Population
CHr Unite 7.206
Trading Area 1 54)00
(1945 Battoo Board Flgum)
VOL 64 NO. 9
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Kings Motutlcdii's RELIABLE Newspaper
Established 1889
Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, March 4, 1954
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Sixty-Third Year
Pages
Today
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Red Cross Drive
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Appeal Launched
Local News
Bulletins
LEGION MEETING
Regular monthly meeting of
Otis D. Green Post 155, the A
merlcan Legion, will be held
at the Legion Hall Friday at 8
p. m. Commander C. E. War
lick has invited all members
to attend.
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BREAK-IN
Police reported the office of
Bridges Airport wa>: entered
sometime early Wednesday
morning. .Officers B. P. Cook
and Martin Ware reported that
entry was gained through a ,
window in the office. Investi
gation revealed nothing miss
ing.
? SOCIAL SECURITY
The social security represen
tative of the Gastonla field of
fice will be in Kings Mountain
again On Monday, March 15,
at City 'Hall, from 0:30 a. m. it
was announced toy James P.
Walsh, manager of the Gas
tonla office.
CLUB DANCE
Lewis Cathey and his Or
chestra will furnish music for
' a Spring Frolic at Kings Moun
tain Country Cluto Saturday
nighf. Dinner will be served at
7 o'clock and reservations are
requested no later than noon
Saturday. The affair will be a
Club NJght parta^,^^
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TAG SALES
A total of 867 Kings Moun
tain motorists had purchased
1954 city auto license stickers
through Wednesday at noon,
according to report of Joe Hen
drick, city clerk. Eighteen of
the total were purchased this
week, he said.
FIRE ALARMS
Two grass fires and a chim
ney fir? were extinguished
last (week, -according to C. D.
Ware, fireman. The two grass
lires were on Falls street and
Waco road Friday and Satur
day. The chimney fire was on
Cleveland avenue at the Wig
gins . residence. No damages
were reported.
PRATER MEETING
Prayer meeting will be held
Wednesday evening at First
Presbyterian church. . The
meeting is a preparatory ser
vice for the week of services
to begin on Sunday, March 14,
and will feature a men's quar
tet Speakers will be Dr. P. G^
Padgett and George Thomas
son. .
CLARIFICATION
The John Houser mentioned
In last Week's Herald report on
city court was not the John
Houser residing at 304 Parker
street. Address of the John
Houser found guilty of taking
part In an affray .was not list
ed on the court record. The
Herald 1* glad to make this
clarification.
NEW POLICEMAN
' Bill Bell assumed duty Feb
ruary 22 as city policeman.
Mr. Bell Is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. James Bell of Graver, and
la married to the former Lou
Ann Logan They live on East
King street
LIONS MExtma " ' |
Members and coaches of the
Kings Mountain high school
basketball team will be guests
of the Kings Mountain Lions
- ?lu(b at their Tuesday night
meeting W. L. Plonk, program
chairman, said this week. The
olub meets at 1 o'clock at Ma
sonic Dining HalL
Scoot Drive Nets
4L3& MOO Short
A total of $1*332 was reported
collected Tuesday in the annual
Atnd drive of the Kings Mountain
Boy Scout district ?
Goal of the drive Is f&IQO and
the effort 1s being headed by G.
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Committeemen are urged to
plete their solicitations and
> to reports to J. C. McKlm&y,
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Eastern Star,
25-Member Group
Ask Donations
A large organization was al
ready working this wefek toward
obtaining the $5,420 quota for the
1954 Kings Mountain Red Cross
campaign.
Members of the Kings Moun
tain Chapter, Order of the East
ern Star, are to conduct a house
to house drive with Mrs. E. C.
Martin serving as chairman and
other workers on the 25-mfember
organization to collect gifts from
firms and individuals are George
C. Kelly, C. E. Warlick, Rowell
Lane, K. E. (Red) Morrison, Ho
race Hord, Paul McGinnis, David
Saunders. Mrs. Ethel Falls, Hal
Ward, John Cheshire^ Jack White,
J. B. Simpson. Tracy McGinnis,
Sam Collins, Mrs. D. E. Tate,
Fred W. Plonk, Jimmy Willis,
Mrs. I. O. r atterson, Milton Kl
sier, Clyde Whetstine, Otis Falls,
Jr., Mrs. J. B. Simpson, Mrs. W.
