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Boost Valdese! Watch It Grow! THE P LIVE NEWSPAPER IN P PROGRESSIVE TOUJN Your Local Merchants Deserve Your Support 11 VALDESE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1949 No. 14 reliminary W ork Begins )n Railroad Underpass ILL PROVIDE shortcut to POINTS SOUTH provements To Highway 350 Appear Certain As Work Gets Underway. Yen the fast moving Diesel L will have to slow down to miies an hour through most me summer when they come to , point where N. C. Highway 350 crosses the Southern Rail y line in east Valdese. mat is the speed limit foi a in going over a tempoiaiy clge when an undeipass is being It. 3oth the state highway depart nt and the Southern Railway ved crews of workmen into Val ie last week to begin the all nmer job of building the under iS> while the highway depart nt's men are pouring sections cement for the spans of the dge. the railroad work crew boring holes for temporary oden piles to suppoit the tiacks ile the bridge is under construc n. Thursday morning seven men m the railroad were pushing a ght machine up the hill from i depot. It looked somewhat e the pictures of the first rail id engine in America that used be shown in the fifth grade his y books. They rounded the ■ner of St. Germain street, and itinued through town. Their chine turned out to be an earth eur. used for boring holes in the iund for the wooden piles which i to support the tracks tempor ly. Some of the holes, the high v engineer said, will be 40 feet ;p. The temporary structure is own as “falsework”. By the side of the old road is a ge wooden form in which men re dumping wheelbarrow after eelbarrow of cement, as fast as ! mixer could turn it out. When : cement is hardened, it will be !0-ton half section of one of the ms for the bridge. Later it will picked up with a crane and set place under the tracks. There II be five spans to the bridge, and ir of them will be poured in ;s'e half sections. The crossing 1 the railroad will be 12 feet, ht inches wide, and 114 feet ig. Wilson Construction Company of lisbury is doing the concrete rk and the railroad is doing the rk on the railroad, with a pro t engineer out of Knoxville, Mr. thke, in charge of the railroad ase of the job. The Wilson com ay will also hard surface 400 t the road under the railroad. 5uber and Company of ,/hit re’ South Carolina, is contractor paving 7.1 miles of the road, d Lavender Brothers of Earle 'Te the contract for the remain eight miles to be hardsurfaced. ^Len finished the road will pro e a shortcut to Shelby and anotte. meeting N. C. 10 near luca and connecting with N. C. (Continued on page six) aining Intends MI. CALVARY BAPTIST the Mt. Calvary Baptist churc npleteo a Training Union stud ase Friday evening, having ha a'erage attendance of 99, wit lr,as lile highest attendance, aimng Union manuals fo 1 departments—the adult; S people, intermediates an p''s""ere taught by Rev. ^ Rev. Bertis Fair, Mr; t and Miss Frieda Culbersoi • !e nursery and the stor Mvere open each Qf the m :gp^t° care the childrei ilts C aSS was that °f th he couise was closed with linir, °Ci01n *s director of “lning Union. Leaves Valdese The Rev. M. I. Harris, above, for fifteen years pastor of the First Baptist church at Valdese, resign ed last week to accept the pas torate of the Friendship Baptist church at Morganton. PLAN WAYS FOR FILLING PULPIT HERE Baptists To Have Visiting Preacher Next Sunday Morning, Evening. Dr. B. A. Bower, former pastor of the First Baptist church of Gastonia, will preach at both the morning and evening worship ser vices of the First Baptist church of Valdese next Sunday. Dr. Bower is now retired and makes his home at Ridgecrest. Rev. M. I. Harris, for 15 and a half years pastor of the Valdese church, who submitted his resig nation last Wednesday evening, preached his last sermon Sunday evening to a capacity audience. A pulpit committee was to have been appointed Sunday night, ac cording to an announcement last week from the church, but the naming of the committee was postponed until Wednesday night, when a church conference will be called. Lee Harris, educational director of the church, said that he did not know exactly what system would be