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Population City Limits 7,206 Trading Area ^ ; 15,000 (1945 Ration Board Figure*) VOL 63 NO. 5 ** " " fc ? f - -? -V ' Kings Mountain's RELIABLE Newspaper Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 29, 1953 Sixty-Third Year 14 Pages Today PRICE FIVE CENTS I 9 Local News Bulletins RAMSEUR IN HOSPITAL Dr. W. L. Ramseur, Kings Mountain physician, is a pati ent in Presbyterian hospital, Charlotte, for observation and treatment. METIER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts col lected Wednesday morning to taled $140,85, according to a report from the city treasurer's office. RED CROSS OFFICE The office of the Kings Moun tain Chapter, American Red Cross, has been closed all week due to the illness of Mrs. J. N. Gamble and Mrs. P. G. Rat terree. Mrs. Gamble said yes terday she hoped to re-open the office on Thursday, weath er permitting. Office hours are 8:30 to noon. SAULINE PLAYERS The Junior class of Central high school will sponsor the Sauline players, nationally known as 'The Aristocrats of Better Entertainment" Thurs. day, February 5. Proceeds of Che performance will go to ward funds for the Junior-Sen ior banquet. Time of the per formance wil be announced la ter. OYSTER SUPPER An oyster supper for WOW members and members of the WOW circle will be held Sat urday night at 7 o'clock at the Woodman Hall. Members of the Phenlx square dance team will furnish entertainment for the meeting and the supper will be free, a spokesman for the group said. TAG SALES Sale of 1953 auto license plates totaled 734 Wednesday morning, according to a report by the city clerk's office. Tags must be purchased by Fefbruary 1, and price of the tag Is one dollar. f FIRE ALARMS City firemen answered two calls Friday at 4:50 p. m. and Monday at 9:30 a. m., to a home on the Cherry vllle road . and to Crawley's Fruit stand on Gleveland avenue. Estima ted damages to the Virginia Bush home on the Cherryvllte road was $300, while the fruit stand was destroyed, firemen reported. KIWANIS MEETING , A. V. Washburn, native of Cleveland county and associ ate superintendent of Sunda; school work for the Southern Baptist convention, will ad dress members of the Kings Mountain Klwanls club at their regular Meeting Thursday ev ening at 6:45 at Masonic Din Hall. The program was arran ged by L. E. Abbott Bites Conducted for Mrs. Fostex ?v.* .-'.y ?. . ?#Vv, J**. ; Funeral rites for Mrs. Elnora Mitchell Fibster, 70. resident of Falrview Street, were conducted Sunday at 3 o'clock from Second Baptist chuwp v ImKv. B. F. Austin, pastor of the church, officiated assisted by Rev. G. G. Easom and Rev. W. H. Redmond. Interment was in the Bethany Associate Reformed Presbyterian church cemetery . Clover, S. ttfe. ' Mrs. Foster died Friday at 12:55 p. m. at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Will Pearson after 41) V3PMpKv)& Jour months. mg< ; tfeajvaative of York County, Jgjflt daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John J. Farrls. She wa*?tjft' dow af the late James J. Foster. Mrs. Foster was a member of | Second Baptist church. Surviving are two sons, Howard and Lindsay Foster of Kings Mountain; two daughters, Mrs. Will Pearson and Miss Freelove Foster of -Kings Mountain; three brothers, Robert and Emory Far rls Of Shelby and Pink Farris of York, 9. C.; three sisters. Mrs. "gyfclrtor, Mrs. Karl Mar arid Mrs. Floyd Burton of AC. 7- uEM Mm are 13 grand &vjf Herald Is Winner to State Contest Herald Third Among Weeklies On News Work The Kings (Mountain Herald was awarded third place for news reporting among weekly newspapers in North Carolina for 1952, according to results of th? 1952 newspaper contests of the North Carolina Press associ ation announced last Friday. One of the annual features of the Mid-Winter Press Institute held at Chapel Hill and Durham, the announcement of the awards and presentation of certificates was made toy Lt.