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I * . POPULATION City Limits (1940 Census) 6,574 Immediate Trading Area 15,000 (1945 Ration Board Figures) VOL. 59 ; NO. 38 I Local News Bulletins ^ I? !c METER RECEIPTS _ Parking meter receipts for the j F week ending Wednesday noon to- * taled $155.70, according to an an- J W nouncement from City Clerk S, A. ' P Crouse. j AT EMPLOYMENT OFFICE Bill Palmer, of Shelby, is tern- ; no porarily in charge of the Kings [? Mountain branch of the North j Carolina Employment Service, ' while Mrs. Mary B. Goforth recuperates from a recent illness. ,* JAYCEE MEETING ! Members of the Kings Mountain ; lec Junior Chamber of Commerce will ; 'I1* hold their regular meeting at the j Woman's Club Tuesday evening "a at 7:30. President W. S. Fulton, j r' Jr., is urging a full attendance. . - we TO AIR GAME | C Hendersonville Radio Station WHKP will broadcast the Kings *^r Mountain Hendersonville high J.r< school football game to be played here in City Stadium Friday ev< night at 7:30 p. m. it has been announced. ? ' . ' 1 Ge KIWANIS MEETING 'h Members of the Kings Mountain club were to see a sound film "A hn Prelude to Victory" at their regular meeting at the Woman's Club ?* Thursday night at 7 o'clock. The l'1( program was arranged by Gordon 1 tw Riley. - ? 1 Ru GLADDEN ELECTED fer John W. Gladden,' past com- , ha mander of Otis D. Green Post 155, ?' American Legion, was elected "J* commander of District 28 at the $ - annual convetnion of the North J1? ^ Carolina Department last week- We end. Mr. Gladden will serve as ceJ m commander of 1C posts. J? ' tn BUILDING PERMITS he. Building permits were issued . during the last week to Lee Ross on Tuesday for remodeling resi- | dende on West Ridge street, $700, and to W. K. Mauney on Sept. 9 for"! U avr. . Temodeling residence at 175 N. Piedmont avenue, $1,000. : A WINS RADIO PRIZE Mrs. Sam Mltchem, the former | ?j Miss Frances Huffstetlert now vis- j he itlng in New York, was a lucky fu lady on Wednesday night. Appear- fea ing as a contestant on the CBS ;op< show "Winner Take All", she -de] with correct answers, did take all 48 and received more than $500 worth 754 of prizes. .?. I White Cane Sale Z Is This Weekend ? ; ! $is Girl Scouts of Kings Mountain se\ "will conduct the annual White Canel Rei sale here this weekend for the Kings cot Mountain Lions club, according to $1, announcement this week by C. P. $61 Barry, Lions committee chairman. >] The Lions club is thus cooperat- tio ing with other clubs all over North $2f Carolina in the annual drive to pei raise funds for aid to North Caro- . Una's blind and those Otherwise rie(ficient in sight. . Directing the drive this year is t Dave R. Mauney, Jr., of Cherryvilie, L former district governor. ? The Girl Scouts will conduct the gp ^ street sale in the same manner pop- set py sales are conducted by the Amer- i(o . lean Legion and VFW. . i , White cane buttons will be exchanged tor contributions ranging; from "10 cents up. The annual statewide campaign CP tor the said of White Cane buttons and enrollment of members in the' ?~ association was authorized unani- IJ mousiv hv the stato convention of North Carolina Lions Clubs, it Is annually the principal over all pro- < Ject of the more than 170 clubs In the Se Bgai state. The association, now 14 years old, Th prior to 1946 was supported by spas- de k . modic local campaigns and eontrl- Ba : buttons of Lions clubs and friends'th< of the blind throughput North Caro- scl H Una. It serves, as a connecting linkj I" between the State Commission for tei the Blind, which also is a product Evyv1 of the Initiative of North Carolina no Lions and Lions clubs and interest-| m< ed civic groups arid individuals in Sa all parts of the state. wl Chief aim of the Association, ac- th. f cording to Mr. Mauney is to cooperate with Lions cluhs apd other citric tic groups In projects involving aid to clt { the blind and conservation of sight; gu EKti and especially to serve In areas dr (Cont'd on oaoa elcht) 1m * / y- ' V. ";J iulwinkle S tfustBeWcii ongressman j avors Strong defense Forces ^Russia as constituted today has fear of a nation who has no force back its policy," Congressman A. Bulwinkle told members of the i ngs Mountain Lions club at its ?eting Tuesday night. The veteran Gastonia legislator,, daring "we demobilized too ear" cautioned the people of the Uni- | 1 States to keep a firm watch on ^ possibilities of Communist in- i ttafion. "We are dealing with a [ tion today whose ideology is so | fpront it it cannnt ciirvriv.'