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Boost Valdese! Hatch It Grow! Your Local Merchants Deserve Your Support i. u VALDESE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1949 No. 6 |an Changing Terms f Alderman, Mayor, nd Election Method eadline set qr TAXIS TO FIND PARKING jrd Has Busy Session Cov ering blatters of Wide Interests. he Valdese town board at its ;ting Saturday night adopted solution to accept a cash pay lt of $907.21 in settlement ot a et assessment, together with rued interest, against the ithern Railway. 'he street paving assessment been the subject of disagree it for several years between the n and the Southern, since the ithern claimed that the street not abut on its right of way. n making a settlement with the road, the town agreed to accept company's offer to pay the 7.21 and to install a signal at dangerous crossing near the )t Rill Fashion Mill. It is un stood from railroad authorities t the installation of the cross signal cost in the neighbor id of $6000 or $7000. Materials •e furnished by the state high y department and the work was ne by the railroad, which had to ange its entire electrical system ween Connelly Springs and exel. \ former member of the town ard said that the town had been irking for 17 years to get such a ;nal installed here. , Election Legislation Proposed legislation for stagger y the election of town officials $ approved by the board, with dermen Garrou. Searcy, Mar lat and Chester voting for it d Alderman Cline dissenting. Representative O. Lee Horton, 10 is the town's attorney, is ied to present the proposal for e change in election machinery the state legislature. If ap oved. the measure will mean at aldermen will be elected for ir years instead of for two, as at esent. and the mayor will be scted for a two-year term. Elec ns will be held every two years.: the coming 1949 election, a ivor would be elected and alder m for wards 1. 2 and 3 would be ‘Cted for four year terms. Wards md 5 would elect aldermen for 0 years in this election, but the lermen elected to represent ese two districts in the 1951 elec ,n would then be elected to serve tegular four-year term. Voters would vote only for the toman from their ward, and for tyor. In the past, all voters have en able to vote for the aldermen all five wards. Ihe city hall is designated as e Polling place for all wards, th five separate booths to be ovided, as has been as the cus n. Telephone Service A letter from Mr. Carpenter of e Hickory Telephone company is tead, in which he stated that ® comPany was receiving a ship NH of cable and other supplies '0 hoped to begin work within e next 45 days on the cable. This L Cai'Penter said, would mean at more phones would be avail 1 for Valdese. Alderman Garrou objected to o i=taLement in Mr. Carpenter’s ,e1, hamely, that subscribers ait''ays been contacted before itional telephones were added their lines. ^1!0U stated that he knew of -our-party line that had been ^Continued on page six) EDWARD CALLENDER AT KEESLER FIELD, MISS. tUVVAKU IALLEAUEK, JK. Ffc. Edward L. Callender, 18 son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Callender Valdese. has reported to Keesler Field. Mississippi to begin training in the Airplane and Engine Mec hanics School located here. Keesler Field, a Base of the Technical Division, Air Training Command, is the home of the world's largest Airplane and En gine Mechanics School. The training Pfc. Callender re ceives in the School will extend over a period of approximately 28 weeks and will include instruction in aircraft electrical systems, en gine operations, fuel and oil sys tems, propellers, structures, in struments and inspections. This training will qualify him to per form maintenance on all conven tial type aircraft flown by the USAF. MISS FISHER PILOT GUEST Pilot District Governor Is Visitor To Local Club At Dinner Meeting Miss Mabel Fisher, district gov ernor of Pilot International, was the guest of the Pilot club of Val dese at a special dinner meeting Friday evening at the Pilot Cafe teria. The tables were decorated with yellow candles in crysta. holders and an arrangement ol jonquils and Dutch iris. Presiding at the meeting was Miss Lila Cox, president of the club. Following the dinner, reports for the first nine months of the club year were given by committee chairmen. Miss Fisher spoke to the club or “How Effectively Do We Grow?’ emphasizing that the measure ol growth is not so much in numbers as in the effectiveness of service rendered by the organization. A gift was presented Miss Fish er by the club. Mrs. Nell Hern, on whose birth day the meeting happened to fall was presented with a birthda3 cake. After the meeting, the clut members were invited to an in formal social gathering at the home of Miss Ruth Martin. Miss Fisher was a guest of Miss Martin while in Valdese. On Sat urday Mrs. Henry J. Garrou, Mrs Dick Ribet and Miss Martin enter tained the