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Weather North Carolina: Generally lair Wednesday and Thursday, ex rent scattered afternoon thun dershowers in west portion. ~~t W WW 10 PAGES TODAY VOL. XLI, No. 88 SHELBY, N. a WEDNESDT, JULY 24,1985 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoon*. ay Mill, par iwt, <m Mmw Canter, par yaw. (u> tdrutu) $350,000 CITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT CONSIDERED Seven Applications For Chief Of Police; Board Noncommittal Board Remains Silent On Rumored Plan To Replace Wilkins, Who Marks His 64th Birthday Today Seven formal applications have been made for the post of Chief of Police of Shelby, it was revealed at City Hall to day. but not a hint was dropped as to whether the board of aldermen intends to retain Chief Delbert D. Wilkins on the force or to name a new man. Besides the seven who have filed, street comer talk names at least another half dozen for the Job, some of wham, it has been learned, were mildly astonished to be even con sidered. V Would-Be Chief* The seven whose names havo been advanced for the post are Rush Thompson, auto dealer, D. L. Willis, restaurant proprietor; Mack Poston, deputy United States mar shal and former member of the po lice force here; H. C. Long, county game warden; Ed Hamrick, insur I anc* man; Lorin Hoyle, formerly ehief of police at Cherryville, and 3. R. (Lefty) Robinson, formerly chief of the fire department and now a resident of Gaffney. One who was surprised to see his name brought forth was Harry Hudson, oil and gas man. He hac not applied for the job, but several influential friends have pushed his name forward, hoping that if the Ipost were offered he would take it. Wilkin* M Today Retention of Chief Wilkins, who today eelehrates hi* «4th birthday, i* a point of contention among members of ihe board. WOl Harris, J only member re-elected from the old board, is known to favor Mr. Wilkins, while other members have not expressed any public opinion. The matter of a new chief of police has never come to a vote in 1 board meeting, although it has b*eB discussed every time. Today, the matter hangs fire and any bets ® ,rfl0'1! wear the chiefs shield in Shelby would be placed on guess - work. Lacfies Ask Farmers For Fresh Vegetables Cadies who have membership in th* Hospital Auxiliary ask farmers a surplus of vegetables to give ®*® *° the Shelby Public Hospital. The institution has a use for all kinds of fruits and vegetables to -«d the many patients and would appreciate contributions of this kind. Carpenter Killed In 15-Foot Fall At Lumber Plant back broken in a tt-foot fall f0* «■ scaffold at the Cleveland dumber Plant, (formerly known as th* Arrowood plant), 3. C. Coat, 50 ^v-old carpenter of Chesnee, S. c *ed in the hospital at 6:30 Wed ““day afternoon. Mr- Cox came to Shelby just a *eek ago and was employed as a “rpcnter, helping to shingle the Bew building for the company's ®eam plant. He was working slone on the scaffold, which stood out a few feet from the building, *hen he fell. Claude Lancaster, ?round. head down, but the reason his fall could not be explain - The accident occured at 3:30. Be '’3 4 broken back, Mr. Cox suf red 4 broken left arm. He never consclousness, and was un *o.e to speak to his wife, who ar here shortly before he died. ■ e body was taken to Ohesnee yes “rday for burial. ®»Ployees at the Cleveland Lum ' p_aat this morning that a '*** pursuing them. Garfield *** <**»» to the hospital -.CLtty after 9:30 suffering with a result Jr^ °° *** rlght hftnd M * _s-ut of an accident with a planing torem*' Surgeons compelled emove three fingers. who has been em monthi^tthe plant for Past two 5, an !Xpert machlnist- and "Parw mnnlng Planers for many .... .. A V Senators O. K. AAA Measure, Crop Control Both Notth Carolina senators voted in favor of the AAA amend ments, passed yesterday after a month and a half of argument in the upper chamber. As a last minute gesture, the senate accepted a sweeping amendment requiring senate approval of highery salaried employees "un der this or any other act of con gress.” The bill has two main purposes —to arm the Secretary of Agri culture with weapons to push farm prices up to a party with prices of other commodities, eith er by the processing tax method, or through marketing and crop control agreements: and second ly, to prepare for the time when the Supreme Court will pass on the validity of the AAA program. Boiling Springs To Open Sept. 3; Hopes Are Bright Pre-registrations Already Above 100; Add New Course; Announce ' Faculty A C. Lovelace, newly elected pres ident of Boiling Springs Junior col lege has Just completed a three weeks tour