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, MAY 5, 1950
NUMBER 12
CITY EXTENSION OPPOSED
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American Legion Post Elects New Officers
Mount Holly Plays Chester Here
Game To Be Played At
Hotchison - Lowe Park
The Mount Holly semi-pro base-^
bal team, sponsored by the Mount
Holly Boys Club, will meet the
Chester nine at Hutchison-Lowe
Park tomorrow (Saturday) night
at 8 p. m. in the first Textile
League game to be played by the
newly organized team here. Ches
ter is reported to have a strong
SQuad and the Mount Holly team
is looking forward to a tough
game. Next Tuesday the local nine
travels to Bessemer City. The lo
cals, taking to the diamond in
their first game of the season a-
gainst the Red Shield Club in
Gastonia last week, handed the
Gastonia nine an 18-2 licking be-
■ fore a large crowd of fans. Howard
Long pitched the entire nine and
Will and A. C. Kennedy alternat
ed as catcher.
Organized by local residents in
terested in athletic programs, the
Mount Holly team officially en
tered the Gaston Textile League
which includes five other teams,
two weeks ago. The eighteen play
ers are classed as semi-pro ball
players but receive no pay for
playing. The Mount Holly Boys
Club receive the pioceedl^AJiii
each game and the money will
be used to help carry out the com
plete aUiletic program planned by
the Boys Club this summer for
youngsters. Each member of the
local team is donating his time
to help finance a program de
signed to encourage and train up
any coming athletes in the young
er ranks as well as to provide en
tertainment and competition for
the boys during the summer va
cation.
All games are to be played at
night and the Mount Holly club
hopes to develop a strong follow
ing among the fans here this sea-
. son. Howard Horton is field man
ager for the locals and Paul
Springs is manager.
Included among the men who
are donating their time and skill
on the diamond as semi-pro play
ers on the Mount Holly team are:
A C. Kennedy, Will Harris, Ro
bert White, V. N. “Dizzy” Horton,
Dean Brook, Willy J. Wilson, Jack
Perkins. Paul Hamilton, T. L. Mc
Manus .Howard Long, Charles W.
Withers, Harold Richards, James
King, William Bateman, J. P.
Lyman, and Glenn Thomas.
Jaycees Install
New Officials
Last night more than 45 Jay
cees and their wives, along with
a few guests, met at Morris
Field for a banquet meeting and
installation of officers. The in
stallation services were in charge
of W. O. Barrett, the retiring Sen
ior Adviser of the organization.
President Ted Johnson presided
at the meeting.
Officers installed were J. C.
Rhyne, president; Ken Davis, first
vice president; Harold Henkle,
second vice president; Rufus In
gle, secretary and Emmett Ven
ning, treasurer. Directors install
ed were Ted Johnson, J. B.
Thompson. Max Childers, Don
ald Davis. Wally Thompson and
John Calder.
Bill AlUgood was installed as
Senior Adviser succeeding Mr.
Barrett.
After the installation of offi
cers a dance and social hour wa.s
enjoyed by the Jaycees and their
IN GREENSBORO
Miss Peggy Anderson and Miss
Ann Painter spent the past
weekend in Greensboro as guests
of Miss Doris Gantt and Miss Jo
Ann Fuller, who are students at
the Woman’s College.
IN BURLINGTON
Mrs. D. S. Schronce spent
Thursday in Burlington attending
the meeting of the Women's As
sociation of the Pentecostal Holi
ness Church. Rev. Schronce spent
the day In Lincolnton.
Alvin Arndt
Fatally Injured
Last Sunday morning, as most
of Mount Holly was at worship in
the local churches, one of the
most tragic deaths that has hap
pened here in years took place.
Alvin Arndt, 42 years of age and
in the prime of life, was electro
cuted while working as foreman
in a substation of the Duke Pow
er Company at Gastonia. A charge
of 2,300 volts of electricity caus
ed his' death. He received the
charge from a metal bolt that
came into contact with a live
wire. He was dismantling a closet
that housed an old transformer,
which was eliminated recently,
because of a new one replacing it.
