THE VALDESE NEWS
VALDESE, N. C.
Palmer Bldg.- Phone 176
A Live Newspaper in a Progressive
Town
Miss Beatrice Cobb-Publisher
Entered at the Post Office at Val
dese, N. C., as second class mail
matter under act of Congress
March 4th, 1879.
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FROZEN CHRISTMAS TREES
Los Angeles—Like a frozen tree
this Christmas? See sculptor Tom
my Sherbloom. He's taking orders.
Sherbloom. who chisels ice in
stead of stone, hangs ornaments
and electric lights on a tree then
freezes it within a block of ice.
He trims the ice to the exact shape
of the tree, plugs in the lights, and
behold—a sparkling crystal deco
rations. Such trees last six to 10
hours.
NEW HARDY ALFALFA
A new type of alfalfa that re
sists the dwarf disease has been
developed by the Uni verity of
California.
The disease is caused by a virus
and has affected about one-third
of the producing areas in this
state. It causes rapid thinning in
the second and third season of
growth, the College of Agriculture
reports.
Seeds of the new plant will be
allocated to growers in the affect
ed areas.
CAN THEATRE BE REVIVED
The campus theater may be the
most promising answer to the de
cline of the professional stage,
says a California critic.
The college and university play
house offers a chance for new
plays and writers because it has
less box office pressure to think
about, says Theodore Hatlen,
chairman of the Department of
Speech at Santa Barbara College.
ENGINEERING FRATERNITY
Clarence D. Turner and Charles
A. Turner, engineering students
at the University of Tennessee,
Were elected to Tau Beta Pi, a na
tional engineering honor fraterni
ty. Clarence D. Turner tvas also
elected to Chi Epsilon, the civil
engineering honor fraternity.
They are the sons of Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Turner of Morganton.
HE SAID BLANKETY-BLANK
Washington — A housebreaker
drew three blanks at the home of
the Rev. Clarence Dawson—twTo of
them from the minister’s target
pistol. The third blank was loot.
He left everything behind in flight.
DOMINATING FACTOR
(A Short Story)
By RICHARD HILL WILKINSON
“There’s an old adage,” Titus
Quale was sayin, “that you never
can tell what a mob will do. That’s
silly, because you can tell in a
minute, if you stop to analyze the
dominating factor. The ability to
identify and analyze this factor is
just one more of the many steps
made in modern crime apprehen
sion.
“Mobs are made up of a bunch
of people all of whom have the
same fundamental principles or
traits or personalities. If one of
their number deviates in the
slightest from this characteriza
tion, he becomes the leader of the
mob, or the dominating factor.
“Of course the 14 people who
were on the bus on the run from
Montreal the night Silas Perry
was murdered didn’t make much
of a mob, but the elements were
there.
"The murder took place on a
lonely stretch of road just south of
the Vermont line. A fuse in the
bus’ lighting apparatus blew out
and the driver stopped to make re
pairs. It was a cloudy night, and
the interior of the bus was inky
black. Suddenly out of that black
ness came an ear-splitting scream,
followed by a thud and a groaning
gasp. Pandemonium broke loose
inside the bus.
“The driver, a man named Otis
Quimet, kept his head. Prom be
neath his seat he procured a flash
light, and by its rays saw Silas
Perry slumped in a chair halfway
down the aisle, his shirt front
covered with blood. Others saw it
too. One woman fainted, others
screamed, the men of the party
cursed.
Quimet admitted later that he
himself was scared, but he did the
only thing possible. He handed the
flashlight to the nearest man and
went about the business of insert
ing another fuse in the box. Pres
ently the bus lights came on.
Quimet approached the man who
held the flashlight. This man’s
name was Lester Neal, a big, force
ful type, seemingly quite calm.
“ 'We're miles from anywhere,’
the driver explained. ‘Best thing
to do, I guess, is go on to the next
station.’
‘•Lester Neal agreed, but he had
a suggestion to make. ‘No one has
left this bus since the man was
killed. No windows have been
opened. Obviously the victim was
knifed. That means the knife must
be on the bus—either in someone’s
pocket or baggage. If you drive on
to a station the murderer will have
a chance to dispose of his weapon.’
“Quimet agreed. He was glad to
have someone to talk to who
wasn't excited or upset. With Les
ter Neal’s help every passenger- on
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the bus was searched, every piece
of baggage examined. But no knife
was ravealed. This was strange,
and Quimet thought about it. It
occurred to him that Lester Neal
hadn’t been searched. He hated
the idea of suggesting that the big
man submit to this indignity—
Neal had been more than helpful,
proving a steadying influence on
the driver’s — the more he
thought about it. the more it look
ed to him as though Neal were
playing a rather shrewd game.
“Eventually the driver hit upon
a plan. He would drive on to the
next station. He would ask Neal
to accompany him to the local po
lice station, making sure not to
give the big man an opportunity
to dispose of his weapon, and turn
the matter over to them.
“Pate held the winning hand
that night, for two state policemen
were drinking coffee at the station
restaurant when the bus drove up.
One of them, a young chap named
Ted Holbrook, just out of training
school had emerged onto the plat
form. Lester Neal pointed him out
to Quimet, and the driver cast a
furtive look at the big man, and
headed for the officer. From the
corner of his eye he saw Lester
Neal making his way toward the
station rest rooms.
“Quimet explained to Holbrook,
as rapidly as he could, what had
happened. T searched the baggage
and everyone on the bus,’ he fin
ished, ‘everyone but that man
there—the one heading for the
rest rooms.’
