Teachers From Gastonia Seek Summer Studies In numerous programs
In Gastonia a quarter of city teachers will study this summer. A total of 52 teachers are enrolled in colleges and universities for summertime study toward extended credentials while 32 teachers and principals recently completed extension courses at state colleges. The city list names many teachers and schools across Gastonia area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gastonia
Sulimer
Masster
Ashley
Higil James McCloskey
Phillips
Duke
C. B. Bomar
Colorado State College
Callie Stanley
James Massey
University of North Carolina
A. J. Bevacqua
N. C. State
Josephine Osborne
Transylvania Music Camp
Oscar Sappenfield
General Motors
4 H Dress Revue Set For Saturday
Edith Anne Siluford reports Gaston county 4 H Club members will stage the annual dress revue Saturday at 9 30 a m in the Agricultural Building Dallas with over 100 girls from about 20 clubs. The theme Dressing Around the Clock the 4 H Way features divisions breakfast time school time church time play time and party time. Junior and senior champions will be named with the senior to represent Gaston at the state revue in Raleigh and a trip to Camp Cherokee for the junior champion. The state winner goes to the National 4 H Club Congress in Chicago with possible national prize. Local Altrusa Club sponsors the program and supports 4 H work through clothing achievement efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Anne Siluford
Gaston County
Dallas
Raleigh
Camp Cherokee
Chicago
North Carolina
Simplicity Pattern Company
Delegates Named For North Carolina Boys State Visit
Gastonia will send four delegates to the American Legion Boys State at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Powell Nanney will lead the Gaston Post 24 group departing Sunday morning at 8 from Memorial Hall. Delegates are Andrey Melvin II, Larry Stacey, and Jimmy Alexander with Harold Stroupe substituting after securing a summer job. About 400 rising high school seniors from across the state will attend the 17th annual Boys State under co directors Roddey Ligon and Walter Horton with speakers including Thad Eure and J W Norton among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gastonia
American Legion
Boys State
University of North Carolina
Powell Nanney
Gaston Post No. 24
Chapel Hill
Memorial Hall
Andrey ‘Melvin HI
Larry Stacey
Jimmy Alexander
Harold Stroupe
Roddey Ligon
Walter Horton
Institute of Government
Thad Eure
Agriculture
B.y. Ballentine
James Powell
SBI
J. W. R. Norton
Ministerial Students Graduate From Duke Divinity School
Donald Beaty of Belmont graduates from Duke University School of Divinity. Family attended baccalaureate and commencement with relatives from Belmont Durham and Steele Creek. Poppy Day sale raised 452.69 for American Legion Auxiliary. Various Belmont visits and weddings noted, including Beverly Jordan and Jack Lineberger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belmont
Donald Beaty
Fred. Beaty
School of Divinity
Duke University
Durham
Beaty
Charles Bowen
Annette
Eddie
Steele Creek
American Legion Auxiliary
L. B. Bass
Robert Armstrong, Jr
Shelly Cashion
Boone
Joe Whitmire Jrand
Brevard
Maggie Smiley
Garrison Street
Smiley
Mamie Monteith
Monteith
Sam J. Brown
National Mail Box Week Observed By Post Office
Postmaster C W Boshamer urges rural box owners on Gastonia routes to beautify mail boxes. He says box appearance reflects owners, notes upkeep rules, benefits postmen, and asks public cooperation to improve lids flags posts and surroundings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Boshamer
Gastonia
Boshamer
Mount Holly
Gladys
Faye Pruett
North
Lee Street
Charlotte
Gaston Barracks to Meet Sunday at Memorial Hall
Gaston Barracks 671, Veterans of World War I, USA, will meet Sunday at Memorial Hall at 2 30 p.m. All members urged to attend. Several important items of business to be discussed along with the upcoming Salisbury convention. The barracks competes with Charlotte barracks to sign up the most new members. Tom Hanna is commander of Baston Barracks 621. Boston lettuce Leaves note ends with irrelevant culinary line.
