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City Limits (1940 Csdsus) 6.574 ,
Immediate Trading Area 15.000
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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
$106.19 according to a ceport from
the office of S. A, Crouse, city
clerk.
W. O. W. MEETING
The Woodmen of the World,
Camp NC-15, will meet Tuesday
evening at 7:30 p. m. at the W. O,
W. Hall. Council Commander W.
IF. England urges all members to
be present for an important business
session. Visiting Woodmen
from other Camps are invited to
attend.
PASTORS RETURN
Rev. W. Phillips, pastor of
First Wesleyan church, and Rev.
Jessie Hinaon, pastor of Second
> Wesleyan church, were re-assign
ed to their charges in Kings Mountain
by the annual Wesleyan
Church conference held at Colfax
last week.
AT ASTC
BOONE?'Among the 1408 students
who have been enrolled at
Appalachian State Teachers college
this summer are D. B. Blalock
and Ben Goforth, of Kings
Mountain, and Dan.Camp, of Grover.
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SERIOUSLY ILL
Henry Huffstetler, well-known
route 1 citizen, who has been seriously
ill for the past 10 days was
reported slightly better Thursday
morning.
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UNION SERVICE
This week's union service will
be held at the Presbyterian church
Sunday night at 8 o'clock. Don
Michael, assistant pastor of the
Lutheran church, will deliver the
sermon.
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CLASS PICNIC
Members of the Neil Balrd Bible
Class of Boyce Memorial ARP
thurch were to hold a class picind"
at Lake Montonia Thursday ev
entng at 6:45,
JAYC$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
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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.
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..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.
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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
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Public Het
Scheduled
Golfers Urged To Play
In Flag Tournaments
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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,
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??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
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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
<a female.
Glenn Marshall Campfleld, ?
Henrietta, for driving without a dr
vers license, paid $25 and costs.
Joseph Kenneth lxjgsdon, f<
i speeding, paid costs.
Nine defendants were convict*
on charges of public drunkenness.
pan Hike Wages;
ring "Situation"
'be reflected In paychecks of Augu
27.
I J. W. (Bill) Helm of DuCourt Mill
i Inc., said he had contacted the Ne
I York office of the company regan
> 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
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lay* August 13. 1948
iring On Ci
Monday Ni,
Citizens Urged
To Attend Meet
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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.
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'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
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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
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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.
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! 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."
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ity Charters
ght At 7:30
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Saturday Is Last
> Chance To Register
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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