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MO KXWAMXB MEBTZMO .
11 ember* of the King* Mountain
Kiwani* club wiil not meet thii
?..k ik. st lii It nhiutrvino its AtiitA* I
mary anaual Thanksgiving holiday,
it ?u announced by the program
committee this weak.
Dr. B. A. Beaty, professor at Davidson
college, will fill the polptt at
First Presbyterian ehareh at moralag
services Boa day, it was annothsa
aad this week. No ear vies will ha
I held Sunday erasing.
8FBOIAL SXBVXCN
fecial services will be held Bttarday
nigh' at Mountain View Baptist
ehareh, with Bar. "Bald Bisk.
iur. c*. j?apr,wOar'aa ik Wtt i afcjhIWh %h JN0F1
drHrrr.'rf. tfrr mrrnire Tfrf.flrrrlean
ehareh qaartet will be preaeat
to reader special singing, aloag with
several other tinging groups, aad the
publie is Invited to attend.
MASONIC MBBTINO
Masons of the 37th district will
hold a Ladies' night meeting at the
Cleveland lodge meeting in Shelby
Friday night at 7:30. Address of the
, evening will be delivered by Senator
Clyde B. Hoey. Several "Kings
Mountain Masons and their wives
are expected to attend.
GRANTED DIVORCE
[ Mrs. Marie Moss Tindall, of Kings
Mountain and Tampa. Fla., was
granted a divorce from her husband,
Thomas Tindall, in 18th Judicial Circuit
eourt in Tampa, Fla., before
Judge Harry N. Sandler, according
to information received here. Mrs.
Tindall was granted permission to
resume and use her maiden name,
Marie Moss. _ *
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. BATTLEGROUND NEWS
7' In view of the seasonal decline in
travel to Kings Mountain national
Military park the Museum and office
at Park Headquarters will Sfc
closed on __ov. 28, Dec. 25, and Jan.
1. Park highways and the "Battleground"
will be open to the public
at all times. Visitors are welcome to
these areas.
WILL SERVE TERM
Johnnie W Blaekwell Post 2268
Veterans of Foreign Wars, in call
meeting at City Hall last Tuesday
* night voted not to accept the resignations
of three key officers. With
all misunderstandings settled the
three officers pledged to serve out
tneir terms.
IN ORATORICAL CONTEST
. Miss Joyce Falls will represent
Kings Mountain and Cleveland counv
ty in the state wide oratorical eontest
on the subject North Carolina's
Number 1 Need: Good Health,
.it was announced this week. The
contest is under sponsorship of the
y j North Carolina Good Health assoclation.
LV;. , Aged Negro Beaten
kv And Robbed Sunday
"Uncle Ben" Boyce, aged NegTo ot
route 1, Kings Mountain, was clubbed
into an unconscious condition and robbed
in his home last 8unday night
according to Police Chief N. M. Farr
and two Kings Mountain negroes arc
under arrest having admitted to the
crime.
Th* god colored man. rumored to
Fy b? around ?0 years old, lives abotft
a' mile and one-half south of Lake
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naele. He is in a Gaston hospital and
at last report was in a critical eondi
f-'V tion.
S- ' * Arrested by Gaston county sheriff,
i,-'.. - Hoyle Efird, and local officers early
1 In the week was was George Bollins
. g. (also known as Bantam Huston} and
[rI?ea Bnrris, who, according to officers
. is the Gaston Sheriff's office ye^er'&/?"*
' day, admitted to having planned and
executed the brutal robbery.
1 said to have a (knitted that the negro
f; their etime. . ,. ' 1- ?.
