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You ore now reading — LINCOLN COUNTY’S LEADING NEWSPAPER and • ADVERTISING MEDIUM VOL. 49, NO. 1 Bil 111 department T of C moto* A vehicies wmmMmm ■ 1956 license plates ' OtAttg MOIOaCYCti MOTO»CYC« ....,1... * o'.i.'.M "nm. jsti oo*en"" " ‘ - • MSSIMCM CM T*AlU* ntVAU COMMCftCtM IUIUS CONTHACT CAMIH -• nmANIM ORIVAWAY LICENSE LINE-UP ... A wide variety of li cense plates will greet Tar Heel motor vehicle owners January 3 when the new black-on-orange plates go on sale throughout the state. Illustrated are the 22 classifications Including a brand-new horseless Carriage tag. Owners of old-timey (35 City, County Schools Open, Holidays Over Hundreds of Lincolnton and Lincoln Cdunty pupils, first through senior grades, returned by foot, bus, auto and bicycle to day to their respective classrooms in the city and county schools systems after a holiday respite of from one to two weeks at home. Most of the schools had been closed two weeks for the Yule holidays, while others operating on split term schedules were closed for one week. The city-county students will now settle down to about two apd a half months of uninterrupted study, as the next holidays do not come until March 22. The schools will close at noon March 22, and remain closed March 23, 24 for the State N.C.E.A. convention in Ashe ville. Easter holidays for the local schools will be observed March 30, April 2. References In Clark Article Clarified Several paragraph references in The Times’ feature article in last Thursday's issue on the Gerald Clarks, London, England, visitors to the city, may have been misin terpreted and are clarified as fol lows: Because of the scarcity of money, many automobiles (in Eng land! built 17 to 20 years ago are still being driven; Taxes on a new car amount to about 30 percent of the purchase price (60 per cent purchase tax): the British govern ment had tried to export as much as they could, saving for home consumption, and this had result ed in mounting prices and con tinuing scarcity on the home mar ket: the (British Labor) party rep resents an appreciable section of the middle class as well as the major portion of the working class. ar Knocks Down Three Meters On Courtsquare An unidentified driver failed to make the curve on Northwest Courtsquare, The Times office corner, sometime during New Year's Eve. As a result, three of the town's parking meters were clipped off at the base. Police are .avestigating and report they have •everal leads. The Lincoln Times Published Every Mondoy and Thursday Devoted to the Progress of Lincolnton and Lincoln County. years or more) vehicles may secure the distinctive tag for $5. Only one tag will be required in i9ot>. Auto-truck license headquarters in Lincolnton is at Guy E. Cline, South Courtsquare, Roddy Cline agency manager. Lincoln Prison Camp Has Food Problem; Cook And Dishwasher Escape Lincoln County prison camp, superintendent Jake Schrum thinks he might be faced with a problem of feeding his men. if some of the trustees don't continue on their good behaviour and desist Torn flying the coop. Lincoln Library Ranks 32nd In Per Capita Circulation Li nco 1 n County ranks 32nd among 78 North Carolina counties in per capita circulation of books in its public library. The circulation figures, com piled by counties by the North Carolina Library Commission, was tor the period July 1, 1954 to June 30, 1955. The Library; Commission, in a recent issue of the UNC News Letter, presented a county-by county report on the public li- Drarier. The population data used ire estimates of the N. C. State Board of Health for 1955. based on trends 1940-50. 11,588 VOLUMES The data revealed Lincoln county’s public library contain ed 11,558 total volumes: 0.40 volumes per capita; 2.39 cir culation per capita. Catawba county ranked 7th with 54.623 volumes; 0.83 volumes per capita; 4.50 circulation per capita; 2.72 circulation per capita: 74,153 volumes; 0.61 volumes per capita; 272 circulation per capita; Iredell 21st with 60,263 volumes; 0.85 volumes per capita; 2.91 cir culation per capita; Burke coun ty 19th with 43,958 volumes; 0.91 volumes per capita; 3.23 circula tion per capita: Cleveland county 44th volumes per capita; 2.03 circula tion per capita. LIBRARY SERVICE The News Letter report on pub lic libraries in N. C. disclosed that today over 95 per cent of the state's four million plus citizens have access to library service through a system of school, col lege. special, and public libraries. Statistics from 2.490 library sys tems for the fiscal year 1953- 1954 showed a total book collection of 11,268.224. This figure repre sents 2.163 schools with a total bookstock of 4.958,642 volumes; 54 college and university libraries with 3,382*804 volumes; 8 special libraries with 267,493 volumes: 265 public libraries with 2,659,185 