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Mountain's VOL.**4 Bulletins KTWANIS PROGRAM Rowell 'Lane, chairman of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club achievement committee, will conduct a review tft accom plishments of the club during 1993 at the Thursday night meeting of the organization. The club convenes at Masonic Dining Hall at 6:30. LIONS PROGRAM Rev. B. Douglas Fritz, pastor of Resurrection Lutheran chur ch, will address members of the Kings Mountain Lions club Tuesday evening at their reg ular meeting at Masonic Din ing Hall at 7 o'clock. J. i ON COMMITTEE Harold R. Hunnlcutt, Kings ityiountaln Khvanian, has been named to the Kiwanis Caroli nas district vocational guid ance committee by Distirct Governor Clarence (Skinny) Brown, of Elkln. SUNDAY SPEAKER J. W, Osborne, Shelby attor ney awd district lay leader of the Methodist church in the Gastonia district, will speak at the U o'clock morning worship sarvkf Riinday at Grace Me thodist church. Announcement W|? made by the pastor, Rev* . r_^_ k TAG SALES A. total of 909 Kings Moun tain motorists had purchased 1 S!&maSRS3S? to report of Joe Hendrick, city clerk. "tags" are priced at one dollar. IMPROVING Henry iff. McGlnnls, well known Kings Mountain citi zen, .is .Recuperating .rapidly, .from an operation he under went recently at Kings Moun tain hospital and is scheduled for discharge within <a few ? days. GERBERDING BETTEH Dr. W. B. Gerberdin, St. (Mat thew's Lutheran church pastor who was injured In an auto mobile accident last week, was eeported considerably improv ed Wednesday. He Is a patient at Kings (Mountain hospital. NEGRO POLICEMAN Laymon P. Corn-well became Kings Mountain's first Negro policeman when he was sworn In last Friday. ijv OPTIMIST CLUB ' y:\ First regular meeting of the Optimist Club is slated for Thursday, January 28, at 6:30 p. m., at Corner Cafe, Tommy . ?'i Owens announced yesterday. ?? The dinner is to be "dutch" with the groap to retire to the City Hall courtroom for the business portion. Regular-, meetings have been set for the second and fourth Thursday at each month at 7:30 p. m. . H ? UlpM TO JOB John H. Moss, Kings "Moun tain native, left last Friday to j return to Wausau, Wis., where h? is business manager of the professional football and .base- - . ball clubs in that * * fie . | spent several weeks here visit . '?< Ing with Mr. and Mrs. W.CB. Weaver, and his father. Manu .. el Moss. . j Kiser Now Sole jOlnter Of Gtfll & \ . j' i Melton Kiser baa purchased the half . interest in Silver Villa, res taurant and thort order house on Utilities Body Gives City Permit To Distribute Gas The North Carolina Utilities Commission on Tuesday granted the City of Kings Mountain a certificate of convenience and necessity for the sale of natural gas within the city limits. Language of the Utilities Com mission order conveying the cer tificate was "reluctant", but city officials were confident that Ma yor Glee A. Bridges and City At torney J. R. Davis now will 30 to Washington on Februai-y U for the hearing before the Federal Power Commission with suffi cient evidence to insure the al lotment of natural gas already tentatively awarded. In thte official order, received here Wednesday mOrning, the Utilities Commission reviewed (the facts of the case on the ap plication of the city filed April. 24, 1952, and InferenUally criticis ed the cliy as follows: "It Is the nptnlrtn nf *hk? rV.raml?<Hr.T^ the feasibility fes herein outlined is questionable; that the invest ment of approximately $755 per customer is too high and that said city has not shown that the number of customers as Indicated above for the t nil <1 year of ofA' mCTCoWa 1AICI HlUllSlHl JupVP. The Commission further noteu that it appeared" the city WMOd net grant Public Service of North Carolina, Inc., a private a franchise for sale of gas within the iwy limits and that. In ouIm that the citizens of. Kings Moun tainmight have natural gas ser vice, it was granting *he request ed certificate. > The order obviously precludes the salfe of gas by the city to out side city limits customers, unless Public Service, already granted such permission, agrees. In both the 1851 and January 1954 sur veys of the city's potential na tural gas demand by Barnard & Burk, engineers, much weight is givfen to the desire for natural gas service by Bennett Bridtir Tile Company and by the Mar grace pl*nt of Neialer Mills, Inc., both firms outside the city limits. The Commission order states: "It is therefore ordered that, a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity be, and is hereby granted to the City of Kings Mountain for the construction of a transmission line from the. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line to the City of Kings Mountain and for the construction and ope ration of a natural gas dlstribu tlon trm Trlthljflp fin| limits of ; 1 1 v Qf fOnga Moun tain, : % .