Mount Holly News
Constructive—If It Will Help Mount HoUy And Gaston County The News Is For It-Progressive
VOL. XXVII.
MOUNT HOLLY. N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1950
NUMBER 22
SCHOOL BUILDING STARTED
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A. Y. P. Has Building Program Underway
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Catawba Heights Gets Big Store
Abercrombie Sets Up Big
Super Market For Citizens
M. Abercrombie, of Mount^'
has purchased the Com
munity Service Store in Catawba
^®ights and remodeled and re-
the business. It is now
^own as Abbe’s Cash Self-Ser-
Mr. Abercrombie has had
m®re than 25 years experience in
the
grocery business and was for
j* y^ars manager of an A. and
j/ “tore. His experience covers
m>th chain and independent
^ores, The store is located be-
, Mount Holly and Belmont
h the main road.
Earl Payseur has been named
Local Citizens
Talk About War
The News, in obtaining a 6 cross-
section of the feelings of local
people, learned that Mount Holly
citizens are much concerned
about the Korean war and some
qf the atrocities that have been
committed. Merchants, workers
Hunter Laundry Had
Slight Fire Yesterday
The Mount HoUy Volunteer
Fire Department answered an
alarm at the Hunter Home Laun
dry at approximately 9 a. m.
Wednesday morning and the blaze
was quickly smothered with lit
tle damage to the building or
equipment, Hugh Bishop, fireman
on duty Wednesday, reported.
The fire was apparently caused
by a short circxiit, Bishop said,
and resulting sparks set paper
which lined the walls of the
laundry afire. Bishop stated that
the fire was quickly put out by
the local volunteer firemen.
Company Is
Constructing
New Addition
Robert H. Black
Named Band Leader
and pfopi'.ta “s Drivcrs License
Exams Each Week
MSket*S!have the war on tMr -inds
fayseur has had good experience
comes to the store with splen-1 “^e.
background of meat experi-} One of the perturbmg factors
He is a veteran of World of most people is the let down
2 and took G. I. training, feelipg caused by Secretary of
^^ializing in meats and market Defense Loujs Johnson in a state-
*^agement.
*^e newly renovated Self Ser-
store has plenty of parking
/^ties for their patrons. Mr.
f^rcrombie secured the lot next
the store and has graded and
5l5'^®lcd it for parking. New dis-
Inlands are arranged through-
the store and selection is easy,
i^pne patron stated yesterday,
his may not be the largest
uper market in this section but
IS certainly as neat and clean
^ hny and the atmosphere is
hf friendliness.” This remark
described the store.
*v”dey Bishop, postmaster of
jg® “etawba Heights post office,
the store a few years ago.
added the Post Office
lea 4 remain in the store at
the time being. The new
has plans for the future
^t call for continued enlarge-
' w 8S''i^E eS
hiess demands it.
the new equipment h
tbe meat depart-
First and most important
■«poler
^tallation of the big meat
Veil,'* hnd refrigerator box. This
Mr. Abercrombie to
Pl« times a most com-
c Selection of choice meats,
thft ^be meat department of
of store will be the pride
"hiido ^®^bing has been left
Of th guarantee the quality
department and the high
of service and sanita-
5H^j^®cessary for a first class
^bercrombie stated that
thft **^viting the public to visit
aUv *v. ^®sh Self-Service especi-
ODiLi * week-end." During his
be Tin?’ ^bich is all this week,
^®lcome any comments
patrons. “I do not mind
»' constructive criticism
he^ I am running this biisi-
the first thought in
V^l- pleasing the people I
Aber^”'® suggestions,” Mr.
