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VOL. 58 IfO. 22
City Boar<
Jaycees Antic
Paper Pick-U
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CLOTHDfO QITTS ^
Total poundage ot clothing given
by Kings Mountain citizens in
the recently-conducted drive (or
relief in destitute foreign nations
was 4313. The- clothing was ship- .
pad to Windsor, Md? for shipment
overseas..
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XIWAMIS PROGRAM
Basil Whitener, prominent Gastonia
lawyer and solicitor of the
Gaston-Mecklenburg district, was . f
to address members of the Kings
Mountain Kiwani* club at their 1
regular meeting Thursday night (
at the Women's Club at 7 o'clock. <
The boor supper previously ached-. '
uled was postponed. *
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byterlan church for the Summer
months. Mr. Wells spent three
years in the nayy alter graduating
from Auburn .in Alabama., . He will
preach at the 11 oJclock hour
on Sunday and the public Is cor
dially invited td hear him.
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Kings Mountain Junior Chamber
of Camftatce held a supper meeting
at Jolly's Restaurant h-. Gas- !
, tonia Tuesdav night Busings of
the,meeting included making fi<
Ml plans for Sunday's waste pMv r,
per drive and discussion of plans
for forthcoming organisation project*
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MERCHANTS' CONVENTION
Annual convention of the North 3
Carolina Merchants association will
he held hi Raleigh Jutdtfjro i
and 17, Jt was announced this week
by Ne^i McGtll, secretary of the
Kings Mountain association, and
.he fautging all members who wish
to httend to notify him by Mon- .
daV, in brder that sufficient hotei
.; reservations can ba made. '.JjvgT' !r, T '
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Waste Pape
King4.
1 Sets T<
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ipate Recon
fp Sunday
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>er of Commerce will make a acr
>lck-up on Sunday afternoon, t
tinning at 2 o'clock, and all cittze
ire being urged to, place waste p
>er on their porches or on the cur
ing In front of their homes.
Using trucks loaned by buslne
firms and members of the organia
ion, the Jaycees will fine-comb t
sity for all available paper In t
'lrst community wide collection c
lcted In several months.
nnai plans (or the pick-up we
nade at a directors meeting of t
>rganlzatlon Tuesday night.
"We are antlcpatlng a record c<
ection of paper," Jacob Cooper, pi
dent of the organization, said y?
erday. "We are sure that hu
All members of the Junlc
od to meet in front of the Clt
gall on Sunday by 1:45 for th
eity-wtde scrap paper collectioi
juantlties of badly needed paper a
ioing nothing more than Clutterli
ip the homes in the city, and if t
:itlzens will cooperate to the exte
?f putting It out,.w?H certainly pi
tt up. Paper is still high on the li
>f critically short commodities, ai
he organization odnfldera the pap
pick-up aa.a public service."
Various ty^JHKwuatocks ai
paper products are still virtually u
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r-hon (ckt-^par1;
A man asked Police Officers ,J.
Roach and H. C. -Pickens Frid
night if he could get in Jail here.
"Of course,!' the officers replh
and took the intoxicated man w
had made the request to the lot
station. But the stbry didn't e
there, as the police found out.
John F. Bass, Jr., the defends)
was ineo in Kecorders court Mo
day afternoon for public drunk*
ness And was lined costs.
A veteran of World War II with
ihot-up leg and a governmer
granted automobile, Bass 'escatx
from a Roanoke, Vs., hospital wh?
he had been hospitalized for hab
ual drunkenness and was on
'bender.' :v ;
He hired his brother-in-Jaw as 1
drtver and a radio performer as 1
guitar-picker and had started a to
of the 'south/, '- ; 1
The defendant was reported to
from a rich family in Virginia ai
was released from lall in the cusl
dy of a member of Alcoholics Amo
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ATTENDING SYNOD
Rev. and Mrs. W. L. Pressly an
Mr. and Mrs. I. L. McGill axe i
mong members of Royce Memori
ARP church who are attendln
Annual meeting of the churc
Synod at Due West, S. Cf Mr. Mc
Gill Is delegate from the churcl
hyjwhoal itnten will begin 3u
r On Curt By J
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Kings Mountain. N. C
;ntative Ta
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[} Giound-Bieaking
Service b Set
For New Church
A ground-breaking ceremony wil
jj* uu im<i ji i
p thodist church formerfy^sttoii, oJf*
day afternoon at 3 o'clock.
