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iMfctaMtat&teja *6*akalB?,547 t?wmx Trading; Aim 16,000 TOIi. 87) JK). 47 ( , Local News Bulletins 0 lions meeting The Kings Mountain Lions club will bold sn "eating meeting" at the Trout club on the York road Thursday night at 7 o'clock. Lions ' not having transportation should be at the Kings Mountain Drug company not later than 6:45. No formal program has been scheduled. KTWAN1B MEETING Klwanla club* of Kings Mountain mad Lincolnton will bold aa ' lntar-fInh 1 ' - I ft J" jjImu^Zmu^^SjT'ui^aX 'aT'oiiwl" *" It la the aacoad anch meeting of 4he earreat year, the Kiaga Ifoaa tela elab havtag previously bee a gatata of the Llaeolatoa elab. Pregram for the meeting, which will - ta la charge of the gaest group, . waa eet aaaouaeed. nun mabo hook ^ The mMl^^aad Kliga Mountain -oaly from 8:SO a. na. to boob Moa* daya through Fridays, it waa aa* -aouneed thla week by officio la of the boarda. The change la hoars ie effective immediately and la being -made In order that a board inventory may be filed with state head quarters. Persona having business -with the board are aaked to note this ehange. HTUDKNTB HONORED Henry P. Noisier and David M. Nelil, members of the sophomore class at Davidson college, were among 24 Davidson students ' -recently tapped for membership M the Beaver Clnb. an honorary fraternity for underclassmen. Prospective candidates are judged von -the basis of leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability. LEAVE fibs OUT ' tr! ??. a.lA ww. w mugi dtoDnmn r ir? Licpirtnesl answered a call lat? Tuesday afternoon to tho Aubrsy Itauney home on Gaston street to extinguish a iamalf pile of tafihg Uarta. ' ii'"r i .1 \ fflTMIW mm G. la Carry, mtmh'ei ?f the teeal constabulary Car th? past" ehraatu ' month a, kaa resigned te aoeept a -position with the Cherryrllle polio* -fore* CUM N. M Tare awwawl. yesterday. No raplatiimial ha* Vbeea aeon red. osl sootrr ran axd lira. "W. B. Lopa announced thla ; wmV that Mi^s Betty Graatham. 1 rand Bnek Early. American Nod Cross Inatrnetora will teach f irnt aid classes for Troop* 11, It. and IS,. Girl Sconta with the firat class to "be conducted Monday afternoon at A o'clock at th* Woman's Club. Classes ar* to be keld each Monday ' -thereafter unti] the conra* is em-pie ted. Troops 11 end It are pn sored by General Methodist chard, ' mad Troop 18 to sponsored by Grace "Methodist chareh. " at battdn mxbtRev. and Mrs. L 0. Plnnix, Mr. and Mrs. B. <L Geld. Mr. and Mrs "E. a McClala and J. R. Up foTd stoat to Aaherille on Tuesday -where they hare been attending fM oY the North Care- Una Baptist eoarantion ? ? v - *Btiris-Xye' Kiser Wins -Gobbler At KMSWC Shoot Arnold Kieer walked away from the Slip Mountain Sportsman'a WU3life club ole-time shooting match held yesterday afternoon at the Country ' Club with the grand prise, a 201b. turkey gobbler as the 70-odd other hunters and interested persons looked on. The grand1 price winner, shooting a, gainst 92 other crack shots, won only after a shoot out of a tie with Charles Thomaeson. JIarold HunniCutt, chairman of the Club's committee in charge of the , ahoot reported that_ a total of 350 $atd abets wore run off against sixInch targets and* trap targets, wtfh Only shotguns being used. Also on the -committee were Glee A. Bridges and Vf. G. (BUI) MoDaaUt with the nae of the mage granted fay the Kings Mountain Country (Rub, Inc. Other winners wsrai Allan Hemdon and f. G. (Bed) MeKeC, ducks dona* ? "ted by Archil# Barms; Garland 8tUl H R. ITsMnr -cbUVene. Rings K W. L. Pressly To Give First Sermon Sunday Rev. W. L. Pressley is scheduled to preach bin first sermon as pastor of Bovee Memorial ARP chllrch Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, ami on Sunday evening at 7:30 he will deliver the sermon at a union service at the ABP church when other uptown chu.' ches collaborate In welcoBtlng the new minister to Kings Mountain. Mr. Pressly. who is coming to Kings Mountain following 14 years at Green wood, R. C., and Mrs. Pressly, were to have moved into the redecorated AKP manse on Mondav of this week. Mr. Pressly tncceeda as pastor Dr B. N. Baird who resigned several months ago dee to ill health. Mr. Pressly went to Greenwood ! 