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LBOIOK MSttl nrsaOAT
Otl? D. Creep Post, 155, the
American Legion, will hold Its _
regular semi-monthly meeting at
the city ball July 16 at 7:30 o'clock.
Commander Fulkerton aska
that all members -be present and
atatsd that. cards would not be
mailed aa the adjutant expects
to get a sew method of notifying
members ef meeting nights. The
asoetlng will end promptly at
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Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post
~226S, of Kings Mountain will
held a fish supper Saturday night
July IS, with the public invited.
All persona going are asked to
he at the city hall promptly at
F o'clock. Tickets are now on sale
and will be sold at the Vets base
toll game Friday afternoon.
Members of the team are invited
guests of the organisation at
? the supper.
OOUBT or BOKO*
. Boy Scout Court of Honor will
be held tonight (Thursday) at
8:15 o'clock at the city hall, according
to an announeement from
Piedmont Boy Scout headquarters, <
Oastonia. > i
. Baptist To Meet At
Fallston On Sunday
The Kinga Mountain Baptist Bon-,
day School aaeociation will hold it? f
quarterly meeting at the New Bethel1
Baptist church, two miles west of
Fallstoa, on Bandar July 14, 8 p. a.
J. N. Barnett, ot Nashville, Tenn.,
head of the Baptist Sunday. wchoel
board, will be the prlaeipal speaker.
Hr. Barnett Is a native of Cleveland
County and has betn active la Sonday
school work for a number of
years. .
Rev, Lewis E. Ludlum. aseoeiatlonal
missionary of, the Kings Konntaln
Baptist association, will be in eharge I
of the program. Bev. L C. Plants !
will load the singing. i
Representatives from 58 Baptts:
Sunday schools will make brief re-*
ports pa Bible schools held in each ,
church. ' '
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Mrs. J. E. Webb
Sncesmbe Sunday
Mri. Lulu Belle Webb, widow of.
Ue late J. E. Webb. died Bonder
morning at > 4 o'eloek at Carolina
Beach. Born Aug. 22, 1902, she wai a
natlvy of Cherokee county, 8. C.
She 1* iurvlved by three brothers,
Edgar Cash of Mount Holly, Charles
E. Gaeh and Darld Caah of Kings
Mountain; and one slater. Mr*. Ethel
Brown of Columbia, 8. C.
'S Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at 6 o'eloek at the
{brothers Funeral Home in .Gestosis.
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Saturday (ut Day
Tor Bsgiitration
1 ' Wits Ward 4, Mis* Ousel# Huff;
aWtlar, fugle* er, not reporting the
total# of registrants on the books
for the special bond "electlbn to be
held hare on^nly^7 now^numbers
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HMttuves
rod Election
Mayor Joe H. Thomeon, speaking
for the city board, iaeued a categori
cal statement yesterday giving detailed
information concerning planned
ezpenditurea from the proposed
#200,000 public improveAents bond
issue, if its is approved st the spoct 1
election July 27. Mr.
Thomson eeid the city anticipated
no increase in tax rata dae to
the sale of tha bonds with tho pot ible
exception ef a 10-cent increase
over a two-yen# period.
"The board has no personal desires
im the Adtter of ISsulag the
bonds.'' ,Mr..TOetneen said, "bqt k
ordered the fcMd eleotien ia rftpon
m to sMny rhhieets from ?ltis*ge for
municipal iMW# s#hleh they' fro
Mthlef tad-SStth moaev Mast
be voted if fiw anricsi are provided.".
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"The board denbta that any greet
proportion fd the V?rh, provided the
bonds are veM?'wtll be done within
the nant year, And t* the scarcity ef
materials, laber. Mi other exigencies,
bat the bqnrd Wants Us eity to
ba in n position te provide thee#
services when conditions are suitable.
The beads can new be loaned dt #
very lew interest rata, possibly at a !
maxiraam of two end one-quarter per
coeat, and this represents a ' great
savlag over foraser bond isdnos whieb
required five to eix percent interest .
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"Our anticipated bond tale* sehe-l- !
ule indicate that no tax increase !
will be necessary to finanee theso [
bond*, with the possible exception of;
the years 1049-61, and at a maximum I
increase in these years of 10 cents <
per $100 valuation." ' , |
The mayor's statement dealt with
each ot the four issues. ' .
STADIUM
"There has been wide demand tor
completion ot the city stadium, and j
the board has received petition* from
the Lions and Klwania clubs, the
Junior Chamber of Commerce, the <
-VPW, and American Legion and many.
citixens requesting that this project
be completed.
