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Boost Valdese! Watch It Grow! Your Local Merchants Deserve Your Support * [>1. 11 VALDESE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1949 No. 3 Eleventh Western Gold fiedal Basket Tourney Manned Next Month NVITATIONS ;q to eight COUNTY TEAMS ills Events Will Begin Feb ruary 12: Boys On Feb - ruary 19th. Letters of invitation to Valdese ommunity Center's eleventh an ual Western Gold Medal basket U1 tournament have been mailed it this week. Jimmy Chambers, enter director, has disclosed. For the 11th year Valdese will ?come the focal point of basket ill activity during the month of ebruary as the 64-team tourna ent gets underway February 12. he tournament, which has be ime highly successful and popular ith fans over an eight-county rea, will be conducted the same ; the 1948 event which was at ■nded by an estimated 10,000 peo le. Mr. Chambers said tnai tne m itation list includes those teams hich participated in last year’s Durnament and in the event a :am should decide not to enter, nother team will be invited. The st includes teams from Lincoln, :atawba, Alexander, Caldwell, iurke, Cleveland, Rutherford and IcDowell counties. The girls’ tournament will begin ’ebruary 12 and extend through 'ebruary 19, with the boys’ tour ament beginning on the latter ate and extending through Feb uary 28. Teams entering the tournament re required to pay a $5 entry ee which is refunded after the ournament. Mr. Chambers said hat he had no way of knowing at his time how the individual teams rould be seeded. Last year’s boys’ winner was itony Point high school which liminated Fallston in a thrilling ame. The Lincolnton high school iris defeated the North Brook ligh school girls for the girls’ hampionship. Begun here in 1938, the Com nunity Center's basketball tourna ment has been increasing in pop larity and last year drew the argest crowds up to that time. It 5 expected that this year’s event dll prove even more popular. The clock-like precision with ►hich the tournament is run, its rderliness and clean fun, has made it one of the most successful arge scale high school athletic vents to be held in the state. JOTARY CLUB ADDS THREE NEW MEMBERS The Valdese Rotary Club added nree new members to its roster ■uesday. They are Sam Brinkley, ’lint-on Brown and George Ander on. (Mr- Brinkley operates the City •oal Company here; Mr. Brown 5 a salesman with the Merchants’ ^duce and Grocery Company; nd Mr. Anderson is manager of ienlee's Department Store. <1. P. Rostan, Sr., took charge f the program of last week’s fleeting, tell the club of his ex •eiiences at the Sugar Bowl game. Rev. o. L. McGinnis, pastor of he Enon Baptist church, spoke to ne club at this week’s Tuesday uncheon meeting, using as his abject “Friendship,” which he flunected with the Rotary motto f "Service above Self”. Frank Goode was in charge of he program. Valdese Postal Receipts Reach All-Time High ‘Postal receipts at the Valdese post office for the year 1948 hit an all-time high of $39,253.26, it was disclosed yesterday by Post master J. M. Farris. Receipts in 1948 exceeded the next highest year. 1947, by $13,351.12, an in } crease of more than 50 percent. Although Valdese has come in for its share of growth, the big gest factor contributing to the sizeable increase in postal revenue here was the hiking of express rates last summer, Mr. Farris said. Shippers who formerly used ex press service found it cheaper to turn to parcel post after express rates went up last summer. Final quarter receipts in 1948 totalled a whopping $12,740, as compared with $8,418.56 for the final quarter of 1947. During the year 1948 the post office expanded in other ways al so. City mail carrier service was begun in November for the first time. Parcel post delivery also was added and more than three miles was added to the rural de livery route. BOND ISSUE REGISTRATION NOW UNDERWAY $100,000 Bond Issue Election Set For February 1st With | Little Opposition. Registration for the $100,000 j water bond issue to be submitted j to Valdese voters February 1 is now being made at the city hall by Glenn Ramsey, town clerk. Saturday, January 29, will be challenge day and the following Tuesday the election will be held. Little opposition is expected to the bond issue which will permit the double of town’s water, supply, an increase of 500,000 gallons daily. Expansion of* the filter plant at the eastern end of town and the laying of a new main from the plant into town is the principal work to be done if the bonds are issued. MASONIC FUNERAL FOR J. U. LEDBETTER, 79 Funeral services with Masonic honors by local Masons were con ducted Wednesday afternoon, January 12, in Rutherford Col lege, for J. U. Ledbetter, 79, who died Tuesday morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Phil