February 20, 2015
Coats Museum News
The year was 1952-the year in which Ike was elected on the promise that he would go to Korea. “The Today Show” with Dave Garoway opened new territory for television. China and the Soviet Union alleged that the U.S. had used germ warfare in Korea. The fads and trends saw the Mohawk hairstyle leave many boys with a band of hair from the forehead to the back of the neck. “American Bandstand” came to ABC with a twenty-two-year old host, Dick Clark, who kept the show going for twenty-five years. “Dragnet”, the low-key cop show was the hottest new television program. “Jackie Gleason”, “Omnibus”, “Mr. Peppers”, “My Friend Irma”, and “Ozzie and Harriett” were popular TV shows. The revised standard version of the Bible was the hottest selling book. Paint by numbers kits hit the twelve million mark. Marilyn Monroe was one the most publicized star in 1952. “The Greatest Show on Earth” and “High Noon” lured people back to the theater. UFO phenomenon mushroomed. The nation was in the throes of an atomic infatuation, and the newspapers and magazines were filled with articles on atomic fuel for the house, atomic aircrafts, and atomic cars that could go from coast to coast on a trace amount of radioactive fuel. The first pocketsize transistor radios were introduced in Japan. Mad magazine made its debut. Numbers were interesting in 1952. During that year, 2,000 new, local television stations came into being. The average American ate forty-two hotdogs during that year. The polio toll for the year was 3300 dead and 50,000 stricken and many crippled. A new Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes debuted and contained 29 percent sugar. Howard Johnson opened its 351st restaurant and it became the world’s largest food chain. College graduates were in short supply and could demand as much as $4500 a year upon graduation. The nation collected a record 69.6 billion in income tax receipts. Bathtub ring, DNA, no-cal, megaton, megabuck, buyer’s market and open heart surgery were words and phrases in the 1952 ( Dickson, Paul, From Elvis to E-Mail, Springfield , Massachusetts: Federal Street Press (1999) pages 52-58).
Figures published in the New Year disclosed that 17 people were killed, 234 hurt, and 436 accidents were reported in 1951 in Harnett County. Individuals and churches gladly welcomed hand fans from commercial establishments to help keep a person cool in hot weather; however, Hood Memorial Church in Dunn announced that the church would be air-conditioned (Daily Record Jan. 1, 1952).
Radio station WCKB of Dunn opened a new broadcasting studio in Coats. Mayor J.D. Norris formally opened the studio. The paper wrote of J.D. Norris, “He is one of the busiest city officials in this section and works energetically for improvements in the progressive Harnett town” (Daily Record Jan. 3, 1952).
Wonder if the station had news and weather. If they did, surely they shared the Coats boys basketball team ranked 6 out of 10 for the Harnett County Conference while the girls ranked number 9th (Daily Record Jan. 3, 1952). Miss Clyde Bryan, a Coats teacher in the lower grades, was now reporting for the Daily Record for the Coats community. Her first column reported that Mrs. Clyde Grimes had visited relatives in Coats. Mr. James Valsame had spent the weekend with his mother in Canton. Miss Ann Anderson of Roanoke Rapids spent a few days with Mrs. Mildred Creech. Mr. Russ Carlson of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and his small daughter Janet, spent time with his wife Mrs. Loraine Highfill Carlson who was with her mother Mrs. Mattie Highfill in Coats.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Parrish had spent Christmas with her father, Mr. A.C. Snipes, of Bynum. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Malone had stayed the weekend in Williamston, N.C. where his parents lived. Mrs. Mayton Upchurch, Mrs. Lucille Allen and Mrs. Mildred Creech had traveled to Roanoke Rapids as the guests of Mrs. Ann Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Jones of Roxboro had stayed the weekend in Coats. Mrs. Parrish and Mrs. Jones were sisters.
How many of you remember when Rev. and Mrs. Ben Eller served the Coats Baptist Church? Do you recall if they had children? According to the paper, the Ellers were parents of Luke Eller who was a student of Bowman Gray Hospital and James Eller who was a student at Wake Forest. Wonder where those gentlemen are in 2015.
This I do know. The teachers at Coats School appeared busy outside of the classroom. Miss Lucille Allen and Miss Anderson attended a tea at Mrs. Billy Denning’s home. Mrs. Leonard Johnson, Mrs. Denning and the bride’s mother honored Miss Peggy Massengill , bride of the month. Miss Patsy Grimes, a student at Flora McDonald College, came to Coats to visit her father Clyde Grimes and Mrs. Grimes. Question was this the first or second Mrs. Grimes?
Does Flora McDonald College exist today? Several girls from Coats attended that college. My oldest sister Chrystelle attended that college at the same time that Mrs. Mary Stephenson, a former teacher at Coats and Angier, was a student there. Eloise Penny, the beautiful red-headed daughter of Joe Penny, Sr. was there also.
