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?" ' iBpfc? 11 ilsil ^?pxnjLTI0N ' ^Vyftwwyw^Ud Klaca Mountain 5JM7 ,^Wj6*wlisU Trading Am 15,000 5 t " - _ ' VOL 07 WO. Nine T< v *"* j J Local-News j Bulletins BATLSY RE8ION8 * 8. E. Batley, for the past several < months a member of the . King* ] .Mountain police force, bat recently i resigned hie 'poet to eceept police i employment elsewhere, according to an announcement by B. L. Burdettd, eity manager. The resignation is effective March 1, bat Mr. , v Batley has been given a two-week ' vacation. No replacement has been 1 </ secured, Mr. Burdette said. ' fey s : HOLIDAY ON FRIDAY Mrs. Mary B. Gofortb, manager 11 of the local USES office, annoan- ( * eed this week that the , office -would' be closed Friday in observanee of the national holiday eelo- , bra ting Qeorge Washington's birthday. The office is open Mondays ' V through Fridays. i ' 1 ' KXWAN1B FROO&AM f Miss Dorothy Biehey, limestone college director of dsamaties, will I PPWB*1-* oao-act play "Suppress- 11 ad Pwftw" M til* regular meet- ja log Of tU King* Mountain Kiwan- 1 I* club Thursday night at 0:SO at tha Woman'a Club-. The eaat win iaahsde Hal da GlUies, aa Stephen ' IhewiUr, aa architect; Verniee < - CTataa, aa Henilatta Brewster, hia 1 ; wife; and Helen McMillan, aa Mr- 1 bel, Henrietta's sitter. 1 >- 1 J - ' - T.mw mmro Maleohn Campbell, dean of the i textile aekool at State eallege, Ba- < f laigh, wHI aiMraaa members of tha i Kings lfonatala Ltoaa ehib and i large hamber of gaaeta at the rofotar meeting of Aa organisation at < ' . the Woman'a ehib Tuesday - night : "Shelby will be guests of the elab, ] *>' al?C iMtk eeveral textile machinery " experts (torn other cities. Charlie < - Man la ehairman of the committee i surtaaghtg the meeting. nr SOBOKITY Miss Frances Summers, who is a student at Marion college, Marion, Vs., baa been elected to membership in the Delta Beta ehgpter of Phi Theta Kappa Sorority.' This' is : ; the national Honorary Scholastic ; , Society for Junior colleges. > ????? ' '! ACTIVITY PBOORAM 5 # Sohedule of Saturday' activity program, aa announced by Earl < '< . Bath, recreation director,, follower i y ?:30-11:10, grammar echool boya; 1:80-^:15, high echool boye; 3:15i 4:80, glrla. A total of 107 partiel- , pated In the Activities at the high s( school gymnaeium laat Saturday. ' I': -?- 1 BACK FXOM JHBVIGB Five more Hinge Mountain men V; have recently been eeparated from *" the army. They are New McGill, mi of Mr. and Mre. T. P. Me, ;jr 0111,1*. C. L. Early, Jr., eon of ] 'Mr.^M lCre. a lb Early, Varaer , Howard, who nerved * in Europe, i Leopard Abernathy, who eerved in Hawaii, and Bhrney Black, son of Mr. and Mre. Clarenee Black. < I - STATE TAX AID B. Lb Armour, collector for the > state department of revenue, announeed this week that he would < be at;'the City: Hall hehe on March ->> ' 1, 5, 0 And 7 to aaeist Klaga Monn. tain citiaene in preparing *tat? in. eoeae returne. , tieee* Uridi; la olmi ?bm of Omn W?blagtoa'o birthday, a 4. llpl tUk MJMar, it wu anaoan *< by official* of tbo bask tkia i?Mgayk^ jYaila Kings 1A^amj-wmimiiuniimjimiiiiiaii 1 extile P Local Compai City Bus Serv City bus service will be inaugurated here by Kings Mountain Bus com 3any on March 1, it was announced Ihis week by Hal 8. Plonk, manager at the company. The company will operate under a franchise granted by the city, and will begin operation with two buses in service, operating on regular hourly schedules in the morning, and on kalf-honr schedules in the afternoons. The fare will be 10 cents. Mr. Plonk said that the buses will tie of the latest, most-modern type ior city use, with a capacity of 29 passengers, comfortable seats of am)!e width, ,and with air-conditioning jnits. He also said the firm would a^d kdditional buses and expand scbedues as, traffic demands, and as quickly