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Boost yaldese! Watch It Grow! THE fl LIVE NEWSPAPER IN A PROGRESSIVE TOUIN” Your Local Merchants Deserve Your Support 'ol. ^ VALDESE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1949 No. 24 IALDENS1AN SONGS, DANCES MAKE big h I t yenty . Six Entertainers From Valdese Delight Festival Crowd. highlight of the closing ses nfme second annual Carolina Festival held in Kenan Sta Chapel Hill Saturday night 'program of unusual dances seldom-heard songs in French mmed by 26 entertainers from Sunder the direction of Mrs. uise Guigou. Lssed in colorful costumes, the aidensians gave several songs at their forebearers sang when ev departed from northern Italy , the New World in 1890. Also eluded were songs sung over 50 ars ago in Burke county. After singing Chant PatroitiQue ddois, a Waldensian patriotic m the entire group joined in >d Our Secular Rock. This was Hewed by two chansons. The aidensians completed their part the festival with a demonstra- j in of the “Courtenta”, an old Ik dance, performed by a set of ur couples. The Valdese women taking part the festival wore native aldensian costume for the sing f of the hymns and then remov ’their ”coiffes'? or bonnets for e singing of the folk songs and e dancing, since the coiffe is emblem of purity and is not to defiled or desecrated in dancing other worldly frivolities. Dancing the courento were Mrs. Bile Squiilario, Mrs. Philipe Ros- > b, Mrs. George Grill, Mr. and rs. Aldo Martinat, Pete Meytre, hn Peyrot, and Joel Dalmas, th James Henry Pascal furnish f music for the dances on ihs cordion. Taking part in the singing were logene Pons. Emily Micol, Kitty rili. Bernice Ribet, Jeannine Gar in Catherine Guigou, Rosalba iscal. Edna Ogle, Phyllis Guigou, rs. Louise Guigou, Frances Hern, iris Pons, Margaret Garrou, lita Ghigo, Mrs. George Grill, rs. Emile Squiilario. Mrs. Philipe istan. Pete Meytre, John Peyrot, do Martinat, Joel Dalmas, John Guigou, Paul Rostan, James miy Pascal, John D. Guigou, Ed e Micol, and Silvio Pascal. Mrs. Guigou, telling of the fes 8l said that among the more teresting entries in the festival ire the group of Guilford railway hi service personnel who appear in costumes in national colors, lC the Scotch Highlanders from lJette\ ilie, and a group of about Negroes known as “Weaver’s 'Continued on page four) New Baptist Educational Building To Be Dedicated Homecoming Service To Be Held Sunday In Connection With Dedication Program For Recently Completed Educational Building For Valdese Church. By GENEVA HIERGESELL Dedicaion of the new educa tional building of the First Baptist church of Valdese will be made on next Sunday when an all-day homecoming service will be held at the church, it has been announced by C. Lee Harris, educational di rector. With Dr. B. A. Bowers, supply pastor, in charge, the program will begin with the regular Sunday morning church school. Rev. Oscar Long, pastor of the Green Creek Baptist and a former member of the local congregation, will de liver he 11 o’clock sermon. Prior to the picnic dinner, which will be Served on the grounds, a dedicatory service will be held on the steps of the annex when J. M. Messer, chairman of the building committee, will pre sent the keys of the building to Herman Epley, a member of the board of trustees. With members of the Girls’ Auxiliary and Boy Scouts serving as guides, the congregation will make a tour of the building and at 1:30 p. m. an informal song fest will be held in the auditorium with Lawrence Buff in charge. At two o’clock the afternoon session will begin with a history of the church and the recognition of former pastors, former mem bers, and all visitors. Rev. M. I. Harris, under whose ministry the building was planned and begun, will bring the climax ing sermon at three o’clock. Col lections for the building fund will be made at all services. Actual construction of the building was begun last fall, but plans were formulated six years ago when the congregation voted its erection and at the same time established a building fund and selected a building committee, of which the late J. C. Brinkley was chairman. Upon Mr. Brinkley’s death one year ago, Mr. Messer was made head of the group which consists today of G. P. Hagaman, Glen Ramsey, Herman Epley, J. E. (Continued on page