used in selecting the pul pit committee: whether a chair man would be selected, who would then appoint his own committee, subject to the approval of the church, or whether the committee would be nominated from the floor and voted on by the church. There is, he said, no set way for Baptist churches to handle such a situ ation, each church being its own authority on the system it is to use. METHODIST REVIVAL TO CONTINUE THIS WEEK Revival services at the Valdese Methodist church will continue through Friday evening, conducted by Dr. E. C. Rozzelle. Capacity crowds have attended the services so far this week. Dr. Rozzelle is pastor of the Ard mgre Methodist church in Win ston-Salem, and was in Valdese last year as guest speaker for the Lions Club. He is considered one of the outstanding Methodist mini sters in this state. REV.M.I. HARRIS RESIGNS FOR NEW CHARGE Valdese Pastor To Become Pastor of Friendship Baptist, Morganton Rev. M. I. Harris, for 15 and a half years pastor of the First Bap tist church in Valdese, submitted his resignation to the church at the regular Wednesday evening prayer service last week. The resignation came as a surprise to the congregation, which had in 1943 accorded him the honor of voting him pastor for life. The resignation wgis effective Sunday evening after Mr. Harris preached the evening sermon, his last as pastor of the church. Mr. Harris resigned to accept the pastorate of Friendship Bap tist church which is located on Church and Vine streets in Mor-^ ganton. He will succeed Rev. W.\ B. Sprinkle, who has gone to a church near Canton. During the more than 15 years of Mr. Harris’ pastorate, the mem bership of the church has more than doubled, having grown from 263 members in 1933 to 579 mem bers today. Fifteen years ago the average weekly offering to the church was $70. The weekly bud get for 1949 is $400. The Rev. Mr. Harris began his ministry in a rural church field near Morganton, and from there went to the Penelope Baptist church just across the Burke cofin ty line, in Hickory. His 14 years of service with the Penelope church was interrupted by a two-year pe riod when he held a church in Lin colnton. The Penelope church also extended him a life-long call. From the Penelope church he came to the Valdese church. The courage of the Rev. Mr. (Continued on page six) BAPTIST FUND FOR BUILDING IS INCREASED Attendance Goal of Sunday School Exceeded As Pledges Fulfilled. A goal of 500 in attendance was reached and exceeded by two, Sunday morning at the First Bap tist church, when there were 442 present at Sunday school, and 60 additional people in church who had not been at Sunday school. Offering for the building fund amounted to $1845.95. This was in separate from the regular offering. The special building fund goal will be held over through next Sunday, when it is expected that gifts to the building fund will bring the total to a figure in ex cess of the $2,000 goal. Rev. M. I. Harris, pastor of the church, who submitted his resig nation last Wednesday evening, preached his last sermon Sunday evening to a capacity audience. Dr. I. G. Greer, vice-president of the Business Foundation of the University of North Carolina and former superintendent of the Bap tist Orphange in Thomasville, was the speaker at the morning hour, using as his topic “The Lure of the Church.” For several Sundays prior to the Every-Member Present day, mem bers of the Sunday school were asked to sign a pledge, saying that they would be present on the special occasion unless providenti ally hindered. The pledges were then pasted together to form a chain. When completed the chain had 421 links in it, and 21 more people were in Sunday school on the stated day than had signed the pledges. Mount Calvary Baptists Plan Revival And Review Record Of Past Year Rev. Ewell Payne of the Chero kee Indian Mission in Cherokee, N. C., will preach in the revival to be held at the Mt. Calvary Baptist church in Valdese April 17-24. Ed Powell of Gastonia will conduct the singing. e'taster Services At Waldensian Presbyterian Church Are Announced Isian p iervices at the Wal Iciese v,.,nt'^yterian church in , Apvji 11 begin Monday even day. 0n \!fdcontinue through -Easter m lursday evening, a