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Mount Holly News Constructive—If It Will Help Mount Holly And Gaston County The News Is For It—Progressive VOL. XXVII. MOUNT HOLLY, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1950 NUMBER 5 SCENES FROM HIGH SCHOOL BANQUET MOUNT HOLLY BAND ENTERS STATE CONTEST AT SALISBURY ON 23-24 Above are shown some of the sponsors of the big Athletic Dinner held at the American Dining Hall on last Monday mghl. The group shown above are left to rights Kelly Summey. O. E. Massey« Hugh Pascbab Charlie Taylor, C. S. Clegg. Ed Batchelor, Paul Derr and Coley Pryor. Faculty Plays Hawks In Big Game Here Monday ENTERS RACE Among the other sponsors,'shown left to right, are A. W. Bell, Or. A. XJ. Stroupe, J. M. Craig, Dr. E. W. ConnelL Herman Cross and W, O. Barrett. BUI Alligood, another sponsor of the big feed, was busy acting as Master of Ceremonies when this picture was taken. Sealed at the coaches tables of the banquet are, left to right, S. H. Helton, principal of the local schools, Ken Alexander, sports edi- for of the Gastoma Gaselte, Mias Katherine Knox, girls director of physical education and Coach Max Beam, coach of boys athletics. On. the other side of the table are Miss Gloria Stroupe, Johnny York, nevH( editor of The News, Herbert Hipps, on the coaching staff and e teacher and John Ellis, who has the same title as Mr. Hipps. Above are shown a portion of the enthiuiastic group of young boys and girls athletes at the banquet given in their honor. Aside from the athletes invited guests were sponsors and cheerleaders of the teams. Superior Yaru Is Gettiug Ready For BasebaU Here Superior Yarn Mills is readying 3 powerful nine for the Piedmont Textile League this season with a number of players already under contract in preparation for the ^niing season, Manager Doyt 1 Morris announced this week. Since ' ^ ♦ Textile League was definitely fettled at a 6 team league includ ing Superior, the Belmont Comb os, Cramerton, Highland Park, Maiden, and Granite Falls, mana- ^ntris has been working on ne personnel for the coming sea- ®nn and will soon be ready to re- iewe a complete roster. . The only name released by Mor- is this week was that of Ray a a last year American Yarn Pr^essing Company infielder ho will play for Superior this aason. Morris said the popular ^artin has signed for Superior nd that other outstanding play- being contacted daily. * or some time during the early ^Kanization of the Textile League ® s«fson rumors were thick nnceming severhl South Carolina •earns which were considering in several fields of jiy into the Textile League. These however, decided against a move at a meeting of the ember teams held In Charlotte w^ks ago and the league will a six-team affair two ^ f^initelj" X" year. j The two new members cf the ague are the Carolina Mills ball from Maiden and the Sif- Manufacturing Co. team from Granite PalU. Superior Yarn MiUs was the* pennant winner last season in the league and under Manager Morris' guidance, is again setting their sights on the pennant with inten tions of being one .of the rare two-time winners. Several changes in the Textile League set-up have been made this season and among these is the election of a Board of Dir ectors to replace the Commissioner who served last year. This move will save money for the league as well as giving each team equal representation on league matters, it was pointed out. Serving on the board of Commissioners are H. M. Troutman of Superior; W. M. Hall, Belmont; Boley Todd, Highland Park; Frank Sigmon, Maiden; and Toad Young, Granite Falls. G. M. Matlack of Cramerton is President of the Textile League. The baseball season in the Tex tile League will open officially on April 27 it was anounced. A new feature of the league this year will be the awarding of tro phies by several individuals for baseball. A trophy for the League’s Leading hitter will be donated by C. K. Torrence of the Superior Yarn MiUs; a trophy for the best pitcher wil be given by W. M. Hall of Belmont; a trophy for the Best Sport will be given by M. L. Brackett of Highland Park and a trophy for the Most Valu able Player wil be donated by W. A. Julian of Cramerton. The schedule for the games this (ContiBued on Ba^ Pft9«) Mount Holly High School fac-' ulty members will form a bas ketball team which will meet the Little Eight Conference champs at the local high school Monday night in what is expected to be one of the best games of the cen tury. Game time is 7:30 p. m. and admission will be 25 and 40 cents. Rumors are rife concerning the players who will form the faculty team and varsity squad spies have been seen frequenting the gym to see what faculty members might be working on the old hoop. However, a News reporter, braving fire, fury, and the wrath of the coaches for the faculty team, has uncovered at least a partial list of the teachers who will face the first string Hawks on the court next Monday night Included among the goal artists on the tentative team are “Hook” Hipps, “Flatfoot” Shue, “Father” Helton, “Splinters” Ellis, “Bean- ball” ^am, and “Muscles” Mil ler. These men are all former stars on the hardswood for their respective alma maters and great offensive and defensive action is expected from them in the fac ulty-student game. On the roster for the women’s team, faculty members who will side with blonde Katherine Knox in the bitter battle with the Hawk girls are “Two-goal” Holley, ‘Sure-shot” Vaughn, “Konnec- tin’ ” Kendrick, “Wobble-shot” Ware, “Lead ’em a point” Lewis, ‘Loophole” Loftin, and of covirse, ‘K. O.” Knox. Coach Max Beam has been quoted as saying that he plans to use the Haw'k third string team against the faculty to give the oldsters a fighting chance and it is a definite assumption that the students will be out to show the instructors a point or two about the game of basketball Monday night. Make plans now to attend this game which will probably be the only one of its kind to be s'^en in Mount Holly. Be there early to be sure of a seat Red Cross Has Slow Reports “Only a few reports have been trickling in from the Red Cross drive thus far,” Dr. L. S. Clark told a News reporter this week. “But more are expected every week until the end of the drive March 31 and from indications Mount Holly may do very well in the drive this year.” Dr. Clark also said m a Wednesday inter view with a News reporter, that since industrial plants In this sec tion are planning to continue the drive through the final date in order to obtain the greatest re sults in each plant, a fma’ total would not be avc-lable unlii after the c . 've ended. “However,” he said, “It is ap parent that the i-esidents of this community are receiving the drive well this year and it is hoped that a sum in excess of the amount given last year will Iw reported by Mount Holly at the'end of the 1950 drive.” The residential district canvass has been slow'. Dr. Clark report ed, and at least one of the ladies taking part in the residential di vision has asked that those who have donations to be given thru the home call any of the women taking part in the drive. Several of the ladies have made more than one call at homes without finding anyone at home. Dr. Clark said, and it is impossible to keep making return calls. However, any of the sub-chairmen will be happy to call at any designated time to collect the donation. Further reports from the bus iness district and residential dis trict are expected as the drive progresses and Dr. Clark again urges chairmen to plan to make their final reports as promptly as possible at the end of the drive. Raseball Is On Way At School Baseball season entered the sports picture at Mount Holly High School Wednesday afternoon as Coach Max Beam put his team on the diamond for the first prac tice session this season. Already I planning a tentative practice I game with Thomasboro to be ; played here on Monday, March 127 unless cancelled, the Hawks ;are hoping that baseball will be 'as kind to the high school as 'basketball was this year. Coach I Beam did not anticipate being I able to tell much about his nine 'until next week when the boys , have had an opportunity to shake the kinks out, but a large num- jber of prospective players were expected out for the practice ses sions this week. A schedule will be the first problem to face the Hawk mentor in the opening days of the dia mond season here and as soon as the schedule is completed The News will publish a complete list of the teams the Hawks will face. Men's Class to Install Officers At the meeting of the Men’s Club of the Presbyterian church to be held Monday evening the newly elected officers will be in stalled. Mr. Ted C. Johnson, re tiring president, will preside and conduct the installation service. Mr. Ennis Jackson, president of the men’s organization of Kings Mountain Presbytery, will be the guest speaker. Mr. Jackson, who is a resident of Gastonia, has spent a great deal of time and provided much of the leadership in the men’s work in this Pres bytery. Mr. E. D. Robinson is to be in stalled as President, Mr. Alonzo P. Reep as vice-president, Mr. Er- sen Loftin as Secretary, and Mr. Bert Spittle as treasurer. Retiring officers are Mr. Ted C. Johnson, president; Mr. E. D. Robinson, vice-president; Mr. W. A. Bynum, secretary: and Mr. Lewis Calvert, treasurer. WiU Go Bedecked In New Uniforms Which Are Here LUTHER S. ABERNATHY Of Stanley, informed The News this week that he had entered the race for Constable of River- bend Township. Mr. Abernathy is a former member of the Mount Holly police force serving under Chief Andrew Carter. The new candidate was born and raised in this township and is well known. He is a deacon of the Presbyterian church at* Stanley and secretary of the Men’s Bible Class and active in church work. “I am running for this office on the basis of my reputation and the desire to do my duty in a clean, upstanding manner. I will appreciate your careful consid eration of my candidacy and your vote,” Mr. Abernathy stated. Mr. Abernathy has many rela