-Gov. Luther H. Hodges of Lraksvijle. Contests for weekly newspa pers Included, In addition to news reporting, feature, editorial, and picture divisions. The Bertie Ledger-Advance, at Windsor, won first place, and the Roanoke Beacon, at Plymouth, won sec ond place, in news reporting. The weekly contests were judged by the staff of the Cov ington, Tenn., Leader, one of Tennessee's outstanding weekly newspapers. In a summarizing critique the judges wrote the Herald, "In news reporting, you i follow the rule about short, : snappy leads as well as anyone we have found. By doing this, you have won half the battle to get your reader interested so you can tell him a story . ." It was the second time in three years the Kings Mountain Her ald had taken one of the prizes In the annual newspaper con tests. In 1950, the Herald was a warded first place for editorials. Alex Sheppard Bites Thursday Funeral services for Alexander Sheppard, 75, farmer of route one Grover, who died Tuesday night at 10 o'clock at his home after an illness of two years, will be conducted Thursday at 3 p. m. from Grover Baptist church. A native of Grover, he was the Bon of the late John and Elizabeth Ettefs Sheppard. He was a mem ber of Grover Baptist church. His wife, Mrs. Maggie Randle Sheppard,. died, two years ago. The body will lie-in-state at the church for one-half hour preced ing the rites. Rev. Sdm Hughes, Rev. Gordon Weekley and Rev. W. L. McSwaln will officiate and burial will be In Grover cemetery. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Dewitt Patterson and Mrs. Frank Hambright of Kings Moun tain and Mrs. M. C. Hardin of Grover; five sons, Ray Sheppard of Plant City, Fla., and -Frank Basil, Flay and Fred Sheppard, all of Grover; two brothers, Geo rge Sheppard of Grover and Slg ford Sheppard of Shelby; three sisters, Mrs. Frank Randall and Mrs. John Goforth of Grover and Mrs. Andrew Spake of Shelby; 15 grimdchildren; and eight great grandchildren, v Power BilSs To Cany Changed Numbers The four-digit numbers on front of the city's light and water statements will be changed with the February bills, reflecting a changed bill ing system. Joe McDanlel, Jr.. assistant city clerk, said this ; week.'. ? Mr. McDaniel asked that the new account numbers be noted when drawing checks for pay ing the accounts, particularly when the statements are not returned. Listing of the ac count number assures proper credit, Mr. McDaniel said. Four Appealed Assessments Four East Gold street property owners, W. K. Mauney, Jr., B. D Ratterree, <Ray Connor and W. K> Mauney, filed notice of with the city clerk last Friday from street-paving assessments confirmed by the city board of commissioners on January lj. The notice of appeal was for mally served on City Clerk Joe Hendrick by Constable Paul By ers and Deputy L. L. Hamrick, of the SherifTs otfflce. City Commissioner Olland Pearson contends a petition da ted August 5. 1940, covers the East Gold assessment levied by the board at its January meet ing. Copy of the appeal statement, dated January 21 and filed .by each of the property -owners for the particular amount assessed, follows: "Having given notice of appeal from the assessment levied upon me by the city of Kings Moun tain for paving Gold street in said city I do hereby present the following statement of the facts upon which this appeal Is based: "In 1946 Gold street in the city of Kings Mountain, North Caro olina was paved toy the State Highway Department and no as sessment was levied upon the property owners of the saia street by the then acting city board, and on January 12th, 1953, the city board of Kings Moun tain, North Carolina, levied an assessment against my property for this street paving done toy the State Highway Department "Under North Carolina General Statutes 100-81 a Municipal Cor poration has the power toy reso lution of it's governing toody to levy an assessment to defray ex pense of local Improvements However, to levy said assessment the governing body must ototain a petition' to toe signed toy at least a majority in number of the owners of the property tipon which the improvement la to toe made; who, must represent at least a majority of all the lineal feet of frontage of the land ab buting the street to be paved.. This Is in accordance to North Carolina General Statutes 160 Continued On Page Eight Political Bamoi Mill Still Grinds: Several Potentials Decline Entrance As three more citizens filed as candidates for city offices dur ing the past week, there was ev ident ataong political observers and commentators some re-shuf fling on who might, or might not, seek office. B. T. W/lght, Sr., removed himself from the iSt of possi bilities for the mayoral post, but not as a candidate to succeed himself as Ward 5 commission er..'