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POPULATION
(1940 Census)
Lincoln County 24,187
Lincolnton 4,526
Crouse 221
Iron Station ... 96
Denver S;>4
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$2.00 PER YEAR— IN ADVANCE
Big Four Strip Reich
Os Stolen Lands And
Apply Military Rule
RETURNS TO SHIP.
w illiam Harold Hovis, Boatswain
Mate. Second Class (above), has re
turned to his ship after spending a
leave with his mother, Mrs Beatrice
Hovis, of Boger City. He has been in
the service for 34 months and is a
survivor of the USS Leedstown,
which was lost in the North Afri
can invasion in November, 1942.
Memorial Services
For Pfc. E. Anthony
Memorial services for Pfc. Ernest
W. Anthony will he held at the South
side Baptist Church next Sunday aft
ernoon June 10. at 4 p. m
Pfc. Anthony was killed in action
in the European theatre November
18, 1944. He was a member of an in
fantry division.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mozelle
Sigmon Anthony; one son, Ernest
Wayne Anthony, Jr., 11 months olt’.;
and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
Anthony, of Southside.
Funeral Services For
Mrs. J. W. Rimmer
Funeral services for Mrs. J. W.
Rimmer, mother of Rev. W. W. Rim
mer, of I.incolnton, were conducted
Monday afternoon from the Douglass-
Sing Funeral Home in Charlotte.
Mrs. Rimmer died Saturday in a
Charlotte hospital as the result of a
bioken hip she received in a fall last
February. She was 85 years old. I
Before her marriage she was Miss
Mollie Brady, ! daughter, of Joseph
and Mandy Sherrill Brady. Mr. Rim
mer died in 1916.
Surviving children are Rev. W. W.
Rimmer. Lincolnton; Mrs. H. M.
Helms ( Charlotte; J. C. Rimmer, Ma
con, Ga.; W. C. Rimmer and Grover
Rimmer, Charlote.
The Director of the Office of De
fense Transportation says that the
next 12 to 15 months will be the most
critical period in the history of
American transportation.
Men Must Fight And Die For
Religious Freedom, Says Smith
Paul H. Smith, S 1 /c, has sent to
his family here a copy of a talk which
was broadcast recently by Chaplain
Tim Hatch, USNR, to all hands
aboard the USS Trenton. Because of
the nature of 'he message the Times
is glad to comply with the request
that we publish it. The message: I
"Today is Sunday, the day on which |
w® are accustomed, to go to our j
churches to worship. Back home on
such a day as this many church bells
will call the people to worship God
and undoubtedly as they gather to
gether they will remember us in their
prayers. But on this particular Sun
day we, here in the North Pacific,
are making final preparations to bom
bard enemy territory. They worship |
in a quiet church at home today and,
we will seek to destroy the military
installations on an enemy island. But
these two things that are happening
on this one particular Sunday, the
worshiprs at home and the firing of
guns in the North Pacific —these two
things are not contradictory, they
do not belong to two different ways
of lookiug at life. We cannot say that
because w e fire at the enemy today
we do not fit in with those who wor
ship on the same day. On the con
trary, the very reason of our attack
on the enemy today is because Ve are
taking part in a large war to preserve
for our country and the world cer
tain God-given liberties, one of which >
is the liberty to worship God as we,
wish in freedom and security.
“This freedom of worship is not
something that httfj ever come to I
any people in an easy way. Through- j
out the centuries men who believed;
in God and loved Him have found it J
The Lincoln Timfsj
I Allies Impose Ironclad Military
j Rule On Germany; Desig
nate Zones To Be Occupied.
Paris, June s.—The allied big four
today stripped Germany to its pro-
Hitler frontiers and assumed su
preme control of the country and its
70,800,000 people under ironclad mil
itary rule in place of a central gov
ernment which they said no longer
existed. They set up occupational
zones for the United Stales, Great
Britain, Russia and France.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Field
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery,
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov and Gen.
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, constitu
ting a supreme control commission
representing the United States, Brit
ain, Russia and France, respectively,
proclaimed the allied action in a dec
laration signed in ruined Bet tin.
The United States will occupy
southwestern Germany, Britain north
western Germany, Russia eastern
Germany, and France western Ger
many.
Greater Berlin will be occupied by j
all four powers and governed by in
terallied authority.
Four Commandants.
