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VALDESE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1949
No. 30
[CLINES CALL
? baptists TO
OCAL CHURCH
Canipe Expresses Re
ets He Will Not Be Able
To Take Pastorate.
j c Canipe of Henderson
wh0 on July 10 was extended
nanimous call to the pastorate
e First Baptist church of Val
has written the church that
iU not be able to accept the
He had previously indicated
fl„ite interest in coming to
e* and the pulpit committee
he church had been hopeful
acceptance.
sure from many sources, all
j him to continue the work
now doing, was the reason
anipe gave for his decision,
now secretary of evangelism
forth Carolina, engaged in
ig county-wide revivals in
estem part of the state. He
leads the Fruitland Institute,
Hendersonville, which he
i establish for the ti aining
oisters. The school now has
arollment of approximately
e pulpit committee of the
ese Baptist church is made up
j p. Hagaman, chairman,
Ramsey. Herman Epley, K.
Lineberger. and William P.
AND MATRON
ISITS LOCAL
OES CHAPTER
>r Distinguished Guests
Initiation Ceremonies
Monday Evening.
s. Edna Moag. Worthy Grand
on of North Carolina, paid
fficial visit to Lovelady Chap
o. 147. Order of Eastern Star,
aldese. Monday evening,
remonies of initiation and
ting were held and instruc
were given by the grand
on.
ler distinguished guests in
d Mrs. Daphne Mackey, D.
. M. of Old Port; Mrs. Hilda
lurton. D. D. G. M„ of Clyde;
Belle Connolly, grand repre
tive, of Taylorsville; and
?e B. Robertson, D. D. G. P.f
lindale.
freshments in the color
fle of the year were served
le Glen Alpine members of
ocal chapter.
Pioximately 100 people were
nt including guests from
irsville. Spindale, Old Fort,
lry and Morganton.
howsTyouthT
WE VESPER SERVICES
ra Scott and Crawford M
1 Glen A1Pine had charge
'esper service of the Bu:
l ^"district of the Met!
t? h Fellowship at Bro
J n Beach Sunday even
af°tCpk' ,A Picnic supper a
ahei the service. Appro
J 20 younS People were pr
Picnic had been p
afternoon, but wai
because of the rain.
JUNIOR TEAM
SUPPER IS PLANNED
s y'ho played b
se Legion jun
,erwiH be hon(
^ursday night;
; !aldese Leg]
’ forn»er head
baf6 College'
pal leaker of
I, Se Legion
IJns Party For
I °sts^Of County
KaL11?' American Le
^ion Aux
[have been PP|ne and their
bthe Vail Tended invita
fclock satSj Ugion Hut at
ba1hynevening for
l^es of vs? om dancing,
|erous p;. ous kinds.
V the Kami WUI be given
ban, ^ost s publicity
■Legionnairp, 41 .
fly Members nLthis vicinity,
to atten'fditheir guests
tena= he said.
New Police Radio System
To Be One Of Best In State
The town of Valdese has a
warded a contract to the Motorola
Company of Chicago to install a
Frequency Modulation police radio
system, Town Manager Lee Ribet
said today. •
Cost of the installation will be
$1,855 and the units are scheduled
to be installed within the next 60
days. The contract calls for the
setting up of a central station in
the town office and receiving and
sending transmitters in the two
police cars.
The new system will be far su
perior to the present setup which
necessitates the Valdese police
men contacting the sheriff’s office
in Morganton. Under the new set
up, Valdese will have a system of
its own, but at the same time will
be able to contact other FM sta
tions in Morganton, Lenoir, and
even as far away as Salisbury if
necessary, Police Chief Norris
Ramsey said today. Contact can
also be made immediately with the
State Highway Patrol, he added.
Burke county and Morganton
are installing similar systems and
1 when all three units are comp
leted, this section will have one of
the most modem police radio sys
tems available anywhere.
Superintendent of Radio A. Y.
Cottrell has assisted the three
groups in setting up the new sys
tems.
