July 17, 2015 Coats
Museum News
The October, November, December 1953 issues of the Daily Record were not available in the paper’s library when we compiled the history of Coats in 2003-2005. So many wonderful articles about Coats cannot be shared with current generations unless those papers are found and someone takes the initiative to share them in some form with the Coats folks.
I do know that the year was now 1954-the year in which the Army-McCarthy hearings dominated the news and the H-bomb generated the jitters. The “I Love Lucy” show starring Lucille Ball was the most popular show in the nation. TV dinners were introduced to a market that gobbled them up on TV trays. The popularity of television resulted in radio switching from drama and the spoken word to musical programming. That set the stage for the rock’n’roll quick takeover of pop music. The price of a cup of coffee jumped from a dime to fifteen cents. There were 94 million telephones in the world. The first issue of Sports Illustrated was published and the tax deadline was moved from March 15 to April 15th.
Mrs. Janie Geddie McKnight of Buies Creek had died in a Fayetteville hospital. She was mother to L.E. McKnight of Coats. The HCBOC raised the fee for a whiskey still capture from five dollars to twenty dollars (Daily Record Jan. 4, 1954). Do you wonder why?
J. Claude Coats, 77, of a Willow Spring route, had died at his home. Mrs. Victor Penny and R.F. Coats were his siblings. Miss Linda Byrd was honored at her sixteenth birthday with a delightful party at her home in Coats. Patsy and Billie Byrd, Lois Jernigan, Ray Byrd, Mildred Dorman, Barbara Byrd, Jean Barbour, Billy Barnes, Doyle Barbour, Thomas Holmes and Max Matthews enjoyed games and food at the affair.
Elsewhere, little Danny Norris, two and a half-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Norris, received a severe cut on his face when a wall vase fell accidentally and struck him. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Byrd had had lots of visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Pollard and Mr. A.V. Norris were guests of the Byrds of Oakdale. Mr. and Mrs. William Messler and daughter of Warsaw, Indiana, spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Norris, parents of Mrs. Messler.
Private Rudolph Miller had left Wednesday for Fort Benning, Georgia. Rudolph had visited a few weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Miller. Pvt. Miller had been transferred from Camp Gordon. Miss Sue Britt, a student at Campbell, had spent time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Britt. Mr. Lee Ryals of Portsmouth, Virginia had stayed the weekend with his sister, Mrs. C.R. Blackman, and his mother, Mrs. J.I. Ryals (Daily Record Jan. 8, 1954).
Mrs. Willie Byrd of Coats lost her mother, Mrs. Lillian Johnson (Daily Record Jan. 13, 1954). Did Mrs. Johnson or Mrs. Byrd have any children that we should recognize?
I do recognize the following name. Dwight Broadwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Broadwell, of Angier, had recently become the recipient of a fishing set from “Farm and Ranch” magazine. Dwight was awarded first prize for selling the most subscriptions.
Dwight ranked high in citizenship and scholarship. He was a school bus driver and vice president of FFA. Dwight was an avid coin collector and hunter. He was married to Janis Woodall of Coats and planned to attend patrolman’s course after graduation in May (Daily Record Jan. 13, 1954). Folks, is this not Coy Broadwell’s brother?
Miss Doris Johnson of Washington, D.C. and Perry Samuels of Bronx, N.Y. were married. The bride was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Johnson of Coats, N.C. The bride wore a British tweed suit with brown accessories. Mrs. Samuels was a graduate of Woman’s College and held a position with the government. Mr. Samuels was a graduate of the University of Illinois. He served 20 months at Fort Bragg (Daily Record Jan. 15, 1954). If you see Doris Johnson S. Nolan, ask in what agency of the government she worked.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoover Adams appeared on “The Big Payoff”. Mrs. Adams was disappointed when Mr. Adams could not answer the jackpot question. The couple won lots of good prizes, however (Daily Record, Jan. 18, 1954). Wonder if Mrs. Adams can recall what they won on the show or what the question was that Mr. Hoover could not answer.
The basketball standings were public knowledge for all to read in the paper. The Coats girls had won seven of nine games; the boys had won three out of nine (Daily Record Jan. 19, 1954).
The Harnett County Farm Bureau established a Woman’s Auxiliary in which Mrs. Delmer Ennis was elected vice-chairman. Friends and young people in Coats were devastated at the death of Dewey H. Yarley. Mr. Yarley, 57, died in the hospital. He had come to Coats in 1950 with his family where he had been active in business and community life. Yarley was owner of the Coats Theater and he was a member of the Coats Town Board. He was buried in the Memorial Cemetery in Lillington with full Masonic honors. He was survived by his wife, Brunie Autry Yarley of Coats, Marilyn Yarley of ECC and Dewey Yarley, Jr., a student in the School of Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill (Daily Record Jan. 20, 1954).