K. Mauney, Jr., Mrs. Howard
Jackson, Dr. P. G. Padgett, Dr.
N. H. Reed, Frank Price, C. P.
Barry, and Mrs. Sam Stalllngs.
Paul Hambright will conduct
the campaign in Grover and Rev.
Grier will conduct the canvass to
colored residents of Grover.
H. D. (Snooks) McDaniel, pub
licity chairman, said Wednesday
that several groups had com
pleted their canvass but no re
port wa# given. rT~r
The Kings Mountain chapter
will retain $3,140 of the $5,420
quota, Mr. McDaniel said, with
$500 of the balance to go to the
Charlotte blood center.
Commenting on the Red Cross
program in Klnfcs Mountain, Mr.
McDaniel said Uiat last, week
Kings Mountain hospital used 10
pints of blood and that in rtecent
months Kings Mountain had sup
plied less blood than it had used.
When supplied through the Red
Cross there is no charge for. the
blood or Its products, he said.
However, there may be a charge
made by the hospital and physi
cian for administering services.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile
made a one-day visit here on Feb
ruary 11 with 67 pints of blood
contributed to the blood bank. Dr.
P. G.. Padgett is blood program
chairman of the local chapter.
The Red Cross also supports a
life saving project here with Don
Crawford as director and a first
aid and accident prevention pro
gram of which Neal Grlssom Is
director.
t All chapters have a hand in aid
ing disaster sufferers, Mr. Mc
Daniel said. The Red Cross has
assisted area families when they
have lost their homes through
fire or when othter tragedies have
struck. Assistance has been given
to many veterans of the Korean
conflict and World War H and to I
those cases brought to the atten
tion of the local chapter through
the Cleveland .County Welfarte
Department
"L?ast year the Red Cross help
ed 24.500 families in more than
300 disaster operations lrt this
country, and expended almost $6,
800,000 in disaster preparedness
and relief. Assistance given
through the Red Cross to those
in need Is a gift of the American
people and anything short of the
quota set eliminates some of thto
good wbrk that the Red Cross is
doing in Kings Mountain, Mr. Mc
Daniel added.
Glass Appointed
To Postal Post
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Harold Glass, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank B. Glass, has been
appointed a . temporary substi
tute rural carrier ?t Kings Moun
tain postoffice toy the assistant
IKMitmastrr general. ,
Notice of the appointment,
Which Is effective March 7, was
received by Postmaster W- E.
Blakely Monday.
Mr. Glass will replace Edwin
Moore, Just recently appointed a
temporary substitute rural carri
er, but ordered relieved from
duty t>v the assistant postmaster
rneral as of Saturday, March
Mr. Glass is learning the Ru
ral Route 1 routine this week.
Mr. Moore has been handling
the Route 1 delivery since A. P.
Collins waa transferred to the
Grovsr postoffice. ;
tern pocary appointments are
made pending the holding of ci
vil service examinations leading
to regular appointments. Post
roaster Blakely noted.
Mr. Glass is 28 yean of age
and la unmarried.
The temporary t>ur;tk>n prays
$1*618 per annum.
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Southeast Area
Civil Defense
Tests Underway
Another In a series of Civil De
fense - Air Defensb tests is under,
way in the Carolines, with mem
bers of the Kings Mountain OP
on duty at City Hall for the
three-day "Operation Spring Fe
ver".
The 35th Air Division (Defen
se) scheduled thW test to check
the Ground Observer Corps ope
rational capabilities throughout
the entire southeast. Civilian Vo
lunteers, who have been trained
in the reporting of aircraft move
mfents will report all aircraft ac
tivity over a ve-state area to
strategically located Air Defense
Filter Centers.
The Filter Centers, also man
ned by civilian volunteers, will
rectlve the information from the
Ground Observation Posts, "fil
ter" that Information, and then
pass on that information In an
abbreviated form to the Air For
ce authorities concerned with Air
Defense.