Yft, *‘®*ubie told this writer,
it bke the new store and
both advertised in
Well HoUy and Belmont as
throu k* Heights and
gh this entire area.
w®y’s Club Drive Is
•^^ogressing Slowly
stiii*^® blount Holly Club drive is
the tt*^^ccding slowly this week
ed 'Ur^f^’d of Director:
bad ®ud
®card of Directors announc-
^dnes
been prepared, but by next
report
Vree^^fP P^'cpared, but by next
Of Con* 1® hoped that a long list
^ele- '^ibutors wiU be ready for
-• Tbe $2600 sought by the
®*PenV^^ in the annual drive for
Witjj is the minimum amount
Can k'^bich necessaiy equipment
Paid ^ purchased and expenses
is hor^"^ ^be Board of Directors
Witijj^ful of reaching that goal
biore f, next few days. A
Publics report wiU be
‘pushed next week.
ment he maide not too long ago.
We were surprised to learn how
many people remembered his
statement which was, “if war
starts at 4 o’clock we will be
Robert H. Black, formerly of
Kannapolis, has been named
band instructor at Mount HoUy
High School for the coming year,
succeeding Dwight Price who has
returned to school, Principal S. H.
Helton announced this week. Mr.
Two new warehouses are under Black is a graduate of the Shen-
construcUon at one Mount HoUy ?nd?ah Con^^ato^ ol M^ic
. . . . ,, j having studied music for four
plant of the American Yarn and ygj^j.g known con-
Processing Company and improve- servatory, and is a graduate of
ments and additions in buddings Cannon High School at Kanna-
and equipment are imderway polis prior to his studies at the
simultaneously at other plants conservatory. At Cannon High
here, A. W. Bell, General Man- SchooL which is reknowned for
ager of the company, told News having one of the best high
reporters this week. Two new school bands in the state. Black
warehouses are under construe-1 was very highly rated as a bands-
tion at the Woodlawn MiU, Mr. man.
BeU stated, and when they are
completed they wiU add storage
space totaling 100 by 150 feet
each to, the present space.
In o..4e4 local plants, the iran-
Modern New Lunebroom
Included In Local Plans
Odd Facts Are
Given Reporter
I Construction of the new lunch
room and complete renovation
and modernization of the number
one building at the Mount Holly
Schools is making rapid headway,
chairman of the school board C.
S. Clegg stated this week. The
work is estimated to cost approxi
mately $117,000 and wiU be com
pleted before November 15th at
the latest and probably much
earUer, Mr. Clegg told News re
porters this week. Bids were ask
ed for the proposed improvements
aijd renovation work by the Gas-
Vfalter V. FoiL Driver’s License ^ ^
Examiner for Mount Holly, wili|agement of the company is tak-
be here one day each week in the ^ steps to improve final quali-
future, instead of only two days.^y of the finished product by
per month, Chief of Police R. C. adding more cleaning and picking
Robinson announced Wednesday. | equipment and by making new
The exact schedule for the ex- ‘ additions in space available to
— » aminer under the new ruling had the picking and cleaning rooms,
ready for the enemy at 5 ocl^ . completed Wednesday, This work is now underway at
People believed this statement Robinson sUted that the Adrian and the Madora plants,
and now are shocked at Korean believed the examiner would Mr. BeU said, and should be com-
«tuation after just a few weeks, continue to visit Mount Holly on pieted soon. Enlarging of the
They feel made a „iu
mistake oyust didn t know what, allotting one permit the installation of the new
he was taiKing anoui. i ^ week to Mount Holly equipment which the company is
In fact, if other communities j-^ther than two days per month,' adding, Mr. BeU pointed out, and
throughout the nation are of a much to relieve the the plans for-the buUding addi-
Uke mind, Secretary Johnson may which have been apply- tions caU for extensions totaling
be ousted by public opinion. The licenses each time. Chief approximately 80 by 35 feet in
people here are cerUinly of that Robinson said, and wiU prove each plant.
