LATE NEWS
The Markets.
<*oUon, pe rpound ___ 18c
cotton Seed, per bu._ 18c
Cloudy Thursday.
Today’s North Carolina Weather
Report: Fair and slightly warmer
in west and central portions to
night. Thursday partly cloudy.
Advance Plan
To Secure Sum
For Hospital
Proposed That County Match
825.000 From Duke Fund To
Build Hospital Addition
If plans now being con
sidered mature it is likely that
work may start on a $50,000 ad
dition to the Shelby hospital by
early fall. The major plan ad
vanced by the Duke fund for
enlarging the local hospital.
Shelby and Cleveland county cit
izens Interested in the hospital have
formulated the plan whereby, they
explain, that the local contribution
of $25,000, required by the Duke
foundation before they will give
their $25,000, can be raised without
a bond issue and without loading a
financial burden upon anyone
From County Board.
The plan proposes that the coun
ty commissioners put up, or stand
for the $25,000 and that the sum be
distributed over a number of years
so that there will be no necessity of
a bond issue or of kicking the tax
rate higher. The present hospital, it
is explained, was constructed and
is operated by No. 6 township and
in view of the fact that it is used
as a county hospital it Is believed
that the county will favor advanc
ing $25,000 to enlarge the present
plant. At the present time the
county government contributes
about $3,000 annually for charity
work at tho hospital but charity
vork there totals arounds $8,000
each year, which means that No. 6
township bears $5,000 of the $8,000
although the charity wards are
opened to county citizens regard
less of whether they live In No. 6
township.
Maternity Ward.
The addition to the hospital
building, when, and if constructed
will Include sections to be used as
a maternity ward and one for con
tagious diseases, it is said. However
plana and details for the enlarg
ing have rot been made and will
rot be made until it is definitely
assured that the county can ar
range to use the big gift offered by
the Duke fund for local hospital
work
Smith Is Again
Welfare Officer
For This County
Zeb V. Cline .Named As Road Com
missioner For No. 5 Town
ship By Commission Board.
Mr. J. B. Smith, for several year?
county welfare officer for Cleve
land county, was reelected to that
position b> the county commission
ers in their regular session here
Monday.
At the same meeting Mr. Zeb V
Cline, who lives just east of Shelby,
was named road commissioner for
No. S township. This post was
formerly held by Mr. Rufus ?icnk
Other than making these two ap
pointments, going over and accept
ing the school budget for the year,
and handling routine business the
commissioners transacted little else
of general public importance.
Cline To Raleigh
For Session With
Advisor Commission
Mr. A. E. Cline, business manager
tf Cleveland county, left today for
Raleigh to attend a two-day ses
sion of the North Carolina county
government advisory commission of
which he is a member. Whll' in Ra
leigh Mr. Cline will confer with Mr.
A. T. Allen, state school superin
tendent, about loans for several
special school districts in the coun
ty.
Lawyer* Will Play
Doctor* In Ba*eball
Umpires for baseball games In
Shelby for the next week or so
j will likely be hard to find.
The first city contest booked is
to be a baseball game between the
lawyers and the physicians of the
city, while the second one being ar
ranged will be between the Rota
rians and the Kiwanians. The dates
for the two games have not been set
es yet.
Williar.; Webb, son 01 Juc'ee E. Y
W'bo. ’-or-ie I'-’irilav iron. Wake
P'.-est college, left to. . c’ay for a
with Ins brother. Edwin Webb
Atlanta.
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County School Tax Rate Gets 10 Percent Slash
New Board Retains
Poston As Chief Of
Police; Ligon Clerk
Gordon To Be City Electrician,
Spangler Is Street Overseer.
Dorton Health Officer.
McBride Poston, who became act
ing police chief in the Shelby de
partment when Chief A. L. Richards
left the force under the Dorsey ad
ministration and who has made
quite a reputation for himself and
his force during the few months in
office, was again placed at the head
of the department by Mayor S. A.
