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POPULATION (1940 Census) Lincoln County 24,157 Lincolnton 4,585 Crouse 221 Iren Station 98 Denver 354 $2:00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE. Episcopalians Will Hold 81st Annual Sunrise Service Visiting Minister DR. CLOVIS (■. CHAPPELL DR. C. G. CHAPPELL WILL PREACH HERE To Begin Series of Messages At First Methodist Church East Sunday Night Dr. Clovis G. Chappell of Charlotte, eminent preacher and author, will be gin a series of messages at the First Methodist church on Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. He will preach each light next week through Friday night. In preparation for the preaching services by Dr. Chappell, the Meth odist congregation has been holding this week a variety of meetings. On Monday afternoon the Woman’s So ciety met for a time of silent medita-' tion and prayer observing “The Day Apart." A prayer service sponsored by the Spiritual Life Group was held on Tuesday at the home of Mrs. J. E. Kale, Sr. Special stress was laid on th e coming revival at the Wednes day evening prayer meeting conduct ed by the pastor. Tonight (Thurs day) the Lord's Supper will be cele brated in a special Maundy Thursday service, and tomorrow the Good Fri day three-hour Crucifixion Service will be held in the Methodist church with all churches of the town co-oper ating. Os the distinguished minister who is to be the guest preacher at the Methodist church next week, the fol lowing has been said: “Clovis G. Chap pell is everywhere recognized as one of the outstanding preachers of this country. His preaching knows no de nominational limitations, for he is in constant demand as special preacher in the ministerial convocations and lay gatherings of many churches. His pastorates in Washington, Birming ham, Memphis, Dallas, Houston, Okla homa City, Jackson, and now in Char lotte, have been effective and fruit ful.” The many books which Dr. Chap pell has written have enjoyed a wide circulation. Ministers and laymen of all denominations have found his I clear writing a helpful stimulus for their own religious thought. Among the twenty or more volumes which he has penned, the following titles are among the better known: “The Road to Certainty,” “Values That Last,” ‘Ten Rules for Living,” “Sermons From the Miracles,” “The Sermon on the Mount,” “Sermons From the Par ables,” “Sermons on the Lord’s Pray er,” “Special Day Sermons,” and “Faces About the Cross.” A spokesman fo r the Methodist con gregation made this comment on the coming services: “We feel that our church is making a distinct contri bution to the religious life of the entire community by bringing Dr. Chappell to Lincolnton. Although he has received numerous invitations to speak in many North CaroPna cities during this year, he is accepting only the invitation to Lincolnton to hold a revival. Long and rich companion ship with his contemporaries and with the Christ Himself have deep ened Dr. Chappell’s rare insight into the human heart and rare apprecia tion of the significance of the Chris tian Gospel. His preaching has thrill ed and gripped great congregations wherever he has spoken, and we are confident that everyone who hears him in our church next weqjc will be stirred to better living.” The services will begin each eve ning, Sunday through Friday, prompt ly at 7:30 o’clock. Congregational singing of well-known hymns will be ' stressed, and the Methodist choir will render a special musical number each evening. The British will settle 29 billion dollars of lease-lend for the sum of $625,000,000 in trade, which was bet ter even than Elliott Roosevelt could do. The Lincoln Times Lincoln County's Favorite Family Newspaper To Be Conducted in St. Luke’s Church 5:15 A. M.