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Popular* ^ CttY Limit? ? 15^00 Trading A*** (1945 *a*?? B?ard Figure) VOL 63 NO. 39 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 24, 1953 Sixty-Third Year PRICE FIVE CENTS Local News Bulletins BALLY DAT Rally Day will be observed at Boyce Memorial ARP chur ch on Sabbath morning by the church school. The program this year is under the direction of Mrs. Wendell Phifer. All members of the church school are urged to be present. .. TENT REVIVAL Rev. James W. Self is con ducting an old-fashioned tent revival on Peaceful Valley road one mile out -from Cora Mill gate, this week. Services, which (begin at 7 p. m. each evening, (began Monday night The pub lic is invited to attend. TO FETE WIVES The; Men's Bible class of the First Presbyterian church will have its annual dinner for the wives of the members on Wed nesday evening, September 30, at 7 o'clock. New officers for the coming year will be in stalled and C. E. Neisler, Jr. will show slides made on his most recent trip to Europe. ATTEND SCHOOL Mrs. Elhsabeth Ware and Mrs. Betty Yarboro, Kings Mountain Drug Company cos meticians, were among a large numfber of area cosmeticians attending a comprehensive beauty school conducted at Ho tel Charlotte Wednesday. The school was conducted by offi cials of iRevlon Productions Corporation, manufactures of numerous cosmetic products. WEIR CONDITION S. S. Weir, well-known Kings Mountain citizen, was reported improving steadily by mem bers of his family Wednesday. Mr. Weir has been a patient In Gaston Me.*nprial hospital for the past two weeks, after suf fering a broken left hip In a fall at his home on September 2nd. FULTON BETTER City Commissioner W. S. Ful ton seriosly ill two weeks ago, was discharged from Kings Mountain Hospital last 'Friday. He Is still confined to his home but has been able to visit the doctor's office. McGILL IMPROVING N. F, McGUl Is steadily im proving following a recent op eration to remove blood clots from his leg, Mr. McGlll is still confined to his home but has been able to be o"t a* bed a portion of the time, School Pupils Eye Fair Day Though some of them are jumping the gun and making ad vance trips, majority of Kings Mountain school children are eyeing Friday and a date for Kings Mountain School day at Cleveland County Fairgrounds. City achools, as i* the custom, will operate pnly a half -day Fri day, to allow school children to take advantage of their free tic kets to the Fair. The btg, 'sprawling Cleveland County Fair opened for . Its an nual five-day run on Tuesday to big crowds. Ideal autumn wea ther, with warm mid-day sun shlnt and tangy nights added to the fair spirit and led officials to predict record crowds. Harness racing will feature the Thursday afternoon program, while Friday and Saturday are Sven over to auto racing. The ?orge A. Hamld revue is fea tured nightly at the grandstand and the James Strates shows give the Fair one of the world's lar gest and most varied mid-ways. Paul Byers, manager of the Bus Station,, said a bus leaves the Kings Mountain station for the fairgrounds every hour on the hour and returns from the fairgrounds on the half-hour. Macedonia Bites Set For Sunday ? ? ? < Professor Stephen Morrlsett, teacher of Bible, Greek, and di rector of choir at Gardner-Webb college, will assist In deacon ordi nation j?f%fues at Macedonia church here v Sund?y ;f jftfeofesaor InSliivtt Win deliver the ordination sermon at T.36. Henderson Herndon and Tom Smith were elected to serve a two-year term on the church's board of deaoons recently. Mr. Htandon wffl be ordained at the service Sunday night. Consolidation Petition Forms Not Yet Mailed Forms of a petition calling for a vote on the question of consoli dating Number Four Township schools have not been received by the district committees Invol ved in the proposed merger, It was learned yesterday. Chairman W. B. Harry of the Grover school committee said that County Superintendent J. H. Grigg told him Tuesday that the forms would be mailed to the committees involved on "Thurs day or Friday." Mr. Grigg was not in his office on Wednesday afternoon and could not be reached for a state ment on the matter. The procedure for action on a petition to seek election was set up