Rowlins, in Henderson. Burial was in St. John’s Lutheran church cemetery, beside Mrs. Ledbetter, who died on December 13, 1948. Survivors are one son, R. O. Ledbetter of Andrews, S. C.; four daughters, Mrs. J. Paul Lowder ot Norwood, S. C.; Mrs. Harvey Coley of Rocky Mount, Mrs. Walter Car roll Ennis of Hickory, Mrs. Row lins of Henderson; nine grandchil dren and one great-grandchild. LUMBER YARD FIRE A fire in a sawdust pile at the Brinkley lumber yard caused the Valdese volunteer firemen to be called out at about midnight Fri day. The fire was extinguished in a short time. raldese Library Reviews Fine Record As Fifth Year Of Service Is Recognized lne Valdese Public Library was v e yeai's old Tuesday of last week. U1*ng ^e five years of its life, •622 books have passed across its esk Ult° the hands of readers, an teiage circulation of almost 15, , year, or well over thousand ^oks a month. library opened January 11, ’ in the telephone building, K nioved to the rear of the Val ise News in June of 1947, when e ‘eiephone building was needed other purposes. It has been five afternoons a week for J^ears, with the exception of ^ weeks during May and June, ' v'aien the move from one lo t cation to the other was made. The circulation during 1948 was approximately 5,000 books over that of the first year, 7944—a fact that would indicate that reading is becoming a fixed habit among the people of Valdese and that through the library many people are finding pleasure and instruc tion in reading, who might never have found it had it not been for the opening of the library. Now located in temporary quar ters, the library hopes some day to have a building of its own, and has a substantial start on a build ing fund. Library hours are 2:30 p. m. to 6 p. m. Tuesday through Saturday. PILOTS PLAN REPAIR SHOP FOR USED TOYS Residents Urged To Hold On To Discarded Toys and Send Them To Shop. Plans are being made in Val dese for a toy workshop for the repair of toys to be given to under - | privileged children next Christmas. | The Pilot Club of Valdese, meeting j Thursday night at the Valdese j Community Center, voted to spon i sor such a project. ! While the Pilot club is taking ! the initiative in starting the work ishop, it is expected that other or | ganizations will help with it later. Anyone with discarded toys ! around the house, that could be I repaired, are asked to “please, please not throw them away,” but to call a member of the club in stead. They will be picked up and stored until the workshop can be opened, probably in the fall. | Call Mrs. Nell Hern or The Valdese News office, and the toys will be collected. It doesn't matter if the wheels are off the truck or the tricycle needs paint and tires, or the doll bed is broken. The idea for the toy workshop grew out of the club’s experience in delivering packages of food and toys to needy families this Christ mas. Mrs. Lena McCarley and Mrs. Bertha Deaton made, the deliveries, assisted by Eldon (Corky) Berry driving a truck loaded by the Martinat Hosiery Hill. They drove about 50 miles one morning deliv ering the packages, and all came home saying, “If only we had had more toys.” For, giving one toy to each child, they had not had nearly enough to go around, even though they had started out with what had seemed a large supply. Said Corky Berry, “I’ve lived in Valdese all my life, and I didn’t know conditions like this existed.” On the way back the three dis cussed the need for more toys, and later in talking with others, they thought about the many toys in Valdese that, with a little repair work, would mean so much to some child at Christmas. They are hoping that by next December, there will be rows and rows of shiny toys waiting to be delivered. Toy repair shops have proved very successful in many other towns. SCHOOLANNUAL BEING PRINTED Students Assured Annuals To Be Ready Before End Of School Term. The Impersonator, annual of the Francis Garrou Memorial high school, has “been put to bed,” as the printers say. The dummy and all the materials were sent to the Lassiter Press in Charlotte last week, it was learned from Janet McDonald, editor in chief. Stu dents are assured of having their annuals in plenty of time to get them duly autographed before school is out. The annual is being published by the Beta Club, which takes the publication as its main activity ^each year. At present the club is also hand ling the sale of refreshments at all the school basketball games. More Gifts For First 1949 Baby Had it been left up to the Val dese News, the New Year’s baby would have missed out entirely on two gifts that were intended for him (and for his family). For, in listing the gifts from the mer chants, the paper failed to in clude the cotton dispenser do nated by Powell’s Gift and Furni ture Store, and the