What do you think of when you read the name Overby? I think of funeral homes and Uncle Sam because one the first funeral homes that I remember writing about was owned by the Overby family and for many years, one of the most memorable characters in local parades was a gentleman whose name I think was Joe Overby who dressed in a red, blue and white Uncle Sam suit. The news reported that Mr. and Mrs. Mack Overby and their daughter, Dianne, were guests of Miss Lucille Allen and Mrs. Mildred Creech. Elsewhere in town, Mildred Talton of Carolina Beach visited Mrs. Exie Smith for the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Clytus Stewart of Florida had spent the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stewart. Miss Ruth Langdon, a member of the Sanford School faculty visited her parents over the Christmas holidays.
Miss Bryan also reported that Mr. and Mrs. Junie Stephenson were happy to have their children home for the holidays. Do you know who their children were? I do know that Miss Bryan wrote that Bobbie Grimes, who was in the Air Force in Florida was at home with parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Grimes, during Christmas.
Halford Godwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Godwin, had spent some time with his parents in Coats. Mrs. T.J. Turlington, Sr. and her son, T.J., and JoAnn Ennis visited Delaney Ingraham in Parkton during the holidays. Delaney was T.J.’s sibling. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barbee of Winston Salem had visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Turlington, Sr. in the Turlington Crossroads area (Daily Record Jan. 4, 1952).
This I do know is that Coats had many men serving their country in 1952. Read next week to get more names of those coming home to visit family.
Coats has so many people who give back to their community in various ways. One of them is Eric Fann who is one of our hardworking museum volunteers who pushed the sale of the Heritage of Coats, N.C. at the Coats Barber Shop. Eric has worked to showcase the history of the T.O. Beasley Barber Shop and we are elated that he was awarded the Beautification Award from the CCAC for 2014.
Because of people like Ann Lamm Beasley, Coats has its own museum. Working from the very beginning to establish a museum, Ann has never stopped supporting it since it was begun in 1990. Thanks goes to Ann for remembering several of her family and friends-Levin Beasley, Dan Stewart, and Rupert Honeycutt-with memorials to the Coats Museum. We also appreciate the memorial for Levin from Juergen D. Schall. We also appreciate the ladies in the Coats Woman’s Club who have once again given to the museum-this time remembering Rupert Honeycutt. Without this strong support the museum could not operate.
The year was 1952-the year in which Ike was elected on the promise that he would go to Korea. “The Today Show” with Dave Garoway opened new territory for television. China and the Soviet Union alleged that the U.S. had used germ warfare in Korea. The fads and trends saw the Mohawk hairstyle leave many boys with a band of hair from the forehead to the back of the neck. “American Bandstand” came to ABC with a twenty-two-year old host, Dick Clark, who kept the show going for twenty-five years. “Dragnet”, the low-key cop show was the hottest new television program. “Jackie Gleason”, “Omnibus”, “Mr. Peppers”, “My Friend Irma”, and “Ozzie and Harriett” were popular TV shows. The revised standard version of the Bible was the hottest selling book. Paint by numbers kits hit the twelve million mark. Marilyn Monroe was one the most publicized star in 1952. “The Greatest Show on Earth” and “High Noon” lured people back to the theater. UFO phenomenon mushroomed. The nation was in the throes of an atomic infatuation, and the newspapers and magazines were filled with articles on atomic fuel for the house, atomic aircrafts, and atomic cars that could go from coast to coast on a trace amount of radioactive fuel. The first pocketsize transistor radios were introduced in Japan. Mad magazine made its debut. Numbers were interesting in 1952. During that year, 2,000 new, local television stations came into being. The average American ate forty-two hotdogs during that year. The polio toll for the year was 3300 dead and 50,000 stricken and many crippled. A new Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes debuted and contained 29 percent sugar. Howard Johnson opened its 351st restaurant and it became the world’s largest food chain. College graduates were in short supply and could demand as much as $4500 a year upon graduation. The nation collected a record 69.6 billion in income tax receipts. Bathtub ring, DNA, no-cal, megaton, megabuck, buyer’s market and open heart surgery were words and phrases in the 1952 ( Dickson, Paul, From Elvis to E-Mail, Springfield , Massachusetts: Federal Street Press (1999) pages 52-58).
Figures published in the New Year disclosed that 17 people were killed, 234 hurt, and 436 accidents were reported in 1951 in Harnett County. Individuals and churches gladly welcomed hand fans from commercial establishments to help keep a person cool in hot weather; however, Hood Memorial Church in Dunn announced that the church would be air-conditioned (Daily Record Jan. 1, 1952).
