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Boost Valdese! Watch It Grow! n VALDESE, N. C„ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1949 Your Local Merchants Deserve Your Support No. 4 AKE ARRESTS INSPECTION AW VIOLATION lure To Have The Requir ed Blue Sticker Costs • Many In Court. number of Burke county i-ers have been found to their tgrin that the state highway rol is very fussy about that e sticker which is supposed to )ear on the righthand side of windshield of every vehicle, ’atrolman John O’Kelly of the al office said that they are 1 finding people everyday who m to think that the law re ring the inspection is not going be enforced. •\Ve have had to turn in quite a r since the first of the year,” trolman O’Kelly said, “But I nk that once the people learn it the law must be observed, ’ll have very little trouble there er.” n county criminal court where lators of the inspection law re faced trial, Judge Harry L. idle, Jr., has been releasing the ies upon payment of costs. In >se cases costs run about $17, ich is a fairly stiff penalty ne. ’atroiman O’Kelly reminded torists that January 31 is the idline for the first semi-annual pection of all vehicles of year idel up to and including 1936. jruary 28 is the deadline for 57 and 1938 models. The motor vehicle inspection le will return to Morganton bruary 8 and operate here until bruary 15. YMPHONY TO APPEAR HERE HJRINGMARCH rs. Shore Advised Little Symphony Puts Valdese March Itinerary'. The Little Symphony of the nth Carolina Symphony Orches- • i will appear in Valdese on trch 8. according to a letter re ved by Mrs. Mildred Shore from j e business manager of the :hestra. Mrs. Shore is chairman the Symphony drive committee the Valdese Music Club which | sponsoring the Symphony ap arance here. definite plans have not yet been ide known, but it is expected at two performancs will be given previously—an afternoon con ‘t for children and an evening icert. The time for the evening icert has been set at 8:15 p. m. 4METT FEIMSTER ' IN DRAMATIC ROLL The Little Theater at Cullowhee s selected the cast for its winter oduction of “Dear Ruth” to be esented in Hoey Auditorium, estern Carolina Teachers Col >e, February 3, at 8:00 p. m. The st is as follows: Judge Harry ilkins, Forest Lindsey, Lowell; ith Wilkins, his wife, Ann ividson, Boiling Springs; Miriam ilkins, Mary Ann Padgett, orthville; Ruth Wilkins, Clara dgett Winchester, Hayesville, d Lt. William Seawright, Em :tt Feimster, Rutherford College, e romantic leads; Albert Kum ir’ ^ick McAuley, Charlotte; n tha Seawright, Winona Cotter, illowhee; Chuck Vincent, Her rt Hyde, Bryson City; Dora, ne Wright Brown, Bryson City. Dear Ruth” is the year’s second eduction of the Little Theatre Cullowhee, a student organiza n of Western Carolina Teachers Hege, and under the director ‘P of Ernest V. Deans, Jr.„ mem of the College English Depart !nC In April the Theater will Jduce Arthur Miller’s “All My ns.” GION hut kitchen king readied for use rhe kitchen at the Valdese aprican Legion Hut is being lfPped and made ready for use. ms 1]ave been made for the Le ’!1 Auxiliary to prepare and ve meals on Friday and Satur as one of their projects Magazines and games will also Provided for the main room, he Auxiliary. Both the Legion utne Auxiliary are working to 1(js making the hut more of a uiortable recreation center for ;urbers. J Back In School After Polio -- All 15 of the Valdese elementary school children in the picture above have had polio. They are, left to right, first row, James Smith, Clifford Decker, Jr., Selenah Ann Pons, Kenneth Benfield, Jerry Petty; second row, Madeline Ruth Burns, Rachel Swink, Ronnie Franklin, Rebecca Jane Pons; third row, Carolyn Clark, Paula Ann Franklin, Jerry Clyde Barnes, Larry Lynn Burns, Johnny Reep and Paul Swink. The only two still taking treatments are Paula Ann Franklin and Paul Swink. New Safety Signal Light To Begin Operation Today Today (Wednesday) at noon the railroad crossing signal on North Praly street will begin operation, installation of the eight-light stop warning being completed by rail road construction workers yester day. This is the first electrical rail road stop signal installed in Val dese and has been placed at what is generally considered the most dangerous crossing in town. South ern Railway workers under C. A. Woodyard began on the project about two weeks ago. The mechanism will be activated by switches on the tracks 2,000 feet on each side of the crossing which will cause the lights to flash red and a bell to ring when a train passes either switch. Girl Scouts Have Bright Future Under New Plan