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Boost Voldese! Watch It Grow! 11 i VALDESE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1949 TES HELD FOR I MEYTRE, 82, ST TUESDAY of Original Settlers Of i’aldese Passed Away After Brief Illness. derick Meytre. 82, one of the settlers of Valdese, passed suddenly at his home here ov morning at 5:30 o’clock a brief illness. Death was at ed to a heart condition. Fun ervices were held Tuesday af ;n at 4-30 at the Waldensian rterian Church of which he ; member. The pastor, Rev. McClure was in charge of >rviCes and burial was in the h cemtery. [bearers were John Refoui, Pons. Henry \inay, Albeit at. Henry Couiville and Al . Meytre. born at Didier, ; Italy. March 22, 1867, is ’■ed by his wife. Jeanne alot Meytre: one sister, Mrs. e Meytre of Valdese; a step Ernest Bertalot of New York • a nephew. Pete Meytre of 'ese. Mr. Meytre's first wife, former Miss Cesarine Leger, n who he married February 889. preceded him in death in in Valdese. His first wife was sister of Humbert Leger of ese. He was married to his mt wife in 1937. Family of Farmers ie beloved citizen was the son ;an Jacques and Jeanne Mey j family of farmers in a farm action of the Waldensian Val While a young man. he was tcted to Marseilles, France as v laborer and eventually came lis country in 1893. s first residence in Valdese at a place called Franklin ss the mountain by the Laurel i. After moving further south, ce to New York and New Jer he finally settled down in ese. running his farm, a gene ;tore. and grinding mill, the r being built in 1908. His store a mecca for the children who 1 sweets and in May of each he had a day of games for l, awarding prizes for the win i two occasions he visited the iensian Valleys and was plan for a longer stay when the broke out in 1939. At that he was heard to say, “they it to stop this war as I have time to wait any longer.” As oi his friends remarked today war is over now, but it is too for him. He has another re 1 that is much better yet.” irary Gets iw Books ie Valdese Public Library has received several new books, ng them are two historical Is about Florida. “Flames of by Baynard Kendrick and ' Great Tide” by Rubylea Hall, ie following new books are ommended for light reading: ! Have Not Love” by Margaret ols, ‘‘Stardust in Her Eyes” anva West, “Little Sister” by 1 Purchell, and “Where the t Is" by Janet Lambert. He Stanley Gardner’s latest ’’ Mason detective story, “The of the Dubious Bridgegroom,” i0 on the library shelf. DESE TEACHERS AT L FACULTY EVENT lde.se s part on the program e annual county-wide teach •anquet, held Friday night at '/'j ebran school, consisted of by Donald Johnson, mem t ie high school faculty, and )t!s by the high school boys’ ' made up of Gerald Arro • Robert Herman, Willis La and Max Baker. ■!1 school was responsible for , lu of the program. At ‘ banquet were the n«-' aient-Teacher Associa e!'s’ and members of the Ub school boards. ®E MAY NOT HAVE 'INDUSTRIAL TEAM article ou Tlf,niateci that Valdese w< S u'T0ftheCatawba^ a?™1 U'aRUe this sumi w°fUan? Vaidese would c nat fact today. Uot theiG Was that Vali ou" "tUSU'ia! an*Q 01d; Maiden, Tayl ■ua Granite Falls. Died Monday Fred Meytre, 82, died unex pectedly at his home on Bienvenue road early Monday morning. He was one of the first settlers of Val dese. CHAMBERS TO BE CHAIRMAN AT CONFERENCE Industrial Recreation Meet To Be Held Thursday In Asheville. Jimmie Chambers, director of the Valdese Community Center, will serve as chairman of the first conference session of the 5th an nual Southeastern Industrial Rec reation Conference which opens tomorrow, Thursday, March 31, at the George Vanderbiilt Hotel in Asheville. Mr. Chambers is one of the two general co-chairmen for the conference. John D. Eversman of the Ecusta Paper Corporation, Brevard, is the other co-chairman. “The Purpose of Employee Rec reation” is the theme of the con ference at which Mr. Chambers will preside. He will introduce Clarence E. Morgan, mayor of Asheville; H. C. Hawn, chairman, industrial recreation division, North Carolina Recreation Society and recreation director of the P. H. Hanes Knitting Company of Winston-Salem; and C. A. Benson president of the Industrial Recre ation association, and director of recreation for Eastman Kodah Company in Rochester, N. Y., all of whom will give welcoming ad (Continued on page Tour) DR. GREER TO SPEAK HERE AT FIRST BAPTIST Church Making Plans To ward Construction Of New Educational Plant. By GENEVA HIERGESELL Dr. I. G. Greer will speak at the eleven o’clock worship service at the First Baptist church, Valdese, on next Sunday morning when a concentrated drive will be made to collect funds for the new edu cational plant of that church, it has been announced by the pastor, Rev; M. I. Harris. Dr. Greer is the executive vice president of the North Carolina Business Foundation of the Uni versity of North Carolina and a former superintendent of the Bap tist Orphange in this state. The day has been designated as Every Member Present Day by the local church with the attendance goal set at five hundred. It is hoped, leaders state, that at least two thousand dollars will be raised during the day. The new building, which is lo cated directly behind the original structure and faces Dixie street, will cost