at a meeting of committeemen on the districts involved at Cen tral school here on September 14. The action was based on. a letter from Claude L. Love, assistant state attorney general, on August 19, on the subject of enlargement of local tax district under G. S. 115-192. The motion setting up the pro cedure was made by Trustee J. R. Davis, of the Kings Mountain district, and was passed without dissenting vote. The motion stip ulated that Superintendent Grigg mail forms outlining the wording of the petition to the committees involved. After action on the pe tition, the forms would be return ed to Mr. Grigg for action by the county board of education. If ap proved by the county school board, the county board of edu cation would be asked to call the election within the new territory *^e added. The consolidation proposal was first brought up after a state school board survey team recom mended enlargement of the Kings Mountain administrative unit to Include all of Number 4 Township. GOP Gathering Strictly Social Approximately 75 Kings Moun tain area Republicans, including nine women, met for a second township party rally at Bridges Airport here Monday night. The meeting, a free fish fry, was planned as a social gathering for Republicans In Kings Moun tain, Grover, Bethware, and No. 4 Township. R. G. Whisnant gave the in vocation and W. T. (Ted) Weir, chairman, welcomed the assemb- ; ly. Dan Huffstetler announced dur ing the meeting that a Gaffney Republican leader had been in vited by the group as guest speak er but was unable to attend the meeting. Speaker for the October meet ing, Mr. Huffstetler added, will be announced lMer. Other precinct leaders, in addi tion to Chairman Welr, who were elected at the initial August meeting, are Grady Howard, W. A. Williams, and Charles L. Alex ander. A business meeting was not held following the supper gather, tag. METER RECEIPTS A total of $143.17 was Collec ted from the city's parking meters Wednesday morning, according to a report from the city treasurer's office. Ex-Mayor1 s Allegations Slightly Off-Base, Check Of Records Show A check of City Hall records Indicates that ex-Mayor Garland Still, who last week in. 'etter to the editor of the Herald charged the current admlnlatratlon with misappropriation of funds and the Herald with failure to publi cize diligently board actions, is slightly off-base. The ex-mayor made a half dozen allegations. Here is the result of a Herald check-up on the allegations: To the allegation "on the new ly paved driveway into Bridges Airport," the Herald finds at City Hall a duplicate statement to J. C. Bridges, dated September S, and marked paid on September 17, in the amount of $133.99, itemized at $90.45 for stone, and $54.48 for surface treatment at .lit jKtj- pec jjafc;,, y_ MMWwly -paved driveway Into Commissioner*1; J. Ellison's store wasn't much of ? driveway, coy-, ering only a -lew square feet of aurface treatment near the side wtflL Mayor Glee A. Bridges said that Mr. Ellison had furnished the stone. The city had merely pot m ? little topping, he.addrd i Mayor Bridges said that sever al streets "not Just a city com* ml?3loner'8 st ?et" are getting ' twiee-a-week garbage pickups. "In the near future/' he said, '?we expect to have ? tWlce-a-week service on all streets," The Mayor acknowledged that the city. does collect the garbage placed on the street by J. E. ^Doc) Mauney. The Mayor add ed, however, that this Involved no change of policy from that followed by the Still arlministra- 1 tlon, a statement corroborated by Former Commissioner C. P. Bar ry, a member ot the Still admin istration. J (Ed. Note: J. E. (Doc) Mauney has never* paid city taxes on his Church street residence, contend ing It lies outside the city limits. However, the county's revalua tion survey map shows the Mau ney residence to be inside the etty limits. Mayor Bridges said the line would have to be surveyed to determine the tax ?t$tttsof the residence.) ,??**?%? 