/* : it allows nations like us to do as J please," he stated. 'ongressman Bulwinkle, a veteran World War I, spoke out strongly j' the current European Recovery 1 >gram.and a strong national de- 1 tse program, as he reviewed the ? ?nts leading up to the present a ained relations with Russia. Reporting on conversation with n. Lucius Clay, army commander Germany, last November, Major twinkle said Gen. Clay had told n that at no time had Russia ever reed to any program or policy" the Western Powers, not even to ; agenda for a conference be- ' een the groups. [jointing out the method in which ssia operates, Major Bulwinkle of ed the opinion that Russia would ve discontinued its air blockade Berlin had not the French governmt recently collapsed. This sign weakness gave the Russians pe, ije said, that the Western Po?rs wolillrf "Be" "WtATcertod afiU ^acie to any Russian demand: 'It is necessary to have the force the event something happens," continued. Pi ..?J i ? i ?a.. ' - in? uik H'tu iJroviit'ai auvaniages < the European Recovery Program, j (Cont'd on page eight) /ater And Sewer j operations In Redj1 rhe city board of commissioners ? Id a routine monthly session c esday night, with the meeting t itured principally by a report on c erations of the water and sewer I partment for the fiscal year 1947- a which showed a deficit of $18,1.66. 1 Revenues creditable to the Water t d sewer department totaled $40,- c ).23 while expenses creditable to t ? department totaled $59,504.89. r the total expenses, $14,000 repre- C ited payment on watfer-sewer dertment bonds, and an additional J trw./D was interest on water ver honors of the city. Other ex- e nse items were: departmental acrnts, $31,493.39, capital expense, , 166.51, and bank charges of j .24 t Revenue items included: Collec- r ns, $37,319.48, sewer rentals, t >3.75, tap fee $2,877, and fishing c rmits, $300. Property and equipment, ineiud- t J the year's outlay for capital e- t ipment, was valued at $604,455.- c :: ' ' - i \ The following figures on cost were /en: 40 cent's per 1000 gallons, ha- 1 1 on pumpings, and; 44,26 cents 00 gallons, based on billings. The board took no action on the \ (Cont'd on page eight) chools To Open 1 olio Ban Is Liftei - ? City schools will open on Monday, i > ptember 27. This was the announcement s ursday morning by Superlnten \ nt B. N. Barnes. However, Mr. 3 rnes added, any continuance of I 1 ? polio ban would again delay bool opening. 1 The ban currently has been' ex- t ided to September 26. 1 Mr. Barniifi oalfl . * - ? i?,uvnviq HCH4 l-TTCH tif ied that a general teacher's j < jetlng would be held at 10:.10 on turday morning, September 25, th school to get under why on i e following Monday. I Mr. Barnes also announced elec; ( ill of a dramatics teacher for the i y schools. Miss. Mary Belle Tea-i'l le, of Greensboro, graduate In art:11 ama ahd speech of Woman's Col- I ye, University of North Carolina,11 Kings Mountain, N. C., S ays Natj "y ofRussia 1 Riley Will Succeed Logan On Draft Board W.. B. (Bill) Logan, Number 4 i township representative on the Cleveland County draft board, has resigned that position effective ( Friday, it was announced yesterday. Gordon Riley, secretary and general manager of Kings Mountain Narrow Fabrics, Inc., and a ...... W?u < '? " <v?viMus wi ttuuu ? ur Hi nas been recommended to succeed Mr. Logan. Mr. Logan said he was forced to resign the post due to press of business interests. Mr. Riley, one of the founders of Kings Mountain Narrow Fabrics, has been a citizen of Kings Mountain since October 1946. He served three years in the army as a first sergeant in an army ordnance dl- c vision. \ Final Rites Held For George Barber Funeral services for George C. Jarber, 59, veteran Kings Mountain extile man who died in a Charlotte lospilal around 1:15 p. m. Tuesday ifternooii, were held Wednesday at f 1:30 p. m. at Firsi Presbyterian j hurch. * i Rev. P. D. Patrick