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You are now reading — LINCOLN COUNTY'S LEADING NEWSPAPER and ADVERTISING MEDIUM VOL. 47, NO. 34 SAFE DRIVING AWARDS . . . Members of the outside force of the Southern Bell Telephone Co. in I.incolnton were awarded safe - driving awards last week. The awards were expressive of the interest shown towards safe driving by the company. Lincolnton's Police Chief Ben Sigmon is shown making the presentation of the awards. REV. McCULLIUGH SPEAKER . . . Junior-Senior Banquet Held At Rock Springs High School (By Mrs. Gabriel Sigmon, School Reporter) The junior class of Rock Springs High School honored the seniors at the annual junior-senior ban quet Friday evening, April 23. in the school cafeteria. Joy Goodson, was banquet chair man with Mrs. Dorotha Erwin, home economics instructor, as faculty advisor. GI'EST SPEAKER Guest speaker for the evening ORMAL OPENING OF A W GULF STATION /TitACTS HUNDREDS J. C. Rudisill and Austin Weav ei. proprietors, today expressed their appreciation for the fine response and compliments given them by the public at the formal opening of Rudisill’s New Gulf Service Station last Saturday. Hundreds of car owners and others visited the station during the opening days Friday and Sat urday. inspected the station's many modern and attractive fea tures. purchased Gulf products handled by the station, and other services provided by the firm. During the two days, the station gave balloons and lollipops to the children, a set of green swirl glass es for every single purchase of 7 gallons or more of gasoline. There was a grand prize of 500 gallons of Gulf gasoline —a year's supply —for the registered person's name that was drawn on Saturday p.m. at a drawing. The winner of this prize was Charles Hobbs. Other things being equal, that is the best government which most liberally lets its citizens alone. Through the whole range of au thority, he governs best who gov erns least. Arthur Stevens Phelps. Catawba College Speak Sunday At Dr. Alvin Robert Keppell. presi dent of Catawba College, will speak at Emanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church on May 2, at 11 am., in observance of Catawba College Day and Christian High er Education Day. Dr. Kcppel has received nation al recognition as a leader in the field of higher education. He is widely in demand as a speaker at university and college commence ments and at conferences of vari ous unifying and accrediting agencies. * Dr. Keppel was chosen as Ca tawba college's fourteen presi dent because of his outstanding record as an educator and admin ** % j DR. A. K. KEPPELL The Lincoln Times Pictured, left to right, are: Jack Barham, plant foreman: B. X. Beam. 1 year award: R. K. Early, 4-ycar award; R. B. Hughes, 2-year award: B. S. Robinson. 2-year award; W. E. Beal, 2-year award; Chief Sigmon, and Tom Cowen, South ern Bell plant manager of Shelby. I was Rev. 11. A. McCullough. Jr., pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran , Church. Lincolnton. who gave words of wisdom from the old South immediately following the dinner. With humor throughout his message, the speaker urged the juniors and seniors to wear a large hat—one large enough 1 to help others, especially those less fortunate. Rev. McCullough was introduced to the group by C. E. McCorkle, toastmaster. The theme of the occasion was a Southern Plantation Lawn Party. The setting was on a lawn in front of a colonial mansion on Deep River Plantation. The toastmaster was the planta tion owner. Those present—in ad dition to his large family, the juniors—were his guests at the lawn party. Sixteen black-faced and hands waiters, waitresses and mammies were his plantation servants, consisting of members of the sophomore class. At one end of the cafeteria, which contained a door in the center and a window on each side, the juniors constructed large white columns and an upstairs porch. Old-fashioned Southern shutters were used on the windows which completed the effect of the front of a Southern colonial mansion. The guests found their way into the lawn green with artificial grass—through a rock wall en trance. Directly across from the entrance was a typical Southern colonial flower garden. At the end of the lawn in the front of the mansion was restful forest