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Boost Valdese! Watch It Grow u ' V , : '■ .. t Your Local Merchants Deserve Your Support « VALDESE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1949 No. 19 IAN BIBLE tf®® NEXT WEEK F Crossley Morgan Will Conduct Studies At Presbyterian Crossley Morgan, a lead r■ Bible scholar and hnp vi'l conduct a Bible con next week at the Wal ' Presbyterian church, ^rning sessions vail be held at !. m Monday through Fri \nd the evening sessions at ; Clock each night. The pub is invited to hear this ouistand ipeaker. ■ the evening services Dr. Mor wi'l take his subjects from the Testament, and at the morn meetings he will teach the . 0f the prophet Habakkuk. Bering topics are: Monday, The p,.eme Tragedy in a Church’s [e: Tuesday. The Christian War K or Fighting the Devil: Wed ‘;q,v’ The Central Fact of thq hstian Faith: Thursday. The ntral Person of the Christian irir Friday, The Second Com - of Christ. 3r, Morgan will also speak Sun f morning and. Sunday evening. l;:pii fir the- morning worship ur will be "Christ's Charge to ? Church", and his evening sub i will be "Christ's Challenging Disciples." >r. Morgan is noted for the amess and the depth cf his i!e teaching and his work has a wholeheartedly praised by :t laymen and ministers of all itestant denominations. ■ie was born in London. Eng 'Continued on page two) LOT MILL’S FF1CE CHANGE COMPLETE arsed Quarters Include ore Offices. Conference Room For Mill. ie handsome new addition to main offices of the Pilot Full hion Hosiery Mill is now com and as a result 01 the ages, the office space has been re than doubled, in addition to Mi'ous other advantages the angement affords. arious shades of green hanno 5 beautifully to give a most ising effect. The floor is finish n mingled-green in rubber tile, 1 the doors and walls done in ropriate shades of green. Mo i ligating fixtures have also a installed throughout the of 'n the first floor, the ol re formerly utilized by the p department, the bookkeep nrtment and the billing dep; Jt*has ^en converted into f ate offices and a confere 1 The ne\v office of the ki room superintendent is ; Jed on the first floor now. Je payro11 department, bo lng department and bil odment are now in lai tets upstairs, along with a Private office. Rest rooms and women are located • A modern, self-open oi connects the two floor stinct advantage of the ] 11 angement is the easy ft * «« various depr J the mill. Doors and p ,;inow connect the rr 1 1 a11 departments of a original office S?ml936>«ie st ®.°"n as one of th ^tous office setups llff® this section oom anv hSteady 8ro becaS however, the ing thp sma11’ thus ntexpansio Win Scholastic Honors Janet McDonald, left, has been named valedictorian of the 1949 graduating class of the Valdese high school, and Edwin Houk, right, has been named salutatorian. Janet is the daughter of Mi( and Mrs. Norwood McDonaid of Valdese, and Edwin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Houk of Rutherford College. County Music Festival To Be Held Here May 18 Bible Instructor ■ Dr. P. Crossley Morgan, above, will conduct a Bible conference Sunday through Friday at the Waldensian Presbyterian church, teaching the book of Habakkuk. He is considered one of the out standing Bible teachers of this day. * CANCER DRIVE NETS $1104.88 The cancer drive in Valdese, which closed on Saturday, April 30, brought in a total of $1104.88. Just what percentage of the total raised in the county this amount will be is not yet known, but the drive was considered most success ful and it is believed that the Val dese total will rank very high. A committee from the Pilot Club conducted the drive in Valdese this year. Mrs. James Farris served as chairman, with Mrs. Henry Grill, ■Mrs. A. F. Garrou and Mrs. George Williams, Jr., serving on the com mittee. The Burke County schools will present the annual spring music festival Wednesday evening, May 18, at 7 o’clock at the Valdese ele mentary school. In case of rain, the festival will be held on Friday, May 20. All the schools in the county are expected to take part in the event, which drew an audience estimated at more than a thousand people last year. The program will include num bers by a combined primary chorus, a combined grammar school chorus, a high school beys’ chorus, a high school girls’ chorus, the Valdese high school and the Valdese second grade rhythm band. Miss Ruth Bolick of Rutherford College will direct the primary chorus. Miess Mary Dudley Hamer of Kildebran the high school girls’ chorus, and Robert Gourley of Valdese the high School boys’ chorus. The directors for the grammar grade chorus is still to be selected. Jane Geode will direct the rhythm band. The steps of the Valdese ele- ! mentary school will form the stage for the program, with the band seated on the walk in front of the steps. Last year two bands took part in the festival, but one of them is temporarily inactivated. Plans are being made to provide seating for the audience, with bleachers arranged in a semi-circle in front of the school. 