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Sr The Yaldese News :e: ------“A LIVE NEWSPAPER IN A PROGRESSIVE TOWN”_ __ 1 I. ____VALDESE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY DECEMBER 22, 1938 No 3 treet Paving Program Due fo Be Finished In Spring ILL REQUIRE AT LEAST 90 DAYS /ait Packing of Rock Base Now Laid On Streets To Be Paved. gather and traffic will govern time required to complete the ldese street paving program, vas learned from Blythe Broth Charlotte contractors, who ’ at work on the $53,000 con ct. Lt least 90 days will be requir lo complete the work even ier the most favorable condi 1S Said J. E. Platt, representa , of the Charlotte firm. [ base of crushed stone has al dy been placed on all of the >ets to be paved, and not un this foundation has been corn ed by weather and traffic can ' contractors proceed with the ;t Steps in the surfacing work. s more traffic the better, said Pratt in pointing out that Vei hastens the packing pro s Drivers are cautioned, how r, against travelling around ners at a speed of more than miles an hour, for excessive ed "digs out” and makes un n the crushed stone base on curves. is soon as the crushed stone omes compact, the contractors l apply a prime coat of tar ich will be followed by a sur ing coat of asphalt. ;he Charlotte firm was award at approximately $53,000 the set contract calling for 33,000 are yards of pavement and )00 linear feet of curb and gut ME MEN BUY :attle at sale iree Young Guernseys Pur chased At Auction Sale At Shore Farm ['hree young blue-bloods of the ernsey cattle kingdom were iuired by Burke dairymen at a imotion sale held Friday at the m of M. F. Shore of Cycle, ir Yadkinville. purchasers were Warlick Av of Swan Ponds Dairy and Al t Tron of Valdese who were ompanied to the State sale by unty Agent R. L. Sloan. Av bought a bull calf consigned M..F. Shore, one of the State’s t-known breeders, and a heifer f consigned by Miss Florence >orne of Canton. Pron bought a bull calf con ied by A. L. Brown, well-known eder of Concord. The dam of Tron male has an Advanced ?istry record of 11,625 pounds milk and 626 pounds of fat in ! year. ’be dam of the Avery bull calf s junior champion female at 1937 State Fair and is now on R' test. His granddam has a ord of 16,078 pounds of milk I 934 pounds of fat in one year become State leader in Class ^e 16 calves were sold at auc II for a total of $1,560 for an ira&e of almost $100. CT OFFICE WILL BE OPEN SATURDAY ^'ne Valdese postoffice will be ® for a short whlie on each he Christmas holidays for the lenience of the public. Post fer E&rl Butler announced rday that the postoffice will °Pen on Saturday afternoon, *mber 24, until 6 o’clock. The e is ordinarily closed every 'rday afternoon but due to the 5. number of Christmas pack ' and Parcels the office will be eJ° lhat everyone may mail or e last minute packages. also stated that the l0r?Ce would be open from 12 npon until 2 in the atfer °n Christmas day and will on Monday, December tu is also a legal holiday, QhJ 0clock noon until 2 in ^moon. i New Serial Story Begins This Issue Readers of The Valdese News should turn now to the opening installment of “Maiden Effort”, a novel of excellence that will be found elsewhere in this issue and which will appear in serial form in The News. “Maiden Effort” is a story of a girl who crashed the movies via a beauty contest and a sense of humor, and is by Sam uel Hopkins Adams, author of “It Happened One Night”, the most sensationally successful motion picture of recent years. Readers should turn to this opening installment and plan to follow this interesting story as it unfolds chapter by chapter in The News each week. THE LOCAL "CHURCH CANTATA A SUCCESS Capacity Crowd Fills Wal densian Church Sun day Night. A capacity crowd attended the Waldensian church choir’s annual Christmas Cantata last Sunday night when they presented “The Prince of Peace” at the evening service of the church. The stage had a simple but beautiful setting with a large spear shaped candelabra with lighted candles along with the front of the stage. The indirect lighting gave the dome of the stage a sky blue color and the members of the choir fitted in perfectly with their white vest ments. The cantata opened with an organ prelude, followed by the echo choir singing “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and the introduc tion by the organ by Mrs. George Williams, Jr. Part one, “The Promise”, open ed with the entire chorus in “Sing O Heavens”, followed by a polo. “The Heavenly King,” by John Stephen Perrou. “And