SHELBY’S BUILDING PROGRAM IN 1925 RELIABLE home paper Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section, Modern Job Department, TOTALLED THREE MILLION DOLLARS—1926 WHAT? MAKE A CITIZEN OF EVERY VISITOR. SHELBY'S POPULATION 1925 Census_8,854 Where Industry Joins With Ciimate In A Call For You. , V. n, ■ ,, , VOL. XXXIV, No. 56 THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, MAY 10, 1962. .Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. [ maiI- Ppr vear f ihe shortsightness of placing too much stress upon cotton. Take the growing of the Irish potato as an example. “Last year the farmers of the coun ty planted 287 acres in Irish pota toes. The yield was 35 bushels to the acre. As a matter of fact there should have been produced 160 to 225 bush cis to the acre. If the average 1 ar tier had grown an average yield of potatoes and sold them for a dollar a bushel, he could have made more money at that low figure than he makes on cotton. “As a matter of fact Irish potat c - are selling today for $5.40 a bushel, but the local grower could have re tailed ihem at a dollar a bushel and made money. And the advantage of the Irish potato crop is, that it can virtually be got out the way before the cotton crop is ready to be cultivat ed. “There is no reason in the world v.hy we should not grow Irish pota toes and cabbage and all such like Vegetables to carry us over the win ter. But instead what is the fact; last year we did not grow hald enough potatoes for our own consumntien end imported a supply from Maine and as far west as, Oregon, falling a prey to the enormous freight rates. “I find,” Mr. Hardin went on, “that there are 87 acres in the county di - voted to the growing of market truck, 'i hat acreage is all that lias been put m to supply the cities of Shelby and Kings Mountain, with a joint popula tion of something like twelve or thir teen thousand people. I should say four or five hundred arres could profitably have been de voted to market gardening. “We planted 388 acres to berries and melons. Given reasonable mar keting facilities 1,200 or 1,500 acres could profitably be devoted to these products.” Mr. Hardin showed in his first arti cle, published in the April 30th issue (,f the Star, that it requires one-third nf the cotton money of the county to pay for the forage crops, onc-third to fun the family, and one-third to pay the fertilizer bills. I he average cotton farmer, those figures revgaled, to be juggling money trom one hand to the other his right bund not knowing what his left blind Vas doing. It was shown that nine bead of stock are being fed on one acre of farm land, whereas it requires three and a half acres properly to feed "im mule a year. i’he above figures reveal that the seme condition exists in household end T1 farm management Drought Started One Year Ago Tomorrow One year ago tomorrow the se vere drought started. Many will remember that the last good rain on which crops had 10 be made last summer, fell the evening and night of May 11th, after the Char lotte speedway races. Those who attended the races will recall the rain after the speed classic. Only light showers fell thereafter until harvest was over. Rainfall is still 15 inches below normal. Mr. J. J. Me Murry, who keeps posted on water and crops, says it is th; first winter within his memory that spring started with the ground so dry. Seed now need moisture to make them germinate. Ground is most too dry to plow and while much cotton and corn have been planted, only few fields are up. Roads through the country are dry and dusty. The weather bureau, however, promises rain this week. GASTONIA OUTFIT Jenkins and Peeler Engage in Hurling Duel, Hut Shelby Batters Fail to Hit. Hectic Game. Playing at Gastonia Friday the Shelby Highs were eliminated front the state race in the semi-finals lor western honors, bowing before the ve- j markable hurling of “Lefty” Jenkins, j Gastonia pitching ace. In their defeat the Highs contri buted their portion of what is consul- j ered one of the geatest Tiigh school 1 baseball classics ever played in west ern Carolina. Even though defeated,1 fans hereabout will let that game Hu- | ger for many years m their memory, | for 1 to 0 games in high school hall I do not bob up often, and even longer will they remember che hurling of the two youths battling each other. When all-state pitchers are picked this year there will be few selections that will ] no, include Jenkins and Peeler. Gastonia’s score—the only tally of the game—came in the second when Beam, replacing Peeler in left, mis judged Morris’ drive, and a few min utes later Morris