>-? *Tt ls further ordered that, this order shall be null and void if the City of Kings Mountain does not obtain an allocitlfin of gas in the FedMfi^^nw^^/iCommission's Continued On Page Bight * Tex Listing Pace Continues Brisk City and county tax listing officials weir0 working at high speed this week as tho pace of property listing continued to mount and as the deadline for listing without penalty neared. Clarence E. Carpenter, city tax lister, hack on duty after a selge of lnfluenxa, said list ing is "brisk." Both Mr. Car penter and Conrad Hughes, county . tax lister, will be at City Ball daily through Satur day* January 30, with the ex ception of Saturday afternoon. January 23, when Mr. Hughes will be at Grorer. The law requires that all persons shall list their proper ty for taxes during the month of January and provides pen altles for those who fail to list. $Miths Admit Auto Theft / Charles Lewi3 Philips, 16, and Hilroy Talmadge Inman, 17, both of Bennett Drive, plfari euiltv to "?"* - 7 an automobile and id over to Superior court with bond in each case set at $2,000, at preliminary hearing in City Recorder's court Monday. Charles Wilson, whose car Philips and Inman stole, said on 7T5JS? ?r p. m., he visited friends an Gold street, parking his car ta front of their homte and leaving his keys in the car. When he came out of the house at approximately 13:80 a. m. his car was gone. Wil son that he couldn't believe It, and thought, as a Joke^ some one had moved it. After walking up the strtfet a short distance and not finding his car, he then re ported the theft of the car to the police. Later, Wilson said, after the car had been found wrecked in Splndale, he Identified the cat as his. Chief Hugh Logan, Jr., testified that the boys admitted taking the Wilson car and pushing it a block away from the house before start ing It. The boys admitted that two State Highway Patrolmen chased them btetween Kings Mountain and Splndale, and when they wrecked the Wilson car they | were driving 100 miles an hour, Chief Logan continued. , After wrecking the Wilson car | In Splndale, they allegedly stole another car in Splndale and drove It to Waynesvllle. After they I burned the gears out of the se cond car, they then hitchhiked to Tennessee, stole another car there, and returned to Waynes vllle where they were apprehend ed with the stolen Tennessee car. The pair is also wanted in Ruth- , erfordton county for larceny of an automobile, and by the FBI for transporting a stolen vehicle Across a state line. Thelma Monroe, Negress, plead guilty to assult with a deadly Continued On Page Bight MpgHp "Reception" Held Officials Monday Mayor Glee A. Bridges, First National Bank President Frank R. Bummer*, Merchant* Associa tion. President i. C. Bridges and Herald Editor Martin Harmon were guests of telephone com pany officials Monday morning for s look see at peak period op eration of the Kings Mountain telephone exchange. The informal "reception" fol lowed recent public criticisms of the service on the part of the city administration, merchants Asso ciation and Individual citbsens. City officials have asked that Southern Bell .Telephone & Tele graph Company install Atal <er vlee as a means to impfWM ser vicer t>tft Southern BeR msofcge EBBag5Mr.?>apondcd oeay with pledges Cq. Imwrve **??&,? *m ten of 'the 11 positions on the Kings Mountain exoh-ange switchboard we*> irfanned with busy operators who bandied the multitude of wlr-s and plug- ins ? ' MM and desterlty. hg to Mrs. Jack Arnette. jB55jSfa ^1| ta-elty martbers cause two lights to glow on the switchboard, which means two operators arc evalla&le to service the <*H- However, like a particu lar position in baseball, one op erator is assigned to a particular segment of numbers and other numbers ?re "fringe" work tot (he second operator, who has a principal area of her own. Some business telephones cause three [7%ht* to glow. > Generally, com pany rules state .* wait of more than ten seconds ? too loi^g.one,. but Mrs Arnette says maJoifHy of 1 -a. ?? - ? Cost Estimate On Gas Plant Cut $375,000 i Revision of the original survey for a city natural gas distribu tion system has whacked $375, 000 off the originally estimated cost, reducing the total to an es timated $515,000. The $515,000 would Include all j construction, engineering and ad- I minis trative costs, and allows $37,329 for contingencies, ac cording to the new January 1954 Barnard & Burk. survey, outlined to members of the city board of commissioners at a special meet- > ing on Thursday night, January | 14, by A. S. Hall, of thfe engineer- j ing firm. ' <1 The survey report, on file at City Hall at the office of the city clerk, estimates that the city would profit by $904,850 over 29 operating years, even if peak