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You are now reading — LINCOLN COUNTY'S LEADING NEWSPAPER and ADVERTISING MEDIUM . VOL. 47, NO. 8 PRESENTING TRI C K Joe Folhill. presi dent »1 Folhill Chevrolet Co, is shown present ing a 11>54 half ton truck to the Lincoln Breeders Association. Fictured left to right arc l’aul Miindy. secretary and new cars sales manager of Roosevelt Ball Friday Duplan Corp. First Industrial Plant Reporting Polio Donations; Mothers March Scheduled Tonight M. L. Huggins, chai man of this year’s March of Dimes, today said that the Duplan Corporation was the first industrial plant to turn in contributions from their em ployees. CONTRIBI TE 5227.41 The Duplan contribution amounted to $227.41 or an average of $1.05 per employee All of the 216 people working at the Duplan ~ourt House Large Crowd Expected To Hear Scott Address County Farmers Group The annual meeting of the Lin coln County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association, originally scheduled to be held February 6. has been moved up one week to Saturday. January 30. SCOTT TO SPEAK W. Kerr Scott, former Gov ernor of North Carolina, will lie the speaker, lie is also a mem ber of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association in his home county of Alamance. The meeting will lie held in the Lincoln County Courthouse, beginning at 2:30 p.m. Mr. Scott's address will also he broadcast over station WLON. Mr. Scott is now living on his farm at Haw River. N. C.. and is mentioned often as a probable candidate for the U. S. Senate in the primary. His talk here before tlie farmers’ group is expected to be non-partisan. However, the former governor will most, likely make valuable contacts with many of his fol lowers prior to end after his speech her’, in the interests of his political plans. 1400 FOLICV HOLDERS There are at present more than 1400 policy holders in the local association. The regular trans action of business of the associa tion will be conducted and new officers elected. O. C. Carpenter is the current president of the as sociation. A number of local business men have donated gifts which will be given at the meeting to persons holding a lucky ticket. These tickets will be given to all policy holders and their wives who at tend the meeting. Also, a cas;i prize will be given to the oldest W \V. KERR SCOTT The Lincoln Times Published Every Monday and Thursday Devoted to the Progress of Lincolnton and Lincoln County. Folhili’s: Mr. Folhill. and John Wright, Lincoln Breeders technician. Folhili’s has kept the associ ation supplied with a new truck since it was formed. I gave to the March of Dimes. Mr. Huggins stated. The Rotary Club is handling the industrial plants. The following business, accord ing to Mr. Huggins, also have turned in 100 per cent contribu tions as of this week: 100% DONORS W. M. Van Dresser and Son. Belk-Shrum Co., Rose’s Five policy holder attending the meet ing. Firms donating gifts are: Firs, National Bank. Lincoln National Bank, Cronland Warp Roll Co. Seth Lumber Co.. J. M. Beam and Bros.. Economy Auto Supply Rhodes-Tire & Appliance. Bal lard Hardware, Dave Lerner’s. B. C. Moore & Sons. Lincoln Milling Co, Farmers Builders & Supply. Rhodes-Corriher. Wise Implement Co, Western Auto Store, Fire stone Store. Ramseur Hardware. Lincoln Hardware, Lincoln F.C.X, Belk-Schrum Store. Jeff Lewis. Inc, Banner Roller Mills. Many Awards Presented At Scout Court Os Honor The awarding of the Gold Eagle Scout Palm to James Carswell of T oop 1, Laboratory, and Star Scout rank to Scouts of the Lin ; colnton, Crouse and Labora.ory troops high lighted the monthly Lincoln County Boy Scout Court cf Honor Thursday night. The Court of Honor was held in the First Presbyterian Church. I and opened with the repeating of 1 the Scout Oath, led by Freddie | Weave . Announcements were made per taining to the observance of Na tional Boy Scout Week. February 8 to lath. STAR RANK The following were advanced Artificial Breeding Association Gets 2nd New Truck From Polhill I On January 13. Palhill Chevro let Company of Lincolnton, prc- , sented to John Wright, technician lor the Lincoln Breeding Associa ; tion. his second 1/2 ton Chevrolet • truck. The truck is loaned to the Association for the technician’s use in traveling over the county. The truck Mr. Wright turned in