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The ^ldese News ______“A LIVE NEWSPAPER IN A PROGRESSIVE TOWN”_ _ _____VALDESE, N. C., THURSDAY DECEMBER 29, 1938 No 4 Small Fire Loss Is Incurred In Valdese During Past Year i ;ammunity Has Not Suf fered Large U» Since August, 1936 The Valdese Are department lt had only eight calls since Au this year according to Fire Lee Ribet. In answering zL cans ‘he firemen easily ex. ’ wished Ave small blazes with Te booster tank. The other lanns proved to be false, the Are losses in Valdese have Jn very low for the past two nd a half years. The department Is not had a loss of more than iTe dollars reported since April ,2 1936 when Cecil's cafe burned ith a reported loss of $750. The )nly other big fire the town has md in the last five years was n August, 1935 when the Wal lensian was destroyed with dam lges estimated at $2,000. The local department has been erving neighboring communities nd Mr. Ribet points out that six ,f the nine calls answered py the iremen in 1937 were out of town. Vhen the firemen answer out of own calls it leaves Valdese with iut any protection at all. The :hief says that if this service is 'a be continued it will be neces sary to purchase another truck md a booster tank. This equip nent will cost approximately 12,000. The firemen are seeking a way o raise this money so they can :ontinue to protect life and pro perty in our nearby communities. Mr. Ribet says that it is almost mpossible to refuse a man when le says his home is burning, but inless some arrangements can be nade to secure this additional squipment the department as 4a precaution for our own town will lave to ‘refuse to answer out of town calls. Abee's Grove Will Observe New Years Special “Watch Night Ser vices” Will Be Held December 31. Abee’s Grove Baptist church will observe “Watch Night Ser vices’’ this coming Saturday night from 9:30 p. m. to 12:05 a. m. with an elaborate program. The main theme for the even ing will be “Evangelism” and the following program has been pre pared: Devotional period by J. Cor nelius Berry. Historical background by K. L. Lineberger. Need of Revival by W. P. Pons. Music by Mrs. K. L. Lineberger and Miss Ruth Berry. Rev. Jesse Blalock will discuss “Conditions Necessary to a Revi val"> while Miss Mary Berry's topic will be “What Can We, As Individuals Do in the Promotion °f a Revival.” Grover Walsh will lead a dis cussion on “My Resolutions For 1939.” All subjects are open for free Hussion and it is hoped that many will attend and take part ® these informal services at Abee’s Grove church. foster's New Store Ready By March 1 Building Will Be Situ ated On Old Co-Opera tive Store Site. U ~ y. . ' "■'"I VV4U » A1V ff Ci *V|TV**VB int u ay that he exPects to move to his new store building by the of March. The building which will be 30 wide by 90 feet long, is locat °n Main street just below the thl?? ^iWing. Mr. Poster says grp ti wil1 have his floor SP®®® t yJncreased in his new quar Thpfo mill Wa m «MAi»f*AMitia ^wveness. EASTERN STAR TO MEET MONDAY It was announced this week that there would be a regular meeting of Lovelady Chapter 147 of the Eastern Star this coming Monday night, Jan uary 2, at the Masonic Hall. All members are urged to be present as there will be interesting plans made for the activities of the organization for the coming year. REV. S. POET ACCEPTS CALL Chicago Minister Notifies Church He Will Be Here End of January. Rev. Sylcan Poet, pastor of the Waldensian Presbyterian church in Chicago, has notified members of the committee of the Walden sian church that he will accept the call to become minister here! at the Waldensian Presbyterian j church of Valdese. The call was extended to Rev.j Mr. Poet several weeks ago and| in his answer of acceptance he stated that he hoped to be able to be here in Valdese sometime in the latter part of January. The church has been without a pastor for the past seven months, when Rev. James Caligah gave up his post here in Valdese to re sume his ecclesiastic studies abroad. Rev. John Pons and vis iting ministers have been con ducting the services here each Sunday. Mr. Poet has been at the Wal densian church in Chicago for the past two years, having gone there from New York. Rev. Mr. Poet, who is native Waldensian, was born in Torre Pellice, Italy. Valdese Faces '39 In Optimistic Mood Business Men See Prospects For Good Business In Coming Year. North Carolina’s fastest grow ing town faces the coming New Year in a most optimistic mood. Due to good business during most of 1938 and with general condi tions on the upgrade most of the local merchants seem to be of the opinion that 1939 will be a ban ner year for Valdese. In discussing the prospects for business during the New Year your News reporter did not have a single man to tell him that he thought business would fall off in 1939. This is considered rather unnsilfti as someone is almost sure to be gloomy about the future. Joe Hern