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You are now reading — LINCOLN COUNTY’S LEADING NEWSPAPER and ADVERTISING MEDIUM VOL. 48, NO. 87 EFENSE DEPARTMENT APPROVES... it ' ; # Army Helicopter Will Help Local Red Cross Chapter In Fund Drive Lincoln county’s Red Cross chapter, beset by problems galore in recent months in its efforts to keep operating and providing its vital services to the public, is due to get some help from a surprising and unexpected source. The benefactor: The United States Department of Defense, Washington, D. C„ headed by Secretary Charles Wilson. And, Program For New County Agents To Be Discussed The county agent and home agent offices have scheduled a joint meeting on Thursday, Dec. 1, at 9:30 a.m. in the county court house for certain farmers, home makers, businessmen and civic leaders of Lincoln county. Leading the discussion on the new County Farm and Home De velopment pnograms in Lincoln county will be a number of State and Federal farm leaders. Lincoln county, under a new Federal-State program, added two new assistant farm agents and one new assistant home agent. These new workers will do specialized work with farm men and women of the county. The exact program of the new agent's work has not yet been established, and it will be at this December Ist meeting that the farmers, businessmen, homemak ers and civic leaders will be called upon for suggestions and recom mendations in helping the county agent, and home agent work out a program that will enable these new workers to provide help and tter service to Lincoln county h >ple. Supreme Court Subject Os Roper Talk Before Local Kiwanis Club An interesting and informative talk on the U.S. Supreme Court was heard by the Kiwanis club at last week's weekly dinner meeting. S. M. Roper, Lincolnton attorney and former State Senator was the guest speaker, and in his interest ing manner he reported on the records and background of the Supreme Court, personalities in volved. and some amendments in court decisions. He ended his talk with a sugestion that the Federal constitution be examined and revised so that existing faults and shortcomings might be remedied. Thanksgiving Service Thursday, Baptist' Church i A Thanksgiving service will be : held Thursday morning, Nov. 24, at 7 o'clock at the First Baptist i Church. Rev. Linwood Peterson, i pastor, will speak on “For Every- i thing Give Thanks.” There will be special music and : the usual offering will be taken for i the Baptist Orphanage. Doughnuts and hot chocolate will be served in ■ the social hall of the church prior : to the service. I Eagle Award Presented At Scout Court Os Honor Highlight of the monthly Lin coln County Boy Scout Court of Honor last Thursday night in the First Presbyterian church was the awarding of the Eagle Rank to James McClurd, Jr., of Troop One, Crouse. John Moore and Wayne Gilbert of Troop Two, Iron Station, were County's Cotton Ginnings Above Last Year Totals Cotton ginned in Lincoln county from the 1955 crop to date totals 8,097 bales, compared to 5,446 bales for the same period in 1954. The Bureau of Census, Depart ment of Commerce, has released “llminary figures by counties in I rth Carolina from the crop of 55. with comparative figures to the same date for the crop of 1954. The figures are in running bales, linters not included. Ginning to tals for Lincoln and area counties follow: 1955 1954 Lincoln 8,097 5,446 Catawba 1.944 1,651 Gaston 1,046 786 Cleveland 36.388 23,363 Iredell 6,673 6,064 The State totals for all counties to date amounted to 264,698. and 331.543 for the similar period in 1954. The Lincoln Times Published Every Monday and Thursday Devoted to the Progress of Lincolnton and Lincoln County. to Lincoln county will come a "first”...a helicopter to assist in the local chapter’s annual fund campaign. Here’s the background of what has occurred as preparations go forward, headed by fund chairman John Friday, for the annual Red Cross F’und Drive next year: PUBLIC HOLDS FATE The fate of the Lincoln county Red Cross chapter hinges on the public’s response to the March, 1956, drive for funds. Chairman Friday already is making plans for the drive, lining up committee per sonnel, and working closely with chapter chairman and co-chair man. Walter Clark and Mrs. Bill Hoyle, respectively, in efforts to plan a successful campaign. Remindful of the numerous times when the U.S. Army and