^ the same t'me, another name cropping up as a Ward 5 possible was that of Robert Os borne. Chanel from possible to "red hot" during the week was War ren Reynolds, auto dealer, who Is virtually sure to make the race for Ward 2 Commissioner. At the same thne. Dsn tfuffstetler, also rumored a Ward 2 candi date, said he definitely would not offer. . ,,,,, Other than the WHght state ment, there was little change. in the prospects for the mayor's race. With G. A. Bridges and G. E. Still already In, the remain der of the list was expected to include H. Tom Fuiton, former mayor, and George W. Allen. W. B. (Bill) Logan was the moat-talked current prospect for Ward 3 commissioner, followed by T. J. (Tommy) Ellison, form; er commissioner, to oppose In cumbent Oil and R. Pearson. In Ward 1, the names of Dr. IX P. Hord. -J. C. McKlnney, J. E Herndon, and Jesse Carpenter w#re among those being men tioned for the Ward 1 commis stonerahlp. In addition to Incum bent James (Red) Layton. tn Ward 4, Harold Pbllllps was re garded as a most likely candi date to succeed C. P. Bany, who has said he wont seek re-elec ts Home B. & L. Had Greatest Growth In *52 Shareholders of Home Building & Loan association held their an nual meeting Tuesday, re-elected all directors and heard A, H. Pat terson, secretary-treasurer, give what he termed "the best report we've ever had". Mr. Patterson reported the as sociation, organized In 1923, had enjoyed Its most prosperous year during 1952 with an increase in assets of $256,965.32, to bring the total to $1,301,388. Mortgage loans increased by $181,272.94, to $1, 058,964.27. and the association showed specific and general re serveis at the end of the year of $104,430.30, an increase of $13. 239.88.' ' ? Total shareholders on Decem ber 31 was 1,341, including 115 Negro citizens. Dividends paid on savings accounts during the year,, at the rate of three percent, to taled $32,730.96. During 1952, Home Building & Loan association made 146 mort gage loans, 38 for new construc tion totaling $142,646.36, another 30 for the purchase of dwellings totaling $79,282:52, and 78 loans for other purposes totaling $137, 238.88. At the end of the year, the as sociation's total number of mort gage loans was 548, with the lar gest loan for $19,262.55, Mr. Pat terson reported. Other business of the associa tion was routine. The sharehol ders voted to abolish the former constitution, and will operate in the future from Its certificate of incorporation -and by-laws. Directors re-elected were Dr. J. E. Anthony, G. A. Bridges, J. H. Thomson, I. G. Patterson, L. L. Alexander, J B. Mauney, B. S. Peeler, B. D. Ratterree and A. H. Patterson. Officers of the association, all re-elected at a meeting following the shareholders' meeting, are' Dr. J. E. Anthony, president; G. A. Bridges, vice-president; J. H. Thomson, vice-president; and A. H. Patterson, secretary-treasurer. Vice-President Bridges presided over the shareholders' meeting. Mnrdei Drama Tuesday Night "Ten Little Indians", a mystery drama by Agatha Christie, will be presented at -Centrail school auditorium Tuesday night at 8 p. m. Tlie play Is being produced by the Kings Mountain Little Thea tre, through special arrangement with Samuel French and U being directed by Mrs. Phillip G. Pad gett. . . Featured In the cast are: Philip Baker as "Jim Narcott". Dr. R. N. Baker as "Rogers". Mrs. Dudley Ralney as "Mrs. Rogers". Mlas Cornelia Dick as "Vera Claythorn". B, S. Peeler, Jr., as "Philip Lom bard". _ Bruce Thorburn a^ "Anthony Marston". Delbert Dixon as "William Blore". Ed Smith as "General MacKen zle". Mrs. Aubrey