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Mount Holly News Ck)nstructive—If It Will Help Mount Holly And Gaston County The News Is For It—Progressive VOL. XXVII. MOUNT HOLLY, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1950 NUMBER 43 CITY LIMITS EXTEND ON 15th * ★ * ★ ★ * ★ Jaycees Expect Throng At Square Dance ★ * * ,.★ ★ ★ ★ "Shop-porhmity Da3rs” Underway Many Services Start In New Area On Next Friday Stanley And Nonnt Holly I High School Thanks , ^ , *1 , Jaycees For Service Merchants Promote Event “Shop-portunity Days” open to day (Friday) in Mount Holly and Stanley. Sponsored by the River- bend Township Merchants As sociation in Mount Holly and Stanley, Shop-portunity Days will offer Christmas shoppers in the two towns values never ex ceeded in the past, and mer-, chants, who are members: of the association, are planning one of the biggest events ever held here. A Fifty Dollar Cash Prize will be given to some lucky person in Mount Holly Friday, December 22, when each merchant who is participating in the event brings the box of ticket stubs; one of which will be given with each $1 cash purchase, to a big drawing in the afternoon. The location of the drawings has not yet been Mt. Each merchant begins giving tickets with each dollar cash pur chase today and the ticket stubs will be deposited in a box in each participating store both in Mount Holly and in Stanley. Each mer chant here wiU hold drawing from the box at hU store at 2 p. m. Friday for one or more valu able prizes ditmated by his store. Then the tickets will be combin ed with every participating store pirtting their ^ubs together for .the main drawing for the fifty dollar prize. In Stanley, participating mer chants will hold their drawings Saturday afternoon, December 23. A fifty dollar cash prize will also be given the winner of the main drawing at Stanley Satiuday. The drawings in Mount Holly and Stanley are expected to at tract the largest crows ever wit nessed in both towns. According to plans released by the Mer chants Association, the drawings, both from the individual, store boxes and the main drawing, will be held at a centrally located point in both towns. Members of the Merchants As sociation are offering exception al values during the Christmas shopping season. Shop-portunity Days .have been designed by merchants who are members of the progressive Riverbend Town ship Merchants Association to at tract attention to the fine values they are offering. Members of the association want to encourage shoppers to do iheir shopping in their own towns this year where they can shop with friends, where they are sure of the quality of the merchan dise, backed by the fact that they personally know the merchant, and where values will equal and exceed those in the bigger towns and cities. “Why waste time, gas, and temper hunting parking places and battling crowds; in big (Continutd On Back Page) A.Y.P. Kiddies To Get Theatre Party The American Yam and Pro cessing Company announced plans this week for a Christmas Theater Party for children of employees of the company. The party will be held at ^e Gaston Theater at 9 a. m. December 20 ■and 21, it was announced, with provisions being made for both white and colored children to en joy the party on one of the two dates. This is the first year the party has been inaugurated by the American Yam and Processing Company and it is expected to be a great success. Favors will be given each child attending, the announcements stated. Each employee of the company is requested to tunr into the Superintendent at his mill a list of his childien’s names and ages by Tuesday, December 9. Tickets f|pr the Picture Show Party will ^ given out after the childrens^ names are received. For all chil dren five years o fage or under, an extra ticket will be provided in order that one adult may ac company the c^d, the annoxmce- ments stated.' Santa Here Today In Person 3:30 LEGION BOX SCORE 1951 MEMBERSHIPS 2. Shirley Robinson 3. Aaron L. Jenkins 4. Paul L. Sigmon 5. John A. Barrett, Sr. 6. John L. Ellis 7. Robert Hartsell 8. Milton C. Beatty 9. Robert L. Conrad 0. Clyde T. Murphy 1. Floyd P. Hendrix 2. Carl E. Broome 3. Ellis L. Keever 4. Frank H. McKinney 5. Robert W. White 6. Henry L. Grahl 7. James C. Wallace 8. Henry I. Mullis 9. Ralph D. Huffsletler 0. Dewey Hollandsworth 1. Jack Warren 2. Levi A. Huskins 3. Thad A. Grice 4. Leonard B. Norwood Santa Claus is finally coming to Mount Holly to visit youngsters here at Harris-White 5-lOc Store this afternoon (Friday) at 3:30 p. m. The old gentleman tele phoned News reporters this week to assure them that he would be right on time in his afternoon visit here today and he said that he was anxiously looking for ward to seeing all his little fol lowers again. Santa wasn’t definite about how long he would be able to remain at Harris-White because of his ex tremely crowded schedule around the Yuletide season. He wants parents to wrap their youngsters up warmly and bring them to Hanil-White as near 3:30 p. m. fas possible so none of the little fellows will miss the opportunity to talk to him. Harris-White Store has gone to a great deal of trouble to persu ade Santa to visit youngsters in their store today and they