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Recorder to H<
Charges Agaii
The three-month battle between the Lit
county bar association and the county Ac
toard ot commissioners, eonnty attorney
and eounty auditor headed for ^
a -climax this week with County Attorney
Henry B. Edwards scheduled to
receive bearing in 8helby on Friday tieg
^
Mr. Edwards Is charged with Aan- kult
ging the minutes of a eounty commis- M
sioners' meeting. .
lips
Warrant for arrest of Mr. Ed ward* tion
which was prepared by Peyton Mo- elufc
Swain, new president of the bar as- The
aoeiation, was signed by O. V. Haas- paw
rick. ing
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The "bar association, however, dfbp- .. .
pod its part of the investigation os ^ *
to refund 19,632.25 to the county,
HkKII L M? USI aSMNliahlk* UU. UMWr" J
ded. Of this amount, 63,000 was to be "
turned over to the hospital trustees ..
and the remainder was to go in the .
rounty general fund.
The 8helby Daily Star reported the
amount had been paid, and also re- II
ported that the county commissioners
had paid out of personal funds the D.
6400 fee of John Eck, Oastonia CPA, IV
for a special audit ordered by the bar
association of the county's bdoks.
The 8tar also said that repayment by mat
Edwards lifted the obligation of the f0rl
commissioners and County Auditor y^0]
Charles Dilling under the original al- sen(
legations of mis-spending county j.
funds. H
Mr. Edwards, who is . free under of t
bond of $500, will be bound over for rem
trial in Superior Court in the event vat<
probable cause is found. now
T
He is charged aa follows: (jH
The "First count charges that ho J0WI
did obliterate, deface, erase and eban- .?**'
gp' the record of the proceedings of "T*1
the September 5, 1944, meeting of tbl J
board of eommissioners of Cleveland
eounty in violation of section 14-76 of
the general statutes of North Caroll- "?r<
na." of '
on
The "Second count charges that he to 1
did erase, alter, change and forge It
the minutes of the September 5, 1044. fror
meeting of the board of commissioners the
for Cleveland county by inserting in und
said minutes the words: 'Certificates med
checked by dm," with intent to de- T
fraud the e4unty of Cleveland and as pag
a result of said forgery did fraudu
jenny ooiain irom tne county or uie- _
veland, the sum of $5.825.00' HC
On
Legion To Meet P.
Tuesday Night sum
ider
Otis D. Green, Post 155, the Ameri- proi
can Legion, will hold Its regular mon- wee
thly meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at he I
City Hall with each member asked to the
bring a gift for the Auxiliary to send asBC
to the wounded and sick at Oteen. M
300
Cards to be send out for the meet- the
ing are of the double-or reply-card stal
type with information on the reply C0U1
card to be answered by Legionnaires frot
as to whether or not they are willing ^
to donate blood in an emergency or waa
not and question as to their type of i? c
blood, ' T
The compiled information from the
returned cards will be given to loeal
doctors to aid them in finding donors
readily. f
Aproposed banquet to be held the 8e<
first week In December has been call- at
ed off, according to W. J. Fulkeraon. 7
commander of the organisation. we
City's Thanksgivi
To Feature Turk<
Thursday it ? or was ?Thanks-. foo
giving, depending on when you get thai
your current copy of the Herald, F
una rvingi aiouaiain is Observing ll (be
properly and in accordance with or 1
prevalent coatom, in spite" of nation- ord
wide turmoil created by the eon! for
atrlke. "* eon
Most churches are taking note of get
the Thanksgiving holiday with spee- rad
lal services, some of them last night,
soma this morning, and housewives mat
kept grocers, some of whom curtailed Kir
the W?An4sday afternoon half-holiday gh
,quite busy with their demands for pla;
Thanksgiving menus. In
Plenty of turkeys wsre dreesed dur- cap
ing ths pest few days, and there was stoi
also ths usual accent on cranberry <lot
sane* and other table good thing* for Th<
Moun
XNCM MOUNTAIN, N. O. TH
iShutdo
ear Forgery!
ist Edwards
;tle Known Abont
tion To Be Taken <
1
party of young Gaitoniaua On 1
ed a party of young King* Moan- <
i citizen* in a ' battle of two el- '
' la*t Friday night at Lake Hon *
fiaEa&anm?ZdMK3ESE?fi2fim]s2S&SH
' f to a couple of young local la- II
dignltiea. :
ccordipg to caretaker "Pop" Phil i
, of the private lake club, no noi
will be taken on behalf of the
i agaiaat the Oatton ' invader*.'
