “I think we ought to make it clear that Dr. Ram saur is not to interfere with the milk inspector’s work. “We know for a fact why the last inspector quit. It was be cause he didn’t have any au thority. I know of instances ot him checking a dairy and con demning it until it came up to certain sanitary practices. But a day or two later somebody— Dr. Ramsaur or someebody else— got the dairy off the hook and gave it back its rating.” Beam said he just couldn't ae c e p t the health department’s story that Robert Pryor, the milk inspector, quit because of his low salary and a feeling of “frustra Pryor quit November 1. He was being paid $320 a montn. To replace him, the health de partment asked for two men. Bill Long, chief engineer, said the de partment would like to hire a milk specialist at. $450 to $500 a month, and a lab technician at 5325 a month. The commissioners appro ved the budget hike, but wrote into the minutes that the milk in -pector must be given a free hand carrying out his job. “As long as Dr. Ramsaur is go ing to interfere with his work. ’ said Commissioner Beam, "it won’t do any' good for us to raise the budget and hire more men. This man’s got to have authority to do the job without ir.terfer The health department said Gaston county's dairy farmers were worried over the loss of Pryor as milk inspector. Bill Long said it was important that a good inspection program be maintained if the county has a 90 per cent sanitary rating. “We have to have a 90 per cent rating,’” he told the commission ers, "if our dairies ship nnlk into other counties or take milk across state lines.” Long estimated that mtlk ex ports amount to $1,000 a day from Gaston county dairies. The milk inspector will have charge of checking dairies in inspecting pasteurizing plants and sampling milk in the laboratory. The lab assistant will help him. SALARIES TOO LOW Long also eomplained that health department personnel were nearly all the victims of low salaries. Five years ago, he said, the Gaston County Health Depart ment paid salaries in line with any department in the statet, But in the years since, salaries haven’t kept pace and now local sani tarians are $30 to $40 below the average for the state. Buddy Poppy Day Will Be Observed Buddy Poppy Day will be ob served on Friday, November IX, and each one is urged to wear a poppy on that day. They will be sold "by the Junior High School Band members. These poppies are made by dis abled veterans who are in Veter ans Hopitals. Funds from the sales of these poppies w’ill be used for those Veterans and their fam Wear a Poppy on Veterans Day. Hoke Shuford Has Bills Dated 1778 Hoke Shuford, popular young man about town has in his collec tions two bills of money. One is a thirty dollar bill and ts dated September 26, 1778 and was printed in. Philadelphia. It meas ures three and three fourths by two and three fourth inches and carries the U. S. Seal. It was printed ‘by Hall & Sellers. The other is a sixty dollar bill printed the same year 1778, also printed by Hall & Sellers. REV. GEORGE L RIDDLE Mrs. Joseph Hopper To Speak Here 18th Mrs. Joseph Hopper, Presby terian, U. S., missionary on fur lough from Korea will speak at First Presbyterian Church on Nov. 18. 11*55 at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. Hopper has served with her husband for over thirty years in evangelistic work in Korea. Be side the contribution she herself has made to the Korean people in her work with them, she has pro vided two missionaries of the Presbyterian Church to further carry on the ministry there for her son, the Rev. Joe B. 'Hopper, and her daughter, Mrs. George T. Brown, are both serving in Korea at the present time. Mrs. Hopper was Miss Annis Barron and was born near Rock ated from Wflnthrop College and Hill, South Carolina. She gradu later studied at the Bible Teach er’s Training School in New York City. For two years she taught school at. Rowland, North Caro lina. She and Dr. Hopper first went to Korea in 1920. Besides their son ard daughter who are serving in Korea they have anoth er son. the Rev. George Hopper. The Hoppers, who are on special furlough, are making their home in Montreat, North Carolina. Veteran’s Day Service Friday Veteran’s Day Service will be held Friday, November llth, at 2:30 o’clock on Main Street in front of the City Hall. The Cher ryville High School Band will pa ri. de .and play appropriate music. Short talks will be made and taps will be sounded. everybody i invited to attend this service in honor and in mem ory of the Veterans of our land. Services At First Methodist Church Sunday morning. November 13, at the First Methodist Church, the minister will preach on “The Second Beatitude”—“Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.” The evening service at 7:00 o’ clock will be the Expository Mes sage from the Book of Acts Chapter 20. Rev. C. O. Swicegood To Preach Here Sun. Rev. (’. 