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The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
METHODISTS WILL
HOLD RALLY FRIDAY
Countrywide Meeting to Be
Held At Methodist Church
Friday, March 29th

The Methodists of Lincoln County
rally at the First Methodist Church
on Friday evening, March 20, at 1880
p. m. The meeting is announced by
DR.. W. A. Stanbury, superintendent
of the Gastonia district. The Meth
odist College Advance is the subject
to be considered, and the principal
speaker will be the Rev. W. Arthur
Kale, pastor of Central Methodist
Church, Shelby. There will also be
messages from DR.. Stanbury and
others.
In calling the meeting DR.. Stan
bury stated, 81 am anxious that each
charge lay leader attend, and also
the stewards, and officers and lead
ers from each church in the county.
1t is urgent that every church be
represented. This meeting is very
important. 1t should help US about
getting things clear in our minds.
1t should be of great assistance in
getting Us informed about what the
College Advance is, and why it should
succeed, and why it can succeed ev-
erywhere."
Rev. Arthur Kale is secretary of
the Board of Education of the West
ern North Carolina Methodist Con-
ference. The paper which authorized
the College Advance program and
which was adopted by the Confer
ence last fall was prepared by him.
He is well informed concerning this
Methodist enterprise, and is a clear
and magnetic speaker.
The Methodist College Advance is
movement of the two Methodist
Conferences in North Carolina to
provide adequate support for the five
Methodist institutions of higher edu-
cation in this state. A fact-finding
committee studied these institutions
last year and estimated their finan-
cial needs. This committee reported
that a minimum of S2.075,00O is
needed to bring these colleges to the
place where they can be properly rec
ognized in the educational field.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
DR.. Boyce P. Griggs
Will Open Offices
In Gamble Hospital
Will Do General Practices
With Emphasis On Ear,
Eye, Nose and Throat

DR.. Boyce Powell Griggs announces
that he will open his offices in the
Reeves Gamble Hospital the middle
of this week. DR.. Griggs will do a
general practice with emphasis on
eye, ear, nose and throat.
DR.. Griggs is the son of Rev. w.
L. Griggs, prominent Baptist minis
ter of Charlotte, and Mrs. Griggs.
DR.. Griggs' wife, the former Miss
Dorothy Steele, also of Charlotte,
and their twins, Sandra and Olivia,
will join him here later.
DR.. Griggs attended Duke Univer-
sity and was graduated from Wake
Forest College with a BIS. degree.
HIS is graduate of the Bowman
Gray School of Medicine, Winston
Salem. He served his interneship at
the Charlotte Memorial Hospital, in
Charlotte. DR.. Griggs was a captain
in the Army Medical Corps for %
at which time he did eye,
ear, nose and throat work in several
general hospitals and served approx
one year in the Asiatic-Pa-
cific theatre of war. Since his dis
charge he has been associated with
DR.. Frank Smith and DR.. Fred E.
Motley in eye, ear, nose and throat
at the Charlotte Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat Hospital.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
MAIL CARRIERS
TO HOLD MEET
Western N. c. Group to Con-
vene in Charlotte at Wom-
ans Club March 80

Letter carriers of Western North
Carolina will hold a conference in
Charlotte March 80, it was announc-
ed today by Ralph B. Jordan, secre-
tary of Charlotte Branch No. 545,
National Association of Letter Car
riers. The event will be held at the
Charlotte Woman's Club.
Registration will begin at p. M.
on the day of the conference. Open
forums and committee meetings will
be held during the afternoon and a
dinner will be served at $50 o'clock
This will be followed by number
of talks, music and dancing.
Honor guests for the occasion will
be William F. McIIale of Washing
ton, D. c., vice president of the Ma
tional association; Guy H. Clontz of
Charlotte, president of the North
Carolina Association of Letter Car
riers; Mrs. A. E. Williams of High
Point, president of the State Letter
Carriers Auxiliary, and several
membes of the executive board of
the state association.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
at First
Annual Meeting Of
Lincolnton orc,
President w. G. Henderson
Announces Future Plans
Of Organization

