Building Program Set
For State Hospital
RALEIGH —(/P)— The building
committee of the North Carolina
hospital board of control will meet
Dec. 31 in Morganton to discuss
plans for an authorized $20,500
building program at the state hos
pitr’ in that community.
The meeting will continue through
January 1.
The railroad tank car made its
first appearance in 1865.
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The places of business of the undersigned
automobile dealers and service garages will
be closed Monday and Tuesday, December
24 and 25, for Christmas.
Yonrce-Crawley Chevrolet Co.
Sherer Motors
Dorsey & Ledford
Riverview Garage
Norris Lackey Motors
You Can't Keep
A Good Man Down
SHAWNEE, Kas.— (JP) —CpL
John G. Lally, 22, survived Ba
taan, the death march, three
years and five months in a
Japanese prison camp, malaria,
beri beri, dysentery, Japanese
punk-burning torture, and tem
porary blindness during his
army service in the Pacific.
Now he has re-enlisted for a
three-year hitch In the regular
army.
USO Center Enjoys Rare
Reputation For Hospitality
By KAYS GARY
Star Staff Writer
“I'd marry sight unseen the wo
man who fried this chicken,” a
soldier mumbled through mouth
fuls of crisp, brown, southern fried
chicken. •
The soldier was Just polishing
off a meal that had cost him
nothing; that had included ham
sandwiches, milk, chicken, nuts,
chocolate cake and a little bit of
everything else delectable. He
might have been from any place
in the U. S. A., but he was in the
one place away from home that
he could be treated so royally—
the Shelby USO. The remark re
lative to marriage might have been
passed off as a joke or it could be
accepted as literal, for many vis
iting soldiers did pop the ques
tion here and got the right ans
wer.
There were and are thousands
of service men’s centers through
out the world, but few, with the
exception of the Stage Door Con
teen, that can boast the -free ser
vice of Shelby’s USO, headed for
three years by Mrs. Draper Wood.
Many offer food at cost, or cof
fee and doughnuts free, but here
is a lounge and buffet
table where the boy from Min
nesota, Michigan, Maine or Mexi
co can get the food Just like ma
ma rued to make. It was food
brought from the farms of every
Cleveland community, prepared,
brought and served by women who
arose as early as 4:30 to 5 a.m.
to do their own chores before
traveling miles in all sorts of
weather to stand and serve the
boys who might as well have been
their own sons.
SINCE 1942
Begun in December 1942, the
USO was located in the building
now occupied by the Shelby cafe,
but a year and a half later moved
into the basement rooms of the
Shelby Building and Loan build
ing. Both places were furnished
the organization rent free. Avail
able at its new quarters were show
ers, a radio, reading and writing
rooms and food—tables of food
that did more than anything the
Chamber of Commerce could have
said to uphold the tradition of
southern hospitality, particularly
the Cleveland county brand.
Mrs. Wood, who became second
mother to hundreds, has had wide
experience with serving hungry
and home-sick soldiers, having
been director of Camp Croft’s ser
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vice center for a period of time-,
as well as directing the Shelby
club. She overwhelmingly lauds
the efforts of Cleveland county’s
rural women, representing 31 com
munities, who kept her always
ahead in her planning, baking
cakes and pies without being ask
ed and by working hours on end
pt the club.
400 FED
Only once was the local club
put in an embarrassing position.
That, Mrs. Wood states, occurred
in 1943 when 400 soldiers descend
ed upon the town on their way to
Tennessee maneuvers. “I have
never seen as many frightened
women in my life,” she said, "or
so many hungry soldiers.” From
all reports these women might
have been going through a major
catastrophe, all near to tears as
the laden table thinned down in
a matter of minutes to a matter
of a pickle or two. Soon, howev
er, everything was under control
when several of the women raided
Shelby grocers for spreads and
luncheon meat and finally all was
peace and quiet again.
Letters have come to Mrs. Wood
from every theatre of operations
in which American troops are sta
tioned, expressing repeatedly the
thanks of some GI who vowed
that nowhere in his travels had
he been treated so sumptuously.
Several have expressed their in
tention of coming back to Shelby
to live and some have followed
through with that intention which
should be enough to assure any
one that these boys weren’t just
spreading on the old apple sauc#
NO DISORDER
In all three years of the club’s
service one fact stands out more
than any other; in all that time
not one drunk had entered the
hall nor had club officials any oc
casion to ask police assistance at
any time. It is phenomenal in
that other service clubs over the
country often have been first ha
vens a drunken soldier seeks.
