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Immediate Trading Area 15,000
VOL. 58 NO. 43
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TELEPHONE HEARING <
The state Utilities commission
has announced that it will consider
the request of Southern Bell
Telephone & Telegraph company
for, rate Increases for residential
^ subscribers on November 13. 1
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w BUILDING PERMITS
One building permit was issued |
by S. A. Crouse, city clerk, at City
Hall this week. Haywood E. Lynch ^
was issued a permit Wednesday (
for a new 4-room dwelling located {
on York road, valuation $2,000. j
moss to new york '
Charles Moss, Jr., left last week '
for New York where he has accept- j
ed a position with Neisler Mills
Company. Mr. Moss attended State
College and has been with Neisler
Mills, Inc., here for the past few s
months. t
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vfw meets sunday \
Johnny W. Black well Post 2268,
VFW, will hold a special meeting J
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
the City Hall, it was announced by
Frank Gladden, commander. He i
said the meeting is being held on ?
Sunday In an effort to boost at- J
tendance and urged all members .
to make a special effort to be ,
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symphony drive t
Total memberships sold in the <
norm Carolina sympnony society *
totaled |430 Wednesday, with re- *
ports incomplete, Mrs. Paul Maun- ?
ay, chairman of the Kings Moun- ?
tain group, said yesterday. Goal of
the campaign^ <750, which in- . ^
Junior Chamber of Commerce f
officers and directors will meet at *
Kings' Mou ntain... ?-Cou ntry club f
Tuesday eveniqgJrf 7 o'clock it
was announced' this week by Ned ,
McGill, secretary. ? .. f
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Officers and directors of Kings v
Mountain Merchants Association
will meet at Kings Moiurtain Drug- .
company Monday evoking at 7:15 >'
p. m., it was annonced this week .
by Ned McGill, secretary.
Bantists Holdino
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92th Annual Meet 5
The 97th annuel session of the
Kings Mountain Baptist association, f
which opened Thursday morning at "
Rosa Grove Baptist church, will end t
Friday with the second ruii-oays i
session at New Bethel church. ? ?
Rfcv. B. F. Austin, pastor of Kings \
Mountain's 8econd Baptist church,
opened the session Thursday morn- t
lng at 9 o'clock with the doctrinal
sermon, which was followed by various
reports and addresses, built on 1
the theme "Stewards of God." J
Rev. L. C, Plnnix, pastor of the .
First Baptist church, here, delivered 1
^ a report on Baptist Orphanage work.
B Principal speakers at the meeting,
WJ presided over by veteran moderator
Rev. John W. Suttle, who has been
conducting Kings Mountain Baptist i
association meetings for the past 35 %
Were Dr. I. G. Greer, superln- t
tendent of the Baptist Orphanage at s
Thomasville, W. K. McGee, director t
Of religious work at the Baptist hos- t
pftal at Winston-Salem, P. L. ElUott,
president of Gardner-Webb col c
lege, and L. L. Carpenter, editor of i
ttie "Biblical Recorder." ,
Xmai Overseas Gift *
Moiling Hul.. Given j
Those planning to lend Christmas i
and other gift packages abroad t
shajlld gat in touch With the District 1
oafce of the U. S. Department of <
OMBMtM, at 113 1*2 East Fourth i
OMflktfcaccording to MarlonJLX#oa
B^^^^^t^J^uUtion8 appUea- \
pM upon request, it was stated. 11
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Giil Scoai Mass
Meetina Is Set
for Monday Night
Miss Fannie Funderburk, execute
secretary of the Piedmont Area
Council, Girl Scouts, will attend a
mass meeting to be held at the Recreation
hail of St. Matthew's Luther
in church Monday evening at 7:30
it which time a Kings Mountain
council will be set up, it was announced
this week.
Expected to attend the meeting
will be representatives of the Kiwanis
club, Lions club, Junior Cham
t>er of Commerce, Parent - Teacher
Association, Junior Woman's Club,
Roman's Club, as well as representatives
from various church groups,
roop leaders and others interested
in the Girl Scout program.
Miss Funderburk will direct the
neeting, it was announced, and the
purpose of the council will be to fos
:er the Girl Scout program in this
irea.
