Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 3

in RIDAY ALE STATE 'i an late show No DERS BUY BONDS WAY HE RANGER Of CHEROKEE STRIP' and new ONLY 830 VIRGINIA MAY Of RI at 8 John Carroll Ruth Hussey KANSAS" toprite OWN Scott BRADY 'S' STATESVILLE Drive In Salisbury Road Dial 5878 ONDA SHWUY TEMPLEOHH AGAR Paper On Old Homes Churches NOW PLAYING AT LEADING THEATRES fa TRg UH6MARK 5TAWl Garden Club Hears Mrs Collingsworth 'Mrs Raymond Collingsworth was speaker for the Grace An derson Garden Club at the meeting Tuesday afternoon held with Mrs John Reich at her home on West End Avenue Before the meeting a tea course was served from the dining room table which had an attractive set ting Mrs rancis Quis poured the tea After a short business meeting Mrs Henkel Spilman presented the visitor Mrs Col lingsworth who talked about shrubbery especially the vari eties desirable for different types of planting in yard and garderf She showed 'specimens of the plants she talked about and an swered questions during a round table The west most desperate outlaws all Kansas aflame! With guerrillas on the loose! Starring Audio Murphy as young Jesse James un iiwse on a long stretch I Ji green grass with a 11 foo dip i Miigapore STARTS The Rig Picture of the Ask anyone who saw it at the lot 'kz1t PLAYHOUSE Thb Big Theatre of Hite Phone 7331 Starts SAT Wanna Be Happy Have un! BA at the State and see "Mrs AND Mr Malone" with the nations new com edy team MARJORIE MAIN JAMES WHITMORE moufit The treatment MLll' repeated about every until the animal has Single copies tlie huBegnrs 'available' th' vuph count? agiShts and may beuhuined by writing to the Stale College Station Rslieyh and re questing Bulk tin 'No 312 raley Mrs A Mrs Mary Page Taken By Death Mrs Mary Barkley Page wife of William Page died Tuesday evening at 9:15 in Long hospital She entered the Hospital" last Saturday having been ill for the past three months A native of this county Mrs Page was born March 15 1882 daughter of the late Milas Bark ley and Mrs Harriet Elliott Bark ley The home was in the Dam ascus community of the county and she has lived in that com munity all of her life She is survived by her husband one brother Thomas Barkley of Hick ory two sisters Mrs Minnie Stamey and Mrs 'Grace Whits of Kannapolis and four half sist ers Mrs Maud Smith of Hudson Mrs Gus Haas of Lenoir Mrs Jessie Brookshire of Caldwell county' and Mrs Lucy Caldwell of Granite alls uneral services for Mrs Page were held from Damaeus Baptist church where she was a member at 2:30 Thursday af ternoon and interment was in the church cemetery Rev Grady White and Rev In in Wallace conducted the services Miss Betty Sams And Miss rances Gilbert Give An Open House Miss Betty Bonner Sams and Miss rances Gilbert at home from school for the holidays were host esses at an open house Tuesday evening at the Sams home in Brookdale Miss Gilbert is at Chat ham Hall in Chatham Virginia and Miss Sams is a student at St School in Richmond The buffet table in the dining jvum mm wnn a ciotn 01 pink sat in demask was centered by an an tique pedcstral cake dish which held a low arrangement of Picardy gladiolus blossoms dark red cyc lamen and feather fern flanked by crystal candelabra with blue can dles On the sideboard a crystal horn of plenty was fillo1 until white narcissi pink begonia blos soms dark red cyclamen and fem with candles in crystal at each side Blue candles in a pair of crystal candelabra were on the sei ver In the hall were potted pink be gonias and bouquets of Picardy ine pane: ed library held an arrangement of 1 ft TT 1 1 Avonr VLVLCI" iu copper container and were tones orange green and yellow A rod poinsettia added color contrast Miss Isabel Collier and Miss Patsy Moirison friends of the yeunger sister Miss Agnes Sams served pbnch About a hundred girls and bovs from the younger college and sen ior high school sets came in be tween seven and nine for tho informal party Mrs Edith Lynn And Coy Bost United In MarriageMrs Edith II Lynn daughter of Mr and Mrs A Hartline of Troutman and Coy Bost son of Mr Bost pf Con cord and the late Mrs Bost were married December 30 in York oouii varoiina with Judge Gettys Nunn officiating Mr and Mrs Hal Sharpe accompanied them to South Carolina Mrs Beet is manager of Mor etz Company here and Mr Bost is freight clerkat