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?o. ?i ' City Cast He For Hospital telfc.; ^Trustees Board t Includes Kiser, Neisler, Williams Kings Mountain citizens streamed to the polls last Saturday, and, along with their Cleveland county compatriots, voted overwhelmingly in favor ot the county hospital project. , The county board ot commissioners canvassed tuo vote Monday morning and .immediately named a lb-man board of trustees to supervise the k. hospital program. Three Kiugs Mountaiu men were named to the board. They were C. ?. Noisier, W. A. Williams, ami L.. Arnold Kisor. The boar* is. to meet on Tuesday to organize and designate a treasurer for the Shelby hospital And the Kings Mountain unit, which is to lie built. KioffS Mountain nfftoinnfa ?t in a larger vote for the hospital project than diti any others in the county. Of 580 registered (n East Kings Mountaiu precinct, 561 voted in ta or of the proposals, while 686 of 773 registered in West Kings Mountain precinct voted in favor of the proposals. Total county vote was 3,4^5 for and <95 against. The opposing votes included the few actually east against the program, plus those falling to vote. Total county registration waa 4,293. Only two preqinets in the county returned majorities- against the program, Mulls and Earl, though the vote in the Delight precinct was close?24-22. Voted by the eitisehs was a $400,000 bond issue, with $240,000 to be used in remodeling and enlarging the Shelby hospital and $160,000 to be used in building a 50-bed hospital in Kings Mountain, permission for the county board to levy a tax not more than five cents per $100 valuation for maintenance of the unfts, '""' and' ntfsumptfoh by" the bounty of the $48,000 debt on thee Shelby hospital. Just how quickly the board of trustees will endeavor to staft the projects is "-not known, but announcement is expected following the board meeting July 17. It is thought probable that some ." aid will be obtained through the Duke foundation. I Bank Moves Thursday Into Front Quarters The First National bank will be' pen for business in the front of the SmSdiug Thursday morning, Frank B. Bummers, president, said this week,. Mr. Bummers said that the work on the front part of the bank had aot been completed, but that the basking offiee is being moved to al low ramer work on the book port. [Attention of bank patrons it called to the chaa(e. I Tommy Baker Wins Model Plane Contest Tommy Baker, eon of Dr. and lira. L P. Baker, waa the winner of the grand award Sunday in a model airplane content sponsored by the Charlotte Junior Chamber of Com mere*. ' Flying n Buccaneer standard model young Baker's grand prize is a free eight-honr solo course at Haskell Beaton's Plaza Airport near Charv lotte. ' The contest, staged for the purpoee of selling war bonds and stamps drew contestants with model plane* . from many cities in the Charlotte v TenName Of "James" Is Popular Here * , The MMW "James" has always WDi a popular one, but more popsi* than usual this week in a twoWork section on West Mountian aAiljMk.: * " Xh lass than four aerrlee men are wiw SB furloughs and leaTea, and "y' They an U James Mercer, who BT?*i^B* to BQM R9K ' I **}. Ty.' iavy Votes I Program -l-'jl . fa -' <*y-J*. 1* ^ ^ I REVIVAL SPBAKBft ? Eev. J. P*ml Hill, of Oastonla, above, began a series of revival services at Penley's Chapel Methodist church Wednesday gsaleis ?v- ? ducted each night at 8 o'clock through July 22. Sot. Paul B. Allred, pastor of Woaleyan Methodist church, Is In charge of the singing. Cooper Is Now Prison Chaplain Rev, E. C. Cooper, D. D., wellknown former resident of Kings Mountain, has been named chaplain of the federal peniteniary at Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Cooper assumed his duties on | June 1, but spent a month observing the work at the federal industrial reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio. He left Kings Mountain last Thursday for Atlanta. Mrs. Coorer is still in Kings Mountain bnt expects to move to Atlanta as quickly as bousing a eommodatlons can be ob| tained. Dr. Cooper, who served more than five years as president of the Southern Seminary of the Lutheran ehur ch at Columbia, 8. C., was prior to Jtbat time .chAplnin for two years at the state penitentiary at Raleigh dur ing the Hoey Administration. CKlirrVi flftincr former fcditor Builds Houses Haywood E. Lyaefc, formr editor of th Herald, Is building *wo hotise* oa Bid go it rest under permits recently granted fsr the building of S6 hoaeee la Klage Mountain. Mr. Ijpn}?k baa respired authorisation for | the Wilding of seven Senses .tti W'vpmMh aul? to ^ begia It -RsA.. JSCS isnsleiimv j? nj^z^^A,. ''V Off Slightly Attendance at 10 King* Mountain churches dropped slightly last Sunday, according to reports from these churches made this week. A total of 1,195 