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Merchants Deserve Your Local Your Support Boost Valdese! /atch It Grow! 11 VALDESE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1949 No. 18 )UTH WEEK CONNELLY R'GS. CHURCH , Hoyle Is “Pastor'’ Of aptist Church During This Week. ltl: week at the Connelly ies Baptist c march was inau ed Sunday evening when the of the church were turned t0 youth Week Pastor Evan , by Rev. L. A. Miller. 0 young people aie taking ,eof all services of the church ig the week and will conduct the morning and e\ ening sei - on Mother's Day. May 8. aeons for the week are Homer h Sammy Wiseman, Charles iey, Grady Day and Jack it, m Berry is Sunday school su lendent. with Pauline Yow as secretary. Betty Lail as ster and Mrs. Ray Powell as st. achers will be: Nancy Smith, ivy; Mavis Carpenter, begin Mary Lail. primary; Mrs. Hoyle, junior boys: Agnes h. junior girls: Jack Street, mediate boys; Nancy Wise intermediate girls; Dare Mil ■oune people: Betty Bumgar voung married women; Rus Pcpe. young married men; 1a Lester, adult women; and Day, adult men. hers at the Sunday morning ce on May 8 will be Bobby it. Felton Lowman. Howard gamer and Harley Bridges, iveicoming committee will eon if Sue Bumgarner. L. B. Miller Susan Lowman. the Mother's Day service gifts be presented to the oldest ber of the church present, to nether with the most children, to the oldest mother present. 1 Sunday evening Gene Wilk l will serve as director of the ning Union, and the young le will present a play. ivia Miller and Caroleen Day conduct prayer meeting on nesday evening, May 4. URAL FOR C. I. STAMEY ty-Six-Year-Old Resident Of Drexel Passes At Home Saturday. arence Ivey Stamey, forty-six, rexel, died at the home at 4:15 ck Saturday afternoon follow i critical illness of four weeks. rites were conducted at 1 Baptist church at three o’ ; Monday afternoon, ic Rev. Fred Forester, the °-L- McGinnis, and the Rev. Icy C. Hoelle officiated. Burial made in the church cemetery. r' Stamey, born in Burke w January 6, 1903. the son of i and Elizabeth Stamey, is sur b- s'x brothers, Marvin and on of Morganton, Luther, Fred Dover of Drexel, and Lester of Angeles, Calif.; and three sis ,Mrs- Pink Ballew, Mrs. John e ai)d Ml's' David Grady, all rexel. MEETING postponed o meeting of the Czerny 1 ',u was Postponed from 7 ^mg to next Tuesi ’because of a conflict \ rinh SCh°o1 chorus cone mb win meet at 7:30 p „f Vera H.lholen I'^se Seniors Depart Thursday For Four - Day Visit To Nation's Capital schoolrs 0f the Valdese in’s l,?6,11 Pllgnmage to the ranks n 1 Thursday nonl iving o? Usance with the Drs win hdlp omas. Thirty-six rThursdn°aif a chai’tered bus home foi dandwhen Un seasoned trdayflater they wil1 ed Washindt'e G1S who have & house hth g 0n’ visited the epresentatlv6 benate’ the house Institute th° Smithsoni ery, and ’ the National Art d be jal.n!rrhiRg else that stav n, Pdcked into a two be jam! ’f ing else th stay therr Cked lnt0 a tw Sfe* C. B. Hont h°sepSPanythe class. pianang to make the t; / R. L. Abee, Gerald Arrowood, Phyllis Berry, Barbara Bounous, Betty Bravard, Dewey Butler, Gilda Cline, Lib Coulter, Bobby Craft, Margaret Duckett, Roger Dye, Albert Eller, Jackie Erwood, Norma Kay Fite, Joe Benny Go ing, Rosalie Grana, Bill Hallybur ton, Nancy Harrison, Robert Her man, M. Z. Honeycutt, Edwin Houk, Catherine Kincaid, Ler6y Lail, Fred Lowman, Peggy Ann Martinat, Betty May, Jim Mauney, Janet McDonald, Florine Mott, Noel Odom, Billy Ollis, Mary Oxentine, Leon Pons, Juanita Sharpe, Eli Stanley, and Mabel Wellman. L. H. McNeely Named Education Board Head Burke County Board of Education Sworn In This Morning In Brief Ceremonies At Office Of The County Superintendent. L. H. McNeely of Drexel was elected chairman of the Burke county school board Monday morn ing to succeed E. P. Whisnant who resigned several weeks ago. The action was taken at the monthly session of the board which con vened today. Mr. McNeely has had broad ex perience in school work, having served as principal in Nash and PREELECTION MEET HELDBY TOWN BOARD Officials Take Up Minor Matters On Eve Of Town Election. Loose ends of its administration were tied up Monday night by the Valdese town board in an election eve meeting. Three motions were made and officially passed: (1) That property on which the 1948 taxes are unpaid be advertis ed for sale in the month of Sep tember. (2) That a permit to drive a taxi be granted to J. B. Cannon, who will drive for Ed Lowman in the City Cab Co. (3) That