frame of mind in the great ma- convenient for local resi-| The addition of needed space in
jority of cases. His statement has ^bo have in the past had to the cleaning and picking rooms,
caused local concern ab(wt others travel to the examiner’s office in the addition of
Two “freaks of nature” have
been unearthed this week by
subscribers to the Mount HoUy
News who promptly reported
them to this newspaper as rare
events. One of the strange acts
of nature is a cat with six paws,
which is owned by Sam Dyer, * » j * „
local resident who found the kit-j ton comty Board of Education
ten when it was very young and t*”' and were later
Lady Hit By |
Bus Yesterday
Mrs. Emma Jordan, a resident
of Central Ave. in Mount HoUy,
was struck by a City Coach bus
early Wednesday morning just
after alighting from another bus
on her way home from work, po-
Uce reported Wednesday. The
elderly lady had just aUghted
from the bus which she had tak
en to return home and had step
ped around it, according to wit
nesses, when she stepped into
the path of a second bus which
was puUing up alongside the
parked bus.
Mrs. Jordan was rushed to
Memorial Hospital in Charlotte
by ambulance, and the latest re
port Wednesday morning said
• u* V. j - o-ocMihnf auuiuuxj ux new equipment in that she appeared to have ¥uffer-
who might be advising President Q^gtonia on occasion to take those rooms, and the construction ed bruises and lacerations and
Xruman about the war. ^beir examinations before tho q{ the two warehouses at the possibly other injuries, but that
Mount HoUy people, arid we deadline. .4- uX uoa
beUeve that we are representa-1 xacense Examiner with the final aim of improving | had not yet been determined.
'■ j- ♦ wotKea up ggt-up was first established by the yarn being manufactured byiPoUce officers Tom Dunn and
and want this country to go all state, an examiner was as- the company, Mr. BeU stated, and Guilford Huitt, investigating the
out to stop the war as ^on as gjg^ed to Mount HoUy each week a higher degree of efficiency and
possible. Most people that we byt the orders were later chang-' quality is expected to be reach-
talked with always mention *^® ed, removing him entirely, and it ed through these improvements.
Atom Bomb as a method of end- 33,y ^ee^ntly that he was] —
again assigned to Mount HoUy ATTEND FAMILY REUNION
two days per month. This system Mrs. C. P. Howard and Mr. and
ing the confUct.
V.F.W. Clean-Up
Drive Success
A large part of the member
ship of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars post in Moimt HoUy turned
out Tuesday night of this week
to take part in the clean-up pro
gram which was held in the park
around the V. F. W. hut. Com
mander Ken Davis reported this
week. The veterans, even though
hindered by rain, finished cutting
the grass and weeds in the park
which the V. F. W. is building,
and laid out the location of the
barbecue pit which wiU be finish-
proved to be insufficient to serve Mrs. Arthur Wright attended the
the number of drivers applying Hoover family reunion Sunday
for licenses heie, and Chief Rob
inson requested that an examiner
be assigned here weekly a num
ber of times before the request
was granted early this week.
at Suttle’s pool on the Wilkinson
Boulevard. A picnic dinner was
served, and relatives coming from
a distance included Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Hoover of Philadelphia, Pa.
accident, said that she appeared
to have suffered injiny in one
arm also. The bus did not run
over her according to witnesses,
but struck her and knocked her
down. The accident took place at
approximately 6:15 a. m.
The driver of the bus which
struck Mrs. Jordan was Fred
Saunders, Chief of Police R. C.
Robinson told reporters.
READ THE ADSI
Davis Gives Complete Plans
For Annual Durene Festival
Chairman Ken Davis, who is Mount Holly Boys Club and the
chairman this year of the Durene j Gastonia Red Shield Club will be
Festival sponsored annually by
held at Hutchison-Lowe Field and
weather permitting.
Davis said that the members
plan to work again Tuesday night
of next week although no meet
ing will be held. All members
who wish to take part in the con
struction of the barbecue pit and
the other work which is being
done around the hut and park are
urged to drop by at 6:30 p. m.
Tuesday.