—Pub lic Invited to Attend For the eighty-first Easter Day in succession the people of this commu nity—young and old alike—will unite again this year with the congrega tion of St. Luke’s Church-in-Lincoln ton in their annual Sunrise Service. Several memorial gifts will be re ceived and blessed at this service to be held at 5:15 a. m. And in mem ory of all the faithful depai'ted who during the last eighty-oen years have marched in this procession on Easter Day, the rector will wear an ancient cope which has entrusted tem porarily to the custody of the Altar Guild. A cope is a semi-circular vest ment worn like a cloak at solemn functions, and in procession. The one to be used at St. Luke’s is of apricot silk damask, heavily embroi dered with flowers, and lined with magenta silk. It was made in Italy nearly three hundred years ago and was brought to North America be fore the parish of St. Luke’s was founded more than one hundred years ago. Adding to the solemnity of the procession this year will be the pro cessional candlesticks carried by servers on either side of the cross, and given by a member of the con gregation in memory of tw r 0 heroes who gave their lives in the recent war. The first Sunrise Service in which the people of this community united before the altar of St. Luke’s church was held on Easter Day, 1865. in that year Easter came on April 16. President Lincoln lay dead in the White House. He had been assassi nated on the evening of the preced ing Good Friday, and died at seven o’clock the following morning—Eas- ter eve. The service was inaugurat ed by the then rector of St. Luke’s, the Rev. William R. Wetmore, D.D., and has been held every Easter since., Dr. Wetmore came to Lincolnton I as deacon-in-charge in 1862, and was 1 rector from his ordination to the! priesthood late r that year until he died just before Easter in 1904. A cross erected to his memory by the congregation stands near the church he served so long and s 0 devotedly. Good Record Made In Building Permits Building permits totaling more than $271,485 have, been issued in Lincolnton since January 1, which is an exceptionally good three-month record. The largest single permit issued was to the Duplan Corporation, which plans to spend some $200,000 in practically doubling the size of the mill. Excavation work on the job has already started. Permits for new residences were issued to T. E. Nixon, A. Hgl Corn well, Lineberger Bros., Inc., Belton Withers and H. C. Henderson. James T. Conner, Jr., a Mississippi native, has joined the staff of the State College Extension Service as entomologist. Airplane Interfering With Spring Planting Janesville, Wis., April 18—Harold Teubert, Rock county farmer, would like to get on with his Spring plant ing but there’s an airplane in his way. Teubert explained to the sheriff’s SHORTAGE OF MODERATE PRICED CLOTHING MAY END BY MID-JULY Washington, April 18 Stabiliza tion Director Chester Bowles ex pressed confidence that the shortage of inexpensive clothing will have eased considerably in three months. In a radio address, he appealed to the public to be patient “a little while longer.” Stating that production of cloth and apparel is on the uptrend, Bowles added: “Ordinarily it takes about fourteen weeks for new fabrics to show up as finished garments in your stores. This whole trouble some situation, I am confident, should be a lot better by the middle of July.” Bowles, in a review of the cloth ing problem, said that to date the record of gejtting low and moderate ly-priced garments on the market “is no credit either t 0 the industry or the government.” Discussing the shirt shortage, Bowles said a principal reason for it is “the absolutely staggering de mand.” The government estimates, he reported, that Americans would snap up more than 320,000,000 shirts this year. “But in the last prewar year, 1939, far less than half that many shirts were bought and sold,” Bowles said. Master Customs PMpW- t44Rouc^ TW fe- CfttfliNi,! Took ••>'# T«t FORM Os PAINTfD FCCS. During an Anofnt festival «eld in «onor opt«e pagan Goddess op Spring, £OSTRA. f| i OM l WHOSE NAME WE GET THE WORD '“t easier. Sunday m toe- Moo’sTSfjr ENGLISH CHURCHGOERS ENJOYED THE // LUXURY OP A PREt SHAVE IN THE r*n' jhlM IjTF^ (£L v^&^^s^r*****^ a PRI2E op 100 EMSWtNT <- ToANY & oY wwo (AfTUkED AND DELIVERED Q a live rabbit to toe parish house be pore kda^-eaSteraaorn. t (USToMo* SWUM."* ifljjvw Hs-YFfsiua greeting cards at EAStta. Illlllr’C *”•.’