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rri_ '¥7'. . i%t_ v.,*» l T I IT? C I I^Wj |7 %W TO and Valdese M. XXlJj ▼ t\ ■ J ■ " Pi Ll Fj 1 lJjj W ^ merchants appreciate your trade. ------- “A LIVE NEWSPAPER IN A PROGRESSIVE TOWN”.. ... — _VALDESE, N. C., THURSDAY JANUARY 19, 1939 No. 7 litch-Hiker Fatally Injured Near Valdese Saturday P. M. lid Fort Man Apparently lumped fr°m Car in FriSht Coffey Key Witness. rhief Of Police j. P. Coffey, of r,Le Was the key witness at inquest held by County Coro d,t«p1' E. Green Saturday l£a"at Kirkseys Funeral L Morgan ton, in which of ri>l 'inquiry was made into the th of Thorant Plezz Henson, fvear old hitch-hiker, who died 'L midnight Saturday night f injuries received late that af Loon. Henson, who lived in ;ld port, was enroute to Hickory visit relatives, when he was irked up, it was said, by a car iven by Walter T. Jones, of Lidwell county. In the car with ones was Harry sbell, Lenoir -inter The jury put Jones un er a bond of $1000 for “criminal egligence" and set sbell s bond 5200 as a material witness. Chief Coffey said his attention as drawn to the car about 3:45 m. as it was proceeding west iward Valdese, and he turned to illow it throug town. Missing ie auto, he went east of Valdese id was returning to town when , agam saw the car. He turned rain to follow it when he came Ion Henson lying on the high ly about a mile east of Valdese. edid not see him jump from the r, he said. After giving direction for the moval of the injured man, the ifficer said he proceeded east id came upon Jones and sbell they had alighted from their r. Both were intoxicated, he id, adding that he found almost pint oof liquor in the auto. The car had crashed into a otective wire fence along the ie of the highway, and had ug against it for some distance, struck a total of 18 posts which e eight feet apart, loosening ne of them. The injuried man’s dy lay 193 yards from the point lere the car left the fence, and icers inferred that after the r had sideswiped the fence, the tch-hiker became frightened d jumped from the car. His skull was fractured, several nes about his right shoulder )ken, and re received bruises, ter receiving medical aid at ; Palmer clinic in Valdese, nson was taken to Grace Hos al in Morgan ton, where he died e that night without regaining isciousness. aldese Leads In Sale of Seals Iws Community it $90 In Tu osis Seals. Harbison, chairman bounty Tuberculosis il committee, an week that Valdese er $90 in the sales 5 Christmas seals, i that reports from county as a whole tifying and that a report was expect letters which had out with the seals ird from. s made last week who had so far not om and they were in the money col n the seals as soon This must be done t because the com nd in a report to the ion. LERS LOSE >ESE ALLEYS ! bowling alleys de oimunity center al ar Intercity bowling ut of three games, ; at the community alleys won the first >ints and the C. C.’s ld game, rolling 480 e abeys 458. 1 alleys took the last l pins to 409 by the OP HAS EARANCE sale ftisement in this is Valdese News the lich is located in the e. is having a clear LS week. The entire store is included in sale. Methodist Group To Hold Banquet A banquet will be held to morrow night for the Metho dist Young People of the Mar ion district at the Glen Alpine high school. A very interesting program has been prepared for the oc casion and all the Young peo ple of the various Methodist groups of the Marion district are looking forward to a very enjoyable evening. Many members from the Valdese Methodist group are planning to attend. Alex Guigou Will Build New Houses Four New Houses Being Erected For Renting Purposes. A steam tunnel to help in the curing of Superbuilding blocks, is being built by Alex Guigou at hit Super Rock Building Block Manu facturing plant. Mr. Guigou states that this new steam tunnel will be kept at a 110 degree temperature and will have a humidity of 70 percent, which will enable him to manu facture building bloks faster, in order to meet the growing de mands that he has for them. His daily output at the present is about 1,000 blocks per day, and with the tunnel they can be cured and ready for use within 24 hours. Four new houses wil lbe built with this new Super Rock build ing block by Mr. Guigou for rent ing purposes within the next few weeks, on Roderet street. He stat ed “the only thing that is holding is up is the weather.” The block will be used for the entire con struction of the houses, founda tion walls, and all. One