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p§| The Y^ldese News §«s - —1 —. “A LIVE NEWSPAPER IN A PROGRESSIVE TOWN” SHOP AT HOME . 1- _ --VALDESE, N. C.„THURSDAY MARCH 9, 1939 " " ~ * M .. ■—’ _ — ■ ■ ^ l ■ ^ a. ._ . ~ ——> ■ ■ — •• •! " — ■ _ WO. 14 pEit LIUNi EAR PR. PHIFER tPS interesting Talk On "Reforestation” at the Club’s Meeting. cions’^ an interest % on “Reforestation , by ! w Phifer of Morganton Thursday night at their reg JJeeting at the Valdese school ngphif°er who was introduced L yates Palmer of Valdese, Ton the importance of re ctation in North Carolina and 1 particularly in our own |v ,nd in the nation as a t He stated “We use 50 ’ ent more lumber at the pres ner capita than was used 50 ;ag0 but still we grow more t cotton and corn than we Use while the most important { of all, wood is getting rcer every day ” ne Of our first thoughts should t0 plant more trees and to help ierve those which we already e instead of letting most of virgin forests and small tracts go to waste either by or wasteful cutting. “Trees,” stressed, "should be looked on I profitable investment as they ease in age so their value g^ses. e praised the coming of the denses to this community forty years ago, and stated he believed we should have e sort of regulation as they f in the old countries, whereby Jan must get a permit from mayor of his community be he is able to cut down a tree, ein the United States, he con- j ied. the good trees have been j and only the trees that are of much use have been left.! sitting trees, he said that pro- j ins should be made to replace, n with younger trees. [Closing he said “At present j 1 the world in such a tur- ] 1, trees would make excellent; ng places in case of airplane j i’ fter his interesting talk, the I ip welcomed Ben Pons as an ted guest and a report on the i dese Scout troop was given by j fard Pascal. Ians were brought up for the • i’s box supper and Jim Pons, ry Grill and Charles Burgin e appointed on a committee :omplete plans for the affair, rexel members were com bed for the fine band that r local high school has and fas decided that the Drexel ibers would entertain the club frexel in the near tfuture. was suggested that a number Jons turn out at the commun center and help in the organi ® of a volley ball team to esent the club. t cal Eastern Star acts New Officers* tallation Exercises F o r j New Officers Are To Be Held Soon. he Lovelady chapter No. 147 er of the Eastern Star elected ers for the coming year at r last regular meeting at the ;nic Hall Monday night. e iroup elected the follow - fficers who will be installed e near future: rs^ Mina Krieger, W. M. : Grili> w. p. * Marie Griffin, associate ron. T' J°hn Pons, associate pa rt Guigou, secretary. Essie Pons, treasurer. , ®ernice Ribet, conduc tress^ Brinkley’ associate eDVr.John pons was awarded f e for best attendance e elections had been held. nch~Choir_To "’g This Sunday sprl! °clock Sunday morn- ! ibyp .Ces at the Waldensian tedj.Jf church will be con higw Jench. it was announc therpek‘. As a special attrac ing Wl11 be a French choir, sian T hymns of the Wal Ireh5Urch in French. PrapH lr met Wednesday night HU h.Ce and it is hoped that j tich Z. able to sin8 at the. regularly. | ty J announces that the i %tnSer church Canvass; ^ Sunday. j ! Shows Most Powerful" Rifle ....mu... $ a Claiming it to be the “most powerful” rifle in existence, Melvin Johnson, left, the inventor, shows the weapon to officials at the Quantico, Va., marine base. Maj Gen. J. C. Breckinridge is looking at the rifle in this picture. The gun can discharge 100 shots a minute. Colony Players To Present Play The Old Colony Players, lo cal dramatic organization, an nounces that they will present W. C. Herman’s play, “Clouds and Sunshine,” Friday and Saturday, March 17 and 18 at B:15 at the grammar school auditorium. The cast for the play will be announced soon and the group assures the public that they have been working hard to provide two evenings of real entertainment for the local public. High School Tourney Started At C. C Gym Basketball Tournament Fin als To Be Played Sat urday Night. The Valdese community cen ter’s first annual non-conference high school basketball tourna ment opened last night at the community center gym with Pleasant Garden girls playing Blackburn girls, Star Town boys playing Pleasant Garden boys, Star Town girls playing Valdese girls and Union Mills boys playing Catawba boys. The second round of the tour nament will be staged tonight with the following teams meeting each other: 6:00 p. m. Fallston vs Valdese— boys. 7:00 p. m. Mountain View vs. Nebo—boys. 8:00 p. m. Glenwood vs. Drexel —girls. 9:00 p. m. Glenwood vs. Drexel —boys. Friday, Mareh 10 (semi-finals) 7:00 p. m. Winners of Pleasant Gardens-Blackburn vs. winner of Star Town-Valdese—girls. 8:00 p. m.—Winner of Pleasant Gardens-Star Town vs. winner of Union Mills-Catawba—boys. 9:00 p. m. Winner of Fallston Valdese vs. winner of Gienwood Drexel—boys. Saturday, March 11 (finals) 7:30 p. m. Winner of Glenwood^ vs. winner of Friday’s game girls. 