**•»♦* Began in the l&oo’s. these / , EARiy FASTER CARDS WERE U nJ /, I ' ADoRneD WitHSATIN FRINGES VvuudA. WWD many familiar kept their eyes open on Easrn- SymdolS c* Today's Morn, for if thr iiftt animal w-YjalTa Y \ CARDS .WITH religious they saw waja lamb, if woj Designs most considered an omen of a C. William Rhodes, 82, Dies Os Injuries Received In Fall Funeral Services This After noon at 5 O’Clock From Lutheran Church Christian William Rhodes, 82, re tired mill executive, died at his home on South Aspen street yesterday morning.. His death was attributed to complications which resulted from a broken hip he received in a fall a week ago. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. I Elizabeth Mauney Rhodes; two sons, | Martin L. Rhodes, of Lincolnton, and Grady Rhodes, of Hillsville, Ohio, and one daughter, Miss Lela Rhodes, of Lincolnton. He leaves also one half sister, Mrs. Clarence Icard, of New ton. Mr. Rhodes was born in Gaston county June 21, 1863, the son of Caleb and Myra Hoffman Rhodes. His marriage to Miss Elizabeth Mauney took place December 28, 1893. When a young man Mr. Rhodes entered the cotton mill business in Kings Mountain and later with his brother, the late John M. Rhodes, organized the Cherryville Manufac- j turing Company in Cherryville. In 1909 the brothers came to Lincoln-1 ton and organized the Rhodes Manu facturing Company, which they op- 1 erated successfully for a number of years. Some years ago Mr. Rhode?. I retired from active business. Funeral services will be conducted | this afternoon at 5 o’clock from the l Emmanuel Lutheran church of which! Mr. Rhodes was a faithful and de voted member. The pastor, Rev. Al bert H. Keck, Jr., will have charge of the service. Pallbearers will be E. C. Heavner, M. C. Quiekel, Dr. F. R. Burris, J. E. Cansler, E. A. Fulwood and E. P. Heavner. Interment will take place in the family plot in the old Lutheran cemetery. office that the aircraft made a forced landing in his fields in October, 1945, with a damaged wing strut. Teubert took the pilot to Janesville where he said he would get spare parts and return the next day. Teubert hasn’t seen him since. “Just think what th e millions of re turning G.l.’s would do to the kind of stocks you used to find in your stores. “With each man wanting maybe three or four or a half dozen, the shirt industry would be kept busy for months, just supplying veterans alone.” Bowles listed thesfi “basic reasons” for the shortage of inexpensive cot ton clothing.” 1. A shortage of workers in the mills during the last two years. 2. Failure of the government to take “more vigorous, realistic ac tion” in the early days of the cloth ing scarcity. Bowles reiterated that clothing should have been rationed and that controls to curb shifts to high-price lines should have been in ! stituted sooner than they were. 3. Removal shortly after the war of controls which required mills to make essential fabrics needed for low-cost clothing. These were re stored a few days ago. 4. Rising raw cotton prices. I Bowles said cotton prices are tho highest in twenty-two years and three times a* high as they were in , 1939. LINCOLNTON, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1946 . Business Houses Are Asked To Close For Three-Hour Service In accordance with the request of the Lincolnton and Lincoln County Ministerial Association the Lincoln ton Merchants Association recom mends that those merchants and business establishments who can close between the hours $f 12 and 3 o’clock or any part thereof to do so on Friday, April 19, in observance of the Good Friday Service to be held at the Methodist church in Lin colnton. U. S. Marine Corps Recruiting Officer Now In Lincolnton Sgt. Melvin Fitzgerald, U. S. Ma rine Corps, will be in Lincolnton from April 15-30 to enlist young men for the Marine Corps. He will be in the basement of the Post Office building from 8 a. m. to 5 p. Th.,_and will be glad to talk to any who are considering enlistment. State Music Contest To Be April 23-26 Greensboro, April 18 The 27th annual state high school music con test and festival will be held here April 23-26, resuming after three years of wartime restrictions. Preliminary district