of the nany features of this new build ing block is that it makes a fine wall, even on the inside without plastering, and nails and screws can be driven into it just as easily as in wood. Large buildings in this section of North Carolina which have used Super Building Blocks exclusively, are the new Char lotte Bus Terminal, and the Bap tist Assembly Hall at Ridgecrest. Valdese Loses Double Header Old Fort Trims Locals By Large Scores in Game Tuesday Night. The high school cage teams lost! a double header to the Old Fort court teams last Tuesday night at the high school gym. The girls trailed the visitors, holding the short end of a 34 to 10 score, with Baker high scorer for the local sextet. Dalton led the scoring for the visiting sextet with 21 points to her credit. The boys, even with the scoring of Satterwhite, were unable to stem the tide of the Old Fort quintet as they continued piling up points on the locals. Satterwhite led the Valdese squad with eight points to his credit while Simmons led the Old Fort cagers with 18 points. LOSES EYE IN GUN ACCIDENT Victor Leger, about 37, of near Valdese, lost the sight in his right eye and had the right side of his face crushed last week, when the bolt of a high-powered rifle flew back and struck him. The accident happened while Leger was firing the rifle, which he had owned for sometime, near his home. He failed to lock the bolt, which flew back in his face when he discharged the rifle. Leger was rushed to the Rich ard Baker hospital in Hickory by ambulance immediately after the accident., The sight in his right eye was already gone and a hole had been tom in the right side o* his face. His condition was described as “satisfactory” and he Is expects*! to recover, barring complications. VALDESE SCOUTS AT HONOR COURT Elmo Pascal Receives Eagle Rank At Honor Court At Mariofi Friday Advanced ranking awarded by a Boy Scout court of honor in Marion Friday gave to Elmo Pas cal of Valdese the top honor in Scouting, the rank of Eagle Scout. Jack Edwards of Morganton Troop 1 attained the Life rank, while Burl Noggle of Morganton Troop 5 became a Star Scout. Other awards included: Tenderfoot—E arl Bridges, Troop 5, Morganton; Roy Chap man, Lefoy Rhodes, Roscoe Duck worth, J. c. England and Vernon Rader, all of Chesterfield. Second class—James Dollard and Jesse Wells of Troop 3, Mor ganton; McCoy Rhodes, John Mode, Coran Rhodes and Norman England, of Chesterfield. Merit Badges Civics—Jack Edwards, Troop 1, Morganton; Raymond Squillario and Donnie Martinat, Valdese Troop 1. Chemistry — William Trotter, Troop 1, Morganton. Electricity—Jack Edwards, Troop 1, Morganton. Handicraft—Burl Nogggle, Billy Penland, Bob Rhyne, Conley Mit chell, Charles Harris, Troop 5, Morganton; Parks Sherrill, Troop 1, Valdese. Leathercraft — Bob Rhyne, Troop 5, Morganton. Photography—Bill Trotter. Reading—Bill Trotter. Safety—Conley Mitchell, Troop 5; Jack Edwards, Troop 1. Swimming — Charles Smith,1 Troop 3. First Aid—Darold Powell, Val- | dese. First Aid to Animals — Elmo Pascal, Valdese. l J. D. Laughridge Buried Saturday Former Greensboro Resident Buried Saturday; Was 52 Years Old. Joseph Darby Laughridge, 52, for the past ten years a resident of Valdese, died at his, home here Friday morning after an extend ed illness. Funeral services were held at Valdese Baptist church, of which he was a member, Saturday morn ing at 11 o’clock, in charge of the pastor, Rev. M. I. Harris, and interment followed at Abee’s Grove church cemetery near Val dese. Members of the Junior Or der served as pallbearers. A native of Burke county, bom August 25, 1886, Mr Laughridge spent much of his life at Greens boro where he was for many years a street car conductor, mov ing to Valdese a decade ago. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Tillie Powell Laughridge, and three daughters, Mrs. Clyde Ber ry, Mrs Pete Baker and Mrs. Henry Pennell, all well-known residents of Valdese. Three grand children also survive. J. H. PASCAL IMPROVED John Henry Pascal who has been ill for the past week at Da vis hospital in Statesville under went an operation Monday morn ing and his many friends here in Valdese will be glad to learn that his condition is somewhat improv ed. They wish him a speedy re covery. Business And Civic Groups Push Plans For Local Bank At a meeting held yesterday members of the Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Asso ciation committees on banking decided to take steps for the or ganization of a commercial bank ing instution for