There will be four commandants,
one for each occupying- power, and
they will take turn serving as chief
commandant. ,
With the declaration, Germany en
tered what was officially called the
occupation period, following the ca
pitulation period.
Stolen Lands.
All the territory which under
Adolf Hitler and his Nazis an arro
gant Germany overran, reverts to its
status as of December, 1937, before
Hitler started on the road to ruin—
Austria, invaded March 12, 1937;
Czechoslovakia, invaded March 14,
1939; Memel. taken from Luthania,
March 22, 1939; Poland overrun in
September, 1939, and Dnnzig, an
nexed the same month; France’s Al
sace and Lorraine, and Belgium's Eu
pen and Malmedy, taken in 1940.
There will be a separate control for
Austria pending that country's re
turn to sovereignty.
Four documents were announced
by the big four allies:
1. The Berlin declaration.
2. A statement announcing crea
tion of the four-power military con
trol council, the new government of
Germany, v.-ith Eisenhower as the
American supreme chieftain.
3. A statement on the setup of oc
cupation zones.
To Consult Allies.
4. A statement announcing that
the big four will consult other united
nations on control of Germany.
followed fourteen articlij
detailing allied requirements:
1. All German armed forces cease
hostilities.
2. All such forces, including the
SS troops, storm troops, and gestapo
shall be disarmed, become prisoners
of war, evacuate territory seized by
Germany and remain subject; to al
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necessary to fight and die that their
people might continue to worship as
they desire. So also in our day this
liberty of worship that we have en
joyed hus not gone unchallenged, but
an enemy on two continents has aris -
en, seeking to subject the world to
I tyranny and to suppress Christian
j faith and worship. But they have not
: succeeded and will not succeed. Our
attack today is part of a larger effort
which cannot fail to conquer our ene
my and th e enemy of Christian free
dom.
“No, we are not out 0 f step with
those who worship back home, but we
fight that they might continue to wor
ship in freedom for years to come.
"Those who worship at home, how
i ever, need not "be the only ones who
worship God today. We have no
church building to which we may go;
we cannot listen to organ music or the
singing of a choir, but in our hearts
we may worship God wherever we
are and with such worship God is well
pleased. God is with us today and for
His presence we thank Him. We pray
that H e will help us do our task well
and with courage and manliness. At
our G. Q. stations, or on our watches
we will be conscious that God is there
and as we worship Him that worship
will be just as acceptable to Him as
that offered by those back hime. . . •
“To all of you, who we know will
do a good job tonight, may God bless
j and keep you.”
BIRTHDAY DINNER.
I There will be a birthday dinner for
■ I P. G. Huss at hia home June 10. Ev
t1 eryone is invited to come and bring a
■ j well-filled basket.
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
I.INCOI.VTQN N C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1945
Lt. Col. Raymond G. Davis Receives Navy Cross
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Lt. Col. Raymond G. Davis, right
above, is shown receiving the Navy
Cross, the nation’s second highest
medal for heroism. The presentation
is being made by the Commandant,
Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Va.,
at an honor parade held by the train
ing regiment. Col. Davis is Chief of
Tactics at the Air-Infantry School
at Quantico.
Col. Davis married Miss Knox
Heafner, of this county, and has oft
en visited at the home of his wfie’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Heaf
ner. He was commissioned in the Ma
rine Corps upon graduating as an
honor cadet from Georgia Tech in
1930. Since then he has served at sea
aboard the USS Portland; in the
First Marine Division at New River;
in Cuba, New Zealand, Guadalcanal,
New Guinea, Australia, New Britain,
and Peleliu. At Guadalcanal he re
ceived a letter of commendatjon for
his part in the defense of the famed
Henderson airfield. During most of
his 29 months overseas he was in
command of a Marine Battalion.
Col. Davis also wears the Purple
Heart, the Presidential Unit Citation
Medal, with star, the National De
fense Medal, with star, and the Asi
atic-Pacific Medal with five campaign
stars.
The Navy Cross was conferred on
him for extraordinary heroism while
County Commissioners Meet
Monday And Pay May Bills
The Board of County Commission
ers, meeting in regular session Mon
day, approved the following county
bills for the month of May:
Dorus Weathers, $12.10, welfare
case; Stat e Commission for the Blind,
$146.42, blind fund; W. B. Huggins,
$17.80, salary; Gus Diamond, $17.80,
salary; W. B. Huggins, $17.80, salary; '
Gus Diamond, $17.80, salary; W. B. j
Huggins, $17.80, salary; Gus Dia-|
mond, $17.80, salary; W. B. Huggins,
$17.80, salary; Gus Diamond, $17.80, >
salary; K. B. Nixon, $105.10, salaiy , |
S. M. Roper, $83.90, salary; Mrs. Pauli
Lawing, $93.70, salary; W. H. Boring,,
$169.40, salary; George E. Rudisill, i
$184.40, salary; Thos. E. Rhodes,!