contests al ready have been held in 11 sectors of the state. Chamber Os Commerce Adopts Civic Program G. L. Goodson, chairman of the Civic and Public Affairs Department of the Lincolnton Chamber of Com merce, announces that at a meeting Monday night his department drew up long-range plans and ideas for improvements and advancement in Town Planning, Education, Sanitation and Telephone Facilities. Committees for each of these departments out lined a campaign to work in coopera tion with public officials in order to eventually fulfill their aims and the suggestions sent in by Lincolnton citi zens. Town Planning Dan M. Boyd, chairman: The Town Planning Committee will begin work on a five-point program to obtain: (1) Additional through streets to improve congested traffic | conditions on Main street and around; | the Square, and to provide additional business district space. (2) A new I bus station. (3) Additional parking I facilities. (4) A more beautiful city.! (5) Better hotel and restaurant fa-j cilities. , Education Dr. L. A. Crowell, Jr., | chairman; The Education Committee set up a program to work in cooperation with the school board" in investigating and recommending ways and means to obtain: (1) Compulsory school at tendance and a truant officer. (2) Supplemental pay for school teachers. (3) Cafeterias for all schools. (4) Additional classroom space. (6) Gym nasium facilities—especially for Lin Holiday Saturday In Lincoln Schools Ther e will be no session of the Lincolnton county schools on Sat urday of this week, due to the Easter holidays, it was announced today by Supt. Joe R. Nixon. The schools have been running on Saturday to make up time lost because of th e bad roads during the winter months. J. D. JONES WINS SLOGAN CONTEST W. C. Henderson, President of Lincolnton C. of C., An nounces Winner W. C. Henderson, president of the Lincolnton Chamber of Commerce, an nounced today that J. D. Jones, age 68, of Route No. 3, Lincolnton, took first place in the slogan contest with his entry: “The City With a Future.” At a meeting of the Chamber’s Board of Directors the slogans submitted were carefully considered before the directors finally chose Mr. Jones’ slo gan. The final vote was taken on three entries: “City With a Future,” sub mitted by Mr. Jones; "Balance Wheel of the Piedmont,” submitted by Mrs. T. E. Hovis of Alexis; and “Pride of the Piedmont,” submitted by Graydon Shuford, Jr., age 11, of Lincolnton. Many excellent slogans were sub mitted and the directors had a very difficult time choosing a winner. “City 1 With a Future” was awarded first place because of its brevity and its challenge to the people of Lincoln County and Lincolnton. Mr. Jones will be awarded the first prize of a $25.00 War Bond. Mrs. Hovis and young Mr. Shuford, whose entries tied for second place, will each receive a three months’ pass to the Century Theatre. Tentative plans are to present these awards to the contest winners Mon day night, April 22nd, at the Cen tury Theatre, in Lincolnton. Easter Program At Lutheran Church Easter will be celebrated at Em manuel Lutheran church at the 6 o’clock sunrise service in a service of worship with hymns, anthems by the Junior and Senior choirs, special responses, and the sermon by the pastor on the theme: “The Dawn That Changed the World ” The Easter message will be studied in the Sunday school departments at 9:45 o’clock. At 11 o’clock the service will in clude special music, the sermon on the theme: “The First and Eternal V-Day,” and the administration of the Holy Communion. The Easter cantata, “The Ever lasting Light,” will be presented at the church at 4 p. m. by a Choral Group of the community. A cordial invitation to these ser-: vices is extended to all. LONG-LOST RUBY RING TURNS UP IN BACK YARD Troy, N. Y., April 18—Willard B. Snyder, enjoying an April sunbath in his backyard, noted a glint of light in the dirt. Investigating, he found a ruby ring his wife had lost 21 years before and which they had believed stolen. eolnton High school. (6) New school system eurriculums and equipment. (7) School bus facilities for colored children. In connection with No. 