| XkoorpornOAt Mountain 6,547
K 'jl iMMlcta Wtog Atm , 10,000
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Registration
; jaiuruayror
Officials Report
Registrations
Here Total 473
B?ports Wednesday morning by
lira. P. *D. R.irndon and I. Ben Qoforth,
registrars for the special hospital
bond election of July 7, showed
that 473 citisens have registered for
the special bond election, with indications
that at least 600 persons will |
have registered by the final registration
day Saturday.
Interest has continued to increase
in the forthcoming bond. vote? kid
will whether n? wot
?-?V\ <t > .1
Cleveland county wilt erect a hospital
in Kings Mountain and will remodel
the Shelby hospital.
Tonight's program at the Kiwanls
club, which has previously endorsed
the election, will include addresses
by Henry Edwards, county attorney,
an/1 J. B. Davis, Kings Mountain
lawyer, both of whom handled the
legal matters connected with the
holding of the election.
The proposed hospital plan calls
Tor tbe Issuance of $400,000 in bonds
for the building of the Kings Mountain
hospital and the remodeling of
the Shelby hospital, with the county
also to assume the indebtedness of
$48,000 on the Shelby hospital. Members
of the county hospital committee
hare pointed out that the plant
and grounds of the Shelby hospital
are now valued at approximately
$300,000.
There will be four questions on
which voters may vote "yes" or
"no." The first three concerns the
proposals listed above, and the fourth
asks whether the county commissioners
will be allowed to levy a tax I
not to exeeed five cents per $100 vat
nation for the maintenance of the
two hospitals. "' i
ni.. a n.u -V _ i a
uidd a. cQBirman ox xno
county board, has stated that unless
aU the propositions are * favored,
none will be carried out by the county
board.
Persons who register and fail to
vote wilt automatically cast their
vote against the proposals.
1,182 Attended
Church Sunday
A total of 1,182 people attended
morning services at 10 churches on
Sunday, according to (figures furnished
by attendance committee chairmen
reporting. ,
Attendance figures follow: ABP?
church school 126; church attendance
}13; prayer meeting, 20.
Byaum's Chapel ? church school,
30; church 00; night, 20; prayer
meeting, 0.
Central Methodist ? church school
133; church, 125.
; First Baptist ? church school, 234
ehareh, 107.
First Prnsbyterian ? church school
14ft; church, 8ft.
Orsc? Methodist ? church school,
168; church, 61; night service, 87.
Mneedonlu Baptist ? church achool
180; church, 141, night service, 00.
, St. Matthew's Lutheran ? church
school, 104j- church, 200; night (union
service), 176.
8econd Baptist ? church school,
210; church, 135; night, 132.
V Wesleyan Methodist ? church
:echool, lftl; church, 78, night, 68;
prayar meeting, 28.
V The tabulations reported are the
'. first sines the beginning of a citywide
go-to-church campaign. 'J. L.
MeCHll, chairman of the committee,
V pointed out that all churches are far
from complete participation by the
membership.
jpatrick To Preach
S ,At TTnloo Sortfaf .' ,
- \i The fourth In the series of sumKj
user union services will move to the
b first Baptist church Sunday night,
k. When Be*. P. P. Patrick preaehaa tho
1/ sermon 4t 8 o'clock. ' '
E following is the fhtaalnlug sehedByimle
of servWea: July 1, Baptist, Bev.
| O. O. Laater; 8, Methodist, Dr. 8. N.
16, Lutheran; Bev. J. o. Wink
let; 88, Presbyteriaa, Bev. W. H.
tender; 80, ABP, Bev. Patvieh; AnB
'Mm > Luthi^\Df. Mhb8>, 18,
mM?, Mr. aienftsr; 18, Bagtl*''
Kings
Books Close |
Hospital Vote1
City Tops Over-All
Quota; Lags on "E's"
Kings Mountain has well -exceed
its orsr-all quota of $600,000 in the |
Saventh War Loan campaign but la
till lagging badly on purchase of
"B" bonds, report, from Issuing
agendas annonncsd by Chairman
J, R, Dayla showed WsiniiM?
, .? ?
Reports showed that total bond
sales now stand at 9597,800 ? Including
975,000 worth purchased by
Mauney Mills this week ?. bat
showed that only 987,600 in "B"
| bonds hare been purchased.
We're doing fine exceept on 1
"B" bonds," said Mr. Davis,
"and considerable baying by everyone
Is going to be required if i
itajr. .sad
loan drive. All person; should bay I
to the limit of their abilities of 1
this type bond, which pays highest
interest rates."