the Red Cross have worked together, helping stricken victims in dis asters, Chairman Friday sometime ago began pondering the question if, perhaps, the U.S. Army would give Lincolnton some peace-time assistance. Last month. Chairman Friday wrote a letter to Secretary of De fense Charles E. Wilson. He told the Secretary of the financial dif ficulties faced by the Lincoln Red Cross chapter, and how important it is for the annual fund drive not to fail as the past several cam paigns have. HELICOPTER AUTHORIZED This week, Mr. Friday received (Continued on page 6) Cherryville's New City Hall Near Completion CHERRYVILLE A big formal opening of Cherryville’s new SIOO,- 000 municipal building is sched uled for the near future, and plans are to invite Governor Hodges to speak on the occasion. The two-story brick, concrete, and steel building to house all Cherryville governmental agencies is expected to be completed late this month. “OPEN HOUSE”PLANNED Cherryville Mayor W. T. Rob inson, in announcing the idea for the "open house” opening, said Cherryville is getting the hand some new structure at no in crease in taxes for Cherryville citizens. He said the funds ac cumulated from surplus over a 10-year period. The building will be ultra-mod ern in design and will house the Cherryville police and fire depart ments. the mayor's office, the Cherryville branch of the county health department, eight jail cells, the State Highway Patrol office, and a recorder's courtroom with capacity for seating 100 persons, in addition to other municipal of fices. Also, a section will be re served for the Chen” vi !e Chamber of Commerce, now he’u 0 organized. Construction began in January with J. L. Beam. Jr., as architect and James L. Beam, Sr., as con tractor. ■ awarded the Star Rank. Kenneth ! Hord of Troop One, Lincolnton, ! was presented the First Class : Rank. i R. M. Schiele of Gastonia, Pied , mont Council Area leader, presided over the Court. Serving with Mr. ; Schiele on the Court were: Paul ! Gabriel, Albert Goldsmith, James McClurd, J. L. Thompson, David A. Houston and W. M. Glenn. Other ranks presented at the Court were: Second Class Allen Heafner, George Dellinger, Troop One, Crouse. Tenderfoot Frank Caldwell, Troop One, Asbury; Donnie L. Simmons, Terry W. Cornwell, ' Troop One, Lincolnton. ; MERIT BADGES i Receiving merit badges were the following: Automobiling Don Smith, I Troop One, Crouse: Basketry i Dwight Saunders. Troop Two, Iron ' Station: Bookbinding Barron W. i Lee, Troop One, Boger City: . Camping David A. Houston, , Troop One, Lincolnton: Citizen . ship-in-the-home Henry Hovis, : Troop Two, Iron Station; Citizenship-in-the-Community— Gene Gilbert, Troop Two, Iron ! Station; Home Repairs—Lawrence S. Brown, Jr , Troop 4. Lincolnton: i Nature David Houston, Jr., 1 Troop One, Lincolnton: Reading , John Moore, Gary Moore, Troop ; Two, Iron Station: Wood Carving [ —Charles Hoke. Troop One. Lln i colnton: Woodrow Lawing, Troop Two. Iron Station. \> v _, v*F vga #1 gjg § »IHW mWm BV Hr* " *' -" " CHURCH WINS HONOR ... Reepsville Bap tist Church (above of the Vale community, Lin coln County, received a second place citation in the Rural Church Os The Year contest sponsored Second Place Winning Reepsville Church Has Made Great Progress Reepsville Baptist Church of Lincoln county, as The Times re pored in last Thurd'day's edition, won a second place citation in the Rural Church of The year con test sponsored by the N. C. Bap tist State Convention in Asheville last week. The Reepsville church now has a total membership of 256, 303 on the Sunday school roll, and 165 enrolled in Training Union, Average Sunday school attendance is 225. STORY OF CHURCH The following background story on the honor-winning Reepsville church was submitted to The Times for publication: Some months ago, the Rural Church Department of the Bap tist Sate Convention of North Carolina sponsored an improve ment contest for its churches. The length of the contest was to run from July 1. 1954 through June 30. 