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VOL. XXVI.
MOUNT HOLLY, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1950
NUMBER 50
N. J. FIRM BUYS WHITEHALL
Band Uniform Drive Starts Monday Week
Jaycees
Dickson Will
Give Deed
For Building
Bosses Event Is Tonight
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce will hold their big Boss’s
Night Banquet tonight at the
American Dining Hall. There will
be present the members of the
Town Board of Aldermen, the
heads of all the local clubs, th*
leaders of industry and the bosses
of the local Jaycees.
The highlights of the meeting
will be the presentation of the
deed for the lot for the commun
ity building that the Jaycees hope
to start construction on this
spring, or earlier. The lot is lo
cated on the property across from
the entrance to the Woodlawn
Circle where the carnivals have
been holding ' fort for several
years. deed will be. jajresent-
«a by R. S. Drckson, president
of the American Yarn and Pro
cessing Company, whose com
pany is donating the land. •
. Another highlight will be the
main address by Basil White-
ner, solicitor of this district and
the outstanding solicitor of the
State of North CaroUna. Mr.
Whitener, who started his civic
career as a member of the Jay
cees and who later rose to the
State Presidency, is still ^ ar
dent member of the organization
and will be until he passes the
age limit of 35 years.
Mr. Whitener will be introduc
ed by W. O. Barrett, editor of
The News and Senior Adviser of
the local Jaycee organization. He
is also a past State Vice-President
of the Jimior Chamber of Com
merce and organizer and first
President of the local J^cee club.
The award winners will also be
presented with their rewards for
outstanding work in the com
munity and among the Jaycws.
fThe winners are Peter N. Cha-
garis, who was awarded thq Di
stinguished Service Award, the
other is Ken Davis who was
awarded the Civic ^ Service
award for outstanding work.
These awards were voted by the
Jaycees last Monday ni^t and
will be presented tonight
This will be one of the largest
bai^nxet meetings ever held by
the Jaycees. The program is com
plete and consists of matters of
Interett throughout With the ex
ception of last minute changes the
program is as follows:
Invocation W. E. Moore
Address of Welcome-Ted Johnson
Introduction of Guests
Peter N. Chagatis
Tribute to Bosses...Max Childers
Response Richard T. Scott
Presentation of Awards
J. B. Thompson
Introduction of A- W. Bell
Ted Johnson
Introduction of R. S. Dickson
Ken Davis
Talk by R. S. Dickson
Introduction of Speaker
W. O. Barrett
Speaker of the Evening
Hon. Basil Whitener
LOCAL JAYCEE AWABO WINNERS
Wore Nomingj
Workers Now
For Big Push
^ ^ James H. “Jimmy” Ware stat
ed yesterday that he was greatly
encouraged with the response to
last week’s news story concern- i
ing the drive for Band uniforms!
for the High School. There has
already been several hundred
dollars in pledges received by
Mr. Ware despite the fact that
the drive will not start, officially,
until next week. The chairman
decided to allow the March of
Dimes campaign to end before
officially opening the Band Uni
form Drive.
_ Everyone will be solicited for a
Shewn above are Award Winners of the Junior Chamber of cw-. donation. The local textile plants
merce for 1949. They are Peter N. Chagaris, left, winner of the Di
stinguished Service Award, the most coveted honor of the Jaycees.
On the right ii Ken Davis, who was given the Outstanding ServiM
Award for his c*vic wq«^ These two men will bo preeented tiieir
awards by J. B^uomgenn. the previous DAS winner. Mr. Chagaris
is a Jaycee meab^ of l^g standing and has done a greet work for
the organisation and tlvi community. Mr. Davis, while a comparitive
new comer, has pUched in and U now considered one of the beet ^ric
woricers and most interested titizens for the welfare of this commun
ity in Mount Holly.
No Report
For Campaign
On Polio Here
No report has yet been released
by the chairmen of the communi-
Union Senriea Snnday
P.M.AI BaiilisI Church
The regular fifth Sunday even
ing union service will be held
here Sunday evening at 7:30 o’
clock at First BapUst Church, ac
cording to an announcement by
„ « . Rev. Donald C. Mclimis, s>scretary
ty March of Dimes for 1950 but Ministerial Association.
indications point to a fairly
successful year and to the reach
ing of the goal set by the co-chair
men at the start of the drive. The
drive in Mount Holly, it was stat
ed by Tommy Holland and Ed
Painter, will continue through the
end of this month and no complete
report will be available \mtil af
ter the termination of the local
effort to raise funds for fitting
poUo.
