The Gastonia Gazette from Gastonia, North Carolina • Page 9

Friday, March 19, 1948. Gastonia High's Band I I ICI In District Contests DIES ATAGE 89 Soldier, S-Sg't. A. L. Causby Saturday In Charlotte Scheduled For'Sunday 3 P.

M. -BV JIMMY ATKINS- Weeks of Intensive practice by the Gastonia High School band will culminate in contest performance Saturday at Charlotte when the musical aggregation, under direction of O. McCollum will appear In the district elimination contest (ft Bands emerging with No. 1 ratings from the Charlotte district elimination will be entitled to compete in the slate finals at Greensboro in late April. A total of 15 high school bands from a 17-counly Western North arHrwni he heard liTthe district elimination at Charlotte, as well as soloists and quartets from competing hands in other special contest brackets.

'I'W'O A BANDS Elimination judging Is not competitive In the sense that only one or any limited number of No 1 ratings will be given. Under elimination rules It would be possible for all bands heard to obtain No. 1 ratings, or any given ratings. Bands are judged against a standard of excellence prc-delermlned, and not in competition against each other. The same yardstick Is applied In judging solo and quartet numbers.

Ratings range from No. 1 to No, 5 Standards against which bands are Judged are determined by the size of competing schools. There will be only two Class A bands heard in the district judging at Charlotte these being the Gastonia High School band and the Central High School band of Charlotte. Other bands, which will be Judged again will fall into Class and divisions. Another No.

1 band in the area, Lenoir, will go directly into state competition at Greensboro by virtue of a holdover No. ratine last year. THREE JUDGES Three judges, all directors of music from North Carolina institutions of higher learning, will make up the judging panel tomorrow at Charlotte. They are James C. Pfohl of Davidson College, Allen Bone of Duke University and Earl Slocum i.m i of tht University of -North Carolina.

Numbers to be played by the Gas- Ionia band tomorrow include: "Hamlltonhn March." by Hall; by Mendelssohn; ments) by Hoist. DEATHS C. M. MAUNEY Christopher M. Mauney, 74, 405 East Airline avenue, died Thursday at 3:20 p.

m. in a Raleigh hospital. A native of Gaston county, he was a member of the Main Street Methodist Church. Surviving are one brother, Ed Mauney o( R-l, Bessemer City two daughters, Mrs. C.

F. Lazenby of South Gastoni!) and Mrs. K. F. Harmon of Gastonia.

Funeral services will be conducted by Dr. Embree H. Blackard of the Main Street Methodist Church Saturday at 2 p. m. at Carothers Funeral- Home Chapel.

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Alson Li Causby of the United States Army, who lost his life on May 10, 1944, as the result of an airplane accident In line of duty on Makin Atoll, has been returned here for re-burial. His mother, Mrs. Octavia T. Causby, has announced a memorial service, honoring her son, will be held Sunday, March 21, at 3 p. m.

at the First Baptist Church of which he was a member. The N. C. district will provide luirTnilltary honors for final interment of Causby. Rev.

J. Ned Taylor, pastor of the church, will have cnarge of (he service, assisted by Rev. J. Clyde'Yates, pastor Street Baptist Church of Charlotte. The youth clx)ir at the church, under the direction of Mrs.

T. Jackson, will present special music They will also sing "My Latest Sun Is Sinking Fast." a favorite selection of the young soldier, and Miss Francis Rhyne will sing a solo "Sunrise Tomorrow." Local veterans will be 89, father of County Attorney Ilarley B. Gaston and one of Ihe leading farmers of the Lowell section, died at his home near Ihe Lowell overhead bridge Friday morning at 4 o'clock following a prolonged illness. He had been confmed-to his home for the past two years and had been crilicaUy ill for the past (wo weeks. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 11 o'clock at -LoweU-Methodist-Shurch with the pastor, Rev.

R. c. Nimon, officiating, assisted by Rev. W. L.

Lanier, pastor of Main Street Methodist Church, Belmont, and interment will follow in the Lowell cemetery. Pallbearers will be F. P. Hall Jr W. J.

