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In Lincolnton And Lincoln County Everybody Reads The Lincoln Times $2:00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE, American Legion Installs New Officers Children Should Be Vaccinated Before They Enter School 'ISh ■ mm frvjr.jrj. ■HVinH i NOMINATED FOR CONGRESS . . . Mrs. Margaret A. Afflis, ‘ Delphi, Ind., whose husband died of wounds sustained in World War 11, received the democrat ic primary contest in second | congressional district of Indi ana. She is campaigning to de , (cat the veteran Republican In cumbent, Rep. Charles A. HaU lacfc. • , n ,„d Monthly Report Made By Vet Administration The following is the monthly report of activities of the North Carolina Regional Office, Veterans Adminis tration, in Winston-Salem, for the month of June: Disability Pension or Compensation Cases Pensions being paid, end of month, 37,218. New cases received during month, 1,759. New cases adjudicated during the month, 2,065. Cases pending, end of month, 1.658. Death Pension or Compensation Cases Pensions being paid, end of month, 7,666. Cases pending, end of month, 243. Vocational Rehabilitation (Disabled Veterans, P. 1,. 16) Cases in file end of month—total. 8,139. Advisement not complete (pend ing), 778. Training interrupted or discontin ued, end of month, 489. In training end of month—total, 2,153. Regular payments for subsistence allowance during month (number), 1,657. Education and Training (P. L. 346) Cases in file end of month—total. 68,500. Eligibility not determined (pend-, ing), 398. In educatjpn or training, 22.483. I Education or training interrupted or discontinued, end of month, 4,859. | Regular payments for subsistence allowance during month( number), 16.406. Requests for Physical Examination (Medical Schedule File) Request on which examinations pending, end of month, 2,678. Requests cleared during month by examination and completed examina tion forms, 1,751. Applications for Hospital or Domicil iary Care* Received during month —total, 269. Disposed of during month, 246. Pending (action ineompleted), end of month. 64. Loans (All Figures Through Last Friday of Month) Total number of loans, 1,380. Total amount of loans. $7,199,368.65. Total amount of commitment, $3,- 004,032.09. ♦Hospitalization figures include only those recorded in the Regional Office. Status of these items at V. A. hospitals is reported direct to the V. A. Richmond Branch and included: in the announcement from that of fice. 0 Metts Calls Meeting On National Guard Raleigh, July 15—Ad)\ Gen. J. Van Metts has called a meeting of 20 officers here tomorrow to discuss plans for the state’s post-war National Guard. The officers, from all sections of the state, will discuss the state’s National Guard allotment, the allocation of units to various cities of the state, and the pro curement of officers for the guard units. The Lincoln Times Published Every Monday And Thursday Devoted To The Progress Os Lincolnton And Lincoln County Immunization From Diphthe ria, Whooping Cough, Small pox Urged by Officials Every child entering Lincoln Coun ty schools for the first time must have been protected against diphthe ria. smallpox and whooping cough, Dr. E. H. Ellinwood, County Health Director, and Joe R. Nixon, County School Superintendent, announced to day and released for publication the following statement: These protective measures are re quired by law and should be complet ed during the first years of life. However, if these immunizations have not been done, they will be carried out by the Health Department dur ing the first few weeks of school. You are urged to take your child to your private physician for these I immunizations or bring him to the Health Department. These immuni zation clinics are held each Saturday from 9:00 to 12:00 a. m., at the Lin coln County Health Department. If for any reason you do not wish to have your child immunized at school, you are requested to send a note stating why these immuniza tions have not been done. Otherwise, all children not previously immunized will be given these protective meas ures in the schools. However, if your child has been immunized, please send a statement from your physician certifying to that fact. These immunizations are necessary for the protection of your child and the rest of the children in the county. SAYSARMYMUST REMAIN STRONG General Eisenhower Sees Need To Maintain Strength At 800,000 Regulars Washington, July 15—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told the House Mili tary committee he could “see no pos sibility in the next 15 to 20 years” of reducing the Army below a strength of 800,000 officers and en listed men. Urging prompt approval of legis lation to permit the appointment of 25,000 additional regular Army offi cers, the chief of staff visualized a peacetime Army of 400,000 for the Air Forces and 400,000 for support ing forces. The figure of 800,000, he said, will be reached through a gradual decline from the 1,070,000 scheduled to be in uniform on July 1. 