Biggest Cage Clashes Of Season In Shelby Friday, Sat Nights Powerful Rutherfordton Team* Here Friday Night. Polkvllle Sat urday Night. Postpone Game The hasketbnll double header between the Ruthrr ford ton and Shelby tram scheduled for the Shelhy tin can Friday night has bei n postponed until a later dat' The game between the Pclk vllle and Shelby girls for the county title will be played Saturday night as scheduled. What should be the best basketball as well as the most colorful exhibited here this year fat scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights In the Shelby high tin can. Friday night the Shelby high teams, boys and girls, will meet the powerful cage outfits from Ruth erfordton, and Saturday night the Polkvile girls teams will come here determined to maintain and cinch their claim to the county cham pionship for the fair cagers. Greatest Yet The Rutherfordton boys quint, which meets the Shilby outfit in the seoond game of Friday night's play, Is without question the great est high school quint to appear here tills season. Only twice In three years have the Rutherfordton lads been defeated. In that time they have defeated the cream of basket ball talent In the two Carolina*, and one of their two defeats was by a prep school team. Earlier this year, playing at Rutherfordton. the Shelby boys held the record-mak ers to a narrow-margin victory. In that game one of the Shelby regu lars was out and with him back in the running the Morris-Falls five believe It has an even chance of turning In a win over the famous visitors. To do so, however, the Shelby coaches have told their boys that they must play an even more inspired game, than they did in their second contest with Lat timore. The psychological angle Is In Shelby's favor, for the visiting quint, although expecting to ha^c to put out some, believes it has the number of the Shelby shooters Capt Hulick, Red Jolley, Max Put nam, Ray Brown, and O. C. Con nor, Shelby regulars, are pointing to the game as they have not to any other this year, because they'd rather even the count with Rutt erfordton than do most anything else they know. The girls game, although it does not pack as much rivalry, will be well worth seeing as an eye-opener for the boys' clash. The clever young misses who ran their string of wins to eleven before losing then dropped two games in a row. As a result they’ve been hearing things from their coaches this week arc! with their feminine fighting spirit aroused they are determined to finish the season without another defeat. Then The Blr Game And on Saturday night comes the big game, the most-talked git Is contest ever staged In the county The PoUcville girls have won 13 vanquished opponents was the contests. Numbered among their smooth LattUnore team. As a result of their undefeated record the Polkvilie girls, paced by Miss Oold a forward that could show sonic boys about dripping in baskets, laid claim to the county title. The Shel by girls, defeated once in the county and having defeated the same team, Immediately challeng ed the title claim. "All right, then," came back the Polkvilie girls, "well Just play you and show you how champions play.” And the game was sheduled for Saturday night. Unless a snow storm blocks the streets and highways the steps leading into the Shelby tin can promise to be packed with basket ball fans Friday night and again Saturday night. For in .hose two nights a county that produces bas ketball material as good as an> of the colleges can lay their hands upon will be strutting out two cr three of Us greatest teams for thi public to see in action. Total Of 151 Autos Stolen In January KiuMgh, Feb. 8 —A total of 15t' automobiles were stolen in North i Carolina during January. figures ' compiled by the theft bureau of the autonrobile license division of the department of revenue and released today, show. Of the 151 cars stolen. 96 were recovered before the ench of the month, while 46 other cars stol en in previous months were also re covered, making a total of 145 re coveries for the month New Hats Gone. An old darkey was tending the coats upstairs in a public buildlnr He noticed a prominent politician tumbling them over. “Kin I help you. suh?” “1 can't find my new hat; paid ten dollars for It yesterday ” "Bless you, suh. All the new hat5 been gone over an hour or mo" County Cage Tourney To Open In Shelby At An Early Date; Lattimore, Shelby Favorites | Around 10 Basketball quints To Compote For Rotary Cup Title The annual county-wide tour nament (or the basketball championship of Cleveland county and the Rotary club cup will probably get underway next week. Casey Morris, athletic director of the Shelby high school, announces that at a meeting of school prin cipals and coaches here Saturday a schedule for the tournament will be outlined. Play Four Nights. Indications are now that the tournament will run through four nights with at least two games per