1%e narrow drive which Mr. Still alleged had been paved by the city into the J. E. Mauney property turned out to be listed on the city map and designated G Like the Ellison 0? Pad^Miakt THE FRANKLIN DAVIS FAMILY BETHWARE COMMUNITY ? - p? - ? I III I o ? BOOTH SERVES TWO FAIRS AND IS COUNTY FAIR WINNER ? Shown above is the Franklin Davis family fair booth as it was photographed at Bethware Fair last weekend. On Tuesday; the same booth was judged best among booths entered at the Cleveland County Fair by entrants in the Better Acres contest. The Frcnklin Davis family has competed during the past year with other farm families in the Better Acres contest. Winners were to be named Wednesday night. The Exhibit was one of the many attractions at the Bethware Fair last weekend, as the community event played to record crowds. Deed Delay Halts Money Approval State Allots Kings Mountain Extra Teacher Superintendent S. N. Barnes reported at the regular monthly m&rtlng of tJife Kings Mountain district board of school trustees Monday night at 7:30 o'cUk* at Central school that state school officials had allotted an addl tlonal teacher for the city schools and that state funds for the new Negro school building are toeing withheld prior to completion of transfer of all of the property to the school board. The holdup on state funds for the Negro building project was indicated in a letter to the board from John Cameron of the state department of public instruction. The letter stated "that after re ceipt of forms certifying that ail property at the new site had been deeded to the board, an ac count for the project would be set up by the state school fund auditor in Raleigh. ' The remainder of the land re quired for the new Negro site may have to be acquired by con demnation, Mr. Barnes said, be fore construction can be started. Mr. Cameron's letter stated that the state school board, in a meeting on September 10, had approved allocation of $70,819.35 in state funds for the Negro pro ject. The money is part of the 50 million in school tends voted several yean ago. ' Low bids on the project, to taling 107,4*7, have been accep ted by the school board. Archi tect's fee on the project is $3, 372.35. The board Instructed (Mr. Continued On Page Eight Police Teach Lesson On Fire Alarm Decor In answer to a tixe alarm sounded Sunday about 3 p.m. city fire trucks rushed to Moun tain street to extinguish the lire. At the alarm box in front of the Home BulMlncr 4 Loan As sociation firemen stopped to ask three youngsters the di rection of the fire. The 12-year-old boys replied to the firemen's questions that there was no fire and 'they had Just pushed the button to see what It was." Firemen then hauled the boys to the police station where the three apologized for their prank. The boys were then given a police escort home. Heating On 29 Tuesday Night A public hearing on the propo sed re-routing of U. S. Highway to by pass the main business district of Kings Mountain will be held at City Hall next Tues day night, beginning at 7 o'clock,. District Highway Commission er June F. Scarborough, of Sta tesville, District Engineer Lewis B. Peck and other officials will ?be on hand to outline plans for the by-pass and to answer ques tions concerning it. The city board of commission ers will be on hand for the ses sion, and Mr. Peek has empha sized that all persons interested In the by- pass should attend, whether or not they favor the by- pass. Presently U. S. Highway 29 comes through Kaigs Mountain on Battleground Road, makes a right turn at King street and continues through the city to the new four-lane boulevard design ed U. S. 74 and 29. The by- pass is another link in a long-term program to make U. S. 29 a four lane highway from Washington to Atlanta. Allen Property To Be Anctioned . The I. M. Allen farm, contain ing about 220 acres of land, a seven-room house, three small residences and outbuildings, has been sub-divided and will be sold at auction on next Wednes day afternoon, beginning at two o'clock, according to announce ment by Carolina Land-Aurtlon Company, of Hickory, the selling agents. < According to the announce ment, Mr Allen, a former Cleve land county commissioner and sheriff, plans to sell his Patter son Grove farm due to his plans to move to ano&er state. Many prizes are to be given a way at the auction, including cash prizes and hams, the sale announcement states. ' J. 8. Nolan Cotnpany, of Shel by, Is Ideal representative for the selling agents, and Oscar Pitts and Otbc A.ftalne will serve as auction sea. Kings Mountain Presbytery