7 it was brought to the board’s attention that there was not one school bus in Lin-; coin county for colored children. Be-. cause of this the colored schools are j small and scattered and therefore un- i agle to qualify for State and Fed- j eral aid available to larger schools. Sanitation—Dr. S. A. Wilson, chair- J man: The Sanitation Committee’s pro gram involves: (1) Better sanitation conditions, especially in the business, district. (2) County cooperation in “National Clean-Up” and “Rat Ex termination” weeks. (3) Investiga tion of sewer connections and storm j sewer facilities. (4) Obtaining com plete sewer line coverage for both I white and colored districts. I Telephone —J. R. McNeely, chair ! man: I The committee on telephone facili j ties adopted a program aimed toward obtaining more and better equipment and service for the local telephone system. ■ | W. C. Henderson, presiding, an- I nounced that the Civic and Public Affairs Department was eager to dis cover the reaction of Lincolnton and Lincoln county citizens to the de , partment’s long-range program to make “The City With a Future” cer tain of having the kind of future we | all want. Program Complete For Easter Cantata At Lutheran Church Gets Appointment B. C. Lineberger, above, has been appointed n ional counselor for the Lincolnton Chamber of Commerce and will represent the Lincolnton Chamber at the annual convention |of the United States Chamber of Commerce, which meets in Atlantic- City April 30 to May 2. The theme for the convention this year will be “Paths to Production.” The Public Is Invited Good Friday Service The public is cordially invited to worship in the Good Friday service planned and sponsored by the Min isters’ Association. This service will be held in the Methodist church from 12 noon to 3 o’clock on Friday. You are invited to attend for the three hours. If you cannot attend for the entire period, you are urged to come when you can and leave when you must. It will help in the orderliness of th e service if you ar rive or leave at the hour or half hour during the hymn or intermis sion moments between the periods. 1 The Seven Last Words will he the j basis for the service. The Rev. W. j L Harkey will preside from 12 to' 1:30 and Mrs. R. J. Sifford will be at the organ. The sermdns in the first three periods will be given as follows: 12 to 12:30, the first Word, the Rev. Grant Folmsbee; 12:30 to 1, the second Word, the Rev. W. C. Beck; 1 to 1:30, the third Word, the Rev. Albert H Keck, Jr. For the second three periods Miss Louise Wetmore will be at the or gan and Pastor Keck will preside. | The sermons will be a s follows: 1:30 j to 2, the fourth and fifth Words, the I Rev. Allen McSween; 2 to 2:30, the sixth Word, the Rev. O. D. Moore; 2:30 to 3, the seventh Word, the Rev. C. C- Herbert. A choir composed of members of the various church choirs will assist in the music. Fresh Flowers Kept On Graves Os Fliers Killed In Japan Nagoya. Japan Two men who I kept fresh flowers on the graves of 11 B-29 fliers killed in a crash last year were disclosed to be an Epis copal minister and a Nagoya pickle manufacturer. The two had enclosed the plot and erected a white wooden cross. Bodies of the 11 airmen buried there recent ly were reinterred in an Army ceme tery at Y’okohama. Among the 11 who were identified was Sgt. Dale D. Wright, 333 Kock fort St„ Mount Airy, N. €. SNIPERSCOPE, SNOOPERSCOPE GOT JAPANESE ON DEEP, DARK NIGHTS Washington, April 18—Thanks to I his trusty sniperscope, the Army sai l I proudly, an American soldier can see almost as well at night as in the daylight. And that’s not all. The sniperscope has a talented brother, the snooper scope. These trvo contraptions brought death to many a Japanese soldier who thought he was safe in the darkness, the Army reported. They first were put into use in the sum mer of 1944. “Many of the Japanese losses on Okinawa,” an Army official told a reporter, “can be credited either to i the sniperscope or the snooperscope." | They use the infrared principle, and objects can be seen clearly even on the blackest night, j The sniperscope looks a little like a hand movie