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Boost Voldese! Watch It Grow! Your Local Merchants Deserve Your Support VALDESE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1949 No. 5 Consider Projects To mprove Highway Here OULD WIDEN tOAD BEND ON eastern END ghway Engineer Reveals Projects For Improving Town’s Approaches. VO road straightening projects beine considered for Valdese would greatly improve the •oaches to town from both the and the west. [strict Highway Engineer H. E. 1 of Shelby said that plans being made to widen highway lt •‘swimming pool curve” on eastern end of town and in se visibility around the bend, also said that the highway mission would sti aighten the ■e on the western side of town osite the old Assembly of God rch if the house on the bank ie the curve is moved back ■ e cut about 30 feet. e cut uuuiu. ou w Manager Lee Ribet wrote ;ll several weeks ago stat r that the Valdese Manufactur r Company, whose property ad ns the highway at tnis stietch, d offered to give as much as 25 it of land on the curve to the ,te so as to make it possible to aighten the highway at this int. Mr. Noell said in a tele one conversation with The News sterday that the state would do 3 job provided some arrange ints were made to move the arbv dwelling at other than ite expense. Both curves have been the scene many accidents in the past d are a continuous threat to the Eety of motorists. Rumors have been circulating out t-own during the past few ;eks that the state was contem ating building a by-pass for Val se to handle the heavy east and. ist bound traffic of highway 70. Noell said that without ques n Valdese did have an acute ed for a bypass, such as Hick fs, but that there were no funds •marked for such a project at s time. OlFERS HOLD 1949 ELECTION dese Man Named To Post Of Mimosa Golf Club At Recent Meet. new directors were elected 1 all former officers of The nosa Golf Club were reelected the recent annual membership ?ting and dinner of the club d in the club house in Mor lton. Selected were Maurice Hill, !Sident; J. Henry Gaston, vice ilCient and treasurer; and John Res, secretary. Jew members of the club’s ■ of directors to serve three J' Henry Gaston’ tand McGinnis, Tom Cornwell, Pftton and J. D. Brinkley. Places on the twelve-mem l T0aiQa are ^eld by Maurice .iePra;°sborne’ Earl Spencer, bit? > A-C. Chaffee, H. F. rtt and John Hawes. WING DESTROYED BY fIRE AT SQUILLARIO'S ht he Ste caiielessly tossed in jnmg m front of Squil re itSJ°P last Wednesday ing a n, the loss of the and the &ite §!ass show win he bia7B g-aSS in the transom, abouf. “ the was Hav , ° p'm’’ by Police re a4m ,who turaed in ixtinguish J? lhen endeavored Quickllames- ^e firs attment 2 °ut' by tte flre h°ut ijnlth water. but not 0. C^nidges estimated at ‘eture duig is a one-stor; PPed a r- no one could hav above t8hlette °r a matcl nation washethmt0St l0gical ex 5iblySornos a passer-bs ft’, had th 011C leaving the earl awning °Wn a cigarette int IGEJMBER op he JDc°W DISPLAY'"' arrange !0uts of Tro°P C Quality c,PVlndow display r nh “:y. Cleaners as part r °bservn« eaners as par ,t’ February6 6^2National MT. CALVARY BAPTISTS START BUILDING PLANS The building hopes of the Mt. Calvary Baptist church took solid form Monday when the first load of brick was delivered to the church grounds. Plans for the educational build ing, to be erected at the rear of the present plant, have not yet been adopted but the church is raising money for the building which it hopes to have in the not too dis tant future. The addition of one new member to the church Sunday made a total of 104 additions in months. SCHOOL HAS SPECIAL FILMS FOR CLASSES _ i Educational Movies Are Be ing Used By Elementary School Teachers. Through the help of the Parent Teacher Association and other in terested groups, the Valdese ele mentary school has scheduled and is receiving educational films from the University of North Carolina library and from other groups which supply instructional films. Educational films are used as a supplementary aid to teaching in the school program. Teachers use the films as reviews for units of subject matter, realizing that what is seen is often much better retain ed and remembered by pupils, said John Johnson, principal of the ele