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LINCOLN COUNTY’S
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VOL. 48, NO. 81
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GIRL SCOUTS AT WORK ... Brownie Scouts
(above) combine community service and home
LHS Band Takes
Part In Program
UNC-Tenn Game
The Lincolnton High School
Band, some 62 members strong,
participated in the Band Day half
time ceremonies at the Carolina-
Tennessee football game in Chap
el Hill last Saturday.
For the past number of years
the University of North Carolina
has set aside one football Satur
day for the observance of Bend
Day and Lincolnton high school
has had the honor of having its
band invited and participating on
the occasions.
Approximately 60 High School
bands from all parts of the
State, representing over 4,000
musicians, took part in the
colorful half-time ceremonies.
"he Lincolnton band left the
11.1 school building here Satur
-0 morning at 5:30 .o’clock in
j buses: one the high school
■'activities bus. driven by Roy Tur
byfill, the other- a. Queen City
Trailway bus. The group returned
at 9:30 p. m. Saturday.
Accompanying the members of
the band as chaperones, Ac.ing
Band Director S. Ray Lowder re
ported, were Mrs. E. L. Hhuse,
Mr. and MI'S. Kenneth Dedmon.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Moody, Fred
Rudisill, Hunter Rudisill, Mrs. J.
H. Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs. S. Ray
lowder.
Haircuts Upped -
To $1 In Local
Area Barbershops
Remember the old saying—“a
shave and a haircut, two bits!"
Not any more, matie. The high
cost of living has become too much
for your favorite barber man.
Result: No more 75c haircuts.
In the future, beginning next
Monday, November 7, in fact, a
haircut in Lincolnton, Boger City
and Laboratory tonsorial parlors
will cost you SI.OO. No change
this time ... the long green bill.
Announcement of the increase
from 75c to SI.OO for haircuts in
local shops is carried in an adver
tisement in today's issue of this
newspaper.
RECORDER'S COURT CASES...
Two Men Fined SIOO, Costs
On Driving Drunk Charges
Fines of SIOO each and costs
were assessed against two defend
ants, convicted of driving drunk
charges, by presiding judge Thom
as Wilson at the weekly session
of Lincoln county Recorder's court
on Monday,.
Cases on indictments for speed
ing 60 mph truck, reckless driving
involved in accident, improper
lights, reckte|s driving, driving
drunk involved in accident causing
damage to personal and real prop
erty, were continued to other
terms of court.
Following is the disposition of
cases heard in Monday court as
taken from the official records in
the office of Clerk of Court Joe
Ross:
Charles Hardy Williams, reckless
' v iv i n g involved in accident.
, VL. Officer failed to appear.
ayne Allen Hollar, speeding 65
™ i oc. Defendant called and
■led. Bond forfeited for costs.
Charles William Perkins, speed
ing 75 mph oc. Defendant requests
jury trial. Request granted.
John Clinton Chapman, speed
ing 70 mph oc. Defendant through
his attorney asks for, Jury trial.
Request granted.
George Wesley Bogans, speeding
55 mph oc truck, improper passing.
Defendant called and failed.
Capias and sci fa ordered issued on
bondsman.
Edward Colville Griffith, driving
The Lincoln Times
Published Every Monday and Thursday Devoted to the Progress of Lincolnton and Lincoln County.
making when they learn to hem dish towels for
the church kitchen.
CAMPAIGN OPENS OCTOBER 17 ...
Lincoln County Girl Scout
Fund Quota Set At $1,400
A campaign to raise funds to
provide training in good citizen
ship for the girls of the Pioneer
Girl Scout Area Council was an
nounced today by Mrs. F. A.
Young, president of the Council.
LINCOLN’S SHARE $1,400
A goal of $19,243.00 with Lin
rolnton's share at $1,400, has
been set, Mrs. Young said, for
the drive which opens Novem
ber 17 and will extend through
November 28.
Funds will be used to finance
the work of the Council during
the coming year, to develop and
organize new troops, to provide
training for volunteer adult lead
ership, to provide year-round pro
gram opportunities in such fields
as Homemaking, Out-of-Doors,
Citizenship, and to extend the
Camping and Day Camping pro
gram.
‘‘We have a membership of 1,051
girls, ages seven through seven
2 Rooms At Park Elementary
School Addition Occupied
Two rooms in the new addition
at the Park Elementary School on
E. Mcßee St: are now being used
for the first time, city schools
superintendent S. Ray Lowder an
nounced yesterday.
There has been some delay in
occupying the new building due to
lateness in arrival of boiler room
equipment. Heating facilities w'ere
made available on Tuesday, and
two Third Grade sections moved
from the present building to two
rooms in the new addition.
