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POPULATION (1940 Census) Lincoln County _ 24,15 T Lincolnton 4,625 Crouse 221 Iron Station 86 Denver 864 12.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE. # Red Cross Designates March For Its Biggest Peacetime Fund Appeal BILBO’S OPPONENT . . . Com mander Nelson T. Levings, USNR, Gulfport, Miss., who has announced his candidacy for the senate against Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo. He carried the Missis sippi state flag in victory at Tokyo. HOOVER AND DAVIS ARE SELECTED TO HEAD FOOD DRIVE Campaign Mapped to Help Feed the Hungry Abroad; Plan ‘Eat Less’ Program Washington, March 2.—Herbert Hoover called today for “a real food administrator” to suve American food for foreign relief as President Truman formed a committee to at tack the problem. Hoover accepted the post of hon orary chairman of the “famine emergency committee,’’ which will may a drive to get Americans to eat less and waste less, particularly Os wheat and fats. But the former President declared that Secretary of Agriculture An derson needed broader powers than he had now which would give him controls ove r food now lodged in the OPA and other agencies. He asserted as one illustration that “incorrect price differentials” led to the feeding of wheat to livestock to the extent of 100,000,000 to 150,000,- 000 bushels more than normal out of the current crop. The "famine emergency commit tee” is headed by Chester Davis, St. Louis banker and former War Food Administrator, as chairman. It was organized at a White House con ference of a dozen private citizens and several government officials. More than two years after the committee had finished its session, Anderson issued a statement of its purposes. He said that it was to be “a continuing committee to aid him in formulating a detailed program through which the American public by voluntary co-operation can meet the crisis.” Hoover, who held a news con ference at his . Mayflower hotel suite as soon as the meeting concluded, said that the committee was not intended to b e an administrative body or to originate methods. That must be done by the Agriculture de partment.” The conference adopted a resolu tion declaring that more could be done to save food by voluntary self rationing than by a system of gov ernment rationing orders. Figures supplied by the Agricul ture department indicate that a re duction of 25 per cent in the pres ent consumption of wheat and wheat products is needed if millions in Turope and Asia are to be kept from starving. Six-Month Child May Die For Lack Os Needed Drug Raleigh, March 2.—Numerous tele phone calls by John Harden, secretary to Governor Cherry, resulted in naught but an abundance of failure today and as a result a six-month old child may die. Little Jane Gregg of Wannanish i g critically ill at the Children’s hos pital operated by Dr. J. B. Sidberry at Wrightsvill, near Wilmington. Her grandfather, Clyde Council, telephon ed Governor Cherry for help in ob taining streptomicin, a new drug. After two calls to Durham, Harden found he should call Washington. Fro mthere his trail led to Boston, thence to Chapel Hill and hack to Durham. From there it led to Fort Bragg, to Atlanta and back to Wash ington; back to Boston, back to Dur ham, and then to the hospital where the child is ill. Another Washington call, and a wire back to the hospital. Still no streptomicin. The child is suffering from diar rhea, kidney trouble and i* running excessively high temperature#. The Lincoln Times. ★ American People Asked For $100,000,000 in Coast to Coast Campaign Washington, D. C. — March 1 herald the opening of the first post war fund campaign of the American Red Cross. Upwards of 3,000,000 volunteer solicitors began their can vass of every home and office in communities from coast to coast for $100,000,000, the largest peacetime fund ever raised by the organization. The month of March has been designated Red Cross Month by Pres ident Truman, who, in his proclam ation, called for the fullest support of the organization’s campaign. Simultaneously Red Cross Chair man Basil O’Connor and civic lead ers everywhere pointed t 0 the need for continued Red Cross services j to able-bodied troops abroad and j in this country, to those in hos- ! pitals, and to veterans, as well as to j families and dependents of all who! hav e worn the uniform. "The men in active service, the hospitalized, and the veterans form three major Red Cross battle fronts which victory in the field merely served to intensify,” Mr. O’Connor said in announcing opening of the campaign. “Since VE and VJ Days Red Cross services to these men and their dependents have increased materially. Added to this are rapidly growing responsibilities to civilians. Every American must sup port his Red Cross to the utmost so that it may continue to serve our men in uniform, whether able bodied or hospitalized, our veterans, and people, adequately.” Red Cross budget estimates are pared to a minimum consistent with adequate service, Mr. O’Connor pointed out. Expenditures for 1946 actually will exceed the campaign