tives in Mount Holly and is working for a good vote here. No other candidate has announ ced so far as The News knows because Mr. Abernathy is the only one who has made inten tions known to this paper. It is expected, according to rumors, that at least three others will be in the race. Henkle To Open Here Saturday Ivey Henkle, Jeweler, will open his new jewelry store in the River Valley Gas and Appliance Store Saturday with the formal opening slated for next week, it was announced this week. Henkle is a native of Mount Holly, and following his resignation from a Charlotte jewelry company, has been making plans for opening his own business. For several months he has been repairing watches and jewelry at his home on East Catawba Ave. Henkle is a graduate of the Winston - Salem Watchmaker’s school and is an expert watch and jewelry repairman. He plans to stock a complete line of jewelry and watches which will be an nounced next week in The News. Plan now to visit Ivey Henkle, Jeweler, and examine the na tionally known merchandise the store will stock. Mrs. Pinckney Farrar has ^n at home since last Friday with the flu. She and her two children have been ill, but are now im proving. Lions Calendar Sale Is Good The Lions Club committee working on the sale of the novel birthday calendars which they will have printed soon reports a great number of sales thus far and a continuing effort until the deadline March 31. The novel calendars, which will contain the months from June of this year through June of next year, will *have birthdays of local citizens listed in the proper space gs well as the dates of club and organi zation meetings, holidays, and other important events. A committee headed by Frank Dameron is canvassing Mount Holly to obtain the names and birthdays of everyone who wish es to be listed on the calendar. Listing a birthday and the name of the individual on the calendar costs 25 cents and the calendars when completed will sell for 50 cents additional, Mr. Dameron said. Any group which wishes meeting dates listed on the cal endar may have this service for a minimum charge of $3.00, Mr. Dameron said. The attractive calendars will have a color picture of some Mount Holly landmark and will have ample room for listing ad- .ditional meeting dates and other I important data in the proper ‘spaces, it was pointed out The calendars will be filled with names and birthdays the .Lions hope and anyone wishing their name listed should get in touch with Mr. Dameron at the P.T.A. To Meet Next Thursday The Mount Holly P.-T. A. will hold its next meeting a^ 7:30 p. m., Thursday, March 23, at the high school gymnasium. The pres ident, Mrs. Charles R. Holtzclaw will preside during the business session, and, continuing the theme of “Know Your School,” the pro gram will be presented by the home economics department of the high school. Mrs. Evelyn L. Lewis, the home economics teacher, will stage a spring fashion show, with girls in her classes modeling clothing they have made. A very clever presentation of the fashion show is being developed, and the pro gram promises to be most enter taining, as well as affording the public an opportunity to see the work being done in the home ec onomics department. A most important feature of this meeting will be the appear ance of Mr. J. Milton Craig, rep resentative from this township on the Gaston County School Board. Mr. Craig has been invited to speak about plans now under consideration for enlarging and improving the physical plant of the school. This information will be of prime interest to parents and patrons of the school, and a large audience is expected to hear Mr. Craig’s remarks. Since the February meeting had to be cancelled because of the high incidence of /Illness, Foun der’s Day will also be obsei-ved Thursday night, with chances be ing sold on a huge birthday cake. ANDY CARTER IMPROVED Mr. Andrew Carter is showing some improvement this week af ter being seriously ill with pneu monia this past week. He is in a Charlotte hospital. ANNOUNCE BIRTH Mr. and Mrs. Ray Martin an nounce the birth of a daughter, Rhonda Ann on March 2nd at the Mercy hospital in Charlotte. Upholstery Co. Is Now Open •''‘t’.u.* JLiOckridge, a resident Holly for 15 years, nas opened the Lockridge Upholstery Conmany in the brick building on East Central Ave., which was formerly occupied by the Servall Laundry. Mr. Lockridge, who has had more than ,15 .