POLKVILLE WOMEN
ELECT MRS. GOLD
Mrs. Rom Bridges
Celebrates 80th
Birthday
■ Special to The Star.)
rOLKVILLE, Dec. 22.—The Polk
vlj|f Woman's club met Tuesday
,/ternoon, Dec. 8. in the club room
for a regular monthly meeting with
Mrs h H. Gold, president, presid
ing and Mrs. Plato Elliott render
ing the devotitnal ptogram.
Mi.ss Frances MA3regor gave a
Tery interesting demonstration on
the making of gifts for every mem
j.»r of the family and how to deco
rale the home and table for the
Christmas holidays.
Officers for the coming year were
jjfcted as following, president. Mrs.
H H. Gold: vice president, Mrs. J.
A Kiser; seerr/ary, Mrs. V. A. Pow
ell: treasurer, Mrs. Ben Jenkins.
After the business session a social
hour was enjoyed while Mrs. R. A.
Johnson, Misses Elva Deitz, Marde
fjs raker, Odessa Moss and Gwen
doiyn Doggett served delicious re
freshments of which the Christmas
Idea was very • beautifully carried
out
A birthday party was given on
Friday aiternoon. Dec. 18, at the
home of C. M. Bridges in honor of
Mrs Ross Bridges on her 80th
birthday. and the honoree is still
very active. She received many use
ful gifts.
Mi s Elva Deitz, home economics
teacher of Polkvillc school was
111 for several- days last Week.
Misses Eula Withrow, Hattie
Gibb.' Hazel and Beulah Lee re
turned home Friday from Asheville
Teachers College to spend the
Christmas holidays.
Mrs. .Jonn Murray, wno n&s Dcen
In the Shelby hospital for the past
nock Is Improving.
Polkville school will close Wednes
day, Dec. 23 for Christmas holidays
and will begin December 28.
Horace Covington, Jr. student at
Brevard College is spending the
Christmas holidays with his par
ents, Mr and Mrs. W. H. Coving
Mrs. Fred Mintz returned from
the Shelby hospital last week.
A Christmas play will be given at
Polkville church on Thursday night,
Dee. 24 under the direction of Miss
Lizzie Mae Lee, advisor of the
young people's division. A Christ
mas tree is also being prepared.
Robert Crowder is confined to his
ted with flu at this writing.
In Alabama, giving a bad check
In payment of an open account or
an old debt is not a law violation.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Nnrth Carolina. Cleveland County.
Hs inj; qualified as administrator of the
m»i» of Henry Oantt. deceased, lata of
Cleveland county, North Carolina. This
to notify all persons having claims
ijamat the estate of the said deceased, to
cvhibit ihem to the undersigned at Lawn
dale North Carolina, route 3. on or he
re the 15th day of Decembec. 1937, or
this notice will be pleaded In bar of their
r-eovery All persons indebted to laid es
ii” » II please make immediate payment
f 'aid obligations.
This he 15t day of December, 1939.
IFE A. OANTT. Administrator of
<h» Estate of Henry Gantt.
P der 15c
FIRE
WORKS
ton
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
By ROBIN COONS
HOLLYWOOD. — Doris Dudley
thinks she looked like a "very badly
bred horse" in her first screen ap
pearance.
She told about it one afternoon
after a two-hour homeward dash by
motor from Palm Springs to keep
an appointment. (There are some
players, you know, who will regard
their absence in Palm Springs as
sufficient reason for telling hom
blowlng Oabriel to wait.)
And Miss Dudley loo'ied heart
warmingly unglamorous, too. She
had had barely time to wash her
face, she said, before your reporter
was at her door, safely through a
pack of nipping, yipping canines in
the yard. Her tafTy hair was tan
gled, her cheeks wind-burned, and
she still wore a rough and ready
riding habitfl She hunched up com
fortably on a davenport, over tea
and toast, and reiterated:
“I looked like a very badly bred
horse. Partly my fault, too, be
cause I planned—”
Foiled By Make-Up
She planned, first of all, to down
the talk of her resemblance to
Katherine Hepburn by appearing in
a picture with that star.
“I adore Kate,” she said, "but It
never helps to have people think
you're Just a copy of some other
actress, any other actress.”
She thought if she played Hep
bum’s daughter in "A Woman Re
bels" and people saw the two of
them together they'd see how dif
ferent they were, really. But no—
“They made me up to look like
Hepburn, with the result I didn’t
resemble her and I didn’t resemble
myself—I just loo|ed like that
horse I told you about.”
And that was why 19-year-old
Doris, daughter of New York dra
her $1,500 a week contract (very
unusual for a movie newcomer) to
go on her own in pictures. She's an
independence - craver, and perish
the thought (she can become very
indignant about this) that her fa
ther's position helped to pave the
way. Se is determinedly, furiously,
on her own. So is her brother Bron
son. 17—‘‘and he's the one,” she said
proudly, “who is really going places
in the theater."
Home’s A Menagerie
She is very proud of having a
‘ home of her own,” and it is an in
teresting menage—and menagerie.
