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You are now reading — LINCOLN COUNTY’S LEADING NEWSPAPER and ADVERTISING MEDIUM VOL. 48, NO. 89 & White Super Market Opens Today Lincolnton gets another new and progressive busi ness in the formal opening today, Friday and Saturday of the Red and White Super Market on E. Sycamore Street behind Polhill Chevrolet Co. The Red and White Super Market is located in a large and handsome new building, of concrete block construc tion which was built by Joe Roseman, well known local groceryman and businessman. Mr. Roseman will be the owner and manager of the Red and White Super Market. Firemen Called Out Twice On Tuesday Night ; City firemen answered two calls ( Tuesday night in the midst of j the frigid, wintry weather that , prevailed at the time. One call, about 8:20 p. m.. was to the Grover Carpenter residence . in the Salem section of the county. , A blaze, reported as originating ( from a portable heater that was • being utilized to keep a water pump from freezing during the , night’s expected cold weather, caught the home afire and caused [ damage to the roof and other portions of the residence esti mated at around SBOO. The second call was answered about 1:00 a. m. to the C. H. Wil liams residence on W. Pine street. The Williams car, a ’56 Ford, was parked beside the home and caught fire in some manner. The .front seat of the car was com pletely destroyed by the blaze be fore it was brought under control. It was theorized that ashes from a coking pipe left in the car could ve set the car upholstery ablaze. FUNDS NEEDED ... Lincoln Makes Tentative Plans For MOD Drive Although the opening date is a month away, tentative plans are now being made for the annual March of Dimes fund drive in Lincoln County. Lincoln County, it has been pointed out, ranked 19th in the State during the 1955 March of Dimes campaign with contribu tions totaling $6,241.15, or less than 23 cents per person. In 1954, Lincoln County as sisted 16 polio patients at a total cost of $16,580.14. Four of the 16 were 1954 victims of the dread disease. DELLINGER TREASURER Chairman John Friday an nounced that Bryan (Jack) Del linger, Jr., of the First National Bank will serve as the 1956 Treas urer of the March of Dimes cam paign. Charles Connor, local insur ance representative, will serve as Chairman of the Advance Gifts Division. Advance contributions to the drive may be deposited in treas urer Dellinger's name at the First National Bank. CLUBS PARTICIPATING The following clubs, officials and LINCOLN TOTAL $798.30 .. . Contributions To TB Seal Sale Drive Now $5,467,95 (Reported) Contributions by mail have be gun to come into the office of the Alexander - Catawba- -Lincoln dis trict Tuberculosis Association in Newton, which now is conducting the forty-ninth Annual Christmas Seal Sale. LINCOLN TOTAL $798.30 Total receipts in the second week of 1955 Christmas Seal and Bond Sale in the three counties "mounted to $5,467.95. Os the , 'l, $1,835.10 is from the New area: $2,458.05 from the Hick area: $798.30 from Lincoln anty; and $376.50 from Alex ander county. The goal for the District is $20,000. according to , Mrs. Julia F. Davidson, eexcutive secretary of the Association. There are so many things Christmas Seal money does for us. “The little Seal is a passport to research,” Mrs. Davidson ex plained. “It is used in teaching people how to protect them selves against TB. It helps estab lish X-ray programs by which unknown rases that spread the The Lincoln Times Published Every Monday and Thursday Devated to the Progress of Lincolnton and Lincoln County. t 8 ATTRACTIVE PRIZE LIST An attractive list of prizes has been set aside for those who visit the store and register on the three official opening days. Forty large baskets of groceries are to be given away during the three days. Also, on Saturday a toy drum set, steam iron, camera will be awarded. The following Saturday, Dec. 10, a children’s record player and electric toaster will be given away and on Saturday. Dec. 17, the grand prize of SSO will be given the ticket holder; also other prizes will be a deep fat fryer, electric shaver and a $25 Toni doll. (See advertisement in .today’s issue of The Times on prize list and store specials being offered in connection with the Red and White Super Market opening.) The Lincolnton store will be a branch store of the Red and White organization, which is a voluntary grocery group of independent wholesalers and sub-licensed in dependent food retailers, who, to gether with leading food manu facturers, work toward a common purpose of moving merchandise to the consumer at a low cost. This concerted effort, a Red and White