night. It was at first thought that the annual tourney, an athletic highlight of the year In Cleveland, could start on a Thursday night and wind up with the champion ship game on Saturday night. But chances are that so many teams will enter that It will be necessary to have four nights’ play. The I.attlmore and Shelby quints, which for years have battled toe to-toe for the Rotary club, are ranked as favorites to meet In the title game, but there are several other fast teams hi the county which have been coming on rapid ly. To date the Shelby and Lmttt more quints are all square with each other, both having won a game. The Latttmore-Shelby rival ry is not by far the only feature of the annual tourney. There is the rivalry between the Kings Moun tain, Orover and No 9 schools, and the western and up-county rivalry of Belwood, Falls ton, Polkvtllr, Piedmont, Mooreaboro and others. Polkville Cagers On Toes For Game With Shelby Girls C»» Hardly Walt To Demonstrate Their Championship Form In Oily Saturday. (Special to The Star.y Polkville.—Monday evening on the Piedmont court the Polkville quintet defeated the cage teem from Kings Mountain by the over whelming score of 42-9. The Polk ville team Is showing unusua'ly good form, and seems to have pol ished the material into an effec tively clicking machine. Bach unif showed up with fast team wont and accurate shooting quite super ior to any previous performance this season. G. Blanton looped 6 of Polkvllle's points, E. Blanton was runner-up with 13 to his credit, Greene contributed 10, and Cov tngton, Polkvllle's shooting guard brought up the rear with 4. The re serve material showed up excep tionally well and the coach show ed his faith In them by frequent substitutions. For Kings Mountain, Hayes and Falls tied for scoring honors with 4 points each. The Kings Mountain team was fast; but it was unable to penetrate the strong Polkville defense. A double-header game had been scheduled, but the Kings Moun tain girls were unable to come. The undefeated Polkville sextet, however, has another opportunity for adding a 14th victory before they meet the Shelby cagers on Saturday, when they play the North Brook girls on Wednesday The Polkville quint will also clash with the North Brook boys. Coach Dillingham Is optimistic over the splendid form the polkville boy: are exhibiting and is looking for ward to the game with Shelby. The Polkville cage stars now boast "f a total of 487 to their opponent. 129. It is all Coach Dellinger cm do to hold the aggressive PnlkvP'. sextet in leash until their long an ticipated game with the Shelby team on Saturday, which gives them a chance to prove their claim to the county championship. Hopeful. The cousin.-; met at a party. "I'm going to be married soon," said Jane. ■> Her cousin looked surprised. "Gracious." she exclaimed in un j ladylike tones. "Ho'.v soon?" "As soon as possible," replied the j other coyly. i Killed Porker That i Weighed 961 Pounds I Mebane,—\V. H. Burgess, a suc cessful farmer south of -Mebano claims the champion hog in the county. Monday he killed 32 hop. the smallest one weighing only 98 pounds. while the largest out weighed 961 poiftris. Mr Burge,* says that when he started fatten ing the latter it gained 20 pounds la dav * Shelby Cagers Win Double Bill At Forest City The Shelby high cage team* added another double header to their list of vic tories by defeating the Forest City boys and girls teams at Forest City last night. The Shelby girls, smarting under two consecutive de feats after 11 straight wins, ran wild to win their game by the lop-sidded score of 75 to 7. It was a complete rout and Coaches Morris and Falls played their second team during the second half. In the 12 minutes of the second half the second-stringers re vealed unusual ability by cag ing 40 of the total of 75 points. In the boys game the Hu Ick-Jolley-Brown - Putnam Connor combination turned In a 20-16 victory over For est City. Spangler To Battle Kid Woods Saturday Bouts Arranged ror Army Hall Here. Woods Has Just Fought In Georgia, A boxing program Is announced tor the Army hall here Saturday night at 8 o'clock with Jerome Spangler, Shelby boy meeting Kid Woods, of Georgia. Woods has Just returned from a bout in Georgia with "Scarfacc” Ellis which Ije lost on a cloae decis ion. Spangler with weigh in at 138 ar.d Woods at 143. In another bout Jeff Woods. 