The test is slated to start at 8
a. m. on the 3rd of March, and
conclude at 6 p. m. the samfe day,
ai)d on March 4th and 5th from
8 a. m. until midnight.
Approximately 250 Observation
Posts In the Charlotte Air De
fense Filter Center's area of re
sponsibility are cooperating in the
operation.
j The Observation Posts, which
normally arte located at eight mile
intervals, are manned by a group
of patriotic civilian volunteers
who realize that the falling of ra
dar, If not supplemented by the
Ground Observer Corps, might
mean the difference betwteen suc
cess and failure of our Air De
fense Interceptor Force.
"You are also needed in this
program of Civil Defenste, volun
teer your services now, so that
America may remain free from
aggression. Contact us and volun
teer your services today ? To
morrow fhay be too late," James
Houser, Kings Mountain post su
pervisor said this wteek.
Mr. Houser may be contacted at
phones 245-LW or 760.
At the present time the King4
Mountain Ground Observation
Post has 15 volunters, and more
volunteers are needed. James L.y
brand is chitef observer and oth
ers are Nell Hullender, Curtis
Gaffney, Dean Payne, Delbert
Dixon, K. E. Morrison, Paul Wal
ker, Charles Dixon, Bill Eldon,
Bill Jonas, Dr. L. T. Anderson,
J. G. Darracott, C. D. Ware, Ed
win Moore, J. E. Rhea and A. A.
(Buck) Allran.
Rites Conducted
For L W. Bridges
Funeral services for I. W. Bri
dges, 79, Statesvlile textile ma
chinist and father of Evterette
Bridges. of Kings Mountain, were
conducted last Thursday at 4 p.
m. at the chapel of Bunch Funer
al Home, In Statesvlile.
Interment was in the Oakwood
cemetery.
I Mr. Bridges succumbed last
Wednesday in a Statesvlile hos
pital. He was employed as a tex
tile machinist by Mooresvllle
Mills, in Statesvlile.
, He was a former resident of
Kings Mountain and had served
as assistant superintendent of the
Cora Mills hie re from 1930-1933.
. Survivors include eight chil
dren, C. V. Bridges, Concord, Les
ter and Edwin Bridges and Mrs.
M. A. Hamm, all of Gastonla,
Mts. O. F. Gllley, Flelddale, Va.,
Mrs. R. L. Alexander and Mrs.
Apostolos Georgiou, of States
vlile, and Everett Bridges, of
Kings Mountain.
He is also survived by two bro
thers, Walker Bridges of Boger
City and Cleve Bridges of Cra
merton and two sisters, Mrs. Ro
bert Percey, Lenoir, and Mrs. T.
S. Hendrick of Thomasvtlle.
Mn. Manner's
Mother Dies
Funeral services for Mrs. Car
rie C lints Herman, 78, mother ot
Mrs. Carl F. Mauney, ol Kings
Mountain, were conducted Mon
day afternoon at Trinity Refonh
ed church irt Newton, interment
following in the Newton ceme
tery.
Mrs. Herman, widow of Dr. F.
L Herman, former Conover phy
sician, died at her home in Con
over early Sunday morning. She
had been in declining health for
several months.
She, was a oharter member of
the Trinity Reformed church.
Surviving, In addition to Mrs.
Mauney, are seven otMnr children,
Dr. E. C. Herman, LaOrange, Ga.,
P, W. Herman, Conover, Mrs. L.
L Schell, Statesvlile, Mrs. T. W.
Smart, EQenboro, Mrs. J. W.
Marrow, JK Plymouth, Mrs. Bu
ford M. Guy. Salisbury, and Mrs.
H. V. fVA^Raleigh.
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[World Prayer Day
Service On Friday
1953 City Tax Take
Reaches $106,066
City taxes for 1953 continued
to trickle in during February
and had reached a total of
$106,066.93 as of March 1, ac
cording to report of city t?x
supervisor Clarence E. Carpen
ter.
This meant the penalty In
crease of March 2 applied to
$20,019.25, the balance out
standing on the 1953 levy of
$126,086.18.
Penalty on unpaid tax bills
is now two percent. It will ad
vance to two-and one-half per
cent next month.