spokesman said, pays a fair profit to the retailer, to the whole saler, and to the manufacturer. STORE PERSONNEL Personnel of the Red and White store here will inelude Mr. (Continued from page 6) i organizations have been designated ; for participation in the Polio Fund 1 drive: i Kiwanis, P. J. Buckley, presi dent: manufacturing concerns. Pilot, Mrs. Velma Drum, presi dent: uptown and Boger City busi ness concerns. Lions, Guy Hoyle, president; “String of Dollars Day,” and “Blue Crutch Day.” VFW Auxiliary. Miss Marie Rhyne, president; March of Dimes booth. Junior Chamber of Commerce, 'Bud Warlick, president; construc tion of March of Dimes booth (lumber donated by Seth Lumber Co.). and assistance with distribu tion of MOD coin collectors. Lincoln County public schools. "BLUE CRUTCH DAY The local Infantile Paralysis chapter will have an iron lung on exhibit in Lincolnton on "Blue Crutch Day” January 7, 1956. The exhibit will be fur nished through the cooperation of Robert L. Jones, Western Area representative of the North Carolina March of Dimes, (Continued on page 6) disease are discovered. It is used for services to aid the rehabilita tion of patients and in providing advice and help to patients’ fam ilies. The Christmas Seal can do these things for you, your family your community, and your na tion ... if you will buy them. “Unbought, they are pieces of paper, a pretty design on the face and glue on the back. Bought, they are crusaders, armies, mis sionaries. They go out and fight for you and for our neighbors.” Buy Seals. Each is a weapon. It cuts two ways. It fights against unhealthy conditions; it fights for better conditions. I is my fight and yours. “SEAL OF HOPE” Take this weapon in your hand. Look at it. It not only does battle, it protects. It may protect you, personally, or someone you love. It is a weapon to respect the little Seal of Christmas, the Seal of Hope.” Be sure to answer your Christ mas Seals letters. Break-In At Iron Station Post Office The post office at Iron Station was entered sometime Monday night and about S3O in money and a stamp cancellation machine pil fered, The Times was informed, j Entry to the post office building j was gained by prying a lock on the front door. Postal authorities and the sheriff’s dept, were called in for an investigation of the j break-in. Mrs. Helen Long is Postmistress at Iron Station. Death Claims Burgin Martin, Lincoln Native Lee Burgin Mar in. 52. native of Lincoln county, died at his home ‘ on E. Center St. in Lexington, N. i C., yesterday. He had been in de i clinging health for some time. : Mr. Mlirtin was born July 17, 1903, the son of William J. and > Alice Craig Mlirtin of Lincoln ; county. He had been living in i Lexington for the past seven years 1 where he was employed wi.h the Wiinoah Mills. [ Funeral services will be held at . 3:30 p. m. Friday in Warlick Fun , eral Home chapel with the Rev. t Morris Baker and Rev. J. W. ’ Braxton officiating. Burial will be in Bethel Baptist Church ceme tery. t Surviving are his wife. Mrs. Hattie Loftin Martin, and a ’ daughter by a previous marriage, , Mrs. Hubert Stroud: five sisters, \ Mi's. Clyde Smith, MVs. Prue ' Mason, Mrs. L. C. Lippard, of Lin colnton; Mrs. James Metcalf of Gastonia, Mrs. John Bridges of Washington, D. C. Warlick’s Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. Rites Today For ! Monroe Carpenter Adolphus Monroe Carpenter. 68. well known farmer of Vale. Route 1, died Tuesday night in the Crowell Hospital. Mr. Carpenter was born Sep tember 1, 1897. the son of the late Ali Carpenter and Emma Schronce Carpenter of Lincoln county. Funeral services will be held 1 this afternoon (Thursday) at 3 l o'clock at the Gainsville Baptist Church with the Rev. Hal Hovis • officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. ■ Fred Schronce. Mrs. Clyde Cun ningham. Mrs. Paul Reynolds. ; Mrs. James Helms, Mrs. Lester : Martin, Miss Ethel Carpenter, all of Vale, Route 1, two sons, Ernest : and Clyde Carpenter; and 11 > grandchildren. Warlick's Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. - Executives Club To Hear Talk On Music, Culture I That having culture doesn't mean being “high-hat” but is the means to happier living, will be proven by charming Mrs. Ruth Sutherland to members of the Lin coln Executives Club at their next dinner meeting at the High School Cafeteria Friday evening, Decem ber 2. A graduate of McPhail School of Music and Dramatic Art, with additional voice studies at Drake, Colorado Springs and California, Mrs. Sutherland will discuss cul ture in terms of a happier and better life. “For some reason or other, many of us mid-westerners have the idea that being cultured