for the 1954 model was in use exactly 15 months. In that 15 months, M . Wright visited 240 different farms in Lincoln County : and artificially bred 1.644 cows 1 firs, service. In addition to that. I ! he made 650 repeat calls for the I ; above 1644 and 50 repeat calls for j cows given fi:st service by tech nicians for o.her counties. In making the total of 2.344 calls, Mr. Wright t avelcd 38,000 miles. His only expense other than gas and oil was to have the tires recapped. Farmers of Lincoln County wish j to thank Polhill Chevrole Com and Dime, Lerner’s Store. Eco nomy Drug. Cohen Store, Eco nomy Auto Supply. Lincoln Bonded Warehouse, Ramseur Hardware. Frazier’s Studio, The A & P Tea Co., First National Bank. Coca-Cola Bottling Co- Eagle’s F’ive and Dime, the County officials and employees at the Court House and the Lincoln Times. The Jaycees ate in charge of the business section drive. It was also reported that the dimes placed in the parking met ers for the use of the March of Dimes amounted to $182.81. Mr. Huggins also urged the public to get in their contribu tions just as soon as possible. MOTHERS' MARCH The Mo,lies’ March on Polio w ill be held tonight and those who J wish to give should turn on their | porch lights. The Central Bus Company will give their receipts to the March of Dimes tomorrow'. The Roosevelt Ball, consisting. of round and square dancing will ; be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The Stardusters will pro vide the music and She’ iff Frank P. Heavner will be in charge. Singing Convention To Be Held Sunday There will be a singing conven tion at Reep’s Grove Methodist Church Sunday night at 7:30; o’clock. All quartets are invited to at- i tend. The Church is near North Brook No. II school. to the Star Scout rank: Gene Davis. Troop 1, Laboratory; Marvin House. Troop 3. Lincoln ton: Ernest Reynolds, Bobby Avery. Troop 1. Crouse. Other advancements in rank included the following: First Class—Baron Lee, Troop 1. Borer City. Second Class—Ronnie J. Ded mon, Eddie Blackwood. Troop 1. Lincolnton: Kenneth Hord, Troop 4. Lincolnton: Wayne Martin, Troop 8. Lincolnton. Tenderfoot—Jimmy Drury. Rob ert Spencer. Troop 4. Lincolnton; Charles Ballard, Clayton Ballard, Carroll Hager. David Hensley. Jimmy Lawing, Donald Perkins, piny for their interest in helping i carry on the a: tificial breeding of cows in this county. Without the donation of the truck, it would mean that the cost of b coding cow would have to be increased. The Breeding Association is a non-profit association and charges $6.50 per first service. Baxtcr-Lybrand Post To Sponsor Service | The Baxtcr-Lybrand American Legion Post of Vale is sponsoring a religious service S \y. Feb. 7. at 2:30. Rev. Mr. Riddle of Chcrryvillc will be the speaker. His subject will be “Back to Church”. March of Dimes contributions w ill also be brought in at that time. The service will be held in the 1 Legion Hut In Vale. LINCOLNTON. N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28. 1954 17-Months Old Vale Child Is Fatally Burned A 17 - months - cld Vale child, ; Anita Diane Willis, .succumbed 'Sunday morning to thi d degree j burns suffered Saturday when she j ! fell into a tub of boiling water at i I her home. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Willis of Vale, Route 3. According o reports, the little ; girl was playing with ano.her child of the household when she lost he balance and fell back wards into the tub of scalding j | wate that was being prepared for j laundering. The burns covered an area from : the middle part of the legs up- : | ward over her entire body. She (Continued on page six) j ; George Hoffman Dies Yesterday j George H. Hoffman. 