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Town Election Tuesday, May 3 Don't forget to vote Boost Valdese! Watch It Grow! VALDESE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1949 No. 17 IXESMONDAY ?0R GIRL, 16, train victim rah Jeanette Boughman ){Connelly Springs Killed Last Saturday. ,arah Jeanette Boughman, year-old girl of Connelly •mgs who was killeci at>out 3 0 ' ck Saturday afternoon by a uthern railroad passengei tiain jr Connelly Springs w as bui ied inday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock the churcn cemetery at Shoupe's ove Baptist church near Icard. aeral services were also held in church. The teen-age girl met her death iile crossing the tracks near the j chUt.e at Connelly Springs jje going to the store to get (dicine for a younger brother o had the measles. It was the it afternoon in several days that rah had been out of the house ce she. too. had been confined bed with the measles. Narrowly escaping death was ;le nine-year old Faye Ann Low n. a companion of the Bough 'n girl. Faye flung herself out of | way of the locomotive and luted" to Sarah, but without hi. it was reported that Faye’s ither saw the accident from the irby Lowman residence. For a ment, Mrs. Lowman thought h children had been hit by the sel-powered Passenger Train 21 ich was bound from Goldsboro Asheville. Three Track crossing: [Tie accident took place at the nphouse which is only a short tance from the coal chute, ere are three tracks at the point ere the girls were atempting to ss and the train was coming m the middle one. The train i just made the sharp curve en the victim was hit. irsc reports from the scene of ! tragedy said the Boughman I slid down the embankment 0 the path of the train but nesses said this was not true ce she would have stopped at first track if this had been the ie. Another theory as to the ise of the accident was that the l’s hearing had been impaired the recently attack of measles, - Mrs. Lowman said that the in did not blow and that the 1 shute was in operation, thus king it difficult to hear the ap laching train. iurvivmg the girl are her rao r. Mrs. Della B. Boughman of ffielly Springs and two bro rs, Billy, of the home and Pfc. Boughman with the Air Force Germany. Mrs. Boughman is sister of A. E. Goins of 207 ndolph Street, Morganton. eecTwinners are GUESTS OF ROTARIANS 'he Valdese Rotary Club heard winners in the Valdese school itadon and declamation con ;s "u'e their winning numbers the Aguiar meeting of the club at the Pilot Cafeteria, wise Perrou and John Steven 10u uere the high school win s and Jerry Murray and Faye inch the elementary school ,ouis Deat°n had charge of Turn, carl Cline of Hicl |a visitor at the meeting, he board of directors ha Mr meeting Thursday evei the home of j. p. R0Stan, No^film entitled “This dL ai!111 e ^own Thursday nmunitv r ° °Ck at the Valdese Pilot* f, enter' EmPloyees of sian m, i nC1S'Loulse and Wal 2 and - ai;eurged see the ws then‘sllUcliVG film which lylon,” l0Usand and one uses USES WILL BE BY COLOR FILM filmb a IS aIso inyited to onmanv f?°ne Working w 'Vested in T WlU bc esPeci‘ ^^Cre- Th Martha wentz r‘ s VALOESE OFFICE op®M JSntZ’ d,iropl y strept nces on E. ( 1 “'MuauTS- S1« * * ' ot Chiron™, !? Llncoln of Chimnvo ; Lmeoln S' l0l>- Her „« in Indi each day °®ce hours Thu, i Valdese Girl Is Elected President Of State FHA I _ Miss Alyce Epley Elevated To State Presidency At State Convention Of Future Homemakers Held Saturday; Entertained At Governors Mansion. Miss Alyce Epley of Valdese finds that being state president of the Future Homemakers of America j is quite an experience—and a lot ' of fun. In fact, it is almost like being a celebrity. Friday night, after the first act of the senior play, Miss Jennie Mc ; Naull, adviser for the Valdese |FHA; Rheta Micol, president of 'the Valdese club; Peggy Benfield, ! bi-county chairman; and Joyce , Ramsey, who was to take part in jthe fashion show, left Aunt Susie j still shooting the works and head led for Raleigh, arriving there at 11:30 in the morning and checking in at the Andrew' Johnson Hotel. | The