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POLITICS IS SUBJECT OF CONVERSATION
U. S. Rep. A. Paul Kitchin got together with
some of his Democratic running mates and Lin
coln County Democratic Party officials Saturday
at the opening of county Democratic Headquar
ters on West Main Street. Shown here, left to
right, are Joe Ross, county party chairman and
candidate for reelection as clerk of court; Con
gressman Kitchin, Mrs. Bette Morris, county par-
Democrat* Rally
Set For Tonight
Democrats in Catawba Springs
Township will be hosts at a rally
and free supper at Rock Springs
School tonight.
The public is invited. Serving
will begin at 6 p. m.
THE SCENE FROM
Conrad's Corner
wwrm* —By Conrad Paysour— ,
Mr. Ty Boyd
Radio Station WBT
Charlotte, N. C.
Dear Ty:
I feel I can call you by your first name, because I often have
a one way conversation with you. I listen to you, but I can’t talk
back.
Ty, you are an imaginative, humorous, and most of the time
a good radio announcer.
But, Ty, that’s not the real reason I’m writing you. The real
reason I’m writing is to tell you I believe I have grounds to sue
you for almost breaking up my home.
You see, I have a perfect marriage, except for one thing:
I blame my wife personally for causing us Paysours-Payseurs-
Pasours-Paseurs so much confusion in spelling our names.
Ty, I hope you’ll forgive me for making this personal matter
between you and me public through my column in the Lincoln
Times. However, after thinking about it, I realized that because
you made the comment that has caused all the trouble in public,
I’m entitled to answer you in public. So in return for being able
to answer you in public, I will promise not to sue you.
★ ★ ★
Well, getting back to why you have almost broken up my
marriage. It seems that you kindly made an announcement about
our family reunion on your radio program. We appreciate it.
But then, Ty, you did something you shouldn’t have done. You
wondered aloud (loud enough for the whole vast listening aud
ience of WBT to hear) why we Payseurs-Paysours-Pasours-Paseurs,
etc., spell our name so many different ways. Ty, I must warn you
that not only did you almost break up up my home, but in the
matter of family name spelling, I will have the sympathy of many
other people in Lincoln County including the Ramseurs and the
Ramsaurs, the Stroups and the Stroupes, the McAlister and the
McAllisters, the Proctors and the Procters, the Sains and the
Saines and many others.
Now, let’s see, what was I talking about. Oh, yes, why
you almost broke up my home by mentioning the spelling of
our name. Well, you see Ty, my wife is to blame for why we
Paysours-Payseurs-Pasours-Paseurs spell our names so many
different ways. Well, at least, I hold her responsible.
And I had almost forgotten that she was responsible until
you brought it up again. So things had been going pretty peace
fully in my family up until you made me mad at her again.
I’d like to explain to you why my wife is at fault for the
variety of ways the Paysours-Payseurs-Pasours-Paseurs so that you
can understand why I’m so upset at your commenting on it.
★ ★ ★
You see it happened way back more than a hundred years
ago, maybe about 200 years ago.
My folks came over here from Germany, via France and Hol
land, via Pennsylvania. At least that’s what I’ve been told. I was
too young to remember.
The family name was then Bashore—l think. Well my
folks weren’t illiterate, but they couldn’t speak English very
well. So one of the Bashores went to the Lincoln County court
house to get a deed recorded. The clerk of court, the register
of deeds or whoever recorded deeds in those days couldn’t
understand this Bashore fellow very well, because of his
accent. So to get around it and to be sure he had the name
spelled right, he spelled our family name about five different
ways in that one deed. I guess he figured if he spelled it
enough ways, he would get it right at least once, but he didn’t.
Now, Ty, I know you are wondering why I hold my wife
personally responsible for this. But just be patient, I’m coming
to that part in a minute.
You see, I got to checking around one day and found that
this character who was working in the courthouse and who started
spelling our name so many different ways was—
One of my wife’s ancestors.
Sincerely yours,
Conrad Paysour
The Lincoln Times
Published Every Monday and Thursday Devoted to the Progress of Lincolnton and Lincoln County
Se-ond Class Postage Paid at Lincolnton, N. C. LINCOLNTON, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1962
ty vice chm.; Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter, candidate,
for register of deeds; Frank Heavner, candidate
for reelection as sheriff; and Mrs. Clarence
Leatherman, president of the Lincoln County
Democratic Woman’s Club. The donkey which
was tied outside of headquarters is shown in the
right hand corner of the photo.