flower ar rangement from the Valdese Rower Shop. Fortunately, however, the baby did not have to depend on the newspaper. Cards had been sent to the parents, who presented them at the stores and received these two gifts along witlj 14 others. ATTEND CONCERT Among the Valdese people at tending the concert of the Revel ers in Hickory last Tuesday were Mrs. Wade Stemple, Mr. and Mrs. George Williams and daughter, Ruth, Mrs. Leon Guigou, Mrs. John Guigou, Miss Catherine Guigou, Mrs. Alex Guigou, Misses Helen and Lucile Williams, Miss Anito Ghigo, Miss Sylvia Brown, George Carpenter, James Short, Dr. and Mrs. Palmer. He's Ready To Do His Part A polio victim of many years ago receives a collection can and other March of Dimes material to put in his store. J. R. Houk, who had polio at the age of 18 months and who has come through life with a crippled leg, takes the can fi’om Mrs. E. B. Setzer, polio worker for Connelly Springs. Mrs. Setzer’s son, “Brissie”, had po lio last summer. Mr. and Mrs. Houk operate the filling station, gro cery store and sandwich stand at the intersection of the Rutherford College road and Highway 70. Special Meeting Of P. T. A. Set For Tomorrow Night At a special meeting of the Val dese Parents-Teachers Association this Thursday night at the ele mentary school auditorium, the report of the North Carolina Edu cation Commission, published last month, will be reviewed and dis cussed. The meeting is called for 7:30 o’clock and Mrs. J. M. Cham bers is chairman of the program committee for the evening. Commenting on the group’s consideration of the much-dis cussed report, John Johnson, ele mentary school principal, said that since a number of local citi zens had filled out questionnaires last year from which the report was complied, he hoped to see a large gathering Thursday night. Former Governor Gregg Cherry had refused to have the com mission’s report published by the state last year which led to a state-wide controversy and finally resulted in the long detailed ac count on the state of North Caro lina’s schools being published by a private goranization. Mr. Johnson said that he had read much of the report, which is well over 1,000 pages in length, and had found it most compre hensive. Strips films and excerpts from the text read by Donald Johnson of the high school faculty will be used to bring out the points to be considered by the P-TA. Rev. Ben Dickoson, pastor of the Assembly of God church, will have charge of devotionals and Mrs. Harold LaFevers will conduct a program of group singing. "America's Geographical Frontiers" Subject of Study Series at R. College The first of a series of studies on the topic, “America’s Geogra phical Frontiers”, using the text book, “On Our Own Doorstep”, was presented Sunday evening at the five o’clock Vestper Hour, under the leadership of Mrs. L. C. Johnston, secretary of mission edu cation and service of the Woman’s Society of Christian Service and of the Wesleyan Service Guild at Rutherford College. “The Church of the Crossroads” was the devotional theme, and was opened with an instrumental prelude, “Meditation”, played by Sylvia Bolick. Mrs. Johnston then gave the call to worship, which in cluded a free translation of the hymn, “Hawaii Aloha”. A vocal solo, “Jesus, Thou Art Ever Call ing”, was sung by Alice Hallybur ton, with piano accompaniment by Mrs. Grace Moore of Morganton. A Prayer of the Church of the Crossroads, Honolulu, Hawaii, was led by Amanda Hall. This was followed by the meditation, “De CORRECTION IN ESTIMATE OF PILOT MILL OFFICE The cost of enlarging the office space of the Pilot Full Fashioned Mill will be only about $22,500, a) d not $62,500 as last week’s issue of The Valdese News stated in I story about the building permits issued in Valdese in 1948. The Pilot Mill did get permits amount ing to $62,500, it is true, but of that amount $40,000 was for t new warehouse which has been use for several months now. CLUB HOSTESS Mrs. Dan Bounous was hostess ; last week to the Wednesday Nighlt ^Bridge club. \ votion to the Church of the Cross roads”, presented by Mrs. Eubert Rutherford. The offertory, “Ha waiian Nights”, was played by Lavada Cline. Following the introduction to the study course, and the purpose by Mrs. Johnston, the chapter on Hawaii was interestingly present ed by Mrs. Ed Cannon. Hawaii was described as a land spendthrift with color and romance, with the bluest of all blue skies, with great white clouds hovering like battle ments over the green hills, with sunshine and moonlight and rain bows without end. Mrs. Cannon said “When God made Hawaii, He used the best He had; He left it an earthly paradise and that he who sets foot in Hawaii puts his foot deep inside Heaven.” Besides the vivid description of the terri tory and its people, the speaker de scribed the