ment-ary school. The primary grades have sched uled the following pictures: “Tom my's Day”, in health and diet; “Safety to and from School”, safe ty; “Common Animals of the Woods”, nature study; “Adven tures of Bunny Rabbit”, nature study; “House I Live In”, social studies. The grammar grades (grades four through eight) will see the following: “Zion National Park”, geography; “The Andes”, geo graphy and social studies; “Plant Growth”, nature study and science; l “Washington,” geography; “The River”, geography and social stud ies; “Trees for Tomorrow”, social studies and conservation; “Golden Foods,” diet and health; “Main line, U. S. A.”, social studies and transportation; “Modern Milk,” health and diet; and “Wheels Across India,” geography and so cial studies. Films of general interest to all grades are “Alice in Wonderland,” “Abe Lincoln,” “Our America” and perhaps others. In addition to the rented films, the school has in the library 60 strip films on various subjects, such as primary stories, geography, great American cities, grammar and history. These are used in the classrooms or in the projection room by the teachers. This library of 35-mm. strip film is being en larged this year by the addition of several new films. COMPLETE EXAMINATIONS Students at the Francis Garrou memorial high school completed j two days of examinations Friday, and were at liberty to leave the school whenever they completed their last exam. There were no exemptions, each pupil being required to take a two hour examination in every course. Street Scenes MRS. EDWARD GARROU feed ing a parking meter . , . JOE BROVERIO growing a beard ... LAIRD JACOB, JR., in high heeled western boots . . . PARKS SHERRILL draping a manikin in Belk’s window . . . BUZZ LONG trying to strap a bag of groceries to the back of his bicycle . . . HENRY S. GRILL in a Cham berlin pose with black umbrella . .. MARY EMMA McCLURE tak ing care of baby sister, EMILY . . . MARTHA DRUM on way to li brary . . . MARY HELEN DUCKETT look ing at seed catalogue . . . JIMMY CHAMBERS in a big hurry . . . JIMMY LYNN WEIR and JOHNNY REEP shoveling snow off downtown sidewalk . . . NEW RAILWAY SIDING WORK IS UNDERWAY Mile-and-Half Long Track Being Built; Grading Is Completed. Work is already underway on a new railroad siding at Connelly Springs, which, when completed, will be about one mile-and-a-half long and capable of holding one of Southern Railway’s long diesel freight trains of 150 cars. Grading work for the new track has already been done. The pres ent passing track will be connected to the storage track there now near the underpass. Moving of the Connelly Springs depot to the south side of the track is also con templated. In the western end of Burke county, the Southern put into ser vice last week a new 5.500-foot passing track, which combined with the old passing track, will al so accomodate a 150-car freight train. A similar passing track has re cently been completed at Old Port. These passing tracks are part of the Southern’s plan in its gradual shift from steam to diesel locomo tives for freight hauling. The diesel engines can handle in some cases almost two and a half times the number of cars that the steam engines can haul, and therefore need longer tracks to allow pas senger trains to pass them. A. MARTINAT EXPECTED SOON Sails From Italy February 18 Arriving In New York March First. Mrs. Helen Martinat has re ceived word that her husband, Al do Martinat, will sail from Genoa, Italy, on February 18, and will arrive in New York City on March 1. Mr. and Mrs. Martinat were married August 9, 1947 in Prali, Italy, where Mrs. Martinat had gone in the hope of bringing to America her mother, Mrs. Mar gherita Bounous Peyrot. When she returned to Valdese in October, 16 months ago, she was still confident that both her mother and her hus band would be able to make the trip in about four months. Mrs. Martinat plans to meet her husband in New York. BAND PICKS DELEGATES Phyllis Berry and M. Z. Honey cutt have been chosen to repre sent the Valdese school band at the all-Western North Carolina band clinic, to be held February 18 and 19 in Salisbury. Both are outstanding members of the band, and both are seniors. They will be accompanied to Salisbury by Robert Gorley, band