I
Ftftk P?wv u:k~
a uui A> aj nine
Request Granted
Mauney Mills, Inc., haa received ,
permission from the regional war ,
labor board in Atlanta, Ga., to make ,
a general increase in wages of ap-1;
proximately five cents per hoar, according
to W. K. Mauney, Sr., who
said the permission was received this :;
week. ]
Maaaey Mills is the fifth of eight
textile firm# to receive permission to
raise wages in recent weeks.
Mr. Manney stated that the increase
would be effective as of Jane :
18, and said that It was estimated
that the company's over-all payroll ;
would thus be increased between SIS,- |
000 and #20,000 per year.
Officials of 8adie Mills, Inc., Bonnie i
Cotton Mills, and Kings Mountains
Manufacturing company, who have j
also requested permission to increase1!
wages, said Wednesday that word |
from WliB had not yet been received
though they anticipate early approval.
i
Special Services Set.
For Hargrace Community
A week of special , services at the
Margrace Community House will be- i
gin Sunday night, June 24. The sing- j
ing will beb led by Mr. Arnold Jack- ,
son and Mrs. Bhea Barber will b*
organist. Messages will be brought (
on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock by'
Mr. Jack Boyce, summer assistant at
the First Presbyterian church, and
by Rev. J. G. Winkler, pastor of Central
Methodist church on Monday j
night; by Bev. P. D. Patrick on.
Tuesday night. |
The scheduled services for the
rest of the week will be announced
later.
v BBXDOBS Ot STATES
Sgt. Ben H. Bridges, ton of Mr.
and Mrs. Hudson Bridget, who was
recently liberated from a Nasi
prison camp, haa arrived at Portsmonth,
Vs., and expects to be home j
over the week end, aeeording to a
telephone call received by his par-1
ents Tuesday. #
James McGill Rep
In Plane Accident
A.Rfft .Tflmoa PrftatAw Wonill u? ^
? ?0? ? ?" ??? * WUIVU tHVUIity UUB" J
band of Mrs. Helen Ridenhonr Mc0111,
and son of Mr. and Mrs. T. P.
MeGlll, was reported killed in an
airplane aeeldent on May 23, according
to a telegram from Adjutant Oen
eral J. A. Tflio received herb Wednesday
morning.
The telegram, addreesed to blh
wife, gave no information eoncerniny
details of the Kings Mour.aln
man's death, but stated that a eon'
firming^ letter followed.
'Mrs. MeOUl, with Miss Martha
Frances MeGlll, sister of the Kings
Mountain soldier, is In New York.
They were notified Wednesday by
telephone and were expected home
Thursday moraine.
Though itf'wke ' not definite, numbers
of the family thought that the
last letter received from 8gt. MeGlll
was dated May to. In the letter,
and others which followed the cessation
of hostilities In Europe, 8gt.
Me<Hll had Wrfttjta^that he toged
June*'l^Mt. ^He'wect overseas la
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Teacher List
For 1945-46 j
Given By Barnes
B. N. Barnes, superintendent of
Kings Mountain schools, announrc.l
Wednesday the teacher directory for
1945-45, which showed that six teach
ers in the system during 1944-45 have
term.
resigned since the close of the school
Those who have resigned are Mrs.
Miriam O. Morris, elementary teacher,
Miss Tennie Miller, of Shelby,
high school commerce teacher, Miss
Lydia Ann Watkins, schools home
economics teacher, Miss Martha Carpenter,
of Oastonia, piano teacher,
Miss Harriette Cochran, Atlanta, Oa.
Bible teacher, and R. J. Davidson,
principal of Davidson high school.
It was announced that Mrs. Dorothy
Hoke Fiuger, of Kings Mountain,
will replace Miss Watkins.
Still unfilled are. two elementary
scnoo'f'vacancies,' the vacancies' "ere-'
lite.I by tbe resignations of Miss Corhrao,
Mian Carpenter, and Mis* Miller,
the principalsbip of Davidaon
school, and band instructorship, which
baa been vacant ainee R. Glenn Palmer
wag inducted into the array last
(rear.
The second elementary school vacancy
*as created by the death of
Miss Fay Mauney, for many years a
teacher at East School.
The following teachers have accept
ed contract* for 1945-46:
Elementary School ? Misg Wilma
Brakefiebl, Mias Jean Browne, (Miss
Marjorie Hord, Mrs. C. M. Logan,
Miss Bessie Slmonton, Mrs. Elizabeth
M. Gamble, Miss Carlyle Ware, Mrs.
Mary N. Williams, Mrs. Sara A. Williams,
Miaa Frances Carpenter, Miss
Willie McGill, Miaa Jette Plonk, Mias
Ruth Greene, Miss Lucy Riser, Mrs.
