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POPULATION
(1940 Census)
Lincoln County 24,187
Lincolnton 4,525
Crouse 221
Iron Station 96
Denver 354
32.00 PER YEAR—IN ADVANCE
German Armies Re-Invade Belgium
Draft Boards Are
Given New Orders
Spells Jap's Doom
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Lieut. Col. Edward A. Flanders,
87-year-old aviation engineer of
Oshkosh, Wls., was responsible for
the mammoth task of building
bases for the Superfortresses on
Saipan In the few months since
V. S. forces captured the Island.
He has been directing the building
of air bases in Pacific Islands since
he was U years old.
PENSION NOTE
SIGNED BY F. R.
Measure Provides For Widows
And Children Os Deceased
Vets Os Last War.
Washrugtort, tk,. lu.-.-i’rezidtnt
Roosevelt signed today a bill provid
ing pensions for widows and children
of deceased veterans of the last
World War.
Estimated to cost $37,000,000 in its
first year, the pension system pro
vides benefits up to $74 a month for
families of men who served in World
War'l.
The measure extends coverage to
the families of virtually all World
War I veterans, since it provides pen
sions regardless of the cause of death.
Previously pensions were allowed wid
ows and childres only (1) If the vet
eran died of a disability connected
with his war service and (2; If he
died of some other cause, but had been
disabled by the war.
Widow’s without children will get
$35 a month. A widow with one child
will receive $45, and $5 will be paid
for each additional child.
A child of a deceased veteran,
whose mother is also dead, will get
$lB. Two orphans w’ill receive $27,
three will get $36 and for each addi
tional orphan $4 is provided.
No childless widow can draw a pen
sion unless her annual income is un
der SI,OOO, nor can a widow with chil
dren qualify for a pension unless her
income is less than $2,500.
A veteran must have served at least
90 days for his family to be eligible.
And, to discourage women from mar
rying veterans with the idea of obtain
ing pensions, the law says that any
woman who has married a veteran
after the effective date of the act
must have been married to him ten
years to receive the pension upon his
death.
Honor Roll For
Hickory Grove School
Below is the honor roll for the
Hickory Grove school:
First Grade—Mary Wehunt, Lucy
Houser, Lorene Holbrook, Donald
Dean Mace, Kenneth Carpenter, Wil
lard Boyd, Jr.
Second Grade—Doris Beard, Elea
nor Holbrook, Sterling Leonard, Ker
mit Turner.
Third Grade —Anita Mull, Ray Cau
dle, William Houser, Charles Leath
erman, Kenneth Wehunt.
Fourth Grade —Emily Jean Bum
garner, Joan Dellinger, Faye Hol
brook, Ruth Keener, Mary Jo Little,
Grady Wease.
Fifth Grade Dorothy Campbell,
Irene Stewart, J. D. Shuford.
Sixth Grade Mitchell Withers,
Martha Houser, Shirley Bumgarner,
Marjorie Whisnant.
Seventh Grade—Mary Alice Car
penter, Beatrice Keever, Allene Leon
ard, Marie Mull, Margaret Barkley,
Reba Houser, Hugh Wease, Houston
Wease, Columbus Turner, Jr., Betty
The new daily hog market at Kins
ton is handling about 300 hogs per
week and providing the farmers of
that section with a good market, says
Ellis Vestal, Extension swine special
ly at State CoUedge.
The Lincoln Times
Uncle Sam Sends Instructions
Implementing ‘Prodpce Or
Fight’ Edict.
Washington, Dec. 15.--Selective
Service, announcing a “much larger”
proportion of older men will be induc
ted ofter February 1, tonight sent out
instructions implementing the gov
ernment’s “produce or fight” edict.
It ordered that registrants in the
26 through 37 age bracket whose job
shifts » r e not in the best interests of
the war effort should be put in 1-A
and placed near the top of the list for
induction.
Draft boards were directed that
when the registrants are put in 1-A
after leaving essential jobs, they
should be made available for service
“in the same manner as registrants
who leave agriculture."
This would make them available im
mediately after volunteers and “de
linquents”—those who violate draft
regulations.
Left To Local Boards.
In leaving to local boards determi
nation as to which change will aid in
prosecution of the war, the agency
made it clear that in some cases a
switch may be approved even though
consent of the board was not obtained
prior to a move.
It also ruled that men who changed
jobs before December 12 are excluded
from the new provisions for clearance
through local boards.
The memorandum instructed boards
to “give greater deferment "onsidera
tion to registrants 26 through 37 who
are engaged in w r ar production or in
support of the war effort, than those
engaged in activities not supporting
immediate production of the war."
Implementing a directive of the Of
fice of War Mobilization and Recon
version, the revised regulations pro
vide that registrants who are now in
war industries “must stay on or run
the risk of losing their occupational
deferment classification.”