Southern JUU SAT ONLY Shows at 6 and 8 ORTl ApacheI PLAYHOUSE WEST POINT CAGNEY MACRAE MAYO DORIS DAY (rom Monroe Journal)' Rev and Mrs IL Armburst and Mr Joa Armburst Jr of Statesville were guests' during the holidays of Mr and Mrs Day Armburst in for a visit at the Journal Office Tues day set us straight on: this tur key business saying that they al ways cat turkey on Christmas Day with the and the Days eat with them on Thanksgiving They were to eat turkey with the Steve Pressons that evening he said and since the turkey" was giving out they would be leaving the next morning a Christmas night Mrs If Adams was hostess at a Christ mas party at her home on Wed dington road and Mrs Steve Presson and Mr Joe Armburst Jrr entertained with music At the Steve ressont and Jqe Jx sang The Armbursts left Wednesday morning for North Wilkesboro where Mr Joe ArfnbUrst Jr gave an organ recital that night Ha will give a recital in Hickory on Sunday and recently gave one in Zion Lutheran1 Church' Hamberg A MACK MOVES HERE ROM BOONE Mr and Mrs A Mack their daughter Kay are Statesville residents They moved here this month from Boone where they previously lived and they are residing at 622 Walnut street Mr Mack is territory manager for Arcady arms Milling Com pany of Chicago Illinois his ter ritory covering areas of North Carolina Tennessee South Caro lina and Virginia The family are identified with th? Presbyterian denomination and Kay the 10 ycar old daughter is a pupil In Davie Avenue school TONY WAYNE GOORTH Born January 2 at Long hospital to Mr and Mrs Douglas Goforth of 621 Raleigh avenue a son Tony'Wayne Mrs Goforth is the former Miss Caroleta' Lipa CRESCENT i Ms i rumwiai Added: CARTOON COMEDY? CHAPTER 3 DISK MAN ROM John A McKay WKW Rew Pinn Tvz z7zllD DiekAt Dunn a Ml i HUUIUUW VA UlUUSMiaa OJ a friends will be gratified to know and hours of careful work way They will make their home ai OS Salisbury Reid STARTS THU RS "SO YOUNG SO BAS TOBOGGANS WITHOUT SNOW SINGAPOREqAP)n new snows in Sirgipo blit soma SATURDAY Tex Ritter IN Added: CARTOON CHAPTER 3 DISK MAN ROM MON TUES TRAIN TO Starring: ROY A CU A paper on Iredell Homes' and Churches' by Mrs Knox was program for the local chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy nt the January meeting Tuesday af ternodn held with Mrs Powell West Bell street Mrs Ross Bunch newly elected chap ter president presided The meeting was opened with the customary ritual and salute to the flag and Mrs Oscar Mills referred briefly to the New Year greeting from the uresident general and her January to the chapter Minutes of the December meeting were read by the secretarj" Mrs Throw er A letter from the Virginia div ision United Daughters' of the Confederacy presenting the name of Mrs William Tatum as a candidate for the office nf cccnJ vice president general was reac and Mrs Charles Lewis lea der of the local chapter Chik ren of the Confederacy read a letter from the mother of the rench war orph an the chapter has adopted and showed a photogaph oi me nttie gin The old churches of Iredell county to which Mrs pa per referred included ourth Creek Meeting House (now the irst Presbyterian church of Statesville) Concord Presbyter ian church at Loray 1 established in 1775 Bethany Presbyterian church a sister church also dat ing from 1775 Centre Presby terian church in south Iredell or ganized in 1765 though services were held there much earlier Bethesda another old of south Iredell established in 1846 the Coddle Creek A church established in 1847 the irst A church of Statesville dating from 1869 New Sterling an old A church near Stony Point and the ifth Creek Presbyterian church organized in 1R4R ference was also made to the Jietnodist the forma tion of the Yadkin Methodist Cir cuit in T50 Snow Creel: in Sharpesburg township a preach ing station at an early date and others Old homes of Iredell tn trti Mrs Knox referred included the now the home or ur uiiiiam Brandon said to hhve been built prior to 1785 the McKee House three miles northeast of Statesville built in 1818 the Ramseur (later Ander son) home in Statesville built about 1830 the Chambers house west of Elmwood built about 1820 the Reid home dating from 1836 the King place on Snow Creek the Huggins place near ort Dobs me Houston place near Mount Moume the Crawford place near Bethany