Plans for occupying the other
room in the new addition by an.
other class are indefinite, super
intendent Lowder stated, due to
the great amount of work in
volved in changing of school re
cords, etc., at this time of the
school year. However, current
plans are to use the room for
school purposes other than a
classroom until future arrange
drunk, involved in accident. Six
months, suspended upon payment
of SIOO fine and costs and further
condition defendant not operate a
motor vehicle on the public high
ways of N. C. for a period of 1 year
from date.
Ray Dorce Caldwell, operating a
car intoxicated, carrying concealed
weapon. Six months, on first count,
suspended upon payment of SIOO
fine and costs, and further condi
tion that defendant not operate
a motor vehicle upon public high
ways of N. C. for a period of 1
year from date. Thirty days, on
second count, suspended upon pay
ment of $lO fine and costs.
Seibert Wallace Ward, speeding
90 mph oc. Thirty days, suspended
upon payment of $lO fine and
costs. Given until Nov. 5, 1955, to
pay.
The following were ordered to
pay the costs on the charge of
speeding:
Joseph Wheeler McLaney, Jr„
Ed (nmn) Crawford, Bobby Gra
ham Humphrey, Clyde David Fox,
Kenneth Lee DeHart. Robert Lee
Hoke, Andrew Allison Heaton,
Lucas Brockington King, Lewi*
Edgar Beal, Dewey Marlin Lewis,
Walker (nmn) Stansell, Jr., Noah
Logan Hoover, Arthur Allen Cogge
shall, Leroy Dewitt Mashburn,
Catherine Denton Rader, John H.
Ross, Rufus Fe 11 o n Hawkins,
James Elijah King.
teen with approximately 400 more
girls in troops in the process of
organization this fall in the Pion
eer Area,” Mi's. Young said in an
nouncing the drive. “Through the
Girl Scout program of fun, ser
vice and training in good citizen
ship, they are growing up to be
better qualified to undertake the
responsibility that will be theirs
in the home and as active citizens
of their community.”
LOCAL CHAIRMAN
Finance chairman for the
Pioneer Girl Scout Area Council
is James T. Comer, of Gastonia,
with M. Y. Rudisill, finance com
mittee member from Lincolnton,
and Mrs. D. H. Mauney, Jr., Lin
colnton finance drive chairman.
Mrs. Robert Rudisill is Lincolnton
town committee chairman.
Mr. Rudisill and Mis. Mauney
urge wholehearted support of the
drive to make this program pos
sible for the girls of Lincolnton.
ments are worked out.
NOT FINISHED
Construction on the new Park
Elementary School addition, ex
cept for the three classrooms, is
not yet complete. The cement
flooring, ceiling, lighting fixtures,
work to the multi-purpose room is
not yet finished, but wdll be soon.
This room is a combination cafe
torium-auditorium. It will not
serve as a cafeteria, but as a din
ing room, with meals brought from
the high school cafeteria. The
portable type tables will be in use
and fold up against the wall when
not in use and the room is con
verted to auditorium use.
The Park Elementary school,
like others in the city and county
schools system has been over
crowded, and the new addition was
made necessary due to the in
creased enrollment and lack of
classroom space. The hallway and
library have been used for class
room space due to the overcrowd
ed conditions.
Graveside Services
Held For Beasly Infant
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Larry Beasley died on Tuesday
about 4:30 p.m. in the Crowell
Hospital.
Graveside services were held
Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the White
Zion church with the Rev. Mr.
Rusty in charge.
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RECEIVES EAGLE AWARD
... Charles Hoke (above), son of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh B. Hoke, re
ceived his Eagle Scout Award at
the October Lincoln County Boy
Scout Court of Honor. Charles
is a member of Troop 1, Lincoln
ton.
LINCOLNTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1955
W. Ed Abernethy
Dies After Illness
W. Ed Abernethy. 50. died Wed
nesday afternoon at 6 o'clock at
his home on South Poplar street.
He had been in ill health for some
time and recently spent some time
university Hospital, Chapel
Hill.
Mr. Abernethy was born in Lin
colnton, the son of the late Clay
and Eva Goodson Abernethy.
Survivors are his wife, the form
er Flossie Heavner, one daughter,
Mrs. J. C. Alexander, two grand
sons, J. C. Alexander, Jr., and Gary
Alexander, and one brother. Clyde
Tillman s TV And Music
Shop Opens Tomorrow
A new business has its opening
in Lincolnton tomorrow (Friday).
It is Tillman’s TV & Music Shop,
located on E. Main Street across
from the City Hall.
