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» You are now reading — LINCOLN COUNTY’S LEADING NEWSPAPER and ADVERTISING MEDIUM VOL. 47, NO. 74 Wear Old Lincoln School uirl Sustains Broken Leg As Bus Plunges Into Ditch A six-year old Lincoln County school girl suffered a broken leg and other minor bruises in a schqol bus accident Tuesday morning about 7 o’clock . Peggy Ann Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Smith of Iron Station, Route 1. was the casualty. She received her in juries when thrown hard against a rear window of the bus as it crashed into a ditch. She was rushed by ambulance to the Crowell hospital in Lin colnton following the accident. She was still a patient today at the hospital, with her condition reported as satisfactory. ( According to the investigating The Men Was Hard As Nails; The Women Drove Them Home “Satan in high gear on a spree, Trying to shackle all men that is tree. . .” This metaphoric rhyme, gleaned from the “Cripple Creek (Colorado) Gold Rush” reflects the tenor of the Sept. 3 edition, just brought back to Lincolnton by Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Cornwell, the former chief surgeon at Gordon Crowell Memorial Hospital. The Cornwells, who were in Col orado three weeks to visit their son, Milton, who is with the Army in Colorado Springs, noted with interest the unusual format of the “Clippie Creek Gold Rush,” an eigh-pase weekly Which re tains and reflects some of the atmosphere of the Gold Rush days of the Old West. The newspaper, though 62 years old. carries on its front page a drawing of the Gaiety Theater of Leadville. Colo., back in the PO’s. The interior view -picts the gay blades of the era. 1) 19th Century attire, watching melodramic performance of the aay. THEM WAS THE DAYS Local news of today is inter mingled among the notes on yes teryear in the paper. A double column feature ranging down the left-hand side of Page One, con tains reprints pf items that ap peared in the “Cripple Creek Gold Rush” during Gold Rush days. Examples: “It is not often that a mother has to deport her son, but such NATIONAL KIDS DAY . . . Kiwanis Club-Sponsored Field Day For Boys And Girls At High School Field Saturday Saturday. Sept. 25. will be "Kid's Day" in Lincolnton, with a Field Day of athletic events, sponsored by the local Kiwanis club, sche duled at the Lincolnton High School. 10 a.m. to 12 o'clock noon. National Kid's Day will be observed throughout North Caro lina and the nation on Saturday, Democrats Urged To Buy Tickets For Oct. 2 Rally A large attendance of Demo crats, young and old, is expected tor the barbecue and rally Sat urday evening, Oct. 2, according to plans being made by Lincoln county young Democrats. The event is scheduled for the American Legion Hut, beginning with the serving of barbecue fi;om six o'clock until eight o'clock. Judge J. C. Sedberry, Democratic candidate for Congress from the 10th District, will be the princi pal speaker. Mrs. Hal Heafner, member of the Democratic State Executive Committee, will serve as chairman of the ’adies committee in charge of decorations for this barbecue. A large number of Democrats are handling the sale of tickets lor this barbecue, a partial list of these is: June Dellinger, Rodney Sherrill. Blair Wilkinson, Blair Abernethy, Jr., M. L. Harwell. Mercer Simmons. Hal Heafner, Jim Warren. Hamp Childs, Jr., (Continued on page six) Homecoming At ~hurch Os Our ) iviour Sunday The annua! Homecoming ser vice at the Church of Our Sa viour, Woodside. on Sunday, Sept. 26, beginning at 3 p.m. * The Rev. N. C. Duncan, of Ashe ville, will be the guest preacher. There will also be a picnic supper. Every .one is invited to attend. The Lincoln Times Published Every Monday and Thursday Devoted to the Progress of Lincolnton and Lincoln County. officer. Highway Patrolman Bob Smart, seven young school chil dren—including Peggy Ann—were aboard east-bound bus No. 44. driven by John Everette Wilkin son, when the bus went out of control after rounding a curve and plunged down an embankment in • to a ditch. The force of the im pact caused the bus to lose a rear '• heel as it bounded into and over the ditch. The accident occurred on a dirt toad in the Jr,on Station area as the bus was enroute to the Iron