on' hv ? festival, will be‘ )ir5 0) l lG various church 4 of0!,"; ‘he spon Sic club ’C Valciese senior On Friday a three hour service from noon to three o’clock will be held at the church with the ser vice divided into half-hour sect ions. and the people of the town invited to come into the church for any of the periods. A sunrise service for the com munity is being planned for Easter morning. [ Rev. Bertis Fair closed his first I year as pastor of the church the 1st Sunday in March, and is now beginning his second year. The church has made outstanding strides during the past year. In 1947, there were 14 baptisms and in 1948 there were 80 baptisms and 40 additions by letter, making a total of 120 new members. Gifts to all causes in 1947 totaled $5,379.01, and in 1948 the total gifts were $6,797.66. Sunday school enrollment in 1947 was 272. In 1948 it increased to 339. | Mt. Calvary church also has a [ mission Sunday school in the tea [ room in the east end of Valdese. Rev. Cecil Thompson, a ministerial student at Gardner Webb college, is to preach there for the summer. i Merchants’ Association Is Moving Ahead With Plans Directors of the Valdese Mer chants’ Association met Monday night for the purpose of studying a proposed constitution and by laws and for setting up the ma chinery for a credit bureau. An office has been rented, the type of filing system to be used has been selected and an order placed for the cabinets and forms. Ap plicants for the position of execu tive secretary were interviewed, but a final decision was not reach ed. Another meeting was planned for Tuesday night, Hall Williams, president of the association, said Tuesday morning. Mr. Williams also expressed the opinion that the work was progressing very satisfactorily and that credit bureau would be in operation in a very short time. Annual Anti-Cancer Drive Gets Off* To Fine Start Cancer literature and coin cans appeared Monday in all the Val dese stores and public buildings as the annual cancer drive, sponsored by the Pilot Club, got under way. Mrs. James Farris is chairman of the committee working on the drive. Other members are Mrs. A. F. Garrou, Mrs. Henry Grill and Mrs. George Williams. No goal has been set for Vald dese, but in the past Valdese has always been noted for raising its proportionate share and more of RITES HELD FOR L. F. BRINKLEY, BURKE NATIVE Was Prominently Connected In Business Life and Church of County i L. Frank Brinkley, 70, prominent Burke county native with wide family connections and a former resident of Glen Alpine, died at a Hickory hospital Sunday after be coming ill Wednesday night. He and Mrs. Brinkley have been re siding at the home of a daughter in Hickory for the past several years. Born in this county November 24, 1878, Mr. Brinkley made his home in Glen Alpine for the greater portion of his life and was connected there with the former Pitts & Giles Lumber Company, at that time one of the leading lumber manufacturing firms in this section. He was a lifelong member of the Baptist church, took a leading interest in religious and civic activities of this county and served for twenty years as a member of the Burke county board of education. [ Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at the First Baptist church in Hickory with j the Rev. R. Nolan Benfield offi ciating. Interment was made in the Oakwood cemetery, Hickory. Mr. Brinkley leaves three daugh ters, three sons, three brothers, a sister and numerous other rela tives. He was a brother of the late J. M. Brinkley of Valdese. The daughters are Mrs. William McDonald, Hickory; Mrs. Carl Kanalz, Parkersburg, Va.; Mrs. Frank Green, Montgomery, Ala. The sons are Paul Brinkley, St. Louis; Bob Brinkley, Tulsa, Okla.; Clifton Brinkley, Winstori-Salem. The brothers are, John Brinkley, Asheville; Sam Brinkley, Shelby; Fonzo Brinkley, near Asheville. The sister is Mrs. Etta Fuller of Morganton. RITES HELD SATURDAY FOR A. B. BARNES, 88 Andrew B. Barnes, eighty-eight, of Hildebran, died at his home at 8:45 o’clock Thursday night following a lingering illness. Funeral services were conducted at Bethany Baptist church, Hil debran, at three o’clock Saturday afternoon. Burial was made in the church cemetery. Mr. Barnes, born