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Waste Paper Helps Win The War - Save It - Have It Ready For The Collectors Wednesday, August 23 fg£r“* keep faith rpjjfc. \withus—\ \by buying] $2.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE Americans Moving On Toward Paris Lincoln County Post-War Economic Development Program Is Launched Chinese Civilians Are Evacuated Due to advance of Japanese troops in China, Kweilin is being evacu ated. Chinese civilians completely cover a fiat car on an outgoing train at South station, Kweilin, China, en route to safety zone. Chairman Goodson Makes Final War Bond Drive Report $44,767 IS AUGUST j' WAR BOND QUOTA; Lincoln com nty’s war hond quota for the month of August is $44,767, | according to announcement made hy I , Chairman Henry \V. Rudisill. In order to call attention to the' increased cost of killing our enemies, as the war has become more mechani cal and complex, the following facts were sent to Chairman Rudisisll, along * with the August figures: In Julius ‘ Caesar’s war the cost was 75 cejits ■ per casuaulty; in the Civil War the cost was $5,000 per casualty; in : World War No. 1, the cost had risen ' to $50,000 per casualty, and in the j ' present war the cost of disposing of one enemy is $125,000. METHODISTS TO HEAR MISSIONARY Miss Ethel Bost, a recently returned missionary from China, will speak at the 11 o’clock service on Sunday ' morning at the First Methodist churuch. Her message will deal with, he r personal experience in China.; Sh e will visit her sister, Mrs. J. B. | Boyles, of Lincolnton. Miss Bost will | also be the speaker at the evening meetiing of the Methodist Youth Fel-j lowship at 7:15. For the past 18 years Miss Bost has been a music teacher in China. ! A-few months after America entered I into the war, she was imprisoned in . the Japanese concentration camp. She | was finally released in the latter part ol 1943. After many futile attempts j to come to America, she was finally . able to come over on the Gripsholm in December. The young people will be very much interested in hearing at the evening service at 7:15 her expe riences in the concentration camp. Adults will he welcomed at this spe cial service. Miss Bost is a graduate of Hun tersville High school. She received iier degi*e e from Greensboro College and then atttended Scarritt Collge in Nashville, Tenn. The morning worship service will i be under the auspices of the Wom an’s Society of Christian Service of the local Methodist church. Mrs. Sum mey Alexander, president of the so ciety, in speaking of Miss Host’s com ing commented: “It was my privilege to be in college with Miss Ethel Bost, and I am delighted that we will have her as oar guest speaker on Sunday. She is an eloquent and consecrated wo-1 man, who has devoted her life to thej great cause of Christian missions.; All of us who heard her at the con ferenee of the Woman’s Society in Hickory and at the district meeting, in Gastonia were impressed by the. The Lincoln Timeß ★ ★ ★ Official Says Excellent Record Made By County In Fifth Suuccessful Campaign. : | Overall Quota 8510,000.00' Total Sales *761,423.25 l'ercentage of Quota .150 i*er Cent “E” Bond Quota $260,000.00 Tot:.l “K” Sales .$288,990.25 Percentage of Quota 111 Per Cent This is an excellent record for Lin coln county in the Fifth War Loan, m t >ti we are certain that each of you are justly proud of this record. We have received letters from state and area headquarters that speak very highly of the loyal bond purchasers of Lincon county. , Due chiefly to a last minute alio-1 cation from Army and Navy purchas es of $21,787, we exceeded all expec-1 tations in our “E” Bond sales. This ' made a total of $37,234 that was al located to Lincoln county by Army and Navy purchases since the begin-1 Ring of the Fifth War Loan Drive, j Also the fact that we launched an in - j tensive drive, through the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, accounted fo r our un expected total sales. It is impossible to cut the sales right to the goal when the-members of these two clubs, American Legion and the Women’s Division are working as ours did during the last few' days of this drive. GORDON L. GOODSON, Campaign Chairman Fifth War Loan Drive, Lincoln County. COLONEL McNXIR, SON OF GENERAL, DIES ON GUAM I Washington, Aug. 7.