Mr. Painter said Thursday that
several of the industrial planU
of Mount Holly have already giv
en indication of substantial do
nations in their individual drives
but that the donations had not
yet been totaled and d^>oaited in
the treasury. Mr. Holland said
that the coin containers placed
in strategic locatims in the stores
of the town were apparently com
ing a^QHg very well although at
the start of the drive it was felt
that the containers might not
bring in as many dwiations this
year as they had in the past.
Last year's record of approxi
mately $600. more than the goal
received in donations iw w may
not yet be equaled the* co-chair-
Rev. Ivon L. Roberts, pastor of
First Methodist church, will de
liver the sermon, and special mu
sic will be by the Senior Choir
of First Baptist church, with Miss
Josephine Eden, minister of music
and edxication at the church, at
the organ. Dr. L. S. Clark is pas
tor of the host church. The unittog
congregations are First Baptist,
First Presbyterian, First Metho
dist and the Lutheran Church of
the Good Shepherd.
The public is cordially invited
to the service.
will set a quota for each mill and
from all indications the quota
will be met. The local High School
Band, under the very able direc
tion of Dwight Price, has won
the hearts and support of all
Mount Holly. As was brought put
last week the success has been
nothing short of phenomenal. The
only thing short about the local
Band is the uniforms.
Several donations have been
handed to Mr. Ware or mailed
him. Others have stated the
amount that they will donate.
Many people, according to reports
Irrrm a survey by this newspaper,
will buy one or more complete
uriiforma. The uniforms, being
of the very best grade of twill,
will cost approximately $50 each.
Last Saturday the Band march
ed in formation through the bus
iness district. This parade allow
ed many people, who had not
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Mrs. T. A. La wing
Died Saturday
Mrs. T. A. Lawing, 71, widow
of the late Thomas A. Lawing of
Mount Holly, died last Saturday
in a Charlotte hospitaL Mrs. Law-
ing was a native of Gaston coun
ty. She was the dau^ter of Ed
ward A. and Elizabeth Abemethy.
For 21 years she had lived with
her husband, the late Mr. Law-
ing, at their home in the Adrian
men'MVran'd unS the t»l- commumty here. 1*. wm
ley ot Uie March of Dime, funds an employee of the Adrian ^
li made at the end of the drive no before hi, retirement some tune
accurate estimate can be given, .ago.
i... c.
Boy SconI ConrI
Here Monday Night
‘ On Monday night, at 7:30 p. m.,
the Boy Scouts will hold their
Boy Scout Court of Honor meeting
at the ^ementary school. En
courage the youth of your com
munity. The public is invited to
attend this meeting.
Visited m winston salem
Mr. and Mrs. Yates Rogers, Mis
ses Mary Hager and Madge Sif-
ford, spent Sunday in Wirreton-
Salem. and while there visited
at the Methodist Children's Home.
WoBMiu Division
The ladies of the Womens Divi
sion, working with Mrs. S. H.
Helton, chairmen of the W^ens
Division, were still canvassing m
several stores in the business dis
trict of Mount Holly as The News
went to press and no accurate
estimate of the donations collect
ed by them could be obtained.
Mrs. Helton said in an interview
Thursday that the theater drive
had been terminated and that the
school drive was drawing to a
close because of the examinations
being conducted at the school this
week. Under the sponsorship of
the Beta Club in the high school
students have had ample oppor
tunity to donate to the March of
Dimes and it is hoped that the
donations received from the stu
dents this year wil equal if not
(ConHnued on Back Pago)
THE NEWS' RATING IN
N. C. PRESS CONTEST
The Mount Holly News was
among the 20 better weekly
newspapers judged in the
North Carolina Press Associa
tion contests for 1949. We are
happy to announce our stand
ings in the varioiu contests
and our rating as a weekly
newspaper among the nearly
100 in this Stale. The competi
tion was stiff.
We thank our readers and
the citizens of t^iis entire area
for their cooperation with this
newspaper. Without the splen
did citizenship that our area
enjoys we could not have plac
ed so high amopg the better
papers in this State. We
humbly express gratitude to
all who have helped us.
OUR RATINGS:
For Editorials — 9th Place
For News Coverage—7th Place
For Featjares — $tb PUee
We were also cited for an
oulstnding issue on Novem
ber nth.
