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LINCOLN COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWSPAPER
and
ADVERTISING MEDIUM
VOL. 48, NO. 84
MISS AMELIA SCHRUM IS WITH U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT .. .
lincolnton Girl Returns After
Government Service In Europe
By DEL LAZENBY
You think of the U. S. State Department as a prosaic,
paper-laden echelon, shoulders-deep in governmental red
tape, and then you meet Miss Amelia Schrum, brown
haired and vivacious Lincolnton girl just back from State
Department service in Vienna, Austria, and Bonn, Ger
many and she is not at all the way you pictured that
musty agency.
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MISS AMELIA SCHRUM
... at Bernkastel,
on the German Mosel River.
Bill Morris In
Unique Position
At Wake Forest
Bill Morris of Lincolnton, stu
dent in the School of Law. Wake
Forest college, recently was elected
president of this year’s freshman
class.
Mr. Morris also had the honor
last week of being initiated into
the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fratern-
Hy. He will finish requirements in
_ iuary for graduation from Wake
• ;st College on a combined de
i, but as there are no mid
.m ceremonies he will receive
his diploma for a Bachelor of
Science degree in the June grad
uation exercises. The following
spring he will receive his LLB de
gree from Wake Fores* College
which will then be in its new
home in Winston-Salem.
Mr. Morris has the unique posi
tion of being the only Wake Forest
student that is a member of the
last graduating class at Wake
Fores*. N. C., and also the first
graduating class in Winston- 1
Salem, N. C. Both ceremonies are -
slated to be memorable occasions :
for the Lincolnton student.
BLASTS ARE A LANGUAGE IN THEMSELVES ...
Local Firemen Can Read
Toots Os The Fire Horn
Three plus three plus three
would be nine to a third-grader.
It would be “SOS” to a naval
radioman. But it means “comer of
/South Grove and West Childsi
Streets” to Lincolnton’s volunteer 1
firemen. 1
The frog-throated claxon at 1
the fire station here dispenses a
language of its own. It may
Assault, Traffic Vic 1 -'’
Top Recorder's Cou v
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Following is the disposition of 1
cases t : led in Monday’s session of
Lincoln county Recorder’s court,
Judge Thomas Wilson presiding,
and Solicitor Wl. H. Childs. Jr.
prosecuting for the State:
Lester Carlyle Mhssengill.
James Roy Parker, James Simp
son. Eric (nmn) Flemming, Sam
uel Guy Turnisseed, Darrell
Franklin Devine. Thomas Lee
Triplette , all charged on separate
indictments for speeding, State
takes NPWL.
Henry L. Hoover, assault on fe
male. adw with intent to kill, (2
counts). Not guilty.
Lex Samuel Elmore, driving
drunk. Defendant asks for Jury
trial, motion granted.
George Ray Lowman. driving ,
drunk involved in accident, no op
erator’s license. Defendant asks
. for Jury trial, motion granted. 1
George Wesley Bogans, speeding j
• \ph oc in truck, improper pass- 1
1 Cases consolidated for judg
t. 30 days, suspended upon ]
yment of $lO fine and costs.
Suel Killian Beal, driving drunk, 1
involved in an accident, causing 1
damage to personal and real ]
property. 6 months, suspended 1
upon payment of SIOO fine and •
costs, and further condition de- .
fcndant not operate a motor ve- .
hide upon public highways of N. 1
C. for a period of 1 year from this
date. Defendant appeals to Su- 1
perior court. Appeal bond set at <
S3OO. 1
Marshall Otis Long, driving as- <
The Lincoln Times
Published Every Monday and Thursday Devoted to the Progress of Lincolnton and Lincoln County.
For three years, this daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Schrum has
held forth as a secretary in the
Foreign Service, and her eyes
sparkle with animation as she re
counts her experiences with the
State Department in Europe. She
arrived here Friday and will re
main until Jan. 1. when she reports
back to Washington, D. C., for a
year's domestic assignment there.
FINGER ON PULSE
But Amelia Schrum has pleas
ant, crowded memories of three
years of life abroad, seeing at first
hand history in the making. She
has been Lincolnton's finger on
the pulse of momentous and geo
graphy-shifting events. Many of
these must remain unspoken for
security reasons.
But she can speak of those
three Austrian and German win
ters long and cold and gray
when an inner compulsion would
transform leisure hours into ex
citing hours on the slopes of the
Tyrols and in the quaint villages
of the sub-Alps. She joined a
ski class and became proficient
in that ancient of sports. She
knows no greater exhiliration
than swooping down the steep
mountain slopes on skis, with the
fresh, clean air in her face, and
her hair dancing in abandon.