next morning at 9 o’clock they were registering for the state FHA convention in Hugh Morson ; high school. Valdese’s first repre I sentation on the program came w'hen Alyce, as state vice-president | (which she was then), gave the response to the welcome. That same morning the dress revue w'as ; held and Joyce modeled the green gabardine dress of her owrn mak ing which won her first place in the Valdese FHA fashion show. At lunch time, Alyce was inter viewed on a 15-minute program over station WPTF, along with the state adviser, Mrs. Ruth B. Ferguson. Installation of officers came at 2 p. m., when Alyce became presi dent, and received a corsage of red roses. Then all the delegates went to the Governor’s Mansion for tea, and the officers stood in the receiving line from 3:30 until 6 o’clock. It had its compensa tions though. Alyce met Governor and Mrs. Scott and had her picture made holding their hands. Gov ernor Scott asked her to give Lee Ribet his best regards. It was almost over then, but the five Valdese delegates didn’t leave Raleigh until Sunday morning. On June 12, Alyce will get to go to the regional FHA convention in Mem phis, Tenn., with all her expenses paid. All in all, she thinks this is a wonderful world. And as for the other Valdese girls—they're as proud of Alyce as if they were pres ident. Pre-School Clinic Set For Friday At Valdese School The yearly pre-school clinic will be conducted at the Valdese ele mentary school on Friday, April 29. The purpose of the clinic is to enroll the prospective first grade pupils who will be of legal ; age to begin school next Septem ber, and to make examinations to determine physical fitness for school entrance. It is hoped, school authorities say, that most of these prospective first graders will have had vacci nations for smallpox, diphtheria, and whooping cough already. These vaccinations are required by State law, and are administered upon the approval of parents. | Dr. C. N. Sisk, county health of ficer, assisted by nurses from his i staff, by members of the P.-T.A., j and by all first grade teachers, will be in charge of the clinic. As | a result of this arrangement, all j first grade pupils repsently enroll jed have been asked not to attend ! school this Friday. i Parents are requested to bring their prospective first graders to this clinic, but if this cannot be done, parents are further requested to send these youngsters by older brothers or ^isters, or by neighbor pupils. The clinic opens at 9 a. m. in the school auditorium. The little ! fellows will be given ice cream, and may attend a “Happy Hour’’ | movie at the school which will be shown especially for them. It is important that a child sent, to the clinic and not attended by I parents be advised exactly as to which immunizations are to be giv en, according to letters sent to par ents some ten days ago. Any par ent having a child to enter next fall who has not received one of I these letters may get one by con tacting the school principal. In order to be of legal age to enter next September, a child must have reached the sixth birthday on or before October 1, 1949. Ministers’ Institute Here Is Being .Well Attended | The North Carolina district 1 council meeting and ministers’ in | stitute of the Assemblies of God now in session at the Valdese As sembly of God church is living up to all expectation, Rev. L. B. Dick son, Jr., pastor of the host church, said Tuesday. At least 100 delegates from all sections of the state wil lhave reg istered before the closing* session Thursday night, Rev. Mr. Dickson predicted and the church has been filled each evening for the services which are open to the general pub ; lie. Delegates are registered from | Franklin in the extreme western I section of the state to Buxton Is | land off the coast of eastern North ! Carolina. | Main speaker for the meeting i has been Rev. A. A. Wilson, pastor i of the First Assembly of God church in Kansas City, Mo. He is speaking daily to the ministers institute and is also bringing a | message each evening. rPesiding over the sessions is Rev. Andrew [Stirling, district