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Citiiens Learn
Of City*# fart
In War Effort
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uvuHMia ' Bueuuon
has been directed to the.city's pare
in war production this week, with
the records showing that the major
part 'of Kings Mountain 'e production
is going, directly or indirectly, into
the war effort.
Feature of the week has been the
appearance of Lt.-Col. L. F. Nickel,
army service Threes, at Kings Mountain
war production plants, in which
- he has presented to workers the importance
of them, and of their labors,
to the armed forces.
Another feature gaining atteni.on
was the display in the window of
Keeter's department store, showing
graphically the role 'of cotton in tiac
war and the end products of produc
tioa from Kinga Mountain mills. Jacob
Cooper was In eharge of the arrangements
for the dlroisy
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IB this tamw la Included ths ra alBiar
of ths Bags Msaataln war
production story. AM?tlon of Mm
mil to called to tit advertisem?U
of Pork Tun HO, Corn
pUnt of Textiles, Tnc., ?d Pit- L
nix Mills, Inc.
Tt^MOMM^W^rS^WKt
the winners of the poster eonteeta
sponsored by the Wer Production
week committee in the various
schools. A total of 1?5 posters were
-entered in the five contests.
Col. Nlekel, veteran of 16 months
Cont'd on page two)
Sgt. Dickey Will
Report To OCS
Sgt. Jimmy Diekey, marine corps
aircraft mechanic, is back . in the
United States, to attend Officer Candidate
school al the Marine corps
station at Quantico, Va., after spend
ing 15 months in the South Pacific
"theater.
Whether or not he succeeds in
"Winning a commission at the tough
-officer's SofTool, Sgt. Dickey says he's
infantry bound. I
>;. The former high school and Catawba
college football star says his
-aetioq experiences in the 8o|\th Pa*'/
cffic ? spent mostly in the Solo
mons on Bougainville ? were limited |
" "to a few minor bombings by the Japanese,
but he still isn't sorry to be
jf&' borne for a time.
He managed a month's leave after
v(; hitch-hiking home by plane from the
j- Pacific. He-says he ma'l? the >
in only 36 hours flying time, though
^ he was delayed by a stop-over at
| .. Pearl Harbor.
8gt. Dickey, in servlee since 1943,
r, went overseas in February, 1944.
lie tells some Interesting stories
V about the life In the Pacific islands,
and says one of the chief pastimes
was HTOning lo tbe Japanese prop.
aganda put out by Tokyo Boss oa
short wave broadcasts.
K'' The propaganda. was pretty ail
ly^ but these were the beat phono"graph
records we beard ? better
thin from tbe Amerieaa stations,"
m"ftstjiUL
Sgt. Dickey, eon of Mrs. Bessie
THatey, had the Job of efrvieing
Mi iOHD'S aad DO l*s, the Utter th*
RV? transport planes. V
" pi- the return tftp, be whiled away
~th^'hours ia the air by playing
K&-, hearts with Bhlrley Povieh, former
K& { "Washington sports editor, now a eom I
bat eorrespoadeat, who was with
^ lM|ie Pyle whes ho was killed.
Sfrrico Subscription
r "Bxpirationfl Now 188
who subscribe to the paper for aen
Wis to the anoed forces ia called to the
fact that, ia a obeck-up toads this
week, no leas thaa US of the sabIeoirtptlona
hare expired or will ex
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XTWAJTXS FBOOEAM
Lt. Col. L. F. Nickel, Army Service
Foree*, now at Moon General
hospital after returning from 16
month* service in TlaTy, will speak
at the Klwanis club melting Thursday
night at 7 o'clock on a pro- gram
arranged by Ladd "W. Hamrick.
The army officer has been in
Kings Mountain this week in connection
with the citv '* War Pro
trodnetita to the works of Kahil Olbrnn,
fad readings from hie worka
wrrregiran by Mia# Andrews, Min
Bath Bostle, )flaa Hamriek Mlaa
Oiata Plonk, aid hflaeoa Bonnie Mardoek
and Latara Bijaan. '
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The special aihailhl ocketipns ineladad
the aatheauT"The Night la
Far Spe*t,'?;"L9Tely Appear,"
"Gad'a Lorin* On re," and "Piniondia"
bp At eheral group, 'and a
soprano nolo "Fntti*T"afoet
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CMIPh' ( in
duct ion week program.
SMOCKS
Mrs. Grady King announced Tuesday
that a large number of smocks
used by workers in the Red Cross
room and left there after the work
was completed hare been piaceU at
the Kings Mountain Buii??ng a"nd
Loan association, and she has issued
a request to the owners to get
these smocks immediately.