All citizens interested In Girl
touting are being urged to attend
:he meeting.
Couple Change Story
About Shooting Pact
Edna and Johnny Johnson were
lust a devoted couple in Gaston
Superior court in Gastonla Monday
he defense attorney pointing out
:o Judge Will Pless that they were
'cooing like a couple of love birds."
rhe judge tfeferred action on the
:ase after the Negro couple changed
heir story of a shooting pact made
m a Saturday night about 9 weeks
tgo?both had laid down to sleep
vlth guns in their hands, with the
igreement that the one who awakened
first was to shoot the other.
Johnny denied the shooting agree
nentbeldre the crowded court roopi,
put 24 to tell local policemen she
isd shot her husband the night beore.
The first stbry was told to police
te're and again at the-first hearing
n' Cherryville Recorders court In
September. Her husband has defend
>d her or. an assault with a deadly
veapon charge in both courts.
Johnson received wounds in the
eg and was reported seen walking
iround by Cherryville officers later
n the week of the shooting, little
he worse for the whole affair.
Mrs. Johnson said that her bus and
was not drinking much the
light of the shooting. The couple
tave four children, the youngest
vas with them In court, and are exMeting.
another child.
"This case has several unusual
eatures," the judge commented.
Usually the wife has been beaten
ind tries to get the husband off, but
his time It is the other way around
ind the husband's taking up for a
vife who shot him."
Judgment In the case is expected
his week.
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Memorial Paik It
Is Besting Place
With the return of the bodies of
ervlcemen who died overseas now
inderway, nearest-of-kin of these
ear heroes were reminded this week
hat the City of King? Mountain has
et aside a special tract in Mounaln
Rest cemetery for the final Inerment
of these men.
The tract, set aside by the former
ity board last year, is a beautiful
ires of the cemetery located on the
outheest side and is known as Menorlal
Park ? reserved only for
ervlcemen. It is presently marked
>y a white wpoden cross, but Sam
iutnr, cemetery superintendent says
>lans are being cdnsidered whereby
i suitable stone mem*rial will be
ireoted. Plans also call for further
andsceplng of the area, a portion
rf which is now s sunken flower
rarden, with permanent evergreens
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? No chargea are to be made lor the
ots. Only neceeaaiy action oat the
raBsrr
fork m a tat*! Matin# plaoe haa
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Vets Groups Plan
Armistice Rites
Otis D. Gr?en Post 15S. American
Legion, and Johnny W. Blackwell
Post 2268, Veterans of Foreign {
! Wnnrt. are nlannincr to lointlw srvnn.
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Day service to be held Sunday evening,
November 9, at First Baptist
church.
John W. Gladden, Legion commander,
made the announcement
yesterday.
Program details are now being
arranged and will be announced
in the near future, it was announced.
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Randall Funeral
Held On Tuesday
Funeral rites for John Luther Au|
gustus Randall, 83, prominent Bethlehem
farmer, were held Tuesday af
ternoon at 3 o'clock at Bethlehem
Baptist church, with Rev. T. W. Fogleman,
the pastor, officiating, assls .
ted by Rev. W. G. Camp.
The body lay in state At the ctaur- \
ch for an hour prior to the services.
Mr. Randall succumbed at 12:45
Monday at his home in the Bethle- i
hem community.
A native of Cherokee county, S. C.,
I Mr. Randall moved to Bethlehem 34 <
j years ago. While a resident of Cher- I
j okee he had been largely respons- j
1 ble for the building of the Antloch
and Grover churches. He was also ac '
tlve In the Bethlehem community in i ]
church work and had served continu
I ously as a member of its board of |,
deacons.