as' addltiobal"busee became available. Terminal point will be the corner >f Mountain street and Battleground ivenne in front of the First National rank. * Present plan of operation calls for s shuttle service between the Marines and Sadie mills, via the Phenlx mill, with operation to begin at 5:80 s. m., on an hourly basis until 2 p. m. This servlee will then be operated on a half-hour schedule. Also to be operated is a round-trip pick-up servlee on the CherryvillS sad Shelby roads, to be ran six times tally, the hours coinciding with shift changes la local In oat rial plants. The route of this bus follows: terminal point to Oanaler street, north on Chnaler to Walker, east oa Walker to Nv Piedmont avenue, north on Piedmont t# Barrett's atsn?? nisislag oath ob Ckenyvttto not, by Oorm Mill, to Piedmont arenas, thenee rio Walker street to King street, west ?n King to Shell service station on Shelby rood, and retaining by King itreet to Battlegroand avenue and to terminal point. "We plan to give the patrons the best in comfortable equipment," Mr. Plonk sad, "and schedules will be adjusted and expanded according to the needs of the patrons." . Full arrival and leavng schedules are to be announced next week. Defendant Bound Over Jessie Thomas Bollocks, charged irith breaking add entering and arson in connection with a robbery at - rnemx store sometime ago, wm bound over to Superior eourt in preliminary hearing in city recorder's sourt Monday. Janet Mitchell went to jail for 80 days on failure to pay costs for public drunkennea. Lester L. Self was given a suspended sentence for drunken driving, . on payment of a $00 fine and eoets, and Early Morning Lail, who faeed the same charge, was given a 00-day term, suspended on payment of 'a Jfine of $60 and coats. In addition, I his driver's license was suspended for 12 months. Daisy Williams, charged with vio-* lating the liquor laws, appealed the judgment of the court. The. following were assessed with the eoets for drunkenness: John (Fat) Clemens, James Orier, . H. B. Belk, Andrew Q. Johnson, Edward D. Forte|berry and Hasel Smith. On the same charge, Wilbur M. Benton and Bofns Woods were fined $0 'had* costs and John 8tevsnson was fined $10 and costs. John B. Boyster, Jr., found guilty of drinking in a public plaee, was taxed with the eoets, and Charles a was ? - - - - IOUM gt?"y or reemeM art* II *** * tfSi?jp' j} C*r*on, SIHtf ^BoUU Collin* wilt b* Moun DXU MOUMTAUf, N. 0. THUUD . . M . | lants A iy Will Begin ice March 1 I Piedmont Bug Kill Kay Suspend Operation ; J. B. Herndon, ovs?r of Plod- ! tnoyrt- fto# Mill, sold Wednesday . that the firm My' bo fofrced to suspend operations In the near fu- . tore due to iuUUty to obtain nood ed materials. The mill Is mot operating low i than an hour daily, Mr. Herndon i stated, and ho said the machinery 1 may possibly bo sold or leased In order to fro# the building for Some other typo of manufacturing opera- j1 wn. Principal hold-tip on production la 1 inability .to obtain loopor dipt. Mr. ' Hertulon aaid they are simply un- * buyable at the OP A ceiling price of aeren and one-fealf oents per pound." He said he understood the dips were bringing so cents a 3 (and on black market sales. 4 1 Board Changes Parking Limit The Kings Mountain city t>oard, at I their Februarjr meeting last Thu|r*dsy sight, set a 30-minute parking limit on a portion of the main strdet ' parking areas in the downtown bualsees eeetion. Specifically, the . 