' i ' r _____ . POPULATION City Limits (1940 Csdsus) 6.574 , Immediate Trading Area 15.000 (1945 Ration Board Figures) s VOL. 59 NO. 33 Local News Bulletins COOPER TO PREACH ^ .. Rev; Edgar Cooper, well known I young minister and native of Kings Mountain, will deliver the sermon at the regular morning services at Boyce Memorial ARP church Sunday morning at 11:00 | o'clock. Rev. Mr. Cooper Is filling the pulpit in the absence of the pastor who is on vacation. KIWANIS MEETING City "Engineer E. C. Brandon, Jr. was to address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanjs club at , their regular meeting at the Woman's Cliib Thursday night. Mr. Brandon was to discuss the forthcoming city charter election. Byron Keeter, chairman of.the club\> public affairs committee was in charge of the program. PARKING METERS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday totaled $106.19 according to a ceport from the office of S. A, Crouse, city clerk. W. O. W. MEETING The Woodmen of the World, Camp NC-15, will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 p. m. at the W. O, W. Hall. Council Commander W. IF. England urges all members to be present for an important business session. Visiting Woodmen from other Camps are invited to attend. PASTORS RETURN Rev. W. Phillips, pastor of First Wesleyan church, and Rev. Jessie Hinaon, pastor of Second > Wesleyan church, were re-assign ed to their charges in Kings Mountain by the annual Wesleyan Church conference held at Colfax last week. AT ASTC BOONE?'Among the 1408 students who have been enrolled at Appalachian State Teachers college this summer are D. B. Blalock and Ben Goforth, of Kings Mountain, and Dan.Camp, of Grover. * * SERIOUSLY ILL Henry Huffstetler, well-known route 1 citizen, who has been seriously ill for the past 10 days was reported slightly better Thursday morning. i 11 UNION SERVICE This week's union service will be held at the Presbyterian church Sunday night at 8 o'clock. Don Michael, assistant pastor of the Lutheran church, will deliver the sermon. - i CLASS PICNIC Members of the Neil Balrd Bible Class of Boyce Memorial ARP thurch were to hold a class picind" at Lake Montonia Thursday ev entng at 6:45, JAYC$E PICNIC Members, of the Kings Mountain Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold a picnic at Lake Moni|k tonia Tuesday night at.7:30. Wives of Jaycees will prepare the picgjF nic repast. Final Interment Rites Sunday For Thornburg Final Interment services for Staff Sergeant Raymond C. Thornburg, a? RjtoumAr Oltv whn Wla kill. ed in action in Italy on June 2, 1944, wilt be held Sunday at 2 o'clock af Bethea Methodist church, Bessemer City, with burial In Bessemer City Memorial cemetery. Rev. H. F. Leatherman, pastor, will officiate, assisted by Rev. Kelly Dixon, of Kings Mountain, ? former pastor, and Rev George Riddle, former Army combat chaplain and pas tor of First Presbyterian church of CJierryvllle. He served In the Army Air Force as a tail gunner. Full military'hon ors will be given the Bessemer City hero at his final rites. He Is survived by h)s mother, Mrg. N M. Thornburg of Bessemer City, four brothers, Eugene Thornburg, of Belmont, Leroy Thornburg of Chefryville, and Howard and Melvin Thornburg, of Bessemer CRy, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Watts * and Mrs. Louise Bell of Bessemer City. Delegates Named To Convention Of State Legion ? Members of Otis D. Green Post 155. American [.pcinn haarA - ? ?~o-?-r a ocu* es of talks by representatives of the post at the annual Legion Boys State held in Chapel Hill this summer at their regular meeting Monday night at City Hall. Among the representatives describing the activities at Chapel Hill were Garland $till, Jr., Charles Blanton; Hunter Wartick, and Herman Mauney. Each took up a different phase of the varied program designed to-increase familiarity with the. processes of state government and politics. Commander J."01 lie Harris announeed the appointment of Warren Reynolds to the building committee replacing O, O. Walker, Who now lives in Winston-Salem. Other members of the post building committee ? which is expected to begin-active work in the near future toward the building of a World War II memorial ? are Dr. J. P. Mauney, chairman, Paul