ButE H. McGill, Mrs. Ruth P. Ormand,
Miss Marie Lineberger, Mrs.
C. Q. Rhyne, Principal West school,
Miaa Stella Patterson, Mrs. T. A. Pollock,
Miss Mitchell Williams, Miss
Alma Wright, Mrs. Octavia C. Coggins,
Miaa Gussie Huffstetler, Mrs. J. |
H. Thomson, Principal East school,
Miss Helen Logan, Mrs. Frank F.
Siak, Thomas F. Templeton.
High school ? J. E. Huneycutt,
Principal, Miaa Odessa Black, Miss
Mary A. Cromartie, Miss Mabel A.
Goodman, Miss Elizabeth S. Kee,
Donald L. Parker, Miss Janet Seog
gins, Mrs. Josephine E. Weir, Mrs.
Dorothy Hoke Finner. Home Ecn.
nomics.
Special ? Mra. Thomas F. Templeton,
Public school music,
Davidson Colored school ? Mary
Shute Fitzgerald, Jessie Oidney Costoer,
Ruth Hunter Gillard, Mattie
Oidney, Lueile Long, Myrtice Z. Craw
ford.
Additional Winners At
Shelby Show Are Given
Five ribbons, in addition to those
reported in last week's issue, were
taken by Kings Mountain horses at
the Shelby horse show June 13.
Winners wert: eonnty pleasure
class, seventh, Naney, owned and
shown by W. F. Logan; five-gaited
county elass, Chief, owned by Hugh
Ballard, shown by W. A. Walker;
open walking horses, third, Byron
Keeter's Strolling Major, shown by
D. H. Cline, sixth, Tom Fulton's Sir
Mae, shown by Stuart Bellinger;
walking horse stake, -fifth, Strolling
Major, ridden by D. H. Cline.
*
orted Killed
P
; in rrance
Ledford Grows 16 Heads
Of Oabbage On One Plant
The Herald fata to know a boat
a p urn bar of odditlae, freak plants,
tint cotton Moon, ate,, but It
learned about a now one tbla weak,
when a 16-bead stalk of cabbego
was brought to the office.
The terminology may not bo
right In ordinary cabbage language,
but It la correct when referring to
thlo plant, which Mi a ttilk In the
oennar end il (own and count
em) firm, well rounded heads of
enbM*o Himmt outdlspUy
In the Herald office.'
Otowac of the oabbage ta K. X.
Bedford, route 3, who M reported
to hare aim a good nop of atnglebead
oabbage, seme weighing as
much as nine )wni| and as largp
as pumpkins.
Tm?aaui BIUII ra , rv.inp MOUHMHH
M-hooU md attended BHktna follof*.
Ha yr*? of Boyee MomoriSomvUg,
La a^ftUto* to hli wifa,
ililir ill piMto, ir? t*i brotbof*,
tain H
UBEDAY, JUNE 21, 1M6
Car! W. Da^
In Auto-True
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Local News
Bulletins
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Vrw-WAB DADS FEED
Members of the local VFW post
anil War Dads chapter will hold a
joint fiah fry at a fish camp ten
miles east of Gastonia Saturday
night. Members of the two groups
are to meet at 8 o'clock iu front
of the Webb building and transportation
will be available for
I thrwra .1 < <"? * 11
i ? .<? v?v iiwi HB?r 11. a11 mem |
l>ers and prospective members are
made arrangements for the fee*d,
said 80 reservations have been mude. g
The groups will also hold a joint ^
meeting Friday night, the VFW p
members being guests of the War g
Dads. j
AUTO USB 8TA^fPA 3
Auto use tax stamps, at 85.00 4
each, are now on sale at the post- t
office, and all motorists are re- a
quired to buy and show on their q
automobiles this federal stamp by
July 1. Penalties are' provided for |
those who do not purchase the I
stamps.
TAX DISCOUNT (
Two percent discount will be allowed
on all city taxes for 194.1
pmu uunag xae momn or J line, 8. R
A. Crouse, city clerk, announced ^
Wednesday. While the tax rate for g
1945 hat not yet been set, it it e
anticipated that the old rate of
$1.50 will prevail, and taxes will f
be collected on that basis, Mr. p
Crouse said. n
POINTS UP c
Effective Monday, point values t
of lard, shortening, salad and cook- j(
ing oil were advanced from 10 to g
12 points per ponnd, OPA an- p
nouneed Sunday. There was no ad- j
vance in the point values of but- p
ter and raargariue. y
HONEYOUTT NAMED )
J. E. Honeycutt. principal of j,
Kings Mountain high school, has r
been named to' the newly appointed
professional services Vommittee of j,
the North Carolina Educational as- |(
sociation, which held its first meet- j
ing in Raleigh Monday. .