Many soldiers abused other ser
vice club privileges for the pur
pose of drinking. Still, the fact
that Shelby’s USO never had to
cope with that difficulty is un
derstandable. There was too much
to do—and eat. Many soldiers
received invitations to private
homes through the club and were
entertained in those same homes
on succeeding week-ends. As one
soldier put it, "Before I came
south and to Shelby I always
thought there was nothing to do
except to take in a night club
and nothing to eat except pastra
mi, salami and an infrequent
steak. Just go down to that club,
get a load of that food, the nice
ladies that make you right at
home and the girls . . . ah, yes, the
girls.”
The USO will have a special pro
gram on Sunday, featuring, as al
ways, the buffet table and then a
present of some sort for all the
boys. It will close then after
Sunday, December 30, because of
the lack of troops stationed near
by now.
With the closing will go the ap
preciation of Cleveland county to
Mrs. Draper Wood whose efforts
have made her our number one
ambassador of community kind
ness in the minds of thousands of
servicemen scattered now all over
the world. Mrs. Wood wishes only
to join other Shelbians In ex
pression of gratitude to those who
donated the building, furniture,
reading material, radio and espe
cially the members of. the follow
ing rural churches and civic or
ganizations whose contributions in
work and food made Shelby’s USO
one of the country’s best remem
bered.
Churches: Shelby First Metho
dist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Luth
eran, Catholic, S. Shelby Baptist,
Baptist, LaFayette Methodist,
LaFayette Methodist, Eastside and
Dovxer Mill; Bethel, Waco,
Fallston, Elizabeth, El Bethel,
Beaver Dam, Sharon, Poplar
Springs, Boiling Springs, Union,
Sulphur Springs, Ross Grove, Clo
ver Hill, Zion, St. Peters, Double
Springs, Rehobeth, Pleasant Grove,
Kistler’s Union, Carpenter’s Grove,
Flint Hill, Pleasant Ridge, Sandy
Run, Sandy Plains and Kadesh.
Civic organizations: American
Legion and auxiliary, Rotary club,
Lions, Junior Chamber of Com
merce and Woman’s clubs of Do
ver and Ora, Esther and Lily
mills.
STORES OPEN
FOR SHOPPING
Shelby stores begin keeping
Christmas shopping hours tomor
row night. Beginning then stores
will remain open until 7 p.m. for
the convenience of shoppers. They
will remain open until this day
on Friday, Saturday and Monday
nights as well. Grocery stores did
not take their usual Wednesday
afternoon off today but remained
open until the evening closing
hour.
Most merchants, outside of gro
cery stores, will take only one day
for Christmas, Tuesday, but will
close the following Tuesday for
New Years. Grocery stores will
take both Tuesday and Wednes
day for Christmas but will not
close on New Year’s day.
Most Shelby industrial plants
will begin their holidays Saturday
and these will extend until after
Christmas.
LOST GIRLS
ARE FOUND IN
HOTEL LOBBY
Misses Nancy Davis and Ann
Carter, both of Morgan ton, for
whom the North Carolina highway
patrol was looking most of last
night in the fear that they had
been kidnapped, were found this
morning at 8 o'clock safe and
sound in the lobby of a Hickory
hotel.
The two girls had become ma
rooned fa their car in the snow
storm about 10 miles from States
ville late yesterday afternoon and,
according tg the story told to the
patrol, were picked up by a pass
ing motorist. Nothing else was
heard from them and an alarm
went out to all officers that they
had probably been kidnapped. The
highway patrol radio which us
ually goes off at midnight for the
rest of the night came back on
the air at 3 o’clock this morning
to aid in the search for the girls.
The patrol authorized the block
ing of all roads necessary in the
search.
Major H. J. Hatcher, head of
the patrol was called out of his
bed at midnight to give directions
for the search.
Heavy Snow Along
Atlantic Seaboard
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19— (/P) —
The Weather Bureau issued today
the following special advisory
forecast:
“Heavy snow will continue in
northern Virginia, Maryland, Dela
ware, New Jersey, southeastern
Pennsylvania and southeastern New
York this morning and diminish
this afternoon or evening, but will
not end untli tonight. Depth of
snow will be eight to 12 inches
with some drifting.”