attended morning services, as compared to 1,210 the | previous week, while 1,541 attended church school, compared to 1,678 the previous Sunday. Following are the figures by ehurehee: ARP?church school, 127; church, 122. Central Methodist ? church school 164 ;< church 169. First Baptist ? church school, 286 church, 226 First Presbyterian ? church school ' 140; church, 105. Grace Methodist ? church school, 176; church, 79. Macedonia Baptist ? church school 1142, ehurch 118. ' Second Baptist ? ehurch school, 176; church, 122. St. Matthew's Lutheran ? church school, 204; ehurcKi 160. Wesleyan Methodist ? ehnreU school, 166; church, 78. St. Paul Methodist ? church school 20; church, $8. Sgt. Charles Long Killed On Okinawa v ... t S-Sgt. Charles ,H. Long, Jr., Infantry^ age 88, whose father, a na tive or mays Mountain, residedIn Concord for many jtan, was kitted in aetloh'on Okinawa pn Mother's Day, May IS, during an attack yn Hilt No. 130, jnst Oorthof Skin. Hit body, with Am* of hit. comrade* who gave their lives,-was buried with military honort la the Division eemotery on Okinawa, A native of Concord, -the yoaag man went to ' Now Tork City whore for li yearn, he waa employed Jn the New Hanover Bank and Trent company and also tudied art. Among hit outstanding work was the saaiol at the ontranee 1ml HUBSDAT, JU1>T 18, 1HO | City Board / i Tax Rate Of \ I War Raim) Soloe JIBK -r ' :'if Wi moun KIN OB MOUN X jklli N. O T j Local News Bulletins i MORRISON BID HOLDS The bid of $16,275 by Dr. 1). M. Morrison of Shelby for the property of the late Miss Lottie Goforth, entered at the auction of the property on June 30, wax not raised within the 10-day time limit and the property will be deeded to him, J. R. Davis, attor; ey handling the sale', said Wednesday. UNION SERVICE ? Sunday night's union service will be held at St. Matthew's Lutheran church, with the sermon to be delivered by Rev. .T. G. Winkler, pastor of Central Methodist church. WORK COMPLETED The State Highway deportment completed re-surfacing of two Kings Mountain streets t\jis week. n: u*i\rn new coverings were King street (highway 74,) from the corner of Piedmont avenue east to fhe city limits, and Battleground avenue (highway 2fl), from the corner of Mountain street to Dixon street. ATTEND PRESBYTERY Dr. W. L. Ramseur, Rev. P. D. Patrick, J. H. Bogie, and John Stewart of the Dixon Presbyterian church, attended the Rings Mountain Presbytery meeting Tuesday at 'heUnity Presbyterian church. The I Unity church is located in Lincoln 1 county, near Davidson and was or- | g&nized in 1784. TAX RATE SET The Cleveland County Board of commissioners, in meeting at Shelbv Monday morning, set the 194546 tax rate for the county, with the rate for Kings Mountain citixens to ?>e 01 cents per 6100 valuation. Included s 36 cents for the general fund, 32 cents for schools, and 23 | cents for the Kings Mountain school district. The school district includes the city of Kings MounI tain, plus a small area north of the I city to the daston county line. . | XIW'ANTS TXOOKAM Oarron Gordon, personnel director of the A. M. 8mvTe Manufacturing company of Gastonia, will speak to he members of the Kings MounI tafn Kiwans club at their meeting I at the Woman's club Thursday J night at 7 o'clock in the subject, "The Changing Boss." COURT OF HONOR The Tegular monthly Court of Honor for Kings Mountain Boy ocouts will convene Thursday night at 8 o'clock at the City Hall, according to an announcement received this week from Gastonta council headquarters. Applications should be taken to O. W. Myers. MTUBM SUOAB The local ration board reported this week the names of 11 additional persona who have returned portions of their canning sugar rations. They are: Buth M. Caveny, Mrs. Josephine E. Weir, Mrs. Louise O. Blaekmer, Mrs. O. A. Bhea, I J. H. 8m 1th, jr., G . A. Bridges, Benjamins Moore, Arthur Bilteltffe, 8. 8. Weir, Jr., Mrs. A. Benton Putnam, B. A. Dickson. . POBTOmOB FTBST OLAM W, B. Blakaly,' postmaster, annonneed this week receipt of notification frWm Washington, D. G. that the Kings Mountain postoffice has now been advanced to a first class postoffice. Basis for the change in classification was receipts during the 1944 caienday year of $43,010. The change was effective July 1. Since 1936 receipts at the local postoffice have Increased from sttghtly more than $18,000 to the present figure. ( wuw UVUV9 In Loan Drive Were $522,075 Kings Mountain exceeded its $500,000 Seventh War Loan quota by $22,075, according to a report compiled truni local issuiub agencies Weil nesday by J. K. Davis, Kings Mountain drive chuirman. Kings Mountain, along with Cleveland county, tailed, however. to make a quota-topping sbowing on its "E" bond sales, with only #61,.40 sold in this type bond. County "E" bond goal was $744,000 with Kings Mountain's part # 1 ?6,000. In topping the over-all goal, Kings Mountain completed its seventh sucessful war loan campaign, having never failed to meet its over-all quota. No breakdown as to issues were given. The following sales were listed by he local issuing agencies: First Na- j lioual Bank, $375,750; Postoffioe. I $12,625; Home Building and Loan, $.'