January 8, 2021 Coats Museum News
The month on the calendar was June of 1986 when it was covered that the first gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the U.S. Senate went into effect on an experimental basis. A presidential commission determined that the single cause of the shuttle disaster on January 28, 1986 was the result of a defective seal in the right solid-fuel booster. Managerial and technical errors resulted in criticism of the space agency.
Len Bias, University of Maryland basketball star and the top draft choice of the Boston Celtics, had died of an overdose of cocaine. This death underscored the widespread drug abuse by athletes. It was determined that two Seattle deaths were officially linked to cyanide-laced Excedrin capsules. It had been almost four years since the Tylenol killings in Chicago indicating that product tampering had become a fact of American life (Dickson, Paul. From Elvis to E-Mail. Massachusetts: Federal Press, 1991, p. 285).
We are aware that practically every item we purchase today contains a product tampering safeguard whether it is a toy, peanut butter, spices or medicines. However, in the Coats area news, the FellowSHARE Breakfast at the Ramada Inn in Dunn featured Ray Stancil as speaker who was introduced to the members by Marvin Johnson (Daily Record June 20, 1986).
The Coats police, fire, and rescue personnel were honored with a fine meal at their Appreciation Day for the time and effort they gave to the community. Coats Rescue Squad Captain Ray Wood, Mayor Tim McKinnie, Police Chief Tommy Williford, President of the Grove Rural Fire Department James Grimes, and Coats Fire Chief Keith McLeod were on hand. Rep. Bob Etheridge and area supervisor Fred Hardy were also in attendance. Keith McLeod and Charles Coats demonstrated the Ajax tool used to open up vehicles to free accident victims (Daily Record June 24, 1986).
Death has since taken so many of those outstanding community leaders from 1986. It also took Mrs. Lillie McLamb Neighbors, 77, of Dunn. She was survived by a son, Jesse Cleon Neighbors; three daughters-Mrs. Clara Creech, Mrs. Shirley Adams, and Mrs. Evelyn McLamb (Daily Record June 27, 1986).
Another popular citizen had died at age 63. Sam Stephenson had been employed with the N.C. Department of Corrections and was a member of Prospect Church. He was survived by his wife, Evelyn Butler Stephenson; one son, G.R. Stephenson and one daughter, Mrs. Vickie S. Penny. Jason Faircloth and April Stephenson were his two grandchildren.
I bet many of you recognize the names of those deceased individual s. As a believer of preserving family history, it saddens me that the names of grandchildren are not included. Who were the grandchildren of Mrs. Neighbors?
I do know that the Coats City Council had to raise taxes by 10 cents per $100 valuation. Mayor Tim McKinnie said it would provide an additional $14,000 of revenue (Daily Record June 27, 1986). Do you wonder why the town governing body is sometimes referred to as a council while other time as a board of commissioners?
Mr. John Lloyd Sorrell, III, of Wallace had died at age 33. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Sorrell, Jr. who was formerly of the Coats-Dunn area. Also deceased was Merwyn Johnson Barber, Sr., 52, of Raleigh. He was survived by his mother, Mrs. Ociadelle Johnson Barber; a sister, Mrs. Mary Faye Barber McLamb (Daily Record June 30, 1986).
Here is a name we all recognize-Mack Reid Hudson. Mack Reid was one of three candidates being mentioned for appointment to the county commissioner’s seat left vacant by the death of M.H. (Jack) Brock (Daily Record July 10, 1986).
Trent McGee, his wife Teri, and six-year-old son Jason had purchased a strange carton of eggs from the Coats IGA. It seems the whole carton contained eggs with double yolks. (Rebeth Mitchell, who owned hen houses with her husband, Bunny Mitchell, could tell us readers all about that! She often showed young customers who came to buy eggs how to determine if the yolks were double or if there were baby chicks in incubation, Mrs. Mitchell had a light set up on a table. When the egg was held in front of the light, the contents could be seen clearly).
My question is do children know where eggs come from today? I had high school students who did not know that butter and buttermilk came from soured milk and cream that was churned to separate the fat globules from the buttermilk. Then I might ask you as a student did you know if pineapples grew beneath the soil or top of it; did kiwi grow in a cluster, on a bush or on a vine? Is there more than one avocado on a plant? We must never be too smug because we are creatures meant to learn as do visitors who come to see our Cotton Museum who have never seen cotton in boles on a stalk and ask to take a bole home with them.
The volunteers send a thank you to Judy Williams Ennis for sending a memorial donation from the Coats High School Class of 1960 for Doris Knox Pope. Doris and her husband Sherwood died from Covid-19. Also a thank you goes to Sarah and Conrey Flowers for their memorial to honor Fletcher and Verle Flowers. Amazing items are on display in the museum that the Flowers family donated over the years. Fletcher was a master contractor and Verle was a long-serving Harnett magistrate who are really missed.
We invite you to visit our museum and our coatsmuseum.com website to see anything from Funding to who is buried in the Coats City Cemetery up to 2010.