‘Womanless Wedding* To
Be Staged By Pilot Club
Details of the “Womanless Wed
ding,” to be given August 8 and
9 at the Colonial Theatre, with
a cast of local business men, were
worked out at a meeting of the
Pilot Club of Valdese Thursday
evening.
Advance tickets were put on
sale this week, at the usual theatre
admission price of 40 cents for
adults and 10 cents for children.
Just who will be who in the
wedding will not be revealed in
advance, and the public will have
to attend the wedding to find out
who plays the part of Miss Tiny
Oats, the bride, and Fliverton
Hayseed, the bridegroom, and the
rest of the wedding party and
their families.
A motion picture, “Miss Tat
lock’s Millions” will be shown the
same evening. Proceeds will be
used for the Pilot Club’s project of
child welfare.
The special business meeting for
the purpose of discussing the
‘wedding’ was held at the home
of Mrs. Rosalie Parris.
Prior to that time a dinner
meeting was held at the Pilot
Cafeteria with Mrs. Mary Garrou
and Mrs. Bernice Ribet as hostess
es. Mrs. Lena McCarley presided
during the business session, during
which funds were voted for the
assistance of a sick child, ^and
other welfare matters were taken
care of. Yearbooks were distri
buted.
Miss Ruth Martin, who is lieut
enant governor of the sixth dis
trict (Norths Carolina) gave an
interesting report on the annual
convention of Pilot International
which she attended in June in
Chicago. She showed pictures of
the meeting and explained
changes in operating procedure
which were adopted at the con
vention.
Enterprising Valdese Youths Enter Varied
Forms of "Business" Activities
Lemonade for sale, lawns mow
ed, dirt for sale, bicycles painted,
and “buy a paper, mister”, these
are some of the forms youthful
business enterprise has taken in
Valdese this summer.
Papers for sale and lawns mow
ed are activities to be expected,
and have appeared in the usual
quarters.
Gwen Church, Betty Garrou and
CLUB GIVEN PERMIT
FOR SOLICITING ADS
The solicitations committee of
the Valdese-Burke County Credit
Bureau and Merchants Association
got its first job last week.
It gave permission to the Pilot
Club of Valdese to solicit adver
tisements for an invitation to the
“Womanless Wedding” which is to
be given August 8 and 9 at the
Colonial Theatre.
Members of the association have
agreed that they will not contri
bute cash or merchandise, pur
chase tickets or take space in pro
grams or other publications with
out the endox-sement of the soli
citation committee.
Rutherford College
Young People
Entertain Guests
Miss Betty Lee Goode of Wash
ington, D. .C, and Miss Captola
Mauney of Charlotte were guests
of honor at a fish fry at the Char
les Cornwell’s outdoor living room
in Rutherford College on Thurs
day evening. Approximately 20
young people of the Rutherford
College section were present.
Commencement exercises for
the Vacation Bible School of the
Baptist church was held Friday
evening. Total enrollment for the
school was 180, and the average
attendance for the two weeks was
151.
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BOXSCORE
ON R.C.NIGHVAYS
9
Killed July 26 through July
29 ____
Injured July 26 through July
29 -- 49
Killed through July 29 this
year ___ 443
Killed through July 29, 1948 367
Injured through July 29 this
year ___4,898
Injured through Jul 29, 1948 3,991
Joan Michaels have formed a part
nership (with officers) for the
sale of lemonade. They go around
town and take orders from perspir
ing store clerks, office workers and
their neighbors, and then deliver
the cold drinks according to speci
fications, either in the three-cent
size or the five-cent size. As of
last Friday night, their week’s ac
tivities had netted $4.84 after de
duction for expenses.
Talley Carpenter was originally
a member of the concern but pull
ed out to go in business for her
self.
Judy Gaddy and Jimmy Weaver
loaded a creaking wagon with
boxes of “good rich dirt” and
“nice brown sand”, which they en
deavored to sell to their neighbors.
WILL OPEN STORE
IN DREXEL FRIDAY
The Eversmart, ladies apparel
shop in Valdese, operated by Mrs.
Dick Pons and MisS Pat Melvin,
will open a store in Drexel Friday.
