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The date on the label it the: date your paper will Expire. »*+4>+++++*++**+*+*4"i"M» VOL. 34 NO. 10. Watch label on your Paper and don’t let your subscription Expire! •♦+4'tt++t+t++++t++Mt4t-. FIVE CENTS PER COPY State And National News Condensed In Brief Form —state JNews— Raleigh, March 4.—Officiate of u« Department of Conservation and De velopment have applied for 18 state baric and forestry Civilian Conserva tion Corps camps for the period be ginning April 1, an increase of seven over the nirmber already operating R Bruce Etheridge, director, said today. I Marion, March 4.—Six prisoner!-' , broke from McDowell county jail last night after overpowering Sherifi 1 O. F, Atkins as he answered a dts (u'banco call. He was locked in a cell after being struck in the face, j The prisoners used hack saws to , cut their way into the jail corridor ’ and a rope of 14 blankets was used | to escape from a third story window Raleigh, March 4.—A. S. Brower, director of purchase and contract, said'today the state was making ev ery effort to recover as much aa pos , J Bible of the refunds of AAA process ing taxes made to processors. Cotton manufacturers, Brower said are following a liberal policy in ma king refunds on merchandise where ever they recovered from tax ac ' counts held In escrow. Meat packers i on the other hand, he said, are mak ■ ing no refunds when possible to es cape them. Brower said Tt was impossible to ! estimate the amount the state ! stands to recover. Raleigh, March 4.—A hearing will be held here April 14 on the petition of the town of Bryson City for lower electric rates from the Smoky Moun tain Power Company. Jvaleigh, March 4.—Governor Eh ringhaus ha.s before him today an ap peal from the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation that he call a ; special session of the legislature for Enactment of tobacco control legis lation. The resolutions asking the extra ordinary session were drafted vester day by the farm bureau’s executive . committee at Greenville. Raleigh, March 4.—Four of the eight teams entered in the annua! Southern Conference basketball tournament starting here tomorrow are expected to reach Raleigh to night in time for work outs at N. C. State College. FORMER KINGS MTN. RESIDENT DIES IN GASTONIA Mrs. Frank L. Carpenter, promi nent Dallas woman died at 7; 30 Tues day night at the home of her sister, Mrs. E. B. Brittain in Gastonia, fol lowing a brief illness. Mrs. Ct J pen ter taal boon ill for about three week j with bronchitis, prior to a stroke suf fered last Sunday night to which her death was attributed. She had been at the Brittain for about a week, t Funeral services were held at 10;30 Thursday morning at Holy Commun ion Lutheran church in Dallas. The pastor, Rev. J. J. Bickley, officiated, and interment was in the Lutheran cemetery in Dallas. Pearl Lewis Carpenter was bom in Dallas on July 4, 1882, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Lewis. Mrs. Carpenter had always been active in community and church af fairs. She joined Holy Communion church in early girlhood, and for many years had served the church as organist and director of the choir Surviving Mrs. Carpenter are four sons, Lewis "T>. Carpenter of Char lotte, and Ben F., J. Robert, and Frank L. Carpenter, Jr., all of Da'i las; and the following brothers apd sisters: R. S. and J. H .Lewis of ^ Dallas; Mrs. C. B. Holding and Mrs. S C Cornwell of Raleigh; and Mrs. H. B. Brittain and Mrs. A. L.-TBiH winkle of Gastonia. Mrs. Carpenter was a woman of fine Christian character and was loved and admired by hundreds of friends and acquaintances who join the dereaved family In mourning her less. I Mrs. Carpenter, with her late hus band, lived here several years ar/>. Mr. Carpenter operated a drug store while they lived here. There will he more color In men’s wear, says a London fashion expert; but what will prevent men from hid ing It as they do their loud ties and garters. Maybe we wouldn’t mind taxes so much if we could pay them through.’ those marble-game machines. Talk of the geysers in Yellowstone National Park, losing power, says the former director of that park, is jp# so much gqsh. I —National News— Washington, March 4.—President Roosevelt was told today 3,155,000 ex-soldiers had applied for the bonus Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, head of the veterans' administration made the report In a morning call at tile White House. New York, March 4.— A threat of a nation wide strike of building » . .<-e employees was added today to indications by strike leaders tuai 1 • n ».i» out o, building workers in New York might be extended to oth ci iiiUoi. London, March 4.