But above the snow and cold, up
on the mountain tops, the sun
shines warmly, she says, and it is
pleasant to secure a healthy sun
tan even while engaging in winter
sports.
The nearby villages are tradi
tional Old World, quaint with
cloistered provincialism, where the
“friendliest people on earth live.”
In the evening hours, as the an
cient dusk settled on the ice
crusted slopes, there would be na
tive Tyrolean’singing and native
dancing. In these picturesque vil
lages, politics and dire interna
tional whispers were forgotten in
the congenial mixing of the na
tions, she said.
HAD THE BACKGROUND
Miss Schrum, who finished Lin
colnton High School in 1946 and
then studied secretarial adminis
tration at Woman's College,
Greensboro, didn’t get her choice
of foreign service, but she is glad
it turned out as it did. She always
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startle the loity with its earth
shaking quality, but it is per
fectly understandable to the
Lincolnton fire-fighters.
For each toot and each blast has
a meaning of its own. Overall, it
means “Fire!” But more than that
the firemen can listen to ti le
squawks and know just where \h e
fire is located. And they ' rush
I ter license v-
I ing, speedi
count, susp ,7
S2OO fine ant
appeals to ond
set at SSOO less
driving, spe nd
ed upon pa and
costs: this ; at
expiration _..ths)
imposed i driv
ing after
Roosevi in
dictment ghts
amended -oper
turn sigi ,3ond
set at $5
Allen Si. sen
tence. Defe next
term of Supt. i set
at S3OO.
Marshall Field 1 ’kless
driving involved in a t. 30
days, supended upon pa. 4nt of
sls fine.
The following were ordered* to
pay the costs on the charge oit
speeding: Jack Dorse Hollar.
Charles Sydney Royster, David
Eugene Dorsey, William Joseph
Robinson, William Larry Swilling. f
Kenneth Wayne Lingerfelt, James 1
Stepta Bennet, Parish Elizah '
James, Frank Woodrow Hooper, 8
Jasper Thomas Smith, Harley 1
Mlonroe Lawter. '
Cases on indictments for reck- c
less driving, bastardy, reckless I
driving-involved in an accident, v
were continued to other terms of *
court. 8
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W.ITH THE FAMOUS JUNGFRAU as a backdrop. Miss-Amelia
Schrum here is pictured witli a French ski partner at Wengen,
Switzerland, in the Swiss Alps.
BAND BOOSTERS EVENT . . .
Local Talent At
Its Best Feature
Os Variety Show
The Variety Show-, to be held
Friday, (tomorrow night) at 8:001
o’clock, will give the public an op
portunity to see local talent at its
best.
The program is for the benefit
of the High School Band, and all
tickets are 50 cents.
The following is a list of num
bers that will make up the pro
gram:
Don Weaver, soloist; Jerry El
more. instrumentalist; Heafner
sisters, acrobatic dancers: Jane
Lockman, soloist; Rebecca
Rhodes and Mary Ellen Henley,
dance team: Mary Jo Dellinger,
novelty act.
All girl orchestra, musical skit;
Jane Kale and Nancy Crowell,
dance number: Jane Summey,
soloist: Paul and Virginia Rhyne,
to the scene,'i ithout having to lose
precious /ame going by the fire
station.
Mar.y Lir.colnton people do not
idealize the messages implied by
the horn biases that can be heard
, throughout all the town's wards.
COUNT THE TOOTS
For purposes of their code, the
. firemen have designted the own’s
four wards and have created two
additional imaginary ones. “Ward
Five” is the section lying left of
East Flint Street, and “Ward Six”
is the area right of East Flint.
If you listen closely, you will
r 1 next time the fire alarm
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With . attractive
and valuab iy for dis
play. Shipp-, Post 1706,
Veterans of Fori rs, will hold
another in its bi-w. .ly series of
bingo parties for the ghneral public
this Saturday evening at 8 o’clock
at the post home on Country Club
Road. A small admission charge
will be made at the door, but there
will be no charge for the bingo
games.
LINCOLNTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1955
I vocal duet: Frances Owen, solo
II dance; Little Theatre presenta
tion; Mary Reid, soloist; Melody
i Quartet; Carroll and Doris Aber
nethy, vocal duet: Novelty Skit.
; It is hoped that a full house will
1 be preesnt to enjoy the show and
to give their support to the High
. School Band.
