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VOL. 48, NO. 84
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WLON Requests
Power Increase
To 1,000 Watts
Radio Station Lincoln
ton. has applied for an increase
in power from 500 watts to one
kilowatt.
The announcement came from
the Federal Communication Com
cission in Washington last week.
Jack Brown, general manager
of WLON, stated that the re
quest, if granted, will double
the station’s power capacity
and widen the station's recep
tion area to include around
30,000 additional homes.
If* the power increase applica
tion is approved by the FCC,
Brown said, the station would go
' 1,000 watts (1 kilowatt with
'he next month or so.
LHS CAFETERIA ...
Executives Club Dinner
Meeting Thursday Night
Harlan Heafner, club president,
reports that a combination of the
best characters out of Jack Lon
don, Robert W. Service and Rex
Beach will appear “in person” at
the next meeting of the Lincoln
Executives Club.
The dinner meeting will be
held on Thursday evening, No
vember 17, at 7 o’clock in the
High School cafeteria.
Harold Eide, veteran explorer,
trapper, trader, and gold miner is
the “in person” and he will be
Date For Lincoln
Area Artificial
Heifer Sale Set
The 1956 Artificial Heifer Sale
will be held in Statesville August
22. Farmers wishing to consign
animals to the sale should breed
their animals so as to freshen as
close to sale time as possible. If
past experience is a guide, buyers
will pay about SI.OO less for each
day the heifer carries her calf
after the sale date, For example,
if a heifer freshening on sale date
would bring S2OO, she would bring
only $l7O if she freshened on Sep
tember 22 (thirty days later).
Heifers consigned to the sale
must be from artificial breeding,
well grown, and of sound health.
The only changes in the 1955
rules for the 1956 sale are: All
animals must be first calf heifers
and all animals must be dehorned.
Last year, Robert Warlick. Rt.
2, Lincoln ton: Sterling Bowman,
Rt. 3, Vale; E. C. Rhyne, Rt. 1,
Vale: and J. G. Morrison, Rt. 1,
Stanley consigned heifers. They
were well pleased with the prices
their animal brought.
Reports on the three artificial
sired heifers that were purchased
from the sale last year and brought
to Lincoln County are excellent.
The purchasers were Loy Howard
of Denver and Roy Devine of Iron
Station.
For any additional information,
"ontact the county agent’s office.
* FW To Have
Dance, Bingo
Shipp-Lockman Post No. 1705,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will
sponsor a dance on Saturday
night, Nov. 26, at the post home.
The post will sponsor another
in its series of Saturday night
bingo parties on Saturday night,
Nov. 19, an dstill another on Sat
urday night, Dec. 3.
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Management of The Times is
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4-H Achievement
Program Plans
Are Completed
Plans have been completed for
the 4-H Achievement Program. It
will be held Wednesday night, No
vember 16th and 7:30 p.m.
The old gym at the Lincolnton
High School will be the place for
this annual event.
JOHNNY LANTZ PRESIDES
Johnny Lantz, a member of
the Union Senior 4-H Club, and
President of the County 4-H
Council will preside at the meet
ing. Awards will be given to club
members who have excelled in
the various projects for girls and
boys.
Dennis Setzer, Jr., of the Asbury
Club and vice president of the
i here to tell of his personal ex-
I periences in the “frozen North”
Iv. nlch in spots appears to have
I been quite torrid and of adven
tures here and there. His topic
will be, “Adventure Here and
There.”
He is no slick-tongued, patent
leather haired “authority” on his
subject, but a pleasant, rough
and-ready hombre who has ac
tually lived the fantastic life he
tells about. Few men have ever
had a more colorful and as richly
satisfying life than Mr. Eide has
bad.
All in all, he has spent over a
quarter of a century in “Seward’s
ice box,” and no one alive knows
Alaska, in all its phases, better
than does Mr. Eide. He is a man
of much “intestinal fortitude,”
and he has exercised all of it in
carrying out his various objectives
in the Far North.