'GRAND OLE OPRY' STARS IN VALDESE Grandpappy Jones and his Ten nessee Playboys of the “Grand Ole Op’ry” will appear Saturday night from 8 to 9:30 o’clock at the Val dese Community Center. From 9:30 o'clock until mid night, they cut loose and play for a square dance, with “Grandpappy” calling the figures. Firemen To Meet Police Of Valdese In Benefit Game Next Monday Night Sports fans in Valdese are in for a new type of entertainment Monday night at 8 o’clock when the Valdese fire department and police department engage in a baseball game on the high school field. Proceeds from -she game will go to the benefit fund of the fire de partment and admission is 25c and 50c. Many old stars will be brought L . r , niors Select Valedictorian a jQlutatorian For Commencement and lvr,.K ,7 ' u;iugnter or H°uk Son' McDonald, and Houk of S f Mv- and Mrs. beetl chosen valei’r°ld C°llege’ atorian vp<;, aledlct-orian and class’ of ' 0f the t le ^aklese high s' In fCr:ve in schoc "’as treac,lreshman yea: ^C of t?,he Engiis and a mem w 16 NewsPape Club. Snbei' Of the Sei lected to the L? JUnior’ sh cuitor in chJfcCh*. serv ■Was a ? ef of schoc ana wa, -elegato to, *dS Junior clue shal. This year she was editor in chief of the Impersonator, school annual; a member of the student faculty, and was chosen “most studious” in the senior class. Edwin was president of the Eng lish Club his sophomore year. He has been a member of the Beta Club for the past two years, and served as treasurer this year. Last year he was a delegate to Boys’ State. His activities as a senior include: editor-in-chief of the school paper, member of the boys’ chorus, student faculty, class his torian, Sigma Delta Pi. He was elected the “most studious” boy in the senior class. i out of retirement for this occasion. Former greats like Sam Page, John Deal, Red Harrison, Patrol men “Happy” Candler, Lee Ribet, “Tokio” Williams, Chief Ramsey, and numerous other stars of yes terday will participate. A. A. “Trigger” Pons, newly-elected ma yor, will throw out the first ball. NEW MAYOR ASKS HELP OF ALL CITIZENS New Valdese Officials May Take Office This Week Or At Later Date. Although there was no official confirmation of the fact, it was reliably reported Tuesday that the new town board would be sworn in Wednesday morning by Jim Short, local justice of peace who usually does the job. The law says that the new board may be sworn in any time after the first Monday following the election. Since this provision gives considerable leeway as to when a new group takes office, it is pos sible that Mayor “Trigger” Pons and the board elected May 3 may wait several days before taking the oath of office. Presumably the first board meeting will be held Mon day, June 6, the regulate date that the board meets. In a statement released this week, the newly- elected mayor called on the citizens of Valdese to cooperate with his administration 100 per cent for the good of the town. “I want to thank everyone for their support in the recent elections,” Pens said. “I solicit your continued support as we all work to make Valdese a better place ill which to live. With your help, we'll make it the best town in North Carolina.” SINGING MEET PLANNED FOR MAY 21 HERE Many Popular Out-of-County Groups Expected To Attend Event. A real old fashioned singing convention is being planned for Saturday, May 21, at the Valdese Community Center, with vocali zers coming “a fur piece” to take part. Among the entries in the convention, the one that comes the farthest so far is the Rainbow7 Quartet of Micaville, of wrhich W. G. Robinson is the leader. Other groups that signed up in clude the L and H Quartet of New ton, Mr. Hass director; the Valdese high school quartet; and the Songsters of