McMurry and the new board of
aldermen at their first official
meeting Monday night.
At the same session, a session
that has been eagerly awaited by
the citizenship of Shelby interested
in the new personnel of the city
workers, practically every other
city office was filled. Very few
changes were made.
Other Officials.
One of the first acts of the coun
cil was to accept the resignation of
the present city clerk. Mr. Fred P.
Culbreth, who will likely go with
an auditing firm, and shortly there
after Alderman Z. J. Thompson plac
ed before the meeting a motion to
make Mr. L. E. Ligon, well known
Shelby citizen and former South
ern agent here, city clerk and treas
urer. The motion was seconded by
Alderman P. M. Washburn and
Ligon was elected and will take
charge on July 1.
No Fire thief.
Ted L. Gordon, who is now act
ing as fire chief as well as city
electrical engineer, was reelected
city electrician, but for the present
no one has been selected as chief
of the fire department.
Mr. R. V. Toms. who has had
charge of the department for years,
was retained as superintendent of
the water department.
Mr. Ernest Spangler was elected
street overseer, the position held in
the Dorsey administration by Mr.
Nelson Self.
Dr. J. S. Dorton, who has served
in that capacity for some time, was
reelected city health officer.
Policemen Named.
Other members of the police de
partment named in addition to
Chief Poston were Rufus E. Sparks.
Paul Stamey, and B. E. Putnam, all
members of the force now, and
Marshall M. Moore, a former mem
ber of the force.
Present members of the fire de
partment were retained despite the
fact that no chief has been selected.
They are Joseph Carroll, Henry
Lucas and J. C. Caskey.
In some instances, it is said, at
the City Hall those selected for po
sitions have not definitely accepted
while other changes and moves may
be considered in combinations of
department heads, and other mat
ters.
Photos Of Fruit
Fiies On Bulletin
Before Star Office
Farmers, merchants, housewives
and other Cleveland county people
interested in the new pest, the
Mediterranean fruit fly. which is
playing havoc with the Florida cit
rus crop and is now threatening the
fruit crops in this and adjoining
states, may see photos of the pest on
the bulletin board beside the front
;nt,rance to The Star office.
The photos there, sent to Mrs.
Irma Walla re, home agent, by Dr.
t. O Schaub. extension direeto’.
show the fly in various stages of ,
growth.
City Clerk
Mr. L. E. Ligon, above, well-known
Shelby citizen, has been elected city
rlerk and treasurer for the Mc
Murry administration and will take
charge of the city office on July 1.
Newton Named
City Attorney
At Board Meet
Only One Delegation Appears Be
fore First Regular Meeting
Of Aldermen.
At the first regular meeting of
the new city board, held last night
at the City Hall fo'lowing the get
together session held on the previous
mght. Attorney D. Z. Newton was
elected city attorney for the two
jears of the administration.
If their first regular meeting
could be termed an indication of
all the meetings to come, the new
city council will not have so many
delegations visit them as have coun
cils in the past, for last night only
one request was made of the board.
This was for a circulating water
main on Chestnut street at the
Graham connection. The matter was
deferred for the time being.
Consider Fire Chief.
General report was that the sec
ond session of the city fathers
w'ould bring about the election of a
fire chief, but the matter was again
deferred.
Privilege License.
The privilege license schedule was
adopted as in force last year with
rne or two exceptions One change
;o do with the scale oh pool tables
The new schedule is $50 each for
the first three tables, $4i • each for
the next two tables, and all other
tables $25 each. The license apply
ing to lumber yards was changed
to read “manufacturers and dealers
n building supplies."
Miss Louise Honeycutt returned
runday from Wndcsboro urtrr a
l.ori visit.
Mr. and Mrs Dixon Smith and
hiidvcn will return temoiTow to
heir home in Columbus, Ga
Quarter Million Dollars In
Property On Block For Taxes
Auction For Unpaid County Taxes Held Here
Monday. County Purchases Majority
Of Property.