8:30 p. m. Winner of Friday's 8:00 game vs. winner of Friday’s 9:00 game—boys. Foul shooting will take place between halves of Wednesday's and Thursday’s games. RE-ASSUMES CHARGE OF SINGER OFFICE D. W. Alexander, who was re placed at the Singer Sewing Ma chine Circle here by Howard W. Finger, has taken charge of the local agency after a several months absence. Mr. Alexander has been connected with the ginger Sewing Machine people for the past several years. Mrs. E. E. Hawkins Buried At Avondale Local Man’s Mother Dies In Gastonia While On Visit With Daughter. Mrs. Eliza Etta Hawkins, well known resident of Avondale, Ru therford county and mother of Howard Hawkins of Valdese, died last Tuesday morning in Gas tonia while visiting her daughter. She had been in declining health for two years as a result of paralytic strokes, but her con dition' had been serious only for ten days. She was 63 years of age. ' Mrs. Hawkins was the widow of Joe S. Hawkins who died Sep tember 10, 1938. A native of Cleveland county, she was a daughter of the late C. W. and Martha Morehead Smith. In addition to the one son in Valdese, she is survived by four daughters—Mrs. O. R. Hardin of Swannanoa, Mrs. N. L. Harris of Gastonia at whose home she was visiting when she died, Mrs. B. L. Vick of Charlotte, Mrs. J. A. Brown of Avondale; one brother, D. W. Smith of Arcadia, S. C., and three sisters, Mrs. C. H. Scroggs and Mrs. S. C. Tate of Gastonia, and Mrs. J. C. Morehead of Hen dersonville. She leaves also eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed last Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the residence in Avondale, in charge of Rev. W. B. Jenkins. Interment was at Poplar Springs. Huckleberry Finn Contest Tonight Five Best Will Be Selected For Final Selection Tomorrow Night. The search for the local Huc kleberry Finn will end tonight at the Colonial Theatre when all entries to the • contest will be judged from the stage. The best five entries will be selected and they will appear on the stage tomorrow night when the final winner will be selected. All entries to the contest will be admitted to the theatre free tonight and a long list of the prizes that are being donated to the lucky winners is listed on the back page. Boys who wish to participate are asked not to forget to be at the theatre ready to go on the stage tonight at the seven p. m. show when the five best entries who will share in the prizes will be selected. UNDERGOES OPERATION Ben Pons underwent an opera tion at Grace Hospital Tuesday morning. He is reported to be doing fine and his many friends hope he will soon be well. BUTLER'S BILL IS INTRODUCED Vol un t ar y Apprenticeship Measure Provides For Youth Training It was announced in Raleigh this week that pending before the house committee on manufactur ing, commerce and labor is a bill introduced by Representative A. Leon Butler of Valdese who is representing Burke county in the legislature which would provide for voluntary apprenticeship. The measure, far-reaching in its scope, would set up a program of voluntary apprenticeship under approved agreements providing facilities for training of young people in industry and trade, with parallel instruction in related fields. It would provide for an apprenticeship council of seven appointed by the commissioner of labor to aid him in formulating policies, establishing standards for apprentice agreements, and is suing necessary rules and regula tions, and for director of appren ticeship, appointed by commis sioner, to administer act under supervision of commissioner, council, and local and state joint committees. The director would set up train ing standards; approve, terminate or cancel apprentice agreements; and issue certificates of comple tion of apprenticeship. It also would provide for ap pointment of local joint appren ticeship committees in any trade or group of trades in a city or trade area, when apprentice training needs justify the estab lishment. These committees would cooperate with school authorities, advise with employers and em ployes, and adjust apprenticeship disputes, subject to approval of director and of state committees; to coordinate the activities of lo cal committees, ascertain employ ment needs and specify ratio of apprentices to journeymen, and make recommendations. Other provisions would define apprentices, specifying contents of agreements (to provide for not less than 4,000 hours of employ ment and at least 144 hours per year of related instruction), rota tion of employment, and settle ment of controversies. It would appropriate $6,000 from state general fund to carry out provi sions, and would provide that nothing in act or agreements ap proved under act would validate any apprenticeship provision in any collective agreement between employers and employes. Two Girls Injured When Hit By Truck Evelyn and Alene Drum, young daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ivey Drum, suffered light injuries Fri day morning on their way to school when a truck driven by Fred Michaux, colored, of Mor ganton, hit