four) Five Burke Countians Get Appointments By Governor Several Burke county citizens were among Governor Kerr W. Scott’s appointees to various boards and commissions this week. Appointed as members of the State Hospitals Board of Control were Dr. W. H. Kibler, Morganton physician, and Dr. Yates Palmer of Valdese, also a physician. Dr. Palmer was reappointed while Dr. Kibler was a new appointee. James Pons of Valdese was ap pointed a new member of the board of directors at North Carolina School for the Deaf, succeeding L. A. Dysart of Lenoir. Mrs. Frank P. Tate of Morganton was named as a member to succeed Harry L. Wilson, also of Morganton. Re appointed to the NCSD board were Dr. Howard E. Rondthaler of Win ston-Salem and the Rev. James R. Fortune of Durham. W. S. Mc Cord of Charlotte who is a lino type operator on the Charlotte News and an alumnus of the school was named to succeed the late W. M. Shuford of Concord. Other members named were Howard Moose of Newton and W. P. El the valdese news —OFFERS— Subscription Special or Valdese Dollar Days Event— Thursday - Friday - Saturday 111 subscribe -to THE VALDESE NEWS— 'or Only $1.00 Per Year (A 33|S> Savings) 0U out the coupon, bring or mail to Valdese News. with any merchant UlE participating in Dollar Day address enclose ti nn t 1 . leYear UU f°r subscriPtion to The Valdese News for New. Renewal. liott of Marion. Two mayors—Dr. Ralph E. Kib ler of Morganton and Victor Shaw of Charlotte—head the list of a seven - member commission ap pointed to investigate a just shar ing of State highway revenues with municipalities. In the last few days, appoint ments have been pouring from the governor’s office at a rapid rate. Prayer Service To Precede Youth Revival A prayer service in preparation for the youth revival which is to be held at the First Baptist church June 26-July 2, will be conducted Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the home of Ro bert Walsh. Cecil Thompson one of the speakers for the revival, will have charge of the service, at the conclusion of which there will be a period of recreation. Conducting the revival will be Glen Ramsey, Jr., a member of the First Baptist church and Cecil Thompson, of Morganton, who is the preacher for the East Valdese Baptist Mission. Both were stu dents at Gardner-Webb College last year. Church Circles Enlarge Services At State Hospital Officers and others of the mis sionary circles of Morganton churches gathered last Wednesday at the State Hospital for a dis cussion of plans for continuing and enlarging their services at the hos pital. The meeting was arranged upon the invitation of the Rev. A. W. Lippard, chaplain of the State Hospital. The various church circles have been rendering monthly services such as visit to patients, religious services and hymn singing in the hospital wards. The meeting last week, the chaplain said, resulted in a better organized plan enab ling the circles to enlarge on the services. Rev. Mr. Lippard stated that any other church groups interested in such work at the State Hospital are invited to contact him at the hospital. Those attending the Wednesday meeting were taken on a tour of the hospital. All roads lead to Valdese this weekend for Dollar Days bargains. VALDESE TO GET $3,107 IN STREET FUNDS Increased Allocation Set Out By 1949 Legislature To Aid Municipalities. Burke county’s four incorporat ed towns are to receive a total of $33,146 from the apportionment of a $2,500,000 street maintenance fun from the State to municipal ities for the 1^49-50 fiscal year, it was announced Friday by the State Highway Commission. According 4to the allocations set out by the commission, and on the State highway engineer’s recom mendation, Morgan ton is to re ceive $14,800, Valdese $3,107, Drex el $1,025, and Glen Alpine $14,214. The fund is two and a half times as large as the money given to mu nicipalities during the current year. The increased allocation was set up by the 1949 legislature. The commission apportioned a total of $1,048,314 among 396 towns of less than 2,500 popula tion and the remainder to 77 towns of greater population. Individual allocations ranged from $128,200 for the city of Char lotte down to $46 for the town of Jupiter in Buncombe county, a community with a 1940 population of 74. ( Allocations were on the basis of