visitor at a luncheor at the Hickory Hotel. Iutherford College Baptist Mission To fie Organized As Church Sunday ,lUtaei'foi'd College Baptist urp’^cV11, ke orsanized into a iorir o!K'ay at;ernoon at four Sla!'ed back in the sum e Pi,- t^Lssi?n Sun^ay school by an hacBaptis' "-'aii-ch. the nois es considerable pro fbeenafaiVrfliilliPS °f Hickory Mine • ‘ as pastor and is BS t , 5e;les of revival ,reet Se the church. stiasfl Pe?ple of the mission Qimittee nf?! with the aclvisory lPtist a tlle Cai.awba River ms for tho°ftlatl0n and made g Sunday 01gani2ati°nal meet ClliL"w C1 thfc ciiurcb will be named later. J. C. Berry, on< of the workers in the mission, say: that approximately 21 people hav< already secured their church let ters from other churches and ar< ready to be charter members o the new church, and that other: are expected to be ready by Sun day. Sunday school at the mission ha: been held at three o’clock Sundaj afternoons, but will be changed tc the mornings after the church i: established. All officers of th< Sunday school, except the trea surer, Mrs. J. C. Berry, have beer from the First church of Valdese Bill Pons has served as Sundaj school superintendent. OVER $4,000 RAISED HERE IN POLIO FUND Garrou Announces Large Sum For County’s March Of Dimes Campaign. J. Edward Garrou, 1949 Marc* of Dimes chairman for Valdese has announced the final amouni raised in Valdese in the drive tc | aid the National Foundation foi , Infantile Paralysis in its work oJ | combating and treating polio. Stirred by last summer’s epi demic, which struck heavily in the • town of Valdese and easterr j 'Burke, Valdese residents came [ through with the largest contri i bution ever collected here. The j final count showed that $4,362.2( i was raised, not including $78 rais : ed in Rutherford College. | County-wide, the $20,000 goa' i was reached and exceeded by seve \ ral thousand dollars, the exacl ; amount could not be readily de | termined yesterday. In thanking the people of Val dese for their generous response tc the March of Dimes appeal, Mr Garrou listed the following donors which helped put the drive ovei (.Continued on page six) WORK STARTED TO ELIMINATE U.S. 70 CURVES Highway Department Con firms Projects and Will Use ; Maintenance Personnel. Work is scheduled to start this week on the straightening cf the two curves which flank the town : of Valdese on the east and west, : State highway officials conferred ; here Monday with Mayor Oscar M 'Harrison and City Manager Lee :Ribet and confirmed the two pro i jects which will be done with high way maintenance personnel. The road straightening work will be done on the “swimming pool" curve on highway 70 on the eastern side of town and on the sharp bend in highway 70 near ; the old Assembly of God church | on the western side. A power i shovel will be used in cutting away the steep banks to give clearer vision and permit the curves to be lessened. The Valdese Manufacturing Company has given a strip of land on the west-side curve to the State Highway Commission, part ol which will be used in straighten ing the highway at that point. It had been expected that a house situated near the bank on this curve would have to be moved, but the highway commission has de ; cided that it will not be necessary Both curves have been the 1 scenes of many accidents in the ! past and news that the work oi i straightening them was to be done , I was received with joy. 'JOYCE RAMSEY WINNER IN FASHION SHOW In a fashion show given by the 1 home economics students Friday 1 morning in the chapel exercises oi the Valdese high school, first place was won by Joyce Ramsey, model ing a green gabardine dress which she had made. < The second place award went tc Alma Young of Connelly Springs I and Frankie Harrison won thirc ' I place. I The ninth grade beginning home economics students m o d e 1 e c aprons. Annie Yancey won firsl ’ place, Betty McCampbell seconc place and Sally Smith third place NAT AMOS OPENING RADIO REPAIR SHOE Nat Amos, a radio repairmar with 20 years experience, is open ing a radio repair shop at the ! Major Electric company in Val > dese. Mr. Amos is well qualified ir ! all phases of radio work, having £ ■ wide background of experience ! with AM, FM and television. • Formerly a resident of Vald^se > i Mr. Amos comes back here frorr ■ Ross Radio Shop in Morganton where he has worked for the pasl ; several years. r All work is fully guaranteed, Mr i Amos says. ! AT CITY HALL Mrs. Louise Nier has been em l ployed as assistant clerk in the . Valdese city hall. She is the for -: mer Louise Berry, daughter of Mr | and Mrs. Nathan Berry. Pons Receives Football Trophy s2J 11 Leon Pons holds the football sportsmanship award which was i presented to him last Wednesday at the football banquet by George j Anderson, left. Standing ready to congratulate him is Coach Jamer . !son of Davidson College. The camera caught the three in their | most serious moment cf the evening. -- Gridders Hold Banquet And Honor Leon Pons j At the annual banquet for the j Valdese high school football ! squads, held Wednesday night, * j February 2, at the schqpl lunch ; room, Leon Pons, captain of the ; team, was awarded a trophy for i I having “in the eyes of his team | mates shown the best sportsman ■ ship throughout the season.” j The trophy was presented by its ! donor, George Anderson. Davidson Coach is Speaker i Coach Charles D. Jamerson of j Davidson College, introduced by | Rev. A. B. McClure, spoke to the | players, first asking the question, “What particular individual trait j or characteristic does football, or i athletics, give to a boy„ which does him most good in later life?” After mentioning traits he might possibly name—loyalty, de | termination, and courage,—he i concluded that the greatest bene j fit a player derived from playing 1 football was a social consciousness, an ability to be one of the group and to adapt himself to the people around him. Granville Morrow, linesman, and Harold Hartman, backfield, received gold sweaters from Frank j W. Pons of The Men’s Shop. Billfolds were given by Johnny ' Gardner of Carreen’s Jewelry to ! R. L. Abee and Gerald Arrowood, ! backfields, and Charles Whisenant j and Jack Leger, linesmen. Twenty-four boys were given j letters for having played sixteen i quarters during the 1948 football ■ season. They were R. L. Abee, j Harold Abernathy, Lloyd Annas, i Gerald Arrowood, Eugene Bridges, ; John Chaney, Herbert Garrou, : Harold Glasbrook, Junior Jacu min, Willie Jacumin, Willis La chot, John Laughridge, Jack Le | ger, Granville Morrow, Richard Page, Leon Pons, Eugene Pons, Bill Robinson, Eugene Sain, Homer Smith, Jack Street, Buster Ver reault, Charles Whisenant, and Bob Williams Manager Bennie Huffman and , assistant manager Dickie Ribet also received letters. Other players at the banquet were Harvey Abee, Danny Aberna thy, Edward Bleynat, Joe Eller, Kern Feimster, Gene Glasco, Frank Goode, David Hallyburton, Edward Hipps, Sam Page, ,Glen Powell, Sam Powell, Terrel Robin son, Bob Street, Danny Williams and Ray Wiseman. The evening's program was closed with a color movie of the Davidson-Washington Lee game, which Coach Jamerson had brought with him. Jimmie Chambers had made ar rangements for the banquet, and invited a number of men in town who were interested in the team to sponsor the banquet. Junior Jacumine received the last award made during the even ing, presented to him by Mr. Mc Clure “for the safety of the people who live out of town and the safe ty of preachers who live in town”. The award was a shiny tin wash pan. Jacumine blushed and the boys roared with laughter. They hadn’t forgotten the night of initiation when then sent Jacu mine to the preacher’s house to ask him if he had a bathtub in his house and could he use it, please. Gold Medal Basketball Tourney Begins Saturday Promptly at 2 p. m. Saturday Valdese’s eleventh annual Western Gold Medal Basketball tourna ment gets underway at the Com munity Center with eight girls’ games scheduled up through 10 o' clock in the evening. The opening round of the one-week girls’ tour nament will resume Monday after noon at 4 o'clock and the second round playoffs will begin Tuesday afternoon. Thirty-two girls’ teams and 32 boys’ teams are entered and with a few exceptions are the same teams which participated in last year’s successful tourney. ■ All is in readiness at the Cen ter where the last-minute pre parations for the nightly crowds have been made. Jimmy Cham bers, in his usual efficient manner, has seen to it that the floor which will bear the thumping, scuffing and sliding of thousands of feet in the next two weeks, is in top notch condition. A large ventilation fan has been installed at the north end of the building which will make for more comfort for players and spectators. A clock-like schedule of games has been prepared and if the same conditions prevail as have in the past, that schedule will be met. On the closing night (February 19) of the girls’ tournament, a beauty contest will be held with an entrant from every one of the 32 girls’ teams. A queen will be picked from the 32 and awarded a loving cup in token of the honor, a gift of the Valdese Jewelry Store. Each of the beauty contestants will receive a small gold-filled basketball. Numerous other trophies are on hand to be awarded, which will make this year’s tournament the most rewarding ever held for the various winners. The winning girls’ and boys’ team will receive a life-size gold-filled basketball; each player on the two champion ship teams will receive a small goldfilled basketball and a pair of regulation basketball shoes. The second place team in both divisions will be given a large trophy 18 inches high. Similar tro phies, smaller in size, will go to the third and fourth-place teams in both divisions and players in all the first