There Shall Come Faith” was another chorus selection, fol lowed by George Carpenter sing ing “Fear Trou Not”, with the chorus. Mrs. George Williams, Jr., rendered a solo “Hail Bethle hem”, accompanied by Mrs. Ed Kirksey of Morganton on the vio lin. During the offertory, the organ and piano joined in rendering “Gesu Bambino” and “Pietro Yon.” Part two, “The Fulfillment,” opened with the male chorus sing ing “O Holy Night,” which was followed by singing of “There Were Shepherds” by Miss Claire Burch, and the chorus. The al tos and the sopranos rendered “Bright Star of Hope” followed by “March of the Magi” by the male chorus and which was j brought to a conclusion by the en tire chorus singing “Blessed Be the Lord.” The Waldensian Presbyterian church choir: Sopranos: Mrs. Hugh Peeler, Miss Marie Garrou, Mrs. Frede rick Ribet, Miss Jeanette Leger, Mrs. J. Stephen Perrou, Miss Claire Burch, Mrs. Albert F. Gar rou, Mrs. Laird Jacob, Mrs. John D. Guigou, Miss Angie Perrou. Altos: Mrs. Edward Pons, Mrs. P. C. White, Miss Rose Perrou. Tenors: J. D. Guigou, Edward Pons, L. P. Guigou, James Short, George Carpenter. Basses: Ben Perrou, Julius Ramsey, J. Stephen Perrou. Pianist: Miss Anita Ghigo. Organist: Mrs. George Wil liams, Jr. WORK IS STARTED ON BAPTIST CHURCH Work has been started on the 1 two story brick building for the Mt. Calvary Baptist church, it was announced early this week here in Valdese. The building is expected to be completed around the middle of March. The church, which was organiz ed .in the Crow Hill section of town several months ago, has been holding its Sunday school at 10 a. m. each Sunday, and its even ing services at 6:30 o’clock each Sunday night at the old Smart store on Crow Hill road, or Praley str66t ^ The services are conducted by the Rev. Seth Ivester, pastor of the newly formed church. i BAPTIST GROUP TO GIVE PROGRAM College and High School Stu dents Will Present Yule Program. The Valdese Baptist church will observe Student Night at the 7:30 evening service this Sunday night at the church. A number of for mer and present college students along with a number of local high school students have planned a very interesting program. The program: A prelude of Christmas Carols by high school pupils. Hymn—“Angel From the Realm of Glory” by the congregation. Devotional — Dorothy Lowder milk, graduate of Meredith col lege and teacher at Campbell col lege. Prayer. *‘The Relation of the Christian College to the Church”—John Brinkley, Mars Hill college. “The Christian College of Yes terday, Today and Tomorrow”— By Geneva Messer, Lenoir Rhyne college. “Life On the Campus of a Typical Christian College”—Frank Grisette, Mars Hill college. Special music—Geneva Messer and John Brinkley. “The Christ As Seen by the College Etudent”—Oscar Harris, Mars Hill college. “Student Life and Church Loy alty”—By Rev. M. I. Harris, pas tor. Hymn—“Love Devine” by the congregation. Beneditcion by the pastor. A number of local high school! students will act as ushers for the special services and will take an active part in the program. The church will be very appropriately decorated for the occasion and a sincere invitation is extended to the public, former students and teachers to be present. H.S. Juniors Hold Christmas Party The Valdese high school Junior class held their annual Christmas party last Thursday night at the Valdese school dining hall. The group enjoyed many de lightful games, which had been planned by Kathleen Martinat, Essie Mae Ogle and Faye Lowder milk, while Edith Tise, Sylba Pons, and James Ernest Ribet prepared a delightful salad course with sandwiches and coffee. A number of small gifts were presented to the various members of the class and Miss Simpson, their teacher, was presented with a class gift by Sebren Cannon, their class president, and many other small gifts by the class for her excellent work and co operation during the first part of this semester. The entire group were joined a little later by the Sophomore class and the group enjoyed an hour’s dancing. Among those present for the occasion were: Ophelia Glaze brooks, Delene Burns, Bill Far ris, Sebren Cannon, Harry Pope, Homer Berry, Edith Tise, Kath leen Perkins, Faye Lowdermilk, Kathleen Martinat, Essie Mae Ogle, Sylva Pons, J. P. McClure, Thomas Farrington, James Ern est Ribet, Mildred Deal, Julia Lowman, Ruby Hatley, Marvin Lowder, Jr., Margaret Whisenant, Nina Smith, Dallas Humphries, Brevard Day, Viola Costner, Clara Hughes, Joe Havner, Lorena Mauney, Eloise Travis, Virginia Williams, Marjorie Smith, Leon Lowman, Lee Ogle, and