PLEDGE i'BATERNITIES ?
Earle Myers, son of Mr. and f
Mrs. O. W. Myers, and J. E. Hern- f
don, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hern p
don, have been pledged to 8igma j,
Phi Epsilon fraternity at David- j
son college, according to an announcement
from the college re- B
celved this week. 8
BOND BALES BEPOBT
Sales of $1,000 in bonds by
Kings Mountain Drug store were
included in a report of sales by the
North Carolina Pharmaceutical as|
sociation annonneed this week. The
report by Secretary W. J. Smith
howed that the association had.
topped its quota of $1,000,000 in
sales.
WOODMEN CX&OLB MEET 4
The Woodmen'? Circle will meet .
Thursday night at 8 o'clock at the '
Woman's club for the purpose of
reorganization and election of officers.
State Manager, Miss Blanche
Eakin, of Charlotte, and Mrs. Lou
Moorhead, field worker, of Shelby,
will be present. Members are being
urged to attend.
BIBU3 SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
Commencement exercises for the
Daily Vacation Bible school of
First Presbyterian church will be
held at the church at 8 p. m.
Thursday. The exercises will feature
a program by each depart
ment of the school and the presentation
of diplomas. A fellowship
hour will follow the commencement
programs.
BSOUAYXOX COMMISSION
The city'a Recreation commission
announced this week that it
had mot yet been able to secure a
recreation supervisor which it
deemed suitable for the noaltlon.
* - I
Tt wmi irtated that effort! ?re being
continued to find a peraon to at- |
anme the datie* of city recreation <
eperrlter.
?t
IWIM OBMTB oomroiL
The Tooth Center Advisory eoon'
ell will west st the Wowaa *a club
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St St 16 Theradsy sight, it wsa an
eraldj
ridson Fatall
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EVTVAX. SPBAXEB ? Shown aore
U >?t. O. O. Lanter, who wll' 1
reach at re Tirol services at First
aptlst church from Sunday until j
uly 3. Sorrlcoa will bo held both '
lornlnc and evening at 0 a. tn. and 1
p. m. Mrs. L O. Plnnlx will con- 1
act a Junior-Intermediate choir 0
ach evening at 7:30, and all boys
ad girls Interested are being re- *
nested to attend. {
Mazi Prisoner
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Caldwell Home'
<
Pvt. John H. Caldwell ia spending c
60-day furlough here with his wife,
he former Misa Mildred Childers, '
nd his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dewy
Caldwell of route 1.
Pvt. Caldwell has just returned
rom overseas where he has been a ^
risoner of the Germans for seven
lonths. i J
Pvt. Caldwell entered the service '
let. 18, 1943, and took his basic
raining at Camp Walters, Texas. He
?ft for overseas duty In April, 1944,
nd served with the 88th Division '
tlue Devils of Gen. Mark ClaTk's
rifth Army in Italy. He was captur- j
d Oct 8, 1944, and was taken to
looseburg. Germany, where he was :
nterned at Stalag 7A. He was later (
ransferred to Munich with a worki(i
unit, where he worked on the 1
ailroads. 1
The first four months of his stav e
was issued starvation rations. He
5st approximately forty pounds. La- '
er he met some French who were J
a the black market. 1
He got a few Red Cross parcels,!
rhich consisted of coffee, tea and *
igareRes. He traded these articles
or bread and sugar stamps, which ;
le traded to a German lady operat- 1
ig a grocery store across the street J(
rom where he worked. i1
Pvt Caldwell states that if it had j*
ot been for the Red Cross packages >
ind the prayers of you good peoplej:
le would not have made It through.
LIOWS BUWTIMO 1
Officers for 1945-46 will be In
tailed at fit* meeting of the King* (
Mountain Lione cli)b Thursday
night at 7:30 at Mountain .View
house. The installation will feature 1
the meeting.
James Harry Br
When Struck B
*
James Harry Bridges, 34, farmer |
,nd textile worker who lived in I
he Long Creek church community,
ras almost instantly killed, and two
ther men were injured about 10
'clock Saturday morning when they
rere struck by a beam which fell
rom the First National bank buildng
on "Battleground avenue.
Funeral services for Mr. Bridges
rere helli Sunday afternoon at 2:30
it Long Creek Presbyterian church
>f which he was an active member,
erving aa a member of the board of
leacona. Burial followed in the churih
cemetery.