four teams in both divi sions will receive regulation bas ketball shoes. Twelve girls wil be picked on an all-tournament girls?:team and 10 boys named to a similar squad for boys. Three sportsmanship medals will be awarded in each division. In the boys’ division the 16 out standing players whose teams were eliminated in the first round of play will receive medals. The opening round of the girls’ tournament beginning Saturday afternoon will be as follows: Tay lorsville vs. North Brook, 2 p. m.; Piedmont vs. Stony Point, 3 p. m.; Happy Valley vs. Nebo, 4 p. m.; . Startown vs. Pleasant Gardens, 5 p. m.; Morganton vs. Maiden, 5:55 p. m.; Drexel vs. Glenwood, 6:50 p. m.; Grover vs. Valdese, 7:50 p. m.; Kings Creek vs. Banoak, 8:50 p. m. Monday afternoon: Mountain View vs. Gamewell, 4 p. m.; NCSD vs. Belwood, 5 p. m.; Blowing Rock vs. Marion, 5:55 p. m.; George Hil debran vs. Lincolnton, 6:50 p. m.; Salem vs. Waco, 7:50; Hickory vs. SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETING HERE NEXT SUNDAY Baptists Plan Convention At First Baptist Church Sunday Afternoon. Miss Mary V. Gay of Raleigh, State church library worker for North Carolina Baptists, will ad dress the February meeting of the Catawba River Baptist Sunday School Convention at the First Baptist Church of Valdese next Sunday afternoon at 2:45. Other features of the program will be special music by the girls’ chcrus of the Valdese church and an address by Dr. R. K. Redwine, manager of Seaside Assembly near Fort Fisher. Dr. Redwine is a for mer pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hickory. At 7 o’clock Saturday evening there will be fellowship and social gathering of the church librarians of the association in the social rooms of the church when the librarians will meet Miss Gay and she will offer plans for the pro motion of the library work. Churches not having a librarian are urged to send a representative anyway. ROTARY CLUB HAS RECORD ATTENDANCE Highest Attendance Record In ^94th Rotary District During December. The Valdese Rotary Club had the highest attendance record in the 194th district for the month of December, with a 98.15% at tendance. Average for all clubs of the state was around 88.5%. Following Valdese were these clubs: Dilworth (Charlotte), 98.15; Brevard, 95.25; Spindale, 95.59; Marion, 95.55; Shelby, 95.13; Fran ite Falls, 95.00; Andrews, 94.92; Morganton, 93.70; Old Fort, 92.50; Mooresville, 91.43; Highlands, 91.30; Charlotte, 91.00; Lenoir, 90.74; Monroe, 88.69. The other clubs in the district all had attendance records lower than Monroe, although all of them were in the 80’s. BRITT LAUNDRY HAS SANIT0NE Local Cleaners Install New, Nationally-Known Way Of Dry Cleaning. The nationally - advertised cleaning process, Sanitone, has been installed by the Britt Laun dry and Cleaners of Valdese and is being made available to the Laundry firm’s clientele at no extra cost, it has been announced this week by Alton Britt, proprie tor of the firm. An introductory advertisement, carried in this issue of The News, explains the patented cleaning process, which is granted only to certain dry cleaning firms in each community. Sanitone is described as a gentler cleaning process, one in which dull-colored clothes are brightened. Mr. Britt says that the penetrating action of Sanitone gets at every fibre of a fabi'ic and removes discolored particles of im bedded dirt. Laundry workers in trying out the new process recently reported that a mechanic’s work jacket, coated and soaked with grease and grime, had been put through one regular cleaning and came out completely clean without even re quiring any spotting. TO REPRESENT VALDESE DURING CHORAL CLINIC Chosen to represent the Francis Garrou Memorial high school of Valdese at the first annual West ern North Carolina choral clinic held at Mars Hill College Friday and Saturday were Alyce Epley, Betty Bravard, Willis Lachot and Max Baker. The four students were accom panied by Robert Gourley, chorus and band director. School No. 3, 8:50 p.m. Tuesday afternoon; Glen Alpine vs. Mooresboro, 4 p, m.; Hildebran vs. Casar, 5 p. m.; followed by the second round elimination. The boys’ tourney will not begin until Saturday, February 19. Nurses’ Home Completed In Expansion Program For Valdese General JACK WOOD COMPLETES AIRBORNE TRAINING I JACK WOODS Jack W. Wood, Pvt, son of Mrs. Grace Wood, Valdese, has com pleted the Basic Airborne Course with the Airborne Battalion, Stu | dent Training Regiment, at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. He was presented with the co veted silver wings of a qualified paratrooper at the impressive gra duation ceremony of Basic Class I No. 14, 25 Jan. 49. J During his five weeks of stren j uous training at Fort Benning he j learned the techniques and princi pies of parachute jumping and j landing. In this period he also made five supervised jumps from i a plane in flight at altitudes of ; 