> Oaiton boy* actually were treeting
on the elub'a property accord 1
to information of the caretaker.
kvarel IaooI Kawo ?? * 1
??? ? ?vv?I W^? "V?c UiWIO WI IU??
btly Injured la the fraeni, with
Uft?~
r numerically aaperlor opponent*
a the Kings Mountain boys.
Whether or not action will be laited
by other partiee involved waa
known at presa time laat night.
lubhouse
ales Set
he executive committee of the Woi's
Club, in meeting last Friday |
nulated rules for the use of the 11
man'? Club building, which, is es- |
:e formally enunciate former elub ,
cies regarding use of the building |
elaxed slightly is the ban on use j
be building for dances, but tho ban j,
ains on publie or script danees. Pri |'
3 dances, well cnaperoned, will
be permitted,
he regulations also set np a fee ba
for use of the elubhouse as fol* '
i: Dinners and banquets. 100 or |
, A6.00: dinners and hannnet* nSnr*
> 100, $8.00; dances, $5.00; and oris*
t lorn meeting*, $1.00 per hoar or
stion thereof.
enting of the elub mast be handled
mgh the treaaarer, and signatures |
three reaponaible persons mus t be
the rental application, according
the rules as announced this week,
ltoxicanfs of all kinds are banned ,
n the premises, and persons renting
clnb are required to remove any |
er the influence of intoxicats imliately.
he complete rules are printed ou
e six of this issue. ,
irndon Attended
laha Convention
\
D. Hemdon, Kings Mountain In- 1
ince ami real estate inuo and presit
of the North Carolina Crop Im- ,
,-ement association, returned this (
k from Omaha. Nebraska, where
attended the annual convention of ]
International Crop 'Improvement i
(ciation.
i. Hemdon said that more than
delegates, representing almost all
agricultural colleges in the United
tes, Canada and several foreign I
itries, attended the convention !
a November 19th to 22nd. I
tr. Herndon said, much attention
given to further improving seeds
irder to increase per acreage yields,
he state association will hold its
ual meeting in Shelby on Jsuauary j
31.
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AT SECOND WESLEY AN ,
The Cox quartet will sing at ;
:ond Wesleyan Methodist church |
services Sunday night, Dec. 1, at ,
o'clock, it was announced this ,
ek. The public is invited ,
ng Holiday
ey, Football
d was pretty plentiful, more so i
o in past few years,
or football fans who held tickets,
order of the day was 4n early
rushed up Turkey Day dinner In
er to reach CharlotWT>y 2 o'clock
thft WtkA Fbrflil-AantK
test, mad others ware planning to
the taekle-by-tackle report via
lo.
Plane early In the week for a re:ch
between the Cherryrille and
igk Mountain grid team a fell thronwkea
the Ironmen declined to
f. < ?
lost bnatneee flrne, with the extlon
of eerrlee etationa and drag
re?, will take a reet before bearing
m ok the Ckrlatmae buying rpeh.
? elty'e flnanetal iaatttniloaa * are
9 eleaed <or thj? day, along with
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XTB8DAY, NOV. 28. 1948
wn ofN
Feathers
To Be Speaker
At Grid Banquet
Beattie Feathers, coach of the N
th C'aroliua State Wulfpack, will I
the featured speaker of the evening i
the annual Lions foothull banquet h<
jriug members of the high school foe
ball team' to be held December 5 i
Ike high school eafeteria.
Kram was made yesterday by W.
Fulkerson, member of the elub eoi
mittee arranging the program.