$212.80, salary; R. B. Gates, $132.60,
salary; Pinkie Holbrooks, SBI.OO, sal
ary; M. S. Yoder, $74.30, salary; J.
G. Morrison, $108.30, salary; W. H.
Boring, $20.00, salary; Elizabeth Ra
by, *76.80, salary; M. T. Leatherman,
$37.60; salgjry; Dorothy Seagle,
$68.90, salary; Catawba County
Health Dept., $359.66; Home Guard,
$25.00; Thos. E. Rhodes, $9.80, re
corder’s court liabilities; Ihos. L.
Rhodes, $70.00, clerical assistance;
W. H. Boring, $6.44, office supplies;
March S. Davis, $101.10; A. R. Mar
tin, $105.10; Mrs. Rose W. Grigg,
$160.20 salary; W. B. Huggins,
$30.30; Gus Diamond, $22.80; Mrs.
Rose Grigg, $44.25, mileage; Observer
Printing House, $93.91, supplies reg
ister of deeds; Observer P 1 g- House,
$7.44, supplies clerk of court; So. Bell
Tel. Co., $5.35, sheriff; $3.85, county
agent; $4.90, welfare office; $3.30,
civilian defense; $5.80, AAA office;
$10.45, ration board; $3.90, register
of deeds office; A. Y. Arant, SIB.OO,
supplies tax office; Macie Duncan,
$50.00, service officer; Highland Wa
ter Co., $1.50, water connection coun
ty home; Lineberger Ice & Fuel C0.,1
70c, coal for rationing board; Law
ing & Costner, $12.11, drugs county
home; Ramseur Hdw. Co., SB.IO, hard
ware court house; Gordon P. Baxter,
$161.65, keeping county home; Pink
Caldwell, $102.33, keeping county jail;
State Assn. Co. Commissioners, sls,
dues for 1945; Hovis Gro., $4.00, sup
plies welfar e office; Warlick Funeral
Home, $35, burial expenses elfare
case; Belk Schrum Co., $4.03, supplies
for welfare; Mrs. R. L. Jones, $12.00,
supplies for welfare office; Dorsey
Rhyne, S4OO, supplies for welfare
case; Rose’s 5, 10 and 25c Store, 40c,
supplies welfare; Alexander School,
$26.04, expense Jimmy King; Flay
serving as commanding officer of an
infantry battalion against enemy
Japanese forces on Peleliu Island,
Palau Islands, during the period of
September 15, until September 22,
1944. The citation says that although
wounded in the first hour of the land
ing, he refused to be evacuated and
in every hazardous mission assigned
his battalion he was repeately with
the assault elements where his un
swerving eouragje and professional
skill were vital factors in the captur
ing of successive objectives. On the
night of September 17, following a
successful penetration of 900 yards
through the heavily defended enemy
lines, his right flank company be
came disorganized by point blank
enemy fire. The center units were un
able to close the gaps in the line
which had been caused by the heavy
casualties sustained. Col. Davis (then
Major Davis) personally rallied his
troops and led elements of his head
quarters company and attached en
gineers into the gaps to establish
contact and maintain hasty defensive
positions for the remainder of the
night. His cool heroism and un
swerving devotion to duty in redeem
ing a desperate situation were in
keeping with the highest traditions
of the United States Naval Service,
the citation reads.
Cash Grocery 52.00, supplies welfare
case; Economy Drug Co., $2.00, drugs
welfare case; Hugh Hallman, SB.OO,
welfare case; Mrs. C. M. Deaton,
$10.90, supplies welfare case; Home
Stores, $7.50, supplies welfare case;
Dr. O. W. Shellem, $2.00, medical at
tention, welfare case; Lawing & Cost
ner, $7.10, drugs welfare case; Mrs.
G. A. Roys'er, 80c, mileage to welfare
meeting; C. L. Beam, $23.00, salary;
P.. A. Hoover, $21.60, salary; J. H.
