- i? j Kings Mountain 6,547
* < > ? Immediate Trading Araa 15,000
yaiT 96 WO. 50
lawbreakers
Bill Averages
$2,000 Month
4" i
Law-breakers in Kings Mountain,
ganging from traffic law violators,
dealers ini whiskey, and other persons
, ? * who have broken the law, j>aid a total
of $4,010.80 for these violations
daring October and November, according
to figures of the Kings Moun
tain police department, announced
thia week by Chief W. C. Timmons,
Jr.
;\ The figures show that 118 arrests
wen made in October, resulting in
fines and bond forfeitures of $1,235
ad court costs of $924.80, while 122
arrests wen made by the eity officers
daring November, resulting in finee
and forfeitures totaling $1,060, and
eoart costs of $791.
. Following are the offenses whihh
,wm? uhw on m? police department
record*.
t . October ? public drunkenness 30,
paadin* tO, drunken driving 10, fuul
ty light* 8, assault with deadly wea"*
, JM 3, reckless driving 8, violating
;the city code 8, no driver's license 6,
v;y 'violation of liquor laws 8, gambling
d, larceny 8, vagrancy 1, AWOL 1,
_ running red light* 1, disturbing the
'peace 1, lottery 1, carrying concealed
weapon 8, resisting arrest 1, disorderly
conduct 1, abandonment and nonsupport
8, affray 2, assault 1, assault
aa a female 8, and storebreaking 2.
November ? speeding 28, public
drunkenness 37, drunken driving 7,
BO driver's license 8, disorderly eonduet
2, reckless driving 1, violating
- the city eode 2, assault with a deadly
weapon 1, resisting arrest 1,
AWOL 3, assault 5, violating liquor
law* 13, gambling 7, hit and run dri
ring 4, carrying concealed weapon 1,
running red light 4.
Barite Deposits
In Local Area
4 >.* _V ___
By Dr. A. F. OresvesWxlker
BAXiEIOH, Dec. 15."?The mineral
barite it a natural barium sulphate
. which has found wide commercial use
an aeeount of its high molecular welfitjjs]'.
i (ht. Deposits of reasonably pure baV
>1** are relatively scares in the eas?
/ tarn states.
g'r, It is white in eolor but often stain
Sfcir'X.i*'". ^ to a yellow eolor by infiltration
?of water carrying iron compounds.
?&' *.? The unknown deposits of barite in
Sfb-fc, "North Carolina occur in the vicinity
of Bet Springs, Madison county,
* ''j&L ** *' !HiH*boro, Orange county, and Kings
Mountain and Bessemer City, Gaston
'V.>SaV ?eonnty.
The deposits in the Hot Springs
-area, which are low grade, begin
"*ear Bluff and continue northeast to
-Bear 8tackhouse, a distance of about
- *oven miles. The Hillsboro area beDaflP-:
gins about 3 1-2 miles" southeast of
Hillsboro and extends a short dis
fance west. These deposits are also
mOf low grade and are not large. The
apr'~-:"** ' ^ings Mountain'deposits lie along a
INK that extends in a southwesterly
? gireetion from the north end of
"chowder'a Mountain to King's Creek
'IL Q. The deposits at Crowder's Moun
tain are of high grade.
, la order to improve the quality of
* ' "the low grade oree, it ia necessary
fli*.. "that they be put through a flotation
JflK? '< t process. Experiments have determlnagk,---'..
? 'JF thmt t*1* *an be aeeouspUehed at
- a cost sufficiently low to make tke
product eompetitiye with the ' prer
The principal uses of barite are
p rn ih. 11*1
- hi ioq pivuuciiuu ot nvoopone wnicn i
I****1*?*?* for white lead la paint*;
fvV production at bvfan ehowica Is
Ouch as barium hydroxide and ear*
-v '. T|wi>ti; ia 6fl drilling muds; aa a
ifiSg?5 ;#? for paper and textiles and in
RWU-y.? jtabber and glass maaufaeturs.