an estimated sixty thou sand dollars. Working on a pay as you go basis, a total of $31,724.88 has been spent to date according to a report made by John Harris, treasurer of the building fund. ui ims arnuuui me cinucn nau approximately $20,000 thousand dollars when the project began, an additional $20,000 has been borrowed. It is hoped that the remainder wil lberai sed through subscriptions and donations, it was stated. The ^modern brick structure, built by specifications suggested by the Southern Baptist Bbard in Nashville, Tenn., is three stories high with class room space plan ned for 500 pupils. Since existing church school facilities accom modate 400 people, a total of 900 members can be taken care of within the two buildings, it has been pointed out by church lead ers. The new building has forty-two class rooms grouped around six large assembly rooms, a secretary’s office, furnace room, seven bath rooms and various literature, mop and janitor closets. The building will house the Intermediate, Junior, Primary and Beginner de partments while the Adult, Young People and Nursery departments will occupy the old classrooms. On the building committee are (Continued on page four) ! Valdese Musicians Win Honors In Band Contest i The Valdese high school band and three choruses competed in the district music contest held in I Asheville, March 25 and 26. All j entries, including soloists, ranking ! in the top three grades: superior, | excellent or good. ! Max Baker was given a rating of I superior for his baritone horn solo, ; and is eligible to go to Greensboro I for the state instrumental contest. A rating of excellent was ac corded by the judges to all three choruses, the boys’ glee club, the girls’ glee club and the mixed chorus. While the judges were pretty well agreed on the quality of the performance of the girls’ chorus and the mixed chorus, they varied on their ratings of the boys’ chorus, one judge rating it super ior, another excellent and a third, good. The final rating was the average of the three ratings. Steve Perrou’s rating for his trombone solo was “excellent”, and Weeta Searcy's for her clarinet solo was “good”. There will not be a state contest ; Rotogravure Section In This Issue • j The long-awaited rotogravure I section is included in your Val I dese News this week. This 32 [ page supplement is composed | largely of pictures, with approxi mately one-third of the space | beind devoted to Valdese. Local industries and businesses cooperated in making the edi tion possible and wre extend sin cere thanks to these firms. We believe you will want to keep the section permanently and if you would like additional copies of this week’s News mailed to friends, just drop by the Val dese News office and leave the address. The cost will be only ten cents. for choruses this year, as in the past. Instead, there will be a fes tival chorus composed of approxi mately 600 singers from all over the state. It is expected that around 18 members of the Val dese choruses will participate. Dr. Henry Wilson of Columbia University will direct the festival chorus. The purpose of replacing the contest with the festival, Robert Gourley, Valdese high school band and chorus director, said, is to put the emphasis on training rath er than on competition. Seeks Reelection Mayor Oscar M. Harrison, above, is a candidate for re-election in the town election which has been set for May 3. He was the first to file for the office. VALDESE MAY OBTAIN NEW POST OFFICE Eligible List Also Includes Drexel; More Space Is Badly Needed. Hope stirred again last week for a post office building for Valdese,, when a report from Washington was published saying that both Valdese and Drexel were on the eligible list being prepared by the Federal Works Agency and the Post Office Department. The list is subject to House approval of a Senate bill authorizing a $40,000, 000 federal post office building program. The Valdese Post Office is now located in the Guigou building, and has a ten-year lease which ex pires in 1951. James Farris, post master, says that his dream for the post office is to be in a building by the time the lease expires. The Valdese office, he understands, is the only first class office in this congressional district which is not in a government owned build ing, and uses rented quarters in stead. • In 1941, wffien the post office was moved from the block below, where the Style Shop is now, the receipts for the year were $16,756.33. Re ceipts for last year were $39,253.26, more than twice what they were when the office moved to its pre sent location. There were seven people working in the post office in 1941. Now there are nine. If the post office continues throughout this year to do busi ness that it has done so far, through March 25, it will do ap proximately four times as much as it did in 1941. The receipts so far this year are $13,743.26. What connection do these fig ures have to do with the need for a new post office? Mr. Farris says 1 that so many packages pile up be fore trains that the nine employees can hardly move through them. And the same is true after the trains come in, making it difficult to work the mail. “We could easily use twice as much space as we have,” he said. HONEYCUTT TO LEAVE POST AS PRINCIPAL Resignation of School Head Reluctantly Accepted By