The store will be known as
Eversmart of Drexel and will fea
ture the same nationally-adver
tised lines of women’s apparel as
the store in Valdese carries. Miss
Melvin will manage the new firm
at Drexel while Mrs. Pons will con
tinue as head of the Valdese store.
The Drexel branch will be lo
cated in the building next to the
drug store formerly occupied by
a home furnishings store operated
by Frank Huffman.
GO TO MINERAL SPRINGS
Pioneer and Youth Fellowship
groups of the Waldensian Presby
terian church will go to Mineral
Springs Mountain Sunday even
ing for a vesper service and picnic,
leaving the church at 5:45 o’clock.
Declares Partial
Quarantine As
Polio Shows Here
Gail Murphy, two and a half
year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Murphy of Sunset Drive, is
Valdese’s first known polio case for
the summer. She became ill on
Thursday and was taken to the
Charlotte Memorial Hospital Fri
day as soon as a local physician
pronounced the illness to be polio.
A quarantine in all houses in
the immediate neighborhood was
declared by local health officers.
No person under 16 years old is
permitted to enter or leave the
area.
Gail is the fifth of six children
I in the Murphy family.
CAMP MEETING
OF CHURCH OF
GOD ATDREXEL
Statewide Event Expected To
Draw Large Numbers,
Prominent Speakers
A large attendance is expected
for the annual Church of God
camp meeting, which begins hr
Drexel on Friday evening, and
continues through Friday, August
twelfth.
Rev. W. O. Moon, outstanding
Church of God minister of Jack
sonville, Florida, will be the evan
gelist. Rev. Moon has spoken to
large camp meeting crowds
throughout the United States, and
is in constant demand for evange
listic meetings. He will speak
each evening at 7:30 and at 10:30
a. m. on Sunday, Wednesday, and
Friday.
Doctor J. T. Wilson, founder and
former president of two Church
of God colleges, Anderson Col
lege in Indiana and Warner Col
lege in Texas, will be the confer
ence leader. He will lead a minis
ters’ conference each day at 9:30
a. m. and one for the camp meet
ing audience at 1:15 p. m.
There will be a children’s meet
ing daily at 9:00 a. m. Three
preaching services have been ar
ranged in the daily program, at
10:30 a. m., 2:30 and 7:30 p. m.
Youth services will be conducted
each day at 6:00 p. m. Sheldon
Kline, minister of music, First
Church of God, will be in charge
of the camp meeting music.
The Drexel youth group will
present a play at 9:30 Sunday
evening in the Drexel school audi
torium. All day services of the
camp will be held in the Drexel
Church of God and the evening
services in the Drexel school audi
torium. The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
PLAY HICKORY
HERE AUG. 4TH
The Valdese junior baseballers
are scheduled to take on Hickory
here Thursday night at 8 o’clock
at the Valdese school athletic field.
In the first meeting between
the two clubs, the locals copped
an 8-6 decision in 14 innings.
Manager Wayne Owens is ex
pected to have his boys at top
strength for the game. All but one
or two of the boys will be eligi
ble for the American Legion jun
ior team next summer.
Methodist Circle
Has Outing
Members of Circle 2 of the Val
dese Methodist church and their
families had a picnic supper at
Clearwater Beach Wednesday with
swimming before the supper.
Special guests of the circle were
Mr. and Mrs. Lenoir Lowdermilk
and children, Mrs. Helen Edwards,
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Edwards, Rev.
M. W. Heckard and Mrs. Cecil
Heckard and daughter.
CASTLETON CHINA HERE
The famous Castleton china is
now available in Valdese at Squil
lario’s gift shop. An announce
ment in this paper tells of the
quality of the china.
W. D. Owens and Billy Riddle
have returned from a three weeks
vacation in Monterey, Mexico.
Joins Navy K^edics
Dr. Ernest Ribet, above, who
for the past year has been a mem
ber of the medical staff of the
Valdese General Hospital, report
ed Monday morning at the Char
leston Naval Hospital to begin a
two-year period of active duty in
the Medical Corps or the United
States Naval Reserve, with the
rank of lieutenant junior grade.