0. Swicegood of Le noir City, Tcnn.. will preach at Free Saint? Tabernacle Saturday night. November 12th, at 7:00 o’ clock and again Sunday morning at the 11 o’clock hour. The public is cordially invited to attend. Woman's Club To Continue Rummage Sale This Saturday the Oherryville Woman’s Club will continue its Rummage Sale in the Kendrick Building on Main Street. For this third sale the Woman’s Club has secured a large lot of chil dren’s winter clothing. The club has also added to its stock of women’s and men’s clothing. Prices have been cut on all the old stock carried over from the last two Saturday sales. Come to this remarkable bar gain sale. There will be some ar ticles of clothing to suit every one’s type, sire, taste and age. Come early so as to have a chance at the best bargains. A real bar gain doesn’t wait long on a cus tomer. Selected From Seven Hominees Rev. George L. Riddle pastor of the First Presbyterian Church was selected Gaston County’s Honor Veteran of World War II last night. He was chosen from a large and distinguished field of candidates for the honor. The Rev. Mr. Riddle will occu py a place of honor in Friday’s mammoth ;72-unit procession thru six blocks on Mia in St., Gastonia as 30,000 or more line the curbs. The parade sponsor is Absher Flowers Post 9336, Veterans of Foreign Wars, which plans to make this big Veterans Day ob servance an annual event. LONG DELIBERATION It was a distinguished commit tee which met last night at the ■Chamber of Commerce in Gastonia and deliberated long before choos ing George L. Riddle as Gaston’s Veteran of the Year. It was made up by D. S. Beatty of Mt. Holly; County Commissioner C. Grier Beam of Cherryville; At “y Claude B. Woltz of Bessemer City; Solicitor Grady Stott of Gastonia Municipal Court; Attor ney Max Childers of Mt. Holly; and Executive Secretary Brice T. Dickson of the Gastonia Chamber of Commerce. TWO RUNNERSUP Runnerup for Veteran 'of the Year was Everett J. Jones of Gastonia;, and in third iJace was Dfitton gts’We of Dailatf In considering nominations for the honor, mem'bers of the com mittee did not know the identity of each man as they studied his record. He was considered on the basis of his record alone. There fore, members of the committee did not know whom they had chosen until the final vote was As the countywide Veterans l>ay parade moves along Gas ,tonia’s Main Avenue at 5:30 Fri day afternoon, in 12 big sections, the Rev. George L. Riddle, as Veteran of the Year, will be in an open automobile in fifth place in the first section, immediately behind the Ninth Air Force Band, and directly in front of the car bearing M'iss Sylvia Parks, the Veterans Day Parade “Queen.” CIVIC RECORD (1) Man of the Year for Cherryville in 1950; (2) Scout master for ”1 years; (31 Director of Civil Defense in Cherryville; (-C Active in Boy Scout work, with two years a vice president of the 11-county Piedmont Coun cil; (5) director of the Gaston County chapter of the Red Cross; (6) Member of the pastoral com mittee for Cherryville distribution of clothes and toys to the needy at Christmas tome; (7) Lions clubber and president in 1949; (8) Chairman of poppy sales in Cherryville each Veterans Day; and (9) Chairman and treasurer of Cherryville Bible Committee. PROFESSIONAL (1) Became pastor Cherryville First Presbyterian Church Aug. 1, 1937 and church erected a new edifice in 1945-4(5; (2) Church membership grew from 95 to 420; Cl) Church budget increased from $850 to $28,500; (4) Re ceived Master of Theology degree in May, 1948. from Columbia Seminary; (5) Six years work to ward doctorate. MILITARY (1) Fifty-four months m arm ed forces during: World War II: (2) Attached to 82nd Airborne Division as assistant chaplain and as division chaplain during: 20 months in European Theater; (3) Four bronze battle stars for in vasions of Sicily, Italy. Nor mandy, and Holland; (41 Purple Heart won for wounds in Holland: (5) Received Order of Orange of Nassau Degree of Officer for meritorious service in Holland from the Queen of Holland; (6) Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Clus ter; (71 Bualitied glidist; (8) Crash-landed in glider in Nor mandy on D-Day; (91 Crash-land ed in glider in Holland September 17, 1944- (101 Hospital chaplain April-November, 1945, Thayer General Hospital, Nashville, Tenn.- (ill Chaplain 113th Field Artillery of 30th Division. Fort Jackson, one year; (12) Separat ed from service December 20, 1945, as lieutenant colonel, and holds same rank in Army Reserve Corps • (131 Past chaplain 13th District. VFW; (14) Post chap lain VFW Post 5200, Cherryville; (15) Continuous member VFW and American Legion. Before the fall of Corregidor fortress in May 1942, a sailor in vested $700 in cash savings in U. S. Savings Bonds, knowing that the Treasury would redeem them if lost, stolen, or destroyed. He survived over three years in pris on camp, collected $700 plus in terest.
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