Mount Holly News
Constructive—If It Will Help Mount Holly And Gaston County The News Is For It—^Progressive
VOL. XXVIL
MOUNT HOLLY, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1950
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EXTENSION VOTE DECIDED
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Globe Purchases Lincolnton Textile Plant
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Parade To Open Durene Festival
Bicycle Event To Be An
Attraction For Throngs
The bicycle parade which will
be a part of the parade to be
held on'Saturday, August 26 pro
ceeding the week-long Durene
Festival, is going to be one of the
biggest sections in the line of
march from all indications, chair
man J. B. Thompson told News
reporters this week. Youngsters
who own bicycles have been ask
ing about the parade since the
first tentative announcements
were made, Thompson said, and
while all details are not yet com
plete, application blanks for en
try in the bicycle parade are
printed in this edition of The
News.
Prizes will be given to the three
entries adjudged best, Thompson
said. The first place prize will be
$7; second place prize will be
$5; and third place prize will be
$3; Thompson said. The deadline
for entry in the bicycle parade is
Saturday, August 19, Thompson
stated, and application blanks
must be filled out and turned into
General Chairman Kenneth Davis
at the Gaston Theater before that
date.
' Winners in the bicycle parade
will be judged on the attractive
ness of their bicycles and if the
bike owner desires, small floats
to be pulled behind the bicycle
may also be constructed. Thomp
son stated, although decorated
bicycles are expected to be en
tered in the majority of cases.
A little thought and planning
by youthful entries in the con
test will in all probability be as
surance of a cash prize for some
entry, Thompson said, and he is
encouraging all youngsters who
plan to enter the contest to file
their applications now and begin
planning their entry.
In addition to the bicycle
parade, a number of bands are
expected to be on hand to take
part in the parade, and this event
is expected to open the Durene
Festival with a bang.
Church Ice Cream
Supper Friday P. M.
On Friday night, July 28, be-
gining at 5:30, the Methodist
Youth Fellowship . is sponsoring
an ice cream and cake supper on
the lawn of the church. The sale
of ice cream and cake will con
tinue throughout the evening.
There will be all flavors of ice
cream and cake. Everyone is cor
dially invited.
Boys CInh Drive
Short Only $I2C0
Paul Springs, listing drive re
ports fo^ the Mount Holly Boys
Club drive last week, told News
reporters that the drive is still
going slowly, but that it is hoped
that the aproximately $1200 still
needed will be donated to the
Boys Club within the next few
days in order that the drive to
tal of $2600 can be reached.
Among donations received dur
ing the past week- were the fol
lowing listed by Springs: Mount
Holly Jaycees - $75; Ken Davis -
$20.; Mr. Auten - $1; and Ivey
Henkle - $10.
SALEM CHURCH PLANS
HOMECOMING
Homecoming services will be
held at Salem Church near Lowes-
ville Sunday, July 30, it was an
nounced this week, and a cordial
invitation goes to friends of the
church and members of the con
gregation. Mr. Caldwell Nixon will
speak to the young and old adults
during the Sunday school hour.
The Rev. M. C. Ellerbee will
conduct the eleven o’clock ser
vices. and lunch will follow at
the church. In the afternoon many
groups of singers from various
places will complete the program.
Everyone is welcome at Salem,
so bring the family.
VISITED PARENTS
W. H. McElduff of Asheville,
spent Tuesday of this week visit
ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.
M. McElduff, at their home on
North Main Street in Mt. Holly.
IN KINGS MOUNTAIN
Miss Nancy Beatty is in Kings
Mountain visiting her aunt, Mrs.
Gordan Beatty and Buddy.