At the end of the two years, he
plans to resume his practice in
Valdese. Dr. Ribet received his
bachelor of science degree at the
University of North Carolina and
the degree of doctor of medicine
at the University of Maryland,
then completed an internship at
the Episcopal Hospital in Phila
delphia in the spring of 1948.
FOOD SHOPPE
PLANS MOVE
Operators of the Valdese Food
Shoppe have revealed plans to
move into the western half of the
Brinkley Hardware building where
larger and more comfortable quar
ters will be available.
Located next door at present,
the food store management said
that the moving should be comp
leted the latter part of August
or the first part of September.
The store is run by Clyde Baird
and Rob Walsh is manager of the
meat market. The building has
been used by Brinkley Hardware
as a storage building but will
be renovated and done over comp
lete for the new tenants.
The building now occupied by
the grocery store is owned by Mrs.
A. Pascal. No announcement has
been made as to the future plans
for renting it.
MT. CALVARY BAPTISTS
REELECT OFFICIAL GROUP
The Mount Calvary Baptist
church has re-elected the follow
ing general officers for the year
beginning October 1, 1949:
S. R. Hudson, Sunday School
superintendent; Earl Odom,
Training Union director; Garland
McGaliard, church clerk; and G.
R. Cline, treasurer.
Other officers and teachers will
be recommended to the church by
the nominating committee at a
later date.
DRIVER’S LICENSE REVOKED
The driver’s license of Edison
Forest Franklin of Forest City
was revoked on July 8 because
of drunken driving, according to
the July 16-23 revocation notice
of the North Carolina Highway
Safety Division.
Learn, Obey Traffic Laws
Learn traffic laws, but not by
accident!
In cooperation with the Nation
al Safety Council, the North Caro
lina Department of Motor Vehicles
is conducting a “Learn and Obey
Traffic Laws” campaign to make
the public more familiar with the
traffic regulations and the im
portance of law observance.
In order to combat the high toll
of traffic acidents, the Director
of the Highway Safety Division
of the Department of Motor Ve
hicles reviewed points of the State
law concerning right-of-way at
intersections. They are:
1. When two vehicles approach
or enter an intersection and/or
junction at approximately the
same time, the driver of the vehi
cle on the left shall yield the
right-of-way to the vehicle on the
right. Exceptions to this State law
include: (a) The driver entering
a public road or street from a
private road or drive shall yield
to all vehicles approaching on the
public road and street; (b) Drivers
must yield to police and fire de
partment vehicles when the lat
ter are operated upon official busi
ness and the drivers thereof sound
an audible signal by bell, siren,
etc.'
2. The driver of a vehicle ap
proaching, but not having entered
an intersection and/or junction,
shall yield the right-of-way to a
vehicle within such intersection
and turning therein to the left
across the line of travel of the first
mentioned vehicle, provided the
driver of the vehicle turning to
the left has given a plainly visi
ble signal of intention to turn.
3. The driver of any vehicle up
on a highway within a business
or residence district shall yield
the right-of-Way to a pedestrian
crossing such highway within any
clearly marked cross-walk, or any
regular pedestrian crossing includ
ed in the prolongation of the lat
eral boundary lines of the adajcent
sidewalk at the end of a block,
except at intersections where the
(Continued on page two)
MRS. BECKER
DIES SUNDAY;
RITES TUESDAY
Mother Of Valdese Residents
Succumbs At Home
Of Daughter.
i
Mrs. William H. Becker, age 67,
well - known businesswoman of
Morganton and owner of Becker’s
Variety Store of Valdese, passed
away Sunday afternoon at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. John
Cantrell, on Hickory Road, Mor
ganton. She had been in failing
health for a number of months
and became more critically ill
several weeks ago.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Tuesday afternoon at three
thirty o’clock at the First Metho
dist church in Morganton of which
she was a member, with the pastor,
the Rev. E. K. McLarty, Jr., offi
ciating, assisted by the Rev. J.