hope that the jolly gentleman will have an opportunity to talk to every child. An advertisement in this edi tion of The News calls attention to the many bargains which they are offering in their fine toyland and they cordially invite every parent and youngster to look around toyland as much as they please while they visit with Santa. ' Special Study Course Two special study courses will be held next week at Adrian- Madora Baptist Church, accord ing to an announcement by the pastor, the Rev. C. C. Roberts. On^ Wednesday afternon at 4 o’clock the Sunbeams’ will study the book, “Zombo” at the church. The study will be taught by the leaders of the group, and a social hour, with refreshments will fol low. Mrs. Margie Wilson, leader of the G.A. organization, will teach] tlu? book, “Listen to the Drums” to G.A. members on Thursday af ternoon at 4 o’clock at the chuich. Thi>’ study course will also be followed by a social hour and the serving of refreshments. The students and the staff of Mount Holly High School sincere ly appreciate the fine job Ken neth Davis, Ivey Henkle, Dan Davis, and Gene Painter did in their play by play announcement of our home football games over the public address system. They covered the games like profes sionals. This service helped the fans in following the games and in iden tifying the players. We are sure that the fans are grateful for this service. The school and the fans are in debted to the Mount Holly Junior Chamber of Commerce for the loan of the Public Address Sys tem. ' This is another community ser vice by the Jaycees. Hawks Away For First Game Mount Holly’s: Hawks, taking to the basketb^ court for their ini tial time this season, travel to Bessemer City this afternoon (Fri-. day) for the first game on the schedule. Bessemer City, always a producer of a strong basket ball squad, will probably be key ed up for this visit by the Hawks and with practice just opening here, the Hawks may not be up to top form for the game. The Hawks have only had a little more than one week of practice this season, and with al most a completely new line-up replacing the championship squad of last season, the Hawks will be on the short end of most predic tions as to the game outcome. Coach Max Beam, who led the Hawks to their Little Eight Tournament Championship last season, is not making any confi dent predictions concerning this game. Bessemer City will be far stronger in experience than the Hawks and the game should be a battle royal. Coach Katherine Knox’s girls will travel to Bessemer City with the boys for the opener. The girls are not in much better shape than the boys as far as experienced players go, but Coach Knox is definitely looking for a victory. The Hawks will jump away from the schedule next week long enough to play Belmont at Bel mont Tuesday night, December 12, in a game that was specified as a hom6 game on the schedule, and then will travel to Lincoln- ton Thursday night. Lincolnton is not a member of the Little Eight Conference and this game is only tentatively scheduled. Coach Max Beam stated. However, he was sure Thursday that it would be played. The reason for the Bessemer City games being played this afternoon instead of night as usual is because of a sch^ule mixup at that school, it was an nounced. The starting ^ time of this afternoon’s game ’ has not been announced but Coach Beam said the Hawks will leave Mount Holly about 1:30 p. m. Plan to attend the Hawk games today and next Tuesday and Thursday and give the support they are going to need to get the season underway with a bang. Another Famous Ham Supper Is On Tap There will be a ham supper at Hills Chapel Methodist chuich Saturday night, December 9lh. Besides country ham the ladies will also serve chicken pie with all the trimmings; Proceeds from the supper will go toward buying seats for the new church. The public is cordially ivited to attend. Dancers Will Gather At The Whitehall Mill The big Jaycee sponsored square dance will get underway at 8 p. m. tonight (Friday) in the building formerly occupied by the Whitehall Mills on East Central Ave. A huge crowd is expected by the Jaycees who have spent the last few days getting the wing^ of the building which will be used in shape for the dance. Colorful decorations have been hung and the building is ready for the many dancers and spectators ex pected to attend. Admission to the dance tonight will be only fifty cents per person. This will be thfe first square dance, with the exception of the annual street dances, to be held in Mount Holly in several yeaw. Thad Lawing and his band will provide music for the dancers at the dance, tonight. The Jaycees expects tht ^ wwds to begin arriv ing about 7:30 p. m. with dancing slated to begin at 8 p. m. The Jaycees are billing this dance as “the biggest in the world” arid intend to do every thing possible to make it one of the most enjoyable projects they havje ever sponsored for local residents. dance has been ad vertised over two radio stations in this county and a number of out of town dancers are expected to attend. One of the highlights of the evening will be the cakewalks which the Jaycees are planning with at least two delicious home- baked cakes to be given to the lucky winners. Although nearly everyone is familiar with cake walks, the Jaycees wish to re mind dancers that a mark is plac ed on the floor for the cakewalk and dancers move in a circle until the music stops. The person near est the mark at.that time is win ner of the cake being given away. The Jaycees hope that it will be possible to obtain more than tyjo cakes for the dance since cake walks are usually among the most popular features of square dances. Grab your partner and go to the Jaycee square dance tonight at the Whitehall Building. Re member . . . 