says that business travels in cycles and is now in the “up” cycle and will continue so for a certain period of time re gardless of politics or anything else. Fred Ribet says business is bound to be better in 1939, every indication points that way. Trig ger Pons says that he will be very well satisfied if 1939 is as good to him as was 1938. He thinks it will be. V. B. Cagle, owner of the West ern Auto Store, says, “I believe business is going to be good. I am making preparations for it by expanding and making improve ments to take care of it. H. H. Foster along with Rhoney Taylor also expect 1939 to be a good bus iness year. Parks Sherrill says that he ex pects the New Year to bring forth good business. The highlight of achievement in Valdese for 1938 was the building and the completion of the Francis Garrou Memorial Hall which is indeed a tribute to the progres siveness of any town or city re gardless of size. MRS CLAUDE CAPPS VISITS PAIPNTS mm Mrtf Claude Capps spent last Thursday nteht at her in Valdese returning to Goldsboro Friday where she and Mr. Capps will be at hone at 302 South Cen ter street, Clayton Apartments. ---p Sketch Shows Proposed Valdese General Hospital The Valdese General Hospital, proposed by three Valdese physicians who plan to acquire the Ruth erford College property, is pictured here in a pencil sketch by Architect Harry A. Boggs. The propos ed hospital will occupy a fireproof building, formerly in use as a dormitory at the historic Methodist college, which will be remodeled and improved to start with a 25-bed capacity which may later be expanded to 50 beds without additional construction. 17 H. S. GRIDMEN i TO GET LETTERS Coveted Valdese “V” To Be Awarded To Seventeen H. S. Boys. Coach L. C. Ward announced this week that 17 of his’ boys from the football squad were eligible to receive the coveted Valdese “V” to wear on their sweaters for their splendid performance on the grid iron field this past fall. Valdese, under the able coach ing of Mr. Ward and fine help of Edwin Pitts, developed a team this past year which has had one of the best seasons in a long time here in Valdese. Another factor which contribut ed greatly to putting Valdese on the football map here in North Carolina was their brilliant quar terback, Charles Young, who was rated good enough to play with the North Carolina high school All-Stars in their game against the South Carolina lads at Char lotte this past December 3. The North Carolina boys won by a score of 19 to 0. In reviewing the team's record this past season Valdese played nine games, won seven of them and lost two of them, one to Mor ganton and one to Mt. Holly. (Continued on eighth page) FIRE DAMAGES MRS. J. HERN’S PACKARD A Packard eight, belonging to Mrs. Joe Hern, caught on fire Tuesday morning about 8 o’clock in front of the Hern home in Pinebur section. Mrs. Hern had started the car uphill when she noticed the fire under the hood. It was soon ex tinguished with the use of sand before it could do much harm. NEW YORKERS HERE FOR CHRISTMAS VISIT Emmett (Tarzan) and Norman Garrou, of New York, arrived Sunday morning from New York, to spend the Christmas holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Garrou, in Valdese. H. S. CAGE TEAMS RESUME PRACTICE Basketball practice for the Valdese high school boys and girls will be resumed this Fri day and Saturday, December 30 and 31, at the high school gymnasium, it was announced by Coach L. C. Ward. The boys will start their practice session at 9:30 in the morning and the girls will practice at Z o’clock in the afternoon. Members of both squads are urged to turn out for practice if they possibly can. Valdese Leads Red Cross 'Roll Call' Waldensian Community Signs More Than Half of Total Quota In the announcement of the annual Red Cross roll call for Burke county which was announc ed recently, Chairman H. L. Mill ner stated that Valdese, as it has in the past few years, again led the entire county, accounting for more than half of the county’s enrollment. The total sum collected here in the Waldensian community for the Red Cross this year was given at $477.13, which is a little more than the total donated to the re lief agency last year. Valdese has been enthusiastic in its support of the Red Cross for the past few years it was an nounced by chairman of the com mittee, Ben Pons. Chairman of the county group, Mr. Millner, announced at the time, that two agencies had yet to be heard from, but from all in dications the recent membership drive had “Gone Over the Top” and that the county’s quota of 800 had already been reached. One of the best Christmas presents yet seen here in Valdese is the new car that John Guigou was sporting around town yes terday morning. He said that it was the second time that he had a new car but was well pleased with it. Fortunate First #939 Baby To Be Presented With Many Nice Gifts Spotlight Will Be Focused On First 1939 Baby Bom In Valdese. All Valdese is