Station elementary school. Peggy Ann was the only occupant in jured; her six school mates being , shaken up but able to attend classes. was the case yesterday with Mrs. William Murphy of Alamo Street. Mrs. Murphv assisted in the de portation. according to all ac counts. “Shad" Murphy, who was employed at the union store, and who was arrested and released 4 on bond some weeks ago turned up at home Thursday night. Mrs. Murphy, while wanting her boy to lemain. believed that he should leave for his own interest, and consequently made the young man leave the district yesterday. Wil liam Murphy, the father and hus band, was deported early in the deporting season. He has never attempted to come back.” The back page of the Coloradp newspaper is given to articles de signed to “stimulate interest in the old mining industries." Clearly, Cripple Creek. Colora do, or at least the editors of its newspaper, ere laboring under a heavy nostalgia for the old days, when "men were hard as nails— and the women drove them home!"—Del Lazenby. and the local Kiwanis club-Field Day is being held as a part of the observance. The Field Day here, which is open to free participation by all boys and girls ages 9 to 18. will be held on the High School athletic field. Medals will be awarded the winners in the various events. Single elimination will deter mine the winners. There’ll also be free refreshments for all par ticipants. Events are scheduled for boys and girls in three age classi fications: Midgets, 9 to 12: Jun iors, 13 to 15: and Intermediates. 16 to 18. Many of the events will be staged simultaneously on dif ferent areas of the athletic field. The schedule of individual events follow: MIDGETS. AGES 3 TO 12 BOYS —50 yd. dash, sack race, softball throw for distance, broad jump, horseshoes, ping pong. Team events—over and under relay, 40 yard relay. GIRLS —30 yd. dash, sack race, softball throw for distance, ping pong, darts. Team events—basketball through legs, relay. 30 yd. relay. JUNIORS. AGES 13-15 BOYS—IOO yd. dash, 3-legged race, discus throw, broad jump, horse shoes, ping pong. Team events—so yd. relay, ping pong relay. GIRLS—SO yd. dash, 3-legged race, softball throw for distance, ping pong, darts. Team events —40 yd. relay, clothes relay. ' INTERMEDIATES, AGES 16-18 BOYS—IOO yd. dash, shot put throw, broad jump, discus throw, horse shoes, ping pong. Team events—6o yd. relay, in and out relay (bowling pins'. GIRLS —60 yd. dash, sack race, basketball throw for distance, horseshoes, ping pong: Team events—4o yd. relay, fish, relay. Hot Dog, Hamburger Supper At Long Shoals The Long Shoals Baptist church will sponsor a hot dog and ham burger supper, with coffee, at the Long Shoals club house Saturday night. Sept. 25. Proceeds will go towards the building of the new church. JMl* I* Sm k 4 W ' ■ - ' t ' , -t ;' , L'i*,’; t Don Heafner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Heafner, of Crouse, was presented the God and Country Scout Award at the Home coming ser vice held Sunday, September. 12 at the Crouse Methodist church. The presentation was made by Donnie Smith LHS Princess For Carrousel Lin colnton High School seniors, in a class meeting this week, sel- j ected Donnie Smith as the Prin- ! cess representative for Lincoln- j ton in the eighth annual Carrousel; to be held in Charlotte on Thanks giving day. Miss Smith, daughter of Mr. and ; Mrs. Dennis Smith of Boger City, was chosen over two other senior nominees—Ann James and Nancy ; Craig. Miss Smith w ill compete with 34 other princesses from North Caro- ] lina and South Carolina cities for the title of Queen Carrousel. | Hoyle Motor Co., Inc. Observing First Anniv. In Firm s New Home Hoyle Motor Co. Inc., Ford i dealer, this week is observing the! iirm’s first anniversary in its handsome new home, which was j completed and occupied a year l ago. (See advertisement page six >. j In observance of the first an- j niversavy event, the company is offering —for 10 days during j the First Anniversary Sale the \ "best” trade and “best” buy in r.ew and used Ford cars and; trucks; Ford tractors, Dearborn j equipment: 10 percent discount on parts and service work. Hoyle Motor Co., Inc . is one of Linqoimon's leading and oldest 1 business firms, having been in business here