and the Davidson place Wallace Springs Reference was also made to two houses in States the Vance house recently acquired by the Daughters of the Confederacy nnd so called because it was the home of Governor Vance for a short period in the aiAues 01 rne past century and the Caldwell house on West Bioat street home of Joseph Cald well editor of the Charlotte Ob During a social hour following the meeting a coffee course was served from the dining room table Mrs Ira Hefner served fruitcake topped with whipped cream and Mrs Bunch the chap ter president poured coffee which was served with salted nuta Christmas greens and cardies were centerpiece of the table and beautiful decorations in holiday motif were in the living rooms Miss Carrie Thomas mamko Guilford chapter Greensboro vas an out cf town visitor Hostess group for the January meeting included Mrs Powcfi Mrs Ira Hefner Mrs Henry Steele Mrs George Dotson Mrs Mrs Charles White Mrs Steele Mrs Allison Mrs Westmoreland Makes A Talk On Happy Mrs Myrtle Westmoreland Iredell home demonstration agent was speaker for tho Mulberry Parent Teacher Association Tues day evening and her subject was Happy Mrs 'West moreland said that1 teachers ex pect certain things' of the home just as patents expect certain things of the school and there fore home and school must co operate Her subject was aptly illustrated by the film she show ed Your Home pre senting a contrast between the homes of the Brown and the Gay families Mrs Dan Harrleson associa tion president presided over the business session Tho attendance prise was a tie between Mrs Arnold second grade and Miss Audrey first grade There was an exceptionally good attendance at the meeting RECOVERING Mrs Pharos Breneman is a patient at Davis Hosnitnl had an operation last week and recovering satisfactorily her LATE SHOW SAT NITE 10:30 PLAYHOUSE wnr Tf The will of Mrs Alex Bark ley which has been probated In the office of Clerk of Iredell Superior Court Smith dis yeHow aaSia rersonai swcct effects making bequests to the other uuuruii mhu grantjennuren ana primuea inas certain itemized be taken care of from sale of real estate' The will dated January 19 10 is written in the handwritting of Mrs Barkley executor was namei BUILDING PERMITS City building permits have been issued to Andrews for the erection of six one story 6 room duplex dwellings on Adams street 2ach unit is to contain three rooms comprising two dwelling units each for a total of 12 noW dwelling tin ts in six separate buildings These units will offered as rentals to colored families i Rowe McNeely Wai issued a permit to erect a one story six 1 room frame dwelling in orest Hills Mrs Willinm Brandon has returned from Dunnwhere she was called by the critical illness and subsequent death of her father Mr John A McKay Mr McKay prominent Dunn jndds trialist business civic and relig ious leader and the oldest citizen and oldest business man died riday afternoon December OO it ivuvwuig ven utiys oi inress after a heart attack He was 87 years old Remarkably active in business despite his age Mr McKay was owner of the John McK Manu facturing Company manu facturers of farm machinery truck trailers and other eouip ment He was a trustee of the Home at Greensboro and despite his serious illness had carried on a fund raising campaign1 for that institution from his bedside during the week before his death Member of a 'pioneer Cape ear family Mr McKay was a son of Dr John A McKay one of the early doctors of the Cape ear area He was a student of education and had written several pamphlets and books on the sub ject Much of his interest and energy was devoted to the church He was the eldest member of the irst Baptist church of Dunn a trustee of the church and had icld practically every office in he church Mr McKay is survived by his daughter Mrs Brandon another daughter Mrs A Westbrook nf Dunn cnv Tx'kw A iuVm Jr of Duna and three grand sons uneral services were held from the heme Saturday Dcc emuer zj and interment was Greenwood cemetery Dunn SHEIELD NEWS Mr and Mrs Samuel Allrednd children of Wisconsin were the week end guests of Mr and Mrs Johnnie Smith Miss Edith Grejt Salmons spent Saturday night with Miss Estelle Wright Rev and Mrs Carey Bulla and children of Snow Camp visited friends in this community during the holidays The Wili ng