—Tbe Reuters coiiospondent in Au.Ls Ababa report ed today that it had been learned semi-offlcially that Ktaperor Haile Selassie probably will agree to peace negotiation!! within the frame work of the League of Nations. Such an agreement would be in re ply to an invitation issued yesterday u\ tbe Committee of 13 of the Lea gue of Nation's council at Geneva. Blacksburg, S. C„ March 4.—RoJj; ert Bishop was killed1 and Leonard Smith slightly Injured early todhll when the allegedly stolen automobile they were driving loaded with what police said was $600 of stolen liquor crashed through a bridge rail near here aud dropped 60 feet to the rail road tracks. The liquor officers said, had been stolen a short while before from the liquor store of Zeu Church at Chester and the auto stolen from E B. jJoi' dan of Chester. New York, Marvh 4.—Russia und er Joseph Stalin is ready to war with Japan if necessary to preserve outer Mongolia’s independence, the Soviet dictator said in an interview given Roy W. Howard, chairman of the board of Scripps-Howard newspaper and published today under a world copyright by the New York World Telegram. Washington, March 4.—President and Mrs. Roosevelt, will be guests of the cabinet tonight at a surprise din ner to celebrate the third anniver sary of the Roosevelt administration All Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt know about the party is that they are in vited as guests of honor and tha't there will a few stunts. They have heard a rumor, hotver that Lawrence Tibbett will sing. The dinner will be held at the May flower hotel. Secretary Hull will pre side. OBSERVATONS (By Mrs. A. H. Patterson) In looking through the musty files of the Kings Mountain Herald, pub lished in the ‘ good old days" of — well we will say less than forty years ago, we were interested in an account of a wedding which took place in our town and leaving you to guess who the contracting parties were, we copy the following for the sake of ‘Auld Liang Syne:” One among the most beautiful church weddings ever witnessed in our town was solemnized on Wednes day evening of last week, when - —,a promising- man of led -, a very popular and intelli gent young lady of our town to the hymenial altar. Her pastor, Kev. — -, performed the marriage cere mony in touching and solemn lan guare. Misses -, --, -, and -, - acted as bridesmaids, while Messrs -, -, -, and -, meeting these at the ajtar through different aisles, stood as groomsmen, respectively. The bride carried a bouquet of bride's roses and ferns and was gowned in a beau toful taffeta, which was trimmed in real lace and silk braids. The brides maids wore white organdies and car ried bouquets of white carnations. Mr. - of -, an uncle of tlW groom was best man, while Miss -f —, a sister of the bride, acted moit becomingly as maid of honor. AJ1 the gentlemen were faultlessly attir ed and the entire group were as. beautlfufl as a picture. The ribbon girls were little Misses - - and these never looked' sweeter or acted nicer. , I Little -, acted as flower girl I while-had charge of the ring, at! ring boy. These two also acted theii; parts to perfection. Miss -, in her easy ana; touching tones, sang, O Perfect Lovej ■ just before the ushering of the brldJ al party. At the closing of this songj by -, the notes of the wedding inarch began to sound forth under ! the perfect touch of -, ant! ! the bridal party came in through the different aisles, meeting at the alt&‘ , where everything had been set id' (Cont'dr on Editorial page) Great Passion Play Motion Picture Coming To Kings Mountain The Life of Christ, a dramitlc pic turir.atiuu of ihe world's greatest of all Passion Plays depicting the Life Story of Jesus Christ will be shown at the High School auditorium here on Thursday, March 26th at 8 p. m. In 163:;, the v.Tlage of Oborammer gau, in Bavaria, was visited by a ter rible plague. On its cessation, the entire population made a vow to per’orm the Passion Play* of our Sa viour -very tenth year out of grati tude: a vow which has ever since been iHiilifully observed. The imper sonator of Christ considers his part in act of worship. He and all the rest who are to participate in thte enactment are selected for their holy life. It is truly Oberammergau over a gain, and almost unconsciously one is carried to the place made Sacri sanct by the piety and devotion of those who portray the characters that circumstanced the Life, Passion and Death of our Lord. If in all your life you could uee but one picture, let it be this one. William Blackwell Passes Thursday Funeral services for Mr. William Charles Blackwell, age 67, were held at St. Matthews Lutheran Church last Friday afternoon with the Rev. Boyd llamm in charge and interment made in Mountain Rest cemetery. Mr. Black-well died Thursday night' in the Lincolnton Hospital following a short illness. Mr. Blackwell was well known iu Kings Mountain where he had opera ed a grocery store for more than 15 years. Prior to that time he was en gaged, in farming in this section. He is survived by his widow and eight children: J. A. Blackwell of Lincolnton, J. B. Blackwell of Cram erton, Mrs. Hall Lucas of Rock Hill, W. E„ U. T„ and H. B. Blackwell, Mrs. Lida Treadwell and Miss Ola Blackwell, all of Kings Mountain. Two sisters, Mrs. Dock She?