175 pounds, will meet "Bar" Huffman 170. Hugh Peeler will be placed in an other match and several other gooi preliminaries are planned. No. 3 Boys, Girls Have Good Season No. 3 boys and girls have beer fairly successful in their basket ball. In the contest at Blacksbu g the No. 3 girls came home with a victory of 23-17. The No. 3 boys In a rough and tumble game lost by only one point. February 5 No. 3 teams played Hollis teams oa No. 3 Court. The No. 3 teams won easily over Hollis. The girls of No. 3 led the score all through the game. At the finish the scoring in favor of No. 3 was 27 and 4. The boys of No. 3 won over the Hollis boys by two points the score 13-11. February 8, tile teams from No 3 visited Boiling Springs Junior col lege. The girls of No. 3 playing with much teamwork won over the college girls in spite of the fact that they were college girls. When the whistle blew for the girls game to end, No. 3 girls led by nine points. The score was 20-11. The boys lost but they played well throughout the game, although the college boys led the scoring fr-m the start, the No. 3 boys did not give up. The score was 21-7 in fav or of the college boys. P' T. A. Meets At Piedmont School (Special to The Siar.* rhc P. T, A met op Wednesday |!U 7:30 at Piedmont. An original plav given by the Pth .facie was en joyed very much. A special selection was sung by' the T.ce quartet. I **"■ 1*. B. Hord was appointed to i lead the singing. Mrs C. R. Spangler resigned as vice president and Mrs C. D. For ney was elected. Ah appeal was made to the parents to send the P«p4ls fo school as the attendance situation Is very grave. (Colored Auto Tire* Coming On Market New York.--Colored automobiia tires, the latest development of technicians In the automotive in j dustry, are to be placed on the mai - : Ices immediately i Ihere will be n shades of red. Igvcer. gold and silver. The idea is | to match the colors of the automo i bile or its striping. The colors arc vulcanized into t' e rubber, 1-32 of an inch deep by a special process developed by an A’v ron. Ohio, rubber company Would Cut Salaries Of County Officers To the Editor of The Star: I have been thinking for some time of saying something through your paper about our Cleveland county officers' salaries, and while I do not wish to get Into a contro versy with you, yet as you have al ready mentioned the 'nbject In ant editorial January 29 and as our views seem to be entirely different, I wish to refer to and express my disagreement on some things you said in that editorial. But first I wish to say that you are publishing j a good, big, newsy paptr and get ting a big advertising business, and so you are perhaps not feeling the depression like some of us are. What I am going to say Is not against our present officers (all of them who know me are my friends, I hope), but opposing the present salaries. in your editorial mentioned above you said the cutting should be done at the top, speaking of the Federal government, now if the Federal gov ernment won't cut salaries, if they won't help us, I don't consider tha' a good reason that we should not try to help ourselves. That will not excuse us for not doing our duty, for not doing what Is tight. High salaries benefit only a few. We can not all hold office. It is to the In terest of the tax payers to have ex penses as low as possible. No matter how hard a farmer may try to be optimistic he Just can't himself believe that times are good. Not only are the national and state governments facing a deficit, but the farmer is facing a deficit. Some might say it looks good, it sounds big for our county te pay her officers a big salary If any of the other counties want to beat us in that expense item I feel that they should be welcome to the honor If It be one. That is partly what’s the matter with us now, especially as Individuals, trying to keep up with the times with the other fellow. We have been living beyond our means: but we are going to have a change our way of living, the times demand it. The Star recently made public the fact—actually told it on us— that of all the automobile owners In the county nearly half of us had no tags, the cars were parked That shows we are being forced back where we belong. I think cutting expenses should begin at home and that every citi *en should cut his expenses in every way he can and I also think that our county government expenses should be cut. Again referring to your editorial, I don’t think It fair to compare our county officers' sal aries with those of the Federal gov ernment but think it nearer right to compare them with the income oi loss, as the case might be of the tax payers of Cleveland county. One county office alone pays $4, 600. This amount is? perhaps about equal to what a half dozen big fanners on an average lost last year. Certainly I think salaries should be cut, not only ten per cent but several tunes 10 percent. $100 00 per month is n pretty lair salary for a very well equipped man now. $120 00 is a big pile of money these days. One thin? that bears out my claim that salaries should be cut is the fact that over 40 applied for the office of clerk of county re corder's court, and I am oi the opin ion that the one appointed is capa ble of filling one of the higher of fices, and perhaps many others who applied could handle not only the one applied for but one of the high er offices satisfactorily. And this of fice doesn't pay half as much as some of the higher officials get. I have thought