POPULATION
(1940 Census)
Lincoln County 24,187
Lincoln ton 4,625
Cron** 221
Iron Station M
Denver 264
$2.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE
1944 Food & Feed Goals Discussed
Home Demonstration
Achievement Day For
Lincoln County Held
Tri-County Horse
Show In Cherryville
A tri-county horse show at which
many fine horses from Gaston, Lin
coln and Cleveland counties will be
exhibited, will be held at the high
school ball park in Cherryville, N. C.,
cn Thanksgiving afternoon, Novem
ber 25, at 2 p. m. 'rfis show, which
promises to be a big event, is being
sponsored by the Cherryville Lions
Club.
Cash prizes and blue ribbons will
be awarded to the winners in 13
classes. These classes will cover pon
ies, open to children of all ages; mod
el class, open to all horses, to be
shown in hand and judged on con
formation only; ladies’, three gaited
five-gaited mares; ladies’, horseman
ship; gntleman’s horsemanship; five
gaited stallions and geldings; pleas
ure horses; gentleman’s.three-gaited;
thrill class; three-gaited stake; five
gaited stake; walking class. Those
who have already received entry
blank for this show will note that the
walking class was inadevrtently
omitted .However, this class will be
held and prizes awarded.
It is required that horses enter
class 3 or 9 to be eligible for three
gaited stake, and class 4 or 7 to be
eligible for five-gaited stake. The en
try fee will be SI.OO for each class
entered, and stable facilities will be
available for those wishing to remain
over night. The manager and ring
master for this event will be Beck
Moehlman, of Pine Brook Farm, at
Conover, and the classes, horses and
twners will be called out over a loud
speaker system in order that the spec
tators might more clearly identify
each event and each horse.
Those desiring to secure entry
blanks may get them from thte fol
lowing people: Stowe Wray, of Shel
by; Ralph Leonard, of Mount Hol
ly; Lee Scarborough, of Gastonia;
Dave Warlick, of Lincolnton, and
Kenneth Putnam, chairman of the
committee. Interest in this event is
beginning to mount steadily, and Mr.
Putnam announced today that entries
have already begun to come in.
General admission will be 46 cents
with five cents tax, making a total of
60 cents, and weather conditions
agreeable, this show has all the
promises of being an interesting
performance. In case of inclement
weather, it will be held at the same
time on Saturday afternoon, Novem
ber 27.
SERVED HIM RIGHT
The tightwad, out of town on his
wife’s birthday, sent her a check for
“a million kisses,” as a present.
The wife, a little annoyed at his
thrift, sent back a post card.
Dear Jim: Thanks for the perfect
ly lovely birthday check. The milk
man cashed it this morning.
LOCKED UP
Mother—What are you doing in
that pantry, James?
James—Oh, I was just seeing if
everything was locked up tight.
Germans Are Facing Slimmer
Meals As Winter Approaches
A story coming from Stockholm
says that the fifth winter of the
World War will be Germany’s skim
piest despite Nazi boasts of a “fa
vorable” grain harvest after two dis
astrous years.
The Germans backed up their boast
by immediately increasing the bread
rations. The opportunity was seized
upon more as a boost for morale at
a time when the spirit of the German
people were very low because of the
steady reverses and the Allied bomb
ing warfare.
Actually it is a meaningless ges
ture because bread rations always
have been liberal in Germany. On
the other hand, the yields of fodder
for livestock; potatoes and cabbage,
which form the backbone of the Ger
man diet; sugar beets and other root
crops are so poor even economic ex
pert Wilhelm Packenius admitted
that Germany was “not exactly bles
sed” in these crops. The great acre
age of early and winter cabbage
failed because of drought. The pre.s
therefore has warned the Germans
there will be very little sauerkraut
this winter.
Although the Germans have an
nounced that grain yield averages
range from “fairly good” to “good,”
they still have not reached a stand
The Lincoln Times-
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Affair Held In Court House
Auditorium Last Tues
day Morning
Home Demonstration membei s
from all over Lincoln county assem
bled at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday, Novem
ber 16, in the auditorium of the court
house to observe their annual
Achievement Day.
In the absence of the president,
Mrs. Henry Wood presided, and the
meeting was opened with the sing
ing of “America,” followed by the
Collect of the Club Women of Amer
ica. Approximately 75 women from
the 14 clubs answered the roll call,
but other members arrived later.
Mrs. J. G. Morrison led the group
in “A Litany of Our Times.”
Mothers with sons in the service
were honored in a beautiful and im
pressive service in which Mrs. A. L.