means going “high-brow” says the charming lady who was reared in lowa and I now resides in Oklahoma, “And nothing could possibly be more untrue.” With twelve years’ experience before audiences such as the local group, Mrs. Sutherland, a descen dant of President James A. Gar field and a relative of the late P. T. Barnum, famous showman, 1 will discuss music, culture and . other worth-while things of life from the every-day viewpoint and • how the help immeasurably to bring harmony to the home and a , fuller life. Graveside Rites Held For McAlister Infant Joey Dean McAlister, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dean , McAlister of Davidson, Route 1. , died .in the Mooresville hospital , Tuesday. Graveside services were held i Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Mountain View Baptist Church. Drum's Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. LINCOLNTON, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1955 Lights "Go On" Fridc / As Yule Shopping Season Opens In City LOCAL STORES BLOSSOMING OUT FOR CHRISTMAS . . . Lincolnton Yule Toy lands Calculated To Widen Eyes & Have Mouths Agape ft GOOD BOYS AND GIRLS, like the five shown here, have noth ing to fear, for Santa Claus is coining, and he’s just 25 days away. This quintet is getting an idea of what he will have to offer them this year, and that's plenty, for Lincolnton stores have never had a better array of Yule toys. Reading from your left in the above photo are: Ernest Taylor, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Taylor of Coneod, formerly of Lincolnton; Terry Posey, 8. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Posey; Marty Eaddy, 7, son of Mir. and Mrs. Freddie Eaddy; John Eaddy, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Eaddy; and Pam Beck, 9, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Beck. , (TIMES Photo by Fra/.ier). LICENSE INFO ROUNDUP^. Automobile Tag Sales To Start On January 2 The State Department of Motor Vehicles in Raleigh has issued a round-up of licensing informa tion for next year today. Miss Foy Ingram, director of the agency's registration division, re minded vehicle owners that new tag sales would begin a full month later than in previous years. NEW SELLING PERIOD Ordinarily, owners would be getting renewal cards about now. she said. However, under the re vised schedule 1956 plates will go on sale January 3 instead of December 1. She explained the new selling period would permit more uniform distribution and would not conflict with holiday POSTMASTER FAIR GIVES TIPS . . . It's Time Now To Start Christmas Mailings “It’s time to start those Christ mas mailings!” Postmaster V. N. Fair warned today, launching his 1955 “Mail Early for Christmas” campaign. “On the calendar it’s less than a month away but here at the Post Office it's Christmas today and every day until December 25th.” he said. Extra help will be secured, the delivery truck serviced, the post office inkwells filled, and right now everything is being readied for the mammoth flood of Christ mas mail that may smash all records, the postmaster reported. The post office has already dis patched a tremendous quantity of gift packages headed for members of the Armed Forces overseas. Christmas cards for service per sonnel can still be delivered in time if they are sent by air mail be fore December Ist. In the U.S.C., smart people are now mailing gifts to friends and relatives living in other states. 1 and year-end activities. I The 1956 re-licensing period | runs from January 3 through Feb ruary 15, she said. Renewal cards will be placed in the mail the latter part of December. As in the past, over-the-counter sales will be handled by branch offices of the Carolina Motor Club, the Winston-Salem Auto Club and by motor vehicle headquarters. (License headquarters in I.in rolnlon is located in the Guy E. Cline building. Roddy Cline In charge.) Miss Ingram also called atten tion to a new all-time registration record. She said more than 1,600,- (Continued on page 6) Postmaster Fair especially calls ! on housewives to help in his effort !to deliver ever y package and | Christmas card before December j 25th. “The lady of the house,” he : emphasized, is really in charge of ; each family's Christmas mailing ; program. She selects the Christmas cards, buys most of the gifts and sees to it that the mailing list of friends and loved-ones is up-to date. ADVANCE PLANNING “Actually, success in having all Christmas gifts and greeting cards delivered on time is largely a mat | ter of advance planning and prep aration which should be done this week.” Postmaster Fair pointed out. He urges that you take the following steps at