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V BUILDING PERMITS
$85,200 wqrth of building
I. j mits-were issued at City Hall
ing the past Week. On Tue)
JF permit was issued to Mary L
^ Kimoreil, tor construction o)
new three-room dwelling on J
to Vista street, $450. .On last
urday permit was issued to V
England for addition of a i
and to screen porch at 200 Fu
street, $1,000. On last Friday
mit Was issued to Aubrey M<
ey to enclose porch at residi
on Gaston street, $750. On Sep
permit vyas issued to*C. E. an
E. Cash for construction of a tl
tre at corner of Railroad ave
and W. Mountain street, $83,0(
PADGETT IN CHICAGO
Dr. P. G. Padgett will leave ?
day for Chicago, ill., where he
take a two-week's intensive si
course in gynecology and ob:
ncs at the Cook County Gra<t
school of Medicine. He will be
companied by his brother, Dr
K. Padgett, of Shelby, who
also enroll for the course.
LIONS TO MEET
Regular meeting of the K
Mountain Lions Club will be 1
at the Woman's Club Tues
night at 7 o'clock. Program CP
man Dan Huffstetler was ou
town and could not be rea<
for an announcement conceri
the program. '
pi.tnr.rs frutebMity
Ralph W. Northcutt, jr., Da
son college freshman from K
Mountain, was. one of 162 stud
pledging social fraternities at
. school this week. He pledged
Davidson chapter ol Beta Tl
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^ METER RECEIPTS
Parking meter receipts for
20th week ending Wednesday
taled $158.92 .according to a
port by S. A. Crouse, city cler
Speeding Fines
Again Top Coi
Almost half the total numb
persons tried in regular weekly
.sion of city Recorders court,
at City Hall Monday afternooi
fore Judge O. C. OTarrell, were
' fic violators, as 10 of 22 cases
involved either speeding or rur
a red light.
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charges of public drunkenness,
Naughty Laborn drawing a 3(
Jail sentence lor failure to pa:
fine.
Gambling charges against
Kenneth Humphries and Fre
Short were dismissed.
Case against Juanita Hen
charged with assault on a n
was dismissed.
Mrs. Jessie Meridth'paid cosi
ter conviction on a charge of
sault with a deadly weapon.
Plaintiff was allowed to pay
and withdraya warrant chargi
B. Sellers with assault on a fei
Cline Lingerfelt, for assault,
$10 and costs. . 7
Traffic cases tried were:
t William Austell Lutz, of Sh
A speeding, fined $5 and costs.
J, W. Shuford, Greensboro, s]
ing, fined $5 and costs.
Frank Battley Rankin, , CI
Hill, speeding, fined costs.
Wiillam F. Pleasant, Bess
City, speeding, fined $5 and c
Willie Lang, Gastonia, spee
fined costs.
, A. M. Stephenson, Char
!&* speeding fined costsJohn
Adams, speeding,
costs.
Janett Klmhrell Starne*. Cha
running red light, fined costs.
George Randall, East Gast
running red light, fined costs.
McCurdy Dry Clean
Entered Monday Nil
McCurdy Cleaners-Dyers wa
tered Monday night by a thU
thieves according to N, M. Far
lice chief.
Between $10 and $15 in ci
was reported missing, along
an unknown nurrtber of clo
i.- items, termed mostly "Junk".
Entry was made through a
j. light, with a double electric
H used to reach the floor.
No arrests had been made at
jfe .- Thursday, Chief Parr aaid.Polh
lleve the break-In w?? the w<
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During Pen
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Several More
Cases Reported
SK In Shelby Area
Sat- Kings Mountain's foUr-man med
^ p ical'corps reported no additional
cases of polio during the past week,
lton was fhird week that the local
. area had not added any cases to
, the list, which had reached 24 earonce
1 ,y in the month't
16 big question of the moment,
'j y was whether the polio band oh publiea_'
lie gatherings for children would be
mue 'i^ed as scheduled on Monday.
jq The rest of the county had not
been quite as fortunate, with four
cases, including one death, being
sun- reported in the Shelby area during
w*ll"j the past week. These cases ran the
. . county total during the epidemic
net to 80"
uate The county health .board, which
ac governs health regulations, was to j
^ meet at 4:30 Thui^rday afternoon to ;
deterrhlne whether the band would i
be extended or lifted. Dr. 2. P. Mitchell,
county heaKh officer. in. a con- !
j versation with the Herald Tuesday,
ings Kave no indication as to what ac
held uon migni op laKen, out ne naa presday
vl0us,y stated his opinion that the
lair- 1,3,1 should continue for two weeks
t-of- ' a'ter the last-reported case.