superintendent. J Rev. Jacob Filbert, pastor o fthe I Assembly of God church in Fort Worth, Texas, spoke Monday night at the first night session and Dr. Jonas E. Miller of Sarasota, Fla., who is a fulltime minister in addi tion to his duties as a physician, spoke Tuesday morning. He is al so director of the denomination’s Southeastern Bible Institute in Lokeland, Fla. Rev. Mr. Dickson announced that Dr. Wilson would speak at the morning and evening services of the local church Sun day. Many members of the denomi (Continued on page two) WMU Association Elects Mrs. Fair As Superintendent At Drexel Meeting At the annual meeting of the Woman’s Missionary Union of the Catawba River Baptist Association j held at Drexel Baptist church Mrs. jBertis Fail’ of Valdese was elect ! ed superintendent, succeeding Mrs. Jeff Burns, who has served in this capacity for the past two years. Other officers are: Mrs. Burns, associate superintendent; Mrs. Coren Epley, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. J. O. Summerlin, community missions chairman; Mrs. O. L. McGinnis, Training School and Margaret Fund chairman; Mrs. A. E. Miller, stewardship chairman; Mrs. Ernest Walker, mission study chairman; Mrs. C. L. Walton, lit erature chairman; Miss Ruth Set zer, young people’s leader with Mrs. Fred Forester as associate; Miss Helen Harris, Y. W. A. coun sellor; Mrs. Howard Abee, Sun beam leader; Rev. Fred Forester. Royal Ambassador leader, with Shirley Hudson as associate; Mrs. L. D. Moses, Girls’ Auxiliary lead er, with Mrs. Jim Harris as asso ciate. Special speakers for the meeting were Miss Laura Frances Snow, state W. M. U. worker from Ral eigh, and Miss Sara Frances Diaz, home missionary who works with the Spanish in Tampa, Fla., and Rev. Ewell Payne, missionary to the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina. Mrs. Terry Smart of Forest City, divisional W. M. U. superintendent, brought the morning devotional. Rev. Oscar Long, formerly of Valdese, now of the Green Riv6r Association, delivered the closing address. Miss Lucile Williams of Valdese was a guest soloist at the morning session. Her selection was “For God So Loved the World”. The theme, “That the World May Know”, was carried out through out the entire meeting. State FHA President Miss Alyce Epley, above, junior at the Valdese high school, was installed as state president of the Future Homemakers of America clubs at a meeting in Raleigh last weekend. She was vice-president last year. I \ __ CANCER FUND DRIVE TO END ON SATURDAY Local Society Gives Advice To Public On Receiving Proper Detection. April 30 will be the last day of the drive for funds for the Ameri can Cancer Society. The people of Valdese have always responded more than wholeheartedly to this plea for funds used to fight one of America’s most dreaded dis eases, which strikes in one out of every two families and still kills one American out of every eight. One service that is partially paid for by the American Society’s funds is that of the cancer detec tion centers. There are two of j them in this area—in Asheville and in Winston-Salem. Anyone j can go to them for a complete ex- j amination for cancer, and there | is no charge. In fact, a periodical check-up for everyone is recom mended, and especially women 30 years old and over. The average hospital is not equipped for giving the thorough tests that are given in the cancer detection centers. W. D. Owens, administrator at the Valdese Gen eral Hospital, says that even if the new test that is being tried for cancer proves successful, it will still be better for the work to be done in detection centers, only there should be more centers. People who live within a 25 to! 50 mile radius of one of the two centers go to the clinic without an appointment. For the convenience of people who must come 50 miles or more, arrangements have been made for them to get appointments so that they won’t have to make more than one trip. To get an appointment, j write either to: Cancer Detection j Center, Forsythe County, Winston- j Salem, N. C., or to: Cancer De-' tection Center, Buncombe