Workers' class of the Liberty Pilgrim church will meet Thun day night at the home of Miss Ruth Richardson for the class meeting Mrs Maty Evelhcart of High Point visited her sister Mrs Maggie Mullis Sunday Mfl Mr Wade Wright who Is sta tioned at Jackson was home for Christmas Miss Bevy Gaither has accepted a position with the Montleigh Garment factory in Mocksville AT HOSPITAL Mr Karl Deaton who has been at th JLJ Long hoppitaj the past few days undergoing treat ment is improving satisfactorily ENTERS HOSPITAL Miss Maie Oatwait of Charl'dtb has entered the hoa pita! for treatment LambkiU Kalmia One Of 10 Native Poison Plants Raleigh1 Jan A small quan tity pf leaves from a shrub com monly found in the Coastal Plain section of North Caroling may poison livestock State College specialists reveal 1 nrc imilipjjvuu pisnc IS nnV I If! Um aY kill kalmia one of the 16 I bero S' tMganjng plants most poisonous to animnb I made toboggans out of The 'plant most commonly affe strips of vosvn and cattle sheep and goats and i i) pieces of sacking They 'sikfa even result in death Both have Jorg on these on a long" stretch and flowers can cause jl green grass with a 1 Pfobt din which usually occurs when piuits I iront of St lata in iwat i Information on the shrz given io an Exneriment bulletin entitled Poisoning Plants of North writ ten by II fl Biswell and oster Biswell and oster describe the plant as having smooth bright green leaves pale the undeif side and one to two inches in length Its flewers may be either purple or crimson The shrub may grow from one to three feet tali Though lambkill kalmia is found mairdy in the Coastal Plain sec tion it may be seen throughout the State Symptoms of lambkill kalmia poisoning are frothing at the mouth nausea and attempting to voniitp watering at the eyes se cretions from the nose spasms weakness and lack of coordination i Recommended treatment for af fected mature cattle is to drench with a mixture composed of cne cup of melted lard two eggs and a quart of sweet milk Smaller animals should be giverf a lesser as Murdock Jr Weds Miss Hiott 1 tn Charleston A Charleston! C) marriage that has local interest was that of Miss Jo Jhan Theresa Hiott daughter of Dr and Mrs Josiah Hiott 513 Huger Street Char leston and James Thomas Mur dock Jr son of Mr and Mrs Murdock of Statesville which took place Saturday De cember 30 at 5:30 pm in Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church Charleston Rev Miles Morris the assistant pastor performed the ceremony Mrs Thomas Mosimann play ed the wedding music Richard Davis of Jacksonville lorida brother in law of the bride was soloist Given in marriage by her father the bride wore a green coat suit with eggshell blouse and brown accessories and a fur stole She carried a showered bou quet of white roses centered with an orchid Jacqueline Buero of Char leston the maid of honor wore a tan dress and carried a bouquet of pink rosebuds William Cooper Murdock i of Statesville was his best man The mother wore a tan coat suit with a corsage of pink rosebuds! The moth er was gowned in black with a corsage of red roses A reception was held at ort Sumter hotel after the ceremony Mrs Murdock was graduated from St academy in Aiken and attended Ashley Hall She now is enrolled at Eastern Carolina Teachers Col lege in Greenville where Mr Murdock also is a student Mr Murdock was graduated from Statesville high school and served 32 months in the air corps during World Warll including service inf the? Pacific area He later attended State Teachers College Boone Miss Mary Deal Is Engaged To Wed Erby Reece Norton Mr and Mrs Deal Statesville route 6 announce the engagement of their daughter Louise to Reece Nor tnn nnn Af Mi onH Norton Stonv Point route 1 The wedding will be at early date The Mummers Stage Big Parade In Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA Jan mummers marched and pranced and danced in Philadelphia1 yes terday It was the usual spectacular welcome to the New Year Reinforced by more than one million specators in holiday tnoed tha gay marches swarmed into ana took over the heart of the city for the day Two televi ion stations gave hundreds of thousands of watchers a fireside view of the annual show Crystal eirar weather and a bright sun brought out all thi colors and spangles of costumes Block long