Three Are Arrested On
Cow Shooting Charges
The police department and the
sheriff’s department teamed up
this week to arrest three persons
on charges growing out of the
killing of a beef animal several
weeks ago.
The animal belonged to Ken
Finger of the Boger City com
munity.
The break came when the police
department arrested Frederick
Link, 17, of Route 3, Lincolnton,
on burglary and theft charges.
Link told police that he was
with James Charles Jr. of Lincoln
Street and Sylverster Charles of
Lincoln Street when Finger’s beef
animal was shot.
He told officers James Charles
Jr. actually did the shooting.
The police department con
tacted the sheriff’s department
and warrants were issued against
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Lions Holding
Broom Sale
The Lincolnton Lions Club
will launch its annual Broom
Sale tonight, a promotion direct
ed toward the support of blind
people.
Lions members will conduct
a house-to-house sale of brooms
tonight in Lincolnton. Proceeds
go into the club’s fund for the
blind. Coleman (Buck) Good
son is chairman of the project,
and Blair Nantz publicity chair
man.
If all the brooms are not sold
tonight, a street sale will be held
in the city on Saturday.
LINCOLN CHURCH '63 HOST
Local Methodists Hear Governor
Sanford's "Good Neighbor'' Talk
A large number of Methodists
from Lincoln county churches at
tended the Layman’s Rally of the
Gastonia Methodist District at
Brackett’s Cedar Park near Shelby
last Thursday night.
The approximately 1,000 laymen
present heard the guest speaker,
North Carolina Governor Terry
Sanford, announce plans for for
mation of a group dedicated to up
grading the per capita income in
North Carolina.
Sanford, a Methodist, presented
three specific areas in which he
felt the per capita income prob
lem could be licked. He said the
new group will be known as the
‘North Carolina Good Neighbor
Council”, which he hoped could
be completed within the next sev
eral weeks from all segments of
the economy and all sections of
the state.
An invitation extended by
First Methodist Church, Lincoln
ton, to serve as host for the 1963
Gastonia District Layman’s Ral
ly was accepted by unanimous
Lincolnton Will Be Spotlighted
As WBT 'Community Pride' City
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Lincolnton Grammar School
Expels' Hundreds Os Guests
Some unwelcome “guests” were expelled from the Lincoln- •'
ton Grammar School this week. The "guests” had been at the j
school for about 20 years.
The "guests” were hundreds of bees.
| They took up residence at the school in a window that had i
|| been closed in many years ago.
Jerry Payseur, principal at the school, said the bees had
:;s not caused any trouble until this year. However, this year, about ;
§ a dozen children were stung by bees and yellow jackets.
So Craig Devine was called in to kick the bees out.
lie took the wall out on the inside of a classroom and then
| took out sections around the place where the window had been •
closed in.
After he did this, he sprayed D.D.T. in on the bees.
He estimated that there was about 1,000 pounds of honey
in the wall.
Mr. Devine said most of the honey was not suitable to cat. S
NONE FOR CIVILIAN PERSONNEL
Lincoln County Servicemen May
Now Get Their Absentee Ballots
J. Robt. McNeely, chairman of
the Lincoln county Board of Elec
tions, explained that “applications
for absentee ballots may be ob
tained by the servicemen person
ally from an officer in the service
they are in, wherever they are
stationed, and mailed to the Lin
coln County Board of Elections.”
Or, the servicemen may
make application by letter to the
Lincoln County Board of Elec
tions, giving their mailing ad
dress and voting precinct, Mc-
Neely said.
The military absentee ballot can
be obtained at the office of the
Lincoln Board of Elections only
by a husband, wife, father, mother,
brother, sister or child of the ser
vice man, and the ballots will be
mailed to them with instructions
for the absentee voter.
The Lincoln County Elections
Board in September, as provid
ed under the State election laws,
began the issuing, upon applica-
Feeder Calf
Sale Oct. 4th
A local announcement was made
today that the Statesville Feeder
Calf Sale will be held Thursday,
October 4, at the Iredell County
Fairgrounds, Statesville, beginning
at 2:00 p.m.
