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Boost Valdese! Watch It Grow! A LIVE NEWSPAPER IN A PROGRESSIVE TOWN” i! Your Local Merchants Deserve Your Support 'ol. I1 VALDESE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9} 1949 No. 10 Exhibit Of Fine Art To Be Held Here March 15 ICKETS ARE IOW AVAILABLE laiiery Will Remain Here For Four Days At School Auditorium. pupils of the Valdese Schools nd patrons in the community will ave opportunity to view the fine |.t ex]libit which will be displayed j the Elementary School Audi ,rium March 15 through March 8 This traveling gallery, con ning aproximately 150 repre entative subjects, will be open ; the school pupils during school ours and to the general public •om 3:30 p. m. until 5:30 p. m. lch day. Tuesday through Fri ay of next week. These pictures ( te reproductions in color of the j orld's great masterpieces, both •om the early and modern hods. It is considered to be the lost artistic exhibit ever displayed ere in the public schools. The riginals of these works are in the 10st famous art galleries in the orld. Patrons of the school are en gaged to attend. It is hoped rat many individuals and organi st ions may wish to purchase ictures from this collection. Ef )rts are being made to raise lough money to place pictures in soli class room and to place some irge prints on the walls of the :hool auditorium. Emphasis is being placed on the :udy of these pictures in the asses, since teachers believe this one of the best opportunities to ach art appreciation. Every child : the school will be allowed to ew the pictures for at least one :t appreciation period, when the acher will direct the study. Tickets are nowr being sold by le pupils, and will be on sale at le door each afternoon at 3:30. he admission is 14c for pupils rd 35c for adults. In addition to ijoyment of this collection, you ill assist in raising a fund for the urchase of pictures for our school nd they are badly needed, said ementary school principal, John . Johnson. IOTARIANS HEAR TALK ON USES OF RADAR Walter Pons, who was a radar Seer and engineer during the •St war. spoke to the Valdese Ro :rv Club last week on the subject : radar, using charts and dia :ams to illustrate his topic. On Wednesday morning. Mr. Pons al ) spoke to the science classes at ie Valdese high school. Radar, the speaKer said, is based i the principal of the echo, the land waves striking an object and ■turning to their starting place, be distance of the object is mea ued by the length of time it takes le wave to return. Mr. Pons discussed the various ies of radar during the war. Gtiaid Arrowood was present as tnior Rotarian. Visitors at the meeting were Al ii Berry. Wade McKinney, Carl UGS°h, Andrew Smith of Mor U)ton: Sih?io Martinat of Le Carl Cline and Dr. T. R. tlliams of Hickory. Hospital Chaplain iOMO*W The Rev. A. W. Lippard, above, pastor of the Calvary Liutheran church of Morganton tendered his resignation from that post Sunday | morning, effective March 15, to be come full-time chaplain at the i State Hospital in Morganton. MRS. ROBINSON DIED LAST WEEK Funeral Services Held Last; Thursday For Connelly Springs, R-2, Lady. Mrs. Mary Deal Robinson, seventy-four, of Connelly Springs, Route Two, died in the Valdese General Hospital Wednesday, March 2, at 7:45 o'clock following an illness of two days. Funeral services were conducted at People’s Methodist church, Ru therford College, at three o’clock Thursday afternoon with the Rev. Lester Allman, the pastor, in charge, assisted by the Rev. C. H. Capps, and the Rev. June Me- I Daniels. Burial was in the Huff- ' man cemetery. Rutherford College, j Mrs. Robinson, born in Burke county December 14, 1874, the; daughter of the late Wilas Deal | and Frances Sigmon Deal, is sur- j vived by five sons, John and Ed j Robinson of Connelly Springs, Ben, j Charlie and B. M. Robinson of Rutherford College; three daugh- j ters, Mrs. Ola King of Connelly Springs, Mrs. Maggie Howell of Lenoir, and Miss Bessie Robinson of the home; one sister, Mrs. John Gordon of Clover, S. C.; two broth ers, Robert Deal of York, S. C., and Eli Deal of Clover; and twen ty grandchildren. CLAUDE MOOSE AT GERMAN MILITARY POST