Alvin Arndt was a man whose
death proved he had the admi
ration and respect of his neigh
bors and co-workers. One of the
largest crowds ever to attend
a funeral "here was present to
pay th#“ir last respects to a friend
and co-workers. The floral tri
butes bore their own silent tes
timony of the high esteem in
which friends held Jiim.
The deceased man’s love for
flowers, his home and his work
was well known. It was his pleas
ure to do a good job in every
thing that he undertook. As one
of his friends stated, “Alvin never
had a hard word to say about any
body, and certainly he would go
out of his way to help a friend."
For fifteen years Mr. Arndt
had worked for the Duke Power
Company and had worked him
self into a position of trust and
responsibility. Members, and
many of them, of every system
in the vast Duke Power plants
were present at the final rites.
He was considered one of the
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Rotary Sponsors
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Career Clinic
A "Career Clinic” to guide high
school students in job hunting is
being planned by members of
the Mount Holly Rotary Club and
a committee headed by Clyde Lof-
tin was to have completed final
details for the project at a meet
ing last night. This clinic, which
win consist of representatives of
various fields of employment, will
give short talks to an assembly
of high school seniors next
Thursday morning during a class
room period. Some members of
the Rotary Club will describe op
portunity for jobs, advancement,
and probable wages in fields of
employment which are familiar
to them and the committee was
also planning to have several
other businessmen representing
other professions and trades as
sist in the project. Serving on
the committee with Mr. Loftm
are Henry Fowler and E. W.
Blackwood.
High school officials feel that
an insight into various trades and
professions as given by those fa-
milii.r with the opportunities and
requirements will prove of value
to seniors who will be planning
their own careers soon.
HAM SUPPER SATURDAY
A country ham supper wilh be
given at the Lucia school lunch
room on this Saturday, May 6th.
The time set for the feast is from
5:30 until 8:00 p. m. Come early
and avoid the rush. The chil
dren’s plates will be 50 cents and
adults will be charged $1.00. This
is being sponsored by the Snow
Hill Church.
Mount Holly Is
Over Top In The
Blood Quota
Moimt Holly residents topped
the quota of 50 pints of blood]
set for the visit of the Red j
Cross Bloodmobile here last
Wednesday, co-chairmen Max I
Childers and Emmett Venning
annoimced yesterday. A total of
57 pints of blood was given dur
ing this visit of the blood unit |
to the Lions Club building and t
both co-chairmen in charge of,
the visit as well as Red Cross
nurses and doctors attending the
donors praised the cooperation
exhibited by donors who stream
ed into the blood center during
the day.
During recent visits of the
blood unit here a steady increase
in the number of pints donated
by local residents has been ob
served and the chairmen are
hopeful that an even greater in
crease will be evident on the next
visit of .the unit here. Mr. Chil
ders told a News reporter Wed
nesday that the first visit of the
blood unit which he and Mr. Ven
ning' helped with mere than a
year ago netted 12 pints; the
second saw a total of 36 pints giv
en; and the visit of the unit here
Wednesday attracted a compara
tive number of new donors.
The chairmen believe that the
use of the blood from the blood
bank in several instances con
cerning people who are close to
Mount Holly residents has had a
favorable effect in showing pro-
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N. C. State Coach
At Stanley School
On Monday afternoon of this
week. Coach Everett Case of N.
C. State fame, introduced by Mr.
Taylor Moser, spake to the Stan
ley High School student body. His
talk was brief and to the point,
but as with his basketball teams,
the speech struck home.
Coach Case opened his talk with
the information that he was lucky
to have reached Stanley. The car
in which he and a friend left
Raleigh somehow managed to
take the wrong route in two dif
ferent places, thus causing them
quite a bit of confusion in reach
ing Charlotte. Fate must have
been against them for after reach
ing the big city and being met by
Coach Stroupe, who brought them
to Stanley, their car barely man
aged to outdistance a train at the
crossbars.
Everett Case complimented the
basketball teams for this year on
their excellent records as well as
their outstanding sportsmanship.