7wo Big Days
VM; Of Fair Left
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ents In spite of the polio ban. a Wednes
the day night wave of fallish weather
the * and other extraneous factors, Cle- {
heta veland County's annual Fair was
moving on to a glittery finish Thurs.
; day.
Wednesday was a banner day
the from the attendance standpoint,
r to- and indications were that the weekYe-,
end Friday and Saturday throngs
k. , would make the fair's Silver Anni
versary a successful one.
Competition was keen in the con;
tests for $10,000 in prize money, and
, the judges were busy Thursday
J* morning writing out checks to the
winners. Fair officials, however, had
not completed compilation of the
er of winner list by the time the Herald
ses-. went to press.
held fhe Bethware community had
1 he- captured the community exhibit
,ra*' blue ribbon, it was learned, and Ottried
t0 Hehn reported tha\ Ben W. Phifer
tning hac| captured the blue ribbon for cotton
growing. There were many othon
er entries from the Kings Mountain
with arca,
1-day Remaining big days of the fair
y the -vvil 1 feature an activity-filled pro
gram. Trotting races are schedujed
Billie f0r Friday afternoon, while on Sat?
c< urday, record crowds, are expected
for the stock car races', one of the
,en' most exciting events of the fair,
tinor, George A. Hamid'r shows have been
attracting much enthusiasm in the
18 af" evening and will be presented both
as" Friday and Saturday nights In front |
of the grandstand.
costs
ng L. The James A. Strates midway
male, shows are as completers ever, with
paid everything from Broadway musical
shows to minstrels.
[e]by Kings Mountain Jaycees were
' working as ticket takers Wednes- .
peed- da-y and will be on-duty again Fri- |
day. Shelby Jaycees worked the j
tapel ftates the other days.
lemer JCC DIRECTORS
osts. Junior Chamber of Commerce
ding, directors will meet Monday night
at 7:30 at Griffin Drug store aclotte
cording to ah announcement by
' Grady Howard, secretary.'
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rlotte! Merchants To Coi
"Courtesy Campaii
ten Tie Kings Mountain Merchants
__a_? | association, announced this week
9"" that a large number of local firms
will participate in a "Courtesy Cama
en- paign" to begin October 4 and consf
or tlnue through October 18.
r, po- Hilton Buth, chairman of the asj
sociation committee on the propect,
lange said the campaign is beir-i .v.?i?vi-!
with ed for a twofold purpose, (1) to]
thing make retail personnel more "courte]
sy conscious" and (2) to shop apsky*:
preciation to the consumer public,
wire, "During the war years with many
shortages, ft became a standing
noon | joke that the customer had to beg
:e be-1 a clerk tor attention. While that sit*.
>rk of nation never existed to great de[
gree in this city, the merchants
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Reported 1
sf 20 Days \
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Legion Membership a
Card Pays Oil J
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' John W. Gladden, perennial j(
membership chairman ol Otis D. tj,
| Green post. American Legion, had
a new sales speech this week. e
Several weeks ago, Kings Moun- M
tain citizen Fred "Slim" Wray was y
, driving nehr Columbia. S. C., when '
his car skidded on a wet road. The p
accident was a bad one. resulting g
in considerable injuries to Wray. S(
When the ambulance arrived
from a private hospital, the at- K
tendant found an American Legion
membership card in Wray's tl
pocket, decided to take him to the d
Veterans Administration hospital bi
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At the Veterans hospital, Wray j la
got patched up at no charge. ol
"The moral of this story," says ol
Mr. Gladden, "is that all vetearns M
should join the Legion." Jc
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Work Underway >
On New Theatre {
Construction began Thursday
morning on a new theatre building
at the corner of .Railroad avenue' ni
and West Mountain street, site of M
the former Mountain View Hotel. C. in
E and D. E. Cash purchased a build- th
ing permit from the city on Septem th
ber 16, with Construtcion cost esti-.
mated at $83,000. ; < -"c
The Cash Brothers had previously at
purchased the lot and old hotel- "l
building and recently completed re- tr
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Kiyiiij) ?mc uuiiuiii^.