the town send three firemen to the fireman’s school in Charlotte for three days this week. The men to be sent are Frank Tise, Billy Goings and Fred Ribet. The questions of delinquent taxes and unpaid street assess ments were discussed unofficially, with the aldermen largely seeking information from City Attorney O. Lee Horton. A long distance phone call from Hickory afforded an amusing in terruption: Radio Station WIRC wanted to know the results of the election. Mayor Oscar M. Harrison pre- ( sided at the meeting, at which Aldermen Donald H. Martinat, Stewart S. Chester and Guy Cline were present. Aldermen Earl Searcy, Sr., and Henry J. Garrou were absent. UDC HAS 50TH BIRTHDAY The Samuel McDowell Tate Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Morganton observed its 50th anniversary last Wednesday with a banquet. Prof. E. A. Beaty of Davidson College was the featured speaker and UDC military service crosses were pre sented to 14 World War II veterans who are lineal descendants of Burke county Confederate soldiers. Wake counties for 15 years. He is a graduate of Duke University and has been a member of the county school board for the past six years. He is connected with the H. P. Rich Milling Company in Morganton. The board was sworn into of fice this morning, the oath being administered by W. C. Ross, clerk of Superior Court. Other members of the board sworn in this morn ing were M. S. Arney, Duke Pow er man, who has been a member for 19 years; Harold Perry, prom inent farmer of Hildebran and newly-elected member who replac ed Mr. Whisnant; George Carpen ter, Valdese theatre operator who has been a member for seven years and who was formerly principal of George Hildebran school; C. L. Yount of Morganton, manager of Belk-Broome who has been a member for four years. DISCUSS NEED OF QUARTERS FOR TEACHERS Representatives of Three Town Groups Pledge Ef forts To See Plan Through Representatives of the Pilot Club, the Lions Club, the Rotary Club and the Parent-Teachers As sociation of Valdese met with the Valdese school board and the prin cipals of the schools, C. B. Honey cutt and John L. Johnson, Wednes day evening at a Dutch supper at the Pilot Cafeteria for the purpose of discussing the need for living accomodations for teachers in the Valdese schools. The 20 people present spent two hours discussing the matter from various angles and exploring the possibilities. The group pledged it self to continuing action until some satisfactory temporary ar rangement has been made for Sep tember of this year and also some long range program made ready for September, 1950, and succeed ing years. BAPTIST REVIVALS Revivals continue through this week at the First Baptist church, Enon Baptist church, and Abee’s Grove Baptist church. ELECTED CHAPLAIN Eveleen Taylor, daughter of'Mr. and Mrs. T. E.Taylor, Valdese, has been elected chaplain of Edna Moore dormitory at Mars Hill college for 1949-50. Golden Years Of Service “A famous preacher once preached a sermon entitled ‘And the Little Dogs Yapped’. The idea presented was that as the great caravans of progress moved across the face of the natioan to estab lish the western frontier ,the little dogs along the way spent their time yapping at the procession. How true it is of human nature to stand by and yap in an unkind tone when some great energizing force is steadily moving through tne me of a town and community. “We, the members of a group chosen from the various civic clubs, are happy to take this op portunity to recognize in glowing terms the steady forces that have been in progress in our town since its founding. Five men (A. Grill, Philip Guigou, Henry Grill, Haynes Rutherford and C. C. Long) have served on the school board varying in periods of time ranging from two to forty years, aggregating nearly a century of service. There are other men living in our town who have served, Edward Micol and Wilson Powell. “These men have distinguished themselves in their service to the community. In addition to these men, we pay respect to the mem ory of two great citizens, Francis Garrou, Sr., and J. M. Brinkley, for their faithful years of service. “Continually, these all have walked and talked and served without a cent of pay; they have given themselves to the life of their town. Such unselfish service ought not to go unnoticed and we do take this occasion* to commend them and to express to each of them the sincere appreciation of this committee and, we believe, the profound gratitude of the citi zens of the town of Valdese