He stressed three points he always
took into consideration when a
student wished to attend State
College. His first point concerns
character traits. This includes his
ability to meet and get along with
other people, politeness, how he
rates with his friends and class
mates, and :iis standing in the
community. Coach Case next
wants to examine the student’s
scholastic record, for scholarship
is the basis of a person’s ability
to learn and apply himself in life
as well as in school. And the last
point Coach Case stresses is ath
letic ability. “After all”, he said,
“athletic ability, scholarship, and
character traits all go hand in
hand. And athletics help to sti
mulate the other two.”
GUESTS HERE
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Ballard and
Mr. Bill Ballaid were weekend
guests here visiting Mr. and Mrr.
W. M. Be&tiy and Miss Goldie
Kale.
VISITORS FROM TAMPA
Lt. and Mrs. Hubert Greene
and children, Stan, Billy, and
Charles, spent the weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Greene, Mr.
Norman Greene, and Mr. Worlty
Greene of the Tuckaseege Road
section. Lt. Greene is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Greene, and
a brother of Norman and Wor
ley.
SHOWS IMPROVEMENTS
Jerry Wilson is showing some
improvement at the Memorial
hospital in Charlotte, following
an accident last week.
Announced As
Mortgage Free
Last Monday night the John
son - Lineberger American Legion
Post elected officers and also
made a very important announce
ment. The announcement was
that the debt on the' Legion
Building has been completely liq-
quidated and nothing is owed by
the post on their building.
Secondly a fine group of offi
cers, headed by Jack Summey as
Commander for the coming year,
were elected to office. Comman
der Summey is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Kelly N. Summey and
is associated with his father in
business at the Summey Drug
Company. He was educated in the
local schools, Belmont Abbey and
attended Duke University. He
served one year in the Army and
was discharged when the Army
Specialized Training Program
was discontinued immediately af
ter D-Day. He then enlisted in
the Navy and served for eighteen
months.
Commander Summey has serv
ed the Legion as Adjutant, Mem
bership Chairman and Post
Athletic Officer with distinction
during the past four years. He is
well qualified to lead the post
through another successful year.
The new Commander will be in
stalled along with the other offi
cers on May 15th.
Harold Stroupe Honored
Harold Stroupe, the immediate
past-commander, was selected the
most outstanding Legionnaire of
the year for his work in the lo
cal post. With the number one
project being the paying off of
the mortgage, he was successful
in guiding the post in raising
the funds for this purpose.
Other. Officers
The other officers of the Legion
for the coming year are:
Commander—Jack Summey.
1st V. Commander—Rufus In
gle.
2nd V. Commander—John Al
len.
3rd V. Commander—Leonard
Jones.
Adjutant—^L. B. Stowe.
Asst. Adjutant—Max Hoyle.
Legal Advisor—Max Childers.
Finance Officer—W. T. Mace.
Service Officer—Ed Armstrong.
Guardianship Officer — Lloyd
O’Donaghue.
Sergeant-at-Arma — Gus Cha
garis.
Chaplain—Graham Cloninger.
Historian—^T. A. Dunn, Jr.
Athletic Officer—James Cullen.
Asst. Athletic Officer—^Ellis
Keever.
Americanism Officer — Henry
Graham.
Boys’ State Officer—Dr. Ray
mond Moore.
Boy Scout Officer—O. H. Bax
ley.
Child Welfare Officer—Junius
Miller.
Employment Officer — Clarence
Rice.
Graves Reg. & Memorial—De
witt S. Beatty.
Membership Chairman—Har
old .Stroupe.
Asst. Membership Chairman—
Yates Baker.
Oratorical Contest — Thomas
Rumfelt.
Publicity Officer — Peter N.
Chagaris.
Sons of Legion—Reece Helms.
National Defense Officer—Br> ce
Chapman.
Building Officer—H. C. Head.
GO TO MYRTLE BEACH
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Robinson,
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Rumfelt,
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Holar and Bob
by Williams spent the past week
end at the Robinson Cottage at
Myrtle Beach.
VISITS BALLARDS
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kale were
the weekena visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. Chatles Ballard.