camera, mounted on a carbine. In the hands of a watch ful soldier, it can deal sudden death to an enemy squirming toward the American lines. The snooperscope can be used over a special helmet. It weighs from six t 0 seven pounds, and looks like Published Every Monday ate I***” Thursday SINGLE COPY: FIVE CENTS Will Be Presented By a Lin colnton Choral Group at 4 P. M. Easter Day I The glorious Easter message will | be presented in music by a Lincoln | ton Choral Group at Emmanuel Luth | eran church at 4 p. m. on Easter Sunday. The community is invited to attend and to bring friends. The following program will be piesent ed: Organ Prelude Processional Hymn, “Christ Is Risen! Alleluia!” Invocation, the Rev. Allen Mc- Sween. Violin Solo, “The Holy City” by Adams, Melvin Sipe. The Cantata, “The Everlasting Light” by Louis Fichthorn. I. “Darkness O’erwhelms Us” by chorus and tenor soloist, Paul Rhyne, Jr. 11. “The Rosy Morn” by women’s trio, Mary Lillian Jonas, Mrs. C. C. Herbert, Mrs Ben Kilpatrick. 111. “Fear Ye Not” by chorus and soloists, Mrs. Herbert, Dorothy Sea gle, Jeanne Stroup, Charles Ram seur, the Rev. Albert H. Keck, Jr. IV. “I Am the Resurrection” by baritone and contralto soloists, Charles Ramseur, Mrs. Ben Kilpat rick. V. “Lord of Heavens, We Adore Thee” by the chorus. VI. “Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates” by chorus and soprano solo ist, Mary Lillian Jonas. VII. “Behold, I show You a Mys tery” by chorus and tenor soloist, Jack Ramseur. Mrs. Jack Ramseur is the director. The accompanists are Mrs. A. E. Miller, piano, and G. C. Stein, organ j Members of the chorus are: Sopranos, | Mary Lillian Jonas, Betty Rice, Fran |ces Winslow, Jeanne Stroup, Mrs. C. C. Herbert, Jessie Rudisill, Mrs. Charles Proctor, Mabel Seagle, Mrs. Fred Eddy; Altos, Dorothy Seagle, Mrs. Ben Kilpatrick, Evelyn Trout man, Richie Harris, Sarah Elizabeth Stanley; Tenors, Paul Rhyne, Jr., [jack Ramseur, Jerry Hartman; Bassos, Charles Little. Grant Folms bee, C. C. Herbert, John Ramseur, Charles Ramseur, Albert H. Keck, Jr. New Names Added To Times ‘46’ Club New members added to The Times “46” Club during the past few days include the following: New' Subscribers: Mrs. Mamie Yo der, Lincolnton, Route 2; Mrs. Helen McGinnis, City; Pvt. Robert D. Wil kinson, Jr., San Francisco, Califor nia; Miss Maxie Hoover, Vale, Route 1; Mrs. J. B. Thompson, Mt. Holly. Renewals: G. W. McAllister, Mooresville, Route 3; Mrs. Fannie Jones, Charlotte; Mrs. Jack Mauney, Lincolnton, Route 1; C. R. Jonas, City; Hoyt Shidal, Vale, Route 2; Woodrow Armstrong, City; Rev. C. C. Herbert, Jr., City; Hollis Link, Boger City; A. B. Heavner, Lincoln ton, Route 1; C. O. Mitchem, Vale, Route 2; Mrs. Nell R. Nelson, City; Mrs. Virgil White, Charlotte; Herman Huffstetler, Lincolnton, Route 4; Hoyle Cline, Vale, Route 3; Mrs. C. D. Davis, Vale, Route 2; Carl Noles, Lincolnton, Route 3; Daniel Perkins, Maiden, Route 1. Discharged Y 2/c Beulah Marie Senter receiv ed her discharge from th e WAVEs in Washington, D. C., on April 15. She had been on active duty since Sept. 21, 1944, and was last on duty with the Bureau of Ships in Wash ington. I something out of this world. There had been previous shy hints that the Army had used infrared rays to spot the enemy, but this was the first indication that the gadget was small enough to be handled eas ily by an infantryman. The Army official added that he didn’t know why, but that all ob jects looked various shades of green when seen through the devices. “Camouflage was particularly dif ficult,” he said. The snooperscope had another use. With one on his noggin, a jeep or truck driver could go barrelling down the road to the front without lights. With his beloved snooper scope at work, he could have hit night owls and stray buck privates , with as much skill as if it were day. i The Army man said he didn’t know . about peacetime uses. But after a l moment’s thought, he said: . “What about coon hunting? In to tal darkness, you could look up in the r tree and ther e would be Mr. Coon.” i Looking green around his chin s whiskers, of course.
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