1931 from the Princeton Seminary at Princeton, N. J., where he had reoslv ed the degree of master of theology. Mr. Preesly is a son of Dr. J. H. < Pressly, or StnteovTlle. He attended Krahiae College end the Ereklae Rem ifif iVn'tr M-* ?hi?M?iaii at Bethany for two'years before attending Princeton Seminary. During his stay at Oreeewood. the membership of his church has reached < over 180, more than double the number of members which it had when he came. The ehurch budget has increased more than four times. Pews, 1 carpet and pulpit furniture have been < bought and paid for. / I Mr. Pressly was a member of the ! Greenwood Kiwanis Club and was i president of that club In 1942. He ( has served as presldi-iif and as sec- 1 retary of the ministerial union in' the city, has served on the boatd of di- t rectors of the llbrarv for 10 vears I - - " : and has been assistant Scoutmaster \ of Troop 57. He was chaplain of the State Guard unit and is a Mason. On December 21, 1937, Mr. Pressly was married to Miss Elizabeth Cowan of Stateavllle. They have one son James Allen Pressly. Mrs. Pressly has been active to church work, in women's clubs and music elreles la Greenwood. She is a member of the choir and the A. R. P. Church; has been a member and officer of the Woman's Auxiliary of her ehurch and also of the Keowe Club, the Tolly Oerdep Club and the Greenwood MnsitV Study dab and a member of Intra 'Nona look Club. She is a graduate of the Woman's Collage of the University of North Carolina and in addition took grade-" ate work at tke University ef (Mendo and at Pennsylvania State College aad studied music under James Wood side of New Tort 37th District Masons Will Moot In Shelby A special district meeting of all Masonic Lodge* in Cleveland connty will be held nt the Lodge Room in Shelby, with wives of Mesons to be special guests, on Friday night, Nov. M, at T:S0, It Was announced yesterday by O. C. O Terrell, secretary of Fairview Lodge here. Beaator Clyde R. Hoey ie to make ' the address ef the evening at the Ladies' sight affair, and special entertainment and refreshments are also on the menu. ' Mr. O Terrell pointed ont that all lodges In the 37th district are in Cleveland connty. They are: Fairview Kino Mountain, Cleveland ledge, Shelby, Fellston lodge, Fa lis ton, State Lfae ledge, Grever, Moo res bo ro lodge Mwmbsie, Lawn dale lodge, Lawsdaft, Gamp Call lodga, route 8, Shelby and Gaaar lodge, Caear. A large asm her of Masons here are planning to attend the meeting. Local Thanksgit Like Real Pre-V Thanksgiving-. IMfl ? finally set- ] tied down to the last Thursday In November ? will" be observed next Thursday on about .the same basis as previous Thanksgivings, if present indicationa are borne out. Though there la a possibility that many cltUens will be worrying about their coal Supplies the day other wise will feature special Thanksgiving services at many churches, the ever-present tnrkay dinner, and, for some an afternoon football game?either at Charlotte, where Wake Forest and the University- of South Caroline renew their Thaakegtyiag series, or betide the radio. TMlsls for the Charlotte gaeae ard already-dM* ent. which mean that only thoM hiding tloketa , ; closed, with the emapHee of sealed ^ If Moun 1 V 11 ' 1,1 moB MomrTAXM. *. o. THUBSD . I 11 : i OAIHXOH mo? UOM OOAL ? MiMUBnr fullback, just ifMr lu daws d*?4dli>< Am ocanty ehamyteo after to Hookai Mit Wttlby'i fMk Itwn it Uft r?fcte# late tfra glay f Um and playar w tfea frtoi an i Mountaineers Finale Is Ho / Kings Mountain's oounty champion Mountaineers wind up the most suc:esaful season a Mountaineer team wt had in 'many years at the City Stadium I^iday night at 7:30 in what s being billed as a Homecoming {nine. Hendersonville Trtgh school will Furnish the_ opposition. Another record crowd is expected :o witness the contest ? as much to )ay honor to the victors over SheiDy is to see the final game of the sea ion. It is an Important game