POPULATION City Limits (1940 Census) 6.S74 Immediate Tiuding Area 15,000 (194S Ration Board Figures) VOL. GO NO. 41 ? Kings Mountain. N. C.. Friday, October 21. 1949 HMMBI Pages Today PRICE FIVE CENTS WILLIAM ALEXANDER WARE Final Rites Conducted Sunday Fox Pioneer Citizen W. A. Ware * MISS KATHLEEN MALLORT Baptist Women To Meet Here Miss Kathleen Mallory, of Birni Ingham, Ala., executive secretary of the Southern Women's Mission ary Union of g Wealth for the past several ; years to a heart attack suffered two days previously, Born near here on January 6, 1862, Mr. Ware came to Kings Mountain with his father, the late William' Oates Ware in 1880. Two years later his father opened the Merchant : Mill, first steam-operated grist mill, and saw mill in the area. William Alexander Ware was the steam ?plant operator. He was continuously associated with this business, later, to become Ware & Sons, for the re mainder of his life. Mr. Ware be- ! came active head of the firm in ! 1898, and period I, 7,'ilson - Warlick, presiding over the court. Mr. Ram sey represented by Attorneys J. R. Davis and Faiso.i Barnes, of Kings Mountalti, and Peyton Mc SwaJn, of Shelby. Local News Bulletins METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the | week which ended Wednesday to taled $145.56 according to a re port from the office of S. A. C'rouse, city cteirk'?.- . v ? /? ' ..j IN COLLEGE CHOIR Miss Charlotte Jenkins, daugh ter of' Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jen kins, was one of the freshmen se lected this year for the Catawba College choir. Miss Jenkins sings altc,-. NO PARKING The city has placed "no park ing" signs on the east side of Piedmont avenue near the Kings Mountain postoffice. This portion of the block was (designated a "no parking" area to eliminate traffic congestion, it was announced. . KtWANIS PROGRAM . Members of the Kings Mountain Klwanis club were to see a movie on the Plantation pipelines at the regular meeting of the club Thurs day night at 6:45. I. G. Patterson arranged the program to tie in with "Oil Progress Week." TO CONVENTION City Engineer J. S. Evans and City .Clerk S. A. Grouse left Wedf nesday for Winston-Salem, where they are attending the annual 1 convention of the North Carolina League of Municlpaltiies. The : sessions will end on Friday. C. S. PLONK ILL C. S. Plonk, well-known Kings Mountain business man and {a?- < mer, is a patient in Memorial Hos pital at Charlotte. Mr. Pfonk suf fered a -heat* attack Sunday night, j His ?'*?. ? garriart. a* seri ous but no* erkieal. FALLS SHOOTS ACE Coman Falls shot a hole-in-one on the number five hole at Kings Mountain Country Club golf | course last Saturday, . Buck Press ley. club professional reported ; this week. Mr. Falls made the ace on a temporary green ft the 108- j yard hole. ? CORN SHUCKING Third annual corn shucking of the Young Adult Fellowship class of Central Merhodist church will be held at the home of John Owens Friday night. Members of the class are to meet at the chur ch at 6:30. All members are urg ed to attend and to bring a friend. BLOOD DRIVE Members of the Junior Cham ber of Commerce wil sponsor the next visit to Kings Mountain of the Red Cross Bloodmobile, ac cording to action of ?he board of directors Tuesday night. The Bloodmobile is scheduled to re turn here on January i, 1950. CREDITOR'S MEETING Meeting of creditors of Kings Mountain Narrow Fabrics, Inc., is | scheduled for Monday at the j Meckienburg County courthouse In Charlotte. The meeting 1s a j continuance of the first meeting of j creditor? of the bankrupt firm, j Harold Hunnlcutt, trustee, said j last week the stockholders hoped . to present an acceptable plan to I the creditors for operation of the firm in bankruptcy. BUILDING PERMITS Building permits were issued at j City Hall during the past week to. .Jake Slpes;, on Wednesday, for i construction of a new four- room dwelling on York rodd, $2,500; to j L. Arnold Kiser, on last Friday, ! for construction of a two-car ga- | rage at residence on East King scree t, $400; and to J. R. Roberts, i on October 12 for construction of | a two-car garage at residence on North Piedmont avenue, $300. LIONS MEETING The Kings Mountain Lions club will hear a program arranged by Kings Mountain Girl Scouts at the tegular meeting Tuesday night at 7 o'clock, h was announced yes terday by Hilton Ruth, program chairman. Mrs. E> T. Plott is ar ranging the program. Mr. Ruth ?aid ?he meeting will b? held at f i high school cafeteria, rather than Bucines? Women's 'Fed eration M the Kings Mountain Baptist n sociarion. . Bids To Be