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Gaston Barracks
Memorial Hall
Salisbury
Charlotte Barracks
Tom Hanna
Baston Barracks
Obituary for Mrs Pruett of Charlotte 1917 birth cited
Mrs. Pruett born August 12 1917 in Charlotte lived here 16 years member of East Baptist Chapel daughter of Mrs Nancy Stone Frye and the late Marshall Henry Frye survived by husband L John B Pruett five sisters all of Charlotte two brothers Lewis Frye Charlotte Parks Frye New York City funeral Saturday at 11 am First Baptist Church officiated burial Forest Lawn Cemetery body to be removed from Mt Holly Funeral Home to the home Friday at 5 pm and in state at church for 30 minutes prior to funeral
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Pruett
East Baptist Chapel
Nancy Stone Frye
Marshall Henry Frye
L John B. Pruett
G. J. Vanderlip
Lee Overcash
R. K. Wilson
David Jay
Margaret Frye
Lewis Frye
Parks Frye
New York City
First Baptist
J. D. Wil]liams
J. T. McElveen
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Mt. Holly Funeral Home
Trial proposal on rights enforcement by injunction
The front page section explains a bill allowing the U S attorney general to seek federal court injunctions to halt voting or rights violations. Contempt of court could follow for violations. Opponents fear removal of jury trials for some defendants, while proponents argue enforcement by injunction is common in federal statutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
United States
Bilat Bilat a2 41VL winds cancel night drill
Gusty winds rain and an electrical storm forced cancellation of a major portion of an after dark exercise for the President. Only four of a scheduled dozen planes took off in a radar aided drill using a new mirror landing system. A pilot Marvin G McCanna of Halston Pa bailed out before the crash and was rescued by a helicopter from the Saratoga. Police identified him as Ray L Welch 30 of 2409 South York street. Detectives Brittain and Bolick arrested Welch on Franklin avenue about 10 pm Thursday for a preliminary hearing in Gastonia city court Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Field
Saratoga
Marvin G. McCanna
Halston
Ray L. Welch
South York Street
R. G. Brittain
Hugh Bolick
Welch
Franklin Avenue
Gastonia City Court
L. Prantetove
Sharon Jane
Clover
Gastonia
Lowell Residents Root For Patty Nash at Nationals
Friends and family of Patty Nash report her win in a regional spelling contest and her trip to Washington D C for the national event. Patty, a recent eighth grade graduate from Lowell Elementary, will move to Gastonia with plans to pursue further schooling.
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Lowelil
Patty
Jenkins
Ceil Nash
Lowell
Hal Dixon
Wasteland
Washington
D. C
Pearl Caston
Wmrs
A. BR
Leonhardt
J. McLean Murphy
Woman’s Society of Washington
Charlotte Observer
Theling
Thetroberta Smith
Observer
George Young
Charlotte
Pers
Blanche Smith
Miss Soon
Gastonia
Mary Grant Griffin
W. H.holmes
C. B. Jenkins
Wesley
Woman's Society of
A. E. Clem
Christian Service
Pureoay
E. Clemmer
Hattie Ashburn
C. Craig
Moore General Hospital
Black Mountain
Rock Hill
S. C
Showers Forecast as Rain Totals Rise in June
The weather forecast predicts lingering showers for the area with partly cloudy skies, warm and humid conditions, and widely scattered thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Thursday brought .07 inch of rain and June’s total reaches .82 inch, with gardeners noting frequent lawn mowing as grass grows quickly.
Ex Gaston Man Cleaned Out By Thieves
A former Gaston man now of Baltimore Maryland never started a new garage business in Gastonia. Thieves cleaned him out before the door opened according to a report by family police. About $1000 worth of automatic automobile transmissions were taken from the 509 West Airline avenue building where Bill I Ransom had stored his equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Gastonia
Airline Avenue
Bill I Ransom
Girard Denies Luring Woman in Japanese Trial Fight
William Girard, a 21 year old U S Army private, denies Japanese charges that he enticed a scrap collector woman to her death asserting the fatal shooting was accidental. The case tests the U S Japanese status of forces agreement with Japan deciding custody and trial rights for servicemen off base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Kramer
Whittington
Japan
William Girard
Rawson
Gastonia
Girard
U.S. Army
Maebashi
United States
Washington
U.S
U. S
State Dulles
Wilson
Tur Girard
Stanley Levin
Los Angeles
Itsuto
1St Cavalry Division
Death Takes Mrs Abernethy in Stanley area
Mrs Carle Virginia Abernethy 80 of Stanley R-1 died Friday at 8 am after a three year illness. Survived by daughter Mrs A C Taylor of Stanley two sons Frank E Abernethy of Iron Station Graham Abernethy of Stanley R-1 a brother Chester Cherry of Bal linger Texas a sister Mrs Ivy Kelly of Huntersville and several half siblings seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral Saturday at 3 pm at Stanley Presbyterian Church with Rev Raymond H Ratchford officiating. Body at Carothers Funeral Home Mount Holly prior to service.
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Stanley
Carle Virginia Abernethy
Stanley R-1
Goshen Church
North Belmont
Carothers Funeral Home
Mount Holly
Abernethy
A. C. Taylor
Frank E. Abernethy
Iron Station
Graham Abernethy
Chester Cherry
Ball
Items Taken Include Tools and Equipment Valued at Auctions
Also taken were a $129 hydraulic jack, $80 worth of car stands, and a mechanic's tray containing about $150 in tools.