Mauney, J. E. Herndon, Hal D. Ward, W. L. Plorik, J. B. Keeter, Capt. Earl Wells, B, D Ratterree and, C. H. Aderholdt. Commander Harris also announced appointment of the following as delegates and alternate de.legates to the North Carolina Department : convention which ,meets in Ashe1 vllle September 10-13: Delegates are 1 B. D. Ratterree, C. E. Warlick, J. W. Gladden, John H. Moss. Hubert A1 derho'.dt, D. L. Saunders, Jr., and Hal Ward. Named alternate delei gates are J. E. Herndon, George Hull I Paul Mauney, Ollie Harris and C. T. Carpenter, Jr. John Gladden, past commander and chairman of the post membership commKtee, gave a report on the work of his committee and urged members to renew their member strips. Football Coach Due Here Monday Kings Mountain's high school's : new football coach, Everette L. Carl* j ton, of Winston-SaleiM, is due to ar\ rive Monday morning to take over ! his new duties, according to B. N. [Barnes, city school superintendent, :with the opening pre season practice awaiting a "green light" from the Cleveland county board of heal;th i The board was scheduled to meet jusj after press time Thursday afternoon to consider further action on I the polio ban. Coach Carlton.is a recent graduj ate of Lenoir-Rhyne College, and i holds a grade A certificate ir. phyI sical education and history. He has | been attending Coach Oarl Srravely's i coaching sohool at Chapel Hill this | week, Mr. Barnes said. An officer In the Marine Corps during the war, he played two years varsity football at Lenoir - Rhyne and was alternate captain of the ] tea mone year. Before the war he played three years football at Duke. ' Wo olsaA HA a 1M kooAknll ..V u>w mho icnvta ill i/asjt70?ii liuiu Duke and Lenoir-Rhyne. Last' spring he assisted Coach Clarence Staeavich in Lenoir-Rhy! ne football drllfs. . TO ATTEND INSTITUTE James B. Simpson, executive secretary of the Kings Mountain ! Merchants association, will at ; tend the Merchants Association Management Institute at Chapel j HitH'August 15-21. Some 120 mer, chants association officials from j 15 states are expected to attend the institute. It was announced | that the Merchants Association office will be open as usual during Mr. Simpson's absence. v Burlington, Crafts] Other Mills Stud] Majority of Kings Mountain tex> tile leaders have been scratching (their heads for the past 10 days ? wondering what to do about the current eight per cent-wage increase .instituted by some textile plants in the face of a glut in the yarn market and general slowness in many textile products. Two Kings Mountain mills nad 1 Joined in the wage increase. Phenlx Plant of Burlington Mills had announced an eight per cent increase effective the past Monday, and Craftspun Yams, Inc., announced that an increase approxi mating eight percent would be Instituted next Monday, August 16th The Burlington increase will be re fleeted in paychecks of August 20 while the Crafstpun increase wlL |. . _r:' _ / . / ; ; ' i I , Kings Mountain. N. C.. Fric Public Het Scheduled Golfers Urged To Play In Flag Tournaments r ____________ Booth Gillespie, greens committee member, announce^ this week that a flag golf tournament will be held at Kings Mountain Country club on Saturday and Sunday, with prizes for each day's tourney, M.n-h... ?? ??uj piuy me nine hole tournament either day and may start at any time that is suitable to the contestant. Three prizes will be awarded lor.each day's play, Mr. Gillespie aid. '.'The Jreens committee is anx ious for all members to participate in the tournaments Saturday and Sunday. ,11 a member can'1 play on Sunday, he should play Saturday, and visa versa. What we want is full participation in the tournaments." he said. Thieves Rob Belk's Store Police reported this week robber of Belk's Department Store here i round 2 o'clock Monday night, wit missing items reported as a quant ty of ladies nylon slips, panties, an hose. Money in the cash drawer, wj untouched they reppYtedAccording to Chief N. M. Parr th robber or robbers entered the stoi by prizing the lock off the froi door. I He said that Officers J. W. Roac and S. R, Davidson discovered til break-in at the 2:30 a. m. do< check. The officers had checked tl ; door at 1:30 and found it to be in o der. NNo development was reported 1 e case at noon Thursday. Jewelry store had been -Jimmied tl same night but the robbers weTe a] parently "flushed" off by the pi trol. The front door was open bi the establishment had apparent! not been entered. 