Valdese. John Guigou, Ben Krieger, Parks Sherrill, J. V. Benfield, Ben Pons and Henry Grill were present at the meeting. Within the next few days members of the committee will canvas local citizens to receive pledges for stock in the proposed financal instution. It is understood that practi cally all the Valdese merchants are in favor of the undertaking. Valdese at present has to do its banking either in Morganton or Hickory. This necessitates a great deal of trouble for local merchants on “pay day.” Para doxical as it may seem the town has one of the largest payrolls in the state for its size and no plaoe to cash checks. This causes mer chants to have to have a large amount of cash on hand on the days when the mills meet their payrolls and it is usually neces sary for them to drive to the bank on “pay day” and bring back large amounts of cash to cash1 their customers’ checks. The fol lowing day they have to drive back to the bank again to deposit these checks to bring their balance back to normal. Many local citizens have stress ed the necessity of a local com mercial bank for a long time and those who are close to the situa tion feel confident that North Carolina’s fastest growing town will have a banking institution of its own in the near future. Local Bowlers Win Tournament Powell and Erwood Repeat Last Year's Perform ance Saturday The winners of the Southeast ern Championship Double for men, which was held at the Val dese Recreation Center last Sat urday, January 14th, were an nounced early this week as com plete tabulation of all the scores | were made. The first prize was won by a local team, Powell and Erwood, who were high with total score of 1437 pins. Their prize was $40. Wyrick and Tribble of Greensboro placed second rolling a total score of 1411 pins for the tournament. Their prize was $20. The last prize in the class went to Simpson and Keever of Char lootte, wh(o placed third high with 1398. There were four other winners for first high block and high set game and for second high block and high set game. First block high set was won by Grisette and Manning of Asheville with 713, while another local team, Clar ence Warlick and Steven Perrou won block high game with 262. In the second block high set Ellis and Thore of Greensboro, took the money, and Cpnnife and Minnick of Columbia, S. C„ won second block high game with 265. Mr. Guigou Speaks To Valdese Scouts (By Earle Searcy, Jr.) The Valdese Scout troop heard a very interesting talk on the Panama Canal by Philip Guigou last Monday night at their regu lar meeting. Several readings and dramati zations were presented by Ernest Ribet on “Ten Years Prom Now.” The troop, headed by Assistant Scoutmaster Edward Pascal, for mally acknowledged into their ranks Elmo Pascal as the fourth Eagle Scout of the troop. The group accented the invita tion extended to them by the Val dese Lionc club to meet with them tonight. C___r EAST BURKE MAN SUFFERS STROKE (Special to The News) John Stamey, who lives about five miles south of Valdese, suf fered a severe attack of paralysis caused by hemorrhage of the brain at his home Tuesday after noon. He was attended by Dr. C. K. Lynn who stated that it was the second stroke that he had suffer ed, having had one about a year ago. The stroke has completely paralized his left side and it was feared that he would soon be un able to use his right side. He is unable to use his hands, and his condition in general is reported as very grave. STOLEN CAR IS WRECKED Thief Steals Car in Charlotte and Wrecks It At the Icard Underpass A 1937 Tudor Plymouth Sedan, which was found wrecked at the Icard underpass early Monday morning by Valdese Chief of Po lice Coffey, was claimed Tuesday morning by Evert Mullen of Lin colnton who stated that the car had been stolen from him late Sunday, evening at 2204 Roslyn Avenue in Charlotte where he was visiting. Mullen was notified by Chief Coffey that he had a car which contained some .correspondence of his and which he was holding here in Valdese for him. Mullen made the journey here and had the car taken back Tuesday. The car was a complete wreck, having turned over once or twice, and although it had a golf set worth over $100 in the back seat, nothing outside of the car keys and a bunch of keys belonging to the Banner Mills were report ed missing. The car was being held by Goode Motor company who had pulled it in Monday morning. Honor Roll For Yaldese School Attendance Record Since De cember is Considered Very Good. Principal C. C. Long yesterday