Owners and operators will be
Joe Tillman and his wife, Fay.
Mr. Tillman is well known in
Lincoln county, and has been
operating a television business in
the Flay section of the county.
His wife is the former Miss Fay
Green of Shelby.
Tillman's TV & Music Shop
w'ill deal in Admiral televisions
and radios, and a complete line of
phonograph records popular,
classical, religious, hillbilly and
jazz music.
CITIZENS GET ACTION ...
Speed Limit At
Boger City Now
Back To 35-mph
Citizens of Boger City, the
county’s most thickly populated
area outside the Town of Lincoln
ton, have been perturbed and
agitated for sometime following
the increasing of the speed limit
on highway 27-150 from 35 mph
to 45. mph.
The higher speed limit, citizens
reasoned, particularly parents of
older citizens and young children
who had to cross and recross the
heavily traveled highway many
times daily.
Action was called for. and full
support of the citizenry was given
the Asbury P-TA at one of its re
cent meetings when a policy of
action was decided upon, a com
mittee named, and recommenda
tions made on methods to be used
in attempts to get the speed limit
lowered back to 35 mph and the
possibilities of getting a stoplight
Oscar V. Hauss
Death Victim
Oscar V. Hauss. 80. prominent
citizen of Lincolnton, Route 3,
Asbury school section, died this
morning at the Crowell Hospital
following a recent heart attack.
F’uneral services will be held
Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Boger
City Methodist Church with the
Rev. J. J. Powell, pastor, officiat
ing, assisted by Rev. Leonard
Rayle. Burial will be in Lincoln
Memorial Park Cemetery.
He was born September 2. 1875.
the son of William T.
Hauss and Fran lullivan Hauss.
Surviving are uis wife, Mrs.
Ephie Rudisill Hauss: two sons,
Hubert, of the home, Guy E. of
Lincolnton. Route 3; one daugh
ter. Mrs. Russell Sigmon of Mt.
Holly; 2 grandchildren. 4 great
grandchildren: one brother, C. T.
Hauss of Boiling Springs; one sis
ter, Mrs. Addie Mullen of Mt.
Holly.
AT LEGION HUT...
Kiwanis Club Barbecue
And Carnival Saturday
A crowd of over 700 is expected
for the third annual Kiwanis Bar
becue and Carnival on Saturday.
November 5, at the Legion Hut.
BRIDGES BARBECUE
Red Bridges, noted barbecue
connoisseur of Shelby, is preparing
the barbecue for the occasion.
Barbecue will be served irom 12
noon to 9 p. m... and anyone wish
ing a barbecue lunch to take home
with them can come by the hut
and get one. Plates are $1.25 for
adults, 75c for children.
There will be various games and
concessions for young people.
A Turkey Shoot Is scheduled
as a feature of the event, with
the shoot to continue through,
out the afternoon.
A good attendance is es
Abernethy.
For many years Mr. Abernethy
had held a position with the Cen
tral Candy and Cigar Co. He had
a host of friends in Lincolnton by
all of w’hom he was held in the
highest regard.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock
from the First Presbyterian church
and burial will follow in Holly
brook cemetery.
The body will remain at the
Vlarlick Funeral Home Chapel un
til the hour for the service.
( Also to be handled will be the
“hobby” and other types of toys.
The building occupied by Till
man's TV & Music Shop is the
one formerly occupied by the Curb
Market, and has been remodeled
preparatory to being occupied by
the new firm.
Sales and service work will be
provided in the television depart
ment of the business.
A Grand Opening of Tillman's
Television & Music Shop is sched
uled soon. There will be prizes
awarded. Mr. and Mrs. Tillman
invite the public to visit their
store and register now for the
prizes.
or blinker light installed at the
highway intersection leading off
tc the Asbury Elementary school,
which has an enrollment of over
600 pupils.
NEW SIGNS UP
So, to make the story short,
action has produced results.
Yesterday, engineer crewmen of
the State Highway Commission
moved in on the scene of the
controversy, took down all the
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Henry B. Belue, 49,
Os High Shoals, Dies
Henry B. Belue, 49, of High
Shoals, died Tuesday at the Beth
esda, Md., hospital.
The body will be taken at 5 p.m.
from the Warlick F'uneral Home
today to the home of Mac Plem
mons in Lockhart, S. C. Funeral
services will be held Friday at 3
p.m. in First Baptist Church, Lock
hart.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Bessie Henderson Belue; two
daughters, Mrs. Bill Canipe, Miss
Marcella Belue: four sisters, one
brother, two half sisters and one
half brother.
