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^07#. ia fact tho OdM* Wpioye
1® t;li#^ autooiobil# (ndnatry In
m*a of serrlce, on his 80th blp-
May.^
C. VoCnon, agneral mana-
K9t of Oldsmobilo, Vw host at
th# party and invlt^ 800 reteran
Oldsmoblle employes, each one
PlWwt 'was able'to boast of a
■•Ttlce record of' -80 years or
gH¥f« -WUh the cooipany. Prisl-
4ept Knudsen was the guest
■peaker at the erenlng and paid
hU^ 'tribute to Blades for hia
long and interestlag association
■Witt oldsmoblle. A. H, Brandel,
g bllov worker of Blades’ and
hims41t with a record of al years
Oldsmoblle, wa« spokesman
tot the old-timers and cited Inci-
Sants of his early aabociatlon with
mndee. Local and o'at-of-town
S«ftr6nen ware also among the
apedal guests.
•Mr. Blades, known to hun-
d!reds' as Charlie, bss become one
of the legendary figures of the
hadnetry,” said MoCuen who pre
sided. “Not only Is he the old-|
est anto worker In point of ser-
Ttoe In the United States, but as
a blacksmith be hammered out
the front axle for the first com-1
Boreially successful automobile'
produced in America, the 1S97
Oldsmoblle. Now 80 years of
age, Charlie long ago abandoned
sDch strenuous duties as swing
ing a blacksmith’s hammer. He
la. employed today as an Infor- Haigwood-
matlon clerk In the tool division Campbell
at. Oldsmoblle.** Craven—2
Blades was born In West Wal
ton, County of Norfolk, England,
December 30, 1359, and came to
this country ■with his parents
when five years old. *11167 settl
ed on. a farm at Pettysvllle, some
12 miles south of Howell, Michi
gan, and Charles, eldest of 12
chHdren, of whom seven are still
nving, helped till the soil, attend-
hSg schools whenerver he could be
eiw.red by his father.
At 1* he went West "to see
the country,” and found a Jab
bhlping the Unitell States survey-
era lay out the linee for a trans-
eontinental railway.
Returning to Michigan, he
served three years as blacksmith’s
SdWventlce under William Peters
of Pettysvllle.
•I started at |50 a year and
hoard,” Charlie sald~““Be3lde8, I
had to do all the chores. The
second year I ?ot $75, and the
third $100—In gold. It wasn’t
atgalnst the law to own gold then,
and that $100 looked like a lot
of money.”
He then moved to I.ansing, to
work as a full-fledged blacksmith
111 Clark’s Carriage Works, where
he helped build R. E. Olds’ first
antomotile, which Is now in the
Smithsonian Institution in Wash-
ii^n. He still has the hammer
with which he fashioned the
axles of that car 42 years ago.
For some years he' constituted
iiilvem the boUei^vid K
^ 'so hot that I moved It to •
t^t Ogt^re, When the tent
blew ewny for the second time, 1
mo8Q) tt Indoors again. At one
or another, I guess I'v# had
tty shop In ahnoet evejr building
in tblg plant"
Blate looked out the window
of hb otflce In Building 40 as be
SpoitA
"A lot of buildings today,” he
rsfl#et#d, “But I can' remember
whan there wasn’t one in sight
and I shot rabbits around here in
the hM#l-nut brush that covered
the countryside.”
Mountain lions
Beat Statesville
Local High School Quint In
Good Game To Win Fri*
day 21 to 13
North Wllkesboro high school’s
Mountain Lions entered the win
ning column Friday night by a
decisive 21 to 13 victory over a
fast Statesville basketball team.
Coach Jack Massey used nine
players In the contest with every
one showing good form despite
the fact that the game was not
on the home court. Steelman led
in scoring -with seven points.
The next game will be played
at Stony Point Tuesday night and
the Lions will try to avenge a
defeat suffered last week at the
hands of the Stony Point team.
Lineups and individual scores
of the games Friday night follow:
North Wllkesboro Statesville
Steelman—7 Huffman—5
Kenerly—2 Harris
Robinett—4 Murdock
Dancy Brown—5
Church Walters—3
Crook—2 Keller—1
Mayhew—1
Johnson
MRS. N. D. SCHILL
TAKEN BY DEATH
Sister Of Mrs. Esbelnuin and T.
u. McXiangtUin Dies
In Charlotte
Mis. Margaret McLaughlin
Schiff, of Statesville, died in a
Charlotte hospital at noon Sun
day after an illness of two years.
Funeral services was held this sf-
tei-noon at 4 o’clock at the J. M.
Harry funeral home. Rev. J. H.
Pressley, pastor of First A. R. P.
church of Statesville, officiated,
and burial was in Elmwood ceme
tery.
Mrs. Schiff was the daughter
of the late J. B. McLaughlin ana
Margaret Oillespie McLaughlin of
Charlotte. She was born October
10, 1902, and was married to
Norman Davidson Schiff July 9,
1937. She Is survived by her
husband and one daughter, Miss
Catherine Schill; three brothers,
S. B. McLaughlin and J. B. Mc
Laughlin of Charlotte and Thom
as G. McLaughlin of North Wll
kesboro; also two sisters, Miss
Catherine McLaughlin of Char
lotte and Mrs. P. W. Eshelman
of North Wllkesboro.
Pallbearers at the services were
James Brady, Robert Lee, Ralph
Holmes, N. M. Lewis, George
the entire “axle department” of Field, George Tuten, all of States-
Uie Olds Motor Works. and John David Hunter of
“I first set up my forge in the * Charlotte. Flower bearers were
Bower House,” he said. “It was, members o' the Book Study club
of Statesville and Mrs. Robert
Lee, Mrs. W. M.