Coach Feathers, two years an A
American back at the Uaiversity
Tennessee and for two years ehosen <
the All-American professional tea
teored the first big npeet of the ei
Only 60 tickets will he availabl
to the public for the Lions footbal
wl Monday to noon Tniiiij, Men
?W<? <*1 U? il'M ?>? WOO moB
to lBTtto gouts must slso obtain m
ets, as accommodation* will h? TaO
able for only 60 persons in ad ditto i
to tba high school players. Lion
and tba spoaksr's party. Tickets wl]
sell for $2.00.
rent football season when his tea
iefeated Duke in the opener. T1
Wolf pack has lost only two garni
both by one touchdown, to VP1 si
Vnnderbilt.
Expected to accompany Coach Fe
thers are Bob Suffridge, assists
poach and former Tennessee All-Acn
^an. and George Allen and Jim Gibsi
Kings Mountain members of the on
rent Wolfpaek aggregation.
Motion pictures of several 19
State games will be a highlight of tl
program, Mr. Fulkerson said.
All members of the high school tee
shich enjoyed its finest season
rears with a record of seven victori
and three one-touchdown losses, w
t>e guests at the banquet.
Gulf Service
Changes Hands
Purchase of King Street Gulf S<
rice by Ertle Powers and Bruce M
Daniel is being announced this we
by the new owners.
The sale was effective ITov. 15tt
Former owners of the service st
tion business, located at the corn
of King and Gaston streets, were
E. Marlowe and Jack Arnette.
Mr. McDaniel, who had "been ma
nging the business for the former ov
ers. for the past 15 months, will co
linue to serve as active manager
(he firm.
The firm will be operated under tl
ame name, and will continue to off
Hulf products, a complete line of a
tomohile accessories and other aul
motive needs. The firm also will sto<
an extensive line of home electric
appliances, including bathroom he<
crs, electric irons and radios.
"We shall continue to offer only t
best service for the motoring pu
lie," the new owners stated, "and \
ahall constantly strivo to offer a mo
complete line of automotive needs.'
Monday Recorder's
Session Is Light
Action was rather light in Recorde
:ourt in session at City Hall here la
Monday, with Martha Jacks drawii
the hfjghest fine, $25, for possession
non-tax paid liquor. Her sentence
nfnety days was suspended on pa
ment of the fine and costs.
George Lewis, on a similar char;
was fined $10 and costs, a senten
of thirty days being suspended i
payment of the fine.
For possession of liquor for purpo
of sale, William J. Heavner was se
tenced sixty days, suspended on pa
ment of $10 and costs.
ti -o? -ji
ui nut VI u til *>niug, iyr spceui
was fined $10 and costs, land Qeor
Bhort, for publie drunkenness and i
silting arrest, was taxed $10 and coi
J. L. Buck was sentenced 11x1/ da
on a drank and disorderly charge, t
sentence suspended on payment
$10 and costs.
Ralph Ware and Oeorge Edgert
were sentenced to jail' for thii
day* for public drunkenness, both h
ing been previously up in the cot
charged with the same count. Jo
Dawkins, Harvey hlullinax, and B
Beagle each paid $8 and costs for p
He drunkenness and the follow!
paid easts on the same charge: B
eft Brunch, Kelson Dixon and C
*:v. 1*. ' Viierald
eislerMill
Operations To
When Miners F
or Retailers Suspend
Wednesday Closings
J" King* Mountain merchant! will b?
' ( open nil day next Wedneedny and on i >>a
1 iTerjr Wodnondny thereafter throu- |tb'
ah Christmas. I *
obeertsd In order to accommodate
B Christmas shoppers, It wna stated by ot'
W. r. Laughter, Merchants Assoc In- 0B
i Hon secretary. *?
ognlar opening and closing boon Lo
will bo obMi f ?d throughout tho Pf
CteWn buying huoh with ths m|
_ oxcoptloa of Ghristoua Br*, whan P'?