Recruit Claude R. Moose, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Moose, Route 1, Valdese, has been assigned to the 7808 * Station Complement Unit, of the Germisch, Germany, military post where he is serving in the Engineer Corps. This is Moose’s first assignment in the European theatre. The Garmisch military post em braces the Garmisch recreational center, top recreational installa tion of the European Command. Located in Southern Bavaria, a few miles from the Austrian bor der, it is world famed as a year round resort. resbyterians Select Four Elders and Four 'eacons For Terms Of Three Years new elders and four new ons were elected by the Wal wn Presbyterian church of ’ptwf at' *ts annual business j ° Sunday afternoon. The lllS0are John D- Guigou, Lacy „ ’ Williams, and Dick mfln?e4COns are Laird Jacob, ithdf ,VeiTeault- Haynes ■B n lTd and Edward Garrou. r. ,lp c!der.s and deacons will 01 a term of three years, I after which they are not eligible for re-election for one year. One third of both the diaconate and the session (elders) is retired each year under this rotating system. Balilots >for the voting were printed in both French and Eng lish, and contained the names of all the men of the church, each member voting for four on each ballot. Elders and deacons who have not previously been ordained will be ordained in the near future, probably the last Sunday in March, it was learned. Those who have been ordained before will simply be installed. After the news men are install ed, the two boards will be organi zed within themselves, electing their own chairman and other of ficers. In addition to the election, the meeting included reading of the treasurer’s report, the adoption of the new budget, and other matters pertaining to the work of the church. __ BOARD OKAYS PLAN TO RETIRE WATER BONDS Twenty-Five-Year Schedu 1 e Mapped For Retirement Of $100,000 In Bonds. - ! A 25-year schedule for retiring ! $100,000 in bonds for the enlarge- : ment of the Valdese water filter | plant and extension of water mains was approved by the board of al- : dei-men at their meeting Saturday night at the city hall. O. Lee Horton, town's attorney, presented the schedule for approv al, offering also a 20-year plan for the retirement of the bonds. Mayor Pro-Tern Guy R. Cline presided at the meeting. Others present were Aldermen D. H. Mar tinat, Stewart Chester, Henry J. Garrou, an d City Manager Lee Ribet. SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETING SET FOR MARCH 13 McCready To Be Speaker For Convention At Calvin Heights Church. Dr. John D. McCready, the pas tor of the First Baptist church of Morganton, will be the principal speaker at the March meeting of the Catawba River Associational Sunday School Convention at the Calvin Heights Baptist church next Sunday afternoon, March 13, when he will bring a special mis sionary message, missions being the emphasis of Southern Baptists in March, Other phases of the meeting will' include reports from the recent j State Sunday School Clinic in j Shelby by all those who attended, i and the making of an assembly program by all the general &nd department superintendents pres ent. Special music will be the contribution of the El Bethel i church. Rev. M. L. Hastings is the pastor of the Calvin Heights Baptist church. Nallie Stewart who is the Sunday school superintendent, will have charge of the devotional pe riod. GET INVITE TO FOLK FESTIVAL The Valdese high school has re-! ceived an invitation to take part I in the Carolina Folk Festival, to! be held the early part of June! in Chapel Hill. Lamar Lunsford, j who has charge of the festival, w^as in Valdese recently and talk ed to C. B. Honeycutt, principal, i and to Miss Anita Ghigo about I Valdese’s participation in the j °vent. Mr. Lunsford said that, should i Valdese accept the invitation, a j fifteen-minute program would be j expected. Possibly it would in clude some Fi ench songs by girls j in Waldensian custom and the dancing of the courante, Walden sian folk dance. The number of people to take part on the pro gram was not specified. Because of several difficulties in getting up the program at this time it is not known whether or not the