Dr. Sinclair
Acting Health
Dist. Director
#
Dr. C. A. Sinclair of Hickory
ha# been named temporary acting
d|Fector for the Alexander-Cataw
wa-Lincoln Health District and
\sll take over these duties De
cember 1. replacing Dr. Benton V.
D. Scott who will move to Ohio.
Dr. Scott's resignation was of
ficially accepted by the district
health board during a meeting in
Hickory Friday night.
Dr. Sinclair will hold the post
until a permanent director is
named.
He came to Hickory in August,
1954. is a native of West Virginia
5 and a veteran of Army service. He
2 received his MD degree from the
University of Virginia in 1942. af
t ter taking undergraduate work at
V Duke Universtiy.
* He served his h ’’ ip in
; ’ Charlotte and co*” ”ar
of general pr r 1.
® W. Va.. befo
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Membe
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,ies Paia. advance
lan Proves Successful
The deadline set for placing the Times circulation
list on a paid-in-advance basis was reached Tuesday.
During the campign literally hundreds of our sub
scribers co-operated with us by bringing in or sending
thier advance payments. We are now in the midst of cor
recting our mailing list which, because of the large num
ber of names involved is “some job,” and several days will
be required to complete it.
There are, however, a few of our subscribers who are
still in arrears. We do not want to lose these good folks
from our large family of readers. So in the meantime we
will accept their payments through Tuesday Nov. 22. Af
ter that date their name will necessarily be dropped from
our list.
As previously explained the increasing cost of pub
lishing a newspaper made it imperative that some step be
taken and the plan of paid-in-advance subscriptions was
decided upon rather than to increase our subscription
rates.
The Times wishes to thank the many subscribers
who placed confidence in us by their renewals and we
pledge you it shall be our continued effort to kfeep you
posted on all local and national happenings.
First National
Mails $70,000 In
Christmas Checks
Christmas Club checks totaling
$70,420.00 were mailed today by}
the First National Bank to 734)
members of the 1955 Club, accord- j
ing to an announcement by G j
Harold Myrick. executive vice pres- }
ident of the bank.
Mr. Myrick stated that the ■
Christmas Club was installed in j
First National Bank five years ago |
to provide customers with sufficient |
funds for Christmas shopping, j
Nearly $200,000.00 has been saved
by club members during the five- J
year period.
The Club has grown substantial
ly each year as follows:
First year, over $12,000.00: sec- |
ond year, over $18,000.00: third!
year, over $32,000.00: fourth year,
over $43,000.00; this year, over
$70,000.00.
The 1956 Christmas Club at
First National Bank will be open
for new members on Monday, No
vember twenty-first.
Covenant’ Day
At Lutheran
Church Sunday
Covenant Day will be observed
on Sunday, November 20, at Em
manuel Lutheran Church, an
nounced Pastor Henry A. McCul
lough. Jr.
Individual Covenant Cards for
1956 will be placed on the altar
during the 11 a.m. worship as ex
pressions of loyalty to God and
the church through the coming j
year. During the past two weeks
homes of members have been
visited and every member is urged
to be sure of his covenant card
being included in the consecration
service.
Sunday night at 7:30 p.m. in
the Chapel the Women-of-The-
Church will conduct their public
thank-offering meeting. A playlet
will be given, and members of the
Junior Choir and of the Luther
League will assist in the program.
Thursday, November 24, at 9:30
a.m. the annual service of Na
tional Thanksgiving w'ill be con
ducted.
The clothing drive for relief of
destitute people overseas is in
progress during the Thanksgiving
season. Many thousands of desper
ately needy persons will be sup
lied with good and used clothing
distributed through Lutheran
World Relief. Donations of cloth
ing may be brought or sent to the
Church Basement at any time
until November 28.
Rev. J. J. Powell
New Member Os
Local Lions Club
Rev. John J. Powell, pastor of
the Boger City Methodist Church,
was received into the club as a
new' member at the regular dinner
meeting of the Lincolnton Lions
Club on Tuesday night in the
North State Hotel dining room.
Club president Guy Hoyle presided
over the meeting.
In other features. Lions Buck
Goodson and Gene Richbourg were i
presented the Key Member award
for bringing in two new members j
each. The aw'ards were presented
by Lion Max Barnette.
Lion Sid Weiss gave a report on
the Lions Club dance to be held
Saturday night, November 19. at
the Legion Hut. A report was
given by Lion E. J. Perosky on
the Lions club-sponsored Christ
" Party, which promises to be
the be .t vet. to be held De-
J .v ■ the VFW Home.