of Rutherford county and the Sandy Run association and said today that with more than 100 pre-registrations for attendance al ready in. prospects are unusually bright for the college. Announcement was made that September 3 Is the date set for open ing the 7th year of the institu tion as a Junior' college, after near ly 35 years as an academy and high school. Finances Better Outlook for financing the college this year were given by Mr. Love lace as much better than last spring, A. special committee Is still working >n a plan to relieve the debt situa tion and arrange a steady income, it least adequate for expenses. “One of the main things.” said Mr. Lovelace, “Is for eveiy church In the Kings Mountain and Sandy Ftun associations to place the school n their church budget.” Expect Day Students More day students will be one >f the alms of the college this year| md the president is expecting many1 from nearby towns to drive in each j (Continued on page ten) Cleveland Farmers To Get Advice On! Soil Erosion Work State Leaders To Be On Program Motorcade To Attend Charlotte Meeting To Get Instructions For 13 Counties Instructions to farmers, county agents, and soil erosion administra tors from 13 counties will be given Saturday at Charlotte in a meeting called by the state Soil Eroeion Service with headquarters at Ra leigh and High Point. Cleveland county is expected to be represented by the county agent John S. Wilkins and representatives from each township. A motorcade will leave the office of the county agent at 8:30 Saturday morning. Head Men Present at the meeting will be re presentatives from the Raleigh of fice, according to Dean I. O. Schaub, of State college, and from the High Point office which supervises work of the CCC camps. Counties to be represented at the meeting will be Cleveland, Ruther ford, Polk, Gaston, Catawba. Ire dell, Davidson, Rowan, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union, Anson, and Richmond. Most~of the above counties have CCC camps and Cleveland is slated to have the work begun here soon. Mr. Wilkins said this morning that the fact that farmers from this county are being asked to the meet ing to get instructions is a good in dication for immediate action. Just when a contingent of CCC boys will arrive or when actual soil erosion work will begin is not known. LOUIS KING VERT ILL AT SHELBY HOSPITAL . v ■ i Louis King becaaie gravely m; yesterday and was taken to thej Shelby hospital for treatment. He j had been Suffering for a short time with sore throat, but his physician! this morning did not reveal a diag nosis. He was reported at noon today by hospital attaches to still be In a serious condition, but somewhat im proved over yesterday. MRS. J. T. BEVERLY DIES ! AT WADESBORO HOME Funera] services will be held this afternoon at Salem church in An- ; son county for Mrs. J. T. Beverly of Wadesboro, who died at her home 1 Tuesday after a lingering illness. Two daughters, Misses Charlotte and Sadie Beverly are nurses and live in Shelby. They are in Wades boro attending the funeral. Morning Cotton LETTER I •_i NEW YORK. July 24.—Most ofj the buying p>ower was centered in the distants, including pools and Foreign purchases. Growing con-, ditlon continue in the main satis-1 Factory. Some improvement in gray I pood m Worth street was reported.! roday’s weather is expected to be j - mostly favorable. The action of the] market late yesterday indicated i that some further setback may take place THE MARKETS Cotton, spot . _ 11% to 1214c;! Cotton Seed, wagon, ton _• 32.00{j Cotton Sed. ton, car lot_ 35.00 ( f Map Is Posted For New Road j; Between Shelby And Grover\ __ i . i. The road map has neen postea m j the court house as required by law, | indicating the route surveyed for j the new Shelby-Patterson Springs-' Grover road and if no objection to the route is made within thirty days, the project will be out on contract. Shelby and Cleveland county people are pleased that this long promised road is moving near a reality after being promised five rears ago. The route surveyed follows the present road practically all the way, except that sharp curves are eli minated, especially on both sides of Buffalo Creek between Patterson Springs and Grover. The next step after thr map has been posted for thirty days will be lo acrveruse lor Dios ior me -;nia- . i ing and top-soiling * It was stated by Chairman Capus * Waynick tn his office some c months ago that when a road is s put under grading contract, funds 1 must be allocated for the harfi-'i surfacing which must be done wiefc- I in a reasonable length of time The estimated cost of this road s between $85,000 and $90,000, in cluding