Approximately a quarter of a mil
lion dollars worth ot Cleveland
county property went on the block
here Monday afternoon for unpaid
county property taxc.i
The actual amount oi advertised
property * t axes as so'cVwas around
$J,.iOO, representing an estimated
average of on the $100 valuation.
The majority of the prope:ty sold
foi taxes by the sherift. at the or
der of county commissioners, was
brought in by the county, although
Individuals purchased several pieces
°» property. The remainder of the
unpaid tax in the county comes
under the classification of poll and
personal piopcrty.
18 Percent Cut
Ooer Two Years
N>w School Budget Adopted This
Week Cut* Expense To
Taxpayer.
Taxpayer* of Cleveland coun
ty will pay 10 |>ercrnt less
school tax this year than they
did last year according to fig
ures announced today as taken
from the new county-wide school
budget prepared by Prof. J. H.
Grlgg, county superintendent,
and A. E. Cline, county mana
ger.
This means, it is recalled, that
icnool taxes in Cleveland county
have been slashed 18 percent In two
years. The school tax rate in 1927
26 was 66 cents and last year the
rate was cut to 60 cents, while for
the approaching school year the
rate will be considerably below 60
cents.
The decrease is due for the nuxt
part to the increased sum from the
state equalization fund. This year
the county will receive $83,506.17
from the fund, or 634,000 more than
the $47,735 received yast year. The
or.ly increase in the school budget
is in the matter of teachers salaries,
numerous teachers raising their
certificates by summer school study
and by experience. The budget calls
for $147,596 for teachers salaries in
all the rural schools and for $73.
604 for six months of the Shelby
and Kings Mountain schools, a total
of $221,200 for teachers salaries, or
approximately two-thirds of the en
tire budget which is $354,000.
The budget calls for only one new
building, the Parkgrace school at
Kings Mountain, which is to be
erected at a coet of $22,500. Approx
imately $6,000 is set aside for re
pairs and small buildings in the
county. The Parkgrace figure, of
course. Is covered by the customary
state loan, while $13,757 of the bud
get total goes out to repay loans
received from the state funds.
Cheap Transportation.
An interesting feature of the bud
get expense is the matter of truck
transportation of rural school chil
dren. The state fund sets aside a
maximum of $8 per year for the
transportation of each pupils. Last
year in Cleveland county the
transportation cost per pupil was
only $5.75. This means that tax
payers of Cleveland county do not
have to bear one cent of the ex
pense of transporting pupils to and
from school, the only expense in
curred by taxpayers for that pur
pose being the original purchase of
trucks.
Big Suit Is Filed
Against Mill For
Splinter In Hand
John Camp Asks Damage Of Local
Plant For Infection Said To
Hare Been Caused.
John M. Camp of South Shelby,
by his attorney Peyton McSwain,
has filed suit in the superior court
of this county against the Ella Mil!,
a division of the Consolidated Tex
tile corporation, asking for dam
ages in the sum of forty thousand
dollars.
The complaint alleges that Mr.
Camp, while ir. the employ of the
defendant stuck a splinter in his
thumb which he ame infected and
resulted in blood poison. It is
further alleged that the plaintiff
was operated upon some four or five
times in. an effort to save his life
that he /.as entirely lost the use of
his hand and arm: that he is
scarcely able to walk around due to
infect:d back, hips, and legs; and
that the plaintiff has been left in a
crippled, maimed, and deformed
rendition for life due to said injury
Mr. Camp was unable, due to tv
phJ'sical condition. his attorney
■aid, to come to the court, house to
File his suit, though he was injur
'd fottr months ago, March 4.
‘Lefty” Robinson
Snags 33-Pounder
J. R. (Lefty) Robinson, one
of the proprietors of the Cleve
land Clear store, came home
this week from South Island,
South Carolina, with the biggest
catch of the season and also
with the fish to verify bis
story. The catch was made with
rod and reel.