) and F: ank
1 a
Murder Charge
Faces Williams In
Shooting Affray
L. Berge Williams, 50, of Lincolnton, Route 4, will face
a murder charge, when given a hearing in Lincoln County
Recorder’s court next Monday morning.
Williams, an unmarried man, has admitted firing the
! shotgun blast that fatally wounded Pledger Franklin Ray,
34, also of Lincolnton, Route 4, early Sunday .morning.
! Officers stated Williams claimed Ray broke into his home
! and that he shot him in self defense.
Brother Os Thorne 1
,
Clark Succumbs
In Charlotte
David Clark, 78. brother of
Thorne Clark of Lincolnton, died
Tuesday morning in a Charlotte
hospital following an extended
illness. He was the uncle of Rep
resentative David Clark of Lin
coln county.
Ml’. Clark W'as a publisher of in
dustrial and professional publica
tions in Charlotte, and W’as known
throughout the South as a lead- :
ing voice in the textile industry. 1
He published the monthly Tex
tile Bulletin and another maga- ’
zine, Southern Knitter. He was
j chairman of the board of the
Clark Publishing Co., Clark-Smith
Publishing Co. in Charlotte.
RALEIGH NATIVE
He w r as a native of Raleigh and
his father w'as Chief Justice of the
North Carolina Supreme Court. !
Mr. Clark was a graduate of
North Carolina State College, and
one of the most active alumi of
that school.
He came to Charlotte in 1907, j
and founded the Textile Bulletin |
in 1911. He made his home in j
Charlotte at 100 Htermitage Rd.
Surviving are his wife, the for
mer Aileen Butt, and tw'o brothers, 1
Thorne Clark of Lincolnton and
' John W'. Clark of Greensboro. '
AT COUNTY COURTHOUSE . . ,
Farm Outlook For 1956
Will Be Presented At
Local Meeting Friday
j How does the farming future
I tor Lincoln county ... the state
... and nation look?
Some of the answers w'ill be
given at a meeting on Friday
morning of his week, at 9:30
o’clock, in the Home Agent's office
in the county courthouse.
County agent George Stoudc.
mire announced that John Cur
tis and Miss Mamie W'hisnant,
economic specialists from the
N. C. State College Extension
REV. WEBB PASTOR...
Reepsville Baptist Church
Gets High Rating In Contest
Reepsville Baptist Church of the
Vale community received a second
place citation in the Rural Church
of The Year contest sponsored by
' h North Carolina Baptist State
ivention which was held in
.eville ’’ S s veek.
Wi v ■-«*' „h annual 1 .er s
»least.. j vi kapv.st chu t ,
w hich is located seven miles north
of Rutherfordton (see story else
wheer in today's issue of The
Times'.
Rev. Ralph Webb, Jr., is the
present pastor of the Reepsville
church. He is now a student at
Fruitland Bible Institute, Hen
dersonville.
The Reepsville church has
grown rapidly in recent years,
and last April a new church
auditorium seating around 500
Jack Keever Plumbing Co.
Has Moved To Lincolnton
The Jack Keever Plumbing Co.
this week moved into the Odell
Harvey building, formerly occu
pied by the Ellis Furniture Co., on
North Aspen Street. The firm has
been opera 'ing in Miiden for a
number of years and has built up
a large following in this area.
The firm deals in a complete
line of plumbing fixtures, and does
! us buving in carload lots, thus be
! ing able to sell at low prices and
| saving their customers money on
their plumbing fixtures and sup-
I plies.
An inquest was originally called
by coroner Guy Cline in connec
tion with the fatal shooting, but j
this was found not to be neces
sary due to Williams having ad
mitted the shooting, and due to j
the fact many witnesses would j
have to be called.
Some unusual circumstances!
surrounding the case were cleared
up. the coroner reported.
WARRANT SERVED TUESDAY
Sheriff Frank Heavner re
ported that he served a warrant
on Williams Tuesday, charging
him with murder in connection
with the shooting, and that a
hearing is scheduled in Record- i
er's court Monday.
A number of witnesses have been j
subpoenaed for the hearing, and
each will be given a chance to tell
what they know of circumstances
surrounding the shooting fracas,
the sheriff stated.
WOMAN IS HELD
Mrs. Lena Hoyle, Lincolnton,
Route 1, woman, who was reported
asleep in the Williams home at ■
the time the shooting took place,
is being held under SI,OOO bond as ;
a material witness in the case. She
is now in the Gaston county jail, j
as under a recent order by the j
State and county commissioners,
j women no longer can be confined j
| to the Lincoln county jail.