director. Highlights of the clinic will be a concert Friday night by the Davidson College band and one Saturday night by the Clinic band. Bernice Ribet and Imogene Pons represented Valdese at the clinic last year. Harrison To Attend Hearing On Tax Levy Mayor Oscar M. Harrison will go to Raleigh Thursday with Mor ganton City Manager Claud Helms where both will attend a special committee hearing on Friday in the General Assembly. The hearing will concern House Bill 54, sponsored by the North Carolina Municipal League, which proposes to return one cent of the six-cent-per-gallon gasaline tax to municipalities for the maintenance and improvements of city streets. North Carolina cities and towns are presently getting only one fortieth of the gasoline tax collect ed by the state. Mayor Harrison heartily en dorses the bill which would return a larger share of this revenue to cities and towns. china is TOPIC ROTARY CLUB, MEETING HERE Dr. Alexander Moffett Is Guest Speaker On China and Communism. can cmna survive Commun ism?” was the topic of Dr. Alex ander Moffett’s address to the Val dese Rotary club Tueiday of last week at its luncheon meeting at the Pilot Cafeteria. Dr. Moffett, a missionary to China who was forced to return to America because of the war, told the club that while he had spoken to Rotary clubs on many occasions, he had always just missed being a Rotarian. His first experience with Rotary when he was a schoolboy attending the Shanghai American school in Shanghai and had to read to the Rotary club a paper he had written on “My Ideal Father.” He was also the beneficiary of a scholarship from the Rotary club of Shanghai while he was attending Washington and Lee University. For jylong time, Dr. Moffett said, he wasrunwilling to admit that the Chinese brand of communism was really communism instead of just another political party. The steps which communism takes are five: 1. The army comes in and takes over. 2. A propaganda team comes in, holds mass meetings and points out the evils of the old system of land ownership. 3. The communists take com plete control of all thought and try to stamp out all religion, in (Continued on page Two) FRIGIDAIRE FRANCHISE FOR TOWN OF VALDESE Franchise for Frigidaire appli ances has been secured by the Val dese Hardware Company, owned by Edwin Jones, Joe Reid and Gil mer Lowman. The company will handle a complete line of Frigi daire appliances, including stoves as well as refrigerators and other items, and will have a full ^rvice department. Mr. Jones has at tended a Frigidaire school in Roa noke, Virginia, has studied service work in Hickory, and last week at tended a sales meeting in Char lotte. Mr. Reid is attending the High Point furniture market this week. I GOLFERS OF VALDESE GET CLUB PRIZES Make Outstanding Showing In Mimosa Golf Club’s Tournaments. At the anual meeting of mem bers of the Mimosa Golf Club prizes were awarded to winners in the club’s tournaments during the oast year. The year’s championship went to Otis Arney, medalist winner with a 74 who also went on to win the championship twice. W. R. (Jake) Mullis was runnerup in this event. In the second flight John R. B. Hawes was winner with Prank Pons as runnerup; Jay Spencer was winner in the third flight with Dr. C. K. Lynn runnerup; fourth flight, Louis Vinay, winner with Nollie M. Patton runnerup. It is of interest to note in con nection with the above winners that four were from Valdese and four from Morganton. Cup Flights In the 18-hole medal flight with handicap for the A. M. Kistler Cup award, Jake Mullis was winner with Billy Joe Patton runnerup. In this flight Mullis and Patton tied with the former winning out in the play-off. H. L. Shuey was winner in the P. O. Huffman Cup 36-hole medal play with handicap. Shuey had 164 with an 18 handicap. Jake Mullis and Russ Triebert tied for second place with 147, Mullis winning the play-off. In matched plays for the J. Fred Kistler Cup award, with handicap, Jess Barbor was winner and Prank Patton, Jr., runnerup. ‘Short’ Pat ton was medalist in the qualifying round with a 73. Jake Mullis received three awards at the meeting for his out standing golf and received as a combination prize a leather golf bag. COUNCIL MEETS ON SATURDAY Change Necessary In Order To Have