scenery. Overhead streamers of colored 1 crepe paper represented colors in the sky on a moonlight evening. To give the moonlight effect a spotlight was used. Soft music by j Stephen Foster and other South j ern composers was heard by the 1 guests at intervals during the ! evening. Carrying out the senior class I (Continued on page six) President Will Reformed Church istrator. At the time of his elec tion. he was the executive secre tary of the Board of Christian Ed ucation and Publication of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. His record as a church leader of many years standing made him the logical choice for the presidency of an institution whose pride is in building men and women of integrity and high purpose who will provide positive i Christian leadership in a world which desperately needs that kind I of leadership. The record of Catawba Col (lege's growth and development ! since Dr. Keppel became prcsi i dent in 1942 has been truly phe i nomenal. From a school of fifteen ■ buildings on nineteen acres of land and an enrollment of 370 lin 1942. Dr. Keppel has brought Catawba college to the highest point of its development, with a i plant of twenty buildings includ ing the recently completed Corri her-Linn-Black library, a campus of 190 acres, and an enrollment of 550 students. During this time endowment has been doubled and cost valuation of the school plant tripled. Dr. Keppel graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1917, and | did graduate work at Ohio State University. In recognition of his cutstanding contributions to edu cation in America, he has been honored by Franklin and Mar shall College with the degree Doc tor of Pedagogy, bv Elmhurst Col lege with the degree Doctor of Laws, and by Heidelberg College i with the degree Doctor of Letters. Published Every Monday and Thursday Devoted to the Progress of Lincolnton and Lincoln County. Supt. Lowder Appointed NCEA Committee Me'ber S. Rav Lowder. superintendent of the Lincolnton City Schools, has been appointed a member of the federal relations committee of the North Carolina Education As sociation for 1954-55. State committees of the NCEA direct the activities of correspond ing groups in the 189 local units of the association. Applications To Be Received For Dog Warden Job The position of dog warden in l Lincoln County was created by the Board of County Commis sioners of Lincoln County. This is being done in an effort to relieve the population of Lin coln County of the dangers of ra bies and also to protect the live stock and poultry. The Board of County Commis sioners will receive applications foi this position at their regular meeting Monday. May 3. After ’ this time applications may be for warded to B. P. Costner. Chair man, Board of County Commis sioners. A committee will be ap pointed by the Board on Monday to screen applications and recom mend someone to them. All interested persons are urged to make application before May 15. Missionary To Bring Messages To Love Memorial Baptists Three nights of missionary mes- J sages will be brought to the Love Memorial Baptist Church, begin-! ning on Friday night, April 30 through May 2nd. The Rev. J. Benten Bell, a re turned missionary from the Bel- \ sian Congo, will be the visiting i speaker. "Rev. Mr. Bell has been used of 1 God in a great way in the Congo.” said pastor Rev. Ernest Sisk, “and wt arc sure that his messages will be a blessing to each of our lives to greater missionary service. Pastor Sisk and the congrega tion of the Love Memorial Baptist Church extend to the public a cor dial invitation to attend these services. The young people arc especially urged to attend each service. There will be special music at each service. At Boger City Church . . . Over 300 Attend Methodist District Conference A huge crowd, including more than 300 official delegates from the 105 churches of the district, attended the Methodist Con ference of the Gastonia District Tuesday at the Bogcr City Metho dist Church. Methodist churches of Gaston. Lincoln and Cleveland counties comprise the Gastonia District. Rev. J. L. Raylc is pastor of the Roger City church. The Rev. C. \V. Kirby, District Superin tendent. presided over the Con ference, and C. Jerome Honey cutt of Dallas served as Con ference secretary. Tire big