CALLAWAY OCT ON BOND
; Robert E. Callaway, 20. unmar
ried, of Lincolnton, Route 4, has
'been released under SI,OOO bond
I as a material witness in the case.
I Callaway, investigating officers re
port, stated that he went with Ray
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Service, will be at the meeting
and will present "The Farm
Outlook for 1956."
It was explained that a meeting
of this type is held each year prior
to the beginning of a new- year,
and have proven worthwhile, wi:h
agricultural leaders being briefed
on expectations for the next year.
Members of the agricultural
agencies in the county and other
nterestcd persons are invited to
1 attend.
’ was completed and occupied.
I Six Sunday School rooms were
i also constructed at the back of
' the new edifice.
■ The new church edifice and old
l structure are joined, and the old
building is being converted into
< iay school rooms.
, | .v. ' Tr. Y’ebb has been pastor
i [ of the church for about a year and
•! a half.
■ Mrs. Paul Carpenter is the
church secretary, and when in
formed by a Times reporter today
that the Reepsville church had
won second place in the Rural
Church contest she exclaimed,
"Oh, that's wonderful. Up here
we are all very proud of our little
church. It is growing by leaps and
bounds and the people are be
hind it.”
A complete line of Hotpoin' ap
pliances, refrigerators, freezers,
water heaters, ranges, as well as
General Electric radio and TV
sets are carried in large stock by
the firm, much of which is on
display now' at the firms store
here.
Mr. Keever is a Lincoln county
boy and invites his friends and
the public to visit him whether
you are in the market to buy his
merchandise or not. Just drop in
and say hello anytime, he will be
glad to see you.
ALMOST EVERYONE in
LINCOLNTON and
LINCOLN COUNTY reads
THIS NEWSPAPER
Single Copy: FIVE CENTS
State Advises
County Jail
Be "Closed
j Lincoln county's commissioners
are faced with a dilemma as to the
status and future of the aged
| county jail.
| The State inspector, after study
i and discussion with the commis
i sioners at a recent meeting,
authorized that the outmoded jail
could be continued temporarily
under the present setup but would
be condemned if early action
j wasn't taken to replace it.
WANTS LIMITED USE
j New', the State has, according
to a letter to commissioner chair
! man B. P. Costner, withdrawn its
! approval of continued use of the
| jail, “except on a very limited and
restricted scale.” Only male pris
oners can be confined at the jail,
temporarily (court action, ap
peals, bond, and no women, or sex
prisoners. The State feels the jail
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"85 MPH" Speed
Signs Highway 27
Cause Alarm
! Whodunnit? Meaning the paint
i job someone, evidently a group,
’ j and obviously possessing a devious
| sense of humor, did on the high
way speed signs Lincolnton
’ through Boger City.
’ Recently citizen action resulted
in the 45 mph speed limit on the
Lincolnton-Boger City highway
being changed back to the original
35 mph limit. But, “sometime dur
ing Monday night,” a paint job
was inflicted on the 35 MPH signs
approximately 25 of ’em. The
numeral “ 3 ” was painted over and
made into an “B’’...and on sev
eral of the signs the “9” made...
causing the signs to read 85 and
95 MPH.
Fortunately, no motorists took
the revised signs seriously ... and
Tuesday p.m. a State highway man
had the job of erasing the paint
handiwork from the signs, restor
ing them to their original 35 MPH
designation. Regular paint wasn’t
used by the culprits but a base
similar to that used on tires of
| cars that have received a w'ash
' | job. Tampering with State prop
' erty can be costly, as the guilty
' ones may learn. An investigation is
[ I in progress.
‘WiinF
MRS. HICKMAN
Lt. Governor
To Be Pilot
Club Speaker
The Pilot Club of Lincolnton
will have as its guest, Tuesday. No
vember 22nd, Mrs. Anne K. Hick
man, Lt. Gov. of District *. Mrs.
Hickman is a resident of Wins
ton-Salem, North Carolina.
A present Mrs. Hickman is
vice-chairman of the Forsyth GOP
Executive Committee and a direc
tor of the North Carolina Federa
tion of Republic Women. She
served as vice chairman of the
state GOP Executive Committee
for tw'o years and w'as an abet*
nate delegate at large to the na
tional GOP convention in IRU.
Prior to that time she was active
in YR circles and served as na
tional committee woman, regional
YR direct'or and a member of the
national YR Executive Committee.
She has served as a member of the
Forsyth Committee on Public So
licitations. as vice president of
Women's Traffic Club and on i s
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