An important step in the future of the Girl Scout movement in Burke county was taken last Thursday night at a meeting of the Burke County Girl Scout Coun cil held at the First Methodist church in Morganton, The proposal to abolish the county council and establish in its place city councils in the var ious communities was approved by council members attending the meeting. The recommendation on the matter was as follows: “The area (Burke county) being so large that the immediate needs of the entire county are inadequately met, we the executive board, recommend that city councils be formed in the communities large enough to war rant them and the remaining troops become Lone Troops dealing directly with National Headquar ters.” An official of the council said that a Morganton city charter had been applied for to become effec tive July 1, 1949. Assurance was given to coun ty troop leaders, whose troops would, not come under the city council here, that they could still obtain leader training through the Morganton coun cil, attend the Girl Scouts day camp and participate in any ac tivities of the Morganton or ganization. The reports of the council’s of ficers and committees were heard during the well-attended session. Among the fine projects and work carried on by troops during 1948 were caring for children in homes and church nurseries; helping neighbors in various ways, serving at the Community Building, city library, and churches for dinners, receptions and teas given by civic and religious groups; assisting in church school training; decorating churches at Christmas; collecting supplies for need families; prepar ing baskets for shut-ins, hospital patients and needy persons; pop ping corn for use by the Parent Teacher Association; folding Christmas seals for mailing; mak ing lapel ornaments of seals for sale; writing invitations and mak ing posters for hospital work; packing clothing boxes for Europe; sending overseas clothing kits; different services to the polio ward at Grace Hospital; doing publicity work for the polio drive. The newly - organized Senior Service troop has done outstanding work in giving regular hours in supervised work at the local hos pital, earning the gratitude of the entire staff there. The training committee of the council reported that among the projects it had carried out during the year were the training of ex perienced leaders through confer ences, assistance with troop meet ings and exchange of ideas at lead ers’ meetings. Two council mem bers, who are also leaders, attend ed the National Course for Council Members held at St. Simon’s Is land, Georgia. Two other troop leaders attended camp at Crab Tree Creek,, sponsored by the De partment of Conservation and De velopment. At least 78 persons were reached by some means of specified training, it was said. Officers and committee heads of the council are: Mrs. W. H. Kibler, president; program committee, Mrs. E. O. Randolph; training, Miss Sue Bost; organization, Miss Grace Whisnant; publicity and public relations, Mrs. S. D. Dy sart; registration, Mrs. J. B. Clow er, Jr.; Brownie Scouts, Mrs. John C. Reece; nominating-membership, Mrs. Margaret Avery; and finance, Mrs. C. P. Reinhardt. ATTEND FUNERAL FOR MRS. GUIGOU'S MOTHER Friends and relatives attending the funeral services of Mrs. Lola Carter Saunders, mother of Mrs. Leon Guigou, in China Grove Sunday afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. Leon Guigou and daughters, Sandra and Marilee, Rev. A. B. McClure, Mr. and Mrs. John Gui gou, Mrs. Alex Guigou, Miss Catherine Guigou, Mrs. Francis Tron, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grill, Mrs. L. P. Guigou, and John Harvey Guigou, of Valdese, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Guigou of Hickory and Mrs. Louise Capps of Greens* boro. Mrs. Leon Guigou, who spent last week at her mother’s bedside, will not return to Valdese for sev eral days. Mrs. Johnsie Crowe and Mrs Rachel Warren drove to China Grove Sunday. HOG BREEDERS MEET Spotted Poland' China hog breeders of North and South Caro lina will hold a joint show and sale in Lumberton on February 18, RIBET HIGH PRIEST ROYAL ARCH MASONS At a recent meeting of Catawba Chapter No. 60 of Royal Arch Ma sons, Frederick (Rick) Ribet was elected high priest and H. J. Pas cal was elected king. Other officers, all from Hickory, are G. B. Young, scribe; A. A. Cole, ! captain of host; C. K. Allison, principal scrivener; R. L. Hall, royal arch captain; E. J. McCoy, ■ treasurer; D. L. Miller, secretary; Johnny Terrell, master third veil; j G. L. Dunivent, master second veil; D. W. Suther, master first