New Baptist Association To
Be Formed At Sunday Meet;
Divide South Fork Churches
A new Baptist Association will
be formed next Sunday afternoon
from churches of the South Fork
Association in and about Hickory.
The South Fork will meet in a
special session at the First Church
of Maiden at 2:30 o'clock.
Messengers from churches de
siring to form the new association
will call for letters and retire to
pecially looked forward to for
the barbecue and carnival, as
this is the Kiwanis club's main
project to raise funds for under
privileged children and boys and
girls work for the year.
TICKETS ON SALE
Tickets for the barbecue can be
purchased at any of the following
places: First National Bank. Lin
coln National Bank. Economy
Drug Store, King’s Office Supply.
• Hartman’s Mien's Shop. B. C.
Moore & Sons, Polhill Chevrolet
; Co.. Hoyle M/otor Co.. Seth Lumber
Co., Ramseur Hardware Co., Tur
ner’s Store, Inc., or from any
member of the Kiwanis club.
Remember the date: Saturday,
November 5, 12 noon to 9 p. m.,
Legion Hut.
* At
SSaMnaMMK
TO BE COMMISSIONED—
Edgar Love, II?.. i above I. son
of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Love,
Jr., of Lincolnton. will be com
missioned an Ensign in the U. S.
Navy at Naval Officer Candi
date School in Newport, R. I„
November 9th. He is a honor
graduate of the University of
North Carolina, attended Har.
vard Law School for two years,
and studied at the University of
Leeds, England, for one year on
a pre-law Fulbright scholarship.
Chief Tobey Thanks
Halloweeners For No
False Fire Alarms'
Fire Chief G. W. Tobey today
expressed his appreciation and
that of fire department members
to all Hallowe’en celebrators for
their cooperation in not turning
in any false fire alarms on Monday
night.
The Lincolnton streets were
crowded and swarming with Hal
lowe’en celebrants, and there was
the danger of accidents and costly
delay had any false alarms been
turned in and the fire truck and
firemen called out among the
masses. Fortunately, no false, or
real, fire alarms were turned in
during the hours the make-believe
spooks and goblins were on the
prowl around the city’s business
district and residential areas.
Chief Tobey also had city schools
superintendent S. Ray Lowder to
have announcements made in the
local schools, cautioning the stu
dents not to turn in any false
fire alarms during Hallowe’en
night. The “no false alarm” re
cord speaks for Itself; Lincolnton
youngsters had their Hallowe'en
fun. in the customary noisy way,
perhaps, but still in a happy, safe
and sane manner.
Chicken Pie Supper
And Fall Carnival At
Howards Creek School
The annual fall carnival and
chicken pie supper will be held at
Howards Creek School Friday
night, November 4.
Beginning at five-thirty o’clock,
a supper consisting of chicken pie.
cole slaw, cranberry sauce, sweet
potato balls, pie or cake, and coffee
will be served in the school cafe
teria for SI.OO for adults and 50
cents for children.
Following the meal there will be
plenty of entertainment such as
fishing, bubble gum contests, cake
walks, “House of Horror,” and
fun for everyone.
A turkey will be given to the
person holding the lucky card.
Plan now to attend the fall fes
tival and supper.
the East Maiden Church to or
ganize. The East Maiden Church
for reasons of convenience will be
the meeting place for this historic
occasion, but the church body is
reported to have voted to remain
in the South Fork Association.
BESHEARS TO PRESIDE
Rev. Latt Beshears of Boger City
is the interim moderator of the
South Fork and will preside at this
meeting. Messengers of the re
maining churches will continue
with the meeting at the First
Church and necessary steps will be
taken to proceed with her work
and such re-adjustments as may
be needed.
This action is the consumma
tion of a movement initiated by
interested individuals in Hickory
and approved by the South Fork
Association. October 6. in her an
nual session. On the following day
the Association set the date of
November 6 when a special session
would be held and letters granted
to churches who in this period
decided to be a part of the new
organization.
It appear* now as if churches
south of Catawba and east of
Newton in Catawlia and all of
Lincoln County will remain in
the South Fork, with a few pos
sible exceptions.
It was in 1919 that twenty
churches in ths southern part of
South Fork withdrew to form the
Gaston Association. It is probable
that about the same number will
withdraw next Sunday to form
another association in the north
west section.
£ 4ERICAN EDUCATION WEEK .
"
f.ity Schools
To Hold Open
House Nov . 11
The Lincolnton City Schools will
observe Open House on Thursday, (
November 11 from 1 to 3 p.m. as al
part of the program for the 35th j
annual observance of American |
Education Week.