Saturday i?ors will ho observed. lt
11 op
HKoperts Tnenix j;
- Office Manager *;
, OK
B Thomas Roberts, son of Prank Bob- fit
2 erts, has succeeded Ladd W. Hamrick (
as office manager of Phenix Mill here, cei
_ Mr. Roberts, for the past year an ao- on
iu countant with the firm of A. M. Pul He
ie len and Company, Greensboro, assum- pri
is. ed his new duties on Nov. 1. ho
ad A native of Kings Mountain, he re tai
ceived a B. 8. degree iu accounting ]
tH- | fiom Davidson college in 1940, and ' In<
nt ! was aw arded an M. A. degree, in ac-| nlc
.. I ?!? *?- ....
! - | cuuuuug irom \ anuemill uuiversitv Bo
in at Xasbville. Tenn., the following
ir- year. As Lt. Roberts, he eutered tho set
army in January 1942. and served ov- Sa
46 erseas for two years with the 85th di- set
lo vision in Afiea and Italy. thi
im Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, the latter the #aj
former Mias Mary Hart Moonevbam
M of Forest City, expect to establish res j faj
jjj idence here at 100 Myers street in ,
the near future.
Phenix Mill ia now owned by Burlington
Mills of Greensboro.
Final Rites Held m>
For Mrs. Parrish th
p?
CO]
;r. Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth ^
c. i Ann McCarter Parrish, age 91, were j
ek: held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock
I at First Presbrterian church, with in011
i. | termcnt following in Beersheba ceme | .
a-i tervTTn^ York county, 8. XL?
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pr The rites were conducted bv Rev. i
I * 111*
? P. D. Patrick, assisted by Rev. \V. P.
Grier. of Clover, and Rev. Murray |
,n Griffith, pastor of Bethany Presby- j ' "I
vn terian church The bodv lav in state
g JJ
n- for an hour prior to the service. .
of Mrs. Parrish succumbed Sunday ^
night at the home of her daughter.
Mrs. W, M. Crawford, in the Bethany , .
he , t.i<
community.
e" She was bora December 20. 1S34. "J(
,u" nnd was married to the late L. L. ** '
Parrish on November 24. 1878. M-. n
s v CO]
" , Parrish preceded her in death 21
"t years.
For 52 years she was a member of Mi
the Presbyterian (Juireh here. ?he eoi
ho was n devoted wife, and was loved by af
. ?ii i i i?
t}. an > uu RUt'ff oer. en
Ye She wns the mother of eight childro
ren, five of whom survive. They are sti
i? Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. H. L. Bobbitt and ag
W. W. Parrish, of Kings Mountain as
Mrs. A. T. Sills. Salisbury, and Mrs
J. L. Chaney, Rossville, Oa. Also sur tei
viving are two sisters, Mrs. Thomas 35
Brown and Mrs. Mary Barry, botn At
of York, 8. C., a brother, George Roe* tw
rs MeCarter, of Clover, 31 grandchildren wl
st in (Treat-grandchildren, and five great- tai
great grandchildren.
0 Grandsons served as pallbearers thi
and flowers were carried by grand loc
y daughters. af
S Final Plans Beinj
For Santa Claus'
se
!n" Final plans for the big Santa Clau* T1
?' visit of 1946, which will officially M
mark the opening of the Christina? fii
shopping season in Kings Mountain. Ci
?j were virtually completed at the meet- ro
^ ing of the directors of the Kings sti
its ^l?un,a'n merchants association Mon- M
day night. so
y? Biggest hitch in the plans at pres in
lie ent is John L. Lewis and his idle coal en
of miners which may force cancellation ea
of plans for turning on Christmas
street lights, but other than this, Ban at
on ta Clans, is expected to arrive on eo
schedule.