—-The death in i Guam of Col. Douglas McNair, 37, oily son of the late Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, was announced today hy the War Department. The circumstances of his death were not reported in the news mes sage which the War Department re ceived from his commander, Maj. Gen. A. D. Bruce, commander of the 77th divisio nnow in action on Guam. General McNair, the colonel’s fath er, former commander of the army ground forces, was given an impor- ( | taut but undisclosed overseas as signment early in July, and was killed j by the prematurely released bomb of an American plane while he was ob serving a front-line action near St. Lc in Normandy on July 25. The younger McNair, like his fath er a field artilleryman, served with General Bruce when the latter com i manded the tank destroyer school at ■ Camp Hood, Texas. | - j fascinating interest of her message. 1 am confident that every one who 1 ears her on Sunday will be inspired i and informed by her account of the , present situation in China.” PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY LINCOLNTON, N. C.. THURSDAY, AUG. 10, 1944 Executive Planning Board And Division Directors Announ ced By Chm. Henderson. The first step is tiie most impor taut task that coni rums our nation > and county, next to that Winning the v\ui. wa-s luuOU 111. i.t.,, Aag. o, at an organization meeting of the Executive Planning Board of the Lincoln County Committee for Eco nomic Development held at its head quarters in the court house building. \V. C. Henderson, county chairman, announced the formal appointment >1 the members forming the Executive Planning Board and the directors of i ’lit several service divisions com.- ! i rising the committee work. In his address to the Executive Planning Board, Mr. Henderson sta ted that “After we have defeated Germany and Japan thole is one more j enemy that must he defeated if our freedom is to be secure. That enemy is* unemployment. And as in any oili er war, strategy and tactics for tiiat battle must he planned in advance and our sights must be raised for the I‘utu re.” “Our servicemen from Lincoln county will want jobs when the war is over -jobs w ith wide open opportuni ty. But we must face the fact that we do not really know, as of today, whether the jobs will he here for them when they return. So we must * find, without delay, what Lincoln county’s post-war job situation is likely to be, and what we must do to help make suit* that jobs will in fact be here in adequate abundance when the time comes—and not only for tho servicemen, but also for many of our displaced war workers and others of the county, who are eager and able to do production work.” “The Lincoln county (’. E. D. is one of nearly 2,000 similar commit tees working all over the country to ward the biggest peacetime levels of pioductive employment. They are all engaged in planning at the ‘bottom up business firm by business firm and farm by farm. That is a respon sibility of national, state, county and local government to provide a pro gram of public works, when and where nelessary. However, if the business man and the farmer were to content. himself to let somebody else do the planning for post-war prosperity it would have to expect the inevitable lesult —an economy regulated from above. That could mean the end of American free enterprise as we have known it. We must rtkindle and pre serve the pioneer spirit of doing things for ourselves. “The national C. E. 1). office does no over-all planning, but rather sup plies our Lincoln county committee such specialized assistance as will help the individual business man and farmer to plan realistically for great ly increased peacetime production and employment. Its research division, composed of outstanding business men and economists, is at work studying those national problems which affect the ability of business men and far mers to take risks in order to pro vide jobs. These studies will be the I basis for clear recommendations as to tee post-war situation needed in an expanding risk-taking economy. The; C. E. I>. national field development’ division makes available the best! know how in the country to aid indi vidual business concerns and farm-j era in the practical work of planning reconversion fo r greatly expanded peacetime production. “The basic purposes oi‘ Lincoln county’s C. E. I). is to stimulate and assist Lincoln county’s private em ployers and farmers to plan carefully and ‘plan big.’ Only in this way can | all concerned take advantage of the I unprecedented peacetime prosperity which authorities foresee after this •war. Our county program is to be of, our own planning—we are responsi- I Me only to ourselves.” I To get the program going without j delay the following division directors I have been appointed by Mr. Hender son. Each division director will select his own committee members, j 1. County vice-chairman, Gordon 11., Goodson. 2- industry Division, which will stimulate and assist Lincoln county’s | industrial employers to plan now for expanded peacetime production and hence more peacetime jobs, Dan M. . Boyd, general manager W. W. Glenn I (Continued on page two) General Clark Meets Kin* George o o . S3t» U& m"" King George VI oi i n md Is shown here accompanied by Lieut. Gen. Mark h. Clark as lu inspected American lighting men at a base in Italy. During Lis tour of the Italian trout, the king reviewed 10,000 \«t .an American iniuotrynuu and tauk men as well as nurses and WACs. 33 Selectees Called For Induction Into U.S. Armed Forces Generals in France If j vjl - **f } Generals do not always maintain that air of iron dignity, as proven by Gen. 11. 11. Arnold, commanding general of the U. S. army air forc es and Lieut. Gen. Omar Bradley, I commanding U. S. ground for* **s in France. ROTARY CLUB HOLDS MEETING The Lincolnton Rotary Club held its regular meeting at Walgreen’s Tuesday at 12.30. Herbert Kuhn gave an interesting report for the Lincolnton Kotarians who attended the meeting with the Belmont Club ast week when the new Mt. Holly Rotary Club was pi e-! sented its charter. “Cap” Love announced the result of the softball game between the Ro tarians and Kiwanians Monday, which the Rotarians won 5 to 4. He also an nounced the game for Friday after noon at the Love Field 6:30 p. m., between the Lincolnton Rotarians and the Shelby Kiwanians. No admission is charged and the public is invited. President Ray Louder announced that there would be a club assembly next Tuesday, beginning at 11:30 a. ; m. in the dining hall. District Gover nor Charlie Stone will be present. All ! committee chairmen are urged to be present on time, and any committee [ men and membrs ae welcome. Charlie Stone will be the guest speaker at the regular meeting. The program was in charge of W. A. Lilly. He introduced Dr. L. A. Crowell, Sr., who gave one of the most interesting and informing ad ’ dresses the club has had. His subject j was “Health.” I Th e following visitors were present Roy E. Goodin, J. E. Ramsey, S. E. Kichbourg, B. J. Washburn, Dr. W. F. , Elliott and Charlie Bryant. SOFTBALL GAME.* The Rotary Club of Lincolnton and j the Shelby Kiwanis Club will play a softball game on the local Love Field Friday evening at 6:30 o’clock. Admission will be free and those who attend are promised an hou r of real entertainment. Agriculture with 16 per cent of the nation’s workers suffered 24 per cent t of the fatal accidents last year, says Dean I. O. Schaub, of State College. Group Will Leave From Local | Draft Board Office, Tues day, August 15. Thirty-three selectees will leave Lincolnton Tuesday morning, August 15, for induction in the U. S. Army. | The men will report to the local draft office at 7 o’clock for trip to Camp ■ Croft. The list follows: Stirl Fred Dysart, \\>l. John Kirk Freeman. William Jean Sigmon, vol. William Franklin McGinnis, vol. G. T. Gantt. Jr. Roy Fold Hoyle, vol. E. F. Killian, Jr., vol. George Pinkney Robinson, vol. Kenneth Lax ton Hoyle, vol. Leek Ledford. llershell Monroe Grigg, vol. George Woodrow Wilson, vul. Charles Mitchell Helms, vol. Edwin Yates Leatherman, tia. in. Albert Franklin Hager. Jacob Bill Mason. Thomas Quay Baxter. Dorus Glenn Eaker. John Hayward Cline. Merrill Dean Powell. William Caleb Ballard. Luther Leroy Keever. Robert Cushion Jetton. Dewey Crouse. Henry Lee Rinck. Billy Anthony. Clarence Wesley Neal. B. H. Sain, Jr. Charlie Edward Beal. Leonard Wallace Davis. Ray Vor, Talbert, vol. James Monroe Lit ten, trans in. Noah Logan Hoover, trans in. COTTON CROP II MILLION RALES Washington, Aug. B.