for forty years. The firm’s present new home, cn the Lincolnton - Boger City highway, is one of the largest, most handsome and modern to be j found in the state. I Precinct Meetings By Democrats At Asbury And Love Memorial Joe Ross. Chairman of the Lin coln county Democrat Executive Committee, today announced pre cincts for next, week as follows: Democratic meeting and speak ing for Ironton Township, includ ing precincts Ore Bank. Asbury. and Iron Station will be held at Asbury School Wednesday night 7:30. ' All candidates will be present. Refreshments will be served. Everyone in township invited. A Democratic precinct meeting and speaking will be held at the Love Memorial School Thursday Sept. 30. at 7:30. Refreshments will be served following speaking. All Ladies and Men are cordially invited. Mission Study Set For Lutheran Women A study of the book, “Under Three Flags" will be presented to the worhep of Emmanuel Luther an Church bv Miss Mary Deaton on M,onday Night, September 27. at 7:00 in the Church basement. This book written by Bishop Stephen Neill and published this year, gives up-to-the-minute ac counts of conditions in the coun tries of India. In preparation for conducting this foreign mission study. Miss Deaton has done extensive read ing and research on India. She als.o attended classes at Luther idge this past summer and will also attend a Workship at Dal las on Saturday. Mission Study Secretaries of the nine Missionary Circles of Em manuel Lutheran Church will be in charge of this special meeting. All members and other interested persons are urged to attend. A short social hour will conclude the program. LINCOLNTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1954 the pastor, Rev. William C. Crummett. Shown in the picture, reading left to right, are Rev. Mr. Crummett, Ause Harvey. Troop Seout Master. Don, and his mother, Mrs. Heafner. Lincoln Farmers Flocking To ASC Office To Receive Conservation Practice Aid The ASC News bulletin, weekly j publication sent out from the \ Lincoln County Agricultural Sta bilization and Conservation of fice, reports that the local ASS office has been overflowing in re cent days with farmers, who have been coming in to receive cost sharing under the 1954 Agricul tural Conservation Program. Mrs. Nannie Sigmon, ASC of fice manager for Lincoln coun ty. reported that 90 percent of all purchase orders issued this week have been on the new practice No. 19, vegative cover crop. The ASC office is urging any farmer, who has not made any request at all on the 1954 Agri cultural program, to visit the ASC office immediately. All farmers, ; Iso. are being reminded to make! a report on all practices when they have been completed. PRACTICE 19 The following information on J Conservation Practice 19 is re- I printed from the ASC News: Many farmers of Lincoln Coun ty are short of hay for the com ing winter months. Some we have talked with plan to sell off part of their cattle to conserve their lim ited supply of winter feed. Farmers who are in this posi tion might be interested in Con servation Practice 19 which has recently been added to the Lin coln County Handbook of Con servation Practices. With this practice we are in a position to COMMUNITY MEETINGS SET . . . Lincoln County ASC Committeemen To Be Nominated Sept. 27,28,29 Loy Howard. Chairman, of the Lincoln County ASC Committee. ] announces that the Community j ASC (Agricultural Stabilization | r.nd Conservation' Committee- : men. to serve beginning Novem- 1 ber 1, 1954. will bq nominated in | meetings to be held at the follow- ; ing places. Rock Springs high school, | Sept. 27, 9 a.m. Iron Station school. Sept. 27, 2 p.m. Howards Creek school. Sept. 28, 2 p.m. North Brook No. 2 school. Sept. 29, 9 a.m. According to Chairman How ard, the election will be held by mail, with ballots being mailed to eligible voters on October 7. Ballots, if mailed by the voter, must be postmarked not later than October 15. Ballots, if de livered to the office of the Coun ty Committee, must be received in the county ASC office not later than noon, October 18. Any eligible voters who doe; receive a ballot by mail may „u --tain a ballot from the county ASC office, located in the county court house, nfter October 7. All eligible voters are asked