James Pressly.
Samle, and Mrs.
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Mrs. Mary Floyd
Is Taken By Death
Mrs. Mary E. Floyd, former
resident of Raeford who had been
making her home for the past
several months with her daugh
ter, Mrs. N. G. Landis, died ear
ly Sunday morning at the home
of Mrs. Landis in Wilkes! oro.
She had been 111 for about two
weeks.
Mrs. Floyd is survived by three
children: -Mrs. Landis, of Wllkes
boro; John R. Floyd, of North
Wllkeaboro; and William E.
Floyd, of Sanford.
Funeral service was held this
afternoon, two o'clock at the
Raeford Methodist church.
to
yeaft’• “I'our DauiAto^*'-^
iiav# Its local debot ThuradA)* .
Friday at the - New
'Theatre. "Pour Wives,” Ui'ViliteBf
Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola-
Lane, and Gale Page play tB*.
title roles, features the same cagt
as “Four Daughters,’’ including
John Garfield, who died in the
original story. He returns In vP
slon form In the new picture.
Others in the original family
portrait who are prominent in
■‘Four Wives” are Jeffrey Lynn,
Claude Rains, Mary Robson,
Frank McHugh, Dick Foram and
Vera l/ewls, the gossipy “gate-
swinger” of “Four Daughters.”
There’s a new and very de
lightful addition to the family,
too. Eddie Albert, the young
comedy start of “Brother Rat",
plays the young doctor for whom
Rosemary Lane successfully sets
her wedding bonnet in the film.
Rosemary, you will remember. Is
the only one of the four daugh
ters who didn’t “get her man’* in
the earlier picture. Also added
to the cast Is Henry O’Neill, in
the role of Albert's father.
Still other additions to the
family tree are four girl babies.
First of these to make her ap
pearance in the film is the year-
old child which is adopted by Lo
la Lane and Frank McHugh in the
story. Then Priscilla gives birth
to a girl 'baby, and Lola caps that
by having twin girls.
“Four wives” takes up the
story of the Lemp family where'
‘•Four Daughters’’ left off. The'
two oldest daughters are already
married, Priscilla, the youngest,
widowed in the early film. Is
about to marry her first love,
played by Jeffry Lynn, when she J
learns that she’s to have a baby i
by her dead husband. The fourth j
girl, Rosemary, puts on a matri-,
monial campaign, as mentioned
above, with the help of all her
sisters.
Suggested by the Fannie Hurst
novel, “Sister Act”, the script
was written by Maurice Hanllne,
Philip G. and Julius J. Epstein.
Michael Curtiz directed.
Funeral Services
For Mrs. Rumple
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon, at two o’clock,
at Pleasant Grove Baptist church
for Mrs. America Hanes Rumple,
widely known lady of this com
munity, who died early Friday
morning at the Wilkes Hospital.
Rev. R. R. Crater conducted
the funeral services, being as
sisted by Rev. D. G. Reece, of
Jonesville.
Active ipall bea.rers were neph
ews of Mrs. Rumple, as follows:
J. R. Calloway, C. W. Hanes, T.
C. Calloway, J. R. Pardue, Tom-
rale Felts, and J. W. Pardue.
An abundance of flowers, beau
tiful In profusion, and as a fit
ting tribute of the esteem held
for Mrs. Rumple by many friends,
were carried by the following:
Misses Ola Walsh, Marie Gray,
Margaret Calloway, Edith Pardue,
Etta Mathis, Mildred Ceilloway,
Thelma Walker, Gay Nell Hanes,
Alene Greene, and Annie Vee
Walker.
Clingman, N. C., Jan 13th
Parsonville News
Item Is Reported
Although names and apparent
ly much of the detailed Informa
tion was omitted, the following
news item received by The Jour
nal-Patriot through the mail Is
not wholly without Interest:
“Notice to The Journal-Patriot
of importance:
There was a woman in Jobs
Cabin township. It took three
men to arrest her; and I don’t
know how many It would take to
arrest a bad man. Please post
this Item from yours truly. Mar
tin R. Spears at Parsonville,
N. C .”
Reavis Child Dies
Bottjr Jane Reavls, Infant
daughter of Roland H. and Sallle
Jarvis Reaves, of this city, died
early Sunday. The parents and
one brother, R. J. Reaves, sur
vive. Funeral and burial service
was held today, 11 a. m. at the
Baptist cemetery here.
“Disease Germs That Have
Learned to Jump.” A deadly kind
of sleeping sickness that has
-'graduated’’ from horses and
found out how to attack human
beings. Read this intereeting and
Infomatlve feature in '^e Amer-
Magazine, ‘^th next
Washington Tlmea-Her-
tiSSt nonr on sbIa
AERIAL WARFARE
Helsinki, Jan. 14.—Fires rag
ed tonight in almost a dozen
Finnish cities alter soviet air
raids which officials described as
the heaviest of the war.
Communications were inter
rupted in many plac-ss as bomihers
roared over In unprecedented
numbers.
Several communities near Hel
sinki sent urgent appeals for fire
fighting help.
Cities (bombed were the south
west coast port of Hanko, Tam-
misaari, RlUilmakl, Karjaa, Loh-
ja, Lappvik, and a dozen others.
Casualties were believed to be
heavy.
Three hundred bombs were re
ported to have been dropped on
Rajamaki, ad 150 were said to
have rained on Karja. Both cities
are in southern ETnIand.
INTEREST
Farmers of Harnett county
contiane to maintain a lively In
ter^ In the breeding and rais
ing of work stock on their own
fanns, Mye J. B. Gonrl^, oashK
tent farm agent. ‘ ^ " ''T'
w
Heir SaiH|Gi|itioDS To
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