His has been a career of a
man who has worked hard and
who has played with the same
degree of intensity. Always
ready for a fight or a frolic
(sometimes they seem to have
been blended together!) he has
now largely'put aside personal
ambition and is taking an active
part in the development of our
foremost military outpost. (Mos
cow papers: please copy.)
An evening with Mr. Eide is one
packed full of those things which
most of us have wanted to exper
ience but have never been quite
able to manage. He is rather
unique and such a program as the
one he offers is not likely to be
duplicated, unless at some later
date, by Mr. Eide himself.
"FREE" TESTS LOCALLY...
Diabetes Detection Drive
Scheduled For This Week
Today, November 14, is the
opening of Diabetes Week.
It marks the inauguration of
the eighth annual Diabetes De
tection Drive sponsored by the
American Diabetes Association
and conducted locally by Dr. L.
A. Crowell, Jr„ of the Lincoln
County Medical Society.
The public is being reminded
through the medias of newspapers,
radio and television that today the
search for the undetected diabetics
in Lincoln County will be in full
swing as Testing Centers begin
tests for diabetes.
There are about 1,000.000 per
sons in the United States who have
the condition (diabetes) but are
not aware of it. The purpose of
Published Every Monday and Thursday Devoted to the Progress of Lincolnton and Lincoln County.
subscribers have been coming in
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GRATIFYING RESPONSE
Such cooperation is gratifying to
The Times management and has
caused it to rededicate itself and
its services to the building and
welfare of the Lincoln County
area, and to bringing to its readers
all the essential news possible to
collect in order to paint a week
by-week picture of life and events
in Lincoln County.
If you have inadvertently al
lowed your Times subscription to
become past-due, please give us
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the matter early this week; be
cause the new necessitated pol
icy goes into effect tomorrow at
mid-month.
■ County Council will conduct a
, devotional period.
The formal program will be fol
lowed by a period of active recrea
i tion. This will be led by Henry
• Dameron. Assistant Farm Agent,
Cleveland County.
Results of projects will be ex
hibited by club members. These
exhibits wil be judged on Wed
nesday afternoon prior to the
evening program.
EXHIBIT REQUEST
Members who wish to exhibit
some of their work are requested
to get it to the office of the
agents by noon Wednesday, or
to the gymnasium between noon
and 3:30 p.m. Judging will begin
shortly after 3:30.
All Club members, their parents,
leaders, and friends of 4-H are
invited to attend.
Scout Court Os
Honor Thursday
The monthly Lincoln County
Boy Scout Court of Honor will be
; held on Thursday night, November
17, at 7:45 o'clock in the First
! Presbyterian church.
A Scouter and Cubber round
-1 table will also be held during the
* court, and a supper meeting of
district Scout committeemen at 6
p.m. at the North State Hotel prior
; to the court.
AT SOUTH ASPEN SCHOOL ...
Over 200 Lincoln Home Club
Members Attend The Annual
Achievement Day Celebration
Lincoln county’s seventeen
Home Demonstration clubs held
their annual Achievement Day
with a fitting celebration Friday
evening at the South Aspen street
school. More than two hundred
and fifty club members were pres
ent for the event.
MRS. FINGER PRESIDES
Mrs. Cleo Finger, president of
the Lincoln County Council of
Home Demonstration clubs, pre
sided over the business session
when Achievement reports were
given by all the clubs (A list of
each club’s achievements appeared
in last Thursday's issue of the
Times) and the presentation of
certificates and awards.
Club pins were given Mrs. J.
L. Rayle, Mrs. Frank Schrum
and Mrs. Cleo Finger for attend
s Diabetes Week is to find as many
as possible so they may receive
proper medical treatment and thus
avoid the serious complications
that follow neglected cases of the
ailment.
Testing Centers are located here
in the Crowell Hospital, the office
of Dr. Boyce Griggs, and Dr. Ed
l wards’ office at Toluca.
The Testing Centers at the
respective listed places above
will be open from 8 o’clock in
1 the morning until 5 o’clock in
i the afternoon from today until
Saturday, November 19.