Mauney as "Emily Brent". t B. Goforth, Jr., as "Sir Law rence Wargrave". R. G. Plonk, Jr., as "Dr. Arm strong". Committee chairmen Include Mrs. Bruce Thorburn, program and tickets; Mrs. Charles Met tauer, make up; Mm. Rudl Wuen nenberg, publicity; Mrs. Frark lln Pethel, properties; Luther Cansler, lighting and sound; and Sam Stalllngs, stage and set. Little Theatre season ticket* will be honored and tickets, pric ed at 60 and 85 cents, will be on sale at the door. SCHOOL BOARD Kings Mountain district board of school trustees met here last Thursday with mem bers of the state school board building planning committee according to &-,N. Barnes, city schools superintendent. Regu lar January meeting of the city group scheduled Jnauary 19, has been postponed to await s report trom the state body, he sat d. . v 'kfQtm '?mXRi . ?&-?. j. as 4 * . ? FILE FOR CITY OFFICES ? Shown above are three citizens who filed during the past week lor city political offices, two of whom are seeking re-elec tion and one of whom is entering the political arena lor the first time. They are, left to right. Mayor Garland Still. Sam Stallings, and Commissioner Ol land R. Pearson. Mr. Stallings seeks the Ward 5 commissionership now held by B. T. Wright, Sr. Penalty On Taxes Applies Monday 1952 City Levy Is Reported 71 Percent Paid . Though tax payments, as usu al, have taken an upturn^during the past few days, numerous penalties are going to apply next Monday, unless many more pay ments are made by noon Satur day. Penalty day for unpaid coun ty and city tax bills is February 2. With February entering on Sunday, it means that Saturday is the final day for payment at par. The February penalty is one percent of the tax bill, with add ed penalties each month there after. City taxpayers had paid $80, 774.97 on 1952 tax bills through Monday, or slightly more than 71 percent of the total levy of $113,040.11. In spite of the (fact that more than $33,000 of the 1952 levy re mains to toe paid, payments were running ahead of last January, a comparison of figures from City Clerk Joe Hendrick showed. Jan uary payments, through Monday totaled $14,146.67. On the comparable date last January, only two-thirds or 67 percent of the 1951 levy had been paid. Mr. Hendrick said he is ex pecting heavy payments this weekend, prior to the Monday deadline. The city office clones at noon on Saturday. . STATE TAX AID B. W. Lefler, of Shelby, of the North Carolina Department of Revenue, will be in Kings Mountain each Thursday and Friday at City Hall to help Kings Mountain area citizens file state income and intangi bles tax returns, according to announcement this week. Listing Deadline Saturday At 4:30 T Deadline lor lUting property for county and city taxes with out penalty is Saturday after noon at 4:30. the tax listers said yesterday. Tax listing officials, who have been working at the an nual listing task all month, said they had been heavily rushed all this week. They said it was Impossible to esti mate the number of persons yet to list, but urged all to at tend the matter prior to Satur day afternoon. Clarence Carpenter is the city tax lister, while Conrad Hugh es is the county lister. Webster Named Scout Chairman J. W. Webster has been named chairman of the Kings Mountain Boy Scout district succeeding J. Ollie Harris. Announcement of the new of ficers of the district was made this week and the annual Boy Scout banquet was set for Friday, February 13, at 7 p. m. at the Ma sonic dinirig hall In the Morrison Building. ?Other officers named included H. C. Wilson, assistant chairman; E. E. Marlowe, fund drive chair man; Bruce Thorbum, chairman of displays and exhibits; N. II. Reed, treasurer; and Jack Hul lendejr, district commissioner. Chairman Webster also an nounced plans for the annual Boy Scout Week church service. The, service will be held on Feb ruary 8 at 7:30 p. m. at Boyce Memorial A. R. P. church with Rev. W. P. Gerberdlng, pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran church, delivering the messa^o, Tickets for the annual banquet will go on sale this week. Per sons interested In