17 Cases Heard In Kcscrfler Session 1 Seventeen cases were heard Moi day afternoon in City Recorder court at City Hall with Judge O. < O'Farrell (presiding. Jojin Lingerfelt requested a jui trial on a charge of riding a fema in (the front seat of a taxi in violi tion of the city taxi cab ordinanc He will be tried "by Jury by Clevi land county Recorders court. { Odellace Robinson, for assault o a female, was fined $5 and costs. Ham Craig wsb ordered to jail f< thirty days after conviction on charge of public drunkenness. John (H. Walker, of Gastonia, w:i fined $50 and costs for reckless dr vlng and driving with improp< brakes. Wade Morgan, of Lincoln ton, w i charged with costs for posting sigi ?on pob(s inside the city limits 1n v 'olation of a city ordinance prohibi ing such an act. i Arthur Anderson paid costs c conviction on a cnarge 01 assault C I inp the Increase and was awaltir : a reply. Otherwise, the picture was n only a hesitating one regarding t> 1 wage increase, but a spotty one pr duction-wise, i One yarn manufacturer describe : the current situation of wage ii . creases in the face of some curtal . ments as the moat unusual he hi 1 ever seen. "Frankly," he said, "there hast been much yarn sold in the past < ., to 90 days. Most of us are waltii . to find out Whether the situation ft (Cont'd on page eight) ' V -'J-' I* .'I.": | - * .* , ? \*. ." 1 : ' ' :.*?> /' 1 ' ' \ . lay* August 13. 1948 iring On Ci Monday Ni, Citizens Urged To Attend Meet i At City Hall i ' - rrn. - .A.. ? - - i ne city Doard of commissionerswill meet in specjal session at the City Hall Monday night at 7:30 tc hold a-public hearing on the proposed charters which will be offered to the citizens in a special.election August 28. Citizens are be^ng urged to attend - the session to make any suggestion or criticism they wish to make regarding the two charters, published on July 30, which will be offered. One charter, which the city has named Charter "A", calls for a manager - mayor - council form of government, while the other, known as Charter "B", calls for a mayor-council form of government. In the city manager form, adminis trative duties are in the hands of a city manager, appointed by the city board of commissioners. The duties of the mayor under this system are primarily to serve as a board chair y man and as the titular head of the i- city government, h Under the -council-mayor form, i- the administrative duties are the red sponsibility of the mayor, while vais rious board members are appointed to supervise particular departments ,e Provision for the special chartei re election was made in accordance ,t with the act of the 1947 General Assembly. In changing the voting pro^ cedure of the city, the act required . ' that a charter election be held nol j later than December 31, 1948. j-i Adoption of Cnarter "B" would . in effect, leave the governmental system of the city virtually unchanged from its status today- " n City commissioners have reported a seeming preponderance of fa vol rt manager.i+tmn afanvorn. s nttSf. " 'e Principal objections Voiced tc > them thus far, they report, ha'.e con. ' cerned the method of electing city J* commissioners and the proposed y change by which school board men: bers would be elected for two years rather than six years. Some citizens it is reported, favor a return to the system whereby voters in one ward would vote only for the candidate in that ward, rather than for five com i- missioner or school board candi 's dates. Others are reported to be op C. posing the school board change, fa i voring retention of the staggered y term plan now being used. ,e "We are very anxious for all citi ! zens who possibly cdn to attend the charter hearing Monday night,' 8' Mayor H. Tom Fulton said yesterday. "I believe I speak for the board ,n when I say that they wish to represent the will of the people in adopt)r ing a new, up-to-date, city charter a The board will be glad to entertain suggestions from all bona fide citils sens for improvement in the charters as now outMned." Fans AU-Star Game ? Called OH; No Park 18 ? . The,Western Carolina class D base ball league "fans all-star" game < scheduled for a Sunday in August >n has been called off according tt ,n John Moss, president. No park for Sunday play coulc M &e secured in the league area he said. .J,: Fans were to have ballotted or the two teams ? east and west ? : and the league had voted to ' play ! the game on a Sunday because ol _ a heavy regular schedule and a nurr I ber of rained-out games tb be play ed. .. . 