McQINNIS TRANSFERRED
Pfe. Jacob Tracy MeGinnis, Jr.,
son of Sir. and Mrs. Tracy McGinilis,
has been transferred from West
over Field, Mass., to Kingman
Field, Arizona. Pfc. MeGinnis was
recently home on leave.
FULTON NOW CHIEF .
ACOM Robert D. Fulton, son of
Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Fulton, has recently
been promoted to that rating
according to a letter received recently
from' the Kings Mountain
sailor by his parents. Chief Fulton
is attacked to a fleet unit operating
in the Pacific.
Bible Program
Attended By 300
A crowd estimated at more than
^00 persons attended the Bible pro
gram presented by Plonk School of
Creative Arte, of Aeheville, which
wee held at the high echool auditorium
Sunday afternoon.
The program, fint feature of a
city-wide go-to-church campaign, ineluded
Bible reading* presented, by
members of ths school faculty and
ctudent body and special musical eeJections.
Following the singing of Malotte's,
"The. Lord's Prayer," Bible selections
were read by Mies Laura Plonk,
director of the school, and Biblical
readings were given by Misses - Florence
Andrews, Evelyn Hamriek, Clara
Plonk and Eugenia Beid.
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For the seeond portion of the program,
Miss LifTian Plonk, assistant
director of the school, gave an la
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Cora Mill Employ
Citation For Bond
Misa Lula Phifer |
Claimed By Death
* Funeral services for Mies Lula Phi j
fer, 72, who died at her home near
Kings Mountain at 12:56 Wednesday |
morning, will be held at 131 Bethel
Methodist church Friday afternoon
at 3 o'clock, with burial to follow '
in the church cemetery.
The pastor, Bev. Avette, will be in '
charge of the rites, assisted by Rev. '
J. W. Winkler, pastor of Central '
Methodist church.
Death waa attributed to heart at- '
tack. Miss Phifer had been in declining
health for a number of years j
and had been confined to bed for the
past two weeks. However, she had '
appeared stronger on Tuesday and (
was able to sit lb a chair.
She was the (laughter of t)ic late 1
John M. and Margaret R. Phifer.
Surviving is ~obe brother, Ben D.
phifer, with whom she resided.
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Letter Received
From McGinnis
Stag-Sergeant Donald H. McGiunis,
air forces B-17 gunner,, is safe and
well after liberation from a German
prison camp, according to a letter
from the Kings Mountain soldier received
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. McGinnis, Monday.
Sgt. McGinnis, who had been listed
as missing in 'action over CseehoSlovakia
since April 10, wrote that
he was In a German prison camp Tor
three weeks, before his liberation, and
that he hoped to be home soon.
He went overseas in JanuaryT and
he h'd made a nnmber of eombaf
fissions over Europe bffore his
plane waa shot down. He holds the air
medal for his participation in these
missions.
Memorial Day Service
Will Be geld Sunday [1
Memorial Day services will be |
held at Mountain Best cemetery ,1
Sunday afternoon at 9:80, according |
to VFW Commander Charles E. Warlick.
The memorial services will he con- (
ducted by the members of Johnny W.
Blackwell Post 2268, and members
of the post are requested to meet
in the post quarters at 2:30 8?nday
afternoon. The gronp will then mar- .
oh to the cemetery in a body. '
Also to take part in the memorial
service will be the recently organised
chapter of Kings Mountain War
Dads. Fiaal nlans for the service >r*
to be completed it the regnlar VKW
meeting Friday night at 8 o'eloek.
Commander WarHck said that a 1
i special . invitation ia being issued to
06M Star mothers to attend the services,
and'he aaid that Beats will be
avallabla for them.
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BAISS BOLDZirO OSS
lg?A> orial ABp ehny^ ^.yfar"holding
his <wm" Wednesday af
tcrnoon. The minister was a*M to
be paralysed on the M W Dr.
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Purchases
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lvnployccr of the Cur* |il?ntJ__of_L.
Textile*, Jne., were presented the '
Minute Men citation end Minute J (
STan flag for befter than 90 percent '
participation in war bond purchases ^
in brief eeremonTn held at the mill
Tuesday afternoon.
The awards, made by the Treasury j
lepartment, were officially presented .
by J. R. Davis, Kings Mountain at- I
tornev and chairman of the elty's ()
Seventh War Loan campaign, following
a short address in which he prais- {
ed highly the rectfrd "of the employ- j
sen of the Cora plant. .
Superintendent Z. F. Cranford pre- ^
Rented Mr. - Davis, and Ira J. Falls,
chairman of the plant's bond sales | ^
committee, accepted the awards for
the employees, and urgecl greater!
baying on the part of the employees ]
in order that The plant may be a- .
warded the nE'' flag for bond-buy- J
in8?given for 100 percent participation.
Record of the plant for the week 1
rnOtug May 10 showed that pf the!'