On a percentage basis. 84
percent of the 1953 tax levy has
how been paid.
Charter Night
Set By Kiwanis
The Kings Mountain Kiwanis
club, chartered in March 1940,
will hold its 15th annual Char
ter Night banquet, a ladies'
night affair, Thursday evening
at the Masonic Dining hall.
The meeting will begin at 6:45.
The principal address for the
banquet will be given by Rich
ard Thigpen, veteran Charlotte
tax attorney, and a past governor
of the Carolinas Kiwanis dis
trict, in addition to having serv
ed in numerous other KiWanis
offices on both club and district
level.
Mr. Thigpen was graduated
from both Duke university and
Duke University law school, then
served, from 1929-1933, on the
United States Board of Tax Ap
peals. He is a past president of
both the Charlotte and Durham
Kiwanis clubs.
Currently, he is a member of
the board of stewards of Myers
PaYk Methodist church and pres
ident of the Charlotte YMCA.
Postal Receipts
Show Big Gain
Kings Mountain postal receipts
showed a large gain in February
over the comparable month last
year.
Postmaster W. E. Blakely re
ported Wednesday that February
receipts total $5,373.55, compared
to $3 327.32 for February 1953.
Part of the Jump was abnormal,
Mr. Blakely suggested, due to
large deposits for metered mail
which occurred during February
1954. Howeyer, he added, he
thought a portion of the incrt.-*se
was normal increase.
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Churchwomen
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Sponsor Annual
Worship At Noon
Kings Mountain's annual World
Day of Prayer service will be
held Friday at 12 o'clock noon in
Central Methodist church, as
Kings Mountain citizens unite
with Christians in other commu
nities and nations the world ovter.
1 Purpose of the service is to
unite all Christians in a bond of
prayer and to make an offering
for both missions at home and
abroad.
This year's mission offering
' will be used for the advancement
,of Christian education In govern
ment schools in India, the United
'^States, and Alaska, for the sup
"port of pastors and lay workers
on rural farms in the United
States and Puerto Rico, and for
the over-all support of both home
and foreign missions.
Mrs. Robert Neill is program j
chairman for the service. Theme
of the program is "That They
Might Havte Life", with the pro
gram prepared by Miss Sarah
Chakko, president of the Isabella
Thorburn College for Women in
Lucknow, India, and the first
chairman of the World Council
of Church Women's Work. The
theme is taken from John 10:10.
The World Day of Prayer ob
ervance btegan In 1887 when
Presbyterian women designated
a day of prayer for home mis
sions. Since 1941 the General De
j partment of United Church Wo
men has produced the service and
promoted the observance in the
United States. The Division of
Foreign Missions of thfe National
Council of Churches has promot
ed the observance overseas. *
Friday's service will be the
sixty-seventh annual observance
of the world wide call to prayer.
The service is sponsored by the
National Council of Churches'
Department of United Church
Women and here by the Kings
Mountain Council of Church Wo
men, of which Mrs. Phillip Baker
is chairman.
Building Permits
Totaled $9,500
Two building permits totaling
$9,500 were issued here by
Building Inspector J. W Webster,
through March 3.
P. B. Phillips obtained a per
mit to build a hou3e to be used
for a residence on Second street,
at an estimated cost of $3,500,
on March 3.
On February 25, a permit was
issued to E. T. Plott to build a
one-story dwelling on Rhodes
avenue, at an estimated cost of
$6,000.
Plott Still Mum On Lithium Plans
For New Mining Operation, Plant
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Lithium Corporation of Ameri
ca has obtained an option on an
85-acre tract on .the King9 Moun
tain - Bessemer City highway
and plans to build a plant for
processing spodumene ore, the
Gastonia Gazette quoted Dr. W.
S. Matthews, Bessemer City phy
sician and grantor of the option,
on Saturday.
The statements attributed to
Dr. Matthews partially confirm
ed street-talk prevalent here for
several weteks that Lithium Cor
poration, which has headquarters
in Minneapolis, Minn., would
build a large plant' for obtaining
lithium.