veil; and Mr. Spencer, sentinel. TAX LISTERS PREPARE TO END JOB SOON Property Owners Reminded Of Penalty Imposed After February 1. Tax listing in the county is mov ! in along at a fairly good pace, said Tax Supervisor Parks McGimsey this week, but there still remains much listing to be done before the end of the period which closes January 31. Mr. McGimsey remarked that listing was better in rural areas so far than in Morganton. It is too early to tell how much increase there will be for the year 1948, but the tax supervisor said that he had noted that there were more new buildings being listed than he had anticipated. He reminded property owners who have not as yet listed their properties that the penalty for failing to list within the period, which is the month of January, can be a minimum of $1 or as much as 10 percent of the cur rent tax, according to the Ma chinery Act. “We don’t want the penalty”, Mr. McGimsey stated, “but there must be some means of encourag ing our people to list their pro perty while the county is set up to handle the details of the job”. VALDESE MASONS ATTEND OASIS TEMPLE EVENT Valdese Masons who attended the annual meeting of Oasis Tem ple, AF and AM, in Charlotte Thursday were Frank Pascal, Ed ward Pascal, O. H. Pons, Dick Ribet, Horace Goode and Ted Clemmer. At this meeting a check for $62, 000, proceeds from the Shrine Bowl football game, was presented to the Crippled Children’s hospital in Greenville, South Carolina. More than a quarter of a million dollars has been raised for the hospital through means of the bowl games. _ Street Scenes MRS. STERLING CLINE and MRS. FRANK CLINE leisurely strolling to the post office. . . A. T. ABERNETHY in new pair of rubbers. . . MRS. SOL DENTALE pushing out for walk with little Cecilia Sharpe in stroller. . . MRS. HILDA CANNON drop ping birthday cake in the middle of street. . . DICK RIBET, FRED RIBET and EARL SEARCY, JR., in deep conference in front of Quality Cleaners. A. H. SETZER with brief case. EDWARD PASCAL modeling brown and yellow plaid sport shirt. School Lunchroom Menus Are Given For Information Of Parents Because of the numbers of re quests received each week for copies of the school luncheon menus, Mrs. Davis Rader, dietitian at the Valdese school lunchroom, has asked that the menus be printed in The Valdese News. Many of the children ,she said, are on special diets, and parents of other children like to know what the children are having for lunch so that they will not duplicate the items at the evening meal. The menus for this week and the first three days of next week follow: (One-half pint of milk and bread are served with each meal) Monday, January 24 Tomatoes with noodles, Deviled egg sandwich, Buttered snap beans, Tangerine. Tuesday, January 25 Ground beef with gravy, po-j / tatoes, Tossed green salad, Rolls, Apple sauce. Wednesday, January 26 Pork roast, gravy and dressing, Mixed vegetables, Grapefruit and orange slices. Thursday, January 27 Wiener with mustard, Cabbage slaw, Candied sweet potatoes, Fruit juice and cookie. Friday, January 28 Dried beans, Scalloped tomatoes with cheese, Cabbage-apple salad, Gingerbread. Monday, January 31 Sausage, Yellow hominy, Cab bage salad, Stewed prunes. Tuesday, February 1 Meat balls with Spaghetti, Car rot sticks, Gingerbread with Honey topping. Wednesday, February .2 Pimento Cheese sandwich, Po tato galad on Lettuce, Cherry pie. OLD STARS OF BASKETBALL PLAY FRIDAY March Of Dimes Benefit Game At Community Cen ter Promises Thrills Just what kind of basketball will be played on Friday night wherL the Old Stars go into the Com munity Center cage for the bene fit of the March of Dimes, no one has ventured to say. Jimmy Cham bers, in charge of arrangements for the game, when asked if the game would be played by rules, replied, “Ye-es . . . we’ll have some rules.” Wayne Owens and Ervin Wil liams, as referees, will blow the whistle at the game. Captains of the two teams will be Tom Watkins and Dr. C. K. Lynn. Players on the two teams will not be known (at least to the pub lic) until the night of the game, but Mr. Chambers predicts that a large proportion of the Old Stars who played in a previous polio game about four years ago will be on the court again, along with some new recruits. The game will begin at 7:30 p. m. and admission will be “twenty five cents up.” Mighty Mites Preceding the Old Stars game will be a game by the stars of to morrow—Johnny Johnson’s Mighty Mites—elementary school players. Forming two teams they will play at 6:45 and promise the spectators some fast playing. SCHOOL TO GET LIBRARY BOOKS Industries To Present 175 Ad ditions