Meets Here On Tuesday An adjourned meeting of the Kings Mountain Presbytery will be held at First Presbyterian church here on Tuesday, Septem- | ber 29. The purpose of this meet ing is to study and make recom mendations for revision of the plan of Union for the Presbyter- , ian Church, U. S. (Southern), the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A. ( Northern ) and the United Pres byterian Church. The Moderator of the Presfby tery. Rev. B Hoyt Evans, will convene Presbytery at 9:30 a. m. and following a devotional mes- 1 sage, Presbytery will immediate ly begin to study the plan of un ion. The following ministers will lead the discussion of the Presbytery' In various phases of the union: J. Walter Dixon, Jr., J. Eade Anderson,. A. R. Craig, H. M. Moffett, D. D., W. a Neel, and George L. Riddle. At this meeting, Roy Robinson will present a report on steward ship and goals will be set for all | the churches of the Presbytery for the coming church year. | Kings Mountain Presbyter has forty-four churches in Ga: ton, Cleveland, Lincoln, Ruthei ford, and Polk counties. Th pastors and one elder from eacl of these churches are expectec to be present for the Tuesday meeting here. POW Repatriate | Reaches Boston A recently repatriated 'Korean veteran with Kings Mountain connections has Just seen his | three-year-old son for the first time. M/Sgt. Henry Russell Frank lin, of Boston and Kings Moun tain, a half-brother of T. A. (Bud) McDaniel, arr.ived in San Francisco, Calif., Sunday after spending three years as a priso ner of the Communists. He flew to Boston Monday where he saw for the first time his second son, Russell Franklin, Jr. And his old est son, Tommy, had grown up to a big boy of five's size. Sgt. Franklin called his broth er from San Francisco Sui.tWy and reported that he was in good health with the exception of be ing underweight and slightly ner vous Sgt. Franklin plans to move his family to Kings Mountain, where they resided during World War II, in the near future. An army regular, he expects to re-enlist. Sgt. Franklin had been a priso ner for almost three years hav ing been captured by the North Koreans in October 1950. He was serving with the Eigth Army, 1st Calvary division, when captured. A veteran of World War II, in cluding 18 months combat duty, ! Sgt Franklin entered the service In the late thirties and, except for one year after World War II, has been on active duty with the army. V j ^ ^ ? ? | T ,t ' ? TO UWMCT GUARD The Kings Mountain Kiwanis club -will conduct a truest In spection of the Kings Moun tain National Guard Unit on Thursday night, according to announcement by the club bulletin. The club will have . dinner as customary at 6 .-40 at Masonic Lodge HalL I Bond Election Registration Books Closed Registration for the October 3 state wide bond elections ended Saturday, with a very small total of new registrants reported by Kings Mountain area registrars.. The total was 31 for the four Kings Mountain area precincts for the whole registration period, with East Kings Mquntnin pre dominantly far ahead with 22 ' of the new registrants. West Kings Mountain had six, while Grover was reported as a blank by Registrar J. B. Ellis. Mrs. H. A. Goforth, Bethware registrar, said many people evidenced in terest in the forthcoming election by checking to see that their names were . properly listed on the books. Saturday will be Challenge Day. The registrars will l>e at the polling places to allow inspec tion of the books and to accept challenges. The October 3 state-wide bond issue election has no con nection whatsoever with the currently discussed proposals of a number of Number 4 Town ship school groups concerning consolidating the whole area into the Kings Mountain school district. Voting on the consoli dation proposal has been dis cussed but no formal petitions for such an election have yet been filed with the county e lections board. The October 3 voting is a state-wide election. An election, if held, on the consolidated matter would be merely an election involving the several township school districts effected. Airs. H. A. Goforth, Beth ware registrar, said some confusion on the matter had been noted by sev eral Bethware area citizens. The registration period has pre ceded the forthcoming