for the Mountaineers, for a victor^" will give hem a 4-3 record in the Western Conference and move them up the adder, while a loss would make their oop percentage fall below ?00. By virtue of iheir improvement In >ast games, plus Hendersonville'* rec >rd, the Mountaineers wfll be tnvor | ites for the first time in three weeks. iA komecdining program has been irrangeH this week through coopers* itlon of Kings Mounts In merchants ind this ihslor Cham her of Comas sice. Kings ttountaia business firms are rpoasorisg escorts for the 14 seaiviS' vho will he wosring the Unci sad |(M colors f?r the last time as foot* MH stslwaits and gmp of lad ion, is | ?! Jlii ? . oo- - ww _ -* s _ _ . SraOllf KTf. nlTVj rtf9| Mm. J. O. WinkleT, Mrs. W. J. Fulkor m, ltrs. Master Noisier sad Mrs. , Paul NeUor are is charge of decors Jons. - 1.. ?V_ 11 '?*' nwwvi v? ivi vu? AW MBIQn' WUi . W presented on the (told, and the Joy *H will aarva refreshments to tha roa?| ladiea snathe play era of both earns following the game at the high tchool cafeteria. Buddy Msdlin, atellar Mountaineer , :enfer, la the only 1M6 regular who prill be eligible for play next year. Meaabera of tha Jayeee committee >b arraageaaeota were Charles F. | rh'omaaaoa, Jr., Bill Darts aad W. F. Laughter. Following is tha sponsor line up: Lenora Plonk, sponsored by Myers' ( Jepartmant Store for Bill Haipaou, ? Betty Hord, sponsored by First Na , loaal Bank for Kdbert NelU, rt. Doreaa Carpenter, sponsored by itngi Mountain Herald for Kenneth . Jeorge, It. , JaneTI Smith, sponsored by , FTiner , tamber company for Bob Led better, |b. , Gerald Cobb, sponsored by Mauney (Cont'd on page eight) , ring Program Var Model Next Wednesday Final 1946 Half-Holiday ' Next Wednesday afternoon * will be the final half-holiday for Kings Mountain merchants until Jan. 1. v Majority of Kings Mountain firms will be closed Wednesday afternoon and Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday, but win remain opan on Wad nsaday afternoons fn Dae am bar to batter accommodate Christmas chop They will resume their half-day cloeJBge on Wednesday January 1. Matrons are betag requested to note the change. uUsuawwewvMHeiaaaawssasaaswauaai^BWMawaw ?MS ? ilready announced laelnda a 10 a. H. nrrlce at St. Matthew's Lutheran (hareh, and the annua) Thaaksgirtaft >reekfaat. preceded .by an half-hoar rerphtp eerrloe, at .Bjjw Mfrnphrlhj ' 4. _ ? | . __ L. ... i?w ^ fp| t. y^wyTW|*f F MJk- ' V * ' > . k tain I Air, HOV. 81, 1946 M W'wJtKM Iwrni iWw, with whHs bin Is 3 I cn?U Us ttsIVy gssl frsa Us 4 1 1-1.^ w?-? mg?* ktek M LtdbriUt (We. 30), Mount Bridget (Wo. 17) to IMrthi pott for too late lo BUI Migglnsin (Wo. 74) X MM?Photo by Wilson, Bandy I nfepmmg H Holiday Delay | Herald Distribation Mojority of renders of the Kings Mountain Herald will not receive their papers next week until Friday. Due to the Thanksgiving holiday to be observed by the postofflce and consequent suspension for that day of city and rural carrier service, only those readers who receive their papers at postofflce boxes or purchase thorn at uptown news stands will get their paper per schedule. The Herald felt it could publish a better paper by maintaining its regular schedule of publication. Club Chooses New {ftpgtftri Anno 40 enthusiastic members of the Kings Mountain Country CIuo, lac. met at the club afternoon, chose new directors, mad ? *tinned plana far putting the elnb lata opera tioa at aa early date. Car! P. kfauney was elected aaeretarj-traaattter, with Gilbert Hard as isUtant secretary treasurer. Other directors elected ware: B. li. Neill, who wiH also safve oa the finance committee: Aubrey Mamaey, Dr P. G. Padgett aad J. W. Milam, who will serve oa the committee fer formulating by-laws, rales and regulations t Hunter NefiDfer, W. J. Fulkerson, and H. T. Pulton, wbowill serve on the house committee; and Arnold Klsar, Prod W. Plout and Joe NeUler, wbe will "serfg oa the greunda committee. President of the organisation will l>e chosen by the directors at a later date. Joe Noisier la currently head of the wgaaisatioa, while W. L. Plonk it re