The fish, a channel bass,
measures 42 inches in length
and weighs 33 1-2 pounds, the
largest caught at the island this
year. It is now on display at the
Cleveland Hardware. Accom
panying the local Isaak Walton
were Roye- Dellinger. Tom
Dabington, and Archie I51a< k.
Two Happy Mothers-in-Law
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Left, Mrs. Morrow, wife of Ambassador Dwight VV. Morrow
and mother of Miss Anne Morrow, who married Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh, famous flyer, in a surprise wedding at the Engle
wood, N. J., home of the Morrows. Right, Mrs. Evangeline
Lindbergh, the modest mother of Lindy, who has been in the
public eye ever since the memorable solo flight which her son
made to Paris two years ago. Here are two mothers who have
every reason in the world to take an abundance of pride in
their children, but who are nevertheless distinguished fo«- their!
modesty and simplicity.
''international Nivirnl)
Hoey Termed Another Clay By
Noted Writer Hearing Address
On Jefferson Davis In Charlotte
Shelby Boy Scouts
Patrol At Reunion
Approximately 35 Boy scouts from
Shelby are assisting in the patrol
duties at the Confederate reunion in
Charlotte this week, according to
Scoutmaster Henry Edwards. Th»
scouts left here Monday for Gas
tonia where they joined scouts
of the Piedmont council and moved
on to Charlotte under the direc
tion of a Gastonia scoutmaster.
More than 150 scouts from the
Piedmont council are assisting at
the reunion.
Lee Loses Chance
In League Circles
By Just One Day
Cline Owens Lee, captain and
shortstop of Shelby high'u state
championship baseball team, lost a
chance to break into the line-up
of the Columbus team In the South
eastern league by one day. The Col
umbus team last week made an of
fer for a ihortstop ar Chattanooga
lr the Southern league but the of
fer was refused at the time. Tire
club then sought the services of the
brilliant high school star here, and
Lee was preparing to leave Shelby
today with Mr. Dixon Smith to
join the club when a telegram
stating that the Chattanooga club
had accepted the Columbus offer
for the;r shortstop. The South
eastern club however requested the
high school star no. to sign an
other contract before Saturday as
they might be able to use him at
another infield berth or as an util
ity player. Meantime Felix Hayman.
owner of the Charlotte cluh in the
South Atlantic Iraoic, has asked
Coach Casey Morris to seno the
youngster to Charlotte this week
for a workout,
Confederate* Let Out Rebel Yell
For Shelby Man’s Praise Of
Confederacy President.
Rebel yells from aging Confeder
ates throats and the stirring tune
of Dixie from the bands assembled
for the Confederate reunion in
Charlotte greeted the praise given
Jefferson Davis, president of the
Confederacy, by Hon. Clyde R
Hoey, of Shelby, in his Davis me
morial address heard by thousands
In person and over radio from the
memorial auditorium in Charlotte
Monday night.
Speaking of the Hoey address The
Charlotte News said:
“The circumstances surrounding
Davis’ administration of the affairs
of the Confederate government, Mr.
Hoey declared, caused outstanding
qualities other than his statesman
ship to be overshadowed. He pre
sented him as a student and as a
soldier as well as a statesman. The
Shelby orator's widely recognized
eloquence brought to Dixie's only
president a tribute couched in beau
tiful terms. Amplifying arrange
ment carried the music and speech
es to all parts of the great hall so
distinctly that none had difficulty
In hearing.
“The auditorium was profusely
decorated in flags suitable to the oc
casion and vocal and Instrumental
music came at intervals. During
the singing of Dixie the old sol
diers broke forth with rebel yells
heard for a great distance away. '
Clay's Re-Fmbodimcnt.
Lemuel F. Martin, Consolidated
Press feature writer, wrote of the
address:
“Former Congressman Chde R
Hoey. the rrost brilliant orator of
North Carolina, was the Keynoter
of the reunion, delivered an eulogy
In commemoration of the one hun
dred and thirty-first birthday an
niversary of Jefferson Davis, at
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Merchants Debate Half Day
Closing For Summer Months
.Majority Of Merchants Seem To
Favor Afternoons Off. Want
Lower Light Rate.