officiated and nterment was in Mountain Lest remetery. The bodv lay in state for i ine hour prior to tne service. He had been hospitalized for three . veeks prior to his death. He was a; nember of First Presbyterian church 1 _ ind resided in the Margtape copt-l nunity. if A native of York. S. C., he was a ! ton of the iate Robert and Sophronia , 'rawford Barber. ! He was employed at Pauline mill I w It the tlmo of Mo rfoalh ana nroul. a (Cont'd on page eight) I laycees To Seek ; 54,000 In Drive g Kings Mountain Jaycees will be- i e [in next week to raise a minimum >f $4,000 in Numoer 4 township and a h4s part of Cleveland County's Jayee drive to purchase a mobile X- | tey unit for the continuing fight I igainst tuberculosis. J Chairman Joe Hodden addressed ; etters to all business and indus- j rial firms of the township this week >utlining the need for the unit and a he method it would be used to fet- ^ et out tuberculosis in Cleveland j.?. 'ounty citizens. ! ' The Jaycees are seeking a mininum of $1.00 per employee from " >usines and industrial firms all'ov r the county. Plan of operation is to conduct , tl na<ss surveys each year at all indus- n rial plants, schools, and other ceners of population Where evidence >f exceptional incidence is shown ho pvaminaii/.nc twroiM ~ ^ ,.v ^..v...i?<4u uuiio ?wum ut* JlldUt? >ftenef. i / The project lia.s the endorsement c Pleading doctors of the county, the J. rounty health department, and the r lourrty Tuberculosis association, as s veil as other groups. - 1 A portion of Mr. Hodden's letter cads as follows: v "In 1946, a total of 99 cases were eported in this county. That was ^ he year the U. S. Public Health Ser-, ( dee sent a mobile unit here for a ^ (Cont'd on page eight) J September 27, If 41 1 (hi Schedule .111 teach these subjects this year, s The dramatics department^ of the a tchool was a war casualty and it vill be the first time . in several ] /ears that dramatic instruction has . >een offered. 'I "We are very.glad to be able to einstitute dramatics In the school lystem," Mr. Barnes said, "and I (m also glad to report that Miss Teague comes here highly reeomnended for this work." The superintendent also oninted >ut that children entering school, for the first time must present tj Dirth certificate on enrollment. To t ?nroll in the first grade,. Children , must be six years of age on or before October I, 1948. Children entering school are also required to have been vaccinated against small pox ind diptherla. eptember 17, 1348 Cleveland Fair Opens Tuesday For 25th Year Over 1,800 passes lo the Silver Antiversary Edition of the Cleveland .'ounty Fair at Shelby next''week vere delivered yesterday to Superntenderu B. N. Barnes lor children i tnd teachers of the Kings Mountain >chool system. j In its twenty-fifth year, the 1948 jleveland .County Fair directed by'. 3r. J. S. Dorton will open next Tues- j' lay, September 21, and continue laily and nightly through Saturday j vith what peints to be a record pro- ; tram of ex'hibits, agricultural and ! ndustrial events, races, .grandstand B. N. Barnes, superintendent of schools, said yesterday school children 16 years of age or over could obtain free tickets to the Cleveland County Fair by calling at the principal's office at Central school, anytime Tuesday. The tickets are good for free admission to the fair on Friday. evues, fireworks, shows and rides, i tee pauses formal school children j md teachers received this week will ?e honored on School Day next Fri- ' lay, September 24. 1 Due to the current-polio ban in ] lleveland County thousands ot chilIren will be unable to take advanage of this years attractions at the ' "air. The ban prevents the attend- ' ,nce of youths under 16 years of age ' t t any public ass-embly. | j This year's fair, billed as the bigest and best agricultural county air in the Southeast, will feature ames A. Strate's shows on the Mid - j ^ /ay, trotting races sanctioned by , ^ he United States Trotting associa-1 1 ion, and stock cdr auto races sane- s ioned by the United States AAA. 1 Jack Kochman's Hell Drivers will e qn hand to provide their chills ? * uu iiiiinsuii vYvuiitsaay anernoon. "he trotting 'races will feature the ftemoen attraction oh Tuesdaf ,4': 'hursday and Friday, while the au- t o races will be run on Saturday. < The George A. Hamid Productions v /ill present the feature grandstand ttractions in the evening. . U Additional features this year in-' < lude a mule-pulling contest, also to ^ ie staged Thursday, an event which i /as not lield last year, but which j iroved evceptionally popular in 946. On Friday, a sale of baby beef /ill be conducted in front of the; ' randstand. - ' Fireworks displays will begin< ach evening at 9:30. Csso Promotes (esse Kiser Jesse A. Kiser, in Charge of sales t ctivities for Esso Standard Oil Com ianq in Gaston, Cleveland and Lin- ( oln counties, has been promoted to j he position of General Salesman in hariotte according to an announce lent yesterday by L,aurens Wright, . hariotte. Division manager for the ' omp'any in North Carolina. At the j ame time, Mr, Wright announced . hat Roy E. Riddle had been pro noted to succeed Kiser. < Riddle was first employed by Esso ' n March 16, 1942, as Motor Tank i alesman at Spruce Pint; and later i hat year was made Plant Clerk at ishevillo He served as Sales Traine <jrt November 16,*1943, at the Com ianv's Greensboro Pipeline Terrpi- ' ia 1 * until assigned to a similar poition at Charlotte in September of a si yeat. Mr. Kiser is a native of Kings fountain and a veteran of 24 years j) vith 'Ee?*^ Siandatd Oil. He assumed; 1 he sales managership of the Gas- 1 on - Cleveland - Lincoln district in J 945 and has been making his home ' n Kings Mountain. He has been an I' cliye member of the Kiwanis Club) nd Central Methodist church. He 1 s a member Of the church board of j tewards and superintendent of the , iunday school. Mr. and Mrs. Kiser wil continue 0 live in Kings Mountain until houing acommodations become availtble in Charlotte. i Wo Polio Reported tier* Diirinn No further cases of infantile paralysis were reported here dur? ing the past week. It marked the first week in more than a month that Kings Mountain has not bad additional cases, and again brought the hope that the epidemic had spent i itself here. : The ban onpublfc gatherings for children under 16 has been continued through Sept 26. A total of 24 cases bare been reported in the Kings Mountain area during this summer's epide- { BUB&Stt! ;. i hTj.vV is-. . 1 v * "N ? lerald Auto Inspe To Return 'i,:^yi' : :_, . ... ^ "irjc^'-&&&:VJjf '"% "'iBr PINAL INTERMENT RITES will b? held Sunday at 3 p. m. at Bethlehenr :hurct? for Pic. Roy E. Harmon, a aove, who was killed in action neai Metz, Prance, on Nov. 16. 1944. Services Sunday For Pfc. Harmon Final interment services for Pri /ate First Class Roy K. Harmon. 34 ,vho was killed in action near Met/ Prance, on November 16, 1944, whili serving with the late General Pat on's forces, will be held Sunday af Legion and VFW. members are reau?tt?H <-? mo?* u~n ~A 2 p. m. to attend services lor >fc. Roy E. Harmon. ernoon at 3 o'clock at Bethlehen thurch, with interment in the chur ;h cemetery. Rev. T. W. Fogleman, pastor, wil ifficiate, assisted by Rev. W. G "amp. Members of the American Le ;i?n and the Veterans of Foreigr Vars will serve as honorary escort! it the military rites. . At the time of his death' he was terving with "C" company 44th ar nored infantry battalion, 6th arm >red division.. . A farmer before entering service >n March 14, 1942, he was the sor )f William North and Milly Medlir Harmon, of route 2, Kings Mountain The body will remain at Harris ^uneral Home until. 9:30 Sundaj norning when it will be taken tc he home. Surviving in addition to his par ?nts include a brother, Wiljis O. Hai non, of Kings Mountain, and a sis er, Mrs. Hunter Jackson, of Shelby Col. Peyton McSwain Named Superior Judge Col. Peyton McSwain, prominrni Shelby attorney and well-knowr hroughoin the county, was sworr ri on Monday as a special judge ol superior Court. Coi McSwain took the o'atii of of 'ice before Associate Justice J. YVni aee Winhome of the .State Suprerrw ,'ourt in the office of Governor It tregg Cherry. A native of Cleveianti county, Col VI(.'Swain has praeticed law in Cie . eland for more than. 30 years. H< is a "veteran of bot h World Wars anr is a former state legislator in b6ti :he House and Senate. He is also i 'ormer chairman of the