Shrum, SIO.OO, salary; W. E. Gar
rison, $30.00, salary; Don Chelfiry,
$24.20, salary; Lincoln Memorial Li
brary, S4OO.
Annual Meeting Os
N. C. Federation Home
Demonstration Clubs
The annual meeting of District No.
4 of the N. C. Federation of Home
Demonstration Clubs will be held in
Newton on June 15, at 11 a. m. Ca
tawba county club members will
serve as hostesses. The meeting will
take place around a banquet table
with Mrs. Loy Howard, district chair
man, presidng. Only county officers,
Home Demonstration agents and rep
resentative club members from the
six counties in the district, Cleveland,
Catawba. Iredell, Lincoln, Gaston and
Rutherford will be present, because
of government restrictions on trans
portation. Visiting counties will be
Alexander and Caldwell.
Reports of club activities in the
various counties will be given, and
Mrs. Edison Davenport, state presi
dent, will bring greetings from the
N. C. Federation of Home Demon
stration Clubs. Other visiting speak
ers will be Miss Ruth Current, State
Home Demonstration Agent; Mrs.
Esther C. Willis, Southwestern Dis
trict Agent, and Mrs. W. D. Dorsey,
member of the State Board of Direc
tors.
District officers for the coming
year will be elected with the counties
in the district rotating to furnish
officers. This year Mrs. Ivy Howard,
former secretary of the Lincoln
County Federation, has been serving
as district chairman.
j During extended dry periods ir
; summer livestock should be removes
I from permanent pastures and put on
; temporary grazing crops of soybeans.
! Sudan grass, or lespedeza
SUPERIOR COURT
TO CONVENE HERE
Lincoln County Superior Court will
convene Monday, July 16, for a one
week's session. Judge Allen Gwyn, of
Reidsville, is scheduled to preside.
Jurors for the court term were
drawn Monday by the commissioners
as follows::
J. D. McLurd, Howard's Creek
township; Miller Sneed, Howard’s
Creek; Vernon Elmore, Lincolnton;
T. M. Bass, Jr., North Brook; Stowe
Carpenter, North Brook; Kelly M. Ki
ser, Lincolnton; John F. Seagle, Lin
colnton; R. L. Scronce, Howard’s
Creek; W. S. Grigg, North Brook; D.
L. Dellinger, Catawba Springs; J. E.
Shidal, North Brook; M. G. Finger,
Ironton; O. T. Howard, Catawba
Springs; W. J. Schronce, Howard’s
Creek; A. E. Hipp, Ironton; P. A.
Hoover, Howard’s Creek; C. C. Par
ker, North Brook; G. S. Sain, Lincoln
ton.
TRANSFERS OF
REAL ESTATE
The following real estate deals have
been filed in <he office of YV. 11. Bor-1
ing, Register of Deeds: ,
W. A. Hines and wife, Daisy, to D.
C. Richards and Wife, Rena, property
in Lincolnton township.
V. M. Ramseur to Mrs. Ruth Hub
bard Heavner, lot in Ward 4, Lincoln
ton.
Z. B. Ritchie and wife, Florence, to
D. C. Richard and wife, Renner, tract
in Lincolnton township.
J. A. Quickei to Mrs. Mary Moore,
tract in Lincoln county.
Odus C. Carpenter and wife, Susan,
to D. C. Richard and wife, Renner,
property in Lincolnton township.
Peter Hoke and wife, Mary, and
Charlie Hoke, to Sarah Hoke, proper
ty in Lincolnton township.
Sara Hoke and Charlie Hoke to Pe
ter Hoke and wife, Mary, property in
Lincolnton township.
Peter and Mary Hok e to Charlie
Hoke, property in Lincolnton town
ship.
S. K. Beal and C. D. Stroup and
wife, Vera, to William Lloyd Smith,
and wife, Ivey, property in Lincolnton
township.
V. M. Ramseur to Ernest R. Turner
and wife, Helen, tract in Lincolnton
township.
Alice M. Cornwell to Forrest L.
Houser and wife, Pauline, property in
Lincoln county.
Bible School For
Ist Baptist Church
The First Baptist Church will hold
its annual Vacation Bible School for
two weeks beginning Monday, June
11. The school is a part of the Sunday
school and is for the young people
between the ages of four and seven
teen. Activities ranging from Bible
study to handwork have been plan
ned for the interest of those who
will attend. The school will begin
each day with a procession at 8:80
and will continue until 11:30 o’clock
each day. Highlights of the two week
school will be a picnic on June 15 and
the commencement exercises on the
final day, June 22.