bridges, etc. 1 Earl citizens, disappointed that 1 the spur road through that town < lias not been included in the Sliel- 1 ay-Grover road as a joint project, < liave written letters urging that ;his be done in accordance with a < motion made by District Engineer ] Ross Sigmon when this road was t xtt on the preferred list i Press Government’s Oil Case John W. Preston (right), associate justice of California Supreme Coart and special appointee of Preeident Roosevelt, confers with H. S. At torney Pierson M. Hall at Los Angeles where they will file suit te recovery of naval oil lands from Standard Oil Co., of California, al legedly misappropriated. Report Second Polio Case; Thompson Issues Warning With the second case of infan tile paralysis reported here this morning. Dr. H. C. Thompson, coun ty physician and health officer. Is sued an emphatic warning to par ents against risking exposure of their children in any homes where Illness of any kind exists. The second ease ls that of ftve yearrQld Bobby Dover, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Dover, of Cfurtis town, south DeKalb street exten sion. The child Is the youngest of five and is the patient of Dr. D. F. Moore, formerly eounty health of ficer. Investigation doee not re veal that the patient was ever in contact with Dorothy Ann Hamrick four-year-old first victim of the malady in Shelby. Dr. Thompson said he had obs erved extreme 'carelessness in many instances of par ends wbo took their there were siek children. Infantile paralysis, Wee many (Continued on page ten) Public Hearing Thursday On $150,000 School Plan The Cleveland Board of Educa tion. through lta secretary, Super intendent of Schools J. H. Grigg this morning posted notice of a 3ubllc hearing on the question of 'resting special school bond tax ng districts for the $150,000 pro gram of school building and repairs or county schools. The county commissioners will neet with the board of education it 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon, at •he court house. Plans Now Ready Architects were at the office of he board this morning with blue irints and specifications, which are irtually ready for submission to the ’ubllc Works Administration. Pos slbly, some of the smaller projects will be submitted to Works Pro gress, which employs relief Instead of contract labor. The proposed new high school for Shelby is included in the projects up for discussion tomorrow. This would affect the tax rate In Shel by City Administrative unit, district No. 33. School Districts Improvements and new buildings in Belwood, Fallston, including Hayes and Beams Mill, No 1, Beth ware, Piedmont (Including Lawn dale). Waco, Sharon, Shanghai, Beaver Dam, Mtooresboro, Trinity and Mount Pleasant are Included in the proposed projects, for which special tax would have to be Issued. City Cuts Off 700 Patrons Who Won’t Pay Light Bills Ungrateful Cows Eat Doc’s Shirt MOORESBORO, July 24. — At east one man of this community, i. W. Bailey, a veterinarian, has ome to the conclusion that cows lon’t have any sympathy. Anyway, he local cow doctor had to bor ow a shirt to wear home the other lay. While he was tribting the ail ig cow, her daughter and one of her lieces ate the doctor’s shirt, every 'Utton and stitch of it. Dr. Bailey was treating the all ng animal, having first hung his hirt on a post. When he went to et it, the niece and the daughter f the sick animal had filled their tom aches with it. He had to bor ow a shirt to wear home. belief Work Here Temporarily Halts All PERA work in Cleveland has leer, temporarily halted because of ack of funds. Projects this month ixceecfed the budget, but work will •e resumed when the next month’s heck arrives from Raleigh. Approximately 200 men are given . few days work each week on TSRA projects. There are more han 400 families now on the relief oils. The city began turning off the lights and cutting off the water of approximately 700 customers this morning. All employees of the light de partment were put on the "cutting” job. It is learned at the city hall that 350 patrons failed to pay last month’s service bill and about the same number failed to pay five per cent or more on previous past due service bills. Cutting service to non-paying | customers was scheduled to start Monday, but was delayed in order j to give time to check records and determine who had paid and who had not paid. For the past two weeks there was a rush at the city haM by patrons who made settle ment The new city administration, finding over $30,000 unpaid water and light bilk for last year, order ed that current hills must be paid in full by the 15th of the month and not less than five per cent