volumes. It's the men that are detailed to kitchen duty at the camp that have placed Schrum in his latest dilemma. PRE-NEVV YEAR ESCAPES Three prisoners, all serving terms for breaking and enter ing, escaped from the camp in pre-New Year dashes to freedom last week. And, one of them, I-orest Helms, was a rook at the camp; another, Steve Boheler, a dish washer. “Looks like I'll just have to stake 'em down if I am to keep my kitchen boys on the job.” Shrum laughlingly said. Waddell Queen, Gaston county man, and Boheler made their es cape Tuesday night by walking off the yard and scaling the camp wire fence. Helms escaped by the same method Saturday night Queen was a store box operator at the camp. Queen, however, had only three days of freedom before he was picked up Friday night and returned to the ramp. A wide search was continuing today by prison ramp authorities and lawmen for Boheler and Helms. Captain Fred Friday of the Dal las prison camp; Grady Sisk, Lin coln county deputy; and Luther Abernethy. constable of Gaston ounty, and other prison authori ties were seaching the Stanley- Mt. Holly section for Queen and Boheler Friday when they nabbed Queen, Boheler escaping. Sisk and Abernethy stopped a truck near Stanley, and arrested he driver, identified as Red Eller, for driving drunk. They also found the two men they were looking for. Queen was nabbed, but Boheler bolted and made his getaway. Tracy Gaskin's Father Passes In New Bern Tracy Lei and Gaskins, Sr., father of Tracy L. Gaskins, of this city, died Saturday afternoon at his home on Neuse Blvd. in New Bern. N. C. He had been in ill health for some time. Survivors include his wife, two sons, Tracy L. Gaskin, of Lincoln ton and Harvey Gaskins, of New Bern, and two daughters, Mrs. Gladys Farnel, of Fuquay Springs, and Mrs. Helen Greene, of New Bern. LINCQLNTON, N. C.. MONDAY, JANUARY 2. 1956 Charles B. Smith Dies Alter Illness . Charles B. Smith, 36, whose wife was the former Miss Nancy Arrowood, of Lincolnton, \ died Friday morning, December 23 in Lorain, Ohio, following in illness rl nine months. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at the Westfield Baptist church in Lorain by the Rev. Granville Gwyn and the Rev. O. H. Hauser. Burial w'as in the State Line Primitive Baptist church cemetery. Pall bearers were Joe Smith, Vester Jackson, Stanley Christian, Boyce Cook. Walter Tilley and Raymond Snoddy. Before his illness Mr. Smith was employed as an electrician with the Nelson Studd Co,, in Lorain. He was a graduate of Westfield High School and a veteran of World War 11, having served in the Army from May 2, 1942. to January 2. 1946, during which time he spent two years with the 31st Infantry Division in the South Pacific. He was a member of the Twentieth Street Methodist churcn in Lorain. In addition to his wife he is survived by his parents. MV. and Mrs. Walter Smith, of Westfield, and one sister, Mrs. William Hunt, of Martinsville. Va. Long Shoals Citizens Excited About Lithium Deposits Found On Land Mining operations for lithium in the Gaston-Lincoln-Cleveland area for the past several years has fo cused a lot of attention on this area of the state. Huge tracts of land were leased by three mining companies in the three-county area, and mining op erations for the highly valuable lithium mineral have proven suc cessful. Quantities of the mineral Hodges States Preservation 01 Schools Aim RALEIGH Governor Hodges declared Thursday he feels the “chief thing” involved in the school segregation issue is that “this state is interested in keeping its public schools.” “I feel we will work out some thing that will do this and at the same time do what the people of the state wish,” he added. “Preservation of the public school is more important than all these other issues we are talking about,” Hodges said during a dis cussion of the school segregation issue at his news conference. Hodges was asked if a special session of the Legislature “is like ly" before the opening of schools next fall. GIVEN MORE TIME "It s entirely possible.” he an swered. The governor said it de pends on what the State Advisory Committee on Education proposes as a program. He was asked if a recent de cision of the 4th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in a McDowell County segregation case would af fect the timing of a special ses sion. The decision, in effect, chan neled segregation cases through the state courts before they can be appealed to federal courts. Hodges said the decision “cer tainly” has given the state “a great deal more time to work out its problem.” In answer to another question, Hodges said he feels local advisory committees created to advise local school boards on segregation prob lems “are needed.” Then he add ed. “I think this whole thing is going to be worked out on a local basis as defined by the 1955 Legis