invitation will be accepted. The Carolina Folk Festival was held last year for the first time, > and drewr a large crowed. Mr. Luns- | ford also directs another folk fes tival in Asheville later in the sum- j mer. Mr. Honeycutt said that he felt that the school should feel hon ored by the invitation, and that he hopes the school will be able to participate and that through the festival more people will learn of Valdese’s interesting historical ! background. SISTER OF MRS. ELLEN BRADSHAW PASSES Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Cook, 86, sister of Mrs. Ellen Bradshaw i of Valdese, died Friday, February j 25, at the home of her son, J. A. j Cook, at the foot of Richland Hill on the Blowing Rock road. Funer al services were held the following Sunday morning at Bethany Bap tist church in the Richland section. WRENNS ANNOUNCE BIRTH Sgt. lc and Mrs. James A. Wrenn announce the birth of a son, Ernest Karl, on February 23, at Oliver General Hospital, Augusta, Ga. Maternal grandfather is Ernest F. j Smith. Valdese. Chinese Doctor Visits Vaidese Dr. Chen Chow* right, of Hunan procinve, China, discussed with W. D. Owens, administrator of the Valdese General Hospital, the method of keeping medical histories. Dr. Chow, who is studying Amer ican hospitals, visited the Valdese hospital Saturday.—(Valdese News Staff Photo). Visiting Chinese Doctor Finds Hospital Marvels “Is difficult to understand why you like this,” remarked Dr. Chen Chow, as he studied the knotty pine panelling in the recreation room of the new nurses’ home at the Valdese General Hospital. Dr. Chow, a physician attached to the provincial Yuanling Hospit al, Yuanling, in the province of Hunan, China, is in America on a six months fellowship of the World Health Organization, an agency sponsored by the United Nations. Interested in studying the admin istration of rural hospitals, Dr. Chow has been following an itiner ary arranged by the Duke Endow ment. Since he arrived in the United States on December 6, he has spent his time in the Carolinas and mostly in North Carolina.” “Now I am a Tar Heel”, he told the doetors of the Valdese hos pital. Although his 100 bed govern ment-supported hospital serves an area many times larger than that served by the Valdese hospital, he says that it is never filled. That is because the Chinese peo ple have not accepted modern medicine. “We must try to win them over from the old ways to the new medical ways,” he said. He says that he found Americans quite different from what he had thought before coming to this country (I used to think Ameri cans were ‘high nosed’, he said). He has come to take American friendliness for granted, and read ily exchanged jokes with the doc tors, and with W. D. Owens, ad ministrator of the Valdese Hospit al, who showed him and Stanley Moore, administrator of Grace Hospital, around the Valdese plant. Dr. Chow’s tour started in the clinic, where he was shown labor atory, X-ray rooms and the doc tor’s offices and was informed the Valdese Hospital set up differed particularly from others in that the doctors had their offices right in the hospital. Unusual Floor Plan “This is most unusual arrange PRAYER MEETINGS AT OLD TEA ROOM HERE A group of interested people, who believe that a Baptist mis sion is needed in East Valdese, have planned to hold a series of prayer meeting in the old tea room on the highway, with a view to establishing a mission Sunday school in that section. The first of the meetings will be Friday night at 7:30 o’clock, and will be con ducted by Rev. Bertis Fair, pastor of Mt. Calvary Baptist church. Other meetings will be conduct ed by various people, several of the mbeing ministers of the as sociation, and interested laymen. The public is invited to attend the meetings. LOVELADY LODGE LISTS ACTIVITIES FOR WEEK Lovelady Lodge No. 670, AF and AM, has scheduled the following activities: First degree, Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p. m. Regular meeting, Monday, March 14, at 7:30 p. m. Lectures, March 14 and 19. Third degree, Thursday, March 17, at 7:30 p. m. FILTER PLANTS BIDS Bids are now being received for the work on the filter plant and will be opened at one o’clock