POPULATION I City Limits (1940 Cea*us) 6-574 Immsdlate Ttadinq Ana 1 5.000 (1945 Ration Board Fl^atM) 14 Pages Today VOL. 60 HO. 20 % . Kings Mountain. N. C.. Friday. May 20. 1949 PRICE FIVE CENTS Tentative Tax Rate At $1.85 Local News !,v Bulletins ATTEND CONVENTION . Dr. L. P. Baker, and Dr. R. N. B?ker, Kings Mountain done is us, Jeft Thursday lor Pinehursi where they are attending the annual con vention of the North Carolina Den tal society. They expect to return Friday night. DIRECTORS TO MEET Directors ol the Kings Mountain Country Club wil hold a dinner meeting at the club Friday even ing at 7 o'clock, it was announced y??terday. FORENSIC MEET HERE Kings Mountain high school will be host to the Western Conference Forensic Meet on Friday.- Be ? ginning at 1:30 p. m. Shelby, Lin coin ton, Forest City and Kings Mountain will be represented in the meet, which includes four di visions, declamation, oration, read* - ing, and poetry. ATTEND CONFERENCE Harold Hunnlcutt, 'Kings Moun tain blood program chairman, Mrs. Uf. N. Gamble and Mrs. W. B. Thompson attended a Bed Cross regional coordinating committee tneting in Charlotte Thursday morning. d LIONS MEETING Members of the Kings Mountain Lions olub will hold their regular meeting Tuesday night at 7 o'clock at the Woman's Clufc, Principal business of the meeting will be e leotton of officers for *- wt aturday at the precinct polling places. It will be the last chance for unregistered voters to qualify to vote. May 27 will be Challenge day. P* the S200.000.000 road bonds and 1 $2o.000.000 school bonds (if voted) i Cleveland county will receive $2,766, j 000 for road building and $449.525 to r school building, according to an nouncement by Governor W. Kerr Scott. School and road bond bills passed : by the 1949 General Assembly alio- ! cate those amounts to be spent in the coiinty, provided that the people! authorize the issuance of the bonds ' when they vote dn the June 4 elec- i tion. For school building Cleveland county would ge* $250,000 as its e qual share of a $25,000,000 appropri ation by the General Assembly plus $449,525 an its per -pupil share of the proceeds from the School bor*8s. The per-pupll share established by the General Assembly is determined on the basis of the 1947 -48 average dai . ly membership. The amount that would be spent In the county for road building, if issuance of the bonds is favored by the voters, is set forth exactly in the road bond bill, ?nd represents what the General Astemly determined to be "a fair and equitable distribu tion" based upon the formula unty*s stump of* proceeds front the road bonds would be in ad dition to its regular share of high way funds. "Crow Shoot" Set Saturday Morning "Help the farmer kill crows." was the appeal Wednesday of Joe t-ee Woodward who announced plaits for a "Crow Shoot" to be held Saturday morning. All persons interested in attending ! the event are urged to be present at Stiver Villa on East King street Sat urday morning at 5 o'clock Shoot ers will be dispatched from that point to known nesting areas of the "corn -robber." Mr. Woodward also arfced. infor mation as to whereabouts of crows and urged farmers and others to re port location to him at Woodwards Sporting Goods store befor? 5:30 p. m? Friday if they are unable to at tend the ohooft. v < Bain dampened the first schedul ed "shoot" several weeks ago but a few hunters went out in spke of the weather and killed some 35 birds. The event is being sponsored by I the Kings' Mountain Sportsmens' Wildlife club. Mr. Woodward Is chair man of the committee in charge. The county board of commission ers has announced a bounty of 25 cents on crows. Many Attended Memorial Bites ? ^ ? A large throng gathered at Memo rial Park of Mountain Rest ceme tery Sunday afternoon to hear a spe cial Memorial Day program arrang ed by a number of. Kings Mountain service and historical organizations. Bev. J. H. Brendall, pastor o t Cen tral Methodist church, cave the prtnc*pal message of the program, speaking on the subject "Meaning of Memorial." He used as his text the Scripture "What mean you by these stones?" Participating in the program were tW United Daughters of the Oonfed ?nfccjr, the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution, the American Le gion, the VFW, Spanish - American veterans. Boy Scout* Girl Scouts, and Brownie Soouts, ? Wor to (he principal address, Ol iie ihllb, LOglon commander, made a rfiort talk devoted to the meaning of the American flag