NEW COMMANDER
V
JACK SUMMEY
Above is the new elected com
mander of the Johnson-Lineber-
ger Post of the American Legion.
Commander Summey was adju
tant during the past year and
has been active in civic and vete
rans affairs here for many years.
Gloria Stroupe
Beauty Winner
Gloria Stroupe was elected rep
resentative of the Mount Holly
Lions Club to the State Beauty
Contest to l>e held in Charlotte
June 19 in elections held at the
regular meeting cf the club last
Tuesday night. Miss Stroupe,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. U.
Stroupe of Mount Holly, is Drum
Majorette of the Moimt Holly
High School Band this year and is
active in school and in extra-cur
ricular programs. Miss Stroupe
will take part in a parade of
beauty queens representing the
Lions Clubs attending the State
Convention in Charlotte June 18,
19, and 20 and will be one of the
many beauties who will parti
cipate in a beauty contest to se
lect a state winner on Monday,
June 19.
The winner in the statp con
test at Charlotte will be given an
all-expense paid trip to Chicago
in Juty where she will represent
the North Carolina Lions Clubs in
the national beauty contest to
be held at the International Con
vention of Lions Clubs. In Chi
cago, the North Carolina beauty
Queen will vie with beauties from
every state in this nation and
from 26 foreign countries for the
top honors.
Superior - Maiden
Here Next Week
The only home game Superior
fans will have an opportunity to
witness next week will be the
clash with Maiden scheduled at
Superior Park for next Thurs
day night. Last night (Thursday)
the Superiors played Cramerton
at Superior Park too late for this
edition of The News to carry a
score. Other than these two home
games before the next edition of
The News, all games will be
played on the road. The Super
iors visit Cramerton to take on
the Eagles there tomorrow night
(Saturday), and travel to Maiden
next Tuesday to meet the Mai
den teem there.
Superior walked over the Bel
mont Combers in two fan-satisfy
ing games, one played here last
Saturday and the other at Davis
Park in Belmont Tuesday night,
proving the guess of the major
ity of fans that Superior would
show an amazing amount of
power this season. The Saturday
night game here last week at
tracted an estimated 1500 fans
and the local park was packed
with followers of both teams.
The Saturday night game was
the official opener for the locals
and they wasted little time in
racking up a lead over the visit
ing Combers. Playing leading
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Groap Meets To Change
Plans; Many Favor It
McGinnis To
Handle Office
For Merchants
The Riverbend Merchants As*-
sociation, with headquarters in
Mount Holly, has opened offices
in the Bank Building on the sec
ond floor. The directors have also
appointed an Executive Secretary
who has already started work
compiling the credit ratings of
the people of the entire township.
Roy W. McGinnis, local attor
ney, has been nam^ to the of
fice of Executive Secretary and
he has gotten a grand start this
week setting up the machinery
to better serve both the merchants
and the consumers. In just a short
time the local association will
have the names and credit ref
erences of 8,000 or more people.
This will be a great advantage
to the local people who are good
payers inasmuch as they wiR be
enabled to get quick credit serv
ice from merchants in Stanley
and Mount Holly. The local as
sociation will also exchange ref
erences with other associations in
this section of North Carolina.
President Dewitt Beatty stated
that the printed forms for secur
ing information, etc., for the as
sociation from the member mer
chants would be distributed next
week. It will only be a matter of
a few days until the entire set
up will begin formation.
Mr. ^cGinnis stated that* he
was sending off the papers to in
corporate the association and that
the charter should be back in a
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' A group of approximately
people met at the VFW Hut op
Wednesday night of this week •
and organized to fight the pro- ' '
posed extension of the town lim
its of Mount Holly. Chairman d
Kenneth Moore, who is heading
the rejection. committee, stated
that he attenipted to get a call
meeting with the Boatd for .
night but had failed to do so. The f
purpose of the meeting woi^ ^
have been to change some of the .. -
proposed boundaries.