goal, the difference being made up from funds previously collected in the belief war would continue into 1946. “In keeping with its budget the Red Cross faces its biggest peace time job,” the Chairman said. “A well-developed Red Cross recreation and welfare program for our occu pation forces must be maintained at an all-time peak in efficiency and individual attention. The wounded and hospitalized must continue to receive Red Cross aid in the form of constructive recreational activity, help in planning the future, and as sistance in solving many a knotty, personal problem which may re tard recovery and depress the spirit. The veteran, returning to civilian life, must receive guidance and ad vice when needed. “But men in uniform and their dependents are not the only Red Cross responsibility. The organiza tion faces an expanding peacetime program more widespread in scope than in years prior to World War 11. Having collected more than 13,- 000,000 pints of blood during the war, the Red Cross is putting its experience to use in building a civilian blood donor service. Ex panded programs of instruction in first aid, water safety, accident pre vention, home nursing, nutrition, and other subjects are being launched.” More widespread activity in the field of public health may also be looked for as a result of appoint ment last December of the Red Cross Advisory Board on Health Services composed of 109 eminent leaders in the medical, dental, nursing, sociologist, and other fields. Red Cross volunteer activities, which reach out to every hamlet in thi s nation, have als 0 geared their programs to postwar conditions. Surveys of local needs have been or are being made and program ad justments are being determined from their findings.' A. L. Bulwinkle’s Hat In RingFor Congress Washihgton, March 2.—'Represen tative A. L. Bulwinkle of the Eleven th North Carolina district formally announced his candidacy for a thir teenth term today in a statement pledging himself to vote for reduc tions in government expenditures on the ground that “the Federal budget must be balanced to have economic stability.” Warning that "the danger of in flation is ever before us,” the Gas tonia congressman said: “The bur den of preventing it rests upon evety citizen as well ns every public official.'’ Representative Bulwinkle, an ar tillery major in the first World war, was first elected to Congress in 1920. Only two members of the , North Carolina Relegation Repre sentatives Robert L. Doughton of he Ninth district and Zebulon ; Weaver of the Twelfth—have longer service in th# House. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY ~ -•'wß JMdSii JjjKaL wL _ -pJB’ fern IT* y§L ■ > i JBp JBjF KE’* WASHINGTON APPOINTMENTS . . . Paul A. Porter, chair man of the FCC, left, has been named by President Truman to succeed Chester Bowles, right, as OPA administrator, Bowles has been named as director of economic stabilization. Plans Being Made To Hard - Surface “Old Plank Road” Don’t Get Upset! Crop Insurance Will Keep You On Top Why worry all season long about crop losses which might upset your plans? Let Federal Crop Insurance take this worry j out of your mind. This all-risk protection in ONE contract in sures you a return from your crop. Come to your county AAA of fice TODAY for insurance on your cotton crop. Book Next to The Bible In Total Sales Topeka, Kansas, March 3.—Speak ing of best sellers —do you know which book is said to have outsold everything but the Bible ? Perhaps you own a copy, yourself. It’s a fam ous religious novel called “In His Steps,” written in 1896 by the Rev erend Charles M. Sheldon. Dr. Shel don died last night in a Topeka hos pital. “In His Steps” sold more than 23 million copies. It has been translated into 16 languages. It sounds like a gold mine for the author. But through one of those peculiar quirks of cir cumstances Dr. Sheldon never col lected any royalties from the book. There was a flaw in the copyright, and while the book sales zoomed, the author received not a penny’s profit. Dr. Sheldon was at one time the editor of the Christian Herald. And once, for one week only, he edited a Topeka newspaper, The Daily Capi tal. The circulation of the paper, normally about thirty thousand, jumped to three hundred and seventy thousand during the week. Veterans Making Record Number Os Job Applications Raleigh, March 4 Applications for jobs filed by returning war vet erans are piling up at a rapid rate, 11,600 new applications having been added in January to bring the total at the end of the month to 24,468 in the local offices of the United States Employment Service, it is revealed by R. C. Godwin, State Veteran’s Employment Representative. During January, Mr. Godwin points out, 104,062 visits, or 56.3 per cent of all visits to local USES offices, were made by veterans, all but a small percentage of them World War II veterans. This reveals that con siderably more than half the contacts in local USES offices were made by veterans, who now pose the greatest problem for veterans employment representatives and other personnel in local offices. Placement of veterans on jobs