1955. and recognition was to be based on growth and improve ments during this period of time. On seeing the zeal of the peo ple of Reepsville Baptist church to go forward in the Lord’s work, the pastor entered the statewide contest. Pastor Ralph Webb Jr. was pres ent at the State Convention in Asheville last Tuesday night when the top ten churches were recog nized. He was happy to stand Famous Heart Specialist Will Speak At Gastonia GASTONIA Dr. Paul Dudley White, world famous heart spe cialist, will speak at the fourth annual Gaston Memorial Hospital Symposium to be held here Novem ber 30. Dr. White has received world attention for his treatment of President Eisenhower. The sym posium is to be held at the Masonic Temple. Over 2,000 invitations have been sent to doctors of the two Caro linas. Two speeches during the day by Dr. White will highlight the sym posium. Tire noted. doctor will speak at 3:45 on “The Diagnosis and Treatment of Coronary Heart Disease,” and in night session he will speak on, “Ways of Life in Relation to the Causes of Various Kinds of Heart Disease.” The latter talk will follow dinner. It is expected that many doctors in the Piedmont section of the two states will attend. Dr. White is emeritus clinical professor of medicine at Harvard University, consultant in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital In Boston, executive director of the National Advisory Heart Coun cil, and president of the Interna tional Society of Cardiology. The symposium is sponsored each year by Sunrise Dairy of Gas tonia. L. A. Wolfe, general man ager and secretary-treasurer, was sold on the idea of a symposium here by Dr. W. A. Anthony, local heart specialist. The idea, which was conceived and materialized in 1951, was to bring Gastonia a doctor each year who is renowned in his field. Dr. Anthony was Chief-of-staff of Gaston Memorial Hospital at the time. Wolfe, who is noted for his in terest in medicine, agreed to underwrite tjie cost. The medical staff of Gaston Memorial Hospital agreed to assume professional sponsorship. Fish And Chicken Supper At High Shoals Clubhouse The women of the East Lincoln ton Baptist church will sponsor a fish and chicken supper at the High Shoals club house Saturday, November 26. Serving will begin at noon and there will also be for sale hot dogs and cold drinks. All proceeds from the supper will go on the church debt. LINCOLNTON, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1955 by the North Carolina Baptist Convention held in Asheville last week. Rev. Ralph Webb, Jr., is pastor ofthe Reepsville rhurch. REV. WEBB ... the pastor when the Reepsville church was called as one of the second place winners. MANY IMPROVEMENTS Among the improvements at Reepsville church was the pur chase of additional choice corner frontage and the cons: ruction of a spacious auditorium, equipped with 61 oak pews, matching pul A Prayer For Thanksgiving Lord Master of men’s minds, against Whom no human thought can prevail —< think Thou kindly of Thy unthinking chil dren. If we forget Thee, it is because our aching, fawning clay has little substance. We are time-worn and custom-bent, and our tem porary flesh hath no understanding but its present ease. It is not the spirit that would forget. Lord. By prayer, we obtain mercies from Thy Hand, and by thanks giving and praise we keep possession of our blessings. Let us be aware of this, O Lord, at this Thanksgiving season, for Lincoln County has much for which to thank Thee. We have the quiet peace of the Lincoln fields, the glories of its autumn woods, the rains in season, and the quickening of the sun. Nature here is in balance to please us. Thy hand stays the floods and the high winds, the shaking of the earth and the blanketing of the snows. Let us be thankful for homes unbroken, even as we are touched by dire visitation in other corners. Let us be grateful for health and for strength to fulfill our appointed tasks, for friendships sin cere and loves that run deep, for the flesh that nurtures our flesh, for the untarnished dignity of our spirits, and for the constant knowledge of Thy presence if we call. For little things which are yet big things, we thank Thee -for the rhythmic rain on the roof; for the sleep that knows no fret; for the unbruised hope of youth, the guiltless memory of age; for wholesome illusions s ill intact; for the peace of dreams and the calm optimism of waking hours; for walking abroad in .he land in freedom and in confidence; for common shelter and warmith; and the knowledge that all will be well under Thee. For we know, O Lord, that there are anguished lands, that there are those who tremble in dread and apprehension; where the child is stranger to the parent and where the human spirit is a hollow reed for tyrants. Wte know there