in Madison county October' 6, 1860, the son of the late William Barnes and Liza Sherrill Barnes, is survived by five sons, Frank of Longview, McKinnely of Hildebran, Theo dore of Asheville, Cleada of New ton, and Louis of Longview; one daughter, Mrs. Allie Mae Haden of Tacoma, Wash. CHICKEN PIE SUPPER The Parent - Teachers Associ ation of the George Hildebran school will sponsor a chicken pie supper in the school cafeteria Sat urday night, April 9, from 7 o’clock to 8:30 o’clock. Adult plates are 75c each, children’s, 50c. MEETING POSTPONED The regular meeting of the Colonel John Alston DAR has been postponed from April 8 to April 15. I the funds for Burke county. Of equal importance with the fund raising campaign, Mrs. Far ris explained, is the educational value of the drive. Each year in Valdese and Burke county, as well as throughout the rest of the country, people die with cancer whose lives rrjight have been saved had the symptoms been recognized early enough for treatments to be effective. Individual contributions are be ing stressed because it is believed that a person who gives, however small the amount, is thereby made more conscious of the dangers of cancer. Sixty cents of each dollar raised in retained by the state where it is raised and is used largely for service purposes, providing aid for the indigent, helping supply ra dium and X-ray where needed, and assisting in the support of detec tion centers and clinics. Twenty-five cents out of every dollar will be devoted to the sup port of an all-out research effort. Under the direction of the Na tional Research Council more than 247 projects are under way in lead ing universities, colleges and foun dations. Any one, or a combination of several of these projects, may produce the answer to cancer, says the American Cancer Society. Nine cents is used by the Nation al Society to carry on a program of education, seeking to arouse the public to the personal threat of cancer, for “everyone everywhere must learn that delay is the great est factor in the probability of can cer deaths.” Civic Clubs Give Pictures To School Four large pictures, given by civic clubs of Valdese, have been selected for the auditorium of the Valdese elementary school. The clubs giving the pictures were the Pilot Club, the Lions Club, the Parent-Teacher Association and the United Daughters of the Con federacy. • The pictures selected are “Pil grims Going to Church” by Boughton, “Winter” by Rawson, “Statue of Liberty” by Bartholdi, and “Sunset” by Staegar. They are 24 x 30 inches mounted on mats and framed. Selection of the paintings was a committee of the following teach ers: Mrs. Mildred Shore, chairman, Mrs. T. L. McCarley, Mrs. W. J. Cotten and Miss Vonnie Gettys. Smaller pictures for some of the classrooms which did not al ready have pictures were also selected by the same committee. A total of $200 was received through gifts and sale of tickets for a recent exhibit of pictures, John L. Johnson, elementary school principal said. SELECT SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFICERS AND TEACHERS Officers and teachers for the East Valdese Baptist mission Sun day school were selected Saturday evening at a meeting in the old tea room. The first Sunday school was held Sunday, with all depart ments set up. Marvin Powell is superintendent of the Sunday school. Roy Abee was elected director of the Train ing Union. MOURGLEA INFANT'S RITES HELD LAST SATURDAY Carolyn Louise Mourglea, 11 day-old daughter of Delkie and Mary Frances Clark Mourglea of Connelly Springs, Route 1, died in a Valdese hospital at 8:30 o’clock Friday morning. Funeral services were conducted at eleven o’clock Saturday morn ing at Abee’s Chapel Baptist church, and burial was made in the churuch cemetery. The Rev. MARVIN POWELL TO HEAD YOUNG GOP OF COUNTY Young Republicans Of Burke County Organize At Meeting. Marvin Powell of Valdese was elected presidents of the Burke County Young Republican Club Firday night in a mass meeting at the court house. Other officers elected were Fred Hull, Salem, Morgan ton, secretary; and Mrs. Lillian Pitts, Morganton, treasur er. R. M. Lineberger, county chair man of the Republican Executive Committee, presided at the