<5,825; Pauline Mill, $2,875; Margrace Mill, $20,000. Added to the total were $75,000 bought at an issuing agency in another town, but credited to Kings Mountain. "The response to the appeal to buy bonds during the Seventh War { Loan drive was very gratifying," said Mr. Davis. "It is good to see Kings* Mountain keeping apace of I its previous bond-buying record. While tte sale of "E" bonds could | have been larger, our sales compared favorably with sales in the county, an 1 I feel that the aniount purl chased in this series alone was a I creditable one. I nt wn..i.i ~i?~ ,!1-- - . ..vu.u aipu une to point out | that because the war loan drive is over, there is no reason to cease buying bonds. War bonds remain the nation's best investment, and are on >aje at all times." Strange Eggs Indicate Man Has Jap Chicken i C. L. Navy, who lives on Ramseur street, thinks he has a Jap chicken. I Tt looks like any other chicken, but I it has developed a habit of laying eggs with the shell crinkled into the shape of a rising sun, emblem of the Japanese. , Mr. Navy says the hen has lai 1 some 12 eggs of tfci^ type. One of them he brought to the Herald office for evidenre. Like otheT eggs, though it deteriorated in about the same time, and the egg is no longer on display in the offiee. Mrs. Frances Payne Claimed By Death Mrs. Frances Victoria Barton Payne, 81, died Sunday at the home of dier 'daughter, Mrs. J. K. Rippy, after in illness of nine months. a - ? - - " ourviving are the following ehildren, Mr*. Rippy, Mrs. John Pearson, Charles Burton of Kings Mountain, and Tommy Payne of Gaffney, 8. C Also 'surviving are one slitey, Mrs. Emma Pryor of Kings Mountain and one brother, Henry Hullinger of Lincolnton. Funeral aerviees were held at the Second Baptist church, of whleh she was a member, Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Bev. B. F. Austin, pastor conducted tEe services and he was assisted by Bev. W. H. Redmond and Rev. W. L. Harkey, pastor of the Orare Methodist church. Bridges Served With Famous 82nd Airborne Cpl. Clyde J. Bridges, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Bridges, of Kings Mountain, is among the members of ihe 82nd Airborne " All-American '' | division, whleh opened the Allied as' aault on Hitler's "Festung Europe," and delivered the final coup to the crumbling Third Beioh with the capture on May. 8, of an entire German army. 1 Information concerning the part played by the Airborne division in the battles which led to Hitler's defeat was inelndsd in a special newspaper printed in Germany fallowing Germany "a surrender. The dtvfsien held a number of ' firsts." few of them Included, first airborne division overseen, first N HI bswlnl. first across the Bbiae Hi **" leraiu Adopts Budg( $1.50 For C Ig^ "* 'Vr^ I .r^x. M s -ffl m HONORABLY DISOHABOED?Pfc. Glenn A. Barrett, Kings Mountain veteran of the European fighting, has been discharged from the army following more than five years of service. Pfc. Barrett had 118 points un der the army's system for discharging vBterann Glenn Barrett Gets Discharge Pfc. Glenn A. Barrett, 25, a veteran of over five years in the army, lias been honorably discharged with a total of 118 points. Pfc. Barrett, brother of Mrs. J. M. Yates, North Piedmont avenue, participated in the campaigns in France. Holland, Belgium and Germany, for which he holds four battle stars. Pfc. Barrett, discharged June 25 after arriving in the United States on June 20, served in the Second Field Artillery battalion. Leaving the United 8tate* in June 1044, following a long tour of duty in Panama, he went to Liverpool, England, and entered France shortly after D-Day. "It was hell," says Pfc. Barrett, who landed near Cherbourg. "Men were lying dead in the streets and it was an awful sight." His first battle was at Brest. "Bombs were dropping and bullets flying everywhere. That was the first dav 1 ever nrave,1 thft.tr.1. : I ? wasn't the last. And there were ma-j ny more praying too," he said. The Kings Mountain man said that starving slave laborers of the Nazis were a common sight, adding. ' '+ saw people drop dead in the "street, and I also saw a place whe?> the laborers had been put in a barn an l burned. If they tried to get. out. guards would machine gn them. This was near Hanover." "I'm glad to be out," he savs, "but I don't even know how to talk to folks, just O. I.'s" Pfe. Barrett was twice wounded, onee by shellfire, the other time by rifle fire. Brewer Unit Hard On Subs LA.