Colon Hoyle. Stores To Close All Day Monday Although no official state ment has been made, it was understood that almost all the stores here in Valdese would be closed Monday. All stores outside of the Drug stores will be closed Sunday, and since it is also Christmas, the holiday will be observed Monday. / The general public is urged to their shopping early this week-end, and to see that they have enough to provide over these two days. Goldfish first were brought to the United States in 1878. Now there are more than 700 farms where they are bred to keep up with the constant demand of fanciers. j "Representative" . A. Leon Butler, Burke’s repre sentative-elect, will introduce a bill in the Legislature to do away with the absentee ballot in this county. PROMISES REPEAL OF ABSENTEE LAW Representative A. Leon But ler Says He Will Intro duce Two Bills. A. Leon Butler, Burke county’s representative in the forthcoming General Asembly informed a News reporter that he would introduce two bills during this, his first term as a legislator. The Valdese lawyer and former mayor says that he is primarily interested in legislation of a local nature. He will introduce a bill to repeal the absentee ballot law in Burke county and will sponsor a second act to abolish the con vention system of electing nomi nees in favor of placing Burke county under the State-wide pri mary law. Mr. Butler said that he would leave for the State capital either January first or second. The 1939 session of the State’s law making machinery convenes on the fourth of the New Year. The representative when ques tion about several measures which will probably be brought up dur ing this session said that he would strongly advocate a State-wide wage and hour law applying to intra state commerce which would bring all State employees under its jurisdiction. He will also ad vocate a measure for retirement pensions for State employees. Fa-Ho-La Society Holds Meeting The Fa-Ho-La Missionary so ciety of the Valdese Methodist church met Tuesday night with Nellie Auton with 24 members in attendance. Mrs. Gilmer Low man presented a very inspiring Christmas program with the fol lowing people taking part: Nel lie Auton, Vagie Drum, and Pansy Jones. Dr. J. E. Abernethy, the pastor, made a few brief remarks and after a short business session conducted by the organization’s president, Pansy Jones, refresh ments were served, carrying out the Christmas colors. Gifts were exchanged and the entire group enjoyed the Christ mas tree which had been pre pared. The group announced that the January meeting would be held with Mrs. Gilmer Lowman and Mrs. Harold LaFevers was placed in charge of the program. BORN Mr. and Mrs. Earle Butler are the proud parents of an eight and a half pound baby boy, named John Patrick. The baby was bom Sunday morning at Grace Hos pital in Morganton. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Duck worth are the proud parents of a baby girl which was born to them Wednesday morning, December 14. A nine pound baby was born Thursday morning to Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Baird, of Connelly Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stevens were blessed with the arrival of a little son, bora to them Wednesday. i BENEFIT SHOW IS A HUGEJUCCESS Many Items Are Gathered to Help Fill Baskets For Needy. Several hundred children and grownups turned out Saturday morning for the benefit perform ance at the Colonial Theatre, bringing their contributions for the Christmas food baskets as their price for admission. The picture, Mr. Moto Takes A Chance, along with several good Popeye comedies proved a good two hours entertainment for both chidren and grownups. The boxes which were placed at the entrance of the theatre, were soon filled and were later taken to the library of the community center where the P. -T. A. and the Women’s Auxiliary sorted them out and made up the bas kets for distribution to the poor for Christmas. Among the contributions receiv ed were two large boxes full of potatoes, one box of apples, and one of oranges and grapefruit. A boy’s coat in very good condition, a snow suit, pair of shoes, pair of galoshes, sweet potatoes, cab bage and a large bag of turnips. There were well over a hundred! cans of peas, milk, corn and other canned goods and about a hun- j dred jars of preserves, which in cluded everything from jelly to pickles. Other groceries included sphagetti, sugar, flour and short ening. There were also many other articles of clothing, candy and toys. There were many who brought contributions, but