This is the prelude to the begin
r* nlng of the new buUdlng'wkich h
to be erected immediately to taki
me piace 01 ine structure which wai
* burned February 17, 1946.
f* On the program will be an ad
dress by Rev. W. A. Stanbury, dls
trict superintendent and also on<
by Rev. J. G. Winkler, pastor o
Central Methodist' church. Rev. W
H. Stender,. pastor of the Lutherar
^ church of Kings Mountain, will of
. fer the opening prayer and Rev. B
5 ' F. Austin, pastor of the Second Bap
* tlst church, will pronounce the ben
edlctlon. The pastor, Rev. G, W
*e Fink will preside.
The program committee extendi
* an invitation to the public to at
tend and take part in the'ceremony
? Wiiff Summers
Gives Recital
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ck Miss Frances Summers, daughtei
1^ of Mr. and Mrs. F.R . Summers, ant
ad a talented contralto, was presentee
er In Joint recital with Miss Marthi
7Tl Poythress,. dramatic rearer in tin
ad Marlon.oolInge chapel at Marlon. Va
J. Miss Sumjtaers sahg a program ir
he eluding BIMlcal songs by Dvorak
_ Ponchlellli's "Voce dl Donna," fron
Hfea"dT^\ou!^STLo1n
derry Air "Would ^3od I Were i
Tender Apple Blossom," Molloy*
"Love's Old, Sweet Song" end "Th
W. Coming of Spring," by Rachmanlofl
ay Miss Poidhress, who is well knowi
in Kings Mountain, having severs
fd, times been the guest of Miss Imo
ho gene Bridges, also a student at Ma
:al rlon college, read a group of poem
nd including Edwin Markham's "Th
Man with the Hoe," Carl Rice*
rat, "The Mystic," Eugene Field's tlv
n- Bow Legged Boy, Edna St. Vincen
n- Millay's "The Penitent," and "Th
Price of Court Painters," a play ii
i a one act by Constance D'Arcy, A'ac
it- kay. , a
id' Mr. and Mrs. Sur .ners and Mi
>re and Mrs. J, E. Herndon of King
It- Mourltain attended the recital,
a ' ; i-.'
?J? Public Drunk Has
To ray Fine
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be Constable W. L. Blackburn ^arrest
nd ed a man Monday aftOrrion with al
jo- most 1*6,00" in his possession, accor
n- irtg to Chief N. M. Farr of the King
Mountain police du>artmcnt. '
The man, W. L. Brit ton of Morgan
ton was picked up for public drunk
d enness outside thd dity atid was evl
? : dently here for the baseball gam
SI Monday nlfht. v - ,
g Counting the money at $5,961.11
h Officer Blackburn,released Britto
^ after he'subir irted to Justice of th
l. Peace Lee Roberts on the pd coun
Fav IQ CAM(AW
(tool Sunday Night
49 (school students. Speaking on thl
n- general theme.- "Understandin
lk? through Education" will be tool
JT, imdfjLouann Herndon., The pro
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L. Friday, May 30. 1947
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CHARMING LITTLE HEirB*~-fchown ,
high school rtudmt aad W. R. S? liars, i
L tha FTA breed-tmprarament program.
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l*!. Dre^O ~ AllMJTyV6HlCnli MUKIJUP 'VA L jfl
' Guernsey heifer and yiven it to a d^ ?'j
* serving-farm youth.