One hundred and thirty represen-
tatives of Lincolnton and Lincoln
County business firms were present
at the Lincolnton Chamber of Com
merce's first annual meeting held
Frida evening in the Woman's Club
House. Members were greeted by
President w. C. Henderson and Sec
retary DeWayne Davis, and were
treated to an enjoyable buffet supper
prepared and served by the Ladies
of the Eastern Star.
President Henderson opened the
business meeting by welcoming the
members, after which he introduced
Joe A. Polhill, vice president, and
DeWayne Davis, executive secretary.
Mr.. Davis introduced members of the
executive committee and the board
of directors, and welcomed out-of-
town guests.
Mr.. Henderson, in a short but very
comprehensive report, reviewed the
Chambers accomplishments to date
and announced plans for future work.
He pointed out the fact that the Lin
colnton Chamber of Commerce has
been in business only sixty-one days.
During those sixty-one days." he
said, "we have promoted many
things from which worthwhile results
can be expected. We can even say
that some accomplishments have been
made. While we will not, and in all
fairness cannot, claim honors for a
lot of things, yet the fact will re-
main that everyone is and will be
continuously conscious that we are
here-doing things-and directly or
indirectly stimulating others to do
things that will be of common bene-
fit"
The report called attention to the
fact that the Chamber has thorough
ly Investigated proposed recreation
center projects and after meeting
with all interested parties has come
out in favor of the forthcoming cleo
tion and a planned program to give
Lincolnton and Lincoln County bet
ter recreational facilities. Chamber
of Commerce representatives have
visited many towns in order to study
recreation centers and facilities.
A suggestions committee has been
set up which will consider sugges-
tions submitted by the public and
will help the Projects Planning Com
mittee and the Civic and Public At
fairs Department in adopting and
carrying out worthwhile projects.
The good roads committee has al
ready begun extensive work on a
Farm to Market" roads program.
Departments and committees now
formed Or to be formed will handle
such programs as advertising Lin
colnton and Lincoln County, Hospi-
tality, Recreation, Housing, Library,
Sanitation, Town Planning, Educa-
ton, New Industries, Agricultural
/ and Rural Affairs, and department
to help veterans. Plans and work
are already underway for "Veter-
ans Welcome Home Day."
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
BRIDE DRAGGED
BY WILD MULE
Mrs. George Hinson, Resident
Near Wingate, Caught In
Reins, Carried 1-2 Mile

Wingate, March 25-Mrs. George
Hinson, 2l, bride of one month, is
in a Monroe hospital suffering from
injuries of an undetermined nature
and extent as a result of being
dragged nearly half mile by mule
near here Thursday afternoon.
1t is reported that Mrs. Hinson
was riding a mule which became un-
ruly. Her husband told her to jump
from the animals back but in so
doing her foot became entangled in
the reins. The mule plunged and
ran for almost half mile down the
country road before being stopped,
dragging the body of the woman
along with it.
Medical examination at the Mon
roe hospital where she was immedi-
ately rushed by ambulance, disclosed
no broken bones but her body is
badly bruised and only complete ex-
aminations at the hospital will re-
veal the extent of her injuries. Doc
tors would not say until after these
examinations whether she was in
jured internally or just how badly
her injuries are.
Mrs. Hinson, whose home was in
Wake county near Raleigh, married
George Hinson and, about month
ago, came with him to live with his
family at their home, few miles
from this place. Hinson has recent!
been released from service with tn,
Navy.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
IMPROVING OLD
LINCOLNTON ROAD

The State Highway Commission
has started work preparatory to the
improvement of what is known as
the old Lincolnton Road, from the
Lincoln county line to Highway No.
10, in Catawba county, via Grace
Chapel - distance of about five
miles.
1t is understood that approximate
ly thirty miles of secondary Catawba
county roads will be treated with tar
and gravel this year, and five miles
of the program is the old Lincolnton
Road from No. 10 to the county line.
The remainder of the road from No.
10 to Brookford, also about five
miles, will probably not be improved
until next year, according to reports.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
DOUBLE KILLING
BRINGS VERDICT
FOR EXECUTION
Woodrow Ewing Tried On
Charge of Killing Wife
And Stepdaughter

Elizabethtown, March 25-Eight-
een-year- Woodrow Ewing, frail,
bespectacled farmer, was sentenced
Friday to die in the gas chamber for
the Staying of his wife and infant
stepdaughter February a.
A jury convicted him Thursday
night of first degree murder, max
ing the death sentence mandatory.
Judge Clawson Williams delayed
passing it, however, until Friday
afternoon. May II was the date set
for the execution.
In his brief trial the state pre-
sented testimony that Ewing:
Beat his wife unconscious with a
long handled poker, twisted a strand
of wire around her throat, hitched
this wire to mule which dragged
her some 500 yards across a field
to an improvised grave, where it was
later found.
Then, it went on, Ewing returned
to his house, picked up his wife's
13-month-old daughter, carried her
to the grave, choked her, and threw
her into the opening beside the
mother.
The youth, calm, was apparently
unmoved both when the jury re-
turned its verdict, and when Judge
Williams sentenced him. He quietly
thanked the judge after hearing the
words that set the date of his exc
cution.
He was arrested two days after
his wife, Mrs. Camille Louise Miller
Ewing, IS, and her child disappear
ed from their home. Relatives be-
came suspicious of his report that
he had run her off, and began an
investigation.
The bodies were found buried in
the grave, which had been scooped
out in tobacco bed.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
CHERRY URGES
STATE TO LOOK
TO new PLANS
Tells Future Farmers More
Mechanization Is Coming;
Asks Broader Program