and Memorial "Day, and explained the meaning of various groups gathered for the pro ? V (Cont'd on page four) SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER ? Ar nold W. BCinccnd has begun his first full six-roar term as a a member of the city's board of jcbool trustees. E lected from Ward 3, Mr. Kincaid first went on tib* board some two years ago by cxppomtrr.eat, succeeding G. C. White Reynolds Rites j ToBeHeldSanday Graveside' funerai services will bei held in Memorial Park, Mountain Rest cemetery, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock for Private Colon Blease j Reynolds, 29, 'who was Wiled in ac- j tion near "Nancy, prance, on October 14. 1944, while with the U. S. 3rd ?rmy. Rev. W. H. Stender, pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran church, will Conduct the servto* and ?be Shelby National Guard cortipany will be fn of Bm American Le gion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts are requested to meet at 3:30 at Harris Funeral Heme to attend the fined rites of Pvt. Colon Rey nolds. Wean uniform caps. charge of full military rites. Mem bers of the Kings Mountain Ameri can Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts will serve as active and honorary pallbearers. ? Pvt. Reynolds, a native of Kings Mountain; was the son' of Christy S. (Bud) and Lillian Eaker Reynolds. He was employed by Bonnie Cotton Mill before entering service in March 1944. He was an* Infantryman in the 3rd army. Survivors, in addition to his par ents, include his wife, Mrs. Pauline Reynolds Hawkins, of Lincoln; a daughter," Barbara Sue Reynolds; two sisters, Mrs. Harry Grayson, Greensboro, and Miss Colleen Rey nolds, Kings Mountain; and five brothers, Roy Reynold^, Greensboro, and Tom, Floyd, tames and Carl Reynolds, Kings Mountain. Work Started Monday On Guard Motor Shod Word started Monday on the Na tional Guard motor tfhed on the ar mory site located on West Mountain street. . v Hickory Construction Company was awarded contract for const ruc ion of the building, which has an overall measurement of 52 feet by 75 feet. Kings Mountain National Guard I company will use the shed as a head quarters building until a proposed armory is constructed. Weathers Heard By Civic Clubs f At Joint Meet ^?h K- ere t0ld mem^r.s of the Lions at ^ wa?niS C.'Ubs in jolnt at the Woman's Club May 12 ' and 7ointed out that : teachers would receive a 28.1 per 1 cent increase in teacher pay for the rnXt ?**nnlum' following a 25 per I IJll bOOSl durine the previous two I J, *^and adde' of one repre sentative who went home after 60 days when the legislative pay stop North ar?rJJ!eathers P01?** out that ' North Caro ina is spending $45,000,- j 000 annually for social welfare and shouw'ho ijhat "10re 8urvei>lance !^td *??? welfare cases. He' ?tedthe Incident of the family near Shelby which Was receiving relief; payments, yet had $3,500 in cash on the premises. ^^sa-sas-s-a Mis. Davidson Heads Teacheis Davidson- Kings Moun tains Park Grace school faculty, was elected president of the CI eve- j land County classroom teacher's as at"""*" * ""*?>< ?"".r'av'd?'? Mrs John. nie'Mae Honey cutt of Boiling Springs. . ? lnc,ud* Karl Jor Wi? o ? n*8' vlce "President; I rl? yyy.Qordon Elliott, Moorei. 1 i h?*1?Ztary;?MS Mn Chlra **<"> I fitfot Dover school, treasurer. Ward Mayor Pro Tern; %/ ? ? Davis Is City Attorney MAYOR PRO TEMPORE ? Hal D. Ward was unanimously choun ma yor pro tempore by other members of the city beard ui commissioners at a special mtiuog Wednesday af ternoon. Mr. Ward succeeds Carl P. Mauney. who has held the position lor the past two years. School Class Contests End Barbara Matthews, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Matthews, wAs declared winner of the interclass girls' vocal contest heid at Kings j Mountain high school last Friday i morning. The girls' vocal conte-ft was the last in a series of five contests held during the year. Pauline Mauney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mauney, wop the in - j ter-class piano contest held April 29. j Miss Matthews sang "The Little Damozel," by Novello. and Miss j Mauney'* winning selection was 1 Chopin's "Etude in E Major." Other placings in the vocal con- 1 test were; second, Melba Tindall. j who sang Cadman's "Moon Behind the Cottonwood"; and third, Betty Falls, who sang Tchaikovsky'j "Atone But the Lonely Heart." In the piano contests: second, Bar bara Cault, who ptaved Sibelius' ( "Romance"; third, Jeanene Hallman who