The young farmer, lit this instance J
, is D. C. Allen, 17-year-old eon of Ril- t,
ey Allen, tenant farmer for John B. ,
? Ware In the Oak Grove community.
Young Alien, who is also an excellent
high school pitcher on the
" Bethware baseball team and who
s pitched on the Kings Mountain Lee
giom team last year, signs a con8
tract with the county Future Farm8
ers 01 America organization, the
sponsoring organization, to give the
e first normal heifer calf to the FFA
organization. The FFA will then
give the calf to another deserving
boy under the same terms to lengthen
the chain and further the devel8
opment of. the county and area in '
purebred livestock. j
Holland Dixon, Eugene Patterson g
and Edwin Moore served as the I
Lions club committee on purchase
of the calf, investing $175 of Lions
club funds in a purebred registered
. Guernsey heifer froth the Archdalt ii
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' Farms herd.
d The heifer was born August 15,
8 1946, and its pedigree record would j
do Justice to a queen's coat-of-arms.
The calf was appropriately named
* Archdale Maxim's Lioness, with her
l* middle name taken from her grand- ?
6 dady's, Quail Roost Maxim's Ideal i
senior and grand champion Gtfejrnsey
bull in North. Carolina in bWh 1
n 1940 and 1941. Maxim's Ideal sdlo E
e for $1,250 in 1945. Archdale Maxim'i t
V Lioness (the calf) was sired by :
~ Traxler's Ideal Commando, out o) i
Clear Springs Beckie, witr two ad- !
vanced records. Incidentally, Traxler's
half-sister, Clear View Dods ,
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E Graduation Recital
t, MUi Clara Plonk will present i
bar graduating recital at the Plonk <
n School of Creative Art* in Aahevlll* j
a Saturday. SttE&?t 8 o'clock. When i
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sit doa?M by tk? Uou club, to jt
orgaaiaotloa In cotpucrtloa witb n
HtroU photo by Tclw Cowwr. *
hodm begin with A or B under L
tkt Hw lav poind br the 1947 c
Oeewral Ammbly. . c
Only A's and B'c will be tooted
during this period. with tho period
January 1, 1MB. to Juno 30, 1048,
to lncludo all Co and D's.
Tho now, complete fxaplnawlll
consist of (1) oyo tost, (2)
highway sign tosh (3) driving
rules test, and (4)) road test
Cost of the new license will bo
Increased to two dollars, it was
stated.
Poppy We Was
Complete Success
The annual Poppy sale held Satirday
and sponsored by the Amerian
Legion auxiliary for the benefit
>f disabled veterans was termed a
omplete success by Mrs. Dickie
'ate, retiring president of the local
uxlllary. < '
Much credit goes to volunteer high
chooT girls who aided the auxiliary
n selling the poppies. By noon on
-atitrday they had sold 1,000 poppies
Hie veterans at Oteen, Mopre Geniral
hospital and;2fayettevi)le will
eceive Exclusive use of the local
lantributkms, she stated. Mrs. Bill '
toward is poppy chairman of the 1
tings Mountain auxiliary. 1
John Gladden Nan
Of Legion Post Fc
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John W. Gladden, World War I die 1
ibled veteran, was elected commonmrim
Otis D. Green, Post, 155, The
Unatican Legion, for 1947-48 at a 1
upper meeting held at the Trout i
lub Wednesday night. 1
A tony wending member of the 4
net, Mr. Otykddea as well ap the en- 1
ire slate nominated by the nomine- i
ing commitbe, was Voted into office i
V an unanimous vote. He Served <
lit year as senloi vice eoosaader ]
ind as membership chairmen.