Blanton rendered a splendid reading
of “The Mothers of Men,” and the
group sang “Lead On, O King Eter
nal.”
County project leaders gave the
following reports of work done this
year;
1. Food Preservation, by Mrs. Guy
Robinson: 52,616 containers of fruit
and vegetables canned, 5,136 contain
ers of meat canned, 6,384 other con
tainers canned, 52,440 pounds of
meat cured at home, 1,164 pounds of
fruits and vegetables dried.
2. Home Management, by Mrs.
June Summey: 24 homes screened, 24
laundry arrangements improved, 52
kitchens rearranged and improved,
28 storage spaces added to homes.
3. Clothing, by Mrs. Berlin Clip
pard: 360 club women have reported
making clothes at home, 356 dresses
were made, 180 coats, 52 mats, 326
children’s garments remodeled.
4. Family Relationships, by Mrs.
D. P. Waters.
5. Home Poultry, by Mrs. Graham
Morrison: In Lincoln county we have
an average of 38 laying hens pel
family. The poultry outlook for the
county is good for the present, but
with the decrease in the quantity and
quality of poultry feed, extreme care
must be exercised at all times to
ward off deficiency diseases caused
by lack of proteins in the feed.
6. Defense, by Mrs. J. G. Morri
son: 154 club members are mem
bers of the Red Cross, 32 club mem
bers have had a course of First Aid,
15 club members have had a course
of Home Nursing, 24 club members
have had a course in Nutrition, 36,-
726 pounds of scrap iron has been
collected by club women, 646 pounds,
of fat and grease has been turned in,.
800 pairs of hose have been turned
in, 1,040 cotton garments have been
made for the Red Cross, 115 wool
garments have been made, 168 gar
ments have been knitted for the Red
Cross.
7. Education, by Mrs. A. L. Blan
ton; The following members were
awarding reading certificates: Mrs.
Doras Baker, Mrs. Clarence Huss,
F. W. Shrum, Mrs. A. L. Blanton.
8. 4-H Club Report, by Mrs. Loy
Howard: In Lincoln county we have
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ard which would permit lifting the
ban on rye or wheat as feed for
livestock.
The reluctance of farmers and
peasants in the Reich and Nazi con
trolled couuntries to send produce to
market constantly endangers Ger
many’s food supply. Addressing the
producers the official Nazi newspa
per, “Voelkiseher Beobachter,” war
ned that every last vegetable, fruit
and drop of milk must be sent to
market if the army and civilian pop
ulation is to be properly fed this
coming winter. It urged housewives
to cooperate by not buying directly
from farmers or dealing with black
markets.
“Every drop of milk which is de
livered improves the fat supply,” the
newspaper said. “Every egg and also
fruit and vegetables must without
exception be delivered t in the pre
scribed way. The producer must re
ligiously observe the regulations. If
he doesn’t, he will lose the right of
self-supply.”
This right is important to farm
ers because naturally they can eat
better if they are allowed to feed
families from their own foodstuffs
in prescribed amounts rather than
depending on ration cards.
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
LINCOLNTON, N. C, MONDAY, NOV. 22, 1943
NEWSPRINT CUT OF
23% RECOMMENDED
Washington, Nov. 21.—Reductions
in newsprint usage for, the first
quarter of 1944, ranging up to 28%
for larger newspapers, and amount
ing to a twenty-three per cent cut
in total use, were recommended by
the newspaper industry advisory
committee of the War Production
Board.
Harry M. Bitner, director of the
WPB printing and publishing di
vision, said the recommendations
on a sliding scale probably would
be followed in the conservation or
der to be issued by the division.
The twenty-three per cent re
duction will be made on the basis
of consumption in the first quar
ter of 1941.
The sliding scale ranges from
no reduction for very small news
papers to twenty-eight per cent for
for the larger papers.
Total saving in newsprint, if the
recommendations are adopted, ap
proximate 194,000 tons.
It was indicated that deliveries of
newsprint from Canada may be lim
ited.
DRAFTED MEN’S
KICK ANSWERED
State Headquarters Clarifies
Status of 17 Persons
Named In Circular
Raleigh, Nov. 18.—'State Selective
Service headquarters tonight issued
a statement clarifying the classifica
tion status of 17 persons whose
names were carried in a circular dis
tributed in the vicinity of Cherry
ville earlier in the week and which
charged that the 17 were deferred
from army induction without reason.
Gen. J. Van. Metts, director of
Selective Service, said that only one
of the 17 was incorrectly classified
on the rolls of Gaston county local
board No. 3, located at Cherryville,
and that the others were either in
the service or were deferred on just
grounds. Two of the 17 are not reg
istered with the Cherryville board.