266 employees, 249 were participating 1
in,bond buying on the payroll deduc-,'
tion plan. Only 17 employees were
not buying bonds. On a Dercontaire *
basis, 93.61 percent are buying bonds'
regularly. j I
For the ceremony the mill was j!
stopped and the employees assembled '
in one large room. In praising theij
bond-buying record, Mr. Davis point-1
ed out the necessity for continued
bond-buying, calling attention to the.1
bloody fighting still ahead in the '
Pacific theater, as wel as the faot
that bond-buying halts inflation and '
will help take care of future recession
depression periods.
rAifl (ST-awis
The Tuesday afternoon fire alarm
proved false, when it was
found that the fire department had
been summoned following a miner
blase in an electrical apparatus.
There was no fire when the fire
department reached the scene.
Pink Ware, Now Ho
Saw Heroic Frankli
*>When the Beeec-clase aircraft carrier
UBS Franklin burnt into {lainen
after hits by Japanese bomber, a
Kings Mountain man, aboard a navy
cruiser off her starboard beam, saw
her blow. He is Lnther (Pink) Ware,
RM lc, now home on Jeave after two
years aboard the cruiser, which operated
most, of the time in Pacific waters.
Badioman Ware's ship stayed close
aboard, along with other ships of the
fast carrier task force, fighting off
Jan planes as they made farther attacks,
and stayed with the carrier
until she again got her big engines
goiilg and was able to proceed under
her own power. -J
Badioman Ware's ship then moved
back nearer Japd*.
He heard the first bomb hit the
Franklin, and say it seemed that the
Wg flattop wan sorely lost. ?e adds
that there Isn't sench hesaa add to
the heroic etory <4 the sauri#'* sursfofd
than- was rsltiMd by' the navy
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Hiffh School
Sunday; Griei
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The beginning of annual commence "
sent exercises at Kings Mountain J
igh school ? this year for >? grail-1
imtes of the 12th grade and SO (radiates
of the 11th grade ? will take
dace Hup'lay night at 8 o'clock, when
lev. B. C. Qrier,,D. D., president of
Irsklne college at I>ne West, S. C.,
>reaches the baccalaureate sermon
t the high school auditorium.
The sermon on Bijnday night will
irecede the presentation of diplomas
rhieh will be made oa Friday night,
nne 1. B. N. Barnes, superintendent
if city schools, has announced that |
>r. P. II. Oywnn, of the Davidson j
olleire fsr -"r^ ?, ' npi'inif l| III1'?'
Wise 'oil graduation night.
The |irograra Sunday night will .
i??v invimi^ airrnn rounr I)V I I?f
itgh school boy*' and girl*' glee
lal>?.
Rev. W. L. llarkey, pastor of
rare Methodist church, will give the i
nvocation. Thi* will be ^followed by
he winging of the hymn "Come Thou
Umighty King," and Rev. W. H.
(tender, pastor of 8t. Matthew's Lnheran
rhurch, will read the scripure.
The girls' glee club will sing Hamp
rdiek's "Prayer" from "Hansel
?nd Oretel." Following the sermon
?y Dr. Orler, the boys' glee club will
dng Oonnod's "Praise Ye the Faher."
Mr. Barnes said that Dr. R. 17.
laird, who suffered a stroke ft parlysis
Tuesday, was to have introluced
Dr. Qrier.
Twelvth grade class officers are
louston Black, president, Eugene <
ditcham, vice-president, Doris Phier,
secretary, and Albert Hnffstick- i
Br, treasurer. I
Class mascots are Brenda Thorn>urg
and David Plonk.
ICafion P. Herndon
Elites Held Monday
Funeral services for Marion Pinkney
Herndon, 67, retired Southern
itaiiway engineer, were held Monday
ifternoon at Bethlehem Baptist chur- ,'
h near Kings Mountain, with Rev. |i
J. L. Teaguc, sassisted by Rev. W. H. '
(tender, conducting the final rites.
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Air. ni-rnnon, who nad made bis I
lome in Kings Mountain since "his i
retir.y.ient about two years ago, died
in the Veterans Hospital, Columbia, '
8. C., Saturday, after entering the i
lospital two weeks before.
A Mason, Mr. Herndon is survived I
jv his wife and a daughter, Winomfc, i
who live at their home on W&eo road.
Masonic rites at the grave were*
conducted by members of Fairview
Lodge Number 338.' \
MAtJlTET TO 1CAKB TUP
Audrey Mauney is to leave Kings
Motvitain Saturday for a trip |
throngh a number of districts of
the Lutheran church synod in the j
interest qf Use ' campaign to raise |
*5Q,POO for the erection of a Latheran
church at Chapel Hill. Mr.