The memorandum said registrants
of lesser skills in war plants “may be
found more important to the war ef
fort than those of greater skills in
other activities not in direct support
of the war effort.
Replacements Needed.
While the primary aim of OWMR
Director James F. Byrnes’ directive of
last week end is to curb labor turn
over in critical war programs, Select
ive Service pointed up the need for
replacements for the Armed Services.
“Estimates of available men indi
cate that the Armed Forces’ calls aft
er February 1 cannot be filled substan
tially from men aged 18 through 25.
The larger number of American divis
ions now’ actually engaged in combat,
the continuing pressure agaist the
enemy has increased the requirements
for physically fit soldiers and sailors.
“For these reasons, it will be neces
sary to induct increasing numbers of
men from the older age groups.”
Occupationally deferred registrants
who leave effectual jobs will be put in '
1-A unless:
(1) Their local board rules a change
“is in the best interest of the war ef
fort.”
(2) The local board finds that there
were adequate reasons involving the
registrant or his immediate family
which justified switching jobs.
Robert S. Digh
Joins The Marines
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 18.—Robert
S. Digh, of Lincolnton, N. C., has:
been inducted into the U. S. Marine
Corps and was sent to Parris Island j
for recruit training.
Digh is the son of Samuel F. Digh,
408 Grier street, Lincolnton. His wife,
Mrs. Romona Gardner Digh, lives on
East Carter street there.
Upon completion of recruit training
at Parris Island Digh will be sent to
advanced training or to a specialist’s
school.
Claude S. Nantz, Jr.
Studies Electronics
Pvt. Claude S. Nantz, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Nantz, of this city,
has completed training and has been
graduated from the school of the
Army Air Forces Training Command,
at Chanute Field, 111.
While attending the school he re
ceived instruction in the electronics
course and in various technical oper
ations vital to the maintenance of the
country’s fighting planes.
Manufacturers of boxboard an.i
producers of folding and set-up boxes
used in packing many products will be
short of pulp in the first quarter of
1945, says WPB.
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
LINCOLNTON, N. C., MONDAY, DEC. 18, 1944
Buy at Least an Extra 8100 Bond Today!
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VICTORY WEEK “E” WAR BOND DRIVE December 18th
through 23rd has been designated Victory Week “E” Bond drive in
Lincoln county.
Maybe you have already bought your regular quota of bonds, then
buy an extra one this week and help Lincoln county reach her quota.
Buy War Bonds for your country. Buy them for yourself. They’re the
world’s safest investment.
Good Progress Being Made
On Freezer - Locker Plant
For The Town And County
Germans Exchange Prisoners
American and German forces exchange prisoners of war at Loriant,
France, when the 74 prisoners shown ahrne were exchanged, man for
man, with an equal number of equal rank of Nazis taken by the Ameri
can division in that section along the River Etel.
GTS TO FEAST
CHRISTMAS DAY
Those Gls at posts and camps in the
southeast who figured they had some
thing of a repast on Thanksgiving,
“haven’t seen nothin’ yet” in the way
of food, a glance at the Christmas
menu to be served them reveals.
The December 25 menu for the sol
diers, released today by the Quarter
master, Fourth Service Command
here, shows that the traditional
.Thanksgiving feed was a sort of warm
| up for Uncle Sam’s gourmets of the
Army.
They’ll start off for Christmas
morning breakfast with: Grapefruit,
dry cereal, fresh milk, french toast,
or plain toast if they prefer, butter,
sirup and coffee.
There’ll be no hash for supper, but
the menu makers, it appears, figured
the boys would be pretty well fed up
by the time the evening meal rolls
around, and they will get: Vegetabele
soup, boiled frankfurters, boiled po
tatoes, left-over vegetables, pickle
relish, mustard, bread, butter and cof
fee.
But take a look at this Christmas
dinner menu:
Roast Turkey Sage Dressing
Giblet Gravy Cranberry
Sauce
Snowflake Potatoes Candied
Sweet Potatoes
Green Peas Asparagus
Fresh Fruit Salad with Mayon
naise
Celery Pickles Olives
Hot Rolls Butter
Hot Mince Pie Ice Cream
Candy Nuts
Coffee
Assorted Fruits
U. S. CASUALTY
TOTAL 562,368
Washington, Dec. 14.—Army casu
ualties for all theatres now total
483,657.
Secretary of War Stimson announ- 1
ced this figure today, and said it rep
resents casualties reported through
November 28. This was an increase of
9,059 for one week period between
November 22 and 28.
Casualties for all branches of the
armed forces—army, navy, coast
guard and marines—now stand at
562,368. The latest navy report an
nounces 78,411 casualties, an increase
of 1,281 from the previous week.