took an upward turn in January, during which 3,223 confirmed local place ments were made, although veteran referrals to jobs reached 7,696 in the month. Fifty-five additional veter ans were placed in jobs at distances from their home areas. Mr. Godwin calls upon employers to exert greater, efforts to find places for these returning veterans, in order that they may be able to reap some of the benefits, in freedom from want and fear, for which they en tered the military service. During January, unemployed war veterans filed 73,485 claims for ser vicemen’s readjustment allowances, an average of about 17,000 a week, nd self-employed veterans filed 1,479 claims on a monthly basis. Local USES office personnel in rnuary directed 21,677 vetesans to ‘her agencies, such as the Veteran-. Administration, Selective Service, ocational Rehabilitation, for serv •es other than those given by the ocal offices, Mr. Godwin report*. LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1946 State Highway Engineers to Be Here This Week to Make Arrangements For Work H. E. Noell and J. E. Weaver, engineers for th e N. C. State High way Commission, met in Lincolnton Friday with J. G. Morrison, chair man, and members of the Good Roads committee of the Lincolnton Cham ber of Commerce. Other members of the committee are W. C. Henderson, W. D. Hoyle, B. C. Lineberger, T. F. Corriher, J. A. Polhill and C. De- Wayne Davis. It developed at the meeting that plans are underway to hard-surface the “Old Plank Road” beginning five miles east of Lincolnton and on to Lowesville, provided the land owners along the route will co-operate by providing the top-soil for the base of the load. The road is to have a twenty foot base with six inches of top-soil and then to be surfaced with gravel and asphalt. The Roads Committee of the Cham ber of Commerce is requesting all land owners to take advantage of this opportunity and to do every thing within their power to assist the state engineers in every way possible in securing the needed top soil. The road is already graded, cul verted and bridged. The engineers stated that if the highway department can secure the top-soil for the base the contract will be let immediately for the sur facing of this road, which will be 13 miles of hard surfaced secondary road. The engineers will be in the county th e first of this week to begin con tacting land owners for the needed soil. Again the committee stresses the importance of giving the engi neers the fullest co-operation. According to the engineers the few who have already been contacted for top-soil are willing t 0 co-operate to , the fullest in this road construction program. Juvenile Duties Are Described By Ezzell W. Curtis Ezzell, executive secre tary of the committee on services for children and youth of the State plan ning board, says a program of re direction should he started early in the lives of children in danger of be coming full-fledged juvenile offend ers. Speaking before the public welfare institute for negro social workers, he said that “you, yourselves, can see in your daily lives examples of predelinquent behavior of children who, if left without proper guidance and advice, will shortly become con firmed offenders against the law. “These possible delinquents can be spotted ahead of time because of some of the activities in which they engage and the places they frequent. Often you will have to define for yourself the characteristics of pre delinquent behavior. At other times it will he self-evident. Dr. Ellen Winston, commissioner of the stat e department of public welfare, which sponsored the insti tute, reviewed pending federal leg islation likely to affect public wel fare programs. “Know Your Chamber Os Commerce” The Lincolnton Chamber of Commerce now has 290 member ships in the organization. H\e ; membership goal for the year | 1946 is 320. If you have not af filiated with the Lincolnton Chamber of Commerce do so to j day! It is only in undeveloped territory that land i s available at prices which potential new farmers with little | capital could afford to pay. BASEBALL MAY BE ; REVIVED AT MEET WEDNESDAY NIGHT Number of Interested Fans to Meet at Carsons Sporting Goods Store, Gastonia (By “Smack” Proctor) Local baseball, a casualty of the war years, is likely to be revived this summer with the formation of sev eral local teams. In all probability local teams will join a new league that is to be organized at a meeting of interested members at the Carson Sporting Goods store in Gastonia > Wednesday night of this week. Representatives from Long Shoals,] Cherryville, Pumpkin Center, were | present at a baseball meeting in | Hickory last week, at which time the Catawba County League was ! formed. Teams comprising this new! league are: Highland Cordage <Hick- j ory), Granite Falls, Hickory Spin-! ning Co., (Lenoir), Clyde Fabrics, (Newton), Valdese, Carolina Mills Co., (Maiden), and Newton Rayo.i! Company. Because of travel dis- 1 advantages it was decided that the I afore-mentioned teams would provide the best solution for the new league, as most of the teams were from the Hickory area. It was