once: Get out your Christmas card list and carefully cheek through it. Make sure that each address includes the full name, street and num- I her. city, zone and state. Then, By DEL LAZENBY Attune your ear to the North j Wind, Mama, and you'll hear a whisper of things to come. And you’re in for it, too, come December 25. Old Man! For Christmas toys, 1956-style, are in dead earnest and for keeps. For all their gay wrappings and trimmings, they are no empty baubles and a trip through Lin colnton stores will impress it on you. Never before in history have toys had such utility value as those already on display in Lin colnton toylands. The dolls not only wet and weep, they drink from a nipple they walk around flaunting their real-hair tresses, singing songs from mem ory, and sassing their little • mothers. Even their wardrobes show undoubted touches of the Master designer's craft. Everything works, and every thing is terrific, and there's going to be a Yule morning wrestle be tween Junior and his old man over property rights. NEVER SO FORTUNATE Take those robots that creep along like something out of the 21st Century; those space men and space gadgets a la Buck Rogers; (Continued on page 6) Annual Christmas Music Festival Here Dec. lith The annual Christmas Music Festival will be held on Sunday night, December 11, at 8 o’clock ! in the High School auditorium, ! it was announced today. ! This outstanding musical 1 event will be held as in thp past under the auspices of partici pating Lincolnton churches. Complete details on the pro gram will be announced in a later issue of The Times. Mrs. Gamble Tells Rotarians Os Trip To Orient- Mrs. J. R. Gamble, well known Lincoln on resident, was the guest speaker at the regular Mlonday night dinner meeting of the Ro i lary club in the High School cafe j teria. B. C. Lineberger was the pro- I gram leader and introduced the speaker. Mrs. Gamble related, in her us ual excellent and interesting man ner, the experiences of her re , ' cent trip to the Orient. On the ! trip she visited with her son. Dr. | John Gamble, and family in ' j Japan. Dr. Gamble is now in mili ’! tary service at the Army Hospi _ i tal in Tokyo. '! In her talk she told of points 1 j of interest she visited, such as • Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong and ■ the Phillipines. She reported that j she made friends with people of many nationalities, and learned ! much about the people and their ‘j cus.oms. ■ j On the basis of probable yield i reports from growers, as of Oc-to ■ i ber 1, the state's corn production 1 is forecast at 63,643.000 bushels. pay a visit to the l’osl Office, stock up on stamps (use three cent stamps on your Christmas cards for first-rlass mail service) and ask any questions you may have about mailing regulations. You can do this in a leisurely way if you will come to the post office before 10:30 a.m. or between ! 1:30 and 3:30 p.m., thus missing! the rush hours. On your way home [ pick up a supply of heavy wrap- j ping paper, sturdy empty cartons, j strong cord and kraft paper ad- j hesive tape. A modest investment J in these necessities will pay big dividends in safe delivery of your j cherished Christmas gifts. After your gift wrapping and packing is complete, plan your j mailings so that those for the most! distant points go first. Try to get all long-distance mailings into the post office before December sth and those for nearby points should be mailed by Deecmber 10th. You'll be glad you did. Expect Holiday Sales To Break All Records Tomorrow, Friday, is the date. The lights “go on," the music starts, and the cash registers “jingle” as the curtain goes up on v/hat is expected to be the greatest Christmas shopping season in the town’s history. In virtually every month of this year, and eleven of them have now passed into history, retail sales have ex ceeded those of the preceding month and a number of the Lincolnton merchants have predicted that this season’s sales will break all previous records. | 1 ■jWL i M MR. LINEBERGER Pervey Lineberger Completes 27 Years At Carolinian Mills Pervey A. Lineberger completed twenty-seven years of continuous j service at Carolinian Mills, Inc., j High Shoals, several months ago. ; Born in Gaston Coun y. the son I of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lineberger, 1 Mr. Linebeger first began his em j ployment- at this plant in August ! of 1928.. i Also in 1928 he w’as married to Miss Lela Lafon of Hardin Mrs. Lineberger is also employed at I Carolinian in the Spinning De partment. The Linebergers have two daughters, Sue Lee. who is employed w'ith Tait Yarn Com pany in Lincolnton and Joan, a student at Lincolnton High