Dr. Taylor Is On
A Summer Schedule
old Henkle in charge. This is al
ways one of the largest programs
of the entire festival with ma
chinery manufacturers and others
participating in the program, de
monstrating equipment, and the
latest in farming methods. Satur
day night, as the final Durene
Festival activity, a baseball game
will be played between two local
teams at Hutchison-Lowe Field
with chairman Ivey Henkle in
charge of arrangements. It was
not announced which teams are
to play but Henkle told reporters
Read the adsi
the Mount Holly Jaycees/Ltei I
this week part of the schedule for Wednesday, August 30, is an o-
the annual event which is now pen date and will be filled later
the number one project with the by the Durene Committee, Chair-
Jaycees of Mount Holly. The first man Davis said,
event on the schedule, opening! On Thursday night, August 31,
the Durene celebration which will ■ one of the most popular events of
be held here August 28 through j the year, the annual street dance,
September 2, will be a parade on i will be held with Jaycee Donald
Saturday, August 26, Chairman ! Davis acting as chairman. A num-
Davis said. Jaycee J. B. Thomp-jber of prizes will probably be . .
Following the work program ’ chairman in charge of the given away at the popular street' that the game is guaranteed to
St Tuesday the veterans were f working now to dance, it was stated, and heading I provide plenty of spectator in-
served refreshments and saw aev- coinplete plans for making it an' the list will be an apartment size i terest.
eral films obtained by the organi-1 which will attract a large 1 gas range which has already been All during the week, Chairman
zation crowd to Mount Holly prior to, obtained by the Jaycees. j Davis announced, a Durene dis-
Ithe formal opening of the festi-j Friday night, September 1. the , play wih Jaycee Hugh Ballard in
val. Tentative plans include hav-. annual beauty contest to name! charge, showing the many pro-
ing a bicycle parade for young-} “Miss Durene” will be held with i ducts which bear the trademark
sters plus a number of bands and • Jaycee Emmett Venning chairman Durene, will be seen in the win
marching units, Mr. Thompson Wn charge of the program, Davis dow of the River Valley Chevrolet
told News reporters this week. * announced. The beauty contest j Company on Main Street. With all
Dr. B. C. Taylor will be out of Futher plans will be announced. vies with the street dance and ; sub-chairmen cooperating in mak-
his office for the rest of the sum- j later. j Farmer’s Day in popularity each j ing their individual projects as
mer on Monday and Tuesday of The first day of the festival.! year and plans for the contest this big and as entertaining as possi-
each week. The rest of the days August 28, will mark the date of a ! year indicate an even better con- j ble. Davis predicted that the fes-
he will be on duty for his pa- i Durene Banquet with Jaj'cee Pete i test with more entries participat- ; tival this summer will be the
tients. The popular doctor de-1 Chagaris acting as chairman in ^ ing than in the past. largest and best yet and that huge
serves the rest he will get for two charge of this event, it was an- ‘ Saturday, September 2, closing, crowds will be present at each
days each week and we feel sure nounced. Further details concern-' the annual event which boosts, of the activities scheduled. More
his patients will co-operate with I ing the banquet will also be an-' Durene products, the Farmer’s, plans will be announced later in
his new schedule for July and i nounced later. Tuesday, August Day program will be held at a i The News. Watch for the Durene
August. 29, boxing matches between the suitable location with Jaycee Har- ! Festival announcements.
took it home to care for it. Mr.
Dyer described the cat’s peculiar
ped^ digets is being full> fo.-Ti
ed feet, tw«4 on ea^ h front lep'.
and with the usual one on cacn
rear leg, making a. total of six
paws. Mr. Dyer lives in the
American village in house num
ber 5 and invites anyone who is
dubious about this kitten to drop
by for a look.
The second was reported to the
News by Charley Morgan, who
had heard from friends that a dog
was engrossed in raising three
kittens at the home of. Frank
Parnell near Huntersville and
went by to see. Morgan told a
News reporter that the dog,
which had recently given birth to
puppies, which died, was taking
care of three tiny kittens which
had been left motherless. The
kittens follow the dog every
where, Morgan said, and dinner is
served whenever the mood strikes
(hem on a moment’s notice. Mama
dog is taking a keen interest in
her new charges, Morgan said,
and dow all the- usual jobs of
animal par e n t h o o d, including
washing and feeding the kittens.