Dr. Crowell, local Chairman of
: the Diabetes Detection Drive, stat
-1 ed the tests are available. FREE,
to everybody in the community.
LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1955
Pulpwood Co.
Opens Monday
At Iron Station
Lincoln Pulpw'ood Co., owned by
Wester Bros, of Charlotte, will
open at Iron Station on Monday,
Nov. 21.
The company's office will be lo
cated on the Seaboard railway sid
ing at Iron Station. The firm will
buy pulpwood in truck load lots.
Pine pulpwood will be bought, also
limited quantities of poplar, gum
and maple. The office will be in
charge of Don Harrill, well known
Lincoln county man, and will be
open daily Monday through Satur
day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (See adv.
in today's issue of The Times.)
Over 700 "First"
Salk Polio Shots
Are Given Here
Lincolnton physicians are con
tinuing to administer the first Salk
anti polio shot to those in the
priority group at a fairly fast pace,
it was learned today. There is a
charge of $3 per shot.
A distribution system was set up
some weeks ago whereby the Salk
vaccine was made available to local
physicians in three priority groups
the first category being chil
dren from birth to 5 years old and
expectant mothers. Over 700
“first” shots have been adminis
tered by local doctors to date, it
was reported. And, there have been
no ill effects from the shots, not
even sore arms, one physician stat
ed.
Parents are being advised to
have their children get their
“first” shots now as protection
before next summer when the
polio season arrives. The fact is
stressed that it is important to
have all three shots in the prop
er order to secure the maximum
of protection. Health authorities
advised the second Salk inocu
lation should follow the first by
2 to 4 weeks, and the third and
final shot about 7 months fol
lowing the second.
It was explained that the longer
the delay in getting the shots, the
lesser the protection. Children be
ginning the innoculation series
now, it was pointed out, won't
complete the series of three shots
before next July 1, about two
months after the polio season be
gins.
Maiden Native Named
Gastonia Bank Manager
Giles J. Arndt has been named
manager of the Citizens National
Bank's branch at the Akers Shop
ping Center, Gastonia.
A native of Maiden, Arndt has
been with the Gastonia bank since
1946.
ing Farm and Home Week in
Raleigh, and book certificates
were presented thirty members
of the clubs by Mrs. George M.
Brown.
Mrs. Robert Warlick, of the
Union Club won first prize in the
best pie contest and Mrs. L. E.
Summey of the Vale club, won
second prize. Third prize winner
was Mb's. Howard Bumgarner,
County Line Club.
Club members who had a perfect
attendance record during the year
were recognized.
PAGEANT PRESENTED
One of the highlights of the
evening was the presentation of
the pagent “America Sings” under
the direction of Charles Love
land. Mrs. H. C. Little of Denver
was narrator and Mrs. Dan Mos
teller, of Vale, was accompanist.
The various scenes of the
pageant and those who took part
in each were:
Scene 1— Indian Tableau: Mrs.
(Continued on page 8)
Dean Tallent 26, Is
Injured When Truck Tire
Explodes In His Face
Dean Tallent, 26, of Vale, is in
the Crowell Hospital with severe
facial injuries he received when a
truck tire he was repairing ex
ploded in his face about 10:30
a. m. yesterday.
According to a hospital attache,
the young man’s condition is
satisfactory. He suffered a broken
nose, broken jaw bone and other
bruises. His eyes were not in
jured. Tallent, according to re
ports. had repaired a tire, in
flated it, and was tap-testing it
on the rim for proper adjustments
when it suddenly exploded and
the rim smashed into his face.
MAY QUEEN ... Miss Eleanor
Seagle, daughter of Mrs. Garland
Seagle of this city, has recently
been elected May Queen at Mon
treat College, Montreat.
Miss Seagle, who is a senior,
majoring in Elementary Educa
tion’ is the president of her class.
Among the other offices she has
held include: Chairman of For
eign Missions and Religious Edu
cation on the Student Christian
Council; Chairman and Secre
tary of the Red Cross Chapter,
and a reporter for the Dialette
staff.