customs, and stated that the United States and Can ada should become keenly aware of the significance of Hawaii as the crossroads of the Pacific. She de scribed the effect that war had upon it, and the significant growth of the church in this strategic area. In closing, Mrs. Cannon urg ed Christians to develop a Christ like concern for Hawaii that will result in immediate and effective action. During her talk Mrs. Can non wore a Hawaiian lei around her neck, and gave an interesting description of the Hawaiian cos tumes, which, she said, were about 99 per cent commercial, and that the grass skirt and the lulu were borrowed from the South Seas. Next Sunday at the Vesper Hour Rev. Peeler will discuss the chapter on Alaska. Betty Ann Friday of Hickory spent ^two days last week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Guigou. CREDIT GROUP SEEN LIKELY FOR VALDESE _ j ' Merchants Express Desire To j Have Some Form Of Organization. Valdese merchants seem likely j to aprove and appropriate funds! to approve and appropriate funds j organization in the very near fu- 1 ture, the proponents of which hope to see it grow into a full-scale Merchants Association. I Frankie Pons, who as chairman of a three-man committee has been making a survey of local business houses, reports that near ly all the business men he has called on have indicated a desire to participate in the organization. He has discussed with merchants the matter of membership fees and dues necessary to provide enough revenue to run credit organization and he expressed confidence that there would be little difficulty from the ffiiancial angle. “Right now .we are trying to decide just what kind of an or ganization will be best suited for Valdese”, Mr. Pons said. “We had thought at one time that one woman could manage the office, but there has been some feeling expressed lately that the job should be given to a man who could plan and expand the credit organization into something larger and more useful to the com munity at large.” Already as the rumor of the credit organization’s establishment i circulated through town, merch I ants have noted a marked im I provement in their accounts re ceivable. Their delinquent custo mers have apparently been aware that if old debts are outstanding j at the time the credit association j is installed they will penalized by, receiving a poor credit rating. j Serving on the committee with j Mr. Pons is John Gardner and j Russell Bumgarner. The merch-j ants group is expected to get to- j i gether later this month to re- j I view progress on the plan and de- j | cide further action to be taken. j ROTARY PICKS JR. MEMBERS I Jack Robinson Is Selected Ju- \ nior Rotarian For Two Weeks Term. Jack Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Roboinson, has been selected as Junior Rotarian for two weeks, and will attend the meetings of the Valdese Rotary club each Tuesday at the Pilot Cafeteria. Jack, an outstanding student, is president of the junior class, and ' also serves as business manager | for the class. His ambition is to be j j a West Pointer. On weekends and i after school he works at the A &P. i Junior Rotarian for the past two i weeks was Robert Herman, who is I president of the senior class and J was chosen mayor-for-a-day in ; the student elections November, i Robert was business manager for i the junior class last year and per i formed the unusual (according to Principal C. B. Honeycutt) feat of ending the year with a surplus. -- ■ Books Added To High School Shelf The library at the Francis Gar rou Memorial high school had added 125 new books, which are now in the process of being cata logued by Miss Anita Ghigo, who is in charge of the library, and her student helpers. Chosen from the state approved list, the books covered a wide range of interests. C. B. Honey cutt, principal, said that every teacher in the school had a part in selecting the books. VALDESE SEWING SHOP HAS NEW OPERATORS The Valdese Sewing Shop on Paet street between the Building and Loan Association and the city hall is now being run by Mrs. Emory Eckard and Mrs. Jim Phil lips, both of Hickory. Mrs. Eck ard and Mrs. Phillips took over the location, a small brick building, last week. Mrs. W. E. Passmore and Mrs. Roy Murphy formerly ran the shop. Mrs. Eckard and Mrs. Phillips, both experienced seamstresses, do dressmaking of all kinds and alter ations. March Of Dimes Drive Gets Under Full Power t In Valdese Last Week Aids Polio Drive Mrs. A. T. Abernethy of Ruther ford College forgets that she is supposed to be at home recovering from the flu and starts out to deliver material* for the March of Dimes. She is in charge of the Rutherford College drive, from the Hospital northward. JAY SPENCER TO BE CANDIDATE IN MAYOR RACE Says He Will File Notice Of His Candidacy When Books Opened. Jay