R. H. Pinnix Construction compa- y<
ny, of Gastonia. was awarded the hi
contract for the new motion picture m
house, which will have a seating
capacity of "just under 800." gl
Of modern construction- and fire- cy
proof, the new building will . not G<
have any wood in it according to fr
David Cash. Size of the building will
be 54 feet, nine inches by 130 feet, ul
eleven incites, with a front 40 feet nc
high. th
Seats will be 36 inches wide on ^
both the main floor and balcony,
Mr. Cash said. A Nu-Screen, curved er
glass fiber motion picture screen,
developed by Otto'Hehn, of Kings
Mountain, will also be installed, he .
added. i
Usual feature of the new theatre
is a sound-proof "crying room" lo- ( ^
cated at the rear of the main floor,!
where parents may sit with babies jg
and not bother other patrons.
Ticket office will be located at m
the corner of the house where the ! SP
two streets cross, entry for white per "
sons nn Railroart avpnim anH r<-?r
colored persons on West Mountain
street. Plans call for sufficient rest-'or
rooms for white and colored patrons.
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Part of the balcony space will al- th
so be used for white patrons, with w
stairs located on the opposite, side
of the building from the ticket of- w
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The building will be completely H
air conditioned and will be heated J
by oil fired hot air.
M. R. Marsh, Charlotte architect, i.
drew the plans for the new theatre.
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EXECUTIVES CLUB .m
Members of the Cleveland Coun"(y
Executive club will hear an ad-- ni
dress by Paul Cyr, World War II i
hero, at the opening meeting of ;
the current season at Hotel Char- ; er
les, Shelby, Friday night at seven m
o'clock. Reservations for dinner f{(
are required to be in the hands of : p(
Secretary W. M. Ficklen by noon ti
Friday. Mr. Cyr was irt General
"Wild Bill" Donovan's "Cloak and
Dagger" divlsiort. m
idnct Two-Weeks $
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want to emphasize the place that R
courtesy plays in business," Mr. lo
Ruth said. , m
A prize will be given each week
during the campaign to the King* .
Mountain clerk adjudged "most
courteous" on the basis of approach,
knowledge of merchandise and atti- 1
lude. The judging will be done by a :
secret committee of local citizens.
In connection with the campaign,
a film "By Jupiter" has been obtained
for showing to civic organize|
tlon and to retail personnel.
Members of the association com- 1
mlttee, in addition to Mr. Ruth, are <
Charlie Blalock, E. E. Marlowe, and i
Charlie Spearman. i1
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Puneial Rites
for Ab White I
To Be Friday
Funeral servicesAvill be held Friay
at 4 p. m a: F/rst Baptist church
?r William Albert (Ab) White, 42,
f 101 Ramseur street, who died
Wednesday at 0:15 p. m. ;n a Char-.
>ue hospital after an illness pf
pveral weeks.
Rev. L. C. Piithix. pastor of the
hutch of which lie was a member,
ill officiate, and burial' will be in
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He worked for'Duke Power comany
here for 20 years and was a
raduate. of Kings Mountain high
:hool.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
White, of Kings Mountain
Other survivors include his wife,
le former Mary Lou Horn buckle, a
aughter, Mary Fannie White,- five
rot hers, Ernest .White, ot Greenille,
S. C., Wilburn White, of Dal- ;
is, Texas, John and James White,
f Kings Mountain, and Paul White.
! Columbia, S. C? and three sisters,:
iss Viola Whit'e and Mrs. Andrew
'nkins, of Kings Mountain, and
rs. Fred Babbington, of Natahala.
Luto Lane Busy i
Ihecking Cats !
Motor vehicle inspection lane
umber five returned to Kings
odntain. Wednesday and was send
ig a steady stream of cars through
te lane as motrists rushed to beat
e dealines for inspection.
H. B. KendriCk, supervisor, said,
ars were going through regularly"
id reported that the percentage <Sf
tasses" and "rejects" on the first
y were about*even.