30-minute limit' ! will apply to ears parked on the eeet (curb) side of Battleground avenue, 4 asd on the south tide of Mountain street, from the corner of the Fife: < National k?V *k- -11? ,s- - ? - . ? w ?uw ftUJUlUiag ] the office* of Dr. J. E. Anthony. * ; The board also revoked the beer lleeas* of Jemee Wede, colored, op- l of. Blue Moon cafe, end inn-1 M a beer license to Janie Whisnant, 'Misted, operator of a cafe on Cher- ' okee street. Bites For Patterson i Baby Held On Sunday |' Patricia Anne Patterson, infant ' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Pat- ' tenon, Phenix Mill No. 1, died Fri- ' day morning at 7:30. Surviving are her parents and the ( following brothen and sisters, Mrs. Forrest Dixon of Spindale, Mrs. Alice Short of Kings Mountain, Mazell, Jessie Marie and Ella Faye of the home, C. D. Patterson, Odell Patterson, Herman Patterson, Boyce Patter son, O. W. Patterson, Jr., John 8teve I Patterson and Marshall Patterson. i Also surviving are her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Burgin of Spindale and Mr. and Mrs. B. H Patter son of Eddeyville. ISintnl V.1J a?J ? ? >vva n vtc UCIU DUUUC J afternoon at 8 o'clock at the Moontain View Baptist church with the pastor, Rer. Floyd Hollar, offteiati1 Boy Scout Fioai Underway; $1,2 Kings Mountain Scouters, after an ^ early-bird breakfast at the Woman's Club at 7:30 Wednesday morning, launched the annual campaign for funds as Kings Mountain's share in the Piedmont Council quota of $26,000. The Kings Mountain quota is 01,200. The 35-odd Bcouters present heard a short talk by Henry McKelyte, Piedmont Council president, and W. K. Mauney, finance chairman an-, aouneed his solicitation committees. Initial reports Wednesday afternoon Indicated that epnsttevfole progress had been mads (Wring the djyy. "Kings Mountain has always giyen strong rapport to ths Boy Scout "" "Scouting bpilds good citiaens, 'tad laeestment ln Scouting it the munity can malte for the future," IST-Manney said. hi-'*>.?? J " BHD (moss MJUtTKO J. B. Herndon, chairman of the 1046 Bed Or Mi fund campaign, hga celled a Stenting of ednoiittofte to bo bold at&be Oitr. Hall court * ?:80. Itr Herndon *ald the mooting woqfd ." . tain H LUj ,wung.iiajLLuu>fl.meL^.x^^ Al^f?lUlUAAk Uf IMu V Sund&fFire , Destroyed Grace Church Bev. H. E. Jones, [castor of Grace Methodist church which was almost totally destroyed by fire Sunday norning, said Wednesday that members of the church are already laying plans for the building of a new >difiee which would cost $30,000 135,000. The Sunday morning fire which ased the former structure resulted l.i in estimated $20,000 loss, only one'ourth covered by insurance. The pastor stated that the fire ras thought to have started from r. lefeetive heating system. He said :he church janitor had built a fire sarly in the morning and had roturn ? ?d home. He had come back to the shurch about 9 o'clock to find the ' >uilding ablaze. A fire alarm wa? 0 turned in, but city firemen found c the blaze had gained too much head- " pray to prevent near-total destruction. 9 However, they fought the fire for 0 three hours. Smoke was still rising ? 'rom the debris late Sunday afternoon. I The furnace to the hot air heating plant did not explode, and it was 1 thought that the fan ceased to op- J srate causing the building to overteat and ignite. Mr. Jones said the church had is- j mod a request to the city i school ]( board for use of the East school e tor Sunday services until a new ehur- j eh ean be built. Though the school hoard has not yet granted the re- j luest, he said approval is anticipated. ^ Plana are beinjr made, he said, to 1 conduct a drive for funds for the t now church through the membership, ' and ho added that he would be glad I to accept funds for the new church building. ' * V_ ?? J Presbyterian Meeting ] To End Sunday Eight i The evtbgelistie meeting at the a Pirst Presbyterian church has been well-attended this week, with large < :rowds hearing the sermons each c evening at 7:30 by Rev. W. M. Cur- 1 rie, pastor of First Presbyterian church, Belmont. s I y The meeting continues through Sun ( iay night of this week. "The meeting is proving a real c blessing," according to Rev. P. D. Patrick, the pastor. "Mr. Currie is i bringing