tiring secretary-and' Fred Plonk is retiring treasurer. At the meeting, the group unanimously adopted .the motion of Aubrey ^ Mauney, seconded by Glee Bridges, that the medibershlp express its gppreciatton for gifts of materiaats and money which persons and business firms had contributed. a Following adjournment, elub members inspected the clubhouse. on which work is progressing rapTdly, ind made a tour of the nine-hole golf rourie, which is expected to be ready for play by spring. T>Tork now underway on the "dlubhouse is designed to have it ready for use early In 164?. Many members expressed themselves surprised at the progress alPmHv mnrtf* nn hnth kiillHUis I grounds. Flower Sale Here Saturday By DAV Gaston Spindle Chapter 90, Disabled American Veteran*, will condoet a For-Get-Me-Not sale in Kings Moun tain on Saturday with the Girls Glee Club of Central high school to conduct the sales, according to an announcement made yesterday by John W. Gladden, chairman of the Chapter's committee in charge. DAV Is a eohgreesionally chartered organisation whose one purpose Is to restore war-disabled veterans to a aaefal Ufa. The Gaston elub is compos ed el several meesber? from Kings If onateia, there being ae Aaptar here. thc^^enm *04 XV. OUddea^wlth^the " I [erald fcwdatg mm oartrt?. pimtrnUg* I s jud 11m, his third (tuUr touch It i to 0 UM rrtlij nl#ht la Shslb; lato?t ilgMtjdir, Is shown at rl?> tte W| MwUhWi linebuatei Asa hilfbtek. Bhalby pltytr tn fron' lhy y ere Friday m ? Kings Mountain Central high's ru ged Mountaineers, completely ou playing a favored 8helby Lions agg gation thus spoiling the losers bom coming party, donned the crown I football champions of Cleveland con ty last Friday- night in Shelby on tl strength of multiple-adjective Brui er Bill Cashion's six points again! trfe upper county rivals, the score fi the champs in all probability beiii held down as a result of five Kini Mountain fumbles. The Mountaineer detense, complci ly bottling up the mueh-publicizt Lion running attack of tailback Di< Walker, wlng~backs Allan Washbui and Bill Meggison, and fullback D< Cheek, and holding the Shelby passii attack to one completed toss, he Coach Casey Morris' team outsit their 20-yard marker the entire gan STATISTICS eon' v. - si Yds. gained raahtag 987 A' Yds. last rootling IS V KM maid? lain 989 ? T4t ptui passing ? 81 He. fwta 8 Yuattag 80 38.1 Yd*. tnbMk of pants 11 ( Yd*, rttan of klekoffa It 81 X* kloMTf* a ' 3 kickoff average 38 M First downs, rushing 14 first down*, passing 8 1 Total first down* 17 4 Ho. fumble* 0 3 Own fumbles rec. 1 ( Oppo. fumbles roe. 1 4 Ho. penalties ] Yds. loot penaHlsi 30 I . Total sot gain (not making gain plaa paaolng gain pins yards gained ran back of kicks minus yds lost penalties) 800 M offensively, "but It was the brilltai pile-driving of the Mountaineer* pi ton-legged fullback that told the tai a story that was reeled off amid host of first downs, driving lit plunges, and completed passes. Cashion started the Monntaine< touchdown march by returning Kt neth Bridges' kickoff opening tt last half from his own 20 to the & and smashing through center for 1 yards for the first Kings Monntai first down in a string of four tha with Cashion and Ganlt carrying tl ball, mqyed them down to the 8helt I 1-2 yard line on the determined su (Cont'd on page eight) Sale Of Seals Begins Monday Kingg Mountain business firms pi chased #106.50 of Tuberculosis bom out of a county total of #1,365.55, was announced this week by Mrs. U C. 8tnllings, secretary of the Tube cnlosls association. The annua] sale of Christmas sea gets underway on Monday, as #2.