Parents and friends are cordially j
Wright Goins,
57, Dies From
Heart Attack
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock
at the Boger City Baptist Church
for Wright Raymond Goins, 57,
with the Rev. H. B. Jones and
Rev. Latt Beshears officiating.
Burial was in Hollybrook Ceme
tery.
Mr. Goins, a resident of Lincoln
ton, Route 5, died in the Crowell
Hospital Monday at 11 a. m. fol
lowing a heart attack he suffered
earlier in the morning at his
home. He was a textile worker by i
profession.
He was born on August 22, 1898. j
the son of the late Phillip Goins |
and Mary Ann Butler Goins of j
Cleveland county. His parents
moved to Lincoln county in his
early boyhood.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Beadie Newton Goins: four |
daughters, Mrs. Ernest Campbell
of Lincolnton, Route 5. Mrs. Clyde |
Keever of Lincolnton. Route 3.1
Mrs. Paul Freeman of Boger City, |
Miss Carrie Lee Goins of Lincoln-'
ton. Route 5; one son. Wright
Raymond Goins, Jr.: three grand- ;
children; one brother, C. E. Goins
cf Lincolnton; four sisters, Mrs.
[ Arthur Hallman of Lincolnton,
I Mrs. Will Goins of Cherryville,
I Mrs. Floyd Devine of Maiden, Mrs.
Philip Crotts ,of Forest City.
Crum’s Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
ROBINSON, REINHARDT ...
Two Lincoln Men Are
Elected To REA Board
Two Lincoln county men were
elected to offices of the Ruther
ford Electric Membership Corpora
tion at the 17th annual meeting
of ;the group in Spindale last
Saturday.
Guy Robinson of Vale was
(elected vice president of the
corporation, and A. Forney Rein
hardt of Iron Station was elected
one of the new directors of the
group.
The new president of the cor
poration is W. R. Oates of Bes
semer City, and Cle Rollins of
Bostic secretary-treasurer.
Other new directors, besides
Reinhardt elected, were: Fred
Minz and D. D. Lattimore of
Lawndale. Oliver Taylor of Mill
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ON DISPLAY HERE ... Keno and Duffy, pictured above with
the pretty lady, are now on exhibit in front of the county court
house. sponsored by the VFW Post. Keno is reputed to be the
“world’s smallest bull, Duffy the “world's smallest horse.” Keno is
from the Chris Church, Colo., and Duffy from the canyon country
of Arizona,
ALMOST EVERYONE in
LINCOLNTON and
LINCOLN COUNTY reads
THIS NEWSPAPER
Single Copy: FIVE CENTS
invited to visit the schools on that
day and observe what is being done
by teacher and pupils.
American Education Week is
sponsored by the National Educa
tion Association, the American
Legion, the U.S. Office of Educa
tion, and the National Congress of
Parents and Teachers.
THEME:"SCHOOLS”
The central theme to be em
phasized this year is “ Schools
Your investment in America.”
Each daily topic considers some
phase of that investment: such
as. “Your Investment in Charac
ter Building”; "Your Investment
in Teachers”; "Your Investment
in Classrooms”; “Your Invest
ment in Fundamental Learn
ing"; “Your Investment in Bet
ter Living”: "Your Investment
in a Strong Nation”; and "Your
Investment Is Your Opportun
ity.”
The Lincolnton High School
plans to present the above program
on Friday. November 11 in the
school auditorium.
PROGRAMS
Mrs. Yoder's sixth grade has
combined American Education
Week and Book Week (November
13-19) in a program to be given
in the grammar school auditorium
Friday morning, November 11. The
primary schools will give varied
programs in their class rooms dur
ing the week. Oaklawn school will
have a program in the Oaklawn
| auditorium Friday morning, fea
turing a guest speaker.
“Wishing for schools is not
enough." declares the sponsoring
committee. “Communities have
good schools when the people
want them enough to take an
interest in them, to work for
them and to co-operate with
them.”
American Education Week, it is
pointed out, is an appropriate time
to re-examine the educational pro
gram of your community. See what
your school is doing, find if it can
do some things better. To help
your school you need to be well
! informed about it.
Springs, C. L. Stowe of Anson
county, W. R. Oates of Bessemer
City, J. O. Griswold of Rutherford
ton.
President Oates told the 1,500
delegates at the meeting that total
membership in the Rutherford
Elecric Membership Corporation is
now' 8,200.
He added that 1,900 lines of
electric lines have been strung in
the eight counties served by the
corporation Rutherford, Polk,
McDowell, Burke, Cleveland, Lin
j coin. Anson and Catawba.
The corporation's achievements
were praised by Gwyn B. Price,
I chairman of the North Carolina
! Rural Electrification Authority.