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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 19 Your New.poper—THE DAILY N. C. PAGE ONM Towel City Eligible For Contest Cabarrus and Rowan County youths are eligible to participate in the 1966 Toy Scholarship program, which has a top award of $1,000 scholarship savings bond and an expense paid trip to New York City. Each of the 50 state finalists will receive a handsome-mounted, personally-engraved wall plaque. Johnny Bernhardt of China Grove was the North Carolina finalist last year.

Sketches of original models designed by young residents from Tinkertoy, Tinker Zoo, or Toy Maker and submitted in the program qualify immediately for Junior Engineer Certificates of Award and become eligible to compete for the grand award. Judging is on the basis of imaginativeness and creativity of design. The top winner may also be accompanied on the trip to New York by his or her parents. Ricky D. Fuhriman, 12-year- old lad of Downey, Idaho, was the grand prize winner of the 1965 program.

The Toy Scholarship Award program is now in its second year. According to R. A. Christofferson, president, 1966 creative awards program is in keeping with the line of creative toys. 1965, the number of participants and the amount of enthusiasm were beyond our Christofferson said.

from the early resjxmse this year the interest will be even Sketches should be sent to the Toy Tinkers, 807 Greenwood Evanston, 111. 60204. Democratic Headquarters Open Locally The Cabarrus Democratic Headquarters will open at 7 p. m. Thursday on Concord's South Union St.

The location is across the street from the Courthouse, in the building formerly occupied by Furniture Co, Joe Miller, president of the Cabarrus Young Democratic Club, said country ham biscuits and soft drinks will be served free Thursday night. Democratic candidates for county offices will be on hand, he said. The headquarters will be the center of the pre-election campaign. Corriher Softball Team Praised Prominently displayed at. the Corriher Mills Labor Day festivities in Landis were the trophies won by the Corriher softball team during the past three years.

Admiring the display, which included pictures of the teams ir. color and clippings from The Daily Independent, are Paul Craver, the team's general manager, and Fred Corriher mill company secretary. Photo By Charles fosier. iLousy Prospect In Beginning Corriher Mills Was Created Out Of A Dream Council Meeting MIAMI BEACH. Fla.

The seventh General Assembly of the National Council of Churches will convenc here Dec. 4-9 to clcct new officers, vote on membership applications of four denominations and decide the future course of the work together. More than 3,000 church leaders and observers are expected to attend. The 16-year-old National Council of Churches is the prime service and witness agency for 30 major Protestant and Orthodox bodies. U.S.

Is Wasting Its Greatest Resource (The following history of cured about that time, however, REV. SHELBY Pastor Will Speak At Faith Mission Rev. Robert F. Shelby a former pastor of Kimball Memorial Lutheran Church, will be the guest minister for the evangelism mission which begins tonight at Faith Lutheran Church, Faith. Services will be held at 7:30 p.

m. daily through Saturday. The mission will conclude with the service of Holy Communion at the 11 a. m. worship hour Sunday.

Homecoming also will be observed at the church Sunday. Rev. Alfred Rhyne is pastor at Faith. The Rev. Mr.

Shelby has been pastor of Holy Comforter Lutheran Church, Belmont since March 1964. He is a graduate of Lenoir Rhyne College and the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, S. C. For 11 years he did home mission work in Belmont and in Macon, Ga. and for six years was a service pastor, ministering to service personnel in five military installations in the Georgia area.

He also was pastor of St. Lutheran Church, Columbia, S. C. The minister has served as a missioner in 62 preaching missions and is used as a speaker at civic club, high schools and patriotic observances. Two of his sermons have won the Freedom George Washington Honor Medal.

He won awards in college and in seminary for his playwriting ability. Corriher Mills appeared in the program distributed at Labor Day festivities in the new Corriher plant addition. When the late Lotan Corriher was a teenager in the he spent much of his time on the business end of a plow. What we need around here, Corriher thought as he toiled in the fields, is a mill that could use all this cotton. One day he put his mule in the barn, struck off for China Grove and began to make his dream come true.

Like electronics today, textiles was the glamor industry of the South in the The Kesler Mill at Salisbury reportedly was prospering. The Patterson Mill at China Grove, built of native clay in 1891, had been expanded in 1898 and there were rumors that J. W. Cannon planned to start a mill between Concord and Salisbury, probably at China Grove. When Corriher left the cotton fields he go immediately into textiles.

He entered the mercantile business at China Grove and soon joined C. J. Deal in a saw mill operation there. Later the two sought financial assistance from banker D. B.

Coltrane to build a mill. Coltrane said they must raise $40,000 in capital stock before he would consider a loan. When the stock had been scribed, Coltrane, accompanied by a Methodist minister, drove a horse and buggy to discuss the mill. They met under a shade tree in a cotton patch on the farm of Columbus (Squire) Linn, an extensive landowner who had become interested in the mill. said the minister, the lousiest prospect for a cotton mill I ever Coltrane reportedly replied, you tell what sort of luck a lousy calf will With backing, the mill was begun in 1899.