Kelly Says Firm to Hire
300 Employees in Area
TO APPEAR HERE
Surviving are four sons. Major
EL Lairing of Uncolnton, J. Bur-
gin, Elmest W.. and Paul A. Law-
ing, all of Mount Holly; five
daughters, Mrs. Nettie Sisk ol
Liucolnton, Mrs. Vertie E. Hicks,
Mrs. H. B. Patterson. Mrs. Ben
nie M. Kelly, all of Mount Holly;
and Mrs. Pauline Farmer of
North Belmont; a brother, Bax
ter Abemethy of Mount Holly:
and five sisters, Mrs. Lillie Clon-
inger of Belmont, Mrs. Bessie Sad
ler and Mrs. Clara Sadler, both
of Alexis, Mrs. David Rh^e of
Churches Busy
Taking Census
A number of activities are on
the current agenda of the local
churches.
Tuckaseege Baptist Church,
through its Sunday School clas
ses, is conducting a religious cen
sus in the area beginning at the
Mount Holly city limits and ex
tending toward Belmont as far
as Ebenezer Methodist Church.
Some 500 houses will be covered
in the census, and the classes of
the Sunday School will work on
the area as a section mapped off
into nine groups, liach Sunday
School class will be responsible
for the census in one group. Cen
sus cards, at the completion of
the census taking, will be divided
into denominational groups, and
referred to the various churches
preferred by the residents.
The census is part of an en
largement campaign by the
church, which loola forward to
the new church building toon to
be begun.
Rev. O. B. Reel is pastor of the
church.
No Problem
Children Says
PTA Speaker
Dr. Vernon Kinross-Wright, an
eminent psychiatrist of Charlotte,
N. C., was speaker at the P. T. A.
meeting held in the high school
gymnasium last Thursday night.
Introduce^ by Mrs. Joe Jones,
chairman of the program commit
tee for the local Parent-Teachers
Association, Dr. Kinross-Wright
told a large audience that “there
are no problem children; there are
only problem teachers and par
ents.”
Emphasizing his opinion that
children who develop into prob
lem children in their early years
are only the product of human
influence somewhere in the years.
Dr. Kinross-Wright told the au
dience that a mother's duties and
the duties of the teacher to child
ren constitute most of the forma
tive points in a child's life. “Child
ren are not born to places as
‘problem children',” the promin
ent psychiatrist told the audience;
“rather they are motivated by
some episode or episodes behind
them which tended to change
their outlook on life and to also
make them-in a sense anti-sociaL”
"Every child naturally enjoys
school'*, he said, “unless some
On Thursday evening at 7:30
o'clock at First Methodist Church,
Richard Maxwell, radio and con- — _
cert star, wiU present a concert |P. T .A. history here gathered to
RICKARD HKXVfJSH*
Richard
known ra^jS*«®Pfcopher,
and recordW«rtllCwiU appear
in person at the First Methodist
Church, Mount Holly, on Thiu^s-
day, February 2, 19M, at 7:30 p.
m. o’clock.
Mr. Maxwell first achieved
fame on NBC as "John” of the
Seth Parker Program, one of ra
dios most beloved broadcasts of
days gone by. Later, he became
even better known through his
own coast-to-coast programs over
CBS, “Songs of Comfort and
Cheer,” "A Friend In Deed” and
over the Muthal Network
“Hymns You Love.” Mr. Max
well has appeared in more than
ten thousa^ broadcasts over the
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Gloria Stroupe
Cited For Work
A theme entitled “Medicine’
by Gloria Stroupe, member of the
Senior Class of Mount Holly high
school was praised by Principal
S. H. Helton and named an out
standing piece of work by the
faculty members of the high
school last week. Giving the his
tory of medicine in an interesting
and authoritative manner, the
work was bound in an at
tractive back and both the
-f The News learned today that
1 the Whitehall Mills had been sold
[to the Leading Embroidery Com
pany, Inc., of North Burgin, New
Jersey. Harry A. Kelly, Sr., pres
ident of the Whitehall, stated
that his company would vacate
the building within 45 days and
the new owners would take over
at that time.
The Leading Embroidery Com
pany, Inc., according to Mr. Kelly,
owns at least ten plants with some
of them located, in North and
South Carolina. The company, he
stated, will be- a pillow case con
cern and will employ upward to
300 women in sewing and em
broidery work. Thia^ will mean' a
big addition to t) •- Mount Holly
payrolL '
The company is owned by Har
old J. Baum, Mrs. Marlon Baum,
Leon Selkind and Mrs. Selkind,
Max Muethlridel and Hilda Gray
Muethlridel. They also have fin
ishing plants, cotton mills and
other varied textile plants. The
company has a splendid rating.
Mr. Kelly also announced his
plans. He and his son, Harry A.
Kelly, Jr., have formed the Kelly
Dyeing and Finishing Company.