Durene Plans
Keep Growing
Plans for the annual Durene
Festival are still growing daily,
general chairman Ken Davis an
nounced this week. The base
ball game scheduled between the
Riverbend Old Men and the
Mount Holly semi-pro outfit may
turn out to be a fan pleasing
double header before the final
plans are announced. Ivey Henkle,
chairmna in charge of the base
ball game which will be played
Saturday night, September 2, told
News reporters this week that
the Riverbend Girl’s Softball team
has issued a challenge to any
girls teams in Mount Holly to play
one game at the Saturday night
meet, making a double header
that is guaranteed to draw fans
from miles around. Henkle said
that the girls have not yet receiv
ed any answers to their challenge
but that he thought a team was
being organized in town to meet
the Riverbend Girls.
The chairman of the baseball
game arrangements also announc
ed that a large number of fine
prizes would be given away to
fans attending the ballgame, al
though a list of the prizes has
not yet been released. Foremost
among the prizes which may be
won by local residents during
Durene Week is a Hardwick gas
stove which will be given to some
lucky person attending the street
dance which will be held Thurs
day night, August 31.
Also growing rapidly in im
portance in the list of Durene
activities this summer is the box
ing matches which will be held
Tuesday night, August 29. A num
ber of boys who are well known
to local fight fans for their show
ing in past events are working
out already to get in shape for
the matches. Although a complete
list of fighters who take part in
the matches was not yet avail
able, some of the boys familiar to
fight fans who will take part are
Jim McManus, Lee King, Cecil
Ballard, and Pug Maters.
The golf tournament is expect
ed to prove even more popular
than in past years with approxi
mately 150 entries expected in
the tourney and chairman Harold
Henkle, in charge of the Farm
er’s Day program, reported this
week that this annual event is be
ing greeted with enthusiastic re
ception by those who will take
part in the afternoon program.
Farmers Day is always one of the
outstanding events of the Durene
Festival, attracting farmers from
miles around to Mount Holly to
see the latest in farm equipment
demonstrated and the latest
methods and techniques explain
ed.
Plan now ot attend each and
every one of the events which
the Jaycees are planning for
Durene Week. You’ll enjoy them.
Midgets Enter
State Contest
Highland At
Superior Next
Superior Yam Mills, finally
snapping out to show some base
ball to patient fans who have
been following their hard luck
season this summer, will play
host to Highland Park here to
morrow night (Saturday) at 8 p.
m. A new addition to the pitch
ing staff, Homer Grandy, will
probably start for the locals in his
first appearance at Superior Park
tomorrow night and Superior fans
will probably be in for a pleasant ... -i
surprise. Grandy, a former State *^*^8 spindles and is currently j Greensboro for the state midget j
College pitcher and a member of manufacturing single-carded knit- Last year the Boys Club
the Gastonia Browns squad yarns. The property includes Bantams, entering a Bantam
earlier this year, is rated highly ’ approximately 64 acres of land, tournament at Raleigh, copped
by manager Doyt Morris and will and 70 dwelling houses. The pur-j the state title from teams repre-
probably prove to be a valuable chaser expects to get possession j senting much larger cities of this
addition to the twirling staff al-. of the property on or before Sept-[state and the Midgets will be
18 players from the Midget lea
gue of the Mount Holly Boys Club
will be chosen to go to Albemarle
August 9-12 to take part in a;
single elimination tournament |
with similar teams in the state, ChAaIf SlinilAV P M
Athletic Director Dick Thompson .wpOAR OUIinay Vb ITIi
announced this week. The Boys |
Town Board Sets Date On
Election For Sept. 19th
Main Offices
For Plants
To Be Local
Globe Yarn Mills, one of our
local textile plants, has recently am.uunceu ..... wee. tv.
contracted to purchase the Carter club is planning to send 18 of the ' J"' St HwTLrt.rlv Vifth
Mills Division of A. B. Carter players in the Midget 12 year. ^
Company in Lincolnton, it was Lnd under age group to the tour-Y'v
announced this week. That plant I nament to compete with other ■ T " wd in tne
is equipped with over 14,000 spin- : teams . including Charlotte and I into
nine 5ninHlp« nnH is rnrrpntlv f— tu... Carl Fishcr, pastor of the chuTch, nroDosed area to be taken
Dr. L S. Clark To
The Board of Aldermen o
Town of Mount Holly have
call'
ed for an election for the
sion of the Town Limits to be n
on September 19th. The *
and registration will be hel“ ,
the Womej^’s Club Building^ .