To Elementary School Library. Through the generosity of Val dese Manufacturing Company, the Pilot and Waldensian Hosiery Mills and the Waldensian Bakeries, 175 new books are being procured for | the Valdese elementary school li brary ad are now on order, ac cording to the principal, Jlohin Johnson. These new volumes, which will be divided among fiction, biogra phies and the English classics, will swell the number of volumes in the school’s library to 3,400. A storage room has been added to the elementary school library for the storage of periodicals. MEMORIAL BOOKS GO TO BAPTIST LIBRARY Gifts amounting to $20 for me morial books were received last week by the Valdese Public Library. Th ebooks are to bear memorial plates honoring Mi’s. Lola Carter Saunders, of China Grove, mother of Mrs. Leon Gui gou, and the mother of Mrs. John Grant who died recently. The library has on its shelves a large number of memorial books, given by friends and relatives who feel that the persons in whose memory they are given would like their memorial to be something that other people would enjoy. SCOUTS AT PTA MEET Troop No. 23, Girl Scouts of Rutherford College, will be in charge of the program at the monthly meeting of the Ruther ford College P.-T. A. in the school auditorium February 10 at 7:30 p. m. Local Plants Issue Over $139,000 In Bonuses Play In Valdese Friday Night The Valdese “Old Stars” will play basketball Friday evening, Janu ary 28, for the benefit of the March of Dimes. Most of the players who took part in the last Old Stars game are expected to see action again Friday night. Shown in the picture above, they are, first row, left to right: Tom Watkins, Dick Pons, Ben Pons, Francis Verreault and Lee Ribet. Second row, O. H. Pons, Wayne Owens, George Car penter, Dack Brinkley, Ervin Williams, Earl Searcy, Leon Guigou, Fred Ribet, Dick Ribet and Verne Benfield. Bond Issue Election To Be Held Here Tuesday Valdese citizens will go to the polls next Tuesday, February 1, to decide whether or not $100,000 in bonds will be issued for the ex pansion of the municipal filter plant and the extension of water mains into the city. Passage of the bond issue is rea sonably expected and a number of the town’s leading citizens are confident that voters will cast their ballots in favor of the bond Five-Year-Old Does Her Bit In March Of Dimes Five-year old, blond Mary Neal Lowery of Valdese is taking the polio drive very seriously. You see, Mary Neal had polio four years ago, and i^er little sister had it last summer. Polio has even meant a change of jobs for their father, C. D. Lowery. So Mary Neal felt that she per sonally must do something about raising money for the drive. Get ting a little box, she began her own personal canvass for funds, and so far she has raised $130, all on her own. “I’m doing it for my little sister,” she will tell you. While Mary Neal was fortunate enough to suffer no after effects from the disease, her little sister was not so fortunate. Two year old Jo Anne is now a patient at the Camp Sutton Hospital and will be there for many more months, learning to walk again and even to talk again. The doctors say she has a fifty-fifty chance of complete recover. How did it affect her father’s job? Well, Mr. Lowery had been driving a truck for a long distance trucking concern. But after Jo Anne went to Camp Sutton he gave up his job and bought a share in the City Cab Company so that he could be home and take his family to Monroe on Sundays. The Lowerys make the trip just about every Sunday, too. If you happen to ride in Mr. Lowery’s taxi, you will see a picture of Jo Anne pasted on the sun shade in the front of the car. Mrs. Lowery works in the cafe teria of the Valdese Manufactur ing Company. The Lowery live on the Rutherford College Road, al most to Castle Bridge. issue. City and industrial officials have long recognized the need for ex panding the present facilities. In cluded in the proposed project will be an addition to the present filter plant to step up its capacity 500, 000 gallons daily, making a total of one million gallons a day avail able. Polls will be opened Tuesday from 6:30 a. m., to 6:30 p. m., at the city hall. Saturday, January 29, is chal lenge day. RITES HELD FOR J. H. RECTOR, 67 Resident of Valdese, Route 1, Died In Hospital At Winston-Salem. John H. Rector, sixty-seven, of Valdese, Route One, died in Bap tist hospital, Winston-Salem, at 7:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon following an illness of about ten days, and funeral rites were con ducted at High Peak Baptist church at four o’clock this after noon. The