They will occupy the building in
Charlotte formerly occupied by
the Queen City Candy Company.
The building has 12,000 feet of
floor space and equipment need
ed has already b^n purchased.
The new owners stated that
the present employees of the
Whitehall Mills had been can
vassed as to whether they would
like to work for the Kelly Dye
ing and Finishing Company. Mr.,
Kelly stated that 85 per cent ex
pressed a desire to go with his
concern. This means that approxi
mately 80 local people wUl be
working with him.
The News could not contact
any of the officials that have
purchased the building but Dasel
M. Williams, formerly of Mount
HoUy, is General Superintendent
of the «■>»!« in this section for
the concern that has purchased
the Whitehall Mills building.
Mr. Kelly stated that ofAcials
of the Leading Ihnbroidery Com
pany would be at the Whitehall
fashioning of the cover for the
article and the references used
action taken by a parent or a juj^icated a tremendous amount of
teacher hat caused the child to
hold the school responsible for
an uncomfortable feeling or for
an anti-so()ial relationship with
other children.” Each child who
can be termed a "problem child”
according to Dr. Kinross-Wright,
is a child that has had his or her
outlook on school life and on
social life with other children pre
determined or swayed by an im
pression gained earlier whether
consciously or unconsciously.
One of the largest audiences in
been engaged in concert work for
this worthy cause for some time,
will bring with him A1 and Ivy
Walsh, who will assist in the pres
entation of the program, which
___ will consist of solos, duets, and
Stanle^^d Mrs. Pearl Ballard | accordian music. The program
ccri liar, wiu present « * .... •—
for the benefit of the Veterans’1 hear the prominent speaker. The
Hosoitals. Mr. Maxwell, who has business session was presided
• ' - over by the P. T. A. President,
Mrs. Charles R. Holtzclaw. Before
Dr. Kinross-Wright’s address, the
high school band played several
selections and following his talk
the Girl’s Chorus presented sev
eral numbers. Iced drinks were
ol Iron Station; 18 grandchildren;
and six great-grandchildren.
Services were held at 4 p. m.
Sunday at Adrian-Madora Bap
tist church. Burial was in Pine-
view Cemetery here. Rev. C. C.
Roberts, pastor of the Adrian-
Madora Baptist Church, officiated, of the church.
will probably be divided hito re
ligious and higher type secular
numbers. Mr. Maxwell will also
make appropriate remarks con
cerning the purpose of the pro
gram.
served at the social hour which
followed the regular meeting.
Mrs. Richard Scott was chairman
of the refreshment committee
which prepared the delightful re
freshments for the audience at-
research by Miss Stroupe. Mem
bers of the Sociology class at the
local high school were each re
quired to submit a theme on a
topic of their choice within limi
tations Mr. Helton said, and al
though no awards were made for
the most outstanding, Miss
Stroupe's work was by general
opinion considered among the
best of the articles.
Local Boys Had Foar
Months Ocean Crnise
After a four month cruise in
the Mediterranean, Harold N. Pet-
titt, seaman apprentice of Lowell
and Carl N. Stroupe, airman ap
prentice, of Mount Holly, are now
scheduled to return to Norfolk,
Va. on January 27. They are a-
board the aircraft carrier USS
Leyte.
The Leytte has been operating
Rev. Ivon Ia. Roberts is pastor I tending this meeting of the Mount Greece, Malta, Italy,
w, A j J ranee, arro Cyprus.
Holly P. T. A.
the latter part of next week. At
this time The News hopes to be
able to necure all the toal plans
for Mount Holly.
N,0,P,Q Drivers
Musi Take Tests
Motorists whose last names be
gin with N, O, P, and Q now are
being examined for renewal of
their licenses to drive. Examiner
Walter M. Foil of the Highway
Safety Division, stationed at Lin-
colnton, reported today.
Although drivers In this cate
gory have until June 30 to ob
tain toeir rctoewals, they will
save time if they report for ex
amination early in the period
while he is not rushed, Examiner
Foil point^ out
He will be at the following sta
tions from 8:30 a. m. through
5:30 p. m. on the days listed:
Monday and Tuesday, Lincoln-
ton; Wednesday and each first
third and fifth Thursday, Cher
ry ville; each second and fourii:
Thursday, Mount Holly; Friday,
i Bessemer City.
Examiner Foil urged that N
with the "sixth Task Fleet over-(through Q drivers in this area
seas and all personnel were al- clip his schedule and report at
forded the opportunity to visit in (their earliest convenience to the
■ ■ Gibraltar, j station nearest them to be exam
ined for a new license.