La wing’s store on Woodlawn
extension.
Only those persons living
Road
out-
the
ready holding the fort for Super
ior.
“Lefty” Kerr, the old reliable
of the Superior pitching crew, hit
top from last Saturday night to
cinch a Superior win over Granite
Falls 7-4 with the southpaw
dropping 15 Falls batters. Granite
Falls has topped Superior a num
ber of times this season and the
definite Superior win was sweet
vengence for the locals although
they promptly lost ‘ to Granite
Falls Tuesday night of this week
in the second encounter with that
team. With a good crowd on hand
to see what they hoped would
be the second Superior triumph
over Granite Falls in succession
Tuesday night, the Superiors
came up on the short end of the
3-2 final score, but the game was
plenty good and primed the locals
for their encounters with High
land Park in Charlotte last night
and here tomorrow night.
Superior is trailing the six
other teams in the Piedmont
Textile League in team standings
at the present time, but hopes to
add enough wins to the credit side
of the ledger to qualify for play
offs which at present seem to be
definitely sewed up by Highland
Park, Carolina Mills, Cramerton,
and Belmnot.
ember 1.
The local management of the
Globe Mills Company has advised
the News that operations will be
resumed as soon as possible af
ter September 1, and the pro
duction will be confined primarily
to single carded knitting yams al
though combed yarns will pro
bably be added to the line of the
goods manufactured at a later
shooting for top place also,
Thompson said.
Boys born after June 1, 1937
are eligible to play in this tourna
ment, Thompson stated. The dia
mond to be used in the tourna-
pastor
announced this week.
Each of the four ministers in
the town area wil take part in
the Union Service, Rev. Fisher
stated, and everyone is- cordial
ly invited to attend the service.
Bantam-Stanley
Here Wednesday
ment will be only four-fifths re-1 Mount Holly Boys Club
gular size, with the distance from, Bg^tams will play host to Stan-
pitcher to home plate set at 50
feet and 72 feet between bv.5€,;
Six inning games will be played
date. The accounting and execu- during the tournament. This is
tive offices of the firm will be the first time the Boys Club has
maintained in-Mount Holly. I entered, a Midget team in a tour-
Although the purchase price of j nament.
the property was not stated, a] On the home front in Midget
statement was made to the effect i baseball, only 4 more games re
hat the purchase price and im-|jnain of the 16 game schedule
VISITS ROOMMATE
Miss Sally Clark spent several
days last week with Miss Jean
Johnson, her college roommate, at
Camp Sequoyah, near Weaver-
ville, N. C.
Four Members
On All-Stars
Four members of the Mount
Holly semi-pro baseball team
have been picked to play in the
Gaston Textile League All-Star
game to be played at Gastonia to
morrow (Saturday) night, at 8
p. m., it was anounced this week.
The four local ball players, Dean
Brooks, Alfred Homesley, “Bub’"
Sipes, and Bob White, will play
on one of the All-Star teams that
will clash at Simms Park in Gas
tonia tomorrow night in the first
Gaston Textile League All-Star
game this season and a large num
ber of fans from towns repre
sented in the league are expect
ed to be on hand to see the game.
Also on the semi-pro slate for
the coming week is a trip to Le
noir Sunday where the locals
will clash with the Lenoir Red
Wings, a semi-pro team which
met the locals here two weeks a-
go. Aonther game in Mount Hol
ly between the Red Wings and
the Mount Holly nine is tenta
tively slated for the following
Sunday, August 6, it was anounc
ed. Both games will probably be
played at 2 p. m.