-Com. William F. Brewer, IT8NR husband of the former Miss Pauliae Neisler of Kings Mountain, left this week for Seattle, Wash., and a new assignment, fottowing two-year tour of duty over Atlantic waters with a navy patrol bombing squadron. He had served as squadron com-] Binan since last reDruory. Kinking more enemy I'-boat* than any other land based air group in the Navy, the squadron has an enviable record. Its score sheet includes eight submarines sunk, one so badly 1 damaged that it was later scuttled and probable damage ^to 16 other*. The squadron is credited also with being instrumental in ffie detection of three blockade - running vessels, which' were attempting to transport vital supplies from Japan to German war Industries. All three were later sunk by Allied surface craft. Flying more than 24,000 operational hours, the squadron members have received one Navy Gross, one D8M, 23 DFC'e, sin bronse stars, 155 air medals, 33 Purple Hearts, and 43 c ommen datiiaa. A former student of Davidson college, the 81-year-old navy airman is the son of Mrs. 0/ 8. Brewer of Km dersen. The Brewers have a fouryear-old sea, William V. Brewer, Jr. BIT omoi BOOM Bffective now, the local offices ef the selective service beard aad TT a ? i-- ?im v. dmm* TWi ,W. h^B f' A ^y o nvH anrra m ooft jt, Retains urrent Year O'FarreH Is tie-Appointed Court Judge Kings Mountain 'a city board, ia regular meeting at the city hall Tuea day night, adopted a budget for the fiscal year 1045-46, set the tax rato ut *1.50 per #100 valuation, and raHppointed O. C. O'Farrell for a twoyear term as judge of city recorder's court. In setting the tux rate at $1.50, | the board held the rate to the sama figure of tin- previous year. In addition, there will be the usual poll tax of $2.6n. The division of the levy was ; slightly different. For the coming year, 70 cents was allocated to tho geueral fund, 60 cents for debt service and 20 cents to the capital fund. Last venr. fit i-ents a-s- n 11-,' -?-I *? debt service, aud 17 cents for the capital fund. Out of the general fund is paid operatiou and maintenance expenaee, including salaries of city employee#, while the debt service levy will be used to pay bonds owed by the city, and the capital fund is for permanent improvements and heavy equipment. H. L. Burdette, city manager, aaid that the full budget will be published in the next issue of the Herald. It could not be readied for publication in this issue, but is open for inspection to all citizens. Mr. Burdette also reported that the city's bonded indebtedness, at the close of business June 30, totaled $431,000, a reduction of $33,000 from last year. During the current year the debt will be further reduced by $32,000, which will leave the debt at the end of the 1945-46 fiscal year at $399,000. The city ' manager also reported to the board that the city's bank balances at the end of the year totaled $12,948. a? 'compared with $12,300 at the end of the previous year, in spite of the' purchase of real estate back of the city hall totaling $4,000?an item not included in last year's budAlso reported: | Since 1940. annual income from water and light services ha/ increased from $63,910 to $92,500. Estimated Income from this source in the forth coming year is $04,00(1. A total of 0.1.46 percent of the tax levy for 1044 has heen paid. The city will sell property for unpaid tares on the second 'Monday in September (final date allowed by law), and advertisement of property for sale because of unpaid taxes will be begun the second Monday in August. Of an estimated total tax levy for IMS of $6.1,810, a total of $37,300.70 had been pre-paid at the close of business June 30. Sixteen Are (liven Pre-Induction Tests Sixteen registrants of the King* Mountain draft board received proinduction examinations at Fort Jackson. S. O., on June 27. ? Houston Black served as sqaad leader. One of the men, Grady William Queen, was sent for immeliate induction. Others accepted are to be inducted in future months. Others in the group were: Melton Kiser, Floyd Orville Morris. Harry Caldwell Beam, Fvana , [ Bders, Virgil Fletcher Forster, Wal4or HnrKam HoyntAn Hill** fnrtoaA Carpenter, Carl Webb Bridge*, Boaeoe Junior Chamber:-. Heiirv Mmnn Blanton, Earvin Andrew Henderson, Yates Augustus Smith, Jr., Floyd Henry Stvers, and Lewis Kdfard MeOinnis. Deadline Is Set On Sugar Bequests Saturday, July 21, will bo tha final day for acceptance of applications for canning sugar for all poraone sorrad by the Kings Moontain WAr Price and Battening Board, Mra. V?D Theaptop, chief dork, announced thla walk. Mra. Theoaooa pointed out that the local board at the praeant time haa no canning aogar qnota or coepone, bet that the board will forward a ragout fee ahttttenal aogar fatting of the ttilHaa on apptteafhtthag of tfcs deaiioa oa apptka . v-'ij)
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