“All The County News For Everybody” VOLUME XXXIII “All The County News For Everybody” MOCKSVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1950 No. 6 TOBACCO MEETINGS YOUNG DEMOCRATS TO ORGANIZE PLANNED FOR DAVIE LOCAITEAM MEETS Barkleys Visit Davie County AT PARTY CONVENTION SATURDAY Plant bed weed control is very important to tobacco growers. COOHMEi HERE p n ^ n g Monda/s Celebration County Convention Pulling weeds from plant beds Mocksville High has to be done during the busiest SAIURDAY N M M Set For Courthouse The Mocksville baseball team Meets Mills Hqme season and it is tiresome work. Celebrities. Feted Last Saturday Democrats held Chemical materials have been will meet the Cooleemee Cools in At Boxwood Lodge their prccinct meetings through­ Here Friday Night available for several years for a Yadkin Valley league game out the county. The precinct meet­ The vice president and Mrs. The Mocksville. High school controlling weeds on plant beds. here Saturday night at 8 o’clock. ings were the first steps leading Barkley landed at the Smith baseball team will play Mills The county agent’s office has sev­ Last Saturday afternoon in Sal­ to setting up the state conven­ Reynolds airport in Winston-Sa­ Home under the lights at Rich eral of these tobacco bed weed isbury, the Rowan Mills ushered tion on May 11. At the precinct lem, Monday around 12:45 p.m. Park, Friday night at 8 o’clock. control demonstrations in differ­ in the 1950 Yadkin Valley league meetings party members selected They were brought to North Car­ Last Thursday night in the lo­ ent parts of the county this year. season by besting Mocksvillc in a delegates to the county conven­ olina by a crew of four in an Air cal park, the local team defeated R. R. Bennett, extensión tobacco slugfest 20 to 11. tion which will be held at the lo­ Force C-47. The plane was orig­ Advance High 10 to 5. Mocksville specialist, will be in the county The Rowan nine slapped out cal courthouse Saturday after­ inally scheduled to land at the pushed across eight runs in the on Tuesday, May 9, to assist in 21 hits in running up the high noon at 2 o’clock. At this time Salisbury airport, but the local second inning to take a lead that some meetings at the.'^e plant bed score and Mocksville enjoyed 13 delegates will be selected to at­ field was too muddy. they never relinguished. Advance demonstrations. Mr. Bennett will bingles.' tend the state convention. iThe Salisbury delegation, learn­ scored three runs in the sixth in­ also discuss tobacco disease and Mocksville opened the first in ing of the change, quickly shifted In conjunction with and im­ ning and added three more in insect control and other recom­ ning with a five-run barrage, but to the Winston-Salem airport and mediately following the county the ninth. mended tobacco practices. We th^ lead was short lived. Rowan were on hand when the plane ' convention Saturday, the young Bill Vick went the route for urge every tobacco grower to at­ bounced back in the bottom of settl^ on the runway. , Democrats ot the county will take the local team and scattered 10 tend one of the following dem­ the first inning and tallied seven Delegatlea an initial step towards setting up hits. Potts and Bamhardt com­ onstrations: times. William D. Kizziah, general an active organization for Davie. bined to give up seven hits for 9:30 a.m., Odell Hendrix, R. 3, Rowan Mills scored in every chairman of the Barkley-Boone the Advance team. Vick and Mocksville, near Fork on Lexing­ Inning. MocksviUe was held Cmver To Be Prcwat day celebration event, and “Un­ Bamhardt both had six strikeouts ton highway, scoreless untU the ninth when Philip R. Graver oi Lexington, cle Bob” Doughton, led the dele­ to their credit. 10:4$ a.m., W . T. Burton, R, 2, they pushed six runners across, YDC organizer for the Eighth HONORABLE ALBEN W. p M L K t , Vice Preoldent gation over to the plane to meet Advance, near Elbaville church. the plate. District, will be present and aid L. Foster, with two hits for oi the United States, turns to converse with Mayor the vice president and his wife. Cooleemee blasted Cleveland in setting up the local county or­ three times at bat, led the hitting 1:30 p.m., J. Wes McKnight, R. Marshall Kurfees of Winston-Salem as they made their In this delegation were such dig­ for the locals. L. Hendrix of 2, Advance, just off highway 801 in the opener Saturday, 17 to 4. ganization. way from the airport runway. Pertups the Veep is nitaries as Mayor MarshaU Kur­ Mocksville and T. Cornatzer and betweeh Farmington and Win- Lawrence E. Hutchens, local issuing final briefing