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VOL. 35 NO. 9
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. THURSDAY, MAR. 4, 1937
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American Legion
Holds Meeting
"There is no group of citizens in
.America toiia, who are more whole
heartedly in favor of peace than the
members of the American Region"
-said Wiley Pickens, State Legion
Commander, at a banquet held Fri
day night by the local Legion Post,
iit the Woman s Club building.
. Commander Pickens stated that
oniy those v-ho had been through if
could realize the horrors of war, and
explained the Legion’s fight for rea
■sonable national preparedness and
the adoption of the universal service
act as the surest means of assuring
peace for America in the future.
A large number of local Legion
naires and Auxiliary members were
present to welcome the Commander
an'J State Adjutant Jim 'Caldwell,
and enjoy the addresses delivered by
both. Groups of Legion men and Aux
iiinry members attended from Grover
ilheiby and Cherryville.
Entertainment features consisted
©t musical novelties by Master Ray
and Miss Kay Canipe, piano selec
tions by young Miss Gladden and
.song3 with guitar accompanyment
bp young'Master Hope. A delicious
dinner was served by the Woman’s
Club.
Twins Give Performance
In Charlotte
The Mauney twins, Milos and Er
nest presented a program of piano
-selections at the family party of the
Charlotte Woman’s Club last Friday
evening and from all reports were
given a wonderful ovation. The Sat
urday Charlotte Observer gave a
glowing account of how the twins
captpred the hearts of tihe audience
and the following appeared in the
Sunday Observer along with a splen
did picture of the twins:
“Unheralded. Miles and Ernest
-Mauney, 12 year old twins, sons of
Mr. and Mrs. W. K Mauney of Kings
Mountain, presented a program of
piano selections at the Charlotte Wo
man’s club as entertainment for the
club's family party Friday evening.
They immediately became a hit of
tl>e party. Their playing was unlike
anything ever heard in the city.
With the confidence of veteran mu
• sicians, they played a program of
difficult music. Their performance
came more or less as a surprise, but
-a pleasant surprise, according to
those fortunate enough to be pres
ent. Miss Katherine Goggans of this
city, a graduate of the School of
Music at Limestone college,, a form
er student of the Paris Conservatory
of Music, and for several years a
councillor of Junior Music clubs in
the State, heard the performance of
the twins. She said: ‘In all of my ex
perience I bave never seen their
equal. Both show the earmarks of
a genius. They have a fortune in
their fingers—a gift of God1.’ The
twins’ program included: Duets—Sec
on Hungarian Rhapsody, by Lizst;
-Qui Vive, by Ganz; Nola, by Felix
Arndt, and, Norwegian Dance, by
<Jreig; solos by Ernest, Minute Waltz
Ly Chopin; Juda Dance, by Dett,
and, Columbine; solos by Miles: A
la Bien Aimee, by Schutt, and
Waltz, by Manr.a-Zucca.
ADVISORY BOARD
TO MEET
A meeting of the members of the
Advisory Board of Adult Education
In Cleveland County will be held in
ie office of Supt. B. N. Barnes at
Central school Saturday afternoon a‘.
o’clock. I i
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Will Rogers*
Humorous Story
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By will Rogers
'■HERE’S still lots of windmills
out in the plains country, where
the breeze is generally good enough
to pump the water that’s needed.
Some farmers have put in gas en
gines to pump their water, but oth
ers figure out that they ain’t going
to be in any hurry trading their
free wind power away before con
gress gets around to farm relief.
There was a New York college girl
visiting out in Nebraska lately, and
when she went back home she told
tier friends the farmers out in Ne
braska were the kindest to their
animals of any people she ever
seen.
"Why," she says, “you just
wouldn’t hardly believe it, but
farmers, lots of ’em, haa put up
big rotary fans out in the pastures
to keep the cattle cooled off in the
hot weather."
(Amuicsa Newi Ftsturm, las.}
Home Making Club
House To Be Opened In
Shelby
The Home-Making classes of She!
by, will open their club house next
Saturday afternoon.
Tea will be served and visitors
are invited to call and inspect the
rooms and furnishings from twc
to four o’clock.
The furniture, for the most part,
has been made by various members
of the classes under the supervision
of their instructors. The handwork
of class members will be also dis
played in the furnishing ond uphols
tering.