Slightly injured were T. H. Jentine
and Howard M. White, both of tings
Mountain. Mr. Jenkins sutained
a laceration of the left arm,
equiring a number of etitehee, and
Mr. White enetained a alight scalp
round, a number of broken ribe, and
bruUee.
The accident occurred when a lnrge
truck, proceeding northward on Battleground
avenue, anapped a rope
leenred to a pole acroa? tho street
which held1 the heavy beam, uaed in
Itoletiag marble blocks, causing It to
fall to the atreet. The track was
iriven by Homer Carpenter,, Short
Creek, Va.
,t The flret National bank has been
; (Cont'd from ^ frost MP)
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10?X
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mn onrrs m oorr
y Injured
ere Tuesday
Funeral Rites
Will Be Held
Thursday At 6
Funeral services for Carl W. David
ion, 42, promiuent Kings Mountain,
nnn who was fatally injured shortly
liter 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in
in auto-truck collision on Bouth Batleground
avenue, will be held Thurslay
nf'eruoou at 6 o'clock at First
t'reshyteriau church, with the paa[or,
Kev. P. 1). Patrick, officiating,
insist...! i.? ? ? ** ?
- .??-?. n. n. mender, paaor
of St. Matthew's Lutheran cbur.v.-.1?V-w
/V. i.'v. .
>f Central Methodist oburch.
Mr. Davidson, for 18 years a mem>er
of the designing department of
llurgracn mills, sueeumhed to injures
suffered in the aecident at approz
aiately .1:40 Tuesday afternoon at
Shelby hospital, where he had b?en
aken for treatment. He died withlut
regaining conseiousncss.
The aecident between Mr. Davidon's
ear and the truck of Associat'd
Transport of Oreeuville, 8. C.,
vas followed by another minor accllent,
in which the ambulance of Futon
Mortuary collided with two oth>r
cars, one driven by Mrs. Hal
'look, and the other driven by an
inidentified woman, said to be from
Concord. Only painor damage wan
lone to these automobiles.
Charges of assault with a deadly
veapon against Russell Bayne, of
Ireenville, 8. C., driver of th?-fb?e*?
vere dismissed in hearing before O.
2. O'Farrell in city recorder's court
Wednesday afternoon, when evidenceby
witnesses indicated no negligence
>n the part of the driver of the
ruck.
The accident took place as Mr.
Davidson, charter member of the
Sings Mountain volunteer fire department,
was proceeding north on
Dattleground avenue to answer a
fire alarm?a blaze iu a trash box
behind Central school.
Another volunteer fireman. C. D.
[Red) Ware, was ahead of Mr. Davidson.
The tar-covered road was
very slippery due to the drizzling
ain, and Mr. Ware said that as he
met the truck and applied his brakes
lis ear began slipping. He tried to
urn into Falls street, but slid into
ne Hydrant and telephone pole on
:he corner.
It has not been determined wheth>r
Mr. Davidson had applied the
brakes on hiB car, but witnesses said
Je turned around in the rodd, the
truck striking the Davidson car ia
the vicinity of the left rear fender
ind smashing it. The smash-up occur
;d near the Mauney Mills crossing.
Mr. Davidson's death was attributed
to a compound fracture at the
base of the skull.
No other persons were seriously
burt in the series of accidents. Mr.
Davidson's car was virtually demolished,
and considerable damage was
lone to the ear of Mr. Ware.
Mr. Davidson, a native of Kings
Mountain, born October 9, 1908, was
(Cont'd on page three)
idges Killed
y Beam Sat.
Ditixens Requested
To Return Coupons
In an effort to give fair share of
now available canning sugar to
each family in this vicinity, this
Kings Mountain rationing board
this week issued letters to persons
receiving canning sugar coupons
prior to May 8, the letters asking
that the recipients of large amounts
of sugar return a portion of it.
W. E. Blaksly, board chairman,
said tha Immediate response to the
letters had been good, with eight
persona having already returned
tome sugar coupons and a number
of others having called the board,
stating that they wbuld either noturn
soma coupons or would mates
some arrangements for sharing wmgar
already pmrthaeed. Tteoee returning
the sugar coupons wage
Mis. Oyieg T. rails, * W. (Madden.
Forrest B. Herd, Jake 0* Meed.
Mn. 9. a Woman, Olin?i PmM,
a a na iii;M,v, x. im
Mr. BilWr tophMf* that the
action trill to TtinUry, tot to
appeal** for all |ww who %
aaaaMato na# ihmao ai^.'
ctiTw mi* axwmnw or mgir w
hare H tn ?hr that aQ