to please remember the dates of their committee - nominating township meetings, and to attend. Democratic Rally Triangle School A Democratic meeting will be held tomorrow (Friday) night at the Triangle school for Catawba Township voters—which includes I the Denver, Triangle and Lowes ville precincts. Refreshments will be served, starting at 7 o'clock. Speaking will follow. All Democratic candidates will be present. Every one in Ca tawba Springs township is invit ed and urged to attend. J offer financial assistance to sar i mers in the seeding of winter grazing crops. This encourage ment toward seeding winter cover and grazing is being offered to help relieve the hay shortage in this county. We can write orders for fer tilizer, crimson clover, and lime to help estab’ish a winter pasture \ hich can be used next spring for hay or silage. A refund of $2.50 per acre will be made on seed where the farmer uses only his own small grain. Payment will be made for the following materials: 2 tons of lime per acre, if no lime has been used during the past 5 years; 1 ton of lime per acre, if land has been limed during the past 5 years: 3.5 rents per pound of plant food in fertilizer used, not to exceed $ll.OO per acre. | $2.50 credit per' acre will be j given on Purchase Orders for seed. SPECIFICATIONS 1. Assistance must be requested I before practice is started. 2. Crop must be maintained on land until March 31. 1955. It can be grazed, and/or harvested for hay or silage. 3. Lime and Fertilizer required. For a more complete explana tion of this practice, we invite you and your neighbors to come to the County ASC Office any day from Monday through Friday ... 7:30 o'clock to 4:30. W.O.W. Maple Camp To Have Hamburger Supper ■ All members are urged to be j present for a hamburger supper, ! which will be served at 7:30 in 1 W.O.W. Hall Monday night Sept. I 27th. The regular meeting will be held immediately after supper. Cicero Faw, Many-Sided PY DEL LAZENBY When Cicero S. Faw came out of the hills of Nash County 21 years ago, and settled in Lincolnton —he already had enjoyed a career that would reflect credit on any man of only 48. But no prosaic plodder he! Mr. Faw bent to the moulding of a second career in Lincoln County: and now, approaching 70 years of age. he’s going to retire, rest up a bit. and then, perhaps, un dertake still a third life enter prise. HAND, ARM. ELBOW For one and a score years now. | Cicero S. Faw has been a soil I conservation aide here with the ! f ederal Government’s soil con- I servati,on program. He is account j able directly to Stanley Z. Pol i lock, unit conservationist: but, whereas Mr. Pollock’s primary ef fort is to get the soil conserva tion program onto paper Ci cero Faw's prime objective is to . id the urogram .onto the land. To CO Monday Is Crucial Date For Visit Os Bloodmobile Unit Lincolnton Draft Board Looking For Delinquents The following announcement is from the local Selective Service System office: Any person knowing the loca- | tion of the following named men j is requested to contact Lincoln ! County Local Board 56: Ray Ernest Rose, Route 3. Lawndale. N. C.: Charles Han ey. Gastonia. N. C.; Daniel Franklin Hough. Route 4. Lin eolnton. N. C.: Herbert Ikard, Route 1. Lineolnton, N. C.: < Floyd Lingerfelt, Route 2, Lawndale, N. C. These men are classified as de- 1 hnquents and will be ordered for j immediate induction should they j iail to report. Class Officers Chosen At LHS Class officers for the 1954-’55 term at the Lincolnton Hig h | School were elected last w'eek by j members ,of the respective classes, | as follows: Senior Class: Jennie Caldwell, j president; Sammy House, vice i president: Louise Biggerstaff, sec- j reta ry-t reasurer. Junior Class: Bryan Beam.; president: David McCullough, vice j president: Frances Owen, secre- j tary-treasurer. Sophomore Class: Gordon Au- ■ ton, president: Nancy Shidal. vice ! president: Mary Emma Thomp- , son. secretary-treasurer. Freshmen Class: Bob Avery. I president: Celia Ann Caldwell, j vice president: Peggy Long, sec- I retary-treasurer. Bth Grade: Jennie Crowell, president; Mary Jane Crowell, j ’.ice president: Wanda Hoyle, sec- | retary-treasurer. 