them near their home near the Tea room in east Val dese. The young girls were on their way to school about 7:30 a. m. when Michaux who was driving a truck for Mountain Ice and Coal company of Morganton, tried to pass another truck and seeing the girls trying to cross the street, tried to avoid hitting them and turned into the road which leads down to the Blackstone Hosiery mill. The girls seeing his pickup truck also tried to get out of its way and ran for this side road when he hit them. Evelyn was confined to bed Fri day and Alene who continued on to school was forced to return home and undergo several days of rest as a result of the acci dent which severely bruised her. Officer J. P. Stillwell who in vestigated the case stated that no arrest had been made. Gets 60 Day Road Term For Assault Among the cases which ap peared before Judge Theodore F. Cummings in Hickory Municipal Court last week was the case of Fonzo Reese of Connelly Springs who was given the option of serv ing sixty days on the roads or paying a doctor bill and the court costs on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Reese was charged for having attacked Rosa Williams of Berrytown with a knife Monday of. last week in Hickory and was arrested near Valdese later to the weekr Valdese Is On Approved List For New $70,000 Postoffice Building Methodist Y.P. Meet Tonight The Methodist Young Peo ple of Burke county will hold their regular monthly meeting tonight at Oak Hill church on the Table Rock charge. All young people from the Valdese Methodist church who are interested in going are ask ed to meet at the Rock Drug store at 6:45 tonight. Grover Butler, the evange listic worker of Burke county, met last Sunday night with the young people of the Valdese Methodist church and gave a very interesting talk on the different names that Christ was given. 6ym To Discontinue Sat. Night Dances Group Will Journey to Can ton For “Valdese Day” There April 1st. The Valdese community center announces that it will discontinue Saturday night dances at the community center gym until further notice due to the lack of interest shown in attending these dances. They urge that all members who have not as yet secured their 1939 membership cards do so at the desk of as soon as pos sible. All those participating in activities must have their cards before engaging in any games at the center. j-nuse aesirmg 10 piay in me gymnasium are cautioned that that they must wear gym shoes before being allowed on the floor. In cooperation with the Canton Y. M. C. A. a Valdese Day is be ing planned there Saturday, April 1. The gym needs men to parti pate in the events to be played there. Those desiring to go are urged to get in practice and to let W. K. Sawyer know as soon as possible at the desk. The bowling schedule for the various teams in the center league has been changed so that they will use the bowling alleys on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights. Thursday night has been kept open for the use of lady members who are urged to make the most of the opportunity to bowl. They announce that it was impossible to change the sched ule for a few weeks in regards to Tuesday nights. This is due to the Intercity bowling matches which are being conducted. Tues days will be open after next Tues day night when there will be no Intercity league matches sched uled. C. C. BOYS ENTER MARION TOURNEY The Valdese community center boys basketball team will enter in the Francis Marion club’s annual gold metal basketball tournament which is to be played at the Mar ion community building begin ning tonight and continuing March 10 and 11. This is the third annual tour nament which is being sponsored by the Francis .Marion club and this year’s event is in charge of Carlton Gilkey. Other teams entered in the Marion tournament besides Val dese are: Glen wood All-Stars, the East Marion Y team, Hickory All Stars, and the Lenoir All-Stars. Plans have been formulated to select a team from among the outstanding high school players in this section preferably seniors in order to complete the tourna ment entries. HOME FROM HOSPITAL The many friends of Mrs. C. L. Lippard will be glad to know that she has returned home from Davis Hospital in Statesville, where she underwent a very ser ious operation. She is getting along very well. IS OPERATED ON Mrs. R. B. Moodie was operated on for appendicitis at Grace Hos pital in Morganton Sunday night. Her many friends in this section wish her a speedy recovery. Walks Backward! Found walking backwards down a busy street several days ago, John Bollinger, 35, a restaurant dish-washer, is under observa tion by physicians and psychia trists at a Denver, Colo., hospital to find out what caused him to fol low the strange locomotion. Psychiatrists say they believe some maladjustment such as an economic or emotional trouble caused the twist in his mental condition. N. Walker Fined In Good Luck S.S. Raid * -- Judge Horton Finds Vester Mull Not Guilty in Trial Held Monday. Newt Walker drew an eight months’ suspended sentence along with a $75 fine and costs in county court Monday on charges grow ing out of recent raids on tourists cabins at the Good Luck service station. Judge O. L. Horton found Ves ter Mull not guilty of the same charge of “permitting unmarried females under the age of 18 years on premises for immoral pur poses,” ruling that the State fail ed to establish that Mull was “keeper” of the premises. Walker himself took .the stand to testify that he operated the i service station which he rented - from Mrs. Vester Mull, the owner. < In sentencing Walker, Judge Hor ton ordered the eight months i prison term suspended for two ] years on condition he pay a fine : of $75 and costs, remain of good ] behavior, and that he refrain 1 from operating tourist cabins or < selling liquor in Burke county. In companion charges, Jim ; Walker, a brother of the defend- ! ant, was found not guilty of sell- ] ing liquor, while Walker himself ] was found guilty and fined an < additional $10 and costs. ] Solicitor W. Gordon Boger who was assisted in the prosecution of the cases by Attorney C. E. , Cowan, took a nol pros in charges of fornication and adultery a- ( gainst Willie Powell, 19-year old ] youth, and two girls, Vonda Pat ton, 15, and Beatrice Branch, 17, allegedly found by officers in one of the cabins at the station, be tween Morganton and Valdese. . The two girls testified in the case against Walker and Mull. SPRING EDITION The Valdese News is planning : in conjunction with local mer- I chants, to publish its first annual Epring edition soon. The annual Spring edition will feature all the latest styles in clothing for both men and women and the latest fabrics which are available this year. Watch for it. HERE FROM CHICAGO John Tessore of Chicago spent last week in Valdese visiting his mother-in-law, Mrs. Suzanne Rostan, and family. i * IS LISTED WITH 17 OTHER TOWNS Civic Groups Are Urged To Push For New Federal Building Here. According to a recent report from a Washington dispatch, Valdese, along with seventeen oth er North Carolina towns, is on the approved list to receive new postoffices in the near future. Vkldese is on the list for a $70,000 postoffice building, and according to reports from influen tial sources, it was learned that if Valdese with the backing of its civic organizations and prom inent citizens would get behind the movement and force the is sue, the new building would prob ably be allotted to Valdese within the next few months. Postmaster Earle Butler was contacted on the subject, and he has issued the following state ment to the public: “Now is the time for all civic organizations to gether with private citizens to make a concentrated and organ ized drive to secure a Federal postoffice building. Now is the ap propriate time to write Congress man Bulwinkle and use all our in fluence at our command to get a new postoffice.” Among other towns who are list ed along with Valdese to receive new postoffice buildings are: Black Mountain, $70,000; Davidson, $70,000; Farmville, $70,000; Hick ory, $145,000; Kernersville, $75, 000; Morehead City, increased al lotment, $25,000; Murphy, $75, 000; Oxford, $95,000; Plymouth, $75,000; Raleigh, additional al lotment, $45,00; Spray, $70,000; Spruce Pine, $70,000; Swanna noa, $70,000; Sylva, $75,000; Tryon, $73,000; Valdese, $70,000; and Wilkesboro, $68,000. According to official figures, The Valdese postoffice, had an 18 per cent increase in business in 1938, over the total receipts of 1937. This increase in business should denote the need of Valdese for a new Federal $ostoffice, if the mat ter is pushed by a combined force of people in Valdese, who see the need of a new building to handle the mail. Morganton-Salem Win Cage Tourney Win County Titles in Tour nament at Valdese, Get Trophies. In the four games Saturday light at the Valdese high school rymnasium Morganton grammar school boys won a 15 to 9 victory pver the Oak Hill quintet, to take ;he annual Burke county gram nar school tournament cham- . pionship. Curley led the scoring 'or the Morganton lads with a six point total, while Puckett with ;hree points took the scoring hou >rs for the losers. The lineups: , Morganton Pos. Oak Hill Smith ________ P_Cobb Jane __F_- R Miller Michaux __C _____ C Miller UurLee ___G_Conley larns _G_Puckett Subs: Morganton, Clark. Referees: Leon Lowman and lohnson Satterwhite. In the finals for the girls’ jhampionship, the Salem girls nanaged to eliminate the Mull (Continued on last page) Local Bowlers Lose To Hickory, Lenoir The Valdese bowling alleys were parely able to get an eight point ;ead to beat Hickory duckpin men in a regular Intercity match here ruesday night. Hickory alleys took the first two games and Valdese came back and took the last game by 47 points which gave them 1816 for three games to 1607 rolled by Hickory. Jay Spencer was high for Val dese with a 353 point total and Rhoney of Hickory led their scor ing with 341. In the other Intercity match which was played at the com munity center, Lenoir won two games out of three.
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