of unpaid balance, or service would be discontinued. In two days after this order, over $9,000 was collected. After service is discontinued this week to non-paying customers, a re-conneeting fee will be charged. The city has about 2,200 water and light customers. Foust Convicted, Implicates Two In Depot Theft 124 Indictment* Made By Grand Jury Two Shelby Men Arrested On In stanter By Judge Hi Cigar ette Robbery. Two more arrests In the Southern railway robbery of Sept. M, H)S4. were dramatically made yesterday morning by Officer* Knox Hardin and Paul Stamey on an Instar.ter process issued In the court room by Judge Hoyle Sink, when Harold Lee Foust, already found guilty, de cided to talk. He Implicated Jesse Lefler and Graham Padgett, Shelby young men. who will face an indictment by the grand Jury. Foust Convicted Foust himself was found guilty and sentenced to serve from 15 months to seven years In state pri son. This was on the breaking and entering charge. On the larceny charge he gras given from five to seven years, to go Into effect, on motion by the solicitor. Arrest of the two suspects and sentence of Foust partly solve* a robbery on which police have work ed for more than a year. Seven cases of cigarettes were stolen from the freight office of the jdepot. George Foust, brother of Harold, was arrested here, but escaped tn a JaH break last year. True Bills. Twenty-one true bills were re turned by the grand Jury as the com* went Into its third day thla morning. They included a bill colored, i «f Beatrice Johnson, also colored, »*d a MU against Arthur Graham, Bon Stevenson, Odell Huitt and A. E. Ashe, charged with conspiracy to assault with a deadly weapon, on complaints growing out of strike trouble at the Eton mill last spring. Among sentences passed are those of O. D. Stockton, two years for assault, and George Morrison, three years In the Cleveland Jail on con viction of breaking and entering Charles Rinehart’s store. Everett Cline charged with breaking and en tering and larceny, was dismissed for lack of evidence. The true bill includes; Haywood Barrett, larceny; ,Carl Bridges, larceny; Lowell Devinney, breaking and entering; Odus Tow ery, breaking and entering; Worth Towery, b. and e. and larceny; Harry Allman, b. and e. and lar ceny; Beach Grayson, false pre tense; Geneva Wray, disorderly con duct; Charles Freeman, b. and e ; Everett Cline b. and e. and larceny; James Hall, b andie.; Alfonsl Hos kins, b. and e. and larceny; James Sisk b. and e. and larceny and W. C. Douth. larceny. Law Summary For Cleveland In This Issue In this issue of The Star appears the Institute of Government’s sum mary of laws passed by the 1935 General Assembly affecting Cleve land County, and various towns and districts within its borders. This summary, compiled by Henry Brandis, Jr., Dillard S. Gardner and T. N. Grice, appears on an in side page of this issue. Cleveland Ought To Raise Fish, Judge Sink Tells The Lions Club Judge Hoyle Sink, who's traveled more than 700,000 miles in the past 23 years, offers Cleveland an idea In thrift eulled from the Japanese Judge Sink, who is presiding over the term of superior court now In session here, told the Lions club last night how he got his dinner one day when he ordered fish in a Japanese restaurant. The waitress took him out to a small pond, and he picked out his own fish. All through Japan, he said, he noted the thousands of little fish ponds, and no chicken yards. The Japs raise their own fish, for The Piedmont part ol North Car olina oouid profit by that idea, he said, with the numerous smal streams and opportunities for fl&l ponds afforded here. The Amerl cans, he said, annually wash enough food to feed the entire Jap anese nation, which supports 63, 000,000 persons in an area the sla of California Now living in Greensboro. th< judge cited his own county. Gull ford, which probably has mor< lakes and pools than any othei county now, offering both sport anc fresh food. No need to send to the coast foi i fresh fish, he said, "if wc in thii cction would take advantage of ou; opportunities,” Board Acts On Plan To Submit Proposal ForGrants From PWA Board Passe* On 30-Mile Paring Pfan, Maw Sawart And Watar Msim, Wantt, Parle, Playground A $*50,000 cJfcy improvement program, tfftJMdinff play grounds, a swimming poo], a new fire department, remodSqng City Hall, 30 miles of paved streets aA<J $76,000 ta new sewer and water mains was discussed aijd tentattwpr gp. proved by the board of aldermen in a oaMed meeting Monday New Speed Cop Goes By Plane For Motorcydle One hundred and flftgr miles and hour through the cloud*, or ninety per down the highway. It’s all the same to Ray