Three cars had come out with the
dlow "condemned" stickers and
id to be tow'ed to garages for e- ,
ergency treatment.
The lane will remain here throui
next Wednesday. It is tip,on.Tra- ,
street, between Mountain and
aid streets. Cars enter the lane
am Gold street.
Mr. Kendrlck said present sehede?
are betng revised and he had
>t yet been informed the next date
e lane would be set up in Kings
ountain.
Immediate deadline on motor vecle
inspection requires that owns
of vehicles of the year models
37 and 1946 have their cars inected
by September 30.
Other inspection deadlines set by
e highway department follow:
All motor vehicles of the year mo;
>ls 1938. 1939, 1943. 1944, 1945, shall
> inspected on or before October 31,
48.
All motor vehicles of the year
odels 1940 and 1942 shall be inleeted
on or before November 30,
48. .
All motor vehicles of the year mo>1
1941 and 1940 shall be inspected
t or before December 31, 1948.
Motor department officials are
ging all car owners to attend to
e matter at once1, rather than to
ait until the last minute rush.
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Falk Blood Bank
Plans are underway here for Kings
ountain participation in the Aerican
Red Cross effort to estab?h
large blood banks all over the
ition. *
Local Red Cross chapter officials,
?ads of civic organizations and oth
interested citizens, heard Mrs.
arion Ritzert, Atlanta Regional of.
re representative, discuss the prowed
plan at a meeting here last .
hftrsday night.
Mrs. Ritzert discussed ways and
earis of setting up blood banks
td stated that plans called for
nding a mobile unit to Kings
ourftain twice yearly to obtain
ood from 200 volunteer donors on
tch trip. The blood would then be
ocessed Into plasma at Charlotte.
Need for the blood bank, Mrs.
Itzert pointed out, is for use in any
>cal emprgency, caused by epideiics,
other disasters, or war.
Mrs Ritzert is to meet with local
tapter officials again soon to fur
ler complete details of the local
rogram, It was announced by Mrs. i
N. Gamble, executive secretary-of
te local chapter.
KIWANK MEETING
Everette L. Carlton, high school
roach, was to speak to members of
the Kings Mountain Klwanis club
it theiT regular Thursday night
meeting at the Woman's Club,
rhe club meeting hour la 7 o'clock.
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NUMBER 9134 IN ITALY?The Hoi- inK
stein heiier shown above is now do- teac'
ing relief duty in Italy. She was pur- I ween
chased by the Young Adult class of [ 'lc Sl
First Presbyterian church and went i?.ne
on foreign duty in July. I
Youth Class Aids s
Foreign Relief
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! to Ea
As a practical method of provid- jVIr
ing overseas relief, the Young Adult c^,|[j
class of First Presbyterian church tjial
shipped to Italy last July a fine Hoi- tjfjca
stein heifer. u,as,
The class thereby joined a move- tober
meni launched by the. Church of so si
the Brethren, which has since been cate)
spread to many other church groups nizejd
civic organizations, and individuals, and i
Decision of the Presbyterian Young Mr
Adult class to participate in the plan schet
was made last Thanksgiving, and but ,t
by Easter the necessary fund of erate
$175 had been raised. no p
fof n
Reports from Italy, via Church of the ,]
the Brethren headrjuariers, are that say
the heifer arrived and is taking her serT{h
part in rehabilitating the herds of peen
Italy and in providing milk for 10 of sc)
children each day. polio
More than 9.000 heifers have been A I
shipped to war-ravaged areas throu- *?
gh the program. . 1
Judge Nominee t?!
Will Be Named ?
mind
The Cleveland County Democratic QfSo^
Executive committee will meet in Ac(
SShelby Monday night to name a owne
nominee for judge of county record- dog ]
er s court. licent
It will be the second time in three Pr<K)f
months that the committee has u'a'e
been called together to fill a vacan
ey caused by death. The committee large
nominated Zeb V. ('line to take e<*, it
the place of the late Dr. S. S. Roy- _
ster, county commissioner nominee. Ncl
The name of the person nomina- Tor
ted for judge of recorder's court will
be placed on the general election Thi
ballot as the regular party nominee, Be)kj
replacing the late W. L. Angel, in- out J
cuinbent judge and nominee, who WPPk
died suddenly in August.