and (Continued on page two) , At Kickoff Dinner For Junior Legion Baseball Talking over American Legion Junior baseball was the purpose of the get-together shown in the picture above. The boys who aspire to make the team, their fathers, and members of the legion met for a good feed and to talk baseball last Friday night. The outcome is that everybody is expecting a good team, and maybe a “junior junior” team as well, under Coaches “Tude” Chester and “Rooster” Deal. Reese Scull, Jay Spencer, Fred Ribet and Lee Harris, at the speakers’ table, didn’t get in the picture. CARL BAKER GOES BACK AS DREXEL MAYOR Phifer Berry, Ersel Bradshaw Reelected; Griffin Will Replace Haigler. Drexel voters turned out in rec ord-breaking numbers Monday to elect a mayor and three members of the town board. When the votes were tallied, Carl Baker, incum bent, was swept back in to the mayor’s office with a 239 to 133 victory over Pat Poteat, his chal lenger. Two members of the old board were reelected—P. E. Berry, who polled 148 and Ersel Bradshaw who' tallied 153 votes. Garland Griffin, a newcomer, led the ticket by polling 173 votes. Griffin will replace Carl Haigler on the board. Other men in the running for the three board seats were Mar shall Cline, 55; Owen Puett, 51; John Ramsey, 134; Grier Baker, 128; Garnie Brendle, 38; Carl Po well, 98; Henry Baker, 85; Carl Haigler, 68. Of the 446 registered voters, 384 voted in Monday’s elections, or approximately 86 per cent of the number registered. This is an un usually high percentage voting as compared to the number register ed. ROTARY HEARS REV. McCREADY Morganton Pastor Speaker At Valdese Club On English Tour. Members of the Valdese Rotary Club were taken on a vivid ima ginary tour of England last Tues day by Dr. John Dudley McCready, pastor of the Morganton First Baptist church. Dr. McCready visited England about a year ago. Conducting his hearers to West minster Abbey, burial place of many of the world’s greatest men, to Oxford University and to Strat ford-on-A Von, the birthplace of Shakespeare, the speaker urged them to “live greatly, above self.” Dr. McCready was introduced by C. C. Long, who was in charge of the day’s program. Attending the meeting were visiting Rotarians from California Alabama and from Lenoir. BAPTIST JUNIOR CHOIR GETS HIGH RATING The junior choir of the First Baptist church received the high est rating in the district contest at Shelby last Saturday, and will go to the state contest at Fruit land, the state assembly ground near Hendersonville. Miss Virginia Street directs the choir. Miss Street, Lee Harris and Glen Ramsey furnished trans portation to Shelby for the 24 girls in the choir. REVIVAL STARTS SUNDAY Revival services will begin Sun day at the Valdese Church of God with Rev. T. J. Looney of Taylors ville as the evangelist. Rev. G. H. Grooms is pastor of the church. Boiler Explosion Here Is Second For Wa Idensian Bakeries In Short Time Officials of the Waldensian Bak ery are sincere, but sad, believers in the old adage that “troubles come not singly.’’ Last Tuesday, April 25, an oven in the bakery firm’s Shelby plant blew up, causing damage estimat ed at $50,000 and seriously injuring J. C. Morrow, production superin tendent. Monday morning at 6 o’clock the boiler in the Valdese bakery, which was operating 24 hours a day to take care of the orders for LARGE CROWDS ARE ATTENDING BAPTIST EVE NT Countywide Revivals Get Off To Excellent Start In Twenty Churches. Under the theme “Christ Is The Answer”, twenty Baptist churches throughout Burke county began simultaneous revival services last Sunday with capacity crowds at tending each service. These twenty churches have a total membership of almost five thousand and it was conservatively estimated that considerably more than this number attended the opening services of the countywide revival event. Other Baptist churches in the county, unable for various reasons to begin revivals Sunday, have scheduled their revivals for later fates. Calvin Heights Baptist church, M. L. Hastings, pastor, will begin next Sunday, May 8. Dr. J. Harlan Harris has been obtain ed to fill the pulpit of the Morgan ton First Baptist church during revival services to begin there June 19. Two churches held their re vivals prior to this week. TO ATTEND MUSIC EVENT A number of members of the four music clubs of Valdese are making plans to attend the state convention of the Federated Mu sic clubs in Asheville beginning next Wednesday, May 11. NAMED CENSUS TAKER John L. Coontz of *Morganton has been named federal business census taker for Burke, Mitchell, and Avery counties. He began his duties Monday. j the Shelby plant, exploded. For tunately, there was a small auxili ary boiler which could be fired up immediately. The Shelby explosion wrecked the 25-tray steel oven of the bak ery and blew out eve^y window and door on the first floor of the building. Morrow, who was hunch ed down in an 18-inch space be tween the oven and the wall in specting the pilot light when the explosion occurred, suffered double fractures of both pelvic bones, a fractured foot and other injuries. Six or eight other people were on the floor at the time, but none of them sustained any injuries. No halt in operations resulted from the Valdese boiler explosion. Had the secondary boiler not been available, the bakery would have had serious dishwashing problem on its hands before the day was over, with no water to wash thou sands of pans. Officials at the bakery are cross ing their fingers and hoping that the old superstition that things come in three’s doesn’t apply to them. CAFETERIA TEMPORARILY DISCONTINUES MEAL The Pilot Cafeteria has tempo rarily discontinued serving the evening meal, according to R. H. Thornton, manager. Second-shift employees of the Pilot Full Fash ion Mill will still be taken care of by means of a vacumn packed hot lunch which can be prepared earlier in the day. Arrangements have also been made to serve the civic clubs which have been having regular dinner meetings at the cafeteria, Mr. Thornton said. VALDESE STORE LISTED IN SATURDAY EVE POST The Men’s Shop of Valdese is among the stores listed in The Saturday Evening Post as carrying the Elasti-glass All Weather Sport Jacket made by S. Buchsbaum and Company of Chicago. A full page advertisement tells about the coat, which is made of Vinylite plastic, and then lists some of the nation’s outstanding retailers who are featuring this new rainwear. Women Of Concord Presbytery Pick Valdese For 1950 Convention The 1950 session of the Women of the Church of the Concord Presbytery will convene at the Waldensian Presbyterian church in Valdese, it was announced last week at the 1949 annual meeting held in Concord. Approximately 350 women of the Presbytery attended the meetings at the First Presbyterian church in Concord. Speakers included | Mrs. W. A. Dixon of Belmont who discussed the scope of the work of the Women of the Church; Dr. Bruce R. Bouey, who explained tire five-year Program of Progress of the Presbyterian church; and Miss Virginia Allen, former missionary to Africa. Attending the meeting from Val dese were Mrs. Dick Pons, Mrs. Haynes Rutherford, Mrs. John Rostan, Jr., Mrs. I. W. Jones and Mrs. Alton Britt of the Walden sian Presbyterian church. As president of the business wo men of the Presbytery, Mrs. Pons presided over then phase of the program. Mrs. Pons and Mrs. Rutherford were the two official delegates from the Valdese church. Searcy, Cline, D. Martinat, Chester, V. Martinat Win ft' ETHODISTS TO SEEK AID FOR HOME FOR AGED Valdese and Morganton To Se e k Offering On Mother’s Day. The First Methodist church of Morganton and the Valdese Meth odist church will join with the 1,109 churches of the Western North Carolina Conference on Mother's Day to raise a generous offering for the building of the Methodist Home for the Aged in Charlotte. The center unit is now filled to capacity. A left wing to house an additional 75 persons will be finished in the early sum mer, and a right wing is still to be built. There are now more than 300 older persons seeking the se curity of the home. The Western North Carolina Conference was the first Metho dist Conference in the Southeast tp open a home for the aged. Homes are now projected in Rich mond, Virginia, and Miami, Flor ida, and in other states. Fifty nine such homes are operated by the Methodist church. The great need for the service of the home is evidenced by the large and rap idly growing list of applicants. The Methodist Home is equip ped to offer a very rich cultural and spiritual life to the members. A modern well-equipped hospital provides medical care for members who become sick or disabled. Rev. E. K. McLarty, Jr., of Mor ganton says, “Without a doubt, the Home for the Aged is one of the finest projects the Methodist people of North Carolina have un dertaken, and the loyal support of our people is necessary to carry it forward.” BAPTISTS PLAN SCHOOL MEET Bowers To Speak Sunday At Associational Sunday School Meeting. •God’s Challenge to