crowd, which also in cluded various members of Metho dist institutions, completely filled the recently enlarged and re modeled Bogcr City church for the all-day session, which began at 9:30 o'clock. Reports were given and heard on the work of the churches for the first half of the LINCOLNTON, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1954 New Mill Here To Emplr y 100, Annual Payroll Os $20(1,000 Rev. Keith Beam To Preach Baccalaureate Sermon At North Brook High School Sunday, May 16 Rev. Keith Beam, pastor of Freiden's Lutheran Church of Gibsonvillc, will deliver the Bac calaureate Sermon at North Brook High School on Sunday evening, May 16, at eight o’clock. Rev. Beam, an alumnus of North Brook High School, is a popular young minister who has an excellent record of achievement. Prior to graduation from the Lutheran Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, he served as supply min ister of St. John's Lutheran Church at Cherryville. Rev. Beam irf the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Beam of Route 1, Cher ryville. Requests Made By Grand Jury In Report The Lincoln County Grand Jury made the following report to the j J. Will Pless, Jr., presiding judge j at the April term of Superior; Court this week: HONORABLE J. WILL PLESS, JR. JUDGE PRESIDING APRIL TERM. 1954 We. the Grand Jury, have pas sed on all bills presented to us! by the Solicitor, finding all true bills. We visited the County Jail and j recommend that the outside wood-; work be painted. We recommend that the dehorn J machine be kept off the Court- ( house lawn and also the State i Patrol cars. If this recommenda tion is not carried out. we ask that necessary steps be taken to! enforce same. We also recommend that the walks across the lawn be| blocked off and grass sown on them or have them paved. (Second Notice) We visited the Prison Camp and recommend that new furniture be placed in the reception room. (Second Notice' W'e also visited the County Nursing Home and recommend that the roof be fixed. (Second' Notice) Having finished our duties for this term, we respectfully ask to be excused. J. W. Dellinger Foreman. (Ed. Note. Members of the Grand Jury are: J. W. Dellinger, foreman. C. Gordon Cline. Sr.. J. M. Beam. Marshall Hudgepath. H. Pence Beam. Clyde H. Taylor. James Whitesides, Jr , Thomas Craig. Mrs. Deck Hager, Fred Scronce, Frank W. Sehrum. T. G. Lackey, Sr.. Harry L. Davis. Neal Sifford. Mrs. Edgar Love. Jr.. D. Paul Mullen. S. Gene Tallent. Mack J. Willis. Rev. Cecil Hefner To Deliver Homecoming Message At Wingate Rev. Cecil Hefner, pastor of the ' First Methodist Church of Lin- , colnton. will be the guest preach er for the 11 am. Homecoming! Service at the Wingate (N.C.) Me- 1 thodist Church on Sunday, May 2. Rev. Mr. Hefner is a former member of the Wingate church. He was born in Monroe and early : in his life moved to Wingate' where he grew up. The man who finds constant fault with others has no time to correct his own shortcomings. Conference year, which began last October. The ladies of the host church served the Conference delegates and guests a delicious lunch at 12:30. REPORT ON MISSIONS First report heard, and one of the most significant, was that of the Commission on Missions. It was shown that $24,316 has been raised during the first half of the year for World Service and For eign Missions. For Missionary work In the District, $14,391 has been contributed to assist weak churches and to build new church es in populous areas and com munities where no church exists. This phase of the district work is promoted by a new organization called the Gastonia District Mis sion Society which had its begin ning when a group of interested ministers and laymen met in March to plan a program of V m ■ iPv A Ww \'*JBtßßttßßt* .. ««.# REV. BEAM Superior Court Adjourns After Hearing Criminal, Civil Cases The Lincoln county April term | of Superior Court adjourned here yesterday, after all criminal and civil cases on the docket had been disposed of. The Hon. J. Will Pless, Jr., of Marion, was the presiding judge at the sessions, and the Hon. James Farthing of Lenoir Forensic Meet Held AtL.H.S.; Local Girl 2nd Lincolnton hieh school was host to the Western Conference for ensic meet Monday afternoon. Nine schools were represented, with 29 contestants taking part. Lincolnton’s best showing in the meet was in the original speeches contest, with Miss Mary Emma Thompson winning second place. She gave a speech on the history of the medieal profession in Lincoln county. Hampton Leflcr of Newton-C'on over won first place in this con test. Newton-Conover had four stu dents to win top honors, winning S three first places and one second. Miss Millie Pitts placed first in dramatic reading, and Miss Han nah Miller of Cliffside second. 