are sections oblivious to Thy blessings for all who seek them the blessings of medical and industrial progress, the blessings of technological discoveries; the blessings of the scientific approach which is being revealed by Thee for Thy peo ple. Make us aware. O Mlaster, that pride slays Thanksgiving, and that a proud man is seldom a grateful man. Give us the further blessing, O Lord, of a grateful heart within our breast, knowing that Thy favors are perfect gifts which man can never merit in himself. We in Lincoln County, O Lord, are most favored of man. Let not our “amens” stick in our throat at this Thanksgiving season! —DEL LAZENBY Dr. Baumberger Attends Optometric Convention Dr. P. J. Baumberger of Lincoln ton was among the more than 250 North Carolina optometrists at tending the two-day Fall Educa tional Congress of the N. C. State Optometric Society at Hotel Rob ert E. Lee in Winston-Salem this week. Highlights of the congress in cluded panel discussions, talks by imminent specialists in the vision field, and society business sessions. Dr. Baumberger is secretary treasurer of the Catawba Valley Optometric Society. pit furniture, and opera chairs for the choir. A Lennox air-Flow' heating system was installed to re place the old coal heater which had been the source of heat for years. The men’s Brotherhood was organized, the already existing Women’s Missionary Union was divided into two working circles, and the Young Women’s Auxiliary was organized. Special Sunday School and training union work was done. Also, a weekly radio broadcast was begun over station WLON each Saturday morning from 11:30 until 12:00 noon. A good average for Evangelism was also held and pastoral supply was greatly increased. PASTOR’S STATEMENT Rev. Webb says, "It is almost miraculous to see the progress which has been made in so short a time, and the great increases made in attendance and offer ings.” He gives all the praise to the working people of the church and most of all to the living Christ whom they serve so devotedly. Work and improvements have not stopped at Reepsville with the close of the contest. Under the sacrificial leadership of Dorus Helms, the head of the building committee, work continues in the old building and all the members except great things from God in the immediate future. VFW Thanksgiving Dance This Saturday Night A Thanksgiving Dance will be ) sponsored by the VFW Post on - Saturday night, Nov. 26, at the . VFW Club. : Dancing will be from 8:30 'til - midnight with music furnished by 5 the Rhythm Masters. The dance will be for VFW members and luests. Admission is $1.50 per i couple. ’: The VFW Post is anticipating 1 j the Thanksgiving dance to be the •; biggest of the season in the Post -1 sponsored series, and a large turn ; | out of members and guests is re- I quested. Farm Prospects For Lincoln In 7956 To Show Little Change Rotarians Hear Talk On Textile Imports Problem C. A. Denson, an official of the Stonecutter Mills of Spindale, was guest speaker a: Monday night’s dinner meeting of the Rotary club. Club president Boyce Griggs Rotary club.presided at the meet ing with several business mattres being discussed. W. M. Len;z, program leader, introduced the guest speaker. Mr. Denson gave a very en lightening talk on what is hap pening to the textile and cotton industry in the United States, and especially the South, as a result of Japanese textile prod ucts becoming an increasing threat to the American economy with their lower cost goods, which are made possible with labor costs and low tariff re strictions. Some textile imports were re ported to have reached as high as 20 per cent. Mt\ Denson was hope ful for an improvement in the j situation which meets in Geneva, Switzerland, in January, 1956. Efird Burris introduced as guest, j his brother, Risden Burris, who is j home for a brief vacation from college. Calvin Murdock of Char lotte was guest of Elmore Good- j son. Audrey Rhyne was a visitor j from the Gastonia Rotary Club.! The president of the Lincolnton Roa:ary club Dr. Boyce Griggs presided at the meeting with several business matters being ■ o'iscussed. 