8 p. m. Tickets For Duke U. Banquet At Summeys The Gaston-Lincoln Chapter of the Duke University Alumni As sociation will hold its annual meeting and banquet on Tuesday, December 19, 7 P. M. at the Ma sonic Temple in Gastonia, North Carolina. Dr. Hollis Edens, Presi dent o fthe University and an out standing educator, will be pres ent and present the principal ad dress. After the address there will probably be shown a moving pic ture of the Duke-Georgia Tech or the Duke-Carolina Football game. An outstanding program is be ing arranged and it is expected that a large number of alumni, prospective students, and friends of the University will be in at tendance. Tickets’ for the banquet may be secured from Jack Sum- mey at the Summey Drug Store. Supers To Meet The American Yarn and Pro cessing Company Supervisor's Social Club will hold it's an nual Boss's Night meeting Sat urday night, December 9, at the American Dining Hall. The program will be in charge of R. S. Dickson, who will make a brief address. Jim Cole is president of the Supervisor's Club. A.Y.P. Announces Christmas Holidays Plants of the American Yam and Processing Company in Mount Holly, Gastonia, Maiden, and WMtneL will shut down four days for Christmas holi days this year, company offici als announced we^. The plants will cease operations at 6 a. m. on December 23 and will remain closed until 6 a* m. December 27. The plants’ will also shut down for New Years Day which is lha Monday fol lowing Christmas, it was staled. Holly Knit Hnishing and Holly Knit. Incorporated will begin Christmas holidays De cember 22 when the two plants shut down at 7 a. xn. and will remain closed until 7 a. m. Jan uary 2. Polio Chairmen For Town Named Tommy. Holland and Ed Paint er have been appointed co-chair man of the annual March of Dimes drive which will be carried out ^tween the dates of January 15-31, 1951 inclusive. Namc^ chairman of the Women’s Divi sion for the annual drive here in 1951 was Mrs. Frank L. Rankin. The chairmen attended a meet ing in Charlotte Tuesday night where, with other representatives from the county chapters, they mapped plans for the 1951 cam paign. At the meeting, these repre sentatives from Mount Holly learned that 1950 has been the worst year ’in polio history, with only one year, 1949. This is not a commonly known fact, and since the dread year of 1949, when thousands were stricken with Infantile Paralysis; the resi dents of this state and this coun try have been inclined to treat any lesser epedemic as “not too bad.” Before 1950 ends, the March of Dimes funds will' have assist ed in some measure more than 54,000 polio victims of this and other years. What is important to the resi dents of this state, however, is the fact that through November of this year, this state had 717 new cases of polio, and that the terrible epedemic of 1949 .had only 861 for the entire year.. This points out vividly the fact that 1950 has been and will continue to be, a bitter year for those who are touched by the finger of In fantile Paralysis. The last three years have been the blackest polio years in the nation’s history. Cumulative inci dence for this period reached the monstrous total of 100,000 cases —almost as many as the entire case load for the preceeding ten years. Plan now to do your part to combat polio during the 1951 drive. Watch for the containers and when the drive begins, give generously. Railway Plans To Widen Crossing' The Board of Aldermen of the Town of Moimt Holly learned this week that the Seaboard Rail road is planning to widen the crossing from West Central Ave. to Charlotte Ave. across from the Sanitary Cafe. This work will be begun as sxxm as i>ossible, a railroad representative told the board at their* regular Monday night meeting. This intersection and crossing needs to be widen ed, the Board agreed, and the crossing has represent^ a traffic menace for sometime. The Board of Aldermen also voted to have the Town of Mount Holly join with a number of civic clubs which are sponsoring a rat eradication program in this coimty. The members of the board also granted permission to preachers to use loudspeakers in town between the hour4 of three to five on Saturday afternoons for sermons. The loudspeakers have to be iised in ap orderly manner, it was pointed out This provisidri was made Tn response to quest by a preacher. re- Two Stanley Boys Complete Training Two Stanley, N. C. seaman, re cruits, Bobby F. Sapargo, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Spargo of Box 11, and Owen C. Chronis- ter, USN, of Box 132, recently completed recruit training at the Naval Training Center, San Diego, Calif., and are now avail able