Its wide use in paints in due to
weight and also to the fast that
K produces a good White color that
Mi readily change nader the
l!pr;v-?& conditions encountered
' 5 The deposits in the state are wordor
eloping. This is partioalarfy
**? . of those ia Oast on ooaaty, and
is ao reason why the ores
*lhMdd not be processed and bariam
ffifcjjQasta aaaaafaetared ia the State.
Merchants To Oboorre
Lotor Closing Honrs
1MB mm ttet tfc? fiTM win
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Kings
Local News
Bulletins
WABE AND SOV8 HOLIDAY
Ware and Bona, feed manufacturers
and wholesalers, will be closed
Monday and Tuesday in observance
of Christmas hol'days, it was announced
Wednesday by the management.
The firm will re-open on
Wednesday, December 26.
Members of the Kings Mountain
Kiwanis club will hear a report by
the club's achievement committee
at the regular meeting to be held
at tbe Woman's Club Thursday
night at 0:30. Members of this committee
include E. A. Harrill, chairman,
Harry Page, and Aubrey Manney.
\
RAHh KTBAT.Ti OAME
Kings Mountain will play Stanley
in a double-header basketball ,
bil at the high school gymnasium :
Friday night at 7 :30, according to
an announcement Wednesday by 0.
C. Edens. Mr. Edena said the pro- ,
ceeds from the game will go to a
fund to provide for Injured high (
school athletes. At the present time, t
no saeh fund is available and ex- (
penses of injured athletes must be (
borne by the athletes themselves.
The evening bill includes both ,
boys and girls games, and both (
Kings Mountain teams will include j
selected players, including college i
cage stars home for the holidays. (
Admission will be 15 and 25 cents. t
CHRISTMAS PAGEANT
The Christmas? Pageant, "Holy L
Xight", will be given Sunday night ,
at the First WesWsn Methodist !
church at 7 o'clock. Mrs. Florice All .
red and Miss Lillie Miller are in
charge and will direct the play.
The pastor, Rev. Paul E. Allred,
will'speak at the morning service
on ' the text, "Until Christ Be !|
Formed In You."
OK IFF IN AT HOME
Wilson Griffin, son of Mr. and I
Mrs. E. W. Griffin and navy phar- t
ma cists's mate, is now visiting bis '
parents on an exteuded leave- The . J
Kings Mountain man recently re ! <
turned after a long tour ot duty in_ j 1
Sicily. <
8ATJNDER8 DUE HOME '<
David Saundera, Bugler 2e, son
of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Saunders. 1
and husband of Mrs. Edna Houser i
Saunders, is expected to arrive in <
Norfolk, Va., and to receive a dls- t
charge from the navy on that date, 11
it was learned Wednesday.
I.
GOFORTH IN STATES I]
Sgt. Eugene Goforth, son of Mr. I 1
and Mrs. D. Goforth has arrived i
in the United States and is at 11
Camp Patrick Henry V,a., prior to i
receiving an honorable discharge <
from the army. Sgt. Goforth is ex- ]
pected home within a few days. 1
FIRE AXiARM |
City firemen answered an alarm i
at 9:30 Tuesday morning and ex- 1
tinguished a fire in a barn at the
home of Russel Smith on the York i
road. Chief Grady King said that J <
damage to barn and feed was estl- j
abated at 1200. I?
? 1
KABXiT BOMB BETTER ,
The condition of . C. L. (Jim) i
Early, manager of King* Mountain t
Furniture eompany who anffered a i
severe heart attack Saturday, waa j
described aa improved Wednesdayafternoon.
Mr. Early was taken te
Cherokee eonnty hospital, Gaffney,
8. C., and has been in an oxygen
tent alnee.
IXOH8 DONATE
The Kings Mountain Lions elnb
has donated a total of $05 for use t
at school cafeterias here to provide <
meals for needy children. The clnb
gave $25 to Ceneral school cafeter-_ '
ia, and $10 each to the eafeterlas \
of East, West, Park Grace, and I
Davidson colored school.