-years of ex perience in upholstery work of all kinds, is equipped to do prac tically any type of upholstery and guarantees all of his work fully. Specializing in furniture up holstery and refinishing as well as in the upholstery of automo bile seats and re-upholstering, Mr. Lockrilge states that he will give prompt service and continue the same fine work that he has been doing in his former location. The new building, already occu pied by the upholstery company, will offer a more convenient lo cation than his former place of business. Samples of materials available are at the upholstery shop and Mr. Lockridge urges automobile and furniture owners who need upholstery work done to drop by for an estimate. A phone will be installed as soon as possible and orders will be picked up and de livered, Mr. LKkridge said. * The Mount Holly High School Band and the Boy’s and Girl’s Chorus are preparing to attend the State District Contest to be held at Catawba College at Salisbury on March 22 and 23, according to Dwight Price, Band Director at the local school. State contest mu sic is a highlight on the practice schedule of both the band and the two chorus’.Mr. Price said. Ap proximately 35 girls from the Girl’s Chorus, 20 boys from the Boy’s. Chorus, and 36 members of the high school band will make the trip to Salisbury. The chorus contest will be held on March 22 and the band contest will be held March 23 Mr. Price said. The new uniforms obtained for the band through the drive recently i»eld in Mount Holly will [be worn by the members of the (band and fittings were being 'given this week Mr. Price told a [News reporter. This will be the first appearance of the band away from Mount Holly in the new uni forms. Meanwhile, tentative plans are being made for a parade through Mount Holly next Friday to dis play the new uniforms which the members of the band wear through the generosity of resi dents here- LETT OFT ROLL The name of Ray Hager, tenth grade student in Miss Lipscomb’s Duke Power Company office on homeroom, was inadvertently East Central Ave., or may contact! left off the honor roll appearing any member of the Lions Club.' in this edition of The News^ Dr. David Walker To Open Office Dr. David S. Walker, a Char lotte Optometrist, has anounced plans for establishing a practice in Mount Holly. Dr. Walker told a News reporter Wednesday that he has already r-^nted offices above Hollands Drug Store and that he plans to begin a part-time prac tice here as soon as remodeling is complete. He will be in Mount Holly on Friday of each week ac cording to his announcement Wed nesday and will begin his prac tice within the next two weeks. Office hours here on Fiiday will be 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Dr. Walker also stated that he is having necessary' equipment shipped from his Charlotte offices, located in the Dilworth Post Of fice building, to Mount Holly and that the equipment was now be ing installed. Dr. Walker has been practicing in Charlotte for a per iod of more than a year. He is a . native of Charlotte and a graduate j of the Northern Illinois College of Optometry at Chicago. Dr. Walk er graduated Cum Laude and was a member of the Tomb and Key honorary fraternity and a mem ber of the social fraternity Phi Theta Upsilon. ~He is now serving as Secretary and Treasurer of the Piedmont District Optometrie Society which includes the area between Shelby and Hamlet. Further announcements con cerning the opening, date of Dr. Walker's offices here will appear in The News. Youth Revival Dkwing. Crowds Afvsf Jtstf* Th» Ahm? The Youth Revival in the First Baptist Church is continuing and will come to an end Sunday eve- » ning with the 7:30 service. Audiences have been large, in terest high and results have been good in the first days of this meeting. Rev. J. I. Bishop, evan gelist, and Southwide R. A. Sec retary for the Southern Baptist Convention, has been bringing stirring messages. This young minister, with his winning Christ ian personality is unique in his way of reaching and winning boys and girls as well as older people for Christ. Many decisions for Christ have already been made this week. The local churc^i considers itself fortunate in se curing the services of Rev. Bishop. Also the song service each eve ning, led by Rev. J. O. Stroud, are proving popular and helps to prepare the people for the mes sage. The morning watch services conducted at 7:30 a. m. are prov ing very popular.- Attendance has increased every morning. In this morning service the Rev. Mr. Bishop is outlining the plan of salvation step by step. The eve ning services are strictly evange listic and are followed by an open forum conducted in answer to questions that have been turned in. The above picture: “Must Jesus bear the cross alone” is a truth that is being stressed in all of these services. It should cause all people to face their du ties in the church and the com munity. Individual responsibility must be stressed at all times. There is a moral task for every one. Parents must assume the re sponsibility for the moral lives of their own children, or expect punishment to be meted out to them for their disobedience. These special services will close Sunday night. Services will be conducted Saturday night. Bible School at 9:45 a. m. Training Union for all ages at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday—Junior choir prac tice at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday—Intermediate choir practice at 6:30 p. lA. Prayer serv- ice at 7:30 p. m. Senior Practice at 8:15 p. m. ATTEND CHURCH
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