attending the banquet may secure tickets from Mr. Harris. Some Say Tiied/' Some Say "Quit." But Police Chief's Job Is Vacant The city has been without a police chief since last Friday af ternoon. ^ity commissioners, in called session Friday night, ? accepted the venation of Chief S. R. (Pop) Davidson, which they thought wad being tendered. Ex-Chief Davidson says he did not resign. , At any rate, the city has no Chief and the status, at the mo ment, is this: senior officers ate boss of each shift, while final authority and - responsibility 'rests wifh C E. Carpenter, direc tor of personnel of the depart ment .... * The board session was called [by Mayor Garland E. Still to hear a recommendation by Mr. Carpenter that Chief Davidson be relieved ot his duties. All members were present except Commissioner C. P. Barry. Mr. Carpenter, in making his recommendation, told the board, '1 have enough work to do, 1 can't afford to lose time on headaches when somebody's not cooperating . . . He's (Chief Dav idson) never cooperated with the board, he's always gone to other persons for ?advice.'' After Mr. Carpenter left the meeting, the board discovered that Chief Davidson had turned in his badge at the police de partment earlier Friday after noon. This action followed a meeting of officers of the depart ment late Friday afternoon, a meeting which Mayor Still ? and Commissioners OUand Pearson and Lloyd E. Davis attended. . After hearing that he had turned in his badge, the board contacted Chief Davidson by tel ephone and was told that he was resigning. Motion to accept the resigna tion was made by Commissioner Pearson and seconded by Com missioner Davis. The board also voted to in Continued On Paffe Sight Mothers March For Polio Fund Thursday Night Kings Mountain's March of Dimes drive continues this week with a "Mothers March" Thurs day night at 7 p. m., school stu dent division drive Friday and general mop up work. Reports al ready in total around $2,500. Co-Chairmen Grady Howard and N. H. Reed yesterday report ed the drive going well but urged workers to make reports to their chairmen and asked the chairmen to submit their reports as soon as possible. j Kings Mountain Jaycees and police officers reported some $450 collected at Sunday afternoon's four hour roadblock at the cor ner of Cleveland avenue and East King street. An iron lung positioned at the intersection aid ed the collectors. Junior Chamber BELLS AND WHISTLES Church bells will ring and industrial plant whistles will blow tonight (Thursday) at 7 p. m. to signify the beginning of the "Mothers March" por tion of the annual polio fund drive. Citizens desiring to con tribute are requested to leave porch lights burning or to tele phone drive headquarters. Phone No. 216-R. of Commerce officials have re ported plans to up that figure to $500 with club funds. Kings Mountain Lions, in regu lar meeting Tuesday night, do nated $204 to the drive. Mrs. Bill Harry, Grover chair man, has turned in $750 already and Irving S. Baxter, president of Baxter Paper Corporation, Pat terson, N. J., has sent in a check for $50. The company has a plant at Grover. No report has been made from other community chairmen and only about half of the industrial and industrial employees drive has been completed, the chairmen reported. Over $100 has been collected by Boy Scout Troop 12 in the theatre boxes and not counted in the total and no report has been made on donations through city parking meters. Ollie Harris, a director of the Cleveland County Polio chapter, reported, this week that the chap ter has purchased another Iron lung which will normally be lo cated at Kings Mountain hospi tal-. The county unit now owns two iron lungs, he said, with one currently being used by a Lattl more polio victim. Members of the Junior Wo man's club are to conduct the "Mothers March", with members being asked to meet at the home of Mrs. Sam Hamrlck tonight at 6:45 p. m. Others on the commit tee with Mrs; Hamrick are Mrs. George Blalock, Mrs. James White, Mrs. James Jonas, Mrs. Kathleen McCluney, Mrs. Grady Yelton, Mrs. Don Blanton, Mrs. Charles