Board. A. Grill, chairman of the Val dese school board, today announc ed that the resignation of Charles B. Honeycutt, principal of the Valdese high school for the past two years, had been reluctantly accepted by the board. “The school board and Mr. Honeycutt’s many other friends here wish him much success as he assumes another position in the eastern part of the state,” Mr. Grill said. Mr. Honeycutt will continue his work here until the end of the cur rent school year. No announce ment was forthcoming from the school board as to his successor at the high school. “We will miss the fine fellow ship of the students, teachers, and parents in Valdese,” Mr. Honey cutt said, “also the comradeship of my fellow Rotarians. As I have repeatedly said in assembly pro grams at school, the student body df Valdese high school is the nicest student body it has ever been my privilege to work with. Good will and good wishes to all would be my parting thought.” While not an official member of the faculty, Mrs. Honeycutt will ingly taught a chemistry class at the high school without pay when a qualified teacher was not readily I available. NEW LEGION HUT TO BE OPENED ON SATURDAY Dance To Feature Official Opening Of Recreation Lounge, Dining Room. The American Legion Auxiliary will officially open the new recre ation lounge and dining room in the Legion Hut on Bienvenue Road with a dance Saturday evening at eight o’clock. The new recreation room will be operated as a project of the Legion Auxiliary. The whole main floor of the hut has been converted for this purpose. There is a large main room, approximately 50 by 30 feet, in which there are tables, a piano, and a record player. A well equiped kitchen and three private dining rooms occupy the remain ing space of the first floor. Members of the Auxiliary will work in the hut on weekends, ser ving sandwiches and meals, even preparing short orders to Legion naires and Auxiliary members and their guests. Reservations for the private dining rooms* should be made in advance. A full time cook for the weekend has also been em ployed. On Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, when the hut is used infrequently by the Legionnaries, the building may be rented for private parties. Sterle Cline, hut operator, can make arrangements. Mrs. Jay Spencer is chairman of the Auxiliary committee in charge of the recreation room and dining room, and Mrs. Fred Ribet is president of the Auxiliary. Baptist Educational Building Under Construction The $60,000 new educational plant of the First Baptist Church of Valdese, when completed will ac commodate approximately 500 pupils. It has been planned to take care of the Beginner, Primary, Junior and Intermediate departments of the Sunday School. The church is jiow in a campaign to raise funds to finish the building, on which construction was started in fhe latter part of 1948. , ) Two Candidates Plans To Seek Featured In National Magazine The photographer who used up 57 flashbulbs taking pictures of Mrs. Dell B. Wilson and her guidance department in the Valdese High School to get the one shot he used in the April issue of the Ladies’ Home Journal had one bulb left over, and he used it to take this picture of Mrs. Wilson in her office. He was Edward Burke of Scope Associates. Mrs. Dell Wilson Featured In Magazine For April Margaret Hickey, Editor of the Public Affairs Department of the Ladies’ Home Journal, has singled j out the work of Mrs. Dell B. Wil- • son, vocational counselor for Burke county high schools, as an example for communities through out the country to emulate. Mrs. j Wilson’s (guidance program for, students is discussed in an article entitled “Vocational Counselor . . . At Valdese High School”, which appears in the April Ladies’ Home Journal. She began her work four years ago after hearing a commence- j ment speaker tell the graduates, “You are now ready to enter a larger sphere of endeavor.” Mrs. Wilson did not agree with him. She knew several of the students who were confused about what they wanted to do. They needed help, she decided. Since that commencement day,] Mrs. Wilson has become a full-1 time vocational counselor for five small high schools. A former Eng lish teacher, she began at once to ( commute daily to Lenoir-Rhyne i College, 20 miles away, to bring 1 her teacher’s certificate up to date. Then she went to Columbia Uni versity for special training in vo cational guidance. The summer at Columbia called for family cooperation on the pro ject. Douglas, the youngest of the three Wilson boys, went to Camp Carolina, where his older brother was a junior counselor, and the other soon took a job on a water melon farm. A reliable housekeep er was found to look after Mr. Wilson. When she returned to her home in Morganton, Mrs. Wilson start ed a campaign for vocational counselor work in the pine Burke County schools, visiting each school with her plan. Richard Spainhour, superintendent of the high school in Valdese, was the first to give her encouragement, although the school had no facili ties for the guidance program. With a coatroom for an office, a $25 salary, and additional teach ing duties, Mrs. Wilson began the work. The teaching job was an un expected opportunity to under (Continued on page 4) Merchants’ Association, Credit Bureau Organized _i_ At