population, state highway mileage, and highway engineers’ recommen dations. PATHOLOGIST IS ROTARY CLUB SPEAKER Dr. John Reece of Morgan ton Tells of Research In Cancer Treatment. The chief problem of cancer, Dr. John Reece of Morganton told the Valdese Rotary Club Tuesday is an educational one. Of every four people who die with cancer, one and possibly two could be saved if the cases were reported and diagnosed soon enough. Dr. Reece showed the club color slides of actual cases that had been handled at Grace Hospital. Because so little was known about cancer for so long, the idea grew up that it was a horrible dis ease and that it was shameful to have a cancer. Now, he skid, peo ple are coming to realize that it is just another disease of the organs of the body, like tuberculosis, or heart trouble or pneumonia. It is a disease in which the certain cells of the body turn gangster, grabbing more than their share of their food and destroying neighboring cells. For a long time it was thought that there was no virus connected with the disease. But now the cancer researchers are not sure. Someday, however, the mystery of cancer and of the hu man cell will be solved, just as man finally learned to smash the atom. When that time comes, we may even solve the mystery of all life, the speaker asserted. Cancer of the lung seems to be (Continued on page four; NEW ORLEANS SPEAKER AT ABEE'S GROVE Rev. J. C. Wells, superintendent Baptist city missions in New Or leans, spoke last Sunday morning at the Abee’s Grove Baptist Mission work in New Orleans. At the evening service Rev. C. A. Brantley, who for the past 12 years has been superintendent of the Baptist Rescue Mission in New Orleans, told of this work and of the Baptist home for delinquent girls. He stated that 20,000 people went through the rescue mission last year. The two speakers were secured by the pastor, Rev. M. M. Summey, who knew them when he was at tending the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Both were in North Carolina for a conference at Ridgecrest. S-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g Your Dollar c These are dollar-conscious days. Not since pre-war time have folks been so careful about spending a dollar. As times are settling back to normal, folks are expecting—and getting—more for a dollar than they were a year or so ago. Realizing this, your Valdese merchants are uniting to give you the most outstanding sale ever offered locally. It’s been many a year since you could buy so much for a dollar as you will be able to do Thursday, Friday and Satur day in Valdese. To substantiate this, just casually turn through this week’s edition of The Valdese News. You’ll find dozens of bargains in all lines of merchandise. Then, too, there’s the matter of trading at home. The dollar you spend in Valdese this weekend stays here to build a greater and more progressive Valdese. This is not true of the dolla^ that is spent elsewhere. When you trade with your Valdese merchants, you are trading with your neighbors who will see to it that you get quality merchan dise at a price as low as if not lower than any other place. Another slogan for these three days might be “Try Home First”. With the variety of attractive stores in Valdese, we think you’d have to go a long way to beat their mer chandise and price tags. It’s the first trade event sponsored by the newly-organ ized Valdese Merchants Association, but the organization emphasizes that it will not be the last. This hustling, live-wire group is working hard to serve the shoppers of this area. The organization will appreciate your support this week-end—and in the future. See you at Dollar Days! Seventy - Four Firms Make Trade Event A Reality Sponsoring the Valdese Dollar Days this week is the Valdese Mer chants Association, which now has 74 members. Although the asso ciation is less than three months old, its members have shown a spirit of cooperation and a willing ness to work that would do credit to a much older and more experi enced organization. Already the members of the as sociation have demonstrated the value of their association to the town, by offering to the people of this vicinity an opportunity to do their shopping at a great saving, GEO.HILDEBRAN STORE ROBBED Robbery Nets $800 In Cash and Checks; Sheriff’s Office Investigating