JKMKIMB NAMED
J. E. Jenkins, of Kinga Mountain,
was named -publicity director of
the Catawba Valley Officers association,
Woodmen of the World, at |
a meetlag of the group held at the
Lineolaton camp last Friday night.
OBAMFOKD DISCHARGED
Carroll J. Cranford, AOM, le, of
Kings Mountain, has bona honerahht
' illaiiWrMl !>? -
cording to aa announcement Jrom
the Ntnl Btpantkn Center at
' Charleetea, & C. AOM Oruftrd
MTTOd la the nary for 48 month* ';
aad a* antk mriM aboard tho
latdlat aad operati
Moun
~ KINOS MOUNTAIN, N. 6,,~ T
Six Drunken
Drivers Fined
In Court Monday
Edward Kennedy was bound over
to Superior court on charges af assault
with a deadly weapon with intent
to kill in city recorder's court
Monday, and six defendants were '
found guilty of drunken driving, as
the court disposed of a heavy docket.
Kennedy was released under bond
of $500. '
Handed the statutory judgment of
fine of $50 and costs, plus revocation
of their driver's licenses for drunk
en driving, were Bobbie Rhea, William
Dagenhart, Clarence Whittle,
and Hoke B. King, and Paul Moose
and Roscoe C. Clippard were each
fined $60 and costs on twin counts of
J-i..:-- - - J J-J -l '?
uiuuocu u[i>iu|j ftUU unvmg W1ID0UI
ft license.
Assessed coats for drunkenness were
Ids Burrls, Will Lovelace, Buby Suse
bee, Cmrl Lingerfeldt, Bessie Stevenion,
Bobert W. Whiteside*, Will
Pields and North A. Belk, while Arthur
Hoyle, Sheet Barrett, and D.
H. Honser were fined $5 and costs on
he same charge. a
Berlin M. Stroupe paid *50 and
rosts in lieu of a three-month jail '
:erm for carrying a concealed weapon {
ind in addition paid costs on a charge
of drunkenness.
Frank Mitchem, found guilty of
reckless driving, waa fined $25 and
osts, and Tommy Boyee was fined j
110 and costs for disorderly conduct. !
iVaynce C. Baity was fined $10 and'
osts on charges of drunkenness, In- I
erfering with officers and resisting'
irrest.
Boy Lovelace, Jr., was assessed j
osts on charge of conspiracy to vidate
liquor laws, and a charge or |
(Cont'd on page four)
Wounded Vets
Get 300 Gifts
Kings Mountain citizens have con- j
tribute*! almost 300 gifts for hospi-!
alized servicemen at Mountain Home i
feterans Administration facility j
lohuson City, Tenn., Harry e Page, ,
hairman of the "Gifts for Tanks!
iVho Gave '' p u m r.o i t,n a !
I "O ** CiUUVHUVCU
A'ednesday.
Kings Mountain thus exceeded its
juota of 270 guis.
Mr. Page reported gift totals
vere shipped last Saturday but that
i number of other gifts had been left '
it depositories in the business disrict.
He said that these gifts would ]
>e mailed Thursday.
Cooperating in the campaign, spon- '
;ored throughout the nation by the
Red Cross, were the majority of
><ings Mountain civic organizations. J
Mr. Page reported that gift totals
:rom each group approximately as
'ollows: Kiwanis club, 60, Lions
lub, Go, American Legion, 65, VFW i
10, Junior Woman's club, 5, Senior!
Aoman's club, 5, Junior Red Cross, '
15. Mr. Page said that 10 gifts were
oresented by Myers' Department
More and four by Kings Mountain
Drug company.
The other gifts, he said, were unnarked
and were not credited to- any
organization.
"I wish to thank each organizadon
who participated in the campaign,
eaeh individual who gave a
rift, and especially the Jnnior Red
n?. vi.u ? ^ -x - - x * *?
c i un nuicu iubuo qn UUIlHUOn OI
WO," Mr. Page Mild. "The eooper?tion
wm aplendid, and I am rare the
gifts will be greatly appreciated."