Lincoln County beef cattle
producers consigning calves to
the sale are as follows: David
Clark, Floyd Corriher, Guy Rob
inson, and Ralph Wise. These
men together have ninety (90)
head consigned to the sale.
The calves from Lincoln County
are to be processed on Wednes
day, October 3rd between 7:00 a.m.
and 5:00 p.m.
The county agriculture agent’s,
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vote of the group present.
Governor Sanford listed his
Good Neighbor Council’s three
missions as:
1. —To help provide greater
economic opportunities for all
North Carolinians.
2. —To encourage all young
people to become better educat
ed and be better trained.
3. —To deal with problems
which require human under
standing and cooperation.
RACE DIFFERENCE
He said he had been working on
the council idea for a long time
and, “It is most appropriate that I
announce some important plans at
a meeting of church laymen be
cause our most difficult problems
of race differences must be work
ed out in the spirit of Christian
fellowship.”
Sanford said that demonstra
tions against segregation at some
highway restaurants have “inad
vertently delayed long-range plans
in which people of good will nave
been working for some months..
tion, of ballots to military per
sonnel.
This is necessary because many
servicemen may wish to vote ab
sentee.
The law reads no civilian absen
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Lincoln Doctors
To Be Host To
Dist. Meeting
The Lincoln County Medical
Society will be host to the annual
banquet of the Seventh District
Medical Society on the night of
Oct. 17 at the Battleground School.
The counties in the district
include: Anson, Cabarrus, Cleve
land, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklen
burg, Montgomery, Rutherford,
Stanley and Union.
District officers are: Dr. John
Ormand, Monroe, president;. Dr.
Lester Crowell Jr., Lincolnton,
president-elect; Dr. Leary Reid,
Lincolnton, secretary - treasurer;
Dr. Edward Bivens, Albemarle,
councilor.
Marine Lt. Col. William E. May
or will be the guest speaker at
the meeting. His subject will be,
“Communist Control of the In
dividual, the Moral Imperatives.”
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
seventh medical district will also
meet here on Oct. 7th, convening
at 5:00 p.m.
Officers and members of the
Lincoln Medical Society are: John
R. Gamble, Jr., president, Abner M.
Cornwell, vice president, Murphy
A. Cronland, secretary-treasurer,
Walter V. Costner, Lester A. Crow
ell Jr.. John H. Fitzgerald, Boyce
P. Griggs, Karl L. Lawing, Leary
Reid, Samuel A. Wilson.
The governor prefaced his good
neighbor council announcement
with the observation that every
one should be concerned about
lifting North Carolina out of its
spot at 42nd in the nation with re
gard to per capita income.
One reason the state ranks so
low, he said, is because the Ne
gro does not now have equal em
ployment opportunities.
“If we counted the percapita
income of white citizens only,”
he said, “North Carolina would
rank 32nd in per capita instead
of 42nd.”
He also said that part of the
present trouble lies in the fact
that many Negro youths are not
taking advantage of the technical
training avenues now open to
them.
An effort must be made, the
governor said, to better under
stand the hopes of all people be
cause “We need to show living
proof that people of different
backgrounds and races can work
together.”
Mrs. H. C. Little
Leaving Sept.
22 For Australia
Mrs. H. C. Little of Denver, Lin
coln county, State president of the
Federation of Home Demonstration
Clubs, will represent the HDC
clubs in this area at the 1962 Trien
nial Conference of the Associated
Country Women of The World in
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MRS. H. C. LITTLE
Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 2
through Oct. 12.
She will make the trip by plane
leaving Charlotte on Sept. 22.
The Associated Country Wom
en of The World is an internation
al organization of which the Home
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County Teachers
To Meet Monday
The first meeting of the Lincoln
County Unit of the North Carolina
Education Association (N.C.E.A.)
will be held Monday, September
24, at 4 P. M. at Love Memorial
School, and will be of an organiza
tional nature.
An added feature will be the
welcoming of twenty six new
teachers into the county system.
Eli Houser is president of the
unit for 1962-63.
It is hoped that all teachers will
be present. The meeting will last
approximately one hour.
Jonas To Speak At
N. Brook GOP Rally
Congressman Charles R. Jonas
has been invited to speak at the
Republican Rally to be held at
North Brook # 3 school Satur
day night.