The house is to serve a3 a model
for families of limited means. It is
equipped with a living room, dining
room, bed rooms, kitchen, linen
closet and wardrobes suited to the
needs of a family of seven.
STATEMENT FROM
SUPT. BARNES
The Herald is glad to publish a
statonient from City School Super
intendent B. N. Barnes pertaining to
the coming election. Supt- Barnes
states very clearly the facts in the
case and his stand in this important
matter. His statement follows:
“As superintendent of schools I
wish lo make my stand clear on the
present school issues. Naturally I
favor running our schools nine
months* from the first grade through
the eleventh, because l think the
children of our city are entitled to
educational opportunities equal that
given the children in other cities
our size. There are in North Carolina
9.455 more children enrolled in nine
months schools this year than were
in nine months schools back in 1933
when Kings Mountain High School
had a nine months term. According
to the January STATE SCHOOL
FACTS there are 145,256 children en
rolled in nine months schools this
year in North Carolina.
“1 do not believe I would be fair
to the hundreds of children in our
schools and to he citizens of Kings
Mountain if I failed to let the facts
be known, however, I realize—this
txtended term is not a matter for
me to decide. I consider it my duty
to present the facts as best 1 can
and let the town speak its own mind
at the polls April 24.
CONCERNING PWA PROGRAM
“The PWA offers to give Kings
Mountain $20,000.00 for school build
ing improvements provided $25,000
can be secured to pay 55 per cent of
the total cost of the project. it
seems to me this is a mighty good
proposition since the cost to Kings
Mountain will be so very small com
pared with the value received.
"Each year the school receives
from the county a good allotment
for debt service. This year it a
mounts to $3,060.18. The present
debt service for schools is being re
duced very rapidly and much of it
will be paid off entirely in a few
years. This means the schools shall
be able to use more and more of the
county fund to help pay off the pro
posed new school debt. Kings Moun
tain must pay only the amount Of
debt service over and above the a
mount received from the county
each year for this purpose. Not only
is this true but the city finds it nec
essary to help the school each year
complete and equip additional
rooms and make major repairs.
This year, as you have noticed,
there is a 3c tax rate for this pur
pose. By getting the PWA building
program through so that all build
ings can be completed, equipped and
put in first class shape it is believed
this annual city expense can be
eliminated.”
Harmon Trio To Give
Concert Friday Night
The singing school which has been
in progress for the past two weeks
at the Second Baptist church will
come to a close Friday night. Mar.
a, at 7:30 o’clock at East End school
auditorium. The program will con
sist of gospel, spiritual, popular and
comic singing and a number of hu
morous readings and jokes. If you
like good music and clean fun, be
sure and come.
Honor Society To Be
.Installed At Central High
The public is invited to attend the
high school assembly at 10:30 Fri
day morning, March 5, at which time
a number of students will be induct
ed into the local chapter of the Na
tional Ho'iir' Society. An interesting
and impressive ceremony has been
arranged for the occasion and will
he carried out entirely by students
of the high school.
State And National News
Condensed In Brief Form
—rsational JNews—
Hollt wood. Mar. 2.—At the robust
age of three years, the Dionne quin
tuplets will star in their motion pic
ture this June.
A story for the five little sisters
was prepared at 20th Century-Pox
studio here today which would offer
acting opportunities the quints never
have had before.
Mar Dei l'iata, Argentina, March
2.—Authorities planned today to
ices, re-enactment ot tue “impulse"
staying of two year oiu Dugimo Per
eyra Iraola, son of a wealthy Argen
tine family.
Judge noraclo Areco who said
Jose uancedo Oonzaies confessed
Kidnaipptug and strangling the boy
to a detective disguised as a fei
•ow prisoner, expressed beuet in<*
pnsener was mentaly deticicnt.
San Mateo, Calif., March. 2.—’Aunt
Clara' valentine observed her loutt
birthday recently, proud o£ the tact
tuat in all her life she never had
entered a theater or movie. ‘'All
i do is read the Bible and sew,” she
explained.
Although in domestic service in
Baltimore before the civil war, the
aged negress never was a slave. Her
mother enjoyed a free status in
England.
Denver, March 2.—Plans to borrow
half a million dollars to resume- relief
paytenis in Colorado were announc
ed today by the governor a day ait
er a shooting outburst ai the Denver
public weltare bureau. A negro, de
nied relief, killed three workers and
critically wounded a fourth.