Friday, June 8, will be Preparation
Day for the Bible Vacation School, j
The boys and girls will be at the |
church promptly at 9 o’clock to reg- 1
ister for the school. The purpose of
Preparation Day is to acquaint the
young people with the activities of I
the school and to register those who I
plan to attend. Refreshments will be I
served at the close of the hour and
a half preparation period.
The principal of the Vacation Bible
S«hool will be Miss Richie Harris
and the pastor, Rev. Henry C. Rog
ers. will lead the daily devotional
period. The remainder of the faculty
will include Mesdames Henry C. Rog
ers. Hubert Craig, C. L. Knight, Fred
Harrill, L. R. Ross, M. T. Leather
man, B. H. Blanton, J. A. Burris,
Berfnett Allen, R. V. Peeler, H. H.
Honeycutt, Charles Holly, Lawrence
Bookout, R. L. Graham, W. E. Gar
rison, Miss Marguerite Leatherman,
Miss Kitty Miller, Miss Betty Garri
son and L. R. Ross.
The First Baptist Church invites to
its Vacation Bible School the members
of its Sunday school, boys and girls
who attend no Sunday school in this
city, and those from churches here
who are not having a Bible school of
their own.
Auto Tax Stamps
Go On Sale June 9
Windshield tax stamps will iro on
sale June 9, a day earlier than usual
because June 10 falls on Sunday,
Postmaster Fair told the Times this
afternoon.
The new five-dollar stamps will be
sold from the money older section of
the local postoffice, according to Mr.
Fair.
Beginning July 1, the stamps must
be exhibited on all motor vehicles
which are used on the highways.
U. S. Marines Take
Okinawa’s Largest
Airfield; End Near
KILLED IN ACTION.
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Pfc. William Earl (Toadi Nor
man (above), was killed in action on
April 14, while serving with the 9th
Army in Germany. He was firut re
ported missing in action, the War De
partment later notified his family of
bis death.
Pfc. Norman was in the army 13
months and went overseas last De
cember, after training at Fort Jack
son, S. C., Fort Bliss, Texas, Camp
Haan, California, and Camp Bowie
Texas. He was 30 years old.
Pfc. Norman is survived by his
wife, the former Miss Isabelle Sul
livan; two children, Dale, 4, and Lin
da, 2; his mother, Mrs. H. F. Nor
man; and the following sisters and
brothers, Mrs. Jess Sneed, Mrs. J. B.
Kinley, Miss Mary Sue Norman, A.
D. Norman and Horace F. Norman,
Jr., S 2/c, who is now in the Philip
pines.
Recreation Program
Steering Committee
The steering committee, named
from the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs,
sponsors for youth recreation pro
gram, met Tuesday night and named
Rev. A. B. McClure, chairman of the |
committee, and Edgar Love, Jr., sec-1
letary. Other members of the com- j
mittee are Zeb Keever and W. E.
Garrison, from Kiwanis, and W. B. j
Giodson and Nick Sappenfield, from!
Rotary.
As previously announced, the two
clubs have provided funds for the
recreation program to be carried out
through the summer months on the
high school athletic field, and Jack
Kiser, high school coach, has been se
cured as director.
The commitee named next Mon
day, June 11, as the opening date,
and all boys and girls between the
ages of 8 and 15, who would like to
take part in the various events and
enjoy the fun, are asked to meet the
director at 9 a. m. on 'hat date. A
plan will be worked out whereby the
boys and girls may have separate
recreation periods.
Two shuffleboards are being erected
on the field, it is announced, volley
ball courts and other equipment for
games will also be provided, and it is
expected that the athletic field will
be the most popular spot in town for
the young people during the summer
months.
It i s planned also to have some
night games for the high school age.
Mrs. Hugh Cline left today for Vir
ginia Beach for a few weeks’ stay.
Dr. J. F. Bozard Tells L.H.S.
Graduates “Tyranny Must Be
Destroyed, World Rebuilt”
“You have never known a sound,
sane, healthy America,” Dr. J. F. Bo
rard, of Limestone College, told mem
bers of the Lincolnton High School
graduating class in his commence
ment address Monday night, “and
you are graduating in a time that is
none too propitious, what with the
world filled with conflicts.”