Last Tuesday Clover, one of the
regular Gaston Textile League
teams, whalloped the Mount Hol
ly squad 6-3 in a thriller played
here which saw the locals in one
of their infrequent losses. The
Mount Holly team is still high
in the league and will in all pro
bability be among the top teams
in the playoffs, competing with
Clover and other members of the
fast league.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Lathan of
Charlotte and Bill Spray of Spar
tanburg, S. C. were Sunday guests
of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Spray.
mediate improvements would a-
mount to considerably over $500,-
000. The name of the Carter plant
will probably be changed to the
Lincolnton Plant of Globe Mills,
Inc., a spokesman for the Globe
Mills stated.
Polio May Not
Show Up Here
which has been played this sum
mer and scheduled for the com
ing week was released by Direc
tor Thompson Wednesday. On the
schedule for Monday are two
games—one between American-
Town and Superior Monday at
9:30 a. m. and one between Wood-
I lawn-Nims and Adrian-Madora
Monday at 2 p. m. Tuesday the
; American-Town boys will play
the North Belmont nine at 9:30;
j Wednesday Woodlawn-Nims will
, play Superior; and Thursday
Keep those fingers CTossed, par-. j^orth Belmont will play Adrian-
ents. It may be that Poho, other- at 9:30. The Adrian-
wise known as Infantile Pstk- Madora team is still leading the
lysis, IS going to bypass Mount j Midget league with Woodlawn-
HoUy entirely this summer, jjinis running a close second.
Things are quiet thus far on the.Third place is held by Superior
polio front m Gaston county ac-1 and fourth is held by North Bel-
cording to Health Department of-|n,o„t. Fifth place is held by Am-
ficials, who state that only three'
cases have been reported in the| i
county this year and that two of
these are in Belmont while the j
third is in Cherryville. Both the I
Cherryville case and the most
recent Belmont case, discovered
last week, are in a Greensboro i
hospital which is adapted especi- j
ally to the battle against polio.
The first Belmont case waj
discovered and reported early in
the sum-mer and is responding to
treatment satisfactorily, officers
of the health department said,
and from all indications at pres
ent, Mount Holly may be entire
ly without a case of the dread di
sease this summer.
However, such was not the case
Vets See Group
Of Combat Films
Members of he Mount Holly
, post of the V.F.W. saw three com-
The first Belmont case was.bat films at their regular meet
ing which was held at the V.F.W.
Tuesday night of this week. The
three combat films, entitled “The
Liberation of Rome,” “The Liber
ation of San Pedro,” and “The
Battle of New Britain,” were im
pressive and extremely entertain
ing to the veterans.
, A delegation is expected to go
two years ago, in the summer of from the local post of the V.F.W.
1948, when this section of the , to the Thirteenth District Meeting
state carried the heavier part of. to be held Sunday, August 6, at
the polio epidemic in North Caro- j Matthews, Commander Kenneth
lina; or even last summer, when Davis announced this week. A
a few scattered cases were re- j large number of the members of
ported. The skipping pattern tak-. the local veterans organization
en by polio, which may jump [said at the Tuesday night meet-
from one state across two others | ing that they planned to make
to strike in an unexpected place., the trip and plenty of transpor-
is one of the most curious fea-! tation will be available for those
tures of the disease which has! who wi'h to go but do not have
baffled modern medical science. I cars. Commander Davis stated,
and this summer it seems to be 1 The veterans planning to attend
concentrated in Virginia and in! the meeting are asked to meet
Charleston. South Carolina, where in front of Summey’s Drug Corn-
more than 100 cases have been re-' pany at 1 p. m. Sunday, August
ported. '6.
ley here next Wednesday in a
Loublu header that -'-Vill give the
Stanley nine chance, to avenge
the beatings the Boys Club has
handed them in the past and
which may see the locals falling
from first place for the first
time. The Bantams have held
first place in the Gaston County
Baseball League for Boys all sea
son with only one loss to North
Belmont to mar their record. To
day the locals travel to North
Belmont at 3:30 to give North
Belmont a second shot at dis
placing them in the team stand
ings. Wednesday of next week a
tentative game has been sched
uled with the Red Shield Club of
Gastonia to be played at Hutch-
ison-Lowe Field and Friday of
next week a second game will
Club visiting Hutchison - Lowe
Field.