Clevelam [lounty Democratic committee. T" '1 ' ' Bethwaie Commui Until Weekend 01 Bethware Community fair, sched aled to have started yesterday, wai postponed due to the polio ban ant fair officials have announced thi new dates for the three-day even are October 14, 15, and 16Myers Hambrlght, fair manage? said the new dates we.r? decided a an oyster-supper at Bethware schoo Wednesday night and added tha the group wished to re schedule thi fair In order not to conflict with thi county cotton festival. Business session of the Progressiv. club, also attended by other mc:n hers of the community, was hold at ter the supper and, in addition t< new dates for the fair, further plan were discussed for the communlt; booth to be presented at Clevelam oounty fair next week. Mi. Hambright urged citizens t 1 C P?!Jes j ID Today , }. * ? . . i . .1 i? rjKiUt. MVt CENTS ction Lane Wednesday Deadline Near For Tests On Certain Models j . . /'. North Carolina motor vehicle inspection lane Number 5 is scheduled to'return to Kings -'Mountain next ' ' Wednesday for a week's stay, r. ' The lane is again to he set itp'bn Tracy street between Mountain and CJbld streets. Urgency will t>e the word for some car owners who have riot yet had Their vehicles inspected. These", include: All owners of motor vehicles of the ' ' I year models 193" and 191b?requirt ed to be inspected by September 30. j The state highway patrol has i'n, structions to remove cars of these models from tffe highways after 1 | that, date if they do not show the ( blue stickers showing they have t been found mechanically in order Other inspection deadlines set by (the highway department follow: i All motor vehicles of the vear rao dels 1938. 1939. 1943. 1944, 1915. shall i be inspected on or before October 31 ! 1948. , . 1 All motor vehicles of the- year , ! models 1940 and 1942 shall be in. I'spected on or before November 30, ? . , 1948. ? ( J All motor vehicles pf the year mo ? 1 del 1941 and 1940 shall be inspected on or before December 31, 1948. Motor department officials are urging all car owners to attend to the matter at once, rather than to jwait until the last nphtute rush. Mrs. Huntley's Rites Saturday ) Funeral services for Mrs. Mary 5 Florence Huntley, 84. who died at n. on T?U J * ? " * I.uu Iiiurauay morning roiiowing an illness of two weeks, will be held at * Mountain View Baptist church in Rutherfordton Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock.'Interment will be made in the church cemetery. j Rev. H. S. Scruggs will officiate. i Mrs. Huntley, a native of Cleveland county, died at the-home of her daughter, Mrs.' Florence Simp ' kins on Church street. ) She was a member of the Rutherfordton church. She was the widow of Lowranze D. Huntley and daughter of the late William and Re- * becca Mode. Surviving are the following children: Gaston Huntley, Mrs. C. C. Robertson and Mrs. Andy Roberson, of Rutherfordton, Mrs. Inez Sheehan and Mrs. Florence Simpkirut* of Kings Mountain, Mrs. Wilbur Robt orison, of Bostie, Mrs. W. M. Woi mack, of Marion, and Mrs. D. G. Pad i gett, of Forest City. ^ Also surviving are 32 grandchildren. 46 great grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. ' HALF-HOLIDAY Effective next Wednesday the Kings Mountain Southern Bell Telephone- office will observe ' > weekly half holidays each Wed* nesday, closing at 12:13 p. m. Patrons are being asked to note the change when having business to I transact. The office a!*> closes at . 12:15 on Saturday afternoon. lity Fair Postponed October, 14,15,16 - bring exhibit .items, detailed at an s earlier meeting, to the ? new shop i building at Beth ware school on Sats .urday from 10 until 12 noon or from t 1 p. m. to 3 p. m He also stated that should "any person discover items , overlooked in the list please bring % them with you." 1 He also asked persons 10 bring t items listed orally at 'he earlier e meeting even if conflicts exist with e the following list: Lamar and Floyd Herndon?muse cadines, butter beans, corn meal, meat, nilk, cream, gourd, pumpkin - yellow corn, oats, bur clover, and 0 bean seed. s Boyd Harrelson ? watermelons, y citron, pepper. 5 Leonard Gamble ? pumpkin, watermelon, lard, canned fruit, fancy 0 (Cont'd on page eight)