capes of the fancy clubs rippled in the breeze and lilting tunes echoed through sky scraper canyons as the string bands marched and counter mar ched AH along the ten mile parade route up Broad street around city hall and then east toward the river srrown uns and lined three to ten deep along the curbs Regular traffic was deteroued around the parade route by aug mented police traffic details or stood blocked at crossings The parade continued far into the afternoon The crowd had to bundle warm ly for protection against near freezing temperatures but no body seemed to mind least of all the mummers The parade was a renewal of a Philadelphia custom begun noong after the Revolutionary War when new years revelers went from house to house greetings their friends singing and serenad ing Thg show has been compared to New Orleans famed Mardi Gras Costumes of silks and sat ins and feathers cost a total of hundreds of thousands of dollars ENTERS HOSPITAL Mrs: Ivy has entered th( Ha hnnhUftl it Iredell Selected or Curriculum Guidance Study The County Board of Education day January 2 heard gratifying Holbrook of this city as delegate reports of the auperrisors of tSxei0 the meeting of the Medi County schools and plans I cal house of delegates in I rinenurst in way vr Davis was elected alternate delegate fromStatesville Dr A Moffett was named delegate from Taylorsville and Dr John Powell was named alternate Dr Gross was el ected to membership in the society Court Of Honor Held or Iredell Boy Scouts Donnelly chairman of the Statesville area: of Boy Scouts presided over the Court of Honor that wall held Tuesday evening in Sloan Hall Broad Street Method ist church Dr Ernest Orr led the invocation and Scout Master Bill Long led the Scout oath The advancements were conduct ed by Kivett and were as fol ows: Tehderfoot Alex Corpeningi Jimmy Holland Billy Kiker Rou all Link Jr Wayne Lowe Luke Livingstone Tony Wilson of troop 8 Statesville Charles Money and Paul ox of troop 6 Statesville Second class: Robert Elliott and Larry York of Stony Point: Ronald Walsh of troop 6 Statesville irst class Kermit Morgan troop 4 Statesville: Johnnv Kur fees troop 6 Statesville Merit badges were awarded as follows: Book binding Leon Hart line Chemistry Gene McJunkin Cooking Hazel Taylor and David Eisele biremanship Allen Clark Home Repairs Larry Holland John Kurfees Path finding Tony LackeyHasel Taylor Reading Getje McJunkin It was decided to change the time of holding the monthly meet ing from the first Tuesday to the fourth Thursday This change is effective this month so the next meeting will be on Thursday Jan uary 25 Mrs A Barkley Will Is Probated STATE A DUU7 RED MACMURRAY IRENE CRESCENT Of Cherokee MONTE HALEw COMEDY CARTOON SEPfAI STATCsvnUH DRIVE IN Manner JO If GA RROLr RUTH HUSSEY 9 COUnIY board APPR0VES1W0 ROAD PETITIONS Jn Jts regular monthly session held atiihe court house Tuesday the Iredell county board of com missioners made an exhaustive Study pf the annual county Audit Report as submitted by Certi fied Public Emery and voted its formal ap proval The board granted full authori ty to the County Manager and ithe Sheriff to advertise and sell at public sale all confiscated dis tilling apparatus seized by law enforcement officers sU Two road petitions were) ap proved and to' the 'State Highway and Public Works Commission They are for aroad leading from the Old Charlotte Road in Statesvilletownship to Highway 21' for a distance of one mile To rebuild and main I tain The other was for a road in and Concord townships 'which leads from highway 115 pear TrWty church to the'jenn road near store adistance of four and one half io nai surface 'JBeer licenses were granted to Shinn of Mooresville Route £1 and to Owens of States i ville Route 3 subject to approva by the state ABC board rf Newly elected Justice of 4 the Peace rank Ledbetter of States Ville township was grahted authority to occupy office quar ters in the south entrance jrri dor of the' ounty court house compliance with a request by the chid of the Statesville ire Department the board authorized the purchase of a heater and 'defrosting equipment for the county fire truck ormal approval was granted for tho withdrawal of 600 from the school fund by the City School authorities with which to erect a steel fence around the new Statesville High