< of seals will be mailed to majority < county citizens. They will be reques ed to purchase the seels and retui money for them to aid In the fight' stamp tuhercu]oslS out of this eouat It was announced that seals ' ~w not be sold In the schools this yes The goal of the campaign this y* la #6.000. ; Funds raised Ureas the sale of doe last year were need In defrhytnf 1 cnl irrpsdMe eenaeeted with 4 eounty WM TB ferrey, In (Msg t herwsMa teo^a to high school etudes 1 A Pages " Today FIVE CENTS PEE COPY W. K. Mauney Heads County Health Drive Durbatn. ? W. K. Mauney,, of Kings Mountaiu has been appointed chairman of the Cleveland County division of the North Carolina Good lleuitb Association, Harry II. Caldwell, the Association's executive secretary, an noum-ed today. A? ( lev eh.id county head. Mauney J will wo-k with the (iood Health Aa i seciiCUi''? sta.i headquarters hero in i a latapaiyt' tr> cvj-nint the peoples of Ninth Carol'aa with the fart that the TIoiiaT" neaTth7 standings, j A cochatrmau to naaiat Mr. Maun h ey in the formation of the Cleveland j County Good Health committee will t DC namea in me near future, Mr. Cald ,a well aaid. t D. Hlden Ramsey, of lAahevilla, U chairman of the Weatera Region ta whlrh Cleveland County la located. In connection with the eelection of ?0Untv "pj.Jx"f-myJT* miniatratlve organizations other than committees are planned at the county and diltrlct levels. The Good Health Association expects Instead, lie said, to gain the cooperation of local civ- s ic, business and professional groups in advancing the Good Health moveeR' uient. ''' The Association's educational pub* e' lleity campaign opened on November ? ft. *s During the campaign the need for in ! more doctors, hospitals and other heal 1,5. th facilities in the state will be stressed. 9t | A program of better health in Nor. 5r th Carolina has long been the State's 18 I No. 1 need, in the opinion of many *8 experts. Statistics show that more than a third of , the 100 counties have te no hospital beds and that the state >d stands 42nd Ld the nation in number :k of hoapitai beds per thousand popularn tion. Objectives of fhe Good, Health As j8 sociatton cover a six-point program: I 1. for State assistance in the ears of indigent sick; 2, for State assistance _ ia building or enlarging local hospitals and establishing, and equipping rural health centers; 3, for a medical education loan fund to help worthy North Carolina young men and wo men who" pledge themselves to prae* tice in a rural community for four yeara; 4, for the expamion of tha two-year mediea! achool of the Unlvar ity of North Carolina into a stand ard four-year school with a central teaching hospital; 5, for special study and prorision for the meflfcaj edaea* tion of Negroes; and 6, YtFh the pro* motion of voluntary group inanraaoe plans. Local Coal Stocks Low Claude Hambright, Kings Mountain coal dealer, said Wednesday afternoon his stock of coal was virtually _ exhausted, and that a telephone caU it to Knoxvllle, Tenn., had revealed that s. almost all miners were out on atrlko e, prior to the Wednesday midnight M deadline. Mr. Hambright said a car ef eoal consigned to his company has*'warn as the tracks at the mlnea but eould hot >r be moved duo to tha strike. '* Mtsntime, her said, his firm haa '* been complying with the governlh^nt ' order limiting coal deliveries to thosa persons or firms having less than a * 10-day supply. " He indicated that the order mean* little now, with his stock* already de pleted to the "out" point. "H all depends on Lewis," Iff, Hamhright concluded. Pollock Named Legion Chaplain * A. Pollock, long standing Legionnaire of Kings Mountain, was elected jr chaplain of Otis D. Green, Post 155, la the American Legion, to fill the una* it plred term of J. E. Herndon, resigned, 7. at the regular monthly meeting of the t. Post held at CUy Hall last Tuesday night. Is Mr. Pollock, veteran of the First 10 World War, has previously served the if organisation as ohaplaln. t Moat Important business passed by m the members was formal adoption of to changes in tha book of constitution y. and by-lawa, resulting in the election 111 of throe Legionnaires to serve with ,r. the seven offloer executive commjttea the iaunediete peat-commander, John rloyd, autoaaatlcnlly becoming the la meeapth member 0i ttt governing Mr. Elected wera Clarence Smithy he V. M. Tata, and Chpt Xnrl Walla. * tUaa passed nt tha nana tog wna n te proSW* H formalnto n Ust of the ig y hleod typoo ad sll maestoso, the Und
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