IfOTICK OP BE8ALI OP BEAL ESTATE
Under end by virtue of on order of re
sale of Superior Court of Cleveland Coun
f1- *• O? “‘de In Use apeclal proceed
d>» entitled. -‘Kittle Laekey. Administrs
tr!*, of the eetate of Alice Bain, decease.
e‘ *} ,v*- Joe Warltck, Robert Warllci;
et al* the lame being No. 3783 upon
the epeoW proceeding docket of eald
eourt, the undersigned commissioner
will, on
FRIDAY. OBCBMBBR JS. 1845 AT
n oo acwxSc. NOON. OR
within legal how* at the court house
loor In ttielby, N. C., offer for resale to
he highest bidder for cash that cer
n lying and being in
». 10 Township, Cleveland County, N
• and described as follows:
FIRST TRACT: Beginning at an Iron
•.ke, Sain & Hoyle’s corner and runs
’nee Bouth 4 I-J west 106 poles to a
ne A. F. Hoyle's corner; thenee Bouth
!■* F*et 40 0-0 polee to a stump
n s corner In mill tract; thtnee North
®a*t 4 P»l*» to a poplar; thence
rth 43 Bast 7 poles to a stake; tbencr
nth 10 Bast 13 poles to a stone; thence
orth 30 West 3 1-3 poles to a stake
rence North 03 West 3 1-1 polee to s
ake; thence North 16 West 0 3-4 pole.'
> * stone; thence North 3 Bast 40 poles
> s atone; thenoe North 03 Bast 13
oles to a stone; thenoe South 60 Basi
poles to a sycamore on Bast bank oi
■to creek; thence up the east bank of
:he creek as It meanders 30 poles to a
lake on Bast bank of the creek; thence
forth 01 1-4 West 00 1-3 poles to the
ieginning, Containing 41.7 acres, more
or less, by a survey mad* by A. F
Hoyle, Bept. 1040.
The bidding on said tract of land be
gins at 08814.00.
This December 12. ' '
— unmrTXCsr'”!".-.-,nner
fNO. P. MULL, Atty
—-- 31 tt«4. Dec. 13 i
Trailers May Solve
Housing Problem
In Winston-Salem
WINSTON-SALEM, Dec. 19. —(JP)
—Trailers may help temporarily
solve Winston - Salem’s housing
problem.
A group of civic leaders has voted
to send N. S. Mullican and G. C.
Hill to Oak Ridge, Tenn., shortly
after Christmas to check the con
dition of the trailers formerly used
by workers at the atomic bomb
plant.
R. D. Warllck of the Chamber of
Commerce reported that he has a
total of 102 families, averaging three
persons each, listed as Interested in
trailer housing. He said 72 of the
families are those of veterans.
Three to five years old, the Oak
Ridge trailers, come In two sizes—
with two and three beds.
2,000 Prisoners Of
War Back To Reich
DURHAM, Dec. 19.—(/P)—Approx
imately 2,000 prisoners of war have
been returned to Germany since
V-J Day, it has been revealed by
Col. Thomas L. Alexander, com
manding officer of the prisoner of
war section at Camp Butner.
He said return of all prisoners now
held at the camp is scheduled by
next April.
Foolproof
GALLUP, N. M.—{IP)—With
the temperature 10 below zero,
E. Parker Sellard took no
chances on the anti-freeze in
his automobile.
He had an idea which he
said worked like a charm. He
drove alongside the Gallup
brick plant and parked in the
cozy warmth of the roaring
kilns.
Make It A Musical Christmas With
HARMONY at HOME
While every piano, because of its dominating size should Be
in keeping with the fine furniture of the modern room, it
should be bought as a musical instrument, not as furniture.
Don't buy the frame and forget the picture. Every home
should have a piano .. . the best piano you can buy.
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He Asked For It
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 19—(JP)—
George M. Lisatz, 47, told Dis
trict Judge Harvey L. Neelen
that when he told some men
in a tavern at 1 a.m. that he
had no place to sleep they
suggested he turn In a fire
alarm ,and he would be as
sured a night's lodging.
He said he followed their
suggestion and turned in an
alarm and was given a place
to sleep—in jail.
Judge Neelen said he would
be sleeping in jail for the next
30 days, the sentence for turn
ing in a false fire alarm.
KERLEY BURNED TO DEATH
^DURHAM—UP)—R. P. Kerley, 71,
former assistant superintendent Of
the Erwin Mills, was found yester
day afternoon, burned to death
at his farm home near Duka
Forest.
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