Morganton, led by Wilson Bowman. Letters are being received every day, Mr. Chambers said, from groups in Lenoir, Valdese, Morgan ton, Granite Falls and other sur rounding towns, who want to enter the musical jamboree. JUNIOR MUSIC HYMN FESTIVAL SUNDAY MAY 22 Junior Choirs of Churches To Present Program Of Sacred Numbers. Junior music clubs of Valdese will conduct a hymn festival Sun day evening, May 22, at 6 o’clock at the Valdese elementary school. The program wil include sacred numbers by the junior choirs of the Waldensian Presbyterian church and of, the First Baptist church, as Veil as congregational singing of hymns. Accompanists wall be members of the Czerny club. The Valdese Senior Music Club is sponsoring the festival, with the following committee in charge of arrangements: Mrs. A. T. Justice, chairman; Mrs. Henry J. Pascal, Mrs. Charles Burgin and Miss Frieda Culberson. Valdese General Nurses' Home The 15-room nurses’ home, shown above, at the Valdese Gen eral Hospital will be open to the public Thursday evening when the hospital holds open house on National Hospital Day. Idese General Hospital Will Hold Open House On Thursday Scenes At Modernized Valdese General Hospital The picture above shows the main building of Valdese General Hospital, left, and the clinic, right. Connecting the two buildings is an enclosed passaf sway, which also serves as an ambulance entrance. The building at the left is the former dormitory of Rutherford College, and the clinic occupies the old administration building. Visitors at the Hospital’s open house Thursday evening from 6 to 9 o’clock are asked to go first to the clinic, the building with the columns. WWWWW.VrtVVVwvw. • • Shown above is the lobby in the new clinic of the Valdese General Hospital. To people who knew the old building, used until recently as a nurses’ home, the transformation is as miraculous as the making of a silk purse from a sow’s ear. Walls are a soft green, and the floors of red tile. The day of the antiseptieally white hospital no longer prevails, and the hospital becomes a friendly personal place. Swimming Pool Will Be Opened Here Next Tuesday May 17 is a red letter day for Val dese boys and girls, and for grown ups too. That is the day that the Community Center swimming pool is scheduled to open. The wading pool will also be open for the smaller children. For those who belong to the community center there is no ad mission charge. The swimming is free. But for those who do not hold membership in the center, the ad mission fee is 50c. Membership dues are $12 a year for adults, $6 for children. If the FOLK SONGS, DANCES ON LIONS CLUB PROGRAM The Lidns Club of Valdese was entertained at its meeting Thurs day evening with a program of folk songs and dances by four boys and four girls from the Crossnore School. Dr. Mary Martin Sloop, director of the school, accompa nied the children. John L. Johnson, principal of the Valdese elementary school, and a former Crossnore student, had charge of the program. A report on the progress of the committee working on housing for teachers was heard. LT. GRILL GRADUATES Second Lt. Henry S. Grill of Valdese graduated in Class Num ber three, special associate basic course in anti-aircraft and guided missiles of the Coast Guard artil lery school on Tuesday, May 3, at Port Bliss, Texas. parents are members, however, the dues for the children are- only $3 a year. * All memberships are payable in advance. BAPTIST REVIVALS COME TO A CLOSE RECENTLY Revival services at the First Baptist church closed Friday even ing. At Abee’s Grove church re vival services continued through Sunday morning. Rev. Bertis Fair, pastor of Mt. Calvary church, con ducted a revival throughout the week at' North Catawba church, where Rev. Randolph Heavener is pastor. COUNCIL OF PTA MET HERE The Burke county council of the Parent-Teachers Association held its semi-annual meeting Monday, May 2, at the Valdese elementary school. Mrs. Leon Guigou of Valdese was elected president for the coming year. Other officers are Reese Scull, of Rutherford College, vice president; and Mrs. Fiances Pen land, of Icard, secretary-treasurer/ The presidents of all the P.