lature.” CONCURS IN REQUEST The Legislature gave local school boards broad powers including full power over assignment of pupils. In saying he feels the local ad visory committees “are needed.” Hodges said he could not quarrel with action of the State Advisory Committee in asking that the local advisory groups temporarily sus pend their activities while suggest ed assignment regulations are worked out by the state committee. SHUNS COMPARISON Hodges was asked if he consid ers preserving the schools more important than preserving segre gation. He said he would Tathcr not make that comparison. City Firemen Called Out On False Alarm Citv firemen were railed out on a false alarm Saturday night. Someone pulled the switch box in the Lincoln Wholesale Grocery j area on S. Poplar St. Firemen, j arriving on the scene, found no 1 evidence of a fire. Lincoln County Dimes Drive Opens Tuesday Two New Year Babies Born At Local Hospital Lincoln County recorded two New Year baby births; however, the parents have Gaston county addresses. Two New Year (1956) babies were ushered into the world at Crowell Hospital. The first ar riving was Elsie Diane Kinley. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Kinley of Bessemer City, Route 2, weighing 8 lbs., 3 ozs. Diane put in her appearance at 12:57 a.m. Arriving some hours later than Diane at 9:20 p.m. was an 8 lbs., 7 ozs. son to Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Icard of High Shoals. The Times had no other re ports of New Year births in Lin coln county. have been found in large supply in j many of the leased land areas, much of it right here in Lincoln j county. TESTS 32 CENT The Times was infomred sev eral days ago that a Long Shoals ; citizen, finding samples of the ; lithium product on his property, j had them sent to Raleigh for checking. The report came back that the samples tested very high in lithium, almost 32 per cent. Now, the Long Shoals man is debating what to do, lease the | land to a mining company or | sit tight on it for a while. Sev- i era! other citizens of the Long I Shoals area have found evidence of lithium on their lands, The Times was told. Basic Atomics, Inc., Lincolnton i New York firm, has been engaged ; for some time in mining operations for spodumene. a silicate of alum inum and lithium. Lithium is ex tracted from the spodumene ore. The Basics firm has measured and uncovered a substantial supply on its land properties that has led the company to expand its opera tions in recent months. Lithium has a variety of in- j dustrial uses, as well as atomic processes. The material was used in the atomic bomb manufac turing process. The mineral potentialities of the j Lincoln-Gaston-Cleveland area and other counties of the state are , reported to be highly encouraging, and afford the opportunity for industrial expansion and diversi fication. The Greensboro Daily News re ports that lithium material is al ready being used in the H-bomb, and that the mineral is to be com bined with boron and hydrogen in the search for high energy jet fuels. Park Elementary P-TA To Sell Rose Bushes The P-TA of the Park Elemen- j tary school is now taking orders for rose bushes, it was announced j t oday. Order must be in on or before January 15, and roses must be paid for on order, it was also< announced. The cost is 45c per j bush. Orders can be given to Mrs. Them Dellinger. Mrs. David | Warner or Mrs. Jerry Hartman. , Below is a list of roses which | can be ordered: Reds: Ami Quinard; Chas. K. Douglas; McGredy Scarlet: Etoile de Hollandc: Grenoble; Poinsetta: Red Radiance; Rouge Mallerin: Better Times: Crimson Glory. Pinks: Briarcliff: Editor McFar land: Mrs. Chas. Bell; Radiance; The Doctor: Dainty Bess. Yellows: Golden Charm; Mrs. P. S. Dupont: Sister Theresa; Yellow Talisman; Golden Dawn; Eclipse. Whites: Frau Karl Drushki: White American Beauty: K. A. Victoria; Konigin Louise. Two-Tones: Condesa de Sasta go; President Hoover: Talisman: Climbing Roses: Cl. Caledonia: Cl. Better Times: Cl. Glodcn Charm; Cl. Red Radiance: Cl. Talisman; Cl. Paul’s Scarlet; Cl. P. S. Dupont: Cl. New Dawn: Cl. Red Talisman: Cl. Red American Beauty; Cl. Blaze: Cl. The Doctor. Baby Roses: Baby Chateau Crimson; Golden Salmon: Ideal; Improved Lafayette: Red Ripples; Mrs. R. M. Finch; Else Poulsen. It isn't too hard to control your temper when the other fel low' outweighs you by forty or fifty pounds. - Famed New Year Shooters Bring ' Bang To City The New Year came in with its j usual noise-making yesterday i Jan. I>, but with a delayed loud er “bang” today in the Gaston - Cleveland-Lincoln areas. The famed New Year Shooters of Cherryville, armed with their familiar old-fashioned muskets, at 12:01 a.m. today began their annual trek through the town streets and countryside, of the three counties to welcome the arrival of 1956. They put in their