Wed nesday afternoon, March 16.' ment of rooms,” commented Dr. Chow when he visited the maze of surgical and delivery rooms on the third floor. Mr. Owens ex plained that the hospital had ori ginally been a boys’ dormitory, and it has been necessary to adapt the space in the best way possi ble. Anaesthetist Ann Justice and operating room nurse Martha Boyd were just straightening up the op erating room after a busy morn ing. The doctor looked at the ela borate anaesthesia machine with its little dial faces and intricate tubes and gadgets. “In China.” he said, “we cannot use machines like that. The machine we can get all right, but the refills must come from this country. The worst, though, it the service. If some thing goes wrong, there is no one who can fix it. We use ether.” “However,” he added, “you do not have to keep such large sup plies on hand, because you can order what you need and in a day or two it is here. In China, we must keep such large supplies be cause everything is so difficult to get.” Dr. Chow looked at a blue baby who has been in the children’s ward for all the nine months since he was born. “And now you even operate on the heart,” he mar velled. What is the baby’s name?” Mr. Owen was asked. “We cal! him Peewee,” Mr. Owen replied, “and he is spoiled.” Doesn’t Like Low Ceilings Dr. Chow wanted to know why a second and lower ceiling was being put in the old nurses’ home which is being remodeled into a clinic. Even after he was told that the lowered ceiling would make it less expensive to heat the building in the winter and cool (Continued on page two) MISS JUANITA CLINE TO ENTER SPEAKING CONTEST Juanita Cline, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cline, a ninth grade student at Valdese high school, will represent the local school Fri day afternoon in the soil con servation speaking contest which will be held in Morganton at 2 o’clock. The local contestant will be vy ing for three cash prizes which will be awarded to the three top speak ers. First prize is $25 cash awarded by the Morganton Lions Club; second prize is $15 cash awarded by the Valdese Lions Club; and I third prize is $7.50 cash awarded by the Drexel Lions Club. The winner in Morganton will represent the county in the dis trict contest in North Wilkesboro March 28. SENIORS PLAN TRIP IN SPRING TO U.S. CAPITAL Plan Several Projects To Get Funds For Defraying Expenses Of Trip. Seniors of the Valdese high school are making plans for a four day trip to Washington, D. C., this spring. The trip to Washington and back on a chartered bus would take two days and the other two days would be spent touring the cap ital. Biggest hurdle facing the sen iors is getting the money for the trip, since it is estimated that the minimum cost would be $36 for each student. Transportation and hotel accommodations will cost $26, and at least $10 will be needed for meals and incidentals. To secure money for the trip, the seniors have planned several fund-raising projects, and are at present soliciting magazine sub scriptions. Of the 43 seniors, 37 have indi cated that they hope to make the trip. Robert Herman is president of the senior class and Miss Anita Ghigo is faculty adviser. SPENCERS SELL PROPERTY FOR PARK PURPOSES Valuable Morganton Prop erty To Become Recrea tion Center. The C. A. Spencer property in Morganton has been purchased by the Morganton parks and recrea tion foundation from the Spencer heirs, Earl Spencer of Valdese and his brother, Albert N. Spencer of Hickory. The property sold for $65,000, although the valuable tract in downtown Morganton would have brought a much larger amount had it been sold for com mercial purposes, according to real estate estimates. The Spencer homestead on the tract is in good repair, but will be torn down to make room for the construction of a proposed recrea tion center that will include a gym nasium which can seat 2,500 to 3,000 spectators, a swimming pool, youth department, small auditor ium, offices, lobby, entrance, bowl ing alleys, arts and crafts room, general meeting rooms, handball courts, locker and dressing rooms, snack bar, boxing and wrestling rooms and storage rooms. On the board of directors of the parks