1947. To man such a peacetime Army properly, Eisenhower said, 80,000 of ficers would be needed. Os these 50- 000 would be regulars and 30,000 temporary officers on active duty. Existing law limits regular officer appointments to 25,000. The additional officers, Eisenhower said, would come front the ROTC, officer candidate schools, and West Point, with inducements being offer ed to men in enlisted grades to win promotions to officer rank. 0 CHICKEN THIEF IS IN DANGER Columbia, S. C., July 15—Co lumbia police headquarters issued j an urgent warning to the person or persons who made off with approximately 15 Barred Rock chickens from the yard of Mrs. 11. A. Strickland. The chickens, the police said, had just been dosed for cholera and would be poisonous to any one eating them. Even eggs from the hens would be poisonous for a time, they said. FORTY THOUSAND BRIDES HERE; TWELVE THOUSAND MORE ARE DUE New York, July 15 Speaking of, G.I. brides, the Army’s program of bringing European war brides and children to America has been extend ed. It was to have ended originally last month. But now the program has been ex tended through December and prob ably will be extended longer if G.l.’s continue to trip to the altar in far off lands. Th e New York Port of Embarka tion says that more than 12.000 brides in the European and Mediterranean theatres have certificates and are awaiting passage to the United States. Approximately 40,000 brides already have been brought to this country. The list will be increased with new marriages and with certifications of girls already married to soldiers, who ISS ■ PACKING UP ... Chester Bowles, retiring economic sta bilizer, starts to pack his per sonal papers in a brief case. He will quit July 12. Bowles told newsmen that President Truman’s veto of the OPA bill was the only thing he could do. Schronce Youth Drowns In Pond Tragedy struck the home of Mr. and Mrs. Conley S. Schronce yester day afternoon when their 10-year-old son, Melvin Allen Schronce, was drowned in Carpenter’s fish pond near Long Shoals. The lad, along with a number of others, was swimming in the pool when the accident happened. It is thought that he stepped in a hole and drowned before he could call for help. He was not missed until his companions noticed his clothing lying on the bank after they had come from the water and finished dressing. Million Tons Os Water Will Be Blown 10,000 Feet Higih By The Atomic Bomb Aboard USS McKinley, July 15— One million tons of water—a column nearly u half mile in diameter and 8.000 to 10.000 feet high will be blown into the air by the underwater atomic bomb, Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy estimates. The task force commander said ships within the column area “will get an awful working over” and those near the center are likely to be toss ed into the air “in pieces if not to gether.” Blandy also made these points at a press conference: There will be high wayes, as much as 100 feet, flung out from the col umn but their height will fall off rapidly and probably will not exceed ten feet by the time they hit the shore of Bikini Island. Some ships may be capsized by the waves. “I think there will be con siderable damage from the wave ac tion as well as the shock of the bomb. Scientists estimate the diameter of the water column from 2,000 to 2,500 feet and figure it will rise in solid Taxicab Driver Must Pay Fines Os 35,000 Earl Hollar, taxi operator of Brookford, near Newton, convicted in Catawba County Superior Court of larceny from the person, drunken driving and assault, was ordered by Judge H. Hoyle Sink to pay fines to taling over $5,000. His drivers’ li cense was suspended for 12 months. Hollar was accused of robbing Fred Deitz of Hickory of $65 and his bill fold. and of assaulting him. 0 TO HOLD MEET Sedgefield Inn has been announced as the site for the July 17 assembly of the 191st Rotary district by Dis trict Governor Joe Ross, Jr. i have delayed bringing their wives to the Unitdd States because of the housing shortage. On the opposite side of the ledger, the wives and children of American | soldiers stationed overseas are leav ing America in a slow' trickle com pared to the rush of foreign brides to this side. Os some 30,000 eligi ble to go to Europe, only 1,400 wives and 2,500 children have sailed from New York to Europe to date. Army officials say