appearance in Lincoln ton around noon today and put on their customary "shooting” display. At 7 a.m. today one group of the shooters were at the local radio station. The Shooters started out a day (or night) later this year than usual, since New Year this year fell on Sunday. As in past years, the two groups of men comprising the New Year Shooters contingent are making the three-county journey to carry out this old German tradition that has been going on around Cherry ville and immediate communities for many years. Sidney A. Beam, who will soon be 83 years old, is again the speech cryer this year. “Uncle Sid” has been crying the New' Year chant for 64 years, and has not missed a year since 1908. Peter Sain is another of the Shooters leaders. “Uncle Dock" Shull is another oid-timer with the shooters. He says he has been firing with the group for the past 63 years. Cherryville is the only know’n community w'hich still practices this old custom which is believed to have had its origin in Germany. The tradition has been celebrated around Cherryville for more than j 150 years. The tradition of New Year’s shooting is said to have come to the U. S. when families I began coming to the new World I hundreds of years ago. Youth Admits Holdup Oi Storekeeper In Lucia-Lowesville Section GASTCNIA Gaston county officers report that a 21-year old Mt. Holly carpenter has confessed to being the bandit who pulled off the S6OO armed robbery on Fri day at Killians' “ Jot-Em-Down" Store in the Lucia-Lowesville section on the Gaston-Lincoln county line. Earl Poteat is in Gaston county iail charged with armed lobbery. A hearing will be heldj this week to set his bond. $275 of j the stolen money has been re-! covered. Sheriff Detective Ed j Groves said. Officers also have the black mask which Poteat said he wore | and the .22 caliber rifle he alleged- , ly used. The mask was a black cloth affair cut from a trouser’s leg with eye holes crudely punched in it. Tire officers quoted Poteat as giving this version of the robbery. He said he had been drinking most of Friday morning, that he needed money and knew that Kil l;an kept large sums. To pull off the robbery, he is quoted as saying, he used his mother’s 1947 light blue car which he parked outside the “Jot-Em- Down" store while he went in alone. He held the rifle on Killian, took his billfold containing $595 in cash and s2l in checks, and lorced him to lie on the floor while he made his getaway. Later Friday, Poteat is report ed to have said, he met a sailor | and the sailor’s girl friend at Mount Holly and went with them ; or a trip to Tennessee. He said they spent over S3OO of the stolen money- on a wild spending spree. As they returned from Tennes see Saturday' afternoon. Poteat was arrested by Gaston sheriff’s officers and Chief Bill McKinny of the Mount Holly police. City's Stoplights Made Eaiser For Motorists To See M & H Service Co. of Moorcs ville personnel are in town and j working with other members of the city electrical department in converting the town's stoplights to a uniform type in meeting a re cent state law. The “go” and “stop” signs have | been hard to detect by motorists | traveling East on Main St. in late afternoon hours, particularly by people who are color blind. The stoplights have carried three bulbs; I now, they are being partitioned | off by section and of the same type—making them easier to see I and read by motorists. Funds To Be Used In Fight Against Polio Lincoln County will join with 10,000 others through out the nation January 3, to launch the 1956 March or Dimes. The campaign, continuing through January 31, is based on the theme “Polio Isn't Licked Yet.” Fund raising efforts will be conducted here by the local chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Dr. L. A. Crowell, Jr., chairman. MISS ANN HAGER Ann Hager Is Selected As Miss Hi Miss ROCK HILL, S. C. —Miss Ann Hager of Rock Springs High School, Denver, Lincoln County, has been selected as the 1956 Miss Hi Miss by the students of her school. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hager, she will be honored in the special Miss Hi Miss edition of the Johnsonian. Winthrop Col lege weekly newspaper, in Feb ruary. The honor senior girls from South Carolina and North Caro lina will be the guests of Win throp for a week end March 16-18. Miss Hager is vice president of the Student Council, vice president of the Beta Club, vice president of the district Beta Club, co-captain of the basketball team, editor of the school annual. Miss Rock Springs High School, a member of the Glee Club and Journalism Club. The Miss Hi Misses are select ed from each high school on the ' basis of scholarship, character,, leadership and personal attractive ness. Woodrow Armstrong Second Assistant Fire Chief In The Times article in last' Thursday’s issue on the re-elec tion of