D. McCready, pastor of the Mor
ganton First Baptist church. In
terment followed in Forest Hill
cemetery with Kirksey Funeral
Home in charge.
Mrs. Becker was the former Miss
Empie Brown, born in Columbus
county the daughter of the late
Buck and Sallie High Brown of
that county. She came to Mor
ganton more than thirty years ago
with her husband and they estab
lished one of the early five and
ten cent variety stories in this sec
tion. Mr. Becker died in 1929 and
Mrs. Becker continued to operate
the store in Morganton until it
was moved to Valdese soipetime
ago.
Mrs. Becker leaves a daughter,
Mrs. John Cantrell of Morganton;
a son, William T. Becker, Valdese;
six brothers, Tobe Brown and
Wade Brown of Valdese, Lon,
Kirby and Joe Brown of Clarke
ton, and John Brown of White
ville; four sisters, Mrs. C. D. Pow
well, Mrs. J. T. Wooten and Miss
Hannah Brown of Clarketon, and
Miss Sweet Brown of Valdese, also
four' grandchildren.
ROYAL AMBASSADORS
LEAVE FOR RIDGECREST
Boys of Royal Ambassadors of
the Mount Calvary Baptist churchf
under the leadership of S. R. Hud
son, are leaving this (Wednesday)
afternoon for an R. A. Camp at
Ridgecrest. They will return Sat
urday afternoon.
The boys are Carroll Eckard,
Kenneth Cline, Harold Hudson,
William Wilkie, Harold Martin,
Charles Hudson, Jack Wilkie, Har
rison Nichols, Glenn Robinson,
Terrie Eller, Maxie Lambert and
Dannie Robinette.
PICNIC THURSDAY
The juniors of the Waldensian
Presbyterian church will go to
Clearwater Beach Thursday for a
picnic. They have been asked to
meet at the church at 3:15 p. m.
Pee Wee Got His
Stroller, Thanks To
Generous Donor
Pee Wee got his stroller. Pee
Wee, the Valdese General Hospit
al’s blue baby, is now able to get
out in the sunshine, thanks to a
generous person who responded
to a story in last week’s Valdese
JTews.
Local High School To Get
Home Economics Dept.
o
Ordained Sunday
At special services yesterday af
ternoon in the First Baptist
church of Morganton, Walter R.
Davis, above, was ordained into
the full gospel ministry. The Rev.
Mr. Davis has been serving as
summer assistant pastor of the
church.
HORTON PAYS
TRIBUTE TO
ANDREW SMITH
Legislator Makes Dedication
Talk At Mimosa Fish
Club Event.
The largest crowd in the history
of the event attended the annual
fish fry of the Mimosa Fishing
Club Saturday evening at the
club’s grounds off Yellow Moun
tain Road.
A throng estimated between 1,
500 and 2,000 started the “chow
line” rolling before six o’clock and
Henry Hennessee and his efficient
corps of aides fed the steady
stream until nine o’clock. Over
600 pounds of fi^i were consumed
by the huge crowd.
Because of the record-breaking
crowd, a parking problem was
created, but members of the
Burke county sheriff’s department
and highway patrolmen did a com
mendable job in handling the traf
fic and parking problems.
President Worth Giles presided
over the informal program which
featured various types of enter
tainment. Highlight of the pro
gram was the dedication of the
Andrew T. Smith Memorial Well,
the speech being made by O. Lee
Horton, Burke county’s represen
tative in the General Assembly last
session. The text of Mr. Horton’s
address appears below:
Mr. Horton’s Address
“We have met here once again
for this annual Mimosa fish fry
and to enjoy this splendid fellow
ship. It is proper that we should
^pause at this time to dedicate this
well and grounds to the memory
of a real friend and a true sports
man—Andrew T. Smith.
“To speak words of fitting trib
ute is a task before which I bow
in humble reverence, conscious of
the limitations of speech which
permit of only the barest interpre
tation of the emotions which fill
our hearts at this moment. .