Our first task, said Dr. Bozard, is
to destroy tyranny and while our
fighting men have done a magnificent
job in laying the foundation the worst
is yet ahead, and much of this work
will fall on “the shoulders of the young
men and women of today.
The world must be rebuilt, he said,
alid for this task five qualifications
are necessary: intelligence, faith in
our country, faith in God, in mankind
and in a right and wrong; tolerance,
courage and finally, a sense of humor.
Dr. Bozard, who is Dean of Lime
stone College, has spent a number of
years in educational work and was
formerly Professor of English at Fur
man University. He was introduced
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Jap Survivors Os Original
Force Os 85,000 Estimated
At 15,000 To 20,000.
Guam, Thursday, June 7. —The
Sixth Marine Division captured all
of Nah a airfield, biggest on Okinawa,
as advances were scored on all sec
tors Tuesday and Wednesday in the
closing phases of the 68-day-old cam
paign, fleet headquarters announced
today. The announcement broke a 48-
hour-old silence on ground operation.
The drive by five divisions into the
southern one-thirteenth portion of
the island left an estimated 15,000 or
20,000 survivors of a garrison once
totalling 85,000 was achieved despite
unfavorable weather.
The Leathernecks reduced enemy
caves and strong points around the
Naha airfield Tuesday and completed
its capture Wednesday.
The mud and rain were such a han
dicap that planes had to parachute
supplies to the sloshing ground for
ces. Guns of the United States Pa
cific Fleet poured shells in support.
Spearheads of the five divisions
were driving toward junctures, cut
ting up the enemy remnants. On the
east coast, the Seventh Infantry di
vision completed the occupation of all
the Chinen peninsula Tuesday on the
arm of a fleet anchorage already in
use by American warships.
On the west coast, the Sixth Ma
rine division spread out over Oruku
peninsula, where an amphibious land
ing was made Monday and which in
cludes the fallen Naha airfield.
Already In Use.
Today’s communique disclosed that
airfields built on Okinawa and adja
cent le Shima already are sending
ground-based planes against other
enemy islands in the Rypkyus and the
Japanese homeland. Previously the
Japanese homeland had been under
attacks of B-29s in the Marianas,
ground-based planes and search
planes of an air wing at Okinawa.
The latest gains as view from west
to east across the southern tip of
the island were:
On the west coast, the Sixth Ma
rine division captured the Naha air
field, spread out on Oroku peninsula
and drov e southeast toward a junc
ture with the First Marine division.
The First Marine division, meeting
considerable Japanese resistance, by
passed Tomusu town which is three
miles south of fallen Shuri. The town
is being reduced. Other Devildogs of
the division drove even deeper south
ward to Shinkawaku more than a
mile southwest of Tomusu.
Rotarian J. E. Henley
Has Club Program
Rotarian Everett Henley had the
program for Tuesday’s Rotary meet
ing and talked to the members on the
constitution and by laws of Rotary,
bis talk being both interesting and
informative, since it gave the new
members as well as the older ones in
formation on how Rotary operates.
Visitors were Rev. W. L. Sherrill,
of Charlotte; Capt. Marshall Shives
and A. A. Whitener, of Taylorsville.
S/SGT. CARL C. BOLICK
FREE OF NAZI PRISON
S/Sgt. Carl C. Bolick was among
the prisoners of war recently libera
ted from th e Germans during the Al
lied advance in Europe.
He is the son of Gerard A. Bolick,
of Lincolnton, Route 3.
by Supt. S. Ray Lowder, who presid
ed over the evening’s exercises. The
opening prayer was made by Rev.
Grant Folmsbee, pastor of St. Luke’s
Episcopal Church.
Supt. Lowder presented the follow
ing awards: The Jacob Forney D. A.
R. history medal to Miss Janice Sea
gle, and the Pilot Club citizenship
medal to Miss Bobby Jean Padgett.
The Block Smith sportsmanship
award, established this yea. in mem
ory of Charles D. (Block) Smith, who
for twelve years was coach in the
Lincolnton schools, went to John U.
W eaver. The silver loving cup award
ed by the National Honor Society,
was won by Miss Bobby Jean Pad
gett. Presentation of the cup was
made by Miss Shelley Roper, presi
dent of the local society.
Miss Janice Seagle was salutato
rian and Miss Bobby Jean Padgett
delivered the valedictory.
Diplomas were presented the 8(1
graduates by B. J. Ramsaur, chair
man of the school board.