strong messages and is an unusually fine preacher. He is bring- ] ing the messages that are vitally needed." Sermon subjects for the remainder j of the week ere: , Thursday: "Darkness and Light." i Friday: "The Richest Man in the ? World." a Sunday, Morning: "Overflowing t Religion." i -.Evening: "Ivory Palace#." icial Campaign: 100 Is Sought Mountaineers Have t Three Bills On Tap j Sings Mountain high school cag- ' era, approaching the end of the current liertntlull sea eon, face a speed- < ed-up irheluls during the next flee ] days as thsy play three twin enThe MeuiHelnsiis Invade Bother- < fwdRh Thursday night for garnet , liieVtemtj postpabsd due to bad- ] weather, travel to Ohen/sflle Prt- I. day1 Mgkt, add trill bo bade home | Tnaaday night for a twin Mil with 1 TrMOgk ' ] B' fregxnma bofln at 7 o'clock. ] Funeral Eitea Held ? For John W. Butler John Wealty Bntler, 40, died and- ' denly Tknraday right at' It o 'clock, following a heart attach, at the home ; of JaMet Smith la the Mountain ] Tiew eeetlon. He la aurrlred by one brother, Hotaea W. Bntler, and two alatera, Mr*. Hdate Rayfield of Klnga Moan tain and Mn. Florence Craig at . Caaar. Fnnoral terrier* were hold Saturday afttrnoon at S o 'eloefc at the ' Mountain View Baptist ehareh with the fiiUtr, -trr. Floyd Holier, officiating. Burial tea* ia- Shady flrove ^?7 c lerald ^ages IANDXDATE -2- Shown above la the army? They are Ned McOill, aow 8. Ollne, attorney, who has anounced his candidacy for the Demo ratio nomination for solicitor. P? tlcal activity in the county was Tory ulet during the past week but close baervers predicted an upswing durog the coming week. Merchants To Elect Officers Members of the Kings Mountain Merchants association will cast bal >ts during the coming week tc hoose officers and directors foi 046, it was announced this week. John L McOill and J. W. (Mike) lilam have been nominated for prei dent. Under tbe arrangement, tht lominee receiving the greatest nun >er of votes will be elected president rith the runner-np to serve as vice i resident. Also nominated are eight men foi our directorships, with the fonr non nees receiving highest number 01 otes' to fHKtto" offices. Nominee' ire: O. A. Bridges, J. 0. Darracott, i 5. Keeter, B. S. Neill, Charlie Bla ock, W. O. Grantham, B. G. Lindsa; nd Martin Harmon. The association members will alst ihoose ft director for the state asso iation, with J. B. Keeter and G. A Bridges the nominees. Mrs. Lynwood Parton, secretary aid ballots will be mailed Thursday vith the deadline on returning ol allots March 1. E. C. McClain served as cbairmar >f the nominating committee. fates Connor Plans New Studio Here Yates Connor, well-known Kingi fountain man, and son of Mr. anc d ra. M. L. Connor announced thii reek that he had rented the build ng on Mountain street formerly us id by M?Ginnis Furniture company a a warehouse and would open it h? nAir ? ? - ? ?-vm. v mm ^UUVVgllJ/UH rtndlo. The building is now being remodel id for the studio, and Mr. Connoi aid he expected to offer the citizem >f Kings Mountain complete photo graphic service including portraits commercial photography. copying inting, and kodak finishing. He was honorably discharged fron he army on December 1, after mori bau three years of service. Durinj lis service in the army, he was i ipecialist in photography. Jaycees Held Dinner Meeting Last Friday Members of Kngs Mountain Junio Chamber of Commerce held a dinnei nesting at Mountain View Hote ast Friday night, with 40 member iresent. Guests of the club were Glee A Bridges, president of the King fountain Kiwanis elub, and Holland Dixon, president of the Lions ehib. The membership unanimously adop ;ed a resolution urging the city t< romplete the construction of th igh school stadium at the earlest po ilble moment. Negro Group To Plan Red Cross Campaign Some 60 negroes of rural King Moantain will meet at tfca f!lt? We1 Tueaday night at 8 o'eloek to dli raw organization of the rural Be Croat campaign, it waa ' announce this week by Red Croat offielala. U. h. Campbell, Tocatiomakl teaet er, at Compact achool la chairman c tha group. Quote for tile group ia 8878. ''''' ' . r. ' -0 *^>w * y y* ^* .s~;T% y' > -?lA. . ;.