Spencer set the political pot boiling this week when he an nounced his intentions to file as a candidate for mayor in the town election to be held in May. Spen cer says that he will file as soon as the books are open, sometime in March. Possible candidates for the of fice of aldermen and other mayoral candidates are still in the rumor stage, with interest already run ning strong in the almost-four months-off election. It is, howeyer, understood that the incumbent, Mayor Oscar M. Harrison, will be a candidate for re-election. Spencer is associated with the City Radio & Tire Company. BAPTIST DEACONS MAKE GIFT TO ELDER MEMBER The deacons of the First Bap tist church presented a birthday gift to one of their number who is the oldest man who is a member of the church. The gift, a sweater, was given to Mr. Julius Grisette, who was 75 years old last week. Mrs. Jane Page, is the oldest wo man member of the church, hav ing recently observed her 83rd birthday. FEW VALDESE PEOPLE HAVE LISTED TAXES It looks as if the people of Val dese are going to go right on be ing human, just as they have al ways done and wait until the last week to list their taxes. A Grill, tax collector, said, with a twinkle in his eye, “I don’t think there were more than three or four who came in the whole first week I was at the city hall. But they’ll be coming in the last week.” LEAF RESEARCH FARM SET UP IN COLUMBUS A new research fai;m which will specialize in studying problems of Border Belt tobacco growers is now being established in Columbus county, announced Dr. R. W. Cummings, associate director of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, i PRIZE OFFERED STUDENTS FOR EXTRA EFFORT All-Star Basketball Game To Have Cake Auction On January 28th. The polio drive was launched last week in Valdese with vim and vigor. School children have been cov ering the town like locusts in their effort to nil their dime cards. Charles Burgin announced that a prize would be given to the class room collecting the most money and also to the individual pupil turning in the largest amount. The two dime boards took in $84 Saturday, more than was con tributed to the boards in two weeks last year. The board in the eastern end of town, in front of the peo ple’s Drug Store, manned by the Boy Scouts, took in $57, while the Girl Scouts collected $27.00 for the board in the west end of town, in front of the Rock Drug Store. Mrs. Lacy Hall, chairman of the solicitations in the business district, announced that she and her assistants, Mrs. Haynes Ruth erford, Mrs. J. P. Rostan, Jr., Mrs. J. M. Chambers and Mrs. Elmer Winkler, would conduct their can vass of business houses Thursday and Friday of this week. Jimmy Chambers, in charge of the sports division of the drive, has arranged for an “old stars” basketball game at the Commun ity Center on January 28. During the half, there will be an auction of cakes. The women’s organiza tions of the churches are being asked to contribute the cakes. The drive in the various indus tries has been started but no re ports received yet, according to Edward Garrou, chairman of the industrial division. In Rutherford College and Con nelly Springs, Mrs. A. T. Aber nethy and Mrs. E. B. Setzer had divided their territory and lined up workers for a house-to-house canvass. Working with Mrs. Aber nethy in the section north of the hospital are Mrs. Willis Lachot and Mrs. Ed Cannon, east of high way; Mrs. E. R. Rutherford and Miss Frances Dowdle, on highway; Mrs. Gene Wood and Miss Fran ces Estes, west of highway. Mrs. Setzer, who has the are^ south of the hospital and Con nelly Springs, will be assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Ted Clemmer. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Culberson had as their guests Sunday through Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilson of Atlanta, Georgia. This Week In Valdese Thursday, January 20 6:45 p. m.—The Lions Club will meet at the Pilot Cafeteria. 7:30 p. m.—The Parent-Teacher Association will meet in the school auditorium. 7:30 p. m. — The Sans Souci Bridge Club will meet at the home of Miss Sue Searcy. Friday, January 21 7:30 p. m.—Double-header bas ketball game at high school gym nasium. Valdese vs. George Hil debrand. Monday, January 24 7 p. m.—The Women of the Waldensian Presbyterian church will meet at the church. Tuesday, January 25 12:30 p. m.—The Rotary Club will meet at the Pilot Cafeteria. 6:45 p. m.—The Men and Wo men of the Waldensian Presby terian church will have a dinner meeting in Pioneer Hall. 7 p. m.—The Daughters of American will meet in the Junior Order Hall. —0—• Wednesday, January 26 2 p. m.—The Home Demonstra tion Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Leroy Bronson in Ruther ford College. _
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