-T.A. organizations in the county gave reports on the accomplishments of their group during the year. Year books were displayed, to be judged for prizes. Rev. A. B. McClure of Valdese conducted the devotionals, and a musical program was given by the Valdese elementary school chorus and the Valdese second grade rhythm band. This Year's Edition of Valdese High Annual Is Dedicated To Coach The 1949 edition of the Imper sonator, Valdese High‘School an nual,- is dedicated to Coach Burton Barger, with the following inscrip tion on the dedicatory page: “We proudly honor ‘Coach’ Bur ton K. Barger who has made ath letics a real sport. The student body as well as the boys who go out for his teams love and respect him. They strive to show good sportsmanship a swell as to win every game possible. We the stu dents of the Valdese1 High School dedicate the tenth volume of the 1949 Impersonator.” The annual is beautifully bound in gold with a tiger on the cover. It contains 38 pages of pictures and write-ups with 19 pages of ad vertisements., and is especially at tractive in format and planning. The Beta club publishes the an nual each year. Janet McDonald was editor of this year’s issue, with the following staff: Alyce Epley, advertising manager; Betty Bum garner, business manager; Eliza beth Street, assistant editor; Al bert Eller, assist business man ager; M. Z. Honeycutt, sports edi tor; Jack Robinson and Caroleen Day, advertising assistants; Gerald Arrowood, art editor; and Joette Smith, pipture editor. NEW, LARGER FACILITIES ARE COMPLETE Public Invited To Inspect Ad ditions and Remodeled Hospital Buildings The Valdese General Hospital will hold open house Thursday, May 12, which is National Hospital Day, The day, however, marks more than just a national observ ance for the hospital. It means that the much needed expansion program has progressed to the point where the new clinic can be used and can be opened to the public. The nurses’ home has been in use for several months. From 6 p. m. to 9 p. m„ the hos pital, the clinic and the new nurses’ home will be open, and the pub:ie is invited to visit the hospital between those hours. Vish tors are asked to go to the new clinic, which is the middle of a group of the three buildings that comprise the hospital plant. There, members of the hospital personnel will meet them and take them through the hospital. Refreshments will be served. Actually, the hospital belongs to the people who will be visiting it, for it is a community owned hospital, operated on a non profit basis, for the purpose of administering medical care to the people of this area. According to hospital statistics for the United States, one to three people out of every family will go l to a hospital this year. But the patient does not have the oppor tunity to lift the veil and see the inside workings of his hospital then that he will have Thursday evening, when every department will be open for his inspection. The visitors will first visit the clinic and doctor’s offices in the newly remodeled central building. Eentering the beautiful lobby and reception room, he will see on his left the pharmacy and on his right, the children’s waiting room. Swinging doors will admit him to the clinic proper, with the “card” room or office on the left, then (Continued on page two) This Week In Valdese Thursday, May 12 3:30 p. m.—Girl Scout Troop No. 13 will meet. 6 p. m.—Open house at Valdese General Hospital. 7:15 p. m.—High Peak Council No. 355, Jr. O. U. A. M. will meet at the Junior Order Hall. 7:30 p. m.—The Burke county sub - district of the Methodist Youth Fellowship will meet at Zion church. 7:30 p. m.—The Pilot Club will meet at the Community Center. —o— Friday, May 13 7:30 p. m.—The DAR will meet at the home of Mrs. Julius Ramsey, Sr. 8 p. m.—Grandpappy Jones and his Tennessee Playboys will give a program at the Community Center. 9:30 p. m.—Square dance at the Community Center. Sunday, May 15 11 a. m.—Worship services at all churches. —o— Monday, May 16 7 p. m.—Boy Scout Troop No. 2 will meet at the First Baptist church. 7:30 p. m. — Lovelady Chapter No. 147, O. E. S., will meet in the Masonic Hall. Tuesday, May 17 12:30 p. m.—The Rotary club will meet at the Pilot Cafeteria. 3 p. m.—The Rutherford College Home Demonstration Club will meet. 7 p. m.—Boy Scout Troop No. 1 will meet at the St. Germain street Scout hut. 7:30 p. m.—The American Le gion will meet at . the Legion Hut. 7:30 p. m.—The Legion Aux iliary will meet at the Legion Hut. 7:30 p. m.—The Valdese Music Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Armand Verreault.
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