The army totals, together with i
those of a week ago, follow: Killed,
92,136 and 91,625; wounded, 272,351
and 268,099; missing, 62,786 and 58,-
926; prisoners, 56,685 and 56,248.
The navy casualties: Killed, 30,029
and 29,738; wounded, 34,503 and 33,-
469; missing, 9,493 and 9,427; prison
ers, 4,486, unchanged.
Casualties among American ground
forces in Italy increased 16,255 be
tween September 25 and December 9.
Stimson said that from the time of
the landing at Salerno in September,
1943, through last December 8, a total
of 98,366 casualties had been reported.
Os the total, 18,898 were killed, 67,194
wounded and 12,274 are missing. As of
September 25, the list had reported
15,889 killed, 56,178 wounded and 10,-
044 missing.
Plans are being made for each
•ounty agent to place four hybrid corn
demonstrations in 1945 for increased
corn production. The latest methods
of spacing, fertilization, and cultiva
tion will be followed.
Eighty-Four By One Hundred
Foot Lot Purchased Friday
On East Main Street.
Good progress is being made to- j
ward the erection in the near future |
in Lincolnton of a food processing
and freezer locker plant by Lincoln i
Frozen Foods, Inc.
The corporation was incorporated j
under the laws of North Carolina on
September 27, 1944. To date, $22,380 I
in capital stock has been paid in, of I
the approximately $30,000 which will
be raised. The plans are to build a
300 locker plant, modern and stream
lined. Two hundred and eight lockers
have already been sold, 181 of which
have been sold to food producers. In
order to secure priorities for building
material and machinery, the govern
ment requires that sixty per cent of
the lockers to be installed, which
would be 180 in this case, be sold in
advance to food producers. The way
is now clear to make application for
priorities, and this application will be
filed within a week. Two to five weeks
is usually required for the applica
tion to be acted on.
An 84xl00-foot lot was acquired
Friday by Lincoln Frozen Foods. The I
lot is located at the intersection of!
Flint and East Main streets, adjacent
to Robinson’s Garage.
Ninety-two lockers are yet available
and the stock books are still open for
the sale of stock. Anyone interested in
either renting a locker or buying
stock should see W. Dewey Hoyle.
Other members of the seven-man
board of directors are: J. Alonzo
Burris, J. A. Polhill, Dr. S. H. Steel
man and W. E. Garrison.
Emergency Hospital
Gives Visiting Hours
The following holiday visiting hours
have been announced for the Emer
gency Polio hospital in Hickory:
Sunday, December 24, hours. 2 to 4
p. m.
Monday, December 25, hours. 1 to 4
p. m.
Gifts to the patients may be mailed
or delivered in person.
Lt. Col. C. H. Harrill
At Red Cross Club
South Pacific.—Lt. Col. C. H. Har
rill, of Lincolnton, N. C., attended the
opening night ceremonies at a new
American Red Cross on-camp service
club on this island base. In a modern
istic setting of red floor, primrose
ceiling, blue-cushioned chairs, oval
and oblong coffee tables, men were
served refreshments and urged to
"make themselves at home” playing
table games, ping pong and cards.
The club offers a wide entertain
ment program including beach picnics,
quiz and stage shows, dances and band
concerts,
Strong Nazi Forces
Overrun American
Front Line Positions
Norden Bombsight*
The new improved Norden bomb
sight is shown above. Thi* Is the
first release showing the closely
guarded secret of the war depart
ment. Much of the success of the
accurate American bombing is
credited to this Invention.
DATA ABOUT CENSUS
TO BE WIDELY USED
I Dope On Crops And Livestock
Will Be Gathered By Cen
sus In January.
The information on crops and live
stock to be gathered by the 1945 Ag
ricultural Census in January will be
used in many ways by farmers and
by varied groups from federal agen
cies to manufacturers and advertising
organizations.
Dean J- O. Schaub, of State College,
who heads an advisory council of all
agricultural agecies cooperating with
the Census Bureau urges that farmers
give just as complete information as |
possible. He points out that the infor
mation collected from growers is
strictly confidential and will not be
used for taxation and regulation.
When all the information is classi
fied and published, it will present an
individual digest of agricultural facts.
Cooperative farm associations can use
it as a guide to intelligent credit and
as a basis for marketing plans. Indi
vidual farmers will know better how
to make acreage changes in crops and
regulate the number of their live
stock.
The agricultural census will provide
basic information for dealers in agri
cultural products, railroads, insurance
companies, manufacturers, advertis
ing agencies, marketing organizations,
experiment station and extension
workers, and such agencies as the
Farm Credit Administration and Soil
Conservation.
In times of disaster, the agricultural
census will provide much of the in
formation needed for drought relief,
seed loans, and other rural relief
agencies.