released the official attendance record of the Valdese schools which shows that the percentage of attendance for the first half of the school year just closed is 96.7 out of a possible 100 per cent. This is considered a very good record. Miss Varnea McGalliard’s fifth grade had the best attendance with the almost perfect mark of 99.65 per cent. Mrs. McCarley’s grade has the next best record. The schools have a total enroll ment of 391 pupils with 697 stu dents in the elementary school and 212 in the high school. Out of the 679 students in the elementary school 114 made the December honor roll with the sec ond grade topping the list with 20 of its pupils on the honor list. The names of those making the honor roll by grades are as fol lows: First grade: Catherine Wil liams, Barbara Roper, Joan Ru therford, Nadine Keever, Richard Page, Barbara Owens, Ann Lin ville, Jimmie Wanda Bouchard, Wilma Pruitt, Ramona Sanders, Joette Smith, Faye Deal, Betty Sue Branch, Betty Hice, O Mearl Lambert, Jack Robinson, Fred Cranford. Second grade: R. L. Abee, Ern est Epley, Jackie Erwood, Leroy Lail, Donald Stilwell, Mary Eliz abeth Crowe, Betty Jean Humph ries, Mary Agnes Deal, Roy Ogle, Ray Ogle, Clara Mae Powell, Bet ty Jean Greenwood, Mary Salva geot, Doris Grill, Charlie Hice, Norma Kay Fite, Betty Benfield, Claude Seward, Lee Harris, Jr., Mary Stillwell. Third grade: Burl Annas, Dan iel Cannon, Bobby Cline, Carroll Deal, Catherine Glasbrooks, Sym boline Grady, Helen Linville, Dorothy Rhoney, Bernice Ribet, Dolly Whisenant, Bill Giles, Bob by Jones, Imogent Pons, Betty Jane Perrou, Vigian Ogles, Emily Micol, Marvine Soward, Sarah Jane Jones, Dorothy Lowdermilk. Fourth grade: Eddie Micol, An nie Sue Christmas, Betty Goings, Phyllis Guigou, Margaret Hice, Doris Long, Marjorie Ogles, Imo gens Powell. Fifth grade: Louise Annas, Dal las Brinkley, Jr., Donald Frazier, Frances Hern, Paris Keever, Kitty Long, Virginia Street, Sally D. Gregario, Alma Lambert, Jeanette Micol, Cleo Ogle, Nancy Small, Juanita Smith, Mary Ward, Del kie Mourglia, Kenneth Stillwell. Sixth grade :Patsie Pritt Melvin, Sudye Crouch, Ruth Bradshaw, Vivian Bounous, Louise Berry, George Bleynat, J. D. Franklin, Joe Peck Hern, Osbert Hughes, Cecil Lowman, Harry Sherrill, Walter Church, Edward Jacumin, Henry Perrou, Mildred Bradshaw, Catherine Guigou, Margaret Woods. Seventh grade: John Guigou, Gloria Grill, Frank Tise, Louise Pons, Charley Harris, Billy Go ings, Eleanor Conley, Harold Pons, Agnes Ramsey, Emily Ribet, Rich ard Pascal, Ralph Walsh, Zora Hoyle, Ruth Price, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Ona Williams, Lula Mae Passmore. Town Board Sets Parking Limit In Business Section C.C. Schedule For Rest Of The Week The community center an nounces that tonight the C. C.’s will travel to Avondale to meet the Avondale cagers. Tomorrow night, Friday, January 20, they play a double header here. The center boys meet the Statesville Goforth Motor team and the Covington Sports basketeers. Saturday night, January 21, before the square dance they meet the Shelby Lions club cagers. The girls team does not have any games scheduled for the rest of this week at the gym outside of the one they play at Avondale tonight. Get Fire Permits At The City Hall Public Can Obtain Permit At Town Hall To Burn Brush Fire. A. D. Williams, of the State Forestry Service in Burke county, announces that for the conven ience of people in and around Yaldese and eastern Burke, who wish to obtain permits to burn brush fires or burn rubbish, or other fires, may obtain them at the Valdese City Hall from Frank Pons. The sincere co-operation of the public is asked in this matter to help in the prevention of forest fires and aid in the work of the forest ranger. Obtaining these permits will facilitate matters,; because, should fires become out of control, they can be more easi ly located from the permit file and be extinguished quicker. There is no charge for the permit. It was stated that a law is at present being considered making it compulsory to obtain these permits during the season from October to June, instead of from October to December and from April to June as it reads at pres ent. ' -- Richard Frazier Buys Radio Shop Purchases Johnson’s Inter est In Valdese Business; Changes Name. Dick Frazier has announced that he has purchased B. D. John son’s interest in the Johnson Electric Company and has chang ed the name of the firm to Fra zier Electric Company. The company has the agency for RCA Victor Radios, General Electric