1 Ronald Fox of Newton won first in declamation contest, Alfred Gardner of Cliffside second. Miss Peggy Morris of Forest City won in the non dramatic poetry con test. and Miss Sylvia Kidd of Newton-Conover second. Schools competing in the meet, included: Lincolnton, Hickory. I Forest City. Belmont. Taylorsville. Kings Mountain. Cliffside, Ruth erf ordton-Spindale. Newton-Con over. Firemen Answer Call To Kingdom Section City firemen answered a call yesterday morning to the Ring dom colored section within the city limits. A refrigerator in the kitchen of the Lester Diamond home caught fire and also ignited the wall. Firemen were able to extinguish the blaze before it could spread to other rooms ana cause further damage. church extension in the three counties. To finance this program, the leaders are encouraging each church member in the district to give $2.00 per year in addition to his regular contributions. The following named persons gave reports or spoke for missions or related causes under this sec tion of the conference program: Rev. Jerome Huneycutt, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Dal las; Rev. J. L. Rayle. host pastor; Rev. Reid Wall. Supt. of The Methodist Home, Charlotte: Dr. J S. Hiatt. Supt. of the Chatham Memorial Hospital. Elkin; Mrs. IT R. Harrclson of Cherryvillc, who is District President of the W.S.- C.S.; Dr. W. O. Weldon, pastor of Main Street Methodist Church. Gastonia: Rev. R. J. Barnwell, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, Gastonia; Rev. C. G. Hefner, pastor of the First Metho dist C hurch, Lincolnton. and Rev. Dr. John L. Yost To Speak Sunday At Luth. Church ; Dr. John L. Yost, of Columbia. ! S C.. will be the guest speaker at j Emmanuel Lutheran Church on Sunday morning at the 11 a.m., | Worship, announced Pastor Henry A. McCullough. Jr. Miss Janice Clodfelter of Lenoir Rhyne College will also speak briefly. This service is the annual Christian Higher Education Day observance which has grown in importance and interest to the congregation. The Luther Leagues of the con gregation will also assist in this Service as a part of their Life Service emphasis. Pastor McCullough will conduct the service and music will be pro j vided by the choirs, j At 10 am. each Sunday morn j ing an informal class period in | Lutheran faith and life is con j ducted by the pastor in the Church balcony. A cordial invi ! tation is extended to all who may ! be interested. 1 the prosecuting Solicitor for the State. Disposition of criminal cases i heard in Superior court Monday and Tuesday as taken from the | Cierk of Court records follow': James Steele, robbery. Defend ant called and failed. Judgment r.isi scifa and capias. Instanter i process. , Howard West, assault on fe male, non support. Defendant called and failed. Judgment nisi scifa and capias. Instanter pro cess. j Ray E. McCorkle, driving after I license revoked. Defendant called ! and failed. Judgment nisi scifa j and capias. Instanter process. ; j Donald Ramscur, driving after ■j license revoked. GO days, suspend ed upon following conditions: <l> 1 Defendant pay a fine of SIOO and I the costs (2). Not operate a motor | vehicle upon public highways of | State prior to Jan. Ist, 1955. and not then unless he until he shall have obtained a valid driver’s li cense, (3), that he be of good be ; haviour and not violate any of i the laws of State. ' Luther Fred Abernethy, operat | ing a car intoxicated. 6 months, I suspended upon. (1) payment of $l5O fine and costs, (2) not oper ate a motor vehicle upon public i hwys. before May Ist. 1957, and not then unless and until he shall have obtained a valid driver’s li- I cense. (3) be of good behaviour (Continued on page five) Funeral Rites For N. C. Monteith : Funeral rites for N. C. Mon ; teith. 