open ing of the meeting andTie present ed Bill Cobb, national committee man of the North Carolina Young Republican Club to the group. Frank Patton, prominent local Republican, addressed the rally and the guest speaker was Frank Benbow of Winston-Salem, state treasurer of the Young Republi cans. Resolutions were passed which will be presented at the next statewide meeting of the Young Republican clubs at Duke Univer sity Saturday night. Burke county will be represented at the meet ing. Other charter members of the local organization besides the of ficers are Fred Moberly-Brine, Morganton; Ernest Pitts, Glen Al [pine; Wheeler Dale, Morganton; Grady Poteat, Valdese; Mrs. Clar ence Harris, Valdese; and Bill Cobb, Morganton. KIBLER WINS IN MORGANTON CITY ELECTION \ Two New Council Mejnbers Also Elected, Official Count Reveals. j Morganton voters Monday i named a new mayor and ousted two incumbent members of the town board of aldermen. The election was one of the closest in the town’s history and the total vote of more than 2,300 broke all records. Dr. Ralph E. Kibler, former mayor, defeated incumbent Mayor Nollie M. Patton by 128 votes—1, 234 to 1,106, according to complete unofficial returns. The Ward 3 race for a seat on the town board was the most hotly contested with W. M. Harris de feating William Harbison Jr., in cumbent, by 43 votes—1,173 to 1, 140. Results in the three other wards all unofficial, are: Ward 1, Moran Wilson, incum bent, defeated J. K. Crowell, 1,183 to 1,114; Ward 2, Garland Crouch, incumbent, defeated E. J. Clontz, 1,222 to 1,084 and Ward 4, Ed But ler defeated Dwight Long, incum bent, 1,284 to 1,003. ENON BAPTIST GROUP HAS SUPPER MEETING The officers and teachers of Enon Baptist church had a supper meeting Thursday evening in the church recreation room. There were 50 people present, of whom 19 were teachers and officers. A goal of 254 attendance in Sunday school by the middle of May was set. A Training Union study course will be held at the church next week. Three More Candidates Enter Field Seeking Two Places On Town Board c Young GOP Head | Marvin Powell, above, of Val dese, was elected president of the Burke County Young Republican Club Friday night. He had been acting as chairman prior to his election. BAPTISTS TO MEET SUNDAY Pleasant View To Be Host A t Sunday School Convention. Pleasant View Baptist church on Drum Straight will be host to the Catawba River Associational Sun day School Convention next Sun day afternoon, April-10, at 2:45 o’clock. Rev. Carl Hemphill is pastor of the host church and Clyde M. Baird is superintendent of the Sunday school. Rev. L. G. Kee 01 Morganton and Miss Virginia Street of Val dese will have charge of the mu sic. Mr. Baird will bring the de votional. Ten simulaneous conferences majoring in as many departments of Sunday school work will be of fered. They will be conducted by the following leaders: adminis tration, Glen Whisnant, Mor ganton; adult, Dr. O. Z. Rollins, Morganton; young people, C. Lee Harris, Valdese; intermediate, Miss Mary Harris, Valdese: junior, someone substituting for Mrs. F. A. Bower of Morganton, who must be out of town; primary, Mrs. W. L. McSwain, Glen Alpine: begin ner, Mrs. W. R. McNeilly, Mor ganton; nursery, Mrs. J. D. Mc Cready, Morganton; cradle roll, Mrs. R. M. Heavner, Valdese; and extension, Carol Setzer, Morgan ton. A period of congregational sing ing conducted by the directors of the music will conclude the pro gram. An invitation is extended to all workers in all departments in every Sunday school in the association, said K. L. Linebe'rger, Association al Sunday school superintendent. MISS ANDERSON FINALIST IN BEAUTY CONTEST Miss Audrey Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Anderson of Hickory, formerly of Valdese, is one of the finalists in a beauty contest at the Hickory High School. The final winner will be selected by film star Alan Ladd. Junior-Senior Banquet Plans Taking Shape For Next Friday Evening The annual junior senior ban- I quet of the Valdese high school will be held Friday evening, April I 8, in the lunchroom. The theme for j the banquet is being kept a deep secret by the juniors, who each year entertain the seniors. Mrs. Myra Braswell is