68. of 80-1 1 gcr City, died at his home short- j j ly after noon yesterday following j I an illness of about two months. : He was a barber by profession. Funeral services will be held to- j j morrow 'Friday) afternoon at 3 i ! o'cloek in the Roger City Baptist j 1 Church. Rev. Latt Bcshears will be in j charge of the services, assisted by ; Rev. Morris Baker and Rev. Ern est Friday. The body will be taken to the church at 2:30 to lie in state un til the service. Burial will be in the Salem Baptist Church ceme tery. Mr. Hoffman was the son of the late Nathan Hoffman and the j former Miss Mary Lou Lineberger. Surviving are his wife, the for mer Miss Maggie Caldwell: one son, Ray H. Hoffman: a sister, j Mr. B. C. Clcmmer of Rt. 2. Stanley; three half brothers. Ru ben Aoovcr of Stanley, Thomas Hoover of Charlotte, and Albert | Hoover of Henderson; one half I sister. Mrs. Richard White of j Charlotte, and a grandson, Gary | Hoffman. Gaston Attorney Rotary Speaker Attorney Wade Sanders of Gas tonia, spoke at the regular Tues day luncheon meeting of the Ro tary Club in the North State hotel this week. Mr. Sanders told humorous sto ries which had the audience laughing throughout his talk. W. W. Glenn was in charge of the program. Stanley Pollock, program chair man, announced that Fitz Hoyle is in the hospital in New York City. Visiting Rotariarrs were Andrew Rhyne and Ed Adams. Gastonia: Milton Loy and Thomas L. Trott of Cherryville and Sam Colerider of Concord. Other visitors were John Abernethy. Lincolnton and Judge J. Will Pless of Marion. Dan Rufus Reel, Jr.. Jerry Wilson Reel. Thomas Edward Reel. Joe Rudisill, Glenn Wilson. Troop 1. Iron Station: Sam Wilson. Troop 1. Lincolnton. MERIT BADGES Merit badges were piesented the following: Automobiling—Freddie Weaver. Troop 2. Lincolnton. Citizenship-in-the-home—Fred die Weaver, Troop 2. Lincolnton; John Smith, Jim McClurd, C. H. Clark. Jr.. Troop 1 Crouse. Cooking—Ernest Reynolds. Bob by Avery. T’or Crouse: Gene Davis. Troop 1 .boratory. * Firrmanship Webb Jenkins, Barry Nance, C. W. McGee, Troop 00 Traffic question: How long should you pause at a stop street? differ, but you'll be safe if u wait "until traffic clea’s". If tjou're behind another car, stop at the street line. Don't barge ahead and across when car ahead of you docs: the la,w savs you must i honor the stop street independent ly. Automatic transmissions mean you don’t have to shift gear at stop streets, a joy to the woman driver. If your car tends to stall a: such times, have it checked by a trained mechanic. The new car dealer who handles your make of car knows its mechanism best. Most important, always honor a stop street. It’s dangerous not to. because the fellow coming the other way counts on the fact that ' a s;op street tells you to wait for 1 him. Prisoners Escape Catawba Camp; Three Recaptured ||| jpg* V yodra. f j EASY BOY Mrs. J. W. Dellinger of the Lowesvilie. section seems to be saying to this Chinchilla. Since they are worth 51.500 a pair and grow lur coats valued at around SIOO,OOO. she doesn’t want anything to happen to him. Her husband owns Dellinger’s Chinrhilla Ranch in Lowesvilie and has 42 of these animals. (TIMES Staff Fhoto) New Lincoln Venture Worth Their Weight In Gold, These Animals Grew The Coat Ali Khan Gave Rita Hayworth BY BUCK FAYSOUK Times Staff Reporter I The late Henry Ford got in on j the ground floor when horseless . | carriages came along. He died a .; wealthy man. If what fur experts . i sa.v is true. J. W. Dellinger of 1 Lowesvilie could easily become an | other Henry Ford cr John D. . ; Rockefeller. : He is in on the ground floor of ; a thing comparatively new to this : country—Chinchilla raising. Dellinger owns what is believed ■ l to be the first Chinchilla ranch ' \ in Lincoln County. Chinchillas : are small animals that look lik ; a baby rabbit with a long tail ; and produce fur that is as soft to : j the touch (and just as expen sive) as the highest grade mink. , Tire tiny South American na il tives produced the coat that Ali i Khan gave to Rita Hayworth. The 4, Lincolnton. First Aid -Jerry Schronce. Don Hcaftier, Troop 1. Crouse. Fishing -Blair Devine, T.oop 1. Boger City. Home Repairs Freddie Bark ley. Troop 8. Lincolnton Leatherwork —John David Bent ley. Johnny Reel. Toop 1. Cr use. Fainting —Baron W. Lee. Troop 1, Boger Citv. Public Speaking —Johnny Fitz gerald. Troop 3. Lincolntbn. Safety C. U. Duncan, Jr . T:oop 1. Boger City. After the awards and merit badges were presented, the meet ing adjourned with the repeating of the Scou. Benediction. Annual Banq< t Held Chamber Os Commerce-Merchants Report For '53 Accomplishments and activities of the Lincolnton Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Associ ation, .hrough the help and lcad e:ship of the members, officers and di ectors. were lifted in the annual report of the two organiza tions at the annual banquet Mon day night. HOYLE PRESIDES The event, attended by approxi mately 150 members, was held