sales were reached in the third year and no additional gas, over the 1,374 MCF tentatively alloted Kings Mountain by the Federal Power Oommisslun, wgn; ulitalu ed for re-sale. ? q Interest of thfe revenue bonds is estimated at five percent, up from the four percent estimated In 1951, but costs of pipe are said to be off by one-third from the old flgur?. Principally, however, thte reduction In oomt estimate bM heeft made by downgradlngrthe siae of pipe to be used, ahj by eliminating- the "proposed con structlon of a peak shaving plant The board of commissioners formally adopted the Barnard St Burk survey its own and voted to send the mayor and city attor ney to Washington, D. C., for a new hearing on February 8, be fore the FPC on the request of the city for a gas allotment# The FPC hks tentatively alloted the city a supply of gas from the nearby Transcontinental Gas Company pipeline. The Barnard & Burk survey contends that residential, com merlcal and Industrial users can use gas service for heating and other utilities at less cost than other fuels. At the Thursday night meeting, tetters from C. E. Nelsler, . Nels ler Mills, Inc., Carl F. Mauney, Mauney Hosiery Company, Inc., and C. T. Bennett, innett Brick & Tile Company, were read In which each of the Industrialists said they were potential large customers of a city-operated ^gas service. * Schools Seeking Bond Election The- county's three administra tive school districts ? County, Shelby and Kings Mountain ^ are in pnkess of -passing formal resolutions to ask the county commissioners to call elections for the issuance of $2,500,000 in construction bonds. ? .? The three districts would sharte in the funds on a school popula tion basis, which would mean that the Kings Mountain district share *vould be $301,000. Shelby district would receive $419,000, and the County would receive $U40,300. "The several school board mem bers met at Hotel Charle* on January 13 to discuss the propo sal, and almost all officials were agreed that the amount aM' would be Insufficient to do all that Is Immediately needed. ',V> However, it wa? pointed out by Horace Grigg, county school su perintendent, that the maximum obtainable under the county**! fi ner Mai structure would be $2, /: Wet receipts from the <lty*a parking meters for the week ending Wednesday at M m I 700.000. r Schools Allow Williams Land Option To Expire Kings Mountain district board of school trustees took no action on the W. A. Williams tract op tion lor land for Davidson school at the regular monthly meeting Monday night,, thereby letting the option expire. The board had held a 60-day option on the property, some 15 or more acres, at $15,000 or or $1,000 per acre, with a Janu ary 18 expiration. The board dis cussed the Davidson site acreage 1 shortage but declined action. . The board also approved the [plan to request a $2.5 million county bond issue election of the county commissioners and elect ed two teachers to fill vacancies in the city schools faculty. Kings Mountain would receive 12.04 percent of the $2.5 million bond issue, if it is approved by citizens of the county. Mrs. Mary Sue Howard was elected to fill an 8th grade va cancy at Central Elementary school caused by the rsignation of Mrs. Dorothy H. Finper and. Mrs. Dorcas White was elected to fill a second grade vacancy at West Elementary school caused by the resignation of Mrs. Betty Kendrick. The board also approved re fund of $100 deposit of Eastern Etectric Co., York, S. C., after the firm failed to secure a bond for electrical work at West school. me contract had previously been awarded Hoke Electric Co., Which had ibid $5 higher than the South Carolina firm. The board also approved an alternate to the West school con tract calling for installation of tile at * cost of $303.60. Contrac tor t. F. Bridges, of Shelby, had' failed to enter a bid on the alter* nate on his original bid. The body heard a delegation from the Ingenue Club for per mission to rent the gymnasium for a dance on January 3GCh for the March of Dimes fund drive. 1he board restated its policy to rr*nt the facility only to recog nized organizations and told the representatives, Donna Cheath am and Sandra Gilbert, to secure backing of such a group. Chairman Arnold Kincaid pre sided and all members were present . Rites Conducted Foi Mrs. Hunter Final rites for Mrs. Cora Dill-' ing Hunter, 81, Kings Mountain native and longtime citizen, were held Saturday afternoon at Boyce Memorial A. R. P. Church. Rev. W. L. Pressly, the pastor, and Rev, P. D. Patrick, pastor of Ftrtt Presbyterian church, con ducted the funtral rites, and in- 1 terment was made at Mountain Rest cemetery. Mrs. Hunter was described by | Rev. Mr. Pressly as a "faithful, friendly, fruit- bearing person." "It is not enough to be friendly and faithful," Mr. Prtessly said, "but A person must also do good works. Mrs. Hunter did.'