You” will be the subject of an address by Dr. Bartlett A. Bowers next Sunday afternoon at the Catawba River Baptist Associational Sunday school meeting at El Bethel church. Dr. Bowers, was for many years a member of the Baptist Sunday School Board of Nashville, Tenn., served for sixteen years as pastor of the First Baptist church of Gas tonia, and is now interim pastor of the First Baptist church of Val dese. He makes his home at Ridge crest. The program will also feature a message by Rev. M. E. Hastings, pastor of Calvin Heights church, and a demonstration by Shirley R. Hudson, superintendent /Of the Sunday school at Mt. Calvary Bap tist church in Valdese. J. M. Watkins, Sunday school superintendent at El Bethel church will have charge of the de votional period. BIBLE CONFERENCE IS PLANNED FOR 15-20TH The Waldensian Presbyterian church is planning for a Bible con ference to be held May 15-20, it was announced this week by the mininster, Rev. A. B. McClure. Dr. F. Crossley Morgan, one of the outstanding Bible scholars and teachers of this generation, will conduct the conference, teaching the book of the prophet Habakkuk. Services will be held both in the mornings and in the evenings, and Dr. Morgan will also speak at both the morning and evening services on Sunday, May 15. , MOTHERS’ DAY PROGRAM The Valdese Church of God will have a special Mother’s Day ser vice next Sunday, beginning at 7:30 p. m. A cake will be presented to the largest family present, ac cording to an announcement by Rev. G. H. Grooms, pastor. _ Unofficial Returns Show 721 Ballots Cast In Mayor’s Race. A. A. (Trigger) Pons, local in surance man, will be mayor of Val dese for the next two years. He defeated Oscar M. (Red) Harri son, the present mayor, by a whop ping 551 to 127 vtte in the biennial election Tuesday, ur^fficial returns show. Jay Spencer, the third candidate in the mayor’s race, polled 31 votes. Four members of the present board of aldermen were reelected. They were Earl Searcyy Sr., in Ward 1; Donnie Martinat in Ward 2; Guy Cline in Ward 4; and Ste wart (Tude) Chester in Wai'd 5. The lone newcomer to the board is Valdo Martinat who will repre sent Ward 3 on the board. The candidates in Wards 1, 2, and 3 were unopposed in yester day’s balloting. In Wai’d 4. Cline polled 115 votes against 80 for G. W. Van Horn. Chester, the in cumbent in Ward 5, tallied 96 votes against 63 by Lenoir Lowder milk and 21 by John Sams. Searcy received 120 votes. Don nie Martinat polled 106; and Valda Martinat tallied 92. A total of 721 voted in the mayor’s race. Aldermen Searcy, D. Martinat and V. Martinat will serve four year terms while Chester and Clins will serve two year terms. In 1951, the aldermen in Wards 4 and 5 will be elected for four years, thus achieving the staggered terms as provided in .a bill passed in the General Assembly this past session. In the last week before the elec tion Harrison Nichols withdrew from the mayor’s race and Walter Lingafelt withdrew from the race in Ward 3* Francis Verreault had previously withdrawn in favor of Martinat. This Week In Valdese Wednesday, May 4 12 noon—Formal announcement of election of mayor and town board. —o— Thursday, May 5 3:30 p. m.—Girl Scout Troop No. 13 will meet. 6:45 p. m.—The Lions Club will meet at the Pilot Cafeteria. 7:30 p. m.—Baseball game, Val dese High vs. George Hildebrand High. Sunday, May 8 11 a. m.—Worship services at all churches. —o— Monday, May 9 7 p. m.—Boy Scout Troop No. 2 will meet at the Baptist church. 7:30 p. m.—General meeting of Woman’s Missionary Union of First Baptist church. 7:30 p. m.—Lovelady Lodge No. 670, AF & AM, will meet. 7:30 p. m.—The missionary cir cle of the East Valdese Baptist Mission will meet with Mrs. Roy Abee, Jr. —O— Tuesday, May 10 3:30 p. m.—Swimming pool at Community Center will open for the summer. 12:30 p. m.—The Rotary Club will meet at the Pilot Cafeteria. 7 p. m.—The Daughters of America will meet at the Junior Order Hall. 7 p. m.—Boy Scout Troop No. 1 will meet at the St. Germain Street Scout hut. 7:30 p. m.—The Czerny Music Club will meet at the home of Vera Milholen. FUNERAL HOME OPENS The Sossaman Funeral Home, newest mortuary for Morganton, has opened for service, it was an nounced this week. Complete funeral services are offered the public and a formal opening is planned for the near future. DESIRABLE MINERAL There are more than 75 min erals which are regarded as of sufficient commercial importance to be mined extensively.
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