It would be a good plan for the candidate# to s^y what they would take the job for. But In that case I don’t claim that the cheapest man should always be el ected. Anyway I think there should be something done about it and let the candidates know there will be a considerable cut in salaries, or make an agreement an 1 let them i know just what the office will pay. i A lot of farms and town lots were advertised for tax last year. If the county eventually takes ever all the farms for taxes maybe they can manage them better than we farm ers can and make them pay better and then maybe they can boost sal aries of the officers and employes. Perhaps they will be able to give the boys a raise Instead of cutting salar ies. But while we are still trying to pay the taxes on our property and have the privilege of voting I want to know if there can't be somethin? done to get expenses down I would like to know how every voter and tax payer in the county feels about it, except our office holders. I am not talking to them or about them but I am talking about their salaries. So we could not ex pect them to be like the young Cleveland county man who took some potatoes to a certain cotton mill village to sell and fceing asked the price of them said- ''Mammy said If I couldn't get 60 cents to take 50." This is no time to play politics. We should get down to business. Do I stand alone on this question or does some one agree with me? DOUGLAS CARPENTER. Belwood. N. C.. R-l Sell Or Not Sell 1 •{• H* H Citizens Discuss Light Plant Sale Little Man Wonders Why So Much Worry Shelby Man Would Like to Know How ( likens Of Other Town* U Like S. P. t\ To the Editor: Reports reaching Shelby, some of them first-hand, Indicate that the four mayors who wrote here and urged us to sell our light plant to the S. P. U. have citlzerc in their towns who do not feel that way about it. One Hickory man who visited here over the week end told his friend that “you'll be a fool to sell. The S. P. U. owns and operates our plant and I know what I'm talking about. The majority of the ether citizens there who have to pay the bills will tell you the same tiling even If the mayor says otherwise.’’ Write and ask some fiiend in Mt. Airy if everything is as lovely there about rates, etc., as the Ml. Airy mayor told the Shelby mayor. More people live in a town than the may or, and the others pay the bills— light bills, tax bills, major's salar ies, etc. There are a hundred or more towns in North Carolina served by the S. P. U. Did the Shelby mayor hear from only four or did he write to only four for their opinions? If he heard from the others, why was not that information pcssed along? And who picked out the particular town to write? While the mayor and aldermen i were visiting those towns, if they I say they want the people to have j the full facts before deciding, why. didn't each of the aldermen and mayor go down different streets, stop three citizens each, ask them what they thought of S. F. U, rates and then tell us what those various people, tax-payers, thought about it? Instead they rode to a few town, did we know not what, rode back to those town about it, What we need is a statement giving the other side. When they have a debate ovei at the high school the judges do not hear just one side and pa-s along what they've heard If the Shelby officials want to give us proper information for ligurlng this thing out. why not give us some views from people dissatisfied as well as satisfied? Don’t tell us ev erybody in the S. P. U. towns is satisfied. The mayors may be well pleased with S. P. U. ownership. Just taking a blind guess, perhaps our mayor would But r. mayor pays only one light and power bill each month, and there are several thou sand other payers. Interest It’s amusing to hear this tain about how they’ll help the little man by selling, If that's so, the end of time cannot be far away. No one sver saw so many people* who are not little men working to save the poor little fellows. That big-heart edness is kinder Scaring the little fellow. They can make their figures look mighty good. Duke would never have made such a fortune had he not been able to make his figures look good to the other fellow. You have a house, I walk up and offer you $1,500 and you take me without asking a little more. Ever hear of such a thing happening. Yet they want (and who is urging us on and why?) us to sell right now. quick pronto. Very few people trade that way. And lots of people are looking now beyond the ends of their noses. Tax might be pulled down a little now—I doubt it—but a few years from now up they'll go—and what In the world will we have to sell to the first bidder then? The little fellow better begin think tag'. And if he thinks, he’ll quickly realize he never heard of so many Santa Clauses running around two months after Christmas, or on Christmas, trying to cut his taxes tnd just give him something. In conclusion I have me request :o make. I am asking the Editor of :his paper to write the mayor of Salisbury, a S. P. U. owned town for bis views on the matter and that his reply be published in this paper. W. A. PENDLETON Says Power Costs Ten Per Cent More In Rutherfordton ro Whom It May Concern: This ts to certify that'my power and lights have cost me about 10 per cent more under the 8. P. U. than under the town management, I would advise any town owning their light plant to hold to same. They promised to reduce our tax rate instead they have lumped from ►165 to $210. YELTON MFG. CO. G. B. Yelton, Mgr. Feb. 8. 