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ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES SUNDAY, SEPT. 29, 1991 BEATING, Pages 23-234 His mission: To preserve the history of the American car Emmett Davis Jr. Emmett Jordan Davis 72, of Western North Carolina Baptist Retirement Home, Asheville, died Saturday at Hospice Solace Center. A native of Asheville, he was a son of the late Emmett J. and Dorothy Neely Davis Sr.

He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Wake Forest College. During World II, he served as a Navy lieutenant S.G. He was a former resident of New York City and former associate editor of Town and Country Magazine. He later served as a public relations consultant. Surviving is a brother, John Neely Davis of Asheville.

Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Riverside Cemetery. The Rev. William G. Edwards will officiate.

Memorials may be made to Mountain Area Hospice, P.O. Box 16, Asheville, N.C. 28802. Groce Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Kenfield Bailey BLACK MOUNTAIN Kenfield Bailey, 85, of Apt.

L-215 Highland Farms, died Thursday in the health care facility. A native of Greene, N.Y., he was a graduate of the law school at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He retired as chief of finance with the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Washington. Surviving are two sons, Brian D.

Bailey of Falls Church, and Daryl W. Bailey of Las Vegas, two brothers. Albert and and three great-grandchildren. Eldon Bailey; two grandchildren Memorial services will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Highland Farms Chapel.

The Rev. Maureen Killoran will officiate. Miller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Tennie B. Chatham RUTHERFORDTON Tennie Boone Chatham, 87, of Route 5, died Saturday in a Rutherfordton hospital.

A native of Madison County, she was a daughter of the late James and Cordelia Crawford Boone. Surviving are two sons, Dazel and Boyce Chatham, both of Rutherfordton; three daughters, Faye Guffey and Edna Hollifield, both of Bessemer City, and Doris Harris of Forest City; three sisters, Minnie Willis of Hendersonville and Plutina Morrow and Maefrey West, both of Rutherfordton; 10 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Piedmont Baptist Church, where she was a member. The Rev.

Jim Cathey will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at McMahan's Funeral Home, where the body will remain until 30 minutes before the services. Joseph Siniard BREVARD Joseph "Little Joe" Ashe Siniard, 83, of Wilson Road, died Friday i in a Transylvania County hospital.

A native of Transylvania County, he was the son of the late Columbus Millard and Elvira Mackey Siniard and the husband of the late Margie Ann Smith Siniard. He owned and operated Joe's Little Store. Surviving are three daughters, Jo Ann Bryson, Sarah Landreth and Gladys Taylor, all of Brevard; a sister, Henrietta Sprouse of Brevard; seven grandchildren and four great Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Pisgah Gardens. The Rev.

Tom Latimer will officiate. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at Moore Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Timothys United Methodist Church, in memory of Mr.

and Mrs. Joe Siniard. PATIO ROOMS Maintenance-Free Construction Guaranteed Quality Flexible Designs Free Estimates EXTERIORS. 006 687-0439 Miller Road, Skyland, N.C. (Behind Fire Dept.) AP MEMBER EXCHANGE FEATURE MOORESVILLE Preserving the history of the American automobile has been Alex Beam's mission for the past 23 years.

It's become a passion guided by his love for stock car racing. His private collections of old NASCAR race cars is believed to be the country's largest. "If I were just in this for the money. I could have the durndest yard sale you've ever seen, rent out these buildings and go on and do something else," he said. Beam bought his first antique car in 1968, a 1931 Model A Ford for $115, and had a tough time finding parts for its restoration.

When he married his wife, Daisy, she had a similar vintage car and he was accused of marrying her to get to her vehicle. By Wile Patrick Beam said, his sly grin showing, that he's "the only grease monkey to ever graduate from Davidson College." He planned to practice law, but got sidetracked. As a collegian, Beam was helping his father with a three milk route before classes and was 1 racing an old dirt-track coupe on weekends. A lesson learned outside the classroom: "I wasn't going to make any money racing." "And I knew that I didn't want to ever work on a job for somebody else," he said. "So I decided to look for ways to go into business for myself." When his father died suddenly, Beam took over the milk route.

He also started restoring antique cars more seriously. There are about 150 cars overall, including about 50 stock cars. Walk into one of Beam's warehouses and you'll see what Al Capone's fleet service might have looked like, with several pre-Prohibition and 1920s era models. Cars used in the movies, "The Color Purple" and "The Winter People" were Beam's. There's a maroon 1952 Chevrolet station wagon, a 1916 Model Ford, a 1924 Packard, a 1955 four-door Chevrolet, once a Dixie Cab; a 1962 Ford, a 1941 Ford, a 1933 Chevrolet, a 1932 Ford, a 1928 Ford.

There's a woodenbodied milk truck, a 1921 original. All are kept in running order, too. In another warehouse, there's NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt's old Number 2 Wrangler entry, the one he drove for Curb Motorsports in his 1980 Busch Clash victory. There's a "Sampson," the car 1989 NASCAR champion Rusty Wallace drove to his first Winston Cup victory. There's an early Bill Elliott car; an entry Darrell Waltrip drove in his last two wins for Junior Johnson; Terry Labonte's car, a 1976 Monte Carlo, he drove when winning for the first time at Darlington.

A couple of oddities: There's the Skoallettered car movie producer Hal Needham drove to victory in the last Mexican Road Race, with a 300-mph speedometer. Remember the junkyard cars and some other articles in the garage in "Days of Thunder?" Those items and 20 cars were picked right off Beam's property and moved to the movie set when the crew filmed in the area. There's legendary Indy racer A.J. Foyt's first NASCAR entry, a 1968 Ford Torino. And, speaking of legends, the only Ford driven by Richard Petty, at Talladega, is on loan to Petty's own museum in Randleman.

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