47 of Granite Falls, who I died Thursday morning, were conducted Sunday afternoon from the First Methodist church at Granite Falls and burial followed ! in the Catawba Memorial ceme tery. Surviving are his wife. Mrs. 1 Stella Hawkins Montieth, his mother. Mrs. Etta Monteigh of St. Petersburg, Fla., his father, Theo dore Monteith, of Morganton, Ga., three daughters, Darline. of Gran i itt Falls. Frances, of Winston Sa lem. and Mrs. Doris Stern, of Wil mington. Also surviving are four | brothers, Kelly Arnold, of Lincoln j ton, Lacy E. Candler and Dewey | D., of North Carolina and Reid C. j of St. Petersburg, Fla: three sis -1 ters. Mrs. Velvie Johns. Mrs. Do | vie Fleming and Mrs. Vera Davis, of Bradenton, Fls. ■ Horfice McSwain, Executive Sec. . cf the Western N. C. Conference Board of Missions, i 5541.000 CONTRIBUTED i The report of the Commission on Finance was also high-lighted. ; The statistical report showed that ; more than $541,000 was contribut ed during the past six months for the several causes of the district program. The 53 charges of the District are cooperating in the Stewardship of Possessions Pro gram which is sponsored by the General Board of Lay Activities of The Methodist Church. One of the central principles of this pro i gram is that laymen encourage one another to tithe. Rev. Walter Thompson. As sociate Editor of the North Caro lina Christian Advocate, spoke briefly to the conference on the importance of the official organ of Methodism in North Carolina. (Continued on page sixl Represcntat’ g of The Bell Company of Worcester. Massachusetts, have -een in town this week on matters per taining to the new worsted spinning mill the company is to ; build in Lincolnton, as announced by the President of The Bell Company, Frederick S. Haslam, in Worcester last week. Sargent D. Heath, Executive Vice President of The Bell Company and Norman R. Hamilton, Project Engi neer, Fay, Spolford & Thorndike, Consulting Engineers, of Boston, disclosed company plans for the new Lincolnton i plant in an interview with local newspaper and radio rep | resentatives yesterday. 'i ||||||j| t •» •:. ■f' MR. WALSH Noted Clarinetist At Cherryville, May 3 ; William Walsh, first clarinetist of the Charlotte Symphony Or j chestra, will appear as clarinet | soloist with the Cherryville High i School Band. Francis D. Grabill, 1 conductor, on Monday. May 3, at the Starnes High School Auditori ! um at 8 o'clock. He will perform j the Weber “Second Concerto” for i clarinet. Born and raised in Chicago. HI., j Mr. Walsh is a graduate of the American Conservatory of Music 1 ir. Chicago, and the Eastman j School of Music, Rochester. N. Y. 1 He has studied with leading clar inet players in the United States, j including the first clarinetists of the New York Philharmonic Sym phony Orchestra and the Chicago ' Symphony Orchestra. ! He has played in the Chicago Civic Orchestra, the Charleston ) (West Virginia) Symphony, where he appeared twice as soloist: the 1 Virginia Symphony and the Bre vard Festival Orchestra. Last fall he took over duties as first clar j inetist of the Charlotte Symphony ! Orchestra. The Cherryville Band will per form the march "Sea Songs" by l Vaughn - Williams: “American, Folk Rhapsody” by Grundman; \ j "Salute to Corelli" transcribed by ; N. H. Long: “Prelude and Fugue in B Flat Minor” by Bach, ar ranged by Moehlman; and the “Vincent Youman's Fantasy" ar ranged by Paul Yoder. Investigation Os Federal Housing Administration The current congressional in vestigation of the Federal Housing ! Administration s title I repair and modernization program will show ! that many thousands of home \ow ners in Lincoln county and I other localities have used that program to help improve their properties at a reasonable cost with the aid of low, convenient monthly payments, according to (Continued on page five) Cattle Farmers Os The County Advised To Try Starr, Pearl Millet For Summer Grazing Dried up pasture during July. August, and September cause I many Lincoln County cows to go hungry and therefore causes a drop in milk production. Also, many pastures are permanently j damaged by overgrazing. Trying to find the answer to the above problems brings up two pos sible answers; (1) the planting of ’ Coastal Bermuda Grass as a per manent pasture and (2) planting! about 1/2 Acre of