pointed out that a new league, from this section, could be formed with Long Shoals, Cherryville, Pumpkin Center, High Shoals, Bessemer City, and Gastonia, as nucleus for such a league. Win ners of the two league would then meet in a post-season series. Buck Mauney, former Lenoir-Rhyne I athlete, and long identified with local j sports, has stated that Long Shoals will definitely be a member of the | newly proposed league. Uniform, and other equipment have already been purchased for the Long Shoals team, and practice drills to begin this month. Buck is optimistic over the newly proposed league, and of his Long Shoals teams chances to win the title. His team will consist of players well known in local high school and semi-pro circles. Rumors have it that High Shoals is return ing to baseball this summer and eag er to join a league. Ditto for Pump kin Center, a rabid baseball com munity and producer of many out standing baseball players of past years. Boger & Crawford. long a local baseball power, is not planning to sponsor a team this summer, and is not to be represented at the meet ing in Gastonia this week. Possible members of the league that is to be formed at Wednesday j night’s meeting are: Long Shoals, | Cherryville, Pumpkin Center, High [ Shoals, from this area; and Stanley, Rex-Ranlo, Bessemer City. C.D.A, of Gaston county. |, LINCOLN GETS FEDERAL GRANT Washington, March 1. —A number i of federal advances today were on i the approved list of the Federal Works Agency to help finance prep arations and plans for public im provements in North Carolina and South Carolina. The funds have been advanced ! by Baird Synder, acting for Maj. ! Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Federal i Works Administrator, and will be made available through FWA’s ' bureau of community facilities. i Estimated costs of proposed con- ’ struction and Federal advances in clude: North Carolina North Carolina State Ports Authority, port facili ties at Wilmington, estimated cost $5,260,915, advanced $90,000; board of trustees, Lincolnton graded schools, high school addition in cluding cafeteria, S7O 275 and $2,- 340; Fayetteville Public Works Com mission (five advances) water and sewer system improvements, $719,- 000 and $25,275; Magnolia, water works system, $30,000 and $300; Whiteville, water distribution sys tem, $58,725 and $1,000; Wilkes county Board of Education, school expansion, SIBO,BOO and $5,741; and Clinton, sewage plant and ex tensions, $120,000 and $1,927. South Carolina Swansea water system, $50,500 and $1,410; Newber ry water plant, $102,097 and $3,610; Lexington, water system, $12,100 and $440; Marion, water system exten sions, $32,015 and $1,142; Sumter, water, street and sewer improve ments, $506,901 and $13,861. High School Youth, Only 16, Is Pastor Anderson, S. C., March 2. —Six- teen-year-old Tommy Kay, outstand ing high school senior of Anderson, has been appointed supply pastor at Ihe Flat Rock Baptist church about eight miles from Anderson, until a egular pastor can be secured. This is an added a< ivity to Tom ay's already extensive church work. • ''ive years ago he was active in es i tablishing the mission Sunday school : here, which he helped organize into th* Franses Memorial church last ★ General Motors Rejects Union’s Arbitration Offer Wf m ’'—> 1 s m ~ • ; A* ‘ I'M ,-- *** ** RECALL CORREGIDOR . . . Sgt. Irving Strobing, left, Brooklyn, wno sent the last radio message from Corregidor before the “rock” fell to the Japs in 1942, and Sgt. Arnold Loppert, Jamaica, L. 1., who re ceived the message In Hawaii, talk over that black day In 1942, when they met at press conference in New York City recently. PUNS CLINICAL LABORATORY FOR LOCAL HOSPITAL New Addition to Reeves Gam ble Hospital Will Be Stand- I ard in Every Respect The Reeves Gamble Hospital is completing plans for a new clinical ' laboratory to be opened soon. Along j with the standard laboratory proced-: ures the laboratory will use the new j method of photoelectric colorimetry | for the determination of the latest | j clinical analysis. The laboratory will be qualified to perform the test for the recently- j discovered Rh factor, an invaluable ! test in obstetrical cases. The labora- ! tory technician will have charge of the laboratory and X-ray depart- j ments. DEATHCLAIMS G. B. SAINE, 68: i G. B. Saine, 68, died at his home in Hickory Friday at one o’clock of ] influenza. Mr. Saine was a farmei of the Vale section of Lincoln county i before he became an invalid about three years ago. ( He was twice married, his first wife being Miss Mary Canipe, of Lincoln county. He later married ( Miss Alice Saine of the Cookeville section of Catawba county, who . survives along with four children by his first wife and two children by j his second wife. The sons and , daugthers are: Fred Saine, Hick- j ary; Mrs. Arthur Bailey, Cherry-j * ville; Mrs. Hattie Waters, Lincoln- j! ton; Lloyd Saine, Vale; Mrs. Mae | . Sipe, Hickory; and Clyde Saine of the U. S. Navy, stationed somewhere . in the Pacific. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Fannie Bess, of Vale, and Mrs. Mae Whitener, of Newberry, S. C. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at two-thirty o’clock at Reeps Grove Methodist church. Th e body lay in state from two o’clock until the funeral hour. House Group Finds Mistreatment Os Hospitalized Vets Washington, March 3.—A house veterans subcommittee has reported it had found “some cases of beatings and mistreatment of patients in cer tain Veterans Administration hospit als.” The finding was one of a series in the report, based on an inves tigation that started early last year Following charges by Rep. Philbin (D-Mass), of “inefficiency and callous treatment” of veterans. The committee made twenty-two recommendations, including one that he Veterans Administration under ake "continuous undercover investi gation of all neuropsychiatric hos pitals." Farm machinery suffers from “ab se” rather than use and should be protected by grease and paint dur ng periods of rest, according to D. Weaver, engineer of the State College Extension Service. ’ November. He is the son of Mr. and : I Mrs. T. C. Kay of Anderson. Lincoln County’s Library- . Orite Family Newspaper SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS. Company Suggests “Secret Vote” of Strikers Whether They Return to Work Detroit, March 3.-—General Motors tonight rejected the strike arbitra tion proposal of the CIO United Auto Workers but made a counterproposal for a “secret vote” of strikers wheth er they wish to come back to the j job. Th e corporation, after reviewing at length circumstances of the strike, told the union: “In the event that, after further consideration (of GM’s latest offers), your delegates again reject our lat est offer, we propose that the NLRB or some other independent agency conduct a secret vot e among our I employes to determine whether they i wish to return to work.’’ The union immediately charged that the corporation does not “dare” face arbitration and termed a sug gested secret back to work vote an “unwarranted interference” in UAW CIO affairs. James F. Dewey, special federal mediator who has worked for weeks to bring the two sides to an agree ment, said he will renew his ef forts Monday at 10:30 a. m. “We will consider what this means,” Dewey said, “we will take these proposals and see where we go from there and try to work something out.” Vice President Walter P. Reuther the UAW-ClO’s leader of the strike, charged the corporation with trying to “prolong the strike.’’ Os GM’s refusal to arbitrate, Reuther said: | “The responsibility for that deci sion rests squarely on the corpora ! tion and upon the financial manip ulators who determine its policies.” The corporation’s statement was a [reply to the UAW-CIO offer to re turn to work under General Motor’s proposal of an 18% cent an hour wage increase and other terms pro vided the company would accept arbitration by a n arbitrator to be named by President Truman. The union, which today carried its strike into its 103rd day, made the proposal Saturday, 24 hours after it had rejected General Motor’s last offer. General Motors, in a letter to the union, demanded “What remains to be arbitrated in this case?” Previously, the letter said that the union had indicated agreement could be reached on all issues if the corporation would agree t 0 the 19% cents hourly wage increase asked by the UAW-CIO. General Motors took a stand to night that there was “obviously no need” of arbitration as t 0 whether or not its 18% cent offer comes within the government wage policy. “IVhat, then, are we to arbitrate?” General Motors said. * General Motor’s offer is within the wage policy of the country,” the letter went on. “It conforms to the wage pattern of the automotive industry. That leaves only one issue, name ly, the question of whether General Motors should grant a greater gen eral wage increase than its com petitors or more than the pattern for the country. We don’t need arbitration to decide this point.” HEAWNGTODAf FOR KIDNAPER OF TERRY TAYLOR Habeas Corpus Plea for Nurse maid Will Be Argued Be fore Washington Judge (Charlotte Observer) Whether Detective Captain Frank N. Littlejohn will return to Char lotte today with the nursemaid charged with kidnaping Terry Tay lor is expected to be determined this morning at 10 o’clock when a hearing will be held in Washing ton on the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that the girl had committed no crime. Scheduled to return Saturday with his prisoner, Captain Littlejohn met with a reverse when Attorney James J. Loughlin filed the petition. A Washington judge refused to issue the writ but ordered a hearing on the petition to determine wheth* er such an action is justified. Captain Littlejohn branded the lawyer’s efforts to block the return of the nursemaid, Loretta Frances . Brozek, 19-year-old Nebraska farm . girl, as “a cheap publicity stunt.” The filing of the petition for a . writ of habeas corpus under such 1 circumstances is considered “un usual’ in police circles, and it is - believed that the action will merely delay Captain Littlejohn’s return to Charlotte with his prisoner.
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