Lincolnton fire depart ment officers the name of Wood row Armstrong was inadvertently left out. The name oi Mr. Armstrong should have appeared as second assistant chief. G. W. Tobey was re-named fire chief: Mack Kuck, first assistant chief, and Mr. Armstrong second assistant chief. Other officers re elected were C. C. Randall, cap tain; Rav Small, lieutenant; Frank Kuck. lieutenant; Jas. Thomas McLean. Sr., lieutenant; Jas. A. Shuford. secretary; M. L. Huggins, treasurer. Coble Dairy Co-op Honored By Magazine PETERBOROUGH, N. H. Coble Dairy Products Co-op., of Lincolnton. N. C., by a national consumer magazine. Coble's Golden Guernsey Milk has been awarded Parents’ Maga zine's Commendation Seal, accord ing to Golden Guernsey, Inc. The Parents’ Commendation Peal was awarded only after the magazine's consumer service bureau thoroughly investigated the j national Golden Guernsey pro gram. including the operations of both producers and distributors. Golden Guernsey Milk is a trademark own e d by Golden Guernsey. Inc., and can be used only by licensed distributors on Guernsey milk that meets rigid national requirements. Golden Guernsey, Inc. is a milk marketing organization establish ed by the American Guernsey Cat tle Club, non-profit agricultural registry association serving some 40,000 purebred Guernsey breeders lrom coast-to-coast. ALMOST EVERYONE in LINCOLNTON and LINCOLN COUNTY reads TH Tr- oPAPER L Single Copy: FIVE CENTS' FRIDAY CHAIRMAN Attorney John Friday is chair man of the March of Dimes fund-raising for Lincoln County. Bryan (Jack) Dellinger. Jr„ of the First National Bank will sene as fund treasurer. Con tributions to the fund can be deposited in treasurer Dellinger's name at the bank. Other individuals and organiza tions that have been designated for participation in the fund cam paign are: Charles Connor, chairman of ad vance gifts division; Kiwanis, P. J. Buckley, president, manufac turing concerns: Pilot, Mrs. Velma Drum, president, uptown and Boger City business 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, presi dent, construction of March of Dimes booth (lumber donated by Seth Lumber Co.), and assistance with distribution of MOD coin col lectors; 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. The exhibit will be furnished through the cooperation of Rob ert L. Jones, Western Area rep resentative of the North Caro- I lina March of Dimes. Charlotte. Millions of dollars in March of Dimes funds are needed, national ! officials say, “to aid thousands and thousands of polio patients | for whom the Salk vaccine comes too late.” Some 68.000 patients all j over the country are now on the j rolls of the National Foundation, j and many more will be stricken before the Salk vaccine is ad- I ministered to all. North Carolina, up through last October 1, was fortunate in hav ing only 350 new cases of polio. This compared with 561 cases for the same period in 1954, and the figure was well below' the average of 484 cases for the years 1950-54. Lincoln County ranked nine teenth in the state during the 1955 i January) March of Dimes drive with contributions of $6,- 241.15, less than 23 cents per person. In 1954. Lincoln County assist ed 16 polio patients at a total cost of $16,580.14. Four of the 16 were 1954 victims of the dread disease. Fortunately, in 1954, Lincoln County had no reported cases of polio, 35 CHAPTERS FUND-LESS Many polio chapters in North Carolina are in desperate straits. Thirty-five chapters are without funds for the aid of their patients and must look to National Emer- I gency Fund for financial support, I or until funds from the 1956 Dimes j campaign are in. i Hundreds of polio patients in North Carolina must for a long time look to local chapters for (Continued on page 8) Local NEWS Briefs NO SESSION of Lincoln county Recorder’s court was held today I due to the courthouse offices being I closed as a holiday. Next session I n f the court will be tomorrow : (Tuesday), January 3. BELL FURNITURE CO. has re- I occupied the building on North west Court-square in which it was | formerly quartered. The building, ! owned by Robinson Estate, was re i cently purchased by the Bell firm I owner. Joe Campbell. ' NEW 1956 North Carolina auto j truck license tags go on sale Tues jday morning, Jan. 3, at Guy E. ! Cline, Roddy Cline agency man- I ager. TAX LISTING . . . Listing of property for 1956 taxes began in three of the county's five town ships (Catawba Springs, North ! Brook. Ironton) today. Listing in j Lincolnton and How ards Creek i townships begin Tuesday. The tax listing will continue throughout the month of January. * * * HARRIS CITY I’AINT Stoic to day is moving from its former lo cation on E. Sycamore-Court square to the Hoyle building on ; E Main St. adjoining Broome- I Early Fum. & Apl. Co.
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