120 Parmenter Red Pullets To Be Sold At Auction Sept. 28 Ten 4-H members will show and j ■sale 120 of their best Parmenter j Red Pullets on the Court House lawn Tuesday moyhng, Septem ber 28. The Pullets will all be in egg production and vaccinated against fowl pox. Each boy’s twelve pullets will be judged bv a North Carolina i State College Poultry Expert and j prizes will be awarded by the Ro- j tary Chib. After the judging, the hens will! be sold in lots of 12 t,o the high- - tst bidder. Persons buying the pul- j lets will be furnished crates in [ which to carry them home. Sher iff Frank Heavner will donate his | time to do the auctioneering. j 4-H members taking part in the ; event this year are: Linda Bal- j lard, Rt. 1. Alexis; Joe Cline, Rt. I 3. Vale: Junior Willis. Rt. 3, Vale: Ray Bailey. Rt. 1. Cherryville: Gerald Hallman, Rt. 1, Lincoln ton: Leonard Keever, Rt.. 4, Lin colnton: Ruby Waters. Rt. 2. Lin colnton: Buddy Smith: Rt. 1. Lin colnton, and Dean Heavner. Rt. 2. Vale. This is the third year the local Rotary Club has sponsored the 4-H Poultry chain and money laised by auctioning the 120 pul lets will be used to help finance j the project for another year. Awaiting Retirement, Recalls Career Before Soil Endeavors that end, he works side by side with the Lincoln farmer to insti tute and maintain with hand r.nd arm and elbow power cor- CICERO S. FAW . . . will rest a spell —BY REV. LEWIS EVERLINE— Lincoln County Blood Program Chairman Monday, September 27, is the crucial date for the very important blood program in Lincoln County. On that day, the bloodmobile unit will be at the Lincolnton Recreation Center to receive blood donors. Our goal for this visit is 145 i pints of whole blood and 70 per j cent of this amount must be secured if we are to eontinue to 1 benefit from the blood program. On the surface, it seems quite simple to get enough donors for this amount of .blood from the thousands of citizens in the icounty or from the many hundreds of previous donors. The tragic fact is however, that at the last visit of the mobile unit in July, only 36 pints of blood were given. During the past year, the County gave only 50 per cent of its goal which is the reason why our county will be dropped from participation in the Blood Bank if we fail to measure up this time. COOPERATION NEEDED With the above facts before us, we should realize that the suc cess or failure of this program depends upon the interest and co operation of every citizen in the county. It is much too late to say, "Let George do it", much too late to feel that the goal will be reach ed if I stay at home this time. | Any one of us may be in a posi- | I tion yet today when our life de- j ; pends upon the availability of i i whole blood of our type. Access to t j the blood bank makes this possible j : without the difficulty and delay! i involved in rounding up donors in j j an emergency. ! It is a rather lamentable fact ! Jonas Expects Approval Os Drought Disaster Aid For Local Areas Today j Congressman C. R. Jonas, in a j statement from his Lincolnton of ] fice today, said that he is "con | fident" that Lincoln and Catawba j counties, and other sections of 1 North Carolina will be designated I drought disaster areas immediate j ly "probably early this after noon.” CONTACTS WASHINGTON Congressman Jonas, represent ing the 10th Congressional Dis trict, said he had been in almost constant contact by telephone with President Eisenhower's sec retary. Assistant Secretary of Agri culture True D. Morse, and com- Jaycees Vote To Support LHS Band And Football Team The Lincolnton Jaycees, at their semi-monthly dinner meet ing Monday night at the High School cafeteria, voted unani mously to lend their support to the Lincolnton high school foot ball team and band during the current season. This action by the Jaycees came at a business session following the dinner. Club president Clarence Leath i erman presided over the meeting. The invocation was given by El j liott Beal. Thirty-three members ' we re present rect soil conservation practices, i Though li° will step down on Nov. 30; and though a trainee al- j ready is at his desk in the court house Cicero S. Faw has no re- i grets. At 70 lepme Nov. 10), he j is looking forward to a rest be- i iore catching his second wind. "I have nothing definite in mind." he said. “I think I will