County, j Asheville, N. C. At Valdese Baptist i iilirni iinnii mu mm i niiiinnr i nwcwir rnrmrii mnir ~ * Rev. J. O. Walton, pastor of the Mills Home Baptist church in Thomasville, will conduct a revival day morning, with all evening ser vices beginning at 7:30 o’clock, next week at the First Baptist church in Valdese. Services will begin Sunday evening and con tinue through the following Sun INTERMEDIATE DAY The Enon Baptist church ob served Intermediate Day Sunday, with the Intermediates in charge of both the morning and evening services. Special music was given. The church observed family night Monday night. There were 134 present at Sun day school and an offering of $148. , JUNIOR ORDER DISTRICT MEET IS HELD HERE Fourth District Names New Officers At Semi-An nual Meeting. The fourth district of the Jun ior. Order, United American Me chanics, of North Carolina, held its semi-annual meeting Friday evening in Valdese in the Junior Order Hall, with William Mc Combs of Morganton presiding. High Peak Council No. 355, was the host lodge. The following officers were elect ed; A. W. Harbisori, councilor; Glen A. Ramsey, vice-councilor; Marvin Powell, recording secre tary; Dysart Scott, financial secre tary; Rev. Bertis Fair, chaplain; Eugene Warren, conductor; J. M. Messer, warden; E. L. Woods, out side sentinel; A. B. Stoney, or phans’ home representative; and Guy R. Cline, treasurer. | State councilor, Judge W. C. 'Purcell of Scotland Neck and the state vice-councilor, Mr. Goforth of Statesville, were the guest speakers. The next meeting will be held in i Morganton with Burkemont Coun , cil No. 44 as host. FAMILY WEEK AT METHODIST Special Services Are Planned For Local Observance Of Family Week. “Family Week” will be observed May 1-8 at the Valdese' Methodist church. Each family in the church is being requested to have its own family night, with all members present for an evening together, Rev. M. W. Heckard, minister of the church, stated. A special service will be held next Sunday, and on the following Sunday, May 8, the minister will speak on “The Christian Home”. The theme of National Family Week is “Home Builders Are World Builders”, was selected by the in ter-council committee on family life. VALDESE STUDENT GIVEN SUPERIOR SOLO RATING Max Baker, junior at the Val dese high school, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Everette Baker, received a rating of “excellent” on his bari tone horn solo at the state instru mental contest in Greensboro last week. This is the highest rating given. Max competed with stu dents in three classes. A group of students from the high school choruses also went to Greensboro to take part in the state music festival. Mrs. Haynes Rutherford and Band Director Robert Gourley accompanied them. Mrs. Rutherford returned with part of the students on Wednes day night and Mr. Gourley, Max Baker, Rheta Micol, Peggy Jane Perrou and Willis Lachot stayed through Thursday for the instru mental contest. MEMBERS OF MERCHANTS GROUP REMITTING DUES Encouraging reports are still coming from the Valdese Mer chants’ Association, which expects to be in full operation this month. Checks for dues have been received from 60 concerns in town, and oth ers are coming in every day, ac cording to the treasurer of the or ganization. GIRL SCOUTS MEET Girl Scout Troop No.. 13 met Thursday afternoon at the home of Miss Sue Searcy. Discussion centered about finding a new meeting place and a new leader for the troop, since Miss Searcy has resigned as leader. MAY QUEEN ATTENDANTS Misses Bernice and Pauline Ribet, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Ribet, will both be attend ants in the May Queen’s Court at Catawba College Saturday after noon. Bernice will represent the freshman clas sand Pauline, the sophomore class. BUILDING PERMITS Permit was issued to Herbert Carswell for building a service sta tion between the Methodist church and the new underpass. Building valued at $1,000. Contractor had not been selected, but Davis is to do the wiring and Valdese Plumb ing and Heating Company will in stall the heating and