* ' Mr*. Hunter was an active and devoted member of the ARP i church here until she left Kings j Mountain in 1935. She resided with her daughter, Mrs. Nina Hunter Dilling, at Tampa, Fla., and had bteen in ill health for several years prior to her death on January It Mrs. Hunter was the daughter of the late Capt Freno Dilling, textile pioneer and one of Kings Mountain's founding fathers, and his wife the late Sara Falls Dill lng. 1 Activte pallbearers were Jacob Cooper, J. E. Anthony, Jr., Marri ott D. Phifer, M. A.' Ware, W. S. Fulton, Jr., and Martin Harmon. Homein L I Meeting Tuesday Annua} stockholders' meeting at ? o'clock in the offl actlvi'l I, election of directors, and J other business as the stock- { holders to attend the meeting, ' are urging all stock attendt the meeting, terson, secretary- trea J & . - ? * ? II I ... I .11 .1- I ?? Mayor Says Spending Plans May Be Considered Friday Bond Proposals Get Majorities; 690 Cast Votes Kings Mountain citizens went to'the polls last Saturday in un usual numbers ? considering the fact of a non-personality bond election ? and approved by ma jorities of approximately two-to one three public 'improvements bond issutes totaling $600,000. Irf addition, the voters approv ed, though by a slimmer margin, the levying of a tax up to five cents per $100 valuation for ope rating a city- sponsored recrea tional program. The voters thereby reversed th\?ir previous attitude concern ing borrowing money in large amounts for public improve ments. It was the fourth offering since 1946, and the first to gain approval. Other bond issue elec tions held were in 1949 and 1952. The Saturday election was marked by quiet voting, and re gistrars estimated they could have handled twice the total with no particular strain. , Voting was reasonably steady, however, and city officials w ete pleased with the turnout of 690 voters, against a total registra tion of 2,332. Thte counting was done and the rest^complete .wUSJn 40 minu tes aWSr the polls closed, And the official result*, as certified by the board of commissioners at a noon meeting on Monday, did not vary from the unofficial to tal (fathered Saturday night. All wards favored each of thfe four proposals, with Ward 4 citi zens lending least support to the bond issue and taxing proposals. Following are the results, ac cording to the formal statement of result published in today's is sue of the Herald and carrying the provision that any legal ac tion questioning the validity of the election must be initiated within 30 days: The voters approved, 484 to 189, a proposal to issue $250,000 on bonds for water system im provements. The voters approved, 495 to 177, a proposal to Issue $200,000 in bonds for sewage disposal sys tem improvements. The voters approved. 422 to 237, a proposal to issue $150,000 in bonds for building recreational facilities. The voters authorized, 397 to 256, this and future boards of commissioners to levy a tax, not exceeding five cent* per $100 pro perty valuation, for maintaining a supervised recreation system. TREASURE CHEST Calvin Crawford won $17.00 in trade certificates at the weekly drawing last Thursday in the Merchants Association treasure chest promotion. The drawing is again slated for 3:30 p. m. Thursday in front of Cooper's. Inc., with the Jack pot at $365. LIFE MEMBER ? C. T. Cornwell. 52 years a member of Fairvlew Lodge No. 339, A. F. & A. M.. was elected a life member by his fel low members at a recent regular communication. Mr. Cornwell is a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the Shrine and the Red Fei club, and has served for mqny years as an instructor In Mason ry. A native of Kings Mountain, he has lived here all his life and holds the distinction of being the oldest member c< First Baptist chqrch In point of length of membership. He says his mother ?*S (the **rst Baptist in King. Mountain. 11*. Cornwell was the liMNUUbK-eiifilMlly afiillafeu ing with Fairrlew Lodge to re ceive a SO-year service pin. ? ? ; ? Mother's March Thursday Night Members of the junior Wo man's club will conduct the 1954 Mother's March for the benefit of the March of Dimes campaign Thursday evening beginning at 7 o'clock. Co-Chalrman George Thomas son said that plans call for tevery home to be visited in seeking funds for the campaign against polio, and he asked citizens to be prepared to make donations and to leave their porch lights on to accommodate the solicitors. Mrs. Denver King will He in charge of the Mother's March. Whistles of textile plants wlH be sounded as the Mother's March .begins, and any person inadver tently missed should call 720 where arrangements will be made to pick up the donation. Chairman Thomasson said that the Mother's March was quite successful lkst year and he urg ed heavy donations again this