21 Cases Are Heard Monday In Local Court Disposition of cases tried in Monday’s session of Recorder’s court as taken from the records ,n the office of the Clerk of i Court follow: Ira Luther Harvey, speeding 70 j mph oc. Defendant called and failed. Bond ordered forfeited for costs, fine. Charles Scales, reckless driving.! Defendant called and failed. Bond ! ordered forfeited for costs, fine. I Cranford Barker, reckless driv- j ing, involved in accident. Not j guilty. William Thomas McCloud, driv- ! mg drunk. Defendant makes a • motion for jury trial; motion | granted. Levi inmni Ussery. speeding 75 j mph oc. Defendant makes motion! tor jury trial: motion granted. Luster Lee Carter, reckless driv- j mg involved in an accident. 6 j months, suspended upon payment of $25 fine and costs. Given until Nov. 26. 1955, to pay. Lawson Berke Williams, murder. Defendant pleads not guilty. Probable cause found, bound over to Superior cour. Bond set at SIO,OOO. Bond for material wit nesses, Elizah Callaway and Lena Hoyle, set in the sum of SI,OOO. | State's witnesses recognized in j sum of SIOO. Tommy Lee Friday, adw. Prose- j cution frivolous. P rosecutingj witness ordered confined to county j jail for 30 days, suspended upon j payment of costs. Ella Lee Friday, adw. Not guilty, j Fred Gibbs, adw. Prosecution I frivolous. Prosecution witness or- j dered confined to county jail for j 80 days, judgment suspended upon | payment of costs. John Henry Goodson. Jr., reck less driving. 6 mon;hs, suspended j upon payment of $25 fine and costs. Willard Foster Dickson, driving j drunk. 6 months, suspended upon payment of SIOO and costs, and further condition that defendant does not operate a motor vehicle upon public highways of N. C. I for period of 1 year from date. Johnny Norvill, drunk and dis qrderly, damage to eoun v proper ty. attempting to escape jail, 30 days, on first count: 6 months on counts 2 and 3, sentence to begin on expiration of 30 days sentence imposed on drunk and disorderly charge. Horace Sisk, non support of children. Issue capias. Cletus Pot, et, bastardy and failure to support, etc. 6 months, suspended upon payment of S4OO to prosecuting witness. The following w r ere ordered to pay the costs on the charge of speeding: Thomas Martin Schrum, David Rhyne Willson, James Rob tit Reeves. Sr„ Cline Lloyd Ma haffey, George Marion Murray, William B. (nmnf Ward, Jr., Barnett Crowell Lineberger, Sarah Dellinger Ray. Cases on indictments for reck less driving involved in accident, were continued to other terms of court. The economic picture for Lincoln County farmers in 1956 will be good in some spots, about the same in others, unpredictable and not-so-good in some respects. However, the long-term outlook is promising with the prospect that the farmer will work out of most of his problems within the next two to five year period. mr JACK BROWN Brown Appointed Co-Ordinator Os S-D Day Here Mayor A. L. Tait has joined oth er mayors and governors through out the nation in declaring Thurs i day. December 1. to be Safe-Driv j ing Day in Lincolnton. Mayor Tait also announced the appointment of Jack Brown, manager and staff announcer at radio station WLON, as Co-ord- I inator for the Safe-Driving Day i observance in Lincolnton. Plans 1 for SD Day are now being I worked out by Mr. Brown with traffic enforcement officers and 1 safety officials connected with the annual event. In signing the Safe-Driving Day proclamation, Mayor Tait pledged j Lincolnton's cooperation to the I second annual S-D Day, which is an experiment with a purpose in street and highway safety. S-D DAY OBJECTIVE The principal objective behind S-D Day is to prove that for one 24-hour period, the nation can cut its traffic casualties to a minimum through concerted efforts of all drivers and pedestrians. Proving that to themselves, drivers might then be expected to realize that the same caution will make driving easier and safer for the entire month and year, the mayor said. The President’s Committee for Traffic Safety, in Washington, D. C., is sponsor of the S-D pro gram and its nationwide coordi nator. A campaign to acquaint all drivers with S-© Day began No vember 21 and will continue to De cember 10. Effects of the cam paign to cut death and injury will be tabulated daily in Washington and made public through the newspapers, radio stations and the television channels of the country. Radiologist Talks To Kiwanians On Preventive Medicine Dr. Ira Bell, radiologist of Hickory, was the guest speaker at Tuesday night’s dinner meeting of the Kiwanis club in the High School cafeteria. Frank Hull Crowell was program leader, and introduced the speak er. Guests included Mrs. Julia