1 Merchants To Take Labor Day Holiday 8t Majority of Kings Mountain merchants will observe tho aonu ? al Labor Day' holiday on Sept em * bar I, according to announce?* ment by the Kings Mountain Men's chants association. Labor Day is one of tho several f>t regular annual holidays obsarv" ad by the association. ?\ Merchants were being reminded of the holiday In this month's as^ sociatien bulletin. n- - . ! CAPTURES STILL ld Constable Warren Ellison report ed Tuesday capture of a still ol I't Lake Montonia road and seizure o SO one and one-half gallons of liquoi ig No one was at the still at the tin* is of capture but H was reported read; for a "run." t ? *X>A-a J c ' ferald ity Charters ght At 7:30 T- " ' . r " Saturday Is Last > Chance To Register ^ Registration books (or the city charter election will be open for the last day on Saturday at the five ward polling places. Challenge day will be Saturday, August 21, and the voting will be con* ducted on August 28. ' I > .. -- i ?o new registration has been called, which means that only new residents of the city, or persons who have changed residence from one ward to another have to jj visit their registrars. |. The books have been open for I ; the past three Saturdays. City officials are urging all citi. 1 zens not now registered to accomplish registration in order that they may help determine the fu. j ture form of the city's government. Gantt Funeral Set For Sunday Final interment of Private Hows ard B. Gantt, 26, son of Mrs. Lona Wise Gantt, formerly of Kings Moun , tain, who was killed near Rome, Italy, in May 1944, will be conducted Sunday at 4:30 o'clock with graveI side military rttes in Mountain Rest | cemetery. Rev. Floyd Hollar, pastor of : Mountain View Baptist church, of ' ; All members of Otis D. Greene I Vest 155, American Legion, are requested to meet at City Hall at 4 o'clock to take part In final Interment rites for Pvt. Gantt, Com' | mander Ollie Harris announced. ' | Members are requested to wear , uniform caps, he said. I ? j > r which he, was a member, will con' duet the rites, assisted t?v Rev.. George Leigh, of Kings Mountain. ' Burial will be in Memorial ParK, a section of the cemetery set aside J for war veterans. Pvt. Gantt was a son of the late . Jake Gatttt and was a native of ' Cleveland county. His mother now | lives-in Lawndale. I Other survivors include five bro, thers, J. B. Gantt, of route 2. Kings . Mountain, Russell Gantt, of Zion? ville, I. T. Gantt, route 2, Kings ,. Mountain, Thurmond Gantt, of . Kings Mountain, and Clarence Gantt I of Lawndale; six sisters, Mrs. Woodj row Canipe, of Lawndale, Mrs. William Frye, of Cherryville, and Ruby, j Geneva, Juanita, and Louise Gantt, all of the home; and a half-brother, D. W. Gantt, of rouje 1, Kings Mountain, and four half-sisters, I Mrs. Beck Page, Mrs. Ben Page, Mrs. George Conner, and Mrs. Audie Martin, all of Kings Mountain. ! City Fathers Hold Routine Session The city board of commissioners held a routine meeting Tuesday night at City Hall, devoting most of their tithe to studying recommendations for minor detailed changes in ! the olty charters to he offered the citizens in a special election August 28. The changes to be inserted will be I delineated at the public hearing on the charters Monday night, it was announced, and will be subsequently published, along with any other i changes which maybe made. The board eranted a ho?, ' to DoruS Huffstetler and studied f July reports on the operation of city i departments. Polio Ca&es Now Boy Stricken Whi Kings Mountain Thursday listed V4 casci 6f polio since the epidemic began, as two additional ca. e* had been reported since last week in the rural areas. Another case