Mauney* is director of the cam- ,
ime Oh Leave,
a Win Fight
that we came very close to rolling ,
>n over, rue typnoon tasted from <;
>230 until about 2000, and it was the j
longest day I ever put in." i
Among the other experiences 'in I
Radioman Ware's memory boolc are
participation in almost all of the
najor engagements in the Paelfle
;heater, in eluding the action in the
Gilberts, Marshals, raids on Trnk,
he invasion of Hollandia, Wake Island,
the Marcus Islands, IwceJima,
Ha-Ha, raids on the Philippines and
aids on the Jap mainland itself. Hie
ihip missed the Paulau show. ^
His ship left Okinawa one day be'ore
the invaslont after taking pt'rt
a the softening np of that -MtteHy
'ought-for island.
Also in his book is the memory of
Ike trip' of the late President Boose
rsit to the Aleutians last summer.
P>e President traveled aboard the
(lags Mountain .man's ship with I'
Admiral Leahy, his personal ehief
if staff, ether high effiaiala, a Jorge \
laiiber of. secret Servles pereoansl, '
sad the. Uvas-prcseat. Pais. ' " ' J
Bailor"" Ware described the late
wtyrn im ? tnm tk< JbbU1Lv
nwtn, ouk
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Finals Begin
r To Preach
Dng? Mountain Man
[jearns About Oity
TIm Hml4 racolrad this wsak
tha following latter from OhMtar
Bmaib. prlnclMl of lffa? Hon*
tain, By., high school, who DU
rocoirod ? coyjr of tho V-B Bay
dittos:
"Our school today rsestrsd a
copy of tho V-B Day odltttai if tho
Kings Mountain Harold to bo plae d
In tk> llhnn W. u
Mat to as by Um Herald dirtetfy,
and we desire to thank 70a for botaf
00 thoaoherr'....^,,
?rtcWSUUV. Tlni road tho payor
rathor carefully, which haa piorod
a revelation to m X had kaowa
that a Revolutionary bSttle wm
fought .at Kings Mountain, bat now
X kaow that it is tho location of a
sploadld llttlo city, which 'has at
loaot one Tory fine newspaper. &
seems to me that you bar* everything
necessary to make a great
community.
"Wow that X know more about
the town. In honor of which my
homo town probably was named by
early settlors from North Carolina,
a injui iook rorwara to tha tlma
whan X can visit Kings Mountain
and Clrvsland County on a tour
of your taction of tha country."
Tha Herald, however, did no*
and tha copy of tha paper, and
ptatea the latter along to tha pareau
who deaervaa pralap for doing a
nice Job of spreading Information,
about North Carolina's historical
elty.
Lions Are Told
Future Bright
In closing remarks at the LioaS
club seventh annual Ladies Night
banquet, Misa Laura Plonk, director
of Plonk 8ehool of Creative Arts,
Ashevillc, declared that people must
be educated in living as well as learn
ing, and predicted for Kings Mountain
"bigger things than she has
ever known before."
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i n<rc a iiuBpiisi to take care or
our ill, an inn to receive travelers
from all the world, and a great univarsity."
she said. "There is nothing
to hinder Kings Mountain from
being the best town in the United
States.''
The brief, but inspirational talk of
Miss Plonk was the highlight of aa
entertaining evening enjoyed by
some 210 persons, including Lions,
their wives and guests, who gathered
for the annual event at the Woman's
club last Friday night.
Among the many pfogram highlights
was the presentation of a nun- .?
ber of original monologues by Kiss
Laura Bryson, the singing of Miss
Clara Plonk, the reading of posses
by Misses Tugenia Bald and Florence
Andrews, and the reading of an origt
nal arrangement of Bird's Christmas
Carpi by Miss Bonnie Mnrdock.
The. Plonk school choral group had
rang Malotts's "The Lord's Prayer"
following the invocation, given by
Rev. W. H. Stender, and closed tha
program} by singing Sibelius'."Praysr
for Peace.
Club PresidenT^Wlliram Plonk presided,
and Billy looser led the salute
to the flag.
Mr. PtnnV i- ?' '?
? TToivuinuijj inn
quests, mid, "I want to my it la
yery fine for a city to hare two large,
fine eivie club*. By working together,
we can improve oar community
immeasurably." '
Mr. Plonk also praised the Wouah'i
elub for Its cooperation and
selp daring the year^ and thanked lbs
lity of Kings Mountain for rendeeng
thn cooperation in Lions club
projects.
The program was opened by the
tinging of the Lions song.
The delicious dinner served for tho
occasion inc haded tomato Juice cockail,
celery, olives, soatksrn fried
thicken, rice end gravy, garden
tiring beans, eoleelaw, hot biscuits
sad batter, lee ereens and oranga
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