Kings, Mountain 1
In Victory Clothin
Kings Mountain will participate in
the Victory Clothing Collection for |
rverseas relief, scheduled for January
1-31, according to W. L Plonk,
Kings Mountain chairman, who yesterday
asked all citizens to plan parieipation
in the dries.
Mr. Plonk, who was chairman of
the elothing collection last spring,
tald that he hoped Kings Mountain
would exceed by a considerable figure
its gift of almost 5,000 pounds of
slothing in the former dries.
Organisation of the campaign here
Is being arranged and further announcement
will be fortheosaing. .
All persons contributing used cloth,
lng will be requested to write a short
note of good will for the recipient of
the article, as a means to building in
toraatioaal good win.
Hoary J. Ktlm, ohlp-bulMor ul
Indootrlallrt, la aatloaol ohaimah of
the ehwpaiga".
"Wo haro boon toeing report* of
otarratioa and cold tn Europe," Mr.
PHnk aald,- ''and kaa oar* that1
^ltfi Mountain trill roopoad to this
ealL"
tain H
HUBS DAT, DECEMBER 80, 1940
Second Snow1
Citizens Looki
%
Textile Plants 1
To Cease Work
On Saturday
Kings Mountain eitizens, with only
>An?
tvui ouv^|/<u^ uot 3 uuui v^ariBiuitto,
looked forward to the holidays today,
as they planned last-minute shopping
tours.
It will be holidays for most citieens,
as all manufacturing companies
will close for periods varying from
three days to one week.
'All Mauney Textile Interests plants
?Mauney Mills, Inc., Bonnie Mills,
Kings Mountain Manufacturing company,
Mauney Hdsiery Company, Sadie
Mills ? will suspend operations
Saturday morning and resume work
Thursday morning, as will both Panline
and Margrace Mills of Neisler
Mlllls, Inc.
Park Yarn Mills will operate all
day Saturday but will be shut down
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
while the Cora Plant of Textiles, Inc. **
will knock off at 2 o'clock Saturday
afternoon and resume operations at
0 o'clock Thursday morning.
Frieda Manufacturing company at
Crowder's Mountain will close with
the end of the third shift Friday S'
(Saturday morning), and will re-open j
with the first shift Wednesday. |H
Employees of Phenix Mills, Inc., ,
will get the longest vacation. The I
two Phenix plants will close Satur-j{jr
Jay and will not resume operations [ ,1;,
until Monday, December 31. !mf
City employees will get a two-day j
vacation on Mondav and Tuesdav of . iv
* j
uext week, while about ull cf busi- j),
ness firms will close on both Tues- \t
day and Wednesday, as will the First p]
National bank, Both days have been',,.,
declared official bank holidays by
Governor Cherry. The bank also gets yj
another holiday one week later. It j a<
will be closed on New Year's Day. j jc
Ware and Sons, feed manufactur : th
era and wholesalers, will also be close'S
Monday and Tuesday, as will j
Kings Mountain Cotton Oil company. | ro
The Kings Mountain postoffice will
be closed only on Christmas day next fj,
week, but will also be closed on New
Year's day.
hii
"Santa" Greets Firemen i
On Return From Blaze
When city firemen returned fromi^r
answering Tuesday morning's alarm, I
they were presented Christmns gifts!"''
?a carton of cigarettes each?by Ar-'
nold Riser.
A ?
"We have some real boosters in '
town and Mr. Kiscr is one of them," j
Fire Chief Grady King said. "we!.
really appreciate his kindness."
Motorists Cautioned !*
On Reckless Driving ! a
Pointing to a record of no fatal
accidents in the past 90 days, local j
law enforcement officers Wednesdat |
commented on the arrest last week of i
seven persons for drunken driving j*?
and eantioned all persons to avoid; '
reckless driving. j
"Liquor and automobiles dont! *
mix," said Patrolman Hay B. Ward,)?
tt J a a. a! A- I Ml
bum w? expect to continue to en- |
force the law in this respect. This
is the best means we have of preventing
highway accidents and fa- .
ph
fo Take Part *
g Collection
M
Attention Is Called ch
To Christmas Edition
. 8t
Attention of readers, advertisers er
and correcpondenta la called to tna "
fact that tha Herald s apodal
Ohristmaa edition will appaar en
Monday, Decambar 84. This Issue pr
will raplaea tha edition which would B
ordinarily appaar on Daombat 87. w
MoA bnrtnees flnna, according to ^
past cnMom, win naa this iaaaa to* K?