She is also a member of the
college chorus, Kappi Pi Beta
literary society, the Collegiate
Council of the United Nations,
the Life Service group, the
Thalians Dramatic Club, and the
chapel choir.
P-TA Meeting Tuesday
The South Aspen Street P-TA
will hold its regular monthly
meeting in the school auditorium
Tuesday afternoon Nov. 15th at
3:15. Ail parents are urged to at
tend.
SIXTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY EVENT ...
Ramseur Hardware Event
Attracts 1,500 Persons
It wasn't County Fair Day in I
Lincolnton Thursday it was just |
the crowds pressing toward Ram- i
seur Hardware Co., which was
celebrating its 68th Anniversary:
with a giant “ Open House ” event
which drew 1,500 visitors during!
the day.
The company was a genial host, j
serving free refreshments to all j
who called, and awarding nine i
handsome gifts to lucky regis
trants.
The SSO cash prize was claimed
by Steven Henry of 210 East
Water Street, who was present
to claim his good fortune.
The other winners were:
1— E. W. Rudisill of Lineoln
: ton Rt. 3, a Presto automatic
j skillet.
2 Sonny Lewis of 610 West
Congress Street, enough Kurfees
paint to dress up two rooms.
3 Mrs. Albert I). Goodson of
Bogcr City, a Toastmaster toast
and jam set.
4 Mrs* Bennett Ballard of 1
Lincolnton Rt. 3, a General Elec-
Two Cars Overturn
In Weekend Lincoln
Highway Accidents
Two cars “flipped over” in week
end accidents in the eastern sec
tion of the county, with minor in
juries to the drivers and heavy ve
hicular damages, investigating of
ficer Bob Smart reported today.
Highway Trooper Smart said a
'49 Ford, driven by John Henry
Goodson, Jr., of Iron Station, went
out of control on the Mariposa
road and overturned. The Ford was
a “total loss.” Smart said, and the
driver was charged with reckless
driving.
A 1955 Oldsmobile. driven by-
Grady Barker of Davidson. Route
1, overturned several times on
highway 273 (known as the old
Plank road' in the Machpelah
section Saturday midnight, officer
Smart said. The officer added that
Barker, traveling west towards Lin
colnton, claimed a rear tire on the
Olds blew out and caused the car
to overturn. The Olds was heavily
damaged.
Patrolman Dave Houston inves
tigated a Sunday traffic accident,
but The Times was unable to reach
him today for details.
"Lady Cotton"
To Be Presented
At Iron Station
The Lincolnton Little Theatre
will present th*e play "Lady Cot
ton” in the Iron Station school
auditorium Thursday, November
17 at 7:30 p.m.
The play will be sponsored by
the Iron Station school faculty.
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Shotgun Blast KUH
Pledger Ray ; Lincoln
Man Held In Shooting
Variety Show
Features Top
Performers
The Band Parents Club will
again sponsor the Variety Show,
which has become an annual
event, on Friday night, Nov. 18,
at 8 o’clock.
Top performers capable of pro
ducing an evening of fun-packed
entertainment will again feature
the show.
Presented in the show will be
a variety of numbers including
acrobatics, dancing, skits, musi
cal selections, both solo and
ensemble. Even an all-girl or
chestre to furnish the glamour
necssary to make the evening a
real success.
It is hoped that a full house will
be present to enjoy the show and
to give their support to the High
School Band.
All tickets are 50c.
Indications are that improve
ment in range feed conditions and
a continuing trend toward enlarg
ing farm flocks will lead to an in
crease in sheep numbers next year.
,| trie steam and dry iron.
, j 5 Mrs. Hazel Matthews, 311
i East Hoke Street, a Presto
; automatic coffee-maker.
•| , \ 6 Mrs. J. J. Waldrop of
, | Vale, Rt. 2, a set of Revere Ware.
7 Mrs. Guy Lackey of 701
j North State Street, a Westclox
electric wall clock.