The free chicken supper is
slated to get underway begin
ning at 6 p. m.
Hosts at the rally will be
North Brook township.
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GOP CANDIDATES GET TOGETHER
Republican candidates got together for a
workshop last weekend. U. S. Rep. Charles R.
Jonas spoke to the group. Here the candidates
are shown as they talked after the meeting.
They are Hubert Privette, candidate for state
senate; Earlie Norwood, candidate for sheriff;
Support The Lincoln
UNITED FUND
Drive Opens In Oct.
LOCAL NEWS
I BRIEFS
DEMO PRECINCT MEETING
A Democratic precinct meeting
for Pumpkin Center precinct has
been called for Saturday night,
Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., at the Scout
hut near the D. C. Cloninger home,
Lincolnton - Mooresville highway,
according to party chairman Joe
Ross.
TURKEY SHOOT
A turkey shoot, sponsored by
the High Shoals volunteer fire de
partment, will be held on Satur
day, Sept. 22, 1 p.m., at the High
Shoals ball park.
CLOTHING DRIVE
The VFW Post has scheduled a
clothing drive for this Sunday
afternoon. Clothing may be de
posited at Stroup’s Esso Servicen
ter on S. Aspen Street or in a
truck which will be parked at the
First Methodist Church. The cloth
ing is turned over to needy per
sons.
COOLER WEATHER
Weather report for Lincolnton
area today: Cloudy, cooler temper
atures, high of 81. Low tonight of
53. Friday: Continued cool, high
in the 70’s.
NEW C OF C MEMBER
A new member of the Lincoln
Chamber of Commerce since the
last listing in The Times Is:
Ralph’s Sign Shop.
QUOTA: 300 MEMBERS
Legion Membership
Drive Is Underway
The annual membership drive of
the local David Milo Wright Amer
ican Post No. 30, Lincoln County
was launched at the Post’s meet
ing last week. E. L. (Buck) House
is the membership chairman.
Commander J. Hal Gilbreath re
ported that the local Post is join
ing the nearly 17,000 American
Legion Posts throughout the na
tion and in several overseas coun
tries and territories in the world’s
largest membership enrollment
drive ever undertaken by a vet
erans organization.
A membership quota of 300
members has been set for the
local American Legion Post, Mr.
Gilbreath said, and it is hoped
D. H. (Buck) Mauney Jr., candidate for county
commissioner; Congressman Jonas; Hilliard
Keever, candidate for county commissioner and
Charles Yount, candidate for county commis
sioner.
Single Copy: TEN CENTS
Interviews
With Citizens
To Be Aired
The City of Lincolnton is
to be placed in the limelight
through the radio media
next week.
The entire broadcasting
week of WBT Radio, Char
lotte, will be devoted to Lin
colnton, the station’s Sep
tember “Community Pride”
city.
Starting Sunday, and con
tinuing through the follow
ing Friday, September 28,
Lincolnton will be the recipi
ent of several featured pro
gram highlights on WBT’s
50,000 watt voice.
Lincolnton, by participating in
the “Community Pride Contest,”
automatically enters competition
for the huge trophy cup and the
$1,999 cash prize giveX annually
by WBT radio to the town or city
in the Carolinas which exhibits
the most community pride and
civic achievement.
To gather information and in
terviews with various Lincolnton
leaders and townspeople, the WBT
Radio remote unit accompanied
by personality Ty Boyd, producer
Monroe Brinson and engineer Bill
Cook, spent Tuesday afternoon in
Lincolnton for a three-hour tap
ing session.
From these tapes, a total of
17 were selected to be integrat
ed into the regular WBT pro
gram format. These interviews
are in addition to “spot” an
nouncements featuring Lincoln
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the quota can be reached by
Nov. 11th. Two years ago, the
local Post was an award winner
in the statewide Legion member
ship campaign.
The local Legion Commander is
sued an invitation to all eligible
wartime veterans to join the Amer
ican Legion and become a part of
its endeavors in the fields of
Americanism, child welfare, na
tional security and rehabilitation.
Eligibility dates for member
ship in The American Legion are
as follows: World War I, April 6,
1917 to November 11. 1918; World
ar 11, Dec. 7, 1941 to Sept. 2, 1945;
and Korean War, June 25, 1950 to
July 27, 1953.