An interesting side note would be that Mrs. Yarley’s brother Orus Autry, whom you read about a few weeks back, operated the Coats Theater when it opened in 1947 and he was often referred to as being an owner of the theater. I do not know if Dr. Yarley is living today but a few years ago the museum folks were putting together an open house to honor and exhibit pictures of the aviators with Coats roots. It was amazing to discover the huge number of individuals from Coats who had pilot licenses. Dr. Yarley was one of them. We located him in Durham where he had practiced medicine for years. He sent us pictures taken of the inside and outside of the theater along with several pictures of him in front of a plane. An exciting thing he shared was that he had had the privilege of being the doctor of Edison Johnson who had grown up in Coats and what a fine man Edison was.
The museum board of directors had its quarterly meeting and Chairman H.L. Sorrell presided. The board voted on new directors and were happy to elect Ralph Denning, Paul Parker, Hilda Pope and Mayor Walter Weeks as members of the Class of 2018 where they will join Andy Cole, Becky Adams, Robie Butler, Ted Penny, Patsy Avery, Eddie Vaughan, Lynda Butler, David Barnes, Kent Langdon, Teresa Honeycutt, and Sandra Howard in making decisions and direction of the Coats Museum. Linda Cobb, Peggy Robinson and Gayle Sorrell had been members of the 2015 Class. The museum is so fortunate to be able to have these volunteers who always attend the meetings and give of their time to make the museum successful in its endeavors. Thank you.
We cannot draw people into the museum if we don’t have new items for display. Thank you to Ed and Mary Ellen Lauder who almost monthly bring in new items for display. Thank you, Ed, for bringing by the most unique radio. When you see it, it looks just like a Coca Cola bottle.
Once again death has taken another one of the most faithful of our faithful workers. James Grimes was always dropping in on us at the museum when we were working on exhibits or projects. He would cheer us on and over and over thank us for what we were doing. He loved to share stories of growing up in Coats and telling us about things that never made it into print. The young visitors from the schools were in awe of him as he stood by his WWII US Navy uniform in our military exhibit. His laugh, his common sense approach to things, his sense of humor, and his work ethic will be hard to replace.
Thank you to James’s family for designating the museum as a charity to which we can remember him. Thank you to Walter and Kathy Weeks for the donation honoring James at the board meeting and to H.L. for remembering James in the museum endowment. Again thank you, Patsy and Stacy Avery, for remembering the museum as you honored Pauline Daniel. Thank you to the Coats High Class of 1958 who faithfully remembers deceased classmates with memorials-this one being for Nancy Lloyd Lucas.
The October, November, December 1953 issues of the Daily Record were not available in the paper’s library when we compiled the history of Coats in 2003-2005. So many wonderful articles about Coats cannot be shared with current generations unless those papers are found and someone takes the initiative to share them in some form with the Coats folks.
I do know that the year was now 1954-the year in which the Army-McCarthy hearings dominated the news and the H-bomb generated the jitters. The “I Love Lucy” show starring Lucille Ball was the most popular show in the nation. TV dinners were introduced to a market that gobbled them up on TV trays. The popularity of television resulted in radio switching from drama and the spoken word to musical programming. That set the stage for the rock’n’roll quick takeover of pop music. The price of a cup of coffee jumped from a dime to fifteen cents. There were 94 million telephones in the world. The first issue of Sports Illustrated was published and the tax deadline was moved from March 15 to April 15th.
Mrs. Janie Geddie McKnight of Buies Creek had died in a Fayetteville hospital. She was mother to L.E. McKnight of Coats. The HCBOC raised the fee for a whiskey still capture from five dollars to twenty dollars (Daily Record Jan. 4, 1954). Do you wonder why?
J. Claude Coats, 77, of a Willow Spring route, had died at his home. Mrs. Victor Penny and R.F. Coats were his siblings. Miss Linda Byrd was honored at her sixteenth birthday with a delightful party at her home in Coats. Patsy and Billie Byrd, Lois Jernigan, Ray Byrd, Mildred Dorman, Barbara Byrd, Jean Barbour, Billy Barnes, Doyle Barbour, Thomas Holmes and Max Matthews enjoyed games and food at the affair.
Elsewhere, little Danny Norris, two and a half-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Norris, received a severe cut on his face when a wall vase fell accidentally and struck him. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Byrd had had lots of visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Pollard and Mr. A.V. Norris were guests of the Byrds of Oakdale. Mr. and Mrs. William Messler and daughter of Warsaw, Indiana, spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Norris, parents of Mrs. Messler.
Private Rudolph Miller had left Wednesday for Fort Benning, Georgia. Rudolph had visited a few weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Miller. Pvt. Miller had been transferred from Camp Gordon. Miss Sue Britt, a student at Campbell, had spent time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Britt. Mr. Lee Ryals of Portsmouth, Virginia had stayed the weekend with his sister, Mrs. C.R. Blackman, and his mother, Mrs. J.I. Ryals (Daily Record Jan. 8, 1954).