>perd, of Gastonia and Mrs. Henry Myers of Kings Mountain, also, survive. PHENIX BOOSTER CLUB BANQUET TOGETHER The Rooster Club from the Phenlx Mill banqueted together at the Wo man's Club Saturday evening. The following program was render ed by pupils of Lincoln Academy as sisted by the director of music, Mrs. II. M. Westerband who was piano ac companist: Selection—Love's Old Sweet Song —Octette. I Spiritual—Listen To The Lamb— Octette. Old Rlaek Joe—Foster — Octette Jethro Marvin, Soloist. Contralto solo — Llndy Lou — Strickland — Emma Twitty. Selection — Water-boy — Rober son, Octette, James Bynum—Soloist Bass solo — O'er the Billowy Sea —-Smith, Gilbert Broome. Selection — Wanderer' Night Song —Rubenstein—Octette. Spiritual — Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray—Octette. , Selection—Auld Lang Syne. By special request the program was concluded with “Swing 1-iow, Sweet Chariot.” Mr. C. G. White, presided, and call ed upon Messrs Ladd Hamrick, .1. M. James and others for impromptu speeches. The banquet was served by group one, of the Woman's Club Local (Teachers Have Meeting Tuesday afternoon,* March 3, the ' white teachers of the Kings i I on tain Public Schools held a meeting at Central Building. Promotions from grades one, two and three, being the topic for discussion. All teachers of the first three grades took part on the program with Miss Bessie Si monton, Miss Carlyle Ware and Mrs Hugh Onmand leading the discus sions. Great emphasis was placed on the teaching of reading both oral and silent, in the primary grades. 1 Other points of emphasis were the teaching of proper attitudes and i proper care of books. Definite stan dards and requirements for promo tion from the primary grades wert? discussed. The meeting was attended by all teachers and the general feel ing was that the meeting was very beneficial to the entire school sys tem. The following delegates to the State Teachers Meeting were appolh ted. Miss Hazel Settlemyre, Miss Ozelle Kiser, Mrs. B. N. Barnes and Mr. F. M. Riggers taff. Light Rate Mountair j. kTdavis named" LIBRARIAN REPRE SENTATIVE OF MEN’S CLUB J. H. Davis, local attorney, was named as the Men’s Club represen tative to muet with a group interest ed in securing a Public Library for Kings Mountain, at their regular sup per last Thursday evening. Rev. W. M Boyce, made the motion for the appointment of the represen tative. The finance drive for the Boy Scouts was also announced by School Superintendent B. N, Barnes. Committees were announced for this drive by Mr. B. S. Neill. Eagle Chain Of Stores Are Sold Announcement has been made of the sale of the Eagle Chain Stores, of which Mrs. Hush Stroup of Shelby was principal owner. The chain of stores had their be ginning with a store in Kings Moun tain, which was started by the late Itush Stroup, who was at one time a resident of Kings Mountain. Stores are now operated at Kings Mountain, Morganton, Lincolnton, Belmont, Newton, Sylva, Canton, Waynesville, Forest City and Shelby. The buyers were formerly connect ed with the McClellan Company and are experienced in business of this kind. No changes are anticipated in the Kings Mountain store and the new firm will be under the name, Eagle Five, Ten and Twenty-five Cent Stores, Inc. ATTEND FUNERAL IN ASHEBORO Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Ilord and Miss Ledford of Shelby left Wednesday af ternoon for Asheboro where they will attend the funeral service | (,f Mr. Ralph Marsh who died of pneu monia in the Asheboro Hospital Tues day afternoon. Miss Nell Ilord who has been in Asheboro since Monday will return home with her parents. TAX COLLECTOR SAYS PAY YOUR TAXES Mr. E. L. Campbell, in an adver tisem-ent in this issue of the Hohaid appeals to all who have not paici tl elr taxes to please do so, as It will be impossible to operate the High School the full term if this money is not collected. Mr, Campbell says that it will be necessary to garnishee the wages of those who do not pay. LOCAL GIRL IN STATE CONTEST Miss Juanita Putnam, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Putnam of Kings Mountain has been selected as a member of the debating team to rep resent State Appalachian Teachers College at Boone in the State eont test, which will be held at Winthrop College next week. Miss Putnam is the only freshman to have this honor as all uhers are members of the senior class. Miss Putnam graduated from Kings Mountain High School last year. (Opinions Expressed in This Column Are Not Necessarily the Views of This Newspaper.) Washington.