- '"It was started under a WPA appreprinting,
bat the war began ana
TfTPA expired, "Tbs .stadium at present
represents On investmtu,. of about
$24,009 from the federal governaiaat,
for excavation and drainage
tile. Thn city has expanded the cost
of the land, plus supervision and
engineering. '
"Some are under the impression
that the city received the total appropriation
outlined by WFlA Of
$61,329. This is a mislmpretsion, as
WPA naver turned over fands ' for
projects to fther age'ncies. , WPA
wrote its own cheeks.
"Another urgent need for -the
completion 01 me siamum u the feet
that nearby residents are complaining
abont use of the stadium without
tewer facilities, consisting at the pre;
sent time of one privy. Health offi- .
riali eay it wonld be possible to obtain
an injunction to halt ose of the
tadiua in lta present condition.
"Estimates call for $30,000, to
ooeiplete the atadium, $5,000 to build
a field house."
VAXII BONDS
Mr. Thomson said the'water bonds
of $4Qft9 wo aid be need to inatali
mains as foVlows and perhaps others:
Lin wood road, 1,600 feet, Cansler
street, 8,700 feet and 400 feeL Moun
tain street, 700 feet. Oriental avenue,
600 feet, Broad street, $00 feet, West
side of Cleveland avenue, 3,600 feet;
creee connection, 160 feet, end Wilson
street, 600 feet.
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irtmw BONDS
Mr. Thomsen said-that the $40,000
from fltree^h<bbad$ will be used on
the basis of petitions received from
property ojraers. The city, he eaid,
will pay half the costs, plas * the |
coat*of paving latersections, and as- '
vy' (Otot'd oa page eight)
Cite Will Have
Employing Ove
Slags Mooataia. la to have another.
Industrial satablislm$at, Kings Moun
tain Narrow : tbbries, Inc., mannfac-1
twfSrt > eleetrleal ,
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3XCM MOtrVTAXN. N. 0. ft
Revaluaiion
Of Property
Is Assured
City officials and citizens general
praised tbl* week the aotioh of t
county commissioners and represen
tivea to the state legislature la t
auring a proi>erty revaluation f
the county during the year 104T.
The revaluation appeared aasur
when Henry B. Edwards, county i
toruey, announced last Saturday- th
Senator Lee B. Weathers and Bepi
Mutative Nominee Odus M. Mi
had agreed to enter a bill providli
la the 1047 general assembly for t
revaluation. Bequest for such a b
had been made by the county coi
misalonere.
Last property valuation la Cles
land couatv waa made In 1087 ai
tkt c??listeners took the positi
tkrf many inequities had eome i
Jrl?l that long period.
Otty of Skelby official! hare be<
affiof a general revaluation.
In Xlagt ItounUin, where taxah
reperties ere luted at slightly mo
Thai #4,wo,ooo, city official* m
Pete that a revaluation will ran
Ik doubling the eity'a total tan n
tilt ion, with a consequent loweril
if tax rata
City and county valuation* are tl
sine. There wat a blanket reducti<
in raluationa In the county In 1?:
of 25 percent, no change in the val
at ion of real property has been tnai
ainee that time except where ii
provementi or alteration! were d!
covered.
The commissioners in asking f
revaluation admit that property
now selling at an inflated figure ai
have said that therp is no intentic
of putting the property on the boo!
at a high market. The principal ah
they say. is equalization of values.
Penland Here
Visiting Parents
Commander Joe Penland, USN, ai
his wife and four-year-old child a
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
G. Penland, of route 1, Kings Cree
8. C., while the Naval Plying Off
eer.ls on a forty-day leave, the Ion
est he has had while in the servlc
Commander Penland, remarking
bout hU leave, stated '' Its "the-lon
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cai vus x ?c UBU biul'O x rj oku
the(Navy and I intend to gain l<
pounds while in Kings Mountsin. m
ing good home cooking."
He lest visited his pmrents in 194
Commander Penland graduate
from Annapolis in 1935 in the els
with Commander Wriston Carpenti
the first two graduates of the Acad
my from Cleveland county.
He served as flying officer, exec
tive officer, and captain on air-cra
carriers during the war, being sh
down on one flying operation, flos
ing for 24 hours in the Pacific fc
tore being rescued.
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Commander Penland wears the N
vy Cross, Bronze 8tar Medal. A
Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, ai
the Asiatic-pacific ribbon with nil
battle stars.
He will return to duty at Bar Bt
bank, Calif., as a representative
the Bnrean of Aeronautics of the N
vy Department with the Lockhe
Aircraft Corporation.