—Th t » Agricul ture Department today forecast this vears’s cotton crop at 11,002,000! equivalent to 500-pound bales. The crop is growng on about 1,-r 800,000 acres less than last year, l when production was 11,428,151 bales and on about 2,600,000 acres less than | two years ago when the crop totaled 12,810,508 bales. Area for harvest this year > s placed at 20,081,000 acres. Av erage production in the ten years, 1033-42, totaled 12,455,000 bales. The condition of the crop on August, 1 was seventyfive per cent of a nor mal, compared with seventy-nine a j year ago, and an August 1 average id’ seventy four in the ten years, 1033- i Yield Listed. The indicated acre yield, based on August 1 conditions, is placed at 263.5 pounds, compared with 253.5; pounds last year, and 226.0 pounds, j the ten-year average. The Census Bureau announced that 87,081 running bales (counting round as half bales), of this year’s growth had been ginned prior to August 1, compared with 107,053 bales for 1043, and 48,626 foj. 1042. Victory Garden Gas Off After August 15 Washington, Aug. B.—-The issuance of special gasoline rations fo r travel tc Victory Gardens will be ended aft ei Aug. 15, the Office of Price Ad ministration announced today. Gar ; dening rations already issued may be , used as long as they are valid. ★ ★ ★ Germans Yield Sea Fortress Os St. Malo; Allies Enter Nantes KIWANIANS HEAR HON JOE R. ERVIN The Club met Tuesday evening at Walgreen’s with the pres-* K.ent, Rev. Walter (’. Beck, presiding.! M. B. Winstead, who was in charge I of the program, had as guest speaker, j Hon. Joe W. Ervin, of Charlotte,! Democratic nominee for Congress from this district, who spoke on post war planning. Mr. Ervin was intro duced by Judge K. B. Nixon. Visitors were H. K. Leonard, N. E. Sappenfield, Joe R. Nixon, Dr. L. A. Crowell, Postmaster V. N. Fair, Thorne Clark and Judge Nixon. /.eh R. Burris and Ray Small were welcomed as new members of the I club. j I E.S. CARPENTER, 63, CLAIMED BY DEATH 1 Edga r S. Carpenter, 36, died Tues day night at his home near Iron Sta tion after an illness of several weeks. He is survived by his wife and the following children: John M. Carpen ter. of Wilmington; Mrs. Ronald Watts, of Iron Station; Mrs. Kenneth Perkins, of Denver; Mrs. Fay Kiser, of Thomasville; James Carpenter, who is with the American forces in France; Miss Virginia and Billy Car penter, at home, lb* also leaves three I sisters, Mrs. Frank Armstrong, of j Iron Station; Mrs. C. E. Finger, of Lincolnton; and Mrs. Robert La wing, of Lincolnton; and one half-brother, Brown Smith, of Mt. Holly. Funeral services were conducted j this morning at 11 o’clock from the . A bui y Methodist church by Rev. L. j R. Sides, assisted by Rev. L. A. Me- J Cure. Burial was in the church ceme tery. Commissioners Pay County Bills For July The county commissioners met in I regula,. session Monday and approved' payment of the following county bills for the month of July: Dixie Gro. Co., $12.66, supplies county home; Dixie Gro. Co., $6.12, supplies county home; Ramseur Hdw. Co., sl2. hardware for court house, Ramseur Hdw. Co., $1.70, supplies for jail; Mauney Gro. Co., $1.87, supplies fo r court house; La wing & Costner, $9.00, drugs for county home; lligh - land Water Co., $1.50, water connec j lion county home; So. Bell Tel. & Tel. ! Co., $4.55, rent for register of deeds I office; So. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co.. $1.35, I rent for civilian defense office; A. Y. I Arant, SO, typewrite]* ribbon; Charliel > Bradshaw. $25, capture and conviction | of still; So. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co.. 54.40, 1 rent for sheriff’s office; So. Bell Tel. | & Tel. Co., $5.80, rent for AAA of- I fice; R. C. Wilkinson, $9, summoning 18 jurors; Lineberge r Ic e & Fuel Co., SI.BO, ice court house; So. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., $5.45, rent for welfare office; Observer Ptg. House, $64.37, 2 bind ers for registe r of deeds office; Lin ; coin Steam Laundry, $2.60, laundry ! for jail; So. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., $4.10, , I rent for civilian defense office; Fpps . Printing Co., $10.75, supplies for tax office; G. P. Baxter, $151.65 keep ing County Home; Duke Power Co.. I , $9.73, lights for county home; Cecil j 111 Jarrett & Co., $137.50, supplies! , j for court house; So. Bell Tel. & Tel. ■ i Co., $5, rent for county agent’s office; | So. Bell Tel. and Tel. Co., $6.70, r’ent I : for rationing office; Ramseur Hdw. 1 Co., $10.20, supplies for court house; , Lincoln County News, $22, supplies for sheriff; Lincoln County News, $58.75, supplies for county account ant; Ramseur Hdw. Co., 52.20, sup plies for jail; Ramseur Hdw. Co., 66c, supplies county home; R. B. Gates, $2.28. express charges; John F. Set ) zer. $7. supplies tax collector; R. C. Wilkinson. S4O, transporting prisoners e from Raleigh to Lincolnton; Pink 1 Caldwell, SBO, transporting prisoners; - George E. Rudisiil, $33, deputy hire; Mis. Zenus Dellinger, $7, registering - vital statistics in Howard’s Creek e township; Key Howard, $8.50, regis tering vital statistics in Catawba Library \mean MORE THAN (good INVESTMENTj^y^I SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS Bradley’s Whirlwind Wedges Rush Unchecked Beyond Captured Le Mans. Supreme Headquarters Allied Ex peditionary Force, Aug. 9.—Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley’s whirlwind wedges | rushed without cheek on the last 100 miles toward Paris tonight after , sweeping through Le Mans and forc ing the die-hard defenders of Brit tany’s sea fortress of St. Malo to knuckle under in surrender. The capture of St. Malo, w’hose defenders hud been ordered to fight to the last man, was reported in field dispatches. Never before had it been | taken, though it had been the scene j of many sieges in the Middle Ages. I The historic fishing village and resort | on the north coast was perched on | an island connected with the main i land by a defended causeway. 1 Unconfirmed reports said American troops had pushed into Nantes on the Loire and into Angers, just north of the Loire, and 5(1 miles upstream from Nantes, indicating the Americans j were still sweeping forward withoutu I any stiffening Nazi resistance that would presage a real fight for south ern France. On the northern end of the far flung Allied battle line British and Canadian forces continued to advance. Th,. Canadians broadened their wedge into the German lines to six miles at the base and pushed a three mile-wide spear to within about five | miles of Falaise. Attacks Thwarted. British troops defending their ! bridgehead across the Orne river beat i off German counterattacks and ad j \anced amid indications the Germans i were getting ready to withdraw from J their positions between the British j and Canadian forces. With Allied forces sweeping for ! ward in France Gen. Dwight D. Eisen -1 bower moved his headquarters from Britain into Normandy to be close to I the battle front. Springs township; Mrs. Lafayette Carpenter, SB, registrar vital statis tics North Brook township; Mrs. M. G. Finger, $3.60, registrar vital sta tistics lronton township; D. A. Yoder, $4.50, registrar vital statistics Lin colnton township; W. H. Childs, $8.70, supplies for election board; Lincoln County News, S3O, supplies election board; Thos. E. Rhodes, $119.75, su perior court liabilities; Thos. E. Rhodes, $14.50, recorder’s court lia bilities; Epps Ptg. Co., $74.05, tax receipts; Western Carolina Pub. Co., $lO, tax advertising; Pink Caldwell, $172.97, keeping county jail; P. A. Hoover, $21.60, salary as commission er; W. E. Garrison, S3O, salary as commissioner; C. L. Beam, $23, sal ary as commissioner; J. H. Shrum, $20.40, salary as commissioner; Don Cherry, $24.20, salary as commission er; G. S. Sain Plumbing & Heating Co., SB, repairs; G. S. Sain Plumbing j & Heating Co., $2.35, repairs to coun ity jail; Lincoln Cut Rate Drugs, $1.60, drug, county home. RED CROSS NEWS. Please finish all your old yarn im mediately. We want to ship it as soon ! as possible. If you have any surplus j yarn that you cannot complete into a garment, bring it back to the work I room. The new quota is olive drab and will be lin.it into sleeveless sweaters, | plain mufflers (scarfs’ and helmets. I Call Red Cross 472-W or Mrs. Fitz | hugh Hoyle, 250, and we will see that j you receive the yarn. Winter is com i ing and the men, in the Armed For- I ces will need the extra protection that . ( a hand-knit garment will furnish. We i must do our part on the hame front •j to keep the men on the fighting *. fronts comfortable. : j Keep an eye open for the announce > i ment of the arrival of th e surgical 1 I dressings. We will print a notice in ' | this paper when the work room will i open. | Make at least one kit bag today. i ..........................
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