8 Ralph Wise of Lincolnton,
Rt. 1, an electric trivet.
The crowds thronged the aisles
of Ramseur Hardware all day long
and until the store ended a full
and successful day at 9 p.m. by
posting the names of prize win
ners.
ONE OF OLDEST
Ramseur Hardware, with Law
ing-Keziah Drug Store, are the
only two Main Street businesses
with so long a standing as mem
bers of Lincolnton's business fam-
I ily. Ramseur's was established here
j in 1887 —22 years after the Civil
j War —by Henry E. and J. B. Ram
j seur in a building on North Court-
I square now occupied by Bumgarn
' er's Shell Service Station:
BEGINNING NEXT MONTH . . .
Lincoln Parents Advised
To Have School Children
Given Third Polio Shot
Parents of Lincolnton-Lincoln
county school children who re
ceived their first and second Salk
anti-polio shots at clinics last April
and May were reminded by health
authorities today that they should
go ahead with plans to have them
given the third shot in December.
The third shot is reported to be
the most effective of the three.
SEE PHYSICIAN
Dr. Benton Scott, district health
director, told Frank Hull Crowell,
Chairman of the Salk polio clinic
program in Lincoln county, that
Lincoln parents should be advised
to see the physician of their choice
and have the vaccine administered
to those who received the first and
second shots during last school
term.
It was pointed out by Dr. Scott
that Lincoln county was the only
county in the state to adminiser
the first and second shots before
the school term ended last spring,
and that he felt Lincoln county's
record of “no polio cases this sum
mer” was due largely to the Salk
vaccine shots the school children
received.
At the first Salk anti-polio vac
cination clinic here last April, 1,410
Lincoln county first and second
graders were inoculated, and 1,282
administered the shots at the sec
ond clinic in May.
CHARGE OF $3
The first and second shots at
these clinics were given free, the
vaccine being paid for by the
National Polio Foundation.
There will be a charge, however,
of $3 for the third shot it was
The Lincoln county sheriff’s department today report
ed a fatal shooting in the county over the weekend.
Killed with a lethal blast from a 16-gauge double bar
relled shotgun was Pledger Franklin Ray, 34, of Lincolnton,
! Route 4.
Rev. A. F. Blackburn, of Lan
dis, N. C„ will begin a revival
meeting at the Friendly Chapel
Baptist church Wednesday, No
vember 16. The meeting will con
tinue through November 21 with
services being held each evening
at 7:00 o’clock. The public is in
vited.
I The store later was moved to
j the Cobb Building (now the Rein-
I hardt Building and occupied by
Conner Furniture Co.), and then
in 1903 to its present location on
East Main Avenue. The present
store building had just been
erected by Bob Michael and Mrs.
Annie Hoke.
Present officers of the com
pany arc: David C. Heavner,
president; E. Carr Heavner, vice
president and treasurer: and
Mrs. E. C. Heavner, vice-presi
dent.
E. Carr Heavner has been with
the firm for 37 years, joining it as
a clerk shortly after the Armistice
in 1918. Later, he purchased the
interest and the stock.
Ramseur Hardware employees j
include: June H. Summey of Lin
colnton, Rt. 4, 17 years with the j
company; Hubert Gilbert of Lin
colnton, with the company for 11
years: and Ray Goodson of Lin
colnton Rt. 3, four years with
Ramseur's. j
i pointed out. Local physicians are
reported to have an adequate
supply of the vaccine on hand.
. I Dr. J. W. R. Norton, state health
: officer, has advised parents to have
j their children vaccinated without
| delay with Salk vaccine and thus
. | protect them fully as possible
' j against polio before next summer.
He said that the third and final
shot should be given about seven
! months following the second. De
-11 cember will be the seventh month
j since the second shots were given
i Lincoln school children.
Patrolman Harry
Graham Shifted
To Cherryville
State Highway Patrolman Harry
Graham, Lincoln county native,
has been transferred from Lenoir
to Cherryville.