She has three servants, and her
pets include several mutt dogs, a
Chihuahua, a blooded Dalmatian
(a gift from Doris to Margaret
Sullavan, but Doris kept it) and
a lion cub which (Doris will take
oath to this) sleeps in her bed
room.
“I’m crazy about animals, can’t
resist them—but then they always
grow up and I have to give them
away. The lion is getting teeth and
will have to go soon.” she said rue
fully. “I had a skunk once, deodor
ized, but none of my friends would
have it as a gift.”
She professes a fondness for rid
ing and swimming, astrologers, for
tune tellers, and a keen desire to
live down “all the foolish, impul
sive things I’ve done in my life.”
LAWYERS WILL GO
TO SEA FOR MEET
RALEIGH, Dec. 23.—(/F>—Henry
M. London, secretary of the State
Bar association, said the barristers
would hold their 1937 convention on
shipboard, cruising either to Ber
muda or Cuba.
SALE or CAR
Pursuant and by the power contained In
a certain mechanics lain executed by Lee
Morrison of route 3. Lawndale. N. C.
dated October 34th, 1936. In the amoutit
of $334.51 default havlns been made In
the payment of tame, the underslfned
wlU sell at public auction, for cash, at
the court house door In Shelby. N. C. on
Thursday. January 14th, 1937 at 10 a. m.
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TALK
TO
PARENTS
Foster!ng Fear
By BROOKE PETERS CHURCH
Scarcely a hospital where chil
dren are patients which does not
echo with the cries of youngsters
on the way to the operating room.
Often the operation is nothing more
critical than a removal of adenoids
or tonsils, but from the commotion
which goes on it might be an am
putation of an arm or leg.
The emotional outburst is not
only an annoyance and hindrance
to nurses, surgeons and anesthet
ists, but a drain on the child’s ner
vous system. Who knows what vis
ions of horror are preying on him.
what fears of pain or death?
It is not the child's fault. Left to
himself, he faces an operation with
the calmness born of ignorance.
Unless his mind has been filled with
gruesome tales, stories of the oper
ating room, dread of doctors and
hospitals, he walks in and takes his
medicine like a stoic.
It is generally the parents who
are to blame when he cries and
acts the part of a coward. Most
fathers and mothers seem to feel
that hypersensitiveness to a child’s
pain expresses affection. They do
not go so far as to cry or whimper,
but they express emotion in long
drawn farewells, much last-min
ute hugging and kissing, adjura
tions to be brave, and an attitude
of heroic sacrifice. They are hurt
ing the child, not helping him, in
thus expressing their love, and the
emotion is really a form of self
satisfaction. They themselves like to
be martyrs.
It is, of course, equally wrong
to promise a child that he will
have no pain, or assure him that
he is going to an ice cream party.
The more calm and matter of
fact parents are about the opera
tion, the better. Tonsillectomies are
all in the day's work, like colds and
bad medicine.
Kiss the child as if he were go
ing for a walk and wave him into
the operating room with a smile.
Saint Paul
Holiday Visitors
ST. PAUL, Dec. 22 —John Lavery
of New York, returned home Sun
day to spend the holidays with his
family.
Dewey Craft, of Norfolk, Va.. will
return home Thursday to spend
Christmas with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. C. CraTt.
Mr. and Mrs. Vance Dellinger and
family, of Belmont, spent the day
8unday with the former’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. 8. L. Dellinger.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Harrelson
and family of Kings Mountain were
the guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs
M. P. Harrelson.
Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Snellings,
Mrs. W. A. Canipe and Boyd Can
ipe, were the Sunday dinner guests
of Mrs. Will Wehunt and family of
Play. Mrs. Wehunt. who underwer
a serious operation et the Unroln
ton Hospital several weeks go. is
still showing some tmprovemer'
Miss Elisabeth Cra't, who I *
student in Brevard O liege, return
ed home Friday to spend Christmas
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs ~
W. Craft.
Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Self and son.
and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dalton of
Shelby, visited their mother and
sister, Mrs. E. A. Dalton and Miss
Essie Dalton Sunday. The latter has
Just returned home from Hender
son.
Mr .and Mrs. A. E. Elliott and
son, Jeff, spent Sunday afternoon
with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lackey
of Flay.
W. C. Murray, Jr., spent Satur
day night with a friend, Dan Har
relson of Rock Cut section.
Lem Hamrick and sons, Clifford.
W. A. James and Olenn Hamrick
visited Mr. and Mrs. Grady Smith
Sunday.
Julius McNeely
n i a a I n I Inna v
v a v v m ii w |# ^ a
County At Age 69
Julius McNeely, age 89 years and
eight months, died Dec. 17 in upper
Cleveland after an Illness of only a
few weeks. He had been a patient
In the Shelby Hospital a few days
before his passing.
Funeral services were held at
Corinth Baptist church near Casar.
Mr. McNeely was a church leader
and was largely responsible for the
building of Corinth church. He was
a good neighbor—a respected citi
zen. a Christian gentleman.