in the High School cafeteria. Dewey Hoyle, retiring C of C presiden . presided. The annual accomplishmcnts actici ies report, given by the Chamber's executive sec; etar y Mrs. Polly Ciisson, followed brief remarks by the outgoing presi dent, Mr. Hoyle, and the report ot the treasurer. M. B. Winstead. The 1954 officers and directors garment reportedly cost the Prince SIOO,OOO. COST 81500 A FAIR Not only is the fur expensive. A pair of quality Chinchillas on the foot cost $1,500. Dellinger says he has one animal that he is keeping tor show purposes that he wouldn’t sell for SI,OOO. The Lowesvilie man owns 4.2 of the vegetarians. Chinchillas grown in this coun try now. Dellinger explained, are (Continued on page six) Dixie Home Holding Green Stamp Sale According to an advertisement appearing in today’s issue of The Times, the Dixie Home Super- Market has begun a campaign which will save their customers money—the “Green Stamp*' cam paign. The stamps are redeemable for nationally known quality mer chandise. For each 10 cents purchase a customer sets one stamp: for each 50 cents pur chase, five stamps; for each one dollar purchase,, 10 stamps and for each SlO purchase, 100 stamps and so on. See more details in today's Times on pages eight and nine. Brother-In-Law Os Mrs. Mauncy Dies Frank A exitnder. brother-in law of Mrs. D. H Mauncy. Sr., died irr Charlotte Tuesday. His death was the third to oc cur m Mrs. Mauney's immediate family within the past war: a brother and sister of hers having died during that period. we e also recognized by Mr. Hoyle. Mrs. Ciisson pointed out that the annual report she was about to give was “by no means the whole story,” and added. "It is interesting to see what lias been done, and Ibis report will serve a belter purpose, however, if it suggests to you other things which still need doing, and if it indicates to you that business men. suitably organized and ably led. can make a belter com munity." Tire report given by the secre tary follows: MEMBERSHIP During the fiscal year January 1, 1953 to January 1, 1954. the Lincolnton Chamber of Com merce and Merchants Associa tion had 187 individual and busi ness firms as members. Twenty Six prisoners from the Catawba County prison camp broke the line this morning as they were getting ready to eat breakfast, stormed the prison gate and headed for freedom. Lincoln Machine- Foundry, Inc., issued Charter A certificate of incorporation has been issued by Secretary of j State Thad Eure to Lincoln Ma chine & Foundry. Inc., of Lincoln- j ton. Tire firm will carry on a gen- ; eral foundry and machine shop I business, and was formerly oper ated under the name of Eureka Iron Works Inc. Mrs. Nelson Smith has managed the Eureka Iron Works Inc. following the death of her husband. Authorized capital stock for the j Lincoln Machine A- Foundry, Inc., is SIOO 000. subscribed by Carl R. (Contimien on page six) $90.42 Taken In By High School For March Os Dimes The Lincolnton high school has taken in $90.42 for the March of Dimes in the last two days. A large part of the money was raised when a musical program was held yesterday. Those taking part in the program were Clar ence Mutts, Jack Clark and Ker mit Poove.v. Mutts, who is a janitor at the school, played a home-made in strument. Clark played the piano and Poovey, the electric guitar. Passing On Highway Is Cause Os Many Accidents, Kiwanians Told Paul Rhyne, Jr., told members of the Kiwanis Club Tuesday night he believed the key solu- ! tion to preventing deaths on our! highways is to regulate or may be even outlaw passing. FIX SPEED LIMIT lie cited the huge numbers of people who are killed and in jured in aeeidents. He believed that by regulating passing you would also fix a maximum and minimum speed limit. Mr. Rhyne, a textile official, pointed out that many people who are in such a hurry to pass, i turn off the road soon after. Some , times, the Khvanian said, passing 1 gets to bo competition and this is dangerous. Dr. Sam Wilson, club president, called on members of the club to offer their solutions. Attorney j Harvey Jonas. Jr., said that this i week in Civil Court, the first three cases to be tried resulted from auto accidents. Both sides, he explained con tended that the other was break 19-Year Old Youth Killed In Auto Wreck A 19-ycar old youth was killed in an auto wreck near Cherryville last night to become tlie second fatality this year in the Cherry ville area. Patrolman J. C. Brown, in iestimating patrolman, listed the aeeident victim as Percy Dean Mauncy. The officer said that Mauncy, apparently traveling at a high rate of speed, turned ov er about a quarter of a mile east of Cherryville. The 1950 Oldsmobile. Brown (201 new memberships w>.e got ten from July 1. 