played DeBussy's "Claire de Lune," fourth, Cornelia Ware, "Cute as Cotton," by Federer. Poppy Day Scheduled For Saturday . May 28 The American Legion auxiliary | wiH conduct the anntlaj Poppy Day sale to aid disabled veterans on Sat urday, May 28, it was announced this week. Mrs. Hal D. Ward is serving as chairman of this year's Poppy Day sale, and the Girl Scouts of the city will aid in conducting the annual sale. "A successful poppy sale means more funds to aid dl'satyled veterans, their children, theft widows and or phans," Mrs. Ward said. citings % Charles Blanton, son of Mr, and Mrs. C. D. Blanton, and Pauline Mau - ney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mauney, ranked in the highest ten percent of the 5?13 senior class members of the National Honor So ciety who competed under the schoi arshipplan. ?. This information was received re cently by Rowell Lane, high school principal/ via report oC the National Assoc ia^on of Secondary School Principals. A national general aptitude test wate administered March 29 to 5,915 National Honor .Society members re presenting 1(493 School from the 48 states, the District of Columbia, A laska, Hawaii, the Canal Zone, and (Coat'd from front page) Moumt MAuwrr Beei Tax Loss, | Valuation Drop Spell 25c Hike T he city board of commissioners hi special session Wednesday after noon at City Hall, set tifie tentative tax rate for 1919-50 at $1.85 (v?r $ioo valuation, an increase of 25 cents over the rate prevailing in the our > rent fiaoal year. The board also: <1> Elected Hal D Ward rnayor pro tempore; . (2) Appointed J R Davis city at torney; and (3) Appointed W. Faison Barnes Judge of city recorder's court. The board set the tentative tax rate at (1.85 with some relueOanco and with the expressed hope by sev oral board members that the rate, when officially set at the July meei? ing, could be pared. Motion to set the tax rate at (1.85 was adopted unanimously on mo ion by T. 'J. Ellison and a second by 3. Hudson Bridges. All oommifi ? ioners, with -Che exception of Carl i ' *Ia,iin??r' present and mayor J. c.. Herrulon presided over the ses sion . The estimated budget for 1949 50 anticipates expenditure of $301,475 JO, some (4,000 leas than the curraat budgets In discussing tha buteet Mayor Herndon pointed out the fol' lowing reasons for the tentative in crease in tax rate: (1) possible low er property valuations caused by lower inventories on the part of boih industrial and mercantile establish ments, (2) loss of revenue from the beer tax. and (3> increased budget al.otments for capital equipment. The loss of beer tax revenue repre sents 10 cents of the increase, May ot Herndon pointed out, with a gen era! increase of 15 cents to take c.?rc or the anticipated capital purchases The city estimated *ts tax rate on a Tha city's 1949-50 tentative tax rate of SIJW u pro-rated by purpo ?w ara follow*: C?oaral fund Si. 15449 Debt service -40738 Capital hud .28818 basis of $5,500,000 property valua tion, some $272,000 lew than the ac tual valuation for 1948-49. On the basis of $5,500,000 valuation, one cent per $100 valuation, will return to <^ty coffers $550, five cents will re 52l7^}- 10 win bring in *5,900, and 15 cents will bring m $8,. 250, provided all tax. bills are paid. Final property valuation will not be received until after May 27, when the county board of equalization holds its hearing on new property placed on the tax books The city board expressed the hope that new additions will take up some of the slack in anticipated inventory Josh. ?ler'< A- Arouse told the^ board that the city would probably end the year "in the black," but with out the surplus it showed last year Principal reason for thts, he f*ald was failure of DuCourt xMt!ls, Inc.! to pay its 1948 taxes, amounting to 'Cont'd on page four} laycees To Sponsor / Rnt Legion Gome The Kings Mountain Junior Cham her of Commerce will sponsor tha opening home game of the 1949 edi tion of tha Kings Mountain Legion Junior baseball team, according to ?ctkii by the club Tuesday night Charles English and Ben Ballard were named co-chainjvan of the promotion committee, and plans am underway to get a banner turnout Other principal business of the regular Jayoee meeting was presen tation of reports by Wilson Griffin and Paiaon Barnes on the Jaycee state Convention, and report by Joe Hedden on the dedication of the X Ray machine given to the county. Following the business sewrion, motion pictures were shown by D D. Saunders.