% T. Plott, Kings Mountain
representative of Lithium Corpo
ration, declined comment on the
reports, though he acknowledged
that he had been in the employ
of the Minneapolis concern since
1946, during that time obtaining
purchase options and mineral
leases on property throughout the
Wtfk from Lincolnton to Kings
Mountain. The firm was organiz
ed, Mr. Plott said, in 1943, and is
headed by Carl Lute, president
Mr. .Plott said hte talked with
Lithium Corporation officials by
- week
: Ml, Wm OT K*d Wt pHhMe
announcements to make concern
ing possible operations in this ar
\ ft The Ibtthsi it property, which
Um dose to tire Southern Railway
mainline trades, to In W npf'
near the community known' at
"Stumptown", and northeast of
the former site of 1 ?eon's Grill,
onetime short order restaurant
and night club on the Bessemer
City - Kings Mountain road.
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Dr. Matthtews was quoted as
saying he would receive $29,300
for his 85-acre tract and that he
had assurances from Lithium
Corporation that a plant employ
ing 300 persons would be built
Lithium Corporation has also
made arrangements to buy water
from the City of Bessemer City.
Should Lithium Corporation be
gin mining operations In thte area,
it would become the second firm
mining spodumene locally. Foote
Mineral Company, which has
numbered Lithium Corporation
among its customers for several
years, first leased, then bought
the war baby spodumenfe mining
property operated by Solvay Pro
cess Company during World War
IT. Foote extracts lithium from
the ore mined here at Its Sun
bright, Va., plant
Indications of demand for the
end product, lithium, Include
Foote's rapid expansion heife and
projected further expansion dur
ing the coming year. In a letter
to employees accompanying a re
cent wage bonus, Foote Presi
dent H. C. Meyer, said the com
pany alms at much greater pro
duction here. I^oota also has an
nounced plans for doubling it*
capitalization.
Lithium Corporation of Ameri
ca common stock has undergone
"heavy buying" in recent weeks,
brokers report, and tt has in
creased In price from about 94
pter share to a recent quotation
of 18.87 per share.
Publicized uses for lithium in
clude manufacture of high-grade
oils and television set picture
tubes.
| Davis Predicts
Favorable Gas
Decision Soon
City Attorney J. R Davis, homo
| -after a quick trip to Washington,
j D. ? C., for cross-examination
J Monday on the city's request for
i a natural gas allotment, said he
felt tlie city's request will obtain
final approval from the Federal
Power Commission within 30 to
60 days.
Mr. Davis said the Monday
hearing before the FPC was
short, and that there was little
opposition to the request of the
City of Kings Mountain for an
allotment of natural gas from
the Transcontinental. Pipeline
Company's big line on York
Road.
The principal previous objec
tor to the city's request. Public
Service Company of North Caro
llrta, did not appear for the
bearing. Objections to the Kings
Mountain request, which Mr. Da
' vis termed "minor," were voiced
! by attorneys for Thomas Edison
] Company, and by represontativ
j es of coal trade associations.
{ "We're going to got it," -Mr.
j Davis said, adding the decision
ito make permanent the previ
ously granted tentative allot
ment of more than a million cu
bic feet of natural gas per day
should be forthcoming soon.
The latest survey and construc
tion proposal of Barnard & Burk,
the city's engineers on the gas
matter, indicates the city can
build a natural gas distribution
system for $515,000.
The city plans to build the
system via issuance of revenue
bonds, which would not be a
general obligation of the city.
The Barnard & Burk survey
shows potential demand for gas
service would be economically
feasible, that is, the city could
pay the interest on the bonds, re
tire the bonds over a period of
300-years and still retain a pro
fit ? all at rates competitive
with other fuels.
Several business firms have in
dicated a desire for the service
and are willing to take it on an
infeerrupti-ble basis, the survey
shows.
Cherryville Church
Sets Week Services
Bishop Ralph S. Cushman, re
tired Methodist minister, of Ral
eigh, will speak at a series of j
special services at First Metho
dist church, in Cherryville, be
ginning Sunday, March 7..
Services each evening are at j
7:30. Bishop Cushman will also
preach at the 11 o'clock hour on j
Sunday and at the 7:30 service
on Sunday evening . He will I
preach at 10 o'clock on Tuesday |
morning and at services through j
Wednesday evening.