and recreation foundation are H. L. Shuey, C. P. Reinhardt, Mrs. John C. Reece, J. Ed Butler, G. T. Cornwell, Mrs. T. Henry Wilson, Russell Berry, Clyde Small, and Dr. J. B. Helms. BURGIN IS SPEAKER BEFORE SIXTH GRADES Charles Burgin, who was an of ficer stationed in France during World War II, spoke to the two sixth grades at the Valdese ele mentary school last Monday. The classes had been studying about Paris, and Mr. Burgin told them about the city and then answered questions. Miss Catherine Anderson and Miss Mary Harris are the oxth grade teachers. STUDENTS HEAR SINGERS The Mission-aires, Assembly of God quartet of vocalists and in strumentalists, gave a program of music Monday morning for the students of the Valdese high school and the eighth graders. Mt. Calvary Baptist Church Will Get One of Southern's Locomotive Bells The Mount Calvary Baptist church in Valdese will soon have a much-needed church bell — but this bell will not be just an ordi |nary bell. Here’s why: The bell has spent its life in an other realm of service and is now being retired, pushed aside in the march of modernization. It has tolled along lonely countrysides from Washington to New Orleans \ where children learned to listen for its friendly tone. It has served in crowded, busy freight yards. No doubt some veteran railroad man will feel a certain vacancy has come about in his life when he parts with the bell he has rung j so many times. You see, tiiis bell is an old loco motive bell that is being given to the Mount Calvary church by the Southern Railway. Since church bells are still very scarce—and very expensive when available— the Southern Railway has made it a policy in recent years of giving to churches the locomotive bells from old steam engines -which were retired in favor of Diesels. So far as is known locally, the Valdese church is the first church in this section to receive one of the bells. The following letter from Ernest E. Morris, president' of the South ern Railway, told the Mount Cal vary congregation that its bell would be on the way soon: “With the placing in service of (Continued on page Two) Voters Will Follow New Procedure In Election Of Officials Next May ------O _ THREE BUILDING PERMITS | ISSUED IN JAN., FEB. i Only three building permits were issued in Valdese during the first two months of 1949 and the I first week of March. They were: I Robert Rhyne, garage on Prali ; street, $600. I J. F. Verreault, double garage on Mountain View Drive, $1,900. j Walter Lingafelt, two-room ! dwelling, $800. CREDIT BUREAU NOW APPEARS [ASSURED HERE I Recent Survey Points Toward | Establishing of Merchants i Association. — j While the final report from the j survey of Valdese merchants, now being made with a view to estab | fishing a credit bureau and mer | chants’ association, has not been compiled, the committee in charge of the survey expresses confidence that the outcome will be favorable Frank W. Pons, chairman of the committee, stated last week, that i he believed that it would not be | long before a working organiza tion could be set up. The credit bureau will enable the merchants to clear up delin quent accounts, and to avoid the risk involved in granting credit to ! people whose credit history they do | not know. j The merchants' association will be of inestimable value in pro | moting Valdese as a trading center. VALDESE MEN NAMED AS ALUMNI OFFICERS Earl Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Garrou, Mr. and Mrs. J. Francis Verreault, Dr. C. K. Lynn, Gordon Boger, Lenoir Lowdermilk Louis Richard and Ben Perrou at tended the University of North Carolina alumni meeting in Mor ganton Thursday night. Coach j Snavely, principal speaker, dis i cussed prospects for Carolina’s 1949 football team and showed movies of the Sugar Bowl, Texas, Georgia and Duke games. Officers of the alumni group are Russell Berry, president; Dr. Yates | Palmer, vice-president; J. Grisette, i secretary; and Claude Russell, Dr. ! Herbert Kibler, Iley Whiteley, R. O. Huffman and Ed Butler, direc tors. Fred Huffman is president of the educational foundation; Earl Spencer, vice-president; John Roughton, secretary - treasurer; and H. L. Shuey, Haynes Ruther