romped home when Schneider hit to right and Sparks could not get hold of the bail on n . hop. Either hit could have been field - 1 ed so as to prevent a run being scor ed, but it was thus that the game slipped from the grasp of the young 1 Shelby hurler. I The Shelby batting array never seriously threatened but once against the steady drive of Jenkins and only : 29 men faced the youngster. In fhc ' seventh frame Cline Owens Lee siug ' led and moved on to third when Cline ! laid out another, for Shelby’s two lone safeties. With Gillespie at bat and I Peeler following the local rally seem I ed certain of victory. However, Gil lespie became worried over an early decision and merely waved the ait on the final one, Peeler also going down on a strike-out. Features of the game other than the hurler's duel came in the line fielding of the two young infields and Peeler’s canny habit of nabbing Gastonia runners off first base. In thi opening frame two Gastonia playeis were caught off the initial sack by the young hurler. Eliminated from the state race by a smooth-working team wtih a high school pitcher that reminds Shelby of Wall and Hoyle Lee. local fans are now thinking of all-state team, and next year. Practically two-thirds of | the Shelbv outfit are mere youngsters 'and will be back next year. Making 1 such a bid for a title with many of the team playing their first year the prospects for next year seem bright. And when All-state teams are picked even Pat Crawford could hardly veer around placing Peeler as Jenkins mound partner. Gastonia scribes say: “the local hitters were off in their batting against Shelby,’ and it might ibe added here that Shelby hitters were off in their stride against Jon Tins and it seems that the same thing that held Shelby batters also sad something to do with Gastonia s hitting slump—which was pitching hard to beat in high school ball. Furthermore, Ceve Cline, first sucker; Owens Lee short stop, ana (Continued e.; jioie tit,!.'--) i. Here’* a Marriage To Puzzle About < Marriage creates a lot of puz zles*—some one way, others an other. This particular one is diff< r ent. It’s a problem for mathe maticians. Down in No. 2 township, near Si-uire Tom Holland’s, as re ports have it, there lived a Mrs. Tom Doster. She married the second time and her second husband was a Bailey. Sometime later her daughter. Miss Essie Hosier, married Bailey’s broth er. Now got your pencil and fig ure out the new relation be tween mother and daughter, r mi between brother and brother. Then go over it again and ypu will keep finding various odd relations. In the first place mother and daughter became sisters-in-law when they married. In the sec ond place one brother became the stepfather of his other brother. Now keep going-. BIBLE WILL PREVAIL OVER MODERNISM Mrs, Thacker Sees Time Coming When Science and Religion Will Work Together. The Bible will prevail and the truth of God's majesty and power over the universe will not be shaken in this controversy between religion and science, in the opinion of Mrs. Addie Dixon Thacker, who delivered a mod scholarly address Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist church on “Eve, the First Modernist.” The large church auditorium and a goodly portion of the Sunday school rqom was filled to her this distinguished daughter of Cleveland who was literally reared on a pulpit, because she was a child of old age and went with her saintly futh er to make his church appointment,;. In the days of her childhood she pla> ed around the pulpit as he preached the unsearchable riches of Jesus and his love. Mrs. Thacker believes in the evo lution of thought, of practice, of cus toms, etc., and expressed joy that communication and transportation had evolved from primitive ways, that moderrt housekeeping, has sup planted the burdensome methods of the past, that surgery has marched on ward and upward to heights of skill supplanting ignorance and supersti tions of the past. Disclaiming any knowledge of science, she convinced her hearers that she has devoted much time and study to this subject as outlined the claims of the scientists. No scientist, however, has disproved the fact that God created life and that God’s majesty and power are not the controlling forces of this world. She contends that God rules and will rule and that the fact of His creation ; s revealed in Genesis will never be suc cessfully controverted. Mrs. Thacker comes to assist her husband in the Presbyterian church meeting and will have charge, of the services each morning at 10 o’clock, while Dr, Thacker will preach at night. Monday morning her subject is “The Cross,” Tuesday morning “The Virgin Birth,” Wednesday morning “The Resurrection,’ Thursday morn ing the ’Revelation,’ Friday morning ‘Woman arid Her Church” Sunday morning “The Human Touch.’ To Discuss Community Fair At Lattimore Lattimore, is interested in having a community fair next fail and Mr. V, C. Taylor, teacher of agriculture in the Lattimore High school asks The Star to mention that there will be a meeting of the people of the Latti more community at the school builS ing Friday night May 14th, at 8 o’clock at which time plans will be discussed. All farmers and others in terested in the proposed Lattimore community fair are urgently request ed to attend. Three Ministers Off For Baptist Convention Revs. Zeno Wall, Rush Padgett and H. E. Waldrop left Sunday night for Houston, Texas where they go to at tend the Southern Baptist convention. They will be gone most of this week. Dr. Wall will stop off on his return ut Clinton, Miss., where he will deliver an address next Sunday before the Mississippi college, the Baptist in stitution of that commonwealth. Dr. Wall was pastor in that college town for a number of years before return ling to his uati'e North Caryiin., Schools Here Get Money Slate Loan Will (live Schools of t'K*\ - eland County $8-‘l,000 for Ituild iiijj and IleinodeUinR. Announcement was mailt from Ra leigh Inst week that Governor Mc Lean had authorised the state treas urer to borrow two and one-half mil I lion dollars on short term notes to be I loaned the counties of the state ft r construction of school buildings. From this sum Cleveland county schools will receive, as apportioned be fore $83,000. This money has been divided in Cleveland us follows: Fallstcn ... r_$20,000.00 Casar -- $20,000.00 Belwood $37,000.00 Lattimore _ . $ 0,000.00 In most instances this money has already been used in building new school buildings, the loan from the state being through application. The money is borrowed at three and one half per cent, in anticipation of bond sales. An additional $2,500,000 probably will be borrowed by the state within the next 30 days, Governor McLean said today, for the same purpose, making a uital of $5,000,000. This s the amount authorized by the 1025 legislature for the school building fund. The distribution of this $5,000,000 has already been apportioned. It will go to 399 projects in 76 coun ties. The two and one-half million authorized to be borrowed today will be distributed as soon as the money is available. This $5,000,000 will make a total of $15,000,000 loaned to the counties by the state for school building pur poses. Five million dollars was au thorized by each of the legislatures of 1921, 1923 and 1925. The sale of bonds, for various pur poses, totalling approximately $40, 000,000 was authorized by the last general assembly. All thesei bonds have been sold, with the exception of the $5,000,000 for the school building anil $6,000,000 out of a total authori zation of 320,000,000 for highways. Loans made to adjoining counties were as follows: Catawba: Blackburn, $10,000; Sweetwater, $28,000. Gaston: Lincoln Academy, colored, $10,000; Belmont. $25,000; Mount Holly, $45,000; Dallas, $45,000. Lincoln: Iron Station, $20,000; Crouse, $20,000; Love Memorial, $20, 000; LinColntop, $15,000. Rutherford: Chimney Rock, §55, 000; Hollis. $30,000; Harris, $25,000; Shiloh, $20,000. Dr. Crowell Dies Of Influenza Attack .—^ The many Shelby friends and rela tives of Dr. Gordon B. Crowell of Lincolnton, regret to learn of his death Sunday night at 9 o’clock. He was only 30 years of age, a prominent and bril liant young surgeon, son of Dr. L. A. Crowell, who operates the Lincolnt' n hospital. Young Dr. Crowell had been ill with influenza for the past week when his condition suddenly became worse and an operation was performed in the Lincoln hospital. Some of the best physicians of this section attended his sick bed, but could offer no relief. Young Dr. Crowell is survived by his wife who before marriage wa* Miss Frances Geitner of Hickory, on*, four-year-old daughter and his par ents, together with two sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Gene Schenek of Shelby is a sister. Dr. Crowell was* also related to the Hull families of Shelby. Geo. Blanton Heads Hospital Trustees -—*— I Gastonia, May 7.