take a rest for a few years: then I may build me a house and locate here. I think Lin eolnton will be a good place to settle.” He has lived here 21 years. Mr. Faw was no spring chicken when he came to this town at the age of 48. He had been a sch.ool teacher: he had been postmaster in Lansing. N. C.: he had been an RFD mail carrier: and he had owned and operated his own fur niture store. Fresh out of high school, he had turned to a public school ca reer. He had charge of a one teacher school in Nash County, where he taught all grades from the first through the eighth. For five years, Mr. Faw' labored thus lv, and then he decided that ALMOST EVERYONE in LINCOLNTON and LINCOLN COUNTY reads THIS NEWSPAPER Single Copy: FIVE CENT. that the County does not sup ; P>y the amount of blood used in the local hospital during given months. The number of pints given in July was 36, the number used at Crowell Hospital was 45. These pints had to come from some other county With the demands for plasma, gamma globulin and military needs in addition to local needs, we can not be responsible citizens and shirk this very important duty. Those who cannot give blood for direct transfusion because of form er contacts with malaria, juandice, etc., should come as donors be cause this blood can be used for plasma, gamma globulin, etc. Will the Bloodmobile visit on Monday result in our going over our goal or will Lincoln County be taken off the list of participating counties in the Charlotte Blood Bank program? The answer lies with YOU. Have you signed up as a blood donor yet? If not, why not? We are counting on you and many of your fellow ciitzens to | take the time to go by the Lin j colnton Recreation Center from j 10:00 a m. to 4:00 p.m. to give a j pint of blood. Please sign up as a donor by calling either RE 5-8538 or RE ! 5-2142 or by signing the donor ! list at your club, mill, or church, j We will be looking for you at the Bloodmobile on Monday. i \ mitteemen of the drought investi ■; gating committee, and that he j had been assured by all that this . | vital matter was being carefully reconsidered and a decision would 1 be reached immediately. As a result of these develop ments and assurances. Jonas said: EXPECTS QUICK DECISION “I am confident that a num ber of counties in this section will be declared disaster areas entitled to drought relief. You | can expect a decision, and a I favorable one, from Washington immediately." 1 He identified these counties as i Lincoln. Catawba. Alexander. An i son. Burke. Caldwell, Cleveland. Gaston. Polk, Iredell. Rutherford. A representative of the Depart ment of Agriculture two weeks ago made a quick trip by automobile from Wadesboro-to-Charlotte-Lin- I; colnton-Hickory and reported that the situation, in his opinion, was not yet critical. Since that time the department, the President and other high of ficials have been bombarded with demands for reconsideration of the farmers' plight in these bone-dry counties. In addition to cutting back cot ton crops, dry weather has de j stroyed corn and many small j grains, pastures and even trees. Well diggers and construction workers in these areas have report | ed dusty conditions at a depth of 12 feet and more below the sur face. i school teaching was just not for : him. "I didn’t have the patience ! for it.” he exclaimed. "DADDY OF SCHOOL" But Faw didn't lose his inter | est in educational opportunities tor the young. Where his Nash County community had only one single-teacher when he took up the bopk and the chalk, his own efforts eventually resulted in Lansing's having a modern high school and three elementary school units. Some, even today, refer to him as “the daddy of the Lansing High School." Mr. Faw provided the spark and the agi tation (hat set in motion bond elections and cpmmunity enthus iasm for expanding the Nash County school system into its piesent 17 units. i After leaving the classroom, Ci | cero Faw turned to toting the j mail on an RFD route for 14 years j —for which he received the grand | stipend of S9O a month. His two horses ate sp much that it requir ed most of his salary to support ' (hem. After buying his oats, Faw had practically no take - home (Continued on page six)
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