Belief payments were suspended
last month when funds became ex
hausted.
Auburn, Wash., March 2.—Enechi
Kato, oti year old Japanese farm la
borer, was sought for questioning to
day in connection with the strang
ling and shooting of his family of
live. *
Bodies of the wife and four child
ren were discovered in a crude grave
beside their home here.
New Orleans, March 2.—The crest
of the Mississippi river flood, having
definitely "flattened out,” flowed
slowly gult'ward today from a point
below Baton Rouge.
Meteorologist W. F. McDonald of
the New Orleans weather bureau,
said the crest was below Baton
Rouge and would pass south of New
Orleans by Wednesday. The stage re
maiued at 19.1 feet here aud station
ary at Baton Rouge at 44.9 feet
From Natchez north it was falling
rapidly.
Montgomery, Ala.. Mar 2.—Orders
to “arrest'on sight” t.velve violators
of Christmas paroles were Issued
here today.
Only twelve of approximately 500
state convicts released for the
Christmas holidays have failed to re
turn.
I —Mate News—*
Morganton, March 2.—Coroner Rus
J sell fS. Greene said today that no in
ques^ would be held into the death
of Miss Martha McGalliard, 23
whose body was found in a wc-od yes
terdiy, a bullet wound in the head
and ‘her father's service revolver at
i her slide.
Grjeene said Miss Galliard, daugh
ter of a Morganton policeman, had
killed herself. The coroner said the
young woman catne home last Fri
day from Banner Klk where she was
a nurse. He said she had suffered a
breakdown.
Oxford, March 2.—Granville coun
ty school officials closed all county
schools for a two-day period because
of bdd road's caused by snow.
Raleigh, March 2.—Abandoning
the defensive that lost the legisla.
tive- liquor fight, drys in many coun
ties are now planning to counter
attack by demanding immediate
county elections provided for by the
county option law.
This is a complete change of
front on the part of militant prohibi
tion advocates who have heretofore
fought their hardest against any
sort Of election by counties. There
are many indications that their pro
posed offensive Is born of despera
tion- Two years ago they opposed
any election by any unit—county or
state. In this assembly they battled
vigorously for a statewide vote, vio
lently assailing any county by coun
ty balloting.
Burlington, March 2.—Fire origina
ting in a storage room damaged 300
bales of cotton at the Tabardrey
Manufacturing company at Haw
Riber.
Shelby, March 2.—More than half
of the $300 needed to purchase an
oxygen tent for the Shelby hospital
was raised in a drive by the hospital
auxiliary here this week.
Several other donations have been
promised, and purchase of the tent
is expected in the next few days.
Ralegh, March IfSMlemoorTTal
entfne of Nash county, may be the
candidate of the “Liberal Democrats
of North Carolina for governor in
the 1940 primaries, according to re
ports going the rounds here.
Lumberton, March 2.—Leon Blake,
found unconscious on a highway
near here, was said by hospital at
tendants today to be in a serious
condition.
Police said they were detaining
Ed Jacobs, Buie Indian, without
privilege of bond. Hospitaj attend
ants said' Blake, a middle aged man,
suffered a fractured skull.
Charlotte, March 2.— C. \V. Pal
mer, farmer of the Dixie road com
munity, died this morning at seven
o'clock at St. Peter’s hospial from
Injuries received' last night when
he was struck by an automobile dri
ven by Fred Calahan of Forest City.
Callahan was under arrest at rural
police headquarters.
Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN S. COBB
r
The Height of Boredom
By IRVIN S. COBB
VV/HEELB ARROWS have been the subject of at least two standard
anecdotes. There is the stock story of the Irish laborer who angrily
yelled to an Italian co-worker: “Here you, quit monkeying with that
there wheelbarrow. What would an ignorant dago like you know about
(“THE SlArtT" \
OH IT" 6ETS \
Oh< My StefWESl
machinery ?” And there is the other dependable standby which nearly
everybody has heard, of the visitor who was being escorted over the
grounds of the state lunatic asylum and came to where a squad of the
inmates were trundling material for a building job. The visitor noted
that one of the group was holding his barrow upside down and said to
him: “My friend, why don’t you turn you wheelbarrow over and roll it
■in the regular way?” “Shh! Not so loud,” warned the lunatic. “All
these other chaps here are crazy but I’m the only sane one in the lot.