— (IPS) — Another secret is out—the real reason be hind Congressional delay , on the tax bill is a bitter inner circle fight. The i course sought is how to levy ta: 1 c in an election year withput hurting anyone who votes. On one side are Congressmen who vehemently oppose the idea of levy ing any taxes in an election year; on the other, Insiders say, are some treasury officials who insist, because of the record federal debt they must finance and re-finance, that any tax bill should at least make a gesture at raising substantial revenue and there by give artificial support to the bond market. u The backstage work Is still going | on. Administration chiefs are trying | to get the pathway smoothed Hot I smooth passage of whatever bill it, nally is decided upon. Tbeir objeo (Coat'd on back page) In Kings i Very High According to a report from the Fed eral Power Conn nission the Light rate in Kings Mountain is much high er than other towns in North Caroli na of the same size. The rate in Kings Mountain has been reduced since the survey of the Commission was made but the rates in other towns have also been reduc ed and it is though that about t ius same difference would prevail in rates. When the survey was made the following rates were in effect: for towns in North Carolina between 5, 00U and 10,000 population: For 25 kilowatt hours: Greenville was the lowest with a charge of $1.63. Kings Mountain was next to the highest with a charge of $2.35. T < boro was th" highest with a charge of $2.50. Figuring this in percentage, Kings Mountain would be about 50 percent higher than the lowest town. For 100 kilowatt-hours: Burlington was the lowest with a charge of $4.20. Kings .Mountain was the highest with a charge of $7.95 or a difference of 89.3 percent higher than the lowest town. For 250 kilowatt-hours: Asheboro was the lowest with a charge of $7.25 ami Kings Mountain was the highest with a charge of $13.20, or a difference of 82.1 .'per cent higher than the lowest town. There are twenty towns in No j h Carolina having a population be tween 5,000 and 10,000. The Duke JJower Co. furnishes the power to Kings Mountain wholesale, and the town retails it. The mills of Kings Mountain buy their power di tect from the Duke Power Co. The Duke Power Co recently re duced their rate to towns and con k’ munities that they serve direct, but they did not reduce th« rate to the wholesale buyers like the Town of Kings Mountain. Tile newspapers in towns serv'd by the Duke Power Co. like ,’Ciings Mountain have had several editorials on rates and the power situation. Kings Mountain is in the same pos1 tion as the other towns so the Hiet aid is reprinting some ■>’ ' * ir efltu torials. DIFFERENCE IN RATES (Gastonia Gazette) Begins to look as if those cities and towns which own their own' light and power plants are about to come out at the little i nd of the horn. _\s a result of the TV A decis ion by the Supreme Conn, the Duke Power Company has announced a cut in yts rates which nutans quite a bit for their customers. It is going to mean that .•esidents cf suburban Gastonia, for instance, next door neighbors in man\ istanc es, of city residents, are going to get their lights and power at a much lower rate than their city neighbors, because they live in Gastonia and are not affected by tip- lower rates of the Duke Power Company. Towns served bv the Duke Power Company in this section, like Bel mont, Clover and York, are going to nrofit considerably from the cut in rates by the power company, while we in Gastonia are paying n higher rate to help maintain the cost of op erating our own distributing plant. EXTENDING ELECTRICITY’S USE The announcement of another cut inelectric power rate by the Duke Power Co., is good news to some 1,400 customers in Cleveland, tn county which boasts of having raon rural home.