appliances and Kelvina tor products, and features radio repair work. The business was be gun by Johnson in November, 1937. Frazier accepted a position as manager in December of the same year. Mr. Frazier graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1936 with a B.S. degree in Electri cal Engineering, specializing in radio. He is reognized as one of the foremost amateur radio op erators in the country. He received his amateur broadcasting license in 1933 and has been broadcasting over shortwave stations ever since. He has operated stations in Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Asheville and Valdese. Frazier is now overhauling his station apparatus in preparation for the annual contest which is held among the 50,000 amateur stations in the country. In the contest last year he was second in this district and 14th in the United States. In another contest two months ago he was first, in this district and 11th in the na tion. 0 - Signs to Go Into Effect Mon day; Violators To Be Fined. In order to meet one of the most essential problems of a growing town, Valdese has this week set Up parking signs, re stricting the time of parking automobiles in the business dis trict of Valdese to one hour, from eight in the morning till six p. m. at night. Signs have been placed from Dr. Palmer’s Clinic to F. W. Tise’s store on the north side* of Main street in the center of town and on both sides of Main street from Waldo street or Foster’s Furni ture store to Columbo street in the west end of town. Signs reading “No Parking Within Fifteen Feet Of Comers,” have been placed on all street comers in Valdese. In explaining the stop signs which have been placed along the streets from Main street on down to the Railroad tracts, it was stated that cars traveling north and south would have the right of way over the other streets on Carolina, Rodoret and Praly streets. All three of these streets cross St. Germain street which runs east and west paralel with Main * street or the highway. Streets which do not have the right of way over St. Germain street are: Laurel, Italy, Fait and Waldo streets. St. Germain runs from Brink ley’s store in West Valdese straight across through town to the old clubhouse. Members of the Valdese Police department have been urged to see that these traffic regulations be carried out and that beginning Monday, all violators will be sum moned before the desk sargeant at City Hall and fined. Gym Cagers Beat Spindale 36-34 Community Center Boys Edge Out One of States Best Teams. Playing one of the top notch basketball teams in Western North Carolina the Valdese com munity centers won a two point victory over Spindale at the gym here Saturday night. At the end of the first half the locals led the visiting quintet by one point and they managed to keep about neck and neck throughout- the game. The final score was Valdese C. C.’s 36 and Spindale 34. Smaley, Spindale center, led the scoring for both teams with a total of 14 points, with Ed Flack following him a close second with 13 points. The fineups: Valdese Pos. Spindale Flack _F j._Henson Jacob_F_Davis Campbell_C _ Smaley Pruitt _G_Lipscomb Pitts _G_Maxwell Substitutes: Valdese, Perrou, James, and Owens; Spindale, She han. Referee: Reynolds. OPENS OFFICE HERE Dr. J. C. Morrison has opened an optometry office in Valdese at the Brown building and is shar ing the quarters of the Singer Sewing Machine people. He will have all the modern equipment to conduct eye exami nations and fit glasses. IN NEW TORK ON BUSINESS A. F. Garrou is in New York City on a business trip. He is expected back the latter part of this week. Waldensian Celebration To Be Held Saturday Evening, February 18th Final plans for the 17th of Feb- ; 'nary Celebration by the Walden sian people of Valdese are being completed and the women’s com mittee of the Waldensian church announce that the supper will be celebrated Saturday, February f8, at 6:30 p. m., at the Valdese school dining hall. Tickets for the occasion are now on sale and the committee urges that any one interested in I attending contact members of the church or call Miss Melanie Bou nous at 24-J for their tickets. - The celebration is commemo rated each year in honor of the granting of the religious freedom to the Waldensians who inhabit ed the Cottian Alps in Northern Italy. Waldensian people.all over the world observe this date of free dom, some by a banquet, some by dances and other form .of entertainment. * _
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