Why if I turned this wheelbarrow over those fellows yonder would fill
it full of bricks.”
I crave to add a third to the list of wheelbarrow jokes .The man
who told it to me vouched for its authenticity. He said that in a little
town in Georgia there was a cotton-mill hand who, on account of the
closing down of the mill, was given a summertime job of cleaning and
repairing tho village streets. He had no associates, and undoubtedly
the work grew monotonous, yet he stuck to the task because he needed
the money which the municipality paid him to tide him over the dull
season.
One blazing hot morning a passer-by noticed that he was dragging
his barrow behind him as he passed through the principal street. To
the onlooker this seemed an especially laborous way of moving the
unwieldy vehicle.
“Say, Bill,” he called out, “what’s the big idea? Why not push your
( wheelbarrow instead of pulling it?”
“Well, Mr. Dunson,” answered the languid operative, "I do get so
tired of looking at the damn thing all day.
(American News Feataru. Inc.)
'Special Young Peoples
Service At A. R. P.
Church
On Sunday evening at 6:00 o’clock
there will be a special meeting foi
young people in Boyce Memorial
Church. Mies Ada Rose Demerest,
special lecturer to school and college
groups from the National W. C. T. V
will speak. All the churches of the
city are cooperating in this service.
Miss Demerest is on a nation wide
tour as a speaker in the great Tern
Iterance Education Movement. She
has covered the larger part of the
state in the last few weeks. Reports
of her effectiveness commend her
to the people of our community.
While the meeting is for the young
people, sponsored by the several
groups in the different churches any
interested person is invited.
A free will offering will be taken
the proceeds of which go to the
Frances Willard Centenary Fund for
the great Alcohol Education Move
ment so sorely needed at the pres
ent time.
Remember — Sunday evening at
6:00 o’clock in the Bible School
Building of Boyce Memorial Church.
AMERICAN LEGION
TO SPONSOR CIRCUS
“The Circus,” a comedy shown
with a circus background, is t° he
presented by the American Legion
for the Junior Baseball Program on
next Thursday and Friday, March
11 and 12 at the High School audi
torium. The show is extremely un
usual in type, portraying as it does
the trials and tribulations connected
with running a circus in an amus
ingly exaggerated way.
The various committees are busy
and things are all in order for the
show. With the enthusiasm mount
ing and things already started with
a big bang, "The Circus’’ is- off to a
flying start.
Everyone likes to go to a circus
and here’s one in tow anew. It's a cir
cus of laughs and a carnival of good
times. The cast is more than en
thusiastic about the rehearsals and
everyone seems to be having a grand
time in the staging of the show.
Miss Helen Finley, of the Amateur
Theatre Guild, of Boston, is in
charge of the production of the big
TOWN CLERK
NOW BONDED
The Town Hoard met Monday
night, and announced that Town
Clerk Charles Dilling has been bond
ded for $5,000, and Mis. Arthur
Crouse, who is now assisting Mr.
Di’.ling has been bonded for $2,500.
l’he recent audit of the Town of
Kings Mountain revealed that the
City Clerk had been serving without
bond.
At the same meeting an ordinan
ce was adopted to make it unlawful
for anyone in the Town of Kings
Mountain to have more than two
dogs within 100 yards of any resi
dence. A complete copy of the ordi
nance is published in this issue of
the Herald.
ALL CITY SCHOOLS TO
BENEFIT UNDER PWA
ALLOTMENT
The Kings Mountain City School
Board, in regular session Friday
evening, February 26, voted to give
all school buildings in Kings Moun
tain benefits when Kings Mountain
receives the new PWA building pra
gram. The Board went on record as
favoring the folloying:
Two new rooms with equipment at
Fast School, needed repairs and
equipment at West School, two
rooms -at Davidson School, Com
plete and equip the unfinished rooms
at Central School building, renova
tion of Central School auditorium to
improve acoustics, and a new root
over it which is badly needed. A
gymnasium at Central High school.
Annual H. S. Reading
Contest Today
The public is invited to attend
the annual reading contest of high
school girls Thursday evening, Mar
ch 4th, at 8:00 o’clock, high school
auditorium. Three girls will compete
for the Pearl Fulton memorial
medal.