state-wide bond election In which citizens of the state Will determine 1) whe ther the state shall borrow $50, 000,000 for school cohstructlori, and 2) whether the state shall borrow $22,000,000 for mental in stitution construction. It is possible to vote for the one and against the other, for both the issues, or against both issues. Basis of the election will be the majority of votes cast. Of the projected fifty million for school construction, the legis lative act permitting the bond election specifies that each of the 100 counties shall receive $250, 000, that an additional $15 million shall be divided 6n the basis of school population, and that the remainder shall be allocated to the several counties on the basis of need, Carlos Young, of Shelby, is county chairman of the organiza tion supporting the bond issue proposals. He said Tuesday that he knew of no formal opposition to the bond Issues in Cleveland County and that he expected the county to give the proposals a rousing majority. ? OFF-TO-SCHOOL Jane Goforth left last week to enter Appalachian State Teacher's College at Boone and Gene Welch entered Gardner Webb College at B oi 1 I n g Springs. Addition of the two names brir?gs the area's off-to school list to 109. Both naihes were erroneously omitted in last week's listing of area off to-school students. When Singing Becomes "Silting," Nation Takes Time Out To Laugh A printer's simple typographi cal error got Kings Mountain nation wide attention during the past weekend. A missing "g" Jn the headline 'on a ticket lor a Saturday night all-night singing, changed the tic ket title to "Gospel Slnlng". By the time some imaginative pub licity seekers and tongue-in-cheek newsmen finished with it, the "all-night sinning" was an-ad vance sell-out, new tickets had to be printed, and news of the approaching sinning spree was spread t^? the four corners of the United State*, at least. Radiomen laughed about the forthcoming event, and a Kings Mountain mother received a newspaper clipping on the sub ject from her New York son, as taken from the New York Poat. Charles Mercer, who did the weekly summary of whimsical happenings for the Associated Press made it his lead tid-bft, and the Charlotte Observer headlin ed the Mereer column, "Come Sin, You Singers, A Whole Night Through". Time Magazine, which dittoes the weekly Associated Press gleaning in Its "Miscellany" column, and Which prides itself on spending huge wads of money to assure accuracy of facts, wasn't sure of all it read about the function of the Woman's Bible Class of the Eastside Bap tist church. Time flashed > a cheek up request to Pete Mc* Knight, editor of the Charlotte News, and Editor McKnight call ed for aid from the Kings Moun tain Herald. The established !uctj are: The typographical error was, indeed, made, on the original or der for 600 tickets. An additional 150 tickets were ordered, not be cause of the typographical error nor because of a sellout, but to spread out more tickets .to mor? people t? r>ush the advance sale. A crowd estimated at 150 per sons gathered at the high school auditorium for the son gf est which featured the Kingsmen Quartet, Sisk Quartet, and Ray and Bud Talley. At shortly alter midnight the folk went home. Wood row Bridges, who placed the original ticket order, report ed a net profit of slightly more than $50 for the Eastside Baptist Woman's Bible class. Ex-POW Gillespie Due Home Friday KOREAN POW ? Sgt. Bailey Gil lespie. 23, above, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vester Gillespie and pris oner of war since 1950, is sched uled to land at Charlotte Air port Friday at 1:30 p. m. Union Service To Honor Daniel A union se'viv.