Rev. C W. Kirby, district super
intendent of the Gastonia dis
trict, will deliver the messages
at evening services on Thursday
and Friday of next week and a
gain at the 11 o'clock hour on
Sunday, March 14.
"Friends and neighbors in the
surrounding communities of I
Cherryville are invited to share I
with the people of Cherryville in
this preaching series," Rev. Wal
ter R. Kelly, pastor of the Cher
ryville church, said Tuesday in
making the announcement.
Mission Event
Being Observed
World Mission Season is being
observed this week in the Shiioh
Presbyterian church of Grover.
Mrs. Park Moore is chairman of
the committee of the Women of
the Church planning the various
events.
On Sunday evening, Febraury
28th, the congregation heard the
Rev. J. Holmes Smith, in, pastor
of the Presbyterian church In
Forest City, speak on his exper
iences while ? missionary in the
Belgian Congo. He exhibited ma
ny items of native handicraft,
including war knives, bow and
arrows, work knives, combs,
powder boxes, elephant tusks,
and a witch doctor's mask. Mr.
Smith served for four years in
Africa. He also spoke to the com
bined Senior High and Pioneer
Fellowships before the evening
service. . '
Monday afternoon the children
of the Sunday School met for
handwork on mission subjects,
singing of missionary songs, and
the viewing of a set of colored
slides on (Mexican children, "Ro
sita and Juanlto." Mrs. Louis
Morag led the Nursery class,
Mrs. Paul Hambrlght the Begin
ner, Miss Inez Davis, the Pri
mary, and Mrs. Frank Hambrl
ght, the Junior classes. Mrs.
Glenn Rountree, president of the
Women of the Church, and Mrs.
Park Moore also assisted In the
program of the afternoon.
Wednesday, evening the whole
OwWwrt On Pao9 BiO**
Employment Total
Reported Higher
EVANGELIS- ? Rev. G. W. Fink,
above, of Mocksville, will con
duct a revival seiies at El Beth
el Methodist church beginning
Wednesday evening. Services are
at 7:30.
El Bethel Sets
Revival Series
Rev. G. W. Fink of Mocksville
will conduct a revival at El Beth
el Methodist church beginning
Wednesday evening with services
to be hteld nightly at 7:30.
Rev. Mr. Fink, a retired minis
ter and evangelist, served as con-,
ferenee evangelist for the West
ern North Carolina conference of
thfe. Methodist church for a num
ber of years. He is a former pas
tor of Grace Methodist church
here,
Services will be held through
March 21, Rev. Boyce Huffstetler,
pastor of the church, said in mak
ing the announcement.
City Fathers
Meet Thursday
Thb city board of commission
ers will hold their regular March
meeting Thursday night at 8
o'clock.
Among items of business sche
duled for discussion include re
j quest of Duke Power Company
j for the city to retain certain Phi
fer Road power customers, re
ceiving bids on an oil storage tank
owned by the city and being of
fered for sale, and action on a
petition for installing sidewalk on
the south Side of West King
street, from Watterson strefef to
the hospital entrance.
Several months ago the city
asked Bennett Brick & Tile Com
pany and Lambeth Rope Corpo
ration, among others of Its out
side-city-llmlts power customers
to obtain stervlce from Duke on
plea that the cost of end-of-line
service was a money-losing ven
ture for the city. City Clerk Joe
Hendrlck said Duke has found It
will cost about $20,000 to build
proper lines for serving Phifer
Road customers and wants the
city to rtetaln them. Mr. Hendrlck
said proper service will require
city expenditure of about $6,000
for regulators.
Brother-In-Low
Oi Mrs. Ruth Dies
Funeral rites for Robert
Strange McNeill, 67, a "brother
in-law, of Mrs. Hilton Ruth, of
Kings Mountain, were held at
Mocksvllle Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. McNeill, lawyer, former
Federal official, and leader of
the Democratic party, died Sat
urday at his Mocksvllle home,
following a year of declining
health. Burial was made In the1
Joppa cemetery.