Radio station WCKB of Dunn opened a new broadcasting studio in Coats. Mayor J.D. Norris formally opened the studio. The paper wrote of J.D. Norris, “He is one of the busiest city officials in this section and works energetically for improvements in the progressive Harnett town” (Daily Record Jan. 3, 1952).
Wonder if the station had news and weather. If they did, surely they shared the Coats boys basketball team ranked 6 out of 10 for the Harnett County Conference while the girls ranked number 9th (Daily Record Jan. 3, 1952). Miss Clyde Bryan, a Coats teacher in the lower grades, was now reporting for the Daily Record for the Coats community. Her first column reported that Mrs. Clyde Grimes had visited relatives in Coats. Mr. James Valsame had spent the weekend with his mother in Canton. Miss Ann Anderson of Roanoke Rapids spent a few days with Mrs. Mildred Creech. Mr. Russ Carlson of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and his small daughter Janet, spent time with his wife Mrs. Loraine Highfill Carlson who was with her mother Mrs. Mattie Highfill in Coats.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Parrish had spent Christmas with her father, Mr. A.C. Snipes, of Bynum. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Malone had stayed the weekend in Williamston, N.C. where his parents lived. Mrs. Mayton Upchurch, Mrs. Lucille Allen and Mrs. Mildred Creech had traveled to Roanoke Rapids as the guests of Mrs. Ann Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Jones of Roxboro had stayed the weekend in Coats. Mrs. Parrish and Mrs. Jones were sisters.
How many of you remember when Rev. and Mrs. Ben Eller served the Coats Baptist Church? Do you recall if they had children? According to the paper, the Ellers were parents of Luke Eller who was a student of Bowman Gray Hospital and James Eller who was a student at Wake Forest. Wonder where those gentlemen are in 2015.
This I do know. The teachers at Coats School appeared busy outside of the classroom. Miss Lucille Allen and Miss Anderson attended a tea at Mrs. Billy Denning’s home. Mrs. Leonard Johnson, Mrs. Denning and the bride’s mother honored Miss Peggy Massengill , bride of the month. Miss Patsy Grimes, a student at Flora McDonald College, came to Coats to visit her father Clyde Grimes and Mrs. Grimes. Question was this the first or second Mrs. Grimes?
Does Flora McDonald College exist today? Several girls from Coats attended that college. My oldest sister Chrystelle attended that college at the same time that Mrs. Mary Stephenson, a former teacher at Coats and Angier, was a student there. Eloise Penny, the beautiful red-headed daughter of Joe Penny, Sr. was there also.
What do you think of when you read the name Overby? I think of funeral homes and Uncle Sam because one the first funeral homes that I remember writing about was owned by the Overby family and for many years, one of the most memorable characters in local parades was a gentleman whose name I think was Joe Overby who dressed in a red, blue and white Uncle Sam suit. The news reported that Mr. and Mrs. Mack Overby and their daughter, Dianne, were guests of Miss Lucille Allen and Mrs. Mildred Creech. Elsewhere in town, Mildred Talton of Carolina Beach visited Mrs. Exie Smith for the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Clytus Stewart of Florida had spent the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stewart. Miss Ruth Langdon, a member of the Sanford School faculty visited her parents over the Christmas holidays.
Miss Bryan also reported that Mr. and Mrs. Junie Stephenson were happy to have their children home for the holidays. Do you know who their children were? I do know that Miss Bryan wrote that Bobbie Grimes, who was in the Air Force in Florida was at home with parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Grimes, during Christmas.
Halford Godwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Godwin, had spent some time with his parents in Coats. Mrs. T.J. Turlington, Sr. and her son, T.J., and JoAnn Ennis visited Delaney Ingraham in Parkton during the holidays. Delaney was T.J.’s sibling. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barbee of Winston Salem had visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Turlington, Sr. in the Turlington Crossroads area (Daily Record Jan. 4, 1952).
This I do know is that Coats had many men serving their country in 1952. Read next week to get more names of those coming home to visit family.
Coats has so many people who give back to their community in various ways. One of them is Eric Fann who is one of our hardworking museum volunteers who pushed the sale of the Heritage of Coats, N.C. at the Coats Barber Shop. Eric has worked to showcase the history of the T.O. Beasley Barber Shop and we are elated that he was awarded the Beautification Award from the CCAC for 2014.
Because of people like Ann Lamm Beasley, Coats has its own museum. Working from the very beginning to establish a museum, Ann has never stopped supporting it since it was begun in 1990. Thanks goes to Ann for remembering several of her family and friends-Levin Beasley, Dan Stewart, and Rupert Honeycutt-with memorials to the Coats Museum. We also appreciate the memorial for Levin from Juergen D. Schall. We also appreciate the ladies in the Coats Woman’s Club who have once again given to the museum-this time remembering Rupert Honeycutt. Without this strong support the museum could not operate.