*, served by electricil\ thou any other county in North Car olina. This further reduction will encour age a wider and more general use <u current. The "white servant" will be put to work through electrical ap piiances desiged to lighten the bur den of domestic work and make liv ing in the country more comfortable and attractive. The recent rate cut does not ap ply tq wholesale users such as cities which own their own distributing systems and to industrial plants which buy direct. Shelby put on a light rate reduction to its patrons last year, passing on to its customers a part of three wholesale rate reduc tions made within the last two years. Our municipal plant Is profitable and the profits are used to operate the city, thereby enabling us to re toin a lower tax rate than we would have otherwise. One of the main objections to mu nicipal ownership is that cities as such, are poor merchants. They do not know the art of selling their wares. If Shelby would work out a combination rate for those who use lights, heat and appliances and work for new customers and Increased con sumption, we would step into a low er price bracket than the 1.06 cents per KWH we are now paying. The old Idea of the city furnishing a separate meter for each type of cur Regular Monthly Meeting Held Of American Legion The regular monthly meeting for March of the Otis 1). Green Post No. 155, American Legion was held last Tuesday night at the Woman's club. The business session brought out valuable information as to proced ure with hospitllazatlon of sick vC j erans, allowances for veterans de pendents, bonue matters. Legion baseball was further discussed, ax,*I plans are materializing for another "jam up” good team this year. After the business session, the pro gram and entertainment committee presened Mr. Jack Iiartigan, disabl ed veteran of Shelby Post. Mr. Hart fgan presented us with a delightfur program of entertainers from Shelby Miss Francis Graham, teacher of Mu sic at Igittimore sang, Sylvia, and Bells of St. Mary, and received hearty applause from her delighted' audience. She was accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Jack Iiartigan, teacher of piano at Lattimorc. Miss es Anne Jones and Margaret Lutz, dressed as cowboys, gave a hill billy sketch, taking of Fred Kirby and oth ers of radio broadcast tame. Named W. W. Souther and Bill Rhodes att "satisfied users.' They sang, She’il' becoming round the mountain, and their act was enjoyed by all. Messrs Hoke Hanna, I), it. Carpen ter, L. D. Abbott and It. B. 0 ‘.gg were welcome visitors from the Gas ton Post No. 23 of Gastonia. A short social period was enjoyed by all present around the festive ta ble, The program committee < j n sisting of W. F. Rhoodes, chairman, Hayne Blackmer, Boyd Harrelson, 1 and others, are to bo congratulated on their fine program. Forty two were counted present. ATTENDS OFFICERS’ TRAINING CLASS Rev. K. W. Fox, Mesdames Pi CJ) Elam, li. M Ormand, W C Putnam, O O Jackson and Troy Carpenter at tended a meeting of the Officer Train ing class for the Womens' Mi6B i~,u-: ary Societies of Gastonia District, which was held in Shelby last Satur day. The meeting was presided ovet* bv Mrs. Wilbur Baber, of Slvelby, newly elected leader wtuo succeeds Mrs. J. E. Garvin, of this place. MINAIMUIAL. SIAItKItNI PUBLISHED The annual statement of Receipts and Disbursements for the Town of Kings fountain is published in this issue of the Herald on the back page This report shows where all the money of Kings Mountain comes from an-d w er; all the money goes. rent used by a customer represents an unnecessary investment.—Cleve land Star. REDUCED POWER RATES Say* The Monroe Enquirer, speak ing of the recent reduction to retail ers of rates by the Duke Power Co.: "Marshville, Wingate, Waxhaw and farmers throughout Union coun ty who use electricity are profiting by the recent reduction in price of juice' made by the Duke Power Co. “Not so Monroe, or not so you can notice it. Monroe buys its electric sower directly from the Duke people and when a little better terms are made, there is little chance for tho i consumer to secure a lower rate for his home. “Several years ago Monroo had op lortunity to sell its electric lighting system to the Duke Power Company that company proposing to assume the city's bonded indebtedness in exchange. It is quite probable no such generous offer will ever again be made.” 1 The matter of electric power and the rates for it have been discussed much in recent days. Many think that we ought to be getting cheaper power in cities which buy from the Duke Power Company; some have suggested that we buy from the TVA instead of the Duke Power Company. In connection with the mention by the Monroe paper of the offer of the Duke Power Company some years ago to buy the Monroe system, it might be said that there was talk' of that here, too, but no direct offer was ever made so far as we have been able to find out. The general I talk here was that the offer might be i such as to wipe out the city's bonded j debt at that time, and thus reduce | the tax rate by a considerable sum ■ in the matter of the rate for debt. ■ service.—Gastonia Gazette. ( A Texas legislator wants to have the letter “H'< tatooed on the hand of every habitual drunkard. Would it stand for "Horrible Example" ot* Have One on Me?