Ohristmaa gnstlnp, and while tha fr
I perald wfll maha a apodal effort in
1 to ooetaot an firms, tha bast way pi
| to tone yoar fine of a Ohristmaa re
' grosMac is to telethons ths am wl
piper Mt later than Saturday boos. ^
MMMM Ml tars their oopy
for the (tank wlwlir at tka of- rc
floe not later than Friday after- <?
neon, sad correspondents Should si- "
Ths Herald offlos win bo closed |?
frese Mfdsy soon satil the foHow- $4
' V.-HW?' TTr- ~VT'' ~
eraldj^
Of Week Blan
ng Forward T<
a f town
Bk. MRinBflHHHIII
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frore
1 ALL-STAB TEAM ? Bobert gtart(
elll, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. 8. ar,(1 ,
sill and outstanding Kings Moon- Tn
in high school athletic, was select- tbc y
for a tackle position on the Wes- jjo
rn Conference all-star team at a unti]
set In g of officials at Hickory last ani)
was
peari
sven More Servicemen Kinp
situa'
:ome With Discharges deiiv
t>nn
Kinps Mountain servicemen conlued
to arrive home this week with |
iehnrpe and for peacetime Christ- cn'' '
isses at home. nT0 1
Anionp service men arriving recent Ti?un
arp Spt. Dick Baker, army, son of
\ aail Mrs. L. P. Baker. Leslie ,,sors
ode. marine, son of Mr. and Mrs. annf,<
arenee Mode, I?awrotn-o Patrick, i TT,n^r
irines. son of Re. ami Mrs. P. P. i n^t
itriek. S-Sgt. Arthur Gantt. son of I'"IP m
rs. Ressie Gantt. Hnrlcy R. Gore j 0,1
)M 2o. navy, son of Rev. ami Mrs. ^pp
O. Gore, and Cnpt. William An- ^
ony. son of Dr. annd Mrs. J. E ^p,v
ithony. suddi
H?t. Raker returned from the Eu- rizon
pean theater of operations, while r'PS
t. Mode returned from the Pacific sPPPt
eat re. Tei
Lt. Patrick was discharged Friday 'reez
Camp LeJeune and will resume heen
? education in the near future. nougl
Bgt. Gantt, in service for three ^p
ars. spent 22 months in the Eurt, tniddl
an Theatre of Operations. i !"1''
AOM Gore, in service 28 months. | rnPT1'
ent 21 months aboard the T*SS Han ! '1ispek.
and holds the Victory ribbon *^p '
tilippines Liberation ribbon and "ppn
datic - Pacific ribbon with lit ! ,n'pttle
stars. '
Capt. Anthony, recently returned : n'''.v
tm the Pacific theater, arrived in ; *0,vn'
ings Mountain Tuesday. tnas
[auney Twins Guest
rtista With Svmtihonv ! TL
??r?? I lj
Mr. and Mn. W. K. Mauney and A
r. and Mrs. W. K. Mauney, Jr.,
?nt to Augusta, 0a., Sunday where c
ey attended the second concert of
e season of the Augusta Little
mphony orchestra, which included p
duo-piano rendition by Ernest and beep
lies Mauney, well-known Kings dents
ountain musicians Mavo
The Kings ^fountain artists played I * '
feetivala," by Debussy-Bevel, and 8
>o played in the orchestra, Miles a?tiV'
lying the oboe, and Ernest Mauney, Safet
e bassoon. The other bassoonist was organ
ibert Chenoweth, army warrant of- dent-i
?er and musical director for the )lfj
urth corps area.