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He is survived by eight children, 1
Mrs. r, L. Moore. Knoxvllle; Mrs. Wil |
llam Sneltings, New York city; Mrs. 1
j Paris B. Price, Forest City; Mia. Alfred-Ones
.Randall, Charlotte; Oree 1
Randall and Mrs. Robert L. Hanna 1
lot the homer Robert and Roy Randall,
Florence, S. C.; and John B. 1
Randall, Kings Mountain, route 2. A
sister, Mrs. O. A. Daves ot Gastonia
and nine grandchildren also survive. I
Price Note: Popcorn '
Joins The Sphraling
The current price spiral is even J
affecting the popcorn you munch at |
a movie. ( I
Dave Cash, of the Dixie Theatre,
announced this week that a bag of I
popcorn will henceforth, cost 10
cents. However, purchasers Will re??!?.
uc h la,?^r ba.*. * ??m J
man in me pa*, tor a wnue at iaa? !
a bag twice aslargv. Ho* Jong the
double-size Will last KCr. Cash was
unable tp say. Prices of com and <
supplies Are already up, and he Is j
anticipating further .Increase, due ,
to a short crop this year of the gold- ;
en popcorn.
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Library Dadicatien
Will Be JlMMdMi S ;
The MMUMT Memorial Library
cart Teatberaga. which the childroa
of the Into MS. ?M Mta. 1.1. .
Mauney aro donating to the elty, !
will be formally dedicate and ,
deeded to the city en Wednesday,
Morember 5, it was asswusSsd ,
I ihyfipifr'^
A special program to betog or.
ranged for the sssislsst with full J
6a 19j was killed if|>(tfiiOQ In south
prn pYgnce OB Seoteoilkhe 10 1044
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iday. October 24. 1947
billed Fo
ted To A ttend
b Floral Fair
The Woman's Club will present 1
its annual Floral Fair Friday at the j
club house.
As in past years, dinner will be j
served both at noon and in the ev- j
entng, from noon to 2 p. m., and |
from 5:30 to 7:30.
A large collection of awards and
prizes await winners in various
competitions, and Mrs. J. K. Willis, j
co-chairman of. the event, has an- j
nounced that all entries in all com- !
petitions must be in by 10 o'clock
Friday morning to be-eligible for awards,
which include several class- i
es of flowers, pastries, candies, oth- j
er delicacies, and home-sewing.
Out-of.tnwn ilirJfTQC Katrn
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tained to select the winning entries,
it was stated.
Mrs. Willis said the Fair's turkey
dinner would cost $1.00, and the
chicken salad plate 50 cents.
Mrs. J. H. Arthur and Mrs. I. G. Pat
terson, in charge of prizes fox the
Fair, announced yesterday a large j
number of additions to the list of 56 i
announced last week.
They follow:
Flowers
Best collection Red Roses?10 lbs. i
flour?Aderholdt St Son. (
Best collection Azalea mums?50c .
?Home Buildlpg & Loan.
Best collection of Immortells or |
Straw flowers?3 theater tickets ? I
imperial Theatre. (
Finest quality flower?3 theater i
tickets ? Imperial. 1
Miscellaneous Cake
First?basket groceries ? B. & B.
Store. ' |
Second ? $1.00?Harris Funeral j
Home. .
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First prize ? Cosdietics ? Ansell
Beauty Shoppe.
Second prize ? $1.00?Harris Funeral
Home. ,
Cookies?made by a child 15 or |
under: 1
Hteme BirHd \
Intf ft ioaru ?.
Best fudge squares or Brownies?
11.00?Harris Funeral Home,
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Jest cocoanut pie?$1.00?R. ft M.
Motors.
Best Miscellaneous pie ? $1.00 R.
fc M. Motors.
Pecan pie ? First R. ft M. Motors. I
Second?3 theatre tickets ? Imperial
Theatre.
Best cucumber pickle ? Deviled
?gg dish?Amos ft Son.
Firms donating moqey for prizes:
*5.00. First National Bank; $5.00, Elmer
Lumber Co.; $3.00, Home Buildng
ft Loan; $1.00, Kings Mountain
Juildtng ft Loan; $2.00, G. W. Kl->;
t3.00, Harris Funeral Home; $5.00,
Jtis rails. i
KMfe:
Miss Selma C. Webb, county Seal ,
lale chairman, has announced plans (
for the annual sale of Tuberculosis (
Zfhrlstmas Seals which will start on i
November 24. (
This year's goal is $8,000.00, the
money raised to be used to carry on
the program of tuberculosis preven- t
tion and control through case findings,
health education, rehabilit&ion
and emergency relief to tuber- '
:ular patients and their families.