The program follows:
“The Finger of God", a one-act
play, by Carolyn Hord.
'The Phantom Aeroplane," a story
Eoline Keeter.
“Smoke Screen," a one-act pla,
Mary Helen Hambrlght.
Music will be furnished by the
high school girls glee club.
J. Boyce McGill
Buried Sunday
Funeral services for J. Boyce Me
Bill, age 61, were held at Boyce Me
morial A, R. P. church Sunday after
noon at 1! o'clock and interment
made in the cemetery at Bethel
church.
Rev. \V. M. Boyce was in charge
of the services and was assisted by
itev. G. I,. Kerr of Bessemer City,
a former pastor; Rev. T. R. McDill
of Gastonia and Dr Ernest N. Orr, of
Charlotte, pastors of other members
ol the family. The pallbearers were
J. O. Plonk, Clarence Plonk, T. P.
McGill, Will McGill, Lee Wolfe and
M. A. Ware. Mr. McGill's death oc
curred Saturday afternoon. He had
been In failing health for several
years and for the past few weeks his
condition had been critical.
Mr. McGill was the son of Thoma3
J. and Amanda Fulton McGill. Hi3
forbears were among the staunch
pioneer settlers of this section. He
spent his entiire life at the ances
tral McGill home on the Kings
Mountain-Cherryville highway. In
early youth he joined Bethel A. R.
P. church, near his home, later mov
ing his membership to Boyce Memor
ial church, Kings Mountain. He was
a loyal supporter of the church and
was invaluable as a choir member
and leader. He possessed a voice of
unusual sweetness and volume and
was happy when engaged in the
singing in his own and neighboring
churches.
He is survived by his widow who
before her marriage was Miss Mary
Weir, of Kings Mountain; five dau
ghters, Mrs. Lucius Hallman, Miss
Willie McGill and Miss Mary Boyce
McGill, all of Kings Mountain; Miss
Nair MoGill and Miss Nell McGill
of Charlotte. Two sisters surviive,
Mrs. C. L. White, of Long Creek and
Mrs. A. Frank Whitesides of Gas
tonia.
CAFE RATINGS
ANNOUNCED
Final ratings and grades on the
hotels, cafes and tourist camps in
Kings Mountain and vicinity have
been completed by J. N. Johnson,
district supervisor with the North
Carolina State Board1 of Health.
Below are listed the ratings and
grades:
Carolina Cafe, 90.0, grade A; Moun
tain View Hotel. 81.0, grade B; Red
Star Service Station, 78.0, grade C;
City Recreation Parlor, 71.5, grade
C; Kinys Mountain Sandwich Shop,
70.0, grade C; Okay Lunch, indicted,
tried and convicted for operating a
cafe without complying with the reg
illations of tlie State Board of Heal
th, and closed.
The following voluntarily closed
or discontinued preparation of food
for sale: Webbs Lunch, Ostrom
Lunch, Dads Place, Standard Lunch,
Dads Cafe, Piedmont Lunch, Tea
Lunch Room, Peoples Cash Store.
Banquet At Woman's
Club Saturday Night
State officials, field representatives
county supervisors and others have
been invited to a banquet to be put
on by the Home-Making classes of
Cleveland county, at the Woman’s
Club, in Kings Mountain Saturday
evening.
The affair promises to be one of
the largest of its kind to be held in
any section and the program will be
of unusual interest, with speeches by
heads of work of this kind in the
county and state.
(Opinions Expressed in This Column
Are Not Necessarily the Views of
This Newspaper.)
The statistics gatherers and record
book searchers are hard at it in the
battle over the proposal to increase
the size of the Supreme Court. One
point made in behalf of the proposal
is that It would speed Supreme
Court decisions on the constitution
ality of federal statutes; that people
would not have to remain in doubt
so long as to whether the laws
were actually legal. This sent some
folks scurrying back to records on
the NKA, in an attempt to find out
why that stayed on the books as
long as it did. And the results were
to say the least, somewhat surpris
ing.
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The researchers found, for ex
ample, that in March, 1934 the Su
preme Court set down for oral ar
gument in April the first NRA test
case. Thus it would have been pos
sible for the Court to return its ver
dict in June. But suddenly federal
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