junior class ad viser. Money for the banquet has been raised by the junior class by various projects. Committees working on the ban quet are as follows: program, Ra mona Sanders, chairman, Wilma Pruitt, Joette Smith, Ruby Mc Donald, Homer Smith. Invitations and place cards: Caroleen Day, chairman, Peggy Pope, and Betty Lail. Decorations: Alyce Epley, chair man, Jean Abernathy, Jack Leger, Nadine Keever, Bobby Walsh, Fred Cranford and Julia Church; Menu: Elizabeth Street, chairman, Peggy Benfield, Doris Searcy, Willie Wellman, Junior Jacumin. Table setting, Frankie Icard, chairman, Joan Rutherford, Blanche Holton, Peggy Bridges and Greta Lail. Clean-up, the whole class with Mildred Abee and Bennie Huffman as supervisors. Costume committee, Rita Brinkley, Doris Lambert and Jack Street. Placing committee, 'Katherine Jacumin, Eloise Williams and Alma Whisenanfc. Sophomores will serve as waiters and waitressess. Waiters will be Willie Jacumin, Bill Robinson, Johnny Laughridge, Dickie Pons, Charles Whisenant, Danny Aber nathy. Serving as waitressess will be Betty Long, Rheta Micol, Vivian Grisette, Joyce Ramsey, Peggy Jane Perrou and Junine Tron. SAMS, CHESTER, MARTINAT RUN FOR ALDERMEN More Candidates Expected To File Well Within Time Limit. The Valdese municipal election, after getting off to a quick start with two candidates, Oscar M. Harrison, and A. A. (Trigger) Pons filing for mayor within two days after the election was officially called, slowed down after that, with only two of the five wards having candidates for the office of alderman by Tuesday morning. Donald H. Martinat, is a candi date for re-election for alderman from Ward 2 (the Martinat sect ion.) He had no opposition as of Tuesday morning. He is connected with the Martinat hosiery mill. In ward 5, the Weave Hill sect ion, there were two candidates as of Tuesday morning. Stewart S. (Tude) Chester, seeking re-elect ion, and John Sams. Chester is in the grocery business with his fa ther-in-law, Frank Cline. They operate Littleman’s Grocery on Morganton street. Chester is well known in this area as a baseball player for a number of years. Sams drives a taxicab here. He is a veteran of World War 1. Earl Searcy, Sr., ward 1 had not announced his intentions in the election, but it was expected in most quarters that he will be a candidate for re-election. Henry J. Garrou, ward 2, has stated publicly that he does not plan to run for office again, and will support J. Francis Verreault as candidate for alderman from the Pineburr sect ion. Guy Cline, the oldest member of the present board from the stand- / point of years in office, is expected , to run again as a candidate foi alderman from ward 4. Jay Spencer, who announced several weeks before the election was called, that he intended to file as a candidate for mayor, had not filed when this paper went to press, but he is still expected to enter the race. Debaters Win One Round In Friday Events Valdese high school debaters won one and lost one in the an nual triangular and dual debates held last Friday. The affirmative team composed of Alyce Epley and Mildred Abee won a decision over Hudson but the negative team composed of Max Baker and David Abernathy dropped a decision to Brawley High in Mooresville. The winning team will go to Boone April to compete in the district elimination contests. The winners there will go to Chapel Hill later in the month. Donald Johnson, coach of the local debaters, was well-pleased with the performances of his team. The query for debate was “Re solved, That the United Nations now be Revised into a Federal World Government.” This Week In Valdese Thursday, April 7 3:30 p. m.—Girl Scout Troop 13 will meet with Miss Sue Searcy. 6:45 p. m.—The Lions Club will meet at the Pilot Cafeteria. 7 p. m.—The Minnie Herman and Lottie Moon circles of the Mt. Calvary Baptist church will meet. 7:30 p. m. — The Sans Souci Bridge Club will meet with Miss Catherine Guigou. Friday, April 8 7:30 p. m.—Junior-Senior ban quet at the high school. 7:30 p. m.—Rutherford College Baptist Missionary Society will meet with Mrs. F. S. Branch. Sunday, April 10 H a. m.—Worship services at all ^Continued on page six)
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