The Bantams have narrowly
missed losing two recent games
to Gastonia nines, when the Red
Shield Club bowed to the locals
3-2 in a terrificly close game
last Wednesday and the Boys
Club topped the Optomist Club
7-4 Friday of last week. Both
games were won by the Boys Club
on errors by the visiting team and
in the Red Shield game Bantam
Luther Hall gave the Red Shield
team 9 hits to the 2 collected by
the locals. In Friday’s game, a
minor tragedy for the Optomists
occurred when their catcher drop
ped two balls on the third pitch
in the 10th inning, allowing Boys
Club batters to get on base. Be
fore the Optomist catcher drop
ped the game with his fumbling
the score was tied at 4-4 in the
tenth and the locals were figured
to come out on the short end.
Pitchers McManus and Carpenter
worked for the Boys Club in this
lucky win.
proposed area to be taken
the Town shall vote. A ,
will decide the issue. The el
tion is expected to rather spin
ed but clean in every way-
The entire rules of the elee
tion are being run elsewhere
this paper as an advertiseme^
The area to be taken in
described and includes seve
textile plants and villages.
Sianlsy Drives
For. Park Lighls i
In an all out drive
start July 31, Stanley’s
School Athletic Council wiU
the motivating force behind
effort to obtain lights foi* .
Stanley athletic field,
which is being supported by
American Legion, the
Lions Club, and the Womens L
among other organizations, i*
pected to be one of the fas
moving civic projects to
in the neighboring town ^nd P
minents expect it to b®.® up*
success. The drive is
ported by numerous indi^di^
who are interested in the atni
activities of the high sch^*
Stanley and a number o'
Stanley residents have
stateme:
the hilt.
Asserting
School needs lights to
it’s growing athletic
the Athletic Council is Pef^eT
ing the drive widely in
and announces that any
donations toward installing
will be appreciated.-
the
statements backin* the drive '
that Stanley
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VISIT IN MOREHEAD CITY
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Whiteside
visited their daughter and her
family. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Park-
at Morehead City during the
past week-end.
RETURNS FROM VISIT
Miss Carolyn Alligood has re
turned home after an extended
GUESTS HERE
Mrs. J. M. Freeman and daugh
ters, Gail and Barbara, from
Flushing. New York, were recent
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wil
lingham.
CHARLOTTE VISITOR
Mrs. G. L. Ward of Charlotte is
spending this week with her son,
R. L. Ward, Mrs. Ward and fami
ly-
LADY or THE HOUR
FRIDAY. JULY 21,1950 ^
Miss Annie Kelly, sist®**
Mrs. D. C. Hager of this pl«5®
Mrs, Lester Barker of Lucia
chosen as Lady of the Hour
day, July 28. 1950.
Left motherless as a ■
with a whole family of
brothers and sisters, our
OF THE HOUR gave up h®r ® ^
plans for the future to 0^'^
life to them. She cared
children as though they ^
her own. Always one to * yg-
by” in time of sickness,
ment. or trouble of any
LADY OF THE HOUR had
generously of her time, her
forts, and the money that
had. “A Christian in .--riy
sense of the word, she is
loved by all who know her. ^
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SUNDAY VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Truslow of
visit with relatives and friends at' Charlotte spent Sunday afternoon 
Roanoke Rapids. "with Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Parrish.
Application For-Bicycle Parade
I wish to enter the Durene Festival Bicyd*
Parade which will be held on Saturday, AuS*
ust 26th.
Ag,
Fill Out - Take To Gaston Theatre