year. At the moment, Kings Moun tain is far behind on it $5,000 quota, only $900.17 having been reported today." including $408.45 collected by the Jaycees in "Ope ration Roadblock" on Sunday, and $112.67 collected at the Eas tern Star booth at First Nation al Bank corner Saturday. Maoney Twins At Shelby Tuesday On Community Concert Series , Kings Mountain's nationally known duo-piano team, Ernest and Miles Mauney, return home Tuesday, to supply the second of three 1963-54 season programs for the Cleveland County Com munity Concbrt association. The concert win begin at 8 o'clock. The twins, sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Mauney, will play a full-dress conceit at the Shelby high school auditorium. Playing the piano since pre school age, the identical twin* have continued to study and work toward their present eminence in the field of musk almost all their lives. Mrs. Manner was their ffhrt teacher and they later studied from Obertfn^Consemftotry of Music in 1947. After graduation, they again studied In New York as students of Mme. Isabel!- Yen gerova, renowned teacher. Appearing in concerts all owtor the South, jfeat, and in Canada, OtmUmmU On Pope Mitht CONCERT ARTISTS ? Th? Man ?*T Twin*, Kings Mountain'* na tionally known dao>p(aao twim, Will ploy at Khelby high acbool auditorium Tuesday night in #f ***? wlntaf* Cleveland Cwanumtty Concert awoCaMon MIP ?f ?ntertaiwnent*. ft "V City May Bny Artifical Lake, Not Raise Dam How the $600,000 voted for pub lic improvements. on Saturday will be spent, and whten, may be indicated at a meeting of the city board of commissioners Friday night. The meeting date Js tentative, Mayor Glee A. Bridges said, as well as the spending plans. The Mayor did say, howtever, that he doubted that the dam at city lake would be raised, alter all, and added that the city might purchase, as an additional source of Water, an artificial lake re cently built by three Kings Moun. tain citizens, Haywood E. Lynch', Dan Huffstetlter, and City Com* missioner VV. G. Grantham. Bob Cox has since purchased the Huffstetler interest in the private club development. Originally, the $250,000 water bond proposal partially was pre dicated on the raising of the dam at city lakte by ten feet which it ? was estimated would multiply by ten times the capacity of the pre sent lake. Mayor Bridges also said he was not sure whether the city would continue to employ the ?crvlces of W. K. Dickson, Char lotte engineer, who furnished the estimates on rebuilding the Mc Gill septic tank. "We may Just employ an engi neer to work on a salary and do as much work as we can our selves," Mayor Bridges said. "We want' to keep as much of that payroll In town as possible." The Mayor did not comment on plans for spending the recreation bond Issue of $150,000, which, ac cording to the proposal, was to provide funds for building two swimming pools. Under the law, the election re sults must be advertised for 30 days prior to sale of the bonds. Hospital Plans Cold-Watered i Cleveland County hospital of ficials and members of the coun ty medical corps were greeted with discouragement in Raleigh last Friday, as they asked the North Carolina Medical Care as sociation for aid in the addition Douglas West, of the United States Public Health Service, paid an informal call on Kings Mountain hospital Wednesday* prior to returning officially Thursday to meet a represen tative of the North Carolina Medical Care commission for an examination of the request for a 20-bed addition to the hospital plant. Orady Howard, hospital administrator, said that Mr. Wast found 34 of the hospital's 36 beds occupied, with mor? admissions schedul ed. By early afternoon, the hos pital listed 37 patients against its 36 beds, which meant that some two-person rooms were accommodating three persons. of to beds to the two existing hospitals. In addition, the Medical Care association officials almost flat- | ly aald "no" to a proposal of some Cleveland citizens for a hospital in the Western portion of the county. The Medical Care commission did agree, however to send a re presentative here in the near fu ture to study both the Cleveland plants for a further on-the-soerte examination of the requests Grady Howard, Kings Mountain hbspital administrator, said he was under the Impression that the Medical Care official would examine both plants th6ugh an. earlWr news aeport indicated that the commission hail declin ed to consider the Kings Moun tain request on grounds that re quired Additions to oywrating foom, kttoh^n, and other facili ties would be overly expensive. The final decision of Medical Can association, or Its indica tion, will determine whether the county board of commissioners will call a bdnd issue for further hospital construction Orifflnslly, the county medical swietv esti Oomimumd On Paf* Five -