Metts issued this statement:
“Unknown persons designated
themselves as ‘the first contingent of
pre-Pearl Harbor fathers ’have
made public complaint of the classi
fication of 17 registrants by Gaston
county local board No. 3, Cherryville.
The files of these 17 registrants have
been carefully reviewed by officers in
state headquarters and the following
comments are made for the informa
tion of the public who might be in
terested in knowing the facts in each
case:
Cites Facts
“Two of the 17 are not registered
with the Cherryville board; three are
classified in IC, meaning that they are
members of the armed forces; three
are classified in 4-F after having
been rejected for physical disability;
two are pre-Pearl Harbor fathers
whose order numbers have not yet
been reached by the local board in its
consideration of fathers; five are on
replacement schedules for withdrawal
of men for the armed forces from
essential industrial industries; one is
a professional man in a field of serv
ice recognized as eessential in sup
port of the public health by the War
Man-Power Commission; and the re
maining person is not correctly clas
sified under current policy.
He said two of the three listed as
being in the service were officers in
the Medical Administrative Corps,
while the third was inducted on Sep
tember 21, 1943. Each of the three
was called for induction but were re
jected, were turned down at the
point of induction and not by local
physicians.
Os the five who were listed as be
ing' on replacement schedules, Gen.
Metts said:
Explains Further
One of these men is manager of a
large cotton mill which is 90 per
cent on war orders. Another is presi
dent and general manager of an or
ganization contributing to the war
effort. Another is superintendent of
a department in an organization
which is contributing to the war ef
fort, while still another is a gradu
ate chemical engineer who is using
bis ability 100 per cent for the war
effort.”
Metts said only the engineer was
unmarried.
In the one instance where incorrect
classification was admittted, Gen.
Metts said the registrant in question
was a professional student pursuing
a course of study which entitles him
to deferment consideration. However,
Gen. Metts said the student’s college
had not filed proper certification for
the student and deferment is not jus
tified in the absence of this certifica
tion.
Thanksgiving Program
At Asbury School On
Wednesday, Nov. 24th
There will be a Thanksgiving pro
gram at Asbury School, Wednesday,
November 24th, at 10 o’clock.
An interesting play “Seeds of
Freedom” has been prepared by the
sixth grades.
This program was prepared for the
P.T.A., but because the time was
needed for a guest speaker, it was
postponed. We are especially anxious
for the parents and friends to enjoy
this program, and are extending
them a cordial invitation.
Allies Capture Four
Vital Points In Italy
Despite Foul Weather Allies
Better Positions For Blow
, At Nazi Winter Line
Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Nov.
31.—-In sharp fighting Allied armies
have captured four key points along
the Italian front—Agnone, Archi,
Castel San Vincenzo and Rocchetta —
straigthening out their line and
shortening it by some 20 miles, Al
lied headquarters annouunced today.
In capturing Agnone, the veterans
ot Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
ironed out an eight-mile deep Ger
man salient which extended from Ca
-10 villi to Salcito in the central sec
tor and which had prevented the Al
lies from using all of the lateral
highway running from Vasto on the
Adriatic to Isernia in the moun
tains.
Overrunning Agnone without meet
ing opposition, the Eighth army
plunged on beyond.
Near the Adriatic the troops un
der Montgomery also pushed forward
to capture Archi and nearby heights
13 miles from the sea.
Another three mile advance was
U. S. Forces Land
On Gilbert Islands
Resistance Feeble on Makin
But Japs On Tarawa Put
ting Up Stubborn Fight
Pearl Harbor, Nov. 21.—Powerful
United States forces carrying the
fight to a new section of Japan’s Pa
cific outposts, have landed on Man
kin and Tarawa island, about mid
way between New Guinea nd Hawaii.
United States Marines and army
troops pushed ashore at both places,
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, com
mander of the Pacific fleet, an
nounced in a communique today, un
der cover of mighty naval units of all
types and after those and nearby is
lands had been pounded for a week
by bombing planes.
The assault forces met only mod
erate resistance at Mankni island but
the Japanese fought back fiercely at
Tarawa and the battle still rages
there.
Reds Fight German
Drive To Standstill
Russians Elsewhere Make Im
portant Advances Toward
Poland and Rumania
London, Nov. 21.—Russian troops
for the second successive day fought
the German attack against the vital
Kiev bulge to a standstill today, in
flicting heavy losses on the Nazi
force of 150,000 men, while north
and southeast of that area other
Russian units continued their drives
toward the prewar Polish border and
Rumania, Moscow annouunced to
night.