Scotland Neck, March 25-Gover-
nor Cherry told a farm youth BAN
quet here Thursday night that to
safeguard the states agricultural fu-
ture, 1--WE must place more empha-
sis on training young rural youth
for dealing in farm problems"
He spoke to more than 700 MEM
bers of Future Farmer clubs in IT
counties in the Roanoke Chowan dis
trict.
Because of the rapid progress be-
ing made toward mechanization in
agriculture, the Governor said, I'VE
must equip our present vocational
agriculture farm shops to teach the
care and repair of farm machinery.
The successful farm in the future is
going to be modernized," he said, Gin
order to hold our farm youth on the
farm.
"Not a large per cent of the men
who operate the farms of the future
are going to be college trained. The
training for this job must be provid-
ed either through the departments
of vocational agriculture in the high
schools, or through area vocational
schools designed and equipped to
carry the student one or two years
beyond the regular high school
course
The more than 400 rural high
schools which already have depart
ments of vocational agriculture
should be only the nucleus around
which to build broadened program
of vocational training, he said.
He praised the Future Farmer
clubs for their splendid contribution
to agriculture during the war;" say
ing "Your wartime record is real
honor roll"
The $4,000 members of the clubs
throughout the state purchased $685.
600 worth of war bonds, he said, and
collected more than 100000 pounds
of scrap metal in farm drives, in ad-
dition to contributing to the food
raising and conservation programs.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
new APPEAL FOR
DRAFT EXTENSION

Washington, March 25 - Army
Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower
and Secretary of War Patterson
joined their voices in a new appeal
for extension of the Selective Service
law. They appeared before the
House Military committee.
Eisenhower asked for indefinite
extension of the draft law, with the
maximum term of service for induc-
tees to be fixed at 1s months. If
that is done, he said, the Army will
be able to discharge all fathers by
August or early September of this
year, and no more fathers need be
inducted in the future. He added
that Congress could provide in the
law that the Army shall induct only
as many men as are required to keep
it at the level set for July, 1947.
Eisenhower warned that if the law
is not extended beyond May 18th,
the Army may be short 10000 men
by the middle of next year. He said
the great powers are expected to
supply the main strength of United
Nations Organization.
Secretary Patterson said that if
the draft was ended and the recruit
ing drive fell short of it's work, il
might be very difficult to maintain
the peace we have won. He asked
Congress not only to extend the
draft, but to authorize a twenty pei
cent increase in the pay and allow.
ances of military personnel.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
EASTER SEALS WILL
AID CRIPPLED TOTS
21st Annual Campaign Begins
To Raise Funds for Benefit
OF Worthy Cause

The 21st annual Easter seal cam
paign, sponsored by the North Caro-
lima League for Crippled Children,
got off to good start and will con-
tinue for one month, through Easter,
April 21, it was announced by Miss
Ethel Honeycutt, executive secretary,
in Chapel Hill Friday. "The State
is better organized than ever before"
she said.
Among services rendered by the
League during the last year were
medical care, including orthopaedic
operations, orthodenture treatments,
blood transfusions, clinical treat
ments, disqualification, convalescent
home care, and physicians visits to
homes; artificial aids, including ar
tificial limbs, extension shoes. wheel
chairs, crutches, glasses, hearing aids
and a plastic ear; education for those
| children not able to attend school
and training for those with speech
handicaps and deafness, and other
services.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
Extension OF Time
For Re-enlistment
Rank Authorized