could not stay to see the picture. Cash contri butions ran as high as $5, which were used to buy a large amount of groceries. The Valdese Boy Scouts showed the fine spirit of Christmas as each patrol made up a large basket, and presented it it the theatre. It is our sincere hope that this may be of great help to those who are really in need by helping them enjoy a merrier and a brighter Yule holiday. Christmas Services At Local Churches The Christmas program of the Valdese Methodist church will be held tonight, December 22, at 7 o’clock at the church. A sincere invitation is extended to the pub- j lie to attend. The Valdese Baptist church will hold its annual Christmas tree tomorrow night, December 23, at 7:30 o’clock at the church. A ver yinteresting musical program has been prepared and the Christmas gifts will be distributed. The regular services at the Waldensian Presbyterian church will be conducted by Rev. John Pons in English Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Regular Sunday school at 10 a. m. and at the 7 o’clock Sunday evening service the children will hold their annual Christmas pro gram. ASSOCIATED WITH CURB MARKET HERE D. W. Alexander, prominent Burke county man, has become associated with the Valdese Curb Market, according to announce ment made by Manager G. D. Les ter. Mr. Alexander will be actively identified with the management of the company which specializes in fresh fruits, vegetables and produce with a complete line. DR. FOARD’S DOG WINS S. C. EVENT Miss Pilot Doone, owned by Dr. p. O. Foard of Valdese and handled by Marvin Yount of Newton won the open derby stake at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Field Trials as sociations held at Sumter, S. C., according to news received here. Dr. Foard’s dogs have won some o fthe outstanding honors of the country in field and bench com petition. SUFFER INJURIES Mrs. Aubrey Anderson and Mrs. Nash Fite were slightly 'bruised and injured in an automobile crash near Hildebran late Monday afternoon when they were re turning from Hickory to Valdese. Mrs. Anderson was driving at the time and says that she was forced into a ditch by another automo bile. Her car was badly damag ed. Firemen Will Play Santa Claus Role Members of the Valdese Fire department will carry on their traditional Santa Claus party this Saturday. Volunteer mem bers will tour the town on the fire truck distributing candy to the children, and wishing the happy returns of the season. Others will help the P.-T.A. and other groups in distribut ing baskets of food and toys to the needy. Stores and candy merchants in town are urged to make an effort and help make the Santa Claus party a succees, by donat ing candy or other sweets to the Fire department. They are urg ed to contact Mr. Lee Ribet, Valdese Fire Chief. YOUTHS ADMIT FELONY CHARGES Pair Bound to Trial in Supe rior Court February 20, Waiving Hearing. Two Valdese youths pleaded guilty Friday to robbing the re freshment stand in the Valdese community center gymnasium and the larceny of an auto, while a third pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods. Sterling Cannon, 23, and Eu gene Hogan, 19, waived prelimi nary hearing before Magistrate T. Earle Franklin after entering a plea of guiity and were bound to the February term of Superior court for trial. Bond on each of the two counts was set at $750, making a total of $1,500 for each defendant. Johnson * Burgin, 19, pleaded guilty to having stolen cigarettes in his possession and he was bound to county court for trial January 9 under $100 bond. The trio were taken into custody as they walked into Salisbury Wednesday after riding a freight train from Valdese to Woodleaf in Rowan county. Burgin had sev eral packages of cigarettes in his possession, but investigation showed that he was not otherwise implicated in the actual raid on the refreshment stand nor in the theft of a car belonging to George A. Hern, Jr., of Valdese, which was abandoned near Statesville. J. P. Stilwell, Valdese police officer, who investigated the two thefts and brought the accused trio here from Salisbury, said young Cannon served a road sen tence for a holdup several years ago. officerTmake BIG BOOZE HAUL Federal Agents Raid Mull Residence Near Val dese Saturday Over $1,000 worth of “Christ mas Spirits” was captured by fed eral officers near Valdese Satur day, according to Deputy Mar shal S. M. Patton. Four members of the alcohol tax unit raided the home of Luth er Mull at Bridgeport, and in the basement found a veritable ware house of untaxed liquor. There was a 