Mount Holly Vs
Clover Tomorrow
The Mount Holly semi-pro
baseball team, pushing first place
holders in the Gaston Textile
League, will play host to Clover
at Hutchison-Lowe Field tomor
row (Saturday) night at 8 p. m.,
with a large number of baseball
hungry fans expected to attend.
Clover is an ardent rival of the
local nine in the league and has
proven several times to t?e one
of the toughest teams in th« lea
gue. This game is expected to be
a rugged scrap from start to fin
ish and guessing the final result
will be tough for even the most
loyal fan.
Last night (Thursday), the
Mount Holly team met Lenoir for
the first time this season, when
the Lenoir squad traveled to
Mount Holly to meet the locals
who now hold second place in
the Gaston Textile League. John
Childers, brother of Mount Holly’s
town Attorney, is one of the
Lenoir hurling squad. This game
was played too late for The News
to carry a score.
Tuesday night, returning to the
diamond after the holidays, the
locals showed top form in drop
ping Rex in a practice game
which ended with the locals 14-6
winners over the Rex nine. The
Mount Holly nine expects to
move into first place in the lea
gue within the next few games
and the entire team is playing
top notch baseball now.
Last week the Belmont Fire
men, one of the better teams in
the league, dropped out of the i
league because expenses were
mounting too high for them to
continue playing. This more or
less opened the top place to the
Mount Holly team since the Fire-
pien had been one of the few
teams to defeat them in past
meetings. The place in the lea
gue vacated by the Firemen has
not yet been filled at last reports
early this summer and were later
reopened to obtain the lowest bid
possible for completion of the
work, Mr. Clegg said.
Among the work to be complet
ed under ’his program of reno*.
construction is the^
complete'' renovation of the Ele^
mentary building and the con
struction of a modern and up to
date lunchroom for the school
children in the building which
nas iioused the auditorium for
the elementary school children.
Among future plans are possible
construction of a completely new
building to house an auditoriunt,
it was reported.
No equipment, either for the
lunchroom or the other buildings,
is included in the bids, Mr. Clegg
stated and the Mount Holly Par
ent Teachers Association is work
ing on plans to help provide the
necessary equipment for the
lunchroom.
Also underway at the schools
is the complete rebuilding of the
floor in the gymnasium at the
high school and the construction
or s baircr practice' room in the
gymnasium where the stage was
formerly located. Other minor re
pairs are also being made and are
included in the bid, Mr. Clegg
said.
Further announcements con
cerning the construction of a new
auditorium building may be re
leased in the near future.
Bed Cross To
Aid Swimmers j
The Gaston County Red Cross
is offering free water saving in-v
struction to boys and girls over
18 years of age on July 17-21 who
have already had 15-hours of
Senior Life Saving instructioif
which can be taken at three pools
in this county. The three pools at
which the senior courses are of
fered Suttle’s Pool, at Robinwood
Lake, or at Lineberger Pool in
Gastonia, Miss Janie Harding,
announced this week.
This course in water saving
will offer the same instruction
which is offered through expen
sive summer camps and is the
tirst such course to be held in
Gaston Courty in several years.
Mrs. W. J. McDonald, from the
Southeastern Area with headquar
ters at Atlanta, Georgia, will be
in charge of the course announce
ments stated.
Martha’s Chapel Plans
H’coming On Sunday
Homecoming services will be
held at Martha’s Chapel Church
near Lowesville Sunday, July 16,
it was announced this week, and
a cordial invitation to friends of
the church and members of the
congregation, both old and new,
to attend the all day services was
issued this week. Rev. Summers,
the pastor of the church, will con
duct the morning services, and
following luncheon at the church,
a singing will be held and other
events to complete an all-day pro
gram are being planned. Rev. C.
H. Little will conduct the after
noon services, announcements
said.