Davidson of Newton, executive secretary of the Tri County Tuber cular Association; Dr. L. A. Cro well. Jr., Tommy Morton, Jr., of Lincolnton. Dr. Bell’s talk was on preventive medicine, with special emphasis on the mobile X-ray units, one of which services Lincoln county. He felt that chest X-rays are a most familiar phase of preventive medi cine, including the same field as mass survey programs such as visual tests, test for hearing, can cer smears, and mass urinalysis. More and more people, he said, are beginning to realize the value of preventive medicine. He re port ea that there is a clinic at White Sulphur Springs. Va.. where more businesses and corporations sent their executive personnel for a combination vocation-complete physical examination. An important part about the chest X-rays, explained, is that of every case of TB found the doo„ tors find six other ailments or ab normal conditions which show up in X-ray. Dr. Bell connected his talk with the Christmas seals sale campaign the district association is now conducting. ALMOST EVERYONE in LINCOLNTON and LINCOLN COUNTY reads THIS NEWSPAPER Single Copy: FIVE CENTS I That’s how the farm economic i situation was sized up here last week in a “Farm Outlodk For 1956” meeting held in the home agent’s office in the county court ! house, at which personnel of the i agricultural agencies in the county I and other interested persons at tended. EXTENSION SPECIALISTS j Present were A. D. Seale, farm management specialist, and Miss ; Mamie Whisnant, home manage j ment specialist, both from the North Carolina Agricultural Ex | tension Service in Raleigh, i Mr. Seale and Miss Whisnant, ] reporting on various phases of the | agricultural economy, attempted to give long-range forecasts covering j general farm conditions during the I next year. j Generally agreed upon by the ! two speakers was the opinion that the general economic condition of the farmer in the next twelve months will show very little change. Prices for most farm produce are expected to remain at or near pres ent levels, while costs are expected to also remain near the same. NO DEPRESSION EXPECTED Mr. Seale pointed out that agriculture occupies only a small part (5.6%) of the national economic picture, and because of this factor he didn’t feel that any further agricultural decline would bring the U.S. into a de pression. Should the non-farm | economy go along good in 1956, an agricultural decline might j cause a “drag" in the economy but no depression, he ex plained. He didn't think we w'ould ever see a 1932. agriculturally speaking, again, although periodic setbacks (Continued on page 6) Defer Fathers Under A New Draft Change From Washington, D. C., comes this announcement of interest to draft eligibles: Most —if not all fathers may look forward to deferments “fairly soon.” A Selective Service spokesman said these deferments would be one result of a change in draft regulations now being completed. Apparently it fits into a “youth movement” announced by the Se lective service two months ago. The spokesman said the antici pated change would provide for calling up eligible registrants in this order; 1. Delinquents defined as those who for some reason failed to register or to comply w-ith local board instructions to report for physical examinations. 2. Volunteers. 3. Nonvolunteers between 18 and 26. 4. Men 26 and younger with children. 5. Men over 26. Fatherhood was eliminated as grounds for deferment in July, 1953. At that time the number of men available for Selective Service had dropped below one million and some states were calling men as young as 19. But the manpower pool had climbed back to 1,764,000 by last July. In September, Selective Service reported the average age of draf tees had risen to almost 23. Mays Chapel Church Gets More Land For Cemetery MAIDEN —Mays Chapel Meth odist church is the recipient of 1.18 acres of land adjacent to the church cemetery, which has been given by Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Beard for use as additional ceme tery property. Mr. Beard is to use the property during his lifetime, but upon his death it goes into the full posses sion of the church. Schedule For Dist. X-ray Mobile Unit This Week i| mmi - , ss Saturday, Nov. 26, Health De partment building, Lincolnton. Large film 9:00-10:00 a.m.; small film —10:00 to 12:00 noon,
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