Stillwell’s Store at George Hil debran was robbed of approxi mately $800 Saturday night about 8:30 o’clock when two men enter ed the store dnd held the opera tors and customers at the point of a gun until the robbery was completed, the sheriff’s department reported today. No arrests had been made at Monday noon and because of the meager description of the men, clues were scarce. Officers said that two men enter ed the store and fired a shot to ward the back of the store. The men then cleaned out a cigar box where the cash was kept and pro ceeded to search the three or four customers who were in the store at the time. Only a few dollars was obtained from the customers, officers said. About $200 of the total amount from the cigar box was in checks, Mr. Stillwell told them. The two men left the store after the robbery and were whisked away in a 1940 or 1941 Chevrolet driven by a third man, officers said the Stillwells told them. The men were first reported to be Negroes, but later the Stillwells said they were white men with dark com plexions. The robbers were given ample time to make a get away since there was a lapse of 15 or 20 min utes before the Stillwells could get to a telephone to report the rob bery. The store is located about eight miles from Valdese across Mineral Springs mountain at the intersec tion of the old Mountain road and Miller Bridge road. 18 PAGES TODAY Your Valdese News is composed of eighteen pages in three sections today. 'and with the convenience of shop ping in their home town. The 74 members of the associa tion are: A & D Farm Supplies. A & P Store. Belk-Broome Company. Benlee’s Department Store. Bernard Buick Co. Brinkley Hardware and Furni ture Co. Brinkley Lumber Co. Britt Laundry & Dry Cleaning. M. E. Burns Market. The Children’s Shop. City Coal Co. City Market & Grocery. City Motor Co. City Radio & Tire Co. G. R. Cline Grocery & Meats. Colonial Theatre. Henry E. Colton. Corbett’s Clothiers. Davis Electric Co. The Dress Shoppe. Mrs. J. P. Deal, Community Store. Duke Power Co. Eversmart Beauty Shop. * Eversmart Dress Shop. George Motor Co. •G. I. Grocery. G & L Grocery. Goode Motor Co. Goodwill Service Station. H & J Mobil Station. Hickory Telephone Co. Ideal Beauty Shop. Kirksey & Co. Little Man’s Grocery. Major Electric Co. The Men’s Shop. The Northwestern Bank. Dr. W. H. Parker. People’s Drug Store. Perrou Service Station. Pons Insurance and Waldensian Finance Co. Powell’s Grocery. Powell’s Furniture and Gifts. Quality Cleaners. Red Bird Community Store. Rock Drug Store. Rose’s 5-10-25c Store. Ruth’s Beauty Shop. Setzer Insurance & Real Estate. Squillario’s. The Style Shop. Super Service Station. Texaco Service Station. Town of Valdese. Valdese Building & Loan Ass’n. Valdese Cleaners & Dyers. Valdese Food Shop. Valdese Flower Shop. Valdese Furniture Co. Valdese General Hospital. Valdese Hardware Co. Valdese Ice Plant. Valdese Jewelry Store. Valdese Market & Grocery. The Valdese News. Valdese Plumbing & Heating Co. Valdese Printing Co. Valdese Roller Mill. Van Horn Grocery. Waldensian Market. Walker Motors, Inc. Watkins Auto Service. Western Auto Assoc. Store. Your Florist. Three Big Dollar Days To Begin Here Thursday Free Parking In Downtown Shopping Area During Three Day Trade Event; Valdese Merchants To Prove It Pays To Shop Valdese First. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are Dollar Days in Valdese and economy-wise shoppers of Valdese and vicin ity will welcome this special trade event as an occasion that promises to surpass any similar promotion ever held here. This is the first promotional event sponsored by the newly-organized Valdese Merchants Association and Credit NEW A&P STORE IS CONSIDERED FOR ,VALDESE Proposed Building Would Be Similar To Big Super Market Type. Plans for the construction in Valdese of a new A&P super mar ket are being considered by the administrators of the Guigou es tate. If the plans are accepted, the building will be constructed on the Guigou property in the post office block, in the space above Corbett’s Clothiers. No contract has been signed as yet, but the opinion in official quarters was that there was a good likelihood that an A & P super market would be ready for business in Valdese sometime in the fall. Gus Jacumin, manager of the Valdese A&P, said that the blue prints submitted by the company’s architects, called for a structure similar to that of the super mar kets in other towns. If the Guigou estate erects the building, it will be leased to the A&P. This Week In Valdese Thursday, June 16 6:45 p. m.