Eighty per cent of the funds rals- J
?d will remain in Cleveland county J
ind the other twenty percent will go j
o the stsite and national aaeoclation
o pay for materials-and scientific
esearch for ways to combat the dis- 1
sase. J
The sale this year, .which is the ,
list annual sale conducted by the i
ruberculosls Association, will begin 1
November 24 and be carried on
hrpughout the nation until Christnas.
On the inaugural day, seals s
will be mailed to residents through- t
nit the county. Though the sale is i
inducted mainly by mail, early in (
fovember a committee will visit the r
msinees firms in Kings Mountain, <j
Iheiby and rural Cleveland who t
nay wish to rftake a larger contribuion
than the average seal sale con- f
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Interment of Pvt. Eugene Miller, i
Kings Mountain negro soldier 1
wild was killed St Pearl Harbor,
will take place at Salisbury Ha- I
tlonal cemetery, tt was announc t
ad this week from the Charlotte c
Quartermaster Depot. Pvt. Miller's %
body was the tost of falfrn Kings
turned from overseas soil. ?
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Santa Claus Places .
City On Visit List
Kings Mountain kiddies can look
' forward to seeing Santa Claus this
season.
John L. McGill, chairman of the
Merchants association Christmas
festival committee, announced 'his
week that Old Nick hnH
ly put Kings Mountain on his preChristmas
visiting list (as well as
the night of December 24.)
A program is to be announced
soon.
Rites Conducted
For Mrs. Higdon
Funeral rites for Mrs. Eunice
Bishop Higdon, 64, sister of Frank
Bishop of Kings Mountain, were
held Thursday afternoon at Modena,
Street Baptist church in Gastonia.
Mrs? Bishop, a native of Jackson
county but a resident of Gastonia
for the past 32 years, died Tuesday
afternoon in Gastonia at 4:30 at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. W. G.
Fox.
The rites were conducted by Rev.
W. A. Costner, pastor of the Modena
Street church of which Mrs. Higdon
was a charter member. Deacons of
the church served as pall bearers
and interment took piace in Gastonia's
Hollywood cemetery.
Other survivors Include a daughter,
Mrs. Dorothy Mae McMtpius,
Uastonia, a sister, Mrs. H. R. Buchanan,
three brothers, W. A. Bishop,
Spartanburg, Dave and Joe Bishop,
jf Gay, N. C., and six grandchildren.
Both Rhodes Case
Tops Monday Court
Ruth Rhodes, Kings Mountain coljred
women, waived preliminary
learing In City Recorders Court bebre
lu^ge^O. C. OTimelyonday
tssault with a deadly weapon.
The local Negress is charged with
he shotgun shooting last August of
tussell D. Crockett, also colored,
vho is under warrant by his assailint
on charge of forceable trespassng
according to Judge O'Farrell.
Crockett was given a prayer for
udgment continued on the charge
acing him, his trial awaiting ver- !
iict in the other case.
Crockett reportedly spent four
veeks in jail as a result of the shootng.
Rhodes was arrested on Sept.
11 according to police records.
In other cases tried in the weekly
tesslon of court Leonard Arenson, of
Charlotte, was sentenced six monhs,
suspended on payment of $110
ind costs for driving drunk and runting
traffic lights. Arenson's drlv-1
>rs license was revoked.
Millard Moss on an assault mn.
fiction was fined costs.
Case against Ben Adams for asMult
on a female was dismissed.
J. L. Hogan, of Charlotte, forfeited
I $25 bond on a public drunkenness
iharge. Adam L. Prultt on two
lounts of public drunkenness was
Fined costs on the first and $5 and
tosts on the second.
Fred Emery, of Asheville, for no
lrlvers license, was fined costs.
The following were fined costs for
)ublic drunkenness: William Bert
[Liberty, S. C.), Mattie Jackson, Edvard
Propst, Dave Huffsflckler, John
dltcham, Clarence Williams, James
togers, Dolph Chambers, and Prilow ,
^ambrlght. '
Betty Brown's Cm
Mtei Being Hit E
to r Betty
Brown, seven-year old first
trade student of Central school, was
till in a critical condition at Gaston
Memorial hospital Wednesday aftirnoon,
where she is receiving treataent
for injuries sustained Tueslay
morning when struck by a mosrcycle
ridden by Earl Ledford.