“It was only natural that after
the death of Andrew Smith last
year his associates and friends in
the Mimosa Fishing Club and oth
ers should seek to give expression
to their respect and great love for
the founder of this organization.
His was a refreshing personality,
and I believe that it is fitting to
dedicate this well in his memory.
May the water which we draw and
use here prove as pure and clean
as the life of the man for whom
this well is named.
“Andrew Smith founded this
club in the interest of good sports
manship and he always exemplified
its best ideals and stood for the
things which he believed were
right. He founded a fraternity
which the mere money grubbers
of the world have no sympathy.
T?hey think there is but one kind
of fishing deserving the name of
sport—that is, netting the al
mighty dollar. Andrew Smith
thought otherwise, and he encour
aged countless others to think and
act accordingly.
“Not that we neglect or affect
to despise the claims of business.
Par from it, but we hold that rec
reation is one of the needs of
humanity, and that as the sport
of the lake and stream is the most
(Continued on page two)
VOCATIONAL
COURSES T 0
BEOFFERED
Is Only High School In the
County Approved For
Special Training.
The Valdese high school has
qualified for vocational home eco
nomcs, and the work will begin
this fall.
No other high school in the
county has this special vocational
course.
Funds for the course are fur
nished by the Federal Govern
ment, the State and the County,
each paying one-third.
Miss Jennie McNaull, Valdese’s
home economics teacher, will,
under the new plan, work ten
months a year instead of nine, and
will supervise the students’ pro
jects in the homes, visit the homes
and work with the parents on
problems of nutrition, clothing
and home decoration.
She will also organize home
economics clubs among the women
of the community.
Miss McNaull is especially train
ed for the vocational work, which
requires training over and above
that required for a regular high
school home economics teacher.
The Valdese high school, with
its new home economics cottage,
also met the requirements of the
Federal government’s vocational
program.
An application for the vocation
al program for the Valdese high
school has been on file for three
years, according to R. L. Patton,
superintendent of Burke county
schools. The application was not
approved until this year, however,
Mr. Patton said, because the State
did not have sufficient funds al
loted for this type of work to add
the Valdese school to the list of
schools having this program.
Vocational Agriculture
Two Burke county schools—
Salem and Hildebran — will have
agricultural departments this
year. The agricultural courses will
also be supported in three ways—
by the federal, state and county
governments.
Until this year, agriculture was
taught in the Morganton high
school, which was attended by
rural youths from the Salem and
Oak Hill districts, where in the
past there had not been enough
high school students to warrant
the establishment of high schools.
In 1947 the ninth grade was
added at Salem and Oak Hill
schools, and each year since then
(Continued on page two) ■
This Week
In Valdese
Thursday, August 4
3:15 p. m.—The Juniors of the
Waldensian Presbyterian church
will go to Clearwater Beach.
6:45 p. m.—The Lions Club will
meet at the Pilot Cafeteria.
7:30 p. m. — The Sans Souci
Bridge club will meet with Mrs.
Parks Sherrill, Jr.
7:30 p. m.—Supper at the Leg
ion Hut for the Legion Junion
Baseball Team.
7 p. m.—Boy Scout Troop 1
will meet at hte St. Germain street
scout nut.
8 p. m. — Valdese Juniors vs.
Hickory Juniors at the school ath
letic field.
Saturday, August 6
7:30 p. m.—Square Dance at the
Legion Hut.
Sunday, August 7
11a. m.—Worship services at all
churches.
5:45 p. m.—The young people of
the Waldensian Presbyterian
church will have a vesper service
on Mineral Springs mountain.
Monday, August 8
7:15 p. m. — Regular monthly
meeting of the Valdese Town
Board.
7:30 p. m.—Lovelady Lodge No.
670, AF and AM, will meet at the
Masonic Hall.
8:30 p. m.—The Pilot Club will
sponsor “The Womanless Wed
ding” at the Colonial Theatre.
Tuesday, August 9
12:30 p. m.—The Rotary Club
will meet at the Pilot Cafeteria.
8:30 p. m.—Second performance
of “The Womanless Wedding” at
the Colonial Theatre.