there has been no de lay in this program—that all demands have been met. They point out that husbands stationed overseas have to ! request transportation for their wives and children and they believe the dis -1 ficulty in getting decent living quar ters abroad lias delayed the expected requests. >■ j A LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 15, 1946 DOING WELL . . . Mrs. Wayne Sisty of Stromsburg, Neb., holds her daughter, Bessie Mae, on her three-months-old birthday. Bessie Mae at birth weighed 1!4 pounds. She now weighs 5V4 pounds and >4 ounce. Several of the older boys returned to the water and found the body, possibly a half-hour after they had discovered the boy was not with them. In addition to his parents, Melvin is survived by four brothers, James, Howard, W. C., and Gordon, and three sisters, Thelma, Evelyn and Geral dine. Funeral services are set for three o’clock this afternoon at the Wesley an Methodist church at Long Shoals and burial will be in the Pisgah cemetery. | form from 8,000 to 10,000 feet; a geyser-like spray may reach 20,000 feet. Radioactive spray may become part of natural clouds, and contamination may be dropped later in the form of normal rainfall. For this reason Eni wetok Island, west of Bikini, is to be evacuated. Radioactive contamination of the water and ships will be hundreds of times greater than in the previous blast, scientists estimate. Most of the water in the column and spray will fall back into the lagoon, thus further contaminating the target ships. It is now planned to explode the bomb at about 8:30 a.m. Bikini time July 25 (4:30 p.rn.. Eastern standard time, July 24). but no definite pro gram has been set as yet pending later weather data. The bomb will be detonated by ra dio impulse from a trigger ship about twenty miles away. Blandy assured newsmen there vvould be no danger of any freak radio signal setting it off prematurely. Lt. R. C. Lockman Gets Bronze Star Ogden, Utah, July 15—Lt. Robert C. Lockman has redyed the Bronze Star Medal Award, for meritorious I service in connection with military operations during 10 September 1944 to 8 May 1945. The award was made to him by Colonel Otho W. Hum phries, Commanding Officer. Utah General Depot, U. S. Army, Ogden, Utah. Lt. Lockman entered the Army in November, 1942, as a private with the 811th Ordnance Depot Co., serv ing in the European Theatre. While serving as an enlisted man he receiv jed the Commendation from Opera tional Headquarters. 29th District, Etousa, ETO, U. S. Army in June, 1944, and also Commendation, 90th Division, Infantry, for servicing com bat weapons. He was given an “on the field” commission as second lieutenant in April, 1945. by Brigadier General Pleas B. Rodgers, Commanding Gen eral, Seine Base Section, and was promoted to the grade of first lieu i tenant in December, 1945. j Upon his return from overseas, he j was assigned to the Utah General Depot. He is Officer in Charge of Vehicle Maintenance and Storage, Ordnance Supply Section. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Lockman. reside in Lincolnton, also his daughter is residing there. 0 First Plane Ride North Carolina’s oldest newspaper editor, J. W. Nowell, 84, of Roxboro, has returned from his vacation dur ing which he took his first airplane ride. The experience, he said, was very enjoyable. On the ride the Rox- GREAT BRITAIN TO REPAY LOAN BY YEAR 2001 Washington, July 15 The finan cial agreement between Britain and the United States, approved by Con gress, provides: 1. A $3,750,000,000 loan from this country to the British. 2. Agreement by England to end financial practices which discriminate against the United States and some other countries. The huge loan intended to give England, weakened by war, a chance to put her financial house in order and thereby remove restrictive finan cial and trade measures she adopted in desperation during wartime. Th e U. S. agrees: I* To grant the British a 50-year loan of $3,750,000,000. Britain can borrow all or any part of it but whatever she does must be done tty 1951. There’ll be no interest on the borrowed money until 1951. But af ter that date Britain must start pay ing 2 per cent interest on all she borrowed. Interest and loan must be paid back by 2001. 2. If in any year England suffers a severe depression, the United States agrees to waive interest on the loan for that year. Britain agrees: 1. England will not discriminate against American products in any of her controls on goods she imports. 2. For any goods or services put - 1 chased in the United States. Eng land will pay in dollars or. if pay ment is made in pounds, American exporters will be able to convert the sterling into dollars. (British money is in pounds, Am erican in dollars.) 