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2 —THE LINCOLN TIMES, Lincolnton, N.C., THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1955 Rites Held For E. T. Ballard, 76 Funeral rites were conducted at 4 p.m. Friday at Poole's Chapel church in east Lincoln county for E. T. Ballard. 76. of Boger City. Burial was in the church cemetery. Rev. H. B. Jones. pastor of Poole's Chapel, officiated, assist ed by Rev. J. L. Rayle and Rev. Latt Beshears. Serving .as pallbearers were Charlie Self. Walter Sutton. Odell Wright. Paul Varner. Dink Asbury, Marshall Mauney. James Warren. Ralph Abernethy. Mr. Ballard died suddenly at his home in Boger City Wednesday. April 6. He had been a lifelong na tive of Lincoln county and had re sided in Boger City for 35 years. He was a retired merchant. Mr. Ballard was born July 20. 1878, a son of the late Wade Hill and Hattie Allen Ballard. Surviving are his wife. Mrs. Clara Eugenia Smith Ballard: three sons, Fred Ballard and Hor ace Ballard of Boger City. Wade Ballard of Cramerton: five daugh ters. Mrs. Ernest Keener. Mrs. Cone Featherstone. Mrs. Paul Ab ernethy. Mrs. Mason Lockman, of Boger City, Mrs. J. D. Queen of High Shoals: 17 grand children. 14 great grand children: two bro thers. Gray Ballard of Kannapolis. Jack Ballard of Stanley: one sis ter, Mrs. C. B. Tate of Kannap olis. - > Q:. vSRf' **' -ffc^ RANiMJLiiI sUil !. PHYLLIS KIKK ana LEA B.vKkeK play tile leading roles in the new Warner Bros, action film. ''Thunder Over The Plains." The Warner Color film. Playing FRIDAY and SAT URDAY at the RO'ELAND DRIVE-IN THEATRE. ROSELAND t d hS ast Times Tonight -- - Family Night 50c Per Car Load FRI.-SAT. J |J2 Great Features Dust yj n g Death! Randolph Sun.-Mon.-T ucs. ~ . • > -jf ■ f The Last Time >*„ * 1 Saw Paris # Starring jg* Elizabeth TAYLOR • Van JOHNSON Walter PIDGEON * Donna REED __ With EVA GABOR • KURT KASZNAR iriTTomiTici mull OFFICERS TAUNTED . . . Youthful Prisoners Riot At Catawba Camp; Much Property Damage Done NEWTON Forty-one prison ers rioted at the Catawba Prison camp here for three hours Tues day. And. although no blood was shed, extensive property damage resulted. All available officers were call ed on by Catawba county sheriff Wade Davis to help quell the riot. The prisoners refused to leave their cellblock about 7 a.m.. but surrendered peaceably at 10:10 a. m. (Tuesday! after having been threatened with tear gas. Noting the teargas guns from their cellblock in the main brick building of the camp one of the belligerent young prisoners shout ed the plea: "Please. Mister Captain, don't throw that stuff in here." A few minutes later the rioting inmates of the first offenders' camp—some of them in stripes and a few in chains filed sub missively out a front door of their prison. Newsmen were told that three cages of the rioters were taken to Asheville, one cage to Raleigh, and the fifth cage to the camp at Dal las. Tire youthful prisoners shouted at each other as the brown prison; vehicles pulled out from the prison camp yard. DEFIANT UNTIL END “Are you Hollywood cowboys coming along." one shouted. He apparently had reference to the armed state troopers, prison offi cials. Newton city police, and members of the Catawba County Sheriff's department. Still another shouted: • “I got ten years but you'll never put another shovel in my hands.” Earlier in the morning a prison er had shouted. “Please. Captain, don't put our names in the paper —it would ruin us." This brought laughter from both inside and outside the cellblock. "The shout also had come from the cellblock. "By . . . he's got a camera. 11l vote for you." SPIRIT BREAKS But by 9:30 a.m. the spirit of the rioters had been broken. They voiced a willingness to come from their cellblock now a virtual shambles on the inside—peaceably. It was apparent they feared the tear gas guns. District Supervisor Fred Ross of Lincoln ton was among the prison department officials on hand to help quell the not. He said demands of the prison ers had not been made clear. Others had told newsmen unof ficially the prisoners had com plained about the food and yard privileges, among other things. Some 60 to 70 other prisoners had gone to work at the custom ary morning hour. Sheriff Wade Davis said that : when he first arrived at the camp shortly after the riot began at 7 a.m.. the forty-one inmates who had rioted in the Eastern cell ] block were smashing things up right and left in a resounding j clamor. REFERRED TO SUPERIORS A soft drink man told newsmen that when he arrived at about the same time as Sheriff Davis the : prisoners were hurling bottles and ; table legs through windows of the building. Ruffin Huss. superintendent of 1 the camp < former Lincolnton po liceman' told newsmen any state ! ment concerning the riot would ! have to come from his superiors. Ross permitted no news photos I from inside the compound, but 1 permitted photographers to work i immediately outside as they chose. Ross said the prisoners demon | strated over food, clothing, recre ation. and “everything in gener | ai." Ross said he would investi -1 gate the complaints. Most of the rioters were trans i ferred to other prisons where they 1 will spend ten to sixty days in | solitary confinement before being ' returned to the Catawba camp. | Six described by Ross as the ring leaders, were taken to Central Frison in Raleigh for reclassifica tion and assignment to other camps. ! It was the first real disturbance at the Catawba county camp dur ing the two years it has served as 1 a prison for first offenders. Ross estimated property dam age at only SSOO broken win , dows, ruined bedding, plumbing and a stove but others on the scene, speaking unofficially, esti mated the damage would ran to approximately $2,000 to $3,000. Boger City News BUYS GROCERY STORE Oscar Cauble. Boger Citian. has purchased the grocery store in Iron Station that has been oper ated in recent months by D. P. Abernethy and son. Dewey. RETURNS FROM FLORIDA Mr. and Mrs. Z. B. Ritchie and son. David, returned to their home in Boger City last week after I spending the winter in Punta j Gorda. Fla. The Ritchie's, as their i | custom in past years, spend the i; winter months at their home in ’ i Punta Gorda. LOCALS Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hinkle and son of Brevard spent the Easter week end here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Williams returned Sunday to their home in Burlington. They came especially |to attend the funeral for Mrs. : William's grandfather. E. T. Bal lard. on Friday. Mrs. Lester Goodson has return- I ed to her home after being a pa | tient at the Crowell hospital. i O. C. Coley is reported improv- I ing at his home following a recent j serious illness. Rev. Morris Baker, who has been j serving as Salem Baptist Church pastor, has accepted a pastorate call to the Lowell Baptist Church. He is a former pastor of the Boger ! City Baptist Church. REVIVAL MEETING Good crowds have been attend ing the revival meeting being held ! this week at the Boger City Bap i tist Church. Services are being conducted each evening at 7:30 o’clock by Rev. Samuel R. Stone 1 of Jordan Mines. Va. Bingo Party For VFW Members And Guests There will be a bingo party for I VFW members and guests on Sat urday night. April 16th, at 8 o’- { clock. ( All members are urged to at ; tend and bring as many guests | as they like. The proceeds that | are received from these parties ) are going toward the building j of a playground for the children. I For on enjoyable evening and an array of nice prizes be sure to atend the bingo party on Sat urday night. Your conscience is your guide— not the other fe iow's. 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