ITiis newspaper interviewed a
member of the Board who stated
that the matter had been
Used for four weeks. Also that
^ey had a petition signed by
people asking that the limits 1^
ejrtended in certain directions. II
was also pointed out that the
water' tank for the city is out
side of the town limits and
should be inside, but that there
was no land available. The new .
limits would bring in the water ^
tank.
While Chairman Moore and his
committee are putting up a
termined push to get their points -
acros^ it can be said that tho^
favoring the extensions are equal-,
ly as determined to see that the
limits are extended.
The* opposition committ^
claims that the new limits wiU
more than double the presem
area. That this jump would work
a hardship on the taxpayers with
in and without the limits. The
question was also raised that it
would take a large bond issue
which would raise city taxes be
cause of added water and sew
erage construction. Mr. Mooye
also expressed hope that a
tion could be worked out to avmd
a hard fight in the matter. He
also stated that 450 people had
signed the petition not to come
in the town limits.
The proponentt favoring the
extension deny that any big bond
issue will be necessary but cal*
attention to the fact that over
one million dollars worth of tax
able property will be added to
the wealth of the town- Aside
from this it will cause the popu
lation of the town to jump iu
excess of 3,000 citizens. .
It was also brought out that
the action taken toward extend
ing the limits was done in ^
very democratic manner and that
if 15 per cent of the voters pro*
test the extension then a vote
will be held with only those af-
P.T.A. Installs
New Officers
Installation of officers in the
Mount Holly P.T.A. was the main
feature of the regular meeting of
the group held last Thursday
night at the gymnasium of the lo
cal school Officers elected for the
coming year and installed at this
meeting included Mrs. Charles R.
Holtzclaw, president; Joe Jones,
vice-president; Mrs. M Batchelor,
second-vice-president; Mrs. T. L.
Ware, Jr., secretary; and Mr. H. G.
Harris, treasurer. Officers were in- . ~ j- ,
stalled by James Ware, a member! J®cted on the outside being a
of the Gaston County School • to vote.
Board. |
Entertainment - was furnished T A U Tc
by an estimated 10 students from XjUI/QA O* a •
the physical .education class at the
local school under the direction
of physical education instructors
including Max Beam, Miss Kath
erine Knox, John Ellis. Herbert
Hipps, Miss Holley, and Miss
Vaughn.
Part of the demonstration ar
ranged by the students and their
instructors included volley ball,
organized calisthenics, and square
dancing. The Virginia Reel was
demonstrated and following the
close of the meeting, students,
parents, and instructors joined in
several square dances led by John
Ellis.
State Official To
Conduct Closes Here
John Noe, Safety Supervisor for
State Public Schools, will con
duct a workshop at the Mount
Holly schools beginning next Mon
day and continuing through next
Thursday, S. H. Helton, principal
of schools announced today. Mr.
Noe will lecture teachers from
cooperating schools of this area on
safety courses of study for all
schools. Teachers attending the
afternoon sessions will represent
schools in Belmont, Cramerton,
J-.owesville, North Belmont. Mt
Holly, and Stanley, Mr. Helton
said. The sessions will begin at
1:30 p. m. each afternoon.
Siale Winner
The Mount HoUy-Belmont Civil
Air Patrol squadron was named
winner of a $25 prize this week by
headquarters of»the North 'Caro
lina Wing for obtaining the most
recruits in their squadron within
recent months. The prize award
ed the local squadron was half
of a $50 prize which was to be
given to the squadron in the state
obtaining the most new recruits
for their squadron, but $25 of the
amount was awarded the Moores-
ville squadron in a tie decision.
While the Mount Holly-Belmont
squadron had enlisted the largest
number of cadets, the Moori?sville
^uadron had obtained more sei^
ior members, Lieutenant Richard
Mauney said this week in an
nouncing the award. At the pre*
sent time the local squadron
a total of 30 senior members but
lack 21 senior members of havinf
the required personnel to qualif5
as a squadron under a new ruling
Lieutenant Mauney said that
the local squadron is begining
intensive drive to bring theu
squadron up to the requirec
strength before the 15th of Ma:
in order that they may continu*
to qualify as a squadron. It t
highly pc^ible that the loca
squadron, if the drive is success
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