3. Within a year, unless the Unit ed States agrees to a temporary ex tension, England will remove all of the restrictions on changing pounus into dollars for ordinary business deals. (During the war England, to save her supply of American dollars, had restrictions on changing pounds into dollars.) 4. Also England will dissolve the sterling area dollar pool. During the war Engand through a tie-up with other nations close to her, had a deal i whereby they pooled their dollars. 5. England agrees to support the American proposal for an interna tional trade organization to reduce trade barriers and eliminate trade , discriminations. O Bikini Atom Bombers Try To Beat Stork Fairfield. Calif., July 15 —The B-29 “Dave’s Dream” is back in the United States from a-bomb ing the Bikini crossroads fleet ■ and two of its crew members now are in a race with the stork. The big ship, carrying its orig inal target and ground crews, 1 touched down at the Fairfield- j ’ Susisun Army Airbase late last I Tuesday, completing the lionolu- i’ lu-California leg of its flight in j 8 hours, 57 minutes. The flight j group went to Roswell, N. M., 1 to break up and go home. Maj. Woodrow P. Swancutt of | ] Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., and crew member Robert Glenn of Ander son, S. C., are racing home in an effort to get there before the birth of babies “any minute now.” O Soil Conservation Service By S. Z. POLLOCK Many ponds are being constructed in Lincoln County, for fish produc-. tion. Mike Kiser of the Reepsville community has just completed such a pond. Any farmer who plans to have a pond must get a permit from the North Carolina State Board of Health, then have soil borings made to determine if the soil material is all right for dam construction. Ail this must be done before the pond can be staked by the soil conserva tion technicians. Please anticipate your wants in sufficient time to get this done. If you will come to Room No. 6, Lawing Building, on any Tues day, you will be given information in reference to your particular need. * * * The pasture needs to be clipped if it has not already been done, to con trol weeds and briars. Mow high now and a little lower the second time. It’s too late after weed seed are mature. “The early bird catches I the worm.” * * * You can now see. after recent heavy rains, how important it is to have correct row arrangement with your terrace system. Even more true, to strip-crop large, sloping fields. All raw crop within the same field is not safe farming. boro editor was the guest of Paul Bridges, manager of the new Shelby airport. Joint Meeting Held By Legion, Auxiliary And Forty & Eight COMMANDER IW ** '• fljjfel , A I). 11. MAUNEY’, JR. CHIEF JAMES BURNS DROWNS AT BEACH Cherryville Officer Loses Life While in Swimming at Car lina Thursday Afternoon James A. Burns, 41, chief of police of Cherryville, was drowned or was thought to have suffered a heart attack while in swimming at Carolina Beach Thursday afternoon at about 2:30 o’clock. Chief Burns was born in Clover, S. C-, York county, January 22, 1905, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Wesley Burns. The body arrived in Cherryville at about noon Friday. Funeral services were conducted at the First Baptist church Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock in charge of the pastor. Rev. E. S.' Elliott. Burial was in Mountain Rest cemetery at Kings Mountain. Surviving are his widow and a son, James A. Burns, Jr., recently dis charged from the Navy, both of Cher ryville: his stepmother, Mrs. J. W. Burns, of Clover, S. C., and two brothers. W. L. Burns of Mount Holly and William Burns of Clover, S. C. Chief Burns first went into law en forcement work at Mount Holly and I then went to Kings Mountain, where he was made chief of police after one year’s service as policeman and re mained chief for seven years. In July, 1944, Mr. Burns joined the Navy and after receiving his dis charge was on the police force for a short time at Graham and then went to New York, where he wa s on the detective force and later returned to Newton. For the last eight months he has served as chief of police in Cherryville. O Pfc. James Stowe With First Cavalry With the Eighth Army in Japan— Private First Class James Stowe of Lincolnton, N. C.. is now serving with the famous Ist Cavalry Division in the present occupation of the Nip pon capital. Overseas 13 months, he is serving with the Medical Detachment 12th Cavalry Regiment. Formerly with the America! Di' : sion, Stowe is a veteran of one campaign. He wears the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre ribbon with one star, the Good