^ of several Kings Mountain churches at First Presbyterian church Sun day at 7:30 p. m. will honor Rev. Vance Daniel, who is leaving Re surrection Lutheran church this month. Mr. Daniel came to Kings Mountain in February, 1951, and has since that time guided the development of the new Resur rection Lutheran Church in Cres cent Hills. With his wife and their two children he will report to Deca tur, Georgia, on October 1 to (be gin work with a new mission congregation. Mr. Daniel will preach at the special service and Rev. Paul D. Patrick, pastor of the First Pres byterian church, will preside. Congregations to participate in the service are Central Meth odist, First Baptist, Boyce Me morial A. R. P., St. Matthew's Lutheran, First Presbyterian, and Resurrection Lutheran. Woman's Club Plans Dinner On Sunday The International Relations de partment of the Woman's Club | will serve dinner at the club on Sunday beginning shortly after noon, according to announce ment this week by Mrs. J.. K. Wil lis, department chairman. Chicken pie and ham dinners will t>e served, cafeteria style, at $1.2?5 for adults and 75 cents for children to all who make reser vations Jn advance. Tickets are now on sale. Price of the dinner j Includes ice cream for dessert. Homemade cakes and pies will also >be available at extra char ge. Proceeds from the dinner will be used to support youth activi ties, Mrs. Willis said. Persons wishing to make res ervations should call Mrs. Wil lis, phone 305-1. Kings Mountain Veteran To Fly From California Sgt. First Class Bailey Gilles.; pie, 23, who was released in the POW exchange in Korea early this month, is scheduled to ar rive at the Charlotte airport Fri day afternoon at 1:30 p. m. Relatives and friends from Kings Mountain are to he on hand when the young soldier lands. Released on September 2 after 33 "months as a communist priso ner. Sgt. Gillespie was to arrive in San Francisco. Calif., Wednes day by boat. Ho will Ih? flown home from the West coast for a furlough. ^ A native of Bessemer City. Sgt. Gillespie enlisted in the army at Greenville, S. C., in February 1948 while visiting relatives there. In June 1948, he was shipped overseas to Japan and joined the 25th Infantry Division on occu pation duty. His unit was rushed to Korea after the North Korea*; army moved into South Korea in June 1950. A news story from Korea in November 1950 told of his hero ism in pulling two wounded in fantrymen from the path of an approaching red tank. He was captured about a week later on November 27, 1950. He was serving with Medical '?ompany, 27th Infantry regiment, 25th division when captured. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Vester Gillespie of 56 Grace street, the young soldier attended grammar school in Kings Mountain and formerly resided with his parents on the Bonnie Mill village. He is a brother of Bill .Gillespie of Broad street and of Frank. Lloyd and Lana Gillespie of Grace street. Another brother, George Gillespie, is now with the army in Germany, where he has served for 51 months. Mrs. Abernathy's Rites Conducted Funeral services for Mrs. Zora Elizabeth McGee Aberrtathy, 67, resident of 501 S. Railroad Ave., who died at her home here Friday morning at 12:10 a. m., were con ducted Sunday at 3 p. m. from First Baptist church. Rev. II. G. Weekioy, the pastor, officiated and interment was made in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mrs. Abernathy was the wife of the late William Max Aberna thy. Surviving are two sons, Leo nard Abernathy of Gastonia and Abernathy of Kings Mountain, six daughters, Mrs. J, B. Presaley and Mrs. Lester Star nes, both of Rock Hill, S. C., Mrs. William Pittman of Edgemoor, S. C., Mrs. Coyt Woods of Cramer ton. Mrs. Varner E. Howard of Orlando, Fla., and Mrs. Lester Etters of Kings Mountain. Also surviving are two broth ers. Ed McGee and Clarence Mc Gee, both of Gastonia; three sis ters. Mrs. Tom Ilullis of Mount Holly, Mrs. Claude Whitworth of Bessemer City, and Miss Beulah McGee of Gastonia, and 12 grand children. Serving as active pallbearers were June Cloninger. Millard Caldwell, Nathaniel Tindall, John Weaver, Odell Pressly, and Venoy Pressley. ? ' Lions Issue Appeal For Old Clothes Th? e'ub wants old r-icr<> . . . >ded be fore ?K* ** *m iake its cu < 'r*"\ into the taerr.cmtllb ilelct for a brief Runmage Sale, Co-chairmen Dan Huffstetler and J. w. Webster report. Per eons having old dothea they wish to donate should call either of the co-chairmen er Ollle Harris, club president. They will see that the clothes are collected. After repairing and cleaning, the clothes will be offered for sale at bargain rates, with the proceeds going to the XJons dab activity fund. Early action Is stressed,, sine* the Lions club Rummage Shop Is scheduled to open ear ly ia October.
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