—Lions Club will meet at the Pilot Cafeteria. 7:30 p. m. — The Sans Souci Bridge Club will meet. —o— Saturday, June 18 8 p. m.—Legion Junior baseball. Valdese vs. North Wilkesboro, here. Sunday, June 19 11a. m.—Worship services at all churches. 9:45 a. m.—Homecoming day at First Baptist church. —o— Monday, June 20 9 a. m. — Community Center playground opens. 7 p. m.—Women of the Walden sian Presbyterian church will meet at the church. 7 p. m.—Boy Scout Troop 2 will meet at the First Baptist church. 7:30 p. m. — Lovelady Chapter No. 147, O. E. S., will meet at the Masonic Hall. Tuesday, June 21 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.—The Daughters of Amer ica will meet in the Junior Order Hall. 7:30 p. m.—The American Le gion and the American Legion Auxiliary will meet at the Legion Hut. HOMECOMING DAY Burke’s Chapel Methodist church near Icard observed Home coming Day Sunday with dinner on the grounds. Leon Butler of Valdese was the speaker at the morning service, and in the after noon special music was furnished by the Victor Quartet and the Cook Duet. Dureau. nasewnere in mis issue is the long list of concerns which have already joined the organiza tion and still others are expected to become members soon. Virtually every merchant in Valdese is running specials during the next three days. While the Dollar Day theme is being carried out in most stores, many concerns where this plan was not practical because Jthe type merchandise, have drastically reduced their merchandise during the event. All Firms Cooperating Firms cooperating with the event represent every type of store in Valdese grocery, furniture, auto appliance, dry goods store, beauty shops, clothing stores, de partment stores, service stations, department stores, specialty shops, and many others. “We want this event to prove that Valdese merchants have as good if not better variety of mer chandise than any so-called “shopping centers”, a spokesman for the Valdese Merchants Associ ation said today.” “Not only do local stores have the merchandise, but prices are as low if not lower than in other towns. By the time travel to other towns is taken into consideration, the shopper saves many dollars by trading at home with hometown merchants.” Elaborate Plans Stores are making elaborate plans for the huge event. Some are adding extra sales personnel to ac commodate the crowds expected. Shelves are stocked with the best summer merchandise obtainable, at prices far below normal. Thanks to the Valdese town board, meters will be covered during the next three days and shoppers may park in the meter zones as long as they like with out fear of getting a ticket. This large edition of The Val 3ese News is filled with outstand ing bargains offered by Valdes® merchants during these Dollar Days. Copies of the paper have been placed in every box in the local postoffice and special carrier boys are delivering a copy to every home in the Valdese section. Ap proximately 4,000 copies are ex pected to reach every home in this entire area. PRESBYTERIAN YOUTHS ATTEND PIONEER CAMP Nine boys and girls from the Waldensian Presbyterian church left Monday to attend Pioneer Camp at Barium Springs for a week. They are Mary Emma McClure, Gwendolyn Pons, Catherine Baker, Joan Goode, Julia Lee Ri bet, Nickie Palmer, Luther Wil liams, Jimmy Chambers and Benny Garrou. Attending the Spnod’s Youth Conference at Flora Macdonald College, also this week, June 13-20 are Doris Searcy, Rheta Micol, Joan Rutherford and Rev. A. B. McClure. Both camps will have programs designed for inspiration, training and recreation. MISS MARTIN ATTENDS PILOT CLUB CONVENTION Miss Ruth Martin of Valdese, lieutenant governor of District 6 of Pilot International, will leave this afternoon (Wednesday) for Chicago, where she will attend the annual Pilot Clubs convention at the Sheraton Hotel. Miss Martin will also represent the Pilot Club of Valdese at the convention. She plans to travel by plane from Charlotte to Chicago. phop InValdese And Save — See Ads In This Issue
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