School. They lost their only son. Jimmie, in an automobile accident several years ago. During his younger days Mr. Lineberger was well known for his basegall activities when he served as a pitcher. He now lists his hobbies as politics and baseball. A few years ago the Lineber gers moved from the High Shoals community just across the Lincoln County line into their home on Route 4, Lincolnton. CHARLOTTE MAN SPEAKER ... South Fork Baptists Will Meet At Hickory For M Night Program Keener Pharr, minister of edu cation for the First Baptist Church of Charlotte will be guest speaker at “M” Night for the South fork Baptist Training Union, Monday evening, December 5, at the First Church of Hickory. This is an annual meeting for the puipose of launching the new year's program of training, and the “MT stands for mobilization. SHELTON TO PRESIDE The program will begin at st ven-thirty o'clock but there will be a fifteen minute precession organ recital by Miss Camille Hen drix, organist of the hos. church. Ryan Sheßon of Lincolnton Is as sociational director and will pre County s Cotton Farmers Being Notified Os Acreage Allotment For Their Farm ! Each co ton farmer in Lincoln ] County is being notiied by mail this week of the acreage allotment for his farm for the 1956 Crop. These allotments represent each i producers share of the national I allotment based on the plan ing : history for the farm for the years 1953-55 inclusive. APPROVED IN RALEIGH The final allotment for each farm was determined in the county under the supervision of the county committee and then ALMOST EVERYONE in LINCOLNTON and LINCOLN COUNTY reads THIS NEWSPAPER Single Copy : FIVE CENTS Tomorrow. December 2, will mark the official opening of the Christmas shopping season in Lincolnton ... and due note will be taken of the occasion. LIGHTS "GO ON” Christmas lights and decora tions have been strung in the downtown and business area, and Friday afternoon a switch will be thrown and the sparkling, multi colored lights wall come to life .. and will “twinkle and shine” throughout the shopping season. This year, too, there’s a “new look” in the Christmas street dec orations glittering silver foil re placing the greenery motif of the past Yuletide seasons. And there’ll be music Friday, weather permitting, by the crack Lincolnton high school band. The band is scheduled to be on the Court Square from 1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. and put on a lively, colorful program of music. SANTA COMING There will be no Christmas pa rade locally this year, but the jolly fellow the children all love, Santa Claus, is expected to make his appearance on Lincolnton streets soon. According to the schedule worked out. Santa will be here to greet the kids on Decem ber 10, 17, 20 and 24. The stores will be closed Wed i nesday afternoon, Dec. 7, but will , be open all day on Wednesdays, . Dec. 14 and 21. On the other week I | days, the regular opening and . i closing hours will be observed by - the stores. II Counters, tables and shelves of I Lincolnton stores were filled today 1 with a wide variety of holiday ■ goods in anticipation of tomor row's customers and the shopping days to follow'. Also, beginning on Saturday, Dec. 10. Chris mas carols w'ill be j broadcast over a loud speaker from the Courthouse. Auto Catches Afire In Buffalo Shoals Section City firemen answered a call last night to the Buffalo Shoals road section of the county, where an automobile had caught fire. The car belonging to Fred M. Houser, was reported to have caught fire around the motor, pre sumably from a w'ire shortage, Damage was said to be light. side over the meeting. Congrega tional singing will be under the direction of Kenneth Massey, minister of music for Viewmont Church. There will be special music also provided by choirs from the hos. church and the First Church of Newton. The de votional period will be devoted to scripture readings by Rev. Albert A. Young of Hickory and Rev. Linwood Peterson of L'neolnton, and prayer led by Rev. Lewis Beal of the Oyama Church. Training union directors will sit in a body and special recogni tion of hem w ill be made by Rev. Alvin Wulker of Maiden. A pre (Continucd on page 5) sent to tlie state office in Ra leigh where they were cheeked and approved. j Since the national allotment for 1955 most aimers expect the cut on their individual farm to be only 4 percent. However, it is pointed cut here that the methods for setting cot on allotments are pre scribed by law, and following this required formula permits wide variation between the state allot ments. the, county allotments, and (Continued on page 5)
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