for assignment to a Fleet unit or to one of the Navy’s schoolsTor specialized training. During this period of training, they underwent intensive drill in such subjects as signaling, naviga tion, basic ordnance and seaman ship. They also was indoctrinated into the ways of the Navy and learned the customs of the ser- News Placed In Cornerstone A large number of church peo ple and visitors attended the cornerstone laying service held Simday at Tuckaseege Baptist Church here. A continuation of the morning worship service, the ceremony was open^ with scrip ture reading and prayer. The church choir sang ‘The Church’s One Foundation” and the service was closed with the doxology. Present at the ceremonies, and recognized on the program, were J. Clyde Johnston, O. H. Hankins and Haskell Troutman, represent ing the Superior Yam Mills, Mr. Ivey of Charlotte, representing the V. P.'Loftis Contracting Com pany, builders of the new church building, the building committee, composed of Foye Lowe, chair man, C. Y. Smith, Boyd Lowe, and Ray Helms, and Mrs. C. F. Lowe,. Mrs. Fannie Riley and Alex O’Daniel, charter members of the church. N. H. Huffstetler, Sr. and J. M. Huffstetler, two of the remaining five charter mem bers still alive, were unable to attend the service. Foye Lowe read the contents of the comer stone, which were a copy of the Training Union Magazine, a copy of the Sunday School Builder, a copy of the Bibical Recorder, a copy of the Church Covenant, a picture of the old church, names of present active members, and a copy of the Mount Holly News. The marble cornerstone is the gift of Scoggins Memorial Art On Friday, December 15, the’ new Town of Mount rfolly City Limits will go into effect for the first time. This means that im mediately after December 15, hundreds of residents in the sec tions wluch wer^ annexed in the recent city liimts election will begin to receive services which are given by the Town of Mount Holly. Town Attorney Max Childers told News reporters this week that the first services to become available to residents of the new axmezation will be police pro tection, fire protection, and garb age pick-up. These services will be put into operaton in the area comprising the'new city limits as rapidly as possible, Mr. Childers stated, and plans for''garbage pick-up to be- giif almost immediately are now being made. City water will be available to many resid^ts in'the new an nexation . hfttey ^ z«quefft such service,'Mry^Chil^TS pointed out, since wMiv lihes -are in many cases already laid in the areas re cently voted in, and homeown ers and reaSdents of the section will be able to obtain the water as soon as lines to their homes are laid. However, Mr. Childers stated that be did not have any estimate of the number of peo ple who will request city water, but those who desire it will have to contact the Town Office, Police protection and fire pror tection, which do not demand any excessive changes .to meet the requirements of the new city limits, can be extended unmedi- ately into ihe new sections of the town, it is believed. Special Services At New Church Special organization services were held last Sunday at the Catawba Heights Baptist Church, formerly the Catawba Heights Blission, with the new pastor of the church. Rev. R. G. Mace, pre siding. The services, which were held at 2:30 p. m., were well at tended, Rev. Mace reported, and a bright future faces the church which was organized as a mis sion only one year ago. ' The church now has 43 mem bers with approximately 80 mem bers in the Sunday School. Sun day School classes, Bible Train ing Union, and other church or ganizations at the Catawba Heights Baptist Church are ex ceptionally active and Rev. Mace said that he was glad to find such a fine spirit exisiting at the church. Rev. Mace succeeds Rev. Rush Stroupe, who organized the church and led it through it’s year of activity in the nearby section. Rev. Mace is a former pastor of the East Belmont Bap tist Church, having served as pas- - - ^^ itor of that church for nearly 19 Shops of Charlotte, it was: by tb^iy^ars after he ass'umed the pas- Rev. O. B. Reel, pastor of trie jgjg church. * , ferred to Clyde where he stayed I IT ~ I more than three years and then 'Stores To nonioin returned to Belmont as sup- j j ply pastor for two years. FoHow- Oooit On Tuesdov service as supply pastor ■ " ! he was sent to Long Island, N. C. All stores which are mejnberi {where he has juil completed a of the Riverbend Township jnew church. He is now working Merchants Association except Ion a new chuich ; t Bciea which grocery stores will remain open i is nearly fini-hed. each Tuesday afternoon until i Regular services arc being held Chrislmas beginning next ! at the Catawba Heights Baptist Tuesday. December 12. Mrs. ! Church on Sunday at 11 a. m. Kathleen Herald, secretary of ‘and 7 p. m. and prayer meeting is the essociaticn. made this an- j being held *.ach Wednesday night nc’unctment for the benefit of jat 7 p. m. T.hc public i.> cordially shopf-rs and explained that invited’ to attend each of these grocery stores did not (eel that I services. it wculd be necessary for them to remain open. READ THE ADS!
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