ford, Albert Garrou, H. L. Riddle, Jr., and Tom Cornwell, directors. John Roughton, of Morganton, the only new offifcer, replaces Bud | Cox. who is now living in Char Ilotte. POWELL ATTENDS YOUNG . GOP MEETING RECENTLY — Marvin Powell of Valdese rep j resented the Young Republican | Clubs of Burke county at the state convention held in Lincolnton Sat j urday, March 5. | The Burke county clubs held a j meeting the preceding Saturday at the Rainbow Grill in Morganton J and considered and passed on sev | eral matters of state and national I interest including rent controls, veterans old-age pension, armed intervention in China, tuition in crease in state colleges, the motor I vehicle inspection law, and the sales tax on soft drinks. RUFUS BRADSHAW ON SHIP AT N. 0. Rufus W. Bradshaw, seaman third class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Conley Bradshaw, Route 1, Valdese, is among 39 members of the crew of the experimental ship E-PCS 1431 who are swelling a throng estimated at mbre than 100,000 visitors here for Mardi Gras today. BOTH HOUSES PASS VALDESE ELECTION BILL Horton Sees Legislation Gets Quick Passage Toward Final Approval. Valdese voters will follow a new procedure in electing their town officials in May as a result of a bill which recently passed both houses in the General Assembly at Raleigh. In the past, the mayor and ald ermen from each of the five wards have been elected for two year terms. Voters-at-large elected the five aldermen; for example, a voter in Ward 1 voted for the entire slate of aldermen instead of just the one representing his ward. Under the new election plan, the mayor wil be elected for a term of two years and aldermen will be elected for a term of four years, with the terms being staggered in the various wards. The bill pro vides that aldermen for Wards 1, 2, and 3 will be elected in May of 1949, for a term of four years and those in Wards 4 and 5 for a term of two years. In the next election and thereafter, the terms of aider men in the last two wards will be for a period of four years, thus staggering the terms of offifce in the five wards. The voters will vote for aldermen representing their own wards instead of for a full state. The bill, HB No. 420, was intro duced February 17 by Rep. O. Lee Horton and five days later was reported favorably by the House committee. Next day, it passed the second and third readings in the House and on February 24 was received in the Senate and sent to the committee on Counties, Cities, and towns. Last Thursday the bill passed the Senate. The bill further provides that voting precincts shall be in the town hall, with separate boxes for each ward. To be eligible for the office of alderman, a candidate must have been a resident of his ward at least three months prior to the election. Oscar M. Harrison is now mayor, and his term expires in May. The folowing men are serving as aider men in the wards designated: Earl Searcy, Ward 1, which is located in the heart of town; Donald Mar tinat, Ward 2, the Martinat sec tion; Henry J. Garrou, Ward 3, the Pine Burr section; Guy R. Cline, Ward 4, Crow Hill section; Stewart Chester, Ward 5, the Weave Hill section. This Week In Valdese Wednesday, March 9 6:30 p. m.—County high school basketball tournament in Valdese school gymnasium. —o— Thursday, March 10 3:30 p. m.—Girl Scout Troop No. 13 will meet at the home of Miss Sue Searcy. 7 p. m.—The Mary Lou Buff Circle will meet at the home of Mrs. Harold Smith. 7:15 p. m.—High Peak Council No. 355, Jr. O. XJ. A. M, will meet in the Junior Order Hall. 7:30 p. m.—The Pilot Club will have a business meeting at the Community Center. 7:30 p. m.—The Burke county sub-district of the Methodist Youth Fellowship, will meet at the C o n ne 11 y Springs Methodist church. —o— Friday, March 11 6:30 p. m.—County high school basketball tournament in the Val dese school gymnasium. 7:30 p. m.—The Colonel John Alston Chapter of the DAR will meet at the home of Mrs. Henry J. Garrou. Saturday, March 12 7:30 p. m.—Finals of county high school basketball tournament in Valdese school gymnasium. 8 p. m.—Hoyle-Crowder wedding (Continued on page two)
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