32 Fifteen Catawba county poultry nen have had their flocks “ blood tested for the production of accred 4 oir1 district voted on a 30c tax rate here on February the -4th and earned it by a good majority. We had regis tered 491 and of that number 306 voted for local tax. Our district is fifteen (15> miles long and we were just about all voted by 11:00 a. m. Our county superintendent a*'d board of equalization and the gov ernor have been watching us with anxious eyes for the past few weeks and our majority was a complete surprise to them. With best wishes to you and your splendid paper. Cora M. Withrow. ZION HilT? BATCH OF NEWS Large Crowd At Preaching. Per sonals Of People Visiting • About. tSpecial to The Star.) Zion, Feb. 9.—Preaching services were well attended Saturday ar i Sunday, Rev. D. Q. Washburn too’.: for his text “Watchfulness" from the 13th chapter of Mark Sunday. Messrs. J. W. Irvin, O. P. Irvin R. M. Poston and G. T. Cabanis and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lutz attend ea the Sunday school meeting at Elizabeth Sunday afternoon. Miss Ethel Armstrong teacher in the high school at Polkville, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Simmons Sun day. Mrs. A. L. Hudson visited friends i in Kings Mountain Sunday. Misses Annie Davis, Vela Car rington, Bertha Hawkins, Verna Brooks of Double Springs com - munity and Mabel Jones of Latfi more were the guests Wednesday of Miss Beatrice Cabanlss. Mr. and Mrs. Harris Bailey at a John Harris of Elberton,' Ga., Mr. A. E. Rudisill of Shelby, Mr. and Mrs. James Willard of Shelby, vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie Rudisi1! Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hensley are visiting friends and relatives in Hustein, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Will Wright visited Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ledford Sun day. Miss Madge Mauney, teacher in Piedmont high school, visited he* parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Maun ey over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hamrick ri Fallston were visitors at church Sunday. Rev. D. G. Washburn was the dinner guest Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Irvin. Mr. Lee Cabaniss went to Forest City Monday on business. . Mr. and Mrs.« Palmer Hudson of Shelby visited Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hudson, over the week-end. Miss Lyda Poston of Lattimorc visited home folks Saturday th ilii-Hii." y-jM1 Audit Circulation N. C. Newspapers Twenty-Five Weekly And SmaP Dailies To Have Circulation Audited. A Circulation Audit Bureau or crating under the North Carolina Press association has been forineu among North Carolina newspapers for the purpose of auditing the circulations of' such newspapers and proving to the advertising space buyers the amount and at tribution of such circulation This organization is similar the Audit Bureau of Circulations to which all of the large dally news papers in the United States belong It is a voluntarily organization oi 25 weekly and daily newspapers n North Carolina m a nation-wide movement to prove to the space buyers, local and national, over iht signature of a nationally known accounting firm what circulation each newspaper has and the num ber of copies sold in the variom trading areas. Advertising space is sold on a circulation basis—the larger the circulation the higher the advertising cost, so a national ly known accounting firm, Wolie and Co. with headquarters in Philadelphia and branches in the principal cities of the United States, has been engaged to do the work. The first of the 25 papers to' .lie. audited is The Cleveland Star. sir. Johnson, an expert accountant ar rived today from Philadelphia :o begin the circulation audit of The Star, Editor Lee B. Weathers ol The Star is chairman of the audit committee and one of the sponsors of the organization which has brer in process of formation since Mi. Weathers was president of the North Carolina Pics;; association Trench Foot Beware Athlete's Foot Why Buffer from the queer skin disease causing- severe Itching- of toes and feet, cracking, peeling skin, Misters, Ringworm, Trench Foot or Hand Itch, when you can avoid in fection and quickly heal your skin with Dr, Nixon’a Nlxoderm? 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