temporary pas ture per cow 7 to be grazed. Temporary grazing may be got ten from Sudan grass, soybeans, lespedeza. etc, The old reliable Sweet Sudan will produce the most grazing per acic. but some farmers arc afraid of prussic acid poisoning that may occur under severe drought or frost conditions. A new crop for this area, Pearl or Cattail Millet or Starr Millet is being recommended to farmers on a trial basis by the Farm Agents' Office. These millets do 1 not contain prussic acid poison. ALMOST EVERYONE in LINCOLNTON and LINCOLN COUNTY reads THIS NEWSPAPER Single Copy: FIVE CENTS The Bell officials, members of j the local press and radio, Mrs. Polly Crisson and John Cromer, | Executive Secretary and Presi j dent, respectively, of the Chamber j of Commerce, were guests at a I luncheon Wednesday given at the First National Bank by bank of- I ficials and staff personnel. Messrs. | Heath and Hamilton later in the j afternoon met with town officials ’ at the city hall. | Construction of the new mill, j Mr. Hamilton said, is scheduled to J begin within the next five or six ; months, and initial operations are j expected to get underway in I March, 1955. The new building j that will house the plant will be ! modern in every respect, and will contain approximately 3 0,0 0 0 | square feet of floor space. EMPLOY 100 PERSONS The mill will employ about 100 persons, with an annual payroll of about $200,000. Mr. ! Heath said. The Bell plant in I.inrolnton will use only local labor, he pointed out. The Bell Company is consider ing the purchase of approximately j 17 acres of land on North Flint : Street extension, near the city ! county line, where it is expected i that the mill will be built. WHY LINCOLNTON CHOSEN Mr. Hamilton explained the rea sons Lincolnton was selected by The Bell Company for its new pilot spinning plant. He stated that engineering and economic surveys of the whole Southeastern area were made by The Bell Company over a period of several ; months and it was found that the Lincolnton area was the most : satisfactory site for the new (Continued on page six) Local Delegates Will ’ Attend Lutheran Synod ; Meeting At Greensboro When pastors and delegates ; from the Lutheran churches of , North Carolina gather Tuesday morning May 4. in Greensboro's 1 First Lutheran Church, they will participate in an opening service j of Holy Communion, j Thereafter most of their time ; will be given to the transaction of i business brought to the attention I of the three-day Convention of the statewide church body by vari ous boards and committees of the synod and by congregations with in the Synod. Attending as delegates from the Emmanuel Lutheran Chureh of Linrolnton will be Pastor Rev. 11. A. MeCullough, Jr., and George Stoudemire. About three hundred official delegates and pastors of the church arc expected to give at tention to matters ranging from possibly controversial subjects like the employin'.it of additional syn odical personnel and recommen dations dealing with training Ne : gro church leaders and establish- I ins congregations for Negroes to such normally routine matters as the approval of work done by I committees on resolutions, his m tory. and publicity. '; The president of the Synod, the ;. Rev. Dr. Flavius L. Conrad of ' Salisbury, will preside over the 1 sessions of the convention and (Continued on page five) Pearl or Cattail Millet is an old . crop to South Carolina and Geor gia and will grow most anywhere. It should be planted anytime now and up until July l and can be grazed until frost. Cows should be turned in to graze when the mil let gets 3-4 feet tall and taken off when it is grazed down to about 1 foot. They should be kept off until it again grows three to four ! feet tall. The millet docs best when planted in 20 inch rows, but most farmers will want to drill it. If planted in rows, use 15-20 lbs. per acre and if drilled, use 30-40 lbs. per acre. Fertilize at planting with about 400 lbs. of 8-8-8 or 5-10-10 and topdress with nitrogen after each time it is grazed down. Starr Millet is a new variety of the above millets. It is a lower, leafier type and will produce about i 1 3 more feed per acre. 1 Both Starr Millet and Cattail i or Pearl Millet seed are available locally.
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