The Red army’s drive to the south
west, aimed at liquidating the Ger
man forces in the Dnieper bend, ex
tended over a 9Qsmile front from
Kremenehug to Dnepropetrovsk and
in some places the Soviet troops
made their way forward through
mud waist deep.
While the Russian communique
spoke only of minor successes in the
southwestern push, the German ra
dio said that the Red army was us
ing 50 divisions, 500,000 to 760,000
men, in this struggle. The Germans
Paul W. Newton
Enters Wofford
Aviation Studen Paul W. Newton,
24, es Vale, has arrived at Wofford
College, S. C., for course of instruc
tion lasting approximately five
months prior to his appointment as
an aviation cadet in the Army Air
Forces Flying Training Command.
During this period he will take nu
merous academic courses as well as
elementary flying training. Upon
completion of the course he wil be
classified as a navigator, pilot or
bombadier and go on to schools of the
Flying Training Command for train
ing in these specialties.
chalked up in the upper Volturno
region where Lt. Mark W.‘(’lark’s
Fifth army troops occupied Castel
Can Vincenzo and Rocchc ettta,
northwest of Isernia, brpa *ning
their elbow room for a thrust i ward
the highway center of Castbl Ji, Sali
fe ro. '4 ' 4
All these operations a. 'oirnlished
yesterday were carried out •>., ex
tremely bad weather—so ba l ’
virtually all Allied oe
were cancelled. p
In previous advance? the Allies,
especially on the Eighth Army fiont,
had driven salients for .card at many
points. In these latest operations
the gaps between salients were shak
en out, thus effecting a shortening of
the line as a sailor would take in the
slack in a rope.
The gains of the past 24 hours
brought the Eighth army squarely in
front of the massive German winter
lines at all points.
Admit Retreat
The German high command com
munique admitted that Nazi “cover
ing forces” had withdrawn beyond
the Sango river in the face of “vast
ly superior forces.”
Since the Japanese on Tarawa had
been holding out for 24 hours when
the communication was issued, it
appeared that American forces were
up against a win, die or retreat prop
osition.
Gilbert Islands
Makin and Tarawa are in the Gil
ber tislands, British mandatetd ter
ritory which was seized by the Japa
nese in December, 1941. The Ameri
can attack there means a 700-mile
extension of the arc operations on
the perimeter of Japan’s southeast
ern frontier.
These operations extend from New
Guinea notheastward through the
Solomons and to a point 2,300 miles
from Hawaii. It brings major Allied
forces in the Central Pacific to a
point north of the equator for the
first time.
It was disclosed that army artil
lery and other units besides infantry
were among the assault troops.
communique spoke of “firm defen
sive battles” which it said Nazi units
fought there.
Conflicting Claims
A claim that the Germans had
driven back in the last 48 hours in
the Zhitomir-Orostyshev region to
within 40 miles of Kiev was made
in a broadcast dispatch of the Ger
man DNB news agency, hut the Rus
sian war bulletin recorded here by
the Soviet monitor from a broadcast
flatly declared that Red army troops
“continued to repulse” large German
forces in this area.
German Field Marshal Gen. Fritz
von Mannstein, on this the eighth
day of the bloody fighting in the
northern Dkraine region, struck at
the Kiev bulge with waves of infan
try and tanks. His troops, however,
were facing the crack Russian Uk
rainian army that was fighting on
the scene of the Russians’ greatest
setback in their 1943 campaign.
The German military commenta
tor, Col. Von Hammer, said that the
Nazi spearheads were about 50 miles
east of the key rail and highway
junction of Zhitomir, from which the
Russians were forced Friday.
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Meeting Called By
County Agent And
Information Given
Lady ar Scribe
Busily taking; notes Is Mrs. Lot
tain Stumm, first woman war cor
respondent at New Guinea. Col.
Nee! E. Kearby, center, is telling
her and Peter Hemery, right, how
he brought down six enemy air
craft over Wewak.
DRAFT QUOTA TO
BE CUT SHARPLY
IN N. C. IN 1944
Bill Would Place Pre-Pearl
Fathers at Bottom of Draft
List, Says Gen. Metts
Raleigh, Nov. 21.—A sharp re
duction in the states draft quota is
expected in January, Brig. Gen. J.
Van B. Metts, selective service direc
tor, said today.
Back from a selective service con
ference in Washington, he said that
draft calls at the beginning of the
year would serve as replacements
for men wounded or killed in action.
Secretary of War Stimson an
nounced sometime ago that the
army draft quota per month, start
ing in January, 1944, would call for
75,000 men in the nation. Broken
down among the 48 states, that
would give North Carolina an esi
mated quota of from 2,500 to 3,000
men, officials estimated.