Attorney At Meeting. Deviating from its „ custom of meeting the first Monday night in the month, the Valdese town coun cil will meet Saturday night in order that the city attorney, Burke Representative O. Lee Horton, may be present. Mr. Horton’s duties in the Gen eral Assembly require that he be in Raleigh Monday night during the session. Mayor Oscar M. Harrison said earlier this week that there was nothing special to be brought be fore the council at its February meeting. Discussion of the next steps to be taken in planning for the city’s water plant expansion, to be made possible by the passage of $100, obo bond issue here yesterday, may take place. AT VALDESE HOSPITAL Mrs. Hattie Gaddy, mother of Frank Gaddy, was brought from Durham to the Valdese General Hospital Thursday morning. She came by ambulance and was ac companied by Mrs. G. M. Bigger staff. March Of Dimes Nears $4,000 Mark With $3,966 reported in pledges or money actually received, the Valdese March of Dimes commit tee, headed by Edward Garrou, was confident that the total would be well over the $4,000 mark. Reports of several phases of the canvass were incomplete, among them that of the elementary school, and the parking meters which will be “robbed” of their dimes again today (Wednesday) by the police department. Some of the workers in the industrial divis ion had not finished their canvass. A breakdown of $3,966 already received follows: elementary school $322.53; high school $121., 26; scouts (dime boards) $122.18; parking meters, $16.50; industries $2,205; American Legion, $100; cake sale, $186.60; basketball game $66.20; other sources, $520. Basketball Games The two basketball games at the Community Center Friday nighl afforded the people excellent en tertainment as well as an op portunity to help the March oJ Dimes. Henry P. Garrou (Uncle Didi) took up tickets amounting to $66.20. At 6:45 p. m., the seventh grade chiggers took on the eighth grade mites, with Sain the leading scor er, making five goal shots for the chiggers and leading them to a 14-12 victory. Playing for the Mites were McCorkle, Bonner, Queen, Williams, Smith, Mull, Oxentine, Cook, Robinson and Bleynat. The Chigger team’s players were Chambers, Temple, Sain, Grisette, B r o w n, Powell, Wise, Harris, Woodie, Metcalf and Hood. Two teams of Old Stars played a strenuous game, (Red) Branch shooting 10 points for the Dub bers. The Mopheads, were captained by Tom Watkins, and the Dub bers captained by Lee Ribet. Just what rulebook Referee Lee Harris was following remained a secret, as the oldsters made a rough and tumble game of it and the specta tors alternately shook with laugh ter and applauded the sportsman ship of the players. Mopheads were Laird Jacob, Tom Watkins, Dick Ribet, Fred Ribet, Dack Brinkley and Louis Vinay. Dubblers were Lee Ribet, Lenoir Lowdermilk, Clarence (Red) Branch, T. L. McCarley, M. Z. Honeycutt and John John son. Cake Sale The cake sale, conducted by Rev. A. B. McClure, who kept up the steady chant of a tobacco auct ioneer, as he sold his wares, net ted $186.60 and created such situations- as: Dack Brinkley and Marion Cor bett raising each other a nickel at a time on a Japanese fruit cake (Corbett got it at $6.35); Mrs. Ben Pons wondering what to do with the four cakes Mr. Pons had bought; Dr. Palmer being told that there was a cake he couldoperate on; the crowd being informed that Jimmy Chambers didn’t go with the cake he was holding; and the next day, folks talking about the number of people they had in the night before for cake and coffee. I) Water Bond Issue Given Wide Approval By Voters Large Number Teams Are Expected For Tournament I _ I Twenty-eight girls’ teams and 27 boys’ teams have already filed applications with Jimmy Chambers of the Community Center to enter the 11th Western Gold Medal Bas ketball tournament, which will be gin here February 12 and continue through February 28. More applications are expected within the next few days to bring the total number of applicants up to 64, 32 girls’ teams and 32 boys’ teams. Those teams which have signified an interest in participat ing in this year’s tournament all HIGH SCHOOL CAGERS HAVE BUSY WEEK Played Granite Falls, Salem, Hildebran With Wins and Defeats. Over the past week the Francis