plumbing. Pilot President Mrs. T. L. McCarley, above, will be installed as the 11th president of the Pilot Club of Valdese in an installation service Thursday eve ning at the Pilot Cafeteria. She is a charter member of the or ganization. BIG SHIPMENT PIKE PUT IN LAKE JAMES Approximately Quarter Mil lion Placed In Lake; Others Sent To Hatchery. Fishermen in this area who have looked to the time when Lake James was stocked with wall-eye pike can rest a little easier today. Wednesday, last week, two truck loads, bearing 24 barrels, arrived from the Federal Fish Hatchery at Edenton. Approximately 2,000, 000 were in the load, 250,000 of them being placed in the lake last night and the remainder be ing taken to the Marion Hatch ery to be left for a month or two before being put in the lake. The fish eggs—about 3,000,000 of them—came to North Carolina from the New York State Game and Fish Department and were taken first to Edenton where ap proximately two-thirds of them hatched. This was considered a good hatch, District Game Protec tor H. L. Biggers said. The pike are now about four days old and were released , on the Linville side of Lake James in what is known as the Lee James Bottoms and White’s Creek. At Abee's Grove The Abee's Grove Baptist church will begin a series of revival ser vices Sunday, May 1, with Rev. Ernest Moore, above, of Rocking ham, as the guest speaker. Services will be held each even ing at 7:30 o’clock and the public Is invited to attend. -The Abee’s Grove bus will make trips each evening in the Flat Gap section, and in the Pine Burr section. GIRLS’ CHOIR IN CONTEST The girls’ choir of the First Bap tist church in Valdese will go to Shelby Saturday morning to take part in the regional contest. Miss Virginia Street, director, is direc tor of the choir. Town Officials’ Election Next Tuesday to be Done Under New Regulations Spread Poison In Campaign Against Rats Employees of the town of Val dese, working with the county san itation officer, spent Monday put ting out rat poison in an effort to rid Valdese of these pests. The work is part of a county wide campaign, and the town of Valdese is cooperating with the county health department. If any home was missed, a call to the city hall will bring one of the men out to put the poison around that home, City Manager Lee Ribet said. He also stated that if any place was still bothered with rats afterwards, the town would be glad to help in eliminating them. P.-T.A. INSTALLS NEW OFFICERS Valdese Group Holds Final Meeting of Year; To Buy Speaker’s Stand. The Valdese Parent-Teachers Association held its last meeting of the year Thursday evening at the school auditorium, with in stallation of officers. Mrs. Wade Stemple installed the following new officers: Mrs. Floyd Powell, president; Mrs. Charles Burgin, first vice-president; Mrs. Leon Guigou, second vice-president; Mrs. Ruth Mull, secretary; and Mrs. Louis Deaton, treasurer. “Naughty Peter Rabbit in Mr. McGregory’s Garden”, a play, was given by Miss Vonnie Gettys’ first grade. Miss Glossie Pyatt’s sec ond grade rhythm band, with Jane Goode, directing, played, “Coun try Garden” and “Amaryllis”. A film on cancer was shown by Dr. Yates Palmer. During the business session, with Mrs. Leon Guigou presiding, the association voted to purchase a lectern or reading stand to be used at the commencement exercises. ABEE'S CHAPEL PLANS MOTHER'S DAY EVENT The Abee’s Chapel Baptist church will have special Mother’s Day services and grave decoration for Mother’s day, May 8. Sunday school will be held at 9:30 a. m., and with the morning worship service at 11 a. m. Special singing a ndpreaching will continue throughout the rest of the day. All singers are invited to attend and help with the ser vices. Dinner will b eserved on the grounds at 12 noon. Special revival services will be gin with the Sunday night ser vice on Mother’s Day and continue through the following week. Rev. Ed McDaniels will be the visiting evangelist. Song service will start at 7:30 p. m. each night, and the preaching service at 8 o’clock. Saturday, April 30 .everyone having loved ones