Mr. Ledford, butcher at Craword's
Market, was painfully injur'
d in the accident, after being
hrown from the motorcycle.
Dr. E. i. Rice, Gastonia physician
ittendlng the patients, said that the
nan child suffered a fractured
hull, lacerations of the face and
eft eyelids, and a fractured bone In
^e left thigh. He said she was semibnaelous
and that her eondJtkm
id ribs, I?srattons mt the scalp? and
i mild concussion, Dr. Rice said.
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Templeton Case
Also On Docket
For Court Term
j Harolotis Dayton, state highway
| patrolman who is charged with murj
der in connection with the fatal
'shooting of Carl Short, Cherryvilte
i police chief, is scheduled to begin
in Cleveland County Superior court
! at Shelby next Wednesday, accordI
ing to court calendar arranged by
1 Clerk of Court Everett A. Houser.
The case highlights a crowded
I docket, which is scheduled for hearing
before Judge Allen H. Gwynn of
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rit'iusvilie.
i Also scheduled for trial in the
mixed term of court are the trials of
Thomas Templeton, former Kings
Mountain school teacher, on charge
of embezzlement, and trial of Dewitt
Hull, Kings Mountain taxi drlj
ver, who is charged with abandon'ment
and non-support of his wife
Lona Hull.
Chiet cases docketed for trial In
the civil term beginning Monday,
November 3, of interest to Kings
Mountain, are Cash vs. Owens, et al,
in which David Cash, Kings Mountain
theater owner, seeks recovery
of $10,000 in alleged damages brought
by defendants' operation of a
fish camp near the Cash home on
the York road, and Brown vs. City
of Kings Mountain, in another $13,000
suit in which administrator of
the estate of Charlie Dillard seeks
recovery of damages from the city
for alleged negligence resulting In
the death of Dillard, who died after
falling into a culvert hole on S. Battleground
avenue In July.
j Charges against Mr. Templeton,
on which a true bill was returned
by the grand jury in the previous
term of Superior Court, grew out of
operation of S. & T. Furniture company,
in which Mr. Templeton and
. Frank Sisk, Kings Mountain mortl1
clan, were partners. Mr. Templeton
is charged with embezzlement of
t slightly more than $1600. This case
la docketed for Monday.
obtained from her a deed of separation
when she was legally insane,
j In the Cash-Owens matter, defendants
were temporarily restrained
from operating the colored fish
camp in a court order signed by
Judge Wilson Warlick dunnv a r??
cert term of court In Gaston county.
E. A. HarriU, attorney for plaintiff,
said that Richard Owens, owner of
the property and chief defendant,
had agreed to the restraint in the
answer to the complaint. The court
will decide whether the other defendant
Cecil Tidwell, negro operator
of the camp, will be permanently
restrained and will decide what
damages, if any, occurred to plaintiff
prior to the signing of the tern-*
porary restraining order.
Mr. Harrlll, who Is also city attorney,
said that he doubted that the
case in which the city is defendant
would come to trial. It is scheduled
j for November 7, but a crowded docket
may prevent Its trial by the
j court, he said, and necessitate oon[
tinuation.
1 Highest interest, both locally and!
| throughout the state, centers on the
I trial of Patrolman Dayton, who shot
Chief Short while endeavoring to arrest
him on a charge of drunken
driving. After a recorder's Jury here
had found Dayton was justified In
shooting Short, members of Short's
family pressed charges and a county
court Jury bound him over for
Superior Court trial. Dayton was released
under bond of $2500. His case
of 44 criminal cases and 99 civil actions,
including 63 divorce cases.
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idition Critical
If Motorcycle
adding that the patient was much
better Wednesday afternoon.
The accident occurred about eight
o'clock at the Intersection of Battleground
and North Piedmont aventte
near the Southern Railway depot.
City Policeman J. W. Roach, who investigated
the accident with Officer
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described the condition of
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dlMon woe etUI regarded as criH
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Lebon Thorn burg, said witnesses repotted
that the Brown child was hit
after stepping la front of the southbound
motorcycle. Ha said witnesses
reported that the child had been
looking te her right, waiting until
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