Garrou high school cage teams have had a busy schedule, meeting three other county high schools, losing some games and winning a few. Tuesday night the Valdese girls beat Granite Falls, 23-17, but the Valdese boys lost -by the margin of one point to the Granite Falls quint in an overtime period, 27 26. Even the loss, however, was something of a moral victory for the local boys who were beaten badly by the Granite Falls crew earlier in the season. Last Friday night, both Valdese teams went down in defeat before Salem high school, the girls los ing 24-10 and the boys by a score of 26-20. Tuesday night a week ago, both local teams were triumphant in a doubleheader meeting with Hilde bran high school at the Valdese gym. Valdese boys won 35-33 and the girls made it an easy win bver their visitors, 26-10. DREXEL SHOE SHOP IS SOLD Francis McGaliard Is New Owner of H. and H. Shoe Repair Shop. The H. and H. Shoe Shop of Drexel has been sold by Oscar M. Harrison and M. Z. Honeycutt to Francis McGalliard ,who has ope rated the shop and the H. and H. Dry Cleaners since shortly after they were opened for business. McGalliard will continue to ope for its owners, the only change being in the ownership of the shoe repair shop. Harrison and Honeycutt opened the combination business in Drex el a little more than two years ago, having built a concrete block building for it. The only interrupt ion in the business activities in the two years was caused when a fire oh November 11, 1947, destroyed the roof of the building. The new owner of the shoe shop was a witness of the Pearl Harbor attack and served as staff sergeant in the quartermaster corps until he was mustered out in 1945. EDUCATION REPORT IS HEARD BY P.-T. A. Members of the Parent-Teachers Association were given a graphic picture of the conditions of North Carolina schols in a presentation of the report of the N. C. Educa tion Commission at a meeting re cently at the school auditorium. A film strip prepared by the com mission was shown, and with Don ald Johnson of the high school faculty reading the accompanying script. Mrs. L. E. Deaton presided in the absence of the president. The de votional was led by Rev. Ben Dickson, minister of the Assembly of God church. Under the lead ership of Mrs. Harold LaPevers, the audience learned the P.-T. A. song and sang familiar songs and rounds. took part in the tourney last year, which was perhaps the most suc cessful one since the playoffs were started by Chambers in 1939. The girls’ tournament will begin on the afternoon of February 12 and extend through February 19, the date the boys’ teams begin their eliminations. The tourney will close February 28. Boys’ and girls’ teams from the following schools have paid the $5 application fee and are expected to take part in the big basketball | event: Drexel, Lincolnton, Marion, Waco, Belwood, Casar, Pleasant Gardens, Happy Valley, Grover, N. C. S. D., Glenwood, Hickory, Hildebran, North Brook, George Hildebrand, Glen Alpine, Nebo, Morganton, Maiden, Valdese, Tay lorsville, Blowing Rock, Kings Creek, Piedmont and Gamewell. Fallston will enter a boys’ team but no girls’ team. Stony Point and Banoak will' enter girls’ teams but no boys’ team. Stony Point boys were the winners last year, but it is under stood that practically the entire championship squad was graduat ed last June, leaving the school with very little in the line of bas ketball material. THEATRE MEN ATTEND MEET Carpenter and Burgin Get To See Tar Heel Favorites At Convention. George Carpenter and Charles Burgin of Colonial Theatres, Inc., were in Charlotte Sunday through Tuesday attending the 37th an nual convention of the Theatre Owners of North and South Caro lina. The convention was held at the Hotel Charlotte. Sidney Blackmer, stage and screen player and native of Salis bury attended the banquet Tues day night. Mr. Blackmer attended Warrenton High School near Salisbury and the University of North Carolina. He has appeared in scores of stage plays and motion pictures and gained fame for his portrayal of the late President Theodore Roosevelt. He played this role in several feature films and short subjects. He is also recognized as one of the screen’s leading “heavies” and played the menace in many mo tion pictures. He had