Alexander. Mr*. Denver King and Miss Diana Gamble. The group plans to solicit con tributions from citizens in all sec tions of the city and from the Margrace and Park Yarn com munities. Persons desiring to contribute to the annual appeal for funds to combat and treat polio are be ing requested to leave porch lights burning until solicitors ar rive. i.,, is,.'1 .V, Two Incumbents File; Stallings Seeks Ward Post Throe candidates, including two Encumbent's, filed notice of can didacy for city offices during the past week. OHand It. Pearson, incumbent "Ward, commissioner, filed shortly before -1 o'clock Wednes day, while Mayor Garland Still filed for re-election Tuesday 'af ternoon. Sam Stallings filed for Ward 5 commissioner last Thurs day. The filings bring to four the total number of candidates for city offices in the May election. Glee A. Bridges having previous ly filed for the office of mayor on New Years Day. Mr. Still, one of the most con troversial mayors in the city's history, issued a statement indi cating he is running "on the re-, cord", and against the city man ager system endorsed by the city planning board. He further pro mises reduction of the tax rate. The Still statement follows: ."It has taken two years of hard work to straighten out the irregu larities and loose operations cre ated in the past few years under the so called City Manager Sys tem, which could better be inter preted as a '"'cover up system." Irv my opinion it has been very costly to the tax payers. Most of the discreptancies in the City Hall have been corrected and I think all the tax payers have re ceived something in return for their tax dollars for the first time in years. "I think a mayor duly elected by the people should spend his entire time looking after the In terest and well being of the com munity, otherwise I do not think any administration can meet with success. I therefore am filing for the High Office of mayor for the City of Kings Mountain, North ' Carolina, opposing the City Man ager form of Government. "Should the people see fit to re-elect me, I v '11 do my utmost to serve the nmunity as a whole, with one aim in view, to make Kings Mountain a city of deversified industry and a better place in which to live. Also, if elected. I will see that there Is a substantial reduction in our pre sent, too high, tax rate. "P. S. I would favor a compe tent financial advisor as an as sistant to the Mayor. But under no circumstances a City Manager in any form." Mr. Stallings made no state- . ment in connection with the filing of his candidacy. Mr. Stallings, formerly with Burlington Mills Phenix plant s here, joined Mauney Hosiery Company, Inc., last January. He is a past president of the Kings Mountain Lions club. He has also been active in the Kings Moun tain Little Theatre, Inc., having served as business manager of its battle drama productions for the past two years. He is a mem ber of Central Methodist church, and is now serving as vice-chair- . man of the board of stewards and as a Sunday school teacher, Mr. Still, proprietor of Horse shoe Grill, was first elected ma yor in May 1951, in a run-off with George W. Allen. He is a member of St. Matthew's Lutheran church. Mr. Pearson, like Mr. Still, is completing his lirst term In of fice. He is an employee of Craft spun Yams, Inc. State Symphony Tickets On Sale North Carolina Symphony tk> kets for the 1953 season are now on sale and can be obtained hero from Mrs. Aubrey Mauney, it was announced this week. Mrs. M*uney said that a two dollar gene.al membership ticket will entitle the owner to admis sion to all North Carolina Sym phony concerts during 1953, while a junior membership for elemen tary and high school pupils is ob tainable for 50 cents and carries the same admission privileges. The lull symphony is to give a concert in Gastonia, on or about April 13, while the Little Sym phony will play In Shelby prior to that date, Mrs. Mauney added. Other memberships are: active, $5; donor, $25; patron, $1Q0. Persons desiring tickets should call Mrs. Mauney at 149-J, she said.
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