KXWAMTB FIOMTO
Members Of the Kiags Mountain
Klwanis club will hold a
picnic at Lake Montonia Thursday
night hij t o'clock. No format
program has been arranged, with
attending'to the picnic sapper
the principal item of business.
Nea^lnriisetrv
r 2^ Persons
oiTtano m *aa?
. EX* to equipped wl
rompieW/ nw. inekllNy throof
ont and it wttl to air-conditioned.
Binding, tape tl uaed in game
mannfactnro tod tto electrical to
need In. <dtot?ieal equipment.
AH operation* id tto mannfaetn
of tto tojpd. iadto4l&f blencklng. dj
ing, and finUMng, la-do to don* >,
Che plant tor* with tto firm to m
hot a completed product. ?'
^Incorporate*, in addition to *
p^&a^gd^rtai^ a &***>' Wai
ntain I
(UK&DAV, jui?y, 11, l^ie
City Board
Total Is $20
lly Iiegion-VFW To Hold
he Joint Meeting Friday
ta
A call joint-meeting of Otis D.
oi Green Post 165, American Legion
and Johnnie W. BlackwelL Poet
29N, Veterans of Foreign Wars has
6(1 been called by Command era W. J.
lt* Folkerton and Charlie Wartlck for
at Friday night July 12 at the city
hall at 7:30 o'clock.
1111 All members a re asked to be pre*8
sent as important business effecting
he the two organisations will be dia111
cussed.
' These members living In the
dtp of Kings Mountain are aspect,g.
ally urged to attend.
id
rati
" Lifns Committee
tibers Named
rs of the King* Mountaiu
11" i bioOAjdub net up their organization
^ j for nk year 1940-47 at a regular
J meeting held at the Woman's Club
&S | ItMldaH night.
! Don felanton, recently installed
lle j president, announced standing com#n
j mittees- for the current year, and HilI
ton Ruth welcomed John Henry Moss
to. j as a new member of the club. '
: L. I. Sherman and Rev. D. M. Mc*
i Geachev, of the Besstmer City club,
' were guests at the meeting.
Club committees for the forthcom?
ing year follow:
or Attendance: C. D. Ware, chairman,
TS Hubert Aderholdt, Karl Sawyer,
1(* ?loyd Thornburg.
>n j Membership: Holland .Dixon, chair
j inan, George Thomasson, George Hou"t1
ser, Jacob Cooper, George Mauney.
j Program: Howard Jackson, chair
man, W. K. Mauney, Jr., Tolly Shu1
ford, Allen Herndon.
Finance: Charlie Blalock, chairman
Charles Moss, J. W. Gamble, Dan
Hu^fstetler, Charles A* Goforth, J.
W. Webster, Willie Grice.
Constitution and By-Laws: Tom A.
1 Pollock, chairman, Lee Roberts, R. L
re Love^v-Mw. AUsml. ?
A Sight CbnserVation: J. G. Dafra.
' cott, chairman, Jake Keller, Richard
Barnett, C. P. Barry, W. M. Hill.
Lions Extension: H. T. Pulton,
* chairman, Hendersom Herndon, C. C
Edens, Fred Wright, Jr.
a Lions Education: Paul McGlnnis,
,g- i chairman. Bay Smith, Jimmy Harris,
in ! Baxter Wright.
>n j Boys and Girls Work: Charles
it 'Thomasson, chairman, Otis Falls,
I RrOmrln* Vfna? Rill HaKorwa
| Finger.
| Citizenship: W. J. Fulkerson, chairad
| man, M: H. Blser, Clarence Flowers,
a, ' T. C McKee.
Sfi t Publicity: W. L. Plonk, chairman,
q Paul Walker. Don McCurdy, Luther
Morrison, Bobert Miller.
Community Betterment: Carl Mann
ney, chairnjan, Hilliard Black, John
Caveny, Craig Falls, Dave Saunders,
ot j Huttter Allen, Eugene Patterson,
i- | Education: W. B. Thomson, chair>e
i man, Hilton Buth, Glenn Grigg, .B.
J C. Wilson.
r4. | Health and Welfare: Sam Weir,
,ir I ?i>*'rman, Charles Bandall, Harold
B,j I Earp, Thomas Crawford.
Safety: Billy Houser. chairman,
Bruce MeDanlel, Billy White, , Hay1P,
wood Allen, Hal Ward, Bay Foster.
Food: Oscar McOerter. chairman,
.Tames Logan, O." O. Walker, Wallace
e(j Loftin, Edwin Moore, Boyd Putnam.