1953, to Jan uary 1954. V INDUSTRIAL |j^ Despite a difficult veer , he cotton textile and other ind—~7 — throughout ihe nation. County showed a slight incre. < in manufacturing employment, 4. 090 people with the average wage of $44.31 were employed ill 1952. Three thousand, three hundred and ninety-six people with the average wage of $46.29 we:e em ployed in 1953. Correspondence has been car ried on with several manufac turers from other States inter ested in relocating. Lincoln County has not been able to meet these firm requirements— a suitably large and ready avail able building. ALMOST EVERYONE in LINCOLNTON and LINCOLN COUNTY reads TltfS NEWSPAPER Single Copy: FIVE CENTS A guard fired at the six, but his sho apparently went wild. THREE RE-CAPTURED The escape took place at around 6 a.m. Three were cap tured an hour later and a cor don was drawing near the other three today at noon, a prison spokesman reported. He listed the three who were re-captured on highway 16 as: Henry King. 17. of New Hamp shire. sentenced for breaking and entering and larceny and personal injury to private propeity for three to five years; Charles Maynor, 20. of Balti more. Md.. sentenced from Har nett County for five to seven years for robbery; Melvin Harp. 18. of Winston Salem, sentenced for four counts of house-breaking and larceny. The four sentences were three to five, one to two, 10 to 19 and seven years. THREE AT LARGE According to the spokesman, the three still at large are: Paul Leonard Quinn. 17. of Black Mountain, sentenced from Baucom County for three to five years for larceny of auto: Charles Teems. 18, of Linville Falls, sentenced fiom Avery for three to five years for larceny of auto; Fred Neal Weaver. 17. of Black Mountain, sentenced from Baucom for three to five years for larceny of auto. The spokesman said that the three still at large were believed to be between highways 10 and 16. Bloodhounds are on their trail, he said. He also reported that all six were first offenders All counts against them, however, are under stood to be felonies. ing a law. Apparently in most accident cases, he went on. there is a good contention that both parties are at fault. Mr. Jonas said that the say ing which advises you to drive like the other person in effect could mean a drunken fool must he the best way to prevent accidents. ROOSEVELT BALL Frank P. Heavner announced that the Roosevelt Ball will be held in the Legion hut Friday night and urged Kiwanians to at tend. The Stardusters will provide the music for the dance, he said. John Cromer passed around a freedom scroll which had been sent to the club to pass out. M. L. Huggins introduced mem bers of the Key Clubs in the County. Eddie House. Johnny Crow and Billy Moore of Lincoln ton and John Bolinger and Cecil Seronce of Union. Ho also announced that the Mo thers' March on Polio will be held tonight (Thursday). said, was completely demolished. The accident occurred around 9:15 p.m. Mauney died in a local hospital at 10:15 p.m. The youth was employed at the Wtayside Inn near Cherryvillc. The accident occurred about. 600 feet east of the Inn. Mauney, a resident of Crouse. Rt. 1. was Gaston County's third accident victim of the year. Funeral arrangements were in complete this morning. Contact has also been maintain ed with the industrial departments of the Seaboard and the Southern Railways and the State of North Carolina. Ag: oup of twelve *l2) people from Lincolnton attended the 4th series of meetings held in Statcs 'llc. N. C.. which was the North rolina Conservation and Devc lopmen program conducted by Mr. Ben Douglas. It was very worthwhile. MISC. SERVICES August 195.7. (lie Chamber of Commerce and Merchants As sociation. Inc., assisted the Radio Station WLON in getting started off. September 1953. a dvectory of all the members was gotten ou;. classing them under the business i Con tinned on page six)
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