Folks in neighboring towns got a good chuckle when they heard that a half dozen farmers were planning to build and run a mill in a cotton patch south of China Grove. The pioneers paid no attention to the jeers. They were working too hard. A mill 200 feet by 140 feet was measured and staked, a few streets marked off and several houses were begun. By 1901 the mill was completed but none of the original leaders knew a thing about running a cotton mill.

They solved the problem by hiring George Lipe as superintendent. bought the best machinery for the small amount of money available. He hired no one who drank liqu and established a policy of hiring local people and always promoting from within. Linn Mills began to prosper and in 1909 Corriher started a second mill. A financial panic oc- Hitler invadpd Poland Sept.

1, 1939. GREENVILLE, S. C. The most powerful natural resource this country has the people themselves is being wasted, one of the leading industrialists said here today. William J.

Erwin, chairman of the board of Dan River Mills, Danville, and president-elect of the American Textile Manufacturers, Institute, made the charge in his keynote address to the United Fund chairmen of Greenville County. must convince others that their United Fund fair share means more than simple writing of a check or use of the payroll deduction Erwin said. all, the real objective of this campaign is not to raise money, but to raise human nopes; not only to get a red line over the top of thermometer, hut to get a lifeline to many people; not to meet a quota, but to meet a desperate vital human need. need to become ersonal- ly involved with th? problems which surround us. We nre holding in check, for no good reason, the greatest na'ural resource this country has 195 million individuals in 50 million families who should noc, for the most part do not limit their lives to pay producing work or occasional trips to the voting Erwin said that although the American people have the power to perform formidable tasks they have given themselves less and less to do and assigned more and more to Federal agencies.

years, we have been passing the buck of social responsibility to government which not know how best to invest he said. Erwin urged businessmen to lead the wav in rescuing social responsibilities which should be in the hands of the people. ssmen, exercis i trusteeship of independent agencies. can by using their imagination and drive place social responsibility back in the hands of the individual where it Erwin continued, anl individuals joining together in the sharing of social responsibilities can push each other into the forefront of personal action on local, state and national he said. Erwin pointed to many areas where independent action is already at work, but said there were too few independent organizations taking the lead in public welfare.

have barely tapped our he said. Elected Epitaph WOODBURY, N.J. (UPI) The inscription on a tombstone from Revolutionary War days in a cemetery here reads: have children, some none, lies the mother of Sandy D. Griffin Jr. of Burlington has been elected president of the N.

C. Pharmaceutical Association for 1967-68 and will be installed at the annual convention in Winston- Salem next May 7-9. The election of officers was conducted by mail, supervised by a committee that included William Whitaker Moose of Mt. Pleasant, What's Doing Locomotion of fish is relatively simple. The weight of the body is about that of the w'ater it floats in.

Power is provided by side to side motion of the fins. 5:30 p. m. Polly anna Club at YMCA. 6 p.

m. Kannapolis Optimist Club at YMCA. 6:15 p. m. Torch Club at John cabin on Lake Norman.

Mid-week services at Kannapolis churches. and the mill stood vacant and 1 incomplete until 1913. Most of I the money which went into the second mill (now Corriher), Corriher often said before his death in 1955, was earned from the sale of lumber from his sawmill to Cannon Mill being built to the south of Landis. Nevertheless, Corriher often had to dash to the country to borrow money from farmer friends to meet the payroll. Lotan Corriher would probably not be too surprised if he saw Corriher Mills today, because he was a dreamer, but more important than that was the fact that he was also a worker.

He expect the good fairy to make his dreams come true. As we said in the beginning, he did his dreaming at the business end of a plow. Corriher Mills initially had 5,000 spindles operating on double carded knitting yarns. In 1927 it was converted into a combcd yarn mill and more spindles were added. The spin- dleage was further increased in 1937 to 40,000 capacity.

The 1966 expansion will bring the total number of spindles up to approximately 54,000. The company officials are: President, J. Fred Corriher Vice President, O. R. Black; Vice President Lane C.

Drye; Vice President and Controller, Samuel W. Pressley; Secretary, J. Fred Corriher Treasurer, Otha A. Corriher; Superintendent. Henry B.

Clyburn Overseers, 1st Shift, Fred Kelly; 2nd Shift, D. W. Pless, 3rd Shift, O. G. Bost.

Get Flu Shot In September September is the month that elderly persons and others subject to chronic illnesses should contact their physicians for immunization against influenza. This is the word from Dr. J. Dillard Workman, Cabarrus public health director. Children in the Kannapolis, Concord and Cabarrus County Schools will be offered 1 free, Dr.

Workman said. Several industries in the area have, for several years, made influenza vaccine available to their employes. Beat The Heat WASHINGTON (UPI) The seashore sand locust jumps to beat the heat, says the National Geographic. The grasshopper endures dune temperatures up to 135 degrees F. by leaping into air that may be 50 degrees cooler a few feet above the hot surface.

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