instructions to Mayor Kurfees, fees ot Winston-Salem, Mayor attorney, will, act as spokesman C. Potts of Advance had three- ston-Salem highway. JAYCEES ELECT Clifford Peeler ot Salisbury, baggers. who ia to «erve as escort for the charming Mrs. Bark­ of the organizational committee DMMMteatioa NEW OntECTORS Mayor Victor Shaw ot Charlotte, and will preside until the tem­ There will be a demonstration ley during the Barkley-Boone Day celebration. (En­ Speaker of the House Kerr Craig Hugh Larew and BiU Merrell porary officers are elected and on building and putting up a terprise Staff Photo). Ramsay. Also in the delegaUon were elected to the board ot di­ an organization effected. Letters ridge type ventilator on a tobac­ were Col. Daniel Boone, VI, and HERE& IHERE rectors ot the local Junior Cham­ have been sent to the aenior co bam at 3 o’clock Tuesday, May his son, Daniel Boone, VII, ot ber of Commerce in the regular Democratic chairmen of each pre 9 (the same day of the meetings Washington, D. C. Daniel Boone, INSTALLATION AND TBA meeting last Thursday night VISITING CELEBRITIES ENTERTAINED cinct urging them to have a dele­ at the plant b ^ ). Thia demon­ VI, is an attorney in Washington, Installation of officers ot the They were elecM tor a two-year gation present from their respec­ stration will be on the farm of D. C., and claims direct decend- Woman’s Society ot Christian term and succeed W . A . Murray tive precincts. It was emphasized Jack Booe, Route 2, Mocksville. IN DAVIE BY WALTER WOODSONS ancy from the original Daniel. Service will be held May », at that the meeting Saturday and To get to this farm, tum west and Leo Cozart, who retire after Gnicknis Boxwood TlUMvii Meekavllle the MocksviUe Methodist church. two years of service. the YDC organization will be just north of I. G. Roberta’ store CANCER DRIVE After a brief exchange of cour­ An informal tea will be held in Lodge Hospitality open to |ill, and everyone inter­ on the Mocksville-Yadkinville A. tesies the group were ushered into the ladies’ parlor immediately af­ Dr. E. Eckerd was elected SHORT OF QUOTA ested is urged to attend. highway. The farm is located to the board of directors for Crowns Fete Day the 11-car motorcade and were ter the service. All members of A total ot $448.09 has been approximately one mile from the one-year term. He replaces J. A. whisked away through Mocksville the church are invited to attend. raised to date in the Davie Coun­ By MABV LINN COLLINS Mocksville-Yadkinville highway. Craven, who is moving and trans­ to Thyatira Presbyterian church Evona Yorii In ty Cancer Drive, Dr. W. M. Long, SalUbnry Post GBAVES DECOBA'TED Proper ventilation is very im­ ferring his membership to Win- in Western Rowan. Here they en­ chairman announced this week. Barkley-Boone day came to a Spelling Finals portant in curing tobacco. This ston-Salem in the immediate fu­ joyed a country style luncheon The Davie Grays chapter of the The county’s goal is $650.00. brilliant climax on a note of so­ . Evona York, Davie county’s ridge, type ventilator is relatively ture. and Mr. Barkley placed a wreath U.D.C. will appreciate the women An appeal was issued to the cial friendliness when the vice representative in the 10th annu­ new and we would like to urge on thje graves of his ancestors. of Davie county decorating the At the next meeting the com­ citizens ot Davie to join in the president of the United States, al Journal and Sentinel spelling all tobacco growers to attend this The late arrival of the Veep graves of the Confederate vet­ plete slate of officers for the com­ tight against cancer and send their Alben Barkley, and his lovely bee, was one of the 12 contestants demonstration. R. M. Ritchie, Jr., and Veepess necessitated the cur­ erans in their community on ing year will be elected. contributions in as soon as poss­ bride appeared at Boxwood in who survived the 100-word main extension agricultural engineer, tailment of the schedule. All of May 10. ible. Davie county to accept the ele­ round last Saturday. Evona was will conduct this demonstration. the programs were cut short; The Jaycees heard BUI Benson gant and gracious hospitality ex­ not eliminated until the final REGIBTBATION VNDEBWAV of the local high school give the A complete list of the contribu­ some were forced to be elimi­ tended to them and to about 75 round, in which she missed only address that won tor him the tors, along with the breakdown nated entirely. The registration period for the JUROR LIST GIVEN other guests by the host and host­ four words.
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