Military: Boy v. . chairman
j Oarl Bamsey. Charles F. Stone, Char;
lie Warllck. Brooks .Tafe- . . .
Gleaners Announcing
Slight Price ^crease
ntnge Mpuntun cleaners are this
week announcing an' ' advenM ' in
cleaning price*, to become effective
on Monday^ July 15. , V . .
Caahr and carry prices, for instance
i on cleaning of men's suits wit) .be
( 50 cents, a 10 cent increase, and the
same prlee increase applies to stoma'?
dresses.
"We regret having to raise prices*
particularly just when price control
th has gone off/' a spokesman lor the
|h- cleaners said. "However, our price*
have not boon increased since bent
fore the war, and oar cost# of operpe
atlon have been increaelng constantYj,
for personnel and materials.
r* I "We believe that the poblle wftl
W be sympathetic with these small
in pries increases, which Is still nnder
iT cleaning prices In sin-founding towns
siid; cities." he M&nncd.
If. Notice of fhe Increases are carried
B- in today's isene of tke Hemld.
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h- r UNION SSEVICB
iy>i 'sttl| Mr. J. O. Wlnlltr IsllTtr
lerald
Approve 1941
8,435; Tax ]
Kings Mountain '* city board of alj
lieriuuii, in regular meeting at the
, City Hall Tuesday uight. approved a
1046-47 budget totaling $208,4115.59
i and officially set the tax rate at
$1.60 per $100 valuation, as tentative
ly announced several weeks ago.
i Of the* total amount, almost one}
fourth, or $51,670 will go for debt
j service, $31,000 to reduce the city's
| bonded indebtedness, $20,540 in inj
terest payments on bonds outstanding
| and with $130 listed as bank com
' mission.
The budget provides $6,000 for cap
I ital outlay, with $5,000 of this amount
! allocated to the street department
I and the balance of $1,000 to the-^oI
il.A a A??_a
i ug0 uvpariinani.
General Fund expense estimate U
$145,108.59, divided aa follows:
Administrative Department: Salary,
Mayor and Commlaaionera, $540.00;
Salary City Manager, $3,795.00; Salary,
City Attorney, $50.00; Salary
City Clerk and Treaaurer, $2,070.00;
Salary Aeeistant City Clerk and Treasurer,
$1,725.00; Salary, extra help,
$1,495.00; Stationery and Printing.
$400.00; Fuel, City Hall ;
Postage and Box Bent $400.00; Tele
phone and Telegraph, $400.00; Auditing.
$300.00; Traveling. $150.00; Mis
cellaneoua, $100.00; Janitorial expen:
see, $1,500.00; Office Supplies, $200.- ,
j 00; Total. $13,125.00.
Street Department: Labor. $16,000.;
00; Cement, pipe and lumber, $500.00;
. Tools and Equipment, $600.00; Ma
I chinery repairs anil rentals $1,000.00;
Truck expense, $850.00; Qas and
oil, $900.00; Supplies. $4,5uU.O0; Miscellaneous,
$500.00; Total $24,850.00. ^
Cemetery Department: Salary Su- \
perintendent, $1725.00; Labor. $2,130.00;
Supplies. $300.00; Machinery repairs.
$200.00; Tools and equipment,
j $300.00; Gas and oil, $50.0o, Miseel(Cont'd
on page $ight)
Clyde Canipe j
To Coach Here
| Clyde A. .Canipe, of Chapel Hill.
' has accepted a position with the j
| Kings Mountain high school, it was!
j announced this week by B. N. Barnes, j
I auDerintendunt of nnhllo ka?a I
Mr. Canipe will head the physical
education department of the high
school and will coach athletics. He
| will also aerve aa director of the City
I recreation program, replacing Earl'
1 Buthiwho haa resigned, effective Sep
, tember 1, to accept a coaching posii
tion with Catawba college.
Mr. Barnea stated, "Mr. Canipe
{cornea^to na with the highest of rec-j
i commendations and we feel that he j
ia the man we need for \he job."
Mr. Canipe ia presently at the
! University of North Carolina working
on his masters degree in physical
' education. He was head coach for At
bemarle high school for six years,
leaving to accept a position with Ap
palachian State Teachera college,
, where he was head coach of basket
ball nd baseball arid assistant coach
of football, and was an instructor in
| the physical education department.
' He left Appalachian to enter the
Air Corps, serving two years before
. being discharged June 1.
i Mr. Canipe will assume his duties
with the .school on August 15 and
will begin his recreation duties on
September 1. He is to continue the
Youth Center during the wljlthr wifh
Saturday program and an industri{
al basket ball program during' basket
ball season, and is to have a full
summer recreation program.'