Since his projected trip to Wngs ^
! Mountain la scheduled br air. alter- "
nate date for the event, now scheduled ^
? for next Friday, Dee. 6, will be Mon- w
;nl> day. Dee. 9. P<
oh- According to present plans, Old ti
ttf- Nick srill arrivg hy plane at Bridges tl
Airpert nt approximately 6 p. a |
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FIVE CENTS PEE OOPV
s Plants
Be Resumed
Return to Pits
John L. Lewis' paralyzing grip on
? natiuii made itself felt in King*
miuthi 11 last night as Neisler Mill*,
elosed ilewn its Marernre niuf
iiIiin- plants hero tor the duration of
t coal itrike. The shutdown meant
duration of the strike layoff foi
TtT"^-.- * ry-.-rT,', . -7Erar
Kings Mountain'a induatrial ayatem
lerwise wns continuing ahead, tht
ly other plant threatened with imidlate
shutdown la Mauney Hoaiery
mpany, which employs tome 123
raon. W. K. Mauney, Jr., general
inager, aaid the eompany'a coal aupei
were already exhausted and that
waa already "borrowing" to keep
crating He aai'mated 'hat the efw?- ,
..." ?.V?JT-V>f:' iitrt? tb" ofierkte for
rhapa two more waeka on pretest
pplies.
isext ?u tine on tne operation""danr
point ia DuCourt Milla, Inc., em>ver
of .'173 persons, J. V. Helm, man
er. said they bnd coal for about
re weeks of operations.
3ther Kings Mountain textile conrns
use coal for heating purposes
ly, and a survey conducted by tho
'raid indicated that the principal
ibleni will he supplying coal for
me use in cases where the mills reI
coal to their employees.
In this ent co-Ore nro ^flll*
(formerly Textiles. Inc.. Cora
mt). Maunev Mills, Inc., anil the
nnie Mill, luc.
Appearing in best shape at the preit
time are the Park Yarn Mill and
die Mill. The Sadie mill does not
vice its employees with coal, while
? Park Yarn does.
Proilem at the Plienix Mill was
id to ce shipments of cotton, which
ly be hampered by the restricted
ilroad situation.
It appeared that Kings Mountain
tnufacturing company and Betty
irn Mill would not be too greatly af ted
by the coH tie-up.
Paul Mauney, of Neialer Mills, said
opening of the big PauTTne and
argrace plants would await return of
e miners to work. He snid the cotany
had about two weeks supply of
si on hand, hut that, regardless of
s eventual settlement of the strike,
nppenred that mill would have to
>p either now or when the strike
dcd. Officials chose to effect tho
Litdown now and thus be able to remo
operations as quickly as the mi
rs return to work.
A portion nf the office staff will
iitii.ue at work, it was stated.
The coal situation otherwise was the
hject of the day in most quarters, as
irens looked anxiously at their coal
is.
Coal dealer Claude Hainbriglit said
! stocks of egg nnd lamp eoal used
stoves nnd grate fires was com tely
exhausted but that he still had .
reasonable good supply of stoker
il.
With a good supply on hand. Kings
ountnin schools were expected to
atinu in session on regular schedule
ter the Thanksgiving holiday weejt
d.
Indication was that, unless the
ike is settled quickly, the city may
ain be without Christmas lights,
it was during the war years.
Southern Railway passenger servies
nporarilv discontinued include train*
and 30 between Washington and
Innta and trains 135 and 136 beeen
Salisbury and Atlanta, both of
dch directly affect Kings Mounin
service.
Meantime. Kings Mountain citizens,
snkful for recent warm weather,
>ked with fearful eye on Wednesday
ternoon's gray, ominous clouds.
g Completed
1946 Visit
iere he will he met by the King*
ountain high srhool hnnd and a city
e truck which will carry him to tho
tv Stadium over the following
ute: Bridge* Airport to Watterion
reet to Mountain street, ea*t on
ountain street to Railroad avenue,
uth on Railroad to the Railway Croat
g, then north'on Battleground avue
to Mountain atreet, and thenfce
at to the Stadium.
Favor* will he given to all children
the Stadium and the event will bt
neluded with a firework* display.
"While we are hopeful that tht
tiriatmaa light* can be turned on,'*
\ 7. Laughter, secretary of tht
erehaata aaaaciation, aaid thin weak,'
e plan to have a good Chri*tmfca #
inlng celebration anyway.'*
Large throng* attended the eelabrton
last ytar. and official* eatimata
iM an^avan ta*g?? ???wl win bt { \ j