The board of directors of the
Shelby Merchants association held
a meeting Monday, and gave con
sideration to that moot question,
■•ummer closing. The association re
cently mailed cut ballots to its
members, to the end of having e
vote cast cn the suoject Of the bal
lots received back, wo 10 one we:?
in favor of shutting up shop, one :
alternoon a week, as per the bid ]
schedule.
However, the issue is not definite
ly settled, and it is on the cards, the
members of the association may t i
asked to attend a. special dinner
mecting at the hotel to vote final
ly and definitely upon <he proposal.
The board of directors went on
record as desiring a lower light
rate from the city, and they are
going to make this issue a vital
one. The board decided to ask the
city council and mayor to call a
special meeting to c or ter with e,
committee from the association to
consider diving Shelby more light
tor less money.
Jonas And Newell
To Appear Before
Postmasters Here
Man Born Here
Back First Time
In 78 Years
Left Shrlby In l*Ut. Bark In 1851.
Then llrrr Again
Today.
A man who has not arm the
town hr was born In for four
score years ramr to Shrlby to
day, lookrd about for a abort
time, failed to find any one he
remembered or any slight about
the place that looked like ‘‘old
Shrlby. found it all disappoint
inf and boarded a bus “never
to return,'* as he put it.
The visitor was J. F. Hallman,
Confederate veteran who now lives
In Atlanta. Eighty-six years ago
Mr. Hallman, who Is attending the
reunion in Charlotte, was born In
Shelby. At the age of five his par
ents moved away, that was 81 years
ago. Three years later young Hall
man came back for his uncle's fu
neral. That was his last trip until
today. He “as accompanied by his
Fon, a former president of Clemson
college.
Veteran Of Vale
Section Killed In
Route To Reunion
Elam Houser, Who Enlisted At 17
Killed By Train At Lln
colnlon Monday
Lincolnton, June 3.—Clad In his
gray uniform, ready to go to the
reunion in Charlotte, Elam Houser,
81-year-old Confederate veteran,
was struck by a railroad engine here
today and killed.
Mr. Houser had just been brought
to Lincolnton by his son, Wel
le ce Houser, with whom he lived
in the Vale section of , Lircoin
county. To pass a few momer,*^
spare time, he climbed up on the
Seaboard Air Line trestle n^tr
the Arrow mills to watch sink
shifting trains below on the Caro
lina and Northwestern tracks fh'nk
ing the track above safer than the
underpass.
The engineer driving an 3. A.
L. train to Chcrryvillc saw the old
man. blew hts whistle and put cn
his brakes, but it was too Inti;
Mr. Houser was knocked uncon
scious and died shortly afterward.
The old veteran had told friends
a few minutes before that this
probably would be the last Con
federate reunion he would be ah’c
to attend and he was looking for
ward with a great deal of interest
to seeing many of his old friends
for the last time.
Mr. Houser, born and reared in
Lincoln county, was the son of
Levi Houser, who was killed whll®
serving with the Confederacy. He
enlisted near the end of the war at
the age of 17 years.
Score Of Veterans
At Reunion Today
Twemy or more Confederate vet
erans from Cleveland county are at
tending the reunion in Charlotte to
day. Eighteen veterans and eight
attendants left here by bus early
yesterday and today for Charlotte,
their transportation being paid by
the civic clubs of Shelby, while it is
estimated that a half dosen or so
made the trip down by private mo
tor
Complete Tar And
Gravel On Highway
206 Here Tuesday
Construction workers o n
highway No. 206, Linrolnton to
Shelby, yesterday completed the
placing of the tar and gravel
surface on that highway from
the Lincoln county line to Shel
by
The work began at the other
end of the highway and early
yesterday the construction forces
moved here where they put down
the gravel and tar on the high
way to the Intersection of 206
with highwav 20 ;u.st on the
other side of the Mike L. Bor
ders rcsldenre on the Clrve
Springs road. ,
Several Hundred Postmasters T«
Gather Here Next Week
For Convention.