The following is a portion of the been
view of the concert appearing in Chris
onday'a Augusta Herald: shoul
"Augusta's Little 8ymphony Or- cjden
estra surpassed expectations for .
e second time in Ha short career P
inday afternoon,^presenting anoth- Then
thoroughly enjoyable program to avoid
cal concert-goers in the music hall seaso
the Municipal Auditorium. <<j
Appearing as guests on the pro- court
am wer$ Ernest and Miles Mauney, for (
duo-piano team that performed ^ove
ith masterful precision. The Mann- .
a, twin- brothers and technical see- ?W"
lants in the army, traveled here Wghi
om Tuscaloosa, Ala., to take part ially
the afternoon's program. They war
ayed " Festivals" by Debussy, and
sponded to applause for encores P7
ith Milhaud's "Brarileras" and /
ie famous little 8hostakovlteh polka L
om "The Age of Oold ballet.
The young Manneya' pert In the
mcert would here mede the evenig
well-epent, but e full end enterining
program of favorite elaeel- 5
il eeleetione gave the audlenee more
ian ite money'e worthwhleh, I
eldentally, would have been about
IIS, the amount eolleeted at the IB
id of the eoneert through freewill
matioue for the eymphony'a eup- v H
nt." L
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1 A Pages
A V Today
FIVE CENTS _*jtl * (.: ?
ikets City;
0 Holidays
?
>al Shortage
til Serious
! Winter Hits
>gs Mountain citizens looked
ird to a white Christmas for tha
time in many years this week,
nother snow put a blanket of
> on the city Tuesday afternoon,
rvice stations and garages, after
day respite from Inst week's
, began working at top speed
1 as motorists who had taken off
s prematurely, had to put them
Drain. These were the lueky mots
who had ehains or were abls
itain one of the few sets In
, The others just parked the
e man reported his carburet or
n and another got his engine
;d, but the brakes were frozen
the auto wouhln't budgp.
iffie continued to move along
lighways. though at a slow pace,
ne seemed to mind the weather
they glanced at the coal bin
saw what was happening. Coal
doing a magician-like disapng
act, and Claude Hambright.
s Mountain coal dealer, said the
tion is sti'l "bad,*' in spite of
pries of the half-ton ration to
persons Tuesday and arrival of
coal cars the same day. He said
more coal is expected by the
if the week, but that shipments
indefinite due to the heavy at
of freight and the weather,
urged all Kings Mountain coal
to conserve their supplies and
.meed 'hat no deliveries will be
on Monday and Tuesday of
week, though deliveries would
nde on fiundav. in event expectlipmcnts
arrive.
slick sidewalks and roads had
alking with careful trend and a
persons had the% misfortune of
nlv finding themselves in a ho
tal nosition. TTowevor. no injuhave
been reported except to r?ivo
dignities.
nperatures'1 have been well below
ing. though the mercury has
higher during the dnv?high e\
to melt slightly the ley snow,
rehnnts continued to be in the
lo of the Christmas buying rush,
som" reported last-minute shin?
of soeeinl Christmas merehanWhite
dress shirts continued on
out" list, and there have as yet
no reports of nylon hose for
e postoffiee personnel was prohtlie
most over-worked group in
as they handled scads of Christ
cards, letters and packages daily.
iomson Warns
[ainst Wrecks
yor J. H. Thomson today asked
eople of Kings Mountain to help
the. eity free of holiday aeeb
during the Christmas season,
ir Thomson expressed the hop?
citizens of Kings Mountain will
ely cooperate with the National v
Council and 130 cooperating
ligations in making this an accifree
Christmas.
'his is the Christmas we have
awaiting," he said, "this is the
tmas when the spirit of peace
d permeate every heart. An aet
will destroy that spirit fdr
>ers of any affected family,
cfore, let us make an effort to
1 accidents during the holiday
n.
f we are careful, considerate and
eous, we can further this eanse
>urselves and our fellow men. Ac
all, let us remember to hold
our speed on the streets and
ways to a sensible figure, eepeesince
ears are far below prostandards."
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