Patrolman and Mrs. Graham
and their six-year-old daughter,
Vickie, have been living in the
Happy Valley section of Caldwell
county since going to Lenoir two
years ago.
James Ray Stutts, 23-year-old
new member of the patrol from
Mooresville, will replace Graham
at Lenoir. Stutts, a graduate of
Davidson high school, became a
member of the patrol last June 15
and took two months preliminary
training at Cherryville, and then
attended the Patrol School at
Chapel Hill from August 4 to
November 4.
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Sheriff Frank Heavner stated
that he was holding in eustody
L. Berge Williams. 50, also of
Lincolnton, Route 4, in connec
tion with the shooting.
Williams has admitted shooting
Ray. the sheriff said, but claimed
! it was in self defense.
Two others were also held for
questioning on circumstances sur
rounding the shooting. They were
| Mrs. Lena Hoyle and Robert Elijah
j Callaway.
I The body of Ray was taken to a
I Morganton hospital where an
j autopsy will be performed by a
i doctor there. The Times was.in
j formed. County Coroner Guy E.
Cline stated that as soon as the
I autopsy report is received and the
| body is returned to Lincolnton, he
I will call an inquest.
JURY EMPANELLED
; Empanelled as a jury for the in
quest, the coroner stated, are the
following: Frank Kuck, Woodrow
Armstrong. M. P. Hedgepath, Ray
Small, Fitzhugh Costner and Rob
ert Hawkins.
The shooting occurred about
1:30 a.m. yesterday (Sunday) in
Williams’ home on Lincolnton,
Route 4, the Lincolnton- rfigh
Shoals highway section, the sheriff
reported.
Williams, an unmarried man,
was quoted by the sheriff as say
ing that he was asleep on a
couch in the living room at the
. front of the house, and that Mrs.
Lena Hoyle of Lincolnton. Route
1, was asleep in another room of
the house. He claimed that he
j was awakened by a noise and
looked up to see Ray, with a
knife in his hand, framed in the
i doorway from the light burning
in the kitchen and it was then
• | that he fired his shotgun at the
i intruder.
i ONE SHOT FIRED
; Ray is believed to have died al
i most instantly after being hit by
the 16-gauge blast. Only one shot
was fired from the gun, the sheriff
| added.
Robert E. Callaway, 20, unmar
j lied, of Lincolnton, Route 4, was
with Ray at the time of the shoot
ing when entry to the Williams
home was made through a back
door, the sheriff was told. Calla
way claims he went with Ray to
: the Williams house but did not
j know that Ray intended to enter,
1 1 the sheriff reported.
| Information as to whether or
: | not a knife was found at the scene
j was not learned by The Times.
| Following the shooting, Williams
| called deputy Jack Schronce and
Schronce, along with deputy B. L.
Tallent, answered the call. Sheriff
Heavner. coroner Guy Cline and
SBI agent J. R. Vanderford of
j Shelby w'ere called in on the in
vestigation.
Williams admitted he was ac
quainted with Ray prior to the
shooting, officers reported, and it
is alleged there were some dif
i ferentes between the two. Ray,
j a mechanic at Chaney’s near
! High Shoals, was estranged from
his wife, the sheriff was told.
FUNERAL SERVICES
Funeral services for Ray will be
held Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the
Salem Baptist Church with burial
in the church cemetery.
Surviving are one son. Tommy;
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M.
Ray: one brother, Cagey Ray; one
sister. Mrs. Grace Setzer.
j Warlick’s Funeral Home has
charge of arrangements.
RECEIVES EAGLE AWARD
... Barron Lee (above), son of
i Mr. and Mrs. George W r . Lee,
received his Eagle Scout Award
at the October Lincoln County
' Boy Scout Court of Honor. He
has been a Scout for two years
and six months with perfect at
tendance to the weekly meetings
and courts of honor. Barron has
43 merit badges and is working
on the God and Country award.
He is a member of Troop 1,
i Roger City, of which Woodrow
Blanton is Scoutmaster.