Asked On Hospital For Opening On November 18 th REV. J. P. TRUE BLOOD First Wesleyan Revival Underway A 10-day fall revival Is currently i underway at First Wesleyan Meth odist church on Waco Road, with 'Rev, J. P. Trueblpod, of Hertford, N. C., conducting the services. The special series of services be gan Wednesday nighrand will con tinue through Sunday evening, Oc tober 30. ' ? ' Special music for the services is under the direction pf H. S. Smith, of York, S. C. Rev. J: W. Phillies, the pastor, is1 extending an invitation to tile .pub lic to attend the Services. Servlcggf begin each eVenin g at -7tW?T - ? -r-. - ?V Students WUI See "Nicholas Niclcleby" Sophomore, junior and senior classes of Kings Mountain high school will see a special showing of i "Nicholas Nickleby' the film version j of the Charles Dickens classic, at the j Joy Theatre next Thursday, October 27, at 1 p.m. Only one showing of the film will i be run, as it Is not on the theatre's] regular schedule. Admission will be 25 cents. Showing of "Nicholas Nickleby," an English film, was arranged through the cooperation of the Joy | Theatre with the high school. The! picture is highly recommended for Its authenticity in portraying the life and traditions of Victorian Eng land, and was arranged for show- 1 ing to the school students as a sup- 1 plement to ther egular classroom ? work. Parents or other interested patrons areb eing invited to attend the show- : ing. * "Pieces Foi Peace" Asked Of Citizens Kings Mountain citizens are be ing urged to prepare bundles for needy people throughout the world in the local part of the "Pieces for Peace" program. The bundles are to be deposited at the Lutheran church on Novem ber 4 and will thenoe go to needy people around the world. Needed are articles of clothing for all ages, and particularly desired afe pieces of fabrics of all kinds. The drive is being conducted here by women's church groups of the city. < . ? Kings Mountain Hospital Step Nearer Reality Tile couiuj board of HOTpila ] trus- ' tees should know rhe cost of the proposed 24-bed Kings Mountain hospital on November 18, L. Arnold J Kiser, member of the board, told the , Herald Thursday. Mr. Kiser said he had been infor- : mod by Walter W. Hook, Charlotte j architect who has prepared the plans for the Kings Mountain hos pital, rhat advertising for bids is to > i be started and that the bids are to j bo opened on November- 18. The Kings Mountain hospital js to be built Jointly throgh federal, state and local funds. | The project wa.s given state and | federal approval several weeks ago, i and funds wilt be provided to sup ; plement local funds voted in a spc j cial C9Unty wide bond issue election ; of J94fi Under thf?. botid vote, the citizens 1 of teh county approved issuance of bonds totaling $400,000, with [ 5240,000 earmarked for improve rnents to -the Shelby hospital, and $160,000 (or building of a hospital here. Additional funds are available for the locai unit from the estate of , the late Lottie Ooforth. Site of the Kings Mountain hos pital, purchased many, months ago, will be in a tract off West King street, near ? the Kings Mountain Country Club and Blackmer & Com pany. Lane Says 56 j Ifeei Free Meals Fifty -six Kings Mountain school ' : chi'^ren need free school lunches, f Rowell Lane. Kings Mountain high! school principal, told members of, ! the Junior Chamber of Commerce at > its meeting Tuesday night. Mr. Lane, outlining rhe operation J of the various school cafeterias in the city, said that about half the group are currently being provided free lunches at the schools and that about $800 would be needed to pro j vide free lunches for all of the needy ! group throughout the balance of the ! school year 1949 50 Mr. Lane said that one child had i gained eleven pounds after eating 1 lunch at the school cafeteria for three weeks. Teachers, he said, had reported i several instances of children's who loitered on the school grounds, with out lunch, during the lunch-hour pe- ' , riod. Thus far, it has been school 1 policy to feed the children free fn- i aofar as possible. In turn, to avoid j Member of the Junior Chamber, of Commerce board of director*. In souion alter th? regular meet- 1 ing Tuesday night voted a $100 donation to the city schools lunch ! ? fund for underprivileged children. the stigma and possible bad effects on the child of constant give-away meals, Mr. Lane continued, the chil- ! idron are given various Small tasks 1 to do at school. | The lunchroom program is a fed erally supplemented program. Last year, federal funds of about seven cents per meal enabled :he local ca- j feterias to operate "slig.uiy in the black," Principal Lane reported. This year the supplement will be' only five cents, he added. , ?