Pharr, -J. A. Gullick, D. P'. Stowe, H.

H. Elmore, and A. Lineberger Jr. The body will remain at the File Funeral Home in Belmont until time for the funeral. Mr.

Gaston was a native of Gas- AJULHI veitrans will De honorary pallbearers and flower Baptist Church here and was a loyal girls will be Misses Margaret Kin- member. 10, 1888, he married Miss Cora Black of Kings Mountain. She died August 25, 1929. To this union were born nine -children, eight of whom are living. They are Harley B.

Gaston of Belmont, Mrs. Rand of Raleigh, Mrs. Z. B. Bradford qf Raleigh.

Mrs. M. R. Dunnagan of Raleigh, W. ''Clark Gaston of Columbia, S.

Mrs. David Hirst and Mrs. John C. Irvin of Charlotte, and Mrs. Walter W.

Rapp of Thomasville. Another son, W. Grady Gaston. for several years executive secretary of the Gasfon Chamber of Commerce, died five or six years ago. He leaves also 18 grandchildren.

One grandson, W. Grady Gaston Jr was killed in action during World War II. Mr. Gaston was a successful farmer, a lifelong member of Bethesda Methodist Church, and was held in the very highest esteem by all with whom he came in contact. Coming to manhood in the distressing Reconstruction days when the South was at the bottom in every phase of its business and industrial life, he managed by hard work and frugal living to rear and educate a large family of children Until failing health forced his retirement he was a frequent visitor to Gastonia and had a host of friends here.

October 4 1942 he the Air VI.V-UMV.I nc JVllJCU IILC Cauls, Cloie Har- Corps and received hi? basic train- TT.n 1 "organ an Mrs. Gary ing at Keesler Field, Willow MI Bessemer City and Run, Harlingen Field, Tex EmmaHn. Langley Field, Charleston, s. and Hammer Field, Fresno, Calif. It was at Harlingen Field, that of and Miss Marjorie Phillips of Gaffney, S.

c. Interment will follow in Bessemer City Memorial Cemetery. The body will be brought to the home on Sunday morning and will lie in state et the church an hour preceding the ceremony. Sisk Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Causby Is survived by his VUIUMJ ia auiviveu ay nis i mother, Mrs.

Octavia Causby and Causby was awarded the the following brothers and sisters- Alr ln 'he early spring of this Mrs. Fred Dameron, teacher In ar for high profes- skill, courage and devotion the local high school, Mrs James coura ee and devotion Franklin, Betty Sue, Jimmie and i 7, combat over Marshall Is- Rebecca Causby, all at home His ands He was also awarded sev- father died June 10 1941 eral and the Distinguished father died June 10, 1941. LIFE'S HISTORY Alson L. Causby was born ton county, having been born No- January rm'liT vember 27, 1859, in the New Hope tain, but had lived moTof his We section, son of the late Pinckney in Bessemer City. At the of a ten he to 'arty The Dally Gazette and man he sl for sbt i attended near semer City grammar and high schools and graduated at the age of 17.

Early In life he joined the First Lawyer Shot -(Begins On Front Page)bullet. The bullet ranged downward and came out the rifht shoulder. Ih.e shooting occurred in the mirlille of the first block of West Sixth street about a. m. Officers found Butler crumpled in the street, still conscious, about 30 feet east of West Sixth's intersection with Church street.

Mercy hospital attendants said later that his condition was not believed to be serious. Butler told police that two white men approached him as he prepared to enter his automobile in a parking lot behind the Mayfair Hotel, grabbed him, and commanded: "Give us your money." Butler said both jnen beat him about the head as he (urned away. He broke away, raced along the street, but they caught him and shot him, Butler recounted. Butler said he had returned to Charlotte only a short time before from Columbia, S. and decided to slop in town for meal.

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C. A. L. CAUSBY he received his wings June 26, Ai He was assigned to the Seventh ir Force for duty in the Central Pacific on October 12, 1943. He served in Hawaii, Tarawa, Gilbert Marshall and Makin Island.