“Agriculture will be able to make
much greater progress in the future,
if we have full information at hand
on which to make our plans,” Dean
Schaub said. “We especially need all
the facts in the case as we face chang
ing conditions after the war.”
Publicity Campaign
Urge People To Work
The Lincoln County War Production
Committee held a very important and
well attended meeting last Thursday
night in the court house. Since indi
vidually tried methods -have been
rather unsuccessful, it was unani
mously agreed to sponsor and finance
a , publicity campaign to encourage
persons not working to work, and
those working only part time who ab
sent themselves for no good reason,
to work regularly.
Ralph L. Winchester, chairman and
representative of the United States
Employment Service, and Lt. Kirk, of
the Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army,
stressed th e need for more and regu
lar workers in order to obtain the
maximum possible production for
badly needed war and civilian sup
plies.
W. C. Henderson, Director of Pub
licity and Finance, outlined the pro
posed publicity program for the first
quarter of 1945.
The Lincoln County War Produc
tion Committee is sponsored by the
Lincolnton Rotary Club, the Kiwanis
Club, Lincoln County Committee for
Economic Development, manufactur
ing companies and other employers
in cooperation with the United States
Employment Service.
Lincoln County’s
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Enemy Takes Initiative In Ma
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jor Offensive Cutting Into
Luxembourg.
Paris, Dec. 17. —The German army
reinvaded Belgium and Luxembourg
today in its first major counter-offen
sive since Normandy, striking along
its 1940 route of conquest after engulf
ing U. S. First Army lines in an in
ferno of artillery fire and calling out
j its long-hidden air force.
| A dispatch from the U. S. Ninth
Army front said that for the first time
since the Allies went ashore last June,
the German has seized the initiative.
! Striking with tanks and infantry,
the enemy drove an armored spear
head into American lines south of
Monschau. 16 miles southeast of Aa-
I chen. (A Blue network front broad
cast said this attack was checked short
of the Belgian border.)
Roll Into Belgium.
Another tank-led assault rolled into
Belgium and to within 10 miles of the
Belgian city of Malmedy, 32 miles
south of Aachen. American positions
near Honsfeld, two miles inside Bel
gium were overrun.
Terrific air battles raged overhead,
and by nightfall 110 German planes
had been shot down at a cost of 35 U.
S. fighters.
(The minimum penetration of the
American lines appeared to be about
four miles, although the absence of
informaton on the exact American
positions in the long-quiet sector at
the time of the counteroffensive
started makes it difficult to deter
mine the precise depth of the dent.’
Smaller attacks were mudtited all
along an 80-mile front from Duren
south to the area of the German for
tress city of Trier in what looked like
a grand attempt to ease the tremen
dous pressure of the United States
I First and Ninth Armies on the Roer
river line before Cologne and the
| Rhine.
(CBS Correspondent Richard C.
Hottelet said in a broadcast from the
front that the Germans were attack
ing with a number of divisions, and
scores of parachute troops had been
dropped behind American lines on a
50-mile front. These were being mop
ped up quickly, he said.)
Two hundred miles to the southeast,
the United States Seventh Army, driv
ing th e Germans back into the Sieg
fried line, overran five German villa
ges, as much as two miles deep in
the Reich, 0 n a 14-mile front and were
eight miles west of the Baden prov
ince capital of Karisruhe.
The enemy quit the villages to clear
the approaches to the Siegfried line
for the battle of the Palatinate, but
American vanguards within 33 miles
of the arsenal city of Ludwigshafen
and Mannheim on the Rhine.
The United States Third Army on
the Seventh’s w r est flank scored a bril
liant victory in the western Saar ba
sin by smashing the primary Sieg
fried line defenses at Dillingen.
Deepening the invasion of the
southern Saarland to two miles, the
Third also forged into Gerscheim,
seven miles northeast of Carregue
mines.
Lt. Gen. Courtney 11. Hodges’ First
Army reacted quickly to the threat to
its right flank posed by the biggest
German attack since the abortive at
tempt at Mortain last August to sever
the Avranches corridor and cut off
American armored spearheads racing
through Brittany toward Paris.
(Blue Network Correspondent Gor
don Frazer from the front said prison
ers declared they expected to be in
Paris by Christmas.)
Each ton of lespedeza hay removes
the amount of potash found i n 85
pounds of muriate of potash or 600
pounds of 0-14-7 topdressing.
r GAS AND TIRE
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J GAS—I:3O P. M. every J
J Monday, Wednesday and J
J Friday.
* TIRES—1:30 P. M. every J
! Tuesday and Thursday J
J For the benefit of the pub- *
■ J 'ic the Gas and Tire Panels 5
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* j ified days at 1:30 p. m. No »
. j applications will be acted S
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3 | sions, excepting Emergencies \