-! i nPages ivJ Today Upward ! Raises Became Effective Here Monday Wage raises, which in general placed the minimum hourly rate of pav for all textile machine operators at 65 cents, became effective at the ma jority of Kings Mountain textile plants Monday of this week. Officials of these plants declined to estimate the total sumber of em ployees affected by the upward revision in wages ? which follow* a general adoption of a 55-ccnt minimuum wage last summer ? but ths nine plants employ a total of approximately 1,850 persons. Industrial firms revising wages include Jfeisler Mills, Inc., at both the Margrace and Pauline plants, Sadie Mill. Bonnie Mill, Kings Mountain Manufacturing company and Maun ey Mill of the Mauney Textile Inter' ests group, Park Yarn Mill, both ' plants of Phenix Mills, Inc., and Cora plant of Textiles, Inc. 1 Z. F. Cranford, superintendent of Cora, declined comment on the revision at this plant, simply stating that "adjustments upward" ' had been made. As previoaaly stated, the revisions at the other plants establish a broad minimum of 65 cents per hour for all machine operations. Ladd W. Hamrick, of Phenix Mills, Inc., said the wage increase for this ' firm would be slightly greater than ' 18 percent, based on prior weekly 1 payrolls. School Band : Reorganizing B. N. Barnes, superintendent of schools, announced this week the an ^ pointment of Joe C. Hedden u high . ?cb >ol band director, ' Mr. Hedden assumed hi* dntiee last week and i* alrlady reorganising the high school band, Mr. Barnee said. The band, which gained a wide reputation throughout this and adjoining states, ceased to function about one year ago when the director, ' Glenn Pahner, entered the armed forces and another director could not ' be obtained. ' Mr. Hedden is a graduate of Western Carolina Teachers college and was recently discharged from the 1 navy. He majored in music at WCTC, served one year at the USN Music school in Washington, D. C., and was a student conductor while in college. He is a native of Sylva and is the husband of the former Miss Frances Crouse, of Kings Mountain. ; 1 Kings Mountain AAA i Unit Allotted $3,741 [ Charles P. Weir, AAA Kings Moun , tain community committeeman, an liouncea mil week that a total of . $3,741.80 is available to fannera of the Kings Mountain community for soil-building practices. Farmers may earn a portion of this sum by using lime phosphate dur ing the current year, building terraces, making pasture improvements and by planting soil-building crops. Mr. Weir said that farmers inter- . ested in the program should contact | him immediately. Lewis Resumes His Dental Practice Here Dr. O. P. Lewis, well-known Kings r Mountain dentist recently separa' ted from the army dental eorps resumed his prstctice of dentistry on 1 Monday of this week in his offices 'A in the First National Bank bnilding. In the reserve corps prior to the war, Dr. Lewis served four and one' half years in the army, including a long tour of duty in the European * Theatre of Operations. When separa1 ted from the army, he, held the rank # of eolonel. -a s __________ J Imperial Theatre * >-a - ijiblb improvements The management of the Imperial ,*fl ? Theatre to announcing thia week ball prerkmOat ? tW.tt?j|M> **! ?J? ^4^0 i tem and the in*tall>pia of aew neat*, d It wm atoo anae^HM 4kmi;"<*ke d firm hae parehheed Ww aoend egmipmeat and expect* te receive It ia I- the nepr future. >f During the paet few week*, the management ha* done considerable redecorating of the aovle honee.'