—-Trustees of the North Carolina Orthopedic hospital are now planning to ask for further, appropriations when the legislature meets next for additional rooms at the hospital here, i< was announced here after their meeting. It is a growing institution, say the officials, and its continuous expan sion is the natural accompaniment of the widespread need fo rorthopedie treatment among the children of >^orth Carolina. Members of the board present were George Blanton, of Shelby; R. R. Ray, of McAdenville; P. C. Whitlock, of Charlotte; Mrs. Evelyn Nimocks, of Fayetteville and R. B .Babington, J. Lee Robinson and W. C. Bivens, df Gastonia. All officers were re-elected, as fol lows: President, R. B. Babington; chair man of board of trustees, George S Blanton; secretary, Morgan B. Spire, of Charlotte; treasurer, J. Lee R'b inson; chairman of the executive, corii inittee K, K __ The Prince and His Cinderella Pr-i.e CharmIng. In Ihtv ca*e K.Jwjird VV Br^wnlnp, wealthy former reel ►elite man. nnj hi? t j rj't rr-Jumes "Ptarhos" H«-cnun. 13, h ,\« fcu"'l n n i place to U'e on Iaiih Uui.'iU. Uut the cat'scsa la keeping 'lefts!; of t!um Man Believed To Be Charlie Ross Makes Visit To Shelby Ip Returning From Greensboro Where He Conferred With Relatives Of Long Lost Child. Guest Of Gaffney Here. School Girls I Make Own Hats Shalby school girls are an en ergetic lot, particularly a group at the South Shelby school. Fact is, they promise to -maMe good housewives some day. Tuesday of this week a dis play Window at th’«b l^phy-Hud , son company will bo given over to displaying the handiwork of the home •economics class of the South Shelby school, which is under the direction of Miss Sara Warren. In the display will be numer ous hats and dresses made by the class. Many of the hats and dresses would lie a credit to an exclusive woman’s shop. They are tastefully, as well as . economically made. Kaoh hur and garment will show the act ual cost of making. !*( What’s more the hats arc not ■ to be sold—the girls are going to wear them. Rollins Roberts Is Buried Monday P. M. Mr. Rollins Roberts died Sunday morning at 1) o’clock at his home ..bout five miles east of Shelby on the Kings Mt. highway, following a two years illness with paralysis. Mr, Roberts, was 79 years, 7 months and 25 days old and one of Ihe best citizens of ihnt community, held in high esteem by all who knew him. He was mar ried to a Miss Putnam .who survives with several children, two sons La Fayette Roberts, Alvin Roberts, and several daughters, one of whom is Mi's. Allen Thrift. The funeral was conducted Monday, afternoon at 2 o’clock by Rev. I), fi.Washburn and the interment was at Pleasant Ilill Baptist church where he held his membership. Lawndale People Charter Ice Firm Lawndale. Cleveland county manu facturing town, will keep cool in it self this summer. A company has been organized there to conduct a cold storage and refrigerayng business. The company as chartered by the secretary of state is: Lawndale lee company, Lawndale, to conduct a cold storage and refrig erating business. Authorized capital 840,000, subscribed 88,000 by John F. Schenck, sr., H. E; Kchenck ami Che?, •* LUlL:0, till Ji LV> Shelby has n famous visitor today. The man who, perhaps, has received wider publicity throughout America during the past two months than any other, spent Sunday nighi and Mon day in “The City of Springs,” from which first came the story— —That he might be Charlie Ros$. .Julius Dellinger, or Charlie Ross, whichever he may be—-and it does seem now that he is Ross without a doubt— came into Shelby Sunday even ing from Greensboro where he was in conference with relatives of the lost Ross. The visitor spent the night at the home of Mr. J .Frank Gaffney, who knew him as a bo, in Gaffney, S. C., when* lie lived with the man and woman who kept him during ihe y^ars after his abduction, Monday morning, Ross, as Mrs. Starr, his relative, says he should be called, came up to The Star office to see “these newspaper fellows” who started the publicity ball to rolling. And while here and about town he was the center of attraction. No news story of recent years has carried so much human interest ns that of the likely finding of Ross and the solv ing of the world’s greatest kidnap ping mystery. i,inns icttn together He had just been to Greensboro where Mrs. Starr, a second-cousin of the lost Ross, was staying and while the links in the chain that connect his history with that of Ross were cheeked up—and, may it be said, they were found to be accurate. Mrs. Starr made public a statement in Greens boro saying that she firmly believed the man known as Dellinger to be her long lost relation. However, Mrs. Starr does not be lieve in doing things by halves and she will remain over in the state lor sometime checking up other clues and lines connected with the probable clearing up on the mystery that has baffled America. She is this week vis iting Eastern