an important part in “Duel in the Sun”, one of the top-grossing pictures of all time. Other figures from the enter tainment world who accepted in vitations to attend the convention included Johnny Long, nationally known orchestra leader and graduate of Charlotte Central High School, and Peggy Stewart, motion picture cowgirl. Arthur Lockwood, president of the Theater Owners of America, and Gael Sullivan, executive direc tor, were the principal speakers at the convention with many other prominent men in the industry on the program. The Colonial Theaters, Inc., is one of the larger chains in the two Carolinas. _— TWO BURGLARIES ARE REPORTED BY POLICE Burglars broke into the home of Frank Lail on Milton Road be tween 12:15 noon and 3 p. m. Wednesday, January 26, and took a table model radio, a 12-gauge hammer shotgun and fishing rods and reels. The back door of the Lail home had been forced open. Rick Ribet has reported that his home wras entered on the pre ceding Wednesday in daylight hours. Contrary to his custom, MrJ Ribet went home in the after noon and heard someone run ning through the house. He shout ed at the intruder, and ran to the front of the house in time to see a tall white man hurtle the front porch railing and flee down the hill. The Valdese police are investi gating the two cases and warn householders to keep their doors locked. VOTE IS LIGHT IN ELECTION HERE TUESDAY Action Clears Way For Val dese To Proceed With Plans For Water System. Voters yesterday put their stamp of approval on the $100,000 bond issue which passed by a wide mar gin. The vote was 107 for, with only six voting against the bonds. The light vote, which saw only about one ninth of the city’s reg istered voters turn out at the polls at the city hall, was more or less expected since there were no per sonalities or controversial issue involved in the election. The adoption of the issue by the voters now clears the tracks for the city government to pro ceed with plans for getting bids on the expansion of. the water filter plant and the installation of a new water main into town. How soon some further action would be taken was not known here yesterday. , 4 Plans, as recommended by the city’s engineers, Dixon and Still well of Charlotte, call for doubling the size of the present filter plant, making its capacity 1,000,000 gal lons daily. Judges of the election were James Short and A. A. Pons. Crlenn Ramsey acted as registrar. J. D. BRINKLEY, JR., TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH FATHER J. D. Brinkley, Jr., completed his work at Duke University last week an dis now associated with his fa ther in the Brinkley Lumber and . Construction company. ! He will receive his diploma in | the June graduating exercises. At Duke University, he was a I member of the band and was also | on the freshman advisory council, i He did his high school work at f Staunton Military Academy in [ Staunton, Virginia. He is an active member of the U. S. Naval Reserve. LIONS CLUB INDUCTS TWO NEW MEMBERS The Valdese Lions club induct* ed into membership at its meeting Thursday evening, February 17, Dr. Isaac H. Prevette and Gordon Boger. Because of the Parent-Teacher Association meeting on the same evening, there was no program and the meeting was adjourned early so that the members might attend the P.-T. A. This Week In Valdese Thursday, February 3 6:45 p. m.—The Lions club will meet at the Pilot Cafeteria. 7:30 p. m. — The Sans Souci Bridge club will meet at the home of Mrs. Parks Sherrill, Jr. Friday, February 4 7:30 p. m.—Double-header high school basketball game at school gymnasium. Valdese vs. Glen Al pine. —o— Saturday, February 5 6:30 p. m.—The young people’s class of the Valdese Methodist church will have a party at the church hut. 7:30 p. m. — The Town Board will meet at the city hall. Monday, February 7 . 7:30 p. m. — Lovelady Chapter No. 147, O. E. S., will meet at the Masonic Hall. 1 7:30 p. m.—The Mary Grisette, Lettie Hamlet and Lottie Moon circles of the Baptist church will meet in the homes. Tuesday, February 8 12:30 p. m.—The Rotary Club will have its regular luncheon meeting at the*Pilot Cafeteria. 7 p. m. — The Daughters of America will meet at the Junior Order Hall. __
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