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The meeting will be held in the
office of Clyde Nolan, chairman of 0PU;(j
the committee. Members"of the committee
are chairman of the 26 chun- Th
ty precincts. L. T. Hamrick, Jr., has es in
been serving as acting judge since and
the death of Mr. Angel. If j
No Dues, No Officer
Word For Alcoholics
Have you ever,heard of an organ- g4ni;
ization without any dues or without1 other
any officers? j insta
There is one, and it is one of the man
mo^t unique organizations in exist- ' holic
ence today. . offer
It is Alcoholics Anonymous, a holic
loosely connected organization as but
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lar as pnysiuai t?rangtMii?iiis *|ur .
concerned, but a strongly connected of th
one Judging from the results obtain- grass
ed In curing the alcoholic disease one I
which has baffled medical science ing t
for centuries. I is th
Though few people may be aware mem
of H, Kings Mountain has had a or d
chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous The
since July 1947. The membership he b
varys with the need ?is now about, loses
15 (active) has been as high as 40. som?
The organization first formed In be r<
1935 when two alcoholics got toge- | Th
ther to help each other conquer the menr
drinking ill. Alcoholics Anonymous or ot
now numbers 80,000 members all the ]
over the nation.. sobe
In addition to the no-dues, no-oridju
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Opening
tlio Ban
talth Body Was
seting Thursday
i Act On Ban
erything was in readiness, for
ihg of city schools Monday '
ling at 8:.30?if tlie couijiy heal-'
rard did not extend the. polio
on children's' gatherings at'
meeting late Thur>da\ after
N. Barnes, superintendent of
>ls. said Thursday altefnoon
buildings have been re painted
otherwise renovated, including
dsun colored school..
perintendent Barnes -was' faca
last-minute need for ' two
icrs, following resignations last
l by Miss Mozelle Moore, pub
chool music teacher, and Miss
Hill, eighth grade teacher.
Moore resigned due to ill healoth
teachers live at Murphy,
aerwisc, school will begin this
with a complement of two adnal
teachers in the elementary
t"s. Three first grades will be
d at Central schooi, while an ad.
ital teacher has been assigned
ist school.
. Barnes reminded parents of
ren entering the first grade
they must present a birth cerite
showing the child to be at
six years old on or before Oc1,1948,
and that ihcy must allow
evidence < doctor's certifithat
the child has been imrauI
against small pox, diphtheria
Vhooping cough.
. Barnes said only a half-day
lule would be In force Monday,
hat full schedules would be opd
on Tuesday. He added that
lans had yet been formulated
Taking up lost time caused by
lelay in opening schooi. He did
however, that no general asilies
of school children had
scheduled for the opening days
hoot, again in deference to the
situation.
general meeting of teachers is
.held at Central school Saturnorning
at 10:30. * '?
I Owners Reminded
Get Dog Licenses
ief of Police N.. Nl. Farr is reing
Kings Mountain dog own>
get dog tags by the deadline
tober 15t
jording to city ordinance, dog
rs are required to purchase a
license each year. To obiain a
se, the owner must present
that the dog has been innocd
against rabies,
er October 15, dogs running at
without dog tags will be killwas
stated
bo Belk Top
nato-Grower
e ace Heraid columnist Nebo
squirt of Nebo Valley, turned
0 be an ace truck farmer this
and had the proof.
. Belk brought a giant-sized toto
the office to show that he
1 do more than write.
i
e red tomato measured 12 inchcircumference
"the long way"
weighed about three pounds,
ate as good as ii looked.
s?"Unique"
Anonymous
ration feaures of AA. there are
unique arrangements. For
nee, the organization asks no
to become a member. An aicosimply
is told what AA has to
, then it is left up to the alco.
Not only are there no dues,
there are no national officers.
'professional" AA men. Control
e over all group stems from the
i roots, from chapters like the
lere. The binding factor, accord- *
0 one of the original organizers,
e ever-present spectre that each
iber might slip back into death
isaster of drinking habitually,
key to the success of the group,
elieves, is that each convert
1 himself in his efforts to rescue
5 drunkard ? who wants to
?scued.
lat is the way AA works. Some
?ber, either by personal request
:herwise, informs a drunkard of
plan of A A. He is encouraged to
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