buried in the Abee’s Chapel cemetery is asked to come and help with a grave yard cleaning in preparation for the decoration service on May 8. The Woman’s Missionary So ciety of the Mt. Calvary Baptist church will have a general business and program meeting Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock at the church. DANGEROUS SNAKES Of 200 species and varieties of snakes in the United States and Lower California, less than 17 percent are dangerous to man. High School Choruses In Concert At Valdese School Tuesday, May 3 The Valdese high school choruses will present a concert of sacred, classical, semi-classical and pop ular numbers Tuesday evening, May 3, at 8 o’clock at the Valdese school auditorium, under the direc tion of Robert Gourley. This will be the last concert, Mr. Gourley said, in which 20 of the chorus members will appear, since they are scheduled to receive their I diplomas in June. I The program will be divided in to three parts: the girls’ glee elub. the boys’ glee club, and the mixed chorus. Miss Anita Ghigo is ac companist. In the combined choruses there are approximately 90 voices. Tickets are being sold by mem bers of the choruses, and are pric ed at 50c and 35c. G.W. VAN HORN ENTERS RACE; VERREAULTOUT Registrations Indicate One Of Heaviest Votes In Town’s History. Valdese voters will go to the polls next Tuesday to elect a ma yor and five town board members. Polls will be open from 6:30 a. m. until 6:30 p. m., and all voting will take place at the city hall, where there will be separate boxes for each ward. Two late changes occurred in the slate of candidates. J. Francis Verreault withdrew in Ward 3 in favor of Valdo Marti nat, leaving Martinat and Wal ter Lingafelt in the race in that ward. G. W. VanHom has filed as a candidate in Ward 4, oppos ing incumbent Guy Cline. The number of registered voters is one of the largest in Valdese his tory, totalling 1147. Broken down by wards, the registration is as fol lows: Ward 1, 255; Ward 2, 179; Ward 3, 142; Ward 4, 312; Ward 5, 259. From all indications, the vote next Tuesday will exceed the total vote of tw oyears ago when a record-breaking number of 783 voters went to the polls to elect the present town board, ith such a large registration this year, it is logical to think that next Tues day’s turnout of voters will estab lish a new record. New Procedure As a result of a bill passed in the 1949 General Assembly, a new pro cedure will be followed in the election Tuesday. In the past, the mayor and aldermen from each of the five wards have been elected for two year terms. Voters-at-large elected the five aldermen; for ex*» ample, a voter in Ward 1 voted for the entire slate of aldermen in (Continued on page Two) This Week In Valdese Wednesday, April 27 2:30 p. m.—The Valdese Home Demonstration Club will meet with Mrs. Ben Grill. 7:30 p. m.—The Wednesday Eve ning Bridge Club will meet with Mrs. Gordon Johnson. 7:30 p. m.—The Les Amis Club will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Winkler. Thursday, April 28 3:30 p. m.—Girl Scout Troop 13 will meet. 7 p. m.—The Women of the Waldensian Presbyterian church will meet at the church. 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.—General W. M. S. meeting of Mt. Calvary Baptist church. —o— Friday, April 29 8:45 a. m.—Pre-school clinic at Valdese elementary school. 7:30 p. m.—The American Le gion will have a supper at the Le gion hut to discuss Legion Junior baseball. 8 p. m.—A film, “This Is Nylon”, will be shown at the Community Center. —o— Monday, May 2 9:45 a. m.—Radio broadcast by Czerny Junior Music Club—Sta tion WMNC. 7:15 p. m.—The Town Board will meet at the city hall. 7:30 p. m.—Lovelady Chapter No. 147, O. E. S., will meet at the Masonic Hall. Tuesday, May 3 6:30 a. m.—Polls open for town election. 12:30 p. m.—The Valdese Rotary Club will meet at the Pilot Cafe teria. 7 p. m.—Executive Board of Wo men of Waldensian Presbyterian church will meet. 7:30 p. m.—Czerny Junior Music Club will meet. 8 p. m.—Concert by the Valdese high school choruses.
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