He had already completed 31 missions. Flying Cross. Miss Lissie Kale Dies In Mt. Holly At 87 Years Of Age MOUNT HOLLY Miss Lissie Kale, prominent Mount Holly woman and life-long resident, died Thursday night at 9:30 at the home of her niece, Miss Rozella Abernathy, with whom she had resided for several years. Miss Kale was SO years of age and would have celebrated her 87th birthday next March 30.

'Miss cs she was affectionately known by her friends, had been an invalid for the last 15 years. The daughter of the late Lawson Henderson and Margaret Ray Kale, she watched Mount Holly grow from a tiny village to is present size. She was a member of the First Methodist Church here. Survivors include one sister, Mrs. J.

S. Hart of Mount Holly, and a number of nieces -and nephews Funeral sei vices will be held Saturday at 2 o'clock In the afternoon at First Methodist Church, where Miss Kale was an active worker until her Illness 15 years ago. Rev. L. Brown, the pastor, will conduct the service, assisted by Dr.

Watson O. Goode, pastor of Derita Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Mount Holly cemetery. The body will remain at Mount Holly. Funeral Home until the hour of services.

DEATHS MRS. FRANCES L. ROBINSON Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Leatherwood Robinson, who Jassed away at her home in Dalas early Thursday morning, will be leld Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Dallas Methodist Church. Rev.

G. E. Wh.te, pastor of the Methodist Church, will be charge of services, assisted by ev. Love Dixon, pastor of Flint roves Br.ptist Church of East Gnstonia. Burial is to follow in Hollywood cemetery.

MORE ABOUT Rotary On Front Page) selves for progressive thought, he warned. "This Is a rapidly changing world. Years ago the world traveled no faster than a horse. Today the world travels as fast as the flying machines," he compared. "We must adjust ourselves to the new world by preparations to think intelligently and Jove our fellowmen Intelligently or we will see the parade go away from us," the doctor emphasized.

"Parasitism is affecting the church and the government. People are too willing to let the other fellow do the work. Church members leave their religion for the preachers to study. Voters rise up at election time and back a candidate for office. Then they drop into a lethargy and let the world go-by- until the next election time," he defined the state today.

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Vorys (R-Ohlo) told reporters last night. "Now we can get at Turkey, Greece and China." ABOUT- Ridings -(Begins On Front Face) Edney in the general election In November. Edney was nominated at, -BY ROBERT (Gazette Staff Reporter) First of three performances of "January Thaw," the senior class play ol Belmont High School for this year, was presented Thursday afternoon in the school auditorium to an audience of elementary school children and was to be given again this afternoon for high school students. The third performance scheduled for the general public will be given tonight at o'clock In the school auditorium. Under the direction of Paul Neal ot Belmont the cast is made up ot senior la sJ students with the exception of James Ratchford.

a graduate of Belmont High School, who has been active in amateur theatricals for several years In Belmont. Supporting the able performance of Ratchford In the leading male role are Joe Messer, Charles Watkins and Jo Bradshaw in stellar parts, Detores Dellinger as his wife and mother of the three children played by Yolanda Jean Whlsonant, and Doris Bums. Others in the cast are Louise Butler, Joe Moore, Franklin Aliten. Scott Thrower, Harold Archer, and Tommy Miller. Setting for the story is Hie living of a Connecticut farm house recently bought and remodeled by a writer and his family seeking quiet and comfort from the crowded his party's convention last Saturday Ridings is chairman of.

the Democratic executive committee in Rutherford county. He served two years as county attorney, and has been for a number of years a member of the State Democratic executive committee. The solicitor is married and has one daughter, Helen Ridings McKinney, who lives in Gastonia with her husband, O. R. McKInney, a state highway patrolman.

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James Pittman, 305 13th street, Cramerton, died in a local hospital Thursday night at 10 o'clock. In addition to the parents, surviving are one brother, James Michael Pittman; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pittman of Cramerton; and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

J. R. Presswood of Clover. Graveside services will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at Pine view cemetery in Mount Holly Rev. Roy Rickard.

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