Rev. T. W. Hearne, pastor, was in charge and burial was made in Enon church cemetery. The body lay in state at High Peak from three until four o’clock. Mr. Rector, born in Burke the late Joseph and Mary Jane Rector, is survived by his wife, the county March 17, 1881, a son of former Miss Louise Justice; three sons, Oliver of Elizabeth City, Jodie of Valdese, Route One and Grady of the home; two daugh ters, Mrs. Minnie Belle Cooper of Valdese, Route One, and Miss Iranee Rector of the home; one brother, Anderson Rector of Val dese, Route One; two sisters, Mrs. W. L. Franklin of Drexel and Mrs. Dora Rockett of Morgan ton; and seven grandchildren. BAPTIST STUDY COURSE ATTRACTS LARGE CROWD A study course in the Gospel of John, taught last week at the Valdese First Baptist church, was attending by an average of 100 people each night. Teaching the course was Dr. Ernest D. Hancock, now pastor of several rural Bap tist churches in the district of Star, North Carolina. Dr. Hancock is the editor of a paper for “The Lord’s Treasury,” has written several books and a was for 13 years a member of the number of religious tracts, and faculty at the University of North Carolina, according to Rev. M. I. Harris, pastor of the church. AT FORT JACKSON Lewis Small who was inducted into the army at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on Thursday, January 13, has written his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Small, that he expects to be stationed at Fort Jackson for several months. L THREE PLANTS ISSUE CHECKS TO EMPLOYEES Figures Are From Only Three Of Valdese Industries For Past Year. Three Valdese industrial plants this month paid their employees $139,326 in vacation pay for the Christmas holidays and bonuses on earnings in 1948. The three plants were Walden sian Hosiery Mills, Inc., Pilot Full Fashion Hosiery Mills, and Fran cis-Louise Full Fashion Hosiery Mills. At the Pilot mill 623 employees received $68,000, the highest amount paid to production work ers in any of the local plants. Em ployees received vacation pay in varying amounts according to the lenth of time they had been on the company’s payroll and a cash bonus based on their individual earnings during 1948. The vaca tion pay given employees last July was not included in this figure. The Waldensian mills paid out $64,508 to their 525 local workers. Included in this figure as at the Pilot mill were Christmas vaca tion pay and cash bonuses. Ninety employees of Francis Loitise mill were paid $5,030 in bonuses in December and this month 40 employees of the plant received $1,787.58 in vacation pay. All employees on the Francis Louise payroll as of December 11, 1948 received a three percent bonus oh their earnings for the year up to that date. Bonuses were also paid at Val dese Manufacturing Company, but the amount was not released. FUTURE HOMEMAKERS PICK NEW OFFICERS New officers of the F. H. A. (Future Homemakers of America) club of the Francis Garrou Me morial high school were installed Monday evening at a meeting in the home economics building. Doris Searcy, out going president, installed the officers, presenting the new president, Rheta Micol, with a red rose, the F. H. A. flower. Other officers are Catherine Jacu min, vice-president; Barbara Fra zier, secretary; Jenelle Searcy, treasurer; Peggy Benfield, report er; Juanita Sharpe, song leader; and Frankie Harrison, parliamen tarian. A Valentine party was planned, and the club voted to donate five dollars to the March of Dimes. Refreshments were served. This Week In Valdese Wednesday, January 26 7:30 p. m.—The Les Amis Bridga club will meet at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Yates S. Palmer. Thursday, January 27 7 p. m.—The Pilot Club will havo a dinner meeting at the home of Mrs. Bertha Martina.t 7:15 p. m.—High Peak Council No. 355, Jr. O. U. A. M., will meet in the Junior Order hall. 7:30 p. m.—The Norman Cordon Music Club will meet at the home of Miss Norma Kay Fite. —o— Friday, January 28 6:45 p. m. — Johnny Johnson’s Mighty Mites will play basketball at the Community Center. * 7:30 p. m.-~Old Stars’ basketball game at the Community Center. —-O— Sunday, January 30 11 a. m.—Worship services at all churches. Tuesday, February 1 6:30 a. m.—Election on bonds for improving and enlarging the town’s water system. 12:30 p. m.—The Rotary club will have a luncheon meeting at the Pilot Cafeteria. 7 p. m.—The women’s executive board of the Waldensian Presby terian church will meet. 7:30 p. m.—The American Le gion will meet at the Legion Hut. 7:30 p. m.—The Czerny Music Club will meet.
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