35 gallon contain er, 18 ten gallon containers, a 15-gallon contained, and 21 five gallon containers and numbers of smaller jars and jugs. In addition, there were three electrical aging heaters used to make the raw liquor appear to be “one”, “three”, “five” or “ten” years old, although it was made only a few days ago. Officers al so reported a number of battles and labels. G-men in the raid included C. J. Nutter, F. D. Lumpkin, Steven Alder and Charles Steelman. Mr. Paston said agents expect to ar rest Mull who was not at home when the officers went there arm ed with a search warrant. Thursday, Shortest Day, Begins Winter More sunshine and more cold is the promise that comes Thursday, December 22, on the shortest day of the year and the beginning of Winter. From Thursday on, each day will have more hours of sun shine, but it will continue to get colder into January or early February, bearing out the old proverb “As days grow longer, cold grows stronger.” Sunrise on the shortest day is at 7:24, with sunset at 4:52 P. m. LOCAL LIONS PLAN CHRISTMAS DANCE Many Sponsors From Sur rounding Towns are Se lected For Affair. The showing of the film, “Here Comes the Mail,” which was shown to the Lions club was the highlight of the interesting pro gram last Thursday night at their regular meeting at the Valdese schoolhouse. The film which was shown by Ed Pons under the sponsorship of . the postoffice group dealt with the various methods of handling mail in a large postoffice, especially at a busy time of the year, as Christmas. Before the showing of the film the committee in charge of the Lions dance which is scheduled to be held at the Valdese gymna sium tomorrow night, gave a brief report on the work accomplish ed so far. Music for the holiday dance will be furnished by Billy Brooks and his band, featuring Francis Garret as their singer. The Lions had as their guests Lions Russell Berry, Stanton Har dee and Robert Bristol, of Mor ganton who extended an invita tion to the entire group to attend their annual Ladies Night and New Year’s dance which will be held in Morganton on Monday night, January 2. It was also announced the Le noir Lions would hold a charity dance in Lenoir on December 19. Lions Haynes Rutherford, Mar cel Tron and Hall Haupe were ap pointed to serve on the commit tee to help at the charity theatre performance at the Colonial The atre Saturday morning. C. C. COURT TEAM DEFEATS RHODHISS Boys Overcome Ten Point Lead For Thrilling, Vic tory Friday. The Valdese community center boys in a hard fought game with the world champion All American Redheads, girls’ team from Cass ville, Mo., took the game from them with a 31 to 29 victory last Friday night at the high school gymnasium here in Valdese. The girls got off to a good start and the end of the first quarter found them leading the commun ity center lads by a 20 to 10 score. The boys sent in their first string team in the first quarter and sub stituted the second squad in the second quarter. The hard fighting of the Val dese lads enabled them to over come a ten point lead which the visitors had on the Pilots at the end of the first half. The battle was nip and tuck with one side scoring and the other making a fast comeback. One of the high spots of the evening was the brilliant playing of Kirkpatrick of the Redheads and the scoring of Lawson who was playing guard for the visi tors. Lawson led the scoring for the evening with 13 points to her credit, while Campbell for the Valdese C. C.’s followed a close second with eight points to his credit. The visitors, playing a conser vative game, managed to go the whole game without a substitu tion. / The Valdese boys had ten fouls called on them while the girls had only two. The last minutes of play seem ed to be the deciding point and the two point lead that the home town lads had managed to scrap up in the second half gave them a hard earned victory over the girls’ team. The lineups: Valdese CC Pos. Redheads Flack _F_Smith Jacobs _F_Kirkpatrick Campbell_C _Osborne Pruitt _ G_Lawson Pitts _G_Vickers Substitutions for Valdese— Messer, H. Bounous, Bronson, C. Owens, A. Vinay, Lowdermilk and Shig Brinkley. BABY CONTEST The first baby bom in Valdese in the New Year will be a blessed event to the entire community. The News through the cooperation of local merchants will sponsor a contest which will reward the winner with many valuable prizes. For complete details see the baby contest news and advertisements in the next week’s issue.
The Valdese News (Valdese, N.C.)
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