W. K. Smith wa# elected senior i
Ice comtnender, Carl Payeour, sec- i
md vtoe commander, end Clarence j
Percy) Smith, third vice common- i
ler. / i
Other, officers elected were: P. G. ;
latterree, adjutant; Hubert 'Ader- I
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tadget Talked;
Mauney Mayoi
*10 Tempore
The cjty board, Ih a special' ses
Ion lasting almost four hours Tues
ay night, tentatively set the 1947
? ritv tax rate at $1.60 pe- $100 vat
nun. iinii1 u . ,
on for immediate installation of
diets at the city stadium, and elec
fd Carl Mauney, Ward 2 Commls
oner, mayor pro tempore.
The board spent much of the eventg
diSCUSSine DrOhlema In noting
on with the stadium, indicated
oth endorsement of and full coop
ration with a proposed city-wide
lean-up campaign being organized
y the Merchants association, and
lent the remainder of the meeting
Iscussing the upcoming budget for
le next fiscal year which begins
illy 1.
In spite of an anticipated defiolt
f $10,000 in the budget estimate of
pproximately $240,000, the board
oted to retain the tax rate at its
resent figure. It anticipates raising
le additional needed revenue
trough re-vamping the present city
rlvilege license schedule, and from
ther income items, including puthg
city taxicabs on a franchise, ra
ter than a license basis.
The budget estimate includes tncipated
tax revenue of approximately
^81,000, and is based on taxble
property values of $4,900,000.
raxable valuations are up some
100*000 over last year, City Manaer
Burdette reported. Necessity for
rttipg a .tentative tax rate was In
nti&ittkm at advance 1947-48 tax
SSSfto^Dloee fip" the stadiunvuo,
Ms these facilities wejwiiudpllihf,
4r. Mauney moved immediate Jntallatlon
of septic tank facilities,
Commissioner Hunter Neisler sec-?
inded, and thevpte was unanimous.
The matter of stadium lighting
ees, continued from the, last meetng,
was again continued, in .effect
eaving the fee at $15 per hour. In
he discussion, Mayor Fulton read a
etter addressed to Frank Glass from
layor Harry Woodson, of Shelby,
n which Mr. Woodson stated that
Jhelbv chariri?d a lioht *i?t
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came a'nd* a water fee of $1 per;
came. Commissioner John Henry
loss said the,,Shelby school board,
vhlch owns the Shelby ballpark,
:harged a rental fee of <10 per ganie.
Vlso re-discussed was the cost of ,
*>wer furnished, cost of bulb re>lacement
and servicing.
The board also continued the matter
of a request from a group of coined
citizens for use of the stadium
'or baseball. .
Commissioner Marriott Phifer
jpened the discussion on the proposed
clean up campaign, and Mayir
Fulton, along with several mem>ers
of the board, offered the ppinion
that a clean-up campaign and a rat
extermination canipalgn should run *
:oncurrently. Commenting on a repent
stringent regulation passed by
:he City of Shelby, Mr. Fulton said
that examination of 13 rats in Shelby
revealed that half of them were
carriers of typhus fever. Mr. Mauney
opined that many of the rats were
coming froiq the city dump, and Mr.
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B. (Bill) Logan, guardian officer;
Hal D. Ward, sssgsant-at-arms; T. A ?
Pollock, chaplain (re-elected); Otto
Hehn, historian; C. T. Carpenter, Jr.,
ithletic officer, (re-elected)- W. W.
Laughter, child welfare officer; I.
W. (Mike) Milam, Americantam officer;
T. A. Roberta, national dele*.
M officer; Kenneth Jenkins, srrM*
registration officer; Yates CoQflM||
employment officer; Dickey JfXS,
Boys State officer; Dr. P. G. Padgett,
Boy Scout Officer; Gl r A. Bridges,
membership officer; Archie ft. Costlier,
publicity Officer; John Henry
Ifloas, oratorical contest officer; Palmer
D. pulton, chairman, Sons of te
tfon.
The executive committee, consisting
of the past comander, as automatic
chairman. Sad three other
members, was etectpL.as. follows:
Marriott Phifer, James Logan, J. S.
(Ware, and - v ; * v