1,000 and 1200 feet, one of which ! was with complete combat equip ment. DEBATERS GET INTO PRACTICE Valdese Team Will Hear Dr. Kaiser’s Group At Lenoir Rhyne. Donald Johnson, debating coach at the Francis Garrou Memorial ! high school in Valdese, is whipping his team into shape with a series I of practice debates at the semi j weekly after-school meetings. A practice debate with Drexel has been arranged for in the near future. Also, Mr. Johnson has ar | ranged to take his deam to Hick ' ory to hear the Lenoir-Rhyne de i bating society under the direction ! of Dr. Albert Kaiser. | The national topic for high j school debates this year is “Re ! solved: That the United Nations j Now Be Revised Into A Federal ! World Government.” I Valdese high school students j who have gone out for debating j are Max Baker, Leroy Lail, Cathe j rine Kincaid, Florine Mott, Nancy I Harrison, David Abernathy, Tom my Garrou, Mildred Abee, Edwin Houk, Peggy Benfield, Alyce Epley and Barbara Bounous. S "SAN FRANCISCO" AT COLONIAL THEATER Do you sometimes think of the extra-good movies you have seen in the past and wish that it were possible to see them again? This week “San Francisco” returns to the screen at the Colonial Theatre, and if the popularity of the pic ture in other towns is any indi cation of how people here will re act, the house will be packed. Gary Grant and Jeanette Mac Donald, as they appeared in this story of the great San Francisco, fire, have not been forgotten by those who saw them before and must not be missed this time by those who failed to see the picture before. NAVY RECRUITER IN VALDESE ON FRIDAY In addition to interviewing men for enlistment in the regular Navy, Engineman First Class G. R. Chenney, traveling recruiter from Spartanburg, will process men for enlistment in the Naval Reserve. He will be in Valdese on Friday at the post office. FIFTEEN-ROOM BUILDING IS NOW OCCUPIED Furniture Badly Needed To Complete Home, Says Hospital Head. The first step in the Valdese General Hospital’s $150,000 ex pansion program has been finish ed as nurses, technicians and other single female employees of the hospital last week moved into the newly-completed nurses’ home. Seventeen women now live in the 15-room building, which was Started last summer. Built oij brick, concrete and steel, the building is of early American architectural style with an attrac tive front of square columns sup porting a small porch. Only land scaping remains to be done to make the building complete in every detail. Furnishings for the handsome new building is another matter. While the bedrooms now in use are all furnished with the old furni ture on hand, the building’s re ception and sitting room on the first floor as yet are bare. Admini strator W. D. Owens states that there are no funds on hand with which to purchase additional fur nishings and jokingly added that “apple crates are going to look rather sad in those nice rooms.” Some of the bedrooms are built to accomodate two persons while others are designed for only one occupant. Connecting every two bedrooms is a bath. The building is fire-resistant with concrete floors, masonry walls and steel supporting columns. The concrete floors are covered with easily cleaned asphalt tile. The basement of the two-story building houses a recreation room and a kitchenette, but regular meals will be served in the main hospital building as in the past. Work on altering the bedroom, quarters of the clinic building is now underway since the female employees of the hospital haVe va cated that structure. The enclosing of the corridor connecting the clinic and the hospital is also be ing carried on and Mr. Owens states that this second phase of the program should be finished in April in time for a formal opening of the entire facility by National (Continued on page six) This Week In Valdese Thursday, February 10 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 Burke county sub-district of the Methodist Youth Fellowship will meet at the Valdese Methodist church. 7:30 p. m.—The Mary Lou Buff circle will meet. —0— Saturday, February 12 2 p. m.—Opening game of girls gold medal masketball tourna ment, at Valdese community cen ter. Sunday, February 13 11a. m.—Worship services at all churches. 2:45 p. m.—Catawba River Bap tist Sunday school convention at First Baptist church. —0— Monday, February 14 2:30 p. m.—Presbyterian circles 2 and 4 will meet. 7:30 p. m.—The Methodist cir cles will meet in the homes. 7:30 p. m.—Presbyterian circles 1, 3, 5, 7, and 8, will meet. 7:30 p. m.—Lovelady Lodge No. 670, AF and AM, will meet in the Masonic Hall. Tuesday, February 15 12:30 p. m.—The Rotary Club will meet at the Pilot Cafeteria. 7 p. m.—The Valdese Music Club will have a dinner meeting at the home of Mrs. George Williams. 7:30 p. m.—The American Le gion and the Legion Auxiliary will meet at the Legion Hut.
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