(Cont'd on page four) Coal Dealers Rationing Supplies As Local Stocks Continue To Drop Kings Mountain ooal dealers re ported their coal supplies running 'Very thin," this week, as the latest John L. Lewis walkout continued. One dealer wax limiting his cus tomers to a ton each and another to a half-ton, in order to better spread the limited supply. Coal shipments had not complete ly halted, as three car* from non ? union mines were received by the dealers Thursday mormng. "Ho* ever, obtaining the non-union ooal was becoming more difficult, a-s union force* threatened the non union miners still in the pits. The non-union ooal has been a vai fable only ?t premium prices considerably higher than regular market prices. Local dealers said this reflected the irvrMUrl** diffi culty in getting the non-union min ers and carriers to handle the coal under increasing risks of violence. | One local dealer also reported that coal supplies of many Kings Moun tain industrial establishments are also getting quite low, ? In general. Kings Mountain sup plies have been in better shape than in surrounding cities. One dealer, who said he had a sufficient supply of stoker ooal used in furn< aces has been supplying rhls type ooal for hospitals in Shelby and GastonUr. - The situation was still being viewed hopefully by local dealers, wlfh the feeling that the strike would be settled before local sup \ pHes are completely exhausted. Bui there were tw> assurances this would 1 be the case. C ' REV. JOHN W. MOORE Moore To Preach At Grace Church " * Rev. John W. Moore, pastor-evan gelist, will preach at a special se ries of services beginning Sunday morning at Grace' Methodist chur ch and continuing through next week, according to announcement by the pastor, Rev. G. W. Fink. Mr. Moore has' served as pastor of some of the state's largest Metho dist churchca, including Main-Street Gastonia. Wesley Memorial, High P.Oin.t, First Methodist of Charlotte, and a number of others. He has also served as -superintendent of the Charlotte district. "He is easily rated among the best Gospel ministers of the &?ate," Mr. Fink said. "Xs an evangelist, he Is highly successful, and people throng to hear his masterful ser mons. In spite of the fact that he is a great preacher, he uses plain Eng lish that a child can understand. Children youths, and adults hear him gladly. The church extends a cordial Invitation to all who can to hear this great preacher." Mr. Moore will launch the series at the regular 11 o'clock services Sunday morning, and services will be held each evening at 1 o'clock be ginning Sunday evening. District Teachers Are Meeting Friday Friday will be a school 'holiday in Kings Mountain, as Kings tain teachers and school officials Join with some 3,000 others for rhe South Piedmont district In attending the 27th annual district convention In Charlotte. The program for the 15-oounty district meeting will include a gen eral session at 2 o'clock Friday aft ernoon, followed by three division al and 2 departmental meetings. Mrs. Helen G. Neal, of Kings Mountain, a (teacher at Bessemer City, is a member of the vocational guidance committee. Feature of the meeting of this department wiH be addresses by Ella Stephens Barrett, state supervisor of guidance servi ces and by Mrs. H. L. Hassell, direc tor of student personnel and cur riculum of Durham county schools. The general session will be held in the Charlotte Armory Auditorium. The Classroom Teachers will hold a business session ar 4.30 in the Cen tral High Schooi auditorium and a dinner meeting ar 6:15 in the din ing room of Efird's Department Srturfc. The Division of Principals will meet at 6:15. aiso at Efird's, and the Division o i Superintendents (Cont'o ?r: page four) . ? 1 ' - , } Mountaineers Away Next Week Kin gs Mountain high . school Mountaineers war* to play the Newton -Conorer ~Red Devils" in City Stadium last (Thursday) night and next Friday (Oct 28) are slated to Journey to Mt. Holly for the final road gam*. The next homo game, which be gins a three-gam*, season-dos ing stand at City Stadium, is scheduled against Charlotte Tech high on Nov. 4. The Mountaineers continued their losing ways on the road this ?eason by draping a 20 to 6 ver diet to Rutherford ton-Splwdal* high last Friday night rollback: Dehrln Huffs tetter tracked over lor the King* Mean tain eeeve from tkree yevds set Kings Mountain has won it's twe hiss i stands up b last night.