Born in Fayettevllle, the son
of the late James D. McNeill and
Elizabeth Strange McNeill, he |
was educated at the University |
of North Carolina, served in
World War I. and became a
practicing lawyer In Mocksvllle
In 1925. He was assistant attor
ney for the United States Middle
District of North Carolina from
1934 to 1948, and had been active
In Boy Scout,, American Legion, j
and Democratic Party affairs al
most all his life. He was an E
plscopaliatu
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Margaret Meronev McNeill, *
son, Robert S, McNeill, Jr., a bro
ther and two sister*.
improving
The condition of D. C Maun
ey, a patient at Charlotte Me
morial hospital, continues to
show Improvement, m.-m/bers
of his family said Wednesday.
Pay Claims Drop
To 362 Shows
Situation Better
Franklin Ware, manager of the
Kings Mountain branch of the
North Carolina Employment Ser
vice, predicted this week a gen
eral leveling of unemployment in
Kings Mountain at 350 to 400 per
sons for the "next several weeks".
Mr. Ware made the statement
against a background of dropping
unemployment eompensat ion
claims totals, which last week to
taled only 362, including 45 ini
tial claims.
The figure will be slightly high
er for the current week, Mr. Ware
isaid, due to partial layoffs at
! Kings Mountain Manufacturing
| Company, but generally the job
situation in Kings Mountain Is
better than it has been for sev
[eral weeks.
Slater Manufacturing Company
has been adding a few employees
to its lai>or force, and Neisler's
Margrace plant has also recalled
a number of persons previously
on part-time work schedules.
Mr. Ware said the next big re
duction In unemployment totals
probably depends on resumption
of operations of the former Frie
da Manufacturing Company plant
at Crowder's Mountain, now Car
Ion division of Carlton Mills,- Inc.
Ben Rudislll, of Carlton, said last
week previous reports of Carlon's
resumption of operations were
premature and without confirma
tion from responsible officials.
Conversion work on the machi
nery is partially completed and
some samples are being manu
factured, Mr. Rudislll said.
For February, the Kings Moun
tain employment report is Im
proved over January. A total of
2,415^lalms for unemployment
compensation were filed at the
Kings Mountain officte during
February, for an average of a
bout 604 per week. Initial claims
during February were listed at
586.
The January total was 2,894 un
employment compensation claims
1,145 of them initial claims.
Mr. Ware reported 46 job place
ments during February, mostly
in textiles, which he described as
a particularly encouraging sign
of improvement in the Job situa
tion here.
Dog Quaiantine
In Effect Here
A 30-day quarantine of all
dogs in Kings Mountain went in
to effect Monday morning with
i the quarantine to be lifted on
March 31.
All dog owners are being ask
ed to comply with the quarantine
and keep their dogs confined. All
dogs not confined will be subject
to be killed by any police officer
or officer from the county sher
iff's department.
Dr. J. P. Mauney, county veter
inarian, announced Monday the
rabies Clinic schedule for Friday.
Shady Rest, Cherryville Road,
9:30-9r45. ?
Eaker's Store, Mary's Grove,
10-10:30.
Barrett's Store, Cherryville
road, 10:45-11.
Robert's Store, Piedmont Ave.,
11-11:30.
Pauline Mill Store 11:30-11:45.
Heavner's Store, Waco Road,
11:45-12 noon.
York Road Store, 1:15-1:30.
Mtn. View Store, 1:30-1:45.
Morgan's Store, 1:45-2 p. m.
. Low is Place, off York road,
2:00 2:15. ,
Patton's Place, - York Road,
2:30-2:45 jv m.
Heart Fand Gilts
Reported At $217
Contributions of Kings Moun
tain citizens to the Cleveland
County Heart association totaled
$217 Wednesday morning, it was
announced by L. E. Abbott, who,
with J- L. McGlll, is conducting
the appeal foe funds.
Mr. Abbott Invited further con
tributions for the fund which is
aimed at cutting the death .total
caused by heart trouble of vari
ous kinds. Every second death
Iscaused fey,- heart ailments, sta
tistics show.
"We'd like to have at least
$100 more," Mr. Abbott said, and
Invited citizens to mall donations
to himself or to Mr. McGlll, or
to convey them in person.
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