According to an announcement
made by 1t. Col Ralph E. Keyes,
Commanding Officer of the U. s.
Army Recruiting Sub-Station, in
Charlotte, N. c., new Army regula-
tions have been received from the
War Department allowing veterans
who have been separated for more
than 80 days, the opportunity to re-
enlist and receive grades in accord
ance with their military service,
training, and experience.
Men who have been honorably dis
charged from active service on or
after IL May, 1945, may, provided
enlistment is accomplished on or be-
fore 80 June, 1916, be enlisted un-
der the provisions of the regulations
mentioned above.
Certain specialists who received
training and experience during the
war, were discharged early in the
rehabilitation period and under the
current 80 day restriction have not
been eligible for enlistment in their
former grades. The Army urgently
needs some of these specialists, and
all veterans interested in the new
opportunity to reenlist and receive
rank benefits, are urged to come tc
the U. S. Army Recruiting Station
located in the Post Office Building
Charlotte, N. C.
Applicants applying for enlistment
are requested to bring with them
copy of WD AGO Form 100, which
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25

begun by the pastor of the First Bap-
tist Church. The services on Monday
evening will take the form of per-
sonal visitation in the community on
the part of interested church men,
bers. DR.. Mckay and the Rev. Pin
nix will arrive on Tuesday, April 2.
Beginning that day services will be
held each evening at 1880 O'Clock at
the First Baptist Church.
Dr. Mckay, who is pastor of the
Second Baptist Church, Little Rock,
Ark, is a graduate of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary in
Louisville, KY, with degrees Of Mas
ter and Doctor of Theology. He did
graduate work in the fields of evan
gelism and church efficiency and is
popular leader of young people, a
frequent speaker and faculty member
of state Sunday school work and
Training Union assemblies, and much
in demand as a visiting minister in
the field of evangelism throughout
the South.
Before coming to the Second Bap-
tist Church in Little Rock, DR.. Nc
Kay was for five years pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Topeka,
Kansas. He was intimately acquaint-
ed with the famous Charles Sheldon,
who wrote "In His Steps"
The Rev. L. C. Pinnix, who is pas
tor of the First Baptist Church,
Kings Mountain, is an accomplished
musician and an excellent congrega-
tional leader. He will lead the choir
in special music and furnish other
music himself. Mr.. Pinnix was at
one time a member of the famous
Seminary Quartet which sang
throughout the South several years
ago.
The First Baptist Church is for
tunate in securing the services of
these two fine men and takes great
pleasure in introducing them to Lin
colnton. The public is cordially in
vited to all of the services.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
ELECTION BOARD IS
SWORN IN SATURDAY

The newly appointed Lincoln coun-
ty election board met Saturday
morning in the court house for its
organization meeting and was sworn
in by Thos. E. Rhodes, clerk of court.
J. Robert McNeely was named chair
man of the board and D. C. Killian,
secretary. Kenneth D. Heavier is
the third and Republican member.
Chairman McNeely repeated the
announcement that April 16 at p.
m. is the deadline for filing of can
didates in all congressional, state
and county races.
Saturdays meeting was held in
the office of Thos. E. Rhodes, clerk
of the court.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
Money Voted To
Keep OPA Going
Until June 3Oth

Washington, March 25-Congres-
sional approval was completed last
week for a total of one million, six
hundred thousand dollars to tide over
The OPA until the end of the fiscal
year, June 30th. The appropriation
was approved by the Senate and
sent to the White House for Pres
dent Truman's signature.
Originally the House voted one
million, eight hundred thousand dol
lars for the OPA. The Senate cut
the amount to $4,000.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
Russia Reported To
Be Withdrawing All
Troops From Iran
All Red Army Forces Will Be
Out of Country Within Five
Or Six Weeks, IF Nothing
Unforeseen Happens