Permission To Amend Warrant In Felony Assault Case
In city court Friday Mia Solicitor O F Mason Jr gained leave to amend a routine deadly weapon assault charge to a felony. Judge W E Shive bound Ralph Dailey to the June 10 term of high court after finding probable cause. Victim John Gibby, half brother to Dailey, said he was struck with a chair at the former's home, leaving a bruised and bandaged left eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. F. Mason Jr
W .E. Shive
Ralph Dailey
West Franklin Avenue
John Gibby
West Airline Avenue
Gibby
Dailey
Legal System Put to Severe Test in Crisis Says Brownell
Brownell states the legal system has been called upon to a more severe test than during the crisis and credits the President with applying the great moral concepts of domestic law to dealings with other nations.
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Brownell
Cadillac
Robert Davis Dies In Monroe
Monroe obituary for Robert Davis formerly of Gastonia born March 25 1885. He worked at City Lumber Co Gastonia and C K Callahan Lumber Charlotte attended Donaldson Military School and UNC Chapel Hill and spent a year in Monroe tax office. Survived by wife Mary Gourley son Robert H Davis Jr two sisters and one grandchild. Funeral at McEwen Chapel Monroe with burial Red River Presbyterian Church cemetery in Cabarrus County.
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Monroe
Robert
Bob
Davis
Gastonia
Linden
James M
Carol Harris Davis
City Lumber Company
C. K. Callahan Lumber Company
Charlotte
Donaldson Military School
Fayetteville
University of North Carolina
Curtis Cuthbertson bound over in Gastonia case
Curtis Cuthbertson a 57 year old black man was bound over to superior court on a felonious charge after a Friday city court incident involving Hugh Lee Ivester 23 with a pistol on May 17 in Gastonia. Bond set at 1000 and other local cases included speeding driving with expired license and small fines for stop sign and trespass violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis Cuthbertson
Wne
Gastonia City
Hugh Lee Ivester
Dallas R-2
Sarah Sanders
North York Street
Cuthbertson
Robert Dennis Waters
Crai Merton
Turney Named New City Manager in Graham
Bruce Turney, 31, Newton city manager, is hired to fill Graham post. Appointment effective June 24, by Mayor Myron A. Rhyne, succeeding Thomas Hobbs who resigned last October. Turney, a Gastonia native, attended the University of North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham
Bruce Turney
Newton
Graham City
Myron A. Rhyne
Turney
Thomas Hobbs
Rhyne
Gastonia
University of North Carona
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Arlington
Helen D. Brown
Maynard Bridges
Jimmy Allen
Appalachian State Teachers College
Frances C. Starnes
Western Carolina College
Jean Gaston
Winthrop College
Grier
Martha Anne Owen
Duke Glenn Rowland
George Peabody College
Abby June Gibson
May Weaver
David Hunsucker
Ruth Angel
Attie Belle Liles
Western Carolina
Helen Shuford
WRAY
Little Snider
Woman's College of Unc
Willan Brown
Abernethy Evelyn Tucker
Susan Sexton
Rachel White
Wolfard College
Armstrong
Bruce McLean
University of South Carolina
Inez Beam Winthrop
Phyllis Perry Lenoir-Rhyne
Zora Dellinger Shire
Horace J. Beam
Central
Doris Edwards
William and
Mary
Peedin Anne Hollar
Pearl Haynes
Lenoir Rhyne
Dorothy Raby
Gwenleen Ray
C. K. Foy
Mable Robinson
Lengir- Rhyne
Leon Conner
Highland
Moses A. E. Blair
N. C. College
Jerome Oxner
George Miller
Agriculture and Technical College
Margaret Battle
Margaretta R. Young
Ohio University
Ruth Adams
Pennsylvania State
Louise Wellman
Columbia University
Mercedes Woolfolk
Johnson T. Smith
Ruth Benson
Myrtle Pryor
Emma McKay
R. &. Schooler
Altrusa Club
Legion
iMeets
Boston
Wrth
Cestonia Mutual Building & Loan Association
W. Main Ave
ESSO
R. H. Pinnix
Esso Standard Oil Company
J. N. Pease
Alex A. Diffey
T. D. Clanton
Mr. Pinnix
Patty Nash
Gaston
Death
Mrs. Abernethy
Mia
Robert Davis
David Biggers
Edward Hannah
West Rankin Avenue
Willie Hemphill
West Granite Avenue
David Viaservieh
Roscoe Lewis
West
Walnut Avenue
Darrell Barringer
Conover
Gerad Pasour
Emiily Octavia Bell
Willie L. Cramer
Randy Withers
Ruby Huffman Pearch
Neve
Wallace
Wallingford
Conn
Arer
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