“Holbrook toox m the situation
;n an instant. He yelled at Lester
Neal, then poked his head inside
the station door and called to his
partner, Jim Inman. Inman came
running out, grabbed Lester Neal
and hustled him inside the station.
Young Holbrook strode over to the
bus and ordered everyone to stay
inside. Then he closed the door
and returned to the driver. Just at
this poipt, Inman reported that he
had searched Neal and found
nothing. ‘Probably,’ he added, ‘he
disposed of the knife during the
remainder of the drive.”
“Well, it began to look as
though the case would develop in
to one of those long drawn-out af^
fairs, involving a long search for
the knife. Young Holbrook pre
vented this. He took charge of
things, and five minutes later had
found the knife and wrung a con
fession from' the murderer.
“You see, young Holbrook had
just graduated from training
school and he recognized the dom
inating figure in that small mob of
people, the only one who wasn’t
running true to type. This was, of
course, Otis Quimet, the driver.
Quimet hadn’t been searched, and
the knife was found in his pocket.
It developed later that he and
Silas Perry had been having trou
ble over a woman, which estab
lished the motive, but that, of
course, is another story.’
WEINER LOSES WEIGHT
Chapel Hill.—Art Weiner, North
Carolina’s great pass catching erjd
and outstanding All - American
candidate, is thinner than he has
been in years, weighing well under
200. Art has been playing both
offense and defense this season
and the overwork has told on him.
He has been bothered by stomach
trouble, too.
TOPS CENTURY
Austin, Tex.—Danax. Bible, Uni
versity of Texas athletic director,
is a member of the Sports Trail
Century Club, an organization
which honors coaches who have
won a hundred or more victories.
Bible, in 34 years of coaching, won
209 games, lost 64 and tied 19.
. COTTON CHASES COLD — It
may be cold outside, but Baby
won’t know it when she is all wrap
ped up in a warm cotton cordu
iroy coat. She can brave any
weather in this all-purpose cordu
roy classic coat, for it is processed
to shed snow and showers. This
trim corduroy topper is a Sher
brooke design, the National Cotton
Council reports.
YOUNG APLOMB—This glamor
gal> (junior size) shows what the
well-dressed young miss is wear
ing this fall. She wears a color
ful cotton frock with as much
aplomb as a grown-up pin-up girl.
Her vivid cotton plaid dress in gay
red and blue shades is designed
by Johnston of Dallas.
WOODWORKERS
HERE GET ABOVE
AVERAGE PAY
Labor Department Says Pay
In Local Area Shops
Average Higher.
Workers in wood furniture
manufacturing establishments of
the Morganton-Lenoir area aver
aged more earnings per hour than
did those in the Winston-Salem
High Point area or the Martins
ville, Va., area in September of
this year. This information has
just been released by the U. S. De
partment of Labor.
Employes in all plant occupa
tions during the month in the
Morganton-Lenoir area average
ninety-two cents per hour, where
as those in the Winston-Salem
Simplest Gifts Can Be Exciting If They
Are Wrapped With Personal Touch
One of the most important
things in even the smallest of gifts
doesn’t cost a penny. It’s a heap
ing heartful of the Christmas
spirit as reflected in the personal
attention given to wrapping, deco
rating, etc. Here are some suggest
ions for gifts that are different, as
culled from the pages of Good
Housekeeping magazine.
Tasty Touches. (Inexpensive!)
A jar each—celery salt, garlic salt,
onion salt. If you wish to get
fancy, add shakers of the new
smoky salt or monosodium gulta
mate. Wrap each in tissue paper;
then tie in a red-checked napkin
High Point area averaged only
eighty-eight cents per hour, and
those in the Martinsville area av
eraged only ninety cents’per hour.
In the three areas nearly cne
fourth of the workers"earned one
dollar or more per hour and only
a little more than nine percent
earned under seventy-five cents
per hour.
NEW U N BUILDING
The permanent Secretrist Build
ing of the United Nations, now be
ing erected on New York’s east
side, will be 39 stories high and
have about 20 acres of floor space.
f
and sling on a stick—hobo fa
shion.
American Tradition. Can of
chicken fricassee; package off no
odles, precooked rice, or biscuit
mix; dill-pickle slices or spiced
peaches. Wrap in comic section of
Sunday paper, and tie the pack
age with green ribbon.
Snacker’s Special. Assortment of
special jams—seedless red rasp
berry or blackberry; damson
plum; boysenberry or loganberry
preserve; or comb honey. Place in
breadbasket lined with red paper
napkin. Tuck in a few pine cones.
For Bride Next Door. Buy as
sorted canned foods (fruits, vege
tables, tomato sauce, beans) in the
kitchenette size—about 8 oz. Place
in a row on strip of heavy card
board, cut to fit; top with another
strip. Then you have a miniature
pantry shelf. Cover with shelf pa
per, having one side exposed to
show can labels. Wrap in cello
phane tie with bow.
Christmas Bounty. Fill a cor
nucopia (or cone made of gold
paper) with large walnuts. The
recipient may wish to hang it on
the door, so all who come can
help themselves. (Christmas is the
time to give.)
Josh was bringing his last load
of tobacco into town the other
day and was all smiles when ask
ed about the prices he had been
getting. “They’re good enough!”
he grinned.
“And y’know why? I’ll tell ya—
because I put everything I had
into making this my best crop,
and I got results!”
IOSH GOT
RESULTS
Like Josh, the beer indurtry of
our state knows it takes ener
getic plann ing and hard work to
get results. That is why the job
it is doing with the Malt
Beverage Division of the North
Carolina ABC Board is impor
tant to citizens who want to see
North Carolina a better place in
which to live.
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