a harmonious meeting of Val dese merchants Monday night at the Community Center, a mer chants association and credit bureau was officially organized and Hall Williams of the Valdese Jewelry Company was elected president. Thirty-two merchants were present at the meeting. Henry Bounous of the H. and J. Mobil Station was named vice president; Frank W. Pons of the Men’s Shop was elected secretary treasurer and the following men were named to the board of direc tors: George Anderson of Ben lee’s; Park Sherrill of Belk-Brocme Co.; Henry Perrou of Perrou’s Ser vice Station; Clyde Bait'd of Val dese Food Shop; Alton Britt of Britt Laundry and Cleaners; Dick Pons of Western Auto; Marvin Ed Jones of Valdese Hardware, Lowder of City Market, Louis Dea ton of Valdese Building and Loan, and Russell Bumgarner of Valdese Furniture Co. This week the organization will continue its formation, as the board of directors will meet to draw up a constitution and by laws; appoint committes, subject to the approval of the members, discuss the purchase of office equipment and office location; and lay plans for the employment of a full-time executive secretary and treasurer for the association and the affiliated credit bureau. Business men here expressed themselves as being confident the new organization will develop in to a strong, energetic association which has been needed so badly here. With such an auspicious start, all signs point to a success ful organization. HARRISON, PONS ARE FIRST TO ENTER RACES Voters Will Elect Aldermen For Four-Year Terms At Next Election. Meeting in special session Sat urday night, the Valdese town board called for an election of town officials to be held Tuesday, May 3. The books were open on Monday morning for the candi dates to file and before the day was out, two had announced as candidates for mayor. They are Oscar M. (Red) Harri son, wrho is seeking re-election, and A. A. (Trigger) Pons. Mr. Harrison operates the Val dese Cleaners and Dyers. Mr. Pons, who is a candidate for public office for the first time, operates the Pons Insurance Agency and is treasurer of the Waldensian Finance Company. At eleven o’clock Tuesday morn* ing, no candidates had filed for alderman. Henry J. Garrou, how ever, had stated that he would not be a candidate for re-election, and that he plans to throw his full sup port behind J. Francis Verreault for alderman from Ward 3, the Pineburr section, should Verreault be a candidate for that office. This year for the first time vot ers will be electing part of their aldermen for four year periods in stead of two year terms. Aldermen from Wards 1 (down town), 2 (the Martinat Mill section), and ) (Pine Burr) will be elected for four years. Ward 4 (Crow Hill section) and Ward 5 (the Weave Hill section) will be elected for two years, but their successors will be elected for four years. Each ward will elect its own alderman, each voter casting only one vote for alderman, instead of voting for all five as in the'past. A resolution passed by the board and published elsewhere in this paper carries full details about the election. Candidates for office must file on or before April 26. REVIVAL SERVICES BEGIN AT METHODIST CHURCH Revival services at the Valdese Methodist church will begin Sun day morning at 11 o’clock when Holy Communion will be observed, it was announced this week by the pastor, Rev. M. H. Heckard. Dr. Excelle Rozzelle of Ardmore Methodist church, Winston-Salem, will preach in the evening services at 7:30 o’clock each evening through Friday. ATTEND G. S. BANQUET Mrs. Clinton Brown, Mrs. Ed ward Garrou, Mrs. George Squill ario, and Miss Sue Searcy, repre senting Girl Scout Troop 13, at tended the Girl Scout banquet in Morganton at the Community House Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lenoir Lowdermilk, and Mayor and Mrs. Oscar M. Har rison also attended. Knitters Increase Wages Twenty-Three Percent Under Incentive Plan In a recent analysis made of the average hourly earnings of the employees of the seamless depart ment of the Waldensian Hosiery Mills, it was found that the knit ters are at the present time mak ing an average 23 per cent more money than they were in January, 1948, shortly before the Incentive Wage Plant” or the ‘‘Point System” was put in effect at the Pauline Plant. Not only are the knitters receiving much more pay but, like wise, the fixers, loopers, inspectors, and clippers are earning from seven to twenty per cent more, mill officials said. In a quarterly survey, covering the three months of October, No vember, and December, 1948, of the average hourly earnings of the employees of the seamless depart ment of the Waldensian Hosiery Mills as compared to a similar sur vey made by the National Associ ation of Hosiery Manufacturers, it was revealed that the employees at Waldensian are receiving wages, on a total average, greater than the national average. The nation al survey was taken in hosiery (Continued on page fourj This Week In Valdese Wednesday, March 30 7 p. m.—Doctors Day dinner at Mimosa Club House. —o— Thursday, March 31 3:30 p. m.—Girl Scout Troop 13 will meet at the home of Miss Sue Searcy. 7:30 p. m.—The Camera Club will meet at the Community Cen ter. 8 p. m.—The American Legion (Continued on page four) ^
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