Carolina securing infor mation she considers valuable, while the Denver man will this afternoon return to his Lincoln county home, where he will take things easy for a time and “fight hliy of newspaper re porters,’' as he puts it. “Yes. I’m going to Philadelphia, but never you mind when,” he said when queried. “It may be a month, and— well, you can’t never tell.” I.itcle by little the chain of evi dence grows stronger in showing Del linger to be Ross. Day after day let ters, photos and affidavits pour into Denvei helping to make the matters more certain. An interesting conne xion in build i Continued oi. page eight.) Big Road Case Comes Up Here Not<\| Barrister to Appear in ^ho Newton Highway Case Before Judge J. L. Webb Here. Public interest in one of the big Kest highway litigations in the state of recent years shifts to Shelby today for the injunction hearing of the New ton-No. 10 matter before Judge Jan.' L. Webb this afternoon. The case is that where the town of Newton in Catawba county seeks to prevent the construction of a sec tion of road between Statesville and Newton on Highway 10. From a general knowledge of the case it is understood that the highway plan would leave Newton off this highway, one of the state’s leading roads. Many Big Lawyers. The afternoon promises a treat for local people in the assemblage • of noted barristers and other prominent officials. Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, has been the chief attorney for Newton for some time and it is understood that the Newton folks have also em ployed former Governor Cameron Morrison to assist in the hearing !.i addition to several well known Ca tawba county attornevg that have been connected with the case. Charles M. Ross, attorney for the State high way commission and Road Commis sioner Frank Page are also expected to be present. The injunction “has been in the air” for some time. The hearing was first set at Newton, and was iater trans ferred to Rutherfovdton, and then to Shelby. SEVERN FROM SHELBY mom Shelby Delegates Will Travel With Carolina* District Kiawainns DeLuxe Special. William Lineberger and Max Wash burn members of the Shelby Kiwanij dub announced as delegates to the lOth^annual convention of Kiwanis in ternational convenes at Montreal, Caada on Mohday evening, June 7, are making ready for their departure. The local members, who will carry to the convention sessions the banner of representation of the Shelby club, will be but two of seven thousand Ki wanians from Canada and the United States who will take part in the an nual business of the continent wide service organization and also in the entertainment features that have been prepared. Both will vote in the election for the international president of Kiwanis for 1927 and help determine the con« vention city for next year. For entertainment of Shelby repre sentatives of Montreal club have ar 1 anged a number of special occasions. One of the features is to be a pageant depicting Canadian life. Commencing with a trench-Canadian rural scene, the life-pictorial procession will en gage historical sketches and character representations that have made up ( anada's fascinating hitsory through the centuries. The annual reception and presidents’ ball, to be held this year in honor of John H. Moss, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, international president, is scheduled # the second night of the convention. Both dele gates will attend the occasion. “We both anticipate attending the biggest and most important conven tion held so far by our international | organization,” said the two local dele gates today. Others from Shelby who will attend the convention are: Mrs. William Lineberger and daughter, Mary Lineberger; Misses Betty and Nancy Suttle; Mr. and Mrs. George Blanton; Rusha Hamrick and others, perhaps. Our delegates will travel with the Carolinas District Kiwamans on the DeLuxe special train operated for delegates and their friends, only, leav ing here on June4. They will visit Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia New York city, Albany, and Clayton’, N. Y„ at which latter point they will board a steamer on the St. Lawrence for Montreal, and shoot the rapids er route. Interesting side trips to his toric Quebec, Thousand Islands, the Laurentian mountains, and other points have already been provided for the delegates and their friends. lie turning, the Kiwunians will visit Portland, Boston, Fall River, and oth er points en route, reaching New York City again on June 13, from w hich point the train will be operat ed over the same lines as going—* rri'’ing home or: June I t,