The month on the calendar was June of 1986 when it was covered that the first gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the U.S. Senate went into effect on an experimental basis. A presidential commission determined that the single cause of the shuttle disaster on January 28, 1986 was the result of a defective seal in the right solid-fuel booster. Managerial and technical errors resulted in criticism of the space agency.
Len Bias, University of Maryland basketball star and the top draft choice of the Boston Celtics, had died of an overdose of cocaine. This death underscored the widespread drug abuse by athletes. It was determined that two Seattle deaths were officially linked to cyanide-laced Excedrin capsules. It had been almost four years since the Tylenol killings in Chicago indicating that product tampering had become a fact of American life (Dickson, Paul. From Elvis to E-Mail. Massachusetts: Federal Press, 1991, p. 285).
We are aware that practically every item we purchase today contains a product tampering safeguard whether it is a toy, peanut butter, spices or medicines. However, in the Coats area news, the FellowSHARE Breakfast at the Ramada Inn in Dunn featured Ray Stancil as speaker who was introduced to the members by Marvin Johnson (Daily Record June 20, 1986).
The Coats police, fire, and rescue personnel were honored with a fine meal at their Appreciation Day for the time and effort they gave to the community. Coats Rescue Squad Captain Ray Wood, Mayor Tim McKinnie, Police Chief Tommy Williford, President of the Grove Rural Fire Department James Grimes, and Coats Fire Chief Keith McLeod were on hand. Rep. Bob Etheridge and area supervisor Fred Hardy were also in attendance. Keith McLeod and Charles Coats demonstrated the Ajax tool used to open up vehicles to free accident victims (Daily Record June 24, 1986).
Death has since taken so many of those outstanding community leaders from 1986. It also took Mrs. Lillie McLamb Neighbors, 77, of Dunn. She was survived by a son, Jesse Cleon Neighbors; three daughters-Mrs. Clara Creech, Mrs. Shirley Adams, and Mrs. Evelyn McLamb (Daily Record June 27, 1986).
Another popular citizen had died at age 63. Sam Stephenson had been employed with the N.C. Department of Corrections and was a member of Prospect Church. He was survived by his wife, Evelyn Butler Stephenson; one son, G.R. Stephenson and one daughter, Mrs. Vickie S. Penny. Jason Faircloth and April Stephenson were his two grandchildren.
I bet many of you recognize the names of those deceased individual s. As a believer of preserving family history, it saddens me that the names of grandchildren are not included. Who were the grandchildren of Mrs. Neighbors?
I do know that the Coats City Council had to raise taxes by 10 cents per $100 valuation. Mayor Tim McKinnie said it would provide an additional $14,000 of revenue (Daily Record June 27, 1986). Do you wonder why the town governing body is sometimes referred to as a council while other time as a board of commissioners?
Mr. John Lloyd Sorrell, III, of Wallace had died at age 33. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Sorrell, Jr. who was formerly of the Coats-Dunn area. Also deceased was Merwyn Johnson Barber, Sr., 52, of Raleigh. He was survived by his mother, Mrs. Ociadelle Johnson Barber; a sister, Mrs. Mary Faye Barber McLamb (Daily Record June 30, 1986).
Here is a name we all recognize-Mack Reid Hudson. Mack Reid was one of three candidates being mentioned for appointment to the county commissioner’s seat left vacant by the death of M.H. (Jack) Brock (Daily Record July 10, 1986).
Trent McGee, his wife Teri, and six-year-old son Jason had purchased a strange carton of eggs from the Coats IGA. It seems the whole carton contained eggs with double yolks. (Rebeth Mitchell, who owned hen houses with her husband, Bunny Mitchell, could tell us readers all about that! She often showed young customers who came to buy eggs how to determine if the yolks were double or if there were baby chicks in incubation, Mrs. Mitchell had a light set up on a table. When the egg was held in front of the light, the contents could be seen clearly).
My question is do children know where eggs come from today? I had high school students who did not know that butter and buttermilk came from soured milk and cream that was churned to separate the fat globules from the buttermilk. Then I might ask you as a student did you know if pineapples grew beneath the soil or top of it; did kiwi grow in a cluster, on a bush or on a vine? Is there more than one avocado on a plant? We must never be too smug because we are creatures meant to learn as do visitors who come to see our Cotton Museum who have never seen cotton in boles on a stalk and ask to take a bole home with them.
The volunteers send a thank you to Judy Williams Ennis for sending a memorial donation from the Coats High School Class of 1960 for Doris Knox Pope. Doris and her husband Sherwood died from Covid-19. Also a thank you goes to Sarah and Conrey Flowers for their memorial to honor Fletcher and Verle Flowers. Amazing items are on display in the museum that the Flowers family donated over the years. Fletcher was a master contractor and Verle was a long-serving Harnett magistrate who are really missed.
We invite you to visit our museum and our coatsmuseum.com website to see anything from Funding to who is buried in the Coats City Cemetery up to 2010.