At the present, the states quota
each month is around 19,000 men, of
whom 11,000 are white registrants
and 8,000 are Negroes.
The number of youths turning 18
years of age each month in North
Carolina is estimated at 1,800, indi
cating that those in that category
would fill the majority of the quotas,
officers said.
Gen. Metts said he did not know
what effect compromise legislation
in Congress would have on the draft
ing of fathers. The bill would place
pre-Pearl Harbor fathers at the bot
tom of the draft list, calling them
on a national and state basis.
Annual Christmas Seal Drive
Begins In Lincolnton Today
The 1943 Christmas Seal Sale
opens today and will continue until
Christmas. The funds from the sale
finance the year-round work of the
Tuberculosis Association.
Lincoln County’s goal this year is
$350, Miss Helen Stroupe, County
chairman for the drive, announced.
Approximately five hundred letters,
containing seals, have been mailed to
citizens today. Seals will also be sold
through the schools and at booths in
the business section on Saturdays.
The artist of this year’s seal is
Andre Hugo, internationally known
painter. The seal’s picture is that of
a small gill looking through a win
dow at Sa ta Claus driving across
the sky.
The Christinas Seal Sale, held by
the association in conjunction with
the nation-wide campaign, is the
only appeal made throughout the
year for funds to support the work
of tuberculosis control. Ninety-five
percent of the money raised through
the sale remains in the state. Five
percent goes to the National Tuber
culosis Association which, in addi
tion to many activities in tuberculosis
work on a national level, supports
extensive medical research in the
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Farmers Urged To Hold On
To All Livestock They Can
Possibly Feed
Friday night, Nov. 19, a meeting
was called by J. G. Morrison, county
agent, to discuss the food and feed
situation for 1944. At the meeting
Mr. Morrison introduced the follow
ing speakers: Mr. H. C. Holmes, of
the Extension Service, in Raleigh,
brought out that North Carolina has
15 per cent more livestock than ever
before and only 15 per cent as much
feed grown, thereby forcing the far
mers to sell their livestock at a sac
rifice. He urged that the farmers
grow more feed in 1944 and hold on
to all the livestock they can feed.
Fertilizer also was discussed.
There will be an ample supply for all
farmers, but they should buy it early
thereby avoiding a delay in last min
ute buying, due to the shortage of la
bor.
The farmers are asked to check
their equipment for defective parts
ar.d replace them before planting
time.
Mrs. Mary Thrasher, State Nutri
tionist, with the State Board of
Health, stated that statistics show
that 25 per cent of all food produced
in the United States is wasted by
housewives and by spoilage. The pub
lic has consumed more food in 1942
and 15943 than ever before in history.
Mr. Tom Cornwell, State AAA
Committeeman, gave the following
goals for Lincoln county, which was
arrived at by local committeeman, W.
B. Abernethy being the chairman.
Acres in Crops
Corn, 15,000 acres; oats, - 5,090
acres; rye, 242 acres; wheat, 14,000
acres; barley, 400 acres; sorghum,
130 acres; hay, 15,000 acres; lespe*
deza for seed, 4,500 acres; cotton,
15,503 acres; soybeans for beans, 318
acres; Irish potatoes, 287 acres;
sweet potatoes, 650 acres; fresh veg
etables, 647 acres; home gardens,
3,000.
Livestock and Poultry
Milk cows, 4,900; other dairy cat
tle, 1,958; milk produced, 19,684
pounds; beef cows, 1,500; other beef
cattle, 983; total all cattle and calves,
9,341; sheep and lambs, 98; sows far
rowed for spring, 623; sows farrowed
for fall, 544; commercial broilers,
107.519; chickens raised, 215,345;
laying hens, 119,738; eggs produced,
1,417,616; turkeys raised, 2,000.
The above is what is hoped to be
produced by the farmers in Lincoln
county. Mr. Cornwell stated that the
1944 soil conservation program was
designed to increase food and feed
production all over the state.
Mrs. Esther G. Willis, district home
agent with the Extension Service,
spoke of methods by which the farm
ers could reach these goals.
Those attending this meeting were
the following: Mr. J. E. Henley, vice
president First National Bank; Mrs.
Nannie Sigmon, secretary AAA; Miss
Elizabeth Raby. home demonstration
agent; Mrs. Ida Rudisill, farm labor
assistant; Mr. G. T. Wise, member
of AAA committee; W. B. Abernethy,
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field of tuberculosis.
Miss Stroupe is urging all Lincoln
County citizens to buy Christmas
Seals, the only means of financing
this work.
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