School Athletic ield I I A delegation comprised of Rot land Morgan superintendent of Mooresville City Schools and Jim Mack Morrow of the Moores ville school committee appeared before the board to present for mal requests for financing cer tain school projects ia Moores Action on this matter was deferred pending further study Authority was granted for the purchase of three1 automobile generator boosters for tha department's automobile radio sebvicel All members of the board and thecuwy manager were present I xor uie session The Motorists Starts New Year In Saner Way BALEIQH 3 North motorists have started the New Year with a niueb sanet and safer performance than they showed in observing the Christ mas holidays The highway patrol report today that only five persons wen killed in traffic accidents in ths state from pm riday to last midnight i The death toll was considerably less than the highway patrol had predicted It had forecast that at least persons would be killci In highway accidents during the New day weekend Thirty pedestrians and motor ists were killed during the Christi mas holidays ftjBut the patrbl points out that highway traffic during the Christ mas holidays was considerably heavier than for the last weekendtin all at least 13 persons died violently in the state over the three day New Day week 1 end ive of the deaths were re ported in the last 24 hours IreaellMm IDoors Perfeci Leave To Join a ii a Setup meeting at to th? ArmS the Shriite Club here Tuesday Selcrtiw qlrvicA I evetiiug the members of the ire fclX ftX 'iX s5' Idell Counties Medical trSSfoJS Societymoyed a long step near Si i Boards perfecting their organiza Tbpv ivr nr 7 iurli which will function in the 1 They are: red McMiirray Mari 1 locftl npfpnqa row James Donald Davis William'l 2 fhwiiMeni nres Alexandei Behfidld James Elliott LBPv 17 physicians pres Mb Hospital unit KldeMntJr hX Prasly of this city as director Ctarlcs Glenn Walter 'bS "hater the Glenn Kvlee Rrimo 1 deemed their set Unn" Richard Wingate Ralph Mitchell Dr tentative staff Marlowe 1 to maivtbe contemplated two James Johnston James Al 1 field will be comprised ton McDonald David Bailev Ro nri Holbrook Crpihton bert Horace Overcash John Lon Wren John Powell nie Williams Cecil Thomas Gen Rittinger Morrison tie Lawton Alphaeus Morrison I Little Skeen and Jr James Richard Morrison I VannzDr Ernest Ward was named Winifred Oscar Wnvht orrest I to rafva mwiioai iinanr Leo White coordinate the work of the civilian Charles Edward' RUcker Jatoes and Arthur McNeely Edset ranklin Little Allan Neal' Thompson I Hosker Lee Young Charles Web 11 ster Hunt William Edison Styres Henninr I Onie Summers Robert Ifoid Law I' rence and William Kelly Miller I Next step wiU be the recruiting I VLgOUliaHVH of some 40 lay personnel to serve I in various administrative and hos I pital aid capacities Tentative co chairmen of this group are Messrs Sam Hickman and Ted Redlack lit is' highly important that this I group be comprised of qualified including as many with 1 World War II Armed orces med i 1 ical experience as possible In concluding the business seal in regular monthly meeting Tuen I s'on the society named Dr reports of the auperrisoro for curriculum guidance study to be conducted by educators of state and national prominence Kirs Blanche Heltzel super visor of the white elementary schools of the county and Super visor Mary Holliday of the colored elementary schools both made reports of the activities during the year just ended afo plans for the New Year It was brought out that Iredell has been selected as one of three counties in North Carolina to participate in Curriculum Guid ance Study Iredell has been selected from the Piedmont sec tion of North Carolina Beaufort county the east and Swain coun ty the west for the purpose of conducting an intensive research of the elementary youth needs in the schools to determine the basis for curriculum revision and guid ance services The research has started in Beaufort it is expected that the study in Iredelb will start in the near future Dr Allen Hurlbut the state director of school Ad ministration will be assisted in the research by Dr Harold Ma honey Connecticut Department of Education consultant CHRISTMAS A GAY ONE IN MONROE jjpeMRlNG SMITH ALAN LADD branded sanuua lEsuim iaDutmt iwmn ntniui Msi i8Th fc.