London, March 24-Russian troops
are Withdrawing from Iran and all
Red Army forces should be out of
that country within five or six weeks
"if nothing unforeseen happens" the
Moscow radio said last night.
Moscow said the withdrawal was
according to an agreement with the
lranian government" Premier Ahm-
ed Quavam OF Iran had indicated
Saturday the withdrawal might come
soon, but he said yesterday in Tehr-
an there had been no direct negotia-
tions recently between the two gov
ernments, and that he had no Off
cial reports of withdrawal Of troops
from his country.
The Moscow broadcast, recorded
by the Associated Press, said:
Evacuation of Soviet troops from
the regions of Meshed, Shahrud and
Samnam which started March 2, by
already completed.
"The evacuation of remaining So
Wet troops started on March "a, ac-
cording to an agreement with the
lranian government. The Soviet COM
mand of Soviet troops in Iran be-
lieves that the complete evacuation
of Soviet troops will be concluded
within five to six weeks if nothing
unforeseen happens"
Twenty-four hours earlier Russia
had announced its troops would leave
Manchuria by April 80.
The announcement came on the
eve of the convening of the second
session of the United Nations Secur-
ity Council where the Russian-Iran
dispute was expected to be high on
the agenda. At the first Security
Council meeting Russia succeeded in
delaying prolonged discussion of the
dispute until direct negotiations could
be brought into play.
The Moscow radio which previous
ly had avoided all mention of today's
meeting in New York-also broad
casted without further comment an
account of Saturdays statement by
Premier Ahmed Quavam of Iran that
he was sure a solution, one way or
another, would be found to Trans
dispute with the Soviet Union, before
the Security Council meeting opened.
March ,, the first date mentioned
in the Moscow announcement, was
the day all Soviet, British and Amer
lean troops were to have evacuated
Iran under treaty which paved the
way for use of Iran as a passageway
of lend-lease armament to Russia
during the war. British and Amer
ican troops left the country by the
March 2 limit.
Samnan and Shahrud are large
towns in the province of Samnam
Damgha in north central Iran, about
80 miles east of Tehran. Meshed is
IN the province of Khurasan in north
east Iran, one of the largest Iranian
provinces. Meshed is 60 miles from
the Soviet border and about $50 miles
east of Tehran.
The ranian ministry of war an
nounced on March 4 that Soviet
troops had evacuated the three
towns. three days after Russians as
serted they were turning the towns
over to the Iranians.
An American officer who returned
from the area on March 4 was quot
ed in Tehran as saying one division
of Soviet troops with headquarters
at Samnam had moved northward
but that forces along the south
shore of the Caspian sea and in the
Shahi and Gurgin area northeast of
Tehran We're showing mo indication
of evacuation"
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
FOOD
PLAN IS OUTLINED

The Lincoln County USDA Coun-
ell met in a special meeting in the
Courtroom Wednesday, March goth
at 100 p. m. The purpose of the
meeting was to make plans for the
educational work to be in connection
with the Emergency Food Program.
Americans are being called upon to
cut the consumption of wheat by 40
per cent and fats and oils by 20 per
cent.
The County USDA Council makes
the following recommendations to
consumers:
Every day you can save wheat in
this way:
l. Prevent waste of bread. 1t is
estimated that per cent or one slice
out of every loaf of bread baked
every day goes into garbage.
2. Use less bread at each meal.
a. Use potatoes, for example,
as alternates for bread.
b. Use oat cereals more often.
A serving of oatmeal equals
two slices of bread, in food
value.
c. Use fruits and other des-
serts instead of pastries and
cakes.
d. Use more corn meal.
8. Use less wheat cereals and 9TH
er wheat products. Use alternate
foods.
If every man, woman and school
child in the U. S. reduced the use of
bread by three slices a day in the
home, almost three-fourths of mil
lion tons of wheat would be freed
for shipment overseas in the next
80 days.
Every day save fats and oils at
home in this way:
l. Make better use of meat drip
pings for cooking and seasoning food.
2. Serve fewer fried foods.
8. Save and reuse fats and oils
for cooking purposes.
4. Render excess fats on meats
and save bacon grease for cooking
purposes.
5. Salvage all fats that cannot be
reused and turn them into your
butcher or grocer.
6. Eliminate oils and salad dress
ings wherever possible.
A teaspoon of fat day saved by
every man, woman and school child
in the U. s. will mean a total saw
ing Of at least one million pounds Of
fat day.
SAVE A LITTLE AND HELP A
LOT!
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
Will Give Four
Daughters Away
The Same Day

Detroit, March 25-Those of you
who find putting on a single we'd
ding quite a task would marvel at
Grocer George Saige of Detroit. For
on Sunday, April 2sth, he plans to
give four daughters in marriage,
virtually all at once. The brides-to-
be are Mary, 81; Dorothy, 10; Helen,
%; and Rose, 18. There will be two
double ceremonies at st. George Sy-
rian Orthodox church. Perhaps even
Saige himself is little awed by the
idea, for he said: II never heard OF
four sisters getting married like
that, did your"
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25

was furnished at the time of their
separation from the service. Full
particulars on each individual case
may be obtained from the Recruit
ing Office.
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25
DR.. RAY MCKAY TO
CONDUCT REVIVAL
Little Rock, Ark, Minister to
Be Guest Preacher From
March 81 to April IL

DIR. Ray Mckay of Little Rock,
Ark, will be the guest minister dur
ing the period of revival services at
the Lirct RnntiSt Chllrch
The Lincoln times., 1946-03-25

March 81 to April ~.
Assisting DR.. Mckay will
be the Rev. L. C. PinniX,
Of Kings Mountain, N. c.
On next Sunday morn
ing the services will be