waiting expect antly to see who the, lucky winner of the Valdese First Baby contest will be. And lucky he and his proud parents will be. The first baby born in Valdese in the year of 1939 will be declar ed the winner of the Valese First Baby contest which is being sponsored by The Valdese News and several local merchants. This is really a one man show and there is only one rule and only one person can win. The rule is very simple and easy to understand. All you have to do to win is to be the first baby born in Valdese in the year of our Lord 1939. If you or yours or yours to be should happen to win this contest you will receive as gift, a very nice little baby dress, from Belk Broome company. Prom clqtheg we go to food. TheVaJdese Pood Shoppe will give the family of the winner a basket of fine foodstuffs. The Waldensian Bakery is going to give the winner’s family a birthday oake. In order that his majesty the new bom king may lay his head in comfortable slum ber, Poster’s, Inc., is going to give him a mattress for his baby crib. The Peoples Drug store is going to give the winner a complete toilet set for his private use. LIONS PRESENT" PICTURE TO GYM Large Framed Picture of Late Francis Garrou Given As Christmas Present Climaxing their Christmas en tertainment with the presenta tion to the Valdese community center of a large framed picture of the late Francis Garrou, prom inent Valdese industrialist, for whom the community center was named, the Valdese Lions club’s Christmas dance was a huge suc cess. The picture was set in the lobby of the Francis Memorial Hall and guests entering to attend the Christmas dance with Billie Brooks and his boys were given a fine view of the Lions club’s Christmas present to the com munity center. The gymnasium had been beau tifully decorated with many Christmas posters and banners, which were placed under the win dows and alcoves of the gym. The band stand had been placed in the northwest end of the gymna sium, and decorated in Christmas colors and pine trees, making a fine Yule setting for the music. The coat room had been marked off in the southeast side of the gymnasium, decorated with Christmas colors. Featured with Billie Brooks and his orchestra were Frances Gar ret, vocalist, and the Three Notes, who rendered several selections. Another highlight of the evening was the solos of Tony Wayne on the accordion. AUTO REPAIR SHOP TO OPEN NEXT WEEK T. J. Watkins announced yes terday that he and R. E. Mosely of Hickory will open a garage to do automobile service work in Valdese by January 4. Mr. Watkins has been connect ed with Flowers and company of Hickory for the past seven years as a salesman. His associate, R. E. Moesly, has been with the same company for the past eleven years serving in the capacity of shop foreman for the last six years. Mr. Watkins says that the new shop will be completely equipped to do repair work of all kinds. They will specialize in repairing wrecked cars, painting, upholstery work, frame and wheel straigh tening, installing glass and gen eral motor repair work. The new company will be located behind the old bakery. CHANGE ANNOUNCED The Valdese postofflce an nounces to its many patrons the change in time of train No. 12 which heretofore has been sched uled to run at 5:05 p. m. and will now be moved up to 4:52. The Valdese postofflce an nounces that since the time of the train has been changed and since it is the last mail train east, all mail which is scheduled to go off on this train must be in the Val dese postofflce by at least 4:30 p. Three Valdese Physicians To Operate New Hospital FIREMENS ANNUAL1 BANQUET FRIDAY Volunteer Firemen To Cele brate Banquet Tomor row Night Two Valdese firemen, dressed as St. Nicholas, were the delight of several hundreds of children as they toured Valdese in private cars and on the fire truck which was instrumental in the distribu tion of Christmas cheer baskets to the poor here in Valdese. The fire department distributed about 50 baskets which had been gathered by the Valdese Parent Teacher association and Women’s Auxiliaries, along with the East ern Star and other groups to poor families in the Waldensian com munity. The annual Santa Claus tour around town was so successful that the fire department volun teered to contribute to buy more candy for the chidren who wel comed Santa on his tour through town. Private donations for the purchase of candy to be distribut ed in this manner ran as high as five dollars. It was announced this week that the Valdese fire department would hold its annual firemen’s banquet this Friday night at 7 o’clock at the Cartle Cafe, in East Valdese. MISSING GIRLS RETURNED HOME Mildred Deal, 16, Jewel Deal, 14, Nell Kirkpatrick, 13 and Wilma Ledford, 16, four local girls who had been missing since Sunday night, were brought home from Burlington early Thursday morn ing by Chief of Police Coffey and the Deal girls’ mother, Mrs. Mel vin Deal. M. J. Deal, father of Jewel