Ervin. Shelby’s new speed and traffic cop Mr. Ervin, who was employed by the board of aldermen to en force traffic regulations in the city, will ride a motorcycle. He was scheduled to leave by plane for Raleigh this morning to get the motorcycle. He and D. L. Willis, Jr . who owns the only airplane In town, will make the trip, and Mr. Ervin will ride the cycle back.'to Shelby It Is being purchased from the state highway department) City Raises Tai Ratel5cTo$1.2( At Special Meetinf To Get More Funds With Which T Meet Federal Aid For Public Improvements. Shelby will have a tax rate o $1.20 on the $100 property value tion this year or 15c above pas year. It. was decided this mornlni at a special meeting of the cit: council. For the past several meetings thi j council has given consideration t< I this matter, finally deciding h I raise the tax in order to avail Itjel j of Federal grants under the WPJ | and other government, agencies By the increase in the city tai j rate, the city hopes to avail itsel I of over three hundred thousam dollars Federal funds In a publi improvement program which wll include new paved streets. wate: and sewer extension, new sidewalk; and a new water tank of not lesi than a half million gallon capacity Aldermen Harris. Doggett ant Riviere were present at the ca!le< meeting this morning and voted foi the Increase which was favored hi the mayor. Alderman Coble wai out of the city, but had exptasser himself favorable to the rate in crease It Is hoped by reducing the clty’i debt service charges and reftnanc ing methods, the rate can be re duced to $1.05 within three years. Masonic Meeting. Regular meeting of Clevelant Lodge No. 202, A. F. and A. M Frt I day night. E'l. ■ W’0®’"* "*** Wl-a >0h fwa and xgfM ***•, «h » NMetD'Ont 0% tag gate , and through l+npgfep of l#-year would be about •T WU elected Ob a pMJbau ot advancement.’* «atri Naybr Haro? «. Woodson, "Tha people put a* to of• ttce became they pant feme things, and * oomider «t nothing but the moat obvious tronoagr to take advantage <k thaw twelve and fifty-five cant doHaes Ihrfiegh Fed eral grants.” While the piajor part of the pro gram hea not been definitely de cided upon, the board has voted approval pt thy water main, sewer and paving project, wHMh w«l be submitted to the WPA* Coal ft,000 Trie WPA-Works Progress Ad rrUnlstratton—allows a grant of JO •per c#At of the total cogt of A proj •at for materials, provided this *”* ftet a»ee«d 80 per cent of th* 1U1 ■wr y,)., c C1v ipproxnnttfly would oeetjllri _ _ •0.000^ Mayor Woodson’•aid. Ttie street-paving prepoMl em braces all thoroughfares within the city limits, approximately 30 miles. To finance this project, tt la pro pos’d to ask an assessment of M per 100 feet from property owners benefiting, the eity to pay M. Consider n-yd iseM "I’m sure that money for these r projects can be borrowed at not .1 more than three and a half per . 'cent,” said the mayor, "and with ' the tax rate raised 18 cents, this ! would take eare of paying Interest ’ and principal, about, gg.000 a year Within two years it would he poc , slble to reduoe the tor rate to $1.05. the present rate.” ’ Refunding and refinancing of pn ’ sent bonded obligations would, help make this reduction possible, tit. Woodson said. City Engineer Dan Frasier la this ; week speeding props rations of street and sewer plans for subrals 1 • slon to the W-. P.’ A. Another prqjpet, pasted on by 1 the board Is to eliminate the traff fContinued on Page M) i Open City School On September 16; 4 Resignations At a meeting Monday afternoon the board of trustees of Shelby public schools set the official open ing date for the high school and elementary units os September lfl. Nearly 4,000 children will resume 1 their studies at that time which is less than two months away. Resignations Resignations were accepted at the same meeting from Miss Octavia Jeter, history; Mrs. Cecil Ollllatt, French; Miss Kfcte Wilson, science teachers in the high school and from Miss Louise GUI, principal of the Graham street school. Miss Maggie Murray McGowan, 1 of this place and honor student at 1 Greensboro college was elected to ' fill the history vacancy. Miss Mc ! Go wan made a. brilliant record in both high school and college. Action on the other vacancies was deferred by the board until a later meeting. Miss Wilson will continue her work in social research in which she has been since early summer in mountain counties of the state. Mrs. Gilli&tt will devote her time to the floral business with her bus jband. and Miss Gill has accepted work in her home town of Laurtn bur«. Miss Jeter's plans were not I learned.
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