Conduct Medal and the Victory Medal. As a civilian, Stowe attended local schools and later was employed in a local textile industry. lie entered the Army on November 14, 1944, and re ceived his basic training at Camp Wheeler, Georgia. His wife. Mrs. J. Stowe, resides on Route 3, Lincolnton, N. C. RELATIVES OF WORLD WAR DEAD WARNED AGAINST BOGUS AGENTS Citing numerous instances reported to the War Department in which relatives of members of the armed forces now buried in temporary mili tary cemeteries overseas have been approached by individuals and groups to join organizations reputedly offer ing special assistance or information regarding graves or cemeteries over eas. Col. R. G. Schmidt, commanding officer of the Charlotte Quartermas ter depot, emphasized that it is not necessary for any relative to join *ich an organization or to contribute t 0 any individual to obtain informa tion from the official records of the War Department concerning the fi nal burial plans, grave locations, or other data about World War II dead. Lincoln County’s Favorite Family Newspaper And Advertising Medium FIVE CENTS D. H. Mauney, Jr., Succeda J. Thomas McLean as Com mander of Organization The David Milo Wright Post, Am erican Legion, the American Legion Auxiliary and the Forty and Eight held a joint meeting at the Legion Hut Friday night. A delicious picnic dinner, arranged by committees from the three organizations, and prepared largely by the Auxiliary, was served. After the dinner the three organi zations separated for installation of new officers for the coming year, as follows: AMERICAN LEGION Commander. D. H. Mauney, Jr. Vice Commanders: Lincolnton town ship, Frank H. Crowell; J. Boggs, Ironton township; James McLurd, Howards Creek township; Worth Mil ler, North Brook township; Pat Good son, Catawba Springs township. Adjutant, Harvey A. Jonas, Jr. Finance Officer, Henry Rudisill. Service Officer, G. DeWayne Davis. Assistant Service Officer, Harry Hartman. Guardianship Officer, Bruce Hee.f ner. Sergeant at Arms, Herbert Sum mey. Chaplain, Allen C. McSween. Historian, Paul Rhyne, Jr. Athletic Officer, Whit Tobey. Child Welfare, A. M. Cornwell. Americanism, Gordon L. Goodson. National Defense, John R. Schrum. Graves Registration, Richard S. Mullen. Employment. James P. Temple, Jr. Boys’ State, L. C. Beam. Boy Scouts, Fred Rudisill. Membership, T. F. Corriher. Publicity, A. B. Claytor and Smack Proctor. Oratorical, W. F. Hoyle. Sons of the Legion, C. E. Kiger, Sr. FORTY AND EIGHT Chef de Gare, Clyde Beam. Chef de Train. John N. Gaston. Comm. Intendent, Melvin Sipe, Sr. Correspondent, Jack Prause. Conductor, Lee F. Cline. Lampiste, T. W. Delling. Garde de Porte, Hugh Holly. Contis Voyageur, Jim McArver. Aumonier, Tom Stamey. Medicine. Dr. W. L. Ramseur. Publiciste, Jack Prause. Cheminots, T. F. Corriher, Hoyle Elliott, G. C. Bridges, Willis McMur ry. Delegates. Fred Rhyne, W. F. Hoyle, Griffin Smith, Herbert Miller, C. E. Kiger, Sr., and Willis McMurry. LEGION AUXILIARY President, Mrs. T. F. Corriser. First Pice President. Mrs. L. C. Nixon. Second Vice President, Mrs. Jas. A. Abernethy. Secretary, Mrs. Gordon Goodson. Treasurer, Miss Eva James. Historian, Mrs. Ira Cline. Chaplain, Mrs. S. H. Steelman. Sergeant at Arms, Mrs. L. E. Rudi sill. Junior Chairman, Mrs. Hal Hoyle, Jr. After their installation the respec tive leaders pledged their best ef forts for their organizations during th e coming year and asked for the support of their memberships. Commander Mauney urges all men of World War II to contact immedi ately any person who is eligible to join the American Legion. It is hoped that the organizations will more than double their memberships during the coming year, and this can be don e by a concentrated effort on the part of all present members. After the business sessions had ad journed the three organizations en joyed a round and square dance to the music of Melvin Sipe, Jr., and his orchestra. O In lowa some 8,500 farmers fly “flivver” planes; Oklahoma’s “Fly ing Farmers” started with 38 mem bers in 1944, now has more than 300. He pointed out that the office of the quartermaster general is the Uprency of the War Department re sponsible for the return and final burial of World W’ar II dead, and its facilities are available to the rel atives of aH those buried overseas, and it is not necessary to employ or engage private organizations to get full information A letter to the quartermaster general will get all de tails at no cost whatsoever, Colonel Schmidt declared. Many of the proposals for special attention to the graves overseas which have been suggested to rela tives have the tinge of commercial ism and none have official sanction, Ihe said. m *