and Mildred, received a card from them Tuesday morning saying that they were all married. The card was post-marked Burlington and with this as a starting clue as to their whereabouts the local officers telephoned the Burlington police headquarters to be on the lookout for the girls and to hold them in custody and notify their parents here if they could be lo cated. Chief Coffey said he was notifi ed by the Burlington officers Wed nesday afternoon that they had located the Valdese girls and were holding them at the Burlington police office. According to Chief Coffey the girls said that they were riding around with some boys until about ten o’clock Sunday night. They left the Castle Cafe in a transfer truck and rode as far as States ville. From Statesville they went to Raleigh and back to Burling ton. They told the officer that they sent the card saying that they were married as a joke. Boy Scouts Hear Interesting Talk Scoutmaster Reid Suttle Ad dresses Local Troop on Pa trol Leadership (By Earl Searcy, Jr.) A very interesting probram by the Rattlesnake patrol featured the meeting of the Valdese Boy Scouts last Monday night. The devotional was read by Roy Sams after the meeting had been for mally opened. A quiz test by Elmo Pascal and a “Just Imagine” featured by Fred Ribet were other highlights of the Scouts’ last meeting. Scoutmaster Reid Suttle follow ed with, an interesting lecture to the whole troop on “The Duties of the Patrol Leaders” after which RETURNS FROM VISIT James C. Alleyn, member of The News staff, returned to Valdese Tuesday after having spent the holidays with his family in Chat tanooga, Tenn. Negotiations Near Comple tion Looking To Opening By March 15th. The New Year will bring Valdese a new hospital. This definite prospect became known yesterday with the announcement that the fire-proof building, formerly used as a dormitory at Ruth erford College, will be con verted into a hospital, work on the changes to be started immediately, and that the new institution will be known as the “Valdese General Hos pital.” Dr. Y. S. Palmer, Dr. F. O. Foard and Dr. C. K. Lynn, Val dese physicians, will own and op erate the hospital for which ne gotiations are now under way. They will serve on the hospital staff with the possible addition of two other members. Completion of present plans is expected to make possible by January 15 the start of altera tions for the ten-year old dormi tory building, known as Burke Memorial hall. This would mean j that the institution would open its doors to patients by about March 15. A 25-bed capacity would be pro vided at the start, with a view of ultimately expanding to 50 beds, for which the remodeled building offers ample space. The physicians who are head ing the movement for a hospital in the eastern Burke area plan to acquire all buildings and 60 acres of land constituting the college property owned by the Western North Carolina Conference of the l^ethodist church. The dormitory building .erected in 1927, will be transformed into the hospital plant, with the other college buildings to be used “for any needy purposes.” Alterations will include installation of an el evator, remodeling the front of the structure and otherwise mak ing improvements. Harry A. Boggs of Morganton is architect engaged to design the alterations. Dr. Foard has been practicing medicine in this county for 18 years, while Drs. Palmer and Lynn have been in Valdese for five years. They will head the staff of the proposed Valdese General Hospit al, with Dr. Palmer directing the surgery. Dr. G. M. Billings of Morgan ton will serve on the staff as con sulting specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat ailments. The tentative plan will bring to the hospital on July 1 as medical advisor and internist Dr. Charles Kendrick, a native of Cleveland county, who is now medical resi dent at the Medical College of Vir ginia, at Richmond. C. C. Bowlers Beat Valdese Bowling A. The Valdese community center bowlers took two games from the Valdese bowling alleys at the Mitch Church Recreation center last Tuesday night in a regular Intercity League match. In the first game the Valdese alleys rolled a total of 495 to the Valdese community center’s 522. The Valdese alleys took the see the meeting was adjourned, ond game by a margin of 24 points. They rolled 538 to the community center’s 514. The community center alleys took the last game rolling 489 to the Valdese alleys 468. Spencer led the scoring for the Valdese alleys with a total of 317 for three games, while Rooster Deal led the community center lads with high score for the eve ning with 360 for three games. HALF PRICE SALE AT BENLEE’S STORE Benlee’s Department store Is staging the one and only half price one day sale ever staged in this section of the county. The sale will begin at 8 o’clock Sat urday morning, December 31, and will continue until 8 o’clock that •veiling. i
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