Congressman Charles A. Jonas
and Hon. Jake P. Newell, of Char
lotte, will be the main speakers of
the North Carolina convention of
postmasters to be held In Shelby
late next week, according to the
program for the convention as de
livered to Postmaster J. H. Quinn.
Governor O. Max Gardner had been
Invited to address the postmasters
but due to a previous engagement
he found himself unable to accept.
Open* Friday
The convention opena on Friday
morning and the sessions, with the
exception of the banquet at Cleve
land Springs hotel Friday night,
will be held at the Hotel Charles.
The invocation for the opening
session will be by Rev. H. N, Mc
Dtarmtd. pastor of the local Presbv
terlan church. The address of wel
come will be made by Hon. Clyde
R. Hoe.v representing Mayor S. A,
McMurry. The response will be by
Miss Leah J. Franck, postmistress
of Jacksonville. The usual repor+s
and an address by W. Neal, of
Greensboro, will be heard at the
morning session. The closing Item
on the morning's program will be
a talk by Hon. Lorel N. Morgan,
superintendent of postmasters’ ap
pointments at Washington.
To Lake Lure.
Friday afternoon the civic organ
izations of Shelby and the portal
council of the county will give the
visiting postmasters and postmis
tresses, several hundred In number,
a motor tour to Chimney Rock and
Lake Lure. Those guests not earing
to make the Lake Lure trip will be
accorded free use of the Cleveland
Springs golf course for the after
noon and at any other time during
their stay in the city.
On Friday night the big banquet
will be held at Cleveland Springs
with W. B. Duncan, of Raleigh, as
toastmaster and with Hon. Jake F.
Newell, of Charlotte, and Congress
man Jonas making the addresses
The Saturday morning session
will be opened with invocation by
Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the First
Baptist church. At this session
there will be an address by Mr K.
A. Meeks, president of the national
league of district postmasters. Mr.
Meeks is from Nichols, Georgia.
This will be followed by the usual
reports, round-table discussion, elec
tion of officers and of delegates to
the national convention at Niagara
Falla. t
Gene Wofford To
Play At Cleveland
During The Summer
Orchestra Well Known In Two
States Signed By Cleveland
Springs Manager.
An announcement of consider*
able interest to music lovers In this
section was made today by Manager
Martin of the Cleveland Springs
hotel when he stated that Cene
Wofford and his CarOIeglans, one
01 the best known orchestras in the
two Carolina*. had been engaged for
the summer by the hotel. The or
chestra will play for evening dinners
and Thursday evening dances
throughout the summer.
The organization is comtwsed of
Gene Wofford, director and trum
pet: Walter Spctgh, Wilie Hite
and M. B. Ezell, saxophones and
rlarinets: Jo Johnson, piano: Wyatt
Cooper, drums and entertainer: Bev
erly Montgomery, bar.jo. and Red
Dobson, trombone. Mr. Wofford is
also accompanied by his wife.
This organization has played for
such prominent events as tha
Mardl Gras dances In Asheville, the
Meyer Park dances in Charlotte,
the Bachelor and Cotillion club
dances in Spartanburg, the frater
nity dances at Wofford college for
three years the Assembly, Spinster
and Block P club dances at Green
ville. the Sponsors bail and Citadel
dances at Citadel, lirlley Military
institute dances. Charnoca club
dances at Charlotte, rtage presenta
tion at Bex theatre in Spartanburg
and numerous other events Por
some time Wofford's group has been
t roadcasting over station WBT at
Charlotte and station WWNC at
Asheville. and negotiations are
nbout to be closed new for the or
rhestra thh summer to make the
K Swc-theart” for the Victor
people.