Mr. Barnes .also stated that coach
Don Parker will continue his coaching
and .physical . education duties
with the school.
Plan* For Beaut
I Nearly Comple
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With the deadHne on entries past,
with a total of 28 Kings Mountain
ypung ladles ready to comitate for
' the honor of becoming "Miss Kings
Mountain of IMA" and with interest
in the event growing daily, members
of the sponsoring Kings Mountain
Janlor Chamber of Commerce expressed
confidence this week thai
the Beauty Pageant and Ball, to be
held Thursday night, July 18, at the
high school gyatnasiunt would be a
nwris%
- Latest and final entry In the beanty
contest la ' Miss Virginia Moss,
who. is belrfg sponsored by the Dixie
u "v.y.'
Bill Dav^s, -chairman of the entries
. committee, announced this
[ ronteti jrill fcftld it th^ 'j/fwuwfo'
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rrvs cents pes copy
5-47 Budget;
Hate $1.60
Rural Schools
To Open Monday
Bural schools of Kings Mountain
will opeti for ths next term on
Monday morning, July ib, with the
exception of Fark-Orac* school. It
j warn announced this week hy Super
| Intendsut J. H_ Origg.
i Park-Orace school operates under
the city school system.
Official date for the rural students
to return to the classroom
was set July I at a pre-eohool o
penlng principals meeting held at
the offices of the snperlntondeat ef
edooattno in Shelby.
YCtngs Mountain schools that are
Colored Legion
Post Is Formed
Negro veteran* of World W*rs ' 1
i and II sat up an organisation of an.
> American Legion post here Tuesday
: bight at a meeting at Davidson
school and elected D. A. Costner,
World War I veteran, post commonVler.
1 (Application for charter is being
made to national headquarters.
Other officers named were: John
V. Setter, vice commander; Thomas
Edison Sanders,' adjutant; Mason Cas
hqls. finance officer; Selmcr Kibler
bergeat-at-arms; Coleman Bippy, his'torian;
ans William Orr, chaplain.
Some 55 prospective members were
on hanr for the organizational meeting.
also attended by John W. Gladden.
Gilbert Hord. Pride Ratterree,
and W. L. Plonk, member? of a committee
from Otis L>. Greene Post 155
who were appointed to aid the organisation
of the colored post.
The new post will meet with the
Otis D. Greene post at its regular
meeting Tuesday night, it was an bounced.
; Officer Wine
Dramatic Chase
I . William Eugene Denton, charged
with reckless driving and driving
drank, waa given a four month* sentence,
suspended on payment of $75
| and costs and loss of his driver's li-(
cense, in action taken st city recorder's
court here last Monday.
Denton, of Shelby, was arrested
Sunday night by Patrolman Gladden
i after a dramatic chase, during which
he made a quick turn in the middle
of highwap 74 going toward Qaatoma,
with Gladden on the chase, and ran
i his car into a yard on King street,
when the city patrolman caught him.
: X<ester Diehl was given sixty days
| for carrying a concealed weapon,
with the sentence suspended on pay
ment of $50 and costs.
John Leach, on a charge of driving
, drunk, requested a jury trial.
Boyd Dayberry, charged with public
drunkenness and assault on a female
with his fiats, was found guilty
by the judge, and sentenced to thicI
ty days, suspended on payment of
$10 and costs. Dayberry also received
punishment from some unknown citizen-judge.
according to Police Chief
Farr, receiving a broken and smashed
nose for his breach of etiquette
in striking a lady.
Melvin Causley, Robert Holland,
and Wlltiam Carroll were found gnil
. ty of speeding and each received a
sixty day sentence from the court,
wsnended on payment of. $10 and
costs'. '
Dan Miles was given a thirty day *
sentence, suspended on payment of
$10 and costs, for being drunk amd
(Cont'd on page eight)
ty Paseant Are
te; 28 Entered
am on Wednesday night, July 17, at
7:30. All contestants are requested to
be present, and contestants who do
not have transportation should notify
Mr. Davla.
He also announced that conteataata
must wear bathing auita in the contest,
but that dress for the danee
will be optional, either street dresa
or evening dress..
The contest ta to begin at ' 8:15
p. m. with the dance to follow, in order
to allow persona who do not
wiah to re ma lb for the fall evening >
entertainment te leave when they
wish.
Beats fcave been installed in ' the
gymnasium during the past weak,