Mrs. Willie Byrd of Coats lost her mother, Mrs. Lillian Johnson (Daily Record Jan. 13, 1954). Did Mrs. Johnson or Mrs. Byrd have any children that we should recognize?
I do recognize the following name. Dwight Broadwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Broadwell, of Angier, had recently become the recipient of a fishing set from “Farm and Ranch” magazine. Dwight was awarded first prize for selling the most subscriptions.
Dwight ranked high in citizenship and scholarship. He was a school bus driver and vice president of FFA. Dwight was an avid coin collector and hunter. He was married to Janis Woodall of Coats and planned to attend patrolman’s course after graduation in May (Daily Record Jan. 13, 1954). Folks, is this not Coy Broadwell’s brother?
Miss Doris Johnson of Washington, D.C. and Perry Samuels of Bronx, N.Y. were married. The bride was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Johnson of Coats, N.C. The bride wore a British tweed suit with brown accessories. Mrs. Samuels was a graduate of Woman’s College and held a position with the government. Mr. Samuels was a graduate of the University of Illinois. He served 20 months at Fort Bragg (Daily Record Jan. 15, 1954). If you see Doris Johnson S. Nolan, ask in what agency of the government she worked.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoover Adams appeared on “The Big Payoff”. Mrs. Adams was disappointed when Mr. Adams could not answer the jackpot question. The couple won lots of good prizes, however (Daily Record, Jan. 18, 1954). Wonder if Mrs. Adams can recall what they won on the show or what the question was that Mr. Hoover could not answer.
The basketball standings were public knowledge for all to read in the paper. The Coats girls had won seven of nine games; the boys had won three out of nine (Daily Record Jan. 19, 1954).
The Harnett County Farm Bureau established a Woman’s Auxiliary in which Mrs. Delmer Ennis was elected vice-chairman. Friends and young people in Coats were devastated at the death of Dewey H. Yarley. Mr. Yarley, 57, died in the hospital. He had come to Coats in 1950 with his family where he had been active in business and community life. Yarley was owner of the Coats Theater and he was a member of the Coats Town Board. He was buried in the Memorial Cemetery in Lillington with full Masonic honors. He was survived by his wife, Brunie Autry Yarley of Coats, Marilyn Yarley of ECC and Dewey Yarley, Jr., a student in the School of Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill (Daily Record Jan. 20, 1954).
An interesting side note would be that Mrs. Yarley’s brother Orus Autry, whom you read about a few weeks back, operated the Coats Theater when it opened in 1947 and he was often referred to as being an owner of the theater. I do not know if Dr. Yarley is living today but a few years ago the museum folks were putting together an open house to honor and exhibit pictures of the aviators with Coats roots. It was amazing to discover the huge number of individuals from Coats who had pilot licenses. Dr. Yarley was one of them. We located him in Durham where he had practiced medicine for years. He sent us pictures taken of the inside and outside of the theater along with several pictures of him in front of a plane. An exciting thing he shared was that he had had the privilege of being the doctor of Edison Johnson who had grown up in Coats and what a fine man Edison was.
The museum board of directors had its quarterly meeting and Chairman H.L. Sorrell presided. The board voted on new directors and were happy to elect Ralph Denning, Paul Parker, Hilda Pope and Mayor Walter Weeks as members of the Class of 2018 where they will join Andy Cole, Becky Adams, Robie Butler, Ted Penny, Patsy Avery, Eddie Vaughan, Lynda Butler, David Barnes, Kent Langdon, Teresa Honeycutt, and Sandra Howard in making decisions and direction of the Coats Museum. Linda Cobb, Peggy Robinson and Gayle Sorrell had been members of the 2015 Class. The museum is so fortunate to be able to have these volunteers who always attend the meetings and give of their time to make the museum successful in its endeavors. Thank you.
We cannot draw people into the museum if we don’t have new items for display. Thank you to Ed and Mary Ellen Lauder who almost monthly bring in new items for display. Thank you, Ed, for bringing by the most unique radio. When you see it, it looks just like a Coca Cola bottle.
Once again death has taken another one of the most faithful of our faithful workers. James Grimes was always dropping in on us at the museum when we were working on exhibits or projects. He would cheer us on and over and over thank us for what we were doing. He loved to share stories of growing up in Coats and telling us about things that never made it into print. The young visitors from the schools were in awe of him as he stood by his WWII US Navy uniform in our military exhibit. His laugh, his common sense approach to things, his sense of humor, and his work ethic will be hard to replace.
Thank you to James’s family for designating the museum as a charity to which we can remember him. Thank you to Walter and Kathy Weeks for the donation honoring James at the board meeting and to H.L. for remembering James in the museum endowment. Again thank you, Patsy and Stacy Avery, for remembering the museum as you honored Pauline Daniel. Thank you to the Coats High Class of 1958 who faithfully remembers deceased classmates with memorials-this one being for Nancy Lloyd Lucas.