had also developed here, according to information given by Harry Page at the Pauline I Mill. Mr. Page said Larry Surber, 10-year-pld Shelby child, who had been visiting his grandfather Willis SurbCr, had become ill this week and had been hospitalized. Mr. Surber had reported that the child was - paralyzed in one leg and that the i case had been definitely diagnosed t tut polio. Local doctors did not at . tend tide case. a Of the other cases one developed f last Thursday afternoon, August 5, and the other one Sundiff, Both ; -,v tfv . V * ' . ! * ' * ' 1C Pa9es IQ Today PRICE FIVE CENTS Inspection Lane Has Busy Week. Leaves Saturday ' Auto inspection lane No. 5 will conclude its current ojM-rations in Kings Mountain on Saturday at , noon and is not scheduled to return :here until September 22, when it will remain here for a seven-day period. r . ' The lane has been doing rushing business on its current trip here,, having inspected 631 cars through Thursday, morning at 10:30, as motorists rushed to meet-the deadlines. According to current highway de partment rules, all cars of 1936 models and oidei. as well as 1947 and 1948 models are required to complete inspections and show "ap proved" stickers by August 31, 1943, while, all vehicles of the year models 1937 and 1946 are required to hr? ? w.i 1/1 iiciuic .-lepiemher 30, 1948. The vehicle lane manager report- ' ed that tWo cars had been condemned and ordered off the roads during the past week. This meant that the vehicles had to be moved by wrecker, as they are not allowed tuNe dri ven even to a garage. Motor department officials are urging all car owners to get their cars inspected before the deadlines fall. Other deadlines on car inspections follow: All motor vehicles of the year models 1938, 1939, 1943, 1944, and 1945, shall be inspected on or before October 31, 1948. All motor vehicles of the year models 1940 and 1942 shall be inspected on or before November 30, 1948. All motor vehicles of the year model 1941 and 1949 shall be inspected ; on or before December 31, 1948. McGill Opens Golf Range I - ' ';* I, ' -N 1 Ned McGill, former secretary of the Kings Mountain Merchants association; announced yesterday the opening of Alex's Golf Range on the Gastonla Road a mile East of Kings i Mountain. The range, whiclv is well-lighted for night play, is 300 yards long. Mr. McGill said ne had a good supply of top quality golf balls, and a va- ; riety of clubs for both women and men. He further added that golfers anxious to improve their game, and who wished to use their own clubs, would be welcome to do so. The establishment 'Vill also feature a concession stand selling soft drinks and light refrshments. Mr. McGil! said that arrangements are being made to assist, amateur golfers to learn the game. Re-Surfacing Work Nearing Completion Re-surfacing of city streets neared completion fhis week, according to a statement from city officials. j Sherrill Paving Company, Winston-Salem contractors, had completed double coating of Phenix and Church streets, and had applied single coatings to Fulton street, Cansler street. Juniper street, Watterson street, the last block on West Gold street, Pine street from the Mauney Mill crossing to Cansler street, West Ridge street from - the overhead bridge to Cansler street, and Cora street, from Second Avenue to Cleveland avenue. Work is to be completed in West Kings Mountain this weekend and the paving crews will move to the eastern portion of the city next week it was stated by E. C. Brandon, Jr.. city engineer. Total 14; Shelby le Visiting Here were colored children, j The'August 5th case, reported by ' Dr. P. E. Hendricks, was J. C. McjClain, 13-year old son of James McjClain, and the case which developed j Sunday, as reported by Dr. J. E. Anthony was Walter Oates, nine year I old sori of Rhone Oatea, who lives j near Compact colored school. Both cases were described as mild and both children are being treated at home. Meantime the county boatd of health was to meet Thursday after noon to make a decision as to lifting the ban on polio gatherings for Children. The ban had previously been extended to August .16, and county schools were tentatively scheduled to open on that date. t > ' v--. . -. ,r.;. Vv *:i;\ ;> '