Mr. McNeely was married to Miss
Eliza Hoyle, who survives with the
following children, Marvin McNee
ly of Lawndale, R-l; Austin of
Chase City, Va.; Lero, and Alvin of
Casar; Forest and Grady of Lawn
dale, R-l; Miss Sallie McNeely. a!
home, Mrs. Hickman Turner and
Mrs John Reid McFarland of Mo
riah section. There are also a num
ber of grandchildren snd great
grandchildren.
One brother, Ambrose McNeely of
Casar and one sister, Mrs. Dock
Gantt, of Kings Mountain, also
survive.
NORBECK DEATH
CAUSE OF STIR
REDFIELD, S. D. Dec 22.—(>P)—
The dr nth of United States Sena
tor Peter Norbeck, who rose from
pennileas well-driller to become the
first native born governor and se
nator of his state, intensified poli
tical complications In South Dako
ta today.
Norbeck, who was 66 years old,
died at his home here yesterday of
a heart disease complicated by a
cancerous condition of the tongue
and jaw.
Prominently mentioned as a pos
i sible successor was Oov. Thomas
Berry, Democrat, who will retire
from office in two weeks
Governor Berry, asked whether;
he planned to resign from office
and have himself appointed to fill
Senator Norbeck's unexpected term,
declined to comment. He did, how
ever, arrange a conference with
Herbert H. Hitchcock, Democratic j
state chairman.
Lt. Governor Robert Peterson,;
Democrats, who would become gov- \
ernor if Berry resigned, was himself
ready to resign today. He was ar
rested Saturday on an embezzle
ment charge and Federal Deposit j
Insurance officials said there was a
$170,000 shortage In the First Na- i
tlonal bank of Centerville, of which
he was president. His attorney said
Peterson’s resignation would be
handed to the state legislature at a
special session today. Gov. Berry
said he would name a successor to
Peterson.
Leslie Jensen, Republican, who
defeated Berry in November, will
take office as Governor on Jan. 5.
Roosevelt Wants
Little Change In
White House Plan
WASHINGTON. Dec, ».—(*•) -
Aside from a new personal body
guard. President Roosevelt’s second ;
term will see little Immediate
charge in the White House staff.
Thomas E. Qualters, 32-ycar-old
Massachusetts state trooper, suo
ceeds the late Gus Genncrlch as
Mr. Roa'-evelt's own attendant.
In some pasts, veterans who have
helped make the wheels go round
since McKinley’s administration will
be at their accustomed White House
desks on January 30, inauguration
day.
Stephen T. Early and Marvin H.
McIntyre will continue as presi
dential secretaries at least during
the next session of congress. Mc
Intyre is In charge of appointments
with the president, and Early to
press contact man.
There has been some talk about
James Roosevelt, eldest son of the
president, serving in a dual capacity
as secretary and aide, as he did on
the recent South American tour, but
that still lacks confirmation.
Col. Edmund H. Starling, will
continue as chief of the presiden
tial protective force, assisted by
Russell Wood. |
Colonel Edward M. Watson, the
military aide with a perpetual smile,
also will be found at the president's
side on his future travels and at
social functions, as will scholarly
appearing Capt. Paul Bastedo, naval
aide.
Among the old-timers who will
carry on are Rudolph Forster, allm
director of the office staff. He Is
the man who hands the president
his $3,125 semi-monthly pay check.
I
Ginning Report By
States Is Given
By Census Office
WASHINGTON. Dec 33.—(A*)—
Cotton «f thl* year'a growth gin
ned prior t<o December IS wee re
ported by the cenaua bureau today
to have totaled 11,704.080 running
balea. Including 371,105 round balea,
counted aa half balea. and 13.336
balea of American-Egyptian.
Thl* year'a crop haa been eatl
mfried by the department of agricul
ture at 13.407.000 equivalent 600
pound balea. Laat year'a waa 10,638,
000 balea.
CUnnlng* to December 13 a yeai
ago war* 9,784,578 running halo*. In
cluding 338.547 round bale* and 18.
563 bale* of American-Egyptian, anf
two year* ago. 9,173,395 bale*, in
rinding 174.559 round bale* and 11,
079 American-Egyptian.
Oinntnga thl* year to Decembei
13. by atate*. were:
Alabama, 1,129.029; Arizona. 14,
! aao: Arkansas, 1.243.|431; California
379,317; Florida, 37,413; Georgia, 1..
053,035; Louisiana, 740,691; Missis
slppl, 1,846,440; Mlsourl, 300,365
New Mexico, 94.760; North Carolina
533.981; Oklahoma, 383,468; Soutl
Carolina, 739,937; Tennessee 416,■
498; Texas, 3,753.825; Virginia, 37,
841; all other atat|ca, 13,159,
BEAMAN IS OIVEN
A LEAVE OP ABSENCE
MOREHEAD CITY, Dec. t2<-UF)
M R Beaman, general manager
of the Morehead City port oommla
flon. has been granted an Indefin
ite leave of abaence due to lllneaa,
and H P. Cowell, haa been appoint
ed managing director In charge of
all operations.
OPPOSE APPOINTMENT!
ON POLITICAL BASIS
WINSTON-SALEM, Dee. M.-i/P)
i The Forsyth county bar association
! adopted a resolution opposing ap
| polntmenta to the bench "by reason
j of party or political service."
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